The Lexicon
Time, reality, and cosmos
Akasha
Akasha is the subtle ether of the Sanskrit cosmologies, the spacious primal element out of which the others arise. In Theosophy and the readings of Edgar Cayce it becomes the medium of cosmic memory, the so-called Akashic Records, an enduring imprint upon which every thought, deed, and life is said to be inscribed. To read the Akasha is to read the memory of the world.
The tradition pictures this as a living field of remembrance, accessible in deep meditation, trance, or dream, where past and possibility are held together. Blavatsky and Steiner described it as the unseen tablet of nature; Cayce gave readings drawn, he said, directly from it. The seeker approaches Akasha as the storehouse of the soul's long journey, the record that links the single life to the vast continuity of being.
In their words
What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon.
Upon the indestructible tablets of the Astral Light is stamped the impression of every thought we think, and every act we perform.
There exists an inner spiritual memory in which the deeds and events of the world are recorded, the Akashic Records.
All that has happened is preserved in the akasha, the memory of nature, and may be read by the awakened soul.