Quotes:Rakshasas

H. P. Blavatsky

Râkshasas. Lit., “raw eaters”, and in the popular superstition evil spirits, demons. Esoterically, however, they are the Gibborim (giants) of the Bible, the Fourth Race or the Atlanteans. (See Secret Doctrine, II., 165.)

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Rakshasas