Although I am German I know of the 18 armed Mahalakshmi. Haidakhan  Babaji people are building her a temple in Haldwani, Uttar Pradesh. A  famous Sadhu named Shree Mahamandaleshwara who is closely associated to  Baba Haidakhan affairs had dreamed her. 
From the way this was told about on Haidakhan Babaji websites I thought  this image of Lakshmi to be novel, and perhaps even invented in dream by  that sadhu; which was an error. He just adopted her worship for the  north-Indian regions. 
Typically European, I did not believe first that it makes sense to make  such images of the Divine and to build temples for them. But  nevertheless I mailed to the temple builders and told them give me your  bank data and I´ll give some donation. I just wanted Lakshmi to see a  candle or incense burn before her that is "mine" and to remember me in  times of need. And I DO believe in the real existence of the Divine  Mother. Our beloved St Mary who has shown Herself many times in Europe,  as in Lourdes, telling people to pray and repent and healing their  diseases, is no one else but Her.  
The temple builders did not reply. Still I have not donated a single  cent. 
But what happened two or three days later ? 
I was with my boyfriend, whom I finally got to do a business, as a  second-hand and scrap-metal man, since this year - before, he lived idly  on other people´s money. for some unremembered reason during our  greeting I had said to him "you dont know what a lucky one you really  are."  
Then after some coffee-drinking he got up to make some order in his  place, while I watched T.V. (during which I made japa in thought) and  did not look at his sitting-place on the couch. Then he came back to sit  but at once he stopped and made big eyes and said to me "Did you put  this on my seat?" I loked there and made big eyes too ! For on his seat  lay a 10 Euro note which looked as new as if it had just come from the  bank and there was no mundane explanation for it to lie there.  
I suppose it has come to him miraculously "from Mahalaxmi Bank" in order  to make him take his business serious and to support my saying that he  is a lucky one so that he learns to believe in good luck, and in  himself.