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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|480|00:00:05|700</wrap>Well, hello again. <wrap hide>2|00:00:06|120|00:00:13|320</wrap>It's been one of those busy days when it's possible to do a number of these recordings. <wrap hide>3|00:00:15|080|00:00:23|200</wrap>We are working on page 53 of Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>4|00:00:23|920|00:00:32|740</wrap>We've been discussing what a world period may be and how variable that term may be, <wrap hide>5|00:00:32|880|00:00:47|840</wrap>all the way from a period of rotation of the Earth's axis, a 25,000 year approximately— <wrap hide>6|00:00:47|840|00:00:59|040</wrap>it's actually more than that, 25,920 approximately, a great Platonic year—to a rotation of our <wrap hide>7|00:00:59|040|00:01:06|300</wrap>Earth around, a rotation of our solar system and all its planets around the Pleiades, or <wrap hide>8|00:01:06|300|00:01:15|880</wrap>more likely a round, a complete round, or perhaps even a scheme round which is larger <wrap hide>9|00:01:15|880|00:01:23|400</wrap>still, or perhaps even a Mahamanvantara or still greater than a Mahamanvantara. <wrap hide>10|00:01:23|860|00:01:28|500</wrap>So often the term "world period" refers to a round. <wrap hide>11|00:01:29|840|00:01:36|860</wrap>Anyway, <wrap quote>For a long time during this cycle of reincarnations and periods of manifestation, <wrap hide>12|00:01:37|700|00:01:43|100</wrap>the human being is conditioned almost entirely by the activity of the non-sacred planets. //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>13|00:01:43|100|00:01:47|440</wrap>and then he discusses which they are. <wrap hide>14|00:01:48|140|00:02:01|060</wrap>There are five petals which have to open before it becomes possible for the human being to <wrap hide>15|00:02:01|060|00:02:07|300</wrap>really respond sacredly to the sacred planets. <wrap hide>16|00:02:07|300|00:02:14|580</wrap>There may be response to the sacred planets in a non-sacred way, but the activity of the <wrap hide>17|00:02:14|580|00:02:23|120</wrap>non-sacred planets is major during the first millions of years of human evolution. <wrap hide>18|00:02:23|260|00:02:29|480</wrap>There are some people who have individualized even in Lemuria on the Earth chain and are <wrap hide>19|00:02:29|480|00:02:36|420</wrap>still responding primarily to the non-sacred planets or to the sacred planets in a personal <wrap hide>20|00:02:36|420|00:02:37|800</wrap>and non-sacred way. <wrap hide>21|00:02:38|540|00:02:47|480</wrap>So it takes a long time to work ourselves into sensitivity to the truly sacred planets, <wrap hide>22|00:02:48|100|00:02:49|380</wrap>the sacredness of them. <wrap hide>23|00:02:49|680|00:02:57|980</wrap>That takes us to page 53, <wrap quote>These, as you know, are five in number: //EA, p.53//</wrap> and then we have the five non-sacred planets. <wrap hide>24|00:02:58|080|00:03:03|640</wrap>Eventually there will be twelve planets, we are told, and all of them eventually will <wrap hide>25|00:03:03|640|00:03:08|900</wrap>be sacred, which means they will have passed their fifth initiation. <wrap hide>26|00:03:10|660|00:03:16|120</wrap>Whether that is a cosmic initiation or a lesser initiation has yet to be established. <wrap hide>27|00:03:16|660|00:03:18|460</wrap>The Sun is veiling a planet. <wrap hide>28|00:03:18|640|00:03:25|420</wrap>This is not the planet Vulcan or any of the other... Vulcan, an undiscovered planet, or <wrap hide>29|00:03:25|420|00:03:27|120</wrap>any of the discovered planets. <wrap hide>30|00:03:27|120|00:03:29|920</wrap>It is a non-sacred second-rate planet. <wrap hide>31|00:03:29|920|00:03:37|580</wrap>I think this idea was most advanced by Dr. Baker—Theodore Baker, is it? <wrap hide>32|00:03:39|100|00:03:45|020</wrap>He has the idea of a non-sacred second-rate planet which is veiled by the Sun. <wrap hide>33|00:03:45|660|00:03:54|780</wrap>Another of my astrological friends think that it could be the planet Isis, which has a period <wrap hide>34|00:03:54|780|00:04:08|840</wrap>of approximately 360 years, so its period has as many years, speculatively, as the Earth <wrap hide>35|00:04:08|840|00:04:16|300</wrap>has days, and so there is a very close connection between that speculative planet and the Earth. <wrap hide>36|00:04:16|300|00:04:20|780</wrap>The Moon is veiling another non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>37|00:04:21|480|00:04:24|800</wrap>The Sun was veiling a Ray 2 planet. <wrap hide>38|00:04:25|340|00:04:27|020</wrap>The Moon is veiling a Ray 4 planet. <wrap hide>39|00:04:27|340|00:04:37|880</wrap>Some speculative astrologers feel that it may be an etheric planet called Rex, which <wrap hide>40|00:04:37|880|00:04:41|940</wrap>is fairly close. <wrap hide>41|00:04:43|320|00:04:44|760</wrap>I'll have to brush up on that. <wrap hide>42|00:04:44|760|00:04:48|400</wrap>It's near Mars, I think. <wrap hide>43|00:04:48|600|00:04:50|040</wrap>It's not far from the Earth. <wrap hide>44|00:04:50|860|00:04:53|060</wrap>It's not beyond Jupiter, I do believe. <wrap hide>45|00:04:54|120|00:04:55|740</wrap>But that is simply speculation. <wrap hide>46|00:04:56|180|00:05:02|440</wrap>What does not seem to be speculation is there is a planet, undiscovered, non-sacred, fourth-ray, <wrap hide>47|00:05:03|080|00:05:04|380</wrap>that the Moon veils. <wrap hide>48|00:05:04|500|00:05:06|980</wrap>It may be this planet Rex. <wrap hide>49|00:05:06|980|00:05:16|780</wrap>When I worked with Charles Jane, he was quite emphatic about the existence of this planet <wrap hide>50|00:05:16|780|00:05:17|000</wrap>Rex. <wrap hide>51|00:05:17|160|00:05:28|760</wrap>He didn't relate it to the fourth-ray particularly, but he did insist on its orbit and its value <wrap hide>52|00:05:28|760|00:05:29|620</wrap>in the human horoscope. <wrap hide>53|00:05:30|060|00:05:35|500</wrap>Then there is the Earth itself, of course, thus far a non-sacred planet, but interestingly, <wrap hide>54|00:05:36|020|00:05:42|340</wrap>sacred inwardly, whatever that means. There is a certain aspect of the Earth which must <wrap hide>55|00:05:42|340|00:05:43|800</wrap>be considered sacred. <wrap hide>56|00:05:44|160|00:05:46|980</wrap>It has yet to work itself into outer expression. <wrap hide>57|00:05:47|460|00:05:55|160</wrap>Then Mars, a planet less advanced than the Earth and definitely non-sacred at this point, <wrap hide>58|00:05:55|680|00:06:00|800</wrap>farther behind in its initiatory process. <wrap hide>59|00:06:00|800|00:06:07|920</wrap>And Pluto, even though it is an esoteric planet, it is still less sacred than Mars. <wrap hide>60|00:06:08|880|00:06:16|840</wrap>Just because the scientists demote Pluto to kind of a planetoid or a non-planet or a minor <wrap hide>61|00:06:16|840|00:06:22|400</wrap>planet does not mean that they are necessarily accurate from the occult perspective. <wrap hide>62|00:06:22|920|00:06:31|300</wrap>Mars is the alter ego, or the symbolic of the higher ego of Pluto, just as Venus is the <wrap hide>63|00:06:31|300|00:06:34|800</wrap>alter ego, or symbolic of the higher ego of the Earth. <wrap hide>64|00:06:34|980|00:06:36|700</wrap>These are the five non-sacred planets. <wrap hide>65|00:06:37|440|00:06:42|740</wrap>Sometimes I look at the piano and I see the seven white keys and the five black keys, and <wrap hide>66|00:06:42|740|00:06:49|400</wrap>I think of the analogy that the seven white keys which give us the C major scale are related <wrap hide>67|00:06:49|400|00:06:55|540</wrap>to the sacred planets and the black keys to the non-sacred planets, but this also has <wrap hide>68|00:06:55|540|00:06:57|120</wrap>yet to be verified. <wrap hide>69|00:06:58|120|00:07:02|060</wrap>Right, we will continue moving. <wrap hide>70|00:07:03|560|00:07:07|920</wrap>Man, speaking symbolically, is the five-pointed star. <wrap hide>71|00:07:07|980|00:07:16|560</wrap>That relates him to Leo, the most human of the signs, and the fifth sign relating to <wrap hide>72|00:07:16|560|00:07:22|240</wrap>the solar nature, to the solar egoic lotus. <wrap hide>73|00:07:23|020|00:07:25|860</wrap>When I say that, to man's solar egoic lotus. <wrap hide>74|00:07:26|020|00:07:33|640</wrap>Man, speaking symbolically, is the five-pointed star, and at the fiery points the forces of <wrap hide>75|00:07:33|640|00:07:40|180</wrap>the man pour out and upon each fiery point appears a center of reception. <wrap hide>76|00:07:40|180|00:07:41|820</wrap>Well, this is very interesting. <wrap hide>77|00:07:43|880|00:07:51|320</wrap>We might consider that the head, the two hands, and the two feet are those fiery points, but <wrap hide>78|00:07:51|320|00:07:53|660</wrap>it could mean something else. <wrap hide>79|00:07:54|180|00:08:03|420</wrap>Suffice it to say the five-fold links, which are the solar angels, must have their five-fold <wrap hide>80|00:08:03|420|00:08:07|300</wrap>points of reception in the man. <wrap hide>81|00:08:07|300|00:08:13|300</wrap>There must be a correspondence between that which the solar angel can give of its five-fold <wrap hide>82|00:08:13|300|00:08:16|200</wrap>nature and that which man can receive. <wrap hide>83|00:08:17|420|00:08:24|760</wrap>It is possible then at the present moment to consider that man is particularly five-fold <wrap hide>84|00:08:24|760|00:08:32|240</wrap>because two of his chakras are not functioning fully, just the way two of the continents are <wrap hide>85|00:08:32|240|00:08:39|560</wrap>not fully developed. And with respect to the eventual seven centers of the earth, upon <wrap hide>86|00:08:39|560|00:08:42|240</wrap>the earth, only five of them are active. <wrap hide>87|00:08:43|280|00:08:49|600</wrap>So man perhaps is keeping pace with the planet with five centers developed. <wrap hide>88|00:08:50|300|00:08:55|260</wrap>We might wonder whether eventually man will become the seven-pointed star. <wrap hide>89|00:08:56|240|00:09:03|340</wrap><wrap quote>Man-speaking symbolically-is the "five-pointed star and, at the fiery points, the forces of <wrap hide>90|00:09:03|340|00:09:09|200</wrap>the man pour out and upon each fiery point appears a centre of reception." //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>91|00:09:09|420|00:09:16|180</wrap>So let us say that for most human beings the base of the spine is non-receptive and non-radiatory <wrap hide>92|00:09:16|780|00:09:24|420</wrap>except that it provides for the survival of the human being, and that the head center itself <wrap hide>93|00:09:25|100|00:09:30|740</wrap>is not receptive for most human beings and not radiatory for most. <wrap hide>94|00:09:31|380|00:09:35|480</wrap>The rest of the centers are active to a certain extent. <wrap hide>95|00:09:35|600|00:09:41|000</wrap>This is the five-fold nature of the present man, but the seven-fold nature is coming. <wrap hide>96|00:09:42|300|00:09:44|380</wrap>The five-fold nature is fairly Brahmic. <wrap hide>97|00:09:45|340|00:09:50|140</wrap>Five is the number of the previous solar system, a Brahmic solar system, and seven will be <wrap hide>98|00:09:50|140|00:09:53|180</wrap>the number of the present solar system. <wrap hide>99|00:09:53|180|00:09:58|400</wrap>And what will we be able to say about nine-fold man in the next solar system? <wrap hide>100|00:09:59|440|00:10:04|000</wrap><wrap quote>This is of course pictorially expressed, but the meaning is clear. //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>101|00:10:04|240|00:10:07|020</wrap>Well, man is two types of pentagrams. <wrap hide>102|00:10:07|040|00:10:12|800</wrap>He is the higher pentagram, he is the egoic lotus, the soul, in its five-fold nature by <wrap hide>103|00:10:12|800|00:10:13|800</wrap>one method of counting. <wrap hide>104|00:10:14|260|00:10:23|060</wrap>And he is the lower mind as well, and the personality which can be symbolized by the inverted five-pointed <wrap hide>105|00:10:23|060|00:10:28|460</wrap>star without evil connotation, but simply given its orientation into matter. <wrap hide>106|00:10:29|260|00:10:34|840</wrap>Take those two pentagrams together and you have the complete human being, and the number <wrap hide>107|00:10:34|840|00:10:36|300</wrap>is ten and the number is one. <wrap hide>108|00:10:37|720|00:10:44|920</wrap>However, as man nears the path of discipleship, the influence... yeah, man is the five-pointed <wrap hide>109|00:10:44|920|00:10:45|140</wrap>star. <wrap hide>110|00:10:45|140|00:10:59|160</wrap>Okay, well from this point of view, let's see here... right, it's just taking a moment <wrap hide>111|00:10:59|160|00:11:02|320</wrap>here, right. <wrap hide>112|00:11:04|940|00:11:13|620</wrap>And so we say that man, speaking symbolically, is the five-pointed star, and this five points <wrap hide>113|00:11:13|620|00:11:18|160</wrap>has to do with the five non-sacred planets. <wrap hide>114|00:11:18|560|00:11:20|660</wrap>He will progress to a seven-pointed star. <wrap hide>115|00:11:20|800|00:11:26|740</wrap>I just realized, of course, we've been talking about the number five, and man's five-fold <wrap hide>116|00:11:26|740|00:11:30|720</wrap>nature can be considered in either a sacred or a non-sacred way. <wrap hide>117|00:11:31|240|00:11:37|240</wrap>He says this is, of course, pictorially expressed, but the meaning is clear. <wrap hide>118|00:11:38|400|00:11:45|380</wrap>However, as man nears the path of discipleship, which technically I think you can think of <wrap hide>119|00:11:45|380|00:11:52|520</wrap>beginning at the first initiation, the real path of discipleship—when a person is a little <wrap hide>120|00:11:52|520|00:11:55|180</wrap>chela, that's the real path of discipleship. <wrap hide>121|00:11:56|960|00:12:04|240</wrap><wrap quote>However, as man nears the Path of Discipleship the influence of the sacred planets becomes increasingly <wrap hide>122|00:12:04|240|00:12:05|520</wrap>effective, <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|480|00:00:05|700</wrap>until after the final and fifth initiation the non-sacred planets have no effect, //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>124|00:12:16|240|00:12:22|760</wrap>But that's very interesting that... here, let me do this correctly... that until the fifth <wrap hide>125|00:12:22|760|00:12:23|860</wrap>initiation they do. <wrap hide>126|00:12:23|860|00:12:27|020</wrap>So, let's put that down. <wrap hide>127|00:12:27|380|00:12:38|320</wrap>Until the fifth initiation, the non-sacred planets do have an effect. <wrap hide>128|00:12:38|800|00:12:44|340</wrap><wrap quote>though the initiate wields their energies potently as they pour into and through his <wrap hide>129|00:12:44|340|00:12:51|860</wrap>vehicles of reception, of response and of expression, for all three activities <wrap hide>130|00:12:51|860|00:12:53|700</wrap>and purposes must be noted. //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>131|00:12:54|300|00:12:57|300</wrap>He has reception, response, and expression. <wrap hide>132|00:12:57|920|00:13:07|400</wrap>Man can wield the energies of the non-sacred planets even at a high initiatory level, even <wrap hide>133|00:13:07|400|00:13:13|300</wrap>though he is not necessarily affected by them. <wrap hide>134|00:13:14|720|00:13:21|180</wrap>So, you know, we see that some of these planets are, after all, hierarchical planets—hierarchical <wrap hide>135|00:13:21|180|00:13:21|820</wrap>rulers. <wrap hide>136|00:13:22|700|00:13:29|660</wrap>Pluto in Pisces, for instance—although that would affect a man, I suppose, at the fourth <wrap hide>137|00:13:29|660|00:13:33|780</wrap>initiation particularly, whether it would affect him at the fifth when the base of the <wrap hide>138|00:13:33|780|00:13:38|600</wrap>spine center becomes maximally active, I'm not certain—there's a possibility, but he <wrap hide>139|00:13:38|600|00:13:44|000</wrap>says after the final and fifth initiation, which is not really the final initiation but <wrap hide>140|00:13:44|000|00:13:50|480</wrap>he calls it that for present purposes, the non-sacreds have no effect, but their energy <wrap hide>141|00:13:50|480|00:13:52|860</wrap>can be wielded. <wrap hide>142|00:13:54|340|00:14:00|500</wrap>The other planets do have an effect, so just pause for a moment and realize that earlier <wrap hide>143|00:14:00|500|00:14:06|220</wrap>he said that the planets in the houses affected primarily circumstances, and now he's talking <wrap hide>144|00:14:06|220|00:14:14|480</wrap>about high levels of initiation when the sacred planets can be effective and influential <wrap hide>145|00:14:14|480|00:14:15|540</wrap>in the life of the man. <wrap hide>146|00:14:15|640|00:14:26|640</wrap>So we must always hold our judgment in reservation when a statement is made and wonder and look <wrap hide>147|00:14:26|640|00:14:33|340</wrap>for if there are modifying statements such as this. <wrap hide>148|00:14:33|340|00:14:44|720</wrap>Okay, so when it comes to energies, we receive, we respond, and we express, and we must note <wrap hide>149|00:14:44|720|00:14:45|580</wrap>these three. <wrap hide>150|00:14:47|900|00:14:53|620</wrap><wrap quote>The energies of the twelve constellations are blended with those of the twelve planets, //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>151|00:14:53|620|00:15:00|000</wrap>That's what we were talking about earlier when we discussed that this blending occurred <wrap hide>152|00:15:00|000|00:15:06|900</wrap>in two phases: one in which the sun sign dominated, and the other in which the driving energies <wrap hide>153|00:15:06|900|00:15:10|560</wrap>of the rising sign were emerging as dominant. <wrap hide>154|00:15:12|900|00:15:17|000</wrap>The energies of the twelve constellations are blended with those of the twelve planets. <wrap hide>155|00:15:17|320|00:15:24|880</wrap>Just the way the energy of the esoteric ruler is blended with the preceding energies of <wrap hide>156|00:15:24|880|00:15:25|900</wrap>the exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>157|00:15:25|900|00:15:31|180</wrap>It supersedes but does not eliminate the esoteric ruler. <wrap hide>158|00:15:32|640|00:15:37|800</wrap><wrap quote>but their power to evoke response, and to be consciously received, recognised and employed, <wrap hide>159|00:15:39|180|00:15:45|800</wrap>is dependent entirely upon the type of response mechanism of the planetary Life and of the <wrap hide>160|00:15:45|800|00:15:47|340</wrap>individual man. //EA, p.53-54//</wrap> <wrap hide>161|00:15:47|500|00:15:55|020</wrap>Well, you know, I think the implication there is that planetary Logoi have an effect upon <wrap hide>162|00:15:55|020|00:16:02|500</wrap>another planetary Logoi, and it depends on the response apparatus of the particular planetary <wrap hide>163|00:16:02|500|00:16:07|720</wrap>Logos, what type of effect another planetary Logos will have upon him. <wrap hide>164|00:16:08|040|00:16:16|960</wrap>So you see, planets are not sources simply to be relegated to the houses of the horoscope <wrap hide>165|00:16:16|960|00:16:26|060</wrap>and thought of as determining only the circumstantial aspect in the life of man. <wrap hide>166|00:16:26|900|00:16:35|860</wrap>They have much higher targets; they have much higher levels which they can influence and <wrap hide>167|00:16:35|860|00:16:36|380</wrap>affect. <wrap hide>168|00:16:37|100|00:16:47|680</wrap>Okay, so we have the power to evoke response, to receive these energies, to recognize them, <wrap hide>169|00:16:47|680|00:16:48|500</wrap>and employ them. <wrap hide>170|00:16:48|540|00:16:52|560</wrap>That's another way of looking: receive, recognize, and employ. <wrap hide>171|00:16:52|720|00:16:57|820</wrap>That's another one of those important triplicities when it comes to our dealing with energies. <wrap hide>172|00:16:58|500|00:17:05|860</wrap>And the degree to which we can do that depends entirely upon how refined or developed our <wrap hide>173|00:17:05|860|00:17:11|660</wrap>response mechanism may be, and even how refined or developed the planetary life may be. <wrap hide>174|00:17:12|220|00:17:16|900</wrap>And of course, since those energies have to come to us through the planetary life, the <wrap hide>175|00:17:16|900|00:17:22|700</wrap>degree of sensitivity and the development of the response mechanism of the planetary <wrap hide>176|00:17:23|830|00:17:30|420</wrap>Logos will affect the manner in which we can receive, recognize, and employ these energies. <wrap hide>177|00:17:30|420|00:17:39|220</wrap><wrap quote>It has been rightly said that consciousness is dependent upon the vehicles of consciousness, //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>178|00:17:40|220|00:17:45|700</wrap>whichever must be refined so the consciousness can be elevated, <wrap quote>upon their point of development <wrap hide>179|00:17:46|160|00:17:54|240</wrap>and upon the ability of the individual to identify himself with the energies and impulses <wrap hide>180|00:17:54|240|00:17:56|460</wrap>which are reaching him, //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>181|00:17:57|580|00:18:04|480</wrap>So, you know, if our vehicles of consciousness are relatively crude, the energies which are <wrap hide>182|00:18:04|480|00:18:07|700</wrap>trying to reach us do not get through in their pure form. <wrap hide>183|00:18:08|100|00:18:15|340</wrap>We have to learn how to identify ourselves with the actual energies and in their pure <wrap hide>184|00:18:15|340|00:18:17|820</wrap>form and not in their distorted form. <wrap hide>185|00:18:18|560|00:18:23|700</wrap>So we're talking about that which consciousness is dependent upon. <wrap hide>186|00:18:23|700|00:18:31|440</wrap>It is not dependent only upon that which is already recognized, a recognized part of <wrap hide>187|00:18:31|440|00:18:32|020</wrap>himself. <wrap hide>188|00:18:33|520|00:18:42|580</wrap>So consciousness is dependent on our vehicles and the degree to which we can recognize the <wrap hide>189|00:18:42|580|00:18:49|540</wrap>energies which are attempting to enter, the degree to which we can attune with them, identify <wrap hide>190|00:18:49|980|00:18:50|540</wrap>with them. <wrap hide>191|00:18:50|600|00:18:51|480</wrap>Let's read that again. <wrap hide>192|00:18:51|480|00:18:58|580</wrap>It has been rightly said that consciousness is dependent upon the vehicles of consciousness. <wrap hide>193|00:18:58|820|00:19:02|700</wrap>Do we have a pure astral body that will determine our astral consciousness? <wrap hide>194|00:19:02|820|00:19:07|380</wrap>Do we have a pure mental body that will determine the type of consciousness we experience within <wrap hide>195|00:19:07|380|00:19:07|700</wrap>it? <wrap hide>196|00:19:08|200|00:19:14|140</wrap>Upon their point of development, upon the ability of the individual to identify himself <wrap hide>197|00:19:14|140|00:19:22|480</wrap>with the energies and the impulses which are reaching him. <wrap hide>198|00:19:23|080|00:19:27|400</wrap><wrap quote>the energies and impulses which are reaching him, and is not dependent //EA, p.54//</wrap>—consciousness is <wrap hide>199|00:19:27|400|00:19:33|780</wrap>not dependent <wrap quote>only upon that which is already a recognised part or aspect of himself. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>200|00:19:33|780|00:19:36|380</wrap>because consciousness is always growing. <wrap hide>201|00:19:36|840|00:19:42|720</wrap>There are always impacts which are attempting to increase the scope and depth of our consciousness. <wrap hide>202|00:19:42|720|00:19:49|540</wrap>So our consciousness is not only dependent upon the present condition in which we find <wrap hide>203|00:19:49|540|00:19:49|980</wrap>ourselves. <wrap hide>204|00:19:50|760|00:19:59|340</wrap><wrap quote>It might be said that the higher response to the realities and qualities revealed and <wrap hide>205|00:19:59|340|00:20:06|340</wrap>made possible by the impact of energy from the zodiacal signs is somewhat dependent upon <wrap hide>206|00:20:06|340|00:20:13|120</wrap>the waning influence of the planets to hold down the consciousness aspect of the man. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>207|00:20:13|240|00:20:21|100</wrap>Very interesting. Although zodiacal lords are much greater beings than planetary lords, <wrap hide>208|00:20:21|100|00:20:32|660</wrap>and even though the planets can be effective even up to the fifth initiation, perhaps beyond, <wrap hide>209|00:20:32|660|00:20:38|260</wrap>at least even the non-sacred planets can be effective up to the fifth initiation, they <wrap hide>210|00:20:38|260|00:20:50|720</wrap>as lesser lords eventually wane in their influence and then the zodiacal constellations, the <wrap hide>211|00:20:50|720|00:20:57|480</wrap>zodiacal signs become more influential. <wrap hide>212|00:20:58|480|00:21:01|220</wrap>So there's a higher response involved here. <wrap hide>213|00:21:01|590|00:21:07|220</wrap>It's the realities and qualities of the zodiacal signs and the planets must wane. <wrap hide>214|00:21:07|820|00:21:13|020</wrap>So you know how it often is, we have to stop doing something before it becomes possible <wrap hide>215|00:21:13|020|00:21:19|100</wrap>to do something higher, and we have to stop being under the sway exclusively of the planets <wrap hide>216|00:21:19|100|00:21:24|620</wrap>before the zodiacal energies can reveal their qualities. <wrap hide>217|00:21:25|480|00:21:30|820</wrap>Remember that the zodiacal energies, as we looked at just a little while ago, do affect <wrap hide>218|00:21:30|820|00:21:38|980</wrap>soul development but they also work through Shamballa and are expressive in terms of the monad. <wrap hide>219|00:21:39|680|00:21:44|580</wrap><wrap quote>Ponder upon this, for it embodies a deep esoteric truth. //EA, p.54//</wrap> What <wrap hide>220|00:21:44|580|00:21:48|860</wrap>will we de-emphasize in order to emphasize something higher? <wrap hide>221|00:21:48|860|00:22:01|980</wrap>So somehow in our life, D.K. is suggesting, D.K. suggests that we must allow the planetary <wrap hide>222|00:22:04|500|00:22:20|560</wrap>planetary influence to wane somewhat before the full zodiacal influence can be felt and <wrap hide>223|00:22:20|560|00:22:21|140</wrap>appreciated. <wrap hide>224|00:22:22|020|00:22:32|260</wrap>All right, thus two potent streams of energy, cosmic and systemic. And even though D.K. does <wrap hide>225|00:22:32|260|00:22:40|080</wrap>call the planetary Logoi cosmic beings, in this particular context he's looking at them <wrap hide>226|00:22:40|080|00:22:47|220</wrap>as systemic beings. <wrap quote>Thus, two potent streams of energy-cosmic //EA, p.54//</wrap> that is zodiacal, <wrap quote>and systemic-<wrap hide>227|00:22:47|590|00:22:55|800</wrap>reach man via the conditioning planetary centres of force //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>228|00:22:57|570|00:23:03|660</wrap>Another thing he can be saying here is that the energies of the three great constellations <wrap hide>229|00:23:03|660|00:23:09|680</wrap>and the zodiacal energies reach man via the conditioning planetary centres of force <wrap hide>230|00:23:09|970|00:23:16|840</wrap><wrap quote>(the seven //EA, p.54//</wrap> presumably sacred, <wrap quote>planetary schemes in the solar system and their corresponding <wrap hide>231|00:23:17|400|00:23:28|840</wrap>seven centres in the planet on which we live) and pour into the symbolic "twelve houses" through <wrap hide>232|00:23:28|840|00:23:29|400</wrap>their medium. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>233|00:23:29|540|00:23:35|200</wrap>He is trying to tie everything together, give us the grand synthesis of the three great <wrap hide>234|00:23:35|200|00:23:40|180</wrap>constellations, the twelve zodiacal signs, the seven major planetary schemes, five minor, <wrap hide>235|00:23:41|360|00:23:48|380</wrap>and the twelve houses of the horoscope which give us influence upon circumstance. <wrap hide>236|00:23:49|100|00:23:55|340</wrap>Thus, two potent streams of energy, cosmic and systemic, and I suspect that the systemic <wrap hide>237|00:23:55|340|00:24:01|760</wrap>energies in this context are considered planetary, reach man via the conditioning planetary centers <wrap hide>238|00:24:01|760|00:24:09|580</wrap>of force. They condition life within the lower worlds and also in some cases in the <wrap hide>239|00:24:09|580|00:24:14|940</wrap>higher worlds, the seven planetary schemes in the solar system and the corresponding <wrap hide>240|00:24:14|940|00:24:19|240</wrap>seven centers in the planet on which we live. <wrap hide>241|00:24:21|320|00:24:28|620</wrap>Our planet has, well let's call it a planetary globe, and it has chakras on many different <wrap hide>242|00:24:28|620|00:24:34|720</wrap>levels and seven major chakras presumably on each level. <wrap hide>243|00:24:35|120|00:24:48|100</wrap>We also have the seven continents and we also have the seven major city-like centers: Darjeeling, <wrap hide>244|00:24:48|100|00:24:53|220</wrap>Tokyo, Geneva, London, and New York. <wrap hide>245|00:24:54|760|00:24:58|120</wrap>Five of those exist and seven will. <wrap hide>246|00:24:58|940|00:25:05|400</wrap>So there are a number of septenates on our planet which receive the energies of the seven <wrap hide>247|00:25:05|400|00:25:06|860</wrap>planetary schemes. <wrap hide>248|00:25:06|960|00:25:14|060</wrap>We would assume that the chakra systems of the chain lords and the chakra systems of <wrap hide>249|00:25:14|060|00:25:21|620</wrap>the globe lords would receive these sevenfold planetary energies. <wrap hide>250|00:25:22|940|00:25:28|960</wrap>And they pour into the twelve symbolic twelve houses through the medium of the planets. <wrap hide>251|00:25:29|100|00:25:34|260</wrap>When we really want to know what's happening circumstantially we look at planets in our <wrap hide>252|00:25:34|260|00:25:38|380</wrap>houses whatever house system we may use. <wrap hide>253|00:25:38|380|00:25:44|740</wrap>Since D.K. does not deny the value of the house systems he simply is telling us that in the <wrap hide>254|00:25:44|740|00:25:52|140</wrap>future the arms of the horoscope will be considered even more important. <wrap hide>255|00:25:53|560|00:26:01|260</wrap>These arms correspond to the houses but probably have a more spiritual meaning as the planet <wrap hide>256|00:26:01|260|00:26:04|660</wrap>works out in an arm of the horoscope. <wrap hide>257|00:26:06|680|00:26:16|840</wrap><wrap quote>It is for this reason that our solar system is spoken of as one of "intrinsic duality" <wrap hide>258|00:26:17|540|00:26:24|440</wrap>(love-wisdom) and that the major task of man is the "regulation of the pairs of opposites." //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>259|00:26:24|580|00:26:30|280</wrap>Well, he's talking about the two potent streams of energy and presumably one of them is associated <wrap hide>260|00:26:30|280|00:26:33|520</wrap>with wisdom and one of them is associated with love. <wrap hide>261|00:26:33|520|00:26:37|680</wrap>It would be difficult to differentiate here which is which. <wrap hide>262|00:26:38|500|00:26:45|240</wrap>But we have two potent streams of energy and just above he's talking about the influence <wrap hide>263|00:26:45|240|00:26:49|940</wrap>of the zodiac and the influence of the planets. <wrap hide>264|00:26:51|380|00:26:55|740</wrap>The energies of the twelve constellations are blended with those of the twelve planets. <wrap hide>265|00:26:55|740|00:27:02|780</wrap>That's the dual stream and that is related to the love-wisdom of our solar system. <wrap hide>266|00:27:03|860|00:27:11|560</wrap>But one would think that that would also be the case with other solar systems if they <wrap hide>267|00:27:11|560|00:27:25|720</wrap>have planets and are related to the same zodiacal signs, such as let us say the stars of the <wrap hide>268|00:27:25|720|00:27:31|860</wrap>planets are quite close to us and they also would be related to these great twelve conditioning <wrap hide>269|00:27:32|740|00:27:33|220</wrap>constellations. <wrap hide>270|00:27:33|940|00:27:39|220</wrap>So there are two potent streams of energy and he says <wrap quote>It is for this reason that our <wrap hide>271|00:27:39|220|00:27:45|180</wrap>solar system is spoken of as one of "intrinsic duality" (love-wisdom) and that the major <wrap hide>272|00:27:45|180|00:27:48|500</wrap>task of man is the "regulation of the pairs of opposites." //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>273|00:27:48|500|00:27:54|300</wrap>Is he saying here that the zodiacal signs and the planets are opposites? <wrap hide>274|00:27:54|720|00:28:06|480</wrap>Are the zodiacal signs and the planets opposites in a way, or are they hierarchically related, <wrap hide>275|00:28:06|480|00:28:07|920</wrap>one superior to the other? <wrap hide>276|00:28:08|520|00:28:13|300</wrap>The theme of duality, let's just accept that at face value, <wrap quote>The theme of duality, therefore, <wrap hide>277|00:28:13|300|00:28:17|520</wrap>runs through the whole story of man's development. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>278|00:28:17|520|00:28:25|760</wrap>There is always something higher bringing him forward, luring him on, and something <wrap hide>279|00:28:26|360|00:28:30|120</wrap>lower which is attempting to hold him back. <wrap hide>280|00:28:30|520|00:28:33|720</wrap>So we have the higher and lower pairs of opposites especially. <wrap hide>281|00:28:34|760|00:28:40|320</wrap>We cannot really think of love and wisdom however as opposites because they both seem <wrap hide>282|00:28:40|320|00:28:43|000</wrap>to cooperate very well with each other. <wrap hide>283|00:28:43|410|00:28:47|820</wrap>The theme of duality therefore runs through the entire, through the whole story of man's <wrap hide>284|00:28:47|820|00:28:54|220</wrap>development. Upon all the three planes of human unfoldment the reconciliation goes forward. <wrap hide>285|00:28:54|700|00:29:01|060</wrap>We can call this the reconciliation of the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>286|00:29:02|240|00:29:07|730</wrap>And certainly when one looks at the type of reconciliation we have to carry forward it's <wrap hide>287|00:29:07|730|00:29:16|690</wrap>reconciliation initially between the soul and the personality and thus between the zodiacal <wrap hide>288|00:29:16|690|00:29:18|190</wrap>signs and the planets. <wrap hide>289|00:29:18|230|00:29:24|950</wrap>We remember that in this section, just a little while ago, Master D.K. is basically telling us <wrap hide>290|00:29:24|950|00:29:31|910</wrap>that the zodiacal signs are correlated with soul development and with subjectivity, and <wrap hide>291|00:29:31|910|00:29:40|950</wrap>the planets are correlated more with conditioning influences which condition our circumstances. <wrap hide>292|00:29:41|990|00:29:48|970</wrap>Okay, so that is a little discussion of duality and how duality is related to the blending <wrap hide>293|00:29:48|970|00:29:54|730</wrap>of the zodiacal constellations, or signs, the energies of them with the energies of the <wrap hide>294|00:29:54|730|00:29:55|070</wrap>planets. <wrap hide>295|00:29:56|210|00:29:58|410</wrap>Okay, now we have a little tabulation. <wrap hide>296|00:29:58|410|00:30:03|830</wrap><wrap quote>1. Upon the physical plane we find the merging of the dense and the etheric forces. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>297|00:30:04|110|00:30:06|790</wrap>He's going to give us various of the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>298|00:30:07|090|00:30:11|670</wrap>So here are various of the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>299|00:30:12|350|00:30:16|950</wrap>Upon the physical plane, and this took place back in old Lemuria as one of the initiations <wrap hide>300|00:30:16|950|00:30:17|650</wrap>of that period. <wrap hide>301|00:30:18|390|00:30:23|070</wrap>Upon the physical plane we find the merging of the dense and etheric forces. <wrap hide>302|00:30:23|070|00:30:28|850</wrap><wrap quote>This is consummated upon the //Path of Purification//. //EA, p.54//</wrap> when, according to the energies within the <wrap hide>303|00:30:28|850|00:30:36|610</wrap>etheric body, we can control the strictly dense physical promptings and impulses which have <wrap hide>304|00:30:36|610|00:30:43|830</wrap>to do with the third aspect of divinity and not with the second aspect at all. <wrap hide>305|00:30:44|150|00:30:50|330</wrap>So many of the appetites that we are prompted to follow... <wrap hide>306|00:30:51|050|00:30:58|730</wrap>So many of the instincts have their root in the dense physical nature, and we, by bringing <wrap hide>307|00:30:58|730|00:31:03|770</wrap>higher energies into our etheric nature, have to learn how to control these. <wrap hide>308|00:31:03|910|00:31:13|170</wrap>This leads up to the first initiation in which a degree of that purification is substantiated <wrap hide>309|00:31:13|170|00:31:13|990</wrap>as achieved. <wrap hide>310|00:31:15|410|00:31:17|010</wrap>Pairs of opposites upon the astral plane. <wrap hide>311|00:31:17|650|00:31:22|390</wrap><wrap quote>2. Upon the astral plane there must come the resolution of the pairs of opposites. //EA, p.54//</wrap> and this <wrap hide>312|00:31:22|390|00:31:24|830</wrap>is the pull of the personality and the pull of the soul. <wrap hide>313|00:31:25|550|00:31:31|030</wrap><wrap quote>This is consummated upon the //Path of Discipleship//. //EA, p.54//</wrap> and the battle is fought out on the astral <wrap hide>314|00:31:31|030|00:31:31|450</wrap>plane. <wrap hide>315|00:31:32|370|00:31:34|190</wrap>Higher desires and lower desires. <wrap hide>316|00:31:34|670|00:31:37|710</wrap>Spiritual desires and personal desires. <wrap hide>317|00:31:38|070|00:31:43|450</wrap>Kind of a Kurukshetra which many of us have experienced at different times of our life <wrap hide>318|00:31:43|450|00:31:51|770</wrap>and lives, and in which even the planetary Logos is experiencing now. <wrap hide>319|00:31:53|350|00:31:59|430</wrap>You would think that we, as disciples being somewhat mentally polarized or almost there <wrap hide>320|00:31:59|430|00:32:06|050</wrap>perhaps, would be beyond this type of Kurukshetra, this type of battle on the astral plane which <wrap hide>321|00:32:06|050|00:32:11|250</wrap>is so common to the ordinary non-aspiring human being, but we are not. <wrap hide>322|00:32:11|250|00:32:14|830</wrap>We are still somewhat subject to it. <wrap hide>323|00:32:15|170|00:32:21|230</wrap>There are high desires leading us, aspirations leading us into the world of soul, and there <wrap hide>324|00:32:21|230|00:32:27|530</wrap>are strictly personal pulls leading us back into the world of personality, and pretty much <wrap hide>325|00:32:27|530|00:32:37|030</wrap>at the third initiation the bird on the branch flies free of the counter pulls. <wrap hide>326|00:32:38|030|00:32:46|550</wrap>That old stanza used in Atlantean days at the time of the third initiation describes <wrap hide>327|00:32:46|550|00:32:47|810</wrap>this very beautifully. <wrap hide>328|00:32:50|130|00:32:57|310</wrap><wrap quote>3. Upon the mental plane the Angel of the Presence and the Dweller on the Threshold <wrap hide>329|00:32:57|310|00:33:06|230</wrap>are brought face to face. Their synthesis //EA, p.55//</wrap> which is really a synthesis of the man as <wrap hide>330|00:33:06|230|00:33:13|790</wrap>the angel and man as the personality, <wrap quote>is brought about upon the //Path of Initiation//. //EA, p.55//</wrap> and the final <wrap hide>331|00:33:13|790|00:33:21|550</wrap>synthesis of this in a way does not occur until the fifth initiation, although a good <wrap hide>332|00:33:21|550|00:33:25|310</wrap>part of that synthesis is achieved at the third degree. <wrap hide>333|00:33:25|490|00:33:32|970</wrap>Well, really at the third degree the man only catches a glimpse of the full nature of the <wrap hide>334|00:33:32|970|00:33:34|610</wrap>dweller, I think. <wrap hide>335|00:33:36|630|00:33:45|910</wrap>This is in "Glamour: A World Problem," and I think it would be good in "Glamour: A World Problem." <wrap hide>336|00:33:45|910|00:33:55|310</wrap>I'll put the word "glimpse," and there's only one, and we can see that in the third initiation <wrap hide>337|00:33:57|190|00:34:01|490</wrap>the initiate can employ the intuition for right perception of truth, and in that initiation <wrap hide>338|00:34:01|490|00:34:07|630</wrap>he catches the first real glimpse, the first real glimpse of the dweller on the threshold <wrap hide>339|00:34:07|630|00:34:10|550</wrap>and the angel of the presence. <wrap hide>340|00:34:10|690|00:34:15|910</wrap>This is a very mental initiation and it allows him to focus within the causal body. <wrap hide>341|00:34:16|750|00:34:21|930</wrap>In the fourth initiation the initiate demonstrates his ability to produce completed onement between <wrap hide>342|00:34:21|930|00:34:28|050</wrap>the higher and lower aspect of the soul in manifestation because the personality is the <wrap hide>343|00:34:28|050|00:34:32|770</wrap>lower aspect of the soul in manifestation and sees the dweller on the threshold which <wrap hide>344|00:34:32|770|00:34:40|310</wrap>is the refined, purified and empowered personality merge into the angel of the presence and even <wrap hide>345|00:34:40|310|00:34:47|990</wrap>At the fifth initiation, this is involved. Interestingly, in the fifth initiation, and here words fail <wrap hide>346|00:34:47|990|00:34:54|570</wrap>to express the truth, he sees the dweller on the threshold, the angel, and the Presence merged <wrap hide>347|00:34:54|570|00:34:59|830</wrap>into a divine synthesis. And this Presence is none other than the Monad. <wrap hide>348|00:35:00|670|00:35:09|970</wrap>So the dweller is with us for a long time. So it's upon the mental plane that the true <wrap hide>349|00:35:09|970|00:35:16|910</wrap>Angel of the Presence, which is expressing itself on the higher mental plane, and the <wrap hide>350|00:35:16|910|00:35:24|410</wrap>Dweller on the Threshold, which is also expressing itself on the mental plane because it is, in <wrap hide>351|00:35:24|410|00:35:30|830</wrap>a way, the entire personality focused on the fourth sub-plane of the mental plane and connected <wrap hide>352|00:35:30|830|00:35:35|630</wrap>with the mental unit, they are brought face to face. <wrap hide>353|00:35:36|830|00:35:41|730</wrap>Their synthesis proceeds later upon the Path of Initiation. We've just seen that the real <wrap hide>354|00:35:41|730|00:35:48|130</wrap>merging of the dweller and the angel does not occur until the fourth initiation, but <wrap hide>355|00:35:48|130|00:35:53|930</wrap>at least they are brought face to face, and a clear sight of the dweller and the angel <wrap hide>356|00:35:55|070|00:35:58|830</wrap>exists for the one who is reaching that degree. <wrap hide>357|00:35:59|990|00:36:02|650</wrap>I just noticed I look like some sort of head suspended in the dark. <wrap hide>358|00:36:02|810|00:36:08|330</wrap>Well, anyway, the room is dark. I've been in this room for quite a while, and you know the <wrap hide>359|00:36:08|330|00:36:13|890</wrap>sun has changed position and so forth. But I trust you'll be able to see me and hear <wrap hide>360|00:36:13|890|00:36:14|390</wrap>me. <wrap hide>361|00:36:14|790|00:36:18|350</wrap>All right, let's see where we are. <wrap hide>362|00:36:21|510|00:36:27|770</wrap><wrap quote>What is true of man in this connection is true also of humanity as a whole, //EA, p.55//</wrap> <wrap hide>363|00:36:27|910|00:36:34|910</wrap>There is a sense in which the angel of humanity must face its dweller. In some of the — in the <wrap hide>364|00:36:34|910|00:36:40|630</wrap>great war of the previous century, which may not quite be over, perhaps to run its third <wrap hide>365|00:36:40|630|00:36:49|370</wrap>phase, hopefully subjectively — the dweller and angel of humanity are facing each other. <wrap hide>366|00:36:50|190|00:36:55|530</wrap>This is not totally realized by all members of humanity, but certainly we see the best <wrap hide>367|00:36:55|530|00:37:01|450</wrap>and the worst of humanity being displayed in these warlike — in this warlike situation. <wrap hide>368|00:37:01|990|00:37:10|210</wrap>So what is true of man in this connection, in relation to the dweller and the angel, that <wrap hide>369|00:37:10|210|00:37:16|850</wrap>profound duality perceived in relation to the fourth sub-plane of the mental plane and <wrap hide>370|00:37:16|850|00:37:21|910</wrap>the second sub-plane of the mental plane, the angel focusing here on the second sub-plane <wrap hide>371|00:37:21|910|00:37:26|310</wrap>of the mental plane and the dweller on the fourth sub-plane of the mental plane. <wrap hide>372|00:37:26|720|00:37:35|170</wrap>What is true of the individual, of man, is also true of humanity as a whole, <wrap quote>of the planetary <wrap hide>373|00:37:35|170|00:37:42|290</wrap>Logos of the Earth, as of all planetary Logoi, and of a solar Logos. //EA, p.55//</wrap> All have their dweller; all <wrap hide>374|00:37:42|290|00:37:44|170</wrap>have their angel. <wrap hide>375|00:37:45|250|00:37:52|830</wrap>What — may I think — what we have to deal with now is the dweller of humanity. We cannot really <wrap hide>376|00:37:53|350|00:38:00|190</wrap>deal with what may be the planetary dweller; that is up to the planetary Logos himself <wrap hide>377|00:38:00|190|00:38:05|510</wrap>as he proceeds through various initiations. Actually, he is passing through a kind of fourth <wrap hide>378|00:38:05|510|00:38:11|530</wrap>initiation at this moment, although a cosmic second awaits him. So he may not be totally <wrap hide>379|00:38:11|530|00:38:19|850</wrap>ready for the merging of his own Angel of the Presence with his own dweller. And our <wrap hide>380|00:38:19|850|00:38:26|510</wrap>solar Logos — we may say the same because he is verging on the third cosmic initiation <wrap hide>381|00:38:26|510|00:38:33|150</wrap>and perhaps passing through a kind of subsidiary fourth initiation. But we can see that the <wrap hide>382|00:38:33|150|00:38:39|310</wrap>complete merging of angel and dweller does not occur until the fourth degree, and I would <wrap hide>383|00:38:39|310|00:38:46|110</wrap>assume this means the fourth cosmic degree for the solar Logos and for the planetary <wrap hide>384|00:38:46|110|00:38:52|530</wrap>Logos. And our planetary Logos is far from his fourth cosmic degree. Our solar Logos is <wrap hide>385|00:38:52|530|00:38:59|150</wrap>closer. You can check out for the hints on this page 384 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. <wrap hide>386|00:39:01|610|00:39:06|230</wrap>So what is true of man in this connection is also true of humanity as a whole. It's true <wrap hide>387|00:39:06|230|00:39:10|230</wrap>of the planetary Logos of the earth; it's true of all planetary Logoi. They all have their <wrap hide>388|00:39:10|230|00:39:18|170</wrap>dweller aspect and the need to infuse and fuse with that dweller. The angel and the dweller <wrap hide>389|00:39:18|170|00:39:23|110</wrap>must merge if the second and third aspects of divinity are to merge. And it's true also <wrap hide>390|00:39:23|110|00:39:29|870</wrap>of a solar Logos, but this merging for the solar Logos lies very far ahead because it <wrap hide>391|00:39:29|870|00:39:36|050</wrap>may be that the solar Logos is planned — the solar Logos will take his crucifixion initiation <wrap hide>392|00:39:36|050|00:39:44|710</wrap>in this solar system. He will take the great renunciation, the fourth initiation, when that <wrap hide>393|00:39:44|710|00:39:51|170</wrap>merging can occur. And it is also possible, though not absolutely confirmed — it is suggested <wrap hide>394|00:39:51|170|00:39:57|630</wrap>in the teaching that he may even take his fifth cosmic initiation. <wrap quote>The analogy between <wrap hide>395|00:39:57|630|00:40:05|970</wrap>the fusion of the pairs of opposites, for instance, upon the physical plane can be seen in the <wrap hide>396|00:40:05|970|00:40:13|550</wrap>conscious and directed fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any specific planet <wrap hide>397|00:40:13|550|00:40:19|310</wrap>or group of planets. //EA, p.55//</wrap> The analogy between the fusion of the pairs of opposites, for instance, <wrap hide>398|00:40:19|310|00:40:25|830</wrap>upon the physical plane... and do we mean etheric and physical, or do we mean perhaps the sexual <wrap hide>399|00:40:25|830|00:40:30|110</wrap>relationship? The fusion of the pairs of opposites can be seen in the conscious and directed <wrap hide>400|00:40:30|110|00:40:36|970</wrap>fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any specific planet or group <wrap hide>401|00:40:36|970|00:40:45|470</wrap>of planets. Well anyway, energies which represent the higher aspect and forces must merge. So <wrap hide>402|00:40:45|470|00:40:51|850</wrap>we'll put this down: energies and forces must merge. We're talking always about the pairs <wrap hide>403|00:40:51|850|00:40:57|910</wrap>of opposites and usually not on the same level. There are horizontal pairs of opposites. You <wrap hide>404|00:40:57|910|00:41:04|930</wrap>know, we have heat and we have cold; we have hard, we have soft. I mean, one is <wrap hide>405|00:41:04|930|00:41:09|690</wrap>not better than the other. But when we're dealing with soul and personality, one is definitely <wrap hide>406|00:41:09|690|00:41:15|370</wrap>higher than the other. <wrap quote>The analogy, involving discrimination to regulate and offset the force of the pairs of opposites upon the astral plane, can be seen when the energies of the sun sign and of the planets are perfectly directed and adjusted. //EA, p.55//</wrap> This is not true of those encountering poles upon the astral plane, and <wrap hide>407|00:41:15|370|00:41:23|550</wrap>we are looking for the aspectual integration of the Sun sign and the planets. We are looking <wrap hide>408|00:41:23|930|00:41:29|990</wrap>to harmonize their relationship. So there is an analogy here: when we are able, even if we <wrap hide>409|00:41:29|990|00:41:36|710</wrap>have tough aspects, to harmonize the relationship between the Sun sign and the planets, then <wrap hide>410|00:41:36|710|00:41:42|550</wrap>we have the analogy here to offsetting the force of the pairs of opposites on the astral <wrap hide>411|00:41:42|550|00:41:50|570</wrap>plane. And then there will be a harmony and right progression, and the man will not be <wrap hide>412|00:41:50|990|00:41:56|610</wrap>pulled below, held below, and prevented from moving on. There's going to be another analogy <wrap hide>413|00:41:56|610|00:42:02|690</wrap>here, I suspect. <wrap quote>The analogy can also be carried forward onto the mental plane //EA, p.55//</wrap> and when the... <wrap hide>414|00:42:02|690|00:42:08|770</wrap>Aha! Yeah, very interesting. <wrap quote>and when the energies of the sun sign and the rising sign are <wrap hide>415|00:42:08|770|00:42:15|870</wrap>coherently blended and expressed (in the case of both the individual or a planetary <wrap hide>416|00:42:15|870|00:42:21|050</wrap>Life) there comes a point of crisis wherein the soul and the personality are brought <wrap hide>417|00:42:21|050|00:42:32|050</wrap>face to face. //EA, p.55//</wrap> and that is the dweller and the angel. The personality stands for <wrap hide>418|00:42:32|050|00:42:44|050</wrap>the dweller, and the soul for the angel. So that is a mental happening. Now, very, very <wrap hide>419|00:42:44|050|00:42:53|290</wrap>interesting. We have an analogy here of how to reconcile pairs of opposites on different <wrap hide>420|00:42:53|290|00:43:00|350</wrap>planes. Does he talk about how to do this? The fusion of the pairs of opposites on the physical <wrap hide>421|00:43:00|350|00:43:04|870</wrap>plane can be seen in the direct fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any <wrap hide>422|00:43:04|870|00:43:12|810</wrap>particular planet or group of planets. Well, we are talking about etheric and dense physical <wrap hide>423|00:43:12|810|00:43:22|250</wrap>fusion, and we are talking about planetary forces and energies, and we are trying to blend <wrap hide>424|00:43:22|250|00:43:29|510</wrap>the higher with the lower on any particular planet or group of planets. Then we go on to <wrap hide>425|00:43:29|510|00:43:36|910</wrap>the astral plane, and we try to blend the Sun sign with the other planets and bring them <wrap hide>426|00:43:36|910|00:43:43|270</wrap>to harmony. And then we move on to the mental plane, and we try to harmonize the energies <wrap hide>427|00:43:43|270|00:43:49|350</wrap>of the Sun sign and the energies of the rising sign coherently blended and expressed. And <wrap hide>428|00:43:49|350|00:43:55|210</wrap>you have to ask yourself: can I do that? Can I do that right now, even if my Sun sign and <wrap hide>429|00:43:55|210|00:44:06|590</wrap>my rising sign are in what can I say... difficult aspect? Are my Sun sign and rising sign, regardless <wrap hide>430|00:44:06|590|00:44:11|630</wrap>of what their aspect may be, are they in a position to be coherently blended and expressed? <wrap hide>431|00:44:11|630|00:44:16|730</wrap>Then we will no longer have warfare upon the mental plane, the struggle between the opposites, <wrap hide>432|00:44:16|730|00:44:22|110</wrap>warfare upon the astral plane with the Sun and the planets, and warfare upon the physical <wrap hide>433|00:44:22|110|00:44:27|070</wrap>plane between the energy aspect and the force aspect of any planet or groups of planets. <wrap hide>434|00:44:27|630|00:44:32|370</wrap>You know, D.K. is wonderful, and you know, sometimes when I'm reading this, it's just as if I've <wrap hide>435|00:44:32|370|00:44:37|850</wrap>read it for the first time. I know you all have that experience from time to time, and <wrap hide>436|00:44:37|850|00:44:43|550</wrap>I'm having it right now. You know, how could I have overlooked the importance of this particular <wrap hide>437|00:44:44|090|00:44:53|890</wrap>section? How could I have not kept it in my mind? Well, maybe 1% or 2% of what is given <wrap hide>438|00:44:53|890|00:44:59|390</wrap>by D.K. is kept rightly in mind. I used to say I think I could maybe grasp 5% of what he's <wrap hide>439|00:44:59|390|00:45:03|790</wrap>written, and the further I go and the deeper I study, my percentage falls. I think I'm down <wrap hide>440|00:45:03|790|00:45:10|950</wrap>to 2.5% and rapidly falling. And maybe I will even find these percentages to be an exaggeration. <wrap hide>441|00:45:10|950|00:45:16|710</wrap>One cannot help but be humbled in the face of the magnificent presentation which Master <wrap hide>442|00:45:16|710|00:45:26|510</wrap>D.K. has given us on behalf of the Hierarchy. It's just astonishing. It is the esoteric essence <wrap hide>443|00:45:26|510|00:45:32|170</wrap>of so much of what is hidden in other traditions, and here it is clearly given in the King's <wrap hide>444|00:45:32|170|00:45:40|770</wrap>English, you know, so we are to be grateful—grateful for what is given. <wrap hide>445|00:45:41|850|00:45:48|150</wrap><wrap quote>The Angel of the Presence, distributing solar fire //EA, p.55//</wrap> Some people distinguish between <wrap hide>446|00:45:48|150|00:45:55|830</wrap>the Angel of the Presence and the solar Angel. Perhaps they consider the Angel of the Presence <wrap hide>447|00:45:55|830|00:46:02|270</wrap>to be the actual solar Angel, and the solar Angel to be that part of the solar Angel which <wrap hide>448|00:46:02|270|00:46:08|790</wrap>underlies the egoic lotus, and consider the egoic lotus as the solar Angel. I have never, <wrap hide>449|00:46:10|090|00:46:17|510</wrap>with consistency, made any such discrimination, just as I don't—I tend not to discriminate <wrap hide>450|00:46:17|510|00:46:22|690</wrap>between the planetary Logos and the heavenly man, because so often they are used in a manner <wrap hide>451|00:46:22|690|00:46:30|550</wrap>equivalent. But heavenly man, I think, can also refer to—there are degrees of heavenly man, <wrap hide>452|00:46:30|550|00:46:36|830</wrap>so a planetary Logos is a heavenly man, a chain lord is a heavenly man, a globe lord is a heavenly <wrap hide>453|00:46:36|830|00:46:43|070</wrap>man, but you cannot call them planetary Logoi. Some have said that when you speak of the <wrap hide>454|00:46:43|070|00:46:47|760</wrap>planetary Logos, it emphasizes the monadic nature of that being, and when you speak of <wrap hide>455|00:46:47|760|00:46:54|440</wrap>heavenly man, it emphasizes the soul nature of that same being, and it's a good distinction. <wrap hide>456|00:46:54|440|00:47:02|260</wrap>But I haven't found it to bear out in so many contexts. Anyway, you can make up your <wrap hide>457|00:47:02|260|00:47:08|380</wrap>own mind as you study this, not only now, but in centuries ahead at the wonderful new esoteric <wrap hide>458|00:47:08|380|00:47:15|680</wrap>schools which will be established—fourteen of them—and then more in the centuries ahead <wrap hide>459|00:47:16|080|00:47:22|340</wrap>to bring down to earth the true esotericism and train those who can undergo the rigors <wrap hide>460|00:47:22|340|00:47:30|640</wrap>into service to humanity on behalf of the Hierarchy. <wrap quote>The Angel of the Presence, distributing <wrap hide>461|00:47:30|640|00:47:45|660</wrap>solar fire and holding focussed electric fire, //EA, p.55//</wrap>—that's quite an important statement, so the <wrap hide>462|00:47:46|240|00:47:51|760</wrap>electric fire, after all, it has its own monadic nature, doesn't it? But that's one of the only <wrap hide>463|00:47:51|760|00:48:02|960</wrap>times I've seen this. The Angel of the Presence, let's see, Angel of the Presence holds electric <wrap hide>464|00:48:02|960|00:48:08|860</wrap>fire focused. Interesting. <wrap quote>and the Dweller on the Threshold, expressing and utilising <wrap hide>465|00:48:08|860|00:48:14|720</wrap>fire by friction, //EA, p.55//</wrap> See, in a way, within the Angel of the Presence and within any second <wrap hide>466|00:48:14|720|00:48:20|660</wrap>aspect demonstration, the first aspect is held latent because the time for its full expression <wrap hide>467|00:48:20|660|00:48:30|280</wrap>has not yet come. We're not in that final, or sixth, solar system, so always the first <wrap hide>468|00:48:30|280|00:48:38|520</wrap>aspect of divinity is expressing itself in a mediated manner. Anyway, they <wrap quote>know each other <wrap hide>469|00:48:38|520|00:48:43|600</wrap>"with intimate occult knowledge." //EA, p.55//</wrap> This occurs on the plane of mind, starting at the third <wrap hide>470|00:48:43|600|00:48:50|840</wrap>initiation and increasingly as we move towards the fourth initiation and even the fifth, when <wrap hide>471|00:48:50|840|00:48:56|640</wrap>the angel and the dweller—whatever that is, could be a mayavirupa at that time—and <wrap hide>472|00:48:56|640|00:49:06|520</wrap>also the presence all three blend together, and the triangle becomes one. <wrap quote>The door then <wrap hide>473|00:49:06|520|00:49:13|580</wrap>stands open wide through which the life and light of the three major constellations can—<wrap hide>474|00:49:13|600|00:49:18|540</wrap>after the third initiation— //EA, p.55//</wrap> that's the point—the three major constellations after the third <wrap hide>475|00:49:18|540|00:49:24|860</wrap>initiation can <wrap quote>be occultly available to the initiate, be he a liberated human being or <wrap hide>476|00:49:24|860|00:49:29|840</wrap>a planetary Logos. //EA, p.55//</wrap> And of course, it's not just to the human being that the three great <wrap hide>477|00:49:29|840|00:49:37|520</wrap>constellations extend their influence, but they are so great that they have amazing power <wrap hide>478|00:49:37|520|00:49:45|480</wrap>over the planetary Logos as well, and even over the solar Logos. So they pour forth their <wrap hide>479|00:49:45|480|00:49:49|760</wrap>radiation in different measure, or shall we say it can be received differently by the <wrap hide>480|00:49:49|760|00:49:56|640</wrap>three classifications of beings: the liberated human being or initiate, the initiate planetary <wrap hide>481|00:49:57|400|00:50:02|860</wrap>Logos, and the initiate solar Logos, the three great constellations. Because think of it, <wrap hide>482|00:50:02|860|00:50:09|300</wrap>even the tiniest of those three, which is Sirius, has an amazing effect upon our solar <wrap hide>483|00:50:09|300|00:50:18|440</wrap>Logos. Okay, we can do a little more, I think. You know, as I go over this material, I'm just— <wrap hide>484|00:50:19|740|00:50:29|140</wrap>you know, one would like to ponder, to dwell upon it for a long time and extract all that <wrap hide>485|00:50:29|140|00:50:36|920</wrap>is hidden. But alright, we are going over this book somewhat carefully, and there will come <wrap hide>486|00:50:36|920|00:50:42|900</wrap>thoughts to you about what has not really been fathomed, and there will come ideas to <wrap hide>487|00:50:42|900|00:50:49|980</wrap>you about what might further be fathomed, based upon the hints we have generated. So the Angel <wrap hide>488|00:50:49|980|00:50:55|120</wrap>of the Presence, distributing solar fire and holding focus—solar fire, electric fire—wow, <wrap hide>489|00:50:55|120|00:51:00|640</wrap>that really has to be remembered because there is electric fire there, and in a way, <wrap hide>490|00:51:00|640|00:51:07|140</wrap>the entire jewel in the lotus is a representation of electric fire, although you could say that <wrap hide>491|00:51:07|140|00:51:15|700</wrap>is more the creation of the monad than it is the creation of the solar Angel, and the <wrap hide>492|00:51:15|700|00:51:20|120</wrap>Dweller on the Threshold expressing and utilizing fire by friction know each other with intimate <wrap hide>493|00:51:20|120|00:51:24|960</wrap>occult knowledge, and this is happening at the higher initiations. The door stands wide <wrap hide>494|00:51:24|960|00:51:31|920</wrap>open, and the three major constellations can express themselves through the liberated human <wrap hide>495|00:51:31|920|00:51:38|880</wrap>being who is the initiate and through a planetary Logos at various stages of his development, <wrap hide>496|00:51:38|880|00:51:46|250</wrap>and probably especially once he is an initiate planetary Logos. When astrologers understand <wrap hide>497|00:51:46|250|00:51:51|410</wrap>the true significance of the constellation Gemini, the the head of the cosmic Christ— <wrap hide>498|00:51:51|410|00:51:57|410</wrap>a very, very important constellation which is inspiring, I think, Master D.K. and Master <wrap hide>499|00:51:57|410|00:52:04|370</wrap>K.H. and many of the revealers of the ageless wisdom. <wrap quote>When astrologers understand the <wrap hide>500|00:52:04|370|00:52:11|170</wrap>true significance of the constellation Gemini, the Twins, and the dual forces which pour through <wrap hide>501|00:52:11|170|00:52:17|450</wrap>this sign (the "forces in conflict" as they are sometimes called or "the quarrelling brothers") //EA, p.55//</wrap> <wrap hide>502|00:52:18|110|00:52:25|330</wrap>Watch out when you have Mars in Gemini, because it sets up a good quarrel—and the forces which <wrap hide>503|00:52:25|330|00:52:32|510</wrap><wrap quote>beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be <wrap hide>504|00:52:32|510|00:52:41|150</wrap>known.//EA, p.56//</wrap> Now I don't know if it is said here, but we do know that Gemini is used as a material <wrap hide>505|00:52:41|170|00:52:48|830</wrap>mediating force between the pairs of opposites. I'll call them the zodiacal pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>506|00:52:48|990|00:52:55|610</wrap>You know, there's Aries, Libra, Gemini. Taurus, Scorpio, Gemini. We'll skip Gemini for a moment. <wrap hide>507|00:52:55|910|00:53:03|550</wrap>Then there's Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini. There is Leo, Aquarius, Gemini. There is Pisces, <wrap hide>508|00:53:03|670|00:53:08|810</wrap>Virgo, Gemini, and when Gemini is involved itself, Pisces becomes the mediating influence. <wrap hide>509|00:53:08|810|00:53:14|310</wrap>We discuss that later. That's the opposition between Gemini, Sagittarius with Pisces as <wrap hide>510|00:53:14|310|00:53:19|650</wrap>the mediating force. So we have to understand the great pairs of opposites by understanding <wrap hide>511|00:53:19|650|00:53:25|290</wrap>the sign Gemini. The pairs of opposites, higher and lower, are always quarreling. That means <wrap hide>512|00:53:25|290|00:53:29|310</wrap>they're out of adjustment for a while, and those pairs of opposites under Gemini can <wrap hide>513|00:53:29|310|00:53:33|650</wrap>be soul and personality, but they can also be the spirit and the soul-infused personality. <wrap hide>514|00:53:33|650|00:53:40|670</wrap>They can be Sirius and the Sun. They can be different constellations which hold to each <wrap hide>515|00:53:40|670|00:53:49|190</wrap>other that kind of pairs of opposites relationship. So, you know, we have Pollux, which is a great <wrap hide>516|00:53:49|190|00:53:56|270</wrap>supergiant star, and we have three pairs of double stars that are called Castor. It's <wrap hide>517|00:53:56|270|00:54:03|630</wrap>really a visually single star, but it's really six stars, and those represent the same kind <wrap hide>518|00:54:03|650|00:54:11|570</wrap>of forces which are lower than the force of spirit itself. So everything that is generated <wrap hide>519|00:54:11|570|00:54:18|310</wrap>by spirit—the six—pulls in an opposite direction from spirit itself until there is a reconciliation. <wrap hide>520|00:54:20|210|00:54:24|030</wrap>So anyway, we need to learn to reconcile the pairs of opposites, and especially upon our <wrap hide>521|00:54:24|030|00:54:31|590</wrap>planet, which is a planet of magnetic adjustment. We become adjudicators between the pairs of <wrap hide>522|00:54:31|590|00:54:40|310</wrap>opposites. We are involved in magnetic work. Let's just see if we can find that. Let's <wrap hide>523|00:54:40|310|00:55:01|570</wrap>just say something about the school... adjudicators. I'm not going to do too well here. School— <wrap hide>524|00:55:03|170|00:55:10|450</wrap>magnetic. Oh, I see! I know what the problem is. I still have glamour checked, and you can't <wrap hide>525|00:55:10|450|00:55:22|950</wrap>find a reference... adjudicator. Let's call this just "school of magnetic something," and let's <wrap hide>526|00:55:22|950|00:55:28|750</wrap>see if we can find it. One, two, three—there it is: the school of magnetic response. This <wrap hide>527|00:55:28|750|00:55:36|030</wrap>is Earth. Another name given to its pupils is "the graduates of painful endeavor" or "the <wrap hide>528|00:55:36|030|00:55:42|910</wrap>adjudicators between the polar opposites." A further hint to be taken in connection with <wrap hide>529|00:55:43|910|00:55:48|870</wrap>the two names given above is that its graduates are said to undergo examination on the third <wrap hide>530|00:55:48|870|00:55:57|030</wrap>sub-plane of the astral plane, and probably that is the third counting from the top down. <wrap hide>531|00:55:57|650|00:56:04|890</wrap>So the constellation Gemini has a tremendous relationship to our Earth. It provided, in <wrap hide>532|00:56:04|890|00:56:10|430</wrap>a way, the door of entry for the solar angels, and in another way, it represents the pillars <wrap hide>533|00:56:10|430|00:56:19|090</wrap>of wisdom through which advancing human beings can pass into the higher life. So Gemini gives <wrap hide>534|00:56:19|090|00:56:27|010</wrap>a huge angelic content to our Earth, just as Sagittarius promotes the animal content. All <wrap hide>535|00:56:27|010|00:56:33|250</wrap>right, I do believe we have reached the point. I realize that I must present quite a spectacle <wrap hide>536|00:56:33|250|00:56:39|410</wrap>here in the dark. Excuse me. We've done six of these today. I don't know whether there <wrap hide>537|00:56:39|410|00:56:44|090</wrap>will be a seventh. I'll try to get them out to you as soon as I can. We have gone as far <wrap hide>538|00:56:44|090|00:56:56|310</wrap>as page 56. So this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 26. That's 36—number 26. <wrap hide>539|00:56:56|330|00:57:14|550</wrap>Can I type it? And up to ending page 56. I believe it's from page 53 to page 56. So we <wrap hide>540|00:57:14|550|00:57:26|290</wrap>will together work The Great Invocation as we always do, because ritualistically it's <wrap hide>541|00:57:26|290|00:57:30|330</wrap>a ritual. Yes. All right. <wrap hide>542|00:57:41|050|00:57:49|770</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>543|00:57:49|770|00:58:03|530</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>544|00:58:03|530|00:58:14|450</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>545|00:58:14|450|00:58:21|710</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>546|00:58:21|710|00:58:33|010</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let <wrap hide>547|00:58:33|010|00:58:42|750</wrap>the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>548|00:58:42|750|00:58:47|890</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>549|00:59:26|010|00:59:38|590</wrap>Okay friends, we are making progress. What are we up to page 56 now? And I think this <wrap hide>550|00:59:38|590|00:59:51|830</wrap>opening section has only 90 or 100 pages, so by the time we've done 50 of these webinars, <wrap hide>551|00:59:51|930|00:59:56|110</wrap>we will be through the introduction. But in a way, the other parts of the books will flow <wrap hide>552|00:59:56|110|01:00:04|630</wrap>more easily. I wish I could talk through quite a number of these books. Anyway, I've done <wrap hide>553|01:00:04|630|01:00:08|590</wrap>most of the Treatise on Cosmic Fire and half of the Rays and Initiations, and that's <wrap hide>554|01:00:08|590|01:00:14|850</wrap>done in more careful written language. The quality of what we're doing here is a little <wrap hide>555|01:00:14|850|01:00:20|150</wrap>more spontaneous, a little more ramifying and rambling and taking in various considerations. <wrap hide>556|01:00:20|730|01:00:27|750</wrap>A different style. Perhaps it's less concrete, but it's what I can do at the moment. So we <wrap hide>557|01:00:27|750|01:00:37|950</wrap>will go on to Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 27 shortly. Okay, bye for now.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|480|00:00:05|700</wrap>Well, hello again. <wrap hide>2|00:00:06|120|00:00:13|320</wrap>It's been one of those busy days when it's possible to do a number of these recordings. <wrap hide>3|00:00:15|080|00:00:23|200</wrap>We are working on page 53 of Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>4|00:00:23|920|00:00:32|740</wrap>We've been discussing what a world period may be and how variable that term may be, <wrap hide>5|00:00:32|880|00:00:47|840</wrap>all the way from a period of rotation of the Earth's axis, a 25,000 year approximately— <wrap hide>6|00:00:47|840|00:00:59|040</wrap>it's actually more than that, 25,920 approximately, a great Platonic year—to a rotation of our <wrap hide>7|00:00:59|040|00:01:06|300</wrap>Earth around, a rotation of our solar system and all its planets around the Pleiades, or <wrap hide>8|00:01:06|300|00:01:15|880</wrap>more likely a round, a complete round, or perhaps even a scheme round which is larger <wrap hide>9|00:01:15|880|00:01:23|400</wrap>still, or perhaps even a Mahamanvantara or still greater than a Mahamanvantara. <wrap hide>10|00:01:23|860|00:01:28|500</wrap>So often the term "world period" refers to a round. <wrap hide>11|00:01:29|840|00:01:36|860</wrap>Anyway, <wrap quote>For a long time during this cycle of reincarnations and periods of manifestation, <wrap hide>12|00:01:37|700|00:01:43|100</wrap>the human being is conditioned almost entirely by the activity of the non-sacred planets. //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>13|00:01:43|100|00:01:47|440</wrap>and then he discusses which they are. <wrap hide>14|00:01:48|140|00:02:01|060</wrap>There are five petals which have to open before it becomes possible for the human being to <wrap hide>15|00:02:01|060|00:02:07|300</wrap>really respond sacredly to the sacred planets. <wrap hide>16|00:02:07|300|00:02:14|580</wrap>There may be response to the sacred planets in a non-sacred way, but the activity of the <wrap hide>17|00:02:14|580|00:02:23|120</wrap>non-sacred planets is major during the first millions of years of human evolution. <wrap hide>18|00:02:23|260|00:02:29|480</wrap>There are some people who have individualized even in Lemuria on the Earth chain and are <wrap hide>19|00:02:29|480|00:02:36|420</wrap>still responding primarily to the non-sacred planets or to the sacred planets in a personal <wrap hide>20|00:02:36|420|00:02:37|800</wrap>and non-sacred way. <wrap hide>21|00:02:38|540|00:02:47|480</wrap>So it takes a long time to work ourselves into sensitivity to the truly sacred planets, <wrap hide>22|00:02:48|100|00:02:49|380</wrap>the sacredness of them. <wrap hide>23|00:02:49|680|00:02:57|980</wrap>That takes us to page 53, <wrap quote>These, as you know, are five in number: //EA, p.53//</wrap> and then we have the five non-sacred planets. <wrap hide>24|00:02:58|080|00:03:03|640</wrap>Eventually there will be twelve planets, we are told, and all of them eventually will <wrap hide>25|00:03:03|640|00:03:08|900</wrap>be sacred, which means they will have passed their fifth initiation. <wrap hide>26|00:03:10|660|00:03:16|120</wrap>Whether that is a cosmic initiation or a lesser initiation has yet to be established. <wrap hide>27|00:03:16|660|00:03:18|460</wrap>The Sun is veiling a planet. <wrap hide>28|00:03:18|640|00:03:25|420</wrap>This is not the planet Vulcan or any of the other... Vulcan, an undiscovered planet, or <wrap hide>29|00:03:25|420|00:03:27|120</wrap>any of the discovered planets. <wrap hide>30|00:03:27|120|00:03:29|920</wrap>It is a non-sacred second-rate planet. <wrap hide>31|00:03:29|920|00:03:37|580</wrap>I think this idea was most advanced by Dr. Baker—Theodore Baker, is it? <wrap hide>32|00:03:39|100|00:03:45|020</wrap>He has the idea of a non-sacred second-rate planet which is veiled by the Sun. <wrap hide>33|00:03:45|660|00:03:54|780</wrap>Another of my astrological friends think that it could be the planet Isis, which has a period <wrap hide>34|00:03:54|780|00:04:08|840</wrap>of approximately 360 years, so its period has as many years, speculatively, as the Earth <wrap hide>35|00:04:08|840|00:04:16|300</wrap>has days, and so there is a very close connection between that speculative planet and the Earth. <wrap hide>36|00:04:16|300|00:04:20|780</wrap>The Moon is veiling another non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>37|00:04:21|480|00:04:24|800</wrap>The Sun was veiling a Ray 2 planet. <wrap hide>38|00:04:25|340|00:04:27|020</wrap>The Moon is veiling a Ray 4 planet. <wrap hide>39|00:04:27|340|00:04:37|880</wrap>Some speculative astrologers feel that it may be an etheric planet called Rex, which <wrap hide>40|00:04:37|880|00:04:41|940</wrap>is fairly close. <wrap hide>41|00:04:43|320|00:04:44|760</wrap>I'll have to brush up on that. <wrap hide>42|00:04:44|760|00:04:48|400</wrap>It's near Mars, I think. <wrap hide>43|00:04:48|600|00:04:50|040</wrap>It's not far from the Earth. <wrap hide>44|00:04:50|860|00:04:53|060</wrap>It's not beyond Jupiter, I do believe. <wrap hide>45|00:04:54|120|00:04:55|740</wrap>But that is simply speculation. <wrap hide>46|00:04:56|180|00:05:02|440</wrap>What does not seem to be speculation is there is a planet, undiscovered, non-sacred, fourth-ray, <wrap hide>47|00:05:03|080|00:05:04|380</wrap>that the Moon veils. <wrap hide>48|00:05:04|500|00:05:06|980</wrap>It may be this planet Rex. <wrap hide>49|00:05:06|980|00:05:16|780</wrap>When I worked with Charles Jane, he was quite emphatic about the existence of this planet <wrap hide>50|00:05:16|780|00:05:17|000</wrap>Rex. <wrap hide>51|00:05:17|160|00:05:28|760</wrap>He didn't relate it to the fourth-ray particularly, but he did insist on its orbit and its value <wrap hide>52|00:05:28|760|00:05:29|620</wrap>in the human horoscope. <wrap hide>53|00:05:30|060|00:05:35|500</wrap>Then there is the Earth itself, of course, thus far a non-sacred planet, but interestingly, <wrap hide>54|00:05:36|020|00:05:42|340</wrap>sacred inwardly, whatever that means. There is a certain aspect of the Earth which must <wrap hide>55|00:05:42|340|00:05:43|800</wrap>be considered sacred. <wrap hide>56|00:05:44|160|00:05:46|980</wrap>It has yet to work itself into outer expression. <wrap hide>57|00:05:47|460|00:05:55|160</wrap>Then Mars, a planet less advanced than the Earth and definitely non-sacred at this point, <wrap hide>58|00:05:55|680|00:06:00|800</wrap>farther behind in its initiatory process. <wrap hide>59|00:06:00|800|00:06:07|920</wrap>And Pluto, even though it is an esoteric planet, it is still less sacred than Mars. <wrap hide>60|00:06:08|880|00:06:16|840</wrap>Just because the scientists demote Pluto to kind of a planetoid or a non-planet or a minor <wrap hide>61|00:06:16|840|00:06:22|400</wrap>planet does not mean that they are necessarily accurate from the occult perspective. <wrap hide>62|00:06:22|920|00:06:31|300</wrap>Mars is the alter ego, or the symbolic of the higher ego of Pluto, just as Venus is the <wrap hide>63|00:06:31|300|00:06:34|800</wrap>alter ego, or symbolic of the higher ego of the Earth. <wrap hide>64|00:06:34|980|00:06:36|700</wrap>These are the five non-sacred planets. <wrap hide>65|00:06:37|440|00:06:42|740</wrap>Sometimes I look at the piano and I see the seven white keys and the five black keys, and <wrap hide>66|00:06:42|740|00:06:49|400</wrap>I think of the analogy that the seven white keys which give us the C major scale are related <wrap hide>67|00:06:49|400|00:06:55|540</wrap>to the sacred planets and the black keys to the non-sacred planets, but this also has <wrap hide>68|00:06:55|540|00:06:57|120</wrap>yet to be verified. <wrap hide>69|00:06:58|120|00:07:02|060</wrap>Right, we will continue moving. <wrap hide>70|00:07:03|560|00:07:07|920</wrap>Man, speaking symbolically, is the five-pointed star. <wrap hide>71|00:07:07|980|00:07:16|560</wrap>That relates him to Leo, the most human of the signs, and the fifth sign relating to <wrap hide>72|00:07:16|560|00:07:22|240</wrap>the solar nature, to the solar egoic lotus. <wrap hide>73|00:07:23|020|00:07:25|860</wrap>When I say that, to man's solar egoic lotus. <wrap hide>74|00:07:26|020|00:07:33|640</wrap>Man, speaking symbolically, is the five-pointed star, and at the fiery points the forces of <wrap hide>75|00:07:33|640|00:07:40|180</wrap>the man pour out and upon each fiery point appears a center of reception. <wrap hide>76|00:07:40|180|00:07:41|820</wrap>Well, this is very interesting. <wrap hide>77|00:07:43|880|00:07:51|320</wrap>We might consider that the head, the two hands, and the two feet are those fiery points, but <wrap hide>78|00:07:51|320|00:07:53|660</wrap>it could mean something else. <wrap hide>79|00:07:54|180|00:08:03|420</wrap>Suffice it to say the five-fold links, which are the solar angels, must have their five-fold <wrap hide>80|00:08:03|420|00:08:07|300</wrap>points of reception in the man. <wrap hide>81|00:08:07|300|00:08:13|300</wrap>There must be a correspondence between that which the solar angel can give of its five-fold <wrap hide>82|00:08:13|300|00:08:16|200</wrap>nature and that which man can receive. <wrap hide>83|00:08:17|420|00:08:24|760</wrap>It is possible then at the present moment to consider that man is particularly five-fold <wrap hide>84|00:08:24|760|00:08:32|240</wrap>because two of his chakras are not functioning fully, just the way two of the continents are <wrap hide>85|00:08:32|240|00:08:39|560</wrap>not fully developed. And with respect to the eventual seven centers of the earth, upon <wrap hide>86|00:08:39|560|00:08:42|240</wrap>the earth, only five of them are active. <wrap hide>87|00:08:43|280|00:08:49|600</wrap>So man perhaps is keeping pace with the planet with five centers developed. <wrap hide>88|00:08:50|300|00:08:55|260</wrap>We might wonder whether eventually man will become the seven-pointed star. <wrap hide>89|00:08:56|240|00:09:03|340</wrap><wrap quote>Man-speaking symbolically-is the "five-pointed star and, at the fiery points, the forces of <wrap hide>90|00:09:03|340|00:09:09|200</wrap>the man pour out and upon each fiery point appears a centre of reception." //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>91|00:09:09|420|00:09:16|180</wrap>So let us say that for most human beings the base of the spine is non-receptive and non-radiatory <wrap hide>92|00:09:16|780|00:09:24|420</wrap>except that it provides for the survival of the human being, and that the head center itself <wrap hide>93|00:09:25|100|00:09:30|740</wrap>is not receptive for most human beings and not radiatory for most. <wrap hide>94|00:09:31|380|00:09:35|480</wrap>The rest of the centers are active to a certain extent. <wrap hide>95|00:09:35|600|00:09:41|000</wrap>This is the five-fold nature of the present man, but the seven-fold nature is coming. <wrap hide>96|00:09:42|300|00:09:44|380</wrap>The five-fold nature is fairly Brahmic. <wrap hide>97|00:09:45|340|00:09:50|140</wrap>Five is the number of the previous solar system, a Brahmic solar system, and seven will be <wrap hide>98|00:09:50|140|00:09:53|180</wrap>the number of the present solar system. <wrap hide>99|00:09:53|180|00:09:58|400</wrap>And what will we be able to say about nine-fold man in the next solar system? <wrap hide>100|00:09:59|440|00:10:04|000</wrap><wrap quote>This is of course pictorially expressed, but the meaning is clear. //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>101|00:10:04|240|00:10:07|020</wrap>Well, man is two types of pentagrams. <wrap hide>102|00:10:07|040|00:10:12|800</wrap>He is the higher pentagram, he is the egoic lotus, the soul, in its five-fold nature by <wrap hide>103|00:10:12|800|00:10:13|800</wrap>one method of counting. <wrap hide>104|00:10:14|260|00:10:23|060</wrap>And he is the lower mind as well, and the personality which can be symbolized by the inverted five-pointed <wrap hide>105|00:10:23|060|00:10:28|460</wrap>star without evil connotation, but simply given its orientation into matter. <wrap hide>106|00:10:29|260|00:10:34|840</wrap>Take those two pentagrams together and you have the complete human being, and the number <wrap hide>107|00:10:34|840|00:10:36|300</wrap>is ten and the number is one. <wrap hide>108|00:10:37|720|00:10:44|920</wrap>However, as man nears the path of discipleship, the influence... yeah, man is the five-pointed <wrap hide>109|00:10:44|920|00:10:45|140</wrap>star. <wrap hide>110|00:10:45|140|00:10:59|160</wrap>Okay, well from this point of view, let's see here... right, it's just taking a moment <wrap hide>111|00:10:59|160|00:11:02|320</wrap>here, right. <wrap hide>112|00:11:04|940|00:11:13|620</wrap>And so we say that man, speaking symbolically, is the five-pointed star, and this five points <wrap hide>113|00:11:13|620|00:11:18|160</wrap>has to do with the five non-sacred planets. <wrap hide>114|00:11:18|560|00:11:20|660</wrap>He will progress to a seven-pointed star. <wrap hide>115|00:11:20|800|00:11:26|740</wrap>I just realized, of course, we've been talking about the number five, and man's five-fold <wrap hide>116|00:11:26|740|00:11:30|720</wrap>nature can be considered in either a sacred or a non-sacred way. <wrap hide>117|00:11:31|240|00:11:37|240</wrap>He says this is, of course, pictorially expressed, but the meaning is clear. <wrap hide>118|00:11:38|400|00:11:45|380</wrap>However, as man nears the path of discipleship, which technically I think you can think of <wrap hide>119|00:11:45|380|00:11:52|520</wrap>beginning at the first initiation, the real path of discipleship—when a person is a little <wrap hide>120|00:11:52|520|00:11:55|180</wrap>chela, that's the real path of discipleship. <wrap hide>121|00:11:56|960|00:12:04|240</wrap><wrap quote>However, as man nears the Path of Discipleship the influence of the sacred planets becomes increasingly <wrap hide>122|00:12:04|240|00:12:05|520</wrap>effective, <wrap hide>123|00:12:06|940|00:12:15|840</wrap>until after the final and fifth initiation the non-sacred planets have no effect, //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>124|00:12:16|240|00:12:22|760</wrap>But that's very interesting that... here, let me do this correctly... that until the fifth <wrap hide>125|00:12:22|760|00:12:23|860</wrap>initiation they do. <wrap hide>126|00:12:23|860|00:12:27|020</wrap>So, let's put that down. <wrap hide>127|00:12:27|380|00:12:38|320</wrap>Until the fifth initiation, the non-sacred planets do have an effect. <wrap hide>128|00:12:38|800|00:12:44|340</wrap><wrap quote>though the initiate wields their energies potently as they pour into and through his <wrap hide>129|00:12:44|340|00:12:51|860</wrap>vehicles of reception, of response and of expression, for all three activities <wrap hide>130|00:12:51|860|00:12:53|700</wrap>and purposes must be noted. //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>131|00:12:54|300|00:12:57|300</wrap>He has reception, response, and expression. <wrap hide>132|00:12:57|920|00:13:07|400</wrap>Man can wield the energies of the non-sacred planets even at a high initiatory level, even <wrap hide>133|00:13:07|400|00:13:13|300</wrap>though he is not necessarily affected by them. <wrap hide>134|00:13:14|720|00:13:21|180</wrap>So, you know, we see that some of these planets are, after all, hierarchical planets—hierarchical <wrap hide>135|00:13:21|180|00:13:21|820</wrap>rulers. <wrap hide>136|00:13:22|700|00:13:29|660</wrap>Pluto in Pisces, for instance—although that would affect a man, I suppose, at the fourth <wrap hide>137|00:13:29|660|00:13:33|780</wrap>initiation particularly, whether it would affect him at the fifth when the base of the <wrap hide>138|00:13:33|780|00:13:38|600</wrap>spine center becomes maximally active, I'm not certain—there's a possibility, but he <wrap hide>139|00:13:38|600|00:13:44|000</wrap>says after the final and fifth initiation, which is not really the final initiation but <wrap hide>140|00:13:44|000|00:13:50|480</wrap>he calls it that for present purposes, the non-sacreds have no effect, but their energy <wrap hide>141|00:13:50|480|00:13:52|860</wrap>can be wielded. <wrap hide>142|00:13:54|340|00:14:00|500</wrap>The other planets do have an effect, so just pause for a moment and realize that earlier <wrap hide>143|00:14:00|500|00:14:06|220</wrap>he said that the planets in the houses affected primarily circumstances, and now he's talking <wrap hide>144|00:14:06|220|00:14:14|480</wrap>about high levels of initiation when the sacred planets can be effective and influential <wrap hide>145|00:14:14|480|00:14:15|540</wrap>in the life of the man. <wrap hide>146|00:14:15|640|00:14:26|640</wrap>So we must always hold our judgment in reservation when a statement is made and wonder and look <wrap hide>147|00:14:26|640|00:14:33|340</wrap>for if there are modifying statements such as this. <wrap hide>148|00:14:33|340|00:14:44|720</wrap>Okay, so when it comes to energies, we receive, we respond, and we express, and we must note <wrap hide>149|00:14:44|720|00:14:45|580</wrap>these three. <wrap hide>150|00:14:47|900|00:14:53|620</wrap><wrap quote>The energies of the twelve constellations are blended with those of the twelve planets, //EA, p.53//</wrap> <wrap hide>151|00:14:53|620|00:15:00|000</wrap>That's what we were talking about earlier when we discussed that this blending occurred <wrap hide>152|00:15:00|000|00:15:06|900</wrap>in two phases: one in which the sun sign dominated, and the other in which the driving energies <wrap hide>153|00:15:06|900|00:15:10|560</wrap>of the rising sign were emerging as dominant. <wrap hide>154|00:15:12|900|00:15:17|000</wrap>The energies of the twelve constellations are blended with those of the twelve planets. <wrap hide>155|00:15:17|320|00:15:24|880</wrap>Just the way the energy of the esoteric ruler is blended with the preceding energies of <wrap hide>156|00:15:24|880|00:15:25|900</wrap>the exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>157|00:15:25|900|00:15:31|180</wrap>It supersedes but does not eliminate the esoteric ruler. <wrap hide>158|00:15:32|640|00:15:37|800</wrap><wrap quote>but their power to evoke response, and to be consciously received, recognised and employed, <wrap hide>159|00:15:39|180|00:15:45|800</wrap>is dependent entirely upon the type of response mechanism of the planetary Life and of the <wrap hide>160|00:15:45|800|00:15:47|340</wrap>individual man. //EA, p.53-54//</wrap> <wrap hide>161|00:15:47|500|00:15:55|020</wrap>Well, you know, I think the implication there is that planetary Logoi have an effect upon <wrap hide>162|00:15:55|020|00:16:02|500</wrap>another planetary Logoi, and it depends on the response apparatus of the particular planetary <wrap hide>163|00:16:02|500|00:16:07|720</wrap>Logos, what type of effect another planetary Logos will have upon him. <wrap hide>164|00:16:08|040|00:16:16|960</wrap>So you see, planets are not sources simply to be relegated to the houses of the horoscope <wrap hide>165|00:16:16|960|00:16:26|060</wrap>and thought of as determining only the circumstantial aspect in the life of man. <wrap hide>166|00:16:26|900|00:16:35|860</wrap>They have much higher targets; they have much higher levels which they can influence and <wrap hide>167|00:16:35|860|00:16:36|380</wrap>affect. <wrap hide>168|00:16:37|100|00:16:47|680</wrap>Okay, so we have the power to evoke response, to receive these energies, to recognize them, <wrap hide>169|00:16:47|680|00:16:48|500</wrap>and employ them. <wrap hide>170|00:16:48|540|00:16:52|560</wrap>That's another way of looking: receive, recognize, and employ. <wrap hide>171|00:16:52|720|00:16:57|820</wrap>That's another one of those important triplicities when it comes to our dealing with energies. <wrap hide>172|00:16:58|500|00:17:05|860</wrap>And the degree to which we can do that depends entirely upon how refined or developed our <wrap hide>173|00:17:05|860|00:17:11|660</wrap>response mechanism may be, and even how refined or developed the planetary life may be. <wrap hide>174|00:17:12|220|00:17:16|900</wrap>And of course, since those energies have to come to us through the planetary life, the <wrap hide>175|00:17:16|900|00:17:22|700</wrap>degree of sensitivity and the development of the response mechanism of the planetary <wrap hide>176|00:17:23|830|00:17:30|420</wrap>Logos will affect the manner in which we can receive, recognize, and employ these energies. <wrap hide>177|00:17:30|420|00:17:39|220</wrap><wrap quote>It has been rightly said that consciousness is dependent upon the vehicles of consciousness, //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>178|00:17:40|220|00:17:45|700</wrap>whichever must be refined so the consciousness can be elevated, <wrap quote>upon their point of development <wrap hide>179|00:17:46|160|00:17:54|240</wrap>and upon the ability of the individual to identify himself with the energies and impulses <wrap hide>180|00:17:54|240|00:17:56|460</wrap>which are reaching him, //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>181|00:17:57|580|00:18:04|480</wrap>So, you know, if our vehicles of consciousness are relatively crude, the energies which are <wrap hide>182|00:18:04|480|00:18:07|700</wrap>trying to reach us do not get through in their pure form. <wrap hide>183|00:18:08|100|00:18:15|340</wrap>We have to learn how to identify ourselves with the actual energies and in their pure <wrap hide>184|00:18:15|340|00:18:17|820</wrap>form and not in their distorted form. <wrap hide>185|00:18:18|560|00:18:23|700</wrap>So we're talking about that which consciousness is dependent upon. <wrap hide>186|00:18:23|700|00:18:31|440</wrap>It is not dependent only upon that which is already recognized, a recognized part of <wrap hide>187|00:18:31|440|00:18:32|020</wrap>himself. <wrap hide>188|00:18:33|520|00:18:42|580</wrap>So consciousness is dependent on our vehicles and the degree to which we can recognize the <wrap hide>189|00:18:42|580|00:18:49|540</wrap>energies which are attempting to enter, the degree to which we can attune with them, identify <wrap hide>190|00:18:49|980|00:18:50|540</wrap>with them. <wrap hide>191|00:18:50|600|00:18:51|480</wrap>Let's read that again. <wrap hide>192|00:18:51|480|00:18:58|580</wrap>It has been rightly said that consciousness is dependent upon the vehicles of consciousness. <wrap hide>193|00:18:58|820|00:19:02|700</wrap>Do we have a pure astral body that will determine our astral consciousness? <wrap hide>194|00:19:02|820|00:19:07|380</wrap>Do we have a pure mental body that will determine the type of consciousness we experience within <wrap hide>195|00:19:07|380|00:19:07|700</wrap>it? <wrap hide>196|00:19:08|200|00:19:14|140</wrap>Upon their point of development, upon the ability of the individual to identify himself <wrap hide>197|00:19:14|140|00:19:22|480</wrap>with the energies and the impulses which are reaching him. <wrap hide>198|00:19:23|080|00:19:27|400</wrap><wrap quote>the energies and impulses which are reaching him, and is not dependent //EA, p.54//</wrap>—consciousness is <wrap hide>199|00:19:27|400|00:19:33|780</wrap>not dependent <wrap quote>only upon that which is already a recognised part or aspect of himself. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>200|00:19:33|780|00:19:36|380</wrap>because consciousness is always growing. <wrap hide>201|00:19:36|840|00:19:42|720</wrap>There are always impacts which are attempting to increase the scope and depth of our consciousness. <wrap hide>202|00:19:42|720|00:19:49|540</wrap>So our consciousness is not only dependent upon the present condition in which we find <wrap hide>203|00:19:49|540|00:19:49|980</wrap>ourselves. <wrap hide>204|00:19:50|760|00:19:59|340</wrap><wrap quote>It might be said that the higher response to the realities and qualities revealed and <wrap hide>205|00:19:59|340|00:20:06|340</wrap>made possible by the impact of energy from the zodiacal signs is somewhat dependent upon <wrap hide>206|00:20:06|340|00:20:13|120</wrap>the waning influence of the planets to hold down the consciousness aspect of the man. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>207|00:20:13|240|00:20:21|100</wrap>Very interesting. Although zodiacal lords are much greater beings than planetary lords, <wrap hide>208|00:20:21|100|00:20:32|660</wrap>and even though the planets can be effective even up to the fifth initiation, perhaps beyond, <wrap hide>209|00:20:32|660|00:20:38|260</wrap>at least even the non-sacred planets can be effective up to the fifth initiation, they <wrap hide>210|00:20:38|260|00:20:50|720</wrap>as lesser lords eventually wane in their influence and then the zodiacal constellations, the <wrap hide>211|00:20:50|720|00:20:57|480</wrap>zodiacal signs become more influential. <wrap hide>212|00:20:58|480|00:21:01|220</wrap>So there's a higher response involved here. <wrap hide>213|00:21:01|590|00:21:07|220</wrap>It's the realities and qualities of the zodiacal signs and the planets must wane. <wrap hide>214|00:21:07|820|00:21:13|020</wrap>So you know how it often is, we have to stop doing something before it becomes possible <wrap hide>215|00:21:13|020|00:21:19|100</wrap>to do something higher, and we have to stop being under the sway exclusively of the planets <wrap hide>216|00:21:19|100|00:21:24|620</wrap>before the zodiacal energies can reveal their qualities. <wrap hide>217|00:21:25|480|00:21:30|820</wrap>Remember that the zodiacal energies, as we looked at just a little while ago, do affect <wrap hide>218|00:21:30|820|00:21:38|980</wrap>soul development but they also work through Shamballa and are expressive in terms of the monad. <wrap hide>219|00:21:39|680|00:21:44|580</wrap><wrap quote>Ponder upon this, for it embodies a deep esoteric truth. //EA, p.54//</wrap> What <wrap hide>220|00:21:44|580|00:21:48|860</wrap>will we de-emphasize in order to emphasize something higher? <wrap hide>221|00:21:48|860|00:22:01|980</wrap>So somehow in our life, D.K. is suggesting, D.K. suggests that we must allow the planetary <wrap hide>222|00:22:04|500|00:22:20|560</wrap>planetary influence to wane somewhat before the full zodiacal influence can be felt and <wrap hide>223|00:22:20|560|00:22:21|140</wrap>appreciated. <wrap hide>224|00:22:22|020|00:22:32|260</wrap>All right, thus two potent streams of energy, cosmic and systemic. And even though D.K. does <wrap hide>225|00:22:32|260|00:22:40|080</wrap>call the planetary Logoi cosmic beings, in this particular context he's looking at them <wrap hide>226|00:22:40|080|00:22:47|220</wrap>as systemic beings. <wrap quote>Thus, two potent streams of energy-cosmic //EA, p.54//</wrap> that is zodiacal, <wrap quote>and systemic-<wrap hide>227|00:22:47|590|00:22:55|800</wrap>reach man via the conditioning planetary centres of force //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>228|00:22:57|570|00:23:03|660</wrap>Another thing he can be saying here is that the energies of the three great constellations <wrap hide>229|00:23:03|660|00:23:09|680</wrap>and the zodiacal energies reach man via the conditioning planetary centres of force <wrap hide>230|00:23:09|970|00:23:16|840</wrap><wrap quote>(the seven //EA, p.54//</wrap> presumably sacred, <wrap quote>planetary schemes in the solar system and their corresponding <wrap hide>231|00:23:17|400|00:23:28|840</wrap>seven centres in the planet on which we live) and pour into the symbolic "twelve houses" through <wrap hide>232|00:23:28|840|00:23:29|400</wrap>their medium. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>233|00:23:29|540|00:23:35|200</wrap>He is trying to tie everything together, give us the grand synthesis of the three great <wrap hide>234|00:23:35|200|00:23:40|180</wrap>constellations, the twelve zodiacal signs, the seven major planetary schemes, five minor, <wrap hide>235|00:23:41|360|00:23:48|380</wrap>and the twelve houses of the horoscope which give us influence upon circumstance. <wrap hide>236|00:23:49|100|00:23:55|340</wrap>Thus, two potent streams of energy, cosmic and systemic, and I suspect that the systemic <wrap hide>237|00:23:55|340|00:24:01|760</wrap>energies in this context are considered planetary, reach man via the conditioning planetary centers <wrap hide>238|00:24:01|760|00:24:09|580</wrap>of force. They condition life within the lower worlds and also in some cases in the <wrap hide>239|00:24:09|580|00:24:14|940</wrap>higher worlds, the seven planetary schemes in the solar system and the corresponding <wrap hide>240|00:24:14|940|00:24:19|240</wrap>seven centers in the planet on which we live. <wrap hide>241|00:24:21|320|00:24:28|620</wrap>Our planet has, well let's call it a planetary globe, and it has chakras on many different <wrap hide>242|00:24:28|620|00:24:34|720</wrap>levels and seven major chakras presumably on each level. <wrap hide>243|00:24:35|120|00:24:48|100</wrap>We also have the seven continents and we also have the seven major city-like centers: Darjeeling, <wrap hide>244|00:24:48|100|00:24:53|220</wrap>Tokyo, Geneva, London, and New York. <wrap hide>245|00:24:54|760|00:24:58|120</wrap>Five of those exist and seven will. <wrap hide>246|00:24:58|940|00:25:05|400</wrap>So there are a number of septenates on our planet which receive the energies of the seven <wrap hide>247|00:25:05|400|00:25:06|860</wrap>planetary schemes. <wrap hide>248|00:25:06|960|00:25:14|060</wrap>We would assume that the chakra systems of the chain lords and the chakra systems of <wrap hide>249|00:25:14|060|00:25:21|620</wrap>the globe lords would receive these sevenfold planetary energies. <wrap hide>250|00:25:22|940|00:25:28|960</wrap>And they pour into the twelve symbolic twelve houses through the medium of the planets. <wrap hide>251|00:25:29|100|00:25:34|260</wrap>When we really want to know what's happening circumstantially we look at planets in our <wrap hide>252|00:25:34|260|00:25:38|380</wrap>houses whatever house system we may use. <wrap hide>253|00:25:38|380|00:25:44|740</wrap>Since D.K. does not deny the value of the house systems he simply is telling us that in the <wrap hide>254|00:25:44|740|00:25:52|140</wrap>future the arms of the horoscope will be considered even more important. <wrap hide>255|00:25:53|560|00:26:01|260</wrap>These arms correspond to the houses but probably have a more spiritual meaning as the planet <wrap hide>256|00:26:01|260|00:26:04|660</wrap>works out in an arm of the horoscope. <wrap hide>257|00:26:06|680|00:26:16|840</wrap><wrap quote>It is for this reason that our solar system is spoken of as one of "intrinsic duality" <wrap hide>258|00:26:17|540|00:26:24|440</wrap>(love-wisdom) and that the major task of man is the "regulation of the pairs of opposites." //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>259|00:26:24|580|00:26:30|280</wrap>Well, he's talking about the two potent streams of energy and presumably one of them is associated <wrap hide>260|00:26:30|280|00:26:33|520</wrap>with wisdom and one of them is associated with love. <wrap hide>261|00:26:33|520|00:26:37|680</wrap>It would be difficult to differentiate here which is which. <wrap hide>262|00:26:38|500|00:26:45|240</wrap>But we have two potent streams of energy and just above he's talking about the influence <wrap hide>263|00:26:45|240|00:26:49|940</wrap>of the zodiac and the influence of the planets. <wrap hide>264|00:26:51|380|00:26:55|740</wrap>The energies of the twelve constellations are blended with those of the twelve planets. <wrap hide>265|00:26:55|740|00:27:02|780</wrap>That's the dual stream and that is related to the love-wisdom of our solar system. <wrap hide>266|00:27:03|860|00:27:11|560</wrap>But one would think that that would also be the case with other solar systems if they <wrap hide>267|00:27:11|560|00:27:25|720</wrap>have planets and are related to the same zodiacal signs, such as let us say the stars of the <wrap hide>268|00:27:25|720|00:27:31|860</wrap>planets are quite close to us and they also would be related to these great twelve conditioning <wrap hide>269|00:27:32|740|00:27:33|220</wrap>constellations. <wrap hide>270|00:27:33|940|00:27:39|220</wrap>So there are two potent streams of energy and he says <wrap quote>It is for this reason that our <wrap hide>271|00:27:39|220|00:27:45|180</wrap>solar system is spoken of as one of "intrinsic duality" (love-wisdom) and that the major <wrap hide>272|00:27:45|180|00:27:48|500</wrap>task of man is the "regulation of the pairs of opposites." //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>273|00:27:48|500|00:27:54|300</wrap>Is he saying here that the zodiacal signs and the planets are opposites? <wrap hide>274|00:27:54|720|00:28:06|480</wrap>Are the zodiacal signs and the planets opposites in a way, or are they hierarchically related, <wrap hide>275|00:28:06|480|00:28:07|920</wrap>one superior to the other? <wrap hide>276|00:28:08|520|00:28:13|300</wrap>The theme of duality, let's just accept that at face value, <wrap quote>The theme of duality, therefore, <wrap hide>277|00:28:13|300|00:28:17|520</wrap>runs through the whole story of man's development. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>278|00:28:17|520|00:28:25|760</wrap>There is always something higher bringing him forward, luring him on, and something <wrap hide>279|00:28:26|360|00:28:30|120</wrap>lower which is attempting to hold him back. <wrap hide>280|00:28:30|520|00:28:33|720</wrap>So we have the higher and lower pairs of opposites especially. <wrap hide>281|00:28:34|760|00:28:40|320</wrap>We cannot really think of love and wisdom however as opposites because they both seem <wrap hide>282|00:28:40|320|00:28:43|000</wrap>to cooperate very well with each other. <wrap hide>283|00:28:43|410|00:28:47|820</wrap>The theme of duality therefore runs through the entire, through the whole story of man's <wrap hide>284|00:28:47|820|00:28:54|220</wrap>development. Upon all the three planes of human unfoldment the reconciliation goes forward. <wrap hide>285|00:28:54|700|00:29:01|060</wrap>We can call this the reconciliation of the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>286|00:29:02|240|00:29:07|730</wrap>And certainly when one looks at the type of reconciliation we have to carry forward it's <wrap hide>287|00:29:07|730|00:29:16|690</wrap>reconciliation initially between the soul and the personality and thus between the zodiacal <wrap hide>288|00:29:16|690|00:29:18|190</wrap>signs and the planets. <wrap hide>289|00:29:18|230|00:29:24|950</wrap>We remember that in this section, just a little while ago, Master D.K. is basically telling us <wrap hide>290|00:29:24|950|00:29:31|910</wrap>that the zodiacal signs are correlated with soul development and with subjectivity, and <wrap hide>291|00:29:31|910|00:29:40|950</wrap>the planets are correlated more with conditioning influences which condition our circumstances. <wrap hide>292|00:29:41|990|00:29:48|970</wrap>Okay, so that is a little discussion of duality and how duality is related to the blending <wrap hide>293|00:29:48|970|00:29:54|730</wrap>of the zodiacal constellations, or signs, the energies of them with the energies of the <wrap hide>294|00:29:54|730|00:29:55|070</wrap>planets. <wrap hide>295|00:29:56|210|00:29:58|410</wrap>Okay, now we have a little tabulation. <wrap hide>296|00:29:58|410|00:30:03|830</wrap><wrap quote>1. Upon the physical plane we find the merging of the dense and the etheric forces. //EA, p.54//</wrap> <wrap hide>297|00:30:04|110|00:30:06|790</wrap>He's going to give us various of the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>298|00:30:07|090|00:30:11|670</wrap>So here are various of the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>299|00:30:12|350|00:30:16|950</wrap>Upon the physical plane, and this took place back in old Lemuria as one of the initiations <wrap hide>300|00:30:16|950|00:30:17|650</wrap>of that period. <wrap hide>301|00:30:18|390|00:30:23|070</wrap>Upon the physical plane we find the merging of the dense and etheric forces. <wrap hide>302|00:30:23|070|00:30:28|850</wrap><wrap quote>This is consummated upon the //Path of Purification//. //EA, p.54//</wrap> when, according to the energies within the <wrap hide>303|00:30:28|850|00:30:36|610</wrap>etheric body, we can control the strictly dense physical promptings and impulses which have <wrap hide>304|00:30:36|610|00:30:43|830</wrap>to do with the third aspect of divinity and not with the second aspect at all. <wrap hide>305|00:30:44|150|00:30:50|330</wrap>So many of the appetites that we are prompted to follow... <wrap hide>306|00:30:51|050|00:30:58|730</wrap>So many of the instincts have their root in the dense physical nature, and we, by bringing <wrap hide>307|00:30:58|730|00:31:03|770</wrap>higher energies into our etheric nature, have to learn how to control these. <wrap hide>308|00:31:03|910|00:31:13|170</wrap>This leads up to the first initiation in which a degree of that purification is substantiated <wrap hide>309|00:31:13|170|00:31:13|990</wrap>as achieved. <wrap hide>310|00:31:15|410|00:31:17|010</wrap>Pairs of opposites upon the astral plane. <wrap hide>311|00:31:17|650|00:31:22|390</wrap><wrap quote>2. Upon the astral plane there must come the resolution of the pairs of opposites. //EA, p.54//</wrap> and this <wrap hide>312|00:31:22|390|00:31:24|830</wrap>is the pull of the personality and the pull of the soul. <wrap hide>313|00:31:25|550|00:31:31|030</wrap><wrap quote>This is consummated upon the //Path of Discipleship//. //EA, p.54//</wrap> and the battle is fought out on the astral <wrap hide>314|00:31:31|030|00:31:31|450</wrap>plane. <wrap hide>315|00:31:32|370|00:31:34|190</wrap>Higher desires and lower desires. <wrap hide>316|00:31:34|670|00:31:37|710</wrap>Spiritual desires and personal desires. <wrap hide>317|00:31:38|070|00:31:43|450</wrap>Kind of a Kurukshetra which many of us have experienced at different times of our life <wrap hide>318|00:31:43|450|00:31:51|770</wrap>and lives, and in which even the planetary Logos is experiencing now. <wrap hide>319|00:31:53|350|00:31:59|430</wrap>You would think that we, as disciples being somewhat mentally polarized or almost there <wrap hide>320|00:31:59|430|00:32:06|050</wrap>perhaps, would be beyond this type of Kurukshetra, this type of battle on the astral plane which <wrap hide>321|00:32:06|050|00:32:11|250</wrap>is so common to the ordinary non-aspiring human being, but we are not. <wrap hide>322|00:32:11|250|00:32:14|830</wrap>We are still somewhat subject to it. <wrap hide>323|00:32:15|170|00:32:21|230</wrap>There are high desires leading us, aspirations leading us into the world of soul, and there <wrap hide>324|00:32:21|230|00:32:27|530</wrap>are strictly personal pulls leading us back into the world of personality, and pretty much <wrap hide>325|00:32:27|530|00:32:37|030</wrap>at the third initiation the bird on the branch flies free of the counter pulls. <wrap hide>326|00:32:38|030|00:32:46|550</wrap>That old stanza used in Atlantean days at the time of the third initiation describes <wrap hide>327|00:32:46|550|00:32:47|810</wrap>this very beautifully. <wrap hide>328|00:32:50|130|00:32:57|310</wrap><wrap quote>3. Upon the mental plane the Angel of the Presence and the Dweller on the Threshold <wrap hide>329|00:32:57|310|00:33:06|230</wrap>are brought face to face. Their synthesis //EA, p.55//</wrap> which is really a synthesis of the man as <wrap hide>330|00:33:06|230|00:33:13|790</wrap>the angel and man as the personality, <wrap quote>is brought about upon the //Path of Initiation//. //EA, p.55//</wrap> and the final <wrap hide>331|00:33:13|790|00:33:21|550</wrap>synthesis of this in a way does not occur until the fifth initiation, although a good <wrap hide>332|00:33:21|550|00:33:25|310</wrap>part of that synthesis is achieved at the third degree. <wrap hide>333|00:33:25|490|00:33:32|970</wrap>Well, really at the third degree the man only catches a glimpse of the full nature of the <wrap hide>334|00:33:32|970|00:33:34|610</wrap>dweller, I think. <wrap hide>335|00:33:36|630|00:33:45|910</wrap>This is in "Glamour: A World Problem," and I think it would be good in "Glamour: A World Problem." <wrap hide>336|00:33:45|910|00:33:55|310</wrap>I'll put the word "glimpse," and there's only one, and we can see that in the third initiation <wrap hide>337|00:33:57|190|00:34:01|490</wrap>the initiate can employ the intuition for right perception of truth, and in that initiation <wrap hide>338|00:34:01|490|00:34:07|630</wrap>he catches the first real glimpse, the first real glimpse of the dweller on the threshold <wrap hide>339|00:34:07|630|00:34:10|550</wrap>and the angel of the presence. <wrap hide>340|00:34:10|690|00:34:15|910</wrap>This is a very mental initiation and it allows him to focus within the causal body. <wrap hide>341|00:34:16|750|00:34:21|930</wrap>In the fourth initiation the initiate demonstrates his ability to produce completed onement between <wrap hide>342|00:34:21|930|00:34:28|050</wrap>the higher and lower aspect of the soul in manifestation because the personality is the <wrap hide>343|00:34:28|050|00:34:32|770</wrap>lower aspect of the soul in manifestation and sees the dweller on the threshold which <wrap hide>344|00:34:32|770|00:34:40|310</wrap>is the refined, purified and empowered personality merge into the angel of the presence and even <wrap hide>345|00:34:40|310|00:34:47|990</wrap>At the fifth initiation, this is involved. Interestingly, in the fifth initiation, and here words fail <wrap hide>346|00:34:47|990|00:34:54|570</wrap>to express the truth, he sees the dweller on the threshold, the angel, and the Presence merged <wrap hide>347|00:34:54|570|00:34:59|830</wrap>into a divine synthesis. And this Presence is none other than the Monad. <wrap hide>348|00:35:00|670|00:35:09|970</wrap>So the dweller is with us for a long time. So it's upon the mental plane that the true <wrap hide>349|00:35:09|970|00:35:16|910</wrap>Angel of the Presence, which is expressing itself on the higher mental plane, and the <wrap hide>350|00:35:16|910|00:35:24|410</wrap>Dweller on the Threshold, which is also expressing itself on the mental plane because it is, in <wrap hide>351|00:35:24|410|00:35:30|830</wrap>a way, the entire personality focused on the fourth sub-plane of the mental plane and connected <wrap hide>352|00:35:30|830|00:35:35|630</wrap>with the mental unit, they are brought face to face. <wrap hide>353|00:35:36|830|00:35:41|730</wrap>Their synthesis proceeds later upon the Path of Initiation. We've just seen that the real <wrap hide>354|00:35:41|730|00:35:48|130</wrap>merging of the dweller and the angel does not occur until the fourth initiation, but <wrap hide>355|00:35:48|130|00:35:53|930</wrap>at least they are brought face to face, and a clear sight of the dweller and the angel <wrap hide>356|00:35:55|070|00:35:58|830</wrap>exists for the one who is reaching that degree. <wrap hide>357|00:35:59|990|00:36:02|650</wrap>I just noticed I look like some sort of head suspended in the dark. <wrap hide>358|00:36:02|810|00:36:08|330</wrap>Well, anyway, the room is dark. I've been in this room for quite a while, and you know the <wrap hide>359|00:36:08|330|00:36:13|890</wrap>sun has changed position and so forth. But I trust you'll be able to see me and hear <wrap hide>360|00:36:13|890|00:36:14|390</wrap>me. <wrap hide>361|00:36:14|790|00:36:18|350</wrap>All right, let's see where we are. <wrap hide>362|00:36:21|510|00:36:27|770</wrap><wrap quote>What is true of man in this connection is true also of humanity as a whole, //EA, p.55//</wrap> <wrap hide>363|00:36:27|910|00:36:34|910</wrap>There is a sense in which the angel of humanity must face its dweller. In some of the — in the <wrap hide>364|00:36:34|910|00:36:40|630</wrap>great war of the previous century, which may not quite be over, perhaps to run its third <wrap hide>365|00:36:40|630|00:36:49|370</wrap>phase, hopefully subjectively — the dweller and angel of humanity are facing each other. <wrap hide>366|00:36:50|190|00:36:55|530</wrap>This is not totally realized by all members of humanity, but certainly we see the best <wrap hide>367|00:36:55|530|00:37:01|450</wrap>and the worst of humanity being displayed in these warlike — in this warlike situation. <wrap hide>368|00:37:01|990|00:37:10|210</wrap>So what is true of man in this connection, in relation to the dweller and the angel, that <wrap hide>369|00:37:10|210|00:37:16|850</wrap>profound duality perceived in relation to the fourth sub-plane of the mental plane and <wrap hide>370|00:37:16|850|00:37:21|910</wrap>the second sub-plane of the mental plane, the angel focusing here on the second sub-plane <wrap hide>371|00:37:21|910|00:37:26|310</wrap>of the mental plane and the dweller on the fourth sub-plane of the mental plane. <wrap hide>372|00:37:26|720|00:37:35|170</wrap>What is true of the individual, of man, is also true of humanity as a whole, <wrap quote>of the planetary <wrap hide>373|00:37:35|170|00:37:42|290</wrap>Logos of the Earth, as of all planetary Logoi, and of a solar Logos. //EA, p.55//</wrap> All have their dweller; all <wrap hide>374|00:37:42|290|00:37:44|170</wrap>have their angel. <wrap hide>375|00:37:45|250|00:37:52|830</wrap>What — may I think — what we have to deal with now is the dweller of humanity. We cannot really <wrap hide>376|00:37:53|350|00:38:00|190</wrap>deal with what may be the planetary dweller; that is up to the planetary Logos himself <wrap hide>377|00:38:00|190|00:38:05|510</wrap>as he proceeds through various initiations. Actually, he is passing through a kind of fourth <wrap hide>378|00:38:05|510|00:38:11|530</wrap>initiation at this moment, although a cosmic second awaits him. So he may not be totally <wrap hide>379|00:38:11|530|00:38:19|850</wrap>ready for the merging of his own Angel of the Presence with his own dweller. And our <wrap hide>380|00:38:19|850|00:38:26|510</wrap>solar Logos — we may say the same because he is verging on the third cosmic initiation <wrap hide>381|00:38:26|510|00:38:33|150</wrap>and perhaps passing through a kind of subsidiary fourth initiation. But we can see that the <wrap hide>382|00:38:33|150|00:38:39|310</wrap>complete merging of angel and dweller does not occur until the fourth degree, and I would <wrap hide>383|00:38:39|310|00:38:46|110</wrap>assume this means the fourth cosmic degree for the solar Logos and for the planetary <wrap hide>384|00:38:46|110|00:38:52|530</wrap>Logos. And our planetary Logos is far from his fourth cosmic degree. Our solar Logos is <wrap hide>385|00:38:52|530|00:38:59|150</wrap>closer. You can check out for the hints on this page 384 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. <wrap hide>386|00:39:01|610|00:39:06|230</wrap>So what is true of man in this connection is also true of humanity as a whole. It's true <wrap hide>387|00:39:06|230|00:39:10|230</wrap>of the planetary Logos of the earth; it's true of all planetary Logoi. They all have their <wrap hide>388|00:39:10|230|00:39:18|170</wrap>dweller aspect and the need to infuse and fuse with that dweller. The angel and the dweller <wrap hide>389|00:39:18|170|00:39:23|110</wrap>must merge if the second and third aspects of divinity are to merge. And it's true also <wrap hide>390|00:39:23|110|00:39:29|870</wrap>of a solar Logos, but this merging for the solar Logos lies very far ahead because it <wrap hide>391|00:39:29|870|00:39:36|050</wrap>may be that the solar Logos is planned — the solar Logos will take his crucifixion initiation <wrap hide>392|00:39:36|050|00:39:44|710</wrap>in this solar system. He will take the great renunciation, the fourth initiation, when that <wrap hide>393|00:39:44|710|00:39:51|170</wrap>merging can occur. And it is also possible, though not absolutely confirmed — it is suggested <wrap hide>394|00:39:51|170|00:39:57|630</wrap>in the teaching that he may even take his fifth cosmic initiation. <wrap quote>The analogy between <wrap hide>395|00:39:57|630|00:40:05|970</wrap>the fusion of the pairs of opposites, for instance, upon the physical plane can be seen in the <wrap hide>396|00:40:05|970|00:40:13|550</wrap>conscious and directed fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any specific planet <wrap hide>397|00:40:13|550|00:40:19|310</wrap>or group of planets. //EA, p.55//</wrap> The analogy between the fusion of the pairs of opposites, for instance, <wrap hide>398|00:40:19|310|00:40:25|830</wrap>upon the physical plane... and do we mean etheric and physical, or do we mean perhaps the sexual <wrap hide>399|00:40:25|830|00:40:30|110</wrap>relationship? The fusion of the pairs of opposites can be seen in the conscious and directed <wrap hide>400|00:40:30|110|00:40:36|970</wrap>fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any specific planet or group <wrap hide>401|00:40:36|970|00:40:45|470</wrap>of planets. Well anyway, energies which represent the higher aspect and forces must merge. So <wrap hide>402|00:40:45|470|00:40:51|850</wrap>we'll put this down: energies and forces must merge. We're talking always about the pairs <wrap hide>403|00:40:51|850|00:40:57|910</wrap>of opposites and usually not on the same level. There are horizontal pairs of opposites. You <wrap hide>404|00:40:57|910|00:41:04|930</wrap>know, we have heat and we have cold; we have hard, we have soft. I mean, one is <wrap hide>405|00:41:04|930|00:41:09|690</wrap>not better than the other. But when we're dealing with soul and personality, one is definitely <wrap hide>406|00:41:09|690|00:41:15|370</wrap>higher than the other. <wrap quote>The analogy, involving discrimination to regulate and offset the force of the pairs of opposites upon the astral plane, can be seen when the energies of the sun sign and of the planets are perfectly directed and adjusted. //EA, p.55//</wrap> This is not true of those encountering poles upon the astral plane, and <wrap hide>407|00:41:15|370|00:41:23|550</wrap>we are looking for the aspectual integration of the Sun sign and the planets. We are looking <wrap hide>408|00:41:23|930|00:41:29|990</wrap>to harmonize their relationship. So there is an analogy here: when we are able, even if we <wrap hide>409|00:41:29|990|00:41:36|710</wrap>have tough aspects, to harmonize the relationship between the Sun sign and the planets, then <wrap hide>410|00:41:36|710|00:41:42|550</wrap>we have the analogy here to offsetting the force of the pairs of opposites on the astral <wrap hide>411|00:41:42|550|00:41:50|570</wrap>plane. And then there will be a harmony and right progression, and the man will not be <wrap hide>412|00:41:50|990|00:41:56|610</wrap>pulled below, held below, and prevented from moving on. There's going to be another analogy <wrap hide>413|00:41:56|610|00:42:02|690</wrap>here, I suspect. <wrap quote>The analogy can also be carried forward onto the mental plane //EA, p.55//</wrap> and when the... <wrap hide>414|00:42:02|690|00:42:08|770</wrap>Aha! Yeah, very interesting. <wrap quote>and when the energies of the sun sign and the rising sign are <wrap hide>415|00:42:08|770|00:42:15|870</wrap>coherently blended and expressed (in the case of both the individual or a planetary <wrap hide>416|00:42:15|870|00:42:21|050</wrap>Life) there comes a point of crisis wherein the soul and the personality are brought <wrap hide>417|00:42:21|050|00:42:32|050</wrap>face to face. //EA, p.55//</wrap> and that is the dweller and the angel. The personality stands for <wrap hide>418|00:42:32|050|00:42:44|050</wrap>the dweller, and the soul for the angel. So that is a mental happening. Now, very, very <wrap hide>419|00:42:44|050|00:42:53|290</wrap>interesting. We have an analogy here of how to reconcile pairs of opposites on different <wrap hide>420|00:42:53|290|00:43:00|350</wrap>planes. Does he talk about how to do this? The fusion of the pairs of opposites on the physical <wrap hide>421|00:43:00|350|00:43:04|870</wrap>plane can be seen in the direct fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any <wrap hide>422|00:43:04|870|00:43:12|810</wrap>particular planet or group of planets. Well, we are talking about etheric and dense physical <wrap hide>423|00:43:12|810|00:43:22|250</wrap>fusion, and we are talking about planetary forces and energies, and we are trying to blend <wrap hide>424|00:43:22|250|00:43:29|510</wrap>the higher with the lower on any particular planet or group of planets. Then we go on to <wrap hide>425|00:43:29|510|00:43:36|910</wrap>the astral plane, and we try to blend the Sun sign with the other planets and bring them <wrap hide>426|00:43:36|910|00:43:43|270</wrap>to harmony. And then we move on to the mental plane, and we try to harmonize the energies <wrap hide>427|00:43:43|270|00:43:49|350</wrap>of the Sun sign and the energies of the rising sign coherently blended and expressed. And <wrap hide>428|00:43:49|350|00:43:55|210</wrap>you have to ask yourself: can I do that? Can I do that right now, even if my Sun sign and <wrap hide>429|00:43:55|210|00:44:06|590</wrap>my rising sign are in what can I say... difficult aspect? Are my Sun sign and rising sign, regardless <wrap hide>430|00:44:06|590|00:44:11|630</wrap>of what their aspect may be, are they in a position to be coherently blended and expressed? <wrap hide>431|00:44:11|630|00:44:16|730</wrap>Then we will no longer have warfare upon the mental plane, the struggle between the opposites, <wrap hide>432|00:44:16|730|00:44:22|110</wrap>warfare upon the astral plane with the Sun and the planets, and warfare upon the physical <wrap hide>433|00:44:22|110|00:44:27|070</wrap>plane between the energy aspect and the force aspect of any planet or groups of planets. <wrap hide>434|00:44:27|630|00:44:32|370</wrap>You know, D.K. is wonderful, and you know, sometimes when I'm reading this, it's just as if I've <wrap hide>435|00:44:32|370|00:44:37|850</wrap>read it for the first time. I know you all have that experience from time to time, and <wrap hide>436|00:44:37|850|00:44:43|550</wrap>I'm having it right now. You know, how could I have overlooked the importance of this particular <wrap hide>437|00:44:44|090|00:44:53|890</wrap>section? How could I have not kept it in my mind? Well, maybe 1% or 2% of what is given <wrap hide>438|00:44:53|890|00:44:59|390</wrap>by D.K. is kept rightly in mind. I used to say I think I could maybe grasp 5% of what he's <wrap hide>439|00:44:59|390|00:45:03|790</wrap>written, and the further I go and the deeper I study, my percentage falls. I think I'm down <wrap hide>440|00:45:03|790|00:45:10|950</wrap>to 2.5% and rapidly falling. And maybe I will even find these percentages to be an exaggeration. <wrap hide>441|00:45:10|950|00:45:16|710</wrap>One cannot help but be humbled in the face of the magnificent presentation which Master <wrap hide>442|00:45:16|710|00:45:26|510</wrap>D.K. has given us on behalf of the Hierarchy. It's just astonishing. It is the esoteric essence <wrap hide>443|00:45:26|510|00:45:32|170</wrap>of so much of what is hidden in other traditions, and here it is clearly given in the King's <wrap hide>444|00:45:32|170|00:45:40|770</wrap>English, you know, so we are to be grateful—grateful for what is given. <wrap hide>445|00:45:41|850|00:45:48|150</wrap><wrap quote>The Angel of the Presence, distributing solar fire //EA, p.55//</wrap> Some people distinguish between <wrap hide>446|00:45:48|150|00:45:55|830</wrap>the Angel of the Presence and the solar Angel. Perhaps they consider the Angel of the Presence <wrap hide>447|00:45:55|830|00:46:02|270</wrap>to be the actual solar Angel, and the solar Angel to be that part of the solar Angel which <wrap hide>448|00:46:02|270|00:46:08|790</wrap>underlies the egoic lotus, and consider the egoic lotus as the solar Angel. I have never, <wrap hide>449|00:46:10|090|00:46:17|510</wrap>with consistency, made any such discrimination, just as I don't—I tend not to discriminate <wrap hide>450|00:46:17|510|00:46:22|690</wrap>between the planetary Logos and the heavenly man, because so often they are used in a manner <wrap hide>451|00:46:22|690|00:46:30|550</wrap>equivalent. But heavenly man, I think, can also refer to—there are degrees of heavenly man, <wrap hide>452|00:46:30|550|00:46:36|830</wrap>so a planetary Logos is a heavenly man, a chain lord is a heavenly man, a globe lord is a heavenly <wrap hide>453|00:46:36|830|00:46:43|070</wrap>man, but you cannot call them planetary Logoi. Some have said that when you speak of the <wrap hide>454|00:46:43|070|00:46:47|760</wrap>planetary Logos, it emphasizes the monadic nature of that being, and when you speak of <wrap hide>455|00:46:47|760|00:46:54|440</wrap>heavenly man, it emphasizes the soul nature of that same being, and it's a good distinction. <wrap hide>456|00:46:54|440|00:47:02|260</wrap>But I haven't found it to bear out in so many contexts. Anyway, you can make up your <wrap hide>457|00:47:02|260|00:47:08|380</wrap>own mind as you study this, not only now, but in centuries ahead at the wonderful new esoteric <wrap hide>458|00:47:08|380|00:47:15|680</wrap>schools which will be established—fourteen of them—and then more in the centuries ahead <wrap hide>459|00:47:16|080|00:47:22|340</wrap>to bring down to earth the true esotericism and train those who can undergo the rigors <wrap hide>460|00:47:22|340|00:47:30|640</wrap>into service to humanity on behalf of the Hierarchy. <wrap quote>The Angel of the Presence, distributing <wrap hide>461|00:47:30|640|00:47:45|660</wrap>solar fire and holding focussed electric fire, //EA, p.55//</wrap>—that's quite an important statement, so the <wrap hide>462|00:47:46|240|00:47:51|760</wrap>electric fire, after all, it has its own monadic nature, doesn't it? But that's one of the only <wrap hide>463|00:47:51|760|00:48:02|960</wrap>times I've seen this. The Angel of the Presence, let's see, Angel of the Presence holds electric <wrap hide>464|00:48:02|960|00:48:08|860</wrap>fire focused. Interesting. <wrap quote>and the Dweller on the Threshold, expressing and utilising <wrap hide>465|00:48:08|860|00:48:14|720</wrap>fire by friction, //EA, p.55//</wrap> See, in a way, within the Angel of the Presence and within any second <wrap hide>466|00:48:14|720|00:48:20|660</wrap>aspect demonstration, the first aspect is held latent because the time for its full expression <wrap hide>467|00:48:20|660|00:48:30|280</wrap>has not yet come. We're not in that final, or sixth, solar system, so always the first <wrap hide>468|00:48:30|280|00:48:38|520</wrap>aspect of divinity is expressing itself in a mediated manner. Anyway, they <wrap quote>know each other <wrap hide>469|00:48:38|520|00:48:43|600</wrap>"with intimate occult knowledge." //EA, p.55//</wrap> This occurs on the plane of mind, starting at the third <wrap hide>470|00:48:43|600|00:48:50|840</wrap>initiation and increasingly as we move towards the fourth initiation and even the fifth, when <wrap hide>471|00:48:50|840|00:48:56|640</wrap>the angel and the dweller—whatever that is, could be a mayavirupa at that time—and <wrap hide>472|00:48:56|640|00:49:06|520</wrap>also the presence all three blend together, and the triangle becomes one. <wrap quote>The door then <wrap hide>473|00:49:06|520|00:49:13|580</wrap>stands open wide through which the life and light of the three major constellations can—<wrap hide>474|00:49:13|600|00:49:18|540</wrap>after the third initiation— //EA, p.55//</wrap> that's the point—the three major constellations after the third <wrap hide>475|00:49:18|540|00:49:24|860</wrap>initiation can <wrap quote>be occultly available to the initiate, be he a liberated human being or <wrap hide>476|00:49:24|860|00:49:29|840</wrap>a planetary Logos. //EA, p.55//</wrap> And of course, it's not just to the human being that the three great <wrap hide>477|00:49:29|840|00:49:37|520</wrap>constellations extend their influence, but they are so great that they have amazing power <wrap hide>478|00:49:37|520|00:49:45|480</wrap>over the planetary Logos as well, and even over the solar Logos. So they pour forth their <wrap hide>479|00:49:45|480|00:49:49|760</wrap>radiation in different measure, or shall we say it can be received differently by the <wrap hide>480|00:49:49|760|00:49:56|640</wrap>three classifications of beings: the liberated human being or initiate, the initiate planetary <wrap hide>481|00:49:57|400|00:50:02|860</wrap>Logos, and the initiate solar Logos, the three great constellations. Because think of it, <wrap hide>482|00:50:02|860|00:50:09|300</wrap>even the tiniest of those three, which is Sirius, has an amazing effect upon our solar <wrap hide>483|00:50:09|300|00:50:18|440</wrap>Logos. Okay, we can do a little more, I think. You know, as I go over this material, I'm just— <wrap hide>484|00:50:19|740|00:50:29|140</wrap>you know, one would like to ponder, to dwell upon it for a long time and extract all that <wrap hide>485|00:50:29|140|00:50:36|920</wrap>is hidden. But alright, we are going over this book somewhat carefully, and there will come <wrap hide>486|00:50:36|920|00:50:42|900</wrap>thoughts to you about what has not really been fathomed, and there will come ideas to <wrap hide>487|00:50:42|900|00:50:49|980</wrap>you about what might further be fathomed, based upon the hints we have generated. So the Angel <wrap hide>488|00:50:49|980|00:50:55|120</wrap>of the Presence, distributing solar fire and holding focus—solar fire, electric fire—wow, <wrap hide>489|00:50:55|120|00:51:00|640</wrap>that really has to be remembered because there is electric fire there, and in a way, <wrap hide>490|00:51:00|640|00:51:07|140</wrap>the entire jewel in the lotus is a representation of electric fire, although you could say that <wrap hide>491|00:51:07|140|00:51:15|700</wrap>is more the creation of the monad than it is the creation of the solar Angel, and the <wrap hide>492|00:51:15|700|00:51:20|120</wrap>Dweller on the Threshold expressing and utilizing fire by friction know each other with intimate <wrap hide>493|00:51:20|120|00:51:24|960</wrap>occult knowledge, and this is happening at the higher initiations. The door stands wide <wrap hide>494|00:51:24|960|00:51:31|920</wrap>open, and the three major constellations can express themselves through the liberated human <wrap hide>495|00:51:31|920|00:51:38|880</wrap>being who is the initiate and through a planetary Logos at various stages of his development, <wrap hide>496|00:51:38|880|00:51:46|250</wrap>and probably especially once he is an initiate planetary Logos. When astrologers understand <wrap hide>497|00:51:46|250|00:51:51|410</wrap>the true significance of the constellation Gemini, the the head of the cosmic Christ— <wrap hide>498|00:51:51|410|00:51:57|410</wrap>a very, very important constellation which is inspiring, I think, Master D.K. and Master <wrap hide>499|00:51:57|410|00:52:04|370</wrap>K.H. and many of the revealers of the ageless wisdom. <wrap quote>When astrologers understand the <wrap hide>500|00:52:04|370|00:52:11|170</wrap>true significance of the constellation Gemini, the Twins, and the dual forces which pour through <wrap hide>501|00:52:11|170|00:52:17|450</wrap>this sign (the "forces in conflict" as they are sometimes called or "the quarrelling brothers") //EA, p.55//</wrap> <wrap hide>502|00:52:18|110|00:52:25|330</wrap>Watch out when you have Mars in Gemini, because it sets up a good quarrel—and the forces which <wrap hide>503|00:52:25|330|00:52:32|510</wrap><wrap quote>beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be <wrap hide>504|00:52:32|510|00:52:41|150</wrap>known.//EA, p.56//</wrap> Now I don't know if it is said here, but we do know that Gemini is used as a material <wrap hide>505|00:52:41|170|00:52:48|830</wrap>mediating force between the pairs of opposites. I'll call them the zodiacal pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>506|00:52:48|990|00:52:55|610</wrap>You know, there's Aries, Libra, Gemini. Taurus, Scorpio, Gemini. We'll skip Gemini for a moment. <wrap hide>507|00:52:55|910|00:53:03|550</wrap>Then there's Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini. There is Leo, Aquarius, Gemini. There is Pisces, <wrap hide>508|00:53:03|670|00:53:08|810</wrap>Virgo, Gemini, and when Gemini is involved itself, Pisces becomes the mediating influence. <wrap hide>509|00:53:08|810|00:53:14|310</wrap>We discuss that later. That's the opposition between Gemini, Sagittarius with Pisces as <wrap hide>510|00:53:14|310|00:53:19|650</wrap>the mediating force. So we have to understand the great pairs of opposites by understanding <wrap hide>511|00:53:19|650|00:53:25|290</wrap>the sign Gemini. The pairs of opposites, higher and lower, are always quarreling. That means <wrap hide>512|00:53:25|290|00:53:29|310</wrap>they're out of adjustment for a while, and those pairs of opposites under Gemini can <wrap hide>513|00:53:29|310|00:53:33|650</wrap>be soul and personality, but they can also be the spirit and the soul-infused personality. <wrap hide>514|00:53:33|650|00:53:40|670</wrap>They can be Sirius and the Sun. They can be different constellations which hold to each <wrap hide>515|00:53:40|670|00:53:49|190</wrap>other that kind of pairs of opposites relationship. So, you know, we have Pollux, which is a great <wrap hide>516|00:53:49|190|00:53:56|270</wrap>supergiant star, and we have three pairs of double stars that are called Castor. It's <wrap hide>517|00:53:56|270|00:54:03|630</wrap>really a visually single star, but it's really six stars, and those represent the same kind <wrap hide>518|00:54:03|650|00:54:11|570</wrap>of forces which are lower than the force of spirit itself. So everything that is generated <wrap hide>519|00:54:11|570|00:54:18|310</wrap>by spirit—the six—pulls in an opposite direction from spirit itself until there is a reconciliation. <wrap hide>520|00:54:20|210|00:54:24|030</wrap>So anyway, we need to learn to reconcile the pairs of opposites, and especially upon our <wrap hide>521|00:54:24|030|00:54:31|590</wrap>planet, which is a planet of magnetic adjustment. We become adjudicators between the pairs of <wrap hide>522|00:54:31|590|00:54:40|310</wrap>opposites. We are involved in magnetic work. Let's just see if we can find that. Let's <wrap hide>523|00:54:40|310|00:55:01|570</wrap>just say something about the school... adjudicators. I'm not going to do too well here. School— <wrap hide>524|00:55:03|170|00:55:10|450</wrap>magnetic. Oh, I see! I know what the problem is. I still have glamour checked, and you can't <wrap hide>525|00:55:10|450|00:55:22|950</wrap>find a reference... adjudicator. Let's call this just "school of magnetic something," and let's <wrap hide>526|00:55:22|950|00:55:28|750</wrap>see if we can find it. One, two, three—there it is: the school of magnetic response. This <wrap hide>527|00:55:28|750|00:55:36|030</wrap>is Earth. Another name given to its pupils is "the graduates of painful endeavor" or "the <wrap hide>528|00:55:36|030|00:55:42|910</wrap>adjudicators between the polar opposites." A further hint to be taken in connection with <wrap hide>529|00:55:43|910|00:55:48|870</wrap>the two names given above is that its graduates are said to undergo examination on the third <wrap hide>530|00:55:48|870|00:55:57|030</wrap>sub-plane of the astral plane, and probably that is the third counting from the top down. <wrap hide>531|00:55:57|650|00:56:04|890</wrap>So the constellation Gemini has a tremendous relationship to our Earth. It provided, in <wrap hide>532|00:56:04|890|00:56:10|430</wrap>a way, the door of entry for the solar angels, and in another way, it represents the pillars <wrap hide>533|00:56:10|430|00:56:19|090</wrap>of wisdom through which advancing human beings can pass into the higher life. So Gemini gives <wrap hide>534|00:56:19|090|00:56:27|010</wrap>a huge angelic content to our Earth, just as Sagittarius promotes the animal content. All <wrap hide>535|00:56:27|010|00:56:33|250</wrap>right, I do believe we have reached the point. I realize that I must present quite a spectacle <wrap hide>536|00:56:33|250|00:56:39|410</wrap>here in the dark. Excuse me. We've done six of these today. I don't know whether there <wrap hide>537|00:56:39|410|00:56:44|090</wrap>will be a seventh. I'll try to get them out to you as soon as I can. We have gone as far <wrap hide>538|00:56:44|090|00:56:56|310</wrap>as page 56. So this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 26. That's 36—number 26. <wrap hide>539|00:56:56|330|00:57:14|550</wrap>Can I type it? And up to ending page 56. I believe it's from page 53 to page 56. So we <wrap hide>540|00:57:14|550|00:57:26|290</wrap>will together work The Great Invocation as we always do, because ritualistically it's <wrap hide>541|00:57:26|290|00:57:30|330</wrap>a ritual. Yes. All right. <wrap hide>542|00:57:41|050|00:57:49|770</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>543|00:57:49|770|00:58:03|530</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>544|00:58:03|530|00:58:14|450</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>545|00:58:14|450|00:58:21|710</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>546|00:58:21|710|00:58:33|010</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let <wrap hide>547|00:58:33|010|00:58:42|750</wrap>the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>548|00:58:42|750|00:58:47|890</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>549|00:59:26|010|00:59:38|590</wrap>Okay friends, we are making progress. What are we up to page 56 now? And I think this <wrap hide>550|00:59:38|590|00:59:51|830</wrap>opening section has only 90 or 100 pages, so by the time we've done 50 of these webinars, <wrap hide>551|00:59:51|930|00:59:56|110</wrap>we will be through the introduction. But in a way, the other parts of the books will flow <wrap hide>552|00:59:56|110|01:00:04|630</wrap>more easily. I wish I could talk through quite a number of these books. Anyway, I've done <wrap hide>553|01:00:04|630|01:00:08|590</wrap>most of the Treatise on Cosmic Fire and half of the Rays and Initiations, and that's <wrap hide>554|01:00:08|590|01:00:14|850</wrap>done in more careful written language. The quality of what we're doing here is a little <wrap hide>555|01:00:14|850|01:00:20|150</wrap>more spontaneous, a little more ramifying and rambling and taking in various considerations. <wrap hide>556|01:00:20|730|01:00:27|750</wrap>A different style. Perhaps it's less concrete, but it's what I can do at the moment. So we <wrap hide>557|01:00:27|750|01:00:37|950</wrap>will go on to Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 27 shortly. Okay, bye for now.
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