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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|300|00:00:14|300</wrap>Hi everybody, this is the 27th Esoteric Astrology Adventure. Today is July 25th, 2011. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|270|00:00:28|640</wrap>We were dealing with duality in the last EAA, and we are speaking here of understanding <wrap hide>3|00:00:29|200|00:00:39|760</wrap>the true significance of duality. <wrap quote>When astrologers understand the true significance of the constellation <wrap hide>4|00:00:39|760|00:00:48|860</wrap>Gemini, the Twins, and the dual forces which pour through this sign (the "forces in conflict" <wrap hide>5|00:00:49|150|00:01:00|780</wrap>as they are called or the "quarreling brothers") //EA, p.55//</wrap> which we all embody to a degree, and beat <wrap hide>6|00:01:00|780|00:01:06|660</wrap>upon our planetary life which pour through this sign <wrap quote>and beat upon our planetary life, <wrap hide>7|00:01:07|360|00:01:14|980</wrap>then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. //EA, p.56//</wrap> And we discuss the contrast <wrap hide>8|00:01:14|980|00:01:24|980</wrap>between Pollux, the star which represents the solar spirit aspect, and Castor, three <wrap hide>9|00:01:24|980|00:01:41|240</wrap>pairs, thus six stars, which represent the forces of matter and form. So our major task <wrap hide>10|00:01:41|240|00:01:51|680</wrap>upon this planet, which is as a school, called the school of magnetic response, is to adjudicate <wrap hide>11|00:01:51|680|00:01:57|600</wrap>between opposites, the higher and lower pairs of opposites, and learn the method of their <wrap hide>12|00:01:57|600|00:01:58|280</wrap>resolution. <wrap hide>13|00:02:01|280|00:02:10|240</wrap>D.K. continues on page 56. <wrap quote>It is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols <wrap hide>14|00:02:10|240|00:02:17|480</wrap>which express the twelve signs of the zodiac are dual in their nature, and duality can <wrap hide>15|00:02:17|480|00:02:22|400</wrap>be inferred from them. //EA, p.56//</wrap> Each will have, I suppose, a different type of duality, and it's interesting <wrap hide>16|00:02:22|400|00:02:31|520</wrap>that the number is seven out of twelve, which indicates the area of sacredness. The seven <wrap hide>17|00:02:31|520|00:02:35|940</wrap>are sacred, the five are non-sacred. So let us see. <wrap hide>18|00:02:40|260|00:02:53|980</wrap>We have: <wrap quote>1. The two horns of the Ram in Aries. //EA, p.56//</wrap> moving both forward and backward. It is a sign in <wrap hide>19|00:02:53|980|00:03:02|500</wrap>which the wheel commences, either in its normal undeveloped clockwise direction or counterclockwise <wrap hide>20|00:03:02|620|00:03:12|300</wrap>direction. We have <wrap quote>2. The two horns of the Bull in Taurus. //EA, p.56//</wrap> a sign in which the Moon, a symbol <wrap hide>21|00:03:12|300|00:03:22|320</wrap>of fluctuation and duality, is exalted. With Taurus we have the contrast between the light <wrap hide>22|00:03:22|320|00:03:32|420</wrap>and the dark, the darkness of matter and the full light of illumination, the blazing light <wrap hide>23|00:03:32|420|00:03:39|540</wrap>of the greatest light, which Taurus indicates. Taurus is the mother of illumination. So the <wrap hide>24|00:03:39|540|00:03:47|620</wrap>light and the dark are in deep contrast here. I am reminded of how D.K. warns us as humanity <wrap hide>25|00:03:47|620|00:03:57|180</wrap>that if we do not proceed wisely we can be re-initiated into the earth under Taurus and <wrap hide>26|00:03:57|180|00:04:05|160</wrap>the worst aspects of Capricorn, or we can proceed into the illumination of the new age. <wrap hide>27|00:04:06|340|00:04:17|600</wrap>The third is <wrap quote>3. The figures of the Twins in Gemini (two lines). //EA, p.56//</wrap> the two lions representing duality, the second <wrap hide>28|00:04:18|320|00:04:27|000</wrap>the most telling of the glyphs to represent the pairs of opposites. They appear to be <wrap hide>29|00:04:27|000|00:04:33|380</wrap>horizontal, but in interpretation they represent the higher and lower pairs of opposites, the <wrap hide>30|00:04:33|380|00:04:38|100</wrap>left-hand pillar and the right-hand pillar, and they represent the opposites with respect <wrap hide>31|00:04:38|100|00:04:47|580</wrap>to the path, the path of selfishness and materiality and the path of selflessness and spirituality. <wrap hide>32|00:04:47|600|00:04:57|540</wrap>We have <wrap quote>4. The two claws of the Crab in Cancer. //EA, p.56//</wrap> and I suppose here it depends on that to which we will adhere <wrap hide>33|00:04:58|040|00:05:08|200</wrap>or cling. Will we cling to the past and to all that is retrogressive, or will we identify <wrap hide>34|00:05:08|200|00:05:17|580</wrap>with the spirit itself, with the omnipresent presence? And this will be the last thing <wrap hide>35|00:05:17|600|00:05:22|860</wrap>that will be indicated by Neptune. <wrap quote>5. The two scales of the Balance in Libra. //EA, p.56//</wrap> we are always <wrap hide>36|00:05:22|860|00:05:30|820</wrap>balancing spirit and matter, two great pairs of opposites, or we are balancing soul and <wrap hide>37|00:05:30|820|00:05:40|500</wrap>personality. <wrap quote>6. The two Parallel Lines of force in Aquarius. //EA, p.56//</wrap> We are speaking here of the possibility <wrap hide>38|00:05:40|500|00:05:49|380</wrap>of induction. Is it possible for the higher energy to induce its nature in the lower energy <wrap hide>39|00:05:49|380|00:05:58|200</wrap>which will respond accordingly? There are many highs and lows for the Aquarian individual. <wrap hide>40|00:05:59|340|00:06:07|680</wrap>Master D.K. tells us. The hill and valley experience is very common, and the factor <wrap hide>41|00:06:07|680|00:06:20|440</wrap>of manic depression is found in relation to this sign, unpredictable highs <wrap hide>42|00:06:20|440|00:06:28|620</wrap>and lows, and each one of the lines, parallel lines itself, has a sine wave form indicating <wrap hide>43|00:06:29|480|00:06:37|660</wrap>the up and the down of the wave. <wrap quote>7. The two Fishes in Pisces. //EA, p.56//</wrap> do swim in opposite directions. <wrap hide>44|00:06:37|680|00:06:49|200</wrap>One is swimming in a horizontal direction and represents the ordinary <wrap hide>45|00:06:50|160|00:06:55|720</wrap>tendencies, the ordinary desires, and the ordinary life, and the other is swimming vertically. <wrap hide>46|00:06:56|400|00:07:03|620</wrap>So the two together in a wave form a cross. One has upward aspiration and the other deals <wrap hide>47|00:07:03|620|00:07:10|100</wrap>with horizontal living. Well we could enlarge upon these, but in seven of the signs at least, <wrap hide>48|00:07:11|960|00:07:24|480</wrap>duality is found. And as stated, we must learn to resolve these dualities because they are <wrap hide>49|00:07:24|480|00:07:33|600</wrap>the major source of pain and, untreated, they promote a disinclination of the body and the <wrap hide>50|00:07:33|620|00:07:42|760</wrap>integrated condition. Some of the signs are unitary, some of them are triple. Virgo and <wrap hide>51|00:07:42|760|00:07:50|460</wrap>Scorpio are triple signs involving the union of all three aspects of the human being: spirit, <wrap hide>52|00:07:50|540|00:07:59|700</wrap>soul, and matter. Leo is considered a unitary sign, and of course it is associated with <wrap hide>53|00:07:59|700|00:08:09|500</wrap>the number one, with the idea of integration and selfhood. Capricorn is left in an indeterminate <wrap hide>54|00:08:09|500|00:08:18|900</wrap>place, because we are not sure how this sign can be drawn. I think I've left some other <wrap hide>55|00:08:18|900|00:08:26|640</wrap>signs out, but we'll get to them later. Let's see, we have Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, <wrap hide>56|00:08:26|640|00:08:35|880</wrap>Leo, Virgo triple, Libra dual, Scorpio triple, Sagittarius is a sign of one-pointedness. <wrap hide>57|00:08:36|410|00:08:46|080</wrap>It seems to resolve dualities. So that was the other one which I had left out. Somewhere <wrap hide>58|00:08:46|080|00:08:54|160</wrap>he treats this, and Sagittarius is an ever-changing glyph. It's been getting smaller and smaller <wrap hide>59|00:08:54|160|00:09:00|260</wrap>and less and less literal. The horse has been eliminated, the rider has been eliminated. <wrap hide>60|00:09:01|960|00:09:12|260</wrap>Finally we have simply an arrow and a fragment of a bow. So it is the sign opposite Gemini, <wrap hide>61|00:09:13|060|00:09:23|960</wrap>and signalizes one-pointedness, the resolution of dualities into a vector or direction or <wrap hide>62|00:09:23|960|00:09:34|800</wrap>an arrow. <wrap quote>These seven constellations are, therefore, closely related to six of the seven sacred planets <wrap hide>63|00:09:35|320|00:09:41|220</wrap>and to one non-sacred planet. There are two signs which are simple figures and have no <wrap hide>64|00:09:41|220|00:09:46|960</wrap>significance of duality. They are //EA, p.56//</wrap> Well, let's take a look at the sacred and non-sacred planets <wrap hide>65|00:09:46|960|00:09:54|760</wrap>that he's talking about. Perhaps Aries we can connect with Mercury, Taurus with Vulcan, <wrap hide>66|00:09:55|460|00:10:04|260</wrap>Gemini with Venus - I'm dealing with the esoteric rulers here - Cancer with Neptune, Libra with <wrap hide>67|00:10:04|260|00:10:11|620</wrap>Uranus, Aquarius with Jupiter, and Pisces with Pluto. There is a non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>68|00:10:11|620|00:10:21|940</wrap>So let's put them in. Pluto... Aquarius here is not Uranus but Jupiter, esoterically. Libra <wrap hide>69|00:10:21|940|00:10:36|700</wrap>is Uranus. Cancer, the ruler there, is Neptune. The esoteric ruler for Gemini is Venus, and <wrap hide>70|00:10:36|700|00:10:44|800</wrap>the esoteric ruler for Taurus is Vulcan. Let's see how I did that, yeah. And the esoteric <wrap hide>71|00:10:44|800|00:10:54|380</wrap>ruler for Aries is Mercury. He goes through all of the constellations here. These seven <wrap hide>72|00:10:54|380|00:11:03|540</wrap>constellations, therefore, are closely related to six of the seven sacred planets. It looks <wrap hide>73|00:11:03|540|00:11:10|180</wrap>like we've left Saturn out of the picture as one of the sacred planets. There are two <wrap hide>74|00:11:10|180|00:11:17|920</wrap>signs which are simply figures and have no significance of duality, and <wrap quote>8. The <wrap hide>75|00:11:17|920|00:11:23|540</wrap>symbol for Leo, which is simply the Lion's tail. //EA, p.56//</wrap> although I wonder if we could not make <wrap hide>76|00:11:23|540|00:11:33|520</wrap>more of it and relate it somehow to the serpent power. Mm-hmm. Serpent power, possibly. So, <wrap hide>77|00:11:33|880|00:11:43|180</wrap>and <wrap quote>9. The arrow in the symbol depicting Sagittarius. //EA, p.56//</wrap> There is a kind of duality there, but certainly <wrap hide>78|00:11:43|180|00:11:51|600</wrap>the emphasis is on unity, and in Leo the emphasis is upon unity. <wrap quote>They embody the idea of isolated <wrap hide>79|00:11:51|600|00:12:01|580</wrap>separation //EA, p.56//</wrap> -the lion's tail-<wrap quote>and one-pointed desire. //EA, p.56//</wrap> or one-pointed <wrap hide>80|00:12:01|580|00:12:08|880</wrap>aspiration. That is Sagittarius. <wrap quote>Two signs are definitely triple in construction and <wrap hide>81|00:12:08|880|00:12:19|780</wrap>this has a clear meaning to the esotericist. //EA, p.56//</wrap> and that meaning for us is the union of all <wrap hide>82|00:12:19|780|00:12:31|560</wrap>the aspects of the triple man. "I am the mother and the child. I, God, I matter, am." And this <wrap hide>83|00:12:45|860|00:12:59|740</wrap>is true of Scorpio, although it represents somehow the orientation towards the struggle <wrap hide>84|00:13:00|380|00:13:09|220</wrap>that will unite the three. So Scorpio has a great deal to do with the conquest by the <wrap hide>85|00:13:09|220|00:13:17|620</wrap>soul over the material or personal aspect. <wrap quote>10. Virgo is a triple sign. //EA, p.56//</wrap> and <wrap quote>11. Scorpio is <wrap hide>86|00:13:17|620|00:13:24|900</wrap>also a triple sign, closely resembling the symbol of Virgo. //EA, p.56//</wrap> but in a way it is more masculine, <wrap hide>87|00:13:25|390|00:13:32|220</wrap>including the upward-pointing arrow which suggests Mars, the major masculine planet. <wrap hide>88|00:13:33|060|00:13:42|420</wrap>So this triplicity is achieved through a state of struggle, and it's also upward-oriented. <wrap hide>89|00:13:44|140|00:13:54|880</wrap><wrap quote>These two signs //EA, p.56//</wrap> Virgo and Scorpio <wrap quote>are crucial in the experience of the human being, //EA, p.56//</wrap>of the existence of the <wrap hide>90|00:13:55|670|00:14:02|640</wrap>human being. They are decisive, <wrap quote>indicating as they do the function of the triple form <wrap hide>91|00:14:05|200|00:14:09|880</wrap>and the liberation of the man imprisoned in the form, //EA, p.56//</wrap> That's the function of the upward-pointing <wrap hide>92|00:14:09|880|00:14:16|740</wrap>arrow. Mars may be a non-sacred planet, but the struggle involved is an integral part <wrap hide>93|00:14:16|740|00:14:24|880</wrap>of the struggle for liberation. The struggle involved is necessary if we are to achieve liberation from that state in which <wrap hide>94|00:14:24|900|00:14:32|240</wrap>matter reigns. And we know that one of the key phrases which is applied to man <wrap hide>95|00:14:32|240|00:14:43|580</wrap>when he is on the ordinary wheel is, "Let matter reign." Thus it is for Virgo. So the liberation <wrap hide>97|00:14:52|200|00:14:59|100</wrap>of man from the... imprisoned in the form. Interesting. The Moon, which is the mother of the form, <wrap hide>98|00:14:59|460|00:15:07|340</wrap>falls in the sign Scorpio, so it is overcome. The liberation... imprisoned in the form... liberation <wrap hide>99|00:15:07|340|00:15:13|080</wrap>of the man imprisoned in the form, <wrap quote>through the tests in Scorpio wherein he proves to <wrap hide>100|00:15:13|080|00:15:20|360</wrap>himself and to the world the reality of that which Virgo has veiled or hidden. //EA, p.56//</wrap> Virgo has <wrap hide>101|00:15:20|360|00:15:26|840</wrap>veiled or hidden the Christ power, which is the soul power, which is the consciousness <wrap hide>102|00:15:26|840|00:15:37|720</wrap>which no longer chooses to remain subservient to the patterns of form, especially in the <wrap hide>103|00:15:37|720|00:15:45|460</wrap>lower three worlds, form which is the form found in the dense physical body of the planetary <wrap hide>104|00:15:45|460|00:15:53|900</wrap>Logos or even the solar Logos. The soul in Scorpio then proves itself, and the temptations <wrap hide>105|00:15:53|900|00:16:02|840</wrap>and the vices and the inclinations to adhere to this lower layer of experience, the three <wrap hide>106|00:16:02|840|00:16:12|060</wrap>lower worlds, is countered by the power of the soul, the hidden Christ now grown into <wrap hide>107|00:16:12|060|00:16:19|300</wrap>power. Each one of us must come to ourselves and demonstrate that we have this power. We <wrap hide>108|00:16:19|300|00:16:25|840</wrap>realize that we have the power. In Leo we realize that we are something other than the <wrap hide>109|00:16:26|640|00:16:34|680</wrap>isolated material personality in the higher experience of Leo, or let's call it the middle <wrap hide>110|00:16:34|680|00:16:41|440</wrap>experience of Leo, the "I Am" experience of Leo. And then we just have to prove it <wrap hide>111|00:16:41|440|00:16:49|180</wrap>when we enter Scorpio. It all has to be worked out on the dense physical plane, which is <wrap hide>112|00:16:49|180|00:16:57|620</wrap>of course a struggle. Scorpio, interestingly enough, is the sign particularly associated <wrap hide>113|00:16:57|620|00:17:04|600</wrap>with humanity. It rules the hierarchy of human monads, so although one day we will achieve <wrap hide>114|00:17:04|600|00:17:14|100</wrap>the harmony of full buddhic infusion, we are a warring kingdom and even a warring creative <wrap hide>115|00:17:14|100|00:17:23|460</wrap>hierarchy. And our method is harmony through conflict. We cannot avoid this conflict. There <wrap hide>116|00:17:24|260|00:17:30|580</wrap>is a time or more than one time in the books when D.K. seems to be saying - he does say - <wrap hide>117|00:17:30|580|00:17:35|560</wrap>"See that you battle, see that you struggle. If you're not having a crisis, why aren't <wrap hide>118|00:17:35|560|00:17:48|360</wrap>you having a crisis?" So it is probably not the part of the human being to avoid unnecessary <wrap hide>119|00:17:48|360|00:17:55|320</wrap>conflict which will prove liberating. Anyway, D.K. is dealing with these signs. One day <wrap hide>120|00:17:55|320|00:18:04|000</wrap>we shall know the glyph of Capricorn. I have a friend who is quite an astute third-ray <wrap hide>121|00:18:04|000|00:18:16|200</wrap>thinker, and he put together the sign Aries, and he straightened the tail of Leo and made <wrap hide>122|00:18:16|200|00:18:23|840</wrap>it into a single serpent like the Hydra that rules the first decanate of Leo, and he put <wrap hide>123|00:18:23|840|00:18:33|140</wrap>that straightened tail into the cleft here of Aries like this, and he said, "That's the <wrap hide>124|00:18:33|140|00:18:41|280</wrap>sign of Capricorn. It's a combination of the two." Of course, in other words, the two first <wrap hide>125|00:18:41|280|00:18:50|460</wrap>ray signs, Aries and Leo, combine to make the third first ray sign Capricorn. Of course, <wrap hide>126|00:18:50|460|00:18:59|180</wrap>I don't know. In a way, it kind of suggests the jewel in the lotus and a relationship <wrap hide>127|00:18:59|180|00:19:09|600</wrap>to Vulcan which Capricorn has, and the initiatory power of Capricorn at the third degree when <wrap hide>128|00:19:09|600|00:19:20|440</wrap>the jewel begins truly to be revealed. But I think the jury must be out on that point <wrap hide>129|00:19:20|460|00:19:27|460</wrap>in a particular configuration, and one day we will see. Perhaps it will be revealed by <wrap hide>130|00:19:28|660|00:19:36|780</wrap>such as D.K. to those who are approaching the ability to use it wisely, but for the moment <wrap hide>131|00:19:36|780|00:19:49|600</wrap>it seems to be a secret because if we knew it, D.K. tells us, we would open ourselves to <wrap hide>132|00:19:49|600|00:19:57|660</wrap>an influx of power, perhaps a very dangerous influx of power, more so than the power that <wrap hide>133|00:19:57|660|00:20:03|680</wrap>would rush into the open pentagram. In other words, we wouldn't be able to handle it. So <wrap hide>134|00:20:03|680|00:20:09|900</wrap>we'll have to trust his wisdom on this matter. Well, maybe he's going to talk about it right <wrap hide>135|00:20:09|900|00:20:18|800</wrap>now. Okay. <wrap quote>12. The symbol for the sign Capricorn is most mysterious. It conceals the mystery <wrap hide>136|00:20:18|800|00:20:27|340</wrap>of the Crocodiles, or Makara. //EA, p.57//</wrap> and one wonders about the Crocodiles. We did look <wrap hide>137|00:20:27|340|00:20:37|300</wrap>at that... see if I can find that again. Fellowship of Cosmic Fire, okay, and AAB diagrams, yes. <wrap hide>138|00:20:38|120|00:20:48|780</wrap>And the Creative Hierarchy is here. Okay, and we have here the Makara, which is the <wrap hide>139|00:20:49|480|00:20:55|940</wrap>name given to the tenth or fifth manifest of Creative Hierarchy: the Crocodiles, Makara, <wrap hide>140|00:20:56|080|00:21:07|560</wrap>the mystery. And the name is the human personality. At least that suggests one aspect of the dual <wrap hide>141|00:21:07|560|00:21:15|780</wrap>fifth Creative Hierarchy. So, you know, the Crocodile... H.P.B. tries to give the crocodile <wrap hide>142|00:21:15|780|00:21:24|880</wrap>a somewhat better reputation, perhaps, than we normally would give to this animal, and <wrap hide>143|00:21:24|880|00:21:31|780</wrap>she says it is the first to greet the sun, so she relates it - you know, swimming in the <wrap hide>144|00:21:31|780|00:21:41|640</wrap>Nile, let us say - it is the first creature to hail the sun. But we also look at the reptilian <wrap hide>145|00:21:41|640|00:21:49|700</wrap>nature of man and the reptilian brain and this totally selfish, aggressive aspect, which <wrap hide>146|00:21:49|700|00:21:58|120</wrap>we can identify with the personality, and so there is a mystery in relation to the Makara, <wrap hide>147|00:21:59|140|00:22:08|640</wrap>which is not entirely dealing with positive factors. When we talk about "crying crocodile <wrap hide>148|00:22:08|640|00:22:19|400</wrap>tears," we speak of insincerity. They are cold-blooded animals, and they attack suddenly and without <wrap hide>149|00:22:19|400|00:22:28|000</wrap>warning and at great speed, so they seem more, at least in my mind, involved with the downward <wrap hide>150|00:22:28|000|00:22:35|880</wrap>pointing pentagram and with that part of the man that would like to stay attached to matter <wrap hide>151|00:22:35|880|00:22:46|080</wrap>form. Will the symbol of Capricorn reveal this or only the higher aspect of this Creative <wrap hide>152|00:22:46|080|00:22:53|060</wrap>Hierarchy? I am not sure. <wrap quote>It is constructed in an inaccurate and definitely misleading <wrap hide>153|00:22:53|060|00:23:02|240</wrap>manner //EA, p.57//</wrap> so it looks like there is a veil on the formation of the glyph of the sign Capricorn, <wrap hide>154|00:23:02|840|00:23:09|320</wrap><wrap quote>and should be regarded as a mystery and therefore not to be defined. //EA, p.57//</wrap> In other words, he seems <wrap hide>155|00:23:09|320|00:23:18|220</wrap>to be warning us even against the attempt to define the glyph and seems to suggest that <wrap hide>156|00:23:18|220|00:23:25|940</wrap>we leave this until later when more is known. It is almost like a warning. It is not to <wrap hide>157|00:23:25|940|00:23:32|160</wrap>be defined. I sometimes think that there are instructions here: "the one about whom naught <wrap hide>158|00:23:32|160|00:23:38|680</wrap>may be said." In other words, it is not even permitted to say something about this one <wrap hide>159|00:23:38|680|00:23:45|680</wrap>about whom naught may be said, but he seems to say some things. Anyway, we have to understand <wrap hide>160|00:23:46|540|00:23:54|720</wrap>in occultism what is permitted to us and what is not, and occasionally D.K. gives these warnings. <wrap hide>161|00:23:54|870|00:24:02|460</wrap>You do notice how there are times when he talks about what he reveals in his books and <wrap hide>162|00:24:02|460|00:24:11|140</wrap>he discusses the word "permitted." "I have been permitted to reveal more," "I have been permitted <wrap hide>163|00:24:11|140|00:24:21|340</wrap>to reveal this." So there are higher powers which are in effect and to which he, a master <wrap hide>164|00:24:21|340|00:24:29|240</wrap>of the wisdom, must conform. And certainly we as aspirants and disciples have to have <wrap hide>165|00:24:29|240|00:24:36|160</wrap>some idea of what is permitted to us and what is simply not allowed. <wrap hide>166|00:24:36|720|00:24:43|880</wrap>Alright, so we've reviewed here the formation of some of the signs and the glyphs. I mean, <wrap hide>167|00:24:44|160|00:24:50|040</wrap>there's no question power is coming. It's coming to all of us in increasing measure, <wrap hide>168|00:24:50|040|00:24:57|410</wrap>and the Age of Aquarius is in many ways an age of subtle power. We've already seen incredible <wrap hide>169|00:24:58|940|00:25:06|660</wrap>release of energy through our understanding of the atom, such as that understanding is. <wrap hide>170|00:25:07|240|00:25:12|840</wrap>It's more power than humanity has ever had in its hands, and I think under the fifth <wrap hide>171|00:25:12|840|00:25:19|360</wrap>ray of Aquarius that's just the beginning. We could have the power to remake or destroy <wrap hide>172|00:25:19|360|00:25:27|680</wrap>the world. So we have to be very careful in the handling of the power that comes into <wrap hide>173|00:25:27|680|00:25:36|280</wrap>our hands because humanity is now becoming increasingly responsible and increasingly <wrap hide>174|00:25:36|280|00:25:44|380</wrap>holds its own fate, whether towards spiritual excellence or destruction, in its own hands. <wrap hide>175|00:25:45|600|00:25:52|200</wrap>We go on. <wrap quote>These signs and their relationship to the sacred and non-sacred planets will <wrap hide>176|00:25:52|920|00:26:00|520</wrap>be considered later. //EA, p.57//</wrap> yes, and in great detail. So now D.K. is giving a little summary here. <wrap hide>177|00:26:01|380|00:26:09|100</wrap><wrap quote>To sum up: Man will, therefore, have to be studied as a threefold entity, //EA, p.57//</wrap> You know, it <wrap hide>178|00:26:09|100|00:26:19|660</wrap>is said by the English writer Pope that the proper study of mankind is man. So we certainly <wrap hide>179|00:26:19|660|00:26:27|660</wrap>must know ourselves under Leo, and the study of esoteric astrology is one of the very best <wrap hide>180|00:26:27|660|00:26:34|020</wrap>ways of discovering that which is within the human being and that which the human being <wrap hide>181|00:26:34|020|00:26:41|020</wrap>is. <wrap quote>Man will, therefore, have to be studied as a threefold entity, a composite individual, //EA, p.57//</wrap> <wrap hide>182|00:26:41|020|00:26:47|640</wrap>just as he told us in relation to the Creative Hierarchies, a given hierarchy working through <wrap hide>183|00:26:47|640|00:26:54|580</wrap>or expressing through a number of hierarchies and <wrap quote>expressing (in the three worlds): //EA, p.57//</wrap> So how <wrap hide>184|00:26:55|160|00:27:04|000</wrap>does D.K. view this threefold nature? He calls it the spiritual soul, <wrap quote>a. The spiritual soul, <wrap hide>185|00:27:04|860|00:27:14|840</wrap>reflecting the Monad. //EA, p.57//</wrap> The Monad is there, okay. The human soul, which is consciousness <wrap hide>186|00:27:16|840|00:27:23|880</wrap>immersed or involved with or engaged with a lower form, <wrap quote>b. The human soul, reflecting the <wrap hide>187|00:27:23|880|00:27:31|860</wrap>divine soul. //EA, p.57//</wrap> and <wrap quote>c. The form nature, which should be the revealer of the two higher. //EA, p.57//</wrap> We cannot <wrap hide>188|00:27:33|000|00:27:39|900</wrap>discount the form. We must not do that because if there is to be perfection through the number <wrap hide>189|00:27:39|900|00:27:47|900</wrap>seven, the form must indeed be archetypally or become archetypally beautiful. It must <wrap hide>190|00:27:47|900|00:27:54|620</wrap>reflect the patterns in the heavens. So the sum of the sixth ray approaches which seem to <wrap hide>191|00:27:54|620|00:28:03|100</wrap>dismiss the form as unworthy of attention, I think, are not really in line with the plan <wrap hide>192|00:28:03|880|00:28:11|000</wrap>wherein especially in a seventh-ray age, the highest and the lowest must meet. So the spiritual <wrap hide>193|00:28:11|000|00:28:19|100</wrap>soul is sometimes considered to be the spiritual triad. That's one of the ways of looking at <wrap hide>194|00:28:19|100|00:28:24|760</wrap>it. But in a way, and we're told that the true soul is the triad, so man enters into <wrap hide>195|00:28:24|760|00:28:33|160</wrap>a state of true soul after the causal body, which is considered the shroud of the soul, <wrap hide>196|00:28:33|160|00:28:43|020</wrap>is dissipated. And you know this word "spiritual" particularly relates to the triad in a technical <wrap hide>197|00:28:43|020|00:28:49|440</wrap>sense, whereas we are told the word "divine" relates to the monad. So the spiritual soul <wrap hide>198|00:28:49|440|00:28:56|800</wrap>as the personality of the monad is to reflect the monad. The human soul is to reflect the <wrap hide>199|00:28:56|800|00:29:05|540</wrap>divine soul. Now this is interesting because the word "divine" relates to the monad, but perhaps <wrap hide>200|00:29:05|540|00:29:13|000</wrap>in this context the word "divine" simply means the soul on its own plane. Although I have <wrap hide>201|00:29:13|000|00:29:20|480</wrap>the monad is not without awareness. Any point of being has its awareness. The monad is a <wrap hide>202|00:29:20|480|00:29:30|680</wrap>point essentially of pure being and therefore has or expresses divine soul. The divine soul <wrap hide>203|00:29:30|680|00:29:41|120</wrap>in a way is gathered into or focused within what we call the central fire or the jewel <wrap hide>204|00:29:41|120|00:29:49|160</wrap>in the lotus. So the human soul, which is immersed in various types of forms in the three worlds, <wrap hide>205|00:29:49|720|00:29:59|420</wrap>must somehow reflect this jewel in the lotus, which is an extension of the monadic presence <wrap hide>206|00:29:59|420|00:30:05|240</wrap>and of monadic awareness. And of course that does not mean that the human soul must not <wrap hide>207|00:30:05|240|00:30:12|720</wrap>also reflect spiritual soul. I don't know if D.K. is using these words here in a technical <wrap hide>208|00:30:12|720|00:30:18|480</wrap>and completely precise sense. The divine soul I'm calling the awareness of the monad, and <wrap hide>209|00:30:18|480|00:30:26|740</wrap>spiritual soul I'm calling the type of awareness that is experienced within the so-called personality <wrap hide>210|00:30:26|740|00:30:31|360</wrap>of the monad, which is the spiritual triad. In other words, atma, buddhi and manas, the <wrap hide>211|00:30:31|360|00:30:38|280</wrap>type of consciousness experienced there I'm calling spiritual soul. The form nature— <wrap hide>212|00:30:40|760|00:30:45|640</wrap>well, even the causal body is the form nature, but usually we are speaking of the personality <wrap hide>213|00:30:46|360|00:30:54|960</wrap>nature, and it should be the revealer of the soul consciousness and the monadic power and <wrap hide>214|00:30:54|960|00:31:04|200</wrap>awareness. Well then we would be integrated beings, wouldn't we? And then all aspects of <wrap hide>215|00:31:04|200|00:31:10|680</wrap>our nature would be drawn together and be able to function together, and we would walk <wrap hide>216|00:31:10|680|00:31:22|180</wrap>the earth as the monad in expression through the forms at the disposal of the monad. And <wrap hide>217|00:31:22|180|00:31:27|760</wrap>one day this will be the case, especially for those who choose to remain in association <wrap hide>218|00:31:27|760|00:31:36|340</wrap>with the lower worlds by building a will-created body through which they can continue to influence <wrap hide>219|00:31:36|340|00:31:44|040</wrap>the three lower worlds. It won't be a real personality, but it will be a deliberately <wrap hide>220|00:31:44|780|00:31:52|160</wrap>formed aggregation through which the self-aware spirit can excel in the form of the <wrap hide>221|00:31:52|180|00:32:01|380</wrap>express according to the divine plan. Let's continue. See how we're doing here. Yeah, we're <wrap hide>222|00:32:01|380|00:32:12|680</wrap>doing well. <wrap quote>Three Creative Hierarchies condition the man in incarnation, //EA, p.57//</wrap> You know that word <wrap hide>223|00:32:12|680|00:32:20|260</wrap>"creative" of Creative Hierarchies suggests that they are indeed related to the third <wrap hide>224|00:32:20|260|00:32:30|120</wrap>aspect of divinity, then the preferred name of which, preferred by D.K., is the Ray of Creative <wrap hide>225|00:32:30|120|00:32:39|060</wrap>Intelligence. They are to create within various worlds of form. They are to create within <wrap hide>226|00:32:39|060|00:32:47|620</wrap>objectivity such as it is. Each one of these groups of our aggregations of monads is to <wrap hide>227|00:32:47|620|00:32:54|680</wrap>create various types of forms and work through the forms created or work through the forms <wrap hide>228|00:32:54|680|00:33:04|780</wrap>created by other Creative Hierarchies. So the term "creative" has to be understood and <wrap hide>229|00:33:04|780|00:33:11|740</wrap>kept in mind. Three Creative Hierarchies condition the man in incarnation, and I believe these <wrap hide>230|00:33:13|200|00:33:17|460</wrap>are not exactly the ones which D.K. said were most important. He included the second Creative <wrap hide>231|00:33:17|460|00:33:24|220</wrap>Hierarchy. Here he is including the fourth and the fifth as he did in the previous listing, <wrap hide>232|00:33:24|220|00:33:35|260</wrap>but now he's adding the sixth, which is the hierarchy of Lunar Lords, which is the vitality— <wrap hide>233|00:33:35|260|00:33:42|720</wrap>this hierarchy is the vitality of the various lunar vehicles that the human being uses. <wrap hide>234|00:33:42|720|00:33:51|900</wrap>So somehow the big battle—there's the union of man the monad, assisted by a projection <wrap hide>235|00:33:51|900|00:34:02|160</wrap>of the solar angel helping him create his individuality, and this union of two is opposed <wrap hide>236|00:34:02|910|00:34:12|200</wrap>to the desirous orientation of the hierarchy ruled by Sagittarius, the major sixth ray <wrap hide>237|00:34:12|200|00:34:20|240</wrap>sign at this time, and Mars, a major sixth ray planet. And so the reorientation of desire <wrap hide>238|00:34:20|240|00:34:36|000</wrap>is required, and the Buddha was the great teacher when it came to instructing man how he could <wrap hide>239|00:34:36|880|00:34:46|900</wrap>be done with ordinary desire and reorient that desire through aspiration, aspirational <wrap hide>240|00:34:46|900|00:34:57|340</wrap>idealism. So the question of the direction pursued by the sixth Creative Hierarchy is <wrap hide>241|00:34:57|340|00:35:05|980</wrap>of great importance. So these three hierarchies, the hierarchy of human monads, are the hierarchy <wrap hide>242|00:35:06|620|00:35:13|640</wrap>of solar Angels, especially I suppose in its upper, the upper aspect, higher aspect of <wrap hide>243|00:35:13|640|00:35:21|360</wrap>that hierarchy, and the hierarchy of Lunar lords combine to make human life pretty much <wrap hide>244|00:35:21|360|00:35:28|640</wrap>what it is at this time. And remember, we do live in an astro-buddhic solar system which <wrap hide>245|00:35:29|420|00:35:38|420</wrap>is not yet, in a way, a sacred solar system by a higher method of determining sacredness, <wrap hide>246|00:35:39|180|00:35:45|040</wrap>and the astro-body is very powerful in our solar system. It is a unitary vehicle. The <wrap hide>247|00:35:45|040|00:35:54|140</wrap>Lord Varuna, or his higher correspondence in a solar systemic sense, has not yet, has united <wrap hide>248|00:35:54|140|00:36:02|560</wrap>all the factors in his vehicle, whereas the Lord Agni and Kishiti have not united their <wrap hide>249|00:36:02|560|00:36:08|940</wrap>vehicles or when I say Agni or Kishiti, perhaps their higher correspondences. The Lord Varuna <wrap hide>250|00:36:10|500|00:36:15|240</wrap>is the Lord of the astral body of our planetary Logos, but there is a higher correspondence <wrap hide>251|00:36:17|040|00:36:25|900</wrap>for some being that is embodying the astral body of the solar Logos, and we're not given <wrap hide>252|00:36:25|900|00:36:33|700</wrap>that name, and the same is true for a still greater being in which the cosmic astral plane <wrap hide>253|00:36:34|900|00:36:44|020</wrap>is embodied by a great being who is the still higher counterpart to the solar embodiment <wrap hide>254|00:36:44|020|00:36:51|540</wrap>and to the Lord Varuna in respect to our planet. <wrap quote>Three Creative Hierarchies condition the man <wrap hide>255|00:36:51|540|00:36:58|300</wrap>in incarnation, the 4th (or 9th) the 5th (or 10th) and the 6th. //EA, p.57//</wrap> You know how it goes <wrap hide>256|00:36:58|300|00:37:07|320</wrap>here. Here's the fourth or ninth, the fifth or tenth, and here is the sixth. Okay. <wrap hide>257|00:37:07|320|00:37:13|080</wrap><wrap quote>These, in collaboration, //EA, p.57//</wrap> (because Creative Hierarchies are always collaborating), and man is a multiple <wrap hide>258|00:37:13|080|00:37:22|820</wrap>being, <wrap quote>create man and, at the same time, constitute the field of his expression. //EA, p.57//</wrap> Man, the monad, <wrap hide>259|00:37:23|280|00:37:29|520</wrap>is expressing through that which the solar Angel has created, namely his causal body, <wrap hide>260|00:37:30|220|00:37:35|040</wrap>that is a truer vehicle of expression for us than the personality, or at least one day <wrap hide>261|00:37:35|040|00:37:43|060</wrap>it will be. And naturally, the Lunar Lords have created the way that the solar Angel is created— <wrap hide>262|00:37:43|520|00:37:51|320</wrap>the personality vehicles—and man, the monad, expresses not only then through the causal <wrap hide>263|00:37:51|320|00:37:59|720</wrap>field but through the personality field. <wrap quote>Man is consequently a blend of electric fire, <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|300|00:00:14|300</wrap>being a divine Flame //EA, p.57//</wrap> that reminds one of the triple flame of the solar Logos' causal body. <wrap hide>265|00:38:10|260|00:38:18|580</wrap>Man is a divine flame, sometimes called a spark, but the flame is somehow a more powerful symbol, <wrap hide>266|00:38:18|580|00:38:24|980</wrap>I think, and the spark must be reunited with the flame. So it's <wrap quote>a blend of electric fire, <wrap hide>267|00:38:24|980|00:38:31|660</wrap>being a divine Flame, and becomes eventually responsive to the three major controlling <wrap hide>268|00:38:31|660|00:38:40|240</wrap>influences; //EA, p.57//</wrap> Well, there is a triple flame that represents spirit, and when you look at the— <wrap hide>269|00:38:41|200|00:38:52|000</wrap>when you look here, okay, yeah, let's find that one—when you look here at the graphic <wrap hide>270|00:38:53|100|00:39:02|880</wrap>that suggests the monad, you see indeed that it is triple. So perhaps the triple flame <wrap hide>271|00:39:02|880|00:39:09|920</wrap>is—man must relate to the monad considered as a triplicity, but the monad is also a unity <wrap hide>272|00:39:09|920|00:39:19|780</wrap>because within the triangle there is a unifying point, and there we have perhaps the tetrahedron <wrap hide>273|00:39:19|780|00:39:29|640</wrap>as the symbol of the inner fire. It's fourfold in a way, and yet it is a triangle, and yet <wrap hide>274|00:39:29|640|00:39:36|680</wrap>it is a unity. Okay, so man is a blend of electric fire and becomes eventually responsive to <wrap hide>275|00:39:36|680|00:39:43|120</wrap>the three major controlling influences, and presumably you know these are the three persons <wrap hide>276|00:39:43|120|00:39:51|460</wrap>of the Trinity, and even the triune solar Logos. We see him in that way. <wrap quote>he is <wrap hide>277|00:39:51|460|00:40:05|820</wrap>also solar fire, being a solar Angel in manifestation. //EA, p.57//</wrap> Well, this is a difficult phrase. Man is not <wrap hide>278|00:40:06|680|00:40:14|160</wrap>the solar Angel who is the returning nirvani from a previous Maha manvantara. That is a <wrap hide>279|00:40:14|160|00:40:20|780</wrap>distinct being that was man at that time and became a member of a still higher creative <wrap hide>280|00:40:20|780|00:40:29|360</wrap>hierarchy and went to Sirius for, let's call it, education and returned into our solar system <wrap hide>281|00:40:30|000|00:40:40|880</wrap>to help the animal man of our time. But because the monad is expressing through that which <wrap hide>282|00:40:40|880|00:40:48|280</wrap>the solar angel has created and in which it has invested a portion of its being and consciousness, <wrap hide>283|00:40:49|460|00:40:57|440</wrap>man takes on the guise of a solar Angel. He is working through a solar angelic vehicle <wrap hide>284|00:40:57|440|00:41:02|640</wrap>on the higher mental plane, even though that may not be the only vehicle of that great <wrap hide>285|00:41:02|640|00:41:14|520</wrap>being called the solar Angel. So man then expresses through that solar angelic vehicle <wrap hide>286|00:41:14|520|00:41:23|260</wrap>and then appears, in a way, as a kind of solar Angel. He is attempting to become a solar <wrap hide>287|00:41:23|260|00:41:29|720</wrap>angel. As a matter of fact, the bulk of human beings are on their way to the constellation <wrap hide>288|00:41:30|220|00:41:36|820</wrap>Sirius, or the star Sirius, for training as solar angels. Maybe, well, take a figure out <wrap hide>289|00:41:36|820|00:41:43|800</wrap>of the air, but you know, maybe 80% of human beings who are not—those human beings who <wrap hide>290|00:41:43|800|00:41:49|580</wrap>are not very, very strongly already on the monastic line will go to Sirius for training <wrap hide>291|00:41:49|580|00:42:01|300</wrap>as solar Angels. So man is a kind of a junior solar Angel, and as he works his way up toward <wrap hide>292|00:42:01|300|00:42:09|220</wrap>the fourth initiation and as the solar Angel per se is relieved, man is then possessed of <wrap hide>293|00:42:09|220|00:42:18|700</wrap>some of the potencies that the solar angel has inculcated into him. See, that's the whole <wrap hide>294|00:42:18|700|00:42:27|160</wrap>thing. Is the causal body the solar Angel? Well, the causal body is a configuration which <wrap hide>295|00:42:27|160|00:42:35|540</wrap>is created by the solar Angels as the solar Angels substand and geometrize the matter <wrap hide>296|00:42:35|540|00:42:43|140</wrap>of the higher mental plane. So in a sense, the causal body is an extension of the energy <wrap hide>297|00:42:43|140|00:42:49|340</wrap>of the solar Angel. But it is not the solar Angel per se, even though the solar Angel is <wrap hide>298|00:42:49|340|00:42:54|600</wrap>partially invested in it. You know, these great beings have emanated power, so they can emanate <wrap hide>299|00:42:54|600|00:43:00|460</wrap>a portion of themselves into a particular field while retaining consciousness in another. <wrap hide>300|00:43:01|500|00:43:09|420</wrap>So it's a difficult issue, and it forces us to think in ways we may not have thought before. <wrap hide>301|00:43:09|420|00:43:15|020</wrap>How can you be in two places at the same time? Well, a master can, you know. A master has <wrap hide>302|00:43:15|020|00:43:20|640</wrap>his own consciousness, and yet the disciple can become an outpost of the master's consciousness. <wrap hide>303|00:43:21|140|00:43:29|380</wrap>The master invests a certain portion or degree of intensity of his consciousness in the disciple's <wrap hide>304|00:43:29|380|00:43:36|680</wrap>field of consciousness. So there is the divisibility of the spirit, and there is the divisibility <wrap hide>305|00:43:37|110|00:43:48|180</wrap>of consciousness. You know, God is in all places simultaneously. You know, God sees with 10,000 <wrap hide>306|00:43:48|180|00:43:58|160</wrap>eyes. God can specifically focus his consciousness in many places, and we have the idea that not <wrap hide>307|00:43:58|160|00:44:05|820</wrap>a sparrow falls but God realizes this to be the case. So the high beings have the ability <wrap hide>308|00:44:05|820|00:44:17|860</wrap>to split, divide, multiply their consciousness in many of what we call locations. And this <wrap hide>309|00:44:17|860|00:44:24|300</wrap>is the case with the solar Angel too. Having pervaded the entire little universe of man <wrap hide>310|00:44:24|300|00:44:30|000</wrap>with a fraction of myself, I remain. Well, that little universe of man is pervaded, and <wrap hide>311|00:44:30|000|00:44:39|260</wrap>the solar Angel is there, and the solar Angel underlies and infuses and permeates this causal <wrap hide>312|00:44:39|260|00:44:43|480</wrap>vehicle—but not the entirety of the solar Angel. At least that's how I understand it <wrap hide>313|00:44:43|480|00:44:48|860</wrap>for the moment. I always have to say "for the moment" because understanding can be constantly <wrap hide>314|00:44:48|860|00:44:58|040</wrap>modified. So man is also a solar fire, being a solar Angel in manifestation—a very somehow <wrap hide>315|00:44:58|040|00:45:03|780</wrap>important statement. <wrap quote>He then becomes increasingly responsive to the influences of the twelve <wrap hide>316|00:45:03|780|00:45:14|940</wrap>constellations. //EA, p.57//</wrap> and we remember D.K. earlier related the constellations to soul function <wrap hide>317|00:45:14|940|00:45:25|200</wrap>and the planets to personality and environmental circumstantial function. <wrap quote>He is likewise <wrap hide>318|00:45:25|200|00:45:30|480</wrap>fire by friction and comes under the influence of the planets. The tabulation below may <wrap hide>319|00:45:30|480|00:45:37|880</wrap>make this somewhat clearer: //EA, p.57//</wrap> Well, D.K. is being very, very definite about these things. Probably <wrap hide>320|00:45:37|880|00:45:44|200</wrap>the divine flame is related to the three superior constellations. This is his soul function <wrap hide>321|00:45:44|200|00:45:51|680</wrap>to the zodiacal constellations, his personality function to the planets. But if you really <wrap hide>322|00:45:52|380|00:46:01|040</wrap>look carefully, you will see that all three of these factors—or at least two of them, <wrap hide>323|00:46:01|100|00:46:08|200</wrap>let's say two of them, namely the planets and the zodiacal signs—can have an impact <wrap hide>324|00:46:08|200|00:46:19|240</wrap>on all three aspects of human nature. After all, man's monad is definitely a part of a <wrap hide>325|00:46:19|240|00:46:24|420</wrap>center, of a particular planetary Logos, and that relates the planet to the monad, doesn't <wrap hide>326|00:46:24|420|00:46:30|860</wrap>it? And there are certain sacred planets which obviously facilitate the expression of the <wrap hide>327|00:46:30|860|00:46:36|740</wrap>soul, and then as D.K. says here, the planets work in relation to the personality and the <wrap hide>328|00:46:36|740|00:46:42|320</wrap>environment of the individual. And it is so: I showed you the quotation where the zodiac <wrap hide>329|00:46:42|320|00:46:47|600</wrap>was related to the monadic function of man. Here D.K. is emphasizing its relation to the <wrap hide>330|00:46:47|600|00:46:56|340</wrap>soul, and in "A Treatise on White Magic," he talks about the zodiac as ruling the man who lives <wrap hide>331|00:46:56|340|00:47:03|400</wrap>below the diaphragm, and he seems to relate zodiacal influence—or at least of the signs, <wrap hide>332|00:47:03|400|00:47:10|840</wrap>if not the constellations—to sub-diaphragmatic activity. When it comes to the great constellations, <wrap hide>333|00:47:10|840|00:47:18|080</wrap>well, they certainly have the three great ones: Sirius, Great Bear, and Pleiades. They have <wrap hide>334|00:47:18|080|00:47:27|520</wrap>certainly a soul relationship because when a man takes the third initiation, he is a dominant <wrap hide>335|00:47:27|520|00:47:33|820</wrap>soul. The soul has ended the ancient authority of the personality and is now the dominant <wrap hide>336|00:47:33|820|00:47:42|440</wrap>factor, and of course, the three great constellations are very important in his spirit aspect, in <wrap hide>337|00:47:42|440|00:47:46|880</wrap>relation to his spirit aspect—perhaps not in relation to his personal aspect because <wrap hide>338|00:47:46|880|00:47:53|720</wrap>he doesn't feel the personal aspect. He doesn't feel the constellations when he is entirely <wrap hide>339|00:47:53|720|00:48:02|860</wrap>connected with his personal aspect. So anyway, D.K. tabulates this. <wrap quote>I. //Electric Fire.//—Path of Initiation—4th Hierarchy; full soul expression; monadic life. //EA, p.57//</wrap> He says we have <wrap hide>340|00:48:02|860|00:48:11|500</wrap>electric fire, and this is experienced on the path of initiation—the path of initiation <wrap hide>341|00:48:11|500|00:48:16|720</wrap>particularly involving the first and seventh ray. It's the fourth hierarchy of human monads. <wrap hide>342|00:48:18|680|00:48:25|160</wrap>We are talking here about full soul expression, which probably means, in a way, tri-addle expression <wrap hide>343|00:48:25|160|00:48:32|700</wrap>or the expression of the soul of the monad. See, we can understand that the monad has a <wrap hide>344|00:48:32|860|00:48:39|120</wrap>point of universal awareness—has awareness, it has soul, it has consciousness. Consciousness <wrap hide>345|00:48:39|120|00:48:45|260</wrap>and soul are the same. What we call the soul is simply a localization of consciousness <wrap hide>346|00:48:45|260|00:48:54|880</wrap>at a particular depth of immersion in matter. It is a—it's soul within a given formal <wrap hide>347|00:48:54|880|00:49:01|760</wrap>ring past not, but that—but soul is a much more expansive thing. So soul is a universal <wrap hide>348|00:49:01|760|00:49:09|000</wrap>consciousness. It is cosmic consciousness. It is consciousness per se as a great aspect, <wrap hide>349|00:49:09|200|00:49:15|700</wrap>just the way being is a great aspect. So on this path of electric fire, we tread the path <wrap hide>350|00:49:15|700|00:49:23|140</wrap>of initiation, particularly from the third initiation on. Our monadic nature comes into <wrap hide>351|00:49:23|140|00:49:29|700</wrap>awareness, and the nature of the fourth creative hierarchy comes into awareness. We will receive <wrap hide>352|00:49:29|700|00:49:35|380</wrap>full soul expression. Now, that's very interesting because the causal body has to be, in a way, <wrap hide>353|00:49:35|380|00:49:42|460</wrap>destroyed for there to be full soul expression, because the causal body is the shroud of the <wrap hide>354|00:49:42|460|00:49:51|460</wrap>soul and definitely limits consciousness to a type of super-individuality. So, you know, <wrap hide>355|00:49:51|460|00:49:56|620</wrap>we have to watch every word here. <wrap quote>GOAL: //Identification with the Monad. EA, p.57//</wrap> The goal here is identification with the monad, and <wrap hide>356|00:49:56|620|00:50:02|480</wrap>actually what I like to say—when identification with the monad, I like to call it identification <wrap hide>357|00:50:02|480|00:50:11|100</wrap>as the monad because that is what we are—the monad. And when we say "with," it sounds <wrap hide>358|00:50:11|100|00:50:15|520</wrap>like it's a different thing, but we are simply an extension of the monad. We are the monad <wrap hide>359|00:50:15|520|00:50:23|580</wrap>in extension. So we re-identify as if we were the monad, which we are, and this <wrap quote>Produces responsiveness <wrap hide>360|00:50:23|580|00:50:31|780</wrap>to the three constellations. //EA, p.57//</wrap> however, in whatever order you want to list them. I <wrap hide>361|00:50:31|780|00:50:37|580</wrap>think generally I think of the Great Bear as Sirius and the Pleiades as representing <wrap hide>362|00:50:37|580|00:50:41|620</wrap>the first, second, and third aspects, but as we have discussed, there are other ways to <wrap hide>363|00:50:41|620|00:50:47|860</wrap>work that around so that even Sirius can, with respect to our solar system, look like the <wrap hide>364|00:50:47|860|00:50:54|420</wrap>dominating factor. And the Great Bear, at one point, is placed upon the Cosmic Buddhic Plane <wrap hide>365|00:50:55|120|00:51:00|920</wrap>in the chart on page 344 of Cosmic Fire, which seems to say, "Okay, it's connected somehow with <wrap hide>366|00:51:00|920|00:51:10|320</wrap>the second aspect of divinity." <wrap quote>II. Solar Fire.—Path of Discipleship—5th Hierarchy; full life experience; soul life. //EA, p.57//</wrap> The Solar Fire is ruling on the Path of Discipleship, and <wrap hide>367|00:51:10|320|00:51:17|840</wrap>the fifth Creative Hierarchy of Solar Angels is important here. We have full life in the <wrap hide>368|00:51:18|380|00:51:26|960</wrap>experience—soul life—where we have full experience of life in the worlds in which our consciousness <wrap hide>369|00:51:26|960|00:51:32|900</wrap>is immersed. We have soul life, but we don't have full soul life because the soul is not <wrap hide>370|00:51:32|900|00:51:41|660</wrap>yet liberated from the higher mental plane. As far as Solar Fire goes, you know, I like <wrap hide>371|00:51:41|660|00:51:51|120</wrap>to say that it really is operative after the third initiation as well—that one—that since <wrap hide>372|00:51:51|120|00:51:58|980</wrap>the ray of the spiritual triad is the same as the ray of the soul or ego on the higher <wrap hide>373|00:51:58|980|00:52:05|780</wrap>mental plane, and since a master achieves a kind of consciousness which works through <wrap hide>374|00:52:05|780|00:52:12|080</wrap>the Atmic plane where that soul ray is still active, even at the fifth initiation I like <wrap hide>375|00:52:12|080|00:52:19|920</wrap>to say that this Solar Fire is somehow sustained through the expression of the spiritual triad, <wrap hide>376|00:52:19|920|00:52:27|000</wrap>and the soul ray does persist in the life of the high initiate—even the initiate of <wrap hide>377|00:52:27|000|00:52:32|400</wrap>the fourth degree and even the initiate of the fifth degree—although the monad grows <wrap hide>378|00:52:32|400|00:52:40|560</wrap>in power. Solar Fire, path of discipleship—of course, that term "discipleship," it can last <wrap hide>379|00:52:40|560|00:52:49|140</wrap>a long time. It can apply to even high initiates—initiates higher than masters—they are disciples, <wrap hide>380|00:52:49|700|00:52:59|380</wrap>and sometimes the Solar Fire is seen as expressing through agony on planes number two, three, <wrap hide>381|00:52:59|380|00:53:05|040</wrap>and four. So, you know, Solar Fire is the main fire of our solar system. We don't just get <wrap hide>382|00:53:05|040|00:53:14|000</wrap>rid of that. Even electric fire is a subsidiary category within the main and large Solar Fire. <wrap hide>383|00:53:14|640|00:53:19|960</wrap>But you know, at face value, here on the path of discipleship we're learning to wield Solar <wrap hide>384|00:53:19|960|00:53:29|360</wrap>Fire. We're learning the power of love and unity, we're learning the magnetism of the <wrap hide>385|00:53:29|380|00:53:36|420</wrap>soul, and this makes our life experience much fuller because all of our gifts found in the <wrap hide>386|00:53:36|420|00:53:45|760</wrap>causal vehicle are applied; all of our riches are applied in the correct type of expression. <wrap hide>387|00:53:47|160|00:53:52|480</wrap>So what is the goal? <wrap quote>GOAL: //Identification with the soul//. //EA, p.58//</wrap> or I like to say as the soul, and <wrap quote>Produces <wrap hide>388|00:53:52|480|00:53:59|260</wrap>responsiveness to the twelve zodiacal constellations. //EA, p.58//</wrap> Well, you know, D.K. is setting out a structure <wrap hide>389|00:53:59|260|00:54:06|400</wrap>here which is pretty definite relating the constellations to the soul, but keep in mind <wrap hide>390|00:54:06|400|00:54:13|680</wrap>those other sentences which show other relations as well. Identification as the soul—so this <wrap hide>391|00:54:13|680|00:54:20|920</wrap>is group consciousness—identification as the monad is more what we call universal consciousness <wrap hide>392|00:54:20|920|00:54:29|240</wrap>because the monad is that which finds its home within the sun. So you know, the monad <wrap hide>393|00:54:29|260|00:54:37|240</wrap>can have—includes much more than the egoic groups and so forth. If you expand, of course, <wrap hide>394|00:54:37|240|00:54:44|840</wrap>the group, you get the universal picture. So it's just a question of degree. <wrap quote>III. //Fire by Friction//.—Path of Evolution—6th Hierarchy; life experiment; human life. //EA, p.58//</wrap> Man is also <wrap hide>395|00:54:45|060|00:54:51|060</wrap>fire by friction, and here we're treading the path of evolution for the majority of the <wrap hide>396|00:54:51|060|00:54:55|680</wrap>millions of years we are man. As a matter of fact, you know, if you take an arbitrary <wrap hide>397|00:54:55|680|00:55:01|540</wrap>figure and say that on the average it takes twenty-five million years to make a man—and <wrap hide>398|00:55:01|540|00:55:08|840</wrap>of course that number twenty-five has been assigned—Stephen Pugh, a very excellent rayologist, <wrap hide>399|00:55:08|840|00:55:13|900</wrap>has assigned that number to the fourth ray, and here we have the fourth Creative Hierarchy, <wrap hide>400|00:55:13|900|00:55:21|760</wrap>and here we have the idea that it maybe takes twenty-five million years to make a man. The <wrap hide>401|00:55:21|760|00:55:28|560</wrap>majority of that twenty-five million is spent under the influence of fire by friction. Some— <wrap hide>402|00:55:29|620|00:55:35|260</wrap>a short portion—is spent under solar fire, and a very brief portion for man as man is <wrap hide>403|00:55:35|260|00:55:42|200</wrap>spent under the influence of electric fire. So here we're dealing with the sixth hierarchy <wrap hide>404|00:55:43|440|00:55:50|260</wrap>which is providing the vitality of our lunar vehicles, as we read earlier in that very short <wrap hide>405|00:55:50|260|00:55:56|300</wrap>section on the sixth hierarchy, and here we have the life experiment going on. We can <wrap hide>406|00:55:56|300|00:56:04|560</wrap>relate it more to the Mutable Cross, just as we can relate category two to the Fixed Cross <wrap hide>407|00:56:05|090|00:56:10|600</wrap>on the Path of Discipleship, and we can relate the path of true initiation to the Cardinal <wrap hide>408|00:56:10|600|00:56:17|020</wrap>Cross—even though you are treading the Path of Initiation before you truly step upon the <wrap hide>409|00:56:17|020|00:56:28|260</wrap>Cardinal Cross. Stepping upon the Cardinal Cross, which endures for a long, long time— <wrap hide>410|00:56:28|340|00:56:31|960</wrap>in other words, the great beings like Sanat Kumara and so forth are on the Cardinal Cross. <wrap hide>411|00:56:32|440|00:56:38|180</wrap>The Fixed Cross is really the shortest in duration, but as far as man as man is concerned, <wrap hide>412|00:56:38|780|00:56:45|960</wrap>the Cardinal Cross experience is very small. But the Cardinal Cross will be related then <wrap hide>413|00:56:45|960|00:56:51|640</wrap>to this Path of Initiation, and especially after the fourth degree, and as one approaches <wrap hide>414|00:56:51|640|00:57:02|740</wrap>the fifth degree, the Cardinal Cross with more of its potentials must come into view. Alright, <wrap hide>415|00:57:03|780|00:57:13|100</wrap>well, alright, I don't think that we can begin this next section, so we've just been completing <wrap hide>416|00:57:13|100|00:57:30|500</wrap>EAA 27, and we began at page 56 or so, and we went to page 58, and we will take up in EAA <wrap hide>417|00:57:30|500|00:57:37|720</wrap>28 the great wheel and spiritual unfoldment. So we've been dealing with the three fires <wrap hide>418|00:57:37|720|00:57:46|120</wrap>here; we've been dealing with the major hierarchies that condition man; we've been dealing with <wrap hide>419|00:57:46|120|00:57:54|580</wrap>man as a triplicity, a three-fold entity; we've been dealing with the glyphs and whether <wrap hide>420|00:57:54|580|00:58:03|600</wrap>they are a dual, a unitary in some manner, or whether they are triple and how well they <wrap hide>421|00:58:03|600|00:58:08|120</wrap>are drawn. This has been the subject that we've been dealing with in this particular <wrap hide>422|00:58:08|120|00:58:18|260</wrap>esoteric astrology adventure. So now we will together sound The Great Invocation, but I <wrap hide>423|00:58:18|260|00:58:25|280</wrap>have to—you know, I know you know it by memory, but I just have to pull it out here, and I <wrap hide>424|00:58:25|280|00:58:33|500</wrap>see I didn't do that ahead of time, and this has to be done by pulling up those—the AAB <wrap hide>425|00:58:33|600|00:58:41|320</wrap>compilation. Well, maybe it's not worth trying to do that. Let's see. Alright, right there, <wrap hide>426|00:58:42|280|00:58:55|120</wrap>hopefully this will work. Alright, yeah, it will. Okay, and I should always keep that handy, <wrap hide>427|00:58:55|120|00:59:03|580</wrap>of course. So we've been dealing with the three fires here, the first fire, the second <wrap hide>428|00:59:15|320|00:59:24|360</wrap>fire. From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>429|00:59:24|360|00:59:33|580</wrap>of men. Let light descend on Earth. From the point of light within the mind of God, let <wrap hide>430|00:59:33|600|00:59:43|080</wrap>love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return <wrap hide>431|00:59:43|080|00:59:55|360</wrap>to Earth. From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little <wrap hide>432|00:59:55|360|01:00:03|580</wrap>wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. From the center where the <wrap hide>433|01:00:06|440|01:00:07|240</wrap>will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the <wrap hide>434|01:00:07|240|01:00:12|020</wrap>masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love <wrap hide>435|01:00:12|020|01:00:33|480</wrap>and light work out and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light and love and <wrap hide>436|01:00:33|480|01:00:58|640</wrap>power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>437|01:01:07|120|01:01:08|340</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>438|01:01:16|700|01:01:26|620</wrap>Okay everybody, we are moving forward and we will continue with esoteric astrology adventure. <wrap hide>439|01:01:26|620|01:01:36|940</wrap>It is an adventure I think, an adventure in penetrating depths of understanding as <wrap hide>440|01:01:36|940|01:01:43|280</wrap>much as we can. Okay, we will do that next. Bye for now.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|300|00:00:14|300</wrap>Hi everybody, this is the 27th Esoteric Astrology Adventure. Today is July 25th, 2011. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|270|00:00:28|640</wrap>We were dealing with duality in the last EAA, and we are speaking here of understanding <wrap hide>3|00:00:29|200|00:00:39|760</wrap>the true significance of duality. <wrap quote>When astrologers understand the true significance of the constellation <wrap hide>4|00:00:39|760|00:00:48|860</wrap>Gemini, the Twins, and the dual forces which pour through this sign (the "forces in conflict" <wrap hide>5|00:00:49|150|00:01:00|780</wrap>as they are called or the "quarreling brothers") //EA, p.55//</wrap> which we all embody to a degree, and beat <wrap hide>6|00:01:00|780|00:01:06|660</wrap>upon our planetary life which pour through this sign <wrap quote>and beat upon our planetary life, <wrap hide>7|00:01:07|360|00:01:14|980</wrap>then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. //EA, p.56//</wrap> And we discuss the contrast <wrap hide>8|00:01:14|980|00:01:24|980</wrap>between Pollux, the star which represents the solar spirit aspect, and Castor, three <wrap hide>9|00:01:24|980|00:01:41|240</wrap>pairs, thus six stars, which represent the forces of matter and form. So our major task <wrap hide>10|00:01:41|240|00:01:51|680</wrap>upon this planet, which is as a school, called the school of magnetic response, is to adjudicate <wrap hide>11|00:01:51|680|00:01:57|600</wrap>between opposites, the higher and lower pairs of opposites, and learn the method of their <wrap hide>12|00:01:57|600|00:01:58|280</wrap>resolution. <wrap hide>13|00:02:01|280|00:02:10|240</wrap>D.K. continues on page 56. <wrap quote>It is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols <wrap hide>14|00:02:10|240|00:02:17|480</wrap>which express the twelve signs of the zodiac are dual in their nature, and duality can <wrap hide>15|00:02:17|480|00:02:22|400</wrap>be inferred from them. //EA, p.56//</wrap> Each will have, I suppose, a different type of duality, and it's interesting <wrap hide>16|00:02:22|400|00:02:31|520</wrap>that the number is seven out of twelve, which indicates the area of sacredness. The seven <wrap hide>17|00:02:31|520|00:02:35|940</wrap>are sacred, the five are non-sacred. So let us see. <wrap hide>18|00:02:40|260|00:02:53|980</wrap>We have: <wrap quote>1. The two horns of the Ram in Aries. //EA, p.56//</wrap> moving both forward and backward. It is a sign in <wrap hide>19|00:02:53|980|00:03:02|500</wrap>which the wheel commences, either in its normal undeveloped clockwise direction or counterclockwise <wrap hide>20|00:03:02|620|00:03:12|300</wrap>direction. We have <wrap quote>2. The two horns of the Bull in Taurus. //EA, p.56//</wrap> a sign in which the Moon, a symbol <wrap hide>21|00:03:12|300|00:03:22|320</wrap>of fluctuation and duality, is exalted. With Taurus we have the contrast between the light <wrap hide>22|00:03:22|320|00:03:32|420</wrap>and the dark, the darkness of matter and the full light of illumination, the blazing light <wrap hide>23|00:03:32|420|00:03:39|540</wrap>of the greatest light, which Taurus indicates. Taurus is the mother of illumination. So the <wrap hide>24|00:03:39|540|00:03:47|620</wrap>light and the dark are in deep contrast here. I am reminded of how D.K. warns us as humanity <wrap hide>25|00:03:47|620|00:03:57|180</wrap>that if we do not proceed wisely we can be re-initiated into the earth under Taurus and <wrap hide>26|00:03:57|180|00:04:05|160</wrap>the worst aspects of Capricorn, or we can proceed into the illumination of the new age. <wrap hide>27|00:04:06|340|00:04:17|600</wrap>The third is <wrap quote>3. The figures of the Twins in Gemini (two lines). //EA, p.56//</wrap> the two lions representing duality, the second <wrap hide>28|00:04:18|320|00:04:27|000</wrap>the most telling of the glyphs to represent the pairs of opposites. They appear to be <wrap hide>29|00:04:27|000|00:04:33|380</wrap>horizontal, but in interpretation they represent the higher and lower pairs of opposites, the <wrap hide>30|00:04:33|380|00:04:38|100</wrap>left-hand pillar and the right-hand pillar, and they represent the opposites with respect <wrap hide>31|00:04:38|100|00:04:47|580</wrap>to the path, the path of selfishness and materiality and the path of selflessness and spirituality. <wrap hide>32|00:04:47|600|00:04:57|540</wrap>We have <wrap quote>4. The two claws of the Crab in Cancer. //EA, p.56//</wrap> and I suppose here it depends on that to which we will adhere <wrap hide>33|00:04:58|040|00:05:08|200</wrap>or cling. Will we cling to the past and to all that is retrogressive, or will we identify <wrap hide>34|00:05:08|200|00:05:17|580</wrap>with the spirit itself, with the omnipresent presence? And this will be the last thing <wrap hide>35|00:05:17|600|00:05:22|860</wrap>that will be indicated by Neptune. <wrap quote>5. The two scales of the Balance in Libra. //EA, p.56//</wrap> we are always <wrap hide>36|00:05:22|860|00:05:30|820</wrap>balancing spirit and matter, two great pairs of opposites, or we are balancing soul and <wrap hide>37|00:05:30|820|00:05:40|500</wrap>personality. <wrap quote>6. The two Parallel Lines of force in Aquarius. //EA, p.56//</wrap> We are speaking here of the possibility <wrap hide>38|00:05:40|500|00:05:49|380</wrap>of induction. Is it possible for the higher energy to induce its nature in the lower energy <wrap hide>39|00:05:49|380|00:05:58|200</wrap>which will respond accordingly? There are many highs and lows for the Aquarian individual. <wrap hide>40|00:05:59|340|00:06:07|680</wrap>Master D.K. tells us. The hill and valley experience is very common, and the factor <wrap hide>41|00:06:07|680|00:06:20|440</wrap>of manic depression is found in relation to this sign, unpredictable highs <wrap hide>42|00:06:20|440|00:06:28|620</wrap>and lows, and each one of the lines, parallel lines itself, has a sine wave form indicating <wrap hide>43|00:06:29|480|00:06:37|660</wrap>the up and the down of the wave. <wrap quote>7. The two Fishes in Pisces. //EA, p.56//</wrap> do swim in opposite directions. <wrap hide>44|00:06:37|680|00:06:49|200</wrap>One is swimming in a horizontal direction and represents the ordinary <wrap hide>45|00:06:50|160|00:06:55|720</wrap>tendencies, the ordinary desires, and the ordinary life, and the other is swimming vertically. <wrap hide>46|00:06:56|400|00:07:03|620</wrap>So the two together in a wave form a cross. One has upward aspiration and the other deals <wrap hide>47|00:07:03|620|00:07:10|100</wrap>with horizontal living. Well we could enlarge upon these, but in seven of the signs at least, <wrap hide>48|00:07:11|960|00:07:24|480</wrap>duality is found. And as stated, we must learn to resolve these dualities because they are <wrap hide>49|00:07:24|480|00:07:33|600</wrap>the major source of pain and, untreated, they promote a disinclination of the body and the <wrap hide>50|00:07:33|620|00:07:42|760</wrap>integrated condition. Some of the signs are unitary, some of them are triple. Virgo and <wrap hide>51|00:07:42|760|00:07:50|460</wrap>Scorpio are triple signs involving the union of all three aspects of the human being: spirit, <wrap hide>52|00:07:50|540|00:07:59|700</wrap>soul, and matter. Leo is considered a unitary sign, and of course it is associated with <wrap hide>53|00:07:59|700|00:08:09|500</wrap>the number one, with the idea of integration and selfhood. Capricorn is left in an indeterminate <wrap hide>54|00:08:09|500|00:08:18|900</wrap>place, because we are not sure how this sign can be drawn. I think I've left some other <wrap hide>55|00:08:18|900|00:08:26|640</wrap>signs out, but we'll get to them later. Let's see, we have Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, <wrap hide>56|00:08:26|640|00:08:35|880</wrap>Leo, Virgo triple, Libra dual, Scorpio triple, Sagittarius is a sign of one-pointedness. <wrap hide>57|00:08:36|410|00:08:46|080</wrap>It seems to resolve dualities. So that was the other one which I had left out. Somewhere <wrap hide>58|00:08:46|080|00:08:54|160</wrap>he treats this, and Sagittarius is an ever-changing glyph. It's been getting smaller and smaller <wrap hide>59|00:08:54|160|00:09:00|260</wrap>and less and less literal. The horse has been eliminated, the rider has been eliminated. <wrap hide>60|00:09:01|960|00:09:12|260</wrap>Finally we have simply an arrow and a fragment of a bow. So it is the sign opposite Gemini, <wrap hide>61|00:09:13|060|00:09:23|960</wrap>and signalizes one-pointedness, the resolution of dualities into a vector or direction or <wrap hide>62|00:09:23|960|00:09:34|800</wrap>an arrow. <wrap quote>These seven constellations are, therefore, closely related to six of the seven sacred planets <wrap hide>63|00:09:35|320|00:09:41|220</wrap>and to one non-sacred planet. There are two signs which are simple figures and have no <wrap hide>64|00:09:41|220|00:09:46|960</wrap>significance of duality. They are //EA, p.56//</wrap> Well, let's take a look at the sacred and non-sacred planets <wrap hide>65|00:09:46|960|00:09:54|760</wrap>that he's talking about. Perhaps Aries we can connect with Mercury, Taurus with Vulcan, <wrap hide>66|00:09:55|460|00:10:04|260</wrap>Gemini with Venus - I'm dealing with the esoteric rulers here - Cancer with Neptune, Libra with <wrap hide>67|00:10:04|260|00:10:11|620</wrap>Uranus, Aquarius with Jupiter, and Pisces with Pluto. There is a non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>68|00:10:11|620|00:10:21|940</wrap>So let's put them in. Pluto... Aquarius here is not Uranus but Jupiter, esoterically. Libra <wrap hide>69|00:10:21|940|00:10:36|700</wrap>is Uranus. Cancer, the ruler there, is Neptune. The esoteric ruler for Gemini is Venus, and <wrap hide>70|00:10:36|700|00:10:44|800</wrap>the esoteric ruler for Taurus is Vulcan. Let's see how I did that, yeah. And the esoteric <wrap hide>71|00:10:44|800|00:10:54|380</wrap>ruler for Aries is Mercury. He goes through all of the constellations here. These seven <wrap hide>72|00:10:54|380|00:11:03|540</wrap>constellations, therefore, are closely related to six of the seven sacred planets. It looks <wrap hide>73|00:11:03|540|00:11:10|180</wrap>like we've left Saturn out of the picture as one of the sacred planets. There are two <wrap hide>74|00:11:10|180|00:11:17|920</wrap>signs which are simply figures and have no significance of duality, and <wrap quote>8. The <wrap hide>75|00:11:17|920|00:11:23|540</wrap>symbol for Leo, which is simply the Lion's tail. //EA, p.56//</wrap> although I wonder if we could not make <wrap hide>76|00:11:23|540|00:11:33|520</wrap>more of it and relate it somehow to the serpent power. Mm-hmm. Serpent power, possibly. So, <wrap hide>77|00:11:33|880|00:11:43|180</wrap>and <wrap quote>9. The arrow in the symbol depicting Sagittarius. //EA, p.56//</wrap> There is a kind of duality there, but certainly <wrap hide>78|00:11:43|180|00:11:51|600</wrap>the emphasis is on unity, and in Leo the emphasis is upon unity. <wrap quote>They embody the idea of isolated <wrap hide>79|00:11:51|600|00:12:01|580</wrap>separation //EA, p.56//</wrap> -the lion's tail-<wrap quote>and one-pointed desire. //EA, p.56//</wrap> or one-pointed <wrap hide>80|00:12:01|580|00:12:08|880</wrap>aspiration. That is Sagittarius. <wrap quote>Two signs are definitely triple in construction and <wrap hide>81|00:12:08|880|00:12:19|780</wrap>this has a clear meaning to the esotericist. //EA, p.56//</wrap> and that meaning for us is the union of all <wrap hide>82|00:12:19|780|00:12:31|560</wrap>the aspects of the triple man. "I am the mother and the child. I, God, I matter, am." And this <wrap hide>83|00:12:45|860|00:12:59|740</wrap>is true of Scorpio, although it represents somehow the orientation towards the struggle <wrap hide>84|00:13:00|380|00:13:09|220</wrap>that will unite the three. So Scorpio has a great deal to do with the conquest by the <wrap hide>85|00:13:09|220|00:13:17|620</wrap>soul over the material or personal aspect. <wrap quote>10. Virgo is a triple sign. //EA, p.56//</wrap> and <wrap quote>11. Scorpio is <wrap hide>86|00:13:17|620|00:13:24|900</wrap>also a triple sign, closely resembling the symbol of Virgo. //EA, p.56//</wrap> but in a way it is more masculine, <wrap hide>87|00:13:25|390|00:13:32|220</wrap>including the upward-pointing arrow which suggests Mars, the major masculine planet. <wrap hide>88|00:13:33|060|00:13:42|420</wrap>So this triplicity is achieved through a state of struggle, and it's also upward-oriented. <wrap hide>89|00:13:44|140|00:13:54|880</wrap><wrap quote>These two signs //EA, p.56//</wrap> Virgo and Scorpio <wrap quote>are crucial in the experience of the human being, //EA, p.56//</wrap>of the existence of the <wrap hide>90|00:13:55|670|00:14:02|640</wrap>human being. They are decisive, <wrap quote>indicating as they do the function of the triple form <wrap hide>91|00:14:05|200|00:14:09|880</wrap>and the liberation of the man imprisoned in the form, //EA, p.56//</wrap> That's the function of the upward-pointing <wrap hide>92|00:14:09|880|00:14:16|740</wrap>arrow. Mars may be a non-sacred planet, but the struggle involved is an integral part <wrap hide>93|00:14:16|740|00:14:24|880</wrap>of the struggle for liberation. The <wrap hide>94|00:14:24|900|00:14:32|240</wrap>struggle involved is necessary if we are to achieve liberation from that state in which <wrap hide>95|00:14:32|240|00:14:43|580</wrap>matter reigns. And we know that one of the key phrases which is applied to man <wrap hide>96|00:14:43|580|00:14:52|200</wrap>when he is on the ordinary wheel is, "Let matter reign." Thus it is for Virgo. So the liberation <wrap hide>97|00:14:52|200|00:14:59|100</wrap>of man from the... imprisoned in the form. Interesting. The Moon, which is the mother of the form, <wrap hide>98|00:14:59|460|00:15:07|340</wrap>falls in the sign Scorpio, so it is overcome. The liberation... imprisoned in the form... liberation <wrap hide>99|00:15:07|340|00:15:13|080</wrap>of the man imprisoned in the form, <wrap quote>through the tests in Scorpio wherein he proves to <wrap hide>100|00:15:13|080|00:15:20|360</wrap>himself and to the world the reality of that which Virgo has veiled or hidden. //EA, p.56//</wrap> Virgo has <wrap hide>101|00:15:20|360|00:15:26|840</wrap>veiled or hidden the Christ power, which is the soul power, which is the consciousness <wrap hide>102|00:15:26|840|00:15:37|720</wrap>which no longer chooses to remain subservient to the patterns of form, especially in the <wrap hide>103|00:15:37|720|00:15:45|460</wrap>lower three worlds, form which is the form found in the dense physical body of the planetary <wrap hide>104|00:15:45|460|00:15:53|900</wrap>Logos or even the solar Logos. The soul in Scorpio then proves itself, and the temptations <wrap hide>105|00:15:53|900|00:16:02|840</wrap>and the vices and the inclinations to adhere to this lower layer of experience, the three <wrap hide>106|00:16:02|840|00:16:12|060</wrap>lower worlds, is countered by the power of the soul, the hidden Christ now grown into <wrap hide>107|00:16:12|060|00:16:19|300</wrap>power. Each one of us must come to ourselves and demonstrate that we have this power. We <wrap hide>108|00:16:19|300|00:16:25|840</wrap>realize that we have the power. In Leo we realize that we are something other than the <wrap hide>109|00:16:26|640|00:16:34|680</wrap>isolated material personality in the higher experience of Leo, or let's call it the middle <wrap hide>110|00:16:34|680|00:16:41|440</wrap>experience of Leo, the "I Am" experience of Leo. And then we just have to prove it <wrap hide>111|00:16:41|440|00:16:49|180</wrap>when we enter Scorpio. It all has to be worked out on the dense physical plane, which is <wrap hide>112|00:16:49|180|00:16:57|620</wrap>of course a struggle. Scorpio, interestingly enough, is the sign particularly associated <wrap hide>113|00:16:57|620|00:17:04|600</wrap>with humanity. It rules the hierarchy of human monads, so although one day we will achieve <wrap hide>114|00:17:04|600|00:17:14|100</wrap>the harmony of full buddhic infusion, we are a warring kingdom and even a warring creative <wrap hide>115|00:17:14|100|00:17:23|460</wrap>hierarchy. And our method is harmony through conflict. We cannot avoid this conflict. There <wrap hide>116|00:17:24|260|00:17:30|580</wrap>is a time or more than one time in the books when D.K. seems to be saying - he does say - <wrap hide>117|00:17:30|580|00:17:35|560</wrap>"See that you battle, see that you struggle. If you're not having a crisis, why aren't <wrap hide>118|00:17:35|560|00:17:48|360</wrap>you having a crisis?" So it is probably not the part of the human being to avoid unnecessary <wrap hide>119|00:17:48|360|00:17:55|320</wrap>conflict which will prove liberating. Anyway, D.K. is dealing with these signs. One day <wrap hide>120|00:17:55|320|00:18:04|000</wrap>we shall know the glyph of Capricorn. I have a friend who is quite an astute third-ray <wrap hide>121|00:18:04|000|00:18:16|200</wrap>thinker, and he put together the sign Aries, and he straightened the tail of Leo and made <wrap hide>122|00:18:16|200|00:18:23|840</wrap>it into a single serpent like the Hydra that rules the first decanate of Leo, and he put <wrap hide>123|00:18:23|840|00:18:33|140</wrap>that straightened tail into the cleft here of Aries like this, and he said, "That's the <wrap hide>124|00:18:33|140|00:18:41|280</wrap>sign of Capricorn. It's a combination of the two." Of course, in other words, the two first <wrap hide>125|00:18:41|280|00:18:50|460</wrap>ray signs, Aries and Leo, combine to make the third first ray sign Capricorn. Of course, <wrap hide>126|00:18:50|460|00:18:59|180</wrap>I don't know. In a way, it kind of suggests the jewel in the lotus and a relationship <wrap hide>127|00:18:59|180|00:19:09|600</wrap>to Vulcan which Capricorn has, and the initiatory power of Capricorn at the third degree when <wrap hide>128|00:19:09|600|00:19:20|440</wrap>the jewel begins truly to be revealed. But I think the jury must be out on that point <wrap hide>129|00:19:20|460|00:19:27|460</wrap>in a particular configuration, and one day we will see. Perhaps it will be revealed by <wrap hide>130|00:19:28|660|00:19:36|780</wrap>such as D.K. to those who are approaching the ability to use it wisely, but for the moment <wrap hide>131|00:19:36|780|00:19:49|600</wrap>it seems to be a secret because if we knew it, D.K. tells us, we would open ourselves to <wrap hide>132|00:19:49|600|00:19:57|660</wrap>an influx of power, perhaps a very dangerous influx of power, more so than the power that <wrap hide>133|00:19:57|660|00:20:03|680</wrap>would rush into the open pentagram. In other words, we wouldn't be able to handle it. So <wrap hide>134|00:20:03|680|00:20:09|900</wrap>we'll have to trust his wisdom on this matter. Well, maybe he's going to talk about it right <wrap hide>135|00:20:09|900|00:20:18|800</wrap>now. Okay. <wrap quote>12. The symbol for the sign Capricorn is most mysterious. It conceals the mystery <wrap hide>136|00:20:18|800|00:20:27|340</wrap>of the Crocodiles, or Makara. //EA, p.57//</wrap> and one wonders about the Crocodiles. We did look <wrap hide>137|00:20:27|340|00:20:37|300</wrap>at that... see if I can find that again. Fellowship of Cosmic Fire, okay, and AAB diagrams, yes. <wrap hide>138|00:20:38|120|00:20:48|780</wrap>And the Creative Hierarchy is here. Okay, and we have here the Makara, which is the <wrap hide>139|00:20:49|480|00:20:55|940</wrap>name given to the tenth or fifth manifest of Creative Hierarchy: the Crocodiles, Makara, <wrap hide>140|00:20:56|080|00:21:07|560</wrap>the mystery. And the name is the human personality. At least that suggests one aspect of the dual <wrap hide>141|00:21:07|560|00:21:15|780</wrap>fifth Creative Hierarchy. So, you know, the Crocodile... H.P.B. tries to give the crocodile <wrap hide>142|00:21:15|780|00:21:24|880</wrap>a somewhat better reputation, perhaps, than we normally would give to this animal, and <wrap hide>143|00:21:24|880|00:21:31|780</wrap>she says it is the first to greet the sun, so she relates it - you know, swimming in the <wrap hide>144|00:21:31|780|00:21:41|640</wrap>Nile, let us say - it is the first creature to hail the sun. But we also look at the reptilian <wrap hide>145|00:21:41|640|00:21:49|700</wrap>nature of man and the reptilian brain and this totally selfish, aggressive aspect, which <wrap hide>146|00:21:49|700|00:21:58|120</wrap>we can identify with the personality, and so there is a mystery in relation to the Makara, <wrap hide>147|00:21:59|140|00:22:08|640</wrap>which is not entirely dealing with positive factors. When we talk about "crying crocodile <wrap hide>148|00:22:08|640|00:22:19|400</wrap>tears," we speak of insincerity. They are cold-blooded animals, and they attack suddenly and without <wrap hide>149|00:22:19|400|00:22:28|000</wrap>warning and at great speed, so they seem more, at least in my mind, involved with the downward <wrap hide>150|00:22:28|000|00:22:35|880</wrap>pointing pentagram and with that part of the man that would like to stay attached to matter <wrap hide>151|00:22:35|880|00:22:46|080</wrap>form. Will the symbol of Capricorn reveal this or only the higher aspect of this Creative <wrap hide>152|00:22:46|080|00:22:53|060</wrap>Hierarchy? I am not sure. <wrap quote>It is constructed in an inaccurate and definitely misleading <wrap hide>153|00:22:53|060|00:23:02|240</wrap>manner //EA, p.57//</wrap> so it looks like there is a veil on the formation of the glyph of the sign Capricorn, <wrap hide>154|00:23:02|840|00:23:09|320</wrap><wrap quote>and should be regarded as a mystery and therefore not to be defined. //EA, p.57//</wrap> In other words, he seems <wrap hide>155|00:23:09|320|00:23:18|220</wrap>to be warning us even against the attempt to define the glyph and seems to suggest that <wrap hide>156|00:23:18|220|00:23:25|940</wrap>we leave this until later when more is known. It is almost like a warning. It is not to <wrap hide>157|00:23:25|940|00:23:32|160</wrap>be defined. I sometimes think that there are instructions here: "the one about whom naught <wrap hide>158|00:23:32|160|00:23:38|680</wrap>may be said." In other words, it is not even permitted to say something about this one <wrap hide>159|00:23:38|680|00:23:45|680</wrap>about whom naught may be said, but he seems to say some things. Anyway, we have to understand <wrap hide>160|00:23:46|540|00:23:54|720</wrap>in occultism what is permitted to us and what is not, and occasionally D.K. gives these warnings. <wrap hide>161|00:23:54|870|00:24:02|460</wrap>You do notice how there are times when he talks about what he reveals in his books and <wrap hide>162|00:24:02|460|00:24:11|140</wrap>he discusses the word "permitted." "I have been permitted to reveal more," "I have been permitted <wrap hide>163|00:24:11|140|00:24:21|340</wrap>to reveal this." So there are higher powers which are in effect and to which he, a master <wrap hide>164|00:24:21|340|00:24:29|240</wrap>of the wisdom, must conform. And certainly we as aspirants and disciples have to have <wrap hide>165|00:24:29|240|00:24:36|160</wrap>some idea of what is permitted to us and what is simply not allowed. <wrap hide>166|00:24:36|720|00:24:43|880</wrap>Alright, so we've reviewed here the formation of some of the signs and the glyphs. I mean, <wrap hide>167|00:24:44|160|00:24:50|040</wrap>there's no question power is coming. It's coming to all of us in increasing measure, <wrap hide>168|00:24:50|040|00:24:57|410</wrap>and the Age of Aquarius is in many ways an age of subtle power. We've already seen incredible <wrap hide>169|00:24:58|940|00:25:06|660</wrap>release of energy through our understanding of the atom, such as that understanding is. <wrap hide>170|00:25:07|240|00:25:12|840</wrap>It's more power than humanity has ever had in its hands, and I think under the fifth <wrap hide>171|00:25:12|840|00:25:19|360</wrap>ray of Aquarius that's just the beginning. We could have the power to remake or destroy <wrap hide>172|00:25:19|360|00:25:27|680</wrap>the world. So we have to be very careful in the handling of the power that comes into <wrap hide>173|00:25:27|680|00:25:36|280</wrap>our hands because humanity is now becoming increasingly responsible and increasingly <wrap hide>174|00:25:36|280|00:25:44|380</wrap>holds its own fate, whether towards spiritual excellence or destruction, in its own hands. <wrap hide>175|00:25:45|600|00:25:52|200</wrap>We go on. <wrap quote>These signs and their relationship to the sacred and non-sacred planets will <wrap hide>176|00:25:52|920|00:26:00|520</wrap>be considered later. //EA, p.57//</wrap> yes, and in great detail. So now D.K. is giving a little summary here. <wrap hide>177|00:26:01|380|00:26:09|100</wrap><wrap quote>To sum up: Man will, therefore, have to be studied as a threefold entity, //EA, p.57//</wrap> You know, it <wrap hide>178|00:26:09|100|00:26:19|660</wrap>is said by the English writer Pope that the proper study of mankind is man. So we certainly <wrap hide>179|00:26:19|660|00:26:27|660</wrap>must know ourselves under Leo, and the study of esoteric astrology is one of the very best <wrap hide>180|00:26:27|660|00:26:34|020</wrap>ways of discovering that which is within the human being and that which the human being <wrap hide>181|00:26:34|020|00:26:41|020</wrap>is. <wrap quote>Man will, therefore, have to be studied as a threefold entity, a composite individual, //EA, p.57//</wrap> <wrap hide>182|00:26:41|020|00:26:47|640</wrap>just as he told us in relation to the Creative Hierarchies, a given hierarchy working through <wrap hide>183|00:26:47|640|00:26:54|580</wrap>or expressing through a number of hierarchies and <wrap quote>expressing (in the three worlds): //EA, p.57//</wrap> So how <wrap hide>184|00:26:55|160|00:27:04|000</wrap>does D.K. view this threefold nature? He calls it the spiritual soul, <wrap quote>a. The spiritual soul, <wrap hide>185|00:27:04|860|00:27:14|840</wrap>reflecting the Monad. //EA, p.57//</wrap> The Monad is there, okay. The human soul, which is consciousness <wrap hide>186|00:27:16|840|00:27:23|880</wrap>immersed or involved with or engaged with a lower form, <wrap quote>b. The human soul, reflecting the <wrap hide>187|00:27:23|880|00:27:31|860</wrap>divine soul. //EA, p.57//</wrap> and <wrap quote>c. The form nature, which should be the revealer of the two higher. //EA, p.57//</wrap> We cannot <wrap hide>188|00:27:33|000|00:27:39|900</wrap>discount the form. We must not do that because if there is to be perfection through the number <wrap hide>189|00:27:39|900|00:27:47|900</wrap>seven, the form must indeed be archetypally or become archetypally beautiful. It must <wrap hide>190|00:27:47|900|00:27:54|620</wrap>reflect the patterns in the heavens. So the sum of the sixth ray approaches which seem to <wrap hide>191|00:27:54|620|00:28:03|100</wrap>dismiss the form as unworthy of attention, I think, are not really in line with the plan <wrap hide>192|00:28:03|880|00:28:11|000</wrap>wherein especially in a seventh-ray age, the highest and the lowest must meet. So the spiritual <wrap hide>193|00:28:11|000|00:28:19|100</wrap>soul is sometimes considered to be the spiritual triad. That's one of the ways of looking at <wrap hide>194|00:28:19|100|00:28:24|760</wrap>it. But in a way, and we're told that the true soul is the triad, so man enters into <wrap hide>195|00:28:24|760|00:28:33|160</wrap>a state of true soul after the causal body, which is considered the shroud of the soul, <wrap hide>196|00:28:33|160|00:28:43|020</wrap>is dissipated. And you know this word "spiritual" particularly relates to the triad in a technical <wrap hide>197|00:28:43|020|00:28:49|440</wrap>sense, whereas we are told the word "divine" relates to the monad. So the spiritual soul <wrap hide>198|00:28:49|440|00:28:56|800</wrap>as the personality of the monad is to reflect the monad. The human soul is to reflect the <wrap hide>199|00:28:56|800|00:29:05|540</wrap>divine soul. Now this is interesting because the word "divine" relates to the monad, but perhaps <wrap hide>200|00:29:05|540|00:29:13|000</wrap>in this context the word "divine" simply means the soul on its own plane. Although I have <wrap hide>201|00:29:13|000|00:29:20|480</wrap>the monad is not without awareness. Any point of being has its awareness. The monad is a <wrap hide>202|00:29:20|480|00:29:30|680</wrap>point essentially of pure being and therefore has or expresses divine soul. The divine soul <wrap hide>203|00:29:30|680|00:29:41|120</wrap>in a way is gathered into or focused within what we call the central fire or the jewel <wrap hide>204|00:29:41|120|00:29:49|160</wrap>in the lotus. So the human soul, which is immersed in various types of forms in the three worlds, <wrap hide>205|00:29:49|720|00:29:59|420</wrap>must somehow reflect this jewel in the lotus, which is an extension of the monadic presence <wrap hide>206|00:29:59|420|00:30:05|240</wrap>and of monadic awareness. And of course that does not mean that the human soul must not <wrap hide>207|00:30:05|240|00:30:12|720</wrap>also reflect spiritual soul. I don't know if D.K. is using these words here in a technical <wrap hide>208|00:30:12|720|00:30:18|480</wrap>and completely precise sense. The divine soul I'm calling the awareness of the monad, and <wrap hide>209|00:30:18|480|00:30:26|740</wrap>spiritual soul I'm calling the type of awareness that is experienced within the so-called personality <wrap hide>210|00:30:26|740|00:30:31|360</wrap>of the monad, which is the spiritual triad. In other words, atma, buddhi and manas, the <wrap hide>211|00:30:31|360|00:30:38|280</wrap>type of consciousness experienced there I'm calling spiritual soul. The form nature— <wrap hide>212|00:30:40|760|00:30:45|640</wrap>well, even the causal body is the form nature, but usually we are speaking of the personality <wrap hide>213|00:30:46|360|00:30:54|960</wrap>nature, and it should be the revealer of the soul consciousness and the monadic power and <wrap hide>214|00:30:54|960|00:31:04|200</wrap>awareness. Well then we would be integrated beings, wouldn't we? And then all aspects of <wrap hide>215|00:31:04|200|00:31:10|680</wrap>our nature would be drawn together and be able to function together, and we would walk <wrap hide>216|00:31:10|680|00:31:22|180</wrap>the earth as the monad in expression through the forms at the disposal of the monad. And <wrap hide>217|00:31:22|180|00:31:27|760</wrap>one day this will be the case, especially for those who choose to remain in association <wrap hide>218|00:31:27|760|00:31:36|340</wrap>with the lower worlds by building a will-created body through which they can continue to influence <wrap hide>219|00:31:36|340|00:31:44|040</wrap>the three lower worlds. It won't be a real personality, but it will be a deliberately <wrap hide>220|00:31:44|780|00:31:52|160</wrap>formed aggregation through which the self-aware spirit can excel in the form of the <wrap hide>221|00:31:52|180|00:32:01|380</wrap>express according to the divine plan. Let's continue. See how we're doing here. Yeah, we're <wrap hide>222|00:32:01|380|00:32:12|680</wrap>doing well. <wrap quote>Three Creative Hierarchies condition the man in incarnation, //EA, p.57//</wrap> You know that word <wrap hide>223|00:32:12|680|00:32:20|260</wrap>"creative" of Creative Hierarchies suggests that they are indeed related to the third <wrap hide>224|00:32:20|260|00:32:30|120</wrap>aspect of divinity, then the preferred name of which, preferred by D.K., is the Ray of Creative <wrap hide>225|00:32:30|120|00:32:39|060</wrap>Intelligence. They are to create within various worlds of form. They are to create within <wrap hide>226|00:32:39|060|00:32:47|620</wrap>objectivity such as it is. Each one of these groups of our aggregations of monads is to <wrap hide>227|00:32:47|620|00:32:54|680</wrap>create various types of forms and work through the forms created or work through the forms <wrap hide>228|00:32:54|680|00:33:04|780</wrap>created by other Creative Hierarchies. So the term "creative" has to be understood and <wrap hide>229|00:33:04|780|00:33:11|740</wrap>kept in mind. Three Creative Hierarchies condition the man in incarnation, and I believe these <wrap hide>230|00:33:13|200|00:33:17|460</wrap>are not exactly the ones which D.K. said were most important. He included the second Creative <wrap hide>231|00:33:17|460|00:33:24|220</wrap>Hierarchy. Here he is including the fourth and the fifth as he did in the previous listing, <wrap hide>232|00:33:24|220|00:33:35|260</wrap>but now he's adding the sixth, which is the hierarchy of Lunar Lords, which is the vitality— <wrap hide>233|00:33:35|260|00:33:42|720</wrap>this hierarchy is the vitality of the various lunar vehicles that the human being uses. <wrap hide>234|00:33:42|720|00:33:51|900</wrap>So somehow the big battle—there's the union of man the monad, assisted by a projection <wrap hide>235|00:33:51|900|00:34:02|160</wrap>of the solar angel helping him create his individuality, and this union of two is opposed <wrap hide>236|00:34:02|910|00:34:12|200</wrap>to the desirous orientation of the hierarchy ruled by Sagittarius, the major sixth ray <wrap hide>237|00:34:12|200|00:34:20|240</wrap>sign at this time, and Mars, a major sixth ray planet. And so the reorientation of desire <wrap hide>238|00:34:20|240|00:34:36|000</wrap>is required, and the Buddha was the great teacher when it came to instructing man how he could <wrap hide>239|00:34:36|880|00:34:46|900</wrap>be done with ordinary desire and reorient that desire through aspiration, aspirational <wrap hide>240|00:34:46|900|00:34:57|340</wrap>idealism. So the question of the direction pursued by the sixth Creative Hierarchy is <wrap hide>241|00:34:57|340|00:35:05|980</wrap>of great importance. So these three hierarchies, the hierarchy of human monads, are the hierarchy <wrap hide>242|00:35:06|620|00:35:13|640</wrap>of solar Angels, especially I suppose in its upper, the upper aspect, higher aspect of <wrap hide>243|00:35:13|640|00:35:21|360</wrap>that hierarchy, and the hierarchy of Lunar lords combine to make human life pretty much <wrap hide>244|00:35:21|360|00:35:28|640</wrap>what it is at this time. And remember, we do live in an astro-buddhic solar system which <wrap hide>245|00:35:29|420|00:35:38|420</wrap>is not yet, in a way, a sacred solar system by a higher method of determining sacredness, <wrap hide>246|00:35:39|180|00:35:45|040</wrap>and the astro-body is very powerful in our solar system. It is a unitary vehicle. The <wrap hide>247|00:35:45|040|00:35:54|140</wrap>Lord Varuna, or his higher correspondence in a solar systemic sense, has not yet, has united <wrap hide>248|00:35:54|140|00:36:02|560</wrap>all the factors in his vehicle, whereas the Lord Agni and Kishiti have not united their <wrap hide>249|00:36:02|560|00:36:08|940</wrap>vehicles or when I say Agni or Kishiti, perhaps their higher correspondences. The Lord Varuna <wrap hide>250|00:36:10|500|00:36:15|240</wrap>is the Lord of the astral body of our planetary Logos, but there is a higher correspondence <wrap hide>251|00:36:17|040|00:36:25|900</wrap>for some being that is embodying the astral body of the solar Logos, and we're not given <wrap hide>252|00:36:25|900|00:36:33|700</wrap>that name, and the same is true for a still greater being in which the cosmic astral plane <wrap hide>253|00:36:34|900|00:36:44|020</wrap>is embodied by a great being who is the still higher counterpart to the solar embodiment <wrap hide>254|00:36:44|020|00:36:51|540</wrap>and to the Lord Varuna in respect to our planet. <wrap quote>Three Creative Hierarchies condition the man <wrap hide>255|00:36:51|540|00:36:58|300</wrap>in incarnation, the 4th (or 9th) the 5th (or 10th) and the 6th. //EA, p.57//</wrap> You know how it goes <wrap hide>256|00:36:58|300|00:37:07|320</wrap>here. Here's the fourth or ninth, the fifth or tenth, and here is the sixth. Okay. <wrap hide>257|00:37:07|320|00:37:13|080</wrap><wrap quote>These, in collaboration, //EA, p.57//</wrap> (because Creative Hierarchies are always collaborating), and man is a multiple <wrap hide>258|00:37:13|080|00:37:22|820</wrap>being, <wrap quote>create man and, at the same time, constitute the field of his expression. //EA, p.57//</wrap> Man, the monad, <wrap hide>259|00:37:23|280|00:37:29|520</wrap>is expressing through that which the solar Angel has created, namely his causal body, <wrap hide>260|00:37:30|220|00:37:35|040</wrap>that is a truer vehicle of expression for us than the personality, or at least one day <wrap hide>261|00:37:35|040|00:37:43|060</wrap>it will be. And naturally, the Lunar Lords have created the way that the solar Angel is created— <wrap hide>262|00:37:43|520|00:37:51|320</wrap>the personality vehicles—and man, the monad, expresses not only then through the causal <wrap hide>263|00:37:51|320|00:37:59|720</wrap>field but through the personality field. <wrap quote>Man is consequently a blend of electric fire, <wrap hide>264|00:38:00|700|00:38:10|260</wrap>being a divine Flame //EA, p.57//</wrap> that reminds one of the triple flame of the solar Logos' causal body. <wrap hide>265|00:38:10|260|00:38:18|580</wrap>Man is a divine flame, sometimes called a spark, but the flame is somehow a more powerful symbol, <wrap hide>266|00:38:18|580|00:38:24|980</wrap>I think, and the spark must be reunited with the flame. So it's <wrap quote>a blend of electric fire, <wrap hide>267|00:38:24|980|00:38:31|660</wrap>being a divine Flame, and becomes eventually responsive to the three major controlling <wrap hide>268|00:38:31|660|00:38:40|240</wrap>influences; //EA, p.57//</wrap> Well, there is a triple flame that represents spirit, and when you look at the— <wrap hide>269|00:38:41|200|00:38:52|000</wrap>when you look here, okay, yeah, let's find that one—when you look here at the graphic <wrap hide>270|00:38:53|100|00:39:02|880</wrap>that suggests the monad, you see indeed that it is triple. So perhaps the triple flame <wrap hide>271|00:39:02|880|00:39:09|920</wrap>is—man must relate to the monad considered as a triplicity, but the monad is also a unity <wrap hide>272|00:39:09|920|00:39:19|780</wrap>because within the triangle there is a unifying point, and there we have perhaps the tetrahedron <wrap hide>273|00:39:19|780|00:39:29|640</wrap>as the symbol of the inner fire. It's fourfold in a way, and yet it is a triangle, and yet <wrap hide>274|00:39:29|640|00:39:36|680</wrap>it is a unity. Okay, so man is a blend of electric fire and becomes eventually responsive to <wrap hide>275|00:39:36|680|00:39:43|120</wrap>the three major controlling influences, and presumably you know these are the three persons <wrap hide>276|00:39:43|120|00:39:51|460</wrap>of the Trinity, and even the triune solar Logos. We see him in that way. <wrap quote>he is <wrap hide>277|00:39:51|460|00:40:05|820</wrap>also solar fire, being a solar Angel in manifestation. //EA, p.57//</wrap> Well, this is a difficult phrase. Man is not <wrap hide>278|00:40:06|680|00:40:14|160</wrap>the solar Angel who is the returning nirvani from a previous Maha manvantara. That is a <wrap hide>279|00:40:14|160|00:40:20|780</wrap>distinct being that was man at that time and became a member of a still higher creative <wrap hide>280|00:40:20|780|00:40:29|360</wrap>hierarchy and went to Sirius for, let's call it, education and returned into our solar system <wrap hide>281|00:40:30|000|00:40:40|880</wrap>to help the animal man of our time. But because the monad is expressing through that which <wrap hide>282|00:40:40|880|00:40:48|280</wrap>the solar angel has created and in which it has invested a portion of its being and consciousness, <wrap hide>283|00:40:49|460|00:40:57|440</wrap>man takes on the guise of a solar Angel. He is working through a solar angelic vehicle <wrap hide>284|00:40:57|440|00:41:02|640</wrap>on the higher mental plane, even though that may not be the only vehicle of that great <wrap hide>285|00:41:02|640|00:41:14|520</wrap>being called the solar Angel. So man then expresses through that solar angelic vehicle <wrap hide>286|00:41:14|520|00:41:23|260</wrap>and then appears, in a way, as a kind of solar Angel. He is attempting to become a solar <wrap hide>287|00:41:23|260|00:41:29|720</wrap>angel. As a matter of fact, the bulk of human beings are on their way to the constellation <wrap hide>288|00:41:30|220|00:41:36|820</wrap>Sirius, or the star Sirius, for training as solar angels. Maybe, well, take a figure out <wrap hide>289|00:41:36|820|00:41:43|800</wrap>of the air, but you know, maybe 80% of human beings who are not—those human beings who <wrap hide>290|00:41:43|800|00:41:49|580</wrap>are not very, very strongly already on the monastic line will go to Sirius for training <wrap hide>291|00:41:49|580|00:42:01|300</wrap>as solar Angels. So man is a kind of a junior solar Angel, and as he works his way up toward <wrap hide>292|00:42:01|300|00:42:09|220</wrap>the fourth initiation and as the solar Angel per se is relieved, man is then possessed of <wrap hide>293|00:42:09|220|00:42:18|700</wrap>some of the potencies that the solar angel has inculcated into him. See, that's the whole <wrap hide>294|00:42:18|700|00:42:27|160</wrap>thing. Is the causal body the solar Angel? Well, the causal body is a configuration which <wrap hide>295|00:42:27|160|00:42:35|540</wrap>is created by the solar Angels as the solar Angels substand and geometrize the matter <wrap hide>296|00:42:35|540|00:42:43|140</wrap>of the higher mental plane. So in a sense, the causal body is an extension of the energy <wrap hide>297|00:42:43|140|00:42:49|340</wrap>of the solar Angel. But it is not the solar Angel per se, even though the solar Angel is <wrap hide>298|00:42:49|340|00:42:54|600</wrap>partially invested in it. You know, these great beings have emanated power, so they can emanate <wrap hide>299|00:42:54|600|00:43:00|460</wrap>a portion of themselves into a particular field while retaining consciousness in another. <wrap hide>300|00:43:01|500|00:43:09|420</wrap>So it's a difficult issue, and it forces us to think in ways we may not have thought before. <wrap hide>301|00:43:09|420|00:43:15|020</wrap>How can you be in two places at the same time? Well, a master can, you know. A master has <wrap hide>302|00:43:15|020|00:43:20|640</wrap>his own consciousness, and yet the disciple can become an outpost of the master's consciousness. <wrap hide>303|00:43:21|140|00:43:29|380</wrap>The master invests a certain portion or degree of intensity of his consciousness in the disciple's <wrap hide>304|00:43:29|380|00:43:36|680</wrap>field of consciousness. So there is the divisibility of the spirit, and there is the divisibility <wrap hide>305|00:43:37|110|00:43:48|180</wrap>of consciousness. You know, God is in all places simultaneously. You know, God sees with 10,000 <wrap hide>306|00:43:48|180|00:43:58|160</wrap>eyes. God can specifically focus his consciousness in many places, and we have the idea that not <wrap hide>307|00:43:58|160|00:44:05|820</wrap>a sparrow falls but God realizes this to be the case. So the high beings have the ability <wrap hide>308|00:44:05|820|00:44:17|860</wrap>to split, divide, multiply their consciousness in many of what we call locations. And this <wrap hide>309|00:44:17|860|00:44:24|300</wrap>is the case with the solar Angel too. Having pervaded the entire little universe of man <wrap hide>310|00:44:24|300|00:44:30|000</wrap>with a fraction of myself, I remain. Well, that little universe of man is pervaded, and <wrap hide>311|00:44:30|000|00:44:39|260</wrap>the solar Angel is there, and the solar Angel underlies and infuses and permeates this causal <wrap hide>312|00:44:39|260|00:44:43|480</wrap>vehicle—but not the entirety of the solar Angel. At least that's how I understand it <wrap hide>313|00:44:43|480|00:44:48|860</wrap>for the moment. I always have to say "for the moment" because understanding can be constantly <wrap hide>314|00:44:48|860|00:44:58|040</wrap>modified. So man is also a solar fire, being a solar Angel in manifestation—a very somehow <wrap hide>315|00:44:58|040|00:45:03|780</wrap>important statement. <wrap quote>He then becomes increasingly responsive to the influences of the twelve <wrap hide>316|00:45:03|780|00:45:14|940</wrap>constellations. //EA, p.57//</wrap> and we remember D.K. earlier related the constellations to soul function <wrap hide>317|00:45:14|940|00:45:25|200</wrap>and the planets to personality and environmental circumstantial function. <wrap quote>He is likewise <wrap hide>318|00:45:25|200|00:45:30|480</wrap>fire by friction and comes under the influence of the planets. The tabulation below may <wrap hide>319|00:45:30|480|00:45:37|880</wrap>make this somewhat clearer: //EA, p.57//</wrap> Well, D.K. is being very, very definite about these things. Probably <wrap hide>320|00:45:37|880|00:45:44|200</wrap>the divine flame is related to the three superior constellations. This is his soul function <wrap hide>321|00:45:44|200|00:45:51|680</wrap>to the zodiacal constellations, his personality function to the planets. But if you really <wrap hide>322|00:45:52|380|00:46:01|040</wrap>look carefully, you will see that all three of these factors—or at least two of them, <wrap hide>323|00:46:01|100|00:46:08|200</wrap>let's say two of them, namely the planets and the zodiacal signs—can have an impact <wrap hide>324|00:46:08|200|00:46:19|240</wrap>on all three aspects of human nature. After all, man's monad is definitely a part of a <wrap hide>325|00:46:19|240|00:46:24|420</wrap>center, of a particular planetary Logos, and that relates the planet to the monad, doesn't <wrap hide>326|00:46:24|420|00:46:30|860</wrap>it? And there are certain sacred planets which obviously facilitate the expression of the <wrap hide>327|00:46:30|860|00:46:36|740</wrap>soul, and then as D.K. says here, the planets work in relation to the personality and the <wrap hide>328|00:46:36|740|00:46:42|320</wrap>environment of the individual. And it is so: I showed you the quotation where the zodiac <wrap hide>329|00:46:42|320|00:46:47|600</wrap>was related to the monadic function of man. Here D.K. is emphasizing its relation to the <wrap hide>330|00:46:47|600|00:46:56|340</wrap>soul, and in "A Treatise on White Magic," he talks about the zodiac as ruling the man who lives <wrap hide>331|00:46:56|340|00:47:03|400</wrap>below the diaphragm, and he seems to relate zodiacal influence—or at least of the signs, <wrap hide>332|00:47:03|400|00:47:10|840</wrap>if not the constellations—to sub-diaphragmatic activity. When it comes to the great constellations, <wrap hide>333|00:47:10|840|00:47:18|080</wrap>well, they certainly have the three great ones: Sirius, Great Bear, and Pleiades. They have <wrap hide>334|00:47:18|080|00:47:27|520</wrap>certainly a soul relationship because when a man takes the third initiation, he is a dominant <wrap hide>335|00:47:27|520|00:47:33|820</wrap>soul. The soul has ended the ancient authority of the personality and is now the dominant <wrap hide>336|00:47:33|820|00:47:42|440</wrap>factor, and of course, the three great constellations are very important in his spirit aspect, in <wrap hide>337|00:47:42|440|00:47:46|880</wrap>relation to his spirit aspect—perhaps not in relation to his personal aspect because <wrap hide>338|00:47:46|880|00:47:53|720</wrap>he doesn't feel the personal aspect. He doesn't feel the constellations when he is entirely <wrap hide>339|00:47:53|720|00:48:02|860</wrap>connected with his personal aspect. So anyway, D.K. tabulates this. <wrap quote>I. //Electric Fire.//—Path of Initiation—4th Hierarchy; full soul expression; monadic life. //EA, p.57//</wrap> He says we have <wrap hide>340|00:48:02|860|00:48:11|500</wrap>electric fire, and this is experienced on the path of initiation—the path of initiation <wrap hide>341|00:48:11|500|00:48:16|720</wrap>particularly involving the first and seventh ray. It's the fourth hierarchy of human monads. <wrap hide>342|00:48:18|680|00:48:25|160</wrap>We are talking here about full soul expression, which probably means, in a way, tri-addle expression <wrap hide>343|00:48:25|160|00:48:32|700</wrap>or the expression of the soul of the monad. See, we can understand that the monad has a <wrap hide>344|00:48:32|860|00:48:39|120</wrap>point of universal awareness—has awareness, it has soul, it has consciousness. Consciousness <wrap hide>345|00:48:39|120|00:48:45|260</wrap>and soul are the same. What we call the soul is simply a localization of consciousness <wrap hide>346|00:48:45|260|00:48:54|880</wrap>at a particular depth of immersion in matter. It is a—it's soul within a given formal <wrap hide>347|00:48:54|880|00:49:01|760</wrap>ring past not, but that—but soul is a much more expansive thing. So soul is a universal <wrap hide>348|00:49:01|760|00:49:09|000</wrap>consciousness. It is cosmic consciousness. It is consciousness per se as a great aspect, <wrap hide>349|00:49:09|200|00:49:15|700</wrap>just the way being is a great aspect. So on this path of electric fire, we tread the path <wrap hide>350|00:49:15|700|00:49:23|140</wrap>of initiation, particularly from the third initiation on. Our monadic nature comes into <wrap hide>351|00:49:23|140|00:49:29|700</wrap>awareness, and the nature of the fourth creative hierarchy comes into awareness. We will receive <wrap hide>352|00:49:29|700|00:49:35|380</wrap>full soul expression. Now, that's very interesting because the causal body has to be, in a way, <wrap hide>353|00:49:35|380|00:49:42|460</wrap>destroyed for there to be full soul expression, because the causal body is the shroud of the <wrap hide>354|00:49:42|460|00:49:51|460</wrap>soul and definitely limits consciousness to a type of super-individuality. So, you know, <wrap hide>355|00:49:51|460|00:49:56|620</wrap>we have to watch every word here. <wrap quote>GOAL: //Identification with the Monad. EA, p.57//</wrap> The goal here is identification with the monad, and <wrap hide>356|00:49:56|620|00:50:02|480</wrap>actually what I like to say—when identification with the monad, I like to call it identification <wrap hide>357|00:50:02|480|00:50:11|100</wrap>as the monad because that is what we are—the monad. And when we say "with," it sounds <wrap hide>358|00:50:11|100|00:50:15|520</wrap>like it's a different thing, but we are simply an extension of the monad. We are the monad <wrap hide>359|00:50:15|520|00:50:23|580</wrap>in extension. So we re-identify as if we were the monad, which we are, and this <wrap quote>Produces responsiveness <wrap hide>360|00:50:23|580|00:50:31|780</wrap>to the three constellations. //EA, p.57//</wrap> however, in whatever order you want to list them. I <wrap hide>361|00:50:31|780|00:50:37|580</wrap>think generally I think of the Great Bear as Sirius and the Pleiades as representing <wrap hide>362|00:50:37|580|00:50:41|620</wrap>the first, second, and third aspects, but as we have discussed, there are other ways to <wrap hide>363|00:50:41|620|00:50:47|860</wrap>work that around so that even Sirius can, with respect to our solar system, look like the <wrap hide>364|00:50:47|860|00:50:54|420</wrap>dominating factor. And the Great Bear, at one point, is placed upon the Cosmic Buddhic Plane <wrap hide>365|00:50:55|120|00:51:00|920</wrap>in the chart on page 344 of Cosmic Fire, which seems to say, "Okay, it's connected somehow with <wrap hide>366|00:51:00|920|00:51:10|320</wrap>the second aspect of divinity." <wrap quote>II. Solar Fire.—Path of Discipleship—5th Hierarchy; full life experience; soul life. //EA, p.57//</wrap> The Solar Fire is ruling on the Path of Discipleship, and <wrap hide>367|00:51:10|320|00:51:17|840</wrap>the fifth Creative Hierarchy of Solar Angels is important here. We have full life in the <wrap hide>368|00:51:18|380|00:51:26|960</wrap>experience—soul life—where we have full experience of life in the worlds in which our consciousness <wrap hide>369|00:51:26|960|00:51:32|900</wrap>is immersed. We have soul life, but we don't have full soul life because the soul is not <wrap hide>370|00:51:32|900|00:51:41|660</wrap>yet liberated from the higher mental plane. As far as Solar Fire goes, you know, I like <wrap hide>371|00:51:41|660|00:51:51|120</wrap>to say that it really is operative after the third initiation as well—that one—that since <wrap hide>372|00:51:51|120|00:51:58|980</wrap>the ray of the spiritual triad is the same as the ray of the soul or ego on the higher <wrap hide>373|00:51:58|980|00:52:05|780</wrap>mental plane, and since a master achieves a kind of consciousness which works through <wrap hide>374|00:52:05|780|00:52:12|080</wrap>the Atmic plane where that soul ray is still active, even at the fifth initiation I like <wrap hide>375|00:52:12|080|00:52:19|920</wrap>to say that this Solar Fire is somehow sustained through the expression of the spiritual triad, <wrap hide>376|00:52:19|920|00:52:27|000</wrap>and the soul ray does persist in the life of the high initiate—even the initiate of <wrap hide>377|00:52:27|000|00:52:32|400</wrap>the fourth degree and even the initiate of the fifth degree—although the monad grows <wrap hide>378|00:52:32|400|00:52:40|560</wrap>in power. Solar Fire, path of discipleship—of course, that term "discipleship," it can last <wrap hide>379|00:52:40|560|00:52:49|140</wrap>a long time. It can apply to even high initiates—initiates higher than masters—they are disciples, <wrap hide>380|00:52:49|700|00:52:59|380</wrap>and sometimes the Solar Fire is seen as expressing through agony on planes number two, three, <wrap hide>381|00:52:59|380|00:53:05|040</wrap>and four. So, you know, Solar Fire is the main fire of our solar system. We don't just get <wrap hide>382|00:53:05|040|00:53:14|000</wrap>rid of that. Even electric fire is a subsidiary category within the main and large Solar Fire. <wrap hide>383|00:53:14|640|00:53:19|960</wrap>But you know, at face value, here on the path of discipleship we're learning to wield Solar <wrap hide>384|00:53:19|960|00:53:29|360</wrap>Fire. We're learning the power of love and unity, we're learning the magnetism of the <wrap hide>385|00:53:29|380|00:53:36|420</wrap>soul, and this makes our life experience much fuller because all of our gifts found in the <wrap hide>386|00:53:36|420|00:53:45|760</wrap>causal vehicle are applied; all of our riches are applied in the correct type of expression. <wrap hide>387|00:53:47|160|00:53:52|480</wrap>So what is the goal? <wrap quote>GOAL: //Identification with the soul//. //EA, p.58//</wrap> or I like to say as the soul, and <wrap quote>Produces <wrap hide>388|00:53:52|480|00:53:59|260</wrap>responsiveness to the twelve zodiacal constellations. //EA, p.58//</wrap> Well, you know, D.K. is setting out a structure <wrap hide>389|00:53:59|260|00:54:06|400</wrap>here which is pretty definite relating the constellations to the soul, but keep in mind <wrap hide>390|00:54:06|400|00:54:13|680</wrap>those other sentences which show other relations as well. Identification as the soul—so this <wrap hide>391|00:54:13|680|00:54:20|920</wrap>is group consciousness—identification as the monad is more what we call universal consciousness <wrap hide>392|00:54:20|920|00:54:29|240</wrap>because the monad is that which finds its home within the sun. So you know, the monad <wrap hide>393|00:54:29|260|00:54:37|240</wrap>can have—includes much more than the egoic groups and so forth. If you expand, of course, <wrap hide>394|00:54:37|240|00:54:44|840</wrap>the group, you get the universal picture. So it's just a question of degree. <wrap quote>III. //Fire by Friction//.—Path of Evolution—6th Hierarchy; life experiment; human life. //EA, p.58//</wrap> Man is also <wrap hide>395|00:54:45|060|00:54:51|060</wrap>fire by friction, and here we're treading the path of evolution for the majority of the <wrap hide>396|00:54:51|060|00:54:55|680</wrap>millions of years we are man. As a matter of fact, you know, if you take an arbitrary <wrap hide>397|00:54:55|680|00:55:01|540</wrap>figure and say that on the average it takes twenty-five million years to make a man—and <wrap hide>398|00:55:01|540|00:55:08|840</wrap>of course that number twenty-five has been assigned—Stephen Pugh, a very excellent rayologist, <wrap hide>399|00:55:08|840|00:55:13|900</wrap>has assigned that number to the fourth ray, and here we have the fourth Creative Hierarchy, <wrap hide>400|00:55:13|900|00:55:21|760</wrap>and here we have the idea that it maybe takes twenty-five million years to make a man. The <wrap hide>401|00:55:21|760|00:55:28|560</wrap>majority of that twenty-five million is spent under the influence of fire by friction. Some— <wrap hide>402|00:55:29|620|00:55:35|260</wrap>a short portion—is spent under solar fire, and a very brief portion for man as man is <wrap hide>403|00:55:35|260|00:55:42|200</wrap>spent under the influence of electric fire. So here we're dealing with the sixth hierarchy <wrap hide>404|00:55:43|440|00:55:50|260</wrap>which is providing the vitality of our lunar vehicles, as we read earlier in that very short <wrap hide>405|00:55:50|260|00:55:56|300</wrap>section on the sixth hierarchy, and here we have the life experiment going on. We can <wrap hide>406|00:55:56|300|00:56:04|560</wrap>relate it more to the Mutable Cross, just as we can relate category two to the Fixed Cross <wrap hide>407|00:56:05|090|00:56:10|600</wrap>on the Path of Discipleship, and we can relate the path of true initiation to the Cardinal <wrap hide>408|00:56:10|600|00:56:17|020</wrap>Cross—even though you are treading the Path of Initiation before you truly step upon the <wrap hide>409|00:56:17|020|00:56:28|260</wrap>Cardinal Cross. Stepping upon the Cardinal Cross, which endures for a long, long time— <wrap hide>410|00:56:28|340|00:56:31|960</wrap>in other words, the great beings like Sanat Kumara and so forth are on the Cardinal Cross. <wrap hide>411|00:56:32|440|00:56:38|180</wrap>The Fixed Cross is really the shortest in duration, but as far as man as man is concerned, <wrap hide>412|00:56:38|780|00:56:45|960</wrap>the Cardinal Cross experience is very small. But the Cardinal Cross will be related then <wrap hide>413|00:56:45|960|00:56:51|640</wrap>to this Path of Initiation, and especially after the fourth degree, and as one approaches <wrap hide>414|00:56:51|640|00:57:02|740</wrap>the fifth degree, the Cardinal Cross with more of its potentials must come into view. Alright, <wrap hide>415|00:57:03|780|00:57:13|100</wrap>well, alright, I don't think that we can begin this next section, so we've just been completing <wrap hide>416|00:57:13|100|00:57:30|500</wrap>EAA 27, and we began at page 56 or so, and we went to page 58, and we will take up in EAA <wrap hide>417|00:57:30|500|00:57:37|720</wrap>28 the great wheel and spiritual unfoldment. So we've been dealing with the three fires <wrap hide>418|00:57:37|720|00:57:46|120</wrap>here; we've been dealing with the major hierarchies that condition man; we've been dealing with <wrap hide>419|00:57:46|120|00:57:54|580</wrap>man as a triplicity, a three-fold entity; we've been dealing with the glyphs and whether <wrap hide>420|00:57:54|580|00:58:03|600</wrap>they are a dual, a unitary in some manner, or whether they are triple and how well they <wrap hide>421|00:58:03|600|00:58:08|120</wrap>are drawn. This has been the subject that we've been dealing with in this particular <wrap hide>422|00:58:08|120|00:58:18|260</wrap>esoteric astrology adventure. So now we will together sound The Great Invocation, but I <wrap hide>423|00:58:18|260|00:58:25|280</wrap>have to—you know, I know you know it by memory, but I just have to pull it out here, and I <wrap hide>424|00:58:25|280|00:58:33|500</wrap>see I didn't do that ahead of time, and this has to be done by pulling up those—the AAB <wrap hide>425|00:58:33|600|00:58:41|320</wrap>compilation. Well, maybe it's not worth trying to do that. Let's see. Alright, right there, <wrap hide>426|00:58:42|280|00:58:55|120</wrap>hopefully this will work. Alright, yeah, it will. Okay, and I should always keep that handy, <wrap hide>427|00:58:55|120|00:59:03|580</wrap>of course. So we've been dealing with the three fires here, the first fire, the second <wrap hide>428|00:59:15|320|00:59:24|360</wrap>fire. From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>429|00:59:24|360|00:59:33|580</wrap>of men. Let light descend on Earth. From the point of light within the mind of God, let <wrap hide>430|00:59:33|600|00:59:43|080</wrap>love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return <wrap hide>431|00:59:43|080|00:59:55|360</wrap>to Earth. From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little <wrap hide>432|00:59:55|360|01:00:03|580</wrap>wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. From the center where the <wrap hide>433|01:00:06|440|01:00:07|240</wrap>will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the <wrap hide>434|01:00:07|240|01:00:12|020</wrap>masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love <wrap hide>435|01:00:12|020|01:00:33|480</wrap>and light work out and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light and love and <wrap hide>436|01:00:33|480|01:00:58|640</wrap>power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>437|01:01:07|120|01:01:08|340</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>438|01:01:16|700|01:01:26|620</wrap>Okay everybody, we are moving forward and we will continue with esoteric astrology adventure. <wrap hide>439|01:01:26|620|01:01:36|940</wrap>It is an adventure I think, an adventure in penetrating depths of understanding as <wrap hide>440|01:01:36|940|01:01:43|280</wrap>much as we can. Okay, we will do that next. Bye for now.
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