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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:07|880|00:00:14|500</wrap>Okay. Hi everybody. I'm trying a different microphone here. I hope this is going to work <wrap hide>2|00:00:14|500|00:00:28|760</wrap>well. This is our 29th esoteric astrology adventure, and today is still the 25th of July. We've been <wrap hide>3|00:00:28|760|00:00:37|320</wrap>talking here about considering the dualities in terms of the constellation and its sign opposite, <wrap hide>4|00:00:38|320|00:00:47|780</wrap>and the D.K. is telling us how we're going to do that. We're going to take up the points in the <wrap hide>5|00:00:47|780|00:00:53|320</wrap>following manner, he says. From the standpoint of commencement at Aries, we're going to consider the <wrap hide>6|00:00:53|320|00:01:04|020</wrap>two modes of either progressing or regressing around the wheel, and how that means the different <wrap hide>7|00:01:04|020|00:01:14|680</wrap>ways of responding to the potentialities of the signs of the zodiac. We are also—we covered the <wrap hide>8|00:01:14|680|00:01:23|300</wrap>idea—we're going to investigate astrology <wrap quote>2. From the standpoint of the man upon the probationary path //EA, p.61//</wrap> <wrap hide>9|00:01:23|300|00:01:30|220</wrap>and how he is still quite dizzy or giddy upon that path, not knowing his true orientation, <wrap hide>10|00:01:30|440|00:01:36|800</wrap>but eventually begins to do so under the influence, the intuitive influence of Gemini, <wrap hide>11|00:01:38|340|00:01:47|080</wrap>clarifying the pairs of opposites, and also under the influence of Sagittarius, which gives him <wrap hide>12|00:01:47|080|00:01:56|360</wrap>purpose and direction. And finally, the crisis of initiation comes, followed by the crisis of <wrap hide>13|00:01:57|740|00:02:09|420</wrap>renunciation. Okay, then we reach the point where we can begin the third method of investigation, <wrap hide>14|00:02:09|420|00:02:18|300</wrap>and D.K. is going to undertake his examination from the standpoint of the pledged disciple and <wrap hide>15|00:02:18|300|00:02:24|900</wrap>initiate, which is certainly different from that of the probationary disciple. <wrap quote>3. From the standpoint of the pledged <wrap hide>16|00:02:24|900|00:02:37|360</wrap>disciple and initiate who traverses again the Path of the Sun and finds that //EA, p.61//</wrap>—and this, of course, <wrap hide>17|00:02:37|360|00:02:41|600</wrap>the Path of the Sun is now progressive, in other words it's the reversed wheel, <wrap hide>18|00:02:43|000|00:02:50|140</wrap>as is the case for the probationary disciple as well, but with much more conflict for the <wrap hide>19|00:02:50|140|00:02:54|620</wrap>probationary disciple. Now the purpose is so strong for the pledged disciple or initiate, <wrap hide>20|00:02:55|580|00:03:05|280</wrap>that the reversing wheel is gradually overcoming the normal wheel, and the rending process of the <wrap hide>21|00:03:05|280|00:03:15|620</wrap>two wheels turning is decreasing because the power of the wheel is becoming stronger. So, <wrap hide>22|00:03:15|980|00:03:22|420</wrap>we're taking this <wrap quote>3. From the standpoint of the pledged disciple and initiate who traverses <wrap hide>23|00:03:22|420|00:03:33|600</wrap>again the Path of the Sun and finds that that which he has discovered himself to be //in Leo// finds its <wrap hide>24|00:03:33|600|00:03:43|280</wrap>crown //in Aquarius//. //EA, p.61//</wrap> Now this is very interesting. He's discovered himself to be the soul, not just <wrap hide>25|00:03:43|280|00:03:56|620</wrap>the personality in Leo. He's responding to the mantram, "I am that," but at the same time, he is <wrap hide>26|00:03:56|620|00:04:02|520</wrap>moving towards the group consciousness and even eventually the universal consciousness of Aquarius, <wrap hide>27|00:04:02|520|00:04:11|920</wrap>and it's very interesting the idea of the crown, because the crown center can be considered a <wrap hide>28|00:04:11|920|00:04:21|380</wrap>radiatory center ruled by radiatory Aquarius. In other words, it's the synthesis of so many of the <wrap hide>29|00:04:21|380|00:04:30|320</wrap>faculties, and Aquarius rules this grand synthesis. So Aquarius is one of the signs particularly <wrap hide>30|00:04:30|320|00:04:38|020</wrap>associated with the third and with the fourth initiation, when the crown center is greatly <wrap hide>31|00:04:38|020|00:04:59|620</wrap>stimulated, purpose being in the nature of the crown center, and will being in the nature of the <wrap hide>32|00:05:05|680|00:05:14|060</wrap>highest head center. He traverses the path of the Sun and finds that which he has discovered <wrap hide>33|00:05:14|060|00:05:22|060</wrap>himself to be in Leo, that that finds its crown in Aquarius. In other words, Aquarius is considered <wrap hide>34|00:05:22|060|00:05:32|800</wrap>a consummating sign, and so many of the initiates take their final incarnation in Aquarius and find <wrap hide>35|00:05:32|800|00:05:43|240</wrap>themselves as world servers. Occasionally you find the world's savior taking the final incarnation in <wrap hide>36|00:05:43|240|00:05:53|560</wrap>Pisces. <wrap quote>The separative individual consciousness becomes the group consciousness in Aquarius, //EA, p.61//</wrap> <wrap hide>37|00:05:55|020|00:06:02|880</wrap>and group consciousness or universal consciousness, <wrap quote>and he begins to comprehend the significance of <wrap hide>1|00:00:07|880|00:00:14|500</wrap>that basic combination of signs, that "triangle in the consciousness" of humanity: //EA, p.61//</wrap> There are a number <wrap hide>39|00:06:09|540|00:06:21|040</wrap>of triangles in the consciousness of humanity, and they signify a type of progress from an <wrap hide>40|00:06:21|040|00:06:28|500</wrap>initial condition to a final condition. So these triangles of consciousness are to be carefully <wrap hide>41|00:06:28|500|00:06:35|380</wrap>noted, and let us see what triangle he's talking about here. It's the triangle of Cancer, Leo, <wrap hide>42|00:06:36|100|00:06:47|020</wrap>Aquarius. Cancer, we have the mass awareness, and the instinctual consciousness. I think, <wrap hide>43|00:06:47|040|00:07:05|360</wrap>you know, if I have these somewhat smaller, maybe a number 10 perhaps, we would, yeah, <wrap hide>44|00:07:05|360|00:07:14|440</wrap>consciousness which all share and which is based upon the instinctual urges and the environments <wrap hide>45|00:07:14|440|00:07:21|500</wrap>into which those instinctual urges force one. There is no real individuality, and interestingly <wrap hide>46|00:07:21|500|00:07:33|680</wrap>enough, the constellation of Cancer is quite dim, quite vague, quite diffused. There are no real <wrap hide>47|00:07:33|680|00:07:40|900</wrap>brilliant points. It relates perhaps to the idea that for us, and how we perceive the constellation <wrap hide>48|00:07:40|900|00:07:47|060</wrap>Cancer, it was much more powerful in the previous solar system, and especially we are told by D.K., <wrap hide>49|00:07:47|400|00:07:55|080</wrap>in the first part of the previous solar system. Leo, on the other hand, is a much more well-defined <wrap hide>50|00:07:55|080|00:08:02|280</wrap>constellation as we view it, and it signifies at first individual awareness, and then finally <wrap hide>51|00:08:02|280|00:08:07|660</wrap>group awareness, and then an awareness of oneness, but here we're talking about the individual <wrap hide>52|00:08:07|660|00:08:16|600</wrap>awareness, and it conveys the fifth ray. It suggests the illumination at least of the concrete <wrap hide>53|00:08:16|600|00:08:24|800</wrap>mind. It suggests intelligent consciousness. Aquarius, interestingly, is also a relatively <wrap hide>54|00:08:26|300|00:08:33|600</wrap>dim constellation. You have to be careful in how you try to make it out, and it refers to a future <wrap hide>55|00:08:33|600|00:08:46|420</wrap>condition, not yet precipitated, not yet vitally radiant in the awareness of humanity. It signifies <wrap hide>56|00:08:46|420|00:08:52|920</wrap>group awareness and the intuitive consciousness which are alive in a few, but have yet to grow <wrap hide>57|00:08:52|920|00:09:00|500</wrap>very much in the consciousness of humanity. You begin to wonder later when there is group, <wrap hide>58|00:09:01|300|00:09:07|140</wrap>real group awareness, real intuitive consciousness for the masses, whether that will even be, you <wrap hide>59|00:09:07|140|00:09:12|500</wrap>know, in this solar system, or rather the next, whether the appearance of the constellation <wrap hide>60|00:09:13|340|00:09:21|720</wrap>Aquarius will thereby look greater in some way, more defined, more brilliant. Anyway, <wrap hide>61|00:09:21|720|00:09:27|240</wrap>Cancer Leo Aquarius, from the mass to the individual to the group, from instinct to <wrap hide>62|00:09:27|240|00:09:35|640</wrap>intelligence to intuition, a major triangle in consciousness, and I think we can all place <wrap hide>63|00:09:35|640|00:09:43|840</wrap>ourselves somewhat here. We are perhaps in the second stage of the Leo consciousness, <wrap hide>64|00:09:43|840|00:09:53|340</wrap>and attempting to move into the first phase of group, real group awareness, and eventually <wrap hide>65|00:09:54|080|00:10:03|880</wrap>achieve that broadened group consciousness which might be called universal, and takes in the entire <wrap hide>66|00:10:03|880|00:10:14|220</wrap>planet and the entire system. It's a climaxing condition, and it is accompanied by the quite <wrap hide>67|00:10:14|220|00:10:20|340</wrap>full unfoldment of the head center. We don't know when the head center is fully unfolded, <wrap hide>68|00:10:20|340|00:10:29|020</wrap>because we can see that, I think, even in the Maya verupas of sixth or seventh degree initiates, <wrap hide>69|00:10:29|020|00:10:35|300</wrap>if one unfolds a Maya verupa, then the chakras will also be part of it, and the unfoldments of <wrap hide>70|00:10:35|740|00:10:45|400</wrap>those higher chakras may well progress. <wrap quote>Then, from the standpoint of achievement //in Capricorn//, //EA, p.62//</wrap> <wrap hide>71|00:10:45|520|00:10:52|880</wrap>you always reach some pinnacle in Capricorn at whatever level you may be operating. It can be <wrap hide>72|00:10:52|880|00:10:58|740</wrap>the pinnacle of personality achievement, of soul achievement, or even spiritual spirit achievement. <wrap hide>73|00:10:58|740|00:11:06|640</wrap>From the standpoint of achievement in Capricorn, <wrap quote>he works for several lives around the zodiacal <wrap hide>74|00:11:06|640|00:11:16|720</wrap>path, descending into the sea of mass consciousness //EA, p.62//</wrap> He's still on the reversed wheel, going forward, <wrap hide>75|00:11:16|720|00:11:23|960</wrap>as it were. That means to respond powerfully to the higher potentials of the sign; that's what <wrap hide>76|00:11:25|180|00:11:31|820</wrap>progressing on the zodiacal wheel means. He goes around the zodiacal path, and may incarnate in a <wrap hide>77|00:11:31|820|00:11:39|860</wrap>number of signs, apparently, descending into the sea of the mass consciousness, but this time he is not <wrap hide>78|00:11:39|860|00:11:49|040</wrap>a victim of mass consciousness at all. He is a kind of a server or savior. <wrap quote>to become what is <wrap hide>79|00:11:49|040|00:11:56|800</wrap>called in the ancient books "the Crab, who clears the ocean of matter which flows around the soul <wrap hide>80|00:11:56|800|00:12:09|800</wrap>of man," //EA, p.62//</wrap> So he becomes a scavenger, in a way, and he is removing the matter which somehow inhibits <wrap hide>81|00:12:10|740|00:12:20|480</wrap>the radiance of the soul. It's a cleaning operation, a scavenging operation, and the <wrap hide>82|00:12:20|480|00:12:27|920</wrap>claws then have a different meaning, don't they? They are not so concerned with grasping and <wrap hide>83|00:12:27|920|00:12:35|880</wrap>clinging for oneself, but they get hold of obstructions, and remove the obstructions <wrap hide>84|00:12:35|880|00:12:42|540</wrap>from one's fellow human beings, and maybe other forms of life, so that they can radiate their <wrap hide>85|00:12:42|540|00:12:54|360</wrap>true inner nature, <wrap quote>and eventually to become a functioning world saviour //in Pisces//. //EA, p.62//</wrap> So it's <wrap hide>86|00:12:54|360|00:13:00|480</wrap>interesting that D.K. seems to suggest that we do not move immediately from Capricorn into Pisces, <wrap hide>87|00:13:01|480|00:13:07|800</wrap>or into Aquarius necessarily, but we go through, as an initiate, a third-degree initiate, let us <wrap hide>88|00:13:07|800|00:13:17|820</wrap>say, through certain signs of service in which we are no longer vulnerable to the type of limitations <wrap hide>89|00:13:17|820|00:13:27|840</wrap>we experienced in those signs before, but rather are helping others avoid susceptibility to those <wrap hide>90|00:13:27|840|00:13:38|300</wrap>kinds of limitations. Help is always available. <wrap quote>He descends into the world of men to save <wrap hide>91|00:13:38|300|00:13:50|220</wrap>mankind and to further the plan. //EA, p.62//</wrap> and if we succeed in furthering the plan, there will always be the <wrap hide>92|00:13:50|220|00:13:59|340</wrap>result that a type of salvation has taken place, because the plan indeed saves. If we have the will <wrap hide>93|00:13:59|340|00:14:11|300</wrap>and courage and intelligence and love to follow and express the plan, we will bring salvation, <wrap hide>94|00:14:11|960|00:14:21|080</wrap>at least strong service with that expression. <wrap quote>He is then "the fish who swims free in the ocean of <wrap hide>95|00:14:21|080|00:14:31|080</wrap>matter." //EA, p.62//</wrap> The fish is perhaps always a symbol of a self who swims in the ocean of experience, <wrap hide>96|00:14:31|080|00:14:42|020</wrap>but has a certain type of integrity and mobility, and he has the power to swim by his own volition <wrap hide>97|00:14:42|020|00:14:51|080</wrap>and is not swept along perhaps in instinctively reacting schools of fish. You've sometimes seen <wrap hide>98|00:14:51|080|00:14:57|140</wrap>how the fish all respond at once in an instinctual way. He seems to have deliberation here, <wrap hide>99|00:14:57|140|00:15:05|960</wrap>and maybe he is identified not only with Pisces, but with great fish associated with the sign <wrap hide>100|00:15:05|960|00:15:16|740</wrap>Aquarius: Piscis Austrinus, or Australis, who is the saving fish. So, you know, it takes quite a bit <wrap hide>101|00:15:16|740|00:15:27|120</wrap>not to be overcome by the third aspect tendencies of matter, and swept along like the mass, as it is <wrap hide>102|00:15:27|120|00:15:36|620</wrap>with Cancer, being engulfed by mass consciousness and responding and thinking, if we can call it <wrap hide>103|00:15:36|620|00:15:44|120</wrap>that, just like everybody else with no real willpower and mind and self-determination. <wrap hide>104|00:15:44|820|00:15:52|480</wrap>So this is the progress of man, and D.K. is trying to get us to understand the great wheels: <wrap hide>105|00:15:52|480|00:15:57|540</wrap>the wheel of form, retrogressing, going clockwise; the wheel of consciousness, <wrap hide>106|00:15:58|180|00:16:09|280</wrap>progressing, going counter-clockwise. <wrap quote>The initiate has always to express, in each sign of the zodiac, <wrap hide>107|00:16:09|280|00:16:19|320</wrap>the consummation and spiritual fruit of earlier life experience, world experiment and soul <wrap hide>108|00:16:19|320|00:16:32|000</wrap>achievement. //EA, p.62//</wrap> You know, we oftentimes leave a sign in a state of incomplete achievement, <wrap hide>109|00:16:32|080|00:16:39|980</wrap>and there is a frustration there, and we can identify with the words of the poet Robert <wrap hide>110|00:16:39|980|00:16:47|800</wrap>Browning when he says, "Ah, that a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for." <wrap hide>111|00:16:48|320|00:16:56|000</wrap>So we do not bring consummation in each of the signs so many times, but eventually we are to <wrap hide>112|00:16:56|000|00:17:03|900</wrap>pass in each sign of the zodiac and bring about a type of consummation for that sign. The question <wrap hide>113|00:17:03|900|00:17:10|200</wrap>is, is this done in any sequential manner, or is there generally a period of life <wrap hide>114|00:17:10|940|00:17:21|480</wrap>later in one's incarnational path when it is quite likely to bring forward a degree of consummation <wrap hide>115|00:17:21|480|00:17:28|000</wrap>in each sign? I'm not sure it has to be perfect; maybe perfection is only reached in the sign Pisces <wrap hide>116|00:17:28|000|00:17:38|240</wrap>by a world savior, as he renounces all to save humanity. So spiritual fruit of earlier life <wrap hide>117|00:17:38|240|00:17:44|240</wrap>experience, experiment, and achievement—those are words which are often used. We begin with the <wrap hide>118|00:17:44|240|00:17:51|300</wrap>experience, we evaluate the experience, and find out within ourselves how it might be improved, <wrap hide>119|00:17:51|360|00:17:57|020</wrap>and thus we experiment, and that experiment, when the experiments are wise and skillful, <wrap hide>120|00:17:57|100|00:18:04|020</wrap>leads to achievement—not just personality achievement, but soul achievement. Selfishness, <wrap hide>121|00:18:04|020|00:18:09|860</wrap>which is what we do experience so often in the various signs, <wrap quote>Selfishness has ever to be translated <wrap hide>122|00:18:09|860|00:18:17|860</wrap>into living active service, and desire has to demonstrate its transmutation in the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of God. //EA, p.62//</wrap> Well, the three aspects of divinity are found right there. The <wrap hide>123|00:18:17|860|00:18:31|940</wrap>life aspect is found in living; activity is the third aspect; service is the second aspect. Living <wrap hide>124|00:18:31|940|00:18:41|440</wrap>transmutation into the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of <wrap hide>125|00:18:41|440|00:18:54|840</wrap>God. So the progress there is desire, aspiration, identification. First we must aspire to <wrap hide>126|00:18:54|840|00:19:01|400</wrap>identification with the will of God before we will be in a sufficient condition of receptivity <wrap hide>127|00:19:01|400|00:19:11|860</wrap>to be impressed by it, and have the fortitude, the single-mindedness to carry it out. Anyway, <wrap hide>128|00:19:11|980|00:19:19|880</wrap>there's a great destiny that lies before all of us. At times we may feel overwhelmed by various <wrap hide>129|00:19:19|880|00:19:27|520</wrap>kinds of circumstances, and it may seem as if we will never get there, you know, thinking about <wrap hide>130|00:19:27|520|00:19:37|060</wrap>time in some sequential manner. But perhaps if we were capable of grasping something of the eternal <wrap hide>131|00:19:37|060|00:19:48|860</wrap>now, we would find ourselves more optimistic about reaching our goal of identification— <wrap hide>132|00:19:49|080|00:19:53|740</wrap>especially on this planet, the path of Earth's service, if we take that path—identification <wrap hide>133|00:19:53|740|00:20:02|140</wrap>with all beings, with all sentient beings, so we realize, in fact, that we are each and all of them, <wrap hide>134|00:20:02|300|00:20:11|500</wrap>and not "is," but "me"—the capital Me, the one I. D.K. goes on: <wrap quote>There are one or two points which must be <wrap hide>135|00:20:11|500|00:20:20|480</wrap>dealt with in order to enable you to study with certain definite ideas clearly formulated in your <wrap hide>136|00:20:20|480|00:20:27|960</wrap>minds. //EA, p.62//</wrap> He's trying to build in a certain structure of thought here, so we can study successfully <wrap hide>137|00:20:28|560|00:20:34|060</wrap>without being overwhelmed by a lot of new information. Of course, I realize I'm speaking <wrap hide>138|00:20:34|060|00:20:40|420</wrap>to quite a few of you who have experience with this book, and who are not new to astrology, <wrap hide>139|00:20:40|420|00:20:45|940</wrap>and who have spent even years in the esoteric astrology book, and that's, you know, partially <wrap hide>140|00:20:45|940|00:20:54|500</wrap>why I'm not going through it in a strictly linear manner, but I'm trying to ramify and bring in <wrap hide>141|00:20:54|500|00:21:05|380</wrap>certain connections which will place this book within the sphere of knowledge that has been given <wrap hide>142|00:21:05|380|00:21:12|900</wrap>by Master D.K., a great sphere, and finding the place of astrology within that sphere by drawing <wrap hide>143|00:21:13|580|00:21:22|800</wrap>or offering many links to other parts of that sphere of knowledge which he has offered. <wrap hide>144|00:21:22|800|00:21:31|800</wrap> <wrap quote>I have hinted at them in some of my earlier books but it will be of service to refer <wrap hide>145|00:21:31|800|00:21:38|120</wrap>to them again and to expand the ideas somewhat. //EA, p.62//</wrap> because after all, we do forget, don't we? I mean, <wrap hide>146|00:21:38|120|00:21:47|500</wrap>what does seem vivid at one point may be, even if it was marvelously vivid, may fade and need to be <wrap hide>147|00:21:47|500|00:21:56|160</wrap>revived. <wrap quote>I would have you carry them in your minds as you read and study. //EA, p.62//</wrap> <wrap quote>I have frequently referred <wrap hide>148|00:21:56|160|00:22:04|100</wrap>to the fact that the entire science of astrology is based upon a non-existent condition. //EA, p.62//</wrap> We've <wrap hide>149|00:22:04|860|00:22:09|780</wrap>talked about this from the very beginning of the book. "All is illusion, O Dweller in the shadows. <wrap hide>150|00:22:09|980|00:22:20|380</wrap>Even the universe is illusion." So much of what we perceive with our present faculties of <wrap hide>151|00:22:20|380|00:22:28|400</wrap>consciousness is not the inner reality at all. But there is enough to perceive within the outer <wrap hide>152|00:22:29|820|00:22:36|540</wrap>actuality to give us a method of approaching the inner reality. <wrap quote>It has no basis <wrap hide>153|00:22:36|540|00:22:44|380</wrap>in material fact and yet is eternally based on truth. //EA, p.62//</wrap> And this is one of those great paradoxes. <wrap hide>154|00:22:44|980|00:22:51|860</wrap>I think he's going to say something quite important here. <wrap quote>The zodiac is, as you well know, <wrap hide>155|00:22:51|860|00:22:58|120</wrap>the imaginary path of the Sun in the heavens. //EA, p.62//</wrap> It's not really a path at all. It's a seeming <wrap hide>156|00:22:58|120|00:23:11|080</wrap>path based upon the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. And of course, that's what creates the <wrap hide>157|00:23:11|080|00:23:19|120</wrap>image of the zodiac. And there is also a kind of a daily zodiac as well, due to the rotation of the <wrap hide>158|00:23:19|120|00:23:28|280</wrap>earth on its axis, and the sun seems then to follow the line of the zodiac across the sky. <wrap hide>159|00:23:29|140|00:23:35|080</wrap>Not moving from sign to sign, that would be too fast, but at least we traverse the zodiac in which <wrap hide>160|00:23:35|080|00:23:41|920</wrap>the sun has its apparently fixed position, at least fixed for a day, although not really fixed <wrap hide>161|00:23:41|920|00:23:47|880</wrap>at all. The zodiac is, as you well know, the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens. It is <wrap hide>162|00:23:47|880|00:23:58|080</wrap>therefore largely an illusion, but the constellations of this zodiac, the constellations through which <wrap hide>163|00:23:58|080|00:24:06|360</wrap>the sun appears to pass, they are very real in a way, and they have their own definite qualities, <wrap hide>164|00:24:06|360|00:24:14|920</wrap>which we must learn to appropriate, to absorb, appropriate, assimilate, and express. <wrap quote>It is <wrap hide>165|00:24:14|920|00:24:21|520</wrap>therefore largely an illusion, from the exoteric point of view. //EA, p.62//</wrap> because after all, the Sun is not <wrap hide>166|00:24:21|520|00:24:29|560</wrap>really passing through those constellations at all. This is kind of an alignment with the constellations. <wrap hide>167|00:24:30|500|00:24:41|520</wrap><wrap quote>But at the same time the constellations exist, and the streams of energy which pass and <wrap hide>168|00:24:43|740|00:24:52|300</wrap>repass, intermingle and interlock //EA, p.62//</wrap> join each other, cross each other, reinforce each other, interfere <wrap hide>169|00:24:52|300|00:25:00|240</wrap>with each other—the streams of energy from the constellations intermingle and interlock <wrap quote>throughout <wrap hide>170|00:25:00|240|00:25:07|560</wrap>the body of space are by no means illusions but definitely express eternal <wrap hide>171|00:25:08|220|00:25:16|220</wrap>relationships. //EA, p.62//</wrap> Well, certainly relationships that persist for a long time, because, you know, <wrap hide>172|00:25:16|940|00:25:23|660</wrap>when we look at the stars and the heavens, they are constantly changing positions, and each of <wrap hide>173|00:25:23|660|00:25:32|040</wrap>them has its own proper motion, and the configurations which we see at this time are not the configurations <wrap hide>174|00:25:32|040|00:25:40|940</wrap>which will be seen at a later point in cosmic history and so forth, but they do have long-lasting <wrap hide>175|00:25:40|940|00:25:48|660</wrap>relationships as far as the time cycles on our earth may go. <wrap quote>It is the misuse of the various <wrap hide>176|00:25:48|660|00:25:54|860</wrap>energies which has created the illusion. //EA, p.62-63//</wrap> and that's a very interesting idea, because you do <wrap hide>177|00:25:54|860|00:26:04|680</wrap>wonder whether the misuse of the energies has led to a kind of thickening of the consciousness <wrap hide>178|00:26:04|680|00:26:12|750</wrap>of humanity. Maybe they could see much more before; maybe all that we can see now is the <wrap hide>179|00:26:14|220|00:26:20|480</wrap>barest fragment of what is really transpiring interiorly. Madame Blavatsky talked quite a bit <wrap hide>180|00:26:20|480|00:26:27|800</wrap>about how consciousness of the inner worlds was lost during the later Atlantean Age and during <wrap hide>181|00:26:27|800|00:26:37|160</wrap>the Aryan Age, so we do not see the reality behind the illusion, and our powers of perception have <wrap hide>182|00:26:37|160|00:26:44|520</wrap>been much dimmed, and perhaps this creates the illusion. Anyway, we must learn to rightly use <wrap hide>183|00:26:44|520|00:26:52|700</wrap>the passing and repassing, crossing, intermingling energies. <wrap quote>This illusory path is consequently as <wrap hide>184|00:26:53|120|00:27:11|120</wrap>much a reality to humanity today as are the personality illusions of any individual. //EA, p.63//</wrap> and let's <wrap hide>185|00:27:11|120|00:27:19|340</wrap>be very sure of the reality of their interpretations. But a wider and greater consciousness will point <wrap hide>186|00:27:19|340|00:27:28|640</wrap>out the errors of their assumptions, their concepts, their conclusions, and how they perceive <wrap hide>187|00:27:28|640|00:27:37|560</wrap>reality. So humanity at this moment is perceiving as reality something that really doesn't exist as <wrap hide>188|00:27:37|560|00:27:43|300</wrap>reality, something that is an illusion. <wrap quote>These illusions are due to the polarisation of the <wrap hide>189|00:27:43|300|00:28:07|540</wrap>individual upon the astral plane. //EA, p.63//</wrap> which tends to self-centeredness. This polarization tends to self-centeredness, and when there is self-centeredness, there is always <wrap hide>190|00:28:07|540|00:28:27|540</wrap>bias, which prevents vision of things as they are. Okay, so we've heard of the astral inversion, and we know how glamorously and exaggeratedly and <wrap hide>191|00:28:27|540|00:28:36|900</wrap>minimizingly—terrible words, but okay, you get the idea—the perceptions are when we are self-centered. Our <wrap hide>192|00:28:36|900|00:28:43|160</wrap>perceptions are always skewed because the ego, the lower ego, is standing there as if it's a reality, <wrap hide>193|00:28:43|500|00:28:52|320</wrap>and it doesn't allow us to perceive things as they are because the ego has not shrunk to a tiny point <wrap hide>194|00:28:52|320|00:29:03|150</wrap>where it does not interfere with perception. All right, so we are living in an illusion. It is <wrap hide>195|00:29:03|150|00:29:15|250</wrap>largely a personality illusion that has much to do with the fact that our planetary Logos has not overcome his personality nature, that the planetary spirit has not <wrap hide>196|00:29:15|250|00:29:28|240</wrap>overcome the spirit of the planet, as we remember from the previous webinar. The spirit of the planet is the Earth entity, the spirit of the Earth, and the planetary spirit, with a <wrap hide>197|00:29:28|240|00:29:44|160</wrap>little "s," is the planetary Logos himself. So we are dealing with misperceptions caused largely by our astral polarization, and if we could have a mental <wrap hide>198|00:29:44|160|00:30:06|500</wrap>polarization illumined by the soul, we would not see in this distorted manner. Okay, <wrap quote>It is interesting also to note in this connection that—due to the precession of the equinoxes—<wrap hide>199|00:30:06|500|00:30:25|080</wrap>a fourth type of force is brought to bear upon the planet and man, but one which is seldom recognised and given due place in the horoscope. //EA, p.63//</wrap> In other words, there is a wobbling of the Earth's axis, <wrap hide>200|00:30:25|080|00:30:46|700</wrap>and there is a gradual movement of one degree every 72 years, and there is a precessional factor which can be introduced into the personal horoscope. There are various ways of doing this. <wrap hide>201|00:30:46|700|00:31:04|740</wrap><wrap quote>The month and the sign, or the place of the Sun in the heavens, do not really coincide. //EA, p.63//</wrap> Well, that's certainly true in one respect, because generally Taurus is the month of— <wrap hide>202|00:31:06|340|00:31:24|960</wrap>May is the month of Taurus, generally speaking, but there's a part of May which coincides with the sign Gemini, and so it is. There's kind of an overlap. But I think what D.K. is talking about is that the sign and the constellations really do not coincide. <wrap hide>203|00:31:24|960|00:31:51|400</wrap>Because when we are tropically, and from the point of view of the ecliptic, the imaginary path of the sun, when we are supposedly in the sign Aries, the sun at the vernal equinox is really aligning with Pisces at this time. <wrap hide>204|00:31:51|400|00:32:07|180</wrap>And it will retrogress at the vernal equinox quite shortly. On the day when the sun passes the vernal equinox, it will be aligning with the latter part of the sign Aquarius. <wrap hide>205|00:32:07|180|00:32:33|580</wrap>And backward it will go for thousands of years so that the tropical sign, based upon the rotation of the earth around the sun, will become farther and farther away from the constellation with which the vernal equinox aligns at the first point of spring. <wrap hide>206|00:32:34|520|00:32:49|560</wrap>So, but D.K. is going to say something very interesting here. He's going to say, <wrap quote>When we state, for instance, that the Sun is "in Aries" //EA, p.63//</wrap> we're not really wrong, you see. <wrap hide>207|00:32:49|560|00:33:16|560</wrap><wrap quote>it conveys an esoteric truth but not an exoteric fact. //EA, p.63//</wrap> And so often astrologers are, you know, they are criticized by scientists for the fact that the sun, when it's in Aries, as the astrologers say it is, is really aligning with the constellation Pisces. <wrap hide>208|00:33:16|560|00:33:25|320</wrap>So they say, "Well, you have your perceptions entirely wrong; what you say does not correspond with the facts." <wrap hide>209|00:33:25|320|00:33:47|100</wrap>But the idea here is that the astrological signs do mean something. And that the different portions of the earth's orbit, or the ecliptic, actually are characterized by distinctive energies. <wrap hide>210|00:33:48|240|00:34:04|640</wrap>So that when the sun—let's see, <wrap quote>The Sun was in Aries at the beginning of this great cycle, //EA, p.63//</wrap> —okay, I wonder if I have somehow... yes I did, I erased that. Okay, now I've got it. <wrap hide>211|00:34:04|640|00:34:30|560</wrap>When we state, for instance, that the sun is in Aries, it does convey an esoteric truth. In other words, at that time, when the sun is aligned with the vernal equinox, regardless of what the constellation may be, towards which the vernal equinox is pointing, the energy of Aries is released upon the planet. <wrap hide>212|00:34:31|320|00:34:51|060</wrap>Even more than the energy of the constellation. So there is, as I talked about in earlier webinars here, there are portions of the earth's orbit which are particularly sensitive to, or aligned with, the energies of constellations. <wrap hide>213|00:34:51|060|00:35:20|780</wrap>So that very first part of the Earth's orbit, or that portion of the ecliptic, when the sun is tropically in Aries—in other words, when it's the first day of spring, as we call it—the constellation Aries is in attunement with that portion of the ecliptic, with that portion of the zodiacal circle. <wrap hide>214|00:35:20|780|00:35:41|200</wrap>In other words, from, let's say, March 21st to approximately April 21st, when planets are in that portion of the Earth's orbit, or when they're in that portion of the ecliptic, the constellation—the energy from the constellation—is affecting those planets. <wrap hide>215|00:35:41|200|00:35:55|420</wrap>So therefore, it is an esoteric truth: the sun is conveying an Arian energy. It is conveying the energy of Aries. And this is a profound statement by the Tibetan. <wrap hide>216|00:35:55|420|00:36:20|760</wrap>He's really telling us that we cannot throw away tropical astrology and settle upon sidereal astrology. I mean, it may be that when we are high initiates who are identified with the life of the planet—perhaps chohans—and we become planetary lives, that the planetary God himself is relating to the constellations directly. <wrap hide>217|00:36:20|760|00:36:49|000</wrap>And then the sidereal astrology will be spiritually very meaningful for us. But if you study the form of various types of life, and let's just say the form of a human being, you will see that the form of human beings is much affected by the tropical sign. <wrap hide>218|00:36:49|000|00:37:14|720</wrap>As that sign receives the energy of the constellation, regardless of where that constellation may be. There will come a time 10,000 years ago when the sun is in Aries, the background of it may be Scorpio—the constellation Scorpio—or something like that, or Libra. <wrap hide>219|00:37:15|680|00:37:28|160</wrap>You know, I'll calculate that out exactly, but you get the idea. The vernal equinox will be aligned with a completely different constellation, and yet the sun will esoterically be in Aries. <wrap hide>220|00:37:28|680|00:37:39|800</wrap>And the energy of the constellation Aries will come through at that time when the sun is crossing the vernal equinox and for approximately a month following that. <wrap hide>221|00:37:39|800|00:38:08|520</wrap>So, inner dynamics relating the constellations—the energy of the constellations and the streams of energy—to the sections of the Earth's aura and to the sections of the Earth's orbit, will have to be understood before the fundamental esotericism of that relationship is seen as real. <wrap hide>222|00:38:08|520|00:38:22|240</wrap>And thus criticism will end that astrologers do not have their head on straight and can't even accord with the facts. They know the exoteric facts. <wrap hide>223|00:38:22|240|00:38:42|520</wrap>The astrologers know the exoteric facts, but they also follow the influence of the energy, and they know that something is operating within this context of the signs, which is a very real energy event—energy process. <wrap hide>224|00:38:43|180|00:38:58|000</wrap>Now, he's telling us that the sun was in Aries. In other words, that at the vernal equinox, the sun did align with the constellation Aries at the beginning of this great cycle, perhaps 2,000 years ago. <wrap hide>225|00:38:58|000|00:39:08|060</wrap><wrap quote>but it is not in exactly the same position today //EA, p.63//</wrap> against the background of stars <wrap quote>when it is "found" in that sign. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>226|00:39:08|060|00:39:30|500</wrap>So this is such an important paragraph to establish the validity of tropical astrology. Of course, anybody who opens their eyes can see that people do really represent in form, in temperament, in consciousness, their tropical positions. <wrap hide>227|00:39:30|500|00:39:46|840</wrap>You have to force so hard, in my opinion at least, to make a person—to pretend that a person is responding more to their sidereal positions. It's a very remote response if it is so. <wrap hide>228|00:39:46|960|00:39:58|200</wrap>I mean, I know in my own case, you know, I've lived as an Aries individual my whole life, doing the things Aries people do, and doing them well before I even knew I was an Aries individual. <wrap hide>229|00:40:00|080|00:40:10|780</wrap>Is my sun sign really Pisces? Well, maybe the energy of Pisces comes into my chart in a different way, but not from the sun sign. <wrap hide>230|00:40:11|500|00:40:27|900</wrap>I have not lived the life of the individual with the sun in Pisces. Always the direct, assertive, pioneering, extremist, pushing-onward attitude has characterized me. <wrap hide>231|00:40:27|940|00:40:35|320</wrap>It's the attitude of Aries. It is a very real energy. It comes from the sun in Aries, tropically considered. <wrap hide>232|00:40:35|320|00:40:51|520</wrap>And maybe you'll find the same to be the case for you, and my form also demonstrates that. When the form demonstrates a link with a certain sign, you know that the form is built upon the etheric body, and the etheric body is built upon the soul. <wrap hide>233|00:40:51|520|00:41:08|000</wrap>The soul qualities—they are reflections. The etheric body is a reflection of the soul. So the form is not just an exoteric thing at all. It's a deeply esoteric thing, which is the out-picturing of deeply esoteric factors. <wrap hide>234|00:41:08|880|00:41:13|620</wrap>Anyway, this is how I found it to be in my own examination of these things. <wrap hide>235|00:41:14|500|00:41:24|800</wrap><wrap quote>Also it should be remembered that as it is necessary to know the moment of birth and the place of birth in casting the horoscope of the individual, <wrap hide>236|00:41:25|080|00:41:39|680</wrap>so in order to have a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation, the planets and our Earth there should be a fixed time from which to reckon. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>237|00:41:39|680|00:41:53|720</wrap>Well, that's a problem. We don't really have a fixed time. Maybe he's hinting at the idea that our time and our calendar is only relatively correct. <wrap hide>238|00:41:53|860|00:42:01|480</wrap>But within that relativity, we are also supposed to have as perfectly accurate a time as we possibly can. <wrap hide>239|00:42:01|480|00:42:14|760</wrap>At least we need to know the moment of birth. Now, lately they're taking more care in recording these things, even though hospital clocks can be notoriously discrepant. <wrap hide>240|00:42:14|940|00:42:28|300</wrap>You know, you just ask individuals what time to watch a show, they'll show a two or three minute range, and those two or three minutes can mean two or three years by certain methods of directing. <wrap hide>241|00:42:29|380|00:42:40|160</wrap>So we want to have, as Master D.K. no doubt has, a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation. <wrap hide>242|00:42:40|160|00:42:58|420</wrap>Now, that means that we really need to know the point at which zero degrees of Aries occurs relative to the constellations themselves and not to the vernal equinox. <wrap hide>243|00:42:58|420|00:43:09|800</wrap>These constellations are of unequal size. Some are very compressed, some are very expansive, like Virgo, and yet we continue to use our 30 degree methods. <wrap hide>244|00:43:10|500|00:43:22|240</wrap>And there does seem to be some accuracy in allotting 30 degrees per sign, regardless of the exoteric extension of these constellations. <wrap hide>245|00:43:22|240|00:43:42|500</wrap>There should be a fixed time from which to reckon. <wrap quote>That fixed time is as yet unknown in exoteric astrology, though the Hierarchy possesses the needed information and it will be made available when the right time comes. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>246|00:43:42|500|00:44:01|220</wrap>Presumably when such knowledge can be constructively used. I mean, we need to know the exact moment when the Earth is entering a specific age. <wrap hide>247|00:44:01|380|00:44:11|840</wrap>Now actually, the Tibetan has given that to us. He's given us a couple of points from which the mathematical astrologers can reason. <wrap hide>248|00:44:11|840|00:44:26|440</wrap>He's given us the year 2117 for the alignment of the vernal equinox with the end, presumably, of the 30th degree, or with the 30th degree of Aquarius. <wrap hide>249|00:44:27|300|00:44:38|920</wrap>In other words, with the very end of Pisces, the very beginning of Aquarius. He's also given us a figure for the moment when individualization occurred. Perhaps using those two figures. <wrap hide>250|00:44:38|920|00:44:55|080</wrap>And I have known some esotericists who have reckoned, from at least one of those figures, we can get our fixed point and put all temporally into the proper relations. <wrap hide>251|00:44:55|080|00:45:11|880</wrap>That fixed time is as yet unknown to exoteric astrology, and therefore perhaps all of our times are uncertain, even as we may not know the true A, the note A. <wrap hide>252|00:45:12|660|00:45:24|540</wrap>What is the true vibration of A, as the hierarchy understands it, which would allow us to understand the true vibration of all the other notes? <wrap hide>253|00:45:24|540|00:45:34|480</wrap>That is another one of those fixed points that we need. Nor do we necessarily know the frequency of the true indigo, the true green. <wrap hide>254|00:45:34|600|00:45:48|080</wrap>There's a whole range of greens and of indigo-related colors, but we don't know the frequency which the hierarchy considers to be the central point of that color. <wrap hide>255|00:45:48|080|00:45:55|840</wrap>So we're lacking many specificities which the incoming of the fifth ray will give us. <wrap hide>256|00:45:56|040|00:46:14|880</wrap>It's going to be very powerful in the age of Aquarius and will allow us to have certain points, certain frequencies, from which we can reckon and thereby lay out an accurate picture of relationships between notes, colors, and dates. <wrap hide>257|00:46:15|920|00:46:27|140</wrap>It will be made available at the right time. <wrap quote>It is the knowledge of this inner information which constitutes the basis of the statements which I have made or will make //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>258|00:46:28|160|00:46:42|460</wrap>Well, D.K. is saying, "Look, I have this information, and as a result, to me, astrology appears in a certain way, and I have to tell you how astrology appears according to the perception of one who has information that you do not have." <wrap hide>259|00:46:43|520|00:46:57|580</wrap>So this will seem, he says, this will be statements which I have made or will make <wrap quote>which will seem revolutionary to the orthodox investigator. //EA, p.63//</wrap> not only revolutionary, but probably highly inaccurate and unwelcome. <wrap hide>260|00:46:57|580|00:47:17|460</wrap>It took a long time before various astrological organizations were willing to even hear about the idea of alternative rulers, and esoteric and hierarchical, and about the fundamental ideas of esoteric astrology, although it does seem to be coming along now. <wrap hide>261|00:47:18|400|00:47:28|360</wrap>There has to be a constant rectification. There is a specifically astrological word which means an adjustment leading to precise accuracy. <wrap hide>262|00:47:28|360|00:47:49|060</wrap>We often try to rectify charts. We do this through available evidence and timing in the life, and some people accurately use pendulums and other sort of intuitive methods to get the feel of the exact moment of birth, and some of them are very successful. <wrap hide>263|00:47:49|060|00:48:04|180</wrap>I've tested them out myself. I've tested out some of their conclusions, and I've found some of them are remarkably successful. So there is a kind of intuitive method of rectification, but I always think it should be counter-checked as well. <wrap hide>264|00:48:04|180|00:48:30|320</wrap><wrap quote>There has to be a constant rectification of the earlier conclusions of humanity //EA, p.63//</wrap> laboring under illusion and astral centralization, <wrap quote>and of this the outstanding instance is the statement in the Bible //EA, p.63//</wrap> —was it by Bishop Ussher, something— <wrap quote>that the prime date of creation is 4004 B.C. //EA, p.63//</wrap> and by the way, at 9 o'clock in the morning. <wrap hide>265|00:48:30|320|00:48:43|340</wrap>I think it was an Irish bishop, a very logical and quasi-scientific man, and he based upon the infallibility of the Bible and what was said. This is the date he determined. <wrap hide>266|00:48:45|180|00:48:57|340</wrap>And good, sincere people believed in it for a long time, and some still do. <wrap quote>This is recognised as an error by modern science //EA, p.63//</wrap> an absolute understatement, <wrap quote>but is still believed by many. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>267|00:48:57|340|00:49:04|040</wrap>Yes, even this was written 80 years ago, and still in our day and age, it is still believed. Extraordinary. <wrap hide>268|00:49:05|920|00:49:21|960</wrap>But then, you know, we had to deal with paleontology, with the discovery of the fossil remains already in the 19th century, even the 18th century. This was happening and undermining these theological conclusions. <wrap hide>269|00:49:21|960|00:49:41|720</wrap>Unless we allow science, even a very deep kind of esoteric science, eventually, to test the conclusions of religious belief, we will definitely be plunged into error, even as now millions of people are on our earth in various of the religions. <wrap hide>270|00:49:41|720|00:50:03|460</wrap><wrap quote>I earlier gave a hint upon which definite astrological computation could be based when I gave the time of the "Great Approach" of the Hierarchy to our planetary manifestation when individualisation took place and the fourth kingdom in nature appeared. //EA, p.63-64//</wrap> <wrap hide>271|00:50:03|460|00:50:27|720</wrap>Well, okay, hierarchy of what? Hierarchy of solar Angels? Perhaps because in a way, Sanat Kumara had not yet come to earth with his Kumaras and founded Shamballa and hierarchy some 18 million years ago. <wrap hide>272|00:50:27|720|00:50:39|500</wrap>But the hierarchy of solar angels, lords of the flame in a way, did come. And this was a Sagittarian event in a way. <wrap hide>273|00:50:43|360|00:50:59|640</wrap>He says the birth of the fourth kingdom, <wrap quote>I placed that stupendous event as happening 21,688,345 years ago. //EA, p.64//</wrap> Some have thought this is a symbolic number, but I think it's probably quite accurate. <wrap hide>274|00:50:59|640|00:51:25|660</wrap>It's important if we know the year in the early 1930s when this portion of esoteric astrology was written, we probably can come quite close. Then we can begin to reckon backwards, if we assume that all precessional ages have been invariant. <wrap hide>275|00:51:25|660|00:51:41|080</wrap>Now, at the moment, they seem to last 2,160 years, and a great Platonic year is something like 25,920 years, which is 12 times 2,160. <wrap hide>276|00:51:43|040|00:52:03|160</wrap>So we can possibly reckon back to the time of the beginning of individualization. Now, almost 80 years have passed, perhaps 80 years since the writing of this section of the Esoteric Astrology book, but that would not be difficult for us to put together. <wrap hide>277|00:52:03|160|00:52:16|580</wrap>Individualization occurred then 3 million years before the coming of Sanat Kumara, the Kumaras and the founding of Shamballa Hierarchy. <wrap hide>278|00:52:16|580|00:52:44|820</wrap>He says <wrap quote>At that time the Sun was //in Leo//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> Now, there is another question. Do we mean the sun was in Leo in terms of a lesser precessional age of 2,160 years, or can we say that a greater precessional age of Leo was involved and 25,000 years were necessitated? <wrap hide>279|00:52:44|820|00:53:09|460</wrap>Usually when we say the sun was in Leo, we mean that there is a, not the month per se, but that there was an alignment with an age of Leo. It would take a while. If he was narrowing this down to the month, I think that would be extraordinary. <wrap hide>280|00:53:10|480|00:53:32|260</wrap>The sun was in Leo. Okay. Let's look at this. We're getting there now. What I tend to think is that the sun at the vernal equinox was aligned with Leo. <wrap hide>281|00:53:32|260|00:53:43|560</wrap>It seems unlikely that we're just dealing with the month as a beginning period. <wrap quote>The process then initiated upon the physical plane //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>282|00:53:44|400|00:54:00|060</wrap>Oh, by the way, I just want to go back to the idea that Leo is strongly connected with the solar Angels, and with the creation of the egoic lotus as a potentially radiant source eventually upon the higher mental plane. <wrap hide>283|00:54:00|060|00:54:11|340</wrap>So there is, in a way, the coming of solar fire. I think we can see the relationship between solar fire and the sun in Leo. <wrap hide>284|00:54:12|320|00:54:27|060</wrap>So that spark of mind, which was not only a spark of mind, but a spark of love and a spark of will was implanted in animal man destined for a radiant future at the time when the sun was in Leo. <wrap hide>285|00:54:27|320|00:54:39|440</wrap>And the egoic lotus, which would eventually be a radiant golden lotus, was implanted upon the higher mental plane when the sun was in Leo. It all seems to correspond. <wrap hide>286|00:54:39|440|00:54:54|500</wrap><wrap quote>The process then initiated upon the physical plane and producing outer physical events took approximately 5,000 years to mature //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>287|00:54:54|500|00:55:06|540</wrap>So here we can be convinced that we are talking about precessional ages, which last some 2,000 or 2,500 years. <wrap hide>288|00:55:06|760|00:55:15|760</wrap>Let's just say we had to deal with the sun in Leo, and then the sun went to Cancer, <wrap quote>and the Sun was //in Gemini EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>289|00:55:15|760|00:55:28|680</wrap>And it took approximately 2,500 years for each movement of the sun. So we are talking about the sun at the moment of the vernal equinox. <wrap hide>290|00:55:28|680|00:55:44|260</wrap>And every year the sun was against the scene, or it would be seen if you could see through the sun, seen against the background of certain stars. <wrap hide>291|00:55:44|500|00:55:48|520</wrap>The stars of Leo, the stars of Cancer, and finally the stars of Gemini. <wrap hide>292|00:55:49|360|00:55:58|540</wrap><wrap quote>when the final Crisis of Individualisation took place and the door was then closed upon the animal kingdom. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>293|00:55:58|920|00:56:12|300</wrap>Now, you know, 5,000 years shows us that we are not dealing with the great precessional ages of 25,000 years, because otherwise it would have been 50,000 years. <wrap hide>294|00:56:12|300|00:56:29|240</wrap>25,000 of Leo, 25,000 of Cancer, totaling 50,000 years. And we also don't know when in Leo this started, toward what part of the constellation was the vernal equinox directed. <wrap hide>295|00:56:29|240|00:56:46|440</wrap>How much was the Earth into the precessional age of Leo when individualization took place, and how much into Gemini was it when the final crisis took place and the door was closed? <wrap hide>296|00:56:46|440|00:56:57|660</wrap>What does he mean by the final crisis? We have heard that in those days there was a great destruction of animal man. <wrap hide>297|00:56:58|560|00:57:03|480</wrap>Can it mean the final anchoring of the spark of mind in a successful way? <wrap hide>298|00:57:04|180|00:57:10|560</wrap>Were there 5,000 years of uncertainty and a final anchoring occurring in Gemini? <wrap hide>299|00:57:11|480|00:57:24|480</wrap>Was there a particular relationship between the solar angel and the newly stimulated animal man confirmed by that time of Gemini when the two brothers come into relationship? <wrap hide>300|00:57:24|480|00:57:41|760</wrap>Maybe he will say more here. But anyway, the door was closed upon the animal kingdom at that time, and it seems that there have been, well, there have been perhaps some different times of closing. <wrap hide>301|00:57:41|760|00:57:54|500</wrap>I'm thinking that there was a time later when it became... up to that point it was still possible for some individualization of animals to occur. <wrap hide>302|00:57:54|500|00:58:13|560</wrap>It is even possible today, says D.K., for some very rare and advanced animals to individualize before the next round when the mass of the animals that have been held back will be individualized. <wrap hide>303|00:58:14|760|00:58:28|630</wrap>Alright, it is time then for us to say The Great Invocation. We have reached... what page are we on now? Let's see. <wrap hide>304|00:58:31|630|00:58:50|310</wrap>Okay, page 64. We are on page 64. So this is Esoteric Astrology number adventure EAA 29. <wrap hide>305|00:58:51|850|00:59:09|610</wrap>And we have gone up to page 64. And EAA 28 started at page 61. So we're doing somewhat better now. <wrap hide>306|00:59:09|610|00:59:30|890</wrap>We are making three pages per program, but I won't promise that that is always the way it will be. So EAA 29 from page 61 to 64. And we will do together The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>307|00:59:42|790|00:59:56|370</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. <wrap hide>308|01:00:00|430|01:00:10|690</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>309|01:00:14|510|01:00:24|790</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>310|01:00:29|250|01:00:39|990</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>311|01:00:41|470|01:00:47|250</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>312|01:00:52|250|01:00:53|650</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>313|01:00:59|950|01:01:01|350</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>314|01:01:07|770|01:01:09|170</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>315|01:01:37|470|01:01:38|870</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>316|01:01:42|410|01:01:43|810</wrap>Om.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:07|880|00:00:14|500</wrap>Okay. Hi everybody. I'm trying a different microphone here. I hope this is going to work <wrap hide>2|00:00:14|500|00:00:28|760</wrap>well. This is our 29th esoteric astrology adventure, and today is still the 25th of July. We've been <wrap hide>3|00:00:28|760|00:00:37|320</wrap>talking here about considering the dualities in terms of the constellation and its sign opposite, <wrap hide>4|00:00:38|320|00:00:47|780</wrap>and the D.K. is telling us how we're going to do that. We're going to take up the points in the <wrap hide>5|00:00:47|780|00:00:53|320</wrap>following manner, he says. From the standpoint of commencement at Aries, we're going to consider the <wrap hide>6|00:00:53|320|00:01:04|020</wrap>two modes of either progressing or regressing around the wheel, and how that means the different <wrap hide>7|00:01:04|020|00:01:14|680</wrap>ways of responding to the potentialities of the signs of the zodiac. We are also—we covered the <wrap hide>8|00:01:14|680|00:01:23|300</wrap>idea—we're going to investigate astrology <wrap quote>2. From the standpoint of the man upon the probationary path //EA, p.61//</wrap> <wrap hide>9|00:01:23|300|00:01:30|220</wrap>and how he is still quite dizzy or giddy upon that path, not knowing his true orientation, <wrap hide>10|00:01:30|440|00:01:36|800</wrap>but eventually begins to do so under the influence, the intuitive influence of Gemini, <wrap hide>11|00:01:38|340|00:01:47|080</wrap>clarifying the pairs of opposites, and also under the influence of Sagittarius, which gives him <wrap hide>12|00:01:47|080|00:01:56|360</wrap>purpose and direction. And finally, the crisis of initiation comes, followed by the crisis of <wrap hide>13|00:01:57|740|00:02:09|420</wrap>renunciation. Okay, then we reach the point where we can begin the third method of investigation, <wrap hide>14|00:02:09|420|00:02:18|300</wrap>and D.K. is going to undertake his examination from the standpoint of the pledged disciple and <wrap hide>15|00:02:18|300|00:02:24|900</wrap>initiate, which is certainly different from that of the probationary disciple. <wrap quote>3. From the standpoint of the pledged <wrap hide>16|00:02:24|900|00:02:37|360</wrap>disciple and initiate who traverses again the Path of the Sun and finds that //EA, p.61//</wrap>—and this, of course, <wrap hide>17|00:02:37|360|00:02:41|600</wrap>the Path of the Sun is now progressive, in other words it's the reversed wheel, <wrap hide>18|00:02:43|000|00:02:50|140</wrap>as is the case for the probationary disciple as well, but with much more conflict for the <wrap hide>19|00:02:50|140|00:02:54|620</wrap>probationary disciple. Now the purpose is so strong for the pledged disciple or initiate, <wrap hide>20|00:02:55|580|00:03:05|280</wrap>that the reversing wheel is gradually overcoming the normal wheel, and the rending process of the <wrap hide>21|00:03:05|280|00:03:15|620</wrap>two wheels turning is decreasing because the power of the wheel is becoming stronger. So, <wrap hide>22|00:03:15|980|00:03:22|420</wrap>we're taking this <wrap quote>3. From the standpoint of the pledged disciple and initiate who traverses <wrap hide>23|00:03:22|420|00:03:33|600</wrap>again the Path of the Sun and finds that that which he has discovered himself to be //in Leo// finds its <wrap hide>24|00:03:33|600|00:03:43|280</wrap>crown //in Aquarius//. //EA, p.61//</wrap> Now this is very interesting. He's discovered himself to be the soul, not just <wrap hide>25|00:03:43|280|00:03:56|620</wrap>the personality in Leo. He's responding to the mantram, "I am that," but at the same time, he is <wrap hide>26|00:03:56|620|00:04:02|520</wrap>moving towards the group consciousness and even eventually the universal consciousness of Aquarius, <wrap hide>27|00:04:02|520|00:04:11|920</wrap>and it's very interesting the idea of the crown, because the crown center can be considered a <wrap hide>28|00:04:11|920|00:04:21|380</wrap>radiatory center ruled by radiatory Aquarius. In other words, it's the synthesis of so many of the <wrap hide>29|00:04:21|380|00:04:30|320</wrap>faculties, and Aquarius rules this grand synthesis. So Aquarius is one of the signs particularly <wrap hide>30|00:04:30|320|00:04:38|020</wrap>associated with the third and with the fourth initiation, when the crown center is greatly <wrap hide>31|00:04:38|020|00:04:59|620</wrap>stimulated, purpose being in the nature of the crown center, and will being in the nature of the <wrap hide>32|00:05:05|680|00:05:14|060</wrap>highest head center. He traverses the path of the Sun and finds that which he has discovered <wrap hide>33|00:05:14|060|00:05:22|060</wrap>himself to be in Leo, that that finds its crown in Aquarius. In other words, Aquarius is considered <wrap hide>34|00:05:22|060|00:05:32|800</wrap>a consummating sign, and so many of the initiates take their final incarnation in Aquarius and find <wrap hide>35|00:05:32|800|00:05:43|240</wrap>themselves as world servers. Occasionally you find the world's savior taking the final incarnation in <wrap hide>36|00:05:43|240|00:05:53|560</wrap>Pisces. <wrap quote>The separative individual consciousness becomes the group consciousness in Aquarius, //EA, p.61//</wrap> <wrap hide>37|00:05:55|020|00:06:02|880</wrap>and group consciousness or universal consciousness, <wrap quote>and he begins to comprehend the significance of <wrap hide>38|00:06:02|880|00:06:09|540</wrap>that basic combination of signs, that "triangle in the consciousness" of humanity: //EA, p.61//</wrap> There are a number <wrap hide>39|00:06:09|540|00:06:21|040</wrap>of triangles in the consciousness of humanity, and they signify a type of progress from an <wrap hide>40|00:06:21|040|00:06:28|500</wrap>initial condition to a final condition. So these triangles of consciousness are to be carefully <wrap hide>41|00:06:28|500|00:06:35|380</wrap>noted, and let us see what triangle he's talking about here. It's the triangle of Cancer, Leo, <wrap hide>42|00:06:36|100|00:06:47|020</wrap>Aquarius. Cancer, we have the mass awareness, and the instinctual consciousness. I think, <wrap hide>43|00:06:47|040|00:07:05|360</wrap>you know, if I have these somewhat smaller, maybe a number 10 perhaps, we would, yeah, <wrap hide>44|00:07:05|360|00:07:14|440</wrap>consciousness which all share and which is based upon the instinctual urges and the environments <wrap hide>45|00:07:14|440|00:07:21|500</wrap>into which those instinctual urges force one. There is no real individuality, and interestingly <wrap hide>46|00:07:21|500|00:07:33|680</wrap>enough, the constellation of Cancer is quite dim, quite vague, quite diffused. There are no real <wrap hide>47|00:07:33|680|00:07:40|900</wrap>brilliant points. It relates perhaps to the idea that for us, and how we perceive the constellation <wrap hide>48|00:07:40|900|00:07:47|060</wrap>Cancer, it was much more powerful in the previous solar system, and especially we are told by D.K., <wrap hide>49|00:07:47|400|00:07:55|080</wrap>in the first part of the previous solar system. Leo, on the other hand, is a much more well-defined <wrap hide>50|00:07:55|080|00:08:02|280</wrap>constellation as we view it, and it signifies at first individual awareness, and then finally <wrap hide>51|00:08:02|280|00:08:07|660</wrap>group awareness, and then an awareness of oneness, but here we're talking about the individual <wrap hide>52|00:08:07|660|00:08:16|600</wrap>awareness, and it conveys the fifth ray. It suggests the illumination at least of the concrete <wrap hide>53|00:08:16|600|00:08:24|800</wrap>mind. It suggests intelligent consciousness. Aquarius, interestingly, is also a relatively <wrap hide>54|00:08:26|300|00:08:33|600</wrap>dim constellation. You have to be careful in how you try to make it out, and it refers to a future <wrap hide>55|00:08:33|600|00:08:46|420</wrap>condition, not yet precipitated, not yet vitally radiant in the awareness of humanity. It signifies <wrap hide>56|00:08:46|420|00:08:52|920</wrap>group awareness and the intuitive consciousness which are alive in a few, but have yet to grow <wrap hide>57|00:08:52|920|00:09:00|500</wrap>very much in the consciousness of humanity. You begin to wonder later when there is group, <wrap hide>58|00:09:01|300|00:09:07|140</wrap>real group awareness, real intuitive consciousness for the masses, whether that will even be, you <wrap hide>59|00:09:07|140|00:09:12|500</wrap>know, in this solar system, or rather the next, whether the appearance of the constellation <wrap hide>60|00:09:13|340|00:09:21|720</wrap>Aquarius will thereby look greater in some way, more defined, more brilliant. Anyway, <wrap hide>61|00:09:21|720|00:09:27|240</wrap>Cancer Leo Aquarius, from the mass to the individual to the group, from instinct to <wrap hide>62|00:09:27|240|00:09:35|640</wrap>intelligence to intuition, a major triangle in consciousness, and I think we can all place <wrap hide>63|00:09:35|640|00:09:43|840</wrap>ourselves somewhat here. We are perhaps in the second stage of the Leo consciousness, <wrap hide>64|00:09:43|840|00:09:53|340</wrap>and attempting to move into the first phase of group, real group awareness, and eventually <wrap hide>65|00:09:54|080|00:10:03|880</wrap>achieve that broadened group consciousness which might be called universal, and takes in the entire <wrap hide>66|00:10:03|880|00:10:14|220</wrap>planet and the entire system. It's a climaxing condition, and it is accompanied by the quite <wrap hide>67|00:10:14|220|00:10:20|340</wrap>full unfoldment of the head center. We don't know when the head center is fully unfolded, <wrap hide>68|00:10:20|340|00:10:29|020</wrap>because we can see that, I think, even in the Maya verupas of sixth or seventh degree initiates, <wrap hide>69|00:10:29|020|00:10:35|300</wrap>if one unfolds a Maya verupa, then the chakras will also be part of it, and the unfoldments of <wrap hide>70|00:10:35|740|00:10:45|400</wrap>those higher chakras may well progress. <wrap quote>Then, from the standpoint of achievement //in Capricorn//, //EA, p.62//</wrap> <wrap hide>71|00:10:45|520|00:10:52|880</wrap>you always reach some pinnacle in Capricorn at whatever level you may be operating. It can be <wrap hide>72|00:10:52|880|00:10:58|740</wrap>the pinnacle of personality achievement, of soul achievement, or even spiritual spirit achievement. <wrap hide>73|00:10:58|740|00:11:06|640</wrap>From the standpoint of achievement in Capricorn, <wrap quote>he works for several lives around the zodiacal <wrap hide>74|00:11:06|640|00:11:16|720</wrap>path, descending into the sea of mass consciousness //EA, p.62//</wrap> He's still on the reversed wheel, going forward, <wrap hide>75|00:11:16|720|00:11:23|960</wrap>as it were. That means to respond powerfully to the higher potentials of the sign; that's what <wrap hide>76|00:11:25|180|00:11:31|820</wrap>progressing on the zodiacal wheel means. He goes around the zodiacal path, and may incarnate in a <wrap hide>77|00:11:31|820|00:11:39|860</wrap>number of signs, apparently, descending into the sea of the mass consciousness, but this time he is not <wrap hide>78|00:11:39|860|00:11:49|040</wrap>a victim of mass consciousness at all. He is a kind of a server or savior. <wrap quote>to become what is <wrap hide>79|00:11:49|040|00:11:56|800</wrap>called in the ancient books "the Crab, who clears the ocean of matter which flows around the soul <wrap hide>80|00:11:56|800|00:12:09|800</wrap>of man," //EA, p.62//</wrap> So he becomes a scavenger, in a way, and he is removing the matter which somehow inhibits <wrap hide>81|00:12:10|740|00:12:20|480</wrap>the radiance of the soul. It's a cleaning operation, a scavenging operation, and the <wrap hide>82|00:12:20|480|00:12:27|920</wrap>claws then have a different meaning, don't they? They are not so concerned with grasping and <wrap hide>83|00:12:27|920|00:12:35|880</wrap>clinging for oneself, but they get hold of obstructions, and remove the obstructions <wrap hide>84|00:12:35|880|00:12:42|540</wrap>from one's fellow human beings, and maybe other forms of life, so that they can radiate their <wrap hide>85|00:12:42|540|00:12:54|360</wrap>true inner nature, <wrap quote>and eventually to become a functioning world saviour //in Pisces//. //EA, p.62//</wrap> So it's <wrap hide>86|00:12:54|360|00:13:00|480</wrap>interesting that D.K. seems to suggest that we do not move immediately from Capricorn into Pisces, <wrap hide>87|00:13:01|480|00:13:07|800</wrap>or into Aquarius necessarily, but we go through, as an initiate, a third-degree initiate, let us <wrap hide>88|00:13:07|800|00:13:17|820</wrap>say, through certain signs of service in which we are no longer vulnerable to the type of limitations <wrap hide>89|00:13:17|820|00:13:27|840</wrap>we experienced in those signs before, but rather are helping others avoid susceptibility to those <wrap hide>90|00:13:27|840|00:13:38|300</wrap>kinds of limitations. Help is always available. <wrap quote>He descends into the world of men to save <wrap hide>91|00:13:38|300|00:13:50|220</wrap>mankind and to further the plan. //EA, p.62//</wrap> and if we succeed in furthering the plan, there will always be the <wrap hide>92|00:13:50|220|00:13:59|340</wrap>result that a type of salvation has taken place, because the plan indeed saves. If we have the will <wrap hide>93|00:13:59|340|00:14:11|300</wrap>and courage and intelligence and love to follow and express the plan, we will bring salvation, <wrap hide>94|00:14:11|960|00:14:21|080</wrap>at least strong service with that expression. <wrap quote>He is then "the fish who swims free in the ocean of <wrap hide>95|00:14:21|080|00:14:31|080</wrap>matter." //EA, p.62//</wrap> The fish is perhaps always a symbol of a self who swims in the ocean of experience, <wrap hide>96|00:14:31|080|00:14:42|020</wrap>but has a certain type of integrity and mobility, and he has the power to swim by his own volition <wrap hide>97|00:14:42|020|00:14:51|080</wrap>and is not swept along perhaps in instinctively reacting schools of fish. You've sometimes seen <wrap hide>98|00:14:51|080|00:14:57|140</wrap>how the fish all respond at once in an instinctual way. He seems to have deliberation here, <wrap hide>99|00:14:57|140|00:15:05|960</wrap>and maybe he is identified not only with Pisces, but with great fish associated with the sign <wrap hide>100|00:15:05|960|00:15:16|740</wrap>Aquarius: Piscis Austrinus, or Australis, who is the saving fish. So, you know, it takes quite a bit <wrap hide>101|00:15:16|740|00:15:27|120</wrap>not to be overcome by the third aspect tendencies of matter, and swept along like the mass, as it is <wrap hide>102|00:15:27|120|00:15:36|620</wrap>with Cancer, being engulfed by mass consciousness and responding and thinking, if we can call it <wrap hide>103|00:15:36|620|00:15:44|120</wrap>that, just like everybody else with no real willpower and mind and self-determination. <wrap hide>104|00:15:44|820|00:15:52|480</wrap>So this is the progress of man, and D.K. is trying to get us to understand the great wheels: <wrap hide>105|00:15:52|480|00:15:57|540</wrap>the wheel of form, retrogressing, going clockwise; the wheel of consciousness, <wrap hide>106|00:15:58|180|00:16:09|280</wrap>progressing, going counter-clockwise. <wrap quote>The initiate has always to express, in each sign of the zodiac, <wrap hide>107|00:16:09|280|00:16:19|320</wrap>the consummation and spiritual fruit of earlier life experience, world experiment and soul <wrap hide>108|00:16:19|320|00:16:32|000</wrap>achievement. //EA, p.62//</wrap> You know, we oftentimes leave a sign in a state of incomplete achievement, <wrap hide>109|00:16:32|080|00:16:39|980</wrap>and there is a frustration there, and we can identify with the words of the poet Robert <wrap hide>110|00:16:39|980|00:16:47|800</wrap>Browning when he says, "Ah, that a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for." <wrap hide>111|00:16:48|320|00:16:56|000</wrap>So we do not bring consummation in each of the signs so many times, but eventually we are to <wrap hide>112|00:16:56|000|00:17:03|900</wrap>pass in each sign of the zodiac and bring about a type of consummation for that sign. The question <wrap hide>113|00:17:03|900|00:17:10|200</wrap>is, is this done in any sequential manner, or is there generally a period of life <wrap hide>114|00:17:10|940|00:17:21|480</wrap>later in one's incarnational path when it is quite likely to bring forward a degree of consummation <wrap hide>115|00:17:21|480|00:17:28|000</wrap>in each sign? I'm not sure it has to be perfect; maybe perfection is only reached in the sign Pisces <wrap hide>116|00:17:28|000|00:17:38|240</wrap>by a world savior, as he renounces all to save humanity. So spiritual fruit of earlier life <wrap hide>117|00:17:38|240|00:17:44|240</wrap>experience, experiment, and achievement—those are words which are often used. We begin with the <wrap hide>118|00:17:44|240|00:17:51|300</wrap>experience, we evaluate the experience, and find out within ourselves how it might be improved, <wrap hide>119|00:17:51|360|00:17:57|020</wrap>and thus we experiment, and that experiment, when the experiments are wise and skillful, <wrap hide>120|00:17:57|100|00:18:04|020</wrap>leads to achievement—not just personality achievement, but soul achievement. Selfishness, <wrap hide>121|00:18:04|020|00:18:09|860</wrap>which is what we do experience so often in the various signs, <wrap quote>Selfishness has ever to be translated <wrap hide>122|00:18:09|860|00:18:17|860</wrap>into living active service, and desire has to demonstrate its transmutation in the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of God. //EA, p.62//</wrap> Well, the three aspects of divinity are found right there. The <wrap hide>123|00:18:17|860|00:18:31|940</wrap>life aspect is found in living; activity is the third aspect; service is the second aspect. Living <wrap hide>124|00:18:31|940|00:18:41|440</wrap>transmutation into the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of <wrap hide>125|00:18:41|440|00:18:54|840</wrap>God. So the progress there is desire, aspiration, identification. First we must aspire to <wrap hide>126|00:18:54|840|00:19:01|400</wrap>identification with the will of God before we will be in a sufficient condition of receptivity <wrap hide>127|00:19:01|400|00:19:11|860</wrap>to be impressed by it, and have the fortitude, the single-mindedness to carry it out. Anyway, <wrap hide>128|00:19:11|980|00:19:19|880</wrap>there's a great destiny that lies before all of us. At times we may feel overwhelmed by various <wrap hide>129|00:19:19|880|00:19:27|520</wrap>kinds of circumstances, and it may seem as if we will never get there, you know, thinking about <wrap hide>130|00:19:27|520|00:19:37|060</wrap>time in some sequential manner. But perhaps if we were capable of grasping something of the eternal <wrap hide>131|00:19:37|060|00:19:48|860</wrap>now, we would find ourselves more optimistic about reaching our goal of identification— <wrap hide>132|00:19:49|080|00:19:53|740</wrap>especially on this planet, the path of Earth's service, if we take that path—identification <wrap hide>133|00:19:53|740|00:20:02|140</wrap>with all beings, with all sentient beings, so we realize, in fact, that we are each and all of them, <wrap hide>134|00:20:02|300|00:20:11|500</wrap>and not "is," but "me"—the capital Me, the one I. D.K. goes on: <wrap quote>There are one or two points which must be <wrap hide>135|00:20:11|500|00:20:20|480</wrap>dealt with in order to enable you to study with certain definite ideas clearly formulated in your <wrap hide>136|00:20:20|480|00:20:27|960</wrap>minds. //EA, p.62//</wrap> He's trying to build in a certain structure of thought here, so we can study successfully <wrap hide>137|00:20:28|560|00:20:34|060</wrap>without being overwhelmed by a lot of new information. Of course, I realize I'm speaking <wrap hide>138|00:20:34|060|00:20:40|420</wrap>to quite a few of you who have experience with this book, and who are not new to astrology, <wrap hide>139|00:20:40|420|00:20:45|940</wrap>and who have spent even years in the esoteric astrology book, and that's, you know, partially <wrap hide>140|00:20:45|940|00:20:54|500</wrap>why I'm not going through it in a strictly linear manner, but I'm trying to ramify and bring in <wrap hide>141|00:20:54|500|00:21:05|380</wrap>certain connections which will place this book within the sphere of knowledge that has been given <wrap hide>142|00:21:05|380|00:21:12|900</wrap>by Master D.K., a great sphere, and finding the place of astrology within that sphere by drawing <wrap hide>143|00:21:13|580|00:21:22|800</wrap>or offering many links to other parts of that sphere of knowledge which he has offered. <wrap hide>144|00:21:22|800|00:21:31|800</wrap> <wrap quote>I have hinted at them in some of my earlier books but it will be of service to refer <wrap hide>145|00:21:31|800|00:21:38|120</wrap>to them again and to expand the ideas somewhat. //EA, p.62//</wrap> because after all, we do forget, don't we? I mean, <wrap hide>146|00:21:38|120|00:21:47|500</wrap>what does seem vivid at one point may be, even if it was marvelously vivid, may fade and need to be <wrap hide>147|00:21:47|500|00:21:56|160</wrap>revived. <wrap quote>I would have you carry them in your minds as you read and study. //EA, p.62//</wrap> <wrap quote>I have frequently referred <wrap hide>148|00:21:56|160|00:22:04|100</wrap>to the fact that the entire science of astrology is based upon a non-existent condition. //EA, p.62//</wrap> We've <wrap hide>149|00:22:04|860|00:22:09|780</wrap>talked about this from the very beginning of the book. "All is illusion, O Dweller in the shadows. <wrap hide>150|00:22:09|980|00:22:20|380</wrap>Even the universe is illusion." So much of what we perceive with our present faculties of <wrap hide>151|00:22:20|380|00:22:28|400</wrap>consciousness is not the inner reality at all. But there is enough to perceive within the outer <wrap hide>152|00:22:29|820|00:22:36|540</wrap>actuality to give us a method of approaching the inner reality. <wrap quote>It has no basis <wrap hide>153|00:22:36|540|00:22:44|380</wrap>in material fact and yet is eternally based on truth. //EA, p.62//</wrap> And this is one of those great paradoxes. <wrap hide>154|00:22:44|980|00:22:51|860</wrap>I think he's going to say something quite important here. <wrap quote>The zodiac is, as you well know, <wrap hide>155|00:22:51|860|00:22:58|120</wrap>the imaginary path of the Sun in the heavens. //EA, p.62//</wrap> It's not really a path at all. It's a seeming <wrap hide>156|00:22:58|120|00:23:11|080</wrap>path based upon the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. And of course, that's what creates the <wrap hide>157|00:23:11|080|00:23:19|120</wrap>image of the zodiac. And there is also a kind of a daily zodiac as well, due to the rotation of the <wrap hide>158|00:23:19|120|00:23:28|280</wrap>earth on its axis, and the sun seems then to follow the line of the zodiac across the sky. <wrap hide>159|00:23:29|140|00:23:35|080</wrap>Not moving from sign to sign, that would be too fast, but at least we traverse the zodiac in which <wrap hide>160|00:23:35|080|00:23:41|920</wrap>the sun has its apparently fixed position, at least fixed for a day, although not really fixed <wrap hide>161|00:23:41|920|00:23:47|880</wrap>at all. The zodiac is, as you well know, the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens. It is <wrap hide>162|00:23:47|880|00:23:58|080</wrap>therefore largely an illusion, but the constellations of this zodiac, the constellations through which <wrap hide>163|00:23:58|080|00:24:06|360</wrap>the sun appears to pass, they are very real in a way, and they have their own definite qualities, <wrap hide>164|00:24:06|360|00:24:14|920</wrap>which we must learn to appropriate, to absorb, appropriate, assimilate, and express. <wrap quote>It is <wrap hide>165|00:24:14|920|00:24:21|520</wrap>therefore largely an illusion, from the exoteric point of view. //EA, p.62//</wrap> because after all, the Sun is not <wrap hide>166|00:24:21|520|00:24:29|560</wrap>really passing through those constellations at all. This is kind of an alignment with the constellations. <wrap hide>167|00:24:30|500|00:24:41|520</wrap><wrap quote>But at the same time the constellations exist, and the streams of energy which pass and <wrap hide>168|00:24:43|740|00:24:52|300</wrap>repass, intermingle and interlock //EA, p.62//</wrap> join each other, cross each other, reinforce each other, interfere <wrap hide>169|00:24:52|300|00:25:00|240</wrap>with each other—the streams of energy from the constellations intermingle and interlock <wrap quote>throughout <wrap hide>170|00:25:00|240|00:25:07|560</wrap>the body of space are by no means illusions but definitely express eternal <wrap hide>171|00:25:08|220|00:25:16|220</wrap>relationships. //EA, p.62//</wrap> Well, certainly relationships that persist for a long time, because, you know, <wrap hide>172|00:25:16|940|00:25:23|660</wrap>when we look at the stars and the heavens, they are constantly changing positions, and each of <wrap hide>173|00:25:23|660|00:25:32|040</wrap>them has its own proper motion, and the configurations which we see at this time are not the configurations <wrap hide>174|00:25:32|040|00:25:40|940</wrap>which will be seen at a later point in cosmic history and so forth, but they do have long-lasting <wrap hide>175|00:25:40|940|00:25:48|660</wrap>relationships as far as the time cycles on our earth may go. <wrap quote>It is the misuse of the various <wrap hide>176|00:25:48|660|00:25:54|860</wrap>energies which has created the illusion. //EA, p.62-63//</wrap> and that's a very interesting idea, because you do <wrap hide>177|00:25:54|860|00:26:04|680</wrap>wonder whether the misuse of the energies has led to a kind of thickening of the consciousness <wrap hide>178|00:26:04|680|00:26:12|750</wrap>of humanity. Maybe they could see much more before; maybe all that we can see now is the <wrap hide>179|00:26:14|220|00:26:20|480</wrap>barest fragment of what is really transpiring interiorly. Madame Blavatsky talked quite a bit <wrap hide>180|00:26:20|480|00:26:27|800</wrap>about how consciousness of the inner worlds was lost during the later Atlantean Age and during <wrap hide>181|00:26:27|800|00:26:37|160</wrap>the Aryan Age, so we do not see the reality behind the illusion, and our powers of perception have <wrap hide>182|00:26:37|160|00:26:44|520</wrap>been much dimmed, and perhaps this creates the illusion. Anyway, we must learn to rightly use <wrap hide>183|00:26:44|520|00:26:52|700</wrap>the passing and repassing, crossing, intermingling energies. <wrap quote>This illusory path is consequently as <wrap hide>184|00:26:53|120|00:27:11|120</wrap>much a reality to humanity today as are the personality illusions of any individual. //EA, p.63//</wrap> and let's <wrap hide>185|00:27:11|120|00:27:19|340</wrap>be very sure of the reality of their interpretations. But a wider and greater consciousness will point <wrap hide>186|00:27:19|340|00:27:28|640</wrap>out the errors of their assumptions, their concepts, their conclusions, and how they perceive <wrap hide>187|00:27:28|640|00:27:37|560</wrap>reality. So humanity at this moment is perceiving as reality something that really doesn't exist as <wrap hide>188|00:27:37|560|00:27:43|300</wrap>reality, something that is an illusion. <wrap quote>These illusions are due to the polarisation of the <wrap hide>189|00:27:43|300|00:28:07|540</wrap>individual upon the astral plane. //EA, p.63//</wrap> which tends to self-centeredness. This polarization tends to self-centeredness, and when there is self-centeredness, there is always <wrap hide>190|00:28:07|540|00:28:27|540</wrap>bias, which prevents vision of things as they are. Okay, so we've heard of the astral inversion, and we know how glamorously and exaggeratedly and <wrap hide>191|00:28:27|540|00:28:36|900</wrap>minimizingly—terrible words, but okay, you get the idea—the perceptions are when we are self-centered. Our <wrap hide>192|00:28:36|900|00:28:43|160</wrap>perceptions are always skewed because the ego, the lower ego, is standing there as if it's a reality, <wrap hide>193|00:28:43|500|00:28:52|320</wrap>and it doesn't allow us to perceive things as they are because the ego has not shrunk to a tiny point <wrap hide>194|00:28:52|320|00:29:03|150</wrap>where it does not interfere with perception. All right, so we are living in an illusion. It is <wrap hide>195|00:29:03|150|00:29:15|250</wrap>largely a personality illusion that has much to do with the fact that our planetary Logos has not overcome his personality nature, that the planetary spirit has not <wrap hide>196|00:29:15|250|00:29:28|240</wrap>overcome the spirit of the planet, as we remember from the previous webinar. The spirit of the planet is the Earth entity, the spirit of the Earth, and the planetary spirit, with a <wrap hide>197|00:29:28|240|00:29:44|160</wrap>little "s," is the planetary Logos himself. So we are dealing with misperceptions caused largely by our astral polarization, and if we could have a mental <wrap hide>198|00:29:44|160|00:30:06|500</wrap>polarization illumined by the soul, we would not see in this distorted manner. Okay, <wrap quote>It is interesting also to note in this connection that—due to the precession of the equinoxes—<wrap hide>199|00:30:06|500|00:30:25|080</wrap>a fourth type of force is brought to bear upon the planet and man, but one which is seldom recognised and given due place in the horoscope. //EA, p.63//</wrap> In other words, there is a wobbling of the Earth's axis, <wrap hide>200|00:30:25|080|00:30:46|700</wrap>and there is a gradual movement of one degree every 72 years, and there is a precessional factor which can be introduced into the personal horoscope. There are various ways of doing this. <wrap hide>201|00:30:46|700|00:31:04|740</wrap><wrap quote>The month and the sign, or the place of the Sun in the heavens, do not really coincide. //EA, p.63//</wrap> Well, that's certainly true in one respect, because generally Taurus is the month of— <wrap hide>202|00:31:06|340|00:31:24|960</wrap>May is the month of Taurus, generally speaking, but there's a part of May which coincides with the sign Gemini, and so it is. There's kind of an overlap. But I think what D.K. is talking about is that the sign and the constellations really do not coincide. <wrap hide>203|00:31:24|960|00:31:51|400</wrap>Because when we are tropically, and from the point of view of the ecliptic, the imaginary path of the sun, when we are supposedly in the sign Aries, the sun at the vernal equinox is really aligning with Pisces at this time. <wrap hide>204|00:31:51|400|00:32:07|180</wrap>And it will retrogress at the vernal equinox quite shortly. On the day when the sun passes the vernal equinox, it will be aligning with the latter part of the sign Aquarius. <wrap hide>205|00:32:07|180|00:32:33|580</wrap>And backward it will go for thousands of years so that the tropical sign, based upon the rotation of the earth around the sun, will become farther and farther away from the constellation with which the vernal equinox aligns at the first point of spring. <wrap hide>206|00:32:34|520|00:32:49|560</wrap>So, but D.K. is going to say something very interesting here. He's going to say, <wrap quote>When we state, for instance, that the Sun is "in Aries" //EA, p.63//</wrap> we're not really wrong, you see. <wrap hide>207|00:32:49|560|00:33:16|560</wrap><wrap quote>it conveys an esoteric truth but not an exoteric fact. //EA, p.63//</wrap> And so often astrologers are, you know, they are criticized by scientists for the fact that the sun, when it's in Aries, as the astrologers say it is, is really aligning with the constellation Pisces. <wrap hide>208|00:33:16|560|00:33:25|320</wrap>So they say, "Well, you have your perceptions entirely wrong; what you say does not correspond with the facts." <wrap hide>209|00:33:25|320|00:33:47|100</wrap>But the idea here is that the astrological signs do mean something. And that the different portions of the earth's orbit, or the ecliptic, actually are characterized by distinctive energies. <wrap hide>210|00:33:48|240|00:34:04|640</wrap>So that when the sun—let's see, <wrap quote>The Sun was in Aries at the beginning of this great cycle, //EA, p.63//</wrap> —okay, I wonder if I have somehow... yes I did, I erased that. Okay, now I've got it. <wrap hide>211|00:34:04|640|00:34:30|560</wrap>When we state, for instance, that the sun is in Aries, it does convey an esoteric truth. In other words, at that time, when the sun is aligned with the vernal equinox, regardless of what the constellation may be, towards which the vernal equinox is pointing, the energy of Aries is released upon the planet. <wrap hide>212|00:34:31|320|00:34:51|060</wrap>Even more than the energy of the constellation. So there is, as I talked about in earlier webinars here, there are portions of the earth's orbit which are particularly sensitive to, or aligned with, the energies of constellations. <wrap hide>213|00:34:51|060|00:35:20|780</wrap>So that very first part of the Earth's orbit, or that portion of the ecliptic, when the sun is tropically in Aries—in other words, when it's the first day of spring, as we call it—the constellation Aries is in attunement with that portion of the ecliptic, with that portion of the zodiacal circle. <wrap hide>214|00:35:20|780|00:35:41|200</wrap>In other words, from, let's say, March 21st to approximately April 21st, when planets are in that portion of the Earth's orbit, or when they're in that portion of the ecliptic, the constellation—the energy from the constellation—is affecting those planets. <wrap hide>215|00:35:41|200|00:35:55|420</wrap>So therefore, it is an esoteric truth: the sun is conveying an Arian energy. It is conveying the energy of Aries. And this is a profound statement by the Tibetan. <wrap hide>216|00:35:55|420|00:36:20|760</wrap>He's really telling us that we cannot throw away tropical astrology and settle upon sidereal astrology. I mean, it may be that when we are high initiates who are identified with the life of the planet—perhaps chohans—and we become planetary lives, that the planetary God himself is relating to the constellations directly. <wrap hide>217|00:36:20|760|00:36:49|000</wrap>And then the sidereal astrology will be spiritually very meaningful for us. But if you study the form of various types of life, and let's just say the form of a human being, you will see that the form of human beings is much affected by the tropical sign. <wrap hide>218|00:36:49|000|00:37:14|720</wrap>As that sign receives the energy of the constellation, regardless of where that constellation may be. There will come a time 10,000 years ago when the sun is in Aries, the background of it may be Scorpio—the constellation Scorpio—or something like that, or Libra. <wrap hide>219|00:37:15|680|00:37:28|160</wrap>You know, I'll calculate that out exactly, but you get the idea. The vernal equinox will be aligned with a completely different constellation, and yet the sun will esoterically be in Aries. <wrap hide>220|00:37:28|680|00:37:39|800</wrap>And the energy of the constellation Aries will come through at that time when the sun is crossing the vernal equinox and for approximately a month following that. <wrap hide>221|00:37:39|800|00:38:08|520</wrap>So, inner dynamics relating the constellations—the energy of the constellations and the streams of energy—to the sections of the Earth's aura and to the sections of the Earth's orbit, will have to be understood before the fundamental esotericism of that relationship is seen as real. <wrap hide>222|00:38:08|520|00:38:22|240</wrap>And thus criticism will end that astrologers do not have their head on straight and can't even accord with the facts. They know the exoteric facts. <wrap hide>223|00:38:22|240|00:38:42|520</wrap>The astrologers know the exoteric facts, but they also follow the influence of the energy, and they know that something is operating within this context of the signs, which is a very real energy event—energy process. <wrap hide>224|00:38:43|180|00:38:58|000</wrap>Now, he's telling us that the sun was in Aries. In other words, that at the vernal equinox, the sun did align with the constellation Aries at the beginning of this great cycle, perhaps 2,000 years ago. <wrap hide>225|00:38:58|000|00:39:08|060</wrap><wrap quote>but it is not in exactly the same position today //EA, p.63//</wrap> against the background of stars <wrap quote>when it is "found" in that sign. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>226|00:39:08|060|00:39:30|500</wrap>So this is such an important paragraph to establish the validity of tropical astrology. Of course, anybody who opens their eyes can see that people do really represent in form, in temperament, in consciousness, their tropical positions. <wrap hide>227|00:39:30|500|00:39:46|840</wrap>You have to force so hard, in my opinion at least, to make a person—to pretend that a person is responding more to their sidereal positions. It's a very remote response if it is so. <wrap hide>228|00:39:46|960|00:39:58|200</wrap>I mean, I know in my own case, you know, I've lived as an Aries individual my whole life, doing the things Aries people do, and doing them well before I even knew I was an Aries individual. <wrap hide>229|00:40:00|080|00:40:10|780</wrap>Is my sun sign really Pisces? Well, maybe the energy of Pisces comes into my chart in a different way, but not from the sun sign. <wrap hide>230|00:40:11|500|00:40:27|900</wrap>I have not lived the life of the individual with the sun in Pisces. Always the direct, assertive, pioneering, extremist, pushing-onward attitude has characterized me. <wrap hide>231|00:40:27|940|00:40:35|320</wrap>It's the attitude of Aries. It is a very real energy. It comes from the sun in Aries, tropically considered. <wrap hide>232|00:40:35|320|00:40:51|520</wrap>And maybe you'll find the same to be the case for you, and my form also demonstrates that. When the form demonstrates a link with a certain sign, you know that the form is built upon the etheric body, and the etheric body is built upon the soul. <wrap hide>233|00:40:51|520|00:41:08|000</wrap>The soul qualities—they are reflections. The etheric body is a reflection of the soul. So the form is not just an exoteric thing at all. It's a deeply esoteric thing, which is the out-picturing of deeply esoteric factors. <wrap hide>234|00:41:08|880|00:41:13|620</wrap>Anyway, this is how I found it to be in my own examination of these things. <wrap hide>235|00:41:14|500|00:41:24|800</wrap><wrap quote>Also it should be remembered that as it is necessary to know the moment of birth and the place of birth in casting the horoscope of the individual, <wrap hide>236|00:41:25|080|00:41:39|680</wrap>so in order to have a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation, the planets and our Earth there should be a fixed time from which to reckon. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>237|00:41:39|680|00:41:53|720</wrap>Well, that's a problem. We don't really have a fixed time. Maybe he's hinting at the idea that our time and our calendar is only relatively correct. <wrap hide>238|00:41:53|860|00:42:01|480</wrap>But within that relativity, we are also supposed to have as perfectly accurate a time as we possibly can. <wrap hide>239|00:42:01|480|00:42:14|760</wrap>At least we need to know the moment of birth. Now, lately they're taking more care in recording these things, even though hospital clocks can be notoriously discrepant. <wrap hide>240|00:42:14|940|00:42:28|300</wrap>You know, you just ask individuals what time to watch a show, they'll show a two or three minute range, and those two or three minutes can mean two or three years by certain methods of directing. <wrap hide>241|00:42:29|380|00:42:40|160</wrap>So we want to have, as Master D.K. no doubt has, a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation. <wrap hide>242|00:42:40|160|00:42:58|420</wrap>Now, that means that we really need to know the point at which zero degrees of Aries occurs relative to the constellations themselves and not to the vernal equinox. <wrap hide>243|00:42:58|420|00:43:09|800</wrap>These constellations are of unequal size. Some are very compressed, some are very expansive, like Virgo, and yet we continue to use our 30 degree methods. <wrap hide>244|00:43:10|500|00:43:22|240</wrap>And there does seem to be some accuracy in allotting 30 degrees per sign, regardless of the exoteric extension of these constellations. <wrap hide>245|00:43:22|240|00:43:42|500</wrap>There should be a fixed time from which to reckon. <wrap quote>That fixed time is as yet unknown in exoteric astrology, though the Hierarchy possesses the needed information and it will be made available when the right time comes. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>246|00:43:42|500|00:44:01|220</wrap>Presumably when such knowledge can be constructively used. I mean, we need to know the exact moment when the Earth is entering a specific age. <wrap hide>247|00:44:01|380|00:44:11|840</wrap>Now actually, the Tibetan has given that to us. He's given us a couple of points from which the mathematical astrologers can reason. <wrap hide>248|00:44:11|840|00:44:26|440</wrap>He's given us the year 2117 for the alignment of the vernal equinox with the end, presumably, of the 30th degree, or with the 30th degree of Aquarius. <wrap hide>249|00:44:27|300|00:44:38|920</wrap>In other words, with the very end of Pisces, the very beginning of Aquarius. He's also given us a figure for the moment when individualization occurred. Perhaps using those two figures. <wrap hide>250|00:44:38|920|00:44:55|080</wrap>And I have known some esotericists who have reckoned, from at least one of those figures, we can get our fixed point and put all temporally into the proper relations. <wrap hide>251|00:44:55|080|00:45:11|880</wrap>That fixed time is as yet unknown to exoteric astrology, and therefore perhaps all of our times are uncertain, even as we may not know the true A, the note A. <wrap hide>252|00:45:12|660|00:45:24|540</wrap>What is the true vibration of A, as the hierarchy understands it, which would allow us to understand the true vibration of all the other notes? <wrap hide>253|00:45:24|540|00:45:34|480</wrap>That is another one of those fixed points that we need. Nor do we necessarily know the frequency of the true indigo, the true green. <wrap hide>254|00:45:34|600|00:45:48|080</wrap>There's a whole range of greens and of indigo-related colors, but we don't know the frequency which the hierarchy considers to be the central point of that color. <wrap hide>255|00:45:48|080|00:45:55|840</wrap>So we're lacking many specificities which the incoming of the fifth ray will give us. <wrap hide>256|00:45:56|040|00:46:14|880</wrap>It's going to be very powerful in the age of Aquarius and will allow us to have certain points, certain frequencies, from which we can reckon and thereby lay out an accurate picture of relationships between notes, colors, and dates. <wrap hide>257|00:46:15|920|00:46:27|140</wrap>It will be made available at the right time. <wrap quote>It is the knowledge of this inner information which constitutes the basis of the statements which I have made or will make //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>258|00:46:28|160|00:46:42|460</wrap>Well, D.K. is saying, "Look, I have this information, and as a result, to me, astrology appears in a certain way, and I have to tell you how astrology appears according to the perception of one who has information that you do not have." <wrap hide>259|00:46:43|520|00:46:57|580</wrap>So this will seem, he says, this will be statements which I have made or will make <wrap quote>which will seem revolutionary to the orthodox investigator. //EA, p.63//</wrap> not only revolutionary, but probably highly inaccurate and unwelcome. <wrap hide>260|00:46:57|580|00:47:17|460</wrap>It took a long time before various astrological organizations were willing to even hear about the idea of alternative rulers, and esoteric and hierarchical, and about the fundamental ideas of esoteric astrology, although it does seem to be coming along now. <wrap hide>261|00:47:18|400|00:47:28|360</wrap>There has to be a constant rectification. There is a specifically astrological word which means an adjustment leading to precise accuracy. <wrap hide>262|00:47:28|360|00:47:49|060</wrap>We often try to rectify charts. We do this through available evidence and timing in the life, and some people accurately use pendulums and other sort of intuitive methods to get the feel of the exact moment of birth, and some of them are very successful. <wrap hide>263|00:47:49|060|00:48:04|180</wrap>I've tested them out myself. I've tested out some of their conclusions, and I've found some of them are remarkably successful. So there is a kind of intuitive method of rectification, but I always think it should be counter-checked as well. <wrap hide>264|00:48:04|180|00:48:30|320</wrap><wrap quote>There has to be a constant rectification of the earlier conclusions of humanity //EA, p.63//</wrap> laboring under illusion and astral centralization, <wrap quote>and of this the outstanding instance is the statement in the Bible //EA, p.63//</wrap> —was it by Bishop Ussher, something— <wrap quote>that the prime date of creation is 4004 B.C. //EA, p.63//</wrap> and by the way, at 9 o'clock in the morning. <wrap hide>265|00:48:30|320|00:48:43|340</wrap>I think it was an Irish bishop, a very logical and quasi-scientific man, and he based upon the infallibility of the Bible and what was said. This is the date he determined. <wrap hide>266|00:48:45|180|00:48:57|340</wrap>And good, sincere people believed in it for a long time, and some still do. <wrap quote>This is recognised as an error by modern science //EA, p.63//</wrap> an absolute understatement, <wrap quote>but is still believed by many. //EA, p.63//</wrap> <wrap hide>267|00:48:57|340|00:49:04|040</wrap>Yes, even this was written 80 years ago, and still in our day and age, it is still believed. Extraordinary. <wrap hide>268|00:49:05|920|00:49:21|960</wrap>But then, you know, we had to deal with paleontology, with the discovery of the fossil remains already in the 19th century, even the 18th century. This was happening and undermining these theological conclusions. <wrap hide>269|00:49:21|960|00:49:41|720</wrap>Unless we allow science, even a very deep kind of esoteric science, eventually, to test the conclusions of religious belief, we will definitely be plunged into error, even as now millions of people are on our earth in various of the religions. <wrap hide>270|00:49:41|720|00:50:03|460</wrap><wrap quote>I earlier gave a hint upon which definite astrological computation could be based when I gave the time of the "Great Approach" of the Hierarchy to our planetary manifestation when individualisation took place and the fourth kingdom in nature appeared. //EA, p.63-64//</wrap> <wrap hide>271|00:50:03|460|00:50:27|720</wrap>Well, okay, hierarchy of what? Hierarchy of solar Angels? Perhaps because in a way, Sanat Kumara had not yet come to earth with his Kumaras and founded Shamballa and hierarchy some 18 million years ago. <wrap hide>272|00:50:27|720|00:50:39|500</wrap>But the hierarchy of solar angels, lords of the flame in a way, did come. And this was a Sagittarian event in a way. <wrap hide>273|00:50:43|360|00:50:59|640</wrap>He says the birth of the fourth kingdom, <wrap quote>I placed that stupendous event as happening 21,688,345 years ago. //EA, p.64//</wrap> Some have thought this is a symbolic number, but I think it's probably quite accurate. <wrap hide>274|00:50:59|640|00:51:25|660</wrap>It's important if we know the year in the early 1930s when this portion of esoteric astrology was written, we probably can come quite close. Then we can begin to reckon backwards, if we assume that all precessional ages have been invariant. <wrap hide>275|00:51:25|660|00:51:41|080</wrap>Now, at the moment, they seem to last 2,160 years, and a great Platonic year is something like 25,920 years, which is 12 times 2,160. <wrap hide>276|00:51:43|040|00:52:03|160</wrap>So we can possibly reckon back to the time of the beginning of individualization. Now, almost 80 years have passed, perhaps 80 years since the writing of this section of the Esoteric Astrology book, but that would not be difficult for us to put together. <wrap hide>277|00:52:03|160|00:52:16|580</wrap>Individualization occurred then 3 million years before the coming of Sanat Kumara, the Kumaras and the founding of Shamballa Hierarchy. <wrap hide>278|00:52:16|580|00:52:44|820</wrap>He says <wrap quote>At that time the Sun was //in Leo//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> Now, there is another question. Do we mean the sun was in Leo in terms of a lesser precessional age of 2,160 years, or can we say that a greater precessional age of Leo was involved and 25,000 years were necessitated? <wrap hide>279|00:52:44|820|00:53:09|460</wrap>Usually when we say the sun was in Leo, we mean that there is a, not the month per se, but that there was an alignment with an age of Leo. It would take a while. If he was narrowing this down to the month, I think that would be extraordinary. <wrap hide>280|00:53:10|480|00:53:32|260</wrap>The sun was in Leo. Okay. Let's look at this. We're getting there now. What I tend to think is that the sun at the vernal equinox was aligned with Leo. <wrap hide>281|00:53:32|260|00:53:43|560</wrap>It seems unlikely that we're just dealing with the month as a beginning period. <wrap quote>The process then initiated upon the physical plane //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>282|00:53:44|400|00:54:00|060</wrap>Oh, by the way, I just want to go back to the idea that Leo is strongly connected with the solar Angels, and with the creation of the egoic lotus as a potentially radiant source eventually upon the higher mental plane. <wrap hide>283|00:54:00|060|00:54:11|340</wrap>So there is, in a way, the coming of solar fire. I think we can see the relationship between solar fire and the sun in Leo. <wrap hide>284|00:54:12|320|00:54:27|060</wrap>So that spark of mind, which was not only a spark of mind, but a spark of love and a spark of will was implanted in animal man destined for a radiant future at the time when the sun was in Leo. <wrap hide>285|00:54:27|320|00:54:39|440</wrap>And the egoic lotus, which would eventually be a radiant golden lotus, was implanted upon the higher mental plane when the sun was in Leo. It all seems to correspond. <wrap hide>286|00:54:39|440|00:54:54|500</wrap><wrap quote>The process then initiated upon the physical plane and producing outer physical events took approximately 5,000 years to mature //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>287|00:54:54|500|00:55:06|540</wrap>So here we can be convinced that we are talking about precessional ages, which last some 2,000 or 2,500 years. <wrap hide>288|00:55:06|760|00:55:15|760</wrap>Let's just say we had to deal with the sun in Leo, and then the sun went to Cancer, <wrap quote>and the Sun was //in Gemini EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>289|00:55:15|760|00:55:28|680</wrap>And it took approximately 2,500 years for each movement of the sun. So we are talking about the sun at the moment of the vernal equinox. <wrap hide>290|00:55:28|680|00:55:44|260</wrap>And every year the sun was against the scene, or it would be seen if you could see through the sun, seen against the background of certain stars. <wrap hide>291|00:55:44|500|00:55:48|520</wrap>The stars of Leo, the stars of Cancer, and finally the stars of Gemini. <wrap hide>292|00:55:49|360|00:55:58|540</wrap><wrap quote>when the final Crisis of Individualisation took place and the door was then closed upon the animal kingdom. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>293|00:55:58|920|00:56:12|300</wrap>Now, you know, 5,000 years shows us that we are not dealing with the great precessional ages of 25,000 years, because otherwise it would have been 50,000 years. <wrap hide>294|00:56:12|300|00:56:29|240</wrap>25,000 of Leo, 25,000 of Cancer, totaling 50,000 years. And we also don't know when in Leo this started, toward what part of the constellation was the vernal equinox directed. <wrap hide>295|00:56:29|240|00:56:46|440</wrap>How much was the Earth into the precessional age of Leo when individualization took place, and how much into Gemini was it when the final crisis took place and the door was closed? <wrap hide>296|00:56:46|440|00:56:57|660</wrap>What does he mean by the final crisis? We have heard that in those days there was a great destruction of animal man. <wrap hide>297|00:56:58|560|00:57:03|480</wrap>Can it mean the final anchoring of the spark of mind in a successful way? <wrap hide>298|00:57:04|180|00:57:10|560</wrap>Were there 5,000 years of uncertainty and a final anchoring occurring in Gemini? <wrap hide>299|00:57:11|480|00:57:24|480</wrap>Was there a particular relationship between the solar angel and the newly stimulated animal man confirmed by that time of Gemini when the two brothers come into relationship? <wrap hide>300|00:57:24|480|00:57:41|760</wrap>Maybe he will say more here. But anyway, the door was closed upon the animal kingdom at that time, and it seems that there have been, well, there have been perhaps some different times of closing. <wrap hide>301|00:57:41|760|00:57:54|500</wrap>I'm thinking that there was a time later when it became... up to that point it was still possible for some individualization of animals to occur. <wrap hide>302|00:57:54|500|00:58:13|560</wrap>It is even possible today, says D.K., for some very rare and advanced animals to individualize before the next round when the mass of the animals that have been held back will be individualized. <wrap hide>303|00:58:14|760|00:58:28|630</wrap>Alright, it is time then for us to say The Great Invocation. We have reached... what page are we on now? Let's see. <wrap hide>304|00:58:31|630|00:58:50|310</wrap>Okay, page 64. We are on page 64. So this is Esoteric Astrology number adventure EAA 29. <wrap hide>305|00:58:51|850|00:59:09|610</wrap>And we have gone up to page 64. And EAA 28 started at page 61. So we're doing somewhat better now. <wrap hide>306|00:59:09|610|00:59:30|890</wrap>We are making three pages per program, but I won't promise that that is always the way it will be. So EAA 29 from page 61 to 64. And we will do together The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>307|00:59:42|790|00:59:56|370</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. <wrap hide>308|01:00:00|430|01:00:10|690</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>309|01:00:14|510|01:00:24|790</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>310|01:00:29|250|01:00:39|990</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>311|01:00:41|470|01:00:47|250</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>312|01:00:52|250|01:00:53|650</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>313|01:00:59|950|01:01:01|350</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>314|01:01:07|770|01:01:09|170</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>315|01:01:37|470|01:01:38|870</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>316|01:01:42|410|01:01:43|810</wrap>Om.
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