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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:02|980|00:00:04|800</wrap>Okay, hi everybody. <wrap hide>2|00:00:07|540|00:00:16|160</wrap>We are entering our Esoteric Astrology adventure number 30. <wrap hide>3|00:00:19|760|00:00:27|900</wrap>And we have been talking about the coming of the Solar Angels, and D.K. said he placed <wrap hide>4|00:00:27|900|00:00:36|500</wrap>that stupendous happening in the age of Gemini, age of Leo, Cancer in Gemini really, but beginning <wrap hide>5|00:00:36|500|00:00:47|960</wrap>in Leo, some 21,688,345 years ago. <wrap hide>6|00:00:48|720|00:00:54|260</wrap>And we have determined that we are speaking of precessional ages. <wrap hide>7|00:00:54|260|00:01:00|960</wrap>This is what we mean by the Sun in Leo or the Sun in Gemini. <wrap hide>8|00:01:01|120|00:01:13|920</wrap>We do not mean the month because it took about 5,000 years for the Sun to move from Leo to <wrap hide>9|00:01:13|920|00:01:21|880</wrap>Gemini, and that's just about right when considering, as D.K. sometimes does, an average precessional <wrap hide>10|00:01:21|880|00:01:24|980</wrap>age as 2,500 years. <wrap hide>11|00:01:26|000|00:01:29|500</wrap>That's probably 2,160 with overlaps. <wrap hide>12|00:01:31|850|00:01:39|520</wrap>Then we are told the door was closed upon the animal kingdom, and this was in middle <wrap hide>13|00:01:39|520|00:01:51|800</wrap>of Lemurian times, but 3 million years before the man, animal man, awakened to the event <wrap hide>14|00:01:51|800|00:02:00|400</wrap>that happened and the hierarchy, or Shambhala as we wish to think of it, was established <wrap hide>15|00:02:00|400|00:02:07|760</wrap>because of the coming of the Lords of the Flame, Sanat Kumara and his 104 Kumaras, <wrap hide>16|00:02:07|760|00:02:11|380</wrap>which established the hierarchy of that time. <wrap hide>17|00:02:12|900|00:02:25|460</wrap>We went as far as page 64, and moving on now, D.K. tells us <wrap quote>It has been stated that Sagittarius <wrap hide>18|00:02:25|460|00:02:35|800</wrap>governs human evolution, as the Sun was in that sign. When the Hierarchy began its Approach <wrap hide>19|00:02:35|800|00:02:39|800</wrap>in order to stimulate the forms of life upon our planet. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>20|00:02:39|900|00:02:43|380</wrap>But again we have to ask what is meant by the hierarchy. <wrap hide>21|00:02:43|620|00:02:47|500</wrap>Perhaps we mean the hierarchy of solar Angels. <wrap hide>22|00:02:49|890|00:03:02|080</wrap>On the other hand, this has some interesting ideas connected with it. <wrap quote>//Sagittarius, however, <wrap hide>23|00:03:02|080|00:03:06|500</wrap>governed the period of the subjective approach//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>24|00:03:07|360|00:03:15|920</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Leo// when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>25|00:03:16|800|00:03:29|960</wrap>So it is the date of individualization that we are given in this 21,688,345 years, and <wrap hide>26|00:03:29|960|00:03:36|300</wrap>even earlier perhaps, was a Sagittarian subjective approach. <wrap hide>27|00:03:36|940|00:03:49|900</wrap>Although there is interestingly a line: "Arrow says shot forth." <wrap hide>28|00:03:49|900|00:04:02|300</wrap>This is from A Treatise on White Magic, and it tells us that the sons of God shot forth <wrap hide>29|00:04:02|300|00:04:05|660</wrap>like arrows from the bow. <wrap hide>30|00:04:05|840|00:04:09|720</wrap>Now that's a very Sagittarian imagery. <wrap hide>31|00:04:10|340|00:04:14|060</wrap>It has to do with the process of individualization. <wrap hide>32|00:04:15|820|00:04:21|460</wrap>"The forms received the impulse and lo a God was born. <wrap hide>33|00:04:22|280|00:04:25|480</wrap>The tiny babe knew not the great events." <wrap hide>34|00:04:25|840|00:04:36|000</wrap>So are we dealing with Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Virgo? That is 10,000 years if we use <wrap hide>35|00:04:36|000|00:04:40|160</wrap>the 2,500 year span to indicate a precessional age. <wrap hide>36|00:04:40|980|00:04:44|080</wrap>Here it tells us a little bit about that individualization. <wrap hide>37|00:04:44|600|00:04:51|540</wrap>The Sun was in Sagittarius when the first human tendencies struggled to the fore, presumably <wrap hide>38|00:04:51|540|00:04:52|780</wrap>in animal man. <wrap hide>39|00:04:53|120|00:05:00|460</wrap>The stage of animal man was completed, and when Sagittarius was dominant from our planetary <wrap hide>40|00:05:00|460|00:05:08|320</wrap>standpoint—I'm using the words with care—so does that mean a great precessional age <wrap hide>41|00:05:08|320|00:05:10|200</wrap>from a planetary standpoint? <wrap hide>42|00:05:10|960|00:05:17|040</wrap>The great event of individualization took place, but the brain of the then human being <wrap hide>43|00:05:17|580|00:05:23|540</wrap>failed to register what had happened, and then the words of the old commentary: "The sons <wrap hide>44|00:05:23|540|00:05:26|760</wrap>of God shot forth like arrows from the bow. <wrap hide>45|00:05:27|780|00:05:31|760</wrap>The forms received the impulse and lo a God was born. <wrap hide>46|00:05:31|940|00:05:33|600</wrap>The tiny babe knew it not." <wrap hide>47|00:05:33|600|00:05:36|120</wrap>This took place 21 million years ago. <wrap hide>48|00:05:36|240|00:05:37|860</wrap>This is a rounding off, of course. <wrap hide>49|00:05:38|820|00:05:43|660</wrap>Cycles passed, and when at a later date the Sun was in Leo approximately 18 million years <wrap hide>50|00:05:43|660|00:05:52|140</wrap>ago, the first instances of coordination between brain and mind took place, and the human being <wrap hide>51|00:05:52|140|00:05:53|640</wrap>was definitely self-conscious. <wrap hide>52|00:05:54|000|00:05:56|060</wrap>He registered his individuality. <wrap hide>53|00:05:56|780|00:06:03|220</wrap>The figure for the first date, though exactness is not possible in a system of mutations such <wrap hide>54|00:06:03|220|00:06:07|800</wrap>as ours, are 21 million 688 thousand 345 years ago. <wrap hide>55|00:06:09|260|00:06:15|200</wrap>These figures, he says, are useless at this time, for they can neither be proved correct <wrap hide>56|00:06:15|200|00:06:19|420</wrap>or incorrect, but later investigation will prove their usefulness. <wrap hide>57|00:06:19|620|00:06:24|440</wrap>So Sagittarius governs human evolution, for it symbolizes progress towards a conscious <wrap hide>58|00:06:24|440|00:06:24|900</wrap>goal. <wrap hide>59|00:06:25|580|00:06:30|100</wrap>Leo governs the human consciousness in the human kingdom, for the energy pouring through <wrap hide>60|00:06:30|100|00:06:32|300</wrap>it enables man to say "I am." <wrap hide>61|00:06:32|300|00:06:43|000</wrap>Well, when we go back here to Esoteric Astrology, it does seem to say that the individualization, <wrap hide>62|00:06:44|200|00:06:50|300</wrap>Let's see, the great approach of the hierarchy to our planetary manifestation took place. <wrap hide>63|00:06:50|960|00:06:54|200</wrap>Let's see if we can find this here. <wrap hide>64|00:06:54|240|00:07:00|460</wrap>I earlier gave the hint upon which definite astrological computation can be based. <wrap hide>65|00:07:00|460|00:07:05|320</wrap><wrap quote>When I gave the time of the "Great Approach" of the Hierarchy to our planetary manifestation <wrap hide>66|00:07:06|120|00:07:19|280</wrap>when individualisation took place </wrap> that event occurred 21 million years ago and at that <wrap hide>67|00:07:19|280|00:07:20|620</wrap>time the Sun was in Leo. <wrap hide>68|00:07:20|780|00:07:28|140</wrap>What he tells us, the Sun was in Leo at that time and the Sun was also in Sagittarius. <wrap hide>69|00:07:28|140|00:07:36|440</wrap>So you begin to wonder whether we are talking about a great age of Sagittarius, a Platonic <wrap hide>70|00:07:36|440|00:07:45|680</wrap>year of Sagittarius, when the processional age was that of Leo going to a smaller processional <wrap hide>71|00:07:45|680|00:07:51|780</wrap>age of Cancer and then Gemini, because otherwise there seemed to be some contradictions. <wrap hide>72|00:07:54|580|00:08:01|960</wrap><wrap quote>as the Sun was in that sign. when the Hierarchy began its Approach in order to stimulate the forms of life <wrap hide>73|00:08:01|960|00:08:02|800</wrap>upon our planet. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>74|00:08:03|140|00:08:08|380</wrap>Now, another way of viewing this is that 10,000 years before the actual individualization, <wrap hide>75|00:08:09|540|00:08:15|380</wrap>whatever hierarchy means, I think the hierarchy of solar Angels actually, Sagittarius was <wrap hide>76|00:08:15|380|00:08:19|040</wrap>the sign governing a lesser processional age. <wrap hide>77|00:08:19|040|00:08:25|220</wrap>So we either have this great processional age of 25,000 years ruled by Sagittarius during <wrap hide>78|00:08:25|220|00:08:33|600</wrap>which the lesser age of Leo was the time of individualization followed by the lesser age <wrap hide>79|00:08:33|600|00:08:42|820</wrap>of Cancer and Gemini, or we have the idea that a subjective approach occurred 10,000 <wrap hide>80|00:08:42|820|00:08:47|920</wrap>years before the individualization in Leo and that was governed by Sagittarius. <wrap hide>81|00:08:47|920|00:08:54|960</wrap>But D.K. definitely does connect Leo with that figure 21,688,345. <wrap hide>82|00:08:56|020|00:09:02|400</wrap>So anyway, he tells us Sagittarius, you see it's not as straightforward as we may think. <wrap hide>83|00:09:02|960|00:09:06|860</wrap><wrap quote>//Sagittarius, however, governed the period of the subjective approach//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>84|00:09:07|040|00:09:13|500</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Leo// when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>85|00:09:13|500|00:09:23|620</wrap>But up here, D.K. tells us that <wrap quote>I placed that stupendous event as happening 21,688,345 years ago. <wrap hide>86|00:09:23|620|00:09:25|680</wrap>At that time the Sun was //in Leo//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>87|00:09:26|560|00:09:34|440</wrap>So he seems to be talking about a subjective approach involving Sagittarius at that figure <wrap hide>88|00:09:34|440|00:09:40|580</wrap>and also an objective individualization involving that figure. <wrap hide>89|00:09:40|580|00:09:46|640</wrap>And I have suggested the ways to try to solve that problem. <wrap hide>90|00:09:48|880|00:09:56|480</wrap>The sun was in Leo in one respect, but from another respect Sagittarius may have ruled <wrap hide>91|00:09:56|480|00:10:06|860</wrap>the age and he does say, let's see how does he say it here, the figure for the first date, <wrap hide>92|00:10:07|860|00:10:13|940</wrap>though exact it's not possible, or 21,688 and Sagittarius is definitely involved, here's <wrap hide>93|00:10:13|940|00:10:15|220</wrap>all the Sagittarian energy. <wrap hide>94|00:10:15|940|00:10:25|440</wrap>But notice, Sagittarius was dominant from the planetary standpoint and does that mean <wrap hide>95|00:10:25|440|00:10:29|380</wrap>a great age from the planetary standpoint. <wrap hide>96|00:10:29|380|00:10:41|600</wrap>So this is unresolved, but at least we know that some 21 million years ago there was a <wrap hide>97|00:10:41|600|00:10:53|500</wrap>Great Approach which occurred and that until the Sun was in Leo again, 3 million years <wrap hide>98|00:10:53|500|00:11:03|240</wrap>later, the brain of animal man did not awaken to the manner in which it had been stimulated <wrap hide>99|00:11:03|240|00:11:11|700</wrap>and the "I" consciousness was not established even though the link was made between the <wrap hide>100|00:11:11|700|00:11:15|760</wrap>solar Angel and the brain and the solar Angel and the mind. <wrap hide>101|00:11:16|130|00:11:28|700</wrap>So there was a latent "I am" consciousness which later awoke, here it is, the brain of the <wrap hide>102|00:11:28|700|00:11:35|420</wrap>then human being failed to register what happened, cycles passed and at a later date again the <wrap hide>103|00:11:35|420|00:11:41|820</wrap>sun was in Leo, how interesting, approximately 18 million years ago. <wrap hide>104|00:11:42|820|00:11:49|980</wrap>We wonder, you know, whether it was 17 million and something because we are told that the <wrap hide>105|00:11:49|980|00:11:56|400</wrap>temple of Ibez, which was the first Shambolic outpost, was established some 17 million years <wrap hide>106|00:11:56|400|00:11:57|080</wrap>ago. <wrap hide>107|00:11:57|860|00:12:06|020</wrap>The first instances of coordination between brain and mind took place and in his consciousness <wrap hide>108|00:12:06|020|00:12:14|880</wrap>upon the physical plane the man could register that he had a mind and that he was an individuality, <wrap hide>109|00:12:15|380|00:12:17|580</wrap>the sense of "I-ness" grew. <wrap hide>110|00:12:19|720|00:12:25|880</wrap>Okay, so I think we've explored the possible discrepancies there. <wrap hide>111|00:12:31|000|00:12:36|520</wrap><wrap quote>as the Sun was in that sign. when the Hierarchy began its Approach in order to stimulate the <wrap hide>112|00:12:36|520|00:12:42|920</wrap>forms of life upon our planet. //EA, p.64//</wrap> from the planetary viewpoint, from the planetary perspective. <wrap hide>113|00:12:43|600|00:12:47|880</wrap>Sagittarius governed the period of subjective approach and you wonder whether subjective <wrap hide>114|00:12:47|880|00:12:59|920</wrap>approach means that which set up the circumstances for the actual individualization which was <wrap hide>115|00:12:59|920|00:13:07|200</wrap>later, millions of years later, recognized by the consciousness of the human being. <wrap hide>116|00:13:08|060|00:13:13|580</wrap>So I guess what we have to determine is whether we're dealing with the great age of Sagittarius, <wrap hide>117|00:13:13|580|00:13:20|500</wrap>or whether we're dealing with a lesser age and the subjective approach occurred: Sagittarius, <wrap hide>118|00:13:20|680|00:13:26|720</wrap>Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, followed by individualization in Leo which was completed in Gemini, which <wrap hide>119|00:13:26|720|00:13:33|080</wrap>would have made a half circle of the zodiac from Sagittarius completed in Gemini. <wrap hide>120|00:13:33|540|00:13:35|180</wrap>That would make sense too. <wrap hide>121|00:13:36|460|00:13:45|560</wrap>Yes, let's take a look up here, because I think he says that it was in Gemini when the <wrap hide>122|00:13:45|560|00:13:47|960</wrap>final crisis took place. <wrap hide>123|00:13:48|520|00:13:55|680</wrap>So if we look at smaller processional ages, instead of introducing the idea of the big <wrap hide>124|00:13:55|680|00:14:11|560</wrap>one, then we have a period of some 7 times 2,500, a period of some, let's say, between <wrap hide>125|00:14:11|560|00:14:18|000</wrap>15,000 and 17,000 years for the entire process to occur. <wrap hide>126|00:14:18|960|00:14:23|700</wrap>D.K. tells us we can't do much with these figures. I know some people who have tried valiantly <wrap hide>127|00:14:23|700|00:14:28|920</wrap>to do that, but we will be given the information when we need it. <wrap hide>128|00:14:29|220|00:14:36|280</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Leo// when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>129|00:14:37|180|00:14:47|660</wrap>And we can ask, okay, was this 10,000 years before individualization? <wrap hide>130|00:14:48|120|00:14:49|000</wrap>We can ask that. <wrap hide>131|00:14:49|000|00:15:01|440</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Gemini// when this Approach was consummated by the founding of the Hierarchy <wrap hide>132|00:15:01|440|00:15:02|500</wrap>upon the Earth. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>133|00:15:03|380|00:15:06|480</wrap>Now, you know, hierarchy was not here. <wrap hide>134|00:15:07|300|00:15:15|360</wrap>As we understand hierarchy, which were the great beings accompanying Sanat Kumara three <wrap hide>135|00:15:15|360|00:15:19|480</wrap>million years later after the first Sagittarian approach. <wrap hide>136|00:15:19|860|00:15:25|820</wrap>It seems there is some repetition going on here. <wrap hide>137|00:15:26|020|00:15:33|380</wrap>We have two signs mentioned, they are Leo and Gemini, and apparently Leo and Gemini. <wrap hide>138|00:15:34|320|00:15:45|340</wrap>So we know that hierarchy was founded about 18 million years ago with the coming of the <wrap hide>139|00:15:45|340|00:15:54|740</wrap>Sun to himself, came to himself when the Sun was in Leo three million years plus after <wrap hide>140|00:15:54|740|00:16:01|280</wrap>the time the Sun was in Leo when he was individualized at the 21 million year period. <wrap hide>141|00:16:01|940|00:16:07|800</wrap>So at first we have, at the 21 million year period we have physical individualization <wrap hide>142|00:16:07|800|00:16:15|500</wrap>finally consummated in Gemini, and then we have three million years plus later, man awakening <wrap hide>143|00:16:15|500|00:16:23|740</wrap>to himself in Leo, and the approach of the hierarchy consummated in Gemini. <wrap hide>144|00:16:23|880|00:16:33|440</wrap>Because after all, it was, as man was awakening to the fact that "I am," hierarchy 18 million <wrap hide>145|00:16:33|440|00:16:35|340</wrap>years ago was approaching. <wrap hide>146|00:16:35|340|00:16:39|540</wrap>So I think that puts everything into the proper chronology. <wrap hide>147|00:16:40|180|00:16:48|980</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Gemini// when this Approach was consummated by the founding of the Hierarchy <wrap hide>148|00:16:48|980|00:16:49|520</wrap>upon the Earth.</wrap> <wrap hide>149|00:16:49|900|00:16:56|360</wrap>Hierarchy was not founded on the Earth 21 million years ago, and if there was a hierarchical <wrap hide>150|00:16:56|360|00:17:00|340</wrap>approach at that time, it was the Creative Hierarchy of solar Angels. <wrap hide>151|00:17:00|880|00:17:07|220</wrap><wrap quote>This is one of the great secrets which the Masonic Rituals //EA, p.64//</wrap> in a way ruled very much <wrap hide>152|00:17:07|220|00:17:13|760</wrap>by Gemini, <wrap quote>typify, for the symbol of the sign, Gemini, is the source of the concept of the <wrap hide>153|00:17:13|760|00:17:17|020</wrap>two pillars, so familiar to Masons. It might therefore be stated that, symbolically speaking, //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>154|00:17:18|720|00:17:26|040</wrap>Okay, so I hope we have that picture of an original event under Sagittarius, a kind of <wrap hide>155|00:17:26|040|00:17:31|620</wrap>subjective approach, then individualization, physical individualization occurring when <wrap hide>156|00:17:31|620|00:17:38|440</wrap>the Sun was in Leo and consummated when the Sun was in Gemini, the final Crisis of Individualisation <wrap hide>157|00:17:38|440|00:17:44|380</wrap>during that 21 million year ago period, when the Sun was in Gemini, then go forward another <wrap hide>158|00:17:44|380|00:17:49|900</wrap>three and a half million years or so, and you have the Sun again in Leo, man awakens <wrap hide>159|00:17:49|900|00:17:53|560</wrap>to himself, and then the hierarchy is coming. <wrap hide>160|00:17:54|360|00:18:03|620</wrap>They are arriving from the Venus globe of the Venus chain in the Earth scheme, and that <wrap hide>161|00:18:03|620|00:18:12|420</wrap>is consummated with the founding of hierarchy when the Sun is in Gemini, presumably 18 million <wrap hide>162|00:18:12|420|00:18:13|140</wrap>years ago. <wrap hide>163|00:18:13|780|00:18:20|020</wrap>One of the great secrets of the Masonic ritual, because in a way Masonry signals to us that <wrap hide>164|00:18:20|020|00:18:28|380</wrap>hierarchy has come to Earth, has opened the door for animal man to progress and walk through <wrap hide>165|00:18:28|380|00:18:36|220</wrap>eventually the pillars of wisdom, go through the pairs of opposites and enter the temple <wrap hide>166|00:18:36|220|00:18:36|900</wrap>of initiation. <wrap hide>167|00:18:37|280|00:18:46|040</wrap>And even in Lemurian times, the temple of initiation existed, although the initiations <wrap hide>168|00:18:46|040|00:18:56|900</wrap>offered were very primitive compared to what we now expect as the true monastic initiations, <wrap hide>169|00:18:57|260|00:19:00|200</wrap>starting with the birth of the Christ in the heart. <wrap hide>170|00:19:00|900|00:19:13|780</wrap>I think it's necessary to read D.K. so carefully, because in the way he uses his language, a <wrap hide>171|00:19:13|780|00:19:19|500</wrap>Straightforward interpretation is not always possible. <wrap hide>172|00:19:21|260|00:19:29|580</wrap>Okay, so we have physical plane individualization when the Sun is in Leo, and maybe a long time <wrap hide>173|00:19:29|580|00:19:30|100</wrap>later. <wrap hide>174|00:19:31|740|00:19:37|160</wrap>One Gemini period did follow that physical individualization, but now comes another Gemini <wrap hide>175|00:19:37|160|00:19:41|580</wrap>period much, much later, as far as I can see, with the actual founding of the hierarchy <wrap hide>176|00:19:41|580|00:19:44|360</wrap>on Earth 18 million years ago. <wrap hide>177|00:19:45|400|00:19:48|500</wrap>All right, I hope that's clear; it's certainly clear to me. <wrap hide>178|00:19:49|360|00:19:56|780</wrap><wrap quote>1. Leo governs the E⟍ A⟍ degree. //EA, p.64//</wrap> D.K. has used these words, so it does mean "entered apprentice." <wrap hide>179|00:19:59|840|00:20:07|520</wrap>And in a way, the very first initiation of humanity, of animal man, is becoming the self-conscious <wrap hide>180|00:20:07|520|00:20:08|180</wrap>human being. <wrap hide>181|00:20:08|180|00:20:18|020</wrap>This was achieved 18 million years ago, although Leo also governed the first physical individualization, <wrap hide>182|00:20:18|420|00:20:23|880</wrap>which was not registered by animal man. <wrap hide>183|00:20:24|840|00:20:31|480</wrap>"The tiny babe knew not..." How does it say? "The tiny babe knew not the great event." <wrap hide>184|00:20:32|560|00:20:43|860</wrap><wrap quote>2. Gemini governs the F⟍ C⟍ degree. //EA, p.64//</wrap> I'm not sure why they draw them this way—a fellow <wrap hide>185|00:20:43|860|00:20:52|680</wrap>craft degree. It is the degree involving the second aspect of divinity, and it is connected <wrap hide>186|00:20:52|680|00:20:58|300</wrap>with the astral body, just the way the E⟍ A⟍ degree is connected more with the physical <wrap hide>187|00:20:58|300|00:20:58|620</wrap>body. <wrap hide>188|00:20:58|620|00:21:06|280</wrap>We become an entered apprentice in relation to the star Sirius at our fifth initiation, <wrap hide>189|00:21:07|880|00:21:13|440</wrap>and we become, I suppose, an F⟍ C⟍ fellow craft in relation to the star Sirius at our sixth <wrap hide>190|00:21:13|440|00:21:22|560</wrap>initiation, and maybe something of a master mason at the seventh initiation, which is <wrap hide>191|00:21:22|560|00:21:26|300</wrap>also, from the Sirian point of view, the transfiguration. <wrap hide>192|00:21:26|300|00:21:33|700</wrap>But really, there's more to a master mason than the third degree—really. As a matter <wrap hide>193|00:21:33|700|00:21:39|400</wrap>of fact, a master mason degree transcends the third degree. <wrap hide>194|00:21:39|500|00:21:44|800</wrap>There are other degrees to be inserted, such as the mark degree, that has more to do with <wrap hide>195|00:21:44|800|00:21:45|680</wrap>the third initiation. <wrap hide>196|00:21:46|480|00:21:54|480</wrap>Master mason has more to do with actual mastership. It's given in two parts, and one involves <wrap hide>197|00:21:54|480|00:21:56|880</wrap>the crucifixion and the other involves mastership. <wrap hide>198|00:21:57|940|00:22:09|300</wrap><wrap quote>3. Sagittarius governs the degree of M⟍ M⟍ up to the episode of the raising of the Master, //EA, p.64//</wrap> the degree of the Master Mason —there should be like <wrap hide>199|00:22:09|300|00:22:15|540</wrap>triangular dots there—up to the episode of the raising of the master. <wrap hide>200|00:22:17|240|00:22:23|560</wrap><wrap quote>and that Capricorn governs the final part of the ceremony and the degree H⟍  R⟍ A⟍ //EA, p.64//</wrap> It's sometimes <wrap hide>201|00:22:23|560|00:22:25|360</wrap>called the Holy Royal Arch. <wrap hide>202|00:22:27|400|00:22:33|680</wrap>All of this information, of course, is easily available to anyone who wants to research <wrap hide>203|00:22:33|680|00:22:39|700</wrap>the matter. It's not a deep, dark secret, but of course, the actual procedures of the initiation <wrap hide>204|00:22:39|700|00:22:47|500</wrap>ceremonies are not for public consumption. They are retained among masons, generally <wrap hide>205|00:22:47|500|00:22:47|940</wrap>speaking. <wrap hide>206|00:22:49|240|00:22:57|320</wrap>So Sagittarius-Capricorn is a unit governing master mason and Holy Royal Arch, and that <wrap hide>207|00:22:57|320|00:23:04|380</wrap>is the climax, the peak of attainment, and by that time, mastership, or the symbol of <wrap hide>208|00:23:04|380|00:23:07|740</wrap>mastership, has been reached. <wrap hide>209|00:23:08|100|00:23:13|840</wrap>So the fourth and the fifth degrees are symbolized there. <wrap hide>210|00:23:14|300|00:23:23|840</wrap>The F⟍ C⟍ degree is really a symbol of the second degree, the mark degree is the symbol of the <wrap hide>211|00:23:23|840|00:23:32|760</wrap>third, and Sagittarius-Capricorn involves the fourth and the fifth degrees, with the <wrap hide>212|00:23:32|760|00:23:41|140</wrap>two ceremonies—master mason and Holy Royal Arch H⟍  R⟍ A⟍—being contiguous. <wrap hide>213|00:23:41|140|00:23:48|060</wrap>Of course, in Masonic lodges, they're never given altogether. One still has more work <wrap hide>214|00:23:48|060|00:23:55|420</wrap>to do after the master mason degree before being able to apply for participation in that <wrap hide>215|00:23:55|420|00:23:56|200</wrap>final degree. <wrap hide>216|00:23:56|760|00:24:03|640</wrap>As masonry has evolved these days, many degrees have been written. The Scottish Rite exists, <wrap hide>217|00:24:03|640|00:24:15|940</wrap>the York Rite exists. Thirty-two degrees have been written, and let's see, 30 of them go beyond <wrap hide>218|00:24:15|940|00:24:19|240</wrap>the first three degrees of the Blue Lodge. <wrap hide>219|00:24:20|760|00:24:26|680</wrap>And so, borrowing from the York Rite and from the Scottish Rite—the York Rite usually being <wrap hide>220|00:24:26|680|00:24:34|260</wrap>considered to consist of so-called Christian degrees—we are able to bring together five <wrap hide>221|00:24:34|260|00:24:42|620</wrap>major degrees: the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, the mark degree, the master <wrap hide>222|00:24:42|620|00:24:44|840</wrap>mason degree, and the H⟍  R⟍ A⟍ degree. <wrap hide>223|00:24:46|140|00:24:57|600</wrap>D.K. has written a fair bit about this in his book—what's it called? It's the Foster Bailey <wrap hide>224|00:24:57|600|00:25:00|880</wrap>book, The Spirit of Masonry. <wrap hide>225|00:25:01|320|00:25:08|500</wrap><wrap quote>It is always confusing to the beginner who has not yet a developed and trained intuition <wrap hide>226|00:25:09|260|00:25:16|440</wrap>to reconcile the seeming discrepancies and apparent contradictions which appear in the <wrap hide>227|00:25:16|440|00:25:18|240</wrap>teaching of the Ageless Wisdom. //EA, p.64-65//</wrap> <wrap hide>228|00:25:19|400|00:25:26|520</wrap>There D.K. says it; he says it for all of us, and for as long as we will be studying his <wrap hide>229|00:25:26|520|00:25:33|220</wrap>work, there are seeming discrepancies and there are apparent contradictions. <wrap hide>230|00:25:35|440|00:25:44|300</wrap>And these are the results of the limitations of our own intuition, our own reasoning power, <wrap hide>231|00:25:44|460|00:25:45|540</wrap>our own experience. <wrap hide>232|00:25:46|780|00:25:53|860</wrap><wrap quote>This same difficulty will be met with in the science of astrology and some reference to <wrap hide>233|00:25:53|860|00:26:00|860</wrap>the matter is in order at this point. //EA, p.65//</wrap> how to reconcile the seeming discrepancies and <wrap hide>234|00:26:00|860|00:26:02|380</wrap>apparent contradictions. <wrap hide>235|00:26:02|380|00:26:07|420</wrap>I always use those words, or I try to. I don't ever say this is a contradiction, or I don't <wrap hide>236|00:26:07|420|00:26:14|320</wrap>mean to say that. This is an apparent contradiction, I usually say, or a seeming contradiction. <wrap hide>237|00:26:14|820|00:26:17|080</wrap>I have to train myself to do that; I think we all do. <wrap hide>238|00:26:18|040|00:26:20|680</wrap>So the same difficulty is met in the science of astrology. <wrap hide>239|00:26:21|600|00:26:28|060</wrap><wrap quote>I would remind you of the occult truism which states that interpretation and right understanding <wrap hide>240|00:26:28|060|00:26:32|760</wrap>are based upon the stage of the development of the individual. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>241|00:26:33|360|00:26:41|260</wrap>This is, of course, the basis of illusion. So many people have a limited mind and consciousness <wrap hide>242|00:26:42|010|00:26:49|160</wrap>and interpret according to their perception and understanding, but their interpretation <wrap hide>243|00:26:49|160|00:26:58|640</wrap>is seen as erroneous by more fully developed minds and broader, deeper consciousnesses. <wrap hide>244|00:26:59|680|00:27:05|680</wrap><wrap quote>H.P.B. remarked in //The Secret Doctrine// that for some people the highest principle of which <wrap hide>245|00:27:05|680|00:27:11|520</wrap>they can be consciously aware might be a very low one for another person. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>246|00:27:11|780|00:27:16|800</wrap>I mean, you know, the masters live in the world of atma-buddhi-manas, and we talk about <wrap hide>247|00:27:16|800|00:27:26|000</wrap>what they might mean and on occasion may be fleetingly touched by the vibrations which <wrap hide>248|00:27:26|000|00:27:28|340</wrap>are associated with them. <wrap hide>249|00:27:29|560|00:27:37|300</wrap>So we do not have full awareness of that realm in which they consistently live, and certainly, <wrap hide>250|00:27:37|840|00:27:43|920</wrap>you know, look at the animal, even our pet dog or whatever. What do they know of our <wrap hide>251|00:27:43|920|00:27:48|180</wrap>thinking process or of the intuition, etc.? <wrap hide>252|00:27:48|320|00:27:49|140</wrap>What do they know? <wrap hide>253|00:27:51|060|00:27:52|080</wrap>Let's see something here. <wrap hide>254|00:27:52|320|00:27:53|280</wrap>Yeah, that's it. <wrap hide>255|00:27:53|820|00:27:54|000</wrap><wrap hide>256|00:27:55|400|00:28:04|200</wrap><wrap quote>The constellations and the planets which govern them //EA, p.65//</wrap> people I suppose, <wrap quote>may, and do, have one <wrap hide>257|00:28:04|200|00:28:11|780</wrap>effect upon the mass //EA, p.65//</wrap> ruled by Cancer and the Moon, <wrap quote>and another upon the average individual <wrap hide>258|00:28:11|780|00:28:16|520</wrap>man, and still a third effect upon the disciple or the initiate. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>259|00:28:16|620|00:28:24|600</wrap>There's a whole range of possible responses to the various planets and signs of the zodiac, <wrap hide>260|00:28:24|600|00:28:31|380</wrap>and all depends upon the quality of the form receiving impression. <wrap hide>261|00:28:32|320|00:28:33|360</wrap>Let's put that down. <wrap hide>262|00:28:33|360|00:28:45|480</wrap>And all depends upon the quality of the form receiving impression. <wrap hide>263|00:28:47|530|00:28:56|040</wrap><wrap quote>As the various energies and forces circulate throughout the etheric body of our solar system, <wrap hide>264|00:28:56|040|00:29:05|120</wrap>their reception and effect will depend upon the state of the planetary centres //EA, p.65//</wrap> —now that <wrap hide>265|00:29:05|120|00:29:09|020</wrap>can be the planets themselves considered as centers or the centers within the planets— <wrap hide>266|00:29:09|100|00:29:15|520</wrap><wrap quote>and upon the point of unfoldment of the centres in individual man. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>267|00:29:15|840|00:29:25|560</wrap>Our planet has the same number of chakras in a way as does the individual man, and only <wrap hide>268|00:29:25|560|00:29:32|760</wrap>those zodiacal energies or even energies from fellow planets in the system can be correctly <wrap hide>269|00:29:32|760|00:29:38|640</wrap>received by our planetary Logos such as his stage of development. <wrap hide>270|00:29:38|860|00:29:41|180</wrap>He's not quite there yet. <wrap hide>271|00:29:41|900|00:29:47|920</wrap>So only certain centers in our planetary Logos are active, and those that are active are maybe <wrap hide>272|00:29:47|920|00:29:51|640</wrap>not fully unfolded because our planetary Logos are still non-sacred. <wrap hide>273|00:29:52|360|00:29:54|120</wrap>He's not a sacred planet. <wrap hide>274|00:29:54|120|00:30:01|220</wrap>He's not an initiate of high degree among the planetary Logoi. <wrap hide>275|00:30:02|020|00:30:03|820</wrap>Really, he's only a first degree initiate. <wrap hide>276|00:30:03|960|00:30:08|320</wrap>He's working towards his second cosmic initiation. <wrap hide>277|00:30:08|340|00:30:15|340</wrap>That is not too high an initiation among the planetary Logoi, and the sacred planets and <wrap hide>278|00:30:15|340|00:30:23|660</wrap>synthesizing planets are more highly advanced, although some of the greater planets are less <wrap hide>279|00:30:23|660|00:30:30|860</wrap>fully unfolded—the nature is less fully unfolded in our solar system than it will be later. <wrap hide>280|00:30:33|900|00:30:39|240</wrap>Okay, so the reception and effect of these various energies will depend upon the state <wrap hide>281|00:30:39|240|00:30:44|180</wrap>of the planetary centers and upon the point of unfoldment of the centers of the individual <wrap hide>282|00:30:44|180|00:30:47|900</wrap>man, and all of us are very different in that respect. <wrap hide>283|00:30:49|340|00:30:52|680</wrap>For some of us, doors are closed; for others, doors are opened. <wrap hide>284|00:30:52|680|00:30:55|320</wrap>It all depends on chakra sensitivity. <wrap hide>285|00:30:56|280|00:31:03|640</wrap><wrap quote>That is why the various charts and tabulations can differ so widely <wrap hide>286|00:31:04|270|00:31:09|300</wrap>and different planets can appear as ruling the constellations. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>287|00:31:09|380|00:31:13|640</wrap>He's making a case for the esoteric rulers. <wrap hide>288|00:31:13|640|00:31:22|040</wrap>A case for the esoteric rulers and hierarchical rulers. <wrap hide>289|00:31:22|540|00:31:27|180</wrap><wrap quote>There seems to be no fixed rule and the student gets bewildered. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>290|00:31:27|240|00:31:33|880</wrap>Well, the mind tries to achieve a definite fixity to preserve its sense of organization, <wrap hide>291|00:31:33|880|00:31:36|720</wrap>but the truth is much more fluid. <wrap hide>292|00:31:36|880|00:31:43|040</wrap>So after we pass through the stage of mental fixity and have clarity and organization, we <wrap hide>293|00:31:43|040|00:31:52|080</wrap>might be able to venture into the true fluid relationships of things without becoming confused. <wrap hide>294|00:31:53|140|00:32:04|140</wrap>Orthodox, yeah, so planets, different planets are conduits for different ranges of qualities <wrap hide>295|00:32:04|960|00:32:06|940</wrap>within the constellations. <wrap hide>296|00:32:07|280|00:32:11|860</wrap>I mean, let's see, from the constellation Aries, let us say the constellation the Lord <wrap hide>297|00:32:11|860|00:32:17|620</wrap>of Aries, certain types of energies can pass through the planet Mars. <wrap hide>298|00:32:18|740|00:32:27|000</wrap>But different energies still related to Aries can pass through the planet Mercury, and still <wrap hide>299|00:32:27|000|00:32:30|760</wrap>higher and different energies can pass through the planet Uranus. <wrap hide>300|00:32:31|460|00:32:38|260</wrap>Not all of the wide range of zodiacal energies can pass through each of the three rulers. <wrap hide>301|00:32:38|940|00:32:51|540</wrap>And when you look at Mars, Mercury and Uranus, there are different degrees within each, within <wrap hide>302|00:32:51|540|00:32:53|440</wrap>the energies received by each of them. <wrap hide>303|00:32:53|600|00:33:01|440</wrap>Like there may be low Ariesian qualities passing through Mars or higher or middling, and the <wrap hide>304|00:33:01|440|00:33:05|020</wrap>same for Mercury and the same for Uranus. <wrap hide>305|00:33:05|020|00:33:15|300</wrap>So it's a very complex and fluid picture of changing relationships, and only a lot of experience <wrap hide>306|00:33:16|000|00:33:23|520</wrap>with these energies and with the forms of life affected by the energies can help us <wrap hide>307|00:33:24|000|00:33:27|100</wrap>keep track of them and not lose our way. <wrap hide>308|00:33:28|720|00:33:34|200</wrap>So as D.K. says, there seems to be no fixed rule and the student gets bewildered. <wrap hide>309|00:33:34|200|00:33:40|820</wrap><wrap quote>Orthodox astrology posits one set of planetary rulers, and they are correct as far as the <wrap hide>310|00:33:40|820|00:33:42|180</wrap>mass of humanity is concerned. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>311|00:33:42|580|00:33:49|560</wrap>And they are even correct as far as we are concerned, because although they are superseded <wrap hide>312|00:33:50|660|00:33:53|940</wrap>by the esoteric rulers, they are not entirely superseded. <wrap hide>313|00:33:54|700|00:34:04|180</wrap>And their responses which they rule are added to the responses which the esoteric rulers <wrap hide>314|00:34:04|200|00:34:05|000</wrap>rule. <wrap hide>315|00:34:05|580|00:34:11|960</wrap>So the superseding is not complete, but the greater gathers in the lesser. <wrap hide>316|00:34:12|460|00:34:20|960</wrap>And I suppose we might be able to say that the hierarchical ruler gathers in the types <wrap hide>317|00:34:20|960|00:34:27|040</wrap>of responses which are associated with both the orthodox and the esoteric rulers. <wrap hide>318|00:34:27|260|00:34:29|200</wrap>The greater always includes the lesser. <wrap hide>319|00:34:29|200|00:34:37|360</wrap>D.K. goes on, <wrap quote>But the disciple, who lives above the diaphragm, //EA, p.65//</wrap> so in other words, basically <wrap hide>320|00:34:37|360|00:34:49|960</wrap>what he's saying here, the mass, let's get that straight, the mass lives below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>321|00:34:50|560|00:34:51|820</wrap>He's saying that. <wrap hide>322|00:34:52|600|00:35:01|320</wrap>And so the solar plexus is the brain for such, and the solar plexus with its sixth ray <wrap hide>323|00:35:01|320|00:35:07|980</wrap>association with both Mars and Neptune, is very connected with the sign Cancer, which <wrap hide>324|00:35:07|980|00:35:10|260</wrap>is the ruler of the mass consciousness. <wrap hide>325|00:35:10|440|00:35:16|400</wrap>But the disciple, who, and I think all disciples do, who lives above the diaphragm, responds <wrap hide>326|00:35:17|000|00:35:18|900</wrap>to another combination. <wrap hide>327|00:35:18|900|00:35:26|220</wrap>In other words, it's the combination of both the orthodox ruler and the esoteric ruler <wrap hide>328|00:35:26|220|00:35:31|820</wrap>added, and maybe even some impression from the hierarchical ruler. <wrap hide>329|00:35:32|520|00:35:37|220</wrap>The disciple who lives above the diaphragm <wrap quote>responds to another combination and it is <wrap hide>330|00:35:37|220|00:35:40|620</wrap>with these that I shall principally deal. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>331|00:35:41|980|00:35:48|880</wrap>So D.K. is trying to instruct us concerning how we can, how we can deal with the diaphragm, <wrap hide>332|00:35:49|420|00:35:59|160</wrap>respond to the higher aspects of zodiacal potential, aspects higher than those we are <wrap hide>333|00:35:59|160|00:36:08|440</wrap>likely to respond to, ruled only, when ruled only by the exoteric ruler of the zodiacal <wrap hide>334|00:36:08|440|00:36:08|860</wrap>sign. <wrap hide>335|00:36:09|160|00:36:15|040</wrap>I'm sure that many of us, you know, we know what the esoteric ruler of our sun sign may <wrap hide>336|00:36:15|040|00:36:15|360</wrap>be. <wrap hide>337|00:36:15|360|00:36:21|040</wrap>We know what the esoteric ruler of our rising sign may be, and we have thought about that, <wrap hide>338|00:36:21|360|00:36:25|720</wrap>and we have said, look, do I respond only to the exoteric ruler? <wrap hide>339|00:36:26|240|00:36:31|020</wrap>Like if I'm a Cancer-rising person, do I respond only to the moon? <wrap hide>340|00:36:31|120|00:36:32|700</wrap>Do I not also respond to Neptune? <wrap hide>341|00:36:32|980|00:36:42|780</wrap>If I'm a Sun and Aries individual, do I respond only to Mars as the ruler of Aries? <wrap hide>342|00:36:42|780|00:36:45|460</wrap>Do I not also respond to Mercury? <wrap hide>343|00:36:46|160|00:36:50|900</wrap>In my own case, Mercury is an Aries, it's at the top of the chart, and it's the esoteric <wrap hide>344|00:36:50|900|00:36:51|920</wrap>ruler of my sun sign. <wrap hide>345|00:36:52|020|00:36:56|560</wrap>I certainly have recognized in myself the response to Mercury. <wrap hide>346|00:36:56|680|00:37:02|380</wrap>As a matter of fact, all of these webinars and talking through the books and all of that <wrap hide>347|00:37:03|090|00:37:10|180</wrap>are very much the result of an elevated Mercury in Aries as the esoteric ruler of the sun <wrap hide>348|00:37:10|720|00:37:11|080</wrap>sign. <wrap hide>349|00:37:11|840|00:37:19|220</wrap><wrap quote>That is why the three charts here given do not appear to coincide. <wrap hide>1|00:00:02|980|00:00:04|800</wrap>They are drawn up to express the situation in regard to three groups: //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>351|00:37:29|740|00:37:36|960</wrap>Well, three charts — I think by that he means the rulers, three types of rulers in relation <wrap hide>352|00:37:36|960|00:37:38|200</wrap>to any sign of the zodiac. <wrap hide>353|00:37:38|200|00:37:44|780</wrap>So these charts or tabulations, which are following, are drawn up to express the situation <wrap hide>354|00:37:44|780|00:37:46|100</wrap>in regard to three groups. <wrap hide>355|00:37:47|000|00:37:52|660</wrap>The first: the exoteric ruler, <wrap quote>1. The mass of people who conform to orthodox and recognised <wrap hide>356|00:37:52|660|00:38:00|300</wrap>astrological conclusions. //EA, p.65//</wrap> and presumably those who live below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>357|00:38:03|180|00:38:05|000</wrap>Difficult word to spell. <wrap hide>358|00:38:06|080|00:38:13|620</wrap>Okay, then come the <wrap quote>2. Disciples and advanced individuals, conforming to the conclusions <wrap hide>359|00:38:13|620|00:38:24|500</wrap>of esoteric astrology. //EA, p.65//</wrap> and when esoteric astrology is introduced, then automatically the esoteric <wrap hide>360|00:38:24|500|00:38:32|400</wrap>rulers of the signs are introduced, and we have to learn how to respond to them and fuse <wrap hide>361|00:38:33|220|00:38:39|440</wrap>their energies with the higher potentials of the orthodox ruler. <wrap hide>362|00:38:40|460|00:38:45|500</wrap>I think when we think about ourselves, we will realize we have not necessarily ceased <wrap hide>363|00:38:45|500|00:38:53|000</wrap>to respond to the exoteric ruler of our sun sign, or even our rising sign, but hopefully <wrap hide>364|00:38:53|000|00:39:01|140</wrap>we have begun to respond to the more positive aspects of that exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>365|00:39:02|000|00:39:08|900</wrap>And then the third aspect of the tabulation is <wrap quote>3. The Creative Hierarchies, giving the interim <wrap hide>366|00:39:08|900|00:39:15|800</wrap>situation in this world cycle. //EA, p.65//</wrap> — whatever a world cycle may be — the Creative Hierarchies <wrap hide>367|00:39:15|800|00:39:21|480</wrap>have certain relationships, certain connections to the signs of the zodiac. How big is the <wrap hide>368|00:39:21|480|00:39:35|280</wrap>world cycle? Is it a round, or a... is it a kalpa, is it a mahakalpa, mahakalpa? Well, <wrap hide>369|00:39:35|760|00:39:36|640</wrap>something of that nature. <wrap hide>370|00:39:37|260|00:39:44|000</wrap>We're never told what that world cycle or world period is exactly. Sometimes we learn <wrap hide>371|00:39:44|000|00:39:51|460</wrap>that the name "world period" or "world cycle" is applied to a specific, um, meaning, or <wrap hide>372|00:39:51|480|00:40:00|060</wrap>duration of time, but we cannot be sure that D.K. always means that particular duration <wrap hide>373|00:40:00|060|00:40:04|740</wrap>of time when he mentions the word "world period" or "world cycle." <wrap hide>374|00:40:05|720|00:40:21|320</wrap>Okay, so let us see here, um, next. Okay, now we reach this big tabulation. This is <wrap hide>375|00:40:21|320|00:40:27|760</wrap>something that so many of us have studied, I'm sure. Um, excuse me, when we first picked <wrap hide>376|00:40:27|760|00:40:35|960</wrap>up the Esoteric Astrology book, we wondered at these alternative rulerships, we tried <wrap hide>377|00:40:35|960|00:40:41|000</wrap>to figure out what they meant, we memorized them — probably some of us have completely <wrap hide>378|00:40:41|000|00:40:47|440</wrap>memorized them, which is good for an esoteric astrologer. I would say not only good, absolutely <wrap hide>379|00:40:47|440|00:40:55|020</wrap>necessary. Notice he says here "the constellations and the planetary rulers" — he's talking about <wrap hide>380|00:40:55|020|00:41:00|480</wrap>the lords of the constellations and the lords of the planets which relate to each other. <wrap hide>381|00:41:01|560|00:41:15|180</wrap>So um, I wonder, uh, yeah, I can see that, um, that this needs maybe a little bit of <wrap hide>382|00:41:15|180|00:41:22|400</wrap>adjustment here. So I'll just, uh, turn this off for a second and I'll make these adjustments <wrap hide>383|00:41:22|400|00:41:33|760</wrap>so it's easier to see. Okay, um, we're dealing here, uh, I think it's better to look in the <wrap hide>384|00:41:33|760|00:41:45|160</wrap>Esoteric Astrology book because they're laid out quite well, and we're dealing with the <wrap hide>385|00:41:45|160|00:41:50|720</wrap><wrap quote>Constellations and Planetary Rulers in connection with Ordinary Man //EA, p.66//</wrap> so the constellation is <wrap hide>386|00:41:51|560|00:42:01|800</wrap>listed. And I think, um, what we really should have here is the idea, the same ruler. The <wrap hide>387|00:42:01|800|00:42:09|460</wrap>ruler is way over on the other side. Constellation, ruler, ray, and related to. So the constellation, <wrap hide>388|00:42:09|460|00:42:16|740</wrap>the first one is Aries, its ruler is Mars. Mars is a 6th-ray planet, probably in its personality, <wrap hide>389|00:42:17|020|00:42:24|220</wrap>because I think when we're dealing with a non-sacred planet, uh, their personality rays <wrap hide>390|00:42:24|220|00:42:36|400</wrap>are given. That's the hint because, uh, we see, uh, Earth is given. Um, well, I guess <wrap hide>391|00:42:36|400|00:42:44|160</wrap>Earth is never an orthodox ruler unless perhaps a co-ruler of Taurus in a way. It has a particular <wrap hide>392|00:42:44|160|00:42:51|920</wrap>relationship to the, uh, constellation Taurus. Uh, Aries and Scorpio are related because <wrap hide>393|00:42:51|920|00:42:58|520</wrap>they are both ruled by Mars. Mars is non-sacred, therefore italicized. Uh, probably I will <wrap hide>394|00:42:58|520|00:43:06|380</wrap>not linger, uh, for a long time, uh, on these particular relationships because we'll be <wrap hide>395|00:43:06|400|00:43:12|440</wrap>dealing with them all through the book. The constellation is Taurus. Its Orthodox <wrap hide>396|00:43:12|440|00:43:19|100</wrap>ruler is Venus. It conveys, in the soul sense, I believe, the 5th ray. And the other planet <wrap hide>397|00:43:19|100|00:43:24|860</wrap>ruled by Venus is Libra, so Taurus and Libra have a strong connection. Notice the angle <wrap hide>398|00:43:24|860|00:43:34|500</wrap>of 150 degrees separating Aries and Scorpio. If you move clockwise with the zodiac <wrap hide>399|00:43:34|500|00:43:41|380</wrap>and the angle of 150 degrees separating Taurus and Libra if you move counter-clockwise. So <wrap hide>400|00:43:41|380|00:43:47|240</wrap>the 5th ray is found through Venus in relation to both of these signs. With Gemini, the Orthodox <wrap hide>401|00:43:47|240|00:43:55|920</wrap>ruler is Mercury. It is, from the soul perspective, I believe, a 4th ray, a 4th <wrap hide>402|00:43:55|920|00:44:03|220</wrap>ray planet. And it's related to Virgo in a square. Virgo is also exoterically ruled <wrap hide>403|00:44:03|220|00:44:09|580</wrap>by Mercury. These, of course, I think you are quite familiar with if you studied <wrap hide>404|00:44:09|580|00:44:15|420</wrap>a little bit of astrology. But the relations are all very important. In many ways, <wrap hide>405|00:44:15|720|00:44:20|780</wrap>in many ways, the great science is the science of relations and astrology seems to be an <wrap hide>406|00:44:20|780|00:44:28|960</wrap>aspect of this science of relations. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, which is <wrap hide>407|00:44:29|660|00:44:38|260</wrap>considered a non-sacred planet, thus italicized. The Moon is the veil for an undiscovered <wrap hide>408|00:44:38|260|00:44:48|200</wrap>non-sacred 4th ray planet, and it has no relation. There is no other constellation ruled <wrap hide>409|00:44:48|200|00:44:53|880</wrap>in the exoteric sense by the Moon. It's out of relation. Leo is ruled by the Sun. Of course, <wrap hide>410|00:44:53|880|00:45:00|000</wrap>you can't really say the Sun is non-sacred. The Sun is the most sacred Logos in the whole <wrap hide>411|00:45:00|000|00:45:06|520</wrap>solar system. But we are talking about the Sun as a veil for an undiscovered 2nd <wrap hide>412|00:45:06|520|00:45:17|240</wrap>ray non-sacred planet. And there is no other constellation which is ruled by the Sun. <wrap hide>413|00:45:17|510|00:45:24|820</wrap>With the Moon there is, I mean, in the hierarchical sense Aquarius, in the esoteric sense Virgo, <wrap hide>414|00:45:24|940|00:45:33|180</wrap>but not the Sun. The Sun rules only in Leo, and so we begin to think that the constellation <wrap hide>415|00:45:33|180|00:45:44|620</wrap>Leo has a very special and unique relationship to our particular solar Logos. Virgo <wrap hide>416|00:45:45|200|00:45:51|680</wrap>is just a reversal of what we saw above. Mercury is the ruler. Libra, a reversal of what we <wrap hide>417|00:45:51|680|00:45:58|780</wrap>saw above, the Libra-Taurus relationship. Scorpio, a reversal of what we saw above, the Scorpio-Aries <wrap hide>418|00:45:58|780|00:46:07|860</wrap>relationship. Now we enter the realm of Jupiter. Jupiter, we have Sagittarius relating <wrap hide>419|00:46:07|860|00:46:13|500</wrap>to Pisces. Both are ruled exoterically by Jupiter, and Jupiter from the solar perspective <wrap hide>420|00:46:13|500|00:46:21|300</wrap>is, I believe, that's the hypothesis anyway, the sacred planets, when they are given <wrap hide>421|00:46:21|300|00:46:28|920</wrap>a ray, the soul ray is what is given. So Sagittarius relating to Jupiter, relating to Pisces, <wrap hide>422|00:46:29|040|00:46:34|840</wrap>both ruled by Jupiter, and down here we see the same in reverse, Pisces, ruled by Jupiter <wrap hide>423|00:46:34|840|00:46:42|500</wrap>related to Sagittarius, they are a square apart, just the way Gemini and Virgo <wrap hide>424|00:46:42|500|00:46:52|700</wrap>are a square apart. That's a unique relationship because the mutable cross is given, and these <wrap hide>425|00:46:52|700|00:46:59|980</wrap>planets, these signs ruled by the same planet are a square apart and form the mutable <wrap hide>426|00:46:59|980|00:47:06|460</wrap>cross. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn in the orthodox sense, and no other constellation <wrap hide>427|00:47:06|840|00:47:15|460</wrap>is ruled by Saturn in the orthodox sense. Saturn is expressing the third ray, perhaps <wrap hide>428|00:47:15|460|00:47:22|180</wrap>from the soul level. We certainly know that Saturn expresses the third ray monadically. <wrap hide>429|00:47:22|380|00:47:36|440</wrap>If you turn to Esoteric Psychology, Volume 1, page 420, you will see the monadic, the <wrap hide>430|00:47:36|440|00:47:43|260</wrap>monadic of the first three planets, Uranus ray 1, Neptune ray 2, Saturn ray 3. <wrap hide>431|00:47:44|200|00:47:51|040</wrap>Aquarius in the orthodox sense is ruled by the highly unorthodox planet Uranus, which <wrap hide>432|00:47:51|040|00:48:00|160</wrap>conveys from the soul perspective the seventh ray. And there is no other constellation ruled <wrap hide>433|00:48:00|160|00:48:08|240</wrap>by Uranus exoterically. And so we have, you know, different relationships are established <wrap hide>434|00:48:08|700|00:48:17|480</wrap>from the exoteric perspective. We have Mars Scorpio, we have Taurus Libra, we have Gemini <wrap hide>435|00:48:17|480|00:48:28|040</wrap>and Virgo, they all have rulers that are related to the two, identical in the two. Sagittarius <wrap hide>436|00:48:28|040|00:48:39|020</wrap>Pisces rulers that are shared. But not Capricorn, not Aquarius. So this is the, these are the <wrap hide>437|00:48:39|020|00:48:46|020</wrap>exoteric rulers with which we are largely familiar, and of course, you know, you have <wrap hide>438|00:48:46|020|00:48:51|620</wrap>to say there will be a relationship between Mars and Aries. One is more an external battle, <wrap hide>439|00:48:51|620|00:49:00|380</wrap>one is more an internal battle perhaps. Taurus and Venus are both related in terms of the <wrap hide>440|00:49:00|380|00:49:11|560</wrap>appreciation of beauty and balance. They both have the eye. Gemini and Virgo are related <wrap hide>441|00:49:11|560|00:49:19|660</wrap>through intelligence of Mercury. And Jupiter, rather Sagittarius and Pisces are both related <wrap hide>442|00:49:19|660|00:49:27|860</wrap>to, by the expansion of contact, the expansion of consciousness, ruled by Jupiter. The others <wrap hide>443|00:49:27|860|00:49:39|520</wrap>have no relation. Okay. Now let's take a look at the next tabulation, and what is said here. <wrap hide>444|00:49:40|320|00:49:46|740</wrap><wrap quote>a. The non-sacred planets are italicised. //EA, p.66//</wrap> Remember there are five of them, and they usually are <wrap hide>445|00:49:46|740|00:49:54|360</wrap>connected with the development of the personality rather than relating the personality to the <wrap hide>446|00:49:54|360|00:50:06|320</wrap>soul. In point <wrap quote>b. All the rays are represented except the first. This is interesting, as the <wrap hide>447|00:50:06|320|00:50:13|660</wrap>mass of the people move within their horoscopes and the will aspect is latent but unexpressed. //EA, p.66//</wrap> <wrap hide>448|00:50:13|660|00:50:22|180</wrap>So it is the will that makes a great difference in how we live our lives, and when we're on <wrap hide>449|00:50:22|180|00:50:29|280</wrap>the common or mutable cross we are pretty well driven up and down the land. We are forced <wrap hide>450|00:50:30|780|00:50:39|560</wrap>by certain currents of energy to respond in a particular way, and we cannot oppose those <wrap hide>451|00:50:39|560|00:50:45|840</wrap>streams of influence by our will. We pretty much are compelled, and that's why the first <wrap hide>452|00:50:45|840|00:50:53|600</wrap>ray is missing. As D.K. says, this is interesting. Tabulation 5: we are looking at unorthodox <wrap hide>453|00:50:53|600|00:51:02|480</wrap>astrological relationships. We are looking at <wrap quote>Constellations and Planetary Rulers <wrap hide>454|00:51:02|480|00:51:09|540</wrap>in connection with Disciples and Initiates //EA, p.66//</wrap> as they are in <wrap hide>455|00:51:09|560|00:51:16|000</wrap>that. It's interesting that the esoteric rulers that we are now going to look at apply <wrap hide>456|00:51:16|000|00:51:23|160</wrap>also to initiates. Initiates of what degree? First or second, but maybe the true meaning <wrap hide>457|00:51:23|160|00:51:27|940</wrap>of the word initiate is also being used. Maybe we're talking about the third degree initiate <wrap hide>458|00:51:27|940|00:51:34|380</wrap>as well. Usually when we're talking about third degree initiates, we begin to be able <wrap hide>459|00:51:34|380|00:51:43|440</wrap>to think in wholes. Such initiates can think in wholes and can therefore respond to hierarchies <wrap hide>460|00:51:43|440|00:51:49|180</wrap>as a whole and to the rulers of those hierarchies. But for now we're dealing with the esoteric <wrap hide>461|00:51:49|180|00:51:59|380</wrap>rulers, so constellation ruler, ray, and related to. And this time, notice we're not saying <wrap hide>462|00:51:59|380|00:52:10|820</wrap>that. Same sign. Above we said same ruler. Same ruler: we were talking about a planet, <wrap hide>463|00:52:11|100|00:52:22|000</wrap>so we connected the different signs according to a ruler which they shared. Really this <wrap hide>464|00:52:23|040|00:52:27|840</wrap>should be over here, but I'm not sure I can make it happen. Well, maybe I did make it <wrap hide>465|00:52:27|840|00:52:38|880</wrap>happen. Yeah, I did make it happen. Okay. Same ruler, so the signs are united by ruler. <wrap hide>466|00:52:39|940|00:52:51|980</wrap>But now, here below, the ray is preeminent. Same ray. And when we're dealing with the <wrap hide>467|00:52:53|360|00:53:01|680</wrap>astrology and rayology, the ray seems to take prominence. The ray is a higher order of energy <wrap hide>468|00:53:02|360|00:53:09|760</wrap>than the planet itself. The planet is used by the ray. Well, in a way the planets are <wrap hide>469|00:53:10|500|00:53:17|120</wrap>related to the sources of the rays, which for our purposes are the seven stars of the <wrap hide>470|00:53:17|120|00:53:25|620</wrap>Big Dipper, and the seven stars are the prototypes of these planetary Logos. So these ray sources <wrap hide>471|00:53:25|620|00:53:32|080</wrap>are the prototypes, and the ray has the preeminent place. There would be other ways, of course, <wrap hide>472|00:53:32|760|00:53:41|700</wrap>we might be able to relate them according to ruler as well, but the ray suggests a second <wrap hide>473|00:53:41|700|00:53:49|640</wrap>ray mode of understanding relationships and astrology, with its signs and its rulers, <wrap hide>474|00:53:49|780|00:53:55|860</wrap>suggests a third ray way of understanding relationships. And in our particular second <wrap hide>475|00:53:55|860|00:54:04|080</wrap>ray solar system, the second ray method is to be followed and considered preeminent. <wrap hide>476|00:54:04|470|00:54:17|980</wrap>So Aries is ruled by Mercury, its ray is the fourth, and Virgo is also connected to the <wrap hide>477|00:54:17|980|00:54:25|200</wrap>fourth ray because its esoteric ruler is the Moon, which is the fourth ray, expresses the <wrap hide>478|00:54:25|200|00:54:31|720</wrap>fourth ray whatever the Moon is really expressing, the undiscovered fourth ray planet. Taurus <wrap hide>479|00:54:31|720|00:54:38|960</wrap>is ruled by Vulcan, and we'll discuss how that is so as we get to the chapters. It's <wrap hide>480|00:54:38|960|00:54:45|380</wrap>the ray of Vulcan. Probably the sole ray is the first ray, and since Pluto is esoterically <wrap hide>481|00:54:45|380|00:54:54|580</wrap>ruled by... If Pisces is esoterically ruled by Pluto, then the ray is the same. Gemini <wrap hide>482|00:54:54|580|00:55:00|980</wrap>is esoterically ruled by Venus, but there is no other planet of which we know that distributes <wrap hide>483|00:55:00|980|00:55:07|340</wrap>the fifth ray, so Gemini... Gemini here, I hope I said that. Gemini ruled by Venus, Gemini <wrap hide>484|00:55:07|340|00:55:16|560</wrap>is not related to any other sign via a shared ray. Cancer is ruled esoterically by Neptune, <wrap hide>485|00:55:17|140|00:55:23|520</wrap>which from this whole perspective expresses the sixth ray, and since Mars is esoterically <wrap hide>486|00:55:23|520|00:55:30|960</wrap>ruled by... Since Scorpio, pardon me, Scorpio is esoterically ruled by Mars, then the ray <wrap hide>487|00:55:31|610|00:55:39|160</wrap>which is sixth ray, then the sign Cancer and Scorpio are related by the rays of their rulers. <wrap hide>488|00:55:40|460|00:55:49|340</wrap>Leo is ruled by the sun, which expresses exoterically the second ray, but Jupiter is the ruler of <wrap hide>489|00:55:49|340|00:55:57|300</wrap>Aquarius esoterically, and Jupiter expresses the second ray, so Leo and Aquarius are united <wrap hide>490|00:55:57|300|00:56:04|120</wrap>or related via the second ray. Virgo is ruled by the fourth ray moon, and here we have a <wrap hide>491|00:56:04|120|00:56:10|940</wrap>repetition of its connection to Aries, ruled by fourth ray Mercury. Libra is ruled esoterically, <wrap hide>492|00:56:13|560|00:56:20|740</wrap>I have to go slower, I think I'm going to get my tongue tied here. Libra is ruled esoterically <wrap hide>493|00:56:20|740|00:56:29|640</wrap>by Uranus, the seventh ray, and we know of no other seventh ray planet per se. Well, <wrap hide>494|00:56:29|820|00:56:34|080</wrap>you know, there are speculations, but of the planets we know, there are no other seventh <wrap hide>495|00:56:34|080|00:56:43|060</wrap>ray planets, and so Uranus, Libra then is not related to any other sign via the ray. <wrap hide>496|00:56:43|640|00:56:52|940</wrap>Gemini and Libra, however, are related, as we see in the tabulation on pages 332 and 333. <wrap hide>497|00:56:53|700|00:56:58|920</wrap>So you can turn there if you're interested. Scorpio and Cancer, again, that's repeated. <wrap hide>498|00:57:00|040|00:57:08|460</wrap>Sagittarius is esoterically ruled by the Earth, and since Capricorn has the esoteric ruler <wrap hide>499|00:57:08|920|00:57:14|900</wrap>of Saturn distributing the third ray, then they are both related, Sagittarius and Capricorn, <wrap hide>500|00:57:15|340|00:57:22|800</wrap>through that third ray, passing through their two rulers, Earth and Saturn. And then there's <wrap hide>501|00:57:22|800|00:57:28|540</wrap>the reversal of the same, Capricorn related to Sagittarius via the third ray. This mode <wrap hide>502|00:57:28|540|00:57:34|480</wrap>of thinking is very important, because these are soul connections, or connections which <wrap hide>503|00:57:34|480|00:57:42|360</wrap>can help bring out the soul. Aquarius and Leo, again, are repeated, and Pisces and Taurus, <wrap hide>504|00:57:42|680|00:57:49|440</wrap>again, are repeated. So this is a different kind of, different kind of connection via <wrap hide>505|00:57:50|660|00:58:03|700</wrap>the ray. Now we might have, yeah, Aries doesn't share any other, it doesn't, Mercury is not <wrap hide>506|00:58:03|700|00:58:09|100</wrap>the esoteric ruler of anything but Aries, and Vulcan is not the esoteric ruler of anything <wrap hide>507|00:58:09|100|00:58:16|880</wrap>but Taurus, so, you know, whereas Aries and Scorpio in the first tabulation both shared <wrap hide>508|00:58:16|880|00:58:27|360</wrap>Mars as the ruler, Aries does not share any ruler, the same ruler, Mercury, with any other <wrap hide>509|00:58:30|420|00:58:33|680</wrap>constellation, esoterically. Alright, so, let's move on to the next tabulation, which <wrap hide>510|00:58:34|660|00:58:40|810</wrap>I think that's pretty clear, but the implications, of course, we must look in the horoscope and <wrap hide>511|00:58:41|360|00:58:49|680</wrap>attempt to discover how relationships between these planets, between these constellations, <wrap hide>512|00:58:50|790|00:58:58|000</wrap>may draw out a particular ray. For instance, if we have Leo planets and Aquarius planets, <wrap hide>513|00:58:58|000|00:59:03|940</wrap>we have to realize that those two signs are related via the second ray, and perhaps have <wrap hide>514|00:59:03|940|00:59:10|640</wrap>an ability, esoterically, to draw forth the second ray. If we have Aries and Virgo related <wrap hide>515|00:59:10|640|00:59:16|720</wrap>to each other, we have to realize the esoteric fourth ray relationship, and how harmony through <wrap hide>516|00:59:16|720|00:59:23|240</wrap>conflict may result from the interplay of the two. So it's a different way of thinking, <wrap hide>517|00:59:23|840|00:59:31|700</wrap>as far as exploring all these ways of thinking, there is still much to be, much to be learned. <wrap hide>518|00:59:32|560|00:59:41|720</wrap>Alright, I think we are there, yes, we certainly are there. Let us sound The Great Invocation <wrap hide>519|00:59:41|720|00:59:49|240</wrap>now. It's a little bit dark in this room, and I'm not typing too clearly. <wrap hide>520|00:59:53|440|01:00:00|240</wrap>Yeah, alright. So, Om. <wrap hide>521|01:00:08|720|01:00:15|320</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>522|01:00:15|320|01:00:23|220</wrap>of men, let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>523|01:00:23|870|01:00:33|840</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>524|01:00:33|840|01:00:41|460</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>525|01:00:41|460|01:00:49|760</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let <wrap hide>526|01:00:49|760|01:00:57|360</wrap>the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>527|01:00:57|360|01:01:18|080</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. Om. Om. <wrap hide>528|01:01:23|120|01:01:35|400</wrap>Om. Om. Om. <wrap hide>529|01:01:35|980|01:01:49|740</wrap>Okay friends, good, we are, we've completed EAA 30. Let's see, I think we've completed <wrap hide>530|01:01:49|760|01:02:04|660</wrap>I have to put it here even though it's not so, yeah. We have completed, right, yes, this <wrap hide>531|01:02:04|660|01:02:14|260</wrap>is it. Pluto, Pluto, first ray, etc. We have completed EAA 30 and Esoteric Astrology Adventure <wrap hide>532|01:02:14|260|01:02:29|280</wrap>30, and we are on page, I assume, 66. I'll work that through. I believe we are on page <wrap hide>533|01:02:29|280|01:02:43|460</wrap>66, yeah 66, and if we run to 67, I'm not sure, I don't think so very soon, yep, very <wrap hide>534|01:02:43|460|01:03:02|160</wrap>soon to 67. Okay, and EAA 29 was page 64, so we have moved from page 64 to 66. Okay, <wrap hide>535|01:03:05|660|01:03:13|440</wrap>yes, okay, 64 to 66. And we will continue to move from page 64 to 66, and we will continue <wrap hide>536|01:03:13|460|01:03:25|060</wrap>to carry on with number 31. Continuing with these very, very interesting tabulations, <wrap hide>537|01:03:25|300|01:03:34|200</wrap>very important tabulations, I guess I appreciated to a greater extent the fact that, uh, esoterically, <wrap hide>538|01:03:34|980|01:03:43|440</wrap>certain signs were ray related, rather than related by rulers. <wrap hide>539|01:03:44|200|01:03:52|780</wrap>Related by rulers. Okay, so for the time being, we will say farewell, <wrap hide>540|01:03:53|200|01:03:54|180</wrap>and on to number 32.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:02|980|00:00:04|800</wrap>Okay, hi everybody. <wrap hide>2|00:00:07|540|00:00:16|160</wrap>We are entering our Esoteric Astrology adventure number 30. <wrap hide>3|00:00:19|760|00:00:27|900</wrap>And we have been talking about the coming of the Solar Angels, and D.K. said he placed <wrap hide>4|00:00:27|900|00:00:36|500</wrap>that stupendous happening in the age of Gemini, age of Leo, Cancer in Gemini really, but beginning <wrap hide>5|00:00:36|500|00:00:47|960</wrap>in Leo, some 21,688,345 years ago. <wrap hide>6|00:00:48|720|00:00:54|260</wrap>And we have determined that we are speaking of precessional ages. <wrap hide>7|00:00:54|260|00:01:00|960</wrap>This is what we mean by the Sun in Leo or the Sun in Gemini. <wrap hide>8|00:01:01|120|00:01:13|920</wrap>We do not mean the month because it took about 5,000 years for the Sun to move from Leo to <wrap hide>9|00:01:13|920|00:01:21|880</wrap>Gemini, and that's just about right when considering, as D.K. sometimes does, an average precessional <wrap hide>10|00:01:21|880|00:01:24|980</wrap>age as 2,500 years. <wrap hide>11|00:01:26|000|00:01:29|500</wrap>That's probably 2,160 with overlaps. <wrap hide>12|00:01:31|850|00:01:39|520</wrap>Then we are told the door was closed upon the animal kingdom, and this was in middle <wrap hide>13|00:01:39|520|00:01:51|800</wrap>of Lemurian times, but 3 million years before the man, animal man, awakened to the event <wrap hide>14|00:01:51|800|00:02:00|400</wrap>that happened and the hierarchy, or Shambhala as we wish to think of it, was established <wrap hide>15|00:02:00|400|00:02:07|760</wrap>because of the coming of the Lords of the Flame, Sanat Kumara and his 104 Kumaras, <wrap hide>16|00:02:07|760|00:02:11|380</wrap>which established the hierarchy of that time. <wrap hide>17|00:02:12|900|00:02:25|460</wrap>We went as far as page 64, and moving on now, D.K. tells us <wrap quote>It has been stated that Sagittarius <wrap hide>18|00:02:25|460|00:02:35|800</wrap>governs human evolution, as the Sun was in that sign. When the Hierarchy began its Approach <wrap hide>19|00:02:35|800|00:02:39|800</wrap>in order to stimulate the forms of life upon our planet. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>20|00:02:39|900|00:02:43|380</wrap>But again we have to ask what is meant by the hierarchy. <wrap hide>21|00:02:43|620|00:02:47|500</wrap>Perhaps we mean the hierarchy of solar Angels. <wrap hide>22|00:02:49|890|00:03:02|080</wrap>On the other hand, this has some interesting ideas connected with it. <wrap quote>//Sagittarius, however, <wrap hide>23|00:03:02|080|00:03:06|500</wrap>governed the period of the subjective approach//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>24|00:03:07|360|00:03:15|920</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Leo// when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>25|00:03:16|800|00:03:29|960</wrap>So it is the date of individualization that we are given in this 21,688,345 years, and <wrap hide>26|00:03:29|960|00:03:36|300</wrap>even earlier perhaps, was a Sagittarian subjective approach. <wrap hide>27|00:03:36|940|00:03:49|900</wrap>Although there is interestingly a line: "Arrow says shot forth." <wrap hide>28|00:03:49|900|00:04:02|300</wrap>This is from A Treatise on White Magic, and it tells us that the sons of God shot forth <wrap hide>29|00:04:02|300|00:04:05|660</wrap>like arrows from the bow. <wrap hide>30|00:04:05|840|00:04:09|720</wrap>Now that's a very Sagittarian imagery. <wrap hide>31|00:04:10|340|00:04:14|060</wrap>It has to do with the process of individualization. <wrap hide>32|00:04:15|820|00:04:21|460</wrap>"The forms received the impulse and lo a God was born. <wrap hide>33|00:04:22|280|00:04:25|480</wrap>The tiny babe knew not the great events." <wrap hide>34|00:04:25|840|00:04:36|000</wrap>So are we dealing with Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Virgo? That is 10,000 years if we use <wrap hide>35|00:04:36|000|00:04:40|160</wrap>the 2,500 year span to indicate a precessional age. <wrap hide>36|00:04:40|980|00:04:44|080</wrap>Here it tells us a little bit about that individualization. <wrap hide>37|00:04:44|600|00:04:51|540</wrap>The Sun was in Sagittarius when the first human tendencies struggled to the fore, presumably <wrap hide>38|00:04:51|540|00:04:52|780</wrap>in animal man. <wrap hide>39|00:04:53|120|00:05:00|460</wrap>The stage of animal man was completed, and when Sagittarius was dominant from our planetary <wrap hide>40|00:05:00|460|00:05:08|320</wrap>standpoint—I'm using the words with care—so does that mean a great precessional age <wrap hide>41|00:05:08|320|00:05:10|200</wrap>from a planetary standpoint? <wrap hide>42|00:05:10|960|00:05:17|040</wrap>The great event of individualization took place, but the brain of the then human being <wrap hide>43|00:05:17|580|00:05:23|540</wrap>failed to register what had happened, and then the words of the old commentary: "The sons <wrap hide>44|00:05:23|540|00:05:26|760</wrap>of God shot forth like arrows from the bow. <wrap hide>45|00:05:27|780|00:05:31|760</wrap>The forms received the impulse and lo a God was born. <wrap hide>46|00:05:31|940|00:05:33|600</wrap>The tiny babe knew it not." <wrap hide>47|00:05:33|600|00:05:36|120</wrap>This took place 21 million years ago. <wrap hide>48|00:05:36|240|00:05:37|860</wrap>This is a rounding off, of course. <wrap hide>49|00:05:38|820|00:05:43|660</wrap>Cycles passed, and when at a later date the Sun was in Leo approximately 18 million years <wrap hide>50|00:05:43|660|00:05:52|140</wrap>ago, the first instances of coordination between brain and mind took place, and the human being <wrap hide>51|00:05:52|140|00:05:53|640</wrap>was definitely self-conscious. <wrap hide>52|00:05:54|000|00:05:56|060</wrap>He registered his individuality. <wrap hide>53|00:05:56|780|00:06:03|220</wrap>The figure for the first date, though exactness is not possible in a system of mutations such <wrap hide>54|00:06:03|220|00:06:07|800</wrap>as ours, are 21 million 688 thousand 345 years ago. <wrap hide>55|00:06:09|260|00:06:15|200</wrap>These figures, he says, are useless at this time, for they can neither be proved correct <wrap hide>56|00:06:15|200|00:06:19|420</wrap>or incorrect, but later investigation will prove their usefulness. <wrap hide>57|00:06:19|620|00:06:24|440</wrap>So Sagittarius governs human evolution, for it symbolizes progress towards a conscious <wrap hide>58|00:06:24|440|00:06:24|900</wrap>goal. <wrap hide>59|00:06:25|580|00:06:30|100</wrap>Leo governs the human consciousness in the human kingdom, for the energy pouring through <wrap hide>60|00:06:30|100|00:06:32|300</wrap>it enables man to say "I am." <wrap hide>61|00:06:32|300|00:06:43|000</wrap>Well, when we go back here to Esoteric Astrology, it does seem to say that the individualization, <wrap hide>62|00:06:44|200|00:06:50|300</wrap>Let's see, the great approach of the hierarchy to our planetary manifestation took place. <wrap hide>63|00:06:50|960|00:06:54|200</wrap>Let's see if we can find this here. <wrap hide>64|00:06:54|240|00:07:00|460</wrap>I earlier gave the hint upon which definite astrological computation can be based. <wrap hide>65|00:07:00|460|00:07:05|320</wrap><wrap quote>When I gave the time of the "Great Approach" of the Hierarchy to our planetary manifestation <wrap hide>66|00:07:06|120|00:07:19|280</wrap>when individualisation took place </wrap> that event occurred 21 million years ago and at that <wrap hide>67|00:07:19|280|00:07:20|620</wrap>time the Sun was in Leo. <wrap hide>68|00:07:20|780|00:07:28|140</wrap>What he tells us, the Sun was in Leo at that time and the Sun was also in Sagittarius. <wrap hide>69|00:07:28|140|00:07:36|440</wrap>So you begin to wonder whether we are talking about a great age of Sagittarius, a Platonic <wrap hide>70|00:07:36|440|00:07:45|680</wrap>year of Sagittarius, when the processional age was that of Leo going to a smaller processional <wrap hide>71|00:07:45|680|00:07:51|780</wrap>age of Cancer and then Gemini, because otherwise there seemed to be some contradictions. <wrap hide>72|00:07:54|580|00:08:01|960</wrap><wrap quote>as the Sun was in that sign. when the Hierarchy began its Approach in order to stimulate the forms of life <wrap hide>73|00:08:01|960|00:08:02|800</wrap>upon our planet. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>74|00:08:03|140|00:08:08|380</wrap>Now, another way of viewing this is that 10,000 years before the actual individualization, <wrap hide>75|00:08:09|540|00:08:15|380</wrap>whatever hierarchy means, I think the hierarchy of solar Angels actually, Sagittarius was <wrap hide>76|00:08:15|380|00:08:19|040</wrap>the sign governing a lesser processional age. <wrap hide>77|00:08:19|040|00:08:25|220</wrap>So we either have this great processional age of 25,000 years ruled by Sagittarius during <wrap hide>78|00:08:25|220|00:08:33|600</wrap>which the lesser age of Leo was the time of individualization followed by the lesser age <wrap hide>79|00:08:33|600|00:08:42|820</wrap>of Cancer and Gemini, or we have the idea that a subjective approach occurred 10,000 <wrap hide>80|00:08:42|820|00:08:47|920</wrap>years before the individualization in Leo and that was governed by Sagittarius. <wrap hide>81|00:08:47|920|00:08:54|960</wrap>But D.K. definitely does connect Leo with that figure 21,688,345. <wrap hide>82|00:08:56|020|00:09:02|400</wrap>So anyway, he tells us Sagittarius, you see it's not as straightforward as we may think. <wrap hide>83|00:09:02|960|00:09:06|860</wrap><wrap quote>//Sagittarius, however, governed the period of the subjective approach//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>84|00:09:07|040|00:09:13|500</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Leo// when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>85|00:09:13|500|00:09:23|620</wrap>But up here, D.K. tells us that <wrap quote>I placed that stupendous event as happening 21,688,345 years ago. <wrap hide>86|00:09:23|620|00:09:25|680</wrap>At that time the Sun was //in Leo//. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>87|00:09:26|560|00:09:34|440</wrap>So he seems to be talking about a subjective approach involving Sagittarius at that figure <wrap hide>88|00:09:34|440|00:09:40|580</wrap>and also an objective individualization involving that figure. <wrap hide>89|00:09:40|580|00:09:46|640</wrap>And I have suggested the ways to try to solve that problem. <wrap hide>90|00:09:48|880|00:09:56|480</wrap>The sun was in Leo in one respect, but from another respect Sagittarius may have ruled <wrap hide>91|00:09:56|480|00:10:06|860</wrap>the age and he does say, let's see how does he say it here, the figure for the first date, <wrap hide>92|00:10:07|860|00:10:13|940</wrap>though exact it's not possible, or 21,688 and Sagittarius is definitely involved, here's <wrap hide>93|00:10:13|940|00:10:15|220</wrap>all the Sagittarian energy. <wrap hide>94|00:10:15|940|00:10:25|440</wrap>But notice, Sagittarius was dominant from the planetary standpoint and does that mean <wrap hide>95|00:10:25|440|00:10:29|380</wrap>a great age from the planetary standpoint. <wrap hide>96|00:10:29|380|00:10:41|600</wrap>So this is unresolved, but at least we know that some 21 million years ago there was a <wrap hide>97|00:10:41|600|00:10:53|500</wrap>Great Approach which occurred and that until the Sun was in Leo again, 3 million years <wrap hide>98|00:10:53|500|00:11:03|240</wrap>later, the brain of animal man did not awaken to the manner in which it had been stimulated <wrap hide>99|00:11:03|240|00:11:11|700</wrap>and the "I" consciousness was not established even though the link was made between the <wrap hide>100|00:11:11|700|00:11:15|760</wrap>solar Angel and the brain and the solar Angel and the mind. <wrap hide>101|00:11:16|130|00:11:28|700</wrap>So there was a latent "I am" consciousness which later awoke, here it is, the brain of the <wrap hide>102|00:11:28|700|00:11:35|420</wrap>then human being failed to register what happened, cycles passed and at a later date again the <wrap hide>103|00:11:35|420|00:11:41|820</wrap>sun was in Leo, how interesting, approximately 18 million years ago. <wrap hide>104|00:11:42|820|00:11:49|980</wrap>We wonder, you know, whether it was 17 million and something because we are told that the <wrap hide>105|00:11:49|980|00:11:56|400</wrap>temple of Ibez, which was the first Shambolic outpost, was established some 17 million years <wrap hide>106|00:11:56|400|00:11:57|080</wrap>ago. <wrap hide>107|00:11:57|860|00:12:06|020</wrap>The first instances of coordination between brain and mind took place and in his consciousness <wrap hide>108|00:12:06|020|00:12:14|880</wrap>upon the physical plane the man could register that he had a mind and that he was an individuality, <wrap hide>109|00:12:15|380|00:12:17|580</wrap>the sense of "I-ness" grew. <wrap hide>110|00:12:19|720|00:12:25|880</wrap>Okay, so I think we've explored the possible discrepancies there. <wrap hide>111|00:12:31|000|00:12:36|520</wrap><wrap quote>as the Sun was in that sign. when the Hierarchy began its Approach in order to stimulate the <wrap hide>112|00:12:36|520|00:12:42|920</wrap>forms of life upon our planet. //EA, p.64//</wrap> from the planetary viewpoint, from the planetary perspective. <wrap hide>113|00:12:43|600|00:12:47|880</wrap>Sagittarius governed the period of subjective approach and you wonder whether subjective <wrap hide>114|00:12:47|880|00:12:59|920</wrap>approach means that which set up the circumstances for the actual individualization which was <wrap hide>115|00:12:59|920|00:13:07|200</wrap>later, millions of years later, recognized by the consciousness of the human being. <wrap hide>116|00:13:08|060|00:13:13|580</wrap>So I guess what we have to determine is whether we're dealing with the great age of Sagittarius, <wrap hide>117|00:13:13|580|00:13:20|500</wrap>or whether we're dealing with a lesser age and the subjective approach occurred: Sagittarius, <wrap hide>118|00:13:20|680|00:13:26|720</wrap>Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, followed by individualization in Leo which was completed in Gemini, which <wrap hide>119|00:13:26|720|00:13:33|080</wrap>would have made a half circle of the zodiac from Sagittarius completed in Gemini. <wrap hide>120|00:13:33|540|00:13:35|180</wrap>That would make sense too. <wrap hide>121|00:13:36|460|00:13:45|560</wrap>Yes, let's take a look up here, because I think he says that it was in Gemini when the <wrap hide>122|00:13:45|560|00:13:47|960</wrap>final crisis took place. <wrap hide>123|00:13:48|520|00:13:55|680</wrap>So if we look at smaller processional ages, instead of introducing the idea of the big <wrap hide>124|00:13:55|680|00:14:11|560</wrap>one, then we have a period of some 7 times 2,500, a period of some, let's say, between <wrap hide>125|00:14:11|560|00:14:18|000</wrap>15,000 and 17,000 years for the entire process to occur. <wrap hide>126|00:14:18|960|00:14:23|700</wrap>D.K. tells us we can't do much with these figures. I know some people who have tried valiantly <wrap hide>127|00:14:23|700|00:14:28|920</wrap>to do that, but we will be given the information when we need it. <wrap hide>128|00:14:29|220|00:14:36|280</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Leo// when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>129|00:14:37|180|00:14:47|660</wrap>And we can ask, okay, was this 10,000 years before individualization? <wrap hide>130|00:14:48|120|00:14:49|000</wrap>We can ask that. <wrap hide>131|00:14:49|000|00:15:01|440</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Gemini// when this Approach was consummated by the founding of the Hierarchy <wrap hide>132|00:15:01|440|00:15:02|500</wrap>upon the Earth. //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>133|00:15:03|380|00:15:06|480</wrap>Now, you know, hierarchy was not here. <wrap hide>134|00:15:07|300|00:15:15|360</wrap>As we understand hierarchy, which were the great beings accompanying Sanat Kumara three <wrap hide>135|00:15:15|360|00:15:19|480</wrap>million years later after the first Sagittarian approach. <wrap hide>136|00:15:19|860|00:15:25|820</wrap>It seems there is some repetition going on here. <wrap hide>137|00:15:26|020|00:15:33|380</wrap>We have two signs mentioned, they are Leo and Gemini, and apparently Leo and Gemini. <wrap hide>138|00:15:34|320|00:15:45|340</wrap>So we know that hierarchy was founded about 18 million years ago with the coming of the <wrap hide>139|00:15:45|340|00:15:54|740</wrap>Sun to himself, came to himself when the Sun was in Leo three million years plus after <wrap hide>140|00:15:54|740|00:16:01|280</wrap>the time the Sun was in Leo when he was individualized at the 21 million year period. <wrap hide>141|00:16:01|940|00:16:07|800</wrap>So at first we have, at the 21 million year period we have physical individualization <wrap hide>142|00:16:07|800|00:16:15|500</wrap>finally consummated in Gemini, and then we have three million years plus later, man awakening <wrap hide>143|00:16:15|500|00:16:23|740</wrap>to himself in Leo, and the approach of the hierarchy consummated in Gemini. <wrap hide>144|00:16:23|880|00:16:33|440</wrap>Because after all, it was, as man was awakening to the fact that "I am," hierarchy 18 million <wrap hide>145|00:16:33|440|00:16:35|340</wrap>years ago was approaching. <wrap hide>146|00:16:35|340|00:16:39|540</wrap>So I think that puts everything into the proper chronology. <wrap hide>147|00:16:40|180|00:16:48|980</wrap><wrap quote>The Sun was //in Gemini// when this Approach was consummated by the founding of the Hierarchy <wrap hide>148|00:16:48|980|00:16:49|520</wrap>upon the Earth.</wrap> <wrap hide>149|00:16:49|900|00:16:56|360</wrap>Hierarchy was not founded on the Earth 21 million years ago, and if there was a hierarchical <wrap hide>150|00:16:56|360|00:17:00|340</wrap>approach at that time, it was the Creative Hierarchy of solar Angels. <wrap hide>151|00:17:00|880|00:17:07|220</wrap><wrap quote>This is one of the great secrets which the Masonic Rituals //EA, p.64//</wrap> in a way ruled very much <wrap hide>152|00:17:07|220|00:17:13|760</wrap>by Gemini, <wrap quote>typify, for the symbol of the sign, Gemini, is the source of the concept of the <wrap hide>153|00:17:13|760|00:17:17|020</wrap>two pillars, so familiar to Masons. It might therefore be stated that, symbolically speaking, //EA, p.64//</wrap> <wrap hide>154|00:17:18|720|00:17:26|040</wrap>Okay, so I hope we have that picture of an original event under Sagittarius, a kind of <wrap hide>155|00:17:26|040|00:17:31|620</wrap>subjective approach, then individualization, physical individualization occurring when <wrap hide>156|00:17:31|620|00:17:38|440</wrap>the Sun was in Leo and consummated when the Sun was in Gemini, the final Crisis of Individualisation <wrap hide>157|00:17:38|440|00:17:44|380</wrap>during that 21 million year ago period, when the Sun was in Gemini, then go forward another <wrap hide>158|00:17:44|380|00:17:49|900</wrap>three and a half million years or so, and you have the Sun again in Leo, man awakens <wrap hide>159|00:17:49|900|00:17:53|560</wrap>to himself, and then the hierarchy is coming. <wrap hide>160|00:17:54|360|00:18:03|620</wrap>They are arriving from the Venus globe of the Venus chain in the Earth scheme, and that <wrap hide>161|00:18:03|620|00:18:12|420</wrap>is consummated with the founding of hierarchy when the Sun is in Gemini, presumably 18 million <wrap hide>162|00:18:12|420|00:18:13|140</wrap>years ago. <wrap hide>163|00:18:13|780|00:18:20|020</wrap>One of the great secrets of the Masonic ritual, because in a way Masonry signals to us that <wrap hide>164|00:18:20|020|00:18:28|380</wrap>hierarchy has come to Earth, has opened the door for animal man to progress and walk through <wrap hide>165|00:18:28|380|00:18:36|220</wrap>eventually the pillars of wisdom, go through the pairs of opposites and enter the temple <wrap hide>166|00:18:36|220|00:18:36|900</wrap>of initiation. <wrap hide>167|00:18:37|280|00:18:46|040</wrap>And even in Lemurian times, the temple of initiation existed, although the initiations <wrap hide>168|00:18:46|040|00:18:56|900</wrap>offered were very primitive compared to what we now expect as the true monastic initiations, <wrap hide>169|00:18:57|260|00:19:00|200</wrap>starting with the birth of the Christ in the heart. <wrap hide>170|00:19:00|900|00:19:13|780</wrap>I think it's necessary to read D.K. so carefully, because in the way he uses his language, a <wrap hide>171|00:19:13|780|00:19:19|500</wrap>Straightforward interpretation is not always possible. <wrap hide>172|00:19:21|260|00:19:29|580</wrap>Okay, so we have physical plane individualization when the Sun is in Leo, and maybe a long time <wrap hide>173|00:19:29|580|00:19:30|100</wrap>later. <wrap hide>174|00:19:31|740|00:19:37|160</wrap>One Gemini period did follow that physical individualization, but now comes another Gemini <wrap hide>175|00:19:37|160|00:19:41|580</wrap>period much, much later, as far as I can see, with the actual founding of the hierarchy <wrap hide>176|00:19:41|580|00:19:44|360</wrap>on Earth 18 million years ago. <wrap hide>177|00:19:45|400|00:19:48|500</wrap>All right, I hope that's clear; it's certainly clear to me. <wrap hide>178|00:19:49|360|00:19:56|780</wrap><wrap quote>1. Leo governs the E⟍ A⟍ degree. //EA, p.64//</wrap> D.K. has used these words, so it does mean "entered apprentice." <wrap hide>179|00:19:59|840|00:20:07|520</wrap>And in a way, the very first initiation of humanity, of animal man, is becoming the self-conscious <wrap hide>180|00:20:07|520|00:20:08|180</wrap>human being. <wrap hide>181|00:20:08|180|00:20:18|020</wrap>This was achieved 18 million years ago, although Leo also governed the first physical individualization, <wrap hide>182|00:20:18|420|00:20:23|880</wrap>which was not registered by animal man. <wrap hide>183|00:20:24|840|00:20:31|480</wrap>"The tiny babe knew not..." How does it say? "The tiny babe knew not the great event." <wrap hide>184|00:20:32|560|00:20:43|860</wrap><wrap quote>2. Gemini governs the F⟍ C⟍ degree. //EA, p.64//</wrap> I'm not sure why they draw them this way—a fellow <wrap hide>185|00:20:43|860|00:20:52|680</wrap>craft degree. It is the degree involving the second aspect of divinity, and it is connected <wrap hide>186|00:20:52|680|00:20:58|300</wrap>with the astral body, just the way the E⟍ A⟍ degree is connected more with the physical <wrap hide>187|00:20:58|300|00:20:58|620</wrap>body. <wrap hide>188|00:20:58|620|00:21:06|280</wrap>We become an entered apprentice in relation to the star Sirius at our fifth initiation, <wrap hide>189|00:21:07|880|00:21:13|440</wrap>and we become, I suppose, an F⟍ C⟍ fellow craft in relation to the star Sirius at our sixth <wrap hide>190|00:21:13|440|00:21:22|560</wrap>initiation, and maybe something of a master mason at the seventh initiation, which is <wrap hide>191|00:21:22|560|00:21:26|300</wrap>also, from the Sirian point of view, the transfiguration. <wrap hide>192|00:21:26|300|00:21:33|700</wrap>But really, there's more to a master mason than the third degree—really. As a matter <wrap hide>193|00:21:33|700|00:21:39|400</wrap>of fact, a master mason degree transcends the third degree. <wrap hide>194|00:21:39|500|00:21:44|800</wrap>There are other degrees to be inserted, such as the mark degree, that has more to do with <wrap hide>195|00:21:44|800|00:21:45|680</wrap>the third initiation. <wrap hide>196|00:21:46|480|00:21:54|480</wrap>Master mason has more to do with actual mastership. It's given in two parts, and one involves <wrap hide>197|00:21:54|480|00:21:56|880</wrap>the crucifixion and the other involves mastership. <wrap hide>198|00:21:57|940|00:22:09|300</wrap><wrap quote>3. Sagittarius governs the degree of M⟍ M⟍ up to the episode of the raising of the Master, //EA, p.64//</wrap> the degree of the Master Mason —there should be like <wrap hide>199|00:22:09|300|00:22:15|540</wrap>triangular dots there—up to the episode of the raising of the master. <wrap hide>200|00:22:17|240|00:22:23|560</wrap><wrap quote>and that Capricorn governs the final part of the ceremony and the degree H⟍  R⟍ A⟍ //EA, p.64//</wrap> It's sometimes <wrap hide>201|00:22:23|560|00:22:25|360</wrap>called the Holy Royal Arch. <wrap hide>202|00:22:27|400|00:22:33|680</wrap>All of this information, of course, is easily available to anyone who wants to research <wrap hide>203|00:22:33|680|00:22:39|700</wrap>the matter. It's not a deep, dark secret, but of course, the actual procedures of the initiation <wrap hide>204|00:22:39|700|00:22:47|500</wrap>ceremonies are not for public consumption. They are retained among masons, generally <wrap hide>205|00:22:47|500|00:22:47|940</wrap>speaking. <wrap hide>206|00:22:49|240|00:22:57|320</wrap>So Sagittarius-Capricorn is a unit governing master mason and Holy Royal Arch, and that <wrap hide>207|00:22:57|320|00:23:04|380</wrap>is the climax, the peak of attainment, and by that time, mastership, or the symbol of <wrap hide>208|00:23:04|380|00:23:07|740</wrap>mastership, has been reached. <wrap hide>209|00:23:08|100|00:23:13|840</wrap>So the fourth and the fifth degrees are symbolized there. <wrap hide>210|00:23:14|300|00:23:23|840</wrap>The F⟍ C⟍ degree is really a symbol of the second degree, the mark degree is the symbol of the <wrap hide>211|00:23:23|840|00:23:32|760</wrap>third, and Sagittarius-Capricorn involves the fourth and the fifth degrees, with the <wrap hide>212|00:23:32|760|00:23:41|140</wrap>two ceremonies—master mason and Holy Royal Arch H⟍  R⟍ A⟍—being contiguous. <wrap hide>213|00:23:41|140|00:23:48|060</wrap>Of course, in Masonic lodges, they're never given altogether. One still has more work <wrap hide>214|00:23:48|060|00:23:55|420</wrap>to do after the master mason degree before being able to apply for participation in that <wrap hide>215|00:23:55|420|00:23:56|200</wrap>final degree. <wrap hide>216|00:23:56|760|00:24:03|640</wrap>As masonry has evolved these days, many degrees have been written. The Scottish Rite exists, <wrap hide>217|00:24:03|640|00:24:15|940</wrap>the York Rite exists. Thirty-two degrees have been written, and let's see, 30 of them go beyond <wrap hide>218|00:24:15|940|00:24:19|240</wrap>the first three degrees of the Blue Lodge. <wrap hide>219|00:24:20|760|00:24:26|680</wrap>And so, borrowing from the York Rite and from the Scottish Rite—the York Rite usually being <wrap hide>220|00:24:26|680|00:24:34|260</wrap>considered to consist of so-called Christian degrees—we are able to bring together five <wrap hide>221|00:24:34|260|00:24:42|620</wrap>major degrees: the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, the mark degree, the master <wrap hide>222|00:24:42|620|00:24:44|840</wrap>mason degree, and the H⟍  R⟍ A⟍ degree. <wrap hide>223|00:24:46|140|00:24:57|600</wrap>D.K. has written a fair bit about this in his book—what's it called? It's the Foster Bailey <wrap hide>224|00:24:57|600|00:25:00|880</wrap>book, The Spirit of Masonry. <wrap hide>225|00:25:01|320|00:25:08|500</wrap><wrap quote>It is always confusing to the beginner who has not yet a developed and trained intuition <wrap hide>226|00:25:09|260|00:25:16|440</wrap>to reconcile the seeming discrepancies and apparent contradictions which appear in the <wrap hide>227|00:25:16|440|00:25:18|240</wrap>teaching of the Ageless Wisdom. //EA, p.64-65//</wrap> <wrap hide>228|00:25:19|400|00:25:26|520</wrap>There D.K. says it; he says it for all of us, and for as long as we will be studying his <wrap hide>229|00:25:26|520|00:25:33|220</wrap>work, there are seeming discrepancies and there are apparent contradictions. <wrap hide>230|00:25:35|440|00:25:44|300</wrap>And these are the results of the limitations of our own intuition, our own reasoning power, <wrap hide>231|00:25:44|460|00:25:45|540</wrap>our own experience. <wrap hide>232|00:25:46|780|00:25:53|860</wrap><wrap quote>This same difficulty will be met with in the science of astrology and some reference to <wrap hide>233|00:25:53|860|00:26:00|860</wrap>the matter is in order at this point. //EA, p.65//</wrap> how to reconcile the seeming discrepancies and <wrap hide>234|00:26:00|860|00:26:02|380</wrap>apparent contradictions. <wrap hide>235|00:26:02|380|00:26:07|420</wrap>I always use those words, or I try to. I don't ever say this is a contradiction, or I don't <wrap hide>236|00:26:07|420|00:26:14|320</wrap>mean to say that. This is an apparent contradiction, I usually say, or a seeming contradiction. <wrap hide>237|00:26:14|820|00:26:17|080</wrap>I have to train myself to do that; I think we all do. <wrap hide>238|00:26:18|040|00:26:20|680</wrap>So the same difficulty is met in the science of astrology. <wrap hide>239|00:26:21|600|00:26:28|060</wrap><wrap quote>I would remind you of the occult truism which states that interpretation and right understanding <wrap hide>240|00:26:28|060|00:26:32|760</wrap>are based upon the stage of the development of the individual. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>241|00:26:33|360|00:26:41|260</wrap>This is, of course, the basis of illusion. So many people have a limited mind and consciousness <wrap hide>242|00:26:42|010|00:26:49|160</wrap>and interpret according to their perception and understanding, but their interpretation <wrap hide>243|00:26:49|160|00:26:58|640</wrap>is seen as erroneous by more fully developed minds and broader, deeper consciousnesses. <wrap hide>244|00:26:59|680|00:27:05|680</wrap><wrap quote>H.P.B. remarked in //The Secret Doctrine// that for some people the highest principle of which <wrap hide>245|00:27:05|680|00:27:11|520</wrap>they can be consciously aware might be a very low one for another person. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>246|00:27:11|780|00:27:16|800</wrap>I mean, you know, the masters live in the world of atma-buddhi-manas, and we talk about <wrap hide>247|00:27:16|800|00:27:26|000</wrap>what they might mean and on occasion may be fleetingly touched by the vibrations which <wrap hide>248|00:27:26|000|00:27:28|340</wrap>are associated with them. <wrap hide>249|00:27:29|560|00:27:37|300</wrap>So we do not have full awareness of that realm in which they consistently live, and certainly, <wrap hide>250|00:27:37|840|00:27:43|920</wrap>you know, look at the animal, even our pet dog or whatever. What do they know of our <wrap hide>251|00:27:43|920|00:27:48|180</wrap>thinking process or of the intuition, etc.? <wrap hide>252|00:27:48|320|00:27:49|140</wrap>What do they know? <wrap hide>253|00:27:51|060|00:27:52|080</wrap>Let's see something here. <wrap hide>254|00:27:52|320|00:27:53|280</wrap>Yeah, that's it. <wrap hide>255|00:27:53|820|00:27:54|000</wrap><wrap hide>256|00:27:55|400|00:28:04|200</wrap><wrap quote>The constellations and the planets which govern them //EA, p.65//</wrap> people I suppose, <wrap quote>may, and do, have one <wrap hide>257|00:28:04|200|00:28:11|780</wrap>effect upon the mass //EA, p.65//</wrap> ruled by Cancer and the Moon, <wrap quote>and another upon the average individual <wrap hide>258|00:28:11|780|00:28:16|520</wrap>man, and still a third effect upon the disciple or the initiate. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>259|00:28:16|620|00:28:24|600</wrap>There's a whole range of possible responses to the various planets and signs of the zodiac, <wrap hide>260|00:28:24|600|00:28:31|380</wrap>and all depends upon the quality of the form receiving impression. <wrap hide>261|00:28:32|320|00:28:33|360</wrap>Let's put that down. <wrap hide>262|00:28:33|360|00:28:45|480</wrap>And all depends upon the quality of the form receiving impression. <wrap hide>263|00:28:47|530|00:28:56|040</wrap><wrap quote>As the various energies and forces circulate throughout the etheric body of our solar system, <wrap hide>264|00:28:56|040|00:29:05|120</wrap>their reception and effect will depend upon the state of the planetary centres //EA, p.65//</wrap> —now that <wrap hide>265|00:29:05|120|00:29:09|020</wrap>can be the planets themselves considered as centers or the centers within the planets— <wrap hide>266|00:29:09|100|00:29:15|520</wrap><wrap quote>and upon the point of unfoldment of the centres in individual man. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>267|00:29:15|840|00:29:25|560</wrap>Our planet has the same number of chakras in a way as does the individual man, and only <wrap hide>268|00:29:25|560|00:29:32|760</wrap>those zodiacal energies or even energies from fellow planets in the system can be correctly <wrap hide>269|00:29:32|760|00:29:38|640</wrap>received by our planetary Logos such as his stage of development. <wrap hide>270|00:29:38|860|00:29:41|180</wrap>He's not quite there yet. <wrap hide>271|00:29:41|900|00:29:47|920</wrap>So only certain centers in our planetary Logos are active, and those that are active are maybe <wrap hide>272|00:29:47|920|00:29:51|640</wrap>not fully unfolded because our planetary Logos are still non-sacred. <wrap hide>273|00:29:52|360|00:29:54|120</wrap>He's not a sacred planet. <wrap hide>274|00:29:54|120|00:30:01|220</wrap>He's not an initiate of high degree among the planetary Logoi. <wrap hide>275|00:30:02|020|00:30:03|820</wrap>Really, he's only a first degree initiate. <wrap hide>276|00:30:03|960|00:30:08|320</wrap>He's working towards his second cosmic initiation. <wrap hide>277|00:30:08|340|00:30:15|340</wrap>That is not too high an initiation among the planetary Logoi, and the sacred planets and <wrap hide>278|00:30:15|340|00:30:23|660</wrap>synthesizing planets are more highly advanced, although some of the greater planets are less <wrap hide>279|00:30:23|660|00:30:30|860</wrap>fully unfolded—the nature is less fully unfolded in our solar system than it will be later. <wrap hide>280|00:30:33|900|00:30:39|240</wrap>Okay, so the reception and effect of these various energies will depend upon the state <wrap hide>281|00:30:39|240|00:30:44|180</wrap>of the planetary centers and upon the point of unfoldment of the centers of the individual <wrap hide>282|00:30:44|180|00:30:47|900</wrap>man, and all of us are very different in that respect. <wrap hide>283|00:30:49|340|00:30:52|680</wrap>For some of us, doors are closed; for others, doors are opened. <wrap hide>284|00:30:52|680|00:30:55|320</wrap>It all depends on chakra sensitivity. <wrap hide>285|00:30:56|280|00:31:03|640</wrap><wrap quote>That is why the various charts and tabulations can differ so widely <wrap hide>286|00:31:04|270|00:31:09|300</wrap>and different planets can appear as ruling the constellations. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>287|00:31:09|380|00:31:13|640</wrap>He's making a case for the esoteric rulers. <wrap hide>288|00:31:13|640|00:31:22|040</wrap>A case for the esoteric rulers and hierarchical rulers. <wrap hide>289|00:31:22|540|00:31:27|180</wrap><wrap quote>There seems to be no fixed rule and the student gets bewildered. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>290|00:31:27|240|00:31:33|880</wrap>Well, the mind tries to achieve a definite fixity to preserve its sense of organization, <wrap hide>291|00:31:33|880|00:31:36|720</wrap>but the truth is much more fluid. <wrap hide>292|00:31:36|880|00:31:43|040</wrap>So after we pass through the stage of mental fixity and have clarity and organization, we <wrap hide>293|00:31:43|040|00:31:52|080</wrap>might be able to venture into the true fluid relationships of things without becoming confused. <wrap hide>294|00:31:53|140|00:32:04|140</wrap>Orthodox, yeah, so planets, different planets are conduits for different ranges of qualities <wrap hide>295|00:32:04|960|00:32:06|940</wrap>within the constellations. <wrap hide>296|00:32:07|280|00:32:11|860</wrap>I mean, let's see, from the constellation Aries, let us say the constellation the Lord <wrap hide>297|00:32:11|860|00:32:17|620</wrap>of Aries, certain types of energies can pass through the planet Mars. <wrap hide>298|00:32:18|740|00:32:27|000</wrap>But different energies still related to Aries can pass through the planet Mercury, and still <wrap hide>299|00:32:27|000|00:32:30|760</wrap>higher and different energies can pass through the planet Uranus. <wrap hide>300|00:32:31|460|00:32:38|260</wrap>Not all of the wide range of zodiacal energies can pass through each of the three rulers. <wrap hide>301|00:32:38|940|00:32:51|540</wrap>And when you look at Mars, Mercury and Uranus, there are different degrees within each, within <wrap hide>302|00:32:51|540|00:32:53|440</wrap>the energies received by each of them. <wrap hide>303|00:32:53|600|00:33:01|440</wrap>Like there may be low Ariesian qualities passing through Mars or higher or middling, and the <wrap hide>304|00:33:01|440|00:33:05|020</wrap>same for Mercury and the same for Uranus. <wrap hide>305|00:33:05|020|00:33:15|300</wrap>So it's a very complex and fluid picture of changing relationships, and only a lot of experience <wrap hide>306|00:33:16|000|00:33:23|520</wrap>with these energies and with the forms of life affected by the energies can help us <wrap hide>307|00:33:24|000|00:33:27|100</wrap>keep track of them and not lose our way. <wrap hide>308|00:33:28|720|00:33:34|200</wrap>So as D.K. says, there seems to be no fixed rule and the student gets bewildered. <wrap hide>309|00:33:34|200|00:33:40|820</wrap><wrap quote>Orthodox astrology posits one set of planetary rulers, and they are correct as far as the <wrap hide>310|00:33:40|820|00:33:42|180</wrap>mass of humanity is concerned. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>311|00:33:42|580|00:33:49|560</wrap>And they are even correct as far as we are concerned, because although they are superseded <wrap hide>312|00:33:50|660|00:33:53|940</wrap>by the esoteric rulers, they are not entirely superseded. <wrap hide>313|00:33:54|700|00:34:04|180</wrap>And their responses which they rule are added to the responses which the esoteric rulers <wrap hide>314|00:34:04|200|00:34:05|000</wrap>rule. <wrap hide>315|00:34:05|580|00:34:11|960</wrap>So the superseding is not complete, but the greater gathers in the lesser. <wrap hide>316|00:34:12|460|00:34:20|960</wrap>And I suppose we might be able to say that the hierarchical ruler gathers in the types <wrap hide>317|00:34:20|960|00:34:27|040</wrap>of responses which are associated with both the orthodox and the esoteric rulers. <wrap hide>318|00:34:27|260|00:34:29|200</wrap>The greater always includes the lesser. <wrap hide>319|00:34:29|200|00:34:37|360</wrap>D.K. goes on, <wrap quote>But the disciple, who lives above the diaphragm, //EA, p.65//</wrap> so in other words, basically <wrap hide>320|00:34:37|360|00:34:49|960</wrap>what he's saying here, the mass, let's get that straight, the mass lives below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>321|00:34:50|560|00:34:51|820</wrap>He's saying that. <wrap hide>322|00:34:52|600|00:35:01|320</wrap>And so the solar plexus is the brain for such, and the solar plexus with its sixth ray <wrap hide>323|00:35:01|320|00:35:07|980</wrap>association with both Mars and Neptune, is very connected with the sign Cancer, which <wrap hide>324|00:35:07|980|00:35:10|260</wrap>is the ruler of the mass consciousness. <wrap hide>325|00:35:10|440|00:35:16|400</wrap>But the disciple, who, and I think all disciples do, who lives above the diaphragm, responds <wrap hide>326|00:35:17|000|00:35:18|900</wrap>to another combination. <wrap hide>327|00:35:18|900|00:35:26|220</wrap>In other words, it's the combination of both the orthodox ruler and the esoteric ruler <wrap hide>328|00:35:26|220|00:35:31|820</wrap>added, and maybe even some impression from the hierarchical ruler. <wrap hide>329|00:35:32|520|00:35:37|220</wrap>The disciple who lives above the diaphragm <wrap quote>responds to another combination and it is <wrap hide>330|00:35:37|220|00:35:40|620</wrap>with these that I shall principally deal. //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>331|00:35:41|980|00:35:48|880</wrap>So D.K. is trying to instruct us concerning how we can, how we can deal with the diaphragm, <wrap hide>332|00:35:49|420|00:35:59|160</wrap>respond to the higher aspects of zodiacal potential, aspects higher than those we are <wrap hide>333|00:35:59|160|00:36:08|440</wrap>likely to respond to, ruled only, when ruled only by the exoteric ruler of the zodiacal <wrap hide>334|00:36:08|440|00:36:08|860</wrap>sign. <wrap hide>335|00:36:09|160|00:36:15|040</wrap>I'm sure that many of us, you know, we know what the esoteric ruler of our sun sign may <wrap hide>336|00:36:15|040|00:36:15|360</wrap>be. <wrap hide>337|00:36:15|360|00:36:21|040</wrap>We know what the esoteric ruler of our rising sign may be, and we have thought about that, <wrap hide>338|00:36:21|360|00:36:25|720</wrap>and we have said, look, do I respond only to the exoteric ruler? <wrap hide>339|00:36:26|240|00:36:31|020</wrap>Like if I'm a Cancer-rising person, do I respond only to the moon? <wrap hide>340|00:36:31|120|00:36:32|700</wrap>Do I not also respond to Neptune? <wrap hide>341|00:36:32|980|00:36:42|780</wrap>If I'm a Sun and Aries individual, do I respond only to Mars as the ruler of Aries? <wrap hide>342|00:36:42|780|00:36:45|460</wrap>Do I not also respond to Mercury? <wrap hide>343|00:36:46|160|00:36:50|900</wrap>In my own case, Mercury is an Aries, it's at the top of the chart, and it's the esoteric <wrap hide>344|00:36:50|900|00:36:51|920</wrap>ruler of my sun sign. <wrap hide>345|00:36:52|020|00:36:56|560</wrap>I certainly have recognized in myself the response to Mercury. <wrap hide>346|00:36:56|680|00:37:02|380</wrap>As a matter of fact, all of these webinars and talking through the books and all of that <wrap hide>347|00:37:03|090|00:37:10|180</wrap>are very much the result of an elevated Mercury in Aries as the esoteric ruler of the sun <wrap hide>348|00:37:10|720|00:37:11|080</wrap>sign. <wrap hide>349|00:37:11|840|00:37:19|220</wrap><wrap quote>That is why the three charts here given do not appear to coincide. <wrap hide>350|00:37:20|220|00:37:27|760</wrap>They are drawn up to express the situation in regard to three groups: //EA, p.65//</wrap> <wrap hide>351|00:37:29|740|00:37:36|960</wrap>Well, three charts — I think by that he means the rulers, three types of rulers in relation <wrap hide>352|00:37:36|960|00:37:38|200</wrap>to any sign of the zodiac. <wrap hide>353|00:37:38|200|00:37:44|780</wrap>So these charts or tabulations, which are following, are drawn up to express the situation <wrap hide>354|00:37:44|780|00:37:46|100</wrap>in regard to three groups. <wrap hide>355|00:37:47|000|00:37:52|660</wrap>The first: the exoteric ruler, <wrap quote>1. The mass of people who conform to orthodox and recognised <wrap hide>356|00:37:52|660|00:38:00|300</wrap>astrological conclusions. //EA, p.65//</wrap> and presumably those who live below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>357|00:38:03|180|00:38:05|000</wrap>Difficult word to spell. <wrap hide>358|00:38:06|080|00:38:13|620</wrap>Okay, then come the <wrap quote>2. Disciples and advanced individuals, conforming to the conclusions <wrap hide>359|00:38:13|620|00:38:24|500</wrap>of esoteric astrology. //EA, p.65//</wrap> and when esoteric astrology is introduced, then automatically the esoteric <wrap hide>360|00:38:24|500|00:38:32|400</wrap>rulers of the signs are introduced, and we have to learn how to respond to them and fuse <wrap hide>361|00:38:33|220|00:38:39|440</wrap>their energies with the higher potentials of the orthodox ruler. <wrap hide>362|00:38:40|460|00:38:45|500</wrap>I think when we think about ourselves, we will realize we have not necessarily ceased <wrap hide>363|00:38:45|500|00:38:53|000</wrap>to respond to the exoteric ruler of our sun sign, or even our rising sign, but hopefully <wrap hide>364|00:38:53|000|00:39:01|140</wrap>we have begun to respond to the more positive aspects of that exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>365|00:39:02|000|00:39:08|900</wrap>And then the third aspect of the tabulation is <wrap quote>3. The Creative Hierarchies, giving the interim <wrap hide>366|00:39:08|900|00:39:15|800</wrap>situation in this world cycle. //EA, p.65//</wrap> — whatever a world cycle may be — the Creative Hierarchies <wrap hide>367|00:39:15|800|00:39:21|480</wrap>have certain relationships, certain connections to the signs of the zodiac. How big is the <wrap hide>368|00:39:21|480|00:39:35|280</wrap>world cycle? Is it a round, or a... is it a kalpa, is it a mahakalpa, mahakalpa? Well, <wrap hide>369|00:39:35|760|00:39:36|640</wrap>something of that nature. <wrap hide>370|00:39:37|260|00:39:44|000</wrap>We're never told what that world cycle or world period is exactly. Sometimes we learn <wrap hide>371|00:39:44|000|00:39:51|460</wrap>that the name "world period" or "world cycle" is applied to a specific, um, meaning, or <wrap hide>372|00:39:51|480|00:40:00|060</wrap>duration of time, but we cannot be sure that D.K. always means that particular duration <wrap hide>373|00:40:00|060|00:40:04|740</wrap>of time when he mentions the word "world period" or "world cycle." <wrap hide>374|00:40:05|720|00:40:21|320</wrap>Okay, so let us see here, um, next. Okay, now we reach this big tabulation. This is <wrap hide>375|00:40:21|320|00:40:27|760</wrap>something that so many of us have studied, I'm sure. Um, excuse me, when we first picked <wrap hide>376|00:40:27|760|00:40:35|960</wrap>up the Esoteric Astrology book, we wondered at these alternative rulerships, we tried <wrap hide>377|00:40:35|960|00:40:41|000</wrap>to figure out what they meant, we memorized them — probably some of us have completely <wrap hide>378|00:40:41|000|00:40:47|440</wrap>memorized them, which is good for an esoteric astrologer. I would say not only good, absolutely <wrap hide>379|00:40:47|440|00:40:55|020</wrap>necessary. Notice he says here "the constellations and the planetary rulers" — he's talking about <wrap hide>380|00:40:55|020|00:41:00|480</wrap>the lords of the constellations and the lords of the planets which relate to each other. <wrap hide>381|00:41:01|560|00:41:15|180</wrap>So um, I wonder, uh, yeah, I can see that, um, that this needs maybe a little bit of <wrap hide>382|00:41:15|180|00:41:22|400</wrap>adjustment here. So I'll just, uh, turn this off for a second and I'll make these adjustments <wrap hide>383|00:41:22|400|00:41:33|760</wrap>so it's easier to see. Okay, um, we're dealing here, uh, I think it's better to look in the <wrap hide>384|00:41:33|760|00:41:45|160</wrap>Esoteric Astrology book because they're laid out quite well, and we're dealing with the <wrap hide>385|00:41:45|160|00:41:50|720</wrap><wrap quote>Constellations and Planetary Rulers in connection with Ordinary Man //EA, p.66//</wrap> so the constellation is <wrap hide>386|00:41:51|560|00:42:01|800</wrap>listed. And I think, um, what we really should have here is the idea, the same ruler. The <wrap hide>387|00:42:01|800|00:42:09|460</wrap>ruler is way over on the other side. Constellation, ruler, ray, and related to. So the constellation, <wrap hide>388|00:42:09|460|00:42:16|740</wrap>the first one is Aries, its ruler is Mars. Mars is a 6th-ray planet, probably in its personality, <wrap hide>389|00:42:17|020|00:42:24|220</wrap>because I think when we're dealing with a non-sacred planet, uh, their personality rays <wrap hide>390|00:42:24|220|00:42:36|400</wrap>are given. That's the hint because, uh, we see, uh, Earth is given. Um, well, I guess <wrap hide>391|00:42:36|400|00:42:44|160</wrap>Earth is never an orthodox ruler unless perhaps a co-ruler of Taurus in a way. It has a particular <wrap hide>392|00:42:44|160|00:42:51|920</wrap>relationship to the, uh, constellation Taurus. Uh, Aries and Scorpio are related because <wrap hide>393|00:42:51|920|00:42:58|520</wrap>they are both ruled by Mars. Mars is non-sacred, therefore italicized. Uh, probably I will <wrap hide>394|00:42:58|520|00:43:06|380</wrap>not linger, uh, for a long time, uh, on these particular relationships because we'll be <wrap hide>395|00:43:06|400|00:43:12|440</wrap>dealing with them all through the book. The constellation is Taurus. Its Orthodox <wrap hide>396|00:43:12|440|00:43:19|100</wrap>ruler is Venus. It conveys, in the soul sense, I believe, the 5th ray. And the other planet <wrap hide>397|00:43:19|100|00:43:24|860</wrap>ruled by Venus is Libra, so Taurus and Libra have a strong connection. Notice the angle <wrap hide>398|00:43:24|860|00:43:34|500</wrap>of 150 degrees separating Aries and Scorpio. If you move clockwise with the zodiac <wrap hide>399|00:43:34|500|00:43:41|380</wrap>and the angle of 150 degrees separating Taurus and Libra if you move counter-clockwise. So <wrap hide>400|00:43:41|380|00:43:47|240</wrap>the 5th ray is found through Venus in relation to both of these signs. With Gemini, the Orthodox <wrap hide>401|00:43:47|240|00:43:55|920</wrap>ruler is Mercury. It is, from the soul perspective, I believe, a 4th ray, a 4th <wrap hide>402|00:43:55|920|00:44:03|220</wrap>ray planet. And it's related to Virgo in a square. Virgo is also exoterically ruled <wrap hide>403|00:44:03|220|00:44:09|580</wrap>by Mercury. These, of course, I think you are quite familiar with if you studied <wrap hide>404|00:44:09|580|00:44:15|420</wrap>a little bit of astrology. But the relations are all very important. In many ways, <wrap hide>405|00:44:15|720|00:44:20|780</wrap>in many ways, the great science is the science of relations and astrology seems to be an <wrap hide>406|00:44:20|780|00:44:28|960</wrap>aspect of this science of relations. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, which is <wrap hide>407|00:44:29|660|00:44:38|260</wrap>considered a non-sacred planet, thus italicized. The Moon is the veil for an undiscovered <wrap hide>408|00:44:38|260|00:44:48|200</wrap>non-sacred 4th ray planet, and it has no relation. There is no other constellation ruled <wrap hide>409|00:44:48|200|00:44:53|880</wrap>in the exoteric sense by the Moon. It's out of relation. Leo is ruled by the Sun. Of course, <wrap hide>410|00:44:53|880|00:45:00|000</wrap>you can't really say the Sun is non-sacred. The Sun is the most sacred Logos in the whole <wrap hide>411|00:45:00|000|00:45:06|520</wrap>solar system. But we are talking about the Sun as a veil for an undiscovered 2nd <wrap hide>412|00:45:06|520|00:45:17|240</wrap>ray non-sacred planet. And there is no other constellation which is ruled by the Sun. <wrap hide>413|00:45:17|510|00:45:24|820</wrap>With the Moon there is, I mean, in the hierarchical sense Aquarius, in the esoteric sense Virgo, <wrap hide>414|00:45:24|940|00:45:33|180</wrap>but not the Sun. The Sun rules only in Leo, and so we begin to think that the constellation <wrap hide>415|00:45:33|180|00:45:44|620</wrap>Leo has a very special and unique relationship to our particular solar Logos. Virgo <wrap hide>416|00:45:45|200|00:45:51|680</wrap>is just a reversal of what we saw above. Mercury is the ruler. Libra, a reversal of what we <wrap hide>417|00:45:51|680|00:45:58|780</wrap>saw above, the Libra-Taurus relationship. Scorpio, a reversal of what we saw above, the Scorpio-Aries <wrap hide>418|00:45:58|780|00:46:07|860</wrap>relationship. Now we enter the realm of Jupiter. Jupiter, we have Sagittarius relating <wrap hide>419|00:46:07|860|00:46:13|500</wrap>to Pisces. Both are ruled exoterically by Jupiter, and Jupiter from the solar perspective <wrap hide>420|00:46:13|500|00:46:21|300</wrap>is, I believe, that's the hypothesis anyway, the sacred planets, when they are given <wrap hide>421|00:46:21|300|00:46:28|920</wrap>a ray, the soul ray is what is given. So Sagittarius relating to Jupiter, relating to Pisces, <wrap hide>422|00:46:29|040|00:46:34|840</wrap>both ruled by Jupiter, and down here we see the same in reverse, Pisces, ruled by Jupiter <wrap hide>423|00:46:34|840|00:46:42|500</wrap>related to Sagittarius, they are a square apart, just the way Gemini and Virgo <wrap hide>424|00:46:42|500|00:46:52|700</wrap>are a square apart. That's a unique relationship because the mutable cross is given, and these <wrap hide>425|00:46:52|700|00:46:59|980</wrap>planets, these signs ruled by the same planet are a square apart and form the mutable <wrap hide>426|00:46:59|980|00:47:06|460</wrap>cross. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn in the orthodox sense, and no other constellation <wrap hide>427|00:47:06|840|00:47:15|460</wrap>is ruled by Saturn in the orthodox sense. Saturn is expressing the third ray, perhaps <wrap hide>428|00:47:15|460|00:47:22|180</wrap>from the soul level. We certainly know that Saturn expresses the third ray monadically. <wrap hide>429|00:47:22|380|00:47:36|440</wrap>If you turn to Esoteric Psychology, Volume 1, page 420, you will see the monadic, the <wrap hide>430|00:47:36|440|00:47:43|260</wrap>monadic of the first three planets, Uranus ray 1, Neptune ray 2, Saturn ray 3. <wrap hide>431|00:47:44|200|00:47:51|040</wrap>Aquarius in the orthodox sense is ruled by the highly unorthodox planet Uranus, which <wrap hide>432|00:47:51|040|00:48:00|160</wrap>conveys from the soul perspective the seventh ray. And there is no other constellation ruled <wrap hide>433|00:48:00|160|00:48:08|240</wrap>by Uranus exoterically. And so we have, you know, different relationships are established <wrap hide>434|00:48:08|700|00:48:17|480</wrap>from the exoteric perspective. We have Mars Scorpio, we have Taurus Libra, we have Gemini <wrap hide>435|00:48:17|480|00:48:28|040</wrap>and Virgo, they all have rulers that are related to the two, identical in the two. Sagittarius <wrap hide>436|00:48:28|040|00:48:39|020</wrap>Pisces rulers that are shared. But not Capricorn, not Aquarius. So this is the, these are the <wrap hide>437|00:48:39|020|00:48:46|020</wrap>exoteric rulers with which we are largely familiar, and of course, you know, you have <wrap hide>438|00:48:46|020|00:48:51|620</wrap>to say there will be a relationship between Mars and Aries. One is more an external battle, <wrap hide>439|00:48:51|620|00:49:00|380</wrap>one is more an internal battle perhaps. Taurus and Venus are both related in terms of the <wrap hide>440|00:49:00|380|00:49:11|560</wrap>appreciation of beauty and balance. They both have the eye. Gemini and Virgo are related <wrap hide>441|00:49:11|560|00:49:19|660</wrap>through intelligence of Mercury. And Jupiter, rather Sagittarius and Pisces are both related <wrap hide>442|00:49:19|660|00:49:27|860</wrap>to, by the expansion of contact, the expansion of consciousness, ruled by Jupiter. The others <wrap hide>443|00:49:27|860|00:49:39|520</wrap>have no relation. Okay. Now let's take a look at the next tabulation, and what is said here. <wrap hide>444|00:49:40|320|00:49:46|740</wrap><wrap quote>a. The non-sacred planets are italicised. //EA, p.66//</wrap> Remember there are five of them, and they usually are <wrap hide>445|00:49:46|740|00:49:54|360</wrap>connected with the development of the personality rather than relating the personality to the <wrap hide>446|00:49:54|360|00:50:06|320</wrap>soul. In point <wrap quote>b. All the rays are represented except the first. This is interesting, as the <wrap hide>447|00:50:06|320|00:50:13|660</wrap>mass of the people move within their horoscopes and the will aspect is latent but unexpressed. //EA, p.66//</wrap> <wrap hide>448|00:50:13|660|00:50:22|180</wrap>So it is the will that makes a great difference in how we live our lives, and when we're on <wrap hide>449|00:50:22|180|00:50:29|280</wrap>the common or mutable cross we are pretty well driven up and down the land. We are forced <wrap hide>450|00:50:30|780|00:50:39|560</wrap>by certain currents of energy to respond in a particular way, and we cannot oppose those <wrap hide>451|00:50:39|560|00:50:45|840</wrap>streams of influence by our will. We pretty much are compelled, and that's why the first <wrap hide>452|00:50:45|840|00:50:53|600</wrap>ray is missing. As D.K. says, this is interesting. Tabulation 5: we are looking at unorthodox <wrap hide>453|00:50:53|600|00:51:02|480</wrap>astrological relationships. We are looking at <wrap quote>Constellations and Planetary Rulers <wrap hide>454|00:51:02|480|00:51:09|540</wrap>in connection with Disciples and Initiates //EA, p.66//</wrap> as they are in <wrap hide>455|00:51:09|560|00:51:16|000</wrap>that. It's interesting that the esoteric rulers that we are now going to look at apply <wrap hide>456|00:51:16|000|00:51:23|160</wrap>also to initiates. Initiates of what degree? First or second, but maybe the true meaning <wrap hide>457|00:51:23|160|00:51:27|940</wrap>of the word initiate is also being used. Maybe we're talking about the third degree initiate <wrap hide>458|00:51:27|940|00:51:34|380</wrap>as well. Usually when we're talking about third degree initiates, we begin to be able <wrap hide>459|00:51:34|380|00:51:43|440</wrap>to think in wholes. Such initiates can think in wholes and can therefore respond to hierarchies <wrap hide>460|00:51:43|440|00:51:49|180</wrap>as a whole and to the rulers of those hierarchies. But for now we're dealing with the esoteric <wrap hide>461|00:51:49|180|00:51:59|380</wrap>rulers, so constellation ruler, ray, and related to. And this time, notice we're not saying <wrap hide>462|00:51:59|380|00:52:10|820</wrap>that. Same sign. Above we said same ruler. Same ruler: we were talking about a planet, <wrap hide>463|00:52:11|100|00:52:22|000</wrap>so we connected the different signs according to a ruler which they shared. Really this <wrap hide>464|00:52:23|040|00:52:27|840</wrap>should be over here, but I'm not sure I can make it happen. Well, maybe I did make it <wrap hide>465|00:52:27|840|00:52:38|880</wrap>happen. Yeah, I did make it happen. Okay. Same ruler, so the signs are united by ruler. <wrap hide>466|00:52:39|940|00:52:51|980</wrap>But now, here below, the ray is preeminent. Same ray. And when we're dealing with the <wrap hide>467|00:52:53|360|00:53:01|680</wrap>astrology and rayology, the ray seems to take prominence. The ray is a higher order of energy <wrap hide>468|00:53:02|360|00:53:09|760</wrap>than the planet itself. The planet is used by the ray. Well, in a way the planets are <wrap hide>469|00:53:10|500|00:53:17|120</wrap>related to the sources of the rays, which for our purposes are the seven stars of the <wrap hide>470|00:53:17|120|00:53:25|620</wrap>Big Dipper, and the seven stars are the prototypes of these planetary Logos. So these ray sources <wrap hide>471|00:53:25|620|00:53:32|080</wrap>are the prototypes, and the ray has the preeminent place. There would be other ways, of course, <wrap hide>472|00:53:32|760|00:53:41|700</wrap>we might be able to relate them according to ruler as well, but the ray suggests a second <wrap hide>473|00:53:41|700|00:53:49|640</wrap>ray mode of understanding relationships and astrology, with its signs and its rulers, <wrap hide>474|00:53:49|780|00:53:55|860</wrap>suggests a third ray way of understanding relationships. And in our particular second <wrap hide>475|00:53:55|860|00:54:04|080</wrap>ray solar system, the second ray method is to be followed and considered preeminent. <wrap hide>476|00:54:04|470|00:54:17|980</wrap>So Aries is ruled by Mercury, its ray is the fourth, and Virgo is also connected to the <wrap hide>477|00:54:17|980|00:54:25|200</wrap>fourth ray because its esoteric ruler is the Moon, which is the fourth ray, expresses the <wrap hide>478|00:54:25|200|00:54:31|720</wrap>fourth ray whatever the Moon is really expressing, the undiscovered fourth ray planet. Taurus <wrap hide>479|00:54:31|720|00:54:38|960</wrap>is ruled by Vulcan, and we'll discuss how that is so as we get to the chapters. It's <wrap hide>480|00:54:38|960|00:54:45|380</wrap>the ray of Vulcan. Probably the sole ray is the first ray, and since Pluto is esoterically <wrap hide>481|00:54:45|380|00:54:54|580</wrap>ruled by... If Pisces is esoterically ruled by Pluto, then the ray is the same. Gemini <wrap hide>482|00:54:54|580|00:55:00|980</wrap>is esoterically ruled by Venus, but there is no other planet of which we know that distributes <wrap hide>483|00:55:00|980|00:55:07|340</wrap>the fifth ray, so Gemini... Gemini here, I hope I said that. Gemini ruled by Venus, Gemini <wrap hide>484|00:55:07|340|00:55:16|560</wrap>is not related to any other sign via a shared ray. Cancer is ruled esoterically by Neptune, <wrap hide>485|00:55:17|140|00:55:23|520</wrap>which from this whole perspective expresses the sixth ray, and since Mars is esoterically <wrap hide>486|00:55:23|520|00:55:30|960</wrap>ruled by... Since Scorpio, pardon me, Scorpio is esoterically ruled by Mars, then the ray <wrap hide>487|00:55:31|610|00:55:39|160</wrap>which is sixth ray, then the sign Cancer and Scorpio are related by the rays of their rulers. <wrap hide>488|00:55:40|460|00:55:49|340</wrap>Leo is ruled by the sun, which expresses exoterically the second ray, but Jupiter is the ruler of <wrap hide>489|00:55:49|340|00:55:57|300</wrap>Aquarius esoterically, and Jupiter expresses the second ray, so Leo and Aquarius are united <wrap hide>490|00:55:57|300|00:56:04|120</wrap>or related via the second ray. Virgo is ruled by the fourth ray moon, and here we have a <wrap hide>491|00:56:04|120|00:56:10|940</wrap>repetition of its connection to Aries, ruled by fourth ray Mercury. Libra is ruled esoterically, <wrap hide>492|00:56:13|560|00:56:20|740</wrap>I have to go slower, I think I'm going to get my tongue tied here. Libra is ruled esoterically <wrap hide>493|00:56:20|740|00:56:29|640</wrap>by Uranus, the seventh ray, and we know of no other seventh ray planet per se. Well, <wrap hide>494|00:56:29|820|00:56:34|080</wrap>you know, there are speculations, but of the planets we know, there are no other seventh <wrap hide>495|00:56:34|080|00:56:43|060</wrap>ray planets, and so Uranus, Libra then is not related to any other sign via the ray. <wrap hide>496|00:56:43|640|00:56:52|940</wrap>Gemini and Libra, however, are related, as we see in the tabulation on pages 332 and 333. <wrap hide>497|00:56:53|700|00:56:58|920</wrap>So you can turn there if you're interested. Scorpio and Cancer, again, that's repeated. <wrap hide>498|00:57:00|040|00:57:08|460</wrap>Sagittarius is esoterically ruled by the Earth, and since Capricorn has the esoteric ruler <wrap hide>499|00:57:08|920|00:57:14|900</wrap>of Saturn distributing the third ray, then they are both related, Sagittarius and Capricorn, <wrap hide>500|00:57:15|340|00:57:22|800</wrap>through that third ray, passing through their two rulers, Earth and Saturn. And then there's <wrap hide>501|00:57:22|800|00:57:28|540</wrap>the reversal of the same, Capricorn related to Sagittarius via the third ray. This mode <wrap hide>502|00:57:28|540|00:57:34|480</wrap>of thinking is very important, because these are soul connections, or connections which <wrap hide>503|00:57:34|480|00:57:42|360</wrap>can help bring out the soul. Aquarius and Leo, again, are repeated, and Pisces and Taurus, <wrap hide>504|00:57:42|680|00:57:49|440</wrap>again, are repeated. So this is a different kind of, different kind of connection via <wrap hide>505|00:57:50|660|00:58:03|700</wrap>the ray. Now we might have, yeah, Aries doesn't share any other, it doesn't, Mercury is not <wrap hide>506|00:58:03|700|00:58:09|100</wrap>the esoteric ruler of anything but Aries, and Vulcan is not the esoteric ruler of anything <wrap hide>507|00:58:09|100|00:58:16|880</wrap>but Taurus, so, you know, whereas Aries and Scorpio in the first tabulation both shared <wrap hide>508|00:58:16|880|00:58:27|360</wrap>Mars as the ruler, Aries does not share any ruler, the same ruler, Mercury, with any other <wrap hide>509|00:58:30|420|00:58:33|680</wrap>constellation, esoterically. Alright, so, let's move on to the next tabulation, which <wrap hide>510|00:58:34|660|00:58:40|810</wrap>I think that's pretty clear, but the implications, of course, we must look in the horoscope and <wrap hide>511|00:58:41|360|00:58:49|680</wrap>attempt to discover how relationships between these planets, between these constellations, <wrap hide>512|00:58:50|790|00:58:58|000</wrap>may draw out a particular ray. For instance, if we have Leo planets and Aquarius planets, <wrap hide>513|00:58:58|000|00:59:03|940</wrap>we have to realize that those two signs are related via the second ray, and perhaps have <wrap hide>514|00:59:03|940|00:59:10|640</wrap>an ability, esoterically, to draw forth the second ray. If we have Aries and Virgo related <wrap hide>515|00:59:10|640|00:59:16|720</wrap>to each other, we have to realize the esoteric fourth ray relationship, and how harmony through <wrap hide>516|00:59:16|720|00:59:23|240</wrap>conflict may result from the interplay of the two. So it's a different way of thinking, <wrap hide>517|00:59:23|840|00:59:31|700</wrap>as far as exploring all these ways of thinking, there is still much to be, much to be learned. <wrap hide>518|00:59:32|560|00:59:41|720</wrap>Alright, I think we are there, yes, we certainly are there. Let us sound The Great Invocation <wrap hide>519|00:59:41|720|00:59:49|240</wrap>now. It's a little bit dark in this room, and I'm not typing too clearly. <wrap hide>520|00:59:53|440|01:00:00|240</wrap>Yeah, alright. So, Om. <wrap hide>521|01:00:08|720|01:00:15|320</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>522|01:00:15|320|01:00:23|220</wrap>of men, let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>523|01:00:23|870|01:00:33|840</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>524|01:00:33|840|01:00:41|460</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>525|01:00:41|460|01:00:49|760</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let <wrap hide>526|01:00:49|760|01:00:57|360</wrap>the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>527|01:00:57|360|01:01:18|080</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. Om. Om. <wrap hide>528|01:01:23|120|01:01:35|400</wrap>Om. Om. Om. <wrap hide>529|01:01:35|980|01:01:49|740</wrap>Okay friends, good, we are, we've completed EAA 30. Let's see, I think we've completed <wrap hide>530|01:01:49|760|01:02:04|660</wrap>I have to put it here even though it's not so, yeah. We have completed, right, yes, this <wrap hide>531|01:02:04|660|01:02:14|260</wrap>is it. Pluto, Pluto, first ray, etc. We have completed EAA 30 and Esoteric Astrology Adventure <wrap hide>532|01:02:14|260|01:02:29|280</wrap>30, and we are on page, I assume, 66. I'll work that through. I believe we are on page <wrap hide>533|01:02:29|280|01:02:43|460</wrap>66, yeah 66, and if we run to 67, I'm not sure, I don't think so very soon, yep, very <wrap hide>534|01:02:43|460|01:03:02|160</wrap>soon to 67. Okay, and EAA 29 was page 64, so we have moved from page 64 to 66. Okay, <wrap hide>535|01:03:05|660|01:03:13|440</wrap>yes, okay, 64 to 66. And we will continue to move from page 64 to 66, and we will continue <wrap hide>536|01:03:13|460|01:03:25|060</wrap>to carry on with number 31. Continuing with these very, very interesting tabulations, <wrap hide>537|01:03:25|300|01:03:34|200</wrap>very important tabulations, I guess I appreciated to a greater extent the fact that, uh, esoterically, <wrap hide>538|01:03:34|980|01:03:43|440</wrap>certain signs were ray related, rather than related by rulers. <wrap hide>539|01:03:44|200|01:03:52|780</wrap>Related by rulers. Okay, so for the time being, we will say farewell, <wrap hide>540|01:03:53|200|01:03:54|180</wrap>and on to number 32.
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