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-	<wrap hide>1\|00:00:03\|300\|00:00:08\|280</wrap>Okay, good morning everyone, at least this morning here in Arizona. <wrap hide>2\|00:00:10\|020\|00:00:18\|600</wrap>And today is July the 26th, and we are continuing with our esoteric astrology adventures, number <wrap hide>3\|00:00:18\|600\|00:00:21\|780</wrap>32 this time. We completed 31 last time. <wrap hide>4\|00:00:22\|420\|00:00:31\|600</wrap>We were working on the way the <wrap quote>constellations</wrap>—he uses the word constellations rather than <wrap hide>5\|00:00:31\|600\|00:00:50\|720</wrap>signs in this case—the way the constellations are related through shared rulers, in the <wrap hide>6\|00:00:50\|720\|00:00:59\|420</wrap>case of the esoteric rulers and the hierarchical rulers, and we had just finished the hierarchical <wrap hide>7\|00:01:00\|120\|00:01:08\|300</wrap>rulers and we had been comparing, looking at some of the hierarchies which are related <wrap hide>8\|00:01:08\|300\|00:01:13\|420</wrap>through the rays of the planets which rule those hierarchies. <wrap hide>9\|00:01:14\|110\|00:01:26\|800</wrap>This is a detailed study with deep implications for the development of knowledge of the creative <wrap hide>10\|00:01:26\|800\|00:01:30\|280</wrap>hierarchies and knowledge of the deeper aspects of astrology. <wrap hide>11\|00:01:31\|240\|00:01:39\|080</wrap>I think there is enough on the previous esoteric astrology adventure for you to gather something <wrap hide>12\|00:01:39\|080\|00:01:39\|480</wrap>out of it. <wrap hide>13\|00:01:39\|480\|00:01:48\|280</wrap>Now we will move on. We're on page 68, and I think we did read this <wrap quote>note: Aries and Capricorn <wrap hide>14\|00:01:49\|100\|00:01:54\|040</wrap>in conjunction with seventh and fifth ray energies stand alone.</wrap> <wrap hide>15\|00:01:54\|160\|00:01:59\|820</wrap>Well, Aries is hierarchically ruled by Uranus, which is from the solar perspective a seventh <wrap hide>16\|00:01:59\|820\|00:02:05\|760</wrap>ray planet. Capricorn is hierarchically ruled by Venus, which from the solar perspective <wrap hide>17\|00:02:05\|760\|00:02:13\|820</wrap>is a fifth ray planet, and there are no other normal planets that are expressing the seventh <wrap hide>18\|00:02:13\|820\|00:02:23\|840</wrap>or fifth ray in any very powerful way, or in any way that we are using at this time <wrap hide>19\|00:02:23\|840\|00:02:28\|640</wrap>in our work with astrology, although I did mention that Jupiter has quite a bit of the <wrap hide>20\|00:02:28\|640\|00:02:31\|720</wrap>seventh ray connected with it. <wrap hide>21\|00:02:32\|840\|00:02:44\|120</wrap>And some people suggest that the planet Sigma, which is again an undiscovered planet, but <wrap hide>22\|00:02:44\|640\|00:02:52\|900</wrap>one for which there appears to be an ephemeris and which has a planetary period of some 13.5 <wrap hide>23\|00:02:52\|900\|00:02:56\|460</wrap>years, has much to do with the fifth ray. <wrap hide>24\|00:02:56\|460\|00:03:07\|440</wrap>Okay, we will see how the information emerges as we begin to discover these undiscovered. <wrap hide>25\|00:03:08\|000\|00:03:24\|260</wrap>Okay, now we have—let's see here—testing, testing, yes, okay. Now they carry on with <wrap hide>26\|00:03:24\|260\|00:03:31\|380</wrap>something that we have been noticing all along: ray one, Taurus and Pisces <wrap quote>through Vulcan <wrap hide>27\|00:03:31\|380\|00:03:33\|640</wrap>and Pluto.</wrap> Yes, that's correct. <wrap hide>28\|00:03:36\|000\|00:03:40\|480</wrap>We've discussed that: Taurus ruled by ray one Vulcan, Pisces by ray one Pluto, so Taurus <wrap hide>29\|00:03:40\|480\|00:03:43\|620</wrap>and Pisces are related in terms of world saviors. <wrap hide>30\|00:03:44\|860\|00:03:52\|780</wrap>Now we have Leo and Virgo; they are related through Jupiter. <wrap hide>31\|00:03:54\|440\|00:03:57\|880</wrap>The Sun rules Leo, ray two; Jupiter rules Virgo, ray two. <wrap hide>32\|00:03:59\|940\|00:04:06\|940</wrap>Gemini, in the case of the hierarchical rulers, is related to Libra, but those two stood alone <wrap hide>33\|00:04:06\|940\|00:04:13\|320</wrap>when we dealt with esoteric rulers, because again, ray five, Venus ruling Gemini, and <wrap hide>34\|00:04:13\|320\|00:04:18\|620</wrap>ray seven, Uranus ruling Libra esoterically, stood alone. <wrap hide>35\|00:04:19\|040\|00:04:24\|720</wrap>But now, here we are, with Gemini ruled by the third ray Earth and Libra ruled by third <wrap hide>36\|00:04:24\|720\|00:04:25\|280</wrap>ray Saturn. <wrap hide>37\|00:04:25\|940\|00:04:33\|200</wrap>When it comes to ray four, we have a relationship between Scorpio and Aquarius, hierarchically. <wrap hide>38\|00:04:34\|240\|00:04:40\|240</wrap>Scorpio ruled by ray four Mercury and Aquarius by ray four Moon. <wrap hide>39\|00:04:40\|920\|00:04:46\|440</wrap>And of course, the important thing is to not just look at the relationship between the <wrap hide>40\|00:04:46\|440\|00:04:56\|840</wrap>constellations or signs, but to see the manner in which these creative hierarchies are inter-related. <wrap hide>41\|00:04:56\|840\|00:05:03\|940</wrap>In our cosmos, everything is related to everything else, but sometimes there are special, especially <wrap hide>42\|00:05:03\|940\|00:05:05\|980</wrap>influential, relationships. <wrap hide>43\|00:05:06\|740\|00:05:13\|080</wrap>When it—we seem to have lost—yeah, ray five we don't have, of course, and ray six we do, <wrap hide>44\|00:05:13\|120\|00:05:14\|060</wrap>ray seven we don't. <wrap hide>45\|00:05:14\|740\|00:05:19\|820</wrap>Cancer is ruled by ray six Neptune, Sagittarius by ray six Mars, and we've discussed the relationship <wrap hide>46\|00:05:19\|820\|00:05:23\|040</wrap>of that particular—of those particular creative hierarchies. <wrap hide>47\|00:05:23\|810\|00:05:25\|540</wrap>All right. <wrap hide>48\|00:05:27\|080\|00:05:39\|340</wrap>Now, <wrap quote>in view of all the above,</wrap> and starting with the basic fact of the great illusion, <wrap hide>49\|00:05:40\|360\|00:05:52\|140</wrap>which I think is produced by the limitations of our perceptual capacity, although in a <wrap hide>50\|00:05:52\|140\|00:06:00\|000</wrap>sense it is—it should be remembered <wrap quote>that the accuracy of astrological prediction and <wrap hide>51\|00:06:00\|000\|00:06:03\|480</wrap>interpretation will be based upon three factors.</wrap> <wrap hide>52\|00:06:05\|080\|00:06:11\|780</wrap>Number one: <wrap quote>the potency of the thought forms which have been built up in connection with <wrap hide>53\|00:06:11\|780\|00:06:12\|640</wrap>the twelve signs.</wrap> <wrap hide>54\|00:06:12\|640\|00:06:22\|140</wrap>And we are told that initially a hierarchy anchored on the subtle planes great thought <wrap hide>55\|00:06:22\|140\|00:06:25\|760</wrap>forms associated with the twelve signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>56\|00:06:25\|940\|00:06:33\|960</wrap>I'm not sure when that happened because not always in the—not always in the history of <wrap hide>57\|00:06:33\|960\|00:06:40\|340</wrap>humanity have the twelve signs been active in relationship to humanity. <wrap hide>58\|00:06:40\|340\|00:06:48\|620</wrap>Well, the constellations of course have always been there, but the signs themselves were <wrap hide>59\|00:06:48\|620\|00:06:49\|340</wrap>not influential. <wrap hide>60\|00:06:49\|520\|00:06:54\|960</wrap>At first there were eight signs, maybe then ten, at one point eleven, and finally twelve, <wrap hide>61\|00:06:55\|240\|00:06:56\|680</wrap>D.K. tells us. <wrap hide>62\|00:06:56\|720\|00:07:02\|960</wrap>But at least the constellations were there, and one could anchor transforming thought <wrap hide>63\|00:07:02\|960\|00:07:09\|180</wrap>forms—so thought forms which could somehow capture the energy and help to make that energy <wrap hide>64\|00:07:10\|180\|00:07:12\|380</wrap>intelligible to the humanity of the period. <wrap hide>65\|00:07:13\|020\|00:07:16\|760</wrap>I think I'll have to look that up, but it may have been in Atlantean times that this <wrap hide>66\|00:07:16\|760\|00:07:21\|100</wrap>anchoring... Well, here it talks about it. <wrap hide>67\|00:07:21\|380\|00:07:26\|620</wrap>These thought forms <wrap quote>were originally constructed or anchored upon the mental plane—okay—by <wrap hide>68\|00:07:26\|620\|00:07:29\|500</wrap>the hierarchy in Atlantean days. <wrap hide>69\|00:07:31\|440\|00:07:35\|280</wrap>And they have steadily gained in power ever since,</wrap> because we have all been, you know, <wrap hide>70\|00:07:35\|380\|00:07:37\|360</wrap>contributing to them. <wrap hide>71\|00:07:38\|060\|00:07:49\|320</wrap>So they have a way, as he says here, serving <wrap quote>as focal points for certain forces and enabling <wrap hide>72\|00:07:49\|320\|00:07:55\|520</wrap>the individual, for instance, to be in touch with great reservoirs of energy which then <wrap hide>73\|00:07:55\|520\|00:07:57\|180</wrap>definitely condition him.</wrap> <wrap hide>74\|00:07:57\|300\|00:08:02\|760</wrap>Probably without those thought forms, it would be much harder for the energy of the constellations <wrap hide>75\|00:08:02\|760\|00:08:13\|700</wrap>working through those areas of the Earth's aura which we call signs to reach humanity <wrap hide>76\|00:08:13\|700\|00:08:15\|500</wrap>in a significant way. <wrap hide>77\|00:08:16\|980\|00:08:20\|760</wrap>So now there are great thought forms related to the twelve constellations. <wrap hide>78\|00:08:21\|700\|00:08:30\|520</wrap>I imagine in some ways they are very complex, with so much added to them, but probably the <wrap hide>79\|00:08:32\|080\|00:08:36\|940</wrap>initial essential ideas are there, given by the hierarchy. <wrap hide>80\|00:08:38\|500\|00:08:44\|920</wrap>So we're saying here the accuracy of astrological prediction will be based upon—okay—these <wrap hide>81\|00:08:45\|520\|00:08:49\|820</wrap>thought forms. That's one thing: the thought forms which have been anchored upon the mental <wrap hide>82\|00:08:49\|820\|00:08:52\|320</wrap>plane by the hierarchy in Atlantean days. <wrap hide>83\|00:08:53\|420\|00:08:56\|900</wrap>Accuracy will also be based upon <wrap quote>the intuition of the astrologer. <wrap hide>1\|00:00:03\|300\|00:00:08\|280</wrap>The casting of the horoscope serves to put the astrologer en rapport with the individual. <wrap hide>85\|00:09:03\|440\|00:09:10\|060</wrap>But this is of small service to either party unless the intuition and sensitivity of the <wrap hide>86\|00:09:10\|060\|00:09:11\|420</wrap>astrologer is actively present.</wrap> <wrap hide>87\|00:09:11\|680\|00:09:16\|300</wrap>Well, in the old days we used to do all of this by hand. <wrap hide>88\|00:09:17\|200\|00:09:19\|140</wrap>We did not even have calculators. <wrap hide>89\|00:09:20\|060\|00:09:27\|420</wrap>Then came calculators and computers and astrological programs which did so much of the work for <wrap hide>90\|00:09:27\|420\|00:09:27\|560</wrap>you. <wrap hide>91\|00:09:27\|860\|00:09:32\|860</wrap>Sometimes I think in the hour it may have taken to prepare a natal chart, there was a <wrap hide>92\|00:09:32\|860\|00:09:41\|300</wrap>growing rapport emerging between the astrologer preparing the chart and the individual whom <wrap hide>93\|00:09:41\|300\|00:09:43\|440</wrap>the chart represented. <wrap hide>94\|00:09:44\|620\|00:09:53\|700</wrap>In any case, there is a symbol before us, and this symbol is a symbol of rapport. And we've <wrap hide>95\|00:09:53\|700\|00:09:58\|960</wrap>noticed—I think some of us who are astrologers—how we may be dealing with an individual and <wrap hide>96\|00:09:58\|960\|00:10:05\|940</wrap>have a certain type of rapport, but via the chart we obviously see other things, more <wrap hide>97\|00:10:05\|940\|00:10:12\|960</wrap>things, and seeing those things helps guide us into a deeper type of rapport with the <wrap hide>98\|00:10:12\|960\|00:10:18\|820</wrap>individual. But obviously the new type of astrology is the intuitional astrology, and <wrap hide>99\|00:10:18\|820\|00:10:21\|320</wrap>intuition and sensitivity are both required. <wrap hide>100\|00:10:22\|400\|00:10:29\|380</wrap>So from that point of view, Neptune is a very useful planet to the astrologer, especially <wrap hide>101\|00:10:29\|380\|00:10:40\|000</wrap>to the esoteric astrologer who is trying to touch into the deeper layers of the subject <wrap hide>102\|00:10:40\|000\|00:10:41\|760</wrap>for whom he may be preparing a chart. <wrap hide>103\|00:10:41\|760\|00:10:50\|920</wrap>And then accuracy is dependent upon <wrap quote>the capacity of the astrologer in any specific period to <wrap hide>104\|00:10:51\|300\|00:10:56\|040</wrap>respond to the changes which are all the time taking place.</wrap> <wrap hide>105\|00:10:57\|680\|00:11:02\|340</wrap>In other words, the astrologer reading hundreds of years ago would have had different conditions <wrap hide>106\|00:11:02\|340\|00:11:07\|520</wrap>in which to read, different subtle energies reaching him than at the present time. <wrap hide>107\|00:11:07\|520\|00:11:13\|620</wrap>And D.K. speaks of the gradual shifting and changing, <wrap quote>such as the gradual shifting and changing <wrap hide>108\|00:11:13\|620\|00:11:16\|760</wrap>brought about by the precession of the equinoxes.</wrap> <wrap hide>109\|00:11:17\|420\|00:11:26\|740</wrap>So a different degree of a particular sign is always presenting itself. <wrap hide>110\|00:11:27\|440\|00:11:33\|560</wrap>For instance, at the moment we are probably in the last few degrees of early Pisces. <wrap hide>111\|00:11:33\|560\|00:11:41\|460</wrap>Each degree having its particular quality and influencing the Earth for 72 years, approximately. <wrap hide>112\|00:11:41\|920\|00:11:48\|060</wrap>So each degree influences for 72 years. <wrap hide>113\|00:11:48\|920\|00:11:58\|720</wrap>And the precession of the equinoxes gives us a general relationship with the major sign <wrap hide>114\|00:11:58\|720\|00:12:00\|820</wrap>which lasts 2,160 years. <wrap hide>115\|00:12:01\|480\|00:12:09\|040</wrap>But there are decanates, there are half-decanates, light and dark faces of each decanate. <wrap hide>116\|00:12:09\|500\|00:12:16\|040</wrap>There are Dvadashamsas of 2.5 degrees. We sometimes simplify that by simply calling them Dvads, <wrap hide>117\|00:12:16\|180\|00:12:19\|520</wrap>D-W-A-D-S, and then the particular degree itself. <wrap hide>118\|00:12:19\|520\|00:12:28\|660</wrap>And also, all the time the Earth and all life upon it is subject to the quality of particular parts <wrap hide>119\|00:12:28\|660\|00:12:37\|520</wrap>of the major sign towards which the vernal equinox is pointing, or let's call it the constellation. <wrap hide>120\|00:12:38\|520\|00:12:46\|960</wrap>Even though the size of the constellations is variable, in general we're all agreed to look at them <wrap hide>121\|00:12:46\|960\|00:12:54\|340</wrap>as 30-degree segments of space, and the vernal equinox is oriented towards these segments of space <wrap hide>122\|00:12:54\|340\|00:13:00\|540</wrap>and bringing in certain major energies and sub-energies and sub-sub-energies, all of which affect us. <wrap hide>123\|00:13:01\|460\|00:13:05\|500</wrap>And we're talking about <wrap quote>the slow shift of the pole of the planet.</wrap> <wrap hide>124\|00:13:05\|620\|00:13:12\|140</wrap>Well, this can be the wobble in a rightward direction of the pole. <wrap hide>125\|00:13:12\|140\|00:13:21\|340</wrap>It turns in the opposite direction of the planet rotating and the planet revolving. <wrap hide>126\|00:13:24\|680\|00:13:31\|500</wrap>Yes. Okay, so that of course is correlated with the precession of the equinoxes, <wrap hide>127\|00:13:31\|500\|00:13:40\|220</wrap>but there's also other movements of the planets, kind of a back and forth movement of the polar axis, <wrap hide>128\|00:13:40\|220\|00:13:45\|960</wrap>and that's called nutation, N-U-T-A-T-I-O-N. <wrap hide>129\|00:13:46\|420\|00:13:53\|880</wrap><wrap quote>To this should be added that as man evolves, the mechanism of response, or the vehicles of consciousness, <wrap hide>130\|00:13:54\|280\|00:14:03\|680</wrap>likewise steadily improve</wrap>s. So, today's human being is far more sensitive to these various types of energies <wrap hide>131\|00:14:03\|680\|00:14:08\|760</wrap>than may have been the case in earlier times, and the astrologer has to assess whether <wrap hide>132\|00:14:08\|760\|00:14:19\|400</wrap>his subject, the so-called native for which he is drawing the chart, can be sensitive to the potential energies. <wrap hide>133\|00:14:20\|340\|00:14:22\|800</wrap>You know, there's lots of things that can reach a person. <wrap hide>134\|00:14:22\|920\|00:14:30\|660</wrap>The question is, according to the form nature before us, can these energies reach that individual? <wrap hide>135\|00:14:30\|660\|00:14:38\|780</wrap>If we try to use the sacred planets and even the hierarchical planets and the esoteric planets <wrap hide>136\|00:14:40\|400\|00:14:47\|080</wrap>as important in the life of the average individual, we may be talking about something which is non-existent <wrap hide>137\|00:14:47\|080\|00:14:51\|920</wrap>in his consciousness, even though present in space. <wrap hide>138\|00:14:52\|600\|00:15:00\|000</wrap>Now, <wrap quote>his reactions therefore to the planetary influence and to the energy of the various constellations <wrap hide>139\|00:15:00\|000\|00:15:06\|760</wrap>mediated through the signs change with equal steadiness, and allowance must be made for this.</wrap> <wrap hide>140\|00:15:06\|880\|00:15:14\|720</wrap>So, we have to be very aware of the time in which we are casting the horoscope, the period, the conditions, <wrap hide>141\|00:15:14\|720\|00:15:23\|420</wrap>the atmosphere, even the various ray cycles which are operative at the time of casting the horoscope, <wrap hide>142\|00:15:23\|680\|00:15:31\|800</wrap>because the ray cycles will naturally influence how we receive the astrological energies. <wrap hide>143\|00:15:33\|200\|00:15:40\|280</wrap><wrap quote>It is consequently essential that the modern astrologer begin to study the point in evolution of the subject <wrap hide>144\|00:15:40\|280\|00:15:50\|140</wrap>prior to casting</wrap> the horoscope. Well, you know, this was written 80 years ago, or almost so, in cases of part of the book. <wrap hide>145\|00:15:51\|560\|00:16:02\|260</wrap>And this by now has become, for esoteric astrologers, an important statement, an important principle. <wrap hide>146\|00:16:03\|760\|00:16:09\|760</wrap>We must study, to the degree we can assess it, and we cannot necessarily assess it with great accuracy, <wrap hide>147\|00:16:10\|420\|00:16:13\|720</wrap>the point in evolution of the subject prior to casting the horoscope. <wrap hide>148\|00:16:13\|820\|00:16:19\|760</wrap>But we do have the general sense of whether the person is functioning as a personality, <wrap hide>149\|00:16:21\|420\|00:16:27\|960</wrap>and is following our personality desires which relate to acquisition in the three lower worlds, <wrap hide>150\|00:16:27\|960\|00:16:33\|500</wrap>or whether that person is in process of awakening to higher values and possibilities, <wrap hide>151\|00:16:33\|680\|00:16:45\|840</wrap>or whether that person is well on his way, on the path, and has been pursuing these higher values and possibilities for some time. <wrap hide>152\|00:16:46\|780\|00:16:55\|680</wrap>At least those three categories we can probably assess, and we will interpret the horoscope accordingly. <wrap hide>153\|00:16:56\|640\|00:17:03\|040</wrap>Going on, <wrap quote>he must ascertain his approximate place upon the path of evolution.</wrap> <wrap hide>154\|00:17:04\|700\|00:17:11\|880</wrap>So are we dealing with an ambitious person? Are we dealing with, well even before an ambitious person, <wrap hide>155\|00:17:11\|960\|00:17:15\|560</wrap>simply an average individual with no particular direction in life? <wrap hide>156\|00:17:15\|660\|00:17:22\|040</wrap>Are we dealing with a strong lower ego, driven by a personal ambition? <wrap hide>157\|00:17:22\|040\|00:17:27\|500</wrap>Are we dealing with an aspirant who is awakening? <wrap hide>158\|00:17:27\|920\|00:17:33\|460</wrap>Are we dealing with a probationary disciple who is willing to be tested and struggling with those tests? <wrap hide>159\|00:17:33\|560\|00:17:42\|320</wrap>Are we dealing with a disciple who is truly one-pointed and increasingly mentally focused? <wrap hide>160\|00:17:42\|500\|00:17:48\|000</wrap>Are we dealing with an accepted disciple who has come on rapport with the ashram of a master, <wrap hide>161\|00:17:49\|320\|00:17:53\|680</wrap>and who is now approaching that ashram and seeking to serve that ashram? <wrap hide>162\|00:17:54\|580\|00:17:58\|500</wrap>Are we dealing at last with the probationary initiate of the first or second degree, <wrap hide>163\|00:17:58\|520\|00:18:02\|400</wrap>or are we dealing with the true initiate of the third degree and beyond? <wrap hide>164\|00:18:03\|460\|00:18:09\|460</wrap>Of course, maybe if we were, we would not be in such a position to be very useful to such an individual. <wrap hide>165\|00:18:10\|320\|00:18:11\|340</wrap>Maybe yes, maybe no. <wrap hide>166\|00:18:12\|720\|00:18:18\|220</wrap>So, the astrologer must ascertain the approximate place of the subject upon the path of evolution, <wrap hide>167\|00:18:18\|240\|00:18:22\|800</wrap>and <wrap quote>to this end, the study of the rays is most necessary, <wrap hide>168\|00:18:23\|280\|00:18:29\|720</wrap>through an investigation as to the quality and characteristics and life objectives.</wrap> <wrap hide>169\|00:18:31\|520\|00:18:41\|580</wrap>So, these five books, of which Esoteric Astrology is one, are a five-fold treatise on the seven rays, <wrap hide>170\|00:18:42\|180\|00:18:49\|440</wrap>and we cannot separate the study of the deeper type of astrology from the ray energies. <wrap hide>171\|00:18:49\|740\|00:18:57\|440</wrap>I mean, we will see horoscopes that have many similarities astrologically, <wrap hide>172\|00:18:57\|440\|00:19:04\|360</wrap>but the individuals express marked differences in their orientation and behavior. <wrap hide>173\|00:19:05\|020\|00:19:05\|800</wrap>And why is that? <wrap hide>174\|00:19:06\|620\|00:19:09\|400</wrap>That is the rays that are involved. <wrap hide>175\|00:19:09\|520\|00:19:15\|820</wrap>No matter what the horoscope may be, if the individual is on the ray of the teacher, <wrap hide>176\|00:19:16\|220\|00:19:23\|440</wrap>or on the ray of the director or leader, you cannot change those orientations, <wrap hide>177\|00:19:23\|440\|00:19:27\|420</wrap>regardless of the chart with which the individual is presented, <wrap hide>178\|00:19:27\|860\|00:19:32\|760</wrap>to help that individual move along the path towards that ray objective. <wrap hide>179\|00:19:33\|400\|00:19:42\|400</wrap>The soul ray becomes all important, if it can be discerned, and eventually it will be discerned, <wrap hide>180\|00:19:42\|400\|00:19:47\|380</wrap>and perhaps easier of discernment for more advanced people is the personality ray, <wrap hide>181\|00:19:47\|380\|00:19:50\|140</wrap>and that has to be taken into consideration. <wrap hide>182\|00:19:50\|140\|00:20:00\|860</wrap>It's, in a way, a higher order of understanding that we must come into rapport with, <wrap hide>183\|00:20:00\|980\|00:20:06\|120</wrap>before we can interpret the astrological chart in the right context. <wrap hide>184\|00:20:06\|240\|00:20:13\|340</wrap>I sometimes make the joke, you know, my daughter's horoscope is very similar to Otto von Bismarck. <wrap hide>185\|00:20:13\|460\|00:20:15\|720</wrap>They have the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant in the same position. <wrap hide>186\|00:20:15\|720\|00:20:21\|240</wrap>Okay. You know, probably some similarities. Even Mercury. <wrap hide>187\|00:20:21\|840\|00:20:26\|180</wrap>So, my daughter is on the second ray, and Otto von Bismarck is on the first ray. <wrap hide>188\|00:20:26\|520\|00:20:34\|080</wrap>Unless one knows those facts, even a similar horoscope can be misinterpreted, <wrap hide>189\|00:20:34\|080\|00:20:41\|380</wrap>because you'll want to go in knowing the ray energies, and you will see then particular planets, <wrap hide>190\|00:20:41\|380\|00:20:49\|560</wrap>which are of greater moment, because they are ray rulers, they conduct the ray energy. <wrap hide>191\|00:20:50\|660\|00:20:54\|920</wrap>For instance, in the case of Bismarck, you know, one would have to examine very closely <wrap hide>192\|00:20:54\|920\|00:20:58\|580</wrap>Vulcan and Pluto, first ray planets. <wrap hide>193\|00:20:59\|900\|00:21:04\|660</wrap>And in the case of my daughter, let us say, Jupiter and Venus would be very important, <wrap hide>194\|00:21:05\|540\|00:21:09\|700</wrap>conveying in different ways some second ray energy, as well as the Sun. <wrap hide>195\|00:21:09\|700\|00:21:15\|960</wrap>So, okay, that's the principle. That's the principle. <wrap hide>196\|00:21:16\|800\|00:21:19\|220</wrap>Page 70. Wow, are we making progress. <wrap hide>197\|00:21:20\|340\|00:21:24\|980</wrap>I do hope that before long it is possible for us to finish this introduction, <wrap hide>198\|00:21:25\|660\|00:21:30\|660</wrap>which has been wide ranging, and which, in the method that I use, <wrap hide>199\|00:21:31\|620\|00:21:38\|940</wrap>takes in many other aspects of the teaching to be related to what D.K. says here about astrology. <wrap hide>200\|00:21:38\|940\|00:21:43\|480</wrap>I'm making the assumption that many of you have read this astrology book, <wrap hide>201\|00:21:44\|280\|00:21:48\|240</wrap>and that you study it, and that you know something about it, <wrap hide>202\|00:21:48\|480\|00:21:55\|180</wrap>and I'm trying to correlate other factors in the teaching with what is said about the astrology. <wrap hide>203\|00:21:56\|000\|00:22:00\|020</wrap><wrap quote>Astrologers will eventually be able to cast the horoscope of the soul, <wrap hide>204\|00:22:00\|990\|00:22:04\|860</wrap>which is sensitive to different combinations of forces, <wrap hide>205\|00:22:05\|420\|00:22:08\|380</wrap>to those controlling the personality life.</wrap> <wrap hide>206\|00:22:09\|200\|00:22:11\|920</wrap>Well, you know, it looks like a straightforward statement, <wrap hide>207\|00:22:12\|240\|00:22:20\|700</wrap>but do we mean the horoscope of the soul in incarnation, <wrap hide>208\|00:22:21\|280\|00:22:24\|480</wrap>which is representing that higher consciousness, <wrap hide>209\|00:22:25\|440\|00:22:27\|660</wrap>which we call soul consciousness on the higher mental plane, <wrap hide>210\|00:22:27\|660\|00:22:33\|680</wrap>or do we mean that the causal body was created at a certain time, <wrap hide>211\|00:22:33\|820\|00:22:38\|760</wrap>and under certain aspects, under certain influences, <wrap hide>212\|00:22:39\|920\|00:22:47\|900</wrap>and that that creation, the moment of creation of that soul consciousness, <wrap hide>213\|00:22:48\|920\|00:22:56\|140</wrap>will somehow have its own horoscope to be compared with the many personality horoscopes. <wrap hide>214\|00:22:56\|140\|00:23:00\|040</wrap>And then, you know, on the realm of soul there are many additions that occur. <wrap hide>215\|00:23:01\|180\|00:23:08\|080</wrap>Every time you change a root race or a sub-race, the soul may in a way be differently configured. <wrap hide>216\|00:23:08\|940\|00:23:11\|320</wrap>There may be a different soul orientation. <wrap hide>217\|00:23:12\|600\|00:23:18\|720</wrap>So there is the personality, but there is also the growing consciousness, <wrap hide>218\|00:23:19\|800\|00:23:24\|240</wrap>which represents the consciousness on the higher mental plane, <wrap hide>219\|00:23:24\|240\|00:23:32\|100</wrap>and that perhaps is the astrology of the soul with which we are dealing. <wrap hide>220\|00:23:32\|820\|00:23:36\|320</wrap>One day it may be possible to know the exact moment of individualization, <wrap hide>221\|00:23:37\|140\|00:23:40\|220</wrap>which for <wrap quote>those</wrap> who are part of Earth humanity, <wrap hide>222\|00:23:40\|840\|00:23:50\|040</wrap>took place over a 5,000-year period, 21 plus million years ago, <wrap hide>223\|00:23:50\|040\|00:23:55\|480</wrap>21,688,345. I'm going to memorize that number <wrap hide>224\|00:23:55\|480\|00:23:59\|760</wrap>and relate it to the year in which that section was written of Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>225\|00:24:01\|400\|00:24:03\|740</wrap>But some of us were individualized on the Moon chain. <wrap hide>226\|00:24:03\|880\|00:24:05\|520</wrap>What was the moment of individualization? <wrap hide>227\|00:24:05\|680\|00:24:13\|220</wrap>What were the astrological aspects prevalent at the moment we could say we became a human being? <wrap hide>228\|00:24:13\|700\|00:24:17\|300</wrap>Maybe some of us were individualized in the previous solar system, <wrap hide>229\|00:24:17\|300\|00:24:25\|500</wrap>and how in the world would we be able to understand the egoic nature as developed at that time? <wrap hide>230\|00:24:26\|240\|00:24:34\|320</wrap>So this simple statement, "the horoscope of the soul," is subject to various interpretations, <wrap hide>231\|00:24:34\|960\|00:24:44\|080</wrap>and some of the less remote and more present interpretations may be more useful. <wrap hide>232\|00:24:44\|080\|00:24:57\|680</wrap>It can be, in a way, the inner directive for the indwelling consciousness during any particular incarnation; <wrap hide>233\|00:24:58\|000\|00:24:59\|460</wrap>we may call that the soul. <wrap hide>234\|00:25:00\|020\|00:25:06\|700</wrap>Anyway, different combinations of forces can be applied to the life of consciousness, <wrap hide>235\|00:25:07\|000\|00:25:10\|780</wrap>the wheel of consciousness, or to the wheel of form, <wrap hide>236\|00:25:10\|780\|00:25:17\|480</wrap>which is the wheel of the personality, and we have to learn what those combinations are. <wrap hide>237\|00:25:18\|840\|00:25:30\|320</wrap>The disciple and the initiate respond distinctively to the incoming influence in a distinct manner— <wrap hide>238\|00:25:32\|140\|00:25:35\|260</wrap>a discernible manner to the incoming influences, <wrap hide>239\|00:25:35\|260\|00:25:43\|760</wrap>and their response differs from that of the undeveloped man, or later the self-centered person. <wrap hide>240\|00:25:45\|260\|00:25:53\|220</wrap>The true personality thinks of itself pretty much as the center of its field of perception, <wrap hide>241\|00:25:53\|580\|00:25:55\|320</wrap>the center of the world in a way. <wrap hide>242\|00:25:55\|940\|00:25:58\|940</wrap>The undeveloped man has a consciousness much more diffuse, <wrap hide>243\|00:25:58\|940\|00:26:07\|280</wrap>but in any case, the disciple's response will be altogether higher to the incoming energies, <wrap hide>244\|00:26:07\|660\|00:26:13\|780</wrap>and it will affect areas of his energy system and chakras which are not affected, <wrap hide>245\|00:26:14\|660\|00:26:21\|680</wrap>as those same energies impact the undeveloped man and the self-centered person— <wrap hide>246\|00:26:22\|200\|00:26:25\|420</wrap>the energy systems of the undeveloped man or self-centered person. <wrap hide>247\|00:26:25\|420\|00:26:28\|440</wrap>This will have to be recognized. <wrap hide>248\|00:26:29\|060\|00:26:32\|180</wrap>So astrology, you see, becomes much more complex. <wrap hide>249\|00:26:32\|360\|00:26:37\|680</wrap>It's not as if you could pick up a horoscope and only know that you're dealing with a human being, <wrap hide>250\|00:26:38\|340\|00:26:45\|000</wrap>and then begin to accurately read the life of such a human being. <wrap hide>251\|00:26:45\|100\|00:26:51\|660</wrap>You really have to come en rapport, and when we're thinking about the healing, <wrap hide>252\|00:26:51\|660\|00:26:59\|100</wrap>the work of the healer, D.K. is saying, "Well, spend five hours in quiet thought <wrap hide>253\|00:27:00\|600\|00:27:04\|760</wrap>concerning the subject with whom you are to engage in the healing process." <wrap hide>254\|00:27:04\|980\|00:27:14\|060</wrap>And I sometimes think if we had the time, that would be ideal—time ideally spent <wrap hide>255\|00:27:15\|600\|00:27:19\|440</wrap>for those with whom we're going to come en rapport in the astrological sense, <wrap hide>256\|00:27:19\|440\|00:27:27\|640</wrap>because after all, we are engaged in a way in psychological healing and reorientation. <wrap hide>257\|00:27:28\|700\|00:27:35\|500</wrap>So some patience will be required. This is a very hectic time of human civilization. <wrap hide>258\|00:27:35\|720\|00:27:40\|020</wrap>There are great cross-currents and competing energies, <wrap hide>259\|00:27:40\|020\|00:27:54\|360</wrap>and man's life in the West and even in the East now is very upset, very disturbed and agitated. <wrap hide>260\|00:27:55\|040\|00:28:01\|500</wrap>And it is difficult to come en rapport with the deeper energy patterns in such environments, <wrap hide>261\|00:28:01\|560\|00:28:09\|000</wrap>but that will give way eventually to the promised period of peace and deeper sensitivity— <wrap hide>262\|00:28:09\|000\|00:28:11\|760</wrap>I would assume accompanying the peace. <wrap hide>263\|00:28:14\|920\|00:28:19\|940</wrap>So the disciple will respond in a certain way and initiate in a certain way, <wrap hide>264\|00:28:20\|020\|00:28:22\|560</wrap>and so will the undeveloped man and self-centered person. <wrap hide>265\|00:28:23\|320\|00:28:27\|620</wrap>This will have to be recognized and we have to know for whom we are reading. <wrap hide>266\|00:28:28\|640\|00:28:30\|460</wrap>So let me just put that down. <wrap hide>267\|00:28:32\|580\|00:28:36\|420</wrap>We must know for whom we are reading. <wrap hide>268\|00:28:37\|420\|00:28:45\|100</wrap>Those <wrap quote>who live below the diaphragm, and</wrap> those who—what does that mean really? <wrap hide>269\|00:28:45\|620\|00:28:53\|900</wrap>They react; their consciousness is filled with recognition of and response to the impulses <wrap hide>270\|00:28:53\|900\|00:28:59\|140</wrap>which come from the chakras and organs below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>271\|00:28:59\|180\|00:29:01\|500</wrap>That's what it means to live below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>272\|00:29:01\|500\|00:29:08\|780</wrap>We all have our chakric energies below the diaphragm, but where is our consciousness focused? <wrap hide>273\|00:29:08\|980\|00:29:09\|940</wrap>That's the question. <wrap hide>274\|00:29:11\|680\|00:29:18\|960</wrap>Those who live below the diaphragm and <wrap quote>who react to the incoming energies through the medium of the lower centers, <wrap hide>275\|00:29:20\|140\|00:29:24\|400</wrap>so the plexus, sacral, spleen, and base of the spine, <wrap hide>276\|00:29:24\|940\|00:29:30\|460</wrap>will have a very different type of chart to</wrap> that of the disciple or initiate. <wrap hide>277\|00:29:31\|360\|00:29:38\|220</wrap>Well, at least when we go in there, we will certainly, even if the chart looks the same in some cases, <wrap hide>278\|00:29:38\|960\|00:29:42\|640</wrap>we will be emphasizing different factors. <wrap hide>279\|00:29:44\|000\|00:29:48\|620</wrap>And different patterns will emerge and different triangles will be of importance, <wrap hide>280\|00:29:48\|840\|00:29:51\|500</wrap>and the sun sign more so than the rising sign. <wrap hide>281\|00:29:52\|140\|00:29:58\|600</wrap><wrap quote>It will require a different mode of interpretation</wrap> using the ordinary rulers <wrap hide>282\|00:29:58\|600\|00:30:01\|040</wrap>rather than the esoteric or hierarchical rulers. <wrap hide>283\|00:30:01\|260\|00:30:07\|480</wrap>And he says, <wrap quote>"I have referred to this before and would remind you of some of the points which I made."</wrap> <wrap hide>284\|00:30:08\|660\|00:30:16\|040</wrap>It does serve us to be reminded of these points, and we need the specific examples, <wrap hide>285\|00:30:17\|880\|00:30:21\|760</wrap>probably in this particular interpretation of esoteric astrology. <wrap hide>286\|00:30:23\|740\|00:30:30\|500</wrap>Using the book in the way I am, I'm not going to get into the details of astrological interpretation <wrap hide>287\|00:30:30\|500\|00:30:36\|280</wrap>in the same way as some of my colleagues are doing, and they're doing very well. <wrap hide>288\|00:30:37\|040\|00:30:41\|080</wrap>Maybe we'll see if time allows; that might be possible. <wrap hide>289\|00:30:41\|160\|00:30:49\|160</wrap>But I think there is a need to think very carefully, paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, <wrap hide>290\|00:30:49\|160\|00:30:51\|940</wrap>over what the Tibetan has said. <wrap hide>291\|00:30:52\|300\|00:30:59\|340</wrap>We must ponder together on what he is trying to convey to us <wrap hide>292\|00:30:59\|340\|00:31:08\|260</wrap>so that at least the major outlines of this great science come clearer to us. <wrap hide>293\|00:31:08\|360\|00:31:16\|560</wrap>And then all the many detailed points of interpretation can be dealt with in specific contexts. <wrap hide>294\|00:31:16\|560\|00:31:20\|000</wrap>I enjoy doing it too, but time is of the essence. <wrap hide>295\|00:31:21\|200\|00:31:23\|260</wrap>So anyway, D.K. made these points. <wrap hide>296\|00:31:23\|800\|00:31:28\|860</wrap>Disciples upon the path of discipleship, and some have said in this regard, <wrap hide>297\|00:31:29\|000\|00:31:32\|720</wrap>accepted discipleship, are strongly influenced by Mercury and Saturn. <wrap hide>298\|00:31:33\|640\|00:31:37\|780</wrap>One bringing illumination, that's Mercury, and the other offering opportunity. <wrap hide>299\|00:31:37\|780\|00:31:46\|060</wrap>Well, Saturn doesn't offer the kind of opportunity to have every whim and every casual desire fulfilled. <wrap hide>300\|00:31:47\|480\|00:31:58\|680</wrap>The kind of opportunity is to face those circumstances and overcome those conditions <wrap hide>301\|00:31:58\|680\|00:32:04\|700</wrap>which prevent a fuller soul infusion. <wrap hide>302\|00:32:05\|460\|00:32:14\|260</wrap>It's really an opportunity to move upon the path by facing the karmic and dharmic difficulties which must be overcome. <wrap hide>303\|00:32:15\|260\|00:32:21\|080</wrap>So disciples upon the path of discipleship are strongly influenced by two quite mental planets, Mercury and Saturn, <wrap hide>304\|00:32:21\|120\|00:32:25\|840</wrap>and that's why it really has to be the path of discipleship, <wrap hide>305\|00:32:26\|240\|00:32:31\|160</wrap>not so much the path of probationary discipleship or the path of aspiration, <wrap hide>306\|00:32:31\|160\|00:32:39\|720</wrap>where we are still quite astrally focused and fighting many battles in relation to our desire nature. <wrap hide>307\|00:32:39\|920\|00:32:47\|560</wrap>Once our mind, in which the will is focused, has begun to be our main instrument, <wrap hide>308\|00:32:48\|280\|00:32:55\|400</wrap>then Mercury and Saturn will be of real value, critical value to the disciple. <wrap hide>309\|00:32:55\|400\|00:33:02\|380</wrap>And some have said that this only happens really on the path of accepted discipleship, <wrap hide>310\|00:33:02\|500\|00:33:09\|980</wrap>which can occur, and I think usually does occur, somewhere from the middle of the period <wrap hide>311\|00:33:09\|980\|00:33:16\|300</wrap>between the first and second initiation onward towards the second initiation, <wrap hide>312\|00:33:16\|360\|00:33:20\|040</wrap>and maybe even to some extent after the second initiation. <wrap hide>313\|00:33:20\|040\|00:33:26\|640</wrap>One can make much progress initiatorily without necessarily being an accepted disciple, <wrap hide>314\|00:33:27\|220\|00:33:34\|360</wrap>which is a relationship that has to do with your particular karmic relationship to a master. <wrap hide>315\|00:33:35\|760\|00:33:37\|340</wrap>So D.K. does differentiate there. <wrap hide>316\|00:33:38\|580\|00:33:40\|460</wrap>Okay, here are the points he has made. <wrap hide>317\|00:33:42\|100\|00:33:43\|620</wrap>Mercury and Saturn are influential. <wrap hide>318\|00:33:44\|560\|00:33:52\|520</wrap>And number two, <wrap quote>at the various initiations, the influence of the planets affects the candidate, <wrap hide>319\|00:33:52\|840\|00:33:58\|120</wrap>the candidate to initiation, in a totally different manner than earlier.</wrap> <wrap hide>320\|00:33:58\|820\|00:34:04\|520</wrap>Within a planet, our entire range of possibilities and qualities, and not all of them get through. <wrap hide>321\|00:34:04\|920\|00:34:11\|740</wrap>It all depends on the sensitivity of the form nature, the responsiveness. <wrap hide>322\|00:34:11\|740\|00:34:19\|140</wrap><wrap quote>Cyclically, the energies from the constellations pour through the planetary</wrap> centers. <wrap hide>323\|00:34:19\|440\|00:34:27\|260</wrap>We've talked about them; there are continents, there are cities, there are kingdoms, <wrap hide>324\|00:34:28\|520\|00:34:39\|720</wrap>and there are chakras located on the etheric planes, which can also be considered planetary centers. <wrap hide>325\|00:34:41\|380\|00:34:48\|520</wrap>Okay, at the first initiation, these are important ideas here, <wrap hide>326\|00:34:49\|100\|00:34:54\|120</wrap>and ones which are often reviewed in esoteric astrology classes. <wrap hide>327\|00:34:54\|640\|00:35:03\|880</wrap><wrap quote>At the first initiation, the disciple has to contend with the crystallizing and destroying forces of Vulcan and Pluto.</wrap> <wrap hide>328\|00:35:04\|160\|00:35:09\|520</wrap>Vulcan particularly crystallizes and thereby sets up the possibility of shattering, <wrap hide>329\|00:35:09\|520\|00:35:14\|860</wrap>and Pluto is very much the destroyer aspect of the first ray. <wrap hide>330\|00:35:15\|140\|00:35:18\|200</wrap>Vulcan: a sacred planet. Pluto: a non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>331\|00:35:18\|960\|00:35:24\|500</wrap>The influence of Vulcan, which can be symbolized in a way by the downward pointing arrow, <wrap hide>332\|00:35:27\|120\|00:35:29\|600</wrap>which has kind of a V in it—V for Vulcan— <wrap hide>333\|00:35:30\|720\|00:35:34\|880</wrap>the influence of Vulcan reaches to the very depths of the nature. <wrap hide>334\|00:35:35\|870\|00:35:47\|900</wrap>The soul seeks to permeate deeply, and the will descends into the depths, so nothing is left untouched, <wrap hide>335\|00:35:47\|900\|00:35:55\|340</wrap>while Pluto, a planetary influence which is used to operate in the depths, <wrap hide>336\|00:35:55\|880\|00:36:01\|060</wrap><wrap quote>drags to the surface and destroys all that hinders in these lower regions.</wrap> <wrap hide>337\|00:36:01\|060\|00:36:06\|460</wrap>There are many things in the lower part of our aura which are unredeemed. <wrap hide>338\|00:36:06\|640\|00:36:13\|080</wrap>You know, if you look at the aura egg, there's kind of a blackish-brown layer down there of unredeemed sludge— <wrap hide>339\|00:36:13\|720\|00:36:15\|980</wrap>stuff that just hasn't been dealt with. <wrap hide>340\|00:36:16\|700\|00:36:20\|260</wrap>And it's very interesting how Pluto throws things in your face, you know. <wrap hide>341\|00:36:20\|780\|00:36:29\|700</wrap>When it is said that "the truth will out," we're talking very much, I think, about the influence of Pluto. <wrap hide>342\|00:36:29\|700\|00:36:39\|040</wrap>Under Scorpionic circumstances, one can suppress information and truth and keep things concealed, <wrap hide>343\|00:36:39\|160\|00:36:45\|740</wrap>but there always comes a time under Scorpio and Pluto when that which is concealed rises to the light, <wrap hide>344\|00:36:46\|940\|00:36:52\|380</wrap>despite what anyone tries to do to keep it hidden. <wrap hide>345\|00:36:53\|300\|00:37:05\|500</wrap>So, we cannot go into the Chamber of Initiation with our aura filled with all kinds of unsuspected, unresolved issues. <wrap hide>346\|00:37:06\|220\|00:37:16\|420</wrap>Those issues in the psychologist's office often come to the surface, or when you're talking to friends or people close to you, <wrap hide>347\|00:37:16\|420\|00:37:23\|880</wrap>many things long hidden are evoked and brought into the light of day. <wrap hide>348\|00:37:24\|240\|00:37:33\|560</wrap>And the light of day, interestingly, is that type of light which is particularly related to Scorpio, <wrap hide>349\|00:37:33\|700\|00:37:37\|340</wrap>of which Pluto is one of the rulers. <wrap hide>350\|00:37:38\|460\|00:37:44\|100</wrap>So, you know, we're drilling down; we descend into the depths through Vulcan. <wrap hide>351\|00:37:44\|980\|00:37:51\|720</wrap>We have that will to penetrate to the depths so that the highest and the lowest can meet, <wrap hide>352\|00:37:51\|800\|00:37:58\|100</wrap>and there, by that active will to penetrate, we find obstructions. <wrap hide>353\|00:37:59\|660\|00:38:06\|160</wrap>And the obstructions cannot be left there; they have to be destroyed or reconfigured or integrated. <wrap hide>354\|00:38:06\|160\|00:38:14\|100</wrap>They have to be made a part of the system; otherwise, a person remains as a non-integrated personality <wrap hide>355\|00:38:14\|100\|00:38:16\|280</wrap>who cannot really undergo initiation. <wrap hide>356\|00:38:16\|880\|00:38:21\|800</wrap>So this happens at the first initiation, and I want to say, as I think about it, <wrap hide>357\|00:38:23\|020\|00:38:27\|980</wrap>that Vulcan and Pluto are active at quite a number of initiations. <wrap hide>358\|00:38:29\|440\|00:38:34\|740</wrap>They are both active at the second and the third, I believe, and at the fourth especially. <wrap hide>359\|00:38:35\|580\|00:38:46\|680</wrap>And even at the fifth, so the combination of these two first ray energies finds their way into a number of initiations. <wrap hide>360\|00:38:46\|940\|00:38:50\|620</wrap>You know, at the second initiation, will power takes over from desire, <wrap hide>361\|00:38:51\|240\|00:38:56\|700</wrap>and there is a cleansing and purging of the astral body under Pluto, but will over desire is Vulcan. <wrap hide>362\|00:38:57\|660\|00:39:01\|860</wrap>And at the third initiation, the blinding light of Vulcan breaks forth, <wrap hide>363\|00:39:01\|860\|00:39:11\|940</wrap>as Saint Paul experienced, and the Kundalini begins to rise, and that is related to Pluto. <wrap hide>364\|00:39:12\|660\|00:39:19\|840</wrap>The ancient authority of the personality is broken; the will power comes in very strongly, <wrap hide>365\|00:39:20\|480\|00:39:24\|960</wrap>and the depths are lifted up into the heights of the mountain top. <wrap hide>366\|00:39:25\|040\|00:39:26\|780</wrap>Everything is lifted up to the mountain top. <wrap hide>367\|00:39:26\|780\|00:39:31\|020</wrap>At the fourth initiation, the depths of aloneness are experienced, <wrap hide>368\|00:39:32\|700\|00:39:38\|060</wrap>and you know, the disciple at that time is in a way between a rock and a hard place. <wrap hide>369\|00:39:38\|680\|00:39:41\|660</wrap>This is the language of Vulcan. <wrap hide>370\|00:39:41\|860\|00:39:48\|240</wrap>You're coming in touch with the mineral kingdom; the jewel and the lotus, ruled by Vulcan, is being revealed. <wrap hide>371\|00:39:49\|960\|00:39:53\|520</wrap>The will to love is extremely strong. <wrap hide>372\|00:39:54\|020\|00:39:57\|380</wrap>The heart of the sun is coming in, and Vulcan is connected with that. <wrap hide>373\|00:39:57\|760\|00:40:07\|020</wrap>Vulcan has a number of different relationships, depending upon which of Vulcan's rays you may be considering. <wrap hide>374\|00:40:08\|700\|00:40:15\|920</wrap>So, Vulcan places the individual in a state of great aloneness, where he must depend upon his own will power. <wrap hide>375\|00:40:16\|040\|00:40:21\|740</wrap>And of course, Pluto is the power of death, and at that point, the personality is put to death, <wrap hide>376\|00:40:21\|740\|00:40:28\|020</wrap>and also the causal body is put to death, and Vulcan also contributes to the shattering of the causal body. <wrap hide>377\|00:40:28\|880\|00:40:33\|860</wrap>And when we come to the fifth initiation, that's the time when the base of the spine center, <wrap hide>378\|00:40:35\|140\|00:40:41\|320</wrap>Perhaps in a Maya Verrupa, but not necessarily, is most potently activated. <wrap hide>379\|00:40:41\|480\|00:40:48\|000</wrap>And Pluto rules this base of the spine center, and the rising of it, of its energy as Kundalini, <wrap hide>380\|00:40:48\|000\|00:40:56\|080</wrap>all the way to the highest head center, often ruled by Vulcan, and being a center of purpose. <wrap hide>381\|00:40:57\|080\|00:41:01\|860</wrap>The seven head centers are activated, the two higher head centers are activated, <wrap hide>382\|00:41:02\|080\|00:41:08\|140</wrap>Vulcan is involved in this, and this is mastership when the sun blazes forth, <wrap hide>383\|00:41:08\|420\|00:41:13\|740</wrap>and so often it is Vulcan that is veiled by the sun. <wrap hide>384\|00:41:13\|740\|00:41:22\|500</wrap>And so I think I have demonstrated in kind of a quick review how the combination of Vulcan and Pluto <wrap hide>385\|00:41:22\|500\|00:41:30\|180</wrap>are found at all the five initiations leading to and including mastership. <wrap hide>386\|00:41:31\|940\|00:41:39\|540</wrap><wrap quote>At the second initiation, the candidate comes under the influence of three planets: <wrap hide>387\|00:41:40\|600\|00:41:43\|340</wrap>Neptune, Venus, and Jupiter. <wrap hide>1\|00:00:03\|300\|00:00:08\|280</wrap>The three centers, the solar plexus, the heart and throat are actively involved.</wrap> <wrap hide>389\|00:41:50\|740\|00:41:54\|520</wrap>Yeah, it's been questioned, you know, what is stimulated at the first degree, <wrap hide>390\|00:41:54\|660\|00:41:57\|700</wrap>what is stimulated at the second degree by the one initiator, <wrap hide>391\|00:41:57\|740\|00:42:06\|260</wrap>and I would have to say that both the heart and throat are stimulated at both of these initiations. <wrap hide>392\|00:42:06\|260\|00:42:14\|200</wrap>Perhaps the birth of the Christ within the heart signals the importance of the heart center at the first initiation, <wrap hide>393\|00:42:14\|860\|00:42:20\|740</wrap>but the throat towards which the sacral energy has been raised is also of great importance. <wrap hide>394\|00:42:22\|560\|00:42:28\|420</wrap>At the second initiation, the throat center is very important because we have an intelligent disciple, <wrap hide>395\|00:42:29\|600\|00:42:37\|140</wrap>we have the spiritual intelligence and a degree of mental illumination that's related to the throat, <wrap hide>396\|00:42:37\|200\|00:42:46\|360</wrap>but we're dealing with a heart center activation because the astral body is no longer so full of personal desire. <wrap hide>397\|00:42:46\|580\|00:42:53\|100</wrap>We have a death of personal desire and love energy infusing the heart, <wrap hide>398\|00:42:53\|220\|00:42:56\|560</wrap>so therefore the heart center is active at the second initiation. <wrap hide>399\|00:42:56\|560\|00:43:03\|980</wrap>In this particular case, Neptune is ruling the solar plexus because it's a sixth-ray planet <wrap hide>400\|00:43:03\|980\|00:43:07\|460</wrap>and its second-ray nature is not considered in this context. <wrap hide>401\|00:43:08\|120\|00:43:13\|860</wrap>So these are the three. Much transfer of solar plexus to heart at the second degree <wrap hide>402\|00:43:13\|860\|00:43:19\|220</wrap>and much intelligent expression through the throat is involved. <wrap hide>403\|00:43:19\|220\|00:43:26\|480</wrap>It's not the full mental polarization which occurs between the second degree and the third, <wrap hide>404\|00:43:26\|720\|00:43:34\|120</wrap>midway between we are told, but it is at least a strong spiritual intelligence. <wrap hide>405\|00:43:34\|860\|00:43:44\|220</wrap>Now there is a place in Esoteric Psychology One, if I can find it, which deals... <wrap hide>406\|00:43:45\|080\|00:43:50\|020</wrap>Whoopsie, that's not what I wanted. Okay, now I'm going to have to try that again. <wrap hide>407\|00:43:51\|560\|00:44:01\|900</wrap>Right, what I want to do, I want the machine to respond here, yes, it's coming in its own good time, <wrap hide>408\|00:44:02\|900\|00:44:14\|220</wrap>Esoteric Psychology, and it will be Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune. <wrap hide>409\|00:44:15\|780\|00:44:17\|320</wrap>I'll spell that correctly. <wrap hide>410\|00:44:19\|760\|00:44:25\|720</wrap>Venus, Jupiter, let's just see, Venus and Jupiter, perhaps we'll find something there. <wrap hide>411\|00:44:26\|820\|00:44:32\|520</wrap>Venus and Jupiter in relation to the vegetable kingdom, and here it is. <wrap hide>412\|00:44:33\|200\|00:44:35\|740</wrap>This is page 246. <wrap hide>413\|00:44:37\|220\|00:44:47\|400</wrap>What we have, the second initiation, the training for the second initiation brings him under Neptunian influences, <wrap hide>414\|00:44:47\|540\|00:44:48\|960</wrap>that's why I couldn't find it under Neptune, <wrap hide>415\|00:44:50\|080\|00:44:56\|880</wrap>Neptunian influences, with Jupiter and Venus contending for control. <wrap hide>416\|00:44:57\|980\|00:45:08\|160</wrap>That is very interesting, because normally we think of these two quite second ray planets as quite cooperative with each other, <wrap hide>417\|00:45:08\|180\|00:45:15\|580</wrap>and in certain ways they may be, but in the ancient mythology, that which emanated from Venus, <wrap hide>418\|00:45:15\|580\|00:45:29\|280</wrap>and that which emanated from Jupiter, were fighting, and Venus was trying to raise the individual into the angelic state, <wrap hide>419\|00:45:29\|420\|00:45:36\|280</wrap>a more celibate state, and Jupiter was calling for the worship of the ancestral gods. <wrap hide>420\|00:45:36\|480\|00:45:44\|080</wrap>After all, Jupiter is exalted in the sign Cancer, which rules the four lunar vehicles, <wrap hide>421\|00:45:44\|080\|00:45:50\|820</wrap>the three major vehicles and the personality considered as the synthesis of all of them, the personality elemental. <wrap hide>422\|00:45:51\|680\|00:46:03\|280</wrap>So, he doesn't much say what this contending between them may be, whether they're fighting with each other, <wrap hide>423\|00:46:03\|340\|00:46:12\|380</wrap>or they're somehow trying to elevate Neptune, but let's just say there's a lot of second ray and sixth ray connected with all of these planets. <wrap hide>424\|00:46:13\|360\|00:46:16\|640</wrap>Neptune, a sixth ray soul and second ray monad. <wrap hide>425\|00:46:16\|740\|00:46:27\|360</wrap>Venus, a sixth ray sub-monad, and a second ray as the major monadic ray, I do believe, with maybe a second ray personality. <wrap hide>426\|00:46:27\|840\|00:46:35\|760</wrap>Jupiter, a second ray soul, and we might question the degree to which the sixth ray may be involved in its personality expression. <wrap hide>427\|00:46:36\|760\|00:46:38\|460</wrap>Sixth and seventh ray are both involved with Jupiter. <wrap hide>428\|00:46:38\|460\|00:46:44\|740</wrap>So, this is the other reference, then, concerning the second initiation. <wrap hide>429\|00:46:47\|840\|00:46:55\|880</wrap>Neptune will be the solar plexus. It has to be raised up to the heart, which I think will be ruled by Jupiter in this particular case. <wrap hide>430\|00:46:56\|900\|00:47:03\|100</wrap>So, a wider type of love will be required, and a wiser type of love as well. <wrap hide>431\|00:47:03\|100\|00:47:11\|340</wrap>And Venus will work on the illumination of the mind, and will represent the throat center in this particular case. <wrap hide>432\|00:47:12\|280\|00:47:17\|920</wrap>After all, Taurus does work through the throat center, and Venus is the ruler of Taurus. <wrap hide>433\|00:47:18\|060\|00:47:25\|120</wrap>So, Venus, we must say, relates to the throat center, and especially to the power to speak the word of the soul, <wrap hide>434\|00:47:25\|260\|00:47:29\|960</wrap>and to think the word of the soul, because Venus is relating to the solar angel. <wrap hide>435\|00:47:29\|960\|00:47:37\|320</wrap>So, the solar angel is beginning to imbue the intelligence at the second initiation, and this is Venus' task. <wrap hide>436\|00:47:37\|740\|00:47:43\|600</wrap>As well, it helps to tranquilize the astral vehicle. <wrap hide>437\|00:47:44\|760\|00:47:50\|240</wrap>You know, so, obviously we have to go on a search sometimes for other correlated references. <wrap hide>438\|00:47:50\|360\|00:47:58\|080</wrap>As a matter of fact, what I think I'll do is I'll copy this from Esoteric Astrology 246, <wrap hide>439\|00:47:58\|080\|00:48:06\|980</wrap>and I'll put it here, next to this quotation. We'll do it that way. <wrap hide>440\|00:48:07\|680\|00:48:19\|280</wrap>And that's EA 246. Of course, I should, in a way, make it red so it stands out from the others. <wrap hide>441\|00:48:20\|380\|00:48:30\|240</wrap>Okay, let's see if I can put this back in this way, too. Okay. And we'll do it that way. Yeah. <wrap hide>442\|00:48:31\|620\|00:48:41\|120</wrap>So, second initiation: many second and sixth ray planets. The changing of the character of the astral body is required. <wrap hide>443\|00:48:41\|120\|00:48:48\|300</wrap>And these planets are particularly suitable to bring tranquility to the astral body, <wrap hide>444\|00:48:49\|840\|00:48:56\|120</wrap>to bring the... make us subject to the light of the soul-illumined mind under Venus, <wrap hide>445\|00:48:56\|340\|00:49:06\|260</wrap>and to bring in that larger type of non-exclusive, or rather inclusive love that Jupiter brings. <wrap hide>446\|00:49:06\|260\|00:49:14\|460</wrap>Those are qualities of the second initiation. Then we go on here, at the third initiation. <wrap hide>447\|00:49:16\|180\|00:49:27\|660</wrap>So important, this page 70 and 71. I have reviewed this page so often, trying to fathom what is being said here. <wrap hide>448\|00:49:27\|660\|00:49:35\|900</wrap><wrap quote>At the third initiation, the moon, veiling a hidden planet, and Mars bring about a fearful conflict. <wrap hide>449\|00:49:36\|480\|00:49:42\|180</wrap>But at the end, the man is released from personality control.</wrap> Well, you know, Mars and Pluto are also active <wrap hide>450\|00:49:42\|180\|00:49:48\|120</wrap>in stirring things up at the second initiation. Those are things to be overcome. <wrap hide>451\|00:49:48\|120\|00:49:58\|300</wrap>But here they bring in a type of fear which probably arises... in this case I think it's Mars and Vulcan... <wrap hide>452\|00:49:58\|920\|00:50:05\|440</wrap>a type of fear that arises when we think of relinquishing the entire personality, <wrap hide>453\|00:50:05\|920\|00:50:10\|320</wrap>or at least living in a different center which we would call the soul center. <wrap hide>454\|00:50:10\|840\|00:50:16\|120</wrap>We do not yet relinquish the entire personality until the fourth degree, <wrap hide>455\|00:50:16\|120\|00:50:23\|160</wrap>but already we're seeing the handwriting on the wall. It says that the moon veils a hidden planet. <wrap hide>456\|00:50:24\|020\|00:50:27\|880</wrap>Well, you know, the moon can veil Uranus, or the moon can veil Neptune, or Vulcan, <wrap hide>457\|00:50:28\|320\|00:50:33\|540</wrap>but Uranus and Neptune are not hidden, and Vulcan is hidden. <wrap hide>458\|00:50:34\|060\|00:50:39\|740</wrap>So I do believe that it's kind of a combination between the moon and the sun at this point, <wrap hide>459\|00:50:39\|740\|00:50:44\|800</wrap>with Vulcan representing the sun, and the sun representing the soul. <wrap hide>460\|00:50:45\|060\|00:50:52\|340</wrap>So it's a kind of a merging of the personality and soul. Okay, degraded audio. <wrap hide>461\|00:50:52\|820\|00:50:58\|800</wrap>Alright, hopefully not. I will just continue the best I can as there's nothing else I can do, <wrap hide>462\|00:50:59\|660\|00:51:03\|120</wrap>except to find out that I've been moving my mouth and nothing has been coming out. <wrap hide>463\|00:51:03\|240\|00:51:04\|380</wrap>But hopefully that won't happen. <wrap hide>464\|00:51:05\|700\|00:51:15\|940</wrap>So, at the third initiation, the dominating soul life, symbolized by the sun, which is expressing Vulcan, <wrap hide>465\|00:51:17\|640\|00:51:23\|400</wrap>is brought into juxtaposition with the moon, representing the entire... all the lunar vehicles, <wrap hide>466\|00:51:23\|680\|00:51:30\|020</wrap>and in a way the lunar vehicles must be infused by the energy of the solar sun, <wrap hide>467\|00:51:30\|100\|00:51:32\|340</wrap>so we call that the soul-infused personality. <wrap hide>468\|00:51:34\|040\|00:51:40\|640</wrap>So, in a way, on the top we have a combination of the sun, Venus, which is the hierarchical ruler <wrap hide>469\|00:51:40\|640\|00:51:44\|960</wrap>at the third initiation in Capricorn: sun, Venus, and Vulcan on the top. <wrap hide>470\|00:51:45\|600\|00:51:52\|600</wrap>And then we have the moon on the bottom to be infused and controlled, directed and dominated by these energies. <wrap hide>471\|00:51:53\|360\|00:51:59\|600</wrap>And the moon and Mars represent the lunar vehicles, and the six creative hierarchies. <wrap hide>472\|00:51:59\|600\|00:52:03\|960</wrap>So the six creative hierarchies undergoing a very specific change at that time. <wrap hide>473\|00:52:04\|100\|00:52:06\|360</wrap>It is really finally dominated. <wrap hide>474\|00:52:07\|080\|00:52:12\|200</wrap>The moon represents all the lunar vehicles, all of them, and that is the dense physical. <wrap hide>475\|00:52:12\|640\|00:52:20\|360</wrap>It's related to the etheric and to the color violet, because those devas of the etheric planes, <wrap hide>476\|00:52:20\|560\|00:52:24\|240</wrap>They have a moon on their forehead, which also means they have a forehead, which is interesting. <wrap hide>477\|00:52:24\|240\|00:52:31\|080</wrap>The moon is obviously the astral nature, and the moon is the sensorium, the concrete mind. <wrap hide>478\|00:52:31\|220\|00:52:36\|700</wrap>So the moon is all four, and interestingly, Mars is all four of the lunar vehicles. <wrap hide>479\|00:52:37\|420\|00:52:42\|280</wrap>It is the dense physical body. It's not particularly related to the etheric body. <wrap hide>480\|00:52:42\|460\|00:52:49\|060</wrap>It is absolutely the astral body, and it is the lower mind, because it rules concrete science and the five senses. <wrap hide>481\|00:52:49\|060\|00:52:56\|000</wrap>So the entire personality, which is symbolized by moon and Mars, is being dominated by the luminous will <wrap hide>482\|00:52:56\|000\|00:53:00\|980</wrap>of Vulcan with the sun, and Venus also associated. <wrap hide>483\|00:53:02\|180\|00:53:11\|600</wrap>And that conflict, of course, is letting go, letting go of the grip of consciousness upon the personality. <wrap hide>484\|00:53:12\|680\|00:53:17\|880</wrap>There's a way in which we are so attached to our elemental life. <wrap hide>485\|00:53:18\|600\|00:53:25\|180</wrap>It is, in a sense, the not-self, but we consider it the self, and we're not willing to let go of it. <wrap hide>486\|00:53:25\|620\|00:53:35\|540</wrap>So the disciple is rising and falling and rising and falling, symbolized in the ancient Atlantean chant <wrap hide>487\|00:53:36\|540\|00:53:40\|460</wrap>by the bird which tries to fly free but always comes back to the branch. <wrap hide>488\|00:53:40\|600\|00:53:46\|520</wrap>And that also describes, in a way, the glyph of Aquarius, rising and falling, rising and falling, <wrap hide>489\|00:53:46\|520\|00:53:51\|400</wrap>with Aquarius prominent at the third initiation. <wrap hide>490\|00:53:51\|760\|00:54:02\|700</wrap>But anyway, when we've managed to use the, to overcome Mars and make him our servant, <wrap hide>491\|00:54:03\|380\|00:54:10\|500</wrap>a good soldier of brave, valorous personality, make it our servant, we being the spiritual will. <wrap hide>492\|00:54:10\|500\|00:54:19\|620</wrap>Vulcan is the spiritual will, and it overcomes all aspects of lower desire, desire for the lower realm. <wrap hide>493\|00:54:19\|860\|00:54:26\|300</wrap>So there's another conflict here between will and desire, just as there was in the second initiation, <wrap hide>494\|00:54:26\|520\|00:54:32\|940</wrap>a conflict between will and desire, and that's when will really begins to take over at that second initiation. <wrap hide>495\|00:54:33\|600\|00:54:40\|020</wrap>So at the end we are released from personality control, which would normally come under the impulses of Mars. <wrap hide>496\|00:54:40\|700\|00:54:47\|160</wrap>We no longer follow those impulses; we no longer run with what the lunar vehicles indicate. <wrap hide>497\|00:54:50\|780\|00:54:55\|260</wrap>Okay, now at the fourth initiation, we visit Mercury and Saturn again. <wrap hide>498\|00:54:55\|260\|00:55:06\|500</wrap>This is different from the way Mercury and Saturn operated on the path simply of discipleship or accepted discipleship. <wrap hide>499\|00:55:06\|600\|00:55:13\|580</wrap>It's a higher type of expression. We're no longer dealing with discrimination per se, <wrap hide>500\|00:55:14\|900\|00:55:18\|240</wrap>well, what he calls it illumination and opportunity. <wrap hide>501\|00:55:18\|280\|00:55:23\|260</wrap>We're not dealing quite with the same things, but with higher expressions, which I'll try to explain. <wrap hide>502\|00:55:23\|260\|00:55:30\|960</wrap>At the fourth initiation, <wrap quote>Mercury and Saturn again bring about great changes and a unique revelation,</wrap> <wrap hide>503\|00:55:32\|680\|00:55:39\|040</wrap>I suppose the revelation of the cosmic ethers, and the revelation of the transcendental mind. <wrap hide>504\|00:55:39\|580\|00:55:42\|500</wrap><wrap quote>But their effect is very different to the earlier experience.</wrap> <wrap hide>505\|00:55:42\|740\|00:55:48\|160</wrap>So, as a disciple we have a discriminating mind, we are seeking the light, we are facing our karma, <wrap hide>506\|00:55:48\|180\|00:55:51\|240</wrap>all of that is Mercury and Saturn fulfilling our dharma. <wrap hide>507\|00:55:51\|240\|00:56:00\|480</wrap>But here, Mercury is the Buddhic plane, and Saturn represents all of the lower three planes, <wrap hide>508\|00:56:00\|740\|00:56:05\|300</wrap>the dense physical nature, and it represents the complete fulfillment of the dharma, <wrap hide>509\|00:56:05\|740\|00:56:11\|820</wrap>and the using of the scythe to separate the essential inner man. <wrap hide>510\|00:56:11\|820\|00:56:22\|180</wrap>Saturn has that cutting motion; it separates the realm of Uranus from its own lower realm, Saturn. <wrap hide>511\|00:56:22\|880\|00:56:29\|200</wrap>So Mercury is bringing in the illumination of the spiritual triad from the Buddhic plane, <wrap hide>512\|00:56:29\|360\|00:56:37\|620</wrap>which correlates with the fourth initiation. Fourth plane, fourth initiation, man is released into the transcendental mind, <wrap hide>513\|00:56:37\|620\|00:56:46\|180</wrap>the intuition of the spiritual triad, and of the Buddhic plane, and that comes under Mercury, <wrap hide>514\|00:56:46\|500\|00:56:51\|500</wrap>a higher type of illumination. It's no longer the sun of mind, no longer the concrete mind, <wrap hide>515\|00:56:51\|780\|00:57:02\|920</wrap>it's not even the abstract mind. It is the intuitive mind which blazes forth with that great heart stimulation at the fourth degree. <wrap hide>516\|00:57:02\|920\|00:57:11\|160</wrap>And Saturn is again the spiritual will; it is the ruler of the etheric plane, <wrap hide>517\|00:57:11\|840\|00:57:23\|680</wrap>and it is complete control and complete subservience, the complete submission to one's dharma, to one's true destiny. <wrap hide>518\|00:57:24\|780\|00:57:37\|300</wrap>So there is here a kind of a buddhi-manas combination, and you have fulfilled your karma with respect to the lower worlds, under Saturn. <wrap hide>519\|00:57:38\|700\|00:57:48\|100</wrap>A great deal of karma is fulfilled by the time the third degree is taken, but there is much of karma that a man takes upon himself at the fourth degree, <wrap hide>520\|00:57:48\|100\|00:57:56\|620</wrap>which may be planetary in nature. And so there is a sacrificial submission to planetary karma under Saturn, <wrap hide>521\|00:57:56\|820\|00:58:07\|280</wrap>and a great illumination of the triadic intuition and the triadic mind, which helps you think of yourself, not as an individual, but in planetary terms. <wrap hide>522\|00:58:08\|380\|00:58:16\|260</wrap>Remember that Saturn does rule the atmic plane and the hierarchy of triads with which a man comes into contact. <wrap hide>523\|00:58:16\|260\|00:58:29\|500</wrap>So in a way, the human being is sensing very much of his monadic nature, which is ruled by Mercury, which is the ruler of the hierarchy of human monads, <wrap hide>524\|00:58:29\|840\|00:58:38\|420</wrap>and the triads are coming into power under Saturn, and that is a different kind of influence than in the lower realms. <wrap hide>525\|00:58:38\|420\|00:58:48\|300</wrap>We see how many things Saturn can be. We may have just a little time here, not much, not much at all. <wrap hide>526\|00:58:48\|460\|00:58:59\|940</wrap>As a matter of fact, I think I... let's save it for later. We have this marvelous discussion of the fifth initiation and Uranus and Jupiter, but I'll come back to that. <wrap hide>527\|00:59:00\|900\|00:59:20\|980</wrap>So here this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure, and it is number 32, and we have gone from page 68 to page 71. <wrap hide>528\|00:59:21\|780\|00:59:30\|100</wrap>We're actually sometimes making progress of three pages per adventure, so we are doing well. <wrap hide>529\|00:59:31\|660\|00:59:43\|160</wrap>Okay, and here is The Great Invocation. From the point... from the point. The point doesn't have two i's; that's the problem. <wrap hide>530\|00:59:46\|180\|00:59:51\|160</wrap>Alright, so our Great Invocation now. <wrap hide>531\|00:59:58\|920\|00:59:59\|800</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>532\|01:00:05\|460\|01:00:16\|760</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. <wrap hide>533\|01:00:20\|080\|01:00:31\|020</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>534\|01:00:33\|940\|01:00:44\|880</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>535\|01:00:48\|560\|01:01:00\|880</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>536\|01:01:02\|680\|01:01:09\|060</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>537\|01:01:13\|660\|01:01:15\|060</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>538\|01:01:15\|060\|01:01:17\|400</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>539\|01:01:23\|420\|01:01:24\|820</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>540\|01:01:24\|820\|01:01:27\|160</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>541\|01:01:33\|920\|01:01:35\|320</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>542\|01:01:38\|740\|01:01:40\|140</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>543\|01:01:47\|340\|01:01:51\|440</wrap>Okay friends, there we are. <wrap hide>544\|01:01:54\|300\|01:02:10\|180</wrap>And we are now concluding Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 32, and we will continue with mastership, and the Jupiter and Uranus relationship to that particular initiation—amazing initiation. <wrap hide>545\|01:02:11\|080\|01:02:19\|080</wrap>And it's so interesting that those two planets should be together as they were in the chart of H.P.B., just a conjunction in Aquarius. Quite amazing. <wrap hide>546\|01:02:19\|080\|01:02:23\|780</wrap>Okay, we will see you before long. Okay, take care.	+	<wrap hide>1\|00:00:03\|300\|00:00:08\|280</wrap>Okay, good morning everyone, at least this morning here in Arizona. <wrap hide>2\|00:00:10\|020\|00:00:18\|600</wrap>And today is July the 26th, and we are continuing with our esoteric astrology adventures, number <wrap hide>3\|00:00:18\|600\|00:00:21\|780</wrap>32 this time. We completed 31 last time. <wrap hide>4\|00:00:22\|420\|00:00:31\|600</wrap>We were working on the way the <wrap quote>constellations</wrap>—he uses the word constellations rather than <wrap hide>5\|00:00:31\|600\|00:00:50\|720</wrap>signs in this case—the way the constellations are related through shared rulers, in the <wrap hide>6\|00:00:50\|720\|00:00:59\|420</wrap>case of the esoteric rulers and the hierarchical rulers, and we had just finished the hierarchical <wrap hide>7\|00:01:00\|120\|00:01:08\|300</wrap>rulers and we had been comparing, looking at some of the hierarchies which are related <wrap hide>8\|00:01:08\|300\|00:01:13\|420</wrap>through the rays of the planets which rule those hierarchies. <wrap hide>9\|00:01:14\|110\|00:01:26\|800</wrap>This is a detailed study with deep implications for the development of knowledge of the creative <wrap hide>10\|00:01:26\|800\|00:01:30\|280</wrap>hierarchies and knowledge of the deeper aspects of astrology. <wrap hide>11\|00:01:31\|240\|00:01:39\|080</wrap>I think there is enough on the previous esoteric astrology adventure for you to gather something <wrap hide>12\|00:01:39\|080\|00:01:39\|480</wrap>out of it. <wrap hide>13\|00:01:39\|480\|00:01:48\|280</wrap>Now we will move on. We're on page 68, and I think we did read this <wrap quote>note: Aries and Capricorn <wrap hide>14\|00:01:49\|100\|00:01:54\|040</wrap>in conjunction with seventh and fifth ray energies stand alone.</wrap> <wrap hide>15\|00:01:54\|160\|00:01:59\|820</wrap>Well, Aries is hierarchically ruled by Uranus, which is from the solar perspective a seventh <wrap hide>16\|00:01:59\|820\|00:02:05\|760</wrap>ray planet. Capricorn is hierarchically ruled by Venus, which from the solar perspective <wrap hide>17\|00:02:05\|760\|00:02:13\|820</wrap>is a fifth ray planet, and there are no other normal planets that are expressing the seventh <wrap hide>18\|00:02:13\|820\|00:02:23\|840</wrap>or fifth ray in any very powerful way, or in any way that we are using at this time <wrap hide>19\|00:02:23\|840\|00:02:28\|640</wrap>in our work with astrology, although I did mention that Jupiter has quite a bit of the <wrap hide>20\|00:02:28\|640\|00:02:31\|720</wrap>seventh ray connected with it. <wrap hide>21\|00:02:32\|840\|00:02:44\|120</wrap>And some people suggest that the planet Sigma, which is again an undiscovered planet, but <wrap hide>22\|00:02:44\|640\|00:02:52\|900</wrap>one for which there appears to be an ephemeris and which has a planetary period of some 13.5 <wrap hide>23\|00:02:52\|900\|00:02:56\|460</wrap>years, has much to do with the fifth ray. <wrap hide>24\|00:02:56\|460\|00:03:07\|440</wrap>Okay, we will see how the information emerges as we begin to discover these undiscovered. <wrap hide>25\|00:03:08\|000\|00:03:24\|260</wrap>Okay, now we have—let's see here—testing, testing, yes, okay. Now they carry on with <wrap hide>26\|00:03:24\|260\|00:03:31\|380</wrap>something that we have been noticing all along: ray one, Taurus and Pisces <wrap quote>through Vulcan <wrap hide>27\|00:03:31\|380\|00:03:33\|640</wrap>and Pluto.</wrap> Yes, that's correct. <wrap hide>28\|00:03:36\|000\|00:03:40\|480</wrap>We've discussed that: Taurus ruled by ray one Vulcan, Pisces by ray one Pluto, so Taurus <wrap hide>29\|00:03:40\|480\|00:03:43\|620</wrap>and Pisces are related in terms of world saviors. <wrap hide>30\|00:03:44\|860\|00:03:52\|780</wrap>Now we have Leo and Virgo; they are related through Jupiter. <wrap hide>31\|00:03:54\|440\|00:03:57\|880</wrap>The Sun rules Leo, ray two; Jupiter rules Virgo, ray two. <wrap hide>32\|00:03:59\|940\|00:04:06\|940</wrap>Gemini, in the case of the hierarchical rulers, is related to Libra, but those two stood alone <wrap hide>33\|00:04:06\|940\|00:04:13\|320</wrap>when we dealt with esoteric rulers, because again, ray five, Venus ruling Gemini, and <wrap hide>34\|00:04:13\|320\|00:04:18\|620</wrap>ray seven, Uranus ruling Libra esoterically, stood alone. <wrap hide>35\|00:04:19\|040\|00:04:24\|720</wrap>But now, here we are, with Gemini ruled by the third ray Earth and Libra ruled by third <wrap hide>36\|00:04:24\|720\|00:04:25\|280</wrap>ray Saturn. <wrap hide>37\|00:04:25\|940\|00:04:33\|200</wrap>When it comes to ray four, we have a relationship between Scorpio and Aquarius, hierarchically. <wrap hide>38\|00:04:34\|240\|00:04:40\|240</wrap>Scorpio ruled by ray four Mercury and Aquarius by ray four Moon. <wrap hide>39\|00:04:40\|920\|00:04:46\|440</wrap>And of course, the important thing is to not just look at the relationship between the <wrap hide>40\|00:04:46\|440\|00:04:56\|840</wrap>constellations or signs, but to see the manner in which these creative hierarchies are inter-related. <wrap hide>41\|00:04:56\|840\|00:05:03\|940</wrap>In our cosmos, everything is related to everything else, but sometimes there are special, especially <wrap hide>42\|00:05:03\|940\|00:05:05\|980</wrap>influential, relationships. <wrap hide>43\|00:05:06\|740\|00:05:13\|080</wrap>When it—we seem to have lost—yeah, ray five we don't have, of course, and ray six we do, <wrap hide>44\|00:05:13\|120\|00:05:14\|060</wrap>ray seven we don't. <wrap hide>45\|00:05:14\|740\|00:05:19\|820</wrap>Cancer is ruled by ray six Neptune, Sagittarius by ray six Mars, and we've discussed the relationship <wrap hide>46\|00:05:19\|820\|00:05:23\|040</wrap>of that particular—of those particular creative hierarchies. <wrap hide>47\|00:05:23\|810\|00:05:25\|540</wrap>All right. <wrap hide>48\|00:05:27\|080\|00:05:39\|340</wrap>Now, <wrap quote>in view of all the above,</wrap> and starting with the basic fact of the great illusion, <wrap hide>49\|00:05:40\|360\|00:05:52\|140</wrap>which I think is produced by the limitations of our perceptual capacity, although in a <wrap hide>50\|00:05:52\|140\|00:06:00\|000</wrap>sense it is—it should be remembered <wrap quote>that the accuracy of astrological prediction and <wrap hide>51\|00:06:00\|000\|00:06:03\|480</wrap>interpretation will be based upon three factors.</wrap> <wrap hide>52\|00:06:05\|080\|00:06:11\|780</wrap>Number one: <wrap quote>the potency of the thought forms which have been built up in connection with <wrap hide>53\|00:06:11\|780\|00:06:12\|640</wrap>the twelve signs.</wrap> <wrap hide>54\|00:06:12\|640\|00:06:22\|140</wrap>And we are told that initially a hierarchy anchored on the subtle planes great thought <wrap hide>55\|00:06:22\|140\|00:06:25\|760</wrap>forms associated with the twelve signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>56\|00:06:25\|940\|00:06:33\|960</wrap>I'm not sure when that happened because not always in the—not always in the history of <wrap hide>57\|00:06:33\|960\|00:06:40\|340</wrap>humanity have the twelve signs been active in relationship to humanity. <wrap hide>58\|00:06:40\|340\|00:06:48\|620</wrap>Well, the constellations of course have always been there, but the signs themselves were <wrap hide>59\|00:06:48\|620\|00:06:49\|340</wrap>not influential. <wrap hide>60\|00:06:49\|520\|00:06:54\|960</wrap>At first there were eight signs, maybe then ten, at one point eleven, and finally twelve, <wrap hide>61\|00:06:55\|240\|00:06:56\|680</wrap>D.K. tells us. <wrap hide>62\|00:06:56\|720\|00:07:02\|960</wrap>But at least the constellations were there, and one could anchor transforming thought <wrap hide>63\|00:07:02\|960\|00:07:09\|180</wrap>forms—so thought forms which could somehow capture the energy and help to make that energy <wrap hide>64\|00:07:10\|180\|00:07:12\|380</wrap>intelligible to the humanity of the period. <wrap hide>65\|00:07:13\|020\|00:07:16\|760</wrap>I think I'll have to look that up, but it may have been in Atlantean times that this <wrap hide>66\|00:07:16\|760\|00:07:21\|100</wrap>anchoring... Well, here it talks about it. <wrap hide>67\|00:07:21\|380\|00:07:26\|620</wrap>These thought forms <wrap quote>were originally constructed or anchored upon the mental plane—okay—by <wrap hide>68\|00:07:26\|620\|00:07:29\|500</wrap>the hierarchy in Atlantean days. <wrap hide>69\|00:07:31\|440\|00:07:35\|280</wrap>And they have steadily gained in power ever since,</wrap> because we have all been, you know, <wrap hide>70\|00:07:35\|380\|00:07:37\|360</wrap>contributing to them. <wrap hide>71\|00:07:38\|060\|00:07:49\|320</wrap>So they have a way, as he says here, serving <wrap quote>as focal points for certain forces and enabling <wrap hide>72\|00:07:49\|320\|00:07:55\|520</wrap>the individual, for instance, to be in touch with great reservoirs of energy which then <wrap hide>73\|00:07:55\|520\|00:07:57\|180</wrap>definitely condition him.</wrap> <wrap hide>74\|00:07:57\|300\|00:08:02\|760</wrap>Probably without those thought forms, it would be much harder for the energy of the constellations <wrap hide>75\|00:08:02\|760\|00:08:13\|700</wrap>working through those areas of the Earth's aura which we call signs to reach humanity <wrap hide>76\|00:08:13\|700\|00:08:15\|500</wrap>in a significant way. <wrap hide>77\|00:08:16\|980\|00:08:20\|760</wrap>So now there are great thought forms related to the twelve constellations. <wrap hide>78\|00:08:21\|700\|00:08:30\|520</wrap>I imagine in some ways they are very complex, with so much added to them, but probably the <wrap hide>79\|00:08:32\|080\|00:08:36\|940</wrap>initial essential ideas are there, given by the hierarchy. <wrap hide>80\|00:08:38\|500\|00:08:44\|920</wrap>So we're saying here the accuracy of astrological prediction will be based upon—okay—these <wrap hide>81\|00:08:45\|520\|00:08:49\|820</wrap>thought forms. That's one thing: the thought forms which have been anchored upon the mental <wrap hide>82\|00:08:49\|820\|00:08:52\|320</wrap>plane by the hierarchy in Atlantean days. <wrap hide>83\|00:08:53\|420\|00:08:56\|900</wrap>Accuracy will also be based upon <wrap quote>the intuition of the astrologer. <wrap hide>84\|00:08:57\|600\|00:09:02\|740</wrap>The casting of the horoscope serves to put the astrologer en rapport with the individual. <wrap hide>85\|00:09:03\|440\|00:09:10\|060</wrap>But this is of small service to either party unless the intuition and sensitivity of the <wrap hide>86\|00:09:10\|060\|00:09:11\|420</wrap>astrologer is actively present.</wrap> <wrap hide>87\|00:09:11\|680\|00:09:16\|300</wrap>Well, in the old days we used to do all of this by hand. <wrap hide>88\|00:09:17\|200\|00:09:19\|140</wrap>We did not even have calculators. <wrap hide>89\|00:09:20\|060\|00:09:27\|420</wrap>Then came calculators and computers and astrological programs which did so much of the work for <wrap hide>90\|00:09:27\|420\|00:09:27\|560</wrap>you. <wrap hide>91\|00:09:27\|860\|00:09:32\|860</wrap>Sometimes I think in the hour it may have taken to prepare a natal chart, there was a <wrap hide>92\|00:09:32\|860\|00:09:41\|300</wrap>growing rapport emerging between the astrologer preparing the chart and the individual whom <wrap hide>93\|00:09:41\|300\|00:09:43\|440</wrap>the chart represented. <wrap hide>94\|00:09:44\|620\|00:09:53\|700</wrap>In any case, there is a symbol before us, and this symbol is a symbol of rapport. And we've <wrap hide>95\|00:09:53\|700\|00:09:58\|960</wrap>noticed—I think some of us who are astrologers—how we may be dealing with an individual and <wrap hide>96\|00:09:58\|960\|00:10:05\|940</wrap>have a certain type of rapport, but via the chart we obviously see other things, more <wrap hide>97\|00:10:05\|940\|00:10:12\|960</wrap>things, and seeing those things helps guide us into a deeper type of rapport with the <wrap hide>98\|00:10:12\|960\|00:10:18\|820</wrap>individual. But obviously the new type of astrology is the intuitional astrology, and <wrap hide>99\|00:10:18\|820\|00:10:21\|320</wrap>intuition and sensitivity are both required. <wrap hide>100\|00:10:22\|400\|00:10:29\|380</wrap>So from that point of view, Neptune is a very useful planet to the astrologer, especially <wrap hide>101\|00:10:29\|380\|00:10:40\|000</wrap>to the esoteric astrologer who is trying to touch into the deeper layers of the subject <wrap hide>102\|00:10:40\|000\|00:10:41\|760</wrap>for whom he may be preparing a chart. <wrap hide>103\|00:10:41\|760\|00:10:50\|920</wrap>And then accuracy is dependent upon <wrap quote>the capacity of the astrologer in any specific period to <wrap hide>104\|00:10:51\|300\|00:10:56\|040</wrap>respond to the changes which are all the time taking place.</wrap> <wrap hide>105\|00:10:57\|680\|00:11:02\|340</wrap>In other words, the astrologer reading hundreds of years ago would have had different conditions <wrap hide>106\|00:11:02\|340\|00:11:07\|520</wrap>in which to read, different subtle energies reaching him than at the present time. <wrap hide>107\|00:11:07\|520\|00:11:13\|620</wrap>And D.K. speaks of the gradual shifting and changing, <wrap quote>such as the gradual shifting and changing <wrap hide>108\|00:11:13\|620\|00:11:16\|760</wrap>brought about by the precession of the equinoxes.</wrap> <wrap hide>109\|00:11:17\|420\|00:11:26\|740</wrap>So a different degree of a particular sign is always presenting itself. <wrap hide>110\|00:11:27\|440\|00:11:33\|560</wrap>For instance, at the moment we are probably in the last few degrees of early Pisces. <wrap hide>111\|00:11:33\|560\|00:11:41\|460</wrap>Each degree having its particular quality and influencing the Earth for 72 years, approximately. <wrap hide>112\|00:11:41\|920\|00:11:48\|060</wrap>So each degree influences for 72 years. <wrap hide>113\|00:11:48\|920\|00:11:58\|720</wrap>And the precession of the equinoxes gives us a general relationship with the major sign <wrap hide>114\|00:11:58\|720\|00:12:00\|820</wrap>which lasts 2,160 years. <wrap hide>115\|00:12:01\|480\|00:12:09\|040</wrap>But there are decanates, there are half-decanates, light and dark faces of each decanate. <wrap hide>116\|00:12:09\|500\|00:12:16\|040</wrap>There are Dvadashamsas of 2.5 degrees. We sometimes simplify that by simply calling them Dvads, <wrap hide>117\|00:12:16\|180\|00:12:19\|520</wrap>D-W-A-D-S, and then the particular degree itself. <wrap hide>118\|00:12:19\|520\|00:12:28\|660</wrap>And also, all the time the Earth and all life upon it is subject to the quality of particular parts <wrap hide>119\|00:12:28\|660\|00:12:37\|520</wrap>of the major sign towards which the vernal equinox is pointing, or let's call it the constellation. <wrap hide>120\|00:12:38\|520\|00:12:46\|960</wrap>Even though the size of the constellations is variable, in general we're all agreed to look at them <wrap hide>121\|00:12:46\|960\|00:12:54\|340</wrap>as 30-degree segments of space, and the vernal equinox is oriented towards these segments of space <wrap hide>122\|00:12:54\|340\|00:13:00\|540</wrap>and bringing in certain major energies and sub-energies and sub-sub-energies, all of which affect us. <wrap hide>123\|00:13:01\|460\|00:13:05\|500</wrap>And we're talking about <wrap quote>the slow shift of the pole of the planet.</wrap> <wrap hide>124\|00:13:05\|620\|00:13:12\|140</wrap>Well, this can be the wobble in a rightward direction of the pole. <wrap hide>125\|00:13:12\|140\|00:13:21\|340</wrap>It turns in the opposite direction of the planet rotating and the planet revolving. <wrap hide>126\|00:13:24\|680\|00:13:31\|500</wrap>Yes. Okay, so that of course is correlated with the precession of the equinoxes, <wrap hide>127\|00:13:31\|500\|00:13:40\|220</wrap>but there's also other movements of the planets, kind of a back and forth movement of the polar axis, <wrap hide>128\|00:13:40\|220\|00:13:45\|960</wrap>and that's called nutation, N-U-T-A-T-I-O-N. <wrap hide>129\|00:13:46\|420\|00:13:53\|880</wrap><wrap quote>To this should be added that as man evolves, the mechanism of response, or the vehicles of consciousness, <wrap hide>130\|00:13:54\|280\|00:14:03\|680</wrap>likewise steadily improve</wrap>s. So, today's human being is far more sensitive to these various types of energies <wrap hide>131\|00:14:03\|680\|00:14:08\|760</wrap>than may have been the case in earlier times, and the astrologer has to assess whether <wrap hide>132\|00:14:08\|760\|00:14:19\|400</wrap>his subject, the so-called native for which he is drawing the chart, can be sensitive to the potential energies. <wrap hide>133\|00:14:20\|340\|00:14:22\|800</wrap>You know, there's lots of things that can reach a person. <wrap hide>134\|00:14:22\|920\|00:14:30\|660</wrap>The question is, according to the form nature before us, can these energies reach that individual? <wrap hide>135\|00:14:30\|660\|00:14:38\|780</wrap>If we try to use the sacred planets and even the hierarchical planets and the esoteric planets <wrap hide>136\|00:14:40\|400\|00:14:47\|080</wrap>as important in the life of the average individual, we may be talking about something which is non-existent <wrap hide>137\|00:14:47\|080\|00:14:51\|920</wrap>in his consciousness, even though present in space. <wrap hide>138\|00:14:52\|600\|00:15:00\|000</wrap>Now, <wrap quote>his reactions therefore to the planetary influence and to the energy of the various constellations <wrap hide>139\|00:15:00\|000\|00:15:06\|760</wrap>mediated through the signs change with equal steadiness, and allowance must be made for this.</wrap> <wrap hide>140\|00:15:06\|880\|00:15:14\|720</wrap>So, we have to be very aware of the time in which we are casting the horoscope, the period, the conditions, <wrap hide>141\|00:15:14\|720\|00:15:23\|420</wrap>the atmosphere, even the various ray cycles which are operative at the time of casting the horoscope, <wrap hide>142\|00:15:23\|680\|00:15:31\|800</wrap>because the ray cycles will naturally influence how we receive the astrological energies. <wrap hide>143\|00:15:33\|200\|00:15:40\|280</wrap><wrap quote>It is consequently essential that the modern astrologer begin to study the point in evolution of the subject <wrap hide>144\|00:15:40\|280\|00:15:50\|140</wrap>prior to casting</wrap> the horoscope. Well, you know, this was written 80 years ago, or almost so, in cases of part of the book. <wrap hide>145\|00:15:51\|560\|00:16:02\|260</wrap>And this by now has become, for esoteric astrologers, an important statement, an important principle. <wrap hide>146\|00:16:03\|760\|00:16:09\|760</wrap>We must study, to the degree we can assess it, and we cannot necessarily assess it with great accuracy, <wrap hide>147\|00:16:10\|420\|00:16:13\|720</wrap>the point in evolution of the subject prior to casting the horoscope. <wrap hide>148\|00:16:13\|820\|00:16:19\|760</wrap>But we do have the general sense of whether the person is functioning as a personality, <wrap hide>149\|00:16:21\|420\|00:16:27\|960</wrap>and is following our personality desires which relate to acquisition in the three lower worlds, <wrap hide>150\|00:16:27\|960\|00:16:33\|500</wrap>or whether that person is in process of awakening to higher values and possibilities, <wrap hide>151\|00:16:33\|680\|00:16:45\|840</wrap>or whether that person is well on his way, on the path, and has been pursuing these higher values and possibilities for some time. <wrap hide>152\|00:16:46\|780\|00:16:55\|680</wrap>At least those three categories we can probably assess, and we will interpret the horoscope accordingly. <wrap hide>153\|00:16:56\|640\|00:17:03\|040</wrap>Going on, <wrap quote>he must ascertain his approximate place upon the path of evolution.</wrap> <wrap hide>154\|00:17:04\|700\|00:17:11\|880</wrap>So are we dealing with an ambitious person? Are we dealing with, well even before an ambitious person, <wrap hide>155\|00:17:11\|960\|00:17:15\|560</wrap>simply an average individual with no particular direction in life? <wrap hide>156\|00:17:15\|660\|00:17:22\|040</wrap>Are we dealing with a strong lower ego, driven by a personal ambition? <wrap hide>157\|00:17:22\|040\|00:17:27\|500</wrap>Are we dealing with an aspirant who is awakening? <wrap hide>158\|00:17:27\|920\|00:17:33\|460</wrap>Are we dealing with a probationary disciple who is willing to be tested and struggling with those tests? <wrap hide>159\|00:17:33\|560\|00:17:42\|320</wrap>Are we dealing with a disciple who is truly one-pointed and increasingly mentally focused? <wrap hide>160\|00:17:42\|500\|00:17:48\|000</wrap>Are we dealing with an accepted disciple who has come on rapport with the ashram of a master, <wrap hide>161\|00:17:49\|320\|00:17:53\|680</wrap>and who is now approaching that ashram and seeking to serve that ashram? <wrap hide>162\|00:17:54\|580\|00:17:58\|500</wrap>Are we dealing at last with the probationary initiate of the first or second degree, <wrap hide>163\|00:17:58\|520\|00:18:02\|400</wrap>or are we dealing with the true initiate of the third degree and beyond? <wrap hide>164\|00:18:03\|460\|00:18:09\|460</wrap>Of course, maybe if we were, we would not be in such a position to be very useful to such an individual. <wrap hide>165\|00:18:10\|320\|00:18:11\|340</wrap>Maybe yes, maybe no. <wrap hide>166\|00:18:12\|720\|00:18:18\|220</wrap>So, the astrologer must ascertain the approximate place of the subject upon the path of evolution, <wrap hide>167\|00:18:18\|240\|00:18:22\|800</wrap>and <wrap quote>to this end, the study of the rays is most necessary, <wrap hide>168\|00:18:23\|280\|00:18:29\|720</wrap>through an investigation as to the quality and characteristics and life objectives.</wrap> <wrap hide>169\|00:18:31\|520\|00:18:41\|580</wrap>So, these five books, of which Esoteric Astrology is one, are a five-fold treatise on the seven rays, <wrap hide>170\|00:18:42\|180\|00:18:49\|440</wrap>and we cannot separate the study of the deeper type of astrology from the ray energies. <wrap hide>171\|00:18:49\|740\|00:18:57\|440</wrap>I mean, we will see horoscopes that have many similarities astrologically, <wrap hide>172\|00:18:57\|440\|00:19:04\|360</wrap>but the individuals express marked differences in their orientation and behavior. <wrap hide>173\|00:19:05\|020\|00:19:05\|800</wrap>And why is that? <wrap hide>174\|00:19:06\|620\|00:19:09\|400</wrap>That is the rays that are involved. <wrap hide>175\|00:19:09\|520\|00:19:15\|820</wrap>No matter what the horoscope may be, if the individual is on the ray of the teacher, <wrap hide>176\|00:19:16\|220\|00:19:23\|440</wrap>or on the ray of the director or leader, you cannot change those orientations, <wrap hide>177\|00:19:23\|440\|00:19:27\|420</wrap>regardless of the chart with which the individual is presented, <wrap hide>178\|00:19:27\|860\|00:19:32\|760</wrap>to help that individual move along the path towards that ray objective. <wrap hide>179\|00:19:33\|400\|00:19:42\|400</wrap>The soul ray becomes all important, if it can be discerned, and eventually it will be discerned, <wrap hide>180\|00:19:42\|400\|00:19:47\|380</wrap>and perhaps easier of discernment for more advanced people is the personality ray, <wrap hide>181\|00:19:47\|380\|00:19:50\|140</wrap>and that has to be taken into consideration. <wrap hide>182\|00:19:50\|140\|00:20:00\|860</wrap>It's, in a way, a higher order of understanding that we must come into rapport with, <wrap hide>183\|00:20:00\|980\|00:20:06\|120</wrap>before we can interpret the astrological chart in the right context. <wrap hide>184\|00:20:06\|240\|00:20:13\|340</wrap>I sometimes make the joke, you know, my daughter's horoscope is very similar to Otto von Bismarck. <wrap hide>185\|00:20:13\|460\|00:20:15\|720</wrap>They have the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant in the same position. <wrap hide>186\|00:20:15\|720\|00:20:21\|240</wrap>Okay. You know, probably some similarities. Even Mercury. <wrap hide>187\|00:20:21\|840\|00:20:26\|180</wrap>So, my daughter is on the second ray, and Otto von Bismarck is on the first ray. <wrap hide>188\|00:20:26\|520\|00:20:34\|080</wrap>Unless one knows those facts, even a similar horoscope can be misinterpreted, <wrap hide>189\|00:20:34\|080\|00:20:41\|380</wrap>because you'll want to go in knowing the ray energies, and you will see then particular planets, <wrap hide>190\|00:20:41\|380\|00:20:49\|560</wrap>which are of greater moment, because they are ray rulers, they conduct the ray energy. <wrap hide>191\|00:20:50\|660\|00:20:54\|920</wrap>For instance, in the case of Bismarck, you know, one would have to examine very closely <wrap hide>192\|00:20:54\|920\|00:20:58\|580</wrap>Vulcan and Pluto, first ray planets. <wrap hide>193\|00:20:59\|900\|00:21:04\|660</wrap>And in the case of my daughter, let us say, Jupiter and Venus would be very important, <wrap hide>194\|00:21:05\|540\|00:21:09\|700</wrap>conveying in different ways some second ray energy, as well as the Sun. <wrap hide>195\|00:21:09\|700\|00:21:15\|960</wrap>So, okay, that's the principle. That's the principle. <wrap hide>196\|00:21:16\|800\|00:21:19\|220</wrap>Page 70. Wow, are we making progress. <wrap hide>197\|00:21:20\|340\|00:21:24\|980</wrap>I do hope that before long it is possible for us to finish this introduction, <wrap hide>198\|00:21:25\|660\|00:21:30\|660</wrap>which has been wide ranging, and which, in the method that I use, <wrap hide>199\|00:21:31\|620\|00:21:38\|940</wrap>takes in many other aspects of the teaching to be related to what D.K. says here about astrology. <wrap hide>200\|00:21:38\|940\|00:21:43\|480</wrap>I'm making the assumption that many of you have read this astrology book, <wrap hide>201\|00:21:44\|280\|00:21:48\|240</wrap>and that you study it, and that you know something about it, <wrap hide>202\|00:21:48\|480\|00:21:55\|180</wrap>and I'm trying to correlate other factors in the teaching with what is said about the astrology. <wrap hide>203\|00:21:56\|000\|00:22:00\|020</wrap><wrap quote>Astrologers will eventually be able to cast the horoscope of the soul, <wrap hide>204\|00:22:00\|990\|00:22:04\|860</wrap>which is sensitive to different combinations of forces, <wrap hide>205\|00:22:05\|420\|00:22:08\|380</wrap>to those controlling the personality life.</wrap> <wrap hide>206\|00:22:09\|200\|00:22:11\|920</wrap>Well, you know, it looks like a straightforward statement, <wrap hide>207\|00:22:12\|240\|00:22:20\|700</wrap>but do we mean the horoscope of the soul in incarnation, <wrap hide>208\|00:22:21\|280\|00:22:24\|480</wrap>which is representing that higher consciousness, <wrap hide>209\|00:22:25\|440\|00:22:27\|660</wrap>which we call soul consciousness on the higher mental plane, <wrap hide>210\|00:22:27\|660\|00:22:33\|680</wrap>or do we mean that the causal body was created at a certain time, <wrap hide>211\|00:22:33\|820\|00:22:38\|760</wrap>and under certain aspects, under certain influences, <wrap hide>212\|00:22:39\|920\|00:22:47\|900</wrap>and that that creation, the moment of creation of that soul consciousness, <wrap hide>213\|00:22:48\|920\|00:22:56\|140</wrap>will somehow have its own horoscope to be compared with the many personality horoscopes. <wrap hide>214\|00:22:56\|140\|00:23:00\|040</wrap>And then, you know, on the realm of soul there are many additions that occur. <wrap hide>215\|00:23:01\|180\|00:23:08\|080</wrap>Every time you change a root race or a sub-race, the soul may in a way be differently configured. <wrap hide>216\|00:23:08\|940\|00:23:11\|320</wrap>There may be a different soul orientation. <wrap hide>217\|00:23:12\|600\|00:23:18\|720</wrap>So there is the personality, but there is also the growing consciousness, <wrap hide>218\|00:23:19\|800\|00:23:24\|240</wrap>which represents the consciousness on the higher mental plane, <wrap hide>219\|00:23:24\|240\|00:23:32\|100</wrap>and that perhaps is the astrology of the soul with which we are dealing. <wrap hide>220\|00:23:32\|820\|00:23:36\|320</wrap>One day it may be possible to know the exact moment of individualization, <wrap hide>221\|00:23:37\|140\|00:23:40\|220</wrap>which for <wrap quote>those</wrap> who are part of Earth humanity, <wrap hide>222\|00:23:40\|840\|00:23:50\|040</wrap>took place over a 5,000-year period, 21 plus million years ago, <wrap hide>223\|00:23:50\|040\|00:23:55\|480</wrap>21,688,345. I'm going to memorize that number <wrap hide>224\|00:23:55\|480\|00:23:59\|760</wrap>and relate it to the year in which that section was written of Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>225\|00:24:01\|400\|00:24:03\|740</wrap>But some of us were individualized on the Moon chain. <wrap hide>226\|00:24:03\|880\|00:24:05\|520</wrap>What was the moment of individualization? <wrap hide>227\|00:24:05\|680\|00:24:13\|220</wrap>What were the astrological aspects prevalent at the moment we could say we became a human being? <wrap hide>228\|00:24:13\|700\|00:24:17\|300</wrap>Maybe some of us were individualized in the previous solar system, <wrap hide>229\|00:24:17\|300\|00:24:25\|500</wrap>and how in the world would we be able to understand the egoic nature as developed at that time? <wrap hide>230\|00:24:26\|240\|00:24:34\|320</wrap>So this simple statement, "the horoscope of the soul," is subject to various interpretations, <wrap hide>231\|00:24:34\|960\|00:24:44\|080</wrap>and some of the less remote and more present interpretations may be more useful. <wrap hide>232\|00:24:44\|080\|00:24:57\|680</wrap>It can be, in a way, the inner directive for the indwelling consciousness during any particular incarnation; <wrap hide>233\|00:24:58\|000\|00:24:59\|460</wrap>we may call that the soul. <wrap hide>234\|00:25:00\|020\|00:25:06\|700</wrap>Anyway, different combinations of forces can be applied to the life of consciousness, <wrap hide>235\|00:25:07\|000\|00:25:10\|780</wrap>the wheel of consciousness, or to the wheel of form, <wrap hide>236\|00:25:10\|780\|00:25:17\|480</wrap>which is the wheel of the personality, and we have to learn what those combinations are. <wrap hide>237\|00:25:18\|840\|00:25:30\|320</wrap>The disciple and the initiate respond distinctively to the incoming influence in a distinct manner— <wrap hide>238\|00:25:32\|140\|00:25:35\|260</wrap>a discernible manner to the incoming influences, <wrap hide>239\|00:25:35\|260\|00:25:43\|760</wrap>and their response differs from that of the undeveloped man, or later the self-centered person. <wrap hide>240\|00:25:45\|260\|00:25:53\|220</wrap>The true personality thinks of itself pretty much as the center of its field of perception, <wrap hide>241\|00:25:53\|580\|00:25:55\|320</wrap>the center of the world in a way. <wrap hide>242\|00:25:55\|940\|00:25:58\|940</wrap>The undeveloped man has a consciousness much more diffuse, <wrap hide>243\|00:25:58\|940\|00:26:07\|280</wrap>but in any case, the disciple's response will be altogether higher to the incoming energies, <wrap hide>244\|00:26:07\|660\|00:26:13\|780</wrap>and it will affect areas of his energy system and chakras which are not affected, <wrap hide>245\|00:26:14\|660\|00:26:21\|680</wrap>as those same energies impact the undeveloped man and the self-centered person— <wrap hide>246\|00:26:22\|200\|00:26:25\|420</wrap>the energy systems of the undeveloped man or self-centered person. <wrap hide>247\|00:26:25\|420\|00:26:28\|440</wrap>This will have to be recognized. <wrap hide>248\|00:26:29\|060\|00:26:32\|180</wrap>So astrology, you see, becomes much more complex. <wrap hide>249\|00:26:32\|360\|00:26:37\|680</wrap>It's not as if you could pick up a horoscope and only know that you're dealing with a human being, <wrap hide>250\|00:26:38\|340\|00:26:45\|000</wrap>and then begin to accurately read the life of such a human being. <wrap hide>251\|00:26:45\|100\|00:26:51\|660</wrap>You really have to come en rapport, and when we're thinking about the healing, <wrap hide>252\|00:26:51\|660\|00:26:59\|100</wrap>the work of the healer, D.K. is saying, "Well, spend five hours in quiet thought <wrap hide>253\|00:27:00\|600\|00:27:04\|760</wrap>concerning the subject with whom you are to engage in the healing process." <wrap hide>254\|00:27:04\|980\|00:27:14\|060</wrap>And I sometimes think if we had the time, that would be ideal—time ideally spent <wrap hide>255\|00:27:15\|600\|00:27:19\|440</wrap>for those with whom we're going to come en rapport in the astrological sense, <wrap hide>256\|00:27:19\|440\|00:27:27\|640</wrap>because after all, we are engaged in a way in psychological healing and reorientation. <wrap hide>257\|00:27:28\|700\|00:27:35\|500</wrap>So some patience will be required. This is a very hectic time of human civilization. <wrap hide>258\|00:27:35\|720\|00:27:40\|020</wrap>There are great cross-currents and competing energies, <wrap hide>259\|00:27:40\|020\|00:27:54\|360</wrap>and man's life in the West and even in the East now is very upset, very disturbed and agitated. <wrap hide>260\|00:27:55\|040\|00:28:01\|500</wrap>And it is difficult to come en rapport with the deeper energy patterns in such environments, <wrap hide>261\|00:28:01\|560\|00:28:09\|000</wrap>but that will give way eventually to the promised period of peace and deeper sensitivity— <wrap hide>262\|00:28:09\|000\|00:28:11\|760</wrap>I would assume accompanying the peace. <wrap hide>263\|00:28:14\|920\|00:28:19\|940</wrap>So the disciple will respond in a certain way and initiate in a certain way, <wrap hide>264\|00:28:20\|020\|00:28:22\|560</wrap>and so will the undeveloped man and self-centered person. <wrap hide>265\|00:28:23\|320\|00:28:27\|620</wrap>This will have to be recognized and we have to know for whom we are reading. <wrap hide>266\|00:28:28\|640\|00:28:30\|460</wrap>So let me just put that down. <wrap hide>267\|00:28:32\|580\|00:28:36\|420</wrap>We must know for whom we are reading. <wrap hide>268\|00:28:37\|420\|00:28:45\|100</wrap>Those <wrap quote>who live below the diaphragm, and</wrap> those who—what does that mean really? <wrap hide>269\|00:28:45\|620\|00:28:53\|900</wrap>They react; their consciousness is filled with recognition of and response to the impulses <wrap hide>270\|00:28:53\|900\|00:28:59\|140</wrap>which come from the chakras and organs below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>271\|00:28:59\|180\|00:29:01\|500</wrap>That's what it means to live below the diaphragm. <wrap hide>272\|00:29:01\|500\|00:29:08\|780</wrap>We all have our chakric energies below the diaphragm, but where is our consciousness focused? <wrap hide>273\|00:29:08\|980\|00:29:09\|940</wrap>That's the question. <wrap hide>274\|00:29:11\|680\|00:29:18\|960</wrap>Those who live below the diaphragm and <wrap quote>who react to the incoming energies through the medium of the lower centers, <wrap hide>275\|00:29:20\|140\|00:29:24\|400</wrap>so the plexus, sacral, spleen, and base of the spine, <wrap hide>276\|00:29:24\|940\|00:29:30\|460</wrap>will have a very different type of chart to</wrap> that of the disciple or initiate. <wrap hide>277\|00:29:31\|360\|00:29:38\|220</wrap>Well, at least when we go in there, we will certainly, even if the chart looks the same in some cases, <wrap hide>278\|00:29:38\|960\|00:29:42\|640</wrap>we will be emphasizing different factors. <wrap hide>279\|00:29:44\|000\|00:29:48\|620</wrap>And different patterns will emerge and different triangles will be of importance, <wrap hide>280\|00:29:48\|840\|00:29:51\|500</wrap>and the sun sign more so than the rising sign. <wrap hide>281\|00:29:52\|140\|00:29:58\|600</wrap><wrap quote>It will require a different mode of interpretation</wrap> using the ordinary rulers <wrap hide>282\|00:29:58\|600\|00:30:01\|040</wrap>rather than the esoteric or hierarchical rulers. <wrap hide>283\|00:30:01\|260\|00:30:07\|480</wrap>And he says, <wrap quote>"I have referred to this before and would remind you of some of the points which I made."</wrap> <wrap hide>284\|00:30:08\|660\|00:30:16\|040</wrap>It does serve us to be reminded of these points, and we need the specific examples, <wrap hide>285\|00:30:17\|880\|00:30:21\|760</wrap>probably in this particular interpretation of esoteric astrology. <wrap hide>286\|00:30:23\|740\|00:30:30\|500</wrap>Using the book in the way I am, I'm not going to get into the details of astrological interpretation <wrap hide>287\|00:30:30\|500\|00:30:36\|280</wrap>in the same way as some of my colleagues are doing, and they're doing very well. <wrap hide>288\|00:30:37\|040\|00:30:41\|080</wrap>Maybe we'll see if time allows; that might be possible. <wrap hide>289\|00:30:41\|160\|00:30:49\|160</wrap>But I think there is a need to think very carefully, paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, <wrap hide>290\|00:30:49\|160\|00:30:51\|940</wrap>over what the Tibetan has said. <wrap hide>291\|00:30:52\|300\|00:30:59\|340</wrap>We must ponder together on what he is trying to convey to us <wrap hide>292\|00:30:59\|340\|00:31:08\|260</wrap>so that at least the major outlines of this great science come clearer to us. <wrap hide>293\|00:31:08\|360\|00:31:16\|560</wrap>And then all the many detailed points of interpretation can be dealt with in specific contexts. <wrap hide>294\|00:31:16\|560\|00:31:20\|000</wrap>I enjoy doing it too, but time is of the essence. <wrap hide>295\|00:31:21\|200\|00:31:23\|260</wrap>So anyway, D.K. made these points. <wrap hide>296\|00:31:23\|800\|00:31:28\|860</wrap>Disciples upon the path of discipleship, and some have said in this regard, <wrap hide>297\|00:31:29\|000\|00:31:32\|720</wrap>accepted discipleship, are strongly influenced by Mercury and Saturn. <wrap hide>298\|00:31:33\|640\|00:31:37\|780</wrap>One bringing illumination, that's Mercury, and the other offering opportunity. <wrap hide>299\|00:31:37\|780\|00:31:46\|060</wrap>Well, Saturn doesn't offer the kind of opportunity to have every whim and every casual desire fulfilled. <wrap hide>300\|00:31:47\|480\|00:31:58\|680</wrap>The kind of opportunity is to face those circumstances and overcome those conditions <wrap hide>301\|00:31:58\|680\|00:32:04\|700</wrap>which prevent a fuller soul infusion. <wrap hide>302\|00:32:05\|460\|00:32:14\|260</wrap>It's really an opportunity to move upon the path by facing the karmic and dharmic difficulties which must be overcome. <wrap hide>303\|00:32:15\|260\|00:32:21\|080</wrap>So disciples upon the path of discipleship are strongly influenced by two quite mental planets, Mercury and Saturn, <wrap hide>304\|00:32:21\|120\|00:32:25\|840</wrap>and that's why it really has to be the path of discipleship, <wrap hide>305\|00:32:26\|240\|00:32:31\|160</wrap>not so much the path of probationary discipleship or the path of aspiration, <wrap hide>306\|00:32:31\|160\|00:32:39\|720</wrap>where we are still quite astrally focused and fighting many battles in relation to our desire nature. <wrap hide>307\|00:32:39\|920\|00:32:47\|560</wrap>Once our mind, in which the will is focused, has begun to be our main instrument, <wrap hide>308\|00:32:48\|280\|00:32:55\|400</wrap>then Mercury and Saturn will be of real value, critical value to the disciple. <wrap hide>309\|00:32:55\|400\|00:33:02\|380</wrap>And some have said that this only happens really on the path of accepted discipleship, <wrap hide>310\|00:33:02\|500\|00:33:09\|980</wrap>which can occur, and I think usually does occur, somewhere from the middle of the period <wrap hide>311\|00:33:09\|980\|00:33:16\|300</wrap>between the first and second initiation onward towards the second initiation, <wrap hide>312\|00:33:16\|360\|00:33:20\|040</wrap>and maybe even to some extent after the second initiation. <wrap hide>313\|00:33:20\|040\|00:33:26\|640</wrap>One can make much progress initiatorily without necessarily being an accepted disciple, <wrap hide>314\|00:33:27\|220\|00:33:34\|360</wrap>which is a relationship that has to do with your particular karmic relationship to a master. <wrap hide>315\|00:33:35\|760\|00:33:37\|340</wrap>So D.K. does differentiate there. <wrap hide>316\|00:33:38\|580\|00:33:40\|460</wrap>Okay, here are the points he has made. <wrap hide>317\|00:33:42\|100\|00:33:43\|620</wrap>Mercury and Saturn are influential. <wrap hide>318\|00:33:44\|560\|00:33:52\|520</wrap>And number two, <wrap quote>at the various initiations, the influence of the planets affects the candidate, <wrap hide>319\|00:33:52\|840\|00:33:58\|120</wrap>the candidate to initiation, in a totally different manner than earlier.</wrap> <wrap hide>320\|00:33:58\|820\|00:34:04\|520</wrap>Within a planet, our entire range of possibilities and qualities, and not all of them get through. <wrap hide>321\|00:34:04\|920\|00:34:11\|740</wrap>It all depends on the sensitivity of the form nature, the responsiveness. <wrap hide>322\|00:34:11\|740\|00:34:19\|140</wrap><wrap quote>Cyclically, the energies from the constellations pour through the planetary</wrap> centers. <wrap hide>323\|00:34:19\|440\|00:34:27\|260</wrap>We've talked about them; there are continents, there are cities, there are kingdoms, <wrap hide>324\|00:34:28\|520\|00:34:39\|720</wrap>and there are chakras located on the etheric planes, which can also be considered planetary centers. <wrap hide>325\|00:34:41\|380\|00:34:48\|520</wrap>Okay, at the first initiation, these are important ideas here, <wrap hide>326\|00:34:49\|100\|00:34:54\|120</wrap>and ones which are often reviewed in esoteric astrology classes. <wrap hide>327\|00:34:54\|640\|00:35:03\|880</wrap><wrap quote>At the first initiation, the disciple has to contend with the crystallizing and destroying forces of Vulcan and Pluto.</wrap> <wrap hide>328\|00:35:04\|160\|00:35:09\|520</wrap>Vulcan particularly crystallizes and thereby sets up the possibility of shattering, <wrap hide>329\|00:35:09\|520\|00:35:14\|860</wrap>and Pluto is very much the destroyer aspect of the first ray. <wrap hide>330\|00:35:15\|140\|00:35:18\|200</wrap>Vulcan: a sacred planet. Pluto: a non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>331\|00:35:18\|960\|00:35:24\|500</wrap>The influence of Vulcan, which can be symbolized in a way by the downward pointing arrow, <wrap hide>332\|00:35:27\|120\|00:35:29\|600</wrap>which has kind of a V in it—V for Vulcan— <wrap hide>333\|00:35:30\|720\|00:35:34\|880</wrap>the influence of Vulcan reaches to the very depths of the nature. <wrap hide>334\|00:35:35\|870\|00:35:47\|900</wrap>The soul seeks to permeate deeply, and the will descends into the depths, so nothing is left untouched, <wrap hide>335\|00:35:47\|900\|00:35:55\|340</wrap>while Pluto, a planetary influence which is used to operate in the depths, <wrap hide>336\|00:35:55\|880\|00:36:01\|060</wrap><wrap quote>drags to the surface and destroys all that hinders in these lower regions.</wrap> <wrap hide>337\|00:36:01\|060\|00:36:06\|460</wrap>There are many things in the lower part of our aura which are unredeemed. <wrap hide>338\|00:36:06\|640\|00:36:13\|080</wrap>You know, if you look at the aura egg, there's kind of a blackish-brown layer down there of unredeemed sludge— <wrap hide>339\|00:36:13\|720\|00:36:15\|980</wrap>stuff that just hasn't been dealt with. <wrap hide>340\|00:36:16\|700\|00:36:20\|260</wrap>And it's very interesting how Pluto throws things in your face, you know. <wrap hide>341\|00:36:20\|780\|00:36:29\|700</wrap>When it is said that "the truth will out," we're talking very much, I think, about the influence of Pluto. <wrap hide>342\|00:36:29\|700\|00:36:39\|040</wrap>Under Scorpionic circumstances, one can suppress information and truth and keep things concealed, <wrap hide>343\|00:36:39\|160\|00:36:45\|740</wrap>but there always comes a time under Scorpio and Pluto when that which is concealed rises to the light, <wrap hide>344\|00:36:46\|940\|00:36:52\|380</wrap>despite what anyone tries to do to keep it hidden. <wrap hide>345\|00:36:53\|300\|00:37:05\|500</wrap>So, we cannot go into the Chamber of Initiation with our aura filled with all kinds of unsuspected, unresolved issues. <wrap hide>346\|00:37:06\|220\|00:37:16\|420</wrap>Those issues in the psychologist's office often come to the surface, or when you're talking to friends or people close to you, <wrap hide>347\|00:37:16\|420\|00:37:23\|880</wrap>many things long hidden are evoked and brought into the light of day. <wrap hide>348\|00:37:24\|240\|00:37:33\|560</wrap>And the light of day, interestingly, is that type of light which is particularly related to Scorpio, <wrap hide>349\|00:37:33\|700\|00:37:37\|340</wrap>of which Pluto is one of the rulers. <wrap hide>350\|00:37:38\|460\|00:37:44\|100</wrap>So, you know, we're drilling down; we descend into the depths through Vulcan. <wrap hide>351\|00:37:44\|980\|00:37:51\|720</wrap>We have that will to penetrate to the depths so that the highest and the lowest can meet, <wrap hide>352\|00:37:51\|800\|00:37:58\|100</wrap>and there, by that active will to penetrate, we find obstructions. <wrap hide>353\|00:37:59\|660\|00:38:06\|160</wrap>And the obstructions cannot be left there; they have to be destroyed or reconfigured or integrated. <wrap hide>354\|00:38:06\|160\|00:38:14\|100</wrap>They have to be made a part of the system; otherwise, a person remains as a non-integrated personality <wrap hide>355\|00:38:14\|100\|00:38:16\|280</wrap>who cannot really undergo initiation. <wrap hide>356\|00:38:16\|880\|00:38:21\|800</wrap>So this happens at the first initiation, and I want to say, as I think about it, <wrap hide>357\|00:38:23\|020\|00:38:27\|980</wrap>that Vulcan and Pluto are active at quite a number of initiations. <wrap hide>358\|00:38:29\|440\|00:38:34\|740</wrap>They are both active at the second and the third, I believe, and at the fourth especially. <wrap hide>359\|00:38:35\|580\|00:38:46\|680</wrap>And even at the fifth, so the combination of these two first ray energies finds their way into a number of initiations. <wrap hide>360\|00:38:46\|940\|00:38:50\|620</wrap>You know, at the second initiation, will power takes over from desire, <wrap hide>361\|00:38:51\|240\|00:38:56\|700</wrap>and there is a cleansing and purging of the astral body under Pluto, but will over desire is Vulcan. <wrap hide>362\|00:38:57\|660\|00:39:01\|860</wrap>And at the third initiation, the blinding light of Vulcan breaks forth, <wrap hide>363\|00:39:01\|860\|00:39:11\|940</wrap>as Saint Paul experienced, and the Kundalini begins to rise, and that is related to Pluto. <wrap hide>364\|00:39:12\|660\|00:39:19\|840</wrap>The ancient authority of the personality is broken; the will power comes in very strongly, <wrap hide>365\|00:39:20\|480\|00:39:24\|960</wrap>and the depths are lifted up into the heights of the mountain top. <wrap hide>366\|00:39:25\|040\|00:39:26\|780</wrap>Everything is lifted up to the mountain top. <wrap hide>367\|00:39:26\|780\|00:39:31\|020</wrap>At the fourth initiation, the depths of aloneness are experienced, <wrap hide>368\|00:39:32\|700\|00:39:38\|060</wrap>and you know, the disciple at that time is in a way between a rock and a hard place. <wrap hide>369\|00:39:38\|680\|00:39:41\|660</wrap>This is the language of Vulcan. <wrap hide>370\|00:39:41\|860\|00:39:48\|240</wrap>You're coming in touch with the mineral kingdom; the jewel and the lotus, ruled by Vulcan, is being revealed. <wrap hide>371\|00:39:49\|960\|00:39:53\|520</wrap>The will to love is extremely strong. <wrap hide>372\|00:39:54\|020\|00:39:57\|380</wrap>The heart of the sun is coming in, and Vulcan is connected with that. <wrap hide>373\|00:39:57\|760\|00:40:07\|020</wrap>Vulcan has a number of different relationships, depending upon which of Vulcan's rays you may be considering. <wrap hide>374\|00:40:08\|700\|00:40:15\|920</wrap>So, Vulcan places the individual in a state of great aloneness, where he must depend upon his own will power. <wrap hide>375\|00:40:16\|040\|00:40:21\|740</wrap>And of course, Pluto is the power of death, and at that point, the personality is put to death, <wrap hide>376\|00:40:21\|740\|00:40:28\|020</wrap>and also the causal body is put to death, and Vulcan also contributes to the shattering of the causal body. <wrap hide>377\|00:40:28\|880\|00:40:33\|860</wrap>And when we come to the fifth initiation, that's the time when the base of the spine center, <wrap hide>378\|00:40:35\|140\|00:40:41\|320</wrap>Perhaps in a Maya Verrupa, but not necessarily, is most potently activated. <wrap hide>379\|00:40:41\|480\|00:40:48\|000</wrap>And Pluto rules this base of the spine center, and the rising of it, of its energy as Kundalini, <wrap hide>380\|00:40:48\|000\|00:40:56\|080</wrap>all the way to the highest head center, often ruled by Vulcan, and being a center of purpose. <wrap hide>381\|00:40:57\|080\|00:41:01\|860</wrap>The seven head centers are activated, the two higher head centers are activated, <wrap hide>382\|00:41:02\|080\|00:41:08\|140</wrap>Vulcan is involved in this, and this is mastership when the sun blazes forth, <wrap hide>383\|00:41:08\|420\|00:41:13\|740</wrap>and so often it is Vulcan that is veiled by the sun. <wrap hide>384\|00:41:13\|740\|00:41:22\|500</wrap>And so I think I have demonstrated in kind of a quick review how the combination of Vulcan and Pluto <wrap hide>385\|00:41:22\|500\|00:41:30\|180</wrap>are found at all the five initiations leading to and including mastership. <wrap hide>386\|00:41:31\|940\|00:41:39\|540</wrap><wrap quote>At the second initiation, the candidate comes under the influence of three planets: <wrap hide>387\|00:41:40\|600\|00:41:43\|340</wrap>Neptune, Venus, and Jupiter. <wrap hide>388\|00:41:44\|560\|00:41:48\|680</wrap>The three centers, the solar plexus, the heart and throat are actively involved.</wrap> <wrap hide>389\|00:41:50\|740\|00:41:54\|520</wrap>Yeah, it's been questioned, you know, what is stimulated at the first degree, <wrap hide>390\|00:41:54\|660\|00:41:57\|700</wrap>what is stimulated at the second degree by the one initiator, <wrap hide>391\|00:41:57\|740\|00:42:06\|260</wrap>and I would have to say that both the heart and throat are stimulated at both of these initiations. <wrap hide>392\|00:42:06\|260\|00:42:14\|200</wrap>Perhaps the birth of the Christ within the heart signals the importance of the heart center at the first initiation, <wrap hide>393\|00:42:14\|860\|00:42:20\|740</wrap>but the throat towards which the sacral energy has been raised is also of great importance. <wrap hide>394\|00:42:22\|560\|00:42:28\|420</wrap>At the second initiation, the throat center is very important because we have an intelligent disciple, <wrap hide>395\|00:42:29\|600\|00:42:37\|140</wrap>we have the spiritual intelligence and a degree of mental illumination that's related to the throat, <wrap hide>396\|00:42:37\|200\|00:42:46\|360</wrap>but we're dealing with a heart center activation because the astral body is no longer so full of personal desire. <wrap hide>397\|00:42:46\|580\|00:42:53\|100</wrap>We have a death of personal desire and love energy infusing the heart, <wrap hide>398\|00:42:53\|220\|00:42:56\|560</wrap>so therefore the heart center is active at the second initiation. <wrap hide>399\|00:42:56\|560\|00:43:03\|980</wrap>In this particular case, Neptune is ruling the solar plexus because it's a sixth-ray planet <wrap hide>400\|00:43:03\|980\|00:43:07\|460</wrap>and its second-ray nature is not considered in this context. <wrap hide>401\|00:43:08\|120\|00:43:13\|860</wrap>So these are the three. Much transfer of solar plexus to heart at the second degree <wrap hide>402\|00:43:13\|860\|00:43:19\|220</wrap>and much intelligent expression through the throat is involved. <wrap hide>403\|00:43:19\|220\|00:43:26\|480</wrap>It's not the full mental polarization which occurs between the second degree and the third, <wrap hide>404\|00:43:26\|720\|00:43:34\|120</wrap>midway between we are told, but it is at least a strong spiritual intelligence. <wrap hide>405\|00:43:34\|860\|00:43:44\|220</wrap>Now there is a place in Esoteric Psychology One, if I can find it, which deals... <wrap hide>406\|00:43:45\|080\|00:43:50\|020</wrap>Whoopsie, that's not what I wanted. Okay, now I'm going to have to try that again. <wrap hide>407\|00:43:51\|560\|00:44:01\|900</wrap>Right, what I want to do, I want the machine to respond here, yes, it's coming in its own good time, <wrap hide>408\|00:44:02\|900\|00:44:14\|220</wrap>Esoteric Psychology, and it will be Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune. <wrap hide>409\|00:44:15\|780\|00:44:17\|320</wrap>I'll spell that correctly. <wrap hide>410\|00:44:19\|760\|00:44:25\|720</wrap>Venus, Jupiter, let's just see, Venus and Jupiter, perhaps we'll find something there. <wrap hide>411\|00:44:26\|820\|00:44:32\|520</wrap>Venus and Jupiter in relation to the vegetable kingdom, and here it is. <wrap hide>412\|00:44:33\|200\|00:44:35\|740</wrap>This is page 246. <wrap hide>413\|00:44:37\|220\|00:44:47\|400</wrap>What we have, the second initiation, the training for the second initiation brings him under Neptunian influences, <wrap hide>414\|00:44:47\|540\|00:44:48\|960</wrap>that's why I couldn't find it under Neptune, <wrap hide>415\|00:44:50\|080\|00:44:56\|880</wrap>Neptunian influences, with Jupiter and Venus contending for control. <wrap hide>416\|00:44:57\|980\|00:45:08\|160</wrap>That is very interesting, because normally we think of these two quite second ray planets as quite cooperative with each other, <wrap hide>417\|00:45:08\|180\|00:45:15\|580</wrap>and in certain ways they may be, but in the ancient mythology, that which emanated from Venus, <wrap hide>418\|00:45:15\|580\|00:45:29\|280</wrap>and that which emanated from Jupiter, were fighting, and Venus was trying to raise the individual into the angelic state, <wrap hide>419\|00:45:29\|420\|00:45:36\|280</wrap>a more celibate state, and Jupiter was calling for the worship of the ancestral gods. <wrap hide>420\|00:45:36\|480\|00:45:44\|080</wrap>After all, Jupiter is exalted in the sign Cancer, which rules the four lunar vehicles, <wrap hide>421\|00:45:44\|080\|00:45:50\|820</wrap>the three major vehicles and the personality considered as the synthesis of all of them, the personality elemental. <wrap hide>422\|00:45:51\|680\|00:46:03\|280</wrap>So, he doesn't much say what this contending between them may be, whether they're fighting with each other, <wrap hide>423\|00:46:03\|340\|00:46:12\|380</wrap>or they're somehow trying to elevate Neptune, but let's just say there's a lot of second ray and sixth ray connected with all of these planets. <wrap hide>424\|00:46:13\|360\|00:46:16\|640</wrap>Neptune, a sixth ray soul and second ray monad. <wrap hide>425\|00:46:16\|740\|00:46:27\|360</wrap>Venus, a sixth ray sub-monad, and a second ray as the major monadic ray, I do believe, with maybe a second ray personality. <wrap hide>426\|00:46:27\|840\|00:46:35\|760</wrap>Jupiter, a second ray soul, and we might question the degree to which the sixth ray may be involved in its personality expression. <wrap hide>427\|00:46:36\|760\|00:46:38\|460</wrap>Sixth and seventh ray are both involved with Jupiter. <wrap hide>428\|00:46:38\|460\|00:46:44\|740</wrap>So, this is the other reference, then, concerning the second initiation. <wrap hide>429\|00:46:47\|840\|00:46:55\|880</wrap>Neptune will be the solar plexus. It has to be raised up to the heart, which I think will be ruled by Jupiter in this particular case. <wrap hide>430\|00:46:56\|900\|00:47:03\|100</wrap>So, a wider type of love will be required, and a wiser type of love as well. <wrap hide>431\|00:47:03\|100\|00:47:11\|340</wrap>And Venus will work on the illumination of the mind, and will represent the throat center in this particular case. <wrap hide>432\|00:47:12\|280\|00:47:17\|920</wrap>After all, Taurus does work through the throat center, and Venus is the ruler of Taurus. <wrap hide>433\|00:47:18\|060\|00:47:25\|120</wrap>So, Venus, we must say, relates to the throat center, and especially to the power to speak the word of the soul, <wrap hide>434\|00:47:25\|260\|00:47:29\|960</wrap>and to think the word of the soul, because Venus is relating to the solar angel. <wrap hide>435\|00:47:29\|960\|00:47:37\|320</wrap>So, the solar angel is beginning to imbue the intelligence at the second initiation, and this is Venus' task. <wrap hide>436\|00:47:37\|740\|00:47:43\|600</wrap>As well, it helps to tranquilize the astral vehicle. <wrap hide>437\|00:47:44\|760\|00:47:50\|240</wrap>You know, so, obviously we have to go on a search sometimes for other correlated references. <wrap hide>438\|00:47:50\|360\|00:47:58\|080</wrap>As a matter of fact, what I think I'll do is I'll copy this from Esoteric Astrology 246, <wrap hide>439\|00:47:58\|080\|00:48:06\|980</wrap>and I'll put it here, next to this quotation. We'll do it that way. <wrap hide>440\|00:48:07\|680\|00:48:19\|280</wrap>And that's EA 246. Of course, I should, in a way, make it red so it stands out from the others. <wrap hide>441\|00:48:20\|380\|00:48:30\|240</wrap>Okay, let's see if I can put this back in this way, too. Okay. And we'll do it that way. Yeah. <wrap hide>442\|00:48:31\|620\|00:48:41\|120</wrap>So, second initiation: many second and sixth ray planets. The changing of the character of the astral body is required. <wrap hide>443\|00:48:41\|120\|00:48:48\|300</wrap>And these planets are particularly suitable to bring tranquility to the astral body, <wrap hide>444\|00:48:49\|840\|00:48:56\|120</wrap>to bring the... make us subject to the light of the soul-illumined mind under Venus, <wrap hide>445\|00:48:56\|340\|00:49:06\|260</wrap>and to bring in that larger type of non-exclusive, or rather inclusive love that Jupiter brings. <wrap hide>446\|00:49:06\|260\|00:49:14\|460</wrap>Those are qualities of the second initiation. Then we go on here, at the third initiation. <wrap hide>447\|00:49:16\|180\|00:49:27\|660</wrap>So important, this page 70 and 71. I have reviewed this page so often, trying to fathom what is being said here. <wrap hide>448\|00:49:27\|660\|00:49:35\|900</wrap><wrap quote>At the third initiation, the moon, veiling a hidden planet, and Mars bring about a fearful conflict. <wrap hide>449\|00:49:36\|480\|00:49:42\|180</wrap>But at the end, the man is released from personality control.</wrap> Well, you know, Mars and Pluto are also active <wrap hide>450\|00:49:42\|180\|00:49:48\|120</wrap>in stirring things up at the second initiation. Those are things to be overcome. <wrap hide>451\|00:49:48\|120\|00:49:58\|300</wrap>But here they bring in a type of fear which probably arises... in this case I think it's Mars and Vulcan... <wrap hide>452\|00:49:58\|920\|00:50:05\|440</wrap>a type of fear that arises when we think of relinquishing the entire personality, <wrap hide>453\|00:50:05\|920\|00:50:10\|320</wrap>or at least living in a different center which we would call the soul center. <wrap hide>454\|00:50:10\|840\|00:50:16\|120</wrap>We do not yet relinquish the entire personality until the fourth degree, <wrap hide>455\|00:50:16\|120\|00:50:23\|160</wrap>but already we're seeing the handwriting on the wall. It says that the moon veils a hidden planet. <wrap hide>456\|00:50:24\|020\|00:50:27\|880</wrap>Well, you know, the moon can veil Uranus, or the moon can veil Neptune, or Vulcan, <wrap hide>457\|00:50:28\|320\|00:50:33\|540</wrap>but Uranus and Neptune are not hidden, and Vulcan is hidden. <wrap hide>458\|00:50:34\|060\|00:50:39\|740</wrap>So I do believe that it's kind of a combination between the moon and the sun at this point, <wrap hide>459\|00:50:39\|740\|00:50:44\|800</wrap>with Vulcan representing the sun, and the sun representing the soul. <wrap hide>460\|00:50:45\|060\|00:50:52\|340</wrap>So it's a kind of a merging of the personality and soul. Okay, degraded audio. <wrap hide>461\|00:50:52\|820\|00:50:58\|800</wrap>Alright, hopefully not. I will just continue the best I can as there's nothing else I can do, <wrap hide>462\|00:50:59\|660\|00:51:03\|120</wrap>except to find out that I've been moving my mouth and nothing has been coming out. <wrap hide>463\|00:51:03\|240\|00:51:04\|380</wrap>But hopefully that won't happen. <wrap hide>464\|00:51:05\|700\|00:51:15\|940</wrap>So, at the third initiation, the dominating soul life, symbolized by the sun, which is expressing Vulcan, <wrap hide>465\|00:51:17\|640\|00:51:23\|400</wrap>is brought into juxtaposition with the moon, representing the entire... all the lunar vehicles, <wrap hide>466\|00:51:23\|680\|00:51:30\|020</wrap>and in a way the lunar vehicles must be infused by the energy of the solar sun, <wrap hide>467\|00:51:30\|100\|00:51:32\|340</wrap>so we call that the soul-infused personality. <wrap hide>468\|00:51:34\|040\|00:51:40\|640</wrap>So, in a way, on the top we have a combination of the sun, Venus, which is the hierarchical ruler <wrap hide>469\|00:51:40\|640\|00:51:44\|960</wrap>at the third initiation in Capricorn: sun, Venus, and Vulcan on the top. <wrap hide>470\|00:51:45\|600\|00:51:52\|600</wrap>And then we have the moon on the bottom to be infused and controlled, directed and dominated by these energies. <wrap hide>471\|00:51:53\|360\|00:51:59\|600</wrap>And the moon and Mars represent the lunar vehicles, and the six creative hierarchies. <wrap hide>472\|00:51:59\|600\|00:52:03\|960</wrap>So the six creative hierarchies undergoing a very specific change at that time. <wrap hide>473\|00:52:04\|100\|00:52:06\|360</wrap>It is really finally dominated. <wrap hide>474\|00:52:07\|080\|00:52:12\|200</wrap>The moon represents all the lunar vehicles, all of them, and that is the dense physical. <wrap hide>475\|00:52:12\|640\|00:52:20\|360</wrap>It's related to the etheric and to the color violet, because those devas of the etheric planes, <wrap hide>476\|00:52:20\|560\|00:52:24\|240</wrap>They have a moon on their forehead, which also means they have a forehead, which is interesting. <wrap hide>477\|00:52:24\|240\|00:52:31\|080</wrap>The moon is obviously the astral nature, and the moon is the sensorium, the concrete mind. <wrap hide>478\|00:52:31\|220\|00:52:36\|700</wrap>So the moon is all four, and interestingly, Mars is all four of the lunar vehicles. <wrap hide>479\|00:52:37\|420\|00:52:42\|280</wrap>It is the dense physical body. It's not particularly related to the etheric body. <wrap hide>480\|00:52:42\|460\|00:52:49\|060</wrap>It is absolutely the astral body, and it is the lower mind, because it rules concrete science and the five senses. <wrap hide>481\|00:52:49\|060\|00:52:56\|000</wrap>So the entire personality, which is symbolized by moon and Mars, is being dominated by the luminous will <wrap hide>482\|00:52:56\|000\|00:53:00\|980</wrap>of Vulcan with the sun, and Venus also associated. <wrap hide>483\|00:53:02\|180\|00:53:11\|600</wrap>And that conflict, of course, is letting go, letting go of the grip of consciousness upon the personality. <wrap hide>484\|00:53:12\|680\|00:53:17\|880</wrap>There's a way in which we are so attached to our elemental life. <wrap hide>485\|00:53:18\|600\|00:53:25\|180</wrap>It is, in a sense, the not-self, but we consider it the self, and we're not willing to let go of it. <wrap hide>486\|00:53:25\|620\|00:53:35\|540</wrap>So the disciple is rising and falling and rising and falling, symbolized in the ancient Atlantean chant <wrap hide>487\|00:53:36\|540\|00:53:40\|460</wrap>by the bird which tries to fly free but always comes back to the branch. <wrap hide>488\|00:53:40\|600\|00:53:46\|520</wrap>And that also describes, in a way, the glyph of Aquarius, rising and falling, rising and falling, <wrap hide>489\|00:53:46\|520\|00:53:51\|400</wrap>with Aquarius prominent at the third initiation. <wrap hide>490\|00:53:51\|760\|00:54:02\|700</wrap>But anyway, when we've managed to use the, to overcome Mars and make him our servant, <wrap hide>491\|00:54:03\|380\|00:54:10\|500</wrap>a good soldier of brave, valorous personality, make it our servant, we being the spiritual will. <wrap hide>492\|00:54:10\|500\|00:54:19\|620</wrap>Vulcan is the spiritual will, and it overcomes all aspects of lower desire, desire for the lower realm. <wrap hide>493\|00:54:19\|860\|00:54:26\|300</wrap>So there's another conflict here between will and desire, just as there was in the second initiation, <wrap hide>494\|00:54:26\|520\|00:54:32\|940</wrap>a conflict between will and desire, and that's when will really begins to take over at that second initiation. <wrap hide>495\|00:54:33\|600\|00:54:40\|020</wrap>So at the end we are released from personality control, which would normally come under the impulses of Mars. <wrap hide>496\|00:54:40\|700\|00:54:47\|160</wrap>We no longer follow those impulses; we no longer run with what the lunar vehicles indicate. <wrap hide>497\|00:54:50\|780\|00:54:55\|260</wrap>Okay, now at the fourth initiation, we visit Mercury and Saturn again. <wrap hide>498\|00:54:55\|260\|00:55:06\|500</wrap>This is different from the way Mercury and Saturn operated on the path simply of discipleship or accepted discipleship. <wrap hide>499\|00:55:06\|600\|00:55:13\|580</wrap>It's a higher type of expression. We're no longer dealing with discrimination per se, <wrap hide>500\|00:55:14\|900\|00:55:18\|240</wrap>well, what he calls it illumination and opportunity. <wrap hide>501\|00:55:18\|280\|00:55:23\|260</wrap>We're not dealing quite with the same things, but with higher expressions, which I'll try to explain. <wrap hide>502\|00:55:23\|260\|00:55:30\|960</wrap>At the fourth initiation, <wrap quote>Mercury and Saturn again bring about great changes and a unique revelation,</wrap> <wrap hide>503\|00:55:32\|680\|00:55:39\|040</wrap>I suppose the revelation of the cosmic ethers, and the revelation of the transcendental mind. <wrap hide>504\|00:55:39\|580\|00:55:42\|500</wrap><wrap quote>But their effect is very different to the earlier experience.</wrap> <wrap hide>505\|00:55:42\|740\|00:55:48\|160</wrap>So, as a disciple we have a discriminating mind, we are seeking the light, we are facing our karma, <wrap hide>506\|00:55:48\|180\|00:55:51\|240</wrap>all of that is Mercury and Saturn fulfilling our dharma. <wrap hide>507\|00:55:51\|240\|00:56:00\|480</wrap>But here, Mercury is the Buddhic plane, and Saturn represents all of the lower three planes, <wrap hide>508\|00:56:00\|740\|00:56:05\|300</wrap>the dense physical nature, and it represents the complete fulfillment of the dharma, <wrap hide>509\|00:56:05\|740\|00:56:11\|820</wrap>and the using of the scythe to separate the essential inner man. <wrap hide>510\|00:56:11\|820\|00:56:22\|180</wrap>Saturn has that cutting motion; it separates the realm of Uranus from its own lower realm, Saturn. <wrap hide>511\|00:56:22\|880\|00:56:29\|200</wrap>So Mercury is bringing in the illumination of the spiritual triad from the Buddhic plane, <wrap hide>512\|00:56:29\|360\|00:56:37\|620</wrap>which correlates with the fourth initiation. Fourth plane, fourth initiation, man is released into the transcendental mind, <wrap hide>513\|00:56:37\|620\|00:56:46\|180</wrap>the intuition of the spiritual triad, and of the Buddhic plane, and that comes under Mercury, <wrap hide>514\|00:56:46\|500\|00:56:51\|500</wrap>a higher type of illumination. It's no longer the sun of mind, no longer the concrete mind, <wrap hide>515\|00:56:51\|780\|00:57:02\|920</wrap>it's not even the abstract mind. It is the intuitive mind which blazes forth with that great heart stimulation at the fourth degree. <wrap hide>516\|00:57:02\|920\|00:57:11\|160</wrap>And Saturn is again the spiritual will; it is the ruler of the etheric plane, <wrap hide>517\|00:57:11\|840\|00:57:23\|680</wrap>and it is complete control and complete subservience, the complete submission to one's dharma, to one's true destiny. <wrap hide>518\|00:57:24\|780\|00:57:37\|300</wrap>So there is here a kind of a buddhi-manas combination, and you have fulfilled your karma with respect to the lower worlds, under Saturn. <wrap hide>519\|00:57:38\|700\|00:57:48\|100</wrap>A great deal of karma is fulfilled by the time the third degree is taken, but there is much of karma that a man takes upon himself at the fourth degree, <wrap hide>520\|00:57:48\|100\|00:57:56\|620</wrap>which may be planetary in nature. And so there is a sacrificial submission to planetary karma under Saturn, <wrap hide>521\|00:57:56\|820\|00:58:07\|280</wrap>and a great illumination of the triadic intuition and the triadic mind, which helps you think of yourself, not as an individual, but in planetary terms. <wrap hide>522\|00:58:08\|380\|00:58:16\|260</wrap>Remember that Saturn does rule the atmic plane and the hierarchy of triads with which a man comes into contact. <wrap hide>523\|00:58:16\|260\|00:58:29\|500</wrap>So in a way, the human being is sensing very much of his monadic nature, which is ruled by Mercury, which is the ruler of the hierarchy of human monads, <wrap hide>524\|00:58:29\|840\|00:58:38\|420</wrap>and the triads are coming into power under Saturn, and that is a different kind of influence than in the lower realms. <wrap hide>525\|00:58:38\|420\|00:58:48\|300</wrap>We see how many things Saturn can be. We may have just a little time here, not much, not much at all. <wrap hide>526\|00:58:48\|460\|00:58:59\|940</wrap>As a matter of fact, I think I... let's save it for later. We have this marvelous discussion of the fifth initiation and Uranus and Jupiter, but I'll come back to that. <wrap hide>527\|00:59:00\|900\|00:59:20\|980</wrap>So here this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure, and it is number 32, and we have gone from page 68 to page 71. <wrap hide>528\|00:59:21\|780\|00:59:30\|100</wrap>We're actually sometimes making progress of three pages per adventure, so we are doing well. <wrap hide>529\|00:59:31\|660\|00:59:43\|160</wrap>Okay, and here is The Great Invocation. From the point... from the point. The point doesn't have two i's; that's the problem. <wrap hide>530\|00:59:46\|180\|00:59:51\|160</wrap>Alright, so our Great Invocation now. <wrap hide>531\|00:59:58\|920\|00:59:59\|800</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>532\|01:00:05\|460\|01:00:16\|760</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. <wrap hide>533\|01:00:20\|080\|01:00:31\|020</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>534\|01:00:33\|940\|01:00:44\|880</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>535\|01:00:48\|560\|01:01:00\|880</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>536\|01:01:02\|680\|01:01:09\|060</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>537\|01:01:13\|660\|01:01:15\|060</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>538\|01:01:15\|060\|01:01:17\|400</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>539\|01:01:23\|420\|01:01:24\|820</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>540\|01:01:24\|820\|01:01:27\|160</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>541\|01:01:33\|920\|01:01:35\|320</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>542\|01:01:38\|740\|01:01:40\|140</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>543\|01:01:47\|340\|01:01:51\|440</wrap>Okay friends, there we are. <wrap hide>544\|01:01:54\|300\|01:02:10\|180</wrap>And we are now concluding Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 32, and we will continue with mastership, and the Jupiter and Uranus relationship to that particular initiation—amazing initiation. <wrap hide>545\|01:02:11\|080\|01:02:19\|080</wrap>And it's so interesting that those two planets should be together as they were in the chart of H.P.B., just a conjunction in Aquarius. Quite amazing. <wrap hide>546\|01:02:19\|080\|01:02:23\|780</wrap>Okay, we will see you before long. Okay, take care.