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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360</wrap>Okay, hi everybody. We are now on Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 36. <wrap hide>2|00:00:11|440|00:00:16|480</wrap>We had a little trouble today with failing servers. <wrap hide>3|00:00:16|640|00:00:22|580</wrap>There have been some storms here in Arizona, and I got knocked off the internet twice. <wrap hide>4|00:00:23|000|00:00:28|580</wrap>So that produced one 50-minute webinar and another 20 minutes. <wrap hide>5|00:00:28|580|00:00:32|500</wrap>But the last one worked pretty well. <wrap hide>6|00:00:33|040|00:00:40|920</wrap>We were considering a number of tasks which the Tibetan intends to undertake in this book. <wrap hide>7|00:00:41|280|00:00:47|640</wrap>And the first task has to do with comparison of the five and seven rays and the centers <wrap hide>8|00:00:48|220|00:00:50|280</wrap>with which they are related. <wrap hide>9|00:00:50|280|00:01:00|840</wrap>And the second task has to do with the energy of the three major constellations and the <wrap hide>10|00:01:01|720|00:01:07|500</wrap>zodiacal constellations through which they may pour, focusing then in three streams through <wrap hide>11|00:01:07|500|00:01:09|380</wrap>Leo, Pisces and Capricorn. <wrap hide>12|00:01:09|380|00:01:20|380</wrap>And I offered some speculations as to the major constellations through which the zodiacal <wrap hide>13|00:01:20|380|00:01:23|520</wrap>constellations through which the three might pour. <wrap hide>14|00:01:25|020|00:01:28|320</wrap>But this, of course, remains to be seen, at least on page 50. <wrap hide>15|00:01:28|900|00:01:35|100</wrap>D.K. has given us the tabulation showing us that the Great Bear pours through Aries and <wrap hide>16|00:01:35|100|00:01:35|420</wrap>Libra. <wrap hide>17|00:01:35|420|00:01:38|900</wrap>I added Aquarius speculatively, then they all focus through Leo. <wrap hide>18|00:01:39|600|00:01:42|560</wrap>He tells us that Sirius pours through Cancer and Capricorn. <wrap hide>19|00:01:43|140|00:01:47|520</wrap>I added Virgo speculatively, and they all pour through Pisces. <wrap hide>20|00:01:47|840|00:01:52|100</wrap>And when it comes to the Pleiades, D.K. gives us Gemini and Sagittarius. <wrap hide>21|00:01:52|760|00:02:01|500</wrap>I added Taurus—a strong connection with the Pleiades—because when you look through the <wrap hide>22|00:02:01|500|00:02:06|380</wrap>constellation Taurus, you do see the Pleiades, at least at this time in cyclic history, and they <wrap hide>23|00:02:06|380|00:02:08|240</wrap>pour finally through Capricorn. <wrap hide>24|00:02:08|420|00:02:17|540</wrap>So this is quite an abstruse aspect of the work, and we'll see where it can end, what <wrap hide>25|00:02:17|540|00:02:18|260</wrap>it can lead to. <wrap hide>26|00:02:18|440|00:02:25|640</wrap>At least D.K. was very definite in discussing the importance in the present day and age <wrap hide>27|00:02:25|640|00:02:35|120</wrap>of the Leo-Pisces-Capricorn triangle with all its association with various planets and <wrap hide>28|00:02:35|120|00:02:38|960</wrap>planetary centers and the centers of the human being. <wrap hide>29|00:02:39|560|00:02:44|080</wrap>That six-fold chart will appear in various places as we study the book. <wrap hide>30|00:02:45|900|00:02:47|220</wrap>And here is some of that. <wrap hide>31|00:02:48|500|00:02:53|400</wrap>Leo through Saturn through the head center and base of the spine; Pisces through Uranus <wrap hide>32|00:02:53|400|00:03:00|320</wrap>through the heart center and solar plexus; and the Pleiades through Capricorn and then <wrap hide>33|00:03:00|320|00:03:04|300</wrap>Mercury as well as the Ajna and the throat center. <wrap hide>34|00:03:07|380|00:03:14|560</wrap>We talked about the density of the sacral center and why it is a center even in a way <wrap hide>35|00:03:14|560|00:03:20|800</wrap>more densely related than the base of the spine center, which is related to the etheric <wrap hide>36|00:03:20|800|00:03:21|480</wrap>body. <wrap hide>37|00:03:22|370|00:03:30|540</wrap>Check in the vicinity of Cosmic Fire 169 and 170 for the assignment to the various planes <wrap hide>38|00:03:31|360|00:03:33|160</wrap>of the major centers. <wrap hide>39|00:03:34|060|00:03:36|340</wrap>And now we did task number three. <wrap hide>40|00:03:36|580|00:03:41|380</wrap>We discussed it and went through the tabulation concerning the cardinal, fixed and mutable <wrap hide>41|00:03:41|380|00:03:46|680</wrap>cross and analyzed that fairly closely. <wrap hide>42|00:03:46|680|00:03:55|380</wrap>These are some of D.K.'s major triplicities that he is discussing so often in his books, <wrap hide>43|00:03:56|000|00:04:01|300</wrap>and we lined them up with the cardinal, fixed and mutable crosses. <wrap hide>44|00:04:02|620|00:04:04|000</wrap>Now I think we are ready. <wrap hide>45|00:04:05|880|00:04:12|460</wrap>Yes, we got as far as page 80, and now task number four that D.K. is going to undertake <wrap hide>46|00:04:12|460|00:04:17|740</wrap>with us in this large section of the book up to approximately page 404. <wrap hide>47|00:04:17|920|00:04:18|840</wrap>I hope we get that far. <wrap hide>48|00:04:20|030|00:04:27|380</wrap><wrap quote>Elaborate the subject of the interplay between the three groups of ruling planets as given <wrap hide>49|00:04:27|380|00:04:28|460</wrap>in tabulation</wrap> six. <wrap hide>50|00:04:28|700|00:04:32|900</wrap>So that's the exoteric, esoteric and hierarchical rulers. <wrap hide>51|00:04:33|940|00:04:42|440</wrap>These and <wrap quote>the totality of their effects are the agencies through which the purposes of <wrap hide>52|00:04:42|440|00:04:43|420</wrap>God are wrought out.</wrap> <wrap hide>53|00:04:43|480|00:04:44|600</wrap>Now what do we mean by God? <wrap hide>54|00:04:45|640|00:04:52|700</wrap>We don't mean the absolute deity of the entire cosmos, but we do mean God the planetary Logos. <wrap hide>55|00:04:53|380|00:04:56|520</wrap>We do mean God the solar Logos especially. <wrap hide>56|00:04:57|540|00:05:01|420</wrap>The solar Logos is the one in whom we live and move and have our being. <wrap hide>57|00:05:02|080|00:05:03|060</wrap>There is only one God. <wrap hide>58|00:05:03|120|00:05:08|400</wrap>Of course there is only one God, but all the other entities are emanations of that one <wrap hide>59|00:05:08|400|00:05:18|620</wrap>God and are therefore emanatively and pantheistically aspects of that one God who is the universal <wrap hide>60|00:05:18|620|00:05:20|520</wrap>Logos by another name. <wrap hide>61|00:05:22|340|00:05:28|580</wrap>So God the solar Logos is working out his purposes through the planetary Logos, and we <wrap hide>62|00:05:28|580|00:05:33|820</wrap>certainly have to figure out what the purpose is for our earth—a center of redemption, I <wrap hide>63|00:05:33|820|00:05:36|360</wrap>think in relation to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>64|00:05:36|360|00:05:47|520</wrap>All right, so he tells us that <wrap quote>before proceeding with the more technical aspects of our subject, <wrap hide>1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360</wrap>I would like to elaborate this theme of the zodiac, its story and symbolism from the more <wrap hide>66|00:05:56|000|00:06:04|880</wrap>philosophical and spiritual angle, giving you the subjective picture of man's progress</wrap> as <wrap hide>67|00:06:04|880|00:06:10|260</wrap>he passes on the sweep of the sun along the path of life. <wrap hide>68|00:06:11|100|00:06:19|160</wrap>Heracles the sun God, we the sun God, we the solar identity sweeping along the path of <wrap hide>69|00:06:19|160|00:06:25|980</wrap>life and improving our mechanism and expanding our consciousness. <wrap hide>70|00:06:27|700|00:06:33|860</wrap>We may be experiencing once again degraded audio; let us hope not. <wrap hide>71|00:06:36|280|00:06:42|820</wrap>All right, the sweep of the sun along the path of life. Well, there is certainly the <wrap hide>72|00:06:42|820|00:06:53|880</wrap>sweep of the sun during the year, there is the sweep of the sun along the 2,160 year <wrap hide>73|00:06:53|880|00:07:05|540</wrap>path, and finally the sun passes through all the signs at the rate of one degree per 72 <wrap hide>74|00:07:05|540|00:07:08|220</wrap>years and takes approximately 25,000 years. <wrap hide>75|00:07:09|140|00:07:18|140</wrap>D.K. rounds it off as 25,000 years, but I think the closer figure is 25,920 if the number <wrap hide>76|00:07:18|140|00:07:30|220</wrap>2,160 is accurate, and you will recognize that 2,160 as one half of the important number <wrap hide>77|00:07:32|100|00:07:33|000</wrap>4,320. <wrap hide>78|00:07:35|920|00:07:43|170</wrap>All right, the sweep of the sun along the path of life. This is a technical phrase and <wrap hide>79|00:07:43|170|00:07:52|110</wrap>refers to the activity of a sun, <wrap quote>a planet, a hierarchy, or a man after there has been <wrap hide>80|00:07:52|110|00:07:59|510</wrap>a moment of crisis,</wrap> because you know the path of life may not simply be the path of evolution. <wrap hide>81|00:08:00|770|00:08:09|230</wrap>It may be the path of the life aspect following a moment of crisis and reorientation. <wrap hide>82|00:08:09|230|00:08:18|390</wrap>A moment of crisis resulting in a period of polarization, a fixing of the consciousness <wrap hide>83|00:08:18|390|00:08:27|910</wrap>at a certain requisite level of vibration, <wrap quote>leading inevitably to a fresh surge and sweep <wrap hide>84|00:08:27|910|00:08:28|610</wrap>onwards.</wrap> <wrap hide>85|00:08:28|770|00:08:35|110</wrap>I'm sure we have all experienced the difference between fatigue, which may overcome us from <wrap hide>86|00:08:35|110|00:08:42|650</wrap>time to time, and that fresh surge and sweep onwards sounds very much like the leading <wrap hide>87|00:08:42|650|00:08:45|330</wrap>Aries impulse. <wrap hide>88|00:08:47|150|00:08:58|630</wrap>These three words: crisis, polarization, and sweep. Crisis, tension, emergence is another <wrap hide>89|00:08:58|630|00:09:00|110</wrap>way of dealing here. <wrap hide>90|00:09:00|110|00:09:09|230</wrap>We have a triplicity called crisis, tension, and emergence, and when we do emerge, we sweep <wrap hide>91|00:09:09|230|00:09:12|870</wrap>along because the obstacles are overcome. <wrap hide>92|00:09:15|030|00:09:21|170</wrap>So crisis and polarization requires holding a point of tension at the requisite level <wrap hide>93|00:09:21|170|00:09:25|870</wrap>of vibration and then the sweep forward. <wrap hide>94|00:09:25|870|00:09:40|730</wrap>This is our history. It's not just one continuous, unobstructed movement towards the goal; there <wrap hide>95|00:09:40|730|00:09:46|890</wrap>are always cross currents to deal with, the overcoming of those cross currents, the fixing <wrap hide>96|00:09:46|890|00:09:54|050</wrap>or polarization of our consciousness at a new altitude or level of vibration, and then <wrap hide>97|00:09:54|050|00:10:01|530</wrap>activity once that level of vibration or polarization or point of tension is stabilized. <wrap hide>98|00:10:02|690|00:10:10|450</wrap><wrap quote>These three words, then—crisis, polarization, and sweep—are the basis of cyclic law and <wrap hide>99|00:10:10|450|00:10:13|330</wrap>govern the evolutionary process.</wrap> <wrap hide>100|00:10:13|330|00:10:22|270</wrap>This we can ask: can we connect these with the three crosses? Can we connect these with <wrap hide>101|00:10:22|270|00:10:29|010</wrap>the first three rays? Can we call crisis related to the first ray, polarization to the second, <wrap hide>102|00:10:29|010|00:10:34|290</wrap>and sweep the activity of the third? Is that one way to look at it? <wrap hide>103|00:10:34|550|00:10:38|470</wrap>The triplicities can be reconciled. <wrap hide>104|00:10:39|090|00:10:47|270</wrap><wrap quote>From the point of view of humanity,</wrap> the passage of the sun around the zodiac is apparently <wrap hide>105|00:10:47|750|00:10:55|630</wrap>a slow, laborious process <wrap quote>taking approximately—on the plane of time,</wrap> inferring there is a <wrap hide>106|00:10:55|630|00:11:00|830</wrap>plane of timelessness—twenty-five thousand years approximately. <wrap hide>107|00:11:00|830|00:11:08|150</wrap>The great Platonic ages are given as twenty-five thousand years; maybe at times they are more, <wrap hide>108|00:11:08|370|00:11:09|470</wrap>maybe at times they are less. <wrap hide>109|00:11:09|650|00:11:14|850</wrap>We seem to be living in a period when the great Platonic age is more specifically about <wrap hide>110|00:11:15|690|00:11:17|070</wrap>twenty-five, nine, twenty. <wrap hide>111|00:11:20|630|00:11:25|070</wrap>So D.K. is choosing an average figure, a very laborious process. <wrap hide>112|00:11:25|310|00:11:33|990</wrap>The passage of the sun around the zodiac of constellations, but also in a way the zodiac <wrap hide>113|00:11:33|990|00:11:44|650</wrap>of signs, is a slow process—one degree every seventy-two years, a slow and laborious process. <wrap hide>114|00:11:45|410|00:11:49|830</wrap>Where were any one of us twenty-five thousand years ago? <wrap hide>115|00:11:49|930|00:11:53|930</wrap>If we accept the idea of reincarnation, we certainly were somewhere. <wrap hide>116|00:11:54|190|00:11:58|830</wrap>What sort of civilization or non-civilization were we in? <wrap hide>117|00:11:59|010|00:11:59|950</wrap>What were we learning? <wrap hide>118|00:12:00|650|00:12:04|650</wrap>What was our degree of elevation compared with what it is now? <wrap hide>119|00:12:05|870|00:12:08|710</wrap>Twenty-five thousand years is a long time. <wrap hide>120|00:12:09|110|00:12:10|990</wrap>Much can be on the plane of time. <wrap hide>121|00:12:11|570|00:12:20|470</wrap>Much can be accomplished during such a period if we realize that in approximately four thousand <wrap hide>122|00:12:20|470|00:12:26|470</wrap>years the Master Jesus moved from being a second degree initiate to a sixth degree chohan, <wrap hide>123|00:12:27|350|00:12:32|390</wrap>just four thousand years. Let us say twenty-five thousand years is a long time. <wrap hide>124|00:12:33|190|00:12:40|250</wrap>Perhaps if we could look back at that period we would find ourselves very different from <wrap hide>125|00:12:40|250|00:12:41|170</wrap>how we are now. <wrap hide>126|00:12:42|570|00:12:49|430</wrap>From the angle of inner vision and not on the plane of time, <wrap quote>it is a sweep around the <wrap hide>127|00:12:49|430|00:12:53|690</wrap>path of life,</wrap> taking only a moment of time. <wrap hide>128|00:12:54|650|00:13:05|450</wrap>The reason only a moment of time is because any definite period of time is as an infinitesimal <wrap hide>129|00:13:05|450|00:13:08|770</wrap>when compared with eternal duration. <wrap hide>130|00:13:09|530|00:13:19|410</wrap>And the consciousness of the great beings, the Masters and chohans, has taken into itself <wrap hide>131|00:13:19|410|00:13:22|350</wrap>the reality of eternal duration. <wrap hide>132|00:13:23|030|00:13:24|770</wrap>They feel eternal duration. <wrap hide>133|00:13:24|990|00:13:26|910</wrap>They live in eternal duration. <wrap hide>134|00:13:27|150|00:13:31|990</wrap>Thus even though we have a twenty-five thousand year period, it is just the blink of an eye. <wrap hide>135|00:13:32|630|00:13:39|070</wrap>As is, paradoxically, any vast period of definite time. <wrap hide>136|00:13:39|710|00:13:48|070</wrap>When you compare some definite span to endless duration, all definite spans reduce to an <wrap hide>137|00:13:48|070|00:13:53|570</wrap>infinitesimal, or like I like to call it, an infinitesimal instant. <wrap hide>138|00:13:54|510|00:14:03|190</wrap>Because infinitesimal, well mathematically it can be defined, but it becomes less and <wrap hide>139|00:14:03|190|00:14:04|810</wrap>less and less and never becomes nothing. <wrap hide>140|00:14:06|990|00:14:13|950</wrap>And obliterating past, <wrap quote>present and future in the radiant glory of the work accomplished.</wrap> <wrap hide>141|00:14:13|950|00:14:23|390</wrap>So, there is the sense of living in the eternal now. <wrap hide>142|00:14:23|850|00:14:30|350</wrap>The sense of living in the eternal now and rejoicing in the radiance of that eternal <wrap hide>143|00:14:30|350|00:14:31|230</wrap>now. <wrap hide>144|00:14:31|410|00:14:37|590</wrap>Because after all, it does no good to become impatient about eternal duration. <wrap hide>145|00:14:37|590|00:14:40|690</wrap>We always have been. <wrap hide>146|00:14:41|690|00:14:43|110</wrap>We always will be. <wrap hide>147|00:14:43|810|00:14:46|710</wrap>We can never be absent. <wrap hide>148|00:14:47|370|00:14:49|970</wrap>We must always be present. <wrap hide>149|00:14:50|710|00:14:58|170</wrap>When I say we, I don't mean the personal we, I mean the one principle of being, which <wrap hide>150|00:14:58|170|00:15:03|730</wrap>we are, and the principle of be-ness, which we even more fundamentally are, though that <wrap hide>151|00:15:03|730|00:15:05|930</wrap>cannot be defined. <wrap hide>152|00:15:06|790|00:15:13|070</wrap>So, it takes only a moment of time from the inner vision which somehow comprehends eternity <wrap hide>153|00:15:13|070|00:15:20|090</wrap>and you get lost in the joy, the creative joy of doing whatever the task is, knowing <wrap hide>154|00:15:20|090|00:15:22|890</wrap>that you have always had and will have forever. <wrap hide>155|00:15:23|130|00:15:32|910</wrap>Now that's a very different state of mind from the harried, worried, time-pressed state <wrap hide>156|00:15:32|910|00:15:37|690</wrap>of mind in which so many of us in the western world <wrap hide>157|00:15:37|690|00:15:38|370</wrap>live. <wrap hide>158|00:15:39|290|00:15:43|390</wrap>I certainly include my time-pressed self, or not self, really. <wrap hide>159|00:15:44|170|00:15:50|350</wrap>Okay, now we are dealing with the crosses and the signs. <wrap hide>160|00:15:52|470|00:15:59|450</wrap>Pages eighty-one to ninety and <wrap quote>we will follow man from sign to sign</wrap> backwards, by the way, <wrap hide>161|00:15:59|450|00:16:07|930</wrap>on the regressive wheel, the clockwise wheel, as he in travail and pain, and travail, travail, <wrap hide>162|00:16:09|110|00:16:16|270</wrap>it means work, and to a degree it means movement and travel, in travail and pain forges Vulcan <wrap hide>163|00:16:16|270|00:16:23|070</wrap>the equipment and develops painfully, since he's on the fourth path of pain, develops <wrap hide>164|00:16:23|070|00:16:28|970</wrap>painfully the mechanism <wrap quote>which will enable him to arrive at a major moment of crisis <wrap hide>165|00:16:29|830|00:16:39|630</wrap>in his cyclic life, wherein he begins to free himself from the path of the great illusion,</wrap> <wrap hide>166|00:16:40|830|00:16:46|230</wrap>which is the path of dense form, in a certain respect, along <wrap quote>which he has traveled for aeons <wrap hide>167|00:16:46|230|00:16:54|150</wrap>from Aries to Taurus via Pisces, and reversing himself will begin to travel the path of light <wrap hide>168|00:16:54|150|00:17:02|330</wrap>from Aries to Pisces via Taurus,</wrap> and will completely appropriate and utilize the energies <wrap hide>169|00:17:02|330|00:17:06|990</wrap>of the signs of the zodiac and the planets in a different way, which is oriented towards <wrap hide>170|00:17:06|990|00:17:13|310</wrap>his spiritual nature and not towards more deeply embedding himself in form. <wrap hide>171|00:17:14|810|00:17:20|950</wrap>That moment of crisis, this is the reversal of the wheel, of which there are perhaps a <wrap hide>172|00:17:20|950|00:17:30|710</wrap>few reversing moments, but that first reversal I think occurs somewhere in the process of <wrap hide>173|00:17:30|710|00:17:38|250</wrap>the fifth petal of the egoic lotus, when a man begins to awaken to the higher of the <wrap hide>174|00:17:38|250|00:17:46|370</wrap>pairs of opposites found within his consciousness, and that is the higher self, higher power, <wrap hide>175|00:17:46|510|00:17:51|890</wrap>whatever we want to call it. Man at that period would not call it by the esoteric names that <wrap hide>176|00:17:51|890|00:17:52|670</wrap>we call it. <wrap hide>177|00:17:53|150|00:17:58|090</wrap>But anyway, there is a reorientation of the consciousness and a change in the direction <wrap hide>178|00:17:58|090|00:18:04|830</wrap>of desire, and now there is a dual desire, not just towards the lower unity of the personality, <wrap hide>179|00:18:04|830|00:18:16|350</wrap>but upwards towards an unknown, unspecified sensed higher presence, which is our higher <wrap hide>180|00:18:16|350|00:18:16|790</wrap>self. <wrap hide>181|00:18:17|990|00:18:25|830</wrap>So we are going to take man from sign to sign as he travels in pain. <wrap hide>182|00:18:26|170|00:18:32|350</wrap>I am sure we all are understanding that about our lives, and when we get to see the big <wrap hide>183|00:18:32|350|00:18:39|830</wrap>movie, you know, with all of our lives strung point to point to point, I hope we have the <wrap hide>184|00:18:39|830|00:18:49|650</wrap>objectivity to learn from it and increase our wisdom and to not become overly involved. <wrap hide>185|00:18:49|870|00:18:55|570</wrap>I think by the time we are allowed to see the movie, as it were, we will have that kind <wrap hide>186|00:18:55|570|00:19:02|570</wrap>of objectivity as if we are looking almost at someone else pass through all of these <wrap hide>187|00:19:02|570|00:19:09|630</wrap>experiences, but I am sure it will be a shock and I am sure it will be a great learning <wrap hide>188|00:19:09|630|00:19:10|110</wrap>experience. <wrap hide>189|00:19:10|550|00:19:16|290</wrap>I am reminded of the book, a poem, a great poem called "The Light of Asia" by Sir Edwin <wrap hide>190|00:19:16|290|00:19:22|390</wrap>Arnold who was an eminent theosophical author in the days of the early Theosophical Society, <wrap hide>191|00:19:22|390|00:19:28|390</wrap>and it talked about the Buddha under the Bodhi tree and how he saw all his lives like <wrap hide>192|00:19:28|390|00:19:36|350</wrap>pearls on a string, and I think Arnold deals with some of what those lives were, even life <wrap hide>193|00:19:36|350|00:19:47|050</wrap>as a tiger. Maybe that's symbolic, I don't know, but even some pre-human lives were revealed. <wrap hide>194|00:19:47|050|00:19:53|850</wrap>Anyway, we don't have that kind of objectivity upon our personal selves at this time. <wrap hide>195|00:19:54|250|00:19:59|530</wrap>Maybe there are moments when we have returned to our soul consciousness between lives and <wrap hide>196|00:19:59|530|00:20:04|710</wrap>we can see a little bit backwards and a little bit ahead, but probably only so far as it <wrap hide>197|00:20:04|710|00:20:07|090</wrap>would be useful for us to see. <wrap hide>198|00:20:07|850|00:20:12|730</wrap>But one day all will be revealed, all will come into the light. <wrap hide>199|00:20:12|730|00:20:17|510</wrap>The memory of nature is strong, it is complete, it is exact. <wrap hide>200|00:20:18|430|00:20:26|490</wrap>Nothing will escape our view and I am sure it will be a great learning experience. <wrap hide>201|00:20:27|890|00:20:38|870</wrap>Okay, now <wrap quote>this changing experience is expressed for us most beautifully in the sixth section <wrap hide>202|00:20:38|870|00:20:39|850</wrap>of the Old Commentary.</wrap> <wrap hide>203|00:20:39|850|00:20:44|750</wrap>There's a hint. I wonder how many sections the Old Commentary has, I wonder where the <wrap hide>204|00:20:44|750|00:20:46|010</wrap>Old Commentary is kept. <wrap hide>205|00:20:47|370|00:20:52|370</wrap>Sometimes it seems like it is a book like a normal book, though worn very thin. <wrap hide>206|00:20:52|910|00:20:59|710</wrap>At other times it seems that it could be in a non-physical library. <wrap hide>207|00:21:01|980|00:21:08|050</wrap>Certainly it's older than any of the present religions that we have, who these religions <wrap hide>208|00:21:08|050|00:21:16|610</wrap>considering themselves vaunted religions have to consider the kinds of esoteric knowledge <wrap hide>209|00:21:16|610|00:21:21|210</wrap>there were in Atlantis and even in Lemuria. <wrap hide>210|00:21:21|450|00:21:25|570</wrap>Of course we believe in those things, but so many people do not. <wrap hide>211|00:21:26|510|00:21:30|490</wrap>They think it's the merest fancy and why do we believe in those things? <wrap hide>212|00:21:30|770|00:21:37|210</wrap>Well, maybe having seen enough and experienced enough it just seems to us the most reasonable, <wrap hide>213|00:21:37|210|00:21:44|810</wrap>most logical, and we tend to trust those who speak of those things, the teachers of the <wrap hide>214|00:21:44|810|00:21:46|830</wrap>Trans-Himalayan wisdom. <wrap hide>215|00:21:48|010|00:21:54|390</wrap>From the Old Commentary, "The cross of many changes," A.A.B. puts in here the mutable cross, <wrap hide>216|00:21:55|210|00:22:04|410</wrap>"continues with its whirling like the swastika carrying crucified thereon the form of a man <wrap hide>217|00:22:05|190|00:22:08|470</wrap>in whom is found the seed of all illusion." <wrap hide>218|00:22:08|630|00:22:19|070</wrap>That seed of all illusion in a way is a seed of all illusion, is ahamkara, or that sense <wrap hide>219|00:22:19|070|00:22:24|770</wrap>of limited, separated, distinct, and permanent I-ness. <wrap hide>220|00:22:25|670|00:22:29|950</wrap>Well maybe there's nothing wrong with a permanent sense of I-ness, but it's wrong if that permanent <wrap hide>221|00:22:29|950|00:22:36|570</wrap>sense of I-ness is associated with certain vehicles and states which one considers also to <wrap hide>222|00:22:36|570|00:22:47|210</wrap>be permanent because all of that which the observer observes is our aggregations, a Buddhist <wrap hide>223|00:22:47|210|00:22:55|830</wrap>word which I have used many times in the past and which was reinforced in my mind visiting <wrap hide>224|00:22:55|830|00:22:57|830</wrap>the Kalachakra recently. <wrap hide>225|00:22:58|310|00:23:07|770</wrap>"The cross of many changes continues with its whirling," whirling down into a matter, whirling <wrap hide>226|00:23:07|770|00:23:15|570</wrap>in the direction of the swastika, not the rightward pointing swastika but the leftward <wrap hide>227|00:23:15|570|00:23:23|730</wrap>pointing swastika, "crucified thereon the form of a man." <wrap hide>228|00:23:24|490|00:23:29|830</wrap>The mutable cross is all about a form in whom the seed is found, the seed of all illusions, <wrap hide>229|00:23:30|610|00:23:37|110</wrap>that sense of permanent I-ness and the sense that that I is the center of all things <wrap hide>230|00:23:37|110|00:23:44|990</wrap>and thus distorts perception so that the perceptions become illusory. <wrap hide>231|00:23:45|170|00:23:51|870</wrap>When that I in Leo shrinks to the merest point and then disappears, the relinquished <wrap hide>232|00:23:51|870|00:23:59|030</wrap>point it is called, then perhaps it is possible to see in a way that is not illusory, though <wrap hide>233|00:23:59|030|00:24:05|190</wrap>in a certain sense the entire universe is a great illusion, though a necessary one when <wrap hide>234|00:24:05|190|00:24:07|330</wrap>compared with absoluteness. <wrap hide>235|00:24:12|490|00:24:17|950</wrap>But from the cross whereon he has been slain, as we are all crucified on one or other of <wrap hide>236|00:24:17|950|00:24:22|130</wrap>the crosses, but from the cross whereon he has been slain, though he knew it not, <wrap hide>237|00:24:22|210|00:24:29|310</wrap>because he is not yet conscious, certainly not very self-conscious, the man climbs down <wrap hide>238|00:24:29|890|00:24:35|890</wrap>and feels his way, feels rather than thinks his way, because he is a feeling, astro-depolarized <wrap hide>239|00:24:36|670|00:24:45|770</wrap>sentient being, and feels his way with pain and many tears on to another cross, and this <wrap hide>240|00:24:45|770|00:24:51|990</wrap>cross too does not offer complete relief, a cross of blinding light, of fiery pain, <wrap hide>241|00:24:52|130|00:24:54|650</wrap>of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. <wrap hide>242|00:24:54|650|00:25:02|350</wrap>I am so fond of quoting that particular part, because it relates to the four fixed signs <wrap hide>243|00:25:02|350|00:25:07|970</wrap>of the zodiac: the blinding light of Taurus, the fiery pain of Leo, the bitter woe of Scorpio, <wrap hide>244|00:25:08|050|00:25:13|570</wrap>and yet the cross of liberation, Aquarius, the sign of liberation. <wrap hide>245|00:25:13|570|00:25:20|890</wrap><wrap quote>It is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel,</wrap> the solar angel, <wrap hide>246|00:25:21|570|00:25:24|130</wrap>the angel of the presence. <wrap hide>247|00:25:24|490|00:25:32|950</wrap>So we see that our entire path of human evolution has many tears and much pain, and although <wrap hide>248|00:25:32|950|00:25:40|350</wrap>let's just say that the tears become more purposeful, and the pain more purposeful upon <wrap hide>249|00:25:40|350|00:25:45|830</wrap>the fixed cross. Upon the mutable cross we don't know why it's happening to us, "What's <wrap hide>250|00:25:45|830|00:25:54|150</wrap>this all about? Why is this happening to me?" You know, there is a confusion about the life <wrap hide>251|00:25:54|150|00:25:58|690</wrap>processes and the man is bewildered. He doesn't know where he came from, he doesn't know where <wrap hide>252|00:25:58|690|00:26:07|130</wrap>he's going, but on the fixed cross, and thereby chooses some pretty wild destinies, like the <wrap hide>253|00:26:07|130|00:26:15|930</wrap>destiny of an eternal heaven or paradise after a single life, or an origin made by God this <wrap hide>254|00:26:15|930|00:26:22|770</wrap>time, this soul, new and freshly made by God for one life upon this earth. <wrap hide>255|00:26:22|850|00:26:28|930</wrap>Well, those who have entered the ageless wisdom and have been thinking in more philosophical <wrap hide>256|00:26:28|930|00:26:38|950</wrap>and expansive terms realize how limited that way of thinking is, but it's very hard to <wrap hide>257|00:26:38|950|00:26:44|550</wrap>convince anybody of their own limitations unless they themselves are in the process <wrap hide>258|00:26:44|550|00:26:51|250</wrap>of outgrowing those limitations through their own frustration concerning them. <wrap hide>259|00:26:52|110|00:26:57|250</wrap>There arises that mantra which is so important: "Surely there must be more, there must be more <wrap hide>260|00:26:57|250|00:27:06|850</wrap>than this," and that opens the door for the great search for which, in relation to which, <wrap hide>261|00:27:06|990|00:27:09|030</wrap>the ageless wisdom can be so important. <wrap hide>262|00:27:09|890|00:27:15|550</wrap>And here's the third stanza: "Behind the cross another cross appears, but that he may not <wrap hide>263|00:27:15|550|00:27:16|090</wrap>reach. <wrap hide>264|00:27:16|870|00:27:22|770</wrap>The angel guards the way, the angel of the presence, until the bull has rent and torn <wrap hide>265|00:27:23|310|00:27:24|070</wrap>the man. <wrap hide>266|00:27:24|830|00:27:34|690</wrap>Okay, so there the power of Taurus must in a way destroy the personality satisfaction <wrap hide>267|00:27:34|690|00:27:36|330</wrap>and personality desire. <wrap hide>268|00:27:37|050|00:27:43|290</wrap>And then the light shines forth, until the serpent red has wrestled with the man and <wrap hide>269|00:27:43|290|00:27:44|190</wrap>brought him to his knees." <wrap hide>270|00:27:44|370|00:27:48|690</wrap>We jump over to Scorpio, the other side of the fixed cross, opposite Taurus. <wrap hide>271|00:27:48|690|00:27:55|210</wrap>The serpent of illusion, the dweller of the threshold, the hydra, has wrestled with the <wrap hide>272|00:27:55|210|00:27:57|470</wrap>man and brought him to his knees. <wrap hide>273|00:27:57|470|00:28:03|210</wrap>As we know in the story of Scorpio, it is from one's knees that the hydra of illusion <wrap hide>274|00:28:03|210|00:28:11|190</wrap>can be lifted into the clarifying Buddhic air from which all illusion is seen for what <wrap hide>275|00:28:11|190|00:28:17|810</wrap>it is, and then the lifting up into the light of the whole personality, and the man becomes <wrap hide>276|00:28:17|810|00:28:24|210</wrap>Buddhically conscious. "Until the lion, the king of beasts, has been tamed, and the secret <wrap hide>277|00:28:24|210|00:28:25|770</wrap>of the sphinx revealed." <wrap hide>278|00:28:26|230|00:28:34|890</wrap>And the secret of the sphinx from one tradition is the nature of man himself. <wrap hide>279|00:28:34|890|00:28:36|250</wrap>Who are you, you know? <wrap hide>280|00:28:37|250|00:28:47|090</wrap>"What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs <wrap hide>281|00:28:47|090|00:28:47|770</wrap>in the evening?" <wrap hide>282|00:28:48|230|00:28:54|750</wrap>It is man, you know: the little child crawling, the upright erect man, two legs, and then <wrap hide>283|00:28:54|750|00:28:58|390</wrap>with the help of a cane, the older individual. <wrap hide>284|00:28:59|230|00:28:59|950</wrap>It is man. <wrap hide>285|00:29:00|050|00:29:01|950</wrap>That is one of the secrets of the sphinx. <wrap hide>286|00:29:02|410|00:29:05|130</wrap>And was it Theseus? <wrap hide>287|00:29:06|490|00:29:14|250</wrap>Who was it that was able to answer the riddle of the sphinx, I think with a little help? <wrap hide>288|00:29:14|910|00:29:21|070</wrap>And then the revelation of the inner light, the inner light of true identity, the light <wrap hide>289|00:29:21|070|00:29:25|790</wrap>upon the light of the soul and the light of the monad, which we can also associate with <wrap hide>290|00:29:25|790|00:29:26|050</wrap>Leo. <wrap hide>291|00:29:26|470|00:29:33|050</wrap>Until the man has lifted up his waterpot, obviously the waterbearer Aquarius enjoined <wrap hide>292|00:29:33|050|00:29:38|730</wrap>the ranks of those who are the waterbearers, and then the flowing of the stream of life, <wrap hide>293|00:29:38|730|00:29:47|850</wrap>a greater stream, will fill his waterpot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its <wrap hide>294|00:29:47|850|00:29:56|530</wrap>source and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light, hid by the <wrap hide>295|00:29:56|530|00:29:57|150</wrap>final cross. <wrap hide>296|00:29:57|190|00:30:02|810</wrap>So when we finish our task in Aquarius, which may be at the fourth or even fifth initiation, <wrap hide>297|00:30:02|810|00:30:10|290</wrap>we are prepared to mount through the sacrifice of all and the sharing of all the final or <wrap hide>298|00:30:10|290|00:30:11|310</wrap>cardinal cross. <wrap hide>299|00:30:12|170|00:30:19|490</wrap>Then from the cross of man the initiate finds his way—the cross of man, which I assumed <wrap hide>300|00:30:19|490|00:30:31|530</wrap>was one of the earlier crosses—passes the angel of the Presence, penetrating the golden <wrap hide>301|00:30:31|530|00:30:36|890</wrap>veil, as the Christ did, rending the veil so that the light can go through, mounts the <wrap hide>302|00:30:36|890|00:30:43|750</wrap>major cross, and passes into day, the final day of true spirit illumination. <wrap hide>303|00:30:44|090|00:30:51|130</wrap><wrap quote>The wheel for him stands still,</wrap> which means time no longer exerts its spell upon him. <wrap hide>304|00:30:51|310|00:30:59|150</wrap><wrap quote>The sun and stars for him fade out,</wrap> perhaps in the oneness of all life, and <wrap quote>a great light <wrap hide>305|00:30:59|150|00:31:00|110</wrap>is seen.</wrap> <wrap hide>306|00:31:00|110|00:31:06|810</wrap>Now tell you what, I am going to read this thing without my own interference, my own <wrap hide>307|00:31:06|810|00:31:13|850</wrap>commentary, which is simply for the purposes of study, but is not good for the purposes <wrap hide>308|00:31:13|850|00:31:18|510</wrap>of getting the feel of the great stanzas written here. <wrap hide>309|00:31:19|060|00:31:26|010</wrap><wrap quote>The cross of many changes continues with its whirling, carrying crucified thereon the form <wrap hide>310|00:31:26|010|00:31:30|710</wrap>of a man in whom is found the seed of all illusion. <wrap hide>1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360</wrap>But from the cross whereon he has been slain, in though he knew it not, the man climbs down <wrap hide>312|00:31:38|250|00:31:45|950</wrap>and feels his way, with pain and many tears, on to another cross—a cross of blinding <wrap hide>313|00:31:45|950|00:31:51|070</wrap>light, of fiery pain, of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation.</wrap> <wrap hide>314|00:31:51|630|00:31:57|890</wrap>It is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel. <wrap hide>315|00:32:00|590|00:32:06|750</wrap><wrap quote>Behind the cross another cross appears, but that he may not reach. The angel guards the <wrap hide>316|00:32:06|750|00:32:14|130</wrap>way until the bull has rent and torn the man, and then the light shines forth; until the <wrap hide>317|00:32:14|130|00:32:20|250</wrap>serpent red has wrestled with the man and brought him to his knees, and then the lifting <wrap hide>318|00:32:20|250|00:32:26|550</wrap>up into the light; until the lion has been tamed, the secret of the sphinx revealed, <wrap hide>319|00:32:26|830|00:32:34|730</wrap>and then the revelation of the inner light; until the man has lifted up his water-pot <wrap hide>320|00:32:34|730|00:32:40|610</wrap>and joined the ranks of those who are the water-bearers, and then the flowing of the <wrap hide>321|00:32:40|610|00:32:46|970</wrap>stream of life will fill his water-pot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its source, <wrap hide>322|00:32:47|310|00:32:53|810</wrap>and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light hid by the final <wrap hide>323|00:32:53|810|00:32:54|430</wrap>cross. <wrap hide>1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360</wrap>Then from the cross of man the initiate finds his way, passes the angel and leaves behind <wrap hide>325|00:33:02|010|00:33:09|570</wrap>the inner torn veil, mounts the major cross, and passes into day, the final day.</wrap> The wheel <wrap hide>326|00:33:09|570|00:33:16|950</wrap>for him stands still, the sun and stars for him fade out, a great light is seen as the <wrap hide>327|00:33:16|970|00:33:17|430</wrap>land. <wrap hide>328|00:33:18|970|00:33:28|850</wrap>The endless journey is indicated. He will tread the way of higher evolution as a liberated <wrap hide>329|00:33:28|850|00:33:37|130</wrap>monad. The whole story of man is told there and in various stanzas of the old commentary. <wrap hide>330|00:33:37|710|00:33:46|950</wrap>You think about what people believe today and the poverty of what they believe, and <wrap hide>331|00:33:48|250|00:33:54|410</wrap>it's incredible, invaluable, not only to be preserved but to be promoted and to be protected. <wrap hide>332|00:33:58|370|00:34:07|710</wrap>Okay, I always love that. That stanza, by the way, the final day I see the greatest <wrap hide>333|00:34:07|710|00:34:16|790</wrap>light, the overcoming of time, there's something I wanted to say. Yes, we must kill the king <wrap hide>334|00:34:16|790|00:34:23|870</wrap>of beasts in Leo before the inner light can break forth. While we are still in that beast <wrap hide>335|00:34:24|330|00:34:31|250</wrap>stage of the aggressive lower ego, there's no way the inner light can shine forth. Also, <wrap hide>336|00:34:31|250|00:34:37|370</wrap>when you think about how the servers on the path of magnetic work serve from the cosmic <wrap hide>337|00:34:37|370|00:34:46|770</wrap>astral plane sending streams of pure cosmic astral energy into our astral plane, there's <wrap hide>338|00:34:46|770|00:34:52|490</wrap>a very rancid pool and cleansing its source because so much of the negative emotion is <wrap hide>339|00:34:52|490|00:35:01|750</wrap>drawn off and replaced by purer energy. So, you know, read that path of magnetic work <wrap hide>340|00:35:01|750|00:35:09|510</wrap>and how those particular masters work with the rose light and how they work upon our <wrap hide>341|00:35:09|510|00:35:16|190</wrap>systemic astral plane from the cosmic astral plane. It is a great act of service, and I <wrap hide>342|00:35:16|190|00:35:20|330</wrap>find the suggestion here, the similarity here. <wrap hide>343|00:35:26|330|00:35:34|250</wrap><wrap quote>The three crosses on Mount Golgotha were biblical symbols of these three astrological crosses: <wrap hide>344|00:35:35|190|00:35:38|730</wrap>the common or mutable cross, the fixed cross, and the cardinal cross.</wrap> Maybe he'll talk <wrap hide>345|00:35:38|730|00:35:43|570</wrap>about the three thieves. No, I don't think he does, so I'll just mention it. It gets <wrap hide>346|00:35:43|570|00:35:49|330</wrap>mentioned later in the book. The cardinal cross is where the Lord the Christ is crucified. <wrap hide>347|00:35:50|570|00:35:59|130</wrap>The mutable cross is where the unrepentant thief is crucified, and he has no wisdom or <wrap hide>348|00:35:59|130|00:36:04|890</wrap>understanding to listen to the Christ. But the repentant thief is crucified on the fixed <wrap hide>349|00:36:04|890|00:36:13|550</wrap>cross. He has reoriented his life, and he believes what Jesus says. And Jesus says that <wrap hide>350|00:36:13|570|00:36:22|070</wrap>even today you will be in heaven with me before the Father—words to that effect. So, it's <wrap hide>351|00:36:22|070|00:36:31|350</wrap>really amazing how the great symbols do show up during these incredible, decisive moments <wrap hide>352|00:36:31|350|00:36:38|130</wrap>in human history. I mean, who would look at those three crosses and think of the three <wrap hide>353|00:36:38|130|00:36:44|230</wrap>crosses in the heavens and what they stand for? You know, the great liberated being is <wrap hide>354|00:36:44|230|00:36:53|210</wrap>being liberated onto the cardinal cross. Jesus is passing from the no man's land, from <wrap hide>355|00:36:53|210|00:36:58|550</wrap>the neither of the fixed cardinal cross onto the cardinal cross after the fourth initiation, <wrap hide>356|00:36:58|550|00:37:04|550</wrap>or certainly by the fifth initiation, mounting the cardinal cross. On the mutable cross, <wrap hide>357|00:37:04|550|00:37:09|610</wrap>it is the cross not only of many changes but of great ignorance. And so how in the world <wrap hide>358|00:37:09|610|00:37:16|110</wrap>would one recognize the Christ truly when still blinded by the elemental life and personality <wrap hide>359|00:37:16|730|00:37:21|030</wrap>of the unrepentant thief? But when you are starting to live as a soul and you realize <wrap hide>360|00:37:21|030|00:37:27|270</wrap>there is more and you've reoriented yourself, you've reversed the wheel and you are moving <wrap hide>361|00:37:27|270|00:37:32|850</wrap>towards a spiritual life, then you can recognize the Christ. Then you can listen to Jesus. <wrap hide>362|00:37:32|850|00:37:44|870</wrap>Then you can believe. So those are the symbols. Okay, I don't know if you heard that, but someone <wrap hide>363|00:37:44|870|00:38:02|730</wrap>was trying to call me. I can't interrupt the webinar when that happens. Okay, page 83. <wrap hide>364|00:38:03|590|00:38:12|850</wrap><wrap quote>I would ask you to remember that though I shall trace the progress of the man from sign <wrap hide>365|00:38:12|850|00:38:21|530</wrap>to sign around the zodiacal way, yet there is not necessarily this ordered sequence of <wrap hide>366|00:38:21|530|00:38:27|910</wrap>travel or the smooth passage from sign to sign as I may portray it.</wrap> This is somehow <wrap hide>367|00:38:27|910|00:38:35|270</wrap>so important. You know, we've asked ourselves: how does a man travel when he is born from <wrap hide>368|00:38:35|270|00:38:43|130</wrap>life to life? Is he born in the next sign in an orderly way? Does he always die in the <wrap hide>369|00:38:43|130|00:38:50|110</wrap>month of sign which is placed after the sign in which he is born? And D.K. tells us no, it <wrap hide>370|00:38:50|110|00:38:57|890</wrap>is not necessarily so. But the word "necessarily," of course, gives you pause—not necessarily <wrap hide>371|00:38:58|630|00:39:09|970</wrap>so. It may be possible that there is a sequential travel. There may be times when there is sequential <wrap hide>372|00:39:09|970|00:39:17|090</wrap>travel, let us say, on the reverse wheel from Aries to Gemini to Aries to Taurus to Gemini <wrap hide>373|00:39:17|090|00:39:22|950</wrap>to Cancer and so forth, or backwards in a sequential manner from Aries to Pisces to Aquarius to <wrap hide>374|00:39:22|950|00:39:29|550</wrap>Capricorn and so forth, but not necessarily. But this is a good heuristic method; it's <wrap hide>375|00:39:29|550|00:39:35|610</wrap>a method of teaching, and it's a method which gives us the sense of continuity even though <wrap hide>376|00:39:35|610|00:39:44|430</wrap>in real life it may not occur in that way. <wrap quote>All souls come into incarnation in the sign <wrap hide>377|00:39:44|430|00:39:52|050</wrap>Cancer.</wrap> By that I mean <wrap quote>that the very first human incarnation was always taken in this <wrap hide>378|00:39:52|050|00:40:00|830</wrap>sign,</wrap> which has been recognized down the ages <wrap quote>as the doorway into life of those who must <wrap hide>379|00:40:00|830|00:40:07|990</wrap>know death, just as the constellation Capricorn is ever regarded as another door and is called <wrap hide>380|00:40:07|990|00:40:20|070</wrap>esoterically the doorway into life of those who know not death.</wrap> Now the question about <wrap hide>381|00:40:20|070|00:40:28|050</wrap>incarnation in Cancer has to be examined because later he talks about that in quite <wrap hide>382|00:40:28|050|00:40:34|870</wrap>a different way. All souls come into incarnation in the sign Cancer. I think there is a group <wrap hide>383|00:40:34|870|00:40:40|330</wrap>incarnation, in a way, in the sign Cancer. <wrap quote>By this I mean</wrap>—and he does seem quite specific— <wrap hide>384|00:40:41|070|00:40:48|030</wrap>that the very first human incarnation was always taken in this sign. Now what I'd like <wrap hide>385|00:40:48|030|00:41:00|250</wrap>to do is to find another reference which shows us something of this nature, but which may <wrap hide>386|00:41:00|250|00:41:05|030</wrap>have a slightly different interpretation. So I'll pause just for a minute to do that. <wrap hide>387|00:41:09|110|00:41:18|010</wrap>Here is what I want to say: I found the reference, and it says Cancer is a human being who has <wrap hide>388|00:41:19|530|00:41:28|370</wrap>a very different view. Gemini and Sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets <wrap hide>389|00:41:28|370|00:41:35|270</wrap>because Earth is more closely related to Venus than to any other planet. Thus, you have the <wrap hide>390|00:41:35|270|00:41:47|870</wrap>six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form entered into in Cancer. As <wrap hide>391|00:41:47|870|00:41:55|650</wrap>this I mean the birth of the human kingdom, and in Pisces as far as the individual is <wrap hide>392|00:41:55|650|00:42:05|730</wrap>concerned from Esoteric Astrology 131. So we have to compare this, this bondage of form, <wrap hide>393|00:42:06|450|00:42:12|630</wrap>with the statement that was just made about the very first human incarnation is always <wrap hide>394|00:42:12|630|00:42:22|530</wrap>taken in this sign. We will put this in here and maybe change the color a little bit, and <wrap hide>395|00:42:22|530|00:42:31|810</wrap>possibly the size, because it seems the very first human incarnation is taken here. But <wrap hide>396|00:42:31|810|00:42:36|670</wrap>we're talking about entering into form as far as the mass of humanity is concerned. <wrap hide>397|00:42:37|190|00:42:43|270</wrap>So perhaps there is something called the incarnation of the human family in Cancer, <wrap hide>398|00:42:43|810|00:42:54|850</wrap>but the term "individual" is used, and we have an interesting mantra connected with Pisces: <wrap hide>399|00:42:55|070|00:43:02|340</wrap>"Go forth into matter." Now that sounds very much like the first individual incarnation, <wrap hide>400|00:43:02|920|00:43:13|740</wrap>so I think we cannot come to a definite conclusion here but must compare these different statements. <wrap hide>401|00:43:15|360|00:43:22|180</wrap>That's why it's so important to well read the books, you know, because something maybe <wrap hide>402|00:43:22|180|00:43:29|100</wrap>said that's very definite, but it will be modified slightly later on in the same book or in a <wrap hide>403|00:43:29|100|00:43:33|600</wrap>different book, and you'll get a different perspective upon the same idea. Suffice it <wrap hide>404|00:43:33|600|00:43:41|960</wrap>to say either in Cancer and Pisces, in which Neptune is important, Neptune and the moon <wrap hide>405|00:43:41|960|00:43:49|140</wrap>are important in both, but certainly Neptune found in relation to both, we have going down <wrap hide>406|00:43:49|140|00:43:55|720</wrap>into the water, into the ocean, into the ocean of matter: "Go forth into matter." Both of these <wrap hide>407|00:43:55|720|00:44:02|760</wrap>signs are connected with the ocean of matter, and the individual, the new individual, becomes <wrap hide>408|00:44:02|760|00:44:09|420</wrap>the fish swimming in the ocean of matter but swimming blindly and unconsciously. Anyway, <wrap hide>409|00:44:09|420|00:44:15|960</wrap>these are amazing words when you consider Cancer as the doorway. I often mistakenly <wrap hide>410|00:44:15|960|00:44:23|540</wrap>say "gate," but it's "doorway"—the doorway into life, the life of the physical plane of those <wrap hide>411|00:44:23|540|00:44:30|420</wrap>who must know death. They must know death of compromised consciousness. They had a great <wrap hide>412|00:44:30|420|00:44:37|660</wrap>consciousness on the monadic level, but as an individualized, limited, strictured being, <wrap hide>413|00:44:38|480|00:44:47|080</wrap>that type of widened consciousness dies, and they learn the death of consciousness within <wrap hide>414|00:44:48|100|00:44:55|600</wrap>oppressive form. Just as the constellation Capricorn is ever regarded as another door <wrap hide>415|00:44:55|600|00:45:03|080</wrap>and is called esoterically the doorway into life of those who know not death. So we are <wrap hide>416|00:45:03|080|00:45:13|160</wrap>reminded here, excuse me, of one of the names associated with the type of will connected <wrap hide>417|00:45:13|160|00:45:22|880</wrap>with Capricorn, and it's called "the will that conquers death." So we, through the process <wrap hide>418|00:45:22|880|00:45:31|700</wrap>of initiation, are elevated into the Arupa worlds where we cannot be suffocated or killed <wrap hide>419|00:45:31|700|00:45:39|420</wrap>by form, and we come in touch with the first aspect of divinity through Capricorn, the <wrap hide>420|00:45:39|420|00:45:47|440</wrap>first aspect. Notice that in Cancer the first aspect of divinity is not found, only the <wrap hide>421|00:45:47|440|00:45:53|620</wrap>third ray and the seventh ray. But in Capricorn the seventh ray is found, the third ray is <wrap hide>422|00:45:53|620|00:46:02|900</wrap>found, and the first ray. So Capricorn introduces us through the process of initiation gradually <wrap hide>423|00:46:02|900|00:46:10|600</wrap>into contact with the life force, the life aspect. <wrap quote>As the ages slip away, the man passes <wrap hide>424|00:46:10|600|00:46:16|980</wrap>into and out of all the signs.</wrap> We have experience in all the signs; in our thousands of lives <wrap hide>425|00:46:16|980|00:46:25|200</wrap>we have experience in all the signs. <wrap quote>The particular sign being determined by the nature of the <wrap hide>426|00:46:25|200|00:46:32|880</wrap>personality ray,</wrap> which changes—itself changes, <wrap quote>as you know, from life to life</wrap>—changes in <wrap hide>427|00:46:32|900|00:46:37|580</wrap>life. Well, normally you would think that the personality ray would be determined by the <wrap hide>428|00:46:37|580|00:46:46|360</wrap>sign, so this is one of those paradoxical statements. Well, you know, and the question is we don't <wrap hide>429|00:46:46|360|00:46:52|220</wrap>have an emergent personality ray during all of those lives, but maybe we have, I don't <wrap hide>430|00:46:52|220|00:46:57|160</wrap>know, something called a latent personality ray. I've thought about this a long time, you <wrap hide>431|00:46:57|160|00:47:05|420</wrap>know. Before the personality ray emerges, do we have a personality ray, or has suddenly <wrap hide>432|00:47:05|420|00:47:12|480</wrap>D.K. jumped quite a few incarnations until indeed we do have an emergent personality ray? We're <wrap hide>433|00:47:12|480|00:47:26|560</wrap>born in all the signs, but can the sign be determined by the personality ray? This is <wrap hide>434|00:47:26|560|00:47:34|540</wrap>different ruling planets which express different rays, and every sign has its own emitted or <wrap hide>435|00:47:34|540|00:47:41|060</wrap>transmitted ray. The constellation or the sign itself has that, but we can have a personality <wrap hide>436|00:47:41|060|00:47:49|220</wrap>ray which does not accord at all with the sign in which we were born or even the planets <wrap hide>437|00:47:49|660|00:47:56|560</wrap>which express through that sign. For instance, suppose I'm a seventh ray personality. I'm <wrap hide>438|00:47:56|560|00:48:06|260</wrap>going to be born in all the signs, probably. And well, the question is: will I be born in <wrap hide>439|00:48:06|260|00:48:12|100</wrap>all the signs when I have a particular personality ray, or does my ray have to change in order <wrap hide>440|00:48:12|100|00:48:17|900</wrap>for me to be born in all the signs? Anyway, if I'm a seventh ray personality, it would <wrap hide>441|00:48:17|900|00:48:25|760</wrap>be very hard to be born in Gemini if I'm looking to Gemini to condition that ray, because through <wrap hide>442|00:48:25|760|00:48:33|440</wrap>Gemini it passes no seventh ray, and its rulers, which are Mercury, Venus, and the Earth, do <wrap hide>443|00:48:33|440|00:48:38|840</wrap>not have the seventh ray. So this is—you know, I want to make this very big—it's one of <wrap hide>444|00:48:38|840|00:48:47|880</wrap>those "ponder on this" statements. It's a very enigmatic statement. The first statement of <wrap hide>445|00:48:47|900|00:48:52|480</wrap>the particular sign in which we were born being determined by the nature of the personality <wrap hide>446|00:48:52|480|00:48:58|260</wrap>ray, <wrap quote>which itself changes.</wrap> So if my soul, the solar angel, decides that I must have a personality <wrap hide>447|00:48:58|260|00:49:05|060</wrap>ray of a certain kind, and it will not choose ray one or ray two for a personality ray because <wrap hide>448|00:49:05|060|00:49:12|180</wrap>it cannot until I am on the path, because man himself will not have a first or second ray <wrap hide>449|00:49:12|180|00:49:18|080</wrap>of personality until he is at least an aspirant. This is one of the quotes from D.K. I can find <wrap hide>450|00:49:18|080|00:49:25|100</wrap>it for you, but it was in—it was not in the book so much, but it was in another set of <wrap hide>451|00:49:25|100|00:49:33|180</wrap>papers that I think was given to the Arcane School. So in any case, if I have a particular <wrap hide>452|00:49:33|180|00:49:42|160</wrap>type of personality ray—say the fourth ray—am I limited in that incarnation to the fourth <wrap hide>453|00:49:42|180|00:49:52|620</wrap>ray, to a sign, to a birth in a sign which either through the sign or through the associated <wrap hide>454|00:49:52|620|00:49:59|680</wrap>planets can reinforce or correlate with that ray? Let's just say I have a fourth ray personality, <wrap hide>455|00:49:59|680|00:50:05|640</wrap>which sometimes I think I do. So anyway, this fourth ray personality—well, okay, it could <wrap hide>456|00:50:05|640|00:50:13|400</wrap>be born in Gemini. It could be born in Virgo—you know, Mercury is ruling there. It could <wrap hide>457|00:50:13|400|00:50:19|820</wrap>be born in Aries because esoterically Mercury is ruling there. Possibly hierarchically, it <wrap hide>458|00:50:19|820|00:50:25|060</wrap>could be born in Scorpio because Mercury hierarchically rules there, so that's four signs in which <wrap hide>459|00:50:25|060|00:50:35|300</wrap>it could be born. Now it could also be born in Taurus because Taurus has the fourth ray <wrap hide>460|00:50:35|300|00:50:40|540</wrap>emitting or transmitting, and again Scorpio, of course, because it's the major fourth ray <wrap hide>461|00:50:40|540|00:50:47|180</wrap>sign. It could be born in Sagittarius. So what have I done here? I've looked at how many <wrap hide>462|00:50:47|180|00:51:05|280</wrap>signs—six or seven—in which a fourth ray personality could be born, either because the rays are <wrap hide>463|00:51:05|280|00:51:14|040</wrap>different. Some of D.K.'s students were—let's say they were a sixth ray personality. They <wrap hide>464|00:51:14|040|00:51:21|070</wrap>were born in Gemini, a sixth ray personality. Nothing from Gemini is on the sixth ray, so <wrap hide>465|00:51:22|320|00:51:28|800</wrap>not the planets and not the sign itself. Okay, if you want to say, "Well, the submonadic ray <wrap hide>466|00:51:28|800|00:51:34|720</wrap>of Venus is the sixth ray," okay, but that's a bit far-fetched, isn't it? Venus, the esoteric <wrap hide>467|00:51:34|720|00:51:41|240</wrap>ruler, has a submonadic ray of the sixth—that's too far to go. So as the ages slip away, the <wrap hide>468|00:51:41|240|00:51:48|080</wrap>man passes into and out of all the signs, the particular sign being determined by the nature <wrap hide>469|00:51:48|920|00:51:59|980</wrap>of the personality ray. Now here's another point: nature may not mean number. Okay, so <wrap hide>470|00:51:59|980|00:52:11|720</wrap>here's nature, and I want to put in here: nature may not mean number. So we may be talking <wrap hide>471|00:52:11|720|00:52:19|320</wrap>instead about the quality or condition of the personality radiation which determines <wrap hide>472|00:52:20|620|00:52:29|960</wrap>the sign which is next needed by that personality radiation presence, nature, etc. It may not <wrap hide>473|00:52:29|980|00:52:40|160</wrap>mean the number. You know, so often people have looked at a statement that D.K. makes that <wrap hide>474|00:52:40|160|00:52:47|440</wrap>the sun determines the nature of the personality ray. I'm not quoting it exactly correctly— <wrap hide>475|00:52:47|440|00:52:52|020</wrap>I'd have to look it up—but anyway, they've always looked for the number. In other words, <wrap hide>476|00:52:52|020|00:52:58|320</wrap>the sun sign must somehow give the clue to the personality ray, but is it the clue to <wrap hide>477|00:52:58|320|00:53:04|960</wrap>the number of the personality ray, or is the personality ray considered in a way the personality <wrap hide>478|00:53:04|960|00:53:10|260</wrap>radiation, the quality of the personality, that which emanates from the personality—not necessarily <wrap hide>479|00:53:10|260|00:53:20|400</wrap>the number of the ray? So all I can do here is point out the difficulty and the fact that <wrap hide>480|00:53:20|400|00:53:28|300</wrap>it was probably unwise to jump to conclusions. In those signs, the sun signs are not necessarily— <wrap hide>481|00:53:28|320|00:53:34|320</wrap>whichever signs he enters, and he will enter all of them. You know, this seems to say, "Well, <wrap hide>482|00:53:34|320|00:53:41|120</wrap>he can't be in certain signs unless he has a certain number of personality rays." In other <wrap hide>483|00:53:41|120|00:53:45|640</wrap>words, the 6th ray personality can only be born in certain signs, but I tend to think <wrap hide>484|00:53:46|740|00:53:55|500</wrap>ultimately that is not true, because in D.K.'s group: 1st ray Gemini personality, 6th ray <wrap hide>485|00:53:55|500|00:54:00|600</wrap>Gemini personality, 7th ray Gemini personality—no problem with the 2nd ray Gemini personality, <wrap hide>486|00:54:00|600|00:54:07|660</wrap>and as far as 4 and 5 goes, that would be predictable. But there were 1, 6 and 7 personality rays <wrap hide>487|00:54:07|660|00:54:14|840</wrap>born in Gemini with the sun in Gemini. So perhaps it would not be wise for us to say <wrap hide>488|00:54:15|340|00:54:24|460</wrap>that if you have a certain personality ray, you cannot be born in all the signs, and perhaps <wrap hide>489|00:54:24|460|00:54:30|780</wrap>we have to look for another meaning of the word "personality ray," especially when we are <wrap hide>490|00:54:30|780|00:54:38|680</wrap>looking at the idea of the nature of the personality ray—the nature of it, not the number perhaps. <wrap hide>491|00:54:38|860|00:54:45|420</wrap>I know I'm repeating myself. OK, I'm just doing that in order to reinforce the idea in my <wrap hide>492|00:54:45|420|00:54:51|340</wrap>own mind so I can remember it, so I can discuss it with some people who might want to go deeper <wrap hide>493|00:54:51|340|00:54:59|320</wrap>into it. <wrap quote>In those signs he learns the needed lessons, broadens his horizon</wrap>—i.e., sees more, <wrap hide>494|00:54:59|880|00:55:05|080</wrap><wrap quote>integrates his personality,</wrap> albeit gradually, brings all the energies together into harmony, <wrap hide>495|00:55:05|580|00:55:11|200</wrap><wrap quote>begins to sense the conditioning soul,</wrap> the higher of the pairs of opposites, <wrap quote>and thus <wrap hide>496|00:55:11|200|00:55:20|380</wrap>discovers his essential duality.</wrap> Eventually, and especially when the middle set of petals <wrap hide>497|00:55:20|380|00:55:27|240</wrap>is being organized and is unfolding, he senses—begins to sense—the higher of the pairs of <wrap hide>498|00:55:27|240|00:55:32|720</wrap>opposites. By the time he reaches the sacrifice petals, he has experience with the higher of <wrap hide>499|00:55:32|720|00:55:38|220</wrap>the pairs of opposites and knows something of its nature—of the higher of the pairs of <wrap hide>500|00:55:38|220|00:55:43|300</wrap>opposites. When he is upon the path of discipleship—and here I include the path of initiation <wrap hide>501|00:55:44|380|00:55:49|700</wrap>because if you really look at it, every initiate is the disciple of a certain kind; they are <wrap hide>502|00:55:49|700|00:55:55|540</wrap>learning something, therefore they are disciplining themselves so that they can achieve that something <wrap hide>503|00:55:55|540|00:56:03|860</wrap>they are learning, and the master is the disciple, and even the Christ is the disciple. When <wrap hide>504|00:56:03|860|00:56:08|740</wrap>he is on the path of discipleship—and here I include the path of initiation—an occult rumor <wrap hide>505|00:56:10|240|00:56:14|940</wrap>(he doesn't tell us whether it's true or not, right? It's hearsay in a way), an occult rumor <wrap hide>506|00:56:14|940|00:56:22|240</wrap>says <wrap quote>that he then becomes conditioned by the tireless watcher</wrap>—not just the silent <wrap hide>507|00:56:22|240|00:56:29|260</wrap>watcher, but the tireless watcher (a very interesting phrase)<wrap quote>—and is subjected during the final stages <wrap hide>508|00:56:29|260|00:56:37|180</wrap>of the path to exactly twelve incarnations, passing one in each of the twelve signs.</wrap> The <wrap hide>509|00:56:37|180|00:56:44|920</wrap>question is: are they in order, and is an occult rumor accurate, and are there twelve incarnations <wrap hide>510|00:56:48|400|00:56:53|700</wrap>passing one in each of the twelve signs? The word "in" usually means you are born in a sign <wrap hide>511|00:56:54|230|00:56:59|060</wrap>with the sun in a sign. If you are born under a sign, it's the rising sign you are born <wrap hide>512|00:56:59|060|00:57:05|680</wrap>under. So will you have twelve incarnations with twelve different sun signs? D.K. leaves <wrap hide>513|00:57:05|680|00:57:14|340</wrap>it in the air, and probably we have one day to learn how to understand it, probably through <wrap hide>514|00:57:16|120|00:57:21|640</wrap>psychical research and the memory of past lives and the ability to read the record and <wrap hide>515|00:57:21|640|00:57:30|240</wrap>so forth, as the masters can do. In these twelve signs, surely we all do have to prove ourselves <wrap hide>516|00:57:30|240|00:57:34|980</wrap>in the twelve signs. The question is: do we have to have exactly twelve incarnations, or <wrap hide>517|00:57:34|980|00:57:44|320</wrap>can we double up, as it were? Can we prove ourselves in an incarnation along the way <wrap hide>518|00:57:44|340|00:57:51|540</wrap>our sun sign and rising sign line, and maybe a stellium line? Can we prove ourselves on <wrap hide>519|00:57:53|460|00:57:58|860</wrap>performing major tasks if our rising sign and sun sign are different, and can we accomplish <wrap hide>520|00:57:59|540|00:58:08|440</wrap>two of these proofs in one incarnation, or more? These are possibilities, but D.K. does <wrap hide>521|00:58:08|440|00:58:19|520</wrap>not dogmatize about this; he just says "an occult rumor says," and he's not affirming it <wrap hide>522|00:58:19|520|00:58:23|620</wrap>necessarily. But I'm sure we will have to prove ourselves in the twelve signs, and <wrap quote>in <wrap hide>523|00:58:23|620|00:58:30|440</wrap>them he has to prove himself,</wrap> attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations. <wrap hide>524|00:58:31|020|00:58:38|420</wrap>Note how he has just changed and interchanged the word "signs" and "constellations"—in the twelve <wrap hide>525|00:58:38|440|00:58:45|720</wrap>signs, part of the blinding technique. <wrap quote>Attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations <wrap hide>526|00:58:45|720|00:58:53|540</wrap>of the fixed cross, in particular:</wrap> Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. <wrap quote>From point to point, <wrap hide>1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360</wrap>stage to stage, and finally cross to cross, he fights for his spiritual life. In all the <wrap hide>528|00:59:01|720|00:59:07|900</wrap>twelve houses and all the twelve constellations</wrap>—although, you know, we're doing a multiple task <wrap hide>529|00:59:07|900|00:59:13|120</wrap>in any one life because we have many houses going and a number of constellations or signs <wrap hide>530|00:59:13|120|00:59:20|840</wrap>going—<wrap quote>subjected to countless combinations of forces and</wrap> energies: ray, <wrap quote>planetary,</wrap> zodiacal. <wrap hide>531|00:59:20|840|00:59:29|440</wrap>and cosmic, until he is made anew, <wrap quote>becomes the new man,</wrap> the new man in Christ, <wrap quote>is sensitive <wrap hide>532|00:59:29|440|00:59:35|640</wrap>to the entire range of spiritual vibrations in our solar system and has achieved that <wrap hide>533|00:59:35|640|00:59:42|080</wrap>detachment which will enable him to escape from the wheel of rebirth,</wrap> and this he does <wrap hide>534|00:59:42|900|00:59:50|840</wrap>at the fourth initiation. <wrap quote>He has accomplished this by mounting the three crosses: the cross <wrap hide>535|00:59:50|840|00:59:56|020</wrap>of the personality of the changing form, the cross of the disciple or the eternal soul <wrap hide>536|00:59:56|020|01:00:03|800</wrap>fixed cross, and the cross of the spirit.</wrap> Eventually he is freed to be crucified upon that cross <wrap hide>537|01:00:03|800|01:00:10|900</wrap>of freedom, the cardinal cross. <wrap quote>This really means that he has passed through three momentous <wrap hide>538|01:00:10|900|01:00:19|420</wrap>crises in his life cycle,</wrap> and D.K. will now describe those momentous crises, but I am at the end. <wrap hide>539|01:00:19|580|01:00:31|160</wrap>One hour has passed. So we are on page eighty-four and we have finished... Which one have <wrap hide>540|01:00:31|160|01:00:42|160</wrap>we finished? Is this thirty-five or is this thirty... No, this is thirty-six, so this is <wrap hide>541|01:00:42|160|01:00:52|920</wrap>Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-six and we have gone as far as page eighty-four, and <wrap hide>542|01:00:52|920|01:01:01|140</wrap>we will check where we began on Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-five and we will see what <wrap hide>543|01:01:01|160|01:01:14|620</wrap>that was... Oh, thirty-five... Let's try thirty-six, okay. Well, I'll put that in there when <wrap hide>544|01:01:14|620|01:01:22|940</wrap>the time is right; I'll figure it out. So we will now do The Great Invocation together, <wrap hide>545|01:01:24|120|01:01:30|380</wrap>yes, and that is right there, Great Invocation. <wrap hide>546|01:01:39|860|01:01:47|160</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>547|01:01:47|160|01:01:56|300</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>548|01:01:56|300|01:02:06|520</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>549|01:02:06|520|01:02:13|160</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>550|01:02:13|160|01:02:24|300</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let the <wrap hide>551|01:02:24|300|01:02:35|200</wrap>plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>552|01:02:35|200|01:02:40|680</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>553|01:02:52|320|01:02:54|280</wrap>Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, <wrap hide>554|01:03:03|200|01:03:16|180</wrap>Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, <wrap hide>555|01:03:16|180|01:03:24|280</wrap>Om. Okay, friends, that will be it for this one, and we will resume with Esoteric Astrology <wrap hide>556|01:03:24|300|01:03:32|620</wrap>Adventure number thirty-seven, continuing the completion of the introductory remarks. Until <wrap hide>557|01:03:32|620|01:03:34|020</wrap>then, we'll see you.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360</wrap>Okay, hi everybody. We are now on Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 36. <wrap hide>2|00:00:11|440|00:00:16|480</wrap>We had a little trouble today with failing servers. <wrap hide>3|00:00:16|640|00:00:22|580</wrap>There have been some storms here in Arizona, and I got knocked off the internet twice. <wrap hide>4|00:00:23|000|00:00:28|580</wrap>So that produced one 50-minute webinar and another 20 minutes. <wrap hide>5|00:00:28|580|00:00:32|500</wrap>But the last one worked pretty well. <wrap hide>6|00:00:33|040|00:00:40|920</wrap>We were considering a number of tasks which the Tibetan intends to undertake in this book. <wrap hide>7|00:00:41|280|00:00:47|640</wrap>And the first task has to do with comparison of the five and seven rays and the centers <wrap hide>8|00:00:48|220|00:00:50|280</wrap>with which they are related. <wrap hide>9|00:00:50|280|00:01:00|840</wrap>And the second task has to do with the energy of the three major constellations and the <wrap hide>10|00:01:01|720|00:01:07|500</wrap>zodiacal constellations through which they may pour, focusing then in three streams through <wrap hide>11|00:01:07|500|00:01:09|380</wrap>Leo, Pisces and Capricorn. <wrap hide>12|00:01:09|380|00:01:20|380</wrap>And I offered some speculations as to the major constellations through which the zodiacal <wrap hide>13|00:01:20|380|00:01:23|520</wrap>constellations through which the three might pour. <wrap hide>14|00:01:25|020|00:01:28|320</wrap>But this, of course, remains to be seen, at least on page 50. <wrap hide>15|00:01:28|900|00:01:35|100</wrap>D.K. has given us the tabulation showing us that the Great Bear pours through Aries and <wrap hide>16|00:01:35|100|00:01:35|420</wrap>Libra. <wrap hide>17|00:01:35|420|00:01:38|900</wrap>I added Aquarius speculatively, then they all focus through Leo. <wrap hide>18|00:01:39|600|00:01:42|560</wrap>He tells us that Sirius pours through Cancer and Capricorn. <wrap hide>19|00:01:43|140|00:01:47|520</wrap>I added Virgo speculatively, and they all pour through Pisces. <wrap hide>20|00:01:47|840|00:01:52|100</wrap>And when it comes to the Pleiades, D.K. gives us Gemini and Sagittarius. <wrap hide>21|00:01:52|760|00:02:01|500</wrap>I added Taurus—a strong connection with the Pleiades—because when you look through the <wrap hide>22|00:02:01|500|00:02:06|380</wrap>constellation Taurus, you do see the Pleiades, at least at this time in cyclic history, and they <wrap hide>23|00:02:06|380|00:02:08|240</wrap>pour finally through Capricorn. <wrap hide>24|00:02:08|420|00:02:17|540</wrap>So this is quite an abstruse aspect of the work, and we'll see where it can end, what <wrap hide>25|00:02:17|540|00:02:18|260</wrap>it can lead to. <wrap hide>26|00:02:18|440|00:02:25|640</wrap>At least D.K. was very definite in discussing the importance in the present day and age <wrap hide>27|00:02:25|640|00:02:35|120</wrap>of the Leo-Pisces-Capricorn triangle with all its association with various planets and <wrap hide>28|00:02:35|120|00:02:38|960</wrap>planetary centers and the centers of the human being. <wrap hide>29|00:02:39|560|00:02:44|080</wrap>That six-fold chart will appear in various places as we study the book. <wrap hide>30|00:02:45|900|00:02:47|220</wrap>And here is some of that. <wrap hide>31|00:02:48|500|00:02:53|400</wrap>Leo through Saturn through the head center and base of the spine; Pisces through Uranus <wrap hide>32|00:02:53|400|00:03:00|320</wrap>through the heart center and solar plexus; and the Pleiades through Capricorn and then <wrap hide>33|00:03:00|320|00:03:04|300</wrap>Mercury as well as the Ajna and the throat center. <wrap hide>34|00:03:07|380|00:03:14|560</wrap>We talked about the density of the sacral center and why it is a center even in a way <wrap hide>35|00:03:14|560|00:03:20|800</wrap>more densely related than the base of the spine center, which is related to the etheric <wrap hide>36|00:03:20|800|00:03:21|480</wrap>body. <wrap hide>37|00:03:22|370|00:03:30|540</wrap>Check in the vicinity of Cosmic Fire 169 and 170 for the assignment to the various planes <wrap hide>38|00:03:31|360|00:03:33|160</wrap>of the major centers. <wrap hide>39|00:03:34|060|00:03:36|340</wrap>And now we did task number three. <wrap hide>40|00:03:36|580|00:03:41|380</wrap>We discussed it and went through the tabulation concerning the cardinal, fixed and mutable <wrap hide>41|00:03:41|380|00:03:46|680</wrap>cross and analyzed that fairly closely. <wrap hide>42|00:03:46|680|00:03:55|380</wrap>These are some of D.K.'s major triplicities that he is discussing so often in his books, <wrap hide>43|00:03:56|000|00:04:01|300</wrap>and we lined them up with the cardinal, fixed and mutable crosses. <wrap hide>44|00:04:02|620|00:04:04|000</wrap>Now I think we are ready. <wrap hide>45|00:04:05|880|00:04:12|460</wrap>Yes, we got as far as page 80, and now task number four that D.K. is going to undertake <wrap hide>46|00:04:12|460|00:04:17|740</wrap>with us in this large section of the book up to approximately page 404. <wrap hide>47|00:04:17|920|00:04:18|840</wrap>I hope we get that far. <wrap hide>48|00:04:20|030|00:04:27|380</wrap><wrap quote>Elaborate the subject of the interplay between the three groups of ruling planets as given <wrap hide>49|00:04:27|380|00:04:28|460</wrap>in tabulation</wrap> six. <wrap hide>50|00:04:28|700|00:04:32|900</wrap>So that's the exoteric, esoteric and hierarchical rulers. <wrap hide>51|00:04:33|940|00:04:42|440</wrap>These and <wrap quote>the totality of their effects are the agencies through which the purposes of <wrap hide>52|00:04:42|440|00:04:43|420</wrap>God are wrought out.</wrap> <wrap hide>53|00:04:43|480|00:04:44|600</wrap>Now what do we mean by God? <wrap hide>54|00:04:45|640|00:04:52|700</wrap>We don't mean the absolute deity of the entire cosmos, but we do mean God the planetary Logos. <wrap hide>55|00:04:53|380|00:04:56|520</wrap>We do mean God the solar Logos especially. <wrap hide>56|00:04:57|540|00:05:01|420</wrap>The solar Logos is the one in whom we live and move and have our being. <wrap hide>57|00:05:02|080|00:05:03|060</wrap>There is only one God. <wrap hide>58|00:05:03|120|00:05:08|400</wrap>Of course there is only one God, but all the other entities are emanations of that one <wrap hide>59|00:05:08|400|00:05:18|620</wrap>God and are therefore emanatively and pantheistically aspects of that one God who is the universal <wrap hide>60|00:05:18|620|00:05:20|520</wrap>Logos by another name. <wrap hide>61|00:05:22|340|00:05:28|580</wrap>So God the solar Logos is working out his purposes through the planetary Logos, and we <wrap hide>62|00:05:28|580|00:05:33|820</wrap>certainly have to figure out what the purpose is for our earth—a center of redemption, I <wrap hide>63|00:05:33|820|00:05:36|360</wrap>think in relation to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>64|00:05:36|360|00:05:47|520</wrap>All right, so he tells us that <wrap quote>before proceeding with the more technical aspects of our subject, <wrap hide>65|00:05:48|060|00:05:56|000</wrap>I would like to elaborate this theme of the zodiac, its story and symbolism from the more <wrap hide>66|00:05:56|000|00:06:04|880</wrap>philosophical and spiritual angle, giving you the subjective picture of man's progress</wrap> as <wrap hide>67|00:06:04|880|00:06:10|260</wrap>he passes on the sweep of the sun along the path of life. <wrap hide>68|00:06:11|100|00:06:19|160</wrap>Heracles the sun God, we the sun God, we the solar identity sweeping along the path of <wrap hide>69|00:06:19|160|00:06:25|980</wrap>life and improving our mechanism and expanding our consciousness. <wrap hide>70|00:06:27|700|00:06:33|860</wrap>We may be experiencing once again degraded audio; let us hope not. <wrap hide>71|00:06:36|280|00:06:42|820</wrap>All right, the sweep of the sun along the path of life. Well, there is certainly the <wrap hide>72|00:06:42|820|00:06:53|880</wrap>sweep of the sun during the year, there is the sweep of the sun along the 2,160 year <wrap hide>73|00:06:53|880|00:07:05|540</wrap>path, and finally the sun passes through all the signs at the rate of one degree per 72 <wrap hide>74|00:07:05|540|00:07:08|220</wrap>years and takes approximately 25,000 years. <wrap hide>75|00:07:09|140|00:07:18|140</wrap>D.K. rounds it off as 25,000 years, but I think the closer figure is 25,920 if the number <wrap hide>76|00:07:18|140|00:07:30|220</wrap>2,160 is accurate, and you will recognize that 2,160 as one half of the important number <wrap hide>77|00:07:32|100|00:07:33|000</wrap>4,320. <wrap hide>78|00:07:35|920|00:07:43|170</wrap>All right, the sweep of the sun along the path of life. This is a technical phrase and <wrap hide>79|00:07:43|170|00:07:52|110</wrap>refers to the activity of a sun, <wrap quote>a planet, a hierarchy, or a man after there has been <wrap hide>80|00:07:52|110|00:07:59|510</wrap>a moment of crisis,</wrap> because you know the path of life may not simply be the path of evolution. <wrap hide>81|00:08:00|770|00:08:09|230</wrap>It may be the path of the life aspect following a moment of crisis and reorientation. <wrap hide>82|00:08:09|230|00:08:18|390</wrap>A moment of crisis resulting in a period of polarization, a fixing of the consciousness <wrap hide>83|00:08:18|390|00:08:27|910</wrap>at a certain requisite level of vibration, <wrap quote>leading inevitably to a fresh surge and sweep <wrap hide>84|00:08:27|910|00:08:28|610</wrap>onwards.</wrap> <wrap hide>85|00:08:28|770|00:08:35|110</wrap>I'm sure we have all experienced the difference between fatigue, which may overcome us from <wrap hide>86|00:08:35|110|00:08:42|650</wrap>time to time, and that fresh surge and sweep onwards sounds very much like the leading <wrap hide>87|00:08:42|650|00:08:45|330</wrap>Aries impulse. <wrap hide>88|00:08:47|150|00:08:58|630</wrap>These three words: crisis, polarization, and sweep. Crisis, tension, emergence is another <wrap hide>89|00:08:58|630|00:09:00|110</wrap>way of dealing here. <wrap hide>90|00:09:00|110|00:09:09|230</wrap>We have a triplicity called crisis, tension, and emergence, and when we do emerge, we sweep <wrap hide>91|00:09:09|230|00:09:12|870</wrap>along because the obstacles are overcome. <wrap hide>92|00:09:15|030|00:09:21|170</wrap>So crisis and polarization requires holding a point of tension at the requisite level <wrap hide>93|00:09:21|170|00:09:25|870</wrap>of vibration and then the sweep forward. <wrap hide>94|00:09:25|870|00:09:40|730</wrap>This is our history. It's not just one continuous, unobstructed movement towards the goal; there <wrap hide>95|00:09:40|730|00:09:46|890</wrap>are always cross currents to deal with, the overcoming of those cross currents, the fixing <wrap hide>96|00:09:46|890|00:09:54|050</wrap>or polarization of our consciousness at a new altitude or level of vibration, and then <wrap hide>97|00:09:54|050|00:10:01|530</wrap>activity once that level of vibration or polarization or point of tension is stabilized. <wrap hide>98|00:10:02|690|00:10:10|450</wrap><wrap quote>These three words, then—crisis, polarization, and sweep—are the basis of cyclic law and <wrap hide>99|00:10:10|450|00:10:13|330</wrap>govern the evolutionary process.</wrap> <wrap hide>100|00:10:13|330|00:10:22|270</wrap>This we can ask: can we connect these with the three crosses? Can we connect these with <wrap hide>101|00:10:22|270|00:10:29|010</wrap>the first three rays? Can we call crisis related to the first ray, polarization to the second, <wrap hide>102|00:10:29|010|00:10:34|290</wrap>and sweep the activity of the third? Is that one way to look at it? <wrap hide>103|00:10:34|550|00:10:38|470</wrap>The triplicities can be reconciled. <wrap hide>104|00:10:39|090|00:10:47|270</wrap><wrap quote>From the point of view of humanity,</wrap> the passage of the sun around the zodiac is apparently <wrap hide>105|00:10:47|750|00:10:55|630</wrap>a slow, laborious process <wrap quote>taking approximately—on the plane of time,</wrap> inferring there is a <wrap hide>106|00:10:55|630|00:11:00|830</wrap>plane of timelessness—twenty-five thousand years approximately. <wrap hide>107|00:11:00|830|00:11:08|150</wrap>The great Platonic ages are given as twenty-five thousand years; maybe at times they are more, <wrap hide>108|00:11:08|370|00:11:09|470</wrap>maybe at times they are less. <wrap hide>109|00:11:09|650|00:11:14|850</wrap>We seem to be living in a period when the great Platonic age is more specifically about <wrap hide>110|00:11:15|690|00:11:17|070</wrap>twenty-five, nine, twenty. <wrap hide>111|00:11:20|630|00:11:25|070</wrap>So D.K. is choosing an average figure, a very laborious process. <wrap hide>112|00:11:25|310|00:11:33|990</wrap>The passage of the sun around the zodiac of constellations, but also in a way the zodiac <wrap hide>113|00:11:33|990|00:11:44|650</wrap>of signs, is a slow process—one degree every seventy-two years, a slow and laborious process. <wrap hide>114|00:11:45|410|00:11:49|830</wrap>Where were any one of us twenty-five thousand years ago? <wrap hide>115|00:11:49|930|00:11:53|930</wrap>If we accept the idea of reincarnation, we certainly were somewhere. <wrap hide>116|00:11:54|190|00:11:58|830</wrap>What sort of civilization or non-civilization were we in? <wrap hide>117|00:11:59|010|00:11:59|950</wrap>What were we learning? <wrap hide>118|00:12:00|650|00:12:04|650</wrap>What was our degree of elevation compared with what it is now? <wrap hide>119|00:12:05|870|00:12:08|710</wrap>Twenty-five thousand years is a long time. <wrap hide>120|00:12:09|110|00:12:10|990</wrap>Much can be on the plane of time. <wrap hide>121|00:12:11|570|00:12:20|470</wrap>Much can be accomplished during such a period if we realize that in approximately four thousand <wrap hide>122|00:12:20|470|00:12:26|470</wrap>years the Master Jesus moved from being a second degree initiate to a sixth degree chohan, <wrap hide>123|00:12:27|350|00:12:32|390</wrap>just four thousand years. Let us say twenty-five thousand years is a long time. <wrap hide>124|00:12:33|190|00:12:40|250</wrap>Perhaps if we could look back at that period we would find ourselves very different from <wrap hide>125|00:12:40|250|00:12:41|170</wrap>how we are now. <wrap hide>126|00:12:42|570|00:12:49|430</wrap>From the angle of inner vision and not on the plane of time, <wrap quote>it is a sweep around the <wrap hide>127|00:12:49|430|00:12:53|690</wrap>path of life,</wrap> taking only a moment of time. <wrap hide>128|00:12:54|650|00:13:05|450</wrap>The reason only a moment of time is because any definite period of time is as an infinitesimal <wrap hide>129|00:13:05|450|00:13:08|770</wrap>when compared with eternal duration. <wrap hide>130|00:13:09|530|00:13:19|410</wrap>And the consciousness of the great beings, the Masters and chohans, has taken into itself <wrap hide>131|00:13:19|410|00:13:22|350</wrap>the reality of eternal duration. <wrap hide>132|00:13:23|030|00:13:24|770</wrap>They feel eternal duration. <wrap hide>133|00:13:24|990|00:13:26|910</wrap>They live in eternal duration. <wrap hide>134|00:13:27|150|00:13:31|990</wrap>Thus even though we have a twenty-five thousand year period, it is just the blink of an eye. <wrap hide>135|00:13:32|630|00:13:39|070</wrap>As is, paradoxically, any vast period of definite time. <wrap hide>136|00:13:39|710|00:13:48|070</wrap>When you compare some definite span to endless duration, all definite spans reduce to an <wrap hide>137|00:13:48|070|00:13:53|570</wrap>infinitesimal, or like I like to call it, an infinitesimal instant. <wrap hide>138|00:13:54|510|00:14:03|190</wrap>Because infinitesimal, well mathematically it can be defined, but it becomes less and <wrap hide>139|00:14:03|190|00:14:04|810</wrap>less and less and never becomes nothing. <wrap hide>140|00:14:06|990|00:14:13|950</wrap>And obliterating past, <wrap quote>present and future in the radiant glory of the work accomplished.</wrap> <wrap hide>141|00:14:13|950|00:14:23|390</wrap>So, there is the sense of living in the eternal now. <wrap hide>142|00:14:23|850|00:14:30|350</wrap>The sense of living in the eternal now and rejoicing in the radiance of that eternal <wrap hide>143|00:14:30|350|00:14:31|230</wrap>now. <wrap hide>144|00:14:31|410|00:14:37|590</wrap>Because after all, it does no good to become impatient about eternal duration. <wrap hide>145|00:14:37|590|00:14:40|690</wrap>We always have been. <wrap hide>146|00:14:41|690|00:14:43|110</wrap>We always will be. <wrap hide>147|00:14:43|810|00:14:46|710</wrap>We can never be absent. <wrap hide>148|00:14:47|370|00:14:49|970</wrap>We must always be present. <wrap hide>149|00:14:50|710|00:14:58|170</wrap>When I say we, I don't mean the personal we, I mean the one principle of being, which <wrap hide>150|00:14:58|170|00:15:03|730</wrap>we are, and the principle of be-ness, which we even more fundamentally are, though that <wrap hide>151|00:15:03|730|00:15:05|930</wrap>cannot be defined. <wrap hide>152|00:15:06|790|00:15:13|070</wrap>So, it takes only a moment of time from the inner vision which somehow comprehends eternity <wrap hide>153|00:15:13|070|00:15:20|090</wrap>and you get lost in the joy, the creative joy of doing whatever the task is, knowing <wrap hide>154|00:15:20|090|00:15:22|890</wrap>that you have always had and will have forever. <wrap hide>155|00:15:23|130|00:15:32|910</wrap>Now that's a very different state of mind from the harried, worried, time-pressed state <wrap hide>156|00:15:32|910|00:15:37|690</wrap>of mind in which so many of us in the western world <wrap hide>157|00:15:37|690|00:15:38|370</wrap>live. <wrap hide>158|00:15:39|290|00:15:43|390</wrap>I certainly include my time-pressed self, or not self, really. <wrap hide>159|00:15:44|170|00:15:50|350</wrap>Okay, now we are dealing with the crosses and the signs. <wrap hide>160|00:15:52|470|00:15:59|450</wrap>Pages eighty-one to ninety and <wrap quote>we will follow man from sign to sign</wrap> backwards, by the way, <wrap hide>161|00:15:59|450|00:16:07|930</wrap>on the regressive wheel, the clockwise wheel, as he in travail and pain, and travail, travail, <wrap hide>162|00:16:09|110|00:16:16|270</wrap>it means work, and to a degree it means movement and travel, in travail and pain forges Vulcan <wrap hide>163|00:16:16|270|00:16:23|070</wrap>the equipment and develops painfully, since he's on the fourth path of pain, develops <wrap hide>164|00:16:23|070|00:16:28|970</wrap>painfully the mechanism <wrap quote>which will enable him to arrive at a major moment of crisis <wrap hide>165|00:16:29|830|00:16:39|630</wrap>in his cyclic life, wherein he begins to free himself from the path of the great illusion,</wrap> <wrap hide>166|00:16:40|830|00:16:46|230</wrap>which is the path of dense form, in a certain respect, along <wrap quote>which he has traveled for aeons <wrap hide>167|00:16:46|230|00:16:54|150</wrap>from Aries to Taurus via Pisces, and reversing himself will begin to travel the path of light <wrap hide>168|00:16:54|150|00:17:02|330</wrap>from Aries to Pisces via Taurus,</wrap> and will completely appropriate and utilize the energies <wrap hide>169|00:17:02|330|00:17:06|990</wrap>of the signs of the zodiac and the planets in a different way, which is oriented towards <wrap hide>170|00:17:06|990|00:17:13|310</wrap>his spiritual nature and not towards more deeply embedding himself in form. <wrap hide>171|00:17:14|810|00:17:20|950</wrap>That moment of crisis, this is the reversal of the wheel, of which there are perhaps a <wrap hide>172|00:17:20|950|00:17:30|710</wrap>few reversing moments, but that first reversal I think occurs somewhere in the process of <wrap hide>173|00:17:30|710|00:17:38|250</wrap>the fifth petal of the egoic lotus, when a man begins to awaken to the higher of the <wrap hide>174|00:17:38|250|00:17:46|370</wrap>pairs of opposites found within his consciousness, and that is the higher self, higher power, <wrap hide>175|00:17:46|510|00:17:51|890</wrap>whatever we want to call it. Man at that period would not call it by the esoteric names that <wrap hide>176|00:17:51|890|00:17:52|670</wrap>we call it. <wrap hide>177|00:17:53|150|00:17:58|090</wrap>But anyway, there is a reorientation of the consciousness and a change in the direction <wrap hide>178|00:17:58|090|00:18:04|830</wrap>of desire, and now there is a dual desire, not just towards the lower unity of the personality, <wrap hide>179|00:18:04|830|00:18:16|350</wrap>but upwards towards an unknown, unspecified sensed higher presence, which is our higher <wrap hide>180|00:18:16|350|00:18:16|790</wrap>self. <wrap hide>181|00:18:17|990|00:18:25|830</wrap>So we are going to take man from sign to sign as he travels in pain. <wrap hide>182|00:18:26|170|00:18:32|350</wrap>I am sure we all are understanding that about our lives, and when we get to see the big <wrap hide>183|00:18:32|350|00:18:39|830</wrap>movie, you know, with all of our lives strung point to point to point, I hope we have the <wrap hide>184|00:18:39|830|00:18:49|650</wrap>objectivity to learn from it and increase our wisdom and to not become overly involved. <wrap hide>185|00:18:49|870|00:18:55|570</wrap>I think by the time we are allowed to see the movie, as it were, we will have that kind <wrap hide>186|00:18:55|570|00:19:02|570</wrap>of objectivity as if we are looking almost at someone else pass through all of these <wrap hide>187|00:19:02|570|00:19:09|630</wrap>experiences, but I am sure it will be a shock and I am sure it will be a great learning <wrap hide>188|00:19:09|630|00:19:10|110</wrap>experience. <wrap hide>189|00:19:10|550|00:19:16|290</wrap>I am reminded of the book, a poem, a great poem called "The Light of Asia" by Sir Edwin <wrap hide>190|00:19:16|290|00:19:22|390</wrap>Arnold who was an eminent theosophical author in the days of the early Theosophical Society, <wrap hide>191|00:19:22|390|00:19:28|390</wrap>and it talked about the Buddha under the Bodhi tree and how he saw all his lives like <wrap hide>192|00:19:28|390|00:19:36|350</wrap>pearls on a string, and I think Arnold deals with some of what those lives were, even life <wrap hide>193|00:19:36|350|00:19:47|050</wrap>as a tiger. Maybe that's symbolic, I don't know, but even some pre-human lives were revealed. <wrap hide>194|00:19:47|050|00:19:53|850</wrap>Anyway, we don't have that kind of objectivity upon our personal selves at this time. <wrap hide>195|00:19:54|250|00:19:59|530</wrap>Maybe there are moments when we have returned to our soul consciousness between lives and <wrap hide>196|00:19:59|530|00:20:04|710</wrap>we can see a little bit backwards and a little bit ahead, but probably only so far as it <wrap hide>197|00:20:04|710|00:20:07|090</wrap>would be useful for us to see. <wrap hide>198|00:20:07|850|00:20:12|730</wrap>But one day all will be revealed, all will come into the light. <wrap hide>199|00:20:12|730|00:20:17|510</wrap>The memory of nature is strong, it is complete, it is exact. <wrap hide>200|00:20:18|430|00:20:26|490</wrap>Nothing will escape our view and I am sure it will be a great learning experience. <wrap hide>201|00:20:27|890|00:20:38|870</wrap>Okay, now <wrap quote>this changing experience is expressed for us most beautifully in the sixth section <wrap hide>202|00:20:38|870|00:20:39|850</wrap>of the Old Commentary.</wrap> <wrap hide>203|00:20:39|850|00:20:44|750</wrap>There's a hint. I wonder how many sections the Old Commentary has, I wonder where the <wrap hide>204|00:20:44|750|00:20:46|010</wrap>Old Commentary is kept. <wrap hide>205|00:20:47|370|00:20:52|370</wrap>Sometimes it seems like it is a book like a normal book, though worn very thin. <wrap hide>206|00:20:52|910|00:20:59|710</wrap>At other times it seems that it could be in a non-physical library. <wrap hide>207|00:21:01|980|00:21:08|050</wrap>Certainly it's older than any of the present religions that we have, who these religions <wrap hide>208|00:21:08|050|00:21:16|610</wrap>considering themselves vaunted religions have to consider the kinds of esoteric knowledge <wrap hide>209|00:21:16|610|00:21:21|210</wrap>there were in Atlantis and even in Lemuria. <wrap hide>210|00:21:21|450|00:21:25|570</wrap>Of course we believe in those things, but so many people do not. <wrap hide>211|00:21:26|510|00:21:30|490</wrap>They think it's the merest fancy and why do we believe in those things? <wrap hide>212|00:21:30|770|00:21:37|210</wrap>Well, maybe having seen enough and experienced enough it just seems to us the most reasonable, <wrap hide>213|00:21:37|210|00:21:44|810</wrap>most logical, and we tend to trust those who speak of those things, the teachers of the <wrap hide>214|00:21:44|810|00:21:46|830</wrap>Trans-Himalayan wisdom. <wrap hide>215|00:21:48|010|00:21:54|390</wrap>From the Old Commentary, "The cross of many changes," A.A.B. puts in here the mutable cross, <wrap hide>216|00:21:55|210|00:22:04|410</wrap>"continues with its whirling like the swastika carrying crucified thereon the form of a man <wrap hide>217|00:22:05|190|00:22:08|470</wrap>in whom is found the seed of all illusion." <wrap hide>218|00:22:08|630|00:22:19|070</wrap>That seed of all illusion in a way is a seed of all illusion, is ahamkara, or that sense <wrap hide>219|00:22:19|070|00:22:24|770</wrap>of limited, separated, distinct, and permanent I-ness. <wrap hide>220|00:22:25|670|00:22:29|950</wrap>Well maybe there's nothing wrong with a permanent sense of I-ness, but it's wrong if that permanent <wrap hide>221|00:22:29|950|00:22:36|570</wrap>sense of I-ness is associated with certain vehicles and states which one considers also to <wrap hide>222|00:22:36|570|00:22:47|210</wrap>be permanent because all of that which the observer observes is our aggregations, a Buddhist <wrap hide>223|00:22:47|210|00:22:55|830</wrap>word which I have used many times in the past and which was reinforced in my mind visiting <wrap hide>224|00:22:55|830|00:22:57|830</wrap>the Kalachakra recently. <wrap hide>225|00:22:58|310|00:23:07|770</wrap>"The cross of many changes continues with its whirling," whirling down into a matter, whirling <wrap hide>226|00:23:07|770|00:23:15|570</wrap>in the direction of the swastika, not the rightward pointing swastika but the leftward <wrap hide>227|00:23:15|570|00:23:23|730</wrap>pointing swastika, "crucified thereon the form of a man." <wrap hide>228|00:23:24|490|00:23:29|830</wrap>The mutable cross is all about a form in whom the seed is found, the seed of all illusions, <wrap hide>229|00:23:30|610|00:23:37|110</wrap>that sense of permanent I-ness and the sense that that I is the center of all things <wrap hide>230|00:23:37|110|00:23:44|990</wrap>and thus distorts perception so that the perceptions become illusory. <wrap hide>231|00:23:45|170|00:23:51|870</wrap>When that I in Leo shrinks to the merest point and then disappears, the relinquished <wrap hide>232|00:23:51|870|00:23:59|030</wrap>point it is called, then perhaps it is possible to see in a way that is not illusory, though <wrap hide>233|00:23:59|030|00:24:05|190</wrap>in a certain sense the entire universe is a great illusion, though a necessary one when <wrap hide>234|00:24:05|190|00:24:07|330</wrap>compared with absoluteness. <wrap hide>235|00:24:12|490|00:24:17|950</wrap>But from the cross whereon he has been slain, as we are all crucified on one or other of <wrap hide>236|00:24:17|950|00:24:22|130</wrap>the crosses, but from the cross whereon he has been slain, though he knew it not, <wrap hide>237|00:24:22|210|00:24:29|310</wrap>because he is not yet conscious, certainly not very self-conscious, the man climbs down <wrap hide>238|00:24:29|890|00:24:35|890</wrap>and feels his way, feels rather than thinks his way, because he is a feeling, astro-depolarized <wrap hide>239|00:24:36|670|00:24:45|770</wrap>sentient being, and feels his way with pain and many tears on to another cross, and this <wrap hide>240|00:24:45|770|00:24:51|990</wrap>cross too does not offer complete relief, a cross of blinding light, of fiery pain, <wrap hide>241|00:24:52|130|00:24:54|650</wrap>of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. <wrap hide>242|00:24:54|650|00:25:02|350</wrap>I am so fond of quoting that particular part, because it relates to the four fixed signs <wrap hide>243|00:25:02|350|00:25:07|970</wrap>of the zodiac: the blinding light of Taurus, the fiery pain of Leo, the bitter woe of Scorpio, <wrap hide>244|00:25:08|050|00:25:13|570</wrap>and yet the cross of liberation, Aquarius, the sign of liberation. <wrap hide>245|00:25:13|570|00:25:20|890</wrap><wrap quote>It is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel,</wrap> the solar angel, <wrap hide>246|00:25:21|570|00:25:24|130</wrap>the angel of the presence. <wrap hide>247|00:25:24|490|00:25:32|950</wrap>So we see that our entire path of human evolution has many tears and much pain, and although <wrap hide>248|00:25:32|950|00:25:40|350</wrap>let's just say that the tears become more purposeful, and the pain more purposeful upon <wrap hide>249|00:25:40|350|00:25:45|830</wrap>the fixed cross. Upon the mutable cross we don't know why it's happening to us, "What's <wrap hide>250|00:25:45|830|00:25:54|150</wrap>this all about? Why is this happening to me?" You know, there is a confusion about the life <wrap hide>251|00:25:54|150|00:25:58|690</wrap>processes and the man is bewildered. He doesn't know where he came from, he doesn't know where <wrap hide>252|00:25:58|690|00:26:07|130</wrap>he's going, but on the fixed cross, and thereby chooses some pretty wild destinies, like the <wrap hide>253|00:26:07|130|00:26:15|930</wrap>destiny of an eternal heaven or paradise after a single life, or an origin made by God this <wrap hide>254|00:26:15|930|00:26:22|770</wrap>time, this soul, new and freshly made by God for one life upon this earth. <wrap hide>255|00:26:22|850|00:26:28|930</wrap>Well, those who have entered the ageless wisdom and have been thinking in more philosophical <wrap hide>256|00:26:28|930|00:26:38|950</wrap>and expansive terms realize how limited that way of thinking is, but it's very hard to <wrap hide>257|00:26:38|950|00:26:44|550</wrap>convince anybody of their own limitations unless they themselves are in the process <wrap hide>258|00:26:44|550|00:26:51|250</wrap>of outgrowing those limitations through their own frustration concerning them. <wrap hide>259|00:26:52|110|00:26:57|250</wrap>There arises that mantra which is so important: "Surely there must be more, there must be more <wrap hide>260|00:26:57|250|00:27:06|850</wrap>than this," and that opens the door for the great search for which, in relation to which, <wrap hide>261|00:27:06|990|00:27:09|030</wrap>the ageless wisdom can be so important. <wrap hide>262|00:27:09|890|00:27:15|550</wrap>And here's the third stanza: "Behind the cross another cross appears, but that he may not <wrap hide>263|00:27:15|550|00:27:16|090</wrap>reach. <wrap hide>264|00:27:16|870|00:27:22|770</wrap>The angel guards the way, the angel of the presence, until the bull has rent and torn <wrap hide>265|00:27:23|310|00:27:24|070</wrap>the man. <wrap hide>266|00:27:24|830|00:27:34|690</wrap>Okay, so there the power of Taurus must in a way destroy the personality satisfaction <wrap hide>267|00:27:34|690|00:27:36|330</wrap>and personality desire. <wrap hide>268|00:27:37|050|00:27:43|290</wrap>And then the light shines forth, until the serpent red has wrestled with the man and <wrap hide>269|00:27:43|290|00:27:44|190</wrap>brought him to his knees." <wrap hide>270|00:27:44|370|00:27:48|690</wrap>We jump over to Scorpio, the other side of the fixed cross, opposite Taurus. <wrap hide>271|00:27:48|690|00:27:55|210</wrap>The serpent of illusion, the dweller of the threshold, the hydra, has wrestled with the <wrap hide>272|00:27:55|210|00:27:57|470</wrap>man and brought him to his knees. <wrap hide>273|00:27:57|470|00:28:03|210</wrap>As we know in the story of Scorpio, it is from one's knees that the hydra of illusion <wrap hide>274|00:28:03|210|00:28:11|190</wrap>can be lifted into the clarifying Buddhic air from which all illusion is seen for what <wrap hide>275|00:28:11|190|00:28:17|810</wrap>it is, and then the lifting up into the light of the whole personality, and the man becomes <wrap hide>276|00:28:17|810|00:28:24|210</wrap>Buddhically conscious. "Until the lion, the king of beasts, has been tamed, and the secret <wrap hide>277|00:28:24|210|00:28:25|770</wrap>of the sphinx revealed." <wrap hide>278|00:28:26|230|00:28:34|890</wrap>And the secret of the sphinx from one tradition is the nature of man himself. <wrap hide>279|00:28:34|890|00:28:36|250</wrap>Who are you, you know? <wrap hide>280|00:28:37|250|00:28:47|090</wrap>"What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs <wrap hide>281|00:28:47|090|00:28:47|770</wrap>in the evening?" <wrap hide>282|00:28:48|230|00:28:54|750</wrap>It is man, you know: the little child crawling, the upright erect man, two legs, and then <wrap hide>283|00:28:54|750|00:28:58|390</wrap>with the help of a cane, the older individual. <wrap hide>284|00:28:59|230|00:28:59|950</wrap>It is man. <wrap hide>285|00:29:00|050|00:29:01|950</wrap>That is one of the secrets of the sphinx. <wrap hide>286|00:29:02|410|00:29:05|130</wrap>And was it Theseus? <wrap hide>287|00:29:06|490|00:29:14|250</wrap>Who was it that was able to answer the riddle of the sphinx, I think with a little help? <wrap hide>288|00:29:14|910|00:29:21|070</wrap>And then the revelation of the inner light, the inner light of true identity, the light <wrap hide>289|00:29:21|070|00:29:25|790</wrap>upon the light of the soul and the light of the monad, which we can also associate with <wrap hide>290|00:29:25|790|00:29:26|050</wrap>Leo. <wrap hide>291|00:29:26|470|00:29:33|050</wrap>Until the man has lifted up his waterpot, obviously the waterbearer Aquarius enjoined <wrap hide>292|00:29:33|050|00:29:38|730</wrap>the ranks of those who are the waterbearers, and then the flowing of the stream of life, <wrap hide>293|00:29:38|730|00:29:47|850</wrap>a greater stream, will fill his waterpot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its <wrap hide>294|00:29:47|850|00:29:56|530</wrap>source and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light, hid by the <wrap hide>295|00:29:56|530|00:29:57|150</wrap>final cross. <wrap hide>296|00:29:57|190|00:30:02|810</wrap>So when we finish our task in Aquarius, which may be at the fourth or even fifth initiation, <wrap hide>297|00:30:02|810|00:30:10|290</wrap>we are prepared to mount through the sacrifice of all and the sharing of all the final or <wrap hide>298|00:30:10|290|00:30:11|310</wrap>cardinal cross. <wrap hide>299|00:30:12|170|00:30:19|490</wrap>Then from the cross of man the initiate finds his way—the cross of man, which I assumed <wrap hide>300|00:30:19|490|00:30:31|530</wrap>was one of the earlier crosses—passes the angel of the Presence, penetrating the golden <wrap hide>301|00:30:31|530|00:30:36|890</wrap>veil, as the Christ did, rending the veil so that the light can go through, mounts the <wrap hide>302|00:30:36|890|00:30:43|750</wrap>major cross, and passes into day, the final day of true spirit illumination. <wrap hide>303|00:30:44|090|00:30:51|130</wrap><wrap quote>The wheel for him stands still,</wrap> which means time no longer exerts its spell upon him. <wrap hide>304|00:30:51|310|00:30:59|150</wrap><wrap quote>The sun and stars for him fade out,</wrap> perhaps in the oneness of all life, and <wrap quote>a great light <wrap hide>305|00:30:59|150|00:31:00|110</wrap>is seen.</wrap> <wrap hide>306|00:31:00|110|00:31:06|810</wrap>Now tell you what, I am going to read this thing without my own interference, my own <wrap hide>307|00:31:06|810|00:31:13|850</wrap>commentary, which is simply for the purposes of study, but is not good for the purposes <wrap hide>308|00:31:13|850|00:31:18|510</wrap>of getting the feel of the great stanzas written here. <wrap hide>309|00:31:19|060|00:31:26|010</wrap><wrap quote>The cross of many changes continues with its whirling, carrying crucified thereon the form <wrap hide>310|00:31:26|010|00:31:30|710</wrap>of a man in whom is found the seed of all illusion. <wrap hide>311|00:31:32|110|00:31:38|250</wrap>But from the cross whereon he has been slain, in though he knew it not, the man climbs down <wrap hide>312|00:31:38|250|00:31:45|950</wrap>and feels his way, with pain and many tears, on to another cross—a cross of blinding <wrap hide>313|00:31:45|950|00:31:51|070</wrap>light, of fiery pain, of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation.</wrap> <wrap hide>314|00:31:51|630|00:31:57|890</wrap>It is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel. <wrap hide>315|00:32:00|590|00:32:06|750</wrap><wrap quote>Behind the cross another cross appears, but that he may not reach. The angel guards the <wrap hide>316|00:32:06|750|00:32:14|130</wrap>way until the bull has rent and torn the man, and then the light shines forth; until the <wrap hide>317|00:32:14|130|00:32:20|250</wrap>serpent red has wrestled with the man and brought him to his knees, and then the lifting <wrap hide>318|00:32:20|250|00:32:26|550</wrap>up into the light; until the lion has been tamed, the secret of the sphinx revealed, <wrap hide>319|00:32:26|830|00:32:34|730</wrap>and then the revelation of the inner light; until the man has lifted up his water-pot <wrap hide>320|00:32:34|730|00:32:40|610</wrap>and joined the ranks of those who are the water-bearers, and then the flowing of the <wrap hide>321|00:32:40|610|00:32:46|970</wrap>stream of life will fill his water-pot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its source, <wrap hide>322|00:32:47|310|00:32:53|810</wrap>and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light hid by the final <wrap hide>323|00:32:53|810|00:32:54|430</wrap>cross. <wrap hide>324|00:32:55|690|00:33:02|010</wrap>Then from the cross of man the initiate finds his way, passes the angel and leaves behind <wrap hide>325|00:33:02|010|00:33:09|570</wrap>the inner torn veil, mounts the major cross, and passes into day, the final day.</wrap> The wheel <wrap hide>326|00:33:09|570|00:33:16|950</wrap>for him stands still, the sun and stars for him fade out, a great light is seen as the <wrap hide>327|00:33:16|970|00:33:17|430</wrap>land. <wrap hide>328|00:33:18|970|00:33:28|850</wrap>The endless journey is indicated. He will tread the way of higher evolution as a liberated <wrap hide>329|00:33:28|850|00:33:37|130</wrap>monad. The whole story of man is told there and in various stanzas of the old commentary. <wrap hide>330|00:33:37|710|00:33:46|950</wrap>You think about what people believe today and the poverty of what they believe, and <wrap hide>331|00:33:48|250|00:33:54|410</wrap>it's incredible, invaluable, not only to be preserved but to be promoted and to be protected. <wrap hide>332|00:33:58|370|00:34:07|710</wrap>Okay, I always love that. That stanza, by the way, the final day I see the greatest <wrap hide>333|00:34:07|710|00:34:16|790</wrap>light, the overcoming of time, there's something I wanted to say. Yes, we must kill the king <wrap hide>334|00:34:16|790|00:34:23|870</wrap>of beasts in Leo before the inner light can break forth. While we are still in that beast <wrap hide>335|00:34:24|330|00:34:31|250</wrap>stage of the aggressive lower ego, there's no way the inner light can shine forth. Also, <wrap hide>336|00:34:31|250|00:34:37|370</wrap>when you think about how the servers on the path of magnetic work serve from the cosmic <wrap hide>337|00:34:37|370|00:34:46|770</wrap>astral plane sending streams of pure cosmic astral energy into our astral plane, there's <wrap hide>338|00:34:46|770|00:34:52|490</wrap>a very rancid pool and cleansing its source because so much of the negative emotion is <wrap hide>339|00:34:52|490|00:35:01|750</wrap>drawn off and replaced by purer energy. So, you know, read that path of magnetic work <wrap hide>340|00:35:01|750|00:35:09|510</wrap>and how those particular masters work with the rose light and how they work upon our <wrap hide>341|00:35:09|510|00:35:16|190</wrap>systemic astral plane from the cosmic astral plane. It is a great act of service, and I <wrap hide>342|00:35:16|190|00:35:20|330</wrap>find the suggestion here, the similarity here. <wrap hide>343|00:35:26|330|00:35:34|250</wrap><wrap quote>The three crosses on Mount Golgotha were biblical symbols of these three astrological crosses: <wrap hide>344|00:35:35|190|00:35:38|730</wrap>the common or mutable cross, the fixed cross, and the cardinal cross.</wrap> Maybe he'll talk <wrap hide>345|00:35:38|730|00:35:43|570</wrap>about the three thieves. No, I don't think he does, so I'll just mention it. It gets <wrap hide>346|00:35:43|570|00:35:49|330</wrap>mentioned later in the book. The cardinal cross is where the Lord the Christ is crucified. <wrap hide>347|00:35:50|570|00:35:59|130</wrap>The mutable cross is where the unrepentant thief is crucified, and he has no wisdom or <wrap hide>348|00:35:59|130|00:36:04|890</wrap>understanding to listen to the Christ. But the repentant thief is crucified on the fixed <wrap hide>349|00:36:04|890|00:36:13|550</wrap>cross. He has reoriented his life, and he believes what Jesus says. And Jesus says that <wrap hide>350|00:36:13|570|00:36:22|070</wrap>even today you will be in heaven with me before the Father—words to that effect. So, it's <wrap hide>351|00:36:22|070|00:36:31|350</wrap>really amazing how the great symbols do show up during these incredible, decisive moments <wrap hide>352|00:36:31|350|00:36:38|130</wrap>in human history. I mean, who would look at those three crosses and think of the three <wrap hide>353|00:36:38|130|00:36:44|230</wrap>crosses in the heavens and what they stand for? You know, the great liberated being is <wrap hide>354|00:36:44|230|00:36:53|210</wrap>being liberated onto the cardinal cross. Jesus is passing from the no man's land, from <wrap hide>355|00:36:53|210|00:36:58|550</wrap>the neither of the fixed cardinal cross onto the cardinal cross after the fourth initiation, <wrap hide>356|00:36:58|550|00:37:04|550</wrap>or certainly by the fifth initiation, mounting the cardinal cross. On the mutable cross, <wrap hide>357|00:37:04|550|00:37:09|610</wrap>it is the cross not only of many changes but of great ignorance. And so how in the world <wrap hide>358|00:37:09|610|00:37:16|110</wrap>would one recognize the Christ truly when still blinded by the elemental life and personality <wrap hide>359|00:37:16|730|00:37:21|030</wrap>of the unrepentant thief? But when you are starting to live as a soul and you realize <wrap hide>360|00:37:21|030|00:37:27|270</wrap>there is more and you've reoriented yourself, you've reversed the wheel and you are moving <wrap hide>361|00:37:27|270|00:37:32|850</wrap>towards a spiritual life, then you can recognize the Christ. Then you can listen to Jesus. <wrap hide>362|00:37:32|850|00:37:44|870</wrap>Then you can believe. So those are the symbols. Okay, I don't know if you heard that, but someone <wrap hide>363|00:37:44|870|00:38:02|730</wrap>was trying to call me. I can't interrupt the webinar when that happens. Okay, page 83. <wrap hide>364|00:38:03|590|00:38:12|850</wrap><wrap quote>I would ask you to remember that though I shall trace the progress of the man from sign <wrap hide>365|00:38:12|850|00:38:21|530</wrap>to sign around the zodiacal way, yet there is not necessarily this ordered sequence of <wrap hide>366|00:38:21|530|00:38:27|910</wrap>travel or the smooth passage from sign to sign as I may portray it.</wrap> This is somehow <wrap hide>367|00:38:27|910|00:38:35|270</wrap>so important. You know, we've asked ourselves: how does a man travel when he is born from <wrap hide>368|00:38:35|270|00:38:43|130</wrap>life to life? Is he born in the next sign in an orderly way? Does he always die in the <wrap hide>369|00:38:43|130|00:38:50|110</wrap>month of sign which is placed after the sign in which he is born? And D.K. tells us no, it <wrap hide>370|00:38:50|110|00:38:57|890</wrap>is not necessarily so. But the word "necessarily," of course, gives you pause—not necessarily <wrap hide>371|00:38:58|630|00:39:09|970</wrap>so. It may be possible that there is a sequential travel. There may be times when there is sequential <wrap hide>372|00:39:09|970|00:39:17|090</wrap>travel, let us say, on the reverse wheel from Aries to Gemini to Aries to Taurus to Gemini <wrap hide>373|00:39:17|090|00:39:22|950</wrap>to Cancer and so forth, or backwards in a sequential manner from Aries to Pisces to Aquarius to <wrap hide>374|00:39:22|950|00:39:29|550</wrap>Capricorn and so forth, but not necessarily. But this is a good heuristic method; it's <wrap hide>375|00:39:29|550|00:39:35|610</wrap>a method of teaching, and it's a method which gives us the sense of continuity even though <wrap hide>376|00:39:35|610|00:39:44|430</wrap>in real life it may not occur in that way. <wrap quote>All souls come into incarnation in the sign <wrap hide>377|00:39:44|430|00:39:52|050</wrap>Cancer.</wrap> By that I mean <wrap quote>that the very first human incarnation was always taken in this <wrap hide>378|00:39:52|050|00:40:00|830</wrap>sign,</wrap> which has been recognized down the ages <wrap quote>as the doorway into life of those who must <wrap hide>379|00:40:00|830|00:40:07|990</wrap>know death, just as the constellation Capricorn is ever regarded as another door and is called <wrap hide>380|00:40:07|990|00:40:20|070</wrap>esoterically the doorway into life of those who know not death.</wrap> Now the question about <wrap hide>381|00:40:20|070|00:40:28|050</wrap>incarnation in Cancer has to be examined because later he talks about that in quite <wrap hide>382|00:40:28|050|00:40:34|870</wrap>a different way. All souls come into incarnation in the sign Cancer. I think there is a group <wrap hide>383|00:40:34|870|00:40:40|330</wrap>incarnation, in a way, in the sign Cancer. <wrap quote>By this I mean</wrap>—and he does seem quite specific— <wrap hide>384|00:40:41|070|00:40:48|030</wrap>that the very first human incarnation was always taken in this sign. Now what I'd like <wrap hide>385|00:40:48|030|00:41:00|250</wrap>to do is to find another reference which shows us something of this nature, but which may <wrap hide>386|00:41:00|250|00:41:05|030</wrap>have a slightly different interpretation. So I'll pause just for a minute to do that. <wrap hide>387|00:41:09|110|00:41:18|010</wrap>Here is what I want to say: I found the reference, and it says Cancer is a human being who has <wrap hide>388|00:41:19|530|00:41:28|370</wrap>a very different view. Gemini and Sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets <wrap hide>389|00:41:28|370|00:41:35|270</wrap>because Earth is more closely related to Venus than to any other planet. Thus, you have the <wrap hide>390|00:41:35|270|00:41:47|870</wrap>six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form entered into in Cancer. As <wrap hide>391|00:41:47|870|00:41:55|650</wrap>this I mean the birth of the human kingdom, and in Pisces as far as the individual is <wrap hide>392|00:41:55|650|00:42:05|730</wrap>concerned from Esoteric Astrology 131. So we have to compare this, this bondage of form, <wrap hide>393|00:42:06|450|00:42:12|630</wrap>with the statement that was just made about the very first human incarnation is always <wrap hide>394|00:42:12|630|00:42:22|530</wrap>taken in this sign. We will put this in here and maybe change the color a little bit, and <wrap hide>395|00:42:22|530|00:42:31|810</wrap>possibly the size, because it seems the very first human incarnation is taken here. But <wrap hide>396|00:42:31|810|00:42:36|670</wrap>we're talking about entering into form as far as the mass of humanity is concerned. <wrap hide>397|00:42:37|190|00:42:43|270</wrap>So perhaps there is something called the incarnation of the human family in Cancer, <wrap hide>398|00:42:43|810|00:42:54|850</wrap>but the term "individual" is used, and we have an interesting mantra connected with Pisces: <wrap hide>399|00:42:55|070|00:43:02|340</wrap>"Go forth into matter." Now that sounds very much like the first individual incarnation, <wrap hide>400|00:43:02|920|00:43:13|740</wrap>so I think we cannot come to a definite conclusion here but must compare these different statements. <wrap hide>401|00:43:15|360|00:43:22|180</wrap>That's why it's so important to well read the books, you know, because something maybe <wrap hide>402|00:43:22|180|00:43:29|100</wrap>said that's very definite, but it will be modified slightly later on in the same book or in a <wrap hide>403|00:43:29|100|00:43:33|600</wrap>different book, and you'll get a different perspective upon the same idea. Suffice it <wrap hide>404|00:43:33|600|00:43:41|960</wrap>to say either in Cancer and Pisces, in which Neptune is important, Neptune and the moon <wrap hide>405|00:43:41|960|00:43:49|140</wrap>are important in both, but certainly Neptune found in relation to both, we have going down <wrap hide>406|00:43:49|140|00:43:55|720</wrap>into the water, into the ocean, into the ocean of matter: "Go forth into matter." Both of these <wrap hide>407|00:43:55|720|00:44:02|760</wrap>signs are connected with the ocean of matter, and the individual, the new individual, becomes <wrap hide>408|00:44:02|760|00:44:09|420</wrap>the fish swimming in the ocean of matter but swimming blindly and unconsciously. Anyway, <wrap hide>409|00:44:09|420|00:44:15|960</wrap>these are amazing words when you consider Cancer as the doorway. I often mistakenly <wrap hide>410|00:44:15|960|00:44:23|540</wrap>say "gate," but it's "doorway"—the doorway into life, the life of the physical plane of those <wrap hide>411|00:44:23|540|00:44:30|420</wrap>who must know death. They must know death of compromised consciousness. They had a great <wrap hide>412|00:44:30|420|00:44:37|660</wrap>consciousness on the monadic level, but as an individualized, limited, strictured being, <wrap hide>413|00:44:38|480|00:44:47|080</wrap>that type of widened consciousness dies, and they learn the death of consciousness within <wrap hide>414|00:44:48|100|00:44:55|600</wrap>oppressive form. Just as the constellation Capricorn is ever regarded as another door <wrap hide>415|00:44:55|600|00:45:03|080</wrap>and is called esoterically the doorway into life of those who know not death. So we are <wrap hide>416|00:45:03|080|00:45:13|160</wrap>reminded here, excuse me, of one of the names associated with the type of will connected <wrap hide>417|00:45:13|160|00:45:22|880</wrap>with Capricorn, and it's called "the will that conquers death." So we, through the process <wrap hide>418|00:45:22|880|00:45:31|700</wrap>of initiation, are elevated into the Arupa worlds where we cannot be suffocated or killed <wrap hide>419|00:45:31|700|00:45:39|420</wrap>by form, and we come in touch with the first aspect of divinity through Capricorn, the <wrap hide>420|00:45:39|420|00:45:47|440</wrap>first aspect. Notice that in Cancer the first aspect of divinity is not found, only the <wrap hide>421|00:45:47|440|00:45:53|620</wrap>third ray and the seventh ray. But in Capricorn the seventh ray is found, the third ray is <wrap hide>422|00:45:53|620|00:46:02|900</wrap>found, and the first ray. So Capricorn introduces us through the process of initiation gradually <wrap hide>423|00:46:02|900|00:46:10|600</wrap>into contact with the life force, the life aspect. <wrap quote>As the ages slip away, the man passes <wrap hide>424|00:46:10|600|00:46:16|980</wrap>into and out of all the signs.</wrap> We have experience in all the signs; in our thousands of lives <wrap hide>425|00:46:16|980|00:46:25|200</wrap>we have experience in all the signs. <wrap quote>The particular sign being determined by the nature of the <wrap hide>426|00:46:25|200|00:46:32|880</wrap>personality ray,</wrap> which changes—itself changes, <wrap quote>as you know, from life to life</wrap>—changes in <wrap hide>427|00:46:32|900|00:46:37|580</wrap>life. Well, normally you would think that the personality ray would be determined by the <wrap hide>428|00:46:37|580|00:46:46|360</wrap>sign, so this is one of those paradoxical statements. Well, you know, and the question is we don't <wrap hide>429|00:46:46|360|00:46:52|220</wrap>have an emergent personality ray during all of those lives, but maybe we have, I don't <wrap hide>430|00:46:52|220|00:46:57|160</wrap>know, something called a latent personality ray. I've thought about this a long time, you <wrap hide>431|00:46:57|160|00:47:05|420</wrap>know. Before the personality ray emerges, do we have a personality ray, or has suddenly <wrap hide>432|00:47:05|420|00:47:12|480</wrap>D.K. jumped quite a few incarnations until indeed we do have an emergent personality ray? We're <wrap hide>433|00:47:12|480|00:47:26|560</wrap>born in all the signs, but can the sign be determined by the personality ray? This is <wrap hide>434|00:47:26|560|00:47:34|540</wrap>different ruling planets which express different rays, and every sign has its own emitted or <wrap hide>435|00:47:34|540|00:47:41|060</wrap>transmitted ray. The constellation or the sign itself has that, but we can have a personality <wrap hide>436|00:47:41|060|00:47:49|220</wrap>ray which does not accord at all with the sign in which we were born or even the planets <wrap hide>437|00:47:49|660|00:47:56|560</wrap>which express through that sign. For instance, suppose I'm a seventh ray personality. I'm <wrap hide>438|00:47:56|560|00:48:06|260</wrap>going to be born in all the signs, probably. And well, the question is: will I be born in <wrap hide>439|00:48:06|260|00:48:12|100</wrap>all the signs when I have a particular personality ray, or does my ray have to change in order <wrap hide>440|00:48:12|100|00:48:17|900</wrap>for me to be born in all the signs? Anyway, if I'm a seventh ray personality, it would <wrap hide>441|00:48:17|900|00:48:25|760</wrap>be very hard to be born in Gemini if I'm looking to Gemini to condition that ray, because through <wrap hide>442|00:48:25|760|00:48:33|440</wrap>Gemini it passes no seventh ray, and its rulers, which are Mercury, Venus, and the Earth, do <wrap hide>443|00:48:33|440|00:48:38|840</wrap>not have the seventh ray. So this is—you know, I want to make this very big—it's one of <wrap hide>444|00:48:38|840|00:48:47|880</wrap>those "ponder on this" statements. It's a very enigmatic statement. The first statement of <wrap hide>445|00:48:47|900|00:48:52|480</wrap>the particular sign in which we were born being determined by the nature of the personality <wrap hide>446|00:48:52|480|00:48:58|260</wrap>ray, <wrap quote>which itself changes.</wrap> So if my soul, the solar angel, decides that I must have a personality <wrap hide>447|00:48:58|260|00:49:05|060</wrap>ray of a certain kind, and it will not choose ray one or ray two for a personality ray because <wrap hide>448|00:49:05|060|00:49:12|180</wrap>it cannot until I am on the path, because man himself will not have a first or second ray <wrap hide>449|00:49:12|180|00:49:18|080</wrap>of personality until he is at least an aspirant. This is one of the quotes from D.K. I can find <wrap hide>450|00:49:18|080|00:49:25|100</wrap>it for you, but it was in—it was not in the book so much, but it was in another set of <wrap hide>451|00:49:25|100|00:49:33|180</wrap>papers that I think was given to the Arcane School. So in any case, if I have a particular <wrap hide>452|00:49:33|180|00:49:42|160</wrap>type of personality ray—say the fourth ray—am I limited in that incarnation to the fourth <wrap hide>453|00:49:42|180|00:49:52|620</wrap>ray, to a sign, to a birth in a sign which either through the sign or through the associated <wrap hide>454|00:49:52|620|00:49:59|680</wrap>planets can reinforce or correlate with that ray? Let's just say I have a fourth ray personality, <wrap hide>455|00:49:59|680|00:50:05|640</wrap>which sometimes I think I do. So anyway, this fourth ray personality—well, okay, it could <wrap hide>456|00:50:05|640|00:50:13|400</wrap>be born in Gemini. It could be born in Virgo—you know, Mercury is ruling there. It could <wrap hide>457|00:50:13|400|00:50:19|820</wrap>be born in Aries because esoterically Mercury is ruling there. Possibly hierarchically, it <wrap hide>458|00:50:19|820|00:50:25|060</wrap>could be born in Scorpio because Mercury hierarchically rules there, so that's four signs in which <wrap hide>459|00:50:25|060|00:50:35|300</wrap>it could be born. Now it could also be born in Taurus because Taurus has the fourth ray <wrap hide>460|00:50:35|300|00:50:40|540</wrap>emitting or transmitting, and again Scorpio, of course, because it's the major fourth ray <wrap hide>461|00:50:40|540|00:50:47|180</wrap>sign. It could be born in Sagittarius. So what have I done here? I've looked at how many <wrap hide>462|00:50:47|180|00:51:05|280</wrap>signs—six or seven—in which a fourth ray personality could be born, either because the rays are <wrap hide>463|00:51:05|280|00:51:14|040</wrap>different. Some of D.K.'s students were—let's say they were a sixth ray personality. They <wrap hide>464|00:51:14|040|00:51:21|070</wrap>were born in Gemini, a sixth ray personality. Nothing from Gemini is on the sixth ray, so <wrap hide>465|00:51:22|320|00:51:28|800</wrap>not the planets and not the sign itself. Okay, if you want to say, "Well, the submonadic ray <wrap hide>466|00:51:28|800|00:51:34|720</wrap>of Venus is the sixth ray," okay, but that's a bit far-fetched, isn't it? Venus, the esoteric <wrap hide>467|00:51:34|720|00:51:41|240</wrap>ruler, has a submonadic ray of the sixth—that's too far to go. So as the ages slip away, the <wrap hide>468|00:51:41|240|00:51:48|080</wrap>man passes into and out of all the signs, the particular sign being determined by the nature <wrap hide>469|00:51:48|920|00:51:59|980</wrap>of the personality ray. Now here's another point: nature may not mean number. Okay, so <wrap hide>470|00:51:59|980|00:52:11|720</wrap>here's nature, and I want to put in here: nature may not mean number. So we may be talking <wrap hide>471|00:52:11|720|00:52:19|320</wrap>instead about the quality or condition of the personality radiation which determines <wrap hide>472|00:52:20|620|00:52:29|960</wrap>the sign which is next needed by that personality radiation presence, nature, etc. It may not <wrap hide>473|00:52:29|980|00:52:40|160</wrap>mean the number. You know, so often people have looked at a statement that D.K. makes that <wrap hide>474|00:52:40|160|00:52:47|440</wrap>the sun determines the nature of the personality ray. I'm not quoting it exactly correctly— <wrap hide>475|00:52:47|440|00:52:52|020</wrap>I'd have to look it up—but anyway, they've always looked for the number. In other words, <wrap hide>476|00:52:52|020|00:52:58|320</wrap>the sun sign must somehow give the clue to the personality ray, but is it the clue to <wrap hide>477|00:52:58|320|00:53:04|960</wrap>the number of the personality ray, or is the personality ray considered in a way the personality <wrap hide>478|00:53:04|960|00:53:10|260</wrap>radiation, the quality of the personality, that which emanates from the personality—not necessarily <wrap hide>479|00:53:10|260|00:53:20|400</wrap>the number of the ray? So all I can do here is point out the difficulty and the fact that <wrap hide>480|00:53:20|400|00:53:28|300</wrap>it was probably unwise to jump to conclusions. In those signs, the sun signs are not necessarily— <wrap hide>481|00:53:28|320|00:53:34|320</wrap>whichever signs he enters, and he will enter all of them. You know, this seems to say, "Well, <wrap hide>482|00:53:34|320|00:53:41|120</wrap>he can't be in certain signs unless he has a certain number of personality rays." In other <wrap hide>483|00:53:41|120|00:53:45|640</wrap>words, the 6th ray personality can only be born in certain signs, but I tend to think <wrap hide>484|00:53:46|740|00:53:55|500</wrap>ultimately that is not true, because in D.K.'s group: 1st ray Gemini personality, 6th ray <wrap hide>485|00:53:55|500|00:54:00|600</wrap>Gemini personality, 7th ray Gemini personality—no problem with the 2nd ray Gemini personality, <wrap hide>486|00:54:00|600|00:54:07|660</wrap>and as far as 4 and 5 goes, that would be predictable. But there were 1, 6 and 7 personality rays <wrap hide>487|00:54:07|660|00:54:14|840</wrap>born in Gemini with the sun in Gemini. So perhaps it would not be wise for us to say <wrap hide>488|00:54:15|340|00:54:24|460</wrap>that if you have a certain personality ray, you cannot be born in all the signs, and perhaps <wrap hide>489|00:54:24|460|00:54:30|780</wrap>we have to look for another meaning of the word "personality ray," especially when we are <wrap hide>490|00:54:30|780|00:54:38|680</wrap>looking at the idea of the nature of the personality ray—the nature of it, not the number perhaps. <wrap hide>491|00:54:38|860|00:54:45|420</wrap>I know I'm repeating myself. OK, I'm just doing that in order to reinforce the idea in my <wrap hide>492|00:54:45|420|00:54:51|340</wrap>own mind so I can remember it, so I can discuss it with some people who might want to go deeper <wrap hide>493|00:54:51|340|00:54:59|320</wrap>into it. <wrap quote>In those signs he learns the needed lessons, broadens his horizon</wrap>—i.e., sees more, <wrap hide>494|00:54:59|880|00:55:05|080</wrap><wrap quote>integrates his personality,</wrap> albeit gradually, brings all the energies together into harmony, <wrap hide>495|00:55:05|580|00:55:11|200</wrap><wrap quote>begins to sense the conditioning soul,</wrap> the higher of the pairs of opposites, <wrap quote>and thus <wrap hide>496|00:55:11|200|00:55:20|380</wrap>discovers his essential duality.</wrap> Eventually, and especially when the middle set of petals <wrap hide>497|00:55:20|380|00:55:27|240</wrap>is being organized and is unfolding, he senses—begins to sense—the higher of the pairs of <wrap hide>498|00:55:27|240|00:55:32|720</wrap>opposites. By the time he reaches the sacrifice petals, he has experience with the higher of <wrap hide>499|00:55:32|720|00:55:38|220</wrap>the pairs of opposites and knows something of its nature—of the higher of the pairs of <wrap hide>500|00:55:38|220|00:55:43|300</wrap>opposites. When he is upon the path of discipleship—and here I include the path of initiation <wrap hide>501|00:55:44|380|00:55:49|700</wrap>because if you really look at it, every initiate is the disciple of a certain kind; they are <wrap hide>502|00:55:49|700|00:55:55|540</wrap>learning something, therefore they are disciplining themselves so that they can achieve that something <wrap hide>503|00:55:55|540|00:56:03|860</wrap>they are learning, and the master is the disciple, and even the Christ is the disciple. When <wrap hide>504|00:56:03|860|00:56:08|740</wrap>he is on the path of discipleship—and here I include the path of initiation—an occult rumor <wrap hide>505|00:56:10|240|00:56:14|940</wrap>(he doesn't tell us whether it's true or not, right? It's hearsay in a way), an occult rumor <wrap hide>506|00:56:14|940|00:56:22|240</wrap>says <wrap quote>that he then becomes conditioned by the tireless watcher</wrap>—not just the silent <wrap hide>507|00:56:22|240|00:56:29|260</wrap>watcher, but the tireless watcher (a very interesting phrase)<wrap quote>—and is subjected during the final stages <wrap hide>508|00:56:29|260|00:56:37|180</wrap>of the path to exactly twelve incarnations, passing one in each of the twelve signs.</wrap> The <wrap hide>509|00:56:37|180|00:56:44|920</wrap>question is: are they in order, and is an occult rumor accurate, and are there twelve incarnations <wrap hide>510|00:56:48|400|00:56:53|700</wrap>passing one in each of the twelve signs? The word "in" usually means you are born in a sign <wrap hide>511|00:56:54|230|00:56:59|060</wrap>with the sun in a sign. If you are born under a sign, it's the rising sign you are born <wrap hide>512|00:56:59|060|00:57:05|680</wrap>under. So will you have twelve incarnations with twelve different sun signs? D.K. leaves <wrap hide>513|00:57:05|680|00:57:14|340</wrap>it in the air, and probably we have one day to learn how to understand it, probably through <wrap hide>514|00:57:16|120|00:57:21|640</wrap>psychical research and the memory of past lives and the ability to read the record and <wrap hide>515|00:57:21|640|00:57:30|240</wrap>so forth, as the masters can do. In these twelve signs, surely we all do have to prove ourselves <wrap hide>516|00:57:30|240|00:57:34|980</wrap>in the twelve signs. The question is: do we have to have exactly twelve incarnations, or <wrap hide>517|00:57:34|980|00:57:44|320</wrap>can we double up, as it were? Can we prove ourselves in an incarnation along the way <wrap hide>518|00:57:44|340|00:57:51|540</wrap>our sun sign and rising sign line, and maybe a stellium line? Can we prove ourselves on <wrap hide>519|00:57:53|460|00:57:58|860</wrap>performing major tasks if our rising sign and sun sign are different, and can we accomplish <wrap hide>520|00:57:59|540|00:58:08|440</wrap>two of these proofs in one incarnation, or more? These are possibilities, but D.K. does <wrap hide>521|00:58:08|440|00:58:19|520</wrap>not dogmatize about this; he just says "an occult rumor says," and he's not affirming it <wrap hide>522|00:58:19|520|00:58:23|620</wrap>necessarily. But I'm sure we will have to prove ourselves in the twelve signs, and <wrap quote>in <wrap hide>523|00:58:23|620|00:58:30|440</wrap>them he has to prove himself,</wrap> attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations. <wrap hide>524|00:58:31|020|00:58:38|420</wrap>Note how he has just changed and interchanged the word "signs" and "constellations"—in the twelve <wrap hide>525|00:58:38|440|00:58:45|720</wrap>signs, part of the blinding technique. <wrap quote>Attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations <wrap hide>526|00:58:45|720|00:58:53|540</wrap>of the fixed cross, in particular:</wrap> Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. <wrap quote>From point to point, <wrap hide>527|00:58:53|860|00:59:01|720</wrap>stage to stage, and finally cross to cross, he fights for his spiritual life. In all the <wrap hide>528|00:59:01|720|00:59:07|900</wrap>twelve houses and all the twelve constellations</wrap>—although, you know, we're doing a multiple task <wrap hide>529|00:59:07|900|00:59:13|120</wrap>in any one life because we have many houses going and a number of constellations or signs <wrap hide>530|00:59:13|120|00:59:20|840</wrap>going—<wrap quote>subjected to countless combinations of forces and</wrap> energies: ray, <wrap quote>planetary,</wrap> zodiacal. <wrap hide>531|00:59:20|840|00:59:29|440</wrap>and cosmic, until he is made anew, <wrap quote>becomes the new man,</wrap> the new man in Christ, <wrap quote>is sensitive <wrap hide>532|00:59:29|440|00:59:35|640</wrap>to the entire range of spiritual vibrations in our solar system and has achieved that <wrap hide>533|00:59:35|640|00:59:42|080</wrap>detachment which will enable him to escape from the wheel of rebirth,</wrap> and this he does <wrap hide>534|00:59:42|900|00:59:50|840</wrap>at the fourth initiation. <wrap quote>He has accomplished this by mounting the three crosses: the cross <wrap hide>535|00:59:50|840|00:59:56|020</wrap>of the personality of the changing form, the cross of the disciple or the eternal soul <wrap hide>536|00:59:56|020|01:00:03|800</wrap>fixed cross, and the cross of the spirit.</wrap> Eventually he is freed to be crucified upon that cross <wrap hide>537|01:00:03|800|01:00:10|900</wrap>of freedom, the cardinal cross. <wrap quote>This really means that he has passed through three momentous <wrap hide>538|01:00:10|900|01:00:19|420</wrap>crises in his life cycle,</wrap> and D.K. will now describe those momentous crises, but I am at the end. <wrap hide>539|01:00:19|580|01:00:31|160</wrap>One hour has passed. So we are on page eighty-four and we have finished... Which one have <wrap hide>540|01:00:31|160|01:00:42|160</wrap>we finished? Is this thirty-five or is this thirty... No, this is thirty-six, so this is <wrap hide>541|01:00:42|160|01:00:52|920</wrap>Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-six and we have gone as far as page eighty-four, and <wrap hide>542|01:00:52|920|01:01:01|140</wrap>we will check where we began on Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-five and we will see what <wrap hide>543|01:01:01|160|01:01:14|620</wrap>that was... Oh, thirty-five... Let's try thirty-six, okay. Well, I'll put that in there when <wrap hide>544|01:01:14|620|01:01:22|940</wrap>the time is right; I'll figure it out. So we will now do The Great Invocation together, <wrap hide>545|01:01:24|120|01:01:30|380</wrap>yes, and that is right there, Great Invocation. <wrap hide>546|01:01:39|860|01:01:47|160</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>547|01:01:47|160|01:01:56|300</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>548|01:01:56|300|01:02:06|520</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>549|01:02:06|520|01:02:13|160</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>550|01:02:13|160|01:02:24|300</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let the <wrap hide>551|01:02:24|300|01:02:35|200</wrap>plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>552|01:02:35|200|01:02:40|680</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>553|01:02:52|320|01:02:54|280</wrap>Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, <wrap hide>554|01:03:03|200|01:03:16|180</wrap>Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, <wrap hide>555|01:03:16|180|01:03:24|280</wrap>Om. Okay, friends, that will be it for this one, and we will resume with Esoteric Astrology <wrap hide>556|01:03:24|300|01:03:32|620</wrap>Adventure number thirty-seven, continuing the completion of the introductory remarks. Until <wrap hide>557|01:03:32|620|01:03:34|020</wrap>then, we'll see you.
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