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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:04|180|00:00:14|400</wrap>Hello everybody, and welcome to Esoteric Astrology adventure number 47. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|740|00:00:17|280</wrap>I think that's right; I hope it's right. <wrap hide>3|00:00:18|080|00:00:26|180</wrap>We have been speaking of Aries and its relation to various signs via its rulers, either Mars <wrap hide>4|00:00:26|180|00:00:34|220</wrap>in relating it to Scorpio, or Mercury relating it to Virgo. <wrap hide>5|00:00:36|200|00:00:40|180</wrap>And there are various crises which are connected with the signs. <wrap hide>6|00:00:41|420|00:00:48|460</wrap>Scorpio, the crisis of the battlefield, also found referenced on Esoteric Astrology page <wrap hide>7|00:00:48|460|00:00:52|600</wrap>472, where I think some nine crises are listed. <wrap hide>8|00:00:53|320|00:00:57|640</wrap>And the crisis of the birthplace. <wrap hide>9|00:00:59|480|00:01:06|040</wrap>And we were just discussing that in relation to Mercury and Virgo. <wrap hide>10|00:01:06|920|00:01:13|300</wrap>We were talking about signs involved in the first initiation: Virgo, Leo and Capricorn <wrap hide>11|00:01:13|300|00:01:20|260</wrap>are all involved in that, though there is kind of a progression given in this crisis <wrap hide>12|00:01:20|260|00:01:21|280</wrap>of the birthplace. <wrap hide>13|00:01:22|180|00:01:27|140</wrap>The whole lengthy gestation period is ruled by Virgo. <wrap hide>14|00:01:28|540|00:01:35|260</wrap>This is said to be brought about by the activity of Mercury, which is associated with the Divine <wrap hide>15|00:01:35|260|00:01:35|700</wrap>Sun. <wrap hide>16|00:01:36|420|00:01:41|340</wrap>We are interested in the birth of the second aspect, the consciousness, the Son of God, <wrap hide>17|00:01:41|340|00:01:51|380</wrap>and we find ourselves entering the world of material enterprise. "Let matter reign," <wrap hide>18|00:01:51|600|00:01:53|660</wrap>it is said in Virgo. <wrap hide>19|00:01:54|740|00:02:02|780</wrap>This leads eventually to individualization in, or rather a growing individuality in Leo, <wrap hide>20|00:02:02|780|00:02:05|360</wrap>and finally to the birth of the Christ in Capricorn. <wrap hide>21|00:02:06|060|00:02:11|000</wrap>Though each one of these signs—Leo, Virgo and Capricorn—can be associated with the birth <wrap hide>22|00:02:11|000|00:02:23|700</wrap>of the Christ, but D.K. makes the series sequential from Virgo through Leo through Capricorn. <wrap hide>23|00:02:24|420|00:02:32|960</wrap>Though Capricorn and Virgo are both very much involved in the birth process, Leo is involved <wrap hide>24|00:02:32|960|00:02:40|460</wrap>more in the recognition of the higher self, the second level of Leo ruled by the heart <wrap hide>25|00:02:40|460|00:02:48|120</wrap>of the Sun and stimulated by Neptune, which is the repository of the solar flames and <wrap hide>26|00:02:48|120|00:02:54|240</wrap>a planet which seems to stimulate the Christ consciousness within the disciple. <wrap hide>27|00:02:55|340|00:03:01|120</wrap><wrap quote>The self-conscious individual in Leo becomes the Christ-conscious Initiate in Capricorn.</wrap> <wrap hide>28|00:03:01|120|00:03:11|760</wrap>He becomes aware of soul relations and of a type of intimacy based on shared consciousness. <wrap hide>29|00:03:12|900|00:03:18|320</wrap>This is different from the apparent distinction that exists between individuals based upon <wrap hide>30|00:03:18|320|00:03:21|020</wrap>their apparently distinct forms. <wrap hide>31|00:03:22|340|00:03:29|780</wrap>Distinct forms versus shared consciousness, perhaps relating to the mystery of the soul, <wrap hide>32|00:03:29|780|00:03:32|020</wrap>which is ruled by Capricorn. <wrap hide>33|00:03:32|200|00:03:33|680</wrap>That's where we came to, approximately. <wrap hide>34|00:03:34|640|00:03:46|060</wrap>We have another crisis which one of the rulers of Aries connects with another sign. <wrap hide>35|00:03:46|480|00:03:51|060</wrap>We're looking at the esoteric rulers, through which one of the rulers of Aries connects <wrap hide>36|00:03:51|060|00:03:51|820</wrap>with another sign. <wrap hide>37|00:03:51|940|00:03:57|860</wrap>This is the crisis of the burning ground, and we have been told that Uranus is always involved <wrap hide>38|00:03:57|860|00:04:03|500</wrap>in creating the burning ground, although Mars through the fire by friction process seems <wrap hide>39|00:04:03|500|00:04:04|780</wrap>also involved. <wrap hide>40|00:04:05|660|00:04:10|080</wrap>Uranus is connected, we're told, with the final burning ground, but it also seems generically <wrap hide>41|00:04:10|080|00:04:18|660</wrap>to connect with burning ground processes which are very transformative and seem to restore <wrap hide>42|00:04:18|660|00:04:26|860</wrap>a human being more to his authentic identity or archetype when all the dross and the imperfect <wrap hide>43|00:04:26|860|00:04:32|920</wrap>conditioned relationships are burned away and the energy thus released. <wrap hide>44|00:04:34|060|00:04:38|700</wrap><wrap quote>3. The crisis of the burning ground, which is brought about through the activity of Uranus. <wrap hide>45|00:04:38|880|00:04:46|080</wrap>This is entered through the free choice of the initiate</wrap> in every case, <wrap quote>who makes his <wrap hide>46|00:04:46|080|00:04:47|420</wrap>choice in Libra,</wrap> <wrap hide>47|00:04:48|440|00:04:54|880</wrap>Maybe for every burning ground there may be kind of a Libran choice which precedes it, <wrap hide>48|00:04:54|880|00:04:57|640</wrap>but the final burning ground has been definite. <wrap hide>49|00:04:58|840|00:05:05|280</wrap>Perhaps for every burning ground there is a choice involved. <wrap hide>50|00:05:06|680|00:05:13|780</wrap>The choice is made in Libra whether or not to enter that burning ground, because the candidate <wrap hide>51|00:05:13|780|00:05:21|620</wrap>for initiation knows somewhat what lies ahead, although perhaps not the fullness of the experience— <wrap hide>52|00:05:21|620|00:05:27|680</wrap>otherwise some might be reticent, hesitant to enter. <wrap hide>53|00:05:28|360|00:05:30|560</wrap>They make their choice in Libra, free choice. <wrap hide>54|00:05:31|280|00:05:35|300</wrap>The freedom of choice comes in relation to Uranus. <wrap hide>55|00:05:35|400|00:05:41|600</wrap>Uranus is the planet of freedom, and even in relation to Saturn. <wrap hide>56|00:05:41|800|00:05:48|880</wrap>Saturn is the planet of choice, Libra is the sign of choice, Uranus is the planet of freedom. <wrap hide>57|00:05:48|880|00:05:54|120</wrap>So the idea of free choice just occurs to me, perhaps for the first time, is very much <wrap hide>58|00:05:54|120|00:05:55|980</wrap>concerned with Uranus in Libra. <wrap hide>59|00:05:56|880|00:06:00|500</wrap>Uranus in Libra is involved with what is called the reversal of the wheel. <wrap hide>60|00:06:01|600|00:06:07|100</wrap>So at those several points along the evolutionary path where it can be said that the wheel is <wrap hide>61|00:06:07|100|00:06:13|480</wrap>in process of being reversed, Uranus in relation to Libra can be important. <wrap hide>62|00:06:14|340|00:06:21|540</wrap>This is <wrap quote>the point of balance where—usually—the moment for the reversal of the wheel takes <wrap hide>63|00:06:21|540|00:06:21|900</wrap>place.</wrap> <wrap hide>64|00:06:22|300|00:06:30|460</wrap>Now, as I said, there may be more than one reversal, or at least the beginning of the process of <wrap hide>65|00:06:30|460|00:06:37|760</wrap>reversal seems to occur during the fifth petal process where a person can deliberately become <wrap hide>66|00:06:38|370|00:06:42|780</wrap>an aspirant to the mysteries of initiation. <wrap hide>67|00:06:43|740|00:06:52|220</wrap>But the final moment of reversal seems to be a moment between the second and third initiations <wrap hide>68|00:06:52|220|00:06:56|160</wrap>which very much involves choice in the desert. <wrap hide>69|00:06:57|120|00:07:06|500</wrap>So there is a kind of a Libra-Uranus, Scorpio-Uranus process going on in the desert where the so-called <wrap hide>70|00:07:06|500|00:07:14|500</wrap>devil comes to Christ, which is each one of us, and tempts him, us, three times and we <wrap hide>71|00:07:14|500|00:07:16|720</wrap>have to make correct choice. <wrap hide>72|00:07:17|300|00:07:18|640</wrap>It is a free choice. <wrap hide>73|00:07:18|780|00:07:20|120</wrap>It is a Uranian choice. <wrap hide>74|00:07:20|220|00:07:27|220</wrap>It is also a Saturnian choice because it must accord with the law, the higher law. <wrap hide>75|00:07:27|700|00:07:32|100</wrap>Saturn in a way is even more powerful in Libra than Uranus is. <wrap hide>76|00:07:32|200|00:07:33|980</wrap>Saturn has two positions in Libra. <wrap hide>77|00:07:34|160|00:07:40|560</wrap>It is the hierarchical ruler and also the exalted ruler in Libra. <wrap hide>78|00:07:43|880|00:07:50|780</wrap>So that is a reversal of the wheel which guarantees that a man will no longer be tempted towards <wrap hide>79|00:07:50|780|00:07:52|240</wrap>the left-hand path. <wrap hide>80|00:07:53|020|00:08:02|000</wrap>At that same time one can choose a more selfish response which exalts the lower ego, and that <wrap hide>81|00:08:02|000|00:08:07|580</wrap>can happen in the desert as well, even after the second initiation is taken. <wrap hide>82|00:08:07|760|00:08:13|940</wrap>It's really hard to fathom that any individual could have faced the Christ as the initiator <wrap hide>83|00:08:13|940|00:08:19|840</wrap>two times for the first and second initiation and still make such a choice. <wrap hide>84|00:08:21|140|00:08:28|300</wrap>Okay, going on, <wrap quote>There the man has to decide whether to proceed as usual and according <wrap hide>85|00:08:28|300|00:08:34|640</wrap>to custom or, reversing the wheel, to pass through the burning ground to liberation.</wrap> <wrap hide>86|00:08:35|640|00:08:42|940</wrap>Now if we're speaking about the early days of reversing the wheel, it is not any final <wrap hide>87|00:08:42|940|00:08:43|400</wrap>choice. <wrap hide>88|00:08:43|580|00:08:50|900</wrap>It is simply a choice to move towards the sense of a higher pair of opposites which <wrap hide>89|00:08:50|900|00:08:54|880</wrap>we can call a higher power or an inner God or an inner voice. <wrap hide>90|00:08:54|880|00:09:01|400</wrap>There are all kinds of non-specific names which can be applied to that sense of something <wrap hide>91|00:09:01|400|00:09:03|480</wrap>higher towards which one wants to proceed. <wrap hide>92|00:09:03|960|00:09:12|360</wrap>But if it is later, after the second initiation, then there is a kind of liberation on which <wrap hide>93|00:09:12|360|00:09:20|440</wrap>a fearful battle is fought between Mars and the Moon, and it precedes the third initiation, <wrap hide>94|00:09:20|440|00:09:26|120</wrap>and one is making the choice to pass onto that particular burning ground which ends <wrap hide>95|00:09:26|540|00:09:29|060</wrap>the ancient authority of the personality. <wrap hide>96|00:09:29|400|00:09:32|040</wrap>That's the way D.K. puts it. <wrap hide>97|00:09:33|000|00:09:36|280</wrap><wrap quote>Libra is the polar opposite to Aries and therefore closely related.</wrap> <wrap hide>98|00:09:36|500|00:09:37|160</wrap>What is he saying? <wrap hide>99|00:09:37|820|00:09:40|520</wrap>That all polar opposites are closely related. <wrap hide>100|00:09:41|460|00:09:42|760</wrap>So let's just put that down. <wrap hide>101|00:09:43|240|00:09:50|420</wrap>All polar opposites are closely related. <wrap hide>102|00:09:53|360|00:09:59|300</wrap>So, Libra rules paths, Aries rules fire. <wrap hide>103|00:10:00|160|00:10:02|920</wrap>The two of them together provide a kind of burning ground. <wrap hide>104|00:10:03|680|00:10:10|080</wrap>Aries and Libra are connected with a great bear and with a first-ray type of power, a <wrap hide>105|00:10:10|080|00:10:19|180</wrap>type of will which one exercises as one chooses to enter consciously a particular burning <wrap hide>106|00:10:19|180|00:10:19|780</wrap>ground. <wrap hide>107|00:10:20|620|00:10:24|060</wrap>So proceeding according to custom, you know that custom is such an interesting word. <wrap hide>108|00:10:24|220|00:10:31|200</wrap>It's kind of a lunar word or even lower Saturnian word. <wrap hide>109|00:10:32|000|00:10:39|720</wrap>Do we proceed according to habit and to our conditioning, or do we freely and courageously <wrap hide>110|00:10:40|500|00:10:48|480</wrap>decide to step upon the burning ground where the dross will be burnt away and we will be <wrap hide>111|00:10:48|480|00:10:57|320</wrap>freed of our inhibitory conditioning so that we may enter a new dimension, a new stage <wrap hide>112|00:10:57|320|00:10:58|400</wrap>of initiation? <wrap hide>113|00:10:59|640|00:11:01|600</wrap>So free choice, isn't that interesting? <wrap hide>114|00:11:02|200|00:11:04|340</wrap>Uranus freedom, Libra choice. <wrap hide>115|00:11:04|580|00:11:09|260</wrap>I guess maybe that's the first time this has really occurred to me, the idea of free choice. <wrap hide>116|00:11:09|360|00:11:15|860</wrap>And of course it works out today in the area of human relations where people freely choose <wrap hide>117|00:11:15|860|00:11:24|060</wrap>whether to go according to law and custom or whether to follow some more individual <wrap hide>118|00:11:25|470|00:11:29|260</wrap>choice with respect to partners taken and so forth. <wrap hide>119|00:11:29|660|00:11:36|320</wrap>Obviously, this free choice runs the danger of violating the law, the Saturnian law, and <wrap hide>120|00:11:36|590|00:11:41|100</wrap>entering into individually preferred but somewhat perverse states. <wrap hide>121|00:11:41|840|00:11:45|960</wrap>All of this will have to be sorted out, you know, just how much freedom the individual <wrap hide>122|00:11:46|500|00:11:52|180</wrap>really has to choose in the matter of orientation towards partners. <wrap hide>123|00:11:53|200|00:12:01|740</wrap>It's a sticky problem, a difficult problem that seems to provoke people who are in the <wrap hide>124|00:12:01|740|00:12:08|980</wrap>very individual stage in terms of making their choice, but it will have to be sorted out. <wrap hide>125|00:12:08|980|00:12:14|840</wrap>Ultimately, here Saturn will prevail over Uranus as the stronger ruler in Libra. <wrap hide>126|00:12:16|700|00:12:23|880</wrap><wrap quote>You will note that the rays which are related to or expressing themselves <wrap hide>127|00:12:23|880|00:12:26|120</wrap>through Aries are curiously balanced, <wrap hide>128|00:12:26|400|00:12:32|980</wrap>Rays 1 and 7 are the highest and the lowest, and therefore demand a point <wrap hide>129|00:12:32|980|00:12:39|320</wrap>of balance upon the wheel which is provided in Libra.</wrap> <wrap hide>130|00:12:40|740|00:12:46|760</wrap>So Libra is the seventh sign and it has something to do with the law which suggests the first <wrap hide>131|00:12:46|760|00:12:47|020</wrap>ray. <wrap hide>132|00:12:47|920|00:12:55|240</wrap>In Aries the first and seventh rays are transmitted, but his phrasing is interesting, isn't it? <wrap hide>133|00:12:56|180|00:13:00|960</wrap>These rays are the highest and the lowest and therefore demand a point of balance upon <wrap hide>134|00:13:00|960|00:13:03|520</wrap>the wheel which is provided in Libra. <wrap hide>135|00:13:03|700|00:13:11|180</wrap>So it's as if the Aries tendency moves towards equilibrizing in Libra. <wrap hide>136|00:13:11|700|00:13:13|860</wrap>Aries, you know, sort of disrupts the balance. <wrap hide>137|00:13:14|120|00:13:24|000</wrap>It plunges into new territory via the wheel and is not involved in preserving any kind <wrap hide>138|00:13:24|000|00:13:24|840</wrap>of status quo. <wrap hide>139|00:13:24|840|00:13:31|280</wrap>It disrupts all status quo, probably in a Uranian manner because Uranus is the highest <wrap hide>140|00:13:31|280|00:13:33|700</wrap>ruler, hierarchical of Aries. <wrap hide>141|00:13:34|260|00:13:35|900</wrap>But Libra restores the balance. <wrap hide>142|00:13:36|060|00:13:39|060</wrap>There's nothing more balanced than Saturn in Libra. <wrap hide>143|00:13:39|200|00:13:45|500</wrap>It is a right relationship and relationship according to Saturnian law. <wrap hide>144|00:13:47|300|00:13:53|180</wrap>So rays one and seven, and probably in the center of it all will be found ray four. <wrap hide>145|00:13:53|620|00:13:57|640</wrap>Whether ray four is related to Libra we can question. <wrap hide>146|00:13:57|920|00:13:59|040</wrap>It seems like it is. <wrap hide>147|00:13:59|620|00:14:03|740</wrap>Remember that every Logos has every ray. <wrap hide>148|00:14:04|040|00:14:08|300</wrap>Certainly our planetary Logos does, so why should not the Lords of Constellations? <wrap hide>149|00:14:08|860|00:14:10|860</wrap>Those certain rays are emphasized. <wrap hide>150|00:14:11|820|00:14:18|940</wrap>And the harmony aspect of ray four seems very emphasized in relation to Libra even though <wrap hide>151|00:14:18|940|00:14:25|240</wrap>only ray three is given as an energy transmitted through Libra. <wrap hide>152|00:14:25|640|00:14:35|940</wrap>My hunch, suspicion in this regard is that each Lord of the Constellations has three <wrap hide>153|00:14:35|940|00:14:39|260</wrap>major rays expressing through it. <wrap hide>154|00:14:39|520|00:14:42|480</wrap>Maybe sometimes there's a doubling up, but at least two. <wrap hide>155|00:14:42|480|00:14:49|240</wrap>I don't think you would find that only a single ray is involved as transmitted through <wrap hide>156|00:14:49|240|00:14:51|820</wrap>a particular sign of the zodiac on all three levels. <wrap hide>157|00:14:52|020|00:14:52|880</wrap>I don't think so. <wrap hide>158|00:14:53|420|00:14:54|740</wrap>That remains to be proven. <wrap hide>159|00:14:56|440|00:15:02|100</wrap><wrap quote>Rays 6 and 4</wrap> now they are brought into the process through Mars, ray six, and Mercury, <wrap hide>160|00:15:02|100|00:15:08|460</wrap>ray four, <wrap quote>bring to this balancing process the energy of the second ray,</wrap> <wrap hide>161|00:15:08|460|00:15:13|780</wrap>These are both rays found somewhere in the middle between one and seven. <wrap hide>162|00:15:13|920|00:15:19|380</wrap>I've talked about the relationship between six and four at the sixth-fourth initiation <wrap hide>163|00:15:19|380|00:15:29|620</wrap>which I say, or the Tibetan says, the Christ-Jesus pair underwent, and I would say the Buddha-Gautama <wrap hide>164|00:15:29|620|00:15:33|140</wrap>pair, which I am hypothesizing, underwent. <wrap hide>165|00:15:33|660|00:15:39|400</wrap>I've talked about my reasons for suspecting that the Buddha is one entity and the Prince <wrap hide>166|00:15:39|400|00:15:41|120</wrap>Siddhartha Gautama is another. <wrap hide>167|00:15:42|060|00:15:46|200</wrap>Rays six and four bring to this balancing process the energy of the second ray, <wrap quote>the <wrap hide>168|00:15:46|200|00:15:52|940</wrap>major building ray which enables the man to build anew and provide himself with a spiritual <wrap hide>169|00:15:52|940|00:15:55|060</wrap>body of manifestation.</wrap> <wrap hide>170|00:15:56|340|00:16:03|120</wrap>So, you know, Aries has some of the building energy connected with it via two of the three <wrap hide>171|00:16:03|140|00:16:07|140</wrap>of its planetary rulers expressing on the soft line. <wrap hide>172|00:16:08|560|00:16:12|700</wrap>And the whole idea of building a new habitation is very much connected with Aries. <wrap hide>173|00:16:13|140|00:16:19|740</wrap>It's the initiation of the building of a new habitation that form again be sought. <wrap hide>174|00:16:19|940|00:16:25|960</wrap>And we do know that the second ray is the major form building ray. <wrap hide>175|00:16:26|480|00:16:33|200</wrap>You know, these Lords of the Constellations, they have ways of balancing their expression. <wrap hide>176|00:16:33|380|00:16:34|620</wrap>We know so very little about them. <wrap hide>177|00:16:34|720|00:16:37|040</wrap>We know very little about our own planetary Logos. <wrap hide>178|00:16:37|820|00:16:44|040</wrap>And we must infer the rays of the other planetary Logos, although D.K. has given us certain hints, <wrap hide>179|00:16:44|040|00:16:47|720</wrap>and what about the solar Logos and then the Lords of the Constellations? <wrap hide>180|00:16:47|820|00:16:54|400</wrap>So we know relatively so little about these great lives, but we're getting some idea of <wrap hide>181|00:16:54|400|00:17:00|380</wrap>how they operate, what qualities they produce, and what are the rays which allow them to <wrap hide>182|00:17:00|380|00:17:01|540</wrap>produce those qualities. <wrap hide>183|00:17:03|280|00:17:09|320</wrap><wrap quote>I would also call your attention to the fact that through Uranus, Aries is related to Aquarius.</wrap> <wrap hide>184|00:17:09|480|00:17:11|460</wrap>I do believe he has begun to say that. <wrap hide>185|00:17:11|560|00:17:16|940</wrap>Also, Aries is related to Leo, whose veiled hierarchical ruler is Uranus. <wrap hide>186|00:17:16|940|00:17:25|280</wrap>And let's see, Aries would be related to Scorpio via the exalted Uranus in Scorpio. <wrap hide>187|00:17:26|300|00:17:28|640</wrap>Let's see, what am I forgetting? <wrap hide>188|00:17:31|020|00:17:36|880</wrap>There's Aries, Libra, Leo, and Aquarius. <wrap hide>189|00:17:37|040|00:17:46|820</wrap>Those four have a strong Uranian content, plus also Scorpio if we consider the veiled <wrap hide>190|00:17:46|820|00:17:49|060</wrap>hierarchical ruler Uranus. <wrap hide>191|00:17:50|020|00:17:54|600</wrap>Okay, so through Uranus, Aries is related to Aquarius. <wrap hide>192|00:17:54|760|00:17:56|420</wrap>Now let's see what's going on there. <wrap hide>193|00:17:57|400|00:18:06|160</wrap>Lords of constellations are related to each other through a particular planetary Logos <wrap hide>194|00:18:06|160|00:18:07|460</wrap>through which they function. <wrap hide>195|00:18:07|960|00:18:15|780</wrap>Now Lords of constellations may also be related to each other through rays which they transmit <wrap hide>196|00:18:15|780|00:18:16|720</wrap>in common. <wrap hide>197|00:18:17|640|00:18:22|020</wrap>From Aquarius we get the fifth ray, and we don't find that in Aries, but let's just suppose <wrap hide>198|00:18:22|560|00:18:26|580</wrap>we were relating Aries, Leo, and Capricorn. <wrap hide>199|00:18:27|500|00:18:34|000</wrap>Whether or not ruling planets related these three, they would be all related through the <wrap hide>200|00:18:34|000|00:18:35|380</wrap>expression of ray one. <wrap hide>201|00:18:35|860|00:18:38|720</wrap>They would be related on the constellational level. <wrap hide>202|00:18:39|460|00:18:45|760</wrap>They would not have to wait until we saw whether there was a ruling planet in common to find <wrap hide>203|00:18:45|780|00:18:47|780</wrap>their relationship. <wrap hide>204|00:18:49|080|00:18:57|460</wrap>So okay, a lesser lord who is the lord of the planet Uranus brings about a kind of relationship, <wrap hide>205|00:18:57|860|00:19:01|740</wrap>probably through Uranus, of Aries and Aquarius. <wrap hide>206|00:19:02|080|00:19:13|640</wrap>So what I'm asking for is that we differentiate constellations related to each other on their <wrap hide>207|00:19:13|640|00:19:24|640</wrap>own level or related to each other through a shared ruler, like Uranus in this case. <wrap hide>208|00:19:25|420|00:19:32|720</wrap><wrap quote>The vague beginnings in Aries,</wrap> vague beginnings, well that's kind of interesting because in <wrap hide>209|00:19:33|040|00:19:36|420</wrap>Cancer there's a certain vagueness and in Aries there's a certain vagueness. <wrap hide>210|00:19:36|600|00:19:43|620</wrap>The beginning of embodiment in Aries, <wrap quote>the faint emergence of the latent <wrap hide>211|00:19:43|640|00:19:51|760</wrap>embodied ideas have—after the turning of the wheel in two directions—</wrap> the wheel <wrap hide>212|00:19:51|760|00:19:57|740</wrap>of form and the wheel of consciousness, <wrap quote>brought release</wrap> i.e. through initiation, <wrap quote>in Capricorn <wrap hide>213|00:19:57|740|00:20:01|200</wrap>and produced the world server in Aquarius,</wrap> <wrap hide>214|00:20:01|200|00:20:10|260</wrap>That's the real meaning of Aquarius, the world server distributing the ideas in form to all <wrap hide>215|00:20:10|260|00:20:13|220</wrap>who may be able to receive them. <wrap hide>216|00:20:14|260|00:20:21|720</wrap>The world server in Aquarius <wrap quote>who voluntarily stays upon the great wheel (using the Cardinal <wrap hide>217|00:20:21|720|00:20:24|560</wrap>Cross as his conditioning signs)</wrap> <wrap hide>218|00:20:25|460|00:20:33|080</wrap>So here we're talking about at least an initiate of the fourth degree, and maybe beyond, <wrap quote>and <wrap hide>219|00:20:33|080|00:20:37|280</wrap>thus staying within the sphere of influence in order to help humanity to find liberation <wrap hide>220|00:20:37|280|00:20:38|140</wrap>from the Fixed Cross.</wrap> <wrap hide>221|00:20:38|140|00:20:45|260</wrap>Who can help humanity rise off the cross of the soul into the cross of the spirit? <wrap hide>222|00:20:45|880|00:20:57|820</wrap>Only one who is a spirit can help another find liberation from the cross of soul. <wrap hide>223|00:20:59|000|00:21:01|060</wrap>That's how we look at the fixed cross. <wrap hide>224|00:21:01|060|00:21:11|740</wrap>Now this world server, perhaps having the last necessary incarnation, is using the cardinal <wrap hide>225|00:21:11|740|00:21:15|140</wrap>cross as his conditioning signs. <wrap hide>226|00:21:16|080|00:21:26|260</wrap>So D.K. will describe what this means for us by giving keynotes for the main cardinal signs. <wrap hide>227|00:21:27|500|00:21:32|380</wrap>Initiation, manifestation, legislation, and so forth. <wrap hide>228|00:21:33|820|00:21:35|320</wrap>So let's take a look at this. <wrap hide>229|00:21:36|860|00:21:42|620</wrap>The vagueness, I want to talk about the vagueness in Aries for a moment, and I want to do that <wrap hide>230|00:21:42|620|00:21:49|180</wrap>by moving to the idea of a certain type of light which is found in relation to Aries. <wrap hide>231|00:21:50|020|00:21:54|620</wrap>329 or so, Aries gives us the light of life itself. <wrap hide>232|00:21:54|620|00:22:00|940</wrap>Remember we're talking about vagueness, inchoate beginnings, things that are nowhere near as <wrap hide>233|00:22:00|940|00:22:06|140</wrap>definite, as they will become in that great sign of definition, Capricorn. <wrap hide>234|00:22:07|240|00:22:13|180</wrap>The light of life itself, this is the dim point of light found at the center of the <wrap hide>235|00:22:13|180|00:22:16|660</wrap>cycle of manifestation, faint and flickering. <wrap hide>236|00:22:17|300|00:22:23|940</wrap>It is the searchlight of the Logos seeking that which can be used for divine expression. <wrap hide>237|00:22:23|940|00:22:29|800</wrap>In other words, looking out for the material that can be gathered into relationship and <wrap hide>238|00:22:29|800|00:22:36|740</wrap>into form in the forthcoming signs of greater densification. <wrap hide>239|00:22:38|700|00:22:43|380</wrap>So there is a vagueness involved here, yes, at first. <wrap hide>240|00:22:43|520|00:22:47|180</wrap>Or let's call them inchoate beginnings. <wrap hide>241|00:22:50|520|00:22:59|520</wrap>So we cannot expect from the Aries mentality or way of proceeding that type of definition <wrap hide>242|00:22:59|520|00:23:05|220</wrap>in form which we can expect from such a sign as Capricorn. <wrap hide>243|00:23:06|360|00:23:11|980</wrap>So you know, it takes a while to get off the fixed cross and to mount the cardinal cross. <wrap hide>244|00:23:13|260|00:23:17|780</wrap>But oftentimes the last incarnation, let's call it the incarnation of the fourth initiation, <wrap hide>245|00:23:17|980|00:23:20|920</wrap>is taken in Aquarius or under Aquarius. <wrap hide>246|00:23:21|120|00:23:26|520</wrap>When you look at the horoscope of Sir Francis Bacon, it had the Sun in Aquarius, Mercury <wrap hide>247|00:23:26|520|00:23:29|660</wrap>in Aquarius rising, and Aquarius as the rising sign. <wrap hide>248|00:23:30|580|00:23:38|280</wrap>So it had a great deal of this Aquarian energy, and was that a fourth initiation incarnation? <wrap hide>249|00:23:38|280|00:23:47|940</wrap>Certainly it was no less than that, because Francis Bacon went on as Master R to become <wrap hide>250|00:23:48|640|00:23:52|140</wrap>a fifth degree initiate, the Lord of Civilization. <wrap hide>251|00:23:53|200|00:23:59|160</wrap>Later he went on to achieve the sixth degree. We don't know when, but as the Maha Chohan, <wrap hide>252|00:23:59|560|00:24:03|460</wrap>present Maha Chohan, he certainly would have had to achieve the sixth degree because you <wrap hide>253|00:24:03|460|00:24:06|180</wrap>can't be a Chohan without achieving the sixth degree. <wrap hide>254|00:24:06|180|00:24:13|780</wrap>So perhaps from the time he was Francis Bacon to the year 1925 or so when it was basically <wrap hide>255|00:24:13|780|00:24:18|660</wrap>stated that he was the new Maha Chohan, we see the progress from the fourth through the <wrap hide>256|00:24:18|660|00:24:19|820</wrap>fifth to the sixth degree. <wrap hide>257|00:24:20|700|00:24:24|440</wrap>All of that is the business of the masters. <wrap hide>258|00:24:26|000|00:24:33|360</wrap>One knowledgeable student of occultism shared with me his opinion that at the time that <wrap hide>259|00:24:33|360|00:24:39|900</wrap>Master Morya temporarily took over Master Kuthumi's students, Master Kuthumi had to <wrap hide>260|00:24:39|900|00:24:45|700</wrap>go away for a certain purpose, and it was to achieve the sixth degree or chohanship. <wrap hide>261|00:24:45|860|00:24:51|280</wrap>None of this is mentioned in the books per se, but this individual seemed to have a pretty <wrap hide>262|00:24:51|280|00:24:54|860</wrap>good understanding of what that process was. <wrap hide>263|00:24:55|920|00:24:57|060</wrap>Okay, moving on. <wrap hide>264|00:24:58|680|00:25:07|000</wrap>Okay, from faint emergence of latent embodied ideas, I guess it's up to every Aries individual <wrap hide>265|00:25:07|000|00:25:11|880</wrap>to make those ideas increasingly tangible and concrete, and I would say that the seventh <wrap hide>266|00:25:11|880|00:25:19|260</wrap>ray helps with that, and eventually when one is a true initiate in Aries, the precipitating <wrap hide>267|00:25:19|260|00:25:24|860</wrap>power of Uranus under the seventh ray would help to make the latent embodied ideas far <wrap hide>268|00:25:24|860|00:25:29|680</wrap>more definite and applied in the worlds of form. <wrap hide>269|00:25:30|980|00:25:37|680</wrap><wrap quote>In the sweep of the zodiac there are four signs which are signs of birth, of beginning <wrap hide>270|00:25:38|780|00:25:41|140</wrap>and of renewed cyclic realisation.</wrap> <wrap hide>271|00:25:41|300|00:25:44|380</wrap>Let's see how he goes about describing this. <wrap hide>272|00:25:44|760|00:25:46|080</wrap>Four signs of birth. <wrap hide>273|00:25:47|740|00:25:52|580</wrap><wrap quote>1. //Aries//, the “birthplace of divine Ideas,”</wrap> <wrap hide>274|00:25:52|580|00:25:59|700</wrap>Not just any old thoughts, but of ideas which are truly coming from the cosmic ethers, where <wrap hide>275|00:25:59|700|00:26:03|920</wrap>we can say that divinity begins. <wrap hide>276|00:26:04|620|00:26:11|320</wrap>When we think about the lower three sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane, they are the <wrap hide>277|00:26:11|320|00:26:17|100</wrap>dense physical body of the Solar Logos, and they are no longer principled in the usual <wrap hide>278|00:26:17|100|00:26:17|600</wrap>sense. <wrap hide>279|00:26:18|160|00:26:23|200</wrap>They do not have to do particularly with the new regime in the second major solar system. <wrap hide>280|00:26:24|280|00:26:29|380</wrap>They are not planes which are divine, but have to be rendered divine through the imposition <wrap hide>281|00:26:29|380|00:26:34|820</wrap>of being pattern ideas that come from the cosmic ethers. <wrap hide>282|00:26:35|920|00:26:40|500</wrap>So, Aries, the birthplace of divine ideas. <wrap hide>283|00:26:41|020|00:26:43|880</wrap>That relates it to the Buddhic plane, doesn't it? <wrap hide>284|00:26:44|480|00:26:56|300</wrap>Okay, let's just say relating Aries to the Buddhic plane as the plane of ideas. <wrap hide>285|00:26:56|380|00:27:01|500</wrap>But we should not leave out the Atmic plane, the Monadic plane, and the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>286|00:27:01|580|00:27:06|440</wrap>All of them can be considered in the higher sense ideational. <wrap hide>287|00:27:07|600|00:27:13|860</wrap>Anything that is coming from the cosmic ethers can be recognized as an idea within our three <wrap hide>288|00:27:13|860|00:27:14|740</wrap>lower worlds. <wrap hide>289|00:27:15|040|00:27:16|600</wrap>Aries, the birthplace of divine ideas. <wrap hide>290|00:27:17|120|00:27:19|940</wrap>Whether these ideas are souls, see what I mean? <wrap hide>291|00:27:20|100|00:27:21|560</wrap>Our identity really is an idea. <wrap hide>292|00:27:22|360|00:27:25|640</wrap>We as souls are ideas. <wrap hide>293|00:27:26|420|00:27:30|100</wrap>We as spirits, monads, are even more ideas. <wrap hide>294|00:27:31|720|00:27:32|480</wrap>Even more so. <wrap hide>295|00:27:32|880|00:27:40|180</wrap><wrap quote>whether these ideas are souls brought into incarnation and controlled by Mars until they reach the <wrap hide>296|00:27:40|180|00:27:46|400</wrap>point of reorientation and become sensitive to the influence of Mercury,</wrap> <wrap hide>297|00:27:46|700|00:27:48|860</wrap>So this is very important. <wrap hide>298|00:27:51|220|00:28:05|160</wrap>That the esoteric ruler applies only when a soul has reached the point of reorientation. <wrap hide>299|00:28:06|260|00:28:09|020</wrap>So if you want to say, "Well, when can we apply an esoteric ruler?" <wrap hide>300|00:28:09|670|00:28:16|340</wrap>It's not for an individual who is proceeding as a personality on the path of wheel of form. <wrap hide>301|00:28:16|920|00:28:22|620</wrap>Only once there has been a revolution under Uranus and a reorientation towards a higher <wrap hide>302|00:28:22|620|00:28:28|120</wrap>power or the higher of the pairs of opposites, however vaguely sensed, can we use the esoteric <wrap hide>303|00:28:28|120|00:28:28|400</wrap>ruler. <wrap hide>304|00:28:28|520|00:28:34|500</wrap>And that's such good advice for astrologers presently at work. <wrap hide>305|00:28:34|500|00:28:39|980</wrap>Don't just slap those esoteric rulers on anybody's chart. <wrap hide>306|00:28:40|680|00:28:44|620</wrap>They truly have to be reoriented towards the spiritual life. <wrap hide>307|00:28:45|200|00:28:50|440</wrap>But fortunately for us, most of the people that we are coming in contact with as practicing <wrap hide>308|00:28:50|440|00:28:56|360</wrap>astrologers when we use esoteric astrology are precisely those who are reorienting themselves. <wrap hide>309|00:28:57|060|00:29:04|480</wrap>Occasionally we get a specifically personal orientation which has no interest in anything <wrap hide>310|00:29:04|480|00:29:10|420</wrap>but the relative success of the personality life, but usually we get people who are reorienting. <wrap hide>311|00:29:11|120|00:29:15|440</wrap>So the birthplace of divine ideas, whether ideas are souls, and I would add monads, <wrap quote>or <wrap hide>312|00:29:15|440|00:29:24|300</wrap>whether they are the birth of the ideas of God in the form of the hierarchical plans to which <wrap hide>313|00:29:24|980|00:29:26|300</wrap>the initiate becomes sensitive.</wrap> <wrap hide>314|00:29:26|400|00:29:27|880</wrap>Where are these ideas of God? <wrap hide>315|00:29:28|580|00:29:34|440</wrap>Ideas of God found perhaps on the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>316|00:29:34|740|00:29:36|560</wrap>Oops, that's a lunar petri, that won't work. <wrap hide>317|00:29:37|400|00:29:39|220</wrap>Logoic plane on the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>318|00:29:39|940|00:29:47|760</wrap>See, I have these little codes which help me type certain frequently found combinations <wrap hide>319|00:29:47|760|00:29:49|140</wrap>of words more quickly. <wrap hide>320|00:29:49|400|00:29:53|480</wrap>The trouble is that they sometimes type those words where they are not wanted. <wrap hide>321|00:29:54|180|00:30:01|100</wrap>Okay, so the ideas of God from the Logoic plane, the true causal plane of the cosmic <wrap hide>322|00:30:01|100|00:30:03|580</wrap>physical plane, the true world of causes. <wrap hide>323|00:30:04|460|00:30:08|560</wrap>World of causes is the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>324|00:30:09|100|00:30:13|320</wrap>World of being, if you can differentiate these things somewhat you can. <wrap hide>325|00:30:13|640|00:30:15|700</wrap>World of being, the monadic plane. <wrap hide>326|00:30:15|840|00:30:21|280</wrap>World of significance is the triatal levels. <wrap hide>327|00:30:21|960|00:30:28|140</wrap>The world of meaning takes place on the mental levels involving the higher mental plane particularly. <wrap hide>328|00:30:28|460|00:30:32|300</wrap>And then after that we get into the world of forms. <wrap hide>329|00:30:34|440|00:30:40|680</wrap>Okay, or whether they are the birth of ideas from God, ideas of God in the form of hierarchical <wrap hide>330|00:30:40|680|00:30:41|040</wrap>plans. <wrap hide>331|00:30:41|040|00:30:53|080</wrap>And so Aries should have some strong relation to the archetypal plan of God. <wrap hide>332|00:30:53|380|00:31:00|620</wrap>And we are told on page 333, 332 of Esoteric Astrology, recognition and work with the plan. <wrap hide>333|00:31:00|700|00:31:01|840</wrap>That's under Aries. <wrap hide>334|00:31:02|400|00:31:11|020</wrap>So Aries is very good at noticing which ideas are emerging from the mind of God for a time <wrap hide>335|00:31:11|900|00:31:12|520</wrap>expression. <wrap hide>336|00:31:13|860|00:31:16|860</wrap>So Aries and the recognition of emerging ideas. <wrap hide>337|00:31:24|260|00:31:28|180</wrap>The ideas are already there, it's just a question of their time emerging according <wrap hide>338|00:31:28|180|00:31:28|840</wrap>to the plan. <wrap hide>339|00:31:29|380|00:31:35|620</wrap>In the purpose they are all there simultaneously but we need a timed release of the aspects <wrap hide>340|00:31:35|620|00:31:38|640</wrap>of purpose through the plan. <wrap hide>341|00:31:38|640|00:31:44|140</wrap>So in a way we need the release of Uranus which is purpose through Saturn which is plan. <wrap hide>342|00:31:45|520|00:31:50|040</wrap>Okay, hierarchical plans to which the initiate has become sensitive. <wrap hide>343|00:31:50|320|00:31:54|120</wrap>So every Aries person should be asking himself what is emerging, what is coming. <wrap hide>344|00:31:55|560|00:31:57|460</wrap>Can we say that the ideas are being born? <wrap hide>345|00:31:57|600|00:31:59|520</wrap>Well they're being born in human consciousness. <wrap hide>346|00:31:59|680|00:32:02|760</wrap>They already have their existence on these higher planes. <wrap hide>347|00:32:02|760|00:32:09|500</wrap>But when you seize upon an idea it is as if it is being born in your consciousness. <wrap hide>348|00:32:11|140|00:32:13|100</wrap>So the birthplace of ideas. <wrap hide>349|00:32:13|600|00:32:19|980</wrap>When ideas are present all together in the realm of purpose can they be said to be born? <wrap hide>350|00:32:20|080|00:32:27|360</wrap>Well they're only born as they emerge at the right time according to plan. <wrap hide>351|00:32:27|600|00:32:33|660</wrap>And that emergence into the five lower worlds, perhaps emergence onto the atmic plane where <wrap hide>352|00:32:34|200|00:32:39|480</wrap>the will gets behind them, that is called the birth of an idea but really the idea was <wrap hide>353|00:32:39|480|00:32:40|800</wrap>already there. <wrap hide>354|00:32:41|880|00:32:49|080</wrap>It just depends on what is the dimension into which the idea is being born or in which it <wrap hide>355|00:32:49|080|00:32:49|440</wrap>appears. <wrap hide>356|00:32:50|060|00:32:56|160</wrap>Alright so many digressions but there are four signs which are signs of birth. <wrap hide>357|00:32:56|160|00:32:57|500</wrap>So Aries is one of them. <wrap hide>358|00:32:58|060|00:33:00|220</wrap>And now we come to Cancer, another cardinal sign. <wrap hide>359|00:33:00|940|00:33:04|480</wrap>The birthplace into the life of form. <wrap hide>360|00:33:05|220|00:33:13|080</wrap>What is an inchoate idea, fairly vague, non-specific, non-delineated, receives a very definite kind <wrap hide>361|00:33:13|080|00:33:19|360</wrap>of form under the moon or the forces that represent the moon, particularly perhaps in <wrap hide>362|00:33:19|360|00:33:22|300</wrap>this case Vulcan, in the sign <wrap quote>2. //Cancer//, <wrap hide>363|00:33:23|010|00:33:31|400</wrap>the “birthplace into the life of form,” the door into physical incarnation.</wrap> <wrap hide>364|00:33:31|940|00:33:39|060</wrap>So Cancer in a way is a sign of imprisonment because activity in form is imprisonment, <wrap hide>365|00:33:39|720|00:33:43|160</wrap>a sign of imprisonment. <wrap hide>366|00:33:43|160|00:33:48|440</wrap>Yes, imprisonment, yes. <wrap hide>367|00:33:49|180|00:33:55|080</wrap>Physical incarnation, a more definite and contained form, a definite ring-pass-not. <wrap hide>368|00:33:55|980|00:34:03|540</wrap>A definite ring-pass-not is created because when you think about ideas otherwise, ideas <wrap hide>369|00:34:03|540|00:34:04|520</wrap>are omnipresent. <wrap hide>370|00:34:05|180|00:34:08|100</wrap>In the Buddhic worlds, what is the location of an idea? <wrap hide>371|00:34:09|000|00:34:14|700</wrap>It's everywhere to be grasped once it reaches the cosmic ethers, but when you're talking <wrap hide>372|00:34:14|700|00:34:22|040</wrap>about the birthplace of an idea or a soul into form, it takes on a definite time-space <wrap hide>373|00:34:22|040|00:34:23|080</wrap>relationship. <wrap hide>374|00:34:24|200|00:34:31|840</wrap>The time in Saturn and Cancer is a freezing of time, and the seventh ray in Cancer gives <wrap hide>375|00:34:31|840|00:34:36|640</wrap>a definite spatial relationship for these ideas. <wrap hide>376|00:34:37|220|00:34:40|580</wrap>A definite form is the container of the idea. <wrap hide>377|00:34:41|300|00:34:43|060</wrap>Cancer is the sign of all containers. <wrap hide>378|00:34:43|620|00:34:48|100</wrap>So this Cancer is the sign in which humanity as a whole, integrated unit, is born. <wrap hide>379|00:34:48|420|00:34:49|460</wrap>He's saying it again. <wrap hide>380|00:34:49|980|00:34:58|060</wrap>He's saying that we come into incarnation as humanity in Cancer and individually in <wrap hide>381|00:34:58|060|00:34:58|980</wrap>Pisces. <wrap hide>382|00:34:59|450|00:35:04|380</wrap>You know there are mixed references on this, but I've shown you already some of them, and <wrap hide>383|00:35:04|380|00:35:05|480</wrap>this is another one. <wrap hide>384|00:35:06|180|00:35:13|240</wrap>Humanity as a whole, integrated unit, the fourth kingdom of nature, is born into form <wrap hide>385|00:35:13|240|00:35:14|500</wrap>in this sign. <wrap hide>386|00:35:16|000|00:35:22|040</wrap>It probably didn't occur in some month in which Cancer was available; it probably occurred <wrap hide>387|00:35:22|040|00:35:34|900</wrap>in relation to a zodiacal period, a processional age of some 2,000 plus years, even 2,500 years. <wrap hide>388|00:35:35|300|00:35:41|340</wrap>Probably at that time humanity was born and even, you know, we don't know—could it have <wrap hide>389|00:35:41|340|00:35:47|460</wrap>been a period of 25,000 years ruled by the sign Cancer, a Platonic year ruled by the <wrap hide>390|00:35:47|460|00:35:48|060</wrap>sign Cancer? <wrap hide>391|00:35:48|060|00:35:53|520</wrap>So anyway, <wrap quote>This is the sign in which humanity, as a whole </wrap> not as an individual, but <wrap quote>as a <wrap hide>392|00:35:53|520|00:35:55|680</wrap>whole integrated unit, is born, <wrap hide>393|00:35:56|940|00:36:01|000</wrap>the scene of the emergence of the fourth kingdom in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>394|00:36:01|100|00:36:06|740</wrap>Without the sign Cancer, we do not have the definite emergence of the fourth kingdom in <wrap hide>395|00:36:06|740|00:36:07|000</wrap>nature. <wrap hide>396|00:36:07|100|00:36:12|340</wrap>There must be a form upon the physical plane through which this birth of self-consciousness <wrap hide>397|00:36:12|340|00:36:12|900</wrap>can occur. <wrap hide>398|00:36:13|790|00:36:20|240</wrap>The self-consciousness is found in Leo, takes maybe three million years until a man comes <wrap hide>399|00:36:20|240|00:36:25|420</wrap>to himself and realizes that he has been born as an individual unit, but the beginning of <wrap hide>400|00:36:25|420|00:36:26|060</wrap>that is Leo. <wrap hide>401|00:36:26|700|00:36:31|880</wrap>So Leo and Cancer are very necessary for putting consciousness and form together. <wrap hide>402|00:36:33|220|00:36:42|480</wrap><wrap quote>Humanity has “emerged from rock and water and brings its habitation with it” (as the //Old <wrap hide>403|00:36:42|480|00:36:47|660</wrap>Commentary// expresses it) and mass instinctual consciousness comes into being. Note that phrase.</wrap> <wrap hide>404|00:36:47|940|00:36:57|280</wrap>Well, perhaps rock is the moon and Neptune is the water, although the moon is also associated <wrap hide>405|00:36:57|280|00:36:58|820</wrap>with the water. <wrap hide>406|00:36:59|260|00:37:04|780</wrap>So let's look at two rulers: moon and Neptune. <wrap hide>407|00:37:05|740|00:37:11|240</wrap>Now the moon is, of the five non-sacred planets, the moon is definitely associated with that <wrap hide>408|00:37:11|240|00:37:17|280</wrap>outer shell, which can be considered the densest level of man and thus the rock. <wrap hide>409|00:37:17|540|00:37:19|580</wrap>Neptune is the water. <wrap hide>410|00:37:20|180|00:37:25|680</wrap>Humanity emerged from rock, it has a mineral component and has an astral component and <wrap hide>411|00:37:25|680|00:37:30|000</wrap>brings its habitation with it, just like the crab does. <wrap hide>412|00:37:31|100|00:37:39|780</wrap>So humanity at first is a physical, emotional being with a very, very latent mind, just <wrap hide>413|00:37:39|780|00:37:41|720</wrap>as the crab does. <wrap hide>414|00:37:46|640|00:37:59|840</wrap>Just as the crab does, and I'll make that all red so that we have a little clearer delineation <wrap hide>415|00:37:59|840|00:38:03|020</wrap>of what is commentary and what is actually stated by the Tibetan. <wrap hide>416|00:38:04|300|00:38:07|680</wrap>So at first, you know, humanity is not an intelligent being. <wrap hide>417|00:38:07|680|00:38:10|340</wrap>As a matter of fact, animal man had rock and water. <wrap hide>418|00:38:11|040|00:38:16|480</wrap>It had the dense physical vehicle, it had the sentient vehicle, just like animals have <wrap hide>419|00:38:16|480|00:38:21|740</wrap>the sentient vehicle, though that sentient vehicle is completely tied to the instinctual <wrap hide>420|00:38:21|740|00:38:23|900</wrap>nature and is for a long time for animal man. <wrap hide>421|00:38:24|000|00:38:30|360</wrap>But then in comes the thinking principle with the fourth kingdom of nature, and let's just <wrap hide>422|00:38:30|360|00:38:34|240</wrap>say the fourth kingdom of nature and the thinking principle and Mercury are all related. <wrap hide>423|00:38:34|240|00:38:39|300</wrap>Fourth, okay, I don't know why this is happening. <wrap hide>424|00:38:40|100|00:38:45|540</wrap>I want there to be only one thing, only one thing. <wrap hide>425|00:38:45|940|00:39:01|880</wrap>So fourth kingdom of nature emerges with Mercury representing mind and the number four. <wrap hide>426|00:39:01|880|00:39:09|580</wrap>So there now can be a relationship between the soul and the form, and the mind emerges <wrap hide>427|00:39:09|580|00:39:11|960</wrap>as the mediating principle. <wrap hide>428|00:39:14|120|00:39:20|560</wrap>Okay, humanity has emerged from rock and water and brings its habitation with it. <wrap hide>429|00:39:20|780|00:39:27|980</wrap>Humanity is in a way the moving crab, moving upon the land, moving upon or within the water <wrap hide>430|00:39:27|980|00:39:35|540</wrap>and growing more intelligent through Mercury and Venus as time elapses due to the individualization <wrap hide>431|00:39:35|540|00:39:36|080</wrap>process. <wrap hide>432|00:39:37|020|00:39:41|580</wrap>Okay, so that is another sign of birth. <wrap hide>433|00:39:42|260|00:39:44|280</wrap>It is birth into form. <wrap hide>434|00:39:45|220|00:39:50|660</wrap>The birthplace of ideas Aries and the birthplace into the life of form Cancer. <wrap hide>435|00:39:50|780|00:39:51|760</wrap>Now here's another birth. <wrap hide>436|00:39:52|440|00:39:57|280</wrap>I'm very surprised that Virgo is not listed as a sign of birth. <wrap hide>437|00:39:57|280|00:40:05|620</wrap>Is it simply listed as the sign in which the lengthy gestation process occurs and not <wrap hide>438|00:40:05|620|00:40:06|320</wrap>the birth? <wrap hide>439|00:40:06|720|00:40:10|680</wrap>There's a little ambiguity there because it is said of Virgo, "I am the mother and the <wrap hide>440|00:40:10|680|00:40:18|200</wrap>child, I God, I matter am," and the whole idea of the birth labor seems associated with Virgo. <wrap hide>441|00:40:18|260|00:40:24|340</wrap>So I'm surprised to see it not listed here, but the Tibetan of course will have his own <wrap hide>442|00:40:24|340|00:40:24|960</wrap>reasons. <wrap hide>443|00:40:25|820|00:40:29|600</wrap><wrap quote>3. //Leo//, the “birthplace of the individual,”</wrap> <wrap hide>444|00:40:30|400|00:40:34|880</wrap>This is not the same as the birthplace of the original idea or the birthplace of the <wrap hide>445|00:40:34|880|00:40:35|900</wrap>soul into form. <wrap hide>446|00:40:36|760|00:40:44|640</wrap>It is the individualization process and the increasing sense of individuality which is <wrap hide>447|00:40:44|640|00:40:48|580</wrap>nurtured through successive incarnations in Leo. <wrap hide>448|00:40:48|720|00:40:53|560</wrap>In other words, the sense of oneself as a center is greatly strengthened. <wrap hide>449|00:40:53|560|00:41:00|960</wrap><wrap quote>3. //Leo//, the “birthplace of the individual,” the coming into form of individual self-conscious <wrap hide>450|00:41:00|960|00:41:01|720</wrap>man</wrap> <wrap hide>451|00:41:01|920|00:41:03|080</wrap>Now at first he is not that. <wrap hide>452|00:41:03|800|00:41:07|680</wrap>The self-consciousness may be there on the inner planes, but it has not worked itself <wrap hide>453|00:41:07|680|00:41:15|020</wrap>out into the brain consciousness as we have been told in that section concerning the arrows <wrap hide>454|00:41:15|020|00:41:16|760</wrap>which shot forth from the bow. <wrap hide>455|00:41:18|700|00:41:21|060</wrap>Early individualization, you know, as we have been told. <wrap hide>456|00:41:21|140|00:41:22|280</wrap>Well, let me just review that. <wrap hide>457|00:41:22|600|00:41:25|220</wrap>You know, the arrows, let's say arrows. <wrap hide>458|00:41:26|160|00:41:27|720</wrap>How many arrows can there be? <wrap hide>459|00:41:29|120|00:41:36|820</wrap>Here is, oh goodness, goodness, let's just try "bow" and "bow." <wrap hide>460|00:41:37|340|00:41:38|860</wrap>Here it is. <wrap hide>461|00:41:40|200|00:41:41|260</wrap>Whoops, the bow and arrow. <wrap hide>462|00:41:41|360|00:41:42|440</wrap>No, it isn't. <wrap hide>463|00:41:42|880|00:41:45|500</wrap>Maybe I'm in the wrong book. <wrap hide>464|00:41:45|500|00:41:46|100</wrap>Yes I am. <wrap hide>465|00:41:46|200|00:41:47|280</wrap>It's the Treatise on White Magic. <wrap hide>466|00:41:47|440|00:41:49|940</wrap>That's where that thing is found. <wrap hide>467|00:41:49|940|00:41:52|260</wrap>And yes, there's only one, and there it is. <wrap hide>468|00:41:52|860|00:41:56|480</wrap>"The sons of God shot forth like arrows from the bow. <wrap hide>469|00:41:57|720|00:41:59|480</wrap>The forms received the impulse. <wrap hide>470|00:41:59|600|00:42:03|080</wrap>The forms received the impulse, and lo, a God was born." <wrap hide>471|00:42:03|840|00:42:05|200</wrap>And this is the important point. <wrap hide>472|00:42:05|460|00:42:07|800</wrap>"The tiny babe knew not the great event." <wrap hide>473|00:42:08|500|00:42:14|140</wrap>So the tiny babe is the tiny consciousness which doesn't know that it has become an individual <wrap hide>474|00:42:14|140|00:42:15|140</wrap>center of consciousness. <wrap hide>475|00:42:15|620|00:42:17|960</wrap>This took place 21 million years ago. <wrap hide>476|00:42:18|140|00:42:23|780</wrap>Cycles passed, whatever kind of cycles, and when, at a later date, the sun was in Leo, <wrap hide>477|00:42:24|440|00:42:29|800</wrap>approximately 18 million years ago, the first instances of coordination between brain and <wrap hide>478|00:42:29|800|00:42:33|640</wrap>mind took place, and the human being was definitely self-conscious. <wrap hide>479|00:42:34|220|00:42:36|700</wrap>He knew himself as a center. <wrap hide>480|00:42:38|140|00:42:45|600</wrap>So, okay, that is interesting when we think about the Leo influence, how it definitely <wrap hide>481|00:42:45|600|00:42:52|400</wrap>brought about the coordination between the mind and the brain, and the coming into form <wrap hide>482|00:42:52|400|00:42:57|740</wrap>of individual self-conscious man, but not really self-conscious until 18 million years <wrap hide>483|00:42:57|740|00:43:00|120</wrap>ago, not 21 million years ago. <wrap hide>484|00:43:00|860|00:43:05|820</wrap><wrap quote>3. //Leo//, the “birthplace of the individual,” the coming into form of individual self-conscious <wrap hide>485|00:43:06|460|00:43:16|480</wrap>man who emerges out of the mass</wrap> the basic physical, instinctual, emotional consciousness, <wrap hide>486|00:43:16|880|00:43:18|700</wrap><wrap quote>and herd in Cancer,</wrap> <wrap hide>487|00:43:18|980|00:43:20|380</wrap>This is still happening, of course. <wrap hide>488|00:43:20|660|00:43:24|860</wrap>So many people are still part of the mass and the herd, and they do not think for themselves. <wrap hide>489|00:43:25|160|00:43:32|960</wrap>They think like everybody else, somewhat predictably and always with a somewhat, yes, definitely <wrap hide>490|00:43:32|960|00:43:34|700</wrap>emotional bias. <wrap hide>491|00:43:36|360|00:43:41|300</wrap><wrap quote>emerges out of the mass and herd in Cancer, substituting, for instinctual consciousness,</wrap> <wrap hide>492|00:43:42|400|00:43:48|980</wrap>which is in a way thoughtless consciousness, consciousness simply arising on the basis <wrap hide>493|00:43:48|980|00:43:55|500</wrap>of instinctual tendency and desire, substituting for instinctual consciousness, <wrap quote>self-awareness <wrap hide>494|00:43:55|780|00:43:59|200</wrap>and a sense of responsibility of an individual kind.</wrap> <wrap hide>495|00:43:59|300|00:44:01|340</wrap>Obviously it takes a long time for this to grow. <wrap hide>496|00:44:01|920|00:44:10|020</wrap>And during the fifth petal processes of the Egoic Lotus associated with Leo, we have the <wrap hide>497|00:44:10|020|00:44:15|300</wrap>kind of responsibility which makes of a man a spiritual aspirant. <wrap hide>498|00:44:15|380|00:44:21|760</wrap>He begins to think in terms of other people, in terms of helpfulness, in terms of the heart <wrap hide>499|00:44:22|400|00:44:22|960</wrap>vibration. <wrap hide>500|00:44:23|440|00:44:29|060</wrap>The first indication that the soul is really becoming effective is the growth of the sense <wrap hide>501|00:44:29|060|00:44:40|120</wrap>of responsibility, and here he connects Leo with the sense of responsibility, as he would <wrap hide>502|00:44:40|120|00:44:45|440</wrap>connect of course Saturn and also Capricorn. <wrap hide>503|00:44:45|640|00:44:49|280</wrap>So the birthplace of the individual takes over a long period of time. <wrap hide>504|00:44:49|840|00:44:53|800</wrap>People who are individualized are not yet truly individual. <wrap hide>505|00:44:53|800|00:45:00|400</wrap>They are still very much part of the mass consciousness, perhaps until the distinguishing, <wrap hide>506|00:45:00|620|00:45:09|020</wrap>discriminating fifth petal processes begin to work within them, and then they can distinguish <wrap hide>507|00:45:09|020|00:45:10|160</wrap>themselves. <wrap hide>508|00:45:11|680|00:45:20|040</wrap>They become distinguished individuals, and they stand out from the mass. <wrap hide>509|00:45:20|040|00:45:27|040</wrap>They have their own particular unique pattern of understanding and expression. <wrap hide>510|00:45:27|760|00:45:34|180</wrap>Carl Jung, who was a Leo, worked a great deal on the individuation process. <wrap hide>511|00:45:34|180|00:45:49|420</wrap>This individuation, which is an individuation process, is the coming into expression of <wrap hide>512|00:45:49|420|00:45:52|560</wrap>the soul through the individuality. <wrap hide>513|00:45:55|340|00:46:01|840</wrap>So that's still a later stage of distinguishing oneself. <wrap hide>514|00:46:03|120|00:46:10|640</wrap>Ultimately, the master of the fifth initiation is a most distinguished individual, a very <wrap hide>515|00:46:10|640|00:46:16|780</wrap>individual after many, many years of evolution, but at the same time thoroughly submissive <wrap hide>516|00:46:19|340|00:46:22|920</wrap>through the spiritual will to the divine plan. <wrap hide>517|00:46:24|080|00:46:25|960</wrap>So okay, the birthplace of the individual. <wrap hide>518|00:46:26|040|00:46:26|760</wrap>What do we have so far? <wrap hide>519|00:46:26|840|00:46:31|820</wrap>The birthplace of ideas in Aries, the birthplace of the soul in form, or of an idea in form, <wrap hide>520|00:46:31|820|00:46:38|560</wrap>in Cancer, and the birthplace of the distinct, distinguished individual over many millions <wrap hide>521|00:46:38|560|00:46:39|020</wrap>of years. <wrap hide>522|00:46:39|280|00:46:45|820</wrap>And finally, leaving out, of course, birth in Virgo for his own good reasons, we have <wrap hide>523|00:46:45|820|00:46:48|340</wrap>Capricorn the birthplace of the Christ. <wrap hide>524|00:46:48|580|00:46:49|900</wrap>Notice the word "place." <wrap hide>525|00:46:50|540|00:46:56|300</wrap>It sort of suggests the manger, which suggests material conditions. <wrap hide>526|00:46:56|300|00:47:05|220</wrap>The birth of the soul in a definite, conscious way within the three lower worlds in which <wrap hide>527|00:47:05|540|00:47:10|680</wrap>the animal nature flourishes, but not the truly human nature. <wrap hide>528|00:47:11|100|00:47:16|280</wrap>Capricorn, the birthplace of the Christ, the place of the second birth. <wrap hide>529|00:47:17|600|00:47:24|340</wrap>Perhaps Leo is the first true birth representing individualization, so there is a progress <wrap hide>530|00:47:24|340|00:47:33|000</wrap>from Leo to Capricorn, a long, lengthy process from individualization in Leo, with some other <wrap hide>531|00:47:33|000|00:47:37|680</wrap>signs involved as well, like Gemini and so forth, into Capricorn where the second birth <wrap hide>532|00:47:37|680|00:47:41|420</wrap>or the birth of the second aspect of the man takes place, the birth of the soul. <wrap hide>533|00:47:42|320|00:47:46|800</wrap><wrap quote>4. //Capricorn//, the “birthplace of the Christ,” the place of the “second birth” and the scene for <wrap hide>534|00:47:46|800|00:47:53|020</wrap>the emergence of the fifth kingdom in nature</wrap> the scene or dimension, <wrap quote>when the right time <wrap hide>535|00:47:53|020|00:47:53|500</wrap>comes.</wrap> <wrap hide>536|00:47:53|500|00:48:03|940</wrap>Notice the idea of timing here, Saturn in relation to Capricorn, in relation to Capricorn, <wrap hide>537|00:48:05|080|00:48:11|060</wrap>which Saturn rules, Saturn as lord of time. <wrap hide>538|00:48:11|820|00:48:21|080</wrap>So in the fullness of time, which the mother matter of Virgo has to endure, the second <wrap hide>539|00:48:21|080|00:48:26|400</wrap>aspect of man comes to birth, and only in the fullness of time, Vulcan for endurance <wrap hide>540|00:48:26|400|00:48:31|320</wrap>and Saturn for the timing, and then the Christ will emerge. <wrap hide>541|00:48:31|900|00:48:36|980</wrap>This is not necessarily the same as being born again in the classical religious sense, <wrap hide>542|00:48:37|100|00:48:42|920</wrap>that may simply be an emotional reorientation towards the Higher Self, the sensing of the <wrap hide>543|00:48:42|920|00:48:51|740</wrap>Christ, but the true Christ being born as a major motivating factor in the consciousness <wrap hide>544|00:48:51|740|00:48:56|760</wrap>of the human being. That takes place more at the time of the first initiation, which <wrap hide>545|00:48:56|760|00:49:02|580</wrap>may be quite a number of lives after that emotional reorientation towards a kind of <wrap hide>546|00:49:02|580|00:49:04|480</wrap>Higher Self or Higher Power. <wrap hide>547|00:49:05|380|00:49:07|180</wrap>At least that's my take on it. <wrap hide>548|00:49:07|860|00:49:14|820</wrap>Capricorn: the birthplace of the Christ, the place of the second birth, the place, the <wrap hide>549|00:49:14|820|00:49:20|060</wrap>situation of energies, the sort of dimensional condition in which this birth takes place, <wrap hide>550|00:49:20|820|00:49:27|320</wrap>the scene for the emergence of the fifth kingdom in nature when the right time comes. <wrap hide>551|00:49:28|720|00:49:33|900</wrap><wrap quote>In this sign, the initiate comes into a spiritual awareness</wrap> <wrap hide>552|00:49:35|240|00:49:43|140</wrap>This is spiritual instinct, not intuitive instinct of the third, but spiritual instinct <wrap hide>553|00:49:43|140|00:49:43|680</wrap>of the first. <wrap hide>554|00:49:44|100|00:49:49|880</wrap>The initiate, the probationary initiate, <wrap quote>comes into a spiritual awareness which demonstrates <wrap hide>555|00:49:49|880|00:49:56|840</wrap>later in Aquarius and in Pisces as man, the world worker,</wrap>—that is definitely Aquarius—<wrap quote>and man, <wrap hide>556|00:49:56|960|00:49:57|620</wrap>the world saviour—</wrap> <wrap hide>557|00:49:57|620|00:50:02|760</wrap>Let's not forget how much weight lifting the worker in Aquarius does. <wrap hide>558|00:50:03|920|00:50:10|600</wrap>In Aquarius, a lot of heavy lifting occurs. <wrap hide>559|00:50:12|660|00:50:16|780</wrap>And Aquarius has a Saturnian cast to it. <wrap hide>560|00:50:17|040|00:50:25|400</wrap>Saturn is one of its decanate rulers and is also considered... Saturn, being like lead, representing <wrap hide>561|00:50:25|400|00:50:33|200</wrap>all heavy weights—these have to be lifted up into the cosmic ethers represented by Uranus, <wrap hide>562|00:50:34|040|00:50:36|420</wrap><wrap quote>both of them with a universal mission.</wrap> <wrap hide>563|00:50:37|460|00:50:42|580</wrap>So there is a spiritual awareness coming in at the first initiation, but it has to grow <wrap hide>564|00:50:42|580|00:50:43|560</wrap>over many lives. <wrap hide>565|00:50:44|080|00:50:44|480</wrap>How many? <wrap hide>566|00:50:44|740|00:50:45|400</wrap>I don't know. <wrap hide>567|00:50:46|740|00:50:49|620</wrap>Seven, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty. <wrap hide>568|00:50:50|420|00:50:52|380</wrap>It all depends on our choices. <wrap hide>569|00:50:53|400|00:50:58|660</wrap>But perhaps archetypally we have the first initiation of the Christ, which is his birth, <wrap hide>570|00:50:59|460|00:51:06|980</wrap>and then later we have the sort of fourth initiation at his thirty-third year. <wrap hide>571|00:51:07|460|00:51:13|180</wrap>You know, each year can represent a kind of lifetime in the process of early man, the <wrap hide>572|00:51:13|180|00:51:16|880</wrap>phase between the first and second initiation. The second of the baptism—he was thirty years <wrap hide>573|00:51:16|880|00:51:23|680</wrap>old. Jesus was thirty years old when he was baptized, at least symbolically so. <wrap hide>574|00:51:23|820|00:51:28|100</wrap>We don't know the exact number of years, but those seem to be the number of years which <wrap hide>575|00:51:28|100|00:51:29|620</wrap>have emerged. <wrap hide>576|00:51:30|120|00:51:34|720</wrap>So okay, then we have four signs of birth. <wrap hide>577|00:51:34|980|00:51:46|860</wrap>Aries: the birthplace of ideas. Cancer: the birthplace of the soul into form. Leo: the <wrap hide>578|00:51:46|860|00:51:54|200</wrap>second... We have Capricorn: the birthplace of the Christ, or the second aspect, the consciousness <wrap hide>579|00:51:54|200|00:52:00|180</wrap>aspect in man, the Christ consciousness being born in man incipiently at the first degree <wrap hide>580|00:52:00|180|00:52:10|160</wrap>and flowering fully in the fully developed master who is somehow able to express soul <wrap hide>581|00:52:10|160|00:52:14|260</wrap>or triad fully, able to express the Christ consciousness fully. <wrap hide>582|00:52:14|260|00:52:21|020</wrap>Basically, he is the fully unfolded flower of the evolutionary process, and then we move <wrap hide>583|00:52:21|020|00:52:25|180</wrap>on to chohan-ship, which is already something new and different. <wrap hide>584|00:52:26|480|00:52:28|320</wrap>Okay, let's see where we are. <wrap hide>585|00:52:29|420|00:52:30|180</wrap>Yeah, we're getting there. <wrap hide>586|00:52:30|700|00:52:37|400</wrap><wrap quote>It is from hints such as these that the astrologer of the future will determine the type of horoscope <wrap hide>587|00:52:37|400|00:52:38|580</wrap>which should be cast.</wrap> <wrap hide>588|00:52:38|580|00:52:43|940</wrap>Have we been receiving some hints as we have been reading this? <wrap hide>589|00:52:44|680|00:52:48|220</wrap>Is each type of birthplace a hint for us? <wrap hide>590|00:52:48|920|00:52:53|680</wrap>Do we know what birth lies ahead for us? <wrap hide>591|00:52:55|000|00:52:56|280</wrap>Perhaps we do. <wrap hide>592|00:52:59|500|00:53:06|000</wrap>Each of these births doesn't occur just once, if you know what I mean. <wrap hide>593|00:53:06|000|00:53:12|940</wrap>There are many phases of being born as an individual, many phases of being born as an <wrap hide>594|00:53:12|940|00:53:21|760</wrap>increasingly potent Christ at each initiation, many types of ideas are being born, and many <wrap hide>595|00:53:21|760|00:53:25|980</wrap>types of embodiment of spirit soul in form are occurring. <wrap hide>596|00:53:26|500|00:53:29|480</wrap>It's not just a one-time deal, you know. <wrap hide>597|00:53:30|460|00:53:37|040</wrap>Even Cancer can relate to the causal body as a form in which soul is fully being born. <wrap hide>598|00:53:38|220|00:53:46|140</wrap>So we can trace each of these kinds of births over a period of time, and we can see the ones <wrap hide>599|00:53:46|140|00:53:49|320</wrap>in which we are maybe involved. <wrap hide>600|00:53:49|760|00:53:52|660</wrap>All of us are an idea, especially as a monad. <wrap hide>601|00:53:53|140|00:53:55|200</wrap>We're trying to express that more and more fully. <wrap hide>602|00:53:55|680|00:54:01|620</wrap>All of us have successive forms in which our higher aspects are trying to express. <wrap hide>603|00:54:02|460|00:54:05|260</wrap>We can develop those forms over time. <wrap hide>604|00:54:05|860|00:54:13|060</wrap>All of us are moving towards mastership through our individuality, the I that is I, the I <wrap hide>605|00:54:13|060|00:54:17|000</wrap>that is we, the I that is "I am," that I am. <wrap hide>606|00:54:17|660|00:54:23|420</wrap>All of those are Leonian birth processes, and all of us are taking various initiations in <wrap hide>607|00:54:23|420|00:54:27|380</wrap>which the Christ is more and more unfolded. <wrap hide>608|00:54:28|300|00:54:31|960</wrap>So I think we can see how each of these births extends over time. <wrap hide>609|00:54:32|540|00:54:35|480</wrap>It is not just a one-time process. <wrap hide>610|00:54:37|280|00:54:42|680</wrap>It is from hints such as these that the astrologer of the future will determine the type of horoscope <wrap hide>611|00:54:42|680|00:54:43|720</wrap>which should be cast. <wrap hide>612|00:54:44|860|00:54:50|820</wrap>In other words, are we going around the wheel of form as an ordinary individual without <wrap hide>613|00:54:50|820|00:54:57|180</wrap>real spiritual aspiration, without a sense of the higher of the pairs of opposites, or <wrap hide>614|00:54:57|180|00:55:02|000</wrap>are we in fact going around the wheel of consciousness counterclockwise and do we have the sense <wrap hide>615|00:55:02|000|00:55:07|980</wrap>of relating to the higher of the pairs of opposites? And do we want to, through meditation <wrap hide>616|00:55:07|980|00:55:13|700</wrap>and service and study, come into relationship with that higher of the pairs of opposites <wrap hide>617|00:55:13|700|00:55:15|100</wrap>which is our truer self? <wrap hide>618|00:55:16|100|00:55:20|520</wrap><wrap quote>Two questions will then arise, requiring reasoned answers:</wrap> <wrap hide>619|00:55:21|440|00:55:29|740</wrap>OK, well, maybe I just have a moment to read this and then we'll deal with it later. <wrap hide>620|00:55:31|000|00:55:31|920</wrap>In number 47. <wrap hide>621|00:55:32|680|00:55:34|060</wrap>Or is this 47? <wrap hide>622|00:55:34|480|00:55:39|560</wrap>I'm getting a little, hmm, possibly confused here. <wrap hide>623|00:55:40|180|00:55:41|920</wrap>Yes, this is 47. <wrap hide>624|00:55:42|300|00:55:43|260</wrap>This is 47. <wrap hide>625|00:55:43|580|00:55:43|820</wrap>OK. <wrap hide>626|00:55:43|820|00:55:51|680</wrap><wrap quote>1. Is the subject //a personality//, progressing around and around the wheel, perfecting self-consciousness <wrap hide>627|00:55:51|680|00:55:57|980</wrap>and developing a rounded out personality</wrap> via the cross of many changes, <wrap quote>through experience <wrap hide>628|00:55:58|660|00:56:06|260</wrap>and the working of the Law of Karma,</wrap>—that is Saturn—<wrap quote>subject to the Great <wrap hide>629|00:56:06|260|00:56:11|480</wrap>Illusion and arriving eventually at the height of personality ambition <wrap hide>630|00:56:11|480|00:56:12|120</wrap>in Capricorn?</wrap> <wrap hide>631|00:56:12|120|00:56:19|900</wrap>In other words, are we going from Aries backwards, as it were, through to Capricorn, climaxing <wrap hide>632|00:56:19|900|00:56:21|500</wrap>a life of personality ambition? <wrap hide>633|00:56:21|700|00:56:28|880</wrap>Or is this person beginning to manifest as a soul? <wrap hide>634|00:56:30|220|00:56:33|500</wrap>Notice that the people with whom we come in contact are probably beginning to manifest <wrap hide>635|00:56:33|500|00:56:40|000</wrap>as souls and are not full souls in complete expression, third-degree initiates and beyond. <wrap hide>636|00:56:40|810|00:56:45|520</wrap><wrap quote>2. Or, is this person beginning to manifest //as a soul//, pouring light through dense fogs <wrap hide>637|00:56:46|120|00:56:51|680</wrap>of illusion, and preparing for the major tests in Scorpio, to be followed by initiation in <wrap hide>638|00:56:51|680|00:56:52|040</wrap>Capricorn?</wrap> <wrap hide>639|00:56:52|260|00:57:02|700</wrap>So this is the person proceeding counterclockwise, and this is proceeding clockwise. <wrap hide>640|00:57:04|190|00:57:06|780</wrap>And you know, that's the fundamental judgment we have to make. <wrap hide>641|00:57:06|780|00:57:12|740</wrap>Now, you know, we are mostly blessed as people studying esoteric astrology to be surrounded <wrap hide>642|00:57:12|740|00:57:18|240</wrap>by people who have some degree of spiritual aspiration and can be at least beginning to <wrap hide>643|00:57:18|240|00:57:23|000</wrap>manifest as a soul, in which case, when the point of reorientation comes, the esoteric <wrap hide>644|00:57:23|000|00:57:27|360</wrap>rulers can at least be held up as an ideal or an objective. <wrap hide>645|00:57:28|300|00:57:38|160</wrap>Right, so we are now at the end of EAA 47 pages—oops, there's one of the examples— <wrap hide>646|00:57:38|420|00:57:43|440</wrap>let's call it pages, um, where were we? <wrap hide>647|00:57:44|020|00:57:46|960</wrap>1-0-what? 103. <wrap hide>648|00:57:47|800|00:57:49|540</wrap>So we went from 101 to 103. <wrap hide>649|00:57:49|700|00:57:55|820</wrap>We're pretty much doing about two pages at a time with all the digressions, but I've <wrap hide>650|00:57:55|820|00:58:00|960</wrap>been told by some that they prefer my digressions to my teachings, so okay, maybe that's the <wrap hide>651|00:58:00|960|00:58:01|440</wrap>way it goes. <wrap hide>652|00:58:02|500|00:58:08|360</wrap>Now we will, together, as always, do The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>653|00:58:12|420|00:58:12|720</wrap>Yes. <wrap hide>654|00:58:20|580|00:58:21|740</wrap>Excuse me. <wrap hide>655|00:58:31|120|00:58:31|860</wrap>Ommmmmmmmm. <wrap hide>656|00:58:33|370|00:58:40|020</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>657|00:58:40|020|00:58:43|940</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>658|00:58:47|720|00:58:55|160</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts <wrap hide>659|00:58:55|160|00:58:59|020</wrap>of men. May Christ return to earth. <wrap hide>660|00:59:01|720|00:59:09|100</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, <wrap hide>661|00:59:09|100|00:59:12|900</wrap>the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>662|00:59:15|820|00:59:21|560</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, <wrap hide>663|00:59:22|000|00:59:26|900</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>664|00:59:29|280|00:59:36|920</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>665|00:59:49|800|00:59:50|900</wrap>Ommmmmmmmm. <wrap hide>666|01:00:19|480|01:00:20|880</wrap>Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm <wrap hide>667|01:00:25|640|01:00:33|740</wrap>Okay friends, we have reached the point and we will continue with Esoteric Astrology Adventure <wrap hide>668|01:00:34|400|01:00:45|700</wrap>number 48. Continuing with Aries. We are, hmm, well, we're not even halfway through that sign, <wrap hide>669|01:00:45|700|01:00:52|880</wrap>but there are so many things that need attention. You know, what I'm assuming is that as you study <wrap hide>670|01:00:52|880|01:00:59|360</wrap>Esoteric Astrology, you want to get more into the depth of it and not just be able to, you know, <wrap hide>671|01:00:59|380|01:01:07|500</wrap>whip off a few horoscopes, but really to see what the difference is between this deeper approach to <wrap hide>672|01:01:07|500|01:01:11|640</wrap>the ancient science and the more conventional approach. So, we'll see you for number 48 <wrap hide>673|01:01:12|180|01:01:13|800</wrap>before long. Bye for now.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:04|180|00:00:14|400</wrap>Hello everybody, and welcome to Esoteric Astrology adventure number 47. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|740|00:00:17|280</wrap>I think that's right; I hope it's right. <wrap hide>3|00:00:18|080|00:00:26|180</wrap>We have been speaking of Aries and its relation to various signs via its rulers, either Mars <wrap hide>4|00:00:26|180|00:00:34|220</wrap>in relating it to Scorpio, or Mercury relating it to Virgo. <wrap hide>5|00:00:36|200|00:00:40|180</wrap>And there are various crises which are connected with the signs. <wrap hide>6|00:00:41|420|00:00:48|460</wrap>Scorpio, the crisis of the battlefield, also found referenced on Esoteric Astrology page <wrap hide>7|00:00:48|460|00:00:52|600</wrap>472, where I think some nine crises are listed. <wrap hide>8|00:00:53|320|00:00:57|640</wrap>And the crisis of the birthplace. <wrap hide>9|00:00:59|480|00:01:06|040</wrap>And we were just discussing that in relation to Mercury and Virgo. <wrap hide>10|00:01:06|920|00:01:13|300</wrap>We were talking about signs involved in the first initiation: Virgo, Leo and Capricorn <wrap hide>11|00:01:13|300|00:01:20|260</wrap>are all involved in that, though there is kind of a progression given in this crisis <wrap hide>12|00:01:20|260|00:01:21|280</wrap>of the birthplace. <wrap hide>13|00:01:22|180|00:01:27|140</wrap>The whole lengthy gestation period is ruled by Virgo. <wrap hide>14|00:01:28|540|00:01:35|260</wrap>This is said to be brought about by the activity of Mercury, which is associated with the Divine <wrap hide>15|00:01:35|260|00:01:35|700</wrap>Sun. <wrap hide>16|00:01:36|420|00:01:41|340</wrap>We are interested in the birth of the second aspect, the consciousness, the Son of God, <wrap hide>17|00:01:41|340|00:01:51|380</wrap>and we find ourselves entering the world of material enterprise. "Let matter reign," <wrap hide>18|00:01:51|600|00:01:53|660</wrap>it is said in Virgo. <wrap hide>19|00:01:54|740|00:02:02|780</wrap>This leads eventually to individualization in, or rather a growing individuality in Leo, <wrap hide>20|00:02:02|780|00:02:05|360</wrap>and finally to the birth of the Christ in Capricorn. <wrap hide>21|00:02:06|060|00:02:11|000</wrap>Though each one of these signs—Leo, Virgo and Capricorn—can be associated with the birth <wrap hide>22|00:02:11|000|00:02:23|700</wrap>of the Christ, but D.K. makes the series sequential from Virgo through Leo through Capricorn. <wrap hide>23|00:02:24|420|00:02:32|960</wrap>Though Capricorn and Virgo are both very much involved in the birth process, Leo is involved <wrap hide>24|00:02:32|960|00:02:40|460</wrap>more in the recognition of the higher self, the second level of Leo ruled by the heart <wrap hide>25|00:02:40|460|00:02:48|120</wrap>of the Sun and stimulated by Neptune, which is the repository of the solar flames and <wrap hide>26|00:02:48|120|00:02:54|240</wrap>a planet which seems to stimulate the Christ consciousness within the disciple. <wrap hide>27|00:02:55|340|00:03:01|120</wrap><wrap quote>The self-conscious individual in Leo becomes the Christ-conscious Initiate in Capricorn.</wrap> <wrap hide>28|00:03:01|120|00:03:11|760</wrap>He becomes aware of soul relations and of a type of intimacy based on shared consciousness. <wrap hide>29|00:03:12|900|00:03:18|320</wrap>This is different from the apparent distinction that exists between individuals based upon <wrap hide>30|00:03:18|320|00:03:21|020</wrap>their apparently distinct forms. <wrap hide>31|00:03:22|340|00:03:29|780</wrap>Distinct forms versus shared consciousness, perhaps relating to the mystery of the soul, <wrap hide>32|00:03:29|780|00:03:32|020</wrap>which is ruled by Capricorn. <wrap hide>33|00:03:32|200|00:03:33|680</wrap>That's where we came to, approximately. <wrap hide>34|00:03:34|640|00:03:46|060</wrap>We have another crisis which one of the rulers of Aries connects with another sign. <wrap hide>35|00:03:46|480|00:03:51|060</wrap>We're looking at the esoteric rulers, through which one of the rulers of Aries connects <wrap hide>36|00:03:51|060|00:03:51|820</wrap>with another sign. <wrap hide>37|00:03:51|940|00:03:57|860</wrap>This is the crisis of the burning ground, and we have been told that Uranus is always involved <wrap hide>38|00:03:57|860|00:04:03|500</wrap>in creating the burning ground, although Mars through the fire by friction process seems <wrap hide>39|00:04:03|500|00:04:04|780</wrap>also involved. <wrap hide>40|00:04:05|660|00:04:10|080</wrap>Uranus is connected, we're told, with the final burning ground, but it also seems generically <wrap hide>41|00:04:10|080|00:04:18|660</wrap>to connect with burning ground processes which are very transformative and seem to restore <wrap hide>42|00:04:18|660|00:04:26|860</wrap>a human being more to his authentic identity or archetype when all the dross and the imperfect <wrap hide>43|00:04:26|860|00:04:32|920</wrap>conditioned relationships are burned away and the energy thus released. <wrap hide>44|00:04:34|060|00:04:38|700</wrap><wrap quote>3. The crisis of the burning ground, which is brought about through the activity of Uranus. <wrap hide>45|00:04:38|880|00:04:46|080</wrap>This is entered through the free choice of the initiate</wrap> in every case, <wrap quote>who makes his <wrap hide>46|00:04:46|080|00:04:47|420</wrap>choice in Libra,</wrap> <wrap hide>47|00:04:48|440|00:04:54|880</wrap>Maybe for every burning ground there may be kind of a Libran choice which precedes it, <wrap hide>48|00:04:54|880|00:04:57|640</wrap>but the final burning ground has been definite. <wrap hide>49|00:04:58|840|00:05:05|280</wrap>Perhaps for every burning ground there is a choice involved. <wrap hide>50|00:05:06|680|00:05:13|780</wrap>The choice is made in Libra whether or not to enter that burning ground, because the candidate <wrap hide>51|00:05:13|780|00:05:21|620</wrap>for initiation knows somewhat what lies ahead, although perhaps not the fullness of the experience— <wrap hide>52|00:05:21|620|00:05:27|680</wrap>otherwise some might be reticent, hesitant to enter. <wrap hide>53|00:05:28|360|00:05:30|560</wrap>They make their choice in Libra, free choice. <wrap hide>54|00:05:31|280|00:05:35|300</wrap>The freedom of choice comes in relation to Uranus. <wrap hide>55|00:05:35|400|00:05:41|600</wrap>Uranus is the planet of freedom, and even in relation to Saturn. <wrap hide>56|00:05:41|800|00:05:48|880</wrap>Saturn is the planet of choice, Libra is the sign of choice, Uranus is the planet of freedom. <wrap hide>57|00:05:48|880|00:05:54|120</wrap>So the idea of free choice just occurs to me, perhaps for the first time, is very much <wrap hide>58|00:05:54|120|00:05:55|980</wrap>concerned with Uranus in Libra. <wrap hide>59|00:05:56|880|00:06:00|500</wrap>Uranus in Libra is involved with what is called the reversal of the wheel. <wrap hide>60|00:06:01|600|00:06:07|100</wrap>So at those several points along the evolutionary path where it can be said that the wheel is <wrap hide>61|00:06:07|100|00:06:13|480</wrap>in process of being reversed, Uranus in relation to Libra can be important. <wrap hide>62|00:06:14|340|00:06:21|540</wrap>This is <wrap quote>the point of balance where—usually—the moment for the reversal of the wheel takes <wrap hide>63|00:06:21|540|00:06:21|900</wrap>place.</wrap> <wrap hide>64|00:06:22|300|00:06:30|460</wrap>Now, as I said, there may be more than one reversal, or at least the beginning of the process of <wrap hide>65|00:06:30|460|00:06:37|760</wrap>reversal seems to occur during the fifth petal process where a person can deliberately become <wrap hide>66|00:06:38|370|00:06:42|780</wrap>an aspirant to the mysteries of initiation. <wrap hide>67|00:06:43|740|00:06:52|220</wrap>But the final moment of reversal seems to be a moment between the second and third initiations <wrap hide>68|00:06:52|220|00:06:56|160</wrap>which very much involves choice in the desert. <wrap hide>69|00:06:57|120|00:07:06|500</wrap>So there is a kind of a Libra-Uranus, Scorpio-Uranus process going on in the desert where the so-called <wrap hide>70|00:07:06|500|00:07:14|500</wrap>devil comes to Christ, which is each one of us, and tempts him, us, three times and we <wrap hide>71|00:07:14|500|00:07:16|720</wrap>have to make correct choice. <wrap hide>72|00:07:17|300|00:07:18|640</wrap>It is a free choice. <wrap hide>73|00:07:18|780|00:07:20|120</wrap>It is a Uranian choice. <wrap hide>74|00:07:20|220|00:07:27|220</wrap>It is also a Saturnian choice because it must accord with the law, the higher law. <wrap hide>75|00:07:27|700|00:07:32|100</wrap>Saturn in a way is even more powerful in Libra than Uranus is. <wrap hide>76|00:07:32|200|00:07:33|980</wrap>Saturn has two positions in Libra. <wrap hide>77|00:07:34|160|00:07:40|560</wrap>It is the hierarchical ruler and also the exalted ruler in Libra. <wrap hide>78|00:07:43|880|00:07:50|780</wrap>So that is a reversal of the wheel which guarantees that a man will no longer be tempted towards <wrap hide>79|00:07:50|780|00:07:52|240</wrap>the left-hand path. <wrap hide>80|00:07:53|020|00:08:02|000</wrap>At that same time one can choose a more selfish response which exalts the lower ego, and that <wrap hide>81|00:08:02|000|00:08:07|580</wrap>can happen in the desert as well, even after the second initiation is taken. <wrap hide>82|00:08:07|760|00:08:13|940</wrap>It's really hard to fathom that any individual could have faced the Christ as the initiator <wrap hide>83|00:08:13|940|00:08:19|840</wrap>two times for the first and second initiation and still make such a choice. <wrap hide>84|00:08:21|140|00:08:28|300</wrap>Okay, going on, <wrap quote>There the man has to decide whether to proceed as usual and according <wrap hide>85|00:08:28|300|00:08:34|640</wrap>to custom or, reversing the wheel, to pass through the burning ground to liberation.</wrap> <wrap hide>86|00:08:35|640|00:08:42|940</wrap>Now if we're speaking about the early days of reversing the wheel, it is not any final <wrap hide>87|00:08:42|940|00:08:43|400</wrap>choice. <wrap hide>88|00:08:43|580|00:08:50|900</wrap>It is simply a choice to move towards the sense of a higher pair of opposites which <wrap hide>89|00:08:50|900|00:08:54|880</wrap>we can call a higher power or an inner God or an inner voice. <wrap hide>90|00:08:54|880|00:09:01|400</wrap>There are all kinds of non-specific names which can be applied to that sense of something <wrap hide>91|00:09:01|400|00:09:03|480</wrap>higher towards which one wants to proceed. <wrap hide>92|00:09:03|960|00:09:12|360</wrap>But if it is later, after the second initiation, then there is a kind of liberation on which <wrap hide>93|00:09:12|360|00:09:20|440</wrap>a fearful battle is fought between Mars and the Moon, and it precedes the third initiation, <wrap hide>94|00:09:20|440|00:09:26|120</wrap>and one is making the choice to pass onto that particular burning ground which ends <wrap hide>95|00:09:26|540|00:09:29|060</wrap>the ancient authority of the personality. <wrap hide>96|00:09:29|400|00:09:32|040</wrap>That's the way D.K. puts it. <wrap hide>97|00:09:33|000|00:09:36|280</wrap><wrap quote>Libra is the polar opposite to Aries and therefore closely related.</wrap> <wrap hide>98|00:09:36|500|00:09:37|160</wrap>What is he saying? <wrap hide>99|00:09:37|820|00:09:40|520</wrap>That all polar opposites are closely related. <wrap hide>100|00:09:41|460|00:09:42|760</wrap>So let's just put that down. <wrap hide>101|00:09:43|240|00:09:50|420</wrap>All polar opposites are closely related. <wrap hide>102|00:09:53|360|00:09:59|300</wrap>So, Libra rules paths, Aries rules fire. <wrap hide>103|00:10:00|160|00:10:02|920</wrap>The two of them together provide a kind of burning ground. <wrap hide>104|00:10:03|680|00:10:10|080</wrap>Aries and Libra are connected with a great bear and with a first-ray type of power, a <wrap hide>105|00:10:10|080|00:10:19|180</wrap>type of will which one exercises as one chooses to enter consciously a particular burning <wrap hide>106|00:10:19|180|00:10:19|780</wrap>ground. <wrap hide>107|00:10:20|620|00:10:24|060</wrap>So proceeding according to custom, you know that custom is such an interesting word. <wrap hide>108|00:10:24|220|00:10:31|200</wrap>It's kind of a lunar word or even lower Saturnian word. <wrap hide>109|00:10:32|000|00:10:39|720</wrap>Do we proceed according to habit and to our conditioning, or do we freely and courageously <wrap hide>110|00:10:40|500|00:10:48|480</wrap>decide to step upon the burning ground where the dross will be burnt away and we will be <wrap hide>111|00:10:48|480|00:10:57|320</wrap>freed of our inhibitory conditioning so that we may enter a new dimension, a new stage <wrap hide>112|00:10:57|320|00:10:58|400</wrap>of initiation? <wrap hide>113|00:10:59|640|00:11:01|600</wrap>So free choice, isn't that interesting? <wrap hide>114|00:11:02|200|00:11:04|340</wrap>Uranus freedom, Libra choice. <wrap hide>115|00:11:04|580|00:11:09|260</wrap>I guess maybe that's the first time this has really occurred to me, the idea of free choice. <wrap hide>116|00:11:09|360|00:11:15|860</wrap>And of course it works out today in the area of human relations where people freely choose <wrap hide>117|00:11:15|860|00:11:24|060</wrap>whether to go according to law and custom or whether to follow some more individual <wrap hide>118|00:11:25|470|00:11:29|260</wrap>choice with respect to partners taken and so forth. <wrap hide>119|00:11:29|660|00:11:36|320</wrap>Obviously, this free choice runs the danger of violating the law, the Saturnian law, and <wrap hide>120|00:11:36|590|00:11:41|100</wrap>entering into individually preferred but somewhat perverse states. <wrap hide>121|00:11:41|840|00:11:45|960</wrap>All of this will have to be sorted out, you know, just how much freedom the individual <wrap hide>122|00:11:46|500|00:11:52|180</wrap>really has to choose in the matter of orientation towards partners. <wrap hide>123|00:11:53|200|00:12:01|740</wrap>It's a sticky problem, a difficult problem that seems to provoke people who are in the <wrap hide>124|00:12:01|740|00:12:08|980</wrap>very individual stage in terms of making their choice, but it will have to be sorted out. <wrap hide>125|00:12:08|980|00:12:14|840</wrap>Ultimately, here Saturn will prevail over Uranus as the stronger ruler in Libra. <wrap hide>126|00:12:16|700|00:12:23|880</wrap><wrap quote>You will note that the rays which are related to or expressing themselves <wrap hide>127|00:12:23|880|00:12:26|120</wrap>through Aries are curiously balanced, <wrap hide>128|00:12:26|400|00:12:32|980</wrap>Rays 1 and 7 are the highest and the lowest, and therefore demand a point <wrap hide>129|00:12:32|980|00:12:39|320</wrap>of balance upon the wheel which is provided in Libra.</wrap> <wrap hide>130|00:12:40|740|00:12:46|760</wrap>So Libra is the seventh sign and it has something to do with the law which suggests the first <wrap hide>131|00:12:46|760|00:12:47|020</wrap>ray. <wrap hide>132|00:12:47|920|00:12:55|240</wrap>In Aries the first and seventh rays are transmitted, but his phrasing is interesting, isn't it? <wrap hide>133|00:12:56|180|00:13:00|960</wrap>These rays are the highest and the lowest and therefore demand a point of balance upon <wrap hide>134|00:13:00|960|00:13:03|520</wrap>the wheel which is provided in Libra. <wrap hide>135|00:13:03|700|00:13:11|180</wrap>So it's as if the Aries tendency moves towards equilibrizing in Libra. <wrap hide>136|00:13:11|700|00:13:13|860</wrap>Aries, you know, sort of disrupts the balance. <wrap hide>137|00:13:14|120|00:13:24|000</wrap>It plunges into new territory via the wheel and is not involved in preserving any kind <wrap hide>138|00:13:24|000|00:13:24|840</wrap>of status quo. <wrap hide>139|00:13:24|840|00:13:31|280</wrap>It disrupts all status quo, probably in a Uranian manner because Uranus is the highest <wrap hide>140|00:13:31|280|00:13:33|700</wrap>ruler, hierarchical of Aries. <wrap hide>141|00:13:34|260|00:13:35|900</wrap>But Libra restores the balance. <wrap hide>142|00:13:36|060|00:13:39|060</wrap>There's nothing more balanced than Saturn in Libra. <wrap hide>143|00:13:39|200|00:13:45|500</wrap>It is a right relationship and relationship according to Saturnian law. <wrap hide>144|00:13:47|300|00:13:53|180</wrap>So rays one and seven, and probably in the center of it all will be found ray four. <wrap hide>145|00:13:53|620|00:13:57|640</wrap>Whether ray four is related to Libra we can question. <wrap hide>146|00:13:57|920|00:13:59|040</wrap>It seems like it is. <wrap hide>147|00:13:59|620|00:14:03|740</wrap>Remember that every Logos has every ray. <wrap hide>148|00:14:04|040|00:14:08|300</wrap>Certainly our planetary Logos does, so why should not the Lords of Constellations? <wrap hide>149|00:14:08|860|00:14:10|860</wrap>Those certain rays are emphasized. <wrap hide>150|00:14:11|820|00:14:18|940</wrap>And the harmony aspect of ray four seems very emphasized in relation to Libra even though <wrap hide>151|00:14:18|940|00:14:25|240</wrap>only ray three is given as an energy transmitted through Libra. <wrap hide>152|00:14:25|640|00:14:35|940</wrap>My hunch, suspicion in this regard is that each Lord of the Constellations has three <wrap hide>153|00:14:35|940|00:14:39|260</wrap>major rays expressing through it. <wrap hide>154|00:14:39|520|00:14:42|480</wrap>Maybe sometimes there's a doubling up, but at least two. <wrap hide>155|00:14:42|480|00:14:49|240</wrap>I don't think you would find that only a single ray is involved as transmitted through <wrap hide>156|00:14:49|240|00:14:51|820</wrap>a particular sign of the zodiac on all three levels. <wrap hide>157|00:14:52|020|00:14:52|880</wrap>I don't think so. <wrap hide>158|00:14:53|420|00:14:54|740</wrap>That remains to be proven. <wrap hide>159|00:14:56|440|00:15:02|100</wrap><wrap quote>Rays 6 and 4</wrap> now they are brought into the process through Mars, ray six, and Mercury, <wrap hide>160|00:15:02|100|00:15:08|460</wrap>ray four, <wrap quote>bring to this balancing process the energy of the second ray,</wrap> <wrap hide>161|00:15:08|460|00:15:13|780</wrap>These are both rays found somewhere in the middle between one and seven. <wrap hide>162|00:15:13|920|00:15:19|380</wrap>I've talked about the relationship between six and four at the sixth-fourth initiation <wrap hide>163|00:15:19|380|00:15:29|620</wrap>which I say, or the Tibetan says, the Christ-Jesus pair underwent, and I would say the Buddha-Gautama <wrap hide>164|00:15:29|620|00:15:33|140</wrap>pair, which I am hypothesizing, underwent. <wrap hide>165|00:15:33|660|00:15:39|400</wrap>I've talked about my reasons for suspecting that the Buddha is one entity and the Prince <wrap hide>166|00:15:39|400|00:15:41|120</wrap>Siddhartha Gautama is another. <wrap hide>167|00:15:42|060|00:15:46|200</wrap>Rays six and four bring to this balancing process the energy of the second ray, <wrap quote>the <wrap hide>168|00:15:46|200|00:15:52|940</wrap>major building ray which enables the man to build anew and provide himself with a spiritual <wrap hide>169|00:15:52|940|00:15:55|060</wrap>body of manifestation.</wrap> <wrap hide>170|00:15:56|340|00:16:03|120</wrap>So, you know, Aries has some of the building energy connected with it via two of the three <wrap hide>171|00:16:03|140|00:16:07|140</wrap>of its planetary rulers expressing on the soft line. <wrap hide>172|00:16:08|560|00:16:12|700</wrap>And the whole idea of building a new habitation is very much connected with Aries. <wrap hide>173|00:16:13|140|00:16:19|740</wrap>It's the initiation of the building of a new habitation that form again be sought. <wrap hide>174|00:16:19|940|00:16:25|960</wrap>And we do know that the second ray is the major form building ray. <wrap hide>175|00:16:26|480|00:16:33|200</wrap>You know, these Lords of the Constellations, they have ways of balancing their expression. <wrap hide>176|00:16:33|380|00:16:34|620</wrap>We know so very little about them. <wrap hide>177|00:16:34|720|00:16:37|040</wrap>We know very little about our own planetary Logos. <wrap hide>178|00:16:37|820|00:16:44|040</wrap>And we must infer the rays of the other planetary Logos, although D.K. has given us certain hints, <wrap hide>179|00:16:44|040|00:16:47|720</wrap>and what about the solar Logos and then the Lords of the Constellations? <wrap hide>180|00:16:47|820|00:16:54|400</wrap>So we know relatively so little about these great lives, but we're getting some idea of <wrap hide>181|00:16:54|400|00:17:00|380</wrap>how they operate, what qualities they produce, and what are the rays which allow them to <wrap hide>182|00:17:00|380|00:17:01|540</wrap>produce those qualities. <wrap hide>183|00:17:03|280|00:17:09|320</wrap><wrap quote>I would also call your attention to the fact that through Uranus, Aries is related to Aquarius.</wrap> <wrap hide>184|00:17:09|480|00:17:11|460</wrap>I do believe he has begun to say that. <wrap hide>185|00:17:11|560|00:17:16|940</wrap>Also, Aries is related to Leo, whose veiled hierarchical ruler is Uranus. <wrap hide>186|00:17:16|940|00:17:25|280</wrap>And let's see, Aries would be related to Scorpio via the exalted Uranus in Scorpio. <wrap hide>187|00:17:26|300|00:17:28|640</wrap>Let's see, what am I forgetting? <wrap hide>188|00:17:31|020|00:17:36|880</wrap>There's Aries, Libra, Leo, and Aquarius. <wrap hide>189|00:17:37|040|00:17:46|820</wrap>Those four have a strong Uranian content, plus also Scorpio if we consider the veiled <wrap hide>190|00:17:46|820|00:17:49|060</wrap>hierarchical ruler Uranus. <wrap hide>191|00:17:50|020|00:17:54|600</wrap>Okay, so through Uranus, Aries is related to Aquarius. <wrap hide>192|00:17:54|760|00:17:56|420</wrap>Now let's see what's going on there. <wrap hide>193|00:17:57|400|00:18:06|160</wrap>Lords of constellations are related to each other through a particular planetary Logos <wrap hide>194|00:18:06|160|00:18:07|460</wrap>through which they function. <wrap hide>195|00:18:07|960|00:18:15|780</wrap>Now Lords of constellations may also be related to each other through rays which they transmit <wrap hide>196|00:18:15|780|00:18:16|720</wrap>in common. <wrap hide>197|00:18:17|640|00:18:22|020</wrap>From Aquarius we get the fifth ray, and we don't find that in Aries, but let's just suppose <wrap hide>198|00:18:22|560|00:18:26|580</wrap>we were relating Aries, Leo, and Capricorn. <wrap hide>199|00:18:27|500|00:18:34|000</wrap>Whether or not ruling planets related these three, they would be all related through the <wrap hide>200|00:18:34|000|00:18:35|380</wrap>expression of ray one. <wrap hide>201|00:18:35|860|00:18:38|720</wrap>They would be related on the constellational level. <wrap hide>202|00:18:39|460|00:18:45|760</wrap>They would not have to wait until we saw whether there was a ruling planet in common to find <wrap hide>203|00:18:45|780|00:18:47|780</wrap>their relationship. <wrap hide>204|00:18:49|080|00:18:57|460</wrap>So okay, a lesser lord who is the lord of the planet Uranus brings about a kind of relationship, <wrap hide>205|00:18:57|860|00:19:01|740</wrap>probably through Uranus, of Aries and Aquarius. <wrap hide>206|00:19:02|080|00:19:13|640</wrap>So what I'm asking for is that we differentiate constellations related to each other on their <wrap hide>207|00:19:13|640|00:19:24|640</wrap>own level or related to each other through a shared ruler, like Uranus in this case. <wrap hide>208|00:19:25|420|00:19:32|720</wrap><wrap quote>The vague beginnings in Aries,</wrap> vague beginnings, well that's kind of interesting because in <wrap hide>209|00:19:33|040|00:19:36|420</wrap>Cancer there's a certain vagueness and in Aries there's a certain vagueness. <wrap hide>210|00:19:36|600|00:19:43|620</wrap>The beginning of embodiment in Aries, <wrap quote>the faint emergence of the latent <wrap hide>211|00:19:43|640|00:19:51|760</wrap>embodied ideas have—after the turning of the wheel in two directions—</wrap> the wheel <wrap hide>212|00:19:51|760|00:19:57|740</wrap>of form and the wheel of consciousness, <wrap quote>brought release</wrap> i.e. through initiation, <wrap quote>in Capricorn <wrap hide>213|00:19:57|740|00:20:01|200</wrap>and produced the world server in Aquarius,</wrap> <wrap hide>214|00:20:01|200|00:20:10|260</wrap>That's the real meaning of Aquarius, the world server distributing the ideas in form to all <wrap hide>215|00:20:10|260|00:20:13|220</wrap>who may be able to receive them. <wrap hide>216|00:20:14|260|00:20:21|720</wrap>The world server in Aquarius <wrap quote>who voluntarily stays upon the great wheel (using the Cardinal <wrap hide>217|00:20:21|720|00:20:24|560</wrap>Cross as his conditioning signs)</wrap> <wrap hide>218|00:20:25|460|00:20:33|080</wrap>So here we're talking about at least an initiate of the fourth degree, and maybe beyond, <wrap quote>and <wrap hide>219|00:20:33|080|00:20:37|280</wrap>thus staying within the sphere of influence in order to help humanity to find liberation <wrap hide>220|00:20:37|280|00:20:38|140</wrap>from the Fixed Cross.</wrap> <wrap hide>221|00:20:38|140|00:20:45|260</wrap>Who can help humanity rise off the cross of the soul into the cross of the spirit? <wrap hide>222|00:20:45|880|00:20:57|820</wrap>Only one who is a spirit can help another find liberation from the cross of soul. <wrap hide>223|00:20:59|000|00:21:01|060</wrap>That's how we look at the fixed cross. <wrap hide>224|00:21:01|060|00:21:11|740</wrap>Now this world server, perhaps having the last necessary incarnation, is using the cardinal <wrap hide>225|00:21:11|740|00:21:15|140</wrap>cross as his conditioning signs. <wrap hide>226|00:21:16|080|00:21:26|260</wrap>So D.K. will describe what this means for us by giving keynotes for the main cardinal signs. <wrap hide>227|00:21:27|500|00:21:32|380</wrap>Initiation, manifestation, legislation, and so forth. <wrap hide>228|00:21:33|820|00:21:35|320</wrap>So let's take a look at this. <wrap hide>229|00:21:36|860|00:21:42|620</wrap>The vagueness, I want to talk about the vagueness in Aries for a moment, and I want to do that <wrap hide>230|00:21:42|620|00:21:49|180</wrap>by moving to the idea of a certain type of light which is found in relation to Aries. <wrap hide>231|00:21:50|020|00:21:54|620</wrap>329 or so, Aries gives us the light of life itself. <wrap hide>232|00:21:54|620|00:22:00|940</wrap>Remember we're talking about vagueness, inchoate beginnings, things that are nowhere near as <wrap hide>233|00:22:00|940|00:22:06|140</wrap>definite, as they will become in that great sign of definition, Capricorn. <wrap hide>234|00:22:07|240|00:22:13|180</wrap>The light of life itself, this is the dim point of light found at the center of the <wrap hide>235|00:22:13|180|00:22:16|660</wrap>cycle of manifestation, faint and flickering. <wrap hide>236|00:22:17|300|00:22:23|940</wrap>It is the searchlight of the Logos seeking that which can be used for divine expression. <wrap hide>237|00:22:23|940|00:22:29|800</wrap>In other words, looking out for the material that can be gathered into relationship and <wrap hide>238|00:22:29|800|00:22:36|740</wrap>into form in the forthcoming signs of greater densification. <wrap hide>239|00:22:38|700|00:22:43|380</wrap>So there is a vagueness involved here, yes, at first. <wrap hide>240|00:22:43|520|00:22:47|180</wrap>Or let's call them inchoate beginnings. <wrap hide>241|00:22:50|520|00:22:59|520</wrap>So we cannot expect from the Aries mentality or way of proceeding that type of definition <wrap hide>242|00:22:59|520|00:23:05|220</wrap>in form which we can expect from such a sign as Capricorn. <wrap hide>243|00:23:06|360|00:23:11|980</wrap>So you know, it takes a while to get off the fixed cross and to mount the cardinal cross. <wrap hide>244|00:23:13|260|00:23:17|780</wrap>But oftentimes the last incarnation, let's call it the incarnation of the fourth initiation, <wrap hide>245|00:23:17|980|00:23:20|920</wrap>is taken in Aquarius or under Aquarius. <wrap hide>246|00:23:21|120|00:23:26|520</wrap>When you look at the horoscope of Sir Francis Bacon, it had the Sun in Aquarius, Mercury <wrap hide>247|00:23:26|520|00:23:29|660</wrap>in Aquarius rising, and Aquarius as the rising sign. <wrap hide>248|00:23:30|580|00:23:38|280</wrap>So it had a great deal of this Aquarian energy, and was that a fourth initiation incarnation? <wrap hide>249|00:23:38|280|00:23:47|940</wrap>Certainly it was no less than that, because Francis Bacon went on as Master R to become <wrap hide>250|00:23:48|640|00:23:52|140</wrap>a fifth degree initiate, the Lord of Civilization. <wrap hide>251|00:23:53|200|00:23:59|160</wrap>Later he went on to achieve the sixth degree. We don't know when, but as the Maha Chohan, <wrap hide>252|00:23:59|560|00:24:03|460</wrap>present Maha Chohan, he certainly would have had to achieve the sixth degree because you <wrap hide>253|00:24:03|460|00:24:06|180</wrap>can't be a Chohan without achieving the sixth degree. <wrap hide>254|00:24:06|180|00:24:13|780</wrap>So perhaps from the time he was Francis Bacon to the year 1925 or so when it was basically <wrap hide>255|00:24:13|780|00:24:18|660</wrap>stated that he was the new Maha Chohan, we see the progress from the fourth through the <wrap hide>256|00:24:18|660|00:24:19|820</wrap>fifth to the sixth degree. <wrap hide>257|00:24:20|700|00:24:24|440</wrap>All of that is the business of the masters. <wrap hide>258|00:24:26|000|00:24:33|360</wrap>One knowledgeable student of occultism shared with me his opinion that at the time that <wrap hide>259|00:24:33|360|00:24:39|900</wrap>Master Morya temporarily took over Master Kuthumi's students, Master Kuthumi had to <wrap hide>260|00:24:39|900|00:24:45|700</wrap>go away for a certain purpose, and it was to achieve the sixth degree or chohanship. <wrap hide>261|00:24:45|860|00:24:51|280</wrap>None of this is mentioned in the books per se, but this individual seemed to have a pretty <wrap hide>262|00:24:51|280|00:24:54|860</wrap>good understanding of what that process was. <wrap hide>263|00:24:55|920|00:24:57|060</wrap>Okay, moving on. <wrap hide>264|00:24:58|680|00:25:07|000</wrap>Okay, from faint emergence of latent embodied ideas, I guess it's up to every Aries individual <wrap hide>265|00:25:07|000|00:25:11|880</wrap>to make those ideas increasingly tangible and concrete, and I would say that the seventh <wrap hide>266|00:25:11|880|00:25:19|260</wrap>ray helps with that, and eventually when one is a true initiate in Aries, the precipitating <wrap hide>267|00:25:19|260|00:25:24|860</wrap>power of Uranus under the seventh ray would help to make the latent embodied ideas far <wrap hide>268|00:25:24|860|00:25:29|680</wrap>more definite and applied in the worlds of form. <wrap hide>269|00:25:30|980|00:25:37|680</wrap><wrap quote>In the sweep of the zodiac there are four signs which are signs of birth, of beginning <wrap hide>270|00:25:38|780|00:25:41|140</wrap>and of renewed cyclic realisation.</wrap> <wrap hide>271|00:25:41|300|00:25:44|380</wrap>Let's see how he goes about describing this. <wrap hide>272|00:25:44|760|00:25:46|080</wrap>Four signs of birth. <wrap hide>273|00:25:47|740|00:25:52|580</wrap><wrap quote>1. //Aries//, the “birthplace of divine Ideas,”</wrap> <wrap hide>274|00:25:52|580|00:25:59|700</wrap>Not just any old thoughts, but of ideas which are truly coming from the cosmic ethers, where <wrap hide>275|00:25:59|700|00:26:03|920</wrap>we can say that divinity begins. <wrap hide>276|00:26:04|620|00:26:11|320</wrap>When we think about the lower three sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane, they are the <wrap hide>277|00:26:11|320|00:26:17|100</wrap>dense physical body of the Solar Logos, and they are no longer principled in the usual <wrap hide>278|00:26:17|100|00:26:17|600</wrap>sense. <wrap hide>279|00:26:18|160|00:26:23|200</wrap>They do not have to do particularly with the new regime in the second major solar system. <wrap hide>280|00:26:24|280|00:26:29|380</wrap>They are not planes which are divine, but have to be rendered divine through the imposition <wrap hide>281|00:26:29|380|00:26:34|820</wrap>of being pattern ideas that come from the cosmic ethers. <wrap hide>282|00:26:35|920|00:26:40|500</wrap>So, Aries, the birthplace of divine ideas. <wrap hide>283|00:26:41|020|00:26:43|880</wrap>That relates it to the Buddhic plane, doesn't it? <wrap hide>284|00:26:44|480|00:26:56|300</wrap>Okay, let's just say relating Aries to the Buddhic plane as the plane of ideas. <wrap hide>285|00:26:56|380|00:27:01|500</wrap>But we should not leave out the Atmic plane, the Monadic plane, and the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>286|00:27:01|580|00:27:06|440</wrap>All of them can be considered in the higher sense ideational. <wrap hide>287|00:27:07|600|00:27:13|860</wrap>Anything that is coming from the cosmic ethers can be recognized as an idea within our three <wrap hide>288|00:27:13|860|00:27:14|740</wrap>lower worlds. <wrap hide>289|00:27:15|040|00:27:16|600</wrap>Aries, the birthplace of divine ideas. <wrap hide>290|00:27:17|120|00:27:19|940</wrap>Whether these ideas are souls, see what I mean? <wrap hide>291|00:27:20|100|00:27:21|560</wrap>Our identity really is an idea. <wrap hide>292|00:27:22|360|00:27:25|640</wrap>We as souls are ideas. <wrap hide>293|00:27:26|420|00:27:30|100</wrap>We as spirits, monads, are even more ideas. <wrap hide>294|00:27:31|720|00:27:32|480</wrap>Even more so. <wrap hide>295|00:27:32|880|00:27:40|180</wrap><wrap quote>whether these ideas are souls brought into incarnation and controlled by Mars until they reach the <wrap hide>296|00:27:40|180|00:27:46|400</wrap>point of reorientation and become sensitive to the influence of Mercury,</wrap> <wrap hide>297|00:27:46|700|00:27:48|860</wrap>So this is very important. <wrap hide>298|00:27:51|220|00:28:05|160</wrap>That the esoteric ruler applies only when a soul has reached the point of reorientation. <wrap hide>299|00:28:06|260|00:28:09|020</wrap>So if you want to say, "Well, when can we apply an esoteric ruler?" <wrap hide>300|00:28:09|670|00:28:16|340</wrap>It's not for an individual who is proceeding as a personality on the path of wheel of form. <wrap hide>301|00:28:16|920|00:28:22|620</wrap>Only once there has been a revolution under Uranus and a reorientation towards a higher <wrap hide>302|00:28:22|620|00:28:28|120</wrap>power or the higher of the pairs of opposites, however vaguely sensed, can we use the esoteric <wrap hide>303|00:28:28|120|00:28:28|400</wrap>ruler. <wrap hide>304|00:28:28|520|00:28:34|500</wrap>And that's such good advice for astrologers presently at work. <wrap hide>305|00:28:34|500|00:28:39|980</wrap>Don't just slap those esoteric rulers on anybody's chart. <wrap hide>306|00:28:40|680|00:28:44|620</wrap>They truly have to be reoriented towards the spiritual life. <wrap hide>307|00:28:45|200|00:28:50|440</wrap>But fortunately for us, most of the people that we are coming in contact with as practicing <wrap hide>308|00:28:50|440|00:28:56|360</wrap>astrologers when we use esoteric astrology are precisely those who are reorienting themselves. <wrap hide>309|00:28:57|060|00:29:04|480</wrap>Occasionally we get a specifically personal orientation which has no interest in anything <wrap hide>310|00:29:04|480|00:29:10|420</wrap>but the relative success of the personality life, but usually we get people who are reorienting. <wrap hide>311|00:29:11|120|00:29:15|440</wrap>So the birthplace of divine ideas, whether ideas are souls, and I would add monads, <wrap quote>or <wrap hide>312|00:29:15|440|00:29:24|300</wrap>whether they are the birth of the ideas of God in the form of the hierarchical plans to which <wrap hide>313|00:29:24|980|00:29:26|300</wrap>the initiate becomes sensitive.</wrap> <wrap hide>314|00:29:26|400|00:29:27|880</wrap>Where are these ideas of God? <wrap hide>315|00:29:28|580|00:29:34|440</wrap>Ideas of God found perhaps on the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>316|00:29:34|740|00:29:36|560</wrap>Oops, that's a lunar petri, that won't work. <wrap hide>317|00:29:37|400|00:29:39|220</wrap>Logoic plane on the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>318|00:29:39|940|00:29:47|760</wrap>See, I have these little codes which help me type certain frequently found combinations <wrap hide>319|00:29:47|760|00:29:49|140</wrap>of words more quickly. <wrap hide>320|00:29:49|400|00:29:53|480</wrap>The trouble is that they sometimes type those words where they are not wanted. <wrap hide>321|00:29:54|180|00:30:01|100</wrap>Okay, so the ideas of God from the Logoic plane, the true causal plane of the cosmic <wrap hide>322|00:30:01|100|00:30:03|580</wrap>physical plane, the true world of causes. <wrap hide>323|00:30:04|460|00:30:08|560</wrap>World of causes is the Logoic plane. <wrap hide>324|00:30:09|100|00:30:13|320</wrap>World of being, if you can differentiate these things somewhat you can. <wrap hide>325|00:30:13|640|00:30:15|700</wrap>World of being, the monadic plane. <wrap hide>326|00:30:15|840|00:30:21|280</wrap>World of significance is the triatal levels. <wrap hide>327|00:30:21|960|00:30:28|140</wrap>The world of meaning takes place on the mental levels involving the higher mental plane particularly. <wrap hide>328|00:30:28|460|00:30:32|300</wrap>And then after that we get into the world of forms. <wrap hide>329|00:30:34|440|00:30:40|680</wrap>Okay, or whether they are the birth of ideas from God, ideas of God in the form of hierarchical <wrap hide>330|00:30:40|680|00:30:41|040</wrap>plans. <wrap hide>331|00:30:41|040|00:30:53|080</wrap>And so Aries should have some strong relation to the archetypal plan of God. <wrap hide>332|00:30:53|380|00:31:00|620</wrap>And we are told on page 333, 332 of Esoteric Astrology, recognition and work with the plan. <wrap hide>333|00:31:00|700|00:31:01|840</wrap>That's under Aries. <wrap hide>334|00:31:02|400|00:31:11|020</wrap>So Aries is very good at noticing which ideas are emerging from the mind of God for a time <wrap hide>335|00:31:11|900|00:31:12|520</wrap>expression. <wrap hide>336|00:31:13|860|00:31:16|860</wrap>So Aries and the recognition of emerging ideas. <wrap hide>337|00:31:24|260|00:31:28|180</wrap>The ideas are already there, it's just a question of their time emerging according <wrap hide>338|00:31:28|180|00:31:28|840</wrap>to the plan. <wrap hide>339|00:31:29|380|00:31:35|620</wrap>In the purpose they are all there simultaneously but we need a timed release of the aspects <wrap hide>340|00:31:35|620|00:31:38|640</wrap>of purpose through the plan. <wrap hide>341|00:31:38|640|00:31:44|140</wrap>So in a way we need the release of Uranus which is purpose through Saturn which is plan. <wrap hide>342|00:31:45|520|00:31:50|040</wrap>Okay, hierarchical plans to which the initiate has become sensitive. <wrap hide>343|00:31:50|320|00:31:54|120</wrap>So every Aries person should be asking himself what is emerging, what is coming. <wrap hide>344|00:31:55|560|00:31:57|460</wrap>Can we say that the ideas are being born? <wrap hide>345|00:31:57|600|00:31:59|520</wrap>Well they're being born in human consciousness. <wrap hide>346|00:31:59|680|00:32:02|760</wrap>They already have their existence on these higher planes. <wrap hide>347|00:32:02|760|00:32:09|500</wrap>But when you seize upon an idea it is as if it is being born in your consciousness. <wrap hide>348|00:32:11|140|00:32:13|100</wrap>So the birthplace of ideas. <wrap hide>349|00:32:13|600|00:32:19|980</wrap>When ideas are present all together in the realm of purpose can they be said to be born? <wrap hide>350|00:32:20|080|00:32:27|360</wrap>Well they're only born as they emerge at the right time according to plan. <wrap hide>351|00:32:27|600|00:32:33|660</wrap>And that emergence into the five lower worlds, perhaps emergence onto the atmic plane where <wrap hide>352|00:32:34|200|00:32:39|480</wrap>the will gets behind them, that is called the birth of an idea but really the idea was <wrap hide>353|00:32:39|480|00:32:40|800</wrap>already there. <wrap hide>354|00:32:41|880|00:32:49|080</wrap>It just depends on what is the dimension into which the idea is being born or in which it <wrap hide>355|00:32:49|080|00:32:49|440</wrap>appears. <wrap hide>356|00:32:50|060|00:32:56|160</wrap>Alright so many digressions but there are four signs which are signs of birth. <wrap hide>357|00:32:56|160|00:32:57|500</wrap>So Aries is one of them. <wrap hide>358|00:32:58|060|00:33:00|220</wrap>And now we come to Cancer, another cardinal sign. <wrap hide>359|00:33:00|940|00:33:04|480</wrap>The birthplace into the life of form. <wrap hide>360|00:33:05|220|00:33:13|080</wrap>What is an inchoate idea, fairly vague, non-specific, non-delineated, receives a very definite kind <wrap hide>361|00:33:13|080|00:33:19|360</wrap>of form under the moon or the forces that represent the moon, particularly perhaps in <wrap hide>362|00:33:19|360|00:33:22|300</wrap>this case Vulcan, in the sign <wrap quote>2. //Cancer//, <wrap hide>363|00:33:23|010|00:33:31|400</wrap>the “birthplace into the life of form,” the door into physical incarnation.</wrap> <wrap hide>364|00:33:31|940|00:33:39|060</wrap>So Cancer in a way is a sign of imprisonment because activity in form is imprisonment, <wrap hide>365|00:33:39|720|00:33:43|160</wrap>a sign of imprisonment. <wrap hide>366|00:33:43|160|00:33:48|440</wrap>Yes, imprisonment, yes. <wrap hide>367|00:33:49|180|00:33:55|080</wrap>Physical incarnation, a more definite and contained form, a definite ring-pass-not. <wrap hide>368|00:33:55|980|00:34:03|540</wrap>A definite ring-pass-not is created because when you think about ideas otherwise, ideas <wrap hide>369|00:34:03|540|00:34:04|520</wrap>are omnipresent. <wrap hide>370|00:34:05|180|00:34:08|100</wrap>In the Buddhic worlds, what is the location of an idea? <wrap hide>371|00:34:09|000|00:34:14|700</wrap>It's everywhere to be grasped once it reaches the cosmic ethers, but when you're talking <wrap hide>372|00:34:14|700|00:34:22|040</wrap>about the birthplace of an idea or a soul into form, it takes on a definite time-space <wrap hide>373|00:34:22|040|00:34:23|080</wrap>relationship. <wrap hide>374|00:34:24|200|00:34:31|840</wrap>The time in Saturn and Cancer is a freezing of time, and the seventh ray in Cancer gives <wrap hide>375|00:34:31|840|00:34:36|640</wrap>a definite spatial relationship for these ideas. <wrap hide>376|00:34:37|220|00:34:40|580</wrap>A definite form is the container of the idea. <wrap hide>377|00:34:41|300|00:34:43|060</wrap>Cancer is the sign of all containers. <wrap hide>378|00:34:43|620|00:34:48|100</wrap>So this Cancer is the sign in which humanity as a whole, integrated unit, is born. <wrap hide>379|00:34:48|420|00:34:49|460</wrap>He's saying it again. <wrap hide>380|00:34:49|980|00:34:58|060</wrap>He's saying that we come into incarnation as humanity in Cancer and individually in <wrap hide>381|00:34:58|060|00:34:58|980</wrap>Pisces. <wrap hide>382|00:34:59|450|00:35:04|380</wrap>You know there are mixed references on this, but I've shown you already some of them, and <wrap hide>383|00:35:04|380|00:35:05|480</wrap>this is another one. <wrap hide>384|00:35:06|180|00:35:13|240</wrap>Humanity as a whole, integrated unit, the fourth kingdom of nature, is born into form <wrap hide>385|00:35:13|240|00:35:14|500</wrap>in this sign. <wrap hide>386|00:35:16|000|00:35:22|040</wrap>It probably didn't occur in some month in which Cancer was available; it probably occurred <wrap hide>387|00:35:22|040|00:35:34|900</wrap>in relation to a zodiacal period, a processional age of some 2,000 plus years, even 2,500 years. <wrap hide>388|00:35:35|300|00:35:41|340</wrap>Probably at that time humanity was born and even, you know, we don't know—could it have <wrap hide>389|00:35:41|340|00:35:47|460</wrap>been a period of 25,000 years ruled by the sign Cancer, a Platonic year ruled by the <wrap hide>390|00:35:47|460|00:35:48|060</wrap>sign Cancer? <wrap hide>391|00:35:48|060|00:35:53|520</wrap>So anyway, <wrap quote>This is the sign in which humanity, as a whole </wrap> not as an individual, but <wrap quote>as a <wrap hide>392|00:35:53|520|00:35:55|680</wrap>whole integrated unit, is born, <wrap hide>393|00:35:56|940|00:36:01|000</wrap>the scene of the emergence of the fourth kingdom in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>394|00:36:01|100|00:36:06|740</wrap>Without the sign Cancer, we do not have the definite emergence of the fourth kingdom in <wrap hide>395|00:36:06|740|00:36:07|000</wrap>nature. <wrap hide>396|00:36:07|100|00:36:12|340</wrap>There must be a form upon the physical plane through which this birth of self-consciousness <wrap hide>397|00:36:12|340|00:36:12|900</wrap>can occur. <wrap hide>398|00:36:13|790|00:36:20|240</wrap>The self-consciousness is found in Leo, takes maybe three million years until a man comes <wrap hide>399|00:36:20|240|00:36:25|420</wrap>to himself and realizes that he has been born as an individual unit, but the beginning of <wrap hide>400|00:36:25|420|00:36:26|060</wrap>that is Leo. <wrap hide>401|00:36:26|700|00:36:31|880</wrap>So Leo and Cancer are very necessary for putting consciousness and form together. <wrap hide>402|00:36:33|220|00:36:42|480</wrap><wrap quote>Humanity has “emerged from rock and water and brings its habitation with it” (as the //Old <wrap hide>403|00:36:42|480|00:36:47|660</wrap>Commentary// expresses it) and mass instinctual consciousness comes into being. Note that phrase.</wrap> <wrap hide>404|00:36:47|940|00:36:57|280</wrap>Well, perhaps rock is the moon and Neptune is the water, although the moon is also associated <wrap hide>405|00:36:57|280|00:36:58|820</wrap>with the water. <wrap hide>406|00:36:59|260|00:37:04|780</wrap>So let's look at two rulers: moon and Neptune. <wrap hide>407|00:37:05|740|00:37:11|240</wrap>Now the moon is, of the five non-sacred planets, the moon is definitely associated with that <wrap hide>408|00:37:11|240|00:37:17|280</wrap>outer shell, which can be considered the densest level of man and thus the rock. <wrap hide>409|00:37:17|540|00:37:19|580</wrap>Neptune is the water. <wrap hide>410|00:37:20|180|00:37:25|680</wrap>Humanity emerged from rock, it has a mineral component and has an astral component and <wrap hide>411|00:37:25|680|00:37:30|000</wrap>brings its habitation with it, just like the crab does. <wrap hide>412|00:37:31|100|00:37:39|780</wrap>So humanity at first is a physical, emotional being with a very, very latent mind, just <wrap hide>413|00:37:39|780|00:37:41|720</wrap>as the crab does. <wrap hide>414|00:37:46|640|00:37:59|840</wrap>Just as the crab does, and I'll make that all red so that we have a little clearer delineation <wrap hide>415|00:37:59|840|00:38:03|020</wrap>of what is commentary and what is actually stated by the Tibetan. <wrap hide>416|00:38:04|300|00:38:07|680</wrap>So at first, you know, humanity is not an intelligent being. <wrap hide>417|00:38:07|680|00:38:10|340</wrap>As a matter of fact, animal man had rock and water. <wrap hide>418|00:38:11|040|00:38:16|480</wrap>It had the dense physical vehicle, it had the sentient vehicle, just like animals have <wrap hide>419|00:38:16|480|00:38:21|740</wrap>the sentient vehicle, though that sentient vehicle is completely tied to the instinctual <wrap hide>420|00:38:21|740|00:38:23|900</wrap>nature and is for a long time for animal man. <wrap hide>421|00:38:24|000|00:38:30|360</wrap>But then in comes the thinking principle with the fourth kingdom of nature, and let's just <wrap hide>422|00:38:30|360|00:38:34|240</wrap>say the fourth kingdom of nature and the thinking principle and Mercury are all related. <wrap hide>423|00:38:34|240|00:38:39|300</wrap>Fourth, okay, I don't know why this is happening. <wrap hide>424|00:38:40|100|00:38:45|540</wrap>I want there to be only one thing, only one thing. <wrap hide>425|00:38:45|940|00:39:01|880</wrap>So fourth kingdom of nature emerges with Mercury representing mind and the number four. <wrap hide>426|00:39:01|880|00:39:09|580</wrap>So there now can be a relationship between the soul and the form, and the mind emerges <wrap hide>427|00:39:09|580|00:39:11|960</wrap>as the mediating principle. <wrap hide>428|00:39:14|120|00:39:20|560</wrap>Okay, humanity has emerged from rock and water and brings its habitation with it. <wrap hide>429|00:39:20|780|00:39:27|980</wrap>Humanity is in a way the moving crab, moving upon the land, moving upon or within the water <wrap hide>430|00:39:27|980|00:39:35|540</wrap>and growing more intelligent through Mercury and Venus as time elapses due to the individualization <wrap hide>431|00:39:35|540|00:39:36|080</wrap>process. <wrap hide>432|00:39:37|020|00:39:41|580</wrap>Okay, so that is another sign of birth. <wrap hide>433|00:39:42|260|00:39:44|280</wrap>It is birth into form. <wrap hide>434|00:39:45|220|00:39:50|660</wrap>The birthplace of ideas Aries and the birthplace into the life of form Cancer. <wrap hide>435|00:39:50|780|00:39:51|760</wrap>Now here's another birth. <wrap hide>436|00:39:52|440|00:39:57|280</wrap>I'm very surprised that Virgo is not listed as a sign of birth. <wrap hide>437|00:39:57|280|00:40:05|620</wrap>Is it simply listed as the sign in which the lengthy gestation process occurs and not <wrap hide>438|00:40:05|620|00:40:06|320</wrap>the birth? <wrap hide>439|00:40:06|720|00:40:10|680</wrap>There's a little ambiguity there because it is said of Virgo, "I am the mother and the <wrap hide>440|00:40:10|680|00:40:18|200</wrap>child, I God, I matter am," and the whole idea of the birth labor seems associated with Virgo. <wrap hide>441|00:40:18|260|00:40:24|340</wrap>So I'm surprised to see it not listed here, but the Tibetan of course will have his own <wrap hide>442|00:40:24|340|00:40:24|960</wrap>reasons. <wrap hide>443|00:40:25|820|00:40:29|600</wrap><wrap quote>3. //Leo//, the “birthplace of the individual,”</wrap> <wrap hide>444|00:40:30|400|00:40:34|880</wrap>This is not the same as the birthplace of the original idea or the birthplace of the <wrap hide>445|00:40:34|880|00:40:35|900</wrap>soul into form. <wrap hide>446|00:40:36|760|00:40:44|640</wrap>It is the individualization process and the increasing sense of individuality which is <wrap hide>447|00:40:44|640|00:40:48|580</wrap>nurtured through successive incarnations in Leo. <wrap hide>448|00:40:48|720|00:40:53|560</wrap>In other words, the sense of oneself as a center is greatly strengthened. <wrap hide>449|00:40:53|560|00:41:00|960</wrap><wrap quote>3. //Leo//, the “birthplace of the individual,” the coming into form of individual self-conscious <wrap hide>450|00:41:00|960|00:41:01|720</wrap>man</wrap> <wrap hide>451|00:41:01|920|00:41:03|080</wrap>Now at first he is not that. <wrap hide>452|00:41:03|800|00:41:07|680</wrap>The self-consciousness may be there on the inner planes, but it has not worked itself <wrap hide>453|00:41:07|680|00:41:15|020</wrap>out into the brain consciousness as we have been told in that section concerning the arrows <wrap hide>454|00:41:15|020|00:41:16|760</wrap>which shot forth from the bow. <wrap hide>455|00:41:18|700|00:41:21|060</wrap>Early individualization, you know, as we have been told. <wrap hide>456|00:41:21|140|00:41:22|280</wrap>Well, let me just review that. <wrap hide>457|00:41:22|600|00:41:25|220</wrap>You know, the arrows, let's say arrows. <wrap hide>458|00:41:26|160|00:41:27|720</wrap>How many arrows can there be? <wrap hide>459|00:41:29|120|00:41:36|820</wrap>Here is, oh goodness, goodness, let's just try "bow" and "bow." <wrap hide>460|00:41:37|340|00:41:38|860</wrap>Here it is. <wrap hide>461|00:41:40|200|00:41:41|260</wrap>Whoops, the bow and arrow. <wrap hide>462|00:41:41|360|00:41:42|440</wrap>No, it isn't. <wrap hide>463|00:41:42|880|00:41:45|500</wrap>Maybe I'm in the wrong book. <wrap hide>464|00:41:45|500|00:41:46|100</wrap>Yes I am. <wrap hide>465|00:41:46|200|00:41:47|280</wrap>It's the Treatise on White Magic. <wrap hide>466|00:41:47|440|00:41:49|940</wrap>That's where that thing is found. <wrap hide>467|00:41:49|940|00:41:52|260</wrap>And yes, there's only one, and there it is. <wrap hide>468|00:41:52|860|00:41:56|480</wrap>"The sons of God shot forth like arrows from the bow. <wrap hide>469|00:41:57|720|00:41:59|480</wrap>The forms received the impulse. <wrap hide>470|00:41:59|600|00:42:03|080</wrap>The forms received the impulse, and lo, a God was born." <wrap hide>471|00:42:03|840|00:42:05|200</wrap>And this is the important point. <wrap hide>472|00:42:05|460|00:42:07|800</wrap>"The tiny babe knew not the great event." <wrap hide>473|00:42:08|500|00:42:14|140</wrap>So the tiny babe is the tiny consciousness which doesn't know that it has become an individual <wrap hide>474|00:42:14|140|00:42:15|140</wrap>center of consciousness. <wrap hide>475|00:42:15|620|00:42:17|960</wrap>This took place 21 million years ago. <wrap hide>476|00:42:18|140|00:42:23|780</wrap>Cycles passed, whatever kind of cycles, and when, at a later date, the sun was in Leo, <wrap hide>477|00:42:24|440|00:42:29|800</wrap>approximately 18 million years ago, the first instances of coordination between brain and <wrap hide>478|00:42:29|800|00:42:33|640</wrap>mind took place, and the human being was definitely self-conscious. <wrap hide>479|00:42:34|220|00:42:36|700</wrap>He knew himself as a center. <wrap hide>480|00:42:38|140|00:42:45|600</wrap>So, okay, that is interesting when we think about the Leo influence, how it definitely <wrap hide>481|00:42:45|600|00:42:52|400</wrap>brought about the coordination between the mind and the brain, and the coming into form <wrap hide>482|00:42:52|400|00:42:57|740</wrap>of individual self-conscious man, but not really self-conscious until 18 million years <wrap hide>483|00:42:57|740|00:43:00|120</wrap>ago, not 21 million years ago. <wrap hide>484|00:43:00|860|00:43:05|820</wrap><wrap quote>3. //Leo//, the “birthplace of the individual,” the coming into form of individual self-conscious <wrap hide>485|00:43:06|460|00:43:16|480</wrap>man who emerges out of the mass</wrap> the basic physical, instinctual, emotional consciousness, <wrap hide>486|00:43:16|880|00:43:18|700</wrap><wrap quote>and herd in Cancer,</wrap> <wrap hide>487|00:43:18|980|00:43:20|380</wrap>This is still happening, of course. <wrap hide>488|00:43:20|660|00:43:24|860</wrap>So many people are still part of the mass and the herd, and they do not think for themselves. <wrap hide>489|00:43:25|160|00:43:32|960</wrap>They think like everybody else, somewhat predictably and always with a somewhat, yes, definitely <wrap hide>490|00:43:32|960|00:43:34|700</wrap>emotional bias. <wrap hide>491|00:43:36|360|00:43:41|300</wrap><wrap quote>emerges out of the mass and herd in Cancer, substituting, for instinctual consciousness,</wrap> <wrap hide>492|00:43:42|400|00:43:48|980</wrap>which is in a way thoughtless consciousness, consciousness simply arising on the basis <wrap hide>493|00:43:48|980|00:43:55|500</wrap>of instinctual tendency and desire, substituting for instinctual consciousness, <wrap quote>self-awareness <wrap hide>494|00:43:55|780|00:43:59|200</wrap>and a sense of responsibility of an individual kind.</wrap> <wrap hide>495|00:43:59|300|00:44:01|340</wrap>Obviously it takes a long time for this to grow. <wrap hide>496|00:44:01|920|00:44:10|020</wrap>And during the fifth petal processes of the Egoic Lotus associated with Leo, we have the <wrap hide>497|00:44:10|020|00:44:15|300</wrap>kind of responsibility which makes of a man a spiritual aspirant. <wrap hide>498|00:44:15|380|00:44:21|760</wrap>He begins to think in terms of other people, in terms of helpfulness, in terms of the heart <wrap hide>499|00:44:22|400|00:44:22|960</wrap>vibration. <wrap hide>500|00:44:23|440|00:44:29|060</wrap>The first indication that the soul is really becoming effective is the growth of the sense <wrap hide>501|00:44:29|060|00:44:40|120</wrap>of responsibility, and here he connects Leo with the sense of responsibility, as he would <wrap hide>502|00:44:40|120|00:44:45|440</wrap>connect of course Saturn and also Capricorn. <wrap hide>503|00:44:45|640|00:44:49|280</wrap>So the birthplace of the individual takes over a long period of time. <wrap hide>504|00:44:49|840|00:44:53|800</wrap>People who are individualized are not yet truly individual. <wrap hide>505|00:44:53|800|00:45:00|400</wrap>They are still very much part of the mass consciousness, perhaps until the distinguishing, <wrap hide>506|00:45:00|620|00:45:09|020</wrap>discriminating fifth petal processes begin to work within them, and then they can distinguish <wrap hide>507|00:45:09|020|00:45:10|160</wrap>themselves. <wrap hide>508|00:45:11|680|00:45:20|040</wrap>They become distinguished individuals, and they stand out from the mass. <wrap hide>509|00:45:20|040|00:45:27|040</wrap>They have their own particular unique pattern of understanding and expression. <wrap hide>510|00:45:27|760|00:45:34|180</wrap>Carl Jung, who was a Leo, worked a great deal on the individuation process. <wrap hide>511|00:45:34|180|00:45:49|420</wrap>This individuation, which is an individuation process, is the coming into expression of <wrap hide>512|00:45:49|420|00:45:52|560</wrap>the soul through the individuality. <wrap hide>513|00:45:55|340|00:46:01|840</wrap>So that's still a later stage of distinguishing oneself. <wrap hide>514|00:46:03|120|00:46:10|640</wrap>Ultimately, the master of the fifth initiation is a most distinguished individual, a very <wrap hide>515|00:46:10|640|00:46:16|780</wrap>individual after many, many years of evolution, but at the same time thoroughly submissive <wrap hide>516|00:46:19|340|00:46:22|920</wrap>through the spiritual will to the divine plan. <wrap hide>517|00:46:24|080|00:46:25|960</wrap>So okay, the birthplace of the individual. <wrap hide>518|00:46:26|040|00:46:26|760</wrap>What do we have so far? <wrap hide>519|00:46:26|840|00:46:31|820</wrap>The birthplace of ideas in Aries, the birthplace of the soul in form, or of an idea in form, <wrap hide>520|00:46:31|820|00:46:38|560</wrap>in Cancer, and the birthplace of the distinct, distinguished individual over many millions <wrap hide>521|00:46:38|560|00:46:39|020</wrap>of years. <wrap hide>522|00:46:39|280|00:46:45|820</wrap>And finally, leaving out, of course, birth in Virgo for his own good reasons, we have <wrap hide>523|00:46:45|820|00:46:48|340</wrap>Capricorn the birthplace of the Christ. <wrap hide>524|00:46:48|580|00:46:49|900</wrap>Notice the word "place." <wrap hide>525|00:46:50|540|00:46:56|300</wrap>It sort of suggests the manger, which suggests material conditions. <wrap hide>526|00:46:56|300|00:47:05|220</wrap>The birth of the soul in a definite, conscious way within the three lower worlds in which <wrap hide>527|00:47:05|540|00:47:10|680</wrap>the animal nature flourishes, but not the truly human nature. <wrap hide>528|00:47:11|100|00:47:16|280</wrap>Capricorn, the birthplace of the Christ, the place of the second birth. <wrap hide>529|00:47:17|600|00:47:24|340</wrap>Perhaps Leo is the first true birth representing individualization, so there is a progress <wrap hide>530|00:47:24|340|00:47:33|000</wrap>from Leo to Capricorn, a long, lengthy process from individualization in Leo, with some other <wrap hide>531|00:47:33|000|00:47:37|680</wrap>signs involved as well, like Gemini and so forth, into Capricorn where the second birth <wrap hide>532|00:47:37|680|00:47:41|420</wrap>or the birth of the second aspect of the man takes place, the birth of the soul. <wrap hide>533|00:47:42|320|00:47:46|800</wrap><wrap quote>4. //Capricorn//, the “birthplace of the Christ,” the place of the “second birth” and the scene for <wrap hide>534|00:47:46|800|00:47:53|020</wrap>the emergence of the fifth kingdom in nature</wrap> the scene or dimension, <wrap quote>when the right time <wrap hide>535|00:47:53|020|00:47:53|500</wrap>comes.</wrap> <wrap hide>536|00:47:53|500|00:48:03|940</wrap>Notice the idea of timing here, Saturn in relation to Capricorn, in relation to Capricorn, <wrap hide>537|00:48:05|080|00:48:11|060</wrap>which Saturn rules, Saturn as lord of time. <wrap hide>538|00:48:11|820|00:48:21|080</wrap>So in the fullness of time, which the mother matter of Virgo has to endure, the second <wrap hide>539|00:48:21|080|00:48:26|400</wrap>aspect of man comes to birth, and only in the fullness of time, Vulcan for endurance <wrap hide>540|00:48:26|400|00:48:31|320</wrap>and Saturn for the timing, and then the Christ will emerge. <wrap hide>541|00:48:31|900|00:48:36|980</wrap>This is not necessarily the same as being born again in the classical religious sense, <wrap hide>542|00:48:37|100|00:48:42|920</wrap>that may simply be an emotional reorientation towards the Higher Self, the sensing of the <wrap hide>543|00:48:42|920|00:48:51|740</wrap>Christ, but the true Christ being born as a major motivating factor in the consciousness <wrap hide>544|00:48:51|740|00:48:56|760</wrap>of the human being. That takes place more at the time of the first initiation, which <wrap hide>545|00:48:56|760|00:49:02|580</wrap>may be quite a number of lives after that emotional reorientation towards a kind of <wrap hide>546|00:49:02|580|00:49:04|480</wrap>Higher Self or Higher Power. <wrap hide>547|00:49:05|380|00:49:07|180</wrap>At least that's my take on it. <wrap hide>548|00:49:07|860|00:49:14|820</wrap>Capricorn: the birthplace of the Christ, the place of the second birth, the place, the <wrap hide>549|00:49:14|820|00:49:20|060</wrap>situation of energies, the sort of dimensional condition in which this birth takes place, <wrap hide>550|00:49:20|820|00:49:27|320</wrap>the scene for the emergence of the fifth kingdom in nature when the right time comes. <wrap hide>551|00:49:28|720|00:49:33|900</wrap><wrap quote>In this sign, the initiate comes into a spiritual awareness</wrap> <wrap hide>552|00:49:35|240|00:49:43|140</wrap>This is spiritual instinct, not intuitive instinct of the third, but spiritual instinct <wrap hide>553|00:49:43|140|00:49:43|680</wrap>of the first. <wrap hide>554|00:49:44|100|00:49:49|880</wrap>The initiate, the probationary initiate, <wrap quote>comes into a spiritual awareness which demonstrates <wrap hide>555|00:49:49|880|00:49:56|840</wrap>later in Aquarius and in Pisces as man, the world worker,</wrap>—that is definitely Aquarius—<wrap quote>and man, <wrap hide>556|00:49:56|960|00:49:57|620</wrap>the world saviour—</wrap> <wrap hide>557|00:49:57|620|00:50:02|760</wrap>Let's not forget how much weight lifting the worker in Aquarius does. <wrap hide>558|00:50:03|920|00:50:10|600</wrap>In Aquarius, a lot of heavy lifting occurs. <wrap hide>559|00:50:12|660|00:50:16|780</wrap>And Aquarius has a Saturnian cast to it. <wrap hide>560|00:50:17|040|00:50:25|400</wrap>Saturn is one of its decanate rulers and is also considered... Saturn, being like lead, representing <wrap hide>561|00:50:25|400|00:50:33|200</wrap>all heavy weights—these have to be lifted up into the cosmic ethers represented by Uranus, <wrap hide>562|00:50:34|040|00:50:36|420</wrap><wrap quote>both of them with a universal mission.</wrap> <wrap hide>563|00:50:37|460|00:50:42|580</wrap>So there is a spiritual awareness coming in at the first initiation, but it has to grow <wrap hide>564|00:50:42|580|00:50:43|560</wrap>over many lives. <wrap hide>565|00:50:44|080|00:50:44|480</wrap>How many? <wrap hide>566|00:50:44|740|00:50:45|400</wrap>I don't know. <wrap hide>567|00:50:46|740|00:50:49|620</wrap>Seven, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty. <wrap hide>568|00:50:50|420|00:50:52|380</wrap>It all depends on our choices. <wrap hide>569|00:50:53|400|00:50:58|660</wrap>But perhaps archetypally we have the first initiation of the Christ, which is his birth, <wrap hide>570|00:50:59|460|00:51:06|980</wrap>and then later we have the sort of fourth initiation at his thirty-third year. <wrap hide>571|00:51:07|460|00:51:13|180</wrap>You know, each year can represent a kind of lifetime in the process of early man, the <wrap hide>572|00:51:13|180|00:51:16|880</wrap>phase between the first and second initiation. The second of the baptism—he was thirty years <wrap hide>573|00:51:16|880|00:51:23|680</wrap>old. Jesus was thirty years old when he was baptized, at least symbolically so. <wrap hide>574|00:51:23|820|00:51:28|100</wrap>We don't know the exact number of years, but those seem to be the number of years which <wrap hide>575|00:51:28|100|00:51:29|620</wrap>have emerged. <wrap hide>576|00:51:30|120|00:51:34|720</wrap>So okay, then we have four signs of birth. <wrap hide>577|00:51:34|980|00:51:46|860</wrap>Aries: the birthplace of ideas. Cancer: the birthplace of the soul into form. Leo: the <wrap hide>578|00:51:46|860|00:51:54|200</wrap>second... We have Capricorn: the birthplace of the Christ, or the second aspect, the consciousness <wrap hide>579|00:51:54|200|00:52:00|180</wrap>aspect in man, the Christ consciousness being born in man incipiently at the first degree <wrap hide>580|00:52:00|180|00:52:10|160</wrap>and flowering fully in the fully developed master who is somehow able to express soul <wrap hide>581|00:52:10|160|00:52:14|260</wrap>or triad fully, able to express the Christ consciousness fully. <wrap hide>582|00:52:14|260|00:52:21|020</wrap>Basically, he is the fully unfolded flower of the evolutionary process, and then we move <wrap hide>583|00:52:21|020|00:52:25|180</wrap>on to chohan-ship, which is already something new and different. <wrap hide>584|00:52:26|480|00:52:28|320</wrap>Okay, let's see where we are. <wrap hide>585|00:52:29|420|00:52:30|180</wrap>Yeah, we're getting there. <wrap hide>586|00:52:30|700|00:52:37|400</wrap><wrap quote>It is from hints such as these that the astrologer of the future will determine the type of horoscope <wrap hide>587|00:52:37|400|00:52:38|580</wrap>which should be cast.</wrap> <wrap hide>588|00:52:38|580|00:52:43|940</wrap>Have we been receiving some hints as we have been reading this? <wrap hide>589|00:52:44|680|00:52:48|220</wrap>Is each type of birthplace a hint for us? <wrap hide>590|00:52:48|920|00:52:53|680</wrap>Do we know what birth lies ahead for us? <wrap hide>591|00:52:55|000|00:52:56|280</wrap>Perhaps we do. <wrap hide>592|00:52:59|500|00:53:06|000</wrap>Each of these births doesn't occur just once, if you know what I mean. <wrap hide>593|00:53:06|000|00:53:12|940</wrap>There are many phases of being born as an individual, many phases of being born as an <wrap hide>594|00:53:12|940|00:53:21|760</wrap>increasingly potent Christ at each initiation, many types of ideas are being born, and many <wrap hide>595|00:53:21|760|00:53:25|980</wrap>types of embodiment of spirit soul in form are occurring. <wrap hide>596|00:53:26|500|00:53:29|480</wrap>It's not just a one-time deal, you know. <wrap hide>597|00:53:30|460|00:53:37|040</wrap>Even Cancer can relate to the causal body as a form in which soul is fully being born. <wrap hide>598|00:53:38|220|00:53:46|140</wrap>So we can trace each of these kinds of births over a period of time, and we can see the ones <wrap hide>599|00:53:46|140|00:53:49|320</wrap>in which we are maybe involved. <wrap hide>600|00:53:49|760|00:53:52|660</wrap>All of us are an idea, especially as a monad. <wrap hide>601|00:53:53|140|00:53:55|200</wrap>We're trying to express that more and more fully. <wrap hide>602|00:53:55|680|00:54:01|620</wrap>All of us have successive forms in which our higher aspects are trying to express. <wrap hide>603|00:54:02|460|00:54:05|260</wrap>We can develop those forms over time. <wrap hide>604|00:54:05|860|00:54:13|060</wrap>All of us are moving towards mastership through our individuality, the I that is I, the I <wrap hide>605|00:54:13|060|00:54:17|000</wrap>that is we, the I that is "I am," that I am. <wrap hide>606|00:54:17|660|00:54:23|420</wrap>All of those are Leonian birth processes, and all of us are taking various initiations in <wrap hide>607|00:54:23|420|00:54:27|380</wrap>which the Christ is more and more unfolded. <wrap hide>608|00:54:28|300|00:54:31|960</wrap>So I think we can see how each of these births extends over time. <wrap hide>609|00:54:32|540|00:54:35|480</wrap>It is not just a one-time process. <wrap hide>610|00:54:37|280|00:54:42|680</wrap>It is from hints such as these that the astrologer of the future will determine the type of horoscope <wrap hide>611|00:54:42|680|00:54:43|720</wrap>which should be cast. <wrap hide>612|00:54:44|860|00:54:50|820</wrap>In other words, are we going around the wheel of form as an ordinary individual without <wrap hide>613|00:54:50|820|00:54:57|180</wrap>real spiritual aspiration, without a sense of the higher of the pairs of opposites, or <wrap hide>614|00:54:57|180|00:55:02|000</wrap>are we in fact going around the wheel of consciousness counterclockwise and do we have the sense <wrap hide>615|00:55:02|000|00:55:07|980</wrap>of relating to the higher of the pairs of opposites? And do we want to, through meditation <wrap hide>616|00:55:07|980|00:55:13|700</wrap>and service and study, come into relationship with that higher of the pairs of opposites <wrap hide>617|00:55:13|700|00:55:15|100</wrap>which is our truer self? <wrap hide>618|00:55:16|100|00:55:20|520</wrap><wrap quote>Two questions will then arise, requiring reasoned answers:</wrap> <wrap hide>619|00:55:21|440|00:55:29|740</wrap>OK, well, maybe I just have a moment to read this and then we'll deal with it later. <wrap hide>620|00:55:31|000|00:55:31|920</wrap>In number 47. <wrap hide>621|00:55:32|680|00:55:34|060</wrap>Or is this 47? <wrap hide>622|00:55:34|480|00:55:39|560</wrap>I'm getting a little, hmm, possibly confused here. <wrap hide>623|00:55:40|180|00:55:41|920</wrap>Yes, this is 47. <wrap hide>624|00:55:42|300|00:55:43|260</wrap>This is 47. <wrap hide>625|00:55:43|580|00:55:43|820</wrap>OK. <wrap hide>626|00:55:43|820|00:55:51|680</wrap><wrap quote>1. Is the subject //a personality//, progressing around and around the wheel, perfecting self-consciousness <wrap hide>627|00:55:51|680|00:55:57|980</wrap>and developing a rounded out personality</wrap> via the cross of many changes, <wrap quote>through experience <wrap hide>628|00:55:58|660|00:56:06|260</wrap>and the working of the Law of Karma,</wrap>—that is Saturn—<wrap quote>subject to the Great <wrap hide>629|00:56:06|260|00:56:11|480</wrap>Illusion and arriving eventually at the height of personality ambition <wrap hide>630|00:56:11|480|00:56:12|120</wrap>in Capricorn?</wrap> <wrap hide>631|00:56:12|120|00:56:19|900</wrap>In other words, are we going from Aries backwards, as it were, through to Capricorn, climaxing <wrap hide>632|00:56:19|900|00:56:21|500</wrap>a life of personality ambition? <wrap hide>633|00:56:21|700|00:56:28|880</wrap>Or is this person beginning to manifest as a soul? <wrap hide>634|00:56:30|220|00:56:33|500</wrap>Notice that the people with whom we come in contact are probably beginning to manifest <wrap hide>635|00:56:33|500|00:56:40|000</wrap>as souls and are not full souls in complete expression, third-degree initiates and beyond. <wrap hide>636|00:56:40|810|00:56:45|520</wrap><wrap quote>2. Or, is this person beginning to manifest //as a soul//, pouring light through dense fogs <wrap hide>637|00:56:46|120|00:56:51|680</wrap>of illusion, and preparing for the major tests in Scorpio, to be followed by initiation in <wrap hide>638|00:56:51|680|00:56:52|040</wrap>Capricorn?</wrap> <wrap hide>639|00:56:52|260|00:57:02|700</wrap>So this is the person proceeding counterclockwise, and this is proceeding clockwise. <wrap hide>640|00:57:04|190|00:57:06|780</wrap>And you know, that's the fundamental judgment we have to make. <wrap hide>641|00:57:06|780|00:57:12|740</wrap>Now, you know, we are mostly blessed as people studying esoteric astrology to be surrounded <wrap hide>642|00:57:12|740|00:57:18|240</wrap>by people who have some degree of spiritual aspiration and can be at least beginning to <wrap hide>643|00:57:18|240|00:57:23|000</wrap>manifest as a soul, in which case, when the point of reorientation comes, the esoteric <wrap hide>644|00:57:23|000|00:57:27|360</wrap>rulers can at least be held up as an ideal or an objective. <wrap hide>645|00:57:28|300|00:57:38|160</wrap>Right, so we are now at the end of EAA 47 pages—oops, there's one of the examples— <wrap hide>646|00:57:38|420|00:57:43|440</wrap>let's call it pages, um, where were we? <wrap hide>647|00:57:44|020|00:57:46|960</wrap>1-0-what? 103. <wrap hide>648|00:57:47|800|00:57:49|540</wrap>So we went from 101 to 103. <wrap hide>649|00:57:49|700|00:57:55|820</wrap>We're pretty much doing about two pages at a time with all the digressions, but I've <wrap hide>650|00:57:55|820|00:58:00|960</wrap>been told by some that they prefer my digressions to my teachings, so okay, maybe that's the <wrap hide>651|00:58:00|960|00:58:01|440</wrap>way it goes. <wrap hide>652|00:58:02|500|00:58:08|360</wrap>Now we will, together, as always, do The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>653|00:58:12|420|00:58:12|720</wrap>Yes. <wrap hide>654|00:58:20|580|00:58:21|740</wrap>Excuse me. <wrap hide>655|00:58:31|120|00:58:31|860</wrap>Ommmmmmmmm. <wrap hide>656|00:58:33|370|00:58:40|020</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>657|00:58:40|020|00:58:43|940</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>658|00:58:47|720|00:58:55|160</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts <wrap hide>659|00:58:55|160|00:58:59|020</wrap>of men. May Christ return to earth. <wrap hide>660|00:59:01|720|00:59:09|100</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, <wrap hide>661|00:59:09|100|00:59:12|900</wrap>the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>662|00:59:15|820|00:59:21|560</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, <wrap hide>663|00:59:22|000|00:59:26|900</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>664|00:59:29|280|00:59:36|920</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>665|00:59:49|800|00:59:50|900</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>666|01:00:19|480|01:00:20|880</wrap>Om <wrap hide>667|01:00:25|640|01:00:33|740</wrap>Okay friends, we have reached the point and we will continue with Esoteric Astrology Adventure <wrap hide>668|01:00:34|400|01:00:45|700</wrap>number 48. Continuing with Aries. We are, hmm, well, we're not even halfway through that sign, <wrap hide>669|01:00:45|700|01:00:52|880</wrap>but there are so many things that need attention. You know, what I'm assuming is that as you study <wrap hide>670|01:00:52|880|01:00:59|360</wrap>Esoteric Astrology, you want to get more into the depth of it and not just be able to, you know, <wrap hide>671|01:00:59|380|01:01:07|500</wrap>whip off a few horoscopes, but really to see what the difference is between this deeper approach to <wrap hide>672|01:01:07|500|01:01:11|640</wrap>the ancient science and the more conventional approach. So, we'll see you for number 48 <wrap hide>673|01:01:12|180|01:01:13|800</wrap>before long. Bye for now.
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