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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|420|00:00:12|020</wrap>Hello everybody, we are beginning our esoteric astrology adventure number 50, and last time <wrap hide>2|00:00:12|020|00:00:18|640</wrap>we plunged into this question of the decanates of Aries, and I pulled out some of my material <wrap hide>3|00:00:18|640|00:00:30|180</wrap>which is meant to give some insight into this difficult and somewhat ambiguous, presently <wrap hide>4|00:00:30|180|00:00:41|920</wrap>ambiguous area as D.K. refers to it—a fluid area in which we are not completely certain, <wrap hide>5|00:00:42|280|00:00:46|780</wrap>at least students such as we are, cannot be completely certain about the effect of the <wrap hide>6|00:00:46|780|00:00:48|040</wrap>first and third decanates. <wrap hide>7|00:00:48|240|00:00:52|780</wrap>We can be more certain about the rulership and effect of the second decanate. <wrap hide>8|00:00:53|580|00:01:03|040</wrap>We really only dealt with one paragraph, and we discussed the idea that the Tibetan talked <wrap hide>9|00:01:03|040|00:01:11|800</wrap>about Alan Leo assigning Mars, Sun, and Venus to the three decanates, even though Sepharial <wrap hide>10|00:01:11|800|00:01:14|940</wrap>normally would be the one who assigned Venus to the third decanate. <wrap hide>11|00:01:14|940|00:01:22|800</wrap>The Tibetan continued: <wrap quote>"He touched the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the <wrap hide>12|00:01:22|800|00:01:33|400</wrap>wheel,"</wrap> and that's a hint right there that when we speak of the reversing wheel, which <wrap hide>13|00:01:33|400|00:01:47|900</wrap>really begins here at the zero to ten area—this is where the wheel goes backwards, as <wrap hide>14|00:01:47|900|00:01:52|840</wrap>it were, in the clockwise direction building up the personality, and here reverses. <wrap hide>15|00:01:53|580|00:01:59|140</wrap>So here it is, at this point of reversal where the personality begins to aspire towards the <wrap hide>16|00:01:59|140|00:02:05|500</wrap>reversal—here it is that Venus should be found, whether it's Leo that discussed that <wrap hide>17|00:02:05|500|00:02:10|860</wrap>(and I'd certainly be interested in seeing the reference on that) or whether predictably <wrap hide>18|00:02:10|860|00:02:13|800</wrap>Sepharial touched on that. <wrap hide>19|00:02:14|900|00:02:21|440</wrap>"He touched on the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the wheel which brings in other <wrap hide>20|00:02:21|440|00:02:27|260</wrap>energies and influences when he substituted Venus for Jupiter." <wrap hide>21|00:02:27|260|00:02:35|900</wrap>So apparently Alan Leo did this, and Sepharial should have done that instead of going out <wrap hide>22|00:02:35|900|00:02:42|660</wrap>of order, as seems to be the case, and using Mars, <wrap quote>the Sun, and Jupiter.</wrap> <wrap hide>23|00:02:42|840|00:02:50|260</wrap>It should have been Mars, the Sun, and Venus if Sepharial stuck to his normal system where <wrap hide>24|00:02:50|260|00:03:02|820</wrap>each successive ruler has a reduced time—for a reduced period—for orbiting the Earth geocentrically. <wrap hide>25|00:03:05|000|00:03:11|740</wrap>Okay, so Venus is somehow substituted for Jupiter. This does not mean that Jupiter should <wrap hide>26|00:03:11|740|00:03:20|640</wrap>not be present, because D.K. actually gives Jupiter as the ruler of the first decanate <wrap hide>27|00:03:20|640|00:03:23|100</wrap>on the wheel of consciousness. <wrap hide>28|00:03:25|900|00:03:31|380</wrap>In other words, D.K. tells us here that when the man <wrap quote>reorients himself and mounts the fixed <wrap hide>29|00:03:31|380|00:03:33|820</wrap>cross, he comes under the influence of Jupiter,</wrap> Sun, and Mars. <wrap hide>30|00:03:34|560|00:03:39|820</wrap>So indeed Jupiter is present in the first decanate, even though one would not predict <wrap hide>31|00:03:39|820|00:03:43|020</wrap>it from the usual Alan Leo method of operating. <wrap hide>32|00:03:43|320|00:03:46|100</wrap>There Mars would go first, and Jupiter would go third. <wrap hide>33|00:03:47|020|00:03:48|920</wrap>Let's see what else D.K. says about this. <wrap hide>34|00:03:49|580|00:03:55|300</wrap><wrap quote>"Mind and heart must be coordinated and brought into play when the great reversal takes place."</wrap> <wrap hide>35|00:03:56|100|00:04:06|180</wrap>So here he seems to be differentiating in a manner that places Venus in the place of <wrap hide>36|00:04:06|180|00:04:11|700</wrap>mind, as mind, and Jupiter as heart. <wrap hide>37|00:04:12|460|00:04:19|520</wrap>And indeed, when we study page 517 of Esoteric Astrology, we see that Jupiter for the disciples <wrap hide>38|00:04:19|520|00:04:20|700</wrap>is given to the heart center. <wrap hide>39|00:04:21|580|00:04:28|920</wrap>Now Venus is assigned as the heart center of the solar Logos—at least that's one of <wrap hide>40|00:04:28|920|00:04:35|040</wrap>the planets that contends for that position, whether now or in the future. <wrap hide>41|00:04:37|120|00:04:39|300</wrap>So Venus has a heart connection as well. <wrap hide>42|00:04:39|660|00:04:44|980</wrap>Anyway, mind and heart seem to be brought together, and when we think of the three major planets <wrap hide>43|00:04:45|920|00:04:53|500</wrap>at this time which express the three major aspects, we have Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. <wrap hide>44|00:04:53|500|00:05:03|040</wrap>We do then have the will—Saturn, the will; Jupiter, the heart; and Venus, the mind. <wrap hide>45|00:05:04|640|00:05:05|880</wrap>So that seems to fit. <wrap hide>46|00:05:06|540|00:05:15|760</wrap>So the great reversal is always found where the decanates are operating in this manner. <wrap hide>47|00:05:16|760|00:05:21|940</wrap>We're moving backwards through the signs from 30 to 20, 20 to 10, 10 to 0. <wrap hide>48|00:05:21|940|00:05:26|580</wrap>There's no reversal yet; everything's going clockwise rather than counterclockwise. <wrap hide>49|00:05:26|740|00:05:33|000</wrap>Then comes the reversal of the counterclockwise movement, and both Jupiter and Venus should <wrap hide>50|00:05:33|000|00:05:33|940</wrap>be found. <wrap hide>51|00:05:35|040|00:05:41|700</wrap>The Tibetan gives Jupiter but hints at the importance of Venus. There is a reorientation <wrap hide>52|00:05:41|700|00:05:47|880</wrap>towards the soul, which is on the plane of mind, which is Venus, and the expansion of consciousness <wrap hide>53|00:05:47|880|00:05:51|700</wrap>of the causal body and of the heart, which is Jupiter. <wrap hide>54|00:05:52|520|00:06:01|700</wrap>There are just so many things to put together here, and it is not easy to ascertain exactly <wrap hide>55|00:06:02|420|00:06:04|840</wrap>what planet should be where. <wrap hide>56|00:06:05|760|00:06:16|880</wrap>Evidence seems to indicate that Alan Leo's normal method, which is an ancient Indian method, <wrap hide>57|00:06:17|640|00:06:25|760</wrap>whereby the triplicities are assigned: Aries of Aries, Aries of Leo, Aries of Sagittarius <wrap hide>58|00:06:25|760|00:06:33|260</wrap>with their normal rulers, do seem to work in terms of the constitution of man and his appearance. <wrap hide>59|00:06:33|260|00:06:38|680</wrap>But the Tibetan is speaking about some subtler dynamics, and we must attend to them. <wrap hide>60|00:06:39|560|00:06:48|440</wrap>Now, moving on in a way from the Deccanates, <wrap quote>we have seen that Aries is the sign of beginnings. <wrap hide>61|00:06:49|620|00:06:51|300</wrap>Let me just do this here. <wrap hide>62|00:06:52|040|00:06:59|600</wrap>The beginning of the creative process</wrap> which is coming under the influence of the soul, <wrap hide>63|00:07:00|680|00:07:05|720</wrap>the soul of solar angels undertaking a great creative process in the three lower worlds. <wrap hide>64|00:07:05|720|00:07:12|880</wrap>The beginning of the creative process, the first step of the soul, the microcosm of the <wrap hide>65|00:07:12|880|00:07:19|420</wrap>already initiated macrocosm. The planetary Logos is certainly initiated, and in a larger <wrap hide>66|00:07:19|420|00:07:25|260</wrap>sense the solar Logos is the macrocosm, the microcosm of the already initiated macrocosm <wrap hide>67|00:07:25|260|00:07:30|100</wrap>towards incarnation. So Aries rules the first step of the soul towards incarnation, the <wrap hide>68|00:07:30|100|00:07:36|260</wrap>beginning of the recurrent and constant cycles of experience. So every time there is a return <wrap hide>69|00:07:36|260|00:07:40|640</wrap>to incarnation there is an Aries impulse, and <wrap quote>the beginning of the period wherein the <wrap hide>70|00:07:40|640|00:07:46|420</wrap>soul changes its direction.</wrap> Notice the beginning of the period in which that reorientation <wrap hide>71|00:07:46|420|00:07:54|720</wrap>takes place. This is the... whoopsie... take... okay... where the soul changes its direction. <wrap hide>72|00:07:54|940|00:08:03|280</wrap>This is the crisis of reorientation, changes its purpose and method, <wrap quote>and finally enters <wrap hide>73|00:08:03|280|00:08:08|800</wrap>upon that definitely defined process which we call spiritual regeneration and initiation.</wrap> <wrap hide>74|00:08:09|040|00:08:16|760</wrap>So Aries, as the Tibetan is recapitulating, represents beginnings—all these various beginnings, <wrap hide>75|00:08:16|900|00:08:22|600</wrap>beginnings of the creative process, maybe even the creative process of man as he works <wrap hide>76|00:08:22|600|00:08:23|720</wrap>in the three worlds. <wrap hide>77|00:08:24|190|00:08:30|120</wrap>The first step of the soul towards incarnation, the Aries impulse, the form again besought, <wrap hide>78|00:08:30|460|00:08:39|060</wrap><wrap quote>the beginning of the recurring and constant cycles of experience.</wrap> Those are incarnational <wrap hide>79|00:08:39|860|00:08:46|500</wrap>cycles, but I suppose once you are already incarnated and there are new cycles of experience, <wrap hide>80|00:08:47|100|00:08:51|180</wrap>Aries is found at the beginning of them, and the beginning of the period wherein the soul <wrap hide>81|00:08:51|180|00:08:52|260</wrap>changes its direction. <wrap hide>82|00:08:52|260|00:08:57|520</wrap>You know we know that this is called the reversal of the wheel, or the beginning of the reversal <wrap hide>83|00:08:57|520|00:09:03|060</wrap>of the wheel. We know that Uranus is always involved in the reversal of the wheel, and <wrap hide>84|00:09:03|060|00:09:10|220</wrap>Uranus has a very important role to play with Aries, so that Aries ruling the crisis of <wrap hide>85|00:09:10|220|00:09:18|140</wrap>reorientation relates to its Uranian rulership, even though Uranus has other meanings in Aries <wrap hide>86|00:09:18|140|00:09:22|580</wrap>such as the bringing the soul spirit onto the final burning ground. <wrap hide>87|00:09:24|440|00:09:33|060</wrap>So Aries impulses all of these beginnings. Let's look at that: Aries impulses all of <wrap hide>88|00:09:33|060|00:09:34|460</wrap>these beginnings. <wrap hide>89|00:09:35|820|00:09:43|760</wrap><wrap quote>There are four words of vital importance upon which we shall ring the changes as we study <wrap hide>90|00:09:43|760|00:09:50|360</wrap>the path of evolution or the progress of the soul around the great wheel, both as a <wrap hide>91|00:09:50|360|00:09:54|300</wrap>personality and as a disciple, headed towards the liberating process.</wrap> <wrap hide>92|00:09:54|720|00:10:02|560</wrap>So let us realize that the disciple is not the personality per se. It's very important <wrap hide>93|00:10:02|560|00:10:05|500</wrap>to know because when you're looking at the personality you're not looking at the real <wrap hide>94|00:10:05|500|00:10:05|840</wrap>man. <wrap hide>95|00:10:05|840|00:10:14|880</wrap>The disciple is really an extension of monadic being, an extension of monadic consciousness. <wrap hide>96|00:10:15|780|00:10:21|600</wrap>He is, for practical purposes, other than the personality vehicle through which he operates. <wrap hide>97|00:10:22|560|00:10:29|840</wrap>So we are working now with four words which express the subjective impulses and motives <wrap hide>98|00:10:30|240|00:10:34|560</wrap>and <wrap quote>in reality introduce four different cycles of progress upon the path. <wrap hide>99|00:10:35|250|00:10:39|480</wrap>In its various stages of individualization to initiation.</wrap> <wrap hide>100|00:10:41|010|00:10:47|460</wrap>Individualization occurs at the very beginning under Leo in one important sense and Gemini <wrap hide>101|00:10:47|460|00:10:54|180</wrap>in another and Sagittarius in another, and then initiation occurs much, much later—millions <wrap hide>102|00:10:54|180|00:11:00|440</wrap>of years later—under a number of planets, but generically, a number of signs, but generically <wrap hide>103|00:11:00|440|00:11:03|280</wrap>under the sign Capricorn. <wrap hide>104|00:11:03|720|00:11:08|140</wrap>So he's going to go through a relational process here. <wrap hide>105|00:11:09|720|00:11:16|000</wrap>Four words are expressing the subjective impulses and motives and in reality introduce four <wrap hide>106|00:11:16|620|00:11:19|040</wrap>different cycles of progress on the path. <wrap hide>107|00:11:19|280|00:11:23|260</wrap>Let's see if we can fathom what these may be. <wrap hide>108|00:11:23|260|00:11:34|820</wrap>And <wrap quote>they are... okay... recreation, recreation—that's one word in which the influence of <wrap hide>109|00:11:34|820|00:11:40|940</wrap>Cancer combined with that of Aries produces the pull into incarnation upon the physical <wrap hide>110|00:11:40|940|00:11:41|240</wrap>plane.</wrap> <wrap hide>111|00:11:41|300|00:11:48|240</wrap>That's very interesting that Cancer and Aries are involved in this strongly incarnational <wrap hide>112|00:11:48|240|00:11:48|840</wrap>impulse. <wrap hide>113|00:11:48|840|00:11:55|280</wrap>We know that the elemental life is pulling towards the soul magnetically, and Aries is <wrap hide>114|00:11:55|280|00:12:02|400</wrap>impelling the soul to take up residence, i.e., Cancer, within the lower elemental worlds. <wrap hide>115|00:12:03|140|00:12:09|000</wrap>Every time we have a new incarnation, we are having the recreation of a personality. <wrap hide>116|00:12:10|140|00:12:18|760</wrap>Indeed, it has continuity with previous personalities, but in form and in certain energetic endowments, <wrap hide>117|00:12:18|760|00:12:25|940</wrap>each one is unique within the continuous flow. <wrap hide>118|00:12:26|320|00:12:37|080</wrap>So Aries and Cancer—both of them, if we will recognize—both express the seventh ray. <wrap hide>119|00:12:37|940|00:12:46|220</wrap>Aries expresses primarily the first ray but secondarily the seventh ray, and Cancer simply <wrap hide>120|00:12:46|220|00:12:48|280</wrap>expresses the seventh ray. <wrap hide>121|00:12:49|840|00:12:56|380</wrap>It expresses the third ray for the mass in a primary way, and Capricorn expresses the <wrap hide>122|00:12:56|380|00:12:57|700</wrap>third ray for the disciples. <wrap hide>123|00:12:57|940|00:13:03|380</wrap>The seventh ray is simply resident within Cancer, and Capricorn expresses the seventh <wrap hide>124|00:13:03|380|00:13:05|880</wrap>ray paramountly at this time. <wrap hide>125|00:13:07|600|00:13:12|840</wrap>Okay, the pull into incarnation, recreation again and again, the incarnational cycle. <wrap hide>126|00:13:14|560|00:13:23|900</wrap>Regeneration. Notice how the Tibetan uses these mnemonics, these methods of fixing in <wrap hide>127|00:13:23|900|00:13:30|900</wrap>the mind through the same letter a series in an important process. <wrap hide>128|00:13:31|220|00:13:38|120</wrap>He does this with D's, he does this with I's—you know, instinct, intellect, intuition, those <wrap hide>129|00:13:38|120|00:13:46|080</wrap>three I's. He does it with the D's, which we could look at as discipline, dispassion, <wrap hide>130|00:13:46|520|00:13:49|880</wrap>discrimination, decentralization, detachment, and so forth. <wrap hide>131|00:13:50|520|00:13:56|800</wrap>Now he's doing it with R's: regeneration, in <wrap quote>which the growing influence of the fixed cross <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|420|00:00:12|020</wrap>playing upon the mutable cross,</wrap> which is still conditioning our form, <wrap quote>produces those interior <wrap hide>133|00:14:04|960|00:14:12|600</wrap>changes</wrap>—or all on the fixed cross producing interior changes in consciousness which lead <wrap hide>134|00:14:12|600|00:14:18|420</wrap>eventually to—let's see what the third word is—reorientation. <wrap hide>135|00:14:20|480|00:14:32|060</wrap>Libra and Leo are frequently found when the disciple is reversing the wheel, reorienting <wrap hide>136|00:14:32|060|00:14:38|420</wrap>himself towards the soul. The decision for reorientation is made under Libra, and Leo <wrap hide>137|00:14:38|420|00:14:44|820</wrap>represents the higher of the three selves: the individual self, the group self, and the <wrap hide>138|00:14:44|820|00:14:47|180</wrap>universal or one self. <wrap hide>139|00:14:47|960|00:14:51|500</wrap>But yet Aries rules the crisis of reorientation. <wrap hide>140|00:14:52|200|00:15:00|620</wrap><wrap quote>Reorientation, or the great cycle of</wrap> repolarization, which is fixing the attention on an altogether <wrap hide>141|00:15:00|620|00:15:07|680</wrap>higher level, which is the soul level, the second level of Leo. Reorientation, or the <wrap hide>142|00:15:07|680|00:15:13|000</wrap>great cycle of repolarization, <wrap quote>which takes place with the influence of Libra, the cardinal <wrap hide>143|00:15:13|000|00:15:17|400</wrap>cross, and the swerving of the bull in mid-career.</wrap> <wrap hide>144|00:15:17|640|00:15:20|540</wrap>The bull is the bull of desire, and what types of desires do we have? <wrap hide>145|00:15:21|020|00:15:26|000</wrap>Are they simply ordinary desires for life in the lower three worlds, or is it the bull <wrap hide>146|00:15:26|000|00:15:30|220</wrap>of aspiration which is now operative after the midpoint of the career? <wrap hide>147|00:15:30|600|00:15:35|820</wrap>"And the swerving of the bull in mid-career," <wrap quote>as it is called in the ancient books.</wrap> <wrap hide>148|00:15:35|820|00:15:41|840</wrap>We don't continue to rush headlong into identification with the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>149|00:15:42|240|00:15:50|040</wrap><wrap quote>This process of reorientation leads to a passage around the wheel in which steadily and persistently <wrap hide>150|00:15:50|040|00:15:56|440</wrap>the inner subjective man comes into outer manifested expression, i.e., the soul is made <wrap hide>151|00:15:56|440|00:16:01|280</wrap>manifest and the personality and its elemental tendencies recede into the background.</wrap> <wrap hide>152|00:16:02|480|00:16:04|500</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>finally</wrap> there come twelve lives. <wrap hide>153|00:16:05|600|00:16:12|880</wrap>Is this literally so, or is it as D.K. has said that "a cult rumor has it" that there are twelve <wrap hide>154|00:16:12|880|00:16:18|320</wrap>lives wherein the final stage of renunciation? <wrap hide>155|00:16:20|520|00:16:22|540</wrap>Marvelous mnemonic devices. <wrap hide>156|00:16:23|800|00:16:29|520</wrap><wrap quote>Renunciation is experienced, and the disciple or initiate renounces all for the love of <wrap hide>157|00:16:29|520|00:16:31|060</wrap>humanity and its service.</wrap> <wrap hide>158|00:16:31|240|00:16:38|220</wrap>This is the ninth petal of the Egoic Lotus when fully open—means the utter sacrifice <wrap hide>159|00:16:38|220|00:16:39|580</wrap>of all forever. <wrap hide>160|00:16:39|860|00:16:41|400</wrap>Those are the words of Master D.K. <wrap hide>161|00:16:41|900|00:16:46|800</wrap>Renounces all for the love of humanity and its service <wrap quote>and lays himself upon the altar <wrap hide>162|00:16:46|800|00:16:47|940</wrap>of sacrifice.</wrap> <wrap hide>163|00:16:49|340|00:16:55|180</wrap>That altar is found in the second decanate of Sagittarius, in terms of the constellations <wrap hide>164|00:16:55|180|00:16:58|640</wrap>anyway. Out of the altar, lays himself upon the altar of sacrifice. <wrap hide>165|00:16:59|260|00:17:02|180</wrap><wrap quote>He achieves as a result the final liberation.</wrap> <wrap hide>166|00:17:03|460|00:17:12|400</wrap>We can call this the great renunciation. <wrap hide>167|00:17:13|000|00:17:20|260</wrap>So we're talking about the final liberation in terms of the human kingdom, but not the <wrap hide>168|00:17:20|260|00:17:25|120</wrap>final liberation in terms of the fourth creative hierarchy. <wrap hide>169|00:17:25|280|00:17:26|200</wrap>There's a difference there. <wrap hide>170|00:17:26|820|00:17:31|860</wrap>A man is still a man when a master of the wisdom, but not so when a chohan, though still <wrap hide>171|00:17:31|860|00:17:35|340</wrap>a member of the fourth creative hierarchy, when a chohan. <wrap hide>172|00:17:36|000|00:17:41|420</wrap>And we can say also that the Christ is still a member of the fourth creative hierarchy. <wrap hide>173|00:17:41|420|00:17:47|460</wrap>So the hierarchy, the fourth creative hierarchy, is a much more extensive thing than the fourth <wrap hide>174|00:17:47|460|00:17:48|700</wrap>kingdom per se. <wrap hide>175|00:17:49|400|00:17:53|700</wrap>The hierarchy includes a number of kingdoms, maybe even the lower kingdoms in some way, <wrap hide>176|00:17:54|360|00:18:01|260</wrap>as man undergoes the in-mineralization, in-vegetalization, in-zoonation of the monad. <wrap hide>177|00:18:01|880|00:18:04|380</wrap>So those lower kingdoms are related to our monad as well. <wrap hide>178|00:18:04|920|00:18:08|860</wrap>To me that's quite a mystery, but worth exploration. <wrap hide>179|00:18:08|860|00:18:12|540</wrap>So what are the words we've <wrap quote>just</wrap> studied here? <wrap hide>180|00:18:13|440|00:18:14|940</wrap>Re-creation. <wrap hide>181|00:18:16|460|00:18:19|700</wrap>And number two is regeneration. <wrap hide>182|00:18:23|360|00:18:25|900</wrap>Regeneration upon the fixed cross. <wrap hide>183|00:18:26|560|00:18:32|560</wrap>Re-orientation and renunciation. <wrap hide>184|00:18:32|820|00:18:38|060</wrap>The great renunciation is the fourth initiation which leads to the final liberation, at least <wrap hide>185|00:18:38|060|00:18:43|680</wrap>in terms of the human kingdom and the need to return to incarnation. <wrap hide>186|00:18:45|540|00:18:48|640</wrap>So I think there's a little problem. <wrap hide>187|00:18:48|740|00:18:51|340</wrap>This should be a number four here. <wrap hide>188|00:18:53|300|00:18:56|300</wrap>This should be a number four somehow. <wrap hide>189|00:18:57|620|00:18:57|680</wrap>Yeah. <wrap hide>190|00:18:58|080|00:19:04|320</wrap>Well, I don't know why this is doing that, but it is, and so we'll lift it up to here. <wrap hide>191|00:19:04|320|00:19:06|600</wrap>Renunciation has number four. <wrap hide>192|00:19:08|880|00:19:14|720</wrap>These are general phases of the path, four different cycles. <wrap hide>193|00:19:15|540|00:19:19|560</wrap>You know, the soul is constantly coming into the great ocean of matter. <wrap hide>194|00:19:20|380|00:19:28|120</wrap>There's the re-creation of successive personalities upon the mutable cross as there is a continuous <wrap hide>195|00:19:28|640|00:19:32|940</wrap>exposure to change and varied experiences. <wrap hide>196|00:19:34|400|00:19:37|160</wrap>The regeneration occurs on the cross of the soul. <wrap hide>197|00:19:39|080|00:19:42|400</wrap>We are generating ourselves again. <wrap hide>198|00:19:42|580|00:19:50|520</wrap>We're being born as a soul, as a conscious soul, and our inner consciousness is emerging, <wrap hide>199|00:19:50|720|00:19:55|320</wrap>our soul consciousness is emerging, and we're less and less identifying ourselves <wrap quote>as a personality.</wrap> <wrap hide>200|00:19:56|240|00:20:03|540</wrap>Re-orientation is a definite attempt to polarize ourselves upon the higher mental plane and <wrap hide>201|00:20:03|540|00:20:06|280</wrap>within the soul, on its own plane as it were. <wrap hide>202|00:20:07|320|00:20:17|620</wrap>And then some twelve climactic lives lived in or under each of the signs of the zodiac <wrap hide>203|00:20:17|620|00:20:22|480</wrap>in which some sort of victory in each of the signs of the zodiac is achieved. <wrap hide>204|00:20:22|480|00:20:24|320</wrap>Are there exactly twelve? <wrap hide>205|00:20:25|200|00:20:30|540</wrap>This would be hard to fathom because when D.K. tells us "a cult rumor has it," it may be <wrap hide>206|00:20:30|540|00:20:31|640</wrap>so, it may not be so. <wrap hide>207|00:20:32|140|00:20:40|280</wrap>There may be other ways to compress the twelve together and even have a climactic experience <wrap hide>208|00:20:40|280|00:20:47|600</wrap>in the same life based upon the combination of the rising sign and the sun sign, in which <wrap hide>209|00:20:47|600|00:20:50|340</wrap>case there would be fewer climactic lives. <wrap hide>210|00:20:50|810|00:20:58|220</wrap>So this reincarnational research will have to establish whether it is literally so. <wrap hide>211|00:21:00|180|00:21:02|880</wrap>So there is a twelve-fold liberation, D.K. is telling us. <wrap hide>212|00:21:03|020|00:21:06|780</wrap><wrap quote>This liberation is in reality twelve-fold in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>213|00:21:06|960|00:21:09|360</wrap>I guess we have to prove ourselves in each one of the twelve signs. <wrap hide>214|00:21:10|040|00:21:15|440</wrap><wrap quote>For liberation, victory, and triumph have to be experienced in every sign.</wrap> <wrap hide>215|00:21:16|520|00:21:17|960</wrap>Liberation, victory, and triumph. <wrap hide>216|00:21:17|960|00:21:25|980</wrap>These are such Scorpionic, Capricornian, Aquarian words. <wrap hide>217|00:21:26|380|00:21:27|180</wrap>Triumph is so. <wrap hide>218|00:21:28|180|00:21:35|600</wrap>Scorpionic and Capricornian liberation suggests Aquarius or perhaps even at a deeper level <wrap hide>219|00:21:35|600|00:21:36|460</wrap>Pisces. <wrap hide>220|00:21:37|040|00:21:43|520</wrap>Just as for all of us captivity, <wrap quote>defeat, and failure have been experienced in all signs <wrap hide>221|00:21:43|520|00:21:44|140</wrap>of the zodiac.</wrap> <wrap hide>222|00:21:44|140|00:21:49|320</wrap>I guess we do have to live, learn the hard way. <wrap hide>223|00:21:51|020|00:21:55|420</wrap>Defeat instead of victory, failure instead of triumph, captivity instead of liberation. <wrap hide>224|00:21:56|440|00:21:58|300</wrap>There is quite a Geminian contrast here. <wrap hide>225|00:21:58|500|00:22:07|960</wrap>We have all blundered through the various signs and not succeeded and been defeated <wrap hide>226|00:22:07|960|00:22:18|920</wrap>by our own elemental nature and by the circumstantial forces and energies which have overcome us. <wrap hide>227|00:22:19|940|00:22:21|700</wrap>Captivity, defeat, and failure. <wrap hide>228|00:22:23|520|00:22:27|620</wrap><wrap quote>Whilst the man is functioning</wrap> as a personality, yeah well when functioning strictly as a personality <wrap hide>229|00:22:27|620|00:22:31|040</wrap>there is no true victory or triumph. <wrap hide>230|00:22:31|180|00:22:32|480</wrap>There certainly is no liberation. <wrap hide>231|00:22:32|480|00:22:40|240</wrap><wrap quote>It is these four words and their significance which will underlie all that I have to say <wrap hide>232|00:22:40|240|00:22:44|680</wrap>to you and then the dual experience on the great wheel of life.</wrap> <wrap hide>233|00:22:46|620|00:22:49|400</wrap>And <wrap quote>I would ask you to have that definitely in mind.</wrap> <wrap hide>234|00:22:49|680|00:22:55|760</wrap>Re-creation, re-generation, re-orientation, re-nunciation. <wrap hide>235|00:22:55|760|00:23:03|620</wrap>That word "re" seems to suggest a process which operates again and again. <wrap hide>236|00:23:04|680|00:23:08|340</wrap>"Re" suggests a cyclic process. <wrap hide>237|00:23:10|220|00:23:12|340</wrap>So this not only applies to Aries. <wrap hide>238|00:23:12|480|00:23:17|640</wrap>Here in this Aries chapter, he is introducing so many things that will be applied throughout <wrap hide>239|00:23:17|640|00:23:26|320</wrap>the book, and we should fix in our mind these things and try to follow his advice where <wrap hide>240|00:23:26|320|00:23:26|960</wrap>possible. <wrap hide>241|00:23:27|920|00:23:32|720</wrap>Yes, "re," "re." <wrap hide>242|00:23:34|340|00:23:41|280</wrap>Taking these four words and applying them to all the signs, and taking the whole idea <wrap hide>243|00:23:41|280|00:23:47|460</wrap>of the dual mode of progression to all the signs, and taking the idea that different decanate <wrap hide>244|00:23:47|460|00:23:56|020</wrap>rulers are operative depending upon whether we are passing along the wheel of form clockwise <wrap hide>245|00:23:56|020|00:23:58|360</wrap>or the wheel of consciousness counterclockwise. <wrap hide>246|00:23:59|080|00:24:06|240</wrap>And always watch that decanate in which reversal is occurring. <wrap hide>247|00:24:07|340|00:24:13|380</wrap>As I said with respect to the decanates, I believe that any person at any point of evolution <wrap hide>248|00:24:13|380|00:24:18|860</wrap>can be born in any of the decanates, and the decanate rulers will apply. <wrap hide>249|00:24:21|900|00:24:27|320</wrap>I don't think we can say that when you're on the wheel of consciousness and you're born <wrap hide>250|00:24:27|320|00:24:30|560</wrap>in the third decanate, you're necessarily bringing in the spirit. <wrap hide>251|00:24:30|660|00:24:35|320</wrap>I don't think we can talk about the monad in that way. <wrap hide>252|00:24:36|380|00:24:42|280</wrap>But it still is valuable to pay attention to the archetypal meaning of each one of the <wrap hide>253|00:24:42|280|00:24:48|200</wrap>decanates, and they are assigned to different levels of the human constitution. <wrap hide>254|00:24:49|620|00:24:58|860</wrap>OK, so we've gone through four different phases of experience, each categorized under a certain <wrap hide>255|00:24:58|860|00:25:13|200</wrap>word: recreation, regeneration, reorientation, and renunciation. <wrap hide>256|00:25:13|440|00:25:21|780</wrap><wrap quote>Going through the great cycle from Aries to Taurus,</wrap> the man enters the sign Aries again <wrap hide>257|00:25:21|780|00:25:23|880</wrap>under the potent impression of Taurus. <wrap hide>258|00:25:24|040|00:25:27|580</wrap>Now that's if he's on the clockwise wheel. <wrap hide>259|00:25:27|580|00:25:29|720</wrap>Well, his desires have been strengthened. <wrap hide>260|00:25:30|040|00:25:36|500</wrap>Going through the great cycle from Aries backwards clockwise—Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, all the way <wrap hide>261|00:25:36|500|00:25:43|020</wrap>to Taurus—the man enters the sign Aries again under the potent impression of Taurus, which <wrap hide>262|00:25:43|020|00:25:51|020</wrap>at this stage of development feeds his ardent desire—that's so Taurean—feeds his ardent <wrap hide>263|00:25:51|020|00:25:57|520</wrap>desire for the many material advantages—that's such a way of describing Taurus—of <wrap hide>264|00:25:57|520|00:25:59|000</wrap>physical incarnation. <wrap hide>265|00:26:00|000|00:26:06|080</wrap>Taurus and the material advantages of physical incarnation—such a brilliant way of describing <wrap hide>266|00:26:06|080|00:26:14|180</wrap>the manner in which many... what's going on here? <wrap hide>267|00:26:15|940|00:26:25|640</wrap>I'm having a little bit... I'm having a situation... yeah. <wrap hide>268|00:26:27|460|00:26:30|080</wrap>OK, but gradually it comes right. <wrap hide>269|00:26:30|080|00:26:37|160</wrap>Feeds the many material advantages of physical incarnation and of constant worldly undertakings. <wrap hide>270|00:26:37|540|00:26:44|100</wrap>Well, you know Aries is always ready to undertake, and if under the impress of the previous Taurus <wrap hide>271|00:26:44|100|00:26:49|780</wrap>sign one is wanting material advantages, then one undertakes many things for the sake of <wrap hide>272|00:26:49|780|00:26:51|180</wrap>those material advantages. <wrap hide>273|00:26:51|680|00:26:58|760</wrap>Thus, after a period of recreation—so he's recreated a new personality, we're going backwards <wrap hide>274|00:26:58|760|00:27:06|720</wrap>now—he passes out into incarnation in Pisces after an incarnation of... this is somewhat <wrap hide>275|00:27:06|720|00:27:12|120</wrap>symbolic, of course; we don't necessarily know that a Pisces incarnation will follow an Aries <wrap hide>276|00:27:12|120|00:27:12|780</wrap>incarnation. <wrap hide>277|00:27:14|020|00:27:20|620</wrap>The timing of these things has to be worked out, but in a generic sense we can understand. <wrap hide>278|00:27:22|160|00:27:27|760</wrap>Thus, after a period of recreation in Aries, he passes out into incarnation where it says <wrap hide>279|00:27:27|760|00:27:33|380</wrap>"go forth into matter," out into incarnation in Pisces, and begins again the great round <wrap hide>280|00:27:33|380|00:27:43|000</wrap>of manifested life, for Pisces is the ocean wherein the fish, which is the conscious soul, <wrap hide>281|00:27:46|060|00:27:50|380</wrap>wherein he is the fish controlled by the laws of substance. <wrap hide>282|00:27:50|960|00:27:55|240</wrap>So Pisces is water, matter, substance, or material existence. <wrap hide>283|00:27:55|240|00:28:11|440</wrap>So let's see: man in Pisces, after recreation in Aries and the confirmation of desire in <wrap hide>284|00:28:11|440|00:28:16|820</wrap>Taurus, is subject to the laws of substance. <wrap hide>285|00:28:18|040|00:28:27|420</wrap>In the second great stage—so he's giving us the idea of how we are subjected to material <wrap hide>286|00:28:27|420|00:28:32|900</wrap>impulse and we are seeking the fulfillment of satisfaction, of material satisfaction. <wrap hide>287|00:28:33|480|00:28:39|380</wrap>In the second great stage, he passes from Aries to Taurus. This is much, much later; it's <wrap hide>288|00:28:39|380|00:28:45|200</wrap>like we divide, let us say, the 25 million years of human evolution in half exactly. <wrap hide>289|00:28:46|880|00:28:52|640</wrap>It's much, much later; it's millions of years later, so that the last part wherein he passes <wrap hide>290|00:28:52|640|00:29:00|040</wrap>from Aries to Taurus is a very small section of the many incarnations that he has experienced. <wrap hide>291|00:29:06|840|00:29:11|100</wrap>He's passing directly from Aries to Taurus without going through Pisces. <wrap hide>292|00:29:11|740|00:29:18|660</wrap>So the second great stage: he's going Aries to Taurus, Gemini, and I don't know, let's <wrap hide>293|00:29:18|660|00:29:21|740</wrap>see how many incarnations can be involved. <wrap hide>294|00:29:21|880|00:29:29|020</wrap>He is reversing the wheel, and that fifth petal is receiving attention, and if from the time <wrap hide>295|00:29:29|020|00:29:33|160</wrap>of the first initiation once the fifth petal is completely unfolded there are maybe only <wrap hide>296|00:29:33|160|00:29:39|620</wrap>30 lives or less compared to thousands before, we can see something of the proportion. <wrap hide>297|00:29:40|720|00:29:46|020</wrap><wrap quote>In the second great stage, he passes from Aries to Taurus because desire has been transmuted <wrap hide>298|00:29:46|900|00:29:48|220</wrap>into aspiration.</wrap> <wrap hide>299|00:29:48|220|00:29:56|740</wrap>That is the higher meaning of Taurus and not the constant seeking for material advantages <wrap hide>300|00:29:56|740|00:29:59|760</wrap>in physical incarnation. <wrap hide>301|00:30:00|420|00:30:05|280</wrap>That's such a good way of describing an ordinary Taurean motive. <wrap hide>302|00:30:05|740|00:30:07|780</wrap>Desire has been transmuted into aspiration. <wrap hide>303|00:30:08|600|00:30:13|500</wrap>Some of the highest form of aspirational idealism we have been told is found in Taurus. <wrap hide>304|00:30:14|200|00:30:20|080</wrap>After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life, probably under the <wrap hide>305|00:30:20|080|00:30:30|860</wrap>fourth ray, and steadfastness—there is a Taurean word, and it's also a word connected <wrap hide>306|00:30:30|860|00:30:34|340</wrap>with what is achieved through the struggling fourth ray. <wrap hide>307|00:30:35|360|00:30:36|940</wrap>He becomes the one-pointed disciple. <wrap hide>308|00:30:37|220|00:30:38|980</wrap>Sagittarius is steadfast as well. <wrap hide>309|00:30:39|120|00:30:47|000</wrap>Many are the contributions of signs which generate this steadfastness in the aspiring <wrap hide>310|00:30:47|000|00:30:47|440</wrap>man. <wrap hide>311|00:30:48|190|00:30:54|600</wrap>After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening signs, <wrap hide>312|00:30:55|890|00:30:58|280</wrap>he passes again into Pisces. <wrap hide>313|00:30:58|420|00:31:00|540</wrap>Of course, this happens many times. <wrap hide>314|00:31:01|740|00:31:08|080</wrap>From the opposite direction—not directly into Pisces from Aries, but from Aries through <wrap hide>315|00:31:08|080|00:31:11|760</wrap>all the intervening signs at last into the 12th sign, Pisces. <wrap hide>316|00:31:12|110|00:31:16|860</wrap>From the opposite direction to his usual procedure, going in counterclockwise, having earned the <wrap hide>317|00:31:16|860|00:31:27|280</wrap>right to mount the cardinal cross in the heavens, and he seems hereby to suggest that <wrap hide>318|00:31:27|280|00:31:42|580</wrap>the power to mount the cardinal cross can be staged from the sign Pisces. <wrap hide>319|00:31:44|720|00:31:52|240</wrap>Well, after all, Pisces sometimes rules the last incarnation for those who are entering <wrap hide>320|00:31:52|240|00:31:58|400</wrap>Shambhala rather than entering hierarchy. As world servers, as world saviors, they enter <wrap hide>321|00:31:58|400|00:32:02|920</wrap>Shambhala, and as you begin to enter Shambhala, it seems to me that the cardinal cross can <wrap hide>322|00:32:02|920|00:32:05|860</wrap>be mounted at the fifth degree. <wrap hide>323|00:32:06|720|00:32:11|920</wrap>So Pisces, I think, is often a staging point for entering onto the cardinal cross. <wrap hide>324|00:32:11|920|00:32:17|340</wrap>It's also a staging point for leaving the mutable cross and going onto the fixed cross. <wrap hide>325|00:32:18|100|00:32:22|460</wrap>Can we say, yeah, it is that. <wrap hide>326|00:32:23|380|00:32:29|660</wrap>Okay, having earned the right to mount the fixed cross of the heavens—the right because <wrap hide>327|00:32:29|660|00:32:36|400</wrap>one will be exposed to so many more energies and have so much more responsibility, and one's <wrap hide>328|00:32:36|400|00:32:41|500</wrap>position will be such that the impact of whatever one does will be so much more influential, <wrap hide>329|00:32:41|500|00:32:48|980</wrap>and thus one has to be responsible and demonstrate that one has the right to operate responsibly <wrap hide>330|00:32:48|980|00:32:51|020</wrap>upon the cardinal cross of the heavens. <wrap hide>331|00:32:52|300|00:32:55|880</wrap>So <wrap quote>after proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening <wrap hide>332|00:32:55|880|00:33:01|840</wrap>signs, he passes again into Pisces from the opposite direction to his usual procedure, <wrap hide>333|00:33:01|840|00:33:06|860</wrap>having earned the right to mount the cardinal cross of the heavens, <wrap hide>334|00:33:07|610|00:33:18|200</wrap>the power to take a final planetary initiation, and the privilege of passing onto one of the <wrap hide>335|00:33:18|200|00:33:24|260</wrap>seven paths to which I have made reference in my other books.</wrap> A final planetary initiation— <wrap hide>336|00:33:24|360|00:33:25|940</wrap>what could that be? <wrap hide>337|00:33:26|720|00:33:30|960</wrap>When one is a sixth degree initiate, one is a planetary life. <wrap hide>338|00:33:31|940|00:33:38|040</wrap>Even as a seventh degree initiate, one may remain associated with the planet, but let's <wrap hide>339|00:33:38|040|00:33:44|600</wrap>say that ordinarily for the great majority that final planetary initiation is the sixth, <wrap hide>340|00:33:45|180|00:33:52|480</wrap>after which the majority heads out on one of six remaining paths or eight remaining <wrap hide>341|00:33:52|480|00:33:59|100</wrap>paths, with the path of Earth's service making the ninth and keeping the liberated <wrap hide>342|00:33:59|100|00:34:08|960</wrap>monad in association with the Earth at the direction or behest of Sanat Kumara, who chooses <wrap hide>343|00:34:08|960|00:34:14|060</wrap>the limited number of initiates who pass along this path of Earth's service. <wrap hide>344|00:34:14|560|00:34:27|260</wrap>A final planetary initiation, and let's just say probably the sixth, and the privilege <wrap hide>345|00:34:27|260|00:34:30|480</wrap>of passing onto one of the seven paths which I have made reference in the other books, <wrap hide>346|00:34:30|580|00:34:36|520</wrap>and later in the raised initiations he tells that two more paths have been added. <wrap hide>347|00:34:36|740|00:34:39|980</wrap>So we have nine paths and nine initiations. <wrap hide>348|00:34:41|740|00:34:47|580</wrap>In most cases the nine initiations precede the paths, but at least up to the sixth initiation <wrap hide>349|00:34:47|580|00:34:51|240</wrap>perhaps some paths are trodden after the ninth initiation. <wrap hide>350|00:34:52|040|00:34:52|760</wrap>We can't be sure. <wrap hide>351|00:34:53|360|00:34:58|400</wrap><wrap quote>These eventually give him the freedom of the seven solar systems.</wrap> <wrap hide>352|00:34:58|540|00:35:00|040</wrap>What are the seven solar systems? <wrap hide>353|00:35:01|180|00:35:04|880</wrap>Some people would say, "Well, they are the seven chakras and the One About Whom Naught May <wrap hide>354|00:35:04|880|00:35:11|240</wrap>Be Said," and they are really constellations, but I prefer to think of them as in fact solar <wrap hide>355|00:35:11|240|00:35:13|660</wrap>systems, as related solar systems. <wrap hide>356|00:35:14|880|00:35:26|000</wrap>Those perhaps of Sirius and Alpha Centauri and Procyon, and there are others, Altair and <wrap hide>357|00:35:26|000|00:35:33|100</wrap>so forth, close to our Sun and to our solar system. <wrap hide>358|00:35:35|100|00:35:40|340</wrap>So then after a final planetary initiation and the privilege of passing out of the seven <wrap hide>359|00:35:40|340|00:35:48|520</wrap>paths, which eventually will lead to the seven solar systems, perhaps first and then <wrap hide>360|00:35:48|520|00:35:53|000</wrap>eventually to the seven constellations, I believe, which are chakras within the One <wrap hide>361|00:35:53|000|00:35:54|360</wrap>About Whom Naught May Be Said. <wrap hide>362|00:35:54|960|00:36:01|140</wrap>The big question is, and I've been dealing with this earlier, are solar systems stars <wrap hide>363|00:36:02|880|00:36:04|940</wrap>or are they constellations? <wrap hide>364|00:36:05|380|00:36:09|900</wrap>And there's a lot of blending that goes on there because every constellation is indeed <wrap hide>365|00:36:10|440|00:36:20|640</wrap>a system, a congery of solar Logoi and their stars and is solar in nature. <wrap hide>366|00:36:20|860|00:36:25|720</wrap>So even a constellation can be called a solar system and so we do understand why some people <wrap hide>367|00:36:25|720|00:36:31|160</wrap>think that at this point of the sixth or seventh initiation one is achieving the freedom of <wrap hide>368|00:36:31|160|00:36:33|500</wrap>the seven constellations, but I think that's a bit of a jump. <wrap hide>369|00:36:33|860|00:36:35|660</wrap>I think it really goes too far. <wrap hide>370|00:36:36|620|00:36:43|020</wrap>I think first we have to achieve freedom with respect to many planets and then freedom with <wrap hide>371|00:36:43|020|00:36:47|760</wrap>respect to the stars associated with our own Sun. <wrap hide>372|00:36:47|940|00:36:53|020</wrap>We can't imagine that our own Sun is not associated with other Suns. <wrap hide>373|00:36:53|580|00:36:56|120</wrap>I don't think we can do that. <wrap hide>374|00:36:56|970|00:36:57|840</wrap>All right. <wrap hide>375|00:36:59|500|00:37:05|240</wrap>Freedom of the seven solar systems <wrap quote>as it is called in contrast to the freedom of the seven <wrap hide>376|00:37:05|240|00:37:12|260</wrap>planetary spheres,</wrap> which occurs earlier and perhaps planetary lives of the sixth degree <wrap hide>377|00:37:12|260|00:37:22|840</wrap>can achieve freedom of the seven planetary spheres, say perhaps chohans of the sixth <wrap hide>378|00:37:22|840|00:37:30|860</wrap>degree can achieve this, but you have to travel on the seven or nine paths in order <wrap hide>379|00:37:30|860|00:37:33|460</wrap>to achieve the freedom of the seven solar systems. <wrap hide>380|00:37:33|540|00:37:39|340</wrap>That would make sense to me, <wrap quote>which the experience of initiation has guaranteed him after a process <wrap hide>381|00:37:39|340|00:37:43|560</wrap>of intensive training in one or other of the planetary schools according to his ray type <wrap hide>382|00:37:43|560|00:37:46|320</wrap>and the path of service chosen.</wrap> <wrap hide>383|00:37:46|320|00:37:56|120</wrap>So before we head out on our way to different stars and solar, different constellations, <wrap hide>384|00:37:56|260|00:38:01|740</wrap>we are trained on planetary schools, not necessarily the Earth school at all. <wrap hide>385|00:38:01|740|00:38:18|580</wrap>And as chohans we can be trained on planetary schools and thereby receive the freedom of <wrap hide>386|00:38:18|580|00:38:20|540</wrap>the seven planetary spheres. <wrap hide>387|00:38:22|160|00:38:26|380</wrap>Some will remain for training on Earth school, but some will go to Venus, some will go to <wrap hide>388|00:38:26|380|00:38:28|200</wrap>Jupiter, perhaps some will go to Mercury. <wrap hide>389|00:38:28|200|00:38:33|460</wrap>Actually D.K. has given us a number of the planetary schools which are most interesting. <wrap hide>390|00:38:35|080|00:38:41|760</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>you will see therefore the significance of the two key words in the sign Aries.</wrap> <wrap hide>391|00:38:41|920|00:38:46|540</wrap>Now he calls these mantric words, key words. <wrap hide>392|00:38:46|700|00:38:50|520</wrap>They are not single words, they are mantrams themselves. <wrap hide>393|00:38:51|780|00:38:53|500</wrap>So what are they? <wrap hide>394|00:38:54|640|00:38:58|140</wrap><wrap quote>"And the words said, let form again be sought."</wrap> <wrap hide>395|00:38:58|280|00:39:04|000</wrap>We've been quoting that and it is this recreation, this reorientation to the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>396|00:39:04|200|00:39:11|940</wrap>The first impulse which takes the incarnating soul under the pull of Cancer into the three <wrap hide>397|00:39:13|640|00:39:14|680</wrap>lower worlds. <wrap hide>398|00:39:14|840|00:39:17|180</wrap>And that is <wrap quote>the man</wrap> himself. <wrap hide>399|00:39:17|380|00:39:21|140</wrap>He is not yet the soul, he knows himself only as the man. <wrap hide>400|00:39:22|420|00:39:30|140</wrap>But then, the next key word, this is not necessarily key notes, but key words. <wrap hide>401|00:39:30|320|00:39:33|520</wrap>Sometimes key notes are shorter, and they are simply one word. <wrap hide>402|00:39:34|160|00:39:39|260</wrap>As he describes here, the key word is a mantram: <wrap quote>"I come forth and from the plane of mind I <wrap hide>403|00:39:39|260|00:39:39|560</wrap>rule." <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|420|00:00:12|020</wrap>The initiate.</wrap> <wrap hide>405|00:39:40|640|00:39:46|520</wrap>This is the soul-infused mind operating on the higher mental plane through spiritual <wrap hide>406|00:39:46|520|00:39:47|140</wrap>will. <wrap hide>407|00:39:49|520|00:39:56|600</wrap>In one way, we can say that we learn from our lower mental plane to absorb the soul and <wrap hide>408|00:39:56|600|00:40:01|780</wrap>to absorb the will and to govern the entire personality process from that soul-illumined <wrap hide>409|00:40:01|780|00:40:02|220</wrap>mind. <wrap hide>410|00:40:02|940|00:40:10|280</wrap>From another point of view, we are coming forth as a monad on the higher mental plane, and <wrap hide>411|00:40:10|280|00:40:16|280</wrap>as one who is polarized within the soul, we can govern in a still truer way the entire <wrap hide>412|00:40:16|280|00:40:18|800</wrap>personality life from the higher mental plane. <wrap hide>413|00:40:18|980|00:40:20|300</wrap>This is the initiate. <wrap hide>414|00:40:20|600|00:40:23|900</wrap>"I come forth and from the plane of mind I rule." <wrap hide>415|00:40:25|040|00:40:29|800</wrap>Experience on the cross of many changes; experience leads to rulership. <wrap hide>416|00:40:31|180|00:40:31|680</wrap>That is interesting. <wrap hide>417|00:40:31|820|00:40:35|400</wrap>In other words, we begin to govern; we dominate; we rule. <wrap hide>418|00:40:35|640|00:40:42|840</wrap>Now, when a planet is the ruler of a constellation, it is a different meaning. <wrap hide>419|00:40:43|680|00:40:55|700</wrap>The planetary lord governs the amount of energy which a constellational lord can express. <wrap hide>420|00:40:56|600|00:41:05|080</wrap>So the planetary lord is like a reducing valve, and it rules or governs the degree to which <wrap hide>421|00:41:05|080|00:41:09|180</wrap>the constellational lord can influence the planet. <wrap hide>422|00:41:10|080|00:41:12|780</wrap>But here D.K. is talking about domination. <wrap hide>423|00:41:13|920|00:41:16|280</wrap>Experience leads to rulership. <wrap hide>424|00:41:17|420|00:41:19|960</wrap>We become the ruler of our elemental life. <wrap hide>425|00:41:20|140|00:41:26|060</wrap>We become the ruler of our personality, and that is a position of a superior to an inferior. <wrap hide>426|00:41:26|860|00:41:35|900</wrap>And in this sign, the man who is embodied first-ray force—well, not all men are embodied first-ray <wrap hide>427|00:41:35|900|00:41:41|640</wrap>force, but when they are embodied first-ray force and they are born in or under this sign, <wrap hide>428|00:41:41|640|00:41:48|520</wrap>then such a man develops the power of organization—that's under the seventh-ray <wrap hide>429|00:41:48|520|00:41:54|520</wrap>and first-ray—of control over forces, first-ray and seventh-ray, two controlling rays, particularly <wrap hide>430|00:41:54|520|00:42:01|760</wrap>over the energy of death, because after all, Aries represents resurrection, and death is <wrap hide>431|00:42:01|760|00:42:07|040</wrap>the sort of swallowing of the consciousness by the ambient forces. <wrap hide>432|00:42:07|980|00:42:14|420</wrap>There is a great power to resist that downward drag of matter, the power of resurrection <wrap hide>433|00:42:15|040|00:42:20|960</wrap>fully demonstrated, I think, at the seventh initiation through Aries is with this sign. <wrap hide>434|00:42:22|360|00:42:27|000</wrap>So the man who is embodied first-ray force—and all of us will have some first-ray force <wrap hide>435|00:42:27|000|00:42:35|740</wrap>in us if we are born in Aries or under Aries, though this is not necessarily the first-ray <wrap hide>436|00:42:36|180|00:42:37|920</wrap>in the ray chart per se. <wrap hide>437|00:42:38|560|00:42:43|180</wrap>Experience leads to rulership, and in this sign the man who is embodied first-ray force <wrap hide>438|00:42:43|180|00:42:51|580</wrap>develops the power of organization, of control over forces, particularly over the energy <wrap hide>439|00:42:51|580|00:42:54|760</wrap>of death, because Aries is identified with the energy of life. <wrap hide>440|00:42:56|560|00:43:03|940</wrap>It is that which is the life aspect within all things that might obscure consciousness. <wrap hide>441|00:43:04|840|00:43:11|700</wrap>Over the power of destruction applied with love, he develops the power of organization, <wrap hide>442|00:43:12|460|00:43:20|420</wrap>of control of forces, particularly over the energy of death, power over the power of destruction <wrap hide>443|00:43:20|420|00:43:24|420</wrap>applied with love, of dominance over multitudes. <wrap hide>444|00:43:25|860|00:43:33|320</wrap>He develops dominance over multitudes because he is the representative of the number one; <wrap hide>445|00:43:33|440|00:43:39|000</wrap>he is the dictator in many ways; his energies are unified. <wrap hide>446|00:43:39|280|00:43:44|820</wrap>The multitudes might be the multitude of cells and lesser lives within his vehicles, but they <wrap hide>447|00:43:44|820|00:43:50|120</wrap>can also be other people, depending upon the scope of influence of such an Aries individual. <wrap hide>448|00:43:50|900|00:43:56|640</wrap>He develops the power of cooperation with the plan, as we have seen on page 332 of this <wrap hide>449|00:43:56|640|00:44:03|440</wrap>book, and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding and directing planetary <wrap hide>450|00:44:03|440|00:44:04|080</wrap>affairs. <wrap hide>451|00:44:04|420|00:44:10|180</wrap>So Aries is very much the director, and when you think about the man who is the first-ray <wrap hide>452|00:44:10|180|00:44:17|200</wrap>soul—let us say, I guess the first-ray soul would be called embodied first-ray force, <wrap hide>453|00:44:17|580|00:44:25|520</wrap>so this is the first-ray soul most likely—then the Aries influence can really come to <wrap hide>454|00:44:25|520|00:44:28|160</wrap>his aid and promote that first-ray that is within him. <wrap hide>455|00:44:28|640|00:44:34|700</wrap>Let's read this paragraph again without my interruption and try to gather what the Tibetan <wrap hide>456|00:44:34|700|00:44:35|120</wrap>is saying. <wrap hide>457|00:44:35|120|00:44:42|540</wrap>The <wrap quote>experience leads to rulership, and in this sign the man who is embodied first-ray force <wrap hide>458|00:44:43|420|00:44:49|620</wrap>develops the power of organization, of control over forces, particularly over the energy <wrap hide>459|00:44:49|620|00:44:58|860</wrap>of death, over the power of destruction applied with love, of dominance over multitudes, of <wrap hide>460|00:44:58|860|00:45:03|420</wrap>cooperation with the plan and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding <wrap hide>461|00:45:03|420|00:45:05|440</wrap>and directing planetary affairs.</wrap> <wrap hide>462|00:45:05|580|00:45:06|400</wrap>Well, the man is a soul. <wrap hide>463|00:45:06|560|00:45:08|180</wrap>As a soul, he has love. <wrap hide>464|00:45:08|360|00:45:12|460</wrap>The soul is the expression of love, no matter what the ray may be. <wrap hide>465|00:45:13|260|00:45:19|660</wrap>So this Aries type does apply destruction, has the power of destruction, but it is applied <wrap hide>466|00:45:19|660|00:45:21|680</wrap>with love because he is an expressive soul. <wrap hide>467|00:45:22|320|00:45:26|640</wrap>So how carefully we have to read the Tibetan. It is not every Aries person that develops <wrap hide>468|00:45:26|640|00:45:33|320</wrap>all of these things, though every Aries person will develop some of these things to a certain <wrap hide>469|00:45:33|320|00:45:41|280</wrap>degree. But the man who is the embodied first-ray, he is the first-ray soul or even the first-ray <wrap hide>470|00:45:41|280|00:45:47|500</wrap>monad which is coming into power and consciousness, then he can develop much more fully all of <wrap hide>471|00:45:47|500|00:45:48|280</wrap>these qualities. <wrap hide>472|00:45:48|460|00:45:50|680</wrap>They are very impressive. <wrap hide>473|00:45:51|080|00:45:58|360</wrap>It really is the ruler, the dominator, the leader, the director. <wrap hide>474|00:46:00|080|00:46:02|360</wrap>Okay, we'll move on. <wrap hide>475|00:46:06|300|00:46:06|820</wrap>Page 109. <wrap hide>476|00:46:07|840|00:46:12|820</wrap>And now D.K. is going to tell us something about what we should do and all the succeeding signs. <wrap hide>477|00:46:14|480|00:46:17|600</wrap>And I'm going to try to find that page. <wrap hide>478|00:46:18|500|00:46:22|200</wrap>I'm not sure that I... <wrap hide>479|00:46:22|200|00:46:29|240</wrap>My esoteric astrology book online has gone through a number of incarnations and yes, <wrap hide>480|00:46:29|660|00:46:39|000</wrap>and unfortunately this particular version of it does not have the page numbers which <wrap hide>481|00:46:39|000|00:46:41|220</wrap>I am looking for. <wrap hide>482|00:46:42|380|00:46:44|860</wrap>I will have to add them as we go. <wrap hide>483|00:46:44|860|00:46:45|620</wrap>Okay. <wrap hide>484|00:46:47|180|00:46:50|860</wrap>So, before we take up... <wrap hide>485|00:46:51|660|00:46:53|200</wrap>And before my screen disappears? <wrap hide>486|00:46:53|760|00:46:54|640</wrap>Yes, it just did. <wrap hide>487|00:46:57|140|00:47:03|400</wrap><wrap quote>Before we take up the remaining 11 signs of the zodiac and in order to give you a clear <wrap hide>488|00:47:03|400|00:47:12|340</wrap>framework upon</wrap> which to work, okay, disappearing screen again, something is slowing this computer <wrap hide>489|00:47:12|340|00:47:19|300</wrap>down. I'll have to deal with that before doing another webinar, or am I going to be cut short <wrap hide>490|00:47:19|300|00:47:20|120</wrap>right at this point? <wrap hide>491|00:47:20|440|00:47:22|000</wrap>No, it looks like we'll be able to go ahead. <wrap hide>492|00:47:23|860|00:47:29|820</wrap>Before we take up the remaining 11 signs of the zodiac and in order to give you a clear <wrap hide>493|00:47:29|820|00:47:36|680</wrap>framework, D.K. is all for clarity of the mind, upon which the building of the new astrology <wrap hide>494|00:47:36|680|00:47:40|760</wrap>by means of <wrap quote>which you can grasp the dual procedure of the soul around the great wheel,</wrap> <wrap hide>495|00:47:42|260|00:47:46|900</wrap>upon <wrap quote>which to build the new astrology by means of</wrap> which you can grasp the dual procedure <wrap hide>496|00:47:46|900|00:47:50|980</wrap>of the soul around the great wheel, this is perhaps the most important thing to grasp, <wrap hide>497|00:47:50|980|00:47:57|740</wrap>the dual means of procedure. <wrap quote>I would point out that what I have given you on Aries will <wrap hide>498|00:47:57|740|00:48:00|700</wrap>be dealt with also as we consider the other signs.</wrap> <wrap hide>499|00:48:00|700|00:48:07|720</wrap>So it's a longer chapter. There's a lot being introduced here which later will be introduced <wrap hide>500|00:48:07|720|00:48:12|640</wrap>in all the signs, and he will expect that we will know how to orient ourselves towards <wrap hide>501|00:48:12|640|00:48:14|760</wrap>each sign based upon what he's given us here. <wrap hide>502|00:48:15|360|00:48:22|120</wrap>You will find that I have indicated significances, higher types of indications, the world of <wrap hide>503|00:48:22|120|00:48:24|040</wrap>significance is really the world of the triad. <wrap hide>504|00:48:24|520|00:48:29|360</wrap><wrap quote>You will find that I have indicated significances and pointed out some of the truths which can <wrap hide>505|00:48:29|360|00:48:34|960</wrap>be found in connection with the keynotes of the signs. <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|420|00:00:12|020</wrap>These express the underlying effect upon the man as he progresses in one of two directions.</wrap> <wrap hide>507|00:48:42|140|00:48:46|960</wrap>So here the word keynotes is pretty well equivalent to what he called key words. <wrap hide>508|00:48:47|580|00:48:57|460</wrap>Keynotes here are equivalent to key words, as he said, the two mantrums are the key words. <wrap hide>509|00:48:57|460|00:48:59|260</wrap>But there are other keynotes as well. <wrap hide>510|00:49:00|120|00:49:05|200</wrap><wrap quote>The nature of the cross upon which the man is crucified at any one time.</wrap> <wrap hide>511|00:49:05|900|00:49:12|780</wrap>Now for the average man, regardless of what his horoscope tells us, in the esoteric sense <wrap hide>512|00:49:12|780|00:49:17|940</wrap>he's crucified on the common cross, the disciple on the fixed cross, the high initiate on the <wrap hide>513|00:49:17|940|00:49:22|440</wrap>cardinal cross, not just the average initiate of the third degree, but the high initiate <wrap hide>514|00:49:22|440|00:49:25|380</wrap>of the fifth degree is crucified on the cardinal cross. <wrap hide>515|00:49:25|380|00:49:33|040</wrap>But also each sign is upon a cross in terms of the normal astrological assignment. <wrap hide>516|00:49:33|400|00:49:39|500</wrap>And so we have to find the relationship of the cross on which he finds himself to the <wrap hide>517|00:49:39|500|00:49:44|640</wrap>three crosses of consciousness, which may not even be shown in his conventional astrological <wrap hide>518|00:49:44|640|00:49:45|080</wrap>chart. <wrap hide>519|00:49:45|740|00:49:51|680</wrap>So the Djwhal Khul has indicated also <wrap quote>the influence of the planetary rulers, orthodox or esoteric,</wrap> <wrap hide>520|00:49:51|680|00:49:58|260</wrap>and sometimes he has hinted at the influence of the hierarchical ruler, but usually he <wrap hide>521|00:49:59|000|00:50:00|460</wrap>leaves that to our intuition. <wrap hide>522|00:50:03|500|00:50:10|020</wrap>And then this incredible statement here, number four: <wrap quote>the rays which primarily express themselves <wrap hide>523|00:50:10|020|00:50:13|220</wrap>through a particular sign.</wrap> <wrap hide>524|00:50:15|200|00:50:17|600</wrap>Yes, well we've seen ray one and seven. <wrap hide>525|00:50:19|180|00:50:25|020</wrap>The clue to which sign it may be—that's confusing because he's just talked about a particular <wrap hide>526|00:50:25|020|00:50:25|500</wrap>sign. <wrap hide>527|00:50:26|880|00:50:30|560</wrap>So we have Aries; he's just talked about Aries. Ray one and seven express Aries, and then <wrap hide>528|00:50:30|560|00:50:35|720</wrap>he says the clue to which sign it may be. So many people have puzzled—I have puzzled <wrap hide>529|00:50:35|720|00:50:43|300</wrap>over whether that word should be sign or ray. <wrap quote>The clue to which sign it may be is found <wrap hide>530|00:50:43|300|00:50:50|920</wrap>in the orthodox planetary ruler where the personality ray is concerned and the esoteric <wrap hide>531|00:50:50|920|00:50:55|160</wrap>planetary ruler where the soul is concerned.</wrap> <wrap hide>532|00:50:55|300|00:50:59|020</wrap>Well, earlier we did discuss this a little bit. <wrap hide>533|00:51:01|060|00:51:06|740</wrap>The rays here are, let us say, ray six for Mars, ray four for Mercury. <wrap hide>534|00:51:07|670|00:51:15|520</wrap>So we are bringing other signs into association, and we learned that any of the planets can <wrap hide>535|00:51:15|520|00:51:19|640</wrap>point to different signs depending upon the stage of evolution in which we find ourselves. <wrap hide>536|00:51:19|960|00:51:30|780</wrap>So if we are, let's say, looking at the planet Jupiter and we want to consider the signs <wrap hide>537|00:51:30|780|00:51:36|920</wrap>which feed its energy through that planet, we would look normally to Sagittarius and <wrap hide>538|00:51:36|920|00:51:42|200</wrap>Pisces, but if we are a disciple we look towards Aquarius, and if we are an initiate we look <wrap hide>539|00:51:42|200|00:51:45|280</wrap>towards Virgo because Jupiter would be the hierarchical ruler. <wrap hide>540|00:51:45|780|00:51:58|580</wrap>So here, if I could find—I will say find earlier reference about directing planetary <wrap hide>541|00:52:00|240|00:52:18|220</wrap>lines, planetary lines of connection to different signs depending upon whether the man is a <wrap hide>542|00:52:18|220|00:52:25|600</wrap>non-aspiring individual or a disciple or even an initiate. <wrap hide>543|00:52:29|660|00:52:37|160</wrap>So, let's say we have a ray six Mars and ray four Mercury, and we are looking at other signs <wrap hide>544|00:52:37|160|00:52:44|260</wrap>which may come into association with a particular sign we are studying. <wrap hide>545|00:52:44|660|00:52:49|560</wrap>So normally for ray six Mars we would look towards Aries, yes, and we would look towards <wrap hide>546|00:52:49|560|00:53:03|440</wrap>Scorpio, but if we were a disciple for sure we would look towards Scorpio definitely in <wrap hide>547|00:53:03|440|00:53:07|820</wrap>its esoteric connection because Mars is the esoteric ruler of Scorpio. <wrap hide>548|00:53:07|960|00:53:16|100</wrap>Scorpio would be definitely associated—let's say this Scorpio would be definitely associated <wrap hide>549|00:53:16|100|00:53:30|000</wrap>with Aries for the disciple in the esoteric position, esoteric rulership position. <wrap hide>550|00:53:31|220|00:53:38|380</wrap>Now suppose we are dealing with Mercury which distributes the fourth ray. <wrap hide>551|00:53:39|120|00:53:47|390</wrap>Okay, that fourth ray through Mercury—Mercury could be associated definitely with Aries, and <wrap hide>552|00:53:48|080|00:53:51|600</wrap>that is the sign that leads to Aries. <wrap hide>553|00:53:52|320|00:54:00|200</wrap>Now there are no other signs where Mercury is an esoteric ruler, so Mercury remains associated <wrap hide>554|00:54:00|200|00:54:04|240</wrap>with Aries, though Scorpio was brought in in relation to Mars. <wrap hide>555|00:54:04|240|00:54:11|700</wrap>Now can we do this? See, this is an incredible sentence, you know. People have tried to fathom <wrap hide>556|00:54:11|700|00:54:15|680</wrap>this thing, and people have come up with various theories about it. <wrap hide>557|00:54:16|180|00:54:24|400</wrap>We are talking about rays, we are talking about the—hmm, we are talking about the fourth <wrap hide>558|00:54:24|400|00:54:29|540</wrap>ray and the sixth ray, let's say in relation to the sign Aries. <wrap hide>559|00:54:30|410|00:54:41|160</wrap>So can we bring in other signs in relation to these particular rays because the sixth <wrap hide>560|00:54:41|160|00:54:45|180</wrap>ray can also lead us to other signs? <wrap hide>561|00:54:45|400|00:54:50|720</wrap>The personality ray would be, let us say, associated with number six. <wrap hide>562|00:54:51|580|00:55:00|320</wrap>The sixth ray will lead us to Sagittarius, and it will also lead us to Virgo and to Pisces. <wrap hide>563|00:55:02|200|00:55:11|420</wrap>So that is the personality influence which is generally of a sixth ray nature. <wrap hide>564|00:55:12|000|00:55:18|420</wrap>But when we have a soul influence of a fourth ray nature, a disciplic influence, then it <wrap hide>565|00:55:18|420|00:55:24|420</wrap>is possible that we will follow the fourth ray to Scorpio, Sagittarius and Taurus, which <wrap hide>566|00:55:24|420|00:55:28|820</wrap>will also be related to this particular sign Aries. <wrap hide>567|00:55:29|320|00:55:34|760</wrap>I don't think we will follow out the first and seventh ray, which are constellational <wrap hide>568|00:55:34|760|00:55:36|000</wrap>in their nature. <wrap hide>569|00:55:36|240|00:55:43|380</wrap>Obviously the first ray would lead to Leo and Capricorn, and the seventh ray would lead <wrap hide>570|00:55:43|380|00:55:47|320</wrap>to Cancer and to Capricorn. <wrap hide>571|00:55:47|320|00:55:52|300</wrap>So there are many different ways of approaching this particular paragraph. <wrap hide>572|00:55:52|900|00:55:57|640</wrap>I don't think it is giving us the immediate clue to the personality ray. <wrap hide>573|00:55:59|240|00:56:00|400</wrap>So let's read it again. <wrap hide>574|00:56:00|840|00:56:07|320</wrap>We learn in every case when we are going through a sign the rays which primarily express themselves <wrap hide>575|00:56:07|320|00:56:09|620</wrap>through a particular sign. <wrap hide>576|00:56:10|580|00:56:12|860</wrap>Okay, that is pretty straightforward. <wrap hide>577|00:56:12|860|00:56:18|100</wrap>The clue to which sign it may be, and that is unusual because we just said which sign <wrap hide>578|00:56:18|100|00:56:26|020</wrap>it is, the clue to which sign it may be is found in the orthodox planetary ruler where <wrap hide>579|00:56:26|020|00:56:28|540</wrap>the personality ray is concerned. <wrap hide>580|00:56:29|020|00:56:42|840</wrap>So if we are a personality and we know we are a personality, or as an astrologer we <wrap hide>581|00:56:43|800|00:56:49|760</wrap>follow that individual who has that particular sun sign and we follow that planetary ruler <wrap hide>582|00:56:53|880|00:57:01|560</wrap>to an associated sign, in this case Mars, would be followed to Scorpio both orthodoxly <wrap hide>583|00:57:01|560|00:57:11|080</wrap>and esoterically, and if we know that the person is going around the wheel as a soul <wrap hide>584|00:57:11|080|00:57:18|180</wrap>or as a disciple, then whatever the personality ray may be, we look at the esoteric planetary <wrap hide>585|00:57:18|180|00:57:19|540</wrap>ruler and its ray. <wrap hide>586|00:57:19|760|00:57:28|740</wrap>Now the esoteric planetary ruler is Mercury and it leads right back to Aries, and the <wrap hide>587|00:57:28|740|00:57:37|960</wrap>fourth ray coming through Mercury would lead to those other fourth ray signs. <wrap hide>588|00:57:38|740|00:57:45|620</wrap>So I find this personally one of the most enigmatic of the sentences which the Tibetan <wrap hide>589|00:57:45|620|00:57:46|280</wrap>has given us. <wrap hide>590|00:57:46|600|00:57:55|280</wrap>It's a tough one and I guess it's one of those sentences which can be pondered upon all through <wrap hide>591|00:57:55|280|00:58:04|400</wrap>the life and which may be revealed in its significance I would say in the next instalment. <wrap hide>592|00:58:04|400|00:58:14|020</wrap>We can also look at the personality ray of the individual and follow that ray to the <wrap hide>593|00:58:14|020|00:58:19|200</wrap>sign which primarily dispenses it. <wrap hide>594|00:58:19|660|00:58:23|960</wrap>Suppose you have a seventh ray personality and you know you are a disciple. <wrap hide>595|00:58:24|680|00:58:31|900</wrap>Well you follow that seventh ray to Uranus in Libra, because Uranus is the esoteric ruler <wrap hide>596|00:58:31|900|00:58:32|960</wrap>of Libra. <wrap hide>597|00:58:33|080|00:58:40|900</wrap>If you are a soul, if you are simply a personality and you follow your personality ray to another <wrap hide>598|00:58:40|900|00:58:48|280</wrap>constellation you would follow to Aquarius because Uranus is the exoteric ruler of Aquarius. <wrap hide>599|00:58:48|360|00:58:54|420</wrap>You see how intricate this can become and D.K. seems to be revealing a whole group <wrap hide>600|00:58:54|420|00:58:55|200</wrap>of interrelations. <wrap hide>601|00:58:56|700|00:59:00|000</wrap>You know I'm frustrated to have to leave it at this point but I've taken it further than <wrap hide>602|00:59:00|000|00:59:00|740</wrap>I have bef<wrap quote>or</wrap>e. <wrap hide>603|00:59:00|740|00:59:05|520</wrap>Number five, we will learn the quality of the sign and the man <wrap quote>who has come forth in <wrap hide>604|00:59:05|520|00:59:06|340</wrap>a particular sign.</wrap> <wrap hide>605|00:59:06|920|00:59:11|560</wrap>The qualities will be different depending on whether a man is proceeding around the <wrap hide>606|00:59:11|560|00:59:13|080</wrap>wheel of form or the wheel of consciousness. <wrap hide>607|00:59:13|580|00:59:20|720</wrap>We will learn <wrap quote>the interplay between a sign and its polar opposite</wrap> and this we can generally <wrap hide>608|00:59:20|720|00:59:23|120</wrap>find in the Cancer chapter. <wrap hide>609|00:59:23|120|00:59:26|140</wrap>Let me look there specifically. <wrap hide>610|00:59:27|500|00:59:30|860</wrap>It's around page 330, it's somewhere in there. <wrap hide>611|00:59:31|680|00:59:39|760</wrap>That's the light but I think earlier, maybe it comes a little bit later. <wrap hide>612|00:59:40|600|00:59:47|560</wrap>It's in the Cancer chapter and perhaps a little bit later than where he is demonstrating the <wrap hide>613|00:59:47|560|00:59:48|660</wrap>idea of light. <wrap hide>614|00:59:50|940|00:59:54|240</wrap>I may have to go looking for that on my own. <wrap hide>615|00:59:57|880|00:59:59|100</wrap>Yeah, here it is. <wrap hide>616|00:59:59|540|01:00:06|640</wrap>On the wheel turning clockwise and on the wheel turning anti-clockwise and on page 337 <wrap hide>617|01:00:06|640|01:00:08|480</wrap>that will be found. <wrap hide>618|01:00:09|040|01:00:16|300</wrap>So let us talk about that interplay between the opposite sign on page 337 of Esoteric <wrap hide>619|01:00:16|300|01:00:16|860</wrap>Astrology. <wrap hide>620|01:00:17|400|01:00:24|700</wrap>We will also learn in every chapter the planets which are exalted, <wrap quote>in detriment</wrap> or which may <wrap hide>621|01:00:24|700|01:00:26|260</wrap>fall in any particular sign. <wrap hide>622|01:00:27|320|01:00:32|520</wrap><wrap quote>For a study of these will indicate the three phases of the path with its involutionary <wrap hide>623|01:00:32|520|01:00:37|520</wrap>cycle of becoming increasingly involved in matter or life upon the mutable cross, the <wrap hide>624|01:00:37|520|01:00:41|400</wrap>interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation which leads to the mounting of <wrap hide>625|01:00:41|400|01:00:47|680</wrap>the fixed cross and the period of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross.</wrap> <wrap hide>626|01:00:47|740|01:00:50|540</wrap>That's probably the exaltation. <wrap hide>627|01:00:51|980|01:00:59|180</wrap>The detriment is probably the period of struggle and the fall is probably the period of involution. <wrap hide>628|01:00:59|300|01:01:04|000</wrap>All of this is in a generic sense and not necessarily applicable to each horoscope. <wrap hide>629|01:01:04|660|01:01:10|260</wrap>We will also learn in each chapter the significance of the key words for the mode of progress <wrap hide>630|01:01:10|260|01:01:11|220</wrap>through the signs. <wrap hide>631|01:01:11|800|01:01:14|780</wrap>Here he uses key words, earlier he used key notes. <wrap hide>632|01:01:15|040|01:01:16|760</wrap>We have to differentiate between these. <wrap hide>633|01:01:17|460|01:01:23|080</wrap>Here the key word probably means individual words, probably individual words. <wrap hide>634|01:01:24|180|01:01:28|420</wrap>And then the underlying theme, number nine: the underlying theme of any specific zodiacal <wrap hide>635|01:01:28|420|01:01:33|360</wrap>sign covered by the ideas of recreation, regeneration, reorientation, renunciation. <wrap hide>636|01:01:33|900|01:01:37|700</wrap>In each one of these signs we can pass through such a period. <wrap hide>637|01:01:37|700|01:01:43|440</wrap>Well, I'm going to review this when we go into the next one. <wrap hide>638|01:01:43|580|01:01:44|540</wrap>I've gone over it briefly. <wrap hide>639|01:01:44|700|01:01:49|260</wrap>This is Esoteric Astrology 50, and this is the end of that. <wrap hide>640|01:01:49|920|01:02:02|100</wrap>And we have gone up to page 110, and I believe we started... perhaps, where did we start? <wrap hide>641|01:02:03|320|01:02:07|140</wrap>We started, I think, at 105. <wrap hide>642|01:02:09|440|01:02:09|940</wrap>There we go. <wrap hide>643|01:02:10|800|01:02:11|660</wrap>Yeah, we started at 105. <wrap hide>644|01:02:12|740|01:02:20|940</wrap>And we apparently have covered a lot of ground here, but some of this needs careful analysis, going over again. <wrap hide>645|01:02:24|100|01:02:25|820</wrap>Yeah, speed reading, right? <wrap hide>646|01:02:26|680|01:02:27|320</wrap>Okay. <wrap hide>647|01:02:29|680|01:02:42|700</wrap>The nine types of information which we will find in every chapter, and we should... and when we've taught the Esoteric Astrology classes, we have gone over all of these things to begin with. <wrap hide>648|01:02:42|840|01:02:49|200</wrap>So it's 105 to 110, and now we will do The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>649|01:02:49|820|01:02:51|500</wrap>Oh my goodness, we are over time. <wrap hide>650|01:02:52|720|01:02:56|560</wrap>Naturally enough, but we will do The Great Invocation together. <wrap hide>651|01:03:20|800|01:03:21|480</wrap>And... <wrap hide>652|01:03:21|480|01:03:29|160</wrap>Let light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>653|01:03:32|220|01:03:41|040</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. <wrap hide>654|01:03:43|020|01:03:52|520</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>655|01:03:54|080|01:04:03|040</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>656|01:04:04|400|01:04:09|240</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>657|01:04:18|040|01:04:19|440</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>658|01:04:29|060|01:04:30|460</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>659|01:04:34|980|01:04:36|380</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>660|01:04:41|740|01:04:42|380</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>661|01:04:44|340|01:04:48|300</wrap>Okay friends, we've done Esoteric Astrology adventure number 50. <wrap hide>662|01:04:50|240|01:05:04|740</wrap>We've talked about the nine ways of clarifying the mind and studying particularly in each sign of the zodiac, and we've gone over that terribly enigmatical fourth sentence. <wrap hide>663|01:05:04|740|01:05:14|980</wrap>You know, people are so interested in discovering what is their personality ray by looking at the chart that just isn't possible, as far as I can see, given what we know at the moment. We have to find the ray first. <wrap hide>664|01:05:15|220|01:05:21|960</wrap>At least he seems to say so in the Scorpio chapter, somewhere 220 or 222, he says so. <wrap hide>665|01:05:22|580|01:05:33|300</wrap>Later the ray will be capable of expert diagnosis and will be able to see the degree to which the astrological chart actually does reveal the ray and maybe find methods of doing so. <wrap hide>666|01:05:33|300|01:05:40|060</wrap>Right now I think we're a lot safer if we determine the ray from the behavior of the individual. <wrap hide>667|01:05:41|860|01:05:43|380</wrap>Alright, and the goals of course, and the goals. <wrap hide>668|01:05:43|640|01:05:46|220</wrap>So, we'll see you next time for Esoteric Astrology 51. <wrap hide>669|01:05:46|440|01:05:48|080</wrap>I know I've been speaking quickly this time. <wrap hide>670|01:05:48|820|01:05:49|980</wrap>A bit of a hurry this time. <wrap hide>671|01:05:51|280|01:05:55|220</wrap>Maybe we can bring these things into slow motion at some point. <wrap hide>672|01:05:55|880|01:05:56|980</wrap>Alright, we'll see you then. <wrap hide>673|01:05:57|620|01:05:58|080</wrap>Bye for now.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|420|00:00:12|020</wrap>Hello everybody, we are beginning our esoteric astrology adventure number 50, and last time <wrap hide>2|00:00:12|020|00:00:18|640</wrap>we plunged into this question of the decanates of Aries, and I pulled out some of my material <wrap hide>3|00:00:18|640|00:00:30|180</wrap>which is meant to give some insight into this difficult and somewhat ambiguous, presently <wrap hide>4|00:00:30|180|00:00:41|920</wrap>ambiguous area as D.K. refers to it—a fluid area in which we are not completely certain, <wrap hide>5|00:00:42|280|00:00:46|780</wrap>at least students such as we are, cannot be completely certain about the effect of the <wrap hide>6|00:00:46|780|00:00:48|040</wrap>first and third decanates. <wrap hide>7|00:00:48|240|00:00:52|780</wrap>We can be more certain about the rulership and effect of the second decanate. <wrap hide>8|00:00:53|580|00:01:03|040</wrap>We really only dealt with one paragraph, and we discussed the idea that the Tibetan talked <wrap hide>9|00:01:03|040|00:01:11|800</wrap>about Alan Leo assigning Mars, Sun, and Venus to the three decanates, even though Sepharial <wrap hide>10|00:01:11|800|00:01:14|940</wrap>normally would be the one who assigned Venus to the third decanate. <wrap hide>11|00:01:14|940|00:01:22|800</wrap>The Tibetan continued: <wrap quote>"He touched the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the <wrap hide>12|00:01:22|800|00:01:33|400</wrap>wheel,"</wrap> and that's a hint right there that when we speak of the reversing wheel, which <wrap hide>13|00:01:33|400|00:01:47|900</wrap>really begins here at the zero to ten area—this is where the wheel goes backwards, as <wrap hide>14|00:01:47|900|00:01:52|840</wrap>it were, in the clockwise direction building up the personality, and here reverses. <wrap hide>15|00:01:53|580|00:01:59|140</wrap>So here it is, at this point of reversal where the personality begins to aspire towards the <wrap hide>16|00:01:59|140|00:02:05|500</wrap>reversal—here it is that Venus should be found, whether it's Leo that discussed that <wrap hide>17|00:02:05|500|00:02:10|860</wrap>(and I'd certainly be interested in seeing the reference on that) or whether predictably <wrap hide>18|00:02:10|860|00:02:13|800</wrap>Sepharial touched on that. <wrap hide>19|00:02:14|900|00:02:21|440</wrap>"He touched on the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the wheel which brings in other <wrap hide>20|00:02:21|440|00:02:27|260</wrap>energies and influences when he substituted Venus for Jupiter." <wrap hide>21|00:02:27|260|00:02:35|900</wrap>So apparently Alan Leo did this, and Sepharial should have done that instead of going out <wrap hide>22|00:02:35|900|00:02:42|660</wrap>of order, as seems to be the case, and using Mars, <wrap quote>the Sun, and Jupiter.</wrap> <wrap hide>23|00:02:42|840|00:02:50|260</wrap>It should have been Mars, the Sun, and Venus if Sepharial stuck to his normal system where <wrap hide>24|00:02:50|260|00:03:02|820</wrap>each successive ruler has a reduced time—for a reduced period—for orbiting the Earth geocentrically. <wrap hide>25|00:03:05|000|00:03:11|740</wrap>Okay, so Venus is somehow substituted for Jupiter. This does not mean that Jupiter should <wrap hide>26|00:03:11|740|00:03:20|640</wrap>not be present, because D.K. actually gives Jupiter as the ruler of the first decanate <wrap hide>27|00:03:20|640|00:03:23|100</wrap>on the wheel of consciousness. <wrap hide>28|00:03:25|900|00:03:31|380</wrap>In other words, D.K. tells us here that when the man <wrap quote>reorients himself and mounts the fixed <wrap hide>29|00:03:31|380|00:03:33|820</wrap>cross, he comes under the influence of Jupiter,</wrap> Sun, and Mars. <wrap hide>30|00:03:34|560|00:03:39|820</wrap>So indeed Jupiter is present in the first decanate, even though one would not predict <wrap hide>31|00:03:39|820|00:03:43|020</wrap>it from the usual Alan Leo method of operating. <wrap hide>32|00:03:43|320|00:03:46|100</wrap>There Mars would go first, and Jupiter would go third. <wrap hide>33|00:03:47|020|00:03:48|920</wrap>Let's see what else D.K. says about this. <wrap hide>34|00:03:49|580|00:03:55|300</wrap><wrap quote>"Mind and heart must be coordinated and brought into play when the great reversal takes place."</wrap> <wrap hide>35|00:03:56|100|00:04:06|180</wrap>So here he seems to be differentiating in a manner that places Venus in the place of <wrap hide>36|00:04:06|180|00:04:11|700</wrap>mind, as mind, and Jupiter as heart. <wrap hide>37|00:04:12|460|00:04:19|520</wrap>And indeed, when we study page 517 of Esoteric Astrology, we see that Jupiter for the disciples <wrap hide>38|00:04:19|520|00:04:20|700</wrap>is given to the heart center. <wrap hide>39|00:04:21|580|00:04:28|920</wrap>Now Venus is assigned as the heart center of the solar Logos—at least that's one of <wrap hide>40|00:04:28|920|00:04:35|040</wrap>the planets that contends for that position, whether now or in the future. <wrap hide>41|00:04:37|120|00:04:39|300</wrap>So Venus has a heart connection as well. <wrap hide>42|00:04:39|660|00:04:44|980</wrap>Anyway, mind and heart seem to be brought together, and when we think of the three major planets <wrap hide>43|00:04:45|920|00:04:53|500</wrap>at this time which express the three major aspects, we have Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. <wrap hide>44|00:04:53|500|00:05:03|040</wrap>We do then have the will—Saturn, the will; Jupiter, the heart; and Venus, the mind. <wrap hide>45|00:05:04|640|00:05:05|880</wrap>So that seems to fit. <wrap hide>46|00:05:06|540|00:05:15|760</wrap>So the great reversal is always found where the decanates are operating in this manner. <wrap hide>47|00:05:16|760|00:05:21|940</wrap>We're moving backwards through the signs from 30 to 20, 20 to 10, 10 to 0. <wrap hide>48|00:05:21|940|00:05:26|580</wrap>There's no reversal yet; everything's going clockwise rather than counterclockwise. <wrap hide>49|00:05:26|740|00:05:33|000</wrap>Then comes the reversal of the counterclockwise movement, and both Jupiter and Venus should <wrap hide>50|00:05:33|000|00:05:33|940</wrap>be found. <wrap hide>51|00:05:35|040|00:05:41|700</wrap>The Tibetan gives Jupiter but hints at the importance of Venus. There is a reorientation <wrap hide>52|00:05:41|700|00:05:47|880</wrap>towards the soul, which is on the plane of mind, which is Venus, and the expansion of consciousness <wrap hide>53|00:05:47|880|00:05:51|700</wrap>of the causal body and of the heart, which is Jupiter. <wrap hide>54|00:05:52|520|00:06:01|700</wrap>There are just so many things to put together here, and it is not easy to ascertain exactly <wrap hide>55|00:06:02|420|00:06:04|840</wrap>what planet should be where. <wrap hide>56|00:06:05|760|00:06:16|880</wrap>Evidence seems to indicate that Alan Leo's normal method, which is an ancient Indian method, <wrap hide>57|00:06:17|640|00:06:25|760</wrap>whereby the triplicities are assigned: Aries of Aries, Aries of Leo, Aries of Sagittarius <wrap hide>58|00:06:25|760|00:06:33|260</wrap>with their normal rulers, do seem to work in terms of the constitution of man and his appearance. <wrap hide>59|00:06:33|260|00:06:38|680</wrap>But the Tibetan is speaking about some subtler dynamics, and we must attend to them. <wrap hide>60|00:06:39|560|00:06:48|440</wrap>Now, moving on in a way from the Deccanates, <wrap quote>we have seen that Aries is the sign of beginnings. <wrap hide>61|00:06:49|620|00:06:51|300</wrap>Let me just do this here. <wrap hide>62|00:06:52|040|00:06:59|600</wrap>The beginning of the creative process</wrap> which is coming under the influence of the soul, <wrap hide>63|00:07:00|680|00:07:05|720</wrap>the soul of solar angels undertaking a great creative process in the three lower worlds. <wrap hide>64|00:07:05|720|00:07:12|880</wrap>The beginning of the creative process, the first step of the soul, the microcosm of the <wrap hide>65|00:07:12|880|00:07:19|420</wrap>already initiated macrocosm. The planetary Logos is certainly initiated, and in a larger <wrap hide>66|00:07:19|420|00:07:25|260</wrap>sense the solar Logos is the macrocosm, the microcosm of the already initiated macrocosm <wrap hide>67|00:07:25|260|00:07:30|100</wrap>towards incarnation. So Aries rules the first step of the soul towards incarnation, the <wrap hide>68|00:07:30|100|00:07:36|260</wrap>beginning of the recurrent and constant cycles of experience. So every time there is a return <wrap hide>69|00:07:36|260|00:07:40|640</wrap>to incarnation there is an Aries impulse, and <wrap quote>the beginning of the period wherein the <wrap hide>70|00:07:40|640|00:07:46|420</wrap>soul changes its direction.</wrap> Notice the beginning of the period in which that reorientation <wrap hide>71|00:07:46|420|00:07:54|720</wrap>takes place. This is the... whoopsie... take... okay... where the soul changes its direction. <wrap hide>72|00:07:54|940|00:08:03|280</wrap>This is the crisis of reorientation, changes its purpose and method, <wrap quote>and finally enters <wrap hide>73|00:08:03|280|00:08:08|800</wrap>upon that definitely defined process which we call spiritual regeneration and initiation.</wrap> <wrap hide>74|00:08:09|040|00:08:16|760</wrap>So Aries, as the Tibetan is recapitulating, represents beginnings—all these various beginnings, <wrap hide>75|00:08:16|900|00:08:22|600</wrap>beginnings of the creative process, maybe even the creative process of man as he works <wrap hide>76|00:08:22|600|00:08:23|720</wrap>in the three worlds. <wrap hide>77|00:08:24|190|00:08:30|120</wrap>The first step of the soul towards incarnation, the Aries impulse, the form again besought, <wrap hide>78|00:08:30|460|00:08:39|060</wrap><wrap quote>the beginning of the recurring and constant cycles of experience.</wrap> Those are incarnational <wrap hide>79|00:08:39|860|00:08:46|500</wrap>cycles, but I suppose once you are already incarnated and there are new cycles of experience, <wrap hide>80|00:08:47|100|00:08:51|180</wrap>Aries is found at the beginning of them, and the beginning of the period wherein the soul <wrap hide>81|00:08:51|180|00:08:52|260</wrap>changes its direction. <wrap hide>82|00:08:52|260|00:08:57|520</wrap>You know we know that this is called the reversal of the wheel, or the beginning of the reversal <wrap hide>83|00:08:57|520|00:09:03|060</wrap>of the wheel. We know that Uranus is always involved in the reversal of the wheel, and <wrap hide>84|00:09:03|060|00:09:10|220</wrap>Uranus has a very important role to play with Aries, so that Aries ruling the crisis of <wrap hide>85|00:09:10|220|00:09:18|140</wrap>reorientation relates to its Uranian rulership, even though Uranus has other meanings in Aries <wrap hide>86|00:09:18|140|00:09:22|580</wrap>such as the bringing the soul spirit onto the final burning ground. <wrap hide>87|00:09:24|440|00:09:33|060</wrap>So Aries impulses all of these beginnings. Let's look at that: Aries impulses all of <wrap hide>88|00:09:33|060|00:09:34|460</wrap>these beginnings. <wrap hide>89|00:09:35|820|00:09:43|760</wrap><wrap quote>There are four words of vital importance upon which we shall ring the changes as we study <wrap hide>90|00:09:43|760|00:09:50|360</wrap>the path of evolution or the progress of the soul around the great wheel, both as a <wrap hide>91|00:09:50|360|00:09:54|300</wrap>personality and as a disciple, headed towards the liberating process.</wrap> <wrap hide>92|00:09:54|720|00:10:02|560</wrap>So let us realize that the disciple is not the personality per se. It's very important <wrap hide>93|00:10:02|560|00:10:05|500</wrap>to know because when you're looking at the personality you're not looking at the real <wrap hide>94|00:10:05|500|00:10:05|840</wrap>man. <wrap hide>95|00:10:05|840|00:10:14|880</wrap>The disciple is really an extension of monadic being, an extension of monadic consciousness. <wrap hide>96|00:10:15|780|00:10:21|600</wrap>He is, for practical purposes, other than the personality vehicle through which he operates. <wrap hide>97|00:10:22|560|00:10:29|840</wrap>So we are working now with four words which express the subjective impulses and motives <wrap hide>98|00:10:30|240|00:10:34|560</wrap>and <wrap quote>in reality introduce four different cycles of progress upon the path. <wrap hide>99|00:10:35|250|00:10:39|480</wrap>In its various stages of individualization to initiation.</wrap> <wrap hide>100|00:10:41|010|00:10:47|460</wrap>Individualization occurs at the very beginning under Leo in one important sense and Gemini <wrap hide>101|00:10:47|460|00:10:54|180</wrap>in another and Sagittarius in another, and then initiation occurs much, much later—millions <wrap hide>102|00:10:54|180|00:11:00|440</wrap>of years later—under a number of planets, but generically, a number of signs, but generically <wrap hide>103|00:11:00|440|00:11:03|280</wrap>under the sign Capricorn. <wrap hide>104|00:11:03|720|00:11:08|140</wrap>So he's going to go through a relational process here. <wrap hide>105|00:11:09|720|00:11:16|000</wrap>Four words are expressing the subjective impulses and motives and in reality introduce four <wrap hide>106|00:11:16|620|00:11:19|040</wrap>different cycles of progress on the path. <wrap hide>107|00:11:19|280|00:11:23|260</wrap>Let's see if we can fathom what these may be. <wrap hide>108|00:11:23|260|00:11:34|820</wrap>And <wrap quote>they are... okay... recreation, recreation—that's one word in which the influence of <wrap hide>109|00:11:34|820|00:11:40|940</wrap>Cancer combined with that of Aries produces the pull into incarnation upon the physical <wrap hide>110|00:11:40|940|00:11:41|240</wrap>plane.</wrap> <wrap hide>111|00:11:41|300|00:11:48|240</wrap>That's very interesting that Cancer and Aries are involved in this strongly incarnational <wrap hide>112|00:11:48|240|00:11:48|840</wrap>impulse. <wrap hide>113|00:11:48|840|00:11:55|280</wrap>We know that the elemental life is pulling towards the soul magnetically, and Aries is <wrap hide>114|00:11:55|280|00:12:02|400</wrap>impelling the soul to take up residence, i.e., Cancer, within the lower elemental worlds. <wrap hide>115|00:12:03|140|00:12:09|000</wrap>Every time we have a new incarnation, we are having the recreation of a personality. <wrap hide>116|00:12:10|140|00:12:18|760</wrap>Indeed, it has continuity with previous personalities, but in form and in certain energetic endowments, <wrap hide>117|00:12:18|760|00:12:25|940</wrap>each one is unique within the continuous flow. <wrap hide>118|00:12:26|320|00:12:37|080</wrap>So Aries and Cancer—both of them, if we will recognize—both express the seventh ray. <wrap hide>119|00:12:37|940|00:12:46|220</wrap>Aries expresses primarily the first ray but secondarily the seventh ray, and Cancer simply <wrap hide>120|00:12:46|220|00:12:48|280</wrap>expresses the seventh ray. <wrap hide>121|00:12:49|840|00:12:56|380</wrap>It expresses the third ray for the mass in a primary way, and Capricorn expresses the <wrap hide>122|00:12:56|380|00:12:57|700</wrap>third ray for the disciples. <wrap hide>123|00:12:57|940|00:13:03|380</wrap>The seventh ray is simply resident within Cancer, and Capricorn expresses the seventh <wrap hide>124|00:13:03|380|00:13:05|880</wrap>ray paramountly at this time. <wrap hide>125|00:13:07|600|00:13:12|840</wrap>Okay, the pull into incarnation, recreation again and again, the incarnational cycle. <wrap hide>126|00:13:14|560|00:13:23|900</wrap>Regeneration. Notice how the Tibetan uses these mnemonics, these methods of fixing in <wrap hide>127|00:13:23|900|00:13:30|900</wrap>the mind through the same letter a series in an important process. <wrap hide>128|00:13:31|220|00:13:38|120</wrap>He does this with D's, he does this with I's—you know, instinct, intellect, intuition, those <wrap hide>129|00:13:38|120|00:13:46|080</wrap>three I's. He does it with the D's, which we could look at as discipline, dispassion, <wrap hide>130|00:13:46|520|00:13:49|880</wrap>discrimination, decentralization, detachment, and so forth. <wrap hide>131|00:13:50|520|00:13:56|800</wrap>Now he's doing it with R's: regeneration, in <wrap quote>which the growing influence of the fixed cross <wrap hide>132|00:13:56|800|00:14:04|960</wrap>playing upon the mutable cross,</wrap> which is still conditioning our form, <wrap quote>produces those interior <wrap hide>133|00:14:04|960|00:14:12|600</wrap>changes</wrap>—or all on the fixed cross producing interior changes in consciousness which lead <wrap hide>134|00:14:12|600|00:14:18|420</wrap>eventually to—let's see what the third word is—reorientation. <wrap hide>135|00:14:20|480|00:14:32|060</wrap>Libra and Leo are frequently found when the disciple is reversing the wheel, reorienting <wrap hide>136|00:14:32|060|00:14:38|420</wrap>himself towards the soul. The decision for reorientation is made under Libra, and Leo <wrap hide>137|00:14:38|420|00:14:44|820</wrap>represents the higher of the three selves: the individual self, the group self, and the <wrap hide>138|00:14:44|820|00:14:47|180</wrap>universal or one self. <wrap hide>139|00:14:47|960|00:14:51|500</wrap>But yet Aries rules the crisis of reorientation. <wrap hide>140|00:14:52|200|00:15:00|620</wrap><wrap quote>Reorientation, or the great cycle of</wrap> repolarization, which is fixing the attention on an altogether <wrap hide>141|00:15:00|620|00:15:07|680</wrap>higher level, which is the soul level, the second level of Leo. Reorientation, or the <wrap hide>142|00:15:07|680|00:15:13|000</wrap>great cycle of repolarization, <wrap quote>which takes place with the influence of Libra, the cardinal <wrap hide>143|00:15:13|000|00:15:17|400</wrap>cross, and the swerving of the bull in mid-career.</wrap> <wrap hide>144|00:15:17|640|00:15:20|540</wrap>The bull is the bull of desire, and what types of desires do we have? <wrap hide>145|00:15:21|020|00:15:26|000</wrap>Are they simply ordinary desires for life in the lower three worlds, or is it the bull <wrap hide>146|00:15:26|000|00:15:30|220</wrap>of aspiration which is now operative after the midpoint of the career? <wrap hide>147|00:15:30|600|00:15:35|820</wrap>"And the swerving of the bull in mid-career," <wrap quote>as it is called in the ancient books.</wrap> <wrap hide>148|00:15:35|820|00:15:41|840</wrap>We don't continue to rush headlong into identification with the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>149|00:15:42|240|00:15:50|040</wrap><wrap quote>This process of reorientation leads to a passage around the wheel in which steadily and persistently <wrap hide>150|00:15:50|040|00:15:56|440</wrap>the inner subjective man comes into outer manifested expression, i.e., the soul is made <wrap hide>151|00:15:56|440|00:16:01|280</wrap>manifest and the personality and its elemental tendencies recede into the background.</wrap> <wrap hide>152|00:16:02|480|00:16:04|500</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>finally</wrap> there come twelve lives. <wrap hide>153|00:16:05|600|00:16:12|880</wrap>Is this literally so, or is it as D.K. has said that "a cult rumor has it" that there are twelve <wrap hide>154|00:16:12|880|00:16:18|320</wrap>lives wherein the final stage of renunciation? <wrap hide>155|00:16:20|520|00:16:22|540</wrap>Marvelous mnemonic devices. <wrap hide>156|00:16:23|800|00:16:29|520</wrap><wrap quote>Renunciation is experienced, and the disciple or initiate renounces all for the love of <wrap hide>157|00:16:29|520|00:16:31|060</wrap>humanity and its service.</wrap> <wrap hide>158|00:16:31|240|00:16:38|220</wrap>This is the ninth petal of the Egoic Lotus when fully open—means the utter sacrifice <wrap hide>159|00:16:38|220|00:16:39|580</wrap>of all forever. <wrap hide>160|00:16:39|860|00:16:41|400</wrap>Those are the words of Master D.K. <wrap hide>161|00:16:41|900|00:16:46|800</wrap>Renounces all for the love of humanity and its service <wrap quote>and lays himself upon the altar <wrap hide>162|00:16:46|800|00:16:47|940</wrap>of sacrifice.</wrap> <wrap hide>163|00:16:49|340|00:16:55|180</wrap>That altar is found in the second decanate of Sagittarius, in terms of the constellations <wrap hide>164|00:16:55|180|00:16:58|640</wrap>anyway. Out of the altar, lays himself upon the altar of sacrifice. <wrap hide>165|00:16:59|260|00:17:02|180</wrap><wrap quote>He achieves as a result the final liberation.</wrap> <wrap hide>166|00:17:03|460|00:17:12|400</wrap>We can call this the great renunciation. <wrap hide>167|00:17:13|000|00:17:20|260</wrap>So we're talking about the final liberation in terms of the human kingdom, but not the <wrap hide>168|00:17:20|260|00:17:25|120</wrap>final liberation in terms of the fourth creative hierarchy. <wrap hide>169|00:17:25|280|00:17:26|200</wrap>There's a difference there. <wrap hide>170|00:17:26|820|00:17:31|860</wrap>A man is still a man when a master of the wisdom, but not so when a chohan, though still <wrap hide>171|00:17:31|860|00:17:35|340</wrap>a member of the fourth creative hierarchy, when a chohan. <wrap hide>172|00:17:36|000|00:17:41|420</wrap>And we can say also that the Christ is still a member of the fourth creative hierarchy. <wrap hide>173|00:17:41|420|00:17:47|460</wrap>So the hierarchy, the fourth creative hierarchy, is a much more extensive thing than the fourth <wrap hide>174|00:17:47|460|00:17:48|700</wrap>kingdom per se. <wrap hide>175|00:17:49|400|00:17:53|700</wrap>The hierarchy includes a number of kingdoms, maybe even the lower kingdoms in some way, <wrap hide>176|00:17:54|360|00:18:01|260</wrap>as man undergoes the in-mineralization, in-vegetalization, in-zoonation of the monad. <wrap hide>177|00:18:01|880|00:18:04|380</wrap>So those lower kingdoms are related to our monad as well. <wrap hide>178|00:18:04|920|00:18:08|860</wrap>To me that's quite a mystery, but worth exploration. <wrap hide>179|00:18:08|860|00:18:12|540</wrap>So what are the words we've <wrap quote>just</wrap> studied here? <wrap hide>180|00:18:13|440|00:18:14|940</wrap>Re-creation. <wrap hide>181|00:18:16|460|00:18:19|700</wrap>And number two is regeneration. <wrap hide>182|00:18:23|360|00:18:25|900</wrap>Regeneration upon the fixed cross. <wrap hide>183|00:18:26|560|00:18:32|560</wrap>Re-orientation and renunciation. <wrap hide>184|00:18:32|820|00:18:38|060</wrap>The great renunciation is the fourth initiation which leads to the final liberation, at least <wrap hide>185|00:18:38|060|00:18:43|680</wrap>in terms of the human kingdom and the need to return to incarnation. <wrap hide>186|00:18:45|540|00:18:48|640</wrap>So I think there's a little problem. <wrap hide>187|00:18:48|740|00:18:51|340</wrap>This should be a number four here. <wrap hide>188|00:18:53|300|00:18:56|300</wrap>This should be a number four somehow. <wrap hide>189|00:18:57|620|00:18:57|680</wrap>Yeah. <wrap hide>190|00:18:58|080|00:19:04|320</wrap>Well, I don't know why this is doing that, but it is, and so we'll lift it up to here. <wrap hide>191|00:19:04|320|00:19:06|600</wrap>Renunciation has number four. <wrap hide>192|00:19:08|880|00:19:14|720</wrap>These are general phases of the path, four different cycles. <wrap hide>193|00:19:15|540|00:19:19|560</wrap>You know, the soul is constantly coming into the great ocean of matter. <wrap hide>194|00:19:20|380|00:19:28|120</wrap>There's the re-creation of successive personalities upon the mutable cross as there is a continuous <wrap hide>195|00:19:28|640|00:19:32|940</wrap>exposure to change and varied experiences. <wrap hide>196|00:19:34|400|00:19:37|160</wrap>The regeneration occurs on the cross of the soul. <wrap hide>197|00:19:39|080|00:19:42|400</wrap>We are generating ourselves again. <wrap hide>198|00:19:42|580|00:19:50|520</wrap>We're being born as a soul, as a conscious soul, and our inner consciousness is emerging, <wrap hide>199|00:19:50|720|00:19:55|320</wrap>our soul consciousness is emerging, and we're less and less identifying ourselves <wrap quote>as a personality.</wrap> <wrap hide>200|00:19:56|240|00:20:03|540</wrap>Re-orientation is a definite attempt to polarize ourselves upon the higher mental plane and <wrap hide>201|00:20:03|540|00:20:06|280</wrap>within the soul, on its own plane as it were. <wrap hide>202|00:20:07|320|00:20:17|620</wrap>And then some twelve climactic lives lived in or under each of the signs of the zodiac <wrap hide>203|00:20:17|620|00:20:22|480</wrap>in which some sort of victory in each of the signs of the zodiac is achieved. <wrap hide>204|00:20:22|480|00:20:24|320</wrap>Are there exactly twelve? <wrap hide>205|00:20:25|200|00:20:30|540</wrap>This would be hard to fathom because when D.K. tells us "a cult rumor has it," it may be <wrap hide>206|00:20:30|540|00:20:31|640</wrap>so, it may not be so. <wrap hide>207|00:20:32|140|00:20:40|280</wrap>There may be other ways to compress the twelve together and even have a climactic experience <wrap hide>208|00:20:40|280|00:20:47|600</wrap>in the same life based upon the combination of the rising sign and the sun sign, in which <wrap hide>209|00:20:47|600|00:20:50|340</wrap>case there would be fewer climactic lives. <wrap hide>210|00:20:50|810|00:20:58|220</wrap>So this reincarnational research will have to establish whether it is literally so. <wrap hide>211|00:21:00|180|00:21:02|880</wrap>So there is a twelve-fold liberation, D.K. is telling us. <wrap hide>212|00:21:03|020|00:21:06|780</wrap><wrap quote>This liberation is in reality twelve-fold in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>213|00:21:06|960|00:21:09|360</wrap>I guess we have to prove ourselves in each one of the twelve signs. <wrap hide>214|00:21:10|040|00:21:15|440</wrap><wrap quote>For liberation, victory, and triumph have to be experienced in every sign.</wrap> <wrap hide>215|00:21:16|520|00:21:17|960</wrap>Liberation, victory, and triumph. <wrap hide>216|00:21:17|960|00:21:25|980</wrap>These are such Scorpionic, Capricornian, Aquarian words. <wrap hide>217|00:21:26|380|00:21:27|180</wrap>Triumph is so. <wrap hide>218|00:21:28|180|00:21:35|600</wrap>Scorpionic and Capricornian liberation suggests Aquarius or perhaps even at a deeper level <wrap hide>219|00:21:35|600|00:21:36|460</wrap>Pisces. <wrap hide>220|00:21:37|040|00:21:43|520</wrap>Just as for all of us captivity, <wrap quote>defeat, and failure have been experienced in all signs <wrap hide>221|00:21:43|520|00:21:44|140</wrap>of the zodiac.</wrap> <wrap hide>222|00:21:44|140|00:21:49|320</wrap>I guess we do have to live, learn the hard way. <wrap hide>223|00:21:51|020|00:21:55|420</wrap>Defeat instead of victory, failure instead of triumph, captivity instead of liberation. <wrap hide>224|00:21:56|440|00:21:58|300</wrap>There is quite a Geminian contrast here. <wrap hide>225|00:21:58|500|00:22:07|960</wrap>We have all blundered through the various signs and not succeeded and been defeated <wrap hide>226|00:22:07|960|00:22:18|920</wrap>by our own elemental nature and by the circumstantial forces and energies which have overcome us. <wrap hide>227|00:22:19|940|00:22:21|700</wrap>Captivity, defeat, and failure. <wrap hide>228|00:22:23|520|00:22:27|620</wrap><wrap quote>Whilst the man is functioning</wrap> as a personality, yeah well when functioning strictly as a personality <wrap hide>229|00:22:27|620|00:22:31|040</wrap>there is no true victory or triumph. <wrap hide>230|00:22:31|180|00:22:32|480</wrap>There certainly is no liberation. <wrap hide>231|00:22:32|480|00:22:40|240</wrap><wrap quote>It is these four words and their significance which will underlie all that I have to say <wrap hide>232|00:22:40|240|00:22:44|680</wrap>to you and then the dual experience on the great wheel of life.</wrap> <wrap hide>233|00:22:46|620|00:22:49|400</wrap>And <wrap quote>I would ask you to have that definitely in mind.</wrap> <wrap hide>234|00:22:49|680|00:22:55|760</wrap>Re-creation, re-generation, re-orientation, re-nunciation. <wrap hide>235|00:22:55|760|00:23:03|620</wrap>That word "re" seems to suggest a process which operates again and again. <wrap hide>236|00:23:04|680|00:23:08|340</wrap>"Re" suggests a cyclic process. <wrap hide>237|00:23:10|220|00:23:12|340</wrap>So this not only applies to Aries. <wrap hide>238|00:23:12|480|00:23:17|640</wrap>Here in this Aries chapter, he is introducing so many things that will be applied throughout <wrap hide>239|00:23:17|640|00:23:26|320</wrap>the book, and we should fix in our mind these things and try to follow his advice where <wrap hide>240|00:23:26|320|00:23:26|960</wrap>possible. <wrap hide>241|00:23:27|920|00:23:32|720</wrap>Yes, "re," "re." <wrap hide>242|00:23:34|340|00:23:41|280</wrap>Taking these four words and applying them to all the signs, and taking the whole idea <wrap hide>243|00:23:41|280|00:23:47|460</wrap>of the dual mode of progression to all the signs, and taking the idea that different decanate <wrap hide>244|00:23:47|460|00:23:56|020</wrap>rulers are operative depending upon whether we are passing along the wheel of form clockwise <wrap hide>245|00:23:56|020|00:23:58|360</wrap>or the wheel of consciousness counterclockwise. <wrap hide>246|00:23:59|080|00:24:06|240</wrap>And always watch that decanate in which reversal is occurring. <wrap hide>247|00:24:07|340|00:24:13|380</wrap>As I said with respect to the decanates, I believe that any person at any point of evolution <wrap hide>248|00:24:13|380|00:24:18|860</wrap>can be born in any of the decanates, and the decanate rulers will apply. <wrap hide>249|00:24:21|900|00:24:27|320</wrap>I don't think we can say that when you're on the wheel of consciousness and you're born <wrap hide>250|00:24:27|320|00:24:30|560</wrap>in the third decanate, you're necessarily bringing in the spirit. <wrap hide>251|00:24:30|660|00:24:35|320</wrap>I don't think we can talk about the monad in that way. <wrap hide>252|00:24:36|380|00:24:42|280</wrap>But it still is valuable to pay attention to the archetypal meaning of each one of the <wrap hide>253|00:24:42|280|00:24:48|200</wrap>decanates, and they are assigned to different levels of the human constitution. <wrap hide>254|00:24:49|620|00:24:58|860</wrap>OK, so we've gone through four different phases of experience, each categorized under a certain <wrap hide>255|00:24:58|860|00:25:13|200</wrap>word: recreation, regeneration, reorientation, and renunciation. <wrap hide>256|00:25:13|440|00:25:21|780</wrap><wrap quote>Going through the great cycle from Aries to Taurus,</wrap> the man enters the sign Aries again <wrap hide>257|00:25:21|780|00:25:23|880</wrap>under the potent impression of Taurus. <wrap hide>258|00:25:24|040|00:25:27|580</wrap>Now that's if he's on the clockwise wheel. <wrap hide>259|00:25:27|580|00:25:29|720</wrap>Well, his desires have been strengthened. <wrap hide>260|00:25:30|040|00:25:36|500</wrap>Going through the great cycle from Aries backwards clockwise—Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, all the way <wrap hide>261|00:25:36|500|00:25:43|020</wrap>to Taurus—the man enters the sign Aries again under the potent impression of Taurus, which <wrap hide>262|00:25:43|020|00:25:51|020</wrap>at this stage of development feeds his ardent desire—that's so Taurean—feeds his ardent <wrap hide>263|00:25:51|020|00:25:57|520</wrap>desire for the many material advantages—that's such a way of describing Taurus—of <wrap hide>264|00:25:57|520|00:25:59|000</wrap>physical incarnation. <wrap hide>265|00:26:00|000|00:26:06|080</wrap>Taurus and the material advantages of physical incarnation—such a brilliant way of describing <wrap hide>266|00:26:06|080|00:26:14|180</wrap>the manner in which many... what's going on here? <wrap hide>267|00:26:15|940|00:26:25|640</wrap>I'm having a little bit... I'm having a situation... yeah. <wrap hide>268|00:26:27|460|00:26:30|080</wrap>OK, but gradually it comes right. <wrap hide>269|00:26:30|080|00:26:37|160</wrap>Feeds the many material advantages of physical incarnation and of constant worldly undertakings. <wrap hide>270|00:26:37|540|00:26:44|100</wrap>Well, you know Aries is always ready to undertake, and if under the impress of the previous Taurus <wrap hide>271|00:26:44|100|00:26:49|780</wrap>sign one is wanting material advantages, then one undertakes many things for the sake of <wrap hide>272|00:26:49|780|00:26:51|180</wrap>those material advantages. <wrap hide>273|00:26:51|680|00:26:58|760</wrap>Thus, after a period of recreation—so he's recreated a new personality, we're going backwards <wrap hide>274|00:26:58|760|00:27:06|720</wrap>now—he passes out into incarnation in Pisces after an incarnation of... this is somewhat <wrap hide>275|00:27:06|720|00:27:12|120</wrap>symbolic, of course; we don't necessarily know that a Pisces incarnation will follow an Aries <wrap hide>276|00:27:12|120|00:27:12|780</wrap>incarnation. <wrap hide>277|00:27:14|020|00:27:20|620</wrap>The timing of these things has to be worked out, but in a generic sense we can understand. <wrap hide>278|00:27:22|160|00:27:27|760</wrap>Thus, after a period of recreation in Aries, he passes out into incarnation where it says <wrap hide>279|00:27:27|760|00:27:33|380</wrap>"go forth into matter," out into incarnation in Pisces, and begins again the great round <wrap hide>280|00:27:33|380|00:27:43|000</wrap>of manifested life, for Pisces is the ocean wherein the fish, which is the conscious soul, <wrap hide>281|00:27:46|060|00:27:50|380</wrap>wherein he is the fish controlled by the laws of substance. <wrap hide>282|00:27:50|960|00:27:55|240</wrap>So Pisces is water, matter, substance, or material existence. <wrap hide>283|00:27:55|240|00:28:11|440</wrap>So let's see: man in Pisces, after recreation in Aries and the confirmation of desire in <wrap hide>284|00:28:11|440|00:28:16|820</wrap>Taurus, is subject to the laws of substance. <wrap hide>285|00:28:18|040|00:28:27|420</wrap>In the second great stage—so he's giving us the idea of how we are subjected to material <wrap hide>286|00:28:27|420|00:28:32|900</wrap>impulse and we are seeking the fulfillment of satisfaction, of material satisfaction. <wrap hide>287|00:28:33|480|00:28:39|380</wrap>In the second great stage, he passes from Aries to Taurus. This is much, much later; it's <wrap hide>288|00:28:39|380|00:28:45|200</wrap>like we divide, let us say, the 25 million years of human evolution in half exactly. <wrap hide>289|00:28:46|880|00:28:52|640</wrap>It's much, much later; it's millions of years later, so that the last part wherein he passes <wrap hide>290|00:28:52|640|00:29:00|040</wrap>from Aries to Taurus is a very small section of the many incarnations that he has experienced. <wrap hide>291|00:29:06|840|00:29:11|100</wrap>He's passing directly from Aries to Taurus without going through Pisces. <wrap hide>292|00:29:11|740|00:29:18|660</wrap>So the second great stage: he's going Aries to Taurus, Gemini, and I don't know, let's <wrap hide>293|00:29:18|660|00:29:21|740</wrap>see how many incarnations can be involved. <wrap hide>294|00:29:21|880|00:29:29|020</wrap>He is reversing the wheel, and that fifth petal is receiving attention, and if from the time <wrap hide>295|00:29:29|020|00:29:33|160</wrap>of the first initiation once the fifth petal is completely unfolded there are maybe only <wrap hide>296|00:29:33|160|00:29:39|620</wrap>30 lives or less compared to thousands before, we can see something of the proportion. <wrap hide>297|00:29:40|720|00:29:46|020</wrap><wrap quote>In the second great stage, he passes from Aries to Taurus because desire has been transmuted <wrap hide>298|00:29:46|900|00:29:48|220</wrap>into aspiration.</wrap> <wrap hide>299|00:29:48|220|00:29:56|740</wrap>That is the higher meaning of Taurus and not the constant seeking for material advantages <wrap hide>300|00:29:56|740|00:29:59|760</wrap>in physical incarnation. <wrap hide>301|00:30:00|420|00:30:05|280</wrap>That's such a good way of describing an ordinary Taurean motive. <wrap hide>302|00:30:05|740|00:30:07|780</wrap>Desire has been transmuted into aspiration. <wrap hide>303|00:30:08|600|00:30:13|500</wrap>Some of the highest form of aspirational idealism we have been told is found in Taurus. <wrap hide>304|00:30:14|200|00:30:20|080</wrap>After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life, probably under the <wrap hide>305|00:30:20|080|00:30:30|860</wrap>fourth ray, and steadfastness—there is a Taurean word, and it's also a word connected <wrap hide>306|00:30:30|860|00:30:34|340</wrap>with what is achieved through the struggling fourth ray. <wrap hide>307|00:30:35|360|00:30:36|940</wrap>He becomes the one-pointed disciple. <wrap hide>308|00:30:37|220|00:30:38|980</wrap>Sagittarius is steadfast as well. <wrap hide>309|00:30:39|120|00:30:47|000</wrap>Many are the contributions of signs which generate this steadfastness in the aspiring <wrap hide>310|00:30:47|000|00:30:47|440</wrap>man. <wrap hide>311|00:30:48|190|00:30:54|600</wrap>After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening signs, <wrap hide>312|00:30:55|890|00:30:58|280</wrap>he passes again into Pisces. <wrap hide>313|00:30:58|420|00:31:00|540</wrap>Of course, this happens many times. <wrap hide>314|00:31:01|740|00:31:08|080</wrap>From the opposite direction—not directly into Pisces from Aries, but from Aries through <wrap hide>315|00:31:08|080|00:31:11|760</wrap>all the intervening signs at last into the 12th sign, Pisces. <wrap hide>316|00:31:12|110|00:31:16|860</wrap>From the opposite direction to his usual procedure, going in counterclockwise, having earned the <wrap hide>317|00:31:16|860|00:31:27|280</wrap>right to mount the cardinal cross in the heavens, and he seems hereby to suggest that <wrap hide>318|00:31:27|280|00:31:42|580</wrap>the power to mount the cardinal cross can be staged from the sign Pisces. <wrap hide>319|00:31:44|720|00:31:52|240</wrap>Well, after all, Pisces sometimes rules the last incarnation for those who are entering <wrap hide>320|00:31:52|240|00:31:58|400</wrap>Shambhala rather than entering hierarchy. As world servers, as world saviors, they enter <wrap hide>321|00:31:58|400|00:32:02|920</wrap>Shambhala, and as you begin to enter Shambhala, it seems to me that the cardinal cross can <wrap hide>322|00:32:02|920|00:32:05|860</wrap>be mounted at the fifth degree. <wrap hide>323|00:32:06|720|00:32:11|920</wrap>So Pisces, I think, is often a staging point for entering onto the cardinal cross. <wrap hide>324|00:32:11|920|00:32:17|340</wrap>It's also a staging point for leaving the mutable cross and going onto the fixed cross. <wrap hide>325|00:32:18|100|00:32:22|460</wrap>Can we say, yeah, it is that. <wrap hide>326|00:32:23|380|00:32:29|660</wrap>Okay, having earned the right to mount the fixed cross of the heavens—the right because <wrap hide>327|00:32:29|660|00:32:36|400</wrap>one will be exposed to so many more energies and have so much more responsibility, and one's <wrap hide>328|00:32:36|400|00:32:41|500</wrap>position will be such that the impact of whatever one does will be so much more influential, <wrap hide>329|00:32:41|500|00:32:48|980</wrap>and thus one has to be responsible and demonstrate that one has the right to operate responsibly <wrap hide>330|00:32:48|980|00:32:51|020</wrap>upon the cardinal cross of the heavens. <wrap hide>331|00:32:52|300|00:32:55|880</wrap>So <wrap quote>after proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening <wrap hide>332|00:32:55|880|00:33:01|840</wrap>signs, he passes again into Pisces from the opposite direction to his usual procedure, <wrap hide>333|00:33:01|840|00:33:06|860</wrap>having earned the right to mount the cardinal cross of the heavens, <wrap hide>334|00:33:07|610|00:33:18|200</wrap>the power to take a final planetary initiation, and the privilege of passing onto one of the <wrap hide>335|00:33:18|200|00:33:24|260</wrap>seven paths to which I have made reference in my other books.</wrap> A final planetary initiation— <wrap hide>336|00:33:24|360|00:33:25|940</wrap>what could that be? <wrap hide>337|00:33:26|720|00:33:30|960</wrap>When one is a sixth degree initiate, one is a planetary life. <wrap hide>338|00:33:31|940|00:33:38|040</wrap>Even as a seventh degree initiate, one may remain associated with the planet, but let's <wrap hide>339|00:33:38|040|00:33:44|600</wrap>say that ordinarily for the great majority that final planetary initiation is the sixth, <wrap hide>340|00:33:45|180|00:33:52|480</wrap>after which the majority heads out on one of six remaining paths or eight remaining <wrap hide>341|00:33:52|480|00:33:59|100</wrap>paths, with the path of Earth's service making the ninth and keeping the liberated <wrap hide>342|00:33:59|100|00:34:08|960</wrap>monad in association with the Earth at the direction or behest of Sanat Kumara, who chooses <wrap hide>343|00:34:08|960|00:34:14|060</wrap>the limited number of initiates who pass along this path of Earth's service. <wrap hide>344|00:34:14|560|00:34:27|260</wrap>A final planetary initiation, and let's just say probably the sixth, and the privilege <wrap hide>345|00:34:27|260|00:34:30|480</wrap>of passing onto one of the seven paths which I have made reference in the other books, <wrap hide>346|00:34:30|580|00:34:36|520</wrap>and later in the raised initiations he tells that two more paths have been added. <wrap hide>347|00:34:36|740|00:34:39|980</wrap>So we have nine paths and nine initiations. <wrap hide>348|00:34:41|740|00:34:47|580</wrap>In most cases the nine initiations precede the paths, but at least up to the sixth initiation <wrap hide>349|00:34:47|580|00:34:51|240</wrap>perhaps some paths are trodden after the ninth initiation. <wrap hide>350|00:34:52|040|00:34:52|760</wrap>We can't be sure. <wrap hide>351|00:34:53|360|00:34:58|400</wrap><wrap quote>These eventually give him the freedom of the seven solar systems.</wrap> <wrap hide>352|00:34:58|540|00:35:00|040</wrap>What are the seven solar systems? <wrap hide>353|00:35:01|180|00:35:04|880</wrap>Some people would say, "Well, they are the seven chakras and the One About Whom Naught May <wrap hide>354|00:35:04|880|00:35:11|240</wrap>Be Said," and they are really constellations, but I prefer to think of them as in fact solar <wrap hide>355|00:35:11|240|00:35:13|660</wrap>systems, as related solar systems. <wrap hide>356|00:35:14|880|00:35:26|000</wrap>Those perhaps of Sirius and Alpha Centauri and Procyon, and there are others, Altair and <wrap hide>357|00:35:26|000|00:35:33|100</wrap>so forth, close to our Sun and to our solar system. <wrap hide>358|00:35:35|100|00:35:40|340</wrap>So then after a final planetary initiation and the privilege of passing out of the seven <wrap hide>359|00:35:40|340|00:35:48|520</wrap>paths, which eventually will lead to the seven solar systems, perhaps first and then <wrap hide>360|00:35:48|520|00:35:53|000</wrap>eventually to the seven constellations, I believe, which are chakras within the One <wrap hide>361|00:35:53|000|00:35:54|360</wrap>About Whom Naught May Be Said. <wrap hide>362|00:35:54|960|00:36:01|140</wrap>The big question is, and I've been dealing with this earlier, are solar systems stars <wrap hide>363|00:36:02|880|00:36:04|940</wrap>or are they constellations? <wrap hide>364|00:36:05|380|00:36:09|900</wrap>And there's a lot of blending that goes on there because every constellation is indeed <wrap hide>365|00:36:10|440|00:36:20|640</wrap>a system, a congery of solar Logoi and their stars and is solar in nature. <wrap hide>366|00:36:20|860|00:36:25|720</wrap>So even a constellation can be called a solar system and so we do understand why some people <wrap hide>367|00:36:25|720|00:36:31|160</wrap>think that at this point of the sixth or seventh initiation one is achieving the freedom of <wrap hide>368|00:36:31|160|00:36:33|500</wrap>the seven constellations, but I think that's a bit of a jump. <wrap hide>369|00:36:33|860|00:36:35|660</wrap>I think it really goes too far. <wrap hide>370|00:36:36|620|00:36:43|020</wrap>I think first we have to achieve freedom with respect to many planets and then freedom with <wrap hide>371|00:36:43|020|00:36:47|760</wrap>respect to the stars associated with our own Sun. <wrap hide>372|00:36:47|940|00:36:53|020</wrap>We can't imagine that our own Sun is not associated with other Suns. <wrap hide>373|00:36:53|580|00:36:56|120</wrap>I don't think we can do that. <wrap hide>374|00:36:56|970|00:36:57|840</wrap>All right. <wrap hide>375|00:36:59|500|00:37:05|240</wrap>Freedom of the seven solar systems <wrap quote>as it is called in contrast to the freedom of the seven <wrap hide>376|00:37:05|240|00:37:12|260</wrap>planetary spheres,</wrap> which occurs earlier and perhaps planetary lives of the sixth degree <wrap hide>377|00:37:12|260|00:37:22|840</wrap>can achieve freedom of the seven planetary spheres, say perhaps chohans of the sixth <wrap hide>378|00:37:22|840|00:37:30|860</wrap>degree can achieve this, but you have to travel on the seven or nine paths in order <wrap hide>379|00:37:30|860|00:37:33|460</wrap>to achieve the freedom of the seven solar systems. <wrap hide>380|00:37:33|540|00:37:39|340</wrap>That would make sense to me, <wrap quote>which the experience of initiation has guaranteed him after a process <wrap hide>381|00:37:39|340|00:37:43|560</wrap>of intensive training in one or other of the planetary schools according to his ray type <wrap hide>382|00:37:43|560|00:37:46|320</wrap>and the path of service chosen.</wrap> <wrap hide>383|00:37:46|320|00:37:56|120</wrap>So before we head out on our way to different stars and solar, different constellations, <wrap hide>384|00:37:56|260|00:38:01|740</wrap>we are trained on planetary schools, not necessarily the Earth school at all. <wrap hide>385|00:38:01|740|00:38:18|580</wrap>And as chohans we can be trained on planetary schools and thereby receive the freedom of <wrap hide>386|00:38:18|580|00:38:20|540</wrap>the seven planetary spheres. <wrap hide>387|00:38:22|160|00:38:26|380</wrap>Some will remain for training on Earth school, but some will go to Venus, some will go to <wrap hide>388|00:38:26|380|00:38:28|200</wrap>Jupiter, perhaps some will go to Mercury. <wrap hide>389|00:38:28|200|00:38:33|460</wrap>Actually D.K. has given us a number of the planetary schools which are most interesting. <wrap hide>390|00:38:35|080|00:38:41|760</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>you will see therefore the significance of the two key words in the sign Aries.</wrap> <wrap hide>391|00:38:41|920|00:38:46|540</wrap>Now he calls these mantric words, key words. <wrap hide>392|00:38:46|700|00:38:50|520</wrap>They are not single words, they are mantrams themselves. <wrap hide>393|00:38:51|780|00:38:53|500</wrap>So what are they? <wrap hide>394|00:38:54|640|00:38:58|140</wrap><wrap quote>"And the words said, let form again be sought."</wrap> <wrap hide>395|00:38:58|280|00:39:04|000</wrap>We've been quoting that and it is this recreation, this reorientation to the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>396|00:39:04|200|00:39:11|940</wrap>The first impulse which takes the incarnating soul under the pull of Cancer into the three <wrap hide>397|00:39:13|640|00:39:14|680</wrap>lower worlds. <wrap hide>398|00:39:14|840|00:39:17|180</wrap>And that is <wrap quote>the man</wrap> himself. <wrap hide>399|00:39:17|380|00:39:21|140</wrap>He is not yet the soul, he knows himself only as the man. <wrap hide>400|00:39:22|420|00:39:30|140</wrap>But then, the next key word, this is not necessarily key notes, but key words. <wrap hide>401|00:39:30|320|00:39:33|520</wrap>Sometimes key notes are shorter, and they are simply one word. <wrap hide>402|00:39:34|160|00:39:39|260</wrap>As he describes here, the key word is a mantram: <wrap quote>"I come forth and from the plane of mind I <wrap hide>403|00:39:39|260|00:39:39|560</wrap>rule." <wrap hide>404|00:39:40|080|00:39:40|400</wrap>The initiate.</wrap> <wrap hide>405|00:39:40|640|00:39:46|520</wrap>This is the soul-infused mind operating on the higher mental plane through spiritual <wrap hide>406|00:39:46|520|00:39:47|140</wrap>will. <wrap hide>407|00:39:49|520|00:39:56|600</wrap>In one way, we can say that we learn from our lower mental plane to absorb the soul and <wrap hide>408|00:39:56|600|00:40:01|780</wrap>to absorb the will and to govern the entire personality process from that soul-illumined <wrap hide>409|00:40:01|780|00:40:02|220</wrap>mind. <wrap hide>410|00:40:02|940|00:40:10|280</wrap>From another point of view, we are coming forth as a monad on the higher mental plane, and <wrap hide>411|00:40:10|280|00:40:16|280</wrap>as one who is polarized within the soul, we can govern in a still truer way the entire <wrap hide>412|00:40:16|280|00:40:18|800</wrap>personality life from the higher mental plane. <wrap hide>413|00:40:18|980|00:40:20|300</wrap>This is the initiate. <wrap hide>414|00:40:20|600|00:40:23|900</wrap>"I come forth and from the plane of mind I rule." <wrap hide>415|00:40:25|040|00:40:29|800</wrap>Experience on the cross of many changes; experience leads to rulership. <wrap hide>416|00:40:31|180|00:40:31|680</wrap>That is interesting. <wrap hide>417|00:40:31|820|00:40:35|400</wrap>In other words, we begin to govern; we dominate; we rule. <wrap hide>418|00:40:35|640|00:40:42|840</wrap>Now, when a planet is the ruler of a constellation, it is a different meaning. <wrap hide>419|00:40:43|680|00:40:55|700</wrap>The planetary lord governs the amount of energy which a constellational lord can express. <wrap hide>420|00:40:56|600|00:41:05|080</wrap>So the planetary lord is like a reducing valve, and it rules or governs the degree to which <wrap hide>421|00:41:05|080|00:41:09|180</wrap>the constellational lord can influence the planet. <wrap hide>422|00:41:10|080|00:41:12|780</wrap>But here D.K. is talking about domination. <wrap hide>423|00:41:13|920|00:41:16|280</wrap>Experience leads to rulership. <wrap hide>424|00:41:17|420|00:41:19|960</wrap>We become the ruler of our elemental life. <wrap hide>425|00:41:20|140|00:41:26|060</wrap>We become the ruler of our personality, and that is a position of a superior to an inferior. <wrap hide>426|00:41:26|860|00:41:35|900</wrap>And in this sign, the man who is embodied first-ray force—well, not all men are embodied first-ray <wrap hide>427|00:41:35|900|00:41:41|640</wrap>force, but when they are embodied first-ray force and they are born in or under this sign, <wrap hide>428|00:41:41|640|00:41:48|520</wrap>then such a man develops the power of organization—that's under the seventh-ray <wrap hide>429|00:41:48|520|00:41:54|520</wrap>and first-ray—of control over forces, first-ray and seventh-ray, two controlling rays, particularly <wrap hide>430|00:41:54|520|00:42:01|760</wrap>over the energy of death, because after all, Aries represents resurrection, and death is <wrap hide>431|00:42:01|760|00:42:07|040</wrap>the sort of swallowing of the consciousness by the ambient forces. <wrap hide>432|00:42:07|980|00:42:14|420</wrap>There is a great power to resist that downward drag of matter, the power of resurrection <wrap hide>433|00:42:15|040|00:42:20|960</wrap>fully demonstrated, I think, at the seventh initiation through Aries is with this sign. <wrap hide>434|00:42:22|360|00:42:27|000</wrap>So the man who is embodied first-ray force—and all of us will have some first-ray force <wrap hide>435|00:42:27|000|00:42:35|740</wrap>in us if we are born in Aries or under Aries, though this is not necessarily the first-ray <wrap hide>436|00:42:36|180|00:42:37|920</wrap>in the ray chart per se. <wrap hide>437|00:42:38|560|00:42:43|180</wrap>Experience leads to rulership, and in this sign the man who is embodied first-ray force <wrap hide>438|00:42:43|180|00:42:51|580</wrap>develops the power of organization, of control over forces, particularly over the energy <wrap hide>439|00:42:51|580|00:42:54|760</wrap>of death, because Aries is identified with the energy of life. <wrap hide>440|00:42:56|560|00:43:03|940</wrap>It is that which is the life aspect within all things that might obscure consciousness. <wrap hide>441|00:43:04|840|00:43:11|700</wrap>Over the power of destruction applied with love, he develops the power of organization, <wrap hide>442|00:43:12|460|00:43:20|420</wrap>of control of forces, particularly over the energy of death, power over the power of destruction <wrap hide>443|00:43:20|420|00:43:24|420</wrap>applied with love, of dominance over multitudes. <wrap hide>444|00:43:25|860|00:43:33|320</wrap>He develops dominance over multitudes because he is the representative of the number one; <wrap hide>445|00:43:33|440|00:43:39|000</wrap>he is the dictator in many ways; his energies are unified. <wrap hide>446|00:43:39|280|00:43:44|820</wrap>The multitudes might be the multitude of cells and lesser lives within his vehicles, but they <wrap hide>447|00:43:44|820|00:43:50|120</wrap>can also be other people, depending upon the scope of influence of such an Aries individual. <wrap hide>448|00:43:50|900|00:43:56|640</wrap>He develops the power of cooperation with the plan, as we have seen on page 332 of this <wrap hide>449|00:43:56|640|00:44:03|440</wrap>book, and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding and directing planetary <wrap hide>450|00:44:03|440|00:44:04|080</wrap>affairs. <wrap hide>451|00:44:04|420|00:44:10|180</wrap>So Aries is very much the director, and when you think about the man who is the first-ray <wrap hide>452|00:44:10|180|00:44:17|200</wrap>soul—let us say, I guess the first-ray soul would be called embodied first-ray force, <wrap hide>453|00:44:17|580|00:44:25|520</wrap>so this is the first-ray soul most likely—then the Aries influence can really come to <wrap hide>454|00:44:25|520|00:44:28|160</wrap>his aid and promote that first-ray that is within him. <wrap hide>455|00:44:28|640|00:44:34|700</wrap>Let's read this paragraph again without my interruption and try to gather what the Tibetan <wrap hide>456|00:44:34|700|00:44:35|120</wrap>is saying. <wrap hide>457|00:44:35|120|00:44:42|540</wrap>The <wrap quote>experience leads to rulership, and in this sign the man who is embodied first-ray force <wrap hide>458|00:44:43|420|00:44:49|620</wrap>develops the power of organization, of control over forces, particularly over the energy <wrap hide>459|00:44:49|620|00:44:58|860</wrap>of death, over the power of destruction applied with love, of dominance over multitudes, of <wrap hide>460|00:44:58|860|00:45:03|420</wrap>cooperation with the plan and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding <wrap hide>461|00:45:03|420|00:45:05|440</wrap>and directing planetary affairs.</wrap> <wrap hide>462|00:45:05|580|00:45:06|400</wrap>Well, the man is a soul. <wrap hide>463|00:45:06|560|00:45:08|180</wrap>As a soul, he has love. <wrap hide>464|00:45:08|360|00:45:12|460</wrap>The soul is the expression of love, no matter what the ray may be. <wrap hide>465|00:45:13|260|00:45:19|660</wrap>So this Aries type does apply destruction, has the power of destruction, but it is applied <wrap hide>466|00:45:19|660|00:45:21|680</wrap>with love because he is an expressive soul. <wrap hide>467|00:45:22|320|00:45:26|640</wrap>So how carefully we have to read the Tibetan. It is not every Aries person that develops <wrap hide>468|00:45:26|640|00:45:33|320</wrap>all of these things, though every Aries person will develop some of these things to a certain <wrap hide>469|00:45:33|320|00:45:41|280</wrap>degree. But the man who is the embodied first-ray, he is the first-ray soul or even the first-ray <wrap hide>470|00:45:41|280|00:45:47|500</wrap>monad which is coming into power and consciousness, then he can develop much more fully all of <wrap hide>471|00:45:47|500|00:45:48|280</wrap>these qualities. <wrap hide>472|00:45:48|460|00:45:50|680</wrap>They are very impressive. <wrap hide>473|00:45:51|080|00:45:58|360</wrap>It really is the ruler, the dominator, the leader, the director. <wrap hide>474|00:46:00|080|00:46:02|360</wrap>Okay, we'll move on. <wrap hide>475|00:46:06|300|00:46:06|820</wrap>Page 109. <wrap hide>476|00:46:07|840|00:46:12|820</wrap>And now D.K. is going to tell us something about what we should do and all the succeeding signs. <wrap hide>477|00:46:14|480|00:46:17|600</wrap>And I'm going to try to find that page. <wrap hide>478|00:46:18|500|00:46:22|200</wrap>I'm not sure that I... <wrap hide>479|00:46:22|200|00:46:29|240</wrap>My esoteric astrology book online has gone through a number of incarnations and yes, <wrap hide>480|00:46:29|660|00:46:39|000</wrap>and unfortunately this particular version of it does not have the page numbers which <wrap hide>481|00:46:39|000|00:46:41|220</wrap>I am looking for. <wrap hide>482|00:46:42|380|00:46:44|860</wrap>I will have to add them as we go. <wrap hide>483|00:46:44|860|00:46:45|620</wrap>Okay. <wrap hide>484|00:46:47|180|00:46:50|860</wrap>So, before we take up... <wrap hide>485|00:46:51|660|00:46:53|200</wrap>And before my screen disappears? <wrap hide>486|00:46:53|760|00:46:54|640</wrap>Yes, it just did. <wrap hide>487|00:46:57|140|00:47:03|400</wrap><wrap quote>Before we take up the remaining 11 signs of the zodiac and in order to give you a clear <wrap hide>488|00:47:03|400|00:47:12|340</wrap>framework upon</wrap> which to work, okay, disappearing screen again, something is slowing this computer <wrap hide>489|00:47:12|340|00:47:19|300</wrap>down. I'll have to deal with that before doing another webinar, or am I going to be cut short <wrap hide>490|00:47:19|300|00:47:20|120</wrap>right at this point? <wrap hide>491|00:47:20|440|00:47:22|000</wrap>No, it looks like we'll be able to go ahead. <wrap hide>492|00:47:23|860|00:47:29|820</wrap>Before we take up the remaining 11 signs of the zodiac and in order to give you a clear <wrap hide>493|00:47:29|820|00:47:36|680</wrap>framework, D.K. is all for clarity of the mind, upon which the building of the new astrology <wrap hide>494|00:47:36|680|00:47:40|760</wrap>by means of <wrap quote>which you can grasp the dual procedure of the soul around the great wheel,</wrap> <wrap hide>495|00:47:42|260|00:47:46|900</wrap>upon <wrap quote>which to build the new astrology by means of</wrap> which you can grasp the dual procedure <wrap hide>496|00:47:46|900|00:47:50|980</wrap>of the soul around the great wheel, this is perhaps the most important thing to grasp, <wrap hide>497|00:47:50|980|00:47:57|740</wrap>the dual means of procedure. <wrap quote>I would point out that what I have given you on Aries will <wrap hide>498|00:47:57|740|00:48:00|700</wrap>be dealt with also as we consider the other signs.</wrap> <wrap hide>499|00:48:00|700|00:48:07|720</wrap>So it's a longer chapter. There's a lot being introduced here which later will be introduced <wrap hide>500|00:48:07|720|00:48:12|640</wrap>in all the signs, and he will expect that we will know how to orient ourselves towards <wrap hide>501|00:48:12|640|00:48:14|760</wrap>each sign based upon what he's given us here. <wrap hide>502|00:48:15|360|00:48:22|120</wrap>You will find that I have indicated significances, higher types of indications, the world of <wrap hide>503|00:48:22|120|00:48:24|040</wrap>significance is really the world of the triad. <wrap hide>504|00:48:24|520|00:48:29|360</wrap><wrap quote>You will find that I have indicated significances and pointed out some of the truths which can <wrap hide>505|00:48:29|360|00:48:34|960</wrap>be found in connection with the keynotes of the signs. <wrap hide>506|00:48:36|940|00:48:41|900</wrap>These express the underlying effect upon the man as he progresses in one of two directions.</wrap> <wrap hide>507|00:48:42|140|00:48:46|960</wrap>So here the word keynotes is pretty well equivalent to what he called key words. <wrap hide>508|00:48:47|580|00:48:57|460</wrap>Keynotes here are equivalent to key words, as he said, the two mantrums are the key words. <wrap hide>509|00:48:57|460|00:48:59|260</wrap>But there are other keynotes as well. <wrap hide>510|00:49:00|120|00:49:05|200</wrap><wrap quote>The nature of the cross upon which the man is crucified at any one time.</wrap> <wrap hide>511|00:49:05|900|00:49:12|780</wrap>Now for the average man, regardless of what his horoscope tells us, in the esoteric sense <wrap hide>512|00:49:12|780|00:49:17|940</wrap>he's crucified on the common cross, the disciple on the fixed cross, the high initiate on the <wrap hide>513|00:49:17|940|00:49:22|440</wrap>cardinal cross, not just the average initiate of the third degree, but the high initiate <wrap hide>514|00:49:22|440|00:49:25|380</wrap>of the fifth degree is crucified on the cardinal cross. <wrap hide>515|00:49:25|380|00:49:33|040</wrap>But also each sign is upon a cross in terms of the normal astrological assignment. <wrap hide>516|00:49:33|400|00:49:39|500</wrap>And so we have to find the relationship of the cross on which he finds himself to the <wrap hide>517|00:49:39|500|00:49:44|640</wrap>three crosses of consciousness, which may not even be shown in his conventional astrological <wrap hide>518|00:49:44|640|00:49:45|080</wrap>chart. <wrap hide>519|00:49:45|740|00:49:51|680</wrap>So the Djwhal Khul has indicated also <wrap quote>the influence of the planetary rulers, orthodox or esoteric,</wrap> <wrap hide>520|00:49:51|680|00:49:58|260</wrap>and sometimes he has hinted at the influence of the hierarchical ruler, but usually he <wrap hide>521|00:49:59|000|00:50:00|460</wrap>leaves that to our intuition. <wrap hide>522|00:50:03|500|00:50:10|020</wrap>And then this incredible statement here, number four: <wrap quote>the rays which primarily express themselves <wrap hide>523|00:50:10|020|00:50:13|220</wrap>through a particular sign.</wrap> <wrap hide>524|00:50:15|200|00:50:17|600</wrap>Yes, well we've seen ray one and seven. <wrap hide>525|00:50:19|180|00:50:25|020</wrap>The clue to which sign it may be—that's confusing because he's just talked about a particular <wrap hide>526|00:50:25|020|00:50:25|500</wrap>sign. <wrap hide>527|00:50:26|880|00:50:30|560</wrap>So we have Aries; he's just talked about Aries. Ray one and seven express Aries, and then <wrap hide>528|00:50:30|560|00:50:35|720</wrap>he says the clue to which sign it may be. So many people have puzzled—I have puzzled <wrap hide>529|00:50:35|720|00:50:43|300</wrap>over whether that word should be sign or ray. <wrap quote>The clue to which sign it may be is found <wrap hide>530|00:50:43|300|00:50:50|920</wrap>in the orthodox planetary ruler where the personality ray is concerned and the esoteric <wrap hide>531|00:50:50|920|00:50:55|160</wrap>planetary ruler where the soul is concerned.</wrap> <wrap hide>532|00:50:55|300|00:50:59|020</wrap>Well, earlier we did discuss this a little bit. <wrap hide>533|00:51:01|060|00:51:06|740</wrap>The rays here are, let us say, ray six for Mars, ray four for Mercury. <wrap hide>534|00:51:07|670|00:51:15|520</wrap>So we are bringing other signs into association, and we learned that any of the planets can <wrap hide>535|00:51:15|520|00:51:19|640</wrap>point to different signs depending upon the stage of evolution in which we find ourselves. <wrap hide>536|00:51:19|960|00:51:30|780</wrap>So if we are, let's say, looking at the planet Jupiter and we want to consider the signs <wrap hide>537|00:51:30|780|00:51:36|920</wrap>which feed its energy through that planet, we would look normally to Sagittarius and <wrap hide>538|00:51:36|920|00:51:42|200</wrap>Pisces, but if we are a disciple we look towards Aquarius, and if we are an initiate we look <wrap hide>539|00:51:42|200|00:51:45|280</wrap>towards Virgo because Jupiter would be the hierarchical ruler. <wrap hide>540|00:51:45|780|00:51:58|580</wrap>So here, if I could find—I will say find earlier reference about directing planetary <wrap hide>541|00:52:00|240|00:52:18|220</wrap>lines, planetary lines of connection to different signs depending upon whether the man is a <wrap hide>542|00:52:18|220|00:52:25|600</wrap>non-aspiring individual or a disciple or even an initiate. <wrap hide>543|00:52:29|660|00:52:37|160</wrap>So, let's say we have a ray six Mars and ray four Mercury, and we are looking at other signs <wrap hide>544|00:52:37|160|00:52:44|260</wrap>which may come into association with a particular sign we are studying. <wrap hide>545|00:52:44|660|00:52:49|560</wrap>So normally for ray six Mars we would look towards Aries, yes, and we would look towards <wrap hide>546|00:52:49|560|00:53:03|440</wrap>Scorpio, but if we were a disciple for sure we would look towards Scorpio definitely in <wrap hide>547|00:53:03|440|00:53:07|820</wrap>its esoteric connection because Mars is the esoteric ruler of Scorpio. <wrap hide>548|00:53:07|960|00:53:16|100</wrap>Scorpio would be definitely associated—let's say this Scorpio would be definitely associated <wrap hide>549|00:53:16|100|00:53:30|000</wrap>with Aries for the disciple in the esoteric position, esoteric rulership position. <wrap hide>550|00:53:31|220|00:53:38|380</wrap>Now suppose we are dealing with Mercury which distributes the fourth ray. <wrap hide>551|00:53:39|120|00:53:47|390</wrap>Okay, that fourth ray through Mercury—Mercury could be associated definitely with Aries, and <wrap hide>552|00:53:48|080|00:53:51|600</wrap>that is the sign that leads to Aries. <wrap hide>553|00:53:52|320|00:54:00|200</wrap>Now there are no other signs where Mercury is an esoteric ruler, so Mercury remains associated <wrap hide>554|00:54:00|200|00:54:04|240</wrap>with Aries, though Scorpio was brought in in relation to Mars. <wrap hide>555|00:54:04|240|00:54:11|700</wrap>Now can we do this? See, this is an incredible sentence, you know. People have tried to fathom <wrap hide>556|00:54:11|700|00:54:15|680</wrap>this thing, and people have come up with various theories about it. <wrap hide>557|00:54:16|180|00:54:24|400</wrap>We are talking about rays, we are talking about the—hmm, we are talking about the fourth <wrap hide>558|00:54:24|400|00:54:29|540</wrap>ray and the sixth ray, let's say in relation to the sign Aries. <wrap hide>559|00:54:30|410|00:54:41|160</wrap>So can we bring in other signs in relation to these particular rays because the sixth <wrap hide>560|00:54:41|160|00:54:45|180</wrap>ray can also lead us to other signs? <wrap hide>561|00:54:45|400|00:54:50|720</wrap>The personality ray would be, let us say, associated with number six. <wrap hide>562|00:54:51|580|00:55:00|320</wrap>The sixth ray will lead us to Sagittarius, and it will also lead us to Virgo and to Pisces. <wrap hide>563|00:55:02|200|00:55:11|420</wrap>So that is the personality influence which is generally of a sixth ray nature. <wrap hide>564|00:55:12|000|00:55:18|420</wrap>But when we have a soul influence of a fourth ray nature, a disciplic influence, then it <wrap hide>565|00:55:18|420|00:55:24|420</wrap>is possible that we will follow the fourth ray to Scorpio, Sagittarius and Taurus, which <wrap hide>566|00:55:24|420|00:55:28|820</wrap>will also be related to this particular sign Aries. <wrap hide>567|00:55:29|320|00:55:34|760</wrap>I don't think we will follow out the first and seventh ray, which are constellational <wrap hide>568|00:55:34|760|00:55:36|000</wrap>in their nature. <wrap hide>569|00:55:36|240|00:55:43|380</wrap>Obviously the first ray would lead to Leo and Capricorn, and the seventh ray would lead <wrap hide>570|00:55:43|380|00:55:47|320</wrap>to Cancer and to Capricorn. <wrap hide>571|00:55:47|320|00:55:52|300</wrap>So there are many different ways of approaching this particular paragraph. <wrap hide>572|00:55:52|900|00:55:57|640</wrap>I don't think it is giving us the immediate clue to the personality ray. <wrap hide>573|00:55:59|240|00:56:00|400</wrap>So let's read it again. <wrap hide>574|00:56:00|840|00:56:07|320</wrap>We learn in every case when we are going through a sign the rays which primarily express themselves <wrap hide>575|00:56:07|320|00:56:09|620</wrap>through a particular sign. <wrap hide>576|00:56:10|580|00:56:12|860</wrap>Okay, that is pretty straightforward. <wrap hide>577|00:56:12|860|00:56:18|100</wrap>The clue to which sign it may be, and that is unusual because we just said which sign <wrap hide>578|00:56:18|100|00:56:26|020</wrap>it is, the clue to which sign it may be is found in the orthodox planetary ruler where <wrap hide>579|00:56:26|020|00:56:28|540</wrap>the personality ray is concerned. <wrap hide>580|00:56:29|020|00:56:42|840</wrap>So if we are a personality and we know we are a personality, or as an astrologer we <wrap hide>581|00:56:43|800|00:56:49|760</wrap>follow that individual who has that particular sun sign and we follow that planetary ruler <wrap hide>582|00:56:53|880|00:57:01|560</wrap>to an associated sign, in this case Mars, would be followed to Scorpio both orthodoxly <wrap hide>583|00:57:01|560|00:57:11|080</wrap>and esoterically, and if we know that the person is going around the wheel as a soul <wrap hide>584|00:57:11|080|00:57:18|180</wrap>or as a disciple, then whatever the personality ray may be, we look at the esoteric planetary <wrap hide>585|00:57:18|180|00:57:19|540</wrap>ruler and its ray. <wrap hide>586|00:57:19|760|00:57:28|740</wrap>Now the esoteric planetary ruler is Mercury and it leads right back to Aries, and the <wrap hide>587|00:57:28|740|00:57:37|960</wrap>fourth ray coming through Mercury would lead to those other fourth ray signs. <wrap hide>588|00:57:38|740|00:57:45|620</wrap>So I find this personally one of the most enigmatic of the sentences which the Tibetan <wrap hide>589|00:57:45|620|00:57:46|280</wrap>has given us. <wrap hide>590|00:57:46|600|00:57:55|280</wrap>It's a tough one and I guess it's one of those sentences which can be pondered upon all through <wrap hide>591|00:57:55|280|00:58:04|400</wrap>the life and which may be revealed in its significance I would say in the next instalment. <wrap hide>592|00:58:04|400|00:58:14|020</wrap>We can also look at the personality ray of the individual and follow that ray to the <wrap hide>593|00:58:14|020|00:58:19|200</wrap>sign which primarily dispenses it. <wrap hide>594|00:58:19|660|00:58:23|960</wrap>Suppose you have a seventh ray personality and you know you are a disciple. <wrap hide>595|00:58:24|680|00:58:31|900</wrap>Well you follow that seventh ray to Uranus in Libra, because Uranus is the esoteric ruler <wrap hide>596|00:58:31|900|00:58:32|960</wrap>of Libra. <wrap hide>597|00:58:33|080|00:58:40|900</wrap>If you are a soul, if you are simply a personality and you follow your personality ray to another <wrap hide>598|00:58:40|900|00:58:48|280</wrap>constellation you would follow to Aquarius because Uranus is the exoteric ruler of Aquarius. <wrap hide>599|00:58:48|360|00:58:54|420</wrap>You see how intricate this can become and D.K. seems to be revealing a whole group <wrap hide>600|00:58:54|420|00:58:55|200</wrap>of interrelations. <wrap hide>601|00:58:56|700|00:59:00|000</wrap>You know I'm frustrated to have to leave it at this point but I've taken it further than <wrap hide>602|00:59:00|000|00:59:00|740</wrap>I have bef<wrap quote>or</wrap>e. <wrap hide>603|00:59:00|740|00:59:05|520</wrap>Number five, we will learn the quality of the sign and the man <wrap quote>who has come forth in <wrap hide>604|00:59:05|520|00:59:06|340</wrap>a particular sign.</wrap> <wrap hide>605|00:59:06|920|00:59:11|560</wrap>The qualities will be different depending on whether a man is proceeding around the <wrap hide>606|00:59:11|560|00:59:13|080</wrap>wheel of form or the wheel of consciousness. <wrap hide>607|00:59:13|580|00:59:20|720</wrap>We will learn <wrap quote>the interplay between a sign and its polar opposite</wrap> and this we can generally <wrap hide>608|00:59:20|720|00:59:23|120</wrap>find in the Cancer chapter. <wrap hide>609|00:59:23|120|00:59:26|140</wrap>Let me look there specifically. <wrap hide>610|00:59:27|500|00:59:30|860</wrap>It's around page 330, it's somewhere in there. <wrap hide>611|00:59:31|680|00:59:39|760</wrap>That's the light but I think earlier, maybe it comes a little bit later. <wrap hide>612|00:59:40|600|00:59:47|560</wrap>It's in the Cancer chapter and perhaps a little bit later than where he is demonstrating the <wrap hide>613|00:59:47|560|00:59:48|660</wrap>idea of light. <wrap hide>614|00:59:50|940|00:59:54|240</wrap>I may have to go looking for that on my own. <wrap hide>615|00:59:57|880|00:59:59|100</wrap>Yeah, here it is. <wrap hide>616|00:59:59|540|01:00:06|640</wrap>On the wheel turning clockwise and on the wheel turning anti-clockwise and on page 337 <wrap hide>617|01:00:06|640|01:00:08|480</wrap>that will be found. <wrap hide>618|01:00:09|040|01:00:16|300</wrap>So let us talk about that interplay between the opposite sign on page 337 of Esoteric <wrap hide>619|01:00:16|300|01:00:16|860</wrap>Astrology. <wrap hide>620|01:00:17|400|01:00:24|700</wrap>We will also learn in every chapter the planets which are exalted, <wrap quote>in detriment</wrap> or which may <wrap hide>621|01:00:24|700|01:00:26|260</wrap>fall in any particular sign. <wrap hide>622|01:00:27|320|01:00:32|520</wrap><wrap quote>For a study of these will indicate the three phases of the path with its involutionary <wrap hide>623|01:00:32|520|01:00:37|520</wrap>cycle of becoming increasingly involved in matter or life upon the mutable cross, the <wrap hide>624|01:00:37|520|01:00:41|400</wrap>interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation which leads to the mounting of <wrap hide>625|01:00:41|400|01:00:47|680</wrap>the fixed cross and the period of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross.</wrap> <wrap hide>626|01:00:47|740|01:00:50|540</wrap>That's probably the exaltation. <wrap hide>627|01:00:51|980|01:00:59|180</wrap>The detriment is probably the period of struggle and the fall is probably the period of involution. <wrap hide>628|01:00:59|300|01:01:04|000</wrap>All of this is in a generic sense and not necessarily applicable to each horoscope. <wrap hide>629|01:01:04|660|01:01:10|260</wrap>We will also learn in each chapter the significance of the key words for the mode of progress <wrap hide>630|01:01:10|260|01:01:11|220</wrap>through the signs. <wrap hide>631|01:01:11|800|01:01:14|780</wrap>Here he uses key words, earlier he used key notes. <wrap hide>632|01:01:15|040|01:01:16|760</wrap>We have to differentiate between these. <wrap hide>633|01:01:17|460|01:01:23|080</wrap>Here the key word probably means individual words, probably individual words. <wrap hide>634|01:01:24|180|01:01:28|420</wrap>And then the underlying theme, number nine: the underlying theme of any specific zodiacal <wrap hide>635|01:01:28|420|01:01:33|360</wrap>sign covered by the ideas of recreation, regeneration, reorientation, renunciation. <wrap hide>636|01:01:33|900|01:01:37|700</wrap>In each one of these signs we can pass through such a period. <wrap hide>637|01:01:37|700|01:01:43|440</wrap>Well, I'm going to review this when we go into the next one. <wrap hide>638|01:01:43|580|01:01:44|540</wrap>I've gone over it briefly. <wrap hide>639|01:01:44|700|01:01:49|260</wrap>This is Esoteric Astrology 50, and this is the end of that. <wrap hide>640|01:01:49|920|01:02:02|100</wrap>And we have gone up to page 110, and I believe we started... perhaps, where did we start? <wrap hide>641|01:02:03|320|01:02:07|140</wrap>We started, I think, at 105. <wrap hide>642|01:02:09|440|01:02:09|940</wrap>There we go. <wrap hide>643|01:02:10|800|01:02:11|660</wrap>Yeah, we started at 105. <wrap hide>644|01:02:12|740|01:02:20|940</wrap>And we apparently have covered a lot of ground here, but some of this needs careful analysis, going over again. <wrap hide>645|01:02:24|100|01:02:25|820</wrap>Yeah, speed reading, right? <wrap hide>646|01:02:26|680|01:02:27|320</wrap>Okay. <wrap hide>647|01:02:29|680|01:02:42|700</wrap>The nine types of information which we will find in every chapter, and we should... and when we've taught the Esoteric Astrology classes, we have gone over all of these things to begin with. <wrap hide>648|01:02:42|840|01:02:49|200</wrap>So it's 105 to 110, and now we will do The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>649|01:02:49|820|01:02:51|500</wrap>Oh my goodness, we are over time. <wrap hide>650|01:02:52|720|01:02:56|560</wrap>Naturally enough, but we will do The Great Invocation together. <wrap hide>651|01:03:20|800|01:03:21|480</wrap>And... <wrap hide>652|01:03:21|480|01:03:29|160</wrap>Let light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>653|01:03:32|220|01:03:41|040</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. <wrap hide>654|01:03:43|020|01:03:52|520</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>655|01:03:54|080|01:04:03|040</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>656|01:04:04|400|01:04:09|240</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>657|01:04:18|040|01:04:19|440</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>658|01:04:29|060|01:04:30|460</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>659|01:04:34|980|01:04:36|380</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>660|01:04:41|740|01:04:42|380</wrap>Om... <wrap hide>661|01:04:44|340|01:04:48|300</wrap>Okay friends, we've done Esoteric Astrology adventure number 50. <wrap hide>662|01:04:50|240|01:05:04|740</wrap>We've talked about the nine ways of clarifying the mind and studying particularly in each sign of the zodiac, and we've gone over that terribly enigmatical fourth sentence. <wrap hide>663|01:05:04|740|01:05:14|980</wrap>You know, people are so interested in discovering what is their personality ray by looking at the chart that just isn't possible, as far as I can see, given what we know at the moment. We have to find the ray first. <wrap hide>664|01:05:15|220|01:05:21|960</wrap>At least he seems to say so in the Scorpio chapter, somewhere 220 or 222, he says so. <wrap hide>665|01:05:22|580|01:05:33|300</wrap>Later the ray will be capable of expert diagnosis and will be able to see the degree to which the astrological chart actually does reveal the ray and maybe find methods of doing so. <wrap hide>666|01:05:33|300|01:05:40|060</wrap>Right now I think we're a lot safer if we determine the ray from the behavior of the individual. <wrap hide>667|01:05:41|860|01:05:43|380</wrap>Alright, and the goals of course, and the goals. <wrap hide>668|01:05:43|640|01:05:46|220</wrap>So, we'll see you next time for Esoteric Astrology 51. <wrap hide>669|01:05:46|440|01:05:48|080</wrap>I know I've been speaking quickly this time. <wrap hide>670|01:05:48|820|01:05:49|980</wrap>A bit of a hurry this time. <wrap hide>671|01:05:51|280|01:05:55|220</wrap>Maybe we can bring these things into slow motion at some point. <wrap hide>672|01:05:55|880|01:05:56|980</wrap>Alright, we'll see you then. <wrap hide>673|01:05:57|620|01:05:58|080</wrap>Bye for now.
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