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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:11|820|00:00:13|620</wrap>Good morning, everyone. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|860|00:00:20|100</wrap>This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 52. <wrap hide>3|00:00:21|480|00:00:23|880</wrap>This morning, I'm going to make an experiment. <wrap hide>4|00:00:25|360|00:00:31|800</wrap>I've been producing these adventures in one-hour segments, pretty much because I'm limited <wrap hide>5|00:00:33|130|00:00:39|840</wrap>when I do a solo webinar to about an hour or a little more, and it will cut off. <wrap hide>6|00:00:40|020|00:00:47|070</wrap>Now I've tried another arrangement which will allow me to continue for a longer time and <wrap hide>7|00:00:47|070|00:00:55|150</wrap>not have to use interim moments to wait for the next opportunity. <wrap hide>8|00:00:55|350|00:01:01|270</wrap>In other words, I'm going to make a longer webinar this morning if it does work, and we'll <wrap hide>9|00:01:01|270|00:01:02|470</wrap>see how it works for you. <wrap hide>10|00:01:03|130|00:01:04|590</wrap>Hopefully I won't get cut off. <wrap hide>11|00:01:05|550|00:01:06|530</wrap>We shall see. <wrap hide>12|00:01:09|190|00:01:20|230</wrap>We were discussing the triple sun: the physical sun which influences the mutable cross and <wrap hide>13|00:01:20|230|00:01:25|510</wrap>the personality. Of course, if it influences the personality, it influences as well the <wrap hide>14|00:01:25|510|00:01:36|090</wrap>astral vehicle and the lower mental vehicle, all of which are part of the dense physical <wrap hide>15|00:01:36|090|00:01:43|230</wrap>body of the solar Logos. From a certain point of view, the dense physical body of the solar <wrap hide>16|00:01:43|230|00:01:53|150</wrap>Logos will even include the ego on the higher mental plane. But we do not find that the physical <wrap hide>17|00:01:53|150|00:02:00|230</wrap>sun is the influence upon that ego; rather, it is the heart of the sun which influences <wrap hide>18|00:02:00|230|00:02:08|890</wrap>the fixed cross—the cross of the soul—and this is where the cross, or series of energies <wrap hide>19|00:02:08|890|00:02:14|190</wrap>through which the soul on the higher mental plane (or at least soul consciousness as we <wrap hide>20|00:02:14|190|00:02:16|590</wrap>know it on the higher mental plane) is coming into prominence. <wrap hide>21|00:02:18|790|00:02:28|690</wrap>It is the quality of consciousness, particularly, that is being dealt with here. And let's see <wrap hide>22|00:02:28|690|00:02:31|010</wrap>if I can bring these all together. <wrap hide>23|00:02:32|130|00:02:39|650</wrap>Yes, it is consciousness, and consciousness is simply another name for soul. As we know, <wrap hide>24|00:02:40|050|00:02:46|390</wrap>the soul on the higher mental plane is not the only instance of soul. The spiritual triad <wrap hide>25|00:02:46|390|00:02:54|810</wrap>is an instance of soul, and the awareness of the monad is also an instance of soul. Any <wrap hide>26|00:02:54|810|00:02:59|190</wrap>type of awareness in cosmos is an instance of soul. <wrap hide>27|00:03:00|630|00:03:07|170</wrap>The central spiritual sun, then, is our monadic aspect, and it influences the cardinal cross <wrap hide>28|00:03:07|170|00:03:12|990</wrap>upon which we have not yet stepped, and it is the life aspect. <wrap hide>29|00:03:15|050|00:03:17|270</wrap>See if I can get this looking a little better here. <wrap hide>30|00:03:18|070|00:03:23|790</wrap>One day I suppose I can send this document to you, I suppose. <wrap hide>31|00:03:25|070|00:03:35|930</wrap>So we had ended then on page 111, and the Tibetan goes on to say: "By the word 'influencing,' I here <wrap hide>32|00:03:35|930|00:03:44|430</wrap>refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the sun through the three crosses <wrap hide>33|00:03:44|890|00:03:53|490</wrap>to our planet." And I would say this would mean from the sun—not necessarily to the zodiacal <wrap hide>34|00:03:53|490|00:04:05|190</wrap>constellations, but through the three crosses—as these crosses (capitalize that) are signs <wrap hide>35|00:04:05|190|00:04:13|850</wrap>which concentrate the influences of the constellations to our planet. <wrap hide>36|00:04:14|930|00:04:23|310</wrap>We are remembering the distinction between constellations as galaxies of stars and signs <wrap hide>37|00:04:23|310|00:04:30|210</wrap>as concentrated influences of those constellational energies made available to our earth. <wrap hide>38|00:04:31|430|00:04:42|210</wrap>Okay, so even though we may be born in one of the cardinal signs—or, well, let's say one <wrap hide>39|00:04:42|210|00:04:48|790</wrap>of the cardinal signs—it does not necessarily mean that the energies of the central spiritual <wrap hide>40|00:04:48|790|00:04:57|330</wrap>sun (the monadic aspect of our solar Logos) will reach us in any way that we can register. <wrap hide>41|00:04:57|790|00:05:01|350</wrap>And for the average individual, even though he may be born in one of the fixed signs, it <wrap hide>42|00:05:01|350|00:05:06|550</wrap>does not mean that the energies of the heart of the sun will reach him in a way that he <wrap hide>43|00:05:06|550|00:05:07|390</wrap>can register. <wrap hide>44|00:05:08|690|00:05:14|950</wrap>So anyway, ponder on this and remember also that our sun is traveling through space with <wrap hide>45|00:05:14|950|00:05:23|790</wrap>its own directed motion—its own proper motion—carrying our solar system along in its sphere <wrap hide>46|00:05:24|170|00:05:35|370</wrap>of influence. And many spirals are thus created because the apparent—the rotation, the revolution <wrap hide>47|00:05:35|370|00:05:45|190</wrap>of the planets around the sun—become a spiral as that sun, through progress onward through <wrap hide>48|00:05:45|190|00:05:53|010</wrap>a type of straight-line action, creates spirals. But our sun is also in the process of revolution, <wrap hide>49|00:05:53|010|00:05:59|250</wrap>and that revolution is around the Pleiades. So we have many motions simultaneously, and <wrap hide>50|00:05:59|250|00:06:10|830</wrap>we are not occupying, as a solar system, the same—if we can call it section of space—in <wrap hide>51|00:06:10|830|00:06:13|250</wrap>one moment as we were in the previous moment. <wrap hide>52|00:06:14|670|00:06:19|530</wrap>So the sun is also traveling through space, carrying our own solar system in its sphere <wrap hide>53|00:06:19|530|00:06:26|570</wrap>of influence around our own central and conditioning star, which it has been rightly presumed exists <wrap hide>54|00:06:27|410|00:06:34|610</wrap>in the constellation Taurus, the bull, being found in the Pleiades. And since those Pleiades <wrap hide>55|00:06:35|830|00:06:42|330</wrap>are so concentrated, so close to each other, we might well consider the sun and its associated <wrap hide>56|00:06:42|330|00:06:48|230</wrap>solar systems in the seven solar systems of which ours is one as revolving around the <wrap hide>57|00:06:48|230|00:06:58|770</wrap>Pleiades as a whole. But that central star, that central star is Alcyone, he tells us, and <wrap hide>58|00:06:58|770|00:07:04|890</wrap>that is the central star of the Pleiades. It's sometimes called the star of the individual. <wrap hide>59|00:07:04|890|00:07:12|950</wrap>D.K. will elaborate upon this, and of course in the charts of disciples, the locations of <wrap hide>60|00:07:12|950|00:07:23|810</wrap>some of these stars should be noted and the aspects made to them or their position on <wrap hide>61|00:07:23|810|00:07:30|550</wrap>angles and so forth, or on other astrological factors with a very tight orb, usually given <wrap hide>62|00:07:30|550|00:07:32|850</wrap>at about one degree. <wrap hide>63|00:07:34|750|00:07:41|870</wrap>These stars are effective in our lives. They may be effective along an entire range of <wrap hide>64|00:07:41|870|00:07:49|180</wrap>influence from very mundane to very spiritual. I don't think we can expect the fullness, any <wrap hide>65|00:07:49|410|00:07:55|150</wrap>degree of the fullness of the spiritual influence of such stars until after the third initiation, <wrap hide>66|00:07:56|210|00:08:03|130</wrap>when we have what is called the first solar initiation. In other words, it's an initiation <wrap hide>67|00:08:03|130|00:08:09|870</wrap>which relates to our solar Logos, and stars are the bodies of manifestation of solar Logos <wrap hide>68|00:08:09|870|00:08:17|850</wrap>in our choice. So only when we begin taking the solar initiations can the spiritual effect <wrap hide>69|00:08:17|850|00:08:21|230</wrap>of the so-called fixed stars begin to apply. <wrap hide>70|00:08:22|330|00:08:31|290</wrap>At the same time, it appears from the standpoint of our planet to be passing through the twelve <wrap hide>71|00:08:31|290|00:08:37|950</wrap>signs of the zodiac, or against the twelve constellations, or through the orbit of the <wrap hide>72|00:08:37|950|00:08:44|270</wrap>earth dividing which you have the twelve signs. But notice the word "appears" — it appears <wrap hide>73|00:08:44|690|00:08:55|370</wrap>to be passing through, and that of course is an illusion based upon the revolution of our <wrap hide>74|00:08:55|370|00:09:07|930</wrap>earth around the sun. This is a symbol, macrocosmically considered. It reveals to the student a certain <wrap hide>75|00:09:07|950|00:09:15|010</wrap>availability of energies, but it's not — you know, really, it's not really happening. This <wrap hide>76|00:09:16|810|00:09:23|430</wrap>is a symbol, macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic, centralized point of view of <wrap hide>77|00:09:23|430|00:09:26|930</wrap>the individual human being. And when the word "dramatic" is used, we immediately think of the <wrap hide>78|00:09:26|930|00:09:37|190</wrap>word Leo — Leo and the self-centered attitude which is so often found in the early stage <wrap hide>79|00:09:37|190|00:09:44|190</wrap>of the Leo experience and through which humanity is still passing, because the great majority <wrap hide>80|00:09:44|190|00:09:50|690</wrap>of human beings are not yet even centralized personalities. They are on their way to becoming <wrap hide>81|00:09:50|690|00:09:56|250</wrap>so. This is the symbol, macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic, centralized point of view <wrap hide>82|00:09:56|910|00:10:05|010</wrap>of the individual human being, the microcosm. It's a geocentric — the geocentric point of <wrap hide>83|00:10:05|010|00:10:13|190</wrap>view whereby all of the heavenly bodies appear to be revolving around the stationary earth <wrap hide>84|00:10:13|190|00:10:23|050</wrap>is analogous to the egoistic point of view of the individual personality, where all of <wrap hide>85|00:10:23|050|00:10:32|530</wrap>life seems to be revolving around it and where this egoistic personality is the center of <wrap hide>86|00:10:32|530|00:10:41|790</wrap>the sphere of consciousness. It is the pre-decentralized point of view — let's call it that — pre-decentralized <wrap hide>87|00:10:41|790|00:10:49|290</wrap>point of view. It is interesting to compare the symbolism and the underlying truth connected <wrap hide>88|00:10:50|710|00:10:58|530</wrap>with the lesser and greater zodiacs and with their 12-month and 25,000-year cycle. So this <wrap hide>89|00:10:58|530|00:11:07|230</wrap>is one way he describes the greater and lesser zodiac. The lesser zodiac is the apparent passage <wrap hide>90|00:11:07|230|00:11:18|290</wrap>of the sun through all of the 12 phases of the earth's orbit around the sun, the 12 divisions <wrap hide>91|00:11:18|290|00:11:26|430</wrap>of the ecliptic whereby we pass through all the 12 signs, the 12 divisions of the ecliptic. <wrap hide>92|00:11:26|430|00:11:32|170</wrap>That is the lesser zodiac. He defines them in different ways at different times. Lesser <wrap hide>93|00:11:32|170|00:11:39|410</wrap>zodiac — sometimes we will see he will define lesser and greater zodiacs in different ways. <wrap hide>94|00:11:39|410|00:11:49|730</wrap>The 25,000-year cycle is called — and it's an approximation because I think the actual figure <wrap hide>95|00:11:49|730|00:12:01|030</wrap>given when a processional age is measured as 2,160 years is 25,920 years, something like <wrap hide>96|00:12:01|030|00:12:13|550</wrap>that. When you multiply — when you multiply 2,160 by 12, you get something like 25,920 years. <wrap hide>97|00:12:13|550|00:12:17|870</wrap>I haven't got my calculator here at the moment, but I think that's about what it is. You can <wrap hide>98|00:12:17|870|00:12:25|890</wrap>work it out for yourself. But anyway, this is an approximation, and overlap periods are involved <wrap hide>99|00:12:25|890|00:12:33|260</wrap>and counted in a certain way. So the 25,000-year cycle is called the Great Platonic Year, <wrap hide>100|00:12:33|930|00:12:47|810</wrap>and it represents one complete revolution of 12 equinoctial ages — 12 ages: an age of Pisces, <wrap hide>101|00:12:47|870|00:12:58|110</wrap>of Aquarius, of Capricorn, and so forth, until 12 of these 2,160-year periods are covered — <wrap hide>102|00:12:59|330|00:13:08|970</wrap>one complete revolution, or — well, let's say one complete gyration of the earth's axis. <wrap hide>103|00:13:10|450|00:13:22|130</wrap>And these great ages are also, we come to understand, ruled by one particular constellation. <wrap hide>104|00:13:22|130|00:13:27|870</wrap>of the zodiac or sign of the zodiac. We are presently leaving a 25,000-year cycle which <wrap hide>105|00:13:27|870|00:13:37|070</wrap>has been under the influence of Pisces and moving retrogressively clockwise into a 25,000- <wrap hide>106|00:13:37|070|00:13:44|430</wrap>year age which is going to be ruled by Aquarius. I don't think we are quite there yet. D.K. says <wrap hide>107|00:13:44|430|00:13:52|470</wrap>we are almost there, but our type of astrology cannot determine the exact point of entrance <wrap hide>108|00:13:52|470|00:13:59|630</wrap>into this 25,000-year period. So it's really quite an amazing idea that we will be having <wrap hide>109|00:13:59|630|00:14:07|050</wrap>a double age of Aquarius and that even after 2,160 years beginning of the year we will be <wrap hide>110|00:14:07|070|00:14:15|190</wrap>2117, where the lesser Aquarian age happens, even after that age gives way in a little <wrap hide>111|00:14:15|190|00:14:20|370</wrap>more than 2,000 years to the age of Capricorn, we will still be in the greater age of Aquarius. <wrap hide>112|00:14:21|250|00:14:27|170</wrap>So it is interesting to compare the symbolism of the underlying truth connected with the <wrap hide>113|00:14:27|170|00:14:33|130</wrap>lesser and the greater zodiacs and with their 12-month and 25,000-year cycles. There's a <wrap hide>114|00:14:33|130|00:14:45|630</wrap>complete gyration of the Earth's axis by means of which our planet passes through the influence <wrap hide>115|00:14:45|630|00:14:55|050</wrap>of all 12 signs in a vast planetary effect. Whole ages are ruled by a particular sign, <wrap hide>116|00:14:55|730|00:15:02|630</wrap>and then finally a 25,000-year period all ruled by one sign with many sub-signs, the <wrap hide>117|00:15:02|630|00:15:13|630</wrap>12 sun signs, and then it will give way perhaps—it looks like—to a 25,000-year age of Capricorn <wrap hide>118|00:15:14|580|00:15:19|390</wrap>in which we may presume that a particular ray accompanies that 25,000-year period. We <wrap hide>119|00:15:19|390|00:15:26|290</wrap>don't know exactly. Well, we do know that the seventh ray will accompany the 2,160-year period <wrap hide>120|00:15:26|290|00:15:34|370</wrap>of Aquarius, or sometimes rounded off to 2,500. We do not know whether that same seventh ray <wrap hide>121|00:15:34|370|00:15:43|250</wrap>will accompany a 25,000-year cycle, but some ray will, and maybe the seventh. This is a tremendous <wrap hide>122|00:15:43|250|00:15:51|270</wrap>study, and the masters know these cycles. They bear out—it is said—these two cycles they <wrap hide>123|00:15:51|270|00:16:00|250</wrap>bear out great Platonic here, and let's call it the greater zodiac by one appellation. We're <wrap hide>124|00:16:00|250|00:16:06|330</wrap>not sure. Later he's going to refer to the sun sign and the rising sign, I think, as lesser <wrap hide>125|00:16:06|330|00:16:11|390</wrap>and greater zodiacs. We will see. <wrap quote>They bear out much that I have given you anent the <wrap hide>126|00:16:11|390|00:16:20|030</wrap>soul, influenced by the esoteric planets eventually, and the personality, influenced by the orthodox <wrap hide>127|00:16:20|030|00:16:32|190</wrap>planets.</wrap> or by the planets in their esoteric and orthodox expressions. Every one of us as <wrap hide>128|00:16:32|190|00:16:38|470</wrap>a soul—the soul in incarnation—will be influenced by certain qualities of the planets when they <wrap hide>129|00:16:38|470|00:16:45|550</wrap>are functioning esoterically, because all planets are simply planets, but they have orthodox <wrap hide>130|00:16:45|610|00:17:04|630</wrap>and esoteric functions. So we want to note the orthodox and esoteric functions <wrap hide>131|00:17:05|550|00:17:14|990</wrap>of every planet. In other words, you know, whereas an exoteric function of Mercury can simply <wrap hide>132|00:17:15|550|00:17:21|650</wrap>relate to the concrete mind and its reasoning and correlations, an esoteric function of Mercury <wrap hide>133|00:17:21|650|00:17:32|130</wrap>can relate to contact with the mind of God or with a deep intuitive access. So when the <wrap hide>134|00:17:32|130|00:17:39|770</wrap>planetary rays hit our forms, as it were, depending on what area within our constitution they <wrap hide>135|00:17:39|770|00:17:51|090</wrap>strike or influence will be their particular influence. <wrap quote>The greater zodiac is symbolic of <wrap hide>136|00:17:51|090|00:17:57|030</wrap>the soul and the lesser of the personality.</wrap> I suppose that every year, every time we have <wrap hide>137|00:17:57|030|00:18:02|330</wrap>a complete yearly zodiacal cycle, we have had the opportunity to grow within our personality, <wrap hide>138|00:18:02|330|00:18:10|270</wrap>but the great soul cycles are longer, and perhaps if we're examining the growth of the <wrap hide>139|00:18:10|270|00:18:16|850</wrap>soul on its own plane—if that's what this means—then we look for greater zodiacal cycles. <wrap hide>140|00:18:16|850|00:18:25|970</wrap>I would think, though, that with every precessional age of even 2,160 or 2,500 years, the soul would <wrap hide>141|00:18:25|970|00:18:35|130</wrap>have some kind of marked growth, especially if one is on the path. So the greater zodiac— <wrap hide>142|00:18:35|130|00:18:41|830</wrap>this greater zodiac is symbolic of the soul and the lesser of the personality. <wrap quote>In the personality <wrap hide>143|00:18:42|120|00:18:53|410</wrap>cycle, the lesser zodiac conditions the personality career and the twelve planetary houses are of dominant importance.</wrap> <wrap hide>144|00:18:53|410|00:19:03|790</wrap>In other words, we are still circumstantially focused. Later, the detached individual learns <wrap hide>145|00:19:03|790|00:19:11|410</wrap>that circumstances are non-compelling. This is learned, I think, in one instance in Leo, <wrap hide>146|00:19:12|570|00:19:19|490</wrap>especially when Uranus is the veiled ruler of Leo, that one is entirely positive to circumstance <wrap hide>147|00:19:19|490|00:19:25|490</wrap>and circumstance can no longer compel. This is a condition of detachment in which the <wrap hide>148|00:19:25|490|00:19:34|810</wrap>true identity is not only understood but deeply felt. But most people are caught up in circumstances <wrap hide>149|00:19:34|810|00:19:41|610</wrap>and what we say, "Hey, what's happening around me?" and that determines how the life goes. But <wrap hide>150|00:19:41|610|00:19:48|110</wrap>it's what happens within me, regardless of what happens around me, that becomes a real <wrap hide>151|00:19:48|110|00:20:01|130</wrap>moment in the case of the disciple. <wrap quote>Later the influence of the twelve signs supersedes <wrap hide>152|00:20:01|130|00:20:08|510</wrap>the influence of the planets.</wrap> So actually, the constellational energy through the 12 signs <wrap hide>153|00:20:09|330|00:20:16|950</wrap>becomes more important than the planets. But let us still remember, yeah, I mean we have <wrap hide>154|00:20:16|950|00:20:24|390</wrap>discussed the ways in which these constellation signs influence the soul and how they also <wrap hide>155|00:20:24|390|00:20:30|210</wrap>have a monadic influence. But let us not think that the planets themselves, though they are <wrap hide>156|00:20:30|210|00:20:37|470</wrap>lesser planetary Lords, do not have a lot to do with even very high initiations. So planets <wrap hide>157|00:20:37|470|00:20:46|210</wrap>are gods after all. They are solar systemic deities within the solar system, and they can <wrap hide>158|00:20:46|210|00:20:54|590</wrap>have a tremendous effect even on the higher stages of human development. For instance, when <wrap hide>159|00:20:54|590|00:21:00|130</wrap>I think of the great decision which is taken at the sixth initiation, in which we as a monad <wrap hide>160|00:21:00|130|00:21:07|790</wrap>decide which of seven or nine paths we will pursue, I cannot help but think that a very <wrap hide>161|00:21:07|790|00:21:14|870</wrap>high influence of the planet Saturn, as the major ruler of Libra, is involved in that great <wrap hide>162|00:21:15|520|00:21:24|530</wrap>decision. So, you know, although ordinary non-aspiring individuals are much influenced by <wrap hide>163|00:21:24|530|00:21:31|470</wrap>the planets as they work out through the houses or circumstantial areas of the chart, more <wrap hide>164|00:21:32|730|00:21:41|810</wrap>advanced people are indeed influenced by the Lords of the planets as they represent different <wrap hide>165|00:21:41|810|00:21:45|970</wrap>zodiacal constellations, and then of course by the constellations themselves, which have <wrap hide>166|00:21:45|970|00:21:55|630</wrap>their own ray energies transmitted. <wrap quote>I would like also to emphasise—perhaps unnecessarily—that <wrap hide>167|00:21:55|630|00:22:02|530</wrap>Sirius, the Great Bear and the Pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations,</wrap> <wrap hide>168|00:22:02|530|00:22:18|530</wrap>Constellations—this setup is found in the diagrams we have later in Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>169|00:22:19|480|00:22:27|130</wrap>There are different kinds of rays coming through the Great Bear, Pleiades, and Sirius, and the <wrap hide>170|00:22:27|130|00:22:32|450</wrap>will aspect of the seven rays is transmitted by the Great Bear, perhaps the more material <wrap hide>171|00:22:32|450|00:22:37|790</wrap>or intellectual aspect through the Pleiades, and the love aspect through Sirius—whatever <wrap hide>172|00:22:37|790|00:22:45|870</wrap>we do mean by Sirius, whether we mean a single star, several stars, or an entire system of <wrap hide>173|00:22:45|870|00:22:53|950</wrap>stars. So, but these are the three great constellations, and generally, unless we get into it in too <wrap hide>174|00:22:53|950|00:22:58|370</wrap>much detail, they represent the father aspect—Great Bear—the mother aspect—Pleiades—and <wrap hide>175|00:22:58|370|00:23:03|730</wrap>the aspect of the divine son, which is Sirius, or the cosmic Christ, although there are many <wrap hide>176|00:23:03|730|00:23:10|770</wrap>cosmic Christs, as I've said. The cosmic Christ of a certain scope—Sirius—represents <wrap quote>pouring <wrap hide>177|00:23:13|370|00:23:25|630</wrap>their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are <wrap hide>178|00:23:25|630|00:23:31|630</wrap>not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned.</wrap> is the twelvefold zodiac, which is the heart <wrap hide>179|00:23:31|630|00:23:38|410</wrap>and the head center of the great super-constellational deity we call "the One about whom naught may <wrap hide>180|00:23:38|410|00:23:44|670</wrap>be said"—at least one of the ones about whom naught may be said. These super-constellations <wrap hide>181|00:23:44|670|00:23:54|830</wrap>work through nine of our constellations particularly, and we could pick and choose which <wrap hide>182|00:23:54|830|00:24:05|350</wrap>we would assign to the different groupings. We already have some assignments. <wrap hide>183|00:24:06|130|00:24:12|190</wrap>For instance, we already have on page fifty of Esoteric Astrology the fact that Aries <wrap hide>184|00:24:12|190|00:24:17|550</wrap>and Libra are connected with the Great Bear. We already have Gemini and Sagittarius connected <wrap hide>185|00:24:17|550|00:24:23|230</wrap>to the Pleiades. We already have Cancer and Capricorn connected with Sirius, and as well <wrap hide>186|00:24:23|230|00:24:31|370</wrap>we have Taurus and Scorpio connected with the seven solar systems of which ours is one. <wrap hide>187|00:24:31|370|00:24:36|530</wrap>That's one of the great blinds—the use of the word "seven solar systems of which ours <wrap hide>188|00:24:36|530|00:24:44|350</wrap>is one"—because it can mean, on some occasions, seven solar major solar Logoi and their stellar <wrap hide>189|00:24:44|350|00:24:51|310</wrap>expression, or it can mean seven constellations, and it depends on the context that we are <wrap hide>190|00:24:51|310|00:25:02|690</wrap>using. So for the moment, we will have to add to each one of the signs given yet another <wrap hide>191|00:25:02|690|00:25:12|270</wrap>sign. We have Aries, Libra in connection with the Great Bear—could Leo be another sign? We <wrap hide>192|00:25:12|270|00:25:21|290</wrap>have Gemini, Sagittarius connected with the Pleiades—could Virgo be another sign? And we <wrap hide>193|00:25:21|310|00:25:34|570</wrap>have—another sign or constellation—we have Cancer, Capricorn connected with Sirius. We wonder, <wrap hide>194|00:25:35|730|00:25:45|630</wrap>could Pisces possibly be another sign, giving three each? And I can't keep it quite straight— <wrap hide>195|00:25:45|630|00:25:54|790</wrap>there's one left to be connected with the seven solar systems of which ours is one. I <wrap hide>196|00:25:54|790|00:26:00|490</wrap>suppose we have not yet used the constellation Aquarius. Anyway, there are a number of ways <wrap hide>197|00:26:00|490|00:26:10|310</wrap>of conceiving these nine. How shall we conceive these nine? There are justifications for doing <wrap hide>198|00:26:10|310|00:26:20|910</wrap>it as I have done it, but there's probably also other justifications. CEA page 50. Okay. <wrap hide>199|00:26:22|100|00:26:26|090</wrap>So these three major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. <wrap hide>200|00:26:26|090|00:26:35|430</wrap><wrap quote>They, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected <wrap hide>201|00:26:36|370|00:26:40|930</wrap>with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance <wrap hide>202|00:26:40|930|00:26:45|690</wrap>of the number twelve.</wrap> They are conditioned by the more perfect number, in a way conditioned <wrap hide>203|00:26:45|690|00:26:57|750</wrap>by the number ten. It is a more masculine system. The feminine system is conditioned by the <wrap hide>204|00:26:57|750|00:27:05|410</wrap>number twelve. One and two is three. Three represents the mother aspect. The number one represents <wrap hide>205|00:27:06|290|00:27:13|350</wrap>the father aspect. Ten equals one. So in this particular case, seven solar systems of which <wrap hide>206|00:27:13|350|00:27:25|310</wrap>ours is one—we can think of these systems as super constellations and not as they are <wrap hide>207|00:27:25|310|00:27:32|570</wrap>given on Esoteric Astrology, page 50. See, I hope I'm—I hope I'm being clear here. At least <wrap hide>208|00:27:32|570|00:27:37|610</wrap>this is being clear about my speculation. I think there's a lot of blinded language going <wrap hide>209|00:27:37|610|00:27:46|190</wrap>on here, and that there are Lords of individual stars, these Lords being associated with our <wrap hide>210|00:27:46|190|00:27:56|050</wrap>particular solar Logos. Our solar Logos being one of seven solar systems of which ours is <wrap hide>211|00:27:56|050|00:28:03|470</wrap>one—so that's simply a constellation. But there are also ways of talking about seven solar <wrap hide>212|00:28:03|470|00:28:14|590</wrap>systems of which ours is one, and the "ours" will refer to the cosmic Logos and its system <wrap hide>213|00:28:16|530|00:28:25|110</wrap>of which our solar system is a part, and that cosmic Logos is just one of seven systems, <wrap hide>214|00:28:25|670|00:28:33|870</wrap>and there are six other constellational systems consisting of solar Logos. And let's say that <wrap hide>215|00:28:34|410|00:28:37|850</wrap>Draco would be one, and the Little Bear would be one, and the Great Bear would be one. They <wrap hide>216|00:28:37|850|00:28:42|850</wrap>all have solar Logos within them, but here they would be called—well, we have to be careful <wrap hide>217|00:28:42|850|00:28:49|010</wrap>about including the Great Bear because it's one of the three. But anyway, Draco and Orion <wrap hide>218|00:28:49|010|00:28:55|070</wrap>and then probably some other constellations are part of these seven solar systems. In other <wrap hide>219|00:28:55|070|00:29:01|950</wrap>words, a constellation is a system; a system is a constellation. This is one way of looking <wrap hide>220|00:29:01|950|00:29:18|190</wrap>at it. A system is a constellation, or can be, and a constellation can be a system. So that's <wrap hide>221|00:29:18|190|00:29:24|970</wrap>referred simply to a solar system as having one star, and yet a system of stars is also <wrap hide>222|00:29:24|970|00:29:35|530</wrap>a solar system. So anyway, we seem to be looking at a zodiac of ten, and in this particular <wrap hide>223|00:29:35|530|00:29:41|830</wrap>case, seven of them are referred to as the seven solar systems of which our cosmic Logoic <wrap hide>224|00:29:41|830|00:29:52|330</wrap>solar system is one. And we can work out what we think they are. Let's just say that Draco <wrap hide>225|00:29:52|330|00:29:59|670</wrap>will be one of them, the Little Bear will be one, Orion will be one, the so-called system— <wrap hide>226|00:30:01|530|00:30:09|110</wrap>the cosmic Logoic system of which our little star is one—will be one of those systems, and <wrap hide>227|00:30:09|110|00:30:16|230</wrap>there are other constellations which probably are part of these ten—part of these ten. <wrap hide>228|00:30:17|970|00:30:26|070</wrap>"They are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned <wrap hide>229|00:30:26|070|00:30:34|510</wrap>by the numerical significance of number twelve." Now, does the—the still greater zodiac—is it <wrap hide>230|00:30:34|510|00:30:41|490</wrap>a zodiac of ten? Okay, this is what we're trying to see. <wrap quote>Hence ten is regarded as the number <wrap hide>231|00:30:41|940|00:30:55|850</wrap>of perfection.</wrap> So we are—we are speaking of, probably, a tenfold zodiac which is, in a <wrap hide>232|00:30:55|850|00:31:04|490</wrap>way, superior to our normal twelve—twelvefold. So we are speaking of, probably, a tenfold <wrap hide>233|00:31:04|510|00:31:14|730</wrap>zodiac. These are great mysteries, as I've said. Stephen Pugh has done a lot of work on <wrap hide>234|00:31:14|730|00:31:22|170</wrap>this—I think a lot of very good work—opening this subject up to the speculation of students <wrap hide>235|00:31:22|170|00:31:27|390</wrap>such as we are. But there are still mysteries to be solved here. If you really combine the <wrap hide>236|00:31:27|390|00:31:33|590</wrap>numbers here—ten and twelve—we get twenty-two. We get the mystical number twenty-two, which <wrap hide>237|00:31:33|590|00:31:40|290</wrap>is very important to our solar system because our solar system is a "two and two" with its <wrap hide>238|00:31:40|290|00:31:46|430</wrap>second-ray soul and its second-ray personality. So there's a kind of completeness when we <wrap hide>239|00:31:46|430|00:31:53|330</wrap>combine these two numbers, just the way when we combine the number five and the number <wrap hide>240|00:31:53|330|00:32:00|590</wrap>six—which are half of the numbers we're dealing with—the five for man and the six for the <wrap hide>241|00:32:00|590|00:32:05|170</wrap>deva kingdom, we get the number eleven, which gives us the number of the initiate, or the <wrap hide>242|00:32:05|170|00:32:10|210</wrap>number of Aquarius, or the number of the spiritual hierarchy, or in another way, the number of <wrap hide>243|00:32:10|210|00:32:18|190</wrap>Gemini. One and one is two. So the five is correlated with the ten; the six is correlated <wrap hide>244|00:32:18|190|00:32:27|670</wrap>with the twelve. The ten is a number of man, and the twelve is a number of the deva aspect— <wrap hide>245|00:32:27|670|00:32:33|570</wrap>the feminine aspect. The five, with its five-pointed star, is a number of man; it's more masculine. <wrap hide>246|00:32:33|570|00:32:39|830</wrap>The six—the six-pointed star—is a number related to the deva aspect and to form, the builders. <wrap hide>247|00:32:39|830|00:32:47|150</wrap>of form relate to the number six. Six is the number of form; it kind of shows us the descent <wrap hide>248|00:32:47|150|00:32:57|390</wrap>of the circle into matter, and the nine will be the reascent of the circle out of matter. <wrap hide>249|00:32:59|870|00:33:05|210</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>There is confusion in the minds of some of the less learned students (astrologically <wrap hide>250|00:33:05|210|00:33:14|450</wrap>considered) on this point.</wrap> Maybe we can include ourselves—including ourselves—the zodiac of <wrap hide>251|00:33:14|450|00:33:18|690</wrap>ten and the zodiac of twelve. The zodiac of twelve is completely articulated, although <wrap hide>252|00:33:18|690|00:33:25|930</wrap>some people are trying to make fourteen signs or thirteen signs, including Ophiuchus and <wrap hide>253|00:33:25|930|00:33:31|690</wrap>Orion and so forth. But twelve is a heart center, and the zodiac is a heart center within a <wrap hide>254|00:33:31|690|00:33:38|070</wrap>head, and so we should not look for a number that is greater than twelve for our zodiac, <wrap hide>255|00:33:38|070|00:33:47|490</wrap>I think, regardless of how things appear from the constellational perspective. As for filling <wrap hide>256|00:33:47|490|00:33:55|910</wrap>out every constellation that belongs to the zodiac of ten, I think the zodiac of ten is <wrap hide>257|00:33:56|330|00:34:03|570</wrap>that still remains to be done. Some people have included, for instance, the Southern Cross <wrap hide>258|00:34:04|150|00:34:10|070</wrap>as representing a kind of base of the spine which is not ascended, with Draco as a base <wrap hide>259|00:34:10|070|00:34:14|070</wrap>of the spine and the one about whom naught maybe said which has ascended—the Kundalini power <wrap hide>260|00:34:14|070|00:34:23|270</wrap>which has ascended to the head. There are ways of looking at various associated constellations <wrap hide>261|00:34:23|270|00:34:29|730</wrap>which we can put into this super category. This is kind of a Tree of Life setup: there's <wrap hide>262|00:34:29|730|00:34:35|630</wrap>the three hovering above the seven, you know, the higher trinity in the Tree of Life—the <wrap hide>263|00:34:36|290|00:34:47|790</wrap>Kether, the Chochmah, and the Binah. They are hovering above the lesser seven, and it is related <wrap hide>264|00:34:47|790|00:34:57|510</wrap>to power. So at least we seem to know that the Great Bear, the Pleiades—or at least part <wrap hide>265|00:34:57|510|00:35:04|550</wrap>of them—and the constellation Sirius should be the superior three. But if we really think <wrap hide>266|00:35:04|550|00:35:09|030</wrap>about this and the possible blinding that goes on, it may be that the Little Bear is <wrap hide>267|00:35:09|030|00:35:15|830</wrap>to take the place of Sirius, and that Sirius is part of a lesser configuration and is part <wrap hide>268|00:35:15|830|00:35:21|930</wrap>of a blind whereby a lesser is used to represent a greater. At some point, D.K. talks about the <wrap hide>269|00:35:21|930|00:35:29|930</wrap>tremendous significance of the triangle of the Great Bear, Little Bear, and the Pleiades, <wrap hide>270|00:35:30|920|00:35:37|510</wrap>and he says it's a stupendous triangle. So, you know, it is frequently used that a lesser <wrap hide>271|00:35:37|510|00:35:42|370</wrap>represents a greater. For instance, in this case, a planet would be used to represent a <wrap hide>272|00:35:42|370|00:35:50|990</wrap>sign of the zodiac or a solar Logos. A star would be used to represent a complete constellation <wrap hide>273|00:35:50|990|00:35:56|430</wrap>of which it is a part, as is the case when Betelgeuse—or Betelgeuse, however we want to <wrap hide>274|00:35:56|430|00:36:02|850</wrap>pronounce it—is used to represent the entirety of Orion. Alcyone could be used to represent <wrap hide>275|00:36:02|850|00:36:12|350</wrap>the entirety of the Pleiades. Sirius could be used to represent the Little Bear. So that <wrap hide>276|00:36:12|370|00:36:21|270</wrap>is a major—although Sirius is not specifically a part of the Little Bear. Alright, these are, <wrap hide>277|00:36:21|270|00:36:28|290</wrap>you know, this is a cosmological astrology. It's fascinating; it's dealt with in the great <wrap hide>278|00:36:28|290|00:36:35|590</wrap>inner departments of hierarchy—the astrological departments—and the crumbs from the tables <wrap hide>279|00:36:35|590|00:36:43|370</wrap>of the gods are falling off so that we can use them as our full meal. And one day we shall <wrap hide>280|00:36:43|370|00:36:48|110</wrap>know about these things. D.K. has said that Cosmic Fire—there will be interest in the <wrap hide>281|00:36:48|110|00:36:52|450</wrap>material in Cosmic Fire in the beginning of the fifth round, and it will be reduced to <wrap hide>282|00:36:52|450|00:36:57|330</wrap>scientific textbook formation at the end of the fifth round. Well, we're talking millions <wrap hide>283|00:36:57|330|00:37:03|810</wrap>of years ahead, and the kind of cosmological speculation we're dealing with right now is <wrap hide>284|00:37:03|810|00:37:10|270</wrap>of equal abstractness and difficulty to the Cosmic Fire material. Really, it is Cosmic <wrap hide>285|00:37:10|270|00:37:20|590</wrap>Fire material. Alright, moving on. <wrap quote>It is rather difficult for you also to grasp that the involutionary <wrap hide>286|00:37:20|590|00:37:29|690</wrap>process for all the kingdoms of nature is related to the passage of the soul (this time <wrap hide>287|00:37:29|690|00:37:37|570</wrap>the anima mundi or world soul) from Aries to Pisces, via Taurus and not vice versa.</wrap> Yeah, <wrap hide>288|00:37:37|570|00:37:46|190</wrap>this is interesting. There are three ways—two ways of passing around the zodiac, or going, <wrap hide>289|00:37:46|190|00:37:54|310</wrap>moving through the signs, as it were. Three types of beings move through the signs: <wrap hide>290|00:37:54|370|00:38:06|030</wrap>the anima mundi, the undeveloped individual, and the spiritual individual. And what is <wrap hide>291|00:38:06|030|00:38:13|890</wrap>being said here is that the method of procedure of the world soul—that consciousness which <wrap hide>292|00:38:13|890|00:38:22|530</wrap>underlies the world of matter, particularly the soul of the world of matter—particularly <wrap hide>293|00:38:22|530|00:38:29|570</wrap>we might call it the soul of substance—is the same mode of procedure, counterclockwise, as that <wrap hide>294|00:38:30|610|00:38:41|370</wrap>along which the spiritual man proceeds. It is only man in his ignorant state that is <wrap hide>295|00:38:41|370|00:38:46|190</wrap>proceeding in the clockwise manner, as it were, against the grain. So there's something natural <wrap hide>296|00:38:46|190|00:38:54|470</wrap>about the anima mundi and something natural or right about the mode of procedure of the <wrap hide>297|00:38:54|470|00:39:00|450</wrap>spiritual man. But when it comes to the ignorant human being who is identified with matter, <wrap hide>298|00:39:02|410|00:39:08|070</wrap>his individualized consciousness being identified with matter and circumstance, he is proceeding <wrap hide>299|00:39:08|070|00:39:14|690</wrap>in a clockwise direction which is against the natural order of things. So let's just <wrap hide>300|00:39:14|690|00:39:24|870</wrap>say that only man, only ignorant man, proceeds against the natural order of things. In other <wrap hide>301|00:39:24|870|00:39:34|290</wrap>words, there is a sense in which we are to move developmentally from Aries to Taurus <wrap hide>302|00:39:34|290|00:39:42|330</wrap>to Gemini and so forth. And when we move backwards, we are in a way moving backward in time and <wrap hide>303|00:39:42|330|00:39:47|630</wrap>we are representing a kind of—even though we are on the path of evolution, we are representing <wrap hide>304|00:39:47|630|00:39:53|090</wrap>identification with an evolutionary order. So D.K. is right when he says it is rather <wrap hide>305|00:39:53|090|00:39:58|510</wrap>difficult for us to grasp that the evolutionary process for all kingdoms of nature is related <wrap hide>306|00:39:58|510|00:40:08|330</wrap>to the passage of the soul, the anima mundi, from Aries to Pisces. But only man goes against <wrap hide>307|00:40:08|330|00:40:18|190</wrap>the grain, as it were. We are descending into evolution as part of an arc. Let's say we <wrap hide>308|00:40:18|190|00:40:25|310</wrap>are descending into evolution and we are reascending evolutionarily in an evolutionary manner. But <wrap hide>309|00:40:26|310|00:40:38|310</wrap>an ignorant man remains identified with that which the anima mundi has provided him and <wrap hide>310|00:40:38|310|00:40:46|870</wrap>direction and begin to progress through the natural order of the science. <wrap quote>The anima mundi <wrap hide>311|00:40:46|870|00:40:51|950</wrap>on the involutionary arc proceeds this way and not as the personality proceeds.</wrap> This <wrap hide>312|00:40:51|950|00:40:59|770</wrap>is very interesting and, yes, abstruse and difficult to understand why this should be <wrap hide>313|00:40:59|770|00:41:08|290</wrap>the case because the personality is in a way an evolutionary elemental process and it is <wrap hide>314|00:41:08|310|00:41:17|210</wrap>continuous which is evolving but still attached to the direction of the evolutionary aspects <wrap hide>315|00:41:17|210|00:41:23|730</wrap>within it. <wrap quote>The anima mundi passes to Pisces at the close of every great cycle and not <wrap hide>316|00:41:23|730|00:41:31|390</wrap>to Taurus.</wrap> So the anima mundi is ready to move up and the lives which comprise it are ready <wrap hide>317|00:41:31|390|00:41:39|130</wrap>to take their next step. <wrap quote>It emerges into outer manifestation in Cancer,</wrap> which is the sign <wrap hide>318|00:41:39|130|00:41:45|590</wrap>which rules much of matter and elemental life, <wrap quote>the sign of mass or group life,</wrap> It emerges <wrap hide>319|00:41:45|590|00:41:50|530</wrap>into outer manifestation in Cancer. That's very interesting because so does the mass <wrap hide>320|00:41:50|530|00:42:01|370</wrap>of humanity. So does the human being en masse emerge in Cancer. <wrap hide>321|00:42:03|610|00:42:07|390</wrap>So does the human being en masse emerge in Cancer, the sign of mass or group life, <wrap quote>of mass or group activity; <wrap hide>322|00:36:12|290|00:36:20|110</wrap>its diffused consciousness has not yet been individualised as has the consciousness of <wrap hide>323|00:42:13|590|00:42:20|250</wrap>man.</wrap> So man is in a peculiarly dangerous condition because he has a choice. At first he moves <wrap hide>324|00:42:20|250|00:42:27|890</wrap>by instinct in a direction which feeds his elemental nature and whereby his consciousness <wrap hide>325|00:42:27|890|00:42:33|290</wrap>is controlled by that element of nature. But later he has a choice, and if he chooses to <wrap hide>326|00:42:33|290|00:42:42|790</wrap>continue to work in a reversed, in a retrogressive manner, going clockwise through the signs, then <wrap hide>327|00:42:42|790|00:42:49|350</wrap>he will have chosen incorrectly and he will condemn his consciousness to captivation by <wrap hide>328|00:42:49|350|00:42:57|870</wrap>this great devic life which sub-stands the dense physical body of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>329|00:42:57|890|00:43:03|090</wrap>He will have to achieve his freedom at some time. He will be a captive of this <wrap hide>330|00:43:03|090|00:43:10|170</wrap>great deva. Okay, so the diffused consciousness, which is not self-conscious, of the anima mundi <wrap hide>331|00:43:10|170|00:43:14|910</wrap>has not yet been individualized as has the consciousness of man. When the world's soul, <wrap hide>332|00:43:16|390|00:43:21|610</wrap>the consciousness underlying substance, <wrap quote>When the world soul after having progressed around <wrap hide>333|00:43:21|610|00:43:27|630</wrap>the Great Wheel, reached Cancer and the time came for the fourth Creative Hierarchy to <wrap hide>334|00:43:27|630|00:43:32|990</wrap>manifest through the fourth kingdom in nature,</wrap>—as there are other kingdoms through which you can manifest <wrap hide>335|00:43:32|990|00:43:39|250</wrap>in nature—<wrap quote>a reversal took place and then proceeded as now.</wrap> This is not the same thing <wrap hide>336|00:43:39|250|00:43:46|010</wrap>as the reversed wheel. The reversed wheel involves reversing the reversal. Okay, the <wrap hide>337|00:43:46|010|00:43:55|630</wrap>true reversed wheel involves reversing the reversal. In other words, if we decide to move <wrap hide>338|00:43:55|630|00:44:00|390</wrap>backwards, which is clockwise, there must come a time when the human being reverses that <wrap hide>339|00:44:00|390|00:44:05|450</wrap>decision to reverse the natural order, and that second reversal returns the human being <wrap hide>340|00:44:05|990|00:44:10|890</wrap>to the natural order of the signs. There are many mysteries here. I don't pretend to be <wrap hide>341|00:44:10|890|00:44:18|290</wrap>able to fathom them. D.K. has told us that we are in no position to really comprehend <wrap hide>342|00:44:18|290|00:44:25|770</wrap>or feel the nature of the soul of matter, the soul of substance. So he's giving us a <wrap hide>343|00:44:25|770|00:44:30|130</wrap>general principle here, but it may be a while before we can feel into this. Perhaps some <wrap hide>344|00:44:30|130|00:44:37|790</wrap>of the great scientific servers who are also psychics can do this. Let's see here. <wrap quote>We have <wrap hide>345|00:44:37|790|00:44:43|110</wrap>in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets upon:</wrap> Okay, well, <wrap hide>346|00:44:43|110|00:44:49|730</wrap>anyway, let's just say the important thing to realize here is that most human beings <wrap hide>347|00:44:50|370|00:44:55|210</wrap>are not traveling in a spiritual direction. They are traveling in a direction which emphasizes <wrap hide>348|00:44:55|990|00:45:03|670</wrap>their elemental nature and which puts their elemental nature in a predominant condition. <wrap hide>349|00:45:04|670|00:45:13|230</wrap>This is not leading directly to the unfoldment of their consciousness in a spiritual manner <wrap hide>350|00:45:13|870|00:45:22|950</wrap>which requires detachment from the elemental nature. So in a certain way, human beings are <wrap hide>351|00:45:22|950|00:45:30|250</wrap>going more deeply into matter in a conscious way. They are becoming deeply involved in <wrap hide>352|00:45:30|250|00:45:38|030</wrap>the periphery of life. They are like the prodigal son who is wandering into a far country <wrap hide>353|00:45:38|650|00:45:46|730</wrap>and thinking that that far country can offer some type of real satisfaction, which it cannot <wrap hide>354|00:45:46|730|00:45:51|830</wrap>because man is essentially spirit and he can never be satisfied with that which is less <wrap hide>355|00:45:51|830|00:46:00|090</wrap>than himself. He needs to return to himself, return to the spirit nature. So we are in <wrap hide>356|00:46:00|090|00:46:05|930</wrap>a way... humanity is going in the wrong direction, but it's a direction which is part of the <wrap hide>357|00:46:05|930|00:46:11|230</wrap>plan because we must invest ourselves deeply in matter substance before we can redeem it. <wrap hide>358|00:46:12|390|00:46:19|610</wrap>Is this the way things happen on other planets? Does that which is man on another planet go <wrap hide>359|00:46:20|170|00:46:29|610</wrap>more and more deeply into matter before extricating itself? Well, we know that there is no such <wrap hide>360|00:46:29|610|00:46:33|690</wrap>suffering in the solar system as there is upon Earth, and there is great suffering upon <wrap hide>361|00:46:33|690|00:46:40|170</wrap>Mars and Saturn as well, but on the other planets not. So perhaps this has something to do with <wrap hide>362|00:46:40|170|00:46:46|670</wrap>this retrogressive, redemptive movement. A necessary, apparently, a necessary retrogressive <wrap hide>363|00:46:46|670|00:46:52|970</wrap>movement whereby we invest ourselves in the not-self in order to redeem that not-self. <wrap hide>364|00:46:53|130|00:46:58|590</wrap>Ultimately, we know that everything is the oneself and that oneself is the absolute infinite <wrap hide>365|00:46:58|590|00:47:06|190</wrap>itself, but from planet to planet there are distinctions, and we as human beings are in <wrap hide>366|00:47:06|190|00:47:12|710</wrap>a way going in the wrong direction considering how old we are. We are old enough to begin <wrap hide>367|00:47:12|710|00:47:17|830</wrap>waking up and to reverse our direction, so we have to reverse the reversal. That's one <wrap hide>368|00:47:17|830|00:47:25|010</wrap>way of thinking about it. Now going on, let's see how we are doing in our experiment to <wrap hide>369|00:47:25|010|00:47:36|190</wrap>make a somewhat longer webinar which will save time in the long run. It will save those <wrap hide>370|00:47:36|190|00:47:41|430</wrap>interludes of time and allow me to speak to you during times when I would normally be <wrap hide>371|00:47:41|430|00:47:45|710</wrap>having to find something else to do while conversion work is going on. <wrap hide>372|00:47:47|130|00:47:52|790</wrap><wrap quote>We have in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets <wrap hide>373|00:47:52|790|00:48:00|730</wrap>upon:</wrap> We are going to look at different beings upon which the zodiac and planets will have <wrap hide>374|00:48:00|730|00:48:09|630</wrap>an influence. <wrap quote>1. //The spirit of the Earth//, the embodiment of the physical planet and <wrap hide>375|00:48:09|630|00:48:16|230</wrap>the sum total of the form life in all the kingdoms of nature. These are the expression <wrap hide>376|00:48:16|230|00:48:23|830</wrap>of the anima mundi or of the world soul.</wrap> Now, are we dealing strictly with dense physical <wrap hide>377|00:48:23|830|00:48:32|910</wrap>matter here, the matter of the lower three systemic sub-planes, or are we dealing... or is <wrap hide>378|00:48:32|910|00:48:40|530</wrap>this related to the dense physical body of the planetary Logos which would include astral <wrap hide>379|00:48:40|530|00:48:53|270</wrap>matter and lower mental matter? Because all of those substances are considered to be involutionary <wrap hide>380|00:48:53|270|00:48:59|310</wrap>from the point of view of the principled nature of our planetary Logos. In other words, the <wrap hide>381|00:48:59|310|00:49:04|390</wrap>lower eighteen sub-planes are for the planetary Logos not a principle; they are not part of <wrap hide>382|00:49:04|390|00:49:10|990</wrap>the program in this second solar system. They are to be redeemed, but they are not carrying <wrap hide>383|00:49:12|650|00:49:21|870</wrap>a patterning power which is closely related to the will of the planetary Logos, and we <wrap hide>384|00:49:21|870|00:49:33|230</wrap>could say the same for the solar Logos. Whoops, okay, that's my little camera there. So the <wrap hide>385|00:49:33|230|00:49:40|990</wrap>involutionary entity, the embodiment of the physical planet... and we have to define this <wrap hide>386|00:49:40|990|00:49:52|350</wrap>term "physical planet." Define this term as either the lower three sub-planes of the systemic <wrap hide>387|00:49:52|350|00:50:03|210</wrap>physical plane or the lower eighteen sub-planes consisting of the... mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm... <wrap hide>388|00:50:03|230|00:50:10|590</wrap>and etheric, physical, astral and lower mental systemic sub-planes. Alright, so it has an <wrap hide>389|00:50:10|590|00:50:15|250</wrap>effect upon an involutionary entity called the spirit of the earth, or sometimes called <wrap hide>390|00:50:15|250|00:50:21|870</wrap>the planetary entity. Let me look up the word... let me look up the word "spirit of the earth." <wrap hide>391|00:50:23|130|00:50:28|330</wrap>It's not always the same as planetary spirit, because when we say the spirit of the earth, <wrap hide>392|00:50:29|490|00:50:35|030</wrap>we usually mean this involutionary entity. When we say planetary spirit, we can often <wrap hide>393|00:50:35|030|00:50:47|270</wrap>mean the planetary Logos himself. So let's just see how this works. Okay, and we'll try <wrap hide>394|00:50:47|270|00:50:58|190</wrap>to make this a little bit bigger. Yes, one, seven, five. Okay, and take this down. All <wrap hide>395|00:50:58|190|00:51:02|970</wrap>these little adjustments that have to be made when one signs off. So let's take a look. <wrap hide>396|00:51:03|410|00:51:09|190</wrap>Spirit of the earth. There are twenty-five references to it. Connection with the spirit <wrap hide>397|00:51:09|190|00:51:13|630</wrap>of the earth. Yes, and the physical plane. A mysterious synthesis connected with the <wrap hide>398|00:51:13|630|00:51:19|050</wrap>spirit of the earth. It is the physical plane here as we see. The planetary entity. Spirit <wrap hide>399|00:51:19|050|00:51:23|050</wrap>of the earth is the planetary entity, not the planetary Logos, but the planetary spirit has <wrap hide>400|00:51:23|050|00:51:28|010</wrap>a different meaning. The spirit of the earth is the planet. Aha, look at this. The spirit <wrap hide>401|00:51:28|010|00:51:32|110</wrap>of the earth is to the planetary Logos of the earth, for instance, what the personality <wrap hide>402|00:51:32|110|00:51:40|030</wrap>of form nature is to the soul of man. So the personality nature of the planetary Logos <wrap hide>403|00:51:40|030|00:51:44|450</wrap>would be included; therefore the astral and lower mental planes would be included in this <wrap hide>404|00:51:44|950|00:51:50|310</wrap>case. Okay, the spirit of the earth, the embodiment of the physical planet and the sum total of <wrap hide>405|00:51:50|310|00:51:58|650</wrap>form life in all kingdoms, is subservient to Venus. Well, even the planetary spirit <wrap hide>406|00:51:58|650|00:52:03|610</wrap>is subservient to Venus. The mysterious entity we call the spirit of the earth is on the <wrap hide>407|00:52:03|610|00:52:09|530</wrap>evolutionary arc and is to our planet what the physical elemental is to the physical <wrap hide>408|00:52:09|530|00:52:20|290</wrap>body of man. So, yes, this is that involutionary entity called the physical elemental of man. <wrap hide>409|00:52:20|310|00:52:27|990</wrap>Physical elemental, it seems to organize the physical matter in the physical body of <wrap hide>410|00:52:27|990|00:52:36|910</wrap>man. And so we would extend this to the planet as well. The spirit of the earth, the relation <wrap hide>411|00:52:36|910|00:52:40|610</wrap>of the planetary Logos to the spirit of the earth, the relation of an evolutionary being <wrap hide>412|00:52:40|610|00:52:46|150</wrap>to an involutionary entity, is reflection distorted under the influence of glamour in the three <wrap hide>413|00:52:46|150|00:52:49|650</wrap>worlds of the relation of the soul to the personality elemental. Okay, it's distorted. <wrap hide>414|00:52:49|650|00:52:56|630</wrap>I think we get the idea. Now let's look at the word planetary spirit, of which there are <wrap hide>415|00:52:56|630|00:53:06|350</wrap>15 references. Yes, planetary spirit is a higher entity. On his vast scale and on his <wrap hide>416|00:53:06|350|00:53:11|390</wrap>own high level, this planetary spirit is learning to live, learning to contact and expand his <wrap hide>417|00:53:11|390|00:53:18|610</wrap>consciousness. Okay. To the great planetary spirit, something wider still. Back of the <wrap hide>418|00:53:18|610|00:53:22|710</wrap>life. This is all in the consciousness of the atom. Perhaps we'll see the nameless one <wrap hide>419|00:53:22|710|00:53:26|990</wrap>on the confines of the high planes of human evolution and the planetary spirit himself <wrap hide>420|00:53:26|990|00:53:34|670</wrap>at the final stage. It is high. The planetary spirit is high and represents even the monadic <wrap hide>421|00:53:34|670|00:53:44|290</wrap>nature of the solar Logos of the planetary Logos. So the difference between the spirit <wrap hide>422|00:53:44|290|00:53:48|330</wrap>of the earth and planetary entity, they are the same: spirit of the earth and planetary <wrap hide>423|00:53:48|330|00:53:56|430</wrap>entity and planetary spirit, which is the Logos himself. Okay, so the zodiac and the <wrap hide>424|00:53:56|430|00:54:07|670</wrap>planets affect this spirit of the earth, or let's give him his other name here, planetary <wrap hide>425|00:54:11|070|00:54:17|050</wrap>entity, and it's like a kind of a physical elemental, but it's also been related to other <wrap hide>426|00:54:17|050|00:54:24|550</wrap>elementals, personality elementals in relation to the greater planetary Logos. They affect <wrap hide>427|00:54:24|550|00:54:32|810</wrap>humanity as a whole <wrap quote>2. //Humanity//, the individualised and finally initiated man. This is the embodiment <wrap hide>428|00:54:32|810|00:54:46|250</wrap>of the human soul or ego, a differentiation of the world soul,</wrap> See, in other words, in <wrap hide>429|00:54:46|250|00:54:56|450</wrap>other words, individualized human beings are part of the anima mundi. We are a differentiated <wrap hide>430|00:54:56|450|00:55:03|550</wrap>aspect of the world soul. We, because if we say world soul, we have to understand what <wrap hide>431|00:55:03|550|00:55:11|050</wrap>particular level of substance we are talking about. Usually we are talking about the embodiment <wrap hide>432|00:55:11|050|00:55:17|490</wrap>of substance, and so we are talking about a type of consciousness which is not yet individualized, <wrap hide>433|00:55:18|190|00:55:24|950</wrap>but the world is a big place, and the world includes the higher levels where individualization <wrap hide>434|00:55:24|950|00:55:31|310</wrap>holds sway. So we, the human ego, are a differentiation of the world soul, <wrap quote>which expresses itself <wrap hide>435|00:55:31|310|00:55:38|470</wrap>as a personality (a correspondence to the spirit of the planet)</wrap> not the planetary spirit. <wrap hide>436|00:55:38|470|00:55:43|990</wrap>Personality is a correspondence to the spirit of the planet, <wrap quote>and finally as a spiritual soul <wrap hide>437|00:55:44|310|00:55:50|190</wrap>(a correspondence to the planetary Logos).</wrap> So the zodiac, what's the important thing here? <wrap hide>438|00:55:51|390|00:56:01|230</wrap>The energies of the zodiac and the energies of the planets are affecting conscious, self-conscious <wrap hide>439|00:56:01|230|00:56:08|350</wrap>entities and entities which have not yet achieved self-consciousness. They are also affecting <wrap hide>440|00:56:09|030|00:56:19|410</wrap>super conscious entities who see and understand in wholes. Okay, now we would be reaching <wrap hide>441|00:56:19|410|00:56:23|670</wrap>the point at which we would normally say The Great Invocation, but we are going to go on <wrap hide>442|00:56:23|670|00:56:30|510</wrap>and see if we can extend this a little bit. The energies of the zodiac and the energies <wrap hide>443|00:56:30|510|00:56:36|690</wrap>of the planets also affect the Lord of the planet, one of the great lives or Sons of <wrap hide>444|00:56:36|690|00:56:42|190</wrap>God, at present regarded as an imperfect God. Our planetary Logos is here indicated, <wrap hide>445|00:56:42|190|00:56:49|770</wrap>and he is an imperfect God because he is thus far only an initiate of the first degree cosmically <wrap hide>446|00:56:50|470|00:56:54|730</wrap>considered. He may be passing through a kind of fourth initiation, but that's a subsidiary <wrap hide>447|00:56:56|790|00:57:01|950</wrap>initiation. It's in a subsidiary sequence of initiations. Cosmically he has not yet <wrap hide>448|00:57:01|950|00:57:09|710</wrap>achieved the goal of the second cosmic initiation. <wrap quote>3. //The Lord of the Planet//, one of the great <wrap hide>449|00:57:09|710|00:57:16|490</wrap>Lives or Sons of God, at present regarded as “an imperfect God” as far as our planet is <wrap hide>450|00:57:16|490|00:57:22|730</wrap>concerned and yet, from the angle of humanity, perfect indeed.</wrap> Sanat Kumara does not fully <wrap hide>451|00:57:22|730|00:57:29|890</wrap>express all that the planetary Logos is, and we regard Sanat Kumara in the most superlative <wrap hide>452|00:57:29|890|00:57:39|450</wrap>terms. So it's all relative here, and perfection has to be considered in a relative way compared <wrap hide>453|00:57:39|450|00:57:46|890</wrap>to the condition of the human being. Our planetary Logos still higher than Sanat Kumara. Sanat <wrap hide>454|00:57:46|890|00:57:55|670</wrap>Kumara, being an emanation of him, is perfect indeed. So these are three spheres upon which <wrap hide>455|00:57:55|670|00:58:05|030</wrap>our zodiac and planets play. They play upon the unconscious sphere, the not yet self-conscious <wrap hide>456|00:58:05|030|00:58:09|630</wrap>sphere. They play upon the self-conscious sphere, and they play upon the superconscious <wrap hide>457|00:58:09|630|00:58:17|330</wrap>sphere, and they have, emanating as they do these energies from very high cosmic laws, <wrap hide>458|00:58:18|250|00:58:24|050</wrap>they have differential effects depending upon the form that they touch. This is constantly <wrap hide>459|00:58:24|050|00:58:32|770</wrap>to be understood, but we cannot so much gauge cosmic energies, the nature of them in themselves, <wrap hide>460|00:58:33|110|00:58:39|410</wrap>but what we can do is see the effect they have upon the different forms which they condition. <wrap hide>461|00:58:40|750|00:58:46|790</wrap>Right now we're interested in the conditioning of the self-conscious human being who is moving <wrap hide>462|00:58:46|790|00:58:52|510</wrap>towards group consciousness and eventually towards consciousness of the One, which is <wrap hide>463|00:58:52|510|00:58:59|270</wrap>in a way super consciousness. <wrap quote>The above triple division expresses the three major aspects <wrap hide>464|00:58:59|270|00:59:07|110</wrap>of the ancient and esoteric science of astrology</wrap> how it works on lesser lives, middling lives, <wrap hide>465|00:59:07|110|00:59:13|950</wrap>and super lives. <wrap quote>the ancient and esoteric science of astrology and its three divisions as the <wrap hide>466|00:59:13|950|00:59:20|750</wrap>Hierarchy today studies them.</wrap> and hierarchical members are assigned to these different levels. There <wrap hide>467|00:59:20|750|00:59:27|770</wrap>are some who are working with the soul of substance, with soul in its unselfconscious <wrap hide>468|00:59:27|770|00:59:35|190</wrap>stage. <wrap quote>Humanity, having lost the consciousness</wrap>—I guess it once had it—<wrap quote>which permits contact <wrap hide>469|00:59:35|190|00:59:41|450</wrap>with the spirit of the planet (sub-human consciousness,</wrap> sub-human, human, super-human—that's one <wrap hide>470|00:59:41|450|00:59:49|790</wrap>way of looking at it—<wrap quote>and which was the basis of animism)</wrap> How interesting that those human <wrap hide>471|00:59:49|790|00:59:58|170</wrap>beings who ascribe to animism feel the soul within substance, <wrap quote>and having not yet developed <wrap hide>472|00:59:58|170|01:00:02|030</wrap>the consciousness which permits him to enter into the Life and Mind of the planetary Logos, <wrap hide>473|00:52:23|690|00:52:28|210</wrap>has dealt only with the second division</wrap> that of the human consciousness, that of self-consciousness, <wrap hide>474|01:00:14|290|01:00:20|990</wrap>and even self-consciousness <wrap quote>and that in its lower aspects.</wrap> So humanity is quite blind, quite ignorant. <wrap hide>475|01:00:21|470|01:00:34|930</wrap>Humanity quite blind and ignorant of the different phases of the world soul: the lower and the <wrap hide>476|01:00:34|930|01:00:42|270</wrap>higher, middling, and the highest. Humanity is ignorant of all of those. We are just aware <wrap hide>477|01:00:42|270|01:00:50|370</wrap>of the lower middling reaches of soul in the realm of self-consciousness. Alright, well, <wrap hide>478|01:00:50|690|01:00:58|250</wrap>this would be normally the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure Number 52, but instead <wrap hide>479|01:00:58|250|01:01:05|430</wrap>I will continue as best I can, and thereby preserving time. <wrap hide>480|01:01:12|270|01:01:17|450</wrap>Alright, now we will continue. We have in a way reached the end of Esoteric Astrology <wrap hide>481|01:01:17|450|01:01:23|790</wrap>Adventure Number 52, Part 1, and we will see whether GoToWebinar allows me to continue <wrap hide>482|01:01:23|790|01:01:31|930</wrap>to the two-hour level. I think downloads will not be so slow, so you will be able to use <wrap hide>483|01:01:31|930|01:01:37|230</wrap>these conveniently. We'll see how I feel, whether I can push on to a three-hour segment. <wrap hide>484|01:01:37|230|01:01:45|470</wrap>We will see. So we're continuing. <wrap quote>Two other points might here be touched upon, and for their <wrap hide>485|01:01:45|750|01:01:50|570</wrap>understanding you will have to accept my statements as temporary hypotheses at least, <wrap hide>486|01:01:51|390|01:01:57|910</wrap>for you are in no position to know them as truth for yourselves.</wrap> Well, sad to say, but <wrap hide>487|01:01:57|910|01:02:07|210</wrap>this is the true condition of human ignorance. We are in no position to verify, maybe, that <wrap hide>488|01:02:07|230|01:02:20|430</wrap>95% of what the Tibetan tells us. He is a master of the wisdom; he has profound perception. <wrap hide>489|01:02:21|090|01:02:29|610</wrap>The siddhis of various kinds have opened up for him, and we are in the position in many <wrap hide>490|01:02:29|610|01:02:37|210</wrap>respects of trusting students who can follow his authority and his authority in the way <wrap hide>491|01:02:37|230|01:02:43|170</wrap>that he sees authoritative statements as hypotheses. We can see, eventually, prove <wrap hide>492|01:02:43|170|01:02:49|870</wrap>these things for ourselves, but for the moment it seems to be the part of wisdom to assume <wrap hide>493|01:02:50|710|01:02:57|210</wrap>that since he has been correct in so many of the statements he has made, he is probably <wrap hide>494|01:02:58|310|01:03:05|630</wrap>correct or mostly correct—probably totally correct—in giving those statements which <wrap hide>495|01:03:05|630|01:03:13|330</wrap>we cannot possibly verify. Not yet. But we're on our way, and towards the later phases of <wrap hide>496|01:03:13|330|01:03:21|950</wrap>the evolutionary process, it is possible to make rapid progress into the expansion of <wrap hide>497|01:03:21|950|01:03:29|990</wrap>perception. So many of us are reaching that stage now, having labored long and hard through <wrap hide>498|01:03:29|990|01:03:36|490</wrap>many lesser stages of consciousness. We are in no position to know the truth for ourselves, <wrap hide>499|01:03:36|570|01:03:43|010</wrap>he says. <wrap quote>Exoteric astrology has said and it is widely accepted that Vulcan, Uranus, <wrap hide>500|01:03:43|350|01:03:52|470</wrap>Pluto and Neptune do not govern signs but only have affinity with them.</wrap> Well, okay, I <wrap hide>501|01:03:52|470|01:03:59|970</wrap>think Alan Leo didn't say that, and there are many who accept that Uranus is the modern <wrap hide>502|01:04:00|810|01:04:05|330</wrap>ordinary ruler of Aquarius, but it used to be Saturn, didn't it? Vulcan was not known, <wrap hide>503|01:04:05|890|01:04:11|490</wrap>Pluto was not discovered, and only recently Alan Leo said Neptune is the ruler of Pisces. <wrap hide>504|01:04:12|070|01:04:18|930</wrap>So there are probably indeed many exoteric astrologers who have not considered these <wrap hide>505|01:04:20|490|01:04:29|330</wrap>more remote planets, and in one case an undiscovered planet, to have no rulership over any of the <wrap hide>506|01:04:29|330|01:04:32|790</wrap>Earth signs. <wrap quote>I am touching upon this here because we are going to consider the planet <wrap hide>507|01:04:32|790|01:04:39|850</wrap>Pluto in relation to Pisces.</wrap> Now remember this book is written in the early '30s, and <wrap hide>508|01:04:41|210|01:04:48|190</wrap>Pluto was discovered in 1930, so the Tibetan was authorized to speak of it because mankind <wrap hide>509|01:04:48|190|01:04:55|630</wrap>had discovered it, although it was, they say, recorded on a film as early as 1915 but not <wrap hide>510|01:04:55|630|01:05:04|570</wrap>recognized. So Pluto discovered in 1930, coinciding with this mass uprising of negativity <wrap hide>511|01:05:04|570|01:05:16|530</wrap>which Nazism and that type of fascism represented. <wrap quote>This affinity has only stated a partial <wrap hide>512|01:05:16|530|01:05:21|990</wrap>truth and is only temporarily true from the standpoint of the modern astrologer.</wrap> I think <wrap hide>513|01:05:21|990|01:05:28|230</wrap>he is saying that indeed these planets do rule signs, but they rule them from a more <wrap hide>514|01:05:28|230|01:05:35|090</wrap>esoteric perspective. The existence of these planets—right, <wrap quote>Their existence has only been <wrap hide>515|01:05:35|090|01:05:44|190</wrap>inferred or discovered within the last two or three centuries though it has always been <wrap hide>516|01:05:44|190|01:05:51|970</wrap>known to the Hierarchy.</wrap> So the Hierarchy, capital H, has been known to the Hierarchy— <wrap hide>517|01:05:51|990|01:05:58|630</wrap>has known the secret planets, and there are many other planets right now, completely undiscovered <wrap hide>518|01:05:58|630|01:06:03|710</wrap>by humanity which Hierarchy knows about and which are responsible for many of the pushes <wrap hide>519|01:06:03|710|01:06:09|710</wrap>and pulls which we experience even now. We don't know where they come from and we attribute <wrap hide>520|01:06:09|710|01:06:15|190</wrap>these influences to incorrect sources, or to sources which we presently know about when <wrap hide>521|01:06:15|190|01:06:21|970</wrap>they really come from other unknown sources. <wrap quote>I have indicated to you the signs of which <wrap hide>522|01:06:21|970|01:06:26|850</wrap>they are the rulers and the astrology of the future will accept my statement and work <wrap hide>523|01:06:27|410|01:06:34|750</wrap>with these planets. Much earlier in human history, they had to accept the fact of Mars and Mercury as rulers of zodiacal signs in a hypothetical manner, and then start to prove the accuracy of the hypothesis.</wrap> Okay, so, you know, Pluto being the ruler of Pisces esoterically and <wrap hide>524|01:06:34|750|01:06:41|190</wrap>hierarchically, Uranus the ruler of Aquarius—that much everybody accepts—but also the <wrap hide>525|01:06:41|190|01:06:46|330</wrap>esoteric ruler of Libra and the hierarchical ruler of Aries, and the veiled hierarchical <wrap hide>526|01:06:46|330|01:06:56|590</wrap>ruler of Leo, Neptune being the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Cancer and the veiled <wrap hide>527|01:06:56|590|01:07:03|910</wrap>hierarchical, veiled esoteric ruler of Leo and also in a special category in relation <wrap hide>528|01:07:03|910|01:07:13|470</wrap>to Pisces, and Vulcan being the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Taurus and the veiled <wrap hide>529|01:07:14|090|01:07:21|630</wrap>hierarchical ruler, one of them—no, excuse me, the veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo along <wrap hide>530|01:07:21|630|01:07:30|550</wrap>with Neptune, Neptune, another veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo. And then when we get into <wrap hide>531|01:07:30|550|01:07:41|290</wrap>Aquarius, Vulcan, Neptune and Uranus are all veiled hierarchical rulers. <wrap quote>Ancient astrology <wrap hide>532|01:07:41|290|01:07:49|890</wrap>was obviously incomplete but until man became patently <wrap hide>533|01:07:49|890|01:07:55|270</wrap>responsive to the influences which come to him from Uranus or Pluto, for instance, which <wrap hide>534|01:07:55|270|01:08:00|470</wrap>affect the soul life far more than they do the personality life,</wrap> because, you know, even <wrap hide>535|01:08:00|470|01:08:10|590</wrap>though it's a non-sacred planet, Pluto, even though non-sacred planet, non-sacred planet, <wrap hide>536|01:08:11|290|01:08:20|590</wrap>Pluto is considered an esoteric planet. So he's telling us that this non-sacred planet <wrap hide>537|01:08:20|590|01:08:26|330</wrap>Pluto affects the soul life more than it does the personality life and that only when a <wrap hide>538|01:08:26|330|01:08:32|070</wrap>person is truly on the path are the influences of Pluto, I suppose the spiritual influences, <wrap hide>539|01:08:32|310|01:08:41|270</wrap>registered. As for Uranus, we can well agree. So until a man becomes patently noticeable <wrap hide>540|01:08:41|290|01:08:46|390</wrap>and patently more responsive to the influence which comes to him from Uranus and Pluto, <wrap hide>541|01:08:47|390|01:08:54|270</wrap>they remain undiscovered, except by trained esotericists, undiscovered in consciousness. <wrap hide>542|01:08:58|590|01:09:08|030</wrap>But from another point of view, man was progressing and it was only in recent centuries that man <wrap hide>543|01:09:08|030|01:09:15|070</wrap>became patently more responsive to these influences as a whole, and so they were discovered. Now <wrap hide>544|01:09:15|070|01:09:19|390</wrap>for many people they're not discovered in consciousness. They mean nothing in terms <wrap hide>545|01:09:19|390|01:09:25|970</wrap>of the process of life and consciousness process, but man as a whole became more responsive <wrap hide>546|01:09:26|830|01:09:33|770</wrap>to these influences, and therefore his responsiveness, man's responsiveness, humanity's responsiveness <wrap hide>547|01:09:33|770|01:09:41|250</wrap>enabled their discovery even though there are many human beings for whom they mean psychologically, <wrap hide>548|01:09:41|430|01:09:47|650</wrap>spiritually, nothing yet. Though they can affect the outer elemental life, remember <wrap hide>549|01:09:47|650|01:09:55|950</wrap>that the planets can affect the sub-human parts of ourselves, the non-self-conscious <wrap hide>550|01:09:55|950|01:10:01|850</wrap>parts of ourselves, the substantial aspects of ourselves. <wrap quote>they remained undiscovered except <wrap hide>551|01:10:01|850|01:10:06|790</wrap>by trained esotericists.</wrap> who are members of hierarchy. <wrap quote>Today, humanity is rapidly responding <wrap hide>552|01:10:06|790|01:10:12|550</wrap>to the higher spiritual influences and, therefore, we can look for the discovery of increasingly <wrap hide>553|01:10:12|550|01:10:22|130</wrap>subtle forces.</wrap> So let's just say that Vulcan and more planets are about to be discovered <wrap hide>554|01:10:22|910|01:10:31|830</wrap>because humanity is more responsive. And I guess I would say "discovered" is the most important <wrap hide>555|01:10:32|340|01:10:38|030</wrap>I would say that when the spiritual will of humanity really begins to assert itself and <wrap hide>556|01:10:38|030|01:10:46|510</wrap>people look at our dreadful method of relating with each other and say "enough is enough" and <wrap hide>557|01:10:46|510|01:10:52|330</wrap>"now we will have to have a method of relating this world which is based more upon the spiritual <wrap hide>558|01:10:52|330|01:10:58|130</wrap>will and upon principles" than Vulcan, the planet of spiritual will, will be discovered. When <wrap hide>559|01:10:58|130|01:11:06|910</wrap>humanity learns to stand with massed intent for the good, then Vulcan will be discovered <wrap hide>560|01:11:06|910|01:11:14|010</wrap>just as in the period when revolutionary fervor was sweeping through humanity, Uranus was discovered <wrap hide>561|01:11:14|010|01:11:28|110</wrap>and when the occult was coming into vogue and anesthesia was making its appearance in <wrap hide>562|01:11:28|990|01:11:37|030</wrap>the becoming popular in the consciousness, Neptune was discovered and with the mass eruption <wrap hide>563|01:11:37|030|01:11:44|970</wrap>of the subterranean forces which could be considered to represent the black lodge in <wrap hide>564|01:11:44|970|01:11:51|050</wrap>many respects, Pluto was discovered. So when the quality sweeps through humanity, the quality <wrap hide>565|01:11:51|050|01:11:57|290</wrap>which relates to a planet sweeps through human action and human consciousness, then that which <wrap hide>566|01:11:57|290|01:12:06|330</wrap>is the related but thus far undiscovered planet will be discovered. Okay, so there's <wrap hide>567|01:12:06|330|01:12:11|050</wrap>a lot more going on and as I've often said, we astrologers, we're just we're not playing <wrap hide>568|01:12:11|050|01:12:19|330</wrap>with a full deck. We're not playing with a full deck of cards and many other sources <wrap hide>569|01:12:19|330|01:12:27|270</wrap>of influence which we are unaware we cannot yet control our stars, we cannot even identify <wrap hide>570|01:12:28|190|01:12:35|430</wrap>all of them, but we can become increasingly sensitive to and discriminate influences affecting <wrap hide>571|01:12:37|150|01:12:41|530</wrap>our lives even though we may not know the sources of those influences, and if we remain <wrap hide>572|01:12:41|530|01:12:48|510</wrap>sensitive and begin to differentiate these influences, then perhaps discovery will come. <wrap hide>573|01:12:48|710|01:12:57|270</wrap>Just imagine the day when some one hundred and fifteen plus planets will be known to <wrap hide>574|01:12:58|730|01:13:07|090</wrap>humanity. It will be a day of a type of computing power which will entirely dwarf the sophisticated <wrap hide>575|01:13:07|090|01:13:12|510</wrap>computing power we have at the present time, and we will be able to isolate those influences, <wrap hide>576|01:13:12|510|01:13:21|490</wrap>learn of their nature, gradation and timing, and negotiate this web of energies in a far <wrap hide>577|01:13:21|490|01:13:29|890</wrap>more intelligent, plan-centered manner than is presently possible. Well, well, we made <wrap hide>578|01:13:29|890|01:13:41|290</wrap>it somewhere in tape or program number fifty-two, we made it through Aries. The first sign of <wrap hide>579|01:13:41|290|01:13:48|350</wrap>the zodiac, and he has told us important things which we will have to identify keynotes, keywords, <wrap hide>580|01:13:48|350|01:13:56|490</wrap>those nine points to be identified in when studying all the others. I want to take a <wrap hide>581|01:13:56|490|01:14:04|550</wrap>quick look here. I used to have it. I know that on page approximately page one nineteen, <wrap hide>582|01:14:06|090|01:14:14|570</wrap>no, that would be... can't do that. One nineteen, I believe, of Esoteric Astrology, or so. Yes, <wrap hide>583|01:14:14|570|01:14:22|610</wrap>he does deal with the two ways of going around the mutable cross, and I'm wondering if around <wrap hide>584|01:14:22|610|01:14:35|350</wrap>page one forty three... yes, he does. That's one forty three. He also identifies ways of progressing <wrap hide>585|01:14:35|350|01:14:40|170</wrap>on the fixed cross. He doesn't do this for the cardinal cross, so these are some of the <wrap hide>586|01:14:40|170|01:14:49|330</wrap>ways we can compare the signs by going to these particular tabulations.[split Text 01] OK, now we're <wrap hide>587|01:14:49|330|01:14:58|450</wrap>about to enter into the sign Pisces. You see, we are going backwards. We are going in the <wrap hide>588|01:14:58|450|01:15:10|150</wrap>direction of spiritually ignorant individualized man. We're not going in the direction of the <wrap hide>589|01:15:10|150|01:15:16|930</wrap>spiritual man. We are still... the Tibetan is making a point here, and even though he's talking <wrap hide>590|01:15:16|930|01:15:25|650</wrap>about these signs in ways which are certainly spiritual, he is progressing backwards, what <wrap hide>591|01:15:25|650|01:15:31|570</wrap>we would consider backwards, to arrest our attention so that we can realize that there <wrap hide>592|01:15:31|570|01:15:39|810</wrap>are two wheels operating: a wheel of form personality and a wheel of consciousness soul. <wrap hide>593|01:15:40|590|01:15:47|990</wrap>We have to fix this in our minds, and this is part of the new astrology, so we can understand <wrap hide>594|01:15:48|890|01:15:53|810</wrap>what is the reversal of the wheel for the human being and understand how human evolution <wrap hide>595|01:15:53|810|01:16:01|350</wrap>is meant to take place and help ourselves and others to progress in a counterclockwise <wrap hide>596|01:16:01|350|01:16:06|810</wrap>manner, responding in our form to the higher spiritual potentials of these signs and not <wrap hide>597|01:16:06|810|01:16:19|750</wrap>the ordinary substantial elemental personal selfish response. Alright, Pisces the Fishes, <wrap hide>598|01:16:22|170|01:16:33|790</wrap>from page 115 to 134. Pisces the Fishes. Aries was a dual sign, and it represents the life <wrap hide>599|01:16:33|790|01:16:40|750</wrap>power coming forth and like a fountain and going to the right and going to the right <wrap hide>600|01:16:40|750|01:16:47|310</wrap>and going to the left. It's unity entering into the world of duality. In a way, you could <wrap hide>601|01:16:47|310|01:16:52|850</wrap>look at Aries coming down and splitting like this, the horns of the ram. Instead of rising <wrap hide>602|01:16:52|850|01:16:58|210</wrap>in this way, we could see it descending and splitting like this, which would be more like <wrap hide>603|01:16:58|530|01:17:05|850</wrap>the horns of the ram. But anyway, unity enters the world of duality in Aries. It has a unitive <wrap hide>604|01:17:05|850|01:17:17|910</wrap>root and a dual bifurcation at the uppermost or bottommost part of the symbol. <wrap quote>This sign <wrap hide>605|01:17:17|910|01:17:27|330</wrap>is also dual. In Aries we have the duality which is attached to the bringing together <wrap hide>606|01:17:27|330|01:17:31|770</wrap>of spirit and matter in the great creative activity</wrap> Remember, creation is one of the <wrap hide>607|01:17:31|770|01:17:40|330</wrap>keynotes of Aries. The great creative activity is attached to the bringing together of spirit <wrap hide>608|01:17:40|330|01:17:48|950</wrap>and matter. This is not just soul and personality. Those are a pair of opposites, and a very important <wrap hide>609|01:17:48|950|01:17:55|190</wrap>pair of opposites for the present human being, and perhaps the opposites of spirit and matter <wrap hide>610|01:17:55|190|01:18:00|650</wrap>are a little more out of reach, though they are in reach for the initiates. So Aries is <wrap hide>611|01:18:00|650|01:18:07|770</wrap>associated with the highest and lowest meeting: the first ray, the seventh ray, <wrap quote>spirit and <wrap hide>612|01:18:07|770|01:18:15|390</wrap>matter in the great creative activity of manifestation at the beginning of the evolutionary cycle,</wrap> <wrap hide>613|01:18:15|970|01:18:24|250</wrap>Well, when is that? For man en masse, it begins 21 million years ago. But what is the beginning <wrap hide>614|01:18:24|250|01:18:33|830</wrap>of the evolutionary cycle? Is it when our solar Logos took form with his planets? Let <wrap hide>615|01:18:33|830|01:18:41|330</wrap>us keep it microcosmic and talk about the beginning of man, and every life in a way is <wrap hide>616|01:18:41|330|01:18:49|870</wrap>a continuation and a renewed beginning of man's long evolutionary cycle. <wrap quote>whilst in Pisces <wrap hide>617|01:18:49|870|01:18:58|850</wrap>we have the fusion or blending of soul and form as far as man is concerned,</wrap>—soul and <wrap hide>618|01:18:58|850|01:19:05|710</wrap>form, consciousness and substance as far as man is concerned—<wrap quote>producing the manifestation <wrap hide>619|01:19:06|270|01:19:18|430</wrap>of the Incarnated Christ, the perfected individual soul, the completed manifestation of the microcosm.</wrap> <wrap hide>620|01:19:19|130|01:19:29|130</wrap>So Pisces is the sign, in one way, most associated with Christ. Pisces is most associated with <wrap hide>621|01:19:29|950|01:19:35|730</wrap>the Christ consciousness. Now, at the present time, it is Virgo, the sign opposite Pisces, <wrap hide>622|01:19:36|290|01:19:43|410</wrap>which brings in more of the second ray than any other sign at this particular time. And <wrap hide>623|01:19:43|410|01:19:50|510</wrap>Virgo has much to do with the birth, the gestation and following birth of the Christ <wrap hide>624|01:19:50|510|01:19:57|730</wrap>consciousness. But Pisces is a cosmic decanate. Exactly what that means we cannot tell, but <wrap hide>625|01:19:57|730|01:20:02|950</wrap>there are three signs which are cosmic decanates, or three constellations. There is Taurus, <wrap hide>626|01:20:04|010|01:20:09|270</wrap>Scorpio, and Pisces. And each one of the great world teachers is associated with one of these <wrap hide>627|01:20:09|270|01:20:17|430</wrap>cosmic decanates: Hercules with Scorpio, Buddha with Taurus, and Christ with Pisces. <wrap hide>628|01:20:18|130|01:20:28|630</wrap>So the fullest flowering of the second ray can be looked to in Pisces. It is the sign <wrap hide>629|01:20:28|630|01:20:35|710</wrap>most pervaded by the second ray of love-wisdom, but that in a very high sense. Gemini is another <wrap hide>630|01:20:35|710|01:20:42|430</wrap>second ray sign, Virgo the other, but finally it is Pisces with which our present Christ <wrap hide>631|01:20:42|430|01:20:50|850</wrap>is most identified and which most reveals or expresses the Christ consciousness. So <wrap hide>632|01:20:50|850|01:20:58|310</wrap>Pisces brings together soul and form rather than spirit and matter. In a way it is more <wrap hide>633|01:20:58|310|01:21:05|690</wrap>on the soft line of energy, and Pisces expresses the second ray and the sixth ray and the third <wrap hide>634|01:21:05|710|01:21:11|790</wrap>ray at this present time, though it is very much connected with third ray substance, water <wrap hide>635|01:21:11|790|01:21:22|790</wrap>or matter. Soul and form—even form is not particularly related to the third ray and <wrap hide>636|01:21:22|790|01:21:31|970</wrap>matter because form results from a second ray building activity utilizing the substances <wrap hide>637|01:21:31|970|01:21:37|050</wrap>of matter. And soul, of course, is consciousness and represents the second aspect. So both <wrap hide>638|01:21:37|050|01:21:45|090</wrap>soul and form, though in different dimensions, are related to the second ray. Whereas Aries <wrap hide>639|01:21:45|090|01:21:52|210</wrap>is a major first ray sign and its rays are one and seven—hard line rays. These are rays <wrap hide>640|01:21:53|410|01:21:57|730</wrap>at present expressing. As I've tried to indicate, I believe that every sign of the zodiac, every <wrap hide>641|01:21:57|730|01:22:02|310</wrap>constellation has every ray, just the way our little planet has every ray. But there <wrap hide>642|01:22:02|310|01:22:09|050</wrap>are certain emphases at certain times. Now what D.K. does not give us—he tells us that <wrap hide>643|01:22:09|050|01:22:16|610</wrap>certain rays express through certain constellations, but he does not assign these rays to the periodical <wrap hide>644|01:22:16|610|01:22:22|450</wrap>vehicles of the Lords of the constellations. When it comes to the earth, he gives it a first <wrap hide>645|01:22:22|450|01:22:30|470</wrap>ray monad, second ray soul, third ray personality. So the rays which earth is emitting, shall <wrap hide>646|01:22:30|470|01:22:38|410</wrap>we say, these rays are assigned to periodical vehicles—the monad, soul, causal body and <wrap hide>647|01:22:38|410|01:22:47|170</wrap>personality are periodical vehicles. But not so with the periodical vehicles of the Lords <wrap hide>648|01:22:47|170|01:22:52|390</wrap>of the Constellations. We are just given the rays, and we would have to ourselves determine <wrap hide>649|01:22:52|390|01:23:02|270</wrap>if the rays that are expressing through these great beings are in fact conditioning their <wrap hide>650|01:23:02|270|01:23:11|110</wrap>periodical vehicles. In other words, does Aries in some way have a first ray conditioning <wrap hide>651|01:23:11|110|01:23:21|870</wrap>one of its periodical vehicles, namely its monad, its egoic body or its personality? <wrap hide>652|01:23:22|330|01:23:29|090</wrap>Is Aries a first ray monadic cosmic lord? Is it a second ray monadic cosmic lord? Is <wrap hide>653|01:23:29|090|01:23:36|310</wrap>the lamb slain from the foundations of the world? Does it have the sixth ray or the third <wrap hide>654|01:23:36|310|01:23:43|210</wrap>ray conditioning one of its vehicles? Because we are given only two rays passing through <wrap hide>655|01:23:43|210|01:23:48|330</wrap>Aries, at least at this time, and there are three periodical vehicles. So in the same <wrap hide>656|01:23:48|330|01:23:54|810</wrap>way that a human being has a five-fold, even six-fold ray chart, it seems reasonable to <wrap hide>657|01:23:54|810|01:24:01|750</wrap>conclude that a planetary Logos also has a six-fold ray chart and that a solar Logos <wrap hide>658|01:24:01|750|01:24:07|250</wrap>the same, and that a constellation lord also has a six-fold ray chart. But that would enter <wrap hide>659|01:24:07|250|01:24:12|270</wrap>into the realm of too much complexity. But one day I think we will be able to discover <wrap hide>660|01:24:12|270|01:24:20|970</wrap>why the qualities of a constellation lord are what they are by examining a fuller ray <wrap hide>661|01:24:20|970|01:24:27|070</wrap>chart than we are given. Actually, we are given no ray chart at all for these Lords of Constellations. <wrap hide>662|01:24:27|070|01:24:33|170</wrap>But we are given rays, and we can perhaps attempt to assign some of these rays to periodical <wrap hide>663|01:24:33|170|01:24:40|350</wrap>vehicles. Okay, so the fusion under the second ray primarily of soul and form—and in one <wrap hide>664|01:24:40|350|01:24:45|550</wrap>way soul is ruled generically by the second ray and form by the sixth ray, the two rays <wrap hide>665|01:24:45|550|01:24:51|830</wrap>that are passing through Pisces as they are through Virgo. The blending of soul and form, <wrap hide>666|01:24:51|830|01:24:56|190</wrap>as far as man is concerned, we are working microcosmically and producing the manifestation <wrap hide>667|01:24:56|190|01:25:03|390</wrap>of the incarnated Christ, the Christ within man, the fully flowering soul, the perfected <wrap hide>668|01:25:03|390|01:25:10|690</wrap>individual soul—let's call it the fully flowering soul. That's what we are looking at. <wrap quote>Thus <wrap hide>669|01:25:10|690|01:25:18|370</wrap>the greater and the lesser polar opposites—the human being and God, the microcosm and <wrap hide>670|01:25:18|370|01:25:25|250</wrap>the Macrocosm—are brought to their destined expression and manifestation.</wrap> Well, the greater <wrap hide>671|01:25:25|250|01:25:32|650</wrap>polar opposites—the greater polar opposites—we can imagine spirit and matter. <wrap hide>672|01:25:33|390|01:25:43|630</wrap>The lesser of the polar opposites, in a certain way, we can consider soul and form. So we have <wrap hide>673|01:25:43|630|01:25:47|930</wrap>the human being and we have God. God in this case seems to be related to Aries, God the <wrap hide>674|01:25:47|930|01:25:53|130</wrap>Father, the human being in this case more to Pisces, the individual human fish swimming <wrap hide>675|01:25:53|130|01:26:01|030</wrap>in the great ocean of matter, water and the lower planes of the solar Logos and planetary <wrap hide>676|01:26:01|030|01:26:05|930</wrap>Logos. They are brought to their destined expression and manifestation. We, from a practical <wrap hide>677|01:26:05|930|01:26:12|110</wrap>point of view, we should be most interested in bringing the individual Christ within our <wrap hide>678|01:26:12|110|01:26:19|450</wrap>nature to the right form of expression. That is our immediate task. We cannot worry so <wrap hide>679|01:26:19|450|01:26:25|330</wrap>much about the planetary Christ or the solar systemic Christ or the cosmic Christ. These <wrap hide>680|01:26:25|330|01:26:31|910</wrap>will be handled by the entities who work at those levels. <wrap hide>681|01:26:33|250|01:26:39|530</wrap><wrap quote>Until man is nearing the goal, these words mean but little</wrap> What does it mean to near <wrap hide>682|01:26:39|530|01:26:44|710</wrap>the goal? Well, perhaps to begin taking the first initiation, to enter in some small way <wrap hide>683|01:26:44|710|01:26:51|250</wrap>the kingdom of God. Perhaps that means nearing the goal, and there are other and higher goals. <wrap hide>684|01:26:52|010|01:26:59|030</wrap>Maybe D.K. means something even closer to the fourth initiation, but entering the kingdom <wrap hide>685|01:26:59|610|01:27:07|710</wrap>of God is in a way nearing the goal, and for many first degree initiates these books are <wrap hide>686|01:27:07|710|01:27:12|130</wrap>written, so maybe we can begin to understand just a little bit. <wrap quote>Until man is nearing the <wrap hide>687|01:27:12|130|01:27:19|190</wrap>goal, these words mean but little though a study of the sign Pisces in the two ways intended</wrap> <wrap hide>688|01:27:19|190|01:27:24|950</wrap>i.e., on the wheel of form and the wheel of consciousness, <wrap quote>may reveal much that is significant <wrap hide>689|01:27:24|950|01:27:31|510</wrap>and suggestive.</wrap> In a way, Pisces is a kind of beginning and a kind of end, just as Aries <wrap hide>690|01:27:31|510|01:27:40|710</wrap>is, and one day Aries-Pisces will be one sign. Pisces, a kind of beginning and end. There <wrap hide>691|01:27:40|710|01:27:47|790</wrap>is a certain sense of finality, and we are told about Pisces: "Go forth into matter." The <wrap hide>692|01:27:47|790|01:27:53|430</wrap>very first incarnation in an individual sense, as we have been seeing, D.K. says is taken <wrap hide>693|01:27:53|430|01:28:00|770</wrap>in Pisces, and the final incarnation which will bring a man to Shambhala is often experienced <wrap hide>694|01:28:00|770|01:28:09|570</wrap>in Pisces, so like Aries, it is a kind of beginning and end. <wrap quote>The goal of Deity, the emergence <wrap hide>695|01:28:09|570|01:28:18|210</wrap>of God's plan and the nature of His eternal purpose is for us only a subject of interested <wrap hide>696|01:28:18|210|01:28:25|030</wrap>speculation.</wrap> Is D.K. including himself here? Perhaps when it comes to fathoming the eternal <wrap hide>697|01:28:25|030|01:28:31|770</wrap>purpose of God, D.K. is including himself. D.K. tells us that he has not been to the <wrap hide>698|01:28:31|770|01:28:37|810</wrap>cosmic astral plane, is not qualified to speak about that which transpires there except in <wrap hide>699|01:28:37|810|01:28:43|010</wrap>a very learned sense, maybe not in a direct experiential sense. He can say something about <wrap hide>700|01:28:43|010|01:28:48|390</wrap>the emergence of God's plan because he, like the other masters, is part of that emergence, <wrap hide>701|01:28:49|370|01:28:54|930</wrap>but as for the unknown, unheard purpose of Sanat Kumara, the seven great purposes of <wrap hide>702|01:28:54|930|01:29:07|790</wrap>Sanat Kumara, there are some purposes which Sanat Kumara keeps entirely to himself. He <wrap hide>703|01:29:10|890|01:29:19|650</wrap>says that the first letter of the first syllable—I think maybe the first syllable of Sanat Kumara's name. <wrap hide>704|01:29:19|710|01:29:26|230</wrap>Anyway, with every increase in initiatory rank, a letter, a syllable, more than one syllable <wrap hide>705|01:29:26|230|01:29:33|350</wrap>of the great name of Sanat Kumara is revealed, and along with that, the purpose. So if it <wrap hide>706|01:29:33|350|01:29:40|470</wrap>is speculative for Master D.K., it's certainly speculative for us—interested speculation. <wrap hide>707|01:29:41|410|01:29:46|710</wrap>The goal of deity: we're given in a general sense the idea that our deity is to become <wrap hide>708|01:29:46|710|01:29:53|790</wrap>a great station of light within the solar system. The theme of our planetary Logos is <wrap hide>709|01:29:53|790|01:30:00|850</wrap>light and illumination. When it comes to the goal of the solar Logos, we understand that <wrap hide>710|01:30:00|850|01:30:06|910</wrap>he is a heart center in a cosmic Logos, so increasingly the energy of Buddhic love will <wrap hide>711|01:30:06|910|01:30:13|370</wrap>have to be expressed through our solar Logos. But that doesn't really tell us so much that <wrap hide>712|01:30:13|370|01:30:19|030</wrap>he will become a greater and greater God of love, a consuming fire of love. It tells us <wrap hide>713|01:30:19|030|01:30:23|950</wrap>something and gives us the idea that love must condition everything within the solar <wrap hide>714|01:30:23|950|01:30:30|570</wrap>system, but the specifics of the purpose are not revealed, and the way he goes about achieving <wrap hide>715|01:30:30|570|01:30:35|550</wrap>them in relation to other aspects of the cosmic Logos of which he is a part are not revealed. <wrap hide>716|01:30:37|170|01:30:41|490</wrap><wrap quote>The goal of Deity, the emergence of God's plan and the nature of His eternal purpose <wrap hide>717|01:30:41|490|01:30:50|270</wrap>is for us only a subject of interested speculation. There is a possibility that this plan</wrap> the <wrap hide>718|01:30:50|270|01:30:56|850</wrap>divine plan <wrap quote>and purpose</wrap>—whether of the planetary Logos or solar Logos—<wrap quote><wrap hide>719|01:30:57|290|01:31:04|770</wrap>may be vastly different to our surmise which is based upon our formulation of a Deity who <wrap hide>720|01:31:04|770|01:31:11|850</wrap>is the product of our mental processes and of devoted idealism (two of the three aspects <wrap hide>721|01:31:11|850|01:31:16|890</wrap>of the personality nature),</wrap> We have mentality, we have a devoted idealism—at least the high <wrap hide>722|01:31:16|890|01:31:24|350</wrap>person does, relatively high—and we may speculate upon the nature of our deity, of our planetary <wrap hide>723|01:31:24|350|01:31:30|470</wrap>Logos, of our solar Logos. Sometimes to speculate upon the nature of the absolute God is utterly <wrap hide>724|01:31:30|470|01:31:38|650</wrap>futile when we realize that we cannot even do so for our planetary Logos, our solar Logos. <wrap hide>725|01:31:39|550|01:31:47|210</wrap>So D.K. is warning us that our conceptions may be very much other than truth: <wrap quote>the product <wrap hide>726|01:31:47|210|01:31:51|190</wrap>of our mental processes and of devoted idealism (two of the three aspects of the personality <wrap hide>727|01:31:51|190|01:31:57|710</wrap>nature), and the attempt to interpret His infinite purposes in terms of our own finiteness.</wrap> Well, <wrap hide>728|01:31:57|710|01:32:03|430</wrap>okay, which God are we talking about? Because a planetary God or a solar God cannot have, <wrap hide>729|01:32:03|430|01:32:10|370</wrap>strictly speaking, infinite purposes. But let us say that—well, for that matter, I think <wrap hide>730|01:32:10|370|01:32:16|600</wrap>that even the universal God of our cosmos cannot have infinite purposes because the <wrap hide>731|01:32:16|600|01:32:26|880</wrap>cosmos is a one; it's a unity, it is delimited, it is not a many, it is a particular singularity. <wrap hide>732|01:32:27|800|01:32:32|480</wrap>It is not the infinity of infinities. So, you know, maybe I'm too particular about this <wrap hide>733|01:32:32|480|01:32:36|760</wrap>word "infinite"—not that I can say I really understand it, but it is a passion of mine. <wrap hide>734|01:32:37|260|01:32:43|040</wrap>So sometimes it's just meant to indicate a very large number, a number which we couldn't <wrap hide>735|01:32:43|040|01:32:50|300</wrap>possibly count because, given our human limitations, we could not spend the time counting it; we <wrap hide>736|01:32:50|300|01:32:58|080</wrap>could not find a way to count it. But here we are—the idea is that we, in our own little <wrap hide>737|01:32:58|080|01:33:05|340</wrap>personality nature, cannot attempt to understand the vast purposes of the deities in whom we <wrap hide>738|01:33:05|340|01:33:10|120</wrap>live and move and have our being: namely, our planetary Logos, our solar Logos, and Logoi <wrap hide>739|01:33:10|120|01:33:16|620</wrap>beyond. <wrap quote>Let us always remember this.</wrap> And so what is this here, really? This is an injunction <wrap hide>740|01:33:17|400|01:33:25|300</wrap>to humility and right proportion, which humility is—an adjusted sense of right proportion. <wrap hide>741|01:33:26|100|01:33:31|180</wrap><wrap quote>The mechanism for divine perception</wrap>—the higher siddhis—<wrap quote>has not yet been developed in the human <wrap hide>742|01:33:31|180|01:33:37|540</wrap>family on any large scale</wrap> though some have it and some have some, <wrap quote>and is only achieving <wrap hide>743|01:33:37|540|01:33:42|860</wrap>some measure of usefulness in the initiate of the third degree.</wrap> So when we are an initiate <wrap hide>744|01:33:42|860|01:33:48|740</wrap>of the third degree, the Ajna center is awakening to fuller power—the center in the center <wrap hide>745|01:33:48|740|01:33:55|860</wrap>of the head—the etheric third eye is awakening, and the higher siddhis are gaining the possibility <wrap hide>746|01:33:55|860|01:34:04|340</wrap>of expression. So the initiate of the third degree has some degree... The initiate of the <wrap hide>747|01:34:04|340|01:34:13|900</wrap>third degree has some divine perception. Now, this is not just spiritual perception—think <wrap hide>748|01:34:13|900|01:34:22|620</wrap>of it. Spiritual perception is inaccessible enough. Spiritual perception has to do with <wrap hide>749|01:34:22|620|01:34:28|520</wrap>the realms of the soul and of the spiritual triad. Divine perception is relating to still <wrap hide>750|01:34:28|520|01:34:33|760</wrap>higher levels: the higher two sub-planes of the Buddhic plane, the higher two sub-planes <wrap hide>751|01:34:33|760|01:34:39|240</wrap>of the Atmic plane, and modes of perception which are uncategorized and which are characteristic <wrap hide>752|01:34:39|860|01:34:45|840</wrap>of the Monadic plane and the Logoic plane. Those are really the divine levels of perception. <wrap hide>753|01:34:46|300|01:34:51|700</wrap>So only the very high initiate will have them. He's talking about sensitivity here, really, <wrap hide>754|01:34:51|700|01:35:00|740</wrap>isn't he? Pisces is a sign of a great sensitive consciousness, and so it seems right for him <wrap hide>755|01:35:00|740|01:35:09|500</wrap>to be discussing our limitations and the possibilities of our eventual growing sensitivity when <wrap hide>756|01:35:09|500|01:35:17|460</wrap>discussing this sign of impression, of mediation, and, in a lesser sense, of mediumship. This <wrap hide>757|01:35:17|460|01:35:26|600</wrap>is a very receptive sign, a sign which is maybe so easy to be overwhelmed by circumstance <wrap hide>758|01:35:26|600|01:35:33|320</wrap>and many lesser energies, but which, when those phases are overcome, can attune with high and <wrap hide>759|01:35:33|320|01:35:38|040</wrap>subtle energies which for most people seem non-existent. <wrap hide>760|01:35:38|880|01:35:51|920</wrap>Okay, how are we doing here? We are speaking of a duality in Pisces. We've been talking <wrap hide>761|01:35:51|920|01:36:05|380</wrap>about the bringing together of soul and form. Okay, soul and form. <wrap quote>This duality of Pisces <wrap hide>762|01:36:05|380|01:36:13|380</wrap>must be studied in relation to its //three keynotes// which are</wrap> So D.K. is, as promised, giving us the keynotes <wrap hide>763|01:36:13|380|01:36:21|900</wrap>and keywords of the sign Pisces. <wrap quote>1. Bondage or captivity.</wrap>—this is the initial sign of <wrap hide>764|01:36:21|920|01:36:29|620</wrap>the dual phase. This is the whale swallowing Jonah, the whale of great size. It is the <wrap hide>765|01:36:29|620|01:36:39|880</wrap>seed of the sea monster. It's related to the Hydra, related to the deluge of elemental <wrap hide>766|01:36:39|880|01:36:46|700</wrap>forces which can easily overcome a human being who has not yet stabilized himself in his <wrap hide>767|01:36:46|700|01:36:51|820</wrap>spiritual consciousness. Bondage or captivity—we are subject to many influences in the lower <wrap hide>768|01:36:51|820|01:37:01|940</wrap>worlds. <wrap quote>2. Renunciation or detachment.</wrap>—and here we are learning to give up our attachment <wrap hide>769|01:37:02|860|01:37:11|260</wrap>to these lower influences. We put them aside; we repulse them, perhaps, under the Law of Repulse, <wrap hide>770|01:37:11|460|01:37:18|180</wrap>the fourth law of the soul, and we can observe them but find that we are not swayed by them. <wrap hide>771|01:37:18|180|01:37:24|920</wrap>And finally, when we have detached ourselves from that which originally kept us in bondage— <wrap hide>772|01:37:24|920|01:37:35|620</wrap>and captivity, we learn to sacrifice any possible desire for those levels. We make a sacred <wrap hide>773|01:37:35|620|01:37:43|420</wrap>offering. We give up what most people cherish because we cherish something still higher, <wrap hide>774|01:37:43|420|01:37:52|700</wrap>and we die to the lower worlds and are in a way born into still higher areas of opportunity. <wrap hide>775|01:37:52|960|01:38:00|060</wrap>So it's not a very sad and sort of gruesome death, but great hope and possibility. Pisces <wrap hide>776|01:38:00|060|01:38:04|660</wrap>being a sign of great hope. Great hope follows the stage and realization. <wrap hide>777|01:38:08|080|01:38:16|640</wrap>Okay, so these are the keynotes: bondage or captivity; renunciation or detachment. Pluto <wrap hide>778|01:38:16|640|01:38:22|980</wrap>certainly helps with that, right? Interestingly, bondage can relate to Jupiter and Neptune, <wrap hide>779|01:38:23|140|01:38:29|560</wrap>two of the rulers of Pisces, because one is thoroughly engaged with all this lower level <wrap hide>780|01:38:29|560|01:38:35|860</wrap>of expression. And finally, <wrap quote>3. Sacrifice and death.</wrap> Certainly Pluto is the planet of death, <wrap hide>781|01:38:35|860|01:38:44|560</wrap>and it cuts the thread which binds us to lesser things. So the rulers of Pisces, Jupiter and <wrap hide>782|01:38:44|560|01:38:50|960</wrap>Pluto, are very much involved in this process. Interesting that Pisces rules very large animals <wrap hide>783|01:38:50|960|01:38:56|960</wrap>such as whales of all things, whereas Virgo rules small animals in exoteric astrology. <wrap hide>784|01:38:57|680|01:39:02|640</wrap>And the whale of great size is a very Jupiterian, Neptunian thing. It's in the Neptunian waters, <wrap hide>785|01:39:02|640|01:39:08|740</wrap>and it's of great size. It's Jupiter, and it engulfs and swallows and incorporates the <wrap hide>786|01:39:08|740|01:39:18|380</wrap>soul for a long time, thus keeping it in bondage. So remember that not every planet is wonderful <wrap hide>787|01:39:18|380|01:39:25|620</wrap>as a planetary God, but there are negative ways in which these planets can express according <wrap hide>788|01:39:25|620|01:39:31|220</wrap>to the type of form that it influences. So there are some lower expressions of the planets, <wrap hide>789|01:39:31|220|01:39:34|660</wrap>and you know every time we mention Aquarius we can't say, "Oh, that's a wonderful sign, <wrap hide>790|01:39:34|800|01:39:39|160</wrap>everything is good about Aquarius." We have to remember that the Nazi party came into <wrap hide>791|01:39:39|160|01:39:49|160</wrap>power in Germany as the official ruling party under Aquarius, January 30th. So the signs <wrap hide>792|01:39:49|160|01:39:56|800</wrap>of the zodiac, their qualities are not all good, not all bad. It depends on how they <wrap hide>793|01:39:56|800|01:40:01|820</wrap>are used. That's a truism, but we have to keep it in mind; otherwise we will always go on <wrap hide>794|01:40:03|760|01:40:09|440</wrap>preferring Aquarius to Pisces or preferring the seventh ray to the sixth ray or preferring <wrap hide>795|01:40:10|020|01:40:15|640</wrap>the second ray to the third ray, not realizing that they are all equally divine and that <wrap hide>796|01:40:15|640|01:40:20|140</wrap>there are negative expressions of even the rays we prefer and the signs that we prefer. <wrap hide>797|01:40:21|400|01:40:29|760</wrap>Okay, page 116. <wrap quote>In the first cycle of experience upon the wheel,</wrap> turning clockwise I would <wrap hide>798|01:40:29|760|01:40:36|960</wrap>assume, <wrap quote>the soul itself is in captivity to substance;</wrap> It's all that the consciousness <wrap hide>799|01:40:36|960|01:40:45|620</wrap>sees. It's not sensitive to any of the inner impulses yet. It is impressionable. It is <wrap hide>800|01:40:45|640|01:40:53|640</wrap>real to all the outer impulses, and they sway the soul and lead the soul and compel <wrap hide>801|01:40:53|640|01:41:00|480</wrap>the soul. You've seen some of these people; they look like they are cut adrift, and the <wrap hide>802|01:41:01|200|01:41:09|020</wrap>current that comes along from the normal worlds sways them and directs them. They are not <wrap hide>803|01:41:09|020|01:41:19|320</wrap>self-directing. Let's just talk about that here: not self-directing individuals. <wrap quote>it has <wrap hide>804|01:41:19|320|01:41:23|940</wrap>come down into the prison house <wrap hide>805|01:41:23|940|01:41:29|440</wrap>of matter</wrap> Pisces is the twelfth sign. It represents the twelfth house, and typically <wrap hide>806|01:41:29|440|01:41:37|040</wrap>prisons, places of incarceration, even convents and monasteries where you are in a way voluntarily <wrap hide>807|01:41:37|040|01:41:42|960</wrap>incarcerated, they are all ruled by the twelfth house. Asylums, institutions, even hospitals <wrap hide>808|01:41:42|960|01:41:48|720</wrap>where you are confined. Places of confinement, albeit for the purpose of redemption, but <wrap hide>809|01:41:48|720|01:41:54|540</wrap>nevertheless places of confinement are ruled by Pisces and relate to the twelfth house. <wrap hide>810|01:41:55|340|01:42:01|800</wrap>The soul <wrap quote>has come down into the prison house of matter and linked itself to form.</wrap> Those <wrap hide>811|01:42:01|800|01:42:11|760</wrap>are the ties, the magnetic ties, and those are the very ties that Pluto has to cut: magnetic <wrap hide>812|01:42:11|760|01:42:19|880</wrap>ties. It dissociates itself from what was previously so appealing. Through the eye of <wrap hide>813|01:42:19|880|01:42:26|560</wrap>glamour, many essentially worthless things appear very appealing. So we are trying to <wrap hide>814|01:42:26|560|01:42:33|820</wrap>understand that and to eventually achieve our detached freedom. <wrap quote>Hence the symbol of <wrap hide>815|01:42:33|820|01:42:41|600</wrap>Pisces, of the two fishes linked together by a band.</wrap> and it is <wrap hide>816|01:42:41|600|01:42:48|400</wrap>also considered to be one of the constellations: magnetic band. The constellations associated <wrap hide>817|01:42:48|400|01:42:56|360</wrap>with Pisces: Andromeda, Cepheus the King, and the Band. The band binding the two fishes <wrap hide>818|01:42:56|360|01:43:06|300</wrap>together. Is it true that the Buddha had Pisces on the ascendant? There are some writings <wrap hide>819|01:43:06|300|01:43:13|880</wrap>by D.K. that seem to indicate this, along with his Taurus sun and his Scorpio moon. Maybe <wrap hide>820|01:43:13|880|01:43:20|260</wrap>It is so, but anyway, the Buddha came to cut that band, and he was able to use Scorpio to <wrap hide>821|01:43:20|260|01:43:26|420</wrap>do it and also the brilliant light of Taurus to do it. To dissolve the band which binds <wrap hide>822|01:43:26|420|01:43:33|120</wrap>the fish of the soul to the fish of form. The vertical fish to the horizontal fish. <wrap hide>823|01:43:33|280|01:43:38|880</wrap>When you look at Pisces, you see that the two fishes are swimming in two different directions. <wrap hide>824|01:43:39|200|01:43:47|220</wrap>One is vertical and the other is more horizontal, representing in this case the world of form. <wrap hide>825|01:43:48|260|01:43:55|380</wrap>So the two fishes are linked together by a band. <wrap quote>One fish stands for the soul and the <wrap hide>826|01:43:55|380|01:44:02|280</wrap>other for the personality or form nature, and between them is to be found the “thread or sutratma,” <wrap hide>827|01:44:02|720|01:44:08|920</wrap>the silver cord which keeps them bound to each other throughout <wrap hide>828|01:44:08|920|01:44:14|680</wrap>the cycle of manifested life.</wrap> Well, that may be one—that is one thread that one wants <wrap hide>829|01:44:14|680|01:44:20|580</wrap>to be very judicious in cutting. There are other threads that one can cut. Eventually, <wrap hide>830|01:44:20|900|01:44:33|840</wrap>finally, the sutratma is cut, but only after all has been accomplished. If we cut the sutratma <wrap hide>831|01:44:33|840|01:44:40|580</wrap>prematurely, we cut away our possibility of working out the purposes of soul in form. <wrap hide>832|01:44:40|580|01:44:48|420</wrap>But there are threads of consciousness which, in a way, or threads of attachment at least, <wrap hide>833|01:44:48|560|01:44:57|200</wrap>which have to be cut. One can remain conscious of that to which one is no longer attached. <wrap hide>834|01:44:58|920|01:45:04|620</wrap>So anyway, the thread or sutratma, the band represents the silver cord. Sometimes silver, <wrap hide>835|01:45:05|100|01:45:12|340</wrap>maybe another color. D.K. says it's not exactly an apt description, but there is a magnetic <wrap hide>836|01:45:12|340|01:45:20|340</wrap>cord of life that connects the two fishes, and death followed at the end of every incarnation <wrap hide>837|01:45:20|340|01:45:27|020</wrap>is the cutting of the cord under Pluto so that the consciousness returns to itself and <wrap hide>838|01:45:27|020|01:45:32|440</wrap>is no longer engaged with the previous form. You can ask yourself, well, what was the form <wrap hide>839|01:45:32|440|01:45:39|620</wrap>of my previous life or five lives previously? Do I really care? I only care insomuch as <wrap hide>840|01:45:39|620|01:45:45|780</wrap>it may affect my consciousness now, but am I attached to those previous physical vehicle <wrap hide>841|01:45:45|780|01:45:53|020</wrap>per se or the previous etheric substance? Am I attached to those atoms? Probably I am <wrap hide>842|01:45:53|020|01:45:58|680</wrap>not, although I am attached to the elemental lives which are generated through my permanent <wrap hide>843|01:45:58|680|01:46:03|280</wrap>atoms. I remain attached to those until the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>844|01:46:05|080|01:46:15|540</wrap><wrap quote>Later on, upon the reversed wheel, the personality is brought into captivity by the soul,</wrap> Well, <wrap hide>845|01:46:15|540|01:46:26|880</wrap>the man swallows the whale in a certain sense. The personality is reduced in its influence, <wrap hide>846|01:46:26|880|01:46:34|020</wrap>and the soul waxes and grows as in Gemini, and the elemental life is no longer allowed <wrap hide>847|01:46:34|020|01:46:43|880</wrap>to do precisely what it wants to do. No longer. <wrap quote>but for long aeons the situation is reversed <wrap hide>848|01:46:43|880|01:46:49|260</wrap>and the soul is the prisoner of the personality.</wrap> Well, let us say that our consciousness is <wrap hide>849|01:46:49|260|01:46:54|460</wrap>the victim of all of these fire, earth, air and water, fire by friction elemental lives, <wrap hide>850|01:46:55|640|01:47:03|840</wrap>and this is the case for the majority of human beings. The soul as the prisoner of the personality. <wrap hide>851|01:47:05|060|01:47:14|320</wrap><wrap quote>This dual bondage</wrap>—Pisces being a dual sign, the sign of bondage or binding to—<wrap quote>is brought <wrap hide>852|01:47:14|320|01:47:20|180</wrap>to an end by what is called the final death,</wrap> It makes you think that Pluto is involved <wrap hide>853|01:47:20|180|01:47:27|660</wrap>there and maybe Uranus is on the final burning ground. The relationship of human awareness <wrap hide>854|01:47:27|660|01:47:38|620</wrap>to form is—and a form in bondage to the human awareness—is finally terminated at the higher <wrap hide>855|01:47:38|620|01:47:46|040</wrap>stages of human initiation <wrap quote>when the complete release of the life aspect from the life of <wrap hide>856|01:47:46|040|01:48:00|660</wrap>form takes place.</wrap> There is a—this is much later in the process—and there is in esoteric <wrap hide>857|01:48:00|660|01:48:12|280</wrap>healing a rule, a final law. Is it law number 10 in esoteric healing? Let us take a look <wrap hide>858|01:48:12|280|01:48:28|220</wrap>at that if we can and let us see. Law 10, maybe here. Oh yes, this is it. This is it. <wrap hide>859|01:48:28|300|01:48:42|260</wrap>This is the final liberation, and it says these are two forms of death. Harken, O Chela, to the <wrap hide>860|01:48:42|260|01:48:47|700</wrap>Mother and then obey. The word goes forth that form has served its purpose. The principle <wrap hide>861|01:48:47|700|01:48:54|740</wrap>of mind then organizes itself and then repeats the word. The waiting form responds and drops <wrap hide>862|01:48:54|740|01:48:59|780</wrap>away, and the soul stands free. So this is the freedom, this is the temporary cutting <wrap hide>863|01:49:01|120|01:49:09|100</wrap>of the consciousness from the life of form at the end of every incarnation. But look <wrap hide>864|01:49:09|100|01:49:15|840</wrap>at the next part of the law. Respond, O rising one. This is the spirit itself, the monad. <wrap hide>865|01:49:16|020|01:49:21|780</wrap>Respond, O rising one, to the call which comes within the sphere of obligation. Recognize <wrap hide>866|01:49:21|780|01:49:26|340</wrap>the call emerging from the ashram or from the council chamber where awaits the Lord <wrap hide>867|01:49:26|340|01:49:38|000</wrap>of Life himself, who is calling upon the spirit or monad to rise up out of form and out of <wrap hide>868|01:49:38|000|01:49:43|520</wrap>form together must renounce the principle of life and thus permit the monad to stand <wrap hide>869|01:49:43|520|01:49:50|600</wrap>free. The soul responds; the form then shatters the connection. Life, the monadic aspect, <wrap hide>870|01:49:50|600|01:49:56|760</wrap>is now liberated. Owning the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience, <wrap hide>871|01:49:57|400|01:50:03|360</wrap>these are the gifts of soul and form combined. This is page 501 and 502 of Esoteric Healing. <wrap hide>872|01:50:04|580|01:50:11|800</wrap>Yes, and this is where the spirit dissociates itself not only from form but from soul, and <wrap hide>873|01:50:11|800|01:50:22|460</wrap>this is a final type of Piscean consummation. So this dual bondage in which soul and form <wrap hide>874|01:50:22|460|01:50:28|460</wrap>are bound to each other is brought to an end by what I've called the final death and which <wrap hide>875|01:50:28|460|01:50:38|080</wrap>has been described in Law 10 of the Rules and Laws of Esoteric Healing. When the complete <wrap hide>876|01:50:38|080|01:50:45|900</wrap>release of the life aspect, the rising one from the life of form takes place. So, you <wrap hide>877|01:50:45|900|01:50:58|440</wrap>know, what is this? Let's just call this the fourth and fifth initiations. It should be <wrap hide>878|01:50:58|440|01:51:02|280</wrap>the dense physical body of the soul of Logos, even though on the higher levels of that dense <wrap hide>879|01:51:02|280|01:51:09|500</wrap>physical body. <wrap quote>It should be borne in mind also that the soul itself is of the nature of form from the standpoint of the Monad, <wrap hide>880|01:51:10|220|01:51:16|880</wrap>though it is a form far subtler than any that we know in the three worlds of human evolution.</wrap> <wrap hide>881|01:51:18|160|01:51:26|760</wrap>So in other words, the Pisces also rules in its hierarchical sense the release <wrap hide>882|01:51:26|760|01:51:33|920</wrap>of spirit from the soul body, and this is of course the fourth degree. Later is Pisces <wrap hide>883|01:51:33|920|01:51:42|060</wrap>involved in the ultimate release of the monad from the spiritual triad itself. We can speculate. <wrap hide>884|01:51:43|120|01:51:49|040</wrap><wrap quote>There is also a dual renunciation referred to in these key words,</wrap> Dual renunciation, <wrap hide>885|01:51:49|820|01:51:56|100</wrap>bondage and captivity, renunciation and detachment, sacrifice and death. <wrap quote>There is also a dual <wrap hide>886|01:51:56|100|01:52:03|120</wrap>renunciation referred to in these key words, for first of all the soul renounces the life <wrap hide>887|01:52:03|120|01:52:10|180</wrap>and light of the Monad,</wrap> It comes, it leaves. What is the soul? The soul is the jiva, the <wrap hide>888|01:52:10|180|01:52:16|560</wrap>awareness of the monad which is projected down into the lower worlds.<wrap quote>its source (symbolized by the words “the Father's home”), and descends into the ocean of matter;</wrap> There is, "I leave <wrap hide>889|01:52:16|560|01:52:20|780</wrap>my father's home," and turning back I say... But there is the part of it where we say, "I leave <wrap hide>890|01:52:20|780|01:52:28|380</wrap>my father's home because I am a lord of ceaseless and persevering devotion," of persevering, ceaseless <wrap hide>891|01:52:28|380|01:52:34|360</wrap>devotion as such a lord of consciousness. I leave the highest state of the father, of <wrap hide>892|01:52:34|360|01:52:50|760</wrap>the monad, of that vast divine awareness. I leave that world of light and life. I leave <wrap hide>893|01:52:50|760|01:52:53|680</wrap>the world of self-consciousness. And that takes a long time. That's the entire <wrap hide>894|01:52:55|160|01:53:12|420</wrap>evolutionary process, and then the early stages of evolution during which there is not self-consciousness. <wrap hide>895|01:53:13|440|01:53:19|660</wrap><wrap quote>then, reversing itself, the soul</wrap> awakening to itself, let us say, awakening to its true <wrap hide>896|01:53:19|660|01:53:31|160</wrap>spiritual nature, <wrap quote>renounces the life of form, the personality centre. The soul detaches <wrap hide>897|01:53:31|160|01:53:37|060</wrap>itself (in consciousness)</wrap> Remember now, this is telling us that the sutratma is not detached <wrap hide>898|01:53:37|060|01:53:44|700</wrap>here, not until the very end. It is not detached. The soul detaches itself still connected to <wrap hide>899|01:53:44|700|01:53:52|540</wrap>the monad by life, but in consciousness <wrap quote>from the Monad, the One,</wrap> because all monads are <wrap hide>900|01:53:52|540|01:53:58|760</wrap>one, <wrao quote>and functions from its own centre,</wrap> on the higher mental plane in the egoic lotus, <wrap hide>901|01:53:58|860|01:54:05|980</wrap>in the causal body, <wrap quote>making its own new and material attachments.</wrap> in the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>902|01:54:09|280|01:54:17|080</wrap>So there is a descending detachment and an ascending detachment, and Pisces is ruling <wrap hide>903|01:54:17|080|01:54:22|440</wrap>both of those. "I leave the father's home" is certainly a Piscean statement. It refers to <wrap hide>904|01:54:22|440|01:54:29|240</wrap>the descent of the jivic consciousness from the realm of the monad. Then the prodigal <wrap hide>905|01:54:29|240|01:54:37|540</wrap>son, who is also the soul, awakens to himself and leaves behind the peripheral worlds of <wrap hide>906|01:54:37|540|01:54:46|060</wrap>the personality and becomes fully soul conscious and eventually spirit conscious. <wrap quote>Then, upon <wrap hide>907|01:54:46|060|01:54:50|980</wrap>the reversal of the wheel,</wrap> yet the soul <wrap quote>it proceeds to detach itself from the personality and <wrap hide>908|01:54:50|980|01:54:57|040</wrap>re-attach itself in consciousness to the One Who sent it forth.</wrap> So it is very right <wrap hide>909|01:54:57|040|01:55:10|060</wrap>to say that the soul looks in two directions, like Janus, the Roman two-faced God, looks <wrap hide>910|01:55:10|060|01:55:19|420</wrap>in two directions. <wrap quote>Such is the climaxing story of Pisces. The Lords of Will and Sacrifice</wrap> <wrap hide>911|01:55:19|580|01:55:24|240</wrap>who are the monads, who are ourselves, <wrap quote>come down into manifestation, sacrificing their <wrap hide>912|01:55:24|240|01:55:30|860</wrap>high position and opportunities upon the higher planes of manifestation</wrap> i.e., the worlds of <wrap hide>913|01:55:30|860|01:55:39|520</wrap>the cosmic ethers, <wrap quote>in order to redeem matter</wrap> redeem the matter of the dense physical body <wrap hide>914|01:55:39|520|01:55:46|640</wrap>of the solar and planetary Logos, <wrap quote>and raise the lives by which it is informed (the lower <wrap hide>915|01:55:46|640|01:55:53|620</wrap>Creative Hierarchies) to the status of Themselves in so far as They constitute the fourth Creative <wrap hide>916|01:55:53|620|01:56:02|040</wrap>Hierarchy.</wrap> So the mission is redemptive, and the spiritual hierarchies with which we are <wrap hide>917|01:56:02|040|01:56:08|320</wrap>associated, the lower ones as part of our bodies of expression, are to be redeemed by <wrap hide>918|01:56:08|320|01:56:14|880</wrap>association with us. We are monads in extension. So this is our purpose. It's not some unhappy <wrap hide>919|01:56:15|580|01:56:21|680</wrap>thing, although it does lead to much temporary grief and limitation. It is a mission out <wrap hide>920|01:56:21|680|01:56:28|080</wrap>of divine love from the Lord of persevering ceaseless devotion. Remember, Pisces is a <wrap hide>921|01:56:28|080|01:56:36|060</wrap>major sign of love and redemption. <wrap quote>This is the subjective purpose, underlying the sacrifice <wrap hide>922|01:56:36|640|01:56:45|980</wrap>of these divine</wrap> i.e., monadic, <wrap quote>Lives Who are ourselves essentially, Who are qualified <wrap hide>923|01:56:45|980|01:56:50|420</wrap>by knowledge, love and will,</wrap> But we have that. It's not like the monad is a tabula <wrap hide>924|01:56:50|420|01:56:59|780</wrap>rasa. It's not a blank slate. The monad has had many forms of experience, has knowledge, <wrap hide>925|01:57:00|040|01:57:08|100</wrap>love, and will. So we want to say the monad is equipped and not a tabula rasa, not a blank <wrap hide>926|01:57:08|100|01:57:13|300</wrap>slate by any means, depending upon being informed by all that goes on within the lower life. <wrap hide>927|01:57:13|810|01:57:20|560</wrap>It's not there so much to gather as it is to serve, although inevitably it does gather <wrap hide>928|01:57:20|560|01:57:26|300</wrap>some additional knowledge by life in the lower worlds. <wrap quote>and animated by ceaseless persevering <wrap hide>929|01:57:26|300|01:57:33|340</wrap>devotion.</wrap> the monad is animated by continually shining, shining like a sun, pulsating like <wrap hide>930|01:57:33|340|01:57:39|280</wrap>a sun, ceaseless persevering devotion. So this is the subjective purpose underlying <wrap hide>931|01:57:39|280|01:57:44|500</wrap>the sacrifice of these divine lives, who are ourselves essentially, who are qualified by <wrap hide>932|01:57:44|500|01:57:49|120</wrap>knowledge, love, and will, and animated by ceaseless persevering devotion. <wrap hide>933|01:57:50|620|01:57:56|880</wrap>They seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance, the death <wrap hide>934|01:57:56|880|01:58:04|080</wrap>of the form living only unto itself and not living unto a higher and more principled pattern <wrap hide>935|01:58:04|080|01:58:09|180</wrap>which can redeem it. <wrap quote>They seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance <wrap hide>936|01:58:09|180|01:58:14|440</wrap>and the consequent release of the indwelling lives into a higher state of consciousness.</wrap> <wrap hide>937|01:58:15|680|01:58:31|680</wrap>So redemption is elevation. Redemption is elevation. And we are seeking to uplift the <wrap hide>938|01:58:31|680|01:58:38|740</wrap>lives with which we come in contact, just the way greater lives, to whom we are as little <wrap hide>939|01:58:38|740|01:58:45|740</wrap>devas or even elementals, are associating with us and uplifting us by their association. <wrap hide>940|01:58:46|480|01:58:51|200</wrap><wrap quote>Of this process, all the world Saviours—</wrap>and remember Pisces is the sign of the world savior <wrap hide>941|01:58:51|200|01:58:57|360</wrap>and of salvation—of this process, <wrap quote> all the world Saviours—past, present and to come—are <wrap hide>942|01:58:57|360|01:59:02|540</wrap>the manifested symbols and the eternal guarantees.</wrap> There have been many world saviors before <wrap hide>943|01:59:02|540|01:59:09|040</wrap>the appearance of the Christ. They guarantee this divine redemptive process in which we <wrap hide>944|01:59:09|040|01:59:14|400</wrap>are all engaged and from which we are all benefiting. And we have to become redeemers <wrap hide>945|01:59:14|400|01:59:20|100</wrap>or awaken to the fact that we set forth on our great pilgrimage as redeemers. We have <wrap hide>946|01:59:20|100|01:59:25|840</wrap>set forth in this way. And we have forgotten by becoming selfish and we have forgotten <wrap hide>947|01:59:25|840|01:59:30|020</wrap>our original purpose, and when we wake up to the plan of the soul and the purpose of <wrap hide>948|01:59:30|020|01:59:33|320</wrap>the monad, we will again become unselfish redeemers. <wrap hide>949|01:59:34|360|01:59:40|500</wrap><wrap quote>It is in such recognitions as these that the mainspring to the life of service must be <wrap hide>950|01:59:40|500|01:59:45|760</wrap>sought.</wrap> If we want to serve, we have to remember who we are. There are many reasons to serve, <wrap hide>951|01:59:46|180|01:59:51|060</wrap>but the deepest reason to serve is the recollection of why we set forth on our great pilgrimage. <wrap hide>952|01:59:51|060|01:59:56|460</wrap><wrap quote>People born in this sign are frequently to be found serving the race and ministering <wrap hide>953|01:59:56|460|02:00:01|300</wrap>to its needs</wrap>—they are often ministers in the church—<wrap quote>upon some level of consciousness.</wrap> <wrap hide>954|02:00:02|040|02:00:21|040</wrap>The need of others is most important to the advancing Piscean individual. They live their <wrap hide>955|02:00:21|040|02:00:27|760</wrap>lives. I was just in a convent the other day and I attended a Catholic mass, participated, <wrap hide>956|02:00:28|580|02:00:39|160</wrap>and "Totus Tuus" was the motto of this order of Carmelite nuns, "all for you" or "all yours," <wrap hide>957|02:00:40|660|02:00:46|800</wrap>complete altruism. <wrap quote>Thus they are prepared for the final sacrifice in Pisces</wrap> maybe that <wrap hide>958|02:00:46|800|02:00:52|880</wrap>last incarnation at the fourth degree, <wrap quote>which “absorbs them back into their originating Motive,”</wrap> <wrap hide>959|02:00:52|980|02:00:59|300</wrap>That's it. We have to recapture our motive, our motive as monads who set forth on the <wrap hide>960|02:00:59|300|02:01:05|200</wrap>great pilgrimage, <wrap quote>as the //Old Commentary// expresses it.</wrap> And we've forgotten our motive. And if <wrap hide>961|02:01:05|200|02:01:10|300</wrap>we can but remember our motive, our entire service life will be reanimated and we will <wrap hide>962|02:01:10|300|02:01:15|200</wrap>be living life with an entirely different orientation, not one of acquisition. <wrap hide>963|02:01:15|880|02:01:22|700</wrap><wrap quote>It is for this reason that the life of service and the directed intention to serve constitute <wrap hide>964|02:01:22|700|02:01:28|200</wrap>a scientific mode of achieving release.</wrap> almost more powerful than meditation. At times D.K. <wrap hide>965|02:01:28|200|02:01:34|260</wrap>says it is more powerful than meditation. Service is more releasing and more redemptive <wrap hide>966|02:01:34|260|02:01:45|180</wrap>even than meditation. The life of service and the directed intention to serve, as the <wrap hide>967|02:01:45|180|02:01:51|720</wrap>through the exercise of that life of service and that even personality intention or intention <wrap hide>968|02:01:51|720|02:01:59|740</wrap>of the soul within the personality to serve will bring us back to the realization of our <wrap hide>969|02:01:59|740|02:02:04|280</wrap>originating motive. First we realize what it is, then we're absorbed back into it and <wrap hide>970|02:02:04|280|02:02:10|660</wrap>we become that divine will to serve. <wrap quote>In Aquarius, the sign of world service, the lesson is finally <wrap hide>971|02:02:10|660|02:02:16|320</wrap>learned which produces the world Saviour in Pisces. Hence my constant emphasis upon service.</wrap> <wrap hide>972|02:02:16|320|02:02:23|460</wrap>So there is here the accent upon the continuity of these two great signs of release, Aquarius <wrap hide>973|02:02:23|460|02:02:27|940</wrap>being a sign in which you can take the third or fourth initiation, Pisces being a sign <wrap hide>974|02:02:27|940|02:02:35|280</wrap>in which you can take the fourth initiation so often and even perhaps the fifth initiation, <wrap hide>975|02:02:35|280|02:02:43|840</wrap>releasing you into Shambhala. Well friends, it looks like I've done a two hour program <wrap hide>976|02:02:43|840|02:03:05|180</wrap>here without being cancelled. Yeah, a little more. So let us call this, I don't want to <wrap hide>977|02:03:05|180|02:03:12|320</wrap>go as far as, well maybe the best way to do that is to look down here. We've gone to page <wrap hide>978|02:03:12|320|02:03:29|160</wrap>117 and I think, 117, and where did we begin? Okay, we began, okay that's E.A. 52 part 1 and <wrap hide>979|02:03:29|160|02:03:39|160</wrap>we, that's about where we were, page 111. So we've gone from page 111 to 117 in a two <wrap hide>980|02:03:39|160|02:03:45|880</wrap>hour program. It takes a little bit to set these up in a different form but hopefully <wrap hide>981|02:03:46|820|02:03:55|120</wrap>they will be of value and when I feel that I'm on a roll that I will be able to roll <wrap hide>982|02:03:55|120|02:04:02|580</wrap>instead of always having to stop after one hour. Although if one talks too long one loses oxygen <wrap hide>983|02:04:02|580|02:04:08|560</wrap>and perhaps the brain goes a little bit numb. Anyway, it's almost time for breakfast here and <wrap hide>984|02:04:09|520|02:04:18|000</wrap>I will attempt to continue this a little bit later. So let us, let us recite together the <wrap hide>985|02:04:18|000|02:04:30|700</wrap>Great Invocation and conclude this two hour webinar. Okay. <wrap hide>986|02:04:49|340|02:04:55|760</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>987|02:04:55|760|02:05:06|060</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>988|02:05:06|060|02:05:18|420</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>989|02:05:18|420|02:05:24|060</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>990|02:05:24|060|02:05:34|940</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let <wrap hide>991|02:05:34|940|02:05:42|720</wrap>the plan of love and light work out and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>992|02:05:42|720|02:05:46|540</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>993|02:06:28|980|02:06:34|820</wrap>Okay friends, thank you for attending. We are working on Pisces. We have concluded Aries <wrap hide>994|02:06:34|820|02:06:42|380</wrap>and in this Esoteric Astrology Adventure 52 we have the conclusion of Aries and the beginning <wrap hide>995|02:06:42|380|02:06:51|120</wrap>of Pisces. So we will stop the process for now and we'll talk to you soon with Esoteric <wrap hide>996|02:06:51|120|02:06:56|260</wrap>Astrology Adventure 53 whether it's going to be of the normal one hour length or longer <wrap hide>997|02:06:56|260|02:06:58|680</wrap>we will see. See you then. Bye bye.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:11|820|00:00:13|620</wrap>Good morning, everyone. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|860|00:00:20|100</wrap>This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 52. <wrap hide>3|00:00:21|480|00:00:23|880</wrap>This morning, I'm going to make an experiment. <wrap hide>4|00:00:25|360|00:00:31|800</wrap>I've been producing these adventures in one-hour segments, pretty much because I'm limited <wrap hide>5|00:00:33|130|00:00:39|840</wrap>when I do a solo webinar to about an hour or a little more, and it will cut off. <wrap hide>6|00:00:40|020|00:00:47|070</wrap>Now I've tried another arrangement which will allow me to continue for a longer time and <wrap hide>7|00:00:47|070|00:00:55|150</wrap>not have to use interim moments to wait for the next opportunity. <wrap hide>8|00:00:55|350|00:01:01|270</wrap>In other words, I'm going to make a longer webinar this morning if it does work, and we'll <wrap hide>9|00:01:01|270|00:01:02|470</wrap>see how it works for you. <wrap hide>10|00:01:03|130|00:01:04|590</wrap>Hopefully I won't get cut off. <wrap hide>11|00:01:05|550|00:01:06|530</wrap>We shall see. <wrap hide>12|00:01:09|190|00:01:20|230</wrap>We were discussing the triple sun: the physical sun which influences the mutable cross and <wrap hide>13|00:01:20|230|00:01:25|510</wrap>the personality. Of course, if it influences the personality, it influences as well the <wrap hide>14|00:01:25|510|00:01:36|090</wrap>astral vehicle and the lower mental vehicle, all of which are part of the dense physical <wrap hide>15|00:01:36|090|00:01:43|230</wrap>body of the solar Logos. From a certain point of view, the dense physical body of the solar <wrap hide>16|00:01:43|230|00:01:53|150</wrap>Logos will even include the ego on the higher mental plane. But we do not find that the physical <wrap hide>17|00:01:53|150|00:02:00|230</wrap>sun is the influence upon that ego; rather, it is the heart of the sun which influences <wrap hide>18|00:02:00|230|00:02:08|890</wrap>the fixed cross—the cross of the soul—and this is where the cross, or series of energies <wrap hide>19|00:02:08|890|00:02:14|190</wrap>through which the soul on the higher mental plane (or at least soul consciousness as we <wrap hide>20|00:02:14|190|00:02:16|590</wrap>know it on the higher mental plane) is coming into prominence. <wrap hide>21|00:02:18|790|00:02:28|690</wrap>It is the quality of consciousness, particularly, that is being dealt with here. And let's see <wrap hide>22|00:02:28|690|00:02:31|010</wrap>if I can bring these all together. <wrap hide>23|00:02:32|130|00:02:39|650</wrap>Yes, it is consciousness, and consciousness is simply another name for soul. As we know, <wrap hide>24|00:02:40|050|00:02:46|390</wrap>the soul on the higher mental plane is not the only instance of soul. The spiritual triad <wrap hide>25|00:02:46|390|00:02:54|810</wrap>is an instance of soul, and the awareness of the monad is also an instance of soul. Any <wrap hide>26|00:02:54|810|00:02:59|190</wrap>type of awareness in cosmos is an instance of soul. <wrap hide>27|00:03:00|630|00:03:07|170</wrap>The central spiritual sun, then, is our monadic aspect, and it influences the cardinal cross <wrap hide>28|00:03:07|170|00:03:12|990</wrap>upon which we have not yet stepped, and it is the life aspect. <wrap hide>29|00:03:15|050|00:03:17|270</wrap>See if I can get this looking a little better here. <wrap hide>30|00:03:18|070|00:03:23|790</wrap>One day I suppose I can send this document to you, I suppose. <wrap hide>31|00:03:25|070|00:03:35|930</wrap>So we had ended then on page 111, and the Tibetan goes on to say: "By the word 'influencing,' I here <wrap hide>32|00:03:35|930|00:03:44|430</wrap>refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the sun through the three crosses <wrap hide>33|00:03:44|890|00:03:53|490</wrap>to our planet." And I would say this would mean from the sun—not necessarily to the zodiacal <wrap hide>34|00:03:53|490|00:04:05|190</wrap>constellations, but through the three crosses—as these crosses (capitalize that) are signs <wrap hide>35|00:04:05|190|00:04:13|850</wrap>which concentrate the influences of the constellations to our planet. <wrap hide>36|00:04:14|930|00:04:23|310</wrap>We are remembering the distinction between constellations as galaxies of stars and signs <wrap hide>37|00:04:23|310|00:04:30|210</wrap>as concentrated influences of those constellational energies made available to our earth. <wrap hide>38|00:04:31|430|00:04:42|210</wrap>Okay, so even though we may be born in one of the cardinal signs—or, well, let's say one <wrap hide>39|00:04:42|210|00:04:48|790</wrap>of the cardinal signs—it does not necessarily mean that the energies of the central spiritual <wrap hide>40|00:04:48|790|00:04:57|330</wrap>sun (the monadic aspect of our solar Logos) will reach us in any way that we can register. <wrap hide>41|00:04:57|790|00:05:01|350</wrap>And for the average individual, even though he may be born in one of the fixed signs, it <wrap hide>42|00:05:01|350|00:05:06|550</wrap>does not mean that the energies of the heart of the sun will reach him in a way that he <wrap hide>43|00:05:06|550|00:05:07|390</wrap>can register. <wrap hide>44|00:05:08|690|00:05:14|950</wrap>So anyway, ponder on this and remember also that our sun is traveling through space with <wrap hide>45|00:05:14|950|00:05:23|790</wrap>its own directed motion—its own proper motion—carrying our solar system along in its sphere <wrap hide>46|00:05:24|170|00:05:35|370</wrap>of influence. And many spirals are thus created because the apparent—the rotation, the revolution <wrap hide>47|00:05:35|370|00:05:45|190</wrap>of the planets around the sun—become a spiral as that sun, through progress onward through <wrap hide>48|00:05:45|190|00:05:53|010</wrap>a type of straight-line action, creates spirals. But our sun is also in the process of revolution, <wrap hide>49|00:05:53|010|00:05:59|250</wrap>and that revolution is around the Pleiades. So we have many motions simultaneously, and <wrap hide>50|00:05:59|250|00:06:10|830</wrap>we are not occupying, as a solar system, the same—if we can call it section of space—in <wrap hide>51|00:06:10|830|00:06:13|250</wrap>one moment as we were in the previous moment. <wrap hide>52|00:06:14|670|00:06:19|530</wrap>So the sun is also traveling through space, carrying our own solar system in its sphere <wrap hide>53|00:06:19|530|00:06:26|570</wrap>of influence around our own central and conditioning star, which it has been rightly presumed exists <wrap hide>54|00:06:27|410|00:06:34|610</wrap>in the constellation Taurus, the bull, being found in the Pleiades. And since those Pleiades <wrap hide>55|00:06:35|830|00:06:42|330</wrap>are so concentrated, so close to each other, we might well consider the sun and its associated <wrap hide>56|00:06:42|330|00:06:48|230</wrap>solar systems in the seven solar systems of which ours is one as revolving around the <wrap hide>57|00:06:48|230|00:06:58|770</wrap>Pleiades as a whole. But that central star, that central star is Alcyone, he tells us, and <wrap hide>58|00:06:58|770|00:07:04|890</wrap>that is the central star of the Pleiades. It's sometimes called the star of the individual. <wrap hide>59|00:07:04|890|00:07:12|950</wrap>D.K. will elaborate upon this, and of course in the charts of disciples, the locations of <wrap hide>60|00:07:12|950|00:07:23|810</wrap>some of these stars should be noted and the aspects made to them or their position on <wrap hide>61|00:07:23|810|00:07:30|550</wrap>angles and so forth, or on other astrological factors with a very tight orb, usually given <wrap hide>62|00:07:30|550|00:07:32|850</wrap>at about one degree. <wrap hide>63|00:07:34|750|00:07:41|870</wrap>These stars are effective in our lives. They may be effective along an entire range of <wrap hide>64|00:07:41|870|00:07:49|180</wrap>influence from very mundane to very spiritual. I don't think we can expect the fullness, any <wrap hide>65|00:07:49|410|00:07:55|150</wrap>degree of the fullness of the spiritual influence of such stars until after the third initiation, <wrap hide>66|00:07:56|210|00:08:03|130</wrap>when we have what is called the first solar initiation. In other words, it's an initiation <wrap hide>67|00:08:03|130|00:08:09|870</wrap>which relates to our solar Logos, and stars are the bodies of manifestation of solar Logos <wrap hide>68|00:08:09|870|00:08:17|850</wrap>in our choice. So only when we begin taking the solar initiations can the spiritual effect <wrap hide>69|00:08:17|850|00:08:21|230</wrap>of the so-called fixed stars begin to apply. <wrap hide>70|00:08:22|330|00:08:31|290</wrap>At the same time, it appears from the standpoint of our planet to be passing through the twelve <wrap hide>71|00:08:31|290|00:08:37|950</wrap>signs of the zodiac, or against the twelve constellations, or through the orbit of the <wrap hide>72|00:08:37|950|00:08:44|270</wrap>earth dividing which you have the twelve signs. But notice the word "appears" — it appears <wrap hide>73|00:08:44|690|00:08:55|370</wrap>to be passing through, and that of course is an illusion based upon the revolution of our <wrap hide>74|00:08:55|370|00:09:07|930</wrap>earth around the sun. This is a symbol, macrocosmically considered. It reveals to the student a certain <wrap hide>75|00:09:07|950|00:09:15|010</wrap>availability of energies, but it's not — you know, really, it's not really happening. This <wrap hide>76|00:09:16|810|00:09:23|430</wrap>is a symbol, macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic, centralized point of view of <wrap hide>77|00:09:23|430|00:09:26|930</wrap>the individual human being. And when the word "dramatic" is used, we immediately think of the <wrap hide>78|00:09:26|930|00:09:37|190</wrap>word Leo — Leo and the self-centered attitude which is so often found in the early stage <wrap hide>79|00:09:37|190|00:09:44|190</wrap>of the Leo experience and through which humanity is still passing, because the great majority <wrap hide>80|00:09:44|190|00:09:50|690</wrap>of human beings are not yet even centralized personalities. They are on their way to becoming <wrap hide>81|00:09:50|690|00:09:56|250</wrap>so. This is the symbol, macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic, centralized point of view <wrap hide>82|00:09:56|910|00:10:05|010</wrap>of the individual human being, the microcosm. It's a geocentric — the geocentric point of <wrap hide>83|00:10:05|010|00:10:13|190</wrap>view whereby all of the heavenly bodies appear to be revolving around the stationary earth <wrap hide>84|00:10:13|190|00:10:23|050</wrap>is analogous to the egoistic point of view of the individual personality, where all of <wrap hide>85|00:10:23|050|00:10:32|530</wrap>life seems to be revolving around it and where this egoistic personality is the center of <wrap hide>86|00:10:32|530|00:10:41|790</wrap>the sphere of consciousness. It is the pre-decentralized point of view — let's call it that — pre-decentralized <wrap hide>87|00:10:41|790|00:10:49|290</wrap>point of view. It is interesting to compare the symbolism and the underlying truth connected <wrap hide>88|00:10:50|710|00:10:58|530</wrap>with the lesser and greater zodiacs and with their 12-month and 25,000-year cycle. So this <wrap hide>89|00:10:58|530|00:11:07|230</wrap>is one way he describes the greater and lesser zodiac. The lesser zodiac is the apparent passage <wrap hide>90|00:11:07|230|00:11:18|290</wrap>of the sun through all of the 12 phases of the earth's orbit around the sun, the 12 divisions <wrap hide>91|00:11:18|290|00:11:26|430</wrap>of the ecliptic whereby we pass through all the 12 signs, the 12 divisions of the ecliptic. <wrap hide>92|00:11:26|430|00:11:32|170</wrap>That is the lesser zodiac. He defines them in different ways at different times. Lesser <wrap hide>93|00:11:32|170|00:11:39|410</wrap>zodiac — sometimes we will see he will define lesser and greater zodiacs in different ways. <wrap hide>94|00:11:39|410|00:11:49|730</wrap>The 25,000-year cycle is called — and it's an approximation because I think the actual figure <wrap hide>95|00:11:49|730|00:12:01|030</wrap>given when a processional age is measured as 2,160 years is 25,920 years, something like <wrap hide>96|00:12:01|030|00:12:13|550</wrap>that. When you multiply — when you multiply 2,160 by 12, you get something like 25,920 years. <wrap hide>97|00:12:13|550|00:12:17|870</wrap>I haven't got my calculator here at the moment, but I think that's about what it is. You can <wrap hide>98|00:12:17|870|00:12:25|890</wrap>work it out for yourself. But anyway, this is an approximation, and overlap periods are involved <wrap hide>99|00:12:25|890|00:12:33|260</wrap>and counted in a certain way. So the 25,000-year cycle is called the Great Platonic Year, <wrap hide>100|00:12:33|930|00:12:47|810</wrap>and it represents one complete revolution of 12 equinoctial ages — 12 ages: an age of Pisces, <wrap hide>101|00:12:47|870|00:12:58|110</wrap>of Aquarius, of Capricorn, and so forth, until 12 of these 2,160-year periods are covered — <wrap hide>102|00:12:59|330|00:13:08|970</wrap>one complete revolution, or — well, let's say one complete gyration of the earth's axis. <wrap hide>103|00:13:10|450|00:13:22|130</wrap>And these great ages are also, we come to understand, ruled by one particular constellation. <wrap hide>104|00:13:22|130|00:13:27|870</wrap>of the zodiac or sign of the zodiac. We are presently leaving a 25,000-year cycle which <wrap hide>105|00:13:27|870|00:13:37|070</wrap>has been under the influence of Pisces and moving retrogressively clockwise into a 25,000- <wrap hide>106|00:13:37|070|00:13:44|430</wrap>year age which is going to be ruled by Aquarius. I don't think we are quite there yet. D.K. says <wrap hide>107|00:13:44|430|00:13:52|470</wrap>we are almost there, but our type of astrology cannot determine the exact point of entrance <wrap hide>108|00:13:52|470|00:13:59|630</wrap>into this 25,000-year period. So it's really quite an amazing idea that we will be having <wrap hide>109|00:13:59|630|00:14:07|050</wrap>a double age of Aquarius and that even after 2,160 years beginning of the year we will be <wrap hide>110|00:14:07|070|00:14:15|190</wrap>2117, where the lesser Aquarian age happens, even after that age gives way in a little <wrap hide>111|00:14:15|190|00:14:20|370</wrap>more than 2,000 years to the age of Capricorn, we will still be in the greater age of Aquarius. <wrap hide>112|00:14:21|250|00:14:27|170</wrap>So it is interesting to compare the symbolism of the underlying truth connected with the <wrap hide>113|00:14:27|170|00:14:33|130</wrap>lesser and the greater zodiacs and with their 12-month and 25,000-year cycles. There's a <wrap hide>114|00:14:33|130|00:14:45|630</wrap>complete gyration of the Earth's axis by means of which our planet passes through the influence <wrap hide>115|00:14:45|630|00:14:55|050</wrap>of all 12 signs in a vast planetary effect. Whole ages are ruled by a particular sign, <wrap hide>116|00:14:55|730|00:15:02|630</wrap>and then finally a 25,000-year period all ruled by one sign with many sub-signs, the <wrap hide>117|00:15:02|630|00:15:13|630</wrap>12 sun signs, and then it will give way perhaps—it looks like—to a 25,000-year age of Capricorn <wrap hide>118|00:15:14|580|00:15:19|390</wrap>in which we may presume that a particular ray accompanies that 25,000-year period. We <wrap hide>119|00:15:19|390|00:15:26|290</wrap>don't know exactly. Well, we do know that the seventh ray will accompany the 2,160-year period <wrap hide>120|00:15:26|290|00:15:34|370</wrap>of Aquarius, or sometimes rounded off to 2,500. We do not know whether that same seventh ray <wrap hide>121|00:15:34|370|00:15:43|250</wrap>will accompany a 25,000-year cycle, but some ray will, and maybe the seventh. This is a tremendous <wrap hide>122|00:15:43|250|00:15:51|270</wrap>study, and the masters know these cycles. They bear out—it is said—these two cycles they <wrap hide>123|00:15:51|270|00:16:00|250</wrap>bear out great Platonic here, and let's call it the greater zodiac by one appellation. We're <wrap hide>124|00:16:00|250|00:16:06|330</wrap>not sure. Later he's going to refer to the sun sign and the rising sign, I think, as lesser <wrap hide>125|00:16:06|330|00:16:11|390</wrap>and greater zodiacs. We will see. <wrap quote>They bear out much that I have given you anent the <wrap hide>126|00:16:11|390|00:16:20|030</wrap>soul, influenced by the esoteric planets eventually, and the personality, influenced by the orthodox <wrap hide>127|00:16:20|030|00:16:32|190</wrap>planets.</wrap> or by the planets in their esoteric and orthodox expressions. Every one of us as <wrap hide>128|00:16:32|190|00:16:38|470</wrap>a soul—the soul in incarnation—will be influenced by certain qualities of the planets when they <wrap hide>129|00:16:38|470|00:16:45|550</wrap>are functioning esoterically, because all planets are simply planets, but they have orthodox <wrap hide>130|00:16:45|610|00:17:04|630</wrap>and esoteric functions. So we want to note the orthodox and esoteric functions <wrap hide>131|00:17:05|550|00:17:14|990</wrap>of every planet. In other words, you know, whereas an exoteric function of Mercury can simply <wrap hide>132|00:17:15|550|00:17:21|650</wrap>relate to the concrete mind and its reasoning and correlations, an esoteric function of Mercury <wrap hide>133|00:17:21|650|00:17:32|130</wrap>can relate to contact with the mind of God or with a deep intuitive access. So when the <wrap hide>134|00:17:32|130|00:17:39|770</wrap>planetary rays hit our forms, as it were, depending on what area within our constitution they <wrap hide>135|00:17:39|770|00:17:51|090</wrap>strike or influence will be their particular influence. <wrap quote>The greater zodiac is symbolic of <wrap hide>136|00:17:51|090|00:17:57|030</wrap>the soul and the lesser of the personality.</wrap> I suppose that every year, every time we have <wrap hide>137|00:17:57|030|00:18:02|330</wrap>a complete yearly zodiacal cycle, we have had the opportunity to grow within our personality, <wrap hide>138|00:18:02|330|00:18:10|270</wrap>but the great soul cycles are longer, and perhaps if we're examining the growth of the <wrap hide>139|00:18:10|270|00:18:16|850</wrap>soul on its own plane—if that's what this means—then we look for greater zodiacal cycles. <wrap hide>140|00:18:16|850|00:18:25|970</wrap>I would think, though, that with every precessional age of even 2,160 or 2,500 years, the soul would <wrap hide>141|00:18:25|970|00:18:35|130</wrap>have some kind of marked growth, especially if one is on the path. So the greater zodiac— <wrap hide>142|00:18:35|130|00:18:41|830</wrap>this greater zodiac is symbolic of the soul and the lesser of the personality. <wrap quote>In the personality <wrap hide>143|00:18:42|120|00:18:53|410</wrap>cycle, the lesser zodiac conditions the personality career and the twelve planetary houses are of dominant importance.</wrap> <wrap hide>144|00:18:53|410|00:19:03|790</wrap>In other words, we are still circumstantially focused. Later, the detached individual learns <wrap hide>145|00:19:03|790|00:19:11|410</wrap>that circumstances are non-compelling. This is learned, I think, in one instance in Leo, <wrap hide>146|00:19:12|570|00:19:19|490</wrap>especially when Uranus is the veiled ruler of Leo, that one is entirely positive to circumstance <wrap hide>147|00:19:19|490|00:19:25|490</wrap>and circumstance can no longer compel. This is a condition of detachment in which the <wrap hide>148|00:19:25|490|00:19:34|810</wrap>true identity is not only understood but deeply felt. But most people are caught up in circumstances <wrap hide>149|00:19:34|810|00:19:41|610</wrap>and what we say, "Hey, what's happening around me?" and that determines how the life goes. But <wrap hide>150|00:19:41|610|00:19:48|110</wrap>it's what happens within me, regardless of what happens around me, that becomes a real <wrap hide>151|00:19:48|110|00:20:01|130</wrap>moment in the case of the disciple. <wrap quote>Later the influence of the twelve signs supersedes <wrap hide>152|00:20:01|130|00:20:08|510</wrap>the influence of the planets.</wrap> So actually, the constellational energy through the 12 signs <wrap hide>153|00:20:09|330|00:20:16|950</wrap>becomes more important than the planets. But let us still remember, yeah, I mean we have <wrap hide>154|00:20:16|950|00:20:24|390</wrap>discussed the ways in which these constellation signs influence the soul and how they also <wrap hide>155|00:20:24|390|00:20:30|210</wrap>have a monadic influence. But let us not think that the planets themselves, though they are <wrap hide>156|00:20:30|210|00:20:37|470</wrap>lesser planetary Lords, do not have a lot to do with even very high initiations. So planets <wrap hide>157|00:20:37|470|00:20:46|210</wrap>are gods after all. They are solar systemic deities within the solar system, and they can <wrap hide>158|00:20:46|210|00:20:54|590</wrap>have a tremendous effect even on the higher stages of human development. For instance, when <wrap hide>159|00:20:54|590|00:21:00|130</wrap>I think of the great decision which is taken at the sixth initiation, in which we as a monad <wrap hide>160|00:21:00|130|00:21:07|790</wrap>decide which of seven or nine paths we will pursue, I cannot help but think that a very <wrap hide>161|00:21:07|790|00:21:14|870</wrap>high influence of the planet Saturn, as the major ruler of Libra, is involved in that great <wrap hide>162|00:21:15|520|00:21:24|530</wrap>decision. So, you know, although ordinary non-aspiring individuals are much influenced by <wrap hide>163|00:21:24|530|00:21:31|470</wrap>the planets as they work out through the houses or circumstantial areas of the chart, more <wrap hide>164|00:21:32|730|00:21:41|810</wrap>advanced people are indeed influenced by the Lords of the planets as they represent different <wrap hide>165|00:21:41|810|00:21:45|970</wrap>zodiacal constellations, and then of course by the constellations themselves, which have <wrap hide>166|00:21:45|970|00:21:55|630</wrap>their own ray energies transmitted. <wrap quote>I would like also to emphasise—perhaps unnecessarily—that <wrap hide>167|00:21:55|630|00:22:02|530</wrap>Sirius, the Great Bear and the Pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations,</wrap> <wrap hide>168|00:22:02|530|00:22:18|530</wrap>Constellations—this setup is found in the diagrams we have later in Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>169|00:22:19|480|00:22:27|130</wrap>There are different kinds of rays coming through the Great Bear, Pleiades, and Sirius, and the <wrap hide>170|00:22:27|130|00:22:32|450</wrap>will aspect of the seven rays is transmitted by the Great Bear, perhaps the more material <wrap hide>171|00:22:32|450|00:22:37|790</wrap>or intellectual aspect through the Pleiades, and the love aspect through Sirius—whatever <wrap hide>172|00:22:37|790|00:22:45|870</wrap>we do mean by Sirius, whether we mean a single star, several stars, or an entire system of <wrap hide>173|00:22:45|870|00:22:53|950</wrap>stars. So, but these are the three great constellations, and generally, unless we get into it in too <wrap hide>174|00:22:53|950|00:22:58|370</wrap>much detail, they represent the father aspect—Great Bear—the mother aspect—Pleiades—and <wrap hide>175|00:22:58|370|00:23:03|730</wrap>the aspect of the divine son, which is Sirius, or the cosmic Christ, although there are many <wrap hide>176|00:23:03|730|00:23:10|770</wrap>cosmic Christs, as I've said. The cosmic Christ of a certain scope—Sirius—represents <wrap quote>pouring <wrap hide>177|00:23:13|370|00:23:25|630</wrap>their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are <wrap hide>178|00:23:25|630|00:23:31|630</wrap>not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned.</wrap> is the twelvefold zodiac, which is the heart <wrap hide>179|00:23:31|630|00:23:38|410</wrap>and the head center of the great super-constellational deity we call "the One about whom naught may <wrap hide>180|00:23:38|410|00:23:44|670</wrap>be said"—at least one of the ones about whom naught may be said. These super-constellations <wrap hide>181|00:23:44|670|00:23:54|830</wrap>work through nine of our constellations particularly, and we could pick and choose which <wrap hide>182|00:23:54|830|00:24:05|350</wrap>we would assign to the different groupings. We already have some assignments. <wrap hide>183|00:24:06|130|00:24:12|190</wrap>For instance, we already have on page fifty of Esoteric Astrology the fact that Aries <wrap hide>184|00:24:12|190|00:24:17|550</wrap>and Libra are connected with the Great Bear. We already have Gemini and Sagittarius connected <wrap hide>185|00:24:17|550|00:24:23|230</wrap>to the Pleiades. We already have Cancer and Capricorn connected with Sirius, and as well <wrap hide>186|00:24:23|230|00:24:31|370</wrap>we have Taurus and Scorpio connected with the seven solar systems of which ours is one. <wrap hide>187|00:24:31|370|00:24:36|530</wrap>That's one of the great blinds—the use of the word "seven solar systems of which ours <wrap hide>188|00:24:36|530|00:24:44|350</wrap>is one"—because it can mean, on some occasions, seven solar major solar Logoi and their stellar <wrap hide>189|00:24:44|350|00:24:51|310</wrap>expression, or it can mean seven constellations, and it depends on the context that we are <wrap hide>190|00:24:51|310|00:25:02|690</wrap>using. So for the moment, we will have to add to each one of the signs given yet another <wrap hide>191|00:25:02|690|00:25:12|270</wrap>sign. We have Aries, Libra in connection with the Great Bear—could Leo be another sign? We <wrap hide>192|00:25:12|270|00:25:21|290</wrap>have Gemini, Sagittarius connected with the Pleiades—could Virgo be another sign? And we <wrap hide>193|00:25:21|310|00:25:34|570</wrap>have—another sign or constellation—we have Cancer, Capricorn connected with Sirius. We wonder, <wrap hide>194|00:25:35|730|00:25:45|630</wrap>could Pisces possibly be another sign, giving three each? And I can't keep it quite straight— <wrap hide>195|00:25:45|630|00:25:54|790</wrap>there's one left to be connected with the seven solar systems of which ours is one. I <wrap hide>196|00:25:54|790|00:26:00|490</wrap>suppose we have not yet used the constellation Aquarius. Anyway, there are a number of ways <wrap hide>197|00:26:00|490|00:26:10|310</wrap>of conceiving these nine. How shall we conceive these nine? There are justifications for doing <wrap hide>198|00:26:10|310|00:26:20|910</wrap>it as I have done it, but there's probably also other justifications. CEA page 50. Okay. <wrap hide>199|00:26:22|100|00:26:26|090</wrap>So these three major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. <wrap hide>200|00:26:26|090|00:26:35|430</wrap><wrap quote>They, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected <wrap hide>201|00:26:36|370|00:26:40|930</wrap>with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance <wrap hide>202|00:26:40|930|00:26:45|690</wrap>of the number twelve.</wrap> They are conditioned by the more perfect number, in a way conditioned <wrap hide>203|00:26:45|690|00:26:57|750</wrap>by the number ten. It is a more masculine system. The feminine system is conditioned by the <wrap hide>204|00:26:57|750|00:27:05|410</wrap>number twelve. One and two is three. Three represents the mother aspect. The number one represents <wrap hide>205|00:27:06|290|00:27:13|350</wrap>the father aspect. Ten equals one. So in this particular case, seven solar systems of which <wrap hide>206|00:27:13|350|00:27:25|310</wrap>ours is one—we can think of these systems as super constellations and not as they are <wrap hide>207|00:27:25|310|00:27:32|570</wrap>given on Esoteric Astrology, page 50. See, I hope I'm—I hope I'm being clear here. At least <wrap hide>208|00:27:32|570|00:27:37|610</wrap>this is being clear about my speculation. I think there's a lot of blinded language going <wrap hide>209|00:27:37|610|00:27:46|190</wrap>on here, and that there are Lords of individual stars, these Lords being associated with our <wrap hide>210|00:27:46|190|00:27:56|050</wrap>particular solar Logos. Our solar Logos being one of seven solar systems of which ours is <wrap hide>211|00:27:56|050|00:28:03|470</wrap>one—so that's simply a constellation. But there are also ways of talking about seven solar <wrap hide>212|00:28:03|470|00:28:14|590</wrap>systems of which ours is one, and the "ours" will refer to the cosmic Logos and its system <wrap hide>213|00:28:16|530|00:28:25|110</wrap>of which our solar system is a part, and that cosmic Logos is just one of seven systems, <wrap hide>214|00:28:25|670|00:28:33|870</wrap>and there are six other constellational systems consisting of solar Logos. And let's say that <wrap hide>215|00:28:34|410|00:28:37|850</wrap>Draco would be one, and the Little Bear would be one, and the Great Bear would be one. They <wrap hide>216|00:28:37|850|00:28:42|850</wrap>all have solar Logos within them, but here they would be called—well, we have to be careful <wrap hide>217|00:28:42|850|00:28:49|010</wrap>about including the Great Bear because it's one of the three. But anyway, Draco and Orion <wrap hide>218|00:28:49|010|00:28:55|070</wrap>and then probably some other constellations are part of these seven solar systems. In other <wrap hide>219|00:28:55|070|00:29:01|950</wrap>words, a constellation is a system; a system is a constellation. This is one way of looking <wrap hide>220|00:29:01|950|00:29:18|190</wrap>at it. A system is a constellation, or can be, and a constellation can be a system. So that's <wrap hide>221|00:29:18|190|00:29:24|970</wrap>referred simply to a solar system as having one star, and yet a system of stars is also <wrap hide>222|00:29:24|970|00:29:35|530</wrap>a solar system. So anyway, we seem to be looking at a zodiac of ten, and in this particular <wrap hide>223|00:29:35|530|00:29:41|830</wrap>case, seven of them are referred to as the seven solar systems of which our cosmic Logoic <wrap hide>224|00:29:41|830|00:29:52|330</wrap>solar system is one. And we can work out what we think they are. Let's just say that Draco <wrap hide>225|00:29:52|330|00:29:59|670</wrap>will be one of them, the Little Bear will be one, Orion will be one, the so-called system— <wrap hide>226|00:30:01|530|00:30:09|110</wrap>the cosmic Logoic system of which our little star is one—will be one of those systems, and <wrap hide>227|00:30:09|110|00:30:16|230</wrap>there are other constellations which probably are part of these ten—part of these ten. <wrap hide>228|00:30:17|970|00:30:26|070</wrap>"They are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned <wrap hide>229|00:30:26|070|00:30:34|510</wrap>by the numerical significance of number twelve." Now, does the—the still greater zodiac—is it <wrap hide>230|00:30:34|510|00:30:41|490</wrap>a zodiac of ten? Okay, this is what we're trying to see. <wrap quote>Hence ten is regarded as the number <wrap hide>231|00:30:41|940|00:30:55|850</wrap>of perfection.</wrap> So we are—we are speaking of, probably, a tenfold zodiac which is, in a <wrap hide>232|00:30:55|850|00:31:04|490</wrap>way, superior to our normal twelve—twelvefold. So we are speaking of, probably, a tenfold <wrap hide>233|00:31:04|510|00:31:14|730</wrap>zodiac. These are great mysteries, as I've said. Stephen Pugh has done a lot of work on <wrap hide>234|00:31:14|730|00:31:22|170</wrap>this—I think a lot of very good work—opening this subject up to the speculation of students <wrap hide>235|00:31:22|170|00:31:27|390</wrap>such as we are. But there are still mysteries to be solved here. If you really combine the <wrap hide>236|00:31:27|390|00:31:33|590</wrap>numbers here—ten and twelve—we get twenty-two. We get the mystical number twenty-two, which <wrap hide>237|00:31:33|590|00:31:40|290</wrap>is very important to our solar system because our solar system is a "two and two" with its <wrap hide>238|00:31:40|290|00:31:46|430</wrap>second-ray soul and its second-ray personality. So there's a kind of completeness when we <wrap hide>239|00:31:46|430|00:31:53|330</wrap>combine these two numbers, just the way when we combine the number five and the number <wrap hide>240|00:31:53|330|00:32:00|590</wrap>six—which are half of the numbers we're dealing with—the five for man and the six for the <wrap hide>241|00:32:00|590|00:32:05|170</wrap>deva kingdom, we get the number eleven, which gives us the number of the initiate, or the <wrap hide>242|00:32:05|170|00:32:10|210</wrap>number of Aquarius, or the number of the spiritual hierarchy, or in another way, the number of <wrap hide>243|00:32:10|210|00:32:18|190</wrap>Gemini. One and one is two. So the five is correlated with the ten; the six is correlated <wrap hide>244|00:32:18|190|00:32:27|670</wrap>with the twelve. The ten is a number of man, and the twelve is a number of the deva aspect— <wrap hide>245|00:32:27|670|00:32:33|570</wrap>the feminine aspect. The five, with its five-pointed star, is a number of man; it's more masculine. <wrap hide>246|00:32:33|570|00:32:39|830</wrap>The six—the six-pointed star—is a number related to the deva aspect and to form, the builders. <wrap hide>247|00:32:39|830|00:32:47|150</wrap>of form relate to the number six. Six is the number of form; it kind of shows us the descent <wrap hide>248|00:32:47|150|00:32:57|390</wrap>of the circle into matter, and the nine will be the reascent of the circle out of matter. <wrap hide>249|00:32:59|870|00:33:05|210</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>There is confusion in the minds of some of the less learned students (astrologically <wrap hide>250|00:33:05|210|00:33:14|450</wrap>considered) on this point.</wrap> Maybe we can include ourselves—including ourselves—the zodiac of <wrap hide>251|00:33:14|450|00:33:18|690</wrap>ten and the zodiac of twelve. The zodiac of twelve is completely articulated, although <wrap hide>252|00:33:18|690|00:33:25|930</wrap>some people are trying to make fourteen signs or thirteen signs, including Ophiuchus and <wrap hide>253|00:33:25|930|00:33:31|690</wrap>Orion and so forth. But twelve is a heart center, and the zodiac is a heart center within a <wrap hide>254|00:33:31|690|00:33:38|070</wrap>head, and so we should not look for a number that is greater than twelve for our zodiac, <wrap hide>255|00:33:38|070|00:33:47|490</wrap>I think, regardless of how things appear from the constellational perspective. As for filling <wrap hide>256|00:33:47|490|00:33:55|910</wrap>out every constellation that belongs to the zodiac of ten, I think the zodiac of ten is <wrap hide>257|00:33:56|330|00:34:03|570</wrap>that still remains to be done. Some people have included, for instance, the Southern Cross <wrap hide>258|00:34:04|150|00:34:10|070</wrap>as representing a kind of base of the spine which is not ascended, with Draco as a base <wrap hide>259|00:34:10|070|00:34:14|070</wrap>of the spine and the one about whom naught maybe said which has ascended—the Kundalini power <wrap hide>260|00:34:14|070|00:34:23|270</wrap>which has ascended to the head. There are ways of looking at various associated constellations <wrap hide>261|00:34:23|270|00:34:29|730</wrap>which we can put into this super category. This is kind of a Tree of Life setup: there's <wrap hide>262|00:34:29|730|00:34:35|630</wrap>the three hovering above the seven, you know, the higher trinity in the Tree of Life—the <wrap hide>263|00:34:36|290|00:34:47|790</wrap>Kether, the Chochmah, and the Binah. They are hovering above the lesser seven, and it is related <wrap hide>264|00:34:47|790|00:34:57|510</wrap>to power. So at least we seem to know that the Great Bear, the Pleiades—or at least part <wrap hide>265|00:34:57|510|00:35:04|550</wrap>of them—and the constellation Sirius should be the superior three. But if we really think <wrap hide>266|00:35:04|550|00:35:09|030</wrap>about this and the possible blinding that goes on, it may be that the Little Bear is <wrap hide>267|00:35:09|030|00:35:15|830</wrap>to take the place of Sirius, and that Sirius is part of a lesser configuration and is part <wrap hide>268|00:35:15|830|00:35:21|930</wrap>of a blind whereby a lesser is used to represent a greater. At some point, D.K. talks about the <wrap hide>269|00:35:21|930|00:35:29|930</wrap>tremendous significance of the triangle of the Great Bear, Little Bear, and the Pleiades, <wrap hide>270|00:35:30|920|00:35:37|510</wrap>and he says it's a stupendous triangle. So, you know, it is frequently used that a lesser <wrap hide>271|00:35:37|510|00:35:42|370</wrap>represents a greater. For instance, in this case, a planet would be used to represent a <wrap hide>272|00:35:42|370|00:35:50|990</wrap>sign of the zodiac or a solar Logos. A star would be used to represent a complete constellation <wrap hide>273|00:35:50|990|00:35:56|430</wrap>of which it is a part, as is the case when Betelgeuse—or Betelgeuse, however we want to <wrap hide>274|00:35:56|430|00:36:02|850</wrap>pronounce it—is used to represent the entirety of Orion. Alcyone could be used to represent <wrap hide>275|00:36:02|850|00:36:12|350</wrap>the entirety of the Pleiades. Sirius could be used to represent the Little Bear. So that <wrap hide>276|00:36:12|370|00:36:21|270</wrap>is a major—although Sirius is not specifically a part of the Little Bear. Alright, these are, <wrap hide>277|00:36:21|270|00:36:28|290</wrap>you know, this is a cosmological astrology. It's fascinating; it's dealt with in the great <wrap hide>278|00:36:28|290|00:36:35|590</wrap>inner departments of hierarchy—the astrological departments—and the crumbs from the tables <wrap hide>279|00:36:35|590|00:36:43|370</wrap>of the gods are falling off so that we can use them as our full meal. And one day we shall <wrap hide>280|00:36:43|370|00:36:48|110</wrap>know about these things. D.K. has said that Cosmic Fire—there will be interest in the <wrap hide>281|00:36:48|110|00:36:52|450</wrap>material in Cosmic Fire in the beginning of the fifth round, and it will be reduced to <wrap hide>282|00:36:52|450|00:36:57|330</wrap>scientific textbook formation at the end of the fifth round. Well, we're talking millions <wrap hide>283|00:36:57|330|00:37:03|810</wrap>of years ahead, and the kind of cosmological speculation we're dealing with right now is <wrap hide>284|00:37:03|810|00:37:10|270</wrap>of equal abstractness and difficulty to the Cosmic Fire material. Really, it is Cosmic <wrap hide>285|00:37:10|270|00:37:20|590</wrap>Fire material. Alright, moving on. <wrap quote>It is rather difficult for you also to grasp that the involutionary <wrap hide>286|00:37:20|590|00:37:29|690</wrap>process for all the kingdoms of nature is related to the passage of the soul (this time <wrap hide>287|00:37:29|690|00:37:37|570</wrap>the anima mundi or world soul) from Aries to Pisces, via Taurus and not vice versa.</wrap> Yeah, <wrap hide>288|00:37:37|570|00:37:46|190</wrap>this is interesting. There are three ways—two ways of passing around the zodiac, or going, <wrap hide>289|00:37:46|190|00:37:54|310</wrap>moving through the signs, as it were. Three types of beings move through the signs: <wrap hide>290|00:37:54|370|00:38:06|030</wrap>the anima mundi, the undeveloped individual, and the spiritual individual. And what is <wrap hide>291|00:38:06|030|00:38:13|890</wrap>being said here is that the method of procedure of the world soul—that consciousness which <wrap hide>292|00:38:13|890|00:38:22|530</wrap>underlies the world of matter, particularly the soul of the world of matter—particularly <wrap hide>293|00:38:22|530|00:38:29|570</wrap>we might call it the soul of substance—is the same mode of procedure, counterclockwise, as that <wrap hide>294|00:38:30|610|00:38:41|370</wrap>along which the spiritual man proceeds. It is only man in his ignorant state that is <wrap hide>295|00:38:41|370|00:38:46|190</wrap>proceeding in the clockwise manner, as it were, against the grain. So there's something natural <wrap hide>296|00:38:46|190|00:38:54|470</wrap>about the anima mundi and something natural or right about the mode of procedure of the <wrap hide>297|00:38:54|470|00:39:00|450</wrap>spiritual man. But when it comes to the ignorant human being who is identified with matter, <wrap hide>298|00:39:02|410|00:39:08|070</wrap>his individualized consciousness being identified with matter and circumstance, he is proceeding <wrap hide>299|00:39:08|070|00:39:14|690</wrap>in a clockwise direction which is against the natural order of things. So let's just <wrap hide>300|00:39:14|690|00:39:24|870</wrap>say that only man, only ignorant man, proceeds against the natural order of things. In other <wrap hide>301|00:39:24|870|00:39:34|290</wrap>words, there is a sense in which we are to move developmentally from Aries to Taurus <wrap hide>302|00:39:34|290|00:39:42|330</wrap>to Gemini and so forth. And when we move backwards, we are in a way moving backward in time and <wrap hide>303|00:39:42|330|00:39:47|630</wrap>we are representing a kind of—even though we are on the path of evolution, we are representing <wrap hide>304|00:39:47|630|00:39:53|090</wrap>identification with an evolutionary order. So D.K. is right when he says it is rather <wrap hide>305|00:39:53|090|00:39:58|510</wrap>difficult for us to grasp that the evolutionary process for all kingdoms of nature is related <wrap hide>306|00:39:58|510|00:40:08|330</wrap>to the passage of the soul, the anima mundi, from Aries to Pisces. But only man goes against <wrap hide>307|00:40:08|330|00:40:18|190</wrap>the grain, as it were. We are descending into evolution as part of an arc. Let's say we <wrap hide>308|00:40:18|190|00:40:25|310</wrap>are descending into evolution and we are reascending evolutionarily in an evolutionary manner. But <wrap hide>309|00:40:26|310|00:40:38|310</wrap>an ignorant man remains identified with that which the anima mundi has provided him and <wrap hide>310|00:40:38|310|00:40:46|870</wrap>direction and begin to progress through the natural order of the science. <wrap quote>The anima mundi <wrap hide>311|00:40:46|870|00:40:51|950</wrap>on the involutionary arc proceeds this way and not as the personality proceeds.</wrap> This <wrap hide>312|00:40:51|950|00:40:59|770</wrap>is very interesting and, yes, abstruse and difficult to understand why this should be <wrap hide>313|00:40:59|770|00:41:08|290</wrap>the case because the personality is in a way an evolutionary elemental process and it is <wrap hide>314|00:41:08|310|00:41:17|210</wrap>continuous which is evolving but still attached to the direction of the evolutionary aspects <wrap hide>315|00:41:17|210|00:41:23|730</wrap>within it. <wrap quote>The anima mundi passes to Pisces at the close of every great cycle and not <wrap hide>316|00:41:23|730|00:41:31|390</wrap>to Taurus.</wrap> So the anima mundi is ready to move up and the lives which comprise it are ready <wrap hide>317|00:41:31|390|00:41:39|130</wrap>to take their next step. <wrap quote>It emerges into outer manifestation in Cancer,</wrap> which is the sign <wrap hide>318|00:41:39|130|00:41:45|590</wrap>which rules much of matter and elemental life, <wrap quote>the sign of mass or group life,</wrap> It emerges <wrap hide>319|00:41:45|590|00:41:50|530</wrap>into outer manifestation in Cancer. That's very interesting because so does the mass <wrap hide>320|00:41:50|530|00:42:01|370</wrap>of humanity. So does the human being en masse emerge in Cancer. <wrap hide>321|00:42:03|610|00:42:07|390</wrap>So does the human being en masse emerge in Cancer, the sign of mass or group life, <wrap quote>of mass or group activity; <wrap hide>322|00:42:08|290|00:42:13|590</wrap>its diffused consciousness has not yet been individualised as has the consciousness of <wrap hide>323|00:42:13|590|00:42:20|250</wrap>man.</wrap> So man is in a peculiarly dangerous condition because he has a choice. At first he moves <wrap hide>324|00:42:20|250|00:42:27|890</wrap>by instinct in a direction which feeds his elemental nature and whereby his consciousness <wrap hide>325|00:42:27|890|00:42:33|290</wrap>is controlled by that element of nature. But later he has a choice, and if he chooses to <wrap hide>326|00:42:33|290|00:42:42|790</wrap>continue to work in a reversed, in a retrogressive manner, going clockwise through the signs, then <wrap hide>327|00:42:42|790|00:42:49|350</wrap>he will have chosen incorrectly and he will condemn his consciousness to captivation by <wrap hide>328|00:42:49|350|00:42:57|870</wrap>this great devic life which sub-stands the dense physical body of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>329|00:42:57|890|00:43:03|090</wrap>He will have to achieve his freedom at some time. He will be a captive of this <wrap hide>330|00:43:03|090|00:43:10|170</wrap>great deva. Okay, so the diffused consciousness, which is not self-conscious, of the anima mundi <wrap hide>331|00:43:10|170|00:43:14|910</wrap>has not yet been individualized as has the consciousness of man. When the world's soul, <wrap hide>332|00:43:16|390|00:43:21|610</wrap>the consciousness underlying substance, <wrap quote>When the world soul after having progressed around <wrap hide>333|00:43:21|610|00:43:27|630</wrap>the Great Wheel, reached Cancer and the time came for the fourth Creative Hierarchy to <wrap hide>334|00:43:27|630|00:43:32|990</wrap>manifest through the fourth kingdom in nature,</wrap>—as there are other kingdoms through which you can manifest <wrap hide>335|00:43:32|990|00:43:39|250</wrap>in nature—<wrap quote>a reversal took place and then proceeded as now.</wrap> This is not the same thing <wrap hide>336|00:43:39|250|00:43:46|010</wrap>as the reversed wheel. The reversed wheel involves reversing the reversal. Okay, the <wrap hide>337|00:43:46|010|00:43:55|630</wrap>true reversed wheel involves reversing the reversal. In other words, if we decide to move <wrap hide>338|00:43:55|630|00:44:00|390</wrap>backwards, which is clockwise, there must come a time when the human being reverses that <wrap hide>339|00:44:00|390|00:44:05|450</wrap>decision to reverse the natural order, and that second reversal returns the human being <wrap hide>340|00:44:05|990|00:44:10|890</wrap>to the natural order of the signs. There are many mysteries here. I don't pretend to be <wrap hide>341|00:44:10|890|00:44:18|290</wrap>able to fathom them. D.K. has told us that we are in no position to really comprehend <wrap hide>342|00:44:18|290|00:44:25|770</wrap>or feel the nature of the soul of matter, the soul of substance. So he's giving us a <wrap hide>343|00:44:25|770|00:44:30|130</wrap>general principle here, but it may be a while before we can feel into this. Perhaps some <wrap hide>344|00:44:30|130|00:44:37|790</wrap>of the great scientific servers who are also psychics can do this. Let's see here. <wrap quote>We have <wrap hide>345|00:44:37|790|00:44:43|110</wrap>in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets upon:</wrap> Okay, well, <wrap hide>346|00:44:43|110|00:44:49|730</wrap>anyway, let's just say the important thing to realize here is that most human beings <wrap hide>347|00:44:50|370|00:44:55|210</wrap>are not traveling in a spiritual direction. They are traveling in a direction which emphasizes <wrap hide>348|00:44:55|990|00:45:03|670</wrap>their elemental nature and which puts their elemental nature in a predominant condition. <wrap hide>349|00:45:04|670|00:45:13|230</wrap>This is not leading directly to the unfoldment of their consciousness in a spiritual manner <wrap hide>350|00:45:13|870|00:45:22|950</wrap>which requires detachment from the elemental nature. So in a certain way, human beings are <wrap hide>351|00:45:22|950|00:45:30|250</wrap>going more deeply into matter in a conscious way. They are becoming deeply involved in <wrap hide>352|00:45:30|250|00:45:38|030</wrap>the periphery of life. They are like the prodigal son who is wandering into a far country <wrap hide>353|00:45:38|650|00:45:46|730</wrap>and thinking that that far country can offer some type of real satisfaction, which it cannot <wrap hide>354|00:45:46|730|00:45:51|830</wrap>because man is essentially spirit and he can never be satisfied with that which is less <wrap hide>355|00:45:51|830|00:46:00|090</wrap>than himself. He needs to return to himself, return to the spirit nature. So we are in <wrap hide>356|00:46:00|090|00:46:05|930</wrap>a way... humanity is going in the wrong direction, but it's a direction which is part of the <wrap hide>357|00:46:05|930|00:46:11|230</wrap>plan because we must invest ourselves deeply in matter substance before we can redeem it. <wrap hide>358|00:46:12|390|00:46:19|610</wrap>Is this the way things happen on other planets? Does that which is man on another planet go <wrap hide>359|00:46:20|170|00:46:29|610</wrap>more and more deeply into matter before extricating itself? Well, we know that there is no such <wrap hide>360|00:46:29|610|00:46:33|690</wrap>suffering in the solar system as there is upon Earth, and there is great suffering upon <wrap hide>361|00:46:33|690|00:46:40|170</wrap>Mars and Saturn as well, but on the other planets not. So perhaps this has something to do with <wrap hide>362|00:46:40|170|00:46:46|670</wrap>this retrogressive, redemptive movement. A necessary, apparently, a necessary retrogressive <wrap hide>363|00:46:46|670|00:46:52|970</wrap>movement whereby we invest ourselves in the not-self in order to redeem that not-self. <wrap hide>364|00:46:53|130|00:46:58|590</wrap>Ultimately, we know that everything is the oneself and that oneself is the absolute infinite <wrap hide>365|00:46:58|590|00:47:06|190</wrap>itself, but from planet to planet there are distinctions, and we as human beings are in <wrap hide>366|00:47:06|190|00:47:12|710</wrap>a way going in the wrong direction considering how old we are. We are old enough to begin <wrap hide>367|00:47:12|710|00:47:17|830</wrap>waking up and to reverse our direction, so we have to reverse the reversal. That's one <wrap hide>368|00:47:17|830|00:47:25|010</wrap>way of thinking about it. Now going on, let's see how we are doing in our experiment to <wrap hide>369|00:47:25|010|00:47:36|190</wrap>make a somewhat longer webinar which will save time in the long run. It will save those <wrap hide>370|00:47:36|190|00:47:41|430</wrap>interludes of time and allow me to speak to you during times when I would normally be <wrap hide>371|00:47:41|430|00:47:45|710</wrap>having to find something else to do while conversion work is going on. <wrap hide>372|00:47:47|130|00:47:52|790</wrap><wrap quote>We have in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets <wrap hide>373|00:47:52|790|00:48:00|730</wrap>upon:</wrap> We are going to look at different beings upon which the zodiac and planets will have <wrap hide>374|00:48:00|730|00:48:09|630</wrap>an influence. <wrap quote>1. //The spirit of the Earth//, the embodiment of the physical planet and <wrap hide>375|00:48:09|630|00:48:16|230</wrap>the sum total of the form life in all the kingdoms of nature. These are the expression <wrap hide>376|00:48:16|230|00:48:23|830</wrap>of the anima mundi or of the world soul.</wrap> Now, are we dealing strictly with dense physical <wrap hide>377|00:48:23|830|00:48:32|910</wrap>matter here, the matter of the lower three systemic sub-planes, or are we dealing... or is <wrap hide>378|00:48:32|910|00:48:40|530</wrap>this related to the dense physical body of the planetary Logos which would include astral <wrap hide>379|00:48:40|530|00:48:53|270</wrap>matter and lower mental matter? Because all of those substances are considered to be involutionary <wrap hide>380|00:48:53|270|00:48:59|310</wrap>from the point of view of the principled nature of our planetary Logos. In other words, the <wrap hide>381|00:48:59|310|00:49:04|390</wrap>lower eighteen sub-planes are for the planetary Logos not a principle; they are not part of <wrap hide>382|00:49:04|390|00:49:10|990</wrap>the program in this second solar system. They are to be redeemed, but they are not carrying <wrap hide>383|00:49:12|650|00:49:21|870</wrap>a patterning power which is closely related to the will of the planetary Logos, and we <wrap hide>384|00:49:21|870|00:49:33|230</wrap>could say the same for the solar Logos. Whoops, okay, that's my little camera there. So the <wrap hide>385|00:49:33|230|00:49:40|990</wrap>involutionary entity, the embodiment of the physical planet... and we have to define this <wrap hide>386|00:49:40|990|00:49:52|350</wrap>term "physical planet." Define this term as either the lower three sub-planes of the systemic <wrap hide>387|00:49:52|350|00:50:03|210</wrap>physical plane or the lower eighteen sub-planes consisting of the... mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm... <wrap hide>388|00:50:03|230|00:50:10|590</wrap>and etheric, physical, astral and lower mental systemic sub-planes. Alright, so it has an <wrap hide>389|00:50:10|590|00:50:15|250</wrap>effect upon an involutionary entity called the spirit of the earth, or sometimes called <wrap hide>390|00:50:15|250|00:50:21|870</wrap>the planetary entity. Let me look up the word... let me look up the word "spirit of the earth." <wrap hide>391|00:50:23|130|00:50:28|330</wrap>It's not always the same as planetary spirit, because when we say the spirit of the earth, <wrap hide>392|00:50:29|490|00:50:35|030</wrap>we usually mean this involutionary entity. When we say planetary spirit, we can often <wrap hide>393|00:50:35|030|00:50:47|270</wrap>mean the planetary Logos himself. So let's just see how this works. Okay, and we'll try <wrap hide>394|00:50:47|270|00:50:58|190</wrap>to make this a little bit bigger. Yes, one, seven, five. Okay, and take this down. All <wrap hide>395|00:50:58|190|00:51:02|970</wrap>these little adjustments that have to be made when one signs off. So let's take a look. <wrap hide>396|00:51:03|410|00:51:09|190</wrap>Spirit of the earth. There are twenty-five references to it. Connection with the spirit <wrap hide>397|00:51:09|190|00:51:13|630</wrap>of the earth. Yes, and the physical plane. A mysterious synthesis connected with the <wrap hide>398|00:51:13|630|00:51:19|050</wrap>spirit of the earth. It is the physical plane here as we see. The planetary entity. Spirit <wrap hide>399|00:51:19|050|00:51:23|050</wrap>of the earth is the planetary entity, not the planetary Logos, but the planetary spirit has <wrap hide>400|00:51:23|050|00:51:28|010</wrap>a different meaning. The spirit of the earth is the planet. Aha, look at this. The spirit <wrap hide>401|00:51:28|010|00:51:32|110</wrap>of the earth is to the planetary Logos of the earth, for instance, what the personality <wrap hide>402|00:51:32|110|00:51:40|030</wrap>of form nature is to the soul of man. So the personality nature of the planetary Logos <wrap hide>403|00:51:40|030|00:51:44|450</wrap>would be included; therefore the astral and lower mental planes would be included in this <wrap hide>404|00:51:44|950|00:51:50|310</wrap>case. Okay, the spirit of the earth, the embodiment of the physical planet and the sum total of <wrap hide>405|00:51:50|310|00:51:58|650</wrap>form life in all kingdoms, is subservient to Venus. Well, even the planetary spirit <wrap hide>406|00:51:58|650|00:52:03|610</wrap>is subservient to Venus. The mysterious entity we call the spirit of the earth is on the <wrap hide>407|00:52:03|610|00:52:09|530</wrap>evolutionary arc and is to our planet what the physical elemental is to the physical <wrap hide>408|00:52:09|530|00:52:20|290</wrap>body of man. So, yes, this is that involutionary entity called the physical elemental of man. <wrap hide>409|00:52:20|310|00:52:27|990</wrap>Physical elemental, it seems to organize the physical matter in the physical body of <wrap hide>410|00:52:27|990|00:52:36|910</wrap>man. And so we would extend this to the planet as well. The spirit of the earth, the relation <wrap hide>411|00:52:36|910|00:52:40|610</wrap>of the planetary Logos to the spirit of the earth, the relation of an evolutionary being <wrap hide>412|00:52:40|610|00:52:46|150</wrap>to an involutionary entity, is reflection distorted under the influence of glamour in the three <wrap hide>413|00:52:46|150|00:52:49|650</wrap>worlds of the relation of the soul to the personality elemental. Okay, it's distorted. <wrap hide>414|00:52:49|650|00:52:56|630</wrap>I think we get the idea. Now let's look at the word planetary spirit, of which there are <wrap hide>415|00:52:56|630|00:53:06|350</wrap>15 references. Yes, planetary spirit is a higher entity. On his vast scale and on his <wrap hide>416|00:53:06|350|00:53:11|390</wrap>own high level, this planetary spirit is learning to live, learning to contact and expand his <wrap hide>417|00:53:11|390|00:53:18|610</wrap>consciousness. Okay. To the great planetary spirit, something wider still. Back of the <wrap hide>418|00:53:18|610|00:53:22|710</wrap>life. This is all in the consciousness of the atom. Perhaps we'll see the nameless one <wrap hide>419|00:53:22|710|00:53:26|990</wrap>on the confines of the high planes of human evolution and the planetary spirit himself <wrap hide>420|00:53:26|990|00:53:34|670</wrap>at the final stage. It is high. The planetary spirit is high and represents even the monadic <wrap hide>421|00:53:34|670|00:53:44|290</wrap>nature of the solar Logos of the planetary Logos. So the difference between the spirit <wrap hide>422|00:53:44|290|00:53:48|330</wrap>of the earth and planetary entity, they are the same: spirit of the earth and planetary <wrap hide>423|00:53:48|330|00:53:56|430</wrap>entity and planetary spirit, which is the Logos himself. Okay, so the zodiac and the <wrap hide>424|00:53:56|430|00:54:07|670</wrap>planets affect this spirit of the earth, or let's give him his other name here, planetary <wrap hide>425|00:54:11|070|00:54:17|050</wrap>entity, and it's like a kind of a physical elemental, but it's also been related to other <wrap hide>426|00:54:17|050|00:54:24|550</wrap>elementals, personality elementals in relation to the greater planetary Logos. They affect <wrap hide>427|00:54:24|550|00:54:32|810</wrap>humanity as a whole <wrap quote>2. //Humanity//, the individualised and finally initiated man. This is the embodiment <wrap hide>428|00:54:32|810|00:54:46|250</wrap>of the human soul or ego, a differentiation of the world soul,</wrap> See, in other words, in <wrap hide>429|00:54:46|250|00:54:56|450</wrap>other words, individualized human beings are part of the anima mundi. We are a differentiated <wrap hide>430|00:54:56|450|00:55:03|550</wrap>aspect of the world soul. We, because if we say world soul, we have to understand what <wrap hide>431|00:55:03|550|00:55:11|050</wrap>particular level of substance we are talking about. Usually we are talking about the embodiment <wrap hide>432|00:55:11|050|00:55:17|490</wrap>of substance, and so we are talking about a type of consciousness which is not yet individualized, <wrap hide>433|00:55:18|190|00:55:24|950</wrap>but the world is a big place, and the world includes the higher levels where individualization <wrap hide>434|00:55:24|950|00:55:31|310</wrap>holds sway. So we, the human ego, are a differentiation of the world soul, <wrap quote>which expresses itself <wrap hide>435|00:55:31|310|00:55:38|470</wrap>as a personality (a correspondence to the spirit of the planet)</wrap> not the planetary spirit. <wrap hide>436|00:55:38|470|00:55:43|990</wrap>Personality is a correspondence to the spirit of the planet, <wrap quote>and finally as a spiritual soul <wrap hide>437|00:55:44|310|00:55:50|190</wrap>(a correspondence to the planetary Logos).</wrap> So the zodiac, what's the important thing here? <wrap hide>438|00:55:51|390|00:56:01|230</wrap>The energies of the zodiac and the energies of the planets are affecting conscious, self-conscious <wrap hide>439|00:56:01|230|00:56:08|350</wrap>entities and entities which have not yet achieved self-consciousness. They are also affecting <wrap hide>440|00:56:09|030|00:56:19|410</wrap>super conscious entities who see and understand in wholes. Okay, now we would be reaching <wrap hide>441|00:56:19|410|00:56:23|670</wrap>the point at which we would normally say The Great Invocation, but we are going to go on <wrap hide>442|00:56:23|670|00:56:30|510</wrap>and see if we can extend this a little bit. The energies of the zodiac and the energies <wrap hide>443|00:56:30|510|00:56:36|690</wrap>of the planets also affect the Lord of the planet, one of the great lives or Sons of <wrap hide>444|00:56:36|690|00:56:42|190</wrap>God, at present regarded as an imperfect God. Our planetary Logos is here indicated, <wrap hide>445|00:56:42|190|00:56:49|770</wrap>and he is an imperfect God because he is thus far only an initiate of the first degree cosmically <wrap hide>446|00:56:50|470|00:56:54|730</wrap>considered. He may be passing through a kind of fourth initiation, but that's a subsidiary <wrap hide>447|00:56:56|790|00:57:01|950</wrap>initiation. It's in a subsidiary sequence of initiations. Cosmically he has not yet <wrap hide>448|00:57:01|950|00:57:09|710</wrap>achieved the goal of the second cosmic initiation. <wrap quote>3. //The Lord of the Planet//, one of the great <wrap hide>449|00:57:09|710|00:57:16|490</wrap>Lives or Sons of God, at present regarded as “an imperfect God” as far as our planet is <wrap hide>450|00:57:16|490|00:57:22|730</wrap>concerned and yet, from the angle of humanity, perfect indeed.</wrap> Sanat Kumara does not fully <wrap hide>451|00:57:22|730|00:57:29|890</wrap>express all that the planetary Logos is, and we regard Sanat Kumara in the most superlative <wrap hide>452|00:57:29|890|00:57:39|450</wrap>terms. So it's all relative here, and perfection has to be considered in a relative way compared <wrap hide>453|00:57:39|450|00:57:46|890</wrap>to the condition of the human being. Our planetary Logos still higher than Sanat Kumara. Sanat <wrap hide>454|00:57:46|890|00:57:55|670</wrap>Kumara, being an emanation of him, is perfect indeed. So these are three spheres upon which <wrap hide>455|00:57:55|670|00:58:05|030</wrap>our zodiac and planets play. They play upon the unconscious sphere, the not yet self-conscious <wrap hide>456|00:58:05|030|00:58:09|630</wrap>sphere. They play upon the self-conscious sphere, and they play upon the superconscious <wrap hide>457|00:58:09|630|00:58:17|330</wrap>sphere, and they have, emanating as they do these energies from very high cosmic laws, <wrap hide>458|00:58:18|250|00:58:24|050</wrap>they have differential effects depending upon the form that they touch. This is constantly <wrap hide>459|00:58:24|050|00:58:32|770</wrap>to be understood, but we cannot so much gauge cosmic energies, the nature of them in themselves, <wrap hide>460|00:58:33|110|00:58:39|410</wrap>but what we can do is see the effect they have upon the different forms which they condition. <wrap hide>461|00:58:40|750|00:58:46|790</wrap>Right now we're interested in the conditioning of the self-conscious human being who is moving <wrap hide>462|00:58:46|790|00:58:52|510</wrap>towards group consciousness and eventually towards consciousness of the One, which is <wrap hide>463|00:58:52|510|00:58:59|270</wrap>in a way super consciousness. <wrap quote>The above triple division expresses the three major aspects <wrap hide>464|00:58:59|270|00:59:07|110</wrap>of the ancient and esoteric science of astrology</wrap> how it works on lesser lives, middling lives, <wrap hide>465|00:59:07|110|00:59:13|950</wrap>and super lives. <wrap quote>the ancient and esoteric science of astrology and its three divisions as the <wrap hide>466|00:59:13|950|00:59:20|750</wrap>Hierarchy today studies them.</wrap> and hierarchical members are assigned to these different levels. There <wrap hide>467|00:59:20|750|00:59:27|770</wrap>are some who are working with the soul of substance, with soul in its unselfconscious <wrap hide>468|00:59:27|770|00:59:35|190</wrap>stage. <wrap quote>Humanity, having lost the consciousness</wrap>—I guess it once had it—<wrap quote>which permits contact <wrap hide>469|00:59:35|190|00:59:41|450</wrap>with the spirit of the planet (sub-human consciousness,</wrap> sub-human, human, super-human—that's one <wrap hide>470|00:59:41|450|00:59:49|790</wrap>way of looking at it—<wrap quote>and which was the basis of animism)</wrap> How interesting that those human <wrap hide>471|00:59:49|790|00:59:58|170</wrap>beings who ascribe to animism feel the soul within substance, <wrap quote>and having not yet developed <wrap hide>472|00:59:58|170|01:00:02|030</wrap>the consciousness which permits him to enter into the Life and Mind of the planetary Logos, <wrap hide>473|01:00:03|000|01:00:14|290</wrap>has dealt only with the second division</wrap> that of the human consciousness, that of self-consciousness, <wrap hide>474|01:00:14|290|01:00:20|990</wrap>and even self-consciousness <wrap quote>and that in its lower aspects.</wrap> So humanity is quite blind, quite ignorant. <wrap hide>475|01:00:21|470|01:00:34|930</wrap>Humanity quite blind and ignorant of the different phases of the world soul: the lower and the <wrap hide>476|01:00:34|930|01:00:42|270</wrap>higher, middling, and the highest. Humanity is ignorant of all of those. We are just aware <wrap hide>477|01:00:42|270|01:00:50|370</wrap>of the lower middling reaches of soul in the realm of self-consciousness. Alright, well, <wrap hide>478|01:00:50|690|01:00:58|250</wrap>this would be normally the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure Number 52, but instead <wrap hide>479|01:00:58|250|01:01:05|430</wrap>I will continue as best I can, and thereby preserving time. <wrap hide>480|01:01:12|270|01:01:17|450</wrap>Alright, now we will continue. We have in a way reached the end of Esoteric Astrology <wrap hide>481|01:01:17|450|01:01:23|790</wrap>Adventure Number 52, Part 1, and we will see whether GoToWebinar allows me to continue <wrap hide>482|01:01:23|790|01:01:31|930</wrap>to the two-hour level. I think downloads will not be so slow, so you will be able to use <wrap hide>483|01:01:31|930|01:01:37|230</wrap>these conveniently. We'll see how I feel, whether I can push on to a three-hour segment. <wrap hide>484|01:01:37|230|01:01:45|470</wrap>We will see. So we're continuing. <wrap quote>Two other points might here be touched upon, and for their <wrap hide>485|01:01:45|750|01:01:50|570</wrap>understanding you will have to accept my statements as temporary hypotheses at least, <wrap hide>486|01:01:51|390|01:01:57|910</wrap>for you are in no position to know them as truth for yourselves.</wrap> Well, sad to say, but <wrap hide>487|01:01:57|910|01:02:07|210</wrap>this is the true condition of human ignorance. We are in no position to verify, maybe, that <wrap hide>488|01:02:07|230|01:02:20|430</wrap>95% of what the Tibetan tells us. He is a master of the wisdom; he has profound perception. <wrap hide>489|01:02:21|090|01:02:29|610</wrap>The siddhis of various kinds have opened up for him, and we are in the position in many <wrap hide>490|01:02:29|610|01:02:37|210</wrap>respects of trusting students who can follow his authority and his authority in the way <wrap hide>491|01:02:37|230|01:02:43|170</wrap>that he sees authoritative statements as hypotheses. We can see, eventually, prove <wrap hide>492|01:02:43|170|01:02:49|870</wrap>these things for ourselves, but for the moment it seems to be the part of wisdom to assume <wrap hide>493|01:02:50|710|01:02:57|210</wrap>that since he has been correct in so many of the statements he has made, he is probably <wrap hide>494|01:02:58|310|01:03:05|630</wrap>correct or mostly correct—probably totally correct—in giving those statements which <wrap hide>495|01:03:05|630|01:03:13|330</wrap>we cannot possibly verify. Not yet. But we're on our way, and towards the later phases of <wrap hide>496|01:03:13|330|01:03:21|950</wrap>the evolutionary process, it is possible to make rapid progress into the expansion of <wrap hide>497|01:03:21|950|01:03:29|990</wrap>perception. So many of us are reaching that stage now, having labored long and hard through <wrap hide>498|01:03:29|990|01:03:36|490</wrap>many lesser stages of consciousness. We are in no position to know the truth for ourselves, <wrap hide>499|01:03:36|570|01:03:43|010</wrap>he says. <wrap quote>Exoteric astrology has said and it is widely accepted that Vulcan, Uranus, <wrap hide>500|01:03:43|350|01:03:52|470</wrap>Pluto and Neptune do not govern signs but only have affinity with them.</wrap> Well, okay, I <wrap hide>501|01:03:52|470|01:03:59|970</wrap>think Alan Leo didn't say that, and there are many who accept that Uranus is the modern <wrap hide>502|01:04:00|810|01:04:05|330</wrap>ordinary ruler of Aquarius, but it used to be Saturn, didn't it? Vulcan was not known, <wrap hide>503|01:04:05|890|01:04:11|490</wrap>Pluto was not discovered, and only recently Alan Leo said Neptune is the ruler of Pisces. <wrap hide>504|01:04:12|070|01:04:18|930</wrap>So there are probably indeed many exoteric astrologers who have not considered these <wrap hide>505|01:04:20|490|01:04:29|330</wrap>more remote planets, and in one case an undiscovered planet, to have no rulership over any of the <wrap hide>506|01:04:29|330|01:04:32|790</wrap>Earth signs. <wrap quote>I am touching upon this here because we are going to consider the planet <wrap hide>507|01:04:32|790|01:04:39|850</wrap>Pluto in relation to Pisces.</wrap> Now remember this book is written in the early '30s, and <wrap hide>508|01:04:41|210|01:04:48|190</wrap>Pluto was discovered in 1930, so the Tibetan was authorized to speak of it because mankind <wrap hide>509|01:04:48|190|01:04:55|630</wrap>had discovered it, although it was, they say, recorded on a film as early as 1915 but not <wrap hide>510|01:04:55|630|01:05:04|570</wrap>recognized. So Pluto discovered in 1930, coinciding with this mass uprising of negativity <wrap hide>511|01:05:04|570|01:05:16|530</wrap>which Nazism and that type of fascism represented. <wrap quote>This affinity has only stated a partial <wrap hide>512|01:05:16|530|01:05:21|990</wrap>truth and is only temporarily true from the standpoint of the modern astrologer.</wrap> I think <wrap hide>513|01:05:21|990|01:05:28|230</wrap>he is saying that indeed these planets do rule signs, but they rule them from a more <wrap hide>514|01:05:28|230|01:05:35|090</wrap>esoteric perspective. The existence of these planets—right, <wrap quote>Their existence has only been <wrap hide>515|01:05:35|090|01:05:44|190</wrap>inferred or discovered within the last two or three centuries though it has always been <wrap hide>516|01:05:44|190|01:05:51|970</wrap>known to the Hierarchy.</wrap> So the Hierarchy, capital H, has been known to the Hierarchy— <wrap hide>517|01:05:51|990|01:05:58|630</wrap>has known the secret planets, and there are many other planets right now, completely undiscovered <wrap hide>518|01:05:58|630|01:06:03|710</wrap>by humanity which Hierarchy knows about and which are responsible for many of the pushes <wrap hide>519|01:06:03|710|01:06:09|710</wrap>and pulls which we experience even now. We don't know where they come from and we attribute <wrap hide>520|01:06:09|710|01:06:15|190</wrap>these influences to incorrect sources, or to sources which we presently know about when <wrap hide>521|01:06:15|190|01:06:21|970</wrap>they really come from other unknown sources. <wrap quote>I have indicated to you the signs of which <wrap hide>522|01:06:21|970|01:06:26|850</wrap>they are the rulers and the astrology of the future will accept my statement and work <wrap hide>523|01:06:27|410|01:06:34|750</wrap>with these planets. Much earlier in human history, they had to accept the fact of Mars and Mercury as rulers of zodiacal signs in a hypothetical manner, and then start to prove the accuracy of the hypothesis.</wrap> Okay, so, you know, Pluto being the ruler of Pisces esoterically and <wrap hide>524|01:06:34|750|01:06:41|190</wrap>hierarchically, Uranus the ruler of Aquarius—that much everybody accepts—but also the <wrap hide>525|01:06:41|190|01:06:46|330</wrap>esoteric ruler of Libra and the hierarchical ruler of Aries, and the veiled hierarchical <wrap hide>526|01:06:46|330|01:06:56|590</wrap>ruler of Leo, Neptune being the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Cancer and the veiled <wrap hide>527|01:06:56|590|01:07:03|910</wrap>hierarchical, veiled esoteric ruler of Leo and also in a special category in relation <wrap hide>528|01:07:03|910|01:07:13|470</wrap>to Pisces, and Vulcan being the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Taurus and the veiled <wrap hide>529|01:07:14|090|01:07:21|630</wrap>hierarchical ruler, one of them—no, excuse me, the veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo along <wrap hide>530|01:07:21|630|01:07:30|550</wrap>with Neptune, Neptune, another veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo. And then when we get into <wrap hide>531|01:07:30|550|01:07:41|290</wrap>Aquarius, Vulcan, Neptune and Uranus are all veiled hierarchical rulers. <wrap quote>Ancient astrology <wrap hide>532|01:07:41|290|01:07:49|890</wrap>was obviously incomplete but until man became patently <wrap hide>533|01:07:49|890|01:07:55|270</wrap>responsive to the influences which come to him from Uranus or Pluto, for instance, which <wrap hide>534|01:07:55|270|01:08:00|470</wrap>affect the soul life far more than they do the personality life,</wrap> because, you know, even <wrap hide>535|01:08:00|470|01:08:10|590</wrap>though it's a non-sacred planet, Pluto, even though non-sacred planet, non-sacred planet, <wrap hide>536|01:08:11|290|01:08:20|590</wrap>Pluto is considered an esoteric planet. So he's telling us that this non-sacred planet <wrap hide>537|01:08:20|590|01:08:26|330</wrap>Pluto affects the soul life more than it does the personality life and that only when a <wrap hide>538|01:08:26|330|01:08:32|070</wrap>person is truly on the path are the influences of Pluto, I suppose the spiritual influences, <wrap hide>539|01:08:32|310|01:08:41|270</wrap>registered. As for Uranus, we can well agree. So until a man becomes patently noticeable <wrap hide>540|01:08:41|290|01:08:46|390</wrap>and patently more responsive to the influence which comes to him from Uranus and Pluto, <wrap hide>541|01:08:47|390|01:08:54|270</wrap>they remain undiscovered, except by trained esotericists, undiscovered in consciousness. <wrap hide>542|01:08:58|590|01:09:08|030</wrap>But from another point of view, man was progressing and it was only in recent centuries that man <wrap hide>543|01:09:08|030|01:09:15|070</wrap>became patently more responsive to these influences as a whole, and so they were discovered. Now <wrap hide>544|01:09:15|070|01:09:19|390</wrap>for many people they're not discovered in consciousness. They mean nothing in terms <wrap hide>545|01:09:19|390|01:09:25|970</wrap>of the process of life and consciousness process, but man as a whole became more responsive <wrap hide>546|01:09:26|830|01:09:33|770</wrap>to these influences, and therefore his responsiveness, man's responsiveness, humanity's responsiveness <wrap hide>547|01:09:33|770|01:09:41|250</wrap>enabled their discovery even though there are many human beings for whom they mean psychologically, <wrap hide>548|01:09:41|430|01:09:47|650</wrap>spiritually, nothing yet. Though they can affect the outer elemental life, remember <wrap hide>549|01:09:47|650|01:09:55|950</wrap>that the planets can affect the sub-human parts of ourselves, the non-self-conscious <wrap hide>550|01:09:55|950|01:10:01|850</wrap>parts of ourselves, the substantial aspects of ourselves. <wrap quote>they remained undiscovered except <wrap hide>551|01:10:01|850|01:10:06|790</wrap>by trained esotericists.</wrap> who are members of hierarchy. <wrap quote>Today, humanity is rapidly responding <wrap hide>552|01:10:06|790|01:10:12|550</wrap>to the higher spiritual influences and, therefore, we can look for the discovery of increasingly <wrap hide>553|01:10:12|550|01:10:22|130</wrap>subtle forces.</wrap> So let's just say that Vulcan and more planets are about to be discovered <wrap hide>554|01:10:22|910|01:10:31|830</wrap>because humanity is more responsive. And I guess I would say "discovered" is the most important <wrap hide>555|01:10:32|340|01:10:38|030</wrap>I would say that when the spiritual will of humanity really begins to assert itself and <wrap hide>556|01:10:38|030|01:10:46|510</wrap>people look at our dreadful method of relating with each other and say "enough is enough" and <wrap hide>557|01:10:46|510|01:10:52|330</wrap>"now we will have to have a method of relating this world which is based more upon the spiritual <wrap hide>558|01:10:52|330|01:10:58|130</wrap>will and upon principles" than Vulcan, the planet of spiritual will, will be discovered. When <wrap hide>559|01:10:58|130|01:11:06|910</wrap>humanity learns to stand with massed intent for the good, then Vulcan will be discovered <wrap hide>560|01:11:06|910|01:11:14|010</wrap>just as in the period when revolutionary fervor was sweeping through humanity, Uranus was discovered <wrap hide>561|01:11:14|010|01:11:28|110</wrap>and when the occult was coming into vogue and anesthesia was making its appearance in <wrap hide>562|01:11:28|990|01:11:37|030</wrap>the becoming popular in the consciousness, Neptune was discovered and with the mass eruption <wrap hide>563|01:11:37|030|01:11:44|970</wrap>of the subterranean forces which could be considered to represent the black lodge in <wrap hide>564|01:11:44|970|01:11:51|050</wrap>many respects, Pluto was discovered. So when the quality sweeps through humanity, the quality <wrap hide>565|01:11:51|050|01:11:57|290</wrap>which relates to a planet sweeps through human action and human consciousness, then that which <wrap hide>566|01:11:57|290|01:12:06|330</wrap>is the related but thus far undiscovered planet will be discovered. Okay, so there's <wrap hide>567|01:12:06|330|01:12:11|050</wrap>a lot more going on and as I've often said, we astrologers, we're just we're not playing <wrap hide>568|01:12:11|050|01:12:19|330</wrap>with a full deck. We're not playing with a full deck of cards and many other sources <wrap hide>569|01:12:19|330|01:12:27|270</wrap>of influence which we are unaware we cannot yet control our stars, we cannot even identify <wrap hide>570|01:12:28|190|01:12:35|430</wrap>all of them, but we can become increasingly sensitive to and discriminate influences affecting <wrap hide>571|01:12:37|150|01:12:41|530</wrap>our lives even though we may not know the sources of those influences, and if we remain <wrap hide>572|01:12:41|530|01:12:48|510</wrap>sensitive and begin to differentiate these influences, then perhaps discovery will come. <wrap hide>573|01:12:48|710|01:12:57|270</wrap>Just imagine the day when some one hundred and fifteen plus planets will be known to <wrap hide>574|01:12:58|730|01:13:07|090</wrap>humanity. It will be a day of a type of computing power which will entirely dwarf the sophisticated <wrap hide>575|01:13:07|090|01:13:12|510</wrap>computing power we have at the present time, and we will be able to isolate those influences, <wrap hide>576|01:13:12|510|01:13:21|490</wrap>learn of their nature, gradation and timing, and negotiate this web of energies in a far <wrap hide>577|01:13:21|490|01:13:29|890</wrap>more intelligent, plan-centered manner than is presently possible. Well, well, we made <wrap hide>578|01:13:29|890|01:13:41|290</wrap>it somewhere in tape or program number fifty-two, we made it through Aries. The first sign of <wrap hide>579|01:13:41|290|01:13:48|350</wrap>the zodiac, and he has told us important things which we will have to identify keynotes, keywords, <wrap hide>580|01:13:48|350|01:13:56|490</wrap>those nine points to be identified in when studying all the others. I want to take a <wrap hide>581|01:13:56|490|01:14:04|550</wrap>quick look here. I used to have it. I know that on page approximately page one nineteen, <wrap hide>582|01:14:06|090|01:14:14|570</wrap>no, that would be... can't do that. One nineteen, I believe, of Esoteric Astrology, or so. Yes, <wrap hide>583|01:14:14|570|01:14:22|610</wrap>he does deal with the two ways of going around the mutable cross, and I'm wondering if around <wrap hide>584|01:14:22|610|01:14:35|350</wrap>page one forty three... yes, he does. That's one forty three. He also identifies ways of progressing <wrap hide>585|01:14:35|350|01:14:40|170</wrap>on the fixed cross. He doesn't do this for the cardinal cross, so these are some of the <wrap hide>586|01:14:40|170|01:14:49|330</wrap>ways we can compare the signs by going to these particular tabulations.[split Text 01] OK, now we're <wrap hide>587|01:14:49|330|01:14:58|450</wrap>about to enter into the sign Pisces. You see, we are going backwards. We are going in the <wrap hide>588|01:14:58|450|01:15:10|150</wrap>direction of spiritually ignorant individualized man. We're not going in the direction of the <wrap hide>589|01:15:10|150|01:15:16|930</wrap>spiritual man. We are still... the Tibetan is making a point here, and even though he's talking <wrap hide>590|01:15:16|930|01:15:25|650</wrap>about these signs in ways which are certainly spiritual, he is progressing backwards, what <wrap hide>591|01:15:25|650|01:15:31|570</wrap>we would consider backwards, to arrest our attention so that we can realize that there <wrap hide>592|01:15:31|570|01:15:39|810</wrap>are two wheels operating: a wheel of form personality and a wheel of consciousness soul. <wrap hide>593|01:15:40|590|01:15:47|990</wrap>We have to fix this in our minds, and this is part of the new astrology, so we can understand <wrap hide>594|01:15:48|890|01:15:53|810</wrap>what is the reversal of the wheel for the human being and understand how human evolution <wrap hide>595|01:15:53|810|01:16:01|350</wrap>is meant to take place and help ourselves and others to progress in a counterclockwise <wrap hide>596|01:16:01|350|01:16:06|810</wrap>manner, responding in our form to the higher spiritual potentials of these signs and not <wrap hide>597|01:16:06|810|01:16:19|750</wrap>the ordinary substantial elemental personal selfish response. Alright, Pisces the Fishes, <wrap hide>598|01:16:22|170|01:16:33|790</wrap>from page 115 to 134. Pisces the Fishes. Aries was a dual sign, and it represents the life <wrap hide>599|01:16:33|790|01:16:40|750</wrap>power coming forth and like a fountain and going to the right and going to the right <wrap hide>600|01:16:40|750|01:16:47|310</wrap>and going to the left. It's unity entering into the world of duality. In a way, you could <wrap hide>601|01:16:47|310|01:16:52|850</wrap>look at Aries coming down and splitting like this, the horns of the ram. Instead of rising <wrap hide>602|01:16:52|850|01:16:58|210</wrap>in this way, we could see it descending and splitting like this, which would be more like <wrap hide>603|01:16:58|530|01:17:05|850</wrap>the horns of the ram. But anyway, unity enters the world of duality in Aries. It has a unitive <wrap hide>604|01:17:05|850|01:17:17|910</wrap>root and a dual bifurcation at the uppermost or bottommost part of the symbol. <wrap quote>This sign <wrap hide>605|01:17:17|910|01:17:27|330</wrap>is also dual. In Aries we have the duality which is attached to the bringing together <wrap hide>606|01:17:27|330|01:17:31|770</wrap>of spirit and matter in the great creative activity</wrap> Remember, creation is one of the <wrap hide>607|01:17:31|770|01:17:40|330</wrap>keynotes of Aries. The great creative activity is attached to the bringing together of spirit <wrap hide>608|01:17:40|330|01:17:48|950</wrap>and matter. This is not just soul and personality. Those are a pair of opposites, and a very important <wrap hide>609|01:17:48|950|01:17:55|190</wrap>pair of opposites for the present human being, and perhaps the opposites of spirit and matter <wrap hide>610|01:17:55|190|01:18:00|650</wrap>are a little more out of reach, though they are in reach for the initiates. So Aries is <wrap hide>611|01:18:00|650|01:18:07|770</wrap>associated with the highest and lowest meeting: the first ray, the seventh ray, <wrap quote>spirit and <wrap hide>612|01:18:07|770|01:18:15|390</wrap>matter in the great creative activity of manifestation at the beginning of the evolutionary cycle,</wrap> <wrap hide>613|01:18:15|970|01:18:24|250</wrap>Well, when is that? For man en masse, it begins 21 million years ago. But what is the beginning <wrap hide>614|01:18:24|250|01:18:33|830</wrap>of the evolutionary cycle? Is it when our solar Logos took form with his planets? Let <wrap hide>615|01:18:33|830|01:18:41|330</wrap>us keep it microcosmic and talk about the beginning of man, and every life in a way is <wrap hide>616|01:18:41|330|01:18:49|870</wrap>a continuation and a renewed beginning of man's long evolutionary cycle. <wrap quote>whilst in Pisces <wrap hide>617|01:18:49|870|01:18:58|850</wrap>we have the fusion or blending of soul and form as far as man is concerned,</wrap>—soul and <wrap hide>618|01:18:58|850|01:19:05|710</wrap>form, consciousness and substance as far as man is concerned—<wrap quote>producing the manifestation <wrap hide>619|01:19:06|270|01:19:18|430</wrap>of the Incarnated Christ, the perfected individual soul, the completed manifestation of the microcosm.</wrap> <wrap hide>620|01:19:19|130|01:19:29|130</wrap>So Pisces is the sign, in one way, most associated with Christ. Pisces is most associated with <wrap hide>621|01:19:29|950|01:19:35|730</wrap>the Christ consciousness. Now, at the present time, it is Virgo, the sign opposite Pisces, <wrap hide>622|01:19:36|290|01:19:43|410</wrap>which brings in more of the second ray than any other sign at this particular time. And <wrap hide>623|01:19:43|410|01:19:50|510</wrap>Virgo has much to do with the birth, the gestation and following birth of the Christ <wrap hide>624|01:19:50|510|01:19:57|730</wrap>consciousness. But Pisces is a cosmic decanate. Exactly what that means we cannot tell, but <wrap hide>625|01:19:57|730|01:20:02|950</wrap>there are three signs which are cosmic decanates, or three constellations. There is Taurus, <wrap hide>626|01:20:04|010|01:20:09|270</wrap>Scorpio, and Pisces. And each one of the great world teachers is associated with one of these <wrap hide>627|01:20:09|270|01:20:17|430</wrap>cosmic decanates: Hercules with Scorpio, Buddha with Taurus, and Christ with Pisces. <wrap hide>628|01:20:18|130|01:20:28|630</wrap>So the fullest flowering of the second ray can be looked to in Pisces. It is the sign <wrap hide>629|01:20:28|630|01:20:35|710</wrap>most pervaded by the second ray of love-wisdom, but that in a very high sense. Gemini is another <wrap hide>630|01:20:35|710|01:20:42|430</wrap>second ray sign, Virgo the other, but finally it is Pisces with which our present Christ <wrap hide>631|01:20:42|430|01:20:50|850</wrap>is most identified and which most reveals or expresses the Christ consciousness. So <wrap hide>632|01:20:50|850|01:20:58|310</wrap>Pisces brings together soul and form rather than spirit and matter. In a way it is more <wrap hide>633|01:20:58|310|01:21:05|690</wrap>on the soft line of energy, and Pisces expresses the second ray and the sixth ray and the third <wrap hide>634|01:21:05|710|01:21:11|790</wrap>ray at this present time, though it is very much connected with third ray substance, water <wrap hide>635|01:21:11|790|01:21:22|790</wrap>or matter. Soul and form—even form is not particularly related to the third ray and <wrap hide>636|01:21:22|790|01:21:31|970</wrap>matter because form results from a second ray building activity utilizing the substances <wrap hide>637|01:21:31|970|01:21:37|050</wrap>of matter. And soul, of course, is consciousness and represents the second aspect. So both <wrap hide>638|01:21:37|050|01:21:45|090</wrap>soul and form, though in different dimensions, are related to the second ray. Whereas Aries <wrap hide>639|01:21:45|090|01:21:52|210</wrap>is a major first ray sign and its rays are one and seven—hard line rays. These are rays <wrap hide>640|01:21:53|410|01:21:57|730</wrap>at present expressing. As I've tried to indicate, I believe that every sign of the zodiac, every <wrap hide>641|01:21:57|730|01:22:02|310</wrap>constellation has every ray, just the way our little planet has every ray. But there <wrap hide>642|01:22:02|310|01:22:09|050</wrap>are certain emphases at certain times. Now what D.K. does not give us—he tells us that <wrap hide>643|01:22:09|050|01:22:16|610</wrap>certain rays express through certain constellations, but he does not assign these rays to the periodical <wrap hide>644|01:22:16|610|01:22:22|450</wrap>vehicles of the Lords of the constellations. When it comes to the earth, he gives it a first <wrap hide>645|01:22:22|450|01:22:30|470</wrap>ray monad, second ray soul, third ray personality. So the rays which earth is emitting, shall <wrap hide>646|01:22:30|470|01:22:38|410</wrap>we say, these rays are assigned to periodical vehicles—the monad, soul, causal body and <wrap hide>647|01:22:38|410|01:22:47|170</wrap>personality are periodical vehicles. But not so with the periodical vehicles of the Lords <wrap hide>648|01:22:47|170|01:22:52|390</wrap>of the Constellations. We are just given the rays, and we would have to ourselves determine <wrap hide>649|01:22:52|390|01:23:02|270</wrap>if the rays that are expressing through these great beings are in fact conditioning their <wrap hide>650|01:23:02|270|01:23:11|110</wrap>periodical vehicles. In other words, does Aries in some way have a first ray conditioning <wrap hide>651|01:23:11|110|01:23:21|870</wrap>one of its periodical vehicles, namely its monad, its egoic body or its personality? <wrap hide>652|01:23:22|330|01:23:29|090</wrap>Is Aries a first ray monadic cosmic lord? Is it a second ray monadic cosmic lord? Is <wrap hide>653|01:23:29|090|01:23:36|310</wrap>the lamb slain from the foundations of the world? Does it have the sixth ray or the third <wrap hide>654|01:23:36|310|01:23:43|210</wrap>ray conditioning one of its vehicles? Because we are given only two rays passing through <wrap hide>655|01:23:43|210|01:23:48|330</wrap>Aries, at least at this time, and there are three periodical vehicles. So in the same <wrap hide>656|01:23:48|330|01:23:54|810</wrap>way that a human being has a five-fold, even six-fold ray chart, it seems reasonable to <wrap hide>657|01:23:54|810|01:24:01|750</wrap>conclude that a planetary Logos also has a six-fold ray chart and that a solar Logos <wrap hide>658|01:24:01|750|01:24:07|250</wrap>the same, and that a constellation lord also has a six-fold ray chart. But that would enter <wrap hide>659|01:24:07|250|01:24:12|270</wrap>into the realm of too much complexity. But one day I think we will be able to discover <wrap hide>660|01:24:12|270|01:24:20|970</wrap>why the qualities of a constellation lord are what they are by examining a fuller ray <wrap hide>661|01:24:20|970|01:24:27|070</wrap>chart than we are given. Actually, we are given no ray chart at all for these Lords of Constellations. <wrap hide>662|01:24:27|070|01:24:33|170</wrap>But we are given rays, and we can perhaps attempt to assign some of these rays to periodical <wrap hide>663|01:24:33|170|01:24:40|350</wrap>vehicles. Okay, so the fusion under the second ray primarily of soul and form—and in one <wrap hide>664|01:24:40|350|01:24:45|550</wrap>way soul is ruled generically by the second ray and form by the sixth ray, the two rays <wrap hide>665|01:24:45|550|01:24:51|830</wrap>that are passing through Pisces as they are through Virgo. The blending of soul and form, <wrap hide>666|01:24:51|830|01:24:56|190</wrap>as far as man is concerned, we are working microcosmically and producing the manifestation <wrap hide>667|01:24:56|190|01:25:03|390</wrap>of the incarnated Christ, the Christ within man, the fully flowering soul, the perfected <wrap hide>668|01:25:03|390|01:25:10|690</wrap>individual soul—let's call it the fully flowering soul. That's what we are looking at. <wrap quote>Thus <wrap hide>669|01:25:10|690|01:25:18|370</wrap>the greater and the lesser polar opposites—the human being and God, the microcosm and <wrap hide>670|01:25:18|370|01:25:25|250</wrap>the Macrocosm—are brought to their destined expression and manifestation.</wrap> Well, the greater <wrap hide>671|01:25:25|250|01:25:32|650</wrap>polar opposites—the greater polar opposites—we can imagine spirit and matter. <wrap hide>672|01:25:33|390|01:25:43|630</wrap>The lesser of the polar opposites, in a certain way, we can consider soul and form. So we have <wrap hide>673|01:25:43|630|01:25:47|930</wrap>the human being and we have God. God in this case seems to be related to Aries, God the <wrap hide>674|01:25:47|930|01:25:53|130</wrap>Father, the human being in this case more to Pisces, the individual human fish swimming <wrap hide>675|01:25:53|130|01:26:01|030</wrap>in the great ocean of matter, water and the lower planes of the solar Logos and planetary <wrap hide>676|01:26:01|030|01:26:05|930</wrap>Logos. They are brought to their destined expression and manifestation. We, from a practical <wrap hide>677|01:26:05|930|01:26:12|110</wrap>point of view, we should be most interested in bringing the individual Christ within our <wrap hide>678|01:26:12|110|01:26:19|450</wrap>nature to the right form of expression. That is our immediate task. We cannot worry so <wrap hide>679|01:26:19|450|01:26:25|330</wrap>much about the planetary Christ or the solar systemic Christ or the cosmic Christ. These <wrap hide>680|01:26:25|330|01:26:31|910</wrap>will be handled by the entities who work at those levels. <wrap hide>681|01:26:33|250|01:26:39|530</wrap><wrap quote>Until man is nearing the goal, these words mean but little</wrap> What does it mean to near <wrap hide>682|01:26:39|530|01:26:44|710</wrap>the goal? Well, perhaps to begin taking the first initiation, to enter in some small way <wrap hide>683|01:26:44|710|01:26:51|250</wrap>the kingdom of God. Perhaps that means nearing the goal, and there are other and higher goals. <wrap hide>684|01:26:52|010|01:26:59|030</wrap>Maybe D.K. means something even closer to the fourth initiation, but entering the kingdom <wrap hide>685|01:26:59|610|01:27:07|710</wrap>of God is in a way nearing the goal, and for many first degree initiates these books are <wrap hide>686|01:27:07|710|01:27:12|130</wrap>written, so maybe we can begin to understand just a little bit. <wrap quote>Until man is nearing the <wrap hide>687|01:27:12|130|01:27:19|190</wrap>goal, these words mean but little though a study of the sign Pisces in the two ways intended</wrap> <wrap hide>688|01:27:19|190|01:27:24|950</wrap>i.e., on the wheel of form and the wheel of consciousness, <wrap quote>may reveal much that is significant <wrap hide>689|01:27:24|950|01:27:31|510</wrap>and suggestive.</wrap> In a way, Pisces is a kind of beginning and a kind of end, just as Aries <wrap hide>690|01:27:31|510|01:27:40|710</wrap>is, and one day Aries-Pisces will be one sign. Pisces, a kind of beginning and end. There <wrap hide>691|01:27:40|710|01:27:47|790</wrap>is a certain sense of finality, and we are told about Pisces: "Go forth into matter." The <wrap hide>692|01:27:47|790|01:27:53|430</wrap>very first incarnation in an individual sense, as we have been seeing, D.K. says is taken <wrap hide>693|01:27:53|430|01:28:00|770</wrap>in Pisces, and the final incarnation which will bring a man to Shambhala is often experienced <wrap hide>694|01:28:00|770|01:28:09|570</wrap>in Pisces, so like Aries, it is a kind of beginning and end. <wrap quote>The goal of Deity, the emergence <wrap hide>695|01:28:09|570|01:28:18|210</wrap>of God's plan and the nature of His eternal purpose is for us only a subject of interested <wrap hide>696|01:28:18|210|01:28:25|030</wrap>speculation.</wrap> Is D.K. including himself here? Perhaps when it comes to fathoming the eternal <wrap hide>697|01:28:25|030|01:28:31|770</wrap>purpose of God, D.K. is including himself. D.K. tells us that he has not been to the <wrap hide>698|01:28:31|770|01:28:37|810</wrap>cosmic astral plane, is not qualified to speak about that which transpires there except in <wrap hide>699|01:28:37|810|01:28:43|010</wrap>a very learned sense, maybe not in a direct experiential sense. He can say something about <wrap hide>700|01:28:43|010|01:28:48|390</wrap>the emergence of God's plan because he, like the other masters, is part of that emergence, <wrap hide>701|01:28:49|370|01:28:54|930</wrap>but as for the unknown, unheard purpose of Sanat Kumara, the seven great purposes of <wrap hide>702|01:28:54|930|01:29:07|790</wrap>Sanat Kumara, there are some purposes which Sanat Kumara keeps entirely to himself. He <wrap hide>703|01:29:10|890|01:29:19|650</wrap>says that the first letter of the first syllable—I think maybe the first syllable of Sanat Kumara's name. <wrap hide>704|01:29:19|710|01:29:26|230</wrap>Anyway, with every increase in initiatory rank, a letter, a syllable, more than one syllable <wrap hide>705|01:29:26|230|01:29:33|350</wrap>of the great name of Sanat Kumara is revealed, and along with that, the purpose. So if it <wrap hide>706|01:29:33|350|01:29:40|470</wrap>is speculative for Master D.K., it's certainly speculative for us—interested speculation. <wrap hide>707|01:29:41|410|01:29:46|710</wrap>The goal of deity: we're given in a general sense the idea that our deity is to become <wrap hide>708|01:29:46|710|01:29:53|790</wrap>a great station of light within the solar system. The theme of our planetary Logos is <wrap hide>709|01:29:53|790|01:30:00|850</wrap>light and illumination. When it comes to the goal of the solar Logos, we understand that <wrap hide>710|01:30:00|850|01:30:06|910</wrap>he is a heart center in a cosmic Logos, so increasingly the energy of Buddhic love will <wrap hide>711|01:30:06|910|01:30:13|370</wrap>have to be expressed through our solar Logos. But that doesn't really tell us so much that <wrap hide>712|01:30:13|370|01:30:19|030</wrap>he will become a greater and greater God of love, a consuming fire of love. It tells us <wrap hide>713|01:30:19|030|01:30:23|950</wrap>something and gives us the idea that love must condition everything within the solar <wrap hide>714|01:30:23|950|01:30:30|570</wrap>system, but the specifics of the purpose are not revealed, and the way he goes about achieving <wrap hide>715|01:30:30|570|01:30:35|550</wrap>them in relation to other aspects of the cosmic Logos of which he is a part are not revealed. <wrap hide>716|01:30:37|170|01:30:41|490</wrap><wrap quote>The goal of Deity, the emergence of God's plan and the nature of His eternal purpose <wrap hide>717|01:30:41|490|01:30:50|270</wrap>is for us only a subject of interested speculation. There is a possibility that this plan</wrap> the <wrap hide>718|01:30:50|270|01:30:56|850</wrap>divine plan <wrap quote>and purpose</wrap>—whether of the planetary Logos or solar Logos—<wrap quote><wrap hide>719|01:30:57|290|01:31:04|770</wrap>may be vastly different to our surmise which is based upon our formulation of a Deity who <wrap hide>720|01:31:04|770|01:31:11|850</wrap>is the product of our mental processes and of devoted idealism (two of the three aspects <wrap hide>721|01:31:11|850|01:31:16|890</wrap>of the personality nature),</wrap> We have mentality, we have a devoted idealism—at least the high <wrap hide>722|01:31:16|890|01:31:24|350</wrap>person does, relatively high—and we may speculate upon the nature of our deity, of our planetary <wrap hide>723|01:31:24|350|01:31:30|470</wrap>Logos, of our solar Logos. Sometimes to speculate upon the nature of the absolute God is utterly <wrap hide>724|01:31:30|470|01:31:38|650</wrap>futile when we realize that we cannot even do so for our planetary Logos, our solar Logos. <wrap hide>725|01:31:39|550|01:31:47|210</wrap>So D.K. is warning us that our conceptions may be very much other than truth: <wrap quote>the product <wrap hide>726|01:31:47|210|01:31:51|190</wrap>of our mental processes and of devoted idealism (two of the three aspects of the personality <wrap hide>727|01:31:51|190|01:31:57|710</wrap>nature), and the attempt to interpret His infinite purposes in terms of our own finiteness.</wrap> Well, <wrap hide>728|01:31:57|710|01:32:03|430</wrap>okay, which God are we talking about? Because a planetary God or a solar God cannot have, <wrap hide>729|01:32:03|430|01:32:10|370</wrap>strictly speaking, infinite purposes. But let us say that—well, for that matter, I think <wrap hide>730|01:32:10|370|01:32:16|600</wrap>that even the universal God of our cosmos cannot have infinite purposes because the <wrap hide>731|01:32:16|600|01:32:26|880</wrap>cosmos is a one; it's a unity, it is delimited, it is not a many, it is a particular singularity. <wrap hide>732|01:32:27|800|01:32:32|480</wrap>It is not the infinity of infinities. So, you know, maybe I'm too particular about this <wrap hide>733|01:32:32|480|01:32:36|760</wrap>word "infinite"—not that I can say I really understand it, but it is a passion of mine. <wrap hide>734|01:32:37|260|01:32:43|040</wrap>So sometimes it's just meant to indicate a very large number, a number which we couldn't <wrap hide>735|01:32:43|040|01:32:50|300</wrap>possibly count because, given our human limitations, we could not spend the time counting it; we <wrap hide>736|01:32:50|300|01:32:58|080</wrap>could not find a way to count it. But here we are—the idea is that we, in our own little <wrap hide>737|01:32:58|080|01:33:05|340</wrap>personality nature, cannot attempt to understand the vast purposes of the deities in whom we <wrap hide>738|01:33:05|340|01:33:10|120</wrap>live and move and have our being: namely, our planetary Logos, our solar Logos, and Logoi <wrap hide>739|01:33:10|120|01:33:16|620</wrap>beyond. <wrap quote>Let us always remember this.</wrap> And so what is this here, really? This is an injunction <wrap hide>740|01:33:17|400|01:33:25|300</wrap>to humility and right proportion, which humility is—an adjusted sense of right proportion. <wrap hide>741|01:33:26|100|01:33:31|180</wrap><wrap quote>The mechanism for divine perception</wrap>—the higher siddhis—<wrap quote>has not yet been developed in the human <wrap hide>742|01:33:31|180|01:33:37|540</wrap>family on any large scale</wrap> though some have it and some have some, <wrap quote>and is only achieving <wrap hide>743|01:33:37|540|01:33:42|860</wrap>some measure of usefulness in the initiate of the third degree.</wrap> So when we are an initiate <wrap hide>744|01:33:42|860|01:33:48|740</wrap>of the third degree, the Ajna center is awakening to fuller power—the center in the center <wrap hide>745|01:33:48|740|01:33:55|860</wrap>of the head—the etheric third eye is awakening, and the higher siddhis are gaining the possibility <wrap hide>746|01:33:55|860|01:34:04|340</wrap>of expression. So the initiate of the third degree has some degree... The initiate of the <wrap hide>747|01:34:04|340|01:34:13|900</wrap>third degree has some divine perception. Now, this is not just spiritual perception—think <wrap hide>748|01:34:13|900|01:34:22|620</wrap>of it. Spiritual perception is inaccessible enough. Spiritual perception has to do with <wrap hide>749|01:34:22|620|01:34:28|520</wrap>the realms of the soul and of the spiritual triad. Divine perception is relating to still <wrap hide>750|01:34:28|520|01:34:33|760</wrap>higher levels: the higher two sub-planes of the Buddhic plane, the higher two sub-planes <wrap hide>751|01:34:33|760|01:34:39|240</wrap>of the Atmic plane, and modes of perception which are uncategorized and which are characteristic <wrap hide>752|01:34:39|860|01:34:45|840</wrap>of the Monadic plane and the Logoic plane. Those are really the divine levels of perception. <wrap hide>753|01:34:46|300|01:34:51|700</wrap>So only the very high initiate will have them. He's talking about sensitivity here, really, <wrap hide>754|01:34:51|700|01:35:00|740</wrap>isn't he? Pisces is a sign of a great sensitive consciousness, and so it seems right for him <wrap hide>755|01:35:00|740|01:35:09|500</wrap>to be discussing our limitations and the possibilities of our eventual growing sensitivity when <wrap hide>756|01:35:09|500|01:35:17|460</wrap>discussing this sign of impression, of mediation, and, in a lesser sense, of mediumship. This <wrap hide>757|01:35:17|460|01:35:26|600</wrap>is a very receptive sign, a sign which is maybe so easy to be overwhelmed by circumstance <wrap hide>758|01:35:26|600|01:35:33|320</wrap>and many lesser energies, but which, when those phases are overcome, can attune with high and <wrap hide>759|01:35:33|320|01:35:38|040</wrap>subtle energies which for most people seem non-existent. <wrap hide>760|01:35:38|880|01:35:51|920</wrap>Okay, how are we doing here? We are speaking of a duality in Pisces. We've been talking <wrap hide>761|01:35:51|920|01:36:05|380</wrap>about the bringing together of soul and form. Okay, soul and form. <wrap quote>This duality of Pisces <wrap hide>762|01:36:05|380|01:36:13|380</wrap>must be studied in relation to its //three keynotes// which are</wrap> So D.K. is, as promised, giving us the keynotes <wrap hide>763|01:36:13|380|01:36:21|900</wrap>and keywords of the sign Pisces. <wrap quote>1. Bondage or captivity.</wrap>—this is the initial sign of <wrap hide>764|01:36:21|920|01:36:29|620</wrap>the dual phase. This is the whale swallowing Jonah, the whale of great size. It is the <wrap hide>765|01:36:29|620|01:36:39|880</wrap>seed of the sea monster. It's related to the Hydra, related to the deluge of elemental <wrap hide>766|01:36:39|880|01:36:46|700</wrap>forces which can easily overcome a human being who has not yet stabilized himself in his <wrap hide>767|01:36:46|700|01:36:51|820</wrap>spiritual consciousness. Bondage or captivity—we are subject to many influences in the lower <wrap hide>768|01:36:51|820|01:37:01|940</wrap>worlds. <wrap quote>2. Renunciation or detachment.</wrap>—and here we are learning to give up our attachment <wrap hide>769|01:37:02|860|01:37:11|260</wrap>to these lower influences. We put them aside; we repulse them, perhaps, under the Law of Repulse, <wrap hide>770|01:37:11|460|01:37:18|180</wrap>the fourth law of the soul, and we can observe them but find that we are not swayed by them. <wrap hide>771|01:37:18|180|01:37:24|920</wrap>And finally, when we have detached ourselves from that which originally kept us in bondage— <wrap hide>772|01:37:24|920|01:37:35|620</wrap>and captivity, we learn to sacrifice any possible desire for those levels. We make a sacred <wrap hide>773|01:37:35|620|01:37:43|420</wrap>offering. We give up what most people cherish because we cherish something still higher, <wrap hide>774|01:37:43|420|01:37:52|700</wrap>and we die to the lower worlds and are in a way born into still higher areas of opportunity. <wrap hide>775|01:37:52|960|01:38:00|060</wrap>So it's not a very sad and sort of gruesome death, but great hope and possibility. Pisces <wrap hide>776|01:38:00|060|01:38:04|660</wrap>being a sign of great hope. Great hope follows the stage and realization. <wrap hide>777|01:38:08|080|01:38:16|640</wrap>Okay, so these are the keynotes: bondage or captivity; renunciation or detachment. Pluto <wrap hide>778|01:38:16|640|01:38:22|980</wrap>certainly helps with that, right? Interestingly, bondage can relate to Jupiter and Neptune, <wrap hide>779|01:38:23|140|01:38:29|560</wrap>two of the rulers of Pisces, because one is thoroughly engaged with all this lower level <wrap hide>780|01:38:29|560|01:38:35|860</wrap>of expression. And finally, <wrap quote>3. Sacrifice and death.</wrap> Certainly Pluto is the planet of death, <wrap hide>781|01:38:35|860|01:38:44|560</wrap>and it cuts the thread which binds us to lesser things. So the rulers of Pisces, Jupiter and <wrap hide>782|01:38:44|560|01:38:50|960</wrap>Pluto, are very much involved in this process. Interesting that Pisces rules very large animals <wrap hide>783|01:38:50|960|01:38:56|960</wrap>such as whales of all things, whereas Virgo rules small animals in exoteric astrology. <wrap hide>784|01:38:57|680|01:39:02|640</wrap>And the whale of great size is a very Jupiterian, Neptunian thing. It's in the Neptunian waters, <wrap hide>785|01:39:02|640|01:39:08|740</wrap>and it's of great size. It's Jupiter, and it engulfs and swallows and incorporates the <wrap hide>786|01:39:08|740|01:39:18|380</wrap>soul for a long time, thus keeping it in bondage. So remember that not every planet is wonderful <wrap hide>787|01:39:18|380|01:39:25|620</wrap>as a planetary God, but there are negative ways in which these planets can express according <wrap hide>788|01:39:25|620|01:39:31|220</wrap>to the type of form that it influences. So there are some lower expressions of the planets, <wrap hide>789|01:39:31|220|01:39:34|660</wrap>and you know every time we mention Aquarius we can't say, "Oh, that's a wonderful sign, <wrap hide>790|01:39:34|800|01:39:39|160</wrap>everything is good about Aquarius." We have to remember that the Nazi party came into <wrap hide>791|01:39:39|160|01:39:49|160</wrap>power in Germany as the official ruling party under Aquarius, January 30th. So the signs <wrap hide>792|01:39:49|160|01:39:56|800</wrap>of the zodiac, their qualities are not all good, not all bad. It depends on how they <wrap hide>793|01:39:56|800|01:40:01|820</wrap>are used. That's a truism, but we have to keep it in mind; otherwise we will always go on <wrap hide>794|01:40:03|760|01:40:09|440</wrap>preferring Aquarius to Pisces or preferring the seventh ray to the sixth ray or preferring <wrap hide>795|01:40:10|020|01:40:15|640</wrap>the second ray to the third ray, not realizing that they are all equally divine and that <wrap hide>796|01:40:15|640|01:40:20|140</wrap>there are negative expressions of even the rays we prefer and the signs that we prefer. <wrap hide>797|01:40:21|400|01:40:29|760</wrap>Okay, page 116. <wrap quote>In the first cycle of experience upon the wheel,</wrap> turning clockwise I would <wrap hide>798|01:40:29|760|01:40:36|960</wrap>assume, <wrap quote>the soul itself is in captivity to substance;</wrap> It's all that the consciousness <wrap hide>799|01:40:36|960|01:40:45|620</wrap>sees. It's not sensitive to any of the inner impulses yet. It is impressionable. It is <wrap hide>800|01:40:45|640|01:40:53|640</wrap>real to all the outer impulses, and they sway the soul and lead the soul and compel <wrap hide>801|01:40:53|640|01:41:00|480</wrap>the soul. You've seen some of these people; they look like they are cut adrift, and the <wrap hide>802|01:41:01|200|01:41:09|020</wrap>current that comes along from the normal worlds sways them and directs them. They are not <wrap hide>803|01:41:09|020|01:41:19|320</wrap>self-directing. Let's just talk about that here: not self-directing individuals. <wrap quote>it has <wrap hide>804|01:41:19|320|01:41:23|940</wrap>come down into the prison house <wrap hide>805|01:41:23|940|01:41:29|440</wrap>of matter</wrap> Pisces is the twelfth sign. It represents the twelfth house, and typically <wrap hide>806|01:41:29|440|01:41:37|040</wrap>prisons, places of incarceration, even convents and monasteries where you are in a way voluntarily <wrap hide>807|01:41:37|040|01:41:42|960</wrap>incarcerated, they are all ruled by the twelfth house. Asylums, institutions, even hospitals <wrap hide>808|01:41:42|960|01:41:48|720</wrap>where you are confined. Places of confinement, albeit for the purpose of redemption, but <wrap hide>809|01:41:48|720|01:41:54|540</wrap>nevertheless places of confinement are ruled by Pisces and relate to the twelfth house. <wrap hide>810|01:41:55|340|01:42:01|800</wrap>The soul <wrap quote>has come down into the prison house of matter and linked itself to form.</wrap> Those <wrap hide>811|01:42:01|800|01:42:11|760</wrap>are the ties, the magnetic ties, and those are the very ties that Pluto has to cut: magnetic <wrap hide>812|01:42:11|760|01:42:19|880</wrap>ties. It dissociates itself from what was previously so appealing. Through the eye of <wrap hide>813|01:42:19|880|01:42:26|560</wrap>glamour, many essentially worthless things appear very appealing. So we are trying to <wrap hide>814|01:42:26|560|01:42:33|820</wrap>understand that and to eventually achieve our detached freedom. <wrap quote>Hence the symbol of <wrap hide>815|01:42:33|820|01:42:41|600</wrap>Pisces, of the two fishes linked together by a band.</wrap> and it is <wrap hide>816|01:42:41|600|01:42:48|400</wrap>also considered to be one of the constellations: magnetic band. The constellations associated <wrap hide>817|01:42:48|400|01:42:56|360</wrap>with Pisces: Andromeda, Cepheus the King, and the Band. The band binding the two fishes <wrap hide>818|01:42:56|360|01:43:06|300</wrap>together. Is it true that the Buddha had Pisces on the ascendant? There are some writings <wrap hide>819|01:43:06|300|01:43:13|880</wrap>by D.K. that seem to indicate this, along with his Taurus sun and his Scorpio moon. Maybe <wrap hide>820|01:43:13|880|01:43:20|260</wrap>It is so, but anyway, the Buddha came to cut that band, and he was able to use Scorpio to <wrap hide>821|01:43:20|260|01:43:26|420</wrap>do it and also the brilliant light of Taurus to do it. To dissolve the band which binds <wrap hide>822|01:43:26|420|01:43:33|120</wrap>the fish of the soul to the fish of form. The vertical fish to the horizontal fish. <wrap hide>823|01:43:33|280|01:43:38|880</wrap>When you look at Pisces, you see that the two fishes are swimming in two different directions. <wrap hide>824|01:43:39|200|01:43:47|220</wrap>One is vertical and the other is more horizontal, representing in this case the world of form. <wrap hide>825|01:43:48|260|01:43:55|380</wrap>So the two fishes are linked together by a band. <wrap quote>One fish stands for the soul and the <wrap hide>826|01:43:55|380|01:44:02|280</wrap>other for the personality or form nature, and between them is to be found the “thread or sutratma,” <wrap hide>827|01:44:02|720|01:44:08|920</wrap>the silver cord which keeps them bound to each other throughout <wrap hide>828|01:44:08|920|01:44:14|680</wrap>the cycle of manifested life.</wrap> Well, that may be one—that is one thread that one wants <wrap hide>829|01:44:14|680|01:44:20|580</wrap>to be very judicious in cutting. There are other threads that one can cut. Eventually, <wrap hide>830|01:44:20|900|01:44:33|840</wrap>finally, the sutratma is cut, but only after all has been accomplished. If we cut the sutratma <wrap hide>831|01:44:33|840|01:44:40|580</wrap>prematurely, we cut away our possibility of working out the purposes of soul in form. <wrap hide>832|01:44:40|580|01:44:48|420</wrap>But there are threads of consciousness which, in a way, or threads of attachment at least, <wrap hide>833|01:44:48|560|01:44:57|200</wrap>which have to be cut. One can remain conscious of that to which one is no longer attached. <wrap hide>834|01:44:58|920|01:45:04|620</wrap>So anyway, the thread or sutratma, the band represents the silver cord. Sometimes silver, <wrap hide>835|01:45:05|100|01:45:12|340</wrap>maybe another color. D.K. says it's not exactly an apt description, but there is a magnetic <wrap hide>836|01:45:12|340|01:45:20|340</wrap>cord of life that connects the two fishes, and death followed at the end of every incarnation <wrap hide>837|01:45:20|340|01:45:27|020</wrap>is the cutting of the cord under Pluto so that the consciousness returns to itself and <wrap hide>838|01:45:27|020|01:45:32|440</wrap>is no longer engaged with the previous form. You can ask yourself, well, what was the form <wrap hide>839|01:45:32|440|01:45:39|620</wrap>of my previous life or five lives previously? Do I really care? I only care insomuch as <wrap hide>840|01:45:39|620|01:45:45|780</wrap>it may affect my consciousness now, but am I attached to those previous physical vehicle <wrap hide>841|01:45:45|780|01:45:53|020</wrap>per se or the previous etheric substance? Am I attached to those atoms? Probably I am <wrap hide>842|01:45:53|020|01:45:58|680</wrap>not, although I am attached to the elemental lives which are generated through my permanent <wrap hide>843|01:45:58|680|01:46:03|280</wrap>atoms. I remain attached to those until the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>844|01:46:05|080|01:46:15|540</wrap><wrap quote>Later on, upon the reversed wheel, the personality is brought into captivity by the soul,</wrap> Well, <wrap hide>845|01:46:15|540|01:46:26|880</wrap>the man swallows the whale in a certain sense. The personality is reduced in its influence, <wrap hide>846|01:46:26|880|01:46:34|020</wrap>and the soul waxes and grows as in Gemini, and the elemental life is no longer allowed <wrap hide>847|01:46:34|020|01:46:43|880</wrap>to do precisely what it wants to do. No longer. <wrap quote>but for long aeons the situation is reversed <wrap hide>848|01:46:43|880|01:46:49|260</wrap>and the soul is the prisoner of the personality.</wrap> Well, let us say that our consciousness is <wrap hide>849|01:46:49|260|01:46:54|460</wrap>the victim of all of these fire, earth, air and water, fire by friction elemental lives, <wrap hide>850|01:46:55|640|01:47:03|840</wrap>and this is the case for the majority of human beings. The soul as the prisoner of the personality. <wrap hide>851|01:47:05|060|01:47:14|320</wrap><wrap quote>This dual bondage</wrap>—Pisces being a dual sign, the sign of bondage or binding to—<wrap quote>is brought <wrap hide>852|01:47:14|320|01:47:20|180</wrap>to an end by what is called the final death,</wrap> It makes you think that Pluto is involved <wrap hide>853|01:47:20|180|01:47:27|660</wrap>there and maybe Uranus is on the final burning ground. The relationship of human awareness <wrap hide>854|01:47:27|660|01:47:38|620</wrap>to form is—and a form in bondage to the human awareness—is finally terminated at the higher <wrap hide>855|01:47:38|620|01:47:46|040</wrap>stages of human initiation <wrap quote>when the complete release of the life aspect from the life of <wrap hide>856|01:47:46|040|01:48:00|660</wrap>form takes place.</wrap> There is a—this is much later in the process—and there is in esoteric <wrap hide>857|01:48:00|660|01:48:12|280</wrap>healing a rule, a final law. Is it law number 10 in esoteric healing? Let us take a look <wrap hide>858|01:48:12|280|01:48:28|220</wrap>at that if we can and let us see. Law 10, maybe here. Oh yes, this is it. This is it. <wrap hide>859|01:48:28|300|01:48:42|260</wrap>This is the final liberation, and it says these are two forms of death. Harken, O Chela, to the <wrap hide>860|01:48:42|260|01:48:47|700</wrap>Mother and then obey. The word goes forth that form has served its purpose. The principle <wrap hide>861|01:48:47|700|01:48:54|740</wrap>of mind then organizes itself and then repeats the word. The waiting form responds and drops <wrap hide>862|01:48:54|740|01:48:59|780</wrap>away, and the soul stands free. So this is the freedom, this is the temporary cutting <wrap hide>863|01:49:01|120|01:49:09|100</wrap>of the consciousness from the life of form at the end of every incarnation. But look <wrap hide>864|01:49:09|100|01:49:15|840</wrap>at the next part of the law. Respond, O rising one. This is the spirit itself, the monad. <wrap hide>865|01:49:16|020|01:49:21|780</wrap>Respond, O rising one, to the call which comes within the sphere of obligation. Recognize <wrap hide>866|01:49:21|780|01:49:26|340</wrap>the call emerging from the ashram or from the council chamber where awaits the Lord <wrap hide>867|01:49:26|340|01:49:38|000</wrap>of Life himself, who is calling upon the spirit or monad to rise up out of form and out of <wrap hide>868|01:49:38|000|01:49:43|520</wrap>form together must renounce the principle of life and thus permit the monad to stand <wrap hide>869|01:49:43|520|01:49:50|600</wrap>free. The soul responds; the form then shatters the connection. Life, the monadic aspect, <wrap hide>870|01:49:50|600|01:49:56|760</wrap>is now liberated. Owning the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience, <wrap hide>871|01:49:57|400|01:50:03|360</wrap>these are the gifts of soul and form combined. This is page 501 and 502 of Esoteric Healing. <wrap hide>872|01:50:04|580|01:50:11|800</wrap>Yes, and this is where the spirit dissociates itself not only from form but from soul, and <wrap hide>873|01:50:11|800|01:50:22|460</wrap>this is a final type of Piscean consummation. So this dual bondage in which soul and form <wrap hide>874|01:50:22|460|01:50:28|460</wrap>are bound to each other is brought to an end by what I've called the final death and which <wrap hide>875|01:50:28|460|01:50:38|080</wrap>has been described in Law 10 of the Rules and Laws of Esoteric Healing. When the complete <wrap hide>876|01:50:38|080|01:50:45|900</wrap>release of the life aspect, the rising one from the life of form takes place. So, you <wrap hide>877|01:50:45|900|01:50:58|440</wrap>know, what is this? Let's just call this the fourth and fifth initiations. It should be <wrap hide>878|01:50:58|440|01:51:02|280</wrap>the dense physical body of the soul of Logos, even though on the higher levels of that dense <wrap hide>879|01:51:02|280|01:51:09|500</wrap>physical body. <wrap quote>It should be borne in mind also that the soul itself is of the nature of form from the standpoint of the Monad, <wrap hide>880|01:51:10|220|01:51:16|880</wrap>though it is a form far subtler than any that we know in the three worlds of human evolution.</wrap> <wrap hide>881|01:51:18|160|01:51:26|760</wrap>So in other words, the Pisces also rules in its hierarchical sense the release <wrap hide>882|01:51:26|760|01:51:33|920</wrap>of spirit from the soul body, and this is of course the fourth degree. Later is Pisces <wrap hide>883|01:51:33|920|01:51:42|060</wrap>involved in the ultimate release of the monad from the spiritual triad itself. We can speculate. <wrap hide>884|01:51:43|120|01:51:49|040</wrap><wrap quote>There is also a dual renunciation referred to in these key words,</wrap> Dual renunciation, <wrap hide>885|01:51:49|820|01:51:56|100</wrap>bondage and captivity, renunciation and detachment, sacrifice and death. <wrap quote>There is also a dual <wrap hide>886|01:51:56|100|01:52:03|120</wrap>renunciation referred to in these key words, for first of all the soul renounces the life <wrap hide>887|01:52:03|120|01:52:10|180</wrap>and light of the Monad,</wrap> It comes, it leaves. What is the soul? The soul is the jiva, the <wrap hide>888|01:52:10|180|01:52:16|560</wrap>awareness of the monad which is projected down into the lower worlds.<wrap quote>its source (symbolized by the words “the Father's home”), and descends into the ocean of matter;</wrap> There is, "I leave <wrap hide>889|01:52:16|560|01:52:20|780</wrap>my father's home," and turning back I say... But there is the part of it where we say, "I leave <wrap hide>890|01:52:20|780|01:52:28|380</wrap>my father's home because I am a lord of ceaseless and persevering devotion," of persevering, ceaseless <wrap hide>891|01:52:28|380|01:52:34|360</wrap>devotion as such a lord of consciousness. I leave the highest state of the father, of <wrap hide>892|01:52:34|360|01:52:50|760</wrap>the monad, of that vast divine awareness. I leave that world of light and life. I leave <wrap hide>893|01:52:50|760|01:52:53|680</wrap>the world of self-consciousness. And that takes a long time. That's the entire <wrap hide>894|01:52:55|160|01:53:12|420</wrap>evolutionary process, and then the early stages of evolution during which there is not self-consciousness. <wrap hide>895|01:53:13|440|01:53:19|660</wrap><wrap quote>then, reversing itself, the soul</wrap> awakening to itself, let us say, awakening to its true <wrap hide>896|01:53:19|660|01:53:31|160</wrap>spiritual nature, <wrap quote>renounces the life of form, the personality centre. The soul detaches <wrap hide>897|01:53:31|160|01:53:37|060</wrap>itself (in consciousness)</wrap> Remember now, this is telling us that the sutratma is not detached <wrap hide>898|01:53:37|060|01:53:44|700</wrap>here, not until the very end. It is not detached. The soul detaches itself still connected to <wrap hide>899|01:53:44|700|01:53:52|540</wrap>the monad by life, but in consciousness <wrap quote>from the Monad, the One,</wrap> because all monads are <wrap hide>900|01:53:52|540|01:53:58|760</wrap>one, <wrao quote>and functions from its own centre,</wrap> on the higher mental plane in the egoic lotus, <wrap hide>901|01:53:58|860|01:54:05|980</wrap>in the causal body, <wrap quote>making its own new and material attachments.</wrap> in the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>902|01:54:09|280|01:54:17|080</wrap>So there is a descending detachment and an ascending detachment, and Pisces is ruling <wrap hide>903|01:54:17|080|01:54:22|440</wrap>both of those. "I leave the father's home" is certainly a Piscean statement. It refers to <wrap hide>904|01:54:22|440|01:54:29|240</wrap>the descent of the jivic consciousness from the realm of the monad. Then the prodigal <wrap hide>905|01:54:29|240|01:54:37|540</wrap>son, who is also the soul, awakens to himself and leaves behind the peripheral worlds of <wrap hide>906|01:54:37|540|01:54:46|060</wrap>the personality and becomes fully soul conscious and eventually spirit conscious. <wrap quote>Then, upon <wrap hide>907|01:54:46|060|01:54:50|980</wrap>the reversal of the wheel,</wrap> yet the soul <wrap quote>it proceeds to detach itself from the personality and <wrap hide>908|01:54:50|980|01:54:57|040</wrap>re-attach itself in consciousness to the One Who sent it forth.</wrap> So it is very right <wrap hide>909|01:54:57|040|01:55:10|060</wrap>to say that the soul looks in two directions, like Janus, the Roman two-faced God, looks <wrap hide>910|01:55:10|060|01:55:19|420</wrap>in two directions. <wrap quote>Such is the climaxing story of Pisces. The Lords of Will and Sacrifice</wrap> <wrap hide>911|01:55:19|580|01:55:24|240</wrap>who are the monads, who are ourselves, <wrap quote>come down into manifestation, sacrificing their <wrap hide>912|01:55:24|240|01:55:30|860</wrap>high position and opportunities upon the higher planes of manifestation</wrap> i.e., the worlds of <wrap hide>913|01:55:30|860|01:55:39|520</wrap>the cosmic ethers, <wrap quote>in order to redeem matter</wrap> redeem the matter of the dense physical body <wrap hide>914|01:55:39|520|01:55:46|640</wrap>of the solar and planetary Logos, <wrap quote>and raise the lives by which it is informed (the lower <wrap hide>915|01:55:46|640|01:55:53|620</wrap>Creative Hierarchies) to the status of Themselves in so far as They constitute the fourth Creative <wrap hide>916|01:55:53|620|01:56:02|040</wrap>Hierarchy.</wrap> So the mission is redemptive, and the spiritual hierarchies with which we are <wrap hide>917|01:56:02|040|01:56:08|320</wrap>associated, the lower ones as part of our bodies of expression, are to be redeemed by <wrap hide>918|01:56:08|320|01:56:14|880</wrap>association with us. We are monads in extension. So this is our purpose. It's not some unhappy <wrap hide>919|01:56:15|580|01:56:21|680</wrap>thing, although it does lead to much temporary grief and limitation. It is a mission out <wrap hide>920|01:56:21|680|01:56:28|080</wrap>of divine love from the Lord of persevering ceaseless devotion. Remember, Pisces is a <wrap hide>921|01:56:28|080|01:56:36|060</wrap>major sign of love and redemption. <wrap quote>This is the subjective purpose, underlying the sacrifice <wrap hide>922|01:56:36|640|01:56:45|980</wrap>of these divine</wrap> i.e., monadic, <wrap quote>Lives Who are ourselves essentially, Who are qualified <wrap hide>923|01:56:45|980|01:56:50|420</wrap>by knowledge, love and will,</wrap> But we have that. It's not like the monad is a tabula <wrap hide>924|01:56:50|420|01:56:59|780</wrap>rasa. It's not a blank slate. The monad has had many forms of experience, has knowledge, <wrap hide>925|01:57:00|040|01:57:08|100</wrap>love, and will. So we want to say the monad is equipped and not a tabula rasa, not a blank <wrap hide>926|01:57:08|100|01:57:13|300</wrap>slate by any means, depending upon being informed by all that goes on within the lower life. <wrap hide>927|01:57:13|810|01:57:20|560</wrap>It's not there so much to gather as it is to serve, although inevitably it does gather <wrap hide>928|01:57:20|560|01:57:26|300</wrap>some additional knowledge by life in the lower worlds. <wrap quote>and animated by ceaseless persevering <wrap hide>929|01:57:26|300|01:57:33|340</wrap>devotion.</wrap> the monad is animated by continually shining, shining like a sun, pulsating like <wrap hide>930|01:57:33|340|01:57:39|280</wrap>a sun, ceaseless persevering devotion. So this is the subjective purpose underlying <wrap hide>931|01:57:39|280|01:57:44|500</wrap>the sacrifice of these divine lives, who are ourselves essentially, who are qualified by <wrap hide>932|01:57:44|500|01:57:49|120</wrap>knowledge, love, and will, and animated by ceaseless persevering devotion. <wrap hide>933|01:57:50|620|01:57:56|880</wrap>They seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance, the death <wrap hide>934|01:57:56|880|01:58:04|080</wrap>of the form living only unto itself and not living unto a higher and more principled pattern <wrap hide>935|01:58:04|080|01:58:09|180</wrap>which can redeem it. <wrap quote>They seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance <wrap hide>936|01:58:09|180|01:58:14|440</wrap>and the consequent release of the indwelling lives into a higher state of consciousness.</wrap> <wrap hide>937|01:58:15|680|01:58:31|680</wrap>So redemption is elevation. Redemption is elevation. And we are seeking to uplift the <wrap hide>938|01:58:31|680|01:58:38|740</wrap>lives with which we come in contact, just the way greater lives, to whom we are as little <wrap hide>939|01:58:38|740|01:58:45|740</wrap>devas or even elementals, are associating with us and uplifting us by their association. <wrap hide>940|01:58:46|480|01:58:51|200</wrap><wrap quote>Of this process, all the world Saviours—</wrap>and remember Pisces is the sign of the world savior <wrap hide>941|01:58:51|200|01:58:57|360</wrap>and of salvation—of this process, <wrap quote> all the world Saviours—past, present and to come—are <wrap hide>942|01:58:57|360|01:59:02|540</wrap>the manifested symbols and the eternal guarantees.</wrap> There have been many world saviors before <wrap hide>943|01:59:02|540|01:59:09|040</wrap>the appearance of the Christ. They guarantee this divine redemptive process in which we <wrap hide>944|01:59:09|040|01:59:14|400</wrap>are all engaged and from which we are all benefiting. And we have to become redeemers <wrap hide>945|01:59:14|400|01:59:20|100</wrap>or awaken to the fact that we set forth on our great pilgrimage as redeemers. We have <wrap hide>946|01:59:20|100|01:59:25|840</wrap>set forth in this way. And we have forgotten by becoming selfish and we have forgotten <wrap hide>947|01:59:25|840|01:59:30|020</wrap>our original purpose, and when we wake up to the plan of the soul and the purpose of <wrap hide>948|01:59:30|020|01:59:33|320</wrap>the monad, we will again become unselfish redeemers. <wrap hide>949|01:59:34|360|01:59:40|500</wrap><wrap quote>It is in such recognitions as these that the mainspring to the life of service must be <wrap hide>950|01:59:40|500|01:59:45|760</wrap>sought.</wrap> If we want to serve, we have to remember who we are. There are many reasons to serve, <wrap hide>951|01:59:46|180|01:59:51|060</wrap>but the deepest reason to serve is the recollection of why we set forth on our great pilgrimage. <wrap hide>952|01:59:51|060|01:59:56|460</wrap><wrap quote>People born in this sign are frequently to be found serving the race and ministering <wrap hide>953|01:59:56|460|02:00:01|300</wrap>to its needs</wrap>—they are often ministers in the church—<wrap quote>upon some level of consciousness.</wrap> <wrap hide>954|02:00:02|040|02:00:21|040</wrap>The need of others is most important to the advancing Piscean individual. They live their <wrap hide>955|02:00:21|040|02:00:27|760</wrap>lives. I was just in a convent the other day and I attended a Catholic mass, participated, <wrap hide>956|02:00:28|580|02:00:39|160</wrap>and "Totus Tuus" was the motto of this order of Carmelite nuns, "all for you" or "all yours," <wrap hide>957|02:00:40|660|02:00:46|800</wrap>complete altruism. <wrap quote>Thus they are prepared for the final sacrifice in Pisces</wrap> maybe that <wrap hide>958|02:00:46|800|02:00:52|880</wrap>last incarnation at the fourth degree, <wrap quote>which “absorbs them back into their originating Motive,”</wrap> <wrap hide>959|02:00:52|980|02:00:59|300</wrap>That's it. We have to recapture our motive, our motive as monads who set forth on the <wrap hide>960|02:00:59|300|02:01:05|200</wrap>great pilgrimage, <wrap quote>as the //Old Commentary// expresses it.</wrap> And we've forgotten our motive. And if <wrap hide>961|02:01:05|200|02:01:10|300</wrap>we can but remember our motive, our entire service life will be reanimated and we will <wrap hide>962|02:01:10|300|02:01:15|200</wrap>be living life with an entirely different orientation, not one of acquisition. <wrap hide>963|02:01:15|880|02:01:22|700</wrap><wrap quote>It is for this reason that the life of service and the directed intention to serve constitute <wrap hide>964|02:01:22|700|02:01:28|200</wrap>a scientific mode of achieving release.</wrap> almost more powerful than meditation. At times D.K. <wrap hide>965|02:01:28|200|02:01:34|260</wrap>says it is more powerful than meditation. Service is more releasing and more redemptive <wrap hide>966|02:01:34|260|02:01:45|180</wrap>even than meditation. The life of service and the directed intention to serve, as the <wrap hide>967|02:01:45|180|02:01:51|720</wrap>through the exercise of that life of service and that even personality intention or intention <wrap hide>968|02:01:51|720|02:01:59|740</wrap>of the soul within the personality to serve will bring us back to the realization of our <wrap hide>969|02:01:59|740|02:02:04|280</wrap>originating motive. First we realize what it is, then we're absorbed back into it and <wrap hide>970|02:02:04|280|02:02:10|660</wrap>we become that divine will to serve. <wrap quote>In Aquarius, the sign of world service, the lesson is finally <wrap hide>971|02:02:10|660|02:02:16|320</wrap>learned which produces the world Saviour in Pisces. Hence my constant emphasis upon service.</wrap> <wrap hide>972|02:02:16|320|02:02:23|460</wrap>So there is here the accent upon the continuity of these two great signs of release, Aquarius <wrap hide>973|02:02:23|460|02:02:27|940</wrap>being a sign in which you can take the third or fourth initiation, Pisces being a sign <wrap hide>974|02:02:27|940|02:02:35|280</wrap>in which you can take the fourth initiation so often and even perhaps the fifth initiation, <wrap hide>975|02:02:35|280|02:02:43|840</wrap>releasing you into Shambhala. Well friends, it looks like I've done a two hour program <wrap hide>976|02:02:43|840|02:03:05|180</wrap>here without being cancelled. Yeah, a little more. So let us call this, I don't want to <wrap hide>977|02:03:05|180|02:03:12|320</wrap>go as far as, well maybe the best way to do that is to look down here. We've gone to page <wrap hide>978|02:03:12|320|02:03:29|160</wrap>117 and I think, 117, and where did we begin? Okay, we began, okay that's E.A. 52 part 1 and <wrap hide>979|02:03:29|160|02:03:39|160</wrap>we, that's about where we were, page 111. So we've gone from page 111 to 117 in a two <wrap hide>980|02:03:39|160|02:03:45|880</wrap>hour program. It takes a little bit to set these up in a different form but hopefully <wrap hide>981|02:03:46|820|02:03:55|120</wrap>they will be of value and when I feel that I'm on a roll that I will be able to roll <wrap hide>982|02:03:55|120|02:04:02|580</wrap>instead of always having to stop after one hour. Although if one talks too long one loses oxygen <wrap hide>983|02:04:02|580|02:04:08|560</wrap>and perhaps the brain goes a little bit numb. Anyway, it's almost time for breakfast here and <wrap hide>984|02:04:09|520|02:04:18|000</wrap>I will attempt to continue this a little bit later. So let us, let us recite together the <wrap hide>985|02:04:18|000|02:04:30|700</wrap>Great Invocation and conclude this two hour webinar. Okay. <wrap hide>986|02:04:49|340|02:04:55|760</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds <wrap hide>987|02:04:55|760|02:05:06|060</wrap>of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let <wrap hide>988|02:05:06|060|02:05:18|420</wrap>love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center <wrap hide>989|02:05:18|420|02:05:24|060</wrap>where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose <wrap hide>990|02:05:24|060|02:05:34|940</wrap>which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let <wrap hide>991|02:05:34|940|02:05:42|720</wrap>the plan of love and light work out and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light <wrap hide>992|02:05:42|720|02:05:46|540</wrap>and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>993|02:06:28|980|02:06:34|820</wrap>Okay friends, thank you for attending. We are working on Pisces. We have concluded Aries <wrap hide>994|02:06:34|820|02:06:42|380</wrap>and in this Esoteric Astrology Adventure 52 we have the conclusion of Aries and the beginning <wrap hide>995|02:06:42|380|02:06:51|120</wrap>of Pisces. So we will stop the process for now and we'll talk to you soon with Esoteric <wrap hide>996|02:06:51|120|02:06:56|260</wrap>Astrology Adventure 53 whether it's going to be of the normal one hour length or longer <wrap hide>997|02:06:56|260|02:06:58|680</wrap>we will see. See you then. Bye bye.
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