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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940</wrap>Hi friends, this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 54. <wrap hide>2|00:00:11|000|00:00:13|060</wrap>Redux, second time. <wrap hide>3|00:00:13|720|00:00:15|180</wrap>Because can you believe it? <wrap hide>4|00:00:15|800|00:00:21|360</wrap>I recorded two nice hours for you with the sound off entirely. <wrap hide>5|00:00:24|400|00:00:26|880</wrap>I hope this is not the case this time. <wrap hide>6|00:00:26|880|00:00:30|680</wrap>I've checked it and you should be seeing my screen. <wrap hide>7|00:00:30|900|00:00:39|040</wrap>So it will be, of course, entirely different than the one that was just spoken before. <wrap hide>8|00:00:40|280|00:00:51|560</wrap>We were reviewing the orthodox and esoteric rulers of the mutable cross: Jupiter and Mercury, <wrap hide>9|00:00:53|720|00:00:59|700</wrap>ruling Sagittarius and Pisces, and Gemini and Virgo respectively. <wrap hide>10|00:01:00|460|00:01:05|660</wrap>And then come the esoteric rulers: Pluto for Pisces, Earth for Sagittarius, <wrap hide>11|00:01:05|860|00:01:17|660</wrap>the Moon hiding Vulcan for Venus, the Moon hiding Vulcan for Virgo, and then Venus. <wrap hide>12|00:01:17|660|00:01:22|820</wrap>I just want to make sure that I'm not... <wrap hide>13|00:01:23|860|00:01:28|100</wrap>Yes, I was about to start in the wrong place. <wrap hide>14|00:01:28|340|00:01:30|020</wrap>This has been quite a day for me. <wrap hide>15|00:01:30|300|00:01:38|240</wrap>Anyway, we finished with part three and we've been talking about the beauty of death. <wrap hide>16|00:01:38|240|00:01:41|340</wrap>And we began... <wrap hide>17|00:01:41|340|00:01:56|340</wrap>We ended part three of number Esoteric Astrology 53 with the list of five points related to <wrap hide>18|00:01:56|720|00:01:58|780</wrap>Pluto and Jupiter. <wrap hide>19|00:01:58|780|00:02:09|040</wrap>The first ray of Pluto ruling esoterically and hierarchically in Pisces, and the second <wrap hide>20|00:02:09|040|00:02:13|240</wrap>ray of Jupiter ruling in an exoteric manner. <wrap hide>21|00:02:13|720|00:02:25|680</wrap>It is unusual, we realize, that there are certain signs that have rulerships where esoteric <wrap hide>22|00:02:25|680|00:02:35|020</wrap>planets or sacred planets are put in an orthodox or exoteric position, and where non-sacred <wrap hide>23|00:02:35|020|00:02:38|680</wrap>planets are put in an esoteric or hierarchical position. <wrap hide>24|00:02:39|340|00:02:51|320</wrap>Among these are two arms of the mutable cross, namely Pisces, where Jupiter, a powerful esoteric <wrap hide>25|00:02:51|320|00:02:57|000</wrap>planet, a sacred planet, one of the most important in our solar system as it is most closely <wrap hide>26|00:02:57|640|00:03:07|840</wrap>related to the Sun, is put in an orthodox or exoteric position, whereas Pluto, a non-sacred, <wrap hide>27|00:03:08|020|00:03:14|320</wrap>though esoteric in a sense, planet—okay, it is esoteric because highly occulted in <wrap hide>28|00:03:14|320|00:03:20|480</wrap>a certain sense, but it is a non-sacred planet, less sacred even than Mars, its alter ego— <wrap hide>29|00:03:20|480|00:03:25|900</wrap>and it is put in an esoteric and hierarchical position. <wrap hide>30|00:03:26|140|00:03:28|840</wrap>When we look at Sagittarius, we find something similar. <wrap hide>31|00:03:29|340|00:03:36|980</wrap>Here is sacred Jupiter again in the exoteric or orthodox position, ruling ordinary man <wrap hide>32|00:03:36|980|00:03:43|100</wrap>on the ordinary common cross, and the Earth, which is not yet a sacred planet, is put in <wrap hide>33|00:03:43|100|00:03:48|140</wrap>the esoteric position, and Mars, which is not yet a sacred planet and even less developed <wrap hide>34|00:03:48|140|00:03:54|140</wrap>than the Earth, is put in a hierarchical position. <wrap hide>35|00:03:55|320|00:03:59|500</wrap>We have to realize that these are great gods. <wrap hide>36|00:04:00|320|00:04:06|780</wrap>The planetary Logos of the various planets may be, with respect to each other, non-sacred, <wrap hide>37|00:04:06|900|00:04:14|460</wrap>sacred, or synthesizing, but with respect to man, they are all great deities, and so <wrap hide>38|00:04:14|460|00:04:24|880</wrap>their influences, their emanations can apply to the human being on any of the levels of <wrap hide>39|00:04:24|880|00:04:32|180</wrap>his expression, whether his personality level, which is the orthodox or exoteric position, <wrap hide>40|00:04:32|720|00:04:37|560</wrap>or the esoteric position, which relates to the soul, or the hierarchical position, which <wrap hide>41|00:04:37|560|00:04:40|760</wrap>begins to bring in the power of the monad. <wrap hide>42|00:04:41|480|00:04:49|940</wrap>So we can find interpretations for any of these deities in a way. <wrap hide>43|00:04:50|820|00:04:58|200</wrap>We can find interpretations for them which can apply to any of man's areas or levels <wrap hide>44|00:04:58|200|00:04:59|200</wrap>of expression. <wrap hide>45|00:05:00|180|00:05:06|380</wrap>We're told in review that the first ray of power is focused through Pluto, the second <wrap hide>46|00:05:06|380|00:05:13|980</wrap>ray of love-wisdom is focused through Jupiter, and the interplay of these two potencies gives <wrap hide>47|00:05:13|980|00:05:14|740</wrap>the following. <wrap hide>48|00:05:15|240|00:05:23|360</wrap>It <wrap quote>1. Produces the duality of this sign.</wrap> and that gives us the whole question of attachment <wrap hide>49|00:05:23|360|00:05:24|280</wrap>and detachment. <wrap hide>50|00:05:25|560|00:05:28|580</wrap>It brings about—well, attachment obviously is Jupiter. <wrap hide>51|00:05:28|700|00:05:31|820</wrap>Jupiter is a great planet of magnetic attachment. <wrap hide>52|00:05:31|820|00:05:37|980</wrap>We may think of it in some respects as a planet of magnetic liberation where the consciousness <wrap hide>53|00:05:37|980|00:05:44|700</wrap>is drawn up into a higher and more expanded sphere, but at the same time it does bring <wrap hide>54|00:05:44|700|00:05:50|740</wrap>about coherence, cohesion, magnetic attraction, and in a sense attachment and bondage. <wrap hide>55|00:05:51|180|00:05:56|080</wrap>This is the form's early response to the Jupiterian energy. <wrap hide>56|00:05:56|940|00:06:00|960</wrap>The second thing which the combination of Pluto and Jupiter, first ray, second ray <wrap quote>2. Brings <wrap hide>57|00:06:00|960|00:06:08|080</wrap>about the major problem of Pisces—psychic sensitivity.</wrap> sensitivity, vulnerability <wrap hide>58|00:06:08|080|00:06:11|600</wrap>to all manner of subtle influences. <wrap hide>59|00:06:12|060|00:06:19|380</wrap>Pluto does have a specific connection to the astral plane, to Hades, the underworld, as <wrap hide>60|00:06:19|380|00:06:21|280</wrap>it were, and that is what the astral plane is. <wrap hide>61|00:06:21|340|00:06:27|680</wrap>As a matter of fact, the astral hell, the seventh subplane of that astral plane, I think, <wrap hide>62|00:06:27|680|00:06:29|780</wrap>is specifically plutonic. <wrap hide>63|00:06:29|780|00:06:34|640</wrap>The sixth and seventh subplanes of the astral plane we should have nothing to do with, the <wrap hide>64|00:06:34|640|00:06:42|520</wrap>Tibetan tells us, but it is possible that these subtle impressions can be received by <wrap hide>65|00:06:42|520|00:06:48|140</wrap>Pisces perhaps more than any other sign, a very mediumistic and psychic sign. <wrap hide>66|00:06:48|960|00:06:52|160</wrap>Pluto is a penetrating planet. <wrap hide>67|00:06:52|160|00:07:01|300</wrap>It pierces certain ring-pass-nots and lets in these energies, and Jupiter is magnetic <wrap hide>68|00:07:01|300|00:07:04|860</wrap>and attractive and draws them all in. <wrap hide>69|00:07:05|600|00:07:09|940</wrap>So the first and second ray here, the first ray of penetration, the second ray, truly <wrap hide>70|00:07:09|940|00:07:13|260</wrap>the ray of psychism producing the true psychic that the Christ was. <wrap hide>71|00:07:13|440|00:07:18|720</wrap>We're told the Christ on the second ray was the true psychic, and this is the function <wrap hide>72|00:07:18|720|00:07:21|240</wrap>of the second ray and thus of Jupiter. <wrap hide>73|00:07:22|280|00:07:27|960</wrap>Jupiter is interesting because it is connected in an orthodox manner with two signs which <wrap hide>74|00:07:27|960|00:07:34|000</wrap>are either, let's say, Sagittarius, visionary and intuitive, or Pisces, highly impressionable. <wrap hide>75|00:07:35|000|00:07:40|800</wrap>And as far as the other signs that it is connected with, we can find types of impressionability <wrap hide>76|00:07:40|800|00:07:41|840</wrap>in them as well. <wrap hide>77|00:07:41|840|00:07:49|740</wrap>The higher medium found in Virgo and the one who is open to new and descending planetary <wrap hide>78|00:07:49|740|00:07:54|320</wrap>ideas is found in Aquarius, where Jupiter is the esoteric ruler. <wrap hide>79|00:07:55|300|00:08:00|620</wrap>Okay, so that's the second factor that the first and second ray and Pluto and Jupiter <wrap hide>80|00:08:00|620|00:08:01|160</wrap>bring in. <wrap hide>81|00:08:01|380|00:08:02|280</wrap>This is just a review. <wrap hide>82|00:08:02|660|00:08:05|700</wrap>They <wrap quote>3. Causes the lure of the Path, <wrap hide>83|00:08:05|760|00:08:11|120</wrap>in the first instance the path of evolution and later the lure of the probationary path <wrap hide>84|00:08:11|120|00:08:15|760</wrap>with the consequence that transference to the Fixed Cross (which is all that we can intelligently <wrap hide>85|00:08:15|760|00:08:19|760</wrap>comprehend) begins really in Pisces;</wrap> <wrap hide>86|00:08:20|520|00:08:25|440</wrap>There is that transitional moment at the end of the mutable cross where we are making our <wrap hide>87|00:08:25|440|00:08:28|040</wrap>transition onto the fixed cross. <wrap hide>88|00:08:28|260|00:08:29|960</wrap>It's a moment of crisis. <wrap hide>89|00:08:30|300|00:08:33|140</wrap>It's a highly critical moment. <wrap hide>90|00:08:34|220|00:08:35|640</wrap>And lure is interesting. <wrap hide>91|00:08:36|840|00:08:41|880</wrap>The first and second ray combining to cause the lure of the path. <wrap hide>92|00:08:42|800|00:08:49|360</wrap>We might say that the higher consciousness of the second ray calls to us, and the possible <wrap hide>93|00:08:49|360|00:08:53|300</wrap>freedom of the spirit under Pluto in the first ray calls to us. <wrap hide>94|00:08:53|720|00:08:57|440</wrap>Remember that Pluto is definitely connected with Shambhala. <wrap hide>95|00:08:58|340|00:09:04|040</wrap>Aries-Pluto-Shambhala, and that's one of the connections of Pluto-Shambhala and as well <wrap hide>96|00:09:04|040|00:09:11|180</wrap>when you think of the final incarnation for some being taken in Pisces under very drastic <wrap hide>97|00:09:11|180|00:09:17|640</wrap>conditions, this suggests a Pluto and a first ray entrance into Shambhala. <wrap hide>98|00:09:18|120|00:09:22|120</wrap>So there is the lure of the path of evolution: go forth into matter. <wrap hide>99|00:09:22|320|00:09:29|460</wrap>If you think about it, all of the signs of the zodiac are operative at all times, but <wrap hide>100|00:09:29|460|00:09:38|860</wrap>we sometimes have zodiacs of 8, of 10, of 11, and so forth in the history of the development <wrap hide>101|00:09:38|860|00:09:39|520</wrap>of the zodiac. <wrap hide>102|00:09:39|680|00:09:45|160</wrap>And what that says, I think, is that the spiritual potentials of certain signs are not available <wrap hide>103|00:09:45|160|00:09:49|640</wrap>to humanity at all phases of man's unfoldment. <wrap hide>104|00:09:49|700|00:09:55|020</wrap>No, but that some influence of the sign is available at all times. <wrap hide>105|00:09:55|020|00:10:00|420</wrap>Otherwise, how could it be that the first incarnation, as we have discussed, can be <wrap hide>106|00:10:00|420|00:10:05|740</wrap>taken individually in Pisces, whereas the mass incarnation is taken in Cancer? <wrap hide>107|00:10:06|420|00:10:12|100</wrap>So this whole idea of "go forth into matter" at that very first incarnation, with Pisces <wrap hide>108|00:10:12|100|00:10:18|780</wrap>considered to be the first of the signs, must mean that man is somewhat responsive to the <wrap hide>109|00:10:18|780|00:10:25|980</wrap>more material, impressionable, engulfed state of Pisces, and that it is operative even when <wrap hide>110|00:10:25|980|00:10:31|480</wrap>there is simply a zodiac of 8, ending with Scorpio, or a zodiac of 10, ending with Capricorn. <wrap hide>111|00:10:32|140|00:10:37|980</wrap>Those influences are ambient; they are transmitted to the earth. <wrap hide>112|00:10:38|660|00:10:43|080</wrap>The form of man receives them, but his higher spiritual nature does not. <wrap hide>113|00:10:43|180|00:10:47|920</wrap>He cannot enter into their higher spiritual significances. <wrap hide>114|00:10:47|920|00:10:54|960</wrap>All we can really intelligently comprehend here is the fixed cross, the cross of the <wrap hide>115|00:10:54|960|00:11:00|500</wrap>developing soul, the crucified, first the crucified and then the unfolding soul, and <wrap hide>116|00:11:00|500|00:11:04|620</wrap>we're all beginning to learn about that, but not yet the cardinal cross, because we are <wrap hide>117|00:11:04|620|00:11:10|680</wrap>not as a rule initiates of the third degree and beyond, and we cannot enter into the life <wrap hide>118|00:11:10|680|00:11:13|760</wrap>of the spirit yet, so with intelligent comprehension. <wrap hide>119|00:11:14|720|00:11:18|320</wrap>So, the transference to the fixed cross begins really in Pisces. <wrap hide>120|00:11:18|440|00:11:21|220</wrap>Remember, Pisces can be considered in a way the first sign. <wrap hide>121|00:11:21|920|00:11:27|000</wrap><wrap quote>though impulsed (if I may use such a word) in Aries it begins and ends in Pisces.</wrap> It says it's impulsed in Aries, though it begins in Pisces, and in the clockwise wheel <wrap hide>122|00:11:27|000|00:11:34|780</wrap>Pisces can be considered the first sign, coming around ending with Taurus and Aries and starting <wrap hide>123|00:11:34|780|00:11:39|060</wrap>again in Pisces if you're on the clockwise wheel, or on the counterclockwise wheel Aries <wrap hide>124|00:11:39|060|00:11:43|640</wrap>is considered the first sign and Pisces the ending sign of consummation. <wrap hide>125|00:11:44|240|00:11:48|380</wrap>This question of where to begin—you know we always begin with Aries on the counterclockwise <wrap hide>126|00:11:48|380|00:11:54|940</wrap>wheel, but when we come to the clockwise wheel we can in a way end with Aries and thereby <wrap hide>127|00:11:54|940|00:12:00|280</wrap>call it a beginning, but in a number of the ways that the Tibetan measures the signs and <wrap hide>128|00:12:00|280|00:12:07|480</wrap>gives them numbers, Pisces is considered number one, the first, and that's the only way really <wrap hide>129|00:12:07|480|00:12:09|880</wrap>that Leo can be considered the eighth sign. <wrap hide>130|00:12:10|060|00:12:14|780</wrap>It would be considered the ninth sign if Aries was operating counterclockwise—excuse me, <wrap hide>131|00:12:15|040|00:12:16|700</wrap>Aries was operating clockwise. <wrap hide>132|00:12:17|380|00:12:22|380</wrap>We began with Aries and we come to Leo would be number nine, but D.K. says that we must number <wrap hide>133|00:12:22|380|00:12:27|040</wrap>Leo as the eighth sign as well as the fifth sign, fifth on the counterclockwise wheel <wrap hide>134|00:12:27|040|00:12:34|180</wrap>and eighth on the clockwise wheel, so that eighth position has to do with beginning with <wrap hide>135|00:12:34|820|00:12:38|060</wrap>Pisces as sign number one: "Go forth into matter." <wrap hide>136|00:12:38|900|00:12:45|240</wrap>Both of them on the clockwise wheel, Aries and Pisces, have mantrams of commencement: <wrap hide>137|00:12:45|620|00:12:47|500</wrap>"Let form again be sought." <wrap hide>138|00:12:47|880|00:12:55|480</wrap>That is certainly the idea of initiating a new clockwise form-related cycle, and "Go forth <wrap hide>139|00:12:55|480|00:12:56|940</wrap>into matter" is how it's done. <wrap hide>140|00:12:58|120|00:13:04|080</wrap>So even at the very beginning I'm trying to say that such signs as Sagittarius, Capricorn, <wrap hide>141|00:13:04|080|00:13:12|140</wrap>Aquarius, Pisces, who are not listed in the Zodiac of Eight, are effective <wrap hide>142|00:13:13|060|00:13:14|800</wrap>in the life of early man. <wrap hide>143|00:13:18|900|00:13:23|360</wrap>So I asked you earlier, does the fixed cross end in a Pisces experience? <wrap hide>144|00:13:23|820|00:13:27|200</wrap>And I think in a way it can. <wrap hide>145|00:13:28|080|00:13:32|700</wrap>The fixed cross ends in a way at the fourth initiation, and that can well be undertaken <wrap hide>146|00:13:32|700|00:13:33|360</wrap>in Pisces. <wrap hide>147|00:13:33|360|00:13:43|800</wrap>There are a number of signs which are, oh let's say, conducive to departing the fourth <wrap hide>148|00:13:43|800|00:13:50|080</wrap>kingdom of nature and having no more enforced association with it, and certainly Pisces, the <wrap hide>149|00:13:50|080|00:13:51|080</wrap>sign of release, is that. <wrap hide>150|00:13:51|720|00:13:56|900</wrap>So we're continuing with looking at rays one and two in relation to Pisces and Pluto and <wrap hide>151|00:13:56|900|00:14:02|820</wrap>Jupiter in relation to Pisces, and it's causing certain developments of which we've named <wrap hide>152|00:14:02|820|00:14:09|700</wrap>three, and the fourth is that this relationship <wrap quote>4. Precipitates the process of transmutation <wrap hide>153|00:14:09|700|00:14:13|020</wrap>and eventual escape through death.</wrap> <wrap hide>154|00:14:13|800|00:14:18|660</wrap>Well, when we look at the three potencies coming out of Shambhala, they are purification, destruction, <wrap hide>155|00:14:18|660|00:14:19|900</wrap>and organization. <wrap hide>156|00:14:20|780|00:14:23|240</wrap>Ray two is purification; ray one is destruction. <wrap hide>157|00:14:23|440|00:14:30|420</wrap>So two of the Shambhala potencies—and remember that those who end their incarnation cycle <wrap hide>158|00:14:30|940|00:14:33|800</wrap>in Pisces do so in relation to Shambhala. <wrap hide>159|00:14:35|260|00:14:36|720</wrap>They are destined for Shambhala. <wrap hide>160|00:14:38|320|00:14:46|620</wrap>The ray two purification and ray one destruction under Jupiter, let's say, and under Pluto are <wrap hide>161|00:14:46|620|00:14:51|140</wrap>related here to the process of transmutation and escape through death. <wrap hide>162|00:14:51|720|00:14:56|940</wrap>Transmutation and purification go together; destruction and escape through death go together. <wrap hide>163|00:14:57|860|00:15:01|640</wrap>So these two—there's always a process of refinement. <wrap hide>164|00:15:02|460|00:15:05|440</wrap>Refinement and purification is a second ray matter. <wrap hide>165|00:15:05|940|00:15:11|280</wrap>When it comes to actually freeing the consciousness or the spirit from its involvement with the <wrap hide>166|00:15:11|280|00:15:12|880</wrap>form, that's a destructive process. <wrap hide>167|00:15:13|360|00:15:18|400</wrap>It's related to Pluto and Pluto in the first ray. <wrap hide>168|00:15:18|560|00:15:24|760</wrap>Perhaps Pluto is among the planets that we know about at the present time the most destructive <wrap hide>169|00:15:24|760|00:15:25|220</wrap>planet. <wrap hide>170|00:15:25|460|00:15:32|560</wrap>There may be byproducts of destruction that come from other planets, but Pluto is purposefully <wrap hide>171|00:15:32|560|00:15:34|660</wrap>and with intent destructive. <wrap hide>172|00:15:35|020|00:15:44|340</wrap>It represents the shears, the sharp shears that cuts the connection of the sutratma <wrap hide>173|00:15:44|340|00:15:45|500</wrap>with its forms. <wrap hide>174|00:15:45|720|00:15:53|920</wrap>It can never destroy the sutratma, of course—it can only temporarily lead to <wrap hide>175|00:15:55|860|00:16:02|140</wrap>the ceasing of connection of the sutratma with the forms that it has been animating. <wrap hide>176|00:16:02|940|00:16:07|700</wrap>The fifth point relating to Pluto and Jupiter, or first and second ray. <wrap hide>177|00:16:08|920|00:16:15|120</wrap><wrap quote>5. Unfolds the significance, activity and beauty of death and of the work of the destroyer.</wrap> <wrap hide>178|00:16:15|320|00:16:21|880</wrap>Well, death operates in relation to the first ray certainly, and D.K. speaks of the eternally <wrap hide>179|00:16:21|880|00:16:25|600</wrap>lovely secret of death. <wrap hide>180|00:16:25|960|00:16:28|240</wrap>Is that "eternally lovely"? <wrap hide>181|00:16:28|760|00:16:29|760</wrap>Is it "secret of death"? <wrap hide>182|00:16:29|840|00:16:30|820</wrap>It's something like that. <wrap hide>183|00:16:31|320|00:16:33|520</wrap>I won't go on a search—you can go on that search. <wrap hide>184|00:16:35|240|00:16:39|480</wrap>But then Jupiter has much to do with death as well, because death is a magnetic event. <wrap hide>185|00:16:40|080|00:16:45|300</wrap>The soul sounds a great word of destruction, but as well it's a word of attraction because <wrap hide>186|00:16:45|300|00:16:52|880</wrap>it attracts the immersed consciousness towards the higher realms. <wrap hide>187|00:16:53|520|00:17:00|100</wrap>So some of my astrological associates who are very astute have observed charts in which <wrap hide>188|00:17:00|100|00:17:06|140</wrap>Jupiter is very active at the time of death because, as it were, it provides a great escape <wrap hide>189|00:17:06|600|00:17:08|560</wrap>for the indwelling soul. <wrap hide>190|00:17:08|880|00:17:15|120</wrap>When you think about escape, certainly Sagittarius goes on those long journeys away from the <wrap hide>191|00:17:15|120|00:17:22|740</wrap>familiar territory—that's a kind of escape—and Pisces is most notably the elusive sign <wrap hide>192|00:17:22|740|00:17:26|760</wrap>of escape, slipping out of the bondage of form. <wrap hide>193|00:17:27|300|00:17:32|760</wrap>So this took us to the end of part three. In the beginning of part four, had a little bit <wrap hide>194|00:17:32|760|00:17:33|840</wrap>of a false start there. <wrap hide>195|00:17:35|220|00:17:43|280</wrap>And now we are on page 126 for me, the second glorious time, and I can tell by what I'm saying, <wrap hide>196|00:17:43|280|00:17:49|660</wrap>you know, that what I said before was completely different, and hopefully some of the valuable <wrap hide>197|00:17:49|660|00:17:56|780</wrap>points that were made before will not be consigned to their fate as a Charlie Chaplin film—one <wrap hide>198|00:17:56|780|00:18:00|260</wrap>of the silent films. "Read my lips," you know—it won't work. <wrap hide>199|00:18:01|020|00:18:08|160</wrap>Usually at least something picks up this—at least something picks up the words—but this <wrap hide>200|00:18:08|160|00:18:09|020</wrap>time nothing did. <wrap hide>201|00:18:09|580|00:18:15|020</wrap>Okay, so onward. <wrap quote>From this it will be apparent how important and powerful is this sign.</wrap> Pisces— <wrap hide>202|00:18:15|020|00:18:22|060</wrap>a sign of apparent weakness is a sign of great consummatory victory leading to Shambhala. <wrap hide>203|00:18:22|740|00:18:28|700</wrap>One of my scientific friends said, "Have you ever tried to compress water?" showing something <wrap hide>204|00:18:28|700|00:18:33|200</wrap>of the strength and resistance of the elements which Pisces represents. <wrap hide>205|00:18:33|960|00:18:42|160</wrap>How powerful is this sign—this sign of release, consummation, final victory! Victors through <wrap hide>206|00:18:42|160|00:18:51|420</wrap>clear, pure will can be related to Pisces <wrap quote>Through its orthodox ruler, Jupiter, that force is brought <wrap hide>207|00:18:51|420|00:19:00|720</wrap>to bear which “brings all together”</wrap>—it's a very magnetic, attractive, coherent force— <wrap hide>208|00:19:00|720|00:19:08|120</wrap><wrap quote>and— in this case—relates the two fishes and binds them together in <wrap hide>209|00:19:08|120|00:19:12|680</wrap>a functioning relationship.</wrap> We rarely think of Jupiter as a binding force—we oftentimes <wrap hide>210|00:19:12|680|00:19:20|060</wrap>think of it as an expansive, releasing, "go beyond the horizon" type of force—but early Jupiter <wrap hide>211|00:19:20|060|00:19:25|680</wrap>is extremely cohesive. It does relate to the second law of the solar system, the law of <wrap hide>212|00:19:25|680|00:19:34|360</wrap>cohesion. Coherence and cohesion and binding—these are the powers of Jupiter: to attract <wrap hide>213|00:19:34|360|00:19:39|980</wrap>all things together and hold them together. So, you know, we often find the Jupiterian people <wrap hide>214|00:19:39|980|00:19:48|260</wrap>have that kind of magnanimous, attractive, magnetic generosity which holds all the factors in <wrap hide>215|00:19:48|260|00:19:56|760</wrap>any whole in the bonds of a loving relationship. There are all kinds of cohesion, you know. Some <wrap hide>216|00:19:56|760|00:20:04|040</wrap>is cohesion simply through desire—we keep ourselves together on the basis of what we <wrap hide>217|00:20:04|040|00:20:11|000</wrap>want—and a higher form is to hold all things together through the magnetic power of love. <wrap hide>218|00:20:11|000|00:20:17|000</wrap>But anyway, this is the force that brings the two fishes together, and they are held together <wrap hide>219|00:20:17|000|00:20:22|220</wrap>for the duration from individualization all the way to the fourth initiation—that's how <wrap hide>220|00:20:22|220|00:20:30|140</wrap>long that bondage lasts—until the solar angel is at last free to return to the heart of <wrap hide>221|00:20:30|140|00:20:34|840</wrap>the Sun, or the central spiritual Sun, whatever its source may have been. Both are possible <wrap hide>222|00:20:34|840|00:20:44|700</wrap>sources. So it's a long—millions of years—relationship based upon the power of Jupiter as a binding <wrap hide>223|00:20:44|700|00:20:50|300</wrap>force. <wrap quote>It is the activity consequently of the second ray force which relates soul and <wrap hide>224|00:20:50|300|00:20:58|660</wrap>form and brings the two together,</wrap> They have a great destiny to work out together, and it <wrap hide>225|00:20:58|660|00:21:05|420</wrap>takes a long time for them to be able to do that—really, you know, perhaps 25 million years <wrap hide>226|00:21:05|420|00:21:10|980</wrap>for the average human being. The activity, consequently, of the secondary force which relates soul <wrap hide>227|00:21:10|980|00:21:16|080</wrap>and form and brings the two together, <wrap quote>and this magnetic potency is peculiarly descriptive <wrap hide>228|00:21:16|600|00:21:23|300</wrap>of the activity of Pisces.</wrap> Neither one of the pairs of opposites can escape from each other. <wrap hide>229|00:21:23|300|00:21:35|940</wrap>Over the long period of bonded human evolution, neither can escape. First, it is the soul <wrap hide>230|00:21:36|480|00:21:42|220</wrap>and incarnation in bondage to the elemental instinctual forces, and later it is these very <wrap hide>231|00:21:42|220|00:21:49|300</wrap>forces—the forces related to the soul of the world in its lower aspect—which come into <wrap hide>232|00:21:49|300|00:21:57|480</wrap>captivity to the soul and become thereby magnetized by the soul and uplifted. <wrap quote>From another angle <wrap hide>233|00:21:57|480|00:22:03|740</wrap>and in a dual sign, this can also be seen working out in Gemini.</wrap> These two signs are very related, <wrap hide>234|00:22:03|740|00:22:09|920</wrap>as I have said. Usually Gemini is the mediating sign between any zodiacal pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>235|00:22:09|920|00:22:15|220</wrap>You know, it's Aries-Libra-Gemini, Taurus-Scorpio-Gemini, okay? But what happens when <wrap hide>236|00:22:15|220|00:22:21|560</wrap>Gemini is concerned? It's Gemini-Sagittarius-Pisces. So Pisces is a mediating sign and Gemini <wrap hide>237|00:22:21|560|00:22:28|360</wrap>is a mediating sign, and they are both powerful secondary signs. Ultimately, I think that Pisces <wrap hide>238|00:22:28|360|00:22:33|280</wrap>as a cosmic decanate is the most powerful of all the secondary signs, but not at the present <wrap hide>239|00:22:33|280|00:22:42|360</wrap>time when Virgo is the most powerful. So from another angle and also in a dual sign, this <wrap hide>240|00:22:42|360|00:22:49|120</wrap>bringing of two together can be seen working out in Gemini. However, there are distinct differences <wrap hide>241|00:22:49|120|00:22:56|280</wrap>in the way that works. There are sharp differentiations between soul and personality in Gemini. I'm <wrap hide>242|00:22:56|280|00:23:04|160</wrap>remembering that D.K. said that the fall of Uranus in Taurus is exalted in Scorpio brings <wrap hide>243|00:23:04|160|00:23:09|920</wrap>a very sharp cleavage between soul and personality. Well, that kind of cleavage can also be demonstrated <wrap hide>244|00:23:09|920|00:23:16|560</wrap>in the early days of Gemini when the person involved, once the pairs of opposites do come <wrap hide>245|00:23:16|560|00:23:20|960</wrap>into the range of consciousness, seems to be very much either the soul or the personality <wrap hide>246|00:23:20|960|00:23:27|720</wrap>and not either one at the same time—although they can be soul-personality in rapid oscillation. <wrap hide>247|00:23:27|720|00:23:33|040</wrap>And later, the whole relationship becomes so fluid and so blended that there's a constant <wrap hide>248|00:23:33|040|00:23:37|380</wrap>communication from soul to personality, from personality to soul, and there's such an interplay <wrap hide>249|00:23:37|380|00:23:44|320</wrap>that it almost begins to look like the sign Pisces—a condition of such rapid interplay <wrap hide>250|00:23:44|540|00:23:52|100</wrap>that it almost looks like fusion and the right kind of spiritual bondage, okay? So from another <wrap hide>251|00:23:52|100|00:23:57|900</wrap>angle and in a dual sign, this can also be seen wis demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship and the twoorking out in Gemini. <wrap quote>In Pisces, there <wrap hide>252|00:23:57|900|00:24:05|000</wrap>is demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship and the two <wrap hide>253|00:24:05|000|00:24:14|300</wrap>fishes are unable to escape from each other;</wrap> Yes, the soul would be free, but the <wrap hide>254|00:24:14|750|00:24:20|920</wrap>personality leads it astray. The personality would go its own way, but the soul has its <wrap hide>255|00:24:20|920|00:24:26|920</wrap>intense magnetism and doesn't let it go very far. So in either case, the fish is caught—one <wrap hide>256|00:24:26|920|00:24:32|520</wrap>fish swimming vertically, and that's the soul symbol, and the other swimming horizontal—that's <wrap hide>257|00:24:32|520|00:24:37|700</wrap>the personality, okay? There is demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship, and the <wrap hide>258|00:24:37|700|00:24:43|360</wrap>two fishes are unable to escape from each other. In Gemini, there is also a definite relationship <wrap hide>259|00:24:43|360|00:24:49|280</wrap>between Pollux, the elder brother we might say, and Castor—Castor, the younger <wrap hide>260|00:24:49|280|00:24:53|600</wrap>brother. <wrap quote>in Gemini there is also a definite relationship between the two brothers</wrap>—or some <wrap hide>261|00:24:53|600|00:25:02|460</wrap>prefer to say the brother and the sister—<wrap quote>but there is no connecting band,</wrap> So there is, you <wrap hide>262|00:25:02|460|00:25:08|560</wrap>know, this sense of alternation in time, and as the alternation takes place—"Now I'm <wrap hide>263|00:25:08|560|00:25:15|160</wrap>the soul, now I'm the personality"—it gives the impression of the two faces of Gemini: <wrap hide>264|00:25:15|160|00:25:21|980</wrap>Janus, the two-faced God. One—the soul looking towards the spirit—well, actually, Janus is <wrap hide>265|00:25:21|980|00:25:27|860</wrap>the soul, really—one aspect of it looking towards the spirit, the other aspect looking <wrap hide>266|00:25:27|860|00:25:34|440</wrap>towards the personality. But it does give that impression of two faces in the Gemini person, <wrap hide>267|00:25:34|440|00:25:40|900</wrap>so they sometimes seem to be like sharply contrasted individuals. You wonder how people <wrap hide>268|00:25:40|900|00:25:49|060</wrap>can be so different and so, in a way, disintegrated at first. But the integration comes through rapid <wrap hide>269|00:25:49|060|00:25:54|780</wrap>and intelligent, loving interplay, and before long there is such a fluid relationship that the signs <wrap hide>270|00:25:54|780|00:26:01|720</wrap>Gemini and Pisces can show a lot of resemblance. So there's no connecting band at <wrap hide>271|00:26:01|720|00:26:07|820</wrap>first, <wrap quote>and in that relationship is latent free choice and free determination.</wrap> This is so <wrap hide>272|00:26:07|820|00:26:13|760</wrap>interesting. Here we're talking about the power of free will, which is so much connected with Sirius. <wrap hide>273|00:26:13|760|00:26:20|180</wrap>You know, of course, the forces of light could overcome the forces of darkness, and they could <wrap hide>274|00:26:20|180|00:26:29|620</wrap>impose hierarchical order and law upon humanity, and in doing so there would be rebellion later. <wrap hide>275|00:26:29|620|00:26:36|120</wrap>Nothing would really be learned, and man would not have evolved out of himself a deeper sense <wrap hide>276|00:26:36|120|00:26:44|220</wrap>of correct choice. So there is a Sirian-Geminian-Venusian kind of line here which involves free <wrap hide>277|00:26:44|220|00:26:50|660</wrap>choice and free determination. The personality is free to go its own way. The soul does not compel, <wrap hide>278|00:26:50|660|00:26:58|660</wrap>though it strongly suggests, and the soul can as well operate on its own plane, following its <wrap hide>279|00:26:58|660|00:27:06|320</wrap>own predilections unhampered by the personality. And yet it knows its duty, and it knows it must <wrap hide>280|00:27:06|320|00:27:14|780</wrap>bring the personality into orbit, as it were, around itself, or bring it in as a kind of a sub-ray to <wrap hide>281|00:27:14|780|00:27:22|360</wrap>itself as a major ray. So this whole idea of the Sirian law of freedom in relation to Gemini, and <wrap hide>282|00:27:22|360|00:27:28|540</wrap>perhaps in relation to Saturn, the planet of choice, as Saturn is often related to Gemini in dweller <wrap hide>283|00:27:28|540|00:27:36|400</wrap>on the threshold matters—perhaps there's a triangle there—and that free will really is <wrap hide>284|00:27:36|400|00:27:43|060</wrap>developed in Gemini. When you think about the hierarchical relationship to humanity, there is <wrap hide>285|00:27:43|060|00:27:52|100</wrap>very strong suggestion, strong evocation, strong invocation, but there is not compulsion. That's <wrap hide>286|00:27:52|100|00:27:57|460</wrap>left to the Black Lodge, who is functioning under the negativity of Pluto, which can be a very <wrap hide>287|00:27:57|460|00:28:05|060</wrap>compulsive, freedom-denying planetary influence. So we think about that—that the separation of the <wrap hide>288|00:28:05|060|00:28:11|420</wrap>twins gives us this latent free choice and free determination, something that man really must <wrap hide>289|00:28:11|420|00:28:16|660</wrap>cultivate, something that must be a terrible agony to the members of hierarchy, as they know they <wrap hide>290|00:28:16|660|00:28:21|520</wrap>could make things right, as it were, as many of us—let's say as parents—know we could make things <wrap hide>291|00:28:21|520|00:28:28|780</wrap>right, but that would be force. And the inner quality which would have to be developed in the <wrap hide>292|00:28:28|780|00:28:35|400</wrap>person who was made right might not develop at all, and probably would not. <wrap quote>In connection with a <wrap hide>293|00:28:35|400|00:28:40|720</wrap>lesser duality found in every human being,</wrap>—so we're talking about greater dualities and lesser <wrap hide>294|00:28:40|720|00:28:47|560</wrap>dualities—<wrap quote>that of head and heart, of mind and love, and of will and wisdom, the work of Jupiter <wrap hide>295|00:28:47|560|00:28:53|540</wrap>is to develop these two qualities and bring them into synthetic interplay.</wrap> We are speaking of Jupiter <wrap hide>296|00:28:53|540|00:29:03|840</wrap>here, the orthodox ruler of Pisces. Now, the greater duality—greatest in man at least—is spirit-matter. <wrap hide>297|00:29:03|840|00:29:09|820</wrap>The secondary one is soul and personality, and a subsidiary type of duality is mind and heart, or <wrap hide>298|00:29:10|460|00:29:16|360</wrap>head and heart, and mind and love. I think we can see that the head sometimes represents will, but <wrap hide>299|00:29:16|360|00:29:24|620</wrap>other times mind. So there is the duality of a head representing mind and third ray generically, <wrap hide>300|00:29:24|620|00:29:30|440</wrap>and heart representing the second ray soul, or the soul generically on the second ray—let's put <wrap hide>301|00:29:30|440|00:29:36|740</wrap>it like that—and Jupiter brings those two together. But there's also the head representing will and <wrap hide>302|00:29:36|740|00:29:42|160</wrap>the spirit, and the heart representing soul. And Jupiter is also involved in relation to Gemini, as <wrap hide>303|00:29:42|160|00:29:47|820</wrap>we will learn later, infusing the higher of the pairs of opposites, which would be spirit <wrap hide>304|00:29:47|820|00:29:55|400</wrap>and soul. So Jupiter draws them together. Jupiter draws mind and love together. Mind does contain <wrap hide>305|00:29:55|400|00:30:02|200</wrap>an aspect of the will, we know, but generally it is connected with the generic third ray, the <wrap hide>306|00:30:02|200|00:30:07|680</wrap>intelligence aspect with Mercury. It's kind of a Mercury-Venus situation: mind representing Mercury <wrap hide>307|00:30:07|680|00:30:16|540</wrap>and love being represented by Venus. So Jupiter unites the head and the heart, the mind and love. <wrap hide>308|00:30:16|540|00:30:21|840</wrap>And on a higher turn of the spiral—well, it doesn't have to be a higher turn of the spiral; it could be <wrap hide>309|00:30:21|840|00:30:28|600</wrap>personality will and soul wisdom—it could be that. But there is a higher turn as well, that the <wrap hide>310|00:30:28|600|00:30:33|180</wrap>will of the spirit and the wisdom of the soul can be united as well by Jupiter. Wherever Jupiter is <wrap hide>311|00:30:33|180|00:30:41|880</wrap>functioning, it's a force which brings about coherence and a bonding, bonding and an <wrap hide>312|00:30:41|880|00:30:48|620</wrap>interplay. I think there is that great magnetism in Jupiter which pulls the elements <wrap hide>313|00:30:48|620|00:30:56|280</wrap>together and relates them, so that the feeling is not one of compulsion, but the feeling is one <wrap hide>314|00:30:56|280|00:31:04|120</wrap>of joy of association—joyful Jupiter. This is the work of Jupiter: is to develop these two qualities <wrap hide>315|00:31:04|120|00:31:09|940</wrap>and bring them into synthetic interplay. It's really a great agent of fusion, and in this case <wrap hide>316|00:31:09|940|00:31:21|470</wrap>we are speaking of the fusion of the third aspect of divinity and the second aspect of <wrap hide>317|00:31:21|470|00:31:29|070</wrap>divinity, although, as I said before, surprisingly the first and second aspects as well can be fused. <wrap hide>318|00:31:29|070|00:31:35|630</wrap>And finally, you know the old saying "Pisces takes from all the signs"—well, I do think that under <wrap hide>319|00:31:35|630|00:31:42|870</wrap>generous Jupiter, Pisces gives to all the signs as well. And under Neptune, the special ruler of <wrap hide>320|00:31:42|870|00:31:50|710</wrap>Pisces, Pisces pervades all the signs. It's a moot point really, you know, whether Neptune or Jupiter <wrap hide>321|00:31:50|710|00:31:55|870</wrap>should be considered the highest second-ray source in our solar system. Jupiter, with its <wrap hide>322|00:31:55|870|00:32:03|110</wrap>second-ray soul and probably a hard line monad, and Neptune, with a soft line soul, probably six-ray <wrap hide>323|00:32:03|110|00:32:09|570</wrap>and definitely a second-ray monad. So you know which is to be considered more related to the Sun? <wrap hide>324|00:32:09|570|00:32:15|990</wrap>Jupiter has a close relation to the Sun. It may be the orthodox ruler, veiled orthodox ruler of Leo. <wrap hide>325|00:32:15|990|00:32:22|870</wrap>Neptune has a definite veiled relationship with the Sun. Sun veils Neptune esoterically, and then <wrap hide>326|00:32:22|870|00:32:35|130</wrap>Uranus. So these great planets of expansion and spiritualization and cosmification, if you <wrap hide>327|00:32:35|130|00:32:45|310</wrap>will—Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus—are all related to the Sun and all related to Leo and to the <wrap hide>328|00:32:45|310|00:32:53|090</wrap>expanding individual. The expanding from the individual to the universal leads us from the <wrap hide>329|00:32:53|090|00:32:58|850</wrap>individual to the universal, and that's done along that particular line. <wrap quote>Eventually there has to be <wrap hide>330|00:32:59|230|00:33:07|010</wrap>the complete fusion of love and mind before a world saviour can manifest and function efficiently,</wrap> <wrap hide>331|00:33:07|010|00:33:13|570</wrap>So Jupiter is very important in producing a world savior. A world savior is certainly animated by the <wrap hide>332|00:33:13|570|00:33:23|470</wrap>Buddhic force. You know, we see here—let's see—yeah, we see here that on the fourth plane it's <wrap hide>333|00:33:23|470|00:33:30|030</wrap>usually ruled by Mercury, a Buddhic planet. But Jupiter is one of the Buddhic planets. A world <wrap hide>334|00:33:30|030|00:33:36|770</wrap>savior is bringing great beneficence to all whom he or she saves, and Jupiter is that great planet <wrap hide>335|00:33:36|770|00:33:43|230</wrap>of abundance and beneficence. I mean, Christ in relation to Aquarius said, "I am come to bring life <wrap hide>336|00:33:43|230|00:33:52|250</wrap>more abundant." That is Jupiter in Aquarius, and it is one of the saving, salvaging functions of the <wrap hide>337|00:33:52|250|00:33:59|270</wrap>Christ to bring this great life abundant of Shambhala through the generosity of <wrap hide>338|00:33:59|270|00:34:06|310</wrap>Jupiter. Jupiter is not only Buddhic, but Jupiter is monadic. And a world savior, you know, is not <wrap hide>339|00:34:06|310|00:34:11|170</wrap>simply an initiate of the fifth degree—it is an initiate of the sixth degree and requires that <wrap hide>340|00:34:11|170|00:34:19|430</wrap>monadic contact. That monadic contact is a special high relationship with Jupiter, and Jupiter there <wrap hide>341|00:34:19|430|00:34:28|750</wrap>will relate to both Pisces and to Virgo. So Jupiter is definitely involved in the kind of great giving <wrap hide>342|00:34:29|360|00:34:36|450</wrap>that a world savior brings. And before a world savior can be created, he has to be functioning <wrap hide>343|00:34:36|450|00:34:43|110</wrap>through the heart and through the monadic will. And so it's not enough to function <wrap hide>344|00:34:43|110|00:34:52|250</wrap>through mind—mind and love must be united, and that's a Venusian and Jupiterian function. And <wrap hide>345|00:34:52|250|00:35:00|030</wrap>to be a true world savior—and they are really the world saviors who are on the second ray monad— <wrap hide>346|00:35:00|770|00:35:06|150</wrap>the spirit aspect should be brought into it as well, remembering that the spirit is an aspect <wrap hide>347|00:35:06|150|00:35:13|070</wrap>the Sun in a way. It's that which finds its home within the Sun, and the spirit aspect of man is <wrap hide>348|00:35:13|070|00:35:18|650</wrap>found on the second plane, thus relating it to the second ray. So Jupiter is very much involved in <wrap hide>349|00:35:18|650|00:35:25|130</wrap>world saviorship. Mind and love must be united before the world savior, motivated by <wrap hide>350|00:35:25|130|00:35:30|790</wrap>love and wisdom, can function efficiently—i.e., the intelligence of mind is needed. <wrap hide>351|00:35:31|610|00:35:40|950</wrap><wrap quote>and this is pre-eminently the final result of the forces of the Mutable Cross,</wrap> <wrap hide>352|00:35:41|710|00:35:47|990</wrap>Final result, because there are initial results of the mutable cross which are working out in the <wrap hide>353|00:35:47|990|00:35:56|070</wrap>life of the ordinary human being. But this is a cross closely related to saviorship, because the <wrap hide>354|00:35:56|530|00:36:03|630</wrap>must descend into the ordinary world of mutability and there bring the qualities of the cardinal and <wrap hide>355|00:36:03|630|00:36:12|630</wrap>fixed cross. So there is this redemption theme playing through the mutable cross, and we <wrap hide>356|00:36:12|630|00:36:20|890</wrap>see it very much in relation to Jupiter. That is turning evil into good—it's another quality <wrap hide>357|00:36:20|890|00:36:25|990</wrap>of Sanat Kumara to be able to turn evil into good, and certainly it's a quality of the Solar Logos. <wrap hide>358|00:36:26|590|00:36:35|870</wrap>So this fusing love and mind is done just before entering onto the fixed cross. If you <wrap hide>359|00:36:35|870|00:36:41|850</wrap>think about it, the fixed cross is the cross in which we cultivate love of the soul, and <wrap hide>360|00:36:41|850|00:36:47|670</wrap>mind to handle all that mutability—constant mutation—is cultivated for the longest period <wrap hide>361|00:36:47|670|00:36:55|110</wrap>of time on the mutable cross. Remember, you know, millions and millions of years. It can take a <wrap hide>362|00:36:55|110|00:37:01|510</wrap>human being—let's say 30 lives once he takes the first initiation to become a master, or 20 lives, or <wrap hide>363|00:37:01|510|00:37:07|410</wrap>10, or maybe even seven—probably no less than seven, I would guess, and that would probably be very, very <wrap hide>364|00:37:07|410|00:37:13|090</wrap>rare. But thousands and thousands of lives operate on the mutable cross, and they are lives in which <wrap hide>365|00:37:13|090|00:37:19|070</wrap>the mind aspect is preeminently developed. There is some soul coming in on the mutable cross towards <wrap hide>366|00:37:19|070|00:37:25|690</wrap>the closing days of the mutable cross, but preeminently it is mind. So we need love and <wrap hide>367|00:37:25|690|00:37:32|450</wrap>mind for the efficient saviorship, and this is preeminently the final result of the <wrap hide>368|00:37:32|450|00:37:40|910</wrap>forces of the mutable cross <wrap quote>as they work out the qualities //released by the planets// active <wrap hide>369|00:37:41|550|00:37:47|350</wrap>in Pisces, Sagittarius, Virgo and Gemini.</wrap> Now we're going to learn <wrap hide>370|00:37:49|670|00:37:55|570</wrap>that these esoteric rulers of the signs of the mutable cross—we don't have to wait until we get <wrap hide>371|00:37:55|570|00:38:00|270</wrap>onto the fixed cross in order to exercise these rulers. In other words, we don't have to wait till <wrap hide>372|00:38:00|270|00:38:08|730</wrap>we're a disciple of first degree initiates, truly mentally focused and so forth, to be responsive <wrap hide>373|00:38:08|730|00:38:16|090</wrap>to the esoteric rulers of the mutable cross. During the transition period from the mutable <wrap hide>374|00:38:16|090|00:38:24|490</wrap>cross to the fixed cross, these esoteric rulers will be active. This we will see later on. <wrap hide>375|00:38:25|430|00:38:34|470</wrap>They will be—these mutable cross planets will be involved in a magnetic call to a world savior to <wrap hide>376|00:38:35|110|00:38:41|850</wrap>descend and work with these particular forces, uplifting them towards the fixed cross and <wrap hide>377|00:38:41|850|00:38:48|330</wrap>towards the cardinal cross eventually. That's always what a world savior does: "If I be lifted <wrap hide>378|00:38:48|330|00:38:57|150</wrap>up, will draw all men to me." So there is that incredible magnetism. It's not just a second ray <wrap hide>379|00:38:58|010|00:39:05|210</wrap>magnetism; it is also a first ray magnetism. "If I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." <wrap hide>380|00:39:05|210|00:39:11|350</wrap>So now we're talking about this transition. We're talking about the final result of the forces of <wrap hide>381|00:39:11|350|00:39:17|930</wrap>the mutable cross, which have to be in a way esoteric planets. Although, you know, later if <wrap hide>382|00:39:17|930|00:39:24|010</wrap>we think about the world savior descending to help on the mutable cross, the hierarchical planets must <wrap hide>383|00:39:24|010|00:39:30|970</wrap>be involved. Three of the hierarchical rulers of the mutable cross are already found in the <wrap hide>384|00:39:30|970|00:39:36|490</wrap>esoteric and orthodox rulerships of the mutable cross, but Mars is the one that is not. So <wrap hide>385|00:39:36|490|00:39:42|190</wrap>hierarchically on the mutable cross, we have Gemini ruled by the Earth—that's found in Sagittarius also <wrap hide>386|00:39:43|130|00:39:50|750</wrap>as the esoteric ruler. We have Jupiter hierarchically ruling Virgo, and that's found <wrap hide>387|00:39:51|300|00:39:58|410</wrap>in two places on the mutable cross in orthodox positions. And then we have Mars ruling <wrap hide>388|00:39:58|410|00:40:03|910</wrap>Sagittarius, which is not found in other positions on the mutable cross. And then we have Pluto <wrap hide>389|00:40:03|910|00:40:13|270</wrap>hierarchically ruling Pisces, but it's also found esoterically ruling Pisces. So as a true initiate <wrap hide>390|00:40:13|270|00:40:18|230</wrap>and eventual world savior works in relation to the mutable cross, it's the hierarchical rulers <wrap hide>391|00:40:18|230|00:40:27|050</wrap>which swing into activity. <wrap quote>These planets are:</wrap> <wrap quote>Orthodox—Jupiter and <wrap hide>392|00:40:27|050|00:40:32|010</wrap>Mercury.</wrap> <wrap quote>Esoteric—Pluto. The Earth. The Moon (hiding Vulcan) and Venus.</wrap> <wrap hide>393|00:40:32|010|00:40:37|990</wrap>Pluto related to Pisces, Earth to Sagittarius esoterically, the Moon hiding Vulcan—and not <wrap hide>394|00:40:37|990|00:40:46|530</wrap>only Vulcan but really Neptune as well, as we will see later. The Moon hiding Vulcan in relation to <wrap hide>395|00:40:47|510|00:40:55|960</wrap>esoterically—in relation to Gemini. Um, you know, it's a terrible thing when you <wrap hide>396|00:40:56|630|00:41:02|220</wrap>when you kind of realize that you know you have <wrap hide>397|00:41:04|150|00:41:11|320</wrap>talked for two hours and hopefully said some pretty good things or useful things anyway, and <wrap hide>398|00:41:11|320|00:41:20|620</wrap>find them all missing because of a crazy fluke of not turning on the sound. So, and you know what, I <wrap hide>399|00:41:20|620|00:41:26|680</wrap>have to—I have to remark on this day, which is the 16th of September: the Moon is in Taurus. It's all <wrap hide>400|00:41:26|680|00:41:38|200</wrap>about sound, and I learned a tough lesson here in relation to sound. Okay, well, let's see. Okay, now we <wrap hide>401|00:41:38|200|00:41:47|040</wrap>move on. Um, <wrap quote>As you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death;</wrap> The region of death is Hades, <wrap hide>402|00:41:47|040|00:41:54|160</wrap>but Hades is really, in a sense, the astral plane—at least the ancients used to look at it <wrap hide>403|00:41:54|160|00:41:58|420</wrap>that way. You know, after a battle, the dead would meet in Hades. It didn't mean they were going to <wrap hide>404|00:41:58|420|00:42:04|560</wrap>hell per se or some terrible level of the astral plane. Even heroes would meet in Hades. It was the <wrap hide>405|00:42:04|560|00:42:09|040</wrap>plane, and there are seven different levels, even though level number six and seven are <wrap hide>406|00:42:09|040|00:42:13|620</wrap>not exactly where you want to go. We're told we shouldn't be in association with them and that the <wrap hide>407|00:42:14|260|00:42:19|360</wrap>seventh sub-level of the astral plane is, as he puts it, "the hell of the average Christian"— <wrap hide>408|00:42:19|940|00:42:24|780</wrap>a kind of interesting statement. So, as you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death. <wrap hide>409|00:42:24|780|00:42:29|400</wrap><wrap quote>the Earth stands for the sphere of experience;</wrap>—the sphere of experience <wrap hide>410|00:42:29|400|00:42:35|040</wrap>is the area where we encounter all these different energies, <wrap hide>411|00:42:35|720|00:42:43|640</wrap>usually in the dense physical levels of the systemic physical plane, um, you know, where we have <wrap hide>412|00:42:43|640|00:42:50|540</wrap>our tangibility. But we also have in the sphere of experience—we also have the vital body, and the <wrap hide>413|00:42:50|540|00:42:55|760</wrap>Earth is very much connected with etheric vitality. You find many Sagittarian people <wrap hide>414|00:42:55|760|00:43:02|300</wrap>esoterically ruled by the Earth, somehow promoting the vitality of the human unit, its etheric body. <wrap hide>415|00:43:02|750|00:43:11|840</wrap>I think that's an important point, you know. The Earth as etheric Sagittarius is prone to <wrap hide>416|00:43:12|800|00:43:20|000</wrap>yoga, physical disciplines, exercise—that kind of thing—anything to promote the liveliness, <wrap hide>417|00:43:20|000|00:43:27|080</wrap>the power of the form to move through space. And that is what vitality is required for. <wrap hide>418|00:43:27|740|00:43:32|700</wrap>The form cannot move through space unless there is that kind of vitality. And here's the Earth <wrap hide>419|00:43:32|700|00:43:40|100</wrap>ruled by the third ray, which is movement. So the sphere of experience—we can say we experience on <wrap hide>420|00:43:40|100|00:43:46|400</wrap>the astral and mental level as well, but especially here—is the etheric physical sphere of experience. <wrap hide>421|00:43:46|400|00:43:54|400</wrap>Sagittarius being the most earthy and personality-related of the three fire signs: Leo soul and Aries <wrap hide>422|00:43:54|400|00:44:00|180</wrap>monad. <wrap quote>the Moon or Vulcan stands for the glorification, through purification and detachment, <wrap hide>1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940</wrap>of matter,</wrap> That's a marvelous sentence. I love that sentence. It's a great hint at the <wrap hide>424|00:44:08|320|00:44:16|880</wrap>esoteric meaning of Vulcan: the glorification through purification and detachment of matter. <wrap hide>425|00:44:16|880|00:44:24|260</wrap>Is the glorification of matter achieved through purification and detachment? Purification is <wrap hide>426|00:44:24|260|00:44:34|640</wrap>often a question of accelerated, increased vibratory frequency. Vulcan is related to the law—systemic <wrap hide>427|00:44:34|640|00:44:42|040</wrap>law of vibration. Vulcan puts on that kind of pressure which increases vibration. In the lunar <wrap hide>428|00:44:42|040|00:44:51|840</wrap>realm, we have the reactive sort of third ray factors left over from the previous solar system <wrap hide>429|00:44:51|840|00:45:00|240</wrap>and, to an extent, from the moon chain. And Vulcan puts pressure upon them. And in the moon, the <wrap hide>430|00:45:00|860|00:45:12|380</wrap>light of matter is hidden, as we learn on page 330 in relation to Cancer. Let's see, we'll put this <wrap hide>431|00:45:12|380|00:45:22|120</wrap>here and we'll go to 330 or three... Whoa, that's no good. I did it again. Okay, I'm going to get rid <wrap hide>432|00:45:22|120|00:45:25|140</wrap>of that and I'll start again. <wrap hide>433|00:45:27|960|00:45:37|720</wrap>Yeah, so Esoteric Astrology, and we'll go to page 330—and or 329, really, I see—and we have <wrap hide>434|00:45:37|720|00:45:44|520</wrap>the type of light that Cancer displays: the light within the form. This is the diffused <wrap hide>435|00:45:44|520|00:45:51|100</wrap>light of substance itself, the dark light of matter referred to in The Secret Doctrine. It <wrap hide>436|00:45:51|100|00:45:55|720</wrap>is the light awaiting the stimulation coming from the soul light. Well, brilliant soul light <wrap hide>437|00:45:55|720|00:46:04|200</wrap>is coming through Vulcan. And when the spiritual will is applied with pressure to the matter of the lower forms, one of the results—besides pain—is the evocation of the brilliant, <wrap hide>438|00:46:04|200|00:46:10|580</wrap>matter of the lower forms, one of the results—besides pain—is the evocation of the brilliant, <wrap hide>439|00:46:10|580|00:46:17|960</wrap>blinding light which Vulcan represents. So Saint Paul had that glorification experience; <wrap hide>440|00:46:17|960|00:46:24|820</wrap>it blinded him for three days. Further glorification is found—and higher glorification <wrap hide>441|00:46:24|820|00:46:32|920</wrap>is found at the fourth degree, which is a great Vulcanian display. Purification: it's the <wrap hide>442|00:46:32|920|00:46:39|800</wrap>pressure of the soul to achieve its own archetype, and the spiritual will under Vulcan <wrap hide>443|00:46:39|800|00:46:49|940</wrap>directs the will towards the personality to produce that <wrap hide>444|00:46:49|940|00:46:56|500</wrap>archetypalization. And eventually we have to achieve this detachment. We're told that Vulcan <wrap hide>445|00:46:56|500|00:47:02|060</wrap>is active at the fourth initiation with its first ray, when the condition of extreme aloneness <wrap hide>446|00:47:02|060|00:47:09|780</wrap>and detachment is experienced by the man who is literally between a rock and a hard place. <wrap hide>447|00:47:09|800|00:47:17|640</wrap>Vulcan images—and the most extreme type of detachment, as far as the human family is concerned, <wrap hide>448|00:47:17|640|00:47:25|940</wrap>is experienced there. But that leads to a great glorification: the soul is liberated, the solar <wrap hide>449|00:47:25|940|00:47:31|960</wrap>angel is liberated, man is glorified. Of course, let's just say every initiation following the <wrap hide>450|00:47:31|960|00:47:37|200</wrap>fourth is a type of glorification. There are probably certain ones that are more on the <wrap hide>451|00:47:37|200|00:47:44|260</wrap>glorification line, and they are, following that point, the fifth, the seventh, the ninth, and so forth. <wrap hide>452|00:47:45|060|00:47:52|720</wrap><wrap quote>the Moon or Vulcan stands for the glorification, through purification and <wrap hide>453|00:47:52|720|00:47:59|100</wrap>detachment, of matter,</wrap> This is the assumption of the virgin, the upliftment of matter into heaven. <wrap hide>454|00:47:59|100|00:48:03|770</wrap>That's really what we're doing: we're trying to spiritualize matter, aren't we? We're trying to <wrap hide>455|00:48:03|770|00:48:11|970</wrap>lift it up into heaven, which is the higher planes. We're trying to lift the lesser lives so that they <wrap hide>456|00:48:11|970|00:48:19|350</wrap>can truly evolve and are no longer trapped in a lower vibratory condition. So Vulcan, or spiritual <wrap hide>457|00:48:19|350|00:48:25|320</wrap>will—which is ultimately the heart of the sun—ultimately Vulcan probably has a fourth ray and <wrap hide>458|00:48:25|320|00:48:36|600</wrap>second ray monad. There is, through extreme pressure and heat and forcing and compulsion, kind of a <wrap hide>459|00:48:36|600|00:48:43|160</wrap>downward push into matter of the soul pushing down into matter. It's like the law of the pump: something <wrap hide>460|00:48:43|160|00:48:50|500</wrap>rises. If there's enough pressure from heaven, there will be an uprising of matter. "If I be <wrap hide>461|00:48:50|500|00:48:57|080</wrap>lifted up will draw all men unto me." So you know it's not only the magnetism of Jupiter drawing <wrap hide>462|00:48:58|480|00:49:04|760</wrap>towards the Savior, but it's the pressure that the Savior exerts upon matter itself. <wrap hide>463|00:49:05|700|00:49:10|780</wrap>And matter responds by rising. Then there's Venus. <wrap quote>Venus stands for the emergence of the love <wrap hide>464|00:49:10|780|00:49:18|800</wrap>principle through the directing power of the mind.</wrap> Okay, well, you know Venus is an interesting mixture: <wrap hide>465|00:49:18|800|00:49:24|820</wrap>fifth ray soul, sixth ray, second ray monad, maybe a second ray personality. Fourth ray has got to be <wrap hide>466|00:49:24|820|00:49:30|600</wrap>involved somewhere. It's an interesting combination of, uh, soft line and hard line rays. It's that <wrap hide>467|00:49:30|600|00:49:37|800</wrap>fifth ray soul so important in the transference from the mystical path to the occult path that <wrap hide>468|00:49:37|800|00:49:44|080</wrap>gives the stability of Venus. Otherwise quite a soft line planet, the love principle though <wrap hide>469|00:49:44|860|00:49:51|580</wrap>has to be emerging intelligently. It's one thing to love, but one can love unwisely. <wrap hide>470|00:49:52|160|00:49:58|080</wrap>That has to be balanced by the power of the mind, and the mind of course has will within it. So once <wrap hide>471|00:49:58|080|00:50:03|860</wrap>we reach a certain point in our development, we cultivate love by meditating on love, by thinking <wrap hide>472|00:50:03|860|00:50:12|180</wrap>about love, just like Saint Paul did in his letter to the Corinthians. He somehow defined in his own <wrap hide>473|00:50:12|180|00:50:18|800</wrap>fifth ray way all the things that love was. He was much taken by the buddhic energy. He had been— <wrap hide>474|00:50:19|440|00:50:24|300</wrap>I think passing through the third initiation—his contact with buddhi was much greater. <wrap hide>475|00:50:24|300|00:50:30|260</wrap>If he was a sixth ray soul, he was probably becoming very much a second ray soul, and <wrap hide>476|00:50:30|260|00:50:35|480</wrap>the greatest of all things for him was love, even though as a monad he was a very fifth ray, first <wrap hide>477|00:50:35|480|00:50:42|880</wrap>ray type. So the emergence of the love principle not just through magnetism, but by the directing <wrap hide>478|00:50:42|880|00:50:49|660</wrap>power of the mind: thinking of all the reasons why something is lovable. When you have an object of <wrap hide>479|00:50:49|660|00:50:56|140</wrap>your attention, you begin to appreciate it with the mind, and you see what its value is. That's <wrap hide>480|00:50:56|140|00:51:02|000</wrap>another Venus word: you see what its value is and where it could lead and how it is related. <wrap hide>481|00:51:02|000|00:51:09|140</wrap>So through this power of mental appreciation, the love principle will grow. It's not just <wrap hide>482|00:51:09|140|00:51:17|020</wrap>spontaneous magnetism. It's having the illumination to see the lovableness—the <wrap hide>483|00:51:17|020|00:51:24|240</wrap>lovability of various objects of perception. It's intelligent love is what Venus really is. <wrap hide>484|00:51:24|240|00:51:28|480</wrap><wrap quote>Students will find it interesting to work out the implications for themselves.</wrap> Well, indeed, <wrap hide>485|00:51:29|040|00:51:35|180</wrap>that is what we are attempting to do, and I do offer some thoughts about implications that <wrap hide>486|00:51:35|180|00:51:40|700</wrap>occur to me, but that's only to set an example in a way for you to make the lists of implications <wrap hide>487|00:51:40|700|00:51:46|480</wrap>which occur to you, because you know the Tibetan has planted the seed here. He's given us something <wrap hide>488|00:51:46|480|00:51:55|000</wrap>that is remarkable, but we have to take it far in the direction that our mind and intuition will <wrap hide>489|00:51:55|000|00:52:02|300</wrap>lead, and everybody is responsible for doing this for himself or herself. <wrap quote>Orthodox astrology assigns <wrap hide>490|00:52:02|300|00:52:07|680</wrap>only two planets to these four signs, which in itself indicates a definite interplay.</wrap> Well, that <wrap hide>491|00:52:07|680|00:52:15|400</wrap>interplay is of a couple of kinds. Jupiter is usually the expanded vision, and Mercury the mind. <wrap hide>492|00:52:15|400|00:52:21|240</wrap>So we hope that our knowledge will lead to expanded vision and understanding. That's one <wrap hide>493|00:52:21|240|00:52:28|000</wrap>of the great Jupiter virtues. You have to be a bit abstracted from things and underneath things <wrap hide>494|00:52:28|000|00:52:34|580</wrap>in order to stand under them and understand. So from that type of bondage that Jupiter initially <wrap hide>495|00:52:34|580|00:52:40|880</wrap>offers, there is later a type of magnetic abstraction that occurs up into the higher levels <wrap hide>496|00:52:40|880|00:52:46|300</wrap>where you can stand in a detached manner and see. You know, Jupiter of course is one of the great <wrap hide>497|00:52:46|300|00:52:52|540</wrap>seeing planets. It's related to Sagittarius, the sign of sight, and probably even at a certain <wrap hide>498|00:52:52|540|00:52:57|940</wrap>point has a relationship with the Ajna center. Yet one can think of that when the Ajna center <wrap hide>499|00:52:57|940|00:53:05|060</wrap>is ruled by the second ray, which it sometimes is. So there is this Jupiterian sight which evolves. <wrap hide>500|00:53:05|940|00:53:11|300</wrap>So there's an interplay between Jupiter and Mercury, and that's kind of an ordinary interplay: <wrap hide>501|00:53:11|300|00:53:16|740</wrap>knowledge leads to expanded vision. But there's also a buddhic interplay. Both of them are buddhic <wrap hide>502|00:53:16|740|00:53:26|400</wrap>planets, and so Jupiter—it was the same—Mercury is associated with the pure reason part of buddhi, <wrap hide>503|00:53:26|400|00:53:36|140</wrap>and Jupiter is associated with this detailed unity, this ability to see all the many factors <wrap hide>504|00:53:36|140|00:53:45|400</wrap>as one in coherent relationship with each other—not incoherent, but in coherent relationship with <wrap hide>505|00:53:45|400|00:53:50|520</wrap>each other. So they have a definite type of interplay later on on the path, but in the <wrap hide>506|00:53:50|520|00:53:57|780</wrap>beginning, let us say that knowledge or intellect (Mercury) leads to intuition (Jupiter). That's the first <wrap hide>507|00:53:57|780|00:54:04|940</wrap><wrap quote>Jupiter and its influences indicate that the way of incarnation</wrap> Jupiter and its influence says you <wrap hide>508|00:54:04|940|00:54:11|100</wrap>know many things coming from the planet and rays transmitted through it and emitted from it. Jupiter <wrap hide>509|00:54:11|100|00:54:17|120</wrap>and its influences indicate <wrap quote>that the way of incarnation is the “beneficent” method of <wrap hide>510|00:54:17|120|00:54:22|700</wrap>evolutionary unfoldment</wrap> It doesn't always seem beneficent - seems hard, seems under karma, seems <wrap hide>511|00:54:22|700|00:54:28|480</wrap>under Saturn, seems tough - but ultimately we are being given a chance to exercise our spiritual <wrap hide>512|00:54:28|480|00:54:35|260</wrap>muscles and grow our consciousness. And Jupiter is always associated with the expansion of <wrap hide>513|00:54:35|260|00:54:40|780</wrap>consciousness, <wrap quote>and that the way of love-wisdom (2nd ray) is the way for humanity to <wrap hide>514|00:54:40|780|00:54:51|980</wrap>go.</wrap> Now, eventually humanity - now which I infer as having, let's see, humanity today a fourth ray soul <wrap hide>515|00:54:51|980|00:55:02|920</wrap>and a fifth ray personality - and later, later a fourth ray personality and second ray soul. <wrap hide>516|00:55:03|920|00:55:11|660</wrap>So you can see that this is in some ways a cross of humanity, certainly of the fourth kingdom, <wrap hide>517|00:55:12|460|00:55:20|720</wrap>and eventually the two rays of the orthodox mutable cross will be the second and the fourth. <wrap hide>518|00:55:20|720|00:55:27|020</wrap>Jupiter will represent the second ray soul of humanity, and Mercury will represent the fourth <wrap hide>519|00:55:27|020|00:55:35|600</wrap>ray personality of humanity. Right now, maybe - well, the fourth ray soul of humanity is Mercurian <wrap hide>520|00:55:35|600|00:55:40|700</wrap>at the present time, and the fifth ray personality of humanity is not strictly <wrap hide>521|00:55:40|700|00:55:47|000</wrap>Venusian - it has elements of Saturn and Mars and other concrete tendencies. <wrap hide>522|00:55:48|040|00:55:52|520</wrap>Mercury indicates - so that, that's what - let's just say that evolution is beneficent, <wrap hide>523|00:55:52|520|00:55:59|080</wrap>and for all the tough karma there is beneficence. <wrap quote>Mercury indicates that the line of least resistance for <wrap hide>524|00:55:59|080|00:56:05|820</wrap>humanity is harmony through conflict,</wrap> We don't always foresee the best way of doing things, and <wrap hide>525|00:56:05|820|00:56:11|540</wrap>we enter into conflict first, which eventually we have the power to harmonize, <wrap quote>for Mercury expresses <wrap hide>526|00:56:11|540|00:56:15|820</wrap>the fourth ray energy which is buddhic, intuitional and expressive of the Christ, <wrap hide>1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940</wrap>as Mercury and the Sun are one.</wrap> - well, there is Mercury as buddic and expressive of the Christ. <wrap hide>528|00:56:21|500|00:56:27|500</wrap>Well, the buddic plane is very expressive of the Christ, but Mercury and the Sun are one, and the <wrap hide>529|00:56:27|500|00:56:33|620</wrap>Sun and the Christ are equivalent - great second-ray sources. And in a way, the Sun really begins to <wrap hide>530|00:56:33|620|00:56:39|960</wrap>lay on the buddic plane. We can say that from a certain point of view, the lower - <wrap hide>531|00:56:41|360|00:56:52|340</wrap>the lower sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane are very Saturnian and lunar - lower Saturn <wrap hide>532|00:56:52|340|00:56:57|060</wrap>and the Moon. In a way, the Sun begins to come into prominence here on the higher mental plane, but not <wrap hide>533|00:56:57|060|00:57:02|980</wrap>yet - it's not yet released. And the Sun comes into increasing prominence starting from the buddic <wrap hide>534|00:57:02|980|00:57:09|960</wrap>plane and rising all the way up to the divine plane, which is ruled by the first of the manifest <wrap hide>535|00:57:09|960|00:57:16|840</wrap>creative hierarchies, which is ruled by Leo and hence the Sun. So the Sun is really coming into <wrap hide>536|00:57:16|840|00:57:25|800</wrap>its own - coming into its own on the buddic plane. Mercury and the Sun are one. So we are a struggling <wrap hide>537|00:57:26|600|00:57:32|960</wrap>creative hierarchy. We are a struggling kingdom of nature with other kingdoms in our creative <wrap hide>538|00:57:32|960|00:57:39|020</wrap>hierarchy - souls and planetary lives and so forth - and we must struggle first. We tend to <wrap hide>539|00:57:39|020|00:57:45|520</wrap>struggle first and then realize through interplay harmony - the realization of harmony through <wrap hide>540|00:57:45|520|00:57:52|120</wrap>conflicted interplay. Let me put it like that: the realization of harmony through conflicted <wrap hide>541|00:57:52|120|00:58:02|240</wrap>interplay, and that becoming smoother as time passes and as we learn. So Mercury is buddic. <wrap hide>542|00:58:02|240|00:58:06|900</wrap>Indeed, Mercury stands for, let's say, five levels of the mind: you know, concrete mind, son of mind, <wrap hide>543|00:58:06|900|00:58:12|740</wrap>abstract mind, transcendental or buddic mind, and then finally atmic mind - the mind that represents <wrap hide>544|00:58:12|740|00:58:19|080</wrap>the law and the spiritual will. So Mercury expresses the fourth ray energy which is buddic, <wrap hide>545|00:58:19|080|00:58:23|120</wrap>intuitional, and expressive of the Christ. Think of Mercury as expressive of the Christ. <wrap hide>546|00:58:23|120|00:58:28|820</wrap>How interesting - its fourth ray aspect is its soul ray. Fourth ray is expressive of the Christ. <wrap hide>547|00:58:29|860|00:58:35|880</wrap>Actually, though, the monadic nature of Mercury is probably quite a fifth ray, third ray, as <wrap hide>548|00:58:35|880|00:58:41|640</wrap>I presently conceive it. You know, my opinions possibly will change as time goes on, but <wrap hide>549|00:58:41|640|00:58:47|460</wrap>at the moment, my present level of ignorance - that's what I think. The esoteric planets - and then he goes <wrap hide>550|00:58:47|460|00:58:52|400</wrap>on and says, <wrap quote>But the esoteric planets are more explicit in their inferences and man appears, <wrap hide>551|00:58:53|100|00:59:00|140</wrap>when ready for their influence, to be responsive in a fourfold way which he is not in the earlier stages.</wrap> <wrap hide>552|00:59:00|140|00:59:12|240</wrap>So that's about - I'm going to - what I'm going to do is I'm going to say here the end of esoteric <wrap hide>553|00:59:12|240|00:59:24|380</wrap>Astrology 54. I did want to make these a bit longer, but having been sadly surprised by the <wrap hide>554|00:59:24|380|00:59:28|900</wrap>absence of sound in a two-hour presentation I just made for you, I think I'm going to take things a <wrap hide>555|00:59:28|900|00:59:39|040</wrap>little more cautiously. Say Esoteric Astrology Adventure 54.2, <wrap hide>556|00:59:39|880|00:59:52|100</wrap>and that is from page 126, I assume, to 127. Okay, and then we'll see whether we <wrap hide>557|00:59:54|000|01:00:01|780</wrap>yeah, it's not too bad, not too bad. Almost where I was the last time. So this is... <wrap hide>558|01:00:02|340|01:00:10|760</wrap>We will now together do The Great Invocation, which is the... okay, from the point of <wrap hide>559|01:00:11|760|01:00:21|920</wrap>light within, which is the way to end these adventures. After all, it's not just about <wrap hide>560|01:00:21|920|01:00:29|100</wrap>learning esoteric astrology; it's about preparing for the reappearance of the Christ and the <wrap hide>561|01:00:29|100|01:00:36|000</wrap>2,000-year reign of hierarchy on our planet, in which esoteric astrology will be very important. So <wrap hide>562|01:00:36|470|01:00:42|760</wrap>The Great Invocation is our greatest tool for bringing about the <wrap hide>563|01:00:42|760|01:00:46|440</wrap>rapid and appropriate reappearance of the Christ. <wrap hide>564|01:00:48|020|01:00:48|660</wrap>Hmm. <wrap hide>565|01:00:58|280|01:01:01|480</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, <wrap hide>566|01:01:01|480|01:01:07|760</wrap>let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>567|01:01:10|780|01:01:16|360</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. <wrap hide>568|01:01:16|360|01:01:24|620</wrap>May Christ return to earth. From the center where the will of God is known, <wrap hide>569|01:01:24|620|01:01:31|400</wrap>let purpose guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>570|01:01:34|980|01:01:39|920</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, <wrap hide>571|01:01:39|920|01:01:43|640</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>572|01:01:45|020|01:01:50|820</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>573|01:02:13|020|01:02:14|420</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>574|01:02:18|920|01:02:19|720</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>575|01:02:36|080|01:02:40|540</wrap>Okay, friends, so that's the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure number <wrap hide>576|01:02:41|080|01:02:44|300</wrap>54, and we'll continue with number 55. And we hope that all <wrap hide>577|01:02:44|860|01:02:51|980</wrap>works out well in terms of the sound and the picture as well. Okay.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940</wrap>Hi friends, this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 54. <wrap hide>2|00:00:11|000|00:00:13|060</wrap>Redux, second time. <wrap hide>3|00:00:13|720|00:00:15|180</wrap>Because can you believe it? <wrap hide>4|00:00:15|800|00:00:21|360</wrap>I recorded two nice hours for you with the sound off entirely. <wrap hide>5|00:00:24|400|00:00:26|880</wrap>I hope this is not the case this time. <wrap hide>6|00:00:26|880|00:00:30|680</wrap>I've checked it and you should be seeing my screen. <wrap hide>7|00:00:30|900|00:00:39|040</wrap>So it will be, of course, entirely different than the one that was just spoken before. <wrap hide>8|00:00:40|280|00:00:51|560</wrap>We were reviewing the orthodox and esoteric rulers of the mutable cross: Jupiter and Mercury, <wrap hide>9|00:00:53|720|00:00:59|700</wrap>ruling Sagittarius and Pisces, and Gemini and Virgo respectively. <wrap hide>10|00:01:00|460|00:01:05|660</wrap>And then come the esoteric rulers: Pluto for Pisces, Earth for Sagittarius, <wrap hide>11|00:01:05|860|00:01:17|660</wrap>the Moon hiding Vulcan for Venus, the Moon hiding Vulcan for Virgo, and then Venus. <wrap hide>12|00:01:17|660|00:01:22|820</wrap>I just want to make sure that I'm not... <wrap hide>13|00:01:23|860|00:01:28|100</wrap>Yes, I was about to start in the wrong place. <wrap hide>14|00:01:28|340|00:01:30|020</wrap>This has been quite a day for me. <wrap hide>15|00:01:30|300|00:01:38|240</wrap>Anyway, we finished with part three and we've been talking about the beauty of death. <wrap hide>16|00:01:38|240|00:01:41|340</wrap>And we began... <wrap hide>17|00:01:41|340|00:01:56|340</wrap>We ended part three of number Esoteric Astrology 53 with the list of five points related to <wrap hide>18|00:01:56|720|00:01:58|780</wrap>Pluto and Jupiter. <wrap hide>19|00:01:58|780|00:02:09|040</wrap>The first ray of Pluto ruling esoterically and hierarchically in Pisces, and the second <wrap hide>20|00:02:09|040|00:02:13|240</wrap>ray of Jupiter ruling in an exoteric manner. <wrap hide>21|00:02:13|720|00:02:25|680</wrap>It is unusual, we realize, that there are certain signs that have rulerships where esoteric <wrap hide>22|00:02:25|680|00:02:35|020</wrap>planets or sacred planets are put in an orthodox or exoteric position, and where non-sacred <wrap hide>23|00:02:35|020|00:02:38|680</wrap>planets are put in an esoteric or hierarchical position. <wrap hide>24|00:02:39|340|00:02:51|320</wrap>Among these are two arms of the mutable cross, namely Pisces, where Jupiter, a powerful esoteric <wrap hide>25|00:02:51|320|00:02:57|000</wrap>planet, a sacred planet, one of the most important in our solar system as it is most closely <wrap hide>26|00:02:57|640|00:03:07|840</wrap>related to the Sun, is put in an orthodox or exoteric position, whereas Pluto, a non-sacred, <wrap hide>27|00:03:08|020|00:03:14|320</wrap>though esoteric in a sense, planet—okay, it is esoteric because highly occulted in <wrap hide>28|00:03:14|320|00:03:20|480</wrap>a certain sense, but it is a non-sacred planet, less sacred even than Mars, its alter ego— <wrap hide>29|00:03:20|480|00:03:25|900</wrap>and it is put in an esoteric and hierarchical position. <wrap hide>30|00:03:26|140|00:03:28|840</wrap>When we look at Sagittarius, we find something similar. <wrap hide>31|00:03:29|340|00:03:36|980</wrap>Here is sacred Jupiter again in the exoteric or orthodox position, ruling ordinary man <wrap hide>32|00:03:36|980|00:03:43|100</wrap>on the ordinary common cross, and the Earth, which is not yet a sacred planet, is put in <wrap hide>33|00:03:43|100|00:03:48|140</wrap>the esoteric position, and Mars, which is not yet a sacred planet and even less developed <wrap hide>34|00:03:48|140|00:03:54|140</wrap>than the Earth, is put in a hierarchical position. <wrap hide>35|00:03:55|320|00:03:59|500</wrap>We have to realize that these are great gods. <wrap hide>36|00:04:00|320|00:04:06|780</wrap>The planetary Logos of the various planets may be, with respect to each other, non-sacred, <wrap hide>37|00:04:06|900|00:04:14|460</wrap>sacred, or synthesizing, but with respect to man, they are all great deities, and so <wrap hide>38|00:04:14|460|00:04:24|880</wrap>their influences, their emanations can apply to the human being on any of the levels of <wrap hide>39|00:04:24|880|00:04:32|180</wrap>his expression, whether his personality level, which is the orthodox or exoteric position, <wrap hide>40|00:04:32|720|00:04:37|560</wrap>or the esoteric position, which relates to the soul, or the hierarchical position, which <wrap hide>41|00:04:37|560|00:04:40|760</wrap>begins to bring in the power of the monad. <wrap hide>42|00:04:41|480|00:04:49|940</wrap>So we can find interpretations for any of these deities in a way. <wrap hide>43|00:04:50|820|00:04:58|200</wrap>We can find interpretations for them which can apply to any of man's areas or levels <wrap hide>44|00:04:58|200|00:04:59|200</wrap>of expression. <wrap hide>45|00:05:00|180|00:05:06|380</wrap>We're told in review that the first ray of power is focused through Pluto, the second <wrap hide>46|00:05:06|380|00:05:13|980</wrap>ray of love-wisdom is focused through Jupiter, and the interplay of these two potencies gives <wrap hide>47|00:05:13|980|00:05:14|740</wrap>the following. <wrap hide>48|00:05:15|240|00:05:23|360</wrap>It <wrap quote>1. Produces the duality of this sign.</wrap> and that gives us the whole question of attachment <wrap hide>49|00:05:23|360|00:05:24|280</wrap>and detachment. <wrap hide>50|00:05:25|560|00:05:28|580</wrap>It brings about—well, attachment obviously is Jupiter. <wrap hide>51|00:05:28|700|00:05:31|820</wrap>Jupiter is a great planet of magnetic attachment. <wrap hide>52|00:05:31|820|00:05:37|980</wrap>We may think of it in some respects as a planet of magnetic liberation where the consciousness <wrap hide>53|00:05:37|980|00:05:44|700</wrap>is drawn up into a higher and more expanded sphere, but at the same time it does bring <wrap hide>54|00:05:44|700|00:05:50|740</wrap>about coherence, cohesion, magnetic attraction, and in a sense attachment and bondage. <wrap hide>55|00:05:51|180|00:05:56|080</wrap>This is the form's early response to the Jupiterian energy. <wrap hide>56|00:05:56|940|00:06:00|960</wrap>The second thing which the combination of Pluto and Jupiter, first ray, second ray <wrap quote>2. Brings <wrap hide>57|00:06:00|960|00:06:08|080</wrap>about the major problem of Pisces—psychic sensitivity.</wrap> sensitivity, vulnerability <wrap hide>58|00:06:08|080|00:06:11|600</wrap>to all manner of subtle influences. <wrap hide>59|00:06:12|060|00:06:19|380</wrap>Pluto does have a specific connection to the astral plane, to Hades, the underworld, as <wrap hide>60|00:06:19|380|00:06:21|280</wrap>it were, and that is what the astral plane is. <wrap hide>61|00:06:21|340|00:06:27|680</wrap>As a matter of fact, the astral hell, the seventh subplane of that astral plane, I think, <wrap hide>62|00:06:27|680|00:06:29|780</wrap>is specifically plutonic. <wrap hide>63|00:06:29|780|00:06:34|640</wrap>The sixth and seventh subplanes of the astral plane we should have nothing to do with, the <wrap hide>64|00:06:34|640|00:06:42|520</wrap>Tibetan tells us, but it is possible that these subtle impressions can be received by <wrap hide>65|00:06:42|520|00:06:48|140</wrap>Pisces perhaps more than any other sign, a very mediumistic and psychic sign. <wrap hide>66|00:06:48|960|00:06:52|160</wrap>Pluto is a penetrating planet. <wrap hide>67|00:06:52|160|00:07:01|300</wrap>It pierces certain ring-pass-nots and lets in these energies, and Jupiter is magnetic <wrap hide>68|00:07:01|300|00:07:04|860</wrap>and attractive and draws them all in. <wrap hide>69|00:07:05|600|00:07:09|940</wrap>So the first and second ray here, the first ray of penetration, the second ray, truly <wrap hide>70|00:07:09|940|00:07:13|260</wrap>the ray of psychism producing the true psychic that the Christ was. <wrap hide>71|00:07:13|440|00:07:18|720</wrap>We're told the Christ on the second ray was the true psychic, and this is the function <wrap hide>72|00:07:18|720|00:07:21|240</wrap>of the second ray and thus of Jupiter. <wrap hide>73|00:07:22|280|00:07:27|960</wrap>Jupiter is interesting because it is connected in an orthodox manner with two signs which <wrap hide>74|00:07:27|960|00:07:34|000</wrap>are either, let's say, Sagittarius, visionary and intuitive, or Pisces, highly impressionable. <wrap hide>75|00:07:35|000|00:07:40|800</wrap>And as far as the other signs that it is connected with, we can find types of impressionability <wrap hide>76|00:07:40|800|00:07:41|840</wrap>in them as well. <wrap hide>77|00:07:41|840|00:07:49|740</wrap>The higher medium found in Virgo and the one who is open to new and descending planetary <wrap hide>78|00:07:49|740|00:07:54|320</wrap>ideas is found in Aquarius, where Jupiter is the esoteric ruler. <wrap hide>79|00:07:55|300|00:08:00|620</wrap>Okay, so that's the second factor that the first and second ray and Pluto and Jupiter <wrap hide>80|00:08:00|620|00:08:01|160</wrap>bring in. <wrap hide>81|00:08:01|380|00:08:02|280</wrap>This is just a review. <wrap hide>82|00:08:02|660|00:08:05|700</wrap>They <wrap quote>3. Causes the lure of the Path, <wrap hide>83|00:08:05|760|00:08:11|120</wrap>in the first instance the path of evolution and later the lure of the probationary path <wrap hide>84|00:08:11|120|00:08:15|760</wrap>with the consequence that transference to the Fixed Cross (which is all that we can intelligently <wrap hide>85|00:08:15|760|00:08:19|760</wrap>comprehend) begins really in Pisces;</wrap> <wrap hide>86|00:08:20|520|00:08:25|440</wrap>There is that transitional moment at the end of the mutable cross where we are making our <wrap hide>87|00:08:25|440|00:08:28|040</wrap>transition onto the fixed cross. <wrap hide>88|00:08:28|260|00:08:29|960</wrap>It's a moment of crisis. <wrap hide>89|00:08:30|300|00:08:33|140</wrap>It's a highly critical moment. <wrap hide>90|00:08:34|220|00:08:35|640</wrap>And lure is interesting. <wrap hide>91|00:08:36|840|00:08:41|880</wrap>The first and second ray combining to cause the lure of the path. <wrap hide>92|00:08:42|800|00:08:49|360</wrap>We might say that the higher consciousness of the second ray calls to us, and the possible <wrap hide>93|00:08:49|360|00:08:53|300</wrap>freedom of the spirit under Pluto in the first ray calls to us. <wrap hide>94|00:08:53|720|00:08:57|440</wrap>Remember that Pluto is definitely connected with Shambhala. <wrap hide>95|00:08:58|340|00:09:04|040</wrap>Aries-Pluto-Shambhala, and that's one of the connections of Pluto-Shambhala and as well <wrap hide>96|00:09:04|040|00:09:11|180</wrap>when you think of the final incarnation for some being taken in Pisces under very drastic <wrap hide>97|00:09:11|180|00:09:17|640</wrap>conditions, this suggests a Pluto and a first ray entrance into Shambhala. <wrap hide>98|00:09:18|120|00:09:22|120</wrap>So there is the lure of the path of evolution: go forth into matter. <wrap hide>99|00:09:22|320|00:09:29|460</wrap>If you think about it, all of the signs of the zodiac are operative at all times, but <wrap hide>100|00:09:29|460|00:09:38|860</wrap>we sometimes have zodiacs of 8, of 10, of 11, and so forth in the history of the development <wrap hide>101|00:09:38|860|00:09:39|520</wrap>of the zodiac. <wrap hide>102|00:09:39|680|00:09:45|160</wrap>And what that says, I think, is that the spiritual potentials of certain signs are not available <wrap hide>103|00:09:45|160|00:09:49|640</wrap>to humanity at all phases of man's unfoldment. <wrap hide>104|00:09:49|700|00:09:55|020</wrap>No, but that some influence of the sign is available at all times. <wrap hide>105|00:09:55|020|00:10:00|420</wrap>Otherwise, how could it be that the first incarnation, as we have discussed, can be <wrap hide>106|00:10:00|420|00:10:05|740</wrap>taken individually in Pisces, whereas the mass incarnation is taken in Cancer? <wrap hide>107|00:10:06|420|00:10:12|100</wrap>So this whole idea of "go forth into matter" at that very first incarnation, with Pisces <wrap hide>108|00:10:12|100|00:10:18|780</wrap>considered to be the first of the signs, must mean that man is somewhat responsive to the <wrap hide>109|00:10:18|780|00:10:25|980</wrap>more material, impressionable, engulfed state of Pisces, and that it is operative even when <wrap hide>110|00:10:25|980|00:10:31|480</wrap>there is simply a zodiac of 8, ending with Scorpio, or a zodiac of 10, ending with Capricorn. <wrap hide>111|00:10:32|140|00:10:37|980</wrap>Those influences are ambient; they are transmitted to the earth. <wrap hide>112|00:10:38|660|00:10:43|080</wrap>The form of man receives them, but his higher spiritual nature does not. <wrap hide>113|00:10:43|180|00:10:47|920</wrap>He cannot enter into their higher spiritual significances. <wrap hide>114|00:10:47|920|00:10:54|960</wrap>All we can really intelligently comprehend here is the fixed cross, the cross of the <wrap hide>115|00:10:54|960|00:11:00|500</wrap>developing soul, the crucified, first the crucified and then the unfolding soul, and <wrap hide>116|00:11:00|500|00:11:04|620</wrap>we're all beginning to learn about that, but not yet the cardinal cross, because we are <wrap hide>117|00:11:04|620|00:11:10|680</wrap>not as a rule initiates of the third degree and beyond, and we cannot enter into the life <wrap hide>118|00:11:10|680|00:11:13|760</wrap>of the spirit yet, so with intelligent comprehension. <wrap hide>119|00:11:14|720|00:11:18|320</wrap>So, the transference to the fixed cross begins really in Pisces. <wrap hide>120|00:11:18|440|00:11:21|220</wrap>Remember, Pisces can be considered in a way the first sign. <wrap hide>121|00:11:21|920|00:11:27|000</wrap><wrap quote>though impulsed (if I may use such a word) in Aries it begins and ends in Pisces.</wrap> It says it's impulsed in Aries, though it begins in Pisces, and in the clockwise wheel <wrap hide>122|00:11:27|000|00:11:34|780</wrap>Pisces can be considered the first sign, coming around ending with Taurus and Aries and starting <wrap hide>123|00:11:34|780|00:11:39|060</wrap>again in Pisces if you're on the clockwise wheel, or on the counterclockwise wheel Aries <wrap hide>124|00:11:39|060|00:11:43|640</wrap>is considered the first sign and Pisces the ending sign of consummation. <wrap hide>125|00:11:44|240|00:11:48|380</wrap>This question of where to begin—you know we always begin with Aries on the counterclockwise <wrap hide>126|00:11:48|380|00:11:54|940</wrap>wheel, but when we come to the clockwise wheel we can in a way end with Aries and thereby <wrap hide>127|00:11:54|940|00:12:00|280</wrap>call it a beginning, but in a number of the ways that the Tibetan measures the signs and <wrap hide>128|00:12:00|280|00:12:07|480</wrap>gives them numbers, Pisces is considered number one, the first, and that's the only way really <wrap hide>129|00:12:07|480|00:12:09|880</wrap>that Leo can be considered the eighth sign. <wrap hide>130|00:12:10|060|00:12:14|780</wrap>It would be considered the ninth sign if Aries was operating counterclockwise—excuse me, <wrap hide>131|00:12:15|040|00:12:16|700</wrap>Aries was operating clockwise. <wrap hide>132|00:12:17|380|00:12:22|380</wrap>We began with Aries and we come to Leo would be number nine, but D.K. says that we must number <wrap hide>133|00:12:22|380|00:12:27|040</wrap>Leo as the eighth sign as well as the fifth sign, fifth on the counterclockwise wheel <wrap hide>134|00:12:27|040|00:12:34|180</wrap>and eighth on the clockwise wheel, so that eighth position has to do with beginning with <wrap hide>135|00:12:34|820|00:12:38|060</wrap>Pisces as sign number one: "Go forth into matter." <wrap hide>136|00:12:38|900|00:12:45|240</wrap>Both of them on the clockwise wheel, Aries and Pisces, have mantrams of commencement: <wrap hide>137|00:12:45|620|00:12:47|500</wrap>"Let form again be sought." <wrap hide>138|00:12:47|880|00:12:55|480</wrap>That is certainly the idea of initiating a new clockwise form-related cycle, and "Go forth <wrap hide>139|00:12:55|480|00:12:56|940</wrap>into matter" is how it's done. <wrap hide>140|00:12:58|120|00:13:04|080</wrap>So even at the very beginning I'm trying to say that such signs as Sagittarius, Capricorn, <wrap hide>141|00:13:04|080|00:13:12|140</wrap>Aquarius, Pisces, who are not listed in the Zodiac of Eight, are effective <wrap hide>142|00:13:13|060|00:13:14|800</wrap>in the life of early man. <wrap hide>143|00:13:18|900|00:13:23|360</wrap>So I asked you earlier, does the fixed cross end in a Pisces experience? <wrap hide>144|00:13:23|820|00:13:27|200</wrap>And I think in a way it can. <wrap hide>145|00:13:28|080|00:13:32|700</wrap>The fixed cross ends in a way at the fourth initiation, and that can well be undertaken <wrap hide>146|00:13:32|700|00:13:33|360</wrap>in Pisces. <wrap hide>147|00:13:33|360|00:13:43|800</wrap>There are a number of signs which are, oh let's say, conducive to departing the fourth <wrap hide>148|00:13:43|800|00:13:50|080</wrap>kingdom of nature and having no more enforced association with it, and certainly Pisces, the <wrap hide>149|00:13:50|080|00:13:51|080</wrap>sign of release, is that. <wrap hide>150|00:13:51|720|00:13:56|900</wrap>So we're continuing with looking at rays one and two in relation to Pisces and Pluto and <wrap hide>151|00:13:56|900|00:14:02|820</wrap>Jupiter in relation to Pisces, and it's causing certain developments of which we've named <wrap hide>152|00:14:02|820|00:14:09|700</wrap>three, and the fourth is that this relationship <wrap quote>4. Precipitates the process of transmutation <wrap hide>153|00:14:09|700|00:14:13|020</wrap>and eventual escape through death.</wrap> <wrap hide>154|00:14:13|800|00:14:18|660</wrap>Well, when we look at the three potencies coming out of Shambhala, they are purification, destruction, <wrap hide>155|00:14:18|660|00:14:19|900</wrap>and organization. <wrap hide>156|00:14:20|780|00:14:23|240</wrap>Ray two is purification; ray one is destruction. <wrap hide>157|00:14:23|440|00:14:30|420</wrap>So two of the Shambhala potencies—and remember that those who end their incarnation cycle <wrap hide>158|00:14:30|940|00:14:33|800</wrap>in Pisces do so in relation to Shambhala. <wrap hide>159|00:14:35|260|00:14:36|720</wrap>They are destined for Shambhala. <wrap hide>160|00:14:38|320|00:14:46|620</wrap>The ray two purification and ray one destruction under Jupiter, let's say, and under Pluto are <wrap hide>161|00:14:46|620|00:14:51|140</wrap>related here to the process of transmutation and escape through death. <wrap hide>162|00:14:51|720|00:14:56|940</wrap>Transmutation and purification go together; destruction and escape through death go together. <wrap hide>163|00:14:57|860|00:15:01|640</wrap>So these two—there's always a process of refinement. <wrap hide>164|00:15:02|460|00:15:05|440</wrap>Refinement and purification is a second ray matter. <wrap hide>165|00:15:05|940|00:15:11|280</wrap>When it comes to actually freeing the consciousness or the spirit from its involvement with the <wrap hide>166|00:15:11|280|00:15:12|880</wrap>form, that's a destructive process. <wrap hide>167|00:15:13|360|00:15:18|400</wrap>It's related to Pluto and Pluto in the first ray. <wrap hide>168|00:15:18|560|00:15:24|760</wrap>Perhaps Pluto is among the planets that we know about at the present time the most destructive <wrap hide>169|00:15:24|760|00:15:25|220</wrap>planet. <wrap hide>170|00:15:25|460|00:15:32|560</wrap>There may be byproducts of destruction that come from other planets, but Pluto is purposefully <wrap hide>171|00:15:32|560|00:15:34|660</wrap>and with intent destructive. <wrap hide>172|00:15:35|020|00:15:44|340</wrap>It represents the shears, the sharp shears that cuts the connection of the sutratma <wrap hide>173|00:15:44|340|00:15:45|500</wrap>with its forms. <wrap hide>174|00:15:45|720|00:15:53|920</wrap>It can never destroy the sutratma, of course—it can only temporarily lead to <wrap hide>175|00:15:55|860|00:16:02|140</wrap>the ceasing of connection of the sutratma with the forms that it has been animating. <wrap hide>176|00:16:02|940|00:16:07|700</wrap>The fifth point relating to Pluto and Jupiter, or first and second ray. <wrap hide>177|00:16:08|920|00:16:15|120</wrap><wrap quote>5. Unfolds the significance, activity and beauty of death and of the work of the destroyer.</wrap> <wrap hide>178|00:16:15|320|00:16:21|880</wrap>Well, death operates in relation to the first ray certainly, and D.K. speaks of the eternally <wrap hide>179|00:16:21|880|00:16:25|600</wrap>lovely secret of death. <wrap hide>180|00:16:25|960|00:16:28|240</wrap>Is that "eternally lovely"? <wrap hide>181|00:16:28|760|00:16:29|760</wrap>Is it "secret of death"? <wrap hide>182|00:16:29|840|00:16:30|820</wrap>It's something like that. <wrap hide>183|00:16:31|320|00:16:33|520</wrap>I won't go on a search—you can go on that search. <wrap hide>184|00:16:35|240|00:16:39|480</wrap>But then Jupiter has much to do with death as well, because death is a magnetic event. <wrap hide>185|00:16:40|080|00:16:45|300</wrap>The soul sounds a great word of destruction, but as well it's a word of attraction because <wrap hide>186|00:16:45|300|00:16:52|880</wrap>it attracts the immersed consciousness towards the higher realms. <wrap hide>187|00:16:53|520|00:17:00|100</wrap>So some of my astrological associates who are very astute have observed charts in which <wrap hide>188|00:17:00|100|00:17:06|140</wrap>Jupiter is very active at the time of death because, as it were, it provides a great escape <wrap hide>189|00:17:06|600|00:17:08|560</wrap>for the indwelling soul. <wrap hide>190|00:17:08|880|00:17:15|120</wrap>When you think about escape, certainly Sagittarius goes on those long journeys away from the <wrap hide>191|00:17:15|120|00:17:22|740</wrap>familiar territory—that's a kind of escape—and Pisces is most notably the elusive sign <wrap hide>192|00:17:22|740|00:17:26|760</wrap>of escape, slipping out of the bondage of form. <wrap hide>193|00:17:27|300|00:17:32|760</wrap>So this took us to the end of part three. In the beginning of part four, had a little bit <wrap hide>194|00:17:32|760|00:17:33|840</wrap>of a false start there. <wrap hide>195|00:17:35|220|00:17:43|280</wrap>And now we are on page 126 for me, the second glorious time, and I can tell by what I'm saying, <wrap hide>196|00:17:43|280|00:17:49|660</wrap>you know, that what I said before was completely different, and hopefully some of the valuable <wrap hide>197|00:17:49|660|00:17:56|780</wrap>points that were made before will not be consigned to their fate as a Charlie Chaplin film—one <wrap hide>198|00:17:56|780|00:18:00|260</wrap>of the silent films. "Read my lips," you know—it won't work. <wrap hide>199|00:18:01|020|00:18:08|160</wrap>Usually at least something picks up this—at least something picks up the words—but this <wrap hide>200|00:18:08|160|00:18:09|020</wrap>time nothing did. <wrap hide>201|00:18:09|580|00:18:15|020</wrap>Okay, so onward. <wrap quote>From this it will be apparent how important and powerful is this sign.</wrap> Pisces— <wrap hide>202|00:18:15|020|00:18:22|060</wrap>a sign of apparent weakness is a sign of great consummatory victory leading to Shambhala. <wrap hide>203|00:18:22|740|00:18:28|700</wrap>One of my scientific friends said, "Have you ever tried to compress water?" showing something <wrap hide>204|00:18:28|700|00:18:33|200</wrap>of the strength and resistance of the elements which Pisces represents. <wrap hide>205|00:18:33|960|00:18:42|160</wrap>How powerful is this sign—this sign of release, consummation, final victory! Victors through <wrap hide>206|00:18:42|160|00:18:51|420</wrap>clear, pure will can be related to Pisces <wrap quote>Through its orthodox ruler, Jupiter, that force is brought <wrap hide>207|00:18:51|420|00:19:00|720</wrap>to bear which “brings all together”</wrap>—it's a very magnetic, attractive, coherent force— <wrap hide>208|00:19:00|720|00:19:08|120</wrap><wrap quote>and— in this case—relates the two fishes and binds them together in <wrap hide>209|00:19:08|120|00:19:12|680</wrap>a functioning relationship.</wrap> We rarely think of Jupiter as a binding force—we oftentimes <wrap hide>210|00:19:12|680|00:19:20|060</wrap>think of it as an expansive, releasing, "go beyond the horizon" type of force—but early Jupiter <wrap hide>211|00:19:20|060|00:19:25|680</wrap>is extremely cohesive. It does relate to the second law of the solar system, the law of <wrap hide>212|00:19:25|680|00:19:34|360</wrap>cohesion. Coherence and cohesion and binding—these are the powers of Jupiter: to attract <wrap hide>213|00:19:34|360|00:19:39|980</wrap>all things together and hold them together. So, you know, we often find the Jupiterian people <wrap hide>214|00:19:39|980|00:19:48|260</wrap>have that kind of magnanimous, attractive, magnetic generosity which holds all the factors in <wrap hide>215|00:19:48|260|00:19:56|760</wrap>any whole in the bonds of a loving relationship. There are all kinds of cohesion, you know. Some <wrap hide>216|00:19:56|760|00:20:04|040</wrap>is cohesion simply through desire—we keep ourselves together on the basis of what we <wrap hide>217|00:20:04|040|00:20:11|000</wrap>want—and a higher form is to hold all things together through the magnetic power of love. <wrap hide>218|00:20:11|000|00:20:17|000</wrap>But anyway, this is the force that brings the two fishes together, and they are held together <wrap hide>219|00:20:17|000|00:20:22|220</wrap>for the duration from individualization all the way to the fourth initiation—that's how <wrap hide>220|00:20:22|220|00:20:30|140</wrap>long that bondage lasts—until the solar angel is at last free to return to the heart of <wrap hide>221|00:20:30|140|00:20:34|840</wrap>the Sun, or the central spiritual Sun, whatever its source may have been. Both are possible <wrap hide>222|00:20:34|840|00:20:44|700</wrap>sources. So it's a long—millions of years—relationship based upon the power of Jupiter as a binding <wrap hide>223|00:20:44|700|00:20:50|300</wrap>force. <wrap quote>It is the activity consequently of the second ray force which relates soul and <wrap hide>224|00:20:50|300|00:20:58|660</wrap>form and brings the two together,</wrap> They have a great destiny to work out together, and it <wrap hide>225|00:20:58|660|00:21:05|420</wrap>takes a long time for them to be able to do that—really, you know, perhaps 25 million years <wrap hide>226|00:21:05|420|00:21:10|980</wrap>for the average human being. The activity, consequently, of the secondary force which relates soul <wrap hide>227|00:21:10|980|00:21:16|080</wrap>and form and brings the two together, <wrap quote>and this magnetic potency is peculiarly descriptive <wrap hide>228|00:21:16|600|00:21:23|300</wrap>of the activity of Pisces.</wrap> Neither one of the pairs of opposites can escape from each other. <wrap hide>229|00:21:23|300|00:21:35|940</wrap>Over the long period of bonded human evolution, neither can escape. First, it is the soul <wrap hide>230|00:21:36|480|00:21:42|220</wrap>and incarnation in bondage to the elemental instinctual forces, and later it is these very <wrap hide>231|00:21:42|220|00:21:49|300</wrap>forces—the forces related to the soul of the world in its lower aspect—which come into <wrap hide>232|00:21:49|300|00:21:57|480</wrap>captivity to the soul and become thereby magnetized by the soul and uplifted. <wrap quote>From another angle <wrap hide>233|00:21:57|480|00:22:03|740</wrap>and in a dual sign, this can also be seen working out in Gemini.</wrap> These two signs are very related, <wrap hide>234|00:22:03|740|00:22:09|920</wrap>as I have said. Usually Gemini is the mediating sign between any zodiacal pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>235|00:22:09|920|00:22:15|220</wrap>You know, it's Aries-Libra-Gemini, Taurus-Scorpio-Gemini, okay? But what happens when <wrap hide>236|00:22:15|220|00:22:21|560</wrap>Gemini is concerned? It's Gemini-Sagittarius-Pisces. So Pisces is a mediating sign and Gemini <wrap hide>237|00:22:21|560|00:22:28|360</wrap>is a mediating sign, and they are both powerful secondary signs. Ultimately, I think that Pisces <wrap hide>238|00:22:28|360|00:22:33|280</wrap>as a cosmic decanate is the most powerful of all the secondary signs, but not at the present <wrap hide>239|00:22:33|280|00:22:42|360</wrap>time when Virgo is the most powerful. So from another angle and also in a dual sign, this <wrap hide>240|00:22:42|360|00:22:49|120</wrap>bringing of two together can be seen working out in Gemini. However, there are distinct differences <wrap hide>241|00:22:49|120|00:22:56|280</wrap>in the way that works. There are sharp differentiations between soul and personality in Gemini. I'm <wrap hide>242|00:22:56|280|00:23:04|160</wrap>remembering that D.K. said that the fall of Uranus in Taurus is exalted in Scorpio brings <wrap hide>243|00:23:04|160|00:23:09|920</wrap>a very sharp cleavage between soul and personality. Well, that kind of cleavage can also be demonstrated <wrap hide>244|00:23:09|920|00:23:16|560</wrap>in the early days of Gemini when the person involved, once the pairs of opposites do come <wrap hide>245|00:23:16|560|00:23:20|960</wrap>into the range of consciousness, seems to be very much either the soul or the personality <wrap hide>246|00:23:20|960|00:23:27|720</wrap>and not either one at the same time—although they can be soul-personality in rapid oscillation. <wrap hide>247|00:23:27|720|00:23:33|040</wrap>And later, the whole relationship becomes so fluid and so blended that there's a constant <wrap hide>248|00:23:33|040|00:23:37|380</wrap>communication from soul to personality, from personality to soul, and there's such an interplay <wrap hide>249|00:23:37|380|00:23:44|320</wrap>that it almost begins to look like the sign Pisces—a condition of such rapid interplay <wrap hide>250|00:23:44|540|00:23:52|100</wrap>that it almost looks like fusion and the right kind of spiritual bondage, okay? So from another <wrap hide>251|00:23:52|100|00:23:57|900</wrap>angle and in a dual sign, this can also be seen wis demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship and the twoorking out in Gemini. <wrap quote>In Pisces, there <wrap hide>252|00:23:57|900|00:24:05|000</wrap>is demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship and the two <wrap hide>253|00:24:05|000|00:24:14|300</wrap>fishes are unable to escape from each other;</wrap> Yes, the soul would be free, but the <wrap hide>254|00:24:14|750|00:24:20|920</wrap>personality leads it astray. The personality would go its own way, but the soul has its <wrap hide>255|00:24:20|920|00:24:26|920</wrap>intense magnetism and doesn't let it go very far. So in either case, the fish is caught—one <wrap hide>256|00:24:26|920|00:24:32|520</wrap>fish swimming vertically, and that's the soul symbol, and the other swimming horizontal—that's <wrap hide>257|00:24:32|520|00:24:37|700</wrap>the personality, okay? There is demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship, and the <wrap hide>258|00:24:37|700|00:24:43|360</wrap>two fishes are unable to escape from each other. In Gemini, there is also a definite relationship <wrap hide>259|00:24:43|360|00:24:49|280</wrap>between Pollux, the elder brother we might say, and Castor—Castor, the younger <wrap hide>260|00:24:49|280|00:24:53|600</wrap>brother. <wrap quote>in Gemini there is also a definite relationship between the two brothers</wrap>—or some <wrap hide>261|00:24:53|600|00:25:02|460</wrap>prefer to say the brother and the sister—<wrap quote>but there is no connecting band,</wrap> So there is, you <wrap hide>262|00:25:02|460|00:25:08|560</wrap>know, this sense of alternation in time, and as the alternation takes place—"Now I'm <wrap hide>263|00:25:08|560|00:25:15|160</wrap>the soul, now I'm the personality"—it gives the impression of the two faces of Gemini: <wrap hide>264|00:25:15|160|00:25:21|980</wrap>Janus, the two-faced God. One—the soul looking towards the spirit—well, actually, Janus is <wrap hide>265|00:25:21|980|00:25:27|860</wrap>the soul, really—one aspect of it looking towards the spirit, the other aspect looking <wrap hide>266|00:25:27|860|00:25:34|440</wrap>towards the personality. But it does give that impression of two faces in the Gemini person, <wrap hide>267|00:25:34|440|00:25:40|900</wrap>so they sometimes seem to be like sharply contrasted individuals. You wonder how people <wrap hide>268|00:25:40|900|00:25:49|060</wrap>can be so different and so, in a way, disintegrated at first. But the integration comes through rapid <wrap hide>269|00:25:49|060|00:25:54|780</wrap>and intelligent, loving interplay, and before long there is such a fluid relationship that the signs <wrap hide>270|00:25:54|780|00:26:01|720</wrap>Gemini and Pisces can show a lot of resemblance. So there's no connecting band at <wrap hide>271|00:26:01|720|00:26:07|820</wrap>first, <wrap quote>and in that relationship is latent free choice and free determination.</wrap> This is so <wrap hide>272|00:26:07|820|00:26:13|760</wrap>interesting. Here we're talking about the power of free will, which is so much connected with Sirius. <wrap hide>273|00:26:13|760|00:26:20|180</wrap>You know, of course, the forces of light could overcome the forces of darkness, and they could <wrap hide>274|00:26:20|180|00:26:29|620</wrap>impose hierarchical order and law upon humanity, and in doing so there would be rebellion later. <wrap hide>275|00:26:29|620|00:26:36|120</wrap>Nothing would really be learned, and man would not have evolved out of himself a deeper sense <wrap hide>276|00:26:36|120|00:26:44|220</wrap>of correct choice. So there is a Sirian-Geminian-Venusian kind of line here which involves free <wrap hide>277|00:26:44|220|00:26:50|660</wrap>choice and free determination. The personality is free to go its own way. The soul does not compel, <wrap hide>278|00:26:50|660|00:26:58|660</wrap>though it strongly suggests, and the soul can as well operate on its own plane, following its <wrap hide>279|00:26:58|660|00:27:06|320</wrap>own predilections unhampered by the personality. And yet it knows its duty, and it knows it must <wrap hide>280|00:27:06|320|00:27:14|780</wrap>bring the personality into orbit, as it were, around itself, or bring it in as a kind of a sub-ray to <wrap hide>281|00:27:14|780|00:27:22|360</wrap>itself as a major ray. So this whole idea of the Sirian law of freedom in relation to Gemini, and <wrap hide>282|00:27:22|360|00:27:28|540</wrap>perhaps in relation to Saturn, the planet of choice, as Saturn is often related to Gemini in dweller <wrap hide>283|00:27:28|540|00:27:36|400</wrap>on the threshold matters—perhaps there's a triangle there—and that free will really is <wrap hide>284|00:27:36|400|00:27:43|060</wrap>developed in Gemini. When you think about the hierarchical relationship to humanity, there is <wrap hide>285|00:27:43|060|00:27:52|100</wrap>very strong suggestion, strong evocation, strong invocation, but there is not compulsion. That's <wrap hide>286|00:27:52|100|00:27:57|460</wrap>left to the Black Lodge, who is functioning under the negativity of Pluto, which can be a very <wrap hide>287|00:27:57|460|00:28:05|060</wrap>compulsive, freedom-denying planetary influence. So we think about that—that the separation of the <wrap hide>288|00:28:05|060|00:28:11|420</wrap>twins gives us this latent free choice and free determination, something that man really must <wrap hide>289|00:28:11|420|00:28:16|660</wrap>cultivate, something that must be a terrible agony to the members of hierarchy, as they know they <wrap hide>290|00:28:16|660|00:28:21|520</wrap>could make things right, as it were, as many of us—let's say as parents—know we could make things <wrap hide>291|00:28:21|520|00:28:28|780</wrap>right, but that would be force. And the inner quality which would have to be developed in the <wrap hide>292|00:28:28|780|00:28:35|400</wrap>person who was made right might not develop at all, and probably would not. <wrap quote>In connection with a <wrap hide>293|00:28:35|400|00:28:40|720</wrap>lesser duality found in every human being,</wrap>—so we're talking about greater dualities and lesser <wrap hide>294|00:28:40|720|00:28:47|560</wrap>dualities—<wrap quote>that of head and heart, of mind and love, and of will and wisdom, the work of Jupiter <wrap hide>295|00:28:47|560|00:28:53|540</wrap>is to develop these two qualities and bring them into synthetic interplay.</wrap> We are speaking of Jupiter <wrap hide>296|00:28:53|540|00:29:03|840</wrap>here, the orthodox ruler of Pisces. Now, the greater duality—greatest in man at least—is spirit-matter. <wrap hide>297|00:29:03|840|00:29:09|820</wrap>The secondary one is soul and personality, and a subsidiary type of duality is mind and heart, or <wrap hide>298|00:29:10|460|00:29:16|360</wrap>head and heart, and mind and love. I think we can see that the head sometimes represents will, but <wrap hide>299|00:29:16|360|00:29:24|620</wrap>other times mind. So there is the duality of a head representing mind and third ray generically, <wrap hide>300|00:29:24|620|00:29:30|440</wrap>and heart representing the second ray soul, or the soul generically on the second ray—let's put <wrap hide>301|00:29:30|440|00:29:36|740</wrap>it like that—and Jupiter brings those two together. But there's also the head representing will and <wrap hide>302|00:29:36|740|00:29:42|160</wrap>the spirit, and the heart representing soul. And Jupiter is also involved in relation to Gemini, as <wrap hide>303|00:29:42|160|00:29:47|820</wrap>we will learn later, infusing the higher of the pairs of opposites, which would be spirit <wrap hide>304|00:29:47|820|00:29:55|400</wrap>and soul. So Jupiter draws them together. Jupiter draws mind and love together. Mind does contain <wrap hide>305|00:29:55|400|00:30:02|200</wrap>an aspect of the will, we know, but generally it is connected with the generic third ray, the <wrap hide>306|00:30:02|200|00:30:07|680</wrap>intelligence aspect with Mercury. It's kind of a Mercury-Venus situation: mind representing Mercury <wrap hide>307|00:30:07|680|00:30:16|540</wrap>and love being represented by Venus. So Jupiter unites the head and the heart, the mind and love. <wrap hide>308|00:30:16|540|00:30:21|840</wrap>And on a higher turn of the spiral—well, it doesn't have to be a higher turn of the spiral; it could be <wrap hide>309|00:30:21|840|00:30:28|600</wrap>personality will and soul wisdom—it could be that. But there is a higher turn as well, that the <wrap hide>310|00:30:28|600|00:30:33|180</wrap>will of the spirit and the wisdom of the soul can be united as well by Jupiter. Wherever Jupiter is <wrap hide>311|00:30:33|180|00:30:41|880</wrap>functioning, it's a force which brings about coherence and a bonding, bonding and an <wrap hide>312|00:30:41|880|00:30:48|620</wrap>interplay. I think there is that great magnetism in Jupiter which pulls the elements <wrap hide>313|00:30:48|620|00:30:56|280</wrap>together and relates them, so that the feeling is not one of compulsion, but the feeling is one <wrap hide>314|00:30:56|280|00:31:04|120</wrap>of joy of association—joyful Jupiter. This is the work of Jupiter: is to develop these two qualities <wrap hide>315|00:31:04|120|00:31:09|940</wrap>and bring them into synthetic interplay. It's really a great agent of fusion, and in this case <wrap hide>316|00:31:09|940|00:31:21|470</wrap>we are speaking of the fusion of the third aspect of divinity and the second aspect of <wrap hide>317|00:31:21|470|00:31:29|070</wrap>divinity, although, as I said before, surprisingly the first and second aspects as well can be fused. <wrap hide>318|00:31:29|070|00:31:35|630</wrap>And finally, you know the old saying "Pisces takes from all the signs"—well, I do think that under <wrap hide>319|00:31:35|630|00:31:42|870</wrap>generous Jupiter, Pisces gives to all the signs as well. And under Neptune, the special ruler of <wrap hide>320|00:31:42|870|00:31:50|710</wrap>Pisces, Pisces pervades all the signs. It's a moot point really, you know, whether Neptune or Jupiter <wrap hide>321|00:31:50|710|00:31:55|870</wrap>should be considered the highest second-ray source in our solar system. Jupiter, with its <wrap hide>322|00:31:55|870|00:32:03|110</wrap>second-ray soul and probably a hard line monad, and Neptune, with a soft line soul, probably six-ray <wrap hide>323|00:32:03|110|00:32:09|570</wrap>and definitely a second-ray monad. So you know which is to be considered more related to the Sun? <wrap hide>324|00:32:09|570|00:32:15|990</wrap>Jupiter has a close relation to the Sun. It may be the orthodox ruler, veiled orthodox ruler of Leo. <wrap hide>325|00:32:15|990|00:32:22|870</wrap>Neptune has a definite veiled relationship with the Sun. Sun veils Neptune esoterically, and then <wrap hide>326|00:32:22|870|00:32:35|130</wrap>Uranus. So these great planets of expansion and spiritualization and cosmification, if you <wrap hide>327|00:32:35|130|00:32:45|310</wrap>will—Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus—are all related to the Sun and all related to Leo and to the <wrap hide>328|00:32:45|310|00:32:53|090</wrap>expanding individual. The expanding from the individual to the universal leads us from the <wrap hide>329|00:32:53|090|00:32:58|850</wrap>individual to the universal, and that's done along that particular line. <wrap quote>Eventually there has to be <wrap hide>330|00:32:59|230|00:33:07|010</wrap>the complete fusion of love and mind before a world saviour can manifest and function efficiently,</wrap> <wrap hide>331|00:33:07|010|00:33:13|570</wrap>So Jupiter is very important in producing a world savior. A world savior is certainly animated by the <wrap hide>332|00:33:13|570|00:33:23|470</wrap>Buddhic force. You know, we see here—let's see—yeah, we see here that on the fourth plane it's <wrap hide>333|00:33:23|470|00:33:30|030</wrap>usually ruled by Mercury, a Buddhic planet. But Jupiter is one of the Buddhic planets. A world <wrap hide>334|00:33:30|030|00:33:36|770</wrap>savior is bringing great beneficence to all whom he or she saves, and Jupiter is that great planet <wrap hide>335|00:33:36|770|00:33:43|230</wrap>of abundance and beneficence. I mean, Christ in relation to Aquarius said, "I am come to bring life <wrap hide>336|00:33:43|230|00:33:52|250</wrap>more abundant." That is Jupiter in Aquarius, and it is one of the saving, salvaging functions of the <wrap hide>337|00:33:52|250|00:33:59|270</wrap>Christ to bring this great life abundant of Shambhala through the generosity of <wrap hide>338|00:33:59|270|00:34:06|310</wrap>Jupiter. Jupiter is not only Buddhic, but Jupiter is monadic. And a world savior, you know, is not <wrap hide>339|00:34:06|310|00:34:11|170</wrap>simply an initiate of the fifth degree—it is an initiate of the sixth degree and requires that <wrap hide>340|00:34:11|170|00:34:19|430</wrap>monadic contact. That monadic contact is a special high relationship with Jupiter, and Jupiter there <wrap hide>341|00:34:19|430|00:34:28|750</wrap>will relate to both Pisces and to Virgo. So Jupiter is definitely involved in the kind of great giving <wrap hide>342|00:34:29|360|00:34:36|450</wrap>that a world savior brings. And before a world savior can be created, he has to be functioning <wrap hide>343|00:34:36|450|00:34:43|110</wrap>through the heart and through the monadic will. And so it's not enough to function <wrap hide>344|00:34:43|110|00:34:52|250</wrap>through mind—mind and love must be united, and that's a Venusian and Jupiterian function. And <wrap hide>345|00:34:52|250|00:35:00|030</wrap>to be a true world savior—and they are really the world saviors who are on the second ray monad— <wrap hide>346|00:35:00|770|00:35:06|150</wrap>the spirit aspect should be brought into it as well, remembering that the spirit is an aspect <wrap hide>347|00:35:06|150|00:35:13|070</wrap>the Sun in a way. It's that which finds its home within the Sun, and the spirit aspect of man is <wrap hide>348|00:35:13|070|00:35:18|650</wrap>found on the second plane, thus relating it to the second ray. So Jupiter is very much involved in <wrap hide>349|00:35:18|650|00:35:25|130</wrap>world saviorship. Mind and love must be united before the world savior, motivated by <wrap hide>350|00:35:25|130|00:35:30|790</wrap>love and wisdom, can function efficiently—i.e., the intelligence of mind is needed. <wrap hide>351|00:35:31|610|00:35:40|950</wrap><wrap quote>and this is pre-eminently the final result of the forces of the Mutable Cross,</wrap> <wrap hide>352|00:35:41|710|00:35:47|990</wrap>Final result, because there are initial results of the mutable cross which are working out in the <wrap hide>353|00:35:47|990|00:35:56|070</wrap>life of the ordinary human being. But this is a cross closely related to saviorship, because the <wrap hide>354|00:35:56|530|00:36:03|630</wrap>must descend into the ordinary world of mutability and there bring the qualities of the cardinal and <wrap hide>355|00:36:03|630|00:36:12|630</wrap>fixed cross. So there is this redemption theme playing through the mutable cross, and we <wrap hide>356|00:36:12|630|00:36:20|890</wrap>see it very much in relation to Jupiter. That is turning evil into good—it's another quality <wrap hide>357|00:36:20|890|00:36:25|990</wrap>of Sanat Kumara to be able to turn evil into good, and certainly it's a quality of the Solar Logos. <wrap hide>358|00:36:26|590|00:36:35|870</wrap>So this fusing love and mind is done just before entering onto the fixed cross. If you <wrap hide>359|00:36:35|870|00:36:41|850</wrap>think about it, the fixed cross is the cross in which we cultivate love of the soul, and <wrap hide>360|00:36:41|850|00:36:47|670</wrap>mind to handle all that mutability—constant mutation—is cultivated for the longest period <wrap hide>361|00:36:47|670|00:36:55|110</wrap>of time on the mutable cross. Remember, you know, millions and millions of years. It can take a <wrap hide>362|00:36:55|110|00:37:01|510</wrap>human being—let's say 30 lives once he takes the first initiation to become a master, or 20 lives, or <wrap hide>363|00:37:01|510|00:37:07|410</wrap>10, or maybe even seven—probably no less than seven, I would guess, and that would probably be very, very <wrap hide>364|00:37:07|410|00:37:13|090</wrap>rare. But thousands and thousands of lives operate on the mutable cross, and they are lives in which <wrap hide>365|00:37:13|090|00:37:19|070</wrap>the mind aspect is preeminently developed. There is some soul coming in on the mutable cross towards <wrap hide>366|00:37:19|070|00:37:25|690</wrap>the closing days of the mutable cross, but preeminently it is mind. So we need love and <wrap hide>367|00:37:25|690|00:37:32|450</wrap>mind for the efficient saviorship, and this is preeminently the final result of the <wrap hide>368|00:37:32|450|00:37:40|910</wrap>forces of the mutable cross <wrap quote>as they work out the qualities //released by the planets// active <wrap hide>369|00:37:41|550|00:37:47|350</wrap>in Pisces, Sagittarius, Virgo and Gemini.</wrap> Now we're going to learn <wrap hide>370|00:37:49|670|00:37:55|570</wrap>that these esoteric rulers of the signs of the mutable cross—we don't have to wait until we get <wrap hide>371|00:37:55|570|00:38:00|270</wrap>onto the fixed cross in order to exercise these rulers. In other words, we don't have to wait till <wrap hide>372|00:38:00|270|00:38:08|730</wrap>we're a disciple of first degree initiates, truly mentally focused and so forth, to be responsive <wrap hide>373|00:38:08|730|00:38:16|090</wrap>to the esoteric rulers of the mutable cross. During the transition period from the mutable <wrap hide>374|00:38:16|090|00:38:24|490</wrap>cross to the fixed cross, these esoteric rulers will be active. This we will see later on. <wrap hide>375|00:38:25|430|00:38:34|470</wrap>They will be—these mutable cross planets will be involved in a magnetic call to a world savior to <wrap hide>376|00:38:35|110|00:38:41|850</wrap>descend and work with these particular forces, uplifting them towards the fixed cross and <wrap hide>377|00:38:41|850|00:38:48|330</wrap>towards the cardinal cross eventually. That's always what a world savior does: "If I be lifted <wrap hide>378|00:38:48|330|00:38:57|150</wrap>up, will draw all men to me." So there is that incredible magnetism. It's not just a second ray <wrap hide>379|00:38:58|010|00:39:05|210</wrap>magnetism; it is also a first ray magnetism. "If I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." <wrap hide>380|00:39:05|210|00:39:11|350</wrap>So now we're talking about this transition. We're talking about the final result of the forces of <wrap hide>381|00:39:11|350|00:39:17|930</wrap>the mutable cross, which have to be in a way esoteric planets. Although, you know, later if <wrap hide>382|00:39:17|930|00:39:24|010</wrap>we think about the world savior descending to help on the mutable cross, the hierarchical planets must <wrap hide>383|00:39:24|010|00:39:30|970</wrap>be involved. Three of the hierarchical rulers of the mutable cross are already found in the <wrap hide>384|00:39:30|970|00:39:36|490</wrap>esoteric and orthodox rulerships of the mutable cross, but Mars is the one that is not. So <wrap hide>385|00:39:36|490|00:39:42|190</wrap>hierarchically on the mutable cross, we have Gemini ruled by the Earth—that's found in Sagittarius also <wrap hide>386|00:39:43|130|00:39:50|750</wrap>as the esoteric ruler. We have Jupiter hierarchically ruling Virgo, and that's found <wrap hide>387|00:39:51|300|00:39:58|410</wrap>in two places on the mutable cross in orthodox positions. And then we have Mars ruling <wrap hide>388|00:39:58|410|00:40:03|910</wrap>Sagittarius, which is not found in other positions on the mutable cross. And then we have Pluto <wrap hide>389|00:40:03|910|00:40:13|270</wrap>hierarchically ruling Pisces, but it's also found esoterically ruling Pisces. So as a true initiate <wrap hide>390|00:40:13|270|00:40:18|230</wrap>and eventual world savior works in relation to the mutable cross, it's the hierarchical rulers <wrap hide>391|00:40:18|230|00:40:27|050</wrap>which swing into activity. <wrap quote>These planets are:</wrap> <wrap quote>Orthodox—Jupiter and <wrap hide>392|00:40:27|050|00:40:32|010</wrap>Mercury.</wrap> <wrap quote>Esoteric—Pluto. The Earth. The Moon (hiding Vulcan) and Venus.</wrap> <wrap hide>393|00:40:32|010|00:40:37|990</wrap>Pluto related to Pisces, Earth to Sagittarius esoterically, the Moon hiding Vulcan—and not <wrap hide>394|00:40:37|990|00:40:46|530</wrap>only Vulcan but really Neptune as well, as we will see later. The Moon hiding Vulcan in relation to <wrap hide>395|00:40:47|510|00:40:55|960</wrap>esoterically—in relation to Gemini. Um, you know, it's a terrible thing when you <wrap hide>396|00:40:56|630|00:41:02|220</wrap>when you kind of realize that you know you have <wrap hide>397|00:41:04|150|00:41:11|320</wrap>talked for two hours and hopefully said some pretty good things or useful things anyway, and <wrap hide>398|00:41:11|320|00:41:20|620</wrap>find them all missing because of a crazy fluke of not turning on the sound. So, and you know what, I <wrap hide>399|00:41:20|620|00:41:26|680</wrap>have to—I have to remark on this day, which is the 16th of September: the Moon is in Taurus. It's all <wrap hide>400|00:41:26|680|00:41:38|200</wrap>about sound, and I learned a tough lesson here in relation to sound. Okay, well, let's see. Okay, now we <wrap hide>401|00:41:38|200|00:41:47|040</wrap>move on. Um, <wrap quote>As you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death;</wrap> The region of death is Hades, <wrap hide>402|00:41:47|040|00:41:54|160</wrap>but Hades is really, in a sense, the astral plane—at least the ancients used to look at it <wrap hide>403|00:41:54|160|00:41:58|420</wrap>that way. You know, after a battle, the dead would meet in Hades. It didn't mean they were going to <wrap hide>404|00:41:58|420|00:42:04|560</wrap>hell per se or some terrible level of the astral plane. Even heroes would meet in Hades. It was the <wrap hide>405|00:42:04|560|00:42:09|040</wrap>plane, and there are seven different levels, even though level number six and seven are <wrap hide>406|00:42:09|040|00:42:13|620</wrap>not exactly where you want to go. We're told we shouldn't be in association with them and that the <wrap hide>407|00:42:14|260|00:42:19|360</wrap>seventh sub-level of the astral plane is, as he puts it, "the hell of the average Christian"— <wrap hide>408|00:42:19|940|00:42:24|780</wrap>a kind of interesting statement. So, as you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death. <wrap hide>409|00:42:24|780|00:42:29|400</wrap><wrap quote>the Earth stands for the sphere of experience;</wrap>—the sphere of experience <wrap hide>410|00:42:29|400|00:42:35|040</wrap>is the area where we encounter all these different energies, <wrap hide>411|00:42:35|720|00:42:43|640</wrap>usually in the dense physical levels of the systemic physical plane, um, you know, where we have <wrap hide>412|00:42:43|640|00:42:50|540</wrap>our tangibility. But we also have in the sphere of experience—we also have the vital body, and the <wrap hide>413|00:42:50|540|00:42:55|760</wrap>Earth is very much connected with etheric vitality. You find many Sagittarian people <wrap hide>414|00:42:55|760|00:43:02|300</wrap>esoterically ruled by the Earth, somehow promoting the vitality of the human unit, its etheric body. <wrap hide>415|00:43:02|750|00:43:11|840</wrap>I think that's an important point, you know. The Earth as etheric Sagittarius is prone to <wrap hide>416|00:43:12|800|00:43:20|000</wrap>yoga, physical disciplines, exercise—that kind of thing—anything to promote the liveliness, <wrap hide>417|00:43:20|000|00:43:27|080</wrap>the power of the form to move through space. And that is what vitality is required for. <wrap hide>418|00:43:27|740|00:43:32|700</wrap>The form cannot move through space unless there is that kind of vitality. And here's the Earth <wrap hide>419|00:43:32|700|00:43:40|100</wrap>ruled by the third ray, which is movement. So the sphere of experience—we can say we experience on <wrap hide>420|00:43:40|100|00:43:46|400</wrap>the astral and mental level as well, but especially here—is the etheric physical sphere of experience. <wrap hide>421|00:43:46|400|00:43:54|400</wrap>Sagittarius being the most earthy and personality-related of the three fire signs: Leo soul and Aries <wrap hide>422|00:43:54|400|00:44:00|180</wrap>monad. <wrap quote>the Moon or Vulcan stands for the glorification, through purification and detachment, <wrap hide>423|00:44:00|180|00:44:08|320</wrap>of matter,</wrap> That's a marvelous sentence. I love that sentence. It's a great hint at the <wrap hide>424|00:44:08|320|00:44:16|880</wrap>esoteric meaning of Vulcan: the glorification through purification and detachment of matter. <wrap hide>425|00:44:16|880|00:44:24|260</wrap>Is the glorification of matter achieved through purification and detachment? Purification is <wrap hide>426|00:44:24|260|00:44:34|640</wrap>often a question of accelerated, increased vibratory frequency. Vulcan is related to the law—systemic <wrap hide>427|00:44:34|640|00:44:42|040</wrap>law of vibration. Vulcan puts on that kind of pressure which increases vibration. In the lunar <wrap hide>428|00:44:42|040|00:44:51|840</wrap>realm, we have the reactive sort of third ray factors left over from the previous solar system <wrap hide>429|00:44:51|840|00:45:00|240</wrap>and, to an extent, from the moon chain. And Vulcan puts pressure upon them. And in the moon, the <wrap hide>430|00:45:00|860|00:45:12|380</wrap>light of matter is hidden, as we learn on page 330 in relation to Cancer. Let's see, we'll put this <wrap hide>431|00:45:12|380|00:45:22|120</wrap>here and we'll go to 330 or three... Whoa, that's no good. I did it again. Okay, I'm going to get rid <wrap hide>432|00:45:22|120|00:45:25|140</wrap>of that and I'll start again. <wrap hide>433|00:45:27|960|00:45:37|720</wrap>Yeah, so Esoteric Astrology, and we'll go to page 330—and or 329, really, I see—and we have <wrap hide>434|00:45:37|720|00:45:44|520</wrap>the type of light that Cancer displays: the light within the form. This is the diffused <wrap hide>435|00:45:44|520|00:45:51|100</wrap>light of substance itself, the dark light of matter referred to in The Secret Doctrine. It <wrap hide>436|00:45:51|100|00:45:55|720</wrap>is the light awaiting the stimulation coming from the soul light. Well, brilliant soul light <wrap hide>437|00:45:55|720|00:46:04|200</wrap>is coming through Vulcan. And when the spiritual will is applied with pressure to the matter of the lower forms, one of the results—besides pain—is the evocation of the brilliant, <wrap hide>438|00:46:04|200|00:46:10|580</wrap>matter of the lower forms, one of the results—besides pain—is the evocation of the brilliant, <wrap hide>439|00:46:10|580|00:46:17|960</wrap>blinding light which Vulcan represents. So Saint Paul had that glorification experience; <wrap hide>440|00:46:17|960|00:46:24|820</wrap>it blinded him for three days. Further glorification is found—and higher glorification <wrap hide>441|00:46:24|820|00:46:32|920</wrap>is found at the fourth degree, which is a great Vulcanian display. Purification: it's the <wrap hide>442|00:46:32|920|00:46:39|800</wrap>pressure of the soul to achieve its own archetype, and the spiritual will under Vulcan <wrap hide>443|00:46:39|800|00:46:49|940</wrap>directs the will towards the personality to produce that <wrap hide>444|00:46:49|940|00:46:56|500</wrap>archetypalization. And eventually we have to achieve this detachment. We're told that Vulcan <wrap hide>445|00:46:56|500|00:47:02|060</wrap>is active at the fourth initiation with its first ray, when the condition of extreme aloneness <wrap hide>446|00:47:02|060|00:47:09|780</wrap>and detachment is experienced by the man who is literally between a rock and a hard place. <wrap hide>447|00:47:09|800|00:47:17|640</wrap>Vulcan images—and the most extreme type of detachment, as far as the human family is concerned, <wrap hide>448|00:47:17|640|00:47:25|940</wrap>is experienced there. But that leads to a great glorification: the soul is liberated, the solar <wrap hide>449|00:47:25|940|00:47:31|960</wrap>angel is liberated, man is glorified. Of course, let's just say every initiation following the <wrap hide>450|00:47:31|960|00:47:37|200</wrap>fourth is a type of glorification. There are probably certain ones that are more on the <wrap hide>451|00:47:37|200|00:47:44|260</wrap>glorification line, and they are, following that point, the fifth, the seventh, the ninth, and so forth. <wrap hide>452|00:47:45|060|00:47:52|720</wrap><wrap quote>the Moon or Vulcan stands for the glorification, through purification and <wrap hide>453|00:47:52|720|00:47:59|100</wrap>detachment, of matter,</wrap> This is the assumption of the virgin, the upliftment of matter into heaven. <wrap hide>454|00:47:59|100|00:48:03|770</wrap>That's really what we're doing: we're trying to spiritualize matter, aren't we? We're trying to <wrap hide>455|00:48:03|770|00:48:11|970</wrap>lift it up into heaven, which is the higher planes. We're trying to lift the lesser lives so that they <wrap hide>456|00:48:11|970|00:48:19|350</wrap>can truly evolve and are no longer trapped in a lower vibratory condition. So Vulcan, or spiritual <wrap hide>457|00:48:19|350|00:48:25|320</wrap>will—which is ultimately the heart of the sun—ultimately Vulcan probably has a fourth ray and <wrap hide>458|00:48:25|320|00:48:36|600</wrap>second ray monad. There is, through extreme pressure and heat and forcing and compulsion, kind of a <wrap hide>459|00:48:36|600|00:48:43|160</wrap>downward push into matter of the soul pushing down into matter. It's like the law of the pump: something <wrap hide>460|00:48:43|160|00:48:50|500</wrap>rises. If there's enough pressure from heaven, there will be an uprising of matter. "If I be <wrap hide>461|00:48:50|500|00:48:57|080</wrap>lifted up will draw all men unto me." So you know it's not only the magnetism of Jupiter drawing <wrap hide>462|00:48:58|480|00:49:04|760</wrap>towards the Savior, but it's the pressure that the Savior exerts upon matter itself. <wrap hide>463|00:49:05|700|00:49:10|780</wrap>And matter responds by rising. Then there's Venus. <wrap quote>Venus stands for the emergence of the love <wrap hide>464|00:49:10|780|00:49:18|800</wrap>principle through the directing power of the mind.</wrap> Okay, well, you know Venus is an interesting mixture: <wrap hide>465|00:49:18|800|00:49:24|820</wrap>fifth ray soul, sixth ray, second ray monad, maybe a second ray personality. Fourth ray has got to be <wrap hide>466|00:49:24|820|00:49:30|600</wrap>involved somewhere. It's an interesting combination of, uh, soft line and hard line rays. It's that <wrap hide>467|00:49:30|600|00:49:37|800</wrap>fifth ray soul so important in the transference from the mystical path to the occult path that <wrap hide>468|00:49:37|800|00:49:44|080</wrap>gives the stability of Venus. Otherwise quite a soft line planet, the love principle though <wrap hide>469|00:49:44|860|00:49:51|580</wrap>has to be emerging intelligently. It's one thing to love, but one can love unwisely. <wrap hide>470|00:49:52|160|00:49:58|080</wrap>That has to be balanced by the power of the mind, and the mind of course has will within it. So once <wrap hide>471|00:49:58|080|00:50:03|860</wrap>we reach a certain point in our development, we cultivate love by meditating on love, by thinking <wrap hide>472|00:50:03|860|00:50:12|180</wrap>about love, just like Saint Paul did in his letter to the Corinthians. He somehow defined in his own <wrap hide>473|00:50:12|180|00:50:18|800</wrap>fifth ray way all the things that love was. He was much taken by the buddhic energy. He had been— <wrap hide>474|00:50:19|440|00:50:24|300</wrap>I think passing through the third initiation—his contact with buddhi was much greater. <wrap hide>475|00:50:24|300|00:50:30|260</wrap>If he was a sixth ray soul, he was probably becoming very much a second ray soul, and <wrap hide>476|00:50:30|260|00:50:35|480</wrap>the greatest of all things for him was love, even though as a monad he was a very fifth ray, first <wrap hide>477|00:50:35|480|00:50:42|880</wrap>ray type. So the emergence of the love principle not just through magnetism, but by the directing <wrap hide>478|00:50:42|880|00:50:49|660</wrap>power of the mind: thinking of all the reasons why something is lovable. When you have an object of <wrap hide>479|00:50:49|660|00:50:56|140</wrap>your attention, you begin to appreciate it with the mind, and you see what its value is. That's <wrap hide>480|00:50:56|140|00:51:02|000</wrap>another Venus word: you see what its value is and where it could lead and how it is related. <wrap hide>481|00:51:02|000|00:51:09|140</wrap>So through this power of mental appreciation, the love principle will grow. It's not just <wrap hide>482|00:51:09|140|00:51:17|020</wrap>spontaneous magnetism. It's having the illumination to see the lovableness—the <wrap hide>483|00:51:17|020|00:51:24|240</wrap>lovability of various objects of perception. It's intelligent love is what Venus really is. <wrap hide>484|00:51:24|240|00:51:28|480</wrap><wrap quote>Students will find it interesting to work out the implications for themselves.</wrap> Well, indeed, <wrap hide>485|00:51:29|040|00:51:35|180</wrap>that is what we are attempting to do, and I do offer some thoughts about implications that <wrap hide>486|00:51:35|180|00:51:40|700</wrap>occur to me, but that's only to set an example in a way for you to make the lists of implications <wrap hide>487|00:51:40|700|00:51:46|480</wrap>which occur to you, because you know the Tibetan has planted the seed here. He's given us something <wrap hide>488|00:51:46|480|00:51:55|000</wrap>that is remarkable, but we have to take it far in the direction that our mind and intuition will <wrap hide>489|00:51:55|000|00:52:02|300</wrap>lead, and everybody is responsible for doing this for himself or herself. <wrap quote>Orthodox astrology assigns <wrap hide>490|00:52:02|300|00:52:07|680</wrap>only two planets to these four signs, which in itself indicates a definite interplay.</wrap> Well, that <wrap hide>491|00:52:07|680|00:52:15|400</wrap>interplay is of a couple of kinds. Jupiter is usually the expanded vision, and Mercury the mind. <wrap hide>492|00:52:15|400|00:52:21|240</wrap>So we hope that our knowledge will lead to expanded vision and understanding. That's one <wrap hide>493|00:52:21|240|00:52:28|000</wrap>of the great Jupiter virtues. You have to be a bit abstracted from things and underneath things <wrap hide>494|00:52:28|000|00:52:34|580</wrap>in order to stand under them and understand. So from that type of bondage that Jupiter initially <wrap hide>495|00:52:34|580|00:52:40|880</wrap>offers, there is later a type of magnetic abstraction that occurs up into the higher levels <wrap hide>496|00:52:40|880|00:52:46|300</wrap>where you can stand in a detached manner and see. You know, Jupiter of course is one of the great <wrap hide>497|00:52:46|300|00:52:52|540</wrap>seeing planets. It's related to Sagittarius, the sign of sight, and probably even at a certain <wrap hide>498|00:52:52|540|00:52:57|940</wrap>point has a relationship with the Ajna center. Yet one can think of that when the Ajna center <wrap hide>499|00:52:57|940|00:53:05|060</wrap>is ruled by the second ray, which it sometimes is. So there is this Jupiterian sight which evolves. <wrap hide>500|00:53:05|940|00:53:11|300</wrap>So there's an interplay between Jupiter and Mercury, and that's kind of an ordinary interplay: <wrap hide>501|00:53:11|300|00:53:16|740</wrap>knowledge leads to expanded vision. But there's also a buddhic interplay. Both of them are buddhic <wrap hide>502|00:53:16|740|00:53:26|400</wrap>planets, and so Jupiter—it was the same—Mercury is associated with the pure reason part of buddhi, <wrap hide>503|00:53:26|400|00:53:36|140</wrap>and Jupiter is associated with this detailed unity, this ability to see all the many factors <wrap hide>504|00:53:36|140|00:53:45|400</wrap>as one in coherent relationship with each other—not incoherent, but in coherent relationship with <wrap hide>505|00:53:45|400|00:53:50|520</wrap>each other. So they have a definite type of interplay later on on the path, but in the <wrap hide>506|00:53:50|520|00:53:57|780</wrap>beginning, let us say that knowledge or intellect (Mercury) leads to intuition (Jupiter). That's the first <wrap hide>507|00:53:57|780|00:54:04|940</wrap><wrap quote>Jupiter and its influences indicate that the way of incarnation</wrap> Jupiter and its influence says you <wrap hide>508|00:54:04|940|00:54:11|100</wrap>know many things coming from the planet and rays transmitted through it and emitted from it. Jupiter <wrap hide>509|00:54:11|100|00:54:17|120</wrap>and its influences indicate <wrap quote>that the way of incarnation is the “beneficent” method of <wrap hide>510|00:54:17|120|00:54:22|700</wrap>evolutionary unfoldment</wrap> It doesn't always seem beneficent - seems hard, seems under karma, seems <wrap hide>511|00:54:22|700|00:54:28|480</wrap>under Saturn, seems tough - but ultimately we are being given a chance to exercise our spiritual <wrap hide>512|00:54:28|480|00:54:35|260</wrap>muscles and grow our consciousness. And Jupiter is always associated with the expansion of <wrap hide>513|00:54:35|260|00:54:40|780</wrap>consciousness, <wrap quote>and that the way of love-wisdom (2nd ray) is the way for humanity to <wrap hide>514|00:54:40|780|00:54:51|980</wrap>go.</wrap> Now, eventually humanity - now which I infer as having, let's see, humanity today a fourth ray soul <wrap hide>515|00:54:51|980|00:55:02|920</wrap>and a fifth ray personality - and later, later a fourth ray personality and second ray soul. <wrap hide>516|00:55:03|920|00:55:11|660</wrap>So you can see that this is in some ways a cross of humanity, certainly of the fourth kingdom, <wrap hide>517|00:55:12|460|00:55:20|720</wrap>and eventually the two rays of the orthodox mutable cross will be the second and the fourth. <wrap hide>518|00:55:20|720|00:55:27|020</wrap>Jupiter will represent the second ray soul of humanity, and Mercury will represent the fourth <wrap hide>519|00:55:27|020|00:55:35|600</wrap>ray personality of humanity. Right now, maybe - well, the fourth ray soul of humanity is Mercurian <wrap hide>520|00:55:35|600|00:55:40|700</wrap>at the present time, and the fifth ray personality of humanity is not strictly <wrap hide>521|00:55:40|700|00:55:47|000</wrap>Venusian - it has elements of Saturn and Mars and other concrete tendencies. <wrap hide>522|00:55:48|040|00:55:52|520</wrap>Mercury indicates - so that, that's what - let's just say that evolution is beneficent, <wrap hide>523|00:55:52|520|00:55:59|080</wrap>and for all the tough karma there is beneficence. <wrap quote>Mercury indicates that the line of least resistance for <wrap hide>524|00:55:59|080|00:56:05|820</wrap>humanity is harmony through conflict,</wrap> We don't always foresee the best way of doing things, and <wrap hide>525|00:56:05|820|00:56:11|540</wrap>we enter into conflict first, which eventually we have the power to harmonize, <wrap quote>for Mercury expresses <wrap hide>526|00:56:11|540|00:56:15|820</wrap>the fourth ray energy which is buddhic, intuitional and expressive of the Christ, <wrap hide>527|00:56:15|820|00:56:21|500</wrap>as Mercury and the Sun are one.</wrap> - well, there is Mercury as buddic and expressive of the Christ. <wrap hide>528|00:56:21|500|00:56:27|500</wrap>Well, the buddic plane is very expressive of the Christ, but Mercury and the Sun are one, and the <wrap hide>529|00:56:27|500|00:56:33|620</wrap>Sun and the Christ are equivalent - great second-ray sources. And in a way, the Sun really begins to <wrap hide>530|00:56:33|620|00:56:39|960</wrap>lay on the buddic plane. We can say that from a certain point of view, the lower - <wrap hide>531|00:56:41|360|00:56:52|340</wrap>the lower sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane are very Saturnian and lunar - lower Saturn <wrap hide>532|00:56:52|340|00:56:57|060</wrap>and the Moon. In a way, the Sun begins to come into prominence here on the higher mental plane, but not <wrap hide>533|00:56:57|060|00:57:02|980</wrap>yet - it's not yet released. And the Sun comes into increasing prominence starting from the buddic <wrap hide>534|00:57:02|980|00:57:09|960</wrap>plane and rising all the way up to the divine plane, which is ruled by the first of the manifest <wrap hide>535|00:57:09|960|00:57:16|840</wrap>creative hierarchies, which is ruled by Leo and hence the Sun. So the Sun is really coming into <wrap hide>536|00:57:16|840|00:57:25|800</wrap>its own - coming into its own on the buddic plane. Mercury and the Sun are one. So we are a struggling <wrap hide>537|00:57:26|600|00:57:32|960</wrap>creative hierarchy. We are a struggling kingdom of nature with other kingdoms in our creative <wrap hide>538|00:57:32|960|00:57:39|020</wrap>hierarchy - souls and planetary lives and so forth - and we must struggle first. We tend to <wrap hide>539|00:57:39|020|00:57:45|520</wrap>struggle first and then realize through interplay harmony - the realization of harmony through <wrap hide>540|00:57:45|520|00:57:52|120</wrap>conflicted interplay. Let me put it like that: the realization of harmony through conflicted <wrap hide>541|00:57:52|120|00:58:02|240</wrap>interplay, and that becoming smoother as time passes and as we learn. So Mercury is buddic. <wrap hide>542|00:58:02|240|00:58:06|900</wrap>Indeed, Mercury stands for, let's say, five levels of the mind: you know, concrete mind, son of mind, <wrap hide>543|00:58:06|900|00:58:12|740</wrap>abstract mind, transcendental or buddic mind, and then finally atmic mind - the mind that represents <wrap hide>544|00:58:12|740|00:58:19|080</wrap>the law and the spiritual will. So Mercury expresses the fourth ray energy which is buddic, <wrap hide>545|00:58:19|080|00:58:23|120</wrap>intuitional, and expressive of the Christ. Think of Mercury as expressive of the Christ. <wrap hide>546|00:58:23|120|00:58:28|820</wrap>How interesting - its fourth ray aspect is its soul ray. Fourth ray is expressive of the Christ. <wrap hide>547|00:58:29|860|00:58:35|880</wrap>Actually, though, the monadic nature of Mercury is probably quite a fifth ray, third ray, as <wrap hide>548|00:58:35|880|00:58:41|640</wrap>I presently conceive it. You know, my opinions possibly will change as time goes on, but <wrap hide>549|00:58:41|640|00:58:47|460</wrap>at the moment, my present level of ignorance - that's what I think. The esoteric planets - and then he goes <wrap hide>550|00:58:47|460|00:58:52|400</wrap>on and says, <wrap quote>But the esoteric planets are more explicit in their inferences and man appears, <wrap hide>551|00:58:53|100|00:59:00|140</wrap>when ready for their influence, to be responsive in a fourfold way which he is not in the earlier stages.</wrap> <wrap hide>552|00:59:00|140|00:59:12|240</wrap>So that's about - I'm going to - what I'm going to do is I'm going to say here the end of esoteric <wrap hide>553|00:59:12|240|00:59:24|380</wrap>Astrology 54. I did want to make these a bit longer, but having been sadly surprised by the <wrap hide>554|00:59:24|380|00:59:28|900</wrap>absence of sound in a two-hour presentation I just made for you, I think I'm going to take things a <wrap hide>555|00:59:28|900|00:59:39|040</wrap>little more cautiously. Say Esoteric Astrology Adventure 54.2, <wrap hide>556|00:59:39|880|00:59:52|100</wrap>and that is from page 126, I assume, to 127. Okay, and then we'll see whether we <wrap hide>557|00:59:54|000|01:00:01|780</wrap>yeah, it's not too bad, not too bad. Almost where I was the last time. So this is... <wrap hide>558|01:00:02|340|01:00:10|760</wrap>We will now together do The Great Invocation, which is the... okay, from the point of <wrap hide>559|01:00:11|760|01:00:21|920</wrap>light within, which is the way to end these adventures. After all, it's not just about <wrap hide>560|01:00:21|920|01:00:29|100</wrap>learning esoteric astrology; it's about preparing for the reappearance of the Christ and the <wrap hide>561|01:00:29|100|01:00:36|000</wrap>2,000-year reign of hierarchy on our planet, in which esoteric astrology will be very important. So <wrap hide>562|01:00:36|470|01:00:42|760</wrap>The Great Invocation is our greatest tool for bringing about the <wrap hide>563|01:00:42|760|01:00:46|440</wrap>rapid and appropriate reappearance of the Christ. <wrap hide>564|01:00:48|020|01:00:48|660</wrap>Hmm. <wrap hide>565|01:00:58|280|01:01:01|480</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, <wrap hide>566|01:01:01|480|01:01:07|760</wrap>let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>567|01:01:10|780|01:01:16|360</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. <wrap hide>568|01:01:16|360|01:01:24|620</wrap>May Christ return to earth. From the center where the will of God is known, <wrap hide>569|01:01:24|620|01:01:31|400</wrap>let purpose guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the masters know and serve. <wrap hide>570|01:01:34|980|01:01:39|920</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, <wrap hide>571|01:01:39|920|01:01:43|640</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>572|01:01:45|020|01:01:50|820</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>573|01:02:13|020|01:02:14|420</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>574|01:02:18|920|01:02:19|720</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>575|01:02:36|080|01:02:40|540</wrap>Okay, friends, so that's the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure number <wrap hide>576|01:02:41|080|01:02:44|300</wrap>54, and we'll continue with number 55. And we hope that all <wrap hide>577|01:02:44|860|01:02:51|980</wrap>works out well in terms of the sound and the picture as well. Okay.
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