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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|400|00:00:15|760</wrap>Hello everybody. We are beginning with Esoteric Astrology adventure number 57. We are approximately <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|760|00:00:25|680</wrap>on page 129 of the book Esoteric Astrology. We are working with the sign Pisces. Quite <wrap hide>3|00:00:25|680|00:00:35|380</wrap>an elaborate description. We are just about at 129. Just about there. So we have been <wrap hide>4|00:00:36|280|00:00:47|300</wrap>discussing preparation for the 12 great tests in 12 signs and that preparation occurring <wrap hide>5|00:00:48|080|00:01:01|880</wrap>upon the mutable cross and upon the fixed cross as well. Now we move on. Pisces governs <wrap hide>6|00:01:01|880|00:01:10|400</wrap>the feet Every sign of the zodiac, as we know, governs one of the parts of the body. The <wrap hide>7|00:01:10|400|00:01:16|520</wrap>areas of the head, the torso, the throat, the Gemini, the lungs and the hands, Cancer, <wrap hide>8|00:01:16|520|00:01:23|520</wrap>the stomach and the breasts, Leo the heart and the back, Virgo the small intestines, <wrap hide>9|00:01:25|080|00:01:35|460</wrap>Libra the kidneys, Scorpio the generative organs, Sagittarius the thighs, musculature <wrap hide>10|00:01:35|460|00:01:44|300</wrap>in general, Capricorn the knees and to an extent the skin, Aquarius the calves and the <wrap hide>11|00:01:44|300|00:01:51|980</wrap>circulatory system, Pisces the feet and the lymphatic system, and that of course can be <wrap hide>12|00:01:51|980|00:02:02|240</wrap>elaborated. Let's see. I don't want this to be too loud. That's about right. <wrap quote>Pisces <wrap hide>13|00:02:02|240|00:02:07|580</wrap>governs the feet and hence the whole thought of progress,</wrap> Go forth into matter. You know, <wrap hide>14|00:02:07|580|00:02:14|280</wrap>the very first sign in which the first individual incarnation is taken. <wrap quote>the whole thought of <wrap hide>15|00:02:14|280|00:02:22|440</wrap>progress, of attaining the goal,</wrap> Jupiter confers vision in Pisces and the treading of the Path <wrap hide>16|00:02:23|120|00:02:28|780</wrap>of Return. When the prodigal son awakens to himself, <wrap quote>and the treading of the Path of Return <wrap hide>17|00:02:29|400|00:02:38|100</wrap>has been the underlying spiritual revelation of the great cycle through which we are passing;</wrap> <wrap hide>18|00:02:39|080|00:02:45|320</wrap>Humanity is no longer on a strictly involutionary path. Humanity is about to become the world <wrap hide>19|00:02:45|320|00:02:52|320</wrap>disciple and in a sense is certainly already the world aspirant, and the more advanced members <wrap hide>20|00:02:52|320|00:02:59|340</wrap>of humanity certainly are awakening to their spiritual potentials and the fact that the <wrap hide>21|00:02:59|340|00:03:07|380</wrap>potential spiritual revelation has been obscured by the five senses and in general by that <wrap hide>22|00:03:07|380|00:03:13|860</wrap>which is not to be considered a principle, at least on our planet and in this solar system. <wrap hide>23|00:03:15|240|00:03:20|360</wrap>Pisces governs the feet and hence the whole thought of progress. Jupiter is always progressive, <wrap hide>24|00:03:20|540|00:03:28|540</wrap>Jupiter the main ruler, going from one ring past not, pushing it to the next and always <wrap hide>25|00:03:28|540|00:03:35|400</wrap>a wider and wider horizon from the perspective of Jupiter. Attaining the goal and the treading <wrap hide>26|00:03:35|400|00:03:43|320</wrap>of the path of return, the prodigal son awakens and realizes he is in a far country and in <wrap hide>27|00:03:43|320|00:03:51|140</wrap>a very disadvantaged position and treads then, begins to tread the path of return not only <wrap hide>28|00:03:51|140|00:03:58|460</wrap>back to the soul which has sent him forth but ultimately to the monad which he is and <wrap hide>29|00:03:58|460|00:04:05|120</wrap>from which he journeyed as the jiva or the divine pilgrim on the great pilgrimage through <wrap hide>30|00:04:05|120|00:04:11|820</wrap>five different planes down and up symbolically. <wrap quote>and the treading of the Path of Return has <wrap hide>31|00:04:11|820|00:04:18|040</wrap>been the underlying spiritual revelation of the great cycle through which we are passing;</wrap> <wrap hide>32|00:04:18|340|00:04:26|140</wrap>The D.K. is not specific about that particular cycle, but it does suggest that humanity in <wrap hide>33|00:04:26|760|00:04:34|360</wrap>a sense is reversing the wheel. Let's say humanity is reversing the wheel, and this certainly <wrap hide>34|00:04:34|360|00:04:44|300</wrap>must be the case since humanity is about to take the first initiation. Of course, naturally <wrap hide>35|00:04:44|300|00:04:49|540</wrap>not all of humanity, D.K. is very realistic about the figures there, but somehow sufficient <wrap hide>36|00:04:49|540|00:04:58|600</wrap>of humanity to reorient the race and to provide a type of leaven, a type of rising of the <wrap hide>37|00:04:58|600|00:05:04|140</wrap>consciousness. So humanity as a whole can be considered the world disciple and the candidate <wrap hide>38|00:05:04|140|00:05:09|800</wrap>for the first initiation. It is right now the candidate for the first initiation, and <wrap hide>39|00:05:09|800|00:05:17|620</wrap>when the Christ reappears we are told that that will be the indication that humanity <wrap hide>40|00:05:17|620|00:05:20|360</wrap>has taken the first initiation. <wrap hide>41|00:05:21|380|00:05:28|700</wrap><wrap quote>also, in the Piscean Age, the lesser cycle out of which we are at this time moving,</wrap> <wrap hide>42|00:05:29|700|00:05:44|900</wrap>a cycle of some 2,160 years or sometimes with overlaps of previous and following ages considered <wrap hide>43|00:05:44|900|00:05:53|620</wrap>to be 2,500 years, also in the Piscean Age the lesser cycle, see because the greater <wrap hide>44|00:05:53|620|00:06:03|600</wrap>cycle is much bigger, 25,000 years approximately, or 25,920 if we want to be more exact, the <wrap hide>45|00:06:03|600|00:06:09|040</wrap>lesser cycle out of which we are at this time moving, <wrap quote>it has been the origin of all <wrap hide>46|00:06:09|040|00:06:15|480</wrap>the teaching given by the world religions anent the various stages of the Path of <wrap hide>47|00:06:15|480|00:06:21|760</wrap>Return.</wrap> It's really quite amazing how the symbolism associated with the different constellations <wrap hide>48|00:06:21|760|00:06:27|820</wrap>and signs of the zodiac manages to work itself into the thought process of the human race <wrap hide>49|00:06:27|820|00:06:35|540</wrap>and the literature, spiritual or otherwise, which that race produces during that particular <wrap hide>50|00:06:35|540|00:06:46|840</wrap>time. So Pisces has been behind the symbolism of the path, and so many of us are affected <wrap hide>51|00:06:46|840|00:06:57|580</wrap>by this path symbolism and we take very seriously the type of path we are treading, always having <wrap hide>52|00:06:57|580|00:07:02|840</wrap>to remember however that we really are the path. We have descended as a stream of energy, <wrap hide>53|00:07:02|840|00:07:11|460</wrap>we return as a stream of energy. A path is a stream of energy along which a unit of conscious <wrap hide>54|00:07:11|460|00:07:23|840</wrap>life travels. <wrap quote>Some astrologers hold also that Pisces governs the generative processes.</wrap> thereby <wrap hide>55|00:07:23|840|00:07:33|600</wrap>I suppose associated with the sacral center, but D.K. puts a different slant on this. <wrap quote>They <wrap hide>56|00:07:33|600|00:07:40|980</wrap>are essentially correct because once a man is nearing or upon the Path</wrap> the true path beginning <wrap hide>57|00:07:40|980|00:07:45|860</wrap>of the first initiation but there being a probationary or aspirational path before that, <wrap hide>58|00:07:46|420|00:07:51|740</wrap>the true path however being the path of discipleship essentially beginning of the first initiation, <wrap hide>59|00:07:51|740|00:07:56|860</wrap>they are essentially correct because once a man is nearing or upon the path, <wrap quote>he should <wrap hide>60|00:07:56|860|00:08:04|760</wrap>become increasingly creative in the higher sense and the physical generative processes <wrap hide>61|00:08:04|760|00:08:14|180</wrap>should give place esoterically to regeneration</wrap> We have Jupiter as the rulership here. Jupiter <wrap hide>62|00:08:14|740|00:08:19|660</wrap>in its lower aspect is connected in the Secret Doctrine with the worship of the ancestral <wrap hide>63|00:08:19|660|00:08:26|580</wrap>gods and the propitiating of the gods of form. The whole idea of "be fruitful and multiply" <wrap hide>64|00:08:26|580|00:08:32|600</wrap>through the generative process is a Jupiterian type of phenomenon apparently here associated <wrap hide>65|00:08:32|600|00:08:42|540</wrap>with Pisces as one is only sensitive to impression from the lower worlds. So, but D.K. is talking <wrap hide>66|00:08:42|540|00:08:50|140</wrap>about a different type of generation rather regeneration, and Pisces is particularly connected <wrap hide>67|00:08:50|140|00:08:58|480</wrap>with regeneration <wrap quote>and to creation upon the mental plane instead of only upon the physical <wrap hide>68|00:08:58|480|00:09:02|700</wrap>plane.</wrap> So basically we have a transference here from the sacral center to the throat <wrap hide>69|00:09:02|700|00:09:12|180</wrap>center, and when you become a regenerated human being, my old teacher used to say to <wrap hide>70|00:09:12|180|00:09:22|380</wrap>me, he says there must come a time when a man ceases to reproduce his own kind and begins <wrap hide>71|00:09:22|380|00:09:32|500</wrap>reproducing himself. So this is the transference from generation to regeneration, and I suppose <wrap hide>72|00:09:32|500|00:09:40|980</wrap>we could say that Pisces with his Pluto rulership cuts the tendency to regenerate through the <wrap hide>73|00:09:41|820|00:09:47|560</wrap>sacral center and lifts the energy in a Kundalini fashion so the throat center is stimulated <wrap hide>74|00:09:48|560|00:09:56|240</wrap>as if from Pluto to Saturn ruling the throat center, and the creative life begins to take <wrap hide>75|00:09:56|240|00:10:02|260</wrap>place and that creative life creates forms which can be infused by the soul and used <wrap hide>76|00:10:02|260|00:10:11|980</wrap>to lift the consciousness and the consciousness of others. So I guess let us emphasize that <wrap hide>77|00:10:11|980|00:10:19|460</wrap>word regeneration, and interestingly enough it is a word that has been associated with <wrap hide>78|00:10:19|460|00:10:31|040</wrap>the Pluto and Pluto as the planet of regeneration or rebirth. So Pluto as regeneration or rebirth. <wrap hide>79|00:10:31|480|00:10:36|980</wrap>Pluto is also associated with Scorpio, Scorpio with sex, sex with generation in general, but <wrap hide>80|00:10:36|980|00:10:44|800</wrap>Pluto is the remaking, the death of the old and the birth of the new, and it is a spiritual <wrap hide>81|00:10:44|800|00:10:50|500</wrap>ruler of Pisces so we can see the connection of Pisces then to regeneration, to the extrication <wrap hide>82|00:10:50|500|00:11:01|120</wrap>of the consciousness from form and lower forms and to engagement with higher forms which <wrap hide>83|00:11:01|120|00:11:08|300</wrap>can carry the soul light and for the creation of forms which embody that. We do find Pisces <wrap hide>84|00:11:08|300|00:11:19|020</wrap>as very imaginative people. Let's put that down. Pisces as imaginative, and imagination <wrap hide>85|00:11:20|020|00:11:33|340</wrap>used to create forms which can carry soul energy. So we start to build a new world with <wrap hide>86|00:11:33|340|00:11:41|280</wrap>the Piscean imagination connected to Neptune, and we divorce ourselves from the old world <wrap hide>87|00:11:41|280|00:11:52|280</wrap>so we generate the higher man in Christ. The higher man in Christ through Neptune which <wrap hide>88|00:11:52|280|00:12:02|260</wrap>is Vishnu, Christ and the imagination. And to creation upon the mental plane, that's by <wrap hide>89|00:12:02|260|00:12:07|540</wrap>the throat center instead of only upon the physical plane, so we move from the earth rulership <wrap hide>90|00:12:07|540|00:12:14|240</wrap>of the throat center to the Saturnian rulership and eventually to Uranian rulership of the <wrap hide>91|00:12:14|240|00:12:18|700</wrap>throat center, which is interesting because Uranus is one of those planets that transmits <wrap hide>92|00:12:18|700|00:12:29|720</wrap>from Sirius through Pisces the energy of the second ray strangely. So we have Sirius, Pisces, <wrap hide>93|00:12:29|720|00:12:38|360</wrap>Uranus, and there's the whole idea of creating the new forms of a higher nature under the <wrap hide>94|00:12:38|360|00:12:45|740</wrap>Sirian impulse and under the imaginative impulse of Pisces. <wrap quote>This higher creative <wrap hide>95|00:12:45|740|00:12:53|320</wrap>functioning becomes possible under the influence of aspiration and intuition.</wrap> So there we have <wrap hide>96|00:12:53|320|00:13:05|980</wrap>kind of a Jupiterian factors and also that which is related to the sixth and second rays. <wrap hide>97|00:13:05|980|00:13:10|100</wrap>which are the two rays which pour through Pisces: sixth ray, the ray of aspiration; second <wrap hide>98|00:13:10|100|00:13:16|020</wrap>ray, especially the ray of intuition, though not to leave out any of the rays as possibly <wrap hide>99|00:13:16|020|00:13:20|660</wrap>intuitive, but especially the two, four, six line. So this higher creative functioning <wrap hide>100|00:13:20|660|00:13:25|520</wrap>becomes possible under the influence of aspiration and intuition. As we're told in Sagittarius, <wrap hide>101|00:13:25|520|00:13:34|640</wrap>we shoot the arrow of aspiration and it returns as an intuition. This is the aspiring aspect <wrap hide>102|00:13:34|640|00:13:39|700</wrap>of Jupiter which has made me at times think, and some other astrologers too, that at some <wrap hide>103|00:13:39|700|00:13:45|160</wrap>level in the Jupiterian expression, probably a relatively low level, there is an important <wrap hide>104|00:13:45|160|00:13:51|540</wrap>sixth ray. The sixth ray relating to the sixth plane from below which Jupiter rules, <wrap hide>105|00:13:51|700|00:14:00|240</wrap>that is the monadic plane. Okay, so a higher creative functioning: the imagination is seeded <wrap hide>106|00:14:00|240|00:14:05|640</wrap>by the intuition and the imagination begins to take on the form of that which is archetypal. <wrap hide>107|00:14:05|640|00:14:16|020</wrap>It doesn't always do that, as we realize. The, let's see, the imagination takes on archetypal <wrap hide>108|00:14:19|060|00:14:24|960</wrap>forms, and oftentimes it simply follows the forms of desire, so that true art can begin <wrap hide>109|00:14:24|960|00:14:31|180</wrap>when the imagination turns archetypal, as it will increasingly under the impending fourth <wrap hide>110|00:14:31|180|00:14:38|320</wrap>ray age beginning approximately in 2025 and actually having some sort of beginning at <wrap hide>111|00:14:38|320|00:14:45|140</wrap>the end of 1924, the Tibetan tells us. So this higher creative functioning, aspiration <wrap hide>112|00:14:45|140|00:14:51|200</wrap>and intuition <wrap quote>This begins to take place when the four esoteric rulers supplement the activity <wrap hide>113|00:14:51|200|00:14:56|960</wrap>of the two orthodox rulers.</wrap> It's very interesting because now we have a kind of sequence here. <wrap hide>114|00:14:56|960|00:15:12|500</wrap>We have two orthodox rulers of Pisces giving way to the four esoteric rulers of Pisces, <wrap hide>115|00:15:12|600|00:15:21|280</wrap>giving way to the four esoteric rulers of the fixed cross. So you know, at different <wrap hide>116|00:15:21|280|00:15:28|520</wrap>points in our life in this journey on the path, on that stream of energy which is magnetically <wrap hide>117|00:15:28|520|00:15:35|120</wrap>oriented towards our point of origin, the path of outgo, the path of incoming and return, <wrap hide>118|00:15:35|480|00:15:42|920</wrap>on this path we pass through various influences of various energies, and it's important to <wrap hide>119|00:15:42|920|00:15:50|840</wrap>know at what stage of the path we may be operating and the kinds of influences that we may be <wrap hide>120|00:15:50|840|00:15:59|820</wrap>subjected to. You know, probably we live our life and we have a routine and various things <wrap hide>121|00:15:59|820|00:16:07|200</wrap>happen, but how sensitive are we to the changing of energies around us and within us? And do <wrap hide>122|00:16:07|200|00:16:12|180</wrap>we know when a new energy is coming in? Do we know when something comes over us, when <wrap hide>123|00:16:12|180|00:16:19|340</wrap>something inspires us or in some way subdues us? Energy sensitivity is one of the great <wrap hide>124|00:16:20|980|00:16:25|500</wrap>necessities for the esoteric astrologer, for the rayologist, and also of course for the <wrap hide>125|00:16:25|500|00:16:33|020</wrap>psychologist. It is interesting to note the astrologer Alan Leo, who had a lot of Virgo <wrap hide>126|00:16:33|020|00:16:38|500</wrap>by the way, but quite a bit of Leo in his chart too. It's a taken name, of course. <wrap quote>It is interesting <wrap hide>127|00:16:38|500|00:16:45|500</wrap>to note that the astrologer, Alan Leo, suggests Neptune as an alternative to Jupiter.</wrap> That <wrap hide>128|00:16:45|500|00:16:51|960</wrap>doesn't mean that Jupiter is not to be considered, because definitely it is one of the rulers, <wrap hide>129|00:16:51|960|00:16:58|920</wrap>and D.K. explains the whole rulership in relation to the Jonah idea and to the binding of the <wrap hide>130|00:16:58|920|00:17:07|860</wrap>fishes. Neptune as an alternative to Jupiter: <wrap quote>He sensed and touched upon a mystery of initiation though he did not realise the magnitude of his discovery.</wrap> <wrap hide>131|00:17:07|860|00:17:14|840</wrap>At what level we are not told, but we do not realize the magnitude of his discovery. Well, <wrap hide>132|00:17:14|840|00:17:26|140</wrap>there are many people, you know, that are Neptunian Pisceans. There are many Neptunian—I better <wrap hide>133|00:17:26|140|00:17:35|260</wrap>capitalize that. There are many Neptunian Pisceans, but not exclusively, you know. All <wrap hide>134|00:17:35|260|00:17:41|500</wrap>those rulers mix in, and people are much affected by Neptune when in this sign, but that does <wrap hide>135|00:17:41|500|00:17:47|360</wrap>not negate the impression of Jupiter upon the average individual in Pisces or the impression <wrap hide>136|00:17:47|360|00:17:53|780</wrap>of Pluto upon the advancing individual. But Neptune is a pervasive planet. Neptune is <wrap hide>137|00:17:53|780|00:18:00|200</wrap>pervasive. It does not respect boundaries. It is boundaryless. It manages to seep through <wrap hide>138|00:18:00|200|00:18:10|400</wrap>apparently dense, hard boundaries as if they were somewhat porous or permeable. <wrap quote>Neptune <wrap hide>139|00:18:10|400|00:18:21|760</wrap>focusses the influence of Pisces as it concerns humanity as a whole and not just the individual <wrap hide>140|00:18:21|760|00:18:27|660</wrap>man,</wrap> So in a period in which Pisces is affecting not just the individual, which it of course <wrap hide>141|00:18:27|660|00:18:32|700</wrap>also does, but affecting humanity as a whole, Neptune will be extremely strong. So let's <wrap hide>142|00:18:32|700|00:18:44|160</wrap>just see, and let's think: what has been the role of Neptune during the past two thousand <wrap hide>143|00:18:44|160|00:18:52|600</wrap>years? It has been formidable. It's been an age of great religious pursuit. It's been <wrap hide>144|00:18:52|600|00:18:58|720</wrap>an age in which the Occidental mystics have appeared. Maybe mystics of all types have <wrap hide>145|00:18:58|720|00:19:07|760</wrap>had their particular type of quest intensified during the last two thousand years. So Pisces <wrap hide>146|00:19:07|760|00:19:12|380</wrap>has definitely been the ruler of humanity and, in many ways, the ruler of the planet for <wrap hide>147|00:19:12|380|00:19:20|420</wrap>the last two thousand or so years, a bit more, and Neptune therefore has been in focus. So <wrap hide>148|00:19:20|420|00:19:30|920</wrap>we start to look at group astrology and not just individual astrology. <wrap quote>but this only takes <wrap hide>149|00:19:30|920|00:19:39|060</wrap>place towards the final stages of the Path of Discipleship.</wrap> So the higher type of Neptunian <wrap hide>150|00:19:39|060|00:19:44|580</wrap>influence, when humanity becomes itself a type of disciple, will be very noticeable, <wrap hide>151|00:19:44|580|00:19:52|040</wrap>and humanity will not be held by the normal boundaries of consciousness but will be able <wrap hide>152|00:19:52|040|00:19:56|920</wrap>to slip out and slip through. And the suggestion here is that as a person becomes a higher <wrap hide>153|00:19:56|920|00:20:03|820</wrap>type of disciple, later in the stages, let's say the second initiation, Neptune becomes <wrap hide>154|00:20:03|820|00:20:15|660</wrap>very strong. Even at the first degree, Neptune as Christ, as Vishnu, is becoming a factor <wrap hide>155|00:20:15|660|00:20:21|240</wrap>to be considered. But later there is this slipping away and relinquishment of all that <wrap hide>156|00:20:21|240|00:20:33|800</wrap>has to do with the lower sub-planes and the usual prism of humanity and the moon in a <wrap hide>157|00:20:33|800|00:20:39|900</wrap>way, and he can refocus upon the Buddhic plane. So the Buddhic plane is ruled by Neptune in <wrap hide>158|00:20:39|900|00:20:48|180</wrap>part also with Jupiter and Mercury, and man refocuses at the fourth degree upon the Buddhic <wrap hide>159|00:20:48|180|00:20:58|840</wrap>plane. So, see, D.K. is certainly not denying the influence of Neptune in the Piscean individual, <wrap hide>160|00:20:58|840|00:21:05|360</wrap>but he's saying it has a strong relationship to a larger group, and he's also saying that <wrap hide>161|00:21:07|160|00:21:16|100</wrap>the influence of the science can affect different spheres of identity within the Divine Life. <wrap hide>162|00:21:16|300|00:21:21|260</wrap>It can affect the individual, the smaller group; it can also affect humanity as a whole; <wrap hide>163|00:21:21|360|00:21:27|300</wrap>it can affect the planet. And perhaps different rulerships can be found when the different <wrap hide>164|00:21:27|300|00:21:34|860</wrap>signs relate to wholes of different sizes. Well, that's a speculative thought, but it <wrap hide>165|00:21:34|860|00:21:39|900</wrap>seems to be borne out here. The final stages on the path of discipleship, let's say third <wrap hide>166|00:21:39|900|00:21:55|940</wrap>degree, fourth degree, is when we're particularly speaking of this, because at that time, at <wrap hide>167|00:21:55|940|00:22:07|440</wrap>first disciple, and even as initiate, begins to coordinate the Buddhic vehicle. The coordination <wrap hide>168|00:22:07|440|00:22:10|960</wrap>of the Buddhic vehicle. Sometimes it seems that it's happening around the second degree, <wrap hide>169|00:22:10|960|00:22:18|300</wrap>but more actually the man becomes intuitive after the third degree. <wrap quote>Today humanity is moving <wrap hide>170|00:22:18|300|00:22:23|080</wrap>rapidly towards the position of the World Disciple,</wrap> Not quite there yet, <wrap hide>171|00:22:23|080|00:22:28|280</wrap>but sometimes D.K. even does refer to humanity as the world disciple, <wrap quote>and intuiting this, <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|400|00:00:15|760</wrap>he suggests Neptune as an alternative to Jupiter.</wrap> So great discoveries, and of course <wrap hide>173|00:22:35|360|00:22:38|880</wrap>when the discovery is known for what it is, it's even better, but it's a good thing that <wrap hide>174|00:22:38|880|00:22:44|600</wrap>it did happen. In other words, we seem to be owing to Alan Leo the idea. Entertained by <wrap hide>175|00:22:44|600|00:22:49|960</wrap>so many people when they are Piscean or have some strong Pisces in the chart that Neptune <wrap hide>176|00:22:49|960|00:22:58|260</wrap>really has to be considered. So what we have to think of is the various stages of Neptunian <wrap hide>177|00:22:58|260|00:23:05|620</wrap>humanity. On a lower turn of the spiral, it seems like humanity is much subjected to the <wrap hide>178|00:23:05|620|00:23:13|100</wrap>drug culture during the 20th century, and drugs as a means of producing illusion and escape <wrap hide>179|00:23:13|100|00:23:20|520</wrap>have become pervasive. That is a Neptunian factor, and we can say, well, humanity is searching <wrap hide>180|00:23:20|520|00:23:25|200</wrap>for a higher type of consciousness through these drug experiences, either that or for <wrap hide>181|00:23:25|200|00:23:31|980</wrap>escape, but there is some motivation, subconscious motivation, to find something higher, and Neptune, <wrap hide>182|00:23:33|060|00:23:39|180</wrap>which is not a planet with great roots at all, does seem to lift human consciousness <wrap hide>183|00:23:39|180|00:23:49|860</wrap>into that which is higher. Okay, so Neptune and the group called humanity ruling in relation <wrap hide>184|00:23:49|860|00:23:54|780</wrap>to Pisces, the group called humanity, but also capable of being applied to the individual <wrap hide>185|00:23:54|780|00:24:09|160</wrap>disciple in various ways, low and high, and especially towards the later stages of the <wrap hide>186|00:24:09|160|00:24:15|900</wrap>cycle. <wrap quote>Esoterically, the reason that Venus is exalted in Pisces is connected with the <wrap hide>187|00:24:15|900|00:24:22|100</wrap>relation of Pisces to the sign Gemini,</wrap> We had talked about that earlier, showing there <wrap hide>188|00:24:22|100|00:24:27|960</wrap>are many similarities here. Venus, the esoteric ruler of Gemini, and Venus, the exalted ruler <wrap hide>189|00:24:27|960|00:24:34|040</wrap>of Pisces, <wrap quote>of which Venus is the esoteric ruler, and also in relation to the fact that Venus <wrap hide>190|00:24:34|040|00:24:43|800</wrap>is the Earth's //alter ego// and is closely related to the human kingdom.</wrap> Well, Pisces is the conclusion, <wrap hide>191|00:24:43|800|00:24:52|820</wrap>and Venus represents the end of the solar angelic project. Let's just say Venus and <wrap hide>192|00:24:52|820|00:25:05|780</wrap>the climax of the solar angelic project, meaning that the solar angels have taken—have helped <wrap hide>193|00:25:05|780|00:25:10|440</wrap>with the individualization of man. There are other methods of individualizing, but in this <wrap hide>194|00:25:10|810|00:25:16|240</wrap>on our planet now in the solar system, the method of divine intervention for individualization <wrap hide>195|00:25:16|240|00:25:25|180</wrap>under the sponsorship of Venus is used, and they have intervened and stayed with the developing <wrap hide>196|00:25:25|180|00:25:30|460</wrap>human being, and finally when the human being is in a way exalted at the fourth initiation, <wrap hide>197|00:25:31|840|00:25:39|580</wrap>their task is finished. So we're looking here: Pisces and the fourth initiation and the <wrap hide>198|00:25:39|580|00:25:49|580</wrap>conclusion of the task of the solar angels. So the human being is exalted out of the fourth <wrap hide>199|00:25:49|580|00:25:57|820</wrap>kingdom... well, let's see... exalted out of the need to incarnate. So the human being is exalted out <wrap hide>200|00:25:58|680|00:26:07|460</wrap>of the need to incarnate, and the solar angels can, as it were, go home to the heart of the Sun or to <wrap hide>201|00:26:07|460|00:26:17|520</wrap>the central spiritual Sun—either one. So the two brothers are related: soul and personality. It all <wrap hide>202|00:26:17|520|00:26:22|600</wrap>comes to a climax of the fourth degree, and the fourth degree can easily be taken in relation to <wrap hide>203|00:26:22|600|00:26:29|540</wrap>Pisces when a great renunciation takes place. Pisces, as we know, is a sign of sacrifice, and <wrap hide>204|00:26:29|540|00:26:35|720</wrap>in the renunciation we have discussed that. So the greatest of renunciations in terms of the human <wrap hide>205|00:26:35|720|00:26:44|620</wrap>family is called the fourth initiation: crucifixion, great renunciation. And Venus—the human being is <wrap hide>206|00:26:44|620|00:26:51|040</wrap>exalted to a very high level. It has become Venusian in its nature, and therefore the Venusian solar angels <wrap hide>207|00:26:51|040|00:27:02|200</wrap>can return to later be out-breathed in groups to become planetary Logos. So I've hinted a little bit <wrap hide>208|00:27:02|200|00:27:07|680</wrap>at the vastness of the subject, but D.K. tells us <wrap quote>This subject is too vast and complicated to be <wrap hide>209|00:27:07|680|00:27:14|280</wrap>elaborated here, but the point should be remembered.</wrap> We are all trying to become like Venus. We are <wrap hide>210|00:27:14|280|00:27:20|720</wrap>Earth trying to become like Venus, and the Logos of Earth itself is trying to become more like its <wrap hide>211|00:27:21|580|00:27:29|360</wrap>let us say twin sister, Venus. Venus in a female incarnation and Earth in a male incarnation at <wrap hide>212|00:27:29|360|00:27:35|540</wrap>this point—and how that varies and alternates, you know, that's all part of the planetary lore. <wrap hide>213|00:27:36|120|00:27:40|560</wrap>But he tells us we're in a masculine incarnation here on the Earth and Venus in a feminine <wrap hide>214|00:27:40|560|00:27:47|780</wrap>incarnation for that, and that implies, of course, that we could here on Earth be in a feminine <wrap hide>215|00:27:47|780|00:27:53|160</wrap>incarnation and Venus could be in a male incarnation. But for the moment, the feminine power is extremely <wrap hide>216|00:27:53|160|00:27:58|880</wrap>important in relating us to Venus, and Venus is stimulating the higher part of the feminine power. <wrap hide>217|00:27:58|880|00:28:07|660</wrap>And the new age in which the soul will move towards its exaltation is very much under <wrap hide>218|00:28:07|660|00:28:15|240</wrap>the sway of the feminine and Venus—the divine feminine, not necessarily, you know, all the kind <wrap hide>219|00:28:15|240|00:28:22|500</wrap>of ancient goddess lore that we have, much of which probably was pretty retrogressive in Atlantean <wrap hide>220|00:28:22|500|00:28:28|440</wrap>times, a time of a great matriarchy. So we have a vast and complicated subject to be elaborated <wrap hide>221|00:28:28|440|00:28:39|520</wrap>here, but we must remember the point. Okay, the fishes—what is the point? Okay, that the reason <wrap hide>222|00:28:39|520|00:28:45|720</wrap>for the exaltation of Venus in Pisces is related to the sign Gemini. It's kind of as if <wrap hide>223|00:28:45|720|00:28:55|820</wrap>Pisces completes the Geminian project. Pisces completes the Geminian <wrap hide>224|00:28:55|820|00:29:06|860</wrap>project with respect to man. The elder brother, Pollux, becomes glorious and is exalted over the <wrap hide>225|00:29:06|860|00:29:15|660</wrap>lower brother who is shining by reflected light and is also redeemed, and the solar angels have <wrap hide>226|00:29:15|660|00:29:24|540</wrap>completed their very laborious work involving great abnegation, self-abnegation, and self-sacrifice, <wrap hide>227|00:29:24|540|00:29:31|920</wrap>which Pisces suggests. So think of it, you know, that the great second cosmic decanate ruled by <wrap hide>228|00:29:31|920|00:29:38|660</wrap>Pisces and the great second ray which rules that decanate and Venus with its ultimately second <wrap hide>229|00:29:38|660|00:29:46|420</wrap>ray monad exalted in this second ray sign, indicating the conclusion of the redemptive <wrap hide>230|00:29:46|420|00:29:53|820</wrap>project which has lifted man from the animal state all the way into being a full member of <wrap hide>231|00:29:53|820|00:30:02|340</wrap>the fifth kingdom of nature, which reflects the fifth creative hierarchy which is ruled by Venus. <wrap hide>232|00:30:03|340|00:30:08|500</wrap>Well, we can see, you know, it's the vast, complicated subject. Just about the whole Secret Doctrine is <wrap hide>233|00:30:08|500|00:30:14|100</wrap>dedicated, or a major portion of the Secret Doctrine is dedicated to this mystery, and D.K. has <wrap hide>234|00:30:14|100|00:30:19|320</wrap>assured us over and again that we will not solve the mystery of the solar angel, but we get the <wrap hide>235|00:30:19|320|00:30:25|260</wrap>hints here and there, and we begin to piece it together, and gradually a broader picture of what <wrap hide>236|00:30:25|260|00:30:30|700</wrap>it really means to be a redeemed human being moving towards Venus, moving towards the heart of <wrap hide>237|00:30:30|700|00:30:38|720</wrap>the Sun, moving towards Sirius begins to dawn on us. <wrap quote>The Fishes in Pisces are bound together, as we <wrap hide>238|00:30:38|720|00:30:45|460</wrap>have seen,</wrap>—remember, under Jupiter—<wrap quote>and this is a symbol of the captivity of the soul in form,</wrap> in <wrap hide>239|00:30:45|460|00:30:51|960</wrap>other words, consciousness simply remains conscious of form and forgets what it itself is. There is no <wrap hide>240|00:30:51|960|00:31:00|460</wrap>such thing as consciousness of consciousness at this stage, and everything looks objective. So this <wrap hide>241|00:31:00|460|00:31:05|860</wrap>binding of the fishes is the symbol of the captivity of the soul in form <wrap quote>prior to the <wrap hide>242|00:31:05|860|00:31:11|680</wrap>experience upon the Fixed Cross.</wrap> in which on which cross the soul comes into its own and is release— <wrap hide>243|00:31:11|680|00:31:22|620</wrap>the soul comes into its own and is released from captivity to form. In other words, our perceptual <wrap hide>244|00:31:22|620|00:31:28|260</wrap>range greatly expands and the soul is no longer strictly outgoing, looking only at objects, but <wrap hide>245|00:31:28|260|00:31:34|680</wrap>begins to realize that it itself is the perceiver. And this is the true reflexive consciousness where <wrap hide>246|00:31:34|680|00:31:43|480</wrap>the soul can begin to perceive itself. <wrap quote>The Twins in Gemini are symbols of the same basic duality,</wrap>— <wrap hide>247|00:31:43|480|00:31:52|000</wrap>soul and personality—<wrap quote>but the experience of the many changing incarnations</wrap>... you know that when you <wrap hide>248|00:31:52|000|00:31:57|320</wrap>say "let instability do its work" in Gemini, it's the sign of great change. <wrap quote>but the experience of the many <wrap hide>249|00:31:57|320|00:32:03|940</wrap>changing incarnations has done its work, and the Band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of <wrap hide>250|00:32:03|940|00:32:13|720</wrap>dissolution,</wrap> and this is important during a particular stage, so to produce the freer soul. <wrap hide>251|00:32:13|980|00:32:21|160</wrap>Now eventually that bondage comes back in under Pisces. It's like a process from bondage in Pisces <wrap hide>252|00:32:21|160|00:32:27|640</wrap>to the dissolution of the bond during the stage of free determination and the full expression of <wrap hide>253|00:32:27|640|00:32:35|440</wrap>humanhood, and back into a type of bondage in later Pisces where the form is captive to the <wrap hide>254|00:32:35|440|00:32:44|300</wrap>soul. The experience of many changing incarnations has done its work on the band, which <wrap hide>255|00:32:44|300|00:32:50|340</wrap>is a constellation related to Pisces. <wrap quote>the Band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of dissolution,</wrap>— <wrap hide>256|00:32:50|340|00:32:56|400</wrap>that's Neptune again, isn't it? Dissolving the band, or Pluto cutting the band later, to produce the <wrap hide>257|00:32:56|400|00:33:02|860</wrap>freer soul. <wrap quote>for part of the work of Pluto is</wrap>—and here is one of those great mantric phrases—<wrap quote>to "cut <wrap hide>258|00:33:02|860|00:33:09|860</wrap>the thread which binds the two opposing lives together.”</wrap> I have a song about that—not a cheerful <wrap hide>259|00:33:09|860|00:33:20|760</wrap>song necessarily, but it is a song—and it is about the Lord of death cutting the bond. And it can do <wrap hide>260|00:33:20|760|00:33:26|360</wrap>this if you think about Pluto in relation to Gemini or Pluto in the third house. The opportunity <wrap hide>261|00:33:26|360|00:33:33|120</wrap>for cutting the band between the two is strong. Now hopefully the personality is sufficiently <wrap hide>262|00:33:33|120|00:33:42|160</wrap>free-willed and properly oriented so that it will not go off on its own in a negative tendency, <wrap hide>263|00:33:42|940|00:33:49|400</wrap>because it has to have its own free will associate itself with the soul. So Pluto is the shears—the <wrap hide>264|00:33:49|400|00:33:57|140</wrap>sharp shears of sorrow. Death is so often for so many a sorrowful experience because it's experience <wrap hide>265|00:33:57|140|00:34:04|540</wrap>of loss. Pluto is connected with the whole idea of relinquishment and leaving behind that which <wrap hide>266|00:34:04|540|00:34:12|320</wrap>one was previously attached, and oftentimes the process is a forced process—forced sacrifice. <wrap hide>267|00:34:12|320|00:34:16|680</wrap>We can often say—you can think about Pluto in relation to the third petal of the Egoic Lotus— <wrap hide>268|00:34:16|680|00:34:23|960</wrap>where so often sacrifices are enforced in an unconscious manner. A person is just put through <wrap hide>269|00:34:23|960|00:34:30|240</wrap>it and made to give up life and well-being and many of the attachments for something higher, <wrap hide>270|00:34:30|240|00:34:46|660</wrap>and they don't even know really what it is. Okay, it is the task of Venus to reunite the— <wrap hide>271|00:34:46|660|00:34:54|560</wrap>see, the power to produce relationship between the two, but not compulsion. So there's a voluntary <wrap hide>272|00:34:54|560|00:35:02|220</wrap>cooperation between the twins. For a long time, the higher of the brothers has cooperated, wanting <wrap hide>273|00:35:02|220|00:35:06|420</wrap>to help the lower brother, and the lower brother didn't know anything about it. Then the lower <wrap hide>274|00:35:06|420|00:35:12|040</wrap>brother gets reoriented and is no longer compelled by the soul but chooses of its own free will—in <wrap hide>275|00:35:12|040|00:35:17|660</wrap>accord—remember how Gemini has that factor of free choice in it—chooses of its own free will <wrap hide>276|00:35:17|660|00:35:24|480</wrap>and accord to abide by the newly sensed direction and communication of the soul. <wrap quote>It is the task of <wrap hide>277|00:35:24|480|00:35:32|000</wrap>Venus to “reunite the severed lives but with no binding thread.” Therefore, Venus is exalted in <wrap hide>278|00:35:32|000|00:35:39|840</wrap>Pisces</wrap> because Venus is related to both Gemini and Pisces, has a very high position in Pisces, <wrap hide>279|00:35:39|840|00:35:50|580</wrap>and there is a uniting of the two. But we can say that the personality isn't in <wrap hide>280|00:35:50|580|00:35:56|000</wrap>involuntary bondage to the soul. In other words, the personality has become so oriented to the <wrap hide>281|00:35:56|000|00:36:03|380</wrap>soul that to do God's will—"not my will but thine be done"—in Pisces is its expressed wish and <wrap hide>282|00:36:03|380|00:36:13|340</wrap>intention. The soul is not compelling, so the personality is in self-chosen bondage to the <wrap hide>283|00:36:13|340|00:36:18|660</wrap>soul. Look at the bondage that Sanat Kumara is in in relation to our planet—that is certainly <wrap hide>284|00:36:18|660|00:36:26|080</wrap>self-chosen. So this is a very important idea. Yes, there is bondage two ways. At first, the soul's <wrap hide>285|00:36:26|080|00:36:33|480</wrap>bondage to the personality, and the consciousness is very constrained and very preoccupied with <wrap hide>286|00:36:33|480|00:36:39|980</wrap>non-reality. But later, there is another type of bondage which is based on freedom, and it is the <wrap hide>287|00:36:39|980|00:36:46|640</wrap>choice of the personality influenced by the soul to bind itself to the soul of its own free will. <wrap hide>288|00:36:46|640|00:36:55|580</wrap>And thereby, when that act of freedom is well established, then Venus, the solar angels represented <wrap hide>289|00:36:55|580|00:37:01|480</wrap>by Venus, can return and take on another task because the domestication and the elevation of <wrap hide>290|00:37:01|480|00:37:08|900</wrap>the human being have been accomplished. <wrap quote>Therefore, Venus is exalted in Pisces and at the end of the <wrap hide>291|00:37:08|900|00:37:17|820</wrap>greater cycle,</wrap> Now, you know the greater cycle. What is that? So much blinding is going on with the name <wrap hide>292|00:37:17|820|00:37:29|140</wrap>these cycles, but I would tend to say that one possibility is the end of the solar Logoic <wrap hide>293|00:37:29|140|00:37:36|360</wrap>manifestation. So the end of the solar Logoic manifestation, the end of the solar system, that <wrap hide>294|00:37:36|360|00:37:44|130</wrap>can be considered certainly a greater cycle, a Maha manvantara. And all of these planets which <wrap hide>295|00:37:44|130|00:37:51|610</wrap>represent chakras within the solar Logos' field of expression will have a particular kind of <wrap hide>296|00:37:51|610|00:38:00|310</wrap>position and function at the end of the Maha manvantara cycle. Right now, particular planets <wrap hide>297|00:38:00|310|00:38:05|690</wrap>may be occupying the place of various chakras and have certain functions, and those functions <wrap hide>298|00:38:05|690|00:38:12|730</wrap>can change, just the way, you know, the Christ is an office. Lord Maitreya is in that office now, but <wrap hide>299|00:38:12|730|00:38:17|130</wrap>his function can change as he moves into a new office and Master Kurumi can take over his <wrap hide>300|00:38:17|130|00:38:22|390</wrap>function. And so, let's just say that Christ represents a certain chakra with respect to <wrap hide>301|00:38:22|390|00:38:29|690</wrap>humanity. When his task of world saviorship is completed after 5,000 years, another 2,500 years <wrap hide>302|00:38:29|690|00:38:36|610</wrap>or so, then Master Kurumi will move into that function and represent that chakra function. So <wrap hide>303|00:38:36|610|00:38:48|610</wrap>there is mutability among the actual entities with respect to their chakra function. I have said, okay, <wrap hide>304|00:38:48|610|00:38:54|870</wrap>well, Jupiter is presently, I think, a very strong heart center with respect to the solar Logos, but <wrap hide>305|00:38:54|870|00:39:02|210</wrap>perhaps Venus will move into that position from its present, possibly solar—it's solar plexus <wrap hide>306|00:39:02|210|00:39:08|670</wrap>chakra expression—and maybe Jupiter will move up towards the heart of the Sun, and so forth. So <wrap hide>307|00:39:09|570|00:39:17|570</wrap>entities change function, and chakras are functions. Okay, it is the task of Venus to reunite the <wrap hide>308|00:39:17|570|00:39:22|610</wrap>severed lives, but with no binding thread. By the time we get into Pisces, the severed lives are <wrap hide>309|00:39:22|610|00:39:30|270</wrap>indeed reunited, and the personality is captive to the soul, but it's a voluntary captivity. And <wrap hide>310|00:39:30|270|00:39:41|670</wrap>that is so very important. I'm going to put that down: it's a voluntary captivity, captivity to the <wrap hide>311|00:39:41|670|00:39:52|950</wrap>soul or solar angel. <wrap quote>the Sons of God who are the Sons of Mind are raised up into glory</wrap> and that <wrap hide>312|00:39:52|950|00:39:56|370</wrap>can go either way. The solar angels return to the glory of the heart of the Sun, of the central <wrap hide>313|00:39:56|370|00:40:02|450</wrap>spiritual Sun, and that which has been man in the lower worlds is raised up into a state of <wrap hide>314|00:40:02|450|00:40:07|910</wrap>glorification into the spiritual triad through that kind of supernova that occurs with respect <wrap hide>315|00:40:07|910|00:40:14|170</wrap>to the egoic lotus. <wrap quote>the Sons of God who are the Sons of Mind are raised up into glory through <wrap hide>316|00:40:14|170|00:40:20|310</wrap>experience</wrap>—that's the earth again—<wrap quote>and crucifixion</wrap>—that's platonic—<wrap quote>because they have learned to love <wrap hide>317|00:40:20|310|00:40:31|890</wrap>and truly reason.</wrap> Truly reason. Wow, this is buddhic terminology. This is buddhic terminology, and love <wrap hide>318|00:40:31|890|00:40:38|590</wrap>and true reason—pure reason has a lot to do with Venus, of course. Venus is a planet which is <wrap hide>319|00:40:38|590|00:40:44|570</wrap>increasingly buddhic at this time, more so than the earth, much more so, and is focused on the sixth <wrap hide>320|00:40:44|570|00:40:53|250</wrap>from the low sub-plane of the astral plane, which is buddhic. So we are given a love and pure reason <wrap hide>321|00:40:53|250|00:40:58|810</wrap>by the solar angels. They certainly have—being Lords of Manus from before—they certainly have <wrap hide>322|00:40:58|810|00:41:05|650</wrap>this pure reason, this buddhic quality, and they have the great faculty of love. They have a kind <wrap hide>323|00:41:05|650|00:41:11|070</wrap>of a second ray and fifth ray combination, or even you might call it a secondary fourth ray and fifth <wrap hide>324|00:41:11|070|00:41:17|830</wrap>ray combination. So we will be glorified at the fourth initiation, and the returning solar <wrap hide>325|00:41:17|830|00:41:23|650</wrap>angels will be glorified within the solar Logos, assuming a new function which will lead them in <wrap hide>326|00:41:23|650|00:41:30|530</wrap>groups to become planetary Logos. The influence of Pisces, Gemini, and Virgo is eventually fused and <wrap hide>327|00:41:30|530|00:41:36|830</wrap>blended. Well, in Pisces, exaltation of Venus; and Gemini, esoteric rulership; in Virgo, the fall of <wrap hide>328|00:41:36|830|00:41:43|950</wrap>the solar angels down into matter for redemptive purposes. And interesting there. Now, these are the <wrap hide>329|00:41:43|950|00:41:53|510</wrap>three second ray signs, aren't they? The three second ray signs. You know, three... three signs. <wrap hide>330|00:41:53|510|00:41:58|950</wrap>each, or constellations, convey a particular ray, and these are the ones conveying the second ray. <wrap hide>331|00:41:58|950|00:42:05|550</wrap>The influence of Pisces, Gemini, and Virgo is eventually fused and blended. Symbolically, the <wrap hide>332|00:42:05|550|00:42:11|750</wrap>cross must always become the line, and the line interestingly is Sagittarius, and <wrap hide>333|00:42:11|750|00:42:20|190</wrap>then the point. Sagittarius is very much about a line directed towards a point. So the three of <wrap hide>334|00:42:20|190|00:42:28|970</wrap>these: the material condition in Virgo, and matter is reigning—let matter reign—the discovery of the <wrap hide>335|00:42:28|970|00:42:34|990</wrap>pairs of opposites in Gemini, and the redemption of the lower of the pairs of opposites through <wrap hide>336|00:42:34|990|00:42:41|810</wrap>the Piscean influence—all of this is consummated. This is the whole story of man going into matter <wrap hide>337|00:42:41|810|00:42:48|210</wrap>as a human being and rising out of matter in the exaltation of Venus and Pisces as a full member <wrap hide>338|00:42:48|210|00:42:55|390</wrap>of the kingdom of God, the fifth kingdom. <wrap quote>The influence of Pisces, Gemini and Virgo is eventually <wrap hide>339|00:42:55|390|00:43:02|850</wrap>fused and blended (symbolically the Cross must always become the line and then the point).</wrap> Well, <wrap hide>340|00:43:02|850|00:43:08|690</wrap>one wonders about the mode of becoming the line, but one can certainly see that everything comes <wrap hide>341|00:43:08|690|00:43:15|850</wrap>inward to the point. Perhaps one axis—perhaps the two axes of the cross have to somehow <wrap hide>342|00:43:15|850|00:43:25|470</wrap>merge, and then the poles of the merged axes must come in toward the point. Well, anyway, the cross, in <wrap hide>343|00:43:25|470|00:43:30|910</wrap>my view, as well becomes the pyramid. You know, if you look at a cross and you raise that central <wrap hide>344|00:43:30|910|00:43:38|090</wrap>point into another dimension, then you have, in fact, the pyramid. The influence of Pisces, Gemini, <wrap hide>345|00:43:38|090|00:43:42|690</wrap>and Virgo is eventually fused and blended. Symbolically, the cross must always become <wrap hide>346|00:43:42|690|00:43:48|890</wrap>the line and then the point. <wrap quote>Sagittarius, which is governed esoterically by Mother Earth,</wrap>—and <wrap hide>347|00:43:48|890|00:43:54|110</wrap>remember, governing means a bit like a reducing valve. You know, not all of Sagittarius can get <wrap hide>348|00:43:54|110|00:44:00|850</wrap>through any planet or through Mother Earth, so it governs the degree to which the constellation <wrap hide>349|00:44:00|850|00:44:14|230</wrap>or energy can flow. A ruler or governor governs or rules the extent or degree to which full <wrap hide>350|00:44:15|570|00:44:32|830</wrap>constellational energy can flow. That's "govern" or "governor." A ruler or governor is that correct? <wrap hide>351|00:44:32|830|00:44:38|610</wrap>Governs or rules the extent to which a full constellation energy can flow. <wrap quote>Sagittarius, <wrap hide>352|00:44:38|610|00:44:47|790</wrap>which is governed esoterically by Mother Earth, produces those conditions</wrap>—these <wrap hide>353|00:44:47|790|00:44:55|290</wrap>are conditions on Earth <wrap quote>whereby the Path itself</wrap> which is the man—the man is the path and the <wrap hide>354|00:44:55|290|00:45:01|430</wrap>energy stream which leads to higher dimensions—<wrap quote>the Path itself achieves glorification.</wrap> You can <wrap hide>355|00:45:01|430|00:45:10|250</wrap>sort of witness or understand a path becoming ever brighter and more radiant and <wrap hide>356|00:45:10|250|00:45:20|270</wrap>rising into the higher dimensions. The path itself achieves glorification, so there is a radiance <wrap hide>357|00:45:20|270|00:45:26|310</wrap>which is conferred upon the path—of the path becoming radiant—and as the individual or group <wrap hide>358|00:45:26|310|00:45:33|450</wrap>treads that path, they become identified with the light at the end of the path. <wrap quote>Consequently, you have <wrap hide>359|00:45:33|450|00:45:43|150</wrap>at the end of the age (I refer here to a greater round of the zodiac and to no shorter cycle),</wrap>—round of <wrap hide>360|00:45:43|150|00:45:49|430</wrap>the zodiac. Does that mean, in a way, one complete revolution of the zodiac? Some have thought that <wrap hide>361|00:45:49|430|00:45:59|170</wrap>zodiac does revolve. Does this mean one complete revolution of the zodiac? It certainly is not <wrap hide>362|00:45:59|170|00:46:07|170</wrap>anything like a Platonic age, as long as that age may last. It's not anything like 25,000 to 26,000 <wrap hide>363|00:46:07|170|00:46:16|330</wrap>years. The greater round of the zodiac and no shorter cycle: <wrap quote>the glorification of Venus, of Virgo, <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|400|00:00:15|760</wrap>the Virgin, and of Mother Earth—two planets and one constellation—<wrap hide>365|00:46:24|070|00:46:32|330</wrap>and all these are potencies which produce definite changes in the solar system.</wrap> So a greater round of <wrap hide>366|00:46:32|330|00:46:41|010</wrap>the zodiac is probably still inter-systemic. A greater round of the zodiac is probably still <wrap hide>367|00:46:42|610|00:46:51|230</wrap>within the manifestation of our solar system. So, you know, how long really does that require <wrap hide>368|00:46:51|230|00:46:58|490</wrap>when we have our solar system and associated solar systems revolving around the <wrap hide>369|00:46:58|490|00:47:04|370</wrap>Pleiades? They have to pass necessarily through each of the signs of the zodiac. It takes <wrap hide>370|00:47:04|370|00:47:10|930</wrap>250,000 years, but I don't think even that is long enough for what D.K. means by the greater round <wrap hide>371|00:47:10|930|00:47:17|970</wrap>of the zodiac. It seems to be a climactic point within the solar system itself. Consequently, you <wrap hide>372|00:47:17|970|00:47:23|250</wrap>have at the end of the age—I refer here to a greater round of the zodiac. Maybe it's not just <wrap hide>373|00:47:23|250|00:47:28|450</wrap>one; there's more than one, because the article "a" is used. I refer here to a greater round of the <wrap hide>374|00:47:28|450|00:47:35|150</wrap>zodiac and to no shorter cycle: the glorification of Venus in solar systemic terms, of Virgo the <wrap hide>375|00:47:35|150|00:47:40|170</wrap>Virgin—because the matter within the solar system will be redeemed and spiritualized—and of Mother <wrap hide>376|00:47:40|170|00:47:46|710</wrap>Earth, which will have become a sacred planet now when Mother Earth is glorified, has it achieved <wrap hide>377|00:47:46|710|00:47:56|310</wrap>its what, third or maybe fourth cosmic initiation? So they can truly function as a Kundalini <wrap hide>378|00:47:56|310|00:48:02|330</wrap>factor in our solar system. Anyway, certainly it is a stage of sacredness for Mother Earth and maybe <wrap hide>379|00:48:02|330|00:48:11|570</wrap>beyond the glorification of Venus. Venus is almost at the point where it is to be released. Venus may <wrap hide>380|00:48:11|570|00:48:19|110</wrap>be undergoing it ahead of it. May, like other sacred planets, may lie the second cosmic initiation, but <wrap hide>381|00:48:19|110|00:48:26|550</wrap>others are coming. So a very high states for Venus and the Earth, though Venus ahead of Earth, and <wrap hide>382|00:48:26|550|00:48:33|090</wrap>Virgo will represent not the matter in all the cosmos, but the matter in the solar system itself. <wrap hide>383|00:48:33|090|00:48:39|910</wrap>We might call it the assumption of the Virgin or the etherealization of matter from the previous <wrap hide>384|00:48:39|910|00:48:45|550</wrap>solar system, which is now in our solar system, the etherealization and upliftment of that matter. So <wrap hide>385|00:48:45|550|00:48:51|150</wrap>we have a much more etheric solar system, and all of this will happen at some point within our <wrap hide>386|00:48:53|030|00:49:01|570</wrap>solar systemic cycle, and we call it the end of a greater round of the zodiac. Obviously, <wrap hide>387|00:49:01|570|00:49:06|690</wrap>there are many things there to be discerned, and D.K. is just hinting, and we cannot know the length <wrap hide>388|00:49:06|690|00:49:13|290</wrap>of these cycles through the exact time. But suffice it to say, the stage of sacredness is coming for <wrap hide>389|00:49:13|290|00:49:17|930</wrap>our Earth, a kind of glorification. Our Earth will probably reach the fourth or fifth cosmic <wrap hide>390|00:49:17|930|00:49:25|310</wrap>initiation in this solar system. Venus will almost certainly reach the fifth cosmic initiation in <wrap hide>391|00:49:25|310|00:49:33|550</wrap>this solar system, and just as the solar Logos may well do either the fourth or the fifth, but <wrap hide>392|00:49:33|550|00:49:39|410</wrap>maybe the fifth. And Virgo, who knows what that great constellation will reach in terms of its <wrap hide>393|00:49:39|410|00:49:47|070</wrap>initiatory process? But at least with respect to the matter of our solar system, it will be glorified. <wrap hide>394|00:49:47|070|00:49:52|750</wrap>And since we're in a second-ray solar system whose theme is the great radiation of light, you <wrap hide>395|00:49:52|750|00:49:59|490</wrap>know, the great splendid radiation of light, there will be a glorification of matter in our solar <wrap hide>396|00:49:59|490|00:50:05|490</wrap>system. They represent these three: two planets and one constellation. <wrap quote>They represent the three <wrap hide>397|00:50:05|490|00:50:14|810</wrap>divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of Sagittarius <wrap hide>398|00:50:14|810|00:50:21|430</wrap>driving them on to a still greater consummation.</wrap> Well, which three are we talking about? Because we have <wrap hide>399|00:50:21|430|00:50:29|730</wrap>had the discussion of three signs which are Gemini, Virgo, and Pisces, and we could add to that another <wrap hide>400|00:50:29|730|00:50:39|870</wrap>sign. Or we've just had the discussion of three factors: Venus, Virgo, and Earth. <wrap quote>They represent the <wrap hide>401|00:50:39|870|00:50:47|950</wrap>three divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of Sagittarius driving them on to <wrap hide>402|00:50:47|950|00:50:54|690</wrap>a still greater consummation.</wrap> We see that Sagittarius is a driving, one-pointed sign, and it is a fire <wrap hide>403|00:50:54|690|00:51:03|570</wrap>sign. So do we have Venus, Virgo, and Sagittarius being driven on by... Venus, Virgo, and Mother Earth <wrap hide>404|00:51:03|570|00:51:10|090</wrap>being driven on by Sagittarius? Probably. <wrap quote>There is a wide and interesting field of research to be <wrap hide>405|00:51:10|090|00:51:17|810</wrap>found in the relation of</wrap> and let's see what those relations are: <wrap quote>1. The planet Venus—ruler of the <wrap hide>406|00:51:17|810|00:51:23|990</wrap>constellation Gemini.</wrap> esoterically; <wrap quote>2. The Earth on which we live, called often “Mother Earth.”</wrap> (interestingly <wrap hide>407|00:51:23|990|00:51:30|470</wrap>in a masculine incarnation, but probably called because of its third-ray fecundity in its <wrap hide>408|00:51:30|990|00:51:40|390</wrap>personality ray at least) Mother Earth; <wrap quote>3. The Fish-goddesses of the sign Pisces.</wrap> which have spawned <wrap hide>409|00:51:40|390|00:51:51|270</wrap>the descent of the monads or souls; and <wrap quote>4. Virgo, the Virgin.</wrap> Okay, he indicates how we may enter into <wrap hide>410|00:51:51|270|00:52:02|250</wrap>this wide field of speculation involving three... involving two planets and two signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>411|00:52:02|250|00:52:15|010</wrap>We are moving from Virgo towards Pisces, towards the consummation of matter and its spiritual <wrap hide>412|00:52:15|010|00:52:21|730</wrap>elevation. So just as in a way Virgo moves towards Pisces, or matter moves towards its release into a <wrap hide>413|00:52:21|730|00:52:33|810</wrap>higher dimension, so Mother Earth with its great plethora of forms moves towards Venus and towards <wrap hide>414|00:52:33|810|00:52:44|730</wrap>Gemini. So it moves toward becoming like its elder sister or elder brother, and we'll put Venus in that <wrap hide>415|00:52:44|730|00:52:51|630</wrap>role. So certainly Pisces is a sign of great consummation, and each one of the signs of the <wrap hide>416|00:52:51|630|00:52:58|230</wrap>zodiac has a different stage of evolution. We cannot think of them all as equally unfolded, <wrap hide>417|00:52:58|230|00:53:03|690</wrap>just as we cannot think of stars as equally unfolded, or planets as equally unfolded, or <wrap hide>418|00:53:03|690|00:53:10|030</wrap>of human beings as equally unfolded. So some play a dominating role in relation to others, and Pisces, <wrap hide>419|00:53:10|030|00:53:15|610</wrap>as a cosmic decanate and a sign of great consummation, is certainly playing one of the <wrap hide>420|00:53:15|610|00:53:24|930</wrap>final roles in relation to the signs of the zodiac, constellation of the zodiac, and in relation to our <wrap hide>421|00:53:24|930|00:53:36|750</wrap>solar system. All right, there are many factors there which we can begin to pursue. Okay, so we've <wrap hide>422|00:53:36|750|00:53:48|150</wrap>had here in the previous paragraph three constellations becoming as one and in a way driven <wrap hide>423|00:53:48|150|00:53:55|790</wrap>on by Sagittarius in a way, and we've also had here what looks like two planets and one constellation: <wrap hide>424|00:53:55|790|00:54:02|910</wrap>Venus, Earth and Virgo, as well possibly driven on by Sagittarius, which is a very purposeful energy <wrap hide>425|00:54:02|910|00:54:11|510</wrap>always with the goal in sight and involved in this case in that driving forward through space, <wrap hide>426|00:54:11|510|00:54:18|770</wrap>which is characteristic of the first ray. There are many mysteries there. I'd love to be able to ponder <wrap hide>427|00:54:18|770|00:54:25|150</wrap>on that for a long time, but then he does indicate that that's exactly what we should be able to do. <wrap hide>428|00:54:26|070|00:54:32|810</wrap>We are speaking of consummations. Pisces is the sign of consummation. We are speaking of ultimate <wrap hide>429|00:54:32|810|00:54:39|510</wrap>states and the driving towards ultimate states. Let's say that Sagittarius is the driving influence <wrap hide>430|00:54:39|510|00:54:46|410</wrap>and Pisces represents the ultimate state. With respect to Earth, Venus represents at least a <wrap hide>431|00:54:46|410|00:54:53|190</wrap>semi-ultimate state, or that which we are attempting to become. The fish goddesses we reviewed earlier— <wrap hide>432|00:54:53|190|00:54:59|690</wrap>they are releasing the individual souls. Perhaps they are even in a way releasing the monads as <wrap hide>433|00:54:59|690|00:55:07|910</wrap>they go forth into the sea of the five lower sub-planes. <wrap quote>Gemini and Sagittarius are connected <wrap hide>434|00:55:07|910|00:55:15|550</wrap>through their ruling planets (because the Earth is more closely related to Venus than to any other <wrap hide>435|00:55:15|550|00:55:20|850</wrap>planet)</wrap> All right, there are planetary pairs we know—you know, probably Mars and Pluto are such, <wrap hide>436|00:55:20|850|00:55:27|650</wrap>maybe Jupiter and Saturn are such, maybe Uranus and Neptune are such, and the Earth and Venus are <wrap hide>437|00:55:27|650|00:55:33|550</wrap>certainly closely related. Mercury and the Sun are one, although Mercury has a very close relationship <wrap hide>438|00:55:33|550|00:55:40|890</wrap>to Venus as well. Gemini and Sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets Earth, the <wrap hide>439|00:55:40|890|00:55:50|270</wrap>esoteric ruler of Sagittarius, or the hierarchical ruler of Gemini. Interestingly, this way: Earth, the <wrap hide>440|00:55:50|270|00:55:57|110</wrap>esoteric ruler of Sagittarius; Venus, the esoteric ruler of Gemini; and the connection between <wrap hide>441|00:55:57|110|00:56:03|730</wrap>Gemini and Sagittarius through the two ruling planets, not just through the fact that Earth is <wrap hide>442|00:56:03|730|00:56:09|910</wrap>involved with both of them. Perhaps by the time that Earth is hierarchically the ruler of Gemini, <wrap hide>443|00:56:09|910|00:56:18|210</wrap>it will be a lot more like Venus than it is now. <wrap quote>and thus again you have the six potencies which <wrap hide>444|00:56:18|210|00:56:26|730</wrap>produce release from the bondage of form, entered into in Cancer as far as the mass of humanity is <wrap hide>445|00:56:26|730|00:56:32|450</wrap>concerned (by this I mean the birth of the human kingdom) and in Pisces as far as the <wrap hide>446|00:56:32|450|00:56:39|290</wrap>individual is considered.</wrap> Well, that's what I have been quoting, this particular sentence. The—in <wrap hide>447|00:56:39|290|00:56:45|990</wrap>Cancer you enter into the bondage of form; the mass of humanity does that. But the individual enters <wrap hide>448|00:56:45|990|00:56:51|750</wrap>into the bondage of form in Pisces. That does seem to be what he is saying, so we have to watch that <wrap hide>449|00:56:51|750|00:57:03|750</wrap>first incarnation. The individual enters the bondage of form in Pisces, and the bondage of <wrap hide>450|00:57:03|750|00:57:11|170</wrap>form is the process of incarnation. So I am concluding that that first incarnation for <wrap hide>451|00:57:11|170|00:57:16|990</wrap>an individual human being has a lot to do with the sign Pisces. So we have been talking about <wrap hide>452|00:57:16|990|00:57:26|470</wrap>six potencies. There are various policies to look at. Certainly we've had the six potencies <wrap hide>453|00:57:26|470|00:57:34|230</wrap>of the six planets in relation to the later mutable cross, and they have been Jupiter, Mercury, <wrap hide>454|00:57:34|230|00:57:45|890</wrap>Venus, the Moon/Vulcan, Earth, and Pluto. But now let's see—does he seem to mean any other <wrap hide>455|00:57:47|250|00:57:56|130</wrap>potencies here? It is possible that we can be speaking of the entire mutable cross plus Venus <wrap hide>456|00:57:56|130|00:58:04|590</wrap>and the Earth—another six potencies. Are—okay, "entered into Cancer," etc. So one way of looking <wrap hide>457|00:58:04|590|00:58:12|930</wrap>at six potencies—one way of looking at six potencies is the six planets which are the <wrap hide>458|00:58:12|930|00:58:28|930</wrap>orthodox and esoteric rulers of the mutable cross. The other way is the four signs of the <wrap hide>459|00:58:28|930|00:58:38|790</wrap>mutable cross and Earth and Venus, and that may be what he is discussing here. They produce release <wrap hide>460|00:58:38|790|00:58:44|650</wrap>from the bondage of form. Okay, that bears further examination. <wrap hide>461|00:58:46|770|00:58:53|810</wrap>We have been considering, however, the factor of exaltation, and Venus definitely does seem to be <wrap hide>462|00:58:53|810|00:59:05|390</wrap>involved. All right, we have reached the point where we will now end this discussion. This is the—as it <wrap hide>463|00:59:05|390|00:59:16|450</wrap>at the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure Number 57, and we have gone maybe not very far— <wrap hide>464|00:59:17|190|00:59:24|670</wrap>oh, okay—up to 131. So we've gone from page 129 to 131. <wrap hide>465|00:59:27|030|00:59:29|710</wrap>And we will take this up with Esoteric Astrology <wrap hide>466|00:59:30|170|00:59:38|610</wrap>Adventure Number 58. And for now we will together do The Great Invocation together. <wrap hide>467|00:59:52|010|00:59:59|530</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of <wrap hide>468|00:59:59|530|01:00:08|730</wrap>men, let light descend on Earth from the point of love within the heart of God. <wrap hide>469|01:00:08|730|01:00:14|890</wrap>Let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>470|01:00:20|090|01:00:26|090</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, <wrap hide>471|01:00:26|670|01:00:29|450</wrap>the purpose which the Masters know and serve. <wrap hide>472|01:00:35|270|01:00:40|550</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, <wrap hide>473|01:00:40|550|01:00:43|530</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>474|01:00:47|270|01:00:53|310</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>475|01:00:56|470|01:00:57|870</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>476|01:01:05|450|01:01:06|850</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>477|01:01:26|310|01:01:32|970</wrap>Okay friends, thank you for your participation and your study, and as I've been, you know, <wrap hide>478|01:01:33|110|01:01:35|990</wrap>I was thinking about this during The Great Invocation that came to me. <wrap hide>479|01:01:37|630|01:01:49|210</wrap>We're talking about <wrap quote>you have the six potencies which produce release from the bondage <wrap hide>480|01:01:49|210|01:01:50|450</wrap>of form,</wrap> <wrap hide>481|01:01:51|090|01:01:56|630</wrap>Okay, I do believe that Pisces must be included among them, so we're looking at a sixfold list <wrap hide>482|01:01:56|630|01:01:58|710</wrap>which is not entirely that of the planets. <wrap hide>483|01:01:59|310|01:02:06|010</wrap>We have to include the Virgo Pisces, Gemini Sagittarius, Venus, and the Earth. <wrap hide>484|01:02:06|110|01:02:08|970</wrap>I believe those are the six potencies. <wrap hide>485|01:02:10|930|01:02:18|330</wrap>So here I made this, one of the ways of looking at the six potencies is the six planets which <wrap hide>486|01:02:18|330|01:02:22|270</wrap>are the Orthodox and the Estrature rules, but the other way is the four signs of the <wrap hide>487|01:02:22|270|01:02:31|710</wrap>Util Cross, Earth and Venus, and I think this is more likely the story of the release from <wrap hide>488|01:02:31|710|01:02:32|090</wrap>bondage. <wrap hide>489|01:02:36|610|01:02:41|990</wrap>Okay, just had to add that, maybe I'll mention it when we begin the next one. <wrap hide>490|01:02:42|430|01:02:48|250</wrap>Okay good, then that's that for the moment and hopefully all has worked out well and <wrap hide>491|01:02:48|250|01:02:55|770</wrap>we will see you in Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 58 beginning on page 131 and continuing <wrap hide>492|01:02:56|630|01:02:59|770</wrap>the discussion of the constellation or sign Pisces. <wrap hide>493|01:03:00|330|01:03:00|990</wrap>Okay, see you then.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|400|00:00:15|760</wrap>Hello everybody. We are beginning with Esoteric Astrology adventure number 57. We are approximately <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|760|00:00:25|680</wrap>on page 129 of the book Esoteric Astrology. We are working with the sign Pisces. Quite <wrap hide>3|00:00:25|680|00:00:35|380</wrap>an elaborate description. We are just about at 129. Just about there. So we have been <wrap hide>4|00:00:36|280|00:00:47|300</wrap>discussing preparation for the 12 great tests in 12 signs and that preparation occurring <wrap hide>5|00:00:48|080|00:01:01|880</wrap>upon the mutable cross and upon the fixed cross as well. Now we move on. Pisces governs <wrap hide>6|00:01:01|880|00:01:10|400</wrap>the feet Every sign of the zodiac, as we know, governs one of the parts of the body. The <wrap hide>7|00:01:10|400|00:01:16|520</wrap>areas of the head, the torso, the throat, the Gemini, the lungs and the hands, Cancer, <wrap hide>8|00:01:16|520|00:01:23|520</wrap>the stomach and the breasts, Leo the heart and the back, Virgo the small intestines, <wrap hide>9|00:01:25|080|00:01:35|460</wrap>Libra the kidneys, Scorpio the generative organs, Sagittarius the thighs, musculature <wrap hide>10|00:01:35|460|00:01:44|300</wrap>in general, Capricorn the knees and to an extent the skin, Aquarius the calves and the <wrap hide>11|00:01:44|300|00:01:51|980</wrap>circulatory system, Pisces the feet and the lymphatic system, and that of course can be <wrap hide>12|00:01:51|980|00:02:02|240</wrap>elaborated. Let's see. I don't want this to be too loud. That's about right. <wrap quote>Pisces <wrap hide>13|00:02:02|240|00:02:07|580</wrap>governs the feet and hence the whole thought of progress,</wrap> Go forth into matter. You know, <wrap hide>14|00:02:07|580|00:02:14|280</wrap>the very first sign in which the first individual incarnation is taken. <wrap quote>the whole thought of <wrap hide>15|00:02:14|280|00:02:22|440</wrap>progress, of attaining the goal,</wrap> Jupiter confers vision in Pisces and the treading of the Path <wrap hide>16|00:02:23|120|00:02:28|780</wrap>of Return. When the prodigal son awakens to himself, <wrap quote>and the treading of the Path of Return <wrap hide>17|00:02:29|400|00:02:38|100</wrap>has been the underlying spiritual revelation of the great cycle through which we are passing;</wrap> <wrap hide>18|00:02:39|080|00:02:45|320</wrap>Humanity is no longer on a strictly involutionary path. Humanity is about to become the world <wrap hide>19|00:02:45|320|00:02:52|320</wrap>disciple and in a sense is certainly already the world aspirant, and the more advanced members <wrap hide>20|00:02:52|320|00:02:59|340</wrap>of humanity certainly are awakening to their spiritual potentials and the fact that the <wrap hide>21|00:02:59|340|00:03:07|380</wrap>potential spiritual revelation has been obscured by the five senses and in general by that <wrap hide>22|00:03:07|380|00:03:13|860</wrap>which is not to be considered a principle, at least on our planet and in this solar system. <wrap hide>23|00:03:15|240|00:03:20|360</wrap>Pisces governs the feet and hence the whole thought of progress. Jupiter is always progressive, <wrap hide>24|00:03:20|540|00:03:28|540</wrap>Jupiter the main ruler, going from one ring past not, pushing it to the next and always <wrap hide>25|00:03:28|540|00:03:35|400</wrap>a wider and wider horizon from the perspective of Jupiter. Attaining the goal and the treading <wrap hide>26|00:03:35|400|00:03:43|320</wrap>of the path of return, the prodigal son awakens and realizes he is in a far country and in <wrap hide>27|00:03:43|320|00:03:51|140</wrap>a very disadvantaged position and treads then, begins to tread the path of return not only <wrap hide>28|00:03:51|140|00:03:58|460</wrap>back to the soul which has sent him forth but ultimately to the monad which he is and <wrap hide>29|00:03:58|460|00:04:05|120</wrap>from which he journeyed as the jiva or the divine pilgrim on the great pilgrimage through <wrap hide>30|00:04:05|120|00:04:11|820</wrap>five different planes down and up symbolically. <wrap quote>and the treading of the Path of Return has <wrap hide>31|00:04:11|820|00:04:18|040</wrap>been the underlying spiritual revelation of the great cycle through which we are passing;</wrap> <wrap hide>32|00:04:18|340|00:04:26|140</wrap>The D.K. is not specific about that particular cycle, but it does suggest that humanity in <wrap hide>33|00:04:26|760|00:04:34|360</wrap>a sense is reversing the wheel. Let's say humanity is reversing the wheel, and this certainly <wrap hide>34|00:04:34|360|00:04:44|300</wrap>must be the case since humanity is about to take the first initiation. Of course, naturally <wrap hide>35|00:04:44|300|00:04:49|540</wrap>not all of humanity, D.K. is very realistic about the figures there, but somehow sufficient <wrap hide>36|00:04:49|540|00:04:58|600</wrap>of humanity to reorient the race and to provide a type of leaven, a type of rising of the <wrap hide>37|00:04:58|600|00:05:04|140</wrap>consciousness. So humanity as a whole can be considered the world disciple and the candidate <wrap hide>38|00:05:04|140|00:05:09|800</wrap>for the first initiation. It is right now the candidate for the first initiation, and <wrap hide>39|00:05:09|800|00:05:17|620</wrap>when the Christ reappears we are told that that will be the indication that humanity <wrap hide>40|00:05:17|620|00:05:20|360</wrap>has taken the first initiation. <wrap hide>41|00:05:21|380|00:05:28|700</wrap><wrap quote>also, in the Piscean Age, the lesser cycle out of which we are at this time moving,</wrap> <wrap hide>42|00:05:29|700|00:05:44|900</wrap>a cycle of some 2,160 years or sometimes with overlaps of previous and following ages considered <wrap hide>43|00:05:44|900|00:05:53|620</wrap>to be 2,500 years, also in the Piscean Age the lesser cycle, see because the greater <wrap hide>44|00:05:53|620|00:06:03|600</wrap>cycle is much bigger, 25,000 years approximately, or 25,920 if we want to be more exact, the <wrap hide>45|00:06:03|600|00:06:09|040</wrap>lesser cycle out of which we are at this time moving, <wrap quote>it has been the origin of all <wrap hide>46|00:06:09|040|00:06:15|480</wrap>the teaching given by the world religions anent the various stages of the Path of <wrap hide>47|00:06:15|480|00:06:21|760</wrap>Return.</wrap> It's really quite amazing how the symbolism associated with the different constellations <wrap hide>48|00:06:21|760|00:06:27|820</wrap>and signs of the zodiac manages to work itself into the thought process of the human race <wrap hide>49|00:06:27|820|00:06:35|540</wrap>and the literature, spiritual or otherwise, which that race produces during that particular <wrap hide>50|00:06:35|540|00:06:46|840</wrap>time. So Pisces has been behind the symbolism of the path, and so many of us are affected <wrap hide>51|00:06:46|840|00:06:57|580</wrap>by this path symbolism and we take very seriously the type of path we are treading, always having <wrap hide>52|00:06:57|580|00:07:02|840</wrap>to remember however that we really are the path. We have descended as a stream of energy, <wrap hide>53|00:07:02|840|00:07:11|460</wrap>we return as a stream of energy. A path is a stream of energy along which a unit of conscious <wrap hide>54|00:07:11|460|00:07:23|840</wrap>life travels. <wrap quote>Some astrologers hold also that Pisces governs the generative processes.</wrap> thereby <wrap hide>55|00:07:23|840|00:07:33|600</wrap>I suppose associated with the sacral center, but D.K. puts a different slant on this. <wrap quote>They <wrap hide>56|00:07:33|600|00:07:40|980</wrap>are essentially correct because once a man is nearing or upon the Path</wrap> the true path beginning <wrap hide>57|00:07:40|980|00:07:45|860</wrap>of the first initiation but there being a probationary or aspirational path before that, <wrap hide>58|00:07:46|420|00:07:51|740</wrap>the true path however being the path of discipleship essentially beginning of the first initiation, <wrap hide>59|00:07:51|740|00:07:56|860</wrap>they are essentially correct because once a man is nearing or upon the path, <wrap quote>he should <wrap hide>60|00:07:56|860|00:08:04|760</wrap>become increasingly creative in the higher sense and the physical generative processes <wrap hide>61|00:08:04|760|00:08:14|180</wrap>should give place esoterically to regeneration</wrap> We have Jupiter as the rulership here. Jupiter <wrap hide>62|00:08:14|740|00:08:19|660</wrap>in its lower aspect is connected in the Secret Doctrine with the worship of the ancestral <wrap hide>63|00:08:19|660|00:08:26|580</wrap>gods and the propitiating of the gods of form. The whole idea of "be fruitful and multiply" <wrap hide>64|00:08:26|580|00:08:32|600</wrap>through the generative process is a Jupiterian type of phenomenon apparently here associated <wrap hide>65|00:08:32|600|00:08:42|540</wrap>with Pisces as one is only sensitive to impression from the lower worlds. So, but D.K. is talking <wrap hide>66|00:08:42|540|00:08:50|140</wrap>about a different type of generation rather regeneration, and Pisces is particularly connected <wrap hide>67|00:08:50|140|00:08:58|480</wrap>with regeneration <wrap quote>and to creation upon the mental plane instead of only upon the physical <wrap hide>68|00:08:58|480|00:09:02|700</wrap>plane.</wrap> So basically we have a transference here from the sacral center to the throat <wrap hide>69|00:09:02|700|00:09:12|180</wrap>center, and when you become a regenerated human being, my old teacher used to say to <wrap hide>70|00:09:12|180|00:09:22|380</wrap>me, he says there must come a time when a man ceases to reproduce his own kind and begins <wrap hide>71|00:09:22|380|00:09:32|500</wrap>reproducing himself. So this is the transference from generation to regeneration, and I suppose <wrap hide>72|00:09:32|500|00:09:40|980</wrap>we could say that Pisces with his Pluto rulership cuts the tendency to regenerate through the <wrap hide>73|00:09:41|820|00:09:47|560</wrap>sacral center and lifts the energy in a Kundalini fashion so the throat center is stimulated <wrap hide>74|00:09:48|560|00:09:56|240</wrap>as if from Pluto to Saturn ruling the throat center, and the creative life begins to take <wrap hide>75|00:09:56|240|00:10:02|260</wrap>place and that creative life creates forms which can be infused by the soul and used <wrap hide>76|00:10:02|260|00:10:11|980</wrap>to lift the consciousness and the consciousness of others. So I guess let us emphasize that <wrap hide>77|00:10:11|980|00:10:19|460</wrap>word regeneration, and interestingly enough it is a word that has been associated with <wrap hide>78|00:10:19|460|00:10:31|040</wrap>the Pluto and Pluto as the planet of regeneration or rebirth. So Pluto as regeneration or rebirth. <wrap hide>79|00:10:31|480|00:10:36|980</wrap>Pluto is also associated with Scorpio, Scorpio with sex, sex with generation in general, but <wrap hide>80|00:10:36|980|00:10:44|800</wrap>Pluto is the remaking, the death of the old and the birth of the new, and it is a spiritual <wrap hide>81|00:10:44|800|00:10:50|500</wrap>ruler of Pisces so we can see the connection of Pisces then to regeneration, to the extrication <wrap hide>82|00:10:50|500|00:11:01|120</wrap>of the consciousness from form and lower forms and to engagement with higher forms which <wrap hide>83|00:11:01|120|00:11:08|300</wrap>can carry the soul light and for the creation of forms which embody that. We do find Pisces <wrap hide>84|00:11:08|300|00:11:19|020</wrap>as very imaginative people. Let's put that down. Pisces as imaginative, and imagination <wrap hide>85|00:11:20|020|00:11:33|340</wrap>used to create forms which can carry soul energy. So we start to build a new world with <wrap hide>86|00:11:33|340|00:11:41|280</wrap>the Piscean imagination connected to Neptune, and we divorce ourselves from the old world <wrap hide>87|00:11:41|280|00:11:52|280</wrap>so we generate the higher man in Christ. The higher man in Christ through Neptune which <wrap hide>88|00:11:52|280|00:12:02|260</wrap>is Vishnu, Christ and the imagination. And to creation upon the mental plane, that's by <wrap hide>89|00:12:02|260|00:12:07|540</wrap>the throat center instead of only upon the physical plane, so we move from the earth rulership <wrap hide>90|00:12:07|540|00:12:14|240</wrap>of the throat center to the Saturnian rulership and eventually to Uranian rulership of the <wrap hide>91|00:12:14|240|00:12:18|700</wrap>throat center, which is interesting because Uranus is one of those planets that transmits <wrap hide>92|00:12:18|700|00:12:29|720</wrap>from Sirius through Pisces the energy of the second ray strangely. So we have Sirius, Pisces, <wrap hide>93|00:12:29|720|00:12:38|360</wrap>Uranus, and there's the whole idea of creating the new forms of a higher nature under the <wrap hide>94|00:12:38|360|00:12:45|740</wrap>Sirian impulse and under the imaginative impulse of Pisces. <wrap quote>This higher creative <wrap hide>95|00:12:45|740|00:12:53|320</wrap>functioning becomes possible under the influence of aspiration and intuition.</wrap> So there we have <wrap hide>96|00:12:53|320|00:13:05|980</wrap>kind of a Jupiterian factors and also that which is related to the sixth and second rays. <wrap hide>97|00:13:05|980|00:13:10|100</wrap>which are the two rays which pour through Pisces: sixth ray, the ray of aspiration; second <wrap hide>98|00:13:10|100|00:13:16|020</wrap>ray, especially the ray of intuition, though not to leave out any of the rays as possibly <wrap hide>99|00:13:16|020|00:13:20|660</wrap>intuitive, but especially the two, four, six line. So this higher creative functioning <wrap hide>100|00:13:20|660|00:13:25|520</wrap>becomes possible under the influence of aspiration and intuition. As we're told in Sagittarius, <wrap hide>101|00:13:25|520|00:13:34|640</wrap>we shoot the arrow of aspiration and it returns as an intuition. This is the aspiring aspect <wrap hide>102|00:13:34|640|00:13:39|700</wrap>of Jupiter which has made me at times think, and some other astrologers too, that at some <wrap hide>103|00:13:39|700|00:13:45|160</wrap>level in the Jupiterian expression, probably a relatively low level, there is an important <wrap hide>104|00:13:45|160|00:13:51|540</wrap>sixth ray. The sixth ray relating to the sixth plane from below which Jupiter rules, <wrap hide>105|00:13:51|700|00:14:00|240</wrap>that is the monadic plane. Okay, so a higher creative functioning: the imagination is seeded <wrap hide>106|00:14:00|240|00:14:05|640</wrap>by the intuition and the imagination begins to take on the form of that which is archetypal. <wrap hide>107|00:14:05|640|00:14:16|020</wrap>It doesn't always do that, as we realize. The, let's see, the imagination takes on archetypal <wrap hide>108|00:14:19|060|00:14:24|960</wrap>forms, and oftentimes it simply follows the forms of desire, so that true art can begin <wrap hide>109|00:14:24|960|00:14:31|180</wrap>when the imagination turns archetypal, as it will increasingly under the impending fourth <wrap hide>110|00:14:31|180|00:14:38|320</wrap>ray age beginning approximately in 2025 and actually having some sort of beginning at <wrap hide>111|00:14:38|320|00:14:45|140</wrap>the end of 1924, the Tibetan tells us. So this higher creative functioning, aspiration <wrap hide>112|00:14:45|140|00:14:51|200</wrap>and intuition <wrap quote>This begins to take place when the four esoteric rulers supplement the activity <wrap hide>113|00:14:51|200|00:14:56|960</wrap>of the two orthodox rulers.</wrap> It's very interesting because now we have a kind of sequence here. <wrap hide>114|00:14:56|960|00:15:12|500</wrap>We have two orthodox rulers of Pisces giving way to the four esoteric rulers of Pisces, <wrap hide>115|00:15:12|600|00:15:21|280</wrap>giving way to the four esoteric rulers of the fixed cross. So you know, at different <wrap hide>116|00:15:21|280|00:15:28|520</wrap>points in our life in this journey on the path, on that stream of energy which is magnetically <wrap hide>117|00:15:28|520|00:15:35|120</wrap>oriented towards our point of origin, the path of outgo, the path of incoming and return, <wrap hide>118|00:15:35|480|00:15:42|920</wrap>on this path we pass through various influences of various energies, and it's important to <wrap hide>119|00:15:42|920|00:15:50|840</wrap>know at what stage of the path we may be operating and the kinds of influences that we may be <wrap hide>120|00:15:50|840|00:15:59|820</wrap>subjected to. You know, probably we live our life and we have a routine and various things <wrap hide>121|00:15:59|820|00:16:07|200</wrap>happen, but how sensitive are we to the changing of energies around us and within us? And do <wrap hide>122|00:16:07|200|00:16:12|180</wrap>we know when a new energy is coming in? Do we know when something comes over us, when <wrap hide>123|00:16:12|180|00:16:19|340</wrap>something inspires us or in some way subdues us? Energy sensitivity is one of the great <wrap hide>124|00:16:20|980|00:16:25|500</wrap>necessities for the esoteric astrologer, for the rayologist, and also of course for the <wrap hide>125|00:16:25|500|00:16:33|020</wrap>psychologist. It is interesting to note the astrologer Alan Leo, who had a lot of Virgo <wrap hide>126|00:16:33|020|00:16:38|500</wrap>by the way, but quite a bit of Leo in his chart too. It's a taken name, of course. <wrap quote>It is interesting <wrap hide>127|00:16:38|500|00:16:45|500</wrap>to note that the astrologer, Alan Leo, suggests Neptune as an alternative to Jupiter.</wrap> That <wrap hide>128|00:16:45|500|00:16:51|960</wrap>doesn't mean that Jupiter is not to be considered, because definitely it is one of the rulers, <wrap hide>129|00:16:51|960|00:16:58|920</wrap>and D.K. explains the whole rulership in relation to the Jonah idea and to the binding of the <wrap hide>130|00:16:58|920|00:17:07|860</wrap>fishes. Neptune as an alternative to Jupiter: <wrap quote>He sensed and touched upon a mystery of initiation though he did not realise the magnitude of his discovery.</wrap> <wrap hide>131|00:17:07|860|00:17:14|840</wrap>At what level we are not told, but we do not realize the magnitude of his discovery. Well, <wrap hide>132|00:17:14|840|00:17:26|140</wrap>there are many people, you know, that are Neptunian Pisceans. There are many Neptunian—I better <wrap hide>133|00:17:26|140|00:17:35|260</wrap>capitalize that. There are many Neptunian Pisceans, but not exclusively, you know. All <wrap hide>134|00:17:35|260|00:17:41|500</wrap>those rulers mix in, and people are much affected by Neptune when in this sign, but that does <wrap hide>135|00:17:41|500|00:17:47|360</wrap>not negate the impression of Jupiter upon the average individual in Pisces or the impression <wrap hide>136|00:17:47|360|00:17:53|780</wrap>of Pluto upon the advancing individual. But Neptune is a pervasive planet. Neptune is <wrap hide>137|00:17:53|780|00:18:00|200</wrap>pervasive. It does not respect boundaries. It is boundaryless. It manages to seep through <wrap hide>138|00:18:00|200|00:18:10|400</wrap>apparently dense, hard boundaries as if they were somewhat porous or permeable. <wrap quote>Neptune <wrap hide>139|00:18:10|400|00:18:21|760</wrap>focusses the influence of Pisces as it concerns humanity as a whole and not just the individual <wrap hide>140|00:18:21|760|00:18:27|660</wrap>man,</wrap> So in a period in which Pisces is affecting not just the individual, which it of course <wrap hide>141|00:18:27|660|00:18:32|700</wrap>also does, but affecting humanity as a whole, Neptune will be extremely strong. So let's <wrap hide>142|00:18:32|700|00:18:44|160</wrap>just see, and let's think: what has been the role of Neptune during the past two thousand <wrap hide>143|00:18:44|160|00:18:52|600</wrap>years? It has been formidable. It's been an age of great religious pursuit. It's been <wrap hide>144|00:18:52|600|00:18:58|720</wrap>an age in which the Occidental mystics have appeared. Maybe mystics of all types have <wrap hide>145|00:18:58|720|00:19:07|760</wrap>had their particular type of quest intensified during the last two thousand years. So Pisces <wrap hide>146|00:19:07|760|00:19:12|380</wrap>has definitely been the ruler of humanity and, in many ways, the ruler of the planet for <wrap hide>147|00:19:12|380|00:19:20|420</wrap>the last two thousand or so years, a bit more, and Neptune therefore has been in focus. So <wrap hide>148|00:19:20|420|00:19:30|920</wrap>we start to look at group astrology and not just individual astrology. <wrap quote>but this only takes <wrap hide>149|00:19:30|920|00:19:39|060</wrap>place towards the final stages of the Path of Discipleship.</wrap> So the higher type of Neptunian <wrap hide>150|00:19:39|060|00:19:44|580</wrap>influence, when humanity becomes itself a type of disciple, will be very noticeable, <wrap hide>151|00:19:44|580|00:19:52|040</wrap>and humanity will not be held by the normal boundaries of consciousness but will be able <wrap hide>152|00:19:52|040|00:19:56|920</wrap>to slip out and slip through. And the suggestion here is that as a person becomes a higher <wrap hide>153|00:19:56|920|00:20:03|820</wrap>type of disciple, later in the stages, let's say the second initiation, Neptune becomes <wrap hide>154|00:20:03|820|00:20:15|660</wrap>very strong. Even at the first degree, Neptune as Christ, as Vishnu, is becoming a factor <wrap hide>155|00:20:15|660|00:20:21|240</wrap>to be considered. But later there is this slipping away and relinquishment of all that <wrap hide>156|00:20:21|240|00:20:33|800</wrap>has to do with the lower sub-planes and the usual prism of humanity and the moon in a <wrap hide>157|00:20:33|800|00:20:39|900</wrap>way, and he can refocus upon the Buddhic plane. So the Buddhic plane is ruled by Neptune in <wrap hide>158|00:20:39|900|00:20:48|180</wrap>part also with Jupiter and Mercury, and man refocuses at the fourth degree upon the Buddhic <wrap hide>159|00:20:48|180|00:20:58|840</wrap>plane. So, see, D.K. is certainly not denying the influence of Neptune in the Piscean individual, <wrap hide>160|00:20:58|840|00:21:05|360</wrap>but he's saying it has a strong relationship to a larger group, and he's also saying that <wrap hide>161|00:21:07|160|00:21:16|100</wrap>the influence of the science can affect different spheres of identity within the Divine Life. <wrap hide>162|00:21:16|300|00:21:21|260</wrap>It can affect the individual, the smaller group; it can also affect humanity as a whole; <wrap hide>163|00:21:21|360|00:21:27|300</wrap>it can affect the planet. And perhaps different rulerships can be found when the different <wrap hide>164|00:21:27|300|00:21:34|860</wrap>signs relate to wholes of different sizes. Well, that's a speculative thought, but it <wrap hide>165|00:21:34|860|00:21:39|900</wrap>seems to be borne out here. The final stages on the path of discipleship, let's say third <wrap hide>166|00:21:39|900|00:21:55|940</wrap>degree, fourth degree, is when we're particularly speaking of this, because at that time, at <wrap hide>167|00:21:55|940|00:22:07|440</wrap>first disciple, and even as initiate, begins to coordinate the Buddhic vehicle. The coordination <wrap hide>168|00:22:07|440|00:22:10|960</wrap>of the Buddhic vehicle. Sometimes it seems that it's happening around the second degree, <wrap hide>169|00:22:10|960|00:22:18|300</wrap>but more actually the man becomes intuitive after the third degree. <wrap quote>Today humanity is moving <wrap hide>170|00:22:18|300|00:22:23|080</wrap>rapidly towards the position of the World Disciple,</wrap> Not quite there yet, <wrap hide>171|00:22:23|080|00:22:28|280</wrap>but sometimes D.K. even does refer to humanity as the world disciple, <wrap quote>and intuiting this, <wrap hide>172|00:22:28|920|00:22:35|360</wrap>he suggests Neptune as an alternative to Jupiter.</wrap> So great discoveries, and of course <wrap hide>173|00:22:35|360|00:22:38|880</wrap>when the discovery is known for what it is, it's even better, but it's a good thing that <wrap hide>174|00:22:38|880|00:22:44|600</wrap>it did happen. In other words, we seem to be owing to Alan Leo the idea. Entertained by <wrap hide>175|00:22:44|600|00:22:49|960</wrap>so many people when they are Piscean or have some strong Pisces in the chart that Neptune <wrap hide>176|00:22:49|960|00:22:58|260</wrap>really has to be considered. So what we have to think of is the various stages of Neptunian <wrap hide>177|00:22:58|260|00:23:05|620</wrap>humanity. On a lower turn of the spiral, it seems like humanity is much subjected to the <wrap hide>178|00:23:05|620|00:23:13|100</wrap>drug culture during the 20th century, and drugs as a means of producing illusion and escape <wrap hide>179|00:23:13|100|00:23:20|520</wrap>have become pervasive. That is a Neptunian factor, and we can say, well, humanity is searching <wrap hide>180|00:23:20|520|00:23:25|200</wrap>for a higher type of consciousness through these drug experiences, either that or for <wrap hide>181|00:23:25|200|00:23:31|980</wrap>escape, but there is some motivation, subconscious motivation, to find something higher, and Neptune, <wrap hide>182|00:23:33|060|00:23:39|180</wrap>which is not a planet with great roots at all, does seem to lift human consciousness <wrap hide>183|00:23:39|180|00:23:49|860</wrap>into that which is higher. Okay, so Neptune and the group called humanity ruling in relation <wrap hide>184|00:23:49|860|00:23:54|780</wrap>to Pisces, the group called humanity, but also capable of being applied to the individual <wrap hide>185|00:23:54|780|00:24:09|160</wrap>disciple in various ways, low and high, and especially towards the later stages of the <wrap hide>186|00:24:09|160|00:24:15|900</wrap>cycle. <wrap quote>Esoterically, the reason that Venus is exalted in Pisces is connected with the <wrap hide>187|00:24:15|900|00:24:22|100</wrap>relation of Pisces to the sign Gemini,</wrap> We had talked about that earlier, showing there <wrap hide>188|00:24:22|100|00:24:27|960</wrap>are many similarities here. Venus, the esoteric ruler of Gemini, and Venus, the exalted ruler <wrap hide>189|00:24:27|960|00:24:34|040</wrap>of Pisces, <wrap quote>of which Venus is the esoteric ruler, and also in relation to the fact that Venus <wrap hide>190|00:24:34|040|00:24:43|800</wrap>is the Earth's //alter ego// and is closely related to the human kingdom.</wrap> Well, Pisces is the conclusion, <wrap hide>191|00:24:43|800|00:24:52|820</wrap>and Venus represents the end of the solar angelic project. Let's just say Venus and <wrap hide>192|00:24:52|820|00:25:05|780</wrap>the climax of the solar angelic project, meaning that the solar angels have taken—have helped <wrap hide>193|00:25:05|780|00:25:10|440</wrap>with the individualization of man. There are other methods of individualizing, but in this <wrap hide>194|00:25:10|810|00:25:16|240</wrap>on our planet now in the solar system, the method of divine intervention for individualization <wrap hide>195|00:25:16|240|00:25:25|180</wrap>under the sponsorship of Venus is used, and they have intervened and stayed with the developing <wrap hide>196|00:25:25|180|00:25:30|460</wrap>human being, and finally when the human being is in a way exalted at the fourth initiation, <wrap hide>197|00:25:31|840|00:25:39|580</wrap>their task is finished. So we're looking here: Pisces and the fourth initiation and the <wrap hide>198|00:25:39|580|00:25:49|580</wrap>conclusion of the task of the solar angels. So the human being is exalted out of the fourth <wrap hide>199|00:25:49|580|00:25:57|820</wrap>kingdom... well, let's see... exalted out of the need to incarnate. So the human being is exalted out <wrap hide>200|00:25:58|680|00:26:07|460</wrap>of the need to incarnate, and the solar angels can, as it were, go home to the heart of the Sun or to <wrap hide>201|00:26:07|460|00:26:17|520</wrap>the central spiritual Sun—either one. So the two brothers are related: soul and personality. It all <wrap hide>202|00:26:17|520|00:26:22|600</wrap>comes to a climax of the fourth degree, and the fourth degree can easily be taken in relation to <wrap hide>203|00:26:22|600|00:26:29|540</wrap>Pisces when a great renunciation takes place. Pisces, as we know, is a sign of sacrifice, and <wrap hide>204|00:26:29|540|00:26:35|720</wrap>in the renunciation we have discussed that. So the greatest of renunciations in terms of the human <wrap hide>205|00:26:35|720|00:26:44|620</wrap>family is called the fourth initiation: crucifixion, great renunciation. And Venus—the human being is <wrap hide>206|00:26:44|620|00:26:51|040</wrap>exalted to a very high level. It has become Venusian in its nature, and therefore the Venusian solar angels <wrap hide>207|00:26:51|040|00:27:02|200</wrap>can return to later be out-breathed in groups to become planetary Logos. So I've hinted a little bit <wrap hide>208|00:27:02|200|00:27:07|680</wrap>at the vastness of the subject, but D.K. tells us <wrap quote>This subject is too vast and complicated to be <wrap hide>209|00:27:07|680|00:27:14|280</wrap>elaborated here, but the point should be remembered.</wrap> We are all trying to become like Venus. We are <wrap hide>210|00:27:14|280|00:27:20|720</wrap>Earth trying to become like Venus, and the Logos of Earth itself is trying to become more like its <wrap hide>211|00:27:21|580|00:27:29|360</wrap>let us say twin sister, Venus. Venus in a female incarnation and Earth in a male incarnation at <wrap hide>212|00:27:29|360|00:27:35|540</wrap>this point—and how that varies and alternates, you know, that's all part of the planetary lore. <wrap hide>213|00:27:36|120|00:27:40|560</wrap>But he tells us we're in a masculine incarnation here on the Earth and Venus in a feminine <wrap hide>214|00:27:40|560|00:27:47|780</wrap>incarnation for that, and that implies, of course, that we could here on Earth be in a feminine <wrap hide>215|00:27:47|780|00:27:53|160</wrap>incarnation and Venus could be in a male incarnation. But for the moment, the feminine power is extremely <wrap hide>216|00:27:53|160|00:27:58|880</wrap>important in relating us to Venus, and Venus is stimulating the higher part of the feminine power. <wrap hide>217|00:27:58|880|00:28:07|660</wrap>And the new age in which the soul will move towards its exaltation is very much under <wrap hide>218|00:28:07|660|00:28:15|240</wrap>the sway of the feminine and Venus—the divine feminine, not necessarily, you know, all the kind <wrap hide>219|00:28:15|240|00:28:22|500</wrap>of ancient goddess lore that we have, much of which probably was pretty retrogressive in Atlantean <wrap hide>220|00:28:22|500|00:28:28|440</wrap>times, a time of a great matriarchy. So we have a vast and complicated subject to be elaborated <wrap hide>221|00:28:28|440|00:28:39|520</wrap>here, but we must remember the point. Okay, the fishes—what is the point? Okay, that the reason <wrap hide>222|00:28:39|520|00:28:45|720</wrap>for the exaltation of Venus in Pisces is related to the sign Gemini. It's kind of as if <wrap hide>223|00:28:45|720|00:28:55|820</wrap>Pisces completes the Geminian project. Pisces completes the Geminian <wrap hide>224|00:28:55|820|00:29:06|860</wrap>project with respect to man. The elder brother, Pollux, becomes glorious and is exalted over the <wrap hide>225|00:29:06|860|00:29:15|660</wrap>lower brother who is shining by reflected light and is also redeemed, and the solar angels have <wrap hide>226|00:29:15|660|00:29:24|540</wrap>completed their very laborious work involving great abnegation, self-abnegation, and self-sacrifice, <wrap hide>227|00:29:24|540|00:29:31|920</wrap>which Pisces suggests. So think of it, you know, that the great second cosmic decanate ruled by <wrap hide>228|00:29:31|920|00:29:38|660</wrap>Pisces and the great second ray which rules that decanate and Venus with its ultimately second <wrap hide>229|00:29:38|660|00:29:46|420</wrap>ray monad exalted in this second ray sign, indicating the conclusion of the redemptive <wrap hide>230|00:29:46|420|00:29:53|820</wrap>project which has lifted man from the animal state all the way into being a full member of <wrap hide>231|00:29:53|820|00:30:02|340</wrap>the fifth kingdom of nature, which reflects the fifth creative hierarchy which is ruled by Venus. <wrap hide>232|00:30:03|340|00:30:08|500</wrap>Well, we can see, you know, it's the vast, complicated subject. Just about the whole Secret Doctrine is <wrap hide>233|00:30:08|500|00:30:14|100</wrap>dedicated, or a major portion of the Secret Doctrine is dedicated to this mystery, and D.K. has <wrap hide>234|00:30:14|100|00:30:19|320</wrap>assured us over and again that we will not solve the mystery of the solar angel, but we get the <wrap hide>235|00:30:19|320|00:30:25|260</wrap>hints here and there, and we begin to piece it together, and gradually a broader picture of what <wrap hide>236|00:30:25|260|00:30:30|700</wrap>it really means to be a redeemed human being moving towards Venus, moving towards the heart of <wrap hide>237|00:30:30|700|00:30:38|720</wrap>the Sun, moving towards Sirius begins to dawn on us. <wrap quote>The Fishes in Pisces are bound together, as we <wrap hide>238|00:30:38|720|00:30:45|460</wrap>have seen,</wrap>—remember, under Jupiter—<wrap quote>and this is a symbol of the captivity of the soul in form,</wrap> in <wrap hide>239|00:30:45|460|00:30:51|960</wrap>other words, consciousness simply remains conscious of form and forgets what it itself is. There is no <wrap hide>240|00:30:51|960|00:31:00|460</wrap>such thing as consciousness of consciousness at this stage, and everything looks objective. So this <wrap hide>241|00:31:00|460|00:31:05|860</wrap>binding of the fishes is the symbol of the captivity of the soul in form <wrap quote>prior to the <wrap hide>242|00:31:05|860|00:31:11|680</wrap>experience upon the Fixed Cross.</wrap> in which on which cross the soul comes into its own and is release— <wrap hide>243|00:31:11|680|00:31:22|620</wrap>the soul comes into its own and is released from captivity to form. In other words, our perceptual <wrap hide>244|00:31:22|620|00:31:28|260</wrap>range greatly expands and the soul is no longer strictly outgoing, looking only at objects, but <wrap hide>245|00:31:28|260|00:31:34|680</wrap>begins to realize that it itself is the perceiver. And this is the true reflexive consciousness where <wrap hide>246|00:31:34|680|00:31:43|480</wrap>the soul can begin to perceive itself. <wrap quote>The Twins in Gemini are symbols of the same basic duality,</wrap>— <wrap hide>247|00:31:43|480|00:31:52|000</wrap>soul and personality—<wrap quote>but the experience of the many changing incarnations</wrap>... you know that when you <wrap hide>248|00:31:52|000|00:31:57|320</wrap>say "let instability do its work" in Gemini, it's the sign of great change. <wrap quote>but the experience of the many <wrap hide>249|00:31:57|320|00:32:03|940</wrap>changing incarnations has done its work, and the Band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of <wrap hide>250|00:32:03|940|00:32:13|720</wrap>dissolution,</wrap> and this is important during a particular stage, so to produce the freer soul. <wrap hide>251|00:32:13|980|00:32:21|160</wrap>Now eventually that bondage comes back in under Pisces. It's like a process from bondage in Pisces <wrap hide>252|00:32:21|160|00:32:27|640</wrap>to the dissolution of the bond during the stage of free determination and the full expression of <wrap hide>253|00:32:27|640|00:32:35|440</wrap>humanhood, and back into a type of bondage in later Pisces where the form is captive to the <wrap hide>254|00:32:35|440|00:32:44|300</wrap>soul. The experience of many changing incarnations has done its work on the band, which <wrap hide>255|00:32:44|300|00:32:50|340</wrap>is a constellation related to Pisces. <wrap quote>the Band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of dissolution,</wrap>— <wrap hide>256|00:32:50|340|00:32:56|400</wrap>that's Neptune again, isn't it? Dissolving the band, or Pluto cutting the band later, to produce the <wrap hide>257|00:32:56|400|00:33:02|860</wrap>freer soul. <wrap quote>for part of the work of Pluto is</wrap>—and here is one of those great mantric phrases—<wrap quote>to "cut <wrap hide>258|00:33:02|860|00:33:09|860</wrap>the thread which binds the two opposing lives together.”</wrap> I have a song about that—not a cheerful <wrap hide>259|00:33:09|860|00:33:20|760</wrap>song necessarily, but it is a song—and it is about the Lord of death cutting the bond. And it can do <wrap hide>260|00:33:20|760|00:33:26|360</wrap>this if you think about Pluto in relation to Gemini or Pluto in the third house. The opportunity <wrap hide>261|00:33:26|360|00:33:33|120</wrap>for cutting the band between the two is strong. Now hopefully the personality is sufficiently <wrap hide>262|00:33:33|120|00:33:42|160</wrap>free-willed and properly oriented so that it will not go off on its own in a negative tendency, <wrap hide>263|00:33:42|940|00:33:49|400</wrap>because it has to have its own free will associate itself with the soul. So Pluto is the shears—the <wrap hide>264|00:33:49|400|00:33:57|140</wrap>sharp shears of sorrow. Death is so often for so many a sorrowful experience because it's experience <wrap hide>265|00:33:57|140|00:34:04|540</wrap>of loss. Pluto is connected with the whole idea of relinquishment and leaving behind that which <wrap hide>266|00:34:04|540|00:34:12|320</wrap>one was previously attached, and oftentimes the process is a forced process—forced sacrifice. <wrap hide>267|00:34:12|320|00:34:16|680</wrap>We can often say—you can think about Pluto in relation to the third petal of the Egoic Lotus— <wrap hide>268|00:34:16|680|00:34:23|960</wrap>where so often sacrifices are enforced in an unconscious manner. A person is just put through <wrap hide>269|00:34:23|960|00:34:30|240</wrap>it and made to give up life and well-being and many of the attachments for something higher, <wrap hide>270|00:34:30|240|00:34:46|660</wrap>and they don't even know really what it is. Okay, it is the task of Venus to reunite the— <wrap hide>271|00:34:46|660|00:34:54|560</wrap>see, the power to produce relationship between the two, but not compulsion. So there's a voluntary <wrap hide>272|00:34:54|560|00:35:02|220</wrap>cooperation between the twins. For a long time, the higher of the brothers has cooperated, wanting <wrap hide>273|00:35:02|220|00:35:06|420</wrap>to help the lower brother, and the lower brother didn't know anything about it. Then the lower <wrap hide>274|00:35:06|420|00:35:12|040</wrap>brother gets reoriented and is no longer compelled by the soul but chooses of its own free will—in <wrap hide>275|00:35:12|040|00:35:17|660</wrap>accord—remember how Gemini has that factor of free choice in it—chooses of its own free will <wrap hide>276|00:35:17|660|00:35:24|480</wrap>and accord to abide by the newly sensed direction and communication of the soul. <wrap quote>It is the task of <wrap hide>277|00:35:24|480|00:35:32|000</wrap>Venus to “reunite the severed lives but with no binding thread.” Therefore, Venus is exalted in <wrap hide>278|00:35:32|000|00:35:39|840</wrap>Pisces</wrap> because Venus is related to both Gemini and Pisces, has a very high position in Pisces, <wrap hide>279|00:35:39|840|00:35:50|580</wrap>and there is a uniting of the two. But we can say that the personality isn't in <wrap hide>280|00:35:50|580|00:35:56|000</wrap>involuntary bondage to the soul. In other words, the personality has become so oriented to the <wrap hide>281|00:35:56|000|00:36:03|380</wrap>soul that to do God's will—"not my will but thine be done"—in Pisces is its expressed wish and <wrap hide>282|00:36:03|380|00:36:13|340</wrap>intention. The soul is not compelling, so the personality is in self-chosen bondage to the <wrap hide>283|00:36:13|340|00:36:18|660</wrap>soul. Look at the bondage that Sanat Kumara is in in relation to our planet—that is certainly <wrap hide>284|00:36:18|660|00:36:26|080</wrap>self-chosen. So this is a very important idea. Yes, there is bondage two ways. At first, the soul's <wrap hide>285|00:36:26|080|00:36:33|480</wrap>bondage to the personality, and the consciousness is very constrained and very preoccupied with <wrap hide>286|00:36:33|480|00:36:39|980</wrap>non-reality. But later, there is another type of bondage which is based on freedom, and it is the <wrap hide>287|00:36:39|980|00:36:46|640</wrap>choice of the personality influenced by the soul to bind itself to the soul of its own free will. <wrap hide>288|00:36:46|640|00:36:55|580</wrap>And thereby, when that act of freedom is well established, then Venus, the solar angels represented <wrap hide>289|00:36:55|580|00:37:01|480</wrap>by Venus, can return and take on another task because the domestication and the elevation of <wrap hide>290|00:37:01|480|00:37:08|900</wrap>the human being have been accomplished. <wrap quote>Therefore, Venus is exalted in Pisces and at the end of the <wrap hide>291|00:37:08|900|00:37:17|820</wrap>greater cycle,</wrap> Now, you know the greater cycle. What is that? So much blinding is going on with the name <wrap hide>292|00:37:17|820|00:37:29|140</wrap>these cycles, but I would tend to say that one possibility is the end of the solar Logoic <wrap hide>293|00:37:29|140|00:37:36|360</wrap>manifestation. So the end of the solar Logoic manifestation, the end of the solar system, that <wrap hide>294|00:37:36|360|00:37:44|130</wrap>can be considered certainly a greater cycle, a Maha manvantara. And all of these planets which <wrap hide>295|00:37:44|130|00:37:51|610</wrap>represent chakras within the solar Logos' field of expression will have a particular kind of <wrap hide>296|00:37:51|610|00:38:00|310</wrap>position and function at the end of the Maha manvantara cycle. Right now, particular planets <wrap hide>297|00:38:00|310|00:38:05|690</wrap>may be occupying the place of various chakras and have certain functions, and those functions <wrap hide>298|00:38:05|690|00:38:12|730</wrap>can change, just the way, you know, the Christ is an office. Lord Maitreya is in that office now, but <wrap hide>299|00:38:12|730|00:38:17|130</wrap>his function can change as he moves into a new office and Master Kurumi can take over his <wrap hide>300|00:38:17|130|00:38:22|390</wrap>function. And so, let's just say that Christ represents a certain chakra with respect to <wrap hide>301|00:38:22|390|00:38:29|690</wrap>humanity. When his task of world saviorship is completed after 5,000 years, another 2,500 years <wrap hide>302|00:38:29|690|00:38:36|610</wrap>or so, then Master Kurumi will move into that function and represent that chakra function. So <wrap hide>303|00:38:36|610|00:38:48|610</wrap>there is mutability among the actual entities with respect to their chakra function. I have said, okay, <wrap hide>304|00:38:48|610|00:38:54|870</wrap>well, Jupiter is presently, I think, a very strong heart center with respect to the solar Logos, but <wrap hide>305|00:38:54|870|00:39:02|210</wrap>perhaps Venus will move into that position from its present, possibly solar—it's solar plexus <wrap hide>306|00:39:02|210|00:39:08|670</wrap>chakra expression—and maybe Jupiter will move up towards the heart of the Sun, and so forth. So <wrap hide>307|00:39:09|570|00:39:17|570</wrap>entities change function, and chakras are functions. Okay, it is the task of Venus to reunite the <wrap hide>308|00:39:17|570|00:39:22|610</wrap>severed lives, but with no binding thread. By the time we get into Pisces, the severed lives are <wrap hide>309|00:39:22|610|00:39:30|270</wrap>indeed reunited, and the personality is captive to the soul, but it's a voluntary captivity. And <wrap hide>310|00:39:30|270|00:39:41|670</wrap>that is so very important. I'm going to put that down: it's a voluntary captivity, captivity to the <wrap hide>311|00:39:41|670|00:39:52|950</wrap>soul or solar angel. <wrap quote>the Sons of God who are the Sons of Mind are raised up into glory</wrap> and that <wrap hide>312|00:39:52|950|00:39:56|370</wrap>can go either way. The solar angels return to the glory of the heart of the Sun, of the central <wrap hide>313|00:39:56|370|00:40:02|450</wrap>spiritual Sun, and that which has been man in the lower worlds is raised up into a state of <wrap hide>314|00:40:02|450|00:40:07|910</wrap>glorification into the spiritual triad through that kind of supernova that occurs with respect <wrap hide>315|00:40:07|910|00:40:14|170</wrap>to the egoic lotus. <wrap quote>the Sons of God who are the Sons of Mind are raised up into glory through <wrap hide>316|00:40:14|170|00:40:20|310</wrap>experience</wrap>—that's the earth again—<wrap quote>and crucifixion</wrap>—that's platonic—<wrap quote>because they have learned to love <wrap hide>317|00:40:20|310|00:40:31|890</wrap>and truly reason.</wrap> Truly reason. Wow, this is buddhic terminology. This is buddhic terminology, and love <wrap hide>318|00:40:31|890|00:40:38|590</wrap>and true reason—pure reason has a lot to do with Venus, of course. Venus is a planet which is <wrap hide>319|00:40:38|590|00:40:44|570</wrap>increasingly buddhic at this time, more so than the earth, much more so, and is focused on the sixth <wrap hide>320|00:40:44|570|00:40:53|250</wrap>from the low sub-plane of the astral plane, which is buddhic. So we are given a love and pure reason <wrap hide>321|00:40:53|250|00:40:58|810</wrap>by the solar angels. They certainly have—being Lords of Manus from before—they certainly have <wrap hide>322|00:40:58|810|00:41:05|650</wrap>this pure reason, this buddhic quality, and they have the great faculty of love. They have a kind <wrap hide>323|00:41:05|650|00:41:11|070</wrap>of a second ray and fifth ray combination, or even you might call it a secondary fourth ray and fifth <wrap hide>324|00:41:11|070|00:41:17|830</wrap>ray combination. So we will be glorified at the fourth initiation, and the returning solar <wrap hide>325|00:41:17|830|00:41:23|650</wrap>angels will be glorified within the solar Logos, assuming a new function which will lead them in <wrap hide>326|00:41:23|650|00:41:30|530</wrap>groups to become planetary Logos. The influence of Pisces, Gemini, and Virgo is eventually fused and <wrap hide>327|00:41:30|530|00:41:36|830</wrap>blended. Well, in Pisces, exaltation of Venus; and Gemini, esoteric rulership; in Virgo, the fall of <wrap hide>328|00:41:36|830|00:41:43|950</wrap>the solar angels down into matter for redemptive purposes. And interesting there. Now, these are the <wrap hide>329|00:41:43|950|00:41:53|510</wrap>three second ray signs, aren't they? The three second ray signs. You know, three... three signs. <wrap hide>330|00:41:53|510|00:41:58|950</wrap>each, or constellations, convey a particular ray, and these are the ones conveying the second ray. <wrap hide>331|00:41:58|950|00:42:05|550</wrap>The influence of Pisces, Gemini, and Virgo is eventually fused and blended. Symbolically, the <wrap hide>332|00:42:05|550|00:42:11|750</wrap>cross must always become the line, and the line interestingly is Sagittarius, and <wrap hide>333|00:42:11|750|00:42:20|190</wrap>then the point. Sagittarius is very much about a line directed towards a point. So the three of <wrap hide>334|00:42:20|190|00:42:28|970</wrap>these: the material condition in Virgo, and matter is reigning—let matter reign—the discovery of the <wrap hide>335|00:42:28|970|00:42:34|990</wrap>pairs of opposites in Gemini, and the redemption of the lower of the pairs of opposites through <wrap hide>336|00:42:34|990|00:42:41|810</wrap>the Piscean influence—all of this is consummated. This is the whole story of man going into matter <wrap hide>337|00:42:41|810|00:42:48|210</wrap>as a human being and rising out of matter in the exaltation of Venus and Pisces as a full member <wrap hide>338|00:42:48|210|00:42:55|390</wrap>of the kingdom of God, the fifth kingdom. <wrap quote>The influence of Pisces, Gemini and Virgo is eventually <wrap hide>339|00:42:55|390|00:43:02|850</wrap>fused and blended (symbolically the Cross must always become the line and then the point).</wrap> Well, <wrap hide>340|00:43:02|850|00:43:08|690</wrap>one wonders about the mode of becoming the line, but one can certainly see that everything comes <wrap hide>341|00:43:08|690|00:43:15|850</wrap>inward to the point. Perhaps one axis—perhaps the two axes of the cross have to somehow <wrap hide>342|00:43:15|850|00:43:25|470</wrap>merge, and then the poles of the merged axes must come in toward the point. Well, anyway, the cross, in <wrap hide>343|00:43:25|470|00:43:30|910</wrap>my view, as well becomes the pyramid. You know, if you look at a cross and you raise that central <wrap hide>344|00:43:30|910|00:43:38|090</wrap>point into another dimension, then you have, in fact, the pyramid. The influence of Pisces, Gemini, <wrap hide>345|00:43:38|090|00:43:42|690</wrap>and Virgo is eventually fused and blended. Symbolically, the cross must always become <wrap hide>346|00:43:42|690|00:43:48|890</wrap>the line and then the point. <wrap quote>Sagittarius, which is governed esoterically by Mother Earth,</wrap>—and <wrap hide>347|00:43:48|890|00:43:54|110</wrap>remember, governing means a bit like a reducing valve. You know, not all of Sagittarius can get <wrap hide>348|00:43:54|110|00:44:00|850</wrap>through any planet or through Mother Earth, so it governs the degree to which the constellation <wrap hide>349|00:44:00|850|00:44:14|230</wrap>or energy can flow. A ruler or governor governs or rules the extent or degree to which full <wrap hide>350|00:44:15|570|00:44:32|830</wrap>constellational energy can flow. That's "govern" or "governor." A ruler or governor is that correct? <wrap hide>351|00:44:32|830|00:44:38|610</wrap>Governs or rules the extent to which a full constellation energy can flow. <wrap quote>Sagittarius, <wrap hide>352|00:44:38|610|00:44:47|790</wrap>which is governed esoterically by Mother Earth, produces those conditions</wrap>—these <wrap hide>353|00:44:47|790|00:44:55|290</wrap>are conditions on Earth <wrap quote>whereby the Path itself</wrap> which is the man—the man is the path and the <wrap hide>354|00:44:55|290|00:45:01|430</wrap>energy stream which leads to higher dimensions—<wrap quote>the Path itself achieves glorification.</wrap> You can <wrap hide>355|00:45:01|430|00:45:10|250</wrap>sort of witness or understand a path becoming ever brighter and more radiant and <wrap hide>356|00:45:10|250|00:45:20|270</wrap>rising into the higher dimensions. The path itself achieves glorification, so there is a radiance <wrap hide>357|00:45:20|270|00:45:26|310</wrap>which is conferred upon the path—of the path becoming radiant—and as the individual or group <wrap hide>358|00:45:26|310|00:45:33|450</wrap>treads that path, they become identified with the light at the end of the path. <wrap quote>Consequently, you have <wrap hide>359|00:45:33|450|00:45:43|150</wrap>at the end of the age (I refer here to a greater round of the zodiac and to no shorter cycle),</wrap>—round of <wrap hide>360|00:45:43|150|00:45:49|430</wrap>the zodiac. Does that mean, in a way, one complete revolution of the zodiac? Some have thought that <wrap hide>361|00:45:49|430|00:45:59|170</wrap>zodiac does revolve. Does this mean one complete revolution of the zodiac? It certainly is not <wrap hide>362|00:45:59|170|00:46:07|170</wrap>anything like a Platonic age, as long as that age may last. It's not anything like 25,000 to 26,000 <wrap hide>363|00:46:07|170|00:46:16|330</wrap>years. The greater round of the zodiac and no shorter cycle: <wrap quote>the glorification of Venus, of Virgo, <wrap hide>364|00:46:16|330|00:46:24|070</wrap>the Virgin, and of Mother Earth—two planets and one constellation—<wrap hide>365|00:46:24|070|00:46:32|330</wrap>and all these are potencies which produce definite changes in the solar system.</wrap> So a greater round of <wrap hide>366|00:46:32|330|00:46:41|010</wrap>the zodiac is probably still inter-systemic. A greater round of the zodiac is probably still <wrap hide>367|00:46:42|610|00:46:51|230</wrap>within the manifestation of our solar system. So, you know, how long really does that require <wrap hide>368|00:46:51|230|00:46:58|490</wrap>when we have our solar system and associated solar systems revolving around the <wrap hide>369|00:46:58|490|00:47:04|370</wrap>Pleiades? They have to pass necessarily through each of the signs of the zodiac. It takes <wrap hide>370|00:47:04|370|00:47:10|930</wrap>250,000 years, but I don't think even that is long enough for what D.K. means by the greater round <wrap hide>371|00:47:10|930|00:47:17|970</wrap>of the zodiac. It seems to be a climactic point within the solar system itself. Consequently, you <wrap hide>372|00:47:17|970|00:47:23|250</wrap>have at the end of the age—I refer here to a greater round of the zodiac. Maybe it's not just <wrap hide>373|00:47:23|250|00:47:28|450</wrap>one; there's more than one, because the article "a" is used. I refer here to a greater round of the <wrap hide>374|00:47:28|450|00:47:35|150</wrap>zodiac and to no shorter cycle: the glorification of Venus in solar systemic terms, of Virgo the <wrap hide>375|00:47:35|150|00:47:40|170</wrap>Virgin—because the matter within the solar system will be redeemed and spiritualized—and of Mother <wrap hide>376|00:47:40|170|00:47:46|710</wrap>Earth, which will have become a sacred planet now when Mother Earth is glorified, has it achieved <wrap hide>377|00:47:46|710|00:47:56|310</wrap>its what, third or maybe fourth cosmic initiation? So they can truly function as a Kundalini <wrap hide>378|00:47:56|310|00:48:02|330</wrap>factor in our solar system. Anyway, certainly it is a stage of sacredness for Mother Earth and maybe <wrap hide>379|00:48:02|330|00:48:11|570</wrap>beyond the glorification of Venus. Venus is almost at the point where it is to be released. Venus may <wrap hide>380|00:48:11|570|00:48:19|110</wrap>be undergoing it ahead of it. May, like other sacred planets, may lie the second cosmic initiation, but <wrap hide>381|00:48:19|110|00:48:26|550</wrap>others are coming. So a very high states for Venus and the Earth, though Venus ahead of Earth, and <wrap hide>382|00:48:26|550|00:48:33|090</wrap>Virgo will represent not the matter in all the cosmos, but the matter in the solar system itself. <wrap hide>383|00:48:33|090|00:48:39|910</wrap>We might call it the assumption of the Virgin or the etherealization of matter from the previous <wrap hide>384|00:48:39|910|00:48:45|550</wrap>solar system, which is now in our solar system, the etherealization and upliftment of that matter. So <wrap hide>385|00:48:45|550|00:48:51|150</wrap>we have a much more etheric solar system, and all of this will happen at some point within our <wrap hide>386|00:48:53|030|00:49:01|570</wrap>solar systemic cycle, and we call it the end of a greater round of the zodiac. Obviously, <wrap hide>387|00:49:01|570|00:49:06|690</wrap>there are many things there to be discerned, and D.K. is just hinting, and we cannot know the length <wrap hide>388|00:49:06|690|00:49:13|290</wrap>of these cycles through the exact time. But suffice it to say, the stage of sacredness is coming for <wrap hide>389|00:49:13|290|00:49:17|930</wrap>our Earth, a kind of glorification. Our Earth will probably reach the fourth or fifth cosmic <wrap hide>390|00:49:17|930|00:49:25|310</wrap>initiation in this solar system. Venus will almost certainly reach the fifth cosmic initiation in <wrap hide>391|00:49:25|310|00:49:33|550</wrap>this solar system, and just as the solar Logos may well do either the fourth or the fifth, but <wrap hide>392|00:49:33|550|00:49:39|410</wrap>maybe the fifth. And Virgo, who knows what that great constellation will reach in terms of its <wrap hide>393|00:49:39|410|00:49:47|070</wrap>initiatory process? But at least with respect to the matter of our solar system, it will be glorified. <wrap hide>394|00:49:47|070|00:49:52|750</wrap>And since we're in a second-ray solar system whose theme is the great radiation of light, you <wrap hide>395|00:49:52|750|00:49:59|490</wrap>know, the great splendid radiation of light, there will be a glorification of matter in our solar <wrap hide>396|00:49:59|490|00:50:05|490</wrap>system. They represent these three: two planets and one constellation. <wrap quote>They represent the three <wrap hide>397|00:50:05|490|00:50:14|810</wrap>divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of Sagittarius <wrap hide>398|00:50:14|810|00:50:21|430</wrap>driving them on to a still greater consummation.</wrap> Well, which three are we talking about? Because we have <wrap hide>399|00:50:21|430|00:50:29|730</wrap>had the discussion of three signs which are Gemini, Virgo, and Pisces, and we could add to that another <wrap hide>400|00:50:29|730|00:50:39|870</wrap>sign. Or we've just had the discussion of three factors: Venus, Virgo, and Earth. <wrap quote>They represent the <wrap hide>401|00:50:39|870|00:50:47|950</wrap>three divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of Sagittarius driving them on to <wrap hide>402|00:50:47|950|00:50:54|690</wrap>a still greater consummation.</wrap> We see that Sagittarius is a driving, one-pointed sign, and it is a fire <wrap hide>403|00:50:54|690|00:51:03|570</wrap>sign. So do we have Venus, Virgo, and Sagittarius being driven on by... Venus, Virgo, and Mother Earth <wrap hide>404|00:51:03|570|00:51:10|090</wrap>being driven on by Sagittarius? Probably. <wrap quote>There is a wide and interesting field of research to be <wrap hide>405|00:51:10|090|00:51:17|810</wrap>found in the relation of</wrap> and let's see what those relations are: <wrap quote>1. The planet Venus—ruler of the <wrap hide>406|00:51:17|810|00:51:23|990</wrap>constellation Gemini.</wrap> esoterically; <wrap quote>2. The Earth on which we live, called often “Mother Earth.”</wrap> (interestingly <wrap hide>407|00:51:23|990|00:51:30|470</wrap>in a masculine incarnation, but probably called because of its third-ray fecundity in its <wrap hide>408|00:51:30|990|00:51:40|390</wrap>personality ray at least) Mother Earth; <wrap quote>3. The Fish-goddesses of the sign Pisces.</wrap> which have spawned <wrap hide>409|00:51:40|390|00:51:51|270</wrap>the descent of the monads or souls; and <wrap quote>4. Virgo, the Virgin.</wrap> Okay, he indicates how we may enter into <wrap hide>410|00:51:51|270|00:52:02|250</wrap>this wide field of speculation involving three... involving two planets and two signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>411|00:52:02|250|00:52:15|010</wrap>We are moving from Virgo towards Pisces, towards the consummation of matter and its spiritual <wrap hide>412|00:52:15|010|00:52:21|730</wrap>elevation. So just as in a way Virgo moves towards Pisces, or matter moves towards its release into a <wrap hide>413|00:52:21|730|00:52:33|810</wrap>higher dimension, so Mother Earth with its great plethora of forms moves towards Venus and towards <wrap hide>414|00:52:33|810|00:52:44|730</wrap>Gemini. So it moves toward becoming like its elder sister or elder brother, and we'll put Venus in that <wrap hide>415|00:52:44|730|00:52:51|630</wrap>role. So certainly Pisces is a sign of great consummation, and each one of the signs of the <wrap hide>416|00:52:51|630|00:52:58|230</wrap>zodiac has a different stage of evolution. We cannot think of them all as equally unfolded, <wrap hide>417|00:52:58|230|00:53:03|690</wrap>just as we cannot think of stars as equally unfolded, or planets as equally unfolded, or <wrap hide>418|00:53:03|690|00:53:10|030</wrap>of human beings as equally unfolded. So some play a dominating role in relation to others, and Pisces, <wrap hide>419|00:53:10|030|00:53:15|610</wrap>as a cosmic decanate and a sign of great consummation, is certainly playing one of the <wrap hide>420|00:53:15|610|00:53:24|930</wrap>final roles in relation to the signs of the zodiac, constellation of the zodiac, and in relation to our <wrap hide>421|00:53:24|930|00:53:36|750</wrap>solar system. All right, there are many factors there which we can begin to pursue. Okay, so we've <wrap hide>422|00:53:36|750|00:53:48|150</wrap>had here in the previous paragraph three constellations becoming as one and in a way driven <wrap hide>423|00:53:48|150|00:53:55|790</wrap>on by Sagittarius in a way, and we've also had here what looks like two planets and one constellation: <wrap hide>424|00:53:55|790|00:54:02|910</wrap>Venus, Earth and Virgo, as well possibly driven on by Sagittarius, which is a very purposeful energy <wrap hide>425|00:54:02|910|00:54:11|510</wrap>always with the goal in sight and involved in this case in that driving forward through space, <wrap hide>426|00:54:11|510|00:54:18|770</wrap>which is characteristic of the first ray. There are many mysteries there. I'd love to be able to ponder <wrap hide>427|00:54:18|770|00:54:25|150</wrap>on that for a long time, but then he does indicate that that's exactly what we should be able to do. <wrap hide>428|00:54:26|070|00:54:32|810</wrap>We are speaking of consummations. Pisces is the sign of consummation. We are speaking of ultimate <wrap hide>429|00:54:32|810|00:54:39|510</wrap>states and the driving towards ultimate states. Let's say that Sagittarius is the driving influence <wrap hide>430|00:54:39|510|00:54:46|410</wrap>and Pisces represents the ultimate state. With respect to Earth, Venus represents at least a <wrap hide>431|00:54:46|410|00:54:53|190</wrap>semi-ultimate state, or that which we are attempting to become. The fish goddesses we reviewed earlier— <wrap hide>432|00:54:53|190|00:54:59|690</wrap>they are releasing the individual souls. Perhaps they are even in a way releasing the monads as <wrap hide>433|00:54:59|690|00:55:07|910</wrap>they go forth into the sea of the five lower sub-planes. <wrap quote>Gemini and Sagittarius are connected <wrap hide>434|00:55:07|910|00:55:15|550</wrap>through their ruling planets (because the Earth is more closely related to Venus than to any other <wrap hide>435|00:55:15|550|00:55:20|850</wrap>planet)</wrap> All right, there are planetary pairs we know—you know, probably Mars and Pluto are such, <wrap hide>436|00:55:20|850|00:55:27|650</wrap>maybe Jupiter and Saturn are such, maybe Uranus and Neptune are such, and the Earth and Venus are <wrap hide>437|00:55:27|650|00:55:33|550</wrap>certainly closely related. Mercury and the Sun are one, although Mercury has a very close relationship <wrap hide>438|00:55:33|550|00:55:40|890</wrap>to Venus as well. Gemini and Sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets Earth, the <wrap hide>439|00:55:40|890|00:55:50|270</wrap>esoteric ruler of Sagittarius, or the hierarchical ruler of Gemini. Interestingly, this way: Earth, the <wrap hide>440|00:55:50|270|00:55:57|110</wrap>esoteric ruler of Sagittarius; Venus, the esoteric ruler of Gemini; and the connection between <wrap hide>441|00:55:57|110|00:56:03|730</wrap>Gemini and Sagittarius through the two ruling planets, not just through the fact that Earth is <wrap hide>442|00:56:03|730|00:56:09|910</wrap>involved with both of them. Perhaps by the time that Earth is hierarchically the ruler of Gemini, <wrap hide>443|00:56:09|910|00:56:18|210</wrap>it will be a lot more like Venus than it is now. <wrap quote>and thus again you have the six potencies which <wrap hide>444|00:56:18|210|00:56:26|730</wrap>produce release from the bondage of form, entered into in Cancer as far as the mass of humanity is <wrap hide>445|00:56:26|730|00:56:32|450</wrap>concerned (by this I mean the birth of the human kingdom) and in Pisces as far as the <wrap hide>446|00:56:32|450|00:56:39|290</wrap>individual is considered.</wrap> Well, that's what I have been quoting, this particular sentence. The—in <wrap hide>447|00:56:39|290|00:56:45|990</wrap>Cancer you enter into the bondage of form; the mass of humanity does that. But the individual enters <wrap hide>448|00:56:45|990|00:56:51|750</wrap>into the bondage of form in Pisces. That does seem to be what he is saying, so we have to watch that <wrap hide>449|00:56:51|750|00:57:03|750</wrap>first incarnation. The individual enters the bondage of form in Pisces, and the bondage of <wrap hide>450|00:57:03|750|00:57:11|170</wrap>form is the process of incarnation. So I am concluding that that first incarnation for <wrap hide>451|00:57:11|170|00:57:16|990</wrap>an individual human being has a lot to do with the sign Pisces. So we have been talking about <wrap hide>452|00:57:16|990|00:57:26|470</wrap>six potencies. There are various policies to look at. Certainly we've had the six potencies <wrap hide>453|00:57:26|470|00:57:34|230</wrap>of the six planets in relation to the later mutable cross, and they have been Jupiter, Mercury, <wrap hide>454|00:57:34|230|00:57:45|890</wrap>Venus, the Moon/Vulcan, Earth, and Pluto. But now let's see—does he seem to mean any other <wrap hide>455|00:57:47|250|00:57:56|130</wrap>potencies here? It is possible that we can be speaking of the entire mutable cross plus Venus <wrap hide>456|00:57:56|130|00:58:04|590</wrap>and the Earth—another six potencies. Are—okay, "entered into Cancer," etc. So one way of looking <wrap hide>457|00:58:04|590|00:58:12|930</wrap>at six potencies—one way of looking at six potencies is the six planets which are the <wrap hide>458|00:58:12|930|00:58:28|930</wrap>orthodox and esoteric rulers of the mutable cross. The other way is the four signs of the <wrap hide>459|00:58:28|930|00:58:38|790</wrap>mutable cross and Earth and Venus, and that may be what he is discussing here. They produce release <wrap hide>460|00:58:38|790|00:58:44|650</wrap>from the bondage of form. Okay, that bears further examination. <wrap hide>461|00:58:46|770|00:58:53|810</wrap>We have been considering, however, the factor of exaltation, and Venus definitely does seem to be <wrap hide>462|00:58:53|810|00:59:05|390</wrap>involved. All right, we have reached the point where we will now end this discussion. This is the—as it <wrap hide>463|00:59:05|390|00:59:16|450</wrap>at the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure Number 57, and we have gone maybe not very far— <wrap hide>464|00:59:17|190|00:59:24|670</wrap>oh, okay—up to 131. So we've gone from page 129 to 131. <wrap hide>465|00:59:27|030|00:59:29|710</wrap>And we will take this up with Esoteric Astrology <wrap hide>466|00:59:30|170|00:59:38|610</wrap>Adventure Number 58. And for now we will together do The Great Invocation together. <wrap hide>467|00:59:52|010|00:59:59|530</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of <wrap hide>468|00:59:59|530|01:00:08|730</wrap>men, let light descend on Earth from the point of love within the heart of God. <wrap hide>469|01:00:08|730|01:00:14|890</wrap>Let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>470|01:00:20|090|01:00:26|090</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, <wrap hide>471|01:00:26|670|01:00:29|450</wrap>the purpose which the Masters know and serve. <wrap hide>472|01:00:35|270|01:00:40|550</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, <wrap hide>473|01:00:40|550|01:00:43|530</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>474|01:00:47|270|01:00:53|310</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. <wrap hide>475|01:00:56|470|01:00:57|870</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>476|01:01:05|450|01:01:06|850</wrap>Um. <wrap hide>477|01:01:26|310|01:01:32|970</wrap>Okay friends, thank you for your participation and your study, and as I've been, you know, <wrap hide>478|01:01:33|110|01:01:35|990</wrap>I was thinking about this during The Great Invocation that came to me. <wrap hide>479|01:01:37|630|01:01:49|210</wrap>We're talking about <wrap quote>you have the six potencies which produce release from the bondage <wrap hide>480|01:01:49|210|01:01:50|450</wrap>of form,</wrap> <wrap hide>481|01:01:51|090|01:01:56|630</wrap>Okay, I do believe that Pisces must be included among them, so we're looking at a sixfold list <wrap hide>482|01:01:56|630|01:01:58|710</wrap>which is not entirely that of the planets. <wrap hide>483|01:01:59|310|01:02:06|010</wrap>We have to include the Virgo Pisces, Gemini Sagittarius, Venus, and the Earth. <wrap hide>484|01:02:06|110|01:02:08|970</wrap>I believe those are the six potencies. <wrap hide>485|01:02:10|930|01:02:18|330</wrap>So here I made this, one of the ways of looking at the six potencies is the six planets which <wrap hide>486|01:02:18|330|01:02:22|270</wrap>are the Orthodox and the Estrature rules, but the other way is the four signs of the <wrap hide>487|01:02:22|270|01:02:31|710</wrap>Util Cross, Earth and Venus, and I think this is more likely the story of the release from <wrap hide>488|01:02:31|710|01:02:32|090</wrap>bondage. <wrap hide>489|01:02:36|610|01:02:41|990</wrap>Okay, just had to add that, maybe I'll mention it when we begin the next one. <wrap hide>490|01:02:42|430|01:02:48|250</wrap>Okay good, then that's that for the moment and hopefully all has worked out well and <wrap hide>491|01:02:48|250|01:02:55|770</wrap>we will see you in Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 58 beginning on page 131 and continuing <wrap hide>492|01:02:56|630|01:02:59|770</wrap>the discussion of the constellation or sign Pisces. <wrap hide>493|01:03:00|330|01:03:00|990</wrap>Okay, see you then.
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