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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|920|00:00:15|280</wrap>Hi everybody, we are about to begin Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 58. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|280|00:00:19|600</wrap>I believe that is correct; yes, we've ended 57. <wrap hide>3|00:00:20|840|00:00:31|140</wrap>We were talking about six potencies which produce release from bondage, from the bondage <wrap hide>4|00:00:31|140|00:00:38|140</wrap>of form <wrap quote>entered into in Cancer as far as the mass of humanity is concerned <wrap hide>5|00:00:38|900|00:00:42|260</wrap>(by this I mean the birth of the human kingdom)</wrap> as a whole. <wrap hide>6|00:00:42|680|00:00:46|740</wrap><wrap quote>and in Pisces as far as the individual is considered.</wrap> <wrap hide>7|00:00:48|200|00:01:01|760</wrap>There does seem to be a little bit of possible contradiction there, as D.K. does say here that <wrap hide>8|00:01:03|740|00:01:13|780</wrap>Cancer is opening the door into mass life, and then he seems to say that the very first <wrap hide>9|00:01:13|780|00:01:18|740</wrap>incarnation is taken in the sign Cancer. <wrap hide>10|00:01:21|640|00:01:28|820</wrap>By that I mean he says the very first human incarnation was always taken in this sign, <wrap hide>11|00:01:28|820|00:01:37|260</wrap>which has been recognized down the ages as the doorway into life of those who must know <wrap hide>12|00:01:37|260|00:01:37|860</wrap>death. <wrap hide>13|00:01:39|340|00:01:45|960</wrap>And so we have to contrast that statement about the very first incarnation with the <wrap hide>14|00:01:45|960|00:01:53|950</wrap>statement here that, as far as the individual is considered, he enters into form for the <wrap hide>15|00:01:53|950|00:01:56|930</wrap>first time in Pisces. <wrap hide>16|00:01:58|210|00:02:03|450</wrap>And by entry into form, I presume this means entry into incarnation. <wrap hide>17|00:02:04|590|00:02:11|230</wrap>The six potencies—I proposed there were two ways to look at them, but increasingly I feel <wrap hide>18|00:02:11|230|00:02:18|060</wrap>that the way to consider the six potencies <wrap quote>which produce release from the bondage of <wrap hide>19|00:02:18|060|00:02:28|380</wrap>form,</wrap> are Venus and Earth as two planets, and then the four constellations on the mutable <wrap hide>20|00:02:28|380|00:02:29|260</wrap>cross. <wrap hide>21|00:02:30|860|00:02:33|320</wrap>I think there's a very close connection here. <wrap hide>22|00:02:34|340|00:02:40|640</wrap>The pairs of opposites called spirit and matter can be related to Pisces and Virgo, depending <wrap hide>23|00:02:40|640|00:02:42|540</wrap>on which way you want to look at it. <wrap hide>24|00:02:42|540|00:02:51|160</wrap>Sometimes Pisces can represent spirit and Virgo can represent matter, or it can be reversed, <wrap hide>25|00:02:51|160|00:02:56|940</wrap>and water is matter is Pisces, and Virgo is the ruler of the plane of spirit, monadic <wrap hide>26|00:02:56|940|00:02:57|380</wrap>plane. <wrap hide>27|00:02:58|380|00:03:05|780</wrap>So that is a major pair of opposites, and it has to do with the highest aspect of man and <wrap hide>28|00:03:05|780|00:03:06|640</wrap>his lowest aspect. <wrap hide>29|00:03:06|640|00:03:14|100</wrap>Then we understand that through the rulership of Venus and the Earth, we are bringing in— <wrap hide>30|00:03:14|100|00:03:19|620</wrap>we have four potencies so far—we're bringing in Gemini and Sagittarius, with Gemini ruled <wrap hide>31|00:03:19|620|00:03:24|200</wrap>by Venus and Sagittarius by the Earth. <wrap hide>32|00:03:25|940|00:03:32|340</wrap>And here we have a pair of opposites which relates not so much to spirit and matter, but <wrap hide>33|00:03:32|340|00:03:39|160</wrap>to soul and personality, for in a way Gemini rules the soul and Sagittarius the personality. <wrap hide>34|00:03:40|720|00:03:55|000</wrap>We have the esoteric factor in the Venus rulership of Gemini, and there we find the solar angel. <wrap hide>35|00:03:55|000|00:04:03|680</wrap>So we have the animal factor in Sagittarius, ruled by the Earth or hierarchically by Mars. <wrap hide>36|00:04:03|940|00:04:08|160</wrap>We have animal man of the third kingdom represented by Sagittarius. <wrap hide>37|00:04:08|320|00:04:15|200</wrap>We have the angelic winged kingdom represented by Gemini. <wrap hide>38|00:04:15|200|00:04:24|280</wrap>And so the interplay between them produced individualization, represented by Leo, or the <wrap hide>39|00:04:24|800|00:04:32|060</wrap>light coming into expression first as a tiny point and then growing into the personal ego <wrap hide>40|00:04:32|060|00:04:39|400</wrap>and finally into the higher self and eventually universal self-realization—all of that under <wrap hide>41|00:04:39|400|00:04:39|980</wrap>Leo. <wrap hide>42|00:04:39|980|00:04:48|240</wrap>So, here are the six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form. <wrap hide>43|00:04:49|140|00:04:57|960</wrap>First, upon the plane of Earth, we have the man of form; we have the animal man in relation <wrap hide>44|00:04:57|960|00:05:03|040</wrap>to Sagittarius and the Earth, but that animal man aspires. <wrap hide>45|00:05:03|040|00:05:12|460</wrap>He aspires towards something higher; he aspires towards the Geminian state in which the higher <wrap hide>46|00:05:12|460|00:05:18|980</wrap>brother—I recognize my other self, and in the waning of that self I grow and glow—in <wrap hide>47|00:05:18|980|00:05:25|220</wrap>which that higher brother becomes effulgent and man enters the true soul state. <wrap hide>48|00:05:25|640|00:05:31|720</wrap>He is deeply embedded in matter because Venus has fallen into matter. <wrap hide>49|00:05:31|720|00:05:40|340</wrap>This is the sign of the solar angels having fallen into matter and thereby serving, and <wrap hide>50|00:05:40|340|00:05:47|640</wrap>eventually we have the exaltation of Venus rising into Pisces when the work of the solar <wrap hide>51|00:05:47|640|00:05:56|400</wrap>angels is consummated, and then man is prepared to begin to live the life of the triad, which <wrap hide>52|00:05:56|400|00:06:01|480</wrap>is an extension of the monad with which Pisces can be strongly associated. <wrap hide>53|00:06:02|200|00:06:06|620</wrap>"I leave, I the monad, leave my father's home and turning back I save." <wrap hide>54|00:06:07|260|00:06:16|320</wrap>It's interesting when we consider Venus that it has a relationship with Virgo, which is <wrap hide>55|00:06:16|320|00:06:23|200</wrap>its fall, with Gemini, which represents the soul state, and with Pisces, which represents <wrap hide>56|00:06:23|200|00:06:24|960</wrap>the liberation of the soul. <wrap hide>57|00:06:24|960|00:06:32|460</wrap>And then opposite Gemini we have Sagittarius, in which the Earth is found but not Venus. <wrap hide>58|00:06:32|720|00:06:35|520</wrap>The Earth is found as an esoteric ruler. <wrap hide>59|00:06:35|800|00:06:44|080</wrap>So three of the constellations of the mutable cross are closely related to Venus, and one <wrap hide>60|00:06:44|080|00:06:45|540</wrap>of them is not. <wrap hide>61|00:06:45|720|00:06:51|820</wrap>One of them is more related to the animal nature, so in a way we have a condition of <wrap hide>62|00:06:51|820|00:07:02|160</wrap>the fallen Venus in Virgo representing the very beginning of the life of animal man who <wrap hide>63|00:07:02|160|00:07:03|560</wrap>has entered the human kingdom. <wrap hide>64|00:07:04|380|00:07:10|040</wrap>We have Sagittarius representing animal man who began to aspire towards a higher state. <wrap hide>65|00:07:10|880|00:07:18|040</wrap>We have the opposite sign of Sagittarius in which the soul magnetically draws the embedded <wrap hide>66|00:07:18|040|00:07:23|380</wrap>consciousness towards a higher state of consciousness, its own soul consciousness. <wrap hide>67|00:07:23|600|00:07:29|620</wrap>We have the solar angel working magnetically, and finally from the very fallen state we <wrap hide>68|00:07:29|620|00:07:36|080</wrap>have the exalted state with Venus in Pisces where freedom is achieved, the freedom of <wrap hide>69|00:07:36|080|00:07:43|540</wrap>the solar angel to return to its home within the sun, its temporary home at least, and man <wrap hide>70|00:07:43|540|00:07:50|680</wrap>to rise up to the feet of the solar angelic kingdom and become a winged creature, one <wrap hide>71|00:07:50|680|00:07:56|480</wrap>who is free from the lower elemental life, one who from the perspective of the higher <wrap hide>72|00:07:56|480|00:08:03|900</wrap>lives is no longer considered to be an elemental life but has his wings conferred at the fourth <wrap hide>73|00:08:03|900|00:08:11|980</wrap>initiation and therefore can fly in the plane of air, and that is the Buddhic plane, and from <wrap hide>74|00:08:11|980|00:08:20|320</wrap>a higher perspective all of the cosmic ethers represent the winged kingdom in which the <wrap hide>75|00:08:20|320|00:08:22|000</wrap>consciousness can fly. <wrap hide>76|00:08:22|900|00:08:32|160</wrap>So that's the story of bondage which the Earth and Virgo represent and liberation which Gemini <wrap hide>77|00:08:32|160|00:08:42|300</wrap>and Venus and finally Pisces represents—complete liberation of the soul from the lower kingdoms. <wrap hide>78|00:08:44|600|00:08:57|140</wrap>Okay, now we can move on to esoteric astrology adventure 58. <wrap quote>In pointing out the significance <wrap hide>79|00:08:57|140|00:09:07|100</wrap>of the above facts, I am not considering the orthodox astrological reasons for the exaltation <wrap hide>80|00:09:07|100|00:09:12|720</wrap>and the fall of certain planets in certain signs,</wrap> and that is actually somewhat mathematically <wrap hide>81|00:09:12|720|00:09:24|740</wrap>based as there are degrees of fall and exaltation, and they usually have to do with explanations <wrap hide>82|00:09:24|740|00:09:29|600</wrap>which are not very occult—do not concern the soul or spirit. <wrap hide>83|00:09:30|360|00:09:37|320</wrap><wrap quote>I am concerned with the effect of the waxing and the waning influence upon the subject, man.</wrap> <wrap hide>84|00:09:37|320|00:09:54|440</wrap> So the planets have influence which waxes and wanes, and there is an effect, <wrap hide>85|00:09:54|440|00:10:02|200</wrap>and some of these influences lift a man very high and some seem to hold him in a state <wrap hide>86|00:10:02|200|00:10:03|740</wrap>of suppression. <wrap hide>87|00:10:04|180|00:10:13|700</wrap>So we're dealing with psycho-spiritual reasons for exaltation, falls, and detriments. <wrap hide>88|00:10:14|040|00:10:19|320</wrap>We have to consider the soul nature and spirit nature of man, and this of course ordinary <wrap hide>89|00:10:19|320|00:10:26|740</wrap>astrology, whereas it may hint at that occasionally, does not explicitly deal with man the ego <wrap hide>90|00:10:26|740|00:10:33|620</wrap>on the higher mental plane and man the spiritual triad and man the monad on the monadic plane. <wrap hide>91|00:10:33|980|00:10:41|100</wrap>It deals mostly with man the personality and his fate in the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>92|00:10:41|900|00:10:49|860</wrap><wrap quote>Bear this in mind and—at the same time—remember that we are occupied with the <wrap hide>93|00:10:49|860|00:10:57|580</wrap>Great Illusion which it is the major task of man in this particular world cycle to master and dissipate,</wrap> <wrap hide>94|00:10:57|580|00:11:03|100</wrap>man becoming the world disciple. And you know sometimes when he talks about the great illusion <wrap hide>95|00:11:03|760|00:11:11|080</wrap>we don't have to consider the entire universe, although in a way the Brahman certainly do <wrap hide>96|00:11:11|080|00:11:15|780</wrap>consider the entire world to be the Maha Maya or the great illusion, but we can consider <wrap hide>97|00:11:15|780|00:11:23|460</wrap>the three lower sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. <wrap hide>98|00:11:24|220|00:11:30|820</wrap>In other words, the dense physical body of the solar Logos is considered the realm of <wrap hide>99|00:11:30|820|00:11:39|620</wrap>the great illusion, and it is our task to master this and to dissipate this and begin to live <wrap hide>100|00:11:39|620|00:11:46|360</wrap>more according to the principles that are found in the second solar system, begin to <wrap hide>101|00:11:46|360|00:11:55|540</wrap>live the cosmic etheric life no longer trapped by the energy residuals of the previous solar <wrap hide>102|00:11:55|540|00:11:56|100</wrap>system. <wrap hide>103|00:11:57|000|00:12:03|580</wrap>So we are occupied with the great illusion. It is our task to dispel and dissipate that <wrap hide>104|00:12:03|580|00:12:09|660</wrap>illusion of this particular world cycle <wrap quote>and so to inaugurate the reign of the Real.</wrap> <wrap hide>105|00:12:11|080|00:12:18|840</wrap>Very memorable kind of phrase due to the alliteration, the reign of the real. <wrap hide>106|00:12:19|860|00:12:20|800</wrap>Where does the real begin? <wrap hide>107|00:12:21|000|00:12:29|960</wrap>You know, from the perspective of the second solar system the real begins on the Buddhic <wrap hide>108|00:12:29|960|00:12:37|360</wrap>plane which is in the cosmic etheric body of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>109|00:12:38|020|00:12:39|260</wrap>That's where the real begins. <wrap hide>110|00:12:39|520|00:12:50|660</wrap>Buddhi with its emphasis upon pure reason and straight knowledge and intuition is the <wrap hide>111|00:12:50|660|00:12:57|960</wrap>great place of the clear, cold light which is no longer confused by Maya glamour and <wrap hide>112|00:12:57|960|00:12:58|400</wrap>illusion. <wrap hide>113|00:12:59|820|00:13:07|860</wrap><wrap quote>It is the revelation of the Real which is the task all initiates undertake after the <wrap hide>114|00:13:07|860|00:13:12|920</wrap>final experience of the twelve final tests in the twelve signs.</wrap> <wrap hide>115|00:13:13|740|00:13:19|280</wrap>He talks about these twelve tests as if they are kind of a unified experience. <wrap hide>116|00:13:19|280|00:13:29|680</wrap>Now, to reveal the real, we recall the nature of the five initiations, and there are five <wrap hide>117|00:13:30|320|00:13:33|240</wrap>words which are associated with each of these initiations. <wrap hide>118|00:13:33|500|00:13:36|280</wrap>The first, for the first initiation, is "know." <wrap hide>119|00:13:37|220|00:13:38|920</wrap>For the second initiation, "express." <wrap hide>120|00:13:39|800|00:13:43|500</wrap>For the third initiation, and this is germane here, "reveal." <wrap hide>121|00:13:44|660|00:13:53|900</wrap>And then for the fourth, it is the crucifixion, "destroy," and then for the fifth initiation, <wrap hide>122|00:13:53|900|00:13:59|200</wrap>"resurrect," even though the real resurrection occurs at the seventh initiation. <wrap hide>123|00:13:59|360|00:14:06|160</wrap>There's a kind of resurrection out of the lower twenty-one sub-planes which occurs at <wrap hide>124|00:14:06|160|00:14:07|740</wrap>the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>125|00:14:07|740|00:14:13|600</wrap>So the revelation of the real fits very well with the third initiation, <wrap hide>126|00:14:15|180|00:14:19|200</wrap>the keynote or keyword of which is "reveal." <wrap hide>127|00:14:20|160|00:14:24|800</wrap>It is the revelation of the real which is the task of all initiates until after the <wrap hide>128|00:14:24|800|00:14:30|400</wrap>final experience of the twelve final tests in the twelve signs, and presumably these tests— <wrap hide>129|00:14:30|400|00:14:40|120</wrap>I presume—will they will occur before the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>130|00:14:42|240|00:14:50|080</wrap>Hercules, the disciple becoming the triumphant disciple, is not demonstrating the life of <wrap hide>131|00:14:50|080|00:14:58|520</wrap>the fourth initiation particularly—maybe in the final labor where he's saving the red <wrap hide>132|00:14:58|520|00:15:07|060</wrap>cattle in a chalice, the cattle of Geryon. Perhaps that is a bit like world saviorship. <wrap hide>133|00:15:07|900|00:15:14|540</wrap>But generally, he is not moving quite as far as becoming a master of the wisdom. <wrap hide>134|00:15:15|740|00:15:24|040</wrap>So I think the twelve tests—I suspect—must occur leading to the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>135|00:15:25|020|00:15:33|260</wrap><wrap quote>Therefore, when we find that the power of Mercury is lessened in Pisces</wrap>—that's initially—<wrap quote>and <wrap hide>136|00:15:33|260|00:15:39|620</wrap>that it finally “falls” in that sign,</wrap> so we have two stages there: lessening and fall. And D.K. is speaking <wrap hide>137|00:15:39|620|00:15:49|000</wrap>of diminishment and the final bondage of the faculties—the ordinary faculties of <wrap hide>138|00:15:49|000|00:15:49|300</wrap>Mercury. <wrap hide>139|00:15:49|640|00:15:55|580</wrap>So we have two stages here until it finally falls in that sign. <wrap quote>what is the esoteric and <wrap hide>140|00:15:55|580|00:15:56|380</wrap>spiritual meaning?</wrap> <wrap hide>141|00:15:58|560|00:16:00|440</wrap>Well, let's see what he says. <wrap hide>142|00:16:01|340|00:16:07|060</wrap>We know, of course, that Mercury in Pisces can be found on the chart of some various <wrap hide>143|00:16:07|060|00:16:16|540</wrap>devout individuals. They will have a great capacity for intuition, although their normal reasoning, <wrap hide>144|00:16:16|540|00:16:24|780</wrap>rational process may not be so evident. It's more an intuitive process, and it seems to <wrap hide>145|00:16:24|780|00:16:32|120</wrap>be the fall of the lesser modalities of Mercury that we are talking about. Every fall is an <wrap hide>146|00:16:32|120|00:16:34|900</wrap>exaltation; every exaltation can be a fall. <wrap hide>147|00:16:35|900|00:16:36|900</wrap><wrap quote>Simply,</wrap> what does it mean? <wrap hide>148|00:16:38|200|00:16:43|320</wrap><wrap quote>that after the stage of initiation in Capricorn,</wrap>—look at Mercury in relation to the third decanate <wrap hide>149|00:16:43|320|00:16:48|600</wrap>of Capricorn along with the Sun and Vulcan—that after the stage of initiation of Capricorn, <wrap hide>150|00:16:48|600|00:16:55|800</wrap><wrap quote>as the result of the reversal of the wheel //and the consequent experiences//,</wrap> which occurred <wrap hide>151|00:16:55|800|00:17:05|300</wrap>in one sense many lives before this third initiation, <wrap quote>and after the triumph of Scorpio,</wrap> <wrap hide>152|00:17:05|300|00:17:12|240</wrap>in which Mercury is also powerful, being the hierarchical ruler, and the mind has two phases <wrap hide>153|00:17:12|240|00:17:17|780</wrap>to pass through—the control of the emotions and the illumination—the power of the mind <wrap hide>154|00:17:17|780|00:17:24|120</wrap>is very strong in Scorpio, and I think quite strong in Capricorn because <wrap hide>155|00:17:24|120|00:17:30|980</wrap>of the third decanate. The power of the mind lessens steadily—the mind per se, let's call <wrap hide>156|00:17:30|980|00:17:35|940</wrap>it that, because, you know, intuition is the transcendental mind—so it's the mind per se. <wrap hide>157|00:17:35|940|00:17:42|480</wrap><wrap quote>the power of the mind lessens steadily till finally (like other aspects of form life <wrap hide>158|00:17:42|480|00:17:47|540</wrap>in the three worlds)</wrap>—so here he is talking about the concrete mind, obviously concrete <wrap hide>159|00:17:47|540|00:17:53|620</wrap>mind—<wrap quote>it comes to an end and its meaning and illuminating aspects between soul and physical <wrap hide>160|00:17:53|620|00:18:03|540</wrap>brain are no longer required.</wrap> because we have direct contact between the soul and physical <wrap hide>161|00:18:03|540|00:18:11|360</wrap>brain and between the intuition and physical brain. So mind as a mediator, Mercury as a mediator <wrap hide>162|00:18:11|360|00:18:23|620</wrap>translating into symbols and various mediatory forms the direct vision and knowledge of the <wrap hide>163|00:18:23|620|00:18:29|620</wrap>intuition, that is no longer needed. The man comes definitely into full soul consciousness <wrap hide>164|00:18:30|920|00:18:39|700</wrap>without the reasoning mind as a mediator. Let's put that in without the—and we'll put this <wrap hide>165|00:18:39|700|00:18:48|220</wrap>reasoning mind as the mediator, he will be subject then to pure reason. But pure reason <wrap hide>166|00:18:48|220|00:18:57|520</wrap>is not reasoning occurring in time and under sequential Saturn. <wrap quote>The man, coming definitely <wrap hide>167|00:18:57|520|00:19:05|560</wrap>into full soul consciousness, requires now no mediator but deals directly himself with <wrap hide>168|00:19:05|560|00:19:14|960</wrap>his emanating source.</wrap> So we have the physical brain and the soul in direct connection, and <wrap hide>169|00:19:14|960|00:19:23|540</wrap>even direct connection with the spiritual triad. <wrap quote>Mercury is then met with again <wrap hide>170|00:19:23|540|00:19:35|420</wrap>under another name, this time as the Sun, mediating between the higher aspects—soul and spirit—for <wrap hide>171|00:19:35|420|00:19:53|520</wrap>Mercury and the Sun are One.</wrap> Now this is interesting. Now Mercury is then the ruler of Boötes. Mercury <wrap hide>172|00:19:53|520|00:20:06|120</wrap>between the monad and the soul on its own plane. <wrap quote>Through Mercury, the mind is illumined and relation <wrap hide>173|00:20:06|120|00:20:12|300</wrap>is established between personality and the soul.</wrap> That's usually how it operates before the fall occurs <wrap quote>As <wrap hide>174|00:20:12|740|00:20:21|100</wrap>Mercury, the Sun—the mediator—shifts to a still higher plane</wrap> It's interesting about the Sun is <wrap hide>175|00:20:21|100|00:20:25|780</wrap>because when you look at the position of the Sun in the double diamond—hate to take a little <wrap hide>176|00:20:26|300|00:20:33|660</wrap>bit of a detour here—but if we go over to page 610 and we see the position of the Sun, we <wrap hide>177|00:20:33|660|00:20:40|080</wrap>will see it in a mediating position, a transforming position. It is mediating between the very highest <wrap hide>178|00:20:40|080|00:20:47|000</wrap>influences and the lower influences. This is the—this is the double—this is the double diamond, okay? <wrap hide>179|00:20:48|620|00:20:54|140</wrap>So the mind is illumined at first, and the first function of Mercury, and relation is established <wrap hide>180|00:20:54|140|00:20:59|860</wrap>between personality and soul. We don't get direct soul impression; perhaps we get mentally mediated <wrap hide>181|00:20:59|860|00:21:09|220</wrap>soul impression. The Mercury translates the soul impression through symbols and words and other <wrap hide>182|00:21:09|220|00:21:15|040</wrap>mediatory forms. But Mercury, as the Sun, the mediator, shifts to a still higher plane—that's the <wrap hide>183|00:21:15|040|00:21:20|860</wrap>monadic plane—<wrap quote>and is no longer mediator between two different stages in consciousness</wrap> such as <wrap hide>184|00:21:20|860|00:21:29|000</wrap>soul and personality consciousness, <wrap quote>but between life</wrap> which is not consciousness per se, which is <wrap hide>185|00:21:29|000|00:21:34|920</wrap>not consciousness, <wrap quote>and consciousness itself; this is a very different matter and effects the higher understanding.</wrap> Mercury does this, and even Jupiter in Gemini <wrap hide>186|00:21:34|920|00:21:40|400</wrap>does this as well. <wrap quote>This will necessarily be incomprehensible to you at present for it is <wrap hide>187|00:21:40|400|00:21:49|480</wrap>not a mediatorship between differences but a fusion of what is already related. Are you any the <wrap hide>188|00:21:49|480|00:21:57|280</wrap>wiser for that statement?</wrap> So here we have—well, I wonder if we are any—if we are any wiser. Let's <wrap hide>189|00:21:57|280|00:22:03|040</wrap>just say spirit and soul are already related. Certainly spirit and soul are definitely <wrap hide>190|00:22:06|000|00:22:17|340</wrap>related, for spirit has—capitalized it—spirit has—whoop—and spell it correctly—has taken up its <wrap hide>191|00:22:17|340|00:22:28|820</wrap>place as the central fire in the jewel—in fire in the jewel in the Lotus. So they are definitely <wrap hide>192|00:22:28|820|00:22:36|600</wrap>related. But now there is, via Mercury—since Mercury and the Sun are one—a fusion between <wrap hide>193|00:22:36|600|00:22:44|820</wrap>spirit and soul, and this is occurring. This fusion between spirit and soul occurs after <wrap hide>194|00:22:45|060|00:22:57|940</wrap>the third initiation and is consummated at the fourth initiation, and still more fully fulfilled— <wrap hide>195|00:22:57|940|00:23:04|320</wrap>and still more fulfilled at the fifth—because the spiritual triad is still active at the fifth <wrap hide>196|00:23:04|320|00:23:11|460</wrap>initiation, and spiritual triad is the real soul. So we're not mediating here between two aspects <wrap hide>197|00:23:11|460|00:23:21|080</wrap>like—let us say—let's see—let's look at this again here. This—this is no longer a media— <wrap hide>198|00:23:21|080|00:23:26|240</wrap>mediatorship between two different stages of consciousness, but between life, which is distinct <wrap hide>199|00:23:26|240|00:23:34|360</wrap>from consciousness. D.K. talks about moving onward into life. He says past a certain point it is not <wrap hide>200|00:23:34|360|00:23:40|520</wrap>consciousness that we are interested in acquiring, although even great Logoi have consciousness, but <wrap hide>201|00:23:40|520|00:23:50|480</wrap>a penetration, an onward movement into life itself. Mercury has a high function here as a mediator <wrap hide>202|00:23:50|480|00:24:00|200</wrap>between life and consciousness per se. So Mercury, in relation to nirvanic mind—even beyond <wrap hide>203|00:24:00|200|00:24:07|140</wrap>transcendental mind—a kind of mind associated with the nirvanic plane or the atomic plane, is <wrap hide>204|00:24:07|140|00:24:17|520</wrap>bringing the will, the life aspect, fully into consciousness and is a transmitter of sort of <wrap hide>205|00:24:17|520|00:24:23|620</wrap>higher quality or a higher principle and enlivening principle. Mercury is so often involved <wrap hide>206|00:24:23|620|00:24:30|000</wrap>with enlivening. It is involved with the etheric body, the vital body, which is the great enlivener <wrap hide>207|00:24:30|000|00:24:36|660</wrap>of the physical body, and there is the whole question of enlivening the egoic body by the <wrap hide>208|00:24:36|660|00:24:43|480</wrap>revelation of the content of the jewel in the Lotus, which is a direct presence of the monad. <wrap hide>209|00:24:47|180|00:24:54|360</wrap>Okay, so Mercury in a way becomes the Sun, and the—so, you know, from a certain point of view, <wrap hide>210|00:24:54|980|00:25:02|340</wrap>the monad is the Sun as well, but the Sun is considered a sort of a triadal mediator between <wrap hide>211|00:25:02|340|00:25:08|460</wrap>The supreme spirit really there is the Sun, and then three aspects of the Sun and as the triad. <wrap hide>212|00:25:08|460|00:25:14|700</wrap>And then the egoic Lotus is the Sun, and then the personality is the Sun, and even the physical body <wrap hide>213|00:25:14|700|00:25:22|020</wrap>considered as a kind of a Sun etherically. So there are different aspects of the Sun. Mercury <wrap hide>214|00:25:22|020|00:25:29|340</wrap>and the Sun are one, especially in its Buddhic functioning. You know, one seeks to ponder on <wrap hide>215|00:25:29|340|00:25:43|200</wrap>these things in great depth and persistently. Now we have reached that point. Yeah, well, I'll, you know, <wrap hide>216|00:25:43|200|00:25:52|680</wrap>one day I'll send all this to you with the notes. But of course you can freeze your screen <wrap hide>217|00:25:52|680|00:25:59|840</wrap>at any point and you can see what is here. So maybe there's not so much urgent need for that. <wrap hide>218|00:25:59|840|00:26:10|980</wrap>We've come to the question of the decanates now, and the decanates in relation to Pisces. Let's see, <wrap hide>219|00:26:10|980|00:26:20|620</wrap>here we have to go up a little bit. Yeah, the one, two, three wheel of consciousness is the fourth <wrap hide>220|00:26:20|620|00:26:28|100</wrap>wheel of form by reversing the decanate order on the wheel of consciousness. Then there's the <wrap hide>221|00:26:28|100|00:26:35|460</wrap>wheel of form, which Nicholas Nelenn, how he sees it. He's a very fine astrologer in all of these <wrap hide>222|00:26:35|460|00:26:41|460</wrap>matters and in general, of course. And to a degree, decanates, then the Alan Leo decanates are <wrap hide>223|00:26:41|460|00:26:48|180</wrap>there and the Sepharial decanates are there. The Alan Leo decanates we remember are based upon <wrap hide>224|00:26:48|180|00:26:55|280</wrap>the rulerships of the triplicity in which a particular sign is found. Like Aries is found <wrap hide>225|00:26:55|280|00:27:01|520</wrap>in the fire triplicity: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. So the rulers of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius will <wrap hide>226|00:27:01|520|00:27:09|040</wrap>be important decanate rulers. When it comes to Sepharial, he is proceeding rather sequentially <wrap hide>227|00:27:09|040|00:27:21|120</wrap>outward from Saturn, it seems, and moving inward: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun. How does he go? Mars, Mars, <wrap hide>228|00:27:21|120|00:27:32|660</wrap>Sun, and Venus, Mercury, Moon. That is his usual method. Yeah, Venus, Mercury, Moon. Then he goes out <wrap hide>229|00:27:32|660|00:27:39|940</wrap>again, the longest period being that of Saturn. Next shorter is Jupiter, next shorter is Mars, next <wrap hide>230|00:27:39|940|00:27:47|820</wrap>shorter is the Sun period, geocentrically considered around the Earth. At least it's an appearance. It <wrap hide>231|00:27:47|820|00:27:53|220</wrap>appears that these planets are revolving around the Earth in a certain period, but really they are <wrap hide>232|00:27:53|220|00:28:00|080</wrap>revolving around the Sun. Otherwise the Sun couldn't be included, as the Sun is in fact appearing to <wrap hide>233|00:28:00|080|00:28:10|960</wrap>revolve around the Earth from the geocentric perspective. Okay, so let me... yes, I'll do it this <wrap hide>234|00:28:10|960|00:28:27|980</wrap>way and we'll make it just a little... yeah, that'll be good. Okay, all right. Oops. Okay, hmm. Yeah, there <wrap hide>235|00:28:27|980|00:28:39|980</wrap>we go. Okay, now let's see what D.K. says about this, and we'll look at some other charts I've created <wrap hide>236|00:28:39|980|00:28:48|880</wrap>for this. <wrap quote>The same symbolic mode of interpretation must govern also our understanding of the three <wrap hide>237|00:28:48|880|00:28:57|920</wrap>decanates. Both Leo and Sepharial give a list of the decanates and between them there is <wrap hide>238|00:28:57|920|00:29:06|100</wrap>much resemblance but there is, however, an important difference. Leo approaches the closer to <wrap hide>239|00:29:06|100|00:29:11|420</wrap>the esoteric interpretation of astrology</wrap> — and that's a general statement — <wrap quote>whilst Sepharial <wrap hide>240|00:29:11|420|00:29:17|920</wrap>is purely exoteric.</wrap> says the Tibetan. Although occasionally Sepharial's decanates are accepted <wrap hide>241|00:29:17|920|00:29:25|280</wrap>as the truly esoteric ones, as in the case of Gemini. <wrap quote>According to Sepharial, the three <wrap hide>242|00:29:25|280|00:29:32|400</wrap>decanates are governed by Saturn—Jupiter—Mars,</wrap> Now let's take a look at that. Here are the <wrap hide>243|00:29:32|400|00:29:41|540</wrap>Sepharial decanates, and we'll go down and we have right here... here is Pisces in its color lavender, <wrap hide>244|00:29:41|540|00:29:50|840</wrap>and we have Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. That's the... and you see how we are coming inward from Saturn to <wrap hide>245|00:29:50|840|00:29:55|880</wrap>Jupiter, Jupiter, Mars, Mars to the Sun, and so forth, with a shortening of the period around the <wrap hide>246|00:29:55|880|00:30:05|180</wrap>Earth. Okay, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. And D.K. essentializes the meaning very well, you know, and <wrap hide>247|00:30:05|180|00:30:12|840</wrap>in short statements: "They're governed by Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, presenting to the undeveloped <wrap hide>248|00:30:12|840|00:30:21|060</wrap>man who is still not working on the wheel of consciousness, <wrap quote>presenting opportunity to <wrap hide>249|00:30:21|060|00:30:29|480</wrap>work off karma</wrap> — and that would probably be found in the third decanate, which for the average man <wrap hide>250|00:30:29|480|00:30:37|080</wrap>is entered as if it were the first decanate — "and to be successful Jupiter in doing so." So presenting <wrap hide>251|00:30:37|080|00:30:43|820</wrap>the opportunity to work... now whenever you find the word "work," watch for Saturn. Saturn to work off <wrap hide>252|00:30:43|820|00:30:51|080</wrap>karma <wrap quote>and to be successful in so doing</wrap> — that is Jupiter — <wrap quote>and indicating the method employed, that <wrap hide>253|00:30:51|080|00:31:10|000</wrap>of conflict and of war.</wrap> So Mars gives the opportunity to work off karma through conflict. Okay, so <wrap hide>254|00:31:10|000|00:31:23|740</wrap>Alan... so this is... we see here we can see here the method. Let's see, this is Pisces. Okay, there's <wrap hide>255|00:31:23|740|00:31:32|420</wrap>different ways of doing this. The Sepharial decanates are found here: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. <wrap hide>256|00:31:32|420|00:31:41|200</wrap>Now, from another point of view, we could consider them to be Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. See Sepharial. <wrap hide>257|00:31:43|580|00:31:50|980</wrap>Sepharial - what he did, he always considered the counterclockwise order. He was never reversing the <wrap hide>258|00:31:50|980|00:31:58|020</wrap>order. So when we're talking about the first decanate in the usual sense, we're dealing with <wrap hide>259|00:31:58|020|00:32:05|380</wrap>zero to ten degrees. Well, Sepharial puts Saturn in that position, from 10 to 20 Jupiter, and finally <wrap hide>260|00:32:05|380|00:32:18|640</wrap>the third - the 20 to 30 - would be Mars. But of course, what really happens here is that we enter as an <wrap hide>261|00:32:18|640|00:32:23|900</wrap>average individual the sign from the opposite angle, and so we have Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn <wrap hide>262|00:32:23|900|00:32:29|540</wrap>instead of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. When you're dealing with the decanates, you have to be willing <wrap hide>263|00:32:29|540|00:32:37|680</wrap>to turn the wheel in both directions at the same time and not to look for a totally clear <wrap hide>264|00:32:37|680|00:32:47|640</wrap>definition of each decanate space, but as D.K. says, they are fluid. So you see how I've arranged these. <wrap hide>265|00:32:49|560|00:33:00|140</wrap>One of the ways of operating here... Let's see what further D.K. says. He - D.K. - gives us Jupiter, moon, and <wrap hide>266|00:33:00|140|00:33:07|800</wrap>Mars, as we'll see in a minute. And so it's possible to reverse these and have the average man entering <wrap hide>267|00:33:07|800|00:33:12|660</wrap>in the third decanate, which for him is the first, with Mars, then going through the moon, and then <wrap hide>268|00:33:12|660|00:33:21|460</wrap>Jupiter. And then, as the wheel is reversed and as the man begins to aspire, then the normal clockwise - <wrap hide>269|00:33:21|460|00:33:29|700</wrap>counterclockwise - order of the planets would be Jupiter, moon, and Mars. You see the - you see how I've <wrap hide>270|00:33:29|700|00:33:36|560</wrap>done it with this kind of green star representing the mind and the lower integrating personality <wrap hide>271|00:33:36|560|00:33:44|880</wrap>and the blue star representing complete spiritual fulfillment. These particular charts, I think, can be <wrap hide>272|00:33:44|880|00:33:55|780</wrap>studied with profit. So let's see what else D.K. says here. <wrap quote>Leo gives us Jupiter, the Moon <wrap hide>273|00:33:55|780|00:34:02|880</wrap>and Mars.</wrap> Now, Alan Leo again is always operating in the counterclockwise version, just like Sepharial <wrap hide>274|00:34:02|880|00:34:09|720</wrap>is. We have to lay these planets out in the counterclockwise version, which means from 0 to 10, <wrap hide>275|00:34:09|720|00:34:19|780</wrap>10 to 20, 20 to 30, and then move backwards or clockwise in the case of the average individual <wrap hide>276|00:34:19|780|00:34:28|600</wrap>who is responding to these planets - to these decanates - in a way that strictly affects his <wrap hide>277|00:34:28|600|00:34:34|920</wrap>personality and not his soul or spirit. So Leo gives us Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. <wrap quote>He indicates, <wrap hide>1|00:00:03|920|00:00:15|280</wrap>therefore,</wrap> - and D.K. will essentialize here - <wrap quote>He indicates, therefore, the success</wrap> which is incident <wrap hide>279|00:34:41|340|00:34:48|900</wrap>to proved discipleship</wrap> So that is experienced in relation to the first decanate in Pisces, 0 to 10, <wrap hide>280|00:34:48|900|00:34:56|780</wrap><wrap quote>and consequent readiness for initiation, the seeing of the vision with which Jupiter rewards the <wrap hide>281|00:34:56|780|00:35:04|080</wrap>disciple,</wrap> Okay, so all of these things pertain to the first decanate. He gives us Jupiter, the moon, <wrap hide>282|00:35:04|080|00:35:10|340</wrap>and Mars, and so here is success - that's the Jupiterian word - which is incident to proved <wrap hide>283|00:35:10|340|00:35:16|940</wrap>discipleship. So in that first decanate, we are proving that we have made many relinquishments <wrap hide>284|00:35:16|940|00:35:24|180</wrap>and are ready truly for the life of service and even eventual saviorship. <wrap quote>the success which is <wrap hide>285|00:35:24|180|00:35:29|820</wrap>incident to proved discipleship and consequent readiness for initiation,</wrap> because Jupiter is <wrap hide>286|00:35:29|820|00:35:35|820</wrap>always an expansion of consciousness, and when that expansion of consciousness has been achieved, the <wrap hide>287|00:35:35|820|00:35:41|720</wrap>man is initiate before he is initiated. So he is sustaining a certain expansion of consciousness; <wrap hide>288|00:35:41|720|00:35:47|220</wrap>he proves he is ready, therefore, for initiation, and he sees the vision of that which lies ahead. <wrap hide>289|00:35:47|220|00:35:56|460</wrap>Jupiter always is the planet of vision. The second ray is related closely to eyesight and to seeing <wrap hide>290|00:35:56|460|00:36:02|740</wrap>things in a synthetic manner. With the eye, we can see many factors simultaneously - far <wrap hide>291|00:36:02|740|00:36:08|300</wrap>more than we can hear and discriminate - and we are able to see them all in relation. That is synthesis; <wrap hide>292|00:36:08|300|00:36:13|640</wrap>that is the second ray - the second ray type of synthesis. <wrap quote>the seeing of the vision with which <wrap hide>293|00:36:13|640|00:36:19|180</wrap>Jupiter rewards the disciple, and the experience</wrap> - now he's moving to the second decanate - <wrap hide>294|00:36:19|180|00:36:26|100</wrap><wrap quote>the experience which Vulcan confers.</wrap> Now, why Vulcan? Because he had mentioned the moon. So what is <wrap hide>295|00:36:26|100|00:36:35|700</wrap>involved here? <wrap quote>Vulcan has been hitherto hidden,</wrap> - hidden by what? Hidden by the moon, right? Hidden <wrap hide>296|00:36:35|700|00:36:41|220</wrap>by the moon. <wrap quote>but its influence has steadily superseded all lunar control,</wrap> In other words, <wrap hide>297|00:36:41|220|00:36:52|560</wrap>the spiritual will - the spiritual will - overcomes lunar instinct. <wrap quote>its influence has steadily <wrap hide>298|00:36:52|560|00:36:58|420</wrap>superseded all lunar control, for the personality or form side of life is lost to sight in the <wrap hide>299|00:36:58|420|00:37:04|720</wrap>radiance of the Sun, the soul.</wrap> Now, Vulcan and the sun are also - unlike Mercury in the sun - are also, <wrap hide>300|00:37:04|720|00:37:14|900</wrap>remember, Vulcan a planet of blinding - blinding light. And when it is said of Taurus that it <wrap hide>301|00:37:14|900|00:37:22|200</wrap>confers blinding light, it's the light of Venus - is not the blinding light; it's the light of Vulcan. <wrap hide>302|00:37:22|200|00:37:28|460</wrap>which is so close to the Sun and produces that overpowering light experience which is experienced <wrap hide>303|00:37:28|700|00:37:36|620</wrap>at the enlightenment or the third initiation, as Saint Paul experienced it. It's a mixture of the <wrap hide>304|00:37:36|620|00:37:44|580</wrap>first ray with the power of light. So the personality of form side of life, which is the <wrap hide>305|00:37:44|580|00:37:53|740</wrap>moon, is lost to sight in the radiance of the Sun, the soul represented by Vulcan. Represented by <wrap hide>306|00:37:53|740|00:38:04|800</wrap>Vulcan, <wrap quote>The light of Vulcan and the light of the Sun are one light and these three—Mercury, <wrap hide>307|00:38:04|800|00:38:08|460</wrap>Vulcan and the Sun—</wrap>are one. Then there's the Sun, <wrap quote>and these three—Mercury, Vulcan <wrap hide>308|00:38:08|460|00:38:15|640</wrap>and the Sun—stand for a synthesis and a radiance which eventually dims the light of Mercury and it <wrap hide>309|00:38:15|640|00:38:22|900</wrap>"falls" into the background and Vulcan too becomes invisible and only the Sun remains.</wrap> Now we also <wrap hide>310|00:38:22|900|00:38:35|720</wrap>meet—we also meet Mercury, Vulcan, and the Sun in the last decan of Capricorn. We will be studying <wrap hide>311|00:38:35|720|00:38:43|540</wrap>that, and that is an initiatory decanate where the Sun finally is the major ruler and when the <wrap hide>312|00:38:43|540|00:38:49|560</wrap>person conquers the mountain at the third initiation. So in this particular case, we have <wrap hide>313|00:38:49|560|00:38:57|260</wrap>another reason for the sort of fall of Mercury, and it's related to the second decanate, as is <wrap hide>314|00:38:57|260|00:39:08|200</wrap>Vulcan. So the moon is lost to sight, the mind falls away, the spiritual will of Vulcan recedes into <wrap hide>315|00:39:08|200|00:39:17|600</wrap>the presence of the spirit, which stands for—which the Sun stands for. <wrap quote>We have consequently a vision <wrap hide>316|00:39:17|600|00:39:25|340</wrap>of the Sun, the experience of the personality and effort, which is the mode of attainment <wrap hide>317|00:39:26|460|00:39:32|740</wrap>governed by Mars.</wrap> So the experience of the personality and effort are the mode of attainment <wrap hide>318|00:39:32|740|00:39:39|880</wrap>governed by Mars, and this is the final decanate. So we have a great vision in the second decanate, <wrap hide>319|00:39:39|880|00:39:51|140</wrap>a great vision. In that light, we shall see a greater light, and that's the light of Vulcan <wrap hide>320|00:39:51|140|00:39:59|620</wrap>and the Sun. So we really find—whoops, disappeared there—we really find four <wrap hide>321|00:40:00|060|00:40:06|020</wrap>planets involved in the second decanate: four planets involved in the second decan. <wrap hide>322|00:40:07|300|00:40:15|740</wrap>We have the Moon, we have Mercury, which is falling away in the blinding light of Vulcan, <wrap hide>323|00:40:16|480|00:40:22|960</wrap>and then we have the presence of the Sun. So we have successful discipleship under Jupiter—first <wrap hide>324|00:40:22|960|00:40:28|700</wrap>decanate. We have a great vision, an experience of liberating light in the second decanate, <wrap hide>325|00:40:28|700|00:40:36|640</wrap>and we have this ongoing battle: the experience of the personality, which is the mode of attainment <wrap hide>326|00:40:36|640|00:40:44|880</wrap>governed by Mars. It is an application through effort of all that is seen—an application through <wrap hide>327|00:40:44|880|00:40:53|500</wrap>effort of all that is seen in the second decanate—and it is a preparation for moving forward into <wrap hide>328|00:40:53|500|00:40:59|360</wrap>Aries, which interestingly, from Alan Leo's perspective, has a first decanate ruled by Mars, <wrap hide>329|00:40:59|360|00:41:06|420</wrap>but from the perspective of the Tibetan, it is a Jupiter rulership, strangely enough. <wrap hide>330|00:41:06|420|00:41:13|600</wrap>So Mars is preparing the way. Mars in the last decanate of Pisces is preparing the way <wrap hide>331|00:41:14|080|00:41:20|760</wrap>for this expansive Jupiterian experience in the first decanate of Aries, and also there is a Venus <wrap hide>332|00:41:21|680|00:41:29|900</wrap>rulership that D.K. hints at, as given by Alan Leo, in that first decanate of Aries. Let's look at this. <wrap hide>333|00:41:30|680|00:41:35|740</wrap>Well, you know, you could—well, you can write a whole book on the decanates, and <wrap hide>334|00:41:35|740|00:41:43|160</wrap>esoterically this has been done. I think Stephen Pugh has done a very good book on the decanates <wrap hide>335|00:41:43|160|00:41:52|220</wrap>called "The 72 Faces of Man," and other people have offered important speculations. So here we have <wrap hide>336|00:41:52|220|00:42:04|000</wrap>three constellations related to the three decanates of Pisces, and there are given in <wrap hide>337|00:42:04|000|00:42:09|460</wrap>"The Labors of Hercules" three extra-zodiacal constellations, each one of them related to <wrap hide>338|00:42:09|460|00:42:15|640</wrap>particular constellations. So the band that ties the fishes together, Andromeda the chained woman, <wrap hide>339|00:42:15|640|00:42:24|900</wrap>and Cepheus—or Cepheus—the king are the three associated extra-zodiacal constellations. We can <wrap hide>340|00:42:24|900|00:42:29|880</wrap>ask ourselves, "Well, look, is it legitimate to associate one of these constellations with one <wrap hide>341|00:42:29|880|00:42:36|400</wrap>of the decanates?" Well, there are three and three, and perhaps there is a kind of special emphasis <wrap hide>342|00:42:37|020|00:42:42|940</wrap>with one of these constellations associated with one particular decanate. However, I would say that <wrap hide>343|00:42:42|940|00:42:50|060</wrap>if you are a Pisces, you have the possibility of experiencing all three constellations, just the way <wrap hide>344|00:42:50|060|00:42:56|540</wrap>if you are an Aries individual, you have the possibility of experiencing Cetus the sea monster, <wrap hide>345|00:42:59|660|00:43:06|240</wrap>Cassiopeia the enthroned queen, and Perseus the hero. All of them are open to you, but there might <wrap hide>346|00:43:06|240|00:43:14|780</wrap>be a particular emphasis in a particular life. So the band—the band, the Antahkarana, the Sutratma, <wrap hide>347|00:43:14|780|00:43:25|000</wrap>the band holding the fishes together—the lower Antahkarana. And if we consider the higher fish <wrap hide>348|00:43:25|000|00:43:30|420</wrap>to represent soul and the lower fish to represent personality. So it is a band of consciousness <wrap hide>349|00:43:30|960|00:43:38|840</wrap>and also a band of life. And Andromeda is the chained woman, and she has to be released by the hero <wrap hide>350|00:43:38|840|00:43:46|680</wrap>Perseus. And Cepheus is the king. It's not a very prominent constellation, but it has a high <wrap hide>351|00:43:46|680|00:43:57|680</wrap>representation as a Sanat Kumara or the planetary Logos. Now, if we move upward a little here, <wrap hide>352|00:43:57|680|00:44:09|160</wrap>let's see if I push this over to the other side. I can do that, and then I would... perhaps I might... <wrap hide>353|00:44:12|220|00:44:19|760</wrap>I could possibly... excuse me for a second as I make my... just a little bit big here. <wrap hide>354|00:44:19|760|00:44:27|040</wrap>It automatically goes to the right-hand side, so I don't think I can do anything about it. <wrap hide>355|00:44:27|040|00:44:35|180</wrap>Maybe I can... maybe I can... yeah, I think I can, and I will. So I'll try to switch this around, and it'll <wrap hide>356|00:44:35|180|00:44:41|240</wrap>be a little peculiar perhaps. All right, I'll be looking from a different direction, but in any <wrap hide>357|00:44:41|240|00:44:54|020</wrap>case, we should be able to see just a little better. Now, moving this away slightly, we come to <wrap hide>358|00:44:54|860|00:45:04|780</wrap>the wheel of consciousness. This is what is given by the Tibetan, okay? And he gives <wrap hide>359|00:45:05|780|00:45:19|080</wrap>Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars, and also this is veiling Vulcan. Now I see here that we have the Sun and <wrap hide>360|00:45:19|080|00:45:25|620</wrap>also involved in the third decanate. So let's see why that should be the case. We have, consequently, <wrap hide>361|00:45:25|620|00:45:30|520</wrap>a vision of the Sun, the experience of the personality, which is the mode of attainment <wrap hide>362|00:45:31|480|00:45:38|340</wrap>governed by Mars. So only the Sun remains. I think that perhaps this is not correct. <wrap hide>363|00:45:38|920|00:45:46|120</wrap>I'm going to change this, or at least question this for the moment, and I'm going to put a line <wrap hide>364|00:45:46|120|00:45:52|500</wrap>through it because it looks to me like this vision of the Sun... well, let's just say that <wrap hide>365|00:45:54|260|00:46:01|700</wrap>the Sun and Mercury... if the Sun is the personality and Mercury is the mind, they are involved in <wrap hide>366|00:46:01|700|00:46:16|100</wrap>falling away. But I'm not exactly sure that that's the way it should be done. All right, so here's the <wrap hide>367|00:46:16|100|00:46:24|620</wrap>Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. So we are envisioning the Sun from Jupiter. We are looking towards the <wrap hide>368|00:46:24|620|00:46:31|000</wrap>Sun or the soul. The Moon is veiling Vulcan, suggesting the emergence of the Sun with <wrap hide>369|00:46:31|000|00:46:39|280</wrap>Mercury falling away. And Mars is the planet of battle, leading to the final Sun of spirit which <wrap hide>370|00:46:39|280|00:46:48|820</wrap>Cepheus represents, with Mercury falling away. Now, down a little bit later in this chart, <wrap hide>371|00:46:50|580|00:47:00|440</wrap>I go through six different methods of considering these decanates, and I'm going to make this a <wrap hide>372|00:47:00|440|00:47:07|860</wrap>little smaller. Okay, now we're not so concerned with the physical, strictly physical Lemurian <wrap hide>373|00:47:07|860|00:47:15|500</wrap>approach. All of this is here, and you can freeze your screen at any time to read it if you want to. <wrap hide>374|00:47:16|000|00:47:23|020</wrap>The emotional is here, and that is the Atlantean state. We're not so concerned with that specifically, <wrap hide>375|00:47:23|680|00:47:37|160</wrap>nor are we concerned exactly with the lower mental personal aspect. We are moving in a... <wrap hide>376|00:47:37|160|00:47:47|440</wrap>we are moving from Mars to the Moon and thence to Jupiter. But when we reach, in fact, the point where <wrap hide>377|00:47:47|440|00:47:55|020</wrap>a reversal takes place and the person becomes an aspiring, spiritually oriented personality, we begin <wrap hide>378|00:47:55|020|00:48:07|760</wrap>with Jupiter. And here we are... Jupiter's rule... okay... okay, here we are... yeah. <wrap hide>379|00:48:11|720|00:48:18|900</wrap>Okay, here is the height. Here is Jupiter applied to the aspirational, higher personal, integrating <wrap hide>380|00:48:18|900|00:48:27|480</wrap>personality. We are still under the basic Jupiter rulership of Pluto, and we are still on the latter <wrap hide>381|00:48:27|480|00:48:36|360</wrap>part of the mutable cross. But we are coming increasingly under Pluto. This is the initial <wrap hide>382|00:48:36|360|00:48:42|820</wrap>phase of "I leave the father's home," and turning back, "I save." And from Esoteric Astrology 333, <wrap hide>383|00:48:43|320|00:48:48|740</wrap>we learned that the man is becoming the advanced man. He becomes sensitive to soul. He becomes <wrap hide>384|00:48:48|740|00:48:54|840</wrap>the mediator between the soul and personality. So under this general Jupiterian phase, the man <wrap hide>385|00:48:54|840|00:49:00|460</wrap>expands his outreach towards service and helpfulness, which he does under Jupiter. <wrap hide>386|00:49:01|540|00:49:06|160</wrap>He grasps the importance of service and begins to offer himself to others <wrap hide>387|00:49:06|600|00:49:15|720</wrap>in self-sacrifice. He begins to demonstrate the urge towards self-abnegation, using incipient Pluto <wrap hide>388|00:49:15|720|00:49:21|900</wrap>to detach from his involvement—his desirous involvement—with the physical plane. And via <wrap hide>389|00:49:21|900|00:49:28|220</wrap>Neptune, which begins to come into focus because he is turning into a disciple, via Neptune his <wrap hide>390|00:49:28|220|00:49:35|040</wrap>sensitivity to others is rapidly growing. Let's see where we are in terms of time. Okay, well, we <wrap hide>391|00:49:35|040|00:49:43|300</wrap>may not make it here. We'll do the best we can. Now we start to apply the decanate rulers, and <wrap hide>392|00:49:43|300|00:49:51|320</wrap>on the counterclockwise wheel, which is the reversed wheel, we have Jupiter ruling the first, <wrap hide>393|00:49:51|900|00:50:00|700</wrap>the Moon-Vulcan ruling the second, and we have Mars, which I say is struggling towards the <wrap hide>394|00:50:00|700|00:50:08|760</wrap>Sun, with Mercury meaning less and less. So now we are becoming an advanced man, and we are under the <wrap hide>395|00:50:08|760|00:50:17|100</wrap>First decanate of Jupiter from zero to ten degrees: the advanced man sees a broader vision <wrap hide>396|00:50:17|100|00:50:22|560</wrap>of divinity and believes. These are words, Jupiterian words. The advanced man sees a broader <wrap hide>397|00:50:22|560|00:50:29|200</wrap>vision of divinity and believes in the reality of the spiritual dimensions of life. He's not yet <wrap hide>398|00:50:29|200|00:50:34|780</wrap>soul conscious, but he knows there is this higher source and higher power. He's oriented towards it, <wrap hide>399|00:50:34|780|00:50:42|340</wrap>wants to include it. The influence of the band - we are going to apply the band to the first decanate <wrap hide>400|00:50:42|340|00:50:49|060</wrap>in a specific sort of way - and the influence of the band connects his personal life with his <wrap hide>401|00:50:49|060|00:50:56|240</wrap>increasing experience of inner spiritual dimensions. So we have Jupiter dominant <wrap hide>402|00:50:56|240|00:51:02|720</wrap>because it is the exoteric ruler and it is still operative on the mutable cross, and Pluto is <wrap hide>403|00:51:02|720|00:51:10|640</wrap>beginning to phase in. And let's see what else we say here: through all decanates, though all decanate <wrap hide>404|00:51:10|640|00:51:15|140</wrap>rulers can be associated with the personal aspirational phase, Jupiter, ruler of the first <wrap hide>405|00:51:15|140|00:51:21|080</wrap>decanate of the wheel of consciousness, is especially associated with the personal aspirational phase. <wrap hide>406|00:51:21|080|00:51:28|100</wrap>I don't have to go into all the details here. I think you can get the idea. Now, for this aspiring <wrap hide>407|00:51:28|100|00:51:32|780</wrap>human being who is not yet the disciple, we move into the second decanate, and how would it operate? <wrap hide>408|00:51:33|380|00:51:36|720</wrap>Well, we have the second decanate ruler as the moon as Andromeda, <wrap hide>409|00:51:38|480|00:51:44|960</wrap>veiling Vulcan. Vulcan, by the way, is a breaker of chains. It is a forger of chains and the hammer <wrap hide>410|00:51:44|960|00:51:52|800</wrap>which breaks the chains. So Vulcan can lead to extreme attachment as well as detachment. These <wrap hide>411|00:51:52|800|00:51:57|580</wrap>sacred planets can be operative in the early phases. So applying the decanate ruler of the <wrap hide>412|00:51:57|580|00:52:02|340</wrap>moon veiling Vulcan to this particular stage of development of the advancing man, what do we have? <wrap hide>413|00:52:02|340|00:52:09|740</wrap>The advancing man learns to bring his personality vehicles into shape. <wrap hide>414|00:52:10|860|00:52:17|180</wrap>Vulcan shapes things up under the impress of the higher will, which is beginning to make its impact - <wrap hide>415|00:52:17|180|00:52:22|700</wrap>something higher than the strictly personal will - or he aligns his personal will with what he senses <wrap hide>416|00:52:22|700|00:52:30|940</wrap>as a higher will. Under the influence of Andromeda, he learns to bind the unsuitable expression of the <wrap hide>417|00:52:30|940|00:52:40|700</wrap>lunar vehicles. He learns to hold them so that they can no longer dominate. They are in bondage. <wrap hide>418|00:52:40|700|00:52:53|220</wrap>These lunar vehicles must be in a state of bondage to the soul. <wrap hide>419|00:52:54|580|00:53:02|500</wrap>And so the power of Vulcan is a binding influence. It disciplines these vehicles. I'm not going to <wrap hide>420|00:53:03|180|00:53:09|380</wrap>go through the other parts - you can read them yourself. Then we reach the third decanate, and <wrap hide>421|00:53:09|380|00:53:13|940</wrap>we're applying the decanate ruler Mars, which is struggling towards a kind of final sun <wrap hide>422|00:53:13|940|00:53:23|340</wrap>represented by Cepheus, with mercury falling away and meaningless in the general glory of the sun. <wrap hide>423|00:53:23|340|00:53:30|780</wrap>I want to kind of look one more time at what it says here, because, you know, as D.K. writes about <wrap hide>424|00:53:30|780|00:53:37|300</wrap>the decanates, he can be very elusive. We have mercury, Vulcan, and the sun stand for a synthesis <wrap hide>425|00:53:37|300|00:53:42|220</wrap>and a radiance which eventually dims the light of mercury as it falls into the background, and Vulcan <wrap hide>426|00:53:42|220|00:53:50|060</wrap>too becomes invisible and only the sun remains. We have, consequently, a vision of the sun, the <wrap hide>427|00:53:50|060|00:53:59|240</wrap>experience of the personality, and effort. Now, this vision of the sun - this is, I want to say, this is <wrap hide>428|00:53:59|240|00:54:06|540</wrap>Jupiterian, looking towards the second decanate. We have the vision of the sun, <wrap hide>429|00:54:06|540|00:54:17|660</wrap>the experience of personality - and this is the moon giving way to Vulcan and the sun. This is the moon <wrap hide>430|00:54:18|200|00:54:28|420</wrap>giving way to Vulcan and the sun. In other words, there is a high radiance occurring - and effort, <wrap hide>431|00:54:28|420|00:54:32|820</wrap>which is the mode of attainment governed by Mars as we are struggling towards that <wrap hide>432|00:54:32|820|00:54:39|720</wrap>final synthesis. We can see the language is elusive. I'm going to read it all again <wrap hide>433|00:54:40|260|00:54:49|600</wrap>because I think that it is just very interesting. So Alan Leo gives us Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. He <wrap hide>434|00:54:49|600|00:54:54|340</wrap>indicates, therefore, the success - that's Jupiter - which is incident to proved discipleship and <wrap hide>435|00:54:54|340|00:55:00|620</wrap>consequent readiness for initiation, the seeing of the vision with which Jupiter rewards the <wrap hide>436|00:55:00|620|00:55:06|860</wrap>disciple. We're still in the first decanate. <wrap quote>and the experience which Vulcan confers.</wrap> <wrap hide>437|00:55:06|860|00:55:12|880</wrap>with the Vulcan being veiled by the moon. <wrap quote>Vulcan has been hitherto hidden, but its <wrap hide>438|00:55:12|880|00:55:18|340</wrap>influence has steadily superseded all lunar control, for the personality or form side of life is lost <wrap hide>439|00:55:18|340|00:55:27|720</wrap>to sight in the radiance of the Sun, the soul.</wrap> So that personality, which is the moon, and even <wrap hide>440|00:55:28|340|00:55:33|900</wrap>what Vulcan - how Vulcan replaces the moon - is lost to sight in the radiance of the sun, the soul. <wrap hide>441|00:55:33|900|00:55:40|840</wrap>So we have Vulcan replacing - we have Vulcan replacing the moon, and the sun replacing Vulcan. <wrap hide>442|00:55:41|400|00:55:53|520</wrap>Vulcan replaces—sorry—the moon, and the sun replaces Vulcan. Then we have the light of the <wrap hide>443|00:55:53|520|00:55:59|160</wrap>Vulcan and the light of sun are one light, and these three—Mercury, Vulcan, and the sun—stand for <wrap hide>444|00:55:59|160|00:56:04|020</wrap>a synthesis and a radiance which eventually dims the light of Mercury as it falls into the <wrap hide>445|00:56:04|020|00:56:08|700</wrap>background, and Vulcan too becomes invisible and only the sun remains. And when it says only the <wrap hide>446|00:56:08|700|00:56:22|360</wrap>sun remains, it seems to hint that finally the result of the decanate experiences in... experiences <wrap hide>447|00:56:23|920|00:56:34|400</wrap>in Pisces gives us the final sun, which is Shambolic. It is Cepheus. It is Sanat Kumara. <wrap hide>448|00:56:34|400|00:56:40|960</wrap>Okay, we have consequently a vision of the sun, and that is Jupiterian, and then we have the <wrap hide>449|00:56:41|820|00:56:46|960</wrap>experience of the personality, which is the moon, but it gives way to Vulcan and the sun <wrap hide>450|00:56:46|960|00:56:58|220</wrap>and effort... and effort towards what? You know, the sun is exalted in... in Aries, and the sun <wrap hide>451|00:56:58|220|00:57:07|680</wrap>is exalted in Aries, and through Mars we move towards that exaltation. <wrap hide>452|00:57:09|320|00:57:18|720</wrap>So Mars is fighting to reach the blazing synthetic sun which Cepheus represents. It is the Shambolic <wrap hide>453|00:57:18|720|00:57:26|320</wrap>synthesis, and there... there are a great many battles found in this last decanate. Even as you're passing <wrap hide>454|00:57:26|320|00:57:32|240</wrap>through the decanates as the moon moves through the sign in a two and a half days or two days—let <wrap hide>455|00:57:32|240|00:57:40|920</wrap>us say—we can feel the changes as the decanates occur. So, you know, there is veiled language here, <wrap hide>456|00:57:41|440|00:57:45|740</wrap>and I would like to say that, you know, it's possible to be completely clear about it. I <wrap hide>457|00:57:45|740|00:57:51|000</wrap>would love to be completely clear, but that is not the case at the moment. Okay, so... <wrap hide>458|00:57:52|320|00:58:00|560</wrap>So I'm now... I'm going to say I'm going to erase the line that I put through this, <wrap hide>459|00:58:00|560|00:58:09|360</wrap>and I'm going to call this a "final sun"—final sun. And if here, veiling Vulcan, I will say <wrap hide>460|00:58:09|810|00:58:20|120</wrap>which gives way to the sun replacing Vulcan. So Mars fights its way towards a final sun, <wrap hide>461|00:58:20|120|00:58:29|320</wrap>and Mercury falls back. Okay, now of course we could take the Sepharial approach as well <wrap hide>462|00:58:29|320|00:58:34|260</wrap>and look at Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars—whether we should go... be going forward or backward. <wrap hide>463|00:58:35|000|00:58:41|880</wrap>Sepharial would say bondage from... from 0 to 10, some degree of success <wrap hide>464|00:58:42|880|00:58:48|660</wrap>under Jupiter, and then finally Mars. How did D.K. put it? Let us take a look. <wrap hide>465|00:58:50|180|00:58:59|180</wrap>Uh, he says... uh, three decanates... uh, from Sepharial: you can work off karma, you can be successful in <wrap hide>466|00:58:59|180|00:59:04|800</wrap>working off karma. So you're faced with difficulty from 0 to 10; from 10 to 20, you're working off <wrap hide>467|00:59:05|560|00:59:12|740</wrap>the karma successfully, and you're doing so through conflict. But if we want to think about the <wrap hide>468|00:59:12|740|00:59:20|840</wrap>reversal of the wheel, then we would enter using Sepharial's rather exoteric descriptions. We would <wrap hide>469|00:59:20|840|00:59:27|900</wrap>enter with Mars, proceed to Jupiter, and end with Saturn. And of course, that ending with Saturn can <wrap hide>470|00:59:27|900|00:59:38|460</wrap>be a condition of very strong karmic bondage. All right, well, we are there, and I'm going to have to... <wrap hide>471|00:59:39|080|00:59:47|260</wrap>I'm going to have to begin with the decanates again at some point. We have reached the point <wrap hide>472|00:59:48|320|00:59:51|420</wrap>where we have been analyzing <wrap hide>473|00:59:53|800|01:00:00|420</wrap>the aspiring man in relation to the clockwise decanates given by Alan Leo and the Tibetan, <wrap hide>474|01:00:00|420|01:00:09|820</wrap>which are Jupiter, then the moon, Vulcan—implying the sun as well, because Vulcan is replaced by <wrap hide>475|01:00:09|820|01:00:16|860</wrap>the sun—and finally Mars and the struggle, I would say, towards a still greater sun. What we have yet <wrap hide>476|01:00:16|860|01:00:25|360</wrap>to do is to discuss the decanates for... of Pisces for the disciple who is now coming into the <wrap hide>477|01:00:25|360|01:00:38|040</wrap>influence of Pluto and for the initiate. Okay, well, let's see. I think you can get a good idea of what <wrap hide>478|01:00:38|040|01:00:42|900</wrap>is going on there, so that's what we'll take up—that's what we will take up next. You know, Pisces <wrap hide>479|01:00:42|900|01:00:50|560</wrap>is a very elusive sign, and I see that the Tibetan himself is being rather elusive in considering <wrap hide>480|01:00:50|560|01:00:59|480</wrap>these things. I want to see whether... yeah, here is the wheel, and I'll take a look at what Nicholas <wrap hide>481|01:00:59|480|01:01:08|040</wrap>has done and look at... there's so many... so many things here. He's given us the Sepharial decanates, <wrap hide>482|01:01:08|040|01:01:16|740</wrap>so we sort of enter via Saturn, go to Jupiter, and then Mars, which is ruling the final... the final <wrap hide>483|01:01:16|740|01:01:24|300</wrap>decanate of Pisces. But actually, Sepharial would have done it differently, but Nicholas did it this <wrap hide>484|01:01:24|300|01:01:31|620</wrap>way, bringing in the clockwise dimension. And then we have Jupiter, moon, Vulcan, and then we have Mars <wrap hide>485|01:01:31|620|01:01:37|980</wrap>with the sun and Mercury implied. Now, whether the sun and Mercury should be related to this blinding <wrap hide>486|01:01:37|980|01:01:43|480</wrap>light Vulcan experience, or whether it should be related to the final decanate—that is, I would say, <wrap hide>487|01:01:43|480|01:01:48|640</wrap>up in the air. Okay, I hope I haven't been too confusing here regarding these decanates. Take <wrap hide>488|01:01:48|640|01:01:55|940</wrap>a good look at this wheel, and you can sort of take a snapshot of it on your computer, and I think you <wrap hide>489|01:01:55|940|01:02:05|440</wrap>will understand some important aspects. None of us who are theorizing about the decanates agree with <wrap hide>490|01:02:05|440|01:02:12|060</wrap>each other entirely. D.K. has left a very fluid condition in which we have to use our interpretive <wrap hide>491|01:02:12|060|01:02:20|040</wrap>abilities, but in general the Alan Leo decanates are Jupiter, the Moon, Vulcan, and Mars, and somehow <wrap hide>492|01:02:20|040|01:02:27|340</wrap>in the last two decanates the Sun and Mercury—the Sun growing and Mercury falling away—are implied. <wrap hide>493|01:02:28|520|01:02:33|200</wrap>So now we will have The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>494|01:02:37|620|01:02:40|160</wrap>And yes, okay. <wrap hide>495|01:02:44|180|01:02:47|660</wrap>From the point of light... from the point of light within... <wrap hide>496|01:02:51|820|01:02:54|740</wrap>Okay, now that won't work. I have to do it in a different way. <wrap hide>497|01:02:54|740|01:02:55|640</wrap>Okay. <wrap hide>498|01:02:57|780|01:03:07|840</wrap>There we are. Okay, The Great Invocation, and we have taken ourselves now to esoteric... the <wrap hide>499|01:03:07|840|01:03:19|460</wrap>end of the esoteric astrology adventure number 58. Okay, and EAA 58, <wrap hide>500|01:03:19|460|01:03:24|540</wrap>and we are on page... <wrap hide>501|01:03:26|760|01:03:39|080</wrap>Well, we're on a page somewhere here... 133. So we have moved from page 131 to 133—page 131 to 133. <wrap hide>502|01:03:39|660|01:03:41|560</wrap>Okay, The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>503|01:03:53|440|01:03:54|100</wrap>Oh. <wrap hide>504|01:04:00|080|01:04:03|560</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, <wrap hide>505|01:04:03|560|01:04:10|400</wrap>let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. <wrap hide>506|01:04:12|700|01:04:18|480</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. <wrap hide>507|01:04:19|120|01:04:21|780</wrap>May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>508|01:04:24|220|01:04:27|660</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose <wrap hide>509|01:04:27|660|01:04:33|480</wrap>guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the Masters know and serve. <wrap hide>510|01:04:35|660|01:04:40|800</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the Plan of Love and Light work out, <wrap hide>511|01:04:41|360|01:04:44|560</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>512|01:04:46|500|01:04:51|600</wrap>Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth. <wrap hide>513|01:05:16|560|01:05:17|280</wrap>Oh. <wrap hide>514|01:05:32|520|01:05:38|680</wrap>Okay, friends, that will take us to the end of esoteric astrology adventure number 58. <wrap hide>515|01:05:40|060|01:05:47|380</wrap>And we will continue with 59 in the interesting matter of the decanates and try to see how it is <wrap hide>516|01:05:47|380|01:05:57|340</wrap>that even Vulcan is gradually replaced by the Sun—the power of the Sun—at the end of the <wrap hide>517|01:05:58|080|01:06:06|580</wrap>Pisces decanates, given the fact that Pisces-Aries... Aries-Pisces will one day be a single sign, <wrap hide>518|01:06:06|580|01:06:16|720</wrap>uh, perhaps in a zodiac of 10. We are dealing with the powerful influence of the Sun as it grows as <wrap hide>519|01:06:16|720|01:06:26|720</wrap>the representative of spiritual Shambolic synthesis at the end of the Pisces experience. Okay, so <wrap hide>520|01:06:27|280|01:06:35|240</wrap>we will see you then for the next one, and there's a lot to study. Okay, bye-bye.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:03|920|00:00:15|280</wrap>Hi everybody, we are about to begin Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 58. <wrap hide>2|00:00:15|280|00:00:19|600</wrap>I believe that is correct; yes, we've ended 57. <wrap hide>3|00:00:20|840|00:00:31|140</wrap>We were talking about six potencies which produce release from bondage, from the bondage <wrap hide>4|00:00:31|140|00:00:38|140</wrap>of form <wrap quote>entered into in Cancer as far as the mass of humanity is concerned <wrap hide>5|00:00:38|900|00:00:42|260</wrap>(by this I mean the birth of the human kingdom)</wrap> as a whole. <wrap hide>6|00:00:42|680|00:00:46|740</wrap><wrap quote>and in Pisces as far as the individual is considered.</wrap> <wrap hide>7|00:00:48|200|00:01:01|760</wrap>There does seem to be a little bit of possible contradiction there, as D.K. does say here that <wrap hide>8|00:01:03|740|00:01:13|780</wrap>Cancer is opening the door into mass life, and then he seems to say that the very first <wrap hide>9|00:01:13|780|00:01:18|740</wrap>incarnation is taken in the sign Cancer. <wrap hide>10|00:01:21|640|00:01:28|820</wrap>By that I mean he says the very first human incarnation was always taken in this sign, <wrap hide>11|00:01:28|820|00:01:37|260</wrap>which has been recognized down the ages as the doorway into life of those who must know <wrap hide>12|00:01:37|260|00:01:37|860</wrap>death. <wrap hide>13|00:01:39|340|00:01:45|960</wrap>And so we have to contrast that statement about the very first incarnation with the <wrap hide>14|00:01:45|960|00:01:53|950</wrap>statement here that, as far as the individual is considered, he enters into form for the <wrap hide>15|00:01:53|950|00:01:56|930</wrap>first time in Pisces. <wrap hide>16|00:01:58|210|00:02:03|450</wrap>And by entry into form, I presume this means entry into incarnation. <wrap hide>17|00:02:04|590|00:02:11|230</wrap>The six potencies—I proposed there were two ways to look at them, but increasingly I feel <wrap hide>18|00:02:11|230|00:02:18|060</wrap>that the way to consider the six potencies <wrap quote>which produce release from the bondage of <wrap hide>19|00:02:18|060|00:02:28|380</wrap>form,</wrap> are Venus and Earth as two planets, and then the four constellations on the mutable <wrap hide>20|00:02:28|380|00:02:29|260</wrap>cross. <wrap hide>21|00:02:30|860|00:02:33|320</wrap>I think there's a very close connection here. <wrap hide>22|00:02:34|340|00:02:40|640</wrap>The pairs of opposites called spirit and matter can be related to Pisces and Virgo, depending <wrap hide>23|00:02:40|640|00:02:42|540</wrap>on which way you want to look at it. <wrap hide>24|00:02:42|540|00:02:51|160</wrap>Sometimes Pisces can represent spirit and Virgo can represent matter, or it can be reversed, <wrap hide>25|00:02:51|160|00:02:56|940</wrap>and water is matter is Pisces, and Virgo is the ruler of the plane of spirit, monadic <wrap hide>26|00:02:56|940|00:02:57|380</wrap>plane. <wrap hide>27|00:02:58|380|00:03:05|780</wrap>So that is a major pair of opposites, and it has to do with the highest aspect of man and <wrap hide>28|00:03:05|780|00:03:06|640</wrap>his lowest aspect. <wrap hide>29|00:03:06|640|00:03:14|100</wrap>Then we understand that through the rulership of Venus and the Earth, we are bringing in— <wrap hide>30|00:03:14|100|00:03:19|620</wrap>we have four potencies so far—we're bringing in Gemini and Sagittarius, with Gemini ruled <wrap hide>31|00:03:19|620|00:03:24|200</wrap>by Venus and Sagittarius by the Earth. <wrap hide>32|00:03:25|940|00:03:32|340</wrap>And here we have a pair of opposites which relates not so much to spirit and matter, but <wrap hide>33|00:03:32|340|00:03:39|160</wrap>to soul and personality, for in a way Gemini rules the soul and Sagittarius the personality. <wrap hide>34|00:03:40|720|00:03:55|000</wrap>We have the esoteric factor in the Venus rulership of Gemini, and there we find the solar angel. <wrap hide>35|00:03:55|000|00:04:03|680</wrap>So we have the animal factor in Sagittarius, ruled by the Earth or hierarchically by Mars. <wrap hide>36|00:04:03|940|00:04:08|160</wrap>We have animal man of the third kingdom represented by Sagittarius. <wrap hide>37|00:04:08|320|00:04:15|200</wrap>We have the angelic winged kingdom represented by Gemini. <wrap hide>38|00:04:15|200|00:04:24|280</wrap>And so the interplay between them produced individualization, represented by Leo, or the <wrap hide>39|00:04:24|800|00:04:32|060</wrap>light coming into expression first as a tiny point and then growing into the personal ego <wrap hide>40|00:04:32|060|00:04:39|400</wrap>and finally into the higher self and eventually universal self-realization—all of that under <wrap hide>41|00:04:39|400|00:04:39|980</wrap>Leo. <wrap hide>42|00:04:39|980|00:04:48|240</wrap>So, here are the six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form. <wrap hide>43|00:04:49|140|00:04:57|960</wrap>First, upon the plane of Earth, we have the man of form; we have the animal man in relation <wrap hide>44|00:04:57|960|00:05:03|040</wrap>to Sagittarius and the Earth, but that animal man aspires. <wrap hide>45|00:05:03|040|00:05:12|460</wrap>He aspires towards something higher; he aspires towards the Geminian state in which the higher <wrap hide>46|00:05:12|460|00:05:18|980</wrap>brother—I recognize my other self, and in the waning of that self I grow and glow—in <wrap hide>47|00:05:18|980|00:05:25|220</wrap>which that higher brother becomes effulgent and man enters the true soul state. <wrap hide>48|00:05:25|640|00:05:31|720</wrap>He is deeply embedded in matter because Venus has fallen into matter. <wrap hide>49|00:05:31|720|00:05:40|340</wrap>This is the sign of the solar angels having fallen into matter and thereby serving, and <wrap hide>50|00:05:40|340|00:05:47|640</wrap>eventually we have the exaltation of Venus rising into Pisces when the work of the solar <wrap hide>51|00:05:47|640|00:05:56|400</wrap>angels is consummated, and then man is prepared to begin to live the life of the triad, which <wrap hide>52|00:05:56|400|00:06:01|480</wrap>is an extension of the monad with which Pisces can be strongly associated. <wrap hide>53|00:06:02|200|00:06:06|620</wrap>"I leave, I the monad, leave my father's home and turning back I save." <wrap hide>54|00:06:07|260|00:06:16|320</wrap>It's interesting when we consider Venus that it has a relationship with Virgo, which is <wrap hide>55|00:06:16|320|00:06:23|200</wrap>its fall, with Gemini, which represents the soul state, and with Pisces, which represents <wrap hide>56|00:06:23|200|00:06:24|960</wrap>the liberation of the soul. <wrap hide>57|00:06:24|960|00:06:32|460</wrap>And then opposite Gemini we have Sagittarius, in which the Earth is found but not Venus. <wrap hide>58|00:06:32|720|00:06:35|520</wrap>The Earth is found as an esoteric ruler. <wrap hide>59|00:06:35|800|00:06:44|080</wrap>So three of the constellations of the mutable cross are closely related to Venus, and one <wrap hide>60|00:06:44|080|00:06:45|540</wrap>of them is not. <wrap hide>61|00:06:45|720|00:06:51|820</wrap>One of them is more related to the animal nature, so in a way we have a condition of <wrap hide>62|00:06:51|820|00:07:02|160</wrap>the fallen Venus in Virgo representing the very beginning of the life of animal man who <wrap hide>63|00:07:02|160|00:07:03|560</wrap>has entered the human kingdom. <wrap hide>64|00:07:04|380|00:07:10|040</wrap>We have Sagittarius representing animal man who began to aspire towards a higher state. <wrap hide>65|00:07:10|880|00:07:18|040</wrap>We have the opposite sign of Sagittarius in which the soul magnetically draws the embedded <wrap hide>66|00:07:18|040|00:07:23|380</wrap>consciousness towards a higher state of consciousness, its own soul consciousness. <wrap hide>67|00:07:23|600|00:07:29|620</wrap>We have the solar angel working magnetically, and finally from the very fallen state we <wrap hide>68|00:07:29|620|00:07:36|080</wrap>have the exalted state with Venus in Pisces where freedom is achieved, the freedom of <wrap hide>69|00:07:36|080|00:07:43|540</wrap>the solar angel to return to its home within the sun, its temporary home at least, and man <wrap hide>70|00:07:43|540|00:07:50|680</wrap>to rise up to the feet of the solar angelic kingdom and become a winged creature, one <wrap hide>71|00:07:50|680|00:07:56|480</wrap>who is free from the lower elemental life, one who from the perspective of the higher <wrap hide>72|00:07:56|480|00:08:03|900</wrap>lives is no longer considered to be an elemental life but has his wings conferred at the fourth <wrap hide>73|00:08:03|900|00:08:11|980</wrap>initiation and therefore can fly in the plane of air, and that is the Buddhic plane, and from <wrap hide>74|00:08:11|980|00:08:20|320</wrap>a higher perspective all of the cosmic ethers represent the winged kingdom in which the <wrap hide>75|00:08:20|320|00:08:22|000</wrap>consciousness can fly. <wrap hide>76|00:08:22|900|00:08:32|160</wrap>So that's the story of bondage which the Earth and Virgo represent and liberation which Gemini <wrap hide>77|00:08:32|160|00:08:42|300</wrap>and Venus and finally Pisces represents—complete liberation of the soul from the lower kingdoms. <wrap hide>78|00:08:44|600|00:08:57|140</wrap>Okay, now we can move on to esoteric astrology adventure 58. <wrap quote>In pointing out the significance <wrap hide>79|00:08:57|140|00:09:07|100</wrap>of the above facts, I am not considering the orthodox astrological reasons for the exaltation <wrap hide>80|00:09:07|100|00:09:12|720</wrap>and the fall of certain planets in certain signs,</wrap> and that is actually somewhat mathematically <wrap hide>81|00:09:12|720|00:09:24|740</wrap>based as there are degrees of fall and exaltation, and they usually have to do with explanations <wrap hide>82|00:09:24|740|00:09:29|600</wrap>which are not very occult—do not concern the soul or spirit. <wrap hide>83|00:09:30|360|00:09:37|320</wrap><wrap quote>I am concerned with the effect of the waxing and the waning influence upon the subject, man.</wrap> <wrap hide>84|00:09:37|320|00:09:54|440</wrap> So the planets have influence which waxes and wanes, and there is an effect, <wrap hide>85|00:09:54|440|00:10:02|200</wrap>and some of these influences lift a man very high and some seem to hold him in a state <wrap hide>86|00:10:02|200|00:10:03|740</wrap>of suppression. <wrap hide>87|00:10:04|180|00:10:13|700</wrap>So we're dealing with psycho-spiritual reasons for exaltation, falls, and detriments. <wrap hide>88|00:10:14|040|00:10:19|320</wrap>We have to consider the soul nature and spirit nature of man, and this of course ordinary <wrap hide>89|00:10:19|320|00:10:26|740</wrap>astrology, whereas it may hint at that occasionally, does not explicitly deal with man the ego <wrap hide>90|00:10:26|740|00:10:33|620</wrap>on the higher mental plane and man the spiritual triad and man the monad on the monadic plane. <wrap hide>91|00:10:33|980|00:10:41|100</wrap>It deals mostly with man the personality and his fate in the lower three worlds. <wrap hide>92|00:10:41|900|00:10:49|860</wrap><wrap quote>Bear this in mind and—at the same time—remember that we are occupied with the <wrap hide>93|00:10:49|860|00:10:57|580</wrap>Great Illusion which it is the major task of man in this particular world cycle to master and dissipate,</wrap> <wrap hide>94|00:10:57|580|00:11:03|100</wrap>man becoming the world disciple. And you know sometimes when he talks about the great illusion <wrap hide>95|00:11:03|760|00:11:11|080</wrap>we don't have to consider the entire universe, although in a way the Brahman certainly do <wrap hide>96|00:11:11|080|00:11:15|780</wrap>consider the entire world to be the Maha Maya or the great illusion, but we can consider <wrap hide>97|00:11:15|780|00:11:23|460</wrap>the three lower sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. <wrap hide>98|00:11:24|220|00:11:30|820</wrap>In other words, the dense physical body of the solar Logos is considered the realm of <wrap hide>99|00:11:30|820|00:11:39|620</wrap>the great illusion, and it is our task to master this and to dissipate this and begin to live <wrap hide>100|00:11:39|620|00:11:46|360</wrap>more according to the principles that are found in the second solar system, begin to <wrap hide>101|00:11:46|360|00:11:55|540</wrap>live the cosmic etheric life no longer trapped by the energy residuals of the previous solar <wrap hide>102|00:11:55|540|00:11:56|100</wrap>system. <wrap hide>103|00:11:57|000|00:12:03|580</wrap>So we are occupied with the great illusion. It is our task to dispel and dissipate that <wrap hide>104|00:12:03|580|00:12:09|660</wrap>illusion of this particular world cycle <wrap quote>and so to inaugurate the reign of the Real.</wrap> <wrap hide>105|00:12:11|080|00:12:18|840</wrap>Very memorable kind of phrase due to the alliteration, the reign of the real. <wrap hide>106|00:12:19|860|00:12:20|800</wrap>Where does the real begin? <wrap hide>107|00:12:21|000|00:12:29|960</wrap>You know, from the perspective of the second solar system the real begins on the Buddhic <wrap hide>108|00:12:29|960|00:12:37|360</wrap>plane which is in the cosmic etheric body of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>109|00:12:38|020|00:12:39|260</wrap>That's where the real begins. <wrap hide>110|00:12:39|520|00:12:50|660</wrap>Buddhi with its emphasis upon pure reason and straight knowledge and intuition is the <wrap hide>111|00:12:50|660|00:12:57|960</wrap>great place of the clear, cold light which is no longer confused by Maya glamour and <wrap hide>112|00:12:57|960|00:12:58|400</wrap>illusion. <wrap hide>113|00:12:59|820|00:13:07|860</wrap><wrap quote>It is the revelation of the Real which is the task all initiates undertake after the <wrap hide>114|00:13:07|860|00:13:12|920</wrap>final experience of the twelve final tests in the twelve signs.</wrap> <wrap hide>115|00:13:13|740|00:13:19|280</wrap>He talks about these twelve tests as if they are kind of a unified experience. <wrap hide>116|00:13:19|280|00:13:29|680</wrap>Now, to reveal the real, we recall the nature of the five initiations, and there are five <wrap hide>117|00:13:30|320|00:13:33|240</wrap>words which are associated with each of these initiations. <wrap hide>118|00:13:33|500|00:13:36|280</wrap>The first, for the first initiation, is "know." <wrap hide>119|00:13:37|220|00:13:38|920</wrap>For the second initiation, "express." <wrap hide>120|00:13:39|800|00:13:43|500</wrap>For the third initiation, and this is germane here, "reveal." <wrap hide>121|00:13:44|660|00:13:53|900</wrap>And then for the fourth, it is the crucifixion, "destroy," and then for the fifth initiation, <wrap hide>122|00:13:53|900|00:13:59|200</wrap>"resurrect," even though the real resurrection occurs at the seventh initiation. <wrap hide>123|00:13:59|360|00:14:06|160</wrap>There's a kind of resurrection out of the lower twenty-one sub-planes which occurs at <wrap hide>124|00:14:06|160|00:14:07|740</wrap>the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>125|00:14:07|740|00:14:13|600</wrap>So the revelation of the real fits very well with the third initiation, <wrap hide>126|00:14:15|180|00:14:19|200</wrap>the keynote or keyword of which is "reveal." <wrap hide>127|00:14:20|160|00:14:24|800</wrap>It is the revelation of the real which is the task of all initiates until after the <wrap hide>128|00:14:24|800|00:14:30|400</wrap>final experience of the twelve final tests in the twelve signs, and presumably these tests— <wrap hide>129|00:14:30|400|00:14:40|120</wrap>I presume—will they will occur before the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>130|00:14:42|240|00:14:50|080</wrap>Hercules, the disciple becoming the triumphant disciple, is not demonstrating the life of <wrap hide>131|00:14:50|080|00:14:58|520</wrap>the fourth initiation particularly—maybe in the final labor where he's saving the red <wrap hide>132|00:14:58|520|00:15:07|060</wrap>cattle in a chalice, the cattle of Geryon. Perhaps that is a bit like world saviorship. <wrap hide>133|00:15:07|900|00:15:14|540</wrap>But generally, he is not moving quite as far as becoming a master of the wisdom. <wrap hide>134|00:15:15|740|00:15:24|040</wrap>So I think the twelve tests—I suspect—must occur leading to the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>135|00:15:25|020|00:15:33|260</wrap><wrap quote>Therefore, when we find that the power of Mercury is lessened in Pisces</wrap>—that's initially—<wrap quote>and <wrap hide>136|00:15:33|260|00:15:39|620</wrap>that it finally “falls” in that sign,</wrap> so we have two stages there: lessening and fall. And D.K. is speaking <wrap hide>137|00:15:39|620|00:15:49|000</wrap>of diminishment and the final bondage of the faculties—the ordinary faculties of <wrap hide>138|00:15:49|000|00:15:49|300</wrap>Mercury. <wrap hide>139|00:15:49|640|00:15:55|580</wrap>So we have two stages here until it finally falls in that sign. <wrap quote>what is the esoteric and <wrap hide>140|00:15:55|580|00:15:56|380</wrap>spiritual meaning?</wrap> <wrap hide>141|00:15:58|560|00:16:00|440</wrap>Well, let's see what he says. <wrap hide>142|00:16:01|340|00:16:07|060</wrap>We know, of course, that Mercury in Pisces can be found on the chart of some various <wrap hide>143|00:16:07|060|00:16:16|540</wrap>devout individuals. They will have a great capacity for intuition, although their normal reasoning, <wrap hide>144|00:16:16|540|00:16:24|780</wrap>rational process may not be so evident. It's more an intuitive process, and it seems to <wrap hide>145|00:16:24|780|00:16:32|120</wrap>be the fall of the lesser modalities of Mercury that we are talking about. Every fall is an <wrap hide>146|00:16:32|120|00:16:34|900</wrap>exaltation; every exaltation can be a fall. <wrap hide>147|00:16:35|900|00:16:36|900</wrap><wrap quote>Simply,</wrap> what does it mean? <wrap hide>148|00:16:38|200|00:16:43|320</wrap><wrap quote>that after the stage of initiation in Capricorn,</wrap>—look at Mercury in relation to the third decanate <wrap hide>149|00:16:43|320|00:16:48|600</wrap>of Capricorn along with the Sun and Vulcan—that after the stage of initiation of Capricorn, <wrap hide>150|00:16:48|600|00:16:55|800</wrap><wrap quote>as the result of the reversal of the wheel //and the consequent experiences//,</wrap> which occurred <wrap hide>151|00:16:55|800|00:17:05|300</wrap>in one sense many lives before this third initiation, <wrap quote>and after the triumph of Scorpio,</wrap> <wrap hide>152|00:17:05|300|00:17:12|240</wrap>in which Mercury is also powerful, being the hierarchical ruler, and the mind has two phases <wrap hide>153|00:17:12|240|00:17:17|780</wrap>to pass through—the control of the emotions and the illumination—the power of the mind <wrap hide>154|00:17:17|780|00:17:24|120</wrap>is very strong in Scorpio, and I think quite strong in Capricorn because <wrap hide>155|00:17:24|120|00:17:30|980</wrap>of the third decanate. The power of the mind lessens steadily—the mind per se, let's call <wrap hide>156|00:17:30|980|00:17:35|940</wrap>it that, because, you know, intuition is the transcendental mind—so it's the mind per se. <wrap hide>157|00:17:35|940|00:17:42|480</wrap><wrap quote>the power of the mind lessens steadily till finally (like other aspects of form life <wrap hide>158|00:17:42|480|00:17:47|540</wrap>in the three worlds)</wrap>—so here he is talking about the concrete mind, obviously concrete <wrap hide>159|00:17:47|540|00:17:53|620</wrap>mind—<wrap quote>it comes to an end and its meaning and illuminating aspects between soul and physical <wrap hide>160|00:17:53|620|00:18:03|540</wrap>brain are no longer required.</wrap> because we have direct contact between the soul and physical <wrap hide>161|00:18:03|540|00:18:11|360</wrap>brain and between the intuition and physical brain. So mind as a mediator, Mercury as a mediator <wrap hide>162|00:18:11|360|00:18:23|620</wrap>translating into symbols and various mediatory forms the direct vision and knowledge of the <wrap hide>163|00:18:23|620|00:18:29|620</wrap>intuition, that is no longer needed. The man comes definitely into full soul consciousness <wrap hide>164|00:18:30|920|00:18:39|700</wrap>without the reasoning mind as a mediator. Let's put that in without the—and we'll put this <wrap hide>165|00:18:39|700|00:18:48|220</wrap>reasoning mind as the mediator, he will be subject then to pure reason. But pure reason <wrap hide>166|00:18:48|220|00:18:57|520</wrap>is not reasoning occurring in time and under sequential Saturn. <wrap quote>The man, coming definitely <wrap hide>167|00:18:57|520|00:19:05|560</wrap>into full soul consciousness, requires now no mediator but deals directly himself with <wrap hide>168|00:19:05|560|00:19:14|960</wrap>his emanating source.</wrap> So we have the physical brain and the soul in direct connection, and <wrap hide>169|00:19:14|960|00:19:23|540</wrap>even direct connection with the spiritual triad. <wrap quote>Mercury is then met with again <wrap hide>170|00:19:23|540|00:19:35|420</wrap>under another name, this time as the Sun, mediating between the higher aspects—soul and spirit—for <wrap hide>171|00:19:35|420|00:19:53|520</wrap>Mercury and the Sun are One.</wrap> Now this is interesting. Now Mercury is then the ruler of Boötes. Mercury <wrap hide>172|00:19:53|520|00:20:06|120</wrap>between the monad and the soul on its own plane. <wrap quote>Through Mercury, the mind is illumined and relation <wrap hide>173|00:20:06|120|00:20:12|300</wrap>is established between personality and the soul.</wrap> That's usually how it operates before the fall occurs <wrap quote>As <wrap hide>174|00:20:12|740|00:20:21|100</wrap>Mercury, the Sun—the mediator—shifts to a still higher plane</wrap> It's interesting about the Sun is <wrap hide>175|00:20:21|100|00:20:25|780</wrap>because when you look at the position of the Sun in the double diamond—hate to take a little <wrap hide>176|00:20:26|300|00:20:33|660</wrap>bit of a detour here—but if we go over to page 610 and we see the position of the Sun, we <wrap hide>177|00:20:33|660|00:20:40|080</wrap>will see it in a mediating position, a transforming position. It is mediating between the very highest <wrap hide>178|00:20:40|080|00:20:47|000</wrap>influences and the lower influences. This is the—this is the double—this is the double diamond, okay? <wrap hide>179|00:20:48|620|00:20:54|140</wrap>So the mind is illumined at first, and the first function of Mercury, and relation is established <wrap hide>180|00:20:54|140|00:20:59|860</wrap>between personality and soul. We don't get direct soul impression; perhaps we get mentally mediated <wrap hide>181|00:20:59|860|00:21:09|220</wrap>soul impression. The Mercury translates the soul impression through symbols and words and other <wrap hide>182|00:21:09|220|00:21:15|040</wrap>mediatory forms. But Mercury, as the Sun, the mediator, shifts to a still higher plane—that's the <wrap hide>183|00:21:15|040|00:21:20|860</wrap>monadic plane—<wrap quote>and is no longer mediator between two different stages in consciousness</wrap> such as <wrap hide>184|00:21:20|860|00:21:29|000</wrap>soul and personality consciousness, <wrap quote>but between life</wrap> which is not consciousness per se, which is <wrap hide>185|00:21:29|000|00:21:34|920</wrap>not consciousness, <wrap quote>and consciousness itself; this is a very different matter and effects the higher understanding.</wrap> Mercury does this, and even Jupiter in Gemini <wrap hide>186|00:21:34|920|00:21:40|400</wrap>does this as well. <wrap quote>This will necessarily be incomprehensible to you at present for it is <wrap hide>187|00:21:40|400|00:21:49|480</wrap>not a mediatorship between differences but a fusion of what is already related. Are you any the <wrap hide>188|00:21:49|480|00:21:57|280</wrap>wiser for that statement?</wrap> So here we have—well, I wonder if we are any—if we are any wiser. Let's <wrap hide>189|00:21:57|280|00:22:03|040</wrap>just say spirit and soul are already related. Certainly spirit and soul are definitely <wrap hide>190|00:22:06|000|00:22:17|340</wrap>related, for spirit has—capitalized it—spirit has—whoop—and spell it correctly—has taken up its <wrap hide>191|00:22:17|340|00:22:28|820</wrap>place as the central fire in the jewel—in fire in the jewel in the Lotus. So they are definitely <wrap hide>192|00:22:28|820|00:22:36|600</wrap>related. But now there is, via Mercury—since Mercury and the Sun are one—a fusion between <wrap hide>193|00:22:36|600|00:22:44|820</wrap>spirit and soul, and this is occurring. This fusion between spirit and soul occurs after <wrap hide>194|00:22:45|060|00:22:57|940</wrap>the third initiation and is consummated at the fourth initiation, and still more fully fulfilled— <wrap hide>195|00:22:57|940|00:23:04|320</wrap>and still more fulfilled at the fifth—because the spiritual triad is still active at the fifth <wrap hide>196|00:23:04|320|00:23:11|460</wrap>initiation, and spiritual triad is the real soul. So we're not mediating here between two aspects <wrap hide>197|00:23:11|460|00:23:21|080</wrap>like—let us say—let's see—let's look at this again here. This—this is no longer a media— <wrap hide>198|00:23:21|080|00:23:26|240</wrap>mediatorship between two different stages of consciousness, but between life, which is distinct <wrap hide>199|00:23:26|240|00:23:34|360</wrap>from consciousness. D.K. talks about moving onward into life. He says past a certain point it is not <wrap hide>200|00:23:34|360|00:23:40|520</wrap>consciousness that we are interested in acquiring, although even great Logoi have consciousness, but <wrap hide>201|00:23:40|520|00:23:50|480</wrap>a penetration, an onward movement into life itself. Mercury has a high function here as a mediator <wrap hide>202|00:23:50|480|00:24:00|200</wrap>between life and consciousness per se. So Mercury, in relation to nirvanic mind—even beyond <wrap hide>203|00:24:00|200|00:24:07|140</wrap>transcendental mind—a kind of mind associated with the nirvanic plane or the atomic plane, is <wrap hide>204|00:24:07|140|00:24:17|520</wrap>bringing the will, the life aspect, fully into consciousness and is a transmitter of sort of <wrap hide>205|00:24:17|520|00:24:23|620</wrap>higher quality or a higher principle and enlivening principle. Mercury is so often involved <wrap hide>206|00:24:23|620|00:24:30|000</wrap>with enlivening. It is involved with the etheric body, the vital body, which is the great enlivener <wrap hide>207|00:24:30|000|00:24:36|660</wrap>of the physical body, and there is the whole question of enlivening the egoic body by the <wrap hide>208|00:24:36|660|00:24:43|480</wrap>revelation of the content of the jewel in the Lotus, which is a direct presence of the monad. <wrap hide>209|00:24:47|180|00:24:54|360</wrap>Okay, so Mercury in a way becomes the Sun, and the—so, you know, from a certain point of view, <wrap hide>210|00:24:54|980|00:25:02|340</wrap>the monad is the Sun as well, but the Sun is considered a sort of a triadal mediator between <wrap hide>211|00:25:02|340|00:25:08|460</wrap>The supreme spirit really there is the Sun, and then three aspects of the Sun and as the triad. <wrap hide>212|00:25:08|460|00:25:14|700</wrap>And then the egoic Lotus is the Sun, and then the personality is the Sun, and even the physical body <wrap hide>213|00:25:14|700|00:25:22|020</wrap>considered as a kind of a Sun etherically. So there are different aspects of the Sun. Mercury <wrap hide>214|00:25:22|020|00:25:29|340</wrap>and the Sun are one, especially in its Buddhic functioning. You know, one seeks to ponder on <wrap hide>215|00:25:29|340|00:25:43|200</wrap>these things in great depth and persistently. Now we have reached that point. Yeah, well, I'll, you know, <wrap hide>216|00:25:43|200|00:25:52|680</wrap>one day I'll send all this to you with the notes. But of course you can freeze your screen <wrap hide>217|00:25:52|680|00:25:59|840</wrap>at any point and you can see what is here. So maybe there's not so much urgent need for that. <wrap hide>218|00:25:59|840|00:26:10|980</wrap>We've come to the question of the decanates now, and the decanates in relation to Pisces. Let's see, <wrap hide>219|00:26:10|980|00:26:20|620</wrap>here we have to go up a little bit. Yeah, the one, two, three wheel of consciousness is the fourth <wrap hide>220|00:26:20|620|00:26:28|100</wrap>wheel of form by reversing the decanate order on the wheel of consciousness. Then there's the <wrap hide>221|00:26:28|100|00:26:35|460</wrap>wheel of form, which Nicholas Nelenn, how he sees it. He's a very fine astrologer in all of these <wrap hide>222|00:26:35|460|00:26:41|460</wrap>matters and in general, of course. And to a degree, decanates, then the Alan Leo decanates are <wrap hide>223|00:26:41|460|00:26:48|180</wrap>there and the Sepharial decanates are there. The Alan Leo decanates we remember are based upon <wrap hide>224|00:26:48|180|00:26:55|280</wrap>the rulerships of the triplicity in which a particular sign is found. Like Aries is found <wrap hide>225|00:26:55|280|00:27:01|520</wrap>in the fire triplicity: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. So the rulers of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius will <wrap hide>226|00:27:01|520|00:27:09|040</wrap>be important decanate rulers. When it comes to Sepharial, he is proceeding rather sequentially <wrap hide>227|00:27:09|040|00:27:21|120</wrap>outward from Saturn, it seems, and moving inward: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun. How does he go? Mars, Mars, <wrap hide>228|00:27:21|120|00:27:32|660</wrap>Sun, and Venus, Mercury, Moon. That is his usual method. Yeah, Venus, Mercury, Moon. Then he goes out <wrap hide>229|00:27:32|660|00:27:39|940</wrap>again, the longest period being that of Saturn. Next shorter is Jupiter, next shorter is Mars, next <wrap hide>230|00:27:39|940|00:27:47|820</wrap>shorter is the Sun period, geocentrically considered around the Earth. At least it's an appearance. It <wrap hide>231|00:27:47|820|00:27:53|220</wrap>appears that these planets are revolving around the Earth in a certain period, but really they are <wrap hide>232|00:27:53|220|00:28:00|080</wrap>revolving around the Sun. Otherwise the Sun couldn't be included, as the Sun is in fact appearing to <wrap hide>233|00:28:00|080|00:28:10|960</wrap>revolve around the Earth from the geocentric perspective. Okay, so let me... yes, I'll do it this <wrap hide>234|00:28:10|960|00:28:27|980</wrap>way and we'll make it just a little... yeah, that'll be good. Okay, all right. Oops. Okay, hmm. Yeah, there <wrap hide>235|00:28:27|980|00:28:39|980</wrap>we go. Okay, now let's see what D.K. says about this, and we'll look at some other charts I've created <wrap hide>236|00:28:39|980|00:28:48|880</wrap>for this. <wrap quote>The same symbolic mode of interpretation must govern also our understanding of the three <wrap hide>237|00:28:48|880|00:28:57|920</wrap>decanates. Both Leo and Sepharial give a list of the decanates and between them there is <wrap hide>238|00:28:57|920|00:29:06|100</wrap>much resemblance but there is, however, an important difference. Leo approaches the closer to <wrap hide>239|00:29:06|100|00:29:11|420</wrap>the esoteric interpretation of astrology</wrap> — and that's a general statement — <wrap quote>whilst Sepharial <wrap hide>240|00:29:11|420|00:29:17|920</wrap>is purely exoteric.</wrap> says the Tibetan. Although occasionally Sepharial's decanates are accepted <wrap hide>241|00:29:17|920|00:29:25|280</wrap>as the truly esoteric ones, as in the case of Gemini. <wrap quote>According to Sepharial, the three <wrap hide>242|00:29:25|280|00:29:32|400</wrap>decanates are governed by Saturn—Jupiter—Mars,</wrap> Now let's take a look at that. Here are the <wrap hide>243|00:29:32|400|00:29:41|540</wrap>Sepharial decanates, and we'll go down and we have right here... here is Pisces in its color lavender, <wrap hide>244|00:29:41|540|00:29:50|840</wrap>and we have Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. That's the... and you see how we are coming inward from Saturn to <wrap hide>245|00:29:50|840|00:29:55|880</wrap>Jupiter, Jupiter, Mars, Mars to the Sun, and so forth, with a shortening of the period around the <wrap hide>246|00:29:55|880|00:30:05|180</wrap>Earth. Okay, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. And D.K. essentializes the meaning very well, you know, and <wrap hide>247|00:30:05|180|00:30:12|840</wrap>in short statements: "They're governed by Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, presenting to the undeveloped <wrap hide>248|00:30:12|840|00:30:21|060</wrap>man who is still not working on the wheel of consciousness, <wrap quote>presenting opportunity to <wrap hide>249|00:30:21|060|00:30:29|480</wrap>work off karma</wrap> — and that would probably be found in the third decanate, which for the average man <wrap hide>250|00:30:29|480|00:30:37|080</wrap>is entered as if it were the first decanate — "and to be successful Jupiter in doing so." So presenting <wrap hide>251|00:30:37|080|00:30:43|820</wrap>the opportunity to work... now whenever you find the word "work," watch for Saturn. Saturn to work off <wrap hide>252|00:30:43|820|00:30:51|080</wrap>karma <wrap quote>and to be successful in so doing</wrap> — that is Jupiter — <wrap quote>and indicating the method employed, that <wrap hide>253|00:30:51|080|00:31:10|000</wrap>of conflict and of war.</wrap> So Mars gives the opportunity to work off karma through conflict. Okay, so <wrap hide>254|00:31:10|000|00:31:23|740</wrap>Alan... so this is... we see here we can see here the method. Let's see, this is Pisces. Okay, there's <wrap hide>255|00:31:23|740|00:31:32|420</wrap>different ways of doing this. The Sepharial decanates are found here: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. <wrap hide>256|00:31:32|420|00:31:41|200</wrap>Now, from another point of view, we could consider them to be Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. See Sepharial. <wrap hide>257|00:31:43|580|00:31:50|980</wrap>Sepharial - what he did, he always considered the counterclockwise order. He was never reversing the <wrap hide>258|00:31:50|980|00:31:58|020</wrap>order. So when we're talking about the first decanate in the usual sense, we're dealing with <wrap hide>259|00:31:58|020|00:32:05|380</wrap>zero to ten degrees. Well, Sepharial puts Saturn in that position, from 10 to 20 Jupiter, and finally <wrap hide>260|00:32:05|380|00:32:18|640</wrap>the third - the 20 to 30 - would be Mars. But of course, what really happens here is that we enter as an <wrap hide>261|00:32:18|640|00:32:23|900</wrap>average individual the sign from the opposite angle, and so we have Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn <wrap hide>262|00:32:23|900|00:32:29|540</wrap>instead of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. When you're dealing with the decanates, you have to be willing <wrap hide>263|00:32:29|540|00:32:37|680</wrap>to turn the wheel in both directions at the same time and not to look for a totally clear <wrap hide>264|00:32:37|680|00:32:47|640</wrap>definition of each decanate space, but as D.K. says, they are fluid. So you see how I've arranged these. <wrap hide>265|00:32:49|560|00:33:00|140</wrap>One of the ways of operating here... Let's see what further D.K. says. He - D.K. - gives us Jupiter, moon, and <wrap hide>266|00:33:00|140|00:33:07|800</wrap>Mars, as we'll see in a minute. And so it's possible to reverse these and have the average man entering <wrap hide>267|00:33:07|800|00:33:12|660</wrap>in the third decanate, which for him is the first, with Mars, then going through the moon, and then <wrap hide>268|00:33:12|660|00:33:21|460</wrap>Jupiter. And then, as the wheel is reversed and as the man begins to aspire, then the normal clockwise - <wrap hide>269|00:33:21|460|00:33:29|700</wrap>counterclockwise - order of the planets would be Jupiter, moon, and Mars. You see the - you see how I've <wrap hide>270|00:33:29|700|00:33:36|560</wrap>done it with this kind of green star representing the mind and the lower integrating personality <wrap hide>271|00:33:36|560|00:33:44|880</wrap>and the blue star representing complete spiritual fulfillment. These particular charts, I think, can be <wrap hide>272|00:33:44|880|00:33:55|780</wrap>studied with profit. So let's see what else D.K. says here. <wrap quote>Leo gives us Jupiter, the Moon <wrap hide>273|00:33:55|780|00:34:02|880</wrap>and Mars.</wrap> Now, Alan Leo again is always operating in the counterclockwise version, just like Sepharial <wrap hide>274|00:34:02|880|00:34:09|720</wrap>is. We have to lay these planets out in the counterclockwise version, which means from 0 to 10, <wrap hide>275|00:34:09|720|00:34:19|780</wrap>10 to 20, 20 to 30, and then move backwards or clockwise in the case of the average individual <wrap hide>276|00:34:19|780|00:34:28|600</wrap>who is responding to these planets - to these decanates - in a way that strictly affects his <wrap hide>277|00:34:28|600|00:34:34|920</wrap>personality and not his soul or spirit. So Leo gives us Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. <wrap quote>He indicates, <wrap hide>278|00:34:34|920|00:34:41|340</wrap>therefore,</wrap> - and D.K. will essentialize here - <wrap quote>He indicates, therefore, the success</wrap> which is incident <wrap hide>279|00:34:41|340|00:34:48|900</wrap>to proved discipleship</wrap> So that is experienced in relation to the first decanate in Pisces, 0 to 10, <wrap hide>280|00:34:48|900|00:34:56|780</wrap><wrap quote>and consequent readiness for initiation, the seeing of the vision with which Jupiter rewards the <wrap hide>281|00:34:56|780|00:35:04|080</wrap>disciple,</wrap> Okay, so all of these things pertain to the first decanate. He gives us Jupiter, the moon, <wrap hide>282|00:35:04|080|00:35:10|340</wrap>and Mars, and so here is success - that's the Jupiterian word - which is incident to proved <wrap hide>283|00:35:10|340|00:35:16|940</wrap>discipleship. So in that first decanate, we are proving that we have made many relinquishments <wrap hide>284|00:35:16|940|00:35:24|180</wrap>and are ready truly for the life of service and even eventual saviorship. <wrap quote>the success which is <wrap hide>285|00:35:24|180|00:35:29|820</wrap>incident to proved discipleship and consequent readiness for initiation,</wrap> because Jupiter is <wrap hide>286|00:35:29|820|00:35:35|820</wrap>always an expansion of consciousness, and when that expansion of consciousness has been achieved, the <wrap hide>287|00:35:35|820|00:35:41|720</wrap>man is initiate before he is initiated. So he is sustaining a certain expansion of consciousness; <wrap hide>288|00:35:41|720|00:35:47|220</wrap>he proves he is ready, therefore, for initiation, and he sees the vision of that which lies ahead. <wrap hide>289|00:35:47|220|00:35:56|460</wrap>Jupiter always is the planet of vision. The second ray is related closely to eyesight and to seeing <wrap hide>290|00:35:56|460|00:36:02|740</wrap>things in a synthetic manner. With the eye, we can see many factors simultaneously - far <wrap hide>291|00:36:02|740|00:36:08|300</wrap>more than we can hear and discriminate - and we are able to see them all in relation. That is synthesis; <wrap hide>292|00:36:08|300|00:36:13|640</wrap>that is the second ray - the second ray type of synthesis. <wrap quote>the seeing of the vision with which <wrap hide>293|00:36:13|640|00:36:19|180</wrap>Jupiter rewards the disciple, and the experience</wrap> - now he's moving to the second decanate - <wrap hide>294|00:36:19|180|00:36:26|100</wrap><wrap quote>the experience which Vulcan confers.</wrap> Now, why Vulcan? Because he had mentioned the moon. So what is <wrap hide>295|00:36:26|100|00:36:35|700</wrap>involved here? <wrap quote>Vulcan has been hitherto hidden,</wrap> - hidden by what? Hidden by the moon, right? Hidden <wrap hide>296|00:36:35|700|00:36:41|220</wrap>by the moon. <wrap quote>but its influence has steadily superseded all lunar control,</wrap> In other words, <wrap hide>297|00:36:41|220|00:36:52|560</wrap>the spiritual will - the spiritual will - overcomes lunar instinct. <wrap quote>its influence has steadily <wrap hide>298|00:36:52|560|00:36:58|420</wrap>superseded all lunar control, for the personality or form side of life is lost to sight in the <wrap hide>299|00:36:58|420|00:37:04|720</wrap>radiance of the Sun, the soul.</wrap> Now, Vulcan and the sun are also - unlike Mercury in the sun - are also, <wrap hide>300|00:37:04|720|00:37:14|900</wrap>remember, Vulcan a planet of blinding - blinding light. And when it is said of Taurus that it <wrap hide>301|00:37:14|900|00:37:22|200</wrap>confers blinding light, it's the light of Venus - is not the blinding light; it's the light of Vulcan. <wrap hide>302|00:37:22|200|00:37:28|460</wrap>which is so close to the Sun and produces that overpowering light experience which is experienced <wrap hide>303|00:37:28|700|00:37:36|620</wrap>at the enlightenment or the third initiation, as Saint Paul experienced it. It's a mixture of the <wrap hide>304|00:37:36|620|00:37:44|580</wrap>first ray with the power of light. So the personality of form side of life, which is the <wrap hide>305|00:37:44|580|00:37:53|740</wrap>moon, is lost to sight in the radiance of the Sun, the soul represented by Vulcan. Represented by <wrap hide>306|00:37:53|740|00:38:04|800</wrap>Vulcan, <wrap quote>The light of Vulcan and the light of the Sun are one light and these three—Mercury, <wrap hide>307|00:38:04|800|00:38:08|460</wrap>Vulcan and the Sun—</wrap>are one. Then there's the Sun, <wrap quote>and these three—Mercury, Vulcan <wrap hide>308|00:38:08|460|00:38:15|640</wrap>and the Sun—stand for a synthesis and a radiance which eventually dims the light of Mercury and it <wrap hide>309|00:38:15|640|00:38:22|900</wrap>"falls" into the background and Vulcan too becomes invisible and only the Sun remains.</wrap> Now we also <wrap hide>310|00:38:22|900|00:38:35|720</wrap>meet—we also meet Mercury, Vulcan, and the Sun in the last decan of Capricorn. We will be studying <wrap hide>311|00:38:35|720|00:38:43|540</wrap>that, and that is an initiatory decanate where the Sun finally is the major ruler and when the <wrap hide>312|00:38:43|540|00:38:49|560</wrap>person conquers the mountain at the third initiation. So in this particular case, we have <wrap hide>313|00:38:49|560|00:38:57|260</wrap>another reason for the sort of fall of Mercury, and it's related to the second decanate, as is <wrap hide>314|00:38:57|260|00:39:08|200</wrap>Vulcan. So the moon is lost to sight, the mind falls away, the spiritual will of Vulcan recedes into <wrap hide>315|00:39:08|200|00:39:17|600</wrap>the presence of the spirit, which stands for—which the Sun stands for. <wrap quote>We have consequently a vision <wrap hide>316|00:39:17|600|00:39:25|340</wrap>of the Sun, the experience of the personality and effort, which is the mode of attainment <wrap hide>317|00:39:26|460|00:39:32|740</wrap>governed by Mars.</wrap> So the experience of the personality and effort are the mode of attainment <wrap hide>318|00:39:32|740|00:39:39|880</wrap>governed by Mars, and this is the final decanate. So we have a great vision in the second decanate, <wrap hide>319|00:39:39|880|00:39:51|140</wrap>a great vision. In that light, we shall see a greater light, and that's the light of Vulcan <wrap hide>320|00:39:51|140|00:39:59|620</wrap>and the Sun. So we really find—whoops, disappeared there—we really find four <wrap hide>321|00:40:00|060|00:40:06|020</wrap>planets involved in the second decanate: four planets involved in the second decan. <wrap hide>322|00:40:07|300|00:40:15|740</wrap>We have the Moon, we have Mercury, which is falling away in the blinding light of Vulcan, <wrap hide>323|00:40:16|480|00:40:22|960</wrap>and then we have the presence of the Sun. So we have successful discipleship under Jupiter—first <wrap hide>324|00:40:22|960|00:40:28|700</wrap>decanate. We have a great vision, an experience of liberating light in the second decanate, <wrap hide>325|00:40:28|700|00:40:36|640</wrap>and we have this ongoing battle: the experience of the personality, which is the mode of attainment <wrap hide>326|00:40:36|640|00:40:44|880</wrap>governed by Mars. It is an application through effort of all that is seen—an application through <wrap hide>327|00:40:44|880|00:40:53|500</wrap>effort of all that is seen in the second decanate—and it is a preparation for moving forward into <wrap hide>328|00:40:53|500|00:40:59|360</wrap>Aries, which interestingly, from Alan Leo's perspective, has a first decanate ruled by Mars, <wrap hide>329|00:40:59|360|00:41:06|420</wrap>but from the perspective of the Tibetan, it is a Jupiter rulership, strangely enough. <wrap hide>330|00:41:06|420|00:41:13|600</wrap>So Mars is preparing the way. Mars in the last decanate of Pisces is preparing the way <wrap hide>331|00:41:14|080|00:41:20|760</wrap>for this expansive Jupiterian experience in the first decanate of Aries, and also there is a Venus <wrap hide>332|00:41:21|680|00:41:29|900</wrap>rulership that D.K. hints at, as given by Alan Leo, in that first decanate of Aries. Let's look at this. <wrap hide>333|00:41:30|680|00:41:35|740</wrap>Well, you know, you could—well, you can write a whole book on the decanates, and <wrap hide>334|00:41:35|740|00:41:43|160</wrap>esoterically this has been done. I think Stephen Pugh has done a very good book on the decanates <wrap hide>335|00:41:43|160|00:41:52|220</wrap>called "The 72 Faces of Man," and other people have offered important speculations. So here we have <wrap hide>336|00:41:52|220|00:42:04|000</wrap>three constellations related to the three decanates of Pisces, and there are given in <wrap hide>337|00:42:04|000|00:42:09|460</wrap>"The Labors of Hercules" three extra-zodiacal constellations, each one of them related to <wrap hide>338|00:42:09|460|00:42:15|640</wrap>particular constellations. So the band that ties the fishes together, Andromeda the chained woman, <wrap hide>339|00:42:15|640|00:42:24|900</wrap>and Cepheus—or Cepheus—the king are the three associated extra-zodiacal constellations. We can <wrap hide>340|00:42:24|900|00:42:29|880</wrap>ask ourselves, "Well, look, is it legitimate to associate one of these constellations with one <wrap hide>341|00:42:29|880|00:42:36|400</wrap>of the decanates?" Well, there are three and three, and perhaps there is a kind of special emphasis <wrap hide>342|00:42:37|020|00:42:42|940</wrap>with one of these constellations associated with one particular decanate. However, I would say that <wrap hide>343|00:42:42|940|00:42:50|060</wrap>if you are a Pisces, you have the possibility of experiencing all three constellations, just the way <wrap hide>344|00:42:50|060|00:42:56|540</wrap>if you are an Aries individual, you have the possibility of experiencing Cetus the sea monster, <wrap hide>345|00:42:59|660|00:43:06|240</wrap>Cassiopeia the enthroned queen, and Perseus the hero. All of them are open to you, but there might <wrap hide>346|00:43:06|240|00:43:14|780</wrap>be a particular emphasis in a particular life. So the band—the band, the Antahkarana, the Sutratma, <wrap hide>347|00:43:14|780|00:43:25|000</wrap>the band holding the fishes together—the lower Antahkarana. And if we consider the higher fish <wrap hide>348|00:43:25|000|00:43:30|420</wrap>to represent soul and the lower fish to represent personality. So it is a band of consciousness <wrap hide>349|00:43:30|960|00:43:38|840</wrap>and also a band of life. And Andromeda is the chained woman, and she has to be released by the hero <wrap hide>350|00:43:38|840|00:43:46|680</wrap>Perseus. And Cepheus is the king. It's not a very prominent constellation, but it has a high <wrap hide>351|00:43:46|680|00:43:57|680</wrap>representation as a Sanat Kumara or the planetary Logos. Now, if we move upward a little here, <wrap hide>352|00:43:57|680|00:44:09|160</wrap>let's see if I push this over to the other side. I can do that, and then I would... perhaps I might... <wrap hide>353|00:44:12|220|00:44:19|760</wrap>I could possibly... excuse me for a second as I make my... just a little bit big here. <wrap hide>354|00:44:19|760|00:44:27|040</wrap>It automatically goes to the right-hand side, so I don't think I can do anything about it. <wrap hide>355|00:44:27|040|00:44:35|180</wrap>Maybe I can... maybe I can... yeah, I think I can, and I will. So I'll try to switch this around, and it'll <wrap hide>356|00:44:35|180|00:44:41|240</wrap>be a little peculiar perhaps. All right, I'll be looking from a different direction, but in any <wrap hide>357|00:44:41|240|00:44:54|020</wrap>case, we should be able to see just a little better. Now, moving this away slightly, we come to <wrap hide>358|00:44:54|860|00:45:04|780</wrap>the wheel of consciousness. This is what is given by the Tibetan, okay? And he gives <wrap hide>359|00:45:05|780|00:45:19|080</wrap>Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars, and also this is veiling Vulcan. Now I see here that we have the Sun and <wrap hide>360|00:45:19|080|00:45:25|620</wrap>also involved in the third decanate. So let's see why that should be the case. We have, consequently, <wrap hide>361|00:45:25|620|00:45:30|520</wrap>a vision of the Sun, the experience of the personality, which is the mode of attainment <wrap hide>362|00:45:31|480|00:45:38|340</wrap>governed by Mars. So only the Sun remains. I think that perhaps this is not correct. <wrap hide>363|00:45:38|920|00:45:46|120</wrap>I'm going to change this, or at least question this for the moment, and I'm going to put a line <wrap hide>364|00:45:46|120|00:45:52|500</wrap>through it because it looks to me like this vision of the Sun... well, let's just say that <wrap hide>365|00:45:54|260|00:46:01|700</wrap>the Sun and Mercury... if the Sun is the personality and Mercury is the mind, they are involved in <wrap hide>366|00:46:01|700|00:46:16|100</wrap>falling away. But I'm not exactly sure that that's the way it should be done. All right, so here's the <wrap hide>367|00:46:16|100|00:46:24|620</wrap>Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. So we are envisioning the Sun from Jupiter. We are looking towards the <wrap hide>368|00:46:24|620|00:46:31|000</wrap>Sun or the soul. The Moon is veiling Vulcan, suggesting the emergence of the Sun with <wrap hide>369|00:46:31|000|00:46:39|280</wrap>Mercury falling away. And Mars is the planet of battle, leading to the final Sun of spirit which <wrap hide>370|00:46:39|280|00:46:48|820</wrap>Cepheus represents, with Mercury falling away. Now, down a little bit later in this chart, <wrap hide>371|00:46:50|580|00:47:00|440</wrap>I go through six different methods of considering these decanates, and I'm going to make this a <wrap hide>372|00:47:00|440|00:47:07|860</wrap>little smaller. Okay, now we're not so concerned with the physical, strictly physical Lemurian <wrap hide>373|00:47:07|860|00:47:15|500</wrap>approach. All of this is here, and you can freeze your screen at any time to read it if you want to. <wrap hide>374|00:47:16|000|00:47:23|020</wrap>The emotional is here, and that is the Atlantean state. We're not so concerned with that specifically, <wrap hide>375|00:47:23|680|00:47:37|160</wrap>nor are we concerned exactly with the lower mental personal aspect. We are moving in a... <wrap hide>376|00:47:37|160|00:47:47|440</wrap>we are moving from Mars to the Moon and thence to Jupiter. But when we reach, in fact, the point where <wrap hide>377|00:47:47|440|00:47:55|020</wrap>a reversal takes place and the person becomes an aspiring, spiritually oriented personality, we begin <wrap hide>378|00:47:55|020|00:48:07|760</wrap>with Jupiter. And here we are... Jupiter's rule... okay... okay, here we are... yeah. <wrap hide>379|00:48:11|720|00:48:18|900</wrap>Okay, here is the height. Here is Jupiter applied to the aspirational, higher personal, integrating <wrap hide>380|00:48:18|900|00:48:27|480</wrap>personality. We are still under the basic Jupiter rulership of Pluto, and we are still on the latter <wrap hide>381|00:48:27|480|00:48:36|360</wrap>part of the mutable cross. But we are coming increasingly under Pluto. This is the initial <wrap hide>382|00:48:36|360|00:48:42|820</wrap>phase of "I leave the father's home," and turning back, "I save." And from Esoteric Astrology 333, <wrap hide>383|00:48:43|320|00:48:48|740</wrap>we learned that the man is becoming the advanced man. He becomes sensitive to soul. He becomes <wrap hide>384|00:48:48|740|00:48:54|840</wrap>the mediator between the soul and personality. So under this general Jupiterian phase, the man <wrap hide>385|00:48:54|840|00:49:00|460</wrap>expands his outreach towards service and helpfulness, which he does under Jupiter. <wrap hide>386|00:49:01|540|00:49:06|160</wrap>He grasps the importance of service and begins to offer himself to others <wrap hide>387|00:49:06|600|00:49:15|720</wrap>in self-sacrifice. He begins to demonstrate the urge towards self-abnegation, using incipient Pluto <wrap hide>388|00:49:15|720|00:49:21|900</wrap>to detach from his involvement—his desirous involvement—with the physical plane. And via <wrap hide>389|00:49:21|900|00:49:28|220</wrap>Neptune, which begins to come into focus because he is turning into a disciple, via Neptune his <wrap hide>390|00:49:28|220|00:49:35|040</wrap>sensitivity to others is rapidly growing. Let's see where we are in terms of time. Okay, well, we <wrap hide>391|00:49:35|040|00:49:43|300</wrap>may not make it here. We'll do the best we can. Now we start to apply the decanate rulers, and <wrap hide>392|00:49:43|300|00:49:51|320</wrap>on the counterclockwise wheel, which is the reversed wheel, we have Jupiter ruling the first, <wrap hide>393|00:49:51|900|00:50:00|700</wrap>the Moon-Vulcan ruling the second, and we have Mars, which I say is struggling towards the <wrap hide>394|00:50:00|700|00:50:08|760</wrap>Sun, with Mercury meaning less and less. So now we are becoming an advanced man, and we are under the <wrap hide>395|00:50:08|760|00:50:17|100</wrap>First decanate of Jupiter from zero to ten degrees: the advanced man sees a broader vision <wrap hide>396|00:50:17|100|00:50:22|560</wrap>of divinity and believes. These are words, Jupiterian words. The advanced man sees a broader <wrap hide>397|00:50:22|560|00:50:29|200</wrap>vision of divinity and believes in the reality of the spiritual dimensions of life. He's not yet <wrap hide>398|00:50:29|200|00:50:34|780</wrap>soul conscious, but he knows there is this higher source and higher power. He's oriented towards it, <wrap hide>399|00:50:34|780|00:50:42|340</wrap>wants to include it. The influence of the band - we are going to apply the band to the first decanate <wrap hide>400|00:50:42|340|00:50:49|060</wrap>in a specific sort of way - and the influence of the band connects his personal life with his <wrap hide>401|00:50:49|060|00:50:56|240</wrap>increasing experience of inner spiritual dimensions. So we have Jupiter dominant <wrap hide>402|00:50:56|240|00:51:02|720</wrap>because it is the exoteric ruler and it is still operative on the mutable cross, and Pluto is <wrap hide>403|00:51:02|720|00:51:10|640</wrap>beginning to phase in. And let's see what else we say here: through all decanates, though all decanate <wrap hide>404|00:51:10|640|00:51:15|140</wrap>rulers can be associated with the personal aspirational phase, Jupiter, ruler of the first <wrap hide>405|00:51:15|140|00:51:21|080</wrap>decanate of the wheel of consciousness, is especially associated with the personal aspirational phase. <wrap hide>406|00:51:21|080|00:51:28|100</wrap>I don't have to go into all the details here. I think you can get the idea. Now, for this aspiring <wrap hide>407|00:51:28|100|00:51:32|780</wrap>human being who is not yet the disciple, we move into the second decanate, and how would it operate? <wrap hide>408|00:51:33|380|00:51:36|720</wrap>Well, we have the second decanate ruler as the moon as Andromeda, <wrap hide>409|00:51:38|480|00:51:44|960</wrap>veiling Vulcan. Vulcan, by the way, is a breaker of chains. It is a forger of chains and the hammer <wrap hide>410|00:51:44|960|00:51:52|800</wrap>which breaks the chains. So Vulcan can lead to extreme attachment as well as detachment. These <wrap hide>411|00:51:52|800|00:51:57|580</wrap>sacred planets can be operative in the early phases. So applying the decanate ruler of the <wrap hide>412|00:51:57|580|00:52:02|340</wrap>moon veiling Vulcan to this particular stage of development of the advancing man, what do we have? <wrap hide>413|00:52:02|340|00:52:09|740</wrap>The advancing man learns to bring his personality vehicles into shape. <wrap hide>414|00:52:10|860|00:52:17|180</wrap>Vulcan shapes things up under the impress of the higher will, which is beginning to make its impact - <wrap hide>415|00:52:17|180|00:52:22|700</wrap>something higher than the strictly personal will - or he aligns his personal will with what he senses <wrap hide>416|00:52:22|700|00:52:30|940</wrap>as a higher will. Under the influence of Andromeda, he learns to bind the unsuitable expression of the <wrap hide>417|00:52:30|940|00:52:40|700</wrap>lunar vehicles. He learns to hold them so that they can no longer dominate. They are in bondage. <wrap hide>418|00:52:40|700|00:52:53|220</wrap>These lunar vehicles must be in a state of bondage to the soul. <wrap hide>419|00:52:54|580|00:53:02|500</wrap>And so the power of Vulcan is a binding influence. It disciplines these vehicles. I'm not going to <wrap hide>420|00:53:03|180|00:53:09|380</wrap>go through the other parts - you can read them yourself. Then we reach the third decanate, and <wrap hide>421|00:53:09|380|00:53:13|940</wrap>we're applying the decanate ruler Mars, which is struggling towards a kind of final sun <wrap hide>422|00:53:13|940|00:53:23|340</wrap>represented by Cepheus, with mercury falling away and meaningless in the general glory of the sun. <wrap hide>423|00:53:23|340|00:53:30|780</wrap>I want to kind of look one more time at what it says here, because, you know, as D.K. writes about <wrap hide>424|00:53:30|780|00:53:37|300</wrap>the decanates, he can be very elusive. We have mercury, Vulcan, and the sun stand for a synthesis <wrap hide>425|00:53:37|300|00:53:42|220</wrap>and a radiance which eventually dims the light of mercury as it falls into the background, and Vulcan <wrap hide>426|00:53:42|220|00:53:50|060</wrap>too becomes invisible and only the sun remains. We have, consequently, a vision of the sun, the <wrap hide>427|00:53:50|060|00:53:59|240</wrap>experience of the personality, and effort. Now, this vision of the sun - this is, I want to say, this is <wrap hide>428|00:53:59|240|00:54:06|540</wrap>Jupiterian, looking towards the second decanate. We have the vision of the sun, <wrap hide>429|00:54:06|540|00:54:17|660</wrap>the experience of personality - and this is the moon giving way to Vulcan and the sun. This is the moon <wrap hide>430|00:54:18|200|00:54:28|420</wrap>giving way to Vulcan and the sun. In other words, there is a high radiance occurring - and effort, <wrap hide>431|00:54:28|420|00:54:32|820</wrap>which is the mode of attainment governed by Mars as we are struggling towards that <wrap hide>432|00:54:32|820|00:54:39|720</wrap>final synthesis. We can see the language is elusive. I'm going to read it all again <wrap hide>433|00:54:40|260|00:54:49|600</wrap>because I think that it is just very interesting. So Alan Leo gives us Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. He <wrap hide>434|00:54:49|600|00:54:54|340</wrap>indicates, therefore, the success - that's Jupiter - which is incident to proved discipleship and <wrap hide>435|00:54:54|340|00:55:00|620</wrap>consequent readiness for initiation, the seeing of the vision with which Jupiter rewards the <wrap hide>436|00:55:00|620|00:55:06|860</wrap>disciple. We're still in the first decanate. <wrap quote>and the experience which Vulcan confers.</wrap> <wrap hide>437|00:55:06|860|00:55:12|880</wrap>with the Vulcan being veiled by the moon. <wrap quote>Vulcan has been hitherto hidden, but its <wrap hide>438|00:55:12|880|00:55:18|340</wrap>influence has steadily superseded all lunar control, for the personality or form side of life is lost <wrap hide>439|00:55:18|340|00:55:27|720</wrap>to sight in the radiance of the Sun, the soul.</wrap> So that personality, which is the moon, and even <wrap hide>440|00:55:28|340|00:55:33|900</wrap>what Vulcan - how Vulcan replaces the moon - is lost to sight in the radiance of the sun, the soul. <wrap hide>441|00:55:33|900|00:55:40|840</wrap>So we have Vulcan replacing - we have Vulcan replacing the moon, and the sun replacing Vulcan. <wrap hide>442|00:55:41|400|00:55:53|520</wrap>Vulcan replaces—sorry—the moon, and the sun replaces Vulcan. Then we have the light of the <wrap hide>443|00:55:53|520|00:55:59|160</wrap>Vulcan and the light of sun are one light, and these three—Mercury, Vulcan, and the sun—stand for <wrap hide>444|00:55:59|160|00:56:04|020</wrap>a synthesis and a radiance which eventually dims the light of Mercury as it falls into the <wrap hide>445|00:56:04|020|00:56:08|700</wrap>background, and Vulcan too becomes invisible and only the sun remains. And when it says only the <wrap hide>446|00:56:08|700|00:56:22|360</wrap>sun remains, it seems to hint that finally the result of the decanate experiences in... experiences <wrap hide>447|00:56:23|920|00:56:34|400</wrap>in Pisces gives us the final sun, which is Shambolic. It is Cepheus. It is Sanat Kumara. <wrap hide>448|00:56:34|400|00:56:40|960</wrap>Okay, we have consequently a vision of the sun, and that is Jupiterian, and then we have the <wrap hide>449|00:56:41|820|00:56:46|960</wrap>experience of the personality, which is the moon, but it gives way to Vulcan and the sun <wrap hide>450|00:56:46|960|00:56:58|220</wrap>and effort... and effort towards what? You know, the sun is exalted in... in Aries, and the sun <wrap hide>451|00:56:58|220|00:57:07|680</wrap>is exalted in Aries, and through Mars we move towards that exaltation. <wrap hide>452|00:57:09|320|00:57:18|720</wrap>So Mars is fighting to reach the blazing synthetic sun which Cepheus represents. It is the Shambolic <wrap hide>453|00:57:18|720|00:57:26|320</wrap>synthesis, and there... there are a great many battles found in this last decanate. Even as you're passing <wrap hide>454|00:57:26|320|00:57:32|240</wrap>through the decanates as the moon moves through the sign in a two and a half days or two days—let <wrap hide>455|00:57:32|240|00:57:40|920</wrap>us say—we can feel the changes as the decanates occur. So, you know, there is veiled language here, <wrap hide>456|00:57:41|440|00:57:45|740</wrap>and I would like to say that, you know, it's possible to be completely clear about it. I <wrap hide>457|00:57:45|740|00:57:51|000</wrap>would love to be completely clear, but that is not the case at the moment. Okay, so... <wrap hide>458|00:57:52|320|00:58:00|560</wrap>So I'm now... I'm going to say I'm going to erase the line that I put through this, <wrap hide>459|00:58:00|560|00:58:09|360</wrap>and I'm going to call this a "final sun"—final sun. And if here, veiling Vulcan, I will say <wrap hide>460|00:58:09|810|00:58:20|120</wrap>which gives way to the sun replacing Vulcan. So Mars fights its way towards a final sun, <wrap hide>461|00:58:20|120|00:58:29|320</wrap>and Mercury falls back. Okay, now of course we could take the Sepharial approach as well <wrap hide>462|00:58:29|320|00:58:34|260</wrap>and look at Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars—whether we should go... be going forward or backward. <wrap hide>463|00:58:35|000|00:58:41|880</wrap>Sepharial would say bondage from... from 0 to 10, some degree of success <wrap hide>464|00:58:42|880|00:58:48|660</wrap>under Jupiter, and then finally Mars. How did D.K. put it? Let us take a look. <wrap hide>465|00:58:50|180|00:58:59|180</wrap>Uh, he says... uh, three decanates... uh, from Sepharial: you can work off karma, you can be successful in <wrap hide>466|00:58:59|180|00:59:04|800</wrap>working off karma. So you're faced with difficulty from 0 to 10; from 10 to 20, you're working off <wrap hide>467|00:59:05|560|00:59:12|740</wrap>the karma successfully, and you're doing so through conflict. But if we want to think about the <wrap hide>468|00:59:12|740|00:59:20|840</wrap>reversal of the wheel, then we would enter using Sepharial's rather exoteric descriptions. We would <wrap hide>469|00:59:20|840|00:59:27|900</wrap>enter with Mars, proceed to Jupiter, and end with Saturn. And of course, that ending with Saturn can <wrap hide>470|00:59:27|900|00:59:38|460</wrap>be a condition of very strong karmic bondage. All right, well, we are there, and I'm going to have to... <wrap hide>471|00:59:39|080|00:59:47|260</wrap>I'm going to have to begin with the decanates again at some point. We have reached the point <wrap hide>472|00:59:48|320|00:59:51|420</wrap>where we have been analyzing <wrap hide>473|00:59:53|800|01:00:00|420</wrap>the aspiring man in relation to the clockwise decanates given by Alan Leo and the Tibetan, <wrap hide>474|01:00:00|420|01:00:09|820</wrap>which are Jupiter, then the moon, Vulcan—implying the sun as well, because Vulcan is replaced by <wrap hide>475|01:00:09|820|01:00:16|860</wrap>the sun—and finally Mars and the struggle, I would say, towards a still greater sun. What we have yet <wrap hide>476|01:00:16|860|01:00:25|360</wrap>to do is to discuss the decanates for... of Pisces for the disciple who is now coming into the <wrap hide>477|01:00:25|360|01:00:38|040</wrap>influence of Pluto and for the initiate. Okay, well, let's see. I think you can get a good idea of what <wrap hide>478|01:00:38|040|01:00:42|900</wrap>is going on there, so that's what we'll take up—that's what we will take up next. You know, Pisces <wrap hide>479|01:00:42|900|01:00:50|560</wrap>is a very elusive sign, and I see that the Tibetan himself is being rather elusive in considering <wrap hide>480|01:00:50|560|01:00:59|480</wrap>these things. I want to see whether... yeah, here is the wheel, and I'll take a look at what Nicholas <wrap hide>481|01:00:59|480|01:01:08|040</wrap>has done and look at... there's so many... so many things here. He's given us the Sepharial decanates, <wrap hide>482|01:01:08|040|01:01:16|740</wrap>so we sort of enter via Saturn, go to Jupiter, and then Mars, which is ruling the final... the final <wrap hide>483|01:01:16|740|01:01:24|300</wrap>decanate of Pisces. But actually, Sepharial would have done it differently, but Nicholas did it this <wrap hide>484|01:01:24|300|01:01:31|620</wrap>way, bringing in the clockwise dimension. And then we have Jupiter, moon, Vulcan, and then we have Mars <wrap hide>485|01:01:31|620|01:01:37|980</wrap>with the sun and Mercury implied. Now, whether the sun and Mercury should be related to this blinding <wrap hide>486|01:01:37|980|01:01:43|480</wrap>light Vulcan experience, or whether it should be related to the final decanate—that is, I would say, <wrap hide>487|01:01:43|480|01:01:48|640</wrap>up in the air. Okay, I hope I haven't been too confusing here regarding these decanates. Take <wrap hide>488|01:01:48|640|01:01:55|940</wrap>a good look at this wheel, and you can sort of take a snapshot of it on your computer, and I think you <wrap hide>489|01:01:55|940|01:02:05|440</wrap>will understand some important aspects. None of us who are theorizing about the decanates agree with <wrap hide>490|01:02:05|440|01:02:12|060</wrap>each other entirely. D.K. has left a very fluid condition in which we have to use our interpretive <wrap hide>491|01:02:12|060|01:02:20|040</wrap>abilities, but in general the Alan Leo decanates are Jupiter, the Moon, Vulcan, and Mars, and somehow <wrap hide>492|01:02:20|040|01:02:27|340</wrap>in the last two decanates the Sun and Mercury—the Sun growing and Mercury falling away—are implied. <wrap hide>493|01:02:28|520|01:02:33|200</wrap>So now we will have The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>494|01:02:37|620|01:02:40|160</wrap>And yes, okay. <wrap hide>495|01:02:44|180|01:02:47|660</wrap>From the point of light... from the point of light within... <wrap hide>496|01:02:51|820|01:02:54|740</wrap>Okay, now that won't work. I have to do it in a different way. <wrap hide>497|01:02:54|740|01:02:55|640</wrap>Okay. <wrap hide>498|01:02:57|780|01:03:07|840</wrap>There we are. Okay, The Great Invocation, and we have taken ourselves now to esoteric... the <wrap hide>499|01:03:07|840|01:03:19|460</wrap>end of the esoteric astrology adventure number 58. Okay, and EAA 58, <wrap hide>500|01:03:19|460|01:03:24|540</wrap>and we are on page... <wrap hide>501|01:03:26|760|01:03:39|080</wrap>Well, we're on a page somewhere here... 133. So we have moved from page 131 to 133—page 131 to 133. <wrap hide>502|01:03:39|660|01:03:41|560</wrap>Okay, The Great Invocation. <wrap hide>503|01:03:53|440|01:03:54|100</wrap>Oh. <wrap hide>504|01:04:00|080|01:04:03|560</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, <wrap hide>505|01:04:03|560|01:04:10|400</wrap>let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. <wrap hide>506|01:04:12|700|01:04:18|480</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. <wrap hide>507|01:04:19|120|01:04:21|780</wrap>May Christ return to Earth. <wrap hide>508|01:04:24|220|01:04:27|660</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose <wrap hide>509|01:04:27|660|01:04:33|480</wrap>guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the Masters know and serve. <wrap hide>510|01:04:35|660|01:04:40|800</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the Plan of Love and Light work out, <wrap hide>511|01:04:41|360|01:04:44|560</wrap>and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>512|01:04:46|500|01:04:51|600</wrap>Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth. <wrap hide>513|01:05:16|560|01:05:17|280</wrap>Oh. <wrap hide>514|01:05:32|520|01:05:38|680</wrap>Okay, friends, that will take us to the end of esoteric astrology adventure number 58. <wrap hide>515|01:05:40|060|01:05:47|380</wrap>And we will continue with 59 in the interesting matter of the decanates and try to see how it is <wrap hide>516|01:05:47|380|01:05:57|340</wrap>that even Vulcan is gradually replaced by the Sun—the power of the Sun—at the end of the <wrap hide>517|01:05:58|080|01:06:06|580</wrap>Pisces decanates, given the fact that Pisces-Aries... Aries-Pisces will one day be a single sign, <wrap hide>518|01:06:06|580|01:06:16|720</wrap>uh, perhaps in a zodiac of 10. We are dealing with the powerful influence of the Sun as it grows as <wrap hide>519|01:06:16|720|01:06:26|720</wrap>the representative of spiritual Shambolic synthesis at the end of the Pisces experience. Okay, so <wrap hide>520|01:06:27|280|01:06:35|240</wrap>we will see you then for the next one, and there's a lot to study. Okay, bye-bye.
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