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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>Hello everybody. This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 75, and we are in the Sagittarius <wrap hide>2|00:00:16|780|00:00:29|720</wrap>chapter. We had reached almost to page 192, and we were just reading the idea of the <wrap hide>3|00:00:30|440|00:00:40|720</wrap>detriment of Mercury in Sagittarius. We realise there are no falls, or no great falls at least, <wrap hide>4|00:00:41|140|00:00:49|580</wrap>within Sagittarius, and there is no exaltation. This being a sign of temperament and of the <wrap hide>5|00:00:49|580|00:00:58|520</wrap>balance of the archer as he pursues his goal in a steady manner. Even when he rides upon the horse, <wrap hide>6|00:00:58|520|00:01:06|880</wrap>he has to have an exquisite type of poise in order to loose his arrow properly at his target. <wrap quote><wrap hide>7|00:01:08|420|00:01:16|380</wrap>Mercury, which is the expression of the fourth ray,</wrap> certainly in its soul nature, <wrap quote>and also the <wrap hide>8|00:01:16|380|00:01:25|460</wrap>God of the mental processes,</wrap> probably five levels of the mind are involved, <wrap quote>has his power definitely <wrap hide>9|00:01:25|460|00:01:32|800</wrap>lessened in this sign and this for two reasons, esoterically speaking:</wrap> Now, we did discuss the <wrap hide>10|00:01:32|800|00:01:38|700</wrap>idea of whether there really was a lessening of the power of Mercury. There's certainly a lessening <wrap hide>11|00:01:38|700|00:01:47|340</wrap>of the power of Mercury, considering it as the planet of the concrete mind, which is its lowest <wrap hide>12|00:01:47|340|00:01:54|800</wrap>level of expression. But when we begin to consider the son of mind, the abstract mind, the transcendental <wrap hide>13|00:01:54|800|00:02:04|760</wrap>or intuitive mind, and the atmic or nirvanic mind of expressed will, then we cannot necessarily say <wrap hide>14|00:02:04|760|00:02:12|940</wrap>that Mercury has its power lessened. But certainly in the conventional sense it does. Now we have <wrap hide>15|00:02:12|940|00:02:23|060</wrap>reached page 192, and we are going to look at the Tibetan's reasons for considering that the power <wrap hide>16|00:02:23|060|00:02:33|720</wrap>of Mercury is lessened. <wrap quote>First, the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with <wrap hide>17|00:02:33|720|00:02:43|240</wrap>either his own human personality,</wrap> which is in a way ruled by the fourth ray generically, because <wrap hide>18|00:02:43|240|00:02:51|200</wrap>of the composite of the four elemental lives. So <wrap quote>the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with either <wrap hide>19|00:02:51|200|00:02:57|580</wrap>his own human personality and processes or with the human kingdom,</wrap> which is most definitely ruled <wrap hide>20|00:02:57|580|00:03:08|860</wrap>by Mercury, in relation to Scorpio in this case, <wrap quote>prior to taking initiation.</wrap> So the human personality <wrap hide>21|00:03:08|860|00:03:21|180</wrap>is in a way detrimental, Mercury as the human personality is detrimental, and Mercury as the <wrap hide>22|00:03:21|180|00:03:29|340</wrap>taking initiation, the method of identification in the human being changes, and he begins to <wrap hide>23|00:03:29|340|00:03:39|120</wrap>identify more as a soul or incipient solar angel on the higher mental plane than he does as a <wrap hide>24|00:03:39|120|00:03:48|320</wrap>fourfold human being in the three lower worlds. <wrap quote>His emphasis is, for the future, to be upon the <wrap hide>25|00:03:48|320|00:03:57|480</wrap>spiritual soul,</wrap> i.e. not the human soul within the lower three worlds, <wrap quote>and the fifth kingdom in <wrap hide>26|00:03:57|480|00:04:05|380</wrap>nature</wrap> that is the kingdom of souls, the kingdom of which the majority of masters are a member, <wrap hide>27|00:04:06|180|00:04:16|240</wrap>and the kingdom of which he as a soul is a member. <wrap quote>In Sagittarius he begins to express this first <wrap hide>28|00:04:16|240|00:04:22|800</wrap>stage.</wrap> He's no longer identifying himself strictly as a human being or as a human personality. He's <wrap hide>29|00:04:22|800|00:04:29|120</wrap>beginning to identify himself more as a soul, and this can even take place at the first initiation, <wrap hide>30|00:04:29|140|00:04:37|340</wrap>which is the entry into the kingdom of souls, and we remember that Sagittarius rules initiates of <wrap hide>31|00:04:37|340|00:04:44|000</wrap>the first two initiations. It rules in a way much more than that, but certainly there is that keen <wrap hide>32|00:04:44|000|00:04:52|260</wrap>aspirational nature, which is characteristic of initiates of the first two initiations. So <wrap quote>This <wrap hide>33|00:04:52|260|00:05:02|580</wrap>involves a complete withdrawal, in the personality sense, from the form side of life.</wrap> and of course we <wrap hide>34|00:05:02|580|00:05:10|320</wrap>realise that Sagittarius has the power of abstraction, which is why it is so identified <wrap hide>35|00:05:10|320|00:05:20|040</wrap>with the abstract mind and with distance, shall we say, the power to pull back and to see all <wrap hide>36|00:05:20|040|00:05:30|320</wrap>things large, which means to see the personality as a smaller thing than it is up close. <wrap quote>This again <wrap hide>37|00:05:30|320|00:05:42|020</wrap>entails (at a certain point of crisis) a point of balance.</wrap> This is interesting. The individual has <wrap hide>38|00:05:42|020|00:05:51|820</wrap>to have a very keen sense of what he is and what he is not, and slowly through the power of <wrap hide>39|00:05:51|820|00:06:00|620</wrap>abstraction in Sagittarius, he leaves behind his sense of closeness to the personality elementals, <wrap hide>40|00:06:00|720|00:06:07|680</wrap>and he has to keep his balance within his own soul nature in order to do this. In other words, <wrap hide>41|00:06:08|320|00:06:15|140</wrap>the human soul begins to identify as the soul on its own plane. So this, you know, you can see that <wrap hide>42|00:06:15|140|00:06:23|700</wrap>D.K. gives esoteric reasons for the detriment of a planet. He is thinking in terms of the pairs <wrap hide>43|00:06:23|700|00:06:28|760</wrap>of opposites of the personality nature and the soul nature. He's not thinking about the usual <wrap hide>44|00:06:28|760|00:06:34|320</wrap>meaning of the detriment. I mean, you know, the usual meaning can be that the early Sagittarian <wrap hide>45|00:06:34|320|00:06:44|080</wrap>is not logical and is leaping from point to point without true reasonableness. Of course, <wrap hide>46|00:06:44|700|00:06:51|220</wrap>the higher expression here is that he has the intuition which allows him to leap to conclusions <wrap hide>47|00:06:51|220|00:06:57|060</wrap>with accuracy. In the early days of Sagittarius, he simply leaps to conclusions, and there may be <wrap hide>48|00:06:57|900|00:07:04|380</wrap>no accuracy at all, and, you know, he will be more opinionated. Okay, so now we're looking at the <wrap hide>49|00:07:04|380|00:07:14|060</wrap>second reason why the power of the mind is falling, not falling, but in detriment in Sagittarius. The <wrap hide>50|00:07:14|060|00:07:22|260</wrap>mind is tested and found true in Scorpio. Now let us remember how important Mercury is in <wrap hide>51|00:07:22|260|00:07:29|600</wrap>relation to Scorpio. It is the hierarchical ruler, but it's involved in more than simply <wrap hide>52|00:07:29|600|00:07:38|220</wrap>hierarchical processes. It's involved in controlling the emotions, mental control of the emotions, <wrap hide>53|00:07:38|220|00:07:47|920</wrap>and it's involved in achieving a degree of illumination. In the five stages of meditation, <wrap hide>54|00:07:48|920|00:07:54|120</wrap>Scorpio rules illumination, the legal concentration, the verbal meditation, <wrap hide>55|00:07:55|820|00:08:01|720</wrap>Libra contemplation, and as a result of that contemplation comes in Scorpio illumination, <wrap hide>56|00:08:01|720|00:08:07|860</wrap>and then finally Sagittarius inspiration, and I guess we can go on and we could say <wrap hide>57|00:08:09|060|00:08:16|260</wrap>Capricorn initiation and so forth. We've discussed this before. It's interesting that Scorpio, <wrap hide>58|00:08:16|760|00:08:26|940</wrap>which is so often a sign of darkness and death, as the Tibetan speaks of it, brings that quality <wrap hide>59|00:08:26|940|00:08:38|880</wrap>of darkness to veil ignorance and produce instead the light that you would expect to be found in its <wrap hide>60|00:08:38|880|00:08:46|460</wrap>opposite sign Taurus. So often the opposite signs do produce similar results. At first they are <wrap hide>61|00:08:46|460|00:08:53|760</wrap>contrasted, but eventually they produce similar results. For instance, when you're looking at <wrap hide>62|00:08:53|760|00:09:02|200</wrap>Gemini and Sagittarius, the so-called scattering effect of Gemini is much overcome in the later <wrap hide>63|00:09:02|200|00:09:12|100</wrap>evolution, and both rule the Antahkarana. Gemini rules the connectivity of the Antahkarana, <wrap hide>64|00:09:12|300|00:09:19|820</wrap>the interdimensional connectivity we might say, and Sagittarius rules the art of projection into <wrap hide>65|00:09:19|820|00:09:28|400</wrap>the higher dimension. So we can study the opposite signs as if they can achieve similar objectives, <wrap hide>66|00:09:29|240|00:09:35|700</wrap>and they do come together. The pairs of opposites do meet, although they may emphasize different <wrap hide>67|00:09:35|700|00:09:44|900</wrap>aspects of the same objective to be achieved. So we're talking about the detriment of Mercury <wrap hide>68|00:09:44|900|00:09:53|740</wrap>in Sagittarius, <wrap quote> Secondly, the power of the mind, having been developed, tested</wrap>, tested under very dire <wrap hide>69|00:09:53|740|00:10:02|160</wrap>circumstances where the emotions and the other elementals are fully rebellious, and the power <wrap hide>70|00:10:02|160|00:10:07|820</wrap>of the mind has to subdue them, even subdue itself in a way, when it is the soul of the human mind. <wrap hide>71|00:10:07|820|00:10:14|820</wrap>The higher mind influence has to subdue the lower mind influence, <wrap quote>and found true in the sign<wrap hide>72|00:10:14|820|00:10:23|800</wrap>Scorpio, begins to wane in its activity,</wrap> I would say in its cogitative activity, in its <wrap hide>73|00:10:25|460|00:10:32|580</wrap>reasoning activity, <wrap quote>and the intuition begins to take its place.</wrap> And so we know that we do not have <wrap hide>74|00:10:32|580|00:10:40|040</wrap>to go through the process of reasoning and cogitation to arrive at a true answer or <wrap hide>75|00:10:40|040|00:10:49|020</wrap>revelation. The mind can become illumined directly, and this is called straight knowledge. <wrap quote>This is <wrap hide>76|00:10:49|020|00:10:55|760</wrap>essential before the sign Capricorn is entered by the disciple and preparation for initiation <wrap hide>77|00:10:55|760|00:11:02|560</wrap>begins.</wrap> Well, in a way, there is preparation for initiation, even in Sagittarius, but it is largely <wrap hide>78|00:11:02|560|00:11:08|760</wrap>concerned with the initiations of the threshold. And in Sagittarius also, in a higher sense, you <wrap hide>79|00:11:08|760|00:11:15|780</wrap>can begin to prepare for the initiatory experience in Capricorn, as I did explain yesterday when <wrap hide>80|00:11:15|780|00:11:26|840</wrap>looking at the powers of the third degree in which we have integration and science and direction, <wrap hide>81|00:11:26|840|00:11:33|880</wrap>all of which can be related to Sagittarius. Sagittarius brings in the fifth ray. It is <wrap hide>82|00:11:33|880|00:11:42|600</wrap>certainly that kind of alignment which produces integration, and of course it is maybe the major <wrap hide>83|00:11:42|600|00:11:50|060</wrap>sign of direction, all of this leading to the third degree. I think what's important to realize <wrap hide>84|00:11:50|060|00:12:01|080</wrap>is where your subject is standing. You can be doing the horoscope of a stone, of an organization, <wrap hide>85|00:12:02|920|00:12:12|020</wrap>of an animal, of a human being, of a human being at many different stages of evolution. Let's just <wrap hide>86|00:12:12|020|00:12:18|880</wrap>say we're working with people. Where really is your subject standing? And without knowing that, <wrap hide>87|00:12:18|880|00:12:27|480</wrap>we just don't know how accurately to interpret the chart. So let's just say that we should meet a <wrap hide>88|00:12:27|480|00:12:35|060</wrap>person in person or maybe through a Skype call or some kind of contact where we can see the <wrap hide>89|00:12:35|060|00:12:41|800</wrap>individual and can have a conversation with that person and begin to understand the level of their <wrap hide>90|00:12:41|800|00:12:49|620</wrap>desires and objectives which will so often reveal the stage of evolution at which they stand and as <wrap hide>91|00:12:49|620|00:12:58|340</wrap>will their accomplishments in relation to those desires and objectives. Okay, you know the great <wrap hide>92|00:12:58|340|00:13:05|660</wrap>science of all sciences, just the ABCs, this is what we're dealing with. <wrap quote>As regards the three <wrap hide>93|00:13:05|660|00:13:14|220</wrap>decanates of Sagittarius, Sepharial gives us the three governing planets as Mercury, the Moon <wrap hide>94|00:13:14|920|00:13:23|800</wrap>and the Sun.</wrap> Now that is not necessarily, let's see if that is in order, that's not necessarily <wrap hide>95|00:13:23|800|00:13:35|860</wrap>in order. Let us check here in this landscape view of the decanates. And here we are with <wrap hide>96|00:13:35|860|00:13:46|660</wrap>Sagittarius. Yes, we do have Venus, Mercury, Moon, and then... well, OK. You see, this is interesting. <wrap hide>97|00:13:46|660|00:13:55|300</wrap>It would normally be, let me put this into a... there, it's just a little better in that way. <wrap hide>98|00:13:56|840|00:14:06|800</wrap>Now I'll widen it out just slightly. Okay, we have Venus, Mercury, Mercury the Moon, and Moon <wrap hide>99|00:14:06|800|00:14:13|560</wrap>has the least period around the Earth, and so then we would normally go back to Saturn. But we have <wrap hide>100|00:14:13|560|00:14:22|520</wrap>here the Sun. And I'm not sure if Sepharial does give the Sun; he is not following the normal <wrap hide>101|00:14:22|520|00:14:30|520</wrap>procedure, because once you reach the Moon you begin going backwards to the conventional planet <wrap hide>102|00:14:30|520|00:14:35|840</wrap>with the greatest period around the geocentric Earth, and that would be Saturn. So I have both <wrap hide>103|00:14:35|840|00:14:41|880</wrap>here Saturn and the Sun, but since the Tibetan did say the Sun, we will keep the Sun. The Sun <wrap hide>104|00:14:41|880|00:14:51|600</wrap>definitely does show up in Alan Leo's casting of the decanates. Alright, so let's take a look here. <wrap hide>105|00:14:52|600|00:14:57|760</wrap>And then while we're here in the map, we do see that Alan Leo gives Jupiter because, you know, <wrap hide>106|00:14:57|940|00:15:03|380</wrap>the Sagittarius-Sagittarius part is definitely ruled by conventional Jupiter, and then we're in <wrap hide>107|00:15:03|380|00:15:11|860</wrap>the Sagittarius-Aries part ruled by Mars, and then the Sagittarius-Leo part ruled by the Sun. And <wrap hide>108|00:15:11|860|00:15:19|160</wrap>pretty much the Tibetan is following the Alan Leo assignments. It looks like Jupiter, Mars, <wrap hide>109|00:15:19|420|00:15:30|440</wrap>and the Sun. Here we have reversed the decanates because we know that the Sagittarian, or any other <wrap hide>110|00:15:30|440|00:15:40|300</wrap>sign type will, on the wheel of form, we will enter the sign in the clockwise manner. So in a <wrap hide>111|00:15:40|300|00:15:45|220</wrap>way, he's entering through the Sun for the first decanate, Mars for the second, and Jupiter for <wrap hide>112|00:15:45|220|00:15:53|500</wrap>the third. And here Nicholas Nieland, who is a very fine theorist on all these matters, he is <wrap hide>113|00:15:53|500|00:16:00|940</wrap>pretty well following what Sepharial has said, if my chart is correct. Nicholas and I have worked <wrap hide>114|00:16:00|940|00:16:07|000</wrap>on these things, and we have approached these charts according to the light within us, and <wrap hide>115|00:16:07|000|00:16:12|600</wrap>sometimes we have differences of opinion, but most of the time I think we're pretty much in <wrap hide>116|00:16:12|600|00:16:20|940</wrap>agreement on these matters. Okay, so let's see here. Sepharial gives us the three planets as <wrap hide>117|00:16:20|940|00:16:29|360</wrap>Mercury, the Moon, and the Sun. The only, you know, as I say, the only place where I would have some <wrap hide>118|00:16:31|400|00:16:38|280</wrap>question here is that once we reach the Moon, we do have to go back out to the orbit of Saturn, <wrap hide>119|00:16:39|800|00:16:45|560</wrap>and Saturn and the Sun are very contradictory in certain respects. <wrap quote>Whilst Alan Leo gives us <wrap hide>120|00:16:45|560|00:16:53|000</wrap>Jupiter, Mars and the Sun, emphasising as he always does the way of the esotericists.</wrap> Now <wrap hide>121|00:16:53|000|00:16:57|880</wrap>basically what D.K. is saying, you know, it's not so much that Alan Leo is emphasizing the way of <wrap hide>122|00:16:57|880|00:17:03|600</wrap>the esotericist in general and that Sepharial is not. I think what Alan Leo, what D.K. is saying, <wrap hide>123|00:17:04|220|00:17:14|480</wrap>is that the Chaldean system is not as esoteric usually, although in some cases like Gemini and <wrap hide>124|00:17:14|480|00:17:23|960</wrap>Cancer it is, but that the Hindu system which Alan Leo adopts is more esoteric. Basically, <wrap hide>125|00:17:24|860|00:17:32|080</wrap>Alan Leo and Sepharial are simply following ancient systems, but I think D.K. didn't necessarily want <wrap hide>126|00:17:32|080|00:17:39|820</wrap>to get into that. He just associates those systems with the name Alan Leo and with Sepharial. <wrap quote>He <wrap hide>127|00:17:39|820|00:17:48|460</wrap>usually tunes in on the esoteric significances but not always. Jupiter gives expansion, <wrap hide>128|00:17:50|120|00:17:59|720</wrap>superseding Mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation</wrap> yeah, is ever a limitation, <wrap quote><wrap hide>129|00:17:59|780|00:18:09|540</wrap>even if only a temporary one.</wrap> Well, how do we see this here? We see the contrast between Alan Leo's <wrap hide>130|00:18:09|540|00:18:17|960</wrap>Jupiter and Sepharial's Mercury. They are both in the same decanate when we number these decanates <wrap hide>131|00:18:17|960|00:18:28|200</wrap>from 0 to 30. Now as I've often stated, I don't think Sepharial had in his mind the idea of the <wrap hide>132|00:18:28|200|00:18:34|100</wrap>reversal of the wheel, so that when he gave a decanate ruler he was simply thinking of going <wrap hide>133|00:18:34|100|00:18:41|360</wrap>in the counterclockwise direction from 0 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 30 of a sign. Anyway, <wrap hide>134|00:18:41|800|00:18:50|420</wrap>Jupiter is superseding Mercury. These are two planets on the mutable cross, and they both can <wrap hide>135|00:18:50|420|00:18:56|240</wrap>be Buddhic in their nature. They both can indicate intuition, but here I think Mercury is more the <wrap hide>136|00:18:56|240|00:19:03|280</wrap>concrete mind, and Jupiter is more the vision of intuition. And even if they were both indicating <wrap hide>137|00:19:03|280|00:19:10|500</wrap>intuition, which in the case of Sepharial I don't think they are, Jupiter would give a more holistic <wrap hide>138|00:19:10|500|00:19:19|460</wrap>view of that which was intuited, and Mercury would relate more to the intricate relationships within <wrap hide>139|00:19:19|460|00:19:27|720</wrap>that whole. Okay, I'm gonna, you know, kind of go back and forth here. So <wrap quote>Jupiter gives expansion, <wrap hide>140|00:19:29|240|00:19:35|100</wrap>superseding Mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation even if only a temporary one.</wrap> <wrap hide>141|00:19:35|160|00:19:43|180</wrap>Well, it's a great sign of progress in one respect for the person who is moving away from emotional <wrap hide>142|00:19:43|180|00:19:50|780</wrap>polarization, but the mind is in a certain respect the slayer of the real, and the Mercurial mind can <wrap hide>143|00:19:50|780|00:20:01|020</wrap>generate many thought forms which are an illusory layer upon true reality. Jupiter is a clearer type <wrap hide>144|00:20:01|020|00:20:11|580</wrap>of intuitive vision of reality. So Jupiter supersedes Mercury even when the decanates are <wrap hide>145|00:20:11|580|00:20:17|740</wrap>not being considered backwards and forwards, but just in that very first decanate. The moon, <wrap hide>146|00:20:17|740|00:20:25|960</wrap>which is Sepharial's designation for the second decanate of Sagittarius, the Aries decanate, <wrap hide>147|00:20:26|120|00:20:34|020</wrap>gives place to Mars, which is the exoteric ruler of that decanate, which confers the quality of <wrap hide>148|00:20:34|020|00:20:41|740</wrap>devotion and the capacity to fight for the ideal. You know, we do notice that many Sagittarians are <wrap hide>149|00:20:41|740|00:20:48|940</wrap>very body conscious, we might say. Now we can relate this to the esoteric rulership of Earth, <wrap hide>150|00:20:48|940|00:20:58|840</wrap>in which the etheric body is reconditioned, but we can also, when we look at the five non-sacred <wrap hide>151|00:20:58|840|00:21:07|040</wrap>planets, we can realize that they are all assigned to different layers of the personality. The moon <wrap hide>152|00:21:07|600|00:21:15|580</wrap>to the dense physical vehicle. Earth, also non-sacred, to the etheric vehicle. Mars <wrap hide>153|00:21:15|580|00:21:24|280</wrap>to the astral vehicle, particularly. And Pluto with its strong mental component to the concrete <wrap hide>154|00:21:24|280|00:21:31|540</wrap>mind. I mean, you know, you could ask whether Pluto and Mars could be reversed, and in a way <wrap hide>155|00:21:31|540|00:21:41|300</wrap>they could, because Pluto has a connection with the astral vehicle and with the dimension <wrap hide>156|00:21:41|920|00:21:48|940</wrap>in mythology we know as Hades, which is really the astral plane, and probably not necessarily <wrap hide>157|00:21:48|940|00:21:53|980</wrap>the higher levels of the astral plane, and Mars rules the five senses and the concrete mind, <wrap hide>158|00:21:53|980|00:22:01|040</wrap>so it's possible to reverse those two. And then we come to the sun, which rules the integrated <wrap hide>159|00:22:01|040|00:22:08|860</wrap>personality, the ahamkara of it. So we see the five non-sacred planets in connection with the <wrap hide>160|00:22:08|860|00:22:16|860</wrap>four layers of personality. If we split the dense physical and the etheric, then we get moon, <wrap hide>161|00:22:17|100|00:22:26|460</wrap>Earth. Of course, moon and Earth are really parts of, still parts of the, <wrap hide>162|00:22:29|220|00:22:36|420</wrap>what should we call it, the planetary scheme of Earth. They're in the Earth scheme, even though <wrap hide>163|00:22:37|060|00:22:44|880</wrap>the moon, whatever being the moon lord was, is no longer associated with that <wrap hide>164|00:22:45|580|00:22:53|300</wrap>dense vehicle. We call the moon, but has in a way moved over and shares space with the lord of the <wrap hide>165|00:22:53|300|00:23:00|260</wrap>Earth chain, and so the moon chain lord and the lord of the Earth chain are pretty much <wrap hide>166|00:23:01|020|00:23:09|680</wrap>sharing the field in the fourth or Earth chain. So <wrap quote>The Moon gives place to Mars, which confers the <wrap hide>167|00:23:09|680|00:23:13|840</wrap>quality of devotion and the capacity to fight for an ideal.</wrap> Now this is interesting because <wrap hide>168|00:23:14|540|00:23:22|700</wrap>when we connect the three extra zodiacal constellations that are associated with <wrap hide>169|00:23:22|700|00:23:29|360</wrap>Sagittarius, which would be Lyra or the falling falcon or the falling gripe, as it is called, <wrap hide>170|00:23:29|760|00:23:36|180</wrap>a kind of bird, falcon-like bird, that's the first. And then Ara, the altar, signifying <wrap hide>171|00:23:36|180|00:23:44|680</wrap>a great devotion, is found in the second decanate. And then, well, is it true really, the great <wrap hide>172|00:23:44|680|00:23:51|760</wrap>dragon, Draco the dragon, which is such a superior constellation in a way, it is found in relation to <wrap hide>173|00:23:51|760|00:24:01|480</wrap>the third decanate. So the moon, which is just gravitating towards the physical activity with <wrap hide>174|00:24:01|480|00:24:09|460</wrap>which Sagittarius, of all the three fire signs, is the most attuned, gives place to Mars. Mars also <wrap hide>175|00:24:09|460|00:24:16|200</wrap>rules the physical body, but it rules the quality of devotion, which the moon does not. This idealistic <wrap hide>176|00:24:16|200|00:24:22|960</wrap>concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship <wrap hide>177|00:24:22|960|00:24:28|820</wrap>bringing the early stages of unfoldment upon the path. Okay. <wrap hide>178|00:24:40|840|00:24:48|180</wrap>Okay. So this quality of devotion we're speaking about in relation to Mars, and we know how <wrap hide>179|00:24:48|180|00:24:57|200</wrap>important Mars is in relation to Sagittarius, which was in the sky, quite a warlike figure, <wrap hide>180|00:24:57|200|00:25:03|880</wrap>quite a God of war in the old days, responding to its Martian quality. Sometimes we might <wrap hide>181|00:25:05|380|00:25:14|200</wrap>wonder why Jupiter should not be the final ruler there, and Mars the hierarchical ruler, <wrap hide>182|00:25:14|400|00:25:21|520</wrap>but so it goes that it is not. And we have a non-sacred planet as the hierarchical ruler, <wrap hide>183|00:25:21|520|00:25:27|920</wrap>and a very sacred planet as the orthodox ruler. Of course, this happens in Pisces as well. <wrap hide>184|00:25:28|460|00:25:33|840</wrap>Interesting. Because of the relationship between those two signs, they would both begin with <wrap hide>185|00:25:33|840|00:25:42|080</wrap>Jupiter as an exoteric ruler, and end with one of the non-sacred rulers, Mars or Pluto. <wrap hide>186|00:25:43|240|00:25:49|880</wrap><wrap quote>This idealistic concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship during <wrap hide>187|00:25:49|880|00:25:57|880</wrap>the early stages of unfoldment upon the Path.</wrap> a great devotion. And so I think we find that many <wrap hide>188|00:25:58|840|00:26:06|080</wrap>sixth-ray souls, not all certainly, are in that early stage of unfoldment upon the path, <wrap hide>189|00:26:06|680|00:26:15|000</wrap>and are characterized by great devotion to their objective, even if the objective is rather narrow. <wrap hide>190|00:26:15|750|00:26:22|280</wrap>The Sun — okay, now we copy here — <wrap quote>The Sun, typifying the solar Angel <wrap hide>191|00:26:23|320|00:26:30|120</wrap>remains constant both through the exoteric and the esoteric processes.</wrap> Definitely the Tibetan <wrap hide>192|00:26:30|120|00:26:39|560</wrap>meant to write this; he definitely is assuming that, or knowing, that Sepharial has given <wrap hide>193|00:26:40|270|00:26:49|260</wrap>the Sun as the ruler of the third decanate. But the problem here is, as I say, it's not in <wrap hide>194|00:26:49|260|00:26:55|620</wrap>order. So the Tibetan must know something that I don't know. I haven't studied the <wrap hide>195|00:26:55|620|00:27:00|660</wrap>Chaldean assignments, so we'll just go with what he says. The Sun remains constant, <wrap hide>196|00:27:01|700|00:27:08|740</wrap><wrap quote>typifying the solar Angel remains constant both through the exoteric and the esoteric processes and therefore <wrap hide>197|00:27:08|740|00:27:15|080</wrap>astrology recognises it as a constant pressure and presence.</wrap> What a way to think of the solar <wrap hide>198|00:27:15|080|00:27:20|460</wrap>angel, and I think what a very accurate way to think of it: the constant pressure and presence. <wrap hide>199|00:27:20|860|00:27:29|580</wrap>I suppose the pressure of solar angel will be felt before its presence is acknowledged. <wrap hide>200|00:27:30|200|00:27:37|180</wrap>And of course, even its pressure increases as one moves through the stages of aspiration and <wrap hide>201|00:27:37|820|00:27:43|720</wrap>probation and discipleship and accepted discipleship; the pressure increases. <wrap hide>202|00:27:44|640|00:27:54|100</wrap>So we know when we are off the mark and deviating from the solar design, if we fall back and begin <wrap hide>203|00:27:54|100|00:28:04|180</wrap>to respond to the lunar way of life, we feel that kind of dissonance within ourselves and have to <wrap hide>204|00:28:04|180|00:28:13|860</wrap>get back on the path, back on the mark which Sagittarius represents. We cannot deviate, <wrap hide>205|00:28:14|080|00:28:18|940</wrap>because when we fall off the path, we feel the dissonance and the pressure of the solar angel <wrap hide>206|00:28:18|940|00:28:27|540</wrap>to get back on that one-pointed path. So <wrap quote>this fact in itself indicates a significant truth.</wrap> I mean, <wrap hide>207|00:28:27|540|00:28:34|540</wrap>solar angel is active in the life of the individual from the very moment of <wrap hide>208|00:28:34|540|00:28:41|980</wrap>individualization, though perhaps not much sensed, although H.P.B. said that early Lemurian man was very <wrap hide>209|00:28:41|980|00:28:48|060</wrap>much aware of the presence of his inner God, and perhaps that faded in later Atlantean times and <wrap hide>210|00:28:48|580|00:28:55|100</wrap>Aryan times as the mind grew. But there was a sense of awe in relation to this inner God, <wrap hide>211|00:28:55|100|00:29:06|680</wrap>says H.P.B. So this fact in itself, that the Sun remains the same, indicates a significant truth. <wrap hide>212|00:29:07|540|00:29:17|640</wrap>If it should be Saturn, well, there certainly is the karmic pressure that Saturn applies, <wrap hide>213|00:29:17|880|00:29:24|300</wrap>and Saturn is the lord of the physical plane, and especially in a way of the dense physical plane, <wrap hide>214|00:29:24|300|00:29:32|120</wrap>which Sagittarius of all the fire signs is most related to. The soul remains eternally present. <wrap hide>215|00:29:32|340|00:29:39|840</wrap>This is how D.K. explains the similarity between the Sepharial's — Sepharial's — <wrap hide>216|00:29:40|460|00:29:46|720</wrap>decanates and Alamelios. <wrap quote>The soul remains eternally present—in the past, in the present <wrap hide>217|00:29:47|220|00:29:52|340</wrap>and on into the future.</wrap> which Sagittarius so much represents. <wrap hide>218|00:29:53|440|00:30:00|400</wrap>Okay, okay, hopefully we are not experiencing degraded audio here. Every once in a while, <wrap hide>219|00:30:01|400|00:30:04|940</wrap>GoToWebinar comes in with that cheerful and friendly announcement, <wrap hide>220|00:30:06|080|00:30:17|800</wrap>and one has in a way no choice but to go on. Okay, now let's — before going to the very end <wrap hide>221|00:30:17|800|00:30:24|600</wrap>of the Sagittarian chapter — let's take a look here. We do see that the constellation Lyra, <wrap hide>222|00:30:24|760|00:30:33|440</wrap>or the falling gripe, or the falling falcon, has been theorized, at least, as being connected <wrap hide>223|00:30:34|040|00:30:42|340</wrap>with the first decan of Sagittarius. There's something about the guitar, the harp, the <wrap hide>224|00:30:43|780|00:30:49|840</wrap>sevenfold sounds, which are Jupiterian and uplifting in nature. <wrap hide>225|00:30:51|340|00:30:55|760</wrap>Ara the altar — yes, as I stated — the second decanate, and Draco the dragon. <wrap hide>226|00:30:57|400|00:31:06|320</wrap>And it says as well, Corona Australis, the southern crown. One wonders whether this, <wrap hide>227|00:31:06|520|00:31:11|900</wrap>in some way, can be connected with the base of the spine center, because certainly Draco is. <wrap hide>228|00:31:12|340|00:31:18|260</wrap>Draco, we are told, has a great seventh-ray component, but also a significant Buddhic <wrap hide>229|00:31:18|260|00:31:24|620</wrap>component. It's the source of Buddhi to the Pleiades, either all of them or some of them, <wrap hide>230|00:31:25|320|00:31:35|360</wrap>and it is occupying the place of cosmic Kundalini. And the northern crown would seem to be in a way <wrap hide>231|00:31:35|360|00:31:40|860</wrap>the head center, and the southern crown perhaps the base of the spine center to be associated with <wrap hide>232|00:31:40|860|00:31:49|080</wrap>Draco. Now I'd like to turn to this sixfold development chart, which <wrap hide>233|00:31:49|960|00:31:57|620</wrap>I created for some of the classes that we have in Finland. And, oh, I — you know, this <wrap hide>234|00:31:57|620|00:32:07|500</wrap>gives us the impression of going forward and backward in this fluid area of the Decanates. <wrap hide>235|00:32:09|440|00:32:20|380</wrap>Here we have the tabulation laid out in a different way, and we have 10 degrees, 0 to 10, <wrap hide>236|00:32:20|700|00:32:31|040</wrap>10 to 20, and 20 to 30 laid out here above, as you see. But there are different ways of moving, <wrap hide>237|00:32:31|040|00:32:42|100</wrap>and the arrows indicate this. So if we have here the progress of the wheel of form, which is <wrap hide>238|00:32:42|100|00:32:50|640</wrap>clockwise, and we have the progress of the wheel of consciousness. Take a look here at a diagram <wrap hide>239|00:32:50|640|00:33:00|900</wrap>that Nicholas Milen has created, and we see in Sagittarius that the outer wheel is the <wrap hide>240|00:33:00|900|00:33:05|520</wrap>wheel of consciousness, and the inner wheel the wheel of form. That's the way he set it up. <wrap hide>241|00:33:06|060|00:33:14|620</wrap>So we have Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun, and then he has Mercury, the Moon, and Sun, just as D.K. <wrap hide>242|00:33:14|620|00:33:24|060</wrap>described it for Sepharial. He has not reversed them. Sometimes the theorist Stephen Pugh, <wrap hide>243|00:33:24|240|00:33:33|180</wrap>and this is his diagram, have reversed these. In Sagittarius he has, um, let's see, how does this <wrap hide>244|00:33:33|180|00:33:38|300</wrap>go? The outer wheel is the ordinary wheel. He does it differently from Nicholas. So the inner wheel <wrap hide>245|00:33:38|300|00:33:46|560</wrap>is, hmm, the inner wheel is the reversed wheel, and he does Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars. This is <wrap hide>246|00:33:46|560|00:33:54|840</wrap>very different from what the Tibetan gives. The Tibetan most definitely gives Jupiter, <wrap hide>247|00:33:56|460|00:34:03|800</wrap>Mars, and the Sun. Now, in the case of Stephen Pugh, with the outer wheel as being ordinary, <wrap hide>248|00:34:04|380|00:34:15|060</wrap>he does an exact reversal of what the Tibetan gives, and he gives Mars, Sun, and Jupiter. <wrap hide>249|00:34:15|480|00:34:22|980</wrap>So this would be the exact reversal of what the Tibetan gave, that reversal being part of the <wrap hide>250|00:34:22|980|00:34:31|960</wrap>wheel of form. As I say, I don't think anyone has the last word on these matters. They certainly <wrap hide>251|00:34:31|960|00:34:40|440</wrap>have good reasons by which they justify these things, but there is nothing final to be said <wrap hide>252|00:34:41|410|00:34:53|040</wrap>at this time. The thing that I also want to emphasize is that all of these esoteric zodiacal <wrap hide>253|00:34:53|040|00:35:00|320</wrap>constellations, as I said before, do apply to anyone born in Sagittarius, but to <wrap hide>254|00:35:01|040|00:35:08|560</wrap>a lesser degree, perhaps, if you are born in a decanate which is not associated with that <wrap hide>255|00:35:08|560|00:35:15|560</wrap>particular extra zodiacal constellation. And yet, this is still theoretical, we must realize, <wrap hide>256|00:35:16|220|00:35:23|220</wrap>this assigning of the constellations to the particular decanates. There are legitimate <wrap hide>257|00:35:23|220|00:35:31|860</wrap>differences among reasonable theorists. Now, okay, you know how I've done this before. <wrap hide>258|00:35:32|860|00:35:41|200</wrap>I've shown the arrows, and the arrows are moving towards the personality integration, <wrap hide>259|00:35:41|940|00:35:51|200</wrap>and then we have arrows moving in the counter. Well, actually, I've had to do it this way so <wrap hide>260|00:35:51|200|00:36:02|460</wrap>that the arrows move from 30 to 20, 20 to 10, 10 to 0. All of the arrows, in a way, are moving <wrap hide>261|00:36:02|460|00:36:13|900</wrap>in a counterclockwise direction, but these three up here represent clockwise motion and entering <wrap hide>262|00:36:13|900|00:36:22|580</wrap>the sign from 30. Here is the conventional motion that most astrologers follow, and this is <wrap hide>263|00:36:22|580|00:36:29|500</wrap>definitely for the progressing individual, says Master D.K., and we start here entering from 0 <wrap hide>264|00:36:29|500|00:36:44|160</wrap>to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. So we have taken the Sepharial signs here, the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, <wrap hide>265|00:36:44|740|00:36:53|660</wrap>but it's also possible to reverse this and to consider, in a way, since we go Jupiter, Mars, <wrap hide>266|00:36:53|660|00:37:03|200</wrap>Sun, we could do Sun, Mars to be considered, and Sun, Mars to be considered, and Jupiter to be <wrap hide>267|00:37:03|200|00:37:13|560</wrap>considered over here for the 10 to 0 decanate. We saw that Stephen Pugh did it this way. He did <wrap hide>268|00:37:13|560|00:37:23|500</wrap>Sun, Mars, and Jupiter, and Nicholas Milen worked with Sun, the Moon, and Mercury. Everyone <wrap hide>269|00:37:23|500|00:37:30|460</wrap>agrees, however, I think, well at least the Tibetan states, that when we're dealing with a <wrap hide>270|00:37:30|460|00:37:41|260</wrap>clockwise wheel and moving towards soul infusion, we use Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun. Okay, now notice <wrap hide>271|00:37:41|260|00:37:50|400</wrap>that in all the fire signs, a combination of Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun are found ruling the <wrap hide>272|00:37:50|400|00:37:59|960</wrap>decanates. In Aries, it's Jupiter, Sun, Mars. In Leo, it is Mars, Sun, Jupiter, and in Sagittarius, <wrap hide>273|00:38:00|160|00:38:06|760</wrap>it's Jupiter, Mars, Sun. That in itself is interesting and tells us about the somewhat <wrap hide>274|00:38:06|760|00:38:15|860</wrap>fiery nature of the planets involved. Okay, and then this in here is a simple statement <wrap hide>275|00:38:15|860|00:38:21|520</wrap>of Alan Leo's and Sepharial's decanates. Now, the way I've divided this chart, <wrap hide>276|00:38:23|440|00:38:27|800</wrap>of course, you know, you can simply, if you want to study these things, all you have to do is just <wrap hide>277|00:38:27|800|00:38:33|540</wrap>freeze the screen. And then if I've glossed over something relatively rapidly, <wrap hide>278|00:38:34|240|00:38:42|200</wrap>it will be frozen for you, so you can study it if you wish. Now, the way I've done this <wrap hide>279|00:38:42|780|00:38:48|400</wrap>is I've talked about the different stages. And we're not so interested in the strictly <wrap hide>280|00:38:48|400|00:38:56|400</wrap>physical or Lemurian stage, the strictly Atlantean or emotional stage, or the early phases of the <wrap hide>281|00:38:56|400|00:39:02|920</wrap>Arian stage, which has a mental focus. We're interested more in applying this information, <wrap hide>282|00:39:02|920|00:39:08|440</wrap>at least to the aspirant, who is integrating his personality and reorienting his personality, <wrap hide>283|00:39:08|920|00:39:15|720</wrap>and is therefore, in a way, on the reversing wheel. He's reorienting his personality <wrap hide>284|00:39:16|840|00:39:25|220</wrap>aspirationally. And then in the second decanate, he's the disciple who is gaining mental control. <wrap hide>285|00:39:25|320|00:39:32|820</wrap>And in the third decanate, he is someone who is bringing the spirit in. Now, remember, <wrap hide>286|00:39:33|640|00:39:41|820</wrap>I think it's obvious and can be proven that no matter what decanate you may be born in, <wrap hide>287|00:39:42|020|00:39:48|120</wrap>you can be at any of the seven... of the six stages of development. You can be a Lemurian man, <wrap hide>288|00:39:48|180|00:39:54|220</wrap>Atlantean, early Arian. You can be the aspirant. You can be the disciple. And you can be the soul- <wrap hide>289|00:39:54|220|00:40:01|780</wrap>infused individual responding to the spirit, born in any of the decanates. So it is not to be <wrap hide>290|00:40:01|780|00:40:07|020</wrap>decided that because you are born in a particular decanate, you are at a certain stage of evolution. <wrap hide>291|00:40:07|280|00:40:14|460</wrap>That would be, I think, a mistake. Also, we look at, independently of the decanates, we look at three <wrap hide>292|00:40:15|440|00:40:22|140</wrap>phases of rulership. Jupiter is the orthodox ruler, and it operates for a long time <wrap hide>293|00:40:22|820|00:40:29|920</wrap>until the individual is truly becoming soul infused. Then the Earth takes over. <wrap hide>294|00:40:30|780|00:40:39|220</wrap>And finally, we have Mars as the ruler of the decanate, which indicates that not only are <wrap hide>295|00:40:39|220|00:40:45|320</wrap>you becoming soul infused, but you are becoming spirit infused in your soul nature. <wrap hide>296|00:40:46|820|00:40:53|660</wrap>So now let's... you can study this and I can send this to you. I can go through... long, I can go <wrap hide>297|00:40:53|660|00:41:02|620</wrap>through this slowly enough for you to freeze the screen and study it if you wish. At any point, <wrap hide>298|00:41:02|720|00:41:09|120</wrap>you could freeze the screen and study this. So I'll go through slowly enough so that is possible. <wrap hide>299|00:41:10|100|00:41:17|000</wrap>Here's the emotional phase. We're still under Jupiter as the exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>300|00:41:18|540|00:41:27|100</wrap>Sometimes it is interesting what is said, I think. So, you know, for instance, in the strictly <wrap hide>301|00:41:27|100|00:41:33|320</wrap>Lemurian stage, if we look at what Jupiter can mean, it is a wonderful esoteric planet. <wrap hide>302|00:41:33|580|00:41:38|360</wrap>But under the influence of lower Jupiter, we have the primitive instinct-driven man <wrap hide>303|00:41:38|920|00:41:42|920</wrap>seeking full gratification of the instinctual nature. He is the centaur, <wrap hide>304|00:41:43|810|00:41:49|640</wrap>an animal as much as a man, and under the lower meaning of the falling gripe or vulture, <wrap hide>305|00:41:49|640|00:41:56|400</wrap>he grasps what he wants gluttonously. We know that Jupiter is associated with excess and with <wrap hide>306|00:41:56|400|00:42:02|780</wrap>gluttony. His sacral center is highly stimulated. We understand the Sagittarius rules of the <wrap hide>307|00:42:02|780|00:42:10|380</wrap>sacral center in general, as well as the Ajna. He covers ground rapidly in search of satiation. <wrap hide>308|00:42:10|940|00:42:17|020</wrap>He is the hunter conditioned by the evolutionary theme, "let food be sought." I think that's <wrap hide>309|00:42:17|020|00:42:23|040</wrap>interesting and you can go into the details yourself later as you wish. This is not strictly <wrap hide>310|00:42:23|040|00:42:30|400</wrap>the Tibetan's material, so I don't spend as long on it. In the emotional or Atlantean stage of <wrap hide>311|00:42:30|400|00:42:36|840</wrap>consciousness, you're still under the orthodox ruler Jupiter. Remember, Jupiter is not all high <wrap hide>312|00:42:36|840|00:42:44|360</wrap>and wonderful things. It is the satisfaction of desire, whether that desire is low or whether it <wrap hide>313|00:42:44|360|00:42:51|660</wrap>is high. So during the emotional phase of development and still ruled by lower Jupiter, <wrap hide>314|00:42:54|140|00:43:00|540</wrap>the undeveloped man... I better put that in... the undeveloped man seeks to expand his range of <wrap hide>315|00:43:00|540|00:43:06|760</wrap>gratifications and fulfillments of his astral body. He seeks a widened scope of pleasurable, <wrap hide>316|00:43:06|900|00:43:14|500</wrap>sentient contacts. And we are told that the undeveloped man in Sagittarius demonstrates <wrap hide>317|00:43:14|500|00:43:21|480</wrap>self-centeredness. He's centered very much in his desire nature and the experimental approach. This <wrap hide>318|00:43:21|480|00:43:28|660</wrap>is in the Esoteric Astrology 333. This applies both to emotionally polarized Sagittarius and to those <wrap hide>319|00:43:28|660|00:43:34|340</wrap>who are beginning to develop the concrete mind. But the astral body is still in control, of course, <wrap hide>320|00:43:34|800|00:43:40|500</wrap>even while beginning to develop the concrete mind. As Sagittarius brings in much 6th Ray, the Sagittarian <wrap hide>321|00:43:41|030|00:43:47|420</wrap>at the strictly... let's see, gotta find it... at the strictly emotional phase of development, <wrap hide>322|00:43:47|520|00:43:53|720</wrap>is willing to go to inordinate lengths to acquire that which he envisions as desirable. <wrap hide>323|00:43:54|440|00:44:01|200</wrap>So he sees what he wants and is motivated through desire to attain it. The solar plexus center under <wrap hide>324|00:44:01|200|00:44:07|280</wrap>Mars, a planet important to Sagittarius, is highly activated. And rather than lay himself upon the <wrap hide>325|00:44:07|280|00:44:16|040</wrap>altar of sacrifice, which is one of the higher meanings of Ara, the altar, he sacrifices others, <wrap hide>326|00:44:16|360|00:44:23|040</wrap>animals, and humans, to the satisfaction of his desire nature. Primitive religious instincts may <wrap hide>327|00:44:23|040|00:44:29|200</wrap>appear at this phase. Okay, so I'm not really getting into the... um, how this would change in <wrap hide>328|00:44:29|200|00:44:34|560</wrap>every decanate. You can figure that out for yourself. Basically, we're dealing with the <wrap hide>329|00:44:34|560|00:44:43|580</wrap>rudder shifts of the Sun over here from the 30 to 20. We're dealing with the Moon or Mars from <wrap hide>330|00:44:44|380|00:44:52|260</wrap>20 to 10. And we're dealing with Mercury or Jupiter from 10 to 0. <wrap hide>331|00:44:55|160|00:45:02|960</wrap>Yeah, okay. Remembering, of course, you know, that... yeah, that is, that is, that is correct. <wrap hide>332|00:45:03|840|00:45:12|760</wrap>Okay. Now we go on to the lower mental or lower personal phase. <wrap hide>333|00:45:14|100|00:45:18|300</wrap>We're still under Jupiter because the lower mental man, who is integrated, you know, <wrap hide>334|00:45:18|440|00:45:26|660</wrap>beginning to focus his mind somewhat, and Sagittarius always gives the power of increasing <wrap hide>335|00:45:27|340|00:45:34|820</wrap>focus, is not yet really a spiritual being. The kamma manus, we have been told, <wrap hide>336|00:45:35|280|00:45:41|440</wrap>is characteristic of Sagittarius, and we are still at that phase where kamma is strong and <wrap hide>337|00:45:41|440|00:45:47|940</wrap>manus is developing, and the fusion of the two is characteristic of the individual. So here, <wrap hide>338|00:45:48|580|00:45:54|020</wrap>this is the ordinary man. As he's beginning to use his mind, he demonstrates a tendency to become <wrap hide>339|00:45:54|020|00:46:01|420</wrap>more focused, and the fluidity and negativity of Pisces becomes concentrated upon the attainment <wrap hide>340|00:46:01|900|00:46:07|180</wrap>of that which is desired, and he can use his mind to do that. The man demonstrates one-pointed, <wrap hide>341|00:46:07|380|00:46:12|900</wrap>selfish instincts. Though he may be, for instance, friendly and kind, this is what D.K. says, <wrap hide>342|00:46:13|340|00:46:21|700</wrap>it is through a desire... it is through a desire for popularity. There's the second ray coming <wrap hide>343|00:46:21|700|00:46:29|000</wrap>in, and the love of being loved of Jupiter. There is a good expression of the individual. <wrap hide>344|00:46:29|300|00:46:34|160</wrap>This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian subject, and shows also the tendency <wrap hide>345|00:46:34|160|00:46:41|760</wrap>of the soul to turn all evil, eventually, into good. The lessons of life are being learned, <wrap hide>346|00:46:41|860|00:46:47|700</wrap>and the experiment is going on. This is from Esoteric Psychology... no, Esoteric Astrology, <wrap hide>347|00:46:47|700|00:46:56|640</wrap>page 118. Right around there, 118 and 119, you find a very useful tabulation that we have <wrap hide>348|00:46:56|640|00:47:03|700</wrap>been through already, and it deals with the mutable cross - the individual moving clockwise on the <wrap hide>349|00:47:03|700|00:47:08|860</wrap>mutable cross, and the individual moving counterclockwise on the mutable cross. So it is <wrap hide>350|00:47:08|860|00:47:16|500</wrap>in this phase that D.K.'s description of the undeveloped man in Sagittarius is particularly <wrap hide>351|00:47:16|500|00:47:23|900</wrap>fitting. He demonstrates self-centeredness and the experimental approach. The cultivation of his <wrap hide>352|00:47:23|900|00:47:32|460</wrap>concrete mind... now we remember that Mercury can be associated with that first decanate, even though <wrap hide>353|00:47:32|460|00:47:40|080</wrap>in a way, we would consider for such a person the Sun as the first decanate, but the 10 to 0 <wrap hide>354|00:47:40|080|00:47:45|600</wrap>area is ruled by Mercury, according to Sepharial. The cultivation of his concrete mind under Mercury <wrap hide>355|00:47:45|600|00:47:52|200</wrap>as the ruler of the third of the clockwise decanates makes experimentation possible. He can <wrap hide>356|00:47:52|200|00:47:59|380</wrap>learn from his experience. He continues to seek a wider range of experiences under Jupiter, <wrap hide>357|00:47:59|940|00:48:06|480</wrap>because we remember that Jupiter can also be considered as the ruler of the 0 to 10, when we are <wrap hide>358|00:48:06|480|00:48:14|440</wrap>moving in the clockwise direction. There are many streams of energy brought in here to explain the <wrap hide>359|00:48:14|440|00:48:21|980</wrap>dynamics of any particular section of the sign in which the man can be born. As his experiences <wrap hide>360|00:48:21|980|00:48:31|160</wrap>widen, his mind broadens. He can include more of his environment and develop the <wrap hide>361|00:48:31|160|00:48:39|200</wrap>ability to compare. So the widening of his understanding and context awakens Mercury, the power <wrap hide>362|00:48:39|200|00:48:45|040</wrap>of comparison. He can apply his one point of mentality to the fulfillment of his desires. <wrap hide>363|00:48:45|560|00:48:54|860</wrap>Okay, so that is kind of a... that is kind of a discussion of the exoteric rulership of Jupiter <wrap hide>364|00:48:55|380|00:49:02|260</wrap>in relation to the first three phases of personality development, which occur over such a very <wrap hide>365|00:49:02|820|00:49:09|820</wrap>long time, really millions of years before a man can turn into an aspirant, and you might almost <wrap hide>366|00:49:09|820|00:49:20|300</wrap>think, you know, maybe some 20 million years in many cases. Okay, now, excuse me, we have reached <wrap hide>367|00:49:21|340|00:49:30|220</wrap>a phase where we have the aspirational nature waking up, and it's the higher personal nature, <wrap hide>368|00:49:30|220|00:49:39|100</wrap>and we are integrating the personality. In a way, we are still under the power of Jupiter, <wrap hide>369|00:49:40|020|00:49:50|740</wrap>because Jupiter is not yet superseded. Okay, so Sagittarius is a sign fostering eventually <wrap hide>370|00:49:51|260|00:49:57|840</wrap>coordination and integration. It represents alignment, bringing all things into a straight <wrap hide>371|00:49:57|840|00:50:04|860</wrap>line, and we can see how doing that would facilitate the integration process. It greatly <wrap hide>372|00:50:04|860|00:50:11|180</wrap>promotes the integration of the personality. Jupiter also is an integrative, coordinated <wrap hide>373|00:50:11|180|00:50:15|500</wrap>influence. It is the force which brings all things together, we have been told. <wrap hide>374|00:50:16|300|00:50:22|480</wrap>What is said about Sagittarius and the ordinary man still applies here. So let us see what is <wrap hide>375|00:50:22|480|00:50:27|840</wrap>said about Sagittarius and the ordinary man, even though we are integrating our personality <wrap hide>376|00:50:27|840|00:50:33|940</wrap>and redirecting it, and in a sense we're on the counterclockwise wheel. Here the ordinary man <wrap hide>377|00:50:33|940|00:50:39|260</wrap>begins to demonstrate the tendency to become more focused. We've discussed this, and the fluidity <wrap hide>378|00:50:39|260|00:50:44|020</wrap>and negativity of Pisces become concentrated upon the attainment of that which is desired. <wrap hide>379|00:50:44|780|00:50:48|440</wrap>The man demonstrates one point of selfish instincts, and though he may be, for instance, <wrap hide>380|00:50:48|440|00:50:53|280</wrap>friendly and kind, it is through a desire for popularity. So he's still very self-centered, <wrap hide>381|00:50:53|500|00:50:59|000</wrap>personally centered. This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian <wrap hide>382|00:50:59|000|00:51:05|120</wrap>subject, and shows also the tendency of the soul to turn all evil eventually into good, etc. But <wrap hide>383|00:51:06|040|00:51:13|780</wrap>the factor of aspiration—and we can link Jupiter indeed to that uplifting sense of following a <wrap hide>384|00:51:13|780|00:51:19|340</wrap>vision, which is aspiration—the factor of aspiration now emerges, and the integrated <wrap hide>385|00:51:19|340|00:51:24|100</wrap>Sagittarian personality begins to reach beyond itself, which is another of those Jupiterian <wrap hide>386|00:51:24|100|00:51:30|140</wrap>phases. It's not really right here for us yet to apply the esoteric ruler of Earth, because the man <wrap hide>387|00:51:30|140|00:51:36|040</wrap>is not truly a disciple, but to a degree he's reaching out to more and more of the aspects of <wrap hide>388|00:51:36|040|00:51:42|480</wrap>Earth, so his consciousness is being broadened. Not only is there solar plexus development, <wrap hide>389|00:51:43|360|00:51:53|180</wrap>but Ajna center activation, which increases the one-pointedness of the personality, because the <wrap hide>390|00:51:53|180|00:52:00|760</wrap>power to focus is very much connected with the Ajna center. Ajna center has many rays associated <wrap hide>391|00:52:00|760|00:52:07|260</wrap>with it, but at a certain point also the sixth ray of vision. The urge to see that which lies <wrap hide>392|00:52:07|260|00:52:15|340</wrap>beyond the present and limiting ring-pass-not grows. So he's interested in expanding his scope <wrap hide>393|00:52:15|340|00:52:21|860</wrap>of experience and awareness, and this of course expands his consciousness. The influence of the <wrap hide>394|00:52:21|860|00:52:29|040</wrap>Earth enters slightly, beckoning exploration, at least of our planet, and all of its many life <wrap hide>395|00:52:29|040|00:52:34|580</wrap>forms, and the widening of horizons. We see—you know, I like to call it the National Geographic <wrap hide>396|00:52:34|580|00:52:41|080</wrap>consciousness, where we want to travel all over the Earth and find out what's going on in all the <wrap hide>397|00:52:41|080|00:52:47|360</wrap>different areas, and among the different groups of people, the nations, tribes, and so forth. It's an <wrap hide>398|00:52:47|360|00:52:55|900</wrap>expansive consciousness which begins to take place under Jupiter, which is also the decanate <wrap hide>399|00:52:55|900|00:53:00|900</wrap>ruler of the first decanate, as we will discuss. The Sagittarian at this stage is becoming the <wrap hide>400|00:53:00|900|00:53:10|640</wrap>advanced man, and the following applies: one-pointedness and directed approach that <wrap hide>401|00:53:10|640|00:53:19|500</wrap>we find on page 333 of Esoteric Astrology, where he discusses these different ways in which the <wrap hide>402|00:53:19|500|00:53:25|040</wrap>people in the different signs respond according to their level of consciousness. Now <wrap hide>403|00:53:25|040|00:53:35|880</wrap>let's look at at least some of this. We have Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun <wrap hide>404|00:53:36|600|00:53:44|800</wrap>going—Jupiter from 0 to 10 on the counterclockwise wheel—and if you are an aspiring <wrap hide>405|00:53:44|800|00:53:50|460</wrap>individual, you are integrating your personality in a higher sense, you are orienting yourself <wrap hide>406|00:53:50|460|00:53:56|540</wrap>towards something wider and better. How might this Jupiterian rulership work? <wrap hide>407|00:53:58|520|00:54:05|760</wrap>Excuse me. Jupiter rules this decan and brings the broadening of the personality life, <wrap hide>408|00:54:06|240|00:54:12|080</wrap>and the elevation of aspiration is no longer strictly low desire, although the individual <wrap hide>409|00:54:12|080|00:54:17|160</wrap>has not yet entirely solved the problem of low desire because he's not a disciple or initiate. <wrap hide>410|00:54:17|160|00:54:23|840</wrap>He's simply an aspirant and an advanced man, yet there is an elevation of aspiration. A generally <wrap hide>411|00:54:23|840|00:54:34|140</wrap>positive and uplifting attitude towards life might be expected, perhaps initially with a selfish or <wrap hide>412|00:54:34|140|00:54:39|520</wrap>personal motive, as we still are in a relatively personal phase and we know that aspirants can <wrap hide>413|00:54:39|520|00:54:47|400</wrap>certainly be selfish. Even disciples can. A free-ranging and explorative attitude demonstrates. <wrap hide>414|00:54:47|840|00:54:54|400</wrap>So under Jupiter, incorporating more and more of one's environment, not only the external <wrap hide>415|00:54:54|400|00:55:00|080</wrap>environment but the internal environment, and then generally expanding the horizon and the <wrap hide>416|00:55:00|080|00:55:07|800</wrap>scope of participation and the scope of vision—expanding the consciousness is involved here <wrap hide>417|00:55:08|670|00:55:17|080</wrap>for the higher personal phase, which is leading into that of the aspirant. Now when we get into <wrap hide>418|00:55:17|080|00:55:26|120</wrap>the Mars phase for 10 to 20, we have increased personal commitment. Remember we have aura of <wrap hide>419|00:55:26|120|00:55:33|420</wrap>the altar here and aspiration. Mars is fiery aspiration. Jupiter is the vision towards which <wrap hide>420|00:55:33|420|00:55:41|520</wrap>aspiration aspires, the uplifting power of it. The man has some great objective towards which <wrap hide>421|00:55:41|520|00:55:47|880</wrap>He focuses all his energies and he's willing to fight his way there. There's a lot of battle in <wrap hide>422|00:55:47|880|00:55:53|760</wrap>that second decanate of Sagittarius. In this case, it's battle for what is right, for what is good, <wrap hide>423|00:55:54|220|00:56:01|720</wrap>for what is seen as best. He is increasingly willing to sacrifice. Mars is a planet of heroic <wrap hide>424|00:56:01|720|00:56:06|740</wrap>sacrifice and aura of the altar is involved here. He is increasingly willing to sacrifice <wrap hide>425|00:56:07|400|00:56:15|700</wrap>to fulfill his objective. He fights for his ideal. I think we can... I think that's pretty <wrap hide>426|00:56:16|340|00:56:22|340</wrap>straightforward. Of course, the thing we would have to do, you know, to substantiate this is to go <wrap hide>427|00:56:22|340|00:56:27|900</wrap>into the lives of famous people when their son is in a particular decanate, for instance this <wrap hide>428|00:56:27|900|00:56:35|700</wrap>decanate, and see how the sub-quality of Mars might apply. Now, you know, when you take a decanate <wrap hide>429|00:56:35|700|00:56:41|380</wrap>you also have its first five degrees and second five degrees. It's day phase, so to speak, the <wrap hide>430|00:56:41|380|00:56:48|740</wrap>positive day phase, and it's night phase. It's more outward turning effort and it's more inward <wrap hide>431|00:56:48|740|00:56:55|980</wrap>turning orientation. And then, of course, we can divide things down into the Dvada Shamshas, the <wrap hide>432|00:56:55|980|00:57:02|600</wrap>two and a half degree sections, each of them ruled by different planets and get a further refinement. <wrap hide>433|00:57:03|100|00:57:10|080</wrap>I guess, you know, we can split many hairs in astrology. It's possible to become extremely <wrap hide>434|00:57:10|080|00:57:18|320</wrap>detailed in our analysis, but what is more important, I would say, is to make sure <wrap hide>435|00:57:19|920|00:57:30|640</wrap>that we have the essentials of our spiritual unfoldment within our minds, so we do not <wrap hide>436|00:57:30|640|00:57:38|140</wrap>become lost in the details. My old teacher used to say, and I really understand him better now <wrap hide>437|00:57:38|140|00:57:43|700</wrap>because I was so interested in astrology at the time, he said, "Well, it's best not to become too <wrap hide>438|00:57:43|700|00:57:52|040</wrap>involved in the sideshow if you miss the main event." So, no matter how much we become involved <wrap hide>439|00:57:52|040|00:58:01|080</wrap>in the technicalities of astrology, we must keep the main event in mind. And that main event is <wrap hide>440|00:58:05|140|00:58:13|140</wrap>liberation, identification, soul infusion, monadic destiny—all of those things. We have to follow <wrap hide>441|00:58:13|700|00:58:20|960</wrap>the path which we as a soul have determined before birth. That is the most important thing. <wrap hide>442|00:58:21|740|00:58:30|280</wrap>Okay, now the next decanate, which is the 20 to 30 decanate of the higher type of individual, <wrap hide>443|00:58:31|340|00:58:38|180</wrap>is ruled by the sun, and the man exerts a positive influence under the sun. <wrap hide>444|00:58:38|180|00:58:45|720</wrap>He is enthusiastic and inspiring to others. He warms them—the sunny disposition. <wrap hide>445|00:58:46|480|00:58:56|860</wrap>He vitalizes them. He embodies a Leo sun, his vision, and Sagittarius, and can direct others, <wrap hide>446|00:58:57|140|00:59:05|240</wrap>can illumine their path, and can reinforce their identity and why they should be treading that <wrap hide>447|00:59:05|240|00:59:12|220</wrap>particular path. They look to him, they look to you, and you... I guess I'm using the second <wrap hide>448|00:59:12|220|00:59:18|260</wrap>person here, and you direct, even if only as a personality. Well, let's just say that the sun <wrap hide>449|00:59:18|260|00:59:26|540</wrap>power of the soul is coming in stronger here. Okay, so we have dealt with the fourth phase <wrap hide>450|00:59:26|540|00:59:33|140</wrap>of development, which is aspirational. It's related to the higher personal and to integration <wrap hide>451|00:59:33|140|00:59:39|480</wrap>and to the reorientation of the individual as a true aspirant. And I would say, you know, <wrap hide>452|00:59:39|600|00:59:45|380</wrap>Sagittarius is one of the major signs of aspiration. And so when you have an aspirant <wrap hide>453|00:59:45|380|00:59:53|640</wrap>on Sagittarius... in Sagittarius, they really do aspire. Okay, I have many other <wrap hide>454|00:59:54|200|01:00:01|200</wrap>things being said here, but I'll just go through them slowly here so you can <wrap hide>455|01:00:01|200|01:00:09|220</wrap>freeze the screen if you wish to. Let's see here. Yeah, there we go. <wrap hide>456|01:00:10|280|01:00:17|060</wrap>And if you don't wish to, you certainly don't have to. Okay, now we move on into a phase <wrap hide>457|01:00:17|080|01:00:24|480</wrap>which is very important to us. We have now done one hour of work. So this is, in a way, <wrap hide>458|01:00:24|480|01:00:32|140</wrap>the beginning of the second part of Esoteric Astrology Adventure, number 75. And we're going <wrap hide>459|01:00:32|140|01:00:41|920</wrap>on the second hour of it. Now we are talking about the disciple. And he's coming more and <wrap hide>460|01:00:41|920|01:00:48|380</wrap>more under the influence of the soul. And his mind is being more and more focused as an agent <wrap hide>461|01:00:48|380|01:00:56|520</wrap>of the plan. As we discussed earlier, Sagittarius can grasp the vision of the plan, which is the <wrap hide>462|01:00:57|180|01:01:07|160</wrap>directing thought of the planetary Logos. So now he's definitely coming under the influence <wrap hide>463|01:01:07|160|01:01:17|180</wrap>of the esoteric ruler. I do not think that the exoteric ruler, Jupiter, ever quite abates. It's <wrap hide>464|01:01:17|180|01:01:25|380</wrap>such an important planet. And I would think that throughout Sagittarius, it is operative, <wrap hide>465|01:01:25|780|01:01:30|960</wrap>always uplifting. It is, in a way, one of the most important planets in our solar system, <wrap hide>466|01:01:31|580|01:01:42|340</wrap>most akin, most like the sun in its ray structure, perhaps, a powerful second ray soul of both the <wrap hide>467|01:01:42|340|01:01:57|040</wrap>sun and Jupiter. So, as D.K. has told us, we do not have the complete waning of any exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>468|01:01:58|080|01:02:08|240</wrap>But the esoteric ruler makes of the exoteric ruler a kind of subset, and the energies are <wrap hide>469|01:02:09|040|01:02:15|600</wrap>combined. So we should never say that simply because you are a disciple, you have lost the <wrap hide>470|01:02:15|600|01:02:21|840</wrap>Jupiterian influence in Sagittarius. It still applies, and I would say tends to apply to the <wrap hide>471|01:02:21|840|01:02:28|840</wrap>higher levels of your understanding. Okay, now, so let's see what we have here under the Earth. <wrap hide>472|01:02:30|060|01:02:37|280</wrap>The disciple of Sagittarius is now treading the path, definitely treading the path. The true <wrap hide>473|01:02:37|280|01:02:42|900</wrap>disciple is an initiate of the first degree and has definitely found the path. And that path <wrap hide>474|01:02:42|900|01:02:52|140</wrap>pretty much is a path that is trodden here on Earth through certain types of behaviors. <wrap hide>475|01:02:53|060|01:02:59|400</wrap>With the feet of Pisces and the sort of locomotive thigh power of Sagittarius, <wrap hide>476|01:03:00|160|01:03:07|060</wrap>and the balance of Libra not too far to the left or to the right, he is treading the path. <wrap hide>477|01:03:07|280|01:03:13|840</wrap>Matter of fact, when you think about it, if you look at Libra as the balance between two opposites, <wrap hide>478|01:03:14|340|01:03:22|920</wrap>we can see Sagittarius as the vector or straight line, which rising draws the two opposites <wrap hide>479|01:03:22|920|01:03:31|840</wrap>together, and in that way, forming a kind of an arrow. So thus we can relate those two particular <wrap hide>480|01:03:31|840|01:03:36|740</wrap>signs, Libra and Sagittarius, though unlike Sagittarius and Libra, there are definite <wrap hide>481|01:03:37|900|01:03:46|720</wrap>falls and exaltations. The exaltation of Saturn and the, what is it, the fall of <wrap hide>482|01:03:47|760|01:03:55|020</wrap>Mars? No, that's the detriment. Okay, well, it's just skipping my mind for the moment. I'll come <wrap hide>483|01:03:55|400|01:04:02|940</wrap>back to it. What is it that falls in Libra? Certainly Mars is found in detriment, the Sun. <wrap hide>484|01:04:03|680|01:04:10|440</wrap>Yeah, okay. The Sun exalted in Aries and falling in Libra, where right human relations <wrap hide>485|01:04:11|260|01:04:19|220</wrap>minimize the lower ego or ahamkara, which is one of the lower interpretations of the meaning of the <wrap hide>486|01:04:19|220|01:04:26|880</wrap>Sun. So the disciple in Sagittarius is now treading the path. He is oriented towards <wrap hide>487|01:04:26|880|01:04:37|100</wrap>elevating his energy system, his Earth, as it were. His etheric nature is undergoing great changes. <wrap hide>488|01:04:37|860|01:04:46|160</wrap>That etheric nature is ruled by the Earth. The Moon is ruling the outer form. Okay. And he's <wrap hide>489|01:04:46|160|01:04:52|860</wrap>into a more ideal—there's that word again, sixth-ray Sagittarian word—bringing his Earth <wrap hide>490|01:04:52|860|01:05:00|740</wrap>nature into a more ideal condition. Of course, this we saw even in the early tendency towards <wrap hide>491|01:05:00|740|01:05:07|840</wrap>exercise and yoga and all kinds of physical disciplines and strengthenings in Sagittarius. <wrap hide>492|01:05:07|960|01:05:15|280</wrap>But now we have a definite cultivation of the vitality and of the etheric body and of the <wrap hide>493|01:05:15|280|01:05:22|340</wrap>personality in general, represented by Earth as the collection of energies from a previous <wrap hide>494|01:05:22|340|01:05:29|820</wrap>solar system, which have to be reoriented more towards the soul. So he's bringing his, <wrap hide>495|01:05:30|020|01:05:37|460</wrap>so to speak, Earth into a more ideal condition. He's following the vision, which in general <wrap hide>496|01:05:37|460|01:05:44|620</wrap>is presented by Jupiter, but it's also the vision of our planet as a sacred planet and of <wrap hide>497|01:05:44|620|01:05:52|980</wrap>him as an individual, as a sacred individual. He's elevating his Earth into sacredness <wrap hide>498|01:05:52|980|01:06:00|540</wrap>and contributing to the elevation of the planet Earth towards sacredness. Many people in Sagittarius <wrap hide>499|01:06:00|980|01:06:08|300</wrap>have a great love of the Earth and all of its variety in nature and in peoples. And they are <wrap hide>500|01:06:08|300|01:06:15|920</wrap>determined to have Earth come into its proper condition, which is a soul-guided condition. <wrap hide>501|01:06:16|920|01:06:25|800</wrap>He is engaged in rendering the elemental nature sacred. Now we saw that the Moon was the ruler <wrap hide>502|01:06:25|800|01:06:32|100</wrap>of the second decanate of Sagittarius, according to Sepharial, and that is the elemental nature, <wrap hide>503|01:06:32|100|01:06:39|620</wrap>which has to be elevated through the aspiration of Mars, also in the second decanate. Mars is a very <wrap hide>504|01:06:39|620|01:06:47|880</wrap>uplifting planet and aspiration is a scientific method of elevation. So he wants to render his <wrap hide>505|01:06:47|880|01:06:56|580</wrap>elemental nature sacred. And, you know, so for certain Sagittarian types, slothfulness and <wrap hide>506|01:06:56|580|01:07:03|980</wrap>a poor condition of the physical body are not acceptable because they are not near the archetype <wrap hide>507|01:07:03|980|01:07:10|680</wrap>which he envisions. He is engaged in rendering the elemental nature sacred and the Earth a sacred <wrap hide>508|01:07:10|680|01:07:19|320</wrap>planet. The personality as a form aspires to the heavens. And we have learned, you know, in the <wrap hide>509|01:07:19|320|01:07:24|800</wrap>early Sagittarian type, they're very heaven-bound, as it were, you know, determined to achieve <wrap hide>510|01:07:25|660|01:07:33|280</wrap>heaven, that faraway place which is beautiful and ideal. So when you get a fundamentalist type with <wrap hide>511|01:07:33|280|01:07:41|300</wrap>Sagittarius, they really have this upward-looking, heaven-bound type of aspiration. Now let's see, <wrap hide>512|01:07:41|540|01:07:49|640</wrap>a bit more here, I think. He is learning to lay his prey, which is his lower nature, and you see <wrap hide>513|01:07:49|640|01:07:55|260</wrap>the swooping falcon or the falling gripe is swooping towards its prey and from a heavenly <wrap hide>514|01:07:55|260|01:08:03|880</wrap>perspective grasps that prey and can lay it upon the altar in the second decanate. He is also <wrap hide>515|01:08:03|880|01:08:11|160</wrap>learning to lay his prey, his lower nature, for he is the spiritual hunter now. He's not just <wrap hide>516|01:08:11|160|01:08:18|060</wrap>hunting for food; he's hunting for that which has to be redeemed and uplifted upon the altar. <wrap hide>517|01:08:18|540|01:08:24|740</wrap>He's the spiritual hunter. He lays his lower nature upon the altar, the pyre of self-immolation. <wrap hide>518|01:08:25|500|01:08:36|020</wrap>Self-immolation is a method of the sixth ray for producing the liberation of the soul. So he is <wrap hide>519|01:08:36|020|01:08:43|520</wrap>moving towards the burning ground, and he is putting all that is unworthy upon the <wrap hide>520|01:08:43|520|01:08:49|640</wrap>burning ground. The unworthy is in his grip as the falcon. The falling gripe or falcon, <wrap hide>521|01:08:49|760|01:08:57|340</wrap>which is the symbol of the spirit as hunter, can then swoop down and bear the personality <wrap hide>522|01:08:58|320|01:09:08|140</wrap>to heaven. Bear the personality to heaven so that one day the disciple can become a lesser dragon of <wrap hide>523|01:09:08|140|01:09:14|780</wrap>wisdom under the influence of Draco. Of course, on the way to heaven you have to purify. It's <wrap hide>524|01:09:14|780|01:09:19|160</wrap>interesting that Draco is very much in the heavens. As you look up in the night sky, <wrap hide>525|01:09:19|680|01:09:26|560</wrap>even though Draco represents Kundalini, you're not going to find Draco in the lower part of <wrap hide>526|01:09:26|560|01:09:38|120</wrap>the heavens, at least in the northern hemisphere. You're going to find it in the upper part of the <wrap hide>527|01:09:38|120|01:09:46|580</wrap>little bear and around the pole star. So in a way it represents the highest heavens towards which <wrap hide>528|01:09:46|580|01:09:53|480</wrap>Sagittarius aspires, if the purification upon the altar can be successful. In other words, we don't <wrap hide>529|01:09:53|480|01:09:59|200</wrap>go straight from the heavens, rather straight from grasping the prey straight to the heavens. No, <wrap hide>530|01:09:59|580|01:10:06|720</wrap>we have to lay the earth of man upon the burning ground, upon the altar, and then carry it to the <wrap hide>531|01:10:06|720|01:10:13|520</wrap>heavens. What is said here further about Sagittarius in a more elevated manner, <wrap hide>532|01:10:14|700|01:10:21|300</wrap>Sagittarius upon the reverse wheel: this is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. <wrap hide>533|01:10:21|820|01:10:30|560</wrap>It's really worth reading those paragraphs from page 118 through about page 121, right in there, <wrap hide>534|01:10:31|280|01:10:37|880</wrap>of this book. This is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. The life of a fluid <wrap hide>535|01:10:37|880|01:10:45|320</wrap>response to matter, which is Piscean, becomes that of a focused response to spirit and preparation <wrap hide>536|01:10:45|320|01:10:52|320</wrap>for initiation in Capricorn. Sagittarius may learn everything about what must be done in Capricorn, <wrap hide>537|01:10:52|320|01:11:02|340</wrap>but in Capricorn under karmic Saturn and dharmic Saturn lies the doing of those things. <wrap hide>538|01:11:03|220|01:11:08|680</wrap>The arrow of the mind is projected unerringly towards the goal, and there's where the fifth <wrap hide>539|01:11:08|680|01:11:15|400</wrap>ray comes in because there's great accuracy. D.K. has told us about the fifth ray being involved in <wrap hide>540|01:11:15|400|01:11:20|380</wrap>that aspect of the war, which he calls artillery, and I suppose archery is involved as well. <wrap hide>541|01:11:20|380|01:11:28|700</wrap>And we can well understand that in all instances of letting loose a projectile, <wrap hide>542|01:11:29|560|01:11:38|700</wrap>Sagittarius is involved, whether it's archery, whether it's the firing of large guns, <wrap hide>543|01:11:38|860|01:11:45|820</wrap>the artillery, or whether it's rocketry. We can see Sagittarius involved in all cases, <wrap hide>544|01:11:45|820|01:11:51|660</wrap>and the need for the utmost fifth ray precision, the fifth ray coming through Sagittarius, <wrap hide>545|01:11:52|200|01:11:58|580</wrap>can be well understood. All right, so you know we're entering the disciplic phase here, aren't we? <wrap hide>546|01:11:58|780|01:12:04|040</wrap>And Sagittarius, we are told, is the sign of the one-pointed disciple. So Earth is connected <wrap hide>547|01:12:04|040|01:12:08|820</wrap>with the etheric body, and the Moon with the dense physical body, and here we're definitely <wrap hide>548|01:12:09|800|01:12:15|280</wrap>reorienting the ethers, but at the same time we are vitalizing the outer physical body and <wrap hide>549|01:12:15|280|01:12:23|830</wrap>purifying and sanctifying what we can call our Earth. So now let's move up and take a look at <wrap hide>550|01:12:24|300|01:12:32|740</wrap>some of the possible meanings of the three decanates upon the counterclockwise wheel. <wrap hide>551|01:12:33|880|01:12:38|480</wrap>We review that Jupiter rules the first 10 degrees, Mars the second 10 degrees, <wrap hide>552|01:12:39|440|01:12:50|780</wrap>and the Sun, or the solar angel, or even the monad, the last 10 degrees. The Sun has <wrap hide>553|01:12:51|160|01:12:58|300</wrap>such a ubiquitous meaning. It has a great variety of meanings, and we can find it all the way from <wrap hide>554|01:12:58|300|01:13:06|360</wrap>representing every chakra and every jewel within every chakra to the personality, to that which is <wrap hide>555|01:13:07|180|01:13:13|120</wrap>found as the soul, the sunflower of our life. You go to notice them all the way on up to the <wrap hide>556|01:13:13|120|01:13:19|880</wrap>great, greatest source of radiance within us, the monad. The Sun has many, many meanings, <wrap hide>557|01:13:19|880|01:13:26|260</wrap>and we have to interpret it properly if we can. So now here we're in the Jupiterian decanate, <wrap hide>558|01:13:26|860|01:13:35|200</wrap>zero to ten, for the person who is the true disciple and is becoming soul-infused, <wrap hide>559|01:13:35|200|01:13:42|080</wrap>is on the path, and has taken, I do believe, the first initiation. Otherwise, he would not be the <wrap hide>560|01:13:42|080|01:13:48|500</wrap>true disciple. He may not yet be the accepted disciple, but he's on his way. The disciple's <wrap hide>561|01:13:48|900|01:13:58|060</wrap>consciousness is rapidly expanding, especially with regard to inner things. The outer quest, <wrap hide>562|01:13:58|100|01:14:03|140</wrap>which is typical of Sagittarius, may continue, but there's always an inner meaning applied to <wrap hide>563|01:14:03|140|01:14:08|900</wrap>what is seen in the outer sense. He speaks the truth. Now, that is a great Sagittarian theme, <wrap hide>564|01:14:09|080|01:14:16|160</wrap>the truth, just as lying in the earlier days can be a Sagittarian liability. The hunter's tale, <wrap hide>565|01:14:16|400|01:14:22|500</wrap>the fish tale, you know, how big was that elk that you shot? How big was that fish that you caught? <wrap hide>566|01:14:23|140|01:14:28|340</wrap>Exaggeration is a problem for Sagittarius, but not later, when the fifth ray comes in. He speaks the <wrap hide>567|01:14:28|340|01:14:35|540</wrap>truth, that is, his words are in harmony with the truth. Now, take a look here at Lyra, the first <wrap hide>568|01:14:35|540|01:14:41|940</wrap>decanate. The whole idea of the seven strings in the guitar or the bow or the harp are there, <wrap hide>569|01:14:41|960|01:14:51|520</wrap>and your words must ring true with these true fundamental sounds that come from the divine <wrap hide>570|01:14:51|520|01:14:56|340</wrap>harp. Now we're looking at the first decanate associated not so much with the falling gripe, <wrap hide>571|01:14:56|340|01:15:03|440</wrap>but with the falling gripe in his other guise as the lyre, as the seven-stringed harp, displaying <wrap hide>572|01:15:03|440|01:15:11|080</wrap>the seven rays, the seven major vibrations and colors, and our words must ring through with the <wrap hide>573|01:15:11|080|01:15:18|020</wrap>heavenly harmonies. Remember, also, the Sagittarius brings in the fourth ray constellationally, the <wrap hide>574|01:15:18|020|01:15:25|680</wrap>ray of harmony. He is animated by a vision, always a Jupiterian word. He's animated by a vision and <wrap hide>575|01:15:25|680|01:15:31|420</wrap>pursues the vision one-pointedly. He has learned to gather his forces by the time he is a mentally <wrap hide>576|01:15:31|420|01:15:39|760</wrap>focused disciple, guided perhaps by the intuition. He has the power to uplift the vision of those who <wrap hide>577|01:15:39|760|01:15:45|860</wrap>listen to his words. This is something that Jupiter confers. He has the gift of speech, <wrap hide>578|01:15:46|860|01:15:53|620</wrap>and this is Lyra conferring the gift of speech and oftentimes magical speech or what we call <wrap hide>579|01:15:53|620|01:16:01|800</wrap>incantation. So this is a very positive decanate. Everything about the disciple's life is expanding. <wrap hide>580|01:16:02|580|01:16:08|240</wrap>The abstract mind is coming into view. The Antahkarana is in process of being built, <wrap hide>581|01:16:08|420|01:16:16|140</wrap>and an entirely wider world of experience and vision is being offered. The horizons <wrap hide>582|01:16:16|140|01:16:25|580</wrap>are expanding under Jupiter, and the travel, so typical of Sagittarius, the enlarging <wrap hide>583|01:16:26|140|01:16:32|900</wrap>of the sphere of experience may be occurring in the inner worlds as well as the outer, <wrap hide>584|01:16:33|000|01:16:37|760</wrap>but certainly in the inner worlds now. All right, now we have Mars. It's a non-sacred planet, <wrap hide>585|01:16:37|780|01:16:45|400</wrap>but it does belong to discipleship, Mars and Ara the altar. The disciple is burning with zeal, <wrap hide>586|01:16:45|860|01:16:51|640</wrap>and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The zeal comes from Mars and the spirit of self-sacrifice <wrap hide>587|01:16:52|200|01:16:59|100</wrap>from Ara the altar. And we do realize that Sagittarius has more of the sixth ray <wrap hide>588|01:16:59|800|01:17:06|460</wrap>at this time in this world cycle than any other constellation. So in a way, there's something <wrap hide>589|01:17:06|460|01:17:13|240</wrap>about this central decanate, which is very much attuned to the major ray which Sagittarius is <wrap hide>590|01:17:13|240|01:17:18|080</wrap>presently displaying. Now, we'd have to do a little research here to see whether the most <wrap hide>591|01:17:18|080|01:17:24|220</wrap>zealous of Sagittarians are found in the second decanate, and this would also relate, of course, <wrap hide>592|01:17:24|420|01:17:29|680</wrap>to what may be the rays of their ray chart, regardless of what decanate they're born in. <wrap hide>593|01:17:29|680|01:17:38|720</wrap>But all of this is for future research. He brings his life to the altar, but his sacrifice is not <wrap hide>594|01:17:38|720|01:17:45|800</wrap>yet complete. He moves rapidly towards his goal, and Mars gives that rapidity, so does the sixth <wrap hide>595|01:17:45|800|01:17:51|880</wrap>ray. The decanate tells us of the sixth ray. It's associated with running, run not so straight. <wrap hide>596|01:17:52|340|01:17:58|760</wrap>He moves rapidly towards his goal and crosses many burning grounds through his devotion, <wrap hide>597|01:17:59|020|01:18:07|940</wrap>through his zeal. He's willing to walk through fire to reach his goal. So, you know, we do have <wrap hide>598|01:18:07|940|01:18:15|220</wrap>firewalkers among us, and I would wonder how prominent is Mars or Sagittarius in their fire <wrap hide>599|01:18:15|220|01:18:21|320</wrap>walking. The idea of fire walking is keep your eye on the objective, and do not let your <wrap hide>600|01:18:21|320|01:18:29|860</wrap>consciousness dwell upon the hot coals that you are traversing. So a rapid progress across the <wrap hide>601|01:18:29|860|01:18:36|740</wrap>hot coals in the second decanate can be expected. The disciple will make rapid progress because <wrap hide>602|01:18:36|740|01:18:44|800</wrap>he is mentally focused and will driven, and he sees a vision which is inspired by the intuition <wrap hide>603|01:18:45|400|01:18:52|060</wrap>which is increasingly accessible as he rises through the different stages of human development. <wrap hide>604|01:18:52|880|01:18:59|740</wrap>Now, we are dealing with the disciple and the soul-infusing personality. We're not yet the <wrap hide>605|01:18:59|740|01:19:05|220</wrap>initiate. We're not yet the initiate of the third degree here, but the Sun is the ruler of the third <wrap hide>606|01:19:05|220|01:19:12|480</wrap>decanate, the Sun in this case associated with Draco the Dragon. The disciple is illumined, <wrap hide>607|01:19:12|580|01:19:18|380</wrap>Well, relatively illumined at least, illumined by the intuition. He sees a vision and moves towards <wrap hide>608|01:19:18|380|01:19:26|320</wrap>it with positivity. He directs others with authority. He's called the guardian of the <wrap hide>609|01:19:26|320|01:19:35|800</wrap>gate, and he is the director. This we learn in Esoteric Astrology, page 333. He directs others <wrap hide>610|01:19:35|800|01:19:44|000</wrap>with authority because he has the authority of the soul coming increasingly into expression within <wrap hide>611|01:19:44|000|01:19:51|640</wrap>his nature. So you have the positivity of the solar angel expressing through your consciousness, <wrap hide>612|01:19:52|240|01:19:58|920</wrap>and in that way you feel very well guided indeed because you recognize yourself as the <wrap hide>613|01:19:58|920|01:20:04|940</wrap>soul-infused personality, and you recognize that the solar angel is a definite real presence. You <wrap hide>614|01:20:04|940|01:20:13|880</wrap>are increasingly the light of the path or light on the path for others. So you are a point of <wrap hide>615|01:20:13|880|01:20:25|360</wrap>luminosity. You are a beacon. You are a watchtower, a lighthouse as it were, and you can with <wrap hide>616|01:20:25|360|01:20:34|780</wrap>authority direct others upon the path because in a way you, through the sun, embody the results <wrap hide>617|01:20:34|780|01:20:43|380</wrap>of treading the path with earnestness, dedication, and without deflection. Okay, so now <wrap hide>618|01:20:44|480|01:20:51|660</wrap>and you know you can study these things here by just freezing whatever passes. <wrap hide>619|01:20:52|820|01:21:02|260</wrap>I've tried to look at it from all the different angles, naturally not succeeding, but there are <wrap hide>620|01:21:02|260|01:21:09|220</wrap>so many energies to be combined, and not only are the number of energies many and their interactions <wrap hide>621|01:21:09|220|01:21:16|440</wrap>complex, but so much depends on the form of the individual, its condition, how he responds to <wrap hide>622|01:21:16|660|01:21:24|360</wrap>those energies. Finally we reach the last of the six phases which is usually associated with the <wrap hide>623|01:21:24|360|01:21:31|560</wrap>last decanate, but remember that you can be an individual of any degree of spiritual advancement <wrap hide>624|01:21:31|560|01:21:37|940</wrap>and be born in any of the decanates. I think we always have to be careful about making reality <wrap hide>625|01:21:38|550|01:21:49|660</wrap>fit a mentally conceived theory. I mean we may be able to divide the clockwise and counterclockwise <wrap hide>626|01:21:49|660|01:21:58|260</wrap>decanates into six parts and we may say, "Okay, Lemurian, Atlantean, Early Aryan, <wrap hide>627|01:21:58|820|01:22:06|860</wrap>Aspirant, Disciple, Initiate." We can say that. But then we have to observe reality. <wrap hide>628|01:22:07|440|01:22:19|080</wrap>We have to realize that reality is not quite so willing to conform to our particular mental <wrap hide>629|01:22:19|080|01:22:25|400</wrap>formulations. Yes, each one of those decanates may suggest something of the physical, emotional, <wrap hide>630|01:22:25|400|01:22:33|900</wrap>mental, aspirational, soul culture, spirit culture modes. Yes, each one may suggest something of <wrap hide>631|01:22:33|900|01:22:42|560</wrap>that. But a rigid placing of any individual into a particular category of evolution because he is <wrap hide>632|01:22:42|560|01:22:55|380</wrap>born in one of those decanates or with the rising one of those decanates, that I think is not <wrap hide>633|01:22:55|380|01:23:09|620</wrap>the case. We now come to that sixth level which is triatal or monadic. It is the stage of the <wrap hide>634|01:23:09|620|01:23:17|740</wrap>initiate and it is at least conceptually correlated with the third or sun decanate <wrap hide>635|01:23:17|740|01:23:25|280</wrap>of Sagittarius where presumably the soul as the sun shines with complete radiance and even the <wrap hide>636|01:23:25|280|01:23:35|140</wrap>monad as the sun begins to make its presence felt. So it's under Mars as the hierarchical ruler. Now <wrap hide>637|01:23:35|140|01:23:41|320</wrap>this does not mean, again, that we have abandoned the influence of Jupiter, that we have abandoned <wrap hide>638|01:23:41|320|01:23:51|000</wrap>the influence of the Earth, our own planet, but that these two become less focal and Mars in a way <wrap hide>639|01:23:51|000|01:24:00|320</wrap>more focal. Mars, a non-sacred planet, Mars, a fiery planet, Mars having to do with the entire <wrap hide>640|01:24:01|240|01:24:08|940</wrap>reorientation of the astral nature so that the lunar lords begin to ascend and become, <wrap hide>641|01:24:08|960|01:24:17|200</wrap>instead of elementals, devas in their own right and the intuition takes over, the Buddhic nature <wrap hide>642|01:24:17|200|01:24:26|840</wrap>takes over entirely from the aspiring emotional nature. We fire the arrow of aspiration and it <wrap hide>643|01:24:26|840|01:24:35|600</wrap>returns as the truth of straight knowledge, the intuition. So what is said here: the initiated <wrap hide>644|01:24:35|600|01:24:41|480</wrap>disciple has passed the third degree. This is always the case when dealing with true initiation, <wrap hide>645|01:24:41|860|01:24:46|580</wrap>not just initiations of the threshold. The initiated disciple has passed the third degree. <wrap hide>646|01:24:46|580|01:24:55|560</wrap>As he advances, he will become the director of men. We began to see that in the other stage, <wrap hide>647|01:24:55|820|01:25:01|300</wrap>the preceding stage, the stage of discipleship where there was mental focus and the will is <wrap hide>648|01:25:01|300|01:25:07|600</wrap>increasingly focused. He becomes the director of men and the controller of the gate, the gate <wrap hide>649|01:25:07|600|01:25:16|600</wrap>presumably to initiation. He allows, as the master does, certain members to pass into the <wrap hide>650|01:25:16|600|01:25:23|820</wrap>greater light and others are held back, which seem like the prerogatives of the master, the <wrap hide>651|01:25:23|820|01:25:32|500</wrap>director of men and the controller of the gate. Progress along the path: how wide should the <wrap hide>652|01:25:32|500|01:25:38|640</wrap>channel to the higher energies be? I'm remembering a discussion that D.K. talked about between himself <wrap hide>653|01:25:38|640|01:25:46|880</wrap>and Master K.H. in relation to Roberto Assagioli, was the channel to be widened any more than it <wrap hide>654|01:25:46|880|01:25:51|800</wrap>already was. And they decided at the time that he was already sufficiently sensitive, sufficiently <wrap hide>655|01:25:51|800|01:25:56|500</wrap>receptive. There was no need for the widening of the channel. But one can understand under <wrap hide>656|01:25:56|500|01:26:03|240</wrap>Sagittarius that the pathway into the heavens could be widened and more energy could pour down <wrap hide>657|01:26:03|240|01:26:10|620</wrap>that antahkaranic, sutratmic path. So there are many subtle things connected here when we're <wrap hide>658|01:26:10|620|01:26:26|480</wrap>talking about the controller of the gate, the gate to greater descending energy. Mars is the <wrap hide>659|01:26:27|100|01:26:33|600</wrap>In other words, the Moon in a way, and both Mars as well, stand for the personality as a whole and <wrap hide>660|01:26:33|600|01:26:44|260</wrap>it is now completely reoriented. It is no longer given to its ancient prerogatives. There is <wrap hide>661|01:26:44|260|01:26:51|700</wrap>complete discipline of the lunar nature, which is entirely reoriented towards the Sun, we might say. <wrap hide>662|01:26:52|740|01:26:59|780</wrap>So the ancient authority of the personality is rapidly ending. As a matter of fact, D.K. says it <wrap hide>663|01:26:59|780|01:27:06|680</wrap>ends at the third initiation. The hierarchical ruler controls the entirely reoriented lunar <wrap hide>664|01:27:06|680|01:27:13|860</wrap>nature, which is now the one-pointed instrument of the soul-centered initiative. No longer that <wrap hide>665|01:27:13|860|01:27:21|720</wrap>self-centeredness, centered in the lower self. No longer this kind of fourth-ray preoccupation <wrap hide>666|01:27:21|720|01:27:27|440</wrap>with the lower nature. No, there is a higher reorientation and a preoccupation with the soul <wrap hide>667|01:27:27|440|01:27:37|000</wrap>on its own plane. Fire by friction is entirely under the direction of solar fire and electric <wrap hide>668|01:27:37|000|01:27:44|040</wrap>fire. See what's happening here. Electric fire is summoning the rising of the Kundalini <wrap hide>669|01:27:44|650|01:27:52|860</wrap>needed for the long spiritual journey he envisions. Now, aspiration is a scientific method <wrap hide>670|01:27:52|860|01:27:58|180</wrap>of elevation. We are always speaking of the Kundalini being elevated. Sagittarius has something <wrap hide>671|01:27:58|180|01:28:05|400</wrap>to do with this. Mars rules Kundalini latent and Mercury, which is also associated with Sagittarius, <wrap hide>672|01:28:05|400|01:28:15|380</wrap>speeds that fire upon the upward way, creating in the energy system a complete aspirational burning <wrap hide>673|01:28:15|380|01:28:23|920</wrap>ground. This is what Mars can do, setting all energies and centers into a higher state of <wrap hide>674|01:28:23|920|01:28:32|360</wrap>stimulation, raising the fire towards its objective, which is the crown center, ultimately. <wrap hide>675|01:28:32|360|01:28:39|320</wrap>The center of will at the base of the spine, rising in a directed, fiery manner towards the <wrap hide>676|01:28:39|320|01:28:51|140</wrap>center of purpose, which is the crown center. So the man is on fire. Under Mars, the initiate <wrap hide>677|01:28:51|140|01:28:58|280</wrap>has the courage, that's a Martian virtue, to penetrate into the higher realms towards <wrap hide>678|01:28:59|480|01:29:07|560</wrap>Mount Olympus, not Mt. Olympus here. What have we got here? Towards Mount Olympus, which is, <wrap hide>679|01:29:07|580|01:29:14|860</wrap>of course, the head and the head center where Jupiter reigns, the God Jupiter. So again, <wrap hide>680|01:29:14|960|01:29:21|360</wrap>we're coming back to Jupiter, Mars leading into Jupiter, even though Jupiter is the exoteric ruler <wrap hide>681|01:29:21|360|01:29:27|100</wrap>of Sagittarius. And the last analysis, I think, is probably the most important planet connected <wrap hide>682|01:29:27|100|01:29:33|680</wrap>with Sagittarius. He is on his way to becoming a lesser dragon of wisdom under the influence of <wrap hide>683|01:29:33|680|01:29:39|860</wrap>the constellation Draco. Draco is the great dragon of wisdom, the great cosmic dragon of wisdom. <wrap hide>684|01:29:40|400|01:29:47|780</wrap>Our planetary Logos is a dragon of wisdom, and a master is a lesser dragon of wisdom. He's on his <wrap hide>685|01:29:47|780|01:29:54|600</wrap>way to becoming a lesser dragon of wisdom who can cooperate in bringing the Earth towards a state of <wrap hide>686|01:29:54|600|01:30:01|480</wrap>sacredness. I think we can understand how Draco is involved in sacredizing the Earth. <wrap hide>687|01:30:03|280|01:30:12|520</wrap>Okay, so let's see. This is generally under the esoteric rulership of, rather, the hierarchical <wrap hide>688|01:30:12|520|01:30:20|500</wrap>rulership of Mars. So now we begin again with the first decanate, zero to ten. It's all under Mars, <wrap hide>689|01:30:20|500|01:30:26|560</wrap>in a sense, but not leaving out the other esoteric and exoteric rulers, which are the Earth and <wrap hide>690|01:30:26|560|01:30:34|960</wrap>Jupiter. And now we're under Jupiter as a decanate ruler. The, um, yeah, is that correct? I believe. <wrap hide>691|01:30:36|080|01:30:43|880</wrap>Yeah, it goes Jupiter, Sun, Mars. Okay. The initiate sees comprehensively with the eye <wrap hide>692|01:30:43|880|01:30:49|620</wrap>of the soul. Now whenever we're dealing with vision, Jupiter is involved. His vision becomes <wrap hide>693|01:30:49|620|01:30:56|640</wrap>panoramic. That is the gift of true initiation upon the mountaintop, not just limited vision in <wrap hide>694|01:30:56|640|01:31:03|520</wrap>one direction, but in a way the eyes are also in the back of the head. One sees 360 degrees all <wrap hide>695|01:31:03|520|01:31:10|940</wrap>around, and Jupiter represents this panorama. He knows the truth, the truth that comes from <wrap hide>696|01:31:11|620|01:31:18|760</wrap>being the soul on its own plane and from touching the intuition directly, and he speaks a heavenly <wrap hide>697|01:31:18|760|01:31:25|580</wrap>truth. He's able to bring the words and ideas down. Actually, he brings ideas down from the <wrap hide>698|01:31:25|580|01:31:33|000</wrap>realm of ideas and clothes them, instead of in a raucous manner, as the Stymphalian bird suggests, <wrap hide>699|01:31:33|640|01:31:40|720</wrap>with that which is aptly suited to express the nature of this heavenly truth. <wrap hide>700|01:31:41|120|01:31:48|040</wrap>He brings down the truth in ways that convey the vision of truth to others. He brings down the <wrap hide>701|01:31:48|040|01:31:59|760</wrap>words of inspiration and which expands the horizon of vision of others to whom he speaks <wrap hide>702|01:31:59|760|01:32:06|220</wrap>and in whose presence he finds himself. His effect is the constant enlargement—there's a <wrap hide>703|01:32:06|220|01:32:12|860</wrap>Jupiterian word—of the consciousness of those who attend to him. So in a way, he's a true teacher. <wrap hide>704|01:32:12|860|01:32:22|540</wrap>Thinking about Sri Aurobindo, he had lots of Leo and I believe a Sagittarian moon. He was well <wrap hide>705|01:32:22|540|01:32:31|220</wrap>grounded in this ability. There are other great teachers who somehow can expand the vision of <wrap hide>706|01:32:31|220|01:32:37|980</wrap>others until it becomes increasingly panoramic and a wider and wider world is seen. He enters a new <wrap hide>707|01:32:37|980|01:32:43|940</wrap>dimension because Jupiter is also connected with the Buddhic plane and points the way, which <wrap hide>708|01:32:43|940|01:32:52|360</wrap>Sagittarius does. He points the way towards those he inspires. So he directs others towards the <wrap hide>709|01:32:52|360|01:33:02|300</wrap>gates of initiation, and as the master, he controls the opening of these energy gates according to the <wrap hide>710|01:33:02|300|01:33:07|720</wrap>capacity of the individual. You know, if you're a general in an army, you don't want to direct your <wrap hide>711|01:33:07|980|01:33:13|740</wrap>troops into an untenable position. You want to make sure they're strong enough to accomplish what <wrap hide>712|01:33:13|740|01:33:19|520</wrap>they have to accomplish when they enter this new field of intensified energies. So he is the <wrap hide>713|01:33:19|520|01:33:26|420</wrap>controller of the gate. He's the guardian at the gate, but he also directs towards the gate. Okay, <wrap hide>714|01:33:27|380|01:33:35|700</wrap>now we come to the initiate who is born from 20 to 30 degrees. He's under Mars most definitely, <wrap hide>715|01:33:36|320|01:33:41|780</wrap>and the initiate sacrifices his life on the altar. It is complete. He is moving towards the fourth <wrap hide>716|01:33:41|780|01:33:48|700</wrap>initiation and towards self-immolation. He will hold nothing back. In this period when Mars, <wrap hide>717|01:33:48|800|01:33:54|160</wrap>the hierarchical ruler, dominates, the process is one of the elevation of the lunar vehicles <wrap hide>718|01:33:54|160|01:34:02|300</wrap>through burning. So in a way, the essence of these vehicles, the spiritual essence, <wrap hide>719|01:34:02|300|01:34:11|720</wrap>ascends and there is a great transmutation of those lower elements in the vehicles until they <wrap hide>720|01:34:11|720|01:34:19|840</wrap>no longer resist. They become winged; they become increasingly divine. The personality ascends. <wrap hide>721|01:34:20|440|01:34:27|280</wrap>Self-immolation is found here, the immolation of the lower self and also pointing towards the <wrap hide>722|01:34:27|280|01:34:33|600</wrap>immolation of the fourth degree of the higher self or Egoic Lotus, one of the ways of considering <wrap hide>723|01:34:33|600|01:34:39|560</wrap>the higher self, and the Kundalini fire is involved here. So this is a very burning, <wrap hide>724|01:34:39|560|01:34:47|860</wrap>sacrificial experience carrying that which is hinted at by the, in the disciple stage, <wrap hide>725|01:34:48|160|01:34:55|680</wrap>to its consummation. The Sagittarius is not usually one of those signs connected with the <wrap hide>726|01:34:55|680|01:35:03|540</wrap>fourth degree per se, but I'm thinking about the chart of Sir Thomas More, who is now said to be a <wrap hide>727|01:35:03|540|01:35:12|420</wrap>master of the wisdom, and I believe that he had Sagittarius rising, the Sun in Aquarius, and maybe <wrap hide>728|01:35:12|420|01:35:21|980</wrap>the Moon in Aries, and his sacrifice was complete. He, you know, he had that great wisdom and he was <wrap hide>729|01:35:21|980|01:35:31|440</wrap>called, in a play dedicated to his life, "A Man for All Seasons." So he had that sense of human <wrap hide>730|01:35:31|440|01:35:39|480</wrap>universality, at least. Sagittarius was involved. Okay, and also in the life of Mother Teresa, <wrap hide>731|01:35:40|060|01:35:46|340</wrap>I'm not sure what the initiatory level is there, but that was her rising sign as well. So this <wrap hide>732|01:35:46|340|01:35:54|420</wrap>ability to see the larger world picture and to be a true world disciple, I would say, of the third <wrap hide>733|01:35:54|420|01:36:04|480</wrap>degree, I would say so, was present with her in terms of the rulership of, the rulership <wrap hide>734|01:36:05|640|01:36:12|840</wrap>by the Earth, which would be found heliocentrically opposite her Virgo Sun, so therefore in <wrap hide>735|01:36:13|440|01:36:21|420</wrap>self-sacrificial Pisces, which is ruled by Pluto, the lord of death, ruled esoterically there. So <wrap hide>736|01:36:21|420|01:36:28|220</wrap>her Earth position, heliocentrically, is ruled by Pluto, and I think Pluto was, <wrap hide>737|01:36:29|620|01:36:39|540</wrap>I think Pluto was quite close to her seventh house cusp. I wonder if I can find that just very quickly. <wrap hide>738|01:36:40|290|01:36:46|360</wrap>So let's see, let's do it this way. <wrap hide>739|01:36:51|700|01:36:55|470</wrap>Try this, and it would be, <wrap hide>740|01:36:57|600|01:37:08|540</wrap>okay, yeah, Mother Teresa. Okay, look at that Pluto. Well, look at that Pluto. There it is, <wrap hide>741|01:37:08|540|01:37:18|000</wrap>as the esoteric ruler of her Earth position, exactly on the seventh house cusp where you <wrap hide>742|01:37:18|000|01:37:24|740</wrap>meet the other and form relationships. So in a way, she was considered kind of an incarnation of the <wrap hide>743|01:37:24|740|01:37:31|540</wrap>goddess Kali because she was dealing always with the dead and the dying, and trying to <wrap hide>744|01:37:31|540|01:37:41|900</wrap>ameliorate their condition under the Neptune aspect of Pisces, and also the Neptune aspect <wrap hide>745|01:37:41|900|01:37:50|480</wrap>of her Virgo Sun. And there is Sagittarius, and she's born in the Leo decinate, under the Leo <wrap hide>746|01:37:50|480|01:37:58|160</wrap>decinate of Sagittarius, where she is becoming the great example to others. So it's really worth <wrap hide>747|01:37:58|160|01:38:04|820</wrap>studying the charts in relation to some of the things that we are saying. Now we come to <wrap hide>748|01:38:06|300|01:38:15|920</wrap>the initiate working through triadic influence and monadic influence. In the 20 to 30 decinate, <wrap hide>749|01:38:16|060|01:38:22|820</wrap>the last decinate again ruled by the Sun, a very high expression, a soul expression of the Sun. <wrap hide>750|01:38:23|340|01:38:28|980</wrap>He is definitely the director of man, yet he himself is directed by the solar angel. He is <wrap hide>751|01:38:28|980|01:38:34|940</wrap>increasingly the solar angel. He's increasingly entering into solar angelic consciousness, <wrap hide>752|01:38:35|800|01:38:43|620</wrap>into the consciousness of the angel of the presence who, when penetrated, reveals a great <wrap hide>753|01:38:43|620|01:38:51|200</wrap>Sagittarian destination towards the monad. His vision and the vision of the soul are united. <wrap hide>754|01:38:51|200|01:39:00|900</wrap>So he sees with the eye of the soul, and I imagine increasingly the third eye is activated. I think <wrap hide>755|01:39:00|900|01:39:10|220</wrap>I'll put that in. The third eye is increasingly activated. His consciousness is illumined <wrap hide>756|01:39:10|220|01:39:17|580</wrap>by the soul. He has achieved a contemplation. He's achieved illumination. He's achieved <wrap hide>757|01:39:17|580|01:39:24|420</wrap>inspiration, which is the particular gift of Sagittarius in the fivefold system of meditation, <wrap hide>758|01:39:25|600|01:39:31|120</wrap>correlated with science, beginning with Leo. His consciousness is illumined, and he himself has <wrap hide>759|01:39:31|120|01:39:40|460</wrap>become a light upon the path, a great demonstration of the path to others. He has a beacon leading to <wrap hide>760|01:39:40|460|01:39:50|400</wrap>wisdom. He is a beacon of solar light oriented towards the higher worlds, a reliable way-shower. <wrap hide>761|01:39:51|200|01:39:55|520</wrap>Wisdom is demonstrating, and the solar angel is love-wisdom. <wrap hide>762|01:39:57|360|01:40:03|600</wrap>Well, you know, of course we have to see who are the people that are born in this way. As I said, <wrap hide>763|01:40:04|160|01:40:11|000</wrap>Mother Teresa is one. But, you know, can we consider her here in the initiate <wrap hide>764|01:40:11|760|01:40:20|350</wrap>area? Possibly we can. She seems pretty clearly to be a sixth-ray soul, and we must learn how to <wrap hide>765|01:40:20|940|01:40:28|260</wrap>discriminate the functioning of initiates on the various rays. Certainly she had given everything, <wrap hide>766|01:40:28|880|01:40:36|020</wrap>and there were issues of faith as well. Obviously she had been passing through a long <wrap hide>767|01:40:36|020|01:40:43|520</wrap>dark night of the soul, which in some ways she had lost her faith per se, but she persisted <wrap hide>768|01:40:43|520|01:40:51|520</wrap>according to the will. And this is a great test, which apparently she was passing. Okay, so now <wrap hide>769|01:40:51|520|01:40:59|020</wrap>we've gone through this document, and I'll go slowly through it here, in case you want to <wrap hide>770|01:40:59|020|01:41:07|900</wrap>freeze it to study it a little bit more. W.O.C. is the Wheel of Consciousness; W.O.F. is the Wheel of <wrap hide>771|01:41:07|900|01:41:13|680</wrap>Form. There's so much to say in relation to the decanates, but I think the thing that we have to do <wrap hide>772|01:41:14|240|01:41:21|060</wrap>is to make sure we can study the lives of some prominent individuals and see <wrap hide>773|01:41:22|500|01:41:28|620</wrap>exactly how their lives correlated with the indications that the decanates provide. <wrap hide>774|01:41:30|260|01:41:36|720</wrap>Now let's see where we are. Yeah, there's a bit more we can do before we start on Scorpio. <wrap hide>775|01:41:37|600|01:41:47|240</wrap>So the Tibetan is in a way ending. He's ending this discussion. We've discussed the <wrap hide>776|01:41:47|980|01:41:55|500</wrap>decanates in detail, not so much for the Lemurian, Atlantean, and Early Aryan man, but <wrap hide>777|01:41:56|060|01:42:05|760</wrap>for people such as ourselves who are on the reversing wheel and are spiritually oriented. <wrap hide>778|01:42:06|430|01:42:15|240</wrap>Okay, in closing, he says, and here we are on page 193, <wrap quote>In closing, <wrap hide>779|01:42:16|920|01:42:27|430</wrap>I will simply quote to you the two keywords of this sign, both as it proceeds upon the <wrap hide>780|01:42:27|740|01:42:34|100</wrap>ordinary wheel and upon the reversed wheel.</wrap> Remember this question of the ordinary and <wrap hide>781|01:42:34|100|01:42:42|380</wrap>reversed wheel has to do with energy flows and energy orientations within the body. At least <wrap hide>782|01:42:43|370|01:42:51|500</wrap>when interpreting this question of the wheel in terms of human nature, the etheric energy flows <wrap hide>783|01:42:51|500|01:42:58|500</wrap>have to be considered, whether they are descending and expressing below the diaphragm or ascending <wrap hide>784|01:42:58|500|01:43:06|340</wrap>and expressing above the diaphragm. <wrap quote>Their meaning and significance are so obvious that there is no <wrap hide>785|01:43:06|340|01:43:16|580</wrap>need for elucidation. The injunction to the man upon the orthodox wheel is as follows:</wrap><wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap><wrap quote>And the Word said: “Let food be sought.”</wrap> Well, it's interesting because, you know, to feed the body <wrap hide>787|01:43:27|220|01:43:35|160</wrap>or whatever body it may be, the Sagittarian hunter goes forth for nourishment and to fulfill <wrap hide>788|01:43:35|160|01:43:41|540</wrap>the particular vehicle that needs the nourishment. Jupiter comes in there. Of course, also the <wrap hide>789|01:43:41|540|01:43:49|980</wrap>hunting skills of Mars and Chiron is a kind of planet or planetoid also associated with <wrap hide>790|01:43:49|980|01:43:58|560</wrap>Sagittarius. Chiron was a centaur after all. "Let food be sought." So there is an objective <wrap hide>791|01:44:00|020|01:44:10|180</wrap>and that is determined by desire and one goes forth for what that objective can provide. And <wrap hide>792|01:44:10|180|01:44:15|780</wrap>in the beginning, you know, it's not a high objective. It's quite an animal instinctual <wrap hide>793|01:44:15|780|01:44:21|220</wrap>objective. The objective becomes higher and higher. And of course, the nature of the food <wrap hide>794|01:44:22|100|01:44:26|280</wrap>rises. And eventually, if we want to translate this particular <wrap hide>795|01:44:26|280|01:44:32|940</wrap>mantram into its higher meaning, it will be heavenly food indeed. <wrap quote>To the man upon the reversed <wrap hide>796|01:44:32|940|01:44:44|920</wrap>wheel the Word goes forth:</wrap> <wrap quote> “I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another.” </wrap><wrap hide>797|01:44:45|780|01:44:53|560</wrap>We have this endless divine discontent. We have a temporary gratification or satisfaction, <wrap hide>798|01:44:54|160|01:45:01|640</wrap>but it's not enough to hold the progressive Sagittarian who in a way is using some first <wrap hide>799|01:45:01|640|01:45:09|960</wrap>ray types of motion, the motion of progress onward and the motion of driving forward through space. <wrap hide>800|01:45:10|060|01:45:15|620</wrap>It is a very one-pointed sign. In this, we see the connection of the sixth ray and the first ray. <wrap hide>801|01:45:15|780|01:45:21|120</wrap>"I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another." So we can ask ourselves, all of us, <wrap hide>802|01:45:21|540|01:45:27|800</wrap>because all of these signs are relevant to all of us: what is the goal we see? Where are we in <wrap hide>803|01:45:27|800|01:45:36|000</wrap>the process of reaching it? If we have reached it and are becoming satiated by it, have we lifted <wrap hide>804|01:45:36|580|01:45:42|740</wrap>our eyes to see yet another goal beyond the present satisfaction we are experiencing, <wrap hide>805|01:45:43|300|01:45:49|200</wrap>whether it is a more personal or spiritual satisfaction? <wrap quote>May the words of this final <wrap hide>806|01:45:49|200|01:45:58|320</wrap>injunction to the disciple carry meaning to the heart and mind. </wrap>Well, I think <wrap hide>807|01:45:59|720|01:46:08|760</wrap>D.K. wants to see us as progressive human beings. He wants to see us moving on, on the path, <wrap hide>808|01:46:08|760|01:46:16|000</wrap>and not subject to inertia. Being progressive and not subject to inertia. <wrap hide>809|01:46:17|200|01:46:23|820</wrap>He wants us to get on with it and to do all we can to travel upon the way, <wrap hide>810|01:46:24|580|01:46:31|400</wrap>which in a way is the antahkarana, until we can penetrate into the higher dimensions and <wrap hide>811|01:46:32|360|01:46:38|720</wrap>polarize our consciousness there. And immediately upon that polarization comes the <wrap hide>812|01:46:38|720|01:46:45|140</wrap>precipitation of those energies, which can be transformative for our life. <wrap hide>813|01:46:46|120|01:46:57|200</wrap>So this is the discussion of Sagittarius, and over the many years in the future that we will <wrap hide>814|01:46:57|200|01:47:01|860</wrap>experience the sign, be born in this sign, pass our progressed moon through this sign, <wrap hide>815|01:47:02|420|01:47:08|720</wrap>we will incorporate the higher meanings, the higher potentials of it into our nature so that <wrap hide>816|01:47:08|720|01:47:14|380</wrap>it helps us build the causal body. That's one of the most important things. Every sign of the <wrap hide>817|01:47:14|380|01:47:22|480</wrap>zodiac helps us to build the causal body until it is completely fulfilled and is destroyed. And then <wrap hide>818|01:47:22|480|01:47:27|900</wrap>the influence of the zodiac does not cease, not at all, because we become triadic beings, <wrap hide>819|01:47:28|040|01:47:36|580</wrap>indeed we do, but the zodiac continues to give its influence into the triadic life and eventually <wrap hide>820|01:47:36|580|01:47:45|540</wrap>into the monadic life as we progress towards various sacred planets in order to train for <wrap hide>821|01:47:45|540|01:47:54|120</wrap>a still greater outward bound motion away from the solar system. And even if we leave our <wrap hide>822|01:47:54|120|01:48:00|040</wrap>particular solar system, the zodiac is active in relation to all the neighboring solar systems, <wrap hide>823|01:48:00|140|01:48:08|520</wrap>especially in the seven solar systems of which we are one. And perhaps since the zodiac represents <wrap hide>824|01:48:08|520|01:48:15|140</wrap>the heart and the head center of the one about whom naught may be said, it includes a number of the <wrap hide>825|01:48:15|140|01:48:21|180</wrap>constellations towards which the way of higher evolution may lead and influences those <wrap hide>826|01:48:21|180|01:48:31|920</wrap>constellations as well. So we are not done with the zodiac when we leave our soul nature, so to <wrap hide>827|01:48:31|920|01:48:38|260</wrap>speak, on the higher mental plane and focus more as monad triads. And we are not done with the <wrap hide>828|01:48:38|260|01:48:45|320</wrap>constellations of the zodiac as we pursue our paths to other planets and to other stars. We are <wrap hide>829|01:48:45|320|01:48:55|920</wrap>just learning the ABCs. The ABCs. Okay, I guess we can begin a little bit with Scorpio. We are on <wrap hide>830|01:48:55|920|01:49:06|780</wrap>page 193. I guess we have only really covered about a page or so in the book because we have <wrap hide>831|01:49:06|780|01:49:12|700</wrap>to deal with the decanates in greater detail. "Here is a great and powerful sign, which, <wrap hide>832|01:49:13|280|01:49:21|980</wrap>believe it or not, is intimately related to struggling humanity. It is humanity's sign <wrap hide>833|01:49:21|980|01:49:30|580</wrap>above all." So if we wonder why this human experience is so filled with conflict, we have <wrap hide>834|01:49:30|580|01:49:36|080</wrap>to remember that Scorpio is that particular constellation which at this time brings in more <wrap hide>835|01:49:36|080|01:49:44|640</wrap>of the fourth ray of struggle than any other constellation, and that humanity as a kingdom is <wrap hide>836|01:49:44|640|01:49:52|860</wrap>intimately, or as a hierarchy, is intimately connected to Scorpio, its ruler, which is <wrap hide>837|01:49:52|860|01:49:58|360</wrap>connected with the Buddhic plane where harmony at last has to be achieved, and with the planet <wrap hide>838|01:49:58|360|01:50:08|280</wrap>Mercury, which is in a way the God of conflict, and is the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio. So this <wrap hide>839|01:50:08|280|01:50:17|880</wrap>is a dramatic sign, and it is a sign of death, death unto life, a sign of resurrection, and a <wrap hide>840|01:50:17|880|01:50:26|380</wrap>sign which produces some of the most potent experiences in human living. You know, we're <wrap hide>841|01:50:26|380|01:50:31|740</wrap>told that the second initiation is the most difficult initiation through which to pass, <wrap hide>842|01:50:32|440|01:50:38|880</wrap>and Scorpio has almost given its name that the second initiation is associated with all <wrap hide>843|01:50:38|880|01:50:46|940</wrap>the first three, but with the second initiation it has a peculiar connection. D.K. talks about <wrap hide>844|01:50:46|940|01:50:57|400</wrap>the terrific testing experiences in Scorpio. So <wrap quote>We come now to the consideration of a sign <wrap hide>845|01:50:57|400|01:51:07|120</wrap>which is of paramount importance in the life of evolving man.</wrap> not necessarily in the life of the <wrap hide>846|01:51:07|120|01:51:15|520</wrap>initiate, though it does rule the third initiation too, but for the evolving man it has very great <wrap hide>847|01:51:15|520|01:51:23|280</wrap>testing importance. We never know whether we are really fit to move on until we have passed through <wrap hide>848|01:51:23|280|01:51:32|300</wrap>the experiences of Scorpio. <wrap quote>Certain of the signs are in very close relation—through the inflow and <wrap hide>849|01:51:32|300|01:51:40|420</wrap>the outflow of energy—with certain of the major constellations.</wrap> Certain of the signs are in very <wrap hide>850|01:51:40|420|01:51:45|700</wrap>close relation with certain of the major constellations. Now by major constellations <wrap hide>851|01:51:47|780|01:51:53|140</wrap>we are not necessarily meaning the signs of the zodiac or the constellation of the zodiac, <wrap hide>852|01:51:53|280|01:51:59|640</wrap>but others, perhaps like the Great Bear, Little Bear, Sirius, Pleiades, and so forth, and some <wrap hide>853|01:51:59|640|01:52:09|860</wrap>others as well. <wrap quote>These major constellations are, in a few instances, peculiarly connected with the signs of <wrap hide>854|01:52:09|860|01:52:19|820</wrap>the zodiac.</wrap> I think there is with Sirius an unusual connection to Scorpio. <wrap quote>There are four <wrap hide>855|01:52:19|820|01:52:29|980</wrap>of the zodiacal signs which are mysteriously concerned with what one might call the “personality <wrap hide>856|01:52:29|980|01:52:36|780</wrap>expression” (if such an unsuitable term can be used in default of better) of the solar Logos Himself, <wrap hide>857|01:52:36|780|01:52:42|520</wrap>or with the Divine Quaternary, the fourfold manifestation of Deity.</wrap> Now we're up on the cosmic <wrap hide>858|01:52:42|520|01:52:53|880</wrap>planes here, and we are dealing with the solar Logoic quaternary involving, I suppose, his lower <wrap hide>859|01:52:53|880|01:53:01|560</wrap>mind on the four lesser levels of the cosmic plane, his cosmic astral body, his cosmic etheric body, <wrap hide>860|01:53:01|560|01:53:24|600</wrap>and his cosmic physical body. Okay. So, in fact, we are dealing here with agony. Agony is, in a way, <wrap hide>861|01:53:24|600|01:53:35|940</wrap>the personality nature of the solar Logos, and we are going to discuss the zodiacal constellations, <wrap hide>862|01:53:36|180|01:53:41|040</wrap>which are particularly, he says, mysteriously, so that's certainly for us beyond our ken, <wrap hide>863|01:53:41|420|01:53:49|460</wrap>but perhaps Scorpio will be one of them. Let us see. The divine quaternary. We have a kind of <wrap hide>864|01:53:49|460|01:53:57|960</wrap>quaternary, don't we? We have our physical, our etheric, our astral, and our lower mental vehicle, <wrap hide>865|01:53:57|960|01:54:05|520</wrap>or we have a quaternary that might be considered to be the physical etheric, the astral, the lower <wrap hide>866|01:54:05|520|01:54:12|180</wrap>mental, and their union as a personality. That's another way of looking at the divine quaternary, <wrap hide>867|01:54:12|180|01:54:19|700</wrap>the fourfold manifestation of deity, the soul of deity manifesting through the personality nature. <wrap hide>868|01:54:20|440|01:54:31|080</wrap><wrap quote>These four signs are Aries—Leo—Scorpio—Aquarius, </wrap>We have, interestingly here, we have three of them <wrap hide>869|01:54:31|080|01:54:38|240</wrap>on the fixed cross, except for Aries, which is on the cardinal cross, <wrap quote>and they involve the expression <wrap hide>870|01:54:38|240|01:54:44|760</wrap>of the energy of one Cardinal sign and of three signs which form part of the Fixed Cross of the heavens.</wrap> <wrap hide>871|01:54:44|900|01:54:56|720</wrap>Let's see how he assigns them to the solar Logoic quaternary. We remember, yeah, there is a still greater quaternary <wrap hide>872|01:54:56|720|01:55:05|720</wrap>of which our sun has a non-sacred solar Logos, our solar Logos being temporarily non-sacred, <wrap hide>873|01:55:05|720|01:55:14|760</wrap>is part of the quaternary of a still greater being, the cosmic Logos. Okay, so the quaternary is the outer nature. <wrap hide>874|01:55:16|720|01:55:28|380</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>We could express this truth in another manner: God the Father, the Will to manifest, initiates the creative process</wrap> <wrap hide>875|01:55:29|180|01:55:36|340</wrap>which is worked out. Now, in the initiation of the creative process, the will to create, we think about Aries. <wrap hide>876|01:55:36|500|01:55:43|400</wrap>I'm not sure he's going to talk about it in this respect here, but definitely the will to create is Arian. <wrap hide>877|01:55:44|060|01:55:50|880</wrap>The will to fulfillment is Leonian. The will to conquer death is Capricornian. God the Father, the will to manifest, <wrap hide>878|01:55:51|040|01:55:57|100</wrap>initiates the creative processes, a process <wrap quote>which is worked out through the activity of God the Son, <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>the cosmic Christ, crucified upon the Fixed Cross in the heavens. </wrap>So, God the Father, that's the monadic aspect, <wrap hide>880|01:56:06|540|01:56:12|080</wrap>initiates the creative process, which is worked out through the soul nature of the solar Logos, <wrap hide>881|01:56:12|200|01:56:20|260</wrap>which we might call, in this case, the cosmic Christ, who is crucified upon the fixed cross of the heavens. <wrap hide>882|01:56:20|260|01:56:24|360</wrap>Of course, in a way, it's a higher type of fixed cross than we are crucified upon. <wrap hide>883|01:56:25|260|01:56:33|860</wrap>The crucifixion of God the Son as a cosmic Christ upon the fixed cross is of an entirely higher order than anything we can fathom. <wrap hide>884|01:56:35|140|01:56:45|540</wrap><wrap quote>The activity of God [194]the Holy Spirit, implicit in the Mutable Cross, is closely allied to the previous solar system,</wrap> <wrap hide>885|01:56:45|540|01:56:54|300</wrap>That was the solar system in which the third ray was very prominent, and the third ray is associated with the Holy Spirit. <wrap hide>886|01:56:54|900|01:57:01|420</wrap>The third ray is also associated with the activity and vitality of the etheric body. <wrap hide>887|01:57:02|120|01:57:12|600</wrap><wrap quote>and the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from</wrap> that solar system <wrap hide>888|01:57:12|600|01:57:22|000</wrap>and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. Okay, inherent to the very nature of substance itself. <wrap hide>889|01:57:27|060|01:57:37|600</wrap>Okay, so this, our present solar system, is very much the solar system of the cosmic Christ. <wrap hide>890|01:57:37|860|01:57:44|440</wrap>If we look at the cosmic Christ as the soul or consciousness nature of our solar Logos, <wrap hide>891|01:57:44|440|01:57:56|080</wrap>the previous solar system was associated with his Holy Spirit aspect, more with the etheric aspect, more with his personality aspect. <wrap hide>892|01:57:56|180|01:58:01|920</wrap>It was the solar system of the mind and personality of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>893|01:58:02|940|01:58:09|380</wrap>Okay, the activity of God the Holy Spirit implicit in the mutable cross is closely allied to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>894|01:58:09|380|01:58:19|180</wrap>And so we can see the mutable cross connected with the previous solar system, the fixed cross in a higher way connected with the present solar system, <wrap hide>895|01:58:19|180|01:58:24|940</wrap>and the cardinal cross particularly to be connected with the solar system which is to come. <wrap hide>896|01:58:25|860|01:58:38|780</wrap>And the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied, entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from <wrap quote>that system <wrap hide>897|01:58:38|780|01:58:43|560</wrap>and inherent in the very nature of substance itself.</wrap> <wrap hide>898|01:58:44|860|01:58:53|500</wrap>So we do have the Holy Spirit aspect active, but it's very much connected with the body of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>899|01:58:54|660|01:59:02|840</wrap>I suppose the inherited substance is particularly in the dense physical body of our solar Logos, <wrap hide>900|01:59:02|840|01:59:11|960</wrap>which involves our lower mental plane or perhaps even our entire mental plane, our astral plane and our etheric physical plane. <wrap hide>901|01:59:12|960|01:59:27|040</wrap><wrap quote>This divine aspect is to the whole general divine manifestation what the lower nature (form life or personality in the three worlds of human evolution) <wrap hide>902|01:59:27|040|01:59:32|000</wrap>is to the soul where an individual human being is concerned.</wrap> <wrap hide>903|01:59:32|000|01:59:46|620</wrap>So we're talking about the Holy Spirit aspect, very active in the previous solar system and somewhat active in relation to what is called the primordial ray in this solar system. <wrap hide>904|01:59:47|400|01:59:54|980</wrap>The divine ray is the second ray related to God the Son and to the cosmic Christ and to the fixed cross. <wrap hide>905|01:59:54|980|02:00:04|960</wrap>Now we realize that we human beings are in a way crucified upon the fixed cross when we become disciples, <wrap hide>906|02:00:05|200|02:00:23|200</wrap>but this is just a tiny reflection of that crucifixion upon the fixed cross which the solar Logos is undergoing because he is developing his soul consciousness particularly in this solar system. <wrap hide>907|02:00:23|200|02:00:36|340</wrap>So the fixed cross is always connected with soul consciousness, with the expansion of consciousness found upon the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>908|02:00:36|440|02:00:44|080</wrap>And so the fixed cross has a definite connection with the three higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>909|02:00:44|080|02:00:57|080</wrap>And the mutable cross I would say will have a strong connection with matter in general and with the personality nature of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>910|02:00:57|200|02:01:09|280</wrap>That's not just his physical body, but it would be associated with everything which for him is his personality and that involves his lower mind, his astral body and his etheric physical nature. <wrap hide>911|02:01:09|280|02:01:16|360</wrap>So there are two ways then of looking at the mutable cross and its type of influence. <wrap hide>912|02:01:17|200|02:01:28|500</wrap>There may be a lot of manipulation in the present solar system in connection with the dense body of our solar Logos which involves our lower three systemic planes. <wrap hide>913|02:01:28|500|02:01:43|080</wrap>But I think we really have to associate that Holy Spirit aspect, the energies of the mutable cross with the entire personality nature or matter nature of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>914|02:01:43|080|02:01:54|580</wrap>The solar Logos being a lesser being than the constellational lords who are ruling the various constellations of the zodiac. <wrap hide>915|02:01:55|380|02:02:02|620</wrap>Maybe there's a lord that rules the entire fixed cross or the entire mutable cross or the entire cardinal cross. <wrap hide>916|02:02:03|020|02:02:10|540</wrap>The three of them together forming a kind of a, let's say, trinity in the life of a still greater being. <wrap hide>917|02:02:11|760|02:02:15|620</wrap>The hierarchies ascend higher and higher. <wrap hide>918|02:02:16|500|02:02:27|000</wrap>It's interesting for us to speculate about these things, but in terms of living a better life right here and now, we have to confine our attention to what is practical. <wrap hide>919|02:02:27|780|02:02:32|580</wrap>Just the way the Buddha did, although he knew a great deal more than he spoke. <wrap hide>920|02:02:32|580|02:02:49|260</wrap><wrap quote>As regards these three Persons of the divine Trinity,</wrap> God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, <wrap quote>we might say that:</wrap> <wrap quote>1. Aries is the focal point of the expression of the first aspect of divinity, the will aspect.</wrap> <wrap hide>921|02:02:49|260|02:03:08|020</wrap>Now we do know that the first ray pours powerfully through Aries, and it is the constellation or sign which is most connected with the first aspect of divinity and with the first ray. <wrap hide>922|02:03:08|160|02:03:13|260</wrap>More of the first ray comes through Aries at this time than through any other constellation or sign. <wrap hide>923|02:03:13|260|02:03:25|980</wrap>I use constellation and sign interchangeably. The original energy is from the constellation, but it is adapted by the sign for use in our solar system and upon our planet. <wrap hide>924|02:03:27|680|02:03:30|960</wrap>All right, so Aries is connected with God the Father. <wrap hide>925|02:03:32|120|02:03:41|080</wrap><wrap quote>2. Leo [the next one, is connected,] is the focal point for the expression of the second aspect, <wrap hide>926|02:03:41|960|02:03:50|220</wrap>the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. This, primarily where humanity is concerned.</wrap> We don't know about other hierarchies and how Leo will work for them. <wrap hide>927|02:03:50|320|02:04:02|320</wrap>We do know that Leo is connected with the divine flames which have a kind of Logoic position, you know, the hierarchy I'm speaking of here, the divine flames. <wrap hide>928|02:04:02|320|02:04:11|400</wrap>Let's see how this works. If I can find, yeah, right here? Yes, there we are. <wrap hide>929|02:04:11|800|02:04:21|360</wrap>Okay, there are the divine flames right up here on the highest level of our Logoic plane, our systemic Logoic plane. <wrap hide>930|02:04:21|360|02:04:45|140</wrap>All right, yeah. Now, we have been told, you know, when dealing with the three fire signs that Aries is particularly connected with the monad, Leo with the soul or consciousness, and Sagittarius with the body, or considering the personality as the body. <wrap hide>931|02:04:45|140|02:04:49|400</wrap>Here's yet another tabulation where the same thing holds true. <wrap hide>932|02:04:50|000|02:05:06|420</wrap>So within the expression of the solar Logos, Leo has a particular connection with the love, wisdom aspect, and I suppose in that respect with what is going on on the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>933|02:05:07|640|02:05:26|180</wrap>There are different ways we can look at this. We can look at it in a very expanded sense and take the entire planar structure of the solar Logos going all the way up to the cosmic monadic level where Aries would have something to say and do, and Leo could be on the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>934|02:05:26|180|02:05:46|360</wrap>But we can also confine ourselves to the cosmic physical plane and look at Aries in relation to those aspects of the solar Logos which manifest on the highest cosmic ethers and maybe Leo more in connection with the triadal nature. <wrap hide>935|02:05:46|360|02:06:06|680</wrap>And let's see what happens next. Virgo, aha, well these are not the signs that were just mentioned. What was mentioned was Aries and three fixed signs. <wrap hide>936|02:06:06|680|02:06:18|640</wrap>But now D.K. is talking about the Trinity with Aries, Leo, and Virgo relating to the Trinity. Obviously we have a quadruplicity which we have to explain and which we will. <wrap hide>937|02:06:19|480|02:06:29|520</wrap><wrap quote>3. Virgo is the focal point for the expression of the third aspect, that of active intelligence.</wrap> So Virgo is particularly connected with the Holy Spirit just as Capricorn is. <wrap hide>938|02:06:29|520|02:06:44|020</wrap><wrap quote>In that sign the highest function of matter is symbolised.</wrap> I suppose we could say, we could call it maybe purified matter, the purified or the virgin matter. <wrap hide>939|02:06:45|200|02:06:57|920</wrap>So all that has to do with the personality of the solar Logos and I suppose with his dense physical body is connected with Virgo. <wrap hide>940|02:06:57|920|02:07:14|940</wrap>So if we want to confine this to the cosmic physical plane instead of the entire expanse, you know how the expanse is, if we do this, let's see, this is the entire expanse. <wrap hide>941|02:07:14|940|02:07:33|700</wrap>Yeah, there it is. The entire expanse of the solar Logoic manifestation and even the expanse of beings higher than the solar Logos such as cosmic Logoi and super cosmic Logoi and so forth and even beyond that. <wrap hide>942|02:07:33|700|02:07:56|340</wrap>So this is an amazing map here on page 344 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. But if we want to confine ourselves to the cosmic physical plane, then we might say in a certain respect that Aries has everything to do with what is found on the Logoic levels and maybe on some of the triadal levels. <wrap hide>943|02:07:56|340|02:08:07|320</wrap>Leo has to do with that which is expressed on the higher mental plane and Virgo with matter and all that is expressed on the lower 18 subplanes. <wrap hide>944|02:08:07|880|02:08:19|220</wrap>So you see there are two ways of looking at this, one very compressed like this and one having to do with the higher, with the total expression of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>945|02:08:19|220|02:08:44|740</wrap>In which case Virgo might have much to do with the lower 18 cosmic subplanes, Leo having to do perhaps with the causal body and the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane and perhaps including the cosmic triadal levels perhaps and Aries with the highest levels of the super cosmic plane. <wrap hide>946|02:08:44|740|02:08:55|240</wrap>Not just the cosmic physical plane but the super cosmic plane which is a physical plane with respect to still greater being of course. <wrap hide>947|02:08:55|240|02:09:13|420</wrap>All right. So we have a very important triangle here. A triangle which involves Aries, the father aspect, Leo, the son aspect. <wrap hide>948|02:09:13|420|02:09:27|400</wrap>And not Sagittarius in this case which is often the third fire sign related to the personality and body aspect but Virgo related to the matter aspect and I suppose then as well resurrected matter. <wrap hide>949|02:09:27|400|02:09:46|660</wrap>The assumption of the virgin, the purification of previous solar system matter until it is fit and ready for non-resistive participation in our present solar system which is ruled by the fixed cross in a cosmic sense. <wrap hide>950|02:09:47|640|02:10:08|340</wrap>Okay. Now <wrap quote>The four signs—Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius—are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac; they constitute another field of relationships:</wrap> <wrap hide>951|02:10:09|180|02:10:16|240</wrap>Another field of relationships in relation to a kind of zodiac of ten, I believe. <wrap hide>952|02:10:17|200|02:10:26|540</wrap>And they are the constellational chakric systems in the one about whom naught may be said, at least for the most part. Let's see. <wrap hide>953|02:10:26|540|02:10:37|500</wrap>So he began this a little higher up here by saying... what did he say here? Yeah. <wrap hide>954|02:10:38|960|02:10:54|280</wrap>The divine quaternary of the solar Logos is connected with Aries, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius. So in a way the divine quaternary is ruled generically by Virgo. <wrap hide>955|02:10:54|280|02:11:07|300</wrap>So in a way, Aries... well, we're having some interesting developments here. Hopefully everything will stabilize. <wrap hide>956|02:11:08|340|02:11:16|020</wrap>We have Aries, Leo and Virgo. Now Virgo in a way rules the entire divine quaternary in a cosmic sense. <wrap hide>957|02:11:16|020|02:11:24|900</wrap>And so we would have sub-Aries, sub-Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius as being part of that particular quaternary. <wrap hide>958|02:11:25|400|02:11:31|100</wrap>And then we would have a higher form of Aries and Leo ruling the father aspect and the son aspect. <wrap hide>959|02:11:32|920|02:11:39|740</wrap>Alright, so now we're going to get into the stars related to these four signs. <wrap hide>960|02:11:39|740|02:11:49|980</wrap>These four signs are related to the divine quaternary and they involve the expression of the energy of one cardinal and three fixed signs. <wrap hide>961|02:11:50|440|02:12:00|160</wrap>We're looking at another area of relationships when we enter into the stars, and the stars represent certain constellations. <wrap hide>962|02:12:00|480|02:12:08|200</wrap>That's the key. And these constellations belong to another field of relationships other than the zodiacal field of relationships. <wrap hide>963|02:12:08|200|02:12:21|900</wrap>Okay, so the four signs Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac and may constitute another field of relationships. <wrap hide>964|02:12:22|220|02:12:29|560</wrap>Okay,<wrap quote> Aries [is related] to one of the two stars, found in the constellation, the Great Bear, which are called the two Pointers.</wrap> <wrap hide>965|02:12:29|720|02:12:35|500</wrap>It's the lower one of the pointers. It's the one that's farthest away from Polaris. <wrap hide>966|02:12:35|500|02:12:45|780</wrap>And it has, in a way, a more spiritual meaning, although it has been discussed in some systems as a sixth ray star. <wrap hide>967|02:12:46|900|02:12:56|840</wrap>So Aries is related to the pointers, and we know the Great Bear is not in that system of relationships which we call the signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>968|02:12:57|920|02:13:05|340</wrap><wrap quote>Leo [is related] to Polaris, the Pole Star, found in the Little Bear.</wrap> in the tail of the Little Bear. <wrap hide>969|02:13:05|480|02:13:17|140</wrap>Sometimes Sagittarius, since the pole star is a great star of direction and Sagittarius is a constellation of direction, is said to be related to Polaris. <wrap hide>970|02:13:18|420|02:13:25|920</wrap>And Leo to the second pointer, or the pointer closest to Polaris. That is another field of relationships. <wrap hide>971|02:13:25|920|02:13:41|300</wrap>Anyway, what we have right now is Aries related to the farthest pointer in the Great Bear and Leo related to Polaris itself and also, as we will discover, to the closer pointer, the pointer closer to Polaris in the Great Bear. <wrap hide>972|02:13:42|240|02:13:53|220</wrap>So we can see this is another field of relationships because the Great Bear is a super constellation in a way and it is not part of the twelve constellations of the zodiac. <wrap hide>973|02:13:53|220|02:14:04|660</wrap>Scorpio is related to Sirius. That's so interesting. We have this, and we're told also that Mercury is the star of Sirius. <wrap hide>974|02:14:05|780|02:14:13|920</wrap>Or is it Sirius is the star of Mercury? I think Mercury is the star of Sirius. Let's take a quick look here in Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>975|02:14:14|680|02:14:27|100</wrap>And let's see... Mercury... Mercury star Sirius. <wrap hide>976|02:14:27|100|02:14:38|280</wrap>So let's see what we have. And Sirius is called the dog star. It is the star of Mercury. <wrap hide>977|02:14:39|220|02:14:44|100</wrap>Or Buddha, called the great instructor of mankind. This is on page 659. <wrap hide>978|02:14:45|260|02:14:52|620</wrap>So Sirius and Mercury have a very definite connection. Mercury and Scorpio have a very definite connection. <wrap hide>979|02:14:52|620|02:15:00|960</wrap>So we look to the triangle of Sirius, Scorpio, and Mercury. <wrap hide>980|02:15:02|220|02:15:11|240</wrap>And so we can see that there is much that will lift a man towards buddhi coming along this line. <wrap hide>981|02:15:12|340|02:15:18|400</wrap>We have Scorpio as one of the major signs which admits a man into hierarchy, as does Capricorn. <wrap hide>982|02:15:18|400|02:15:29|200</wrap>Sirius sponsors the entire program of initiation. And Mercury determines the final destination of man, <wrap hide>983|02:15:29|340|02:15:37|200</wrap>which is on the buddhic plane, where he is meant to work out his harmonizing form of expression. <wrap hide>984|02:15:37|440|02:15:42|800</wrap>So these are three very important indicators. Mercury is the star of conflict. <wrap hide>985|02:15:42|800|02:15:49|420</wrap>Sirius is called the scorcher, which is submitting man to a great many tests and burning grounds. <wrap hide>986|02:15:49|940|02:15:58|740</wrap>And we all know about Scorpio. It is such a difficult instrument to deal with, a difficult constellation to deal with, <wrap hide>987|02:15:58|920|02:16:09|300</wrap>because it forces man to confront the opposites and to choose the higher of the pairs of opposites rather than the lower. <wrap hide>988|02:16:09|300|02:16:18|940</wrap>So often with Libra, before the Scorpio experience, you sort of seek to balance the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>989|02:16:19|120|02:16:27|140</wrap>So they come into a just and balanced harmonious condition. But with Scorpio, the scales tip, <wrap hide>990|02:16:28|160|02:16:39|220</wrap>And it is required that the higher of the pairs of opposites be our choice and that we live according to it. <wrap hide>991|02:16:39|220|02:16:43|940</wrap>So there's a great struggle there because all that represents the previous solar system, <wrap hide>992|02:16:44|060|02:16:50|560</wrap>which pulls us backward into material temptation, has to be overcome. <wrap hide>993|02:16:50|740|02:16:57|660</wrap>And of course that is overcome with the help of the intuition of Mercury, which sees through this miasma and illusion. <wrap hide>994|02:16:58|360|02:17:05|100</wrap>And it overcomes with the constant pressure of Sirius, represented by the pressure of the solar angel, <wrap hide>995|02:17:05|100|02:17:08|480</wrap>which we had been talking about a little bit earlier. <wrap hide>996|02:17:09|740|02:17:21|500</wrap>The solar angel is putting the human being under increasing pressure as his elevation proceeds and he goes into higher states of consciousness. <wrap hide>997|02:17:23|140|02:17:30|880</wrap><wrap quote>Scorpio [is related] to Sirius, the Dog Star.</wrap> It's a very important hierarchical initiation combination. <wrap hide>998|02:17:32|840|02:17:37|220</wrap><wrap quote>Aquarius [is related] to Alcyone, one of the seven Pleiades.</wrap> <wrap hide>999|02:17:37|700|02:17:41|900</wrap>So the system of Sirius, the system of Pleiades, the system of the Great Bear, <wrap hide>1000|02:17:42|780|02:17:52|500</wrap>these are three said to be super constellations which are involved in another field of relationships other than the signs of the zodiac, <wrap hide>1001|02:17:52|740|02:17:57|720</wrap>although very much connected to certain signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>1002|02:17:57|720|02:18:05|780</wrap>And there are other constellations which are found closely related to these three super constellations. <wrap hide>1003|02:18:05|980|02:18:17|280</wrap>We can include Orion, we can include Draco, perhaps we can include Antares, we can include the Little Bear. <wrap hide>1004|02:18:17|980|02:18:24|240</wrap>These are chakra centers in the one about whom naught may be said. <wrap hide>1005|02:18:25|140|02:18:31|180</wrap>Okay. So, Alcyone is said to be the star of the individual. <wrap hide>1006|02:18:32|300|02:18:42|520</wrap>Individuality is related to the third aspect of divinity in a way, to become an ego, a distinct identity. <wrap hide>1007|02:18:43|300|02:18:51|980</wrap>This seems to be conveyed by Alcyone, and perhaps in some degree that is not easy to explain by Aquarius. <wrap hide>1008|02:18:51|980|02:19:04|240</wrap>Anyway, Alcyone is the central Pleiade. It's sort of the king or queen, or the central figure in the seven Pleiades. <wrap hide>1009|02:19:04|840|02:19:08|620</wrap>And it represents centrality of identity. <wrap hide>1010|02:19:09|260|02:19:14|840</wrap>So what do we have? We have Aries with the pointer farthest from Polaris. <wrap hide>1011|02:19:14|840|02:19:22|860</wrap>We have Leo with Polaris itself, or as later will be seen, to the pointer closest to Polaris, Dubhe. <wrap hide>1012|02:19:23|440|02:19:29|920</wrap>We have Scorpio related to Sirius. We have Aquarius related to Alcyone. <wrap hide>1013|02:19:30|580|02:19:36|420</wrap>And also, you know, Virgo and Taurus are involved as well with the Pleiades. <wrap hide>1014|02:19:36|420|02:19:45|240</wrap>There's so many interlocking systems of relationship, it seems that in the group interaction of these great beings, <wrap hide>1015|02:19:45|500|02:19:55|340</wrap>everybody comes to know everybody else and learns how to interact with them in a unique manner. <wrap hide>1016|02:19:56|040|02:20:03|920</wrap>Just the way we would in human society, each one of us aspects other individuals in a certain way. <wrap hide>1017|02:20:04|620|02:20:12|320</wrap>And we draw forth different responses from different people, and we are able to help different people in different ways, <wrap hide>1018|02:20:12|400|02:20:14|120</wrap>and be helped by them in different ways. <wrap hide>1019|02:20:14|680|02:20:21|620</wrap>So we just have to analogize to the greater beings to see what their interrelationships may be. <wrap hide>1020|02:20:22|080|02:20:27|620</wrap>I may be in a triangle, personally, with two other people, but I may be in a triangle as well with two other people. <wrap hide>1021|02:20:27|620|02:20:32|880</wrap>And that does not necessarily minimize my contribution to the first triangle, <wrap hide>1022|02:20:33|520|02:20:40|760</wrap>nor does the participation in the second in any way diminish the first. <wrap hide>1023|02:20:41|000|02:20:51|200</wrap>So both can be complementary. In other words, any being can be involved in numerous relationships within the group field. <wrap hide>1024|02:20:51|200|02:20:57|480</wrap>And finally, probably triangularly related to all the members within the group field. <wrap hide>1025|02:20:58|260|02:21:07|900</wrap>Long ago what I did was try to look at all the possible triangles between all the constellations of the zodiac. <wrap hide>1026|02:21:08|280|02:21:11|460</wrap>D.K. only mentioned some of them, maybe some of the more important ones. <wrap hide>1027|02:21:11|920|02:21:19|740</wrap>But one can figure out that there will be, let's say in relation to someone's sun, moon, and rising sign, <wrap hide>1028|02:21:19|740|02:21:24|540</wrap>an important triangle represented, provided one of the signs is not repeated. <wrap hide>1029|02:21:25|120|02:21:30|140</wrap>And we can see what the meaning of that zodiacal triangle might be. <wrap hide>1030|02:21:31|340|02:21:39|460</wrap>It's a very intricate study, this esoteric astrology, based on the science of triangles, <wrap hide>1031|02:21:39|840|02:21:45|620</wrap>and just so many different ways of conceiving interrelationships. <wrap hide>1032|02:21:45|620|02:21:54|420</wrap>But we have to look at the ones somehow that are most relevant, most relevant to our own spiritual growth and development. <wrap hide>1033|02:21:55|260|02:21:56|520</wrap>All right, he goes on. <wrap hide>1034|02:21:57|600|02:22:02|840</wrap>"There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring"— <wrap hide>1035|02:22:03|760|02:22:05|480</wrap>OK, we're having some quality degraded. <wrap hide>1036|02:22:06|020|02:22:07|760</wrap>Hopefully not. We will proceed. <wrap hide>1037|02:22:07|760|02:22:18|100</wrap><wrap quote>There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring into the four zodiacal signs <wrap hide>1038|02:22:19|420|02:22:30|380</wrap>from these distant though potent points of outgoing energy;</wrap> namely Polaris, the most distant pointer, Sirius, and Alcyone. <wrap hide>1039|02:22:32|120|02:22:37|420</wrap>He didn't say the word constellation, so maybe they pour into constellations as well. <wrap hide>1040|02:22:37|420|02:22:44|120</wrap>But they certainly pour into the representatives of the constellations, which are the signs. <wrap hide>1041|02:22:44|980|02:22:54|880</wrap><wrap quote>they are part of the life expression of an Identity, immeasurably superior [195] to and more advanced than our solar Logos.</wrap> <wrap hide>1042|02:22:55|700|02:23:02|100</wrap>OK, of course, I think we are speaking here of the one about whom naught may be said, <wrap hide>1043|02:23:02|820|02:23:13|980</wrap>or at least that one of the ones about whom naught may be said, which is most closely connected to our particular solar system, <wrap hide>1044|02:23:14|360|02:23:16|980</wrap>and perhaps to our particular zodiac. <wrap hide>1045|02:23:16|980|02:23:27|380</wrap>In the chart on page 344, I think a case can be made for discovering a number of ones about whom naught may be said, <wrap hide>1046|02:23:27|520|02:23:34|280</wrap>but naturally, since we can't even conceive of the one most closely related to us, the rest is purely speculative. <wrap hide>1047|02:23:35|660|02:23:47|620</wrap>OK, so these stars and the constellations they represent are part of the life expression of an immeasurably superior entity, <wrap hide>1048|02:23:48|460|02:23:52|600</wrap>immeasurably superior to and more advanced than our solar Logos. <wrap hide>1049|02:23:52|820|02:24:02|060</wrap>That word "immeasurably"—are we to take it literally? Are we to say that it's so far advanced over our solar Logos <wrap hide>1050|02:24:02|060|02:24:09|200</wrap>that we cannot even conceive of the degree to which it is advanced over our solar Logos, <wrap hide>1051|02:24:09|960|02:24:21|380</wrap>or is the word "immeasurably" simply being used to indicate a great span of distinction between them? <wrap hide>1052|02:24:22|100|02:24:32|400</wrap>OK, so this identity, the one about whom naught may be said—at least the one that we are most concerned with— <wrap hide>1053|02:24:33|440|02:24:46|700</wrap>he can't tell us too much about the energies of the solar Logos, which probably in a way represent the energies of the Great Bear, <wrap hide>1054|02:24:46|700|02:24:50|860</wrap>the Little Bear, Sirius, and the Pleiades. <wrap hide>1055|02:24:51|540|02:25:00|220</wrap>And you can often substitute the Little Bear for the Pleiades, but let's just say that Polaris in a way represents all of the energies of the Little Bear. <wrap hide>1056|02:25:01|200|02:25:07|900</wrap>That this particular pointer that Aries is connected with represents all the energies of the Great Bear. <wrap hide>1057|02:25:07|900|02:25:23|580</wrap>That Sirius represents the energies of the constellation Sirius, which includes other stars, and may even include our seven solar systems, of which ours is one. <wrap hide>1058|02:25:24|660|02:25:30|780</wrap>And let us say that Alcyone represents the entire output of the Pleiades. <wrap hide>1059|02:25:30|780|02:25:40|840</wrap>So oftentimes a star is used as a kind of blind for the energies of the constellation of which it is a part, <wrap hide>1060|02:25:40|980|02:25:50|300</wrap>just like Betelgeuse—or Betelgeuse, however you want to pronounce it—can represent the entirety of Orion rather than just itself. <wrap hide>1061|02:25:51|180|02:26:04|040</wrap>OK, <wrap quote>A few hints may, however, be of service to the truly esoteric astrologer</wrap>—not just the run-of-the-mill esoteric astrologers such as we are attempting to be, <wrap hide>1062|02:26:04|180|02:26:13|420</wrap>but the member of hierarchy, let us say, who is the true initiate astrologer <wrap quote>who may study these pages, <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>particularly where Scorpio is concerned.</wrap> because that is what we are studying: the whole system of initiation and how Scorpio participates in providing opportunity for initiation. <wrap hide>1064|02:26:25|820|02:26:36|460</wrap><wrap quote>Scorpio, at this particular stage of human evolution, governs the Path of Discipleship.</wrap> as does—in a way—Sagittarius governs the one-pointed disciple, <wrap hide>1065|02:26:36|460|02:26:44|760</wrap>but Scorpio governs the struggles, the battles, the tests, the proving ground on the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1066|02:26:45|380|02:26:54|220</wrap><wrap quote>You will note here also how Leo-Scorpio-Aquarius form a peculiar triangle of force, <wrap hide>1067|02:26:55|160|02:27:00|340</wrap> but of this I will later deal in Chapter III under the heading, The Science of Triangles.</wrap> <wrap hide>1068|02:27:00|340|02:27:11|000</wrap>Well, I think, you know, we can get a little bit of an idea of what this is because Leo rules the self-centering of the individual in its individuality, <wrap hide>1069|02:27:11|780|02:27:22|020</wrap>and Scorpio rules the struggle to overcome that sense of isolated individuality, as Scorpio does stage the release of Leo. <wrap hide>1070|02:27:22|020|02:27:31|440</wrap>And Aquarius is the release into hierarchical life where a measure of unity and universality are experienced. <wrap hide>1071|02:27:32|260|02:27:44|100</wrap>Now we might also say, because these constellations are related to each other, that Polaris, Sirius, and Alcyone are related to each other. <wrap hide>1072|02:27:45|040|02:27:56|800</wrap>And this would also mean that the Little Bear in relation to Leo, Sirius in relation to Scorpio, and Pleiades in relation to Alcyone are related to each other. <wrap hide>1073|02:27:58|400|02:28:10|940</wrap>OK, well, you know, we speculate about these vast things, but the important thing is to feel the energy of these great sources, <wrap hide>1074|02:28:10|940|02:28:19|780</wrap>even though they are much modified and transformed on the way down to us, and to realize when these energies are present, <wrap hide>1075|02:28:19|980|02:28:30|680</wrap>and to express these energies in a manner which is fitting for those who want to be successful in treading the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1076|02:28:31|460|02:28:42|040</wrap>OK, so, you know, Djwhal Khul is always qualifying, you know. He's talking about Scorpio at this particular stage of human evolution, <wrap hide>1077|02:28:42|160|02:28:49|440</wrap>at some other stage of human evolution, or the evolution of some other hierarchy. There might be an entirely different description. <wrap hide>1078|02:28:50|180|02:29:01|340</wrap><wrap quote>//Aries// is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear but peculiarly so with one of the stars called The Pointers;</wrap> <wrap hide>1079|02:29:01|520|02:29:11|040</wrap>Now that is the more distant star that is Merak, and not Dubhe. So Aries is connected with what we have looked at as a sixth-ray star. <wrap hide>1080|02:29:11|040|02:29:24|660</wrap>Of course, if we look at Polaris, Dubhe, and Merak as a trinity, then we will assign them different rays, in a way. <wrap hide>1081|02:29:25|340|02:29:38|760</wrap>We will assign a first ray to Polaris, since it is the representative of the monad and its guiding destiny, or its attractive destiny. <wrap hide>1082|02:29:38|760|02:29:50|140</wrap>We will assign the second ray to Merak, because it represents the soul. And we will assign the third ray to Dubhe, because it represents the personality. <wrap hide>1083|02:29:51|680|02:30:02|100</wrap>And this is, you know, a different method of assignment. I'm not saying that those stars particularly represent those rays, <wrap hide>1084|02:30:02|100|02:30:12|680</wrap>but at least we have three stars representing the three aspects of divinity, Polaris being the highest, Merak being that which represents the second or middle aspect, <wrap hide>1085|02:30:13|280|02:30:18|540</wrap>and Dubhe representing the personality, or third aspect, as he will somewhat begin to describe. <wrap hide>1086|02:30:19|360|02:30:31|220</wrap>So Aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear, yes, but peculiarly so with one of the stars called the Pointers. <wrap hide>1087|02:30:31|220|02:30:40|240</wrap>Now I think I can substantiate this idea of the connection of Aries with the Great Bear, because on page 50 he pretty well demonstrates exactly that. <wrap hide>1088|02:30:41|060|02:30:54|940</wrap>Here is the tabulation on page 50 of Esoteric Astrology, and we see the Great Bear connected with Aries and with Libra, and the sun is... Vulcan here. <wrap hide>1089|02:30:54|940|02:31:02|920</wrap>It's the second creative hierarchy, the second creative of the manifested... no, the eleventh hierarchy, that's it. <wrap hide>1090|02:31:03|480|02:31:14|780</wrap>It's unknown, connected with Aries. So Aries and the Great Bear have a definite connection, so does Leo actually and the Great Bear, because we can see the sun is involved, and the sun rules Leo. <wrap hide>1091|02:31:15|840|02:31:29|660</wrap>Okay. These pointers, these pointers, point to the pole star. So as my computer stops acting up... I think it's got a little bit of overload here. <wrap hide>1092|02:31:29|660|02:31:50|380</wrap><wrap quote>these point to the Pole star which is at this time a major //"star of direction."// </wrap> Now as the axis of the Earth gyrates, then perhaps Polaris will no longer be, for us, a major or the major star of direction, <wrap hide>1093|02:31:50|380|02:32:00|360</wrap>but something else will take its place over an approximately 25,000-year cycle, or even closer to 26,000 years. <wrap hide>1094|02:32:01|280|02:32:11|580</wrap>When we deal with the term direction, in general we deal with the first ray, because the first ray is the director. <wrap hide>1095|02:32:11|580|02:32:22|800</wrap>The first ray monads among men are the directors, the second ray monads among men are the teachers, and the third ray monads the creative manipulators. <wrap hide>1096|02:32:22|960|02:32:30|900</wrap>He calls them the manipulators, but I think since the third ray is the ray of creative intelligence, one might as well call them the creative manipulators. <wrap hide>1097|02:32:31|120|02:32:37|780</wrap>Put a little better face on it, since the word manipulation, except in occultism, has a rather bad name. <wrap hide>1098|02:32:38|660|02:32:51|460</wrap>Okay, a major star of direction. <wrap quote>Direction, will, purpose and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with His evolutionary undertakings <wrap hide>1099|02:32:52|140|02:32:58|620</wrap>in connection with the many lives manifesting in the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system.</wrap> <wrap hide>1100|02:32:58|620|02:33:10|180</wrap>So, these are all rather sort of first ray factors. Direction, will, purpose, and plan. There's a bit of the third ray that comes into it, <wrap hide>1101|02:33:10|700|02:33:21|760</wrap>and perhaps some of the divine design comes in with purpose, the divine pattern suggesting the second ray. <wrap hide>1102|02:33:21|760|02:33:31|200</wrap>But anyway, largely first ray words. Direction, will, purpose, and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with his evolutionary undertakings, <wrap hide>1103|02:33:31|720|02:33:43|380</wrap>in connection with the many lives. He's behind the evolution of all of us, and even the tiniest material unit, manifesting in the vehicle of expression, which we call the solar system. <wrap hide>1104|02:33:43|380|02:33:53|560</wrap>There are other lives, of course, that are manifesting within the vehicles of the solar Logos, which are not technically part of the etheric physical solar system, <wrap hide>1105|02:33:53|720|02:34:04|480</wrap>but which are evolving under his impulse, just the way we have astral entities and mental entities of a lesser kind evolving under our impulse as human beings. <wrap hide>1106|02:34:05|700|02:34:19|100</wrap><wrap quote>All these respond to the influences of the first ray which is, to all intents and purposes, the energy of divine embodied will,</wrap> <wrap hide>1107|02:34:19|760|02:34:31|520</wrap>We are speaking here of the first ray, that power of driving things forward, which Aries confers. Driving forward through space. <wrap hide>1108|02:34:31|520|02:34:41|960</wrap>Aries is closely related to this divine embodied will, <wrap quote>which has been esoterically described as “unavoidable directed purpose.” </wrap><wrap hide>1109|02:34:42|360|02:34:57|340</wrap>There is a final design or relationship towards which all is driven by the will nature of the solar Logos, as it is impulsed by Aries connected with the father aspect. <wrap hide>1110|02:34:58|740|02:35:12|160</wrap><wrap quote>Within our solar system, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions </wrap>not the only expressions, okay, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions <wrap quote>or custodians of this first ray energy <wrap hide>1111|02:35:12|720|02:35:21|060</wrap>and are, as I have told you, esoteric planets.</wrap> And this is one of the places where Pluto is mentioned as an esoteric planet, <wrap hide>1112|02:35:21|060|02:35:33|540</wrap>probably because so much of its purpose and nature remains unknown, but it is also a non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>1113|02:35:33|860|02:35:49|780</wrap>So, this is interesting: we have Pluto as an esoteric, non-sacred planet, and Vulcan as an esoteric, sacred planet. <wrap hide>1114|02:35:49|780|02:35:58|140</wrap>And we are going to see that there are connections here of Pluto with Aries; there is a triangle called Aries-Pluto-Shamballa. <wrap hide>1115|02:35:58|980|02:36:08|540</wrap>And we have seen that Aries is involved in a great pair relationship, in which the sun-veiling Vulcan is related. <wrap hide>1116|02:36:08|540|02:36:19|900</wrap>There is something on the first ray, which Aries and Vulcan share: they drive into matter, they force themselves into new fields, <wrap hide>1117|02:36:20|220|02:36:27|680</wrap>some of them dense, some of them more refined. But let us look at the downward pointing arrow of matter associated with Vulcan, <wrap hide>1118|02:36:28|340|02:36:32|040</wrap>and the tendency of Aries to drive down into matter as well. <wrap hide>1119|02:36:32|040|02:36:38|860</wrap>There is also the tendency of Aries, following its lift, to rise up out of matter in terms of resurrection, <wrap hide>1120|02:36:39|660|02:36:49|500</wrap>and we can think of Vulcan in a similar way, as giving such a quality of intense light that matter is etherealized, <wrap hide>1121|02:36:49|700|02:37:00|680</wrap>or elevated from its lower vibratory conditions. So Vulcan is involved with increasing the vibration of matter until it becomes radiant and etherealized. <wrap hide>1122|02:37:01|760|02:37:13|880</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>The first indication of the true spiritual will</wrap> which I suppose is etheric in its nature, <wrap quote>only begins to manifest upon the Path of Discipleship— </wrap><wrap hide>1123|02:37:14|140|02:37:23|460</wrap>The true spiritual will only begins to manifest upon the path of discipleship. <wrap quote>hence the late discovery of these two planets <wrap hide>1124|02:37:23|520|02:37:29|700</wrap>(late in point of time and from the angle of human knowledge) for it is only in this Aryan race</wrap> which is a mental race— <wrap hide>1125|02:37:29|700|02:37:39|460</wrap>the mind conveying the will—<wrap quote>for it is only in this Aryan race period that humanity is to any large extent beginning to manifest evidence <wrap hide>1126|02:37:39|700|02:37:48|820</wrap>(and as yet it is no more) of a reaction or a response to the spiritual will of deity as it comes to our planet <wrap hide>1127|02:37:49|220|02:37:53|900</wrap>and hence to us via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto.</wrap> <wrap hide>1128|02:37:53|900|02:38:06|960</wrap>Spiritual will via Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. As spiritual will is also identified with Atma, we can think of Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto as identified to a degree with Atma, <wrap hide>1129|02:38:07|340|02:38:14|260</wrap>and also their Saturn could enter. Okay, you said a lot here, haven't you? <wrap hide>1130|02:38:15|240|02:38:27|100</wrap>So only when we are becoming mentally focused and can begin to touch the triadic levels through the building of the Antahkarana on the path of discipleship and the spiritual will begin to manifest, <wrap hide>1131|02:38:27|400|02:38:36|440</wrap>and then I suppose you could say that we come into relation with the higher natures of Vulcan and Pluto. <wrap hide>1132|02:38:36|440|02:38:42|360</wrap>We certainly are all exposed to their lower natures at any point in the development of humanity, <wrap hide>1133|02:38:43|020|02:38:49|820</wrap>but come in relation to the higher nature of these aero-planets, you might call them. <wrap hide>1134|02:38:49|940|02:38:56|120</wrap>Vulcan pointing downward, Pluto pointing upward, upon the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1135|02:38:57|940|02:39:08|820</wrap>Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. That's one important triangle of the constellation and two planets conveying the first ray, and perhaps some other rays as well. <wrap hide>1136|02:39:09|400|02:39:14|940</wrap>It's interesting when looking at such a triangle to consider the other rays that are involved with each point of the triangle. <wrap hide>1137|02:39:15|840|02:39:24|420</wrap>And seventh ray is involved with Aries, of course, and Vulcan has, I think, much of the fifth ray with it, and Pluto not only the first ray, <wrap hide>1138|02:39:24|420|02:39:32|560</wrap>but some of the sixth and some of the fifth. But those are more obscure points which don't really need elaborating at this point. <wrap hide>1139|02:39:32|760|02:39:37|720</wrap>We want to get the essential idea of what D.K. is saying. <wrap hide>1140|02:39:38|600|02:39:47|200</wrap>And what is said here is that it's only when humanity is really ready for the energy of certain planets that they are actually discovered. <wrap hide>1141|02:39:47|200|02:39:58|780</wrap>Now, he seems to act as if Vulcan has already been discovered. This is hence the late discovery of these two planets. <wrap hide>1142|02:39:59|920|02:40:05|380</wrap>Well, it would mean that they had been discovered, that Vulcan had somehow been discovered. <wrap hide>1143|02:40:06|440|02:40:13|800</wrap>Pluto, we know, has been discovered, and it was discovered before this book was written, Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>1144|02:40:13|800|02:40:19|720</wrap>It was discovered, or photographed in 1915; it was discovered in 1930, so it has been discovered. <wrap hide>1145|02:40:20|240|02:40:32|080</wrap>Now, does this mean that Vulcan has in some way been photographed just as Pluto was photographed, but not realized for 15 years after the photograph was made? <wrap hide>1146|02:40:32|960|02:40:40|900</wrap>Well, anyway, or is he predicting the future that Vulcan will be discovered rather late in the day, perhaps not too far from now? <wrap hide>1147|02:40:40|900|02:40:51|840</wrap>Because the spiritual will of man is beginning to manifest. So <wrap quote>You have, therefore, the following direct line of will energy: </wrap> <wrap hide>1148|02:40:55|860|02:41:03|760</wrap><wrap quote>1. //The Pointer// furthest from the Pole Star in the constellation of the Great Bear.</wrap> and that is associated with Aries. <wrap hide>1149|02:41:03|760|02:41:14|940</wrap>Finally, he's saying that <wrap quote>This is, esoterically speaking, [196] a great reservoir or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose.</wrap> <wrap hide>1150|02:41:15|540|02:41:26|800</wrap>It almost seems not just a six-ray star, according to one of the theoretical enumerations given, where you pretty well count, if I do it this way, <wrap hide>1151|02:41:26|800|02:41:36|540</wrap>you count across the top of the Great Bear, then come down to the six-ray star, and backwards to the seventh-ray star. <wrap hide>1152|02:41:36|600|02:41:42|300</wrap>This one way of doing it seems like, then, a great hook in some manner. <wrap hide>1153|02:41:43|600|02:41:50|420</wrap>So it's a great reservoir, or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose, so it seems like it has some first-ray implications to it, <wrap hide>1154|02:41:50|420|02:42:08|800</wrap>because it is ruled by Aries, and therefore the first-ray is suggestive, even though there are ways to attribute to it the sixth-ray and kind of the second aspect position within the Trinity of a distant pointer, closer pointer, and Polaris. <wrap hide>1155|02:42:09|740|02:42:19|080</wrap><wrap quote>The Pointer nearest to the Pole Star is expressive of a lower aspect of the will, which—in speaking of humanity—we call self-will.</wrap> <wrap hide>1156|02:42:19|080|02:42:28|060</wrap>Well, there is the Leo star, interestingly enough, and it's connected with Ahamkara and that limiting sense of self. <wrap hide>1157|02:42:28|560|02:42:40|980</wrap>Now, in a way, anything that's found within the Great Bear can be considered an expression of the will, because the Great Bear is in a sense a cosmic Manu. <wrap hide>1158|02:42:40|980|02:42:54|900</wrap>This is in the idea of Steven Pugh, who's done a lot of work on these super-constellations, these important constellations which are part of a system of relationships which is beyond that of the zodiac. <wrap hide>1159|02:42:55|640|02:43:16|780</wrap>So, it is a great center of will, and D.K. says it represents the seven head centers in the one about whom naught may be said, not the crown center, which the zodiac represents, the heart within the head of the one about whom naught may be said, a great heart center, which kind of suggests second-ray meaning, <wrap hide>1160|02:43:16|780|02:43:28|660</wrap>but in fact represents seven head centers, just as man has seven head centers within or around his head, perhaps represented by Vulcan, which is connected with the Great Bear. <wrap hide>1161|02:43:29|500|02:43:41|960</wrap>So, these seven head centers would naturally express the will aspect, the different aspects of the will we see according to the seven rays. <wrap hide>1162|02:43:41|960|02:43:55|720</wrap>So anyway, this star Dubhe, closest to the star Polaris, is a Leo star, and it expresses self-will, and we also see that Polaris is connected with Leo. <wrap hide>1163|02:43:55|860|02:44:05|380</wrap>So we have two Leo representatives there, and that's very interesting. Maybe one representing the lower self, and another a far higher self, a monadic self. <wrap hide>1164|02:44:05|380|02:44:16|420</wrap>Okay, so we have here, he's talking about certain direct lines of will energy. The pointer furthest from the pole star, that's one. <wrap hide>1165|02:44:17|440|02:44:29|000</wrap><wrap quote>2. //Aries//, in which the will to create or to manifest makes its appearance [ that's kind of a 1-7 relationship] and a great divine experiment is initiated.</wrap> <wrap hide>1166|02:44:29|000|02:44:45|720</wrap>Here it seems that the pointer is more powerful than Aries itself. Is this the constellation Aries, or is this the sign Aries as it may pertain to the sun itself or to the earth? <wrap hide>1167|02:44:45|720|02:45:04|080</wrap>I think we have two systems of signs, one of which relates to the solar orb, and the other of which relates to the various planetary spheres according to the inclination of their axis. <wrap hide>1168|02:45:04|080|02:45:27|880</wrap>So we know we have a system of signs, or as Alan Leo says, of lunes, L-U-N-E-S, surrounding like sections of an orange, the entire earth, and maybe every constellation has those 12 lunes as well, although their orientation at any point in time will be different from each other. <wrap hide>1169|02:45:27|880|02:45:49|760</wrap>So we seem to be going from the star farthest from the pointer, farthest from Polaris, the pointer farthest from Polaris, to Aries, either the constellation or sign, and then to Vulcan and Pluto, two first-ray planets, Vulcan probably being a first-ray soul since it is a sacred planet, <wrap hide>1170|02:45:49|760|02:46:02|320</wrap>and Pluto a non-sacred planet probably being a first-ray personality since D.K. usually talks of the non-sacred planets in terms of their personality ray since they are not just so focused. <wrap hide>1171|02:46:02|900|02:46:16|400</wrap>Then to Vulcan and Pluto,<wrap quote> 3. //Vulcan and Pluto// are related to the two Pointers and are only now beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response.</wrap> <wrap hide>1172|02:46:17|160|02:46:42|660</wrap>A definite and clear manner, there is the qualifier because, you know, Vulcan represents in a certain respect the resistance, the obduracy of matter, and Pluto represents many suppressed negative factors which certainly do, it seems, affect in an unconscious way many human beings who are not yet spiritual in their orientation or understanding. <wrap hide>1173|02:46:43|540|02:46:55|460</wrap><wrap quote>Their effect has been planetary in its nature up to date </wrap>well, and has affected many unconsciously as a result, <wrap quote>and has not hitherto been at all effective </wrap><wrap hide>1174|02:46:56|480|02:47:06|940</wrap>What does effective mean? I suppose to help the human being progress has been at all effective <wrap quote>in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>1175|02:47:06|940|02:47:20|400</wrap>The fourth kingdom of nature is that of the human beings, and Pluto and Vulcan not very effective with respect to the vegetable kingdom. <wrap hide>1176|02:47:21|920|02:47:27|200</wrap>Perhaps plants will become radiant and in that respect be affected by Vulcan. <wrap hide>1177|02:47:27|960|02:47:36|000</wrap>I cannot see immediately how Pluto, except for some of the more deadly plants, would be affecting the vegetable kingdom. <wrap hide>1178|02:47:36|000|02:47:41|640</wrap>But anyway, the rays are such that they do not resonate with the second or vegetable kingdom. <wrap hide>1179|02:47:42|360|02:47:58|000</wrap>Now we have the next recipient in this line, <wrap quote>4. //Shamballa//, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet.</wrap> and one might also think the custodian of the purpose for our planet. <wrap hide>1180|02:47:58|000|02:48:20|440</wrap>So let's see here. If we turn to the page where he's actually describing these things, Esoteric Astrology 193, we'll see if he's actually drawn a diagram which will help us understand this. <wrap hide>1181|02:48:20|440|02:48:31|880</wrap>Scorpio the scorpion, Aries... etc., etc. Doesn't look like we have a diagram yet. <wrap hide>1182|02:48:32|420|02:48:39|760</wrap>But we will have a diagram coming which will show this second pointer, quite elevated. <wrap hide>1183|02:48:39|760|02:48:53|560</wrap>We will have the constellation or sign Aries, we will have Vulcan and Pluto, and we will have the Earth with its point of reception for the law of assembly of energies, Shambhala. <wrap hide>1184|02:48:54|840|02:49:09|540</wrap>So, okay, this is a first ray line of force. These planets are definitely related to Shambhala. We know the Aries-Pluto-Shambhala triangle for the destructiveness of Shambhala. <wrap hide>1185|02:49:09|540|02:49:24|560</wrap>And we know that Vulcan is very connected with Shambhala at the time of the Wesak, Vulcan being the hierarchical esoteric ruler of Taurus, and the imposition of divine will. <wrap hide>1186|02:49:24|560|02:49:34|320</wrap>Vulcan, a planet of pressured imposition, is very much involved with Shambhala. It may have destructive Plutonic effects. <wrap hide>1187|02:49:34|320|02:49:55|380</wrap>It's all meant to drive us towards planetary purpose, which we can think of as indicated in part by Aries, and through this pointer which is associated with Aries, and with more of the second aspect of divinity. <wrap hide>1188|02:49:55|380|02:50:08|240</wrap>It should help bring out the planetary soul. That is what the purpose of Shambhala must be at this time, because the planetary soul, the secondary soul, is not yet expressing fully. <wrap hide>1189|02:50:08|580|02:50:19|200</wrap>But it's on its way, and as we know, the reappearance of the Christ is one of those signal events which is bringing forward the planetary soul into greater expression. <wrap hide>1190|02:50:20|480|02:50:32|500</wrap><wrap quote>//Leo// is the sign wherein the consciousness of individuality is developed,</wrap> Certainly that is in its lower sense; later, isolated unity is connected with Leo. <wrap hide>1191|02:50:33|020|02:50:48|640</wrap><wrap quote>It's developed, utilised and finally consecrated to divine purpose. </wrap>So this is the completely soul-infused personality, a higher Leo and a lower Leo being fused and consecrated to a still greater Leo of divine purpose. <wrap hide>1192|02:50:48|640|02:51:15|340</wrap><wrap quote>It is related to Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little Bear) and it is also peculiarly susceptible to the influence of that Pointer in the Great Bear which is the nearest to the Pole Star.</wrap> <wrap hide>1193|02:51:16|020|02:51:33|240</wrap>Now, you know, it's a great God, it's a great deity. The fact that it has a kind of effect in producing ahamkara and individualism in man is only an adaptation of that energy to the present stage of man's development. <wrap hide>1194|02:51:33|240|02:51:49|500</wrap>It doesn't necessarily mean that that star is in any way compromised or a lesser influence, because we adapted to our own individuality, and especially I would say at first individualism rather than individuality. <wrap hide>1195|02:51:49|500|02:52:01|780</wrap>Individuality is a very expansive thing, you know. Maybe later it does not include the sense of separateness. Only at first with individualism does it do this. <wrap hide>1196|02:52:02|220|02:52:13|360</wrap>But there is a higher individuality, which is the soul consciousness. It's a realization of a center of energy unified with many other centers of energy but having its own distinctness. <wrap hide>1197|02:52:13|360|02:52:32|680</wrap>And even on the level of the monad, with its own particular vehicle on the second plane, there is a kind of individuality at that level as well, although identification as spirit is the paramount realization in monadic awareness. <wrap hide>1198|02:52:32|680|02:52:47|020</wrap>This we have been told, none of us having that full monadic awareness yet. So nevertheless, you know, there is a distinct unit. A person is a sun on the monadic level. <wrap hide>1199|02:52:47|740|02:52:56|580</wrap>And except for the very essence of the monad, which is identical in all cases, there has been a monadic past, there is a monadic present, there is a monadic destiny. <wrap hide>1200|02:52:56|580|02:53:09|220</wrap>And every monad is upholding a kind of individual role within the manifestation of the planetary Logos, of the solar Logos, and beyond. <wrap hide>1201|02:53:09|220|02:53:30|660</wrap>So there is a kind of uniqueness through the expression of every monad, even though there is that whole question of whether a monad is subsumed into a larger type of entity, which then becomes the greater individuality of which the monad is simply a part. <wrap hide>1202|02:53:30|660|02:53:41|780</wrap>But every monad realizing then that it is essentially this larger individuality which has subsumed it. <wrap hide>1203|02:53:41|780|02:53:49|400</wrap>Okay. So Leo related to Polaris, the Great Bear, the pointer nearest to the Pole Star. <wrap hide>1204|02:53:49|640|02:53:57|460</wrap>Esoterically speaking, now, the Pole Star is regarded as a star of reorientation, not just a star of direction. <wrap hide>1205|02:53:57|460|02:54:11|940</wrap>So reorientation of facing something more powerful. Here he describes it: a star of reorientation whereby the art of re-facing and recovering that which is lost is developed. <wrap hide>1206|02:54:12|040|02:54:16|640</wrap>Well, what is lost? The lost word, the monadic nature is lost. <wrap hide>1207|02:54:16|640|02:54:38|280</wrap>We need to re-face first the soul and then re-face that brilliant sun, the monad itself, and recover that which we have lost through our descent into the long millions of years of pilgrimage on which we, the jiva, have been progressing. <wrap hide>1208|02:54:38|280|02:55:02|320</wrap>So when we see Polaris prominent, we have the possibility of turning our face, our Janus face, our two spiritual two-faced ness in a way, toward this higher aspect of ourselves and to recover that which has been lost through emanated descent. <wrap hide>1209|02:55:02|320|02:55:20|320</wrap>So <wrap quote>Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is regarded as the “star of re-orientation” whereby the art of “refacing and recovering that which is lost” is developed.</wrap> a great opportunity to set one's face towards the greater light. <wrap hide>1210|02:55:20|320|02:55:26|540</wrap>And some of these stars, D.K. tells us, you know, in the charts of disciples we have to see where they are found. <wrap hide>1211|02:55:27|140|02:55:41|620</wrap>If we have Sirius, if we have Alcyone, if we have one of the Pointers, if we have Polaris in any way prominent in our astrological chart, opportunity is thereby offered. <wrap hide>1212|02:55:41|620|02:55:55|600</wrap>Much attenuated opportunity, of course, because they represent stupendous sources, but in our own little ways something trickles down and can give us an opportunity resonant with their nature. <wrap hide>1213|02:55:56|380|02:56:07|580</wrap>Okay, so <wrap quote>This eventually brings a man back to his originating source.</wrap> and you can kind of see the Sagittarius in it, right? You know, Sagittarius outward bound and Sagittarius inward bound. <wrap hide>1214|02:56:07|580|02:56:35|740</wrap>So when I sometimes think that I can relate the three fire signs, the two Pointers and Polaris, Sagittarius, a sign of direction, and the Pole Star, a major star of direction, and then this idea of re-facing and journeying back to the Father's home or back to the Pole Star, the Pole Star representing the monad, it all fits with Sagittarius to a degree. <wrap hide>1215|02:56:35|740|02:56:56|080</wrap>So, this eventually brings man back to his originating source. Well, that's the monad, right? And Sagittarius certainly has everything to do with that trip back to one's source. <wrap hide>1216|02:56:56|080|02:57:11|300</wrap>It is idealism in the sense of smell on the sixth ray which Sagittarius conveys, which brings us back towards our originating source. We sort of smell our way home the way dogs do, and dogs are on the sixth ray. <wrap hide>1217|02:57:11|300|02:57:38|620</wrap>We smell our way home using Sagittarius to find our true emanating source, our true originating source. <wrap quote>It might, therefore, be correctly inferred that this Pointer and the energy emanating from it guides humanity upon the involutionary path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who is still upon the Mutable Cross.</wrap> <wrap hide>1218|02:57:38|620|02:58:01|580</wrap>Now, he's talking about the Pointer, capitalize it, Pointer which is closest to the Pole Star. That's ruled by Leo and it's guiding man when he is still in the ahamkaric phase of isolated identity. <wrap hide>1219|02:58:02|980|02:58:23|160</wrap>He thinks he is simply an isolated unit, and that is under Leo, yes. <wrap quote>Then the energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the Path,</wrap> <wrap hide>1220|02:58:23|160|02:58:44|600</wrap>So, he is now reorienting, he is now making his way back towards his originating source, and he is undergoing initiation in order to do this, entering through Aries into one field after another, which takes him closer to his originating source. <wrap hide>1221|02:58:44|600|02:58:54|100</wrap>"The energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt, and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the path." <wrap hide>1222|02:58:54|720|02:59:14|580</wrap><wrap quote>and such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the Hierarchy.</wrap> It's a bit like the rising sign in that sense. We hear about the driving energies of the rising sign, and we think about the sign Aries and its driving nature and how it embodies the Father aspect, the first ray aspect. <wrap hide>1223|02:59:14|580|02:59:20|100</wrap>The progress onward is a driving force, home. <wrap hide>1224|02:59:22|120|02:59:26|200</wrap>Alright, leads a man nearer to the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1225|02:59:26|700|02:59:36|420</wrap>You see the signs are being presented here in various guises. They don't mean just one thing, and they don't refer to just one source. <wrap hide>1226|02:59:36|420|02:59:41|900</wrap>They can refer to many sources and mean different things when referred to those sources. <wrap hide>1227|02:59:42|560|02:59:50|600</wrap>Because in a way, when you look at the three fire signs, it's Aries that represents the monad, Leo the soul, and Sagittarius the body. <wrap hide>1228|02:59:51|200|02:59:59|140</wrap>And we cannot associate, in the way D.K. is associating the signs here, we cannot use that particular format. <wrap hide>1229|03:00:00|940|03:00:14|780</wrap>Excuse me. "It is here that the divine necessity, the divine necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed for us in the symbol of the sky." <wrap hide>1230|03:00:14|880|03:00:22|160</wrap>In other words, the two Pointers are aligned with Polaris, and that gives us the sense of how to return home. <wrap hide>1231|03:00:22|160|03:00:28|760</wrap>It's kind of interesting though, isn't it, that the star representing the personality is closest to the star representing the monad. <wrap hide>1232|03:00:29|240|03:00:36|020</wrap>And the star representing the soul is, in a way, of these three, the outermost or most distant from the monad. <wrap hide>1233|03:00:36|580|03:00:39|360</wrap>There must be some symbolism in that which escapes me at the moment. <wrap hide>1234|03:00:39|980|03:00:45|580</wrap><wrap quote>It is here that the divine [197] necessity of achieving //alignment// is portrayed for us in the symbolism of the sky <wrap hide>1235|03:00:46|300|03:00:58|420</wrap>and when it has been achieved then there is a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a new and creative manner to sources of divine supply.</wrap> <wrap hide>1236|03:00:59|400|03:01:10|720</wrap>So that's what we need to do. All of us achieve alignment so that the sources of divine supply from higher dimensions can be accessed by us. <wrap hide>1237|03:01:10|720|03:01:20|920</wrap>And that will bring about our release. Once alignment is perfect, the imprisonment of the consciousness can no longer be sustained, <wrap hide>1238|03:01:21|220|03:01:29|050</wrap>and the man escapes under the influence of these higher energies into more rarefied realms. <wrap hide>1239|03:01:29|720|03:01:36|220</wrap>A consciousness rises, the quality of matter is elevated, and the prisoner can go free. <wrap hide>1240|03:01:37|500|03:01:43|340</wrap>OK. Well, we have gone over the three hours. So let's see if we do any more. <wrap hide>1241|03:01:45|240|03:01:51|240</wrap><wrap quote>Astrologers will do well (in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and particularly of initiates)</wrap> <wrap hide>1242|03:01:51|400|03:01:56|220</wrap>because that's when I think the so-called fixed stars are really expressive. <wrap hide>1243|03:01:57|720|03:02:06|120</wrap>The solar dimension begins as man becomes a solar being at the third initiation, identified as a soul on the higher mental plane, <wrap hide>1244|03:02:06|640|03:02:12|240</wrap>identified as a sun on the higher mental plane, and all of these stars are really suns. <wrap hide>1245|03:02:12|300|03:02:19|680</wrap>So it's particularly in connection with initiates that we have to use these stars. <wrap hide>1246|03:02:19|680|03:02:27|040</wrap>He says, <wrap quote>to consider the two Pointers and the Pole Star. </wrap> particularly in the lives of initiates, <wrap hide>1247|03:02:27|640|03:02:33|180</wrap>and I don't know why he would want to leave out Sirius and Alcyone either." <wrap hide>1248|03:02:34|160|03:02:41|800</wrap>But these two pointers and the pole star, where are they located? Do they touch angles of the chart? <wrap hide>1249|03:02:42|000|03:02:45|640</wrap>Are there any planetary conjunctions? Are there aspects? <wrap hide>1250|03:02:45|640|03:02:50|200</wrap>These are things that we might want to look at. <wrap hide>1251|03:02:50|720|03:03:00|620</wrap><wrap quote>They are mysteriously connected with the three aspects of incarnated man—Spirit, soul and body.</wrap> or spirit, soul, and personality. <wrap hide>1252|03:03:00|780|03:03:05|200</wrap>We might call personality as a whole body. That's another way of looking at body. <wrap hide>1253|03:03:05|860|03:03:12|060</wrap><wrap quote> More than this it is not permitted to me to convey to you. I may, however, give you another hint.</wrap> <wrap hide>1254|03:03:12|960|03:03:15|360</wrap>Okay. Are we alert? <wrap hide>1255|03:03:16|880|03:03:21|060</wrap><wrap quote>These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will.</wrap> <wrap hide>1256|03:03:21|300|03:03:24|900</wrap>Yes, they're all on the first aspect of divinity. All of that. <wrap hide>1257|03:03:25|760|03:03:33|880</wrap>Way up high, you know, in our local cosmic sphere, in the position where the head is, the head representing the will, <wrap hide>1258|03:03:33|880|03:03:38|460</wrap>they are three aspects of the divine will in the entirety. <wrap hide>1259|03:03:38|960|03:03:46|800</wrap>Great Bear is, in a way, a Logos, a constellation of Logos, which represents the first aspect, and hence the divine will. <wrap hide>1260|03:03:47|340|03:03:56|220</wrap><wrap quote>It is the //three aspects of all expressions of divinity in manifestation which underlie the Science of Triangles//.</wrap> <wrap hide>1261|03:03:56|220|03:04:06|780</wrap>So every time we have a triangle, we have to look at which one of the points of the triangle represents what phase of divinity. <wrap hide>1262|03:04:07|360|03:04:09|660</wrap><wrap quote>This I will later elaborate.</wrap> <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will. <wrap hide>1264|03:04:14|300|03:04:22|380</wrap>And the way we've been looking at it is that Polaris represents, perhaps, the will to be the first aspect of divine will, <wrap hide>1265|03:04:22|380|03:04:33|040</wrap>and the Merak represents the will to synthesis, perhaps, or the will to unify the second aspect of divine will, <wrap hide>1266|03:04:34|060|03:04:43|600</wrap>and Dubhe, which is the point of closest, representing the third aspect, the will to express, the will to create, perhaps. <wrap hide>1267|03:04:44|400|03:04:49|080</wrap>Much creativity is found in relation to both Aries and Leo, both, really. <wrap hide>1268|03:04:49|080|03:04:57|360</wrap>We certainly know that many people with Leo prominent in their chart turn to the creative and expressive life, <wrap hide>1269|03:04:57|540|03:05:00|520</wrap>usually, at this stage, in the personal sense. <wrap hide>1270|03:05:01|880|03:05:04|920</wrap>Okay, friends, where are we so far? <wrap hide>1271|03:05:05|840|03:05:12|660</wrap>We're on page, let's see, we're on Esoteric Astrology adventure 75, <wrap hide>1272|03:05:13|760|03:05:27|420</wrap>kind of ending with section C, section C, and we're on page 197. <wrap hide>1273|03:05:29|040|03:05:41|860</wrap>So we really began the whole thing, 197, and E.A. 75, thus far, from 192 to 197. <wrap hide>1274|03:05:41|860|03:05:47|080</wrap>So we'll just take a little break here, and I'll see whether we will go on or not. <wrap hide>1275|03:05:56|580|03:06:09|100</wrap>And we move on here, and essentially we're in the D section, the fourth section of Esoteric Astrology adventure, number 75. <wrap hide>1276|03:06:09|100|03:06:14|960</wrap>It says, "Another triangle of energies also appears. <wrap hide>1277|03:06:16|560|03:06:23|840</wrap>Aries, Leo, and Polaris," and Polaris being ruled by Leo and connected with a little bear, <wrap hide>1278|03:06:24|620|03:06:32|340</wrap>which is the son of the great bear, which is the father, so hence the Leo aspect, as Leo rules the sun. <wrap hide>1279|03:06:33|900|03:06:37|360</wrap><wrap quote>Another triangle of energy also appears: <wrap hide>1280|03:06:37|360|03:06:43|540</wrap>Aries, Leo and Polaris, and they are doubly connected through the medium of the Pointers.</wrap> <wrap hide>1281|03:06:44|780|03:06:52|580</wrap>Now let's see, let's see if there is here anything that we might be... <wrap hide>1282|03:06:54|100|03:06:58|280</wrap>No, it doesn't show, so there is no diagram yet. <wrap hide>1283|03:07:00|380|03:07:03|920</wrap>So they are doubly connected through the medium of the pointers. <wrap hide>1284|03:07:03|920|03:07:18|980</wrap>Aries, Leo, Polaris, and Aries shows us a connection with the pointer furthest from Polaris, <wrap hide>1285|03:07:19|360|03:07:24|560</wrap>and Leo shows us a connection with the pointer closest to Polaris. <wrap hide>1286|03:07:24|560|03:07:35|680</wrap>Okay, so all we have here, a double Leo connection, yes. <wrap hide>1287|03:07:36|580|03:07:44|900</wrap>And if we had Polaris connected as a star, a major star of direction, with Sagittarius, we would have all three represented. <wrap hide>1288|03:07:45|960|03:07:48|160</wrap>Now we begin to speak about Scorpio. <wrap hide>1289|03:07:49|760|03:07:55|760</wrap><wrap quote>//Scorpio// is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius.</wrap> <wrap hide>1290|03:07:56|600|03:07:58|600</wrap>Now either the sign or the constellation. <wrap hide>1291|03:08:00|100|03:08:07|220</wrap>Scorpio as a constellation is so immense and contains within itself this huge supergiant Antares, <wrap hide>1292|03:08:08|160|03:08:12|960</wrap>which is certainly a more powerful star than Sirius is, <wrap hide>1293|03:08:12|960|03:08:26|500</wrap>that, you know, you begin to wonder how Sirius could be considered the superior source to the constellation of Scorpio. <wrap hide>1294|03:08:27|000|03:08:29|360</wrap>But anyway, it could be the sign Scorpio. <wrap hide>1295|03:08:30|200|03:08:32|880</wrap><wrap quote>This is the great star of initiation <wrap hide>1296|03:08:33|220|03:08:39|520</wrap>[This is Sirius] because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) <wrap hide>1297|03:08:39|520|03:08:45|840</wrap>is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius.</wrap> <wrap hide>1298|03:08:46|100|03:08:58|100</wrap>Now, in some respects, Sirius has been called the Cosmic Christ, or it's in one scope of understanding, it is the Cosmic Christ. <wrap hide>1299|03:08:59|780|03:09:07|600</wrap>So we have here the possibility of Sirius being a great, ultimately second-ray center, <wrap hide>1300|03:09:07|600|03:09:10|460</wrap>probably in its highest monadic aspect. <wrap hide>1301|03:09:11|300|03:09:15|140</wrap>It belongs to the second-ray and perhaps in its personality nature as well. <wrap hide>1302|03:09:16|960|03:09:20|080</wrap>It's hard to say it could belong to the second-ray. <wrap hide>1303|03:09:20|720|03:09:28|460</wrap>It has much of the sixth-ray in it because of the loyalty inherent in its symbology, <wrap hide>1304|03:09:28|520|03:09:30|560</wrap>just as Venus has much of the sixth-ray. <wrap hide>1305|03:09:30|560|03:09:37|840</wrap>As a matter of fact, in many ways, Venus seems to be a tiny replica of Sirius. <wrap hide>1306|03:09:39|480|03:09:45|500</wrap>There are certain of our planets which are most related to certain of our neighboring stars. <wrap hide>1307|03:09:46|140|03:09:48|940</wrap>Jupiter most related, I think, to our own sun. <wrap hide>1308|03:09:49|600|03:09:54|280</wrap>But Venus most related to Sirius, I would say. <wrap hide>1309|03:09:56|100|03:10:06|520</wrap><wrap quote>These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, <wrap hide>1310|03:10:07|220|03:10:17|240</wrap>in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. <wrap hide>1311|03:10:18|080|03:10:22|180</wrap>It is esoterically called the “brilliant star of sensitivity.” </wrap><wrap hide>1312|03:10:22|180|03:10:36|520</wrap>So we have Sirius representing an expression of the Cosmic Christ and working through the sign Scorpio, <wrap hide>1313|03:10:37|100|03:10:48|100</wrap>working through our solar system, through our planet, working through man in his fourth creative hierarchy, <wrap hide>1314|03:10:48|100|03:10:57|280</wrap>and thus through, again, Scorpio and Mercury, and also working in the lower forms of life expression. <wrap hide>1315|03:10:58|140|03:11:01|000</wrap>So this is a great, in a way, second-ray source. <wrap hide>1316|03:11:01|340|03:11:11|240</wrap>Now, it cannot be denied that like Venus, there is a tremendous fifth-ray associated with Sirius <wrap hide>1317|03:11:11|240|03:11:19|340</wrap>because it is the source of manas to our solar God, our solar Logos, <wrap hide>1318|03:11:19|740|03:11:25|120</wrap>just the way we can say that Venus is a source of manas to our Earth. <wrap hide>1319|03:11:26|000|03:11:29|940</wrap>So Venus carries much more of the fifth-ray than our Earth does, <wrap hide>1320|03:11:29|980|03:11:36|820</wrap>and I think Sirius carries much more of the fifth-ray than our solar Logos does. <wrap hide>1321|03:11:36|820|03:11:44|000</wrap>But we have an important line here, and within that line Scorpio plays its part. <wrap hide>1322|03:11:44|740|03:11:52|780</wrap>We can also, there's also a chart in esoteric astrology that shows Pisces playing an important part <wrap hide>1323|03:11:52|780|03:12:05|400</wrap>in the conduction of the second-ray from Sirius and working into the planet Uranus and through the hierarchy and so forth. <wrap hide>1324|03:12:05|400|03:12:15|380</wrap>There are so many different lines of energy being conducted, and they each stand on their own. <wrap hide>1325|03:12:16|020|03:12:27|180</wrap>A particular source or center of life or radiation can play very different roles in different lines of energy. <wrap hide>1326|03:12:27|760|03:12:31|440</wrap>I mean, you know, here is Uranus, the home of electric fire. <wrap hide>1327|03:12:31|440|03:12:44|740</wrap>And yet Uranus is found in this second-ray line of energy which involves Sirius, the sign Pisces, Uranus, <wrap hide>1328|03:12:45|160|03:12:52|360</wrap>the hierarchy, the heart center, the solar plexus, and so forth, even though Uranus has such a tremendous first-ray origin. <wrap hide>1329|03:12:52|500|03:12:57|920</wrap>But in different lines of energy, the same kind of source can play different roles. <wrap hide>1330|03:12:57|920|03:13:08|840</wrap>Now, why it is so, I think the full explanation of that lies in the future, as do so many necessary elucidations. <wrap hide>1331|03:13:09|620|03:13:18|000</wrap><wrap quote>Polaris—The Star of Direction—governing Shamballa.</wrap> so hence the first-ray nature of it. <wrap hide>1332|03:13:18|080|03:13:26|440</wrap>Everything from the Great Bear is on the first-ray, but the three pointers give us three different aspects of the will we have been told. <wrap hide>1333|03:13:27|240|03:13:38|660</wrap><wrap quote>Later, another Pole Star will take the place of Polaris, owing to the interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and movement.</wrap> <wrap hide>1334|03:13:38|660|03:13:56|460</wrap>Well, we're talking minimally about the wobble of the Earth's axis, top-like, which completes one gyration every, what is it, 25,920 years, something of that nature? <wrap hide>1335|03:13:56|980|03:14:03|960</wrap>Almost 26,000 years, but conventionalized as a 25,000-year gyration. <wrap hide>1336|03:14:04|860|03:14:10|080</wrap><wrap quote>But the name and quality of this star will only be revealed at initiation.[198]</wrap> <wrap hide>1337|03:14:10|380|03:14:28|040</wrap>Well, the scientists seem to think they know what stars are involved with the orientation of our axis at different times along this gyration, this cone, cone that it sweeps out. <wrap hide>1338|03:14:28|040|03:14:38|780</wrap>But perhaps, perhaps D.K. has something more obscure in mind, something less visible to the sight. <wrap hide>1339|03:14:38|780|03:14:48|180</wrap>There seem to be many gaps in the circle that is swept out by this gyration of the axis. <wrap hide>1340|03:14:48|380|03:15:00|360</wrap>It seems that there are times when no particular obvious star is that star towards which the axis of the Earth is oriented. <wrap hide>1341|03:15:00|360|03:15:04|880</wrap>And yet, we would think that there must always be a pole star. <wrap hide>1342|03:15:05|100|03:15:15|640</wrap>So perhaps farther in space, and not close to our solar system at all, is a star towards which the axis of the Earth can be oriented. <wrap hide>1343|03:15:15|840|03:15:27|360</wrap>Because it does seem to say that only at initiation, and one would presume rather high initiation, is the name of the star revealed. <wrap hide>1344|03:15:27|360|03:15:33|760</wrap>And then there are many movements going on. The stars themselves are moving all the time. <wrap hide>1345|03:15:35|240|03:15:47|180</wrap>And we sometimes look at this as the radial motion of stars, but we're not at all sure how they are all moving relative to each other and what the name of this pole star will be. <wrap hide>1346|03:15:47|180|03:16:08|700</wrap>But whatever it may be, we will say that whatever its quality is will come through the point of influx of the Earth atom, and will have a tremendous influential effect even as Polaris has had such an effect. <wrap hide>1347|03:16:09|440|03:16:18|940</wrap>Alright, we're on page 198, continuing with the Scorpio chapter, so now he summarizes for us. <wrap hide>1348|03:16:19|980|03:16:28|840</wrap><wrap quote>Sirius—The Star of Sensitivity— [The brilliant star of sensitivity, we are told,] governing the Hierarchy.</wrap> <wrap hide>1349|03:16:28|840|03:16:39|940</wrap>And so Scorpio will naturally have a very strong connection with the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, and hence with the second ray. <wrap hide>1350|03:16:39|940|03:17:08|980</wrap>We'll say Scorpio will be connected with the second ray. It already distributes fourth ray force, and perhaps first ray, as it is one of the cosmic decanates, and it is associated with the first ray hero Hercules. <wrap hide>1351|03:17:08|980|03:17:16|500</wrap>And so the implication is clear that it has something of the first ray connected with it. <wrap hide>1352|03:17:17|000|03:17:28|760</wrap><wrap quote>Alcyone—The Star of the Individual— governing humanity.</wrap> It's more connected with the third aspect, just the way the Pleiades have much of the third ray connected with them, <wrap hide>1353|03:17:28|760|03:17:43|440</wrap>but not to forget the fact that they are the hub of the wheel, so to speak, of our local cosmic system, and that they carry as well a strong influence of cosmic Buddhi, and thus the second ray. <wrap hide>1354|03:17:43|700|03:17:51|240</wrap>When we look at a particular source, we cannot say that it carries only one ray. We look at the Earth and we find that it carries all seven. <wrap hide>1355|03:17:52|600|03:17:59|620</wrap>It is active in the expression of all seven rays, even though by one or two or three of these rays it is best known. <wrap hide>1356|03:18:01|140|03:18:07|760</wrap>Thus it is for the constellations and for great stars. We cannot say only one ray is involved. <wrap hide>1357|03:18:07|760|03:18:24|420</wrap>So Alcyone is the star of the individual, hence in a way connected with Dubhe or the pointer closest to the Sun, closest to Polaris, ruled by Leo. <wrap hide>1358|03:18:25|680|03:18:35|880</wrap>And remember, Alcyone is connected with Aquarius, so naturally there would be a connection between Alcyone and that pointer representing the opposites, one Aquarius and the other Leo. <wrap hide>1359|03:18:37|940|03:18:53|680</wrap>Okay, interesting then that Alcyone, there must be some kind of connection here between Alcyone, Aquarius and Leo, and maybe the first pointer, the pointer closest to Polaris is involved as well. <wrap hide>1360|03:18:53|680|03:19:02|600</wrap>There is something here about the transition from individual Ahamkaric consciousness into a greater group consciousness. <wrap hide>1361|03:19:02|820|03:19:13|800</wrap>But the individual, the encapsulated individual, the individual who thinks he is a separate unit and is still bewildered by that separateness, <wrap hide>1362|03:19:13|800|03:19:25|020</wrap>is definitely connected with a third aspect, which defines under Saturn our particular boundaries and does not emphasize connectedness. <wrap hide>1363|03:19:25|640|03:19:36|050</wrap>So Alcyone is involved with humanity, the Pleiades are involved with humanity, the Pleiades are involved in giving manas to the seven sacred planets, <wrap hide>1364|03:19:36|050|03:19:45|250</wrap>which are of the nature of the third aspect when they are compared with the Sun, which is more in the nature of the second aspect. <wrap hide>1365|03:19:46|810|03:19:54|150</wrap><wrap quote>You can see from the above how the entire plan of this Treatise is gradually unfolding.</wrap> <wrap hide>1366|03:19:55|150|03:19:57|110</wrap>Well, I hope we can see that. <wrap hide>1367|03:19:57|110|03:20:09|350</wrap><wrap quote>It was necessary for me to indicate to you the nature and the purpose of the three divine centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity—</wrap> the first, second and third aspects, <wrap hide>1368|03:20:09|710|03:20:20|530</wrap>the center of purpose and will, the center of love and wisdom, center of manas and intelligence, <wrap quote>before I could make this part of the teaching clear to you, <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>or before I could point out the nature of the energies pouring from distant constellations and zodiacal signs into our planetary scheme.</wrap> <wrap hide>1370|03:20:32|370|03:20:39|710</wrap>We always have to keep the contrast between constellations and signs in our mind. <wrap hide>1371|03:20:39|710|03:20:56|970</wrap>The constellations are, as it were, galaxies of stars, and the signs are more local, concentrated influences of the energies of those, as D.K. says, galaxies of stars. <wrap hide>1372|03:20:58|970|03:21:07|770</wrap>Really, just to the A.B.C. That's all that's being offered to us at this point, but at least we are being oriented in the correct direction. <wrap hide>1373|03:21:07|770|03:21:19|190</wrap>Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point, both in the life of humanity and in the life of the individual human being. <wrap hide>1374|03:21:19|310|03:21:22|930</wrap>Well, that's kind of a reversal of the wheel, isn't it? <wrap hide>1375|03:21:23|230|03:21:32|590</wrap>We're told how much the planet Uranus is involved in this idea of reversing the wheel. <wrap hide>1376|03:21:32|590|03:21:48|030</wrap>And also when we think about Polaris, this art of refacing and regathering or reacquiring that which has been lost, we have a kind of a Uranian process going on there as well. <wrap hide>1377|03:21:48|770|03:22:00|150</wrap>And we do know that Uranus is the highest ruler of Leo, which allows the individual, when he conceives of himself, to conceive of himself as Spirit or Monad. <wrap hide>1378|03:22:00|150|03:22:11|850</wrap>So <wrap quote>Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being.</wrap> <wrap hide>1379|03:22:12|470|03:22:16|850</wrap>That turning point we can call the initial reversal of the wheel. <wrap hide>1380|03:22:17|570|03:22:29|430</wrap>And when I'm thinking about the petals of the egoic lotus, now, you know, if we go backwards, <wrap hide>1381|03:22:29|430|03:22:32|730</wrap>we go forwards and we start with the outermost knowledge petal. <wrap hide>1382|03:22:33|330|03:22:37|910</wrap>By the time we get to the central petal, we're in what we call a Leo petal. <wrap hide>1383|03:22:38|690|03:22:45|870</wrap>But if we go backwards, and let's see, do we have to begin with the sign Pisces or would it be Aries? <wrap hide>1384|03:22:46|210|03:22:52|510</wrap>So it would be Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio. <wrap hide>1385|03:22:52|510|03:22:59|850</wrap>Yeah, we'd have to begin numbering with Pisces and moving backwards or clockwise for the zodiac. <wrap hide>1386|03:23:00|550|03:23:16|910</wrap>We would come to Scorpio as ruling the love petal of the egoic lotus where I would say the first reversal of the wheel in the life of the human being occurs. <wrap hide>1387|03:23:17|610|03:23:24|470</wrap>And maybe, who knows, in the egoic lotus of humanity as a whole, maybe there's also a similar reversal of the wheel. <wrap hide>1388|03:23:26|150|03:23:31|530</wrap>The turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being. <wrap hide>1389|03:23:31|650|03:23:36|150</wrap>First time in history, that's now, these years. <wrap hide>1390|03:23:37|310|03:23:42|950</wrap><wrap quote>For the first time in the history of both mankind and disciples <wrap hide>1391|03:23:43|770|03:23:51|010</wrap> the energy of Sirius, pouring into the seven groups which form our planetary Hierarchy evokes a response.</wrap> <wrap hide>1392|03:23:51|690|03:23:59|810</wrap>So, Sirius is like a seven-fold prismatic light, a kind of white light that has been divided into seven parts, <wrap hide>1393|03:23:59|810|03:24:04|990</wrap>and Sirius animates each of the seven ashrams. <wrap hide>1394|03:24:04|990|03:24:16|010</wrap>So, let's put that down. Let's say the energy from Sirius animates each of the seven ashrams. <wrap hide>1395|03:24:17|830|03:24:30|190</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>I would remind you of a basic fact in the evolutionary process which astrology will eventually prove scientifically and past all controversy.</wrap> <wrap hide>1396|03:24:30|290|03:24:34|410</wrap>How many centuries might it take? We do not know, but it is coming. <wrap hide>1397|03:24:34|410|03:24:45|230</wrap><wrap quote>This is the fact that energies and forces are pouring upon our system and our planetary lives ceaselessly, [all the time,] <wrap hide>1398|03:24:45|370|03:24:56|090</wrap>potently and cyclically.</wrap> all the time, and with real power that may or may not be noticed, and periodically. <wrap hide>1399|03:24:56|090|03:25:07|930</wrap>So that not all energies are pouring forth at the same time, but they all follow their own cycle, their own rhythm in time. <wrap hide>1400|03:25:09|430|03:25:16|610</wrap><wrap quote>Yet they are only regarded today as existing when definite response is evoked.</wrap> <wrap hide>1401|03:25:16|710|03:25:23|770</wrap>In other words, if there is no response, if there is too much insensitivity to that particular kind of energy, <wrap hide>1402|03:25:23|770|03:25:35|510</wrap>it's as if the source itself does not exist. <wrap quote>They come from all kinds of sources, extraneous to our system and planetary schemes, <wrap hide>1403|03:25:36|250|03:25:47|370</wrap>but until man responds and registers them both scientists and astrologers fail to recognise them and they are as if they were not.</wrap> <wrap hide>1404|03:25:48|470|03:25:57|050</wrap>Okay, so, you know, there's so much that's beating upon us all the time about which we have taken no recognition. <wrap hide>1405|03:25:58|010|03:26:02|050</wrap>Because without the response, how do we know that they are there, except that we may be told? <wrap hide>1406|03:26:03|130|03:26:06|750</wrap><wrap quote>This is a point to bear in mind as I continue to teach you, <wrap hide>1407|03:26:06|750|03:26:19|210</wrap>for I may indicate some sources of active energy which may as yet be unknown to you as playing upon our system and its contents.</wrap> <wrap hide>1408|03:26:19|410|03:26:21|610</wrap>Well, I'm sure that is the case. <wrap hide>1409|03:26:22|210|03:26:32|590</wrap>When we first started reading esoteric astrology, however many years ago, considering the Great Bear and the Pleiades and Sirius and so forth, <wrap hide>1410|03:26:32|590|03:26:38|750</wrap>all as sources of energy may not have been within our minds at all. <wrap hide>1411|03:26:39|250|03:26:45|190</wrap>Although we have considered, I'm sure, the zodiac as sources of energy - the zodiac of constellations. <wrap hide>1412|03:26:46|010|03:26:55|370</wrap><wrap quote>The difficulty will not be because of my inaccuracies but will be owing to the lack of sensitivity</wrap> which initiation does produce, doesn't it? <wrap hide>1413|03:26:55|370|03:27:03|690</wrap>Sirius produces sensitivity. Sirius, the brilliant star of initiation, produces sensitivity - the brilliant star of sensitivity. <wrap hide>1414|03:27:04|450|03:27:15|890</wrap>Sirius produces this sensitivity through the initiatory process. <wrap hide>1415|03:27:16|630|03:27:25|290</wrap>Okay. But it will be owing to the lack of sensitivity <wrap quote>in the mechanism of response which mankind and disciples are at present utilising.[199]</wrap> <wrap hide>1416|03:27:25|590|03:27:33|890</wrap>So, D.K. is saying, just because you don't feel it, because you cannot detect it, does not mean that it does not exist. <wrap hide>1417|03:27:34|610|03:27:45|150</wrap>So, we have to be very cautious about this, very reserved, and take in what he says, even though we may not have experienced the impacts of these various sources. <wrap hide>1418|03:27:46|690|03:27:55|030</wrap><wrap quote>You have consequently in connection with the path of discipleship </wrap>- now he already told us something about the path of initiation in relation to Shambhala - <wrap hide>1419|03:27:55|590|03:28:03|050</wrap><wrap quote>you have the following lines of “influential energy”</wrap> So, now he's dealing, I think, pretty much with the second ray line. <wrap hide>1420|03:28:03|050|03:28:14|750</wrap><wrap quote>1. Sirius—working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays </wrap>Now, I think we can connect the entire science of the seven rays with the Sirian energy. <wrap hide>1421|03:28:15|830|03:28:25|670</wrap>Connect the science of the seven rays with Sirius. And we already know they can be connected with the Great Bear. <wrap hide>1422|03:28:25|670|03:28:40|090</wrap>So, I do think we have different expressions of the seven rays coming through the three major super-constellations, which we can call Great Bear, Sirius, and Pleiades. <wrap hide>1423|03:28:40|310|03:28:45|050</wrap>And in a higher octave spiral, I would call it Great Bear, Little Bear, and Pleiades. <wrap hide>1424|03:28:45|670|03:28:52|010</wrap>Sirius is working in a sevenfold manner. So, let us remember the sevens and the second ray when we think of Sirius. <wrap hide>1425|03:28:52|010|03:29:03|190</wrap>Because the science of the seven rays is particularly connected with the second ray - a mode of approaching truth. <wrap hide>1426|03:29:03|910|03:29:07|490</wrap>The science of esoteric astrology, more with the third ray. <wrap hide>1427|03:29:08|510|03:29:17|990</wrap>So, we have Sirius working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays, <wrap quote>and their seven groups as these constitute the active Hierarchy.</wrap> <wrap hide>1428|03:29:17|990|03:29:36|070</wrap>So, let us remember, and I'll say here, let us remember the relation of Sirius to the seven rays as a whole, and to the second ray in general. <wrap hide>1429|03:29:36|830|03:29:50|330</wrap>Sirius, the Cosmic Christ, or at least one of the Cosmic Christs, probably with a very strong second ray in relation to it, will be involved with the sevenness. <wrap hide>1430|03:29:50|970|03:29:59|050</wrap>As a matter of fact, I think about this relationship: Sirius, Leo, Jupiter. <wrap hide>1431|03:29:59|050|03:30:10|710</wrap>And we have here definitely a second ray connection. All of these sources are considered sources of consciousness, sentience, and of the second ray. <wrap hide>1432|03:30:11|170|03:30:22|370</wrap>And we have the interesting sevenness connected with Sirius, and the sevenness connected with Jupiter, which is a planet conveying the second ray and the seventh ray. <wrap hide>1433|03:30:22|570|03:30:26|550</wrap>At least those two are found expressing through it, and there may be more. <wrap hide>1434|03:30:27|190|03:30:39|990</wrap>Okay, so we have Sirius, and then we have <wrap quote>2. The Fixed Cross—a fusion of four major energies, pouring into our solar system, on to our planet and through humanity.</wrap> <wrap hide>1435|03:30:39|990|03:31:02|370</wrap>So when we are dealing with the struggles of the fixed cross, let's say, struggles of the fixed cross of the soul, we are dealing with Sirian energy behind it all. <wrap hide>1436|03:31:04|110|03:31:11|290</wrap>Now of course, you know, it's just one little star, and four great constellations. <wrap hide>1437|03:31:11|770|03:31:23|810</wrap>Constellations: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius - some of those constellations having stars immensely more powerful than Sirius. <wrap hide>1438|03:31:23|810|03:31:38|870</wrap>So there's a bit of a reversal here, a bit of a blind. I think we're dealing basically with the signs of the fixed cross rather than the constellations themselves being receptive to the energies of Sirius. <wrap hide>1439|03:31:39|570|03:31:43|170</wrap>Otherwise, we have the tail wagging the dog. <wrap hide>1440|03:31:43|870|03:31:51|910</wrap>Sirius is a dwarf star, unless something more is meant by Sirius - for instance, a Sirian system of stars perhaps. <wrap hide>1441|03:31:51|910|03:31:57|510</wrap>But anyway, Sirius is operative as soul is emerging. <wrap hide>1442|03:31:58|830|03:32:12|610</wrap>So, as soul or consciousness is emerging, behind this emergence is the energy of Sirius as mediated through the fixed cross. <wrap hide>1443|03:32:13|610|03:32:17|250</wrap>Okay. Through the fixed cross. <wrap hide>1444|03:32:19|670|03:32:22|830</wrap>Oops. There we go. Okay. <wrap hide>1445|03:32:24|470|03:32:39|670</wrap>And then we have <wrap quote>3. Scorpio— [in particular], an aspect of the Fixed Cross,</wrap> of peculiar and specialized potency - specialized to draw forth discipleship on the path of discipleship, <wrap hide>1446|03:32:39|670|03:32:48|850</wrap><wrap quote>of peculiar and specialised potency upon the Path of Discipleship and preparing,</wrap> through its tests and trials <wrap quote>with its tests and trials.</wrap> the following things. <wrap hide>1447|03:32:49|630|03:33:03|570</wrap>So what do we have so far? We have Sirius, we have the fixed cross, and then especially Scorpio, which in a way is most emblematic of the struggles experienced upon the fixed cross. <wrap hide>1448|03:33:03|570|03:33:10|710</wrap>So, it is preparing with its tests and trials the following day. <wrap hide>1449|03:33:11|670|03:33:24|510</wrap><wrap quote>a. The process of re-orientation, whereby a man mounts the Fixed Cross and leaves the Mutable Cross.</wrap> and this can occur, can occur, the first initiation, <wrap hide>1450|03:33:24|510|03:33:53|450</wrap>where the mounting of the fixed cross occurs, and Scorpio is involved in the first initiation, just as it is involved in the two subsequent initiations, the second and the third. <wrap hide>1451|03:33:53|450|03:34:03|660</wrap>So there's a process of reorientation. There are a number of reorientations. There's a reorientation that occurs earlier in the process of the fifth petal when a man becomes an aspirant. <wrap hide>1452|03:34:04|490|03:34:14|450</wrap>Then there's that reorientation where he leaves the mutable cross and joins the fixed cross and becomes the true disciple involved in soul culture. <wrap hide>1453|03:34:14|450|03:34:31|470</wrap>And then there's another confirmation of orientation which occurs between the second and third initiations after the temptations in the desert, and the temptations are particularly connected with Scorpio. <wrap hide>1454|03:34:32|430|03:34:51|030</wrap>So there are three places there where I find Scorpio to be active, and of course it's active in other places too, such as at the second and at the third initiations, and maybe in a way that is quite different at the fourth initiation, which brings about the death of the causal body. <wrap hide>1455|03:34:51|030|03:35:00|950</wrap>It says its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt after the third initiation, but what other kind of potency may be felt? <wrap hide>1456|03:35:01|790|03:35:12|530</wrap>Okay, so we're dealing here with the tests and trials of Scorpio, and it produces a reorientation, and then <wrap quote>b. The disciple for the first, second and third initiations. <wrap hide>1457|03:35:12|530|03:35:31|450</wrap>After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt.</wrap> but is some other aspect of Scorpio felt? Some power of resurrection, perhaps? <wrap hide>1458|03:35:32|370|03:35:54|490</wrap>Because I think we cannot say that Scorpio is not involved in the fourth initiation after all. The fourth initiation is ruled by the fourth ray, which is the major ray to come through Scorpio, it being the sign through which more intensity of fourth ray comes now than any other sign. <wrap hide>1459|03:35:54|490|03:36:08|590</wrap>And then its esoteric, rather hierarchical, ruler, Mercury, conveying also the fourth ray, and Mercury and Saturn together being involved at the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>1460|03:36:08|590|03:36:27|930</wrap>So there are so many hints about why Scorpio could also be involved at the fourth initiation, but in a different way is no longer testing out our relationship to each of the three lower vehicles respectively. <wrap hide>1461|03:36:27|930|03:36:57|910</wrap>Perhaps in a way it's testing our relationship to the entire personality. But anyway we have to take this at face value. <wrap quote>After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt.</wrap> but there is the idea of life, let's say, death unto life, the death of the lower worlds, giving way through the elixir of the <wrap hide>1462|03:36:58|670|03:37:23|210</wrap>life which is distilled through sacrifice and death unto a higher form of life, passing through death. When we think about Saint Paul, well he was clearly passing, he had passed through the third initiation, we are told, by the Tibetan, but by the time his life had ended, he had made the great sacrifice it seems, and he was a Scorpio individual. <wrap hide>1463|03:37:23|210|03:37:39|910</wrap>And I believe he was passing through the fourth initiation, taking maybe mastership in a subsequent life, you know, maybe as the Iamblichus, was that the name of it? <wrap hide>1464|03:37:39|910|03:37:51|590</wrap>Anyway, Scorpio was involved in his chart, and I believe Scorpio could see him through not only the third initiation, but in some way made possible the sacrifice at the fourth. <wrap hide>1465|03:37:52|470|03:38:17|590</wrap>Okay, so what are we looking at here? We are looking at Scorpio as an aspect of the fixed cross, it has a peculiar specialized potency, and it's preparing through the tests and trials for the process of reorientation, it's preparing the disciple for the first, second, and third initiation, and those are the two factors that are mentioned. <wrap hide>1466|03:38:17|590|03:38:32|830</wrap>Now, the next in this alignment, so far, of Sirius, fixed cross, and Scorpio, is the hierarchy itself, and we see how intimately related Scorpio is to the spiritual hierarchy of our planet. <wrap hide>1467|03:38:32|830|03:38:42|910</wrap><wrap quote>4. The Hierarchy.—The distributing agency</wrap> presumably of Sirian force and of love-wisdom, <wrap quote>to the various kingdoms in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>1468|03:38:43|810|03:39:03|250</wrap>So, these lines of connection are very important. We have seen here an earlier, here's an earlier line of connection, the furthest, the pole star furthest from the Polaris, then Aries, then Vulcan Pluto, and then Shambhala. <wrap hide>1469|03:39:03|250|03:39:16|390</wrap>Okay, that's one line of connection we have studied. And now we are studying a second ray, a line of descent or distribution. We have Sirius working in a seven-fold manner. <wrap hide>1470|03:39:17|710|03:39:28|590</wrap>Always, you must remember that, because these rays are not just a product of the Great Bear. We have three different aspects of the rays. <wrap hide>1471|03:39:29|590|03:39:38|350</wrap>And probably the will aspect of the rays comes from the Great Bear, but the love or magnetic aspect comes from Sirius, or perhaps the Little Bear, or perhaps both. <wrap hide>1472|03:39:38|350|03:39:47|110</wrap>And then there is the intelligence aspect of the seven rays coming through the Pleiades, presumably. <wrap hide>1473|03:39:48|170|03:39:53|990</wrap>Okay, so we have Sirius, fixed cross, Scorpio, and then the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1474|03:39:54|970|03:40:02|930</wrap>And then we're going to have, interestingly, it continues through two planets. Is that correct? <wrap hide>1475|03:40:05|110|03:40:16|450</wrap>Yes, it looks like it does. Two planets, one the ruler of Scorpio, but exalted in Capricorn, and the other the ruler of Capricorn. <wrap hide>1476|03:40:16|810|03:40:26|450</wrap>In both of these signs, Scorpio and Capricorn, the ruler, the ordinary ruler is the esoteric ruler as well. <wrap hide>1477|03:40:27|190|03:40:34|790</wrap>Mars is the esoteric ruler of Scorpio as well as the orthodox, and Saturn is the esoteric ruler of Capricorn as well as the orthodox. <wrap hide>1478|03:40:35|030|03:40:45|030</wrap><wrap quote>5. Mars and Saturn.—Both these planets are exceedingly potent in connection with initiation into the life of the Hierarchy;</wrap> <wrap hide>1479|03:40:45|230|03:40:48|790</wrap>And presumably, both the signs are as well. <wrap hide>1480|03:40:48|790|03:41:00|370</wrap>Notice that these are, interestingly, from the human personality angle, called malefic planets, meaning they give you hard time in the personality sense. <wrap hide>1481|03:41:00|970|03:41:08|130</wrap>But they do open the door into hierarchy, strongly connected with initiation into the life of the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1482|03:41:08|130|03:41:18|510</wrap>Those initiations are ruled by different rays, but all through the expression of those rays, <wrap hide>1483|03:41:19|170|03:41:28|330</wrap>seventh for the first, sixth for the second, fifth for the third, and fourth for the fourth, Mars and Saturn are involved. <wrap hide>1484|03:41:29|130|03:41:34|950</wrap><wrap quote>Mars is potent in relation to Scorpio and Saturn in relation to Capricorn.</wrap> obviously, as the rulers. <wrap hide>1485|03:41:34|950|03:41:43|730</wrap><wrap quote>This involves the intensified activity of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies,</wrap> <wrap hide>1486|03:41:45|850|03:41:48|270</wrap>Sixth and third rays and the energies of the rays. <wrap hide>1487|03:41:48|530|03:41:56|630</wrap>Interestingly, rays apparently are not just a monolithic source, but they have energies connected to them. <wrap hide>1488|03:41:57|350|03:42:01|990</wrap>So there are a number of energies contained within any ray, it seems to imply. <wrap hide>1489|03:42:01|990|03:42:10|230</wrap><wrap quote>and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual.</wrap> <wrap hide>1490|03:42:10|990|03:42:20|990</wrap>Well, there's so much connected with the dense physical vehicle and the astral body which seem to hold man into the lower worlds and into the world of form. <wrap hide>1491|03:42:20|990|03:42:32|270</wrap>And when the sixth ray connected with the astral body and the third ray connected with the dense physical are properly released, properly oriented, properly utilized, <wrap hide>1492|03:42:33|070|03:42:35|370</wrap>then comes release from those spheres. <wrap hide>1493|03:42:36|030|03:42:45|850</wrap>It's rather interesting now, isn't it, this correlation, that the majority of people in the world today have either sixth-ray personalities or third-ray personalities. <wrap hide>1494|03:42:46|290|03:42:48|110</wrap>This is what the Tibetan tells us. <wrap hide>1495|03:42:48|110|03:42:53|470</wrap>These two rays do cause a lot of difficulty and confinement. <wrap hide>1496|03:42:54|630|03:42:58|830</wrap>They must be liberated into the soul aspect. <wrap hide>1497|03:43:00|230|03:43:11|910</wrap>Okay, so Mars and Saturn implicating and drawing in both Scorpio and Capricorn are very active in the process of initiation into the life of the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1498|03:43:11|910|03:43:29|210</wrap>So we have to see what type of battles, what type of karmic facing we have when we look at our charts in connection with these two planets, because if we handle them rightly, we can, the door into hierarchy can be more rapidly open. <wrap hide>1499|03:43:30|370|03:43:42|830</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>Again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the disciple. [200]</wrap> <wrap hide>1500|03:43:43|230|03:43:47|130</wrap>So, well, okay, I think we can see how we might be able to do that. <wrap hide>1501|03:43:47|330|03:43:53|530</wrap>You know, we look at the position of Sirius and understand what it means in terms of initiation. <wrap hide>1502|03:43:53|530|03:44:03|630</wrap>We would look at the positioning of the fixed cross and where its rulers might be and their relationship with each other. <wrap hide>1503|03:44:03|770|03:44:13|290</wrap>We look particularly at Scorpio for, which we say is power to reorient us, wherever Scorpio may be found. <wrap hide>1504|03:44:14|390|03:44:15|530</wrap>Let's take a look here at what it says. <wrap hide>1505|03:44:16|230|03:44:19|690</wrap>A peculiar and specialized potency on the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1506|03:44:20|510|03:44:24|590</wrap>But it did say something about reorientation a little bit earlier. <wrap hide>1507|03:44:24|750|03:44:27|910</wrap>Yes, the process of reorientation. Here it is. <wrap hide>1508|03:44:28|450|03:44:32|210</wrap>And testing us at the first three initiations. <wrap hide>1509|03:44:33|010|03:44:37|850</wrap>And thus we would be preparing for those initiations through the Scorpio energy. <wrap hide>1510|03:44:38|510|03:44:43|130</wrap>Then we would consider our relationship to hierarchy as a soul. <wrap hide>1511|03:44:43|130|03:44:48|530</wrap>And finally we would consider the positions of Mars and Saturn. <wrap hide>1512|03:44:49|370|03:44:59|130</wrap>And how rightly used we could tread the burning ground and we could fulfill our command and thus open the door more widely into hierarchy. <wrap hide>1513|03:45:00|050|03:45:08|830</wrap>So we would do well to consider this line of fused forces, especially this secondary line, which has so much to do with the soul. <wrap hide>1514|03:45:08|830|03:45:17|470</wrap>Which is, after all, our objective, the broadening of soul consciousness. This is our objective. <wrap hide>1515|03:45:18|710|03:45:23|310</wrap>As for the other line, which is more Shambolic in nature, I guess it can come later. <wrap hide>1516|03:45:24|450|03:45:25|650</wrap>Here we are on page 200. <wrap hide>1517|03:45:27|630|03:45:36|850</wrap>We have <wrap quote>//Aquarius// relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. </wrap><wrap hide>1518|03:45:36|850|03:45:48|130</wrap>Because really, if we look through the constellation Taurus, we find the Pleiades central within it, although much farther away. <wrap hide>1519|03:45:49|650|03:45:59|030</wrap>And therefore it is considered that the Pleiades are within the constellation Taurus. <wrap hide>1520|03:45:59|030|03:46:04|350</wrap>So Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus. <wrap hide>1521|03:46:04|830|03:46:08|610</wrap>And you know, you kind of wonder again about the central spiritual sun. <wrap hide>1522|03:46:09|390|03:46:16|190</wrap>And you find as well at the time of Wesak that the Pleiades should be considered. <wrap hide>1523|03:46:17|190|03:46:22|110</wrap>So we have kind of a Pleiades-Taurus-Shambolic alignment at that time. <wrap hide>1524|03:46:22|110|03:46:28|710</wrap>So Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. <wrap hide>1525|03:46:28|870|03:46:32|790</wrap>He's not going to elaborate on this too much. <wrap hide>1526|03:46:33|350|03:46:45|270</wrap><wrap quote>The key to this relation is to he found in the word //desire//,</wrap> which is Taurean in nature, <wrap quote>leading, through the transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration</wrap> <wrap hide>1527|03:46:45|290|03:46:50|690</wrap>which is a key Taurean factor, especially in the later stages of evolution. <wrap hide>1528|03:46:50|690|03:46:55|190</wrap><wrap quote>and finally the relinquishing of desire in Scorpio.</wrap> <wrap hide>1529|03:46:56|330|03:47:10|110</wrap>So desire in Taurus leads towards Scorpio and its transmutative potency under Uranus, which is the exalted planet in Scorpio. <wrap hide>1530|03:47:10|630|03:47:14|650</wrap>So whenever you see transmutation or transmutative, Uranus is involved. <wrap hide>1531|03:47:14|650|03:47:24|330</wrap>And this aspiration, Taurean aspiration, leads finally to the giving up of desire, relinquishing of desire in Scorpio. <wrap hide>1532|03:47:25|070|03:47:28|030</wrap>That's an important way of relating these two. <wrap hide>1533|03:47:28|850|03:47:37|010</wrap><wrap quote>Aquarius, Alcyone and Humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force.</wrap> <wrap hide>1534|03:47:38|010|03:47:53|310</wrap>Yes, so Aquarius, you know, here being related in a way to the lowest of the creative hierarchies, which in a way is a prison for the human consciousness. <wrap hide>1535|03:47:54|470|03:47:57|010</wrap>Aquarius, Alcyone, and humanity. <wrap hide>1536|03:47:58|190|03:48:01|410</wrap>There is an individualism in this triangle. <wrap hide>1537|03:48:02|030|03:48:07|430</wrap>Normally you might think it could be Leo, Alcyone, and humanity, but no, it's Aquarius. <wrap hide>1538|03:48:08|790|03:48:10|710</wrap>A most interesting triangle of force. <wrap hide>1539|03:48:10|910|03:48:21|070</wrap><wrap quote>Alcyone is one of the seven Pleiades</wrap> the central one, in a way the most potent of the Pleiades, I think, in a first-ray sense. <wrap hide>1540|03:48:21|390|03:48:23|670</wrap>And it's called the star of the individual. <wrap hide>1541|03:48:24|310|03:48:34|390</wrap>It gives the human being under Ahamkara a sense of its uniqueness, of being one of a kind, of being separate as well. <wrap hide>1542|03:48:34|930|03:48:45|890</wrap>And sometimes the star of intelligence, in a way the Pleiades as a whole have given manness to the heavenly men and are associated with the third aspect of intelligence. <wrap hide>1543|03:48:46|770|03:48:51|350</wrap>The question is, which are the highest rays of the Pleiades? <wrap hide>1544|03:48:51|350|03:49:00|770</wrap>Certainly third ray is involved, second ray for cosmic beauty is involved, is the first ray involved as is the hub of our local cosmic wheel? <wrap hide>1545|03:49:01|890|03:49:08|150</wrap>Okay, so Aquarius, Alcyone, and humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. <wrap hide>1546|03:49:09|270|03:49:17|630</wrap>And I suppose one that is going to come somewhat into potency now as a tremendous intelligence overtakes humanity, <wrap hide>1547|03:49:17|630|03:49:21|590</wrap>given the fifth ray expressed through Aquarius. <wrap hide>1548|03:49:21|810|03:49:36|390</wrap>So during the Aquarian age this triangle may come in prominently and help with the transition of humanity away from individualism into some of the greater service potentials of Aquarius, <wrap hide>1549|03:49:36|670|03:49:43|630</wrap>and into the group consciousness, which Aquarius also suggests, not just individualism. <wrap hide>1550|03:49:43|630|03:49:47|510</wrap>There seems to be a possibility of progression here. <wrap hide>1551|03:49:48|510|03:50:02|830</wrap><wrap quote>and is called the “star of the Individual” [Alcyone], and sometimes the “star of intelligence.” It was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the Third Person of the Trinity was peculiarly omnipotent and active,</wrap> <wrap hide>1552|03:50:02|830|03:50:20|490</wrap>Now remember we studied Virgo in relation to the Holy Spirit, Virgo and the Holy Spirit, and the four mutable signs related to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>1553|03:50:21|230|03:50:28|150</wrap>So we have to bring Virgo in relation to the Pleiades here, and also in relation to Alcyone. <wrap hide>1554|03:50:28|330|03:50:31|050</wrap>We're dealing with the material aspect. <wrap hide>1555|03:50:31|050|03:50:36|870</wrap>Sometimes Virgo represents the woman in the Sphinx, and therefore the soul. <wrap hide>1556|03:50:37|630|03:50:43|470</wrap>Sometimes Virgo represents the material aspect, and Leo represents the soul nature. <wrap hide>1557|03:50:44|250|03:50:58|510</wrap>Okay, so it, Alcyone, and even Sirius we are told, was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the Trinity was purely omnipotent and active. <wrap hide>1558|03:50:58|730|03:51:01|490</wrap>This was the solar system of the Holy Spirit. <wrap hide>1559|03:51:01|490|03:51:15|370</wrap>Now remember that Cancer, which is connected with the Pleiades definitely, and Virgo also connected with the Pleiades, were the two major signs, ruling the first and second part respectively, of the previous solar system. <wrap hide>1560|03:51:15|930|03:51:29|330</wrap>Both of them connected with the third aspect of divinity, but the interesting thing about Virgo is that it offers the possibility of transition from the third aspect of divinity into the second. <wrap hide>1561|03:51:29|330|03:51:50|810</wrap>And its rays, which were more on the intelligence aspect, and perhaps the seventh ray in the previous solar system, have now transitioned to the second and third, showing Virgo, the ruler of the second part of the last solar system, to be a bridge towards the themes of our present second ray solar system. <wrap hide>1562|03:51:50|810|03:52:20|510</wrap>Okay, so it was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the Trinity was purely omnipotent and active, even active now in the manipulation of forces in our second solar system related to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>1563|03:52:20|510|03:52:39|630</wrap>So what could that be? Could that be Orion considered as a great constellation, represented by the Cosmic Christ? Could it be Sirius, even though Sirius was very active in its monadic sense in relation to the previous monadic solar system? <wrap hide>1564|03:52:39|630|03:52:53|110</wrap>Anyway, the Holy Spirit, third person active in the previous solar system, and now Sirius and the fixed cross in <wrap quote>just as today the cosmic Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, is peculiarly active in this solar system.</wrap> <wrap hide>1565|03:52:53|110|03:53:13|810</wrap>This is a solar system in which our solar Logos becomes more than a cosmic personality. He becomes a cosmic soul and has already taken the first and second cosmic initiations and is destined to take the third, which will make of him, let's say, more of a sacred solar Logos. <wrap hide>1566|03:53:13|810|03:53:29|210</wrap><wrap quote>The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind.</wrap> Now by universe, I think we mean—a lesser interpretation of it here—we mean the system of our solar Logos. <wrap hide>1567|03:53:29|730|03:53:41|690</wrap>The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind, because it is, after all, a star of intelligence and all the Pleiades are related to the third ray. <wrap hide>1568|03:53:43|070|03:53:45|270</wrap>Not only the third ray, but definitely the third ray. <wrap hide>1569|03:53:45|270|03:54:04|470</wrap><wrap quote>As a consequence of this most ancient activity, the same force was present at the time of individualisation in this solar system,</wrap>—individualization of man, presumably. <wrap hide>1570|03:54:04|470|03:54:16|210</wrap><wrap quote>for it is in this system, and primarily upon our planet, the Earth, that the major results of that early activity have made themselves felt. </wrap> <wrap hide>1571|03:54:16|510|03:54:31|650</wrap>So, this is important material. He is relating this kind of Holy Spirit activity, which we can consider to be fohat-ic, and which operated in relation to the earlier phases of our solar system. <wrap hide>1572|03:54:31|650|03:54:38|510</wrap>We're relating those activities to the individualization process on Earth. <wrap hide>1573|03:54:40|310|03:54:48|790</wrap>So, those early activities had their major expression in relation to our planet, where a special kind of individualization occurred. <wrap hide>1574|03:54:49|630|03:54:54|710</wrap>It's much deeper than that, and I wish I could go into it, and one day, maybe I will be able to. <wrap hide>1575|03:54:54|710|03:55:05|390</wrap><wrap quote>Two of our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are directly the product of this third ray activity.</wrap> <wrap hide>1576|03:55:06|690|03:55:17|070</wrap>We know that the monadic ray of Uranus is the first, and the soul ray is the seventh, but perhaps Uranus is associated very much with the intelligence aspect. <wrap hide>1577|03:55:17|070|03:55:24|550</wrap>Perhaps the third ray is his personality ray, just as for the Earth, the third ray is his personality ray. <wrap hide>1578|03:55:25|050|03:55:38|170</wrap>And when we really look at that, we would see quite an astonishing connection between the rays of Uranus and the rays of the Earth having the same monadic ray, and perhaps the same personality ray as well. <wrap hide>1579|03:55:39|090|03:55:47|430</wrap>So, third ray activity, at least outwardly, is associated with the Earth and with Uranus. <wrap hide>1580|03:55:48|530|03:56:03|870</wrap>Now, there we, I think, are able to tie in some third ray connection to Aquarius, which is a sign of constant movement and mutation, suggesting the third ray, and Uranus is its ruler. <wrap hide>1581|03:56:03|970|03:56:06|890</wrap>We're talking about the intelligence aspect now. <wrap hide>1582|03:56:06|890|03:56:23|770</wrap>Two of our planets, the Earth, non-sacred, and Uranus, sacred, are directly the product of this third ray activity, a kind of activity which has seemed that Alcyone set into motion in the early days of our universe, or solar system. <wrap hide>1583|03:56:24|610|03:56:34|450</wrap><wrap quote>This is of great importance to remember. I would also ask you to link this thought with the teaching that through the divine centre of intelligent activity which we call humanity,</wrap> <wrap hide>1584|03:56:34|450|03:56:45|090</wrap>humanity being a kind of throat center in our planetary system, a system of our planetary scheme, and hence much associated with the third ray, <wrap hide>1585|03:56:45|770|03:56:53|230</wrap><wrap quote>the fourth kingdom in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all the three lower kingdoms.</wrap> <wrap hide>1586|03:56:53|670|03:57:03|450</wrap>Humanity stands on top of the three lower kingdoms. It has the harmonizing Buddhic principle which is to flow through it. <wrap hide>1587|03:57:03|450|03:57:09|450</wrap>But it is the center of intelligence, so Buddhi and Manas will be combined in humanity. <wrap hide>1588|03:57:10|250|03:57:17|750</wrap>It's an intelligence center which will be motivated by the bridging and harmonizing power of the intuition. <wrap hide>1589|03:57:19|250|03:57:23|930</wrap>All right. Maybe I can finish just a tiny bit more. I will. <wrap hide>1590|03:57:23|930|03:57:33|350</wrap>Okay. <wrap quote>Humanity is the divine Messenger</wrap> There's Mercury for you, and Mercury is most associated with humanity, with the fourth grade of hierarchy. <wrap hide>1591|03:57:34|290|03:57:43|330</wrap><wrap quote>Humanity is the divine Messenger to the world of form; It is essentially Mercury bringing light and life to other divine manifestations. <wrap hide>1592|03:57:43|330|03:57:51|490</wrap>And of this, all divine world saviors are the eternal symbol, </wrap>because the world saviors come in under Bodhi, <wrap hide>1593|03:57:51|970|03:57:57|630</wrap>and they are bringing the harmonizing love-wisdom power to the lower world. <wrap hide>1594|03:57:57|830|03:58:04|030</wrap>So humanity eventually is to become a world savior. Right now, its rays are the fourth and the fifth. <wrap hide>1595|03:58:04|030|03:58:14|090</wrap>I believe the fourth-ray soul, the fifth-ray personality, but eventually the rays of humanity will be the same as the rays of the mutable cross, <wrap hide>1596|03:58:14|990|03:58:22|430</wrap>orthodoxly considered, the second and the fourth-ray. The second-ray soul of humanity and the fourth-ray personality. <wrap hide>1597|03:58:22|970|03:58:25|630</wrap>And still the destroying power of humanity is there. <wrap hide>1598|03:58:25|630|03:58:30|490</wrap>So this is the end, Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 75. <wrap hide>1599|03:58:31|670|03:58:37|330</wrap>And we have gone, essentially, let's see how we go here. <wrap hide>1600|03:58:38|170|03:58:50|810</wrap>We've gone from page 172 up to, no, 192, up to page 200, where we are now. <wrap hide>1601|03:58:50|810|03:58:54|430</wrap>And this is the end of section D. <wrap hide>1602|03:58:55|650|03:59:05|090</wrap>Alright, friends, this is a four-hour program. <wrap hide>1603|03:59:06|190|03:59:11|390</wrap>Hope it will reduce down into a level that can be properly transmitted. <wrap hide>1604|03:59:12|010|03:59:19|270</wrap>We will continue, when next I can do this, with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 76, continuing with Scorpio. <wrap hide>1605|03:59:19|930|03:59:24|950</wrap>So, for the time being, I bid you farewell. <wrap hide>1606|03:59:25|910|03:59:34|870</wrap>We are considering deep matters and the kinds of thoughts which occur to us as we read what the Tibetan has said. <wrap hide>1607|03:59:35|930|03:59:40|350</wrap>So, I think we can end with The Great Invocation, I do believe. <wrap hide>1608|03:59:44|270|03:59:52|470</wrap>Okay, from the point of light. Yes, we can. So, let's do that. <wrap hide>1609|04:00:02|270|04:00:12|510</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>1610|04:00:14|990|04:00:24|670</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. <wrap hide>1611|04:00:26|970|04:00:37|130</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the Masters know and serve. <wrap hide>1612|04:00:39|210|04:00:50|290</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>1613|04:00:51|330|04:00:56|810</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>1614|04:00:58|470|04:00:59|870</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1615|04:01:06|030|04:01:07|430</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1616|04:01:13|710|04:01:15|110</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1617|04:01:15|110|04:01:15|670</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1618|04:01:25|370|04:01:35|590</wrap>Okay, we will continue with the Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 76, continuing with Scorpio. <wrap hide>1619|04:01:36|510|04:01:38|250</wrap>And we'll see you then. <wrap hide>1620|04:01:39|910|04:01:52|870</wrap>Hopefully we can bring some clarity to these interesting interconnections which are operative, whether recognized or unrecognized, in the lives of all of us. <wrap hide>1621|04:01:53|550|04:01:54|150</wrap>See you then.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>Hello everybody. This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 75, and we are in the Sagittarius <wrap hide>2|00:00:16|780|00:00:29|720</wrap>chapter. We had reached almost to page 192, and we were just reading the idea of the <wrap hide>3|00:00:30|440|00:00:40|720</wrap>detriment of Mercury in Sagittarius. We realise there are no falls, or no great falls at least, <wrap hide>4|00:00:41|140|00:00:49|580</wrap>within Sagittarius, and there is no exaltation. This being a sign of temperament and of the <wrap hide>5|00:00:49|580|00:00:58|520</wrap>balance of the archer as he pursues his goal in a steady manner. Even when he rides upon the horse, <wrap hide>6|00:00:58|520|00:01:06|880</wrap>he has to have an exquisite type of poise in order to loose his arrow properly at his target. <wrap quote><wrap hide>7|00:01:08|420|00:01:16|380</wrap>Mercury, which is the expression of the fourth ray,</wrap> certainly in its soul nature, <wrap quote>and also the <wrap hide>8|00:01:16|380|00:01:25|460</wrap>God of the mental processes,</wrap> probably five levels of the mind are involved, <wrap quote>has his power definitely <wrap hide>9|00:01:25|460|00:01:32|800</wrap>lessened in this sign and this for two reasons, esoterically speaking:</wrap> Now, we did discuss the <wrap hide>10|00:01:32|800|00:01:38|700</wrap>idea of whether there really was a lessening of the power of Mercury. There's certainly a lessening <wrap hide>11|00:01:38|700|00:01:47|340</wrap>of the power of Mercury, considering it as the planet of the concrete mind, which is its lowest <wrap hide>12|00:01:47|340|00:01:54|800</wrap>level of expression. But when we begin to consider the son of mind, the abstract mind, the transcendental <wrap hide>13|00:01:54|800|00:02:04|760</wrap>or intuitive mind, and the atmic or nirvanic mind of expressed will, then we cannot necessarily say <wrap hide>14|00:02:04|760|00:02:12|940</wrap>that Mercury has its power lessened. But certainly in the conventional sense it does. Now we have <wrap hide>15|00:02:12|940|00:02:23|060</wrap>reached page 192, and we are going to look at the Tibetan's reasons for considering that the power <wrap hide>16|00:02:23|060|00:02:33|720</wrap>of Mercury is lessened. <wrap quote>First, the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with <wrap hide>17|00:02:33|720|00:02:43|240</wrap>either his own human personality,</wrap> which is in a way ruled by the fourth ray generically, because <wrap hide>18|00:02:43|240|00:02:51|200</wrap>of the composite of the four elemental lives. So <wrap quote>the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with either <wrap hide>19|00:02:51|200|00:02:57|580</wrap>his own human personality and processes or with the human kingdom,</wrap> which is most definitely ruled <wrap hide>20|00:02:57|580|00:03:08|860</wrap>by Mercury, in relation to Scorpio in this case, <wrap quote>prior to taking initiation.</wrap> So the human personality <wrap hide>21|00:03:08|860|00:03:21|180</wrap>is in a way detrimental, Mercury as the human personality is detrimental, and Mercury as the <wrap hide>22|00:03:21|180|00:03:29|340</wrap>taking initiation, the method of identification in the human being changes, and he begins to <wrap hide>23|00:03:29|340|00:03:39|120</wrap>identify more as a soul or incipient solar angel on the higher mental plane than he does as a <wrap hide>24|00:03:39|120|00:03:48|320</wrap>fourfold human being in the three lower worlds. <wrap quote>His emphasis is, for the future, to be upon the <wrap hide>25|00:03:48|320|00:03:57|480</wrap>spiritual soul,</wrap> i.e. not the human soul within the lower three worlds, <wrap quote>and the fifth kingdom in <wrap hide>26|00:03:57|480|00:04:05|380</wrap>nature</wrap> that is the kingdom of souls, the kingdom of which the majority of masters are a member, <wrap hide>27|00:04:06|180|00:04:16|240</wrap>and the kingdom of which he as a soul is a member. <wrap quote>In Sagittarius he begins to express this first <wrap hide>28|00:04:16|240|00:04:22|800</wrap>stage.</wrap> He's no longer identifying himself strictly as a human being or as a human personality. He's <wrap hide>29|00:04:22|800|00:04:29|120</wrap>beginning to identify himself more as a soul, and this can even take place at the first initiation, <wrap hide>30|00:04:29|140|00:04:37|340</wrap>which is the entry into the kingdom of souls, and we remember that Sagittarius rules initiates of <wrap hide>31|00:04:37|340|00:04:44|000</wrap>the first two initiations. It rules in a way much more than that, but certainly there is that keen <wrap hide>32|00:04:44|000|00:04:52|260</wrap>aspirational nature, which is characteristic of initiates of the first two initiations. So <wrap quote>This <wrap hide>33|00:04:52|260|00:05:02|580</wrap>involves a complete withdrawal, in the personality sense, from the form side of life.</wrap> and of course we <wrap hide>34|00:05:02|580|00:05:10|320</wrap>realise that Sagittarius has the power of abstraction, which is why it is so identified <wrap hide>35|00:05:10|320|00:05:20|040</wrap>with the abstract mind and with distance, shall we say, the power to pull back and to see all <wrap hide>36|00:05:20|040|00:05:30|320</wrap>things large, which means to see the personality as a smaller thing than it is up close. <wrap quote>This again <wrap hide>37|00:05:30|320|00:05:42|020</wrap>entails (at a certain point of crisis) a point of balance.</wrap> This is interesting. The individual has <wrap hide>38|00:05:42|020|00:05:51|820</wrap>to have a very keen sense of what he is and what he is not, and slowly through the power of <wrap hide>39|00:05:51|820|00:06:00|620</wrap>abstraction in Sagittarius, he leaves behind his sense of closeness to the personality elementals, <wrap hide>40|00:06:00|720|00:06:07|680</wrap>and he has to keep his balance within his own soul nature in order to do this. In other words, <wrap hide>41|00:06:08|320|00:06:15|140</wrap>the human soul begins to identify as the soul on its own plane. So this, you know, you can see that <wrap hide>42|00:06:15|140|00:06:23|700</wrap>D.K. gives esoteric reasons for the detriment of a planet. He is thinking in terms of the pairs <wrap hide>43|00:06:23|700|00:06:28|760</wrap>of opposites of the personality nature and the soul nature. He's not thinking about the usual <wrap hide>44|00:06:28|760|00:06:34|320</wrap>meaning of the detriment. I mean, you know, the usual meaning can be that the early Sagittarian <wrap hide>45|00:06:34|320|00:06:44|080</wrap>is not logical and is leaping from point to point without true reasonableness. Of course, <wrap hide>46|00:06:44|700|00:06:51|220</wrap>the higher expression here is that he has the intuition which allows him to leap to conclusions <wrap hide>47|00:06:51|220|00:06:57|060</wrap>with accuracy. In the early days of Sagittarius, he simply leaps to conclusions, and there may be <wrap hide>48|00:06:57|900|00:07:04|380</wrap>no accuracy at all, and, you know, he will be more opinionated. Okay, so now we're looking at the <wrap hide>49|00:07:04|380|00:07:14|060</wrap>second reason why the power of the mind is falling, not falling, but in detriment in Sagittarius. The <wrap hide>50|00:07:14|060|00:07:22|260</wrap>mind is tested and found true in Scorpio. Now let us remember how important Mercury is in <wrap hide>51|00:07:22|260|00:07:29|600</wrap>relation to Scorpio. It is the hierarchical ruler, but it's involved in more than simply <wrap hide>52|00:07:29|600|00:07:38|220</wrap>hierarchical processes. It's involved in controlling the emotions, mental control of the emotions, <wrap hide>53|00:07:38|220|00:07:47|920</wrap>and it's involved in achieving a degree of illumination. In the five stages of meditation, <wrap hide>54|00:07:48|920|00:07:54|120</wrap>Scorpio rules illumination, the legal concentration, the verbal meditation, <wrap hide>55|00:07:55|820|00:08:01|720</wrap>Libra contemplation, and as a result of that contemplation comes in Scorpio illumination, <wrap hide>56|00:08:01|720|00:08:07|860</wrap>and then finally Sagittarius inspiration, and I guess we can go on and we could say <wrap hide>57|00:08:09|060|00:08:16|260</wrap>Capricorn initiation and so forth. We've discussed this before. It's interesting that Scorpio, <wrap hide>58|00:08:16|760|00:08:26|940</wrap>which is so often a sign of darkness and death, as the Tibetan speaks of it, brings that quality <wrap hide>59|00:08:26|940|00:08:38|880</wrap>of darkness to veil ignorance and produce instead the light that you would expect to be found in its <wrap hide>60|00:08:38|880|00:08:46|460</wrap>opposite sign Taurus. So often the opposite signs do produce similar results. At first they are <wrap hide>61|00:08:46|460|00:08:53|760</wrap>contrasted, but eventually they produce similar results. For instance, when you're looking at <wrap hide>62|00:08:53|760|00:09:02|200</wrap>Gemini and Sagittarius, the so-called scattering effect of Gemini is much overcome in the later <wrap hide>63|00:09:02|200|00:09:12|100</wrap>evolution, and both rule the Antahkarana. Gemini rules the connectivity of the Antahkarana, <wrap hide>64|00:09:12|300|00:09:19|820</wrap>the interdimensional connectivity we might say, and Sagittarius rules the art of projection into <wrap hide>65|00:09:19|820|00:09:28|400</wrap>the higher dimension. So we can study the opposite signs as if they can achieve similar objectives, <wrap hide>66|00:09:29|240|00:09:35|700</wrap>and they do come together. The pairs of opposites do meet, although they may emphasize different <wrap hide>67|00:09:35|700|00:09:44|900</wrap>aspects of the same objective to be achieved. So we're talking about the detriment of Mercury <wrap hide>68|00:09:44|900|00:09:53|740</wrap>in Sagittarius, <wrap quote> Secondly, the power of the mind, having been developed, tested</wrap>, tested under very dire <wrap hide>69|00:09:53|740|00:10:02|160</wrap>circumstances where the emotions and the other elementals are fully rebellious, and the power <wrap hide>70|00:10:02|160|00:10:07|820</wrap>of the mind has to subdue them, even subdue itself in a way, when it is the soul of the human mind. <wrap hide>71|00:10:07|820|00:10:14|820</wrap>The higher mind influence has to subdue the lower mind influence, <wrap quote>and found true in the sign<wrap hide>72|00:10:14|820|00:10:23|800</wrap>Scorpio, begins to wane in its activity,</wrap> I would say in its cogitative activity, in its <wrap hide>73|00:10:25|460|00:10:32|580</wrap>reasoning activity, <wrap quote>and the intuition begins to take its place.</wrap> And so we know that we do not have <wrap hide>74|00:10:32|580|00:10:40|040</wrap>to go through the process of reasoning and cogitation to arrive at a true answer or <wrap hide>75|00:10:40|040|00:10:49|020</wrap>revelation. The mind can become illumined directly, and this is called straight knowledge. <wrap quote>This is <wrap hide>76|00:10:49|020|00:10:55|760</wrap>essential before the sign Capricorn is entered by the disciple and preparation for initiation <wrap hide>77|00:10:55|760|00:11:02|560</wrap>begins.</wrap> Well, in a way, there is preparation for initiation, even in Sagittarius, but it is largely <wrap hide>78|00:11:02|560|00:11:08|760</wrap>concerned with the initiations of the threshold. And in Sagittarius also, in a higher sense, you <wrap hide>79|00:11:08|760|00:11:15|780</wrap>can begin to prepare for the initiatory experience in Capricorn, as I did explain yesterday when <wrap hide>80|00:11:15|780|00:11:26|840</wrap>looking at the powers of the third degree in which we have integration and science and direction, <wrap hide>81|00:11:26|840|00:11:33|880</wrap>all of which can be related to Sagittarius. Sagittarius brings in the fifth ray. It is <wrap hide>82|00:11:33|880|00:11:42|600</wrap>certainly that kind of alignment which produces integration, and of course it is maybe the major <wrap hide>83|00:11:42|600|00:11:50|060</wrap>sign of direction, all of this leading to the third degree. I think what's important to realize <wrap hide>84|00:11:50|060|00:12:01|080</wrap>is where your subject is standing. You can be doing the horoscope of a stone, of an organization, <wrap hide>85|00:12:02|920|00:12:12|020</wrap>of an animal, of a human being, of a human being at many different stages of evolution. Let's just <wrap hide>86|00:12:12|020|00:12:18|880</wrap>say we're working with people. Where really is your subject standing? And without knowing that, <wrap hide>87|00:12:18|880|00:12:27|480</wrap>we just don't know how accurately to interpret the chart. So let's just say that we should meet a <wrap hide>88|00:12:27|480|00:12:35|060</wrap>person in person or maybe through a Skype call or some kind of contact where we can see the <wrap hide>89|00:12:35|060|00:12:41|800</wrap>individual and can have a conversation with that person and begin to understand the level of their <wrap hide>90|00:12:41|800|00:12:49|620</wrap>desires and objectives which will so often reveal the stage of evolution at which they stand and as <wrap hide>91|00:12:49|620|00:12:58|340</wrap>will their accomplishments in relation to those desires and objectives. Okay, you know the great <wrap hide>92|00:12:58|340|00:13:05|660</wrap>science of all sciences, just the ABCs, this is what we're dealing with. <wrap quote>As regards the three <wrap hide>93|00:13:05|660|00:13:14|220</wrap>decanates of Sagittarius, Sepharial gives us the three governing planets as Mercury, the Moon <wrap hide>94|00:13:14|920|00:13:23|800</wrap>and the Sun.</wrap> Now that is not necessarily, let's see if that is in order, that's not necessarily <wrap hide>95|00:13:23|800|00:13:35|860</wrap>in order. Let us check here in this landscape view of the decanates. And here we are with <wrap hide>96|00:13:35|860|00:13:46|660</wrap>Sagittarius. Yes, we do have Venus, Mercury, Moon, and then... well, OK. You see, this is interesting. <wrap hide>97|00:13:46|660|00:13:55|300</wrap>It would normally be, let me put this into a... there, it's just a little better in that way. <wrap hide>98|00:13:56|840|00:14:06|800</wrap>Now I'll widen it out just slightly. Okay, we have Venus, Mercury, Mercury the Moon, and Moon <wrap hide>99|00:14:06|800|00:14:13|560</wrap>has the least period around the Earth, and so then we would normally go back to Saturn. But we have <wrap hide>100|00:14:13|560|00:14:22|520</wrap>here the Sun. And I'm not sure if Sepharial does give the Sun; he is not following the normal <wrap hide>101|00:14:22|520|00:14:30|520</wrap>procedure, because once you reach the Moon you begin going backwards to the conventional planet <wrap hide>102|00:14:30|520|00:14:35|840</wrap>with the greatest period around the geocentric Earth, and that would be Saturn. So I have both <wrap hide>103|00:14:35|840|00:14:41|880</wrap>here Saturn and the Sun, but since the Tibetan did say the Sun, we will keep the Sun. The Sun <wrap hide>104|00:14:41|880|00:14:51|600</wrap>definitely does show up in Alan Leo's casting of the decanates. Alright, so let's take a look here. <wrap hide>105|00:14:52|600|00:14:57|760</wrap>And then while we're here in the map, we do see that Alan Leo gives Jupiter because, you know, <wrap hide>106|00:14:57|940|00:15:03|380</wrap>the Sagittarius-Sagittarius part is definitely ruled by conventional Jupiter, and then we're in <wrap hide>107|00:15:03|380|00:15:11|860</wrap>the Sagittarius-Aries part ruled by Mars, and then the Sagittarius-Leo part ruled by the Sun. And <wrap hide>108|00:15:11|860|00:15:19|160</wrap>pretty much the Tibetan is following the Alan Leo assignments. It looks like Jupiter, Mars, <wrap hide>109|00:15:19|420|00:15:30|440</wrap>and the Sun. Here we have reversed the decanates because we know that the Sagittarian, or any other <wrap hide>110|00:15:30|440|00:15:40|300</wrap>sign type will, on the wheel of form, we will enter the sign in the clockwise manner. So in a <wrap hide>111|00:15:40|300|00:15:45|220</wrap>way, he's entering through the Sun for the first decanate, Mars for the second, and Jupiter for <wrap hide>112|00:15:45|220|00:15:53|500</wrap>the third. And here Nicholas Nieland, who is a very fine theorist on all these matters, he is <wrap hide>113|00:15:53|500|00:16:00|940</wrap>pretty well following what Sepharial has said, if my chart is correct. Nicholas and I have worked <wrap hide>114|00:16:00|940|00:16:07|000</wrap>on these things, and we have approached these charts according to the light within us, and <wrap hide>115|00:16:07|000|00:16:12|600</wrap>sometimes we have differences of opinion, but most of the time I think we're pretty much in <wrap hide>116|00:16:12|600|00:16:20|940</wrap>agreement on these matters. Okay, so let's see here. Sepharial gives us the three planets as <wrap hide>117|00:16:20|940|00:16:29|360</wrap>Mercury, the Moon, and the Sun. The only, you know, as I say, the only place where I would have some <wrap hide>118|00:16:31|400|00:16:38|280</wrap>question here is that once we reach the Moon, we do have to go back out to the orbit of Saturn, <wrap hide>119|00:16:39|800|00:16:45|560</wrap>and Saturn and the Sun are very contradictory in certain respects. <wrap quote>Whilst Alan Leo gives us <wrap hide>120|00:16:45|560|00:16:53|000</wrap>Jupiter, Mars and the Sun, emphasising as he always does the way of the esotericists.</wrap> Now <wrap hide>121|00:16:53|000|00:16:57|880</wrap>basically what D.K. is saying, you know, it's not so much that Alan Leo is emphasizing the way of <wrap hide>122|00:16:57|880|00:17:03|600</wrap>the esotericist in general and that Sepharial is not. I think what Alan Leo, what D.K. is saying, <wrap hide>123|00:17:04|220|00:17:14|480</wrap>is that the Chaldean system is not as esoteric usually, although in some cases like Gemini and <wrap hide>124|00:17:14|480|00:17:23|960</wrap>Cancer it is, but that the Hindu system which Alan Leo adopts is more esoteric. Basically, <wrap hide>125|00:17:24|860|00:17:32|080</wrap>Alan Leo and Sepharial are simply following ancient systems, but I think D.K. didn't necessarily want <wrap hide>126|00:17:32|080|00:17:39|820</wrap>to get into that. He just associates those systems with the name Alan Leo and with Sepharial. <wrap quote>He <wrap hide>127|00:17:39|820|00:17:48|460</wrap>usually tunes in on the esoteric significances but not always. Jupiter gives expansion, <wrap hide>128|00:17:50|120|00:17:59|720</wrap>superseding Mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation</wrap> yeah, is ever a limitation, <wrap quote><wrap hide>129|00:17:59|780|00:18:09|540</wrap>even if only a temporary one.</wrap> Well, how do we see this here? We see the contrast between Alan Leo's <wrap hide>130|00:18:09|540|00:18:17|960</wrap>Jupiter and Sepharial's Mercury. They are both in the same decanate when we number these decanates <wrap hide>131|00:18:17|960|00:18:28|200</wrap>from 0 to 30. Now as I've often stated, I don't think Sepharial had in his mind the idea of the <wrap hide>132|00:18:28|200|00:18:34|100</wrap>reversal of the wheel, so that when he gave a decanate ruler he was simply thinking of going <wrap hide>133|00:18:34|100|00:18:41|360</wrap>in the counterclockwise direction from 0 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 30 of a sign. Anyway, <wrap hide>134|00:18:41|800|00:18:50|420</wrap>Jupiter is superseding Mercury. These are two planets on the mutable cross, and they both can <wrap hide>135|00:18:50|420|00:18:56|240</wrap>be Buddhic in their nature. They both can indicate intuition, but here I think Mercury is more the <wrap hide>136|00:18:56|240|00:19:03|280</wrap>concrete mind, and Jupiter is more the vision of intuition. And even if they were both indicating <wrap hide>137|00:19:03|280|00:19:10|500</wrap>intuition, which in the case of Sepharial I don't think they are, Jupiter would give a more holistic <wrap hide>138|00:19:10|500|00:19:19|460</wrap>view of that which was intuited, and Mercury would relate more to the intricate relationships within <wrap hide>139|00:19:19|460|00:19:27|720</wrap>that whole. Okay, I'm gonna, you know, kind of go back and forth here. So <wrap quote>Jupiter gives expansion, <wrap hide>140|00:19:29|240|00:19:35|100</wrap>superseding Mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation even if only a temporary one.</wrap> <wrap hide>141|00:19:35|160|00:19:43|180</wrap>Well, it's a great sign of progress in one respect for the person who is moving away from emotional <wrap hide>142|00:19:43|180|00:19:50|780</wrap>polarization, but the mind is in a certain respect the slayer of the real, and the Mercurial mind can <wrap hide>143|00:19:50|780|00:20:01|020</wrap>generate many thought forms which are an illusory layer upon true reality. Jupiter is a clearer type <wrap hide>144|00:20:01|020|00:20:11|580</wrap>of intuitive vision of reality. So Jupiter supersedes Mercury even when the decanates are <wrap hide>145|00:20:11|580|00:20:17|740</wrap>not being considered backwards and forwards, but just in that very first decanate. The moon, <wrap hide>146|00:20:17|740|00:20:25|960</wrap>which is Sepharial's designation for the second decanate of Sagittarius, the Aries decanate, <wrap hide>147|00:20:26|120|00:20:34|020</wrap>gives place to Mars, which is the exoteric ruler of that decanate, which confers the quality of <wrap hide>148|00:20:34|020|00:20:41|740</wrap>devotion and the capacity to fight for the ideal. You know, we do notice that many Sagittarians are <wrap hide>149|00:20:41|740|00:20:48|940</wrap>very body conscious, we might say. Now we can relate this to the esoteric rulership of Earth, <wrap hide>150|00:20:48|940|00:20:58|840</wrap>in which the etheric body is reconditioned, but we can also, when we look at the five non-sacred <wrap hide>151|00:20:58|840|00:21:07|040</wrap>planets, we can realize that they are all assigned to different layers of the personality. The moon <wrap hide>152|00:21:07|600|00:21:15|580</wrap>to the dense physical vehicle. Earth, also non-sacred, to the etheric vehicle. Mars <wrap hide>153|00:21:15|580|00:21:24|280</wrap>to the astral vehicle, particularly. And Pluto with its strong mental component to the concrete <wrap hide>154|00:21:24|280|00:21:31|540</wrap>mind. I mean, you know, you could ask whether Pluto and Mars could be reversed, and in a way <wrap hide>155|00:21:31|540|00:21:41|300</wrap>they could, because Pluto has a connection with the astral vehicle and with the dimension <wrap hide>156|00:21:41|920|00:21:48|940</wrap>in mythology we know as Hades, which is really the astral plane, and probably not necessarily <wrap hide>157|00:21:48|940|00:21:53|980</wrap>the higher levels of the astral plane, and Mars rules the five senses and the concrete mind, <wrap hide>158|00:21:53|980|00:22:01|040</wrap>so it's possible to reverse those two. And then we come to the sun, which rules the integrated <wrap hide>159|00:22:01|040|00:22:08|860</wrap>personality, the ahamkara of it. So we see the five non-sacred planets in connection with the <wrap hide>160|00:22:08|860|00:22:16|860</wrap>four layers of personality. If we split the dense physical and the etheric, then we get moon, <wrap hide>161|00:22:17|100|00:22:26|460</wrap>Earth. Of course, moon and Earth are really parts of, still parts of the, <wrap hide>162|00:22:29|220|00:22:36|420</wrap>what should we call it, the planetary scheme of Earth. They're in the Earth scheme, even though <wrap hide>163|00:22:37|060|00:22:44|880</wrap>the moon, whatever being the moon lord was, is no longer associated with that <wrap hide>164|00:22:45|580|00:22:53|300</wrap>dense vehicle. We call the moon, but has in a way moved over and shares space with the lord of the <wrap hide>165|00:22:53|300|00:23:00|260</wrap>Earth chain, and so the moon chain lord and the lord of the Earth chain are pretty much <wrap hide>166|00:23:01|020|00:23:09|680</wrap>sharing the field in the fourth or Earth chain. So <wrap quote>The Moon gives place to Mars, which confers the <wrap hide>167|00:23:09|680|00:23:13|840</wrap>quality of devotion and the capacity to fight for an ideal.</wrap> Now this is interesting because <wrap hide>168|00:23:14|540|00:23:22|700</wrap>when we connect the three extra zodiacal constellations that are associated with <wrap hide>169|00:23:22|700|00:23:29|360</wrap>Sagittarius, which would be Lyra or the falling falcon or the falling gripe, as it is called, <wrap hide>170|00:23:29|760|00:23:36|180</wrap>a kind of bird, falcon-like bird, that's the first. And then Ara, the altar, signifying <wrap hide>171|00:23:36|180|00:23:44|680</wrap>a great devotion, is found in the second decanate. And then, well, is it true really, the great <wrap hide>172|00:23:44|680|00:23:51|760</wrap>dragon, Draco the dragon, which is such a superior constellation in a way, it is found in relation to <wrap hide>173|00:23:51|760|00:24:01|480</wrap>the third decanate. So the moon, which is just gravitating towards the physical activity with <wrap hide>174|00:24:01|480|00:24:09|460</wrap>which Sagittarius, of all the three fire signs, is the most attuned, gives place to Mars. Mars also <wrap hide>175|00:24:09|460|00:24:16|200</wrap>rules the physical body, but it rules the quality of devotion, which the moon does not. This idealistic <wrap hide>176|00:24:16|200|00:24:22|960</wrap>concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship <wrap hide>177|00:24:22|960|00:24:28|820</wrap>bringing the early stages of unfoldment upon the path. Okay. <wrap hide>178|00:24:40|840|00:24:48|180</wrap>Okay. So this quality of devotion we're speaking about in relation to Mars, and we know how <wrap hide>179|00:24:48|180|00:24:57|200</wrap>important Mars is in relation to Sagittarius, which was in the sky, quite a warlike figure, <wrap hide>180|00:24:57|200|00:25:03|880</wrap>quite a God of war in the old days, responding to its Martian quality. Sometimes we might <wrap hide>181|00:25:05|380|00:25:14|200</wrap>wonder why Jupiter should not be the final ruler there, and Mars the hierarchical ruler, <wrap hide>182|00:25:14|400|00:25:21|520</wrap>but so it goes that it is not. And we have a non-sacred planet as the hierarchical ruler, <wrap hide>183|00:25:21|520|00:25:27|920</wrap>and a very sacred planet as the orthodox ruler. Of course, this happens in Pisces as well. <wrap hide>184|00:25:28|460|00:25:33|840</wrap>Interesting. Because of the relationship between those two signs, they would both begin with <wrap hide>185|00:25:33|840|00:25:42|080</wrap>Jupiter as an exoteric ruler, and end with one of the non-sacred rulers, Mars or Pluto. <wrap hide>186|00:25:43|240|00:25:49|880</wrap><wrap quote>This idealistic concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship during <wrap hide>187|00:25:49|880|00:25:57|880</wrap>the early stages of unfoldment upon the Path.</wrap> a great devotion. And so I think we find that many <wrap hide>188|00:25:58|840|00:26:06|080</wrap>sixth-ray souls, not all certainly, are in that early stage of unfoldment upon the path, <wrap hide>189|00:26:06|680|00:26:15|000</wrap>and are characterized by great devotion to their objective, even if the objective is rather narrow. <wrap hide>190|00:26:15|750|00:26:22|280</wrap>The Sun — okay, now we copy here — <wrap quote>The Sun, typifying the solar Angel <wrap hide>191|00:26:23|320|00:26:30|120</wrap>remains constant both through the exoteric and the esoteric processes.</wrap> Definitely the Tibetan <wrap hide>192|00:26:30|120|00:26:39|560</wrap>meant to write this; he definitely is assuming that, or knowing, that Sepharial has given <wrap hide>193|00:26:40|270|00:26:49|260</wrap>the Sun as the ruler of the third decanate. But the problem here is, as I say, it's not in <wrap hide>194|00:26:49|260|00:26:55|620</wrap>order. So the Tibetan must know something that I don't know. I haven't studied the <wrap hide>195|00:26:55|620|00:27:00|660</wrap>Chaldean assignments, so we'll just go with what he says. The Sun remains constant, <wrap hide>196|00:27:01|700|00:27:08|740</wrap><wrap quote>typifying the solar Angel remains constant both through the exoteric and the esoteric processes and therefore <wrap hide>197|00:27:08|740|00:27:15|080</wrap>astrology recognises it as a constant pressure and presence.</wrap> What a way to think of the solar <wrap hide>198|00:27:15|080|00:27:20|460</wrap>angel, and I think what a very accurate way to think of it: the constant pressure and presence. <wrap hide>199|00:27:20|860|00:27:29|580</wrap>I suppose the pressure of solar angel will be felt before its presence is acknowledged. <wrap hide>200|00:27:30|200|00:27:37|180</wrap>And of course, even its pressure increases as one moves through the stages of aspiration and <wrap hide>201|00:27:37|820|00:27:43|720</wrap>probation and discipleship and accepted discipleship; the pressure increases. <wrap hide>202|00:27:44|640|00:27:54|100</wrap>So we know when we are off the mark and deviating from the solar design, if we fall back and begin <wrap hide>203|00:27:54|100|00:28:04|180</wrap>to respond to the lunar way of life, we feel that kind of dissonance within ourselves and have to <wrap hide>204|00:28:04|180|00:28:13|860</wrap>get back on the path, back on the mark which Sagittarius represents. We cannot deviate, <wrap hide>205|00:28:14|080|00:28:18|940</wrap>because when we fall off the path, we feel the dissonance and the pressure of the solar angel <wrap hide>206|00:28:18|940|00:28:27|540</wrap>to get back on that one-pointed path. So <wrap quote>this fact in itself indicates a significant truth.</wrap> I mean, <wrap hide>207|00:28:27|540|00:28:34|540</wrap>solar angel is active in the life of the individual from the very moment of <wrap hide>208|00:28:34|540|00:28:41|980</wrap>individualization, though perhaps not much sensed, although H.P.B. said that early Lemurian man was very <wrap hide>209|00:28:41|980|00:28:48|060</wrap>much aware of the presence of his inner God, and perhaps that faded in later Atlantean times and <wrap hide>210|00:28:48|580|00:28:55|100</wrap>Aryan times as the mind grew. But there was a sense of awe in relation to this inner God, <wrap hide>211|00:28:55|100|00:29:06|680</wrap>says H.P.B. So this fact in itself, that the Sun remains the same, indicates a significant truth. <wrap hide>212|00:29:07|540|00:29:17|640</wrap>If it should be Saturn, well, there certainly is the karmic pressure that Saturn applies, <wrap hide>213|00:29:17|880|00:29:24|300</wrap>and Saturn is the lord of the physical plane, and especially in a way of the dense physical plane, <wrap hide>214|00:29:24|300|00:29:32|120</wrap>which Sagittarius of all the fire signs is most related to. The soul remains eternally present. <wrap hide>215|00:29:32|340|00:29:39|840</wrap>This is how D.K. explains the similarity between the Sepharial's — Sepharial's — <wrap hide>216|00:29:40|460|00:29:46|720</wrap>decanates and Alamelios. <wrap quote>The soul remains eternally present—in the past, in the present <wrap hide>217|00:29:47|220|00:29:52|340</wrap>and on into the future.</wrap> which Sagittarius so much represents. <wrap hide>218|00:29:53|440|00:30:00|400</wrap>Okay, okay, hopefully we are not experiencing degraded audio here. Every once in a while, <wrap hide>219|00:30:01|400|00:30:04|940</wrap>GoToWebinar comes in with that cheerful and friendly announcement, <wrap hide>220|00:30:06|080|00:30:17|800</wrap>and one has in a way no choice but to go on. Okay, now let's — before going to the very end <wrap hide>221|00:30:17|800|00:30:24|600</wrap>of the Sagittarian chapter — let's take a look here. We do see that the constellation Lyra, <wrap hide>222|00:30:24|760|00:30:33|440</wrap>or the falling gripe, or the falling falcon, has been theorized, at least, as being connected <wrap hide>223|00:30:34|040|00:30:42|340</wrap>with the first decan of Sagittarius. There's something about the guitar, the harp, the <wrap hide>224|00:30:43|780|00:30:49|840</wrap>sevenfold sounds, which are Jupiterian and uplifting in nature. <wrap hide>225|00:30:51|340|00:30:55|760</wrap>Ara the altar — yes, as I stated — the second decanate, and Draco the dragon. <wrap hide>226|00:30:57|400|00:31:06|320</wrap>And it says as well, Corona Australis, the southern crown. One wonders whether this, <wrap hide>227|00:31:06|520|00:31:11|900</wrap>in some way, can be connected with the base of the spine center, because certainly Draco is. <wrap hide>228|00:31:12|340|00:31:18|260</wrap>Draco, we are told, has a great seventh-ray component, but also a significant Buddhic <wrap hide>229|00:31:18|260|00:31:24|620</wrap>component. It's the source of Buddhi to the Pleiades, either all of them or some of them, <wrap hide>230|00:31:25|320|00:31:35|360</wrap>and it is occupying the place of cosmic Kundalini. And the northern crown would seem to be in a way <wrap hide>231|00:31:35|360|00:31:40|860</wrap>the head center, and the southern crown perhaps the base of the spine center to be associated with <wrap hide>232|00:31:40|860|00:31:49|080</wrap>Draco. Now I'd like to turn to this sixfold development chart, which <wrap hide>233|00:31:49|960|00:31:57|620</wrap>I created for some of the classes that we have in Finland. And, oh, I — you know, this <wrap hide>234|00:31:57|620|00:32:07|500</wrap>gives us the impression of going forward and backward in this fluid area of the Decanates. <wrap hide>235|00:32:09|440|00:32:20|380</wrap>Here we have the tabulation laid out in a different way, and we have 10 degrees, 0 to 10, <wrap hide>236|00:32:20|700|00:32:31|040</wrap>10 to 20, and 20 to 30 laid out here above, as you see. But there are different ways of moving, <wrap hide>237|00:32:31|040|00:32:42|100</wrap>and the arrows indicate this. So if we have here the progress of the wheel of form, which is <wrap hide>238|00:32:42|100|00:32:50|640</wrap>clockwise, and we have the progress of the wheel of consciousness. Take a look here at a diagram <wrap hide>239|00:32:50|640|00:33:00|900</wrap>that Nicholas Milen has created, and we see in Sagittarius that the outer wheel is the <wrap hide>240|00:33:00|900|00:33:05|520</wrap>wheel of consciousness, and the inner wheel the wheel of form. That's the way he set it up. <wrap hide>241|00:33:06|060|00:33:14|620</wrap>So we have Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun, and then he has Mercury, the Moon, and Sun, just as D.K. <wrap hide>242|00:33:14|620|00:33:24|060</wrap>described it for Sepharial. He has not reversed them. Sometimes the theorist Stephen Pugh, <wrap hide>243|00:33:24|240|00:33:33|180</wrap>and this is his diagram, have reversed these. In Sagittarius he has, um, let's see, how does this <wrap hide>244|00:33:33|180|00:33:38|300</wrap>go? The outer wheel is the ordinary wheel. He does it differently from Nicholas. So the inner wheel <wrap hide>245|00:33:38|300|00:33:46|560</wrap>is, hmm, the inner wheel is the reversed wheel, and he does Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars. This is <wrap hide>246|00:33:46|560|00:33:54|840</wrap>very different from what the Tibetan gives. The Tibetan most definitely gives Jupiter, <wrap hide>247|00:33:56|460|00:34:03|800</wrap>Mars, and the Sun. Now, in the case of Stephen Pugh, with the outer wheel as being ordinary, <wrap hide>248|00:34:04|380|00:34:15|060</wrap>he does an exact reversal of what the Tibetan gives, and he gives Mars, Sun, and Jupiter. <wrap hide>249|00:34:15|480|00:34:22|980</wrap>So this would be the exact reversal of what the Tibetan gave, that reversal being part of the <wrap hide>250|00:34:22|980|00:34:31|960</wrap>wheel of form. As I say, I don't think anyone has the last word on these matters. They certainly <wrap hide>251|00:34:31|960|00:34:40|440</wrap>have good reasons by which they justify these things, but there is nothing final to be said <wrap hide>252|00:34:41|410|00:34:53|040</wrap>at this time. The thing that I also want to emphasize is that all of these esoteric zodiacal <wrap hide>253|00:34:53|040|00:35:00|320</wrap>constellations, as I said before, do apply to anyone born in Sagittarius, but to <wrap hide>254|00:35:01|040|00:35:08|560</wrap>a lesser degree, perhaps, if you are born in a decanate which is not associated with that <wrap hide>255|00:35:08|560|00:35:15|560</wrap>particular extra zodiacal constellation. And yet, this is still theoretical, we must realize, <wrap hide>256|00:35:16|220|00:35:23|220</wrap>this assigning of the constellations to the particular decanates. There are legitimate <wrap hide>257|00:35:23|220|00:35:31|860</wrap>differences among reasonable theorists. Now, okay, you know how I've done this before. <wrap hide>258|00:35:32|860|00:35:41|200</wrap>I've shown the arrows, and the arrows are moving towards the personality integration, <wrap hide>259|00:35:41|940|00:35:51|200</wrap>and then we have arrows moving in the counter. Well, actually, I've had to do it this way so <wrap hide>260|00:35:51|200|00:36:02|460</wrap>that the arrows move from 30 to 20, 20 to 10, 10 to 0. All of the arrows, in a way, are moving <wrap hide>261|00:36:02|460|00:36:13|900</wrap>in a counterclockwise direction, but these three up here represent clockwise motion and entering <wrap hide>262|00:36:13|900|00:36:22|580</wrap>the sign from 30. Here is the conventional motion that most astrologers follow, and this is <wrap hide>263|00:36:22|580|00:36:29|500</wrap>definitely for the progressing individual, says Master D.K., and we start here entering from 0 <wrap hide>264|00:36:29|500|00:36:44|160</wrap>to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. So we have taken the Sepharial signs here, the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, <wrap hide>265|00:36:44|740|00:36:53|660</wrap>but it's also possible to reverse this and to consider, in a way, since we go Jupiter, Mars, <wrap hide>266|00:36:53|660|00:37:03|200</wrap>Sun, we could do Sun, Mars to be considered, and Sun, Mars to be considered, and Jupiter to be <wrap hide>267|00:37:03|200|00:37:13|560</wrap>considered over here for the 10 to 0 decanate. We saw that Stephen Pugh did it this way. He did <wrap hide>268|00:37:13|560|00:37:23|500</wrap>Sun, Mars, and Jupiter, and Nicholas Milen worked with Sun, the Moon, and Mercury. Everyone <wrap hide>269|00:37:23|500|00:37:30|460</wrap>agrees, however, I think, well at least the Tibetan states, that when we're dealing with a <wrap hide>270|00:37:30|460|00:37:41|260</wrap>clockwise wheel and moving towards soul infusion, we use Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun. Okay, now notice <wrap hide>271|00:37:41|260|00:37:50|400</wrap>that in all the fire signs, a combination of Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun are found ruling the <wrap hide>272|00:37:50|400|00:37:59|960</wrap>decanates. In Aries, it's Jupiter, Sun, Mars. In Leo, it is Mars, Sun, Jupiter, and in Sagittarius, <wrap hide>273|00:38:00|160|00:38:06|760</wrap>it's Jupiter, Mars, Sun. That in itself is interesting and tells us about the somewhat <wrap hide>274|00:38:06|760|00:38:15|860</wrap>fiery nature of the planets involved. Okay, and then this in here is a simple statement <wrap hide>275|00:38:15|860|00:38:21|520</wrap>of Alan Leo's and Sepharial's decanates. Now, the way I've divided this chart, <wrap hide>276|00:38:23|440|00:38:27|800</wrap>of course, you know, you can simply, if you want to study these things, all you have to do is just <wrap hide>277|00:38:27|800|00:38:33|540</wrap>freeze the screen. And then if I've glossed over something relatively rapidly, <wrap hide>278|00:38:34|240|00:38:42|200</wrap>it will be frozen for you, so you can study it if you wish. Now, the way I've done this <wrap hide>279|00:38:42|780|00:38:48|400</wrap>is I've talked about the different stages. And we're not so interested in the strictly <wrap hide>280|00:38:48|400|00:38:56|400</wrap>physical or Lemurian stage, the strictly Atlantean or emotional stage, or the early phases of the <wrap hide>281|00:38:56|400|00:39:02|920</wrap>Arian stage, which has a mental focus. We're interested more in applying this information, <wrap hide>282|00:39:02|920|00:39:08|440</wrap>at least to the aspirant, who is integrating his personality and reorienting his personality, <wrap hide>283|00:39:08|920|00:39:15|720</wrap>and is therefore, in a way, on the reversing wheel. He's reorienting his personality <wrap hide>284|00:39:16|840|00:39:25|220</wrap>aspirationally. And then in the second decanate, he's the disciple who is gaining mental control. <wrap hide>285|00:39:25|320|00:39:32|820</wrap>And in the third decanate, he is someone who is bringing the spirit in. Now, remember, <wrap hide>286|00:39:33|640|00:39:41|820</wrap>I think it's obvious and can be proven that no matter what decanate you may be born in, <wrap hide>287|00:39:42|020|00:39:48|120</wrap>you can be at any of the seven... of the six stages of development. You can be a Lemurian man, <wrap hide>288|00:39:48|180|00:39:54|220</wrap>Atlantean, early Arian. You can be the aspirant. You can be the disciple. And you can be the soul- <wrap hide>289|00:39:54|220|00:40:01|780</wrap>infused individual responding to the spirit, born in any of the decanates. So it is not to be <wrap hide>290|00:40:01|780|00:40:07|020</wrap>decided that because you are born in a particular decanate, you are at a certain stage of evolution. <wrap hide>291|00:40:07|280|00:40:14|460</wrap>That would be, I think, a mistake. Also, we look at, independently of the decanates, we look at three <wrap hide>292|00:40:15|440|00:40:22|140</wrap>phases of rulership. Jupiter is the orthodox ruler, and it operates for a long time <wrap hide>293|00:40:22|820|00:40:29|920</wrap>until the individual is truly becoming soul infused. Then the Earth takes over. <wrap hide>294|00:40:30|780|00:40:39|220</wrap>And finally, we have Mars as the ruler of the decanate, which indicates that not only are <wrap hide>295|00:40:39|220|00:40:45|320</wrap>you becoming soul infused, but you are becoming spirit infused in your soul nature. <wrap hide>296|00:40:46|820|00:40:53|660</wrap>So now let's... you can study this and I can send this to you. I can go through... long, I can go <wrap hide>297|00:40:53|660|00:41:02|620</wrap>through this slowly enough for you to freeze the screen and study it if you wish. At any point, <wrap hide>298|00:41:02|720|00:41:09|120</wrap>you could freeze the screen and study this. So I'll go through slowly enough so that is possible. <wrap hide>299|00:41:10|100|00:41:17|000</wrap>Here's the emotional phase. We're still under Jupiter as the exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>300|00:41:18|540|00:41:27|100</wrap>Sometimes it is interesting what is said, I think. So, you know, for instance, in the strictly <wrap hide>301|00:41:27|100|00:41:33|320</wrap>Lemurian stage, if we look at what Jupiter can mean, it is a wonderful esoteric planet. <wrap hide>302|00:41:33|580|00:41:38|360</wrap>But under the influence of lower Jupiter, we have the primitive instinct-driven man <wrap hide>303|00:41:38|920|00:41:42|920</wrap>seeking full gratification of the instinctual nature. He is the centaur, <wrap hide>304|00:41:43|810|00:41:49|640</wrap>an animal as much as a man, and under the lower meaning of the falling gripe or vulture, <wrap hide>305|00:41:49|640|00:41:56|400</wrap>he grasps what he wants gluttonously. We know that Jupiter is associated with excess and with <wrap hide>306|00:41:56|400|00:42:02|780</wrap>gluttony. His sacral center is highly stimulated. We understand the Sagittarius rules of the <wrap hide>307|00:42:02|780|00:42:10|380</wrap>sacral center in general, as well as the Ajna. He covers ground rapidly in search of satiation. <wrap hide>308|00:42:10|940|00:42:17|020</wrap>He is the hunter conditioned by the evolutionary theme, "let food be sought." I think that's <wrap hide>309|00:42:17|020|00:42:23|040</wrap>interesting and you can go into the details yourself later as you wish. This is not strictly <wrap hide>310|00:42:23|040|00:42:30|400</wrap>the Tibetan's material, so I don't spend as long on it. In the emotional or Atlantean stage of <wrap hide>311|00:42:30|400|00:42:36|840</wrap>consciousness, you're still under the orthodox ruler Jupiter. Remember, Jupiter is not all high <wrap hide>312|00:42:36|840|00:42:44|360</wrap>and wonderful things. It is the satisfaction of desire, whether that desire is low or whether it <wrap hide>313|00:42:44|360|00:42:51|660</wrap>is high. So during the emotional phase of development and still ruled by lower Jupiter, <wrap hide>314|00:42:54|140|00:43:00|540</wrap>the undeveloped man... I better put that in... the undeveloped man seeks to expand his range of <wrap hide>315|00:43:00|540|00:43:06|760</wrap>gratifications and fulfillments of his astral body. He seeks a widened scope of pleasurable, <wrap hide>316|00:43:06|900|00:43:14|500</wrap>sentient contacts. And we are told that the undeveloped man in Sagittarius demonstrates <wrap hide>317|00:43:14|500|00:43:21|480</wrap>self-centeredness. He's centered very much in his desire nature and the experimental approach. This <wrap hide>318|00:43:21|480|00:43:28|660</wrap>is in the Esoteric Astrology 333. This applies both to emotionally polarized Sagittarius and to those <wrap hide>319|00:43:28|660|00:43:34|340</wrap>who are beginning to develop the concrete mind. But the astral body is still in control, of course, <wrap hide>320|00:43:34|800|00:43:40|500</wrap>even while beginning to develop the concrete mind. As Sagittarius brings in much 6th Ray, the Sagittarian <wrap hide>321|00:43:41|030|00:43:47|420</wrap>at the strictly... let's see, gotta find it... at the strictly emotional phase of development, <wrap hide>322|00:43:47|520|00:43:53|720</wrap>is willing to go to inordinate lengths to acquire that which he envisions as desirable. <wrap hide>323|00:43:54|440|00:44:01|200</wrap>So he sees what he wants and is motivated through desire to attain it. The solar plexus center under <wrap hide>324|00:44:01|200|00:44:07|280</wrap>Mars, a planet important to Sagittarius, is highly activated. And rather than lay himself upon the <wrap hide>325|00:44:07|280|00:44:16|040</wrap>altar of sacrifice, which is one of the higher meanings of Ara, the altar, he sacrifices others, <wrap hide>326|00:44:16|360|00:44:23|040</wrap>animals, and humans, to the satisfaction of his desire nature. Primitive religious instincts may <wrap hide>327|00:44:23|040|00:44:29|200</wrap>appear at this phase. Okay, so I'm not really getting into the... um, how this would change in <wrap hide>328|00:44:29|200|00:44:34|560</wrap>every decanate. You can figure that out for yourself. Basically, we're dealing with the <wrap hide>329|00:44:34|560|00:44:43|580</wrap>rudder shifts of the Sun over here from the 30 to 20. We're dealing with the Moon or Mars from <wrap hide>330|00:44:44|380|00:44:52|260</wrap>20 to 10. And we're dealing with Mercury or Jupiter from 10 to 0. <wrap hide>331|00:44:55|160|00:45:02|960</wrap>Yeah, okay. Remembering, of course, you know, that... yeah, that is, that is, that is correct. <wrap hide>332|00:45:03|840|00:45:12|760</wrap>Okay. Now we go on to the lower mental or lower personal phase. <wrap hide>333|00:45:14|100|00:45:18|300</wrap>We're still under Jupiter because the lower mental man, who is integrated, you know, <wrap hide>334|00:45:18|440|00:45:26|660</wrap>beginning to focus his mind somewhat, and Sagittarius always gives the power of increasing <wrap hide>335|00:45:27|340|00:45:34|820</wrap>focus, is not yet really a spiritual being. The kamma manus, we have been told, <wrap hide>336|00:45:35|280|00:45:41|440</wrap>is characteristic of Sagittarius, and we are still at that phase where kamma is strong and <wrap hide>337|00:45:41|440|00:45:47|940</wrap>manus is developing, and the fusion of the two is characteristic of the individual. So here, <wrap hide>338|00:45:48|580|00:45:54|020</wrap>this is the ordinary man. As he's beginning to use his mind, he demonstrates a tendency to become <wrap hide>339|00:45:54|020|00:46:01|420</wrap>more focused, and the fluidity and negativity of Pisces becomes concentrated upon the attainment <wrap hide>340|00:46:01|900|00:46:07|180</wrap>of that which is desired, and he can use his mind to do that. The man demonstrates one-pointed, <wrap hide>341|00:46:07|380|00:46:12|900</wrap>selfish instincts. Though he may be, for instance, friendly and kind, this is what D.K. says, <wrap hide>342|00:46:13|340|00:46:21|700</wrap>it is through a desire... it is through a desire for popularity. There's the second ray coming <wrap hide>343|00:46:21|700|00:46:29|000</wrap>in, and the love of being loved of Jupiter. There is a good expression of the individual. <wrap hide>344|00:46:29|300|00:46:34|160</wrap>This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian subject, and shows also the tendency <wrap hide>345|00:46:34|160|00:46:41|760</wrap>of the soul to turn all evil, eventually, into good. The lessons of life are being learned, <wrap hide>346|00:46:41|860|00:46:47|700</wrap>and the experiment is going on. This is from Esoteric Psychology... no, Esoteric Astrology, <wrap hide>347|00:46:47|700|00:46:56|640</wrap>page 118. Right around there, 118 and 119, you find a very useful tabulation that we have <wrap hide>348|00:46:56|640|00:47:03|700</wrap>been through already, and it deals with the mutable cross - the individual moving clockwise on the <wrap hide>349|00:47:03|700|00:47:08|860</wrap>mutable cross, and the individual moving counterclockwise on the mutable cross. So it is <wrap hide>350|00:47:08|860|00:47:16|500</wrap>in this phase that D.K.'s description of the undeveloped man in Sagittarius is particularly <wrap hide>351|00:47:16|500|00:47:23|900</wrap>fitting. He demonstrates self-centeredness and the experimental approach. The cultivation of his <wrap hide>352|00:47:23|900|00:47:32|460</wrap>concrete mind... now we remember that Mercury can be associated with that first decanate, even though <wrap hide>353|00:47:32|460|00:47:40|080</wrap>in a way, we would consider for such a person the Sun as the first decanate, but the 10 to 0 <wrap hide>354|00:47:40|080|00:47:45|600</wrap>area is ruled by Mercury, according to Sepharial. The cultivation of his concrete mind under Mercury <wrap hide>355|00:47:45|600|00:47:52|200</wrap>as the ruler of the third of the clockwise decanates makes experimentation possible. He can <wrap hide>356|00:47:52|200|00:47:59|380</wrap>learn from his experience. He continues to seek a wider range of experiences under Jupiter, <wrap hide>357|00:47:59|940|00:48:06|480</wrap>because we remember that Jupiter can also be considered as the ruler of the 0 to 10, when we are <wrap hide>358|00:48:06|480|00:48:14|440</wrap>moving in the clockwise direction. There are many streams of energy brought in here to explain the <wrap hide>359|00:48:14|440|00:48:21|980</wrap>dynamics of any particular section of the sign in which the man can be born. As his experiences <wrap hide>360|00:48:21|980|00:48:31|160</wrap>widen, his mind broadens. He can include more of his environment and develop the <wrap hide>361|00:48:31|160|00:48:39|200</wrap>ability to compare. So the widening of his understanding and context awakens Mercury, the power <wrap hide>362|00:48:39|200|00:48:45|040</wrap>of comparison. He can apply his one point of mentality to the fulfillment of his desires. <wrap hide>363|00:48:45|560|00:48:54|860</wrap>Okay, so that is kind of a... that is kind of a discussion of the exoteric rulership of Jupiter <wrap hide>364|00:48:55|380|00:49:02|260</wrap>in relation to the first three phases of personality development, which occur over such a very <wrap hide>365|00:49:02|820|00:49:09|820</wrap>long time, really millions of years before a man can turn into an aspirant, and you might almost <wrap hide>366|00:49:09|820|00:49:20|300</wrap>think, you know, maybe some 20 million years in many cases. Okay, now, excuse me, we have reached <wrap hide>367|00:49:21|340|00:49:30|220</wrap>a phase where we have the aspirational nature waking up, and it's the higher personal nature, <wrap hide>368|00:49:30|220|00:49:39|100</wrap>and we are integrating the personality. In a way, we are still under the power of Jupiter, <wrap hide>369|00:49:40|020|00:49:50|740</wrap>because Jupiter is not yet superseded. Okay, so Sagittarius is a sign fostering eventually <wrap hide>370|00:49:51|260|00:49:57|840</wrap>coordination and integration. It represents alignment, bringing all things into a straight <wrap hide>371|00:49:57|840|00:50:04|860</wrap>line, and we can see how doing that would facilitate the integration process. It greatly <wrap hide>372|00:50:04|860|00:50:11|180</wrap>promotes the integration of the personality. Jupiter also is an integrative, coordinated <wrap hide>373|00:50:11|180|00:50:15|500</wrap>influence. It is the force which brings all things together, we have been told. <wrap hide>374|00:50:16|300|00:50:22|480</wrap>What is said about Sagittarius and the ordinary man still applies here. So let us see what is <wrap hide>375|00:50:22|480|00:50:27|840</wrap>said about Sagittarius and the ordinary man, even though we are integrating our personality <wrap hide>376|00:50:27|840|00:50:33|940</wrap>and redirecting it, and in a sense we're on the counterclockwise wheel. Here the ordinary man <wrap hide>377|00:50:33|940|00:50:39|260</wrap>begins to demonstrate the tendency to become more focused. We've discussed this, and the fluidity <wrap hide>378|00:50:39|260|00:50:44|020</wrap>and negativity of Pisces become concentrated upon the attainment of that which is desired. <wrap hide>379|00:50:44|780|00:50:48|440</wrap>The man demonstrates one point of selfish instincts, and though he may be, for instance, <wrap hide>380|00:50:48|440|00:50:53|280</wrap>friendly and kind, it is through a desire for popularity. So he's still very self-centered, <wrap hide>381|00:50:53|500|00:50:59|000</wrap>personally centered. This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian <wrap hide>382|00:50:59|000|00:51:05|120</wrap>subject, and shows also the tendency of the soul to turn all evil eventually into good, etc. But <wrap hide>383|00:51:06|040|00:51:13|780</wrap>the factor of aspiration—and we can link Jupiter indeed to that uplifting sense of following a <wrap hide>384|00:51:13|780|00:51:19|340</wrap>vision, which is aspiration—the factor of aspiration now emerges, and the integrated <wrap hide>385|00:51:19|340|00:51:24|100</wrap>Sagittarian personality begins to reach beyond itself, which is another of those Jupiterian <wrap hide>386|00:51:24|100|00:51:30|140</wrap>phases. It's not really right here for us yet to apply the esoteric ruler of Earth, because the man <wrap hide>387|00:51:30|140|00:51:36|040</wrap>is not truly a disciple, but to a degree he's reaching out to more and more of the aspects of <wrap hide>388|00:51:36|040|00:51:42|480</wrap>Earth, so his consciousness is being broadened. Not only is there solar plexus development, <wrap hide>389|00:51:43|360|00:51:53|180</wrap>but Ajna center activation, which increases the one-pointedness of the personality, because the <wrap hide>390|00:51:53|180|00:52:00|760</wrap>power to focus is very much connected with the Ajna center. Ajna center has many rays associated <wrap hide>391|00:52:00|760|00:52:07|260</wrap>with it, but at a certain point also the sixth ray of vision. The urge to see that which lies <wrap hide>392|00:52:07|260|00:52:15|340</wrap>beyond the present and limiting ring-pass-not grows. So he's interested in expanding his scope <wrap hide>393|00:52:15|340|00:52:21|860</wrap>of experience and awareness, and this of course expands his consciousness. The influence of the <wrap hide>394|00:52:21|860|00:52:29|040</wrap>Earth enters slightly, beckoning exploration, at least of our planet, and all of its many life <wrap hide>395|00:52:29|040|00:52:34|580</wrap>forms, and the widening of horizons. We see—you know, I like to call it the National Geographic <wrap hide>396|00:52:34|580|00:52:41|080</wrap>consciousness, where we want to travel all over the Earth and find out what's going on in all the <wrap hide>397|00:52:41|080|00:52:47|360</wrap>different areas, and among the different groups of people, the nations, tribes, and so forth. It's an <wrap hide>398|00:52:47|360|00:52:55|900</wrap>expansive consciousness which begins to take place under Jupiter, which is also the decanate <wrap hide>399|00:52:55|900|00:53:00|900</wrap>ruler of the first decanate, as we will discuss. The Sagittarian at this stage is becoming the <wrap hide>400|00:53:00|900|00:53:10|640</wrap>advanced man, and the following applies: one-pointedness and directed approach that <wrap hide>401|00:53:10|640|00:53:19|500</wrap>we find on page 333 of Esoteric Astrology, where he discusses these different ways in which the <wrap hide>402|00:53:19|500|00:53:25|040</wrap>people in the different signs respond according to their level of consciousness. Now <wrap hide>403|00:53:25|040|00:53:35|880</wrap>let's look at at least some of this. We have Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun <wrap hide>404|00:53:36|600|00:53:44|800</wrap>going—Jupiter from 0 to 10 on the counterclockwise wheel—and if you are an aspiring <wrap hide>405|00:53:44|800|00:53:50|460</wrap>individual, you are integrating your personality in a higher sense, you are orienting yourself <wrap hide>406|00:53:50|460|00:53:56|540</wrap>towards something wider and better. How might this Jupiterian rulership work? <wrap hide>407|00:53:58|520|00:54:05|760</wrap>Excuse me. Jupiter rules this decan and brings the broadening of the personality life, <wrap hide>408|00:54:06|240|00:54:12|080</wrap>and the elevation of aspiration is no longer strictly low desire, although the individual <wrap hide>409|00:54:12|080|00:54:17|160</wrap>has not yet entirely solved the problem of low desire because he's not a disciple or initiate. <wrap hide>410|00:54:17|160|00:54:23|840</wrap>He's simply an aspirant and an advanced man, yet there is an elevation of aspiration. A generally <wrap hide>411|00:54:23|840|00:54:34|140</wrap>positive and uplifting attitude towards life might be expected, perhaps initially with a selfish or <wrap hide>412|00:54:34|140|00:54:39|520</wrap>personal motive, as we still are in a relatively personal phase and we know that aspirants can <wrap hide>413|00:54:39|520|00:54:47|400</wrap>certainly be selfish. Even disciples can. A free-ranging and explorative attitude demonstrates. <wrap hide>414|00:54:47|840|00:54:54|400</wrap>So under Jupiter, incorporating more and more of one's environment, not only the external <wrap hide>415|00:54:54|400|00:55:00|080</wrap>environment but the internal environment, and then generally expanding the horizon and the <wrap hide>416|00:55:00|080|00:55:07|800</wrap>scope of participation and the scope of vision—expanding the consciousness is involved here <wrap hide>417|00:55:08|670|00:55:17|080</wrap>for the higher personal phase, which is leading into that of the aspirant. Now when we get into <wrap hide>418|00:55:17|080|00:55:26|120</wrap>the Mars phase for 10 to 20, we have increased personal commitment. Remember we have aura of <wrap hide>419|00:55:26|120|00:55:33|420</wrap>the altar here and aspiration. Mars is fiery aspiration. Jupiter is the vision towards which <wrap hide>420|00:55:33|420|00:55:41|520</wrap>aspiration aspires, the uplifting power of it. The man has some great objective towards which <wrap hide>421|00:55:41|520|00:55:47|880</wrap>He focuses all his energies and he's willing to fight his way there. There's a lot of battle in <wrap hide>422|00:55:47|880|00:55:53|760</wrap>that second decanate of Sagittarius. In this case, it's battle for what is right, for what is good, <wrap hide>423|00:55:54|220|00:56:01|720</wrap>for what is seen as best. He is increasingly willing to sacrifice. Mars is a planet of heroic <wrap hide>424|00:56:01|720|00:56:06|740</wrap>sacrifice and aura of the altar is involved here. He is increasingly willing to sacrifice <wrap hide>425|00:56:07|400|00:56:15|700</wrap>to fulfill his objective. He fights for his ideal. I think we can... I think that's pretty <wrap hide>426|00:56:16|340|00:56:22|340</wrap>straightforward. Of course, the thing we would have to do, you know, to substantiate this is to go <wrap hide>427|00:56:22|340|00:56:27|900</wrap>into the lives of famous people when their son is in a particular decanate, for instance this <wrap hide>428|00:56:27|900|00:56:35|700</wrap>decanate, and see how the sub-quality of Mars might apply. Now, you know, when you take a decanate <wrap hide>429|00:56:35|700|00:56:41|380</wrap>you also have its first five degrees and second five degrees. It's day phase, so to speak, the <wrap hide>430|00:56:41|380|00:56:48|740</wrap>positive day phase, and it's night phase. It's more outward turning effort and it's more inward <wrap hide>431|00:56:48|740|00:56:55|980</wrap>turning orientation. And then, of course, we can divide things down into the Dvada Shamshas, the <wrap hide>432|00:56:55|980|00:57:02|600</wrap>two and a half degree sections, each of them ruled by different planets and get a further refinement. <wrap hide>433|00:57:03|100|00:57:10|080</wrap>I guess, you know, we can split many hairs in astrology. It's possible to become extremely <wrap hide>434|00:57:10|080|00:57:18|320</wrap>detailed in our analysis, but what is more important, I would say, is to make sure <wrap hide>435|00:57:19|920|00:57:30|640</wrap>that we have the essentials of our spiritual unfoldment within our minds, so we do not <wrap hide>436|00:57:30|640|00:57:38|140</wrap>become lost in the details. My old teacher used to say, and I really understand him better now <wrap hide>437|00:57:38|140|00:57:43|700</wrap>because I was so interested in astrology at the time, he said, "Well, it's best not to become too <wrap hide>438|00:57:43|700|00:57:52|040</wrap>involved in the sideshow if you miss the main event." So, no matter how much we become involved <wrap hide>439|00:57:52|040|00:58:01|080</wrap>in the technicalities of astrology, we must keep the main event in mind. And that main event is <wrap hide>440|00:58:05|140|00:58:13|140</wrap>liberation, identification, soul infusion, monadic destiny—all of those things. We have to follow <wrap hide>441|00:58:13|700|00:58:20|960</wrap>the path which we as a soul have determined before birth. That is the most important thing. <wrap hide>442|00:58:21|740|00:58:30|280</wrap>Okay, now the next decanate, which is the 20 to 30 decanate of the higher type of individual, <wrap hide>443|00:58:31|340|00:58:38|180</wrap>is ruled by the sun, and the man exerts a positive influence under the sun. <wrap hide>444|00:58:38|180|00:58:45|720</wrap>He is enthusiastic and inspiring to others. He warms them—the sunny disposition. <wrap hide>445|00:58:46|480|00:58:56|860</wrap>He vitalizes them. He embodies a Leo sun, his vision, and Sagittarius, and can direct others, <wrap hide>446|00:58:57|140|00:59:05|240</wrap>can illumine their path, and can reinforce their identity and why they should be treading that <wrap hide>447|00:59:05|240|00:59:12|220</wrap>particular path. They look to him, they look to you, and you... I guess I'm using the second <wrap hide>448|00:59:12|220|00:59:18|260</wrap>person here, and you direct, even if only as a personality. Well, let's just say that the sun <wrap hide>449|00:59:18|260|00:59:26|540</wrap>power of the soul is coming in stronger here. Okay, so we have dealt with the fourth phase <wrap hide>450|00:59:26|540|00:59:33|140</wrap>of development, which is aspirational. It's related to the higher personal and to integration <wrap hide>451|00:59:33|140|00:59:39|480</wrap>and to the reorientation of the individual as a true aspirant. And I would say, you know, <wrap hide>452|00:59:39|600|00:59:45|380</wrap>Sagittarius is one of the major signs of aspiration. And so when you have an aspirant <wrap hide>453|00:59:45|380|00:59:53|640</wrap>on Sagittarius... in Sagittarius, they really do aspire. Okay, I have many other <wrap hide>454|00:59:54|200|01:00:01|200</wrap>things being said here, but I'll just go through them slowly here so you can <wrap hide>455|01:00:01|200|01:00:09|220</wrap>freeze the screen if you wish to. Let's see here. Yeah, there we go. <wrap hide>456|01:00:10|280|01:00:17|060</wrap>And if you don't wish to, you certainly don't have to. Okay, now we move on into a phase <wrap hide>457|01:00:17|080|01:00:24|480</wrap>which is very important to us. We have now done one hour of work. So this is, in a way, <wrap hide>458|01:00:24|480|01:00:32|140</wrap>the beginning of the second part of Esoteric Astrology Adventure, number 75. And we're going <wrap hide>459|01:00:32|140|01:00:41|920</wrap>on the second hour of it. Now we are talking about the disciple. And he's coming more and <wrap hide>460|01:00:41|920|01:00:48|380</wrap>more under the influence of the soul. And his mind is being more and more focused as an agent <wrap hide>461|01:00:48|380|01:00:56|520</wrap>of the plan. As we discussed earlier, Sagittarius can grasp the vision of the plan, which is the <wrap hide>462|01:00:57|180|01:01:07|160</wrap>directing thought of the planetary Logos. So now he's definitely coming under the influence <wrap hide>463|01:01:07|160|01:01:17|180</wrap>of the esoteric ruler. I do not think that the exoteric ruler, Jupiter, ever quite abates. It's <wrap hide>464|01:01:17|180|01:01:25|380</wrap>such an important planet. And I would think that throughout Sagittarius, it is operative, <wrap hide>465|01:01:25|780|01:01:30|960</wrap>always uplifting. It is, in a way, one of the most important planets in our solar system, <wrap hide>466|01:01:31|580|01:01:42|340</wrap>most akin, most like the sun in its ray structure, perhaps, a powerful second ray soul of both the <wrap hide>467|01:01:42|340|01:01:57|040</wrap>sun and Jupiter. So, as D.K. has told us, we do not have the complete waning of any exoteric ruler. <wrap hide>468|01:01:58|080|01:02:08|240</wrap>But the esoteric ruler makes of the exoteric ruler a kind of subset, and the energies are <wrap hide>469|01:02:09|040|01:02:15|600</wrap>combined. So we should never say that simply because you are a disciple, you have lost the <wrap hide>470|01:02:15|600|01:02:21|840</wrap>Jupiterian influence in Sagittarius. It still applies, and I would say tends to apply to the <wrap hide>471|01:02:21|840|01:02:28|840</wrap>higher levels of your understanding. Okay, now, so let's see what we have here under the Earth. <wrap hide>472|01:02:30|060|01:02:37|280</wrap>The disciple of Sagittarius is now treading the path, definitely treading the path. The true <wrap hide>473|01:02:37|280|01:02:42|900</wrap>disciple is an initiate of the first degree and has definitely found the path. And that path <wrap hide>474|01:02:42|900|01:02:52|140</wrap>pretty much is a path that is trodden here on Earth through certain types of behaviors. <wrap hide>475|01:02:53|060|01:02:59|400</wrap>With the feet of Pisces and the sort of locomotive thigh power of Sagittarius, <wrap hide>476|01:03:00|160|01:03:07|060</wrap>and the balance of Libra not too far to the left or to the right, he is treading the path. <wrap hide>477|01:03:07|280|01:03:13|840</wrap>Matter of fact, when you think about it, if you look at Libra as the balance between two opposites, <wrap hide>478|01:03:14|340|01:03:22|920</wrap>we can see Sagittarius as the vector or straight line, which rising draws the two opposites <wrap hide>479|01:03:22|920|01:03:31|840</wrap>together, and in that way, forming a kind of an arrow. So thus we can relate those two particular <wrap hide>480|01:03:31|840|01:03:36|740</wrap>signs, Libra and Sagittarius, though unlike Sagittarius and Libra, there are definite <wrap hide>481|01:03:37|900|01:03:46|720</wrap>falls and exaltations. The exaltation of Saturn and the, what is it, the fall of <wrap hide>482|01:03:47|760|01:03:55|020</wrap>Mars? No, that's the detriment. Okay, well, it's just skipping my mind for the moment. I'll come <wrap hide>483|01:03:55|400|01:04:02|940</wrap>back to it. What is it that falls in Libra? Certainly Mars is found in detriment, the Sun. <wrap hide>484|01:04:03|680|01:04:10|440</wrap>Yeah, okay. The Sun exalted in Aries and falling in Libra, where right human relations <wrap hide>485|01:04:11|260|01:04:19|220</wrap>minimize the lower ego or ahamkara, which is one of the lower interpretations of the meaning of the <wrap hide>486|01:04:19|220|01:04:26|880</wrap>Sun. So the disciple in Sagittarius is now treading the path. He is oriented towards <wrap hide>487|01:04:26|880|01:04:37|100</wrap>elevating his energy system, his Earth, as it were. His etheric nature is undergoing great changes. <wrap hide>488|01:04:37|860|01:04:46|160</wrap>That etheric nature is ruled by the Earth. The Moon is ruling the outer form. Okay. And he's <wrap hide>489|01:04:46|160|01:04:52|860</wrap>into a more ideal—there's that word again, sixth-ray Sagittarian word—bringing his Earth <wrap hide>490|01:04:52|860|01:05:00|740</wrap>nature into a more ideal condition. Of course, this we saw even in the early tendency towards <wrap hide>491|01:05:00|740|01:05:07|840</wrap>exercise and yoga and all kinds of physical disciplines and strengthenings in Sagittarius. <wrap hide>492|01:05:07|960|01:05:15|280</wrap>But now we have a definite cultivation of the vitality and of the etheric body and of the <wrap hide>493|01:05:15|280|01:05:22|340</wrap>personality in general, represented by Earth as the collection of energies from a previous <wrap hide>494|01:05:22|340|01:05:29|820</wrap>solar system, which have to be reoriented more towards the soul. So he's bringing his, <wrap hide>495|01:05:30|020|01:05:37|460</wrap>so to speak, Earth into a more ideal condition. He's following the vision, which in general <wrap hide>496|01:05:37|460|01:05:44|620</wrap>is presented by Jupiter, but it's also the vision of our planet as a sacred planet and of <wrap hide>497|01:05:44|620|01:05:52|980</wrap>him as an individual, as a sacred individual. He's elevating his Earth into sacredness <wrap hide>498|01:05:52|980|01:06:00|540</wrap>and contributing to the elevation of the planet Earth towards sacredness. Many people in Sagittarius <wrap hide>499|01:06:00|980|01:06:08|300</wrap>have a great love of the Earth and all of its variety in nature and in peoples. And they are <wrap hide>500|01:06:08|300|01:06:15|920</wrap>determined to have Earth come into its proper condition, which is a soul-guided condition. <wrap hide>501|01:06:16|920|01:06:25|800</wrap>He is engaged in rendering the elemental nature sacred. Now we saw that the Moon was the ruler <wrap hide>502|01:06:25|800|01:06:32|100</wrap>of the second decanate of Sagittarius, according to Sepharial, and that is the elemental nature, <wrap hide>503|01:06:32|100|01:06:39|620</wrap>which has to be elevated through the aspiration of Mars, also in the second decanate. Mars is a very <wrap hide>504|01:06:39|620|01:06:47|880</wrap>uplifting planet and aspiration is a scientific method of elevation. So he wants to render his <wrap hide>505|01:06:47|880|01:06:56|580</wrap>elemental nature sacred. And, you know, so for certain Sagittarian types, slothfulness and <wrap hide>506|01:06:56|580|01:07:03|980</wrap>a poor condition of the physical body are not acceptable because they are not near the archetype <wrap hide>507|01:07:03|980|01:07:10|680</wrap>which he envisions. He is engaged in rendering the elemental nature sacred and the Earth a sacred <wrap hide>508|01:07:10|680|01:07:19|320</wrap>planet. The personality as a form aspires to the heavens. And we have learned, you know, in the <wrap hide>509|01:07:19|320|01:07:24|800</wrap>early Sagittarian type, they're very heaven-bound, as it were, you know, determined to achieve <wrap hide>510|01:07:25|660|01:07:33|280</wrap>heaven, that faraway place which is beautiful and ideal. So when you get a fundamentalist type with <wrap hide>511|01:07:33|280|01:07:41|300</wrap>Sagittarius, they really have this upward-looking, heaven-bound type of aspiration. Now let's see, <wrap hide>512|01:07:41|540|01:07:49|640</wrap>a bit more here, I think. He is learning to lay his prey, which is his lower nature, and you see <wrap hide>513|01:07:49|640|01:07:55|260</wrap>the swooping falcon or the falling gripe is swooping towards its prey and from a heavenly <wrap hide>514|01:07:55|260|01:08:03|880</wrap>perspective grasps that prey and can lay it upon the altar in the second decanate. He is also <wrap hide>515|01:08:03|880|01:08:11|160</wrap>learning to lay his prey, his lower nature, for he is the spiritual hunter now. He's not just <wrap hide>516|01:08:11|160|01:08:18|060</wrap>hunting for food; he's hunting for that which has to be redeemed and uplifted upon the altar. <wrap hide>517|01:08:18|540|01:08:24|740</wrap>He's the spiritual hunter. He lays his lower nature upon the altar, the pyre of self-immolation. <wrap hide>518|01:08:25|500|01:08:36|020</wrap>Self-immolation is a method of the sixth ray for producing the liberation of the soul. So he is <wrap hide>519|01:08:36|020|01:08:43|520</wrap>moving towards the burning ground, and he is putting all that is unworthy upon the <wrap hide>520|01:08:43|520|01:08:49|640</wrap>burning ground. The unworthy is in his grip as the falcon. The falling gripe or falcon, <wrap hide>521|01:08:49|760|01:08:57|340</wrap>which is the symbol of the spirit as hunter, can then swoop down and bear the personality <wrap hide>522|01:08:58|320|01:09:08|140</wrap>to heaven. Bear the personality to heaven so that one day the disciple can become a lesser dragon of <wrap hide>523|01:09:08|140|01:09:14|780</wrap>wisdom under the influence of Draco. Of course, on the way to heaven you have to purify. It's <wrap hide>524|01:09:14|780|01:09:19|160</wrap>interesting that Draco is very much in the heavens. As you look up in the night sky, <wrap hide>525|01:09:19|680|01:09:26|560</wrap>even though Draco represents Kundalini, you're not going to find Draco in the lower part of <wrap hide>526|01:09:26|560|01:09:38|120</wrap>the heavens, at least in the northern hemisphere. You're going to find it in the upper part of the <wrap hide>527|01:09:38|120|01:09:46|580</wrap>little bear and around the pole star. So in a way it represents the highest heavens towards which <wrap hide>528|01:09:46|580|01:09:53|480</wrap>Sagittarius aspires, if the purification upon the altar can be successful. In other words, we don't <wrap hide>529|01:09:53|480|01:09:59|200</wrap>go straight from the heavens, rather straight from grasping the prey straight to the heavens. No, <wrap hide>530|01:09:59|580|01:10:06|720</wrap>we have to lay the earth of man upon the burning ground, upon the altar, and then carry it to the <wrap hide>531|01:10:06|720|01:10:13|520</wrap>heavens. What is said here further about Sagittarius in a more elevated manner, <wrap hide>532|01:10:14|700|01:10:21|300</wrap>Sagittarius upon the reverse wheel: this is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. <wrap hide>533|01:10:21|820|01:10:30|560</wrap>It's really worth reading those paragraphs from page 118 through about page 121, right in there, <wrap hide>534|01:10:31|280|01:10:37|880</wrap>of this book. This is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. The life of a fluid <wrap hide>535|01:10:37|880|01:10:45|320</wrap>response to matter, which is Piscean, becomes that of a focused response to spirit and preparation <wrap hide>536|01:10:45|320|01:10:52|320</wrap>for initiation in Capricorn. Sagittarius may learn everything about what must be done in Capricorn, <wrap hide>537|01:10:52|320|01:11:02|340</wrap>but in Capricorn under karmic Saturn and dharmic Saturn lies the doing of those things. <wrap hide>538|01:11:03|220|01:11:08|680</wrap>The arrow of the mind is projected unerringly towards the goal, and there's where the fifth <wrap hide>539|01:11:08|680|01:11:15|400</wrap>ray comes in because there's great accuracy. D.K. has told us about the fifth ray being involved in <wrap hide>540|01:11:15|400|01:11:20|380</wrap>that aspect of the war, which he calls artillery, and I suppose archery is involved as well. <wrap hide>541|01:11:20|380|01:11:28|700</wrap>And we can well understand that in all instances of letting loose a projectile, <wrap hide>542|01:11:29|560|01:11:38|700</wrap>Sagittarius is involved, whether it's archery, whether it's the firing of large guns, <wrap hide>543|01:11:38|860|01:11:45|820</wrap>the artillery, or whether it's rocketry. We can see Sagittarius involved in all cases, <wrap hide>544|01:11:45|820|01:11:51|660</wrap>and the need for the utmost fifth ray precision, the fifth ray coming through Sagittarius, <wrap hide>545|01:11:52|200|01:11:58|580</wrap>can be well understood. All right, so you know we're entering the disciplic phase here, aren't we? <wrap hide>546|01:11:58|780|01:12:04|040</wrap>And Sagittarius, we are told, is the sign of the one-pointed disciple. So Earth is connected <wrap hide>547|01:12:04|040|01:12:08|820</wrap>with the etheric body, and the Moon with the dense physical body, and here we're definitely <wrap hide>548|01:12:09|800|01:12:15|280</wrap>reorienting the ethers, but at the same time we are vitalizing the outer physical body and <wrap hide>549|01:12:15|280|01:12:23|830</wrap>purifying and sanctifying what we can call our Earth. So now let's move up and take a look at <wrap hide>550|01:12:24|300|01:12:32|740</wrap>some of the possible meanings of the three decanates upon the counterclockwise wheel. <wrap hide>551|01:12:33|880|01:12:38|480</wrap>We review that Jupiter rules the first 10 degrees, Mars the second 10 degrees, <wrap hide>552|01:12:39|440|01:12:50|780</wrap>and the Sun, or the solar angel, or even the monad, the last 10 degrees. The Sun has <wrap hide>553|01:12:51|160|01:12:58|300</wrap>such a ubiquitous meaning. It has a great variety of meanings, and we can find it all the way from <wrap hide>554|01:12:58|300|01:13:06|360</wrap>representing every chakra and every jewel within every chakra to the personality, to that which is <wrap hide>555|01:13:07|180|01:13:13|120</wrap>found as the soul, the sunflower of our life. You go to notice them all the way on up to the <wrap hide>556|01:13:13|120|01:13:19|880</wrap>great, greatest source of radiance within us, the monad. The Sun has many, many meanings, <wrap hide>557|01:13:19|880|01:13:26|260</wrap>and we have to interpret it properly if we can. So now here we're in the Jupiterian decanate, <wrap hide>558|01:13:26|860|01:13:35|200</wrap>zero to ten, for the person who is the true disciple and is becoming soul-infused, <wrap hide>559|01:13:35|200|01:13:42|080</wrap>is on the path, and has taken, I do believe, the first initiation. Otherwise, he would not be the <wrap hide>560|01:13:42|080|01:13:48|500</wrap>true disciple. He may not yet be the accepted disciple, but he's on his way. The disciple's <wrap hide>561|01:13:48|900|01:13:58|060</wrap>consciousness is rapidly expanding, especially with regard to inner things. The outer quest, <wrap hide>562|01:13:58|100|01:14:03|140</wrap>which is typical of Sagittarius, may continue, but there's always an inner meaning applied to <wrap hide>563|01:14:03|140|01:14:08|900</wrap>what is seen in the outer sense. He speaks the truth. Now, that is a great Sagittarian theme, <wrap hide>564|01:14:09|080|01:14:16|160</wrap>the truth, just as lying in the earlier days can be a Sagittarian liability. The hunter's tale, <wrap hide>565|01:14:16|400|01:14:22|500</wrap>the fish tale, you know, how big was that elk that you shot? How big was that fish that you caught? <wrap hide>566|01:14:23|140|01:14:28|340</wrap>Exaggeration is a problem for Sagittarius, but not later, when the fifth ray comes in. He speaks the <wrap hide>567|01:14:28|340|01:14:35|540</wrap>truth, that is, his words are in harmony with the truth. Now, take a look here at Lyra, the first <wrap hide>568|01:14:35|540|01:14:41|940</wrap>decanate. The whole idea of the seven strings in the guitar or the bow or the harp are there, <wrap hide>569|01:14:41|960|01:14:51|520</wrap>and your words must ring true with these true fundamental sounds that come from the divine <wrap hide>570|01:14:51|520|01:14:56|340</wrap>harp. Now we're looking at the first decanate associated not so much with the falling gripe, <wrap hide>571|01:14:56|340|01:15:03|440</wrap>but with the falling gripe in his other guise as the lyre, as the seven-stringed harp, displaying <wrap hide>572|01:15:03|440|01:15:11|080</wrap>the seven rays, the seven major vibrations and colors, and our words must ring through with the <wrap hide>573|01:15:11|080|01:15:18|020</wrap>heavenly harmonies. Remember, also, the Sagittarius brings in the fourth ray constellationally, the <wrap hide>574|01:15:18|020|01:15:25|680</wrap>ray of harmony. He is animated by a vision, always a Jupiterian word. He's animated by a vision and <wrap hide>575|01:15:25|680|01:15:31|420</wrap>pursues the vision one-pointedly. He has learned to gather his forces by the time he is a mentally <wrap hide>576|01:15:31|420|01:15:39|760</wrap>focused disciple, guided perhaps by the intuition. He has the power to uplift the vision of those who <wrap hide>577|01:15:39|760|01:15:45|860</wrap>listen to his words. This is something that Jupiter confers. He has the gift of speech, <wrap hide>578|01:15:46|860|01:15:53|620</wrap>and this is Lyra conferring the gift of speech and oftentimes magical speech or what we call <wrap hide>579|01:15:53|620|01:16:01|800</wrap>incantation. So this is a very positive decanate. Everything about the disciple's life is expanding. <wrap hide>580|01:16:02|580|01:16:08|240</wrap>The abstract mind is coming into view. The Antahkarana is in process of being built, <wrap hide>581|01:16:08|420|01:16:16|140</wrap>and an entirely wider world of experience and vision is being offered. The horizons <wrap hide>582|01:16:16|140|01:16:25|580</wrap>are expanding under Jupiter, and the travel, so typical of Sagittarius, the enlarging <wrap hide>583|01:16:26|140|01:16:32|900</wrap>of the sphere of experience may be occurring in the inner worlds as well as the outer, <wrap hide>584|01:16:33|000|01:16:37|760</wrap>but certainly in the inner worlds now. All right, now we have Mars. It's a non-sacred planet, <wrap hide>585|01:16:37|780|01:16:45|400</wrap>but it does belong to discipleship, Mars and Ara the altar. The disciple is burning with zeal, <wrap hide>586|01:16:45|860|01:16:51|640</wrap>and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The zeal comes from Mars and the spirit of self-sacrifice <wrap hide>587|01:16:52|200|01:16:59|100</wrap>from Ara the altar. And we do realize that Sagittarius has more of the sixth ray <wrap hide>588|01:16:59|800|01:17:06|460</wrap>at this time in this world cycle than any other constellation. So in a way, there's something <wrap hide>589|01:17:06|460|01:17:13|240</wrap>about this central decanate, which is very much attuned to the major ray which Sagittarius is <wrap hide>590|01:17:13|240|01:17:18|080</wrap>presently displaying. Now, we'd have to do a little research here to see whether the most <wrap hide>591|01:17:18|080|01:17:24|220</wrap>zealous of Sagittarians are found in the second decanate, and this would also relate, of course, <wrap hide>592|01:17:24|420|01:17:29|680</wrap>to what may be the rays of their ray chart, regardless of what decanate they're born in. <wrap hide>593|01:17:29|680|01:17:38|720</wrap>But all of this is for future research. He brings his life to the altar, but his sacrifice is not <wrap hide>594|01:17:38|720|01:17:45|800</wrap>yet complete. He moves rapidly towards his goal, and Mars gives that rapidity, so does the sixth <wrap hide>595|01:17:45|800|01:17:51|880</wrap>ray. The decanate tells us of the sixth ray. It's associated with running, run not so straight. <wrap hide>596|01:17:52|340|01:17:58|760</wrap>He moves rapidly towards his goal and crosses many burning grounds through his devotion, <wrap hide>597|01:17:59|020|01:18:07|940</wrap>through his zeal. He's willing to walk through fire to reach his goal. So, you know, we do have <wrap hide>598|01:18:07|940|01:18:15|220</wrap>firewalkers among us, and I would wonder how prominent is Mars or Sagittarius in their fire <wrap hide>599|01:18:15|220|01:18:21|320</wrap>walking. The idea of fire walking is keep your eye on the objective, and do not let your <wrap hide>600|01:18:21|320|01:18:29|860</wrap>consciousness dwell upon the hot coals that you are traversing. So a rapid progress across the <wrap hide>601|01:18:29|860|01:18:36|740</wrap>hot coals in the second decanate can be expected. The disciple will make rapid progress because <wrap hide>602|01:18:36|740|01:18:44|800</wrap>he is mentally focused and will driven, and he sees a vision which is inspired by the intuition <wrap hide>603|01:18:45|400|01:18:52|060</wrap>which is increasingly accessible as he rises through the different stages of human development. <wrap hide>604|01:18:52|880|01:18:59|740</wrap>Now, we are dealing with the disciple and the soul-infusing personality. We're not yet the <wrap hide>605|01:18:59|740|01:19:05|220</wrap>initiate. We're not yet the initiate of the third degree here, but the Sun is the ruler of the third <wrap hide>606|01:19:05|220|01:19:12|480</wrap>decanate, the Sun in this case associated with Draco the Dragon. The disciple is illumined, <wrap hide>607|01:19:12|580|01:19:18|380</wrap>Well, relatively illumined at least, illumined by the intuition. He sees a vision and moves towards <wrap hide>608|01:19:18|380|01:19:26|320</wrap>it with positivity. He directs others with authority. He's called the guardian of the <wrap hide>609|01:19:26|320|01:19:35|800</wrap>gate, and he is the director. This we learn in Esoteric Astrology, page 333. He directs others <wrap hide>610|01:19:35|800|01:19:44|000</wrap>with authority because he has the authority of the soul coming increasingly into expression within <wrap hide>611|01:19:44|000|01:19:51|640</wrap>his nature. So you have the positivity of the solar angel expressing through your consciousness, <wrap hide>612|01:19:52|240|01:19:58|920</wrap>and in that way you feel very well guided indeed because you recognize yourself as the <wrap hide>613|01:19:58|920|01:20:04|940</wrap>soul-infused personality, and you recognize that the solar angel is a definite real presence. You <wrap hide>614|01:20:04|940|01:20:13|880</wrap>are increasingly the light of the path or light on the path for others. So you are a point of <wrap hide>615|01:20:13|880|01:20:25|360</wrap>luminosity. You are a beacon. You are a watchtower, a lighthouse as it were, and you can with <wrap hide>616|01:20:25|360|01:20:34|780</wrap>authority direct others upon the path because in a way you, through the sun, embody the results <wrap hide>617|01:20:34|780|01:20:43|380</wrap>of treading the path with earnestness, dedication, and without deflection. Okay, so now <wrap hide>618|01:20:44|480|01:20:51|660</wrap>and you know you can study these things here by just freezing whatever passes. <wrap hide>619|01:20:52|820|01:21:02|260</wrap>I've tried to look at it from all the different angles, naturally not succeeding, but there are <wrap hide>620|01:21:02|260|01:21:09|220</wrap>so many energies to be combined, and not only are the number of energies many and their interactions <wrap hide>621|01:21:09|220|01:21:16|440</wrap>complex, but so much depends on the form of the individual, its condition, how he responds to <wrap hide>622|01:21:16|660|01:21:24|360</wrap>those energies. Finally we reach the last of the six phases which is usually associated with the <wrap hide>623|01:21:24|360|01:21:31|560</wrap>last decanate, but remember that you can be an individual of any degree of spiritual advancement <wrap hide>624|01:21:31|560|01:21:37|940</wrap>and be born in any of the decanates. I think we always have to be careful about making reality <wrap hide>625|01:21:38|550|01:21:49|660</wrap>fit a mentally conceived theory. I mean we may be able to divide the clockwise and counterclockwise <wrap hide>626|01:21:49|660|01:21:58|260</wrap>decanates into six parts and we may say, "Okay, Lemurian, Atlantean, Early Aryan, <wrap hide>627|01:21:58|820|01:22:06|860</wrap>Aspirant, Disciple, Initiate." We can say that. But then we have to observe reality. <wrap hide>628|01:22:07|440|01:22:19|080</wrap>We have to realize that reality is not quite so willing to conform to our particular mental <wrap hide>629|01:22:19|080|01:22:25|400</wrap>formulations. Yes, each one of those decanates may suggest something of the physical, emotional, <wrap hide>630|01:22:25|400|01:22:33|900</wrap>mental, aspirational, soul culture, spirit culture modes. Yes, each one may suggest something of <wrap hide>631|01:22:33|900|01:22:42|560</wrap>that. But a rigid placing of any individual into a particular category of evolution because he is <wrap hide>632|01:22:42|560|01:22:55|380</wrap>born in one of those decanates or with the rising one of those decanates, that I think is not <wrap hide>633|01:22:55|380|01:23:09|620</wrap>the case. We now come to that sixth level which is triatal or monadic. It is the stage of the <wrap hide>634|01:23:09|620|01:23:17|740</wrap>initiate and it is at least conceptually correlated with the third or sun decanate <wrap hide>635|01:23:17|740|01:23:25|280</wrap>of Sagittarius where presumably the soul as the sun shines with complete radiance and even the <wrap hide>636|01:23:25|280|01:23:35|140</wrap>monad as the sun begins to make its presence felt. So it's under Mars as the hierarchical ruler. Now <wrap hide>637|01:23:35|140|01:23:41|320</wrap>this does not mean, again, that we have abandoned the influence of Jupiter, that we have abandoned <wrap hide>638|01:23:41|320|01:23:51|000</wrap>the influence of the Earth, our own planet, but that these two become less focal and Mars in a way <wrap hide>639|01:23:51|000|01:24:00|320</wrap>more focal. Mars, a non-sacred planet, Mars, a fiery planet, Mars having to do with the entire <wrap hide>640|01:24:01|240|01:24:08|940</wrap>reorientation of the astral nature so that the lunar lords begin to ascend and become, <wrap hide>641|01:24:08|960|01:24:17|200</wrap>instead of elementals, devas in their own right and the intuition takes over, the Buddhic nature <wrap hide>642|01:24:17|200|01:24:26|840</wrap>takes over entirely from the aspiring emotional nature. We fire the arrow of aspiration and it <wrap hide>643|01:24:26|840|01:24:35|600</wrap>returns as the truth of straight knowledge, the intuition. So what is said here: the initiated <wrap hide>644|01:24:35|600|01:24:41|480</wrap>disciple has passed the third degree. This is always the case when dealing with true initiation, <wrap hide>645|01:24:41|860|01:24:46|580</wrap>not just initiations of the threshold. The initiated disciple has passed the third degree. <wrap hide>646|01:24:46|580|01:24:55|560</wrap>As he advances, he will become the director of men. We began to see that in the other stage, <wrap hide>647|01:24:55|820|01:25:01|300</wrap>the preceding stage, the stage of discipleship where there was mental focus and the will is <wrap hide>648|01:25:01|300|01:25:07|600</wrap>increasingly focused. He becomes the director of men and the controller of the gate, the gate <wrap hide>649|01:25:07|600|01:25:16|600</wrap>presumably to initiation. He allows, as the master does, certain members to pass into the <wrap hide>650|01:25:16|600|01:25:23|820</wrap>greater light and others are held back, which seem like the prerogatives of the master, the <wrap hide>651|01:25:23|820|01:25:32|500</wrap>director of men and the controller of the gate. Progress along the path: how wide should the <wrap hide>652|01:25:32|500|01:25:38|640</wrap>channel to the higher energies be? I'm remembering a discussion that D.K. talked about between himself <wrap hide>653|01:25:38|640|01:25:46|880</wrap>and Master K.H. in relation to Roberto Assagioli, was the channel to be widened any more than it <wrap hide>654|01:25:46|880|01:25:51|800</wrap>already was. And they decided at the time that he was already sufficiently sensitive, sufficiently <wrap hide>655|01:25:51|800|01:25:56|500</wrap>receptive. There was no need for the widening of the channel. But one can understand under <wrap hide>656|01:25:56|500|01:26:03|240</wrap>Sagittarius that the pathway into the heavens could be widened and more energy could pour down <wrap hide>657|01:26:03|240|01:26:10|620</wrap>that antahkaranic, sutratmic path. So there are many subtle things connected here when we're <wrap hide>658|01:26:10|620|01:26:26|480</wrap>talking about the controller of the gate, the gate to greater descending energy. Mars is the <wrap hide>659|01:26:27|100|01:26:33|600</wrap>In other words, the Moon in a way, and both Mars as well, stand for the personality as a whole and <wrap hide>660|01:26:33|600|01:26:44|260</wrap>it is now completely reoriented. It is no longer given to its ancient prerogatives. There is <wrap hide>661|01:26:44|260|01:26:51|700</wrap>complete discipline of the lunar nature, which is entirely reoriented towards the Sun, we might say. <wrap hide>662|01:26:52|740|01:26:59|780</wrap>So the ancient authority of the personality is rapidly ending. As a matter of fact, D.K. says it <wrap hide>663|01:26:59|780|01:27:06|680</wrap>ends at the third initiation. The hierarchical ruler controls the entirely reoriented lunar <wrap hide>664|01:27:06|680|01:27:13|860</wrap>nature, which is now the one-pointed instrument of the soul-centered initiative. No longer that <wrap hide>665|01:27:13|860|01:27:21|720</wrap>self-centeredness, centered in the lower self. No longer this kind of fourth-ray preoccupation <wrap hide>666|01:27:21|720|01:27:27|440</wrap>with the lower nature. No, there is a higher reorientation and a preoccupation with the soul <wrap hide>667|01:27:27|440|01:27:37|000</wrap>on its own plane. Fire by friction is entirely under the direction of solar fire and electric <wrap hide>668|01:27:37|000|01:27:44|040</wrap>fire. See what's happening here. Electric fire is summoning the rising of the Kundalini <wrap hide>669|01:27:44|650|01:27:52|860</wrap>needed for the long spiritual journey he envisions. Now, aspiration is a scientific method <wrap hide>670|01:27:52|860|01:27:58|180</wrap>of elevation. We are always speaking of the Kundalini being elevated. Sagittarius has something <wrap hide>671|01:27:58|180|01:28:05|400</wrap>to do with this. Mars rules Kundalini latent and Mercury, which is also associated with Sagittarius, <wrap hide>672|01:28:05|400|01:28:15|380</wrap>speeds that fire upon the upward way, creating in the energy system a complete aspirational burning <wrap hide>673|01:28:15|380|01:28:23|920</wrap>ground. This is what Mars can do, setting all energies and centers into a higher state of <wrap hide>674|01:28:23|920|01:28:32|360</wrap>stimulation, raising the fire towards its objective, which is the crown center, ultimately. <wrap hide>675|01:28:32|360|01:28:39|320</wrap>The center of will at the base of the spine, rising in a directed, fiery manner towards the <wrap hide>676|01:28:39|320|01:28:51|140</wrap>center of purpose, which is the crown center. So the man is on fire. Under Mars, the initiate <wrap hide>677|01:28:51|140|01:28:58|280</wrap>has the courage, that's a Martian virtue, to penetrate into the higher realms towards <wrap hide>678|01:28:59|480|01:29:07|560</wrap>Mount Olympus, not Mt. Olympus here. What have we got here? Towards Mount Olympus, which is, <wrap hide>679|01:29:07|580|01:29:14|860</wrap>of course, the head and the head center where Jupiter reigns, the God Jupiter. So again, <wrap hide>680|01:29:14|960|01:29:21|360</wrap>we're coming back to Jupiter, Mars leading into Jupiter, even though Jupiter is the exoteric ruler <wrap hide>681|01:29:21|360|01:29:27|100</wrap>of Sagittarius. And the last analysis, I think, is probably the most important planet connected <wrap hide>682|01:29:27|100|01:29:33|680</wrap>with Sagittarius. He is on his way to becoming a lesser dragon of wisdom under the influence of <wrap hide>683|01:29:33|680|01:29:39|860</wrap>the constellation Draco. Draco is the great dragon of wisdom, the great cosmic dragon of wisdom. <wrap hide>684|01:29:40|400|01:29:47|780</wrap>Our planetary Logos is a dragon of wisdom, and a master is a lesser dragon of wisdom. He's on his <wrap hide>685|01:29:47|780|01:29:54|600</wrap>way to becoming a lesser dragon of wisdom who can cooperate in bringing the Earth towards a state of <wrap hide>686|01:29:54|600|01:30:01|480</wrap>sacredness. I think we can understand how Draco is involved in sacredizing the Earth. <wrap hide>687|01:30:03|280|01:30:12|520</wrap>Okay, so let's see. This is generally under the esoteric rulership of, rather, the hierarchical <wrap hide>688|01:30:12|520|01:30:20|500</wrap>rulership of Mars. So now we begin again with the first decanate, zero to ten. It's all under Mars, <wrap hide>689|01:30:20|500|01:30:26|560</wrap>in a sense, but not leaving out the other esoteric and exoteric rulers, which are the Earth and <wrap hide>690|01:30:26|560|01:30:34|960</wrap>Jupiter. And now we're under Jupiter as a decanate ruler. The, um, yeah, is that correct? I believe. <wrap hide>691|01:30:36|080|01:30:43|880</wrap>Yeah, it goes Jupiter, Sun, Mars. Okay. The initiate sees comprehensively with the eye <wrap hide>692|01:30:43|880|01:30:49|620</wrap>of the soul. Now whenever we're dealing with vision, Jupiter is involved. His vision becomes <wrap hide>693|01:30:49|620|01:30:56|640</wrap>panoramic. That is the gift of true initiation upon the mountaintop, not just limited vision in <wrap hide>694|01:30:56|640|01:31:03|520</wrap>one direction, but in a way the eyes are also in the back of the head. One sees 360 degrees all <wrap hide>695|01:31:03|520|01:31:10|940</wrap>around, and Jupiter represents this panorama. He knows the truth, the truth that comes from <wrap hide>696|01:31:11|620|01:31:18|760</wrap>being the soul on its own plane and from touching the intuition directly, and he speaks a heavenly <wrap hide>697|01:31:18|760|01:31:25|580</wrap>truth. He's able to bring the words and ideas down. Actually, he brings ideas down from the <wrap hide>698|01:31:25|580|01:31:33|000</wrap>realm of ideas and clothes them, instead of in a raucous manner, as the Stymphalian bird suggests, <wrap hide>699|01:31:33|640|01:31:40|720</wrap>with that which is aptly suited to express the nature of this heavenly truth. <wrap hide>700|01:31:41|120|01:31:48|040</wrap>He brings down the truth in ways that convey the vision of truth to others. He brings down the <wrap hide>701|01:31:48|040|01:31:59|760</wrap>words of inspiration and which expands the horizon of vision of others to whom he speaks <wrap hide>702|01:31:59|760|01:32:06|220</wrap>and in whose presence he finds himself. His effect is the constant enlargement—there's a <wrap hide>703|01:32:06|220|01:32:12|860</wrap>Jupiterian word—of the consciousness of those who attend to him. So in a way, he's a true teacher. <wrap hide>704|01:32:12|860|01:32:22|540</wrap>Thinking about Sri Aurobindo, he had lots of Leo and I believe a Sagittarian moon. He was well <wrap hide>705|01:32:22|540|01:32:31|220</wrap>grounded in this ability. There are other great teachers who somehow can expand the vision of <wrap hide>706|01:32:31|220|01:32:37|980</wrap>others until it becomes increasingly panoramic and a wider and wider world is seen. He enters a new <wrap hide>707|01:32:37|980|01:32:43|940</wrap>dimension because Jupiter is also connected with the Buddhic plane and points the way, which <wrap hide>708|01:32:43|940|01:32:52|360</wrap>Sagittarius does. He points the way towards those he inspires. So he directs others towards the <wrap hide>709|01:32:52|360|01:33:02|300</wrap>gates of initiation, and as the master, he controls the opening of these energy gates according to the <wrap hide>710|01:33:02|300|01:33:07|720</wrap>capacity of the individual. You know, if you're a general in an army, you don't want to direct your <wrap hide>711|01:33:07|980|01:33:13|740</wrap>troops into an untenable position. You want to make sure they're strong enough to accomplish what <wrap hide>712|01:33:13|740|01:33:19|520</wrap>they have to accomplish when they enter this new field of intensified energies. So he is the <wrap hide>713|01:33:19|520|01:33:26|420</wrap>controller of the gate. He's the guardian at the gate, but he also directs towards the gate. Okay, <wrap hide>714|01:33:27|380|01:33:35|700</wrap>now we come to the initiate who is born from 20 to 30 degrees. He's under Mars most definitely, <wrap hide>715|01:33:36|320|01:33:41|780</wrap>and the initiate sacrifices his life on the altar. It is complete. He is moving towards the fourth <wrap hide>716|01:33:41|780|01:33:48|700</wrap>initiation and towards self-immolation. He will hold nothing back. In this period when Mars, <wrap hide>717|01:33:48|800|01:33:54|160</wrap>the hierarchical ruler, dominates, the process is one of the elevation of the lunar vehicles <wrap hide>718|01:33:54|160|01:34:02|300</wrap>through burning. So in a way, the essence of these vehicles, the spiritual essence, <wrap hide>719|01:34:02|300|01:34:11|720</wrap>ascends and there is a great transmutation of those lower elements in the vehicles until they <wrap hide>720|01:34:11|720|01:34:19|840</wrap>no longer resist. They become winged; they become increasingly divine. The personality ascends. <wrap hide>721|01:34:20|440|01:34:27|280</wrap>Self-immolation is found here, the immolation of the lower self and also pointing towards the <wrap hide>722|01:34:27|280|01:34:33|600</wrap>immolation of the fourth degree of the higher self or Egoic Lotus, one of the ways of considering <wrap hide>723|01:34:33|600|01:34:39|560</wrap>the higher self, and the Kundalini fire is involved here. So this is a very burning, <wrap hide>724|01:34:39|560|01:34:47|860</wrap>sacrificial experience carrying that which is hinted at by the, in the disciple stage, <wrap hide>725|01:34:48|160|01:34:55|680</wrap>to its consummation. The Sagittarius is not usually one of those signs connected with the <wrap hide>726|01:34:55|680|01:35:03|540</wrap>fourth degree per se, but I'm thinking about the chart of Sir Thomas More, who is now said to be a <wrap hide>727|01:35:03|540|01:35:12|420</wrap>master of the wisdom, and I believe that he had Sagittarius rising, the Sun in Aquarius, and maybe <wrap hide>728|01:35:12|420|01:35:21|980</wrap>the Moon in Aries, and his sacrifice was complete. He, you know, he had that great wisdom and he was <wrap hide>729|01:35:21|980|01:35:31|440</wrap>called, in a play dedicated to his life, "A Man for All Seasons." So he had that sense of human <wrap hide>730|01:35:31|440|01:35:39|480</wrap>universality, at least. Sagittarius was involved. Okay, and also in the life of Mother Teresa, <wrap hide>731|01:35:40|060|01:35:46|340</wrap>I'm not sure what the initiatory level is there, but that was her rising sign as well. So this <wrap hide>732|01:35:46|340|01:35:54|420</wrap>ability to see the larger world picture and to be a true world disciple, I would say, of the third <wrap hide>733|01:35:54|420|01:36:04|480</wrap>degree, I would say so, was present with her in terms of the rulership of, the rulership <wrap hide>734|01:36:05|640|01:36:12|840</wrap>by the Earth, which would be found heliocentrically opposite her Virgo Sun, so therefore in <wrap hide>735|01:36:13|440|01:36:21|420</wrap>self-sacrificial Pisces, which is ruled by Pluto, the lord of death, ruled esoterically there. So <wrap hide>736|01:36:21|420|01:36:28|220</wrap>her Earth position, heliocentrically, is ruled by Pluto, and I think Pluto was, <wrap hide>737|01:36:29|620|01:36:39|540</wrap>I think Pluto was quite close to her seventh house cusp. I wonder if I can find that just very quickly. <wrap hide>738|01:36:40|290|01:36:46|360</wrap>So let's see, let's do it this way. <wrap hide>739|01:36:51|700|01:36:55|470</wrap>Try this, and it would be, <wrap hide>740|01:36:57|600|01:37:08|540</wrap>okay, yeah, Mother Teresa. Okay, look at that Pluto. Well, look at that Pluto. There it is, <wrap hide>741|01:37:08|540|01:37:18|000</wrap>as the esoteric ruler of her Earth position, exactly on the seventh house cusp where you <wrap hide>742|01:37:18|000|01:37:24|740</wrap>meet the other and form relationships. So in a way, she was considered kind of an incarnation of the <wrap hide>743|01:37:24|740|01:37:31|540</wrap>goddess Kali because she was dealing always with the dead and the dying, and trying to <wrap hide>744|01:37:31|540|01:37:41|900</wrap>ameliorate their condition under the Neptune aspect of Pisces, and also the Neptune aspect <wrap hide>745|01:37:41|900|01:37:50|480</wrap>of her Virgo Sun. And there is Sagittarius, and she's born in the Leo decinate, under the Leo <wrap hide>746|01:37:50|480|01:37:58|160</wrap>decinate of Sagittarius, where she is becoming the great example to others. So it's really worth <wrap hide>747|01:37:58|160|01:38:04|820</wrap>studying the charts in relation to some of the things that we are saying. Now we come to <wrap hide>748|01:38:06|300|01:38:15|920</wrap>the initiate working through triadic influence and monadic influence. In the 20 to 30 decinate, <wrap hide>749|01:38:16|060|01:38:22|820</wrap>the last decinate again ruled by the Sun, a very high expression, a soul expression of the Sun. <wrap hide>750|01:38:23|340|01:38:28|980</wrap>He is definitely the director of man, yet he himself is directed by the solar angel. He is <wrap hide>751|01:38:28|980|01:38:34|940</wrap>increasingly the solar angel. He's increasingly entering into solar angelic consciousness, <wrap hide>752|01:38:35|800|01:38:43|620</wrap>into the consciousness of the angel of the presence who, when penetrated, reveals a great <wrap hide>753|01:38:43|620|01:38:51|200</wrap>Sagittarian destination towards the monad. His vision and the vision of the soul are united. <wrap hide>754|01:38:51|200|01:39:00|900</wrap>So he sees with the eye of the soul, and I imagine increasingly the third eye is activated. I think <wrap hide>755|01:39:00|900|01:39:10|220</wrap>I'll put that in. The third eye is increasingly activated. His consciousness is illumined <wrap hide>756|01:39:10|220|01:39:17|580</wrap>by the soul. He has achieved a contemplation. He's achieved illumination. He's achieved <wrap hide>757|01:39:17|580|01:39:24|420</wrap>inspiration, which is the particular gift of Sagittarius in the fivefold system of meditation, <wrap hide>758|01:39:25|600|01:39:31|120</wrap>correlated with science, beginning with Leo. His consciousness is illumined, and he himself has <wrap hide>759|01:39:31|120|01:39:40|460</wrap>become a light upon the path, a great demonstration of the path to others. He has a beacon leading to <wrap hide>760|01:39:40|460|01:39:50|400</wrap>wisdom. He is a beacon of solar light oriented towards the higher worlds, a reliable way-shower. <wrap hide>761|01:39:51|200|01:39:55|520</wrap>Wisdom is demonstrating, and the solar angel is love-wisdom. <wrap hide>762|01:39:57|360|01:40:03|600</wrap>Well, you know, of course we have to see who are the people that are born in this way. As I said, <wrap hide>763|01:40:04|160|01:40:11|000</wrap>Mother Teresa is one. But, you know, can we consider her here in the initiate <wrap hide>764|01:40:11|760|01:40:20|350</wrap>area? Possibly we can. She seems pretty clearly to be a sixth-ray soul, and we must learn how to <wrap hide>765|01:40:20|940|01:40:28|260</wrap>discriminate the functioning of initiates on the various rays. Certainly she had given everything, <wrap hide>766|01:40:28|880|01:40:36|020</wrap>and there were issues of faith as well. Obviously she had been passing through a long <wrap hide>767|01:40:36|020|01:40:43|520</wrap>dark night of the soul, which in some ways she had lost her faith per se, but she persisted <wrap hide>768|01:40:43|520|01:40:51|520</wrap>according to the will. And this is a great test, which apparently she was passing. Okay, so now <wrap hide>769|01:40:51|520|01:40:59|020</wrap>we've gone through this document, and I'll go slowly through it here, in case you want to <wrap hide>770|01:40:59|020|01:41:07|900</wrap>freeze it to study it a little bit more. W.O.C. is the Wheel of Consciousness; W.O.F. is the Wheel of <wrap hide>771|01:41:07|900|01:41:13|680</wrap>Form. There's so much to say in relation to the decanates, but I think the thing that we have to do <wrap hide>772|01:41:14|240|01:41:21|060</wrap>is to make sure we can study the lives of some prominent individuals and see <wrap hide>773|01:41:22|500|01:41:28|620</wrap>exactly how their lives correlated with the indications that the decanates provide. <wrap hide>774|01:41:30|260|01:41:36|720</wrap>Now let's see where we are. Yeah, there's a bit more we can do before we start on Scorpio. <wrap hide>775|01:41:37|600|01:41:47|240</wrap>So the Tibetan is in a way ending. He's ending this discussion. We've discussed the <wrap hide>776|01:41:47|980|01:41:55|500</wrap>decanates in detail, not so much for the Lemurian, Atlantean, and Early Aryan man, but <wrap hide>777|01:41:56|060|01:42:05|760</wrap>for people such as ourselves who are on the reversing wheel and are spiritually oriented. <wrap hide>778|01:42:06|430|01:42:15|240</wrap>Okay, in closing, he says, and here we are on page 193, <wrap quote>In closing, <wrap hide>779|01:42:16|920|01:42:27|430</wrap>I will simply quote to you the two keywords of this sign, both as it proceeds upon the <wrap hide>780|01:42:27|740|01:42:34|100</wrap>ordinary wheel and upon the reversed wheel.</wrap> Remember this question of the ordinary and <wrap hide>781|01:42:34|100|01:42:42|380</wrap>reversed wheel has to do with energy flows and energy orientations within the body. At least <wrap hide>782|01:42:43|370|01:42:51|500</wrap>when interpreting this question of the wheel in terms of human nature, the etheric energy flows <wrap hide>783|01:42:51|500|01:42:58|500</wrap>have to be considered, whether they are descending and expressing below the diaphragm or ascending <wrap hide>784|01:42:58|500|01:43:06|340</wrap>and expressing above the diaphragm. <wrap quote>Their meaning and significance are so obvious that there is no <wrap hide>785|01:43:06|340|01:43:16|580</wrap>need for elucidation. The injunction to the man upon the orthodox wheel is as follows:</wrap><wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap><wrap quote>And the Word said: “Let food be sought.”</wrap> Well, it's interesting because, you know, to feed the body <wrap hide>787|01:43:27|220|01:43:35|160</wrap>or whatever body it may be, the Sagittarian hunter goes forth for nourishment and to fulfill <wrap hide>788|01:43:35|160|01:43:41|540</wrap>the particular vehicle that needs the nourishment. Jupiter comes in there. Of course, also the <wrap hide>789|01:43:41|540|01:43:49|980</wrap>hunting skills of Mars and Chiron is a kind of planet or planetoid also associated with <wrap hide>790|01:43:49|980|01:43:58|560</wrap>Sagittarius. Chiron was a centaur after all. "Let food be sought." So there is an objective <wrap hide>791|01:44:00|020|01:44:10|180</wrap>and that is determined by desire and one goes forth for what that objective can provide. And <wrap hide>792|01:44:10|180|01:44:15|780</wrap>in the beginning, you know, it's not a high objective. It's quite an animal instinctual <wrap hide>793|01:44:15|780|01:44:21|220</wrap>objective. The objective becomes higher and higher. And of course, the nature of the food <wrap hide>794|01:44:22|100|01:44:26|280</wrap>rises. And eventually, if we want to translate this particular <wrap hide>795|01:44:26|280|01:44:32|940</wrap>mantram into its higher meaning, it will be heavenly food indeed. <wrap quote>To the man upon the reversed <wrap hide>796|01:44:32|940|01:44:44|920</wrap>wheel the Word goes forth:</wrap> <wrap quote> “I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another.” </wrap><wrap hide>797|01:44:45|780|01:44:53|560</wrap>We have this endless divine discontent. We have a temporary gratification or satisfaction, <wrap hide>798|01:44:54|160|01:45:01|640</wrap>but it's not enough to hold the progressive Sagittarian who in a way is using some first <wrap hide>799|01:45:01|640|01:45:09|960</wrap>ray types of motion, the motion of progress onward and the motion of driving forward through space. <wrap hide>800|01:45:10|060|01:45:15|620</wrap>It is a very one-pointed sign. In this, we see the connection of the sixth ray and the first ray. <wrap hide>801|01:45:15|780|01:45:21|120</wrap>"I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another." So we can ask ourselves, all of us, <wrap hide>802|01:45:21|540|01:45:27|800</wrap>because all of these signs are relevant to all of us: what is the goal we see? Where are we in <wrap hide>803|01:45:27|800|01:45:36|000</wrap>the process of reaching it? If we have reached it and are becoming satiated by it, have we lifted <wrap hide>804|01:45:36|580|01:45:42|740</wrap>our eyes to see yet another goal beyond the present satisfaction we are experiencing, <wrap hide>805|01:45:43|300|01:45:49|200</wrap>whether it is a more personal or spiritual satisfaction? <wrap quote>May the words of this final <wrap hide>806|01:45:49|200|01:45:58|320</wrap>injunction to the disciple carry meaning to the heart and mind. </wrap>Well, I think <wrap hide>807|01:45:59|720|01:46:08|760</wrap>D.K. wants to see us as progressive human beings. He wants to see us moving on, on the path, <wrap hide>808|01:46:08|760|01:46:16|000</wrap>and not subject to inertia. Being progressive and not subject to inertia. <wrap hide>809|01:46:17|200|01:46:23|820</wrap>He wants us to get on with it and to do all we can to travel upon the way, <wrap hide>810|01:46:24|580|01:46:31|400</wrap>which in a way is the antahkarana, until we can penetrate into the higher dimensions and <wrap hide>811|01:46:32|360|01:46:38|720</wrap>polarize our consciousness there. And immediately upon that polarization comes the <wrap hide>812|01:46:38|720|01:46:45|140</wrap>precipitation of those energies, which can be transformative for our life. <wrap hide>813|01:46:46|120|01:46:57|200</wrap>So this is the discussion of Sagittarius, and over the many years in the future that we will <wrap hide>814|01:46:57|200|01:47:01|860</wrap>experience the sign, be born in this sign, pass our progressed moon through this sign, <wrap hide>815|01:47:02|420|01:47:08|720</wrap>we will incorporate the higher meanings, the higher potentials of it into our nature so that <wrap hide>816|01:47:08|720|01:47:14|380</wrap>it helps us build the causal body. That's one of the most important things. Every sign of the <wrap hide>817|01:47:14|380|01:47:22|480</wrap>zodiac helps us to build the causal body until it is completely fulfilled and is destroyed. And then <wrap hide>818|01:47:22|480|01:47:27|900</wrap>the influence of the zodiac does not cease, not at all, because we become triadic beings, <wrap hide>819|01:47:28|040|01:47:36|580</wrap>indeed we do, but the zodiac continues to give its influence into the triadic life and eventually <wrap hide>820|01:47:36|580|01:47:45|540</wrap>into the monadic life as we progress towards various sacred planets in order to train for <wrap hide>821|01:47:45|540|01:47:54|120</wrap>a still greater outward bound motion away from the solar system. And even if we leave our <wrap hide>822|01:47:54|120|01:48:00|040</wrap>particular solar system, the zodiac is active in relation to all the neighboring solar systems, <wrap hide>823|01:48:00|140|01:48:08|520</wrap>especially in the seven solar systems of which we are one. And perhaps since the zodiac represents <wrap hide>824|01:48:08|520|01:48:15|140</wrap>the heart and the head center of the one about whom naught may be said, it includes a number of the <wrap hide>825|01:48:15|140|01:48:21|180</wrap>constellations towards which the way of higher evolution may lead and influences those <wrap hide>826|01:48:21|180|01:48:31|920</wrap>constellations as well. So we are not done with the zodiac when we leave our soul nature, so to <wrap hide>827|01:48:31|920|01:48:38|260</wrap>speak, on the higher mental plane and focus more as monad triads. And we are not done with the <wrap hide>828|01:48:38|260|01:48:45|320</wrap>constellations of the zodiac as we pursue our paths to other planets and to other stars. We are <wrap hide>829|01:48:45|320|01:48:55|920</wrap>just learning the ABCs. The ABCs. Okay, I guess we can begin a little bit with Scorpio. We are on <wrap hide>830|01:48:55|920|01:49:06|780</wrap>page 193. I guess we have only really covered about a page or so in the book because we have <wrap hide>831|01:49:06|780|01:49:12|700</wrap>to deal with the decanates in greater detail. "Here is a great and powerful sign, which, <wrap hide>832|01:49:13|280|01:49:21|980</wrap>believe it or not, is intimately related to struggling humanity. It is humanity's sign <wrap hide>833|01:49:21|980|01:49:30|580</wrap>above all." So if we wonder why this human experience is so filled with conflict, we have <wrap hide>834|01:49:30|580|01:49:36|080</wrap>to remember that Scorpio is that particular constellation which at this time brings in more <wrap hide>835|01:49:36|080|01:49:44|640</wrap>of the fourth ray of struggle than any other constellation, and that humanity as a kingdom is <wrap hide>836|01:49:44|640|01:49:52|860</wrap>intimately, or as a hierarchy, is intimately connected to Scorpio, its ruler, which is <wrap hide>837|01:49:52|860|01:49:58|360</wrap>connected with the Buddhic plane where harmony at last has to be achieved, and with the planet <wrap hide>838|01:49:58|360|01:50:08|280</wrap>Mercury, which is in a way the God of conflict, and is the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio. So this <wrap hide>839|01:50:08|280|01:50:17|880</wrap>is a dramatic sign, and it is a sign of death, death unto life, a sign of resurrection, and a <wrap hide>840|01:50:17|880|01:50:26|380</wrap>sign which produces some of the most potent experiences in human living. You know, we're <wrap hide>841|01:50:26|380|01:50:31|740</wrap>told that the second initiation is the most difficult initiation through which to pass, <wrap hide>842|01:50:32|440|01:50:38|880</wrap>and Scorpio has almost given its name that the second initiation is associated with all <wrap hide>843|01:50:38|880|01:50:46|940</wrap>the first three, but with the second initiation it has a peculiar connection. D.K. talks about <wrap hide>844|01:50:46|940|01:50:57|400</wrap>the terrific testing experiences in Scorpio. So <wrap quote>We come now to the consideration of a sign <wrap hide>845|01:50:57|400|01:51:07|120</wrap>which is of paramount importance in the life of evolving man.</wrap> not necessarily in the life of the <wrap hide>846|01:51:07|120|01:51:15|520</wrap>initiate, though it does rule the third initiation too, but for the evolving man it has very great <wrap hide>847|01:51:15|520|01:51:23|280</wrap>testing importance. We never know whether we are really fit to move on until we have passed through <wrap hide>848|01:51:23|280|01:51:32|300</wrap>the experiences of Scorpio. <wrap quote>Certain of the signs are in very close relation—through the inflow and <wrap hide>849|01:51:32|300|01:51:40|420</wrap>the outflow of energy—with certain of the major constellations.</wrap> Certain of the signs are in very <wrap hide>850|01:51:40|420|01:51:45|700</wrap>close relation with certain of the major constellations. Now by major constellations <wrap hide>851|01:51:47|780|01:51:53|140</wrap>we are not necessarily meaning the signs of the zodiac or the constellation of the zodiac, <wrap hide>852|01:51:53|280|01:51:59|640</wrap>but others, perhaps like the Great Bear, Little Bear, Sirius, Pleiades, and so forth, and some <wrap hide>853|01:51:59|640|01:52:09|860</wrap>others as well. <wrap quote>These major constellations are, in a few instances, peculiarly connected with the signs of <wrap hide>854|01:52:09|860|01:52:19|820</wrap>the zodiac.</wrap> I think there is with Sirius an unusual connection to Scorpio. <wrap quote>There are four <wrap hide>855|01:52:19|820|01:52:29|980</wrap>of the zodiacal signs which are mysteriously concerned with what one might call the “personality <wrap hide>856|01:52:29|980|01:52:36|780</wrap>expression” (if such an unsuitable term can be used in default of better) of the solar Logos Himself, <wrap hide>857|01:52:36|780|01:52:42|520</wrap>or with the Divine Quaternary, the fourfold manifestation of Deity.</wrap> Now we're up on the cosmic <wrap hide>858|01:52:42|520|01:52:53|880</wrap>planes here, and we are dealing with the solar Logoic quaternary involving, I suppose, his lower <wrap hide>859|01:52:53|880|01:53:01|560</wrap>mind on the four lesser levels of the cosmic plane, his cosmic astral body, his cosmic etheric body, <wrap hide>860|01:53:01|560|01:53:24|600</wrap>and his cosmic physical body. Okay. So, in fact, we are dealing here with agony. Agony is, in a way, <wrap hide>861|01:53:24|600|01:53:35|940</wrap>the personality nature of the solar Logos, and we are going to discuss the zodiacal constellations, <wrap hide>862|01:53:36|180|01:53:41|040</wrap>which are particularly, he says, mysteriously, so that's certainly for us beyond our ken, <wrap hide>863|01:53:41|420|01:53:49|460</wrap>but perhaps Scorpio will be one of them. Let us see. The divine quaternary. We have a kind of <wrap hide>864|01:53:49|460|01:53:57|960</wrap>quaternary, don't we? We have our physical, our etheric, our astral, and our lower mental vehicle, <wrap hide>865|01:53:57|960|01:54:05|520</wrap>or we have a quaternary that might be considered to be the physical etheric, the astral, the lower <wrap hide>866|01:54:05|520|01:54:12|180</wrap>mental, and their union as a personality. That's another way of looking at the divine quaternary, <wrap hide>867|01:54:12|180|01:54:19|700</wrap>the fourfold manifestation of deity, the soul of deity manifesting through the personality nature. <wrap hide>868|01:54:20|440|01:54:31|080</wrap><wrap quote>These four signs are Aries—Leo—Scorpio—Aquarius, </wrap>We have, interestingly here, we have three of them <wrap hide>869|01:54:31|080|01:54:38|240</wrap>on the fixed cross, except for Aries, which is on the cardinal cross, <wrap quote>and they involve the expression <wrap hide>870|01:54:38|240|01:54:44|760</wrap>of the energy of one Cardinal sign and of three signs which form part of the Fixed Cross of the heavens.</wrap> <wrap hide>871|01:54:44|900|01:54:56|720</wrap>Let's see how he assigns them to the solar Logoic quaternary. We remember, yeah, there is a still greater quaternary <wrap hide>872|01:54:56|720|01:55:05|720</wrap>of which our sun has a non-sacred solar Logos, our solar Logos being temporarily non-sacred, <wrap hide>873|01:55:05|720|01:55:14|760</wrap>is part of the quaternary of a still greater being, the cosmic Logos. Okay, so the quaternary is the outer nature. <wrap hide>874|01:55:16|720|01:55:28|380</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>We could express this truth in another manner: God the Father, the Will to manifest, initiates the creative process</wrap> <wrap hide>875|01:55:29|180|01:55:36|340</wrap>which is worked out. Now, in the initiation of the creative process, the will to create, we think about Aries. <wrap hide>876|01:55:36|500|01:55:43|400</wrap>I'm not sure he's going to talk about it in this respect here, but definitely the will to create is Arian. <wrap hide>877|01:55:44|060|01:55:50|880</wrap>The will to fulfillment is Leonian. The will to conquer death is Capricornian. God the Father, the will to manifest, <wrap hide>878|01:55:51|040|01:55:57|100</wrap>initiates the creative processes, a process <wrap quote>which is worked out through the activity of God the Son, <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>the cosmic Christ, crucified upon the Fixed Cross in the heavens. </wrap>So, God the Father, that's the monadic aspect, <wrap hide>880|01:56:06|540|01:56:12|080</wrap>initiates the creative process, which is worked out through the soul nature of the solar Logos, <wrap hide>881|01:56:12|200|01:56:20|260</wrap>which we might call, in this case, the cosmic Christ, who is crucified upon the fixed cross of the heavens. <wrap hide>882|01:56:20|260|01:56:24|360</wrap>Of course, in a way, it's a higher type of fixed cross than we are crucified upon. <wrap hide>883|01:56:25|260|01:56:33|860</wrap>The crucifixion of God the Son as a cosmic Christ upon the fixed cross is of an entirely higher order than anything we can fathom. <wrap hide>884|01:56:35|140|01:56:45|540</wrap><wrap quote>The activity of God [194]the Holy Spirit, implicit in the Mutable Cross, is closely allied to the previous solar system,</wrap> <wrap hide>885|01:56:45|540|01:56:54|300</wrap>That was the solar system in which the third ray was very prominent, and the third ray is associated with the Holy Spirit. <wrap hide>886|01:56:54|900|01:57:01|420</wrap>The third ray is also associated with the activity and vitality of the etheric body. <wrap hide>887|01:57:02|120|01:57:12|600</wrap><wrap quote>and the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from</wrap> that solar system <wrap hide>888|01:57:12|600|01:57:22|000</wrap>and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. Okay, inherent to the very nature of substance itself. <wrap hide>889|01:57:27|060|01:57:37|600</wrap>Okay, so this, our present solar system, is very much the solar system of the cosmic Christ. <wrap hide>890|01:57:37|860|01:57:44|440</wrap>If we look at the cosmic Christ as the soul or consciousness nature of our solar Logos, <wrap hide>891|01:57:44|440|01:57:56|080</wrap>the previous solar system was associated with his Holy Spirit aspect, more with the etheric aspect, more with his personality aspect. <wrap hide>892|01:57:56|180|01:58:01|920</wrap>It was the solar system of the mind and personality of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>893|01:58:02|940|01:58:09|380</wrap>Okay, the activity of God the Holy Spirit implicit in the mutable cross is closely allied to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>894|01:58:09|380|01:58:19|180</wrap>And so we can see the mutable cross connected with the previous solar system, the fixed cross in a higher way connected with the present solar system, <wrap hide>895|01:58:19|180|01:58:24|940</wrap>and the cardinal cross particularly to be connected with the solar system which is to come. <wrap hide>896|01:58:25|860|01:58:38|780</wrap>And the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied, entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from <wrap quote>that system <wrap hide>897|01:58:38|780|01:58:43|560</wrap>and inherent in the very nature of substance itself.</wrap> <wrap hide>898|01:58:44|860|01:58:53|500</wrap>So we do have the Holy Spirit aspect active, but it's very much connected with the body of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>899|01:58:54|660|01:59:02|840</wrap>I suppose the inherited substance is particularly in the dense physical body of our solar Logos, <wrap hide>900|01:59:02|840|01:59:11|960</wrap>which involves our lower mental plane or perhaps even our entire mental plane, our astral plane and our etheric physical plane. <wrap hide>901|01:59:12|960|01:59:27|040</wrap><wrap quote>This divine aspect is to the whole general divine manifestation what the lower nature (form life or personality in the three worlds of human evolution) <wrap hide>902|01:59:27|040|01:59:32|000</wrap>is to the soul where an individual human being is concerned.</wrap> <wrap hide>903|01:59:32|000|01:59:46|620</wrap>So we're talking about the Holy Spirit aspect, very active in the previous solar system and somewhat active in relation to what is called the primordial ray in this solar system. <wrap hide>904|01:59:47|400|01:59:54|980</wrap>The divine ray is the second ray related to God the Son and to the cosmic Christ and to the fixed cross. <wrap hide>905|01:59:54|980|02:00:04|960</wrap>Now we realize that we human beings are in a way crucified upon the fixed cross when we become disciples, <wrap hide>906|02:00:05|200|02:00:23|200</wrap>but this is just a tiny reflection of that crucifixion upon the fixed cross which the solar Logos is undergoing because he is developing his soul consciousness particularly in this solar system. <wrap hide>907|02:00:23|200|02:00:36|340</wrap>So the fixed cross is always connected with soul consciousness, with the expansion of consciousness found upon the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>908|02:00:36|440|02:00:44|080</wrap>And so the fixed cross has a definite connection with the three higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>909|02:00:44|080|02:00:57|080</wrap>And the mutable cross I would say will have a strong connection with matter in general and with the personality nature of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>910|02:00:57|200|02:01:09|280</wrap>That's not just his physical body, but it would be associated with everything which for him is his personality and that involves his lower mind, his astral body and his etheric physical nature. <wrap hide>911|02:01:09|280|02:01:16|360</wrap>So there are two ways then of looking at the mutable cross and its type of influence. <wrap hide>912|02:01:17|200|02:01:28|500</wrap>There may be a lot of manipulation in the present solar system in connection with the dense body of our solar Logos which involves our lower three systemic planes. <wrap hide>913|02:01:28|500|02:01:43|080</wrap>But I think we really have to associate that Holy Spirit aspect, the energies of the mutable cross with the entire personality nature or matter nature of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>914|02:01:43|080|02:01:54|580</wrap>The solar Logos being a lesser being than the constellational lords who are ruling the various constellations of the zodiac. <wrap hide>915|02:01:55|380|02:02:02|620</wrap>Maybe there's a lord that rules the entire fixed cross or the entire mutable cross or the entire cardinal cross. <wrap hide>916|02:02:03|020|02:02:10|540</wrap>The three of them together forming a kind of a, let's say, trinity in the life of a still greater being. <wrap hide>917|02:02:11|760|02:02:15|620</wrap>The hierarchies ascend higher and higher. <wrap hide>918|02:02:16|500|02:02:27|000</wrap>It's interesting for us to speculate about these things, but in terms of living a better life right here and now, we have to confine our attention to what is practical. <wrap hide>919|02:02:27|780|02:02:32|580</wrap>Just the way the Buddha did, although he knew a great deal more than he spoke. <wrap hide>920|02:02:32|580|02:02:49|260</wrap><wrap quote>As regards these three Persons of the divine Trinity,</wrap> God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, <wrap quote>we might say that:</wrap> <wrap quote>1. Aries is the focal point of the expression of the first aspect of divinity, the will aspect.</wrap> <wrap hide>921|02:02:49|260|02:03:08|020</wrap>Now we do know that the first ray pours powerfully through Aries, and it is the constellation or sign which is most connected with the first aspect of divinity and with the first ray. <wrap hide>922|02:03:08|160|02:03:13|260</wrap>More of the first ray comes through Aries at this time than through any other constellation or sign. <wrap hide>923|02:03:13|260|02:03:25|980</wrap>I use constellation and sign interchangeably. The original energy is from the constellation, but it is adapted by the sign for use in our solar system and upon our planet. <wrap hide>924|02:03:27|680|02:03:30|960</wrap>All right, so Aries is connected with God the Father. <wrap hide>925|02:03:32|120|02:03:41|080</wrap><wrap quote>2. Leo [the next one, is connected,] is the focal point for the expression of the second aspect, <wrap hide>926|02:03:41|960|02:03:50|220</wrap>the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. This, primarily where humanity is concerned.</wrap> We don't know about other hierarchies and how Leo will work for them. <wrap hide>927|02:03:50|320|02:04:02|320</wrap>We do know that Leo is connected with the divine flames which have a kind of Logoic position, you know, the hierarchy I'm speaking of here, the divine flames. <wrap hide>928|02:04:02|320|02:04:11|400</wrap>Let's see how this works. If I can find, yeah, right here? Yes, there we are. <wrap hide>929|02:04:11|800|02:04:21|360</wrap>Okay, there are the divine flames right up here on the highest level of our Logoic plane, our systemic Logoic plane. <wrap hide>930|02:04:21|360|02:04:45|140</wrap>All right, yeah. Now, we have been told, you know, when dealing with the three fire signs that Aries is particularly connected with the monad, Leo with the soul or consciousness, and Sagittarius with the body, or considering the personality as the body. <wrap hide>931|02:04:45|140|02:04:49|400</wrap>Here's yet another tabulation where the same thing holds true. <wrap hide>932|02:04:50|000|02:05:06|420</wrap>So within the expression of the solar Logos, Leo has a particular connection with the love, wisdom aspect, and I suppose in that respect with what is going on on the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>933|02:05:07|640|02:05:26|180</wrap>There are different ways we can look at this. We can look at it in a very expanded sense and take the entire planar structure of the solar Logos going all the way up to the cosmic monadic level where Aries would have something to say and do, and Leo could be on the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. <wrap hide>934|02:05:26|180|02:05:46|360</wrap>But we can also confine ourselves to the cosmic physical plane and look at Aries in relation to those aspects of the solar Logos which manifest on the highest cosmic ethers and maybe Leo more in connection with the triadal nature. <wrap hide>935|02:05:46|360|02:06:06|680</wrap>And let's see what happens next. Virgo, aha, well these are not the signs that were just mentioned. What was mentioned was Aries and three fixed signs. <wrap hide>936|02:06:06|680|02:06:18|640</wrap>But now D.K. is talking about the Trinity with Aries, Leo, and Virgo relating to the Trinity. Obviously we have a quadruplicity which we have to explain and which we will. <wrap hide>937|02:06:19|480|02:06:29|520</wrap><wrap quote>3. Virgo is the focal point for the expression of the third aspect, that of active intelligence.</wrap> So Virgo is particularly connected with the Holy Spirit just as Capricorn is. <wrap hide>938|02:06:29|520|02:06:44|020</wrap><wrap quote>In that sign the highest function of matter is symbolised.</wrap> I suppose we could say, we could call it maybe purified matter, the purified or the virgin matter. <wrap hide>939|02:06:45|200|02:06:57|920</wrap>So all that has to do with the personality of the solar Logos and I suppose with his dense physical body is connected with Virgo. <wrap hide>940|02:06:57|920|02:07:14|940</wrap>So if we want to confine this to the cosmic physical plane instead of the entire expanse, you know how the expanse is, if we do this, let's see, this is the entire expanse. <wrap hide>941|02:07:14|940|02:07:33|700</wrap>Yeah, there it is. The entire expanse of the solar Logoic manifestation and even the expanse of beings higher than the solar Logos such as cosmic Logoi and super cosmic Logoi and so forth and even beyond that. <wrap hide>942|02:07:33|700|02:07:56|340</wrap>So this is an amazing map here on page 344 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. But if we want to confine ourselves to the cosmic physical plane, then we might say in a certain respect that Aries has everything to do with what is found on the Logoic levels and maybe on some of the triadal levels. <wrap hide>943|02:07:56|340|02:08:07|320</wrap>Leo has to do with that which is expressed on the higher mental plane and Virgo with matter and all that is expressed on the lower 18 subplanes. <wrap hide>944|02:08:07|880|02:08:19|220</wrap>So you see there are two ways of looking at this, one very compressed like this and one having to do with the higher, with the total expression of the solar Logos. <wrap hide>945|02:08:19|220|02:08:44|740</wrap>In which case Virgo might have much to do with the lower 18 cosmic subplanes, Leo having to do perhaps with the causal body and the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane and perhaps including the cosmic triadal levels perhaps and Aries with the highest levels of the super cosmic plane. <wrap hide>946|02:08:44|740|02:08:55|240</wrap>Not just the cosmic physical plane but the super cosmic plane which is a physical plane with respect to still greater being of course. <wrap hide>947|02:08:55|240|02:09:13|420</wrap>All right. So we have a very important triangle here. A triangle which involves Aries, the father aspect, Leo, the son aspect. <wrap hide>948|02:09:13|420|02:09:27|400</wrap>And not Sagittarius in this case which is often the third fire sign related to the personality and body aspect but Virgo related to the matter aspect and I suppose then as well resurrected matter. <wrap hide>949|02:09:27|400|02:09:46|660</wrap>The assumption of the virgin, the purification of previous solar system matter until it is fit and ready for non-resistive participation in our present solar system which is ruled by the fixed cross in a cosmic sense. <wrap hide>950|02:09:47|640|02:10:08|340</wrap>Okay. Now <wrap quote>The four signs—Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius—are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac; they constitute another field of relationships:</wrap> <wrap hide>951|02:10:09|180|02:10:16|240</wrap>Another field of relationships in relation to a kind of zodiac of ten, I believe. <wrap hide>952|02:10:17|200|02:10:26|540</wrap>And they are the constellational chakric systems in the one about whom naught may be said, at least for the most part. Let's see. <wrap hide>953|02:10:26|540|02:10:37|500</wrap>So he began this a little higher up here by saying... what did he say here? Yeah. <wrap hide>954|02:10:38|960|02:10:54|280</wrap>The divine quaternary of the solar Logos is connected with Aries, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius. So in a way the divine quaternary is ruled generically by Virgo. <wrap hide>955|02:10:54|280|02:11:07|300</wrap>So in a way, Aries... well, we're having some interesting developments here. Hopefully everything will stabilize. <wrap hide>956|02:11:08|340|02:11:16|020</wrap>We have Aries, Leo and Virgo. Now Virgo in a way rules the entire divine quaternary in a cosmic sense. <wrap hide>957|02:11:16|020|02:11:24|900</wrap>And so we would have sub-Aries, sub-Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius as being part of that particular quaternary. <wrap hide>958|02:11:25|400|02:11:31|100</wrap>And then we would have a higher form of Aries and Leo ruling the father aspect and the son aspect. <wrap hide>959|02:11:32|920|02:11:39|740</wrap>Alright, so now we're going to get into the stars related to these four signs. <wrap hide>960|02:11:39|740|02:11:49|980</wrap>These four signs are related to the divine quaternary and they involve the expression of the energy of one cardinal and three fixed signs. <wrap hide>961|02:11:50|440|02:12:00|160</wrap>We're looking at another area of relationships when we enter into the stars, and the stars represent certain constellations. <wrap hide>962|02:12:00|480|02:12:08|200</wrap>That's the key. And these constellations belong to another field of relationships other than the zodiacal field of relationships. <wrap hide>963|02:12:08|200|02:12:21|900</wrap>Okay, so the four signs Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac and may constitute another field of relationships. <wrap hide>964|02:12:22|220|02:12:29|560</wrap>Okay,<wrap quote> Aries [is related] to one of the two stars, found in the constellation, the Great Bear, which are called the two Pointers.</wrap> <wrap hide>965|02:12:29|720|02:12:35|500</wrap>It's the lower one of the pointers. It's the one that's farthest away from Polaris. <wrap hide>966|02:12:35|500|02:12:45|780</wrap>And it has, in a way, a more spiritual meaning, although it has been discussed in some systems as a sixth ray star. <wrap hide>967|02:12:46|900|02:12:56|840</wrap>So Aries is related to the pointers, and we know the Great Bear is not in that system of relationships which we call the signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>968|02:12:57|920|02:13:05|340</wrap><wrap quote>Leo [is related] to Polaris, the Pole Star, found in the Little Bear.</wrap> in the tail of the Little Bear. <wrap hide>969|02:13:05|480|02:13:17|140</wrap>Sometimes Sagittarius, since the pole star is a great star of direction and Sagittarius is a constellation of direction, is said to be related to Polaris. <wrap hide>970|02:13:18|420|02:13:25|920</wrap>And Leo to the second pointer, or the pointer closest to Polaris. That is another field of relationships. <wrap hide>971|02:13:25|920|02:13:41|300</wrap>Anyway, what we have right now is Aries related to the farthest pointer in the Great Bear and Leo related to Polaris itself and also, as we will discover, to the closer pointer, the pointer closer to Polaris in the Great Bear. <wrap hide>972|02:13:42|240|02:13:53|220</wrap>So we can see this is another field of relationships because the Great Bear is a super constellation in a way and it is not part of the twelve constellations of the zodiac. <wrap hide>973|02:13:53|220|02:14:04|660</wrap>Scorpio is related to Sirius. That's so interesting. We have this, and we're told also that Mercury is the star of Sirius. <wrap hide>974|02:14:05|780|02:14:13|920</wrap>Or is it Sirius is the star of Mercury? I think Mercury is the star of Sirius. Let's take a quick look here in Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>975|02:14:14|680|02:14:27|100</wrap>And let's see... Mercury... Mercury star Sirius. <wrap hide>976|02:14:27|100|02:14:38|280</wrap>So let's see what we have. And Sirius is called the dog star. It is the star of Mercury. <wrap hide>977|02:14:39|220|02:14:44|100</wrap>Or Buddha, called the great instructor of mankind. This is on page 659. <wrap hide>978|02:14:45|260|02:14:52|620</wrap>So Sirius and Mercury have a very definite connection. Mercury and Scorpio have a very definite connection. <wrap hide>979|02:14:52|620|02:15:00|960</wrap>So we look to the triangle of Sirius, Scorpio, and Mercury. <wrap hide>980|02:15:02|220|02:15:11|240</wrap>And so we can see that there is much that will lift a man towards buddhi coming along this line. <wrap hide>981|02:15:12|340|02:15:18|400</wrap>We have Scorpio as one of the major signs which admits a man into hierarchy, as does Capricorn. <wrap hide>982|02:15:18|400|02:15:29|200</wrap>Sirius sponsors the entire program of initiation. And Mercury determines the final destination of man, <wrap hide>983|02:15:29|340|02:15:37|200</wrap>which is on the buddhic plane, where he is meant to work out his harmonizing form of expression. <wrap hide>984|02:15:37|440|02:15:42|800</wrap>So these are three very important indicators. Mercury is the star of conflict. <wrap hide>985|02:15:42|800|02:15:49|420</wrap>Sirius is called the scorcher, which is submitting man to a great many tests and burning grounds. <wrap hide>986|02:15:49|940|02:15:58|740</wrap>And we all know about Scorpio. It is such a difficult instrument to deal with, a difficult constellation to deal with, <wrap hide>987|02:15:58|920|02:16:09|300</wrap>because it forces man to confront the opposites and to choose the higher of the pairs of opposites rather than the lower. <wrap hide>988|02:16:09|300|02:16:18|940</wrap>So often with Libra, before the Scorpio experience, you sort of seek to balance the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>989|02:16:19|120|02:16:27|140</wrap>So they come into a just and balanced harmonious condition. But with Scorpio, the scales tip, <wrap hide>990|02:16:28|160|02:16:39|220</wrap>And it is required that the higher of the pairs of opposites be our choice and that we live according to it. <wrap hide>991|02:16:39|220|02:16:43|940</wrap>So there's a great struggle there because all that represents the previous solar system, <wrap hide>992|02:16:44|060|02:16:50|560</wrap>which pulls us backward into material temptation, has to be overcome. <wrap hide>993|02:16:50|740|02:16:57|660</wrap>And of course that is overcome with the help of the intuition of Mercury, which sees through this miasma and illusion. <wrap hide>994|02:16:58|360|02:17:05|100</wrap>And it overcomes with the constant pressure of Sirius, represented by the pressure of the solar angel, <wrap hide>995|02:17:05|100|02:17:08|480</wrap>which we had been talking about a little bit earlier. <wrap hide>996|02:17:09|740|02:17:21|500</wrap>The solar angel is putting the human being under increasing pressure as his elevation proceeds and he goes into higher states of consciousness. <wrap hide>997|02:17:23|140|02:17:30|880</wrap><wrap quote>Scorpio [is related] to Sirius, the Dog Star.</wrap> It's a very important hierarchical initiation combination. <wrap hide>998|02:17:32|840|02:17:37|220</wrap><wrap quote>Aquarius [is related] to Alcyone, one of the seven Pleiades.</wrap> <wrap hide>999|02:17:37|700|02:17:41|900</wrap>So the system of Sirius, the system of Pleiades, the system of the Great Bear, <wrap hide>1000|02:17:42|780|02:17:52|500</wrap>these are three said to be super constellations which are involved in another field of relationships other than the signs of the zodiac, <wrap hide>1001|02:17:52|740|02:17:57|720</wrap>although very much connected to certain signs of the zodiac. <wrap hide>1002|02:17:57|720|02:18:05|780</wrap>And there are other constellations which are found closely related to these three super constellations. <wrap hide>1003|02:18:05|980|02:18:17|280</wrap>We can include Orion, we can include Draco, perhaps we can include Antares, we can include the Little Bear. <wrap hide>1004|02:18:17|980|02:18:24|240</wrap>These are chakra centers in the one about whom naught may be said. <wrap hide>1005|02:18:25|140|02:18:31|180</wrap>Okay. So, Alcyone is said to be the star of the individual. <wrap hide>1006|02:18:32|300|02:18:42|520</wrap>Individuality is related to the third aspect of divinity in a way, to become an ego, a distinct identity. <wrap hide>1007|02:18:43|300|02:18:51|980</wrap>This seems to be conveyed by Alcyone, and perhaps in some degree that is not easy to explain by Aquarius. <wrap hide>1008|02:18:51|980|02:19:04|240</wrap>Anyway, Alcyone is the central Pleiade. It's sort of the king or queen, or the central figure in the seven Pleiades. <wrap hide>1009|02:19:04|840|02:19:08|620</wrap>And it represents centrality of identity. <wrap hide>1010|02:19:09|260|02:19:14|840</wrap>So what do we have? We have Aries with the pointer farthest from Polaris. <wrap hide>1011|02:19:14|840|02:19:22|860</wrap>We have Leo with Polaris itself, or as later will be seen, to the pointer closest to Polaris, Dubhe. <wrap hide>1012|02:19:23|440|02:19:29|920</wrap>We have Scorpio related to Sirius. We have Aquarius related to Alcyone. <wrap hide>1013|02:19:30|580|02:19:36|420</wrap>And also, you know, Virgo and Taurus are involved as well with the Pleiades. <wrap hide>1014|02:19:36|420|02:19:45|240</wrap>There's so many interlocking systems of relationship, it seems that in the group interaction of these great beings, <wrap hide>1015|02:19:45|500|02:19:55|340</wrap>everybody comes to know everybody else and learns how to interact with them in a unique manner. <wrap hide>1016|02:19:56|040|02:20:03|920</wrap>Just the way we would in human society, each one of us aspects other individuals in a certain way. <wrap hide>1017|02:20:04|620|02:20:12|320</wrap>And we draw forth different responses from different people, and we are able to help different people in different ways, <wrap hide>1018|02:20:12|400|02:20:14|120</wrap>and be helped by them in different ways. <wrap hide>1019|02:20:14|680|02:20:21|620</wrap>So we just have to analogize to the greater beings to see what their interrelationships may be. <wrap hide>1020|02:20:22|080|02:20:27|620</wrap>I may be in a triangle, personally, with two other people, but I may be in a triangle as well with two other people. <wrap hide>1021|02:20:27|620|02:20:32|880</wrap>And that does not necessarily minimize my contribution to the first triangle, <wrap hide>1022|02:20:33|520|02:20:40|760</wrap>nor does the participation in the second in any way diminish the first. <wrap hide>1023|02:20:41|000|02:20:51|200</wrap>So both can be complementary. In other words, any being can be involved in numerous relationships within the group field. <wrap hide>1024|02:20:51|200|02:20:57|480</wrap>And finally, probably triangularly related to all the members within the group field. <wrap hide>1025|02:20:58|260|02:21:07|900</wrap>Long ago what I did was try to look at all the possible triangles between all the constellations of the zodiac. <wrap hide>1026|02:21:08|280|02:21:11|460</wrap>D.K. only mentioned some of them, maybe some of the more important ones. <wrap hide>1027|02:21:11|920|02:21:19|740</wrap>But one can figure out that there will be, let's say in relation to someone's sun, moon, and rising sign, <wrap hide>1028|02:21:19|740|02:21:24|540</wrap>an important triangle represented, provided one of the signs is not repeated. <wrap hide>1029|02:21:25|120|02:21:30|140</wrap>And we can see what the meaning of that zodiacal triangle might be. <wrap hide>1030|02:21:31|340|02:21:39|460</wrap>It's a very intricate study, this esoteric astrology, based on the science of triangles, <wrap hide>1031|02:21:39|840|02:21:45|620</wrap>and just so many different ways of conceiving interrelationships. <wrap hide>1032|02:21:45|620|02:21:54|420</wrap>But we have to look at the ones somehow that are most relevant, most relevant to our own spiritual growth and development. <wrap hide>1033|02:21:55|260|02:21:56|520</wrap>All right, he goes on. <wrap hide>1034|02:21:57|600|02:22:02|840</wrap>"There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring"— <wrap hide>1035|02:22:03|760|02:22:05|480</wrap>OK, we're having some quality degraded. <wrap hide>1036|02:22:06|020|02:22:07|760</wrap>Hopefully not. We will proceed. <wrap hide>1037|02:22:07|760|02:22:18|100</wrap><wrap quote>There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring into the four zodiacal signs <wrap hide>1038|02:22:19|420|02:22:30|380</wrap>from these distant though potent points of outgoing energy;</wrap> namely Polaris, the most distant pointer, Sirius, and Alcyone. <wrap hide>1039|02:22:32|120|02:22:37|420</wrap>He didn't say the word constellation, so maybe they pour into constellations as well. <wrap hide>1040|02:22:37|420|02:22:44|120</wrap>But they certainly pour into the representatives of the constellations, which are the signs. <wrap hide>1041|02:22:44|980|02:22:54|880</wrap><wrap quote>they are part of the life expression of an Identity, immeasurably superior [195] to and more advanced than our solar Logos.</wrap> <wrap hide>1042|02:22:55|700|02:23:02|100</wrap>OK, of course, I think we are speaking here of the one about whom naught may be said, <wrap hide>1043|02:23:02|820|02:23:13|980</wrap>or at least that one of the ones about whom naught may be said, which is most closely connected to our particular solar system, <wrap hide>1044|02:23:14|360|02:23:16|980</wrap>and perhaps to our particular zodiac. <wrap hide>1045|02:23:16|980|02:23:27|380</wrap>In the chart on page 344, I think a case can be made for discovering a number of ones about whom naught may be said, <wrap hide>1046|02:23:27|520|02:23:34|280</wrap>but naturally, since we can't even conceive of the one most closely related to us, the rest is purely speculative. <wrap hide>1047|02:23:35|660|02:23:47|620</wrap>OK, so these stars and the constellations they represent are part of the life expression of an immeasurably superior entity, <wrap hide>1048|02:23:48|460|02:23:52|600</wrap>immeasurably superior to and more advanced than our solar Logos. <wrap hide>1049|02:23:52|820|02:24:02|060</wrap>That word "immeasurably"—are we to take it literally? Are we to say that it's so far advanced over our solar Logos <wrap hide>1050|02:24:02|060|02:24:09|200</wrap>that we cannot even conceive of the degree to which it is advanced over our solar Logos, <wrap hide>1051|02:24:09|960|02:24:21|380</wrap>or is the word "immeasurably" simply being used to indicate a great span of distinction between them? <wrap hide>1052|02:24:22|100|02:24:32|400</wrap>OK, so this identity, the one about whom naught may be said—at least the one that we are most concerned with— <wrap hide>1053|02:24:33|440|02:24:46|700</wrap>he can't tell us too much about the energies of the solar Logos, which probably in a way represent the energies of the Great Bear, <wrap hide>1054|02:24:46|700|02:24:50|860</wrap>the Little Bear, Sirius, and the Pleiades. <wrap hide>1055|02:24:51|540|02:25:00|220</wrap>And you can often substitute the Little Bear for the Pleiades, but let's just say that Polaris in a way represents all of the energies of the Little Bear. <wrap hide>1056|02:25:01|200|02:25:07|900</wrap>That this particular pointer that Aries is connected with represents all the energies of the Great Bear. <wrap hide>1057|02:25:07|900|02:25:23|580</wrap>That Sirius represents the energies of the constellation Sirius, which includes other stars, and may even include our seven solar systems, of which ours is one. <wrap hide>1058|02:25:24|660|02:25:30|780</wrap>And let us say that Alcyone represents the entire output of the Pleiades. <wrap hide>1059|02:25:30|780|02:25:40|840</wrap>So oftentimes a star is used as a kind of blind for the energies of the constellation of which it is a part, <wrap hide>1060|02:25:40|980|02:25:50|300</wrap>just like Betelgeuse—or Betelgeuse, however you want to pronounce it—can represent the entirety of Orion rather than just itself. <wrap hide>1061|02:25:51|180|02:26:04|040</wrap>OK, <wrap quote>A few hints may, however, be of service to the truly esoteric astrologer</wrap>—not just the run-of-the-mill esoteric astrologers such as we are attempting to be, <wrap hide>1062|02:26:04|180|02:26:13|420</wrap>but the member of hierarchy, let us say, who is the true initiate astrologer <wrap quote>who may study these pages, <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>particularly where Scorpio is concerned.</wrap> because that is what we are studying: the whole system of initiation and how Scorpio participates in providing opportunity for initiation. <wrap hide>1064|02:26:25|820|02:26:36|460</wrap><wrap quote>Scorpio, at this particular stage of human evolution, governs the Path of Discipleship.</wrap> as does—in a way—Sagittarius governs the one-pointed disciple, <wrap hide>1065|02:26:36|460|02:26:44|760</wrap>but Scorpio governs the struggles, the battles, the tests, the proving ground on the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1066|02:26:45|380|02:26:54|220</wrap><wrap quote>You will note here also how Leo-Scorpio-Aquarius form a peculiar triangle of force, <wrap hide>1067|02:26:55|160|02:27:00|340</wrap> but of this I will later deal in Chapter III under the heading, The Science of Triangles.</wrap> <wrap hide>1068|02:27:00|340|02:27:11|000</wrap>Well, I think, you know, we can get a little bit of an idea of what this is because Leo rules the self-centering of the individual in its individuality, <wrap hide>1069|02:27:11|780|02:27:22|020</wrap>and Scorpio rules the struggle to overcome that sense of isolated individuality, as Scorpio does stage the release of Leo. <wrap hide>1070|02:27:22|020|02:27:31|440</wrap>And Aquarius is the release into hierarchical life where a measure of unity and universality are experienced. <wrap hide>1071|02:27:32|260|02:27:44|100</wrap>Now we might also say, because these constellations are related to each other, that Polaris, Sirius, and Alcyone are related to each other. <wrap hide>1072|02:27:45|040|02:27:56|800</wrap>And this would also mean that the Little Bear in relation to Leo, Sirius in relation to Scorpio, and Pleiades in relation to Alcyone are related to each other. <wrap hide>1073|02:27:58|400|02:28:10|940</wrap>OK, well, you know, we speculate about these vast things, but the important thing is to feel the energy of these great sources, <wrap hide>1074|02:28:10|940|02:28:19|780</wrap>even though they are much modified and transformed on the way down to us, and to realize when these energies are present, <wrap hide>1075|02:28:19|980|02:28:30|680</wrap>and to express these energies in a manner which is fitting for those who want to be successful in treading the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1076|02:28:31|460|02:28:42|040</wrap>OK, so, you know, Djwhal Khul is always qualifying, you know. He's talking about Scorpio at this particular stage of human evolution, <wrap hide>1077|02:28:42|160|02:28:49|440</wrap>at some other stage of human evolution, or the evolution of some other hierarchy. There might be an entirely different description. <wrap hide>1078|02:28:50|180|02:29:01|340</wrap><wrap quote>//Aries// is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear but peculiarly so with one of the stars called The Pointers;</wrap> <wrap hide>1079|02:29:01|520|02:29:11|040</wrap>Now that is the more distant star that is Merak, and not Dubhe. So Aries is connected with what we have looked at as a sixth-ray star. <wrap hide>1080|02:29:11|040|02:29:24|660</wrap>Of course, if we look at Polaris, Dubhe, and Merak as a trinity, then we will assign them different rays, in a way. <wrap hide>1081|02:29:25|340|02:29:38|760</wrap>We will assign a first ray to Polaris, since it is the representative of the monad and its guiding destiny, or its attractive destiny. <wrap hide>1082|02:29:38|760|02:29:50|140</wrap>We will assign the second ray to Merak, because it represents the soul. And we will assign the third ray to Dubhe, because it represents the personality. <wrap hide>1083|02:29:51|680|02:30:02|100</wrap>And this is, you know, a different method of assignment. I'm not saying that those stars particularly represent those rays, <wrap hide>1084|02:30:02|100|02:30:12|680</wrap>but at least we have three stars representing the three aspects of divinity, Polaris being the highest, Merak being that which represents the second or middle aspect, <wrap hide>1085|02:30:13|280|02:30:18|540</wrap>and Dubhe representing the personality, or third aspect, as he will somewhat begin to describe. <wrap hide>1086|02:30:19|360|02:30:31|220</wrap>So Aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear, yes, but peculiarly so with one of the stars called the Pointers. <wrap hide>1087|02:30:31|220|02:30:40|240</wrap>Now I think I can substantiate this idea of the connection of Aries with the Great Bear, because on page 50 he pretty well demonstrates exactly that. <wrap hide>1088|02:30:41|060|02:30:54|940</wrap>Here is the tabulation on page 50 of Esoteric Astrology, and we see the Great Bear connected with Aries and with Libra, and the sun is... Vulcan here. <wrap hide>1089|02:30:54|940|02:31:02|920</wrap>It's the second creative hierarchy, the second creative of the manifested... no, the eleventh hierarchy, that's it. <wrap hide>1090|02:31:03|480|02:31:14|780</wrap>It's unknown, connected with Aries. So Aries and the Great Bear have a definite connection, so does Leo actually and the Great Bear, because we can see the sun is involved, and the sun rules Leo. <wrap hide>1091|02:31:15|840|02:31:29|660</wrap>Okay. These pointers, these pointers, point to the pole star. So as my computer stops acting up... I think it's got a little bit of overload here. <wrap hide>1092|02:31:29|660|02:31:50|380</wrap><wrap quote>these point to the Pole star which is at this time a major //"star of direction."// </wrap> Now as the axis of the Earth gyrates, then perhaps Polaris will no longer be, for us, a major or the major star of direction, <wrap hide>1093|02:31:50|380|02:32:00|360</wrap>but something else will take its place over an approximately 25,000-year cycle, or even closer to 26,000 years. <wrap hide>1094|02:32:01|280|02:32:11|580</wrap>When we deal with the term direction, in general we deal with the first ray, because the first ray is the director. <wrap hide>1095|02:32:11|580|02:32:22|800</wrap>The first ray monads among men are the directors, the second ray monads among men are the teachers, and the third ray monads the creative manipulators. <wrap hide>1096|02:32:22|960|02:32:30|900</wrap>He calls them the manipulators, but I think since the third ray is the ray of creative intelligence, one might as well call them the creative manipulators. <wrap hide>1097|02:32:31|120|02:32:37|780</wrap>Put a little better face on it, since the word manipulation, except in occultism, has a rather bad name. <wrap hide>1098|02:32:38|660|02:32:51|460</wrap>Okay, a major star of direction. <wrap quote>Direction, will, purpose and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with His evolutionary undertakings <wrap hide>1099|02:32:52|140|02:32:58|620</wrap>in connection with the many lives manifesting in the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system.</wrap> <wrap hide>1100|02:32:58|620|02:33:10|180</wrap>So, these are all rather sort of first ray factors. Direction, will, purpose, and plan. There's a bit of the third ray that comes into it, <wrap hide>1101|02:33:10|700|02:33:21|760</wrap>and perhaps some of the divine design comes in with purpose, the divine pattern suggesting the second ray. <wrap hide>1102|02:33:21|760|02:33:31|200</wrap>But anyway, largely first ray words. Direction, will, purpose, and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with his evolutionary undertakings, <wrap hide>1103|02:33:31|720|02:33:43|380</wrap>in connection with the many lives. He's behind the evolution of all of us, and even the tiniest material unit, manifesting in the vehicle of expression, which we call the solar system. <wrap hide>1104|02:33:43|380|02:33:53|560</wrap>There are other lives, of course, that are manifesting within the vehicles of the solar Logos, which are not technically part of the etheric physical solar system, <wrap hide>1105|02:33:53|720|02:34:04|480</wrap>but which are evolving under his impulse, just the way we have astral entities and mental entities of a lesser kind evolving under our impulse as human beings. <wrap hide>1106|02:34:05|700|02:34:19|100</wrap><wrap quote>All these respond to the influences of the first ray which is, to all intents and purposes, the energy of divine embodied will,</wrap> <wrap hide>1107|02:34:19|760|02:34:31|520</wrap>We are speaking here of the first ray, that power of driving things forward, which Aries confers. Driving forward through space. <wrap hide>1108|02:34:31|520|02:34:41|960</wrap>Aries is closely related to this divine embodied will, <wrap quote>which has been esoterically described as “unavoidable directed purpose.” </wrap><wrap hide>1109|02:34:42|360|02:34:57|340</wrap>There is a final design or relationship towards which all is driven by the will nature of the solar Logos, as it is impulsed by Aries connected with the father aspect. <wrap hide>1110|02:34:58|740|02:35:12|160</wrap><wrap quote>Within our solar system, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions </wrap>not the only expressions, okay, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions <wrap quote>or custodians of this first ray energy <wrap hide>1111|02:35:12|720|02:35:21|060</wrap>and are, as I have told you, esoteric planets.</wrap> And this is one of the places where Pluto is mentioned as an esoteric planet, <wrap hide>1112|02:35:21|060|02:35:33|540</wrap>probably because so much of its purpose and nature remains unknown, but it is also a non-sacred planet. <wrap hide>1113|02:35:33|860|02:35:49|780</wrap>So, this is interesting: we have Pluto as an esoteric, non-sacred planet, and Vulcan as an esoteric, sacred planet. <wrap hide>1114|02:35:49|780|02:35:58|140</wrap>And we are going to see that there are connections here of Pluto with Aries; there is a triangle called Aries-Pluto-Shamballa. <wrap hide>1115|02:35:58|980|02:36:08|540</wrap>And we have seen that Aries is involved in a great pair relationship, in which the sun-veiling Vulcan is related. <wrap hide>1116|02:36:08|540|02:36:19|900</wrap>There is something on the first ray, which Aries and Vulcan share: they drive into matter, they force themselves into new fields, <wrap hide>1117|02:36:20|220|02:36:27|680</wrap>some of them dense, some of them more refined. But let us look at the downward pointing arrow of matter associated with Vulcan, <wrap hide>1118|02:36:28|340|02:36:32|040</wrap>and the tendency of Aries to drive down into matter as well. <wrap hide>1119|02:36:32|040|02:36:38|860</wrap>There is also the tendency of Aries, following its lift, to rise up out of matter in terms of resurrection, <wrap hide>1120|02:36:39|660|02:36:49|500</wrap>and we can think of Vulcan in a similar way, as giving such a quality of intense light that matter is etherealized, <wrap hide>1121|02:36:49|700|02:37:00|680</wrap>or elevated from its lower vibratory conditions. So Vulcan is involved with increasing the vibration of matter until it becomes radiant and etherealized. <wrap hide>1122|02:37:01|760|02:37:13|880</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>The first indication of the true spiritual will</wrap> which I suppose is etheric in its nature, <wrap quote>only begins to manifest upon the Path of Discipleship— </wrap><wrap hide>1123|02:37:14|140|02:37:23|460</wrap>The true spiritual will only begins to manifest upon the path of discipleship. <wrap quote>hence the late discovery of these two planets <wrap hide>1124|02:37:23|520|02:37:29|700</wrap>(late in point of time and from the angle of human knowledge) for it is only in this Aryan race</wrap> which is a mental race— <wrap hide>1125|02:37:29|700|02:37:39|460</wrap>the mind conveying the will—<wrap quote>for it is only in this Aryan race period that humanity is to any large extent beginning to manifest evidence <wrap hide>1126|02:37:39|700|02:37:48|820</wrap>(and as yet it is no more) of a reaction or a response to the spiritual will of deity as it comes to our planet <wrap hide>1127|02:37:49|220|02:37:53|900</wrap>and hence to us via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto.</wrap> <wrap hide>1128|02:37:53|900|02:38:06|960</wrap>Spiritual will via Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. As spiritual will is also identified with Atma, we can think of Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto as identified to a degree with Atma, <wrap hide>1129|02:38:07|340|02:38:14|260</wrap>and also their Saturn could enter. Okay, you said a lot here, haven't you? <wrap hide>1130|02:38:15|240|02:38:27|100</wrap>So only when we are becoming mentally focused and can begin to touch the triadic levels through the building of the Antahkarana on the path of discipleship and the spiritual will begin to manifest, <wrap hide>1131|02:38:27|400|02:38:36|440</wrap>and then I suppose you could say that we come into relation with the higher natures of Vulcan and Pluto. <wrap hide>1132|02:38:36|440|02:38:42|360</wrap>We certainly are all exposed to their lower natures at any point in the development of humanity, <wrap hide>1133|02:38:43|020|02:38:49|820</wrap>but come in relation to the higher nature of these aero-planets, you might call them. <wrap hide>1134|02:38:49|940|02:38:56|120</wrap>Vulcan pointing downward, Pluto pointing upward, upon the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1135|02:38:57|940|02:39:08|820</wrap>Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. That's one important triangle of the constellation and two planets conveying the first ray, and perhaps some other rays as well. <wrap hide>1136|02:39:09|400|02:39:14|940</wrap>It's interesting when looking at such a triangle to consider the other rays that are involved with each point of the triangle. <wrap hide>1137|02:39:15|840|02:39:24|420</wrap>And seventh ray is involved with Aries, of course, and Vulcan has, I think, much of the fifth ray with it, and Pluto not only the first ray, <wrap hide>1138|02:39:24|420|02:39:32|560</wrap>but some of the sixth and some of the fifth. But those are more obscure points which don't really need elaborating at this point. <wrap hide>1139|02:39:32|760|02:39:37|720</wrap>We want to get the essential idea of what D.K. is saying. <wrap hide>1140|02:39:38|600|02:39:47|200</wrap>And what is said here is that it's only when humanity is really ready for the energy of certain planets that they are actually discovered. <wrap hide>1141|02:39:47|200|02:39:58|780</wrap>Now, he seems to act as if Vulcan has already been discovered. This is hence the late discovery of these two planets. <wrap hide>1142|02:39:59|920|02:40:05|380</wrap>Well, it would mean that they had been discovered, that Vulcan had somehow been discovered. <wrap hide>1143|02:40:06|440|02:40:13|800</wrap>Pluto, we know, has been discovered, and it was discovered before this book was written, Esoteric Astrology. <wrap hide>1144|02:40:13|800|02:40:19|720</wrap>It was discovered, or photographed in 1915; it was discovered in 1930, so it has been discovered. <wrap hide>1145|02:40:20|240|02:40:32|080</wrap>Now, does this mean that Vulcan has in some way been photographed just as Pluto was photographed, but not realized for 15 years after the photograph was made? <wrap hide>1146|02:40:32|960|02:40:40|900</wrap>Well, anyway, or is he predicting the future that Vulcan will be discovered rather late in the day, perhaps not too far from now? <wrap hide>1147|02:40:40|900|02:40:51|840</wrap>Because the spiritual will of man is beginning to manifest. So <wrap quote>You have, therefore, the following direct line of will energy: </wrap> <wrap hide>1148|02:40:55|860|02:41:03|760</wrap><wrap quote>1. //The Pointer// furthest from the Pole Star in the constellation of the Great Bear.</wrap> and that is associated with Aries. <wrap hide>1149|02:41:03|760|02:41:14|940</wrap>Finally, he's saying that <wrap quote>This is, esoterically speaking, [196] a great reservoir or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose.</wrap> <wrap hide>1150|02:41:15|540|02:41:26|800</wrap>It almost seems not just a six-ray star, according to one of the theoretical enumerations given, where you pretty well count, if I do it this way, <wrap hide>1151|02:41:26|800|02:41:36|540</wrap>you count across the top of the Great Bear, then come down to the six-ray star, and backwards to the seventh-ray star. <wrap hide>1152|02:41:36|600|02:41:42|300</wrap>This one way of doing it seems like, then, a great hook in some manner. <wrap hide>1153|02:41:43|600|02:41:50|420</wrap>So it's a great reservoir, or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose, so it seems like it has some first-ray implications to it, <wrap hide>1154|02:41:50|420|02:42:08|800</wrap>because it is ruled by Aries, and therefore the first-ray is suggestive, even though there are ways to attribute to it the sixth-ray and kind of the second aspect position within the Trinity of a distant pointer, closer pointer, and Polaris. <wrap hide>1155|02:42:09|740|02:42:19|080</wrap><wrap quote>The Pointer nearest to the Pole Star is expressive of a lower aspect of the will, which—in speaking of humanity—we call self-will.</wrap> <wrap hide>1156|02:42:19|080|02:42:28|060</wrap>Well, there is the Leo star, interestingly enough, and it's connected with Ahamkara and that limiting sense of self. <wrap hide>1157|02:42:28|560|02:42:40|980</wrap>Now, in a way, anything that's found within the Great Bear can be considered an expression of the will, because the Great Bear is in a sense a cosmic Manu. <wrap hide>1158|02:42:40|980|02:42:54|900</wrap>This is in the idea of Steven Pugh, who's done a lot of work on these super-constellations, these important constellations which are part of a system of relationships which is beyond that of the zodiac. <wrap hide>1159|02:42:55|640|02:43:16|780</wrap>So, it is a great center of will, and D.K. says it represents the seven head centers in the one about whom naught may be said, not the crown center, which the zodiac represents, the heart within the head of the one about whom naught may be said, a great heart center, which kind of suggests second-ray meaning, <wrap hide>1160|02:43:16|780|02:43:28|660</wrap>but in fact represents seven head centers, just as man has seven head centers within or around his head, perhaps represented by Vulcan, which is connected with the Great Bear. <wrap hide>1161|02:43:29|500|02:43:41|960</wrap>So, these seven head centers would naturally express the will aspect, the different aspects of the will we see according to the seven rays. <wrap hide>1162|02:43:41|960|02:43:55|720</wrap>So anyway, this star Dubhe, closest to the star Polaris, is a Leo star, and it expresses self-will, and we also see that Polaris is connected with Leo. <wrap hide>1163|02:43:55|860|02:44:05|380</wrap>So we have two Leo representatives there, and that's very interesting. Maybe one representing the lower self, and another a far higher self, a monadic self. <wrap hide>1164|02:44:05|380|02:44:16|420</wrap>Okay, so we have here, he's talking about certain direct lines of will energy. The pointer furthest from the pole star, that's one. <wrap hide>1165|02:44:17|440|02:44:29|000</wrap><wrap quote>2. //Aries//, in which the will to create or to manifest makes its appearance [ that's kind of a 1-7 relationship] and a great divine experiment is initiated.</wrap> <wrap hide>1166|02:44:29|000|02:44:45|720</wrap>Here it seems that the pointer is more powerful than Aries itself. Is this the constellation Aries, or is this the sign Aries as it may pertain to the sun itself or to the earth? <wrap hide>1167|02:44:45|720|02:45:04|080</wrap>I think we have two systems of signs, one of which relates to the solar orb, and the other of which relates to the various planetary spheres according to the inclination of their axis. <wrap hide>1168|02:45:04|080|02:45:27|880</wrap>So we know we have a system of signs, or as Alan Leo says, of lunes, L-U-N-E-S, surrounding like sections of an orange, the entire earth, and maybe every constellation has those 12 lunes as well, although their orientation at any point in time will be different from each other. <wrap hide>1169|02:45:27|880|02:45:49|760</wrap>So we seem to be going from the star farthest from the pointer, farthest from Polaris, the pointer farthest from Polaris, to Aries, either the constellation or sign, and then to Vulcan and Pluto, two first-ray planets, Vulcan probably being a first-ray soul since it is a sacred planet, <wrap hide>1170|02:45:49|760|02:46:02|320</wrap>and Pluto a non-sacred planet probably being a first-ray personality since D.K. usually talks of the non-sacred planets in terms of their personality ray since they are not just so focused. <wrap hide>1171|02:46:02|900|02:46:16|400</wrap>Then to Vulcan and Pluto,<wrap quote> 3. //Vulcan and Pluto// are related to the two Pointers and are only now beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response.</wrap> <wrap hide>1172|02:46:17|160|02:46:42|660</wrap>A definite and clear manner, there is the qualifier because, you know, Vulcan represents in a certain respect the resistance, the obduracy of matter, and Pluto represents many suppressed negative factors which certainly do, it seems, affect in an unconscious way many human beings who are not yet spiritual in their orientation or understanding. <wrap hide>1173|02:46:43|540|02:46:55|460</wrap><wrap quote>Their effect has been planetary in its nature up to date </wrap>well, and has affected many unconsciously as a result, <wrap quote>and has not hitherto been at all effective </wrap><wrap hide>1174|02:46:56|480|02:47:06|940</wrap>What does effective mean? I suppose to help the human being progress has been at all effective <wrap quote>in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>1175|02:47:06|940|02:47:20|400</wrap>The fourth kingdom of nature is that of the human beings, and Pluto and Vulcan not very effective with respect to the vegetable kingdom. <wrap hide>1176|02:47:21|920|02:47:27|200</wrap>Perhaps plants will become radiant and in that respect be affected by Vulcan. <wrap hide>1177|02:47:27|960|02:47:36|000</wrap>I cannot see immediately how Pluto, except for some of the more deadly plants, would be affecting the vegetable kingdom. <wrap hide>1178|02:47:36|000|02:47:41|640</wrap>But anyway, the rays are such that they do not resonate with the second or vegetable kingdom. <wrap hide>1179|02:47:42|360|02:47:58|000</wrap>Now we have the next recipient in this line, <wrap quote>4. //Shamballa//, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet.</wrap> and one might also think the custodian of the purpose for our planet. <wrap hide>1180|02:47:58|000|02:48:20|440</wrap>So let's see here. If we turn to the page where he's actually describing these things, Esoteric Astrology 193, we'll see if he's actually drawn a diagram which will help us understand this. <wrap hide>1181|02:48:20|440|02:48:31|880</wrap>Scorpio the scorpion, Aries... etc., etc. Doesn't look like we have a diagram yet. <wrap hide>1182|02:48:32|420|02:48:39|760</wrap>But we will have a diagram coming which will show this second pointer, quite elevated. <wrap hide>1183|02:48:39|760|02:48:53|560</wrap>We will have the constellation or sign Aries, we will have Vulcan and Pluto, and we will have the Earth with its point of reception for the law of assembly of energies, Shambhala. <wrap hide>1184|02:48:54|840|02:49:09|540</wrap>So, okay, this is a first ray line of force. These planets are definitely related to Shambhala. We know the Aries-Pluto-Shambhala triangle for the destructiveness of Shambhala. <wrap hide>1185|02:49:09|540|02:49:24|560</wrap>And we know that Vulcan is very connected with Shambhala at the time of the Wesak, Vulcan being the hierarchical esoteric ruler of Taurus, and the imposition of divine will. <wrap hide>1186|02:49:24|560|02:49:34|320</wrap>Vulcan, a planet of pressured imposition, is very much involved with Shambhala. It may have destructive Plutonic effects. <wrap hide>1187|02:49:34|320|02:49:55|380</wrap>It's all meant to drive us towards planetary purpose, which we can think of as indicated in part by Aries, and through this pointer which is associated with Aries, and with more of the second aspect of divinity. <wrap hide>1188|02:49:55|380|02:50:08|240</wrap>It should help bring out the planetary soul. That is what the purpose of Shambhala must be at this time, because the planetary soul, the secondary soul, is not yet expressing fully. <wrap hide>1189|02:50:08|580|02:50:19|200</wrap>But it's on its way, and as we know, the reappearance of the Christ is one of those signal events which is bringing forward the planetary soul into greater expression. <wrap hide>1190|02:50:20|480|02:50:32|500</wrap><wrap quote>//Leo// is the sign wherein the consciousness of individuality is developed,</wrap> Certainly that is in its lower sense; later, isolated unity is connected with Leo. <wrap hide>1191|02:50:33|020|02:50:48|640</wrap><wrap quote>It's developed, utilised and finally consecrated to divine purpose. </wrap>So this is the completely soul-infused personality, a higher Leo and a lower Leo being fused and consecrated to a still greater Leo of divine purpose. <wrap hide>1192|02:50:48|640|02:51:15|340</wrap><wrap quote>It is related to Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little Bear) and it is also peculiarly susceptible to the influence of that Pointer in the Great Bear which is the nearest to the Pole Star.</wrap> <wrap hide>1193|02:51:16|020|02:51:33|240</wrap>Now, you know, it's a great God, it's a great deity. The fact that it has a kind of effect in producing ahamkara and individualism in man is only an adaptation of that energy to the present stage of man's development. <wrap hide>1194|02:51:33|240|02:51:49|500</wrap>It doesn't necessarily mean that that star is in any way compromised or a lesser influence, because we adapted to our own individuality, and especially I would say at first individualism rather than individuality. <wrap hide>1195|02:51:49|500|02:52:01|780</wrap>Individuality is a very expansive thing, you know. Maybe later it does not include the sense of separateness. Only at first with individualism does it do this. <wrap hide>1196|02:52:02|220|02:52:13|360</wrap>But there is a higher individuality, which is the soul consciousness. It's a realization of a center of energy unified with many other centers of energy but having its own distinctness. <wrap hide>1197|02:52:13|360|02:52:32|680</wrap>And even on the level of the monad, with its own particular vehicle on the second plane, there is a kind of individuality at that level as well, although identification as spirit is the paramount realization in monadic awareness. <wrap hide>1198|02:52:32|680|02:52:47|020</wrap>This we have been told, none of us having that full monadic awareness yet. So nevertheless, you know, there is a distinct unit. A person is a sun on the monadic level. <wrap hide>1199|02:52:47|740|02:52:56|580</wrap>And except for the very essence of the monad, which is identical in all cases, there has been a monadic past, there is a monadic present, there is a monadic destiny. <wrap hide>1200|02:52:56|580|02:53:09|220</wrap>And every monad is upholding a kind of individual role within the manifestation of the planetary Logos, of the solar Logos, and beyond. <wrap hide>1201|02:53:09|220|02:53:30|660</wrap>So there is a kind of uniqueness through the expression of every monad, even though there is that whole question of whether a monad is subsumed into a larger type of entity, which then becomes the greater individuality of which the monad is simply a part. <wrap hide>1202|02:53:30|660|02:53:41|780</wrap>But every monad realizing then that it is essentially this larger individuality which has subsumed it. <wrap hide>1203|02:53:41|780|02:53:49|400</wrap>Okay. So Leo related to Polaris, the Great Bear, the pointer nearest to the Pole Star. <wrap hide>1204|02:53:49|640|02:53:57|460</wrap>Esoterically speaking, now, the Pole Star is regarded as a star of reorientation, not just a star of direction. <wrap hide>1205|02:53:57|460|02:54:11|940</wrap>So reorientation of facing something more powerful. Here he describes it: a star of reorientation whereby the art of re-facing and recovering that which is lost is developed. <wrap hide>1206|02:54:12|040|02:54:16|640</wrap>Well, what is lost? The lost word, the monadic nature is lost. <wrap hide>1207|02:54:16|640|02:54:38|280</wrap>We need to re-face first the soul and then re-face that brilliant sun, the monad itself, and recover that which we have lost through our descent into the long millions of years of pilgrimage on which we, the jiva, have been progressing. <wrap hide>1208|02:54:38|280|02:55:02|320</wrap>So when we see Polaris prominent, we have the possibility of turning our face, our Janus face, our two spiritual two-faced ness in a way, toward this higher aspect of ourselves and to recover that which has been lost through emanated descent. <wrap hide>1209|02:55:02|320|02:55:20|320</wrap>So <wrap quote>Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is regarded as the “star of re-orientation” whereby the art of “refacing and recovering that which is lost” is developed.</wrap> a great opportunity to set one's face towards the greater light. <wrap hide>1210|02:55:20|320|02:55:26|540</wrap>And some of these stars, D.K. tells us, you know, in the charts of disciples we have to see where they are found. <wrap hide>1211|02:55:27|140|02:55:41|620</wrap>If we have Sirius, if we have Alcyone, if we have one of the Pointers, if we have Polaris in any way prominent in our astrological chart, opportunity is thereby offered. <wrap hide>1212|02:55:41|620|02:55:55|600</wrap>Much attenuated opportunity, of course, because they represent stupendous sources, but in our own little ways something trickles down and can give us an opportunity resonant with their nature. <wrap hide>1213|02:55:56|380|02:56:07|580</wrap>Okay, so <wrap quote>This eventually brings a man back to his originating source.</wrap> and you can kind of see the Sagittarius in it, right? You know, Sagittarius outward bound and Sagittarius inward bound. <wrap hide>1214|02:56:07|580|02:56:35|740</wrap>So when I sometimes think that I can relate the three fire signs, the two Pointers and Polaris, Sagittarius, a sign of direction, and the Pole Star, a major star of direction, and then this idea of re-facing and journeying back to the Father's home or back to the Pole Star, the Pole Star representing the monad, it all fits with Sagittarius to a degree. <wrap hide>1215|02:56:35|740|02:56:56|080</wrap>So, this eventually brings man back to his originating source. Well, that's the monad, right? And Sagittarius certainly has everything to do with that trip back to one's source. <wrap hide>1216|02:56:56|080|02:57:11|300</wrap>It is idealism in the sense of smell on the sixth ray which Sagittarius conveys, which brings us back towards our originating source. We sort of smell our way home the way dogs do, and dogs are on the sixth ray. <wrap hide>1217|02:57:11|300|02:57:38|620</wrap>We smell our way home using Sagittarius to find our true emanating source, our true originating source. <wrap quote>It might, therefore, be correctly inferred that this Pointer and the energy emanating from it guides humanity upon the involutionary path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who is still upon the Mutable Cross.</wrap> <wrap hide>1218|02:57:38|620|02:58:01|580</wrap>Now, he's talking about the Pointer, capitalize it, Pointer which is closest to the Pole Star. That's ruled by Leo and it's guiding man when he is still in the ahamkaric phase of isolated identity. <wrap hide>1219|02:58:02|980|02:58:23|160</wrap>He thinks he is simply an isolated unit, and that is under Leo, yes. <wrap quote>Then the energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the Path,</wrap> <wrap hide>1220|02:58:23|160|02:58:44|600</wrap>So, he is now reorienting, he is now making his way back towards his originating source, and he is undergoing initiation in order to do this, entering through Aries into one field after another, which takes him closer to his originating source. <wrap hide>1221|02:58:44|600|02:58:54|100</wrap>"The energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt, and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the path." <wrap hide>1222|02:58:54|720|02:59:14|580</wrap><wrap quote>and such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the Hierarchy.</wrap> It's a bit like the rising sign in that sense. We hear about the driving energies of the rising sign, and we think about the sign Aries and its driving nature and how it embodies the Father aspect, the first ray aspect. <wrap hide>1223|02:59:14|580|02:59:20|100</wrap>The progress onward is a driving force, home. <wrap hide>1224|02:59:22|120|02:59:26|200</wrap>Alright, leads a man nearer to the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1225|02:59:26|700|02:59:36|420</wrap>You see the signs are being presented here in various guises. They don't mean just one thing, and they don't refer to just one source. <wrap hide>1226|02:59:36|420|02:59:41|900</wrap>They can refer to many sources and mean different things when referred to those sources. <wrap hide>1227|02:59:42|560|02:59:50|600</wrap>Because in a way, when you look at the three fire signs, it's Aries that represents the monad, Leo the soul, and Sagittarius the body. <wrap hide>1228|02:59:51|200|02:59:59|140</wrap>And we cannot associate, in the way D.K. is associating the signs here, we cannot use that particular format. <wrap hide>1229|03:00:00|940|03:00:14|780</wrap>Excuse me. "It is here that the divine necessity, the divine necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed for us in the symbol of the sky." <wrap hide>1230|03:00:14|880|03:00:22|160</wrap>In other words, the two Pointers are aligned with Polaris, and that gives us the sense of how to return home. <wrap hide>1231|03:00:22|160|03:00:28|760</wrap>It's kind of interesting though, isn't it, that the star representing the personality is closest to the star representing the monad. <wrap hide>1232|03:00:29|240|03:00:36|020</wrap>And the star representing the soul is, in a way, of these three, the outermost or most distant from the monad. <wrap hide>1233|03:00:36|580|03:00:39|360</wrap>There must be some symbolism in that which escapes me at the moment. <wrap hide>1234|03:00:39|980|03:00:45|580</wrap><wrap quote>It is here that the divine [197] necessity of achieving //alignment// is portrayed for us in the symbolism of the sky <wrap hide>1235|03:00:46|300|03:00:58|420</wrap>and when it has been achieved then there is a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a new and creative manner to sources of divine supply.</wrap> <wrap hide>1236|03:00:59|400|03:01:10|720</wrap>So that's what we need to do. All of us achieve alignment so that the sources of divine supply from higher dimensions can be accessed by us. <wrap hide>1237|03:01:10|720|03:01:20|920</wrap>And that will bring about our release. Once alignment is perfect, the imprisonment of the consciousness can no longer be sustained, <wrap hide>1238|03:01:21|220|03:01:29|050</wrap>and the man escapes under the influence of these higher energies into more rarefied realms. <wrap hide>1239|03:01:29|720|03:01:36|220</wrap>A consciousness rises, the quality of matter is elevated, and the prisoner can go free. <wrap hide>1240|03:01:37|500|03:01:43|340</wrap>OK. Well, we have gone over the three hours. So let's see if we do any more. <wrap hide>1241|03:01:45|240|03:01:51|240</wrap><wrap quote>Astrologers will do well (in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and particularly of initiates)</wrap> <wrap hide>1242|03:01:51|400|03:01:56|220</wrap>because that's when I think the so-called fixed stars are really expressive. <wrap hide>1243|03:01:57|720|03:02:06|120</wrap>The solar dimension begins as man becomes a solar being at the third initiation, identified as a soul on the higher mental plane, <wrap hide>1244|03:02:06|640|03:02:12|240</wrap>identified as a sun on the higher mental plane, and all of these stars are really suns. <wrap hide>1245|03:02:12|300|03:02:19|680</wrap>So it's particularly in connection with initiates that we have to use these stars. <wrap hide>1246|03:02:19|680|03:02:27|040</wrap>He says, <wrap quote>to consider the two Pointers and the Pole Star. </wrap> particularly in the lives of initiates, <wrap hide>1247|03:02:27|640|03:02:33|180</wrap>and I don't know why he would want to leave out Sirius and Alcyone either." <wrap hide>1248|03:02:34|160|03:02:41|800</wrap>But these two pointers and the pole star, where are they located? Do they touch angles of the chart? <wrap hide>1249|03:02:42|000|03:02:45|640</wrap>Are there any planetary conjunctions? Are there aspects? <wrap hide>1250|03:02:45|640|03:02:50|200</wrap>These are things that we might want to look at. <wrap hide>1251|03:02:50|720|03:03:00|620</wrap><wrap quote>They are mysteriously connected with the three aspects of incarnated man—Spirit, soul and body.</wrap> or spirit, soul, and personality. <wrap hide>1252|03:03:00|780|03:03:05|200</wrap>We might call personality as a whole body. That's another way of looking at body. <wrap hide>1253|03:03:05|860|03:03:12|060</wrap><wrap quote> More than this it is not permitted to me to convey to you. I may, however, give you another hint.</wrap> <wrap hide>1254|03:03:12|960|03:03:15|360</wrap>Okay. Are we alert? <wrap hide>1255|03:03:16|880|03:03:21|060</wrap><wrap quote>These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will.</wrap> <wrap hide>1256|03:03:21|300|03:03:24|900</wrap>Yes, they're all on the first aspect of divinity. All of that. <wrap hide>1257|03:03:25|760|03:03:33|880</wrap>Way up high, you know, in our local cosmic sphere, in the position where the head is, the head representing the will, <wrap hide>1258|03:03:33|880|03:03:38|460</wrap>they are three aspects of the divine will in the entirety. <wrap hide>1259|03:03:38|960|03:03:46|800</wrap>Great Bear is, in a way, a Logos, a constellation of Logos, which represents the first aspect, and hence the divine will. <wrap hide>1260|03:03:47|340|03:03:56|220</wrap><wrap quote>It is the //three aspects of all expressions of divinity in manifestation which underlie the Science of Triangles//.</wrap> <wrap hide>1261|03:03:56|220|03:04:06|780</wrap>So every time we have a triangle, we have to look at which one of the points of the triangle represents what phase of divinity. <wrap hide>1262|03:04:07|360|03:04:09|660</wrap><wrap quote>This I will later elaborate.</wrap> <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will. <wrap hide>1264|03:04:14|300|03:04:22|380</wrap>And the way we've been looking at it is that Polaris represents, perhaps, the will to be the first aspect of divine will, <wrap hide>1265|03:04:22|380|03:04:33|040</wrap>and the Merak represents the will to synthesis, perhaps, or the will to unify the second aspect of divine will, <wrap hide>1266|03:04:34|060|03:04:43|600</wrap>and Dubhe, which is the point of closest, representing the third aspect, the will to express, the will to create, perhaps. <wrap hide>1267|03:04:44|400|03:04:49|080</wrap>Much creativity is found in relation to both Aries and Leo, both, really. <wrap hide>1268|03:04:49|080|03:04:57|360</wrap>We certainly know that many people with Leo prominent in their chart turn to the creative and expressive life, <wrap hide>1269|03:04:57|540|03:05:00|520</wrap>usually, at this stage, in the personal sense. <wrap hide>1270|03:05:01|880|03:05:04|920</wrap>Okay, friends, where are we so far? <wrap hide>1271|03:05:05|840|03:05:12|660</wrap>We're on page, let's see, we're on Esoteric Astrology adventure 75, <wrap hide>1272|03:05:13|760|03:05:27|420</wrap>kind of ending with section C, section C, and we're on page 197. <wrap hide>1273|03:05:29|040|03:05:41|860</wrap>So we really began the whole thing, 197, and E.A. 75, thus far, from 192 to 197. <wrap hide>1274|03:05:41|860|03:05:47|080</wrap>So we'll just take a little break here, and I'll see whether we will go on or not. <wrap hide>1275|03:05:56|580|03:06:09|100</wrap>And we move on here, and essentially we're in the D section, the fourth section of Esoteric Astrology adventure, number 75. <wrap hide>1276|03:06:09|100|03:06:14|960</wrap>It says, "Another triangle of energies also appears. <wrap hide>1277|03:06:16|560|03:06:23|840</wrap>Aries, Leo, and Polaris," and Polaris being ruled by Leo and connected with a little bear, <wrap hide>1278|03:06:24|620|03:06:32|340</wrap>which is the son of the great bear, which is the father, so hence the Leo aspect, as Leo rules the sun. <wrap hide>1279|03:06:33|900|03:06:37|360</wrap><wrap quote>Another triangle of energy also appears: <wrap hide>1280|03:06:37|360|03:06:43|540</wrap>Aries, Leo and Polaris, and they are doubly connected through the medium of the Pointers.</wrap> <wrap hide>1281|03:06:44|780|03:06:52|580</wrap>Now let's see, let's see if there is here anything that we might be... <wrap hide>1282|03:06:54|100|03:06:58|280</wrap>No, it doesn't show, so there is no diagram yet. <wrap hide>1283|03:07:00|380|03:07:03|920</wrap>So they are doubly connected through the medium of the pointers. <wrap hide>1284|03:07:03|920|03:07:18|980</wrap>Aries, Leo, Polaris, and Aries shows us a connection with the pointer furthest from Polaris, <wrap hide>1285|03:07:19|360|03:07:24|560</wrap>and Leo shows us a connection with the pointer closest to Polaris. <wrap hide>1286|03:07:24|560|03:07:35|680</wrap>Okay, so all we have here, a double Leo connection, yes. <wrap hide>1287|03:07:36|580|03:07:44|900</wrap>And if we had Polaris connected as a star, a major star of direction, with Sagittarius, we would have all three represented. <wrap hide>1288|03:07:45|960|03:07:48|160</wrap>Now we begin to speak about Scorpio. <wrap hide>1289|03:07:49|760|03:07:55|760</wrap><wrap quote>//Scorpio// is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius.</wrap> <wrap hide>1290|03:07:56|600|03:07:58|600</wrap>Now either the sign or the constellation. <wrap hide>1291|03:08:00|100|03:08:07|220</wrap>Scorpio as a constellation is so immense and contains within itself this huge supergiant Antares, <wrap hide>1292|03:08:08|160|03:08:12|960</wrap>which is certainly a more powerful star than Sirius is, <wrap hide>1293|03:08:12|960|03:08:26|500</wrap>that, you know, you begin to wonder how Sirius could be considered the superior source to the constellation of Scorpio. <wrap hide>1294|03:08:27|000|03:08:29|360</wrap>But anyway, it could be the sign Scorpio. <wrap hide>1295|03:08:30|200|03:08:32|880</wrap><wrap quote>This is the great star of initiation <wrap hide>1296|03:08:33|220|03:08:39|520</wrap>[This is Sirius] because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) <wrap hide>1297|03:08:39|520|03:08:45|840</wrap>is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius.</wrap> <wrap hide>1298|03:08:46|100|03:08:58|100</wrap>Now, in some respects, Sirius has been called the Cosmic Christ, or it's in one scope of understanding, it is the Cosmic Christ. <wrap hide>1299|03:08:59|780|03:09:07|600</wrap>So we have here the possibility of Sirius being a great, ultimately second-ray center, <wrap hide>1300|03:09:07|600|03:09:10|460</wrap>probably in its highest monadic aspect. <wrap hide>1301|03:09:11|300|03:09:15|140</wrap>It belongs to the second-ray and perhaps in its personality nature as well. <wrap hide>1302|03:09:16|960|03:09:20|080</wrap>It's hard to say it could belong to the second-ray. <wrap hide>1303|03:09:20|720|03:09:28|460</wrap>It has much of the sixth-ray in it because of the loyalty inherent in its symbology, <wrap hide>1304|03:09:28|520|03:09:30|560</wrap>just as Venus has much of the sixth-ray. <wrap hide>1305|03:09:30|560|03:09:37|840</wrap>As a matter of fact, in many ways, Venus seems to be a tiny replica of Sirius. <wrap hide>1306|03:09:39|480|03:09:45|500</wrap>There are certain of our planets which are most related to certain of our neighboring stars. <wrap hide>1307|03:09:46|140|03:09:48|940</wrap>Jupiter most related, I think, to our own sun. <wrap hide>1308|03:09:49|600|03:09:54|280</wrap>But Venus most related to Sirius, I would say. <wrap hide>1309|03:09:56|100|03:10:06|520</wrap><wrap quote>These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, <wrap hide>1310|03:10:07|220|03:10:17|240</wrap>in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. <wrap hide>1311|03:10:18|080|03:10:22|180</wrap>It is esoterically called the “brilliant star of sensitivity.” </wrap><wrap hide>1312|03:10:22|180|03:10:36|520</wrap>So we have Sirius representing an expression of the Cosmic Christ and working through the sign Scorpio, <wrap hide>1313|03:10:37|100|03:10:48|100</wrap>working through our solar system, through our planet, working through man in his fourth creative hierarchy, <wrap hide>1314|03:10:48|100|03:10:57|280</wrap>and thus through, again, Scorpio and Mercury, and also working in the lower forms of life expression. <wrap hide>1315|03:10:58|140|03:11:01|000</wrap>So this is a great, in a way, second-ray source. <wrap hide>1316|03:11:01|340|03:11:11|240</wrap>Now, it cannot be denied that like Venus, there is a tremendous fifth-ray associated with Sirius <wrap hide>1317|03:11:11|240|03:11:19|340</wrap>because it is the source of manas to our solar God, our solar Logos, <wrap hide>1318|03:11:19|740|03:11:25|120</wrap>just the way we can say that Venus is a source of manas to our Earth. <wrap hide>1319|03:11:26|000|03:11:29|940</wrap>So Venus carries much more of the fifth-ray than our Earth does, <wrap hide>1320|03:11:29|980|03:11:36|820</wrap>and I think Sirius carries much more of the fifth-ray than our solar Logos does. <wrap hide>1321|03:11:36|820|03:11:44|000</wrap>But we have an important line here, and within that line Scorpio plays its part. <wrap hide>1322|03:11:44|740|03:11:52|780</wrap>We can also, there's also a chart in esoteric astrology that shows Pisces playing an important part <wrap hide>1323|03:11:52|780|03:12:05|400</wrap>in the conduction of the second-ray from Sirius and working into the planet Uranus and through the hierarchy and so forth. <wrap hide>1324|03:12:05|400|03:12:15|380</wrap>There are so many different lines of energy being conducted, and they each stand on their own. <wrap hide>1325|03:12:16|020|03:12:27|180</wrap>A particular source or center of life or radiation can play very different roles in different lines of energy. <wrap hide>1326|03:12:27|760|03:12:31|440</wrap>I mean, you know, here is Uranus, the home of electric fire. <wrap hide>1327|03:12:31|440|03:12:44|740</wrap>And yet Uranus is found in this second-ray line of energy which involves Sirius, the sign Pisces, Uranus, <wrap hide>1328|03:12:45|160|03:12:52|360</wrap>the hierarchy, the heart center, the solar plexus, and so forth, even though Uranus has such a tremendous first-ray origin. <wrap hide>1329|03:12:52|500|03:12:57|920</wrap>But in different lines of energy, the same kind of source can play different roles. <wrap hide>1330|03:12:57|920|03:13:08|840</wrap>Now, why it is so, I think the full explanation of that lies in the future, as do so many necessary elucidations. <wrap hide>1331|03:13:09|620|03:13:18|000</wrap><wrap quote>Polaris—The Star of Direction—governing Shamballa.</wrap> so hence the first-ray nature of it. <wrap hide>1332|03:13:18|080|03:13:26|440</wrap>Everything from the Great Bear is on the first-ray, but the three pointers give us three different aspects of the will we have been told. <wrap hide>1333|03:13:27|240|03:13:38|660</wrap><wrap quote>Later, another Pole Star will take the place of Polaris, owing to the interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and movement.</wrap> <wrap hide>1334|03:13:38|660|03:13:56|460</wrap>Well, we're talking minimally about the wobble of the Earth's axis, top-like, which completes one gyration every, what is it, 25,920 years, something of that nature? <wrap hide>1335|03:13:56|980|03:14:03|960</wrap>Almost 26,000 years, but conventionalized as a 25,000-year gyration. <wrap hide>1336|03:14:04|860|03:14:10|080</wrap><wrap quote>But the name and quality of this star will only be revealed at initiation.[198]</wrap> <wrap hide>1337|03:14:10|380|03:14:28|040</wrap>Well, the scientists seem to think they know what stars are involved with the orientation of our axis at different times along this gyration, this cone, cone that it sweeps out. <wrap hide>1338|03:14:28|040|03:14:38|780</wrap>But perhaps, perhaps D.K. has something more obscure in mind, something less visible to the sight. <wrap hide>1339|03:14:38|780|03:14:48|180</wrap>There seem to be many gaps in the circle that is swept out by this gyration of the axis. <wrap hide>1340|03:14:48|380|03:15:00|360</wrap>It seems that there are times when no particular obvious star is that star towards which the axis of the Earth is oriented. <wrap hide>1341|03:15:00|360|03:15:04|880</wrap>And yet, we would think that there must always be a pole star. <wrap hide>1342|03:15:05|100|03:15:15|640</wrap>So perhaps farther in space, and not close to our solar system at all, is a star towards which the axis of the Earth can be oriented. <wrap hide>1343|03:15:15|840|03:15:27|360</wrap>Because it does seem to say that only at initiation, and one would presume rather high initiation, is the name of the star revealed. <wrap hide>1344|03:15:27|360|03:15:33|760</wrap>And then there are many movements going on. The stars themselves are moving all the time. <wrap hide>1345|03:15:35|240|03:15:47|180</wrap>And we sometimes look at this as the radial motion of stars, but we're not at all sure how they are all moving relative to each other and what the name of this pole star will be. <wrap hide>1346|03:15:47|180|03:16:08|700</wrap>But whatever it may be, we will say that whatever its quality is will come through the point of influx of the Earth atom, and will have a tremendous influential effect even as Polaris has had such an effect. <wrap hide>1347|03:16:09|440|03:16:18|940</wrap>Alright, we're on page 198, continuing with the Scorpio chapter, so now he summarizes for us. <wrap hide>1348|03:16:19|980|03:16:28|840</wrap><wrap quote>Sirius—The Star of Sensitivity— [The brilliant star of sensitivity, we are told,] governing the Hierarchy.</wrap> <wrap hide>1349|03:16:28|840|03:16:39|940</wrap>And so Scorpio will naturally have a very strong connection with the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, and hence with the second ray. <wrap hide>1350|03:16:39|940|03:17:08|980</wrap>We'll say Scorpio will be connected with the second ray. It already distributes fourth ray force, and perhaps first ray, as it is one of the cosmic decanates, and it is associated with the first ray hero Hercules. <wrap hide>1351|03:17:08|980|03:17:16|500</wrap>And so the implication is clear that it has something of the first ray connected with it. <wrap hide>1352|03:17:17|000|03:17:28|760</wrap><wrap quote>Alcyone—The Star of the Individual— governing humanity.</wrap> It's more connected with the third aspect, just the way the Pleiades have much of the third ray connected with them, <wrap hide>1353|03:17:28|760|03:17:43|440</wrap>but not to forget the fact that they are the hub of the wheel, so to speak, of our local cosmic system, and that they carry as well a strong influence of cosmic Buddhi, and thus the second ray. <wrap hide>1354|03:17:43|700|03:17:51|240</wrap>When we look at a particular source, we cannot say that it carries only one ray. We look at the Earth and we find that it carries all seven. <wrap hide>1355|03:17:52|600|03:17:59|620</wrap>It is active in the expression of all seven rays, even though by one or two or three of these rays it is best known. <wrap hide>1356|03:18:01|140|03:18:07|760</wrap>Thus it is for the constellations and for great stars. We cannot say only one ray is involved. <wrap hide>1357|03:18:07|760|03:18:24|420</wrap>So Alcyone is the star of the individual, hence in a way connected with Dubhe or the pointer closest to the Sun, closest to Polaris, ruled by Leo. <wrap hide>1358|03:18:25|680|03:18:35|880</wrap>And remember, Alcyone is connected with Aquarius, so naturally there would be a connection between Alcyone and that pointer representing the opposites, one Aquarius and the other Leo. <wrap hide>1359|03:18:37|940|03:18:53|680</wrap>Okay, interesting then that Alcyone, there must be some kind of connection here between Alcyone, Aquarius and Leo, and maybe the first pointer, the pointer closest to Polaris is involved as well. <wrap hide>1360|03:18:53|680|03:19:02|600</wrap>There is something here about the transition from individual Ahamkaric consciousness into a greater group consciousness. <wrap hide>1361|03:19:02|820|03:19:13|800</wrap>But the individual, the encapsulated individual, the individual who thinks he is a separate unit and is still bewildered by that separateness, <wrap hide>1362|03:19:13|800|03:19:25|020</wrap>is definitely connected with a third aspect, which defines under Saturn our particular boundaries and does not emphasize connectedness. <wrap hide>1363|03:19:25|640|03:19:36|050</wrap>So Alcyone is involved with humanity, the Pleiades are involved with humanity, the Pleiades are involved in giving manas to the seven sacred planets, <wrap hide>1364|03:19:36|050|03:19:45|250</wrap>which are of the nature of the third aspect when they are compared with the Sun, which is more in the nature of the second aspect. <wrap hide>1365|03:19:46|810|03:19:54|150</wrap><wrap quote>You can see from the above how the entire plan of this Treatise is gradually unfolding.</wrap> <wrap hide>1366|03:19:55|150|03:19:57|110</wrap>Well, I hope we can see that. <wrap hide>1367|03:19:57|110|03:20:09|350</wrap><wrap quote>It was necessary for me to indicate to you the nature and the purpose of the three divine centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity—</wrap> the first, second and third aspects, <wrap hide>1368|03:20:09|710|03:20:20|530</wrap>the center of purpose and will, the center of love and wisdom, center of manas and intelligence, <wrap quote>before I could make this part of the teaching clear to you, <wrap hide>1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780</wrap>or before I could point out the nature of the energies pouring from distant constellations and zodiacal signs into our planetary scheme.</wrap> <wrap hide>1370|03:20:32|370|03:20:39|710</wrap>We always have to keep the contrast between constellations and signs in our mind. <wrap hide>1371|03:20:39|710|03:20:56|970</wrap>The constellations are, as it were, galaxies of stars, and the signs are more local, concentrated influences of the energies of those, as D.K. says, galaxies of stars. <wrap hide>1372|03:20:58|970|03:21:07|770</wrap>Really, just to the A.B.C. That's all that's being offered to us at this point, but at least we are being oriented in the correct direction. <wrap hide>1373|03:21:07|770|03:21:19|190</wrap>Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point, both in the life of humanity and in the life of the individual human being. <wrap hide>1374|03:21:19|310|03:21:22|930</wrap>Well, that's kind of a reversal of the wheel, isn't it? <wrap hide>1375|03:21:23|230|03:21:32|590</wrap>We're told how much the planet Uranus is involved in this idea of reversing the wheel. <wrap hide>1376|03:21:32|590|03:21:48|030</wrap>And also when we think about Polaris, this art of refacing and regathering or reacquiring that which has been lost, we have a kind of a Uranian process going on there as well. <wrap hide>1377|03:21:48|770|03:22:00|150</wrap>And we do know that Uranus is the highest ruler of Leo, which allows the individual, when he conceives of himself, to conceive of himself as Spirit or Monad. <wrap hide>1378|03:22:00|150|03:22:11|850</wrap>So <wrap quote>Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being.</wrap> <wrap hide>1379|03:22:12|470|03:22:16|850</wrap>That turning point we can call the initial reversal of the wheel. <wrap hide>1380|03:22:17|570|03:22:29|430</wrap>And when I'm thinking about the petals of the egoic lotus, now, you know, if we go backwards, <wrap hide>1381|03:22:29|430|03:22:32|730</wrap>we go forwards and we start with the outermost knowledge petal. <wrap hide>1382|03:22:33|330|03:22:37|910</wrap>By the time we get to the central petal, we're in what we call a Leo petal. <wrap hide>1383|03:22:38|690|03:22:45|870</wrap>But if we go backwards, and let's see, do we have to begin with the sign Pisces or would it be Aries? <wrap hide>1384|03:22:46|210|03:22:52|510</wrap>So it would be Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio. <wrap hide>1385|03:22:52|510|03:22:59|850</wrap>Yeah, we'd have to begin numbering with Pisces and moving backwards or clockwise for the zodiac. <wrap hide>1386|03:23:00|550|03:23:16|910</wrap>We would come to Scorpio as ruling the love petal of the egoic lotus where I would say the first reversal of the wheel in the life of the human being occurs. <wrap hide>1387|03:23:17|610|03:23:24|470</wrap>And maybe, who knows, in the egoic lotus of humanity as a whole, maybe there's also a similar reversal of the wheel. <wrap hide>1388|03:23:26|150|03:23:31|530</wrap>The turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being. <wrap hide>1389|03:23:31|650|03:23:36|150</wrap>First time in history, that's now, these years. <wrap hide>1390|03:23:37|310|03:23:42|950</wrap><wrap quote>For the first time in the history of both mankind and disciples <wrap hide>1391|03:23:43|770|03:23:51|010</wrap> the energy of Sirius, pouring into the seven groups which form our planetary Hierarchy evokes a response.</wrap> <wrap hide>1392|03:23:51|690|03:23:59|810</wrap>So, Sirius is like a seven-fold prismatic light, a kind of white light that has been divided into seven parts, <wrap hide>1393|03:23:59|810|03:24:04|990</wrap>and Sirius animates each of the seven ashrams. <wrap hide>1394|03:24:04|990|03:24:16|010</wrap>So, let's put that down. Let's say the energy from Sirius animates each of the seven ashrams. <wrap hide>1395|03:24:17|830|03:24:30|190</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>I would remind you of a basic fact in the evolutionary process which astrology will eventually prove scientifically and past all controversy.</wrap> <wrap hide>1396|03:24:30|290|03:24:34|410</wrap>How many centuries might it take? We do not know, but it is coming. <wrap hide>1397|03:24:34|410|03:24:45|230</wrap><wrap quote>This is the fact that energies and forces are pouring upon our system and our planetary lives ceaselessly, [all the time,] <wrap hide>1398|03:24:45|370|03:24:56|090</wrap>potently and cyclically.</wrap> all the time, and with real power that may or may not be noticed, and periodically. <wrap hide>1399|03:24:56|090|03:25:07|930</wrap>So that not all energies are pouring forth at the same time, but they all follow their own cycle, their own rhythm in time. <wrap hide>1400|03:25:09|430|03:25:16|610</wrap><wrap quote>Yet they are only regarded today as existing when definite response is evoked.</wrap> <wrap hide>1401|03:25:16|710|03:25:23|770</wrap>In other words, if there is no response, if there is too much insensitivity to that particular kind of energy, <wrap hide>1402|03:25:23|770|03:25:35|510</wrap>it's as if the source itself does not exist. <wrap quote>They come from all kinds of sources, extraneous to our system and planetary schemes, <wrap hide>1403|03:25:36|250|03:25:47|370</wrap>but until man responds and registers them both scientists and astrologers fail to recognise them and they are as if they were not.</wrap> <wrap hide>1404|03:25:48|470|03:25:57|050</wrap>Okay, so, you know, there's so much that's beating upon us all the time about which we have taken no recognition. <wrap hide>1405|03:25:58|010|03:26:02|050</wrap>Because without the response, how do we know that they are there, except that we may be told? <wrap hide>1406|03:26:03|130|03:26:06|750</wrap><wrap quote>This is a point to bear in mind as I continue to teach you, <wrap hide>1407|03:26:06|750|03:26:19|210</wrap>for I may indicate some sources of active energy which may as yet be unknown to you as playing upon our system and its contents.</wrap> <wrap hide>1408|03:26:19|410|03:26:21|610</wrap>Well, I'm sure that is the case. <wrap hide>1409|03:26:22|210|03:26:32|590</wrap>When we first started reading esoteric astrology, however many years ago, considering the Great Bear and the Pleiades and Sirius and so forth, <wrap hide>1410|03:26:32|590|03:26:38|750</wrap>all as sources of energy may not have been within our minds at all. <wrap hide>1411|03:26:39|250|03:26:45|190</wrap>Although we have considered, I'm sure, the zodiac as sources of energy - the zodiac of constellations. <wrap hide>1412|03:26:46|010|03:26:55|370</wrap><wrap quote>The difficulty will not be because of my inaccuracies but will be owing to the lack of sensitivity</wrap> which initiation does produce, doesn't it? <wrap hide>1413|03:26:55|370|03:27:03|690</wrap>Sirius produces sensitivity. Sirius, the brilliant star of initiation, produces sensitivity - the brilliant star of sensitivity. <wrap hide>1414|03:27:04|450|03:27:15|890</wrap>Sirius produces this sensitivity through the initiatory process. <wrap hide>1415|03:27:16|630|03:27:25|290</wrap>Okay. But it will be owing to the lack of sensitivity <wrap quote>in the mechanism of response which mankind and disciples are at present utilising.[199]</wrap> <wrap hide>1416|03:27:25|590|03:27:33|890</wrap>So, D.K. is saying, just because you don't feel it, because you cannot detect it, does not mean that it does not exist. <wrap hide>1417|03:27:34|610|03:27:45|150</wrap>So, we have to be very cautious about this, very reserved, and take in what he says, even though we may not have experienced the impacts of these various sources. <wrap hide>1418|03:27:46|690|03:27:55|030</wrap><wrap quote>You have consequently in connection with the path of discipleship </wrap>- now he already told us something about the path of initiation in relation to Shambhala - <wrap hide>1419|03:27:55|590|03:28:03|050</wrap><wrap quote>you have the following lines of “influential energy”</wrap> So, now he's dealing, I think, pretty much with the second ray line. <wrap hide>1420|03:28:03|050|03:28:14|750</wrap><wrap quote>1. Sirius—working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays </wrap>Now, I think we can connect the entire science of the seven rays with the Sirian energy. <wrap hide>1421|03:28:15|830|03:28:25|670</wrap>Connect the science of the seven rays with Sirius. And we already know they can be connected with the Great Bear. <wrap hide>1422|03:28:25|670|03:28:40|090</wrap>So, I do think we have different expressions of the seven rays coming through the three major super-constellations, which we can call Great Bear, Sirius, and Pleiades. <wrap hide>1423|03:28:40|310|03:28:45|050</wrap>And in a higher octave spiral, I would call it Great Bear, Little Bear, and Pleiades. <wrap hide>1424|03:28:45|670|03:28:52|010</wrap>Sirius is working in a sevenfold manner. So, let us remember the sevens and the second ray when we think of Sirius. <wrap hide>1425|03:28:52|010|03:29:03|190</wrap>Because the science of the seven rays is particularly connected with the second ray - a mode of approaching truth. <wrap hide>1426|03:29:03|910|03:29:07|490</wrap>The science of esoteric astrology, more with the third ray. <wrap hide>1427|03:29:08|510|03:29:17|990</wrap>So, we have Sirius working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays, <wrap quote>and their seven groups as these constitute the active Hierarchy.</wrap> <wrap hide>1428|03:29:17|990|03:29:36|070</wrap>So, let us remember, and I'll say here, let us remember the relation of Sirius to the seven rays as a whole, and to the second ray in general. <wrap hide>1429|03:29:36|830|03:29:50|330</wrap>Sirius, the Cosmic Christ, or at least one of the Cosmic Christs, probably with a very strong second ray in relation to it, will be involved with the sevenness. <wrap hide>1430|03:29:50|970|03:29:59|050</wrap>As a matter of fact, I think about this relationship: Sirius, Leo, Jupiter. <wrap hide>1431|03:29:59|050|03:30:10|710</wrap>And we have here definitely a second ray connection. All of these sources are considered sources of consciousness, sentience, and of the second ray. <wrap hide>1432|03:30:11|170|03:30:22|370</wrap>And we have the interesting sevenness connected with Sirius, and the sevenness connected with Jupiter, which is a planet conveying the second ray and the seventh ray. <wrap hide>1433|03:30:22|570|03:30:26|550</wrap>At least those two are found expressing through it, and there may be more. <wrap hide>1434|03:30:27|190|03:30:39|990</wrap>Okay, so we have Sirius, and then we have <wrap quote>2. The Fixed Cross—a fusion of four major energies, pouring into our solar system, on to our planet and through humanity.</wrap> <wrap hide>1435|03:30:39|990|03:31:02|370</wrap>So when we are dealing with the struggles of the fixed cross, let's say, struggles of the fixed cross of the soul, we are dealing with Sirian energy behind it all. <wrap hide>1436|03:31:04|110|03:31:11|290</wrap>Now of course, you know, it's just one little star, and four great constellations. <wrap hide>1437|03:31:11|770|03:31:23|810</wrap>Constellations: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius - some of those constellations having stars immensely more powerful than Sirius. <wrap hide>1438|03:31:23|810|03:31:38|870</wrap>So there's a bit of a reversal here, a bit of a blind. I think we're dealing basically with the signs of the fixed cross rather than the constellations themselves being receptive to the energies of Sirius. <wrap hide>1439|03:31:39|570|03:31:43|170</wrap>Otherwise, we have the tail wagging the dog. <wrap hide>1440|03:31:43|870|03:31:51|910</wrap>Sirius is a dwarf star, unless something more is meant by Sirius - for instance, a Sirian system of stars perhaps. <wrap hide>1441|03:31:51|910|03:31:57|510</wrap>But anyway, Sirius is operative as soul is emerging. <wrap hide>1442|03:31:58|830|03:32:12|610</wrap>So, as soul or consciousness is emerging, behind this emergence is the energy of Sirius as mediated through the fixed cross. <wrap hide>1443|03:32:13|610|03:32:17|250</wrap>Okay. Through the fixed cross. <wrap hide>1444|03:32:19|670|03:32:22|830</wrap>Oops. There we go. Okay. <wrap hide>1445|03:32:24|470|03:32:39|670</wrap>And then we have <wrap quote>3. Scorpio— [in particular], an aspect of the Fixed Cross,</wrap> of peculiar and specialized potency - specialized to draw forth discipleship on the path of discipleship, <wrap hide>1446|03:32:39|670|03:32:48|850</wrap><wrap quote>of peculiar and specialised potency upon the Path of Discipleship and preparing,</wrap> through its tests and trials <wrap quote>with its tests and trials.</wrap> the following things. <wrap hide>1447|03:32:49|630|03:33:03|570</wrap>So what do we have so far? We have Sirius, we have the fixed cross, and then especially Scorpio, which in a way is most emblematic of the struggles experienced upon the fixed cross. <wrap hide>1448|03:33:03|570|03:33:10|710</wrap>So, it is preparing with its tests and trials the following day. <wrap hide>1449|03:33:11|670|03:33:24|510</wrap><wrap quote>a. The process of re-orientation, whereby a man mounts the Fixed Cross and leaves the Mutable Cross.</wrap> and this can occur, can occur, the first initiation, <wrap hide>1450|03:33:24|510|03:33:53|450</wrap>where the mounting of the fixed cross occurs, and Scorpio is involved in the first initiation, just as it is involved in the two subsequent initiations, the second and the third. <wrap hide>1451|03:33:53|450|03:34:03|660</wrap>So there's a process of reorientation. There are a number of reorientations. There's a reorientation that occurs earlier in the process of the fifth petal when a man becomes an aspirant. <wrap hide>1452|03:34:04|490|03:34:14|450</wrap>Then there's that reorientation where he leaves the mutable cross and joins the fixed cross and becomes the true disciple involved in soul culture. <wrap hide>1453|03:34:14|450|03:34:31|470</wrap>And then there's another confirmation of orientation which occurs between the second and third initiations after the temptations in the desert, and the temptations are particularly connected with Scorpio. <wrap hide>1454|03:34:32|430|03:34:51|030</wrap>So there are three places there where I find Scorpio to be active, and of course it's active in other places too, such as at the second and at the third initiations, and maybe in a way that is quite different at the fourth initiation, which brings about the death of the causal body. <wrap hide>1455|03:34:51|030|03:35:00|950</wrap>It says its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt after the third initiation, but what other kind of potency may be felt? <wrap hide>1456|03:35:01|790|03:35:12|530</wrap>Okay, so we're dealing here with the tests and trials of Scorpio, and it produces a reorientation, and then <wrap quote>b. The disciple for the first, second and third initiations. <wrap hide>1457|03:35:12|530|03:35:31|450</wrap>After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt.</wrap> but is some other aspect of Scorpio felt? Some power of resurrection, perhaps? <wrap hide>1458|03:35:32|370|03:35:54|490</wrap>Because I think we cannot say that Scorpio is not involved in the fourth initiation after all. The fourth initiation is ruled by the fourth ray, which is the major ray to come through Scorpio, it being the sign through which more intensity of fourth ray comes now than any other sign. <wrap hide>1459|03:35:54|490|03:36:08|590</wrap>And then its esoteric, rather hierarchical, ruler, Mercury, conveying also the fourth ray, and Mercury and Saturn together being involved at the fourth initiation. <wrap hide>1460|03:36:08|590|03:36:27|930</wrap>So there are so many hints about why Scorpio could also be involved at the fourth initiation, but in a different way is no longer testing out our relationship to each of the three lower vehicles respectively. <wrap hide>1461|03:36:27|930|03:36:57|910</wrap>Perhaps in a way it's testing our relationship to the entire personality. But anyway we have to take this at face value. <wrap quote>After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt.</wrap> but there is the idea of life, let's say, death unto life, the death of the lower worlds, giving way through the elixir of the <wrap hide>1462|03:36:58|670|03:37:23|210</wrap>life which is distilled through sacrifice and death unto a higher form of life, passing through death. When we think about Saint Paul, well he was clearly passing, he had passed through the third initiation, we are told, by the Tibetan, but by the time his life had ended, he had made the great sacrifice it seems, and he was a Scorpio individual. <wrap hide>1463|03:37:23|210|03:37:39|910</wrap>And I believe he was passing through the fourth initiation, taking maybe mastership in a subsequent life, you know, maybe as the Iamblichus, was that the name of it? <wrap hide>1464|03:37:39|910|03:37:51|590</wrap>Anyway, Scorpio was involved in his chart, and I believe Scorpio could see him through not only the third initiation, but in some way made possible the sacrifice at the fourth. <wrap hide>1465|03:37:52|470|03:38:17|590</wrap>Okay, so what are we looking at here? We are looking at Scorpio as an aspect of the fixed cross, it has a peculiar specialized potency, and it's preparing through the tests and trials for the process of reorientation, it's preparing the disciple for the first, second, and third initiation, and those are the two factors that are mentioned. <wrap hide>1466|03:38:17|590|03:38:32|830</wrap>Now, the next in this alignment, so far, of Sirius, fixed cross, and Scorpio, is the hierarchy itself, and we see how intimately related Scorpio is to the spiritual hierarchy of our planet. <wrap hide>1467|03:38:32|830|03:38:42|910</wrap><wrap quote>4. The Hierarchy.—The distributing agency</wrap> presumably of Sirian force and of love-wisdom, <wrap quote>to the various kingdoms in nature.</wrap> <wrap hide>1468|03:38:43|810|03:39:03|250</wrap>So, these lines of connection are very important. We have seen here an earlier, here's an earlier line of connection, the furthest, the pole star furthest from the Polaris, then Aries, then Vulcan Pluto, and then Shambhala. <wrap hide>1469|03:39:03|250|03:39:16|390</wrap>Okay, that's one line of connection we have studied. And now we are studying a second ray, a line of descent or distribution. We have Sirius working in a seven-fold manner. <wrap hide>1470|03:39:17|710|03:39:28|590</wrap>Always, you must remember that, because these rays are not just a product of the Great Bear. We have three different aspects of the rays. <wrap hide>1471|03:39:29|590|03:39:38|350</wrap>And probably the will aspect of the rays comes from the Great Bear, but the love or magnetic aspect comes from Sirius, or perhaps the Little Bear, or perhaps both. <wrap hide>1472|03:39:38|350|03:39:47|110</wrap>And then there is the intelligence aspect of the seven rays coming through the Pleiades, presumably. <wrap hide>1473|03:39:48|170|03:39:53|990</wrap>Okay, so we have Sirius, fixed cross, Scorpio, and then the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1474|03:39:54|970|03:40:02|930</wrap>And then we're going to have, interestingly, it continues through two planets. Is that correct? <wrap hide>1475|03:40:05|110|03:40:16|450</wrap>Yes, it looks like it does. Two planets, one the ruler of Scorpio, but exalted in Capricorn, and the other the ruler of Capricorn. <wrap hide>1476|03:40:16|810|03:40:26|450</wrap>In both of these signs, Scorpio and Capricorn, the ruler, the ordinary ruler is the esoteric ruler as well. <wrap hide>1477|03:40:27|190|03:40:34|790</wrap>Mars is the esoteric ruler of Scorpio as well as the orthodox, and Saturn is the esoteric ruler of Capricorn as well as the orthodox. <wrap hide>1478|03:40:35|030|03:40:45|030</wrap><wrap quote>5. Mars and Saturn.—Both these planets are exceedingly potent in connection with initiation into the life of the Hierarchy;</wrap> <wrap hide>1479|03:40:45|230|03:40:48|790</wrap>And presumably, both the signs are as well. <wrap hide>1480|03:40:48|790|03:41:00|370</wrap>Notice that these are, interestingly, from the human personality angle, called malefic planets, meaning they give you hard time in the personality sense. <wrap hide>1481|03:41:00|970|03:41:08|130</wrap>But they do open the door into hierarchy, strongly connected with initiation into the life of the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1482|03:41:08|130|03:41:18|510</wrap>Those initiations are ruled by different rays, but all through the expression of those rays, <wrap hide>1483|03:41:19|170|03:41:28|330</wrap>seventh for the first, sixth for the second, fifth for the third, and fourth for the fourth, Mars and Saturn are involved. <wrap hide>1484|03:41:29|130|03:41:34|950</wrap><wrap quote>Mars is potent in relation to Scorpio and Saturn in relation to Capricorn.</wrap> obviously, as the rulers. <wrap hide>1485|03:41:34|950|03:41:43|730</wrap><wrap quote>This involves the intensified activity of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies,</wrap> <wrap hide>1486|03:41:45|850|03:41:48|270</wrap>Sixth and third rays and the energies of the rays. <wrap hide>1487|03:41:48|530|03:41:56|630</wrap>Interestingly, rays apparently are not just a monolithic source, but they have energies connected to them. <wrap hide>1488|03:41:57|350|03:42:01|990</wrap>So there are a number of energies contained within any ray, it seems to imply. <wrap hide>1489|03:42:01|990|03:42:10|230</wrap><wrap quote>and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual.</wrap> <wrap hide>1490|03:42:10|990|03:42:20|990</wrap>Well, there's so much connected with the dense physical vehicle and the astral body which seem to hold man into the lower worlds and into the world of form. <wrap hide>1491|03:42:20|990|03:42:32|270</wrap>And when the sixth ray connected with the astral body and the third ray connected with the dense physical are properly released, properly oriented, properly utilized, <wrap hide>1492|03:42:33|070|03:42:35|370</wrap>then comes release from those spheres. <wrap hide>1493|03:42:36|030|03:42:45|850</wrap>It's rather interesting now, isn't it, this correlation, that the majority of people in the world today have either sixth-ray personalities or third-ray personalities. <wrap hide>1494|03:42:46|290|03:42:48|110</wrap>This is what the Tibetan tells us. <wrap hide>1495|03:42:48|110|03:42:53|470</wrap>These two rays do cause a lot of difficulty and confinement. <wrap hide>1496|03:42:54|630|03:42:58|830</wrap>They must be liberated into the soul aspect. <wrap hide>1497|03:43:00|230|03:43:11|910</wrap>Okay, so Mars and Saturn implicating and drawing in both Scorpio and Capricorn are very active in the process of initiation into the life of the hierarchy. <wrap hide>1498|03:43:11|910|03:43:29|210</wrap>So we have to see what type of battles, what type of karmic facing we have when we look at our charts in connection with these two planets, because if we handle them rightly, we can, the door into hierarchy can be more rapidly open. <wrap hide>1499|03:43:30|370|03:43:42|830</wrap>Okay, <wrap quote>Again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the disciple. [200]</wrap> <wrap hide>1500|03:43:43|230|03:43:47|130</wrap>So, well, okay, I think we can see how we might be able to do that. <wrap hide>1501|03:43:47|330|03:43:53|530</wrap>You know, we look at the position of Sirius and understand what it means in terms of initiation. <wrap hide>1502|03:43:53|530|03:44:03|630</wrap>We would look at the positioning of the fixed cross and where its rulers might be and their relationship with each other. <wrap hide>1503|03:44:03|770|03:44:13|290</wrap>We look particularly at Scorpio for, which we say is power to reorient us, wherever Scorpio may be found. <wrap hide>1504|03:44:14|390|03:44:15|530</wrap>Let's take a look here at what it says. <wrap hide>1505|03:44:16|230|03:44:19|690</wrap>A peculiar and specialized potency on the path of discipleship. <wrap hide>1506|03:44:20|510|03:44:24|590</wrap>But it did say something about reorientation a little bit earlier. <wrap hide>1507|03:44:24|750|03:44:27|910</wrap>Yes, the process of reorientation. Here it is. <wrap hide>1508|03:44:28|450|03:44:32|210</wrap>And testing us at the first three initiations. <wrap hide>1509|03:44:33|010|03:44:37|850</wrap>And thus we would be preparing for those initiations through the Scorpio energy. <wrap hide>1510|03:44:38|510|03:44:43|130</wrap>Then we would consider our relationship to hierarchy as a soul. <wrap hide>1511|03:44:43|130|03:44:48|530</wrap>And finally we would consider the positions of Mars and Saturn. <wrap hide>1512|03:44:49|370|03:44:59|130</wrap>And how rightly used we could tread the burning ground and we could fulfill our command and thus open the door more widely into hierarchy. <wrap hide>1513|03:45:00|050|03:45:08|830</wrap>So we would do well to consider this line of fused forces, especially this secondary line, which has so much to do with the soul. <wrap hide>1514|03:45:08|830|03:45:17|470</wrap>Which is, after all, our objective, the broadening of soul consciousness. This is our objective. <wrap hide>1515|03:45:18|710|03:45:23|310</wrap>As for the other line, which is more Shambolic in nature, I guess it can come later. <wrap hide>1516|03:45:24|450|03:45:25|650</wrap>Here we are on page 200. <wrap hide>1517|03:45:27|630|03:45:36|850</wrap>We have <wrap quote>//Aquarius// relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. </wrap><wrap hide>1518|03:45:36|850|03:45:48|130</wrap>Because really, if we look through the constellation Taurus, we find the Pleiades central within it, although much farther away. <wrap hide>1519|03:45:49|650|03:45:59|030</wrap>And therefore it is considered that the Pleiades are within the constellation Taurus. <wrap hide>1520|03:45:59|030|03:46:04|350</wrap>So Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus. <wrap hide>1521|03:46:04|830|03:46:08|610</wrap>And you know, you kind of wonder again about the central spiritual sun. <wrap hide>1522|03:46:09|390|03:46:16|190</wrap>And you find as well at the time of Wesak that the Pleiades should be considered. <wrap hide>1523|03:46:17|190|03:46:22|110</wrap>So we have kind of a Pleiades-Taurus-Shambolic alignment at that time. <wrap hide>1524|03:46:22|110|03:46:28|710</wrap>So Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. <wrap hide>1525|03:46:28|870|03:46:32|790</wrap>He's not going to elaborate on this too much. <wrap hide>1526|03:46:33|350|03:46:45|270</wrap><wrap quote>The key to this relation is to he found in the word //desire//,</wrap> which is Taurean in nature, <wrap quote>leading, through the transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration</wrap> <wrap hide>1527|03:46:45|290|03:46:50|690</wrap>which is a key Taurean factor, especially in the later stages of evolution. <wrap hide>1528|03:46:50|690|03:46:55|190</wrap><wrap quote>and finally the relinquishing of desire in Scorpio.</wrap> <wrap hide>1529|03:46:56|330|03:47:10|110</wrap>So desire in Taurus leads towards Scorpio and its transmutative potency under Uranus, which is the exalted planet in Scorpio. <wrap hide>1530|03:47:10|630|03:47:14|650</wrap>So whenever you see transmutation or transmutative, Uranus is involved. <wrap hide>1531|03:47:14|650|03:47:24|330</wrap>And this aspiration, Taurean aspiration, leads finally to the giving up of desire, relinquishing of desire in Scorpio. <wrap hide>1532|03:47:25|070|03:47:28|030</wrap>That's an important way of relating these two. <wrap hide>1533|03:47:28|850|03:47:37|010</wrap><wrap quote>Aquarius, Alcyone and Humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force.</wrap> <wrap hide>1534|03:47:38|010|03:47:53|310</wrap>Yes, so Aquarius, you know, here being related in a way to the lowest of the creative hierarchies, which in a way is a prison for the human consciousness. <wrap hide>1535|03:47:54|470|03:47:57|010</wrap>Aquarius, Alcyone, and humanity. <wrap hide>1536|03:47:58|190|03:48:01|410</wrap>There is an individualism in this triangle. <wrap hide>1537|03:48:02|030|03:48:07|430</wrap>Normally you might think it could be Leo, Alcyone, and humanity, but no, it's Aquarius. <wrap hide>1538|03:48:08|790|03:48:10|710</wrap>A most interesting triangle of force. <wrap hide>1539|03:48:10|910|03:48:21|070</wrap><wrap quote>Alcyone is one of the seven Pleiades</wrap> the central one, in a way the most potent of the Pleiades, I think, in a first-ray sense. <wrap hide>1540|03:48:21|390|03:48:23|670</wrap>And it's called the star of the individual. <wrap hide>1541|03:48:24|310|03:48:34|390</wrap>It gives the human being under Ahamkara a sense of its uniqueness, of being one of a kind, of being separate as well. <wrap hide>1542|03:48:34|930|03:48:45|890</wrap>And sometimes the star of intelligence, in a way the Pleiades as a whole have given manness to the heavenly men and are associated with the third aspect of intelligence. <wrap hide>1543|03:48:46|770|03:48:51|350</wrap>The question is, which are the highest rays of the Pleiades? <wrap hide>1544|03:48:51|350|03:49:00|770</wrap>Certainly third ray is involved, second ray for cosmic beauty is involved, is the first ray involved as is the hub of our local cosmic wheel? <wrap hide>1545|03:49:01|890|03:49:08|150</wrap>Okay, so Aquarius, Alcyone, and humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. <wrap hide>1546|03:49:09|270|03:49:17|630</wrap>And I suppose one that is going to come somewhat into potency now as a tremendous intelligence overtakes humanity, <wrap hide>1547|03:49:17|630|03:49:21|590</wrap>given the fifth ray expressed through Aquarius. <wrap hide>1548|03:49:21|810|03:49:36|390</wrap>So during the Aquarian age this triangle may come in prominently and help with the transition of humanity away from individualism into some of the greater service potentials of Aquarius, <wrap hide>1549|03:49:36|670|03:49:43|630</wrap>and into the group consciousness, which Aquarius also suggests, not just individualism. <wrap hide>1550|03:49:43|630|03:49:47|510</wrap>There seems to be a possibility of progression here. <wrap hide>1551|03:49:48|510|03:50:02|830</wrap><wrap quote>and is called the “star of the Individual” [Alcyone], and sometimes the “star of intelligence.” It was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the Third Person of the Trinity was peculiarly omnipotent and active,</wrap> <wrap hide>1552|03:50:02|830|03:50:20|490</wrap>Now remember we studied Virgo in relation to the Holy Spirit, Virgo and the Holy Spirit, and the four mutable signs related to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>1553|03:50:21|230|03:50:28|150</wrap>So we have to bring Virgo in relation to the Pleiades here, and also in relation to Alcyone. <wrap hide>1554|03:50:28|330|03:50:31|050</wrap>We're dealing with the material aspect. <wrap hide>1555|03:50:31|050|03:50:36|870</wrap>Sometimes Virgo represents the woman in the Sphinx, and therefore the soul. <wrap hide>1556|03:50:37|630|03:50:43|470</wrap>Sometimes Virgo represents the material aspect, and Leo represents the soul nature. <wrap hide>1557|03:50:44|250|03:50:58|510</wrap>Okay, so it, Alcyone, and even Sirius we are told, was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the Trinity was purely omnipotent and active. <wrap hide>1558|03:50:58|730|03:51:01|490</wrap>This was the solar system of the Holy Spirit. <wrap hide>1559|03:51:01|490|03:51:15|370</wrap>Now remember that Cancer, which is connected with the Pleiades definitely, and Virgo also connected with the Pleiades, were the two major signs, ruling the first and second part respectively, of the previous solar system. <wrap hide>1560|03:51:15|930|03:51:29|330</wrap>Both of them connected with the third aspect of divinity, but the interesting thing about Virgo is that it offers the possibility of transition from the third aspect of divinity into the second. <wrap hide>1561|03:51:29|330|03:51:50|810</wrap>And its rays, which were more on the intelligence aspect, and perhaps the seventh ray in the previous solar system, have now transitioned to the second and third, showing Virgo, the ruler of the second part of the last solar system, to be a bridge towards the themes of our present second ray solar system. <wrap hide>1562|03:51:50|810|03:52:20|510</wrap>Okay, so it was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the Trinity was purely omnipotent and active, even active now in the manipulation of forces in our second solar system related to the previous solar system. <wrap hide>1563|03:52:20|510|03:52:39|630</wrap>So what could that be? Could that be Orion considered as a great constellation, represented by the Cosmic Christ? Could it be Sirius, even though Sirius was very active in its monadic sense in relation to the previous monadic solar system? <wrap hide>1564|03:52:39|630|03:52:53|110</wrap>Anyway, the Holy Spirit, third person active in the previous solar system, and now Sirius and the fixed cross in <wrap quote>just as today the cosmic Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, is peculiarly active in this solar system.</wrap> <wrap hide>1565|03:52:53|110|03:53:13|810</wrap>This is a solar system in which our solar Logos becomes more than a cosmic personality. He becomes a cosmic soul and has already taken the first and second cosmic initiations and is destined to take the third, which will make of him, let's say, more of a sacred solar Logos. <wrap hide>1566|03:53:13|810|03:53:29|210</wrap><wrap quote>The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind.</wrap> Now by universe, I think we mean—a lesser interpretation of it here—we mean the system of our solar Logos. <wrap hide>1567|03:53:29|730|03:53:41|690</wrap>The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind, because it is, after all, a star of intelligence and all the Pleiades are related to the third ray. <wrap hide>1568|03:53:43|070|03:53:45|270</wrap>Not only the third ray, but definitely the third ray. <wrap hide>1569|03:53:45|270|03:54:04|470</wrap><wrap quote>As a consequence of this most ancient activity, the same force was present at the time of individualisation in this solar system,</wrap>—individualization of man, presumably. <wrap hide>1570|03:54:04|470|03:54:16|210</wrap><wrap quote>for it is in this system, and primarily upon our planet, the Earth, that the major results of that early activity have made themselves felt. </wrap> <wrap hide>1571|03:54:16|510|03:54:31|650</wrap>So, this is important material. He is relating this kind of Holy Spirit activity, which we can consider to be fohat-ic, and which operated in relation to the earlier phases of our solar system. <wrap hide>1572|03:54:31|650|03:54:38|510</wrap>We're relating those activities to the individualization process on Earth. <wrap hide>1573|03:54:40|310|03:54:48|790</wrap>So, those early activities had their major expression in relation to our planet, where a special kind of individualization occurred. <wrap hide>1574|03:54:49|630|03:54:54|710</wrap>It's much deeper than that, and I wish I could go into it, and one day, maybe I will be able to. <wrap hide>1575|03:54:54|710|03:55:05|390</wrap><wrap quote>Two of our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are directly the product of this third ray activity.</wrap> <wrap hide>1576|03:55:06|690|03:55:17|070</wrap>We know that the monadic ray of Uranus is the first, and the soul ray is the seventh, but perhaps Uranus is associated very much with the intelligence aspect. <wrap hide>1577|03:55:17|070|03:55:24|550</wrap>Perhaps the third ray is his personality ray, just as for the Earth, the third ray is his personality ray. <wrap hide>1578|03:55:25|050|03:55:38|170</wrap>And when we really look at that, we would see quite an astonishing connection between the rays of Uranus and the rays of the Earth having the same monadic ray, and perhaps the same personality ray as well. <wrap hide>1579|03:55:39|090|03:55:47|430</wrap>So, third ray activity, at least outwardly, is associated with the Earth and with Uranus. <wrap hide>1580|03:55:48|530|03:56:03|870</wrap>Now, there we, I think, are able to tie in some third ray connection to Aquarius, which is a sign of constant movement and mutation, suggesting the third ray, and Uranus is its ruler. <wrap hide>1581|03:56:03|970|03:56:06|890</wrap>We're talking about the intelligence aspect now. <wrap hide>1582|03:56:06|890|03:56:23|770</wrap>Two of our planets, the Earth, non-sacred, and Uranus, sacred, are directly the product of this third ray activity, a kind of activity which has seemed that Alcyone set into motion in the early days of our universe, or solar system. <wrap hide>1583|03:56:24|610|03:56:34|450</wrap><wrap quote>This is of great importance to remember. I would also ask you to link this thought with the teaching that through the divine centre of intelligent activity which we call humanity,</wrap> <wrap hide>1584|03:56:34|450|03:56:45|090</wrap>humanity being a kind of throat center in our planetary system, a system of our planetary scheme, and hence much associated with the third ray, <wrap hide>1585|03:56:45|770|03:56:53|230</wrap><wrap quote>the fourth kingdom in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all the three lower kingdoms.</wrap> <wrap hide>1586|03:56:53|670|03:57:03|450</wrap>Humanity stands on top of the three lower kingdoms. It has the harmonizing Buddhic principle which is to flow through it. <wrap hide>1587|03:57:03|450|03:57:09|450</wrap>But it is the center of intelligence, so Buddhi and Manas will be combined in humanity. <wrap hide>1588|03:57:10|250|03:57:17|750</wrap>It's an intelligence center which will be motivated by the bridging and harmonizing power of the intuition. <wrap hide>1589|03:57:19|250|03:57:23|930</wrap>All right. Maybe I can finish just a tiny bit more. I will. <wrap hide>1590|03:57:23|930|03:57:33|350</wrap>Okay. <wrap quote>Humanity is the divine Messenger</wrap> There's Mercury for you, and Mercury is most associated with humanity, with the fourth grade of hierarchy. <wrap hide>1591|03:57:34|290|03:57:43|330</wrap><wrap quote>Humanity is the divine Messenger to the world of form; it is essentially Mercury, bringing light and life to other divine manifestations <wrap hide>1592|03:57:43|330|03:57:51|490</wrap>and of this all divine world Saviours are the eternal symbols. </wrap>because the world saviors come in under Bodhi, <wrap hide>1593|03:57:51|970|03:57:57|630</wrap>and they are bringing the harmonizing love-wisdom power to the lower world. <wrap hide>1594|03:57:57|830|03:58:04|030</wrap>So humanity eventually is to become a world savior. Right now, its rays are the fourth and the fifth. <wrap hide>1595|03:58:04|030|03:58:14|090</wrap>I believe the fourth-ray soul, the fifth-ray personality, but eventually the rays of humanity will be the same as the rays of the mutable cross, <wrap hide>1596|03:58:14|990|03:58:22|430</wrap>orthodoxly considered, the second and the fourth-ray. The second-ray soul of humanity and the fourth-ray personality. <wrap hide>1597|03:58:22|970|03:58:25|630</wrap>And still the destroying power of humanity is there. <wrap hide>1598|03:58:25|630|03:58:30|490</wrap>So this is the end, Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 75. <wrap hide>1599|03:58:31|670|03:58:37|330</wrap>And we have gone, essentially, let's see how we go here. <wrap hide>1600|03:58:38|170|03:58:50|810</wrap>We've gone from page 172 up to, no, 192, up to page 200, where we are now. <wrap hide>1601|03:58:50|810|03:58:54|430</wrap>And this is the end of section D. <wrap hide>1602|03:58:55|650|03:59:05|090</wrap>Alright, friends, this is a four-hour program. <wrap hide>1603|03:59:06|190|03:59:11|390</wrap>Hope it will reduce down into a level that can be properly transmitted. <wrap hide>1604|03:59:12|010|03:59:19|270</wrap>We will continue, when next I can do this, with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 76, continuing with Scorpio. <wrap hide>1605|03:59:19|930|03:59:24|950</wrap>So, for the time being, I bid you farewell. <wrap hide>1606|03:59:25|910|03:59:34|870</wrap>We are considering deep matters and the kinds of thoughts which occur to us as we read what the Tibetan has said. <wrap hide>1607|03:59:35|930|03:59:40|350</wrap>So, I think we can end with The Great Invocation, I do believe. <wrap hide>1608|03:59:44|270|03:59:52|470</wrap>Okay, from the point of light. Yes, we can. So, let's do that. <wrap hide>1609|04:00:02|270|04:00:12|510</wrap>From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, let light descend on earth. <wrap hide>1610|04:00:14|990|04:00:24|670</wrap>From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. <wrap hide>1611|04:00:26|970|04:00:37|130</wrap>From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the Masters know and serve. <wrap hide>1612|04:00:39|210|04:00:50|290</wrap>From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. <wrap hide>1613|04:00:51|330|04:00:56|810</wrap>Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. <wrap hide>1614|04:00:58|470|04:00:59|870</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1615|04:01:06|030|04:01:07|430</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1616|04:01:13|710|04:01:15|110</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1617|04:01:15|110|04:01:15|670</wrap>Om. <wrap hide>1618|04:01:25|370|04:01:35|590</wrap>Okay, we will continue with the Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 76, continuing with Scorpio. <wrap hide>1619|04:01:36|510|04:01:38|250</wrap>And we'll see you then. <wrap hide>1620|04:01:39|910|04:01:52|870</wrap>Hopefully we can bring some clarity to these interesting interconnections which are operative, whether recognized or unrecognized, in the lives of all of us. <wrap hide>1621|04:01:53|550|04:01:54|150</wrap>See you then.
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