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-<wrap hide>1|00:00:01|560|00:00:04|660</wrap>Okay, friends, let's move forward now. <wrap hide>2|00:00:05|720|00:00:14|900</wrap>This is still Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 80, but we're in section C. And I was <wrap hide>3|00:00:14|900|00:00:19|000</wrap>going to go right into Libra, but I realized I'd left out a paragraph here. <wrap hide>4|00:00:19|360|00:00:24|060</wrap>So let us conclude our work in Scorpio. <wrap hide>5|00:00:26|420|00:00:32|300</wrap>The key words <wrap quote>of this sign are significant and illuminating.</wrap> <wrap hide>6|00:00:34|700|00:00:39|180</wrap>So it is: "Let Maya flourish and deception rule." <wrap hide>7|00:00:39|380|00:00:40|880</wrap>That's one of them, right? <wrap hide>8|00:00:42|540|00:00:50|160</wrap>And the other is: "Warrior am I, and from the battle I emerge triumphant." <wrap hide>9|00:00:51|340|00:00:53|320</wrap>It's obvious which is which. <wrap hide>10|00:00:54|420|00:00:59|420</wrap>So we have, as he says here, deception and triumph. <wrap hide>11|00:01:02|960|00:01:03|520</wrap>Deception. <wrap hide>12|00:01:04|840|00:01:20|060</wrap>It's almost as if there is a kind of a plot to veil the truth in the swirl of Maya, glamour, <wrap hide>13|00:01:20|060|00:01:20|940</wrap>and illusion. <wrap hide>14|00:01:23|020|00:01:30|420</wrap>It's as if this creative imagination, which was discussed earlier in terms of aligning <wrap hide>15|00:01:30|420|00:01:41|660</wrap>with the intuition, is used in order to conceal the spiritual truth, because the imagination <wrap hide>16|00:01:41|660|00:01:49|500</wrap>is under the spell of instinct and egoistic desire. <wrap hide>17|00:01:52|120|00:02:05|660</wrap>So obviously there is a triumph over the three-headed dog, triumph over the three major mental, emotional, <wrap hide>18|00:02:05|760|00:02:07|240</wrap>and physical heads of the hydra. <wrap hide>19|00:02:08|000|00:02:18|760</wrap>Each of those sections being threefold, there's a triumph over the number three, the delusive <wrap hide>20|00:02:18|760|00:02:27|440</wrap>aspect of the number three that almost deliberately misleads. <wrap hide>21|00:02:28|900|00:02:38|780</wrap>The hosts of Mara, which the Buddha fought, are found in Scorpio, and it is a creation <wrap hide>22|00:02:38|780|00:02:47|560</wrap>of a false reality, and one that deceives the human being for millions upon millions <wrap hide>23|00:02:47|560|00:02:55|880</wrap>of years, until the factor of extrication at last takes hold. <wrap hide>24|00:02:57|820|00:03:07|240</wrap>Through the will to see, the will to penetrate, through the light of day, which eventually <wrap hide>25|00:03:07|240|00:03:16|340</wrap>dawns for the Scorpionic individual, that consciousness rises into the cosmic ethers, <wrap hide>26|00:03:16|340|00:03:23|840</wrap>onto the Buddhic plane and beyond, and sees the full light of the spiritual sun eventually. <wrap hide>27|00:03:26|260|00:03:40|440</wrap>And it is no longer confined in those forms which stir a type of false desire for an unreal world. <wrap hide>28|00:03:41|160|00:03:49|120</wrap>So there is, as he says here, control by Maya, or control by the soul, and here Maya is capitalized. <wrap hide>29|00:03:49|220|00:03:58|480</wrap>I think it stands for all three delusive aspects: the usual Maya, then glamour and illusion. <wrap hide>30|00:03:59|500|00:04:10|020</wrap>The great Maha Maya, which is the very opposite of the reality which the greatest light reveals, <wrap hide>31|00:04:12|240|00:04:15|480</wrap>the kind of reality that the greatest light is. <wrap hide>32|00:04:18|460|00:04:25|660</wrap>Conflict and peace. Well, it is a fourth-ray sign primarily, isn't it? It has so much Mars <wrap hide>33|00:04:25|660|00:04:40|000</wrap>in it, and even Mercury is sometimes called the star of conflict, so the warring aspect <wrap hide>34|00:04:41|840|00:04:48|700</wrap>of the family, the group of human monads in the fourth grade of hierarchy, will be eventually <wrap hide>35|00:04:48|700|00:04:56|320</wrap>peacemakers even though they are ruled by Scorpio. It's interesting the amount of force <wrap hide>36|00:04:56|320|00:05:05|460</wrap>and courage and tenacity that may be required in order to create the peace. The United Nations, <wrap hide>37|00:05:05|460|00:05:16|540</wrap>United Nations Day, at least the ideal of what it is to be, is October 24th. It's in <wrap hide>38|00:05:16|540|00:05:28|260</wrap>Scorpio, interestingly enough. So we must look at Scorpio as a sign of eventual triumph <wrap hide>39|00:05:28|960|00:05:40|240</wrap>through peace. "Let victory crown the efforts of the Blessed One by harmonizing all." It <wrap hide>40|00:05:40|240|00:05:52|120</wrap>tells us in the old commentary on the fourth ray, Blessed One. Victory is the theme of <wrap hide>41|00:05:52|120|00:06:00|740</wrap>Scorpio, but it's a victory through peace and harmony, and this perhaps should be emphasized. <wrap hide>42|00:06:01|940|00:06:10|780</wrap>We still seem to be in the warlike position with regard to this sign which has so often <wrap hide>43|00:06:10|780|00:06:19|160</wrap>been associated with war. I think, though, that in order for the peace to prevail, some <wrap hide>44|00:06:19|160|00:06:28|880</wrap>very strong measures often have to be taken. We sometimes look to great warriors as those <wrap hide>45|00:06:28|880|00:06:35|460</wrap>who have eventually created the peace. So, <wrap quote>deception and triumph, controlled by Maya and <wrap hide>46|00:06:35|460|00:06:49|140</wrap>controlled by the soul, conflict and peace—these are the hidden secrets. These are the <wrap hide>47|00:06:49|140|00:06:57|760</wrap>sign, and they are summed up for all disciples in the two</wrap> key words, or key phrases, really. <wrap hide>48|00:06:58|280|00:07:07|420</wrap><wrap quote>Upon the ordinary wheel whereon the soul is found,</wrap> the soul in incarnation is found, blind, <wrap hide>49|00:07:09|650|00:07:19|100</wrap>blinded by the threefold deception, and apparently helpless, not powerful, not courageous, not <wrap hide>50|00:07:19|100|00:07:28|280</wrap>selfish. The word goes forth in the following terms. The word is a statement from a spiritual <wrap hide>51|00:07:28|280|00:07:36|500</wrap>source which declares the kind of experience through which this immersed soul must pass <wrap hide>52|00:07:37|200|00:07:47|160</wrap>before attaining liberation. And the word said: <wrap quote>"Let Maya flourish, and let deception <wrap hide>53|00:07:47|160|00:07:59|520</wrap>rule"</wrap>—a great vitalization of the forces of deception. I'm reminded of the three types <wrap hide>54|00:07:59|520|00:08:17|140</wrap>of members of the Black Lodge. They are the destroyers of souls on the first ray, the <wrap hide>55|00:08:17|820|00:08:26|280</wrap>fourth and sixth ray found in Scorpio, and finally the manipulators of souls found on <wrap hide>56|00:08:26|280|00:08:35|840</wrap>the third ray. There is no chance but to be confined to the underworld which Pluto rules. <wrap hide>57|00:08:37|060|00:08:46|220</wrap>And this world is the dense physical vehicle of the planetary Logos, with all of the Maya's <wrap hide>58|00:08:47|140|00:08:57|960</wrap>glamours and illusions found thereon. The soul is entirely bewildered and does not know <wrap hide>59|00:08:57|960|00:09:03|800</wrap>its true origin, and without knowing its true origin, how can it be ever triumphant? <wrap hide>60|00:09:04|980|00:09:13|140</wrap><wrap quote>Upon the reversed wheel,</wrap> the soul chants or sings the words, and we should not ignore <wrap hide>61|00:09:13|580|00:09:28|900</wrap>these words, "chants or sings." It's an especially triumphant form of expression, which interestingly <wrap hide>62|00:09:28|900|00:09:40|100</wrap>is on the axis with Taurus, which is a primary ruler of the great wave of sound. So the triumphant <wrap hide>63|00:09:40|100|00:09:53|400</wrap>soul in kind of a victory paean, chants or sings the triumphant words, "Warrior, I am, <wrap hide>64|00:09:54|980|00:10:05|300</wrap>and from the battle, I emerge triumphant." There are a number of triumphs here. One can <wrap hide>65|00:10:05|300|00:10:11|720</wrap>triumph over each one of the vehicles, and there are lesser triumphs, preparing for the <wrap hide>66|00:10:11|720|00:10:22|120</wrap>final triumph, which sees the immersed soul, really an extension of the monad, emerging <wrap hide>67|00:10:22|120|00:10:29|960</wrap>onto the Buddhic plane after the destruction of the causal body. That Buddhic plane being <wrap hide>68|00:10:29|960|00:10:40|060</wrap>ruled by Scorpio, at least the human creative hierarchy which has its focus there is ruled <wrap hide>69|00:10:40|060|00:10:50|040</wrap>by Scorpio. So it must be a sign of harmony as well as of conflict, since it is so closely <wrap hide>70|00:10:50|040|00:10:57|540</wrap>associated with the Buddhic plane. A simple statement of words is not as strong as that <wrap hide>71|00:10:57|540|00:11:08|620</wrap>which is chanted or sung, because it accords with the great musical basis of our created <wrap hide>72|00:11:08|720|00:11:20|500</wrap>worlds, and the chant is magical in its effect, and is sustained by the great current of sound. <wrap hide>73|00:11:21|320|00:11:29|340</wrap>I guess my eyes have fallen now on this sentence maybe for the first time so consciously. The <wrap hide>74|00:11:29|340|00:11:39|020</wrap>soul, who really is the one who is liberated, chants or sings. It's a very powerful affirmation, <wrap hide>75|00:11:40|980|00:11:46|540</wrap>and it is all along the soul that has been the warrior. The disciple really is the soul, <wrap hide>76|00:11:47|540|00:12:00|960</wrap>and now emerges out of identification with and out from under the domination of the threefold <wrap hide>77|00:12:00|960|00:12:08|600</wrap>personality and even emerges finally out of the dense physical vehicle of the solar Logos <wrap hide>78|00:12:08|600|00:12:16|600</wrap>whereon the causal body is found. "Warrior I am, and from the battle I emerge triumphant." <wrap hide>79|00:12:18|720|00:12:28|040</wrap>Okay friends, what I see here, you know, I thought I had finished Scorpio. Well, you <wrap hide>80|00:12:28|040|00:12:36|060</wrap>never finish with these signs. D.K. has given us something of great value, but he would <wrap hide>81|00:12:36|060|00:12:45|800</wrap>be the first to say that he's given us material in outline form, and that many of the details <wrap hide>82|00:12:46|590|00:13:06|040</wrap>have to be filled in by students such as we are. So continuing with Libra in 1980, I think <wrap hide>83|00:13:06|790|00:13:22|520</wrap>in E.A.A. 80 C, page 226. Well now we, moving clockwise through the signs as is D.K.'s method <wrap hide>84|00:13:23|830|00:13:34|460</wrap>to impress upon us this mode of energy travel. He's written his whole book in a most impressive <wrap hide>85|00:13:34|460|00:13:42|180</wrap>manner, seemingly backwards, but making his point about the necessity of reversing the <wrap hide>86|00:13:42|180|00:13:49|760</wrap>wheel at a certain point in the developmental history of the human being, with Scorpio much <wrap hide>87|00:13:49|760|00:13:56|580</wrap>involved through its exalted planet Uranus, and Libra involved as well, and Aries, also <wrap hide>88|00:13:56|580|00:14:04|420</wrap>ruled by Uranus, hierarchically, giving the impulse. There's this Martian-Uranian urge <wrap hide>89|00:14:04|420|00:14:14|380</wrap>which wants to break out of the usual rotary conditioning in which the immersed soul has <wrap hide>90|00:14:14|380|00:14:24|340</wrap>been entrapped. And so comes the day, comes the time when it is no longer sufferable, <wrap hide>91|00:14:24|710|00:14:35|660</wrap>to remain in a limited condition of consciousness. One intuits that there is a higher possibility <wrap hide>92|00:14:35|660|00:14:46|260</wrap>looming ahead, and one drastically and dramatically throws oneself against the prevailing currents, <wrap hide>93|00:14:48|300|00:14:55|600</wrap>creating a great friction and rending process. One swims against the stream as the salmon <wrap hide>94|00:14:55|600|00:15:03|060</wrap>does on its way to its source. I wonder what the analogy for the waiting bears may be, <wrap hide>95|00:15:03|120|00:15:11|900</wrap>you know, as the salmon attempt to leap against the waterfalls that they once negotiated with <wrap hide>96|00:15:11|900|00:15:23|600</wrap>ease when they were small. The bears are waiting for them as they try to jump over <wrap hide>97|00:15:23|600|00:15:33|100</wrap>the waterfalls. What an amazing metaphor here. What a story. I guess it's a dangerous trip. <wrap hide>98|00:15:34|820|00:15:41|800</wrap>The form does not so easily survive it, and those who do have certainly proved their power. <wrap hide>99|00:15:42|580|00:15:47|460</wrap>Maybe they have a chance to try again and again until they are among the successful <wrap hide>100|00:15:47|460|00:15:51|560</wrap>ones escaping the many snares that await them. <wrap hide>101|00:15:54|740|00:16:04|400</wrap>Well, anyway, we are going to move into Libra. Also pronounced Libra, also pronounced Libra. <wrap hide>102|00:16:04|400|00:16:13|740</wrap>I remember "Lib" and "liberation." I remember the well-known astrologer Mark Edmund Jones <wrap hide>103|00:16:13|740|00:16:20|460</wrap>calling it "Libra," and also "Pisces" instead of "Pisces." He was not a man to make mistakes. <wrap hide>104|00:16:21|540|00:16:27|440</wrap>The pronunciations were probably quite legitimate, but I'll stick with the ones that we have <wrap hide>105|00:16:27|440|00:16:28|500</wrap>been using. <wrap hide>106|00:16:30|860|00:16:41|200</wrap>And D.K. begins here on page 226. He says, <wrap quote>"The sign Libra is one of peculiar interest, but <wrap hide>107|00:16:41|200|00:16:47|740</wrap>in a most paradoxical manner, for much of its interest is based upon the fact that it <wrap hide>108|00:16:47|740|00:16:58|120</wrap>lacks the spectacular interest of any kind, except in the case of disciples or those nearing <wrap hide>109|00:16:58|120|00:17:12|680</wrap>the path,"</wrap> because it is, after all, one of the signs of crisis, along with Leo and, I <wrap hide>110|00:17:12|680|00:17:21|800</wrap>think, Capricorn. So, very eventful decisions have to be made in this sign, but it is a <wrap hide>111|00:17:21|800|00:17:28|100</wrap>sign which attempts, at least, to avoid extremes, though quite a number of Libra people seem <wrap hide>112|00:17:28|100|00:17:35|100</wrap>to be involved in various kinds of extremes. As one of my colleagues said, "Well, the tail <wrap hide>113|00:17:36|040|00:17:41|420</wrap>of the scorpion is pointing towards it, and so is the spear of the centaur. How peaceful <wrap hide>114|00:17:41|420|00:17:42|460</wrap>can it be?" <wrap hide>115|00:17:46|120|00:17:56|940</wrap>Yet it is often a sign of moderation, which attempts to blend and harmonize and not be <wrap hide>116|00:17:56|940|00:18:10|880</wrap>too noteworthy for a position which is taken. So there is a kind of quality of modesty, <wrap hide>117|00:18:11|060|00:18:21|760</wrap>of moderation, of in-betweenness, before a certain point, of non-commitment. Of course, <wrap hide>118|00:18:21|760|00:18:29|000</wrap>once the scales do fall, once the pans of the scales do fall, there is a commitment, <wrap hide>119|00:18:29|020|00:18:36|380</wrap>and it is, after all, a sign of decision, and it's not entirely of a harmonizing nature <wrap hide>120|00:18:36|380|00:18:43|240</wrap>under the influence of Venus. It is also strongly under the influence of Uranus, and even more <wrap hide>121|00:18:43|240|00:18:52|780</wrap>so under the influence of Saturn, which is definitely a determining and decisive planet. <wrap hide>122|00:18:54|420|00:19:06|300</wrap>So when judgment finally comes in, and Libra is the judge, it is determining. Says "the <wrap hide>123|00:19:06|300|00:19:16|980</wrap>sign of balancing, <wrap quote>of careful weighing of values."</wrap> I remember some associating this sign <wrap hide>124|00:19:16|980|00:19:23|940</wrap>with the fourth ray, although it does not specifically, as given, come through Libra, <wrap hide>125|00:19:25|920|00:19:33|680</wrap>but as I say, there are a number of rays constellationally associated with each of the signs, so perhaps <wrap hide>126|00:19:33|680|00:19:41|140</wrap>on one of its levels the fourth ray is to be found. I remember Mary Bailey speaking <wrap hide>127|00:19:41|140|00:19:51|860</wrap>of the judicial mind. She related it to the fourth ray when it was functioning in a proper <wrap hide>128|00:19:51|860|00:20:02|260</wrap>manner, and we certainly think of the judicial attitude, the legislative attitude, the cautious <wrap hide>129|00:20:02|260|00:20:08|060</wrap>attempt to arrive at the right decision. We associate all these things with Libra. <wrap hide>130|00:20:09|880|00:20:17|860</wrap>So both Libra and the fourth ray, in the minds of some, have similar qualities, especially <wrap hide>131|00:20:17|860|00:20:27|960</wrap>the harmonizing aspects of the fourth ray, not those which promote conflict. Though Libra <wrap hide>132|00:20:27|960|00:20:37|100</wrap>is involved in many wars, once aggression has been committed, the equal and opposite <wrap hide>133|00:20:37|100|00:20:44|360</wrap>reaction is often in the hands of Libra, the striking back to recreate the disturbed balance. <wrap hide>134|00:20:45|900|00:20:55|020</wrap>So <wrap quote>it is a sign of balancing,</wrap> of careful weighing of values. Therefore, what should we say? <wrap hide>135|00:20:58|460|00:21:09|280</wrap>This is not entirely so, but with a tendency to avoid bias and to be fair-minded, <wrap quote>and of <wrap hide>136|00:21:09|280|00:21:14|260</wrap>achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of opposites.</wrap> In this case, the pairs <wrap hide>137|00:21:14|260|00:21:23|680</wrap>of opposites, the most notable of them in our work is that pair: the soul and the personality. <wrap hide>138|00:21:25|160|00:21:29|840</wrap>But there are other opposites as well. Spirit and matter, of course, are opposites, and <wrap hide>139|00:21:30|600|00:21:36|400</wrap>there are horizontal opposites as well, more or less on the same level. The vertical pairs <wrap hide>140|00:21:36|400|00:21:41|260</wrap>of opposites and the horizontal pairs of opposites. Achieving the right equilibrium between the <wrap hide>141|00:21:41|260|00:21:51|040</wrap>pairs of opposites. And we know that it is possible for some people to go to extremes, <wrap hide>142|00:21:52|360|00:21:58|400</wrap>denying the personality and the vehicles, or denying the soul and its higher potentials. <wrap hide>143|00:21:58|840|00:22:06|240</wrap>Either one of those attitudes will lead to difficulty and imbalance. So there <wrap hide>144|00:22:06|240|00:22:17|460</wrap>come certain lives when these pairs of opposites have to be justly balanced against each other, <wrap hide>145|00:22:18|320|00:22:26|420</wrap>a fair sharing of emphasis. This does not last forever because the universe is hierarchical <wrap hide>146|00:22:26|420|00:22:36|420</wrap>in its nature. At least, occultism asserts this. And always the higher of a pair of opposites <wrap hide>147|00:22:37|660|00:22:44|980</wrap>must prevail. It might be regarded, this sign might be regarded, as the sign in which the <wrap hide>148|00:22:44|980|00:22:53|580</wrap>first real vision of the path appears. You kind of wonder whether the purifications undertaken <wrap hide>149|00:22:53|580|00:23:01|820</wrap>in Virgo, the clarification of vision, the deglamorization, at least of some of the worst <wrap hide>150|00:23:01|820|00:23:07|720</wrap>glamours, the improvement of the physical etheric condition—all the things which Virgo <wrap hide>151|00:23:07|720|00:23:23|080</wrap>does, so clarifies consciousness that the first vision of the path, the first real vision <wrap hide>152|00:23:23|570|00:23:33|300</wrap>of the path, or the first vision of the real path, appears. Interesting that Venus, a planet <wrap hide>153|00:23:33|300|00:23:42|460</wrap>so much connected with the idea of the beam of light, is the ruler here, and the path <wrap hide>154|00:23:42|460|00:23:49|120</wrap>is the one that can be trodden between the pairs of opposites, and trodden with greater <wrap hide>155|00:23:50|520|00:23:59|520</wrap>safety than when one overemphasizes, let us say, the spirit aspect, and does not consider <wrap hide>156|00:23:59|520|00:24:06|660</wrap>the integrity of the form, which will only have to be rebuilt if unwisely destroyed. <wrap hide>157|00:24:08|740|00:24:13|440</wrap>So <wrap quote>it might be regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the path appears, <wrap hide>158|00:24:13|520|00:24:22|730</wrap>and of the goal towards which the disciple must ultimately direct his steps.</wrap> Now that <wrap hide>159|00:24:22|730|00:24:38|050</wrap>goal is at first the soul, and then the monad and Shambhala. And I'm thinking about this <wrap hide>160|00:24:38|050|00:24:46|050</wrap>path, which is in a way symbolized by the spinal column and by the central channel of <wrap hide>161|00:24:46|050|00:24:57|550</wrap>the etheric spine, the sushumna, and how it does lead from the base to the crown, and <wrap hide>162|00:24:57|550|00:25:04|050</wrap>back again. Probably the involution takes us from the crown to the base, and the evolution <wrap hide>163|00:25:04|050|00:25:14|270</wrap>from the base to the crown. But it is a direct and unobstructed channel for the evolving <wrap hide>164|00:25:14|270|00:25:24|350</wrap>son of man towards a higher purpose, which the head and the head center represent. And <wrap hide>165|00:25:24|350|00:25:32|990</wrap>interestingly, Libra is intimately associated with Shambhala as the center of perfect peace, <wrap hide>166|00:25:33|190|00:25:39|830</wrap>and presumably balance, where archetypal intention prevails in the world of being. <wrap hide>167|00:25:40|630|00:25:47|470</wrap>I'm remembering from the Sabian Symbols book, commented on by Dane Rudhyar and Mark Edmund <wrap hide>168|00:25:47|470|00:25:53|870</wrap>Jones, that the very first degree of Libra has to do with perfect archetypes, which are <wrap hide>169|00:25:53|870|00:26:04|490</wrap>seen as butterflies in a collection. They are stable, they are static. They are the <wrap hide>170|00:26:04|490|00:26:09|010</wrap>forms to which all other forms must eventually conform. <wrap hide>171|00:26:13|690|00:26:25|950</wrap>So, after much battle in the realm of lower ego, and much need for humility, and a clarification <wrap hide>172|00:26:25|950|00:26:33|170</wrap>of consciousness, divesting it of its own self-importance, divesting the lower ego of <wrap hide>173|00:26:33|170|00:26:43|010</wrap>its self-importance, perhaps then it is that the path can be seen. I think Libra and <wrap hide>174|00:26:43|010|00:26:48|890</wrap>Leo are very related. D.K. will tell us that the reversal of the wheel is going to occur <wrap hide>175|00:26:50|010|00:26:59|430</wrap>under the Leo and Libra influence. So it's in the fifth or Leonian petal that the path <wrap hide>176|00:26:59|430|00:27:11|130</wrap>of aspiration becomes a reality, and where the grossest forms of egoism are lived beyond. <wrap hide>177|00:27:13|230|00:27:22|870</wrap>And it is there in relation to that petal, and perhaps in relation to the seventh petal, <wrap hide>178|00:27:22|870|00:27:30|810</wrap>which in terms of sequence we can consider ruled by Libra, that the man can become the <wrap hide>179|00:27:30|810|00:27:38|210</wrap>true aspirant, and eventually the first degree initiate, once that fifth petal is completely <wrap hide>180|00:27:38|210|00:27:46|690</wrap>unfolded. So, perhaps while the fifth petal is unfolding, stirrings and developments in <wrap hide>181|00:27:46|690|00:27:53|670</wrap>the Libran petal, the seventh, offer up a vision which makes it possible to pursue the <wrap hide>182|00:27:53|670|00:28:02|230</wrap>higher potentials of the fifth petal and eventually become a first degree initiate. It might be <wrap hide>183|00:28:02|230|00:28:16|670</wrap>regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the path appears. Of course, the <wrap hide>184|00:28:17|450|00:28:24|030</wrap>various byways which can mislead and can take one back into the realm of Maya-Glamour <wrap hide>185|00:28:24|030|00:28:33|150</wrap>illusion. The symbolism is there as we think of the Libran path, and in the human body <wrap hide>186|00:28:33|150|00:28:38|650</wrap>and the human etheric nature, and even with the Antahkarana, that path is a straight path. <wrap hide>187|00:28:40|170|00:28:45|570</wrap>Although it may have some figure-eight energy flows associated with it, but essentially <wrap hide>188|00:28:45|570|00:28:54|190</wrap>straight. And the first real vision of the goal towards which the disciple must ultimately <wrap hide>189|00:28:55|570|00:29:06|090</wrap>direct his steps, I suppose as the spiritual will comes in, sort of enforced and imposed <wrap hide>190|00:29:06|090|00:29:17|270</wrap>by Vulcan, but basically emanating from the Libran plane of Atma, a vision of ultimate <wrap hide>191|00:29:17|270|00:29:36|070</wrap>destinations is likely to appear, because the will will take us there. The will has <wrap hide>192|00:29:36|070|00:29:45|230</wrap>a very simple aspect. <wrap quote>This path is the narrow, razor-edged path.</wrap> It's so easy to lose our <wrap hide>193|00:29:45|230|00:29:55|170</wrap>balance upon this path. It seems to imply a degree of vigilance and possibly discomfort <wrap hide>194|00:29:55|170|00:30:03|170</wrap>in those who tread that path, because they must ever be watchful as they put one foot <wrap hide>195|00:30:03|170|00:30:12|350</wrap>in front of another. It's not a broad path. It's not the primrose path. It is narrow. <wrap hide>196|00:30:15|170|00:30:21|490</wrap>This path is the narrow, razor-edged path which runs between the pairs of opposites. <wrap hide>197|00:30:22|950|00:30:32|830</wrap>There is a proper balance step for each human being to take as he puts one foot in front <wrap hide>198|00:30:32|830|00:30:43|990</wrap>of another on his spiritual quest. And this path will respect the spirit soul, the soul <wrap hide>199|00:30:43|990|00:30:51|890</wrap>spirit, without disrespecting the form. It's so easy to make the mistake of Hercules in <wrap hide>200|00:30:51|890|00:30:59|770</wrap>Virgo and disrespect, or even kill, the form which is meant to serve the higher intentions. <wrap hide>201|00:30:59|770|00:31:08|990</wrap>In Libra, this is corrected. Every sign, in a way, holds the corrective to the mistake <wrap hide>202|00:31:09|790|00:31:19|710</wrap>that was made in the previous sign. So this path is the narrow, razor-edged path which <wrap hide>203|00:31:19|710|00:31:28|810</wrap>runs between the pairs of opposites. There is a just way, a correct way to take that <wrap hide>204|00:31:28|810|00:31:37|490</wrap>next step. And Saturn, as such a strong ruler of Libra, tells us that there will be a degree <wrap hide>205|00:31:37|490|00:31:42|910</wrap>of caution in the more advanced Libra about how that step is taken. Sometimes this looks <wrap hide>206|00:31:42|910|00:31:52|910</wrap>like indecision. Also, the third ray, which the Tibetan tells us is a ray of watchfulness <wrap hide>207|00:31:52|910|00:32:01|150</wrap>and planning and caution, is at this time, it appears, the preeminent ray, constellationally <wrap hide>208|00:32:01|630|00:32:10|110</wrap>passing through Libra, and also through two of its rulers, Saturn and Uranus. Yes, Uranus <wrap hide>209|00:32:10|110|00:32:19|510</wrap>does have some third ray passing through it. This narrow path, which, if it is to be safely <wrap hide>210|00:32:19|510|00:32:25|530</wrap>trodden, requires the development of the sense of values—and there's Venus as the <wrap hide>211|00:32:25|530|00:32:32|570</wrap>ruler of Libra—the development of the sense of values, weighing up these values, and the <wrap hide>212|00:32:32|570|00:32:45|010</wrap>power to utilize, rightly, the balancing <wrap quote>analytical faculty of the mind</wrap> so that errors are avoided. <wrap hide>213|00:32:45|010|00:32:54|190</wrap>Or, should we say, let's put it this way: so that missteps upon the path are avoided. <wrap hide>214|00:32:56|410|00:33:02|830</wrap>Missteps. If we are cautious and we decide where that foot must go, the amount of energy <wrap hide>215|00:33:02|830|00:33:07|390</wrap>that must be put into that next step, how big a step it will be, how small a step it <wrap hide>216|00:33:07|390|00:33:16|610</wrap>will be, whether it respects all factors that have to be sustained in relationship to each <wrap hide>217|00:33:16|610|00:33:25|550</wrap>other—if we can do all those things, we can rightly tread the path. <wrap hide>218|00:33:27|350|00:33:36|730</wrap>It is also a sign of intuitive perception. Interesting, this. The Jupiterian signs are <wrap hide>219|00:33:36|730|00:33:41|630</wrap>said to be intuitive signs: Sagittarius among them, certainly Pisces we recognize as intuitive. <wrap hide>220|00:33:42|250|00:33:50|890</wrap>The advanced Aquarian, ruled esoterically by Jupiter, is intuitive. But here we're speaking <wrap hide>221|00:33:50|890|00:34:03|010</wrap>of intuitive perception in Libra, even though it's ruled by the third ray, and has this <wrap hide>222|00:34:03|010|00:34:10|070</wrap>planetary expression: fifth ray Venus, seventh ray Uranus, third ray Saturn—hardline rays. <wrap hide>223|00:34:10|970|00:34:22|090</wrap>But perhaps it's because what we can say is that intuition enters at the interlude. And <wrap hide>224|00:34:22|090|00:34:29|710</wrap>Libra is the sign of the interlude, the pause for reception or impression. It rules in a <wrap hide>225|00:34:29|710|00:34:36|570</wrap>way a kind of higher interlude where the consciousness is held up for possible impression <wrap hide>226|00:34:37|650|00:34:46|730</wrap>from a higher source. So, you know, it's very important for us to see how Master D.K. sees <wrap hide>227|00:34:47|470|00:34:56|010</wrap>these signs. They may not be the conventional explanations that we are used to, but he has <wrap hide>228|00:34:56|010|00:35:06|370</wrap>good reason for saying what he says. So, when a person begins to tread the path, he is guided <wrap hide>229|00:35:06|370|00:35:14|530</wrap>by what? The voice of the soul, the still small voice, the inner counsel. Well, this <wrap hide>230|00:35:14|530|00:35:23|110</wrap>is the beginning, perhaps, of intuitive perception: being open to guidance from that which is <wrap hide>231|00:35:23|110|00:35:33|950</wrap>not entirely obvious, but which comes from the higher of a pair of opposites. Interesting. <wrap hide>232|00:35:40|930|00:35:53|090</wrap>OK, then. Resuming. A sign of intuitive perception and, on the ordinary way of progression, the <wrap hide>233|00:35:53|090|00:36:04|210</wrap>sign—<wrap quote>it comes normally after the drastic experience of the man in Scorpio.</wrap> Seems to <wrap hide>234|00:36:04|210|00:36:15|430</wrap>be a bit of an interlude of peace, relative peace, after the loss and the trials and the <wrap hide>235|00:36:15|430|00:36:29|870</wrap>success of the Scorpio experience. And <wrap quote>this is usually of such a nature that the instinct <wrap hide>236|00:36:29|870|00:36:35|910</wrap>to self-preservation has been aroused to such an extent that in the dire need of the man— <wrap hide>237|00:36:35|910|00:36:43|910</wrap>not the disciple at this time—a call to the soul has gone forth and has evoked response.</wrap> <wrap hide>238|00:36:45|510|00:36:57|930</wrap>So, calling upon the soul in Scorpio as an act of self-preservation. This may be put <wrap hide>239|00:36:57|930|00:37:05|850</wrap>forth to come forth as, "God help me!" You know, the prayers of those who are threatened, when <wrap hide>240|00:37:05|850|00:37:14|670</wrap>surrounded on all sides by the powers of negativity or darkness. Master Morya says the disciple <wrap hide>241|00:37:14|670|00:37:22|430</wrap>is meant to look up, because that is the only way he can look for sustainment. <wrap hide>242|00:37:23|530|00:37:35|090</wrap>So, some sort of soul response is coming in for the Scorpio individual due to the dire <wrap hide>243|00:37:35|090|00:37:47|090</wrap>necessity, the dire need. And this response from the soul may be recognized as intuition. <wrap hide>244|00:37:47|090|00:37:56|270</wrap><wrap quote>The first few faint flashes of the intuition have been sensed and vaguely</wrap> recognized, because <wrap hide>245|00:37:57|370|00:38:07|170</wrap>the soul will respond. And even though the man does not really understand—it is the <wrap hide>246|00:38:07|170|00:38:16|630</wrap>man, not the disciple here, D.K. tells us—even though the man will not respond, will not <wrap hide>247|00:38:16|630|00:38:18|710</wrap>come forth and they are registered. <wrap hide>248|00:38:21|450|00:38:29|110</wrap>This is interesting. He's speaking of the way the ordinary man has drastic experiences <wrap hide>249|00:38:29|110|00:38:35|290</wrap>in Scorpio, even though he's not being tested spiritually, per se. These are experiences <wrap hide>250|00:38:35|290|00:38:46|610</wrap>of forced renunciation. You can imagine if you are working on the third petal of the <wrap hide>251|00:38:46|610|00:38:51|950</wrap>petal, and you don't have Scorpio powerful in your chart, you can imagine what you might <wrap hide>252|00:38:51|950|00:38:55|190</wrap>be put through. Or, let us say, Pisces there. <wrap hide>253|00:38:59|810|00:39:08|610</wrap><wrap quote>Then follows the experience in Libra, wherein, I suppose, relatively, a life is spent in <wrap hide>254|00:39:08|610|00:39:17|070</wrap>quiet,</wrap> thoughtful reflection. I'm sometimes interested to see how Libra plays its part <wrap hide>255|00:39:17|070|00:39:25|110</wrap>in the lives of mathematicians. Some of the most famous have Sun in Libra, Libra rising. <wrap hide>256|00:39:26|950|00:39:30|690</wrap>I'm reminded of this by the idea of quiet and thoughtful reflection. Of course, they <wrap hide>257|00:39:30|690|00:39:39|190</wrap>represent a high stage of development. So, quiet, <wrap quote>thoughtful reflection, or, in a condition <wrap hide>258|00:39:39|190|00:39:52|170</wrap>of static unresponsiveness.</wrap> It may seem that not much is accomplished and not much movement <wrap hide>259|00:39:52|170|00:39:57|930</wrap>can be made. Different alternatives are given, and of course, with Libra, all those alternatives <wrap hide>260|00:39:57|930|00:40:05|050</wrap>are given. <wrap quote>It may be a life of balancing, of weighing this and that, and of determining <wrap hide>261|00:40:05|740|00:40:15|530</wrap>which way the scales shall fall, so that in the next sign, certain designed results will <wrap hide>262|00:40:15|530|00:40:23|950</wrap>occur.</wrap> It seems that there is a possibility of reorientation here: the idea of preparation, <wrap hide>263|00:40:23|950|00:40:33|330</wrap>an interlude, preparation for another life in another sign. <wrap hide>264|00:40:35|910|00:40:47|870</wrap>Now, I suppose the next life may follow in sequence—the sign suggested—or it may not. <wrap hide>265|00:40:47|870|00:40:55|310</wrap>I mean, so many people die in signs that are not sequentially related, either clockwise <wrap hide>266|00:40:55|310|00:41:02|470</wrap>or counterclockwise, to the sign in which they were born. But now we're talking about <wrap hide>267|00:41:02|470|00:41:11|510</wrap>the reverse, the clockwise wheel, the backwards wheel, as it were, and D.K. is assuming that <wrap hide>268|00:41:11|510|00:41:17|590</wrap>the life will continue to move, as it were, clockwise—i.e., backwards. <wrap quote>The following Virgo <wrap hide>269|00:41:17|590|00:41:27|410</wrap>life will be either one of a personality, materialistic nature,</wrap> presuming that the values <wrap hide>270|00:41:27|410|00:41:47|570</wrap>weighed up were material... presuming that in the Libran weighing, the values weighed up <wrap hide>271|00:41:53|570|00:42:03|050</wrap>were material—material values dominated. And if that is the case, and not spiritual <wrap hide>272|00:42:03|350|00:42:16|830</wrap>values... if that is the case, that spiritual values did not, as it were, win, then the <wrap hide>273|00:42:18|870|00:42:29|290</wrap>sign on the clockwise side of Libra—that that life will be one of a personality, materialistic <wrap hide>274|00:42:29|290|00:42:39|770</wrap>nature, <wrap quote>lived under the influence of the material aspect of Virgo</wrap>—i.e., "let matter reign," which <wrap hide>275|00:42:39|770|00:42:53|290</wrap>is the, let's say, the human mantram of Virgo, demanding reorientation through evolution, <wrap hide>276|00:42:55|790|00:43:03|270</wrap>or the human mantram which can only be corrected through long years of gradual evolution. So <wrap hide>277|00:43:03|270|00:43:08|330</wrap>it will be lived under the material aspect of Virgo, <wrap quote>the mother.</wrap> That's one possibility: <wrap hide>278|00:43:08|330|00:43:20|590</wrap>either stasis, or a material decision which leads to material personal life. It would <wrap hide>279|00:43:20|590|00:43:26|910</wrap>be interesting to confront various Virgos and see where they came from. <wrap quote>Or there will <wrap hide>280|00:43:26|910|00:43:33|230</wrap>be evidence of slowly emerging soul vibration,</wrap> the result of that intuitive revelation of <wrap hide>281|00:43:33|230|00:43:46|630</wrap>the soul in Libra. Or there will result, or be evidenced, a slowly emerging soul vibration, <wrap hide>282|00:43:47|890|00:43:56|590</wrap><wrap quote>indicating that hidden spiritual life of</wrap> which the Virgin Mother is the foreordained custodian. <wrap hide>283|00:43:56|590|00:44:14|870</wrap>So spiritual values are planted in Virgo, having emerged in Libra—well, having emerged <wrap hide>284|00:44:14|870|00:44:30|790</wrap>in Scorpio, and then subjected to weighing in Libra. Under necessity, calling for help, <wrap hide>285|00:44:30|950|00:44:44|850</wrap>calling for some aid to survive in one way or another, the soul has been evoked. That <wrap hide>286|00:44:44|850|00:44:50|110</wrap>is, and the values are weighed up. If the decision is made in favor of those emerging <wrap hide>287|00:44:50|110|00:44:58|290</wrap>spiritual values, then there will be the gradual germination of the seed of spirituality in <wrap hide>288|00:44:58|290|00:44:59|270</wrap>the Virgo life. <wrap hide>289|00:45:00|670|00:45:12|850</wrap><wrap quote>As progress is made, recurrently or cyclically, around the wheel of life, these experiences <wrap hide>290|00:45:12|850|00:45:19|310</wrap>and vibratory activities intensify in character until the time comes when the reversal of <wrap hide>291|00:45:19|310|00:45:30|890</wrap>the wheel takes place.</wrap> By this time, presumably, we are moving, or ready to move, in a counterclockwise <wrap hide>292|00:45:30|890|00:45:40|090</wrap>manner. It's interesting—it seems that similar experiences are building up in the same sign <wrap hide>293|00:45:41|090|00:45:49|790</wrap>as the ongoing cycle reactivates that sign time after time. So a certain amount of accomplishment <wrap hide>294|00:45:49|790|00:45:56|550</wrap>has been achieved in a particular sign. Perhaps that type of accomplishment in specificity <wrap hide>295|00:45:56|550|00:46:12|430</wrap>is left behind, but when the focus is again in that sign, then a new and greater building <wrap hide>296|00:46:12|430|00:46:23|690</wrap>up of the achievement occurs. So, you know, it would be interesting to compare what was <wrap hide>297|00:46:23|690|00:46:30|410</wrap>it like for us the last time the sign or signs that are most emphasized in our chart <wrap hide>298|00:46:30|410|00:46:35|670</wrap>this time were emphasized before. What was it like when they were emphasized before? <wrap hide>299|00:46:38|050|00:46:43|670</wrap>Let's say, if I was born in Aries, which I am, what type of Ariesian person was I when <wrap hide>300|00:46:43|670|00:46:50|510</wrap>last in Aries? Probably don't want to look. Or, you know, if my rising sign is Cancer, <wrap hide>301|00:46:50|510|00:46:58|730</wrap>which it is, then the last time that occurred, to what level of building did the process <wrap hide>302|00:46:58|730|00:47:04|650</wrap>bring me, and was there a continuation and an elevation from that point? All of this <wrap hide>303|00:47:04|650|00:47:14|510</wrap>is part of accurate reincarnational research taking in the consideration of astrology and <wrap hide>304|00:47:15|260|00:47:23|010</wrap>the gradual unfoldment of the egoic lotus. It will be a real spiritual psychology, and <wrap hide>305|00:47:23|010|00:47:33|730</wrap>we will be in a position to advise ourselves and to advise others about the next best step <wrap hide>306|00:47:34|450|00:47:43|750</wrap>to be taken on the path. So the wheel is going to be reversed here now from clockwise to <wrap hide>307|00:47:43|750|00:47:48|290</wrap>counterclockwise, and then Libra leads on to Scorpio. Well, does it do so immediately? <wrap hide>308|00:47:48|530|00:47:55|710</wrap>This is the question. Is it all so very sequential, as the Tibetan seems to imply, or are there <wrap hide>309|00:47:55|710|00:48:01|790</wrap>other ways we can consider the phrase that Libra leads on to Scorpio? But let's just <wrap hide>310|00:48:01|790|00:48:09|230</wrap>assume for the moment that this paradigm of sequence is an accurate one. Then Libra leads <wrap hide>311|00:48:09|230|00:48:16|030</wrap>on to Scorpio in the active soul life, active through the medium of the personality nature, <wrap hide>312|00:48:16|610|00:48:22|990</wrap>and not simply on its own plane. Well, it's probably always active on its own plane. But <wrap hide>313|00:48:22|990|00:48:33|310</wrap>then the active soul life is registered, <wrap quote>recorded and noted in Virgo, and balanced and assessed <wrap hide>314|00:48:33|310|00:48:42|570</wrap>in Libra,</wrap> eventually bringing about the tests and trials in Scorpio. So we've gotten as <wrap hide>315|00:48:42|570|00:48:54|350</wrap>far back as Virgo, and then a kind of reversing of the wheel is going to occur. This spiritual <wrap hide>316|00:48:54|350|00:49:04|370</wrap>life of which the Virgin Mother is the foreordained custodian is growing, and then Libra will <wrap hide>317|00:49:04|370|00:49:14|030</wrap>lead on to Scorpio and the active soul life. And the active soul life, active through <wrap hide>318|00:49:14|030|00:49:20|430</wrap>the medium of the personality nature, is registered, recorded and noted in Virgo. <wrap hide>319|00:49:20|430|00:49:29|450</wrap>I think Virgo takes very good notes. So there's a clarity in Virgo about what the soul is <wrap hide>320|00:49:29|450|00:49:38|430</wrap>saying, clarity about the message conveyed by the soul. After all, it is a Mercurian <wrap hide>321|00:49:38|430|00:49:49|990</wrap>sign, and Mercury is the one with the pen in his hand, the communicator. Then the overall <wrap hide>322|00:49:50|790|00:50:00|410</wrap>value of each way of proceeding is again balanced and assessed in Libra. That which is registered, <wrap hide>323|00:50:00|410|00:50:09|550</wrap>recorded and noted in Virgo, which is the testimony of the soul life, is weighed to <wrap hide>324|00:50:09|550|00:50:20|720</wrap>determine its value relative to the more familiar material values. What really is worth the <wrap hide>325|00:50:20|720|00:50:31|460</wrap>effort? This is determined in another Libran life, or a life dominated by this sign. Eventually, <wrap hide>326|00:50:31|960|00:50:37|940</wrap>assuming then that the decision is for the spiritual values in a decisive way, eventually <wrap hide>327|00:50:37|940|00:50:43|020</wrap>bringing about the tests and trials between the soul and personality. This is going to <wrap hide>328|00:50:43|020|00:50:50|780</wrap>occur in Scorpio, which latter, i.e. the personality, fights with power and determination. Look <wrap hide>329|00:50:50|780|00:51:02|820</wrap>at those Scorpionic words: power and determination. To preserve the status quo of the balanced <wrap hide>330|00:51:02|820|00:51:09|000</wrap>expression of these two, <wrap quote>where the preponderance of personality influence is not possible.</wrap> <wrap hide>331|00:51:09|000|00:51:21|000</wrap>Perhaps this even happens in Libra itself. But the tests and trials particularly are <wrap hide>332|00:51:21|700|00:51:32|620</wrap>known to occur in Scorpio, and the Martian personality is much empowered. Even though <wrap hide>333|00:51:32|620|00:51:38|860</wrap>the disciple has made the decision that spiritual values are of the utmost importance, there <wrap hide>334|00:51:38|860|00:51:43|900</wrap>is an aspect of his nature which is not touched by that decision, and which is operating according <wrap hide>335|00:51:43|900|00:51:52|880</wrap>to its ancient habits, and will fight against the new determination. Will fight with power <wrap hide>336|00:51:52|880|00:52:08|840</wrap>and determination against the new decision which has been made in Libra. The preserving <wrap hide>337|00:52:08|840|00:52:14|400</wrap>decision will at length be made. Now just think about those lives in which, let us say, <wrap hide>338|00:52:15|060|00:52:21|820</wrap>the sun is in Libra, and Scorpio is the ascendant. You can get the picture. A decision is made <wrap hide>339|00:52:21|820|00:52:28|360</wrap>and then the battle is on. Because there will be an aspect of the nature which wants to <wrap hide>340|00:52:28|360|00:52:36|860</wrap>preserve the status quo, the person will be empowered by Scorpio, both in his disciplic <wrap hide>341|00:52:36|860|00:52:42|740</wrap>nature and in his personal nature, and there will be a real contention with the will of <wrap hide>342|00:52:42|740|00:52:52|740</wrap>the disciple, focused on bringing soul values into predominance. But the empowered personality <wrap hide>343|00:52:52|740|00:53:02|980</wrap>will fight against this. And this is all preparatory to a true reversal, achieving of triumph and <wrap hide>344|00:53:02|980|00:53:14|000</wrap>freedom, so that there is not just a battlefield where no real progress is shown by one or <wrap hide>345|00:53:14|000|00:53:22|980</wrap>by the other. Uranus is involved in both of these signs, and Uranus is the planet of reversal <wrap hide>346|00:53:22|980|00:53:31|720</wrap>leading to a new and better way. And the militancy of the battle is indicated by Mars. But Mars <wrap hide>347|00:53:31|720|00:53:39|020</wrap>is in detriment in Libra, so we're not likely to get such a battle there. It's only after <wrap hide>348|00:53:39|020|00:53:46|600</wrap>the Saturnian decision is made and we enter into the Scorpio influence that the real battle <wrap hide>349|00:53:46|600|00:53:53|720</wrap>will occur. Of course, in an astrological chart, you can be a... Let's say you're born <wrap hide>350|00:53:53|720|00:54:03|180</wrap>as a Libra. Let's say maybe you are born with Virgo rising. Maybe the midpoint of Virgo. <wrap hide>351|00:54:03|560|00:54:12|640</wrap>After 45 years, your progressed descendant—45 years or so—your progressed descendant will <wrap hide>352|00:54:12|640|00:54:23|480</wrap>reach Scorpio. That too is a way of bringing in the battlefield. Once a decision has been <wrap hide>353|00:54:23|480|00:54:33|500</wrap>made in Libra, if it has been made, there are many astrological setups which can follow <wrap hide>354|00:54:33|500|00:54:40|200</wrap>what the Tibetan is speaking of here. The nurturing of the soul's message in Virgo, <wrap hide>355|00:54:40|720|00:54:49|300</wrap>the weighing up of the value of the recorded message of the soul, and then the struggle <wrap hide>356|00:54:49|300|00:55:02|680</wrap>to establish that soul impression as reality against the ancient prerogatives of the personality. <wrap hide>357|00:55:04|580|00:55:09|880</wrap>Maybe some of us who are listening to this are passing through it at the moment. <wrap hide>358|00:55:12|780|00:55:20|080</wrap><wrap quote>Libra can also be spoken of in terms of the meditation process as taught in both East <wrap hide>359|00:55:20|080|00:55:31|600</wrap>and West. It can therefore be regarded as the interlude between two activities, which <wrap hide>360|00:55:32|680|00:55:41|280</wrap>is the explanation given to that stage of meditation we call contemplation.</wrap> Now here, <wrap hide>361|00:55:41|540|00:55:48|020</wrap>he gives this famous listing of the ways in which the stages of meditation are associated <wrap hide>362|00:55:48|600|00:55:55|440</wrap>with certain signs of the zodiac. <wrap quote>In the five stages of meditation as usually taught, you <wrap hide>363|00:55:55|440|00:56:01|920</wrap>have the following—concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. <wrap hide>1|00:00:01|560|00:00:04|660</wrap>These five stages are paralleled in the five strictly human signs of the zodiac.</wrap> This is <wrap hide>365|00:56:08|820|00:56:17|860</wrap>interesting. It doesn't mean that the glyph of these signs is a human character. Only <wrap hide>366|00:56:17|860|00:56:24|440</wrap>Gemini and the water carrier, which are not mentioned here, have specifically human characters. <wrap hide>367|00:56:26|640|00:56:40|940</wrap>So, still, they take us from the instinctual side of man to the divine side. They take <wrap hide>368|00:56:40|940|00:56:52|000</wrap>us all the way from the emergent egoic <wrap quote>personality</wrap> consciousness, the lower ego of Leo, the lower <wrap hide>369|00:56:52|000|00:57:00|120</wrap>type of identification, through a purification process, through a weighing up of values, <wrap hide>370|00:57:00|280|00:57:08|480</wrap>through a struggle to establish those values, and to an aspirational orientation which leads <wrap hide>371|00:57:08|480|00:57:21|260</wrap>beyond the human state. Well, let's just say it leads into the world of the divine, where <wrap hide>372|00:57:21|260|00:57:28|520</wrap>the human being is established as a member of the fifth kingdom of nature, and in a way <wrap hide>373|00:57:28|520|00:57:37|460</wrap>Capricorn, which is not a sign mentioned here, but toward which Sagittarius leads, gives <wrap hide>374|00:57:37|800|00:57:45|360</wrap>us full entrée into the fifth kingdom of nature where we are no longer, strictly speaking, <wrap hide>375|00:57:45|360|00:57:51|740</wrap>a human being. We are individualized in a way in Leo and become a human being in Leo, <wrap hide>376|00:57:52|400|00:57:58|060</wrap>with the help of certain other signs like Gemini and so forth. But we are still very <wrap hide>377|00:57:58|060|00:58:03|660</wrap>subject to mass consciousness, to instinctual, non-individualized consciousness in Cancer. <wrap hide>378|00:58:05|260|00:58:12|940</wrap>So, Cancer shows us the human being who is not really awakened to his own distinct humanity. <wrap hide>379|00:58:13|720|00:58:21|580</wrap>And Sagittarius shows us the human being who is about to launch into another kingdom altogether. <wrap hide>380|00:58:22|360|00:58:50|860</wrap>Alright, so this takes us to Esoteric Astrology Adventure EAA 80C and page 228. And we will <wrap hide>381|00:58:50|860|00:58:51|180</wrap>see you in the next lecture.+<wrap hide>1|00:00:01|560|00:00:04|660</wrap>Okay, friends, let's move forward now. <wrap hide>2|00:00:05|720|00:00:14|900</wrap>This is still Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 80, but we're in section C. And I was <wrap hide>3|00:00:14|900|00:00:19|000</wrap>going to go right into Libra, but I realized I'd left out a paragraph here. <wrap hide>4|00:00:19|360|00:00:24|060</wrap>So let us conclude our work in Scorpio. <wrap hide>5|00:00:26|420|00:00:32|300</wrap><wrap quote>The keywords of this sign are significant and illuminating.</wrap> <wrap hide>6|00:00:34|700|00:00:39|180</wrap>So it is: "Let Maya flourish and deception rule." <wrap hide>7|00:00:39|380|00:00:40|880</wrap>That's one of them, right? <wrap hide>8|00:00:42|540|00:00:50|160</wrap>And the other is: "Warrior am I, and from the battle I emerge triumphant." <wrap hide>9|00:00:51|340|00:00:53|320</wrap>It's obvious which is which. <wrap hide>10|00:00:54|420|00:00:59|420</wrap>So we have, as he says here, deception and triumph. <wrap hide>11|00:01:02|960|00:01:03|520</wrap>Deception. <wrap hide>12|00:01:04|840|00:01:20|060</wrap>It's almost as if there is a kind of a plot to veil the truth in the swirl of Maya, glamour, <wrap hide>13|00:01:20|060|00:01:20|940</wrap>and illusion. <wrap hide>14|00:01:23|020|00:01:30|420</wrap>It's as if this creative imagination, which was discussed earlier in terms of aligning <wrap hide>15|00:01:30|420|00:01:41|660</wrap>with the intuition, is used in order to conceal the spiritual truth, because the imagination <wrap hide>16|00:01:41|660|00:01:49|500</wrap>is under the spell of instinct and egoistic desire. <wrap hide>17|00:01:52|120|00:02:05|660</wrap>So obviously there is a triumph over the three-headed dog, triumph over the three major mental, emotional, <wrap hide>18|00:02:05|760|00:02:07|240</wrap>and physical heads of the hydra. <wrap hide>19|00:02:08|000|00:02:18|760</wrap>Each of those sections being threefold, there's a triumph over the number three, the delusive <wrap hide>20|00:02:18|760|00:02:27|440</wrap>aspect of the number three that almost deliberately misleads. <wrap hide>21|00:02:28|900|00:02:38|780</wrap>The hosts of Mara, which the Buddha fought, are found in Scorpio, and it is a creation <wrap hide>22|00:02:38|780|00:02:47|560</wrap>of a false reality, and one that deceives the human being for millions upon millions <wrap hide>23|00:02:47|560|00:02:55|880</wrap>of years, until the factor of extrication at last takes hold. <wrap hide>24|00:02:57|820|00:03:07|240</wrap>Through the will to see, the will to penetrate, through the light of day, which eventually <wrap hide>25|00:03:07|240|00:03:16|340</wrap>dawns for the Scorpionic individual, that consciousness rises into the cosmic ethers, <wrap hide>26|00:03:16|340|00:03:23|840</wrap>onto the Buddhic plane and beyond, and sees the full light of the spiritual sun eventually. <wrap hide>27|00:03:26|260|00:03:40|440</wrap>And it is no longer confined in those forms which stir a type of false desire for an unreal world. <wrap hide>28|00:03:41|160|00:03:49|120</wrap>So there is, as he says here, control by Maya, or control by the soul, and here Maya is capitalized. <wrap hide>29|00:03:49|220|00:03:58|480</wrap>I think it stands for all three delusive aspects: the usual Maya, then glamour and illusion. <wrap hide>30|00:03:59|500|00:04:10|020</wrap>The great Maha Maya, which is the very opposite of the reality which the greatest light reveals, <wrap hide>31|00:04:12|240|00:04:15|480</wrap>the kind of reality that the greatest light is. <wrap hide>32|00:04:18|460|00:04:25|660</wrap>Conflict and peace. Well, it is a fourth-ray sign primarily, isn't it? It has so much Mars <wrap hide>33|00:04:25|660|00:04:40|000</wrap>in it, and even Mercury is sometimes called the star of conflict, so the warring aspect <wrap hide>34|00:04:41|840|00:04:48|700</wrap>of the family, the group of human monads in the fourth grade of hierarchy, will be eventually <wrap hide>35|00:04:48|700|00:04:56|320</wrap>peacemakers even though they are ruled by Scorpio. It's interesting the amount of force <wrap hide>36|00:04:56|320|00:05:05|460</wrap>and courage and tenacity that may be required in order to create the peace. The United Nations, <wrap hide>37|00:05:05|460|00:05:16|540</wrap>United Nations Day, at least the ideal of what it is to be, is October 24th. It's in <wrap hide>38|00:05:16|540|00:05:28|260</wrap>Scorpio, interestingly enough. So we must look at Scorpio as a sign of eventual triumph <wrap hide>39|00:05:28|960|00:05:40|240</wrap>through peace. "Let victory crown the efforts of the Blessed One by harmonizing all." It <wrap hide>40|00:05:40|240|00:05:52|120</wrap>tells us in the old commentary on the fourth ray, Blessed One. Victory is the theme of <wrap hide>41|00:05:52|120|00:06:00|740</wrap>Scorpio, but it's a victory through peace and harmony, and this perhaps should be emphasized. <wrap hide>42|00:06:01|940|00:06:10|780</wrap>We still seem to be in the warlike position with regard to this sign which has so often <wrap hide>43|00:06:10|780|00:06:19|160</wrap>been associated with war. I think, though, that in order for the peace to prevail, some <wrap hide>44|00:06:19|160|00:06:28|880</wrap>very strong measures often have to be taken. We sometimes look to great warriors as those <wrap hide>45|00:06:28|880|00:06:35|460</wrap>who have eventually created the peace. <wrap quote>Deception and triumph—control by Maya and <wrap hide>46|00:06:35|460|00:06:49|140</wrap>control by the soul—conflict and peace—such are the hidden secrets of this <wrap hide>47|00:06:49|140|00:06:57|760</wrap>sign and these are summed up for all disciples in the two keywords.</wrap> or key phrases, really. <wrap hide>48|00:06:58|280|00:07:07|420</wrap><wrap quote>Upon the ordinary wheel, whereon the soul is found,</wrap> the soul in incarnation is found, <wrap quote>blind</wrap> <wrap hide>49|00:07:09|650|00:07:19|100</wrap>blinded by the threefold deception, <wrap quote>and apparently helpless,</wrap> not powerful, not courageous, not <wrap hide>50|00:07:19|100|00:07:28|280</wrap>selfish. <wrap quote>the Word goes forth in the following terms:</wrap> The Word is a statement from a spiritual <wrap hide>51|00:07:28|280|00:07:36|500</wrap>source which declares the kind of experience through which this immersed soul must pass <wrap hide>52|00:07:37|200|00:07:47|160</wrap>before attaining liberation. <wrap quote>"And the Word said, Let Maya flourish and let deception <wrap hide>53|00:07:47|160|00:07:59|520</wrap>rule";</wrap>—a great vitalization of the forces of deception. I'm reminded of the three types <wrap hide>54|00:07:59|520|00:08:17|140</wrap>of members of the Black Lodge. They are the destroyers of souls on the first ray, the <wrap hide>55|00:08:17|820|00:08:26|280</wrap>fourth and sixth ray found in Scorpio, and finally the manipulators of souls found on <wrap hide>56|00:08:26|280|00:08:35|840</wrap>the third ray. There is no chance but to be confined to the underworld which Pluto rules. <wrap hide>57|00:08:37|060|00:08:46|220</wrap>And this world is the dense physical vehicle of the planetary Logos, with all of the Maya's <wrap hide>58|00:08:47|140|00:08:57|960</wrap>glamours and illusions found thereon. The soul is entirely bewildered and does not know <wrap hide>59|00:08:57|960|00:09:03|800</wrap>its true origin, and without knowing its true origin, how can it be ever triumphant? <wrap hide>60|00:09:04|980|00:09:13|140</wrap><wrap quote>upon the reversed wheel, the soul chants or sings the words:</wrap> and we should not ignore <wrap hide>61|00:09:13|580|00:09:28|900</wrap>these words, "chants or sings." It's an especially triumphant form of expression, which interestingly <wrap hide>62|00:09:28|900|00:09:40|100</wrap>is on the axis with Taurus, which is a primary ruler of the great wave of sound. So the triumphant <wrap hide>63|00:09:40|100|00:09:53|400</wrap>soul in kind of a victory paean, chants or sings the triumphant words, <wrap quote>"Warrior I am <wrap hide>64|00:09:54|980|00:10:05|300</wrap>and from the battle I emerge triumphant."</wrap> There are a number of triumphs here. One can <wrap hide>65|00:10:05|300|00:10:11|720</wrap>triumph over each one of the vehicles, and there are lesser triumphs, preparing for the <wrap hide>66|00:10:11|720|00:10:22|120</wrap>final triumph, which sees the immersed soul, really an extension of the monad, emerging <wrap hide>67|00:10:22|120|00:10:29|960</wrap>onto the Buddhic plane after the destruction of the causal body. That Buddhic plane being <wrap hide>68|00:10:29|960|00:10:40|060</wrap>ruled by Scorpio, at least the human creative hierarchy which has its focus there is ruled <wrap hide>69|00:10:40|060|00:10:50|040</wrap>by Scorpio. So it must be a sign of harmony as well as of conflict, since it is so closely <wrap hide>70|00:10:50|040|00:10:57|540</wrap>associated with the Buddhic plane. A simple statement of words is not as strong as that <wrap hide>71|00:10:57|540|00:11:08|620</wrap>which is chanted or sung, because it accords with the great musical basis of our created <wrap hide>72|00:11:08|720|00:11:20|500</wrap>worlds, and the chant is magical in its effect, and is sustained by the great current of sound. <wrap hide>73|00:11:21|320|00:11:29|340</wrap>I guess my eyes have fallen now on this sentence maybe for the first time so consciously. The <wrap hide>74|00:11:29|340|00:11:39|020</wrap>soul, who really is the one who is liberated, chants or sings. It's a very powerful affirmation, <wrap hide>75|00:11:40|980|00:11:46|540</wrap>and it is all along the soul that has been the warrior. The disciple really is the soul, <wrap hide>76|00:11:47|540|00:12:00|960</wrap>and now emerges out of identification with and out from under the domination of the threefold <wrap hide>77|00:12:00|960|00:12:08|600</wrap>personality and even emerges finally out of the dense physical vehicle of the solar Logos <wrap hide>78|00:12:08|600|00:12:16|600</wrap>whereon the causal body is found. "Warrior I am, and from the battle I emerge triumphant." <wrap hide>79|00:12:18|720|00:12:28|040</wrap>Okay friends, what I see here, you know, I thought I had finished Scorpio. Well, you <wrap hide>80|00:12:28|040|00:12:36|060</wrap>never finish with these signs. D.K. has given us something of great value, but he would <wrap hide>81|00:12:36|060|00:12:45|800</wrap>be the first to say that he's given us material in outline form, and that many of the details <wrap hide>82|00:12:46|590|00:13:06|040</wrap>have to be filled in by students such as we are. So continuing with Libra in 1980, I think <wrap hide>83|00:13:06|790|00:13:22|520</wrap>in E.A.A. 80 C, page 226. Well now we, moving clockwise through the signs as is D.K.'s method <wrap hide>84|00:13:23|830|00:13:34|460</wrap>to impress upon us this mode of energy travel. He's written his whole book in a most impressive <wrap hide>85|00:13:34|460|00:13:42|180</wrap>manner, seemingly backwards, but making his point about the necessity of reversing the <wrap hide>86|00:13:42|180|00:13:49|760</wrap>wheel at a certain point in the developmental history of the human being, with Scorpio much <wrap hide>87|00:13:49|760|00:13:56|580</wrap>involved through its exalted planet Uranus, and Libra involved as well, and Aries, also <wrap hide>88|00:13:56|580|00:14:04|420</wrap>ruled by Uranus, hierarchically, giving the impulse. There's this Martian-Uranian urge <wrap hide>89|00:14:04|420|00:14:14|380</wrap>which wants to break out of the usual rotary conditioning in which the immersed soul has <wrap hide>90|00:14:14|380|00:14:24|340</wrap>been entrapped. And so comes the day, comes the time when it is no longer sufferable, <wrap hide>91|00:14:24|710|00:14:35|660</wrap>to remain in a limited condition of consciousness. One intuits that there is a higher possibility <wrap hide>92|00:14:35|660|00:14:46|260</wrap>looming ahead, and one drastically and dramatically throws oneself against the prevailing currents, <wrap hide>93|00:14:48|300|00:14:55|600</wrap>creating a great friction and rending process. One swims against the stream as the salmon <wrap hide>94|00:14:55|600|00:15:03|060</wrap>does on its way to its source. I wonder what the analogy for the waiting bears may be, <wrap hide>95|00:15:03|120|00:15:11|900</wrap>you know, as the salmon attempt to leap against the waterfalls that they once negotiated with <wrap hide>96|00:15:11|900|00:15:23|600</wrap>ease when they were small. The bears are waiting for them as they try to jump over <wrap hide>97|00:15:23|600|00:15:33|100</wrap>the waterfalls. What an amazing metaphor here. What a story. I guess it's a dangerous trip. <wrap hide>98|00:15:34|820|00:15:41|800</wrap>The form does not so easily survive it, and those who do have certainly proved their power. <wrap hide>99|00:15:42|580|00:15:47|460</wrap>Maybe they have a chance to try again and again until they are among the successful <wrap hide>100|00:15:47|460|00:15:51|560</wrap>ones escaping the many snares that await them. <wrap hide>101|00:15:54|740|00:16:04|400</wrap>Well, anyway, we are going to move into Libra. Also pronounced Libra, also pronounced Libra. <wrap hide>102|00:16:04|400|00:16:13|740</wrap>I remember "Lib" and "liberation." I remember the well-known astrologer Mark Edmund Jones <wrap hide>103|00:16:13|740|00:16:20|460</wrap>calling it "Libra," and also "Pisces" instead of "Pisces." He was not a man to make mistakes. <wrap hide>104|00:16:21|540|00:16:27|440</wrap>The pronunciations were probably quite legitimate, but I'll stick with the ones that we have <wrap hide>105|00:16:27|440|00:16:28|500</wrap>been using. <wrap hide>106|00:16:30|860|00:16:41|200</wrap>And D.K. begins here on page 226. <wrap quote>The sign Libra is one of peculiar interest, but <wrap hide>107|00:16:41|200|00:16:47|740</wrap>in a most paradoxical manner, for much of its interest is based upon the fact that it <wrap hide>108|00:16:47|740|00:16:58|120</wrap>lacks spectacular interest of any kind—except in the case of disciples or those nearing <wrap hide>109|00:16:58|120|00:17:12|680</wrap>the Path.</wrap> because it is, after all, one of the signs of crisis, along with Leo and, I <wrap hide>110|00:17:12|680|00:17:21|800</wrap>think, Capricorn. So, very eventful decisions have to be made in this sign, but it is a <wrap hide>111|00:17:21|800|00:17:28|100</wrap>sign which attempts, at least, to avoid extremes, though quite a number of Libra people seem <wrap hide>112|00:17:28|100|00:17:35|100</wrap>to be involved in various kinds of extremes. As one of my colleagues said, "Well, the tail <wrap hide>113|00:17:36|040|00:17:41|420</wrap>of the scorpion is pointing towards it, and so is the spear of the centaur. How peaceful <wrap hide>114|00:17:41|420|00:17:42|460</wrap>can it be?" <wrap hide>115|00:17:46|120|00:17:56|940</wrap>Yet it is often a sign of moderation, which attempts to blend and harmonize and not be <wrap hide>116|00:17:56|940|00:18:10|880</wrap>too noteworthy for a position which is taken. So there is a kind of quality of modesty, <wrap hide>117|00:18:11|060|00:18:21|760</wrap>of moderation, of in-betweenness, before a certain point, of non-commitment. Of course, <wrap hide>118|00:18:21|760|00:18:29|000</wrap>once the scales do fall, once the pans of the scales do fall, there is a commitment, <wrap hide>119|00:18:29|020|00:18:36|380</wrap>and it is, after all, a sign of decision, and it's not entirely of a harmonizing nature <wrap hide>120|00:18:36|380|00:18:43|240</wrap>under the influence of Venus. It is also strongly under the influence of Uranus, and even more <wrap hide>121|00:18:43|240|00:18:52|780</wrap>so under the influence of Saturn, which is definitely a determining and decisive planet. <wrap hide>122|00:18:54|420|00:19:06|300</wrap>So when judgment finally comes in, and Libra is the judge, it is determining. <wrap quote>It is a <wrap hide>123|00:19:06|300|00:19:16|980</wrap>sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values,</wrap> I remember some associating this sign <wrap hide>124|00:19:16|980|00:19:23|940</wrap>with the fourth ray, although it does not specifically, as given, come through Libra, <wrap hide>125|00:19:25|920|00:19:33|680</wrap>but as I say, there are a number of rays constellationally associated with each of the signs, so perhaps <wrap hide>126|00:19:33|680|00:19:41|140</wrap>on one of its levels the fourth ray is to be found. I remember Mary Bailey speaking <wrap hide>127|00:19:41|140|00:19:51|860</wrap>of the judicial mind. She related it to the fourth ray when it was functioning in a proper <wrap hide>128|00:19:51|860|00:20:02|260</wrap>manner, and we certainly think of the judicial attitude, the legislative attitude, the cautious <wrap hide>129|00:20:02|260|00:20:08|060</wrap>attempt to arrive at the right decision. We associate all these things with Libra. <wrap hide>130|00:20:09|880|00:20:17|860</wrap>So both Libra and the fourth ray, in the minds of some, have similar qualities, especially <wrap hide>131|00:20:17|860|00:20:27|960</wrap>the harmonizing aspects of the fourth ray, not those which promote conflict. Though Libra <wrap hide>132|00:20:27|960|00:20:37|100</wrap>is involved in many wars, once aggression has been committed, the equal and opposite <wrap hide>133|00:20:37|100|00:20:44|360</wrap>reaction is often in the hands of Libra, the striking back to recreate the disturbed balance. <wrap hide>134|00:20:45|900|00:20:55|020</wrap><wrap quote>It is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values,</wrap> Therefore, what should we say? <wrap hide>135|00:20:58|460|00:21:09|280</wrap>This is not entirely so, but with a tendency to avoid bias and to be fair-minded, <wrap quote>and of <wrap hide>136|00:21:09|280|00:21:14|260</wrap>achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of opposites.</wrap> In this case, the pairs <wrap hide>137|00:21:14|260|00:21:23|680</wrap>of opposites, the most notable of them in our work is that pair: the soul and the personality. <wrap hide>138|00:21:25|160|00:21:29|840</wrap>But there are other opposites as well. Spirit and matter, of course, are opposites, and <wrap hide>139|00:21:30|600|00:21:36|400</wrap>there are horizontal opposites as well, more or less on the same level. The vertical pairs <wrap hide>140|00:21:36|400|00:21:41|260</wrap>of opposites and the horizontal pairs of opposites. Achieving the right equilibrium between the <wrap hide>141|00:21:41|260|00:21:51|040</wrap>pairs of opposites. And we know that it is possible for some people to go to extremes, <wrap hide>142|00:21:52|360|00:21:58|400</wrap>denying the personality and the vehicles, or denying the soul and its higher potentials. <wrap hide>143|00:21:58|840|00:22:06|240</wrap>Either one of those attitudes will lead to difficulty and imbalance. So there <wrap hide>144|00:22:06|240|00:22:17|460</wrap>come certain lives when these pairs of opposites have to be justly balanced against each other, <wrap hide>145|00:22:18|320|00:22:26|420</wrap>a fair sharing of emphasis. This does not last forever because the universe is hierarchical <wrap hide>146|00:22:26|420|00:22:36|420</wrap>in its nature. At least, occultism asserts this. And always the higher of a pair of opposites <wrap hide>147|00:22:37|660|00:22:44|980</wrap>must prevail. It might be regarded, this sign might be regarded, as the sign in which the <wrap hide>148|00:22:44|980|00:22:53|580</wrap>first real vision of the path appears. You kind of wonder whether the purifications undertaken <wrap hide>149|00:22:53|580|00:23:01|820</wrap>in Virgo, the clarification of vision, the deglamorization, at least of some of the worst <wrap hide>150|00:23:01|820|00:23:07|720</wrap>glamours, the improvement of the physical etheric condition—all the things which Virgo <wrap hide>151|00:23:07|720|00:23:23|080</wrap>does, so clarifies consciousness that the first vision of the path, the first real vision <wrap hide>152|00:23:23|570|00:23:33|300</wrap>of the path, or the first vision of the real path, appears. Interesting that Venus, a planet <wrap hide>153|00:23:33|300|00:23:42|460</wrap>so much connected with the idea of the beam of light, is the ruler here, and the path <wrap hide>154|00:23:42|460|00:23:49|120</wrap>is the one that can be trodden between the pairs of opposites, and trodden with greater <wrap hide>155|00:23:50|520|00:23:59|520</wrap>safety than when one overemphasizes, let us say, the spirit aspect, and does not consider <wrap hide>156|00:23:59|520|00:24:06|660</wrap>the integrity of the form, which will only have to be rebuilt if unwisely destroyed. <wrap hide>157|00:24:08|740|00:24:13|440</wrap><wrap quote>It might be regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the Path appears <wrap hide>158|00:24:13|520|00:24:22|730</wrap>and of the goal towards which the disciple must ultimately direct his steps.</wrap> Now that <wrap hide>159|00:24:22|730|00:24:38|050</wrap>goal is at first the soul, and then the monad and Shambhala. And I'm thinking about this <wrap hide>160|00:24:38|050|00:24:46|050</wrap>path, which is in a way symbolized by the spinal column and by the central channel of <wrap hide>161|00:24:46|050|00:24:57|550</wrap>the etheric spine, the sushumna, and how it does lead from the base to the crown, and <wrap hide>162|00:24:57|550|00:25:04|050</wrap>back again. Probably the involution takes us from the crown to the base, and the evolution <wrap hide>163|00:25:04|050|00:25:14|270</wrap>from the base to the crown. But it is a direct and unobstructed channel for the evolving <wrap hide>164|00:25:14|270|00:25:24|350</wrap>son of man towards a higher purpose, which the head and the head center represent. And <wrap hide>165|00:25:24|350|00:25:32|990</wrap>interestingly, Libra is intimately associated with Shambhala as the center of perfect peace, <wrap hide>166|00:25:33|190|00:25:39|830</wrap>and presumably balance, where archetypal intention prevails in the world of being. <wrap hide>167|00:25:40|630|00:25:47|470</wrap>I'm remembering from the Sabian Symbols book, commented on by Dane Rudhyar and Mark Edmund <wrap hide>168|00:25:47|470|00:25:53|870</wrap>Jones, that the very first degree of Libra has to do with perfect archetypes, which are <wrap hide>169|00:25:53|870|00:26:04|490</wrap>seen as butterflies in a collection. They are stable, they are static. They are the <wrap hide>170|00:26:04|490|00:26:09|010</wrap>forms to which all other forms must eventually conform. <wrap hide>171|00:26:13|690|00:26:25|950</wrap>So, after much battle in the realm of lower ego, and much need for humility, and a clarification <wrap hide>172|00:26:25|950|00:26:33|170</wrap>of consciousness, divesting it of its own self-importance, divesting the lower ego of <wrap hide>173|00:26:33|170|00:26:43|010</wrap>its self-importance, perhaps then it is that the path can be seen. I think Libra and <wrap hide>174|00:26:43|010|00:26:48|890</wrap>Leo are very related. D.K. will tell us that the reversal of the wheel is going to occur <wrap hide>175|00:26:50|010|00:26:59|430</wrap>under the Leo and Libra influence. So it's in the fifth or Leonian petal that the path <wrap hide>176|00:26:59|430|00:27:11|130</wrap>of aspiration becomes a reality, and where the grossest forms of egoism are lived beyond. <wrap hide>177|00:27:13|230|00:27:22|870</wrap>And it is there in relation to that petal, and perhaps in relation to the seventh petal, <wrap hide>178|00:27:22|870|00:27:30|810</wrap>which in terms of sequence we can consider ruled by Libra, that the man can become the <wrap hide>179|00:27:30|810|00:27:38|210</wrap>true aspirant, and eventually the first degree initiate, once that fifth petal is completely <wrap hide>180|00:27:38|210|00:27:46|690</wrap>unfolded. So, perhaps while the fifth petal is unfolding, stirrings and developments in <wrap hide>181|00:27:46|690|00:27:53|670</wrap>the Libran petal, the seventh, offer up a vision which makes it possible to pursue the <wrap hide>182|00:27:53|670|00:28:02|230</wrap>higher potentials of the fifth petal and eventually become a first degree initiate. It might be <wrap hide>183|00:28:02|230|00:28:16|670</wrap>regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the path appears. Of course, the <wrap hide>184|00:28:17|450|00:28:24|030</wrap>various byways which can mislead and can take one back into the realm of Maya-Glamour <wrap hide>185|00:28:24|030|00:28:33|150</wrap>illusion. The symbolism is there as we think of the Libran path, and in the human body <wrap hide>186|00:28:33|150|00:28:38|650</wrap>and the human etheric nature, and even with the Antahkarana, that path is a straight path. <wrap hide>187|00:28:40|170|00:28:45|570</wrap>Although it may have some figure-eight energy flows associated with it, but essentially <wrap hide>188|00:28:45|570|00:28:54|190</wrap>straight. And the first real vision of the goal towards which the disciple must ultimately <wrap hide>189|00:28:55|570|00:29:06|090</wrap>direct his steps, I suppose as the spiritual will comes in, sort of enforced and imposed <wrap hide>190|00:29:06|090|00:29:17|270</wrap>by Vulcan, but basically emanating from the Libran plane of Atma, a vision of ultimate <wrap hide>191|00:29:17|270|00:29:36|070</wrap>destinations is likely to appear, because the will will take us there. The will has <wrap hide>192|00:29:36|070|00:29:45|230</wrap>a very simple aspect. <wrap quote>This Path is the narrow razor-edged Path</wrap> It's so easy to lose our <wrap hide>193|00:29:45|230|00:29:55|170</wrap>balance upon this path. It seems to imply a degree of vigilance and possibly discomfort <wrap hide>194|00:29:55|170|00:30:03|170</wrap>in those who tread that path, because they must ever be watchful as they put one foot <wrap hide>195|00:30:03|170|00:30:12|350</wrap>in front of another. It's not a broad path. It's not the primrose path. It is narrow. <wrap hide>196|00:30:15|170|00:30:21|490</wrap><wrap quote>This Path is the narrow razor-edged Path which runs between the pairs of opposites</wrap> <wrap hide>197|00:30:22|950|00:30:32|830</wrap>There is a proper balance step for each human being to take as he puts one foot in front <wrap hide>198|00:30:32|830|00:30:43|990</wrap>of another on his spiritual quest. And this path will respect the spirit soul, the soul <wrap hide>199|00:30:43|990|00:30:51|890</wrap>spirit, without disrespecting the form. It's so easy to make the mistake of Hercules in <wrap hide>200|00:30:51|890|00:30:59|770</wrap>Virgo and disrespect, or even kill, the form which is meant to serve the higher intentions. <wrap hide>201|00:30:59|770|00:31:08|990</wrap>In Libra, this is corrected. Every sign, in a way, holds the corrective to the mistake <wrap hide>202|00:31:09|790|00:31:19|710</wrap>that was made in the previous sign. So this path is the narrow, razor-edged path which <wrap hide>203|00:31:19|710|00:31:28|810</wrap>runs between the pairs of opposites. There is a just way, a correct way to take that <wrap hide>204|00:31:28|810|00:31:37|490</wrap>next step. And Saturn, as such a strong ruler of Libra, tells us that there will be a degree <wrap hide>205|00:31:37|490|00:31:42|910</wrap>of caution in the more advanced Libra about how that step is taken. Sometimes this looks <wrap hide>206|00:31:42|910|00:31:52|910</wrap>like indecision. Also, the third ray, which the Tibetan tells us is a ray of watchfulness <wrap hide>207|00:31:52|910|00:32:01|150</wrap>and planning and caution, is at this time, it appears, the preeminent ray, constellationally <wrap hide>208|00:32:01|630|00:32:10|110</wrap>passing through Libra, and also through two of its rulers, Saturn and Uranus. Yes, Uranus <wrap hide>209|00:32:10|110|00:32:19|510</wrap>does have some third ray passing through it. This narrow path, <wrap quote>which—if it is to be safely <wrap hide>210|00:32:19|510|00:32:25|530</wrap>trodden—requires the development of a sense of values</wrap> and there's Venus as the <wrap hide>211|00:32:25|530|00:32:32|570</wrap>ruler of Libra—the development of the sense of values, weighing up these values, <wrap quote>and the <wrap hide>212|00:32:32|570|00:32:45|010</wrap>power to utilise rightly the balancing, analytical faculty of the mind.</wrap> so that errors are avoided. <wrap hide>213|00:32:45|010|00:32:54|190</wrap>Or, should we say, let's put it this way: so that missteps upon the path are avoided. <wrap hide>214|00:32:56|410|00:33:02|830</wrap>Missteps. If we are cautious and we decide where that foot must go, the amount of energy <wrap hide>215|00:33:02|830|00:33:07|390</wrap>that must be put into that next step, how big a step it will be, how small a step it <wrap hide>216|00:33:07|390|00:33:16|610</wrap>will be, whether it respects all factors that have to be sustained in relationship to each <wrap hide>217|00:33:16|610|00:33:25|550</wrap>other—if we can do all those things, we can rightly tread the Path. <wrap hide>218|00:33:27|350|00:33:36|730</wrap><wrap quote>It is also the sign of intuitive perception</wrap> Interesting, this. The Jupiterian signs are <wrap hide>219|00:33:36|730|00:33:41|630</wrap>said to be intuitive signs: Sagittarius among them, certainly Pisces we recognize as intuitive. <wrap hide>220|00:33:42|250|00:33:50|890</wrap>The advanced Aquarian, ruled esoterically by Jupiter, is intuitive. But here we're speaking <wrap hide>221|00:33:50|890|00:34:03|010</wrap>of intuitive perception in Libra, even though it's ruled by the third ray, and has this <wrap hide>222|00:34:03|010|00:34:10|070</wrap>planetary expression: fifth ray Venus, seventh ray Uranus, third ray Saturn—hardline rays. <wrap hide>223|00:34:10|970|00:34:22|090</wrap>But perhaps it's because what we can say is that intuition enters at the interlude. And <wrap hide>224|00:34:22|090|00:34:29|710</wrap>Libra is the sign of the interlude, the pause for reception or impression. It rules in a <wrap hide>225|00:34:29|710|00:34:36|570</wrap>way a kind of higher interlude where the consciousness is held up for possible impression <wrap hide>226|00:34:37|650|00:34:46|730</wrap>from a higher source. So, you know, it's very important for us to see how Master D.K. sees <wrap hide>227|00:34:47|470|00:34:56|010</wrap>these signs. They may not be the conventional explanations that we are used to, but he has <wrap hide>228|00:34:56|010|00:35:06|370</wrap>good reason for saying what he says. So, when a person begins to tread the path, he is guided <wrap hide>229|00:35:06|370|00:35:14|530</wrap>by what? The voice of the soul, the still small voice, the inner counsel. Well, this <wrap hide>230|00:35:14|530|00:35:23|110</wrap>is the beginning, perhaps, of intuitive perception: being open to guidance from that which is <wrap hide>231|00:35:23|110|00:35:33|950</wrap>not entirely obvious, but which comes from the higher of a pair of opposites. Interesting. <wrap hide>232|00:35:40|930|00:35:53|090</wrap>OK, then. Resuming. <wrap quote> It is also the sign of intuitive perception and, on the ordinary way of progression around the zodiac, <wrap hide>233|00:35:53|090|00:36:04|210</wrap>it comes //after// the normally drastic experience of the man in Scorpio;</wrap> Seems to <wrap hide>234|00:36:04|210|00:36:15|430</wrap>be a bit of an interlude of peace, relative peace, after the loss and the trials and the <wrap hide>235|00:36:15|430|00:36:29|870</wrap>success of the Scorpio experience. <wrap quote>this is usually of such a nature that the instinct <wrap hide>236|00:36:29|870|00:36:35|910</wrap>to self-preservation has been aroused to such an extent that in the dire need of the man <wrap hide>237|00:36:35|910|00:36:43|910</wrap>(not the disciple, at this time) a call to the soul has gone forth and has evoked response.</wrap> <wrap hide>238|00:36:45|510|00:36:57|930</wrap>So, calling upon the soul in Scorpio as an act of self-preservation. This may be put <wrap hide>239|00:36:57|930|00:37:05|850</wrap>forth to come forth as, "God help me!" You know, the prayers of those who are threatened, when <wrap hide>240|00:37:05|850|00:37:14|670</wrap>surrounded on all sides by the powers of negativity or darkness. Master Morya says the disciple <wrap hide>241|00:37:14|670|00:37:22|430</wrap>is meant to look up, because that is the only way he can look for sustainment. <wrap hide>242|00:37:23|530|00:37:35|090</wrap>So, some sort of soul response is coming in for the Scorpio individual due to the dire <wrap hide>243|00:37:35|090|00:37:47|090</wrap>necessity, the dire need. And this response from the soul may be recognized as intuition. <wrap hide>244|00:37:47|090|00:37:56|270</wrap><wrap quote>The first few faint flashes of the intuition have been sensed and vaguely recognised.</wrap> because <wrap hide>245|00:37:57|370|00:38:07|170</wrap>the soul will respond. And even though the man does not really understand—it is the <wrap hide>246|00:38:07|170|00:38:16|630</wrap>man, not the disciple here, D.K. tells us—even though the man will not respond, will not <wrap hide>247|00:38:16|630|00:38:18|710</wrap>come forth and they are registered. <wrap hide>248|00:38:21|450|00:38:29|110</wrap>This is interesting. He's speaking of the way the ordinary man has drastic experiences <wrap hide>249|00:38:29|110|00:38:35|290</wrap>in Scorpio, even though he's not being tested spiritually, per se. These are experiences <wrap hide>250|00:38:35|290|00:38:46|610</wrap>of forced renunciation. You can imagine if you are working on the third petal of the <wrap hide>251|00:38:46|610|00:38:51|950</wrap>petal, and you don't have Scorpio powerful in your chart, you can imagine what you might <wrap hide>252|00:38:51|950|00:38:55|190</wrap>be put through. Or, let us say, Pisces there. <wrap hide>253|00:38:59|810|00:39:08|610</wrap><wrap quote>Then follows the experience in Libra wherein</wrap> I suppose, relatively, <wrap quote>a life is spent in <wrap hide>254|00:39:08|610|00:39:17|070</wrap>quiet, thoughtful reflection</wrap> I'm sometimes interested to see how Libra plays its part <wrap hide>255|00:39:17|070|00:39:25|110</wrap>in the lives of mathematicians. Some of the most famous have Sun in Libra, Libra rising. <wrap hide>256|00:39:26|950|00:39:30|690</wrap>I'm reminded of this by the idea of quiet and thoughtful reflection. Of course, they <wrap hide>257|00:39:30|690|00:39:39|190</wrap>represent a high stage of development. <wrap quote>quiet, thoughtful reflection or in a condition <wrap hide>258|00:39:39|190|00:39:52|170</wrap>of static unresponsiveness:</wrap> It may seem that not much is accomplished and not much movement <wrap hide>259|00:39:52|170|00:39:57|930</wrap>can be made. Different alternatives are given, and of course, with Libra, all those alternatives <wrap hide>260|00:39:57|930|00:40:05|050</wrap>are given. <wrap quote>it may be a life of balancing, of weighing this and that, and of determining <wrap hide>261|00:40:05|740|00:40:15|530</wrap>which way the scales shall fall so that in the next sign certain designed results will <wrap hide>262|00:40:15|530|00:40:23|950</wrap>occur.</wrap> It seems that there is a possibility of reorientation here: the idea of preparation, <wrap hide>263|00:40:23|950|00:40:33|330</wrap>an interlude, preparation for another life in another sign. <wrap hide>264|00:40:35|910|00:40:47|870</wrap>Now, I suppose the next life may follow in sequence—the sign suggested—or it may not. <wrap hide>265|00:40:47|870|00:40:55|310</wrap>I mean, so many people die in signs that are not sequentially related, either clockwise <wrap hide>266|00:40:55|310|00:41:02|470</wrap>or counterclockwise, to the sign in which they were born. But now we're talking about <wrap hide>267|00:41:02|470|00:41:11|510</wrap>the reverse, the clockwise wheel, the backwards wheel, as it were, and D.K. is assuming that <wrap hide>268|00:41:11|510|00:41:17|590</wrap>the life will continue to move, as it were, clockwise—i.e., backwards. <wrap quote>The following Virgo <wrap hide>269|00:41:17|590|00:41:27|410</wrap>life will be either one of a personality, materialistic nature,</wrap> presuming that the values <wrap hide>270|00:41:27|410|00:41:47|570</wrap>weighed up were material... presuming that in the Libran weighing, the values weighed up <wrap hide>271|00:41:53|570|00:42:03|050</wrap>were material—material values dominated. And if that is the case, and not spiritual <wrap hide>272|00:42:03|350|00:42:16|830</wrap>values... if that is the case, that spiritual values did not, as it were, win, then the <wrap hide>273|00:42:18|870|00:42:29|290</wrap>sign on the clockwise side of Libra—that that life will be <wrap quote>one of a personality, materialistic <wrap hide>274|00:42:29|290|00:42:39|770</wrap>nature, lived under the influence of the material aspect of Virgo, the Mother,</wrap>—i.e., "let matter reign," which <wrap hide>275|00:42:39|770|00:42:53|290</wrap>is the, let's say, the human mantram of Virgo, demanding reorientation through evolution, <wrap hide>276|00:42:55|790|00:43:03|270</wrap>or the human mantram which can only be corrected through long years of gradual evolution. So <wrap hide>277|00:43:03|270|00:43:08|330</wrap>it will be lived under the material aspect of Virgo, the Mother. That's one possibility: <wrap hide>278|00:43:08|330|00:43:20|590</wrap>either stasis, or a material decision which leads to material personal life. It would <wrap hide>279|00:43:20|590|00:43:26|910</wrap>be interesting to confront various Virgos and see where they came from. <wrap quote>or there will <wrap hide>280|00:43:26|910|00:43:33|230</wrap>be evidenced a slowly emerging soul vibration,</wrap> the result of that intuitive revelation of <wrap hide>281|00:43:33|230|00:43:46|630</wrap>the soul in Libra. Or there will result, or be evidenced, <wrap quote>a slowly emerging soul vibration, <wrap hide>282|00:43:47|890|00:43:56|590</wrap>indicating that hidden spiritual life of which the Virgin Mother is the fore-ordained custodian.</wrap> <wrap hide>283|00:43:56|590|00:44:14|870</wrap>So spiritual values are planted in Virgo, having emerged in Libra—well, having emerged <wrap hide>284|00:44:14|870|00:44:30|790</wrap>in Scorpio, and then subjected to weighing in Libra. Under necessity, calling for help, <wrap hide>285|00:44:30|950|00:44:44|850</wrap>calling for some aid to survive in one way or another, the soul has been evoked. That <wrap hide>286|00:44:44|850|00:44:50|110</wrap>is, and the values are weighed up. If the decision is made in favor of those emerging <wrap hide>287|00:44:50|110|00:44:58|290</wrap>spiritual values, then there will be the gradual germination of the seed of spirituality in <wrap hide>288|00:44:58|290|00:44:59|270</wrap>the Virgo life. <wrap hide>289|00:45:00|670|00:45:12|850</wrap><wrap quote>As progress is made, recurrently or cyclically, around the wheel of life, these experiences <wrap hide>290|00:45:12|850|00:45:19|310</wrap>and vibratory activities intensify in character until the time comes when the reversal of <wrap hide>291|00:45:19|310|00:45:30|890</wrap>the wheel takes place.</wrap> By this time, presumably, we are moving, or ready to move, in a counterclockwise <wrap hide>292|00:45:30|890|00:45:40|090</wrap>manner. It's interesting—it seems that similar experiences are building up in the same sign <wrap hide>293|00:45:41|090|00:45:49|790</wrap>as the ongoing cycle reactivates that sign time after time. So a certain amount of accomplishment <wrap hide>294|00:45:49|790|00:45:56|550</wrap>has been achieved in a particular sign. Perhaps that type of accomplishment in specificity <wrap hide>295|00:45:56|550|00:46:12|430</wrap>is left behind, but when the focus is again in that sign, then a new and greater building <wrap hide>296|00:46:12|430|00:46:23|690</wrap>up of the achievement occurs. So, you know, it would be interesting to compare what was <wrap hide>297|00:46:23|690|00:46:30|410</wrap>it like for us the last time the sign or signs that are most emphasized in our chart <wrap hide>298|00:46:30|410|00:46:35|670</wrap>this time were emphasized before. What was it like when they were emphasized before? <wrap hide>299|00:46:38|050|00:46:43|670</wrap>Let's say, if I was born in Aries, which I am, what type of Ariesian person was I when <wrap hide>300|00:46:43|670|00:46:50|510</wrap>last in Aries? Probably don't want to look. Or, you know, if my rising sign is Cancer, <wrap hide>301|00:46:50|510|00:46:58|730</wrap>which it is, then the last time that occurred, to what level of building did the process <wrap hide>302|00:46:58|730|00:47:04|650</wrap>bring me, and was there a continuation and an elevation from that point? All of this <wrap hide>303|00:47:04|650|00:47:14|510</wrap>is part of accurate reincarnational research taking in the consideration of astrology and <wrap hide>304|00:47:15|260|00:47:23|010</wrap>the gradual unfoldment of the egoic lotus. It will be a real spiritual psychology, and <wrap hide>305|00:47:23|010|00:47:33|730</wrap>we will be in a position to advise ourselves and to advise others about the next best step <wrap hide>306|00:47:34|450|00:47:43|750</wrap>to be taken on the path. So the wheel is going to be reversed here now from clockwise to <wrap hide>307|00:47:43|750|00:47:48|290</wrap>counterclockwise, and then Libra leads on to Scorpio. Well, does it do so immediately? <wrap hide>308|00:47:48|530|00:47:55|710</wrap>This is the question. Is it all so very sequential, as the Tibetan seems to imply, or are there <wrap hide>309|00:47:55|710|00:48:01|790</wrap>other ways we can consider the phrase that Libra leads on to Scorpio? But let's just <wrap hide>310|00:48:01|790|00:48:09|230</wrap>assume for the moment that this paradigm of sequence is an accurate one. <wrap quote>Then Libra leads <wrap hide>311|00:48:09|230|00:48:16|030</wrap>on to Scorpio and the active soul life (active through the medium of the personality nature <wrap hide>312|00:48:16|610|00:48:22|990</wrap>and not simply on its own plane)</wrap> Well, it's probably always active on its own plane. But <wrap hide>313|00:48:22|990|00:48:33|310</wrap>then the active soul life <wrap quote>is registered, recorded and noted in Virgo, and balanced and assessed <wrap hide>314|00:48:33|310|00:48:42|570</wrap>in Libra, eventually bringing about the tests and trials</wrap> in Scorpio. So we've gotten as <wrap hide>315|00:48:42|570|00:48:54|350</wrap>far back as Virgo, and then a kind of reversing of the wheel is going to occur. This spiritual <wrap hide>316|00:48:54|350|00:49:04|370</wrap>life of which the Virgin Mother is the foreordained custodian is growing, and then Libra will <wrap hide>317|00:49:04|370|00:49:14|030</wrap>lead on to Scorpio and the active soul life. And the active soul life, active through <wrap hide>318|00:49:14|030|00:49:20|430</wrap>the medium of the personality nature, is registered, recorded and noted in Virgo. <wrap hide>319|00:49:20|430|00:49:29|450</wrap>I think Virgo takes very good notes. So there's a clarity in Virgo about what the soul is <wrap hide>320|00:49:29|450|00:49:38|430</wrap>saying, clarity about the message conveyed by the soul. After all, it is a Mercurian <wrap hide>321|00:49:38|430|00:49:49|990</wrap>sign, and Mercury is the one with the pen in his hand, the communicator. Then the overall <wrap hide>322|00:49:50|790|00:50:00|410</wrap>value of each way of proceeding is again balanced and assessed in Libra. That which is registered, <wrap hide>323|00:50:00|410|00:50:09|550</wrap>recorded and noted in Virgo, which is the testimony of the soul life, is weighed to <wrap hide>324|00:50:09|550|00:50:20|720</wrap>determine its value relative to the more familiar material values. What really is worth the <wrap hide>325|00:50:20|720|00:50:31|460</wrap>effort? This is determined in another Libran life, or a life dominated by this sign. Eventually, <wrap hide>326|00:50:31|960|00:50:37|940</wrap>assuming then that the decision is for the spiritual values in a decisive way, <wrap quote>eventually <wrap hide>327|00:50:37|940|00:50:43|020</wrap>bringing about the tests and trials between the soul and the personality,</wrap> This is going to <wrap hide>328|00:50:43|020|00:50:50|780</wrap>occur in Scorpio, <wrap quote>which latter</wrap> i.e. the personality, <wrap quote>fights with power and determination</wrap> Look <wrap hide>329|00:50:50|780|00:51:02|820</wrap>at those Scorpionic words: power and determination. <wrap quote>to preserve the status quo of the balanced <wrap hide>330|00:51:02|820|00:51:09|000</wrap>expression of these two where the preponderance of the personality influence is not possible.</wrap> <wrap hide>331|00:51:09|000|00:51:21|000</wrap>Perhaps this even happens in Libra itself. But the tests and trials particularly are <wrap hide>332|00:51:21|700|00:51:32|620</wrap>known to occur in Scorpio, and the Martian personality is much empowered. Even though <wrap hide>333|00:51:32|620|00:51:38|860</wrap>the disciple has made the decision that spiritual values are of the utmost importance, there <wrap hide>334|00:51:38|860|00:51:43|900</wrap>is an aspect of his nature which is not touched by that decision, and which is operating according <wrap hide>335|00:51:43|900|00:51:52|880</wrap>to its ancient habits, and will fight against the new determination. Will fight with power <wrap hide>336|00:51:52|880|00:52:08|840</wrap>and determination against the new decision which has been made in Libra. The preserving <wrap hide>337|00:52:08|840|00:52:14|400</wrap>decision will at length be made. Now just think about those lives in which, let us say, <wrap hide>338|00:52:15|060|00:52:21|820</wrap>the sun is in Libra, and Scorpio is the ascendant. You can get the picture. A decision is made <wrap hide>339|00:52:21|820|00:52:28|360</wrap>and then the battle is on. Because there will be an aspect of the nature which wants to <wrap hide>340|00:52:28|360|00:52:36|860</wrap>preserve the status quo, the person will be empowered by Scorpio, both in his disciplic <wrap hide>341|00:52:36|860|00:52:42|740</wrap>nature and in his personal nature, and there will be a real contention with the will of <wrap hide>342|00:52:42|740|00:52:52|740</wrap>the disciple, focused on bringing soul values into predominance. But the empowered personality <wrap hide>343|00:52:52|740|00:53:02|980</wrap>will fight against this. And this is all preparatory to a true reversal, achieving of triumph and <wrap hide>344|00:53:02|980|00:53:14|000</wrap>freedom, so that there is not just a battlefield where no real progress is shown by one or <wrap hide>345|00:53:14|000|00:53:22|980</wrap>by the other. Uranus is involved in both of these signs, and Uranus is the planet of reversal <wrap hide>346|00:53:22|980|00:53:31|720</wrap>leading to a new and better way. And the militancy of the battle is indicated by Mars. But Mars <wrap hide>347|00:53:31|720|00:53:39|020</wrap>is in detriment in Libra, so we're not likely to get such a battle there. It's only after <wrap hide>348|00:53:39|020|00:53:46|600</wrap>the Saturnian decision is made and we enter into the Scorpio influence that the real battle <wrap hide>349|00:53:46|600|00:53:53|720</wrap>will occur. Of course, in an astrological chart, you can be a... Let's say you're born <wrap hide>350|00:53:53|720|00:54:03|180</wrap>as a Libra. Let's say maybe you are born with Virgo rising. Maybe the midpoint of Virgo. <wrap hide>351|00:54:03|560|00:54:12|640</wrap>After 45 years, your progressed descendant—45 years or so—your progressed descendant will <wrap hide>352|00:54:12|640|00:54:23|480</wrap>reach Scorpio. That too is a way of bringing in the battlefield. Once a decision has been <wrap hide>353|00:54:23|480|00:54:33|500</wrap>made in Libra, if it has been made, there are many astrological setups which can follow <wrap hide>354|00:54:33|500|00:54:40|200</wrap>what the Tibetan is speaking of here. The nurturing of the soul's message in Virgo, <wrap hide>355|00:54:40|720|00:54:49|300</wrap>the weighing up of the value of the recorded message of the soul, and then the struggle <wrap hide>356|00:54:49|300|00:55:02|680</wrap>to establish that soul impression as reality against the ancient prerogatives of the personality. <wrap hide>357|00:55:04|580|00:55:09|880</wrap>Maybe some of us who are listening to this are passing through it at the moment. <wrap hide>358|00:55:12|780|00:55:20|080</wrap><wrap quote>Libra can also be spoken of in terms of the meditation process as taught both in East <wrap hide>359|00:55:20|080|00:55:31|600</wrap>and West. It can, therefore, be regarded as the "interlude between two activities," which <wrap hide>360|00:55:32|680|00:55:41|280</wrap>is the explanation given to that stage in meditation which we call contemplation.</wrap> Now here, <wrap hide>361|00:55:41|540|00:55:48|020</wrap>he gives this famous listing of the ways in which the stages of meditation are associated <wrap hide>362|00:55:48|600|00:55:55|440</wrap>with certain signs of the zodiac. <wrap quote>In the five stages of meditation (as usually taught) you <wrap hide>363|00:55:55|440|00:56:01|920</wrap>have the following: Concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination and inspiration. <wrap hide>1|00:00:01|560|00:00:04|660</wrap>These five stages are paralleled in the five strictly human signs of the zodiac:</wrap> This is <wrap hide>365|00:56:08|820|00:56:17|860</wrap>interesting. It doesn't mean that the glyph of these signs is a human character. Only <wrap hide>366|00:56:17|860|00:56:24|440</wrap>Gemini and the water carrier, which are not mentioned here, have specifically human characters. <wrap hide>367|00:56:26|640|00:56:40|940</wrap>So, still, they take us from the instinctual side of man to the divine side. They take <wrap hide>368|00:56:40|940|00:56:52|000</wrap>us all the way from the emergent egoic personality consciousness, the lower ego of Leo, the lower <wrap hide>369|00:56:52|000|00:57:00|120</wrap>type of identification, through a purification process, through a weighing up of values, <wrap hide>370|00:57:00|280|00:57:08|480</wrap>through a struggle to establish those values, and to an aspirational orientation which leads <wrap hide>371|00:57:08|480|00:57:21|260</wrap>beyond the human state. Well, let's just say it leads into the world of the divine, where <wrap hide>372|00:57:21|260|00:57:28|520</wrap>the human being is established as a member of the fifth kingdom of nature, and in a way <wrap hide>373|00:57:28|520|00:57:37|460</wrap>Capricorn, which is not a sign mentioned here, but toward which Sagittarius leads, gives <wrap hide>374|00:57:37|800|00:57:45|360</wrap>us full entrée into the fifth kingdom of nature where we are no longer, strictly speaking, <wrap hide>375|00:57:45|360|00:57:51|740</wrap>a human being. We are individualized in a way in Leo and become a human being in Leo, <wrap hide>376|00:57:52|400|00:57:58|060</wrap>with the help of certain other signs like Gemini and so forth. But we are still very <wrap hide>377|00:57:58|060|00:58:03|660</wrap>subject to mass consciousness, to instinctual, non-individualized consciousness in Cancer. <wrap hide>378|00:58:05|260|00:58:12|940</wrap>So, Cancer shows us the human being who is not really awakened to his own distinct humanity. <wrap hide>379|00:58:13|720|00:58:21|580</wrap>And Sagittarius shows us the human being who is about to launch into another kingdom altogether. <wrap hide>380|00:58:22|360|00:58:50|860</wrap>Alright, so this takes us to Esoteric Astrology Adventure EAA 80C and page 228. And we will <wrap hide>381|00:58:50|860|00:58:51|180</wrap>see you in the next lecture.
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