1|00:00:01|840|00:00:05|760Hello everybody, this is Michael, and we 2|00:00:06|260|00:00:09|840are dealing now with our first initiation compilation 3|00:00:10|560|00:00:17|480video commentaries. And looks 4|00:00:17|980|00:00:20|320to me like we are really on number six. 5|00:00:21|360|00:00:25|520I don't know how that happened, but it's 6|00:00:26|020|00:00:29|590the end of number five and we're beginning number 7|00:00:30|070|00:00:33|230six, and there's not too much left 8|00:00:33|730|00:00:37|190to go in this particular compilation. 9|00:00:40|710|00:00:44|110Then I'm going to look at some of the references that I 10|00:00:44|610|00:00:48|790have excised singly and see if 11|00:00:49|510|00:00:53|070this compilation has covered them. I doubt that it's covered all of 12|00:00:53|570|00:00:57|200them. I don't really have a hope of covering every 13|00:00:57|700|00:01:01|120single first initiation reference. I think if I did it completely 14|00:01:01|620|00:01:04|400correctly, I would. But it's not possible now. 15|00:01:05|600|00:01:11|200So if you go to Makara, 16|00:01:11|760|00:01:15|400or let's say go to YouTube on Makara they'll be pretty soon. 17|00:01:15|900|00:01:19|480But on YouTube you can look up Morya Federation Esoteric 18|00:01:19|980|00:01:23|980Education. Look at the playlists and you'll see one for first initiation 19|00:01:24|480|00:01:28|020compilation programs or webinars, 20|00:01:28|520|00:01:32|380something of that nature. And you'll see the 21|00:01:32|880|00:01:35|860ones you can listen to. Maybe I'll have six, seven, 22|00:01:36|100|00:01:40|180something like that. And then you can go on to study 23|00:01:40|340|00:01:43|660the second initiation commentaries there. I think there are 11 24|00:01:44|160|00:01:47|620of them. And the third initiation commentary—maybe 25|00:01:48|120|00:01:51|320there are seven, something of that nature. 26|00:01:52|200|00:01:55|880Well, we need to internalize 27|00:01:56|380|00:01:59|840a great deal of this teaching in short order so that 28|00:02:00|340|00:02:02|760we can apply it. I think the world, 29|00:02:04|120|00:02:08|120or maybe let's just say human consciousness, depends 30|00:02:08|620|00:02:12|480a lot upon the Ageless Wisdom for its redemption, because so many 31|00:02:12|980|00:02:16|680of us are going in the wrong direction or 32|00:02:17|180|00:02:20|830directions, really, that lead nowhere. And we know the Ageless Wisdom 33|00:02:21|630|00:02:25|630leads to a great expansion of consciousness and 34|00:02:26|030|00:02:27|630increasing participation. 35|00:02:29|150|00:02:32|750Now here we have something from "Rays and 36|00:02:33|250|00:02:37|230Initiations," it looks like, and it says "the unconscious registration 37|00:02:37|730|00:02:41|430of monadic destiny." Destiny pertains 38|00:02:41|930|00:02:45|640to the first aspect, and it means that we 39|00:02:46|140|00:02:50|520have achieved the destined arrangement of 40|00:02:51|020|00:02:54|760all related factors within an archetype, 41|00:02:55|400|00:02:59|560and that that which is below now really reflects that 42|00:03:00|060|00:03:03|640which is above. Each one of us has a destiny 43|00:03:04|140|00:03:06|520within the will of the— 44|00:03:07|000|00:03:10|360of whatever great being we may be incorporated in: 45|00:03:12|460|00:03:15|420first, maybe our Globe Lord, 46|00:03:15|920|00:03:19|340our Chain Lord, our Planetary Logos, even our Solar Logos. 47|00:03:19|840|00:03:23|660Finally, we do have a universal destiny. Each one of us 48|00:03:24|160|00:03:27|740is a tiny part of that, and yet being the whole 49|00:03:28|220|00:03:33|100as well as the tiny part that goes forth into 50|00:03:34|220|00:03:37|020incomplete registration of our identity. 51|00:03:38|810|00:03:42|090See what it says: "The first"—excuse me—"the first 52|00:03:42|590|00:03:46|370faint tremor of the //(RI, p.312)// impact of 53|00:03:46|870|00:03:50|250monadic destiny," says the Tibetan. "I know 54|00:03:50|570|00:03:54|330not how else to express this concept, makes itself felt, 55|00:03:55|850|00:03:59|130but is registered only by the soul of the initiate on the soul— 56|00:03:59|770|00:04:02|730on the level of soul consciousness." //(RI, p.313)// 57|00:04:03|570|00:04:07|330Well, this registration within 58|00:04:07|830|00:04:13|130the soul occurs at the first degree, but it never reaches the consciousness 59|00:04:13|630|00:04:17|010of the personality brain. We might say 60|00:04:18|610|00:04:22|490it is never registered by the man on the physical plane who 61|00:04:22|990|00:04:27|130is taking the first initiation. His brain cannot respond to such a 62|00:04:27|630|00:04:30|900high vibration. //(RI, p.313)// That's the whole thing. 63|00:04:31|400|00:04:35|020We're dealing with increasing sensitivity, which allows 64|00:04:35|520|00:04:39|220us to respond to energies which are descending 65|00:04:39|720|00:04:43|100or emerging from ever higher points of tension. 66|00:04:43|500|00:04:47|260You know, eventually within a Mayavirupa physical 67|00:04:47|760|00:04:51|660brain, we'll be able to register the monadic and //(RI, p.313)// Logoic planes. 68|00:04:52|540|00:04:56|460And we're very—we're very far from that right now. And what we cannot register, 69|00:04:56|540|00:05:00|540we do not know. In other words, if we knew what was 70|00:05:00|940|00:05:04|300lying within the next registration, we'd already be 71|00:05:04|800|00:05:09|180somewhat awakened. But so many of us are densely held in 72|00:05:09|340|00:05:12|700non-recognition of the next unfoldment. 73|00:05:13|200|00:05:16|060And when the unfoldment comes, we say, "Oh my goodness, wow!" You know, 74|00:05:18|220|00:05:22|340I read something that said that Steve Jobs, as he was dying, 75|00:05:22|840|00:05:27|390you know, he suddenly... the inner planes suddenly 76|00:05:27|890|00:05:31|190opened up for him in that semi state in which he found himself. 77|00:05:31|590|00:05:35|350And he said, "Oh wow!" You know, of course already 78|00:05:35|850|00:05:39|429he had believed something along those lines. Theoretically, //(RI, p.313)// and as 79|00:05:39|929|00:05:42|230a result of the teaching of the ageless wisdom, //(RI, p.313)// 80|00:05:43|910|00:05:47|910theoretically, the spiritual man in incarnation has known //(RI, p.313)// 81|00:05:49|760|00:05:52|320that he is essentially the indwelling Christ. //(RI, p.313)// 82|00:05:53|520|00:05:56|880And let's just say, you know, that is the soul and 83|00:05:57|380|00:06:01|680soul consciousness in incarnation. 84|00:06:01|840|00:06:05|680So let's see. Yeah, the soul 85|00:06:06|180|00:06:09|760and soul consciousness. And much of this 86|00:06:09|840|00:06:13|280is at first theoretical, right? 87|00:06:13|920|00:06:18|190Because to learn about it in mental terms is certainly 88|00:06:18|690|00:06:22|630not the same as to experience it, you know. And then maybe 89|00:06:23|130|00:06:27|270words fail when one experiences the love of the Christ, 90|00:06:27|350|00:06:29|590or what the divine will really is. 91|00:06:31|030|00:06:34|390Mental concepts help us move in the right 92|00:06:34|890|00:06:38|470direction, but they're certainly not equivalent to the experience itself. 93|00:06:39|030|00:06:42|550So theoretically, and as a result of the teaching which teaches us much 94|00:06:43|050|00:06:47|000theory—teaching of the ageless wisdom—the spiritual man in 95|00:06:47|500|00:06:50|920incarnation, the soul in incarnation, has known that 96|00:06:51|420|00:06:55|120he is essentially the indwelling Christ. And the attainment of 97|00:06:55|620|00:06:59|599the Christ consciousness has been and will be his goal. //(RI, p.313)// 98|00:06:59|680|00:07:02|960We might almost say, at first, 99|00:07:03|200|00:07:06|480until the fourth initiation. 100|00:07:07|680|00:07:12|320And by that time, monadic consciousness has begun to 101|00:07:12|820|00:07:16|640make its impression felt in a very strong way, which does not eliminate 102|00:07:16|880|00:07:20|560the Christ consciousness, which is felt throughout the duration 103|00:07:21|060|00:07:25|320of our second ray solar system. I mean, we are, after all, in 104|00:07:25|820|00:07:30|040this solar system, a heart centre within a local cosmic 105|00:07:30|540|00:07:33|800Logos, sometimes referred to as the 106|00:07:34|300|00:07:37|120seven solar systems, of which ours is one. 107|00:07:39|160|00:07:43|640The knowledge here referred to concerns something higher still. 108|00:07:44|680|00:07:47|160Okay? Monadic destiny—higher, 109|00:07:48|200|00:07:51|800taking in more of a higher vibration, more inclusive, 110|00:07:52|300|00:07:55|880more identificatory. The knowledge here referred to concerns something 111|00:07:56|380|00:08:01|040higher still: The self-identification of 112|00:08:01|540|00:08:05|270the soul on its own plane. That means we realise we are the soul, and 113|00:08:05|770|00:08:08|990the self-recognition, which relates the self to the enveloping 114|00:08:09|490|00:08:12|430whole, the monad. //(RI, p.313)// And notice here, 115|00:08:13|790|00:08:18|510"Whoops, it's always telling me that I can't save." 116|00:08:19|710|00:08:23|030I wonder why that is. All right, just excuse me for 117|00:08:23|530|00:08:27|630a moment while I attempt to save the day here, all right? 118|00:08:29|790|00:08:34|280Self-identification: We identify as the soul, and the soul identifies 119|00:08:34|360|00:08:38|160as the monad. There's nothing but the monad—the one—the 120|00:08:38|660|00:08:40|920soul identifies as the... 121|00:08:42|680|00:08:46|840As the monad. The monad really is the one. You know, we talk about it 122|00:08:47|340|00:08:50|800as if it's some kind of triangle on the higher planes and so forth, 123|00:08:51|300|00:08:54|360but it's everything that we perceive, everything that we are, 124|00:08:55|080|00:08:58|520and all the things that seem to be lesser 125|00:08:59|170|00:09:03|090than the monad are simply what I call the monad 126|00:09:03|170|00:09:06|450in attenuation. Okay? 127|00:09:06|950|00:09:11|010All factors, all aspects of 128|00:09:11|510|00:09:12|530our nature, 129|00:09:14|849|00:09:18|930if I can say, "below" the 130|00:09:19|430|00:09:22|850monad, are what I call monad 131|00:09:24|130|00:09:28|280in attenuation. So, it 132|00:09:28|780|00:09:32|560is useful to begin thinking of our 133|00:09:33|060|00:09:36|240true nature as, through and through, the 134|00:09:36|740|00:09:40|640monad—but not the completeness of the monad on its own plane—and 135|00:09:41|140|00:09:45|480as the liberated monad, which we sometimes call the volatile essence 136|00:09:46|120|00:09:49|880escaping from the monadic vehicle and preparing for its journey 137|00:09:50|380|00:09:53|870through ever greater vehicles. After all, the universe itself 138|00:09:54|370|00:09:56|870is simply a vehicle of the absolute deity. 139|00:09:58|390|00:10:02|070Post-pro-life deity, you might say, or at least 140|00:10:02|570|00:10:06|630appreciate it at that time. It's always present. That 141|00:10:07|130|00:10:11|630monad will encounter, as it travels, ever greater 142|00:10:12|130|00:10:16|230points of tension, which will reveal to it increasingly 143|00:10:17|140|00:10:21|300the wholeness that it is. If I might word it symbolically, //(RI, p.313)// 144|00:10:21|800|00:10:25|940I would say //(RI, p.313)// that the soul, //(RI, p.313)// the Christ after 145|00:10:26|440|00:10:29|860the first initiation, //(RI, p.313)// and probably on its own plane, because the 146|00:10:30|180|00:10:34|100brain doesn't hold, it knows //(RI, p.313)// that the inevitable process 147|00:10:34|600|00:10:35|940of Christ's expression on earth, 148|00:10:37|460|00:10:41|740processes of Christ's expression on earth have been started and 149|00:10:42|240|00:10:45|740the attainment of the full grown man in Christ cannot be arrested. Is it the 150|00:10:46|240|00:10:50|620third initiation or is it the fifth? At the third initiation 151|00:10:51|120|00:10:54|740or the fifth initiation. And sometimes I think D.K. 152|00:10:55|240|00:10:58|580refers to it as the third degree, that you become the full grown 153|00:10:59|080|00:11:03|220man in Christ at the third degree, which is the first solar initiation. 154|00:11:03|720|00:11:07|740But in another way, at the symbolic age of 49, 155|00:11:08|240|00:11:11|580maybe you take your... Well, or is it 156|00:11:12|300|00:11:15|57035? All right, it depends 157|00:11:16|070|00:11:19|850on how we look at that. Let's just say that around the 158|00:11:20|350|00:11:24|450age of 50, there is a mastership symbolically 159|00:11:24|950|00:11:29|569considered, and maybe then you are really the mature, full 160|00:11:30|069|00:11:33|930grown man in Christ. A master is indeed a 161|00:11:34|430|00:11:38|130true member at the apex of the fifth kingdom in nature 162|00:11:38|630|00:11:42|270and about ready to become a planetary life, a member 163|00:11:42|590|00:11:45|750of the sixth kingdom in nature. If I might 164|00:11:46|250|00:11:50|310word it symbolically, I would say that the soul, our consciousness, 165|00:11:50|810|00:11:54|230having been Christed, as it were, the Christ knows that the 166|00:11:54|730|00:11:58|390inevitable processes of Christ expression, in a way the expression of 167|00:11:58|890|00:12:02|070the second ray soul of our planet and the second ray soul of our solar 168|00:12:02|570|00:12:05|750system have been started and that the attainment 169|00:12:06|250|00:12:11|120of the full grown man in Christ cannot be arrested. //(RI, p.313)// So just 170|00:12:11|620|00:12:15|880say the first initiation is 171|00:12:16|040|00:12:20|840really a point of commencement for 172|00:12:20|920|00:12:24|240an inevitable process. Well, almost inevitable. 173|00:12:24|740|00:12:28|760I mean, some people do veer off even after they have attained 174|00:12:29|480|00:12:33|920quite a bit of the will energy at the second degree, but not 175|00:12:34|420|00:12:38|170so many. And I think that if we study the 176|00:12:38|670|00:12:42|450Tibetan carefully and his information, and so 177|00:12:42|950|00:12:46|730much of it coming from Master Kh and the Christ and Sanat Kumara and 178|00:12:47|230|00:12:50|530so forth, we are far less likely to 179|00:12:51|010|00:12:54|370veer off when we feel that sense of 180|00:12:54|870|00:12:58|090individual power which sometimes comes after the 181|00:12:58|590|00:13:01|770second degree. And you know, before we 182|00:13:02|270|00:13:06|040have really proven ourselves by being able to resist the 183|00:13:06|540|00:13:10|400temptations which would take us ever more deeply into the third aspect of 184|00:13:10|900|00:13:14|440divinity, which it is our purpose 185|00:13:14|940|00:13:18|800to transcend. The centre of interest //(RI, p.313)// which 186|00:13:19|300|00:13:23|920has hitherto been directed to bringing this about now 187|00:13:24|420|00:13:27|840shifts, and the soul on its own plane, not the 188|00:13:28|340|00:13:31|520reflection of its consciousness on earth, you know, and what 189|00:13:32|020|00:13:35|320is that reflection? Which is the 190|00:13:36|520|00:13:39|560soul in incarnation becomes determined to, 191|00:13:39|880|00:13:44|000like the prodigal son, go to the Father, or to 192|00:13:44|500|00:13:48|720demonstrate the highest aspects of divinity, the will aspect. //(RI, p.313)// That's really what 193|00:13:49|220|00:13:52|200it means to go to the Father, you know. 194|00:13:52|700|00:13:56|760D.K. approaches explanations from many different perspectives. 195|00:13:57|260|00:14:00|630And as we gather them together, 196|00:14:01|430|00:14:04|790we begin to understand, actually, in a deeper 197|00:14:05|290|00:14:07|430way what some of these old sayings really mean. 198|00:14:10|150|00:14:12|790There's a point, you know, when it says know, express, 199|00:14:13|990|00:14:17|630reveal, destroy, resurrect. That expression is 200|00:14:18|130|00:14:21|350not just the expression of the soul, we've been told, it's the expression of the 201|00:14:21|850|00:14:25|520monad. And that revelation is not only the revelation of the soul, 202|00:14:26|020|00:14:28|480it's the revelation of the monad. 203|00:14:29|440|00:14:34|440And you kind of wonder, is the destruction lying 204|00:14:34|940|00:14:38|400ahead of us not just the destruction of the causal body, but the destruction of 205|00:14:38|900|00:14:42|480the temple of Ezekiel on the monadic level? And of course it fits 206|00:14:42|980|00:14:47|040well with the fifth term referring to the seventh plane, 207|00:14:48|240|00:14:52|850whereon the seventh initiation is demonstrated as the resurrection. 208|00:14:53|650|00:14:57|090So, you know, you have to take these sequences of words and be willing to 209|00:14:57|650|00:15:01|010move them up and down at different 210|00:15:01|090|00:15:04|450starting points. You might say there is the 211|00:15:04|950|00:15:08|610starting point. "Know, express, reveal, destroy, resurrect" at the first planetary 212|00:15:09|010|00:15:12|730initiation. And we know it's not the true resurrection to take 213|00:15:13|230|00:15:16|890the fifth degree. It's a revelation, okay? And that 214|00:15:17|390|00:15:20|890fits very well if we start at the third degree: "Know, express, reveal," 215|00:15:21|390|00:15:23|090revelation, "destroy." 216|00:15:24|450|00:15:27|770Well, beginning to destroy our contact with the cosmic physical plane 217|00:15:28|270|00:15:31|650and to go on the long trip and resurrect there. We are at the seventh 218|00:15:32|050|00:15:33|490plane in the seventh degree. 219|00:15:35|810|00:15:39|810Anyway, it's an amazing teaching. 220|00:15:40|310|00:15:43|930And the more you stay with it, the more the 221|00:15:44|430|00:15:48|130different factors will relate to each other archetypally under Mercury 222|00:15:48|690|00:15:52|450and demonstrate that archetype as a unified whole under Jupiter. 223|00:15:53|330|00:15:57|650And we will actually know what we're talking about and be able to do 224|00:15:58|150|00:16:01|090something useful with it. Now, what about... 225|00:16:02|530|00:16:06|650What about this seventh ray 226|00:16:07|150|00:16:10|210here? Okay, and where does this come from? 227|00:16:10|450|00:16:14|450Probably "Rays and Initiations," I guess. Yeah, the seventh ray is 228|00:16:15|340|00:16:19|580par excellence the medium of relationship. //(RI, p.571)// 229|00:16:20|860|00:16:25|100Well, there is no sacred planet actually expressing 230|00:16:25|600|00:16:28|860the seventh ray on the soul level, as far 231|00:16:29|360|00:16:32|700as we know, anyway. Jupiter has a lot of it, however. And maybe in 232|00:16:33|200|00:16:36|580the upper reaches of the Jupiterian energy system, we will find 233|00:16:37|080|00:16:40|580that seventh ray because it, you know, sort of a force that brings all things 234|00:16:41|080|00:16:44|690together, which is what we might call relationship. 235|00:16:46|370|00:16:50|450It brings together, draws together two fundamental aspects 236|00:16:51|010|00:16:54|850of spirit and matter. //(RI, p.571)// When we say the highest 237|00:16:55|350|00:16:59|250and the lowest meet, that's what we mean. We draw the monad 238|00:16:59|970|00:17:03|650and the base of the spine, speaking of the microcosm, 239|00:17:04|150|00:17:07|660ourselves, together into relationship. It relates 240|00:17:08|160|00:17:11|740also soul and form. That's another way of looking at it. Spirit and matter is 241|00:17:12|240|00:17:15|340a more fundamental distinction, but soul and 242|00:17:15|840|00:17:19|340form, sort of between spirit and matter. And that's what we're trying 243|00:17:19|840|00:17:23|300to do as we cultivate the curriculum of the soul. It relates soul 244|00:17:23|800|00:17:27|620and form. And where humanity is concerned, it relates soul 245|00:17:28|120|00:17:31|300and personality. //(RI, p.571)// So in other words, 246|00:17:31|800|00:17:35|310it's operative in the kingdoms of nature in relation to form. But we 247|00:17:35|810|00:17:39|470call it by the specific relationship of soul and personality 248|00:17:39|970|00:17:43|190when dealing with the human being in the first initiation. 249|00:17:43|690|00:17:47|150That makes the initiate aware of that relation //(RI, p.571)// of 250|00:17:47|650|00:17:53|550soul and personality. It enables him to take advantage of this approaching 251|00:17:54|050|00:17:57|710duality and, by the perfecting of the contact eventually anyway, 252|00:17:58|110|00:18:01|390to produce upon the physical plane the emergence 253|00:18:01|890|00:18:04|250into manifestation of the new man. 254|00:18:05|850|00:18:09|770Not completed at the first degree, 255|00:18:10|730|00:18:12|730but only later, 256|00:18:13|690|00:18:17|210maybe at the transfiguration and 257|00:18:17|690|00:18:21|450maybe finally when a 258|00:18:22|410|00:18:25|930generated mayavirupa is 259|00:18:26|430|00:18:30|370involved. So the approaching dualities — 260|00:18:30|870|00:18:34|150they are brought together by the — well, they're made to approach 261|00:18:34|230|00:18:37|590by the seventh ray. And of 262|00:18:38|090|00:18:41|550course, seventh ray is always concerned with manifestation. You know, 263|00:18:42|050|00:18:45|550it has something to do with the sacral center and Uranus. Sacral center creates a 264|00:18:46|050|00:18:49|830form. It creates a physical form through which the higher energies 265|00:18:49|910|00:18:53|750can demonstrate themselves, can express. At 266|00:18:54|250|00:18:58|250the first initiation, through the stimulation brought 267|00:18:58|750|00:19:02|170about by the 7th Ray Energy //(RI, p.571)// — a very stimulating ray, 268|00:19:02|670|00:19:06|370as we will see during the next 2,000 years — the personality of the initiate 269|00:19:06|850|00:19:10|290and the hovering, overshadowing soul are 270|00:19:10|790|00:19:14|009consciously brought together. //(RI, p.571)// Okay, well, 271|00:19:14|509|00:19:18|210that's the first step. And we view the Solar Angel 272|00:19:19|810|00:19:24|580in terms of maybe one-third of its 273|00:19:26|660|00:19:29|620potency somewhere in — 274|00:19:30|580|00:19:33|860I think it's "Letters on Occult Meditation." No, 275|00:19:34|360|00:19:38|100no, maybe it's "Initiation, Human and Solar." We are told 276|00:19:38|500|00:19:43|060the manner in which the initiate sees his 277|00:19:43|560|00:19:46|900angel, or whether we would call it the Angel of the Presence. 278|00:19:46|980|00:19:49|620As I've often said, I don't think that the entirety — 279|00:19:50|420|00:19:54|260The Solar Angel can be demonstrated to 280|00:19:54|760|00:19:58|540the man on the higher mental plane. I think its 281|00:19:59|040|00:20:03|140entirety is focused on a higher plane. And a 282|00:20:03|220|00:20:06|940ray or emanative presence or a fragment 283|00:20:07|440|00:20:10|340of that Solar Angel is what is sustaining the man. 284|00:20:11|780|00:20:15|420So they are brought together and, you know, you might say in terms of 285|00:20:15|920|00:20:19|960the 12-step programs, the higher power is really making its presence 286|00:20:20|120|00:20:24|080felt and affects the life of 287|00:20:24|580|00:20:28|640the individual in a very positive way. It's not 288|00:20:29|140|00:20:32|600just talk. You're walking your talk. When the soul and personality really 289|00:20:33|100|00:20:37|360come together, the initiate then knows that he is, for the first time, a 290|00:20:37|860|00:20:43|000soul-infused personality. //(RI, p.571)// And what I'm going to say is a partially 291|00:20:44|060|00:20:47|940soul-infused personality. Because that soul infusion, you know, it happens 292|00:20:48|440|00:20:52|420to a great extent, maybe 75% at the third 293|00:20:52|920|00:20:56|580initiation, but at the fourth, right before the fourth, it's total soul 294|00:20:57|080|00:21:00|660infusion, which is, interestingly, causing the destruction 295|00:21:01|160|00:21:04|700of the form. So the work is completed in that 296|00:21:05|200|00:21:08|740respect and the form is inhibitory, as useful 297|00:21:09|240|00:21:12|840as it has been. And then it's gotten out of the way and 298|00:21:13|340|00:21:17|120the Solar Angel per se is freed and the 299|00:21:17|600|00:21:21|200man begins to live within the higher aspects of 300|00:21:21|700|00:21:25|280his nature, which have been refined and cultivated with the 301|00:21:25|780|00:21:28|880help of the Solar Angel. The initiate then knows that he is, for the first 302|00:21:29|380|00:21:33|120time, a soul-infused personality. 303|00:21:33|620|00:21:37|040All of us have a degree of soul infusion. What do we say? At the 304|00:21:37|790|00:21:40|830second degree, 50%. At the third degree, 75%. 305|00:21:41|230|00:21:44|990This is the way atomic matter is present 306|00:21:45|490|00:21:49|870in the etheric vehicles. 307|00:21:50|830|00:21:54|590Yeah, in the etheric vehicles, we might say, or 308|00:21:55|390|00:21:58|550multiply differentiated etheric vehicle. And then 100% 309|00:21:59|050|00:22:02|870atomic matter in the etheric vehicle at the fourth degree. But all 310|00:22:03|370|00:22:06|640of that is the correspondence to 311|00:22:07|140|00:22:10|680soul infusion involving the higher aspects of the personality. 312|00:22:10|840|00:22:14|920His task is now to grow into the likeness of what he 313|00:22:15|080|00:22:18|400essentially is. //(RI, p.571)// So even the causal body has 314|00:22:18|900|00:22:22|640growing to do, right, and does not fully represent the Christ principle at 315|00:22:23|140|00:22:27|560first. This development is demonstrated at the third initiation, //(RI, p.571)// 316|00:22:28|040|00:22:31|750that of transfiguration. And I can only think 317|00:22:32|870|00:22:36|470that it is enhanced 318|00:22:37|350|00:22:42|230on the way to the fourth degree. 319|00:22:43|190|00:22:46|550It's not like we've really completed the third initiation. It is 320|00:22:46|950|00:22:51|350a satori, an enlightenment, a transfiguration, and illumination. 321|00:22:52|310|00:22:55|830You know, a great light demonstration comes forth because 322|00:22:56|330|00:23:00|740it is the first solar initiation. But it's not really 323|00:23:01|460|00:23:05|540complete in terms of the causal body until the three 324|00:23:06|040|00:23:09|300synthesising petals, as they say, burst open and the jewel in the lotus— 325|00:23:10|580|00:23:13|380that representative of the monad—is revealed. 326|00:23:13|780|00:23:17|780The representative of unfettered enlightenment. The monad is 327|00:23:18|280|00:23:21|660unfettered enlightenment revealed, or at least Shambhala is. 328|00:23:22|160|00:23:24|550And the monad is a resident of Shambhala. 329|00:23:25|830|00:23:29|430Well, there's so much, you know, to put together, so much to 330|00:23:29|930|00:23:31|510link together. 331|00:23:33|670|00:23:36|910And that's when we study with Master DK. That's what we're doing. 332|00:23:37|410|00:23:41|670You know, he is very much, in a sense, Mercury, just like maybe Master 333|00:23:42|170|00:23:45|590KH is more Venus. The Buddha is Mercury, 334|00:23:46|390|00:23:51|000symbolically, in a way, and the 335|00:23:51|500|00:23:55|120Christ is Venus. So under Master DK, 336|00:23:55|620|00:24:00|000we learn really how to link many factors 337|00:24:00|500|00:24:04|720about which we gain knowledge and make it into a whole and transform it into 338|00:24:04|960|00:24:07|280the pattern of the archetype. 339|00:24:09|120|00:24:12|000All right. Stimulation of the sacral centre. 340|00:24:12|480|00:24:15|600I think we've kind of looked at that before, but let's just see. 341|00:24:16|480|00:24:19|580The first initiation is therefore closely related 342|00:24:19|820|00:24:23|820to this problem. //(RI, p.572)// It's the problem of sexuality and 343|00:24:24|320|00:24:26|860gaining some control over that, though maybe not complete control. 344|00:24:27|580|00:24:31|220The seventh ray governs 345|00:24:31|720|00:24:34|860the sacral centre, usually under Uranus. And there are other planets involved, 346|00:24:35|500|00:24:38|700like Mars. And the Moon has a strong involvement, you know, 347|00:24:39|820|00:24:43|220the desire, sacral desire, Mars and 348|00:24:43|720|00:24:47|190the creation of form, the Moon, or maybe the Moon veiling 349|00:24:47|690|00:24:50|990Uranus and the sublimation of its energy into 350|00:24:51|490|00:24:55|190the throat center or into the higher creative center. 351|00:24:55|690|00:24:59|390Because eventually that higher creative center becomes a point at which it's 352|00:24:59|890|00:25:02|950not only ruled by the third ray, which it generically is, but by the 353|00:25:03|270|00:25:07|070seventh ray as well. And hence the magical words or 354|00:25:07|570|00:25:11|080the appropriate words to begin to come forth from 355|00:25:11|580|00:25:15|320the throat center, rather than the clutter and piling 356|00:25:15|820|00:25:19|120up of random words which don't create 357|00:25:19|620|00:25:24|320anything effective in line with the plan. May even obscure the 358|00:25:24|820|00:25:29|440possibility of creating in line with the plan. So this ray is 359|00:25:29|940|00:25:34|080therefore setting in motion a period of tremendous creative activity. //(RI, p.572)// 360|00:25:34|240|00:25:37|800You know, the two practically artistic rays are the seventh 361|00:25:38|300|00:25:42|000and the fourth. And this period of tremendous creative 362|00:25:42|500|00:25:46|120activity is just dawning for us. You can already see 363|00:25:46|620|00:25:50|680what's happening, you know, as you study the mass 364|00:25:51|180|00:25:54|600communications and the computer technology which is advancing so 365|00:25:55|100|00:25:59|480fast and really is bringing the reality of omnipresence to 366|00:25:59|980|00:26:03|160us. A third aspect of divinity. Omnipresence, you know, 367|00:26:03|610|00:26:07|130omniscience, second aspect, and omnipotence first. 368|00:26:07|930|00:26:12|050So this ray is therefore setting in motion a period of tremendous creative 369|00:26:12|550|00:26:16|130activity both on the material plane through the stimulation of 370|00:26:16|630|00:26:20|010the sex life of all peoples in the three worlds. 371|00:26:20|510|00:26:23|370And this is, to an extent, 372|00:26:24|570|00:26:27|610procreative activity. 373|00:26:29|130|00:26:32|760And there's so much discussion now 374|00:26:33|260|00:26:36|680about responsibility in the sexual relations 375|00:26:36|920|00:26:40|280and whether abortion is allowed or not 376|00:26:40|440|00:26:43|640allowed. And it's 377|00:26:44|140|00:26:47|360a... it's a... it's a knotty 378|00:26:47|860|00:26:52|200problem, but it has to be solved. And the 379|00:26:52|700|00:26:53|880adherents to form 380|00:26:55|480|00:26:59|840are pro-life or pro-life informed 381|00:27:00|340|00:27:04|000for a certain reason. But there are probably other, deeper occult reasons 382|00:27:04|500|00:27:09|240why any form that is in process of being created should 383|00:27:09|740|00:27:12|719be preserved rather than destroyed. 384|00:27:13|219|00:27:16|680It has a lot to do with internal advancement, 385|00:27:17|800|00:27:21|080progress on a psychological and spiritual level. 386|00:27:22|120|00:27:25|580So anyway, the stimulation of the sex 387|00:27:26|080|00:27:29|540life of all peoples, you know, in a way, mankind as a whole is entering 388|00:27:30|020|00:27:33|540the last decade of Aquarius through Venus, which in 389|00:27:34|040|00:27:38|260one of its aspects, through Taurus, does stimulate the sex life. 390|00:27:38|660|00:27:43|300And through the stimulation brought about when soul and form are 391|00:27:43|800|00:27:47|460consciously related. //(RI, p.572)// So both creative activity, both on the material 392|00:27:47|960|00:27:51|910plane, through the stimulation of the sex life of all people in 393|00:27:52|410|00:27:55|630the three worlds, through the stimulation 394|00:27:56|430|00:28:00|670brought about //(RI, p.572)// when soul and form are 395|00:28:01|170|00:28:05|150consciously related. So we will become increasingly creative. 396|00:28:05|790|00:28:10|750We will become increasingly creative 397|00:28:11|250|00:28:15|950through the throat center when soul and form 398|00:28:16|350|00:28:19|760are consciously related. 399|00:28:21|520|00:28:26|240It is the third aspect of the generically 400|00:28:26|640|00:28:31|120second ray, soul nature, 401|00:28:32|480|00:28:36|400that is at first active. And, you know, 402|00:28:36|900|00:28:40|400so the third ray is the ray — Tibetan says he prefers 403|00:28:40|900|00:28:44|720the name the ray of creative 404|00:28:44|880|00:28:48|300intelligence. So creativity is there, 405|00:28:48|380|00:28:52|100and increasingly it will be the throat center 406|00:28:52|600|00:28:56|220and communication through the throat center that will 407|00:28:56|720|00:29:00|140reach a very high pitch of development. I seem to have read 408|00:29:00|640|00:29:04|300at some point that later the production of forms for 409|00:29:05|020|00:29:08|780incarnating human beings will be done through the 410|00:29:09|280|00:29:12|260throat center. Maybe the throat centers of the parents. 411|00:29:12|760|00:29:18|070Maybe music will be involved. I mean, you know, it's an amazing thought that 412|00:29:18|570|00:29:22|070we may transcend the normal means of creating vehicles 413|00:29:22|570|00:29:25|910for the incoming souls. It will certainly all be under regulation, 414|00:29:26|410|00:29:29|910and one may well know karmically who the souls are that are being 415|00:29:30|410|00:29:33|750brought in instead of having to discover it sometimes the hard way. 416|00:29:35|750|00:29:38|790Okay, next here. Fanatical. 417|00:29:39|350|00:29:42|860Fanatical. Okay, fanatical aspiration 418|00:29:44|060|00:29:46|540subsequent to initiation in the initiatory process. 419|00:29:47|420|00:29:50|860Between the first initiation of the birth of the Christ 420|00:29:51|360|00:29:55|580and the beginning of the conscious unfoldment of the Christ life 421|00:29:56|080|00:29:59|660and awareness, the life of the initiate 422|00:30:00|160|00:30:03|660has undergone a pronounced reorientation. //(RI, p.575)// I mean, you know, 423|00:30:04|160|00:30:07|920basically we are oriented towards 424|00:30:08|420|00:30:11|600the higher of the pairs of 425|00:30:12|100|00:30:16|720opposites. He is now capable of an equally pronounced and 426|00:30:17|220|00:30:21|280often fanatical adherence to the program of aspiration 427|00:30:21|360|00:30:24|760and of devotion to the good as he sees it at this 428|00:30:25|260|00:30:29|400stage. //(RI, p.576)// But you know, our big question is: "Is the good the 429|00:30:29|900|00:30:33|760good? And is the 430|00:30:33|840|00:30:37|460good the good?" All right, 431|00:30:37|540|00:30:40|980so you know, we talked with a lot of people who 432|00:30:41|480|00:30:45|220have that kind of adherence and they just, for the life of them and oftentimes 433|00:30:45|720|00:30:49|460because of fear, cannot let go of their 434|00:30:50|260|00:30:54|260focused belief or dogma because they feel 435|00:30:54|760|00:30:58|380they would be in danger and would miss 436|00:30:58|880|00:31:02|830the opportunity for eternal salvation. Well, that's 437|00:31:03|330|00:31:06|270what is believed, although maybe less and less, 438|00:31:06|770|00:31:09|470and traveling through a period of agnosticism, 439|00:31:12|190|00:31:16|110that particular attitude will become more subtle 440|00:31:16|610|00:31:18|430and transformable. 441|00:31:19|870|00:31:24|550Okay, so equal, 442|00:31:25|050|00:31:28|670pronounced and often fanatical adherence to the program of aspiration. 443|00:31:28|910|00:31:32|790This is symbolized for us in the story of the twelve-year-old Jesus 444|00:31:33|290|00:31:37|210who was so conscious //(RI, p.576)// that he must be about his father's business //(RI, p.576)// 445|00:31:37|710|00:31:41|450that he defied his parents, //(RI, p.576)// causing them distress and 446|00:31:41|950|00:31:46|090astonished those older than he 447|00:31:47|290|00:31:50|490was by his spiritual poise and knowledge. //(RI, p.576)// 448|00:31:50|990|00:31:54|410After all, you know, if any of this had come through in his life, 449|00:31:54|970|00:31:58|490because number 12 is the number of the Monad in a way related to Pisces, 450|00:31:59|890|00:32:03|010he had been Joshua, 451|00:32:03|330|00:32:07|370the high priest. And maybe we are indeed talking 452|00:32:07|870|00:32:13|410about Jesus and not Christ, as he would 453|00:32:13|910|00:32:17|850be overshadowing and infusing and using the 454|00:32:18|350|00:32:24|130vehicle of Jesus. Of course he could use the vehicle of Jesus because anytime past 455|00:32:24|630|00:32:28|100the second initiation and the unfoldment of the sixth petal, as I understand 456|00:32:28|600|00:32:31|820it, the elder disciple can utilize the vehicle 457|00:32:32|320|00:32:36|180of the younger disciple. But the second initiation has 458|00:32:36|680|00:32:40|060to be taken as it was in the life of Jesus. And of course then 459|00:32:40|560|00:32:44|180the sixth petal has to be taken. Pisces is one of the rulers of that 460|00:32:44|680|00:32:48|140sixth petal, and Neptune is a generic ruler of 461|00:32:48|640|00:32:52|550Pisces where humanity is concerned and one can go out and 462|00:32:53|050|00:32:56|710in, you know, of the vehicle, making it easier for the 463|00:32:57|210|00:32:58|830older disciple to use the vehicle. 464|00:33:00|190|00:33:03|070So, right, this is interesting. 465|00:33:03|870|00:33:06|910It was a rebellion, it was a kind of fanaticism, 466|00:33:08|270|00:33:11|790but it was a... Well, I don't know what we can call it. 467|00:33:13|230|00:33:17|000Can we call it... here, going to use 468|00:33:17|500|00:33:23|480a word, was this a recapitulatory... capitulatory 469|00:33:24|520|00:33:28|480fanaticism? After all, he was already an 470|00:33:28|980|00:33:32|039initiate of the third 471|00:33:32|539|00:33:35|520degree. But you know how it is. You have to kind of reclaim those things 472|00:33:36|020|00:33:39|480as you are growing up and you discover those moments 473|00:33:39|980|00:33:44|450when you sort of reenact something 474|00:33:44|950|00:33:48|850previously achieved. It's an echo, it's reflection. 475|00:33:49|650|00:33:53|370But it works for a while until you get on to the next 476|00:33:53|870|00:33:57|330achievement and leave behind that reflection, that recapitulation 477|00:33:57|970|00:34:00|770of what was already established. 478|00:34:02|370|00:34:05|970So this is interesting. Jesus considered in his fanaticism, 479|00:34:06|470|00:34:10|230of course he was just... say he was a 6 Ray 480|00:34:10|630|00:34:14|110soul. And since he became head 481|00:34:14|610|00:34:19|270of the 6 Ray Ashram, he had to have been also at least monadically 482|00:34:19|770|00:34:23|590a 6 Ray Monad. And you know, in comes the question 483|00:34:25|110|00:34:28|870about how can there be a 6 Ray Monad? But on the monadic plane, 484|00:34:29|190|00:34:32|830all seven monadic types are available. But it's my theory in 485|00:34:33|330|00:34:37|499a way that on the Logoic plane, where you see the three circles representing 486|00:34:37|999|00:34:41|499Father, Son and Holy Ghost, or Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, let's say, 487|00:34:41|999|00:34:43|939or Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma, 488|00:34:45|699|00:34:50|018there the monadic essence or 489|00:34:50|518|00:34:53|459ray is going to be first, second or third only. 490|00:34:54|419|00:34:57|899So that has yet to be proven, but I 491|00:34:58|399|00:35:02|510believe it to be a pretty good guess 492|00:35:03|010|00:35:07|070or speculation. Anyway, he offset the 493|00:35:07|570|00:35:11|270fanaticism by going down 494|00:35:11|350|00:35:15|990to Galilee and being subservient 495|00:35:16|710|00:35:20|470to his parents. //(RI, p.576)// I guess we always have to balance 496|00:35:20|970|00:35:23|830what we do in a, you know, 497|00:35:24|710|00:35:28|700in a way that upsets the balance. And karma 498|00:35:29|200|00:35:33|340is so much about the restoration of balance 499|00:35:33|840|00:35:38|100and harmony. And we assume that the purposeful archetypes 500|00:35:38|660|00:35:42|340of whatever deity it may be has 501|00:35:42|840|00:35:46|340to do with balance and harmony and fittingness within 502|00:35:46|840|00:35:48|260the larger system. 503|00:35:50|020|00:35:53|540So, you know, he tells us, D.K. tells us that one day 504|00:35:54|040|00:35:57|680the episodes in the life of the master Jesus, which he 505|00:35:58|000|00:36:01|360likens to the silver threads, and 506|00:36:01|860|00:36:05|040the events in the life of the Christ, which he likens to the golden threads, 507|00:36:05|280|00:36:08|760will be disentangled. Sometimes when we kind of look at what's 508|00:36:09|260|00:36:11|440presented in the Bible, 509|00:36:12|960|00:36:16|520we just don't know when Jesus is at home 510|00:36:17|020|00:36:20|880and when the Christ has taken over his vehicle and Jesus is standing 511|00:36:21|670|00:36:25|830to the side, you know, probably learning a lot and observing 512|00:36:26|230|00:36:27|910the Christ in action. 513|00:36:30|070|00:36:33|750But one day they will be disentangled. You know, sometimes when I see 514|00:36:34|870|00:36:38|390or hear the story of who 515|00:36:38|890|00:36:41|270is it? The Christ or Jesus entering the temple, 516|00:36:41|750|00:36:45|710seeing the money changers, third aspect, becoming incensed 517|00:36:46|210|00:36:49|640by it as the six ray could, throwing over the 518|00:36:50|140|00:36:54|640tables of the money changers, causing a huge event and confusion 519|00:36:55|120|00:36:59|120to those who are addicted to that third aspect, to the money 520|00:36:59|620|00:37:04|320angle. It sounds a lot more like the fanatical 521|00:37:04|560|00:37:07|880temperament of the initiate Jesus, 522|00:37:08|380|00:37:11|680who, you know, became a great general. And he was a great general already. 523|00:37:12|180|00:37:15|010He had been Joshua, the conqueror of Jericho, 524|00:37:15|650|00:37:19|130and interesting. Subsequently, he entered 525|00:37:19|630|00:37:23|330more the area of religion, let us say, 526|00:37:23|970|00:37:27|770and something more Neptunian than Martian, you know. Maybe that was when 527|00:37:28|270|00:37:33|170he was taking the second degree as Joshua, something like that. More Martian than 528|00:37:33|890|00:37:37|250Neptunian. A great general, we are told, 529|00:37:37|330|00:37:41|180a great general. So certainly not the sweet 530|00:37:41|680|00:37:46|020and suffering and sentimental Jesus of people's 531|00:37:46|520|00:37:49|180hopes and expectations and limited perspective. 532|00:37:50|300|00:37:52|060All right, let's move on. 533|00:37:54|140|00:37:57|500Humanity taking the first initiation and the reappearance 534|00:37:58|060|00:38:00|220of the Christ. From the larger point of view, 535|00:38:01|900|00:38:06|070it is the struggle to clear the world atmosphere, 536|00:38:08|470|00:38:14|070you know, and that's what we call the dissipation 537|00:38:16|070|00:38:19|710of glamour, which will confront 538|00:38:20|210|00:38:24|390humanity after the first initiation, //(RI, p.578)// just as it confronts 539|00:38:24|890|00:38:28|310us, you know, from the first to the second initiation. There's a lot 540|00:38:28|810|00:38:32|150of glamour clearing that has to occur, a lot of getting clear, 541|00:38:32|650|00:38:36|220as they say, which will confront humanity after the 542|00:38:36|720|00:38:39|860first initiation. So close at hand today. Well, if crises, 543|00:38:40|660|00:38:43|940the onset of crises, especially plutonic and Vulcanian, 544|00:38:44|500|00:38:48|100indicate the first initiation, it must be pretty 545|00:38:48|600|00:38:52|020close, because //(RI, p.576)// humanity during the 20th century has been passing through 546|00:38:52|520|00:38:56|020notable crises, and they continue today with 547|00:38:56|520|00:39:00|600the revelation of all that humanity has hidden, and that is under Pluto 548|00:39:01|100|00:39:04|720and the smashing 549|00:39:05|120|00:39:08|720of form and the building of form and smashing 550|00:39:09|220|00:39:12|520of crystallized forms under Vulcan and the forging of the 551|00:39:13|020|00:39:17|600instruments of war. You know, every day there's new weapons that are flying 552|00:39:17|760|00:39:21|840or on the water, or the laser beams are 553|00:39:22|080|00:39:26|030taking planes down. And every 554|00:39:26|530|00:39:30|990day Vulcan is showing its relation to weaponry. 555|00:39:31|790|00:39:35|550And all of this is part of the crisis situation preceding 556|00:39:35|950|00:39:39|310humanity's first initiation. 557|00:39:40|830|00:39:43|390So anyway, for humanity as a whole, 558|00:39:44|350|00:39:48|910clearing the struggle to clear world 559|00:39:49|410|00:39:53|540atmosphere is so important. And it's going to come after 560|00:39:54|040|00:39:57|940humanity's first initiation and //(RI, p.578)// the Christ, let's say, 561|00:39:58|580|00:40:02|700and the Christ will have 562|00:40:03|200|00:40:07|140begun the initial stages 563|00:40:07|640|00:40:11|460of his reappearance because, you know, 564|00:40:11|960|00:40:14|980we learned that when the Christ appears, 565|00:40:15|540|00:40:18|920reappears, it will signal that humanity or that 566|00:40:19|420|00:40:23|400proportion of humanity that can, will have taken the first initiation 567|00:40:23|880|00:40:27|960enough to leaven the whole group. 568|00:40:29|240|00:40:32|440So you will see, therefore, //(RI, p.576)// why the Christ must come at this 569|00:40:32|940|00:40:36|280time. //(RI, p.578)// Time in a broad sense. 570|00:40:36|360|00:40:39|880For he is the one who presides 571|00:40:39|960|00:40:43|680over the first and second initiations. //(RI, p.578)// And maybe that has 572|00:40:44|180|00:40:47|370been the case for all of the bodhisattvas going back for a while. 573|00:40:48|090|00:40:51|450And it is his coming which will 574|00:40:51|950|00:40:55|290indicate that humanity has taken the first initiation. 575|00:40:55|790|00:41:00|250Well, that's... That's the reference, isn't it? And that's what I've been kind of looking 576|00:41:00|410|00:41:00|810for. 577|00:41:03|290|00:41:06|410Yeah. Which will confirm 578|00:41:06|910|00:41:10|490and consolidate the work done and //(RI, p.578)// which will inaugurate 579|00:41:10|990|00:41:15|130the world cycle and period in //(RI, p.578)// which the task of reorganizing the 580|00:41:15|630|00:41:19|810emotional and psychic life of humanity, and I want to say under 581|00:41:20|310|00:41:23|730the Aquarian influence, will take place. 582|00:41:24|210|00:41:28|690This period will release the energy of goodwill, //(RI, p.578)// you know, the great server 583|00:41:29|190|00:41:33|010Aquarius, pouring forth the waters of life and 584|00:41:34|130|00:41:37|010of love and intelligence, 585|00:41:37|730|00:41:41|370and thus automatically bringing about... And thus automatically 586|00:41:41|870|00:41:45|530bring about right human relations, as we can expect very much, 587|00:41:45|930|00:41:48|090as I say, in the era of Venus, 588|00:41:49|130|00:41:53|090the last approximately 720 years or so. And also even 589|00:41:53|590|00:41:56|330in the era of Mercury, the middle decanate, the middle... 590|00:41:58|570|00:42:01|970what is it, 720 years now? The first 591|00:42:02|470|00:42:05|970720 are supposed to be difficult, and we can see that shaping 592|00:42:06|470|00:42:10|300up because the whole initial 593|00:42:10|800|00:42:14|580720 years ruled by Saturn, the planet 594|00:42:15|080|00:42:18|580of difficulty, where you really have to face things and change them. 595|00:42:19|380|00:42:22|700Yeah. The other day I was reading and I was quite amazed 596|00:42:23|200|00:42:27|140to see the way that the middle decanate 597|00:42:27|640|00:42:31|460of Aquarius, ruled by Mercury, had so much 598|00:42:31|960|00:42:35|370love in it, you know, so much harmony that you would expect, 599|00:42:35|870|00:42:39|130but a lot of the love energy. Well, 600|00:42:39|290|00:42:42|810Mercury represents the Son of God in many ways. 601|00:42:44|490|00:42:48|010So we're going to be cleaning up and clearing up our glamour. 602|00:42:48|510|00:42:54|490But maybe the first thing is to somehow 603|00:42:55|610|00:42:58|810learn to clear the etheric planes. I think it has to come first. 604|00:42:59|550|00:43:02|710We're supposed to clear the etheric planes and drive the 605|00:43:03|210|00:43:06|430evil back onto the astral plane, which is 606|00:43:06|930|00:43:10|470its normal home in that place, that vibratory level 607|00:43:10|970|00:43:14|670called Mara Kara. You kind of wonder whether that's not found 608|00:43:15|230|00:43:19|190on the lower levels of the systemic 609|00:43:19|690|00:43:23|150astral plane. There's a lot of that leaking through in the horror 610|00:43:23|650|00:43:28|310movies and the kind of presentation of the ghastly in 611|00:43:28|390|00:43:30|710the film industry. And even in life, 612|00:43:31|910|00:43:35|790some obsessions are occurring that lead 613|00:43:36|290|00:43:39|830to ghastly results. And hell, 614|00:43:39|910|00:43:43|830we might say, is breaking loose upon the dense 615|00:43:44|330|00:43:48|390physical plane due to the sensitivity of certain people 616|00:43:49|030|00:43:52|710to the lower levels of the astral plane. I think in the Book of Revelation 617|00:43:53|600|00:43:57|520kind of talks about the astral plane 618|00:43:58|020|00:44:02|080manifesting physically on the dense planes. 619|00:44:02|400|00:44:05|520And that is happening. 620|00:44:06|080|00:44:09|840And I don't know whether we have seen the full 621|00:44:10|340|00:44:14|080extent of it. I doubt it. I doubt that we've seen the full extent of 622|00:44:14|580|00:44:18|730any kind of challenge which is going to face humanity before it 623|00:44:19|230|00:44:22|290can finally consider itself to be initiated. And before the great 624|00:44:22|790|00:44:26|210Lord, the Christ returns. We're still 625|00:44:26|710|00:44:30|330in... We're still here in the first initiation. 626|00:44:31|130|00:44:34|970And here is the symbolism of birth. 627|00:44:35|470|00:44:38|410Just as the birth of a child... I mean... I mean, we're in rays and 628|00:44:38|910|00:44:42|490the initiations. Excuse me. Yeah, and we're also in the first 629|00:44:42|990|00:44:47|530initiation discussion. Just as the birth of a child is an 630|00:44:48|030|00:44:51|570entrance into light, //(RI, p.664)// maybe there was greater 631|00:44:52|070|00:44:55|730light before, but then a period of darkness in the womb. Just as the birth 632|00:44:56|230|00:44:59|370of the child is an entrance into light, literally speaking, 633|00:45:00|970|00:45:04|410and the beginning of an entirely new way of life, //(RI, p.664)// 634|00:45:05|690|00:45:08|890contrasted with the interim 635|00:45:09|390|00:45:13|380period between incarnations. So, each successive initiation 636|00:45:13|880|00:45:19|260is, in an exactly similar manner, an entrance into light. //(RI, p.664)// 637|00:45:19|420|00:45:24|940And I might just say, in this way, ever greater 638|00:45:25|340|00:45:29|940light, involving the revelation of a different world to 639|00:45:30|440|00:45:33|700the one hitherto known //(RI, p.664)// and the undergoing of 640|00:45:34|200|00:45:39|580entirely new experiences. It's just the fact that we 641|00:45:40|080|00:45:43|580are usually totally blind 642|00:45:43|820|00:45:47|100to the experiences which lie ahead. 643|00:45:48|060|00:45:51|580I mean, you know, we... We talk about mentally, we discuss, 644|00:45:52|619|00:45:56|300but experientially, we are blind. 645|00:45:57|580|00:46:00|780Now, every once in a while, maybe a little hint occurs. 646|00:46:00|940|00:46:04|940You know, lightning lights up the dark night sky, 647|00:46:05|440|00:46:09|060and for a moment you see something you didn't see before, then it shuts 648|00:46:09|560|00:46:13|380down. But for the most part, when the scales fall 649|00:46:13|880|00:46:17|020from the eyes, one didn't even know there was such a 650|00:46:17|520|00:46:21|540possibility. But knowing that there is such a possibility keeps 651|00:46:22|040|00:46:25|860one alert to those intrusions of 652|00:46:26|360|00:46:30|030greater light which do occur now and then. 653|00:46:30|350|00:46:33|910If students would keep this symbology and this definition carefully in 654|00:46:34|410|00:46:37|630mind, they would arrive at a keener concept of the 655|00:46:38|190|00:46:41|470processes which lie ahead of them. //(RI, p.664)// 656|00:46:42|430|00:46:44|510Ever greater light, the growth of light, 657|00:46:45|790|00:46:49|510increasingly intense points of tension are 658|00:46:50|010|00:46:53|390ever going to reveal greater light. So in the present 659|00:46:53|630|00:46:57|380light, we shall see more light. In that //(RI, p.664)// light, we shall see 660|00:46:58|100|00:47:02|100light, greater intensity of 661|00:47:02|980|00:47:05|860revelation, a higher vibratory environment, 662|00:47:08|100|00:47:11|700forms and energy currents which... to which we 663|00:47:12|200|00:47:14|500were opaque before, usually, 664|00:47:15|220|00:47:18|980and at least now, we've become translucent and maybe transparent 665|00:47:19|060|00:47:24|490in time. So a great journey 666|00:47:24|570|00:47:28|290lies ahead of us as it ever has. How many universal journeys 667|00:47:28|790|00:47:31|050have we completed? And I would say, you know, countless, 668|00:47:32|170|00:47:35|850endless. How do we ever get here linearly? 669|00:47:36|350|00:47:39|610It's hard to imagine because of an 670|00:47:40|090|00:47:43|810infinite sequence which can never elapse at 671|00:47:44|310|00:47:48|210any point along the way. But that's a philosophical 672|00:47:48|710|00:47:52|390problem and needs to be solved. And maybe we'll 673|00:47:52|890|00:47:57|550come up with some of what the old Brahmans 674|00:47:57|630|00:48:01|870came up with, the old Vedantis, that basically 675|00:48:03|710|00:48:06|830it really is all the absolute, you know, and everything else 676|00:48:07|330|00:48:10|110really is Mahamaya. 677|00:48:12|590|00:48:15|240All right, don't get me started. All right, 678|00:48:16|520|00:48:20|040the analogy holds good. From the very dawn of history 679|00:48:20|760|00:48:25|400where humanity is //(RI, p.664)// concerned, and always 680|00:48:29|240|00:48:32|680at increasingly 681|00:48:34|360|00:48:38|600intense points of 682|00:48:39|100|00:48:43|000tension comes the revelation of 683|00:48:43|640|00:48:47|420greater light, love and power. 684|00:48:47|740|00:48:51|540Don't want to leave those other two out of it because you 685|00:48:52|040|00:48:55|500couldn't stand too much love. You know, it's love partially 686|00:48:56|000|00:48:59|260that destroys the causal body. 687|00:49:00|380|00:49:03|780Buddhic... Love can't be contained by the causal body 688|00:49:04|280|00:49:08|380and therefore the body has to go. So even, you know, love destroys. 689|00:49:09|900|00:49:14|820And of course power intensity destroys. 690|00:49:15|540|00:49:17|620Maybe light too destroys. 691|00:49:19|060|00:49:23|340You know, when we look at the atomic explosions 692|00:49:23|840|00:49:26|100and the release of light and heat and so forth, 693|00:49:28|020|00:49:31|540there is destruction there. The release of any type of energy in 694|00:49:32|040|00:49:35|540greater measure than the form can bear is of course destructive. 695|00:49:37|340|00:49:39|660Little more then, you know, to make our hour. 696|00:49:41|100|00:49:43|100Oh, 666. Oh goodness, 697|00:49:44|140|00:49:48|140every time I see that. But really it's a signature for the planet Mars. 698|00:49:48|640|00:49:52|220Just the way we are somehow 777, I judge 699|00:49:52|720|00:49:56|500Venus to be 555, Jupiter 222, 700|00:49:57|000|00:49:59|500Saturn 333, Mercury 888. 701|00:50:02|380|00:50:05|360Well, I don't know how far I can go with that, 702|00:50:05|760|00:50:09|480but at least those particular numbers. It depends on what 703|00:50:09|980|00:50:13|680type of numerology we use. Numerology based on 7, on 704|00:50:14|180|00:50:17|4809, you know. Is it old Kabbalistic 705|00:50:17|980|00:50:21|840numerology? Is it a different kind of esoteric numerology as the Tibetan 706|00:50:22|240|00:50:26|440tries to present to us? But we are definitely 777 707|00:50:26|940|00:50:31|090here, even though seven is apparently not a part of the ray 708|00:50:31|170|00:50:34|570makeup of our planetary Logos. But certainly we 709|00:50:35|070|00:50:39|570are a very manifesting planet. When you look around our 710|00:50:40|070|00:50:43|450solar system, you do not see conditions 711|00:50:43|950|00:50:47|490which would allow physical manifestation in the form that we have it. 712|00:50:47|810|00:50:50|610Who knows about etheric manifestation and so forth? 713|00:50:51|110|00:50:54|890That's different. But if physical manifestation 714|00:50:55|390|00:50:59|240is to be judged by the standard of our planet, 715|00:51:00|200|00:51:03|800we don't see the way it can be. But we do see other planets where 716|00:51:04|120|00:51:07|760conditions similar to our own might allow a 717|00:51:08|260|00:51:11|240manifestation similar to our own. 718|00:51:11|560|00:51:16|200And 777, of course, tells about manifestation. 719|00:51:17|080|00:51:20|360The first initiation might be regarded as the goal and 720|00:51:20|860|00:51:25|740the reward of the mystical experience which begins 721|00:51:26|540|00:51:30|060before the first initiation, 722|00:51:30|540|00:51:34|180obviously, just the way the path of discipleship does and 723|00:51:34|680|00:51:37|740certainly the path of probation and aspiration. 724|00:51:38|540|00:51:41|740You know, somewhere in the fifth petal unfoldment, 725|00:51:42|240|00:51:45|980all of this is beginning. And when the fifth petal is fully unfolded, 726|00:51:46|220|00:51:48|780then we get that reward, you know, 727|00:51:49|500|00:51:53|180the goal, maybe, of the first initiation. It is fundamentally 728|00:51:53|660|00:51:57|300this first initiation, not an occult experience in the true sense 729|00:51:57|800|00:52:02|100of the term. For it seldom accurately is 730|00:52:02|600|00:52:06|260accurately realized or consciously prepared for, as is the 731|00:52:06|760|00:52:10|100case of the later initiations. I mean, we sort of 732|00:52:10|600|00:52:14|220stumbled into that. And it's an initiation very much, I suppose, 733|00:52:14|720|00:52:16|380of feeling. And this is why... 734|00:52:19|510|00:52:23|190Well, he says such as the later initiations. 735|00:52:23|690|00:52:27|150Does he include the second? I don't know. And this is why the first two 736|00:52:27|650|00:52:31|270initiations are not considered major initiations. They are initiations 737|00:52:31|510|00:52:35|110of the threshold that we have often heard. But he 738|00:52:35|610|00:52:39|150seems to be here differentiating the way in which the 739|00:52:39|650|00:52:43|750first initiation happens to people without a lot of preparation, in a 740|00:52:44|250|00:52:47|670scientific manner at least. And the ones after 741|00:52:48|170|00:52:51|710that are consciously prepared for, even 742|00:52:52|210|00:52:55|990the second. Okay, well, apparent contradictions 743|00:52:56|150|00:52:59|990in the mystical realization. There is naturally and normally an emphasis 744|00:53:00|630|00:53:04|230upon dualism. There's myself and there's God, you know, 745|00:53:04|710|00:53:07|270there's earth and there's heaven. And these are very 746|00:53:07|830|00:53:12|070considered to be very different areas of livingness. 747|00:53:12|860|00:53:16|180But in the new area of unfoldment, visioned and later 748|00:53:16|680|00:53:18|620to be struggled for and attained, 749|00:53:19|180|00:53:22|700initiation by initiation, unity is achieved 750|00:53:23|200|00:53:26|220and dualism disappears. And this really, 751|00:53:27|100|00:53:31|420really dawns at 752|00:53:31|920|00:53:35|620the third degree. Students should 753|00:53:36|120|00:53:39|540therefore have in mind the following definite occult concept. The mystical 754|00:53:40|040|00:53:43|830way leads to the first initiation. So maybe we 755|00:53:44|330|00:53:47|630will find mystics who are tending that way 756|00:53:48|130|00:53:51|950and have this sense, this growing sense of God. No real 757|00:53:52|450|00:53:56|110occult understanding, nor have they fulfilled everything that the first initiation requires. 758|00:53:56|190|00:53:59|990But they do have a sense that there is that higher power. And they 759|00:54:00|490|00:54:03|830yearn for it, and they long for it. And that is the mystical 760|00:54:04|330|00:54:08|110way. Yearning and longing for that higher power. And maybe 761|00:54:08|770|00:54:11|850to merge with it, so to speak, or to be affected by it or 762|00:54:12|350|00:54:15|890blessed by it. So the mystical way leads 763|00:54:16|390|00:54:19|890to the first initiation, okay? 764|00:54:22|530|00:54:25|090Having achieved its purpose, it is then renounced. 765|00:54:25|490|00:54:29|570And the lighted way of occultism is then followed. More scientific 766|00:54:30|070|00:54:34|330approach, more, you know, let's just say more mental and scientific 767|00:54:34|830|00:54:38|470approach. Under Mercury and Saturn, 768|00:54:38|870|00:54:42|390leading to the lighted areas of the higher states of consciousness. 769|00:54:42|890|00:54:44|710And we might say, you know, 770|00:54:45|830|00:54:49|430deliberately so. 771|00:54:49|750|00:54:51|749Thus, both ways are seen to be essential. 772|00:54:52|390|00:54:56|230Mysticism coming first, but never really abandoned, as Neptune 773|00:54:56|730|00:55:00|550is so important during the process of the threshold initiations 774|00:55:01|050|00:55:05|000and during our entire solar system with its second ray Monad. Even though 775|00:55:05|320|00:55:09|040some occult text tells us that Neptune 776|00:55:09|540|00:55:13|000doesn't belong to our solar system, whatever that means. 777|00:55:13|800|00:55:17|600You can't really find its place in orbit by using Bode's 778|00:55:18|100|00:55:21|640law. You have to use another type of law. Maybe that's a hint. 779|00:55:22|200|00:55:25|880Thus both ways are seen to be essential. The mystical way is for the majority 780|00:55:26|200|00:55:29|880at this time, as we are very much emotionally polarized 781|00:55:30|770|00:55:33|970humanity, and Neptune being very important, 782|00:55:34|050|00:55:37|610Neptune being the mystic. And an increasingly 783|00:55:38|110|00:55:42|130large number of mystics will emerge out of the modern masses of men. 784|00:55:42|610|00:55:43|330There'll be... 785|00:55:45|970|00:55:49|810what can we say... there'll be, 786|00:55:50|310|00:55:55|570you know, let's just say, in a way, feeling their way into divinity. 787|00:55:56|610|00:55:59|780Paralleling this, the occult way is attracting more and 788|00:56:00|280|00:56:04|380more of the world intelligentsia. And remember the 789|00:56:05|900|00:56:09|340Fifth Ray—that's First Ray— 790|00:56:10|220|00:56:14|700Fifth Ray as part of Aquarius. 791|00:56:15|100|00:56:19|100Its experience is not basically religious as the orthodox 792|00:56:19|600|00:56:23|660churchman understands the word. Of course, it can be very exciting and stimulating 793|00:56:24|160|00:56:28|040and have a wonderful energy inflow. But maybe that's not religious 794|00:56:28|540|00:56:32|080as the average churchman understands the term. The way of science is 795|00:56:32|580|00:56:36|400as deeply needed by mankind as the way of religion, for God is found equally 796|00:56:36|900|00:56:40|640in both ways. That's one of those really important 797|00:56:40|720|00:56:44|400sentences. And it's hard to convince the churchman on the Sixth Ray 798|00:56:44|800|00:56:48|320that science is spiritual. What does he say? One of the 799|00:56:48|820|00:56:52|810great victories of the Black Lodge is to convince people 800|00:56:53|310|00:56:56|730that the only way to God or to spirituality is 801|00:56:57|230|00:57:01|330through the Sixth Ray or church or religious approach. That's a great 802|00:57:01|830|00:57:05|130deception, and we have to teach our way out of that one. 803|00:57:05|610|00:57:09|450The scientific way leads the aspirant into the world of energies and forces. 804|00:57:09|950|00:57:12|730You can see how much Master D.K. has done that for us. 805|00:57:12|970|00:57:15|450Which is the true world of occult endeavour. 806|00:57:16|170|00:57:20|380You know, basically study of energies 807|00:57:20|880|00:57:25|020and forces are the province of 808|00:57:25|520|00:57:29|380occultism, revealing the universal 809|00:57:29|880|00:57:33|780mind on whatever levels we may find that, even 810|00:57:34|280|00:57:37|660on the cosmic planes, of course, and the workings of that great intelligence 811|00:57:38|160|00:57:41|180which created the manifested universe. 812|00:57:41|340|00:57:45|030And I call that being... Being is 813|00:57:45|530|00:57:48|790the Universa Logos, of course. It's such an immense being 814|00:57:48|870|00:57:52|990that the galaxies are only very, 815|00:57:53|490|00:57:57|590very minor chakras in that type of being. You'd have to have aggregations of 816|00:57:58|090|00:58:01|430galaxies even to make up one of the seven major chakras. 817|00:58:01|590|00:58:05|910The new man who has come to birth at the first initiation, 818|00:58:06|410|00:58:10|420no longer the old Adam, must and will tread the occult or scientific world way, 819|00:58:11|300|00:58:14|940really knowing what's involved in experiencing 820|00:58:15|440|00:58:19|460these energies and living at a higher point of revelation 821|00:58:19|780|00:58:23|580and a greater depth. Will tread the 822|00:58:24|080|00:58:28|740occult scientific way, which inevitably leads him out of the world of mysticism 823|00:58:29|240|00:58:33|700into scientific and assured perception of God as 824|00:58:34|200|00:58:37|230life or energies. In other words, with science, 825|00:58:37|470|00:58:41|070you always know how you got there. 826|00:58:42|110|00:58:44|590Mysticism is chancy. 827|00:58:46|030|00:58:48|550In other words, it happens. How did it happen? Well, I don't know. 828|00:58:49|050|00:58:52|710It just happened. God came over me, or my higher power spoke, or 829|00:58:53|210|00:58:56|430whatever. I don't know. With science, you do this, you do this, you do this, 830|00:58:56|930|00:59:00|990and there is the result. So we will need a scientific and reliable... 831|00:59:02|500|00:59:06|060"Assured" is the word he uses... approach to God 832|00:59:06|560|00:59:10|260or the higher energies. And that is coming. Now, obviously, if you stick with D.K. 833|00:59:10|760|00:59:14|420for very long, you're on the path of occultism because 834|00:59:14|920|00:59:18|780he's a great expert in explaining the energies which 835|00:59:19|280|00:59:22|100we learn about and combine and try to apply. 836|00:59:22|500|00:59:25|940And it's not just feeling our way into it all. I'll tell you what. 837|00:59:26|440|00:59:29|950I had a recapitulatory phase in my early 20s, I think, and I just 838|00:59:30|450|00:59:33|710read every mystical book I could ever find. I read St. John of the 839|00:59:34|210|00:59:38|630Cross and Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec 840|00:59:39|130|00:59:42|590and maybe some of the Spanish mystics. Oh, boy, must have been 841|00:59:43|090|00:59:46|190on the sixth ray pretty strongly. And I love those books, 842|00:59:46|690|00:59:49|990you know, and Imitation of Christ, the Bookmobile. 843|00:59:50|490|00:59:54|030Used to come by. Live in the country. And those in there, prowling for 844|00:59:54|530|00:59:58|510the mystical books. But then, you know, theosophically discovered DK 845|00:59:59|010|01:00:02|110and, well, one thing led to another. So. All right, friends, 846|01:00:02|270|01:00:05|470we have a little bit more to go, but this is 847|01:00:05|970|01:00:10|230the end of First Initiation 848|01:00:10|730|01:00:15|150Compilation video commentary. First Initiation commentary webinar — 849|01:00:15|650|01:00:18|750something webinar. It'll tell me in a minute. 850|01:00:19|650|01:00:23|890First Initiation Compilation Video Commentary. 851|01:00:24|390|01:00:27|690That's it. And where 852|01:00:28|190|01:00:31|690are we? And this is number 853|01:00:32|190|01:00:36|130six. And today is the 30th of June. June is 854|01:00:37|570|01:00:41|490giving way to July. Very beautiful 855|01:00:41|990|01:00:45|170up here in the summer in Scandinavia, let me tell you. 856|01:00:46|110|01:00:50|590And this is the beginning of — First Initiation 857|01:00:50|750|01:00:54|510Compilation video commentary. And we'll go on to number seven. 858|01:00:55|790|01:00:58|270And I don't know what date — maybe soon, maybe not. 859|01:00:58|590|01:01:00|510Anyway, I appreciate your presence. 860|01:01:01|950|01:01:05|550There's so much to learn and to apply. 861|01:01:05|630|01:01:08|310I would never just say there's so much to learn, because the old saying, 862|01:01:08|810|01:01:12|510even a donkey, which I sometimes feel like, can carry a library 863|01:01:13|010|01:01:16|650on his back. But okay, we apply 864|01:01:17|150|01:01:20|690as much as we can to learn. And if 865|01:01:21|190|01:01:24|890we can't apply it, maybe it's part of a good analogy relating to 866|01:01:25|390|01:01:29|010things we can apply. So many blessings. Lots of love. See you 867|01:01:29|570|01:01:33|410before long. Study hard. Go to YouTube or 868|01:01:33|910|01:01:37|330go to Makara and pick these things up, 869|01:01:37|830|01:01:41|130so you can think in the light of the soul as much 870|01:01:41|630|01:01:42|130as possible. Bye.