1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360Okay, hi everybody. We are now on Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 36. 2|00:00:11|440|00:00:16|480We had a little trouble today with failing servers. 3|00:00:16|640|00:00:22|580There have been some storms here in Arizona, and I got knocked off the internet twice. 4|00:00:23|000|00:00:28|580So that produced one 50-minute webinar and another 20 minutes. 5|00:00:28|580|00:00:32|500But the last one worked pretty well. 6|00:00:33|040|00:00:40|920We were considering a number of tasks which the Tibetan intends to undertake in this book. 7|00:00:41|280|00:00:47|640And the first task has to do with comparison of the five and seven rays and the centers 8|00:00:48|220|00:00:50|280with which they are related. 9|00:00:50|280|00:01:00|840And the second task has to do with the energy of the three major constellations and the 10|00:01:01|720|00:01:07|500zodiacal constellations through which they may pour, focusing then in three streams through 11|00:01:07|500|00:01:09|380Leo, Pisces and Capricorn. 12|00:01:09|380|00:01:20|380And I offered some speculations as to the major constellations through which the zodiacal 13|00:01:20|380|00:01:23|520constellations through which the three might pour. 14|00:01:25|020|00:01:28|320But this, of course, remains to be seen, at least on page 50. 15|00:01:28|900|00:01:35|100D.K. has given us the tabulation showing us that the Great Bear pours through Aries and 16|00:01:35|100|00:01:35|420Libra. 17|00:01:35|420|00:01:38|900I added Aquarius speculatively, then they all focus through Leo. 18|00:01:39|600|00:01:42|560He tells us that Sirius pours through Cancer and Capricorn. 19|00:01:43|140|00:01:47|520I added Virgo speculatively, and they all pour through Pisces. 20|00:01:47|840|00:01:52|100And when it comes to the Pleiades, D.K. gives us Gemini and Sagittarius. 21|00:01:52|760|00:02:01|500I added Taurus—a strong connection with the Pleiades—because when you look through the 22|00:02:01|500|00:02:06|380constellation Taurus, you do see the Pleiades, at least at this time in cyclic history, and they 23|00:02:06|380|00:02:08|240pour finally through Capricorn. 24|00:02:08|420|00:02:17|540So this is quite an abstruse aspect of the work, and we'll see where it can end, what 25|00:02:17|540|00:02:18|260it can lead to. 26|00:02:18|440|00:02:25|640At least D.K. was very definite in discussing the importance in the present day and age 27|00:02:25|640|00:02:35|120of the Leo-Pisces-Capricorn triangle with all its association with various planets and 28|00:02:35|120|00:02:38|960planetary centers and the centers of the human being. 29|00:02:39|560|00:02:44|080That six-fold chart will appear in various places as we study the book. 30|00:02:45|900|00:02:47|220And here is some of that. 31|00:02:48|500|00:02:53|400Leo through Saturn through the head center and base of the spine; Pisces through Uranus 32|00:02:53|400|00:03:00|320through the heart center and solar plexus; and the Pleiades through Capricorn and then 33|00:03:00|320|00:03:04|300Mercury as well as the Ajna and the throat center. 34|00:03:07|380|00:03:14|560We talked about the density of the sacral center and why it is a center even in a way 35|00:03:14|560|00:03:20|800more densely related than the base of the spine center, which is related to the etheric 36|00:03:20|800|00:03:21|480body. 37|00:03:22|370|00:03:30|540Check in the vicinity of Cosmic Fire 169 and 170 for the assignment to the various planes 38|00:03:31|360|00:03:33|160of the major centers. 39|00:03:34|060|00:03:36|340And now we did task number three. 40|00:03:36|580|00:03:41|380We discussed it and went through the tabulation concerning the cardinal, fixed and mutable 41|00:03:41|380|00:03:46|680cross and analyzed that fairly closely. 42|00:03:46|680|00:03:55|380These are some of D.K.'s major triplicities that he is discussing so often in his books, 43|00:03:56|000|00:04:01|300and we lined them up with the cardinal, fixed and mutable crosses. 44|00:04:02|620|00:04:04|000Now I think we are ready. 45|00:04:05|880|00:04:12|460Yes, we got as far as page 80, and now task number four that D.K. is going to undertake 46|00:04:12|460|00:04:17|740with us in this large section of the book up to approximately page 404. 47|00:04:17|920|00:04:18|840I hope we get that far. 48|00:04:20|030|00:04:27|380Elaborate the subject of the interplay between the three groups of ruling planets as given 49|00:04:27|380|00:04:28|460in tabulation six. 50|00:04:28|700|00:04:32|900So that's the exoteric, esoteric and hierarchical rulers. 51|00:04:33|940|00:04:42|440These and the totality of their effects are the agencies through which the purposes of 52|00:04:42|440|00:04:43|420God are wrought out. 53|00:04:43|480|00:04:44|600Now what do we mean by God? 54|00:04:45|640|00:04:52|700We don't mean the absolute deity of the entire cosmos, but we do mean God the planetary Logos. 55|00:04:53|380|00:04:56|520We do mean God the solar Logos especially. 56|00:04:57|540|00:05:01|420The solar Logos is the one in whom we live and move and have our being. 57|00:05:02|080|00:05:03|060There is only one God. 58|00:05:03|120|00:05:08|400Of course there is only one God, but all the other entities are emanations of that one 59|00:05:08|400|00:05:18|620God and are therefore emanatively and pantheistically aspects of that one God who is the universal 60|00:05:18|620|00:05:20|520Logos by another name. 61|00:05:22|340|00:05:28|580So God the solar Logos is working out his purposes through the planetary Logos, and we 62|00:05:28|580|00:05:33|820certainly have to figure out what the purpose is for our earth—a center of redemption, I 63|00:05:33|820|00:05:36|360think in relation to the previous solar system. 64|00:05:36|360|00:05:47|520All right, so he tells us that before proceeding with the more technical aspects of our subject, 1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360I would like to elaborate this theme of the zodiac, its story and symbolism from the more 66|00:05:56|000|00:06:04|880philosophical and spiritual angle, giving you the subjective picture of man's progress as 67|00:06:04|880|00:06:10|260he passes on the sweep of the sun along the path of life. 68|00:06:11|100|00:06:19|160Heracles the sun God, we the sun God, we the solar identity sweeping along the path of 69|00:06:19|160|00:06:25|980life and improving our mechanism and expanding our consciousness. 70|00:06:27|700|00:06:33|860We may be experiencing once again degraded audio; let us hope not. 71|00:06:36|280|00:06:42|820All right, the sweep of the sun along the path of life. Well, there is certainly the 72|00:06:42|820|00:06:53|880sweep of the sun during the year, there is the sweep of the sun along the 2,160 year 73|00:06:53|880|00:07:05|540path, and finally the sun passes through all the signs at the rate of one degree per 72 74|00:07:05|540|00:07:08|220years and takes approximately 25,000 years. 75|00:07:09|140|00:07:18|140D.K. rounds it off as 25,000 years, but I think the closer figure is 25,920 if the number 76|00:07:18|140|00:07:30|2202,160 is accurate, and you will recognize that 2,160 as one half of the important number 77|00:07:32|100|00:07:33|0004,320. 78|00:07:35|920|00:07:43|170All right, the sweep of the sun along the path of life. This is a technical phrase and 79|00:07:43|170|00:07:52|110refers to the activity of a sun, a planet, a hierarchy, or a man after there has been 80|00:07:52|110|00:07:59|510a moment of crisis, because you know the path of life may not simply be the path of evolution. 81|00:08:00|770|00:08:09|230It may be the path of the life aspect following a moment of crisis and reorientation. 82|00:08:09|230|00:08:18|390A moment of crisis resulting in a period of polarization, a fixing of the consciousness 83|00:08:18|390|00:08:27|910at a certain requisite level of vibration, leading inevitably to a fresh surge and sweep 84|00:08:27|910|00:08:28|610onwards. 85|00:08:28|770|00:08:35|110I'm sure we have all experienced the difference between fatigue, which may overcome us from 86|00:08:35|110|00:08:42|650time to time, and that fresh surge and sweep onwards sounds very much like the leading 87|00:08:42|650|00:08:45|330Aries impulse. 88|00:08:47|150|00:08:58|630These three words: crisis, polarization, and sweep. Crisis, tension, emergence is another 89|00:08:58|630|00:09:00|110way of dealing here. 90|00:09:00|110|00:09:09|230We have a triplicity called crisis, tension, and emergence, and when we do emerge, we sweep 91|00:09:09|230|00:09:12|870along because the obstacles are overcome. 92|00:09:15|030|00:09:21|170So crisis and polarization requires holding a point of tension at the requisite level 93|00:09:21|170|00:09:25|870of vibration and then the sweep forward. 94|00:09:25|870|00:09:40|730This is our history. It's not just one continuous, unobstructed movement towards the goal; there 95|00:09:40|730|00:09:46|890are always cross currents to deal with, the overcoming of those cross currents, the fixing 96|00:09:46|890|00:09:54|050or polarization of our consciousness at a new altitude or level of vibration, and then 97|00:09:54|050|00:10:01|530activity once that level of vibration or polarization or point of tension is stabilized. 98|00:10:02|690|00:10:10|450These three words, then—crisis, polarization, and sweep—are the basis of cyclic law and 99|00:10:10|450|00:10:13|330govern the evolutionary process. 100|00:10:13|330|00:10:22|270This we can ask: can we connect these with the three crosses? Can we connect these with 101|00:10:22|270|00:10:29|010the first three rays? Can we call crisis related to the first ray, polarization to the second, 102|00:10:29|010|00:10:34|290and sweep the activity of the third? Is that one way to look at it? 103|00:10:34|550|00:10:38|470The triplicities can be reconciled. 104|00:10:39|090|00:10:47|270From the point of view of humanity, the passage of the sun around the zodiac is apparently 105|00:10:47|750|00:10:55|630a slow, laborious process taking approximately—on the plane of time, inferring there is a 106|00:10:55|630|00:11:00|830plane of timelessness—twenty-five thousand years approximately. 107|00:11:00|830|00:11:08|150The great Platonic ages are given as twenty-five thousand years; maybe at times they are more, 108|00:11:08|370|00:11:09|470maybe at times they are less. 109|00:11:09|650|00:11:14|850We seem to be living in a period when the great Platonic age is more specifically about 110|00:11:15|690|00:11:17|070twenty-five, nine, twenty. 111|00:11:20|630|00:11:25|070So D.K. is choosing an average figure, a very laborious process. 112|00:11:25|310|00:11:33|990The passage of the sun around the zodiac of constellations, but also in a way the zodiac 113|00:11:33|990|00:11:44|650of signs, is a slow process—one degree every seventy-two years, a slow and laborious process. 114|00:11:45|410|00:11:49|830Where were any one of us twenty-five thousand years ago? 115|00:11:49|930|00:11:53|930If we accept the idea of reincarnation, we certainly were somewhere. 116|00:11:54|190|00:11:58|830What sort of civilization or non-civilization were we in? 117|00:11:59|010|00:11:59|950What were we learning? 118|00:12:00|650|00:12:04|650What was our degree of elevation compared with what it is now? 119|00:12:05|870|00:12:08|710Twenty-five thousand years is a long time. 120|00:12:09|110|00:12:10|990Much can be on the plane of time. 121|00:12:11|570|00:12:20|470Much can be accomplished during such a period if we realize that in approximately four thousand 122|00:12:20|470|00:12:26|470years the Master Jesus moved from being a second degree initiate to a sixth degree chohan, 123|00:12:27|350|00:12:32|390just four thousand years. Let us say twenty-five thousand years is a long time. 124|00:12:33|190|00:12:40|250Perhaps if we could look back at that period we would find ourselves very different from 125|00:12:40|250|00:12:41|170how we are now. 126|00:12:42|570|00:12:49|430From the angle of inner vision and not on the plane of time, it is a sweep around the 127|00:12:49|430|00:12:53|690path of life, taking only a moment of time. 128|00:12:54|650|00:13:05|450The reason only a moment of time is because any definite period of time is as an infinitesimal 129|00:13:05|450|00:13:08|770when compared with eternal duration. 130|00:13:09|530|00:13:19|410And the consciousness of the great beings, the Masters and chohans, has taken into itself 131|00:13:19|410|00:13:22|350the reality of eternal duration. 132|00:13:23|030|00:13:24|770They feel eternal duration. 133|00:13:24|990|00:13:26|910They live in eternal duration. 134|00:13:27|150|00:13:31|990Thus even though we have a twenty-five thousand year period, it is just the blink of an eye. 135|00:13:32|630|00:13:39|070As is, paradoxically, any vast period of definite time. 136|00:13:39|710|00:13:48|070When you compare some definite span to endless duration, all definite spans reduce to an 137|00:13:48|070|00:13:53|570infinitesimal, or like I like to call it, an infinitesimal instant. 138|00:13:54|510|00:14:03|190Because infinitesimal, well mathematically it can be defined, but it becomes less and 139|00:14:03|190|00:14:04|810less and less and never becomes nothing. 140|00:14:06|990|00:14:13|950And obliterating past, present and future in the radiant glory of the work accomplished. 141|00:14:13|950|00:14:23|390So, there is the sense of living in the eternal now. 142|00:14:23|850|00:14:30|350The sense of living in the eternal now and rejoicing in the radiance of that eternal 143|00:14:30|350|00:14:31|230now. 144|00:14:31|410|00:14:37|590Because after all, it does no good to become impatient about eternal duration. 145|00:14:37|590|00:14:40|690We always have been. 146|00:14:41|690|00:14:43|110We always will be. 147|00:14:43|810|00:14:46|710We can never be absent. 148|00:14:47|370|00:14:49|970We must always be present. 149|00:14:50|710|00:14:58|170When I say we, I don't mean the personal we, I mean the one principle of being, which 150|00:14:58|170|00:15:03|730we are, and the principle of be-ness, which we even more fundamentally are, though that 151|00:15:03|730|00:15:05|930cannot be defined. 152|00:15:06|790|00:15:13|070So, it takes only a moment of time from the inner vision which somehow comprehends eternity 153|00:15:13|070|00:15:20|090and you get lost in the joy, the creative joy of doing whatever the task is, knowing 154|00:15:20|090|00:15:22|890that you have always had and will have forever. 155|00:15:23|130|00:15:32|910Now that's a very different state of mind from the harried, worried, time-pressed state 156|00:15:32|910|00:15:37|690of mind in which so many of us in the western world 157|00:15:37|690|00:15:38|370live. 158|00:15:39|290|00:15:43|390I certainly include my time-pressed self, or not self, really. 159|00:15:44|170|00:15:50|350Okay, now we are dealing with the crosses and the signs. 160|00:15:52|470|00:15:59|450Pages eighty-one to ninety and we will follow man from sign to sign backwards, by the way, 161|00:15:59|450|00:16:07|930on the regressive wheel, the clockwise wheel, as he in travail and pain, and travail, travail, 162|00:16:09|110|00:16:16|270it means work, and to a degree it means movement and travel, in travail and pain forges Vulcan 163|00:16:16|270|00:16:23|070the equipment and develops painfully, since he's on the fourth path of pain, develops 164|00:16:23|070|00:16:28|970painfully the mechanism which will enable him to arrive at a major moment of crisis 165|00:16:29|830|00:16:39|630in his cyclic life, wherein he begins to free himself from the path of the great illusion, 166|00:16:40|830|00:16:46|230which is the path of dense form, in a certain respect, along which he has traveled for aeons 167|00:16:46|230|00:16:54|150from Aries to Taurus via Pisces, and reversing himself will begin to travel the path of light 168|00:16:54|150|00:17:02|330from Aries to Pisces via Taurus, and will completely appropriate and utilize the energies 169|00:17:02|330|00:17:06|990of the signs of the zodiac and the planets in a different way, which is oriented towards 170|00:17:06|990|00:17:13|310his spiritual nature and not towards more deeply embedding himself in form. 171|00:17:14|810|00:17:20|950That moment of crisis, this is the reversal of the wheel, of which there are perhaps a 172|00:17:20|950|00:17:30|710few reversing moments, but that first reversal I think occurs somewhere in the process of 173|00:17:30|710|00:17:38|250the fifth petal of the egoic lotus, when a man begins to awaken to the higher of the 174|00:17:38|250|00:17:46|370pairs of opposites found within his consciousness, and that is the higher self, higher power, 175|00:17:46|510|00:17:51|890whatever we want to call it. Man at that period would not call it by the esoteric names that 176|00:17:51|890|00:17:52|670we call it. 177|00:17:53|150|00:17:58|090But anyway, there is a reorientation of the consciousness and a change in the direction 178|00:17:58|090|00:18:04|830of desire, and now there is a dual desire, not just towards the lower unity of the personality, 179|00:18:04|830|00:18:16|350but upwards towards an unknown, unspecified sensed higher presence, which is our higher 180|00:18:16|350|00:18:16|790self. 181|00:18:17|990|00:18:25|830So we are going to take man from sign to sign as he travels in pain. 182|00:18:26|170|00:18:32|350I am sure we all are understanding that about our lives, and when we get to see the big 183|00:18:32|350|00:18:39|830movie, you know, with all of our lives strung point to point to point, I hope we have the 184|00:18:39|830|00:18:49|650objectivity to learn from it and increase our wisdom and to not become overly involved. 185|00:18:49|870|00:18:55|570I think by the time we are allowed to see the movie, as it were, we will have that kind 186|00:18:55|570|00:19:02|570of objectivity as if we are looking almost at someone else pass through all of these 187|00:19:02|570|00:19:09|630experiences, but I am sure it will be a shock and I am sure it will be a great learning 188|00:19:09|630|00:19:10|110experience. 189|00:19:10|550|00:19:16|290I am reminded of the book, a poem, a great poem called "The Light of Asia" by Sir Edwin 190|00:19:16|290|00:19:22|390Arnold who was an eminent theosophical author in the days of the early Theosophical Society, 191|00:19:22|390|00:19:28|390and it talked about the Buddha under the Bodhi tree and how he saw all his lives like 192|00:19:28|390|00:19:36|350pearls on a string, and I think Arnold deals with some of what those lives were, even life 193|00:19:36|350|00:19:47|050as a tiger. Maybe that's symbolic, I don't know, but even some pre-human lives were revealed. 194|00:19:47|050|00:19:53|850Anyway, we don't have that kind of objectivity upon our personal selves at this time. 195|00:19:54|250|00:19:59|530Maybe there are moments when we have returned to our soul consciousness between lives and 196|00:19:59|530|00:20:04|710we can see a little bit backwards and a little bit ahead, but probably only so far as it 197|00:20:04|710|00:20:07|090would be useful for us to see. 198|00:20:07|850|00:20:12|730But one day all will be revealed, all will come into the light. 199|00:20:12|730|00:20:17|510The memory of nature is strong, it is complete, it is exact. 200|00:20:18|430|00:20:26|490Nothing will escape our view and I am sure it will be a great learning experience. 201|00:20:27|890|00:20:38|870Okay, now this changing experience is expressed for us most beautifully in the sixth section 202|00:20:38|870|00:20:39|850of the Old Commentary. 203|00:20:39|850|00:20:44|750There's a hint. I wonder how many sections the Old Commentary has, I wonder where the 204|00:20:44|750|00:20:46|010Old Commentary is kept. 205|00:20:47|370|00:20:52|370Sometimes it seems like it is a book like a normal book, though worn very thin. 206|00:20:52|910|00:20:59|710At other times it seems that it could be in a non-physical library. 207|00:21:01|980|00:21:08|050Certainly it's older than any of the present religions that we have, who these religions 208|00:21:08|050|00:21:16|610considering themselves vaunted religions have to consider the kinds of esoteric knowledge 209|00:21:16|610|00:21:21|210there were in Atlantis and even in Lemuria. 210|00:21:21|450|00:21:25|570Of course we believe in those things, but so many people do not. 211|00:21:26|510|00:21:30|490They think it's the merest fancy and why do we believe in those things? 212|00:21:30|770|00:21:37|210Well, maybe having seen enough and experienced enough it just seems to us the most reasonable, 213|00:21:37|210|00:21:44|810most logical, and we tend to trust those who speak of those things, the teachers of the 214|00:21:44|810|00:21:46|830Trans-Himalayan wisdom. 215|00:21:48|010|00:21:54|390From the Old Commentary, "The cross of many changes," A.A.B. puts in here the mutable cross, 216|00:21:55|210|00:22:04|410"continues with its whirling like the swastika carrying crucified thereon the form of a man 217|00:22:05|190|00:22:08|470in whom is found the seed of all illusion." 218|00:22:08|630|00:22:19|070That seed of all illusion in a way is a seed of all illusion, is ahamkara, or that sense 219|00:22:19|070|00:22:24|770of limited, separated, distinct, and permanent I-ness. 220|00:22:25|670|00:22:29|950Well maybe there's nothing wrong with a permanent sense of I-ness, but it's wrong if that permanent 221|00:22:29|950|00:22:36|570sense of I-ness is associated with certain vehicles and states which one considers also to 222|00:22:36|570|00:22:47|210be permanent because all of that which the observer observes is our aggregations, a Buddhist 223|00:22:47|210|00:22:55|830word which I have used many times in the past and which was reinforced in my mind visiting 224|00:22:55|830|00:22:57|830the Kalachakra recently. 225|00:22:58|310|00:23:07|770"The cross of many changes continues with its whirling," whirling down into a matter, whirling 226|00:23:07|770|00:23:15|570in the direction of the swastika, not the rightward pointing swastika but the leftward 227|00:23:15|570|00:23:23|730pointing swastika, "crucified thereon the form of a man." 228|00:23:24|490|00:23:29|830The mutable cross is all about a form in whom the seed is found, the seed of all illusions, 229|00:23:30|610|00:23:37|110that sense of permanent I-ness and the sense that that I is the center of all things 230|00:23:37|110|00:23:44|990and thus distorts perception so that the perceptions become illusory. 231|00:23:45|170|00:23:51|870When that I in Leo shrinks to the merest point and then disappears, the relinquished 232|00:23:51|870|00:23:59|030point it is called, then perhaps it is possible to see in a way that is not illusory, though 233|00:23:59|030|00:24:05|190in a certain sense the entire universe is a great illusion, though a necessary one when 234|00:24:05|190|00:24:07|330compared with absoluteness. 235|00:24:12|490|00:24:17|950But from the cross whereon he has been slain, as we are all crucified on one or other of 236|00:24:17|950|00:24:22|130the crosses, but from the cross whereon he has been slain, though he knew it not, 237|00:24:22|210|00:24:29|310because he is not yet conscious, certainly not very self-conscious, the man climbs down 238|00:24:29|890|00:24:35|890and feels his way, feels rather than thinks his way, because he is a feeling, astro-depolarized 239|00:24:36|670|00:24:45|770sentient being, and feels his way with pain and many tears on to another cross, and this 240|00:24:45|770|00:24:51|990cross too does not offer complete relief, a cross of blinding light, of fiery pain, 241|00:24:52|130|00:24:54|650of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. 242|00:24:54|650|00:25:02|350I am so fond of quoting that particular part, because it relates to the four fixed signs 243|00:25:02|350|00:25:07|970of the zodiac: the blinding light of Taurus, the fiery pain of Leo, the bitter woe of Scorpio, 244|00:25:08|050|00:25:13|570and yet the cross of liberation, Aquarius, the sign of liberation. 245|00:25:13|570|00:25:20|890It is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel, the solar angel, 246|00:25:21|570|00:25:24|130the angel of the presence. 247|00:25:24|490|00:25:32|950So we see that our entire path of human evolution has many tears and much pain, and although 248|00:25:32|950|00:25:40|350let's just say that the tears become more purposeful, and the pain more purposeful upon 249|00:25:40|350|00:25:45|830the fixed cross. Upon the mutable cross we don't know why it's happening to us, "What's 250|00:25:45|830|00:25:54|150this all about? Why is this happening to me?" You know, there is a confusion about the life 251|00:25:54|150|00:25:58|690processes and the man is bewildered. He doesn't know where he came from, he doesn't know where 252|00:25:58|690|00:26:07|130he's going, but on the fixed cross, and thereby chooses some pretty wild destinies, like the 253|00:26:07|130|00:26:15|930destiny of an eternal heaven or paradise after a single life, or an origin made by God this 254|00:26:15|930|00:26:22|770time, this soul, new and freshly made by God for one life upon this earth. 255|00:26:22|850|00:26:28|930Well, those who have entered the ageless wisdom and have been thinking in more philosophical 256|00:26:28|930|00:26:38|950and expansive terms realize how limited that way of thinking is, but it's very hard to 257|00:26:38|950|00:26:44|550convince anybody of their own limitations unless they themselves are in the process 258|00:26:44|550|00:26:51|250of outgrowing those limitations through their own frustration concerning them. 259|00:26:52|110|00:26:57|250There arises that mantra which is so important: "Surely there must be more, there must be more 260|00:26:57|250|00:27:06|850than this," and that opens the door for the great search for which, in relation to which, 261|00:27:06|990|00:27:09|030the ageless wisdom can be so important. 262|00:27:09|890|00:27:15|550And here's the third stanza: "Behind the cross another cross appears, but that he may not 263|00:27:15|550|00:27:16|090reach. 264|00:27:16|870|00:27:22|770The angel guards the way, the angel of the presence, until the bull has rent and torn 265|00:27:23|310|00:27:24|070the man. 266|00:27:24|830|00:27:34|690Okay, so there the power of Taurus must in a way destroy the personality satisfaction 267|00:27:34|690|00:27:36|330and personality desire. 268|00:27:37|050|00:27:43|290And then the light shines forth, until the serpent red has wrestled with the man and 269|00:27:43|290|00:27:44|190brought him to his knees." 270|00:27:44|370|00:27:48|690We jump over to Scorpio, the other side of the fixed cross, opposite Taurus. 271|00:27:48|690|00:27:55|210The serpent of illusion, the dweller of the threshold, the hydra, has wrestled with the 272|00:27:55|210|00:27:57|470man and brought him to his knees. 273|00:27:57|470|00:28:03|210As we know in the story of Scorpio, it is from one's knees that the hydra of illusion 274|00:28:03|210|00:28:11|190can be lifted into the clarifying Buddhic air from which all illusion is seen for what 275|00:28:11|190|00:28:17|810it is, and then the lifting up into the light of the whole personality, and the man becomes 276|00:28:17|810|00:28:24|210Buddhically conscious. "Until the lion, the king of beasts, has been tamed, and the secret 277|00:28:24|210|00:28:25|770of the sphinx revealed." 278|00:28:26|230|00:28:34|890And the secret of the sphinx from one tradition is the nature of man himself. 279|00:28:34|890|00:28:36|250Who are you, you know? 280|00:28:37|250|00:28:47|090"What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs 281|00:28:47|090|00:28:47|770in the evening?" 282|00:28:48|230|00:28:54|750It is man, you know: the little child crawling, the upright erect man, two legs, and then 283|00:28:54|750|00:28:58|390with the help of a cane, the older individual. 284|00:28:59|230|00:28:59|950It is man. 285|00:29:00|050|00:29:01|950That is one of the secrets of the sphinx. 286|00:29:02|410|00:29:05|130And was it Theseus? 287|00:29:06|490|00:29:14|250Who was it that was able to answer the riddle of the sphinx, I think with a little help? 288|00:29:14|910|00:29:21|070And then the revelation of the inner light, the inner light of true identity, the light 289|00:29:21|070|00:29:25|790upon the light of the soul and the light of the monad, which we can also associate with 290|00:29:25|790|00:29:26|050Leo. 291|00:29:26|470|00:29:33|050Until the man has lifted up his waterpot, obviously the waterbearer Aquarius enjoined 292|00:29:33|050|00:29:38|730the ranks of those who are the waterbearers, and then the flowing of the stream of life, 293|00:29:38|730|00:29:47|850a greater stream, will fill his waterpot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its 294|00:29:47|850|00:29:56|530source and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light, hid by the 295|00:29:56|530|00:29:57|150final cross. 296|00:29:57|190|00:30:02|810So when we finish our task in Aquarius, which may be at the fourth or even fifth initiation, 297|00:30:02|810|00:30:10|290we are prepared to mount through the sacrifice of all and the sharing of all the final or 298|00:30:10|290|00:30:11|310cardinal cross. 299|00:30:12|170|00:30:19|490Then from the cross of man the initiate finds his way—the cross of man, which I assumed 300|00:30:19|490|00:30:31|530was one of the earlier crosses—passes the angel of the Presence, penetrating the golden 301|00:30:31|530|00:30:36|890veil, as the Christ did, rending the veil so that the light can go through, mounts the 302|00:30:36|890|00:30:43|750major cross, and passes into day, the final day of true spirit illumination. 303|00:30:44|090|00:30:51|130The wheel for him stands still, which means time no longer exerts its spell upon him. 304|00:30:51|310|00:30:59|150The sun and stars for him fade out, perhaps in the oneness of all life, and a great light 305|00:30:59|150|00:31:00|110is seen. 306|00:31:00|110|00:31:06|810Now tell you what, I am going to read this thing without my own interference, my own 307|00:31:06|810|00:31:13|850commentary, which is simply for the purposes of study, but is not good for the purposes 308|00:31:13|850|00:31:18|510of getting the feel of the great stanzas written here. 309|00:31:19|060|00:31:26|010The cross of many changes continues with its whirling, carrying crucified thereon the form 310|00:31:26|010|00:31:30|710of a man in whom is found the seed of all illusion. 1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360But from the cross whereon he has been slain, in though he knew it not, the man climbs down 312|00:31:38|250|00:31:45|950and feels his way, with pain and many tears, on to another cross—a cross of blinding 313|00:31:45|950|00:31:51|070light, of fiery pain, of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. 314|00:31:51|630|00:31:57|890It is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel. 315|00:32:00|590|00:32:06|750Behind the cross another cross appears, but that he may not reach. The angel guards the 316|00:32:06|750|00:32:14|130way until the bull has rent and torn the man, and then the light shines forth; until the 317|00:32:14|130|00:32:20|250serpent red has wrestled with the man and brought him to his knees, and then the lifting 318|00:32:20|250|00:32:26|550up into the light; until the lion has been tamed, the secret of the sphinx revealed, 319|00:32:26|830|00:32:34|730and then the revelation of the inner light; until the man has lifted up his water-pot 320|00:32:34|730|00:32:40|610and joined the ranks of those who are the water-bearers, and then the flowing of the 321|00:32:40|610|00:32:46|970stream of life will fill his water-pot and drain the rancid pool and cleanse its source, 322|00:32:47|310|00:32:53|810and thus reveal the hidden way which leads unto the innermost light hid by the final 323|00:32:53|810|00:32:54|430cross. 1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360Then from the cross of man the initiate finds his way, passes the angel and leaves behind 325|00:33:02|010|00:33:09|570the inner torn veil, mounts the major cross, and passes into day, the final day. The wheel 326|00:33:09|570|00:33:16|950for him stands still, the sun and stars for him fade out, a great light is seen as the 327|00:33:16|970|00:33:17|430land. 328|00:33:18|970|00:33:28|850The endless journey is indicated. He will tread the way of higher evolution as a liberated 329|00:33:28|850|00:33:37|130monad. The whole story of man is told there and in various stanzas of the old commentary. 330|00:33:37|710|00:33:46|950You think about what people believe today and the poverty of what they believe, and 331|00:33:48|250|00:33:54|410it's incredible, invaluable, not only to be preserved but to be promoted and to be protected. 332|00:33:58|370|00:34:07|710Okay, I always love that. That stanza, by the way, the final day I see the greatest 333|00:34:07|710|00:34:16|790light, the overcoming of time, there's something I wanted to say. Yes, we must kill the king 334|00:34:16|790|00:34:23|870of beasts in Leo before the inner light can break forth. While we are still in that beast 335|00:34:24|330|00:34:31|250stage of the aggressive lower ego, there's no way the inner light can shine forth. Also, 336|00:34:31|250|00:34:37|370when you think about how the servers on the path of magnetic work serve from the cosmic 337|00:34:37|370|00:34:46|770astral plane sending streams of pure cosmic astral energy into our astral plane, there's 338|00:34:46|770|00:34:52|490a very rancid pool and cleansing its source because so much of the negative emotion is 339|00:34:52|490|00:35:01|750drawn off and replaced by purer energy. So, you know, read that path of magnetic work 340|00:35:01|750|00:35:09|510and how those particular masters work with the rose light and how they work upon our 341|00:35:09|510|00:35:16|190systemic astral plane from the cosmic astral plane. It is a great act of service, and I 342|00:35:16|190|00:35:20|330find the suggestion here, the similarity here. 343|00:35:26|330|00:35:34|250The three crosses on Mount Golgotha were biblical symbols of these three astrological crosses: 344|00:35:35|190|00:35:38|730the common or mutable cross, the fixed cross, and the cardinal cross. Maybe he'll talk 345|00:35:38|730|00:35:43|570about the three thieves. No, I don't think he does, so I'll just mention it. It gets 346|00:35:43|570|00:35:49|330mentioned later in the book. The cardinal cross is where the Lord the Christ is crucified. 347|00:35:50|570|00:35:59|130The mutable cross is where the unrepentant thief is crucified, and he has no wisdom or 348|00:35:59|130|00:36:04|890understanding to listen to the Christ. But the repentant thief is crucified on the fixed 349|00:36:04|890|00:36:13|550cross. He has reoriented his life, and he believes what Jesus says. And Jesus says that 350|00:36:13|570|00:36:22|070even today you will be in heaven with me before the Father—words to that effect. So, it's 351|00:36:22|070|00:36:31|350really amazing how the great symbols do show up during these incredible, decisive moments 352|00:36:31|350|00:36:38|130in human history. I mean, who would look at those three crosses and think of the three 353|00:36:38|130|00:36:44|230crosses in the heavens and what they stand for? You know, the great liberated being is 354|00:36:44|230|00:36:53|210being liberated onto the cardinal cross. Jesus is passing from the no man's land, from 355|00:36:53|210|00:36:58|550the neither of the fixed cardinal cross onto the cardinal cross after the fourth initiation, 356|00:36:58|550|00:37:04|550or certainly by the fifth initiation, mounting the cardinal cross. On the mutable cross, 357|00:37:04|550|00:37:09|610it is the cross not only of many changes but of great ignorance. And so how in the world 358|00:37:09|610|00:37:16|110would one recognize the Christ truly when still blinded by the elemental life and personality 359|00:37:16|730|00:37:21|030of the unrepentant thief? But when you are starting to live as a soul and you realize 360|00:37:21|030|00:37:27|270there is more and you've reoriented yourself, you've reversed the wheel and you are moving 361|00:37:27|270|00:37:32|850towards a spiritual life, then you can recognize the Christ. Then you can listen to Jesus. 362|00:37:32|850|00:37:44|870Then you can believe. So those are the symbols. Okay, I don't know if you heard that, but someone 363|00:37:44|870|00:38:02|730was trying to call me. I can't interrupt the webinar when that happens. Okay, page 83. 364|00:38:03|590|00:38:12|850I would ask you to remember that though I shall trace the progress of the man from sign 365|00:38:12|850|00:38:21|530to sign around the zodiacal way, yet there is not necessarily this ordered sequence of 366|00:38:21|530|00:38:27|910travel or the smooth passage from sign to sign as I may portray it. This is somehow 367|00:38:27|910|00:38:35|270so important. You know, we've asked ourselves: how does a man travel when he is born from 368|00:38:35|270|00:38:43|130life to life? Is he born in the next sign in an orderly way? Does he always die in the 369|00:38:43|130|00:38:50|110month of sign which is placed after the sign in which he is born? And D.K. tells us no, it 370|00:38:50|110|00:38:57|890is not necessarily so. But the word "necessarily," of course, gives you pause—not necessarily 371|00:38:58|630|00:39:09|970so. It may be possible that there is a sequential travel. There may be times when there is sequential 372|00:39:09|970|00:39:17|090travel, let us say, on the reverse wheel from Aries to Gemini to Aries to Taurus to Gemini 373|00:39:17|090|00:39:22|950to Cancer and so forth, or backwards in a sequential manner from Aries to Pisces to Aquarius to 374|00:39:22|950|00:39:29|550Capricorn and so forth, but not necessarily. But this is a good heuristic method; it's 375|00:39:29|550|00:39:35|610a method of teaching, and it's a method which gives us the sense of continuity even though 376|00:39:35|610|00:39:44|430in real life it may not occur in that way. All souls come into incarnation in the sign 377|00:39:44|430|00:39:52|050Cancer. By that I mean that the very first human incarnation was always taken in this 378|00:39:52|050|00:40:00|830sign, which has been recognized down the ages as the doorway into life of those who must 379|00:40:00|830|00:40:07|990know death, just as the constellation Capricorn is ever regarded as another door and is called 380|00:40:07|990|00:40:20|070esoterically the doorway into life of those who know not death. Now the question about 381|00:40:20|070|00:40:28|050incarnation in Cancer has to be examined because later he talks about that in quite 382|00:40:28|050|00:40:34|870a different way. All souls come into incarnation in the sign Cancer. I think there is a group 383|00:40:34|870|00:40:40|330incarnation, in a way, in the sign Cancer. By this I mean—and he does seem quite specific— 384|00:40:41|070|00:40:48|030that the very first human incarnation was always taken in this sign. Now what I'd like 385|00:40:48|030|00:41:00|250to do is to find another reference which shows us something of this nature, but which may 386|00:41:00|250|00:41:05|030have a slightly different interpretation. So I'll pause just for a minute to do that. 387|00:41:09|110|00:41:18|010Here is what I want to say: I found the reference, and it says Cancer is a human being who has 388|00:41:19|530|00:41:28|370a very different view. Gemini and Sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets 389|00:41:28|370|00:41:35|270because Earth is more closely related to Venus than to any other planet. Thus, you have the 390|00:41:35|270|00:41:47|870six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form entered into in Cancer. As 391|00:41:47|870|00:41:55|650this I mean the birth of the human kingdom, and in Pisces as far as the individual is 392|00:41:55|650|00:42:05|730concerned from Esoteric Astrology 131. So we have to compare this, this bondage of form, 393|00:42:06|450|00:42:12|630with the statement that was just made about the very first human incarnation is always 394|00:42:12|630|00:42:22|530taken in this sign. We will put this in here and maybe change the color a little bit, and 395|00:42:22|530|00:42:31|810possibly the size, because it seems the very first human incarnation is taken here. But 396|00:42:31|810|00:42:36|670we're talking about entering into form as far as the mass of humanity is concerned. 397|00:42:37|190|00:42:43|270So perhaps there is something called the incarnation of the human family in Cancer, 398|00:42:43|810|00:42:54|850but the term "individual" is used, and we have an interesting mantra connected with Pisces: 399|00:42:55|070|00:43:02|340"Go forth into matter." Now that sounds very much like the first individual incarnation, 400|00:43:02|920|00:43:13|740so I think we cannot come to a definite conclusion here but must compare these different statements. 401|00:43:15|360|00:43:22|180That's why it's so important to well read the books, you know, because something maybe 402|00:43:22|180|00:43:29|100said that's very definite, but it will be modified slightly later on in the same book or in a 403|00:43:29|100|00:43:33|600different book, and you'll get a different perspective upon the same idea. Suffice it 404|00:43:33|600|00:43:41|960to say either in Cancer and Pisces, in which Neptune is important, Neptune and the moon 405|00:43:41|960|00:43:49|140are important in both, but certainly Neptune found in relation to both, we have going down 406|00:43:49|140|00:43:55|720into the water, into the ocean, into the ocean of matter: "Go forth into matter." Both of these 407|00:43:55|720|00:44:02|760signs are connected with the ocean of matter, and the individual, the new individual, becomes 408|00:44:02|760|00:44:09|420the fish swimming in the ocean of matter but swimming blindly and unconsciously. Anyway, 409|00:44:09|420|00:44:15|960these are amazing words when you consider Cancer as the doorway. I often mistakenly 410|00:44:15|960|00:44:23|540say "gate," but it's "doorway"—the doorway into life, the life of the physical plane of those 411|00:44:23|540|00:44:30|420who must know death. They must know death of compromised consciousness. They had a great 412|00:44:30|420|00:44:37|660consciousness on the monadic level, but as an individualized, limited, strictured being, 413|00:44:38|480|00:44:47|080that type of widened consciousness dies, and they learn the death of consciousness within 414|00:44:48|100|00:44:55|600oppressive form. Just as the constellation Capricorn is ever regarded as another door 415|00:44:55|600|00:45:03|080and is called esoterically the doorway into life of those who know not death. So we are 416|00:45:03|080|00:45:13|160reminded here, excuse me, of one of the names associated with the type of will connected 417|00:45:13|160|00:45:22|880with Capricorn, and it's called "the will that conquers death." So we, through the process 418|00:45:22|880|00:45:31|700of initiation, are elevated into the Arupa worlds where we cannot be suffocated or killed 419|00:45:31|700|00:45:39|420by form, and we come in touch with the first aspect of divinity through Capricorn, the 420|00:45:39|420|00:45:47|440first aspect. Notice that in Cancer the first aspect of divinity is not found, only the 421|00:45:47|440|00:45:53|620third ray and the seventh ray. But in Capricorn the seventh ray is found, the third ray is 422|00:45:53|620|00:46:02|900found, and the first ray. So Capricorn introduces us through the process of initiation gradually 423|00:46:02|900|00:46:10|600into contact with the life force, the life aspect. As the ages slip away, the man passes 424|00:46:10|600|00:46:16|980into and out of all the signs. We have experience in all the signs; in our thousands of lives 425|00:46:16|980|00:46:25|200we have experience in all the signs. The particular sign being determined by the nature of the 426|00:46:25|200|00:46:32|880personality ray, which changes—itself changes, as you know, from life to life—changes in 427|00:46:32|900|00:46:37|580life. Well, normally you would think that the personality ray would be determined by the 428|00:46:37|580|00:46:46|360sign, so this is one of those paradoxical statements. Well, you know, and the question is we don't 429|00:46:46|360|00:46:52|220have an emergent personality ray during all of those lives, but maybe we have, I don't 430|00:46:52|220|00:46:57|160know, something called a latent personality ray. I've thought about this a long time, you 431|00:46:57|160|00:47:05|420know. Before the personality ray emerges, do we have a personality ray, or has suddenly 432|00:47:05|420|00:47:12|480D.K. jumped quite a few incarnations until indeed we do have an emergent personality ray? We're 433|00:47:12|480|00:47:26|560born in all the signs, but can the sign be determined by the personality ray? This is 434|00:47:26|560|00:47:34|540different ruling planets which express different rays, and every sign has its own emitted or 435|00:47:34|540|00:47:41|060transmitted ray. The constellation or the sign itself has that, but we can have a personality 436|00:47:41|060|00:47:49|220ray which does not accord at all with the sign in which we were born or even the planets 437|00:47:49|660|00:47:56|560which express through that sign. For instance, suppose I'm a seventh ray personality. I'm 438|00:47:56|560|00:48:06|260going to be born in all the signs, probably. And well, the question is: will I be born in 439|00:48:06|260|00:48:12|100all the signs when I have a particular personality ray, or does my ray have to change in order 440|00:48:12|100|00:48:17|900for me to be born in all the signs? Anyway, if I'm a seventh ray personality, it would 441|00:48:17|900|00:48:25|760be very hard to be born in Gemini if I'm looking to Gemini to condition that ray, because through 442|00:48:25|760|00:48:33|440Gemini it passes no seventh ray, and its rulers, which are Mercury, Venus, and the Earth, do 443|00:48:33|440|00:48:38|840not have the seventh ray. So this is—you know, I want to make this very big—it's one of 444|00:48:38|840|00:48:47|880those "ponder on this" statements. It's a very enigmatic statement. The first statement of 445|00:48:47|900|00:48:52|480the particular sign in which we were born being determined by the nature of the personality 446|00:48:52|480|00:48:58|260ray, which itself changes. So if my soul, the solar angel, decides that I must have a personality 447|00:48:58|260|00:49:05|060ray of a certain kind, and it will not choose ray one or ray two for a personality ray because 448|00:49:05|060|00:49:12|180it cannot until I am on the path, because man himself will not have a first or second ray 449|00:49:12|180|00:49:18|080of personality until he is at least an aspirant. This is one of the quotes from D.K. I can find 450|00:49:18|080|00:49:25|100it for you, but it was in—it was not in the book so much, but it was in another set of 451|00:49:25|100|00:49:33|180papers that I think was given to the Arcane School. So in any case, if I have a particular 452|00:49:33|180|00:49:42|160type of personality ray—say the fourth ray—am I limited in that incarnation to the fourth 453|00:49:42|180|00:49:52|620ray, to a sign, to a birth in a sign which either through the sign or through the associated 454|00:49:52|620|00:49:59|680planets can reinforce or correlate with that ray? Let's just say I have a fourth ray personality, 455|00:49:59|680|00:50:05|640which sometimes I think I do. So anyway, this fourth ray personality—well, okay, it could 456|00:50:05|640|00:50:13|400be born in Gemini. It could be born in Virgo—you know, Mercury is ruling there. It could 457|00:50:13|400|00:50:19|820be born in Aries because esoterically Mercury is ruling there. Possibly hierarchically, it 458|00:50:19|820|00:50:25|060could be born in Scorpio because Mercury hierarchically rules there, so that's four signs in which 459|00:50:25|060|00:50:35|300it could be born. Now it could also be born in Taurus because Taurus has the fourth ray 460|00:50:35|300|00:50:40|540emitting or transmitting, and again Scorpio, of course, because it's the major fourth ray 461|00:50:40|540|00:50:47|180sign. It could be born in Sagittarius. So what have I done here? I've looked at how many 462|00:50:47|180|00:51:05|280signs—six or seven—in which a fourth ray personality could be born, either because the rays are 463|00:51:05|280|00:51:14|040different. Some of D.K.'s students were—let's say they were a sixth ray personality. They 464|00:51:14|040|00:51:21|070were born in Gemini, a sixth ray personality. Nothing from Gemini is on the sixth ray, so 465|00:51:22|320|00:51:28|800not the planets and not the sign itself. Okay, if you want to say, "Well, the submonadic ray 466|00:51:28|800|00:51:34|720of Venus is the sixth ray," okay, but that's a bit far-fetched, isn't it? Venus, the esoteric 467|00:51:34|720|00:51:41|240ruler, has a submonadic ray of the sixth—that's too far to go. So as the ages slip away, the 468|00:51:41|240|00:51:48|080man passes into and out of all the signs, the particular sign being determined by the nature 469|00:51:48|920|00:51:59|980of the personality ray. Now here's another point: nature may not mean number. Okay, so 470|00:51:59|980|00:52:11|720here's nature, and I want to put in here: nature may not mean number. So we may be talking 471|00:52:11|720|00:52:19|320instead about the quality or condition of the personality radiation which determines 472|00:52:20|620|00:52:29|960the sign which is next needed by that personality radiation presence, nature, etc. It may not 473|00:52:29|980|00:52:40|160mean the number. You know, so often people have looked at a statement that D.K. makes that 474|00:52:40|160|00:52:47|440the sun determines the nature of the personality ray. I'm not quoting it exactly correctly— 475|00:52:47|440|00:52:52|020I'd have to look it up—but anyway, they've always looked for the number. In other words, 476|00:52:52|020|00:52:58|320the sun sign must somehow give the clue to the personality ray, but is it the clue to 477|00:52:58|320|00:53:04|960the number of the personality ray, or is the personality ray considered in a way the personality 478|00:53:04|960|00:53:10|260radiation, the quality of the personality, that which emanates from the personality—not necessarily 479|00:53:10|260|00:53:20|400the number of the ray? So all I can do here is point out the difficulty and the fact that 480|00:53:20|400|00:53:28|300it was probably unwise to jump to conclusions. In those signs, the sun signs are not necessarily— 481|00:53:28|320|00:53:34|320whichever signs he enters, and he will enter all of them. You know, this seems to say, "Well, 482|00:53:34|320|00:53:41|120he can't be in certain signs unless he has a certain number of personality rays." In other 483|00:53:41|120|00:53:45|640words, the 6th ray personality can only be born in certain signs, but I tend to think 484|00:53:46|740|00:53:55|500ultimately that is not true, because in D.K.'s group: 1st ray Gemini personality, 6th ray 485|00:53:55|500|00:54:00|600Gemini personality, 7th ray Gemini personality—no problem with the 2nd ray Gemini personality, 486|00:54:00|600|00:54:07|660and as far as 4 and 5 goes, that would be predictable. But there were 1, 6 and 7 personality rays 487|00:54:07|660|00:54:14|840born in Gemini with the sun in Gemini. So perhaps it would not be wise for us to say 488|00:54:15|340|00:54:24|460that if you have a certain personality ray, you cannot be born in all the signs, and perhaps 489|00:54:24|460|00:54:30|780we have to look for another meaning of the word "personality ray," especially when we are 490|00:54:30|780|00:54:38|680looking at the idea of the nature of the personality ray—the nature of it, not the number perhaps. 491|00:54:38|860|00:54:45|420I know I'm repeating myself. OK, I'm just doing that in order to reinforce the idea in my 492|00:54:45|420|00:54:51|340own mind so I can remember it, so I can discuss it with some people who might want to go deeper 493|00:54:51|340|00:54:59|320into it. In those signs he learns the needed lessons, broadens his horizon—i.e., sees more, 494|00:54:59|880|00:55:05|080integrates his personality, albeit gradually, brings all the energies together into harmony, 495|00:55:05|580|00:55:11|200begins to sense the conditioning soul, the higher of the pairs of opposites, and thus 496|00:55:11|200|00:55:20|380discovers his essential duality. Eventually, and especially when the middle set of petals 497|00:55:20|380|00:55:27|240is being organized and is unfolding, he senses—begins to sense—the higher of the pairs of 498|00:55:27|240|00:55:32|720opposites. By the time he reaches the sacrifice petals, he has experience with the higher of 499|00:55:32|720|00:55:38|220the pairs of opposites and knows something of its nature—of the higher of the pairs of 500|00:55:38|220|00:55:43|300opposites. When he is upon the path of discipleship—and here I include the path of initiation 501|00:55:44|380|00:55:49|700because if you really look at it, every initiate is the disciple of a certain kind; they are 502|00:55:49|700|00:55:55|540learning something, therefore they are disciplining themselves so that they can achieve that something 503|00:55:55|540|00:56:03|860they are learning, and the master is the disciple, and even the Christ is the disciple. When 504|00:56:03|860|00:56:08|740he is on the path of discipleship—and here I include the path of initiation—an occult rumor 505|00:56:10|240|00:56:14|940(he doesn't tell us whether it's true or not, right? It's hearsay in a way), an occult rumor 506|00:56:14|940|00:56:22|240says that he then becomes conditioned by the tireless watcher—not just the silent 507|00:56:22|240|00:56:29|260watcher, but the tireless watcher (a very interesting phrase)—and is subjected during the final stages 508|00:56:29|260|00:56:37|180of the path to exactly twelve incarnations, passing one in each of the twelve signs. The 509|00:56:37|180|00:56:44|920question is: are they in order, and is an occult rumor accurate, and are there twelve incarnations 510|00:56:48|400|00:56:53|700passing one in each of the twelve signs? The word "in" usually means you are born in a sign 511|00:56:54|230|00:56:59|060with the sun in a sign. If you are born under a sign, it's the rising sign you are born 512|00:56:59|060|00:57:05|680under. So will you have twelve incarnations with twelve different sun signs? D.K. leaves 513|00:57:05|680|00:57:14|340it in the air, and probably we have one day to learn how to understand it, probably through 514|00:57:16|120|00:57:21|640psychical research and the memory of past lives and the ability to read the record and 515|00:57:21|640|00:57:30|240so forth, as the masters can do. In these twelve signs, surely we all do have to prove ourselves 516|00:57:30|240|00:57:34|980in the twelve signs. The question is: do we have to have exactly twelve incarnations, or 517|00:57:34|980|00:57:44|320can we double up, as it were? Can we prove ourselves in an incarnation along the way 518|00:57:44|340|00:57:51|540our sun sign and rising sign line, and maybe a stellium line? Can we prove ourselves on 519|00:57:53|460|00:57:58|860performing major tasks if our rising sign and sun sign are different, and can we accomplish 520|00:57:59|540|00:58:08|440two of these proofs in one incarnation, or more? These are possibilities, but D.K. does 521|00:58:08|440|00:58:19|520not dogmatize about this; he just says "an occult rumor says," and he's not affirming it 522|00:58:19|520|00:58:23|620necessarily. But I'm sure we will have to prove ourselves in the twelve signs, and in 523|00:58:23|620|00:58:30|440them he has to prove himself, attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations. 524|00:58:31|020|00:58:38|420Note how he has just changed and interchanged the word "signs" and "constellations"—in the twelve 525|00:58:38|440|00:58:45|720signs, part of the blinding technique. Attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations 526|00:58:45|720|00:58:53|540of the fixed cross, in particular: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. From point to point, 1|00:00:01|820|00:00:10|360stage to stage, and finally cross to cross, he fights for his spiritual life. In all the 528|00:59:01|720|00:59:07|900twelve houses and all the twelve constellations—although, you know, we're doing a multiple task 529|00:59:07|900|00:59:13|120in any one life because we have many houses going and a number of constellations or signs 530|00:59:13|120|00:59:20|840going—subjected to countless combinations of forces and energies: ray, planetary, zodiacal. 531|00:59:20|840|00:59:29|440and cosmic, until he is made anew, becomes the new man, the new man in Christ, is sensitive 532|00:59:29|440|00:59:35|640to the entire range of spiritual vibrations in our solar system and has achieved that 533|00:59:35|640|00:59:42|080detachment which will enable him to escape from the wheel of rebirth, and this he does 534|00:59:42|900|00:59:50|840at the fourth initiation. He has accomplished this by mounting the three crosses: the cross 535|00:59:50|840|00:59:56|020of the personality of the changing form, the cross of the disciple or the eternal soul 536|00:59:56|020|01:00:03|800fixed cross, and the cross of the spirit. Eventually he is freed to be crucified upon that cross 537|01:00:03|800|01:00:10|900of freedom, the cardinal cross. This really means that he has passed through three momentous 538|01:00:10|900|01:00:19|420crises in his life cycle, and D.K. will now describe those momentous crises, but I am at the end. 539|01:00:19|580|01:00:31|160One hour has passed. So we are on page eighty-four and we have finished... Which one have 540|01:00:31|160|01:00:42|160we finished? Is this thirty-five or is this thirty... No, this is thirty-six, so this is 541|01:00:42|160|01:00:52|920Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-six and we have gone as far as page eighty-four, and 542|01:00:52|920|01:01:01|140we will check where we began on Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-five and we will see what 543|01:01:01|160|01:01:14|620that was... Oh, thirty-five... Let's try thirty-six, okay. Well, I'll put that in there when 544|01:01:14|620|01:01:22|940the time is right; I'll figure it out. So we will now do The Great Invocation together, 545|01:01:24|120|01:01:30|380yes, and that is right there, Great Invocation. 546|01:01:39|860|01:01:47|160From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds 547|01:01:47|160|01:01:56|300of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let 548|01:01:56|300|01:02:06|520love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center 549|01:02:06|520|01:02:13|160where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose 550|01:02:13|160|01:02:24|300which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let the 551|01:02:24|300|01:02:35|200plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light 552|01:02:35|200|01:02:40|680and love and power restore the plan on earth. 553|01:02:52|320|01:02:54|280Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, 554|01:03:03|200|01:03:16|180Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, Om, 555|01:03:16|180|01:03:24|280Om. Okay, friends, that will be it for this one, and we will resume with Esoteric Astrology 556|01:03:24|300|01:03:32|620Adventure number thirty-seven, continuing the completion of the introductory remarks. Until 557|01:03:32|620|01:03:34|020then, we'll see you.