1|00:00:03|420|00:00:12|020Hello everybody, we are beginning our esoteric astrology adventure number 50, and last time 2|00:00:12|020|00:00:18|640we plunged into this question of the decanates of Aries, and I pulled out some of my material 3|00:00:18|640|00:00:30|180which is meant to give some insight into this difficult and somewhat ambiguous, presently 4|00:00:30|180|00:00:41|920ambiguous area as D.K. refers to it—a fluid area in which we are not completely certain, 5|00:00:42|280|00:00:46|780at least students such as we are, cannot be completely certain about the effect of the 6|00:00:46|780|00:00:48|040first and third decanates. 7|00:00:48|240|00:00:52|780We can be more certain about the rulership and effect of the second decanate. 8|00:00:53|580|00:01:03|040We really only dealt with one paragraph, and we discussed the idea that the Tibetan talked 9|00:01:03|040|00:01:11|800about Alan Leo assigning Mars, Sun, and Venus to the three decanates, even though Sepharial 10|00:01:11|800|00:01:14|940normally would be the one who assigned Venus to the third decanate. 11|00:01:14|940|00:01:22|800The Tibetan continued: “He touched the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the 12|00:01:22|800|00:01:33|400wheel,” and that's a hint right there that when we speak of the reversing wheel, which 13|00:01:33|400|00:01:47|900really begins here at the zero to ten area—this is where the wheel goes backwards, as 14|00:01:47|900|00:01:52|840it were, in the clockwise direction building up the personality, and here reverses. 15|00:01:53|580|00:01:59|140So here it is, at this point of reversal where the personality begins to aspire towards the 16|00:01:59|140|00:02:05|500reversal—here it is that Venus should be found, whether it's Leo that discussed that 17|00:02:05|500|00:02:10|860(and I'd certainly be interested in seeing the reference on that) or whether predictably 18|00:02:10|860|00:02:13|800Sepharial touched on that. 19|00:02:14|900|00:02:21|440“He touched on the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the wheel which brings in other 20|00:02:21|440|00:02:27|260energies and influences when he substituted Venus for Jupiter.” 21|00:02:27|260|00:02:35|900So apparently Alan Leo did this, and Sepharial should have done that instead of going out 22|00:02:35|900|00:02:42|660of order, as seems to be the case, and using Mars, the Sun, and Jupiter. 23|00:02:42|840|00:02:50|260It should have been Mars, the Sun, and Venus if Sepharial stuck to his normal system where 24|00:02:50|260|00:03:02|820each successive ruler has a reduced time—for a reduced period—for orbiting the Earth geocentrically. 25|00:03:05|000|00:03:11|740Okay, so Venus is somehow substituted for Jupiter. This does not mean that Jupiter should 26|00:03:11|740|00:03:20|640not be present, because D.K. actually gives Jupiter as the ruler of the first decanate 27|00:03:20|640|00:03:23|100on the wheel of consciousness. 28|00:03:25|900|00:03:31|380In other words, D.K. tells us here that when the man reorients himself and mounts the fixed 29|00:03:31|380|00:03:33|820cross, he comes under the influence of Jupiter, Sun, and Mars. 30|00:03:34|560|00:03:39|820So indeed Jupiter is present in the first decanate, even though one would not predict 31|00:03:39|820|00:03:43|020it from the usual Alan Leo method of operating. 32|00:03:43|320|00:03:46|100There Mars would go first, and Jupiter would go third. 33|00:03:47|020|00:03:48|920Let's see what else D.K. says about this. 34|00:03:49|580|00:03:55|300“Mind and heart must be coordinated and brought into play when the great reversal takes place.” 35|00:03:56|100|00:04:06|180So here he seems to be differentiating in a manner that places Venus in the place of 36|00:04:06|180|00:04:11|700mind, as mind, and Jupiter as heart. 37|00:04:12|460|00:04:19|520And indeed, when we study page 517 of Esoteric Astrology, we see that Jupiter for the disciples 38|00:04:19|520|00:04:20|700is given to the heart center. 39|00:04:21|580|00:04:28|920Now Venus is assigned as the heart center of the solar Logos—at least that's one of 40|00:04:28|920|00:04:35|040the planets that contends for that position, whether now or in the future. 41|00:04:37|120|00:04:39|300So Venus has a heart connection as well. 42|00:04:39|660|00:04:44|980Anyway, mind and heart seem to be brought together, and when we think of the three major planets 43|00:04:45|920|00:04:53|500at this time which express the three major aspects, we have Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. 44|00:04:53|500|00:05:03|040We do then have the will—Saturn, the will; Jupiter, the heart; and Venus, the mind. 45|00:05:04|640|00:05:05|880So that seems to fit. 46|00:05:06|540|00:05:15|760So the great reversal is always found where the decanates are operating in this manner. 47|00:05:16|760|00:05:21|940We're moving backwards through the signs from 30 to 20, 20 to 10, 10 to 0. 48|00:05:21|940|00:05:26|580There's no reversal yet; everything's going clockwise rather than counterclockwise. 49|00:05:26|740|00:05:33|000Then comes the reversal of the counterclockwise movement, and both Jupiter and Venus should 50|00:05:33|000|00:05:33|940be found. 51|00:05:35|040|00:05:41|700The Tibetan gives Jupiter but hints at the importance of Venus. There is a reorientation 52|00:05:41|700|00:05:47|880towards the soul, which is on the plane of mind, which is Venus, and the expansion of consciousness 53|00:05:47|880|00:05:51|700of the causal body and of the heart, which is Jupiter. 54|00:05:52|520|00:06:01|700There are just so many things to put together here, and it is not easy to ascertain exactly 55|00:06:02|420|00:06:04|840what planet should be where. 56|00:06:05|760|00:06:16|880Evidence seems to indicate that Alan Leo's normal method, which is an ancient Indian method, 57|00:06:17|640|00:06:25|760whereby the triplicities are assigned: Aries of Aries, Aries of Leo, Aries of Sagittarius 58|00:06:25|760|00:06:33|260with their normal rulers, do seem to work in terms of the constitution of man and his appearance. 59|00:06:33|260|00:06:38|680But the Tibetan is speaking about some subtler dynamics, and we must attend to them. 60|00:06:39|560|00:06:48|440Now, moving on in a way from the Deccanates, we have seen that Aries is the sign of beginnings. 61|00:06:49|620|00:06:51|300Let me just do this here. 62|00:06:52|040|00:06:59|600The beginning of the creative process which is coming under the influence of the soul, 63|00:07:00|680|00:07:05|720the soul of solar angels undertaking a great creative process in the three lower worlds. 64|00:07:05|720|00:07:12|880The beginning of the creative process, the first step of the soul, the microcosm of the 65|00:07:12|880|00:07:19|420already initiated macrocosm. The planetary Logos is certainly initiated, and in a larger 66|00:07:19|420|00:07:25|260sense the solar Logos is the macrocosm, the microcosm of the already initiated macrocosm 67|00:07:25|260|00:07:30|100towards incarnation. So Aries rules the first step of the soul towards incarnation, the 68|00:07:30|100|00:07:36|260beginning of the recurrent and constant cycles of experience. So every time there is a return 69|00:07:36|260|00:07:40|640to incarnation there is an Aries impulse, and the beginning of the period wherein the 70|00:07:40|640|00:07:46|420soul changes its direction. Notice the beginning of the period in which that reorientation 71|00:07:46|420|00:07:54|720takes place. This is the… whoopsie… take… okay… where the soul changes its direction. 72|00:07:54|940|00:08:03|280This is the crisis of reorientation, changes its purpose and method, and finally enters 73|00:08:03|280|00:08:08|800upon that definitely defined process which we call spiritual regeneration and initiation. 74|00:08:09|040|00:08:16|760So Aries, as the Tibetan is recapitulating, represents beginnings—all these various beginnings, 75|00:08:16|900|00:08:22|600beginnings of the creative process, maybe even the creative process of man as he works 76|00:08:22|600|00:08:23|720in the three worlds. 77|00:08:24|190|00:08:30|120The first step of the soul towards incarnation, the Aries impulse, the form again besought, 78|00:08:30|460|00:08:39|060the beginning of the recurring and constant cycles of experience. Those are incarnational 79|00:08:39|860|00:08:46|500cycles, but I suppose once you are already incarnated and there are new cycles of experience, 80|00:08:47|100|00:08:51|180Aries is found at the beginning of them, and the beginning of the period wherein the soul 81|00:08:51|180|00:08:52|260changes its direction. 82|00:08:52|260|00:08:57|520You know we know that this is called the reversal of the wheel, or the beginning of the reversal 83|00:08:57|520|00:09:03|060of the wheel. We know that Uranus is always involved in the reversal of the wheel, and 84|00:09:03|060|00:09:10|220Uranus has a very important role to play with Aries, so that Aries ruling the crisis of 85|00:09:10|220|00:09:18|140reorientation relates to its Uranian rulership, even though Uranus has other meanings in Aries 86|00:09:18|140|00:09:22|580such as the bringing the soul spirit onto the final burning ground. 87|00:09:24|440|00:09:33|060So Aries impulses all of these beginnings. Let's look at that: Aries impulses all of 88|00:09:33|060|00:09:34|460these beginnings. 89|00:09:35|820|00:09:43|760There are four words of vital importance upon which we shall ring the changes as we study 90|00:09:43|760|00:09:50|360the path of evolution or the progress of the soul around the great wheel, both as a 91|00:09:50|360|00:09:54|300personality and as a disciple, headed towards the liberating process. 92|00:09:54|720|00:10:02|560So let us realize that the disciple is not the personality per se. It's very important 93|00:10:02|560|00:10:05|500to know because when you're looking at the personality you're not looking at the real 94|00:10:05|500|00:10:05|840man. 95|00:10:05|840|00:10:14|880The disciple is really an extension of monadic being, an extension of monadic consciousness. 96|00:10:15|780|00:10:21|600He is, for practical purposes, other than the personality vehicle through which he operates. 97|00:10:22|560|00:10:29|840So we are working now with four words which express the subjective impulses and motives 98|00:10:30|240|00:10:34|560and in reality introduce four different cycles of progress upon the path. 99|00:10:35|250|00:10:39|480In its various stages of individualization to initiation. 100|00:10:41|010|00:10:47|460Individualization occurs at the very beginning under Leo in one important sense and Gemini 101|00:10:47|460|00:10:54|180in another and Sagittarius in another, and then initiation occurs much, much later—millions 102|00:10:54|180|00:11:00|440of years later—under a number of planets, but generically, a number of signs, but generically 103|00:11:00|440|00:11:03|280under the sign Capricorn. 104|00:11:03|720|00:11:08|140So he's going to go through a relational process here. 105|00:11:09|720|00:11:16|000Four words are expressing the subjective impulses and motives and in reality introduce four 106|00:11:16|620|00:11:19|040different cycles of progress on the path. 107|00:11:19|280|00:11:23|260Let's see if we can fathom what these may be. 108|00:11:23|260|00:11:34|820And they are… okay… recreation, recreation—that's one word in which the influence of 109|00:11:34|820|00:11:40|940Cancer combined with that of Aries produces the pull into incarnation upon the physical 110|00:11:40|940|00:11:41|240plane. 111|00:11:41|300|00:11:48|240That's very interesting that Cancer and Aries are involved in this strongly incarnational 112|00:11:48|240|00:11:48|840impulse. 113|00:11:48|840|00:11:55|280We know that the elemental life is pulling towards the soul magnetically, and Aries is 114|00:11:55|280|00:12:02|400impelling the soul to take up residence, i.e., Cancer, within the lower elemental worlds. 115|00:12:03|140|00:12:09|000Every time we have a new incarnation, we are having the recreation of a personality. 116|00:12:10|140|00:12:18|760Indeed, it has continuity with previous personalities, but in form and in certain energetic endowments, 117|00:12:18|760|00:12:25|940each one is unique within the continuous flow. 118|00:12:26|320|00:12:37|080So Aries and Cancer—both of them, if we will recognize—both express the seventh ray. 119|00:12:37|940|00:12:46|220Aries expresses primarily the first ray but secondarily the seventh ray, and Cancer simply 120|00:12:46|220|00:12:48|280expresses the seventh ray. 121|00:12:49|840|00:12:56|380It expresses the third ray for the mass in a primary way, and Capricorn expresses the 122|00:12:56|380|00:12:57|700third ray for the disciples. 123|00:12:57|940|00:13:03|380The seventh ray is simply resident within Cancer, and Capricorn expresses the seventh 124|00:13:03|380|00:13:05|880ray paramountly at this time. 125|00:13:07|600|00:13:12|840Okay, the pull into incarnation, recreation again and again, the incarnational cycle. 126|00:13:14|560|00:13:23|900Regeneration. Notice how the Tibetan uses these mnemonics, these methods of fixing in 127|00:13:23|900|00:13:30|900the mind through the same letter a series in an important process. 128|00:13:31|220|00:13:38|120He does this with D's, he does this with I's—you know, instinct, intellect, intuition, those 129|00:13:38|120|00:13:46|080three I's. He does it with the D's, which we could look at as discipline, dispassion, 130|00:13:46|520|00:13:49|880discrimination, decentralization, detachment, and so forth. 131|00:13:50|520|00:13:56|800Now he's doing it with R's: regeneration, in which the growing influence of the fixed cross 132|00:13:56|800|00:14:04|960playing upon the mutable cross, which is still conditioning our form, produces those interior 133|00:14:04|960|00:14:12|600changes—or all on the fixed cross producing interior changes in consciousness which lead 134|00:14:12|600|00:14:18|420eventually to—let's see what the third word is—reorientation. 135|00:14:20|480|00:14:32|060Libra and Leo are frequently found when the disciple is reversing the wheel, reorienting 136|00:14:32|060|00:14:38|420himself towards the soul. The decision for reorientation is made under Libra, and Leo 137|00:14:38|420|00:14:44|820represents the higher of the three selves: the individual self, the group self, and the 138|00:14:44|820|00:14:47|180universal or one self. 139|00:14:47|960|00:14:51|500But yet Aries rules the crisis of reorientation. 140|00:14:52|200|00:15:00|620Reorientation, or the great cycle of repolarization, which is fixing the attention on an altogether 141|00:15:00|620|00:15:07|680higher level, which is the soul level, the second level of Leo. Reorientation, or the 142|00:15:07|680|00:15:13|000great cycle of repolarization, which takes place with the influence of Libra, the cardinal 143|00:15:13|000|00:15:17|400cross, and the swerving of the bull in mid-career. 144|00:15:17|640|00:15:20|540The bull is the bull of desire, and what types of desires do we have? 145|00:15:21|020|00:15:26|000Are they simply ordinary desires for life in the lower three worlds, or is it the bull 146|00:15:26|000|00:15:30|220of aspiration which is now operative after the midpoint of the career? 147|00:15:30|600|00:15:35|820“And the swerving of the bull in mid-career,” as it is called in the ancient books. 148|00:15:35|820|00:15:41|840We don't continue to rush headlong into identification with the lower three worlds. 149|00:15:42|240|00:15:50|040This process of reorientation leads to a passage around the wheel in which steadily and persistently 150|00:15:50|040|00:15:56|440the inner subjective man comes into outer manifested expression, i.e., the soul is made 151|00:15:56|440|00:16:01|280manifest and the personality and its elemental tendencies recede into the background. 152|00:16:02|480|00:16:04|500Okay, finally there come twelve lives. 153|00:16:05|600|00:16:12|880Is this literally so, or is it as D.K. has said that “a cult rumor has it” that there are twelve 154|00:16:12|880|00:16:18|320lives wherein the final stage of renunciation? 155|00:16:20|520|00:16:22|540Marvelous mnemonic devices. 156|00:16:23|800|00:16:29|520Renunciation is experienced, and the disciple or initiate renounces all for the love of 157|00:16:29|520|00:16:31|060humanity and its service. 158|00:16:31|240|00:16:38|220This is the ninth petal of the Egoic Lotus when fully open—means the utter sacrifice 159|00:16:38|220|00:16:39|580of all forever. 160|00:16:39|860|00:16:41|400Those are the words of Master D.K. 161|00:16:41|900|00:16:46|800Renounces all for the love of humanity and its service and lays himself upon the altar 162|00:16:46|800|00:16:47|940of sacrifice. 163|00:16:49|340|00:16:55|180That altar is found in the second decanate of Sagittarius, in terms of the constellations 164|00:16:55|180|00:16:58|640anyway. Out of the altar, lays himself upon the altar of sacrifice. 165|00:16:59|260|00:17:02|180He achieves as a result the final liberation. 166|00:17:03|460|00:17:12|400We can call this the great renunciation. 167|00:17:13|000|00:17:20|260So we're talking about the final liberation in terms of the human kingdom, but not the 168|00:17:20|260|00:17:25|120final liberation in terms of the fourth creative hierarchy. 169|00:17:25|280|00:17:26|200There's a difference there. 170|00:17:26|820|00:17:31|860A man is still a man when a master of the wisdom, but not so when a chohan, though still 171|00:17:31|860|00:17:35|340a member of the fourth creative hierarchy, when a chohan. 172|00:17:36|000|00:17:41|420And we can say also that the Christ is still a member of the fourth creative hierarchy. 173|00:17:41|420|00:17:47|460So the hierarchy, the fourth creative hierarchy, is a much more extensive thing than the fourth 174|00:17:47|460|00:17:48|700kingdom per se. 175|00:17:49|400|00:17:53|700The hierarchy includes a number of kingdoms, maybe even the lower kingdoms in some way, 176|00:17:54|360|00:18:01|260as man undergoes the in-mineralization, in-vegetalization, in-zoonation of the monad. 177|00:18:01|880|00:18:04|380So those lower kingdoms are related to our monad as well. 178|00:18:04|920|00:18:08|860To me that's quite a mystery, but worth exploration. 179|00:18:08|860|00:18:12|540So what are the words we've just studied here? 180|00:18:13|440|00:18:14|940Re-creation. 181|00:18:16|460|00:18:19|700And number two is regeneration. 182|00:18:23|360|00:18:25|900Regeneration upon the fixed cross. 183|00:18:26|560|00:18:32|560Re-orientation and renunciation. 184|00:18:32|820|00:18:38|060The great renunciation is the fourth initiation which leads to the final liberation, at least 185|00:18:38|060|00:18:43|680in terms of the human kingdom and the need to return to incarnation. 186|00:18:45|540|00:18:48|640So I think there's a little problem. 187|00:18:48|740|00:18:51|340This should be a number four here. 188|00:18:53|300|00:18:56|300This should be a number four somehow. 189|00:18:57|620|00:18:57|680Yeah. 190|00:18:58|080|00:19:04|320Well, I don't know why this is doing that, but it is, and so we'll lift it up to here. 191|00:19:04|320|00:19:06|600Renunciation has number four. 192|00:19:08|880|00:19:14|720These are general phases of the path, four different cycles. 193|00:19:15|540|00:19:19|560You know, the soul is constantly coming into the great ocean of matter. 194|00:19:20|380|00:19:28|120There's the re-creation of successive personalities upon the mutable cross as there is a continuous 195|00:19:28|640|00:19:32|940exposure to change and varied experiences. 196|00:19:34|400|00:19:37|160The regeneration occurs on the cross of the soul. 197|00:19:39|080|00:19:42|400We are generating ourselves again. 198|00:19:42|580|00:19:50|520We're being born as a soul, as a conscious soul, and our inner consciousness is emerging, 199|00:19:50|720|00:19:55|320our soul consciousness is emerging, and we're less and less identifying ourselves as a personality. 200|00:19:56|240|00:20:03|540Re-orientation is a definite attempt to polarize ourselves upon the higher mental plane and 201|00:20:03|540|00:20:06|280within the soul, on its own plane as it were. 202|00:20:07|320|00:20:17|620And then some twelve climactic lives lived in or under each of the signs of the zodiac 203|00:20:17|620|00:20:22|480in which some sort of victory in each of the signs of the zodiac is achieved. 204|00:20:22|480|00:20:24|320Are there exactly twelve? 205|00:20:25|200|00:20:30|540This would be hard to fathom because when D.K. tells us “a cult rumor has it,” it may be 206|00:20:30|540|00:20:31|640so, it may not be so. 207|00:20:32|140|00:20:40|280There may be other ways to compress the twelve together and even have a climactic experience 208|00:20:40|280|00:20:47|600in the same life based upon the combination of the rising sign and the sun sign, in which 209|00:20:47|600|00:20:50|340case there would be fewer climactic lives. 210|00:20:50|810|00:20:58|220So this reincarnational research will have to establish whether it is literally so. 211|00:21:00|180|00:21:02|880So there is a twelve-fold liberation, D.K. is telling us. 212|00:21:03|020|00:21:06|780This liberation is in reality twelve-fold in nature. 213|00:21:06|960|00:21:09|360I guess we have to prove ourselves in each one of the twelve signs. 214|00:21:10|040|00:21:15|440For liberation, victory, and triumph have to be experienced in every sign. 215|00:21:16|520|00:21:17|960Liberation, victory, and triumph. 216|00:21:17|960|00:21:25|980These are such Scorpionic, Capricornian, Aquarian words. 217|00:21:26|380|00:21:27|180Triumph is so. 218|00:21:28|180|00:21:35|600Scorpionic and Capricornian liberation suggests Aquarius or perhaps even at a deeper level 219|00:21:35|600|00:21:36|460Pisces. 220|00:21:37|040|00:21:43|520Just as for all of us captivity, defeat, and failure have been experienced in all signs 221|00:21:43|520|00:21:44|140of the zodiac. 222|00:21:44|140|00:21:49|320I guess we do have to live, learn the hard way. 223|00:21:51|020|00:21:55|420Defeat instead of victory, failure instead of triumph, captivity instead of liberation. 224|00:21:56|440|00:21:58|300There is quite a Geminian contrast here. 225|00:21:58|500|00:22:07|960We have all blundered through the various signs and not succeeded and been defeated 226|00:22:07|960|00:22:18|920by our own elemental nature and by the circumstantial forces and energies which have overcome us. 227|00:22:19|940|00:22:21|700Captivity, defeat, and failure. 228|00:22:23|520|00:22:27|620Whilst the man is functioning as a personality, yeah well when functioning strictly as a personality 229|00:22:27|620|00:22:31|040there is no true victory or triumph. 230|00:22:31|180|00:22:32|480There certainly is no liberation. 231|00:22:32|480|00:22:40|240It is these four words and their significance which will underlie all that I have to say 232|00:22:40|240|00:22:44|680to you and then the dual experience on the great wheel of life. 233|00:22:46|620|00:22:49|400And I would ask you to have that definitely in mind. 234|00:22:49|680|00:22:55|760Re-creation, re-generation, re-orientation, re-nunciation. 235|00:22:55|760|00:23:03|620That word “re” seems to suggest a process which operates again and again. 236|00:23:04|680|00:23:08|340“Re” suggests a cyclic process. 237|00:23:10|220|00:23:12|340So this not only applies to Aries. 238|00:23:12|480|00:23:17|640Here in this Aries chapter, he is introducing so many things that will be applied throughout 239|00:23:17|640|00:23:26|320the book, and we should fix in our mind these things and try to follow his advice where 240|00:23:26|320|00:23:26|960possible. 241|00:23:27|920|00:23:32|720Yes, “re,” “re.” 242|00:23:34|340|00:23:41|280Taking these four words and applying them to all the signs, and taking the whole idea 243|00:23:41|280|00:23:47|460of the dual mode of progression to all the signs, and taking the idea that different decanate 244|00:23:47|460|00:23:56|020rulers are operative depending upon whether we are passing along the wheel of form clockwise 245|00:23:56|020|00:23:58|360or the wheel of consciousness counterclockwise. 246|00:23:59|080|00:24:06|240And always watch that decanate in which reversal is occurring. 247|00:24:07|340|00:24:13|380As I said with respect to the decanates, I believe that any person at any point of evolution 248|00:24:13|380|00:24:18|860can be born in any of the decanates, and the decanate rulers will apply. 249|00:24:21|900|00:24:27|320I don't think we can say that when you're on the wheel of consciousness and you're born 250|00:24:27|320|00:24:30|560in the third decanate, you're necessarily bringing in the spirit. 251|00:24:30|660|00:24:35|320I don't think we can talk about the monad in that way. 252|00:24:36|380|00:24:42|280But it still is valuable to pay attention to the archetypal meaning of each one of the 253|00:24:42|280|00:24:48|200decanates, and they are assigned to different levels of the human constitution. 254|00:24:49|620|00:24:58|860OK, so we've gone through four different phases of experience, each categorized under a certain 255|00:24:58|860|00:25:13|200word: recreation, regeneration, reorientation, and renunciation. 256|00:25:13|440|00:25:21|780Going through the great cycle from Aries to Taurus, the man enters the sign Aries again 257|00:25:21|780|00:25:23|880under the potent impression of Taurus. 258|00:25:24|040|00:25:27|580Now that's if he's on the clockwise wheel. 259|00:25:27|580|00:25:29|720Well, his desires have been strengthened. 260|00:25:30|040|00:25:36|500Going through the great cycle from Aries backwards clockwise—Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, all the way 261|00:25:36|500|00:25:43|020to Taurus—the man enters the sign Aries again under the potent impression of Taurus, which 262|00:25:43|020|00:25:51|020at this stage of development feeds his ardent desire—that's so Taurean—feeds his ardent 263|00:25:51|020|00:25:57|520desire for the many material advantages—that's such a way of describing Taurus—of 264|00:25:57|520|00:25:59|000physical incarnation. 265|00:26:00|000|00:26:06|080Taurus and the material advantages of physical incarnation—such a brilliant way of describing 266|00:26:06|080|00:26:14|180the manner in which many… what's going on here? 267|00:26:15|940|00:26:25|640I'm having a little bit… I'm having a situation… yeah. 268|00:26:27|460|00:26:30|080OK, but gradually it comes right. 269|00:26:30|080|00:26:37|160Feeds the many material advantages of physical incarnation and of constant worldly undertakings. 270|00:26:37|540|00:26:44|100Well, you know Aries is always ready to undertake, and if under the impress of the previous Taurus 271|00:26:44|100|00:26:49|780sign one is wanting material advantages, then one undertakes many things for the sake of 272|00:26:49|780|00:26:51|180those material advantages. 273|00:26:51|680|00:26:58|760Thus, after a period of recreation—so he's recreated a new personality, we're going backwards 274|00:26:58|760|00:27:06|720now—he passes out into incarnation in Pisces after an incarnation of… this is somewhat 275|00:27:06|720|00:27:12|120symbolic, of course; we don't necessarily know that a Pisces incarnation will follow an Aries 276|00:27:12|120|00:27:12|780incarnation. 277|00:27:14|020|00:27:20|620The timing of these things has to be worked out, but in a generic sense we can understand. 278|00:27:22|160|00:27:27|760Thus, after a period of recreation in Aries, he passes out into incarnation where it says 279|00:27:27|760|00:27:33|380“go forth into matter,” out into incarnation in Pisces, and begins again the great round 280|00:27:33|380|00:27:43|000of manifested life, for Pisces is the ocean wherein the fish, which is the conscious soul, 281|00:27:46|060|00:27:50|380wherein he is the fish controlled by the laws of substance. 282|00:27:50|960|00:27:55|240So Pisces is water, matter, substance, or material existence. 283|00:27:55|240|00:28:11|440So let's see: man in Pisces, after recreation in Aries and the confirmation of desire in 284|00:28:11|440|00:28:16|820Taurus, is subject to the laws of substance. 285|00:28:18|040|00:28:27|420In the second great stage—so he's giving us the idea of how we are subjected to material 286|00:28:27|420|00:28:32|900impulse and we are seeking the fulfillment of satisfaction, of material satisfaction. 287|00:28:33|480|00:28:39|380In the second great stage, he passes from Aries to Taurus. This is much, much later; it's 288|00:28:39|380|00:28:45|200like we divide, let us say, the 25 million years of human evolution in half exactly. 289|00:28:46|880|00:28:52|640It's much, much later; it's millions of years later, so that the last part wherein he passes 290|00:28:52|640|00:29:00|040from Aries to Taurus is a very small section of the many incarnations that he has experienced. 291|00:29:06|840|00:29:11|100He's passing directly from Aries to Taurus without going through Pisces. 292|00:29:11|740|00:29:18|660So the second great stage: he's going Aries to Taurus, Gemini, and I don't know, let's 293|00:29:18|660|00:29:21|740see how many incarnations can be involved. 294|00:29:21|880|00:29:29|020He is reversing the wheel, and that fifth petal is receiving attention, and if from the time 295|00:29:29|020|00:29:33|160of the first initiation once the fifth petal is completely unfolded there are maybe only 296|00:29:33|160|00:29:39|62030 lives or less compared to thousands before, we can see something of the proportion. 297|00:29:40|720|00:29:46|020In the second great stage, he passes from Aries to Taurus because desire has been transmuted 298|00:29:46|900|00:29:48|220into aspiration. 299|00:29:48|220|00:29:56|740That is the higher meaning of Taurus and not the constant seeking for material advantages 300|00:29:56|740|00:29:59|760in physical incarnation. 301|00:30:00|420|00:30:05|280That's such a good way of describing an ordinary Taurean motive. 302|00:30:05|740|00:30:07|780Desire has been transmuted into aspiration. 303|00:30:08|600|00:30:13|500Some of the highest form of aspirational idealism we have been told is found in Taurus. 304|00:30:14|200|00:30:20|080After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life, probably under the 305|00:30:20|080|00:30:30|860fourth ray, and steadfastness—there is a Taurean word, and it's also a word connected 306|00:30:30|860|00:30:34|340with what is achieved through the struggling fourth ray. 307|00:30:35|360|00:30:36|940He becomes the one-pointed disciple. 308|00:30:37|220|00:30:38|980Sagittarius is steadfast as well. 309|00:30:39|120|00:30:47|000Many are the contributions of signs which generate this steadfastness in the aspiring 310|00:30:47|000|00:30:47|440man. 311|00:30:48|190|00:30:54|600After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening signs, 312|00:30:55|890|00:30:58|280he passes again into Pisces. 313|00:30:58|420|00:31:00|540Of course, this happens many times. 314|00:31:01|740|00:31:08|080From the opposite direction—not directly into Pisces from Aries, but from Aries through 315|00:31:08|080|00:31:11|760all the intervening signs at last into the 12th sign, Pisces. 316|00:31:12|110|00:31:16|860From the opposite direction to his usual procedure, going in counterclockwise, having earned the 317|00:31:16|860|00:31:27|280right to mount the cardinal cross in the heavens, and he seems hereby to suggest that 318|00:31:27|280|00:31:42|580the power to mount the cardinal cross can be staged from the sign Pisces. 319|00:31:44|720|00:31:52|240Well, after all, Pisces sometimes rules the last incarnation for those who are entering 320|00:31:52|240|00:31:58|400Shambhala rather than entering hierarchy. As world servers, as world saviors, they enter 321|00:31:58|400|00:32:02|920Shambhala, and as you begin to enter Shambhala, it seems to me that the cardinal cross can 322|00:32:02|920|00:32:05|860be mounted at the fifth degree. 323|00:32:06|720|00:32:11|920So Pisces, I think, is often a staging point for entering onto the cardinal cross. 324|00:32:11|920|00:32:17|340It's also a staging point for leaving the mutable cross and going onto the fixed cross. 325|00:32:18|100|00:32:22|460Can we say, yeah, it is that. 326|00:32:23|380|00:32:29|660Okay, having earned the right to mount the fixed cross of the heavens—the right because 327|00:32:29|660|00:32:36|400one will be exposed to so many more energies and have so much more responsibility, and one's 328|00:32:36|400|00:32:41|500position will be such that the impact of whatever one does will be so much more influential, 329|00:32:41|500|00:32:48|980and thus one has to be responsible and demonstrate that one has the right to operate responsibly 330|00:32:48|980|00:32:51|020upon the cardinal cross of the heavens. 331|00:32:52|300|00:32:55|880So after proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening 332|00:32:55|880|00:33:01|840signs, he passes again into Pisces from the opposite direction to his usual procedure, 333|00:33:01|840|00:33:06|860having earned the right to mount the cardinal cross of the heavens, 334|00:33:07|610|00:33:18|200the power to take a final planetary initiation, and the privilege of passing onto one of the 335|00:33:18|200|00:33:24|260seven paths to which I have made reference in my other books. A final planetary initiation— 336|00:33:24|360|00:33:25|940what could that be? 337|00:33:26|720|00:33:30|960When one is a sixth degree initiate, one is a planetary life. 338|00:33:31|940|00:33:38|040Even as a seventh degree initiate, one may remain associated with the planet, but let's 339|00:33:38|040|00:33:44|600say that ordinarily for the great majority that final planetary initiation is the sixth, 340|00:33:45|180|00:33:52|480after which the majority heads out on one of six remaining paths or eight remaining 341|00:33:52|480|00:33:59|100paths, with the path of Earth's service making the ninth and keeping the liberated 342|00:33:59|100|00:34:08|960monad in association with the Earth at the direction or behest of Sanat Kumara, who chooses 343|00:34:08|960|00:34:14|060the limited number of initiates who pass along this path of Earth's service. 344|00:34:14|560|00:34:27|260A final planetary initiation, and let's just say probably the sixth, and the privilege 345|00:34:27|260|00:34:30|480of passing onto one of the seven paths which I have made reference in the other books, 346|00:34:30|580|00:34:36|520and later in the raised initiations he tells that two more paths have been added. 347|00:34:36|740|00:34:39|980So we have nine paths and nine initiations. 348|00:34:41|740|00:34:47|580In most cases the nine initiations precede the paths, but at least up to the sixth initiation 349|00:34:47|580|00:34:51|240perhaps some paths are trodden after the ninth initiation. 350|00:34:52|040|00:34:52|760We can't be sure. 351|00:34:53|360|00:34:58|400These eventually give him the freedom of the seven solar systems. 352|00:34:58|540|00:35:00|040What are the seven solar systems? 353|00:35:01|180|00:35:04|880Some people would say, “Well, they are the seven chakras and the One About Whom Naught May 354|00:35:04|880|00:35:11|240Be Said,” and they are really constellations, but I prefer to think of them as in fact solar 355|00:35:11|240|00:35:13|660systems, as related solar systems. 356|00:35:14|880|00:35:26|000Those perhaps of Sirius and Alpha Centauri and Procyon, and there are others, Altair and 357|00:35:26|000|00:35:33|100so forth, close to our Sun and to our solar system. 358|00:35:35|100|00:35:40|340So then after a final planetary initiation and the privilege of passing out of the seven 359|00:35:40|340|00:35:48|520paths, which eventually will lead to the seven solar systems, perhaps first and then 360|00:35:48|520|00:35:53|000eventually to the seven constellations, I believe, which are chakras within the One 361|00:35:53|000|00:35:54|360About Whom Naught May Be Said. 362|00:35:54|960|00:36:01|140The big question is, and I've been dealing with this earlier, are solar systems stars 363|00:36:02|880|00:36:04|940or are they constellations? 364|00:36:05|380|00:36:09|900And there's a lot of blending that goes on there because every constellation is indeed 365|00:36:10|440|00:36:20|640a system, a congery of solar Logoi and their stars and is solar in nature. 366|00:36:20|860|00:36:25|720So even a constellation can be called a solar system and so we do understand why some people 367|00:36:25|720|00:36:31|160think that at this point of the sixth or seventh initiation one is achieving the freedom of 368|00:36:31|160|00:36:33|500the seven constellations, but I think that's a bit of a jump. 369|00:36:33|860|00:36:35|660I think it really goes too far. 370|00:36:36|620|00:36:43|020I think first we have to achieve freedom with respect to many planets and then freedom with 371|00:36:43|020|00:36:47|760respect to the stars associated with our own Sun. 372|00:36:47|940|00:36:53|020We can't imagine that our own Sun is not associated with other Suns. 373|00:36:53|580|00:36:56|120I don't think we can do that. 374|00:36:56|970|00:36:57|840All right. 375|00:36:59|500|00:37:05|240Freedom of the seven solar systems as it is called in contrast to the freedom of the seven 376|00:37:05|240|00:37:12|260planetary spheres, which occurs earlier and perhaps planetary lives of the sixth degree 377|00:37:12|260|00:37:22|840can achieve freedom of the seven planetary spheres, say perhaps chohans of the sixth 378|00:37:22|840|00:37:30|860degree can achieve this, but you have to travel on the seven or nine paths in order 379|00:37:30|860|00:37:33|460to achieve the freedom of the seven solar systems. 380|00:37:33|540|00:37:39|340That would make sense to me, which the experience of initiation has guaranteed him after a process 381|00:37:39|340|00:37:43|560of intensive training in one or other of the planetary schools according to his ray type 382|00:37:43|560|00:37:46|320and the path of service chosen. 383|00:37:46|320|00:37:56|120So before we head out on our way to different stars and solar, different constellations, 384|00:37:56|260|00:38:01|740we are trained on planetary schools, not necessarily the Earth school at all. 385|00:38:01|740|00:38:18|580And as chohans we can be trained on planetary schools and thereby receive the freedom of 386|00:38:18|580|00:38:20|540the seven planetary spheres. 387|00:38:22|160|00:38:26|380Some will remain for training on Earth school, but some will go to Venus, some will go to 388|00:38:26|380|00:38:28|200Jupiter, perhaps some will go to Mercury. 389|00:38:28|200|00:38:33|460Actually D.K. has given us a number of the planetary schools which are most interesting. 390|00:38:35|080|00:38:41|760Okay, you will see therefore the significance of the two key words in the sign Aries. 391|00:38:41|920|00:38:46|540Now he calls these mantric words, key words. 392|00:38:46|700|00:38:50|520They are not single words, they are mantrams themselves. 393|00:38:51|780|00:38:53|500So what are they? 394|00:38:54|640|00:38:58|140“And the words said, let form again be sought.” 395|00:38:58|280|00:39:04|000We've been quoting that and it is this recreation, this reorientation to the lower three worlds. 396|00:39:04|200|00:39:11|940The first impulse which takes the incarnating soul under the pull of Cancer into the three 397|00:39:13|640|00:39:14|680lower worlds. 398|00:39:14|840|00:39:17|180And that is the man himself. 399|00:39:17|380|00:39:21|140He is not yet the soul, he knows himself only as the man. 400|00:39:22|420|00:39:30|140But then, the next key word, this is not necessarily key notes, but key words. 401|00:39:30|320|00:39:33|520Sometimes key notes are shorter, and they are simply one word. 402|00:39:34|160|00:39:39|260As he describes here, the key word is a mantram: “I come forth and from the plane of mind I 403|00:39:39|260|00:39:39|560rule.” 404|00:39:40|080|00:39:40|400The initiate. 405|00:39:40|640|00:39:46|520This is the soul-infused mind operating on the higher mental plane through spiritual 406|00:39:46|520|00:39:47|140will. 407|00:39:49|520|00:39:56|600In one way, we can say that we learn from our lower mental plane to absorb the soul and 408|00:39:56|600|00:40:01|780to absorb the will and to govern the entire personality process from that soul-illumined 409|00:40:01|780|00:40:02|220mind. 410|00:40:02|940|00:40:10|280From another point of view, we are coming forth as a monad on the higher mental plane, and 411|00:40:10|280|00:40:16|280as one who is polarized within the soul, we can govern in a still truer way the entire 412|00:40:16|280|00:40:18|800personality life from the higher mental plane. 413|00:40:18|980|00:40:20|300This is the initiate. 414|00:40:20|600|00:40:23|900“I come forth and from the plane of mind I rule.” 415|00:40:25|040|00:40:29|800Experience on the cross of many changes; experience leads to rulership. 416|00:40:31|180|00:40:31|680That is interesting. 417|00:40:31|820|00:40:35|400In other words, we begin to govern; we dominate; we rule. 418|00:40:35|640|00:40:42|840Now, when a planet is the ruler of a constellation, it is a different meaning. 419|00:40:43|680|00:40:55|700The planetary lord governs the amount of energy which a constellational lord can express. 420|00:40:56|600|00:41:05|080So the planetary lord is like a reducing valve, and it rules or governs the degree to which 421|00:41:05|080|00:41:09|180the constellational lord can influence the planet. 422|00:41:10|080|00:41:12|780But here D.K. is talking about domination. 423|00:41:13|920|00:41:16|280Experience leads to rulership. 424|00:41:17|420|00:41:19|960We become the ruler of our elemental life. 425|00:41:20|140|00:41:26|060We become the ruler of our personality, and that is a position of a superior to an inferior. 426|00:41:26|860|00:41:35|900And in this sign, the man who is embodied first-ray force—well, not all men are embodied first-ray 427|00:41:35|900|00:41:41|640force, but when they are embodied first-ray force and they are born in or under this sign, 428|00:41:41|640|00:41:48|520then such a man develops the power of organization—that's under the seventh-ray 429|00:41:48|520|00:41:54|520and first-ray—of control over forces, first-ray and seventh-ray, two controlling rays, particularly 430|00:41:54|520|00:42:01|760over the energy of death, because after all, Aries represents resurrection, and death is 431|00:42:01|760|00:42:07|040the sort of swallowing of the consciousness by the ambient forces. 432|00:42:07|980|00:42:14|420There is a great power to resist that downward drag of matter, the power of resurrection 433|00:42:15|040|00:42:20|960fully demonstrated, I think, at the seventh initiation through Aries is with this sign. 434|00:42:22|360|00:42:27|000So the man who is embodied first-ray force—and all of us will have some first-ray force 435|00:42:27|000|00:42:35|740in us if we are born in Aries or under Aries, though this is not necessarily the first-ray 436|00:42:36|180|00:42:37|920in the ray chart per se. 437|00:42:38|560|00:42:43|180Experience leads to rulership, and in this sign the man who is embodied first-ray force 438|00:42:43|180|00:42:51|580develops the power of organization, of control over forces, particularly over the energy 439|00:42:51|580|00:42:54|760of death, because Aries is identified with the energy of life. 440|00:42:56|560|00:43:03|940It is that which is the life aspect within all things that might obscure consciousness. 441|00:43:04|840|00:43:11|700Over the power of destruction applied with love, he develops the power of organization, 442|00:43:12|460|00:43:20|420of control of forces, particularly over the energy of death, power over the power of destruction 443|00:43:20|420|00:43:24|420applied with love, of dominance over multitudes. 444|00:43:25|860|00:43:33|320He develops dominance over multitudes because he is the representative of the number one; 445|00:43:33|440|00:43:39|000he is the dictator in many ways; his energies are unified. 446|00:43:39|280|00:43:44|820The multitudes might be the multitude of cells and lesser lives within his vehicles, but they 447|00:43:44|820|00:43:50|120can also be other people, depending upon the scope of influence of such an Aries individual. 448|00:43:50|900|00:43:56|640He develops the power of cooperation with the plan, as we have seen on page 332 of this 449|00:43:56|640|00:44:03|440book, and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding and directing planetary 450|00:44:03|440|00:44:04|080affairs. 451|00:44:04|420|00:44:10|180So Aries is very much the director, and when you think about the man who is the first-ray 452|00:44:10|180|00:44:17|200soul—let us say, I guess the first-ray soul would be called embodied first-ray force, 453|00:44:17|580|00:44:25|520so this is the first-ray soul most likely—then the Aries influence can really come to 454|00:44:25|520|00:44:28|160his aid and promote that first-ray that is within him. 455|00:44:28|640|00:44:34|700Let's read this paragraph again without my interruption and try to gather what the Tibetan 456|00:44:34|700|00:44:35|120is saying. 457|00:44:35|120|00:44:42|540The experience leads to rulership, and in this sign the man who is embodied first-ray force 458|00:44:43|420|00:44:49|620develops the power of organization, of control over forces, particularly over the energy 459|00:44:49|620|00:44:58|860of death, over the power of destruction applied with love, of dominance over multitudes, of 460|00:44:58|860|00:45:03|420cooperation with the plan and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding 461|00:45:03|420|00:45:05|440and directing planetary affairs. 462|00:45:05|580|00:45:06|400Well, the man is a soul. 463|00:45:06|560|00:45:08|180As a soul, he has love. 464|00:45:08|360|00:45:12|460The soul is the expression of love, no matter what the ray may be. 465|00:45:13|260|00:45:19|660So this Aries type does apply destruction, has the power of destruction, but it is applied 466|00:45:19|660|00:45:21|680with love because he is an expressive soul. 467|00:45:22|320|00:45:26|640So how carefully we have to read the Tibetan. It is not every Aries person that develops 468|00:45:26|640|00:45:33|320all of these things, though every Aries person will develop some of these things to a certain 469|00:45:33|320|00:45:41|280degree. But the man who is the embodied first-ray, he is the first-ray soul or even the first-ray 470|00:45:41|280|00:45:47|500monad which is coming into power and consciousness, then he can develop much more fully all of 471|00:45:47|500|00:45:48|280these qualities. 472|00:45:48|460|00:45:50|680They are very impressive. 473|00:45:51|080|00:45:58|360It really is the ruler, the dominator, the leader, the director. 474|00:46:00|080|00:46:02|360Okay, we'll move on. 475|00:46:06|300|00:46:06|820Page 109. 476|00:46:07|840|00:46:12|820And now D.K. is going to tell us something about what we should do and all the succeeding signs. 477|00:46:14|480|00:46:17|600And I'm going to try to find that page. 478|00:46:18|500|00:46:22|200I'm not sure that I… 479|00:46:22|200|00:46:29|240My esoteric astrology book online has gone through a number of incarnations and yes, 480|00:46:29|660|00:46:39|000and unfortunately this particular version of it does not have the page numbers which 481|00:46:39|000|00:46:41|220I am looking for. 482|00:46:42|380|00:46:44|860I will have to add them as we go. 483|00:46:44|860|00:46:45|620Okay. 484|00:46:47|180|00:46:50|860So, before we take up… 485|00:46:51|660|00:46:53|200And before my screen disappears? 486|00:46:53|760|00:46:54|640Yes, it just did. 487|00:46:57|140|00:47:03|400Before we take up the remaining 11 signs of the zodiac and in order to give you a clear 488|00:47:03|400|00:47:12|340framework upon which to work, okay, disappearing screen again, something is slowing this computer 489|00:47:12|340|00:47:19|300down. I'll have to deal with that before doing another webinar, or am I going to be cut short 490|00:47:19|300|00:47:20|120right at this point? 491|00:47:20|440|00:47:22|000No, it looks like we'll be able to go ahead. 492|00:47:23|860|00:47:29|820Before we take up the remaining 11 signs of the zodiac and in order to give you a clear 493|00:47:29|820|00:47:36|680framework, D.K. is all for clarity of the mind, upon which the building of the new astrology 494|00:47:36|680|00:47:40|760by means of which you can grasp the dual procedure of the soul around the great wheel, 495|00:47:42|260|00:47:46|900upon which to build the new astrology by means of which you can grasp the dual procedure 496|00:47:46|900|00:47:50|980of the soul around the great wheel, this is perhaps the most important thing to grasp, 497|00:47:50|980|00:47:57|740the dual means of procedure. I would point out that what I have given you on Aries will 498|00:47:57|740|00:48:00|700be dealt with also as we consider the other signs. 499|00:48:00|700|00:48:07|720So it's a longer chapter. There's a lot being introduced here which later will be introduced 500|00:48:07|720|00:48:12|640in all the signs, and he will expect that we will know how to orient ourselves towards 501|00:48:12|640|00:48:14|760each sign based upon what he's given us here. 502|00:48:15|360|00:48:22|120You will find that I have indicated significances, higher types of indications, the world of 503|00:48:22|120|00:48:24|040significance is really the world of the triad. 504|00:48:24|520|00:48:29|360You will find that I have indicated significances and pointed out some of the truths which can 505|00:48:29|360|00:48:34|960be found in connection with the keynotes of the signs. 506|00:48:36|940|00:48:41|900These express the underlying effect upon the man as he progresses in one of two directions. 507|00:48:42|140|00:48:46|960So here the word keynotes is pretty well equivalent to what he called key words. 508|00:48:47|580|00:48:57|460Keynotes here are equivalent to key words, as he said, the two mantrums are the key words. 509|00:48:57|460|00:48:59|260But there are other keynotes as well. 510|00:49:00|120|00:49:05|200The nature of the cross upon which the man is crucified at any one time. 511|00:49:05|900|00:49:12|780Now for the average man, regardless of what his horoscope tells us, in the esoteric sense 512|00:49:12|780|00:49:17|940he's crucified on the common cross, the disciple on the fixed cross, the high initiate on the 513|00:49:17|940|00:49:22|440cardinal cross, not just the average initiate of the third degree, but the high initiate 514|00:49:22|440|00:49:25|380of the fifth degree is crucified on the cardinal cross. 515|00:49:25|380|00:49:33|040But also each sign is upon a cross in terms of the normal astrological assignment. 516|00:49:33|400|00:49:39|500And so we have to find the relationship of the cross on which he finds himself to the 517|00:49:39|500|00:49:44|640three crosses of consciousness, which may not even be shown in his conventional astrological 518|00:49:44|640|00:49:45|080chart. 519|00:49:45|740|00:49:51|680So the Djwhal Khul has indicated also the influence of the planetary rulers, orthodox or esoteric, 520|00:49:51|680|00:49:58|260and sometimes he has hinted at the influence of the hierarchical ruler, but usually he 521|00:49:59|000|00:50:00|460leaves that to our intuition. 522|00:50:03|500|00:50:10|020And then this incredible statement here, number four: the rays which primarily express themselves 523|00:50:10|020|00:50:13|220through a particular sign. 524|00:50:15|200|00:50:17|600Yes, well we've seen ray one and seven. 525|00:50:19|180|00:50:25|020The clue to which sign it may be—that's confusing because he's just talked about a particular 526|00:50:25|020|00:50:25|500sign. 527|00:50:26|880|00:50:30|560So we have Aries; he's just talked about Aries. Ray one and seven express Aries, and then 528|00:50:30|560|00:50:35|720he says the clue to which sign it may be. So many people have puzzled—I have puzzled 529|00:50:35|720|00:50:43|300over whether that word should be sign or ray. The clue to which sign it may be is found 530|00:50:43|300|00:50:50|920in the orthodox planetary ruler where the personality ray is concerned and the esoteric 531|00:50:50|920|00:50:55|160planetary ruler where the soul is concerned. 532|00:50:55|300|00:50:59|020Well, earlier we did discuss this a little bit. 533|00:51:01|060|00:51:06|740The rays here are, let us say, ray six for Mars, ray four for Mercury. 534|00:51:07|670|00:51:15|520So we are bringing other signs into association, and we learned that any of the planets can 535|00:51:15|520|00:51:19|640point to different signs depending upon the stage of evolution in which we find ourselves. 536|00:51:19|960|00:51:30|780So if we are, let's say, looking at the planet Jupiter and we want to consider the signs 537|00:51:30|780|00:51:36|920which feed its energy through that planet, we would look normally to Sagittarius and 538|00:51:36|920|00:51:42|200Pisces, but if we are a disciple we look towards Aquarius, and if we are an initiate we look 539|00:51:42|200|00:51:45|280towards Virgo because Jupiter would be the hierarchical ruler. 540|00:51:45|780|00:51:58|580So here, if I could find—I will say find earlier reference about directing planetary 541|00:52:00|240|00:52:18|220lines, planetary lines of connection to different signs depending upon whether the man is a 542|00:52:18|220|00:52:25|600non-aspiring individual or a disciple or even an initiate. 543|00:52:29|660|00:52:37|160So, let's say we have a ray six Mars and ray four Mercury, and we are looking at other signs 544|00:52:37|160|00:52:44|260which may come into association with a particular sign we are studying. 545|00:52:44|660|00:52:49|560So normally for ray six Mars we would look towards Aries, yes, and we would look towards 546|00:52:49|560|00:53:03|440Scorpio, but if we were a disciple for sure we would look towards Scorpio definitely in 547|00:53:03|440|00:53:07|820its esoteric connection because Mars is the esoteric ruler of Scorpio. 548|00:53:07|960|00:53:16|100Scorpio would be definitely associated—let's say this Scorpio would be definitely associated 549|00:53:16|100|00:53:30|000with Aries for the disciple in the esoteric position, esoteric rulership position. 550|00:53:31|220|00:53:38|380Now suppose we are dealing with Mercury which distributes the fourth ray. 551|00:53:39|120|00:53:47|390Okay, that fourth ray through Mercury—Mercury could be associated definitely with Aries, and 552|00:53:48|080|00:53:51|600that is the sign that leads to Aries. 553|00:53:52|320|00:54:00|200Now there are no other signs where Mercury is an esoteric ruler, so Mercury remains associated 554|00:54:00|200|00:54:04|240with Aries, though Scorpio was brought in in relation to Mars. 555|00:54:04|240|00:54:11|700Now can we do this? See, this is an incredible sentence, you know. People have tried to fathom 556|00:54:11|700|00:54:15|680this thing, and people have come up with various theories about it. 557|00:54:16|180|00:54:24|400We are talking about rays, we are talking about the—hmm, we are talking about the fourth 558|00:54:24|400|00:54:29|540ray and the sixth ray, let's say in relation to the sign Aries. 559|00:54:30|410|00:54:41|160So can we bring in other signs in relation to these particular rays because the sixth 560|00:54:41|160|00:54:45|180ray can also lead us to other signs? 561|00:54:45|400|00:54:50|720The personality ray would be, let us say, associated with number six. 562|00:54:51|580|00:55:00|320The sixth ray will lead us to Sagittarius, and it will also lead us to Virgo and to Pisces. 563|00:55:02|200|00:55:11|420So that is the personality influence which is generally of a sixth ray nature. 564|00:55:12|000|00:55:18|420But when we have a soul influence of a fourth ray nature, a disciplic influence, then it 565|00:55:18|420|00:55:24|420is possible that we will follow the fourth ray to Scorpio, Sagittarius and Taurus, which 566|00:55:24|420|00:55:28|820will also be related to this particular sign Aries. 567|00:55:29|320|00:55:34|760I don't think we will follow out the first and seventh ray, which are constellational 568|00:55:34|760|00:55:36|000in their nature. 569|00:55:36|240|00:55:43|380Obviously the first ray would lead to Leo and Capricorn, and the seventh ray would lead 570|00:55:43|380|00:55:47|320to Cancer and to Capricorn. 571|00:55:47|320|00:55:52|300So there are many different ways of approaching this particular paragraph. 572|00:55:52|900|00:55:57|640I don't think it is giving us the immediate clue to the personality ray. 573|00:55:59|240|00:56:00|400So let's read it again. 574|00:56:00|840|00:56:07|320We learn in every case when we are going through a sign the rays which primarily express themselves 575|00:56:07|320|00:56:09|620through a particular sign. 576|00:56:10|580|00:56:12|860Okay, that is pretty straightforward. 577|00:56:12|860|00:56:18|100The clue to which sign it may be, and that is unusual because we just said which sign 578|00:56:18|100|00:56:26|020it is, the clue to which sign it may be is found in the orthodox planetary ruler where 579|00:56:26|020|00:56:28|540the personality ray is concerned. 580|00:56:29|020|00:56:42|840So if we are a personality and we know we are a personality, or as an astrologer we 581|00:56:43|800|00:56:49|760follow that individual who has that particular sun sign and we follow that planetary ruler 582|00:56:53|880|00:57:01|560to an associated sign, in this case Mars, would be followed to Scorpio both orthodoxly 583|00:57:01|560|00:57:11|080and esoterically, and if we know that the person is going around the wheel as a soul 584|00:57:11|080|00:57:18|180or as a disciple, then whatever the personality ray may be, we look at the esoteric planetary 585|00:57:18|180|00:57:19|540ruler and its ray. 586|00:57:19|760|00:57:28|740Now the esoteric planetary ruler is Mercury and it leads right back to Aries, and the 587|00:57:28|740|00:57:37|960fourth ray coming through Mercury would lead to those other fourth ray signs. 588|00:57:38|740|00:57:45|620So I find this personally one of the most enigmatic of the sentences which the Tibetan 589|00:57:45|620|00:57:46|280has given us. 590|00:57:46|600|00:57:55|280It's a tough one and I guess it's one of those sentences which can be pondered upon all through 591|00:57:55|280|00:58:04|400the life and which may be revealed in its significance I would say in the next instalment. 592|00:58:04|400|00:58:14|020We can also look at the personality ray of the individual and follow that ray to the 593|00:58:14|020|00:58:19|200sign which primarily dispenses it. 594|00:58:19|660|00:58:23|960Suppose you have a seventh ray personality and you know you are a disciple. 595|00:58:24|680|00:58:31|900Well you follow that seventh ray to Uranus in Libra, because Uranus is the esoteric ruler 596|00:58:31|900|00:58:32|960of Libra. 597|00:58:33|080|00:58:40|900If you are a soul, if you are simply a personality and you follow your personality ray to another 598|00:58:40|900|00:58:48|280constellation you would follow to Aquarius because Uranus is the exoteric ruler of Aquarius. 599|00:58:48|360|00:58:54|420You see how intricate this can become and D.K. seems to be revealing a whole group 600|00:58:54|420|00:58:55|200of interrelations. 601|00:58:56|700|00:59:00|000You know I'm frustrated to have to leave it at this point but I've taken it further than 602|00:59:00|000|00:59:00|740I have before. 603|00:59:00|740|00:59:05|520Number five, we will learn the quality of the sign and the man who has come forth in 604|00:59:05|520|00:59:06|340a particular sign. 605|00:59:06|920|00:59:11|560The qualities will be different depending on whether a man is proceeding around the 606|00:59:11|560|00:59:13|080wheel of form or the wheel of consciousness. 607|00:59:13|580|00:59:20|720We will learn the interplay between a sign and its polar opposite and this we can generally 608|00:59:20|720|00:59:23|120find in the Cancer chapter. 609|00:59:23|120|00:59:26|140Let me look there specifically. 610|00:59:27|500|00:59:30|860It's around page 330, it's somewhere in there. 611|00:59:31|680|00:59:39|760That's the light but I think earlier, maybe it comes a little bit later. 612|00:59:40|600|00:59:47|560It's in the Cancer chapter and perhaps a little bit later than where he is demonstrating the 613|00:59:47|560|00:59:48|660idea of light. 614|00:59:50|940|00:59:54|240I may have to go looking for that on my own. 615|00:59:57|880|00:59:59|100Yeah, here it is. 616|00:59:59|540|01:00:06|640On the wheel turning clockwise and on the wheel turning anti-clockwise and on page 337 617|01:00:06|640|01:00:08|480that will be found. 618|01:00:09|040|01:00:16|300So let us talk about that interplay between the opposite sign on page 337 of Esoteric 619|01:00:16|300|01:00:16|860Astrology. 620|01:00:17|400|01:00:24|700We will also learn in every chapter the planets which are exalted, in detriment or which may 621|01:00:24|700|01:00:26|260fall in any particular sign. 622|01:00:27|320|01:00:32|520For a study of these will indicate the three phases of the path with its involutionary 623|01:00:32|520|01:00:37|520cycle of becoming increasingly involved in matter or life upon the mutable cross, the 624|01:00:37|520|01:00:41|400interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation which leads to the mounting of 625|01:00:41|400|01:00:47|680the fixed cross and the period of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross. 626|01:00:47|740|01:00:50|540That's probably the exaltation. 627|01:00:51|980|01:00:59|180The detriment is probably the period of struggle and the fall is probably the period of involution. 628|01:00:59|300|01:01:04|000All of this is in a generic sense and not necessarily applicable to each horoscope. 629|01:01:04|660|01:01:10|260We will also learn in each chapter the significance of the key words for the mode of progress 630|01:01:10|260|01:01:11|220through the signs. 631|01:01:11|800|01:01:14|780Here he uses key words, earlier he used key notes. 632|01:01:15|040|01:01:16|760We have to differentiate between these. 633|01:01:17|460|01:01:23|080Here the key word probably means individual words, probably individual words. 634|01:01:24|180|01:01:28|420And then the underlying theme, number nine: the underlying theme of any specific zodiacal 635|01:01:28|420|01:01:33|360sign covered by the ideas of recreation, regeneration, reorientation, renunciation. 636|01:01:33|900|01:01:37|700In each one of these signs we can pass through such a period. 637|01:01:37|700|01:01:43|440Well, I'm going to review this when we go into the next one. 638|01:01:43|580|01:01:44|540I've gone over it briefly. 639|01:01:44|700|01:01:49|260This is Esoteric Astrology 50, and this is the end of that. 640|01:01:49|920|01:02:02|100And we have gone up to page 110, and I believe we started… perhaps, where did we start? 641|01:02:03|320|01:02:07|140We started, I think, at 105. 642|01:02:09|440|01:02:09|940There we go. 643|01:02:10|800|01:02:11|660Yeah, we started at 105. 644|01:02:12|740|01:02:20|940And we apparently have covered a lot of ground here, but some of this needs careful analysis, going over again. 645|01:02:24|100|01:02:25|820Yeah, speed reading, right? 646|01:02:26|680|01:02:27|320Okay. 647|01:02:29|680|01:02:42|700The nine types of information which we will find in every chapter, and we should… and when we've taught the Esoteric Astrology classes, we have gone over all of these things to begin with. 648|01:02:42|840|01:02:49|200So it's 105 to 110, and now we will do The Great Invocation. 649|01:02:49|820|01:02:51|500Oh my goodness, we are over time. 650|01:02:52|720|01:02:56|560Naturally enough, but we will do The Great Invocation together. 651|01:03:20|800|01:03:21|480And… 652|01:03:21|480|01:03:29|160Let light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, let light descend on earth. 653|01:03:32|220|01:03:41|040From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. 654|01:03:43|020|01:03:52|520From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. 655|01:03:54|080|01:04:03|040From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 656|01:04:04|400|01:04:09|240Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 657|01:04:18|040|01:04:19|440Om… 658|01:04:29|060|01:04:30|460Om… 659|01:04:34|980|01:04:36|380Om… 660|01:04:41|740|01:04:42|380Om… 661|01:04:44|340|01:04:48|300Okay friends, we've done Esoteric Astrology adventure number 50. 662|01:04:50|240|01:05:04|740We've talked about the nine ways of clarifying the mind and studying particularly in each sign of the zodiac, and we've gone over that terribly enigmatical fourth sentence. 663|01:05:04|740|01:05:14|980You know, people are so interested in discovering what is their personality ray by looking at the chart that just isn't possible, as far as I can see, given what we know at the moment. We have to find the ray first. 664|01:05:15|220|01:05:21|960At least he seems to say so in the Scorpio chapter, somewhere 220 or 222, he says so. 665|01:05:22|580|01:05:33|300Later the ray will be capable of expert diagnosis and will be able to see the degree to which the astrological chart actually does reveal the ray and maybe find methods of doing so. 666|01:05:33|300|01:05:40|060Right now I think we're a lot safer if we determine the ray from the behavior of the individual. 667|01:05:41|860|01:05:43|380Alright, and the goals of course, and the goals. 668|01:05:43|640|01:05:46|220So, we'll see you next time for Esoteric Astrology 51. 669|01:05:46|440|01:05:48|080I know I've been speaking quickly this time. 670|01:05:48|820|01:05:49|980A bit of a hurry this time. 671|01:05:51|280|01:05:55|220Maybe we can bring these things into slow motion at some point. 672|01:05:55|880|01:05:56|980Alright, we'll see you then. 673|01:05:57|620|01:05:58|080Bye for now.