1|00:00:04|300|00:00:05|660Hello everybody. 2|00:00:07|240|00:00:10|720We are in Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 51. 3|00:00:12|240|00:00:15|560We are still working in the sign Aries. 4|00:00:16|860|00:00:24|280In which chapter many of the procedures to be followed in other chapters studying other 5|00:00:24|280|00:00:29|080signs are set forth, therefore this is a longer chapter than usual. 6|00:00:29|080|00:00:39|120Well, we've been reviewing some of those procedures, and D.K. tells us that in every chapter there 7|00:00:39|120|00:00:40|300will be found the following. 8|00:00:41|140|00:00:46|360The keynote of the signs: they express the underlying effect upon the man as he progresses 9|00:00:46|360|00:00:48|500in one of two directions. 10|00:00:48|960|00:00:55|280Basically, these can be considered in a way the mantrums. 11|00:00:55|600|00:00:57|580Although sometimes he calls these mantrums keywords. 12|00:00:57|580|00:00:59|980For instance, “Let form again be sought.” 13|00:01:00|680|00:01:03|640That's the mantrum for the path of evolution for Aries. 14|00:01:04|480|00:01:08|600And then there is “I come forth and from the plane of mind I rule.” 15|00:01:09|300|00:01:12|080That is a keynote, a mantrum for the disciple. 16|00:01:13|020|00:01:17|240We also will learn about the nature of the cross upon which the man is crucified at any 17|00:01:17|240|00:01:17|860one time. 18|00:01:18|580|00:01:23|120Aries is on the cardinal cross, but the man may be on any of the three crosses in terms 19|00:01:23|120|00:01:23|860of his consciousness. 20|00:01:24|640|00:01:31|380The influence of the planetary ruler is orthodox and esoteric, so for Aries it's Mars and Mercury. 21|00:01:32|060|00:01:39|460Mars orthodox and Mercury esoteric, and we've learned about the battle and strife of Mars 22|00:01:39|460|00:01:43|740and the illuminative potential of Mercury. 23|00:01:45|100|00:01:51|520I'm going to skip number four and come back to it because it is the most vexing of statements, 24|00:01:51|520|00:01:54|840and you know there's probably a huge hint involved here. 25|00:01:55|400|00:01:56|520I'll come back to that. 26|00:01:57|540|00:02:02|380Number five: the qualities of the signs and of the man who has come forth in a particular 27|00:02:02|380|00:02:02|860sign. 28|00:02:03|520|00:02:07|800“In a particular sign” means the sun sign, but “under a particular sign” means the rising sign. 29|00:02:08|340|00:02:12|300Qualities can be similar in actual practice. 30|00:02:12|300|00:02:22|460So we learned of the Aries individual that there was the tendency to seek unity through 31|00:02:22|460|00:02:29|620effort, to enter into battle for the Lord, to engage in a strong creative process, and so 32|00:02:29|620|00:02:30|040forth. 33|00:02:31|300|00:02:34|900We will learn of the interplay between a sign and its polar opposite. 34|00:02:35|040|00:02:40|980This is found on 337 and 338 of Esoteric Astrology in the chapter on Cancer. 35|00:02:41|690|00:02:48|960We learn which planets are exalted in detriment, or which fall in any particular sign, and D.K. 36|00:02:48|960|00:02:54|880tells us, “For a study of these will indicate the three phases of the path with its involutionary 37|00:02:54|880|00:03:01|700cycle,” presumably related to the fall, becoming increasingly involved in matter or life upon 38|00:03:01|700|00:03:06|420the mutable cross, then the interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation. 39|00:03:06|420|00:03:11|600This is probably related to the detriment, which leads to the mounting of the fixed cross 40|00:03:12|080|00:03:17|780and the period of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross, and this suggests 41|00:03:18|420|00:03:24|620meanings of the exaltation of a planet in a particular sign. 42|00:03:28|360|00:03:36|200Of course, there are other and more personal meanings for the fall, detriment, and exaltation, 43|00:03:36|820|00:03:42|020but D.K. is looking at this from a somewhat—I would say a philosophical point of view. 44|00:03:43|960|00:03:48|260Alright, let's go on to number eight. 45|00:03:49|840|00:03:51|080What else will we learn here? 46|00:03:51|080|00:03:59|760The significance of the key words for the mode of progress through the signs. 47|00:04:01|080|00:04:09|220Now these key words were—you know, for Aries: creativity, strife. Let's find the remaining 48|00:04:09|880|00:04:21|060the key words for Aries, Esoteric Astrology, and we'll go to creativity, strife, and we'll— 49|00:04:21|060|00:04:25|520what about strife alone? That ought to do it, perhaps. 50|00:04:27|060|00:04:29|600Let's see what we have. There are five strifes. 51|00:04:30|620|00:04:41|160Okay, yes: creation, being, activity, strife, and synthesis. And the key notes—he calls them 52|00:04:41|160|00:04:47|300key notes. I think he exchanges the idea of key notes and key words. He tells us: express 53|00:04:47|300|00:04:52|340the will to be and do, unfold the power to manifest under the first and seventh ray, pretty 54|00:04:52|340|00:04:58|680much enter into battle for the Lord under Mars and the first ray, arrive at unity through 55|00:04:58|680|00:05:05|000effort. The effort is provided by the sixth ray, the unity through struggle by the fourth 56|00:05:05|000|00:05:12|460ray, and so forth. And he sums this up as key notes: creation, being, activity. Aries are often 57|00:05:12|460|00:05:17|860hyperactive people. Strife—they are not afraid of conflict, although is it intelligent? That's 58|00:05:17|860|00:05:25|980the question. And finally, synthesis, because it is a major sign which sees the homogeneous 59|00:05:27|600|00:05:34|860being within all forms, and that's a high form of perception which is given later to the 60|00:05:34|860|00:05:38|320Arian person under the influence of Uranus. 61|00:05:39|380|00:05:44|460Okay, let's see what else we have here. And then the underlying theme of any specific 62|00:05:44|460|00:05:52|100zodiacal sign covered by… whoops, my screen is disappearing. Seems to be time perhaps to 63|00:05:52|100|00:06:00|100start the computer all over again. The underlying theme of any zodiacal sign covered by what? 64|00:06:00|100|00:06:12|820Covered by something… let's see. A little bit disturbing. I'll have to see what I can do 65|00:06:12|820|00:06:24|700when finally this stops acting up. Sorry for this, just a little technical delay. 66|00:06:31|040|00:06:41|180Yeah, yes, a little delay. Covered by… yes, we ought to be there just about there now. Covered by what? 67|00:06:41|180|00:06:49|480The idea of recreation, regeneration, reorientation, and renunciation. Okay, now let's go back to number 68|00:06:49|480|00:06:55|620four, on which I probably pondered for 30 years, and I've had other people ponder on 69|00:06:55|620|00:07:00|720it as well. Says the rays which primarily express themselves through a particular sign… okay, we've 70|00:07:00|720|00:07:08|360identified the sign. In this case, let's say it's Aries and ray 1, 0, 7. And then the clue to which sign 71|00:07:08|360|00:07:18|280it is… well, the question is, why is there needed a clue? Because the sign is already given. The clue 72|00:07:18|280|00:07:23|200to which sign it is may be found in the orthodox planetary ruler with a personality ray is concerned 73|00:07:23|200|00:07:28|760and the esoteric planetary ruler with the soul is concerned. Now, some people have used this to say 74|00:07:28|760|00:07:38|900well, if you're born in Aries, chances are your personality ray will be either the sixth or the 75|00:07:38|900|00:07:46|600fourth - six through Mars and the fourth maybe four disciples, the esoteric ruler of Mercury conveying 76|00:07:46|600|00:07:54|240the fourth ray. But I think this is the superficial reading of this particular hint or conundrum, and 77|00:07:54|240|00:08:02|500moreover, many of the people in Master D.K.'s groups contradict this very thing. I mean, you 78|00:08:02|500|00:08:09|140know, you have, for instance, a person who is a Capricorn sun and he has a sixth ray personality. 79|00:08:09|140|00:08:16|580Well, the ruler of Capricorn, both in the personality sense and in the esoteric sense, is ray three. Where 80|00:08:16|580|00:08:24|460is ray six? Ray six is not found even with Venus. There's a slight ray six in Venus on a very high 81|00:08:24|460|00:08:29|160level, but that's the hierarchical ruler, and we can't talk about personality rays in relation to 82|00:08:29|160|00:08:36|080the hierarchical ruler. And let's say people born in Gemini - well, they should have either fourth-ray 83|00:08:36|080|00:08:40|900personalities under the orthodox ruler Mercury, or fifth-ray personalities under the esoteric ruler 84|00:08:40|900|00:08:48|360Venus. But no, they can have first and second and sixth and even seventh-ray personalities, and such 85|00:08:48|360|00:08:55|100were people in Master D.K.'s group. Alice Bailey herself had a first-ray personality, and she was 86|00:08:55|100|00:09:00|940solidly Gemini. Where did that first ray come from? From the hierarchical ruler, with Earth being having a 87|00:09:00|940|00:09:08|140first-ray monad. It's stretching it a little bit far, but maybe there are other ways to interpret 88|00:09:08|140|00:09:18|520this. We may be looking for related signs. Now, let's suppose that the person that we're looking for 89|00:09:18|520|00:09:28|740signs that are related to the sign Aries. Let's say we have Aries, and let's just say that through 90|00:09:28|740|00:09:41|760Aries comes the sixth ray. The orthodox planetary ruler where the personality ray is concerned… well, 91|00:09:41|760|00:09:58|720you can be an Aries and have a personality ray on any of the rays. So maybe we should look for a 92|00:09:58|720|00:10:04|780which conveys the first ray. Now, where would we find that? I think we would have to go to Scorpio, 93|00:10:04|780|00:10:13|880where Pluto has a first ray and it is considered one of the rulers of Scorpio. Let's just say the 94|00:10:13|880|00:10:26|100personality ray is the second ray. That's the second ray. The usual ruler is Jupiter, but what 95|00:10:26|560|00:10:36|880sign has an exoteric ruler which conveys the second ray? Well, Leo does, because the Sun is the 96|00:10:36|880|00:10:46|260ruler - second ray. Sagittarius does, because Jupiter is the ruler - second ray. Pisces does, because the 97|00:10:46|260|00:10:55|880ruler is Jupiter again - second ray. And that's it, as far as I can see. So perhaps we would be bringing 98|00:10:55|880|00:11:06|960in influence from these other three signs for the second ray personality who is born in Aries, and 99|00:11:06|960|00:11:16|780we would probably find some way to blend the sixth ray Mars, which is the exoteric ruler, orthodox 100|00:11:16|780|00:11:22|980ruler of Aries. Now, suppose there's the third ray. What would we do? A third ray personality of 101|00:11:22|980|00:11:29|940somebody born in Aries… well, the only third ray planet we can find is Capricorn is Saturn Capricorn, 102|00:11:29|940|00:11:36|940because Earth is not an esoteric ruler… and there is no other… well, it is an esoteric ruler, it's 103|00:11:36|940|00:11:42|640not an orthodox ruler, and there is no other third ray planet of the conventional types of planets. So 104|00:11:42|640|00:11:50|760we'd bring Capricorn into relation here. The clue to which sign it may be… see, we've already named 105|00:11:50|760|00:11:56|480the sign and are looking for a clue to another sign. So, you know, unless this is really a typo and 106|00:11:56|480|00:12:03|440you know, if it's a typo, D.K. said he did proofread this book, and so if it's a typo, it's a typo which 107|00:12:03|440|00:12:10|160has caused perplexity or will have caused perplexity for 80, 90, 100 years — maybe probably 90 years before 108|00:12:10|160|00:12:16|900the new third volume of Esoteric Astrology comes out. Let's suppose you're a fourth-ray personality 109|00:12:16|900|00:12:23|060and you're born in Aries. Well, we can bring in and associate the sign Cancer because the Moon is the 110|00:12:23|060|00:12:30|560orthodox ruler of Cancer. We can bring in Gemini, and we can bring in Virgo because Mercury conveys 111|00:12:30|560|00:12:36|800the fourth ray. If you're a fifth-ray personality and you're born in Aries, we're going to bring in — 112|00:12:37|720|00:12:45|400we're going to bring in Libra and Taurus because they both have Venus rulerships of an orthodox 113|00:12:45|400|00:12:54|640kind. If you're a sixth-ray personality, we're going to bring in Scorpio and Aries. Of course, 114|00:12:54|640|00:13:00|460Aries is ruled by Mars, which is the sixth ray. Scorpio naturally has a connection. See, this is a way 115|00:13:00|460|00:13:14|000of showing relationships of different — of different signs to a particular sign via the personality 116|00:13:14|000|00:13:25|660ray. Okay, now, so suppose — and Neptune does not have any orthodox rulership unless we want to say that 117|00:13:25|660|00:13:36|120Pisces is somehow orthodoxly ruled by Neptune. But D.K. says no, Alan Leo says yes. We could bring in 118|00:13:36|120|00:13:41|620Pisces, I suppose, but we would certainly bring in Scorpio. Now suppose we have the seventh ray. We're 119|00:13:41|620|00:13:45|270going to be looking for the seventh-ray planet — that's Uranus — and we'd bring in Aquarius, and 120|00:13:45|860|00:13:51|420that's all we could do at the present time, even though Jupiter does have a strong seventh ray 121|00:13:51|420|00:13:58|520connected with it. But it's not — not one of the rays that has been described, except it has been hinted 122|00:13:58|520|00:14:05|320at. Okay, so if you have a personality ray on any one of those rays and you're born in the sign Aries, 123|00:14:06|100|00:14:16|240you can bring the particular signs that I discussed into relation with your sun sign Aries, let us say, 124|00:14:16|240|00:14:25|400and with your planetary ruler. The planetary ruler varies, being Mars in the orthodox sense. Now I'm 125|00:14:25|400|00:14:32|860not saying that this completely solves this difficult sentence — it really does not — but let's 126|00:14:32|860|00:14:39|420go through the soul rays and show the contrast. If you are a first-ray soul, we're going to look for a 127|00:14:39|420|00:14:46|960first-ray planet in an esoteric position, and we're going to find — we're going to find Taurus, where 128|00:14:46|960|00:14:53|480Vulcan rules esoterically, and we're going to find even Virgo, where Vulcan is veiled esoterically by 129|00:14:53|480|00:15:00|240the Moon, and we're going to find Pluto. We're going to find Scorpio, where Pluto is also associated in 130|00:15:00|240|00:15:07|240an esoteric sense. We may infer we're going to also find Pisces, where Pluto is the definite esoteric 131|00:15:07|240|00:15:18|820ruler. So first-ray personality — okay, we may be experiencing degraded audio, hopefully not. Okay, 132|00:15:20|780|00:15:30|680we're going to bring in those other signs when you have a first-ray soul. Did I say personality? 133|00:15:30|680|00:15:37|180I'm sorry, not personality. So if you're a first-ray soul, we're going to bring in those other signs in 134|00:15:37|180|00:15:45|400relation to Aries, and — and so we could go through all the different signs. Okay, if you're a second-ray 135|00:15:45|400|00:15:50|540soul, we're going to look for the place where a second-ray planet is the esoteric ruler, and 136|00:15:50|540|00:15:56|860we're going to find Leo — Leo veiling Neptune, the Sun getting Neptune in the esoteric position. We're 137|00:15:56|860|00:16:02|200also going to find Aquarius, where Jupiter, the second-ray planet, is in the esoteric position. So 138|00:16:02|200|00:16:09|560we're going to bring Aquarius and Leo into relationship with Aries for the second-ray soul 139|00:16:09|560|00:16:15|960who's born in Aries. Now exactly what this would mean would have to be worked out in the individual 140|00:16:15|960|00:16:24|480sense. Suppose you're a third-ray soul. We're going to look for third-ray planets. The esoteric 141|00:16:24|480|00:16:31|120planetary ruler for Aries is Mercury, so Mercury will naturally be related to whatever signs and 142|00:16:31|120|00:16:38|900planets we bring into consideration. Excuse me. So for the third ray, we're going to bring in 143|00:16:38|900|00:16:42|520Capricorn naturally because Saturn is the esoteric ruler. We're going to bring in Sagittarius because 144|00:16:42|520|00:16:48|480the Earth — third-ray Earth — is the esoteric ruler of Sagittarius, and that's all we can do at the 145|00:16:48|480|00:16:54|660moment. If it's the fourth ray — you're a fourth-ray soul — there's not many of them around at the moment, 146|00:16:54|660|00:17:03|220but we would bring in Aries, which of course is — it's in its own position, and we would bring in — 147|00:17:03|220|00:17:10|240hmm, that does seem to be maybe the only sign. Oh well, we could bring in the Moon. We could bring in 148|00:17:10|240|00:17:19|920the Moon as the esoteric ruler of Virgo, and I cannot think of anything else because Mercury is 149|00:17:19|920|00:17:25|700the esoteric ruler of Aries and the Moon — fourth-ray Moon — is the esoteric ruler of Virgo, although the 150|00:17:25|700|00:17:33|540Moon. It's hard to stretch it into an esoteric planet, yet it is. But really what it veils both 151|00:17:33|540|00:17:44|500Vulcan, fourth-ray Vulcan, in a way fourth-ray monad, and Neptune are really the power there in 152|00:17:44|500|00:17:49|180the esoteric position of Virgo. Suppose you're a fifth-ray soul. Well, we're going to look for a 153|00:17:49|180|00:17:52|860place where a fifth-ray planet, of which we only know Venus at the moment, is in the esoteric 154|00:17:52|860|00:17:57|700position. So we're going to look for Gemini, and we will bring in Gemini in relation to Aries. So 155|00:17:57|700|00:18:06|720Venus and Mercury will be related: Mercury as the esoteric ruler of Aries and Venus as the soul 156|00:18:06|720|00:18:13|760ray ruler which is ruling the sign Gemini esoterically. Suppose you're a sixth-ray soul. 157|00:18:13|760|00:18:19|400There are many of them at the moment. We're going to look for Mars and Neptune. We're going to find 158|00:18:19|400|00:18:24|800Mars in the esoteric position in Scorpio, and that's the only place we find it in an esoteric 159|00:18:24|800|00:18:30|340position. And we're going to look at Neptune in the esoteric position in Cancer. So Scorpio and Cancer 160|00:18:30|340|00:18:36|860would be brought in, and maybe Pisces, because it is a special type of ruler. Neptune is a special 161|00:18:36|860|00:18:43|600type of ruler in Pisces. When we're going to look for the seventh-ray souls, it's going to be Uranus. 162|00:18:44|200|00:18:48|920It's the only seventh-ray planet we're given, at least, although there are probably quite a few 163|00:18:48|920|00:18:55|940other seventh-ray planets in the 115 or so planets we have in our solar system. We're going to look 164|00:18:55|940|00:19:02|500for Libra because Uranus is the esoteric ruler of Libra, and we're going to bring Libra into relation 165|00:19:02|500|00:19:10|220with Scorpio and Uranus into relation with Mercury, the esoteric ruler of Aries. The rays 166|00:19:10|220|00:19:15|380which primarily express themselves through a particular sign—okay, there are two ways of 167|00:19:15|380|00:19:25|600expressing. One is constellational: you know, Ray 1 and 7 for Aries, Ray 4 for Taurus, Ray 2 for Gemini, 168|00:19:26|260|00:19:34|000Ray 3 and 7 for Cancer, Ray 1 and 5 for Leo, Rays 2 and 6 for Virgo, Ray 3 for Libra, Ray 4 for 169|00:19:34|000|00:19:45|000Scorpio, Rays 4, 5, 6 for Sagittarius, and Rays 1, 3 and 7 for 170|00:19:45|000|00:19:54|440Capricorn and Aquarius, Ray 5 for Pisces, Rays 2 and 6. Okay, those are the constellational expressions 171|00:19:54|440|00:20:02|800of the rays before we ever get to any planets. But then you look at the rulers, and for Aries, 172|00:20:02|800|00:20:10|700Rays 6 and 4 are expressing through Mars and Mercury. When you look at Taurus, Ray 5 and 1 173|00:20:10|700|00:20:16|700are expressing through Venus and Vulcan. You know, I'm giving you these rays and planets in their 174|00:20:16|700|00:20:22|760orthodox and then esoteric order. When it comes to Gemini, Ray 4 and 5 are expressing through Mercury 175|00:20:22|760|00:20:27|880and Venus. When it comes to Cancer, Ray 4 and 6 are expressing through the Moon and Neptune. When it 176|00:20:27|880|00:20:35|840comes to Leo, Ray 2 is expressing in both positions, but maybe the Sun is veiling Jupiter in the 177|00:20:35|840|00:20:41|280orthodox position, Ray 2, and the Sun is veiling Neptune in the esoteric position, Ray 6. When it 178|00:20:41|280|00:20:51|560comes to Virgo, we have Ray 4 and Ray 4 expressing respectively through Mercury and the Moon, 179|00:20:51|560|00:20:57|480but the Moon veils both Vulcan and Neptune, so Ray 1 and 6 are veiled by the fourth ray Moon. 180|00:20:57|880|00:21:03|360See, these are all rays that in a way can be said to be expressing through a particular sign, 181|00:21:03|360|00:21:11|360either directly or via its planetary rulers. When it comes to Libra, we have Ray 5 and Ray 7 182|00:21:11|360|00:21:18|520expressing respectively through Venus and Uranus. When it comes to Scorpio, we have Ray 6 and Ray 6 183|00:21:18|520|00:21:24|160through Mars and Mars, or Ray 1 and Ray 1 through Pluto and Pluto. When it comes to Sagittarius, we 184|00:21:24|160|00:21:29|520have Ray 2 and Ray 3 expressing through Jupiter and the Earth respectively. When it comes to 185|00:21:29|520|00:21:35|140Capricorn, we have Ray 3 and Ray 3 expressing through Saturn, which is both the orthodox and 186|00:21:35|140|00:21:41|220esoteric ruler. When it comes to Aquarius, we have Ray 7 and Ray 2 expressing respectively through 187|00:21:41|760|00:21:46|900Uranus and Jupiter. When it comes to Pisces, we have Ray 2 and Ray 1 expressing through 188|00:21:46|900|00:21:53|320Jupiter and Pluto, but remember that pervasive influence of Neptune. All these things 189|00:21:54|560|00:21:59|500should be memorized, obviously. You know, I've been studying this stuff for a long time— 190|00:22:00|100|00:22:11|200maybe astrology for 45, 46 years, yeah, something like that. So obviously, you know, the memorization, 191|00:22:11|200|00:22:16|780when you use it that way, the memorization comes along. But, you know, although it may seem a little 192|00:22:16|780|00:22:23|300tedious at first, memorize these things. Memorize the orthodox positions, and of course the new 193|00:22:23|300|00:22:28|500positions should be memorized as well, and then you'll be able to use them with greater facility. 194|00:22:28|500|00:22:33|400So we're dealing with the rays which primarily express themselves through a particular sign. The 195|00:22:33|400|00:22:45|460clue to which sign it may be is found in the orthodox planetary ruler, where the personality 196|00:22:45|460|00:22:53|840ray is concerned and the esoteric planetary ruler where the soul is concerned. Now, another 197|00:22:53|840|00:23:03|800way of looking at this is we may be looking at the soul ray ruler, which… um, yeah, planetary ruler. 198|00:23:03|800|00:23:15|440Yeah, so, you know, um, I think I've… I think I've given this basically. You know, let's say I'm a 199|00:23:15|440|00:23:22|940uh, fourth ray personality, so I will look for that fourth ray which sign may be involved. Well, 200|00:23:23|540|00:23:32|900that fourth ray will take me and my personality to Cancer, probably. It certainly could easily 201|00:23:32|900|00:23:43|960take me to Virgo or to Gemini: Gemini, Virgo, Cancer. Gemini, Virgo ruled by fourth ray Mercury, and the 202|00:23:43|960|00:23:50|720fourth ray, uh, Cancer ruled by the fourth ray Moon. Now, is it a particular sign which is most 203|00:23:50|720|00:23:58|820important in relating to that particular fourth ray personality for me? Is it a particular sign 204|00:23:58|820|00:24:07|540of those three which have fourth ray orthodox rulers? Well, I would have to ponder on this 205|00:24:07|540|00:24:15|480and see, or are all three involved? Um, now, since I have Cancer rising anyway, Cancer is an important 206|00:24:15|480|00:24:21|080sign, and since I believe I'm a secondary soul, then Gemini and Virgo, two secondary signs, are 207|00:24:21|080|00:24:28|800important anyway. Now, let's say I'm a secondary soul and I'm born in Aries. Okay, um, I'm going to, 208|00:24:28|800|00:24:35|960let's say, look at Leo for an esoteric ruler. I'm going to look at Aquarius. Leo and Aquarius are 209|00:24:35|960|00:24:41|960going to be two important signs for me, and just what happens: in my conception chart and 210|00:24:41|960|00:24:50|100animation chart, these are inner charts, one or the other is the rising sign for me. And then, in some 211|00:24:50|100|00:24:54|920way, I'm going to attempt to relate to Mercury, which is the esoteric ruler to that particular 212|00:24:54|920|00:25:01|200soul position. There are so many ways we can combine these energies, you know. When you're 213|00:25:01|840|00:25:08|500your soul condition, you look at your soul ray, you look at your rising sign, you look at the 214|00:25:08|500|00:25:14|720esoteric ruler of your rising sign. In my case, let's just say it's a soul ray two, Cancer rising, 215|00:25:14|720|00:25:21|120esoteric ruler is Neptune. Those energies should be put together, but it is possible that some other 216|00:25:21|120|00:25:29|100signs are expressing through the, um, the secondary soul in some way, expressing through the secondary 217|00:25:29|100|00:25:36|660soul. And we could look at the Sun veiling Neptune in Leo, because the Sun is second ray, the Neptune 218|00:25:36|660|00:25:44|440is sixth ray, but it is the, uh, the veiled esoteric ruler. And we can look at Jupiter conveying the 219|00:25:44|440|00:25:52|160second ray esoterically Aquarius. So maybe, as sub-themes, these particular astrological 220|00:25:52|160|00:25:59|740uh, signs of the zodiac are accompanying or qualifying or in some way influencing the 221|00:25:59|740|00:26:06|640expression of the secondary soul in this particular, uh, incarnation. But all of this 222|00:26:06|640|00:26:13|400will require that we ponder on it, you know. There's no way that we can penetrate with absoluteness 223|00:26:13|400|00:26:22|120such a sentence as this. Various theories can be offered. Earlier, in a number of webinars ago, 224|00:26:22|120|00:26:28|360I talked about taking your soul ray ruler, which is the sacred planet which conveys your soul ray, 225|00:26:28|360|00:26:35|580and looking at the sign from which that soul ray ruler rules. In my case, it would be Aquarius. 226|00:26:35|580|00:26:40|680Well, Aquarius is strong in my chart anyway, but perhaps there's a particular Aquarian theme coming 227|00:26:40|680|00:26:48|060in via the second ray soul, because the soul ray ruler is related to a particular sign, in this case 228|00:26:48|060|00:26:58|820Aquarius. We have such a great many energies to deal with, and, you know, we can fill the mind with 229|00:26:58|820|00:27:04|940all possible correlations and links and so forth, but the question is: is it detectable, detectable 230|00:27:04|940|00:27:11|620in life, and is it working out in some way that is noticeable in life? This is a very important issue, 231|00:27:12|140|00:27:22|000and we can only ponder, we can only ponder on it. One thing we do know is that it is far 232|00:27:22|000|00:27:29|620too simple to say that if you are born in a particular sign, the exoteric planetary ruler of 233|00:27:29|620|00:27:36|460that sign and its ray tell you about your personality ray. It may be the case; it may not be the case. 234|00:27:37|060|00:27:42|560And if you are, let's say, a disciple and you were born in a particular 235|00:27:42|560|00:27:48|800sign, that the esoteric planetary ruler and its ray will tell you about your personality ray. Again, 236|00:27:48|800|00:27:54|540I say personality ray; I don't say soul ray, because when I look at the horoscope, there are only 237|00:27:55|420|00:28:01|540tentative speculations about how to determine the soul ray from a horoscope. I think most of what 238|00:28:01|540|00:28:07|940I've seen is not convincing, you know. It's like an astrologer I knew who said, “Okay, if you're a 239|00:28:08|960|00:28:16|320if you are a Scorpio rising person, you definitely, and you're a disciple, you definitely have a fourth 240|00:28:16|320|00:28:23|000ray soul.” No, that's, you know, that's absurd. It cannot be the case. There are so few fourth 241|00:28:23|000|00:28:28|560ray souls in incarnation and so many Scorpio rising people at the moment, it just wouldn't be 242|00:28:28|560|00:28:34|060possible. It's the same as saying if you've got Aries rising, you've got a first ray, you've got 243|00:28:34|060|00:28:39|240a first ray soul, or maybe a seventh ray soul. What about all those other soul rays who are born with 244|00:28:39|240|00:28:46|720Aries rising? It just doesn't make sense. So, you know, ponder on this. It is the master who often 245|00:28:46|720|00:28:52|920seeks to produce perplexity in his student, and we are all students of Master D.K. And then, you know, 246|00:28:52|920|00:28:57|620the obvious will dawn. And we've been looking at the sentence for many, many years, and then suddenly 247|00:28:57|620|00:29:10|180the obvious will dawn. Well, all of you can have your crack at trying to decipher this. Let's just 248|00:29:10|180|00:29:18|780say, you know, that one of the probably convincing possibilities is to look with respect to your 249|00:29:18|780|00:29:29|040soul ray to the sign which the soul ray ruler rules esoterically. As I said before, 250|00:29:29|040|00:29:33|880Jupiter is related to the second ray soul. It's the esoteric planet of the second ray, 251|00:29:33|880|00:29:41|400and look to Aquarius where it is the ruler, and just see how that may be coming in 252|00:29:41|400|00:29:51|860through your soul. Because after all, through a planet, many signs' lords of constellations do 253|00:29:51|860|00:29:57|860channel their energy through Jupiter. Certainly the lord of Sagittarius and lord of Pisces is 254|00:29:57|860|00:30:06|100channeling the energy, and maybe you will be most sensitive to that type of energy when Jupiter 255|00:30:06|580|00:30:12|700is prominent in your chart or being accented in some particular way, or, you know, when it moves into 256|00:30:13|580|00:30:19|020a particular angle or aspect of something of that nature. And you'll feel, “Oh, the Sagittarian 257|00:30:19|020|00:30:25|500energy is coming through my Jupiter. This Pisces energy is coming through.” But maybe as a disciple, 258|00:30:27|540|00:30:32|960you know, who is responding more to the soul, you will feel Aquarian energy coming through 259|00:30:32|960|00:30:39|020Jupiter. And maybe as an initiate, you will feel more Virgo energy since Jupiter is the 260|00:30:39|020|00:30:44|280hierarchical ruler of Virgo. Maybe you'll feel more Virgo energy coming in, and it will be more 261|00:30:44|280|00:30:49|380monadic and have more to do with the fulfillment of the Christ energy or something of that nature. 262|00:30:49|980|00:30:59|540So intricate is this study. It is intricate and subtle, and as D.K. promised us, you know, “I'm telling 263|00:30:59|540|00:31:07|940you about the ABCs,” he said. Okay? And certainly when we begin to dig into some of the issues here, 264|00:31:07|940|00:31:13|660we realize, yes, the ABCs are what are being revealed to us at the moment. And we—but it's 265|00:31:13|660|00:31:20|620the seed of the new astrology, and we are required to think about it. We're asked to think about it 266|00:31:20|620|00:31:29|120and to ponder and to ponder with the illumined mind on these things. Now, okay, um, D.K. is perhaps 267|00:31:30|540|00:31:37|080getting ready to move on towards Pisces. We will see. Here he says, “Before taking up these matters 268|00:31:37|080|00:31:43|900in connection with Pisces, there are one or two points on which I would like to touch. I have to 269|00:31:43|900|00:31:49|880take up certain problems as they may arise in the consciousness of the inquirers and the students 270|00:31:49|880|00:31:57|420because it is impossible to handle them all at once in the introductory remarks.” He's a wise 271|00:31:57|420|00:32:02|420teacher, Master D.K.—wiser than I am, that's for sure—because he says, “The confusion would 272|00:32:03|310|00:32:10|460then be well-nigh insuperable in the mind of the inquirer.” And hopefully, in this—in these sort of 273|00:32:10|460|00:32:16|680webinar presentations, I have not created insuperable confusion in the mind of the 274|00:32:16|680|00:32:25|500listeners. I hope not. What I'm trying to do is kind of download the many relations I've thought 275|00:32:25|500|00:32:30|060about in relation to astrology over many years. And of course, I don't really know what I'm going 276|00:32:30|060|00:32:37|720to say next, um, I don't know what will come to mind—perhaps many old thoughts, perhaps some new 277|00:32:37|720|00:32:42|640connections, perhaps even an intuition here or there. Could happen. Hopefully the confusion is 278|00:32:44|520|00:32:52|420not insuperable. “Little by little we will deal with the various debatable points, and if you will have 279|00:32:52|420|00:32:58|780patience and hold back partisan conclusions”—because after all, there are many convinced 280|00:32:58|780|00:33:06|040orthodox astrologers who just know astrology is thus and so, and it would disrupt their world view 281|00:33:06|040|00:33:15|200to consider it any other way. So he's asking a patience and testing of his proposals in a 282|00:33:15|200|00:33:20|960fifth-ray scientific manner. “If you will have patience and hold back the partisan conclusions, 283|00:33:20|960|00:33:26|200the picture of the new astrology will begin to emerge more clearly in your mind.” I must say it's 284|00:33:26|200|00:33:32|180been true for me. When I first began to read esoteric astrology, it was a wide gulf between 285|00:33:32|180|00:33:39|360the reading of that book and the astrology that I thought I knew, um, although fortunately not too 286|00:33:39|360|00:33:46|060many years had elapsed between my studying astrology seriously—I suppose since 1965— 287|00:33:46|640|00:33:57|520and running into esoteric astrology as a book in the late 60s and beginning to study it seriously. 288|00:33:57|520|00:34:02|240in the early 70s and so forth, so not too many years had elapsed and still there was a lot of 289|00:34:02|240|00:34:10|120debris in my mind, a lot of formulations which were fairly concrete in which I believed 290|00:34:10|120|00:34:16|960fairly strongly and which had to be destroyed or dissolved or somehow reinterpreted. So the picture 291|00:34:16|960|00:34:22|120of the new astrology will begin to emerge more clearly in your minds. At present, the readjustment 292|00:34:23|300|00:34:29|980of your ideas will lead to inevitable temporary bewilderment—lost in the forest. 293|00:34:30|540|00:34:41|780Um, but you know, many of you who have the temerity to download these webinars have studied esoteric 294|00:34:41|780|00:34:48|000astrology from the Tibetan for a fairly long time, and so perhaps your bewilderment will be less, and 295|00:34:48|000|00:34:57|600perhaps as we go through this treatise in what I hope is a very careful word-for-word, paragraph by 296|00:34:57|600|00:35:03|820paragraph manner, finding our associations, new thoughts about it will dawn, new insights will 297|00:35:03|820|00:35:13|380dawn, and we will be doing our part to prepare for the new dispensation of esoteric astrology 298|00:35:13|380|00:35:24|140in 2025 and following. Uh, if I can just speak to that for just a moment, the year is 2025, 299|00:35:24|140|00:35:35|900and um, how many… yes, here it is. I can, however… page 589… um, 300|00:35:39|340|00:35:43|660“I can, however, attempt to give you certain concepts, relationships and parallels 301|00:35:43|660|00:35:51|200which may serve to close this section on astrology and lay the foundation for future 302|00:35:51|200|00:36:01|400teaching around the year 2025. That is the mode whereby all revelation comes: a thought is given, 303|00:36:01|400|00:36:05|800the symbol described, an idea portrayed. Then, as the minds of men ponder upon it and the 304|00:36:05|800|00:36:10|300intuitives of the world pick up the thought, it serves as a needed seed thought which eventually 305|00:36:10|300|00:36:16|300comes to fruition with the presentation and unfolding of revelation which serves to lead 306|00:36:16|300|00:36:26|800the race of men near the goal.” Future teaching around 2025. Now I'm also going to… um, try here: 2025 307|00:36:28|040|00:36:39|260astrology. Oh, there's only one—that's the only one. Uh, uh, yet let's see about that one. 308|00:36:40|140|00:36:51|980Um, “next four decades until 2025.” Okay, yeah, that's the one: “to lay a foundation for future teaching 309|00:36:53|400|00:37:01|200around the year 2025.” And this, you know, presumably is teaching on astrology because we're dealing 310|00:37:01|200|00:37:08|900with astrology to lay a foundation. So I believe that astrology will be one of the first things to 311|00:37:08|900|00:37:17|340come forth in Master D.K.'s new dispensation. Um, you know, what can we do about that? I mean, you know, some 312|00:37:17|340|00:37:24|840of us will be around, some may not. We can prepare. How do we prepare? We prepare through 313|00:37:24|840|00:37:30|280assimilation. We've been given so much—it's extraordinary. You know, the farther you go, the 314|00:37:30|280|00:37:37|280more you realize how much you've been given. It's staggering, and, uh, our assimilative abilities are 315|00:37:37|280|00:37:44|040relatively small. But what do we do? We exercise them and bring them into our consciousness and 316|00:37:44|040|00:37:53|120attempt to apply them—apply what we assimilate—and, uh, reinterpret the world in terms 317|00:37:53|120|00:38:01|120of the new astrological and race science which we make our own, part of our own mind and consciousness, 318|00:38:01|120|00:38:08|800and do this assiduously until the year 2025 and maybe beyond, because even if things start in 2025, 319|00:38:08|800|00:38:13|760it'll be a while before those books or presentations, in whatever form they are, 320|00:38:13|760|00:38:20|780make their way, uh, into the world. You know, the teaching is to go forth over the radio. Well, okay, 321|00:38:20|780|00:38:27|400I consider these webinars to be radio. Uh, you know, radio is a symbol for mass communications. 322|00:38:27|400|00:38:34|260But what I'm trying to do is promote assimilation, to promote intelligent speculation. I'm not 323|00:38:34|260|00:38:40|420pretending that what I'm giving is the new astrology. I'm just… Master D.K. gave us something, 324|00:38:41|240|00:38:46|640and I'm trying to understand it and work with you so that you can understand it more deeply as well. 325|00:38:46|640|00:38:54|580And I'm ready to be surprised by what he himself will bring forth in the year 2025—around the year 326|00:38:54|580|00:39:04|5002025—and it, I'm sure, it will be additional to what has been given thus far. There are some 327|00:39:04|500|00:39:09|220few unpublished writings which are now out there, and they have to do with the point opposite the 328|00:39:09|220|00:39:18|420sun sign as the monadic point, and they have to do with some meditations which he gave but didn't 329|00:39:18|420|00:39:24|780fully give, and so forth. But that's not what I expect the new astrology to be—that's part of it, 330|00:39:24|780|00:39:32|360that's part of it, only a little part of it. Our task is not to project about what he will say 331|00:39:32|360|00:39:42|620when he says it. Our task is to assimilate, absorb, apply, integrate what already has been given. 332|00:39:43|180|00:39:50|060That takes a lot of work, doesn't it? A lot of work. And we have to… by our experience, we choose how 333|00:39:50|060|00:39:59|080we spend our time. You know, I feel a great urgency in trying to tackle some of these books. By that, I 334|00:39:59|080|00:40:04|140mean just share my understanding of them in a fairly spontaneous manner. I've spent many years 335|00:40:04|140|00:40:10|940writing books with exact thought, you know, as much exactitude of thought as I could 336|00:40:11|460|00:40:17|760manage. But it's a slow process, and time being what it is or isn't, I feel it's best to 337|00:40:18|600|00:40:23|640try to reach you with what spontaneously comes to mind. There are other books that I would like 338|00:40:23|640|00:40:28|540to talk through as well. There are sections in the Raves and Initiations which I would like to speak 339|00:40:28|540|00:40:33|980about, sections from the Old Commentary I'd like to write about, or rather, you know, talk about. 340|00:40:33|980|00:40:41|300You know, Mercury on the Midheaven—that's how it is in Aries—and I've done a lot in Cosmic Fire 341|00:40:41|300|00:40:47|220so far, but that's more in exactitude, exactitude of thought. Maybe there's another hundred pages which 342|00:40:47|220|00:40:52|680need that exactitude of thought treatment, the written treatment. Let's see if we can get through 343|00:40:52|680|00:40:59|360astrology. Probably be, you know, some three or three hundred and fifty, three hundred and fifty of these 344|00:40:59|360|00:41:04|800one-hour programs. Who will have the endurance to live through that, especially with a talkative 345|00:41:04|800|00:41:13|720teacher? I don't know, but all right, we'll see. One of the questions which normally arises might be 346|00:41:13|720|00:41:18|960expressed as follows and was so expressed by an interested astrological student, probably one of 347|00:41:18|960|00:41:25|280the people in the Arcane School, you know, something like that. He was closely related to Dane Rudhyar, 348|00:41:25|280|00:41:30|200very, you know, wonderful astrologer and friend of Alice Bailey and a true world disciple and 349|00:41:30|200|00:41:35|140therefore an initiate of the third degree, as far as I can see. It involved the following inquiry: 350|00:41:36|800|00:41:43|120“Granted the inevitability of a man eventually reversing the mode of his passage through the 351|00:41:43|120|00:41:49|62012 signs, at what time in and what sign does the sun reverse?” Whoop! Oh, the sun doesn't reverse, does 352|00:41:49|620|00:41:56|120it? So this is going to betray some sort of misunderstanding. The sun does not reverse at all. 353|00:41:56|120|00:42:03|420The sun can be found in any sign. It's just how you respond to it, isn't it? “At what point in the 354|00:42:03|420|00:42:10|240swing of the zodiac can this reversal in the sun itself be seen taking place?” So, you know, it's a 355|00:42:10|240|00:42:18|420very literal type of question, isn't it? And it's non-astronomical, very literal and non-astronomical, 356|00:42:19|060|00:42:25|980isn't it? Well, D.K. says, “Unless you have some grasp of the nature of the great illusion of the 357|00:42:26|820|00:42:33|120constitution of the sun”—because the sun is so much more than it appears to be, and we hardly know, in a 358|00:42:33|120|00:42:41|460way, even what it is externally. There are types of states of matter in the sun which we have 359|00:42:41|460|00:42:47|240not yet recognized—“it will be hard for you to understand the significance of my reply. 360|00:42:47|740|00:42:54|400The sun to which you are referring is the physical sun and its apparent path in the heavens.” What is 361|00:42:54|400|00:43:03|940the apparent path? The apparent path is the zodiac. It's the zodiac, and there is—we know it's an 362|00:43:03|940|00:43:10|820illusory path because it's the earth; it's revolving around the sun, and it's just a seeming that occurs. 363|00:43:11|380|00:43:19|800“This appearance will not outwardly change.” The appearance of the sun against certain constellations 364|00:43:20|500|00:43:27|520and against different sections of the earth's orbit will not outwardly change. Here is the 365|00:43:27|520|00:43:32|200statement of importance: “The real sun under which our planetary life will eventually function 366|00:43:32|900|00:43:39|560and to which response will be made is the heart of the sun.” The heart of the sun—okay, this is the 367|00:43:39|560|00:43:44|640second level of the sun. The second level rulership of Leo tells us something about it, because it is 368|00:43:44|640|00:43:52|820the sun veiling Neptune, and Neptune is associated with the heart of the sun and is the repository of 369|00:43:52|820|00:44:00|360the solar flames. Neptune is a great second ray monadic planet. Heart of the sun is analogous to 370|00:44:00|360|00:44:07|000our own soul nature on the higher mental plane, and the true heart of the sun, which most of the 371|00:44:07|900|00:44:13|500definitions and references point to, is the soul nature of the Solar Logos found on the higher 372|00:44:13|500|00:44:20|980mental plane—his own egoic lotus and his own consciousness, that consciousness of the divine 373|00:44:20|980|00:44:28|500sun of love in our solar system with its second ray soul. So the heart of the sun is what we have 374|00:44:28|500|00:44:35|180to learn to respond to, and just the way we have to learn how to respond to the soul. The 375|00:44:35|180|00:44:43|460physical sun has a very important effect upon the etheric physical vehicle and upon the entire solar 376|00:44:43|460|00:44:55|240system, which is cosmically etheric and physical, but it is not the major focus of the occultist's 377|00:44:56|780|00:45:03|920response or cultivated response. When that is controlling the heart of the sun, the spiritual 378|00:45:03|920|00:45:10|800man will then live a dual life simultaneously, which is ever the problem of the man who is 379|00:45:10|800|00:45:17|500illumined by the soul as well as by the light of day. The Scorpio type of light is called the 380|00:45:17|500|00:45:27|180light of day, but in this particular… excuse me, talking too fast. Okay, in this particular case, 381|00:45:27|180|00:45:32|700the light of day seems to be a more external type of light. It doesn't mean the light of the buddhic 382|00:45:32|700|00:45:37|720plane as it should mean in relation to Scorpio, when all illusion is overcome and the height is 383|00:45:37|720|00:45:42|740lifted high into the buddhic light of day. On the other hand, the Scorpio person has to take all 384|00:45:42|740|00:45:49|140problems and work them out right here on the systemic physical plane, which in another way can 385|00:45:49|140|00:45:54|820be considered the light of day. So we have to learn how to be in this world and yet not of it, to live 386|00:45:54|820|00:46:01|360the dual life of discipleship, to live simultaneously through the lower and higher pairs of opposites, to 387|00:46:01|360|00:46:08|240live the personality life and the soul life. It's a Geminian problem. It's also a problem undertaken 388|00:46:08|240|00:46:16|840in Virgo, where there is a fusion of these two types of man: the higher ego is man, 389|00:46:16|840|00:46:22|600and the personality is man. Okay, so when the heart of the sun is controlling, the spiritual man 390|00:46:23|120|00:46:28|040will then live a dual life simultaneously. The true spiritual man is the monad—the monad in extension, 391|00:46:28|040|00:46:35|740the monad in any state of immersion. So, you know, most people are living quite a unitary, 392|00:46:35|740|00:46:43|300a single life within their personality, and which they consider to be kind of an unalterable unit, 393|00:46:43|300|00:46:52|220and they don't have the experience of communicating with that inner and higher self. So we, on the other 394|00:46:52|220|00:46:58|500hand, as disciples, have to be illumined by that which the soul knows, by that which we are as a 395|00:46:58|500|00:47:04|700soul, and also by that which we are as a personality in the light of day on the outer planes in our 396|00:47:04|700|00:47:10|540objective life. And this dual life, says the Tibetan, will consist of our apparent experience 397|00:47:10|540|00:47:24|480in situations. Notice he hints at the illusion here—D.K. hints at the illusory nature of our 398|00:47:25|420|00:47:36|780experience within the lower three worlds—and our inner spiritual soul awareness, 399|00:47:36|780|00:47:41|700which we are all attempting to cultivate, especially through meditation, through deep 400|00:47:41|700|00:47:49|480study, and through the sense of the presence of the soul which occurs when service is truly given 401|00:47:49|480|00:47:56|720in the spontaneous spiritual sense. The personality will still respond to the influences coming to it 402|00:47:56|720|00:48:02|780from the physical sun, because in a way the physical sun is very active with respect to 403|00:48:02|780|00:48:08|920entire solar system. And where is that solar system found? On the cosmic ethers and the cosmic 404|00:48:09|780|00:48:15|220dense physical body of the solar Logos. So certainly the personality, which exists within 405|00:48:15|220|00:48:22|260the dense physical body of the solar Logos, will respond to the physical sun. But the motivated life 406|00:48:22|260|00:48:26|980activity and the subjective experience of the inner man will be conditioned by energies coming 407|00:48:26|980|00:48:34|120to him from the heart of the sun—i.e., from the higher cosmic mental plane. And one wonders, you 408|00:48:34|120|00:48:45|060know, let's just say the Buddha—that's Buddha—the Buddha had a cosmic mental touch, as we are 409|00:48:45|060|00:48:51|100told, touching the cosmic mental plane. Did he touch the solar angelic realm of that greater 410|00:48:51|100|00:48:56|100solar angel which is the solar angel for the solar Logos? Did he touch the higher cosmic mental plane? 411|00:48:56|100|00:49:01|940This is not given, but he did touch the cosmic mental plane at some point. That is the heart 412|00:49:01|940|00:49:06|540of the sun. There's also something called occasionally the subjective sun. It has something 413|00:49:06|540|00:49:14|600to do with the astral nature, the astral body on the cosmic mental plane—cosmic astral plane, 414|00:49:14|600|00:49:20|040excuse me—the cosmic astral plane of our solar Logos, sometimes called the subjective sun. Though 415|00:49:20|040|00:49:25|620sometimes the term “subjective sun” does refer to the heart of the sun. We have to follow D.K.'s 416|00:49:25|620|00:49:31|940terminology very carefully, because, you know, it changes around, and you have to study the context 417|00:49:31|940|00:49:42|400to see what he's really talking about. Okay, so the subjective experience of the inner man—and that 418|00:49:42|400|00:49:46|380doesn't mean just the psychological experience, because that's personal—we're talking about that 419|00:49:46|380|00:49:52|880which occurs on our higher mental plane, our systemic higher mental plane and beyond. The 420|00:49:52|880|00:49:56|800subjective experience of the inner man will be conditioned by energies coming to him from the 421|00:49:56|800|00:50:03|140heart of the sun, which will affect his soul nature. I would here recall to your minds the 422|00:50:03|140|00:50:09|740teaching of the ageless wisdom as given in The Secret Doctrine—a wonderful book which should be 423|00:50:09|740|00:50:17|820used for more than opening doors. You know, opening doors, keeping them open—heavy books are good for 424|00:50:17|820|00:50:25|460doors open. Well, anyway, The Secret Doctrine should be read and not just allowed to sit on 425|00:50:25|460|00:50:30|420a shelf one day, it could fall off and hit us on the head. Well, that might not be a bad thing. 426|00:50:30|900|00:50:34|940I would here recall to your minds the teaching of the Ageless Wisdom as given in The Secret Doctrine 427|00:50:34|940|00:50:43|400and elaborated by me in my later books, that the sun has to be discovered and known in its triple 428|00:50:43|400|00:50:52|660nature, which is threefold as is the Trinity. So this is the triple sun of astrology, um, 429|00:50:53|500|00:50:59|620that term kind of emphasized by a number of astrologers, including Steven Pew. As I said, a very 430|00:50:59|620|00:51:05|820insightful and pioneering astrologer, uh, the triple sun meaning the personality nature 431|00:51:06|440|00:51:13|020represented by the position of the sun in your horoscope, the soul nature represented, uh, or 432|00:51:13|020|00:51:20|360indicated at least by the ascendant in your horoscope, and the monadic, uh, sun which is 433|00:51:20|360|00:51:26|480related to the point opposite the sun sign in your horoscope. That whole relationship between 434|00:51:27|070|00:51:34|360your sun sign and the opposite point is like an anticorona with the sun, the actual 435|00:51:34|360|00:51:39|060sun in the sky being at the bottom of the anticorona within the personality, and the highest 436|00:51:39|060|00:51:47|440point or the monadic point indicated by the point opposite the sun. But in a way, 437|00:51:48|100|00:51:54|680your personality, your soul, your monad, they are all suns, and that's another way to look at the 438|00:51:54|680|00:52:03|000triple sun in your horoscope. The triple sun, and we have to, uh, devise a triangular 439|00:52:03|000|00:52:07|720relationship between all of them. A lot can be learned for the advanced individual when he looks 440|00:52:07|720|00:52:12|420at the relationship between the sun sign, his ascendant, and the point opposite the sun. That 441|00:52:12|420|00:52:20|740will in most cases produce a kind of triangle. And even if two of the factors are the same, even if 442|00:52:20|740|00:52:26|220three of the factors are the same… Say you're born with the sun and… Well, three of the factors can't 443|00:52:26|220|00:52:30|940be the same because there's always going to be a point opposite your sun sign. But two of the factors 444|00:52:30|940|00:52:38|760can be the same. For instance, your rising sign can be the same as the point opposite the 445|00:52:38|760|00:52:46|540sun sign. But we will just create a triangle by interpreting these points at different levels of 446|00:52:46|540|00:52:54|820expression and in relation to different dimensions. Okay, so work with that particular triangle, 447|00:52:55|540|00:53:01|460and that is the trinity in every individual horoscope, and it is foundational. It is 448|00:53:01|460|00:53:05|980fundamental. It is the thing which we should always have in mind. You know, there are many, 449|00:53:05|980|00:53:11|000many details in astrology. They are quite amazing, quite interesting. You can get lost in them. But 450|00:53:11|000|00:53:17|440we should use astrology as a firm spiritual guide to tell us how to integrate and master 451|00:53:17|440|00:53:22|160our personality, how to express our soul in a particular incarnation, and if we are sufficiently 452|00:53:22|160|00:53:28|720advanced, how to bring the spirit into expression in a particular incarnation via particular sign 453|00:53:28|720|00:53:36|040and planet and house position. We can know our soul ray ruler. Say if your secondary soul is Jupiter, 454|00:53:36|040|00:53:46|260let us say. But do we know our monadic ray ruler? That is the question. So, you know, most of us are 455|00:53:46|260|00:53:52|140third or second ray monads. Maybe there are a few first ray monads. So basically, either Jupiter or 456|00:53:52|140|00:54:03|440Saturn is the monadic ray ruler, and for most people in these groups… Oh, that gets complicated. I don't want to get into that too much because it seems that we have two monadic rays. 457|00:54:04|380|00:54:08|720The first sub-level can be any one of the seven monadic rays, and the final monadic ray 458|00:54:08|720|00:54:14|380has to be one, two, or three. It seems to be the case, but we will know more about that 459|00:54:15|140|00:54:22|920as time unfolds. The tabulation below may serve to make this idea somewhat clear. So the physical sun 460|00:54:23|840|00:54:29|780is related to the mutable cross, and it influences the mutable cross. The sun sign indicating the 461|00:54:29|780|00:54:34|360personality indicates the mutable cross. Maybe I can make… If I just make these a little 462|00:54:35|620|00:54:41|060smaller, there's a possibility that it may look more like a tabulation. In the last analysis, yes, 463|00:54:41|060|00:54:50|220it kind of does. So the physical sun represents the form and the personality, and it influences 464|00:54:50|220|00:54:55|880the mutable cross. So for so many years, many, many years, you have to study your sun sign above all 465|00:54:55|880|00:55:02|020to find out who you are, because the rising sign will only give physical and personal indications. 466|00:55:02|020|00:55:08|740Now let's be, you know, let's be astute about this. The rising sign is effective even in the 467|00:55:08|740|00:55:13|520non-spiritual person, and it does have a definite connection with your physical body and with your 468|00:55:13|520|00:55:20|860health and with your personality. There are many people studying astrology who think that the 469|00:55:20|860|00:55:25|720sun sign is the real thing and the rising sign is just a mask. That was one of the ideas of which I 470|00:55:25|720|00:55:32|440had to disabuse myself when I first started studying astrology. You know, it's not really true. 471|00:55:34|020|00:55:42|280But it is very physical in a certain respect and very personal, so even the personal, even 472|00:55:42|280|00:55:48|720the spiritual points can be interpreted in a personal way, and even the sacred planets 473|00:55:50|000|00:55:55|280have… the sacred planets have personal and non-sacred meanings because the energy will 474|00:55:55|280|00:55:59|840be adapted to the kind of form through which you are expressing. The heart of the sun represents 475|00:55:59|840|00:56:05|980soul consciousness, and it influences the fixed cross. The soul influences the fixed cross, 476|00:56:06|880|00:56:13|240and the heart of the sun energy pouring through the ego on the higher mental plane will 477|00:56:13|840|00:56:20|120influence the soul in incarnation and make it stronger and stronger and help it dis-identify 478|00:56:20|800|00:56:28|320from the circumstantial entanglements in the lower three worlds. As far as the central spiritual sun 479|00:56:28|880|00:56:38|140goes, it is representing the life or being or will, and the central spiritual sun is your monad, really. 480|00:56:38|140|00:56:43|920Well, actually that's your microcosmic central spiritual sun. The macrocosmic central spiritual 481|00:56:43|920|00:56:50|900sun in relation to our solar system is the monadic nature of our solar Logos, and it is 482|00:56:50|900|00:56:57|120found to be influencing upon the cardinal cross when we have jettisoned so many of the different 483|00:56:57|120|00:57:02|620stages of involvement and find ourselves at the sixth initiation as a liberated monad. 484|00:57:03|460|00:57:11|440That's a ways ahead for all of us, I'm sure. So this is the triple sun, and 485|00:57:12|260|00:57:17|600right now most of us are trying to establish ourselves in causal consciousness and soul 486|00:57:17|600|00:57:23|300consciousness, unitive consciousness, a consciousness which is not selfish but has 487|00:57:23|300|00:57:28|340the element of love expressed through one of seven rays and is working in response to the 488|00:57:28|340|00:57:36|300divine plan and attempting to intuit somewhat of the divine purpose. All right, yes, we are at 489|00:57:36|300|00:57:44|760that point. Okay, so this is the end of… oh, are we going to go through this with the… okay, looks like 490|00:57:44|760|00:57:49|520we're going to go through this again. Yes, the disappearing screen. It seems to be saying, “Oh, 491|00:57:49|520|00:57:56|880the computer is too clogged and please start me again and clean me out.” I've cleaned it out, but 492|00:57:57|740|00:58:05|960it seems to want to pull a blank on me here, which is, you know, unfortunate because it takes up a 493|00:58:05|960|00:58:17|300little bit of time. But then, what is time anyway? They say time is of the essence. Time is creation. 494|00:58:19|200|00:58:30|100Is time then and form agree? Being and time do not agree. So creation descends to manifest. 495|00:58:32|260|00:58:37|840Being descends to manifest. Creation is time then and form agree. Being in time do not agree. 496|00:58:38|740|00:58:43|440We have to master time. It seems to be much more difficult than to master space. I think the 497|00:58:43|440|00:58:51|380mastery of space is kind of a first project. Interestingly though, space is more connected 498|00:58:51|380|00:58:57|760with second-ray Jupiter in time with third-ray Saturn, but also with first-ray Saturn from a 499|00:58:57|760|00:59:04|140certain perspective. Well, obviously I'm stalling for time here while my computer runs through its 500|00:59:04|140|00:59:13|100antics, philosophical on the spur of the moment. So this is the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure 50… 501|00:59:13|440|00:59:24|140one, and how far have we gotten? We started on page 110 or so, and oh goodness, we made it to page 111. 502|00:59:24|140|00:59:32|900That's because I conducted a little bit of a review there: 110, which was reviewed, to 111, and 503|00:59:32|900|00:59:43|520we're quite close, I think, to 112, going at the rate of approximately two pages per webinar. 504|00:59:44|740|00:59:54|100Yes, we're almost there at 112. Okay, good. So let us then… let us do The Great Invocation together, 505|00:59:54|100|01:00:05|140and from the point of light within… right, let us do that. 506|01:00:11|780|01:00:12|580Oh. 507|01:00:21|180|01:00:25|060From the point of light within the mind of God, 508|01:00:25|060|01:00:31|280let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. 509|01:00:34|380|01:00:40|080From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. 510|01:00:40|080|01:00:49|380May Christ return to Earth. From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose 511|01:00:49|380|01:00:55|220guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. 512|01:00:59|480|01:01:04|280From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light 513|01:01:05|040|01:01:08|820work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 514|01:01:13|380|01:01:18|740Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. 515|01:01:30|860|01:01:32|260Oh. 516|01:01:38|980|01:01:40|380Oh. 517|01:01:58|360|01:02:07|500So… excuse me, that was a strong one. Sorry. All right, um, that's it, friends. We will 518|01:02:08|480|01:02:13|780resume with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 52. We're almost finished with the 519|01:02:14|420|01:02:20|760sign Aries, but there is a… it's a long chapter because he's setting us up for the study 520|01:02:20|760|01:02:28|260of the other chapters. All right, so farewell for now, and we'll see you soon. 521|01:02:29|720|01:02:30|220Bye-bye.