1|00:00:00|000|00:00:07|840Okay, let us continue. We are on Gemini the Twins, one of the last two chapters we'll 2|00:00:07|840|00:00:20|720be dealing with: Gemini and Taurus. We're on page 343. In the consideration of the remaining 3|00:00:20|720|00:00:27|100signs there will be relatively less to say than before, because I have already pointed 4|00:00:27|100|00:00:33|620out many facts and points when dealing with their polar opposites. As I have said, 5|00:00:33|720|00:00:41|460one of the best ways of learning about any sign is to contrast it with its opposite. 6|00:00:43|060|00:00:51|940When defining anything, if you can define its opposite, you have a clearer idea of the 7|00:00:51|940|00:00:58|320sign. Much, therefore, that can be said about the sign Gemini can be dealt with under Sagittarius; 8|00:01:01|020|00:01:07|720Virgo and Pisces have also been considered in relation to this sign, because 9|00:01:08|140|00:01:16|100all these four signs form together the mutable cross. We remember, for instance, what is 10|00:01:16|100|00:01:29|020page 119 or so, an example of the contrast. I think it's about there, but we should go 11|00:01:29|020|00:01:40|580into the correct book. That would help. Yes, here we go. We have Pisces, Sagittarius, Virgo, 12|00:01:43|740|00:01:51|020Gemini, and the factors there considered in the undeveloped man or the average man. The 13|00:01:51|020|00:01:55|600experiences undergone on the three arms of the mutable cross have brought him to the 14|00:01:55|600|00:02:01|480stage where the dream of life can be changed into the recognition of the reality, and the 15|00:02:01|480|00:02:09|100great illusion can be seen as undesirable and untrue. Gemini is a sign which so often 16|00:02:09|100|00:02:17|920in the beginning promotes illusion under Mercury, or in relation to Mercury can begin 17|00:02:17|920|00:02:24|900to help us find our way out of it. The sense of duality is at this stage instinctual but 18|00:02:24|900|00:02:32|380becoming increasingly real and steadily more complex. The man begins to dream of stability, 19|00:02:32|640|00:02:38|240of order, changes, and of union with that which he senses to be the most real part of himself. 20|00:02:38|240|00:02:43|220Interesting that the word “dream” is discussed when so often this is the word discussed in 21|00:02:43|220|00:02:48|860relation to Sagittarius, the opposite. The mystical vision emerges into his consciousness 22|00:02:48|860|00:02:54|920and he becomes aware of the higher self through the first faint flickerings of the intuition. 23|00:02:55|140|00:03:00|940And then, of course, later on the reverse wheel, the man upon the reversing wheel in 24|00:03:00|940|00:03:06|480Gemini becomes increasingly aware of the intuition and increasingly under the influence of the 25|00:03:06|480|00:03:16|680brothers who live in the light, as the twins are sometimes called. The light of the personality 26|00:03:16|680|00:03:23|180dims and the The Light Of The Soul (LOS) waxes. The fluidity of Pisces and the undeveloped Gemini 27|00:03:23|180|00:03:28|540gives place to the responsiveness of the personality to soul impression and, consequently, stabilizing 28|00:03:28|540|00:03:35|560the life on the physical plane. The idea of Gemini as the pillars suggesting stability 29|00:03:37|240|00:03:44|260is strongly present, and so it is. You know, actually it would be possible to go through 30|00:03:44|860|00:03:52|480the compilations we have made. Nicholas and I, when we were teaching this course over 31|00:03:52|480|00:03:57|540various number of years, on each one of the signs, we have them on each one of the planets, 32|00:03:57|540|00:04:05|580of course, and it's good to study topically in that way. And maybe there will be the opportunity 33|00:04:05|580|00:04:17|880to do that, perhaps also with the signs themselves. It's a vast subject, and I suppose it takes 34|00:04:17|880|00:04:29|180many, many lives to qualify to enter the ranks of the Department of Astrology within hierarchy. 35|00:04:30|800|00:04:40|300Some of the most selfless workers we are told by the Tibetan are working there. So much 36|00:04:40|300|00:04:49|040has been dealt with in the other mutable signs. A certain amount of repetition is necessary 37|00:04:49|040|00:04:56|320and often helpful; Indeed, how long does it take to make an impression? Sometimes when 38|00:04:56|320|00:05:04|160calling out to a person in the ethers and seeking to get their attention, or seeking 39|00:05:04|160|00:05:10|320to come into rapport with them or to make an impression, three calls are necessary. The 40|00:05:10|320|00:05:18|600name has to be called three times. Three is the charm. it serves to clarify and reinforce 41|00:05:20|360|00:05:26|740when one is teaching, but I would like now to be more general and—in dealing with these 42|00:05:26|740|00:05:35|520three signs which indicate the subjective realities which incite the form-taking in 43|00:05:35|520|00:05:41|640Cancer—to consider predisposing causes more than detailed and more easily ascertained 44|00:05:42|240|00:05:58|600facts. And of course we would have to include the sign Aries as well, right? Would have 45|00:05:58|600|00:06:06|760to be included. Right. The sign Aries would have to be included. The subjective incentive 46|00:06:06|760|00:06:13|240towards incarnation—mental, desirous, and etheric—are given in these three signs. So 47|00:06:13|240|00:06:19|580we'll see the degree of detail into which the Tibetan may enter. We're dealing with 48|00:06:19|580|00:06:36|740that which underlies form taking. In this world cycle, Gemini, Taurus and Aries are 49|00:06:36|740|00:06:49|480 Well, it can be a vast period of time. Can a world cycle be, even be, the duration 50|00:06:49|480|00:06:57|720of a solar system? There are these generic terms which are used in different contexts 51|00:06:57|720|00:07:04|320and seem to mean different things. There was a very big hint about world cycle just recently. 52|00:07:04|320|00:07:12|580Was it in the Cancer or the Leo chapter? I can't go back, but it seemed to hint that 53|00:07:12|580|00:07:19|160the solar system was the duration of a world cycle, at least in the context they're used. 54|00:07:21|100|00:07:26|320So, Gemini, Taurus and Aries are three subjective energies or the three conditioning 55|00:07:26|320|00:07:37|520signs which lie behind manifestation They are involved with the act of 56|00:07:37|520|00:07:45|940appropriation because it is necessary to appropriate the mental vehicle, reappropriate, we might 57|00:07:45|940|00:07:56|300say, the mental vehicle, the emotional vehicle, and then following conception to begin building 58|00:07:56|300|00:08:03|700according to the etheric vehicle. As a matter of fact, the etheric vehicle may, probably 59|00:08:04|400|00:08:14|220was there before the building of the physical form. It is not coming from the physical form. 60|00:08:15|600|00:08:21|580So that has yet to be established: the time of the appropriation of the etheric vehicle, 61|00:08:21|580|00:08:30|220or the mold upon which the physical vehicle is built. Gemini is one of those signs along 62|00:08:30|220|00:08:36|040with Aquarius, which has so much to do with the etheric vehicle, both the planets Mercury 63|00:08:37|180|00:08:47|880and Uranus. Mercury relating to the Nadis particularly, and the fine network of subtle energy channels 64|00:08:49|740|00:08:56|320is strongly connected to the etheric vehicle, and to its electrical nature, Uranus is connected. 65|00:08:58|200|00:09:06|660So these three signs lie behind the form-taking experience in Cancer and they also lie behind 66|00:09:06|660|00:09:14|920manifestation in Pisces. Would it be considered? He does seem to be speaking of them in a reverse 67|00:09:14|920|00:09:21|920manner: Gemini, Taurus, Aries, and if we continued, we'd be on the clockwise wheel entering manifestation 68|00:09:22|460|00:09:33|960in Pisces—go forth into matter. Pisces is the sign with which the modern world (and by 69|00:09:33|960|00:09:40|840that I refer to an immense long period of time) 70|00:09:40|840|00:09:48|360is primarily concerned, An immense time, maybe 25,000 years. Let us see. for Pisces 71|00:09:48|420|00:09:54|100is the starting point on the clockwise wheel at this time for the greater zodiacal round 72|00:09:54|100|00:10:03|900of approximately 25,000 years Approximately. Some say, you know, it's more like 25,920, 73|00:10:03|900|00:10:17|380if they take the 2,160 years of a precessional age literally. But it's the clockwise wheel, 74|00:10:17|380|00:10:46|760and so what is revealed to us here—revealed is that the Platonic Ages also proceed—or, 75|00:10:46|760|00:10:56|040and so forth. So, would that our history could reveal to us that which occurred during these 76|00:10:56|040|00:11:08|220Platonic Ages, the history of humanity in those days. If we go back one Platonic Age 77|00:11:08|880|00:11:24|280to the time when the Age of Aries was ending, we will be back in the time when history, as 78|00:11:24|280|00:11:32|360we know it—to a time when history as we know it does not even penetrate. When the Cro-Magnon 79|00:11:32|360|00:11:42|620Man and other forms of primitive man supposedly roamed the earth, maybe Neanderthal Man a little 80|00:11:42|620|00:11:50|420earlier, and so forth. This is our modern conception of history. It really needs, I think, to be 81|00:11:50|420|00:11:58|920rewritten. And the story of the caveman has to be studied in The Secret Doctrine. 82|00:12:00|900|00:12:12|840So, we go back in the clockwise wheel, even though we're in this Greater Age of Pisces. 83|00:12:15|820|00:12:23|020for Pisces is the starting point on the clockwise wheel at this time for the greater zodiacal 84|00:12:23|020|00:12:27|840round of approximately 25,000 years but we should be reaching the end of that Piscean 85|00:12:28|380|00:12:35|840period, and maybe we will shortly. the date of which beginning is not yet revealed to 86|00:12:35|840|00:12:45|640the modern astrologer or subject to revelation through his science. Through the science— 87|00:12:46|920|00:13:05|820let's just say the astrological science of the initiates—it can be revealed. And it 88|00:13:05|820|00:13:11|980is beginning, let us say, with the 30th degree of Aquarius, we're still finishing that off. 89|00:13:13|540|00:13:20|300And before long, that age will begin, but we may be, well, be in the greater overlap 90|00:13:20|480|00:13:32|540period of 5,000 years between these great ages. And so, the troublous times we are 91|00:13:32|540|00:13:44|540in, the times of conflicting streams of forces, are a result not only of the conflict between 92|00:13:44|540|00:13:52|680the outgoing Lesser Piscean Age and the incoming Lesser Aquarian Age, but of the outgoing Greater 93|00:13:52|680|00:14:03|160Piscean Age and the incoming Greater Aquarian Age. Who knows how long we have been in this 94|00:14:04|280|00:14:11|680cross-current? One begins to wonder whether when the Buddha and the Christ appeared some 95|00:14:12|260|00:14:20|3802,500 years ago, it was not a signal that we were in this cross-current, and that the 96|00:14:21|240|00:14:29|640indications of the coming Greater Age of Aquarius were not thereby demonstrated through 97|00:14:30|280|00:14:39|100those two appearances. As we study Gemini and Taurus (Aries we have already considered) 98|00:14:39|100|00:14:50|340let us bear in mind their cause-initiating nature their causal to physical manifestation 99|00:14:50|360|00:15:02|460and the fact that they have a more specifically psychic effect and subjective influence than 100|00:15:02|460|00:15:10|580their strictly phenomenal and physical effects would lead one to imagine. Is it possible 101|00:15:10|580|00:15:22|760that in the art of manifestation, these signs are not quite as effective? The subtle bodies 102|00:15:22|760|00:15:30|960of man: the lower mental, the emotional, and the—well, we can call it the etheric body 103|00:15:30|960|00:15:38|780as well—seem to be ruled by these signs. And they are determining; they are impulsive, 104|00:15:39|000|00:15:45|360causative to the manifestation which finally appears. So we'll be looking for their psychic 105|00:15:45|360|00:15:55|920effect and subjective influence. And if people born in or under these signs fail to manifest 106|00:15:55|920|00:16:03|020as perhaps might be expected of them, maybe it's because the psychic effect and the subjective 107|00:16:03|020|00:16:09|220influence are the main areas of attention of the soul when these signs are prominent. 108|00:16:11|080|00:16:18|520You will find, I think, that it is these hints and suggestions which are of the most 109|00:16:18|520|00:16:29|980importance in launching and in utilising the new esoteric astrology. Sometimes D.K. tells 110|00:16:29|980|00:16:38|780us when he's giving us a hint; other times we have to determine that we are being given 111|00:16:38|780|00:16:48|160a hint. We're certainly being told something about the effects on the inner man of these 112|00:16:48|160|00:16:57|060three signs. We have to many times drop our conceptions offered us in customary astrology. 113|00:16:58|740|00:17:04|840I think, you know, in the beginning of my astrological interest and investigation of 114|00:17:04|840|00:17:14|800the subject, I sometimes think I studied far too much of the astrologers of the more ordinary 115|00:17:14|800|00:17:25|400type. I begin to wish I had studied esoteric astrology first and picked up the other necessities 116|00:17:25|400|00:17:34|920as I went along. But the correction of thoughts has proceeded, and thus it will for all of 117|00:17:34|920|00:17:41|940us who carefully study the Tibetan's work—but not only in esoteric astrology, but in 118|00:17:41|940|00:17:47|500the larger sense, because his astrology makes sense in terms of A Treatise on the Seven 119|00:17:47|500|00:17:58|620Rays, in terms of the developing esoteric psychology, Esoteric Healing (EH), and the rays 120|00:17:58|620|00:18:05|800and the initiations. Then the astrology can really be applied. The psychology is so much 121|00:18:05|800|00:18:12|900a study of the mental and emotional aspects of man, especially his kama-manasic nature, 122|00:18:14|060|00:18:18|960and the interaction of the truly subjective nature of the soul with those dimensions. 123|00:18:19|140|00:18:26|160And when we get into Esoteric Healing (EH), we are particularly interested in the etheric 124|00:18:26|160|00:18:33|140body, in the radiatory and magnetic healing via the etheric body, but we must not forget 125|00:18:33|140|00:18:39|600that there is healing as well, of an emotional type undertaken by many psychologists and 126|00:18:39|600|00:18:47|280therapists, and also of a mental type, perhaps undertaken by people who have a philosophical 127|00:18:47|280|00:18:56|420inclination, because there are healing thoughts to certain types of individuals, and the presence 128|00:18:56|420|00:19:01|980of these thoughts and the understanding of them, the conviction of their truth, will 129|00:19:01|980|00:19:07|860bring a healing reorientation to at least some types of human beings. 130|00:19:09|400|00:19:16|940You will find, I think, that it is these hints and suggestions which are of most importance 131|00:19:16|940|00:19:21|340in launching and utilizing the new esoteric astrology, and perhaps it has been and is 132|00:19:21|340|00:19:29|960being somewhat launched and utilized at this time. The implications found in the book are 133|00:19:29|960|00:19:36|100far beyond anything that I've seen applied so far. Profound knowledge of the human being 134|00:19:36|100|00:19:43|980is needed to apply the new esoteric astrology and a real understanding of the human being's 135|00:19:43|980|00:19:49|840place in the scheme of evolution and the methods of proceeding. And then astrology can throw 136|00:19:49|840|00:19:57|600light upon which of these processes have to be emphasized and the various obstacles and 137|00:19:57|600|00:20:04|140assets at the disposal of the disciple in attempting to move forward on the spiritual 138|00:20:04|140|00:20:10|520path. Students would do well to isolate, first of all, the broad general statements on 139|00:20:10|520|00:20:17|520the zodiacal science. We've been doing that in a way, even back in the early chapter, 140|00:20:18|000|00:20:26|600even the Aries chapter. He told us—he gave us nine points that we were to consider as 141|00:20:26|600|00:20:32|660we studied each one of these signs. I think in our astrology classes we've done that 142|00:20:32|660|00:20:40|760in a somewhat systematic way, but maybe in these recordings it could have been a little 143|00:20:40|760|00:21:03|120more systematic. Okay, these are keynotes. There are said to be nine methods of proceeding. 144|00:21:03|920|00:21:12|180So maybe the word “keynotes” is not correct. Maybe “key notes.” Maybe we'll try that. Here 145|00:21:12|180|00:21:18|520it is. And it's on page 109. So these are the nine points that we are to be looking 146|00:21:18|520|00:21:29|140at. And he has somewhat followed this list as he has elucidated the signs. The keynote 147|00:21:29|140|00:21:34|300of the signs: These express the underlying effect upon the man as he progresses in one 148|00:21:34|300|00:21:38|760or two directions. Two, the nature of the cross upon which the man is crucified at any 149|00:21:38|760|00:21:47|200one time. It can be a cross in consciousness, or it can be the particular cross that his 150|00:21:47|200|00:21:52|360horoscope indicates is most prominent. Three, the influence of the planetary rulers, orthodox 151|00:21:52|360|00:22:01|020and esoteric. We've done that. Four, the rays which primarily express themselves through 152|00:22:01|020|00:22:08|020a particular sign. We have gone over this extensively, though perhaps ultimate light 153|00:22:08|020|00:22:15|000has not come. The clue to which sign it may be is found in the orthodox planetary ruler 154|00:22:16|400|00:22:22|860where the personality ray is concerned and the esoteric planetary ruler where the soul 155|00:22:22|860|00:22:29|940is concerned. I'll leave that one alone for the moment because when we dealt with 156|00:22:29|940|00:22:38|460the Aries chapter, we explored the implications extensively. Five, the qualities of the sign 157|00:22:38|460|00:22:43|340of the man who has come forth in a particular sign. Six, that's, you know, character 158|00:22:43|340|00:22:48|200aspects, let us say. Six, the interplay between the sign and its polar opposite. We've 159|00:22:48|200|00:22:52|640been discussing that especially in the Cancer chapter, haven't we? Number seven, the 160|00:22:52|640|00:22:56|740planets which are exalted in detriment or which fall in any particular sign for a study 161|00:22:56|740|00:23:02|620of these will indicate the three phases of the path: with its involutionary cycle of 162|00:23:02|620|00:23:09|430becoming increasingly involved in matter, I suppose the fall, or life upon the mutable 163|00:23:09|430|00:23:15|390cross, the interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation which leads to the mounting 164|00:23:15|390|00:23:19|750of the fixed cross—I suppose this may indicate the detriment—and the exaltation, the period 165|00:23:19|750|00:23:24|630of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross. A very different way of looking 166|00:23:24|630|00:23:39|410at falls, detriments, and exaltations. We fall into incarnation. The soul is 167|00:23:39|410|00:23:44|330rising above circumstances on the cardinal cross. Eight, the significance of the key 168|00:23:44|330|00:23:51|610words for the modes of progress through the signs. And number nine, the underlying theme 169|00:23:51|610|00:23:59|850of any specific zodiacal sign covered by the ideas of recreation, regeneration, reorientation, 170|00:24:00|250|00:24:08|890and renunciation. So these are the nine points, and some of them are generalities concerning 171|00:24:08|890|00:24:15|090the signs, at least in the beginning, and then we get into more of the specifics as 172|00:24:15|090|00:24:21|130we go. So Students would do well to isolate first of all the broad general statements 173|00:24:21|130|00:24:27|630anent the zodiacal signs and influence before they take up the intensive study of the 174|00:24:27|630|00:24:32|210detailed and new informative suggestions which I may have given. So we need to see the big 175|00:24:32|210|00:24:42|190picture, I suppose, and lest our minds become confused, understand the broad indications 176|00:24:42|190|00:24:49|150of each sign and the general purpose and value of each sign. A grasp of the universals, prior 177|00:24:49|150|00:24:54|110to a study of the particulars, is ever a wise occult procedure. It seems he's waiting a 178|00:24:54|110|00:24:59|830little long till the Gemini chapter to tell us this, but he has repeated it, repeated 179|00:24:59|830|00:25:08|630this in many books and probably earlier in the book as well. We need a long exposure 180|00:25:08|630|00:25:14|670to esoteric astrology before it really begins to seep into our consciousness and to become 181|00:25:16|490|00:25:22|530practical in the sense of usable. In each of the Crosses of the Heavens there is one 182|00:25:22|530|00:25:30|510sign and influence which, in any world cycle, dominates the other three. If only we could 183|00:25:30|510|00:25:40|350clarify these blinds that show up as generic terms like the term “world cycle.” So I think 184|00:25:40|350|00:25:50|190a search should be done on “world cycle,” and I think I will talk to those in charge of 185|00:25:50|190|00:25:56|650our Ageless Wisdom compilations and see if we have any such thing or whether it can be 186|00:25:56|650|00:26:06|090made. So in any one of the crosses of the heavens there is one sign and influence which 187|00:26:06|090|00:26:11|750in any world cycle dominates the other three. Of course here maybe the world cycle doesn't 188|00:26:11|750|00:26:19|430mean solar system because it seems that at different times of human evolution each one 189|00:26:19|430|00:26:27|810of these signs would have to dominate. It would seem that at different points of human 190|00:26:27|810|00:26:39|330evolution each of the four signs of a cross would have to be the dominating factor. Such 191|00:26:39|330|00:26:44|530dominating effects necessarily change when a world cycle changes, but for the present cycle, 192|00:26:46|250|00:26:51|570Gemini determines the paramount influence within the fourfold influence of the Mutable 193|00:26:51|570|00:26:59|570Cross. Now we have to compare that. When we talk about the cosmic decanates, we have two 194|00:26:59|570|00:27:07|530fixed signs and one mutable sign. The fixed signs are Taurus, the Buddha decanate, probably 195|00:27:07|530|00:27:15|030related to the third ray; Pisces, the Christ decanate, related to the second ray; Scorpio, 196|00:27:15|150|00:27:23|950the Hercules decanate, related to the first ray. And Pisces is considered to be, in that 197|00:27:23|950|00:27:31|010sense, the major sign of the second ray in that large cosmic sense. At the present time, 198|00:27:31|010|00:27:36|870Virgo is the sign through which the majority of the second ray reaches humanity. Now, if 199|00:27:36|870|00:27:49|030we went here to page 490… or is it 590? Well, let's try 490 first. Yes. “Today the following 200|00:27:49|030|00:27:53|270points of the triangle of energy, triangles of energy, or the following constellations 201|00:27:53|270|00:27:59|270in the triangles of the controlling factors: Ray 2, Virgo. This constellation produces the 202|00:27:59|270|00:28:05|270increased activity of the Christ principle in the heart of humanity.” So not Gemini in 203|00:28:05|270|00:28:10|670this respect, is it? Interestingly enough. And yet Gemini represents the head of the 204|00:28:10|670|00:28:19|490cosmic Christ and is one of our astrologers, Nicholas Millen, who is always way out there 205|00:28:19|490|00:28:31|190in terms of determining the new, newly appearing thoughts and impressions. He's progressive 206|00:28:31|190|00:28:40|390and thinks ahead. And Gemini is considered, in its relation to Orion—at least by him— 207|00:28:40|570|00:28:47|190to be the head of Orion. Because with Orion, we have no head. And Orion can be considered 208|00:28:47|190|00:28:52|390from one perspective the cosmic Christ, or a form of the cosmic Christ, and Gemini would 209|00:28:52|390|00:29:03|850be the head of the cosmic Christ. So Gemini at this time… whatever that time is… see, when 210|00:29:03|850|00:29:07|670it talks here about a world cycle changing, it doesn't really sound like a change of 211|00:29:07|670|00:29:14|970solar system. And a world can be a planet. And it can be a round that we're talking 212|00:29:14|970|00:29:19|710about. But I think when we're dealing with the constellations, these are more solar 213|00:29:19|710|00:29:29|070systemic factors. So what is a world cycle? There are also solar systemic rounds—rounds 214|00:29:29|070|00:29:39|650which are passing through each one of the planetary schemes. And maybe when they are 215|00:29:39|650|00:29:45|650completed—each one of them completed—a world cycle is changing. I don't think it's possible 216|00:29:45|650|00:29:55|730to penetrate this. The term “world cycle” is pretty well blinded. But anyway, it sounds 217|00:29:55|730|00:30:01|370like it could be occurring within our solar system. “For the present cycle, Gemini determines 218|00:30:01|370|00:30:10|950the paramount influence.” It certainly, in a way, rides above Orion—even spatially, graphically, 219|00:30:10|950|00:30:26|090in terms of the celestial map. The main objective of these four energies is to produce that 220|00:30:26|090|00:30:34|290constant flux and periodic change in time and space which will provide a field of adequate 221|00:30:34|290|00:30:40|870experience for the unfoldment of the Christ life and consciousness—hence mutability. 222|00:30:43|130|00:30:51|930And I was just reading on page 119 about the fluidity of both the sign Pisces and the sign 223|00:30:51|930|00:31:00|690Gemini. But of course, the increasing stability of both on the fixed cross, and the change 224|00:31:00|690|00:31:07|650of Gemini into quite a stable sign, as the pillars indicate, no longer letting instability 225|00:31:07|650|00:31:14|950do its work. A field of adequate experience for the unfoldment of the Christ life through 226|00:31:16|250|00:31:23|690constant flux and periodic change—cyclic change in time and space. So we have what's 227|00:31:23|690|00:31:40|370called mutation of relation. And this gives new exposure to new energies. Whenever we 228|00:31:40|370|00:31:48|310are built into a particular relationship, we receive energies from the other factors 229|00:31:48|310|00:31:56|830that are also built into that configuration, and from the energy of the configuration as 230|00:31:56|830|00:32:03|010a whole. Well, that we would continue to receive, but when the relationship is reconfigured, 231|00:32:04|510|00:32:11|010then new influential factors affect us, as they would not have in the earlier configuration. 232|00:32:14|270|00:32:19|970So the Christ life and consciousness needs this mutability. This is the case cosmically 233|00:32:19|970|00:32:24|690speaking, and also from the standpoint of a solar system, of a planet and of a human being. 234|00:32:24|930|00:32:33|250There is mutation of relation; there is a reconfiguration; and the signs of the zodiac 235|00:32:33|250|00:32:42|590are cosmic factors. So they are influencing the seven solar systems, of which ours is one, 236|00:32:43|930|00:32:50|010and probably each other in a relationship of mutation. They probably influence the cosmic 237|00:32:50|010|00:32:55|870Logos in that way. The cosmic Logos is the Logos of the seven solar systems, of which 238|00:32:55|870|00:33:04|710ours is one. And the supracosmic Logos has these cosmic Logoi as chakras within it, and 239|00:33:04|710|00:33:14|190if the constellations of the zodiac are each a petal within the 12-petal major center in 240|00:33:14|190|00:33:18|170the head—the heart-in-the-head center—although one about whom naught may be said, then they 241|00:33:18|170|00:33:25|330have quite a strong influence over the other chakras, because they are… this is a major 242|00:33:25|930|00:33:32|770chakra in this great supracosmic being. So cosmically speaking, and from the standpoint 243|00:33:32|770|00:33:39|370of a solar system, of a planet, of a human being, etc., there is a mutation of relation, mutability 244|00:33:39|370|00:33:48|150in the development of the different types of Christ consciousness and Christ life. The 245|00:33:48|150|00:33:55|470solar systemic Christ and various varieties of cosmic Christ. The field of development 246|00:33:55|470|00:34:01|730for the lower three kingdoms is dependent upon the status and energy-distributing power 247|00:34:01|730|00:34:12|210of humanity as a whole. Because, let's just say, humanity is the microcosm to these lower 248|00:34:12|210|00:34:20|250kingdoms. We might, therefore, recognise the following facts anent the Mutable Cross: 249|00:34:20|410|00:34:29|990of which Gemini is the paramount influence at this time. After all, we are in a second-ray 250|00:34:31|010|00:34:39|250solar system. In a way, it's a love-wisdom solar system, so the duality is there of both 251|00:34:39|250|00:34:51|070love and wisdom, and we can look at Gemini expressing that duality. So we might, therefore, 252|00:34:51|270|00:34:55|210recognize the following facts, anent the mutable cross. So this should be compared, 253|00:34:55|450|00:35:07|830let's just say, compared with page 119, where we have the discussion of the Mutable Cross. 254|00:35:07|830|00:35:14|370Gemini.—This is the force which produces the changes needed for the evolution of the 255|00:35:14|370|00:35:19|830Christ consciousness so we learn to relate to all that may be involved in any particular 256|00:35:19|830|00:35:25|710form or configuration. The evolution— This is the force which produces the changes needed 257|00:35:25|710|00:35:30|570for the evolution of the Christ consciousness at any particular point in time and space. 258|00:35:30|570|00:35:42|840It is always compatible to the requirement. Let's just say, lest we become too fixed or 259|00:35:43|370|00:35:52|430rigid in our mentality or consciousness. So there's so much ignorance, and we know so 260|00:35:52|430|00:35:59|570little about the other types of human beings that are upon this planet and how they came 261|00:35:59|570|00:36:08|090to be as they are. When the relations change, we tend to learn more about them, more about 262|00:36:08|090|00:36:17|670the kingdoms, more about the layout, both gross and subtle, of our particular planet. 263|00:36:17|810|00:36:23|550We are moved about the globe, and their influences—the influences of these other factors—are 264|00:36:23|550|00:36:31|850brought to us via travel, trade, in the early days, mass communication now. So exposure, 265|00:36:32|910|00:36:49|930let's just say, changing exposure to many different kinds of energies so that the Christ 266|00:36:49|930|00:37:01|310consciousness can learn to love them all. What was it said that propinquity or nearness 267|00:37:01|310|00:37:08|110produces love? You know, at first we may have no knowledge of someone or some group of people, 268|00:37:08|110|00:37:14|370and we associate with them, we learn more of the good connected with them, and the energy 269|00:37:14|370|00:37:22|810of love results from this new type of exposure. So the rearrangement of the configuration 270|00:37:22|810|00:37:35|450gives new types of exposure and gradually a growing sense of unity, which connects all 271|00:37:35|450|00:37:46|610parts of the configuration. Then Virgo.—This is the nurturing force of substance itself, 272|00:37:48|130|00:38:04|430that which substands matter and perhaps matter itself, subject to nine cyclic changes 273|00:38:04|430|00:38:18|350through nine signs prior to birth—cosmic birth. it fosters and protects the embryonic 274|00:38:18|350|00:38:28|670Christ life, preparing for manifestation or a divine incarnation undertaken under Capricorn. 275|00:38:31|490|00:38:45|850So the form is sustained, the inner life nurtures the outer form, every one of the signs of 276|00:38:45|850|00:38:52|930the zodiac in this ninefold cycle gives its own gift to the growing cosmic form which 277|00:38:52|930|00:39:06|430at last is manifested. So we have to move, let's see, how do we have to move here? We 278|00:39:06|430|00:39:22|170have to move in a way, counter, and then we have to move clockwise. So we have, let's 279|00:39:23|790|00:39:35|850see, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius—that's eight—and Capricorn, nine, if we move in the clockwise 280|00:39:36|490|00:39:42|050direction. So what is coming to birth from the point of view of the great one about whom 281|00:39:42|050|00:39:49|270naught may be said? The supercosmic Logos in whom these zodiacal constellations play 282|00:39:49|270|00:39:54|270a prominent part in the heart and the head center. I guess that's what we're talking 283|00:39:54|270|00:40:00|930about when it comes to cosmic gestation. We have to be aware of the levels at which he 284|00:40:00|930|00:40:06|710applies these. They can have a very microcosmic application, but also a cosmic application. 285|00:40:08|810|00:40:19|130So let's see here. These are facts, anent the Mutable Cross. Sagittarius.—Is the energetic 286|00:40:19|130|00:40:29|810activity of the life force, demonstrating at the sixth month, Now there we do not have 287|00:40:32|010|00:40:45|010a simple progression. There is no sequential progression here. But the sixth month will 288|00:40:45|010|00:40:53|010relate it to the sixth ray of Neptune. This relates to the sixth ray and to Neptune and 289|00:40:53|010|00:41:02|090to the animation chart, as Charles Jayne used to call it, in the heart. Well, no, no. 290|00:41:02|650|00:41:08|090No, that's not correct. The sixth month is not the animation chart, no. That's more the 291|00:41:08|090|00:41:11|690fourth month. But it does relate to the sixth month and Neptune when—esoterically speaking—292|00:41:12|870|00:41:17|770the three aspects of the form nature and the three aspects of the soul are integrated and 293|00:41:17|770|00:41:31|950functioning, but we are not ready for birth. It is this integration which sometimes makes 294|00:41:31|950|00:41:40|070the sixth month of physical human gestation so critical. We talk about the viable fetus. 295|00:41:40|070|00:41:50|570Of course, technology has intervened and made the unviable viable. You get some premature 296|00:41:50|570|00:41:58|850babies that are born very early and are somehow sustained through the intervening period. 297|00:41:59|850|00:42:12|370But anyway, this is another—this is the six-pointed star. Isn't it? Six-pointed star. Oh, I could 298|00:42:12|370|00:42:19|210do this if I just remembered the code. So this is the six-pointed star: the three aspects 299|00:42:19|210|00:42:24|430of the form nature and the three aspects of the soul are integrated and functioning. One 300|00:42:24|430|00:42:34|510of the first on the microcosmic level. And can we relate this criticality to sixth-ray 301|00:42:34|510|00:42:50|170Mars? Can this criticality be related to sixth-ray Mars, which may produce perhaps a miscarriage? 302|00:42:50|170|00:42:56|770Perhaps once we reach the seventh month with the stabilizing idea of the number seven, 303|00:42:57|890|00:43:06|790there is less danger of miscarrying. There are the cosmic analogies as well. Anyway, 304|00:43:07|050|00:43:16|170there is a strong orientation: Sagittarius, the sixth-ray, the six-pointed star, and Sagittarius, 305|00:43:16|170|00:43:29|830a major sign of integration, right? Speaking of the one-pointed alignment of all factors 306|00:43:29|830|00:43:39|930within the human energy system. So when we were studying Sagittarius, we see how much 307|00:43:39|930|00:43:51|510he accentuated—accented the factor of personality integration. Pisces then, This is the life 308|00:43:51|510|00:43:56|530expression and active appearance Notice that he went in counterclockwise order, which is 309|00:43:56|530|00:44:02|490the normal order. This is the life expression and active appearance of the Christ consciousness 310|00:44:02|490|00:44:13|470in form; it is also the energetic appearance (symbolically speaking) of a world saviour. 311|00:44:15|050|00:44:32|390And notice how he describes these beings as energies. Energies. The energetic appearance 312|00:44:32|390|00:44:42|330of a world savior and the appearance of the Christ consciousness in form, perhaps somewhat 313|00:44:42|330|00:44:49|890at the end of the mutable cross period—the beginning of the Christ consciousness in form 314|00:44:49|890|00:45:01|390is occurring, to be fully developed on the fixed cross, where the world savior is finally 315|00:45:01|390|00:45:10|310produced at the end of the fourth initiation and beyond, and then somewhat on the cardinal 316|00:45:10|310|00:45:17|010cross, the truly great world savior. The tendency towards world saviorship can be produced on 317|00:45:17|010|00:45:30|810the fixed cross. The tendencies towards world saviorship can be produced by the fixed cross 318|00:45:30|810|00:45:45|170process. So we have these four factors—four facts among the mutable cross. They're taken 319|00:45:45|170|00:45:55|410in a rather general sense. In terms of consciousness somewhat, the evolution of the Christ consciousness 320|00:45:55|410|00:46:04|770here—the gestation period leading to the birth of the Christ consciousness, whether 321|00:46:06|210|00:46:19|170microcosmic or macrocosmic; the fusion of soul and personality factors. This is leading 322|00:46:19|170|00:46:27|210to the integrated personality, perhaps integrated with the soul, but it's not yet a fully functioning 323|00:46:27|210|00:46:37|050world savior. So as we study these four, we see that he's dealing with a couple of levels 324|00:46:37|050|00:46:42|330simultaneously: one the larger and the other the smaller. This Mutable Cross is, therefore, 325|00:46:42|330|00:46:51|790peculiarly a Christian symbol and significantly connected with the Christ life and with the 326|00:46:51|790|00:47:01|750unfoldment of a world saviour—discipleship in Sagittarius leads to world saviorship, right? 327|00:47:06|830|00:47:16|290Sagittarius the disciple becomes the savior in Pisces. Okay. The mutable cross is therefore 328|00:47:16|290|00:47:23|630a peculiarly Christian symbol significantly connected with the Christ life. Now, the majority 329|00:47:23|630|00:47:37|590of rays upon the mutable cross, as we have said, are on the 2-4-6 line. Gemini: ray 330|00:47:37|590|00:47:53|4702. Virgo: ray 2, 6. Pisces: ray 2, 6. And Sagittarius gives us ray 4 on that line and ray 6 on the 331|00:47:54|510|00:48:09|5302-4-6 line—deviates from the 2-4-6 line. Interesting. Of course, I'm not now talking 332|00:48:09|530|00:48:16|250about the planetary rulerships; I'm talking about the energies as they come through the 333|00:48:16|250|00:48:22|570constellation itself and which can have organizing effects upon such great beings as a solar 334|00:48:22|570|00:48:30|890Logos and even upon a cosmic Logos which is within the range of the influence of these 335|00:48:30|890|00:48:37|750zodiacal constellations. So significantly connected with the Christ life and with the 336|00:48:37|750|00:48:45|810unfoldment of a world saviour finally in Pisces and is particularly potent during the anti-clockwise 337|00:48:45|810|00:49:09|120turning of the Great Wheel on which the world savior can emerge. Pisces in that sense a 338|00:49:14|140|00:49:17|180very important and very important and very important and very important. The most important 339|00:49:19|340|00:49:23|000and most important is the 340|00:49:23|000|00:49:27|520the most important and very important is the 341|00:49:27|520|00:49:28|480the most important and very important is the 342|00:49:28|480|00:49:28|600the most important and very important is the 343|00:49:30|400|00:49:31|380the most important and very important is the 344|00:49:31|380|00:49:31|640the most important and very important is the 345|00:49:31|640|00:49:32|020the most important and very important is the 346|00:49:33|500|00:49:33|940the most important and very important is the 347|00:49:33|940|00:49:34|100the most important and very important is the 348|00:49:34|100|00:49:36|000the most important and very important is the 349|00:49:36|000|00:49:36|860the most important and very important is the 350|00:49:36|860|00:49:36|920the most important and very important is the 351|00:49:36|920|00:49:37|720the most important and very important is the 352|00:49:37|720|00:49:39|100the most important and very important is the 353|00:49:40|140|00:49:40|740the most important and very important is the 354|00:49:40|740|00:49:45|140we go to Dina 2, and page 518. Should have 355|00:49:45|140|00:49:46|220memorized this, of course. 356|00:49:48|080|00:49:49|480Um, those on the second ray 357|00:49:50|680|00:49:53|640trail one or other of the various paths, primarily 358|00:49:53|640|00:49:55|880that of the world savior. So the three factors 359|00:49:55|880|00:50:01|760are the Divine Psychologist, World Teacher, 360|00:50:01|760|00:50:05|360and World Savior, all at once; 361|00:50:07|280|00:50:08|080all at once. 362|00:50:09|960|00:50:13|480Teachers, psychologists, and the Savior. 363|00:50:16|320|00:50:19|540And some on the second ray emphasized one of these 364|00:50:19|600|00:50:22|400while the other, but the Christ emphasized all three. 365|00:50:23|120|00:50:29|340He's such a synthetic being, he seems under Pisces to be able to take from all the signs. 366|00:50:29|640|00:50:37|200He seems such a magnetic center that the Buddha has given him his three triadic gestures for use 367|00:50:37|200|00:50:44|300when becoming more a monad than a being manifesting in the five lower worlds. 368|00:50:46|100|00:51:01|120Okay, this fact of it being a peculiarly Christian symbol, even though perhaps the symbol of the mutable cross, 369|00:51:01|120|00:51:06|580is it particularly a cross? I guess we could look at that. 370|00:51:09|260|00:51:16|080This fact will emerge more clearly when astrologers are able to determine accurately the point of development 371|00:51:16|080|00:51:23|860and the spiritual status of the subject whose horoscope is under consideration. 372|00:51:24|880|00:51:38|960A constantly repeated requirement which, though simple, seems not simple to perform in an accurate manner. 373|00:51:40|180|00:51:46|160There are many estimations of the status of others, but who is to say they are correct? 374|00:51:46|260|00:51:50|440Because there's so little of the soul development which is actually visible to us. 375|00:51:50|440|00:51:55|140Not everything can be seen through the personalities. 376|00:51:55|480|00:52:05|080D.K. did emphasize when talking about, you know, how little had to be removed from the disciples he took into his group in general, 377|00:52:06|220|00:52:12|120for them to be truly liberated regardless of the apparent faults that they had. 378|00:52:13|400|00:52:25|060The formless nature of the influences of Gemini is strikingly borne out if the significance of Masonry is studied. 379|00:52:26|220|00:52:31|940In Masonry we do have the two pillars, the J and B as they're called, 380|00:52:33|460|00:52:46|220and that is the symbol of entering through the pairs of opposites to find the hidden light and discover that which is neither of the pairs of opposites. 381|00:52:46|460|00:52:53|220So in a way, one is passing through the pillars of wisdom. 382|00:52:54|400|00:53:01|640This world-wide institution was—as I have earlier told you—organised under the influence and impulse of this sign 383|00:53:02|640|00:53:09|520But, but, probably, but long, long ago. 384|00:53:11|820|00:53:14|440Maybe even in the Murian times. 385|00:53:15|440|00:53:38|900And we ask, under a Platonic year, who by Gemini or an ordinary precessional cycle of approximately 2160 years? 386|00:53:45|240|00:53:48|880Precessional. Let's see if we can see the spelling on that one. 387|00:53:50|820|00:53:52|700Maybe not. Processional but not precessional. 388|00:53:54|180|00:53:59|480And is governed by it, Masonry is governed by it in a most unusual manner. 389|00:54:00|620|00:54:06|100Maybe some of those most associated with the reformation of Masonry have a powerful Gemini in their chart. 390|00:54:06|100|00:54:22|460But Alice Bailey was one such, and Keith Bailey another, and his group, reformulating the modern Masonry more along the lines of the ancient intentions. 391|00:54:24|220|00:54:32|020The format or exoteric symbolism of Masonry has frequently been changed during the millenia of years through which it has been active. 392|00:54:32|020|00:54:38|220It is definitely a form which has been active during Egyptian times. 393|00:54:38|600|00:54:46|760And when we talk about Egyptian times, we can be talking about not just a few thousand years, but even 60 or 70 thousand years, perhaps more. 394|00:54:48|240|00:54:54|600Its present Jewish colouring is relatively modern and not necessarily enduring, 395|00:54:56|000|00:54:57|840The word “necessarily” is a qualifier. 396|00:54:59|260|00:55:07|010It is necessary, I think, to be rid of the predominantly Jewish coloring of Masonry and make it more universal. 397|00:55:08|680|00:55:13|120But will this necessarily happen? Well, according to the way it seems to be going now, it is happening. 398|00:55:15|080|00:55:21|980But we cannot take a vision acquired at the foreground and know for sure. 399|00:55:22|340|00:55:27|100It may take a century or two to see what the trend really is. 400|00:55:28|240|00:55:32|080Okay. We are reaching that point. 401|00:55:33|720|00:55:49|140Why don't I write here, say that this is the end of Esoteric Astrology 100 with C and page 346. 402|00:55:51|240|00:55:59|300And beginning of Esoteric Astrology 100 D, page 346. 403|00:55:59|600|00:56:02|100We are in the middle of the Gemini chapter. 404|00:56:02|660|00:56:04|580Alright. We are there.
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