1|00:00:02|560|00:00:13|700So, now let us begin with Gemini again. Esoteric Astrology 100 D, page 346, and we're talking 2|00:00:13|700|00:00:19|920about masonry and its very close relationship to the sign Gemini, and vice versa. 3|00:00:21|140|00:00:26|740And the presently Jewish coloring of masonry, which may not necessarily endure. 4|00:00:27|900|00:00:31|160Its present Jewish colouring is relatively modern and not necessarily enduring, 5|00:00:31|400|00:00:32|020How modern? 6|00:00:33|760|00:00:37|760The product of the last couple of thousand years, perhaps? 7|00:00:38|720|00:00:45|740Was this evolved in the Jewish temple, or more in those who were reformulating masonry in 8|00:00:46|880|00:00:48|540still more modern times? 9|00:00:50|440|00:00:55|860In the 17th, 18th centuries and so forth. 10|00:00:55|860|00:01:02|080but its significance and its history of unfoldment are the history of the indwelling 11|00:01:02|580|00:01:04|740Christ consciousness and of that inner light, 12|00:01:06|240|00:01:11|640and this must unalterably be continued. 13|00:01:13|920|00:01:23|260So, here he says there is a necessity to continue masonry. 14|00:01:28|700|00:01:33|360Because it is dealing with the search for the lost word, and that word is the soul. 15|00:01:35|180|00:01:38|940With its light, the The Light Of The Soul (LOS), and the love of the soul. 16|00:01:38|940|00:01:40|740It's the search for light in masonry. 17|00:01:42|120|00:01:45|760At least the light aspect of the soul must be revealed. 18|00:01:45|940|00:01:48|420And Gemini is particularly good at that in a way. 19|00:01:48|700|00:01:50|260It's a sign of great intelligence. 20|00:01:51|440|00:01:52|960It's ruled by Mercury. 21|00:01:54|500|00:02:00|980It is a revealer of the light and can be correlated with the third aspect because of its position 22|00:02:00|980|00:02:04|700as the third of the signs. 23|00:02:04|700|00:02:13|160And yet it is maybe even more intimately connected with the second ray, which is the ray given as passing through 24|00:02:13|160|00:02:15|220Gemini in this world period. 25|00:02:17|140|00:02:20|220Or transmitted by Gemini constellationally in this world period. 26|00:02:21|460|00:02:29|880So, the second ray really connects with the inner light and the inner love and its finding, 27|00:02:29|880|00:02:36|100its unfoldment in form, and its triumph ultimately in the Masonic story. 28|00:02:36|980|00:02:39|240That which has entered through the two pillars of Hercules. 29|00:02:40|640|00:02:44|640Hercules is the disciple searching for the The Light Of The Soul (LOS). 30|00:02:46|800|00:02:53|820Hercules, the disciple searching for the The Light Of The Soul (LOS). 31|00:02:54|820|00:03:03|700That which has entered through the two pillars of Hercules, his search for wisdom thus began. 32|00:03:04|460|00:03:11|240Or his proving of himself as wise thus began. 33|00:03:12|180|00:03:19|400That which has entered through the two pillars of Hercules, the disciples, Jachin and Boaz. 34|00:03:19|400|00:03:25|280That's the J and B, but here D.K. through Alice Bailey is actually giving the names of these pillars 35|00:03:26|380|00:03:31|920as they appear in the Masonic rituals. 36|00:03:34|020|00:03:40|460The disciples, Jachin and Boaz. Interesting that the pillars can be considered as disciples. 37|00:03:41|200|00:03:48|380That which has entered through the two pillars of Hercules, the disciples Jachin and Boaz, and through the sign Gemini. 38|00:03:48|380|00:03:53|000So I mean Jachin and Boaz in a way represent the pairs of opposites. 39|00:03:53|200|00:04:00|800They in a way represent soul and personality, or the pairs of horizontal opposites which we inevitably find in the world. 40|00:04:01|000|00:04:02|060One white, one black. 41|00:04:04|000|00:04:06|740And through the sign Gemini has entered to stay. 42|00:04:06|740|00:04:27|740So what we're going to say here is that humanity's… humanity's search for the light has begun in earnest and will persist. 43|00:04:28|660|00:04:34|540And think of it: we're entering an air sign, lesser age than an air sign greater age. 44|00:04:34|540|00:04:42|080There will be an age that we can correlate with the sign Gemini. 45|00:04:43|380|00:04:49|200It will be 720 years. It will be the second decanate of the lesser age of Aquarius. 46|00:04:49|620|00:04:51|400It will be ruled by Mercury. 47|00:04:52|940|00:04:54|900Masonry will flourish, I suspect. 48|00:04:57|040|00:05:00|960Gemini and Mercury will be revelatory of Manas and Buddhi. 49|00:05:02|160|00:05:10|900And then in that larger age that is coming, of 25,000 years, there will be a 7,002… well, maybe more. 50|00:05:11|820|00:05:22|620If we were to divide… divide… it's just roughly 25,000 by 3, we would get about 8,000 years and a little more, 8,300 and something. 51|00:05:23|480|00:05:24|680These are approximations. 52|00:05:24|680|00:05:45|320But there will also be, let us say, there will also be an 8,000 or so year period ruled by Gemini-Mercury in the greater age of Aquarius. 53|00:05:46|880|00:06:00|860So, that which has entered through the pairs of opposites seeking unification, the unification of the opposites, is indeed here to stay. 54|00:06:04|460|00:06:20|420And humanity is entering the fifth kingdom of nature, very much ruled by the second ray, and by the fifth ray, too, common to Aquarius and strongly related to Mercury and also to Uranus. 55|00:06:21|700|00:06:45|720So these new developments taking place under the air signs are coming, and the fifth kingdom of nature will re-establish itself upon the Earth after having hidden itself for the sake of human unfoldment over some millions of years, really. 56|00:06:45|720|00:06:55|120Since the time of the Atlantean War, there's been a gradual withdrawing of the hierarchy representing the fifth kingdom of nature. Now it re-emerges. 57|00:06:55|820|00:07:12|460So the number five will be very, very important. You kind of wonder whether the fifth chain, which I think exists simultaneously in our Earth scheme with the fourth chain, and which is a Mercurian chain, will begin to influence humanity strongly during this period. 58|00:07:12|460|00:07:23|740With so many energies coming and going, we can learn to be the astounded disciple standing on the mountaintop, perhaps at night, and seeing the passage of all the energies. 59|00:07:24|920|00:07:41|920This will occur at the transfiguration for us, and we will begin to understand this incredible interlocking of energies, interplay of energies, of which we, little grubs on the ground, hardly have any notion at the moment. 60|00:07:42|460|00:07:56|400But increasingly so, as Manas is increasing in power over the next 500 years, apparently reaching its apogee, its apotheosis in 500 years, but, you know, maybe that's just in a world cycle. 61|00:07:58|480|00:08:10|360We could even ask that. We could look for that. I've never quite believed it entirely, but at least I don't believe I understand it. Manas, 500 years. 62|00:08:14|040|00:08:22|480The day of evolution, human evolution will come — will during the next 500 years become somewhat more conscious of each other. That's one thing. 63|00:08:25|400|00:08:39|640And it is worthwhile to note, particularly that as far as the evolution of Manas in this round is concerned, its highest efflorescence may be looked for during the next 500 years. 64|00:08:39|720|00:08:51|000But this is interesting. Does that mean that it occurs in the next 500 years, here in… hmm, what is this? What book is this? 65|00:08:52|000|00:08:58|640Is this Cosmic Fire? Let's see. 66|00:09:02|000|00:09:12|720Yes, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (TCF), page 498. Will we detect the time that its highest efflorescence may emerge? 67|00:09:14|380|00:09:28|560Or would it be during the next 500 years? Because after all, that doesn't even touch the Mercurian age of the lesser age of Aquarius, nor the great Mercurian age and the greater age of Aquarius. 68|00:09:28|560|00:09:38|320Of course, Mercury is not just Manas. Venus is. And Venus comes even after that. So there's something hidden here. 69|00:09:39|620|00:09:47|680It's hard to… maybe it's the highest efflorescence of Manas per se, uninfluenced by Buddhi. 70|00:09:48|900|00:09:55|060And maybe the Buddhic influence with growing Manas increases later. 71|00:09:55|060|00:10:11|240But a round lasts a long time, and I think we're only halfway through. A round, according to Blavatsky, can be some 300 million years, and we have to wonder whether there's not an acceleration there, but still maybe some 300 and more million years. 72|00:10:12|420|00:10:24|360So we kind of wonder what happens to Manas in the future. Because we're not yet through our round at all, and our round has to pass through the Mercurian chain, which can be considered highly Manasic. 73|00:10:25|420|00:10:40|760So always watch the Tibetan's wording: “may be looked for during the next 500 years.” He means it either appears, or we will be able to get it into sight as to when it would occur. 74|00:10:43|660|00:11:02|280So, let us look further. Apart from the importance of the influences of Gemini as the dominant power in the mutable cross — interesting when, in fact, Pisces is the ruler of the cosmic decanate, which consists of three of our constellations. 75|00:11:03|640|00:11:11|720Bit of a mystery there, too. Why aren't the other constellations involved, or are they? 76|00:11:13|760|00:11:25|360And of what type of zodiac does this sign, consisting of three of our constellations, in what type of zodiac does it participate? 77|00:11:25|360|00:11:33|960Is it a zodiac of ten? What are the constituents of it? Are other constellations constituents of it? 78|00:11:39|260|00:12:00|540Yeah, there's a difference in the development of different constellational lords. Is Gemini dominant because it is the most developed of the constellational lords, or will there be mutation of relation, and in other world periods, whatever they are entirely, will the emphasis change? 79|00:12:01|980|00:12:13|700Of the three signs that confer the second ray at this time, we're told that at the present time, more second ray comes through Virgo. 80|00:12:14|820|00:12:19|020At the present time, Pisces is the ruler of a cosmic decanate. 81|00:12:20|600|00:12:25|240And at the present time, Gemini is the dominant factor of the mutable cross. 82|00:12:25|240|00:12:32|760The second ray does not appear, interestingly enough, in the other member of the mutable cross, Sagittarius — only rays four, five, and six. 83|00:12:35|020|00:12:43|140So apart from the importance of the influences of Gemini as the dominant power of the mutable cross, it is one of the paramount zodiacal signs. 84|00:12:43|140|00:12:53|500So you wonder about the evolution of its particular lord, in that it is the major symbol of duality in the zodiac. 85|00:12:54|860|00:13:08|080It is involved in bringing relation between other zodiacal factors, just as the planet Mercury brings relation between planetary factors. 86|00:13:10|620|00:13:28|360So it is the constellation Gemini and its inherent second ray influence. Though, you know, as I said, all these constellations have to have a monadic ray, a soul ray, a personality ray—they aren't necessarily all the same. 87|00:13:30|080|00:13:44|860We can't necessarily say that there will be three different rays in all cases, but perhaps just the second ray is dominant at this time, and there are other rays related to Gemini and passing through Gemini. 88|00:13:45|120|00:13:47|440Perhaps the third ray is involved. 89|00:13:47|440|00:14:04|920It has been actually suggested that the stability of the pillars suggests some sort of seventh ray, even though there's been a lot of trouble manifesting in Gemini, because the seventh ray doesn't seem to be found on the mutable cross. 90|00:14:05|340|00:14:08|260Rays two, four, five, six are found. 91|00:14:09|780|00:14:14|400But apparently not ray one or ray three or ray seven. 92|00:14:16|060|00:14:17|740Tendencies towards manifestation. 93|00:14:20|140|00:14:29|520It is the constellation Gemini with its inherent second ray influence, which controls every one of the pairs of opposites in the great wheel. 94|00:14:31|260|00:14:31|840Controls. 95|00:14:33|120|00:14:35|100A controller of relation. 96|00:14:36|940|00:14:46|300A factor which brings about zodiacal, constellational relation, just as Mercury, let us say, brings about planetary relation. 97|00:14:50|520|00:14:53|000So it controls every one of the pairs of opposites in the great wheel. 98|00:14:53|140|00:14:58|460Gemini, therefore, forms with each of the pairs of opposites in the zodiac a third factor. 99|00:14:59|380|00:15:09|660It's a bit like Libra in that respect, or it's a bit like the Lieberman process where you have a horizontal pair of opposites and you need a vertical point to unite them in a triangle. 100|00:15:09|900|00:15:16|160But it's sometimes been forgotten that the pairs of opposites in Libra are actually on the vertical axis. 101|00:15:17|200|00:15:25|100We've been so used to looking at the scales that we figure, well, we have horizontal pairs of opposites, but actually the light which moves to rest there 102|00:15:26|740|00:15:32|640is a light on a vertical axis and involves a higher point and a lower point and then a central point of rest. 103|00:15:34|520|00:15:43|100But in any case, it forms with most of the pairs of opposites—the ones that do not include itself—a third factor. 104|00:15:45|480|00:15:47|920Powerfully influencing the other two constellations. 105|00:15:48|020|00:15:53|660Well, this is going on on a level way beyond our solar system and our solar Logos. 106|00:15:53|660|00:16:07|020And in a sense, even beyond our cosmic Logos of seven major suns, however many other suns there may be involved in it. 107|00:16:07|340|00:16:15|820Just as in our particular planet we have seven major sacred planets, but a whole lot more planets—more than 115, the Tibetan tells us. 108|00:16:17|060|00:16:26|540So a third factor powerfully influencing the other two constellations is provided by Gemini and thus forms with them certain grades of radical triangles. 109|00:16:26|760|00:16:42|600One can almost, you know, list them easily, give you the idea, you know, it's like this: Aries, Gemini, Libra. 110|00:16:42|600|00:16:51|740So forth: Taurus, Gemini, Scorpio, and so forth, etc. 111|00:16:56|000|00:17:07|500Cancer, Gemini, Capricorn; Leo, Gemini, Aquarius; Virgo, Gemini, Pisces—but we'll see something different when it comes to Gemini Sagittarius. 112|00:17:07|500|00:17:18|560So these only become of importance when considering the horoscopes of advanced human beings or esoteric groups. 113|00:17:18|800|00:17:28|260Now by “advanced human beings” does he mean what we find on page 333 of Esoteric Astrology? Does he mean that? 114|00:17:29|820|00:17:33|760Or something still more advanced? 332. 115|00:17:34|700|00:17:38|760So here's Gemini and, you know, advanced man is not quite the disciple. 116|00:17:39|740|00:17:53|100So sometimes he uses the term “advanced human beings” to indicate advanced man who is advanced in all personality developments but not yet in terms of absorption of the soul, 117|00:17:53|980|00:18:03|320and his tendencies—not quite a disciple, though perhaps an aspirant—and sometimes “advanced human beings” is those who are already disciples and initiates. 118|00:18:05|060|00:18:08|040Advanced human beings or esoteric groups. 119|00:18:10|260|00:18:19|300But eventually when casting the horoscope of a disciple or initiate, the esoteric astrologer will have to consider their potency, 120|00:18:19|520|00:18:25|160and this would perhaps mean regardless of the planets found within. 121|00:18:26|340|00:18:34|120Like maybe if you have the Sun in Aries, you have to consider Libra the opposite because that monadic point is there, 122|00:18:34|240|00:18:41|180but also because you always have to incorporate the balancing opposite, but then Gemini would have to be brought into consideration. 123|00:18:42|200|00:18:53|500And maybe the disposition of that triangle in the horoscope would be indicative of the way relation can be brought about between 124|00:18:54|960|00:19:01|800those two signs, one of them containing the Sun, therefore indicating the personality, 125|00:19:01|920|00:19:07|900the other containing a higher point, indicating that the line connecting them is an antakarana. 126|00:19:09|540|00:19:16|650And so Gemini is telling us something about how to relate these two factors: the personality and something at the other end of the antakarana. 127|00:19:17|670|00:19:27|250Because we may not have a planet in the sign opposite our Sun sign, we will always have the geocentric Earth. 128|00:19:28|570|00:19:34|950So we want to know, which stands for the monads, we want to know how Gemini figures into that. 129|00:19:36|530|00:19:42|410For instance, in the case of the initiate: I'm glad he provided it for instance, right? 130|00:19:42|410|00:19:53|730In the case of the initiate whose Sun is in Leo, the triangle of constellation energies determining the interplay of the horoscope would be Leo, Aquarius, Gemini. 131|00:19:53|950|00:19:58|930Okay, he put the opposites first and then the sign Gemini. 132|00:19:59|050|00:20:04|930But it is the triangle determining the interpretation of the horoscope. 133|00:20:05|050|00:20:07|470And note what we're talking about here is the initiate. 134|00:20:07|470|00:20:16|250So we're talking about a really advanced human being or esoteric group, not just advanced man in the ordinary sense. 135|00:20:17|650|00:20:29|470When dealing with the subject, so what would this… you know, the way of somehow blending individual and group consciousness would be mediated by Gemini. 136|00:20:30|210|00:20:47|210The method of blending individual consciousness in Leo with group consciousness in Aquarius would be mediated by the second ray energies of Gemini. 137|00:20:52|810|00:21:06|950When dealing with a subject—notice not just a native—some people have objections against the use of the word “native,” meaning one who has a nativity cast for him, but it has other connotations. 138|00:21:06|950|00:21:18|870So, a subject. We are a subjective human being and we are subject to the energies, and we are the subject of discussion, so the word “subject” is good. 139|00:21:20|410|00:21:35|930When dealing with a subject whose Sun is in Gemini itself, the conditioning triangle… I like that term, “conditioning triangle.” We should all look for the conditioning triangle. 140|00:21:35|930|00:21:52|390It will begin with the sign in which our Sun is found. Although we could make a conditioning triangle out of our rising sign, I suppose, but he's doing it via the Sun sign, so every one of us has an aspiring aspirant or disciple is going to have such a conditioning triangle. 141|00:21:53|310|00:21:58|710We have to see the degree to which it really does condition our discipleship life. 142|00:22:00|130|00:22:22|390So when dealing with a subject whose Sun is in Gemini itself, the conditioning triangle would be Gemini, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Okay, the latter forming a part of the triangle because it marks both the end and the beginning—beginning of the clockwise wheel in a way and the end of the counterclockwise wheel—for this great cycle of the zodiac. 143|00:22:24|010|00:22:31|310A great cycle of the zodiac could be considered a Platonic year. What does he mean? The alpha and the omega. 144|00:22:34|030|00:22:43|930Will Pisces not be the other sign? Would it turn into Aquarius as a mediating sign? Pisces has many mediating factors. 145|00:22:46|530|00:22:56|530It has that ability to magnetically relate and synthesize, maybe even more than Gemini does. So Pisces is somehow fitting. 146|00:22:58|270|00:23:09|570Will this change in the next great zodiacal age, whatever he means by “zodiacal age”? Will this change in the next great zodiacal age? 147|00:23:11|170|00:23:27|570For instance, we're going into a greater zodiacal age of Aquarius. Will it—will that sign that connects Gemini and Aquarius, near Gemini and Pisces—be then Aquarius? 148|00:23:28|570|00:23:35|630But of course eventually we'll get into an age of Sagittarius, and then we would lose the third point, wouldn't we? 149|00:23:35|770|00:23:40|630So maybe Pisces has a more permanent position here because of its innate qualities. 150|00:23:41|530|00:23:51|870One day the history of our planet will be told not only in terms of what happened, but what happened because of the energies available— 151|00:23:51|870|00:23:59|910the ray and zodiacal energies available and how they were used and what formulations and building steps they created. 152|00:24:00|730|00:24:14|150What a great vision, a process that will be. Right now we're nowhere near it. We have to clear a lot away so we can at least get into an appreciation of the value of the esotericism instead of fighting it. 153|00:24:14|150|00:24:25|210And you know there will be many of the lunar religions that will fight the appearance of the esotericism, as will the materialistic science under Mars, will fight it. 154|00:24:27|170|00:24:29|890But anyway, Pisces marks the beginning and the end. 155|00:24:30|910|00:24:36|330So we have particular signs of relationship here, in a way. 156|00:24:38|310|00:24:47|910Both Gemini and Pisces are definitely… and we understand why, and Sagittarius is connected with the building of the Antahkarana, which is a major relationship between lower and higher. 157|00:24:48|930|00:24:53|250And also has its wings, its winged heels just as Gemini does. 158|00:24:53|250|00:24:59|490So Sagittarius, the arrow of Sagittarius is a beam of relationship also. 159|00:25:01|550|00:25:07|150But we should ponder on what it means to have a conditioning triangle in our horoscope. 160|00:25:08|550|00:25:21|490On having a conditioning triangle in our horoscope, we should ponder. 161|00:25:22|370|00:25:28|030There are many potentially conditioning triangles; the question is the degree of their conditioning. 162|00:25:30|270|00:25:41|310The intensity factor, as Vivian Jayne used to say—she was the wife of Charles Jayne, a very fine astrologer in her own right—she says we lack the intensity factor. 163|00:25:41|310|00:25:55|310We don't know. Even with astrodynes, there's an attempt there to determine the intensity factor, the power of different planets in the horoscope, but it's useful. 164|00:25:56|150|00:26:07|550But there's no certainty about it, especially given all the different stages of evolution through which we are passing, and the different rays that are already ours in our ray chart. 165|00:26:08|890|00:26:14|750Changing the importance of planets regardless of where they're located. 166|00:26:15|810|00:26:23|790I mean, I may have Jupiter angular and it may be powerful for me because it's angular, but what if I'm a second ray soul and Jupiter is not angular? 167|00:26:23|990|00:26:26|190It's still going to be very powerful, maybe more powerful. 168|00:26:28|090|00:26:35|550So the new esoteric astrology and the new rulerships have to be taken into consideration. Otherwise, 169|00:26:35|550|00:26:44|630we just will continue to interpret in the realm of the personality and we will miss many, many things. 170|00:26:46|730|00:26:56|630So these points I will endeavor to elucidate in greater detail when taking up with you the basic astrological science of triangles, which he begins to do around page 404, I think. 171|00:26:57|810|00:26:59|170And we're getting there. 172|00:27:00|130|00:27:20|250I think I began this about two years ago and hoped for steady application and the production of programs every month, but life intervenes and it turns out to be a more cyclic process. 173|00:27:20|250|00:27:29|450The generalizations and the hints in connection with the 12 signs of the zodiac, which have formed the subject matter of our past instructions, have been primarily intended 174|00:27:31|290|00:27:42|270primarily intended to lay the ground and to prepare your minds for the later section on triangles, which, you know, astrological science is predominantly a third-ray science. 175|00:27:42|270|00:28:00|750The triangle is so important to the third ray. It is a symbol in a way, and I suppose the third creative hierarchy, which is a Libra hierarchy, Libra ruled by the third ray, will be very important in the science of triangles. 176|00:28:02|150|00:28:15|690So we've been given a lot of detail, a lot of understanding about how the signs work, and we have to get into the science of triangles to reveal some of the deeper factors upon which the astrological science is based. 177|00:28:15|690|00:28:21|830We know that D.K. is very connected with triangles. It's a subject near to his heart, close to his heart. 178|00:28:25|770|00:28:38|430The triangles work creates a network which esoterically can be stimulated even by the three Buddhas of Activity, in a way ruled by Libra, in a way ruled by the third ray. 179|00:28:38|430|00:28:46|610I think my present impression is that the third ray is very strong in the Tibetan. 180|00:28:48|510|00:29:00|010Marian Walters, who was the last living disciple, I don't know how much to trust all she said, but she said the Tibetan ashram was ruled by Libra. 181|00:29:01|850|00:29:10|710Well, there's certainly a lot of Gemini in it as well, obviously. But the Libra were connecting with the triangles and with the Buddhas of Activity and with the third ray. 182|00:29:12|670|00:29:28|210And the Buddha himself had a third-ray monad, as is evident from certain discussions in “A A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (TCF)” about what third-ray monads can do in terms of putting in three independent appearances simultaneously. 183|00:29:28|370|00:29:32|030And the Buddha and nine others are those on our planet who can do this. 184|00:29:32|030|00:29:41|690So if only third-ray monads can do it and the Buddha and nine others can do it, then ergo the Buddha as a third-ray monad. 185|00:29:41|830|00:29:48|390But then there are two monadic rays, at least as I understand it, and we have to see which is the major and which is the minor. 186|00:29:49|790|00:29:59|790Okay, this will be far the most important aspect of the teaching on esoteric astrology, and the one which will be the first to be grasped by modern astrology. 187|00:30:00|770|00:30:19|430So as if the beginning of the book with all of these rulerships and relations will not be first grasped, even though in a way it prepares us for grasping the science of triangles. Well, the Tibetan knows his own mind and his own plan, and he can foresee what will happen. 188|00:30:20|430|00:30:40|590And we are not yet in a position where we can similarly foresee, but the science of prediction is part of the science of esoteric astrology, and one day we will be in that position, being able to predict more than microcosmically, 189|00:30:40|590|00:30:52|650but in terms of the larger contexts of our nations, astrologically and rayologically ruled, and even of humanity, and in terms of the kingdoms, and finally the horoscope of the planet. 190|00:30:54|530|00:31:11|070Too much knowledge too early is a dangerous thing, and we are protected from an overload by the veils which have descended upon our intelligence as we descended into incarnation, emanatorily. 191|00:31:12|470|00:31:15|530So we know what we know, and we will find out more. 192|00:31:15|530|00:31:29|590This sign is sometimes called the constellation of the resolution of duality into a fluid synthesis, not a static synthesis. Brilliant phrase. 193|00:31:31|390|00:31:35|930So there's still mobility in this synthesis. 194|00:31:40|970|00:31:42|810Still mobility here. 195|00:31:44|850|00:31:53|490And when you pass through the Pillars of Hercules, through the pairs of opposites, J and B, and enter the Hall of Wisdom, the temple, 196|00:31:56|090|00:32:06|290You are on your way to achieving consciousness of a fluid synthesis between the opposites, and eventually between the soul-infused personality and the spirit. 197|00:32:06|290|00:32:13|490And I suppose in the world of spirit perception, all things are seen in fluid synthesis. 198|00:32:14|030|00:32:20|490The opposites still prevail, obviously, even up to very high levels of participation. 199|00:32:21|650|00:32:24|410Our solar system has its own opposites, so does our planet. 200|00:32:25|290|00:32:28|630I suspect our galaxy does as well in the Andromeda Galaxy. 201|00:32:29|330|00:32:35|050So fluid syntheses have to be produced between those factors and still higher factors. 202|00:32:35|710|00:32:48|110Until the universal day be with us, which will be the climax of our entire universe, at least according to the Ageless Wisdom with its theory of the… or assertion of the great breath. 203|00:32:49|570|00:32:51|730It sounds very Geminian in a certain way, too. 204|00:32:52|670|00:32:54|210The inhaling and the exhaling. 205|00:32:54|770|00:33:04|210As Gemini rules the lungs and has to do with the inhalation moving towards spirit and the exhalation moving towards manifestation. 206|00:33:05|490|00:33:12|090Governing as it does all the pairs of opposites in the zodiac, it preserves the magnetic interplay between them. 207|00:33:14|110|00:33:22|650Just as in the Antahkarana there is a magnetic interplay, which we could say is preserved by the representative of Gemini, which is Mercury. 208|00:33:24|270|00:33:30|670So there is an interchange of substances on those high levels—who knows what that may be. 209|00:33:30|910|00:33:43|110Who knows what may be the interchange of substances between Sirius and our Solar Logos, although apparently the solar angels are part of that interplay. 210|00:33:43|110|00:33:53|990And there is an initiatory process going on between Sirius and our Solar Logos, which is, I'm sure, part of the magnetic interplay. 211|00:33:55|330|00:34:04|290So governing as it does all the pairs of opposites in the zodiac, it preserves the magnetic interplay between them, keeping them fluid in their relations. 212|00:34:06|050|00:34:09|110I think always we're trying to prevent crystallization. 213|00:34:16|050|00:34:27|530Because with crystallization there would not be growth due to interchange of substances. 214|00:34:29|590|00:34:35|890So keeping them fluid in their relations in order eventually to facilitate their transmutation into the unity. 215|00:34:35|890|00:34:45|810Throughout our solar system there must be a transmutation—interesting, that word—into unity. 216|00:34:46|590|00:34:52|110It's as if the word transmutation then could be applied to even the third initiation of transfiguration, 217|00:34:52|710|00:35:00|230where unity is achieved between soul and personality and perceived through the type of consciousness that eventuates. 218|00:35:01|870|00:35:09|190So in order eventually to facilitate their transmutation into unity, for the two—all twos, I guess—must finally become the one. 219|00:35:10|790|00:35:21|330We begin on lower levels and we begin to integrate, infuse our vehicles, then our periodical vehicles, the two becoming the one, soul and personality, 220|00:35:21|330|00:35:29|830and then the soul and personality with the spirit, the two becoming the one until all is spirit-infused, monad-infused. 221|00:35:30|090|00:35:33|390But of course it cannot end there. 222|00:35:34|310|00:35:46|490If monads are as stars, you kind of wonder whether every monad has its opposite, just as the Solar Logos has its opposite. 223|00:35:46|490|00:35:55|770And whether once there is a fusion of those opposites there will not be another fusion with other fused monads and so forth. 224|00:35:57|290|00:36:06|370It's all an Isis-ian, Isis-like process of regathering the many into the one, the fragments into unification. 225|00:36:07|630|00:36:18|690And we seem, at least in this quarter of our… of the cosmos to be, and in our solar system, to be regathering the many into the one. 226|00:36:18|790|00:36:25|630We do not seem to be in an entirely involutionary stage. Some aspects of involution may still be proceeding. 227|00:36:28|030|00:36:33|510But from the point of view of the disciple man, there is an Isis-ian regathering. 228|00:36:34|890|00:36:44|910So, you know, when you look at Gemini, the word one is finally found. The right relation: “I serve the one.” 229|00:36:45|690|00:36:58|850We begin by the isolated self: “I serve myself.” We move towards the other, who is now increasingly perceived in unity, a brother. 230|00:36:58|850|00:37:06|750“I serve my brother,” but it's not the one yet, it's a unity. And finally, the right relation is to realize all is one: “I serve the one.” 231|00:37:08|370|00:37:12|610I am an aspect of the one serving the one. It is right relation, finally. 232|00:37:13|330|00:37:28|610So always the two must become the one, and there is an ever-ascending series of twos. Ever-ascending series of twos, which must become ones. 233|00:37:30|710|00:37:39|230It should be remembered that from the angle of the final development of the twelve zodiacal potencies, the twelve potencies must become the blended six. 234|00:37:39|230|00:37:55|930I wonder if it ends there even. The blended six, a kind of zodiacal six-pointed star. Found it. Six points. A kind of zodiacal six-pointed star. 235|00:38:00|990|00:38:19|210So Aries-Libra will be a point, as will Cancer-Capricorn and so forth. Every one of these will be a point. How this will be arranged is still hard to know. 236|00:38:19|210|00:38:33|450But if we proceeded with Aries-Libra, well, I don't think I want to attempt that. There's probably lots of combinations and permutations which are possible. 237|00:38:33|590|00:38:38|490At least we know each one of the points will be produced by the merging of the opposites. 238|00:38:39|650|00:38:51|830A kind of six-pointed star, and this is brought about by the fusion in consciousness of the polar opposites. A note in consciousness. 239|00:38:54|470|00:39:02|530Sometimes when we talk about the absorption of one planet into another, we imagine that the physical body of the planet will be absorbed into the physical body of the other. 240|00:39:02|530|00:39:17|090But it's the subtle factors which are made one in this synthesis, synthetic absorption process. So it's the fusion in consciousness of the polar opposites. 241|00:39:18|090|00:39:40|970And then we will have really, what should we say, we will have two cardinal points, two fixed points, and two mutable points. 242|00:39:40|970|00:39:49|710What are the most important? Thinking of how this might be done. Is the cardinal point found at the very top of the Seal of Solomon? 243|00:39:50|910|00:40:01|950Is it also found at the very bottom? I mean, for instance, you know, we look at a six-pointed star and could we find the Aries-Libra fusion at the uppermost point of the Seal of Solomon? 244|00:40:01|950|00:40:13|490And could we find the Cancer-Capricorn fusion at the very bottom indicating the power of manifestation? Is that possible? 245|00:40:15|190|00:40:31|030Is it possible when looking at the right hand of the upper triangle? Well, maybe facing the triangle it would be the left hand, perhaps. 246|00:40:31|950|00:40:44|230What would we find there in terms of the signs of triangles? How does it go? It seems that we go down toward what would be our left. 247|00:40:44|230|00:40:54|290So would we find the fixed signs there, Taurus-Scorpio in the lower point, in the lower left point of the upper triangle? 248|00:40:54|290|00:41:15|450Would we find Leo-Aquarius in the left hand point of the lower triangle? You know, I'm doing the very thing I said I wouldn't do. 249|00:41:15|450|00:41:25|450There are ways of putting this together we cannot confirm for sure, but maybe when we look at the way the science of triangles is developed there is that particular configuration. 250|00:41:27|210|00:41:33|450Of course, as I draw it here in the air, it will just be the exact opposite for you as it is for me. 251|00:41:34|270|00:41:47|390It seems to go down to the lower left, which probably looks to you like the right, all the way down to the bottom, up to the right, across again to the left. 252|00:41:48|350|00:41:59|030Let's see, one, two, three, four. Let's see. Lower left, over to the right, that's it. I did that too, incorrectly. 253|00:41:59|590|00:42:06|610Lower left, over to the right, down to the bottom, up to the left, across to the right, and up to the top again. 254|00:42:06|730|00:42:13|670And it would look like exactly the opposite. So you'd have to find that diagram probably in the science of triangles. 255|00:42:15|170|00:42:22|850And then probably out of that diagram we could make kind of a Seal of Solomon out of it. 256|00:42:23|710|00:42:38|770And our big question would be, would we have, as you face the triangle, would we have the fixed signs on the left as you face the triangle, and the mutable signs on the right, and the cardinal signs above and below? 257|00:42:40|270|00:42:42|750Would that be the case? 258|00:42:44|430|00:43:04|970Well, the implications are huge, and probably we can do this more successfully concerning our own microcosmic vehicles than we can otherwise, when dealing with planets and zodiacal constellations, etc. 259|00:43:05|790|00:43:17|730So anyway, a fusion in consciousness of the polar opposites, and of course, if you've studied astrology, you know that even formally the opposites begin to resemble each other. 260|00:43:17|950|00:43:23|530There are certain distinctive characteristics, but also certain similar factors. 261|00:43:25|690|00:43:37|410So the opposites certainly have some points in common in terms of consciousness, and some points in common in terms of form. Not all. Not all in terms of consciousness, not all in terms of form, no. 262|00:43:37|970|00:43:42|530They are still distinguishable, but in some ways similar. 263|00:43:44|050|00:43:49|630Like we might say, just in terms of form, the Gemini and Sagittarius both incline towards a high forehead. 264|00:43:49|630|00:44:00|870We might, you know, that's a formal distinction. We might say that Taurus and Scorpio both incline to the lowering of the forehead. 265|00:44:03|130|00:44:07|710Other ruling planets not taken into consideration. Everything modifies everything else. 266|00:44:08|410|00:44:16|090We might say that the triangularization of the face is found in both Cancer and Capricorn. 267|00:44:16|090|00:44:23|770And yet, let's say for distinction, still in the realm of form, the strong chin is found in Capricorn, but not in Cancer. 268|00:44:24|590|00:44:30|270The strong chin is found in Gemini, or at least pointed chin, but not in Sagittarius. 269|00:44:32|130|00:44:41|990And, well, you know, there are some distinctions in the Aries-Libra area as well, in other parts of the body perhaps. 270|00:44:43|450|00:44:47|410The calves and so forth, the slender calves of both perhaps. 271|00:44:48|930|00:44:54|670But that's not the most distinctive formal distinction. They both have large heads often. 272|00:44:55|490|00:45:02|910Libra and Aries, but Aries perhaps a little larger. Well, I'm dealing with form, but remember that form is generated by consciousness. 273|00:45:04|530|00:45:18|350That's the amazing thing and a major reversal, which we have to get into our minds: that the realm of consciousness produces, in the realm of form, certain forms. 274|00:45:20|310|00:45:22|190Consciousness antecedes form. 275|00:45:25|010|00:45:28|670So pause and consider this phrasing. He says, 276|00:45:31|890|00:45:36|130“The angle of final development, the twelve zodiacal potencies must become the blended six. 277|00:45:36|310|00:45:42|110And this is brought about by the fusion in consciousness of the polar opposites.” 278|00:45:42|870|00:45:58|590Maybe there will come a time when opposite forms exist, but there will be a very full sharing of the consciousness of the other while in a particular one of the opposites. 279|00:45:59|050|00:46:05|290But also I do think there will come a time when there is one united configuration. 280|00:46:05|290|00:46:16|210Maybe they will draw towards each other, just the way galaxies draw towards each other and seem to fuse into one galaxy. 281|00:46:16|350|00:46:25|110We call it a collision, but how much of a collision it is and how much of a fusion it is has yet to be determined. 282|00:46:25|290|00:46:29|490The stars are so widely spaced that perhaps collisions are unlikely. 283|00:46:31|370|00:46:33|710So we did pause and consider that phrasing. 284|00:46:35|110|00:46:57|130The fusion in consciousness of the polar opposites. The opposites remain, eternally remain, from the point of view of human reason, human reason, but to the initiate whose intuition—that is Buddhic, Buddhic understanding, right—is functioning. 285|00:46:57|930|00:47:00|850They constitute but six great potencies. 286|00:47:02|630|00:47:12|250And already, you know, when people have difficulty discriminating Leo from Aquarius, they share a lot of Uranian qualities, really. 287|00:47:13|390|00:47:20|910Already we're on our way to that kind of intuition which will reveal to us their fusion. 288|00:47:22|550|00:47:29|170Because he has achieved the freedom of the two, under Gemini, I suppose, as it is sometimes called. 289|00:47:29|170|00:47:53|050So when you look at the figure eight with the crossing point in the middle—figure eight, of course here it's vertical, shouldn't be—with the crossing point in the middle, we understand the fusion of the opposites and the freedom of the two. 290|00:47:55|390|00:48:03|310The ability to go anywhere on that figure eight and to regard the fusion as one thing. 291|00:48:05|010|00:48:12|130The soul-infused personality is an example of an antichironic merging via a figure eight. 292|00:48:13|530|00:48:19|110The merging of the soul-infused personality with the triad monad is the same, a fusion on the figure eight. 293|00:48:19|730|00:48:24|870There was a diagram which I received from Marion Walters. 294|00:48:25|990|00:48:41|250I'm not sure, you know, I don't think it was drawn by the Tibetan, but perhaps by a student, which showed the antichironic processing as figure eights, increasing figure eights. 295|00:48:41|250|00:48:49|790All was higher, all was lower, taking in ever lower and higher aspects of the factors that had to be fused. 296|00:48:50|170|00:48:54|430So Mercury, the figure eight, the factor of fusion—all related. 297|00:48:55|410|00:49:10|170Now he gets into an example here: for instance the Leo subject who has an initiated consciousness preserves the individuality developed in Leo, as well as the universality of Aquarius. 298|00:49:12|270|00:49:22|130He can function, if he so chooses, as a fully self-identified individual, yet possesses simultaneously a fully awakened universal awareness. 299|00:49:22|390|00:49:37|450Universal, I suppose, means extending to the ring-pass-not of the possible sphere of consciousness. 300|00:49:38|870|00:49:46|110The same thing can be said for the balanced activity and consequent fusion of all the other signs. 301|00:49:47|630|00:50:01|590So, in other words, the Aquarian individual would have his group consciousness, but has gone so far as to develop the individuality of the developed Leo, and vice versa. 302|00:50:02|690|00:50:18|190So, you know, on this mountaintop of tending towards synthesis, the opposites, which could not see each other on the other side of the mountain, as it were, finally meet at a point. 303|00:50:19|290|00:50:21|870In a way, if you look at it from the top, they meet in the center. 304|00:50:23|850|00:50:29|770But looking at it from the cone perspective, they meet at the point on the top. 305|00:50:29|770|00:50:35|530So ascent always brings the opposites closer together. 306|00:50:37|010|00:50:41|810Does descent do the same, you know, in the inverted cone? Not sure of the implications there. 307|00:50:43|450|00:50:57|250So, for Aries-Libra, Taurus-Scorpio, and so forth—Sagittarius-Gemini, Cancer-Capricorn, Leo-Aquarius, and Virgo-Pisces—they all meet at the top. 308|00:50:57|250|00:51:07|050And the one focused in any one of the opposites is also focused in the other. 309|00:51:07|830|00:51:23|250If you are focused in one of a pair of opposites, you are also, as a developed initiate, focused in the other. 310|00:51:25|270|00:51:36|490So I think it pays for us all to try to develop the consciousness of the sign opposite our own. It's kind of an antichironic process. 311|00:51:38|890|00:51:42|350And everybody, even an ordinary astrologer, knows we are to do that. 312|00:51:42|470|00:51:47|690You know, Aries people are to become more Libran, and Taurus people more Scorpionic, and so forth, and vice versa. 313|00:51:48|470|00:51:58|250And this will lead to the time when that coming together of the twelve into the six into a zodiacal Seal of Solomon will occur. 314|00:51:59|370|00:52:07|850The final seal of Solomon. You know, we sometimes point to different signs amongst the twelve producing seals of Solomon. 315|00:52:09|230|00:52:14|050But what about the whole zodiacal wheel producing its own complete seal of Solomon? 316|00:52:14|050|00:52:23|250Gemini is therefore one of the most important of the twelve signs, and its influence lies behind every one of them. 317|00:52:25|170|00:52:40|430A fact but little realized as yet by astrologers. So you kind of wonder, is this one of the most mature and powerful of the zodiacal lords? 318|00:52:42|450|00:52:50|830This will be more fully understood. Well, you know, we haven't really begun to really integrate the horoscope in a spiritual way. 319|00:52:51|910|00:53:04|510We may talk about people getting it together and integrating themselves for effective service in a personal way. 320|00:53:05|490|00:53:16|030But we do not yet know how to create these larger syntheses, because we've barely begun to live as souls. 321|00:53:17|150|00:53:23|430We're given the science of esoteric astrology, which extends way beyond the place where we normally live. 322|00:53:24|610|00:53:33|010So in order to make it meaningful, we have to begin to live in these spheres which esoteric astrology can touch. 323|00:53:33|990|00:53:40|690So it's not enough just to be an astrologer. One has to assimilate the ageless wisdom and grow accordingly. 324|00:53:42|690|00:53:50|330So all this about Gemini lying behind every one of them—an influence which lies behind every one of them— 325|00:53:52|570|00:53:58|010will be more fully understood when the triangle of Gemini and the two opposing signs is studied. 326|00:53:59|330|00:54:05|490Because the ray of love-wisdom, the second ray, pouring through Gemini, pouring through Gemini, 327|00:54:05|670|00:54:11|730it becomes apparent how true is the occult teaching that love underlies the entire universe. 328|00:54:12|050|00:54:16|430Well, we've just said that. Notice the definition of the term “universe” here. 329|00:54:16|430|00:54:26|910Universe is our local cosmos within the “One About Whom Naught May Be Said,” I guess. 330|00:54:28|650|00:54:39|490It's a very relative term. Universal consciousness in Aquarius is not consciousness of the entire universe in any specific way. 331|00:54:39|490|00:54:48|030It may be inferred that what applies to our planet and our solar system applies to the entire universe, but it's just an inference. 332|00:54:48|990|00:54:55|730D.K. is clever to point out cosmic consciousness that we sometimes talk about is not really cosmic consciousness. 333|00:54:56|610|00:55:02|590It's consciousness of our local system, and perhaps of our local cosmos, 334|00:55:02|590|00:55:09|230but even then you have to be a very high initiate to have any kind of specific consciousness of that local cosmos. 335|00:55:10|970|00:55:20|310So the second ray is the unifier, and D.K. speaks of the second ray as coming through Gemini, magnetically unifying the opposites. 336|00:55:23|390|00:55:34|950So, the ray of love and wisdom both, really, pouring through Gemini—it becomes apparent how love underlies the entire universe. 337|00:55:35|330|00:55:40|310And I wanted to say of our—I did already say of our local cosmos. 338|00:55:41|410|00:55:49|310“God is love,” we are assured, and this statement is both an exoteric and esoteric truth. 339|00:55:51|350|00:55:58|950Why is this? Well, let's just take a look at our local solar system, of which the Solar Logos… 340|00:55:59|590|00:56:05|870Our Solar Logos has a second ray personality and a second ray soul. 341|00:56:05|870|00:56:11|270So, universal consciousness sometimes means the consciousness of our Solar Logos, 342|00:56:13|450|00:56:27|310and I guess we could say that the personality ray correlates with the exoteric consciousness of our Solar Logos, and the second ray soul with the esoteric consciousness. 343|00:56:29|010|00:56:33|390This underlying love of deity reaches our solar system primarily through Gemini. 344|00:56:33|390|00:56:48|590Now the deity here is, well, either a cosmic Logos, either a cosmic Logos or the “One About Whom Naught May Be Said,” 345|00:56:50|070|00:56:54|190of whom Gemini is a significant part in his heart and head center. 346|00:56:55|090|00:57:03|570So, it reaches our solar system primarily through Gemini, which forms with the constellation of the Great Bear and the Pleiades a cosmic triangle. 347|00:57:04|390|00:57:07|670Gemini, again, in a way, playing a kind of intermediary. 348|00:57:08|590|00:57:17|150The Great Bear producing the first aspect, the Pleiades the third aspect in general, and Gemini the second aspect. 349|00:57:18|190|00:57:24|710The Great Bear being, in a way, the seven head centers, whether in the head or above the head, of the “One About Whom Naught May Be Said,” 350|00:57:24|870|00:57:42|990and the Pleiades—well, a bit of a mystery there. Is it the entire crown center, with a part of it being taken by… well, by what? 351|00:57:43|670|00:57:52|650The jewel box of the Pleiades, in a way, could be the very jewel in the head center. 352|00:57:52|850|00:57:58|810But then what would be the… Yes, of course, of course, the twelve zodiacal signs. 353|00:58:00|830|00:58:06|670So, there's the head center. The center is within the head of the Great Bear. 354|00:58:08|290|00:58:17|770There's the jewel, perhaps the jewel in the head center, formed by the seven Pleiades. 355|00:58:19|030|00:58:27|810And there's the relational factor of the zodiac itself, with Gemini being the representative of that. 356|00:58:28|430|00:58:36|090Well, exactly what these relationships are, we are not in a position yet to know with any degree of certainty. 357|00:58:36|710|00:58:46|170We just see the aspects here, distributed: the 1, 2, and the 3, the Great Bear, the Gemini, and the Pleiades. There's the 1, 2, and the 3, respectively. 358|00:58:47|750|00:58:57|150So, this is important that some of the superior constellations can be united with the zodiacal constellations. 359|00:58:57|210|00:59:06|030You kind of wonder why the three great constellations should be called superior. Maybe because they have a lot to do with the head center. 360|00:59:07|250|00:59:12|570Of the One about Whom naught may be said, but then so does Gemini as one of the petals. 361|00:59:14|570|00:59:23|010And Gemini can, I assume, as a relational factor in the heart and the head center of the One about Whom naught may be said. 362|00:59:23|190|00:59:25|910Maybe it can relate many other factors. 363|00:59:27|130|00:59:35|830Some of the constellations in the zodiac of 10, maybe it can be relating the Little Bear, the Great Bear. 364|00:59:36|790|00:59:44|530Orion, our own seven solar systems of which one may be separate. The Sirius system, perhaps. 365|00:59:45|810|00:59:47|210Sometimes called the Sirius system. 366|00:59:48|690|00:59:53|670Perhaps the Centaur may be involved. Maybe the Cross. 367|00:59:54|850|01:00:00|770We don't know all of the constellations with the chakras within the One about Whom naught may be said, 368|01:00:00|770|01:00:10|130but it looks like if Gemini can relate the Pleiades and the Great Bear, it can relate other ones of those chakras within the One about Whom naught may be said. 369|01:00:10|250|01:00:17|670I suppose it has to be determined which is greater: a petal in the heart and the head center of the One about Whom naught may be said, 370|01:00:17|670|01:00:26|490or one of his lower chakras. Let us say, which is greater, which is of greater magnitude? 371|01:00:26|490|01:00:33|190Well, look, we are reaching here the end of the hour. 372|01:00:35|050|01:00:42|990And I hesitate to extend beyond four programs, any one of these, because of the difficulty of conversion. 373|01:00:43|650|01:00:54|990So what I'm going to do is say that this is the end of 100D, page… 374|01:00:57|870|01:01:02|990I'm having trouble finding the page. Maybe I can find here the page. Yes, 348. 375|01:01:05|090|01:01:06|210Page 348. 376|01:01:12|030|01:01:24|170And the beginning of 101A, page 348. 377|01:01:25|950|01:01:32|210This will be the way to do it, and we will come back with… 378|01:01:32|210|01:01:38|090We can see how occult is this discussion so far of Gemini and how cosmic it seems to be. 379|01:01:38|270|01:01:40|810It has taken a cosmic turn, has it not? 380|01:01:41|470|01:01:46|910So we will begin Esoteric Astrology Venture 101 shortly. 381|01:01:48|870|01:01:49|030Okay. 382|01:01:50|730|01:01:56|130Meanwhile, say farewell and proceed.
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