1|00:00:13|860|00:00:24|160Hi everybody, we are continuing with our esoteric astrology adventures. This is number 20, and 2|00:00:24|160|00:00:32|000we were discussing the third Creative Hierarchy. Just to review a little bit, we had reached 3|00:00:32|000|00:00:37|600page 41. The third Creative Hierarchy, or the eighth, is a peculiarly interesting one. 4|00:00:37|800|00:00:42|940They are called the Triads, for they hold in themselves the potency of triple evolution: 5|00:00:43|200|00:00:47|880mental, psychical, and spiritual. And we realize that these types of evolution are precisely 6|00:00:48|540|00:00:53|260what the spiritual triad promotes. The spiritual evolution is atmic, 7|00:00:53|540|00:01:01|600psychical is buddhic, and mental is manasic. We looked at the numbers, how the three, the eight, 8|00:01:01|680|00:01:09|680and the five are all connected mentally. The triads are these triads of life because they 9|00:01:10|520|00:01:17|020deal with the cosmic etheric plane, where life and vitality are found in the cosmic sense. 10|00:01:17|020|00:01:21|560are inherently the three Persons of the Trinity (EA, p.40) at least for the human being, 11|00:01:22|560|00:01:29|280and the flower of the earlier system from a certain angle. (EA, p.40) So our question here is: 12|00:01:30|580|00:01:40|520was it the most developed, or at least did it reach its present stage of fruition in the 13|00:01:41|420|00:01:52|260earlier solar system? Whereas hierarchies number 1-6 and 2-7, Leo and Virgo, expressing the, 14|00:01:52|480|00:01:59|800respectively, the mental vehicle of the solar Logos and the astral vehicle of the solar Logos, 15|00:01:59|800|00:02:06|440may have been above the fray, as it were, and simply there in an avataric 16|00:02:07|080|00:02:10|790position without developing, per se. 17|00:02:16|060|00:02:19|040That should have been hierarchy number three. 18|00:02:21|460|00:02:27|020Right, number two. From another angle, when studied as the “flower of the earlier Eight,” 19|00:02:27|200|00:02:35|820They are the eightfold points awaiting opportunity to flame forth. (EA, p.40) And so often the term “point” 20|00:02:36|440|00:02:44|300is used to describe a being, and especially a devic being — the points of devic life. But in a way, 21|00:02:45|160|00:02:57|380every type of being in the cosmos is irreducibly a point of being. So we can say that these 22|00:02:59|440|00:03:03|840eightfold points have not yet fully flamed forth, and they are waiting to do so 23|00:03:04|460|00:03:12|620in this solar system. We know that the fifth — almost liberated — Creative Hierarchy is on its way 24|00:03:13|180|00:03:19|780to the cosmic astral plane. But this does not say, for instance, that these other hierarchies, 25|00:03:20|780|00:03:28|220some of them, will not achieve freedom as a whole from the cosmic physical plane onto the cosmic 26|00:03:28|220|00:03:33|740astral plane. So there are certain hierarchies which certainly will not achieve freedom, and 27|00:03:34|350|00:03:41|760the question is whether the human hierarchy will achieve, as a whole, complete freedom in this 28|00:03:42|510|00:03:50|020solar system. Because after all, some are destined to be involved and continue their development 29|00:03:50|650|00:03:56|500in the next solar system. So this would probably indicate that not all of the fourth Creative, or 30|00:03:57|500|00:04:04|520human, Hierarchy will achieve freedom onto the cosmic astral plane in this solar system. 31|00:04:05|780|00:04:10|460The other devas… Now interestingly, this is a deva Hierarchy. Okay, it doesn't say that about the 32|00:04:10|460|00:04:17|140human being, but we have to ask ourselves: which are deva Hierarchies, and which are more human 33|00:04:17|140|00:04:30|020Hierarchies? Which are deva Hierarchies, okay, and which are more man-like? 34|00:04:31|860|00:04:38|980They are the devas who are ready for service, which is to give to another Hierarchy certain 35|00:04:38|980|00:04:44|900qualities which it is lacking. (EA, p.40-41) Now is that the human hierarchy? Because after all, so often 36|00:04:44|900|00:04:52|740when we bestow, we bestow to those that are immediately below us, 37|00:04:53|360|00:04:59|500just as, in a way, the solar angels are perhaps bestowing to humanity — that which is immediately 38|00:04:59|500|00:05:07|360below them. Humanity being immediately below them, we might say, if the solar angels are indeed 39|00:05:08|500|00:05:13|740buddhic, as it seems to imply here under hierarchy number nine. 40|00:05:16|040|00:05:23|100This Hierarchy is regarded as the great donors of immortality (EA, p.41) The eight is the eight of death, 41|00:05:23|100|00:05:29|620but also the eight of immortality through the Christ, or buddhic love, whilst Themselves 42|00:05:29|620|00:05:35|720“standing aloof from incarnation.” (EA, p.41) And incarnation in this case will mean immersion in the dense 43|00:05:35|720|00:05:43|460physical body of the solar Logos which, of course, the solar Angels are immersed in. And so perhaps 44|00:05:43|460|00:05:50|040their sacrifice — the solar Angel sacrifice — is very great. The status of the solar Angels of the 45|00:05:50|040|00:05:57|500fifth does seem to be initially below that of the eighth, or third Creative Hierarchy. But 46|00:05:58|160|00:06:06|740there is more to be revealed. Let us say that the eighth, or third Creative Hierarchy — the one 47|00:06:06|740|00:06:14|580we're discussing right now — certainly understands the nature of atma very fully. We can wonder, though, 48|00:06:14|580|00:06:19|560whether the solar angels are not more buddhic beings than they are atmic. But of course they are 49|00:06:19|560|00:06:26|260endowed with all three qualities. Lords of Sacrifice and Love are They, but They cannot pass out of the logoic etheric body 50|00:06:26|900|00:06:33|460into the dense physical vehicle. (EA, p.41) of the solar Logos, and that dense physical vehicle consists of 51|00:06:34|800|00:06:43|880the lower 21 sub-planes. Even the causal body itself is in the dense physical vehicle 52|00:06:44|540|00:06:50|820of the solar Logos, though as I have often said, not necessarily the dense physical vehicle 53|00:06:50|820|00:06:56|620of the planetary Logos. All right, then we're ready here to move on. 54|00:06:57|780|00:07:07|160This third Hierarchy wields the third aspect (EA, p.41) Okay, now we saw that the second hierarchy 55|00:07:07|700|00:07:17|940wielded the second aspect or type of electrical force of the first type of cosmic energy, and 56|00:07:17|940|00:07:31|620in a way the atmic plane is the beginning of Brahmic expression. the third aspect 57|00:07:31|620|00:07:39|840of electric force of the first type of cosmic energy. (EA, p.41) and we will assume that this number one 58|00:07:39|840|00:07:47|760relates to Atma and the beginning of the five-fold Brahmic expression, although you know we see that 59|00:07:47|760|00:07:58|200the way D.K. talks about these different types of forces, it's not easy to get a handle on them. 60|00:08:00|440|00:08:10|360Is it worth going back here? Let's see, the second hierarchy has for its type of force 61|00:08:10|360|00:08:13|940the second aspect, but it's of the seventh type of force from out the many. 62|00:08:14|680|00:08:23|280The seventh type comes from above, but the first type perhaps indicates the beginning of the Brahmic 63|00:08:23|280|00:08:43|920expression. It is, let's see, it is often the case that the three and the one are related. I'm 64|00:08:43|920|00:08:49|560saying that the process of fusion produce first-ray results, first-ray souls produce second-ray results, 65|00:08:49|720|00:08:55|100second-ray souls produce third-ray results, and then it seems to go up, and third-ray souls produce 66|00:08:55|100|00:09:08|300first-ray results, but it would be unusual for this lower hierarchy to wield a higher type of 67|00:09:08|300|00:09:14|400force than either the second or the first, either the Virgo or the Leo Creative Hierarchy. 68|00:09:15|360|00:09:22|920So I'm thinking that this first cosmic force must relate to Brahma. It is first in a strange way, 69|00:09:22|920|00:09:29|400because Brahma, although he is third, was first. He manifested first, therefore he could be 70|00:09:29|400|00:09:37|620considered to be the first type of cosmic, first type of cosmic force. I'm going to lower this just 71|00:09:37|620|00:09:48|760a little bit. I hope I'm still audible. Okay, and the first or sixth Creative Hierarchy 72|00:09:50|560|00:10:03|300is producing what here? Okay, well maybe I'm not, I've written so much here that maybe I'm not going 73|00:10:03|300|00:10:09|780to be able to find it, but yes, endeavouring to express the mental vibration, etc., etc. 74|00:10:10|880|00:10:23|140Okay, now we have to go up into the first Creative Hierarchy, and I'm sorry for the delay, yes, they 75|00:10:23|140|00:10:31|260express the energy of the first aspect of the sixth type of cosmic electricity, and when we're 76|00:10:31|260|00:10:41|980talking about cosmic electricity, one gets very much the sense of cosmic Fohat, and when we're 77|00:10:41|980|00:10:49|220talking about the first type of force expressed by the third group, one wonders whether it's so high. 78|00:10:49|320|00:10:57|140It's the first in order, I would say, but time will tell as these things come to light. 79|00:10:58|780|00:11:08|960We are told an interesting thing, let's see, they express, they wield, they wield, wield, but they 80|00:11:08|960|00:11:13|720don't necessarily express. Wield is an interesting word for the third ray because it has to do with 81|00:11:13|720|00:11:20|340manipulation, it has to do with the use of an instrument. They wield the third aspect of 82|00:11:20|340|00:11:28|940electrical force of the first type of cosmic energy. Every word here counts, obviously, in what D.K. is 83|00:11:28|940|00:11:35|600doing. Perhaps it is the first type of cosmic energy in some sense, but it is the aspect of 84|00:11:35|600|00:11:42|580electrical force of the first type. Well anyway, we can certainly see that the numbers add up, 85|00:11:42|840|00:11:49|300because the number three connects us with the fact that it is the third manifesting Creative Hierarchy, 86|00:11:49|300|00:11:54|700and the number eight with the idea that numbering from the Pisces hierarchy on the 87|00:11:55|140|00:12:07|820third sub-level of the cosmic astro-plane, that it is in fact the number eight which we arrive at, 88|00:12:07|900|00:12:15|460one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, which is the lesser builders. Lesser 89|00:12:16|460|00:12:23|420builders only in relation to the greater builders above them. Not lesser builders, 90|00:12:23|560|00:12:31|060as we have said, not lesser builders who are unconscious builders of the army of the voice 91|00:12:31|060|00:12:40|780and are directed by a certain David chord still in the three worlds. They stand for a recurrent cycle 92|00:12:42|360|00:12:52|320of that first type (EA, p.41) okay, first type of cosmic energy, symbolised by first type, symbolised by 93|00:12:52|320|00:12:56|420the number 8 (EA, p.41) and when we think of recurrent cycle, eight is interesting because there's a 94|00:12:56|420|00:13:05|400constantly recurring cycle in the manner in which the figure flows. So there is a first type of 95|00:13:05|400|00:13:11|760cosmic energy which is connected with the eight. Now the eight is the Scorpio sign, it's the sign 96|00:13:11|760|00:13:20|700of Hercules, and Hercules is the great first ray exemplar. There's much Pluto involved in the 97|00:13:20|700|00:13:27|800Scorpionic sign, so the numbers eight and one are closely connected. Let's just say one and eight 98|00:13:27|800|00:13:37|800are closely related—a recurrent cycle. Now it's interesting that the all knowledge, 99|00:13:37|920|00:13:44|380which is essentially the knowledge of cycles, is found upon the atmic plane, 100|00:13:46|120|00:13:52|300and on the third level of the atmic plane, interestingly, which correlates with the fact 101|00:13:52|300|00:14:00|520that this is the third manifested Creative Hierarchy. So every once in a while this first 102|00:14:00|520|00:14:07|840type of force, which is symbolized by the number eight, expresses itself, and D.K. is certainly not 103|00:14:07|840|00:14:16|380telling us when. When you think of all that we are missing in terms of when these forces actually 104|00:14:16|380|00:14:23|660express themselves and for how long, you realize the fragments with which we are working. 105|00:14:25|480|00:14:30|740The formulae for these electrical energies are too complicated to be given here, (EA, p.41) Promptly there 106|00:14:30|740|00:14:36|540are some who could understand them, because certainly there are electrical formulas in our 107|00:14:36|540|00:14:42|460conventional science which are very difficult to understand, but anyway we'll take Master D.K.'s word 108|00:14:42|460|00:14:50|120for it that we cannot become engrossed in these kinds of technical details at this point 109|00:14:50|970|00:14:56|620in the unfoldment of our understanding. but the student should bear in mind that these 110|00:14:56|620|00:15:06|900Hierarchies express: (EA, p.41)-and let us see now— 1. Septenary cosmic energy. (EA, p.41)2. Cosmic prana. (EA, p.41) 111|00:15:07|700|00:15:14|660Okay, septenary cosmic energy. Now, okay, what could that be? And let us say 112|00:15:17|000|00:15:25|140the seven types of energy of the seven cosmic planes. That's one way to look at 113|00:15:25|140|00:15:32|480septenary cosmic energy, starting all the way from the cosmic Logoic and coming down. 114|00:15:33|420|00:15:37|840And when he says these Hierarchies, does he mean only the ones that are being listed here 115|00:15:38|560|00:15:45|400or all the many Hierarchies which are possible? Cosmic prana—now where will we find cosmic prana? 116|00:15:47|320|00:15:56|320Found—oops—found on the cosmic etheric planes, which are our systemic buddhic, atmic, monadic 117|00:15:56|320|00:16:04|520and Logoic planes. 3. Solar energy or electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. (EA, p.41) and these 118|00:16:06|180|00:16:18|300relate more to the cosmic physical plane and are solar and not cosmic in origin. 119|00:16:20|080|00:16:27|660So let us say that electric fire is particularly Logoic, solar fire is monadic, 120|00:16:27|740|00:16:36|180atmic and buddhic, and fire by friction is mental, astral, etheric, physical. That's one way 121|00:16:36|180|00:16:46|460of assigning the division. Agni has sometimes been connected with solar fire, and the Agni energy is 122|00:16:46|460|00:16:55|300operating systemically on the monadic, atmic and buddhic planes. We could find the reference for 123|00:16:55|300|00:17:00|260that, but you know, for some of this you'll have to take my word, and then if I'm proven incorrect, 124|00:17:00|260|00:17:07|920well then good—we have the understanding of something that is incorrect, and something that 125|00:17:07|920|00:17:14|980is correct is then understood. So, okay, all of these express this different kind of energy. 126|00:17:15|510|00:17:25|260So cosmic prana—well, I think it's found on all four of the cosmic etheric planes. 127|00:17:27|280|00:17:34|500So these hierarchies express septenary cosmic energy. Now this is especially so, if you think 128|00:17:34|500|00:17:43|980about it, the liberated Creative Hierarchies—especially so, because they are above cosmic prana, 129|00:17:44|980|00:17:54|540being on the cosmic astral plane. Cosmic prana is a cosmic energy expressing— 130|00:17:55|780|00:18:03|860a cosmic energy expressing on the solar planes—and solar energy is solar energy expressing 131|00:18:04|400|00:18:13|660on the solar planes. Well, obviously this really gets into the fifth ray 132|00:18:14|980|00:18:25|140heights and depths of the matter. So we cannot really understand the depths of these things. 133|00:18:25|240|00:18:37|460I'll pull down this shade a little bit. The sun changes position. Okay, now moving on. 134|00:18:38|180|00:18:43|600Sometimes we really shouldn't move on, but we have no choice, because our understanding will only 135|00:18:43|600|00:18:50|060penetrate to a certain depth, and time spent at this point will not necessarily 136|00:18:51|100|00:18:57|060yield fuller understanding. Each hierarchy manifests a triple energy 137|00:18:58|560|00:19:07|300or an aspect of each of the above, and that necessitates a ninefold differentiation, 138|00:19:07|300|00:19:15|420for the two first are triple, as is the third. (EA, p.41) So here we have—this is very much like 139|00:19:16|760|00:19:28|040what we find when considering the triadal rays in Cosmic Fire, 176 and 177. 140|00:19:29|400|00:19:38|320Each one of the aspects of the spiritual triad manifests in a triple expression. 141|00:19:39|780|00:19:48|740So each hierarchy manifests the triple energy or aspect of the above—either cosmic 142|00:19:48|740|00:19:57|900septenary energy, either cosmic prana, and solar energies. So we will have 21 143|00:19:59|260|00:20:10|280expressions of energy when we consider the seven manifested hierarchies. There is somewhere a chart 144|00:20:10|280|00:20:17|800with 21 expressions of ray energy which can be compared with these, but as I said, you know, we 145|00:20:17|800|00:20:23|400just have to register the fact here that the 146|00:20:26|840|00:20:33|220for the two first are triple, as is the third. Each hierarchy, yes, we're speaking especially 147|00:20:33|220|00:20:39|820of the first, second or third manifested hierarchies, but the question remains: are the 148|00:20:39|820|00:20:47|580other hierarchies triple as well? The nine-fold differentiation is kind of a unit of completion 149|00:20:47|580|00:20:59|620of consciousness, and in the Logoic, monadic and atmic, we have a kind of nine-fold completion. 150|00:21:00|010|00:21:06|080We probably would have the same if we consider atmic, buddhic and monastic. 151|00:21:08|180|00:21:16|400Now something of real importance is said here. It is the rejection of the Triadal lives by units 152|00:21:16|400|00:21:22|440in the fourth Hierarchy, that of the human Monads, which precipitates a man eventually into the 153|00:21:22|440|00:21:29|820eighth sphere. (EA, p.41) He refuses—a type of refusal, we see—not a divine type. He refuses to become a Christ, 154|00:21:29|820|00:21:35|500a Saviour and remains self-centred. (EA, p.41) And you know, this is not just for the path of world saviors, 155|00:21:35|500|00:21:41|480for those upon the second ray. Any member of the Hierarchy, which is that great second ray body, 156|00:21:42|110|00:21:49|780is in a sense a savior. So this is the choice of the left-hand path, 157|00:21:50|680|00:22:00|260and this is the refusal to build the true antakarana which leads the consciousness into 158|00:22:00|260|00:22:07|910the influence of the triadal lives. D.K. has talked about a kind of false antakarana which the 159|00:22:08|630|00:22:15|570brothers of the left-hand path build, and they anchor it in certain deva lives on the mental 160|00:22:15|570|00:22:23|430plane. He doesn't give much about it, but the idea is that it's veering off and is going to make such 161|00:22:24|590|00:22:36|570a brother subservient to certain devic forces which he should have transcended. So there is 162|00:22:36|570|00:22:40|710a rejection involved here. Always with the number eight there is a rejection, you know? There is a 163|00:22:41|590|00:22:50|430sloughing off, a dropping of something, a refusal—the dispersing energy of the first ray, 164|00:22:51|170|00:23:01|010the rebuff factor in death. We drop the body, you know? We drop the lowest of the vehicles, which is 165|00:23:01|010|00:23:07|690in a way the eighth vehicle. It's a non-principled vehicle, but it is the eighth. We drop that, 166|00:23:08|450|00:23:16|110and here the man decides that he will not accept the eightfoldness of the Christ consciousness, 167|00:23:17|610|00:23:24|150which is a kind of circulation between the blessings of that which is high, bringing it 168|00:23:24|150|00:23:29|450into that which is low. It's a kind of a relational approach 169|00:23:31|170|00:23:38|170where one becomes a bridge of love. That is being rejected. So, you know how the— 170|00:23:39|530|00:23:46|070just to kind of look at this—the antakarana is built over here. It's kind of a Triadal 171|00:23:47|890|00:23:57|870a Triadal link, and these brothers do not build that. Some of them work on the higher mental plane, 172|00:23:57|870|00:24:04|210very few and very powerfully when they do, but generally speaking, the life is concentrated 173|00:24:04|210|00:24:10|220around the mental unit for such brothers, and the powers of the soul, especially one-third of the, 174|00:24:10|220|00:24:19|060are brought into fortifying the mental unit beyond all conceivable development by the normal man. 175|00:24:19|660|00:24:25|020That's what we are told by D.K. They can go very high onto the cosmic planes, but by 176|00:24:25|020|00:24:32|000a line which is not sanctioned in this second ray solar system. 177|00:24:33|620|00:24:37|160So we reject the Triadal lives. Well, it's a bit like 178|00:24:39|020|00:24:44|700rejecting the solar angel, you know? The solar Angel has to sort of snap the thread and say, 179|00:24:45|310|00:24:53|560“I can't be involved with this particular personality anymore.” So there is a rejection 180|00:24:53|560|00:25:00|500of the solar Angel, especially the love and divine will aspect of the solar angel—not the intelligence 181|00:25:00|500|00:25:07|520part necessarily—and there is rejection of the triad alive. Some theorists I've talked to 182|00:25:07|520|00:25:17|720said, “Well, really, the solar Angels are the spiritual triad.” This can be discussed in some 183|00:25:17|720|00:25:28|800ways. It doesn't seem quite accurate because man remains with his spiritual triad long after the 184|00:25:28|800|00:25:37|160spiritual… you know, we say all kinds of things as we try to piece all this together and work 185|00:25:37|160|00:25:46|580through the vague hints. Well, at least vague to some of us—maybe to others these hints are crystal 186|00:25:46|580|00:25:57|720clear and revelatory. Anyway, we see that somewhere in that Scorpionic period between the second and 187|00:25:57|720|00:26:03|340third initiation, there is a rejection of the triad lives, refusal to build the true antakarana, 188|00:26:03|340|00:26:11|360veering off onto the left-hand path, a succumbing to the temptations in the desert. And all temptation 189|00:26:11|360|00:26:18|900is ruled by Scorpio as well—that's the eighth sign. So we see that the battle here concerns the 190|00:26:18|900|00:26:26|020number eight and whether one will reject the lowest principle or whether one will reject the 191|00:26:26|020|00:26:35|760highest and instead exalt the lower principles. The number eight is involved on either side, and 192|00:26:36|400|00:26:42|660if we accept properly, we follow the eightfold… well, the antakarana, which is shaped like an eight, we… 193|00:26:42|660|00:26:48|200follow that into the higher worlds. If we reject Him properly, and we reject the higher life, we 194|00:26:48|200|00:26:54|640are eventually precipitated into the eighth sphere. One way of saying this is we enter a cycle of 195|00:26:54|640|00:27:03|300disintegration and pain. Another way is that we make, out of the concrete mind, an eighth sphere 196|00:27:03|880|00:27:10|920on the cosmic physical plane, and eventually then are precipitated into the decadence 197|00:27:10|920|00:27:18|880of that state of decomposition which is called the eighth sphere. So it's very important that 198|00:27:18|880|00:27:25|460we accept the Trinity—right, the triple flowers—this higher type of planetary 199|00:27:26|500|00:27:33|780mind, love, and will, which is expressed with the spiritual triad, which is nourished 200|00:27:34|800|00:27:39|340by these particular high lives. Let's see what else we have here. 201|00:27:41|380|00:27:45|480We have dealt with the first three Hierarchies which are regarded as 202|00:27:45|480|00:27:51|300ever “seeing the Face of the Ruler of the Deep,” (EA, p.41) And the 203|00:27:52|640|00:27:58|080the Ruler of the Deep—well, these are the depths of the cosmic 204|00:27:58|900|00:28:05|840planes, and the Ruler can be considered either as the planetary Logos or the solar Logos. 205|00:28:06|840|00:28:10|860or as being so pure and holy that Their forces are in realised contact with Their emanating source. (EA, p.41) These Hierarchies are beings so pure and holy 206|00:28:12|720|00:28:20|500of a nature out of harmony with the still unredeemed forces of the lower planes of our 207|00:28:20|500|00:28:27|260cosmic physical plane that their forces are in realized contact—realized contact, not just 208|00:28:27|260|00:28:33|780contact (we're all in contact), but in realized contact with their emanating source, which is 209|00:28:33|780|00:28:46|880the solar Logos ultimately, and of course a special adaptation of the solar Logos' will, 210|00:28:47|420|00:28:55|420which is carried forward by our planetary Logos, the Ruler of the Deep. It sounds very 211|00:28:55|420|00:29:04|760um, cabalistic. Some of the ancient ideas… obviously, are we talking about water? You know, 212|00:29:04|760|00:29:14|020deep water. Matter is water, and it descends to a very great depth. We're in this cosmic ocean, 213|00:29:14|940|00:29:22|540which has, as far as we are concerned, an unfathomable depth. So the first, second, and 214|00:29:22|540|00:29:29|340third Hierarchies are connected very much with the first, second, and third aspects of the 215|00:29:29|900|00:29:38|380solar Logos. The planets involved are Vulcan for the first, Jupiter for the second, and Saturn for 216|00:29:38|380|00:29:45|640the third. Something Vulcan… and some might also say that Uranus should be… should be there. 217|00:29:48|620|00:29:49|380Okay. 218|00:29:52|540|00:30:00|040We now take up for brief consideration two Hierarchies which closely concern ourselves, 219|00:30:01|180|00:30:07|220the human self-conscious entities. (EA, p.41) Self-consciousness is, of course, a limitation 220|00:30:07|700|00:30:15|220in consciousness. Group consciousness is greater, and the big jump to God-consciousness is still 221|00:30:15|860|00:30:26|200still greater. Um, seeing these kinds of lights here, I think there will be no way to avoid 222|00:30:26|860|00:30:34|440this mottled view. Okay. Two Hierarchies which concern ourselves: these two groups are literally 223|00:30:35|060|00:30:43|480three, (EA, p.41) This is so important, as the fifth Hierarchy is a dual one, and it is this which has led to some 224|00:30:43|480|00:30:53|400confusion and is the occult significance behind the ill-omened number thirteen. (EA, p.41) Well, we're… um, we're told 225|00:30:54|280|00:31:03|240that there can develop 13 Hierarchies, one of which is the eighth, if the concrete mind is 226|00:31:03|240|00:31:13|420walled off and refuses to be held in the light of the soul and in the light of the Triad. So the 227|00:31:13|480|00:31:20|480one of the ways of considering this hierarchy—the… the… the fifth… fifth manifested— 228|00:31:22|120|00:31:27|560is that the higher aspect of it is symbolized by the upward-pointing five-pointed star, or pentagram, 229|00:31:28|130|00:31:36|680and there is a reversal of the pentagram for the lower life. See, you know, uh, hierarchy five… 230|00:31:37|840|00:31:45|200Creative hierarchy five is partially solar and partially… partially lunar, 231|00:31:46|790|00:31:49|720at least when we are considering the 232|00:31:51|370|00:31:59|600lower mental plane. We are in the realm of the moon. The Moon has 18 sub-planes. 233|00:32:02|380|00:32:11|500And the moon card is the 18th, and this is all the lunar realm: the physical, etheric, astral, and lower 234|00:32:11|500|00:32:16|340mental, comprising 18 sub-planes. It's all within the realm of the moon, and yet this 235|00:32:16|340|00:32:24|060fifth Creative Hierarchy seems to have a solar aspect to it and a mental elemental aspect to 236|00:32:24|060|00:32:33|440it, which can be viewed as a downward-pointing pentagram. Certainly, the solar Angels could never 237|00:32:33|440|00:32:38|460be characterized as a downward-pointing pentagram because they are far too wise and loving, and they 238|00:32:38|460|00:32:47|380have transcended the tendency to be lured by the matter of the previous solar system and by 239|00:32:48|240|00:33:01|440moon-chain impulses. So we have to solve this problem of the dual Creative Hierarchy number 240|00:33:01|440|00:33:10|660five, or number 10, as the case may be: the two stars—five and five—the pentagram and the pentagram, 241|00:33:10|660|00:33:16|300upward-pointing or downward-pointing, actually create the ten together. But what is required 242|00:33:16|300|00:33:25|120is the reorientation of the lower pentagram so that the lunar elementals reorient themselves and 243|00:33:25|740|00:33:34|520instead of seeking to continue their lunar association, orient themselves symbolically 244|00:33:35|000|00:33:41|900towards the sun. So we have three groups that are closely connected with the human self-conscious 245|00:33:41|900|00:33:50|900entities. One is hierarchy number nine, which is our own, and then are dealing with two aspects of 246|00:33:50|900|00:33:58|980hierarchy number five or ten, one of which leads us to heaven and the other to hell. They are… 247|00:34:00|660|00:34:05|660Let's see, they are… which ones are they? They are the “Seekers of satisfaction” 248|00:34:06|110|00:34:11|900and the cause of the second fall. So I suppose he's still… he is talking about the 249|00:34:12|760|00:34:21|980the fifth hierarchy. Members of the fifth creative hierarchy They are the “Seekers of satisfaction” 250|00:34:23|240|00:34:30|440and the cause of the second fall into generation, the fact behind the taking of a lower 251|00:34:31|160|00:34:41|440nature by the Ego. (EA, p.41-42) Um, okay, uh, the sad Seekers of satisfaction… 252|00:34:42|480|00:34:49|040This does seem to be, uh, connected very much with desire, and one wonders whether we're not talking 253|00:34:49|040|00:34:54|620about the lower aspect of the fifth creative hierarchy, 254|00:34:57|620|00:35:04|720perhaps. And the first fall is simply a fall onto the cosmic physical plane altogether. 255|00:35:05|630|00:35:16|700The second fall into generation is the fall of an aspect of the solar angel or the higher ego into 256|00:35:16|700|00:35:27|760the 18 lower sub-planes, and perhaps even into the, um, the… the causal levels, which are also 257|00:35:27|760|00:35:35|180in the solar Logoic physical body. Sometimes we, you know, we talk… we don't realize that the falls 258|00:35:35|180|00:35:43|060are not necessarily due to a lack of virtue, but are due to sacrificial intent. Certain angels fall 259|00:35:43|500|00:35:50|860in order to help the great solar angelic host. Sometimes called Prometheus brought fire to man… 260|00:35:50|860|00:35:57|800that in bringing fire to man, the divine fire of mind, and secondarily of love and will, is a kind of 261|00:35:57|800|00:36:04|920a fall. And sometimes that great host is called Lucifer as well, the chief of the fallen angels, 262|00:36:05|540|00:36:13|020which sometimes signifies that the entire hierarchy fell into generation, which is another 263|00:36:13|020|00:36:20|460way of speaking about the lower… lower 18 or 21 sub-planes. That's the realm of generation. 264|00:36:21|400|00:36:29|380Uh, they… Lucifer fell in that way when Lucifer is considered that way, in order to help humanity. 265|00:36:31|360|00:36:40|580Um, now we were very far behind on our Earth chain here due to the Moon chain disaster, the 266|00:36:41|220|00:36:44|580full nature of which, and probably in which many of us participated, 267|00:36:45|380|00:36:51|180will not be known for some time. But one day we will see how it was that the 268|00:36:51|180|00:37:01|980uh, planetary Logos failed through that third chain and, uh, with us… some of us as extensions 269|00:37:01|980|00:37:11|300of his being, we experienced that failure as a retardation in our development, which is now 270|00:37:11|800|00:37:21|520being stimulated in this fourth chain. The, um, okay… the fourth and the fifth Hierarchies 271|00:37:22|340|00:37:30|520manifested. So the hierarchy of initiates, or of human, uh, monads, and the hierarchy 272|00:37:31|760|00:37:40|280of, uh, solar Angels and their inferior lower counterpart… The fourth and the fifth Hierarchies are 273|00:37:40|280|00:37:45|180the ninth and tenth, (EA, p.42) We understand the method of counting, or the “Initiates” and the “Perfect Ones.” (EA, p.42) 274|00:37:45|180|00:37:53|760Well, that's, you know, that's rather interesting. The Perfect Ones… uh, only… let's just say that only the 275|00:37:53|760|00:38:02|380higher among them could be called the… ones… only the higher amongst them could be called the 276|00:38:02|920|00:38:09|600perfect ones. Well, they are initiates of all degrees. They have completed on that lower turn 277|00:38:09|600|00:38:16|560of the spiral, which we call the first solar system, that which man could do in that solar 278|00:38:16|560|00:38:22|320system, because they were men in that solar system. So they have been perfected, but they still have 279|00:38:22|320|00:38:30|160something to gain. They're not entirely avataric. An avatar, we are taught, is one who descends 280|00:38:31|000|00:38:38|680to assist with no possible gain for himself in the assistance offered. It's just the act of 281|00:38:39|480|00:38:50|840pure beneficence with no… no real… no real gain. And but… but the perfect ones still are 282|00:38:51|770|00:39:00|120not perfect with respect to our solar system, and nor are they liberated at this time, perhaps by 283|00:39:00|120|00:39:05|420choice, onto the cosmic astral plane. They had to have been on the cosmic astral plane in order to 284|00:39:05|420|00:39:10|560go to Sirius and be trained to solar angels, but for the moment their attention is very much on 285|00:39:10|560|00:39:17|140the cosmic physical plane and helping to awaken the planetary heart. And I think that when all 286|00:39:17|140|00:39:22|620human beings have ascended to the monadic level… ascension is the word because that's the sixth 287|00:39:22|620|00:39:30|120Initiation… up to the sixth or monadic level, that the planetary heart will be truly awakened 288|00:39:30|120|00:39:39|020and the perfect ones will have accomplished their… their task. Of course, even at the fourth degree 289|00:39:39|020|00:39:46|760there is already the promise of that awakening, and they do apparently return after our fourth degree. 290|00:39:46|760|00:39:54|300having shared with us what they could, which allows us to operate somewhat on a lower level 291|00:39:55|080|00:40:02|280in relation to what they can do. In other words, we become minor solar angels and we get our 292|00:40:02|280|00:40:08|140wings at the fourth degree, so to speak. All human beings are imperishable Jivas. 293|00:40:09|440|00:40:15|600Yes, because the essence of the jivas, the monad, which is imperishable being. All human beings, or 294|00:40:15|600|00:40:21|620“Imperishable Jivas,” are those who evolve through a graded series of initiations, (EA, p.42) Nine 295|00:40:21|620|00:40:28|340exactly, at least in this span of initiations either self-induced or brought about on our 296|00:40:28|340|00:40:37|560planet with extraneous aid. (EA, p.42) Well, really both are necessary. We need to have extraordinary 297|00:40:38|690|00:40:49|300effort on our part—extraordinary exertion. Extraordinary exertion on our part, and also at 298|00:40:49|300|00:40:58|760this time divine intervention. We need both if we are to undergo this rather unusual initiatory 299|00:40:58|760|00:41:05|440program. And even though not all men tread the path of initiation, the human kingdom itself will 300|00:41:05|440|00:41:12|000be lifted and lifted and lifted to statuses which are equivalent to those achieved by those 301|00:41:12|000|00:41:23|580who willfully tread—willfully trod the path of initiation. So anyway, these Imperishable 302|00:41:23|580|00:41:30|300Jivas They achieve through a “marriage” with the order next to them, the fifth. They are then completed or perfected, and it is owing to this occult fact that the fourth Hierarchy is regarded as masculine and the fifth as feminine. (EA, p.42) Now interestingly, 303|00:41:31|320|00:41:34|540the order next to them—it's kind of a double marriage 304|00:41:35|260|00:41:49|000because there is a marriage above, which we call soul infusion, and a marriage below. 305|00:41:51|040|00:41:57|460Let's see, how can we do this? The marriage above is with the higher type, with the solar Angels, 306|00:41:57|800|00:42:08|900and the marriage below is the influx of higher life into the elemental life. Who's being married? 307|00:42:09|400|00:42:22|440Who is being married? That projection of the monad which we call the disciple. So there's a being 308|00:42:23|160|00:42:30|020brought into an elevator—into the status of a solar Angel. So we have one marriage is rising 309|00:42:30|020|00:42:40|400up to become as the solar Angel, and the other is the bringing down of divine energy into the 310|00:42:40|400|00:42:47|860elemental life of the personality. So this is very interesting. We're betwixt and between. It seems 311|00:42:47|860|00:42:55|240like humanity, although technically in a way above the fifth Creative Hierarchy, is below 312|00:42:56|040|00:43:02|600one aspect of that Hierarchy and above another or lesser aspect of that Hierarchy. 313|00:43:03|400|00:43:10|360Well, these are speculations, hopefully reasoned speculations. And you know, as we get 314|00:43:10|360|00:43:15|600together to discuss these matters, then greater clarification can emerge. I'm sure we will discover 315|00:43:15|600|00:43:23|320how little we really know about the whole situation. Now we are moving right along, 316|00:43:24|600|00:43:31|140right along. Hierarchy IV. The fourth 317|00:43:31|140|00:43:36|920Creative Hierarchy is the group wherein the highest aspect of man, his “Father in Heaven” (EA, p.42) 318|00:43:37|680|00:43:44|700the Monad, finds place. (EA, p.42) or let me say its 319|00:43:46|140|00:43:49|920focus. Now you know, hierarchies will change. I mean, 320|00:43:50|500|00:43:56|280there are those who one day will move into hierarchy four, and the boatload of monads that's 321|00:43:56|280|00:44:02|480focused in the possibilities of hierarchy four now will move on and become another hierarchy. 322|00:44:02|480|00:44:07|720For instance, suppose that most human beings became solar Angels—the bulk of human beings 323|00:44:07|720|00:44:14|580became solar Angels. Well, if that were the case, then we would have moved on 324|00:44:15|560|00:44:24|920to become a hierarchy number five, interestingly enough, and we would have our turn at sacrificial 325|00:44:24|920|00:44:30|420work. I guess I'm sort of divided in a four-fold manner: one part of me is shadow, one part is light. 326|00:44:30|420|00:44:39|340Well, don't take it too literally. Let's see if I can—no, can I do that? No. A little bit like that perhaps. 327|00:44:40|720|00:44:47|580These lives are the points of fire (EA, p.42) Again, how very interesting. Lives are points. The point is the 328|00:44:47|580|00:44:57|160most mysterious figure. So lives are points. The point is the most underestimated factor in 329|00:44:57|160|00:45:08|040occultism. It is an absolutely dynamic, all-powerful factor. The Universa Logos himself 330|00:45:08|040|00:45:15|420is simply a point, and his consciousness makes a hemisphere. And beyond that consciousness there 331|00:45:15|420|00:45:21|600is no universe. So does the universe have a boundary? Well, it is the boundary of the consciousness of 332|00:45:21|600|00:45:31|680the Universa Logos. And what is not conceived—perceived—does not exist. I know this is a 333|00:45:31|680|00:45:40|200strange idea, I think, but if one begins to think deeply about it, we will understand that 334|00:45:40|960|00:45:45|500everything in the veil of illusion, which is the universe, is a perception of the one perceiver. 335|00:45:46|240|00:45:52|060And if it is not perceived, it doesn't exist because we have to say, well, doesn't he fail 336|00:45:52|060|00:45:57|400to perceive that which additionally exists? No, he's giving it existence by an act of perception. 337|00:45:58|020|00:46:05|440That which exists is given existence by a Universal Logoic act of self-perception. 338|00:46:05|440|00:46:10|060Well, that's probably my major thesis in the Infinitization book. 339|00:46:12|300|00:46:20|140Which a few read and a few less survive. I don't know if I'd survive if I try to read it again, 340|00:46:21|140|00:46:28|540which one day I may be destined to do. Okay, these lives in hierarchy number four are points of fire. 341|00:46:28|540|00:46:32|120who must become the flame; (EA, p.42) 342|00:46:34|300|00:46:45|740Sparks hanging from the great flame by the finest thread of Fohat. So we must become the flame. 343|00:46:45|740|00:46:52|540We the spark seems to have an individual identity, and we have to merge with the flame 344|00:46:53|540|00:47:00|560which is all-inclusive of the many sparks. this they do through the agency of the fifth 345|00:47:01|740|00:47:09|380Hierarchy and the four wicks, or the two dual lower hierarchies.(EA, p.42) Now, now here we've just found 346|00:47:09|380|00:47:14|720something very important. Remember how we asked the question: are all the hierarchies that are 347|00:47:14|720|00:47:25|380manifested—are they triple? So we did ask—whoops, okay, keep it red. We did ask if all hierarchies 348|00:47:25|380|00:47:37|470are triple, but here we see that the two lowest are dual, and it appears that the 349|00:47:38|430|00:47:50|210fifth Creative Hierarchy is also dual. Then what about man—is—or the fourth? 350|00:47:51|070|00:48:04|730Or the fourth Creative Hierarchy: is that hierarchy triple or dual? What do we have so far? Three, three, 351|00:48:04|730|00:48:11|810and three, and two, and two. So three, three, three—or nine—and two and two are four. Nine plus four is thirteen. 352|00:48:12|570|00:48:23|510Nine and four are thirteen. Thirteen expressions. And only the—no—and add two more for the solar angels: fifteen. 353|00:48:24|530|00:48:34|650Now, what of man? Is it a unitary hierarchy? Is it a dual hierarchy? Does it have three expressions? 354|00:48:35|310|00:48:41|150Well, certainly, you know, we are very familiar with the idea of the trinity that is within man: the 355|00:48:41|150|00:48:48|610triple monad and the triple soul and the triple triad and so forth. We are—we are familiar with 356|00:48:48|610|00:48:56|770that. Gosh, what a ray four image! Just whoa! Okay, well, just look at the bright side, okay? All right. 357|00:48:57|450|00:49:04|090Thus it can be seen that where man is concerned, the fourth, (EA, p.42)—that's his— fifth, sixth 358|00:49:04|090|00:49:12|230and seventh hierarchies are, during the cycle of incarnation, his very self. (EA, p.42) They provide 359|00:49:12|230|00:49:18|730his instrument. They are the “Lords of Sacrifice” and “Lords of Love,” the flower of Atma-Buddhi. (EA, p.42) 360|00:49:18|730|00:49:27|350That's what we are. Atma-Buddhi is sometimes considered the Monad, and we are the flower of Atma-361|00:49:27|910|00:49:34|230Buddhi. We are Lords of Sacrifice, Lords of Ceaseless, Persevering Devotion. We are called 362|00:49:34|230|00:49:41|110Lords of Love. We come from the second, or love, plane of the cosmic physical plane. We're ruled 363|00:49:41|110|00:49:49|190by the second ray, in a way. We're ruled by Jupiter, in a way. Virgo and its second ray, in a way. 364|00:49:49|830|00:49:56|890We're fighting it out as a Scorpio Hierarchy, yes, but our true monadic nature is found on the plane 365|00:49:57|350|00:50:06|090of love, which is the—uh—the second—the akashic plane of the cosmic physical plane. 366|00:50:06|970|00:50:15|990All right, a little more. Oh, but you know, one just wants to pore over this because it's so 367|00:50:17|170|00:50:22|710fantastic. We do have a Father in Heaven. We are our Father in Heaven. “I and the Father are one,” 368|00:50:22|710|00:50:29|610as the Christ pointed out. We are points of fire, as are all lives. We must become the divine flame. 369|00:50:29|610|00:50:41|650And ah, that's interesting. This means, perhaps, that we must transcend the monad as it now expresses 370|00:50:41|650|00:50:48|470and enter the sea of fire. That would be the fire of the flame. We would enter the sea of fire and 371|00:50:48|470|00:50:58|570merge with one flame. Well, there is an evolution—uh—beyond the cosmic physical plane, and what that may 372|00:50:58|570|00:51:04|450be—well, we're only promised that it does occur. And the Djwhal Khul himself says of the cosmic 373|00:51:04|450|00:51:11|110astral plane—uh—“What is to be found there I know not. I have not been there.” But the Christ, of course, 374|00:51:11|110|00:51:15|670has begun to tune—tune in on that. The Christ and the Buddha, as seventh-degree initiates, 375|00:51:15|670|00:51:24|570even though not yet refusing contact with the cosmic physical plane, they do know what is on 376|00:51:24|570|00:51:30|210the cosmic astral plane to a limited degree, I suppose. And when they have finished their 377|00:51:30|950|00:51:38|450great dual salvational effort during the Aquarian age, they will journey to those higher realms, I 378|00:51:38|450|00:51:44|470suspect. Will that mean that they are beyond initiations of the seventh degree? Will they 379|00:51:44|470|00:51:50|070be entering the—the eighth degree, which is a degree of transition? Probably transition 380|00:51:50|630|00:51:55|510from the cosmic physical plane to the cosmic astral. Well, these things remain to be seen. 381|00:51:55|510|00:52:01|010Perhaps—uh—D.K., and only D.K., who could write about these things, will tell us something about 382|00:52:01|010|00:52:05|350it in the new installment of the teaching. I oftentimes say, you know, there are—there are people, 383|00:52:06|110|00:52:10|290sincere, well-intended people, who say, “Well look, I'm giving out the new installment of the teaching. 384|00:52:10|930|00:52:13|770Uh, I am the initiate, or one of the initiates, who is 385|00:52:15|330|00:52:18|550coming forth in the beginning part of the century, giving out the new—” 386|00:52:19|410|00:52:24|950the new teaching, and I say, “Okay, well, look, you know, um, okay, everyone's entitled to their own 387|00:52:24|950|00:52:29|350point of view, but I'm saying what you're writing I could write, and if I can write it, 388|00:52:29|930|00:52:36|590then D.K. is not writing it. And if you could write it, which you could too, D.K. is not writing it.” Alice 389|00:52:36|590|00:52:44|830mainly wrote what she could write, but she didn't write what only D.K. could write. So I hold out 390|00:52:44|830|00:52:50|010for the year 2025 as being the beginning of the next installment of the teaching. 391|00:52:52|050|00:52:59|910And I'm sure that its content will be such that only D.K. could write it, or some, you know, other 392|00:52:59|910|00:53:05|430master. In this particular case, it's D.K. because he's perhaps the most learned master when it comes 393|00:53:05|430|00:53:12|990to the solar and hierarchical energy, solar energies, and the knowledge of the Creative 394|00:53:12|990|00:53:21|010Hierarchies. Anyway, that's my particular soapbox, you know. I don't want to pretend. 395|00:53:22|350|00:53:28|990I'm simply an interpreter, in a way. Nothing with me is original here. These are my own 396|00:53:28|990|00:53:36|010interpretations of the master's word. Um, I've written my own books, but then I could write them, 397|00:53:36|590|00:53:43|530and I don't say they're from anyone but myself, whatever that self is. Okay. 398|00:53:46|310|00:53:51|230Now, let's just do a little more. In studying these Hierarchies, one of the most valuable lessons to be 399|00:53:51|230|00:53:56|690learned is the place and importance of man in the scheme. (EA, p.42) Well, that's it, you know. It's a great 400|00:53:56|690|00:54:02|770privilege to know where you stand, to know what you are, because if you know what you are, you'll 401|00:54:02|770|00:54:10|410know what to do. So that's the key: man's place and importance in the scheme. And it's a much different 402|00:54:10|410|00:54:15|770place or importance in the scheme than we might have imagined when we don't know a lot of these 403|00:54:16|910|00:54:24|070occult structures and relationships. Well, you know, we imagine we are something, and 404|00:54:24|070|00:54:30|870we're usually at the center of a center of the world in some, uh, you say, geocentric, 405|00:54:31|650|00:54:38|690man-centric position. But when we begin to understand all the many lives that are involved 406|00:54:38|690|00:54:44|530in this manifestation called man, we develop a great sense of cooperation, participation, and 407|00:54:44|530|00:54:51|770humility. The Hierarchy, for instance, which is the essence of the intangible Life of Spirit, 408|00:54:52|970|00:54:57|530the principle of Buddhi, (EA, p.42) — see, so often in our solar system, spirit is called Buddhi — 409|00:54:57|530|00:55:04|630is the esoteric cause of the cosmic marriage of spirit and matter, (EA, p.42) See, Buddhi is the… 410|00:55:06|170|00:55:16|890Buddhi represents the middle type of electricity. Buddhi, let's get it, is the middle or equilibrating 411|00:55:17|410|00:55:24|530type of electricity which unifies spirit… 412|00:55:25|610|00:55:32|670Hello. No, that's sub-plane spirit and matter and middle with 3D. Is okay. 413|00:55:33|810|00:55:38|530So, you know, the soul is essentially — the egoic lotus is essentially 414|00:55:39|510|00:55:45|090a second aspect instrument, and it is the expression of Buddhi. Buddhi is the harmonizing 415|00:55:45|090|00:55:50|790principle, harmonizing spirit and matter, harmonizing. Okay. 416|00:55:52|770|00:55:58|690based on the love and desire of the Logos, but each Hierarchy also expresses itself (EA, p.42) 417|00:56:02|250|00:56:07|710Uh, this is the essence here, “cause the cosmic…” Well, that's us, isn't it? I mean, that particular 418|00:56:07|710|00:56:13|070hierarchy which is the… I see what it means here, you know. I made a mistake here. It's not our 419|00:56:13|070|00:56:18|310great… It's not our spiritual hierarchy. It's that particular hierarchy, for instance, which is the 420|00:56:18|310|00:56:23|810essence of the intangible life of spirit. The principle of Buddhi is the esoteric cause of the 421|00:56:23|810|00:56:30|450marriage of spirit and matter. Well, man comes close to fulfilling that function. The fourth 422|00:56:30|450|00:56:39|470Creative Hierarchy comes close to being the Buddhi link between spirit and matter, and that is man's 423|00:56:39|470|00:56:48|890destiny. Based on the love and desire of the Logos, but each Hierarchy of the others also 424|00:56:48|890|00:56:53|670expresses itself through one particular manifestation which comes to be regarded by the finite mind of man as the Hierarchy itself. This is not so, and care must be taken 426|00:57:04|330|00:57:08|350to distinguish between these Hierarchies. (EA, p.42) 427|00:57:09|510|00:57:13|670So, you know, we have a particular manifestation. We look like man, 428|00:57:14|590|00:57:19|210but there are other manifestations to which the fourth Creative Hierarchy expresses there. 429|00:57:20|010|00:57:26|610Many discarnate expressions of the fourth Creative Hierarchy. The fourth Creative Hierarchy 430|00:57:26|610|00:57:33|770expresses itself as man, as members of the fifth kingdom of nature, the kingdom of souls. That 431|00:57:33|770|00:57:40|570expresses itself as Chohans, as members of the sixth kingdom of planetary lives. And there's 432|00:57:40|570|00:57:48|290good reason to believe that since there was the mineralization, in vegetalization, in zoanation 433|00:57:48|290|00:57:55|450of the Monad, that the fourth Creative Hierarchy is expressing itself as well through the 434|00:57:56|610|00:58:02|790three lower kingdoms — not just through the human kingdom, but that they all, the mineral, the plant… 435|00:58:03|770|00:58:13|590The animals are all parts of man, for whom man is the microcosm. So these hierarchies, this 436|00:58:13|590|00:58:19|410fourth Creative Hierarchy, has an immense range of expression, but usually you think of it as 437|00:58:20|110|00:58:26|850major expression as being the form of man and the existence of man. We don't think of it so much as 438|00:58:26|850|00:58:34|370the masters per se, or the planetary spirits, the planetary lives per se, or as the lower kingdoms. 439|00:58:34|370|00:58:39|710We don't think of it that way. So D.K. is telling us to be very careful because a hierarchy 440|00:58:40|540|00:58:45|510can have numerous forms of expression, one of which is considered most characteristic, but 441|00:58:45|510|00:58:55|330there can be several. Well, okay… that's it. Wow, we're in deep water here. 442|00:58:57|510|00:59:05|710Amazing how deep it goes in Cosmic Fire, and we finished EAA 20, and we have reached some page… 443|00:59:05|710|00:59:21|590rather, I suppose… oh lord, page 42. So we've done page 41 and 42, and we will continue with 444|00:59:24|850|00:59:30|810the discussion of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human hierarchy, which of course is the major 445|00:59:30|810|00:59:36|250study that we undertake in all of the Tibetan's books and all of the Ageless Wisdom. But things 446|00:59:36|250|00:59:43|430would not be complete unless we can see the other hierarchies to which we are related. All right, 447|00:59:43|970|00:59:50|010it's time then to close with The Great Invocation. 448|00:59:59|930|01:00:00|710Um… 449|01:00:07|530|01:00:15|660From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. 450|01:00:16|520|01:00:19|640Let light descend on Earth. 451|01:00:24|840|01:00:31|580From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. 452|01:00:32|440|01:00:34|500May Christ return to Earth. 453|01:00:39|960|01:00:45|980From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 454|01:00:47|120|01:00:49|540the purpose which the masters know and serve. 455|01:00:54|200|01:01:01|920From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the 456|01:01:02|350|01:01:03|840door where evil dwells. 457|01:01:09|710|01:01:16|020Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. 458|01:01:32|740|01:01:33|540Oh… 459|01:01:50|560|01:01:53|240Okay friends, that's number 20. 460|01:01:54|860|01:02:01|660And we will continue with number 21, making our way through a few more hierarchies. We 461|01:02:01|660|01:02:05|780spent a long time on this subject, but hopefully it will bring to our attention 462|01:02:06|960|01:02:13|580some of the amazing possibilities of the lives with which we cooperate, the lives we represent, 463|01:02:13|580|01:02:20|880and the lives who represent us in our composite form as the human being. We'll see you then.
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