1|00:00:07|880|00:00:14|500Okay. Hi everybody. I'm trying a different microphone here. I hope this is going to work 2|00:00:14|500|00:00:28|760well. This is our 29th esoteric astrology adventure, and today is still the 25th of July. We've been 3|00:00:28|760|00:00:37|320talking here about considering the dualities in terms of the constellation and its sign opposite, 4|00:00:38|320|00:00:47|780and the D.K. is telling us how we're going to do that. We're going to take up the points in the 5|00:00:47|780|00:00:53|320following manner, he says. From the standpoint of commencement at Aries, we're going to consider the 6|00:00:53|320|00:01:04|020two modes of either progressing or regressing around the wheel, and how that means the different 7|00:01:04|020|00:01:14|680ways of responding to the potentialities of the signs of the zodiac. We are also—we covered the 8|00:01:14|680|00:01:23|300idea—we're going to investigate astrology 2. From the standpoint of the man upon the probationary path EA, p.61 9|00:01:23|300|00:01:30|220and how he is still quite dizzy or giddy upon that path, not knowing his true orientation, 10|00:01:30|440|00:01:36|800but eventually begins to do so under the influence, the intuitive influence of Gemini, 11|00:01:38|340|00:01:47|080clarifying the pairs of opposites, and also under the influence of Sagittarius, which gives him 12|00:01:47|080|00:01:56|360purpose and direction. And finally, the crisis of initiation comes, followed by the crisis of 13|00:01:57|740|00:02:09|420renunciation. Okay, then we reach the point where we can begin the third method of investigation, 14|00:02:09|420|00:02:18|300and D.K. is going to undertake his examination from the standpoint of the pledged disciple and 15|00:02:18|300|00:02:24|900initiate, which is certainly different from that of the probationary disciple. 3. From the standpoint of the pledged 16|00:02:24|900|00:02:37|360disciple and initiate who traverses again the Path of the Sun and finds that EA, p.61—and this, of course, 17|00:02:37|360|00:02:41|600the Path of the Sun is now progressive, in other words it's the reversed wheel, 18|00:02:43|000|00:02:50|140as is the case for the probationary disciple as well, but with much more conflict for the 19|00:02:50|140|00:02:54|620probationary disciple. Now the purpose is so strong for the pledged disciple or initiate, 20|00:02:55|580|00:03:05|280that the reversing wheel is gradually overcoming the normal wheel, and the rending process of the 21|00:03:05|280|00:03:15|620two wheels turning is decreasing because the power of the wheel is becoming stronger. So, 22|00:03:15|980|00:03:22|420we're taking this 3. From the standpoint of the pledged disciple and initiate who traverses 23|00:03:22|420|00:03:33|600again the Path of the Sun and finds that that which he has discovered himself to be in Leo finds its 24|00:03:33|600|00:03:43|280crown in Aquarius. EA, p.61 Now this is very interesting. He's discovered himself to be the soul, not just 25|00:03:43|280|00:03:56|620the personality in Leo. He's responding to the mantram, “I am that,” but at the same time, he is 26|00:03:56|620|00:04:02|520moving towards the group consciousness and even eventually the universal consciousness of Aquarius, 27|00:04:02|520|00:04:11|920and it's very interesting the idea of the crown, because the crown center can be considered a 28|00:04:11|920|00:04:21|380radiatory center ruled by radiatory Aquarius. In other words, it's the synthesis of so many of the 29|00:04:21|380|00:04:30|320faculties, and Aquarius rules this grand synthesis. So Aquarius is one of the signs particularly 30|00:04:30|320|00:04:38|020associated with the third and with the fourth initiation, when the crown center is greatly 31|00:04:38|020|00:04:59|620stimulated, purpose being in the nature of the crown center, and will being in the nature of the 32|00:05:05|680|00:05:14|060highest head center. He traverses the path of the Sun and finds that which he has discovered 33|00:05:14|060|00:05:22|060himself to be in Leo, that that finds its crown in Aquarius. In other words, Aquarius is considered 34|00:05:22|060|00:05:32|800a consummating sign, and so many of the initiates take their final incarnation in Aquarius and find 35|00:05:32|800|00:05:43|240themselves as world servers. Occasionally you find the world's savior taking the final incarnation in 36|00:05:43|240|00:05:53|560Pisces. The separative individual consciousness becomes the group consciousness in Aquarius, EA, p.61 37|00:05:55|020|00:06:02|880and group consciousness or universal consciousness, and he begins to comprehend the significance of 1|00:00:07|880|00:00:14|500that basic combination of signs, that “triangle in the consciousness” of humanity: EA, p.61 There are a number 39|00:06:09|540|00:06:21|040of triangles in the consciousness of humanity, and they signify a type of progress from an 40|00:06:21|040|00:06:28|500initial condition to a final condition. So these triangles of consciousness are to be carefully 41|00:06:28|500|00:06:35|380noted, and let us see what triangle he's talking about here. It's the triangle of Cancer, Leo, 42|00:06:36|100|00:06:47|020Aquarius. Cancer, we have the mass awareness, and the instinctual consciousness. I think, 43|00:06:47|040|00:07:05|360you know, if I have these somewhat smaller, maybe a number 10 perhaps, we would, yeah, 44|00:07:05|360|00:07:14|440consciousness which all share and which is based upon the instinctual urges and the environments 45|00:07:14|440|00:07:21|500into which those instinctual urges force one. There is no real individuality, and interestingly 46|00:07:21|500|00:07:33|680enough, the constellation of Cancer is quite dim, quite vague, quite diffused. There are no real 47|00:07:33|680|00:07:40|900brilliant points. It relates perhaps to the idea that for us, and how we perceive the constellation 48|00:07:40|900|00:07:47|060Cancer, it was much more powerful in the previous solar system, and especially we are told by D.K., 49|00:07:47|400|00:07:55|080in the first part of the previous solar system. Leo, on the other hand, is a much more well-defined 50|00:07:55|080|00:08:02|280constellation as we view it, and it signifies at first individual awareness, and then finally 51|00:08:02|280|00:08:07|660group awareness, and then an awareness of oneness, but here we're talking about the individual 52|00:08:07|660|00:08:16|600awareness, and it conveys the fifth ray. It suggests the illumination at least of the concrete 53|00:08:16|600|00:08:24|800mind. It suggests intelligent consciousness. Aquarius, interestingly, is also a relatively 54|00:08:26|300|00:08:33|600dim constellation. You have to be careful in how you try to make it out, and it refers to a future 55|00:08:33|600|00:08:46|420condition, not yet precipitated, not yet vitally radiant in the awareness of humanity. It signifies 56|00:08:46|420|00:08:52|920group awareness and the intuitive consciousness which are alive in a few, but have yet to grow 57|00:08:52|920|00:09:00|500very much in the consciousness of humanity. You begin to wonder later when there is group, 58|00:09:01|300|00:09:07|140real group awareness, real intuitive consciousness for the masses, whether that will even be, you 59|00:09:07|140|00:09:12|500know, in this solar system, or rather the next, whether the appearance of the constellation 60|00:09:13|340|00:09:21|720Aquarius will thereby look greater in some way, more defined, more brilliant. Anyway, 61|00:09:21|720|00:09:27|240Cancer Leo Aquarius, from the mass to the individual to the group, from instinct to 62|00:09:27|240|00:09:35|640intelligence to intuition, a major triangle in consciousness, and I think we can all place 63|00:09:35|640|00:09:43|840ourselves somewhat here. We are perhaps in the second stage of the Leo consciousness, 64|00:09:43|840|00:09:53|340and attempting to move into the first phase of group, real group awareness, and eventually 65|00:09:54|080|00:10:03|880achieve that broadened group consciousness which might be called universal, and takes in the entire 66|00:10:03|880|00:10:14|220planet and the entire system. It's a climaxing condition, and it is accompanied by the quite 67|00:10:14|220|00:10:20|340full unfoldment of the head center. We don't know when the head center is fully unfolded, 68|00:10:20|340|00:10:29|020because we can see that, I think, even in the Maya verupas of sixth or seventh degree initiates, 69|00:10:29|020|00:10:35|300if one unfolds a Maya verupa, then the chakras will also be part of it, and the unfoldments of 70|00:10:35|740|00:10:45|400those higher chakras may well progress. Then, from the standpoint of achievement in Capricorn, EA, p.62 71|00:10:45|520|00:10:52|880you always reach some pinnacle in Capricorn at whatever level you may be operating. It can be 72|00:10:52|880|00:10:58|740the pinnacle of personality achievement, of soul achievement, or even spiritual spirit achievement. 73|00:10:58|740|00:11:06|640From the standpoint of achievement in Capricorn, he works for several lives around the zodiacal 74|00:11:06|640|00:11:16|720path, descending into the sea of mass consciousness EA, p.62 He's still on the reversed wheel, going forward, 75|00:11:16|720|00:11:23|960as it were. That means to respond powerfully to the higher potentials of the sign; that's what 76|00:11:25|180|00:11:31|820progressing on the zodiacal wheel means. He goes around the zodiacal path, and may incarnate in a 77|00:11:31|820|00:11:39|860number of signs, apparently, descending into the sea of the mass consciousness, but this time he is not 78|00:11:39|860|00:11:49|040a victim of mass consciousness at all. He is a kind of a server or savior. to become what is 79|00:11:49|040|00:11:56|800called in the ancient books “the Crab, who clears the ocean of matter which flows around the soul 80|00:11:56|800|00:12:09|800of man,” EA, p.62 So he becomes a scavenger, in a way, and he is removing the matter which somehow inhibits 81|00:12:10|740|00:12:20|480the radiance of the soul. It's a cleaning operation, a scavenging operation, and the 82|00:12:20|480|00:12:27|920claws then have a different meaning, don't they? They are not so concerned with grasping and 83|00:12:27|920|00:12:35|880clinging for oneself, but they get hold of obstructions, and remove the obstructions 84|00:12:35|880|00:12:42|540from one's fellow human beings, and maybe other forms of life, so that they can radiate their 85|00:12:42|540|00:12:54|360true inner nature, and eventually to become a functioning world saviour in Pisces. EA, p.62 So it's 86|00:12:54|360|00:13:00|480interesting that D.K. seems to suggest that we do not move immediately from Capricorn into Pisces, 87|00:13:01|480|00:13:07|800or into Aquarius necessarily, but we go through, as an initiate, a third-degree initiate, let us 88|00:13:07|800|00:13:17|820say, through certain signs of service in which we are no longer vulnerable to the type of limitations 89|00:13:17|820|00:13:27|840we experienced in those signs before, but rather are helping others avoid susceptibility to those 90|00:13:27|840|00:13:38|300kinds of limitations. Help is always available. He descends into the world of men to save 91|00:13:38|300|00:13:50|220mankind and to further the plan. EA, p.62 and if we succeed in furthering the plan, there will always be the 92|00:13:50|220|00:13:59|340result that a type of salvation has taken place, because the plan indeed saves. If we have the will 93|00:13:59|340|00:14:11|300and courage and intelligence and love to follow and express the plan, we will bring salvation, 94|00:14:11|960|00:14:21|080at least strong service with that expression. He is then “the fish who swims free in the ocean of 95|00:14:21|080|00:14:31|080matter.” EA, p.62 The fish is perhaps always a symbol of a self who swims in the ocean of experience, 96|00:14:31|080|00:14:42|020but has a certain type of integrity and mobility, and he has the power to swim by his own volition 97|00:14:42|020|00:14:51|080and is not swept along perhaps in instinctively reacting schools of fish. You've sometimes seen 98|00:14:51|080|00:14:57|140how the fish all respond at once in an instinctual way. He seems to have deliberation here, 99|00:14:57|140|00:15:05|960and maybe he is identified not only with Pisces, but with great fish associated with the sign 100|00:15:05|960|00:15:16|740Aquarius: Piscis Austrinus, or Australis, who is the saving fish. So, you know, it takes quite a bit 101|00:15:16|740|00:15:27|120not to be overcome by the third aspect tendencies of matter, and swept along like the mass, as it is 102|00:15:27|120|00:15:36|620with Cancer, being engulfed by mass consciousness and responding and thinking, if we can call it 103|00:15:36|620|00:15:44|120that, just like everybody else with no real willpower and mind and self-determination. 104|00:15:44|820|00:15:52|480So this is the progress of man, and D.K. is trying to get us to understand the great wheels: 105|00:15:52|480|00:15:57|540the wheel of form, retrogressing, going clockwise; the wheel of consciousness, 106|00:15:58|180|00:16:09|280progressing, going counter-clockwise. The initiate has always to express, in each sign of the zodiac, 107|00:16:09|280|00:16:19|320the consummation and spiritual fruit of earlier life experience, world experiment and soul 108|00:16:19|320|00:16:32|000achievement. EA, p.62 You know, we oftentimes leave a sign in a state of incomplete achievement, 109|00:16:32|080|00:16:39|980and there is a frustration there, and we can identify with the words of the poet Robert 110|00:16:39|980|00:16:47|800Browning when he says, “Ah, that a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for.” 111|00:16:48|320|00:16:56|000So we do not bring consummation in each of the signs so many times, but eventually we are to 112|00:16:56|000|00:17:03|900pass in each sign of the zodiac and bring about a type of consummation for that sign. The question 113|00:17:03|900|00:17:10|200is, is this done in any sequential manner, or is there generally a period of life 114|00:17:10|940|00:17:21|480later in one's incarnational path when it is quite likely to bring forward a degree of consummation 115|00:17:21|480|00:17:28|000in each sign? I'm not sure it has to be perfect; maybe perfection is only reached in the sign Pisces 116|00:17:28|000|00:17:38|240by a world savior, as he renounces all to save humanity. So spiritual fruit of earlier life 117|00:17:38|240|00:17:44|240experience, experiment, and achievement—those are words which are often used. We begin with the 118|00:17:44|240|00:17:51|300experience, we evaluate the experience, and find out within ourselves how it might be improved, 119|00:17:51|360|00:17:57|020and thus we experiment, and that experiment, when the experiments are wise and skillful, 120|00:17:57|100|00:18:04|020leads to achievement—not just personality achievement, but soul achievement. Selfishness, 121|00:18:04|020|00:18:09|860which is what we do experience so often in the various signs, Selfishness has ever to be translated 122|00:18:09|860|00:18:17|860into living active service, and desire has to demonstrate its transmutation in the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of God. EA, p.62 Well, the three aspects of divinity are found right there. The 123|00:18:17|860|00:18:31|940life aspect is found in living; activity is the third aspect; service is the second aspect. Living 124|00:18:31|940|00:18:41|440transmutation into the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of 125|00:18:41|440|00:18:54|840God. So the progress there is desire, aspiration, identification. First we must aspire to 126|00:18:54|840|00:19:01|400identification with the will of God before we will be in a sufficient condition of receptivity 127|00:19:01|400|00:19:11|860to be impressed by it, and have the fortitude, the single-mindedness to carry it out. Anyway, 128|00:19:11|980|00:19:19|880there's a great destiny that lies before all of us. At times we may feel overwhelmed by various 129|00:19:19|880|00:19:27|520kinds of circumstances, and it may seem as if we will never get there, you know, thinking about 130|00:19:27|520|00:19:37|060time in some sequential manner. But perhaps if we were capable of grasping something of the eternal 131|00:19:37|060|00:19:48|860now, we would find ourselves more optimistic about reaching our goal of identification— 132|00:19:49|080|00:19:53|740especially on this planet, the path of Earth's service, if we take that path—identification 133|00:19:53|740|00:20:02|140with all beings, with all sentient beings, so we realize, in fact, that we are each and all of them, 134|00:20:02|300|00:20:11|500and not “is,” but “me”—the capital Me, the one I. D.K. goes on: There are one or two points which must be 135|00:20:11|500|00:20:20|480dealt with in order to enable you to study with certain definite ideas clearly formulated in your 136|00:20:20|480|00:20:27|960minds. EA, p.62 He's trying to build in a certain structure of thought here, so we can study successfully 137|00:20:28|560|00:20:34|060without being overwhelmed by a lot of new information. Of course, I realize I'm speaking 138|00:20:34|060|00:20:40|420to quite a few of you who have experience with this book, and who are not new to astrology, 139|00:20:40|420|00:20:45|940and who have spent even years in the esoteric astrology book, and that's, you know, partially 140|00:20:45|940|00:20:54|500why I'm not going through it in a strictly linear manner, but I'm trying to ramify and bring in 141|00:20:54|500|00:21:05|380certain connections which will place this book within the sphere of knowledge that has been given 142|00:21:05|380|00:21:12|900by Master D.K., a great sphere, and finding the place of astrology within that sphere by drawing 143|00:21:13|580|00:21:22|800or offering many links to other parts of that sphere of knowledge which he has offered. 144|00:21:22|800|00:21:31|800 I have hinted at them in some of my earlier books but it will be of service to refer 145|00:21:31|800|00:21:38|120to them again and to expand the ideas somewhat. EA, p.62 because after all, we do forget, don't we? I mean, 146|00:21:38|120|00:21:47|500what does seem vivid at one point may be, even if it was marvelously vivid, may fade and need to be 147|00:21:47|500|00:21:56|160revived. I would have you carry them in your minds as you read and study. EA, p.62 I have frequently referred 148|00:21:56|160|00:22:04|100to the fact that the entire science of astrology is based upon a non-existent condition. EA, p.62 We've 149|00:22:04|860|00:22:09|780talked about this from the very beginning of the book. “All is illusion, O Dweller in the shadows. 150|00:22:09|980|00:22:20|380Even the universe is illusion.” So much of what we perceive with our present faculties of 151|00:22:20|380|00:22:28|400consciousness is not the inner reality at all. But there is enough to perceive within the outer 152|00:22:29|820|00:22:36|540actuality to give us a method of approaching the inner reality. It has no basis 153|00:22:36|540|00:22:44|380in material fact and yet is eternally based on truth. EA, p.62 And this is one of those great paradoxes. 154|00:22:44|980|00:22:51|860I think he's going to say something quite important here. The zodiac is, as you well know, 155|00:22:51|860|00:22:58|120the imaginary path of the Sun in the heavens. EA, p.62 It's not really a path at all. It's a seeming 156|00:22:58|120|00:23:11|080path based upon the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. And of course, that's what creates the 157|00:23:11|080|00:23:19|120image of the zodiac. And there is also a kind of a daily zodiac as well, due to the rotation of the 158|00:23:19|120|00:23:28|280earth on its axis, and the sun seems then to follow the line of the zodiac across the sky. 159|00:23:29|140|00:23:35|080Not moving from sign to sign, that would be too fast, but at least we traverse the zodiac in which 160|00:23:35|080|00:23:41|920the sun has its apparently fixed position, at least fixed for a day, although not really fixed 161|00:23:41|920|00:23:47|880at all. The zodiac is, as you well know, the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens. It is 162|00:23:47|880|00:23:58|080therefore largely an illusion, but the constellations of this zodiac, the constellations through which 163|00:23:58|080|00:24:06|360the sun appears to pass, they are very real in a way, and they have their own definite qualities, 164|00:24:06|360|00:24:14|920which we must learn to appropriate, to absorb, appropriate, assimilate, and express. It is 165|00:24:14|920|00:24:21|520therefore largely an illusion, from the exoteric point of view. EA, p.62 because after all, the Sun is not 166|00:24:21|520|00:24:29|560really passing through those constellations at all. This is kind of an alignment with the constellations. 167|00:24:30|500|00:24:41|520But at the same time the constellations exist, and the streams of energy which pass and 168|00:24:43|740|00:24:52|300repass, intermingle and interlock EA, p.62 join each other, cross each other, reinforce each other, interfere 169|00:24:52|300|00:25:00|240with each other—the streams of energy from the constellations intermingle and interlock throughout 170|00:25:00|240|00:25:07|560the body of space are by no means illusions but definitely express eternal 171|00:25:08|220|00:25:16|220relationships. EA, p.62 Well, certainly relationships that persist for a long time, because, you know, 172|00:25:16|940|00:25:23|660when we look at the stars and the heavens, they are constantly changing positions, and each of 173|00:25:23|660|00:25:32|040them has its own proper motion, and the configurations which we see at this time are not the configurations 174|00:25:32|040|00:25:40|940which will be seen at a later point in cosmic history and so forth, but they do have long-lasting 175|00:25:40|940|00:25:48|660relationships as far as the time cycles on our earth may go. It is the misuse of the various 176|00:25:48|660|00:25:54|860energies which has created the illusion. EA, p.62-63 and that's a very interesting idea, because you do 177|00:25:54|860|00:26:04|680wonder whether the misuse of the energies has led to a kind of thickening of the consciousness 178|00:26:04|680|00:26:12|750of humanity. Maybe they could see much more before; maybe all that we can see now is the 179|00:26:14|220|00:26:20|480barest fragment of what is really transpiring interiorly. Madame Blavatsky talked quite a bit 180|00:26:20|480|00:26:27|800about how consciousness of the inner worlds was lost during the later Atlantean Age and during 181|00:26:27|800|00:26:37|160the Aryan Age, so we do not see the reality behind the illusion, and our powers of perception have 182|00:26:37|160|00:26:44|520been much dimmed, and perhaps this creates the illusion. Anyway, we must learn to rightly use 183|00:26:44|520|00:26:52|700the passing and repassing, crossing, intermingling energies. This illusory path is consequently as 184|00:26:53|120|00:27:11|120much a reality to humanity today as are the personality illusions of any individual. EA, p.63 and let's 185|00:27:11|120|00:27:19|340be very sure of the reality of their interpretations. But a wider and greater consciousness will point 186|00:27:19|340|00:27:28|640out the errors of their assumptions, their concepts, their conclusions, and how they perceive 187|00:27:28|640|00:27:37|560reality. So humanity at this moment is perceiving as reality something that really doesn't exist as 188|00:27:37|560|00:27:43|300reality, something that is an illusion. These illusions are due to the polarisation of the 189|00:27:43|300|00:28:07|540individual upon the astral plane. EA, p.63 which tends to self-centeredness. This polarization tends to self-centeredness, and when there is self-centeredness, there is always 190|00:28:07|540|00:28:27|540bias, which prevents vision of things as they are. Okay, so we've heard of the astral inversion, and we know how glamorously and exaggeratedly and 191|00:28:27|540|00:28:36|900minimizingly—terrible words, but okay, you get the idea—the perceptions are when we are self-centered. Our 192|00:28:36|900|00:28:43|160perceptions are always skewed because the ego, the lower ego, is standing there as if it's a reality, 193|00:28:43|500|00:28:52|320and it doesn't allow us to perceive things as they are because the ego has not shrunk to a tiny point 194|00:28:52|320|00:29:03|150where it does not interfere with perception. All right, so we are living in an illusion. It is 195|00:29:03|150|00:29:15|250largely a personality illusion that has much to do with the fact that our planetary Logos has not overcome his personality nature, that the planetary spirit has not 196|00:29:15|250|00:29:28|240overcome the spirit of the planet, as we remember from the previous webinar. The spirit of the planet is the Earth entity, the spirit of the Earth, and the planetary spirit, with a 197|00:29:28|240|00:29:44|160little “s,” is the planetary Logos himself. So we are dealing with misperceptions caused largely by our astral polarization, and if we could have a mental 198|00:29:44|160|00:30:06|500polarization illumined by the soul, we would not see in this distorted manner. Okay, It is interesting also to note in this connection that—due to the precession of the equinoxes—199|00:30:06|500|00:30:25|080a fourth type of force is brought to bear upon the planet and man, but one which is seldom recognised and given due place in the horoscope. EA, p.63 In other words, there is a wobbling of the Earth's axis, 200|00:30:25|080|00:30:46|700and there is a gradual movement of one degree every 72 years, and there is a precessional factor which can be introduced into the personal horoscope. There are various ways of doing this. 201|00:30:46|700|00:31:04|740The month and the sign, or the place of the Sun in the heavens, do not really coincide. EA, p.63 Well, that's certainly true in one respect, because generally Taurus is the month of— 202|00:31:06|340|00:31:24|960May is the month of Taurus, generally speaking, but there's a part of May which coincides with the sign Gemini, and so it is. There's kind of an overlap. But I think what D.K. is talking about is that the sign and the constellations really do not coincide. 203|00:31:24|960|00:31:51|400Because when we are tropically, and from the point of view of the ecliptic, the imaginary path of the sun, when we are supposedly in the sign Aries, the sun at the vernal equinox is really aligning with Pisces at this time. 204|00:31:51|400|00:32:07|180And it will retrogress at the vernal equinox quite shortly. On the day when the sun passes the vernal equinox, it will be aligning with the latter part of the sign Aquarius. 205|00:32:07|180|00:32:33|580And backward it will go for thousands of years so that the tropical sign, based upon the rotation of the earth around the sun, will become farther and farther away from the constellation with which the vernal equinox aligns at the first point of spring. 206|00:32:34|520|00:32:49|560So, but D.K. is going to say something very interesting here. He's going to say, When we state, for instance, that the Sun is “in Aries” EA, p.63 we're not really wrong, you see. 207|00:32:49|560|00:33:16|560it conveys an esoteric truth but not an exoteric fact. EA, p.63 And so often astrologers are, you know, they are criticized by scientists for the fact that the sun, when it's in Aries, as the astrologers say it is, is really aligning with the constellation Pisces. 208|00:33:16|560|00:33:25|320So they say, “Well, you have your perceptions entirely wrong; what you say does not correspond with the facts.” 209|00:33:25|320|00:33:47|100But the idea here is that the astrological signs do mean something. And that the different portions of the earth's orbit, or the ecliptic, actually are characterized by distinctive energies. 210|00:33:48|240|00:34:04|640So that when the sun—let's see, The Sun was in Aries at the beginning of this great cycle, EA, p.63 —okay, I wonder if I have somehow… yes I did, I erased that. Okay, now I've got it. 211|00:34:04|640|00:34:30|560When we state, for instance, that the sun is in Aries, it does convey an esoteric truth. In other words, at that time, when the sun is aligned with the vernal equinox, regardless of what the constellation may be, towards which the vernal equinox is pointing, the energy of Aries is released upon the planet. 212|00:34:31|320|00:34:51|060Even more than the energy of the constellation. So there is, as I talked about in earlier webinars here, there are portions of the earth's orbit which are particularly sensitive to, or aligned with, the energies of constellations. 213|00:34:51|060|00:35:20|780So that very first part of the Earth's orbit, or that portion of the ecliptic, when the sun is tropically in Aries—in other words, when it's the first day of spring, as we call it—the constellation Aries is in attunement with that portion of the ecliptic, with that portion of the zodiacal circle. 214|00:35:20|780|00:35:41|200In other words, from, let's say, March 21st to approximately April 21st, when planets are in that portion of the Earth's orbit, or when they're in that portion of the ecliptic, the constellation—the energy from the constellation—is affecting those planets. 215|00:35:41|200|00:35:55|420So therefore, it is an esoteric truth: the sun is conveying an Arian energy. It is conveying the energy of Aries. And this is a profound statement by the Tibetan. 216|00:35:55|420|00:36:20|760He's really telling us that we cannot throw away tropical astrology and settle upon sidereal astrology. I mean, it may be that when we are high initiates who are identified with the life of the planet—perhaps chohans—and we become planetary lives, that the planetary God himself is relating to the constellations directly. 217|00:36:20|760|00:36:49|000And then the sidereal astrology will be spiritually very meaningful for us. But if you study the form of various types of life, and let's just say the form of a human being, you will see that the form of human beings is much affected by the tropical sign. 218|00:36:49|000|00:37:14|720As that sign receives the energy of the constellation, regardless of where that constellation may be. There will come a time 10,000 years ago when the sun is in Aries, the background of it may be Scorpio—the constellation Scorpio—or something like that, or Libra. 219|00:37:15|680|00:37:28|160You know, I'll calculate that out exactly, but you get the idea. The vernal equinox will be aligned with a completely different constellation, and yet the sun will esoterically be in Aries. 220|00:37:28|680|00:37:39|800And the energy of the constellation Aries will come through at that time when the sun is crossing the vernal equinox and for approximately a month following that. 221|00:37:39|800|00:38:08|520So, inner dynamics relating the constellations—the energy of the constellations and the streams of energy—to the sections of the Earth's aura and to the sections of the Earth's orbit, will have to be understood before the fundamental esotericism of that relationship is seen as real. 222|00:38:08|520|00:38:22|240And thus criticism will end that astrologers do not have their head on straight and can't even accord with the facts. They know the exoteric facts. 223|00:38:22|240|00:38:42|520The astrologers know the exoteric facts, but they also follow the influence of the energy, and they know that something is operating within this context of the signs, which is a very real energy event—energy process. 224|00:38:43|180|00:38:58|000Now, he's telling us that the sun was in Aries. In other words, that at the vernal equinox, the sun did align with the constellation Aries at the beginning of this great cycle, perhaps 2,000 years ago. 225|00:38:58|000|00:39:08|060but it is not in exactly the same position today EA, p.63 against the background of stars when it is “found” in that sign. EA, p.63 226|00:39:08|060|00:39:30|500So this is such an important paragraph to establish the validity of tropical astrology. Of course, anybody who opens their eyes can see that people do really represent in form, in temperament, in consciousness, their tropical positions. 227|00:39:30|500|00:39:46|840You have to force so hard, in my opinion at least, to make a person—to pretend that a person is responding more to their sidereal positions. It's a very remote response if it is so. 228|00:39:46|960|00:39:58|200I mean, I know in my own case, you know, I've lived as an Aries individual my whole life, doing the things Aries people do, and doing them well before I even knew I was an Aries individual. 229|00:40:00|080|00:40:10|780Is my sun sign really Pisces? Well, maybe the energy of Pisces comes into my chart in a different way, but not from the sun sign. 230|00:40:11|500|00:40:27|900I have not lived the life of the individual with the sun in Pisces. Always the direct, assertive, pioneering, extremist, pushing-onward attitude has characterized me. 231|00:40:27|940|00:40:35|320It's the attitude of Aries. It is a very real energy. It comes from the sun in Aries, tropically considered. 232|00:40:35|320|00:40:51|520And maybe you'll find the same to be the case for you, and my form also demonstrates that. When the form demonstrates a link with a certain sign, you know that the form is built upon the etheric body, and the etheric body is built upon the soul. 233|00:40:51|520|00:41:08|000The soul qualities—they are reflections. The etheric body is a reflection of the soul. So the form is not just an exoteric thing at all. It's a deeply esoteric thing, which is the out-picturing of deeply esoteric factors. 234|00:41:08|880|00:41:13|620Anyway, this is how I found it to be in my own examination of these things. 235|00:41:14|500|00:41:24|800Also it should be remembered that as it is necessary to know the moment of birth and the place of birth in casting the horoscope of the individual, 236|00:41:25|080|00:41:39|680so in order to have a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation, the planets and our Earth there should be a fixed time from which to reckon. EA, p.63 237|00:41:39|680|00:41:53|720Well, that's a problem. We don't really have a fixed time. Maybe he's hinting at the idea that our time and our calendar is only relatively correct. 238|00:41:53|860|00:42:01|480But within that relativity, we are also supposed to have as perfectly accurate a time as we possibly can. 239|00:42:01|480|00:42:14|760At least we need to know the moment of birth. Now, lately they're taking more care in recording these things, even though hospital clocks can be notoriously discrepant. 240|00:42:14|940|00:42:28|300You know, you just ask individuals what time to watch a show, they'll show a two or three minute range, and those two or three minutes can mean two or three years by certain methods of directing. 241|00:42:29|380|00:42:40|160So we want to have, as Master D.K. no doubt has, a perfectly correct understanding and accurate deductions in connection with the constellation. 242|00:42:40|160|00:42:58|420Now, that means that we really need to know the point at which zero degrees of Aries occurs relative to the constellations themselves and not to the vernal equinox. 243|00:42:58|420|00:43:09|800These constellations are of unequal size. Some are very compressed, some are very expansive, like Virgo, and yet we continue to use our 30 degree methods. 244|00:43:10|500|00:43:22|240And there does seem to be some accuracy in allotting 30 degrees per sign, regardless of the exoteric extension of these constellations. 245|00:43:22|240|00:43:42|500There should be a fixed time from which to reckon. That fixed time is as yet unknown in exoteric astrology, though the Hierarchy possesses the needed information and it will be made available when the right time comes. EA, p.63 246|00:43:42|500|00:44:01|220Presumably when such knowledge can be constructively used. I mean, we need to know the exact moment when the Earth is entering a specific age. 247|00:44:01|380|00:44:11|840Now actually, the Tibetan has given that to us. He's given us a couple of points from which the mathematical astrologers can reason. 248|00:44:11|840|00:44:26|440He's given us the year 2117 for the alignment of the vernal equinox with the end, presumably, of the 30th degree, or with the 30th degree of Aquarius. 249|00:44:27|300|00:44:38|920In other words, with the very end of Pisces, the very beginning of Aquarius. He's also given us a figure for the moment when individualization occurred. Perhaps using those two figures. 250|00:44:38|920|00:44:55|080And I have known some esotericists who have reckoned, from at least one of those figures, we can get our fixed point and put all temporally into the proper relations. 251|00:44:55|080|00:45:11|880That fixed time is as yet unknown to exoteric astrology, and therefore perhaps all of our times are uncertain, even as we may not know the true A, the note A. 252|00:45:12|660|00:45:24|540What is the true vibration of A, as the hierarchy understands it, which would allow us to understand the true vibration of all the other notes? 253|00:45:24|540|00:45:34|480That is another one of those fixed points that we need. Nor do we necessarily know the frequency of the true indigo, the true green. 254|00:45:34|600|00:45:48|080There's a whole range of greens and of indigo-related colors, but we don't know the frequency which the hierarchy considers to be the central point of that color. 255|00:45:48|080|00:45:55|840So we're lacking many specificities which the incoming of the fifth ray will give us. 256|00:45:56|040|00:46:14|880It's going to be very powerful in the age of Aquarius and will allow us to have certain points, certain frequencies, from which we can reckon and thereby lay out an accurate picture of relationships between notes, colors, and dates. 257|00:46:15|920|00:46:27|140It will be made available at the right time. It is the knowledge of this inner information which constitutes the basis of the statements which I have made or will make EA, p.63 258|00:46:28|160|00:46:42|460Well, D.K. is saying, “Look, I have this information, and as a result, to me, astrology appears in a certain way, and I have to tell you how astrology appears according to the perception of one who has information that you do not have.” 259|00:46:43|520|00:46:57|580So this will seem, he says, this will be statements which I have made or will make which will seem revolutionary to the orthodox investigator. EA, p.63 not only revolutionary, but probably highly inaccurate and unwelcome. 260|00:46:57|580|00:47:17|460It took a long time before various astrological organizations were willing to even hear about the idea of alternative rulers, and esoteric and hierarchical, and about the fundamental ideas of esoteric astrology, although it does seem to be coming along now. 261|00:47:18|400|00:47:28|360There has to be a constant rectification. There is a specifically astrological word which means an adjustment leading to precise accuracy. 262|00:47:28|360|00:47:49|060We often try to rectify charts. We do this through available evidence and timing in the life, and some people accurately use pendulums and other sort of intuitive methods to get the feel of the exact moment of birth, and some of them are very successful. 263|00:47:49|060|00:48:04|180I've tested them out myself. I've tested out some of their conclusions, and I've found some of them are remarkably successful. So there is a kind of intuitive method of rectification, but I always think it should be counter-checked as well. 264|00:48:04|180|00:48:30|320There has to be a constant rectification of the earlier conclusions of humanity EA, p.63 laboring under illusion and astral centralization, and of this the outstanding instance is the statement in the Bible EA, p.63 —was it by Bishop Ussher, something— that the prime date of creation is 4004 B.C. EA, p.63 and by the way, at 9 o'clock in the morning. 265|00:48:30|320|00:48:43|340I think it was an Irish bishop, a very logical and quasi-scientific man, and he based upon the infallibility of the Bible and what was said. This is the date he determined. 266|00:48:45|180|00:48:57|340And good, sincere people believed in it for a long time, and some still do. This is recognised as an error by modern science EA, p.63 an absolute understatement, but is still believed by many. EA, p.63 267|00:48:57|340|00:49:04|040Yes, even this was written 80 years ago, and still in our day and age, it is still believed. Extraordinary. 268|00:49:05|920|00:49:21|960But then, you know, we had to deal with paleontology, with the discovery of the fossil remains already in the 19th century, even the 18th century. This was happening and undermining these theological conclusions. 269|00:49:21|960|00:49:41|720Unless we allow science, even a very deep kind of esoteric science, eventually, to test the conclusions of religious belief, we will definitely be plunged into error, even as now millions of people are on our earth in various of the religions. 270|00:49:41|720|00:50:03|460I earlier gave a hint upon which definite astrological computation could be based when I gave the time of the “Great Approach” of the Hierarchy to our planetary manifestation when individualisation took place and the fourth kingdom in nature appeared. EA, p.63-64 271|00:50:03|460|00:50:27|720Well, okay, hierarchy of what? Hierarchy of solar Angels? Perhaps because in a way, Sanat Kumara had not yet come to earth with his Kumaras and founded Shamballa and hierarchy some 18 million years ago. 272|00:50:27|720|00:50:39|500But the hierarchy of solar angels, lords of the flame in a way, did come. And this was a Sagittarian event in a way. 273|00:50:43|360|00:50:59|640He says the birth of the fourth kingdom, I placed that stupendous event as happening 21,688,345 years ago. EA, p.64 Some have thought this is a symbolic number, but I think it's probably quite accurate. 274|00:50:59|640|00:51:25|660It's important if we know the year in the early 1930s when this portion of esoteric astrology was written, we probably can come quite close. Then we can begin to reckon backwards, if we assume that all precessional ages have been invariant. 275|00:51:25|660|00:51:41|080Now, at the moment, they seem to last 2,160 years, and a great Platonic year is something like 25,920 years, which is 12 times 2,160. 276|00:51:43|040|00:52:03|160So we can possibly reckon back to the time of the beginning of individualization. Now, almost 80 years have passed, perhaps 80 years since the writing of this section of the Esoteric Astrology book, but that would not be difficult for us to put together. 277|00:52:03|160|00:52:16|580Individualization occurred then 3 million years before the coming of Sanat Kumara, the Kumaras and the founding of Shamballa Hierarchy. 278|00:52:16|580|00:52:44|820He says At that time the Sun was in Leo. EA, p.64 Now, there is another question. Do we mean the sun was in Leo in terms of a lesser precessional age of 2,160 years, or can we say that a greater precessional age of Leo was involved and 25,000 years were necessitated? 279|00:52:44|820|00:53:09|460Usually when we say the sun was in Leo, we mean that there is a, not the month per se, but that there was an alignment with an age of Leo. It would take a while. If he was narrowing this down to the month, I think that would be extraordinary. 280|00:53:10|480|00:53:32|260The sun was in Leo. Okay. Let's look at this. We're getting there now. What I tend to think is that the sun at the vernal equinox was aligned with Leo. 281|00:53:32|260|00:53:43|560It seems unlikely that we're just dealing with the month as a beginning period. The process then initiated upon the physical plane EA, p.64 282|00:53:44|400|00:54:00|060Oh, by the way, I just want to go back to the idea that Leo is strongly connected with the solar Angels, and with the creation of the egoic lotus as a potentially radiant source eventually upon the higher mental plane. 283|00:54:00|060|00:54:11|340So there is, in a way, the coming of solar fire. I think we can see the relationship between solar fire and the sun in Leo. 284|00:54:12|320|00:54:27|060So that spark of mind, which was not only a spark of mind, but a spark of love and a spark of will was implanted in animal man destined for a radiant future at the time when the sun was in Leo. 285|00:54:27|320|00:54:39|440And the egoic lotus, which would eventually be a radiant golden lotus, was implanted upon the higher mental plane when the sun was in Leo. It all seems to correspond. 286|00:54:39|440|00:54:54|500The process then initiated upon the physical plane and producing outer physical events took approximately 5,000 years to mature EA, p.64 287|00:54:54|500|00:55:06|540So here we can be convinced that we are talking about precessional ages, which last some 2,000 or 2,500 years. 288|00:55:06|760|00:55:15|760Let's just say we had to deal with the sun in Leo, and then the sun went to Cancer, and the Sun was in Gemini EA, p.64 289|00:55:15|760|00:55:28|680And it took approximately 2,500 years for each movement of the sun. So we are talking about the sun at the moment of the vernal equinox. 290|00:55:28|680|00:55:44|260And every year the sun was against the scene, or it would be seen if you could see through the sun, seen against the background of certain stars. 291|00:55:44|500|00:55:48|520The stars of Leo, the stars of Cancer, and finally the stars of Gemini. 292|00:55:49|360|00:55:58|540when the final Crisis of Individualisation took place and the door was then closed upon the animal kingdom. EA, p.64 293|00:55:58|920|00:56:12|300Now, you know, 5,000 years shows us that we are not dealing with the great precessional ages of 25,000 years, because otherwise it would have been 50,000 years. 294|00:56:12|300|00:56:29|24025,000 of Leo, 25,000 of Cancer, totaling 50,000 years. And we also don't know when in Leo this started, toward what part of the constellation was the vernal equinox directed. 295|00:56:29|240|00:56:46|440How much was the Earth into the precessional age of Leo when individualization took place, and how much into Gemini was it when the final crisis took place and the door was closed? 296|00:56:46|440|00:56:57|660What does he mean by the final crisis? We have heard that in those days there was a great destruction of animal man. 297|00:56:58|560|00:57:03|480Can it mean the final anchoring of the spark of mind in a successful way? 298|00:57:04|180|00:57:10|560Were there 5,000 years of uncertainty and a final anchoring occurring in Gemini? 299|00:57:11|480|00:57:24|480Was there a particular relationship between the solar angel and the newly stimulated animal man confirmed by that time of Gemini when the two brothers come into relationship? 300|00:57:24|480|00:57:41|760Maybe he will say more here. But anyway, the door was closed upon the animal kingdom at that time, and it seems that there have been, well, there have been perhaps some different times of closing. 301|00:57:41|760|00:57:54|500I'm thinking that there was a time later when it became… up to that point it was still possible for some individualization of animals to occur. 302|00:57:54|500|00:58:13|560It is even possible today, says D.K., for some very rare and advanced animals to individualize before the next round when the mass of the animals that have been held back will be individualized. 303|00:58:14|760|00:58:28|630Alright, it is time then for us to say The Great Invocation. We have reached… what page are we on now? Let's see. 304|00:58:31|630|00:58:50|310Okay, page 64. We are on page 64. So this is Esoteric Astrology number adventure EAA 29. 305|00:58:51|850|00:59:09|610And we have gone up to page 64. And EAA 28 started at page 61. So we're doing somewhat better now. 306|00:59:09|610|00:59:30|890We are making three pages per program, but I won't promise that that is always the way it will be. So EAA 29 from page 61 to 64. And we will do together The Great Invocation. 307|00:59:42|790|00:59:56|370From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth. 308|01:00:00|430|01:00:10|690From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. 309|01:00:14|510|01:00:24|790From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. 310|01:00:29|250|01:00:39|990From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 311|01:00:41|470|01:00:47|250Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. 312|01:00:52|250|01:00:53|650Om. 313|01:00:59|950|01:01:01|350Om. 314|01:01:07|770|01:01:09|170Om. 315|01:01:37|470|01:01:38|870Om. 316|01:01:42|410|01:01:43|810Om.
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