1|00:00:04|640|00:00:17|360Okay, hi everybody. We are reaching our 31st Esoteric Astrology adventure. We have just 2|00:00:17|360|00:00:29|600completed looking at the Esoteric Rulers and the relationships that they create between constellations 3|00:00:31|320|00:00:39|940via shared ray. For instance, Aries is ruled by Mercury and Virgo is ruled by the Moon 4|00:00:39|940|00:00:48|500esoterically, and both of those rulers have the fourth ray. So this is different from the way in 5|00:00:48|500|00:00:57|160which the constellations are related exoterically by the ruling planet. For instance, Aries and 6|00:00:57|160|00:01:03|520Scorpio are related because Mars is a ruling planet. Here, Aries and Virgo are related because 7|00:01:03|520|00:01:16|260both of them are ruled esoterically by a planet which expresses the fourth ray. Now we have reached 8|00:01:16|260|00:01:33|280the end of that, and let us see here. So now we are going to work on a different set of relationships, 9|00:01:33|680|00:01:38|400but before we do that we have to summarize the ones that we've been working on. Remember, 10|00:01:38|400|00:01:46|760I said that the rays in this particular solar system and on this planet hold a preeminent 11|00:01:46|760|00:01:56|660position when compared with planetary or astrological factors. So we completed at— 12|00:01:57|420|00:02:05|240we're on page 66, and D.K. gives a note here. He says, “Note: in connection with disciples and 13|00:02:05|240|00:02:13|040the zodiacal signs, Gemini and Libra are two constellations which, through their rulers, 14|00:02:13|320|00:02:19|300express fifth and seventh ray energy. For some occult reason, they remain unrelated to the other 15|00:02:19|300|00:02:29|440signs.” Well, we might ask why it is specifically the fifth and seventh ray, which are represented 16|00:02:29|440|00:02:39|720by planetary rulers only once in the list of the twelve zodiacal signs, because Venus is the fifth 17|00:02:39|720|00:02:50|100ray. It rules Gemini esoterically, and there's no other fifth ray planet which rules another sign, 18|00:02:50|100|00:02:57|400through which one could share a relationship—Gemini and some other constellation. The same 19|00:02:57|400|00:03:04|660for Uranus ruling Libra. Esoterically it's a seventh ray planet from the—at least from the 20|00:03:04|660|00:03:11|580personality angle—no, from the soul angle, and there's no other seventh ray planet. Well, 21|00:03:11|620|00:03:18|500Jupiter has quite a bit of seventh ray in it, but for purposes of esoteric astrology at this time, 22|00:03:18|720|00:03:26|140D.K. refers to Jupiter as a second ray planet, that being its soul ray. Perhaps Jupiter has some 23|00:03:26|140|00:03:33|400higher seventh ray as part of its makeup, or perhaps some lower seventh ray, either personality 24|00:03:33|400|00:03:43|040or monad. D.K. says, “For some occult reason”—it almost sounds like he's uncertain, but I'm sure 25|00:03:43|040|00:03:52|060he's not—“for some occult reason these two constellations, Gemini and Libra, remain unrelated 26|00:03:52|060|00:03:57|580to the other signs,” to any of the other signs, but they certainly are related to themselves, 27|00:03:58|820|00:04:09|060because if we—if we go here to the Esoteric Astrology book, okay, and we go to page 332, 28|00:04:10|080|00:04:22|220we will see that—hmm, it said here, “Gemini moves towards Libra.” You see that, don't you? 29|00:04:22|700|00:04:28|620Gemini moves towards Libra, and then that's a trine relationship, and then we go to Libra: 30|00:04:28|620|00:04:40|060“Libra relates the two in Gemini.” With Gemini, we often have a somewhat disconnected, though 31|00:04:40|060|00:04:52|700communicating, pair of opposites—the two brothers—but Libra fuses or marries these two, brings them 32|00:04:52|700|00:05:01|940into union, so Libra relates the two in Gemini. We notice that both of them do have Venus, 33|00:05:02|140|00:05:09|540either as an esoteric or exoteric ruler. All right, so there is an occult reason why these 34|00:05:09|540|00:05:19|600two air signs are esoterically and via ray unrelated to any other signs. Of course we 35|00:05:19|600|00:05:25|720don't have 14 signs of the zodiac. If we wanted to round it out to 14, which we cannot do, 36|00:05:25|860|00:05:32|400because zodiacs are heart centers, and heart centers have 12 petals only, we might be able 37|00:05:32|400|00:05:39|220to find fifth and seventh ray rulers of two additional signs, but that's a quixotic quest. 38|00:05:40|380|00:05:45|830So we will consider them unrelated, but they will not be unrelated in the next series 39|00:05:46|430|00:05:55|690that we will be studying. But for the moment, page 67: “The relation between the other constellations 40|00:05:55|690|00:06:03|090through the planets as expressing the rays”—that's what we've been talking about, not relationship 41|00:06:03|090|00:06:10|350via planetary rulers, but relationship via the rays of the planetary rulers. We have Taurus and 42|00:06:10|350|00:06:15|590Pisces through Vulcan and Pluto, both expressing the first ray, related to the first ray. 43|00:06:16|150|00:06:27|130We have here “transmutation of desire into sacrifice.” Now he's taking the two constellations 44|00:06:27|130|00:06:35|290which have been related, and he's showing the meaning of that relationship. So Taurus is the 45|00:06:35|290|00:06:40|870sign of desire. The Buddha came to teach the overcoming of desire, and the transmutation of 46|00:06:40|870|00:06:51|430desire into aspiration, and so when desire is transmuted into aspiration, its next transmutation, 47|00:06:51|570|00:07:00|610and higher transmutation, can be into the sacrifice of Pisces—the sacrifice of the individual 48|00:07:00|610|00:07:09|430will, the determined, stubborn, fixed self-will of Taurus under a lower expression of Vulcan, 49|00:07:09|430|00:07:20|650into the divine will expressed through Pisces. The Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane was 50|00:07:20|650|00:07:27|670acquiescing in a Piscean, a high Piscean way, when he said, “Father, not my will, but thine be done.” 51|00:07:29|310|00:07:36|390Very interestingly, we have the world's savior here. We have the Buddha as one of the world's 52|00:07:36|390|00:07:43|930saviors along the wisdom line, and the Christ along the love line. The sign of the Christ is 53|00:07:43|930|00:07:49|990particularly Pisces; the sign of the Buddha particularly Taurus, just as Hercules has 54|00:07:49|990|00:07:58|570Scorpio particularly as his sign. So the Taurus-Pisces relationship is a very high one, and it 55|00:07:58|570|00:08:07|130relates to the world's savior, or the generation of world's saviors. Okay, there's—we have two 56|00:08:07|130|00:08:14|870constellations related via the second ray, the Sun-Jupiter connection: development of individual 57|00:08:14|870|00:08:22|570consciousness into world consciousness, or we might call it universal consciousness. Thus the man 58|00:08:22|570|00:08:29|910becomes not the world's savior, but a world server—emergence of the world's server. This 59|00:08:29|910|00:08:37|650Aquarius is the great sign of service: “Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty men.” That is 60|00:08:37|650|00:08:45|890a serving attitude, pouring forth eventually all the energies of the crown center. Once the law 61|00:08:45|890|00:08:51|650of service is involved, the synthesized energies of the crown center available for everyone, 62|00:08:51|650|00:09:01|910pouring forth upon the just and the unjust. Okay, Leo and Aquarius through Sun and Jupiter— 63|00:09:02|090|00:09:08|630we've descended a little bit from the world's savior to the world's server. Okay, let's go a 64|00:09:08|630|00:09:16|790little farther. We have Sagittarius and Capricorn; they are related through the esoteric ruler of 65|00:09:16|790|00:09:22|230Sagittarius, the Earth, and the esoteric ruler of Capricorn, Saturn—both of them Ray-3 planets. 66|00:09:22|770|00:09:32|690Earth has a Ray-3 personality, and Saturn a Ray-3 soul. The one-pointed disciple becomes the 67|00:09:32|690|00:09:39|370initiate. This is fairly straightforward: Sagittarius is the one-pointed disciple, able to 68|00:09:39|370|00:09:47|950deflect all manner of distraction and diversion and diversification—that which would lead him 69|00:09:47|950|00:09:55|130from his goal—and that's what it takes to become the true initiate in Capricorn, climbing the 70|00:09:55|130|00:10:02|410mountain of initiation five different times and maybe more, but at least concerning initiation 71|00:10:02|410|00:10:11|010one and five—one through five—but particularly initiation three, the initiate. Okay, we go 72|00:10:11|010|00:10:19|490further: Aries and Virgo through Mercury and the Moon. Mercury, the esoteric ruler of Aries, the 73|00:10:19|490|00:10:27|150Moon—though a non-sacred planet—the esoteric ruler of Virgo, are related to Ray-4, harmonizing 74|00:10:27|150|00:10:34|410the cosmos and the individual through conflict, producing unity and beauty. Well, in this case, 75|00:10:35|290|00:10:43|910we have to realize that Aries is quite a universal sign, and the individual Christ is related to 76|00:10:43|910|00:10:52|510Virgo. In a sense, the cosmic Christ is related to Aries—the lamb slain from the foundations of 77|00:10:52|510|00:10:58|870the world—and Virgo stands for the birth of the Christ within the human heart. But notice how 78|00:10:58|870|00:11:07|190necessary conflict is, preceding unity and beauty, because through conflict, the opposites engage 79|00:11:07|190|00:11:16|370and get to know each other, and to find those aspects of themselves which can actually merge 80|00:11:16|370|00:11:29|070into harmony. So, the struggle of the artist, the torment of creation—these seem almost necessary 81|00:11:29|070|00:11:36|310in the present day, anyway—before the production of unity and beauty, taking the pain, the 82|00:11:36|310|00:11:46|030dissonance, the inner chafing, and turning that malaise, that discomfort, that irritation, 83|00:11:46|030|00:11:51|790that friction, into unity and beauty. Unity particularly connected with the second ray, 84|00:11:51|890|00:11:57|850and beauty with the fourth, but really, both of those are connected. Unity and beauty are 85|00:11:57|850|00:12:02|710connected with both the fourth ray and the second ray. So, we're talking about the birth pangs of 86|00:12:03|470|00:12:11|190the second birth. Well, you know, the pangs of birth are particularly related to Virgo, 87|00:12:11|190|00:12:19|230but who knows about the birth pangs of the cosmic Christ? So, these two are related from a cosmic 88|00:12:19|230|00:12:24|870perspective and an individual perspective. The cosmic Christ is Aries; the individual Christ is 89|00:12:24|870|00:12:35|650Virgo. I sometimes think of the cosmic nature of Aries. I think about India, ruled in its soul 90|00:12:35|650|00:12:46|150nature by Aries, and the great concept of Brahman and Parabrahman that it has given—the absolute 91|00:12:46|150|00:12:58|850one, all-embracing identity. Aries is a sign which can be applied to a consciousness of vast scope. 92|00:12:58|850|00:13:09|190At the same time, it is the suffering of the larger whole, the sacrifice of the lamb—Aries, 93|00:13:09|370|00:13:18|050the lamb, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world for the sake of a great bestowal 94|00:13:18|650|00:13:28|070of spirit, Aries, into matter. And, of course, Virgo stands for the matter aspect. They have a 95|00:13:28|070|00:13:35|170very interesting relationship which is developed by the Tibetan also in other places in the book. 96|00:13:35|850|00:13:46|370It's a good thing we can watch all these visuals. They are very important. Okay, and we move on. 97|00:13:49|230|00:13:55|470The cosmic and the individual Christ, okay. And we move on to Cancer and Scorpio. They share the 98|00:13:55|470|00:14:03|390Ray 6 rulership. Neptune esoterically ruling Cancer. Mars, though an orthodox non-sacred 99|00:14:03|390|00:14:12|730ruler, rather a non-sacred ruler, is nonetheless the esoteric ruler of Scorpio. So the Ray 6 unites 100|00:14:12|730|00:14:21|830them. The principle of desire is very strong in both of these constellations. And we have here 101|00:14:21|830|00:14:28|070the transformation of the mass consciousness ruled by Cancer into the inclusive consciousness 102|00:14:28|070|00:14:36|970of the disciple. Interesting that Scorpio should be associated with inclusive consciousness. 103|00:14:37|170|00:14:44|390Usually in Cancer we have the whole is seen as one, and that is certainly a vastly inclusive 104|00:14:44|390|00:14:53|930consciousness. But this is the way it is given. The disciple triumphs not only over his instinctual 105|00:14:53|930|00:15:01|370tendencies of the mass consciousness, he triumphs over his strictly individual consciousness ruled 106|00:15:01|370|00:15:09|010by the lower level of Leo. Now when I say, talk about the lower level, I'm really talking about 107|00:15:09|010|00:15:14|670the lower method of response to the gamut of possibilities and qualities offered by the 108|00:15:14|670|00:15:22|230constellation Leo. I would call attention to the fact that in tabulation 4, the relationship is 109|00:15:22|230|00:15:28|570between the planets which rule. In tabulation 5, the emphasis is laid upon the conditioning ray. 110|00:15:28|670|00:15:37|670Well, we've been discussing that. In a way, the rays are more esoteric than either of the planets 111|00:15:37|670|00:15:46|770and even more esoteric than the zodiacal constellations. This we learn in the tenth chapter 112|00:15:46|770|00:15:56|350of the treatise on white magic when there are certain solar lords who are ray lords who occupy 113|00:15:56|350|00:16:03|130or influence the human being from a higher perspective than do the zodiacal signs. Though 114|00:16:03|130|00:16:11|350we have also seen that the zodiacal signs can be related as well to the soul. D.K. has emphasized 115|00:16:11|350|00:16:18|150this over and over again, so we might ask ourselves what soul qualities are we deriving from the 116|00:16:18|150|00:16:25|950zodiacal signs which are found in her chart. And also to the monad. I showed you that quote about 117|00:16:25|950|00:16:31|450the influence of the zodiacal signs upon the monad. And under the law of assembly, I would say 118|00:16:31|450|00:16:38|190during the full moon period, the energies of the zodiacal signs are gathered into Shambhala 119|00:16:38|190|00:16:47|390for distribution. So, yeah, if I were to look here, I don't know if it's necessary to repeat it, 120|00:16:48|010|00:16:58|150but zodiacal Shambhala. Well, there are several. There are several. Let's see if we can, yeah, 121|00:16:59|190|00:17:06|630zodiacal energies pass through Shambhala and are related to the first ray of will and power and 122|00:17:06|630|00:17:20|930affect the monad. Okay, so that's on page 411. All right. Now we go on to page 68 and we have 123|00:17:20|930|00:17:30|290another tabulation. This is an important tabulation I think also, yeah, it's a tabulation 124|00:17:30|290|00:17:38|710which is corresponding to a tabulation on page 490, but here we have the three rulers all together. 125|00:17:39|550|00:17:50|990There is orthodox Mars, esoterically for the disciple Mercury, and Uranus rules the second 126|00:17:50|990|00:17:58|630of the liberated hierarchies on the cosmic astral plane. I believe the watchword there is unity 127|00:17:58|630|00:18:08|270through effort. I think we can perhaps, if we have to flash on it, we can do so in this way. 128|00:18:10|270|00:18:19|750Yeah, unity through effort, Aries, the numbers 2 and 11 particularly. Taurus is ruled by Venus 129|00:18:19|750|00:18:28|350initially, but Vulcan in the esoteric position with regard to the disciple, and Vulcan again 130|00:18:28|350|00:18:37|670for the third of the liberated hierarchies, as we see, Vulcan is the ruler. Notice it doesn't show 131|00:18:38|390|00:18:47|130the ruler here, as it does when we're dealing with the manifested creative hierarchies, 132|00:18:47|210|00:18:52|810those upon the cosmic physical plane, here the ruler is shown, but not so. Although D.K. tells us 133|00:18:52|810|00:19:00|050what it is, light through knowledge, and you know, light through knowledge, Venus is much 134|00:19:00|050|00:19:07|030associated with the fifth ray and with knowledge, and Vulcan with the blazing light, burnishing the 135|00:19:07|030|00:19:15|290shield of Mars, we are told. Vulcan has to do with a blaze of light, which can be experienced 136|00:19:15|290|00:19:23|630at the third initiation, and which St. Paul apparently experienced, as D.K. confirms that he 137|00:19:23|630|00:19:30|650was blinded for three days on the road to Damascus, and that's an inner blaze of Vulcanian light, 138|00:19:30|670|00:19:36|150and really when Vulcan and Venus come together, that is the ruler of the head center, and the 139|00:19:36|150|00:19:43|670ruler of the Ajna center, the blaze of light shines forth, especially I would say for certain 140|00:19:43|670|00:19:52|090ray types, maybe for first ray types, because soul fusion results in illumination, whereas for the 141|00:19:53|350|00:20:06|130second ray type, soul fusion results in imagination, and for the third ray types in empowerment. It's 142|00:20:06|130|00:20:12|350easy going there. The first ray of power slips into the second ray position, gains illumination, 143|00:20:12|590|00:20:19|090the second ray of illumination slips into the third ray of imagination, and the third ray of 144|00:20:19|090|00:20:25|970imagination rises towards the first ray of empowerment. Esoteric Psychology, Volume 2, 145|00:20:26|150|00:20:34|990in the section on the techniques of fusion. With Gemini we have Mercury in the orthodox position. 146|00:20:34|990|00:20:43|770Orthodox we will always recognize as what conventional astrology tells us. We have Venus 147|00:20:43|770|00:20:49|710for the disciple, uniting the soul and personality, and we have the Earth, interestingly enough. 148|00:20:49|890|00:20:59|710This is the fourth of the liberated creative hierarchies ruled by Earth. The keynote here 149|00:20:59|710|00:21:09|430is desire for duality, and upon the Earth the great experiment will work out and the dualities 150|00:21:09|430|00:21:18|890will be reconciled very much through the agency of Mercury and Venus, which form with the Earth 151|00:21:18|890|00:21:29|070a very important triangle, quite apart from the fact that they are the rulers of Gemini. We are 152|00:21:29|070|00:21:34|250going down the list of creative hierarchies, I think you can see that. So the Earth is sometimes 153|00:21:34|250|00:21:41|950called the field of experience, but in this case I would estimate that Gemini, the head of the 154|00:21:41|950|00:21:49|790Cosmic Christ, is such an important constellation when it comes to rendering the Earth a sacred 155|00:21:49|790|00:21:57|930planet, and I wouldn't be surprised if this particular hierarchy ruled by Gemini and related 156|00:21:57|930|00:22:05|030to the Earth is not instrumental in helping the Earth become a sacred planet. We have the fifth 157|00:22:05|030|00:22:10|290almost liberated creative hierarchy, which is still focused upon the Logoic plane or the higher 158|00:22:10|290|00:22:20|610cosmic ether. The moon is the exoteric ruler, having to do with the lunar vehicles which are 159|00:22:20|610|00:22:27|690coming from another chain altogether. These vehicles are formed under a lunar impulse and 160|00:22:27|690|00:22:37|670Neptune is found for both the disciple, widening the compassion and helping the disciple aspire 161|00:22:37|670|00:22:45|250towards the Buddhic plane, which Neptune also rules, and Neptune is the hierarchical ruler, 162|00:22:45|370|00:22:55|050which has very much to do not only with the monadic plane, but with the desire for incarnation as it 163|00:22:55|050|00:23:04|230takes shape upon the cosmic astral plane. I think we see that here, we see veiling the Christ. 164|00:23:05|550|00:23:13|710The true Christ consciousness is much more found upon the cosmic astral plane than it is upon the 165|00:23:13|710|00:23:31|870cosmic physical plane. Okay, so those are the rulers as related to the first four signs, and I 166|00:23:31|870|00:23:40|970think we'll find Pisces also related to the liberated hierarchies. It is the first and highest 167|00:23:40|970|00:23:47|290of the liberated hierarchies. But now we go to Leo and we have a triple Sun here. It's perhaps 168|00:23:47|290|00:23:54|710the only constellation ruled by the same quote-unquote planet, but I don't think we should confine 169|00:23:54|710|00:24:01|770ourselves only to the undiscovered non-sacred secondary planet veiled by the Sun, because in 170|00:24:01|770|00:24:10|110a very significant way Leo is connected with the true and real Sun. In the first case, the Sun might 171|00:24:10|110|00:24:16|430be considered veiling Jupiter, which has a very special relationship to the Sun. It is probably 172|00:24:16|430|00:24:22|970the planet which is most closely related to our solar Logos, just as Venus I would say is most 173|00:24:22|970|00:24:33|750closely related to the Sirian Logos, and so for other planets being related to other solar Logos 174|00:24:33|750|00:24:41|670who are part of the seven solar systems of which ours is one. For the disciple, the Sun is veiling 175|00:24:41|670|00:24:49|450Neptune, which opens the heart center to receive the solar fire and the energy of the heart of the 176|00:24:49|450|00:25:01|890Sun, and for the true initiate, the high initiate, and in relation to the hierarchy, the Sun is the 177|00:25:04|110|00:25:13|410Sun is veiling Uranus, so when we look at this, well I don't know, should we say the Sun is veiling 178|00:25:13|410|00:25:22|070Uranus, perhaps. In relation to Leo it does veil Uranus, but in relation to the sea of fire over 179|00:25:22|070|00:25:30|250which the planet, the so-called planet, the Sun rules, it could be considered as veiling Vulcan 180|00:25:30|250|00:25:40|430as well, that first ray planet connected with flame. So both Uranus and Vulcan finding a way, 181|00:25:40|490|00:25:46|350I think, to be part of the relationship to the first creative hierarchy, but when we come to 182|00:25:46|350|00:25:59|570dealing with Leo per se, the Sun is definitely the ruler, the ruler of veiling Uranus, and D.K. 183|00:25:59|570|00:26:05|370in the Leo chapter talks quite a bit about the relationship of the electric fire of Uranus, 184|00:26:05|590|00:26:15|090a preeminently first ray planet, the electric fire of Uranus related to Leo. I called Uranus 185|00:26:15|090|00:26:19|190a first ray planet because it is a first ray planet monadically, although from the soul 186|00:26:19|190|00:26:26|450perspective, every indication is it's a seventh ray planet. We then come to Virgo; it has three 187|00:26:26|450|00:26:35|430rulers. Mercury, exoterically—we all know that—the intelligent, discriminating Virgo, so skillful 188|00:26:35|430|00:26:41|390in the realm of matter. And here a non-sacred planet, the Moon, or whatever fourth ray planet 189|00:26:41|390|00:26:48|870the Moon veils, is the esoteric ruler. But really, in this particular case, the Moon is veiling both 190|00:26:48|870|00:26:56|330Vulcan and Neptune. In this case we're talking about purifying the physical Vulcan and purifying 191|00:26:56|330|00:27:07|010the emotional Neptune. We're talking about the will and the endurance of Vulcan to open the 192|00:27:09|130|00:27:16|830Christ—individual Christ consciousness—under Neptune. Finally, we look at the monadic level, 193|00:27:16|830|00:27:26|650the creative hierarchy of the prototypes of the human monads. They are the divine builders. 194|00:27:27|010|00:27:33|490Jupiter is a building, second ray energy, and is the ruler of that general plane. It is the esoteric 195|00:27:33|490|00:27:42|030ruler of Virgo; it has much to do with the flowering of the Christ consciousness. In a sense, 196|00:27:42|030|00:27:48|550that can be seen upon the monadic plane, because the monads are lords of ceaseless and persevering 197|00:27:48|550|00:27:54|750devotion. Jupiter is the ruler of Pisces; they went forth on a saving mission, the monads did, 198|00:27:55|530|00:28:03|290and Jupiter is the hierarchical ruler of Virgo, emphasizing the redemption of matter through love. 199|00:28:03|770|00:28:11|370We're told Jupiter opens the door of the womb, I presume, to a wider type of Christ consciousness. 200|00:28:14|370|00:28:18|550Now we come to the sign Libra, which is conventionally ruled by Venus, 201|00:28:20|230|00:28:28|070esoterically—in the case of the disciple—ruled by Uranus, telling us that individualities should, 202|00:28:29|090|00:28:34|670relationships should be based on the true individuality, the true authentic identity. 203|00:28:35|630|00:28:39|630Uranus is always a planet of authenticity; there's many things we could say about it. 204|00:28:39|630|00:28:45|950It rules the sacral center, which is so prominent today in Libran relationships, 205|00:28:45|950|00:28:55|950but also perhaps has much to do with the marriage of souls. Soul marriage, authentic marriage, is a 206|00:28:55|950|00:29:03|190higher type of marriage. Saturn is not only the hierarchical ruler of Libra, but also the planet 207|00:29:03|190|00:29:10|390exalted within Libra, so it's tremendously powerful in Libra. It is the ruler of the 208|00:29:10|390|00:29:18|490third creative hierarchy, and it's the Brahmic planet, and it's the head of the five Brahmic 209|00:29:18|490|00:29:30|790creative hierarchies: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We have here the great principle of karma. So perhaps much 210|00:29:30|790|00:29:36|490karma is decided in relation to the third creative hierarchy. Certainly we're told that when a man 211|00:29:36|490|00:29:42|250refuses association with the third creative hierarchy, he's precipitated as his karma into 212|00:29:42|250|00:30:00|770the eighth sphere. And it's curious—in the discussions of Agni Yoga we're talking—it 213|00:30:00|770|00:30:05|990has kind of a prison. It doesn't use the word “prison,” but it's reserved for evildoers. They 214|00:30:05|990|00:30:13|290are transported to this particular spot on Saturn. Saturn then has so much to do with negativity and 215|00:30:13|290|00:30:20|510confinement, and so much to do with the beautiful karmic law, which prepares all beings for 216|00:30:20|510|00:30:30|470relationship with love energy. So it's a great balancing factor when found in Libra. I'm thinking 217|00:30:30|470|00:30:35|430about Sir Isaac Newton and his horoscope. He had Libra rising and the Sun in Capricorn, which 218|00:30:35|430|00:30:44|830means that—well, he was an initiate surely—and the Capricorn, the esoteric ruler, is Saturn, the 219|00:30:44|830|00:30:52|190same as the hierarchical ruler of the rising sign. So Saturn had to be tremendously important in his 220|00:30:52|190|00:30:59|610chart, and he did give us all these physical laws, including especially “for every action there is an 221|00:30:59|610|00:31:06|770opposite and equal reaction.” He gave us an interpretation in physics of the psychological 222|00:31:06|770|00:31:12|870law of karma. So it certainly worked out in his particular case. When we come to the sign 223|00:31:12|870|00:31:20|610Scorpio, Mars rules twice: the Mars of desire initially, and the Mars of valor and heroism, 224|00:31:21|170|00:31:28|570and the self-sacrifice for the disciple where you're willing for a cause or an ideal under the 225|00:31:28|570|00:31:35|490sixth ray to sacrifice yourself. And finally, Mercury is the hierarchical ruler, speaking of 226|00:31:35|490|00:31:41|010the great illumination that can be achieved in Scorpio. Scorpio is associated with the 227|00:31:41|010|00:31:48|310illumination phase of meditation: Leo concentration, Virgo meditation, Libra contemplation, 228|00:31:49|090|00:31:56|910Scorpio illumination, Sagittarius inspiration. Five stages of meditation related to the five 229|00:31:56|910|00:32:04|250signs from Leo through Sagittarius, and of course followed by initiation. Mercury then is the great 230|00:32:04|250|00:32:10|030planet of the human creative hierarchy, the fourth creative hierarchy. We are to become Mercury. We 231|00:32:10|030|00:32:16|170are to become intermediaries between the high and the low. We are to become harmony through conflict. 232|00:32:17|090|00:32:23|230Mercury is to take the place of the Moon. The Moon, all of our lunar vehicles, falls in Scorpio, 233|00:32:23|230|00:32:31|670which means their power is greatly reduced. And Mercury, the great illuminator, a very occult 234|00:32:31|670|00:32:38|850planet, connected with the third ray, not only the fourth ray, connected with the Buddha, connected 235|00:32:38|850|00:32:44|290with the illumination of the Buddha, probably connected in a way with the cosmic touch the 236|00:32:44|290|00:32:49|530Buddha received from the cosmic mental plane. I wouldn't be surprised if Mercury wasn't connected 237|00:32:49|530|00:32:59|170with that. So Scorpio, which begins life in the dark, transits into the light illumination of 238|00:32:59|170|00:33:05|390Mercury. We do know that Mercury is also connected with the Buddha and thus with Taurus, an important 239|00:33:05|390|00:33:11|930planet in relation to Taurus, though not one of the rulers. We get to Sagittarius and the conventional 240|00:33:11|930|00:33:20|090Jupiter is there expanding one's horizons, constantly leaving home, as it were, constantly 241|00:33:20|090|00:33:31|370widening the range of one's rangings. The range of one's rangings. Okay, then the Earth—this is the 242|00:33:31|370|00:33:42|770esoteric ruler—is the consciousness of the sacredness of Earth. It is the appreciation of 243|00:33:42|770|00:33:51|090the beauty of Earth and the path towards Earth's sacredness. The global consciousness of the 244|00:33:51|090|00:33:59|790Sagittarian makes them particularly ecologically aware. They range the entire planet or various 245|00:33:59|790|00:34:07|630spheres and so they are understanding the fact that nothing occurs in isolation and that the 246|00:34:07|990|00:34:17|190Earth must be well treated and led through human effort and the effort of still higher beings along 247|00:34:17|190|00:34:23|290a particular path, which will make of it a sacred planet. Interestingly enough, Sagittarians are 248|00:34:23|290|00:34:30|450often interested in healing the material aspect of man through the right type of activity. The Earth 249|00:34:30|450|00:34:37|910has that third ray quality, active quality, and Sagittarius, the sign which is most associated 250|00:34:37|910|00:34:47|450with the physical aspect. Aries, the first fire sign, fire; Leo, second fire sign, soul; third, 251|00:34:47|450|00:34:55|510Sagittarius body. So Earth body and Sagittarius go together and making sure that this body, 252|00:34:56|130|00:35:07|610the Earth, the vehicle of our planetary Logos, is in good shape. So this is taking care of the 253|00:35:07|610|00:35:14|150immediate Earth, making sure it's vital, because the Earth so much stands for the vital body, 254|00:35:14|150|00:35:21|030whereas the Moon perhaps a bit more for the outer crust, the dense physical vehicle. Mars, 255|00:35:21|590|00:35:31|170a non-sacred planet, is the hierarchical ruler, just as it is in Pisces, interestingly enough. 256|00:35:32|230|00:35:40|690So Gemini, Sagittarius, and Pisces have non-sacred planets for the hierarchical ruler. Interestingly, 257|00:35:40|690|00:35:49|570with Gemini, it is a sign of great vitality and youthfulness and non-aging. You know, 258|00:35:49|710|00:35:54|450the Gemini people seem to stay young forever, and interestingly enough, its hierarchical ruler, 259|00:35:54|530|00:36:01|850Earth, is associated with the vital body, which when kept vital, keeps the appearance and the 260|00:36:01|850|00:36:10|450general expression youthful. That's a sort of a concrete expression of a high matter. Mars is not 261|00:36:10|450|00:36:15|390just the planet of desire, as we find in Scorpio, but it's particularly the planet of the 262|00:36:15|390|00:36:25|630reorientation of desire towards aspiration. And here we have Mars reorienting the lunar lords, 263|00:36:26|490|00:36:33|410which are elementals in a way, and helping them to move into the deva kingdom gradually, 264|00:36:33|410|00:36:41|490and into the animal and human kingdoms. One of the ways in to the animal, and thus the human 265|00:36:41|490|00:36:49|310kingdom, from the Moon Chain is via these lunar lords, which eventually are reoriented via Mars, 266|00:36:49|610|00:37:00|790and are given the chance to rise. Mars is a rising planet, as it were, as its glyph indicates. So 267|00:37:00|790|00:37:08|450there is the aspiration of the lunar lords indicated here, and in general, fiery aspiration 268|00:37:08|450|00:37:17|430and militancy in Sagittarius, the willingness to self-immolate. You know, how the six ray souls, 269|00:37:18|430|00:37:24|270Sagittarius being the major sign of the six ray, choose the path of liberation, which is immolative. 270|00:37:24|930|00:37:30|050Every type of causal body is destroyed in a different way, and the six ray type of causal 271|00:37:30|050|00:37:37|650body is destroyed by fire. So Mars must be intimately related, and the lunar lords burn 272|00:37:37|650|00:37:46|090up, and so does the causal body. Mars is involved. Capricorn, we have a double Saturn, not just the 273|00:37:46|090|00:37:53|550hard fate and material living of the conventional interpretation of Saturn, but adherence to law 274|00:37:53|550|00:38:03|250under Capricorn, and fulfillment of karmic debt, consciously undertaken in a lawful manner. Venus 275|00:38:03|250|00:38:10|830rules the hierarchy of solar angels, which Capricorn also rules, and Venus is the symbol, 276|00:38:11|490|00:38:17|170as the hierarchical ruler in Capricorn, of the third initiation, or light upon the mountaintop, 277|00:38:17|170|00:38:23|950the triumph of the soul of Venus over Mars. Mars rules the entire personality, 278|00:38:24|730|00:38:30|130and every vehicle within that personality, and Venus indicates the triumph of the soul 279|00:38:30|130|00:38:39|050over that personality. So Venus is a very high planet. The Venus in Capricorn rulership is 280|00:38:39|050|00:38:46|310perhaps not the very highest, because Venus in Pisces shows a completely successful redemption. 281|00:38:46|970|00:38:55|590Of all of the, of the dweller, and then the solar angels are free to be released. Pisces 282|00:38:55|590|00:39:00|570is always the sign of release, and to return to the heart of the Sun. Both Pisces and Venus 283|00:39:00|570|00:39:08|050related to the heart. So Venus, a great luminosity achieved on top of the mountain. Now, you know, 284|00:39:08|070|00:39:14|250it can also mean social climbing, you know. It can be using your attractive powers and your charm, 285|00:39:14|250|00:39:19|510all that, to gain a high position in society, or to marry well, all of that kind of thing. 286|00:39:20|030|00:39:25|210It means many things, the beauty of the archetype. We'll go over some of the meanings. I have 287|00:39:25|210|00:39:35|510extracted the meanings of planets in signs on three levels: for the ordinary man, for the 288|00:39:35|510|00:39:41|690disciple, and for the high initiate, and I'd like to go over that with you at some point. This is 289|00:39:41|690|00:39:47|090all written out on Makara, and I haven't really quite finished all of them, but maybe if I'm 290|00:39:47|090|00:39:54|310forced to talk about them, as talking seems to be faster and time is short, maybe I'll be able to 291|00:39:54|310|00:40:00|550complete some of the indications of these rulerships that I've been hoping to write about. 292|00:40:01|170|00:40:11|650With Aquarius, we have Uranus, and not to forget Saturn as the orthodox ruler as well. The 293|00:40:11|650|00:40:20|650Aquarius. But there's also the unconventional Saturn not going along with the normal, 294|00:40:21|750|00:40:27|610unconventional Aquarius, not going along with the trend of things, and that's the more individualistic 295|00:40:28|790|00:40:34|450Uranus. This is where you find your individualism and express it, but you may be expressing the same 296|00:40:34|450|00:40:42|370type of individualism as many others. So many offbeat groups have a lot of people that apparently 297|00:40:42|370|00:40:46|630do the same thing, and they think they're being very, very individual. They are Uranian, and yet 298|00:40:46|630|00:40:53|470they are conforming to each other in a way. Jupiter is the esoteric ruler for the disciple, 299|00:40:54|910|00:41:02|510giving the bounty of group consciousness, the love-wisdom energy uniting people, the ability 300|00:41:02|510|00:41:09|050to expand consciousness together, the realization that group consciousness can always perceive more 301|00:41:09|050|00:41:16|990than the individual can if it is a true group, and the consciousness is the soul consciousness. 302|00:41:17|310|00:41:24|930So this is the great bounty, the cornucopia, the higher type of blessing and beneficence of 303|00:41:24|930|00:41:34|130Aquarius pouring out for many and hoping to lift all rather than lift one. Aquarius is not so 304|00:41:34|130|00:41:39|450discriminate about how it pours out its blessings. Anyone is free to receive them, and Jupiter is 305|00:41:39|450|00:41:45|550generous too, so somehow it's a very generous position. On a lower turn of the spiral it just 306|00:41:45|550|00:41:55|570can mean success with groups and big groups. I've seen people that somehow are involved with 307|00:41:55|570|00:42:00|830large organizations and do well there having Jupiter in Aquarius, but there are all many 308|00:42:00|830|00:42:06|550ranges of interpretations, and we'll have to take them into consideration too. We're interested in 309|00:42:07|670|00:42:13|390esoteric astrology, but esoteric astrology includes exoteric astrology. D.K. said there 310|00:42:13|390|00:42:17|690would be a split between astrologers of the future. Some would be particularly handling 311|00:42:17|690|00:42:24|310the personality from an exoteric point of view, and others would be interested in the soul. But 312|00:42:24|310|00:42:33|550what I have seen about this is that the truly esoteric astrologer has to know something about 313|00:42:33|550|00:42:46|310exoteric astrology, because we want to transform people's more normal situations into spiritual 314|00:42:46|310|00:42:51|050possibilities. Out of the normal situations can come the development of spiritual possibilities. 315|00:42:52|030|00:43:03|490Okay, here comes the moon, and interesting, yeah, also an exoteric non-sacred, a non-sacred 316|00:43:03|490|00:43:10|210planet in a hierarchical position. Well, there are five, actually. Before I just mentioned the 317|00:43:10|210|00:43:14|170Earth and Mars and Pluto, but I should have included the moon and the sun. I should have 318|00:43:14|170|00:43:23|330included Aquarius and Leo. Four, the non-sacred planets veiled by their rulers, the sun veiling 319|00:43:23|330|00:43:33|030a non-sacred planet of the second ray, and the moon veiling a non-sacred fourth-ray planet. But 320|00:43:33|030|00:43:37|870three planets. And what we're talking about here is the transfiguration of the personality. The 321|00:43:37|870|00:43:44|770transfiguration can occur in Capricorn, it can occur in Aquarius, it can occur in Aries, in Leo. 322|00:43:45|110|00:43:51|410There are a number of signs which are conducive to the transfiguration. The whole idea of being 323|00:43:51|410|00:43:57|990a rich young man is very connected with Aquarius, you know, like you would say Sir Thomas More, 324|00:43:57|990|00:44:06|050eventually in Arhat, the man for all seasons. He had this sense of universality about him. He 325|00:44:06|050|00:44:14|530was certainly an Aquarian, and now they say it is said that he is a master kind of named as Sir 326|00:44:14|530|00:44:21|370Thomas in the third of the Initiate books, “The Initiate in the Dark Cycle.” But the moon then 327|00:44:21|370|00:44:30|970represents Vulcan, Neptune, and Uranus, and the transformation of all the three vehicles that 328|00:44:30|970|00:44:39|090occurs in the transfiguration. So there is a great vibrational elevation of these three vehicles 329|00:44:39|090|00:44:48|510signalized by the moon as the ruler. All the lunar vehicles are transformed and they are rendered 330|00:44:48|510|00:44:57|990responsive to the great radiation of the head center in Aquarius. Aquarius, I think, rules the 331|00:44:57|990|00:45:05|710entire head center in a certain sense, as does Uranus in a certain sense, with Neptune ruling 332|00:45:05|710|00:45:11|890the twelve golden white petals at the center of the head center, and probably Pisces related to 333|00:45:11|890|00:45:19|370that as well, because it's considered the major part of the head center. But anyway, this great 334|00:45:19|370|00:45:26|290bounty is pouring forth and all of the vehicles are raised. Notice that in Cancer the moon is 335|00:45:26|290|00:45:31|210singular, and it has a lot to do with the dense physical vehicle, and perhaps with the emotions 336|00:45:31|210|00:45:39|010as well to a degree. In Virgo the moon is dual. It is Vulcan and Neptune. It is a kind of a union 337|00:45:39|010|00:45:45|950of the purification of both the physical etheric vehicle and the astral vehicle, and in Aquarius 338|00:45:45|950|00:45:55|090the moon is triple. It is veiling all three planets related to all three lunar vehicles, 339|00:45:55|850|00:46:00|330and we're not just dealing with purification now, we're dealing with transfiguration. We're 340|00:46:00|330|00:46:08|810dealing with a very high vibration, an elevation of vibration, until it becomes very high and you 341|00:46:08|810|00:46:15|230have transfigured consciousness within very responsive vehicles, and the individual is 342|00:46:15|230|00:46:20|050indeed the rich young man. Now that doesn't mean that every time you have the moon in Aquarius, 343|00:46:20|730|00:46:28|670you're talking about the transfigured personality. You're often times talking about the scattering 344|00:46:28|670|00:46:37|330of energies, the interest in group response, deviation from the norm, sort of an instinctive 345|00:46:37|330|00:46:46|070deviation from the norm. There are many, you know, mentalization, a flight from emotion. We're 346|00:46:46|070|00:46:50|670talking about many things with the moon in Aquarius, and we can be talking about emotional 347|00:46:50|670|00:46:58|810ups and downs as well. Finally we get to Pisces. Its rulers are Jupiter and a double Pluto. Jupiter 348|00:46:58|810|00:47:05|110here standing for helpfulness and benevolence, but also the possibility of being engulfed by 349|00:47:05|110|00:47:11|610matter, swallowed by it, you know, the whale swallows Jonah, the whale of great size Jupiter, 350|00:47:11|910|00:47:19|590swallows Jonah, and the person is completely trampled and captivated by matter. But Pluto 351|00:47:19|590|00:47:29|330brings detachment. First the personal detachment, which is a kind of death to all of that involvement 352|00:47:29|330|00:47:37|770with matter, and then a very spiritual detachment where we have Aries, Pluto, Shambhala. The Pluto 353|00:47:37|770|00:47:47|510is instrumental in detaching the true soul from its vehicles and really ultimately detaching the 354|00:47:47|510|00:47:56|350monad from its vehicles. So the monad, the spirit knows itself to be itself and is now detached. 355|00:47:56|350|00:48:07|650Its relationship with matter and form is entirely changed, and it has in a way died to the lure of 356|00:48:07|650|00:48:14|630matter. The shears have cut the relationship between spirit and matter, but of course that 357|00:48:14|630|00:48:21|930relationship will never really be cut. At least the consciousness is saved from being engulfed by 358|00:48:21|930|00:48:29|970spirit, by matter, by matter, excuse me. Okay, you know, I've done five of these today. This is the 359|00:48:29|970|00:48:37|690fifth, so I'm probably losing my voice a little bit. Couldn't quite do six yesterday. Days are 360|00:48:37|690|00:48:44|630different, and pretty soon there'll be some music on the horizon, which will not make it possible to 361|00:48:44|630|00:48:53|510do more, but in any case we are rolling along it feels like. We have a tabulation 7 here. We call 362|00:48:53|510|00:49:02|410it unorthodox. It involves the hierarchical rulers and the relationship of constellations 363|00:49:03|730|00:49:12|610based upon hierarchical, the rays of hierarchical rulers. I do believe that's what it is. So we have 364|00:49:12|610|00:49:25|430the usual thing: constellation, ruler, ray, and related to. Okay, maybe I'll pull that back a little bit. 365|00:49:26|110|00:49:32|550Okay, well the constellation is Aries. It's hierarchically ruled by Uranus, the final burning 366|00:49:32|550|00:49:41|430ground. We're given a seventh ray meaning of Uranus, and since there are no other of the major 367|00:49:41|430|00:49:46|890planets being on the seventh ray, although with 115 planets in our solar system or more, some of 368|00:49:46|890|00:49:52|610them have to be on the seventh ray, and a number of asteroids and planets like Jupiter, for instance, 369|00:49:52|690|00:50:00|130have seventh ray components. But anyway, out of the usual planets, none other are related to the 370|00:50:00|130|00:50:07|090seventh ray, and so Aries is related to no other constellation in relation to the hierarchical 371|00:50:07|090|00:50:18|570ruler. Taurus has Vulcan as its hierarchical ruler, and Pisces has Pluto. So they have the 372|00:50:18|570|00:50:25|390same ray, and we again see that Taurus and Pisces are related. We've seen that with the 373|00:50:25|390|00:50:33|750esoteric, in relation to the ray of the esoteric ruler as well. When it comes to Gemini, the ray 374|00:50:33|750|00:50:40|270relationship is Gemini, hierarchical ruler of the Earth, hierarchical ruler of Gemini, and Saturn, 375|00:50:40|530|00:50:50|610third-ray Saturn, hierarchical ruler of Libra. So Gemini and Libra now are related, whereas when 376|00:50:50|610|00:51:03|730dealing with the esoteric rulers, they were not related to any other constellations. We have the… 377|00:51:03|730|00:51:10|370When it comes to Neptune and its relationship to Cancer, it's a sixth-ray planet. That's how D.K. 378|00:51:10|370|00:51:15|970considers it. He doesn't consider its second-ray monadic nature in these contexts, because that's 379|00:51:15|970|00:51:23|570probably very, very high and beyond the need to consider at this stage. When dealing with the 380|00:51:23|570|00:51:29|030esoteric rulers, we had Neptune related to Scorpio, because Mars was the ruler of Scorpio, 381|00:51:29|030|00:51:34|990esoterically. But now here, Mars is the hierarchical ruler of Sagittarius, sixth-ray 382|00:51:34|990|00:51:42|670Mars, sixth-ray Neptune, so we have Cancer and Sagittarius related hierarchically. And this is 383|00:51:42|670|00:51:48|190interesting; we have to consider this in terms of the hierarchies. Cancer, the ruler of the fifth, 384|00:51:48|250|00:51:57|190almost liberated hierarchy, and Sagittarius, the ruler of the lunar Lords. The soul is related to 385|00:51:57|190|00:52:05|630the astral body, and foremost among the lunar Lords are the astral lunar Lords, because of the 386|00:52:05|630|00:52:12|710power of the astral body in our particular solar system. So let's just say that we are trying to 387|00:52:12|710|00:52:20|130raise Mars into Neptune. Mars is objective and full of blood, and Neptune subjective and full 388|00:52:20|130|00:52:27|050of life. So we're trying to reorient the lunar Lords towards the higher Christ potentials, 389|00:52:27|810|00:52:33|950which are ruled by the hierarchy of Cancer, veiling the Christ. You know, we'd have to 390|00:52:33|950|00:52:39|710contemplate these. These are relationships, and we have to look at the sixth manifested 391|00:52:39|710|00:52:46|330creative hierarchy in relation to the fifth, almost liberated hierarchy, which is still, 392|00:52:46|330|00:52:52|550however, focused on the cosmic physical plane, even though it's not considered a manifested 393|00:52:53|270|00:53:00|850creative hierarchy. Now we come to Leo. Leo's ruled by the Sun, whatever it may— 394|00:53:00|930|00:53:05|110it veils Uranus here, but we're not considering that; we're just considering the second-ray Sun. 395|00:53:05|830|00:53:13|290And Virgo, on the monadic plane, ruling the divine builders, this is ruled by second-ray Jupiter, 396|00:53:13|290|00:53:20|970the seven formative sounds in this seventh hierarchy, counting down, but second, counting 397|00:53:20|970|00:53:29|870down from the cosmic physical plane. So now we have a Leo-Virgo relationship, and that relationship 398|00:53:29|870|00:53:36|150is between the first two hierarchies, the hierarchy of divine lives and the hierarchy of divine 399|00:53:36|150|00:53:42|970builders. And they are the two, in a way, esoteric hierarchies on the cosmic physical plane, because 400|00:53:43|280|00:53:50|730the first two planes, the Logoic and monadic, or the first two planes of any seven, are always 401|00:53:50|730|00:53:56|550considered esoteric, and the five Brahmic planes are considered exoteric. So we have an esoteric 402|00:53:56|550|00:54:03|110relationship, and I think everyone will recognize here that we're dealing with the two signs, 403|00:54:03|550|00:54:10|470or constellations, that are the embodiment of the Sphinx. So perhaps a great riddle can be answered 404|00:54:10|470|00:54:16|390when we understand the prototypes of the monads and the divine lives. Perhaps something can be 405|00:54:16|390|00:54:22|530understood about the way the solar Logos and the planetary Logos relate, or solar Logos and 406|00:54:22|530|00:54:29|830planetary Logos, because I think that the monads are found on every planet, so we cannot just 407|00:54:29|830|00:54:36|190confine them to Earth. In other words, how do these two great beings, the grand heavenly man 408|00:54:36|190|00:54:44|030and the heavenly man, relate to each other? In the Leo-Virgo relationship, perhaps we can find this. 409|00:54:46|150|00:54:56|430I think this will be my last one tonight. Then we have Libra and Saturn; this is a repeat here. 410|00:54:58|070|00:55:04|490They have the third ray: hierarchical Saturn ruling Libra, hierarchical Earth ruling Gemini, 411|00:55:04|490|00:55:12|670and Libra and Gemini, you know, they are related to the fusing of dualities. Gemini always relates 412|00:55:12|670|00:55:20|670to the establishing of dualities and Libra to their fusion. Now, Gemini is the ruler of the 413|00:55:20|670|00:55:29|570fourth liberated creative hierarchy, desire for duality, and Libra is the ruler of the triple 414|00:55:29|570|00:55:35|410flowers, the first of the Brahmic hierarchies. They're called the lesser builders, but they're 415|00:55:35|410|00:55:43|630really pretty great, and they are, we're dealing here with duality on the cosmic astral plane, 416|00:55:44|390|00:55:52|490and we're dealing with triplicity below, because Libra is, or the hierarchy of Libra is animating 417|00:55:52|490|00:56:03|090the triadal vehicles, providing the triadal fields in which man can express, so we have a 418|00:56:03|090|00:56:11|250two and a three. Scorpio is related to Aquarius here, Mercury, the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio, 419|00:56:12|890|00:56:21|730Mercury and Scorpio both related to the fourth creative hierarchy, and the Moon is the hierarchical 420|00:56:21|730|00:56:30|430moon, that's how it's considered, so the Scorpio hierarchy is human, and the Aquarian hierarchy 421|00:56:30|430|00:56:37|790is the very lowest, and that's interesting, the very lowest hierarchy, the elemental lives, 422|00:56:37|950|00:56:46|890the baskets of nourishment, the vital life of the atoms, and the small constituents of matter, 423|00:56:47|650|00:56:53|170so it does look like humanity, the fourth creative hierarchy, must go all the way down, 424|00:56:53|530|00:57:00|510to the bottom of the cosmic physical plane, and there deal even with the redemption of matter, 425|00:57:01|330|00:57:07|890the elevation of the mineral kingdom. There is much about humanity that is the stone, 426|00:57:08|530|00:57:16|330it's called the living stone, not the fiery stone, and the elemental lives, the lowest elements of 427|00:57:16|330|00:57:23|150matter, they are most related to the mineral kingdom, so we have this relationship through 428|00:57:23|150|00:57:32|570concretion, with the idea of the stone involved. There's great power in this seventh and lowest 429|00:57:32|570|00:57:38|170creative hierarchy, and man has to master that, he's already coming in touch with it, will it 430|00:57:38|170|00:57:45|830destroy him via Scorpio, or will it liberate him, this is a question. We have the lunar lords here, 431|00:57:45|830|00:57:52|210Sagittarius, being ruled by Mars, Sagittarius and Mars, both associated with the lunar lords, 432|00:57:52|390|00:58:00|990or the vitality of the elemental forms which man uses, and via the sixth ray they are related, 433|00:58:01|170|00:58:08|810so we've discussed that relationship between the lunar lords and the Christ-like hierarchy on the 434|00:58:08|810|00:58:14|510verge of liberation into the cosmic astral plane. Capricorn is ruled by a fifth-ray Venus, 435|00:58:14|510|00:58:22|210hierarchically, bringing us illumination, and since we have no other planet, ruling planet, 436|00:58:22|250|00:58:28|890which conveys the fifth-ray, at least not the normal planets, then Capricorn, like Aries, 437|00:58:29|530|00:58:36|190is hierarchically not related to any other constellation. We've already gone over Aquarius 438|00:58:36|190|00:58:44|790and Scorpio via the fourth-ray Moon and the fourth-ray Mercury, and we've already gone over 439|00:58:45|670|00:58:54|470Pisces in its relation to Taurus via first-ray Pluto and first-ray Taurus. So, you know, 440|00:58:54|750|00:59:03|670great pondering is required as we look at the relationship of these hierarchies as they are 441|00:59:03|670|00:59:13|850related by rays, the signs which rule them are related by rays, and therefore the hierarchies 442|00:59:13|850|00:59:22|070are related by rays as well. All right, I think, yes, we are there, we are definitely there, 443|00:59:22|070|00:59:36|530ending our esoteric astrology adventure number 31, and we will, whatever page it is, I think, 444|00:59:38|410|00:59:51|570oh, here we go again, huh? Page something, page 68. All right, so we have done page 66, I believe, 445|00:59:51|570|00:59:58|750to 68. If that is incorrect, I will correct it, but I don't want to take time to do it right now. 446|01:00:00|630|01:00:09|17025 July, that's not July, 25 July 11, and we will together sound our closing 447|01:00:09|170|01:00:20|610mantrum, The Great Invocation. I suppose by now everyone should know this, but on the off chance 448|01:00:20|610|01:00:25|650that somebody is coming into these webinars without knowing The Great Invocation, I think 449|01:00:25|650|01:00:28|390it is wise to display it. 450|01:00:39|370|01:00:39|990Ooooooooooooooo 451|01:00:39|990|01:00:47|550From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, 452|01:00:48|310|01:00:50|530let light descend on earth. 453|01:00:53|830|01:01:01|270From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, 454|01:01:01|730|01:01:04|310may Christ return to earth. 455|01:01:07|410|01:01:12|990From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 456|01:01:12|990|01:01:16|470the purpose which the masters know and serve. 457|01:01:19|350|01:01:24|470From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 458|01:01:25|010|01:01:27|990and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 459|01:01:30|470|01:01:35|130Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 460|01:01:45|450|01:01:46|850Ooooooooooooooo 461|01:01:53|910|01:01:55|310Ooooooooooooooo 462|01:02:08|710|01:02:09|610Ooooooooooooooo 463|01:02:09|610|01:02:16|370Okay friends, that's it, probably for this evening. 464|01:02:18|430|01:02:26|390And we will continue on page 68, it looks like, esoteric astrology adventure number 32. 465|01:02:26|730|01:02:31|890We are making our way fairly well now through the introduction, 466|01:02:33|910|01:02:38|350and I hope I have a few more days to continue blitzing forward, 467|01:02:38|590|01:02:41|870not like a Pisces would do, but like Aries would do, tropical Aries. 468|01:02:43|030|01:02:48|090And we will continue later. Okay, see you all, see you all, study hard.
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