1|00:00:03|440|00:00:19|100Hi everybody, this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 33, and today is the 26th of July, 2011. 2|00:00:20|240|00:00:31|900And we have been reading on page 70 and 71 about the particular planets which are active at the 3|00:00:31|900|00:00:37|780various initiations. Vulcan and Pluto at the first initiation, and I explained how they are active at 4|00:00:37|780|00:00:51|640all five. Neptune, Jupiter and Venus at the second initiation, and contending occurring between Venus and 5|00:00:51|640|00:00:59|260Jupiter, and I've tried to explain that. Mars and the Moon, and the Moon is veiling a hidden planet, 6|00:00:59|260|00:01:06|860which I propose to be Vulcan. And this is a higher octave of the drama at the third initiation, 7|00:01:08|060|00:01:19|100compared with the same planets active at the second. We talked about Saturn and Mercury, and what I did 8|00:01:19|100|00:01:28|880not mention is how they are active in what we might call Viveka, or Viveka, which means discrimination 9|00:01:28|880|00:01:35|760in Sanskrit. And we are discriminating at that point at the fourth initiation between the real 10|00:01:35|760|00:01:51|680and the unreal. We are entering the cosmic ethers, and we are using a combination of the triadal lives, 11|00:01:53|060|00:02:00|100the triple flowers ruled by Saturn, and the human creative hierarchy ruled by Mercury. In a way, 12|00:02:00|100|00:02:08|320we could say that at that initiation, ruled by Mercury and Saturn, the human creative hierarchy 13|00:02:08|320|00:02:18|460is coming in touch, close touch, with a higher type of hierarchy, the third creative hierarchy 14|00:02:18|460|00:02:28|840of lesser builders, as the solar angels are returning to their proper location within the 15|00:02:28|840|00:02:35|940heart of the Sun, or the central spiritual Sun. And now, we are moving into the fifth initiation. 16|00:02:37|180|00:02:47|020At the fifth and final initiation, Uranus and Jupiter appear, and produce a beneficent organization 17|00:02:47|020|00:02:53|220of the totality of energies found in the initiate's equipment. Well, I think you can see how careful 18|00:02:53|220|00:03:01|660Master D.K. is with words. Here is second-ray Jupiter with its beneficence, and seventh-ray 19|00:03:01|660|00:03:09|620Uranus with its organization. The two are very active in the chart of Madame Blavatsky, 20|00:03:09|820|00:03:18|200interestingly enough. I think I did mention that. And if I can possibly bring this up, I will do that. 21|00:03:18|200|00:03:30|360But it's not quite… hasn't quite appeared. Yeah, now it is appearing. Okay, now it is appearing. 22|00:03:31|460|00:03:39|580Now I see the Moon is in Gemini, and we are in the communicating mode. So, what we'll do here 23|00:03:39|580|00:03:51|320is look for something. Here we are. And maybe we can find Blavatsky here. 24|00:03:53|800|00:04:14|960H.P.B. Not so easily found. I will search in this way. Blavatsky. Maybe that will allow us to find 25|00:04:14|960|00:04:28|960the chart. Yes, we have it. Okay, and take a look at this. Look at this combination of Jupiter and Uranus 26|00:04:28|960|00:04:37|920in just five degrees from each other, and in the eighth house of occultism. This beneficent 27|00:04:37|920|00:04:44|900organization of energies, I think, was occurring in her case, as she was, I do believe, an Arhat, 28|00:04:45|460|00:04:54|420fourth degree initiate. And it has been said that she has since made her way to the central 29|00:04:54|420|00:05:04|420stronghold as a master. So, here are very powerful planets demonstrating that possibility of the 30|00:05:04|420|00:05:12|340beneficent organization of energies. When this reorganization is complete, the initiate can then 31|00:05:12|340|00:05:25|040escape from off the wheel, and then can truly live. So, the wheel of rebirth is no longer active. That 32|00:05:25|040|00:05:32|860happens at the fourth initiation, but perhaps the full escape occurs at the fifth, and at the same 33|00:05:32|860|00:05:41|440time there is the dissolution, complete dissolution of the causal body. It has been destroyed, but it 34|00:05:41|440|00:05:50|360has not been dissipated. And by the fifth initiation, the monadic nature is coming in via 35|00:05:50|360|00:05:57|560Jupiter. So, in a way, the highest and the lowest are meeting, because Uranus, veiled by the Moon, 36|00:06:01|040|00:06:07|740is ruling the very lowest hierarchy. It's also the hierarchical ruler of the Aries hierarchy, 37|00:06:07|740|00:06:15|740which is the second of the unmanifested hierarchies, the liberated hierarchies, 38|00:06:16|200|00:06:24|300and Jupiter, the monadic plane. All of these are coming together. The man is quite consciously the 39|00:06:24|300|00:06:31|480monad at this point, although he is not yet a completely liberated monad until the sixth 40|00:06:31|480|00:06:40|720initiation. And I wouldn't be surprised to see the planet Saturn at that sixth initiation, 41|00:06:40|860|00:06:46|480because it is the initiation of choice in which Libra is so powerful. The third degree is very 42|00:06:46|480|00:06:53|580powerful, Saturn is the major monadic distributor of the third degree. So, I would expect Saturn to 43|00:06:53|580|00:07:01|860be found there. I would also expect, for the seventh initiation, a very strong representation 44|00:07:02|600|00:07:09|520of the Sun, and maybe Jupiter as well. It's a great second-ray initiation, just as the 45|00:07:09|520|00:07:19|500third-ray initiation, yes. And as for the eighth and ninth, well, you know, it's anyone's guess. 46|00:07:19|500|00:07:27|360Let's just say that the fifth initiation is powerfully represented by the first ray. It 47|00:07:27|360|00:07:34|340goes like this: First initiation, seventh ray; second initiation, sixth ray; third initiation, 48|00:07:34|440|00:07:42|160fifth ray; fourth initiation, fourth ray; and the fifth initiation, first ray. And then we have the 49|00:07:42|160|00:07:50|080one, the three, and the two. So, fifth initiation, first ray; sixth initiation, third ray; and the 50|00:07:50|080|00:07:55|480seventh initiation, second ray. Where Jupiter and the Sun, I think, would be powerfully represented 51|00:07:55|480|00:08:07|340is a love-wisdom initiation. Okay, so, we have talked then about the planetary powers at the 52|00:08:07|340|00:08:13|480point of mastership giving, I think, the full unfoldment of the head center under Uranus, 53|00:08:13|760|00:08:24|440and the full ability to enter the monadic vehicle under Jupiter, a great expansion of the 54|00:08:24|440|00:08:30|060heart and the heart and the head, I think, under Jupiter, a tremendous expansion of consciousness, 55|00:08:30|100|00:08:37|180but also an entry into life under Uranus, because it is said that Uranus rules the final 56|00:08:37|180|00:08:45|540burning ground. D.K. calls this the fifth and final initiation, but we also realize that, you know, 57|00:08:45|560|00:08:55|600it is not final. It is final in the regime of initiations usually spoken of in relation to man, 58|00:08:56|140|00:09:05|640because man is still man at the fifth initiation, but at the sixth initiation he is not. It is 59|00:09:07|580|00:09:13|420said, they are no longer men, as are the masters, but having passed beyond that lesser stage, 60|00:09:14|780|00:09:20|900have entered into contact with the great council. So, chohans are no longer men, 61|00:09:20|980|00:09:25|600specifically though they can be considered still members of the fourth creative hierarchy, 62|00:09:25|780|00:09:34|260they are not yet members of the fifth or higher creative hierarchies, not yet. So, escape from 63|00:09:34|260|00:09:39|900off the wheel of rebirth, but whenever there is an escape from off a wheel, there is always the 64|00:09:39|900|00:09:49|420mounting of still another wheel. We cannot escape wheels; even the whole universe, the present 65|00:09:49|420|00:09:57|560universe is a wheel. Some people, I think, think there are many universes. I do agree there are 66|00:09:57|560|00:10:03|260many parallel dimensions, if that's what they mean by a universe, but it is always possible to 67|00:10:03|260|00:10:12|020combine all possibilities into one, and that one is the universe. Though the universe does not 68|00:10:13|180|00:10:20|160contain, because it is finite, I believe, finite, it does not contain every possibility within the 69|00:10:20|160|00:10:27|740absolute, far from it. There are infinitely more possibilities in relation to the absolute than 70|00:10:27|740|00:10:36|890can possibly be contained in any one universe. I'll go around page 71, and let's see here, 71|00:10:40|780|00:10:50|640just get that little bracket going in case we need it. And at this time, the energy of the Sun, 72|00:10:50|640|00:11:00|520veiling a sacred planet, hitherto unknown, is steadily and persistently reaching the man via 73|00:11:00|520|00:11:11|680the solar angel. Well, okay, this is mysterious. All the time, all the time, all this time, 74|00:11:12|100|00:11:18|040the energy of the Sun, in these initiation processes, veiling a sacred planet, hitherto 75|00:11:18|040|00:11:25|900unknown. Well, Vulcan is a sacred planet, and in a way it is hitherto unknown, and it increases 76|00:11:25|900|00:11:35|320its grip upon the personality, and we could say that the solar angel expresses it. But we may be 77|00:11:35|320|00:11:44|280dealing with another sacred planet altogether. The list of seven sacred planets has been given, 78|00:11:44|280|00:11:51|400and seems complete, but who is to say that there are not more sacred planets in our solar system 79|00:11:51|400|00:12:00|240than that? And one might wonder, you know, I'm still wondering about the planet Isis, which is 80|00:12:00|240|00:12:11|860a name associated with Sirius, and which may well be a receptor of Sirian energies therefrom 81|00:12:11|860|00:12:17|860transmitting those energies to our three synthesizing planets, which are Uranus, Neptune, 82|00:12:18|480|00:12:31|380and Saturn. So, there may, you know, in a lodge, there are always present, past masters, to 83|00:12:31|380|00:12:38|500supervise the activity of the present master, and to advise. So, a solar system is like a lodge, 84|00:12:38|500|00:12:46|260and one might wonder whether there are not present, past master planets, definitely sacred planets, 85|00:12:46|500|00:12:56|080who are no longer so active in the actual functions, the major functions of the solar 86|00:12:56|080|00:13:03|520system, but are there for other purposes, having already passed through that which the present 87|00:13:03|520|00:13:11|040planets are passing through. Anyway, Isis, I think, speculatively, according to Charles 88|00:13:11|040|00:13:20|020Jayne and others, is definitely a planet. It has an approximately 360-year period around the Sun, 89|00:13:20|120|00:13:28|060which correlates it quite well with the 360 days, the archetypal 360 days of the Earth around the 90|00:13:28|060|00:13:36|820Sun, and it could well be the planet of which we are speaking here. But again, we cannot eliminate 91|00:13:36|820|00:13:46|720Vulcan, hitherto unknown. Okay, that is a hint. The energy of the Sun, veiling a sacred planet, 92|00:13:47|960|00:13:54|440hitherto unknown. It could be Vulcan, of course. D.K. has introduced us to the idea that Vulcan is 93|00:13:54|440|00:14:02|820a planet, and in a sense, we are thereby knowing about it. And all through mythology, Vulcan has 94|00:14:02|820|00:14:14|440been a constant presence as a God, though not assumed to be a planet, except perhaps within 95|00:14:14|440|00:14:23|280the halls of the initiates where these things are known. So, I think this is a very interesting hint. 96|00:14:23|280|00:14:29|160I don't think it can be immediately resolved, at least I cannot resolve it. We're not speaking 97|00:14:29|160|00:14:34|840about Venus, although Venus is a major planet connected with the solar angel, because Venus is 98|00:14:34|840|00:14:41|960certainly hitherto known. Nor are we speaking of Uranus or Neptune, or the standard planets veiled 99|00:14:42|600|00:14:51|780by the Sun. So, only Vulcan is a possibility of the planets we know about, or one of the undiscovered, 100|00:14:52|280|00:14:58|420and even unsuspected planets. See, Vulcan is a suspected planet, but it's undiscovered. Some of 101|00:14:58|420|00:15:07|720these others are not only undiscovered, but by most they are unsuspected. All right, we have made 102|00:15:07|720|00:15:20|540our way to page 71, and I wonder if we've made our way further than that. I'm gonna have to take a 103|00:15:20|540|00:15:28|220look, because we seem to be skipping some pages here. Esoteric Astrology, and we will go to page 71. 104|00:15:28|800|00:15:45|240Okay, right. Now there is a… well, I don't know why we seem to have jumped a number of pages, 105|00:15:46|040|00:15:53|280because here we're still on page 71, and now perhaps it's the way the book is laid out. It 106|00:15:53|280|00:16:00|320says from page 71 to 404, “The Nature of Esoteric Astrology,” but we do seem to be beginning on page 107|00:16:00|320|00:16:07|30075, and I don't have the book with me right now. I've been working mostly from electronic books. 108|00:16:07|300|00:16:15|380It's been a big transition, but one day I'll find my astrology book, with all of its notes. 109|00:16:16|060|00:16:22|220All right. So we're on page 75, and we're dealing with “The Nature of Esoteric Astrology,” 110|00:16:22|260|00:16:29|780and it seems like some of our introduction is concluded, although this is still of an 111|00:16:29|780|00:16:37|600introductory nature, introductory remarks. “It will be apparent to you, after studying the 112|00:16:37|600|00:16:44|660foregoing, that one of the results which should emerge under the impression of this new approach 113|00:16:44|660|00:16:51|460to astrological diagnosis,” what a fifth-ray way of dealing with it. As far as the individual is 114|00:16:51|460|00:16:57|920concerned, D.K. talks about astrological diagnosis, and he talks about the rays being subject to 115|00:16:57|920|00:17:06|040expert diagnosis. So he wants to discern exactly which factors are there, what they are doing, 116|00:17:06|180|00:17:14|620which rays are there, what they are doing, etc., “will be the more correct casting of the horoscope 117|00:17:14|620|00:17:21|280of advanced human beings, disciples and initiates,” because up to this time, although the horoscope 118|00:17:21|280|00:17:29|000is cast, it is not well known how to interpret these horoscopes in a more spiritual way, 119|00:17:29|680|00:17:37|320with additional rulers and other indications of esoteric astrology which are not used. 120|00:17:38|360|00:17:46|150“This has not hitherto been accurately possible.” Well, I guess there has been the casting of the 121|00:17:46|150|00:17:54|070horoscope of advanced human beings, but not in D.K.'s view accurately so. “It will only come about, 122|00:17:54|210|00:18:02|730however, if there is wise and right experiment and investigation.” So, D.K. certainly is endorsing 123|00:18:02|730|00:18:13|150the use of the fifth-ray methods, and the statistical approach and the experimental approach. 124|00:18:13|150|00:18:21|250And this obviously does not happen overnight. We have a scientific agent to which we are entering, 125|00:18:21|850|00:18:30|570which is emitting or transmitting the fifth ray that is the Aquarius, as a constellation is doing 126|00:18:30|570|00:18:39|110that. And so there will have to be many experiments undertaken. Uranus is a planet of experimentation. 127|00:18:39|110|00:18:46|750It is the ruler of Aquarius, strongly associated with Aquarius, and also one of the veiled rulers 128|00:18:46|750|00:19:05|810hierarchically. We will enter our experiments. Okay, “I have posited two sets of rulers, or two 129|00:19:05|810|00:19:14|350paradox, and generally accepted series of planetary rulers for the undeveloped and average 130|00:19:14|350|00:19:24|890man.” Okay, for both. And the average man is defined as the man who is not aspiring to 131|00:19:24|890|00:19:31|590spiritual things, but whose desire nature is focused within the three worlds and serves the 132|00:19:31|590|00:19:38|450personality. He is bound upon the wheel of form, and he is not moving in a counter-clockwise 133|00:19:38|450|00:19:43|370direction upon the wheel of consciousness. And he has also proposed, two types of people, 134|00:19:43|670|00:19:53|190a new combination of rulers and constellations for those upon the path. D.K. is using the term 135|00:19:53|190|00:20:02|130signs and constellations rather interchangeably. I don't know that we can pounce upon every use 136|00:20:02|130|00:20:08|410and say, “Ah here, he really means constellations; here, he really means rulers.” I think he's keeping 137|00:20:08|410|00:20:20|450this fluid. As we understand that the signs are areas of concentration for the energies of the 138|00:20:20|450|00:20:29|790stars, which he calls constellations. He doesn't mean so much galaxies as he means asterisms. The 139|00:20:29|790|00:20:37|630term “galaxy” is used somewhat loosely. Anyway, there are a new combination of rulers for 140|00:20:38|370|00:20:43|790constellations for those upon the path. And of course, we are receiving the energy from the 141|00:20:43|790|00:20:50|670constellations. No question about that. And it passes through the signs, which are aggregations 142|00:20:50|670|00:21:00|570of devic energy, energies which are attuned to specific constellations. What those devic 143|00:21:00|570|00:21:07|150energies may be, we do not know. It's just that we know that every planet has its associated devas, 144|00:21:07|150|00:21:15|150and I'm sure that's true of the signs of the zodiac, and they are attuned to the energies 145|00:21:15|150|00:21:24|450reaching us from the zodiacal constellations. At least that's my present theory. It will be 146|00:21:24|450|00:21:32|730necessary to remember, nevertheless, that there are an infinite number of permutations possible. 147|00:21:33|450|00:21:42|470Term “infinite number,” yeah, I've often used it incorrectly. There can be no 148|00:21:42|470|00:21:47|870specifiable infinite number, otherwise it wouldn't be infinite, obviously, but he means 149|00:21:48|590|00:21:54|710countless numbers of permutations possible. I suspect that's what he means. Of complexities 150|00:21:54|710|00:22:03|170and relationships due to the vast number of possible combinations existing in the path of 151|00:22:03|570|00:22:10|910life of the individual, and depend upon his stage of evolutionary development. There are so many 152|00:22:10|910|00:22:17|990combinations that the intellect, even the advanced intellect, cannot keep track of them, and that's 153|00:22:17|990|00:22:30|070why the intuition which locates and defines the salient point goes there directly. Sometimes it's 154|00:22:30|070|00:22:35|930called “direct knowledge” or “straight knowledge.” That's why the intuition is so necessary amidst 155|00:22:35|930|00:22:46|090all this complexity. What is it, after all, that is truly relevant? That we must find. Okay, so all 156|00:22:46|090|00:22:54|050these combinations, possibilities, it says these might be divided into three groups, though a broad, 157|00:22:55|350|00:23:02|710through a broad, but necessarily inadequate, generalization. So now we have the three groups 158|00:23:02|710|00:23:20|530who are subject to these various combinations. The individual and the stages of evolutionary 159|00:23:20|530|00:23:27|790unfoldment, that's what we're talking about right now, and people upon those, or living within those 160|00:23:27|790|00:23:37|910various stages. One: average and undeveloped man living below the diaphragm, and with the emphasis 161|00:23:37|910|00:23:45|350of the incoming energies and forces, focused either in the solar plexus or the sacral center. 162|00:23:45|990|00:23:52|250Obviously it's more advanced to be focused in the solar plexus than in the sacral center, and notice 163|00:23:53|030|00:24:00|470the base of the spine is excluded. The base of the spine is functioning at a maintenance level, 164|00:24:01|250|00:24:11|970and is involved with the will to live. There's a great center of will, but it is not a center 165|00:24:11|970|00:24:23|610receiving a special cultivation until the third initiation and beyond. So there is a certain 166|00:24:23|610|00:24:31|490reservoir of energy there, and it functions in the survival mode, and it keeps the vitality going as 167|00:24:31|490|00:24:40|850it is related to the etheric body, according to “A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.” But it is not receiving the 168|00:24:40|850|00:24:51|450energies per se, and being cultivated during the normal stages of the evolutionary path. Okay, 169|00:24:51|590|00:24:58|530so the solar plexus and sacral centers are receiving the incoming energies, and that is 170|00:24:58|530|00:25:07|670where those are the types of energies which are emphasized. Either sexuality and accumulation 171|00:25:07|670|00:25:18|750of that which is desired, or desire and idealism as focus of the solar plexus. Now we also have, 172|00:25:18|850|00:25:28|450he says, a large number of people who are in an interim stage, with the energies and forces focused 173|00:25:28|450|00:25:41|130mainly in the lower center, or centers, but at the same time playing quite frequently through 174|00:25:41|130|00:25:49|510the throat center, and evoking a faint response from the heart and the ajna center. So what we learn 175|00:25:49|510|00:25:59|050is that when considering the three major rays, the third ray is always the first to show itself, 176|00:25:59|210|00:26:05|190the first to manifest, followed by the second, followed by the first ray. So the throat center, 177|00:26:05|450|00:26:17|890although positionally higher in the body than the heart center, manifests before the heart center 178|00:26:17|890|00:26:25|150does, at least the heart center in its higher aspects, and before the ajna center does. And 179|00:26:25|150|00:26:32|850perhaps in some ways the ajna center manifests its energies before the heart center does, the 180|00:26:32|850|00:26:38|390higher aspects of the heart center. Because the ajna center and the throat center are related 181|00:26:38|390|00:26:44|050to the personality. The ajna center is related to the integrating of the personality, and the 182|00:26:44|050|00:26:48|990throat center is to a certain extent as well is definitely correlated with the personality, 183|00:26:49|610|00:26:56|950which expresses itself along the third aspect of divinity. So people in the interim stage, 184|00:26:58|130|00:27:05|390yes, living below the diaphragm, concentrating on the sacral center and on the solar plexus center, 185|00:27:05|730|00:27:13|030but becoming intelligent through the throat center, and with the impulses of love and 186|00:27:13|030|00:27:24|290purposeful direction awakening in them faintly. Then we have the third group of those who are 187|00:27:24|290|00:27:33|630evolving: people upon one or other of the final stages of the path. The final stages of the path 188|00:27:33|630|00:27:41|430are occurring from the time, really, we enter the path of aspiration, of probation, and of discipleship. 189|00:27:42|050|00:27:47|990We make many distinctions in those phases of the path, and there are many gradations, but really, 190|00:27:48|210|00:27:56|110if you look at when it occurs compared to the huge span of human evolution, the stage in which 191|00:27:56|110|00:28:02|210a man consciously and deliberately re-orients himself towards higher energies and values is 192|00:28:02|210|00:28:11|850a very small period compared with the vast millions of years span of human evolution. 193|00:28:13|150|00:28:17|730So there are people upon one or other of the final stages of the path with the emphasis 194|00:28:17|730|00:28:23|410rapidly passing away from the lower centers. That doesn't mean they are not necessarily used, 195|00:28:23|510|00:28:31|410but the emphasis is not there, into the higher triad. That doesn't mean the spiritual triad in 196|00:28:31|410|00:28:36|930this case; it means the higher triad of centers. Usually that is considered to be head, heart, 197|00:28:37|010|00:28:43|110and throat, and with the highest head center—not necessarily one of the lower seven, but the 198|00:28:43|110|00:28:50|250highest head center—in process of awakening. And disciples certainly have the highest head center 199|00:28:50|250|00:28:57|470in process of awakening, and with every one of the ten areas of seed group service, the head center— 200|00:28:57|470|00:29:05|730the highest head center—is considered a constant, a major center which cannot be dispensed with. 201|00:29:06|610|00:29:13|310So these people on the final stages of the path are also falling into two groups: 202|00:29:13|670|00:29:20|230those who are using the solar plexus center as a vast clearing house for incoming energies, 203|00:29:20|810|00:29:26|470and who are beginning to work through the throat and heart centers, meaning they are intelligent 204|00:29:26|470|00:29:33|170and somewhat loving and to a degree unselfish, with the goal of completely awakening the Ajna 205|00:29:33|170|00:29:43|370center so as to have a sense of directed spiritual purpose at the Ajna center. 206|00:29:43|490|00:29:50|370Ajna center stands for many things, all the way from the integrating personality up to the 207|00:29:50|370|00:30:01|310spiritual triad. It is by various turns a center which is associated with the first ray of the 208|00:30:01|310|00:30:09|170integrated personality, with the third ray when compared with the two highest head centers. 209|00:30:09|510|00:30:15|630It has something to do with the personality as a whole, and the third personality is a third ray 210|00:30:15|630|00:30:22|010instrument, and with the second ray when comparing the three centers of highest head center, 211|00:30:22|150|00:30:29|330Ajna, and Alta major center. So a number of rays, and really all the seven actually, operate through 212|00:30:29|330|00:30:36|290the Ajna center. One can go on collecting rays associated with the center, even the seventh, 213|00:30:36|290|00:30:46|030even the sixth for visioning. So not just the fifth and the fourth. Yes, all the rays are 214|00:30:46|030|00:30:55|930associated with the Ajna center. So of the people in the final stages of the path, the solar plexus— 215|00:30:56|030|00:31:06|270all the energies are going through the solar plexus on their way to the heart center. There's 216|00:31:06|270|00:31:14|330idealism towards the higher life, an aspirational life, as all the energies come through the solar 217|00:31:14|330|00:31:20|690plexus center, making of it a vast clearinghouse for incoming energies. The throat center too can 218|00:31:20|690|00:31:27|990be considered a vast clearinghouse for incoming energies. So the complete awakening of the Ajna 219|00:31:27|990|00:31:34|110center will make of the man the true higher psychic. He will be the initiate of the third 220|00:31:34|110|00:31:43|070degree. He will be able to function in response to the spiritual triad, if not absolutely polarized 221|00:31:43|070|00:31:52|690upon those levels, as the fourth and fifth degree initiates are. Okay, so that's one type, one major 222|00:31:52|690|00:32:02|970group, and the next major group: those who are using all these centers, all of them. But in whom 223|00:32:02|970|00:32:09|550the heart center is fully awakened—remember that the heart center has a Buddhic connotation, 224|00:32:10|130|00:32:17|110and it is the center which is the subject of attention at the fourth initiation, or crucifixion, 225|00:32:17|150|00:32:24|090when the fourth ray is prominent. Fourth ray at the fourth initiation. And the heart center actually, 226|00:32:24|290|00:32:31|390interestingly, the fourth center. One, two, three, four. So they're using all the centers, 227|00:32:31|390|00:32:37|350but the heart center is fully awakened, and we can hardly say that of ourselves yet. We have 228|00:32:37|350|00:32:44|510the awakening heart center. If the Christ consciousness were pouring through us completely, 229|00:32:44|610|00:32:50|450and if we were experts in expressing it, then we could say that our heart center was fully awakened. 230|00:32:51|250|00:32:58|170And the triangle of force in the head, from the Ajna center to the head center, and from the head 231|00:32:58|170|00:33:06|170center to the center found in the medulla oblongata, which can be called, in some ways of 232|00:33:06|170|00:33:12|530looking at the carotid gland, but let's just call it the alta major center and stay on the etheric 233|00:33:12|530|00:33:20|670level. From the Ajna to the head to the alta major center is beginning, beginning to function. 234|00:33:21|190|00:33:31|570Heart open, fully, alta major center, head center, Ajna center circulating, creating the eye of Shiva 235|00:33:31|570|00:33:39|230in the center of the head and the ethers around the pineal gland, a unity of vision achieved, 236|00:33:39|530|00:33:49|310oneness known, heart and the third eye operating to give a perception of the world which transcends 237|00:33:49|310|00:33:58|410duality. And this will be achieved initially at the third initiation and will grow from that point 238|00:33:58|410|00:34:05|430on. We cannot say, of course, that full realization is achieved at the third initiation, though it is 239|00:34:05|430|00:34:11|710sometimes called the illumination, the initiation of illumination. It's sometimes called the 240|00:34:11|710|00:34:19|210enlightenment, it's sometimes called Satori in the Japanese terms. There are other terms, I'm sure: 241|00:34:19|210|00:34:28|870transfiguration and so forth. We move beyond slavery to the duality of form and realize the 242|00:34:28|870|00:34:36|250unity of all forms. Even though they appear to have their parts and pieces, they are all part of 243|00:34:36|250|00:34:46|090the unity. We transcend separateness at that point, and Saint Paul certainly did that. He began to 244|00:34:46|090|00:34:57|210realize, moving from becoming a very, I think, aggressive and persecutory idealist and almost 245|00:34:57|210|00:35:05|710a fanatic in which the sense of duality was extremely strong. He became one who realized 246|00:35:05|710|00:35:15|370the unity, realized the value of love, the supreme value of love. His perception was entirely 247|00:35:16|310|00:35:25|850changed through, we have to presume, an open heart center. When these centers are all awakening, 248|00:35:27|710|00:35:34|350their simplest combinations—well, simplest combinations, obviously there are more than 249|00:35:34|350|00:35:40|110these—are the following triangles. This is probably taken from Cosmic Fire. The science 250|00:35:40|110|00:35:46|290of triangles underlies all astrological deduction. We always have to have the Trinity in mind, 251|00:35:46|430|00:35:53|090we always have to have the three aspects of divinity in mind, we have to look toward their 252|00:35:53|090|00:35:59|770balance. The science of triangles underlies all astrological deduction as well as the centers in 253|00:35:59|770|00:36:06|210the human body. The triangular relationships of centers within the human body all have their 254|00:36:06|210|00:36:13|930specific quality and purpose, and we have to understand these triangles just as we have to 255|00:36:13|930|00:36:24|130understand the planetary triangles. I once, over the period of a week or more, dictated to my tape 256|00:36:24|130|00:36:31|510recorder the meaning of every triangle that I could imagine—planetary triangle. I didn't do 257|00:36:31|510|00:36:38|090that with the centers, and I revolved those triangles and so forth, but I never really edited 258|00:36:38|090|00:36:44|670that dictation. Somewhere I have that and will have to get it out so that it leads to conserve 259|00:36:44|670|00:36:54|990as a basis for encouraging thought along those lines. Okay, he says the science of triangles 260|00:36:54|990|00:37:02|510underlies all, underlies all astrological deduction as well as underlies the centers 261|00:37:02|510|00:37:09|570in the human body. This you know. But the four triplicities of orthodox astrology are only the 262|00:37:09|570|00:37:15|610rudiments of the true science which lies behind the orthodox interpretation. For instance, you know, 263|00:37:15|670|00:37:22|010three fire signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Three earth signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. These are 264|00:37:22|010|00:37:30|750three triangles. Three air signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Three water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. 265|00:37:31|530|00:37:40|690And when you are considering them together, one will represent the first aspect of divinity, one 266|00:37:40|690|00:37:46|070the second, and one the third. Always with triangles there are the one, two, three—the three 267|00:37:46|070|00:37:55|970aspects of divinity represented. This is very dramatically the case in the fire triangles where 268|00:37:55|970|00:38:04|570Aries represents the first or father aspect, Leo the son or second ray aspect, and Sagittarius the body, 269|00:38:05|350|00:38:13|470the third ray, the activity aspect. And probably those three aspects of divinity could be found in 270|00:38:13|470|00:38:25|710relation to all of the triplicities. I'm thinking about, yeah, I'm thinking about the water triangle, 271|00:38:25|710|00:38:33|670and in this case I would put Scorpio as representing the first aspect because it is Hercules' sign, 272|00:38:34|770|00:38:42|590and Hercules is the great first ray disciple. Pisces is a cosmic decanate connected with the 273|00:38:42|590|00:38:47|390second ray, so obviously the Christ force of the second ray is moving through that, and Cancer, 274|00:38:48|290|00:38:56|490which also does distribute the third ray, has to do with the personality nature under the third aspect 275|00:38:56|490|00:39:02|510and the elemental lives under the third aspect. Probably we could do that with all of them, couldn't we? 276|00:39:03|470|00:39:08|330Although there could be differences of interpretation. Aquarius, the Great Bear, 277|00:39:10|810|00:39:18|650would be the first aspect of synthesis. Well, Gemini and Libra switch back and forth; it's difficult to say. 278|00:39:19|310|00:39:24|890Libra is a third ray constellation, but in a way it brings through the second ray very powerfully, 279|00:39:25|410|00:39:30|430and divine love and understanding are achieved when Libra is consummated, so there's a very powerful 280|00:39:30|430|00:39:37|710love-wisdom second ray aspect, and Gemini has all that mobility of the third ray and it is the third 281|00:39:37|710|00:39:43|190sign, but we could switch them around as well, putting Gemini in the second place and Libra in 282|00:39:43|190|00:39:47|530the third place according to the rays which transit through them. It is somewhat ambiguous. 283|00:39:48|430|00:39:56|690Now that would leave the Earth. Well, there's just different ways of doing that. 284|00:39:58|710|00:40:03|810Capricorn could be considered the father aspect, the first ray aspect, the pinnacle, 285|00:40:05|450|00:40:14|750the approach to the highest lawful authority. Taurus and Virgo could switch around, but Taurus 286|00:40:14|750|00:40:22|470relates to the great light of the second ray, “I see the greatest light.” It relates to the wisdom 287|00:40:22|470|00:40:29|410aspect of the second ray, and Virgo perhaps to the activity aspect, although Virgo being a second ray— 288|00:40:30|450|00:40:36|950being a second ray sign at this time, and one in which the Christ consciousness is 289|00:40:37|730|00:40:45|130brought forward, could take the second ray place. You see, I'm not preserving the exact order— 290|00:40:45|130|00:40:54|350of a cardinal, fixed, mutable the way it is done in fire, in the fire signs. I'm looking at the 291|00:40:55|530|00:41:02|850qualities of these signs and how they correlate with either the first, second, or third aspect. 292|00:41:04|770|00:41:12|230Yeah, I think, well, you know, there's third aspect in Capricorn as well, but I think that 293|00:41:13|110|00:41:17|370Taurus fits well in the middle. It's certainly not connected with the activity aspect 294|00:41:17|370|00:41:22|570per se, and there's not a lot of third ray associated with Taurus. I think it's good in 295|00:41:22|570|00:41:29|690the second position, Capricorn being a lawful, although, you know, the Taurus has that 296|00:41:30|850|00:41:38|950tamasic quality connected with it, which we might connect with the outer or third ray 297|00:41:38|950|00:41:43|730manifestation. It's a little more difficult to do with the earth signs, but I'd like to look at, 298|00:41:44|410|00:41:51|110is cardinal, fixed, mutable in this case, I'd like to look at Capricorn 1, Taurus 2, Virgo 3. 299|00:41:52|390|00:41:57|090Anyway, we're understanding, and we will understand more later when he talks about the 300|00:41:57|090|00:42:04|930signs of triangles, that there is a tremendous science unfolding here, of which the triplicities 301|00:42:05|490|00:42:11|890of orthodox astrology are simply the rudiments, although we can go much deeper into those 302|00:42:11|890|00:42:18|690triplicities than orthodox astrology goes, as we see in the case of the fire signs, where 303|00:42:18|690|00:42:24|750spirit, soul, and body are represented by the three fire signs in order. 304|00:42:25|830|00:42:31|830All right, so here are some triangles. The base of the spine, the sacral center, 305|00:42:31|830|00:42:43|040and the solar plexus center. This is the very lowest triplicity of the major centers, 306|00:42:43|430|00:42:52|030and it's certainly man who is indeed focused below the diaphragm, elemental man living the strictly 307|00:42:52|030|00:42:59|750personal life, though not necessarily at all an integrated personality. He is subject to 308|00:43:02|510|00:43:10|150elemental forces. Then we have another triangle here: throat center, heart center, ajna center. 309|00:43:10|290|00:43:16|910This is modern, intelligent man. He is socially responsive. There is some love expressing. There 310|00:43:16|910|00:43:22|950is a sense of direction through the ajna center. His intelligence is there through the throat 311|00:43:22|950|00:43:29|810center. You know, in Treatise on Cosmic Fire, I'll just show you where this is. You probably 312|00:43:29|810|00:43:37|670know in a way here. This is right around page 170 of Treatise on Cosmic Fire. All these triangles 313|00:43:37|670|00:43:44|510are given in a very detailed manner, how they work through man, all the way from the pranic triangle 314|00:43:44|510|00:43:52|190here, involving centers which are not considered major centers, to man controlled from the astral 315|00:43:52|190|00:43:59|390plane. The heart is always involved, interestingly enough, but the solar plexus is the highest of the 316|00:43:59|390|00:44:04|870low centers there. Man controlled from the mental plane, heart involved again, base of spine involved 317|00:44:04|870|00:44:12|910again, interestingly, as the center of will. But the throat is now coming in for intelligence. 318|00:44:13|750|00:44:21|690Man partially controlled by the ego, advanced man, up to, I would say, the first initiation, 319|00:44:21|690|00:44:26|250heart is there again, base of the spine leaves off, throat is there for intelligence. 320|00:44:26|970|00:44:33|790But the alta center synthesizes four lesser head centers. This is not the major head center at all, 321|00:44:34|350|00:44:39|850but four lesser ones. Still they're important, and they are, I think, in general ruled by Vulcan. 322|00:44:40|890|00:44:45|170Then we have the spiritual man, presumably from the first to the third initiation. 323|00:44:45|690|00:44:49|870Heart and throat are there again. And the seven head centers are now fully unfolded, 324|00:44:49|870|00:44:58|890but still not the highest. We have the sixth phase, spiritual man to the… whoop, connection lost. 325|00:45:01|150|00:45:01|710Okay. 326|00:45:05|530|00:45:06|110Okay. 327|00:45:08|210|00:45:16|790This is… I don't know why that is happening. I think we have to be very careful now. 328|00:45:17|830|00:45:24|890Um, it looks as if… I don't know whether you're hearing me at this point. 329|00:45:25|790|00:45:33|570Perhaps you are. Yes, it looks like there was a connection lost there for a minute. And I hope, 330|00:45:35|350|00:45:42|050I hope that we didn't lose too much in the process. I have to remain aware of that. Anyway, 331|00:45:42|050|00:45:51|570what I was talking about was spiritual man from the first to the third initiation. All seven head 332|00:45:51|570|00:45:58|050centers are then awakened, but they are not yet the highest head centers. And spiritual man, 333|00:45:58|150|00:46:03|990I would say from the third to the fifth initiation, the heart is there. The seven head centers and the 334|00:46:03|990|00:46:10|690two many-petaled lotuses, presumably in the head, presumably the 96-petaled 335|00:46:10|690|00:46:20|430Ajna center, and the 960-petaled highest head center plus 12 in the major center of that head 336|00:46:20|430|00:46:30|950center making 972. So this is the place where we see the full representation of the triangles 337|00:46:30|950|00:46:38|090which are involved. Let's see, I think in the astrology book he doesn't give us such great 338|00:46:38|090|00:46:46|950detail. Nor does he necessarily reproduce the centers as they are found on page 169 and 170 339|00:46:46|950|00:46:55|760of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, which I just showed you. Okay, so now we have… we can tell from the 340|00:46:55|760|00:47:01|700centers, we have the advanced man operating here, and let's go on and see if there's more. Yes, 341|00:47:01|800|00:47:12|180there is another one. D.K. is reducing here the amount of detail, but the Ajna center, the head 342|00:47:12|180|00:47:19|480center, and the center in the medulla oblongata… this is the initiate. When there is a full 343|00:47:19|480|00:47:25|560triangular relationship rotating between these three centers, as I say, the eye of Shiva, 344|00:47:25|760|00:47:34|520the blue eye, the eye of unity is evoked, and the unification of subject and object is appreciated, 345|00:47:35|060|00:47:42|880and man is transcending duality, and he realizes himself to be in the unity. He says the center in 346|00:47:42|880|00:47:49|060the medulla oblongata… he seems to be suggesting a physical center, but we do call that the alta major 347|00:47:49|060|00:47:56|260center when we are considering it from the etheric point of view. Alright, so D.K. has just given us 348|00:47:56|260|00:48:04|160three centers, and he said he's started to talk about the science of triangles, and now he's 349|00:48:04|160|00:48:15|360talking about triangular relationships between the various chakras of man. Okay, now let's just 350|00:48:15|360|00:48:25|400see where we are, and hoping, of course, that you are hearing what I'm saying. It's very difficult 351|00:48:25|400|00:48:36|220with these webinars to stop in the middle when you've apparently lost the audio. You have to kind 352|00:48:36|220|00:48:44|040of rely upon the program to bring it back, because there's nothing that we can do to bring it back, 353|00:48:44|040|00:48:53|800particularly. And then if I stop and end the webinar, I cannot restart it, and a different tape 354|00:48:53|800|00:48:59|800or different program will be needed. Well anyway, D.K. goes on to say, “Unfortunately, the organizing 355|00:48:59|800|00:49:07|280principle is not as simple as the above tabulation would make it appear, for the emphasis, the focus, 356|00:49:07|280|00:49:14|940and the mode of arranging, and of vitalization… And the appearance of esoteric triangles varies 357|00:49:14|940|00:49:20|720with the ray type.” Well, in my commentaries on the Treatise on Cosmic Fire, I have dealt with this… 358|00:49:22|060|00:49:31|900triangles activated according largely to the monadic ray. So there's a tendency always to 359|00:49:31|900|00:49:40|440proceed from the activity aspect to the love aspect to the will aspect. That is, uh, 360|00:49:41|980|00:49:45|340uh oh, we have a problem here. 361|00:49:49|460|00:49:56|400Hello, hello, test one two, test one two. Okay, um, 362|00:50:05|320|00:50:13|980I think I'm continuing to record here, and we'll see whether I can record audio link… 363|00:50:14|620|00:50:16|440not connecting, connecting to audio. 364|00:50:20|740|00:50:31|560Okay, I may have been pulled out here for some reason, and I'm not sure what I can do. I think 365|00:50:31|560|00:50:41|460uh, 50 minutes have elapsed here, so we'll have a little bit more on the, um, 366|00:50:43|440|00:50:50|360on the audio recording than we have on the other recording. We are, um, 367|00:50:51|040|00:50:56|380the program has stopped. So I will end this program, and I will just say, 368|00:50:56|380|00:51:07|580oh, and make an attempt to find out what has happened. I cannot quite… 369|00:51:11|980|00:51:17|440need audio help. I do need audio help. I do need audio help. 370|00:51:18|660|00:51:27|220Um, and the microphone is working, and that is working. Now my microphone is working again. 371|00:51:27|660|00:51:33|720Yes, it's definitely working, but I cannot start my tape recording again. So I'm going to end this. 372|00:51:33|820|00:51:40|880This will be an abbreviated ending to Esoterics, uh, Astrology Adventure number 33, and we will 373|00:51:40|880|00:51:43|900continue again, hopefully under better circumstances.
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