1|00:00:07|020|00:00:08|740Hello, everybody. 2|00:00:10|520|00:00:16|600This is our Esoteric Astrology adventure number 38. 3|00:00:18|920|00:00:25|880It just so happens that number 37 had to be cut short at about 30 minutes. 4|00:00:26|880|00:00:41|040I've been having some trouble with technical issues, so there are a few of the adventures in the last several which are not the full hour in duration. 5|00:00:41|960|00:00:57|340But this will give an opportunity to deal with some important matters which heretofore I have not been able to discuss with the thoroughness I would like to. 6|00:00:58|340|00:01:03|140We're talking about the seven and the five. 7|00:01:04|880|00:01:25|500“A steady recollection of the twelve basic energies, five major and seven minor, which are in reality and apart from the astral reversion due to the great illusion, seven major and five minor will be of value.” 8|00:01:25|500|00:01:33|120Well, as I was saying, sometimes it seems that five are major. 9|00:01:33|120|00:01:41|960We have the five liberated creative hierarchies and the seven minor. 10|00:01:46|500|00:02:09|760And we have other instances in which the five superior sub-planes are filled with life and are counted as important for a plane, whereas the two lower sub-planes are entirely receptive. 11|00:02:09|760|00:02:16|700We have instances of the domination of the five over the seven. 12|00:02:17|840|00:02:20|740The creative hierarchies is probably the major one. 13|00:02:21|540|00:02:25|740This is five major out of the twelve and seven minor. 14|00:02:27|020|00:02:31|820But, as D.K. says, there is an astral reversion. 15|00:02:31|820|00:02:43|680It is a reverse type of perception, and there are really seven major and five minor. 16|00:02:44|680|00:03:02|180Now, these twelve energies, whether we consider them seven and five or five and seven, work out into human expression via the Lords of the Twelve Signs. 17|00:03:03|120|00:03:14|460The Lords of the Twelve Signs—and indeed there are Lords of the Twelve Signs, although he might well have said Lords of the Twelve Constellations, especially so. 18|00:03:15|280|00:03:22|960Lords of the Twelve Signs and the Twelve Planetary Rulers. 19|00:03:25|020|00:03:31|300These twelve basic energies emanate from three sources. 20|00:03:32|960|00:03:51|540These twelve basic energies emanate from the seven stars of the Great Bear, which is the father aspect, transmitted through the seven stars of the Little Bear, which is the son—S-O-N—aspect. 21|00:03:51|540|00:03:56|760They are the same energies, but they are modified in the Little Bear. 22|00:03:57|460|00:04:04|600So they are seven principal energies, but they turn out to be fourteen, as we will see in a later equation. 23|00:04:05|780|00:04:12|040Two of these twelve come from Sirius and three from the Pleiades. 24|00:04:13|000|00:04:33|240This set-up, he says—if I may use such an unorthodox term—will be the condition of the major solar sphere of influence at the end of the Great Age of Brahma, as it is esoterically called. 25|00:04:33|240|00:04:49|520In the interim or interlude of evolution, through which we are passing, and which D.K. says, which is an inadequate translation of an occult phrase given to a world cycle. 26|00:04:52|120|00:05:01|980A world cycle in this case looks very much like a Mahamanvantara, as I suggested before when looking at the ambiguity of that term. 27|00:05:02|820|00:05:07|420An occult phrase given to the world cycle, to a world cycle in the Master's archives. 28|00:05:08|340|00:05:16|420These energies are stepped down into forces, which are literally sixteen, all told, from the angle of manifestation. 29|00:05:19|220|00:05:22|120Sixteen is a very important number when it comes to manifestation. 30|00:05:22|120|00:05:31|140From the angle of manifestation, I would remind you, and make literally seven plus seven plus two equals sixteen equals seven. 31|00:05:32|400|00:05:39|560In these numbers, the mystery of our evolutionary process lies hid. 32|00:05:39|560|00:05:55|980Well, this is a profound and difficult paragraph, and I cannot say that I can offer any truly definitive interpretation. 33|00:05:56|910|00:06:09|880There are twelve basic energies. They appear to be stellar energies coming from three great constellations. 34|00:06:10|280|00:06:20|780The three superior constellations, as we have sometimes called them. Seven, obviously, come from the Great Bear. 35|00:06:20|780|00:06:28|700And these seven are transmitted through and modified by, presumably, the Little Bear. 36|00:06:29|200|00:06:48|340We will have to study the stars of the Little Bear carefully in order to see which of the seven in the Great Bear are transmitted through a particular seven in the Little Bear. 37|00:06:48|340|00:06:57|400Is Polaris one of those stars in the Little Bear? Because after all, it is the end of the tail of the Little Bear. 38|00:06:58|540|00:07:07|360Probably Thuban, having to do with the guarding of treasure, is one of the stars. 39|00:07:07|560|00:07:16|340And there are a number of lesser known stars in the Little Bear, each one of which should be correlated with one of the seven rays. 40|00:07:16|340|00:07:24|820And receive the energy from one of the major stars of the Great Bear. 41|00:07:26|940|00:07:31|620Two of these energies are coming from Sirius, three from the Pleiades, and that makes twelve. 42|00:07:33|020|00:07:48|820Well, you know, we are dealing, interestingly, with the constellations of the zodiac, which are said to be the twelve major petals in the major center, 43|00:07:49|000|00:08:00|380the twelve petals in the major head center of the great super-constellation Logos, called the One About Whom None May Be Said. 44|00:08:00|380|00:08:08|380So there is a major twelve-petal lotus in the head, and as far as the head center is concerned, it is the major center, 45|00:08:08|720|00:08:18|880and the constellations of the zodiac fill in those twelve force fields. 46|00:08:18|880|00:08:34|960They are very powerful in the system, it would seem, and the energies of the Great Bear have to do with the seven head centers, 47|00:08:35|720|00:08:43|420in the One about whom none may be said, and are therefore, in a sense, in a lesser position. 48|00:08:43|420|00:08:53|900We have to hierarchicalize the head center. We know that when it comes to the analogy in man, 49|00:08:54|440|00:09:08|460if we turn to A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, page 170, we will see that the seven head centers, here they are, 50|00:09:08|460|00:09:16|300are hierarchically of lesser status than the two many-petaled lotuses, 51|00:09:17|980|00:09:23|460which presumably are the Ajna center and the thousand-petaled lotus. 52|00:09:23|680|00:09:33|620That being the case, if the Great Bear represents the seven head centers, in the One about whom none may be said, 53|00:09:33|620|00:09:42|060then the many-petaled lotuses, Ajna and especially the head center, are hierarchically superior. 54|00:09:42|480|00:09:53|800In which case, we could look at the constellations of the zodiac as being, in a sense, each of them hierarchically superior 55|00:09:53|800|00:10:00|760to each one of the seven stars of the Great Bear. 56|00:10:00|760|00:10:14|200And yet, interestingly, when we turn to a chart in Esoteric Astrology on page 610, probably, and 11, 57|00:10:24|760|00:10:42|420we see that one of the stars in the Great Bear seems to be hierarchically superior to three zodiacal constellations, 58|00:10:42|420|00:10:46|560at least in this diagram-like figure. 59|00:10:47|820|00:10:54|160Whatever force center is in the highest position is considered to be the emanating source, 60|00:10:54|460|00:10:58|520and it is called transcending rather than transmitting. 61|00:10:59|360|00:11:13|480So I think you can see the problem here about the status of the signs of the zodiac, or the constellations of the zodiac, 62|00:11:13|920|00:11:16|920relative to each of the stars of the Great Bear. 63|00:11:16|920|00:11:32|180Now, here's a question. Can each of the stars of the Great Bear actually be a blind or stand for a still greater ray constellation? 64|00:11:33|880|00:11:41|860For instance, can the first ray star of the Great Bear stand for the entire Great Bear? 65|00:11:43|020|00:11:51|240Can the third ray star of the Great Bear stand for the Pleiades as a whole? 66|00:11:52|740|00:12:05|220This is a question, because the question of actual magnitudes of power comes into consideration, 67|00:12:05|220|00:12:15|720and it is not easy to solve, because often there are apparent reversals in magnitude. 68|00:12:17|540|00:12:20|220These can be used as blinds. 69|00:12:21|240|00:12:34|360It is difficult to see how one particular star in the Great Bear can be more powerful than all the stars in three great constellations, 70|00:12:34|360|00:12:36|880such as Aries, Leo, and Capricorn. 71|00:12:37|700|00:12:49|600So sometimes a part is used as a blind for a whole, and that is the case, for instance, with the star Betelgeuse, 72|00:12:50|020|00:12:59|860or Betelgeuse, however we can pronounce it, which is often a blind for the entire constellation of Orion. 73|00:13:00|800|00:13:12|400It might be, for instance, if we consider the rays of Orion, one of which may be ray six, but another of which may be ray two, 74|00:13:12|600|00:13:19|460because constellations can have a number of major rays associated with their major aspects. 75|00:13:19|460|00:13:33|380If we consider the second ray star of the Great Bear, Mizar, to represent a greater constellation, 76|00:13:33|500|00:13:36|600that constellation might be Orion as a whole. 77|00:13:38|620|00:13:48|380And then perhaps we can understand how such a great constellation could work through three zodiacal constellations. 78|00:13:48|380|00:13:55|040They would be then Gemini, which is very close to Orion, Virgo, and Pisces. 79|00:13:55|380|00:13:57|600These are simply speculations. 80|00:13:58|190|00:14:09|500They are offered to help clarify the task, the problem, or the task of finding the relative magnitudes. 81|00:14:10|800|00:14:22|760So I consider this issue to be unresolved, because in a way the lotuses in the major head center of any being 82|00:14:22|760|00:14:31|520could be considered more powerful than the lesser centers, lower, shall we say, in that energy system. 83|00:14:32|480|00:14:45|000Well, when it comes to trying to discover the correlation of the twelve planetary Logos, seven major and five minor, 84|00:14:47|200|00:14:54|020or non-sacred, seven sacred and five non-sacred, with these twelve emanating energies, 85|00:14:54|020|00:15:03|820whether they are actually from stars or whether they are from still superior constellations, 86|00:15:06|800|00:15:19|980we can correlate the seven sacred planets with the seven major rays emanating from the Great Bear. 87|00:15:19|980|00:15:27|420The Great Bear as a whole seems to transmit the will aspect of the rays. 88|00:15:28|540|00:15:34|480Maybe it is so that the seven Pleiades transmit the intelligence aspect, 89|00:15:34|480|00:15:49|180and the constellation Sirius, or more likely I would say, excuse me, I seem to be on my microphone. 90|00:15:50|640|00:15:54|000Okay, now I'm not anymore. 91|00:15:54|680|00:16:08|660Alright, the seven stars of the Little Bear may well transmit the soul aspect of the rays. 92|00:16:09|540|00:16:15|960So twenty-one in all and three different aspects. 93|00:16:16|720|00:16:23|420But we should correlate these twelve energies with the twelve planets. 94|00:16:23|420|00:16:31|060Now it's always been fairly easy to correlate seven planetary Logoi with the seven stars of the Great Bear. 95|00:16:32|020|00:16:39|620And it seems to me that the seven planetary Logoi should be the seven sacred planetary Logoi, 96|00:16:39|620|00:16:49|440probably in relation to their soul rays rather than their monadic ray, although ultimately it could be the monadic ray. 97|00:16:50|560|00:17:04|080But in any case, the sacred planets would have a correlation each with one of the stars of the Great Bear. 98|00:17:05|560|00:17:10|720Benet-Nash-Al-Kaid, first ray star of the Great Bear, could correlate with Vulcan. 99|00:17:11|800|00:17:15|580Mizar with Jupiter, that's the second ray star. 100|00:17:16|260|00:17:20|880Alioth, the third ray star in the Great Bear, could correlate with Saturn. 101|00:17:23|340|00:17:30|420Megrez, the fourth ray star, could correlate with Mercury. Notice I'm using the soul rays of the planets. 102|00:17:32|860|00:17:38|760Dubhe, D-U-B-H-E, fifth ray star, could correlate with Venus. 103|00:17:39|760|00:17:44|720Merak, sixth ray star, could correlate with Neptune. 104|00:17:45|760|00:17:49|480And Phecda, the seventh ray star, could correlate with Uranus. 105|00:17:51|520|00:17:58|820Now if we were dealing with monadic rays of the planet, which have to be somewhat speculative in some cases, 106|00:17:59|160|00:18:08|140then Al-Kaid or Benet-Nash, the first ray star, would relate to Uranus monadically, a first ray monad. 107|00:18:08|720|00:18:13|260And Mizar would relate to Neptune, a second ray monad. 108|00:18:14|200|00:18:19|860And Alioth again would relate to Saturn, a third ray monad. 109|00:18:22|720|00:18:29|960Then we get to the question of whether monadic rays, major monadic rays, can be four, five, six, or seven. 110|00:18:30|100|00:18:37|440Well, maybe they cannot, but subsidiary monadic rays, which do exist, can be four, five, six, or seven. 111|00:18:37|440|00:18:46|920So perhaps the star Megrez, fourth ray star, would relate to Vulcan, fourth ray monad. 112|00:18:49|460|00:18:54|600Perhaps Dubhe would relate to Mercury, a subsidiary fifth ray monad. 113|00:18:56|400|00:19:02|840Perhaps Merak would relate to Venus, a subsidiary sixth ray monad. 114|00:19:03|860|00:19:08|200And when we're looking for the seventh ray monad, we only have Jupiter remaining, 115|00:19:08|940|00:19:19|340and Jupiter does have much within it connected to the seventh ray, so perhaps Phecda would relate monadically to Jupiter. 116|00:19:19|480|00:19:29|340But now, here's the thing. When we're dealing with the rays of these stars, which type of ray are we dealing with? 117|00:19:29|340|00:19:37|300The seven stars of the Great Bear. Are they soul rays, or are they monadic rays? 118|00:19:40|640|00:19:52|680Any star which has passed its fourth initiation, or fifth, could manifest a mayavirupa. 119|00:19:53|960|00:19:58|440The idea of stellar mayavirupas is really interesting. 120|00:20:00|560|00:20:11|160And these mayavirupas would be generated at a point when the being generating them would be working very much from the monadic level, 121|00:20:11|260|00:20:16|900or at least the monadic level would have a strong influence. 122|00:20:17|740|00:20:25|860But for the moment we just have to take it at face value that each one of the seven stars, major stars of the Great Bear, 123|00:20:25|960|00:20:35|180has a particular ray, and we are not in a position to determine which ray it is, 124|00:20:35|740|00:20:40|440whether personality ray, doubtful, or soul, or monadic ray. 125|00:20:42|580|00:20:49|400So these seven sacred planets then would be correlated with the Great Bear and also with the Little Bear 126|00:20:49|400|00:20:53|720because we have the father and son aspect of the same rays. 127|00:20:56|200|00:21:06|780Two of them would come from Sirius, and when we think about Sirius, I think the sun and the moon would be important 128|00:21:06|780|00:21:12|260quote-unquote non-sacred planets to be associated there. 129|00:21:13|980|00:21:22|900We have actually, with respect to the constellation Sirius, considering it as more than one star, we have Sirius A and Sirius B. 130|00:21:23|980|00:21:29|720And Sirius A in Egyptian mythology, my wife Tuya has done some research on this, 131|00:21:31|000|00:21:39|800Sirius A correlates with the fifth initiation, Sirius B, Sirius Black, for those of you who are into Harry Potter, 132|00:21:40|200|00:21:42|580correlates with the fourth initiation. 133|00:21:43|360|00:21:50|060So we have the light and the dark, and the sun and the moon seem very good symbols for that, 134|00:21:50|060|00:22:01|860and we would be dealing then with the non-sacred planets which are veiled by the sun and the moon as related to Sirius. 135|00:22:02|260|00:22:12|140Now these are correlations, attempting to correlate the twelve planets with the three major sources from which respectively 136|00:22:12|140|00:22:16|000seven, two, and three energies emanate. 137|00:22:17|640|00:22:24|500There's a lot more that could be said, but certainly Sirius and the sun are very closely related. 138|00:22:24|760|00:22:34|860This we know because Sirius, the Logos of Sirius, is considered to be the initiator of our solar Logos, 139|00:22:35|100|00:22:40|880and active in our solar system as an initiator on a great scale. 140|00:22:43|320|00:22:52|320And the sun is ruled by Leo, and there is a very important triangle of Sirius, Leo, Jupiter. 141|00:22:53|320|00:22:58|600So we see how those energies do correlate on the basis of similarity. 142|00:23:00|160|00:23:07|000As for the moon, Sirius is sending forth in a way the fifth creative hierarchy. 143|00:23:07|000|00:23:13|200It is a source which has much of the fifth ray in it. 144|00:23:13|720|00:23:17|700The fifth creative hierarchy is dual, we remember. 145|00:23:18|940|00:23:27|440One part of it relating to the human personality, and the other part relating to the solar angelic part of man. 146|00:23:28|420|00:23:39|640And I believe that those two parts of the fifth creative hierarchy, using it in a way as a symbol for Sirius, 147|00:23:41|020|00:23:43|380correlate very well with the sun and the moon. 148|00:23:44|340|00:23:53|060The moon correlating with the mental elemental aspect of that fifth creative hierarchy, 149|00:23:53|060|00:23:58|980or with, as it says, the human personality, the crocodiles, the lower Makara, 150|00:23:59|380|00:24:04|220and the sun correlating with the higher aspect, the solar angelic aspect. 151|00:24:04|320|00:24:11|820So I think the sun and the moon are very good planetary representatives for the two energies, 152|00:24:12|640|00:24:17|060two major energies, which come from Sirius. 153|00:24:17|060|00:24:26|520Although as I said, you know, when I'm dealing with stars in a superior position to great constellations, 154|00:24:26|660|00:24:33|500I am looking for a blind. I'm looking for what those stars really represent. 155|00:24:33|980|00:24:37|100Constellations which those stars really might represent. 156|00:24:37|780|00:24:41|740When it comes to the Pleiades, they have very much to do with matter and mind. 157|00:24:42|580|00:24:52|740This is considering the Pleiades as they are normally considered and not as the source of cosmic booty, 158|00:24:52|960|00:25:05|220because the Pleiades is a great constellation with a number of rays and not simply the third ray or the ray of matter and mind. 159|00:25:05|220|00:25:17|760And yet the Pleiades, we are told, confers Manas to the heavenly men, or the planetary Logoi, 160|00:25:18|420|00:25:25|600just the way Sirius confers Manas or stimulates Manas in the solar Logos. 161|00:25:25|700|00:25:31|060Let's just say that the Pleiades are active in the bestowal of Manas to the heavenly men. 162|00:25:31|060|00:25:39|540I have to study that carefully, but there is a kind of a tricky wording there, 163|00:25:40|260|00:25:44|420so that the high status of the Pleiades is preserved. 164|00:25:44|580|00:25:47|580It's not really lower than Sirius at all. 165|00:25:47|880|00:25:55|500Sirius, the Lord of Sirius, whatever that is, is a subset of the Lord of the Pleiades. 166|00:25:55|500|00:26:04|460Anyway, in its matter aspect, or related to its matter aspect, three non-sacred planets are all that remain, 167|00:26:04|800|00:26:10|240and they quite logically hold their place in relation to the Pleiades, and those are Earth, Mars and Pluto. 168|00:26:11|380|00:26:19|200For Earth and Mars we can make a very good case, because the relationship of Earth to the Pleiades, 169|00:26:19|200|00:26:26|840and especially one of the Pleiades, perhaps Maia, is long established in mythology. 170|00:26:28|220|00:26:34|520One of the Pleiades married a mortal. That mortal was the non-sacred Earth, 171|00:26:34|820|00:26:44|040and therefore she hid her face in shame, which means that there is some condition in relation to that star 172|00:26:44|040|00:26:49|520which seems to veil or obscure it. It has to do with the third aspect of divinity. 173|00:26:53|400|00:27:03|780As far as, I'm just thinking here, you know, the one about whom naught may be said. 174|00:27:03|980|00:27:12|460Well, the Lord of the Pleiades is probably the Lord which uses the Pleiades as its central source, 175|00:27:12|460|00:27:15|460like the Solar Logos uses the Sun as the central source. 176|00:27:15|800|00:27:20|740He is probably that Lord which is called the one about whom naught may be said, 177|00:27:20|800|00:27:26|500and I think rays three, two and one are involved in this Pleiadian manifestation, 178|00:27:26|860|00:27:31|520certainly three and two, and since it's the hub of the wheel, ray one may be there as well. 179|00:27:33|640|00:27:40|260There may be quite a similarity between the rays of the Earth and the rays of the Pleiades. 180|00:27:40|260|00:27:45|300The rays of the Earth are monadic one, soul two, personality three. 181|00:27:45|480|00:27:55|400Well, I think the three, two, one are there in the Pleiades, but the order there, I think, cannot be ascertained, 182|00:27:55|520|00:28:04|240which is in the soul ray position for the Pleiades, which is the outer ray and which is the deep inner ray. 183|00:28:04|400|00:28:06|680But three, two and one, I think, are involved. 184|00:28:06|680|00:28:12|680Well, anyway, Mars is closely involved because the Pleiades are said to be the nursemaids, 185|00:28:13|560|00:28:17|620or the nurses of the God of War, which is Mars. 186|00:28:18|300|00:28:20|520See, Pleiades have much to do with the matter aspect, 187|00:28:20|780|00:28:27|240and these three non-sacred planets do very much represent the matter aspect. 188|00:28:27|240|00:28:36|760Below the diaphragm they could represent the base of the spine center, Pluto, 189|00:28:37|100|00:28:39|960which also has a connection, as we've seen, with the solar plexus, 190|00:28:40|980|00:28:48|040the spleen, Earth, and Mars, sacral and or solar plexus. 191|00:28:48|720|00:28:52|400So we're probably leaving Venus out of the picture 192|00:28:52|400|00:28:58|260because Venus is probably the solar plexus at this time of the solar Logos. 193|00:28:58|420|00:29:03|160But anyway, Mars, Pluto, and Earth are sub-diaphragmatic planets in the solar Logos, 194|00:29:03|600|00:29:09|700and also in man, rule sub-diaphragmatic centers. 195|00:29:09|820|00:29:13|040The Earth does rule the throat center of the average man, 196|00:29:13|060|00:29:17|280but it also has much to do with the spleen along with the sun. 197|00:29:18|460|00:29:22|220Mars, we are told, rules the solar plexus of average man, 198|00:29:23|120|00:29:25|700but it is sacral, I think, in relation to the Solar Logos. 199|00:29:25|920|00:29:30|440Suffice it to say, the Pleiades, with all their emphasis upon matter, 200|00:29:33|380|00:29:42|120are well fitted to express not only, but at least through those three non-sacred planets. 201|00:29:42|120|00:29:47|060So I think the planetary lineup is pretty good with the seven, two, and three. 202|00:29:48|440|00:29:55|120Sirius and the Pleiades, I think, correlating with non-sacred planets 203|00:29:55|120|00:29:57|260and the Great Bear with sacred planets. 204|00:29:57|440|00:30:07|480Now, we come to the big issue of the twelve signs. 205|00:30:07|480|00:30:14|000The twelve signs are also here, and one gets the impression 206|00:30:14|000|00:30:21|800that there must be a correlation of these major stars with the twelve signs. 207|00:30:22|640|00:30:28|400How shall we go about doing that? 208|00:30:28|400|00:30:45|780Well, how shall we keep the particular greater constellation 209|00:30:45|780|00:30:49|700correlated with only one of the signs? 210|00:30:49|800|00:30:55|540In other words, how shall we keep a star within a particular constellation 211|00:30:55|540|00:30:59|020correlated with only one of the signs? 212|00:31:00|000|00:31:04|580There are seven major stars in the Great Bear, presumably correlated with one 213|00:31:04|580|00:31:07|420of the seven zodiacal constellations. 214|00:31:07|620|00:31:16|320Two energies in Sirius, presumably correlated with two of the zodiacal constellations, 215|00:31:16|320|00:31:25|180and the three energies of the Pleiades, presumably correlated with three zodiacal constellations. 216|00:31:29|540|00:31:34|000This is difficult, because, you know, on page fifty of this book, 217|00:31:34|160|00:31:44|580we are at least given two constellations each for Great Bear, Sirius, and the Pleiades. 218|00:31:44|580|00:31:52|040I added another one, and then D.K. talked about how all of that vectors out. 219|00:31:52|980|00:31:54|660There are three great vectors. 220|00:31:55|140|00:31:59|820The first ray vector working through Leo, the second ray through Pisces, 221|00:31:59|960|00:32:02|820and the third ray through Capricorn. 222|00:32:03|920|00:32:09|900But when it comes to correlating one of the twelve basic energies each 223|00:32:09|900|00:32:13|700with one of the signs of the zodiac, or one of the constellations, 224|00:32:13|940|00:32:19|380that is more difficult, and I could try to work something out there, 225|00:32:20|400|00:32:24|400but I'm not really going to attempt to hazard too much of a guess. 226|00:32:25|940|00:32:30|600When you think about Taurus, Cancer, and Virgo, 227|00:32:31|840|00:32:37|600they are very connected with the Pleiades, for sure. 228|00:32:37|600|00:32:44|500Now of course, one way of doing this is simply to take the ray of the star concerned, 229|00:32:45|340|00:32:47|700and relate it to the constellation. 230|00:32:47|920|00:32:52|640For instance, there is a first ray star in the Great Bear. 231|00:32:53|380|00:33:01|260We could simply relate it to the major first ray constellation, which is Aries. 232|00:33:01|500|00:33:05|960We could take the second ray star and relate it to the major, at this time, 233|00:33:05|960|00:33:07|700second ray constellation, Virgo. 234|00:33:09|100|00:33:18|080We could take the third ray star and relate it, let us say, to the sign Cancer, 235|00:33:18|320|00:33:23|920which for the mass brings in the third ray particularly. 236|00:33:24|420|00:33:29|880The fourth ray star could be related to Scorpio, 237|00:33:29|880|00:33:35|640which at this time is the major expression of the fourth ray. 238|00:33:35|800|00:33:39|080The fifth ray star could be related to Leo, 239|00:33:39|300|00:33:45|920but you see the problem is Leo is giving way to Aquarius in terms of the transmission of the fifth ray. 240|00:33:46|120|00:33:49|620So the problem of mutation enters here. 241|00:33:50|200|00:33:54|820The sixth ray star, Merak, could be associated with Sagittarius, 242|00:33:54|820|00:33:59|060although usually it is associated with Aries from a different perspective. 243|00:34:00|060|00:34:03|340And the seventh ray star could be associated with Capricorn. 244|00:34:04|700|00:34:11|560That would be one way of doing it because D.K. has told us the constellations through which the seven rays 245|00:34:12|660|00:34:14|280majorly express at this time. 246|00:34:14|380|00:34:18|800For instance, we have Aries, Leo, and Capricorn for the first ray, 247|00:34:19|000|00:34:23|260but the major expression of the first ray at this time is through Aries. 248|00:34:23|260|00:34:28|880Now, the triangle might rotate and at another time the major expression could be through Leo or Capricorn, 249|00:34:28|960|00:34:30|060and that is the problem. 250|00:34:31|020|00:34:39|200So I do not know if we can find any hard and fast connection here. 251|00:34:39|780|00:34:45|040Maybe we can find a connection between these twelve basic energies and the constellations at this time. 252|00:34:45|180|00:34:50|920For instance, Leo is very connected with Sirius, 253|00:34:53|200|00:34:59|080and the Sirian festival every year is associated with the full moon in Leo, 254|00:34:59|220|00:35:00|540and it is celebrated at that time. 255|00:35:00|740|00:35:06|000Maybe one of those potencies, let us call it the Sun potency, 256|00:35:06|840|00:35:13|740of the two potencies that come through Sirius, could be connected with Leo. 257|00:35:13|740|00:35:20|700What then would the Moon potency be connected with? 258|00:35:22|940|00:35:29|120Leo is the fire sign of consciousness, so of the three fire signs, it carries the second ray aspect, 259|00:35:29|320|00:35:33|940even though that particular ray is not transmitted through it. 260|00:35:34|560|00:35:43|760When it comes to the Moon, shall we focus on the fourth ray for the veiled planet there? 261|00:35:43|980|00:35:46|560And if we did, would we look at one of the fourth ray signs? 262|00:35:46|640|00:35:56|100The only one that would be left to deal with is Taurus, but then that may be used already by the Pleiades. 263|00:35:56|260|00:36:00|040So I think you can see the problem here. 264|00:36:00|040|00:36:05|820We get into kind of a speculation, and we get into the idea that there are thirty-six factors. 265|00:36:07|100|00:36:10|800Let me put that down: thirty-six factors. 266|00:36:11|700|00:36:19|420Uh, no. Okay. Let me just put that in: thirty-six factors. 267|00:36:20|140|00:36:25|300What are these thirty-six factors? They are seven great stars. 268|00:36:25|300|00:36:29|100Six, three, and two. Twelve great stars. 269|00:36:30|340|00:36:33|340Seven from the Great Bear, three from Pleiades, two from Sirius. 270|00:36:34|100|00:36:40|040Then there are twelve signs of the zodiac, and twelve planets: seven sacred, five non-sacred. 271|00:36:40|140|00:36:43|260That's thirty-six. Okay. 272|00:36:44|260|00:36:56|880Um, those thirty-six factors are hierarchicalized so that the stars seem to occur in the superior position. 273|00:36:59|060|00:37:06|700The zodiacal constellations next in order relating to the soul, just as the stars probably relate to the spirit aspect, 274|00:37:06|700|00:37:14|440and then come the twelve of the planets which archetypally relate to the personality aspect, at least in this setup. 275|00:37:15|060|00:37:19|360The thirty-six gives us the nine of a completed system. 276|00:37:22|060|00:37:31|380Okay, so what I've tried to do here is kind of outline the picture that we are trying to create, 277|00:37:33|480|00:37:45|780and point to the major twelve as twelve stars which may well be representatives of twelve greater sources. 278|00:37:47|080|00:37:55|800Not sure what they are, of course. But I'm one of those people that tries to stick strictly to magnitude. 279|00:37:55|800|00:38:00|340In other words, I assume the Buddha's aura is bigger than my own. 280|00:38:01|220|00:38:07|960If it expands miles, it can be noticed as expanding miles. 281|00:38:09|260|00:38:19|380In other words, its display, its type of expression is equivalent to the inner power of the Buddha's being and consciousness. 282|00:38:19|380|00:38:34|880I assume the same to be true for stars. If you have an incredibly brilliant star, it is likely that the being behind it is a very powerful being. 283|00:38:35|940|00:38:45|880Of course, there is one factor that enters because when you look at the chakra system of man, sometimes let's say the solar plexus is totally radiant and the heart is not. 284|00:38:45|880|00:38:55|960And that has to do, even though the heart is the superior center, it hasn't reached the developmental phase when its radiance will show. 285|00:38:56|540|00:39:01|180Perhaps at that time the solar plexus area will have dimmed down. 286|00:39:01|440|00:39:08|100And the being behind or embodying the solar plexus is really a lesser being than the being embodying the heart, 287|00:39:08|100|00:39:13|820even though at a particular time that being of the solar plexus seems more radiant. 288|00:39:13|820|00:39:18|240So there is a relativity here which one has to keep in mind. 289|00:39:18|380|00:39:28|880But in general, if I see a bright aura in a human being, a great radiant halo and extensive radiation, 290|00:39:28|960|00:39:34|000I'm going to assume that that being has power and great consciousness. 291|00:39:34|260|00:39:36|840And in general, it is so with stars. 292|00:39:36|840|00:39:58|660If I see a brown dwarf star or a red dwarf star, I'm going to assume that the being who embodies that star is of lesser scope than a being that embodies a star like one of the three stars in the belt of Orion. 293|00:40:02|880|00:40:07|300Alnilam, Alnitak, and Mintaka. 294|00:40:08|500|00:40:14|800Those three stars are so brilliant, they are hundreds of thousands of times brighter than the sun. 295|00:40:14|900|00:40:22|040I'm going to assume that a being in back of them is a stupendous life when compared to the being of our sun. 296|00:40:23|100|00:40:29|620It would not make sense to me to put it the other way around; it would be very, shall we say in a way, heliocentric. 297|00:40:30|600|00:40:36|860And we have to overcome not only our geocentricity, but our heliocentricity. 298|00:40:38|220|00:40:44|100Alright, well I've laid out some thoughts here which certainly bewilder me, so I hope they do the same for you. 299|00:40:45|080|00:41:03|100Okay, this setup, if I may use such an unorthodox term, will be the condition of the major solar sphere which presumably is the ring-pass-not spherically of our solar Logos at the end of the great age of Brahma. 300|00:41:04|900|00:41:16|540The relationships between the 36 will be very well defined and very clearly understood, as they are not completely so at the moment. 301|00:41:18|420|00:41:26|220The 12 planets, five of which are non-sacred, all of them I presume will be sacred, and when I look at the constellations of the zodiac, 302|00:41:26|220|00:41:32|580I don't for a minute think that the law of seven sacred and five non-sacred will be breached. 303|00:41:32|880|00:41:48|280I believe there will be. At the moment there are seven sacred and five non-sacred, or should we say the constellations of the zodiac are unevenly developed. 304|00:41:48|280|00:42:00|720But I do think that even the ones that are non-sacred now, even though they may hierarchically maintain their lesser status when compared with the greater seven, that they will be sacred too. 305|00:42:01|620|00:42:20|860And there may be stars—I'm not sure about this—but stars within the greater 12 of the Great Bear, Sirius and Pleiades, some stars which are still in their own initiatory scheme non-sacred, and they will probably be sacred as well. 306|00:42:20|860|00:42:35|620But by the end of the great age of Brahma, 311 trillion 40 billion years, there will be a very clear line-up between the 36 factors here mentioned. 307|00:42:35|620|00:42:54|280And we still have perhaps more than 150 trillion years to run in the manifestation of our second major solar system by our second-ray solar Logos. 308|00:42:54|280|00:43:08|560That doesn't mean it will all take place on the physical plane. There are higher planes in relation to which the solar system can be said to function, and perhaps the physical plane will disappear altogether. 309|00:43:08|560|00:43:23|220The word “world cycle,” as I said, might mean one processional age, a Platonic age of 25,000 years. That's unlikely. 310|00:43:24|480|00:43:40|520But it can easily mean a round of some hundreds of millions of years, or it can mean a chain, a scheme round, which is a still vaster period of time. 311|00:43:41|360|00:43:53|860But the word “world” is a generic word, and even the universe is considered the world in a way, and so is our solar system, so a world cycle might be one entire mahamanvantara. 312|00:43:54|160|00:44:04|080It's an ambiguous word that D.K. can use in order to somewhat disguise the specific truth from us. 313|00:44:05|160|00:44:28|900Anyway, in the interim of evolution, which is the duration of a world cycle, which ultimately is a mahamanvantara, the energies which we've been talking about—these energies—are stepped down toward 16 in all. 314|00:44:28|900|00:44:36|280Now, are we talking about the 36 energies or the 12? We do have an analogy in the egoic lotus which is a heart center. 315|00:44:38|820|00:44:52|500It's in the line of heart centers as we have discussed. We have the 12-petaled human heart center, the 12-petaled heart in the head, then we have the 12-petaled egoic lotus, 316|00:44:52|500|00:45:02|620and we would assume the monad has petals too, but the number of them still has to be determined. Could be 12, could be 16. 317|00:45:05|460|00:45:18|260We can use the egoic lotus as an analogy because it has, strictly speaking, 16 parts. It's a kind of a throat center in a way. 318|00:45:18|260|00:45:35|320It's kind of the expression of the word. The word comes from the throat which has 16 petals. It's a heart center, and so when we think of it, we think of it as a 12-petaled lotus, but if we see that it has drawn one aspect from a superior world, 319|00:45:35|320|00:45:50|960that is from the world of the monad, it has drawn the jewel and the lotus, and from the inferior worlds it has drawn the three constituents of the atomic triangle: the mental unit, astral permanent atom, mental permanent atom. 320|00:45:50|960|00:46:11|000Add those all together, you get 16. So that is one example at least of how the 12, which is the heart, can in manifestation, which is related to the throat—the throat center being a third-ray, seventh-ray center in a way, when it's ruled by Uranus seventh-ray— 321|00:46:13|900|00:46:39|380that throat can be the manifestation of the heart, so the 12 of the heart can become the 16 of the throat in manifestation, and the love must be expressed through intelligence and the word and in manifestation, which is very close to the number seven, because the 16 petals resolve to seven, so it shows the throat center to be a center of manifestation. 322|00:46:41|180|00:46:53|080So we are looking at the number 16, but the way the Tibetan derives the 16 is different. He derives them with a 7 plus 7 plus 2 equals 16 equals 7. 323|00:46:54|060|00:47:09|140Well, in terms of what he has mentioned in this little section, there are seven from the Great Bear, seven energies from the Little Bear—that's 14 altogether—plus 2 from Sirius. 324|00:47:09|140|00:47:32|160We have Great Bear, Little Bear, Sirius equals 16 equals 7. So we see that 16 is truly a number of manifestation, and when you think about 16 and you interpret it in a different way, you have the one surrounded by the six, which is what we find on the cosmic physical plane, or on many different planes. 325|00:47:32|160|00:47:43|760We always find one plane surrounded by six planes, and that's the method of its manifestation. All the six are deriving from the power of the one. 326|00:47:43|920|00:47:51|460Now, we have mentioned the three energies of the Pleiades, but we haven't added them in, and if we did, we wouldn't get a seven, we'd get a 19. 327|00:47:51|460|00:48:05|160Seven Great Bear, seven Little Bear, two Sirius, three Pleiades equals 19 equals 1, which points to the centrality of the Pleiades in this setup. 328|00:48:06|120|00:48:19|540So, D.K. says that in these numbers, the mystery of our evolutionary process lies hid. Well, yes, it is hidden. It is deep. 329|00:48:19|540|00:48:37|140We have some hints. We have the idea that our evolutionary process is started from these super-constellations, and one almost wants to add the sun into that picture. 330|00:48:37|140|00:48:57|140One wants to see the three super-constellations: Great Bear, Pleiades, Sirius. Or really, what I would rather see is Great Bear, Little Bear, Sirius, funneling into… 331|00:48:58|900|00:49:06|680No, that's wrong. That's not what I meant. Great Bear, Little Bear, Pleiades. Okay. That is a great triangle. 332|00:49:07|140|00:49:16|240And D.K. does talk about the importance of that triangle. Maybe I can find that. 333|00:49:17|860|00:49:33|100He does say that Ursa Minor, Major, Pleiades. Yes. What does he say? 334|00:49:34|000|00:49:41|920He says that these facts contain a great mystery connected with the interrelation of Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, and the Pleiades. 335|00:49:43|040|00:49:55|520They constitute one of the greatest and most important of the triplicities to be found in the heavens, as far as we have astronomically ascertained the nature of our immediate universe. 336|00:49:55|520|00:50:11|520He's leaving open the fact that we do not have complete knowledge at all of our immediate universe. Notice how the word “universe” is used as an immediate area of space and not as the vast entirety. 337|00:50:11|520|00:50:20|160So anyway, I would like to see a triangle here of Great Bear, Little Bear, Pleiades. Yes. 338|00:50:21|020|00:50:29|860Funneling through that lesser being, Sirius—really a dwarf star when compared with the greater constellations there. 339|00:50:30|840|00:50:37|240And then funneling through our solar Logos. Five altogether. 340|00:50:37|240|00:50:54|880As a matter of fact, what could be considered is a setup with the Great Bear, Little Bear, Pleiades working through the constellation of our local cosmic Logos, 341|00:50:54|880|00:51:12|840which hypothetically includes the very close star Sirius along with our Sun and five other major solar Logoi within the constellation representing that cosmic Logos. 342|00:51:12|840|00:51:24|760Then we would have four super-constellations. And, oh yes, think of it. Wow, that would be a really good setup and it would look exactly like this. 343|00:51:25|160|00:51:30|300I think I've hit on something here, maybe, after all these years, possibly. 344|00:51:30|300|00:51:49|860Look at this tabulation which we have examined: Great Bear, Sirius, Great Bear, Pleiades, and one constellation of magnetic energy called the seven solar systems of which ours is one. 345|00:51:53|240|00:52:02|460Presumably we can include seven stars in that system. Should Sirius be included and do double duty? I'm not sure. 346|00:52:03|140|00:52:14|860But certainly seven stars can be included there and they will be a magnetic constellation in relation to three great constellations. 347|00:52:14|860|00:52:23|080And what I'd like to do for the three great constellations, I would like to substitute the Little Bear for Sirius. 348|00:52:24|340|00:52:37|840Both of them I think have a strong kind of Agenas Center connection and both of them represent the Sun, S-O-N, and both of them represent therefore the Christ force. 349|00:52:37|840|00:53:01|940Well, you know, as I have read through this section of the book a number of times over many years, maybe forty years, something like that, maybe more, 350|00:53:03|880|00:53:20|420I've always been bewildered and I've never taken the time to intricately look at this section of the book and have entered now into a greater degree of intricate consideration than heretofore. 351|00:53:20|420|00:53:36|020But we must not discount the power of the Little Bear. He doesn't say much about it, but I do think it is a kind of higher prototype to Sirius in a way. 352|00:53:36|860|00:53:46|460And often when Sirius is mentioned I think it is the Little Bear which should be receiving attention. 353|00:53:46|460|00:53:59|100But in any case, in this particular paragraph we do have Great Bear, Little Bear, Sirius, and Pleiades—the major sources in our local cosmos system. 354|00:53:59|880|00:54:12|660If we exclude the energies from the Pleiades we get seven, and if we include them we get nineteen or one. One plus nine is ten or one. 355|00:54:12|660|00:54:24|800So we have the one and seven; we have the sources which account for the structural nature of our local cosmos system. 356|00:54:25|960|00:54:32|600And I think it makes sense that the twelve can manifest as a sixteen. 357|00:54:33|980|00:54:41|760Now interestingly enough, if it was thirty-six manifesting as sixteen that would make sense too because we'd have the thirty-six which would be the nine, 358|00:54:43|500|00:54:53|800the nine being the number of the third aspect, and then we would have the seven from the sixteen, and the seven being the number of manifestations. 359|00:54:53|800|00:55:04|620We'd have the relationship of the three and the seven. Nine being the number which represents the three and the seven. 360|00:55:06|160|00:55:11|080But from another point of view, well, thirty-six is nine and seven is sixteen is seven. 361|00:55:11|700|00:55:16|160So we keep on coming to the idea of the third aspect and manifestation. 362|00:55:17|060|00:55:23|920I know we have to be careful with numerology because it might be easy to make it say anything, 363|00:55:25|020|00:55:30|200but in this particular case D.K. is working with numerology for a specific reason. 364|00:55:31|040|00:55:39|920He's talking about the manifestation which involves the third aspect and the number seven of the sun, or the second aspect, 365|00:55:39|920|00:55:48|800with which the number twelve is associated. Twelve Pisces, the heart, the son of God. 366|00:55:50|540|00:56:04|380Whoa! That was a paragraph, and even though esoteric astrology thirty-seven began that process, 367|00:56:04|380|00:56:13|320I think pretty much Esoteric Astrology Adventure thirty-eight is there as well. 368|00:56:15|000|00:56:23|980It took a while to get through that paragraph, and I have a feeling that we have only scratched the surface. 369|00:56:28|700|00:56:36|280Let's see here. I seem to have lost… There we go. 370|00:56:37|040|00:56:44|960Okay. Yeah, we are coming to the point where The Great Invocation can be said. We have just three minutes left. 371|00:56:45|460|00:56:49|700I will read the next paragraph and I'll begin there with thirty-nine. 372|00:56:49|700|00:57:02|160Always, however, the emphasis must be laid upon the rays of energy and quality, even when discussing astrology, 373|00:57:02|660|00:57:07|640as they pour through the zodiacal constellations and the planets. 374|00:57:07|820|00:57:13|460So the rays are somehow in this setup; they represent the spirit aspect. 375|00:57:13|460|00:57:23|740In A Treatise on White Magic he did the same. He talked about the seven solar lords being superior to the signs of the zodiac. 376|00:57:24|640|00:57:31|780The new astrology is therefore necessarily based upon an understanding of the rays. 377|00:57:32|000|00:57:38|420In other words, if we want to understand the twelve of astrology, we have to understand the seven of the rays. 378|00:57:38|420|00:57:46|780And I have… oh, I know what I didn't do. Yes, I wanted to show you the derivation of the seven from the twelve. 379|00:57:46|900|00:57:51|520And I think I'll do that. I think I can include that. And we'll deal with the following tabulation in a bit. 380|00:57:51|560|00:58:02|300But here's the seven from the twelve. Because that's so important when thinking of the preeminence of the seven of the Great Bear 381|00:58:02|300|00:58:05|580and the twelve of the zodiacal constellations. 382|00:58:05|580|00:58:11|140The twelve creative hierarchies. Students are often puzzled in trying to account for the twelves in Cosmos. 383|00:58:11|920|00:58:19|180A correspondent sent in the following suggestion. Remember, the seven rays derive from the three. 384|00:58:19|620|00:58:27|120There's A, there's B, there's C. There's AB, AC, and BC. And then ABC in equal measure. 385|00:58:29|220|00:58:31|220But now he's dealing with the twelves. 386|00:58:31|220|00:58:41|360In a study of consciousness, the three ABC by an arrangement of internal groupings show seven groups. 387|00:58:43|360|00:58:53|440So this is what I just said. But there is a different way in which we always preserve each of the three as we work. 388|00:58:53|440|00:59:03|900ABC, ACB, BCA, BAC, CAB, CBA, and a seventh, a synthesis in which the three are equal. 389|00:59:04|540|00:59:14|200They don't have any order, so to speak. None of them is preeminent. All of them are equal. 390|00:59:14|200|00:59:26|340Now that's six plus the equal one. A second six would be represented by (AB) then C, C (AB). 391|00:59:28|440|00:59:41|220We're using here the principle of ordinality so that that which precedes is considered significant and that which follows is considered significant. 392|00:59:41|220|00:59:56|660So when we are reversing the ordinality we have C (AB), A (BC), BC (A), CA (B), B (AC). 393|00:59:57|280|01:00:04|220So we have the two bracketed groups being equal and the third stronger or weaker. 394|01:00:06|380|01:00:15|420So we're talking about relative strengths as we make these combinations. Now we've got two groups of six and a group in which the three are equal, which would make thirteen. 395|01:00:15|660|01:00:25|520The thirteen may be arranged in a circle of twelve with one in the center, presumably the one in which equality is demonstrated. 396|01:00:26|260|01:00:31|100The central one will be synthetic and will be that class in which all three are equal. 397|01:00:31|100|01:00:38|440The physical correspondence to this will be the twelve signs of the zodiac with the sun at the center synthesizing all of them. 398|01:00:39|160|01:00:44|840Or the spiritual correspondence is the twelve creative hierarchies with the Logos at the center. 399|01:00:45|800|01:00:47|740The arrangement is quite legitimate. 400|01:00:47|740|01:01:15|520Okay, this came from the Theosophist and I would recommend his study on page 1195 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire because probably if we're very careful we can work out which of the combinations represents the seven rays and which of the combinations represents each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. 401|01:01:15|520|01:01:22|640It would be a big job but I think it could be done and it's maybe something for someone in the new esoteric schools. 402|01:01:23|800|01:01:24|680Coming along. 403|01:01:25|200|01:01:30|540Alright, now we will sound The Great Invocation. 404|01:01:49|360|01:02:00|740From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 405|01:02:03|900|01:02:14|000From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. 406|01:02:19|000|01:02:29|440From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve. 407|01:02:33|000|01:02:43|740From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 408|01:02:49|560|01:02:56|360Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 409|01:02:56|360|01:03:16|660From the center where the will of God is known, let light descend on earth. 410|01:03:17|100|01:03:17|160From the center where the will of God is known, let light descend on earth. 411|01:03:17|160|01:03:18|720Om. 412|01:03:23|180|01:03:24|580Om. 413|01:03:26|640|01:03:28|040Om. 414|01:03:32|420|01:03:49|640Okay, friends, that's that. That's that. End of Esoteric Astrology Adventure Number 38. 415|01:03:50|260|01:03:54|860And we will continue with 39. 416|01:03:57|500|01:03:58|900Okay.
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