1|00:00:07|220|00:00:10|180Okay, hello everybody. 2|00:00:10|840|00:00:17|740It's been about a month since it's been possible to work on these Esoteric Astrology adventures. 3|00:00:17|740|00:00:36|980We are now up to the 40th in this series, and we ended discussing the seven rays and the signs through which they manifest. 4|00:00:39|220|00:00:52|560And one very important aspect of this is to realize that it is not only the ruling planets which conduct the rays. 5|00:00:52|740|00:01:00|620For instance, Vulcan and Pluto are ray one planets, and indeed they do conduct the first ray. 6|00:01:00|620|00:01:10|460But because we have a situation in which the first ray passes through Aries, Leo, and Capricorn, 7|00:01:11|220|00:01:22|460therefore the rulers of Aries, Leo, and Capricorn are also related directly to transmitting the first ray. 8|00:01:22|460|00:01:30|840For instance, the first ray will strangely not only come through Mars, which has a lot of the first ray perhaps on the solar level, 9|00:01:31|300|00:01:35|720but will come through Mercury, which doesn't have any first ray at all, and yet it will be a transmitter. 10|00:01:36|620|00:01:45|000That the first ray would come through Leo and the Sun seems reasonable because the highest form of fire comes from the Sun. 11|00:01:45|000|00:01:52|940It is solar fire, and even electric fire in our solar system is a subset of that type of fire. 12|00:01:54|580|00:02:05|220And through Capricorn the goat, yes indeed, because Saturn is a planet that conducts the first ray, but normally it's conducting only the third ray. 13|00:02:05|220|00:02:16|940And so it goes with all of these rays passing through the various rulers of the signs. 14|00:02:17|440|00:02:29|380What we have listed here in this tabulation are the Orthodox rulers, Exoteric, and the Esoteric rulers. 15|00:02:29|380|00:02:38|180And we see that Love Wisdom not only passes through Jupiter and the Sun, which are two so-called planets that carry the second ray, 16|00:02:38|280|00:02:45|880but also passes through Mercury and Venus and the Moon and Jupiter and Pluto. 17|00:02:46|120|00:02:55|980So even a first ray planet like Pluto ends up being a conductor of the second ray. 18|00:02:55|980|00:03:07|520So we have to bear this in mind. There are so many different methods, so many different conduits, via which the rays can reach our planet and humanity. 19|00:03:08|260|00:03:12|300Active Intelligence, we would expect it to come through the Earth and Saturn, and indeed it does. 20|00:03:12|980|00:03:24|280But it also passes through the Moon, which is strongly related to matter and the third ray, and its constant changeability suggests the third ray, 21|00:03:24|280|00:03:33|100but through Neptune as well, with its three-pronged trident, through Uranus, which has a third ray association, but through Venus as well, 22|00:03:33|820|00:03:45|820which can be considered in a way the monadic permanent atom in relation to our planetary Logos and within the solar Logoic system. 23|00:03:46|720|00:04:01|360When we look at the three major planets of this present period, which are said to be Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus, then in their present functions, Venus does represent Manus. 24|00:04:02|180|00:04:08|120And of course the third ray passes through Saturn, which makes perfect sense as it is a third ray planet. 25|00:04:08|120|00:04:25|000But you see what I'm trying to say here is that the esoteric and orthodox rulers of a sign do conduct the rays which pass through that sign. 26|00:04:25|000|00:04:38|300And we should really make another tabulation to show which rays pass through all the planets. Probably we could do that, you know, off the top of our head possibly. 27|00:04:39|240|00:04:50|140The fourth ray is passing through Venus. The fourth ray affiliated with Taurus, Scorpio, and Sagittarius passes through Venus, which has much to do with the equilibrizing and harmonizing force, 28|00:04:50|140|00:05:05|600which doesn't seem so strange, and through Vulcan, which may very well have a fourth ray monad or at least a fourth ray sub-monad as the ultimate monadic ray for all beings has to be the first, second, or third. 29|00:05:07|240|00:05:11|140The fourth ray is passing through Mars. There's plenty of conflict there, not much harmony. 30|00:05:11|140|00:05:22|840And the fourth ray, interestingly, is passing through Jupiter, which oftentimes looks like the number four as you draw it. I guess it'll look backwards here as I kind of draw that. 31|00:05:23|240|00:05:27|120And the fourth ray passing through the Earth, which has the cross as its symbol. 32|00:05:27|120|00:05:42|500But normally Jupiter and the Earth and Mars and normally Vulcan and Venus don't transmit the fourth ray at all, and yet they must because that is the way the ray will reach from the constellation through planets to us. 33|00:05:44|060|00:05:47|120Let's see, additionally… 34|00:05:49|580|00:05:56|340Just checking here as it's been a while since I've done this, and it does seem to be operating, which is good. 35|00:05:57|520|00:06:04|160And the fifth ray passes through the Sun. Well, all the rays pass through the Sun. You know, fifth ray is associated with Leo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. 36|00:06:04|160|00:06:12|400And I think I've spoken that Aquarius is the coming sign which will transmit the majority of the fifth ray. 37|00:06:13|600|00:06:19|360But Leo presently is the sign which maximally expresses the fifth ray. 38|00:06:19|700|00:06:30|080So passing through the Sun, the Sun doesn't have very much fifth ray about it, although it is aspiring to the status of Sirius, which has much fifth ray about it. 39|00:06:30|080|00:06:36|760Just as the Earth is aspiring to the status of Venus, which has much fifth ray about it. 40|00:06:37|000|00:06:43|820So one day before long, both the Sun and the Earth will express the fifth ray more fully. 41|00:06:44|540|00:06:50|940Fifth ray coming through Jupiter as the root of Sagittarius - not much fifth ray there, but still it's a point of transmission. 42|00:06:50|940|00:06:55|600And through the Earth, as I explained one day, that fifth ray will be there right now. 43|00:06:55|900|00:07:05|660The planetary Logos of the Earth is fighting a battle, we are told, on the cosmic astral plane, on the fourth sub-plane of the cosmic astral plane, 44|00:07:05|680|00:07:11|120but is moving towards polarization on the fifth level, the fifth from below. 45|00:07:11|120|00:07:24|660And that would give an intense type of focus and a higher luminosity and may well occur when the Earth takes its fifth subsidiary initiation, 46|00:07:25|440|00:07:31|960as is shown or hinted in Cosmic Fire, page 384. 47|00:07:33|540|00:07:40|700Aquarius signs, the ray of signs passing through Aquarius - of course, through Uranus, yes, there's much fifth ray in Uranus. 48|00:07:40|700|00:07:46|840And through Jupiter, again, not really, but yet it does pass through. 49|00:07:47|380|00:07:50|360Remember that all the planets have all the rays. 50|00:07:51|320|00:07:59|760It's a bit like saying all the human chakras have all the rays, which can be expressed through them, 51|00:07:59|780|00:08:07|660but there are some rays which are more focal within a particular planet than other rays. 52|00:08:07|660|00:08:18|000We come to the sixth ray passing through Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, and strangely we have the sixth ray passing through Mercury. 53|00:08:18|500|00:08:25|000There's not much of the sixth ray there - it's a very rational planet in a way, but it does express along the 2, 4, 6 line. 54|00:08:25|680|00:08:35|620The sixth ray coming through the Moon - we can relate it to the idea that the Moon is one of the rulers of the Lunar Lords, 55|00:08:35|620|00:08:44|580which is the sixth creative hierarchy, and the sixth is an important number of form, and the Moon is the mother of the form. 56|00:08:45|360|00:08:53|220See, I'm giving justifications here for how the rays might be related to the planet through which they are passing, 57|00:08:53|420|00:09:03|520and yet the fact that they do pass through the planet will operate whether or not the planet has real affinity for the ray. 58|00:09:03|520|00:09:14|780It does have affinity for the sign - the ruler or the Logos of the particular planet will be related to the ruler or Logos of the constellation, 59|00:09:14|880|00:09:20|960and that is a solid relationship, but the ray relationship may not be conventional or expected. 60|00:09:21|560|00:09:33|440Sixth ray passing through Jupiter - yes, I've often speculated that one of the rays of Jupiter may be the uplifting, enthusiastic, uprising sixth ray. 61|00:09:34|080|00:09:36|860On some level, Jupiter seems to suggest that. 62|00:09:37|820|00:09:45|740And then there is the Earth and its sixth ray. Well, certainly the Earth is under the spell at the moment of the 666, 63|00:09:46|400|00:09:52|520which is the physical body of the planetary Logos and the eighteen sub-planes. 64|00:09:53|220|00:10:02|960Three sixes are eighteen, and that is precisely the lunar nature of our planetary Logos, his dense physical body. 65|00:10:03|720|00:10:07|220Sixth ray passing through Pluto - well, Pluto has much to do with the solar plexus, 66|00:10:07|800|00:10:14|080and we're told that there is the disappearance into Hades, 67|00:10:14|400|00:10:21|640which is connected with the solar plexus of many of the problems associated with the human being. 68|00:10:22|040|00:10:30|740So there is a kind of a cutting off of solar plexus reaction via Pluto. 69|00:10:30|740|00:10:36|240I wondered whether it might not be the sixth ray, one of the higher rays of Pluto, 70|00:10:36|420|00:10:44|820with the first ray being particularly the exoteric ruler. 71|00:10:45|800|00:10:49|740Finally, we come to the seventh ray associated with Aries, Cancer and Capricorn. 72|00:10:52|140|00:10:58|260Well, regimentation through Aries and the protection of the form via the lowest vessel in Cancer. 73|00:10:58|260|00:11:04|620I think I already did discuss the ways in which the rays particularly relate to the signs of the zodiac. 74|00:11:04|840|00:11:08|780I hope I did discuss that. Can't review all that right now. 75|00:11:08|960|00:11:11|600And the majority of the seventh ray coming through Capricorn. 76|00:11:12|180|00:11:20|360But the seventh ray comes through Mars - well, it's a planet which has much opposition to the seventh ray 77|00:11:20|360|00:11:25|980because it's so impulsive, and yet there is a spirit of regimentation going along with Mars, 78|00:11:25|980|00:11:33|220which suggests the seventh ray. As for Mercury, it's not a very grounding planet as the seventh ray is, 79|00:11:33|320|00:11:41|740and yet it has a similarity with the seventh ray in as much as it links high spaces with low spaces, 80|00:11:41|760|00:11:45|440and the ultimate statement of the seventh ray is the highest and the lowest meet. 81|00:11:47|300|00:11:54|040The moon is very much connected with the seventh ray and with violet, the moon's color in a sense, 82|00:11:54|040|00:12:00|640and with measuring time via the phases of the moon and with providing the vessel. 83|00:12:01|300|00:12:02|980Can the seventh ray be connected with Neptune? 84|00:12:03|360|00:12:10|120Well, normally one would think it cannot because it has so much of the 2-4-6 line, 85|00:12:10|300|00:12:19|760And yet there is a point in, is it on page 300, I'm not sure, of Esoteric Astrology 86|00:12:19|760|00:12:25|020where the Neptune is associated with the base of the spine center, 87|00:12:26|100|00:12:28|740and there is a point at which Vulcan and Neptune come into opposition, 88|00:12:28|980|00:12:32|940and Vulcan represents the head center, and I suspect Neptune the base of the spine. 89|00:12:33|680|00:12:44|280I believe that may be on page 300 of Esoteric Astrology. We can check that as we go along. 90|00:12:44|400|00:12:46|420We certainly will reach it as we go through this book. 91|00:12:47|000|00:12:50|500Capricorn and Saturn, yes, well Saturn rules the entire cosmic physical plane. 92|00:12:51|440|00:12:58|880It rules also the physical etheric sub-plane of the cosmic physical plane, 93|00:12:59|000|00:13:05|400so yes, naturally there is a connection with the seventh ray and Saturn. 94|00:13:07|000|00:13:09|240I'm just going to take a quick look here if possible. 95|00:13:09|320|00:13:12|180This happens during classes all the time, so please forgive me. 96|00:13:12|180|00:13:16|660I go searching for something. Well, there it is. I thought it was. 97|00:13:17|600|00:13:22|900I thought it was. It's on, no, it's not page 300. It might be page 330. 98|00:13:25|980|00:13:30|380Well, there it is. There it is. It is on page 301. 99|00:13:31|700|00:13:37|940We see that the Sun, possibly veiling Vulcan, represents the head. 100|00:13:37|940|00:13:46|240The heart is Uranus, and Neptune is the base of the spine, interestingly enough. 101|00:13:47|380|00:13:51|920So Neptune does relate to the faculty of desire, 102|00:13:53|100|00:13:57|000and desire is that which is necessary if there's going to be any manifestation whatsoever. 103|00:13:57|000|00:14:02|620Also Neptune is the hierarchical ruler of Cancer, 104|00:14:02|920|00:14:08|260which is the lowest of the hierarchies on the cosmic astral plane, 105|00:14:08|440|00:14:14|340and which is responsible for precipitation, again, onto the cosmic physical plane. 106|00:14:14|420|00:14:19|960Anyway, I think I did discuss these a bit. It's been about a month, 107|00:14:21|480|00:14:25|060but if I repeated myself just a bit, I'm sorry. 108|00:14:25|060|00:14:27|420Perhaps some new information has come through. 109|00:14:28|640|00:14:36|680Now we are essentially rolling into page 86, and the Tibetan is saying, 110|00:14:38|220|00:14:41|900let's make this just a little, little bigger. 111|00:14:43|260|00:14:45|480Okay, okay, just a little bigger. 112|00:14:46|960|00:14:52|620Whoops. Oh, page 86. Let's see if I can find that. 113|00:14:52|620|00:14:57|500Sorry for the slight, slight delay here. 114|00:14:59|900|00:15:04|540Okay, okay. Aha, we were farther than we should be. 115|00:15:05|760|00:15:07|080All right. 116|00:15:12|280|00:15:13|440Just about there. 117|00:15:16|320|00:15:21|620It's not always easy to go back to where you should be, 118|00:15:24|360|00:15:26|600because sometimes… yeah, there we are. Okay. 119|00:15:29|140|00:15:36|280So, D.K. tells us it will be obvious to you how much correlating work 120|00:15:36|280|00:15:40|800and how much readjustment of ideas will be needed 121|00:15:40|800|00:15:44|040as the new astrology is worked out into practical usefulness 122|00:15:44|040|00:15:49|420and eventually substituted for that which is now holding sway. 123|00:15:49|520|00:15:51|760When I first read this, I was really excited, 124|00:15:52|020|00:15:55|640because, you know, just a piece of personal astrology here, 125|00:15:55|760|00:15:59|760I have Mercury on the Midheaven, Mercury, fourth ray Mercury, 126|00:15:59|900|00:16:05|600involved in correlation, the fifth, the Midheaven being the place 127|00:16:05|600|00:16:08|440of the individual's dharma in a particular incarnation. 128|00:16:08|440|00:16:11|960So I thought perhaps I might be involved in this correlating work, 129|00:16:12|220|00:16:17|580as correlation is one of the things I like to do the most, 130|00:16:18|300|00:16:22|340and eventually the synthesis of all the relations begins to appear 131|00:16:22|340|00:16:29|940and the field of pure reason is revealed, or pure reason reveals the field, 132|00:16:30|760|00:16:34|720and all the relationships in the great science of relations 133|00:16:34|720|00:16:38|520stand forth with increasing clarity. 134|00:16:39|060|00:16:42|880As for readjustment of ideas, well, I don't know whether it's better 135|00:16:42|880|00:16:49|220to study normal astrology before studying esoteric astrology, 136|00:16:49|220|00:16:53|180or whether it's not. The mind can certainly become cluttered 137|00:16:53|180|00:16:59|000by lesser ideas of quite a concrete nature, 138|00:16:59|000|00:17:05|980and that cluttering can inhibit for a long time 139|00:17:05|980|00:17:11|080the assimilation of the new ideas. 140|00:17:11|200|00:17:15|020At the same time, there are certain things in classical astrology 141|00:17:15|020|00:17:19|500which really help the student know what Master D.K. is talking about. 142|00:17:19|660|00:17:24|640Obviously, he knows classical astrology very well, 143|00:17:24|640|00:17:29|320but has chosen not to emphasize it because the newer ideas 144|00:17:29|320|00:17:30|820are the ones that have to come through. 145|00:17:31|480|00:17:36|380I think it took me many years before I could begin to adjust 146|00:17:37|360|00:17:40|540the concepts that I had absorbed in classical astrology 147|00:17:40|540|00:17:43|880with the new incoming ones from esoteric astrology, 148|00:17:44|340|00:17:49|120and I've seen quite a number of practitioners of esoteric astrology 149|00:17:49|120|00:17:53|240understanding the theory pretty well, 150|00:17:53|460|00:18:01|080but not understanding how it might be applied to the lives of people 151|00:18:01|080|00:18:04|520they try to help, applied in a practical way, 152|00:18:04|540|00:18:06|340and that may take some time. 153|00:18:06|460|00:18:11|340And also remember, when you're trying to help people with esoteric astrology, 154|00:18:12|840|00:18:17|460it's not the normal personality-centered individual 155|00:18:17|460|00:18:21|860that you are seeking to aid with this more advanced type of astrology. 156|00:18:22|020|00:18:24|480Otherwise, the interpretations will fail 157|00:18:24|480|00:18:27|920because they have not reached a point 158|00:18:28|460|00:18:32|660where that type of astrology is really relevant to them. 159|00:18:33|420|00:18:37|160Anyway, we've had approximately 80 years here, 160|00:18:37|700|00:18:42|860and these 80 years should have seen quite a growth 161|00:18:42|860|00:18:45|740in the applicability of esoteric astrology. 162|00:18:46|340|00:18:47|680D.K. goes on to say, 163|00:18:47|880|00:18:51|620“The new astrology really embodies five sciences.” 164|00:18:52|680|00:18:54|600The science of the rays. 165|00:18:55|200|00:18:59|360Well, I think you can tell by the way we've been approaching this, 166|00:18:59|580|00:19:03|200and also, more importantly, how D.K. writes, 167|00:19:03|740|00:19:08|360that the rays are inseparable from the study of esoteric astrology. 168|00:19:08|520|00:19:11|380I always say that the rays are here in the right hand, 169|00:19:11|440|00:19:13|760astrology is here in the left hand, 170|00:19:13|760|00:19:17|040and these two absolutely have to be combined 171|00:19:17|040|00:19:23|620for a deeper understanding of the true soul or psyche of man 172|00:19:23|620|00:19:29|280as it expresses within the personality. 173|00:19:30|160|00:19:33|340So, every astrological factor that we can think of 174|00:19:33|340|00:19:37|620certainly has its ray correlation, 175|00:19:38|080|00:19:41|660and these we are attempting to master. 176|00:19:41|660|00:19:46|400The planets have the rays which are transmitted through them, 177|00:19:47|440|00:19:50|940and the science of the zodiac have that as well, 178|00:19:51|260|00:19:56|060and the solar Logoi have rays, 179|00:19:56|320|00:20:00|660and I wouldn't be surprised—I do think that the great constellations, 180|00:20:01|480|00:20:04|360which are centers in the one about whom naught may be said, 181|00:20:04|880|00:20:05|820have their own rays. 182|00:20:05|920|00:20:08|120Of course, all of them, but some of them emphasized. 183|00:20:08|120|00:20:12|260See, every chakra, all rays, but some emphasized. 184|00:20:12|940|00:20:16|320This is how I choose to look at it, and I think it's fairly accurate. 185|00:20:16|760|00:20:20|920And ultimately, this great universal septenate, 186|00:20:21|040|00:20:29|420you might say, coming from a great universal septenate. 187|00:20:33|120|00:20:37|500And we probably don't call that universal septenate the seven rays. 188|00:20:37|500|00:20:40|600When they come from the Great Bear, we call them the seven rays, 189|00:20:40|820|00:20:47|520but they are the ultimate prototypes of what we call the seven rays. 190|00:20:48|940|00:20:52|860So, esoteric astrology has certainly the science of the rays. 191|00:20:53|540|00:20:57|320It also has the science of esoteric interpretation, 192|00:20:58|200|00:21:03|840which means that the—okay, I may be experiencing degrading audio. 193|00:21:04|820|00:21:07|480Hopefully, that is not the case. 194|00:21:08|740|00:21:10|920So far everything looks okay. 195|00:21:12|200|00:21:14|760You let me know. Sometimes it's very disappointing, you know. 196|00:21:14|800|00:21:20|820I make these long programs, even a whole class, 197|00:21:21|560|00:21:24|000and it turns out that the webinar did not take, 198|00:21:24|140|00:21:25|900or there's some technical problem. 199|00:21:26|180|00:21:30|180Well, it's loss, but all loss is minimal 200|00:21:30|180|00:21:33|580when compared to eternal possibility. 201|00:21:35|100|00:21:39|140So, the science of esoteric interpretation is applied specifically 202|00:21:39|140|00:21:44|280to an understanding of the ways of the soul, 203|00:21:45|060|00:21:46|980or the ego on the higher mental plane, 204|00:21:48|040|00:21:54|620the ways of that ego within and through the three aspects of the personality, 205|00:21:55|380|00:21:58|200and through the personality as a unity itself. 206|00:21:58|200|00:22:05|320So, we're not interested in specific outcomes in the world of form, 207|00:22:05|440|00:22:09|620unless they affect the growth of consciousness. 208|00:22:10|060|00:22:16|680The whole study of esoteric astrology is about the growth of consciousness. 209|00:22:18|580|00:22:24|520Now, this esoteric interpretation will be carried out through the science of triangles, 210|00:22:24|520|00:22:30|360the vast science, which we will discuss as we make our way towards page 404, 211|00:22:30|640|00:22:33|420or approximately—I hope we can last that long. 212|00:22:34|340|00:22:40|120And this—everything is triangulated, and the three aspects of divinity 213|00:22:40|120|00:22:45|320are everywhere found in relation to every type of entity. 214|00:22:45|500|00:22:47|660An entity is a unity, but it's also a three. 215|00:22:48|580|00:22:53|880There's kind of a trinitization going on with respect to every entity, 216|00:22:53|880|00:22:57|140and we're studying not only the science of triangles, 217|00:22:57|500|00:23:01|300but the science of rotating triangles, 218|00:23:01|580|00:23:07|540where the different aspects of the triangle seem to come into prominence at different times. 219|00:23:08|260|00:23:15|500The whole universal process and progress occurs according to the law of cycles, 220|00:23:15|720|00:23:18|900and these cycles are accurately timed. 221|00:23:20|300|00:23:22|360Emphasis is always changing, 222|00:23:22|360|00:23:27|320and we have to know what the emphasis is at any particular moment 223|00:23:27|320|00:23:35|920if we are going to be able to understand the energies we have to work with 224|00:23:35|920|00:23:40|580and what can be best expressed to bring forward the divine plan. 225|00:23:41|400|00:23:43|360And then, of course, the science of the centers, 226|00:23:43|940|00:23:47|820esoteric interpretation working through the science of the centers. 227|00:23:49|620|00:23:54|980Now, every planet is a center chakra, every star is, 228|00:23:55|220|00:23:58|660every grouping of stars with seven major is, 229|00:23:58|900|00:24:06|200and every greater being, such as the one about whom naught may be said, 230|00:24:06|720|00:24:09|220which is simply a chakra in a still greater being, and so forth. 231|00:24:10|080|00:24:15|760We have to understand how the human being or any entity grows 232|00:24:15|760|00:24:22|040through the development of its chakra centers carrying certain energies 233|00:24:22|040|00:24:24|520at any particular time in its development. 234|00:24:24|720|00:24:29|700What is the chakric emphasis for any entity at a particular time? 235|00:24:30|740|00:24:36|060Now, you know, our solar Logos, for instance, has had a huge astral emphasis 236|00:24:36|060|00:24:41|260and is largely a great entity who is cosmically astrally polarized. 237|00:24:41|260|00:24:49|980But now there is a movement of our solar Logos towards a mental polarization, 238|00:24:49|980|00:24:56|380and perhaps whatever represents the throat center or the ajna center of our solar Logos 239|00:24:56|380|00:24:58|340will be receiving new stimulation. 240|00:25:00|000|00:25:06|040Let's just say Mercury, very definitely Saturn, I would say very definitely. 241|00:25:06|620|00:25:09|200Venus always receives tremendous stimulation 242|00:25:09|200|00:25:16|760and it has both a monadic and a love emphasis. 243|00:25:17|900|00:25:20|440So, you know, look inside your own energy system, 244|00:25:21|200|00:25:27|940and when we're interpreting your chart, what is the chakra or combination of chakras 245|00:25:27|940|00:25:32|900which are receiving emphasis according to your stage of development? 246|00:25:32|900|00:25:39|280You know, D.K. has gone over this as I have, I think, pointed out, 247|00:25:39|280|00:25:45|980and it would be found in Cosmic Fire, approximately page 170. 248|00:25:47|340|00:25:50|840Yes, and you know, here we are, we should be at least this: 249|00:25:51|320|00:25:59|200man partially controlled by the ego, you know, partially controlled by the ego, 250|00:26:00|120|00:26:02|360and we are advanced man at least, 251|00:26:02|360|00:26:06|360and so some of the head centers are being activated in the heart and the throat, surely. 252|00:26:07|120|00:26:12|380And many of us, I would say the majority should be spiritual man to the third initiation, 253|00:26:12|720|00:26:17|360which takes us through the heart, throat and seven head centers. 254|00:26:18|460|00:26:23|640So, you know, basically what you're looking at there is a combination of Jupiter the heart, Saturn the throat 255|00:26:23|640|00:26:25|780and Vulcan the seven head centers. 256|00:26:25|780|00:26:33|440So, this series of chakras can be triangulated in relation to three planets, 257|00:26:33|440|00:26:39|340and then we move up towards the fifth initiation and still other chakric centers. 258|00:26:39|680|00:26:46|680So, it's a huge study, this study of the chakras and their present condition, 259|00:26:47|640|00:26:56|340their tendency forward, their attempt to become equilibrated with two other chakras, 260|00:26:57|060|00:27:04|200the diseases that may be caused through over or under emphasis upon a particular chakra. 261|00:27:05|120|00:27:08|380The ramifications are stupendous. 262|00:27:08|980|00:27:12|540So, I suppose in the beginning it's enough for us to know what the chakras are, 263|00:27:12|540|00:27:21|580what planets rule them, what rays come through them, what basic functions each of the chakras has. 264|00:27:22|400|00:27:30|880I suppose that is a beginning, and then of course one day our knowledge will expand like that of Master D.K., 265|00:27:31|220|00:27:36|140you know, whose knowledge is stupendous on these matters. 266|00:27:36|300|00:27:40|200But, you know, he's given us enough to get started and we will continue. 267|00:27:40|200|00:27:45|280Then the science of destiny, of which the progressed horoscope is the seed. 268|00:27:46|440|00:27:51|080Where are we going? What is our direction? What are, from a soul perspective, 269|00:27:51|660|00:27:56|020what type of accomplishment are we attempting to have in a particular incarnation? 270|00:27:56|540|00:28:01|260What might be the next incarnation which is destined to appear? 271|00:28:01|700|00:28:06|320Ultimately the science of destiny is a monadic factor altogether, 272|00:28:06|320|00:28:09|760and perhaps that far ahead we cannot see. 273|00:28:10|640|00:28:15|080We don't really need to, you know, one, the old saying, “Lead kindly light,” you know, 274|00:28:15|220|00:28:19|900One step is enough for me, as long as it's the right step. 275|00:28:20|960|00:28:26|440So, consulting the rising sign and its rulers in relation to the science of destiny is very important, 276|00:28:26|440|00:28:34|360and from a deeper perspective, we can consult the sign opposite the sun sign. 277|00:28:36|160|00:28:40|320Which is—we can call it the monadic point from a certain perspective. 278|00:28:41|480|00:28:49|420It's part of the triple sun theory which the modern esoteric astrologers are working on. 279|00:28:49|540|00:28:55|520The triple sun being the normal physical sun in its position in your chart, your sun sign, 280|00:28:56|000|00:28:58|820your ascendant, and the point opposite your sun sign. 281|00:28:58|820|00:29:03|400These are the triple sun. The astrologer Steven Pugh is a very good one, 282|00:29:03|780|00:29:11|720has emphasized this triple sun early on in the game, and it is very important for us to study. 283|00:29:13|100|00:29:18|080This latter science will be based upon the four previous ones 284|00:29:18|080|00:29:24|880and will constitute an interpretation of the future—not, you know, in the particular incarnation, yes, 285|00:29:24|880|00:29:32|680and also perhaps in future incarnations—which will be founded on a correct understanding of the rays, 286|00:29:33|500|00:29:41|880personal and egoic, of the influence of the triangle: zodiacal, planetary, racial, and human. 287|00:29:43|100|00:29:47|720Racial and human. Okay, there's a lot that is said there. 288|00:29:47|720|00:29:53|880So, the science of destiny will depend upon—let us look here— 289|00:29:54|460|00:30:00|320the science of the rays, esoteric interpretation, science of triangles, and the science of the centers. 290|00:30:02|740|00:30:07|260Okay, we are always trying to predict our future within a particular incarnation, 291|00:30:07|940|00:30:12|900but it's not just whether what will happen will be pleasant or unpleasant. 292|00:30:12|900|00:30:22|600It's about whether it will be goal-fitting in terms of the intention of the soul 293|00:30:22|600|00:30:29|200and will bring forward that part of the plan in which we are supposed to participate. 294|00:30:30|980|00:30:34|980This science of destiny—well, according to your rays, so you will progress. 295|00:30:36|320|00:30:39|620In a particular incarnation, the personal ray is very important, 296|00:30:39|620|00:30:46|860but the soul ray will tell us something more about the trajectory of progress for lives to come. 297|00:30:47|560|00:30:52|940A teacher becomes a better teacher; a leader or governor becomes a better governor. 298|00:30:53|080|00:30:58|160All the future incarnations will reflect the quality of the soul ray. 299|00:31:00|060|00:31:06|460And the influence of the triangles will be found planetarily and zodiacally in every horoscope. 300|00:31:07|360|00:31:15|140There are chakric triangles, and there are also triangles between the races and the sub-races 301|00:31:15|140|00:31:22|300and their great areas of expression—the countries through which they work. 302|00:31:22|400|00:31:27|240We can begin to triangulate countries as well, with their particular rays 303|00:31:27|240|00:31:36|640and what each one of these countries may represent in terms of the centers within the planetary Logos. 304|00:31:37|200|00:31:41|420A number of different countries together and their rays may tend to constitute, let us say, 305|00:31:41|520|00:31:44|620an Ajna center, or some a throat center, or some a solar plexus. 306|00:31:45|180|00:31:49|060So we will want to study the human race at large 307|00:31:49|820|00:31:59|180and to see which of the different groupings of units within it represent which particular centers. 308|00:31:59|400|00:32:03|880That is also a very, very, very, very big subject. 309|00:32:04|500|00:32:11|580Humanity as a whole may in one sense represent the throat center of the planetary Logos, 310|00:32:12|460|00:32:17|140but within that throat center, there are all kinds of groupings 311|00:32:17|140|00:32:22|160which represent seven chakras within humanity itself. 312|00:32:22|580|00:32:30|140And the different races and sub-races and national groups tend to go to the constitution of those chakras. 313|00:32:30|940|00:32:38|820Let us say that if we are looking at a collection of the aboriginal groups which have a definite function, 314|00:32:40|400|00:32:48|020they would seem to be very related to the base of the spine center and some of its earlier functions. 315|00:32:48|720|00:32:56|260When we look at the great intelligentsia found, let us say, in the great universities of the world and think tanks, 316|00:32:56|380|00:33:04|500obviously they represent different types of chakras within the race of humanity: the throat center, the Ajna center. 317|00:33:05|240|00:33:13|600When we tend to look at those who are motivated by divine love and divine purpose, still other centers are involved. 318|00:33:15|400|00:33:23|500Okay, so we have all of these different triangles that are involved in the science of destiny. 319|00:33:23|660|00:33:32|800It is extremely intricate, but you know, with every individual, there must be one vector that comes forth. 320|00:33:32|800|00:33:41|220There is the sum of all the different tendencies, and it will be that vector—that direction pursued with force— 321|00:33:42|260|00:33:48|940which will tell us where we are going as individuals and as larger aggregates. 322|00:33:49|800|00:33:56|660These latter triangles are arrived at by a study of the individual human centers. 323|00:33:56|660|00:34:09|040Well, we are doing that, and from studying these individual human centers, let us say, we can extrapolate to the larger chakras. 324|00:34:10|580|00:34:18|420There is so much that can be learned about zodiacal planetary triangles, even I suppose racial triangles, 325|00:34:18|460|00:34:25|200by studying the chakras of the individual human being and the way they develop, when they develop, 326|00:34:25|200|00:34:28|700the relationships achieved as they develop. 327|00:34:29|980|00:34:34|340You know, there is always going to be a transference from the sacral to the throat center and all these entities. 328|00:34:35|100|00:34:40|700There will be from the solar plexus to the heart. There will be eventually from the base of the spine to the crown. 329|00:34:40|880|00:34:52|640There will be transfers, and this kind of thing will happen in solar systems, and it will happen within planets as well. 330|00:34:52|640|00:34:57|560And it will happen within those great beings we call zodiacal lords. 331|00:34:57|860|00:35:06|640These transfers will go on. Although, you know, when you look at a zodiacal lord and the different kinds of stars 332|00:35:06|640|00:35:15|400that are related to such a great being, it is a bit hard to sort out which are the particular chakras within that constellation. 333|00:35:15|400|00:35:25|620But within sevenfold constellations, which have seven major stars in them, it is probably possible to make an educated guess 334|00:35:25|620|00:35:31|540about which will be the chakric centers within any such greater being. 335|00:35:31|700|00:35:38|520For instance, in the cosmic Logos in which our solar system and solar Logos participate, 336|00:35:38|520|00:35:42|700we play the function of a heart center. 337|00:35:43|540|00:35:50|800And other solar Logoi with whom our solar Logos is associated will play the functions of different centers. 338|00:35:51|040|00:36:02|540Now, you know, one day, and maybe it is happening even now, there is a transfer from that which represents the solar plexus center 339|00:36:02|540|00:36:07|380in our solar system to that which represents the heart center. 340|00:36:07|380|00:36:12|300Okay, now what about in a cosmic Logos? The sun is representing the heart center. 341|00:36:12|500|00:36:23|700What is that particular solar Logos in our sevenfold cosmic Logoic system that represents the solar plexus? 342|00:36:24|060|00:36:32|000Because obviously a transference of energy, analogically considered, will be moving from the solar plexus to the heart 343|00:36:32|000|00:36:39|920within this greater being, and we will be receiving that energy in our solar system, and that will affect us. 344|00:36:40|400|00:36:49|840So the implications are wide-ranging, and they are useful to the point it helps us get our own house in order 345|00:36:49|840|00:36:52|980and take care of our own chakric system. 346|00:36:54|560|00:37:03|620Now, when all this has been ascertained—I love that word because it does tend to mean “made certain.” 347|00:37:04|640|00:37:07|400In other words, it is not just a guess; you really know what you are talking about. 348|00:37:07|920|00:37:09|980So it will be a while yet before this is ascertained. 349|00:37:11|160|00:37:19|160When all this has been ascertained and worked out in the new style of horoscope, which will later be developed— 350|00:37:19|160|00:37:26|580and much later, we don't know—many are the attempts now to develop the new style of horoscope, 351|00:37:26|780|00:37:32|260but the masters certainly have horoscopes of which we know very little and which are extremely revealing, we are told— 352|00:37:33|080|00:37:40|260then the science of destiny will be applied and the future indications discovered. 353|00:37:40|480|00:37:46|000I mean, you know, it's very good to know where we're going, even in one particular life, 354|00:37:46|000|00:37:50|920and the progressed horoscope is perhaps the seed of that type of discovery. 355|00:37:51|820|00:37:57|400And the directed horoscope also helps, and transits properly interpreted also help. 356|00:37:58|160|00:37:59|860Where are we going in this incarnation? 357|00:38:00|060|00:38:09|480But just imagine if we could see the trend of the lives that we tend to be living at this time. 358|00:38:11|220|00:38:13|940What are the last several? What are the next several? 359|00:38:14|160|00:38:23|540What role does this particular incarnation play in the several lives that we will be leading, 360|00:38:23|540|00:38:31|540and the plan for which has already been formulated in the consciousness of the directing solar angel 361|00:38:31|540|00:38:37|080and in the consciousness of man as the ego when he can see clearly from the higher mental plane? 362|00:38:37|080|00:38:42|680Wouldn't that be interesting to know? Future indications will be discovered, 363|00:38:44|160|00:38:53|900only so that we can work with greater accuracy and advantage in the particular incarnation in which we are found. 364|00:38:54|720|00:38:59|900Of this, the personal progressed horoscope is the embryonic seed. I love that. 365|00:39:00|900|00:39:03|920There are so many different ways to operate with progressions. 366|00:39:03|920|00:39:10|780You know how astrologers are. Some of them have so much of the third and fifth ray that they find many, many techniques, 367|00:39:11|800|00:39:19|380trying to prove that a particular technique is perhaps the best, but perhaps all of them are helpful in some degree. 368|00:39:19|600|00:39:27|100There's great complexity in it all, but if we can just get the essentials, I think we're doing what we can do 369|00:39:27|240|00:39:29|260as students of esotericism this time. 370|00:39:29|260|00:39:36|600We'll leave this to the profound technical experts over the centuries to work out all of the different methods of progression, 371|00:39:36|760|00:39:43|120but certainly the day-for-a-year method is very important, and there are even different ways of doing that. 372|00:39:45|960|00:39:53|500Yes, I've talked to some astrologers who say that our normal methods of progression are a bit faulty 373|00:39:53|500|00:40:02|480and sometimes they choose a different type of progression which is more of an average of the sun's progression 374|00:40:02|480|00:40:13|460because the sun doesn't progress the same number of degrees and minutes of arc and seconds of arc every day. 375|00:40:13|720|00:40:15|460There are differences in that. 376|00:40:15|460|00:40:24|500Well, of course, since a day equals a year, we're talking about the sun moving at a differential rate, 377|00:40:24|800|00:40:30|800although it's very close, but it's differential, every year, i.e., every day. 378|00:40:31|420|00:40:36|100So that's one method of progression, but the directed horoscope is also very important 379|00:40:36|100|00:40:45|560and there we have the addition of approximately one degree a year to every planet in the horoscope. 380|00:40:45|880|00:40:52|860So the horoscope maintains its pattern, but everything just shifts one degree a year with the pattern maintained. 381|00:40:54|280|00:40:58|860One degree is a rounded-off number, but some astrologers actually use the one degree method. 382|00:40:58|860|00:41:10|820Others direct the entire horoscope by exactly the amount that the sun has moved during a particular year. 383|00:41:12|040|00:41:21|460Others choose an average sun motion and move every factor in the horoscope by that particular average. 384|00:41:22|500|00:41:35|380This directed horoscope does work. From the pragmatic point of view, a day of our Lord is a year of our time. 385|00:41:36|640|00:41:47|680When you add the approximate amount that the sun has traveled every day, i.e., every year, to every factor in the horoscope, 386|00:41:47|680|00:42:01|840factors such as Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, and so forth, that move quite slowly in the personal progressed horoscope, 387|00:42:01|840|00:42:08|140you will find some amazing contacts being made between these outer planets, 388|00:42:09|360|00:42:14|420moving forward by approximately a degree a year with other planets and other angles, 389|00:42:14|420|00:42:25|220and by whatever means it does occur, the energies are brought in and we do experience them. 390|00:42:25|220|00:42:44|160Okay, now, so you know, there's the science of destiny taking the seed, being developed from the seed of the personal progressed horoscope. 391|00:42:44|360|00:42:52|040What a lot of work remains to be done here, and I might almost add the personal regressed horoscope, 392|00:42:52|040|00:43:01|640in which what is called converse directions and regressions are used. 393|00:43:01|780|00:43:08|460In other words, for the first year of life, we look not only for the first day after birth, 394|00:43:08|560|00:43:16|500we look for the first day before birth, and we keep on going in these opposite directions, and different contacts are made. 395|00:43:16|500|00:43:24|920Now, the tendency is to think of the contacts made with converse directions or regressed directions, 396|00:43:25|480|00:43:36|380regressed progressions, or I call them regressions, okay, so instead of progressions, regressions, instead of directions, converse directions, 397|00:43:37|040|00:43:45|340the contacts made may have some sort of karmic implication, because we are, as it were, moving backwards in time, 398|00:43:45|340|00:43:58|640and maybe touching upon points of resonance with past events of a karmic nature which are thereby being brought into the present life. 399|00:43:59|800|00:44:10|220Of course, you know, so much research has to be done, and the danger is being, can be considered being lost in a multiplicity of data. 400|00:44:10|220|00:44:19|000When you just have, you know, hundreds and thousands of correlations, you can find something to justify anything. 401|00:44:20|580|00:44:31|100But with the proper type of computer work and astute astrology, we will see whether these regressions on the day-for-a-year method, 402|00:44:31|100|00:44:44|060or the converse directions of, in a way, subtracting one degree a year from all planets and seeing what angles are made, 403|00:44:44|120|00:44:50|880we will see whether they stand up. Those who have used them say they do. 404|00:44:50|880|00:45:04|000But what we need in astrology is the ability to handle a tremendous amount of data in a manner that is not excessively time-consuming. 405|00:45:04|300|00:45:13|880This is our problem, but the developments in computer science in relation to astrology will, I think, allow us to do this. 406|00:45:13|880|00:45:32|260Okay, some indication of the relative values can be gained by consideration of the human triangles as given in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire which suggested the following. 407|00:45:32|260|00:45:45|020I think I've been there, okay, to that section, but let's see what he does, because sometimes he harkens back to Cosmic Fire in the later books. 408|00:45:45|480|00:45:53|940Okay, I do believe this is the section around page 170. Well, we'll just read through it. I think we've discussed it a bit. 409|00:45:53|940|00:46:01|460It would repay the student to contemplate the interesting succession of triangles that are to be found, 410|00:46:01|800|00:46:10|980and the way in which they must be linked by the progression of the fire before that fire can perfectly vivify them. 411|00:46:11|000|00:46:17|740So first comes the linking of the different triangles, and then the transmission from point to point, 412|00:46:17|740|00:46:29|660and then with that transmission a composite vivification until there is perfect vivification, not only of each chakra but of the entire triangle. 413|00:46:30|440|00:46:44|160And then pass on to other transmutations, and there's the word, because as the fires rise and as the triangles are vivified, transmutation is in progress. 414|00:46:44|160|00:46:57|300And the matter of our system, our little microcosmic system, is being gradually upgraded, refined, made more receptive. 415|00:46:57|620|00:47:09|920So with the rising through the lower triangles to the higher triangles, there is a gradual transmutation of all the matter in the personal system, 416|00:47:09|920|00:47:21|400and there will be other and higher transmutations going on within the causal body until it is properly developed and can be dispensed with. 417|00:47:22|760|00:47:34|220We might enumerate some of these triangles, bearing always in mind that according to the ray, and by that he means—by that he means the monadic ray. 418|00:47:34|220|00:47:46|400That's very important. You say, “Well, monadic ray doesn't have a whole lot of practical utility yet,” but according to the monadic ray, so will be the geometric rising of the fire. 1|00:00:07|220|00:00:10|180And according to the ray, so will the points be touched in ordered sequence. 420|00:47:54|680|00:48:05|940Now, you know, here's one of D.K.'s methods of blinding, you know, the ray. Well, which? You know, we might think personality ray, we might think soul ray, 421|00:48:06|060|00:48:22|440but elsewhere he makes it pretty clear that it's the monadic ray that has this really real connection with the etheric body, and according to which in a general way, the different parts of a triangle are vivified. 422|00:48:22|440|00:48:37|600You know, we always, in a way, it's always knowledge first, love second, will third. But as I have said, although knowledge goes first for the second ray monad, 423|00:48:38|340|00:48:49|380the point in a triangle representing the love will keep pace with it. Will is always the hardest to develop, but for the first ray monad, 424|00:48:49|380|00:49:07|380it will come into expression sooner than for the other types of monads, and in fact it will be the love emphasis which will have to be developed by the first ray monad, 425|00:49:07|380|00:49:27|640and which may be a little bit more retarded in its development than for the other ray types. Certainly the love point will be much slower in development for the first ray monad than for the second, and even for the third ray monad. 426|00:49:27|640|00:49:39|380And so it goes that for each type of monad, one point in the triangle is most difficult to develop, and one point is easiest to develop. 427|00:49:39|600|00:49:48|360For the third ray monad, obviously the knowledge point is the easiest to develop, as it is for all, but especially for the third ray monad, most rapidly. 428|00:49:48|360|00:50:02|140For the second ray monad, the love emphasis, the love point in the triangle is the easiest to develop, even though it is second in order, generically considered. 429|00:50:03|000|00:50:13|300And for the first ray monad, the will point is easiest to develop. What is most difficult for the third ray monad is to develop the will. 430|00:50:14|060|00:50:21|180What is most difficult for the second ray monad is to develop knowledge. What is most difficult for the first ray monad is to develop love. 431|00:50:22|280|00:50:34|200This is what I've concluded in reading from A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. So all of us, according to our monadic ray, are in process of dealing with the geometric rising of the fire. 432|00:50:34|200|00:50:50|020Of course, it is mostly unconscious to us, but if we are able to isolate the particular triangle with which we are working in any particular incarnation, assuming that there is one particular which receives the most emphasis, 433|00:50:50|300|00:50:59|680we may be able to look at the three members of that triangle and see which is in the greatest state of development and which needs attention. 434|00:51:00|620|00:51:03|860So let's go on here a little bit. 435|00:51:05|060|00:51:14|480Herein lies one of the secrets of initiation, he says, because Sanat Kumara certainly knows what to vivify next and how to equilibrate the energies, 436|00:51:14|880|00:51:28|840and also readiness for initiation may have to do something with the degree of equilibration of a particular triangle, which is to receive the emphasis. 437|00:51:28|840|00:51:40|340It is solar fire, which is the equilibrating energy, and perhaps it must be applied to a triangle to bring about greater type of Libran balance, 438|00:51:41|940|00:51:47|380Libra being not only a third ray sign, but I intuitively think at least a second ray sign as well. 439|00:51:48|080|00:51:54|700And herein are found some of the dangers entailed in a too quick publication of information concerning the rays. 440|00:51:54|700|00:52:14|240Well, it is of such complexity that it can be presented in the uncorrelated form, and people will just look at it as an impenetrable mass of information that they can't fully understand. 441|00:52:14|240|00:52:27|760But when the compilations begin to be made and the organization of the information in a more assimilable manner begins to occur, then we have the possibility, a greater possibility of misuse. 442|00:52:28|440|00:52:36|740Well anyway, the Pranic triangle is here, it's got the shoulder center at the lower part of the shoulder blades, not the heart center. 443|00:52:36|740|00:52:44|880We have the center near the diaphragm, which is higher than the solar plexus, and I believe it's above the diaphragm, the last I checked. 444|00:52:45|360|00:52:57|360And then we have the spleen, which is below the diaphragm. So here we have sort of the first ray center, the shoulder center, center near the diaphragm, second center, second ray center, and the spleen, the third ray center. 445|00:52:57|360|00:53:17|880We're assuming that we would have a correlation here with first, second, and third ray monads: the spleen receiving activation first, in general generically the center near the diaphragm second, and the shoulder center at last, but activation varying according to the monadic ray. 446|00:53:18|040|00:53:21|500Anyway, it's a foundational, in a way, Lemurian triangle. 447|00:53:22|040|00:53:25|680Yes, we did deal with this before, but you know it's worth a little review. 448|00:53:26|800|00:53:37|160The one thing when dealing with Master D.K.'s material is review, review, review, and slowly assimilate until it all begins to correlate. 449|00:53:38|540|00:53:43|120Assimilate to the point of correlation, and correlation will bring unification. 450|00:53:44|520|00:53:53|900Man controlled from the astral plane—which is not the people who are reading this book, although there is some astral control naturally; we haven't mastered that thing completely. 451|00:53:54|760|00:54:05|460Base of the spine center, solar plexus, and heart. In this particular case, I suppose the third ray point would be the base of the spine. 452|00:54:07|660|00:54:11|520We have to look at what would be the highest controlling center. 453|00:54:12|880|00:54:20|420Okay, the battery is just about gone. So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to come back to this. 454|00:54:21|560|00:54:26|080I'm going to come back to this. Just excuse me for just a moment. 455|00:54:31|420|00:54:37|500Yes, there is a problem, as I'm not really getting juice here. 456|00:54:38|480|00:54:46|120Okay, we will come back to this, and I will do The Great Invocation at this point, because we are just about at the end of our rope. 457|00:54:47|220|00:54:50|960And I don't want to have this close off. 458|00:54:50|960|00:54:54|840So, The Great Invocation. 459|00:54:56|100|00:55:04|440From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 460|00:55:05|620|00:55:17|680From the point of love within the heart of God—oh well—let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. 461|00:55:19|220|00:55:27|920From 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. 462|00:55:28|920|00:55:37|920And from 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. 463|00:55:38|780|00:55:42|880Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 464|00:55:44|620|00:55:46|020Om. 465|00:55:54|100|00:55:55|500Om. 466|00:55:56|620|00:55:57|260Om. 467|00:56:06|720|00:56:07|360Om. 468|00:56:18|740|00:56:22|540Okay, friends, actually, I discovered it was a very simple problem. 469|00:56:23|280|00:56:34|720We actually have just a few more minutes here, so I'm just a tiny bit out of order, still to represent the fact that Mercury is really retrograde and has caused many people many problems. 470|00:56:36|300|00:56:40|980In a way here, when you look at the heart, it is the greatest of the centers, so you could think it relates to the first ray. 471|00:56:42|520|00:56:55|240But from another perspective, the base of the spine represents the first ray, the solar plexus having to do with the sixth ray is related to the third, and the heart may be the second ray center. 472|00:56:55|640|00:57:07|160There are different ways to look at this, but in terms of the power of the center at a particular time, it may be only the third ray aspect of the base of the spine center which is emerging. 473|00:57:08|760|00:57:15|960And the solar plexus may be connected in this case as the middle center and the heart with the first ray. 474|00:57:16|800|00:57:22|620But the heart does seem to stay in that position for quite a while—man controlled from the mental plane. 475|00:57:23|500|00:57:33|600The base of the spine center in this particular case will again be the first ray, the heart will be the second ray, and the throat obviously the third ray. 476|00:57:33|600|00:57:47|300But in terms of their ordering, the base of the spine is in the third position, the heart in the second position, and the throat is the foremost emphasis during the phase of man controlled from the mental plane. 477|00:57:47|800|00:57:49|680So there are two ways of looking at this. 478|00:57:49|680|00:58:01|880When we look at it from the point of view of the rays, the base of the spine has the obvious first ray connection, ruled by Pluto and some other planets. 479|00:58:02|020|00:58:05|020The heart is an obvious second ray connection, though the throat the third ray. 480|00:58:06|460|00:58:19|000In this particular relationship, when the monad is the first ray, the base of the spine may receive more stimulation than for monads of other types. 481|00:58:19|000|00:58:32|240So one way of ordering these triangles is according to the ray they express, and the other is according to their so-called height or level within the etheric body. 482|00:58:32|440|00:58:37|160The throat, with its 16 petals, having a higher position than any of the others. 483|00:58:38|560|00:58:46|780When it comes to man controlled by the ego or advanced man, we have the heart, the throat, and the head. 484|00:58:47|860|00:58:53|720We cannot really say that the heart represents the third ray; it always represents the second. 485|00:58:54|740|00:59:01|120The throat, in this case, represents the third ray, and the head, the will centers, the first ray. 486|00:59:01|120|00:59:15|160But the heart is technically in a lower and sustaining position in this particular triangle, and it is a constant, but the throat is receiving greater emphasis. 487|00:59:15|760|00:59:22|240There are some initiations, the first and the second really, in which both heart and throat receive emphasis. 488|00:59:22|240|00:59:33|060The heart especially for the first initiation in a certain way, and yet the throat and sacral center have a peculiar relationship in that initiation. 489|00:59:33|500|00:59:45|720And we could say that the throat center has a peculiar emphasis in the second initiation, and yet, because we're achieving spiritual intelligence and mental illumination of a kind, 490|00:59:45|720|00:59:53|440but the heart does receive stimulation of the second degree because of the raising of the solar plexus energy to the heart. 491|00:59:53|860|00:59:59|180So in both these initiations we have both the heart and throat involved. 492|01:00:00|500|01:00:15|160But our interest here is the progression of the fires according to the monadic ray, and I think a very safe way of looking at it is in general the type of rays that go through the particular… 493|01:00:16|120|01:00:27|460through the particular centers. Now, when it comes to the very first, or pranic triangle, that's not a totally safe way of looking at it because there's no way that the… 494|01:00:27|460|01:00:34|300no, excuse me, the second triangle, that the base of the spine will be maximally stimulated at that time by the first ray. 495|01:00:34|400|01:00:42|180It just will not happen because of the stage of development, and yet the base of the spine has a definite first ray connection. 496|01:00:42|180|01:00:46|120And yet it sustains all in the field of matter. 497|01:00:47|080|01:00:55|540Well, you know, I kind of wanted to finish this little bit. The seven head centers, heart, throat, and seven head centers, just the same. 498|01:00:55|720|01:01:01|020Heart, second ray; throat, third ray; and seven head centers, first ray. 499|01:01:01|980|01:01:12|280And now this is interesting though, you know, you ever wonder whether the heart can in a way, because it is the vitality, take up the third ray position. 500|01:01:12|380|01:01:21|300Normally it does not, but it can be the foundation, the etheric vital foundation, and in that respect correlate with the etheric body and the third ray. 501|01:01:21|300|01:01:31|360The seven head centers here would be a Vulcanian expression along the second ray line because Vulcan is related to the heart of the sun internally, 502|01:01:31|740|01:01:37|640which is very, you know, unusual to think about, and the two many-petaled lotuses would be the first ray combination. 503|01:01:38|260|01:01:46|320Anyway, we did go over this, and there are different ways of thinking about it, both generically and in terms of the level of the center, 504|01:01:47|000|01:02:01|280and in terms of the ray passing through the chakra. So here we are, we're probably still, I don't know what page we're on, I suppose it's page 88. 505|01:02:01|860|01:02:17|420Okay, we've made it to page 88, so this is the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 40, from 86 to 88, and we will continue as time allows. 506|01:02:18|320|01:02:32|140Right now I find myself in a rather cold little tepee, literally, and I'll do my best to continue these as I would like to get through this whole book, 507|01:02:32|320|01:02:42|740which will be not only a study of esoteric astrology, but will try to bring in many psychological and cosmological factors, 508|01:02:42|740|01:02:56|920sort of a synthesis of occultism as far as I can see. But of course, if I were to use different books, my tendency to synthesize occultism would have a different flavor. 509|01:02:57|640|01:03:07|420Alright, we're not too bad, so friends, that will be it for the moment, end number 40, and we will see you before… excuse that The Great Invocation is a little bit out of order, 510|01:03:07|420|01:03:16|420but I thought we were going to have a crash and there's no way to redeem the program that I've just made for you if there's a crash. 511|01:03:17|500|01:03:23|420Okay, we'll see you soon, and many blessings to everybody, and we'll talk to you later.
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