1|00:00:08|300|00:00:18|040Okay, hi everybody. We are beginning with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 43, and 2|00:00:18|040|00:00:23|640we are continuing with the sign Aries. We have now reached the point where we are discussing 3|00:00:23|640|00:00:32|300the keynotes of Aries. The keynotes of the sign Aries are four in number, all conveying 4|00:00:32|300|00:00:42|440the same idea. Well, let's see if we agree with that. They are diverse, but perhaps behind 5|00:00:42|440|00:00:49|400them all is a similar idea. They can be expressed in the following four injunctions which are 6|00:00:49|400|00:00:58|140given, symbolically, to the incarnating soul: and I would say over a period of time and 7|00:00:58|140|00:01:12|640when incarnating in Aries at different stages of evolution. Okay, what have we? 1. Express 8|00:01:12|640|00:01:24|140the will to be and do. Aries is the sign most connected with pure being, as I said in relation 9|00:01:24|140|00:01:33|280to the soul of India, and Aries is a sign of action. So, in the lives of so many of 10|00:01:33|280|00:01:43|680us, there is a dichotomy between being and doing, and in relation to Aries, both are 11|00:01:43|680|00:01:51|140required. Aries is most associated with God the Father and with the pure spirit aspect. 12|00:01:51|220|00:01:59|840That is the aspect of being, but also there is multiple, multiplex activity involved in 13|00:01:59|840|00:02:10|360the pursuit of being while in the three lower worlds. So, a sign of pure assertion of spirit, 14|00:02:10|520|00:02:16|140which does not need to act, it does not need to be anything other than itself, simply to 15|00:02:16|140|00:02:27|520persist in being, and also a sign of great initiatives undertaken in the worlds of action, 16|00:02:27|520|00:02:33|960the three lower worlds. Those are the worlds of action, these are the worlds of consciousness, 17|00:02:34|340|00:02:44|400and then the worlds of pure being. 2. Unfold the power to manifest. Aries is downward tending 18|00:02:44|400|00:02:53|880when the soul is entering incarnation, and whatever seed of energy, whatever design there 19|00:02:53|880|00:03:01|960is inherent in the soul, it is Aries that seeks to bring that forward, push that forward 20|00:03:01|960|00:03:08|840into form, let form again be sought. Push that forward into manifestation. We have the 21|00:03:08|840|00:03:13|660seventh ray connected with Aries, the ray of manifestation, and the first ray as well 22|00:03:14|200|00:03:21|820in the Manu whose department is related to the preparation of the vessel, preparation 23|00:03:21|820|00:03:29|960and sustainment of the vessel of humanity. 3. Enter into battle for the Lord. Oh, by the 24|00:03:29|960|00:03:35|580way, unfold the power to manifest. I also want to say that the hierarchical ruler of 25|00:03:35|580|00:03:40|940Aries is the great planet of manifestation in which the highest and lowest meet. It is 26|00:03:41|580|00:03:48|380Uranus, and I think you will remember that from when we were looking at the creative 27|00:03:48|380|00:03:59|380hierarchies, there they are, and here we have Aries, the second liberated creative 28|00:03:59|380|00:04:09|060hierarchy. Its hierarchical ruler is not given here, but it is the planet Uranus. Okay. Enter 29|00:04:09|060|00:04:16|560into battle for the Lord. Well, what does it mean to battle for the Lord? There is a 30|00:04:16|560|00:04:23|980divine plan, higher than that is a divine purpose. Matter from the previous solar system, 31|00:04:24|300|00:04:31|160which is the matter of our three lower worlds, resists the imposition of the divine plan 32|00:04:31|160|00:04:39|660and purpose. Aries wants to see to that imposition in the process of doing so, it enters into 33|00:04:39|660|00:04:48|500conflict with the retrogressive forces. So in this particular case, the Lord is whatever 34|00:04:49|020|00:04:55|300Logos we're dealing with, the planetary Logos in the first instance, the solar Logos in 35|00:04:55|300|00:05:01|920the second and so forth. There is a higher source of inspiration for all monads, and 36|00:05:01|920|00:05:08|680it is the Logos of which they form a part. The monad carries the design of that Logos 37|00:05:08|680|00:05:15|220and its intention to create a certain pattern or configuration in the lower worlds. This 38|00:05:15|220|00:05:22|640involves strife or contending with the forces of opposition or the forces of resistance. 39|00:05:24|880|00:05:32|000Aries is preeminently a Martian sign. Its first ray, of course, demands imposition of 40|00:05:32|000|00:05:40|900purpose and plan on matter, but Mars will, as he who goes forth and he who enters into 41|00:05:40|900|00:05:50|280battle and he who undertakes conflict for a certain ideal, this is a planet of warfare 42|00:05:50|280|00:05:55|900and strife and is characteristic of Aries. There's also the mental battle involved with 43|00:05:55|900|00:06:02|320Mercury, and whether Uranus battles or not, we can attempt to decide. Certainly it seeks 44|00:06:02|320|00:06:09|120to renovate patterns and that involves contest with resistance. Enter into battle for the 45|00:06:09|120|00:06:16|320Lord, and the Lord is our own soul in one respect. The Lord is our monad, the Lord is 46|00:06:16|320|00:06:24|920our planetary Logos, whatever superior Logos that has a plan which we as a spiritual being 47|00:06:24|920|00:06:33|980are serving. 4. Arrive at unity through effort. We have to realize that the first ray and 48|00:06:33|980|00:06:41|200the seventh ray in ways are rays of unity. The first ray is the ray of synthesis. The 49|00:06:41|200|00:06:51|340Seventh ray is the ray of articulated synthesis. It's a ray of relations, of archetypal relations. 50|00:06:51|640|00:06:58|700The fourth ray is conveyed through the esoteric ruler of Aries, which is Mercury, and it is 51|00:06:58|700|00:07:06|320a ray of unification. Aries is always equal to the application of energy in a specific 52|00:07:06|320|00:07:13|980and focused direction, and that is effort. It is the application of energy against resistance. 53|00:07:13|980|00:07:23|160All of that is for the purpose of achieving a type of oneness, whether it's a homogeneous 54|00:07:23|160|00:07:29|720oneness finally under synthesis, or an articulated oneness under the seventh and fourth rays. 55|00:07:30|680|00:07:40|540So, excuse me, express the will to be and do, unfold the power to manifest, enter into battle 56|00:07:40|540|00:07:48|940for the Lord, arrive at unity through effort. And whoever has a prominent Aries in their 57|00:07:48|940|00:07:56|880chart or is working with respect to a nation that is ruled by Aries, either as its sun 58|00:07:56|880|00:08:09|400sign or rising sign, can meditate upon these mantrams and apply them, seek to apply them. 59|00:08:09|400|00:08:17|220The individual can question, to what extent do I express the urge to be and do? To what 60|00:08:17|220|00:08:22|500extent do I unfold the power to manifest? Do I enter into battle for the Lord? Do I 61|00:08:23|180|00:08:30|120expend effort to arrive at unity? What type of unity is it? These keynotes are to be applied 62|00:08:30|830|00:08:38|200as meditative methods for all those who have the sign prominent or are passing through 63|00:08:38|200|00:08:46|460a period in which there has been an ingress of, let's say, the Ascendant or the Sun into 64|00:08:46|460|00:08:51|760Aries or even the Progressed Moon into Aries. The keynotes would be valuable and would guide 65|00:08:51|760|00:09:06|220our efforts. Creation—Being—Activity—Strife—Synthesis, Notice how he 66|00:09:06|220|00:09:14|280equates synthesis and unity, although synthesis is of higher order. These are the particular 67|00:09:14|280|00:09:24|660keynotes of the Lord of the Constellation Aries. these are the nature of the Lord of 68|00:09:24|660|00:09:34|500the first constellation and enable Him to influence our planet to these results. Now, 69|00:09:34|500|00:09:41|380it reveals to us that the constellations do indeed have Lords. Some have said, well, 70|00:09:41|580|00:09:48|480only Solar Logoi have Lords, and the constellations are simply aggregations of Solar Logoi as 71|00:09:49|820|00:09:56|280their bodies of manifestation are seen from our earth at a certain particular angle, as 72|00:09:56|280|00:10:04|840if the constellations are not really ensouled as a whole. But here, the entire constellation 73|00:10:04|840|00:10:12|980Aries is ensouled by a great Cosmic Lord, and thus it is by inference with all the other 74|00:10:12|980|00:10:20|920zodiacal constellations. There are twelve zodiacal Lords, and they manifest through 75|00:10:20|920|00:10:27|720a number of Solar Logoi, some of which we see and others of which, I suppose, are less 76|00:10:27|720|00:10:37|120prominent, less visible. Creation: this is taking the idea and putting it into form. 77|00:10:38|060|00:10:46|000Being: the assertion of essence. Activity: motion, action in the three lower worlds. 78|00:10:46|000|00:10:51|760Strife: contesting with the opposition. Synthesis: bringing it all together either in homogeneity 79|00:10:52|360|00:11:04|260or in articulated patterned perfection. The Lord of the first constellation. And thus 80|00:11:04|260|00:11:12|020the great cycle of struggle That's typically an Arian word, under the first ray, fourth 81|00:11:12|020|00:11:18|440ray, sixth ray. Mars bringing the sixth ray, Mercury the fourth ray, ray of struggle, first 82|00:11:18|440|00:11:24|660ray always imposing and therefore struggling. And thus the great cycle of struggle towards 83|00:11:24|660|00:11:31|040expression the will to express the seventh ray which Aries also transmits, starts and 84|00:11:31|040|00:11:37|600the foundational words of The Secret Doctrine, with which you are all so familiar, presumably 85|00:11:37|600|00:11:42|880we've read the Secret Doctrine, Alice is saying that as esotericists we surely should, 86|00:11:43|680|00:11:50|400with which you are so familiar, expresses the goal and the purpose of the first sign of the 87|00:11:50|400|00:11:56|380Cardinal Cross: really of the Logos of the constellation which expresses itself through 88|00:11:56|380|00:12:07|580a sign which is within the aura of the earth and perhaps within the aura of the sun. And 89|00:12:07|580|00:12:15|780what are these foundational words? Alice repeats them on many occasions and they are very, 90|00:12:16|580|00:12:24|760very important in occultism. “Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this 91|00:12:24|760|00:12:32|360plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of 92|00:12:32|360|00:12:40|940spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesised by life which pervades them all.”—S.D. I. 80. So life in 93|00:12:40|940|00:12:50|740a way is the point within the triangle of matter, soul and spirit. You know, sometimes 94|00:12:50|740|00:12:58|600when you think of a vehicle, you know, think of a hand in a glove. The true mover of the 95|00:12:58|600|00:13:06|360glove is the hand, but the hand is not visible, only the glove is visible. So the moving force 96|00:13:06|360|00:13:16|420is invisible and causing the movement of the vehicle. Of course when we look at a glove 97|00:13:16|420|00:13:20|240in motion, we don't say, “Ah, my goodness, there's a glove in motion and there's no hand within.” 98|00:13:20|420|00:13:27|420We infer and we presume that the indweller of the glove is present, namely the hand. 99|00:13:27|920|00:13:36|760And so we must with all of our vehicles. We have a body; it is moving and expressing because of the 100|00:13:37|960|00:13:47|800indwelling soul, spirit, etc. And life is something even greater. It is, I suppose, absolute essence. 101|00:13:48|660|00:13:59|380Alright, moving on. What appears in Aries as spiritual energy because Aries is so associated 102|00:13:59|380|00:14:04|200with the monad, with the first aspect of the monad and probably also in some sense with the jewel in 103|00:14:04|200|00:14:12|320the lotus, What appears in Aries as spiritual energy enters into the soul stage in Cancer, 104|00:14:12|320|00:14:21|400in which sign the soul incarnates for the first time in form, Okay, we've been discussing this 105|00:14:21|400|00:14:31|460in the previous esoteric astrology adventure: the idea that en masse the soul, the projection of the 106|00:14:31|460|00:14:41|080soul on its own plane, the soul in incarnation called, enters incarnation in a mass sense in 107|00:14:41|080|00:14:47|320Cancer. Okay, so spiritual energy—he's going through the cardinal cross now—the energy of 108|00:14:47|320|00:14:53|640pure spirit associated with Aries enters the soul stage in Cancer. The soul in incarnation takes 109|00:14:53|640|00:15:00|020form. The soul incarnates for the first time in form, and Cancer is the great sign of form and 110|00:15:00|020|00:15:08|380its rays, the third and seventh, are rays having to do with manifestation of form. It a point of 111|00:15:08|380|00:15:16|660equilibrium in Libra,—and what does he mean by equilibrium?—in which sign soul and personality 112|00:15:16|660|00:15:25|620achieve a balance of cooperation That's very important to have. We reach that stage in which 113|00:15:25|620|00:15:33|100there is a just cooperation between the soul and personality, in which the demands of both are 114|00:15:33|100|00:15:45|020honored. It must be, of course, transcended in Scorpio. reaches a point of equilibrium in Libra, 115|00:15:45|580|00:15:53|020in which sign soul and personality achieve a balance of cooperation and, in Capricorn, the will 116|00:15:53|020|00:16:00|980nature arrives at fulfilment It began in Aries as will; it arrives at fulfillment in matter, and 117|00:16:00|980|00:16:07|600a visioned goal is reached.—the mountaintop experience. So there's the cardinal cross in terms of the 118|00:16:07|820|00:16:18|320incarnation of the human monad as the soul in form, reaching a point of balance after evolution in 119|00:16:18|320|00:16:27|360Libra and achieving the mountaintop of mastery over matter and the triumph of the soul in Capricorn. 120|00:16:29|060|00:16:36|560There is a kind of will related to Capricorn called the will which conquers death—the death of the 121|00:16:36|560|00:16:45|620immersion of consciousness in form. In Capricorn, notice how he weaves this in and out; he doesn't 122|00:16:45|620|00:16:50|600really stick to one sign when describing a particular sign because one of the ways of 123|00:16:50|600|00:16:56|460learning about any particular sign or any particular subject, for that matter, is by contrasting it, 124|00:16:56|460|00:17:05|660comparing it with other signs or subjects. So we are achieving fulfillment of the will. Remember, 125|00:17:05|660|00:17:14|040to be an initiate is an act of will, and it is the will of the soul dominating the will of the 126|00:17:14|040|00:17:21|560personality completely so that the personality can no longer assert itself and conquer the willing 127|00:17:21|560|00:17:35|220soul. In Capricorn, the man reaches either the height of personal ambition or he becomes the 128|00:17:35|220|00:17:43|420initiate, attaining his spiritual objective. We've seen many powerful people in the world 129|00:17:43|420|00:17:50|140achieving the height of personal ambition. It is said that Julius Caesar had Capricorn rising. 130|00:17:50|140|00:17:57|740I think Aristotle Onassis was a Capricorn, I believe. I think you can look into the world and 131|00:17:57|740|00:18:02|760find people that have attained. Of course, Albert Schweitzer attained his spiritual objective; 132|00:18:02|860|00:18:10|480he was a Capricorn. Paramahansa Yogananda, a Capricorn. Swami Vivekananda, Capricorn. But if 133|00:18:10|480|00:18:16|920you do look into the world of ambitious people who are simply fulfilling their personality objectives, 134|00:18:16|920|00:18:23|980you will find many Capricorns reaching the top, whether the Sun in Capricorn or Capricorn rising. 135|00:18:25|380|00:18:29|880So we are looking at two different kinds of goals. One is the goal of the personality, and the other 136|00:18:29|880|00:18:35|260is the goal of the soul in incarnation reflecting the purpose of the soul on its own plane, which 137|00:18:35|260|00:18:42|520reflects the purpose of the monad, the essential spiritual man. The difference between these two 138|00:18:42|520|00:18:50|800goals depends upon the mode of progression around the wheel of life. Now, you know we have 139|00:18:50|800|00:18:58|460discussed this as being either—the mode of progression is either clockwise in the ordinary 140|00:18:58|460|00:19:06|040sense or counterclockwise in the case of the disciple who is responding to his soul ray as 141|00:19:06|040|00:19:14|160he progresses through the signs in the counterclockwise order. Although that perhaps 142|00:19:14|160|00:19:19|140should not be taken literally, this idea of progressing in clockwise or counterclockwise 143|00:19:19|140|00:19:25|600manner. Suppose you are an Aries person and in your next life you are born in Libra, which is 144|00:19:25|600|00:19:30|300possible certainly if you die in Libra. Are you progressing clockwise or counterclockwise? I think 145|00:19:30|300|00:19:38|660it has to do with how you respond to the energies of particular signs. There is a clockwise method 146|00:19:38|660|00:19:44|140of responding which is basically personal and relates to the lower form, and there is a 147|00:19:44|140|00:19:52|220counterclockwise method of response which adapts the energies to expression through the higher 148|00:19:52|220|00:20:00|260chakras and is basically spiritual in nature. It should be remembered—generalising again 149|00:20:01|260|00:20:11|660and speaking symbolically—that the Crosses also turn, being the spokes of the great wheel. The 150|00:20:11|660|00:20:17|160great wheel is the zodiacal wheel and by that he seems to… you know, all wheels do turn. So the 151|00:20:17|160|00:20:25|360question is, does the zodiacal wheel turn? And there have been astrologers who say that it does, 152|00:20:25|520|00:20:32|960that it is a great chakra. If you think about the zodiacal constellations as the heart within the 153|00:20:32|960|00:20:40|800head of the one about whom naught may be said and that all chakras do turn, then the zodiacal 154|00:20:40|800|00:20:49|520constellations are going to turn as well. Although strictly speaking they do not make a circle. They 155|00:20:49|520|00:20:55|420appear… at least they do not make a circle, all of them lying on the same circumference. Certainly 156|00:20:55|420|00:21:01|980not. Some of the constellations of the zodiac are much closer to us than others which are extremely 157|00:21:01|980|00:21:08|480distant and even in the constellations themselves there is a huge discrepancy in some stars being 158|00:21:08|480|00:21:14|720close and some stars being far. Just take the constellation Scorpius for instance and some 159|00:21:14|720|00:21:20|540are very, very far away and some are closer and then you would have a problem with the rate of 160|00:21:20|540|00:21:27|860speed of the turning wheel. So he is speaking somewhat symbolically but it is possible there 161|00:21:27|860|00:21:36|340is a kind of turning. Also when you're talking about the crosses that the different quadruplicities 162|00:21:39|400|00:21:48|400form, you will see that in order to create a synthesis like any wheel it must begin to turn 163|00:21:48|400|00:21:55|320upon itself. The chakras turn upon themselves and create that synthetic condition in which they 164|00:21:55|320|00:22:00|560finally turn in all directions simultaneously and you have a globe of fire. Well it's possible in a 165|00:22:00|560|00:22:08|000cosmic sense that the different crosses of the constellations will also turn. Now whether that 166|00:22:08|000|00:22:16|300is symbolically or interiorly or subjectively, you know, this has to be determined when we know more. 167|00:22:17|000|00:22:22|740But suffice it to say that when you want to make a synthesis out of a cross, the turning of the 168|00:22:22|740|00:22:30|040cross, spiraling upward, the radius getting smaller and smaller, rising to a point at a pyramid, 169|00:22:30|040|00:22:39|740or creating a cone, these are the symbolic figures for the synthetic process which is achieved 170|00:22:39|740|00:22:46|900through the turning of the cross. So they are spokes of the great wheel and this is the zodiacal 171|00:22:46|900|00:22:55|560wheel. The undeveloped man goes from Aries to Capricorn and to Libra and Cancer, You know, 172|00:22:55|560|00:23:04|560talking about the clockwise progression on the cardinal cross, whilst the developed man reverses 173|00:23:05|160|00:23:15|940the process. you know, so we have the initial impulse in Aries, go forth into matter, and Capricorn 174|00:23:15|940|00:23:25|540let ambition rule and the doors stand wide, dense materiality achieved. In Libra there is the 175|00:23:25|540|00:23:33|960recognition that there are perhaps other factors than dense selfishness and one moves outward in 176|00:23:33|960|00:23:43|020affection towards other beings and begins to learn what love is, and in Cancer some of the sensitivity 177|00:23:43|020|00:23:46|460under Neptune is learned.
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