1|00:00:12|460|00:00:24|800Good morning, everyone. This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 45, and we have been working 2|00:00:24|800|00:00:38|720with the three forms of death: one instituted under Aries, another under Scorpio, and another 3|00:00:38|720|00:00:47|180under Pisces. All of which, all signs of which have a strong Pluto connection, even Aries 4|00:00:47|180|00:00:56|860does. Some astrologers have considered Pluto to be a kind of ruler of Aries, not the Tibetan. 5|00:00:58|420|00:01:08|800And there is a connection between Aries, Pluto and Shambhala. Pluto is a very Shambolic planet, 6|00:01:08|800|00:01:18|860and Aries a sign of fire, a strongly Shambolic sign, one of the major first-race signs. We reached 7|00:01:18|860|00:01:27|690the point where we were considering what the old commentary had to say about these three forms of 8|00:01:27|690|00:01:42|110death. And here are the statements from the old commentary: “The fire blazed forth and through9|00:01:42|110|00:01:53|630 that fire I died to life and so was born to death. And then again I died to form (Aries). This particular 10|00:01:53|630|00:02:05|530section shows a dual phase of the Aries process separated by millions of years. So there was the 11|00:02:05|530|00:02:16|230fire of form which attracted the spirit, and the monad or the projection of the monad died to its 12|00:02:16|230|00:02:22|970sense of livingness, its sense of beingness and the consciousness of those high levels, and was 13|00:02:22|970|00:02:29|650born into the consciousness of the lower three worlds, which compared with the higher consciousness 14|00:02:29|650|00:02:38|890is death itself. And then later there is a death to form, the burning up of form, the jungle of 15|00:02:38|890|00:02:46|790experience, the jungle of illusion, dissolves in flames. Form no longer holds, and there is death 16|00:02:46|790|00:02:59|110to form and a rebirth into life. Here is another of these comments from the old commentary: The heat 17|00:02:59|110|00:03:11|570of earth, the fiery temper of the mother, destroyed the form, released the soul and so the lesser self 18|00:03:11|570|00:03:20|610was killed (Scorpio). Now here we just have a one-way process. We have the rejection or ejection of the 19|00:03:20|610|00:03:32|990growing consciousness by form. The lower worlds are no longer suitable. The projection of the soul 20|00:03:32|990|00:03:43|970is returned to soul consciousness. The lesser self, the personality self is killed as far as the 21|00:03:43|970|00:03:52|390consciousness is concerned, and the individual becomes the manipulator and server in those worlds. 22|00:03:52|950|00:04:00|510Manipulator of and server in those worlds. So the consciousness of the lesser self is killed in 23|00:04:00|510|00:04:12|090the way that the body and soul consciousness is achieved. Here is another relating to Pisces: The 24|00:04:12|090|00:04:21|530waters drowned the man. The fish was made to disappear. It then appeared again only to die or 25|00:04:21|530|00:04:33|010else to die and bring salvation” (Pisces). So this is a two-way process. Of course it could be considered a 26|00:04:33|010|00:04:51|270one-way process as well. The consciousness is constantly engulfed by the lower worlds, and it 27|00:04:52|430|00:05:00|510reappears reincarnationally, or it purposefully dies to bring salvation to others, and this is a 28|00:05:00|510|00:05:09|610chosen renunciation under Pluto and Neptune in Pisces. From another point of view, when we have 29|00:05:09|610|00:05:20|870the evolutionary mantrum in Pisces “go forth into matter,” we have the true man being 30|00:05:20|870|00:05:29|910drowned by the waters of matter, and his consciousness is obscured, and so perhaps 31|00:05:29|910|00:05:38|570the fish, who is a representative of soul life, is made to disappear in that engulfment. We can look 32|00:05:38|570|00:05:49|430at it in two ways: either as a dual process or as a single process. Okay, thus continues the Tibetan. 33|00:05:50|330|00:05:58|050Thus there are symbolically the death through fire, the death through earth—interesting though 34|00:05:58|050|00:06:05|470Scorpio is representing the death through earth even though it is a water sign, but on the 35|00:06:05|470|00:06:12|850physical plane one must prove oneself in Scorpio, so the earth is considered the three lower worlds— 36|00:06:12|850|00:06:27|110and the death through water—burning, suffocation and drowning— and all of them can be considered 37|00:06:27|110|00:06:39|170means of release as well. The fires by friction overcome the higher fires at first. The soul is 38|00:06:39|170|00:06:45|750located at first in the three lower worlds. The soul consciousness is engulfed at first in the 39|00:06:45|750|00:06:54|730three lower worlds. That's fire, earth and water, but later the burning is a release. The suffocation 40|00:06:54|730|00:07:04|290is the opportunity for the more subtle soul to rise above those stifling lower circumstances, 41|00:07:05|850|00:07:15|610and drowning as well is a way in which the soul can be released and not simply overcome. The lower 42|00:07:15|610|00:07:22|670consciousness is drowned and the higher consciousness is released, but, in this world cycle, 43|00:07:22|670|00:07:32|350the death through air is not either known or understood. What can it be? Can it 44|00:07:32|350|00:07:48|950be a death through dispersion in a way? The consciousness is decentralized in a way. We have 45|00:07:48|950|00:07:55|230to move from decentralization to centralization and again to decentralization. Can it be that 46|00:07:55|230|00:08:08|230the power to concentrate and to know oneself as the soul self is initially made impossible? The 47|00:08:08|230|00:08:19|110power to know oneself is a Leo trait, and Aquarius can represent the dispersion of that centralized 48|00:08:19|110|00:08:28|410self-consciousness. Anyway, the wind blows and tends to scatter, so there's a kind of a death 49|00:08:28|410|00:08:36|390through scattering or dispersion. But we cannot pretend to know exactly what the Tibetan means 50|00:08:36|390|00:08:46|710because he tells us that we don't really understand in this world cycle what is death by air. We have 51|00:08:46|710|00:08:56|010to ask them again: what is a world cycle? Is it a round, a planetary, a chain round of some over 52|00:08:56|010|00:09:06|370300 million years, or is it a shorter cycle or longer? There are not, therefore, four deaths, as 53|00:09:06|370|00:09:14|210the goal of our system during manifestation is initiation or release into the air. This is a very 54|00:09:14|210|00:09:22|590interesting way of considering initiation. It is a type of freedom. Release and liberation are 55|00:09:22|590|00:09:26|930coming through the planet—a number of planets—but through Uranus, as we have been discussing, and 56|00:09:27|990|00:09:41|630Uranus ruling Aquarius, an air sign. Okay, ruling. So there are not, therefore, four deaths, as the goal 57|00:09:41|630|00:09:51|970of our system during manifestation is initiation or release into the air. So air represents an 58|00:09:51|970|00:10:01|530objective rather than an obstacle, and all of the other types of death—the death by fire, by earth, 59|00:10:02|430|00:10:11|390by water—all of which represent the elemental life of the dense physical body of the planetary 60|00:10:11|390|00:10:17|430Logos and even the solar Logos. All of those release the soul into the air of the Buddhic 61|00:10:17|430|00:10:29|190plane, where liberation is found and the fourth initiation is taken, so that the bird of life, out 62|00:10:29|190|00:10:34|130of time and space, can fly free. Well, there—that's a beautiful statement. I think I should read it 63|00:10:34|130|00:10:39|710without interrupting myself with my own commentary. There are not therefore four deaths, as the goal 64|00:10:39|710|00:10:47|430of our system during manifestation is “initiation or release into the air,” so that the bird of life 65|00:10:47|430|00:10:58|090out of time and space can fly free. Well, the bird of life can be the returning jiva itself, with its 66|00:10:59|170|00:11:07|910type of consciousness we call soul consciousness, and the place or the dimension in which the first 67|00:11:07|910|00:11:17|830phases of time and space—or time and space initially—is overcome, or the first phases of 68|00:11:17|830|00:11:24|810the process of overcoming time and space is achieved, is the Buddhic plane, the plane of air 69|00:11:26|030|00:11:33|790into which the consciousness is released at the fourth initiation. And the personality at that 70|00:11:33|790|00:11:46|170point is—and the soul, the egoic vehicle as well—are either burned or drowned or suffocated, thus 71|00:11:46|170|00:12:03|190released into the air of the Buddhic plane. So the Buddhic plane represents release. Air is 72|00:12:03|190|00:12:12|950the Buddhi at first. The concept which the Law of Correspondence brings of the final death final—73|00:12:12|950|00:12:19|030death is there such a thing? But perhaps for humanity there is—is covered by the words 74|00:12:19|950|00:12:28|110liberation, relinquishment and final initiation, and means little to humanity, though they should 75|00:12:28|110|00:12:33|290mean more to disciples increasingly, for it concerns the planetary Logos and His life 76|00:12:33|290|00:12:41|790cycle. The three deaths which do overtake man, the individual and the human family as a whole, release the soul into three great planetary centres: Now, remember about the fixed cross and where it leads: blinding light, fiery pain, 77|00:12:41|950|00:12:48|570bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. The fourth initiation is also called the great 78|00:12:48|570|00:12:57|310renunciation, where the three lower worlds are relinquished. And final initiation—well, as far 79|00:12:57|310|00:13:06|290as humanity is concerned, or at least in terms of the process of ending the need to reincarnate, 80|00:13:06|350|00:13:13|990that's the fourth. But there's also—there are also higher initiations which we can call final, 81|00:13:13|990|00:13:25|830and in terms of the cosmic physical plane, the ninth initiation would be called final. So all 82|00:13:25|830|00:13:32|390the planetary Logos and his life cycle. Well, let's just say we have a more conscious 83|00:13:32|390|00:13:44|130identification with the planetary Logos at the sixth initiation, at which time a man re-becomes 84|00:13:44|130|00:13:54|770fully the monad. So when you see that word “final,” you have to judge of the context in which it 85|00:13:54|770|00:14:02|170appears. But here, when we're talking about humanity, there's no need anymore to be a 86|00:14:02|170|00:14:13|090reincarnating human being after the fourth degree, although that particular fate may be chosen in 87|00:14:13|090|00:14:26|970terms of service. I wonder whether fourth degree initiates are born, or whether somehow they can 88|00:14:26|970|00:14:33|350begin to participate with another chela who has taken the second degree and can offer up the body 89|00:14:33|350|00:14:43|110for use. On a higher turn of the spiral, the Christ—a sixth degree initiate, or virtually so 90|00:14:43|110|00:14:54|630at the time he took over the Master Jesus's body—was working with a potentially fourth degree 91|00:14:54|630|00:15:00|850initiate. In other words, a great master, the head of the hierarchy of the Lord Maitreya at that time, 92|00:15:00|850|00:15:10|170a fifth degree initiate becoming a sixth degree initiate, worked with and utilized the body of a 93|00:15:10|170|00:15:16|290high initiate master Jesus. He wasn't a master yet; he was a third degree initiate becoming a fourth 94|00:15:16|290|00:15:22|070degree initiate. So the numbers six and four go together, and four and two. Let's see what else 95|00:15:22|070|00:15:33|910the Tibetan says here. 1. The death by drowning or by water in Pisces releases man again into that 96|00:15:33|910|00:15:40|930great centre which we call Humanity, and there experience is gained. In other words, the fish appears 97|00:15:40|930|00:15:50|790and disappears over and over again. When the fish disappears, it in a way returns to the causal body. 98|00:15:50|790|00:15:58|890The ray of the soul, or its consciousness, the ray of consciousness from the soul, is withdrawn, 99|00:15:58|890|00:16:07|990abstracted, and later the incarnating… later that ray is reprojected and the fish reappears in the 100|00:16:07|990|00:16:16|210ocean. We recall that the first individual incarnation is stated to be occurring in 101|00:16:17|330|00:16:27|470Pisces. So Cancer for the first incarnation in the mass sense, and Pisces in the individual sense. So 102|00:16:27|470|00:16:34|130indeed, go forth into matter, into drowning matter—matter that will drown you, or water that will 103|00:16:34|130|00:16:40|350drown you. This is what the soul must do, and that is the evolutionary mantra of Pisces, the first 104|00:16:40|350|00:16:46|530mantra: “Go forth into matter,” or “Go forth into water” is another way of thinking of it. “Go forth 105|00:16:46|530|00:16:53|530as a fish into water,” and their human experience is gained on the cross of many changes, the mutable 106|00:16:53|530|00:17:01|970cross, which rules that first incarnation as well as many, many incarnations for millions of years. 107|00:17:01|970|00:17:11|570Herein lies the mystery of the fish-goddesses of this sign “who spawn their young again and yet again.” 108|00:17:11|570|00:17:18|430Well, in a way, the fish goddesses—that connects us with the mother aspect. The word 109|00:17:18|430|00:17:26|350“goddess” does, and the spawning of the young… the young are the fishes that come from the soul. 110|00:17:26|350|00:17:36|070The fish goddesses are in a way related to the soul, but it is a mystery and not fully, perhaps, 111|00:17:36|070|00:17:44|710solvable at this time. The many fish are the many incarnations swimming in the ocean 112|00:17:44|710|00:17:55|010of experience, of illusion, of matter, of water, appearing and disappearing under natural process 113|00:17:56|350|00:18:03|890until they voluntarily, willfully, and in renunciation disappear or sacrifice 114|00:18:03|890|00:18:13|790themselves for the sake of the other fishes. 2. The death by suffocation in Scorpio 115|00:18:15|510|00:18:24|310releases man into the planetary centre which we call the Hierarchy. The tests are overcome at the first 116|00:18:24|310|00:18:31|210three initiations. Even a first degree initiate or a second is a peripheral member of hierarchy, 117|00:18:31|210|00:18:39|750but in terms of entering the ashram truly, three initiations should be taken. They are supervised, or 118|00:18:40|830|00:18:48|230regulated, or induced by the processes of Scorpio—the first three initiations— 119|00:18:48|950|00:18:56|990and then a man becomes a fuller member of the ashram, no longer strictly, perhaps, a probationary 120|00:18:56|990|00:19:03|570member. 3. The death by fire or burning in Aries releases man into another centre 121|00:19:04|390|00:19:11|590to which we give the name Shamballa. Well, if this were to occur, we really must be speaking of— 122|00:19:12|730|00:19:19|590speaking of the sixth initiation in most cases. There are some masters on the 123|00:19:21|010|00:19:25|450of the fifth degree, and they're on the first ray, and they are released into Shambhala, but 124|00:19:26|050|00:19:32|310for those on other rays, it seems to be inferred that the sixth initiation is required 125|00:19:32|990|00:19:40|490before there is membership in Shambhala. In a way, the fully conscious monad is a member 126|00:19:40|490|00:19:47|870of Shambhala, but in terms of its projection also to enter those halls, those dimensions, 127|00:19:47|870|00:19:52|350the sixth degree is usually necessary. So these are one-way processes. 128|00:19:54|130|00:20:03|050D.K. is not talking here about how Pisces, Scorpio, and Aries are a two-way process. Earlier he 129|00:20:03|050|00:20:09|250seems to have done so. In other words, by a two-way process I mean that which 130|00:20:10|050|00:20:15|670brings a man, initiates him, and holds him—initiates him into and holds him in the 131|00:20:15|670|00:20:23|510three lower worlds—and which finally brings release from those worlds. Pisces 132|00:20:23|510|00:20:30|910tends to release a man onto the fixed cross at the later stages of the 133|00:20:32|310|00:20:36|670common cross, the later stages of the path of probation. 134|00:20:38|250|00:20:44|450Scorpio, taking a man as far as the third initiation in its usual mode of functioning, 135|00:20:44|450|00:20:49|930begins the process whereby a man climbs down from the fixed cross and eventually mounts the 136|00:20:51|370|00:20:58|010cardinal cross. And Aries, I would say, will introduce a man onto the cardinal cross, and yet 137|00:20:58|010|00:21:09|270the fire by friction aspects of Aries overcome a man in the lower worlds. Let's see… okay, right. 138|00:21:12|790|00:21:23|250Okay, so I think we see this idea between the single process and, in this case, 139|00:21:24|850|00:21:28|170Pisces into humanity, which is no great 140|00:21:29|830|00:21:37|250feat concerning the liberation process. It is an engulfment process, but later Pisces, of course, is 141|00:21:38|050|00:21:45|030very much involved in that final incarnation, which also brings a man into Shambhala through 142|00:21:45|030|00:21:53|830complete renunciation. The final incarnation can be taken in Pisces, which is relating a man to 143|00:21:53|830|00:22:02|370Shambhala, and Scorpio is the great illusion of the lower three worlds, and it can suffocate a man at 144|00:22:02|370|00:22:11|690first, and the higher consciousness is suffocated thereby. But later, that suffocation works as a 145|00:22:11|690|00:22:19|810method of release into hierarchy. One can no longer stand to breathe the air of the lower worlds and 146|00:22:21|000|00:22:27|550seeks to join the ashrams on the Buddha plane, where pure air can be breathed. 147|00:22:29|570|00:22:37|070And the fire by friction processes overcome a man in Aries. The higher fires die, the lower fire rages, 148|00:22:37|070|00:22:43|650but later, through the burning, there is a higher release. So it's a two-way process, even though at 149|00:22:43|650|00:22:52|730times D.K. is just speaking of a one-way process. Earlier he spoke of a two-way process in most cases. 150|00:22:54|350|00:23:02|070There is much to work out, Indeed there is. Indeed there is much to work out, is there not, 151|00:23:02|070|00:23:11|610in these ideas which I offer to you as suggestive considerations and as hints related to the Science 152|00:23:11|610|00:23:19|930of Triangles, Well, we do have a triangle here, and we do have a triangle involving three crosses, 153|00:23:19|930|00:23:28|830and one of the ways that the Tibetan has described this introduces us to the idea of the triangle of 154|00:23:28|830|00:23:38|170humanity, hierarchy, and Shambhala, and the three signs which are initiatory with respect to those 155|00:23:38|170|00:23:52|550centers. So three signs on three different crosses initiate man into three planetary centers, namely 156|00:23:53|230|00:24:06|090humanity, hierarchy, and Shambhala. So yes, there are many relationships to work out, and from the 157|00:24:06|090|00:24:14|170point of view—a practical point of view—of a disciple at this time, when Scorpio is quite strong 158|00:24:14|170|00:24:22|730in the chart, there is the question of how the individual can come closer to fuller 159|00:24:23|770|00:24:31|470membership in the hierarchy. I would not suggest, however, that we begin to think of 160|00:24:32|310|00:24:41|650how we can gain fuller membership in Shambhala. We, as a group, can begin to respond to the planetary 161|00:24:41|650|00:24:49|210will which emanates from Shambhala. That much we can do. But we are not about to be released into 162|00:24:49|210|00:24:59|790Shambhala by treading the final burning ground in Aries. Okay, so there are hints here related to the 163|00:24:59|790|00:25:07|170science of triangles, which is taken up later in the book around page 400, 404—somewhere there 164|00:25:07|170|00:25:15|310is the science of triangles, which is the esoteric basis of astrology, You see how much it is a third 165|00:25:15|310|00:25:22|730ray science, because the triangle is that figure which suggests the—which suggests the 166|00:25:22|730|00:25:31|510third ray. The triangle underlies all of hierarchical astrology, and we're just beginning to lift the veil 167|00:25:32|150|00:25:39|910slightly when we think of those triangles. But you know, even in the ordinary astrological chart, 168|00:25:41|350|00:25:46|430when we begin to consider it esoterically, we do have the triangle of what has been called the 169|00:25:46|430|00:25:54|230triple sun, namely the sun sign itself for the personality, the rising sign for the soul, and 170|00:25:54|230|00:26:02|150the point opposite the sun sign, which we can call the monadic point for the spirit nature 171|00:26:03|030|00:26:10|370in a particular incarnation. just as the doctrine of the trinity (microcosmic and macrocosmic) 172|00:26:10|810|00:26:16|690is the esoteric basis of occultism. so the science of triangles is the esoteric basis of astrology. 173|00:26:17|470|00:26:23|790And the doctrine of the trinity—and not necessarily the Christian version of that doctrine, 174|00:26:24|230|00:26:33|690though not excluding it either—is the esoteric basis of occultism. We recognize this trinitarian 175|00:26:34|310|00:26:40|290configuration whereby the three are really one in many different world 176|00:26:41|030|00:26:50|990traditions. And D.K. is constantly using the triangle. We have what's called a major 177|00:26:51|120|00:26:59|030triangle that he introduces us to in the beginning of Esoteric Psychology, Volume One: 178|00:26:59|030|00:27:06|450life, quality, and appearance. Life, quality, and appearance—a very 179|00:27:08|030|00:27:17|930clear formulation which will help the Western mind adapt its thinking to the realities of occultism. 180|00:27:17|930|00:27:25|610Death is, therefore, of three kinds. This Science of Divine Dying 181|00:27:27|670|00:27:34|830—that's interesting—This Science of Divine Dying underlies the well-known phrase “the Lamb 182|00:27:34|830|00:27:43|610—that's Aries— slain from the foundation of the world,” That has to do, I suppose, with the immersion 183|00:27:43|610|00:27:55|830of the greater soul into the material plane. The world was created in the beginning, or became, 184|00:27:57|200|00:28:07|570and the higher consciousness descended into it to promote its development and then re-emerged. 185|00:28:08|530|00:28:16|710So there is the sense of the sacrifice of the great soul for the sake of the redemption of 186|00:28:18|150|00:28:26|130matter or the lesser lives. and when the relationship between Aries, Scorpio and Pisces 187|00:28:26|130|00:28:34|030is properly understood (as the linking and merging of the three crosses) a new light will be thrown 188|00:28:34|030|00:28:41|350upon all subsidiary sciences—exoteric and esoteric. This is a great prophecy. 189|00:28:43|030|00:28:49|830And if it really includes all of the esoteric and exoteric sciences, then this relationship between 190|00:28:50|270|00:28:56|450these three and the three crosses is immensely important. I think we're in no position yet, 191|00:28:57|350|00:29:02|870with the development of human thought being where it is, to understand the full implications of this 192|00:29:02|870|00:29:10|310statement. But we certainly can relate the three crosses and realize that even microcosmically we 193|00:29:12|610|00:29:19|850have and will have experience on all these three crosses. We certainly have had experience on the 194|00:29:19|850|00:29:27|390mutable cross, and we have all drowned and become the reappearing fish, spawned again and again by 195|00:29:27|390|00:29:35|170the fish goddesses. There's some kind of Virgo-Pisces-Pleiadian relationship there in the idea 196|00:29:35|170|00:29:45|730of the fish goddesses. We have begun to emerge from the drowning in matter and from the 197|00:29:45|730|00:29:55|070suffocation in matter, and we are ejected by this heat of the mother which propels us towards the 198|00:29:55|070|00:30:04|070hierarchy because we no longer will to live in this stifling, illusory heat of fire by friction. 199|00:30:04|070|00:30:09|950That brings in the Aries idea, and we are being born gradually through the initiatory process 200|00:30:10|590|00:30:19|050into Aries. And we're not yet on the cardinal cross, but many of us right now should be 201|00:30:19|050|00:30:28|350rapidly approaching, or in many cases—even most cases of serious students of these books—treading 202|00:30:28|350|00:30:37|850the fixed cross, which means that probably we've gone through some Scorpionic experiences and have 203|00:30:37|850|00:30:46|890died to various phases of illusion in the three lower worlds. Anyone who's taken the first, second, 204|00:30:46|890|00:30:54|390or third initiation has undergone a kind of Scorpionic death experience. 205|00:30:56|450|00:31:04|250You know, whether or not you have taken those initiations specifically in the science, Scorpio… 206|00:31:05|990|00:31:11|290The teaching in The Secret Doctrine about the reincarnating monads who are called 207|00:31:12|010|00:31:19|730the divine Sacrifices, Lords of Knowledge, Will and Sacrifice, will be clarified. 208|00:31:20|230|00:31:28|270Interesting names for the monads. These monads, who are ourselves, are Lords of Persevering Ceaseless 209|00:31:28|270|00:31:39|690Devotion—devotion even unto death. Okay, so this is the science of divine dying, and the monad 210|00:31:40|330|00:31:50|410practices the science of divine dying because its descent into the lower five worlds—not even the 211|00:31:50|410|00:32:00|790lower three—is an act of willful renunciation of the high consciousness and being of those 212|00:32:02|090|00:32:08|210high monadic levels. Then we have to remember again that the monad is on the sixth plane, 213|00:32:08|210|00:32:15|190counting from below upward, and the sixth plane is a great plane of devotion. 214|00:32:16|170|00:32:25|510And throughout that monadic pilgrimage, there is a ceaseless devotion and a ceaseless intent. It does 215|00:32:25|510|00:32:33|450not relent until the pilgrimage is completed. And then, who knows what type of pilgrimage lies before 216|00:32:33|450|00:32:40|870the liberated monad—the one who has experienced the five lower worlds and brought redemption 217|00:32:42|130|00:32:48|690on its wings, or in its wings? One of the great paths out of the solar system 218|00:32:49|690|00:32:57|710will be chosen—seven or nine paths, one of which is quite sacrificial: the path of earth's service. 219|00:32:57|710|00:33:04|170But it does lead onto the path of the solar Logos, we are told, so that's quite a compensation. 220|00:33:06|170|00:33:15|010The monad will pursue its way and then be perhaps devoted to another type of mission. But 221|00:33:15|550|00:33:20|910I guess what I'm trying to say is that this quality of devotion which can be found deep 222|00:33:20|910|00:33:31|950within us is monadic in its nature. It is inherent. And, you know, we sometimes talk about being rid of 223|00:33:31|950|00:33:38|050devotion and being rid of the lower astral implications of devotion, which can obscure 224|00:33:38|050|00:33:47|480the mind and so forth. But deeply and inherently within us, the factor of devotion is resident, and 225|00:33:47|480|00:33:57|460we are all divine sacrifices. We are all lords of knowledge, will, and sacrifice. We have all descended, 226|00:33:58|220|00:34:07|160and our motivation has been redemption—devotion to a redemption process which the planetary Logos, 227|00:34:08|030|00:34:14|700of which we are a part, is undertaking. All right, we've been talking about death 228|00:34:16|360|00:34:27|660and deliberate death—the science of divine dying—not the kind of death to form that so many of us 229|00:34:27|660|00:34:40|000may fear and seek as personalities to avoid, but eventually a dying to limitation which these 230|00:34:40|000|00:34:51|700three signs eventually promote. It is interesting here to note also that through the ruling planet, Mars, 231|00:34:52|700|00:35:01|020the average man born in this sign… Aries… Well, you know, sometimes with these digressions we forget 232|00:35:01|020|00:35:06|360what we're talking about here, but we are speaking of Aries. the average man born in this sign is 233|00:35:06|360|00:35:13|800related to Scorpio, and thus the Cardinal Cross on which Aries is found is related to the Fixed Cross. 234|00:35:13|800|00:35:23|900on which Scorpio is found. The crosses represent great areas of experience. Crosses represent 235|00:35:23|900|00:35:35|060great spheres of experience, and D.K. is telling us how they may be 236|00:35:35|630|00:35:45|760related by various processes, science, and planets. Points of crisis can thus be noted when the horoscope 237|00:35:45|760|00:35:51|980is considered from this angle. One point of crisis would be certainly changing across, 238|00:35:51|980|00:35:59|380and some people are involved in that very much today. There are quite a number of people involved 239|00:35:59|380|00:36:04|920changing from involvement with an emphasis upon the mutable cross 240|00:36:07|340|00:36:16|420towards into the fixed cross experience of the growing soul—the conscious development 241|00:36:16|960|00:36:28|380of a soul or soul consciousness. At the same time, Aries is related to birth, through 242|00:36:28|380|00:36:37|520Mercury its esoteric ruler. through Mercury who rules Aries esoterically, and also Virgo, of 243|00:36:37|520|00:36:45|880which Mercury is the exoteric ruler. So he's giving us a relationship here between Aries and Virgo via 244|00:36:45|880|00:36:52|860Mercury. And of course, this can be extended to Scorpio because the hierarchical ruler 245|00:36:53|420|00:37:02|580of Scorpio is Mercury, and also to Gemini because the exoteric ruler of Gemini is Mercury. So we can 246|00:37:02|580|00:37:12|080relate signs through the—through certain planets which rule them on different levels. 247|00:37:12|640|00:37:19|280Astrology is part of the great science of relations. I don't know which is preeminent, 248|00:37:19|840|00:37:28|480but let's just say the science of relations and astrology are being brought together here. 249|00:37:29|200|00:37:36|700And one of the ways of pursuing esoteric astrology is by determining the many 250|00:37:36|700|00:37:42|600relations between the astrological factors and what these relations signify. 251|00:37:43|600|00:37:52|220So we're looking at relations between Aries and other signs: to Scorpio via Mars, to 252|00:37:53|420|00:38:04|500Virgo via Mercury. And later in the book, it will also show to Scorpio and to Gemini via Mercury. 253|00:38:04|500|00:38:14|900Through Uranus also, Aries is related to Aquarius, the sign of world service, leading to 254|00:38:14|900|00:38:21|480death and liberation in Pisces. Well, that word “liberation” is Uranian; it's also Aquarian, but 255|00:38:21|480|00:38:33|580it has much to do with the final effect of a final incarnation in Pisces. There is the will to freedom 256|00:38:35|120|00:38:43|020in both Aries and Aquarius, and possibly—well, let's say most probably—Uranus plays a big part 257|00:38:43|020|00:38:51|680in that. Aquarius is the sign of the new age, and it is the constellation or sign Aries which 258|00:38:51|680|00:39:00|320is inaugurating or pushing towards or pushing into or initiating the new age. So these two signs, 259|00:39:00|320|00:39:07|900Aries and Aquarius, are closely related through constellational qualities and also 260|00:39:08|500|00:39:16|320through rulership by Uranus. Uranus is the hierarchical ruler of Aries, applying to 261|00:39:17|060|00:39:23|360the initiate status, and Uranus is the orthodox ruler of Aquarius. 262|00:39:23|360|00:39:35|180So these two are thus related, and then we will have a sequence of Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries. 263|00:39:35|840|00:39:44|500Pisces is a kind of final liberation, but Aries, in a sense, when it does not turn again towards 264|00:39:44|500|00:39:52|840incarnation, is even a greater liberation—an initiation into an entirely new dimension. 265|00:39:53|380|00:40:02|020Pisces is the ending of association with a former dimension, the dimension from which liberation is 266|00:40:02|020|00:40:09|040being achieved, and Aries is the entrance into that new dimension. So these are three signs together 267|00:40:09|620|00:40:18|820of liberation. A lot of suffering is undergone in Pisces to make liberation from the previous sphere 268|00:40:18|820|00:40:27|620possible, and then in Aries there is the exaltation of the sun, which can be considered 269|00:40:27|620|00:40:37|360the rising of the monad into a new, entirely new sphere of experience. So what does it say here 270|00:40:37|360|00:40:47|460about Uranus? Uranus is the planet through which zodiacal energy flows in connection with the 271|00:40:47|460|00:40:57|120creative hierarchies upon our planet. We've been studying the creative hierarchies, and we've been 272|00:40:57|120|00:41:06|240seeing how they are groups of monads at different stages of immersion and thus working through 273|00:41:06|240|00:41:18|140different combinations of forms, each of which—each group having an association with a particular sign 274|00:41:18|140|00:41:29|360of the zodiac. But Uranus is a planet which seems to convey something of the nature of all of the 275|00:41:29|360|00:41:36|120hierarchies. With Uranus, the highest and the lowest meet. The highest is the monad, and the lowest is 276|00:41:36|120|00:41:50|140the form. So Uranus, let us say—oops, let's see, I don't want to do that. Okay, so Uranus is connected 277|00:41:51|160|00:42:04|880with bringing monads into expression via forms. The highest and the lowest meet—that's 278|00:42:04|880|00:42:12|200the seventh ray mantram. The soul ray of Uranus being most probably the seventh ray—certainly 279|00:42:12|200|00:42:20|900the seventh ray is potent. I'd say almost for certain the soul ray of Uranus is the seventh ray. 280|00:42:21|860|00:42:28|040Uranus is the planet through which zodiacal energy flows, in connection with the Creative Hierarchies 281|00:42:28|040|00:42:37|720upon our planet, from one of the stars of the Great Bear. Well, which is that star? I mean, Uranus 282|00:42:37|720|00:42:47|440can be associated with the first star or the seventh star with Alkaid or Benetnash is 283|00:42:47|440|00:42:59|520the name. Alkaid is the first ray star. Having a little trouble here. Alkaid: A-L-K-A-I-D, the first 284|00:42:59|520|00:43:08|520ray star, because the monadic ray of Uranus is the first ray, or Phecda, the seventh ray star 285|00:43:09|480|00:43:12|540found in the bowl of the dipper. 286|00:43:12|540|00:43:19|960Uh, but we are not certain yet which it will be, but we do know that the 287|00:43:20|540|00:43:27|560creative hierarchies are all about monads in form, and they are all about the stages 288|00:43:27|560|00:43:39|460of evolution through which the monads can pass. They are not about the liberated monads per se. They 289|00:43:39|460|00:43:46|780always associate the monad with form, and thus the highest and the lowest do meet. 290|00:43:47|680|00:43:51|580Anyway, that's a—that's those are some important hints there. 291|00:43:53|320|00:44:00|200But they are not obviously capable—at least I'm not capable of fully expanding them. 292|00:44:00|960|00:44:08|820“It is these relationships with which esoteric astrology deals.” You know, we're certainly not 293|00:44:08|820|00:44:14|900just talking about the personality and its fate, are we? Now there's something much more here. 294|00:44:15|840|00:44:23|000It is these relationships with which esoteric astrology deals, and from them the universal 295|00:44:23|000|00:44:30|340can be grasped and the particular understood. And that's another function of esoteric astrology. We 296|00:44:30|340|00:44:43|560can say—we can say here: relating the universal and the particular. “The human being in his 297|00:44:45|140|00:44:52|920eventual recognized group relations is of more importance than appears in his individual life.” 298|00:44:53|540|00:44:59|160So it is what we mean in terms of our group relations: what kind of groups we belong to, what 299|00:44:59|160|00:45:03|620are the functions of those groups, our identification with those groups. These are the 300|00:45:03|620|00:45:11|020things of greater importance, and esoteric astrology is certainly dealing with these larger configurations 301|00:45:11|020|00:45:18|040of which we are a part. The human being in his eventual recognised group relationships is of 302|00:45:18|040|00:45:25|060more importance than appears in his individual life, which the orthodox horoscope seeks to elucidate. 303|00:45:25|060|00:45:33|040So many of us think about our personality primarily and its particular fate, and we 304|00:45:33|680|00:45:41|060do not detach our consciousness from our circumstantial life in order to discover what it 305|00:45:41|060|00:45:50|920is we are more deeply in a group sense. There are many groups of which we are members, many interior 306|00:45:50|920|00:46:02|420groups on various planes, and until ultimately we are member of the seven great groups of monads on 307|00:46:02|420|00:46:09|220the monadic plane, and even three great groups perhaps on the Logoic plane. This orthodox horoscope 308|00:46:09|730|00:46:16|500only determines—It only determines his little destiny and unimportant fate. Well, 309|00:46:17|460|00:46:22|240personality doesn't think in these terms, but the Tibetan, who is a master and who has 310|00:46:22|240|00:46:28|660seen what human development really is, does speak of the unimportant fate of the little 311|00:46:29|480|00:46:36|160personality and its destiny. Esoteric astrology indicates his group usefulness 312|00:46:36|740|00:46:43|680and the scope of his potential consciousness. Now that's because it is, you know, in 313|00:46:43|680|00:46:54|040straightforward terms, the astrology of the soul, and the soul is always—soul is always 314|00:46:54|040|00:47:03|460group conscious. We have been told so. When we are in soul consciousness, it is not our strictly 315|00:47:03|460|00:47:13|100individual concerns which preoccupy us, but the—our participation in the group, our larger 316|00:47:14|180|00:47:20|480destiny, our larger function and fate. We always, through the heart center 317|00:47:22|680|00:47:29|440and the heart and the head center, through soul consciousness, have our group in mind. 318|00:47:29|440|00:47:36|020This is the beginning of ashramic consciousness. Okay, let's move on. 319|00:47:38|080|00:47:46|300 I would remind you here that frequently when the ruler of a sign is given he says “frequently”— 320|00:47:46|300|00:47:55|020maybe not always, okay—frequently when the ruler of a sign is given as the Sun or the Moon I shall speak 321|00:47:55|020|00:47:57|700or be speaking of one of the hidden planets, 322|00:47:59|740|00:48:07|900Uranus or Vulcan. Now, okay, that's an interesting sentence because Vulcan certainly is hidden, 323|00:48:09|070|00:48:12|180but the question is: is Uranus hidden? 324|00:48:15|920|00:48:22|160Now, another way to read this sentence is that there are other hidden planets, 325|00:48:23|100|00:48:30|740and there is Uranus, and there is Vulcan, which perhaps the Tibetan no longer considers to be 326|00:48:30|740|00:48:38|300hidden. So suffice it to say, the sun and moon are veiling certain planets, and there are certainly 327|00:48:38|300|00:48:48|420more hidden planets in our solar system than Vulcan. So he may be speaking of some of these 328|00:48:48|420|00:48:57|420on occasion, but usually it is Neptune, Uranus, or Vulcan which are to be considered as being veiled 329|00:48:57|420|00:49:06|220by the sun or the moon. Certainly the moon is of such a negligible status, except for its negative 330|00:49:06|220|00:49:15|620effect that it cannot be considered the source of positive developmental energies. So the moon 331|00:49:15|620|00:49:25|320almost always has to be thought of in terms of the planet that it veils, especially in esoteric 332|00:49:27|080|00:49:35|160astrology. As for the sun, it is a great star, and until we are an initiate of the third degree, 333|00:49:36|300|00:49:41|800taking our first solar initiation, the degree to which we are spiritually in touch with the 334|00:49:41|800|00:49:49|300sun can be questioned. But increasingly, as the initiations pass, the solar influence also increases, 335|00:49:50|280|00:49:56|360even after the solar angel returns to his source. So we are in the process of being solarized, 336|00:49:57|210|00:50:03|230and by the time we reach the seventh initiation through which the Christ is now passing, it's a 337|00:50:04|460|00:50:11|220very solar initiation indeed. It's a love-wisdom dual initiation that involves Gemini 338|00:50:11|800|00:50:18|080and a strong relationship to our solar Logos. It is presided over by the planetary Logos 339|00:50:18|080|00:50:28|000himself, perhaps in his fuller nature—his nature even beyond that of his projection as Sanat Kumara. 340|00:50:30|020|00:50:35|040One of the hidden planets: I shall speak of one of the hidden planets, 341|00:50:35|600|00:50:42|860Uranus or Vulcan. And because the planet Uranus is no longer hidden and is now 342|00:50:42|860|00:50:50|420astronomically registered, it gives us the hint that the hidden planets 343|00:50:51|340|00:50:57|360are more than just Vulcan. These are interchangeable in their use344|00:50:58|700|00:51:08|200 and it is difficult to tell to which the esoteric planet refers unless you have been told. 345|00:51:08|200|00:51:17|220And this is one of those sentences, you know… Are Uranus and Vulcan interchangeable? Well, 346|00:51:17|220|00:51:24|800let's just say that when you have the moon or the sun, either Uranus or Vulcan, and also Neptune, 347|00:51:25|430|00:51:34|080can all be veiled. And when you see the sun or the moon in a chart, you don't know 348|00:51:34|080|00:51:42|600which of these three, or other hidden planets eventually to be revealed, are meant. So 349|00:51:43|660|00:51:50|560unless we really know the evolutionary status of the individual, the type of energies that he or 350|00:51:50|560|00:51:55|240she seems to be cultivating at the moment, the polarization of the consciousness within the 351|00:51:55|240|00:52:01|520personality or beyond the personality, it is difficult to know which one of the veiled planets 352|00:52:01|520|00:52:09|300should be used. So these planets are interchangeable in their use, and it's difficult 353|00:52:09|300|00:52:17|400to tell to which the esoteric planet refers—I mean whether to the sun or the moon—unless 354|00:52:17|400|00:52:24|780we have been told. At this stage, perhaps told… What we're suggesting here is that a higher 355|00:52:24|780|00:52:33|160consciousness, such as that of a master, may be required to give us a definitive perspective 356|00:52:33|160|00:52:42|060upon a particular horoscope. Hence my above reference to Uranus. Well, there's much that 357|00:52:42|060|00:52:47|780is veiled here. I'd like to be able to take the time to really ponder on this. 358|00:52:49|020|00:52:59|740It is a very high function that D.K. has referred to in relation to Uranus: conveying the energies 359|00:52:59|740|00:53:12|740of the creative hierarchies. So perhaps he means that they are considered to be related to 360|00:53:12|740|00:53:22|140the sun, or… yes, I would say the sun. Now, you know, when you look at the first manifested creative 361|00:53:22|140|00:53:28|200hierarchy, which is the hierarchy called the Divine Lives, you sometimes wonder 362|00:53:29|200|00:53:36|820with Leo—whether with the Leo rulership—whether Uranus rules that hierarchy or Vulcan. 363|00:53:38|820|00:53:46|440What does the sun in Leo veil with that hierarchy? And I think he is suggesting here 364|00:53:46|440|00:53:52|900that from the Logoic plane, from that first hierarchy, which is in a way, in terms of the 365|00:53:52|900|00:54:01|240manifested hierarchies, the father hierarchy, Uranus, the primeval father, can be considered 366|00:54:01|240|00:54:09|280important in connection with that hierarchy and important in the generation of all the 367|00:54:09|500|00:54:13|820hierarchies below. I'm speaking of the manifested creative hierarchies 368|00:54:13|820|00:54:20|700on the cosmic physical plane. Uranus is an older father even than Saturn. 369|00:54:20|700|00:54:30|240Uranus is the father of Saturn. Uranus, in a way, rules the entire cosmic etheric 370|00:54:31|100|00:54:38|160planes or sub-planes. So the creative hierarchy is certainly, in relation to the cosmic physical plane, 371|00:54:38|640|00:54:47|500which includes the cosmic ethers, has a lot to do with Uranus. Let's review that statement. 372|00:54:49|680|00:54:57|240Uranus is the planet through which zodiacal energy flows in connection with the creative 373|00:54:57|240|00:55:06|300hierarchies upon our planet. Now we can question whether the liberated hierarchies, which are 374|00:55:06|300|00:55:14|000focused on the cosmic astral plane, are involved with the planet Uranus, because perhaps the cosmic 375|00:55:14|000|00:55:23|380astral plane, which is beyond, in a way, the solar system, does not concern energies flowing 376|00:55:24|100|00:55:31|380upon our planet. So, you know, the interesting thing is that with respect to the solar Logos, his solar 377|00:55:31|380|00:55:38|140system is said to occur only on the cosmic physical plane, which means that, in a way, his 378|00:55:38|140|00:55:46|560cosmic astral vehicle and his cosmic mental vehicle are beyond the solar system. So if we're 379|00:55:46|560|00:55:53|260talking about our planet and Uranus and zodiacal energies, perhaps we're not speaking of the 380|00:55:53|260|00:56:01|760hierarchies on the cosmic astral plane, but only those on the cosmic physical plane. And Uranus is 381|00:56:01|760|00:56:10|220certainly the ruler in a way of the Logoic plane with its first ray monad, and Vulcan is as well. And 382|00:56:10|220|00:56:17|240so in a way they are interchangeable. Vulcan has a first ray soul, but Uranus has a first ray monad, and 383|00:56:17|240|00:56:27|100that would connect both of them to the Logoic plane. All right, these are abstruse matters, are 384|00:56:27|100|00:56:36|560they not? Um, abstruse to all of us. And all we can do is intelligently, if we can intelligently 385|00:56:37|200|00:56:48|540speculate upon meaning here and try to, uh, enter into the mystery. So again, we are concluding 386|00:56:49|440|00:56:54|960with this paragraph. I would remind you here that frequently when the ruler of a sign is given as 387|00:56:54|960|00:57:00|900the Sun or the Moon I shall speak of one of the hidden planets, Uranus or Vulcan. Either Uranus 388|00:57:00|900|00:57:05|840and Vulcan are the hidden planets, or it's the hidden planets Uranus and Vulcan. These are 389|00:57:05|840|00:57:12|420interchangeable in their use, and it is difficult to tell to which esoteric—to which the esoteric 390|00:57:12|420|00:57:20|660planet refers unless you have been told. That's a bit of a reversal of the perspective we would 391|00:57:20|660|00:57:29|080normally consider: difficult to tell which esoteric planet we're talking about, rather than what the 392|00:57:29|080|00:57:36|880esoteric planet refers to, namely the sun or the moon. Hence my above reference to Uranus. Uranus in 393|00:57:36|880|00:57:47|480a way—let's just sum it up by saying, uh, being veiled by the sun in relation to the first 394|00:57:47|480|00:57:54|360manifested creative hierarchy. And that does not necessarily mean that Vulcan is not veiled by 395|00:57:54|360|00:58:01|020the sun as well. Both have relation to the Logoic plane. Okay, we have reached a point 396|00:58:01|920|00:58:08|860when—when we say end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure 45, and we have gone 397|00:58:10|560|00:58:23|080to what page—99. So we have gone from page 97 almost to the end of 99, and page 100 is coming. 398|00:58:24|360|00:58:36|060So from the beginning part of page 97 up to 99, and now per usual we will sound Great Invocation 399|00:58:36|060|00:58:37|380together. 400|00:58:41|700|00:58:42|540Oh. 401|00:58:54|000|00:58:57|920From the point of light within the mind of God, 402|00:58:58|880|00:59:06|060let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 403|00:59:09|780|00:59:18|920From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. 404|00:59:19|450|00:59:21|820May Christ return to earth. 405|00:59:25|520|00:59:32|620From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men— 406|00:59:33|460|00:59:37|160the purpose which the masters know and serve. 407|00:59:40|040|00:59:43|780From the center which we call the race of men, 408|00:59:44|780|00:59:52|300let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 409|00:59:54|840|01:00:02|200Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 410|01:00:06|100|01:00:07|500Um. 411|01:00:14|480|01:00:15|320Hooooooooo. 412|01:00:18|300|01:00:19|040Hoooooooo. 413|01:00:36|420|01:00:49|020Okay friends, we have completed number forty-five. 414|01:00:49|020|01:00:58|300We are working in Aries and learning of some of the many connections of this interesting 415|01:00:58|300|01:01:07|740sign of both death and birth, birth into the higher worlds. 416|01:01:08|180|01:01:13|060So see you for Astrology Adventure number forty-six.
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