1|00:00:04|800|00:00:06|680Well, hello everybody. 2|00:00:07|480|00:00:14|800We are continuing now with esoteric astrology adventure number 46. 3|00:00:16|560|00:00:20|300And we are working in the sign Aries. 4|00:00:22|120|00:00:25|320And let's see what we have just completed. 5|00:00:25|320|00:00:35|240We are on page 99, and we are talking about a little reference the Tibetan made to the veiled 6|00:00:36|100|00:00:44|780planets, to hidden planets, Uranus or Vulcan. He can call Uranus hidden in a way, but there 7|00:00:44|780|00:00:47|740may be other hidden planets as well. 8|00:00:49|520|00:00:59|660And there is a discussion here about Uranus in relation to the creative hierarchies, transmitting 9|00:00:59|660|00:01:07|620energy in relation to the creative hierarchies. Uranus is the planet through which zodiacal 10|00:01:07|620|00:01:14|700energy flows, in connection with the Creative Hierarchies upon our planet, Uranus has that 11|00:01:14|700|00:01:21|020manifesting power of both the first and seventh rays, and the creative hierarchies are monads 12|00:01:21|020|00:01:22|780working through form. 13|00:01:24|680|00:01:25|680Now we continue. 14|00:01:30|020|00:01:38|100In connection with Aries, which expresses or is the agent primarily of the first Ray 15|00:01:38|100|00:01:45|060of Will or Power, the ray of the destroyer, it should be stated that first ray energy 16|00:01:45|060|00:01:54|280comes from the divine Prototype in the Great Bear, that it becomes transmuted into the 17|00:01:54|280|00:02:03|060force and activity of the planetary Logos of the first ray, and works out as His triple 18|00:02:03|060|00:02:10|980activity under the guidance of the three ruling planets—Mars, Mercury and Uranus. 19|00:02:11|780|00:02:21|280Well, let's analyze this. Aries is primarily the agent and primarily expresses the first 20|00:02:21|280|00:02:30|500ray but also expresses or transmits the seventh ray. The divine prototype in the Great Bear 21|00:02:31|660|00:02:40|540is probably the first star in the tail of the bear, which is Alkaid or Benetnash. 22|00:02:41|500|00:02:51|240Let's see here. Alkaid and Benetnash. I think that's the way it's spelled. That 23|00:02:51|240|00:02:56|840it becomes transmuted into force. So it begins as energy and becomes transmuted into force 24|00:02:56|840|00:03:04|740and activity of the planetary Logos of the first ray. Now, okay, what is the planetary 25|00:03:04|740|00:03:10|420Logos of the first ray? From a certain point of view, monadically, it would have to be 26|00:03:10|420|00:03:22|900considered Uranus. It is, but our planetary Logos also has a first ray monad. The planetary 27|00:03:22|900|00:03:28|380Logos of the first ray from the soul perspective would be Vulcan, and perhaps that is most 28|00:03:28|380|00:03:33|980important in our particular solar system. When we are speaking of Pluto's first ray, 29|00:03:35|920|00:03:42|480that first ray may be on the personality level because we are dealing with a non-sacred planet. 30|00:03:43|520|00:03:49|900The Tibetan tends to, when he gives rays for non-sacred planets, they tend to be the personality 31|00:03:49|900|00:03:57|380ray just as when speaking most frequently of the Earth in terms of the third ray, it 32|00:03:57|380|00:04:06|600is the personality ray of the Earth. So from the prototype of the Great Bear, there is 33|00:04:06|600|00:04:13|760a working out through the constellation Aries. Now the whole Great Bear is itself probably 34|00:04:13|760|00:04:20|980to be considered a first ray constellation. So in this case, Benetnash or Alkaid 35|00:04:21|540|00:04:33|940may stand for the entire Great Bear. But there is a prototypical star and as D.K. seems to 36|00:04:33|940|00:04:49|200be discussing it, it is an esoteric astrology, page 610, he does seem to speak of one of 37|00:04:49|200|00:04:55|800the stars in the Great Bear working through three major constellations of which Aries 38|00:04:55|800|00:05:06|960is one. Okay, so whether it's from that particular star or in a larger way from the Great Bear 39|00:05:06|960|00:05:14|420as a whole, it descends to the planetary Logoi and certainly reaches our Earth and essentially 40|00:05:14|420|00:05:24|420first ray planet. It is working out under his triple activity and works out under his 41|00:05:24|420|00:05:31|600triple activity under the guidance of three ruling planets: Mars, Mercury and Uranus, 42|00:05:31|800|00:05:44|500all of them rulers of Aries. Okay, all rulers of Aries. Okay, into the force and activity 43|00:05:44|500|00:05:50|620of the planetary Logos of the first ray and works out as his triple activity under the 44|00:05:50|620|00:05:58|580guidance of three ruling planets. So another thing that may be said is that from the planetary 45|00:05:58|580|00:06:04|220Logos of the first ray, whichever he may be considering that to be, emanates a triple 46|00:06:04|220|00:06:13|600activity which this planetary Logos guides and then this triple activity is working out 47|00:06:14|260|00:06:21|200under further guidance from three ruling planets: Mars, Mercury and Uranus. You can see how much 48|00:06:21|200|00:06:30|700may be contained in such a statement here. It's quite dense and the information is deeply embedded 49|00:06:30|700|00:06:38|120but we do at least have a connection from the Great Bear, one of the stars in the Great Bear, 50|00:06:38|120|00:06:46|140the constellation Aries, a planetary Logos of the first ray, whether it's Uranus or Vulcan, 51|00:06:46|560|00:06:57|840and a kind of distribution of that force via Mars, Mercury and Uranus. We have to leave for 52|00:06:57|840|00:07:06|880The moment the ascertainment of what may be the planetary Logos of the first ray. 53|00:07:06|880|00:07:13|780And I've stated the reasons why both Uranus and Vulcan are good candidates for that, but why the 54|00:07:13|780|00:07:20|460Earth also has to be considered not as the planetary Logos of the first ray, but a planetary 55|00:07:20|460|00:07:30|320Logos of an eventually manifesting monadic first ray, even though in this particular solar system 56|00:07:30|320|00:07:36|680that first ray may be somewhat non-effective, or called the non-effective, because the Earth is a 57|00:07:36|680|00:07:49|020non-sacred planet. Okay, so the lines of transmission given on page 610 in diagram 3, 58|00:07:49|180|00:08:04|760let's see diagram 4, okay diagram 4 fills this in. Okay, we don't see a particular planetary 59|00:08:04|760|00:08:13|700locus of the first ray here, but we do see ray 1 passing through many different rulers, 60|00:08:13|920|00:08:27|760that much we do see. Okay, we were not given the what he means by the planetary locus of the first 61|00:08:27|760|00:08:36|880ray, but we imagine that the energy of the Great Bear along the first ray line will reach Aries 62|00:08:36|880|00:08:43|840first, the major distributor of the constellation of the first ray, before it reaches the planetary 63|00:08:43|840|00:08:52|320Logos of the first ray and before it works out as a triple activity under the guidance of three 64|00:08:52|320|00:08:59|800other planets. So we have kind of a ray ruler involved here, a first ray ruler which may be 65|00:09:00|140|00:09:06|380most probably Vulcan in the terms of our present solar system, but Uranus cannot be dismissed and 66|00:09:07|140|00:09:17|040from that first ray ruler we have a triple modifying force of Mars, Mercury and Uranus. 67|00:09:17|040|00:09:31|880Mars embodies sixth ray force and I think we can say from or through its personality. Mars 68|00:09:31|880|00:09:40|960embodies sixth ray force which leads to idealism, because the sixth ray is the ray of idealism, 69|00:09:40|960|00:09:47|880devotion and idealism, destructive fanaticism frequently, because there's plenty of first ray 70|00:09:49|180|00:10:00|540in Mars contributing to the fiery nature of the sixth ray, struggle, strife, which is conflict, 71|00:10:01|680|00:10:09|080war, which is a non-harmonious engagement of contending forces, effort that's a positive 72|00:10:09|080|00:10:16|720thing, unity through effort we remember as one of the keynotes of Aries and evolution. or progress. 73|00:10:18|100|00:10:27|640So this is something about Mars and we do need it to propel the life forward even though it leads 74|00:10:27|640|00:10:38|520to many disharmonious, inharmonious, unpleasant situations, but it is eventually liberating for 75|00:10:38|520|00:10:46|700the soul. God's idea in Aries becomes the concrete plan in Capricorn. There's quite a difference 76|00:10:46|700|00:10:55|620between the originating idea and the specific plan worked out in terms of the five lower worlds or 77|00:10:55|620|00:11:07|620the three lower worlds. Always Aries is the birthplace of ideas. An idea has an internal 78|00:11:07|620|00:11:17|980non-formal structure, an ability to arrange matter. It has a relationship, an inherent 79|00:11:17|980|00:11:27|480relationship of energies, but they do not appear in the normal form, in normal form as we can 80|00:11:27|480|00:11:35|720usually consider form in terms of the three lower worlds. God's idea in Aries and maybe this is the 81|00:11:35|720|00:11:41|540idea of the planetary Logos of the solar Logos or any one of the gods within the one and only God. 82|00:11:42|280|00:11:52|220God's idea in Aries becomes the concrete plan in Capricorn whether that objective is the full 83|00:11:52|220|00:12:00|220flower of the planetary life in all its forms, because there is an idea in the mind of the 84|00:12:00|220|00:12:09|120planetary Logos which does contain the full flowering of the planetary life in all forms, or 85|00:12:09|540|00:12:18|160whether it's the ambition of a personality working out its own ideas and ambitious 86|00:12:18|160|00:12:27|200worldly projects or the spiritual aspiration (worldly ambition transmuted into its higher 87|00:12:27|200|00:12:36|260aspect) of the initiate, who seeks to work out God's plans and make them his own. So here are three 88|00:12:36|260|00:12:47|980different ways in which the idea can take form. The original Aries idea. God's idea becomes the 89|00:12:47|980|00:12:55|780concrete plan in Capricorn. Okay, and then there are three objectives all of them ultimately related 90|00:12:55|780|00:13:04|180to God's idea though standing at different levels of evolutionary significance. One of the 91|00:13:04|180|00:13:09|620objectives can be the full flowering of the planetary life that's a very large idea. Another 92|00:13:09|620|00:13:16|360objective can be very small it's the ambition of a personality working out its own ideas not really 93|00:13:16|360|00:13:22|220ideas from the Buddhic plane or beyond but thoughts and ambitious worldly projects, or the 94|00:13:22|220|00:13:31|440initiate can have a certain objective towards which his spiritual aspiration tends and that 95|00:13:31|440|00:13:38|020would be to work out God's plan in some small way, but at least it's not just the plan of the 96|00:13:38|020|00:13:46|460personality. Mars is important in all of this working out because there must be the effort to 97|00:13:46|460|00:13:56|640work things out and that frequently involves strife and friction and contention and going 98|00:13:56|640|00:14:09|800against prevailing trends. In every case, and it's Mars that's being discussed here, Mars leads 99|00:14:09|800|00:14:22|060to the battle ground of Scorpio. where the real crisis of which values shall prevail is fought 100|00:14:22|060|00:14:32|520out. We have discussed Mars as the exoteric ruler of Aries. It leads, it relates it thus to Scorpio, 101|00:14:32|520|00:14:42|820which is ruled by Mars in two respects: both the exoteric and esoteric. So the battleground of 102|00:14:42|820|00:14:54|840Scorpio is necessary if ideas are to take form. In other words, we must fight for the manifestation 103|00:14:54|840|00:15:06|820of our thoughts and, in some cases, actual ideas. Sometimes the word “idea” is used generically; it's 104|00:15:06|820|00:15:19|760roughly equivalent to the word “thought” or “plans.” But a true idea is an incorporeal being which has 105|00:15:19|760|00:15:32|200the power to shape and give shape and structure to amorphous matter. Okay, so we will have to 106|00:15:32|200|00:15:43|430fight, and the fight becomes deadly in Scorpio. Fight becomes deadly in Scorpio. Now, what 107|00:15:43|430|00:15:53|090he's doing here is he's talking about how the different rulers of Aries actually function. So 108|00:15:53|090|00:16:03|430he's given us many keywords for Mars with all of its friction, its heat, its warfare, its battle, 109|00:16:03|430|00:16:14|550its contention, its strife—the God of War. But now Mercury. Mercury, embodying the energy of the fourth 110|00:16:14|550|00:16:23|430ray,—I would say in its soul aspect—in the soul aspect of Mercury, the fourth ray's ruling eventually 111|00:16:25|670|00:16:36|290carries the man around the wheel of life through the medium of conflict, enables him to achieve 112|00:16:36|290|00:16:40|330harmony. Embodying the energy of the fourth ray eventually carries the man around the wheel of 113|00:16:40|330|00:16:47|930life and through the medium of conflict enables him to achieve harmony. Let's remember that Mercury 114|00:16:47|930|00:17:00|570is the quote “star of conflict” but also leads to harmony. We do not say this so much of Mars. Mars 115|00:17:00|570|00:17:10|190is more conflict without harmony, but Mars does lead to Mercury, in which the conflicts in which 116|00:17:10|190|00:17:21|210one engages are for the purpose of eventual harmony. So Mercury can lead to quite a bit of 117|00:17:21|210|00:17:34|050mental contention and debate and irresolution and the contending of polar positions, but eventually 118|00:17:34|050|00:17:43|190Mercury has the illumination to see the points in common. The fourth ray will so often see points in 119|00:17:43|190|00:17:50|350common rather than points which divide and can build those bridges which lead to harmony. So we 120|00:17:50|350|00:17:59|390have unity through effort, and the unity in Aries is oftentimes provided by Mercury. So unity 121|00:17:59|390|00:18:09|810through effort is very much, in a way, Mercury reached via Mars. Okay, Mercury illumines the 122|00:18:09|810|00:18:18|950mind and mediates between the soul and the personality, being the Messenger of the Gods. You know, what does 123|00:18:18|950|00:18:30|390the soul want within the personality? This is mediated and given by Mercury. And when we attempt 124|00:18:30|390|00:18:38|550to speak with the soul or the higher power or pray or in some way contact the higher of the two, 125|00:18:38|550|00:18:49|250we use Mercury. Mercury offers up our petition, our thought, and we enter into dialogue. So with 126|00:18:49|250|00:18:55|690Mercury, it's always a two-way street. It's not just that which comes from the soul, but it's that which 127|00:18:55|690|00:19:03|250the personality returns to the soul—the personality's point of view, which indeed the higher 128|00:19:04|060|00:19:08|470power does consider. Mercury illumines the mind, 129|00:19:11|400|00:19:18|850brings many connections to the mind, connecting the contents of consciousness 130|00:19:19|080|00:19:29|830in a rational way. So I'll put that down here: connecting the contents of consciousness 131|00:19:30|180|00:19:37|070in a rational manner and mediates between the soul and personality, being the messenger of the gods. 132|00:19:38|010|00:19:47|250Gemini is also the messenger. What is a messenger? One who brings word, force, substance, 133|00:19:48|140|00:19:54|960some quantity or quality from one position to another. Always duality is implied and 134|00:19:55|520|00:20:05|540location, either in space or location in dimension. So carrying something from one position to 135|00:20:05|540|00:20:14|560another—This mediatorship, of Mercury, one of the esoteric rulers of Aries—in the first instance, 136|00:20:14|560|00:20:23|480produces an inevitable opposition between the pairs of opposites and a long drawn out conflict. 137|00:20:23|480|00:20:29|280In other words, when the personality finds out what the soul wants, 138|00:20:31|690|00:20:38|620there will be conflict. The personality will rebel. Personality will rebel and contend 139|00:20:39|590|00:20:48|160with the soul once the message is received. At first, in the first instance, 140|00:20:48|880|00:20:54|460producing an inevitable opposition—in other words, once we know where the soul stands 141|00:20:54|460|00:21:04|720and where the personality stands, a kind of battle will, for a time, 142|00:21:05|760|00:21:15|580eventuate until the two forces become more habituated to each other and until, especially, 143|00:21:15|580|00:21:25|500the personality sees the value to itself of that which the soul suggests, because the soul 144|00:21:25|500|00:21:34|300message can also better the life of the personality. So it's interesting that 145|00:21:34|300|00:21:40|560mediatorship leads to conflict and finally to harmony. So let's put that down, okay? 146|00:21:41|280|00:21:51|880Mediatorship of Mercury leads to conflict and eventually, eventually to harmony 147|00:21:52|780|00:22:03|000between the contending opposites, and then the fourth ray in its harmony aspect emerges. 148|00:22:03|620|00:22:09|680So it is harmony through conflict. So let's remember when we begin talking to someone 149|00:22:09|680|00:22:18|820via Mercury, a debate may ensue until we reach a more harmonized position. This conflict finally 150|00:22:19|800|00:22:26|880works out into victory and the dispelling of illusion through the illumination of the lower 151|00:22:26|880|00:22:39|200mind. Well, uh, yes, and that can happen somewhat in Aries. Um, illusion can be dispelled in Aries 152|00:22:39|680|00:22:51|580and also in Mercury when the hydra is conquered, okay? Because the hydra is lifted up into the air 153|00:22:51|580|00:22:58|380of the buddhic language is ruled by Mercury partially, so it is a very high mercurial function 154|00:22:58|380|00:23:06|750which dispels glamour and illusion in, uh, Scorpio. So in both of these martian signs there can be 155|00:23:07|170|00:23:17|770a considerable progress towards the dispelling of illusion. The jungles of illusion are set on 156|00:23:18|270|00:23:27|850fire, or the jungles of experience are set on fire, and the path stands clear and free. 157|00:23:27|850|00:23:37|310Okay. Mercury and the Sun are one. Well, they're certainly close enough to each other, and they 158|00:23:37|310|00:23:45|410are both principles of illumination, although Mercury involves duality which gives way 159|00:23:46|250|00:23:55|030into the unitary illumination which the Sun represents. The Sun represents the complete, 160|00:23:55|580|00:24:05|910completely illumined non-dual sphere. Let's put that down. Sun has the completely illumined 161|00:24:05|910|00:24:14|450non-dual sphere. With Mercury and the Antahkarana, there is always duality until the poles fuse, and 162|00:24:14|450|00:24:24|150in a way Mercury becomes the Sun. This is what is called the contracting poles. As evolution 163|00:24:24|150|00:24:30|410proceeds, the poles contract, duality is overcome, and that state of consciousness which can be 164|00:24:30|410|00:24:39|010called non-dual and is represented by the Sun supervenes. Mercury and the Sun are one, we are 165|00:24:39|010|00:24:43|670frequently told in the occult literature. and sometimes we're told that Vulcan, Mercury, and the 166|00:24:43|670|00:24:53|010Sun are one. The functions of these other two planets merge into the greater function of the 167|00:24:53|010|00:25:01|430Sun. I think we see this particularly in the third decanate of Capricorn, which is ruled in a way by 168|00:25:01|430|00:25:11|590Mercury but more authentically by Vulcan and the Sun, and which results in the great enlightenment 169|00:25:11|590|00:25:21|570or illumination of the third initiation. The Sun is the symbol of the Son of God, That's under the 170|00:25:21|570|00:25:29|050second aspect. The Son of God is the secondary aspect of God Who is the mediator between Father-171|00:25:29|050|00:25:40|250Spirit and Mother-Matter. So the Sun in its second aspect is a mediator, and so is 172|00:25:40|250|00:25:50|790Mercury. God the Son of Love mediates between the law and will of the Father and the form-making 173|00:25:50|790|00:26:01|030tendencies of the Mother. Mercury, therefore, leads Aries to Virgo See, we were talking about that 174|00:26:01|030|00:26:12|890before. Via Mercury, which rules Aries and which rules Virgo, the two signs Aries and Virgo are 175|00:26:12|890|00:26:22|190connected. Mercury therefore leads Aries to Virgo. The idea must take form; it must come to birth 176|00:26:24|370|00:26:33|470and, and, and be refined and eventually perfected and made powerful and institutionalized in 177|00:26:33|470|00:26:39|330Capricorn. So, you know, the idea is not enough; it's got to be worked out through the other 178|00:26:39|330|00:26:45|610eleven signs of the zodiac in various ways. Mercury, therefore, leads Aries to Virgo (again 179|00:26:45|610|00:26:55|950speaking symbolically) where the idea or Word of God begins to take form,—so the idea and the word are given 180|00:26:55|950|00:27:03|870equivalents here. The idea can be expressed as a sound. Let's, let's say that the idea expressed 181|00:27:03|870|00:27:13|850as a sound begins to take form, the gestation process in Virgo, and consequently the latent life 182|00:27:13|850|00:27:22|070in Aries—it's not life expressed; its life potential—comes to the “crisis of the birth hour,” 183|00:27:22|070|00:27:33|430and the idea will be born within the material planes and actually emerge into matter via form. 184|00:27:35|150|00:27:41|910prior to the birth of the Christ, okay, the crisis of the birth hour, prior to the birth of the Christ, 185|00:27:41|910|00:27:49|550this is a great labor in many ways, cosmically considered, though the 186|00:27:49|550|00:27:54|170birth of the individual Christ takes place in Capricorn, 187|00:27:54|170|00:28:00|050at the close of the needed gestation period. Well, there's the individual Christ and the cosmic 188|00:28:00|050|00:28:07|050Christ. Sometimes the individual Christ is referred to as emerging in Virgo, but oftentimes 189|00:28:07|050|00:28:14|420literally in Capricorn there is the crisis of the birth hour, and the struggle to 190|00:28:16|950|00:28:25|270birth the new form occurs in Virgo, but the actual emergence takes place in Capricorn. 191|00:28:25|270|00:28:30|090Anyway, there's sometimes a little vagueness between the idea of whether birth occurs 192|00:28:30|090|00:28:35|850in Virgo or in Capricorn, certainly literally in Capricorn. So let's read this without my 193|00:28:36|630|00:28:43|510interference. Mercury therefore leads Aries to Virgo, again speaking symbolically, where the idea 194|00:28:43|510|00:28:52|370or word of God begins to take form, and consequently the latent life of Aries comes to the crisis of 195|00:28:52|370|00:28:59|230birth hour, which is, you know, somewhat prolonged prior to the birth of the Christ, cosmically 196|00:28:59|230|00:29:10|830considered. Now that's interesting because the Christ is born cosmically in Aries. Aries is the 197|00:29:10|830|00:29:16|870ultimate sign of initiation. There will be a time when Capricorn, as the sign of initiation, is 198|00:29:16|870|00:29:29|270replaced by Aries. But Aries always has this broad ideational cosmic implication, not dealing with the 199|00:29:29|270|00:29:36|550specifics of form but dealing with the formless idea. So, you know, what is the birth of the cosmic 200|00:29:36|550|00:29:45|510Christ? Well, what is the cosmic Christ? Is the cosmic Christ the solar Logoic son? Is the cosmic Christ 201|00:29:46|310|00:29:52|710Sirius from a certain perspective, as Sirius expresses probably ultimately a secondary monad? 202|00:29:52|710|00:30:00|630Is the cosmic Christ something greater still, a still greater constellation, perhaps Orion, as has 203|00:30:00|630|00:30:08|390sometimes been stated? The idea of cosmic Christ has many levels because, of course, we're 204|00:30:08|390|00:30:14|210dealing with the second aspect of divinity, and the cosmos is relatively a big place. 205|00:30:14|810|00:30:20|110So there's the cosmic Christ in terms of how humanity can consider it, and still greater 206|00:30:20|110|00:30:29|850cosmic Christs as we ascend through the hierarchy of beings. Okay, so Aries related to the cosmic 207|00:30:29|850|00:30:36|410Christ and the individual Christ related to Capricorn at the close of the needed gestation 208|00:30:36|410|00:30:44|930period. And that gestation period is ruled by Virgo, and because we have the word here, the 209|00:30:44|930|00:30:52|660idea begins to take form. It begins to take form in Virgo and leads all the way to the crisis of 210|00:30:52|660|00:31:04|540the birth hour, which Virgo under Vulcan is the birth process— 211|00:31:05|760|00:31:14|260the pushing part that Vulcan represents and the emergence into a new world of form, 212|00:31:15|000|00:31:19|800which is technically ruled by Capricorn. Okay. 213|00:31:21|900|00:31:31|860Now he goes on to the third ruler, the hierarchical ruler of Aries, which is active in the life of 214|00:31:33|780|00:31:39|660initiates of the third degree. Some have said it's active earlier; some have connected the 215|00:31:39|660|00:31:46|680hierarchical ruler with the mental plane per se. But I think that the full expression of a 216|00:31:46|680|00:31:54|040hierarchical ruler in relation to any sign will occur when the individual is truly a member of 217|00:31:54|040|00:32:02|820hierarchy after the third degree or around the third degree. Uranus embodies the energy of the 218|00:32:02|820|00:32:09|880seventh ray, presumably its soul ray, and its work is analogous to that of Mercury. Now let us 219|00:32:09|880|00:32:17|740remember that Mercury and Uranus are very closely related planets, and that when Mercury in its 220|00:32:17|740|00:32:23|980etheric and subtle aspect is absorbed into a synthesizing planet, it will be ultimately 221|00:32:24|940|00:32:35|940a Uranus into which Mercury is absorbed. We don't want this thing popping up. Uranus embodies 222|00:32:35|940|00:32:43|780the energy of the seventh ray and its work is analogous to that of Mercury, for the seventh ray 223|00:32:43|780|00:32:51|800is the ray which relates spirit and matter See, the relational aspect of the seventh ray is analogous 224|00:32:51|800|00:33:03|540to the mediating function of Mercury. The relations which the seventh ray induces are not 225|00:33:03|540|00:33:10|260only vertical but also horizontal, and this is true of Mercury as well. and brings together—Uranus 226|00:33:10|260|00:33:17|780brings together—the seventh ray brings together electric fire and fire by friction, thus producing 227|00:33:18|560|00:33:25|340manifestation. So the seventh ray is very important in relating the father 228|00:33:25|990|00:33:33|060and the mother, which produces the son of manifestation, which is the solar system 229|00:33:33|060|00:33:39|450when we're thinking in terms of the solar Logos. There's so much embedded here, you know. We could— 230|00:33:40|830|00:33:52|370we could take these statements as key thoughts and seed thoughts for meditation. The book 231|00:33:52|370|00:34:00|610Esoteric Astrology is a seed. It's a tremendously powerful seed for the unfoldment of the new 232|00:34:00|610|00:34:08|170astrology, and unless it's treated as a seed and all the different little seeds within the one seed are 233|00:34:09|730|00:34:17|690nurtured and germinated, we shall not have the full potential of this book. Memorizing the book will 234|00:34:17|690|00:34:29|830not do. One has to treat the various factors as indicative of lines of illumination which can be 235|00:34:29|830|00:34:38|510followed. So Uranus and Mercury have an analogy. The seventh ray relates spirit and matter and 236|00:34:38|510|00:34:45|050brings together electric fire and fire by friction, producing manifestation. Uranus leads 237|00:34:45|050|00:34:52|190the soul—by that time it is a soul—to the burning ground, the final burning ground, really. Elsewhere 238|00:34:52|190|00:35:00|210it tells us Uranus leads the soul to the burning ground during the final stages of the Path, 239|00:35:01|100|00:35:09|590when the fire of Aries and the fires engendered through the potency of Uranus produce the flaming 240|00:35:10|210|00:35:17|930heat of the final burning ground. Now, is he talking about a number of burning grounds, one of which 241|00:35:18|610|00:35:25|050precedes each initiation, or is he being very specific about the very 242|00:35:25|930|00:35:35|110final stages of the path which will lead to the liberation of the soul, the complete liberation 243|00:35:35|110|00:35:42|290from the causal body and later even from the spiritual triad? We can look at this then in 244|00:35:42|290|00:35:49|750a generic sense that Uranus is bringing the spirit into expression. The spirit has a 245|00:35:50|570|00:35:58|970mighty fiery power, and the final stages of the path could be considered simply what we call 246|00:35:58|970|00:36:06|030entry into the kingdom of God and the path of initiation, including even the first and second 247|00:36:06|970|00:36:13|930initiations of the threshold. In a way, Aries is bringing in the new age. Aries can also be 248|00:36:13|930|00:36:20|670considered to bring in the kingdom of the soul. We can think of it in that way, with Aries and Uranus 249|00:36:20|670|00:36:27|730applied to initiations one through five and maybe beyond, or we can think of specific phases of 250|00:36:27|730|00:36:36|490liberation. The first of which would be the… well, you know, I can think of the third initiation here, 251|00:36:36|490|00:36:41|950but that's not a true liberation. The fourth initiation will bring us a final burning ground, 252|00:36:42|430|00:36:46|630and even there is a burning ground before the fifth initiation when the debris, 253|00:36:47|670|00:36:53|690the remains of the destroyed causal body, are burned away and complete revelation, 254|00:36:55|230|00:37:02|750unobscured, is granted to the consciousness of the initiate. He will then know much more of the 255|00:37:02|750|00:37:10|790purpose of Sanat Kumara. Uranus leads the soul to the burning ground during the final stages 256|00:37:10|790|00:37:20|210of the path when the fire of Aries—all the fires, but electric fire particularly if we're dealing 257|00:37:20|210|00:37:25|830with the really final stages—and the fires engendered through the potency of Uranus… and 258|00:37:25|830|00:37:35|390you know, in one way I'd like to call these the fires of the inherent archetype, because when 259|00:37:35|390|00:37:43|230what we really are, which Uranus represents, starts coming up against what we seem to be and where 260|00:37:43|230|00:37:50|590others have told us that we are and how we've been conditioned under Saturn, then a conflagration 261|00:37:51|390|00:38:01|630really arises because Uranus insists that the archetype be made manifest, and this will be in 262|00:38:01|630|00:38:11|390great friction with all that has been created and which is not authentic. So the fires which burn 263|00:38:11|390|00:38:20|650up that which is not authentic… because Uranus is the major planet of authenticity. Authenticity 264|00:38:22|130|00:38:29|030is archetypal. The archetype is the authentic part of ourselves. So it produces the flaming heat 265|00:38:29|030|00:38:37|830of the final burning ground. The final burning ground… well, you know, it's hard for me to think 266|00:38:37|830|00:38:44|270of anything as a final burning ground because there are all manner of subtle forms from which 267|00:38:44|270|00:38:54|330we must free ourselves. We must divest ourselves of these forms, and the agency of fire is necessary 268|00:38:54|330|00:39:05|010as we do so. So Uranus may be active in the very highest initiations because Uranus is ruling, 269|00:39:05|690|00:39:14|010in a way, the very first plane, the sea of fire on the Logoic plane, and there will be fires 270|00:39:14|530|00:39:20|990in those dimensions which liberate the consciousness from states which we would 271|00:39:20|990|00:39:29|510now consider extremely high but which then are viewed as a limitation. Let's see… Through this 272|00:39:29|510|00:39:36|430burning ground, the initiate has finally to pass. There's a lot of finality here. Uranus, remember, is 273|00:39:36|430|00:39:44|630God the Father in terms of the planetary lives. Uranus has the first ray monad. 274|00:39:45|190|00:39:51|690Uranus is an ultimate planet. Is it the ultimate synthesizing planet for our 275|00:39:54|030|00:40:00|210solar system, our solar Logos, at this time? Maybe, maybe not. I think in the next solar system 276|00:40:00|750|00:40:06|530it certainly will be, but perhaps in this solar system we might be able to look at Neptune 277|00:40:07|250|00:40:13|050as the ultimate synthesizing planet, since Neptune has a second ray monad and since this is 278|00:40:13|050|00:40:21|550a second ray solar system in its soul and personality. Uranus rules the occult way, the 279|00:40:21|550|00:40:30|910true causes of things, the hidden realities. It is… let's call it access to the hidden realities. 280|00:40:31|730|00:40:41|630Access to the hidden realities. And when realities are hidden, we call them occulted, and that's 281|00:40:41|630|00:40:48|970occultism. It's a study of the hidden realities. It has nothing to do with that which is evil or 282|00:40:48|970|00:40:59|410macabre or in some way against the goodness of God. It just deals with the revelation of what God is. 283|00:41:00|330|00:41:09|250God in its hidden aspect, which is most of God… God, our planetary Logos. Uranus rules the occult Way 284|00:41:09|250|00:41:17|510and is, in an esoteric sense, connected with the Hierophant of the Mysteries of Initiation. So 285|00:41:18|090|00:41:25|930when does the hierophant appear? The true hierophant? Well, even the first hierophant… 286|00:41:25|930|00:41:35|010which is the Great Lord, the Christ, will have a Uranian or awakening effect. You see, Uranus the 287|00:41:35|010|00:41:49|990awakener and the Hierophant, the awakener, but our awakener. Okay, but here we can be talking about 288|00:41:49|990|00:42:00|890Sanat Kumara as the true awakener at the third initiation, awakening the initiate to the realities 289|00:42:00|890|00:42:10|030of spirit. Remember that Sanat Kumara is a projection of our planetary Logos who has a first 290|00:42:10|030|00:42:16|970ray monad. So in a way, Sanat Kumara and the planetary Logos are the same being. So Uranus is somehow 291|00:42:16|970|00:42:29|070deeply connected with Sanat Kumara as he raises the initiate to life. This is first achieved at 292|00:42:29|070|00:42:38|090the third initiation when the spirit or life aspect comes somewhat into expression. So the 293|00:42:38|090|00:42:46|270electric fire of Uranus is very much involved with the third initiation, though not its full extent, of 294|00:42:46|270|00:42:52|790course. That would have to wait till later, and solar fire is more applied at the first two 295|00:42:52|790|00:42:59|510initiations. So Sanat Kumara, as the Hierophant of the mysteries of initiation, is connected with 296|00:42:59|510|00:43:05|210Uranus the awakener, beginning at the third initiation, particularly when Sanat Kumara 297|00:43:05|750|00:43:12|830becomes the Hierophant. Before that, it is the Christ. Final burning ground—the occult way. These 298|00:43:12|830|00:43:19|990are very high things. This all has to do with the liberation of our consciousness 299|00:43:21|370|00:43:32|130from preoccupation with the realm of lower Saturn, namely the conditioned mosaic worlds, the lower 18 300|00:43:32|130|00:43:40|550subplanes, and even from a solar Logoi point of view, the lower 21 subplanes. Let's see how we're doing. 301|00:43:40|550|00:43:52|710Okay, rolling along here. Page 101. Now, Therefore, we have in relation to Aries and the life of the soul, 302|00:43:55|260|00:44:02|230which there comes into subjective manifestation,—in other words, under Aries, the life of the soul 303|00:44:02|230|00:44:09|670emerges upon the mental plane, which is subjective when compared with the 304|00:44:09|670|00:44:17|530outer planes—certain related signs wherein the soul, in objective manifestation, 305|00:44:18|070|00:44:26|690passes through peculiar and definite crises: Esoteric astrology is very useful in helping us 306|00:44:26|690|00:44:34|930define the nature of the crises through which we are passing. Most human beings consider 307|00:44:35|650|00:44:41|210crisis simply as objectionable and unpleasant and something to be lived through as rapidly 308|00:44:41|830|00:44:48|990as possible, something to go beyond. But a crisis, truly understood, has a great 309|00:44:50|510|00:44:57|790revelatory significance, and we should emerge with greater consciousness after every crisis. And we 310|00:44:57|790|00:45:04|950will do so if we understand what the purpose of the crisis may be. Therefore, we have in relation 311|00:45:04|950|00:45:12|870to Aries and the life of the soul, which comes into—which there comes into subjective manifestation 312|00:45:12|870|00:45:19|270under Aries: “I come forth and from the plane of mind I rule.” I come forth onto the plane of mind 313|00:45:19|270|00:45:25|830subjectively under the influence of Aries, certain related signs wherein the soul, 314|00:45:26|870|00:45:32|410in objective manifestation, passes through peculiar and definite crises. Now, 315|00:45:32|810|00:45:38|870what is objective manifestation of the soul? The objective manifestation 316|00:45:38|870|00:45:52|690of the soul occurs under Cancer and on the dense physical plane—the dense physical plane. 317|00:45:53|130|00:45:58|090In other words, the lower three sub-planes. We are manifesting through the lower three 318|00:45:58|090|00:46:05|830sub-planes densely, and we manifest our etheric, emotional, and mental nature, and also our soul 319|00:46:05|830|00:46:14|730through this density, which is apparent to the five senses. Okay, so here are some crises, and 320|00:46:14|730|00:46:27|550it might be very valuable for students to collect the crises. So, you know, let us 321|00:46:28|430|00:46:39|070collect the crises which Master D.K. mentions. I think, if I'm remembering correctly, there's a whole 322|00:46:40|770|00:46:42|290list of crises 323|00:46:46|210|00:46:57|530on what page—what page? Oh, well, not quite there. I thought it was on page— 324|00:46:57|550|00:47:00|250let's see—crisis. 325|00:47:03|290|00:47:10|850Battlefield, crisis, battlefield. Yes, there are the crises. Yes, I thought it was page 473—it's 472. So 326|00:47:10|850|00:47:18|710here's a list of crises that we will have to consider: crises of the soul, of incarnation, of 327|00:47:18|710|00:47:23|310orientation, of initiation, of renunciation, of the battlefield, the birthplace, of the burning 328|00:47:23|310|00:47:31|110ground, and so forth. He also mentions Capricorn, 329|00:47:34|850|00:47:43|190Libra, and is it Leo as signs of crisis? I'm not sure about the Leo, but I do remember Capricorn 330|00:47:43|190|00:47:52|490and Libra. So we will collect—attempt to collect these different signs of crisis 331|00:47:53|760|00:48:02|030because crisis is opportunity. Every time we have a crisis, we have a chance to expand our 332|00:48:02|030|00:48:11|630consciousness and increase the potencies of the life aspect within us. So let us collect them and 333|00:48:11|630|00:48:18|890see the crisis or crises through which we are passing. As Master D.K. is telling us, if we don't 334|00:48:18|890|00:48:25|730have a crisis, we should be having one, and perhaps we can even force the issue and engineer our own 335|00:48:25|730|00:48:38|150crises. So that's, I'll say, note on 472: the list of crises, and some of these will be found on that 336|00:48:38|150|00:48:45|190page. Correct. The battlefield is one such, and that's the one we're going to discuss here: 1. The 337|00:48:45|190|00:48:53|010crises of the battle field, leading to the culminating battle in Scorpio and the liberation 338|00:48:53|010|00:49:02|430into life in Capricorn, the place of the higher initiations, after the reversal of the wheel. So 339|00:49:02|430|00:49:11|010are there lower initiations before the reversal of the wheel? Let's ask: are there lower initiations 340|00:49:11|010|00:49:20|310before the reversal of the wheel? In a way there are. Even becoming a human being is a type 341|00:49:20|830|00:49:31|330of initiation. Capricorn rules five initiations, and these five can be considered the first through 342|00:49:31|330|00:49:38|570the fifth, but perhaps it has a connection even with some of the higher initiations. The crisis 343|00:49:38|570|00:49:43|490of the battlefield is under Scorpio. What is the culminating battle in Scorpio? Well, for so many 344|00:49:44|050|00:49:50|390human beings, it's the difficult moment at the second initiation, which D.K. says is the most 345|00:49:50|390|00:49:57|330difficult for human beings to take, especially if they're on the soft line rays or if they're not on 346|00:49:57|330|00:50:04|150ray three or five. The second initiation is the most difficult for people to take. 347|00:50:05|070|00:50:11|470But that's not the culminating battle. I would say the culminating battle 348|00:50:12|370|00:50:18|370from a practical consideration can be considered the fourth initiation. There's a kind of consummation 349|00:50:18|370|00:50:25|350out of the need to reincarnate at the fourth initiation, and the battle is between the initiate 350|00:50:25|350|00:50:36|470and that portion of the dweller of the human race which is ranged against him. 351|00:50:37|770|00:50:46|030So that is a culminating battle which leads to the end of that which seems to characterize 352|00:50:46|030|00:50:54|870humanity most: incarnation in a physical form, the need to reincarnate. But of course, even a master 353|00:50:54|870|00:51:03|870is still a human being, though a chohan is not. And liberation into life? Well, the first ray comes 354|00:51:03|870|00:51:09|910through Capricorn. It does not, as listed, come through Scorpio, though one can suspect it. 355|00:51:10|550|00:51:18|250And life is most connected with the first aspect, although in a way spirit, soul, and 356|00:51:18|790|00:51:23|830matter are pervaded by life. So life seems to be something inclusive and not just related to the 357|00:51:23|830|00:51:32|710first ray. But of the three rays, the first ray seems most related to life. The liberation into 358|00:51:32|710|00:51:39|630Capricorn, the place of the higher initiations after the reversal of the wheel. The reversal of 359|00:51:39|630|00:51:48|290the wheel is occurring from the time we reach the fifth petal efforts within the egoic lotus, though 360|00:51:49|130|00:51:56|150the accomplished reversal of the wheel can be considered to occur after passing the temptations 361|00:51:56|150|00:52:01|350in the desert between the second and third initiations. And so from this perspective, 362|00:52:04|370|00:52:09|870Capricorn can be considered to rule initiations three, four, and five, and maybe six and seven as 363|00:52:09|870|00:52:17|590well, because following the achievement of the reversal of the wheel, when the issue is no longer 364|00:52:17|590|00:52:26|050being debated and when there is no longer the possibility of reverting to the left-hand path, 365|00:52:26|050|00:52:33|290following all that, the third initiation comes. Capricorn certainly rules the third initiation. 366|00:52:33|290|00:52:40|850It is the initiation which is most characterized by the energy of Capricorn, just the way Scorpio, 367|00:52:40|850|00:52:50|030even though involved in the third initiation, is most characterizing of the second. So, okay, so 368|00:52:50|030|00:52:57|950that's one crisis: the crisis of the battlefield. Now all of this is related to Aries because 369|00:52:58|610|00:53:06|250Aries is related via Mars to Scorpio. Now we'll look at a crisis here connecting Aries to Virgo 370|00:53:06|250|00:53:14|090because Mercury is related—is ruling in both sides. 2. The crisis of the birth place in Virgo, 371|00:53:15|150|00:53:25|830brought about through the activity of Mercury, leading through Leo to the birth of the Christ in 372|00:53:27|110|00:53:34|510Capricorn. Well, it is said that the gestation and the nurturing of the Christ in the heart 373|00:53:34|510|00:53:41|470takes place in Virgo. It's hard to think of Virgo only as a sign of gestation. 374|00:53:42|150|00:53:47|070It is also a sign of motherhood, and there is no motherhood unless there is birth. So there 375|00:53:47|070|00:53:57|710is a whole birth dimension to Virgo. But in a way, we are born into matter. The idea— 376|00:53:58|470|00:54:05|330and the man is the idea. Man is an idea. Each one of us is an idea. The man is born onto the physical 377|00:54:05|330|00:54:12|750plane. Virgo was very active in the latter part of the previous solar system, which has much to do 378|00:54:12|750|00:54:23|550simply with matter and mind. The man is born onto the physical plane. He achieves a growing sense 379|00:54:23|550|00:54:30|510of his own individuality through Leo, but Leo also rules the first initiation in which the birth of 380|00:54:30|510|00:54:39|070the Christ occurs. So as that individuality in Leo becomes more spiritual, it leads eventually to the 381|00:54:39|070|00:54:44|830birth of the Christ in Capricorn, which is the first initiation. So if you have a horoscope in 382|00:54:44|830|00:54:54|170which Virgo, Leo, and Capricorn are all present, it really indicates the potential for initiation. 383|00:54:54|720|00:55:01|630Leo and Capricorn together can indicate the first initiation because so often the first initiation 384|00:55:01|630|00:55:07|470is taken in Leo or under Leo, and Capricorn is always associated with the first initiation. 385|00:55:08|410|00:55:20|110The birth of Christ from Mary Virgo occurred at the time of the winter solstice in Capricorn. 386|00:55:20|110|00:55:27|010We see how all these ideas are brought together: The self-conscious individual in Leo 387|00:55:27|910|00:55:33|710becomes the Christ-conscious Initiate in Capricorn. Okay, that's over a long period of time, 388|00:55:33|710|00:55:41|930but it's also possible to become the increasingly self-conscious spiritual individuality who can 389|00:55:41|930|00:55:50|370take the first initiation in or under Leo, and Capricorn just confirms that. Also, the 390|00:55:50|370|00:55:56|290second initiation can be taken under Leo and Capricorn as well. Capricorn rules all the 391|00:55:56|290|00:56:03|870first five initiations, and maybe initiation three to seven. D.K. does not discuss 392|00:56:06|270|00:56:13|450— let's see, I think — how does it go? He doesn't discuss the signs in which the 393|00:56:13|450|00:56:18|690higher initiations are taken, but let's go there for just a second. We'll go to a different 394|00:56:19|730|00:56:27|570— go to a different book. We'll go to “The Rays and Initiations,” and gosh, what is it? Is it page 340 395|00:56:28|670|00:56:37|710something like that? Yes, it is. Okay, for these higher initiations, he does not discuss the sign 396|00:56:37|710|00:56:44|070involved. Initiation five, though, since it is the fifth, may have very much to do with Leo. I think 397|00:56:44|070|00:56:53|130it does. Mastership and Leo is the number five. Initiation six, which is the decision, is related to 398|00:56:54|390|00:57:01|350Libra and the third ray. When it comes to the second ray of resurrection, 399|00:57:03|170|00:57:11|030I oftentimes think that Aries, the major sign of resurrection, is connected with this initiation 400|00:57:11|030|00:57:19|250which lifts us onto the highest of the sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane, the Logoic plane. So 401|00:57:19|250|00:57:28|490anyway, a study of the signs that correlate with various initiations would be most interesting, and 402|00:57:28|490|00:57:32|990we will find there's not only just one sign. We will find that a number of signs 403|00:57:33|590|00:57:39|270correlate, and when they are brought together, they really can indicate the potential for the 404|00:57:39|270|00:57:49|530initiation. I can see where, let's say, Scorpio is connected with the second and Capricorn with 405|00:57:49|530|00:57:58|090the third, and Leo we are told is connected with the first, but not to exclude Virgo and not to exclude 406|00:57:59|650|00:58:07|010Gemini and Scorpio. Well, there are just many different signs involved in that initiation. 407|00:58:07|670|00:58:16|370Okay, so let's see where we are. Yes, ah, we are at the time when we have to discontinue this. We are 408|00:58:16|370|00:58:27|950talking about the crises, so I will say that this — whoops, what we got going on here? Um, this is the 409|00:58:27|950|00:58:33|770end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure 46. 410|00:58:37|630|00:58:42|610And we have gone to page 101, I believe. 411|00:58:44|490|00:58:54|750Yes, we have. We've gone from page 99 to 101. At this rate, there will be about 350 tapes 412|00:58:55|270|00:59:01|610for this book, but let's hope that things get a little faster later, although I certainly 413|00:59:01|610|00:59:10|950can't promise it. Let us now, therefore, do The Great Invocation together. Um, yeah. 414|00:59:12|930|00:59:23|430From the point of light within — okay, oh, that's not what we want. 415|00:59:24|750|00:59:32|510We want previously and — okay, okay, The Great Invocation. 416|00:59:43|990|00:59:52|110From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. 417|00:59:52|750|00:59:54|790Let light descend on Earth. 418|00:59:57|290|01:00:04|590From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. 419|01:00:05|230|01:00:07|370May Christ return to Earth. 420|01:00:09|770|01:00:16|350From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 421|01:00:17|270|01:00:20|910the purpose which the Masters know and serve. 422|01:00:23|110|01:00:29|730From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 423|01:00:29|730|01:00:41|650and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth. 424|01:00:53|270|01:00:54|670Om. 425|01:01:15|050|01:01:20|950Okay, friends. 426|01:01:20|950|01:01:35|830We will continue with number 47, and we are working on the relation of the 427|01:01:35|830|01:01:43|270constellation Aries to other signs in which crisis occurs, and we have 428|01:01:43|270|01:01:46|730discussed the crisis of the battlefield in Scorpio and the crisis of the birth 429|01:01:46|730|01:01:55|710hour in Virgo. We will see what other crises await us, and page 472 is very 430|01:01:55|710|01:01:57|110good for indicating crises. 431|01:01:57|830|01:02:02|650Okay, we will see you soon and continue our discussion. Bye for now.
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