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1|00:00:04|180|00:00:14|400Hello everybody, and welcome to Esoteric Astrology adventure number 47. 2|00:00:15|740|00:00:17|280I think that's right; I hope it's right. 3|00:00:18|080|00:00:26|180We have been speaking of Aries and its relation to various signs via its rulers, either Mars 4|00:00:26|180|00:00:34|220in relating it to Scorpio, or Mercury relating it to Virgo. 5|00:00:36|200|00:00:40|180And there are various crises which are connected with the signs. 6|00:00:41|420|00:00:48|460Scorpio, the crisis of the battlefield, also found referenced on Esoteric Astrology page 7|00:00:48|460|00:00:52|600472, where I think some nine crises are listed. 8|00:00:53|320|00:00:57|640And the crisis of the birthplace. 9|00:00:59|480|00:01:06|040And we were just discussing that in relation to Mercury and Virgo. 10|00:01:06|920|00:01:13|300We were talking about signs involved in the first initiation: Virgo, Leo and Capricorn 11|00:01:13|300|00:01:20|260are all involved in that, though there is kind of a progression given in this crisis 12|00:01:20|260|00:01:21|280of the birthplace. 13|00:01:22|180|00:01:27|140The whole lengthy gestation period is ruled by Virgo. 14|00:01:28|540|00:01:35|260This is said to be brought about by the activity of Mercury, which is associated with the Divine 15|00:01:35|260|00:01:35|700Sun. 16|00:01:36|420|00:01:41|340We are interested in the birth of the second aspect, the consciousness, the Son of God, 17|00:01:41|340|00:01:51|380and we find ourselves entering the world of material enterprise. “Let matter reign,” 18|00:01:51|600|00:01:53|660it is said in Virgo. 19|00:01:54|740|00:02:02|780This leads eventually to individualization in, or rather a growing individuality in Leo, 20|00:02:02|780|00:02:05|360and finally to the birth of the Christ in Capricorn. 21|00:02:06|060|00:02:11|000Though each one of these signs—Leo, Virgo and Capricorn—can be associated with the birth 22|00:02:11|000|00:02:23|700of the Christ, but D.K. makes the series sequential from Virgo through Leo through Capricorn. 23|00:02:24|420|00:02:32|960Though Capricorn and Virgo are both very much involved in the birth process, Leo is involved 24|00:02:32|960|00:02:40|460more in the recognition of the higher self, the second level of Leo ruled by the heart 25|00:02:40|460|00:02:48|120of the Sun and stimulated by Neptune, which is the repository of the solar flames and 26|00:02:48|120|00:02:54|240a planet which seems to stimulate the Christ consciousness within the disciple. 27|00:02:55|340|00:03:01|120The self-conscious individual in Leo becomes the Christ-conscious Initiate in Capricorn. 28|00:03:01|120|00:03:11|760He becomes aware of soul relations and of a type of intimacy based on shared consciousness. 29|00:03:12|900|00:03:18|320This is different from the apparent distinction that exists between individuals based upon 30|00:03:18|320|00:03:21|020their apparently distinct forms. 31|00:03:22|340|00:03:29|780Distinct forms versus shared consciousness, perhaps relating to the mystery of the soul, 32|00:03:29|780|00:03:32|020which is ruled by Capricorn. 33|00:03:32|200|00:03:33|680That's where we came to, approximately. 34|00:03:34|640|00:03:46|060We have another crisis which one of the rulers of Aries connects with another sign. 35|00:03:46|480|00:03:51|060We're looking at the esoteric rulers, through which one of the rulers of Aries connects 36|00:03:51|060|00:03:51|820with another sign. 37|00:03:51|940|00:03:57|860This is the crisis of the burning ground, and we have been told that Uranus is always involved 38|00:03:57|860|00:04:03|500in creating the burning ground, although Mars through the fire by friction process seems 39|00:04:03|500|00:04:04|780also involved. 40|00:04:05|660|00:04:10|080Uranus is connected, we're told, with the final burning ground, but it also seems generically 41|00:04:10|080|00:04:18|660to connect with burning ground processes which are very transformative and seem to restore 42|00:04:18|660|00:04:26|860a human being more to his authentic identity or archetype when all the dross and the imperfect 43|00:04:26|860|00:04:32|920conditioned relationships are burned away and the energy thus released. 44|00:04:34|060|00:04:38|7003. The crisis of the burning ground, which is brought about through the activity of Uranus. 45|00:04:38|880|00:04:46|080This is entered through the free choice of the initiate in every case, who makes his 46|00:04:46|080|00:04:47|420choice in Libra, 47|00:04:48|440|00:04:54|880Maybe for every burning ground there may be kind of a Libran choice which precedes it, 48|00:04:54|880|00:04:57|640but the final burning ground has been definite. 49|00:04:58|840|00:05:05|280Perhaps for every burning ground there is a choice involved. 50|00:05:06|680|00:05:13|780The choice is made in Libra whether or not to enter that burning ground, because the candidate 51|00:05:13|780|00:05:21|620for initiation knows somewhat what lies ahead, although perhaps not the fullness of the experience— 52|00:05:21|620|00:05:27|680otherwise some might be reticent, hesitant to enter. 53|00:05:28|360|00:05:30|560They make their choice in Libra, free choice. 54|00:05:31|280|00:05:35|300The freedom of choice comes in relation to Uranus. 55|00:05:35|400|00:05:41|600Uranus is the planet of freedom, and even in relation to Saturn. 56|00:05:41|800|00:05:48|880Saturn is the planet of choice, Libra is the sign of choice, Uranus is the planet of freedom. 57|00:05:48|880|00:05:54|120So the idea of free choice just occurs to me, perhaps for the first time, is very much 58|00:05:54|120|00:05:55|980concerned with Uranus in Libra. 59|00:05:56|880|00:06:00|500Uranus in Libra is involved with what is called the reversal of the wheel. 60|00:06:01|600|00:06:07|100So at those several points along the evolutionary path where it can be said that the wheel is 61|00:06:07|100|00:06:13|480in process of being reversed, Uranus in relation to Libra can be important. 62|00:06:14|340|00:06:21|540This is the point of balance where—usually—the moment for the reversal of the wheel takes 63|00:06:21|540|00:06:21|900place. 64|00:06:22|300|00:06:30|460Now, as I said, there may be more than one reversal, or at least the beginning of the process of 65|00:06:30|460|00:06:37|760reversal seems to occur during the fifth petal process where a person can deliberately become 66|00:06:38|370|00:06:42|780an aspirant to the mysteries of initiation. 67|00:06:43|740|00:06:52|220But the final moment of reversal seems to be a moment between the second and third initiations 68|00:06:52|220|00:06:56|160which very much involves choice in the desert. 69|00:06:57|120|00:07:06|500So there is a kind of a Libra-Uranus, Scorpio-Uranus process going on in the desert where the so-called 70|00:07:06|500|00:07:14|500devil comes to Christ, which is each one of us, and tempts him, us, three times and we 71|00:07:14|500|00:07:16|720have to make correct choice. 72|00:07:17|300|00:07:18|640It is a free choice. 73|00:07:18|780|00:07:20|120It is a Uranian choice. 74|00:07:20|220|00:07:27|220It is also a Saturnian choice because it must accord with the law, the higher law. 75|00:07:27|700|00:07:32|100Saturn in a way is even more powerful in Libra than Uranus is. 76|00:07:32|200|00:07:33|980Saturn has two positions in Libra. 77|00:07:34|160|00:07:40|560It is the hierarchical ruler and also the exalted ruler in Libra. 78|00:07:43|880|00:07:50|780So that is a reversal of the wheel which guarantees that a man will no longer be tempted towards 79|00:07:50|780|00:07:52|240the left-hand path. 80|00:07:53|020|00:08:02|000At that same time one can choose a more selfish response which exalts the lower ego, and that 81|00:08:02|000|00:08:07|580can happen in the desert as well, even after the second initiation is taken. 82|00:08:07|760|00:08:13|940It's really hard to fathom that any individual could have faced the Christ as the initiator 83|00:08:13|940|00:08:19|840two times for the first and second initiation and still make such a choice. 84|00:08:21|140|00:08:28|300Okay, going on, There the man has to decide whether to proceed as usual and according 85|00:08:28|300|00:08:34|640to custom or, reversing the wheel, to pass through the burning ground to liberation. 86|00:08:35|640|00:08:42|940Now if we're speaking about the early days of reversing the wheel, it is not any final 87|00:08:42|940|00:08:43|400choice. 88|00:08:43|580|00:08:50|900It is simply a choice to move towards the sense of a higher pair of opposites which 89|00:08:50|900|00:08:54|880we can call a higher power or an inner God or an inner voice. 90|00:08:54|880|00:09:01|400There are all kinds of non-specific names which can be applied to that sense of something 91|00:09:01|400|00:09:03|480higher towards which one wants to proceed. 92|00:09:03|960|00:09:12|360But if it is later, after the second initiation, then there is a kind of liberation on which 93|00:09:12|360|00:09:20|440a fearful battle is fought between Mars and the Moon, and it precedes the third initiation, 94|00:09:20|440|00:09:26|120and one is making the choice to pass onto that particular burning ground which ends 95|00:09:26|540|00:09:29|060the ancient authority of the personality. 96|00:09:29|400|00:09:32|040That's the way D.K. puts it. 97|00:09:33|000|00:09:36|280Libra is the polar opposite to Aries and therefore closely related. 98|00:09:36|500|00:09:37|160What is he saying? 99|00:09:37|820|00:09:40|520That all polar opposites are closely related. 100|00:09:41|460|00:09:42|760So let's just put that down. 101|00:09:43|240|00:09:50|420All polar opposites are closely related. 102|00:09:53|360|00:09:59|300So, Libra rules paths, Aries rules fire. 103|00:10:00|160|00:10:02|920The two of them together provide a kind of burning ground. 104|00:10:03|680|00:10:10|080Aries and Libra are connected with a great bear and with a first-ray type of power, a 105|00:10:10|080|00:10:19|180type of will which one exercises as one chooses to enter consciously a particular burning 106|00:10:19|180|00:10:19|780ground. 107|00:10:20|620|00:10:24|060So proceeding according to custom, you know that custom is such an interesting word. 108|00:10:24|220|00:10:31|200It's kind of a lunar word or even lower Saturnian word. 109|00:10:32|000|00:10:39|720Do we proceed according to habit and to our conditioning, or do we freely and courageously 110|00:10:40|500|00:10:48|480decide to step upon the burning ground where the dross will be burnt away and we will be 111|00:10:48|480|00:10:57|320freed of our inhibitory conditioning so that we may enter a new dimension, a new stage 112|00:10:57|320|00:10:58|400of initiation? 113|00:10:59|640|00:11:01|600So free choice, isn't that interesting? 114|00:11:02|200|00:11:04|340Uranus freedom, Libra choice. 115|00:11:04|580|00:11:09|260I guess maybe that's the first time this has really occurred to me, the idea of free choice. 116|00:11:09|360|00:11:15|860And of course it works out today in the area of human relations where people freely choose 117|00:11:15|860|00:11:24|060whether to go according to law and custom or whether to follow some more individual 118|00:11:25|470|00:11:29|260choice with respect to partners taken and so forth. 119|00:11:29|660|00:11:36|320Obviously, this free choice runs the danger of violating the law, the Saturnian law, and 120|00:11:36|590|00:11:41|100entering into individually preferred but somewhat perverse states. 121|00:11:41|840|00:11:45|960All of this will have to be sorted out, you know, just how much freedom the individual 122|00:11:46|500|00:11:52|180really has to choose in the matter of orientation towards partners. 123|00:11:53|200|00:12:01|740It's a sticky problem, a difficult problem that seems to provoke people who are in the 124|00:12:01|740|00:12:08|980very individual stage in terms of making their choice, but it will have to be sorted out. 125|00:12:08|980|00:12:14|840Ultimately, here Saturn will prevail over Uranus as the stronger ruler in Libra. 126|00:12:16|700|00:12:23|880You will note that the rays which are related to or expressing themselves 127|00:12:23|880|00:12:26|120through Aries are curiously balanced, 128|00:12:26|400|00:12:32|980Rays 1 and 7 are the highest and the lowest, and therefore demand a point 129|00:12:32|980|00:12:39|320of balance upon the wheel which is provided in Libra. 130|00:12:40|740|00:12:46|760So Libra is the seventh sign and it has something to do with the law which suggests the first 131|00:12:46|760|00:12:47|020ray. 132|00:12:47|920|00:12:55|240In Aries the first and seventh rays are transmitted, but his phrasing is interesting, isn't it? 133|00:12:56|180|00:13:00|960These rays are the highest and the lowest and therefore demand a point of balance upon 134|00:13:00|960|00:13:03|520the wheel which is provided in Libra. 135|00:13:03|700|00:13:11|180So it's as if the Aries tendency moves towards equilibrizing in Libra. 136|00:13:11|700|00:13:13|860Aries, you know, sort of disrupts the balance. 137|00:13:14|120|00:13:24|000It plunges into new territory via the wheel and is not involved in preserving any kind 138|00:13:24|000|00:13:24|840of status quo. 139|00:13:24|840|00:13:31|280It disrupts all status quo, probably in a Uranian manner because Uranus is the highest 140|00:13:31|280|00:13:33|700ruler, hierarchical of Aries. 141|00:13:34|260|00:13:35|900But Libra restores the balance. 142|00:13:36|060|00:13:39|060There's nothing more balanced than Saturn in Libra. 143|00:13:39|200|00:13:45|500It is a right relationship and relationship according to Saturnian law. 144|00:13:47|300|00:13:53|180So rays one and seven, and probably in the center of it all will be found ray four. 145|00:13:53|620|00:13:57|640Whether ray four is related to Libra we can question. 146|00:13:57|920|00:13:59|040It seems like it is. 147|00:13:59|620|00:14:03|740Remember that every Logos has every ray. 148|00:14:04|040|00:14:08|300Certainly our planetary Logos does, so why should not the Lords of Constellations? 149|00:14:08|860|00:14:10|860Those certain rays are emphasized. 150|00:14:11|820|00:14:18|940And the harmony aspect of ray four seems very emphasized in relation to Libra even though 151|00:14:18|940|00:14:25|240only ray three is given as an energy transmitted through Libra. 152|00:14:25|640|00:14:35|940My hunch, suspicion in this regard is that each Lord of the Constellations has three 153|00:14:35|940|00:14:39|260major rays expressing through it. 154|00:14:39|520|00:14:42|480Maybe sometimes there's a doubling up, but at least two. 155|00:14:42|480|00:14:49|240I don't think you would find that only a single ray is involved as transmitted through 156|00:14:49|240|00:14:51|820a particular sign of the zodiac on all three levels. 157|00:14:52|020|00:14:52|880I don't think so. 158|00:14:53|420|00:14:54|740That remains to be proven. 159|00:14:56|440|00:15:02|100Rays 6 and 4 now they are brought into the process through Mars, ray six, and Mercury, 160|00:15:02|100|00:15:08|460ray four, bring to this balancing process the energy of the second ray, 161|00:15:08|460|00:15:13|780These are both rays found somewhere in the middle between one and seven. 162|00:15:13|920|00:15:19|380I've talked about the relationship between six and four at the sixth-fourth initiation 163|00:15:19|380|00:15:29|620which I say, or the Tibetan says, the Christ-Jesus pair underwent, and I would say the Buddha-Gautama 164|00:15:29|620|00:15:33|140pair, which I am hypothesizing, underwent. 165|00:15:33|660|00:15:39|400I've talked about my reasons for suspecting that the Buddha is one entity and the Prince 166|00:15:39|400|00:15:41|120Siddhartha Gautama is another. 167|00:15:42|060|00:15:46|200Rays six and four bring to this balancing process the energy of the second ray, the 168|00:15:46|200|00:15:52|940major building ray which enables the man to build anew and provide himself with a spiritual 169|00:15:52|940|00:15:55|060body of manifestation. 170|00:15:56|340|00:16:03|120So, you know, Aries has some of the building energy connected with it via two of the three 171|00:16:03|140|00:16:07|140of its planetary rulers expressing on the soft line. 172|00:16:08|560|00:16:12|700And the whole idea of building a new habitation is very much connected with Aries. 173|00:16:13|140|00:16:19|740It's the initiation of the building of a new habitation that form again be sought. 174|00:16:19|940|00:16:25|960And we do know that the second ray is the major form building ray. 175|00:16:26|480|00:16:33|200You know, these Lords of the Constellations, they have ways of balancing their expression. 176|00:16:33|380|00:16:34|620We know so very little about them. 177|00:16:34|720|00:16:37|040We know very little about our own planetary Logos. 178|00:16:37|820|00:16:44|040And we must infer the rays of the other planetary Logos, although D.K. has given us certain hints, 179|00:16:44|040|00:16:47|720and what about the solar Logos and then the Lords of the Constellations? 180|00:16:47|820|00:16:54|400So we know relatively so little about these great lives, but we're getting some idea of 181|00:16:54|400|00:17:00|380how they operate, what qualities they produce, and what are the rays which allow them to 182|00:17:00|380|00:17:01|540produce those qualities. 183|00:17:03|280|00:17:09|320I would also call your attention to the fact that through Uranus, Aries is related to Aquarius. 184|00:17:09|480|00:17:11|460I do believe he has begun to say that. 185|00:17:11|560|00:17:16|940Also, Aries is related to Leo, whose veiled hierarchical ruler is Uranus. 186|00:17:16|940|00:17:25|280And let's see, Aries would be related to Scorpio via the exalted Uranus in Scorpio. 187|00:17:26|300|00:17:28|640Let's see, what am I forgetting? 188|00:17:31|020|00:17:36|880There's Aries, Libra, Leo, and Aquarius. 189|00:17:37|040|00:17:46|820Those four have a strong Uranian content, plus also Scorpio if we consider the veiled 190|00:17:46|820|00:17:49|060hierarchical ruler Uranus. 191|00:17:50|020|00:17:54|600Okay, so through Uranus, Aries is related to Aquarius. 192|00:17:54|760|00:17:56|420Now let's see what's going on there. 193|00:17:57|400|00:18:06|160Lords of constellations are related to each other through a particular planetary Logos 194|00:18:06|160|00:18:07|460through which they function. 195|00:18:07|960|00:18:15|780Now Lords of constellations may also be related to each other through rays which they transmit 196|00:18:15|780|00:18:16|720in common. 197|00:18:17|640|00:18:22|020From Aquarius we get the fifth ray, and we don't find that in Aries, but let's just suppose 198|00:18:22|560|00:18:26|580we were relating Aries, Leo, and Capricorn. 199|00:18:27|500|00:18:34|000Whether or not ruling planets related these three, they would be all related through the 200|00:18:34|000|00:18:35|380expression of ray one. 201|00:18:35|860|00:18:38|720They would be related on the constellational level. 202|00:18:39|460|00:18:45|760They would not have to wait until we saw whether there was a ruling planet in common to find 203|00:18:45|780|00:18:47|780their relationship. 204|00:18:49|080|00:18:57|460So okay, a lesser lord who is the lord of the planet Uranus brings about a kind of relationship, 205|00:18:57|860|00:19:01|740probably through Uranus, of Aries and Aquarius. 206|00:19:02|080|00:19:13|640So what I'm asking for is that we differentiate constellations related to each other on their 207|00:19:13|640|00:19:24|640own level or related to each other through a shared ruler, like Uranus in this case. 208|00:19:25|420|00:19:32|720The vague beginnings in Aries, vague beginnings, well that's kind of interesting because in 209|00:19:33|040|00:19:36|420Cancer there's a certain vagueness and in Aries there's a certain vagueness. 210|00:19:36|600|00:19:43|620The beginning of embodiment in Aries, the faint emergence of the latent 211|00:19:43|640|00:19:51|760embodied ideas have—after the turning of the wheel in two directions— the wheel 212|00:19:51|760|00:19:57|740of form and the wheel of consciousness, brought release i.e. through initiation, in Capricorn 213|00:19:57|740|00:20:01|200and produced the world server in Aquarius, 214|00:20:01|200|00:20:10|260That's the real meaning of Aquarius, the world server distributing the ideas in form to all 215|00:20:10|260|00:20:13|220who may be able to receive them. 216|00:20:14|260|00:20:21|720The world server in Aquarius who voluntarily stays upon the great wheel (using the Cardinal 217|00:20:21|720|00:20:24|560Cross as his conditioning signs) 218|00:20:25|460|00:20:33|080So here we're talking about at least an initiate of the fourth degree, and maybe beyond, and 219|00:20:33|080|00:20:37|280thus staying within the sphere of influence in order to help humanity to find liberation 220|00:20:37|280|00:20:38|140from the Fixed Cross. 221|00:20:38|140|00:20:45|260Who can help humanity rise off the cross of the soul into the cross of the spirit? 222|00:20:45|880|00:20:57|820Only one who is a spirit can help another find liberation from the cross of soul. 223|00:20:59|000|00:21:01|060That's how we look at the fixed cross. 224|00:21:01|060|00:21:11|740Now this world server, perhaps having the last necessary incarnation, is using the cardinal 225|00:21:11|740|00:21:15|140cross as his conditioning signs. 226|00:21:16|080|00:21:26|260So D.K. will describe what this means for us by giving keynotes for the main cardinal signs. 227|00:21:27|500|00:21:32|380Initiation, manifestation, legislation, and so forth. 228|00:21:33|820|00:21:35|320So let's take a look at this. 229|00:21:36|860|00:21:42|620The vagueness, I want to talk about the vagueness in Aries for a moment, and I want to do that 230|00:21:42|620|00:21:49|180by moving to the idea of a certain type of light which is found in relation to Aries. 231|00:21:50|020|00:21:54|620329 or so, Aries gives us the light of life itself. 232|00:21:54|620|00:22:00|940Remember we're talking about vagueness, inchoate beginnings, things that are nowhere near as 233|00:22:00|940|00:22:06|140definite, as they will become in that great sign of definition, Capricorn. 234|00:22:07|240|00:22:13|180The light of life itself, this is the dim point of light found at the center of the 235|00:22:13|180|00:22:16|660cycle of manifestation, faint and flickering. 236|00:22:17|300|00:22:23|940It is the searchlight of the Logos seeking that which can be used for divine expression. 237|00:22:23|940|00:22:29|800In other words, looking out for the material that can be gathered into relationship and 238|00:22:29|800|00:22:36|740into form in the forthcoming signs of greater densification. 239|00:22:38|700|00:22:43|380So there is a vagueness involved here, yes, at first. 240|00:22:43|520|00:22:47|180Or let's call them inchoate beginnings. 241|00:22:50|520|00:22:59|520So we cannot expect from the Aries mentality or way of proceeding that type of definition 242|00:22:59|520|00:23:05|220in form which we can expect from such a sign as Capricorn. 243|00:23:06|360|00:23:11|980So you know, it takes a while to get off the fixed cross and to mount the cardinal cross. 244|00:23:13|260|00:23:17|780But oftentimes the last incarnation, let's call it the incarnation of the fourth initiation, 245|00:23:17|980|00:23:20|920is taken in Aquarius or under Aquarius. 246|00:23:21|120|00:23:26|520When you look at the horoscope of Sir Francis Bacon, it had the Sun in Aquarius, Mercury 247|00:23:26|520|00:23:29|660in Aquarius rising, and Aquarius as the rising sign. 248|00:23:30|580|00:23:38|280So it had a great deal of this Aquarian energy, and was that a fourth initiation incarnation? 249|00:23:38|280|00:23:47|940Certainly it was no less than that, because Francis Bacon went on as Master R to become 250|00:23:48|640|00:23:52|140a fifth degree initiate, the Lord of Civilization. 251|00:23:53|200|00:23:59|160Later he went on to achieve the sixth degree. We don't know when, but as the Maha Chohan, 252|00:23:59|560|00:24:03|460present Maha Chohan, he certainly would have had to achieve the sixth degree because you 253|00:24:03|460|00:24:06|180can't be a Chohan without achieving the sixth degree. 254|00:24:06|180|00:24:13|780So perhaps from the time he was Francis Bacon to the year 1925 or so when it was basically 255|00:24:13|780|00:24:18|660stated that he was the new Maha Chohan, we see the progress from the fourth through the 256|00:24:18|660|00:24:19|820fifth to the sixth degree. 257|00:24:20|700|00:24:24|440All of that is the business of the masters. 258|00:24:26|000|00:24:33|360One knowledgeable student of occultism shared with me his opinion that at the time that 259|00:24:33|360|00:24:39|900Master Morya temporarily took over Master Kuthumi's students, Master Kuthumi had to 260|00:24:39|900|00:24:45|700go away for a certain purpose, and it was to achieve the sixth degree or chohanship. 261|00:24:45|860|00:24:51|280None of this is mentioned in the books per se, but this individual seemed to have a pretty 262|00:24:51|280|00:24:54|860good understanding of what that process was. 263|00:24:55|920|00:24:57|060Okay, moving on. 264|00:24:58|680|00:25:07|000Okay, from faint emergence of latent embodied ideas, I guess it's up to every Aries individual 265|00:25:07|000|00:25:11|880to make those ideas increasingly tangible and concrete, and I would say that the seventh 266|00:25:11|880|00:25:19|260ray helps with that, and eventually when one is a true initiate in Aries, the precipitating 267|00:25:19|260|00:25:24|860power of Uranus under the seventh ray would help to make the latent embodied ideas far 268|00:25:24|860|00:25:29|680more definite and applied in the worlds of form. 269|00:25:30|980|00:25:37|680In the sweep of the zodiac there are four signs which are signs of birth, of beginning 270|00:25:38|780|00:25:41|140and of renewed cyclic realisation. 271|00:25:41|300|00:25:44|380Let's see how he goes about describing this. 272|00:25:44|760|00:25:46|080Four signs of birth. 273|00:25:47|740|00:25:52|5801. Aries, the “birthplace of divine Ideas,” 274|00:25:52|580|00:25:59|700Not just any old thoughts, but of ideas which are truly coming from the cosmic ethers, where 275|00:25:59|700|00:26:03|920we can say that divinity begins. 276|00:26:04|620|00:26:11|320When we think about the lower three sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane, they are the 277|00:26:11|320|00:26:17|100dense physical body of the Solar Logos, and they are no longer principled in the usual 278|00:26:17|100|00:26:17|600sense. 279|00:26:18|160|00:26:23|200They do not have to do particularly with the new regime in the second major solar system. 280|00:26:24|280|00:26:29|380They are not planes which are divine, but have to be rendered divine through the imposition 281|00:26:29|380|00:26:34|820of being pattern ideas that come from the cosmic ethers. 282|00:26:35|920|00:26:40|500So, Aries, the birthplace of divine ideas. 283|00:26:41|020|00:26:43|880That relates it to the Buddhic plane, doesn't it? 284|00:26:44|480|00:26:56|300Okay, let's just say relating Aries to the Buddhic plane as the plane of ideas. 285|00:26:56|380|00:27:01|500But we should not leave out the Atmic plane, the Monadic plane, and the Logoic plane. 286|00:27:01|580|00:27:06|440All of them can be considered in the higher sense ideational. 287|00:27:07|600|00:27:13|860Anything that is coming from the cosmic ethers can be recognized as an idea within our three 288|00:27:13|860|00:27:14|740lower worlds. 289|00:27:15|040|00:27:16|600Aries, the birthplace of divine ideas. 290|00:27:17|120|00:27:19|940Whether these ideas are souls, see what I mean? 291|00:27:20|100|00:27:21|560Our identity really is an idea. 292|00:27:22|360|00:27:25|640We as souls are ideas. 293|00:27:26|420|00:27:30|100We as spirits, monads, are even more ideas. 294|00:27:31|720|00:27:32|480Even more so. 295|00:27:32|880|00:27:40|180whether these ideas are souls brought into incarnation and controlled by Mars until they reach the 296|00:27:40|180|00:27:46|400point of reorientation and become sensitive to the influence of Mercury, 297|00:27:46|700|00:27:48|860So this is very important. 298|00:27:51|220|00:28:05|160That the esoteric ruler applies only when a soul has reached the point of reorientation. 299|00:28:06|260|00:28:09|020So if you want to say, “Well, when can we apply an esoteric ruler?” 300|00:28:09|670|00:28:16|340It's not for an individual who is proceeding as a personality on the path of wheel of form. 301|00:28:16|920|00:28:22|620Only once there has been a revolution under Uranus and a reorientation towards a higher 302|00:28:22|620|00:28:28|120power or the higher of the pairs of opposites, however vaguely sensed, can we use the esoteric 303|00:28:28|120|00:28:28|400ruler. 304|00:28:28|520|00:28:34|500And that's such good advice for astrologers presently at work. 305|00:28:34|500|00:28:39|980Don't just slap those esoteric rulers on anybody's chart. 306|00:28:40|680|00:28:44|620They truly have to be reoriented towards the spiritual life. 307|00:28:45|200|00:28:50|440But fortunately for us, most of the people that we are coming in contact with as practicing 308|00:28:50|440|00:28:56|360astrologers when we use esoteric astrology are precisely those who are reorienting themselves. 309|00:28:57|060|00:29:04|480Occasionally we get a specifically personal orientation which has no interest in anything 310|00:29:04|480|00:29:10|420but the relative success of the personality life, but usually we get people who are reorienting. 311|00:29:11|120|00:29:15|440So the birthplace of divine ideas, whether ideas are souls, and I would add monads, or 312|00:29:15|440|00:29:24|300whether they are the birth of the ideas of God in the form of the hierarchical plans to which 313|00:29:24|980|00:29:26|300the initiate becomes sensitive. 314|00:29:26|400|00:29:27|880Where are these ideas of God? 315|00:29:28|580|00:29:34|440Ideas of God found perhaps on the Logoic plane. 316|00:29:34|740|00:29:36|560Oops, that's a lunar petri, that won't work. 317|00:29:37|400|00:29:39|220Logoic plane on the Logoic plane. 318|00:29:39|940|00:29:47|760See, I have these little codes which help me type certain frequently found combinations 319|00:29:47|760|00:29:49|140of words more quickly. 320|00:29:49|400|00:29:53|480The trouble is that they sometimes type those words where they are not wanted. 321|00:29:54|180|00:30:01|100Okay, so the ideas of God from the Logoic plane, the true causal plane of the cosmic 322|00:30:01|100|00:30:03|580physical plane, the true world of causes. 323|00:30:04|460|00:30:08|560World of causes is the Logoic plane. 324|00:30:09|100|00:30:13|320World of being, if you can differentiate these things somewhat you can. 325|00:30:13|640|00:30:15|700World of being, the monadic plane. 326|00:30:15|840|00:30:21|280World of significance is the triatal levels. 327|00:30:21|960|00:30:28|140The world of meaning takes place on the mental levels involving the higher mental plane particularly. 328|00:30:28|460|00:30:32|300And then after that we get into the world of forms. 329|00:30:34|440|00:30:40|680Okay, or whether they are the birth of ideas from God, ideas of God in the form of hierarchical 330|00:30:40|680|00:30:41|040plans. 331|00:30:41|040|00:30:53|080And so Aries should have some strong relation to the archetypal plan of God. 332|00:30:53|380|00:31:00|620And we are told on page 333, 332 of Esoteric Astrology, recognition and work with the plan. 333|00:31:00|700|00:31:01|840That's under Aries. 334|00:31:02|400|00:31:11|020So Aries is very good at noticing which ideas are emerging from the mind of God for a time 335|00:31:11|900|00:31:12|520expression. 336|00:31:13|860|00:31:16|860So Aries and the recognition of emerging ideas. 337|00:31:24|260|00:31:28|180The ideas are already there, it's just a question of their time emerging according 338|00:31:28|180|00:31:28|840to the plan. 339|00:31:29|380|00:31:35|620In the purpose they are all there simultaneously but we need a timed release of the aspects 340|00:31:35|620|00:31:38|640of purpose through the plan. 341|00:31:38|640|00:31:44|140So in a way we need the release of Uranus which is purpose through Saturn which is plan. 342|00:31:45|520|00:31:50|040Okay, hierarchical plans to which the initiate has become sensitive. 343|00:31:50|320|00:31:54|120So every Aries person should be asking himself what is emerging, what is coming. 344|00:31:55|560|00:31:57|460Can we say that the ideas are being born? 345|00:31:57|600|00:31:59|520Well they're being born in human consciousness. 346|00:31:59|680|00:32:02|760They already have their existence on these higher planes. 347|00:32:02|760|00:32:09|500But when you seize upon an idea it is as if it is being born in your consciousness. 348|00:32:11|140|00:32:13|100So the birthplace of ideas. 349|00:32:13|600|00:32:19|980When ideas are present all together in the realm of purpose can they be said to be born? 350|00:32:20|080|00:32:27|360Well they're only born as they emerge at the right time according to plan. 351|00:32:27|600|00:32:33|660And that emergence into the five lower worlds, perhaps emergence onto the atmic plane where 352|00:32:34|200|00:32:39|480the will gets behind them, that is called the birth of an idea but really the idea was 353|00:32:39|480|00:32:40|800already there. 354|00:32:41|880|00:32:49|080It just depends on what is the dimension into which the idea is being born or in which it 355|00:32:49|080|00:32:49|440appears. 356|00:32:50|060|00:32:56|160Alright so many digressions but there are four signs which are signs of birth. 357|00:32:56|160|00:32:57|500So Aries is one of them. 358|00:32:58|060|00:33:00|220And now we come to Cancer, another cardinal sign. 359|00:33:00|940|00:33:04|480The birthplace into the life of form. 360|00:33:05|220|00:33:13|080What is an inchoate idea, fairly vague, non-specific, non-delineated, receives a very definite kind 361|00:33:13|080|00:33:19|360of form under the moon or the forces that represent the moon, particularly perhaps in 362|00:33:19|360|00:33:22|300this case Vulcan, in the sign 2. Cancer, 363|00:33:23|010|00:33:31|400the “birthplace into the life of form,” the door into physical incarnation. 364|00:33:31|940|00:33:39|060So Cancer in a way is a sign of imprisonment because activity in form is imprisonment, 365|00:33:39|720|00:33:43|160a sign of imprisonment. 366|00:33:43|160|00:33:48|440Yes, imprisonment, yes. 367|00:33:49|180|00:33:55|080Physical incarnation, a more definite and contained form, a definite ring-pass-not. 368|00:33:55|980|00:34:03|540A definite ring-pass-not is created because when you think about ideas otherwise, ideas 369|00:34:03|540|00:34:04|520are omnipresent. 370|00:34:05|180|00:34:08|100In the Buddhic worlds, what is the location of an idea? 371|00:34:09|000|00:34:14|700It's everywhere to be grasped once it reaches the cosmic ethers, but when you're talking 372|00:34:14|700|00:34:22|040about the birthplace of an idea or a soul into form, it takes on a definite time-space 373|00:34:22|040|00:34:23|080relationship. 374|00:34:24|200|00:34:31|840The time in Saturn and Cancer is a freezing of time, and the seventh ray in Cancer gives 375|00:34:31|840|00:34:36|640a definite spatial relationship for these ideas. 376|00:34:37|220|00:34:40|580A definite form is the container of the idea. 377|00:34:41|300|00:34:43|060Cancer is the sign of all containers. 378|00:34:43|620|00:34:48|100So this Cancer is the sign in which humanity as a whole, integrated unit, is born. 379|00:34:48|420|00:34:49|460He's saying it again. 380|00:34:49|980|00:34:58|060He's saying that we come into incarnation as humanity in Cancer and individually in 381|00:34:58|060|00:34:58|980Pisces. 382|00:34:59|450|00:35:04|380You know there are mixed references on this, but I've shown you already some of them, and 383|00:35:04|380|00:35:05|480this is another one. 384|00:35:06|180|00:35:13|240Humanity as a whole, integrated unit, the fourth kingdom of nature, is born into form 385|00:35:13|240|00:35:14|500in this sign. 386|00:35:16|000|00:35:22|040It probably didn't occur in some month in which Cancer was available; it probably occurred 387|00:35:22|040|00:35:34|900in relation to a zodiacal period, a processional age of some 2,000 plus years, even 2,500 years. 388|00:35:35|300|00:35:41|340Probably at that time humanity was born and even, you know, we don't know—could it have 389|00:35:41|340|00:35:47|460been a period of 25,000 years ruled by the sign Cancer, a Platonic year ruled by the 390|00:35:47|460|00:35:48|060sign Cancer? 391|00:35:48|060|00:35:53|520So anyway, This is the sign in which humanity, as a whole not as an individual, but as a 392|00:35:53|520|00:35:55|680whole integrated unit, is born, 393|00:35:56|940|00:36:01|000the scene of the emergence of the fourth kingdom in nature. 394|00:36:01|100|00:36:06|740Without the sign Cancer, we do not have the definite emergence of the fourth kingdom in 395|00:36:06|740|00:36:07|000nature. 396|00:36:07|100|00:36:12|340There must be a form upon the physical plane through which this birth of self-consciousness 397|00:36:12|340|00:36:12|900can occur. 398|00:36:13|790|00:36:20|240The self-consciousness is found in Leo, takes maybe three million years until a man comes 399|00:36:20|240|00:36:25|420to himself and realizes that he has been born as an individual unit, but the beginning of 400|00:36:25|420|00:36:26|060that is Leo. 401|00:36:26|700|00:36:31|880So Leo and Cancer are very necessary for putting consciousness and form together. 402|00:36:33|220|00:36:42|480Humanity has “emerged from rock and water and brings its habitation with it” (as the Old 403|00:36:42|480|00:36:47|660Commentary expresses it) and mass instinctual consciousness comes into being. Note that phrase. 404|00:36:47|940|00:36:57|280Well, perhaps rock is the moon and Neptune is the water, although the moon is also associated 405|00:36:57|280|00:36:58|820with the water. 406|00:36:59|260|00:37:04|780So let's look at two rulers: moon and Neptune. 407|00:37:05|740|00:37:11|240Now the moon is, of the five non-sacred planets, the moon is definitely associated with that 408|00:37:11|240|00:37:17|280outer shell, which can be considered the densest level of man and thus the rock. 409|00:37:17|540|00:37:19|580Neptune is the water. 410|00:37:20|180|00:37:25|680Humanity emerged from rock, it has a mineral component and has an astral component and 411|00:37:25|680|00:37:30|000brings its habitation with it, just like the crab does. 412|00:37:31|100|00:37:39|780So humanity at first is a physical, emotional being with a very, very latent mind, just 413|00:37:39|780|00:37:41|720as the crab does. 414|00:37:46|640|00:37:59|840Just as the crab does, and I'll make that all red so that we have a little clearer delineation 415|00:37:59|840|00:38:03|020of what is commentary and what is actually stated by the Tibetan. 416|00:38:04|300|00:38:07|680So at first, you know, humanity is not an intelligent being. 417|00:38:07|680|00:38:10|340As a matter of fact, animal man had rock and water. 418|00:38:11|040|00:38:16|480It had the dense physical vehicle, it had the sentient vehicle, just like animals have 419|00:38:16|480|00:38:21|740the sentient vehicle, though that sentient vehicle is completely tied to the instinctual 420|00:38:21|740|00:38:23|900nature and is for a long time for animal man. 421|00:38:24|000|00:38:30|360But then in comes the thinking principle with the fourth kingdom of nature, and let's just 422|00:38:30|360|00:38:34|240say the fourth kingdom of nature and the thinking principle and Mercury are all related. 423|00:38:34|240|00:38:39|300Fourth, okay, I don't know why this is happening. 424|00:38:40|100|00:38:45|540I want there to be only one thing, only one thing. 425|00:38:45|940|00:39:01|880So fourth kingdom of nature emerges with Mercury representing mind and the number four. 426|00:39:01|880|00:39:09|580So there now can be a relationship between the soul and the form, and the mind emerges 427|00:39:09|580|00:39:11|960as the mediating principle. 428|00:39:14|120|00:39:20|560Okay, humanity has emerged from rock and water and brings its habitation with it. 429|00:39:20|780|00:39:27|980Humanity is in a way the moving crab, moving upon the land, moving upon or within the water 430|00:39:27|980|00:39:35|540and growing more intelligent through Mercury and Venus as time elapses due to the individualization 431|00:39:35|540|00:39:36|080process. 432|00:39:37|020|00:39:41|580Okay, so that is another sign of birth. 433|00:39:42|260|00:39:44|280It is birth into form. 434|00:39:45|220|00:39:50|660The birthplace of ideas Aries and the birthplace into the life of form Cancer. 435|00:39:50|780|00:39:51|760Now here's another birth. 436|00:39:52|440|00:39:57|280I'm very surprised that Virgo is not listed as a sign of birth. 437|00:39:57|280|00:40:05|620Is it simply listed as the sign in which the lengthy gestation process occurs and not 438|00:40:05|620|00:40:06|320the birth? 439|00:40:06|720|00:40:10|680There's a little ambiguity there because it is said of Virgo, “I am the mother and the 440|00:40:10|680|00:40:18|200child, I God, I matter am,” and the whole idea of the birth labor seems associated with Virgo. 441|00:40:18|260|00:40:24|340So I'm surprised to see it not listed here, but the Tibetan of course will have his own 442|00:40:24|340|00:40:24|960reasons. 443|00:40:25|820|00:40:29|6003. Leo, the “birthplace of the individual,” 444|00:40:30|400|00:40:34|880This is not the same as the birthplace of the original idea or the birthplace of the 445|00:40:34|880|00:40:35|900soul into form. 446|00:40:36|760|00:40:44|640It is the individualization process and the increasing sense of individuality which is 447|00:40:44|640|00:40:48|580nurtured through successive incarnations in Leo. 448|00:40:48|720|00:40:53|560In other words, the sense of oneself as a center is greatly strengthened. 449|00:40:53|560|00:41:00|9603. Leo, the “birthplace of the individual,” the coming into form of individual self-conscious 450|00:41:00|960|00:41:01|720man 451|00:41:01|920|00:41:03|080Now at first he is not that. 452|00:41:03|800|00:41:07|680The self-consciousness may be there on the inner planes, but it has not worked itself 453|00:41:07|680|00:41:15|020out into the brain consciousness as we have been told in that section concerning the arrows 454|00:41:15|020|00:41:16|760which shot forth from the bow. 455|00:41:18|700|00:41:21|060Early individualization, you know, as we have been told. 456|00:41:21|140|00:41:22|280Well, let me just review that. 457|00:41:22|600|00:41:25|220You know, the arrows, let's say arrows. 458|00:41:26|160|00:41:27|720How many arrows can there be? 459|00:41:29|120|00:41:36|820Here is, oh goodness, goodness, let's just try “bow” and “bow.” 460|00:41:37|340|00:41:38|860Here it is. 461|00:41:40|200|00:41:41|260Whoops, the bow and arrow. 462|00:41:41|360|00:41:42|440No, it isn't. 463|00:41:42|880|00:41:45|500Maybe I'm in the wrong book. 464|00:41:45|500|00:41:46|100Yes I am. 465|00:41:46|200|00:41:47|280It's the Treatise on White Magic. 466|00:41:47|440|00:41:49|940That's where that thing is found. 467|00:41:49|940|00:41:52|260And yes, there's only one, and there it is. 468|00:41:52|860|00:41:56|480“The sons of God shot forth like arrows from the bow. 469|00:41:57|720|00:41:59|480The forms received the impulse. 470|00:41:59|600|00:42:03|080The forms received the impulse, and lo, a God was born.” 471|00:42:03|840|00:42:05|200And this is the important point. 472|00:42:05|460|00:42:07|800“The tiny babe knew not the great event.” 473|00:42:08|500|00:42:14|140So the tiny babe is the tiny consciousness which doesn't know that it has become an individual 474|00:42:14|140|00:42:15|140center of consciousness. 475|00:42:15|620|00:42:17|960This took place 21 million years ago. 476|00:42:18|140|00:42:23|780Cycles passed, whatever kind of cycles, and when, at a later date, the sun was in Leo, 477|00:42:24|440|00:42:29|800approximately 18 million years ago, the first instances of coordination between brain and 478|00:42:29|800|00:42:33|640mind took place, and the human being was definitely self-conscious. 479|00:42:34|220|00:42:36|700He knew himself as a center. 480|00:42:38|140|00:42:45|600So, okay, that is interesting when we think about the Leo influence, how it definitely 481|00:42:45|600|00:42:52|400brought about the coordination between the mind and the brain, and the coming into form 482|00:42:52|400|00:42:57|740of individual self-conscious man, but not really self-conscious until 18 million years 483|00:42:57|740|00:43:00|120ago, not 21 million years ago. 484|00:43:00|860|00:43:05|8203. Leo, the “birthplace of the individual,” the coming into form of individual self-conscious 485|00:43:06|460|00:43:16|480man who emerges out of the mass the basic physical, instinctual, emotional consciousness, 486|00:43:16|880|00:43:18|700and herd in Cancer, 487|00:43:18|980|00:43:20|380This is still happening, of course. 488|00:43:20|660|00:43:24|860So many people are still part of the mass and the herd, and they do not think for themselves. 489|00:43:25|160|00:43:32|960They think like everybody else, somewhat predictably and always with a somewhat, yes, definitely 490|00:43:32|960|00:43:34|700emotional bias. 491|00:43:36|360|00:43:41|300emerges out of the mass and herd in Cancer, substituting, for instinctual consciousness, 492|00:43:42|400|00:43:48|980which is in a way thoughtless consciousness, consciousness simply arising on the basis 493|00:43:48|980|00:43:55|500of instinctual tendency and desire, substituting for instinctual consciousness, self-awareness 494|00:43:55|780|00:43:59|200and a sense of responsibility of an individual kind. 495|00:43:59|300|00:44:01|340Obviously it takes a long time for this to grow. 496|00:44:01|920|00:44:10|020And during the fifth petal processes of the Egoic Lotus associated with Leo, we have the 497|00:44:10|020|00:44:15|300kind of responsibility which makes of a man a spiritual aspirant. 498|00:44:15|380|00:44:21|760He begins to think in terms of other people, in terms of helpfulness, in terms of the heart 499|00:44:22|400|00:44:22|960vibration. 500|00:44:23|440|00:44:29|060The first indication that the soul is really becoming effective is the growth of the sense 501|00:44:29|060|00:44:40|120of responsibility, and here he connects Leo with the sense of responsibility, as he would 502|00:44:40|120|00:44:45|440connect of course Saturn and also Capricorn. 503|00:44:45|640|00:44:49|280So the birthplace of the individual takes over a long period of time. 504|00:44:49|840|00:44:53|800People who are individualized are not yet truly individual. 505|00:44:53|800|00:45:00|400They are still very much part of the mass consciousness, perhaps until the distinguishing, 506|00:45:00|620|00:45:09|020discriminating fifth petal processes begin to work within them, and then they can distinguish 507|00:45:09|020|00:45:10|160themselves. 508|00:45:11|680|00:45:20|040They become distinguished individuals, and they stand out from the mass. 509|00:45:20|040|00:45:27|040They have their own particular unique pattern of understanding and expression. 510|00:45:27|760|00:45:34|180Carl Jung, who was a Leo, worked a great deal on the individuation process. 511|00:45:34|180|00:45:49|420This individuation, which is an individuation process, is the coming into expression of 512|00:45:49|420|00:45:52|560the soul through the individuality. 513|00:45:55|340|00:46:01|840So that's still a later stage of distinguishing oneself. 514|00:46:03|120|00:46:10|640Ultimately, the master of the fifth initiation is a most distinguished individual, a very 515|00:46:10|640|00:46:16|780individual after many, many years of evolution, but at the same time thoroughly submissive 516|00:46:19|340|00:46:22|920through the spiritual will to the divine plan. 517|00:46:24|080|00:46:25|960So okay, the birthplace of the individual. 518|00:46:26|040|00:46:26|760What do we have so far? 519|00:46:26|840|00:46:31|820The birthplace of ideas in Aries, the birthplace of the soul in form, or of an idea in form, 520|00:46:31|820|00:46:38|560in Cancer, and the birthplace of the distinct, distinguished individual over many millions 521|00:46:38|560|00:46:39|020of years. 522|00:46:39|280|00:46:45|820And finally, leaving out, of course, birth in Virgo for his own good reasons, we have 523|00:46:45|820|00:46:48|340Capricorn the birthplace of the Christ. 524|00:46:48|580|00:46:49|900Notice the word “place.” 525|00:46:50|540|00:46:56|300It sort of suggests the manger, which suggests material conditions. 526|00:46:56|300|00:47:05|220The birth of the soul in a definite, conscious way within the three lower worlds in which 527|00:47:05|540|00:47:10|680the animal nature flourishes, but not the truly human nature. 528|00:47:11|100|00:47:16|280Capricorn, the birthplace of the Christ, the place of the second birth. 529|00:47:17|600|00:47:24|340Perhaps Leo is the first true birth representing individualization, so there is a progress 530|00:47:24|340|00:47:33|000from Leo to Capricorn, a long, lengthy process from individualization in Leo, with some other 531|00:47:33|000|00:47:37|680signs involved as well, like Gemini and so forth, into Capricorn where the second birth 532|00:47:37|680|00:47:41|420or the birth of the second aspect of the man takes place, the birth of the soul. 533|00:47:42|320|00:47:46|8004. Capricorn, the “birthplace of the Christ,” the place of the “second birth” and the scene for 534|00:47:46|800|00:47:53|020the emergence of the fifth kingdom in nature the scene or dimension, when the right time 535|00:47:53|020|00:47:53|500comes. 536|00:47:53|500|00:48:03|940Notice the idea of timing here, Saturn in relation to Capricorn, in relation to Capricorn, 537|00:48:05|080|00:48:11|060which Saturn rules, Saturn as lord of time. 538|00:48:11|820|00:48:21|080So in the fullness of time, which the mother matter of Virgo has to endure, the second 539|00:48:21|080|00:48:26|400aspect of man comes to birth, and only in the fullness of time, Vulcan for endurance 540|00:48:26|400|00:48:31|320and Saturn for the timing, and then the Christ will emerge. 541|00:48:31|900|00:48:36|980This is not necessarily the same as being born again in the classical religious sense, 542|00:48:37|100|00:48:42|920that may simply be an emotional reorientation towards the Higher Self, the sensing of the 543|00:48:42|920|00:48:51|740Christ, but the true Christ being born as a major motivating factor in the consciousness 544|00:48:51|740|00:48:56|760of the human being. That takes place more at the time of the first initiation, which 545|00:48:56|760|00:49:02|580may be quite a number of lives after that emotional reorientation towards a kind of 546|00:49:02|580|00:49:04|480Higher Self or Higher Power. 547|00:49:05|380|00:49:07|180At least that's my take on it. 548|00:49:07|860|00:49:14|820Capricorn: the birthplace of the Christ, the place of the second birth, the place, the 549|00:49:14|820|00:49:20|060situation of energies, the sort of dimensional condition in which this birth takes place, 550|00:49:20|820|00:49:27|320the scene for the emergence of the fifth kingdom in nature when the right time comes. 551|00:49:28|720|00:49:33|900In this sign, the initiate comes into a spiritual awareness 552|00:49:35|240|00:49:43|140This is spiritual instinct, not intuitive instinct of the third, but spiritual instinct 553|00:49:43|140|00:49:43|680of the first. 554|00:49:44|100|00:49:49|880The initiate, the probationary initiate, comes into a spiritual awareness which demonstrates 555|00:49:49|880|00:49:56|840later in Aquarius and in Pisces as man, the world worker,—that is definitely Aquarius—and man, 556|00:49:56|960|00:49:57|620the world saviour— 557|00:49:57|620|00:50:02|760Let's not forget how much weight lifting the worker in Aquarius does. 558|00:50:03|920|00:50:10|600In Aquarius, a lot of heavy lifting occurs. 559|00:50:12|660|00:50:16|780And Aquarius has a Saturnian cast to it. 560|00:50:17|040|00:50:25|400Saturn is one of its decanate rulers and is also considered… Saturn, being like lead, representing 561|00:50:25|400|00:50:33|200all heavy weights—these have to be lifted up into the cosmic ethers represented by Uranus, 562|00:50:34|040|00:50:36|420both of them with a universal mission. 563|00:50:37|460|00:50:42|580So there is a spiritual awareness coming in at the first initiation, but it has to grow 564|00:50:42|580|00:50:43|560over many lives. 565|00:50:44|080|00:50:44|480How many? 566|00:50:44|740|00:50:45|400I don't know. 567|00:50:46|740|00:50:49|620Seven, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty. 568|00:50:50|420|00:50:52|380It all depends on our choices. 569|00:50:53|400|00:50:58|660But perhaps archetypally we have the first initiation of the Christ, which is his birth, 570|00:50:59|460|00:51:06|980and then later we have the sort of fourth initiation at his thirty-third year. 571|00:51:07|460|00:51:13|180You know, each year can represent a kind of lifetime in the process of early man, the 572|00:51:13|180|00:51:16|880phase between the first and second initiation. The second of the baptism—he was thirty years 573|00:51:16|880|00:51:23|680old. Jesus was thirty years old when he was baptized, at least symbolically so. 574|00:51:23|820|00:51:28|100We don't know the exact number of years, but those seem to be the number of years which 575|00:51:28|100|00:51:29|620have emerged. 576|00:51:30|120|00:51:34|720So okay, then we have four signs of birth. 577|00:51:34|980|00:51:46|860Aries: the birthplace of ideas. Cancer: the birthplace of the soul into form. Leo: the 578|00:51:46|860|00:51:54|200second… We have Capricorn: the birthplace of the Christ, or the second aspect, the consciousness 579|00:51:54|200|00:52:00|180aspect in man, the Christ consciousness being born in man incipiently at the first degree 580|00:52:00|180|00:52:10|160and flowering fully in the fully developed master who is somehow able to express soul 581|00:52:10|160|00:52:14|260or triad fully, able to express the Christ consciousness fully. 582|00:52:14|260|00:52:21|020Basically, he is the fully unfolded flower of the evolutionary process, and then we move 583|00:52:21|020|00:52:25|180on to chohan-ship, which is already something new and different. 584|00:52:26|480|00:52:28|320Okay, let's see where we are. 585|00:52:29|420|00:52:30|180Yeah, we're getting there. 586|00:52:30|700|00:52:37|400It is from hints such as these that the astrologer of the future will determine the type of horoscope 587|00:52:37|400|00:52:38|580which should be cast. 588|00:52:38|580|00:52:43|940Have we been receiving some hints as we have been reading this? 589|00:52:44|680|00:52:48|220Is each type of birthplace a hint for us? 590|00:52:48|920|00:52:53|680Do we know what birth lies ahead for us? 591|00:52:55|000|00:52:56|280Perhaps we do. 592|00:52:59|500|00:53:06|000Each of these births doesn't occur just once, if you know what I mean. 593|00:53:06|000|00:53:12|940There are many phases of being born as an individual, many phases of being born as an 594|00:53:12|940|00:53:21|760increasingly potent Christ at each initiation, many types of ideas are being born, and many 595|00:53:21|760|00:53:25|980types of embodiment of spirit soul in form are occurring. 596|00:53:26|500|00:53:29|480It's not just a one-time deal, you know. 597|00:53:30|460|00:53:37|040Even Cancer can relate to the causal body as a form in which soul is fully being born. 598|00:53:38|220|00:53:46|140So we can trace each of these kinds of births over a period of time, and we can see the ones 599|00:53:46|140|00:53:49|320in which we are maybe involved. 600|00:53:49|760|00:53:52|660All of us are an idea, especially as a monad. 601|00:53:53|140|00:53:55|200We're trying to express that more and more fully. 602|00:53:55|680|00:54:01|620All of us have successive forms in which our higher aspects are trying to express. 603|00:54:02|460|00:54:05|260We can develop those forms over time. 604|00:54:05|860|00:54:13|060All of us are moving towards mastership through our individuality, the I that is I, the I 605|00:54:13|060|00:54:17|000that is we, the I that is “I am,” that I am. 606|00:54:17|660|00:54:23|420All of those are Leonian birth processes, and all of us are taking various initiations in 607|00:54:23|420|00:54:27|380which the Christ is more and more unfolded. 608|00:54:28|300|00:54:31|960So I think we can see how each of these births extends over time. 609|00:54:32|540|00:54:35|480It is not just a one-time process. 610|00:54:37|280|00:54:42|680It is from hints such as these that the astrologer of the future will determine the type of horoscope 611|00:54:42|680|00:54:43|720which should be cast. 612|00:54:44|860|00:54:50|820In other words, are we going around the wheel of form as an ordinary individual without 613|00:54:50|820|00:54:57|180real spiritual aspiration, without a sense of the higher of the pairs of opposites, or 614|00:54:57|180|00:55:02|000are we in fact going around the wheel of consciousness counterclockwise and do we have the sense 615|00:55:02|000|00:55:07|980of relating to the higher of the pairs of opposites? And do we want to, through meditation 616|00:55:07|980|00:55:13|700and service and study, come into relationship with that higher of the pairs of opposites 617|00:55:13|700|00:55:15|100which is our truer self? 618|00:55:16|100|00:55:20|520Two questions will then arise, requiring reasoned answers: 619|00:55:21|440|00:55:29|740OK, well, maybe I just have a moment to read this and then we'll deal with it later. 620|00:55:31|000|00:55:31|920In number 47. 621|00:55:32|680|00:55:34|060Or is this 47? 622|00:55:34|480|00:55:39|560I'm getting a little, hmm, possibly confused here. 623|00:55:40|180|00:55:41|920Yes, this is 47. 624|00:55:42|300|00:55:43|260This is 47. 625|00:55:43|580|00:55:43|820OK. 626|00:55:43|820|00:55:51|6801. Is the subject a personality, progressing around and around the wheel, perfecting self-consciousness 627|00:55:51|680|00:55:57|980and developing a rounded out personality via the cross of many changes, through experience 628|00:55:58|660|00:56:06|260and the working of the Law of Karma,—that is Saturn—subject to the Great 629|00:56:06|260|00:56:11|480Illusion and arriving eventually at the height of personality ambition 630|00:56:11|480|00:56:12|120in Capricorn? 631|00:56:12|120|00:56:19|900In other words, are we going from Aries backwards, as it were, through to Capricorn, climaxing 632|00:56:19|900|00:56:21|500a life of personality ambition? 633|00:56:21|700|00:56:28|880Or is this person beginning to manifest as a soul? 634|00:56:30|220|00:56:33|500Notice that the people with whom we come in contact are probably beginning to manifest 635|00:56:33|500|00:56:40|000as souls and are not full souls in complete expression, third-degree initiates and beyond. 636|00:56:40|810|00:56:45|5202. Or, is this person beginning to manifest as a soul, pouring light through dense fogs 637|00:56:46|120|00:56:51|680of illusion, and preparing for the major tests in Scorpio, to be followed by initiation in 638|00:56:51|680|00:56:52|040Capricorn? 639|00:56:52|260|00:57:02|700So this is the person proceeding counterclockwise, and this is proceeding clockwise. 640|00:57:04|190|00:57:06|780And you know, that's the fundamental judgment we have to make. 641|00:57:06|780|00:57:12|740Now, you know, we are mostly blessed as people studying esoteric astrology to be surrounded 642|00:57:12|740|00:57:18|240by people who have some degree of spiritual aspiration and can be at least beginning to 643|00:57:18|240|00:57:23|000manifest as a soul, in which case, when the point of reorientation comes, the esoteric 644|00:57:23|000|00:57:27|360rulers can at least be held up as an ideal or an objective. 645|00:57:28|300|00:57:38|160Right, so we are now at the end of EAA 47 pages—oops, there's one of the examples— 646|00:57:38|420|00:57:43|440let's call it pages, um, where were we? 647|00:57:44|020|00:57:46|9601-0-what? 103. 648|00:57:47|800|00:57:49|540So we went from 101 to 103. 649|00:57:49|700|00:57:55|820We're pretty much doing about two pages at a time with all the digressions, but I've 650|00:57:55|820|00:58:00|960been told by some that they prefer my digressions to my teachings, so okay, maybe that's the 651|00:58:00|960|00:58:01|440way it goes. 652|00:58:02|500|00:58:08|360Now we will, together, as always, do The Great Invocation. 653|00:58:12|420|00:58:12|720Yes. 654|00:58:20|580|00:58:21|740Excuse me. 655|00:58:31|120|00:58:31|860Ommmmmmmmm. 656|00:58:33|370|00:58:40|020From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds 657|00:58:40|020|00:58:43|940of men. Let light descend on earth. 658|00:58:47|720|00:58:55|160From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts 659|00:58:55|160|00:58:59|020of men. May Christ return to earth. 660|00:59:01|720|00:59:09|100From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 661|00:59:09|100|00:59:12|900the purpose which the masters know and serve. 662|00:59:15|820|00:59:21|560From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 663|00:59:22|000|00:59:26|900and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 664|00:59:29|280|00:59:36|920Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 665|00:59:49|800|00:59:50|900Ommmmmmmmm. 666|01:00:19|480|01:00:20|880Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 667|01:00:25|640|01:00:33|740Okay friends, we have reached the point and we will continue with Esoteric Astrology Adventure 668|01:00:34|400|01:00:45|700number 48. Continuing with Aries. We are, hmm, well, we're not even halfway through that sign, 669|01:00:45|700|01:00:52|880but there are so many things that need attention. You know, what I'm assuming is that as you study 670|01:00:52|880|01:00:59|360Esoteric Astrology, you want to get more into the depth of it and not just be able to, you know, 671|01:00:59|380|01:01:07|500whip off a few horoscopes, but really to see what the difference is between this deeper approach to 672|01:01:07|500|01:01:11|640the ancient science and the more conventional approach. So, we'll see you for number 48 673|01:01:12|180|01:01:13|800before long. Bye for now.