1|00:00:05|160|00:00:12|660Hello everybody, this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 48, and we have completed, 2|00:00:13|180|00:00:21|580we are on page 103 and we are talking about the different ways that an individual proceeds 3|00:00:22|280|00:00:26|240around the wheel, the wheel of rebirth. 4|00:00:27|240|00:00:37|300So there are two major ways of proceeding, and according to the way which the astrologer 5|00:00:37|300|00:00:43|960determines is correct for an individual, so will the horoscope be cast, or at least so 6|00:00:44|530|00:00:49|860will it be interpreted at first, and later, when we know more about casting the horoscope 7|00:00:49|860|00:00:51|900of the soul, so will it be cast. 8|00:00:52|650|00:00:56|960So our questions here: is the subject a personality? 9|00:00:57|980|00:01:03|660Progressing around and around the wheel, that gives you the idea of the millions of years 10|00:01:03|660|00:01:11|580that it requires to go around the wheel of rebirth until some spiritual point is reached, 11|00:01:12|620|00:01:19|920going around and around the wheel, perfecting self-consciousness, and developing a rounded 12|00:01:19|920|00:01:25|480out personality, so the influence of the sun is very important because that is in a 13|00:01:25|480|00:01:30|600way the symbol of self-consciousness, and the fullness of the sun, the rounded out personality, 14|00:01:31|120|00:01:35|980through experience and the working of the law of karma under Saturn, subject to the 15|00:01:35|980|00:01:47|240great illusion, subject to the moon in a sense, and arriving eventually at the height of personality 16|00:01:47|240|00:01:49|420ambition in Capricorn. 17|00:01:50|400|00:01:57|460So is that the way the individual is proceeding clockwise, and let us say according to the 18|00:01:57|460|00:02:06|760sun sign, developing the three personality elementals and their union as the selfishly 19|00:02:06|760|00:02:15|060integrated personality, expressing through Capricorn, or is the individual not on the 20|00:02:15|060|00:02:21|460form but on the wheel of consciousness, and at least beginning to manifest as a soul, 21|00:02:22|260|00:02:30|800pouring light through the dense fogs of illusion which can be found upon the cosmic physical 22|00:02:30|800|00:02:36|080plane, the three lower levels, and preparing for the major tests in Scorpio with the first, 23|00:02:36|080|00:02:43|780second and third initiation, to be followed by finally initiation in Capricorn, and by 24|00:02:43|780|00:02:47|360initiation in this case is meant the third initiation. 25|00:02:48|140|00:02:56|740Let us say that both Scorpio and Capricorn are involved in the third initiation. 26|00:02:58|440|00:03:04|540Actually you know it really is possible for people to take initiation in and under many 27|00:03:04|540|00:03:05|060signs. 28|00:03:05|060|00:03:12|760They have a full opportunity, if they are ready, and ingresses the change of a sign 29|00:03:13|440|00:03:20|140of a progressing planet, such as the sun or such as the ascendant, well they really shouldn't 30|00:03:20|140|00:03:25|660be called planets, but those changes of the major points, the changes of the angles, give 31|00:03:25|660|00:03:32|340new energy to which the individual can respond and in relation to which he or she can take 32|00:03:33|340|00:03:33|940initiation. 33|00:03:35|320|00:03:40|560So initiation in this case is really the first of the solar initiations, that is the third 34|00:03:40|560|00:03:41|120initiation. 35|00:03:42|100|00:03:47|580The preeminent test in Scorpio is found in relation to the astral body in the second 36|00:03:47|580|00:03:53|540initiation, but Scorpio is also active at the first degree and active at the third degree, 37|00:03:53|580|00:04:01|300with a peculiar testing influence, which then ceases at the third degree and perhaps Scorpio 38|00:04:01|300|00:04:06|460can be applied in a different way, contributing to the death of the causal body at the fourth 39|00:04:06|460|00:04:07|240initiation. 40|00:04:08|120|00:04:13|280Because we are told that Scorpio stages the release of Leo. 41|00:04:13|600|00:04:20|200The ultimate release of Leo is the release from Ahamkara through the destruction of the 42|00:04:20|200|00:04:26|420body of individuality, the supra-personality, the causal body, the egoic body. 43|00:04:27|160|00:04:29|260Subsidiary questions then would be: 44|00:04:30|240|00:04:35|340For instance, for which death is the man preparing? 45|00:04:36|140|00:04:42|200Well, we had the death in relation to drowning of Pisces, the death in relation to fire of 46|00:04:42|200|00:04:47|360Aries, the death in relation to suffocation of Scorpio, we had no death by air. 47|00:04:48|200|00:04:56|160So for which change of state, change of dimension, for which relinquishment is the man preparing? 48|00:04:56|160|00:05:04|360What type of experience is he willing to give up in the great and general process of detachment? 49|00:05:05|340|00:05:11|160Is there an imminent crisis at hand which indicates a birth into some new state of consciousness? 50|00:05:11|720|00:05:19|340Well, signs of crisis, you know, we have listed the signs of crisis, the crisis of the burning 51|00:05:19|340|00:05:30|160ground, the crisis in Virgo, the crisis of the birth hour, we have the crisis of the 52|00:05:30|160|00:05:39|960battlefield, and if we look at Esoteric Astrology page 472, we see all these different crises 53|00:05:39|960|00:05:45|200listed which are good to have in mind, and these are the crises of the souls, we have 54|00:05:45|200|00:05:50|700crisis of incarnation under Cancer, crisis of orientation and reorientation under Aries, 55|00:05:51|500|00:05:56|500crisis of initiation under Capricorn, crisis of renunciation under Gemini. That's interesting, 56|00:05:56|500|00:06:01|840related to crucifixion. Crisis of the battlefield under Scorpio—that's already been listed. 57|00:06:02|400|00:06:07|340Crisis of the birthplace under Virgo—that's been listed. Crisis of the burning ground, 58|00:06:08|720|00:06:13|620that is the final burning ground before the fifth initiation, I would expect. And that 59|00:06:13|620|00:06:23|140is under Leo. So Leo, Libra and Capricorn are signs of crisis. Let's look this up, just 60|00:06:23|140|00:06:43|220test this. Signs… crisis. Let's see what it says here. Paramount signs of influence. Let's 61|00:06:43|220|00:06:51|460see. Group of signs, yes, and their attendant constellations are omitted, because we have 62|00:06:51|460|00:07:00|960a previous grouping of nine signs, and some have been omitted. And they are called signs 63|00:07:00|960|00:07:10|340of crisis. These three signs are all signs of crisis and indicate progressive influence 64|00:07:10|340|00:07:15|580of the other nine and the situations which evolve out of their activity. They are testing 65|00:07:15|580|00:07:24|600points in the play—in the process of the play of energies from the other nine signs. 66|00:07:24|840|00:07:31|860And these are Leo, the crisis of individualization; Libra, the crisis of balance; and Capricorn, 67|00:07:32|120|00:07:39|760the crisis of initiation. So let's add to page 472, page 265 from the same book. And 68|00:07:39|760|00:07:45|580we can call this… indicate the birth of someone in a state of consciousness. And let's say 69|00:07:45|580|00:07:55|360pages on which the different crises are listed. I'm having a moment of… okay, right, okay. 70|00:07:55|900|00:08:09|100Page 472 and 265—the crises are listed, as well as the several crises which are listed 71|00:08:09|100|00:08:17|840before in the book, in the pages that we are now studying. Yeah, here they are: the crisis 72|00:08:17|840|00:08:23|260of the battlefield in Scorpio, the crisis of the birthplace in Virgo, and the crisis 73|00:08:23|260|00:08:33|460of the burning ground, which is related to Uranus. Okay, and that's also related to Leo. 74|00:08:33|460|00:08:39|920Leo and Leo is very powerfully related to Uranus, because Uranus is the veiled hierarchical 75|00:08:39|920|00:08:47|880ruler. So as esotericists in training, we are always looking out for crisis. Crisis 76|00:08:47|880|00:08:51|480is that through which we should be passing. The personality doesn't really want to pass 77|00:08:51|480|00:08:56|800through it, but we should be passing through this, and this will give the consciousness 78|00:08:56|800|00:09:04|100the opportunity to liberate itself from normal conditions. 79|00:09:04|900|00:09:10|240Okay, so, is there an imminent crisis at hand? 80|00:09:10|440|00:09:15|820Well, usually in your horoscope, when Saturn is becoming powerful, when Pluto is getting 81|00:09:15|820|00:09:23|480into aspect, when Uranus is crossing the angles of some other important point, or aspecting 82|00:09:23|480|00:09:30|040some important point, we can expect some sort of crisis which forces—like a good square 83|00:09:30|040|00:09:37|620does, an astrological square—it forces decision upon us, oftentimes very hard decisions. 84|00:09:38|540|00:09:43|320So is there an imminent crisis at hand which indicates a birth into some new state of consciousness? 85|00:09:43|460|00:09:50|920So here is the key: that crisis offers a birth opportunity. 86|00:09:52|260|00:09:56|080Usually, people think of it as the end, you know, some sort of death. Well, it is a death 87|00:09:56|080|00:09:59|940in a way, but every birth is a death. 88|00:10:01|580|00:10:08|960So the crucial question, however, to be determined in every case, is the direction in which the 89|00:10:08|960|00:10:12|220man is progressing around the wheel of life. 90|00:10:13|760|00:10:19|760What is the direction? And basically what that means is, in what way is the man responding 91|00:10:20|560|00:10:28|040to the different signs, constellations which may be influential in his life? 92|00:10:28|160|00:10:34|360Is he responding as an elemental being, a personality, or is he responding as the soul 93|00:10:34|360|00:10:39|920in incarnation gradually becoming consciously the soul on its own plane? And a lot of people 94|00:10:39|920|00:10:48|140are sort of in between, but even if they are in between and are beginning to progress towards 95|00:10:48|140|00:10:54|580the realization of that higher power, the esoteric rulers can be used because the man 96|00:10:54|580|00:10:57|600is in fact reorienting himself. 97|00:10:57|840|00:11:03|860It is when reorientation occurs that the esoteric rulers can be used. 98|00:11:04|700|00:11:13|660Let's see, we saw this earlier, and do we find it here? 99|00:11:15|140|00:11:19|640Well, perhaps, perhaps not. 100|00:11:20|780|00:11:29|360It is here, and we did discuss it, that when there is reorientation, the reversal of the 101|00:11:29|360|00:11:35|540wheel does occur, and it is possible to use a higher ruler. 102|00:11:35|760|00:11:39|600At least at the beginning of the process of the reversal of the wheel occurs, one can 103|00:11:39|600|00:11:41|440use a higher ruler. 104|00:11:42|360|00:11:49|160The important thing is not to apply these higher rulers to ordinary personal circumstances. 105|00:11:50|160|00:11:54|540So, what is the direction in which the man is progressing around the wheel of life? And 106|00:11:54|540|00:12:01|520let us all hope that those who are serious students of this treatise are progressing 107|00:12:02|300|00:12:02|900counterclockwise. 108|00:12:03|600|00:12:08|720We should be progressing counterclockwise. 109|00:12:09|200|00:12:15|700The Orthodox horoscope concerns the personality life, and the form is bound upon the wheel 110|00:12:15|700|00:12:20|880of life as it turns from right to left. 111|00:12:22|140|00:12:30|120So, let's see, from right to left, and that means from Aries to Taurus via Pisces. 112|00:12:30|300|00:12:32|680This is the clockwise direction. 113|00:12:34|400|00:12:37|880Of course, we can debate whether this really looks like right to left, but this is the 114|00:12:37|880|00:12:40|560way D.K. defines it. 115|00:12:41|300|00:12:44|940It turns, in a way, into matter. 116|00:12:45|860|00:12:48|880The direction left indicates matter. 117|00:12:49|340|00:12:55|800The direction left indicates matter and personality. 118|00:12:56|440|00:13:04|680But the soul is bound to the wheel as it turns from left to right, out of form, matter, personality, 119|00:13:05|160|00:13:09|900into soul spirit, going from Aries to Pisces, the counterclockwise direction via Taurus. 120|00:13:10|260|00:13:17|080And this, this is very important: it is this antagonistic movement of the wheel turning 121|00:13:17|080|00:13:21|700upon itself as it is expressed in the Bible which leads to the conflict carried out in 122|00:13:21|700|00:13:22|680the individual life. 123|00:13:23|760|00:13:30|160Yes, very important, because so many of us, for so many of us, the wheel is turning in 124|00:13:30|160|00:13:36|680two directions simultaneously and we have not yet finally reversed the wheel so that 125|00:13:36|680|00:13:43|460we do not feel the friction of the turning towards the left while we, in our consciousness, 126|00:13:43|700|00:13:45|720are attempting to turn towards the right. 127|00:13:45|920|00:13:51|460So we have a mixed method of responding to the various signs. 128|00:13:51|620|00:13:56|820Sometimes we respond in a personal manner and sometimes we respond in a manner which 129|00:13:57|680|00:14:01|380is of the soul and aligns us with the soul purpose and plan. 130|00:14:02|780|00:14:10|300So we are in the midst of a rending process which creates friction, creates fire, creates 131|00:14:10|300|00:14:11|760a kind of burning ground. 132|00:14:12|360|00:14:20|120The more intent we are deliberately to move from left to right, symbolically, the more 133|00:14:20|120|00:14:28|960we instigate this burning ground, this friction, this contrary movement against the natural 134|00:14:28|960|00:14:31|760elemental tendency of things. 135|00:14:32|840|00:14:37|820So there is the wheel turning upon itself. This sometimes indicates the fourth dimensional 136|00:14:37|820|00:14:46|320rotation of the chakra, but D.K. is applying it to the zodiacal wheel and perhaps the zodiacal 137|00:14:46|320|00:14:51|560wheel of constellations does in a way turn upon itself and there will come a day when 138|00:14:51|560|00:14:57|680at least etherically or in terms of the subjective planes we do have a wheel of fire and even 139|00:14:58|360|00:15:01|280the zodiac itself will turn fourth dimensional. 140|00:15:02|180|00:15:09|080This would be equivalent to a fourth dimensional rotation of the heart in the head center because 141|00:15:09|080|00:15:13|760the zodiac is, as we have been stating, the heart in the head of that great deity we call 142|00:15:13|760|00:15:15|920the One About Whom Naught May Be Said. 143|00:15:17|840|00:15:23|840It is this antagonistic movement of the wheel turning upon itself as it is expressed in 144|00:15:23|840|00:15:28|120the Bible which leads to the conflict carried on in the individual life, and all of us know 145|00:15:28|780|00:15:33|780of these conflicts between the pairs of opposites, between right and wrong, between higher and 146|00:15:33|780|00:15:41|560lower, between spiritual and material, between the demands of the personality and the demands 147|00:15:41|560|00:15:48|840of the soul, between fragmentation and unity, between separativeness and union. 148|00:15:51|040|00:15:57|140So the wheel turning upon itself is the condition of many of us. It is not fully turning upon 149|00:15:57|140|00:16:02|180itself, it is not fully a globe of fire or turning in all directions simultaneously, 150|00:16:02|400|00:16:11|500not yet, but for most of us we are going against the natural elemental grain and we are swimming 151|00:16:11|560|00:16:18|240upstream and we are aware that there is a current facing us which would sweep us back 152|00:16:18|240|00:16:23|780into elemental life unless we really exert ourselves as we will under Mars. 153|00:16:24|560|00:16:28|880Leads to the conflict carried on in the individual life, in the life of humanity, yes, because 154|00:16:28|880|00:16:34|880humanity also is becoming the world disciple and trying to move forward against the elemental 155|00:16:34|880|00:16:40|480order of things and the life of the planet as well. The soul of the planet is turning 156|00:16:40|480|00:16:49|900against the tendency of the planetary entity which is the life of the lower three vehicles, 157|00:16:50|980|00:16:57|300the life of the very lowest planes of the planetary Logos, what we call the three lower 158|00:16:57|300|00:17:05|600worlds or the eighteen lower sub-planes. So our life will be one of strain and cross-currents, 159|00:17:05|600|00:17:12|000and if we deliberately decide to move forward it will be as if we are on a cross and as 160|00:17:12|000|00:17:18|460if we are experiencing many squares and oppositions from cross-currents and counter-currents. 161|00:17:18|700|00:17:24|720This is actually promoting crisis, and it is a good thing because definitely difficulties 162|00:17:24|720|00:17:31|600will appear when we set our will, our determination, our effort to move towards the expression 163|00:17:31|600|00:17:39|500of the soul. We will invoke crisis, we will experience the friction of running counter 164|00:17:40|160|00:17:45|840to the elemental order of things. We will find ourselves against the elements, as it 165|00:17:45|840|00:17:50|680were. In the early stages of evolution and upon the mutable cross, the consciousness is 166|00:17:50|680|00:17:55|760entirely identified with life in form. It doesn't know there is anything else. It just 167|00:17:55|760|00:18:01|820thinks this is it, only this is it. And with the life of self-consciousness, ahamkara, 168|00:18:02|020|00:18:09|140self-preservation and self-enrichment, these are all the early tendencies of the soul in 169|00:18:09|140|00:18:17|920incarnation to misidentify itself with the objects of its perception. So that self-consciousness 170|00:18:17|920|00:18:25|740we call that ahamkara. Self-preservation is one of the major instinctual drives of the 171|00:18:26|440|00:18:40|600personality. Self-enrichment is, let's call it self-aggrandizement. Because when you think you are a particular 172|00:18:40|600|00:18:49|720center, you seek to increase the scope and power of that center, so you grasp to yourself 173|00:18:49|720|00:18:59|560that which will enlarge or inflate that center. So you are in a way nurturing the very center 174|00:18:59|560|00:19:04|320of your consciousness; you are nurturing your lower ego. And this is life upon the mutable 175|00:19:04|320|00:19:19|700cross, and people who are found in that very egoistic stage, they are recognizable. They 176|00:19:20|480|00:19:25|780are the illusory self; they don't know it's illusory. But other people are divided, and 177|00:19:25|780|00:19:32|120they have conflicts about what is good and what is bad and what is for the unity and 178|00:19:32|120|00:19:36|520what is for the separate self. They have their eyes on their separate self sometimes, but 179|00:19:36|520|00:19:42|460they have their eyes on the soul at other times. That's kind of a Leo ahamkara phase. 180|00:19:43|080|00:19:48|860Then comes an interlude. When you ever see the word interlude, just suspect the sign Libra 181|00:19:48|860|00:19:55|020that is in a way the lord of the interludes. Then comes an interlude wherein the consciousness 182|00:19:55|020|00:20:02|000begins to shift into that of the group. The lower hemisphere of astrological signs gives 183|00:20:02|000|00:20:07|340way to the upper hemisphere beginning with Libra, suggesting group consciousness and becomes 184|00:20:07|340|00:20:18|840identified with the soul and with soul purpose. Eventually one becomes not only not—not only 185|00:20:18|860|00:20:28|780just the man for himself, but ultimately the man for others, of which the Christ is the 186|00:20:28|780|00:20:38|440great example. Living a life for others and realizing, of course, that the others are oneself. 187|00:20:38|720|00:20:48|840This realization is sometimes realized under Gemini, sometimes under Libra. There is this 188|00:20:50|120|00:20:59|620sense—Pythagoras talked about it: what is a friend? A friend is another self. So there 189|00:20:59|620|00:21:03|440is the recognition of the higher self, but there's the recognition of the other self 190|00:21:04|000|00:21:15|940equal to oneself on the horizontal plane, and the self that one is no longer is the very 191|00:21:15|940|00:21:22|260center of attention, but one feels into the other self, the self of others as if it was 192|00:21:22|260|00:21:30|200their own self. Ultimately it is one self, one feeling of being, if you will. I sometimes 193|00:21:30|200|00:21:39|720question myself as what is selfhood, and it is this intuitive registration of being. It 194|00:21:39|720|00:21:44|560doesn't have to be a limited thing; it can be an unlimited, infinite thing. It's still 195|00:21:44|560|00:21:51|860a self, at least in the words of the ancient Hindus, but there are other Buddhists that 196|00:21:51|860|00:21:56|420deny, of course, the existence of self. I think it's just a question of how we define our 197|00:21:56|420|00:22:01|480terms. So then comes this interlude. You know, we're on the mutable cross, we're very much 198|00:22:01|480|00:22:14|100an egoic self in the lower sense. We're following the instinctual life. Form is very real to 199|00:22:14|100|00:22:24|320us until some inner registration or influence is received and the higher of the pairs of 200|00:22:24|320|00:22:29|680opposites comes into the field of consciousness, and we begin to call it by various names, including 201|00:22:29|680|00:22:35|280that of the soul, and we begin to realize that it has a purpose which is different from the 202|00:22:35|280|00:22:40|540purpose we had been following when we were thoroughly identified with form. The experience 203|00:22:40|540|00:22:48|060of the fixed cross covers this period. This shifting of consciousness into the group. 204|00:22:49|100|00:22:58|540Okay, the fixed cross covers the experience of shifting individual consciousness into 205|00:22:58|540|00:23:04|940group consciousness. It might here be noted that the experience of the three crosses has 206|00:23:04|940|00:23:09|960a Masonic significance and can be connected with the blue lodge. The blue lodge in a way 207|00:23:09|960|00:23:19|940is a reflection. It represents the first three degrees of Masonry, and some extend it to consider 208|00:23:19|940|00:23:27|320the first five degrees, borrowing some degrees from the York Rite. The so-called Christian 209|00:23:27|320|00:23:39|940Rite. R-I-T-E. You know, Masonry is very, very important in the A.U.M. Masonry, and you can see 210|00:23:39|960|00:23:46|400Ancient Universal Mysteries, which is an attempt to reformulate Masonry on an entirely higher 211|00:23:46|400|00:23:53|080and more spiritual standard undertaken by the A.U.M. Lodge with Brother Keith Bailey as 212|00:23:53|080|00:23:59|000the Venerable Master, the chief principal officer of that lodge. We have a real movement 213|00:23:59|000|00:24:03|920towards the new Masonry, so I would strongly recommend that those of you who have an interest 214|00:24:03|920|00:24:11|780in what Masonry can bring to you and to humanity, you investigate the A.U.M. Lodge and contact 215|00:24:12|520|00:24:20|840Keith, Brother Bailey. Contact him and see what is possible with affiliation with that 216|00:24:21|740|00:24:26|920very considerable movement. A movement which is a continuation of that which Alice Bailey 217|00:24:27|740|00:24:33|360and her associates attempted in the 1930s with the help of Foster Bailey and certainly 218|00:24:33|360|00:24:43|360with the support of the Tibetan Master who wrote “The Spirit of Free Masonry” under Foster 219|00:24:43|360|00:24:48|280Bailey's name, and Alice Bailey took it down. Foster Bailey gave his name for the publishing, 220|00:24:48|920|00:24:55|020and the Tibetan is really the author. So if we want to understand what the rites of initiation 221|00:24:55|020|00:24:59|540are all about, Masonry is the way to do it. One of the great ways of doing it, anyway. 222|00:24:59|540|00:25:06|500A way which is often for the training of first-rate people, the training of the will, but using 223|00:25:06|500|00:25:11|980a seventh-rate form and with a fourth-rate purpose. The common cross, then, represents 224|00:25:11|980|00:25:16|340the E.A. degree. Everybody knows what these things mean. The Entered Apprentice degree. 225|00:25:17|480|00:25:23|460The Entered Apprentice degree in relation to Sirius is the fifth initiation, but it's 226|00:25:23|460|00:25:29|740the first initiation which finally for man represents the Entered Apprentice degree of 227|00:25:29|740|00:25:35|660just learning about the ways of the soul. So for a long time you have to struggle on 228|00:25:35|660|00:25:41|440the common cross, really, for millions and millions of years. Let's just say, as I have sometimes 229|00:25:41|440|00:25:47|240said, suppose it takes 25 million years to make a master. It's not an unreasonable figure, 230|00:25:47|240|00:25:56|100and the number 25 can be connected with humanity and with mastership. Then just so many millions 231|00:25:56|100|00:26:02|300of those years, even into the twenties, are dealing with the common cross. The fixed cross 232|00:26:02|300|00:26:07|720is the F.C. Fellowcraft degree. The mind is being trained. Remember what happens at the 233|00:26:07|720|00:26:16|280second initiation. You develop the spiritual intelligence and the illumined mind. So education 234|00:26:16|280|00:26:22|220becomes of the utmost importance, and so does group fellowship and relation. We begin to 235|00:26:22|220|00:26:27|360realize we are not living unto ourselves alone, but we are progressing with the group. And 236|00:26:27|360|00:26:34|160then the cardinal cross indicates the Master Mason degree. That's the third degree. Sometimes 237|00:26:34|160|00:26:41|440this term has been borrowed to represent the kind of grilling or examination that someone 238|00:26:41|440|00:26:47|480under suspicion may get. “We gave him the third degree,” meaning we questioned him mercilessly 239|00:26:47|480|00:26:56|100under the heated lamp, you know, until he began to sweat and finally admitted the truth. But this 240|00:26:56|100|00:27:04|540idea of going deeply into one's consciousness in life and dying and being resurrected—all of 241|00:27:04|540|00:27:08|640this is contained in the Master Mason degree, and there are other degrees to be interspersed here. 242|00:27:08|640|00:27:15|040One before the Master Mason degree, which is called the Mark degree, and another after the 243|00:27:15|040|00:27:24|780Master Mason degree, which is the H.R.A. degree. That's a final sublime degree. Five degrees 244|00:27:24|780|00:27:35|800leading, representing five initiations and telling the story of the birth of the Christ and its 245|00:27:36|820|00:27:45|880cultivation and its testing and its apparent defeat at the hands of the elemental life and 246|00:27:45|880|00:27:55|880its resurrection unto freedom. So it's amazing how much D.K. has sprinkled the discussion of Masonry 247|00:27:55|880|00:28:04|300throughout his works. He considered it very important for the training of humanity in the 248|00:28:04|300|00:28:09|700age, just the way the new church will be very important and just the way the banded esoteric 249|00:28:09|700|00:28:16|060organisms will be very important. Masonry, archetypally at least, training those upon 250|00:28:16|060|00:28:21|200the first ray; the church training those upon the second ray; and the banded esoteric organisms 251|00:28:22|700|00:28:27|960training those upon the third ray. And I think when I mention these rays, I mean the general monadic 252|00:28:27|960|00:28:35|860ray. Much will come to light in Masonry when its astrological implications are studied and 253|00:28:35|860|00:28:43|880understood, and D.K. does give these—he gives important astrological relations to Masonry. 254|00:28:44|320|00:28:50|860In the conventional Masonry, maybe none of this is much known. In the new A.U.M. reformulation of 255|00:28:50|860|00:28:59|320Masonry, the formulators, Brother Bailey and the masters of the various lodges, are astrologically 256|00:28:59|320|00:29:07|720aware and are bringing these astrological points forward. So much will come to light in masonry 257|00:29:07|720|00:29:12|200when its astrological implications are studied and understood. Much will also be revealed in individual 258|00:29:12|200|00:29:21|920life and purpose when the fate of certain planets — the fate, the tendency, the 259|00:29:21|920|00:29:29|740influence, the fate of certain planets when in various zodiacal signs — is properly investigated 260|00:29:29|740|00:29:37|880and grasped, and their symbolic influence is interpreted. And he does, although D.K. tends not 261|00:29:37|880|00:29:46|120to give us the conventional astrological reading whereby a planet in a sign means this, he does 262|00:29:46|120|00:29:52|380occasionally talk about such things: what Mars in Scorpio could represent, what Venus in Cancer could 263|00:29:52|380|00:29:57|400represent, what Saturn in Libra could represent. He doesn't go through the entire gamut of every 264|00:29:57|400|00:30:06|240planet and every sign, but he does give us the hints as to how we can do this. So we do want to reveal 265|00:30:06|240|00:30:12|780individual life and purpose. There's nothing quite so dreadful as living a purposeless life, and of 266|00:30:12|780|00:30:17|340course there's something equally dreadful: knowing your purpose and not being able to fulfill 267|00:30:17|340|00:30:23|500it, or not managing to at least be on the right track to fulfill it. So this greatest and oldest 268|00:30:23|500|00:30:29|520of all the sciences, in its esoteric aspect, wants to make of us happier people who recognize our 269|00:30:29|520|00:30:35|580purpose and have a plan or a program for the fulfillment of that purpose, and can use astrology 270|00:30:35|580|00:30:45|380to help us understand, step by step, how we might fulfill that deep soul purpose and eventually 271|00:30:45|380|00:30:54|720even a deeper monadic purpose. For instance, it is well known theoretically and mathematically that 272|00:30:54|720|00:31:04|100one: the Sun is exalted in Aries. Yes, I think there are some mathematical derivations for the 273|00:31:04|100|00:31:11|240exaltations of the various planets, and they do occur in specific degrees. I could look that up 274|00:31:11|240|00:31:15|720at the moment — you know, which particular degrees — but, you know, just running down the list: the Sun 275|00:31:15|720|00:31:24|840is exalted in Aries, the Moon is exalted in Taurus, Mercury is — D.K. says — exalted in Virgo, though normally 276|00:31:24|840|00:31:31|800we're not given an exaltation position for it. Venus is exalted in Pisces. The Earth is not given 277|00:31:31|800|00:31:40|260an exaltation position, but it is the hierarchical ruler of Gemini — but that's not the same as 278|00:31:40|260|00:31:47|480exaltation. Mars is exalted in Capricorn, Jupiter is exalted in Cancer. See, the pairs seem to go 279|00:31:47|480|00:31:56|440opposite each other. The Venus — the Mercury-Venus pair, for instance — we have Virgo and Pisces, 280|00:31:56|440|00:32:02|540opposites. The Mars and Jupiter pair: we have Capricorn and Cancer, opposites. Uranus is exalted 281|00:32:02|540|00:32:08|760in Scorpio, and Saturn is exalted in Libra — and Uranus in Scorpio — so we don't have a pair there. 282|00:32:10|680|00:32:19|400Neptune is considered to be exalted in Cancer, but there is also a special relationship of Neptune in 283|00:32:19|400|00:32:29|080Pisces — a very high spiritual relationship — which D.K. tells us Alan Leo intuited. And let's see: yes, 284|00:32:29|080|00:32:35|880mostly yes, Cancer and Pisces. But he says there's a special type of exaltation of both Jupiter and 285|00:32:35|880|00:32:43|360Neptune in the sign Cancer, which normally would be considered the sign of their fall, where they 286|00:32:43|360|00:32:51|820would come under detriment. Well, their expression could be hampered in some ways initially, but later 287|00:32:51|820|00:33:00|500in Capricorn, a very high form of psychism could occur for Neptune and a high achievement of 288|00:33:00|500|00:33:07|540consciousness for Jupiter, and so forth. When it comes to — I said Uranus in Scorpio — when it comes 289|00:33:07|540|00:33:13|620to Pluto, we don't really have a place for its exaltation, but we have a — maybe in Aries? I'm not 290|00:33:13|620|00:33:22|260sure. We have a rulership of a kind both in Scorpio and definitely in Pisces. So exaltation is a very 291|00:33:23|180|00:33:29|640special type of expression. I think it's even a higher type of expression than rulership, in a way. 292|00:33:29|640|00:33:36|000When we come to Libra, we have Saturn not only exalted in Libra but the hierarchical ruler, so 293|00:33:36|000|00:33:46|120we see a tremendous emphasis upon Saturn in this sign of justice and equilibrium, Libra. So here, the 294|00:33:46|120|00:33:53|600Sun — the exaltation here — the Sun stands for the life of spirit which comes into full expression 295|00:33:53|600|00:33:59|560as the result of the great evolutionary process. So finally, at the end of it all, the life of spirit 296|00:33:59|560|00:34:06|440may be on the Logoic plane at the seventh initiation shines forth. Aries initiated the great 297|00:34:06|440|00:34:11|760evolutionary process, probably from the will aspect of the monad and also from the soul on its own 298|00:34:11|760|00:34:17|840plane, descending into the lower three worlds. And finally, there is a great consummation after seven 299|00:34:17|840|00:34:24|120initiations where the spirit in the sea of fire blazes forth, and the monadic vehicle itself from 300|00:34:24|120|00:34:32|280the sixth plane is destroyed or compromised, or at least not considered an obstacle or a containment. 301|00:34:32|280|00:34:40|900The life of God, which is this which in this sign is swung into activity. Notice Aries and the life 302|00:34:41|960|00:34:48|900eventually achieves consummation. Consummation here is not the usual fourth degree consummation or 303|00:34:48|900|00:34:58|900even mastership, but that which lies beyond on the plane of life, on the logarithmic plane. There is a 304|00:34:58|900|00:35:05|260consummation, and that is the real resurrection, the seventh degree connected with Aries and the 305|00:35:05|260|00:35:13|620exaltation of the Sun. Latency becomes potency, and midnight emerges into midday. Now, sometimes 306|00:35:13|620|00:35:20|940midnight is a very high thing. You know, there is an initiation at the midnight Sun, so to speak, but 307|00:35:20|940|00:35:27|260sometimes midnight is darkness and obscurity, and it comes into the full light of day, the high noon 308|00:35:27|260|00:35:34|320of midday. God the Father rules. When finally does God the Father rule? Well, you know, not even—not 309|00:35:34|320|00:35:39|520even for a master does God the Father completely rule. And for a liberated Chohan of the sixth 310|00:35:39|520|00:35:44|060degree, is God the Father ruling? Well, one is a member of Shambhala, and in a way God the Father 311|00:35:44|060|00:35:49|860rules, but how much more so for a Chohan of the seventh degree who, like the Christ or the Buddha, 312|00:35:49|860|00:35:56|220is focused upon the highest of the etheric sub-planes, the logarithmic plane. There indeed God the 313|00:35:56|220|00:36:07|700Father rules. Okay, let's go on. We're talking about exaltations. We're talking about certain falls 314|00:36:07|700|00:36:16|080and detriments and empowerments. Exaltation is a great empowerment of that which the planet 315|00:36:17|160|00:36:25|160represents. A detriment is a weakening. A fall is a severe weakening. A rulership is a compatibility 316|00:36:25|160|00:36:31|380or a harmonious expression of the Lord of the planet in relation to the Lord of the sign. The 317|00:36:31|380|00:36:40|140power of Venus is lessened in this sign because Venus rules in Libra, and then all you have to do 318|00:36:40|140|00:36:47|440is go to the opposite sign and find where the detriment or the lessening of power occurs. The 319|00:36:47|440|00:36:53|560opposite sign of Libra is Aries, and that's where the detriment occurs. It is detrimental, a 320|00:36:53|560|00:37:02|660detrimental sign to Venus. Now, yes, in a way—I mean, you can get good out of any planet in any sign, 321|00:37:02|660|00:37:16|660and oftentimes, since the opposites can be turned, detriments are like rulerships. Detriments can be 322|00:37:16|660|00:37:24|500made harmonious, and falls can be rendered into exaltations. For instance, you know, think of—think 323|00:37:24|500|00:37:29|520of this: the moon is exalted in Taurus. Is that necessarily a good thing? The mother of the form 324|00:37:29|520|00:37:36|520may become so dominant that the exaltation represents a compromising of the spirit. Then 325|00:37:36|520|00:37:43|540the moon is said to fall in Scorpio. Well, is that such a bad thing? Yes, it's uncomfortable for the 326|00:37:43|540|00:37:50|340personality elementals and the personality as a whole. It is uncomfortable, but the lunar 327|00:37:50|340|00:38:00|520tendencies are then defeated. The moon falls away, and the higher life is no longer obscured by these 328|00:38:00|520|00:38:09|360lunar tendencies and by the ancient patterns. So is that—is that a fall necessarily bad? So 329|00:38:09|360|00:38:15|200exaltations are not necessarily good, and falls are not necessarily bad. We're told about how 330|00:38:15|200|00:38:22|500Mars is exalted in Capricorn. You think that's a wonderful thing? Well, maybe for an advancing 331|00:38:22|500|00:38:27|400individual it is a wonderful thing, but what about for a warlike, selfish, greedy individual? It would 332|00:38:27|400|00:38:33|860be constant warfare for the sake of the lower ego, and people would be playing king of the mountain 333|00:38:33|860|00:38:41|020all the time and knocking others off of these pedestals because they themselves seek power 334|00:38:41|020|00:38:47|020over others—Mars in Capricorn. So is the exaltation necessarily a good thing? What about Mars in 335|00:38:47|020|00:38:54|140Cancer? It's a fall, isn't it? Well, you know, it is a source of irritation for the individual. 336|00:38:54|140|00:39:01|420It can lead to solar plexus activity—excessive—and it can lead to a defensiveness and kind of 337|00:39:01|420|00:39:10|980fear and wariness, but it also is a tremendous ability to reduce the power of Mars so that, as 338|00:39:10|980|00:39:17|960symbolizing the united personality elemental, it no longer gets in the way, and it can be a great 339|00:39:17|960|00:39:25|720effort of the personality aspirationally to rise out of its own lower nature. So, you know, in a 340|00:39:25|720|00:39:31|160Geminian manner, you have to look at everything from both angles simultaneously, and there's no 341|00:39:31|160|00:39:38|680absolute statement. You know, the Sun falls—you know, the Sun is exalted in Aries. Well, what if that— 342|00:39:38|680|00:39:46|060and so that's great, right? But what if that Sun represents the ahamkara principle, and there is a 343|00:39:46|060|00:39:53|740complete type of selfish identification with one's own lower ego and the tendency to force everyone 344|00:39:53|740|00:40:01|140else in one's own way? One becomes the exalted Sun in the middle of everybody else, and there is no 345|00:40:01|140|00:40:07|540consideration of the other. Is that a good thing? So always look at things from both perspectives. 346|00:40:07|540|00:40:13|940that the high can be low and the low can be high, depending on the perspective. So why is the power 347|00:40:13|940|00:40:19|980of Venus lessened in this sign? The reason is that when the Sun is exalted and blazes forth in all 348|00:40:19|980|00:40:32|080its glory, which is the—must to say—the father aspect of father aspect blazes forth: spirit, life, 349|00:40:32|080|00:40:49|960etc. The other lesser luminaries, those close to the Sun like Mercury and Venus, fade out. So Venus is— 350|00:40:49|960|00:40:58|120it's not absolutely the brightest planet, but relatively it is so for us Earth beings. And as 351|00:40:58|120|00:41:04|240a solar angel, it represents a solar angel. The solar angel fades out when the monad comes into 352|00:41:04|240|00:41:10|700full power. So let's see what he says: “Just as the personality is lost sight of in the light of the 353|00:41:10|700|00:41:18|080soul, the solar angel, so the moon fades out in the light of the Venus.” Let us say a Moon-Venus 354|00:41:18|080|00:41:24|560conjunction will give us the opportunity to allow the moon to fade and Venus to rise. “So the soul 355|00:41:24|560|00:41:32|140itself disappears at the fourth initiation, and its power and radiance fade out, returning to the heart 356|00:41:32|140|00:41:38|540of the Sun or the central spiritual Sun when the presence—i.e., the monad—which it has hitherto veiled 357|00:41:38|540|00:41:43|900as the angel of the presence, the solar angel's the angel of the presence. It's veiled the presence, 358|00:41:43|900|00:41:51|580appears and dominates the scene at the end of the greater world cycle.” So what do we have here? We 359|00:41:51|580|00:42:00|860have the monad in ascendancy, and so Venus, which is the solar angel, which is a very bright light 360|00:42:00|860|00:42:08|080and certainly a very bright light when compared to the light of the personality, is found to be 361|00:42:08|080|00:42:16|300a lesser light. So we have some rules in the 14 rules—advanced rules for disciples and initiates— 362|00:42:16|300|00:42:27|740which point to this: Rule 5 and Rule Number 9. And I will—I will turn to these just here, and let us 363|00:42:27|740|00:42:37|060see what we have. I think we will see this. Rule Number 5 goes like this: “In unison, let the group 364|00:42:37|060|00:42:42|900perceive the triad shining forth.” The triad is the expression of the monad, “dimming the light of the 365|00:42:42|900|00:42:50|400soul and blotting out the light of form.” So the middle light—the light of the Son (S-O-N)—is 366|00:42:50|400|00:42:55|380blotted out in the light of the Father, which the triad represents, “dimming the light of the soul and 367|00:42:55|380|00:43:01|980blotting out the light of form,” because we're seeing in wholeness now, which is the prerogative 368|00:43:01|980|00:43:08|980of the monad, of the Father aspect. When we turn here to Rule Number 9, also important: 369|00:43:08|980|00:43:13|900“That the group know there are no other selves, not even soul selves. Let the group know there 370|00:43:13|900|00:43:18|800is no color, only light, and then the darkness take the place of light, hiding all difference, 371|00:43:18|800|00:43:27|380blotting out all form.” So the soul is—the perception of the soul, which still is a perception of 372|00:43:30|520|00:43:37|620multiplicity and unity, is blotted out, and we have the homogeneity of synthesis. Form is blotted out, 373|00:43:37|620|00:43:45|060difference is blotted out, and this is a perception of the Father aspect. So, okay, so that's the Venus— 374|00:43:46|740|00:43:53|180that's the Venus detriment. Of course, you know, that's not how ordinary astrology interprets it. 375|00:43:53|180|00:44:02|320When Venus is—Venus is in detriment in the ordinary sense, Venus is the planet of values. 376|00:44:02|320|00:44:09|840Aries is the sign of hasty action and impulse, and it is a leaping towards that which is of 377|00:44:09|840|00:44:18|940lesser value—a fairly non-discriminating outreach towards beauty or what you desire— 378|00:44:18|940|00:44:27|740and it tends to be cruder and less refined. That is the fall of beautiful, refining Venus in hasty 379|00:44:27|740|00:44:34|320Aries. This is the way it could be interpreted in a lesser sense. But D.K., always talking about 380|00:44:34|320|00:44:41|040soul astrology, lets us understand Venus as the solar angel and lets us understand what 381|00:44:41|040|00:44:47|080happens when soul perception—which so many of us have yet to perceive—is itself superseded. 382|00:44:48|320|00:44:54|980Okay, so the Father aspect—the presence veiled by the angel of the presence—dominates the scene 383|00:44:54|980|00:45:00|040at the end of the greater world cycle when the monad flourishes. What is the greater world cycle? 384|00:45:00|040|00:45:13|440Is this the solar system itself? Is the greater world cycle the cycle of the solar system? Perhaps. 385|00:45:13|440|00:45:19|900D.K. is vague about these periods of time. He speaks about eons and cycles and greater cycles 386|00:45:19|900|00:45:26|340and so forth, and one day exactly what they are will be filled in. Right now we just have some 387|00:45:26|340|00:45:35|460fragments, and from them we can speculate. We are told that the incarnating minds—human beings on 388|00:45:35|460|00:45:40|800their own high plane—the solar angel… See, here he's kind of mixing what a—what a solar angel and what 389|00:45:40|800|00:45:45|380a human being is. A human being becomes a human being because of the intervention of the solar 390|00:45:45|380|00:45:49|680angels, at least that's the way in our present solar system and on our present planet. There were 391|00:45:49|680|00:45:55|260other methods of becoming a human being on the Moon chain and in the earlier solar system, but 392|00:45:55|260|00:46:00|120The incarnating minds are, in a way, solar angels, and they are responsible for creating the human 393|00:46:00|120|00:46:08|100being. That these solar angels came originally from Venus—well, that is D.K. elaborates in “A 394|00:46:08|100|00:46:13|100Cosmic Fire” and tells us they didn't really come from Venus, but they came under the Venusian 395|00:46:13|960|00:46:19|880influence. They came under the solar influence; they came under the Venusian influence and really 396|00:46:19|880|00:46:27|120didn't come from Venus at all, but they came from the Venus chain of the Earth scheme and from the 397|00:46:27|120|00:46:35|620Venus globe of the Earth scheme. You know, how we would look at this is as follows: Yeah, they're 398|00:46:35|620|00:46:42|140right there, right there. We can look at it that way. Here is Earth scheme—yes, there it is—and the 399|00:46:42|140|00:46:47|720solar angels are basically coming from the second chain, which is the Venus chain, and they're coming 400|00:46:47|720|00:46:53|160from the sixth or second globe, which is the Venus globe. Then they're coming down into the Earth 401|00:46:53|160|00:47:02|480chain to the Venus globe of the Earth chain until finally they arrive at our Earth globe. That is the 402|00:47:02|480|00:47:12|420true and more elaborated descent of the solar angels. But wherever they came from, they are 403|00:47:12|420|00:47:21|820certainly allied to Venus; they are Venusian beings, and their real origin is as follows: from Sirius 404|00:47:21|820|00:47:28|180to the heart of the Sun and some to the central spiritual Sun, and thence to Venus—and perhaps 405|00:47:28|180|00:47:34|100Neptune is involved—and thence to the Earth and to the different parts of the Earth scheme, such 406|00:47:34|100|00:47:40|940as the Venus chain and the Venus globe and the Earth chain and the Earth and the Venus globe of 407|00:47:40|940|00:47:47|200the Earth chain, and then the Earth globe of the Earth chain. So there, the line of the descent of 408|00:47:47|200|00:47:54|400the solar angels is pretty well mapped out, although, you know, for us that's just a model. We don't 409|00:47:54|400|00:48:01|320really understand how it was—how it was accomplished, how long it took, this psychic 410|00:48:01|320|00:48:09|140transference over vast periods, vast areas of space. We don't understand how it happens. We are told 411|00:48:09|140|00:48:12|960that the incarnating minds—the human beings, the solar angels—see, there he really gives an 412|00:48:12|960|00:48:18|960equivalence of human beings and solar angels, but it's not exactly so. But here he's not attempting 413|00:48:18|960|00:48:27|260to be exact. The human being comes to birth because the underlay by the solar angels came 414|00:48:27|260|00:48:32|340originally from Venus. Well, not all human beings came from Venus, but certainly the solar angels 415|00:48:32|340|00:48:39|920came under the Venusian impulse. But they, in turn, give place to the monad of the one. There are many 416|00:48:39|920|00:48:47|940monads, and yet there's only one Monad. There are many apparent instantiations of spirit, many 417|00:48:47|940|00:48:56|540emanations, many depths of immersion of spirit along the emanated stream, as I've sometimes called 418|00:48:56|540|00:49:02|260it, but there's really only one. There's one Monad in all of cosmos, and the divisibility of the Monad 419|00:49:02|260|00:49:13|660is one of the great mysteries—how that occurs. And Master M. calls it—the Master M. calls it the 420|00:49:13|660|00:49:21|920divisibility of the spirit. He calls it that. Now, does he mean this emanative divisibility? Perhaps 421|00:49:21|920|00:49:29|060he does. Mind gives place to the intuition. Venus is the mind giving place to the intuition and reason— 422|00:49:29|060|00:49:41|160the reason of the mental plane—to pure perception. Pure perception is pure reason. So Venus is not so 423|00:49:41|160|00:49:46|980much connected with pure reason, even though as a planet it is buddhic in nature and is working 424|00:49:46|980|00:49:52|780upon pure reason in the cosmic sense. But in the horoscope of man, it is more Mercury and Neptune 425|00:49:52|780|00:50:00|160which are related to pure reason, and Venus is related to higher manas. Particularly, probably 426|00:50:00|160|00:50:06|320the reading of Alan Leo's “Esoteric Astrology” would be important. I remember I read it years 427|00:50:06|320|00:50:11|840and years ago, and, you know, being new to theosophy, maybe I couldn't make so much sense out of it. It 428|00:50:11|840|00:50:18|380was a book written, I think, around 1917 or so—very prescient in a way, preceding the Tibetan's books 429|00:50:18|380|00:50:26|840by an “Esoteric Astrology” by at least 15 years and bringing a theosophy into astrology. So, in a way, 430|00:50:26|840|00:50:34|260esoteric—yes, indeed—but it was difficult to understand at the time. And now I think having 431|00:50:34|260|00:50:40|180read “Esoteric Astrology” would be easier to understand. Now we have Saturn—it's a fall. 432|00:50:40|180|00:50:48|460Saturn falls in Aries. Is this good or bad? Well, it can be both. This has two meanings, for this is a 433|00:50:48|460|00:50:59|120dual sign. Okay, he talks about this. The signs—we have the two horns of the Ram, making this a dual 434|00:50:59|120|00:51:07|420sign. Whenever the glyph demonstrates duality, we have a dual sign with dual potentials—usually 435|00:51:07|420|00:51:12|860a right and a left and a higher and a lower—things apparently going in opposite directions. First, 436|00:51:12|860|00:51:20|820Saturn is the Lord of karma, the most powerful of the karmic Lords. He kind of gives names to these 437|00:51:20|820|00:51:29|580karmic Lords, and Saturn is maybe associated with that karmic Lord called Pain. Yeah, that's— 438|00:51:29|580|00:51:37|500you know, hate to digress, but here we go. You know, digression becomes almost a duty. It's the 439|00:51:37|500|00:51:48|660externalization of the hierarchy, and he has here Pain, Return. Okay, so this is where this 440|00:51:48|660|00:51:56|660is found on page 117, 116: “The names of the Lords of Karma signify symbolically, from the angle of 441|00:51:56|660|00:52:04|720their inner meaning, Relationship, Enlightenment, Pain, and Return.” So we could find Lords of planets 442|00:52:05|780|00:52:10|340who are associated with these names, and I believe the Lord of the planet Saturn is associated with 443|00:52:10|800|00:52:18|200Pain, and Enlightenment would be Mercury, and Relationship would be Venus. And we will have 444|00:52:18|200|00:52:26|980to determine what Return might mean—something cyclic, you know, something where you're retracing 445|00:52:26|980|00:52:33|380your steps, perhaps in spiral cyclic motion. Perhaps it's Jupiter. Anyway, there are different karmic 446|00:52:33|380|00:52:39|480Lords in our solar system, and the Lords of the planets are those karmic Lords. Saturn is the 447|00:52:39|480|00:52:46|380greatest and most powerful of the karmic Lords in our solar system. There's certainly karma beyond 448|00:52:46|380|00:52:52|880Saturn. Sirius is a great karmic Lord. Well, the solar angel is a karmic dispenser. Our 449|00:52:52|880|00:53:00|720Sun, our planetary Logos, is a karmic Lord, and there are these Lipika Lords and Maharajas in our solar 450|00:53:00|720|00:53:06|920system, which represents Sirius ultimately. For us, Sirius is the dispenser of the Lord of Karma. So 451|00:53:06|920|00:53:14|180first, Saturn is the Lord of Karma, the imposer of retribution, which is the payback with a purpose 452|00:53:14|180|00:53:22|100of balancing—the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment. Like one of my old 453|00:53:22|100|00:53:30|780friends says, “Pay in full! Pay in full! Painful!” Okay, Saturn is Pain—the one who demands full payment 454|00:53:30|780|00:53:38|420of all the debts in order to equilibrize, and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for 455|00:53:38|420|00:53:46|440existence. So Saturn is labor; it's work. It's work against the energies of the Moon chain and of the 456|00:53:46|440|00:53:52|000previous solar system. It takes effort under Saturn to deal with those energies, to swim against the 457|00:53:52|000|00:53:59|240stream. So struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. Saturn rules in 458|00:53:59|240|00:54:07|660Capricorn in two areas—both form and soul. So Saturn therefore fell when man fell into generation, and 459|00:54:07|660|00:54:19|120remember, Aries initiated generation, or the movement into generation and the lower worlds. He followed 460|00:54:19|120|00:54:24|680the sons of men down into their low place, which was an act of great mercy, actually. Saturn turns 461|00:54:24|680|00:54:35|740out to be a very merciful God. So that is a fall—he falls into the lower worlds in order to 462|00:54:35|740|00:54:43|020officiate over the conduct of the human being so that the law may be observed and the human being 463|00:54:43|020|00:54:53|000may not be lost, but by the imposition of karma, man is corrected so that he may rise into his proper 464|00:54:53|000|00:54:59|360state and not be forever lost in the maze of the lower worlds. So there is a kind of fall there 465|00:54:59|360|00:55:08|040because Aries represents generation. Aries represents the seeding process, the spreading of the seed 466|00:55:08|040|00:55:17|320that may grow. So there is Aries representing this descent, and Saturn falls with 467|00:55:17|320|00:55:25|280Aries into the lower worlds. Let me put that down: Saturn falls with Aries into the lower worlds. 468|00:55:25|280|00:55:33|340Okay, now there's a second way in which Saturn falls in Aries. Saturn's power is completely ended— 469|00:55:33|340|00:55:39|900well, that's a big statement—completely ended. Okay, you know, Saturn rules the entire cosmic physical 470|00:55:39|900|00:55:46|460plane and is a correspondence to the permanent atom—to the cosmic permanent atom of the solar 471|00:55:46|460|00:55:54|300Logos' cosmic physical permanent atom. So can we talk about completely ended? Okay, I don't know, but 472|00:55:54|300|00:55:59|680in our context, yes—completely ended. Saturn's power is completely ended as Lord of Karma, and his work 473|00:55:59|680|00:56:07|160accomplished when man—the spiritual man—has freed himself from karma and from the power of the two 474|00:56:07|160|00:56:13|560crosses. In other words, he's taken the fourth initiation. So let's just say that the usual 475|00:56:13|560|00:56:24|140karmic meaning of Saturn is completely ended once the fourth initiation is taken. That's what's— 476|00:56:24|140|00:56:31|760there are higher meanings of Saturn. It represents the divine plan; it represents, in a way, the 477|00:56:31|760|00:56:37|780divine purpose; it represents the entire manifestation on the cosmic physical plane. 478|00:56:37|780|00:56:46|640Esoterically, esoterically, Saturn cannot follow man onto the cardinal cross. Well, there, you know, 479|00:56:46|640|00:56:57|340okay, the usual meanings of Saturn—of Saturn, which is karmic retribution in relation 480|00:56:57|340|00:57:08|370to the lower worlds—cannot follow man onto the cardinal cross. See? 481|00:57:11|810|00:57:23|290Because that cross is above the level of karma in the three lower worlds. Matter of fact, it's 482|00:57:23|290|00:57:30|410above the level of common the five lower worlds, and Saturn is Saturn is Brahma. He is in a way 483|00:57:30|410|00:57:41|910Brahma and not Brahman, but Brahma and ruler of the five lower worlds as he officiates from the 484|00:57:41|910|00:57:52|170atmic plane. Okay, so there is a fall there. Saturn cannot follow man onto the cardinal cross, and 485|00:57:52|170|00:57:59|590Aries is somehow introducing man to the cardinal cross because it's a great resurrective energy. 486|00:57:59|590|00:58:05|210Something entirely new is happening always with Aries, and the mounting of the cardinal cross is 487|00:58:05|210|00:58:11|250entirely new things. So lower Saturn or its lower tendencies cannot follow, and yet when it comes to 488|00:58:11|250|00:58:19|790the purpose of Sanat Kumara, to follow that purpose is a very Saturnian thing. So a type of higher 489|00:58:19|790|00:58:33|470Saturn representing a… representing a planetary Logoic… okay, planetary Logoic law and solar 490|00:58:33|470|00:58:47|890Logoic law can follow man onto the cardinal cross. Okay, so anyway, those are the two falls. 491|00:58:47|890|00:58:55|710Those are the two falls: Saturn falls down into the lower worlds to officiate over man's progress, and 492|00:58:56|310|00:59:05|610Saturn falls away as man steps onto the cardinal cross on the cardinal… Let's… I'll put that down. 493|00:59:05|610|00:59:21|470Saturn falls away and cannot follow man onto the cardinal cross, at least not in its lower… in 494|00:59:21|470|00:59:32|790Saturn's lower aspect. Okay, so let's see. There is much that could be elaborated along this line. You 495|00:59:32|790|00:59:41|610know, I was thinking about the book on exaltations and falls by Monique Pommier. Monique, please 496|00:59:41|610|00:59:47|310forgive me, I'm not remembering the name of your book, but it's a wonderful book and exquisitely 497|00:59:47|310|00:59:55|750described these rulerships, falls, and exaltations. Exquisitely described. So I would recommend to 498|00:59:55|750|01:00:04|990anyone… I'll try to find the name of the book by Monique Pommier… to read the processes described 499|01:00:04|990|01:00:16|970with great finesse. Oh my goodness, look what I've done! Yak, yak, yak! All right, we… Oh goodness, on a 500|01:00:16|970|01:00:24|630roll, huh? But I've rolled right beyond our time limit. So anyway, this is Esoteric Astrology 48, 501|01:00:25|250|01:00:37|530and we've gone from… from one page to another. I guess we've gone from page 103 to 105, which is 502|01:00:37|530|01:00:48|190the usual two pages, I guess. Okay, from page 103 to 105, and we will continue with Esoteric Astrology 503|01:00:48|190|01:01:04|99049 next. We will now together, as we usually do, do The Great Invocation. Okay, as it's the most 504|01:01:04|990|01:01:10|750important mantra we have to prepare humanity for the reappearance of the Christ, which is really 505|01:01:10|750|01:01:18|810mounting the salvation of humanity. So it's our most effective instrument in doing that, and that's 506|01:01:18|810|01:01:27|870why we work on it and always remind ourselves to use The Great Invocation with intent. 507|01:01:40|210|01:01:48|030From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. May 508|01:01:48|030|01:01:56|130light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth 509|01:01:56|130|01:02:05|470into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center where the will of God is known, let 510|01:02:05|470|01:02:15|030purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the Masters know and serve. From the center 511|01:02:15|030|01:02:21|810which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where 512|01:02:21|810|01:02:29|210evil dwells. Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 513|01:02:53|090|01:02:54|170Oh. 514|01:03:08|330|01:03:20|890Okay, friends, we have finished number 48, and we will move into 49, still continuing with Aries. 515|01:03:20|890|01:03:33|650We are working now in the falls and exaltations, the different types of planets that have different 516|01:03:33|650|01:03:42|610status in the sign Aries. So until that time, we'll see you. Looking forward to the next. Bye-bye!
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