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1|00:00:11|820|00:00:13|620Good morning, everyone. 2|00:00:15|860|00:00:20|100This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 52. 3|00:00:21|480|00:00:23|880This morning, I'm going to make an experiment. 4|00:00:25|360|00:00:31|800I've been producing these adventures in one-hour segments, pretty much because I'm limited 5|00:00:33|130|00:00:39|840when I do a solo webinar to about an hour or a little more, and it will cut off. 6|00:00:40|020|00:00:47|070Now I've tried another arrangement which will allow me to continue for a longer time and 7|00:00:47|070|00:00:55|150not have to use interim moments to wait for the next opportunity. 8|00:00:55|350|00:01:01|270In other words, I'm going to make a longer webinar this morning if it does work, and we'll 9|00:01:01|270|00:01:02|470see how it works for you. 10|00:01:03|130|00:01:04|590Hopefully I won't get cut off. 11|00:01:05|550|00:01:06|530We shall see. 12|00:01:09|190|00:01:20|230We were discussing the triple sun: the physical sun which influences the mutable cross and 13|00:01:20|230|00:01:25|510the personality. Of course, if it influences the personality, it influences as well the 14|00:01:25|510|00:01:36|090astral vehicle and the lower mental vehicle, all of which are part of the dense physical 15|00:01:36|090|00:01:43|230body of the solar Logos. From a certain point of view, the dense physical body of the solar 16|00:01:43|230|00:01:53|150Logos will even include the ego on the higher mental plane. But we do not find that the physical 17|00:01:53|150|00:02:00|230sun is the influence upon that ego; rather, it is the heart of the sun which influences 18|00:02:00|230|00:02:08|890the fixed cross—the cross of the soul—and this is where the cross, or series of energies 19|00:02:08|890|00:02:14|190through which the soul on the higher mental plane (or at least soul consciousness as we 20|00:02:14|190|00:02:16|590know it on the higher mental plane) is coming into prominence. 21|00:02:18|790|00:02:28|690It is the quality of consciousness, particularly, that is being dealt with here. And let's see 22|00:02:28|690|00:02:31|010if I can bring these all together. 23|00:02:32|130|00:02:39|650Yes, it is consciousness, and consciousness is simply another name for soul. As we know, 24|00:02:40|050|00:02:46|390the soul on the higher mental plane is not the only instance of soul. The spiritual triad 25|00:02:46|390|00:02:54|810is an instance of soul, and the awareness of the monad is also an instance of soul. Any 26|00:02:54|810|00:02:59|190type of awareness in cosmos is an instance of soul. 27|00:03:00|630|00:03:07|170The central spiritual sun, then, is our monadic aspect, and it influences the cardinal cross 28|00:03:07|170|00:03:12|990upon which we have not yet stepped, and it is the life aspect. 29|00:03:15|050|00:03:17|270See if I can get this looking a little better here. 30|00:03:18|070|00:03:23|790One day I suppose I can send this document to you, I suppose. 31|00:03:25|070|00:03:35|930So we had ended then on page 111, and the Tibetan goes on to say: “By the word 'influencing,' I here 32|00:03:35|930|00:03:44|430refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the sun through the three crosses 33|00:03:44|890|00:03:53|490to our planet.” And I would say this would mean from the sun—not necessarily to the zodiacal 34|00:03:53|490|00:04:05|190constellations, but through the three crosses—as these crosses (capitalize that) are signs 35|00:04:05|190|00:04:13|850which concentrate the influences of the constellations to our planet. 36|00:04:14|930|00:04:23|310We are remembering the distinction between constellations as galaxies of stars and signs 37|00:04:23|310|00:04:30|210as concentrated influences of those constellational energies made available to our earth. 38|00:04:31|430|00:04:42|210Okay, so even though we may be born in one of the cardinal signs—or, well, let's say one 39|00:04:42|210|00:04:48|790of the cardinal signs—it does not necessarily mean that the energies of the central spiritual 40|00:04:48|790|00:04:57|330sun (the monadic aspect of our solar Logos) will reach us in any way that we can register. 41|00:04:57|790|00:05:01|350And for the average individual, even though he may be born in one of the fixed signs, it 42|00:05:01|350|00:05:06|550does not mean that the energies of the heart of the sun will reach him in a way that he 43|00:05:06|550|00:05:07|390can register. 44|00:05:08|690|00:05:14|950So anyway, ponder on this and remember also that our sun is traveling through space with 45|00:05:14|950|00:05:23|790its own directed motion—its own proper motion—carrying our solar system along in its sphere 46|00:05:24|170|00:05:35|370of influence. And many spirals are thus created because the apparent—the rotation, the revolution 47|00:05:35|370|00:05:45|190of the planets around the sun—become a spiral as that sun, through progress onward through 48|00:05:45|190|00:05:53|010a type of straight-line action, creates spirals. But our sun is also in the process of revolution, 49|00:05:53|010|00:05:59|250and that revolution is around the Pleiades. So we have many motions simultaneously, and 50|00:05:59|250|00:06:10|830we are not occupying, as a solar system, the same—if we can call it section of space—in 51|00:06:10|830|00:06:13|250one moment as we were in the previous moment. 52|00:06:14|670|00:06:19|530So the sun is also traveling through space, carrying our own solar system in its sphere 53|00:06:19|530|00:06:26|570of influence around our own central and conditioning star, which it has been rightly presumed exists 54|00:06:27|410|00:06:34|610in the constellation Taurus, the bull, being found in the Pleiades. And since those Pleiades 55|00:06:35|830|00:06:42|330are so concentrated, so close to each other, we might well consider the sun and its associated 56|00:06:42|330|00:06:48|230solar systems in the seven solar systems of which ours is one as revolving around the 57|00:06:48|230|00:06:58|770Pleiades as a whole. But that central star, that central star is Alcyone, he tells us, and 58|00:06:58|770|00:07:04|890that is the central star of the Pleiades. It's sometimes called the star of the individual. 59|00:07:04|890|00:07:12|950D.K. will elaborate upon this, and of course in the charts of disciples, the locations of 60|00:07:12|950|00:07:23|810some of these stars should be noted and the aspects made to them or their position on 61|00:07:23|810|00:07:30|550angles and so forth, or on other astrological factors with a very tight orb, usually given 62|00:07:30|550|00:07:32|850at about one degree. 63|00:07:34|750|00:07:41|870These stars are effective in our lives. They may be effective along an entire range of 64|00:07:41|870|00:07:49|180influence from very mundane to very spiritual. I don't think we can expect the fullness, any 65|00:07:49|410|00:07:55|150degree of the fullness of the spiritual influence of such stars until after the third initiation, 66|00:07:56|210|00:08:03|130when we have what is called the first solar initiation. In other words, it's an initiation 67|00:08:03|130|00:08:09|870which relates to our solar Logos, and stars are the bodies of manifestation of solar Logos 68|00:08:09|870|00:08:17|850in our choice. So only when we begin taking the solar initiations can the spiritual effect 69|00:08:17|850|00:08:21|230of the so-called fixed stars begin to apply. 70|00:08:22|330|00:08:31|290At the same time, it appears from the standpoint of our planet to be passing through the twelve 71|00:08:31|290|00:08:37|950signs of the zodiac, or against the twelve constellations, or through the orbit of the 72|00:08:37|950|00:08:44|270earth dividing which you have the twelve signs. But notice the word “appears” — it appears 73|00:08:44|690|00:08:55|370to be passing through, and that of course is an illusion based upon the revolution of our 74|00:08:55|370|00:09:07|930earth around the sun. This is a symbol, macrocosmically considered. It reveals to the student a certain 75|00:09:07|950|00:09:15|010availability of energies, but it's not — you know, really, it's not really happening. This 76|00:09:16|810|00:09:23|430is a symbol, macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic, centralized point of view of 77|00:09:23|430|00:09:26|930the individual human being. And when the word “dramatic” is used, we immediately think of the 78|00:09:26|930|00:09:37|190word Leo — Leo and the self-centered attitude which is so often found in the early stage 79|00:09:37|190|00:09:44|190of the Leo experience and through which humanity is still passing, because the great majority 80|00:09:44|190|00:09:50|690of human beings are not yet even centralized personalities. They are on their way to becoming 81|00:09:50|690|00:09:56|250so. This is the symbol, macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic, centralized point of view 82|00:09:56|910|00:10:05|010of the individual human being, the microcosm. It's a geocentric — the geocentric point of 83|00:10:05|010|00:10:13|190view whereby all of the heavenly bodies appear to be revolving around the stationary earth 84|00:10:13|190|00:10:23|050is analogous to the egoistic point of view of the individual personality, where all of 85|00:10:23|050|00:10:32|530life seems to be revolving around it and where this egoistic personality is the center of 86|00:10:32|530|00:10:41|790the sphere of consciousness. It is the pre-decentralized point of view — let's call it that — pre-decentralized 87|00:10:41|790|00:10:49|290point of view. It is interesting to compare the symbolism and the underlying truth connected 88|00:10:50|710|00:10:58|530with the lesser and greater zodiacs and with their 12-month and 25,000-year cycle. So this 89|00:10:58|530|00:11:07|230is one way he describes the greater and lesser zodiac. The lesser zodiac is the apparent passage 90|00:11:07|230|00:11:18|290of the sun through all of the 12 phases of the earth's orbit around the sun, the 12 divisions 91|00:11:18|290|00:11:26|430of the ecliptic whereby we pass through all the 12 signs, the 12 divisions of the ecliptic. 92|00:11:26|430|00:11:32|170That is the lesser zodiac. He defines them in different ways at different times. Lesser 93|00:11:32|170|00:11:39|410zodiac — sometimes we will see he will define lesser and greater zodiacs in different ways. 94|00:11:39|410|00:11:49|730The 25,000-year cycle is called — and it's an approximation because I think the actual figure 95|00:11:49|730|00:12:01|030given when a processional age is measured as 2,160 years is 25,920 years, something like 96|00:12:01|030|00:12:13|550that. When you multiply — when you multiply 2,160 by 12, you get something like 25,920 years. 97|00:12:13|550|00:12:17|870I haven't got my calculator here at the moment, but I think that's about what it is. You can 98|00:12:17|870|00:12:25|890work it out for yourself. But anyway, this is an approximation, and overlap periods are involved 99|00:12:25|890|00:12:33|260and counted in a certain way. So the 25,000-year cycle is called the Great Platonic Year, 100|00:12:33|930|00:12:47|810and it represents one complete revolution of 12 equinoctial ages — 12 ages: an age of Pisces, 101|00:12:47|870|00:12:58|110of Aquarius, of Capricorn, and so forth, until 12 of these 2,160-year periods are covered — 102|00:12:59|330|00:13:08|970one complete revolution, or — well, let's say one complete gyration of the earth's axis. 103|00:13:10|450|00:13:22|130And these great ages are also, we come to understand, ruled by one particular constellation. 104|00:13:22|130|00:13:27|870of the zodiac or sign of the zodiac. We are presently leaving a 25,000-year cycle which 105|00:13:27|870|00:13:37|070has been under the influence of Pisces and moving retrogressively clockwise into a 25,000- 106|00:13:37|070|00:13:44|430year age which is going to be ruled by Aquarius. I don't think we are quite there yet. D.K. says 107|00:13:44|430|00:13:52|470we are almost there, but our type of astrology cannot determine the exact point of entrance 108|00:13:52|470|00:13:59|630into this 25,000-year period. So it's really quite an amazing idea that we will be having 109|00:13:59|630|00:14:07|050a double age of Aquarius and that even after 2,160 years beginning of the year we will be 110|00:14:07|070|00:14:15|1902117, where the lesser Aquarian age happens, even after that age gives way in a little 111|00:14:15|190|00:14:20|370more than 2,000 years to the age of Capricorn, we will still be in the greater age of Aquarius. 112|00:14:21|250|00:14:27|170So it is interesting to compare the symbolism of the underlying truth connected with the 113|00:14:27|170|00:14:33|130lesser and the greater zodiacs and with their 12-month and 25,000-year cycles. There's a 114|00:14:33|130|00:14:45|630complete gyration of the Earth's axis by means of which our planet passes through the influence 115|00:14:45|630|00:14:55|050of all 12 signs in a vast planetary effect. Whole ages are ruled by a particular sign, 116|00:14:55|730|00:15:02|630and then finally a 25,000-year period all ruled by one sign with many sub-signs, the 117|00:15:02|630|00:15:13|63012 sun signs, and then it will give way perhaps—it looks like—to a 25,000-year age of Capricorn 118|00:15:14|580|00:15:19|390in which we may presume that a particular ray accompanies that 25,000-year period. We 119|00:15:19|390|00:15:26|290don't know exactly. Well, we do know that the seventh ray will accompany the 2,160-year period 120|00:15:26|290|00:15:34|370of Aquarius, or sometimes rounded off to 2,500. We do not know whether that same seventh ray 121|00:15:34|370|00:15:43|250will accompany a 25,000-year cycle, but some ray will, and maybe the seventh. This is a tremendous 122|00:15:43|250|00:15:51|270study, and the masters know these cycles. They bear out—it is said—these two cycles they 123|00:15:51|270|00:16:00|250bear out great Platonic here, and let's call it the greater zodiac by one appellation. We're 124|00:16:00|250|00:16:06|330not sure. Later he's going to refer to the sun sign and the rising sign, I think, as lesser 125|00:16:06|330|00:16:11|390and greater zodiacs. We will see. They bear out much that I have given you anent the 126|00:16:11|390|00:16:20|030soul, influenced by the esoteric planets eventually, and the personality, influenced by the orthodox 127|00:16:20|030|00:16:32|190planets. or by the planets in their esoteric and orthodox expressions. Every one of us as 128|00:16:32|190|00:16:38|470a soul—the soul in incarnation—will be influenced by certain qualities of the planets when they 129|00:16:38|470|00:16:45|550are functioning esoterically, because all planets are simply planets, but they have orthodox 130|00:16:45|610|00:17:04|630and esoteric functions. So we want to note the orthodox and esoteric functions 131|00:17:05|550|00:17:14|990of every planet. In other words, you know, whereas an exoteric function of Mercury can simply 132|00:17:15|550|00:17:21|650relate to the concrete mind and its reasoning and correlations, an esoteric function of Mercury 133|00:17:21|650|00:17:32|130can relate to contact with the mind of God or with a deep intuitive access. So when the 134|00:17:32|130|00:17:39|770planetary rays hit our forms, as it were, depending on what area within our constitution they 135|00:17:39|770|00:17:51|090strike or influence will be their particular influence. The greater zodiac is symbolic of 136|00:17:51|090|00:17:57|030the soul and the lesser of the personality. I suppose that every year, every time we have 137|00:17:57|030|00:18:02|330a complete yearly zodiacal cycle, we have had the opportunity to grow within our personality, 138|00:18:02|330|00:18:10|270but the great soul cycles are longer, and perhaps if we're examining the growth of the 139|00:18:10|270|00:18:16|850soul on its own plane—if that's what this means—then we look for greater zodiacal cycles. 140|00:18:16|850|00:18:25|970I would think, though, that with every precessional age of even 2,160 or 2,500 years, the soul would 141|00:18:25|970|00:18:35|130have some kind of marked growth, especially if one is on the path. So the greater zodiac— 142|00:18:35|130|00:18:41|830this greater zodiac is symbolic of the soul and the lesser of the personality. In the personality 143|00:18:42|120|00:18:53|410cycle, the lesser zodiac conditions the personality career and the twelve planetary houses are of dominant importance. 144|00:18:53|410|00:19:03|790In other words, we are still circumstantially focused. Later, the detached individual learns 145|00:19:03|790|00:19:11|410that circumstances are non-compelling. This is learned, I think, in one instance in Leo, 146|00:19:12|570|00:19:19|490especially when Uranus is the veiled ruler of Leo, that one is entirely positive to circumstance 147|00:19:19|490|00:19:25|490and circumstance can no longer compel. This is a condition of detachment in which the 148|00:19:25|490|00:19:34|810true identity is not only understood but deeply felt. But most people are caught up in circumstances 149|00:19:34|810|00:19:41|610and what we say, “Hey, what's happening around me?” and that determines how the life goes. But 150|00:19:41|610|00:19:48|110it's what happens within me, regardless of what happens around me, that becomes a real 151|00:19:48|110|00:20:01|130moment in the case of the disciple. Later the influence of the twelve signs supersedes 152|00:20:01|130|00:20:08|510the influence of the planets. So actually, the constellational energy through the 12 signs 153|00:20:09|330|00:20:16|950becomes more important than the planets. But let us still remember, yeah, I mean we have 154|00:20:16|950|00:20:24|390discussed the ways in which these constellation signs influence the soul and how they also 155|00:20:24|390|00:20:30|210have a monadic influence. But let us not think that the planets themselves, though they are 156|00:20:30|210|00:20:37|470lesser planetary Lords, do not have a lot to do with even very high initiations. So planets 157|00:20:37|470|00:20:46|210are gods after all. They are solar systemic deities within the solar system, and they can 158|00:20:46|210|00:20:54|590have a tremendous effect even on the higher stages of human development. For instance, when 159|00:20:54|590|00:21:00|130I think of the great decision which is taken at the sixth initiation, in which we as a monad 160|00:21:00|130|00:21:07|790decide which of seven or nine paths we will pursue, I cannot help but think that a very 161|00:21:07|790|00:21:14|870high influence of the planet Saturn, as the major ruler of Libra, is involved in that great 162|00:21:15|520|00:21:24|530decision. So, you know, although ordinary non-aspiring individuals are much influenced by 163|00:21:24|530|00:21:31|470the planets as they work out through the houses or circumstantial areas of the chart, more 164|00:21:32|730|00:21:41|810advanced people are indeed influenced by the Lords of the planets as they represent different 165|00:21:41|810|00:21:45|970zodiacal constellations, and then of course by the constellations themselves, which have 166|00:21:45|970|00:21:55|630their own ray energies transmitted. I would like also to emphasise—perhaps unnecessarily—that 167|00:21:55|630|00:22:02|530Sirius, the Great Bear and the Pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations, 168|00:22:02|530|00:22:18|530Constellations—this setup is found in the diagrams we have later in Esoteric Astrology. 169|00:22:19|480|00:22:27|130There are different kinds of rays coming through the Great Bear, Pleiades, and Sirius, and the 170|00:22:27|130|00:22:32|450will aspect of the seven rays is transmitted by the Great Bear, perhaps the more material 171|00:22:32|450|00:22:37|790or intellectual aspect through the Pleiades, and the love aspect through Sirius—whatever 172|00:22:37|790|00:22:45|870we do mean by Sirius, whether we mean a single star, several stars, or an entire system of 173|00:22:45|870|00:22:53|950stars. So, but these are the three great constellations, and generally, unless we get into it in too 174|00:22:53|950|00:22:58|370much detail, they represent the father aspect—Great Bear—the mother aspect—Pleiades—and 175|00:22:58|370|00:23:03|730the aspect of the divine son, which is Sirius, or the cosmic Christ, although there are many 176|00:23:03|730|00:23:10|770cosmic Christs, as I've said. The cosmic Christ of a certain scope—Sirius—represents pouring 177|00:23:13|370|00:23:25|630their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are 178|00:23:25|630|00:23:31|630not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. is the twelvefold zodiac, which is the heart 179|00:23:31|630|00:23:38|410and the head center of the great super-constellational deity we call “the One about whom naught may 180|00:23:38|410|00:23:44|670be said”—at least one of the ones about whom naught may be said. These super-constellations 181|00:23:44|670|00:23:54|830work through nine of our constellations particularly, and we could pick and choose which 182|00:23:54|830|00:24:05|350we would assign to the different groupings. We already have some assignments. 183|00:24:06|130|00:24:12|190For instance, we already have on page fifty of Esoteric Astrology the fact that Aries 184|00:24:12|190|00:24:17|550and Libra are connected with the Great Bear. We already have Gemini and Sagittarius connected 185|00:24:17|550|00:24:23|230to the Pleiades. We already have Cancer and Capricorn connected with Sirius, and as well 186|00:24:23|230|00:24:31|370we have Taurus and Scorpio connected with the seven solar systems of which ours is one. 187|00:24:31|370|00:24:36|530That's one of the great blinds—the use of the word “seven solar systems of which ours 188|00:24:36|530|00:24:44|350is one”—because it can mean, on some occasions, seven solar major solar Logoi and their stellar 189|00:24:44|350|00:24:51|310expression, or it can mean seven constellations, and it depends on the context that we are 190|00:24:51|310|00:25:02|690using. So for the moment, we will have to add to each one of the signs given yet another 191|00:25:02|690|00:25:12|270sign. We have Aries, Libra in connection with the Great Bear—could Leo be another sign? We 192|00:25:12|270|00:25:21|290have Gemini, Sagittarius connected with the Pleiades—could Virgo be another sign? And we 193|00:25:21|310|00:25:34|570have—another sign or constellation—we have Cancer, Capricorn connected with Sirius. We wonder, 194|00:25:35|730|00:25:45|630could Pisces possibly be another sign, giving three each? And I can't keep it quite straight— 195|00:25:45|630|00:25:54|790there's one left to be connected with the seven solar systems of which ours is one. I 196|00:25:54|790|00:26:00|490suppose we have not yet used the constellation Aquarius. Anyway, there are a number of ways 197|00:26:00|490|00:26:10|310of conceiving these nine. How shall we conceive these nine? There are justifications for doing 198|00:26:10|310|00:26:20|910it as I have done it, but there's probably also other justifications. CEA page 50. Okay. 199|00:26:22|100|00:26:26|090So these three major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. 200|00:26:26|090|00:26:35|430They, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected 201|00:26:36|370|00:26:40|930with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance 202|00:26:40|930|00:26:45|690of the number twelve. They are conditioned by the more perfect number, in a way conditioned 203|00:26:45|690|00:26:57|750by the number ten. It is a more masculine system. The feminine system is conditioned by the 204|00:26:57|750|00:27:05|410number twelve. One and two is three. Three represents the mother aspect. The number one represents 205|00:27:06|290|00:27:13|350the father aspect. Ten equals one. So in this particular case, seven solar systems of which 206|00:27:13|350|00:27:25|310ours is one—we can think of these systems as super constellations and not as they are 207|00:27:25|310|00:27:32|570given on Esoteric Astrology, page 50. See, I hope I'm—I hope I'm being clear here. At least 208|00:27:32|570|00:27:37|610this is being clear about my speculation. I think there's a lot of blinded language going 209|00:27:37|610|00:27:46|190on here, and that there are Lords of individual stars, these Lords being associated with our 210|00:27:46|190|00:27:56|050particular solar Logos. Our solar Logos being one of seven solar systems of which ours is 211|00:27:56|050|00:28:03|470one—so that's simply a constellation. But there are also ways of talking about seven solar 212|00:28:03|470|00:28:14|590systems of which ours is one, and the “ours” will refer to the cosmic Logos and its system 213|00:28:16|530|00:28:25|110of which our solar system is a part, and that cosmic Logos is just one of seven systems, 214|00:28:25|670|00:28:33|870and there are six other constellational systems consisting of solar Logos. And let's say that 215|00:28:34|410|00:28:37|850Draco would be one, and the Little Bear would be one, and the Great Bear would be one. They 216|00:28:37|850|00:28:42|850all have solar Logos within them, but here they would be called—well, we have to be careful 217|00:28:42|850|00:28:49|010about including the Great Bear because it's one of the three. But anyway, Draco and Orion 218|00:28:49|010|00:28:55|070and then probably some other constellations are part of these seven solar systems. In other 219|00:28:55|070|00:29:01|950words, a constellation is a system; a system is a constellation. This is one way of looking 220|00:29:01|950|00:29:18|190at it. A system is a constellation, or can be, and a constellation can be a system. So that's 221|00:29:18|190|00:29:24|970referred simply to a solar system as having one star, and yet a system of stars is also 222|00:29:24|970|00:29:35|530a solar system. So anyway, we seem to be looking at a zodiac of ten, and in this particular 223|00:29:35|530|00:29:41|830case, seven of them are referred to as the seven solar systems of which our cosmic Logoic 224|00:29:41|830|00:29:52|330solar system is one. And we can work out what we think they are. Let's just say that Draco 225|00:29:52|330|00:29:59|670will be one of them, the Little Bear will be one, Orion will be one, the so-called system— 226|00:30:01|530|00:30:09|110the cosmic Logoic system of which our little star is one—will be one of those systems, and 227|00:30:09|110|00:30:16|230there are other constellations which probably are part of these ten—part of these ten. 228|00:30:17|970|00:30:26|070“They are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned 229|00:30:26|070|00:30:34|510by the numerical significance of number twelve.” Now, does the—the still greater zodiac—is it 230|00:30:34|510|00:30:41|490a zodiac of ten? Okay, this is what we're trying to see. Hence ten is regarded as the number 231|00:30:41|940|00:30:55|850of perfection. So we are—we are speaking of, probably, a tenfold zodiac which is, in a 232|00:30:55|850|00:31:04|490way, superior to our normal twelve—twelvefold. So we are speaking of, probably, a tenfold 233|00:31:04|510|00:31:14|730zodiac. These are great mysteries, as I've said. Stephen Pugh has done a lot of work on 234|00:31:14|730|00:31:22|170this—I think a lot of very good work—opening this subject up to the speculation of students 235|00:31:22|170|00:31:27|390such as we are. But there are still mysteries to be solved here. If you really combine the 236|00:31:27|390|00:31:33|590numbers here—ten and twelve—we get twenty-two. We get the mystical number twenty-two, which 237|00:31:33|590|00:31:40|290is very important to our solar system because our solar system is a “two and two” with its 238|00:31:40|290|00:31:46|430second-ray soul and its second-ray personality. So there's a kind of completeness when we 239|00:31:46|430|00:31:53|330combine these two numbers, just the way when we combine the number five and the number 240|00:31:53|330|00:32:00|590six—which are half of the numbers we're dealing with—the five for man and the six for the 241|00:32:00|590|00:32:05|170deva kingdom, we get the number eleven, which gives us the number of the initiate, or the 242|00:32:05|170|00:32:10|210number of Aquarius, or the number of the spiritual hierarchy, or in another way, the number of 243|00:32:10|210|00:32:18|190Gemini. One and one is two. So the five is correlated with the ten; the six is correlated 244|00:32:18|190|00:32:27|670with the twelve. The ten is a number of man, and the twelve is a number of the deva aspect— 245|00:32:27|670|00:32:33|570the feminine aspect. The five, with its five-pointed star, is a number of man; it's more masculine. 246|00:32:33|570|00:32:39|830The six—the six-pointed star—is a number related to the deva aspect and to form, the builders. 247|00:32:39|830|00:32:47|150of form relate to the number six. Six is the number of form; it kind of shows us the descent 248|00:32:47|150|00:32:57|390of the circle into matter, and the nine will be the reascent of the circle out of matter. 249|00:32:59|870|00:33:05|210Okay, There is confusion in the minds of some of the less learned students (astrologically 250|00:33:05|210|00:33:14|450considered) on this point. Maybe we can include ourselves—including ourselves—the zodiac of 251|00:33:14|450|00:33:18|690ten and the zodiac of twelve. The zodiac of twelve is completely articulated, although 252|00:33:18|690|00:33:25|930some people are trying to make fourteen signs or thirteen signs, including Ophiuchus and 253|00:33:25|930|00:33:31|690Orion and so forth. But twelve is a heart center, and the zodiac is a heart center within a 254|00:33:31|690|00:33:38|070head, and so we should not look for a number that is greater than twelve for our zodiac, 255|00:33:38|070|00:33:47|490I think, regardless of how things appear from the constellational perspective. As for filling 256|00:33:47|490|00:33:55|910out every constellation that belongs to the zodiac of ten, I think the zodiac of ten is 257|00:33:56|330|00:34:03|570that still remains to be done. Some people have included, for instance, the Southern Cross 258|00:34:04|150|00:34:10|070as representing a kind of base of the spine which is not ascended, with Draco as a base 259|00:34:10|070|00:34:14|070of the spine and the one about whom naught maybe said which has ascended—the Kundalini power 260|00:34:14|070|00:34:23|270which has ascended to the head. There are ways of looking at various associated constellations 261|00:34:23|270|00:34:29|730which we can put into this super category. This is kind of a Tree of Life setup: there's 262|00:34:29|730|00:34:35|630the three hovering above the seven, you know, the higher trinity in the Tree of Life—the 263|00:34:36|290|00:34:47|790Kether, the Chochmah, and the Binah. They are hovering above the lesser seven, and it is related 264|00:34:47|790|00:34:57|510to power. So at least we seem to know that the Great Bear, the Pleiades—or at least part 265|00:34:57|510|00:35:04|550of them—and the constellation Sirius should be the superior three. But if we really think 266|00:35:04|550|00:35:09|030about this and the possible blinding that goes on, it may be that the Little Bear is 267|00:35:09|030|00:35:15|830to take the place of Sirius, and that Sirius is part of a lesser configuration and is part 268|00:35:15|830|00:35:21|930of a blind whereby a lesser is used to represent a greater. At some point, D.K. talks about the 269|00:35:21|930|00:35:29|930tremendous significance of the triangle of the Great Bear, Little Bear, and the Pleiades, 270|00:35:30|920|00:35:37|510and he says it's a stupendous triangle. So, you know, it is frequently used that a lesser 271|00:35:37|510|00:35:42|370represents a greater. For instance, in this case, a planet would be used to represent a 272|00:35:42|370|00:35:50|990sign of the zodiac or a solar Logos. A star would be used to represent a complete constellation 273|00:35:50|990|00:35:56|430of which it is a part, as is the case when Betelgeuse—or Betelgeuse, however we want to 274|00:35:56|430|00:36:02|850pronounce it—is used to represent the entirety of Orion. Alcyone could be used to represent 275|00:36:02|850|00:36:12|350the entirety of the Pleiades. Sirius could be used to represent the Little Bear. So that 276|00:36:12|370|00:36:21|270is a major—although Sirius is not specifically a part of the Little Bear. Alright, these are, 277|00:36:21|270|00:36:28|290you know, this is a cosmological astrology. It's fascinating; it's dealt with in the great 278|00:36:28|290|00:36:35|590inner departments of hierarchy—the astrological departments—and the crumbs from the tables 279|00:36:35|590|00:36:43|370of the gods are falling off so that we can use them as our full meal. And one day we shall 280|00:36:43|370|00:36:48|110know about these things. D.K. has said that Cosmic Fire—there will be interest in the 281|00:36:48|110|00:36:52|450material in Cosmic Fire in the beginning of the fifth round, and it will be reduced to 282|00:36:52|450|00:36:57|330scientific textbook formation at the end of the fifth round. Well, we're talking millions 283|00:36:57|330|00:37:03|810of years ahead, and the kind of cosmological speculation we're dealing with right now is 284|00:37:03|810|00:37:10|270of equal abstractness and difficulty to the Cosmic Fire material. Really, it is Cosmic 285|00:37:10|270|00:37:20|590Fire material. Alright, moving on. It is rather difficult for you also to grasp that the involutionary 286|00:37:20|590|00:37:29|690process for all the kingdoms of nature is related to the passage of the soul (this time 287|00:37:29|690|00:37:37|570the anima mundi or world soul) from Aries to Pisces, via Taurus and not vice versa. Yeah, 288|00:37:37|570|00:37:46|190this is interesting. There are three ways—two ways of passing around the zodiac, or going, 289|00:37:46|190|00:37:54|310moving through the signs, as it were. Three types of beings move through the signs: 290|00:37:54|370|00:38:06|030the anima mundi, the undeveloped individual, and the spiritual individual. And what is 291|00:38:06|030|00:38:13|890being said here is that the method of procedure of the world soul—that consciousness which 292|00:38:13|890|00:38:22|530underlies the world of matter, particularly the soul of the world of matter—particularly 293|00:38:22|530|00:38:29|570we might call it the soul of substance—is the same mode of procedure, counterclockwise, as that 294|00:38:30|610|00:38:41|370along which the spiritual man proceeds. It is only man in his ignorant state that is 295|00:38:41|370|00:38:46|190proceeding in the clockwise manner, as it were, against the grain. So there's something natural 296|00:38:46|190|00:38:54|470about the anima mundi and something natural or right about the mode of procedure of the 297|00:38:54|470|00:39:00|450spiritual man. But when it comes to the ignorant human being who is identified with matter, 298|00:39:02|410|00:39:08|070his individualized consciousness being identified with matter and circumstance, he is proceeding 299|00:39:08|070|00:39:14|690in a clockwise direction which is against the natural order of things. So let's just 300|00:39:14|690|00:39:24|870say that only man, only ignorant man, proceeds against the natural order of things. In other 301|00:39:24|870|00:39:34|290words, there is a sense in which we are to move developmentally from Aries to Taurus 302|00:39:34|290|00:39:42|330to Gemini and so forth. And when we move backwards, we are in a way moving backward in time and 303|00:39:42|330|00:39:47|630we are representing a kind of—even though we are on the path of evolution, we are representing 304|00:39:47|630|00:39:53|090identification with an evolutionary order. So D.K. is right when he says it is rather 305|00:39:53|090|00:39:58|510difficult for us to grasp that the evolutionary process for all kingdoms of nature is related 306|00:39:58|510|00:40:08|330to the passage of the soul, the anima mundi, from Aries to Pisces. But only man goes against 307|00:40:08|330|00:40:18|190the grain, as it were. We are descending into evolution as part of an arc. Let's say we 308|00:40:18|190|00:40:25|310are descending into evolution and we are reascending evolutionarily in an evolutionary manner. But 309|00:40:26|310|00:40:38|310an ignorant man remains identified with that which the anima mundi has provided him and 310|00:40:38|310|00:40:46|870direction and begin to progress through the natural order of the science. The anima mundi 311|00:40:46|870|00:40:51|950on the involutionary arc proceeds this way and not as the personality proceeds. This 312|00:40:51|950|00:40:59|770is very interesting and, yes, abstruse and difficult to understand why this should be 313|00:40:59|770|00:41:08|290the case because the personality is in a way an evolutionary elemental process and it is 314|00:41:08|310|00:41:17|210continuous which is evolving but still attached to the direction of the evolutionary aspects 315|00:41:17|210|00:41:23|730within it. The anima mundi passes to Pisces at the close of every great cycle and not 316|00:41:23|730|00:41:31|390to Taurus. So the anima mundi is ready to move up and the lives which comprise it are ready 317|00:41:31|390|00:41:39|130to take their next step. It emerges into outer manifestation in Cancer, which is the sign 318|00:41:39|130|00:41:45|590which rules much of matter and elemental life, the sign of mass or group life, It emerges 319|00:41:45|590|00:41:50|530into outer manifestation in Cancer. That's very interesting because so does the mass 320|00:41:50|530|00:42:01|370of humanity. So does the human being en masse emerge in Cancer. 321|00:42:03|610|00:42:07|390So does the human being en masse emerge in Cancer, the sign of mass or group life, of mass or group activity; 322|00:42:08|290|00:42:13|590its diffused consciousness has not yet been individualised as has the consciousness of 323|00:42:13|590|00:42:20|250man. So man is in a peculiarly dangerous condition because he has a choice. At first he moves 324|00:42:20|250|00:42:27|890by instinct in a direction which feeds his elemental nature and whereby his consciousness 325|00:42:27|890|00:42:33|290is controlled by that element of nature. But later he has a choice, and if he chooses to 326|00:42:33|290|00:42:42|790continue to work in a reversed, in a retrogressive manner, going clockwise through the signs, then 327|00:42:42|790|00:42:49|350he will have chosen incorrectly and he will condemn his consciousness to captivation by 328|00:42:49|350|00:42:57|870this great devic life which sub-stands the dense physical body of the solar Logos. 329|00:42:57|890|00:43:03|090He will have to achieve his freedom at some time. He will be a captive of this 330|00:43:03|090|00:43:10|170great deva. Okay, so the diffused consciousness, which is not self-conscious, of the anima mundi 331|00:43:10|170|00:43:14|910has not yet been individualized as has the consciousness of man. When the world's soul, 332|00:43:16|390|00:43:21|610the consciousness underlying substance, When the world soul after having progressed around 333|00:43:21|610|00:43:27|630the Great Wheel, reached Cancer and the time came for the fourth Creative Hierarchy to 334|00:43:27|630|00:43:32|990manifest through the fourth kingdom in nature,—as there are other kingdoms through which you can manifest 335|00:43:32|990|00:43:39|250in nature—a reversal took place and then proceeded as now. This is not the same thing 336|00:43:39|250|00:43:46|010as the reversed wheel. The reversed wheel involves reversing the reversal. Okay, the 337|00:43:46|010|00:43:55|630true reversed wheel involves reversing the reversal. In other words, if we decide to move 338|00:43:55|630|00:44:00|390backwards, which is clockwise, there must come a time when the human being reverses that 339|00:44:00|390|00:44:05|450decision to reverse the natural order, and that second reversal returns the human being 340|00:44:05|990|00:44:10|890to the natural order of the signs. There are many mysteries here. I don't pretend to be 341|00:44:10|890|00:44:18|290able to fathom them. D.K. has told us that we are in no position to really comprehend 342|00:44:18|290|00:44:25|770or feel the nature of the soul of matter, the soul of substance. So he's giving us a 343|00:44:25|770|00:44:30|130general principle here, but it may be a while before we can feel into this. Perhaps some 344|00:44:30|130|00:44:37|790of the great scientific servers who are also psychics can do this. Let's see here. We have 345|00:44:37|790|00:44:43|110in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets upon: Okay, well, 346|00:44:43|110|00:44:49|730anyway, let's just say the important thing to realize here is that most human beings 347|00:44:50|370|00:44:55|210are not traveling in a spiritual direction. They are traveling in a direction which emphasizes 348|00:44:55|990|00:45:03|670their elemental nature and which puts their elemental nature in a predominant condition. 349|00:45:04|670|00:45:13|230This is not leading directly to the unfoldment of their consciousness in a spiritual manner 350|00:45:13|870|00:45:22|950which requires detachment from the elemental nature. So in a certain way, human beings are 351|00:45:22|950|00:45:30|250going more deeply into matter in a conscious way. They are becoming deeply involved in 352|00:45:30|250|00:45:38|030the periphery of life. They are like the prodigal son who is wandering into a far country 353|00:45:38|650|00:45:46|730and thinking that that far country can offer some type of real satisfaction, which it cannot 354|00:45:46|730|00:45:51|830because man is essentially spirit and he can never be satisfied with that which is less 355|00:45:51|830|00:46:00|090than himself. He needs to return to himself, return to the spirit nature. So we are in 356|00:46:00|090|00:46:05|930a way… humanity is going in the wrong direction, but it's a direction which is part of the 357|00:46:05|930|00:46:11|230plan because we must invest ourselves deeply in matter substance before we can redeem it. 358|00:46:12|390|00:46:19|610Is this the way things happen on other planets? Does that which is man on another planet go 359|00:46:20|170|00:46:29|610more and more deeply into matter before extricating itself? Well, we know that there is no such 360|00:46:29|610|00:46:33|690suffering in the solar system as there is upon Earth, and there is great suffering upon 361|00:46:33|690|00:46:40|170Mars and Saturn as well, but on the other planets not. So perhaps this has something to do with 362|00:46:40|170|00:46:46|670this retrogressive, redemptive movement. A necessary, apparently, a necessary retrogressive 363|00:46:46|670|00:46:52|970movement whereby we invest ourselves in the not-self in order to redeem that not-self. 364|00:46:53|130|00:46:58|590Ultimately, we know that everything is the oneself and that oneself is the absolute infinite 365|00:46:58|590|00:47:06|190itself, but from planet to planet there are distinctions, and we as human beings are in 366|00:47:06|190|00:47:12|710a way going in the wrong direction considering how old we are. We are old enough to begin 367|00:47:12|710|00:47:17|830waking up and to reverse our direction, so we have to reverse the reversal. That's one 368|00:47:17|830|00:47:25|010way of thinking about it. Now going on, let's see how we are doing in our experiment to 369|00:47:25|010|00:47:36|190make a somewhat longer webinar which will save time in the long run. It will save those 370|00:47:36|190|00:47:41|430interludes of time and allow me to speak to you during times when I would normally be 371|00:47:41|430|00:47:45|710having to find something else to do while conversion work is going on. 372|00:47:47|130|00:47:52|790We have in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets 373|00:47:52|790|00:48:00|730upon: We are going to look at different beings upon which the zodiac and planets will have 374|00:48:00|730|00:48:09|630an influence. 1. The spirit of the Earth, the embodiment of the physical planet and 375|00:48:09|630|00:48:16|230the sum total of the form life in all the kingdoms of nature. These are the expression 376|00:48:16|230|00:48:23|830of the anima mundi or of the world soul. Now, are we dealing strictly with dense physical 377|00:48:23|830|00:48:32|910matter here, the matter of the lower three systemic sub-planes, or are we dealing… or is 378|00:48:32|910|00:48:40|530this related to the dense physical body of the planetary Logos which would include astral 379|00:48:40|530|00:48:53|270matter and lower mental matter? Because all of those substances are considered to be involutionary 380|00:48:53|270|00:48:59|310from the point of view of the principled nature of our planetary Logos. In other words, the 381|00:48:59|310|00:49:04|390lower eighteen sub-planes are for the planetary Logos not a principle; they are not part of 382|00:49:04|390|00:49:10|990the program in this second solar system. They are to be redeemed, but they are not carrying 383|00:49:12|650|00:49:21|870a patterning power which is closely related to the will of the planetary Logos, and we 384|00:49:21|870|00:49:33|230could say the same for the solar Logos. Whoops, okay, that's my little camera there. So the 385|00:49:33|230|00:49:40|990involutionary entity, the embodiment of the physical planet… and we have to define this 386|00:49:40|990|00:49:52|350term “physical planet.” Define this term as either the lower three sub-planes of the systemic 387|00:49:52|350|00:50:03|210physical plane or the lower eighteen sub-planes consisting of the… mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm… 388|00:50:03|230|00:50:10|590and etheric, physical, astral and lower mental systemic sub-planes. Alright, so it has an 389|00:50:10|590|00:50:15|250effect upon an involutionary entity called the spirit of the earth, or sometimes called 390|00:50:15|250|00:50:21|870the planetary entity. Let me look up the word… let me look up the word “spirit of the earth.” 391|00:50:23|130|00:50:28|330It's not always the same as planetary spirit, because when we say the spirit of the earth, 392|00:50:29|490|00:50:35|030we usually mean this involutionary entity. When we say planetary spirit, we can often 393|00:50:35|030|00:50:47|270mean the planetary Logos himself. So let's just see how this works. Okay, and we'll try 394|00:50:47|270|00:50:58|190to make this a little bit bigger. Yes, one, seven, five. Okay, and take this down. All 395|00:50:58|190|00:51:02|970these little adjustments that have to be made when one signs off. So let's take a look. 396|00:51:03|410|00:51:09|190Spirit of the earth. There are twenty-five references to it. Connection with the spirit 397|00:51:09|190|00:51:13|630of the earth. Yes, and the physical plane. A mysterious synthesis connected with the 398|00:51:13|630|00:51:19|050spirit of the earth. It is the physical plane here as we see. The planetary entity. Spirit 399|00:51:19|050|00:51:23|050of the earth is the planetary entity, not the planetary Logos, but the planetary spirit has 400|00:51:23|050|00:51:28|010a different meaning. The spirit of the earth is the planet. Aha, look at this. The spirit 401|00:51:28|010|00:51:32|110of the earth is to the planetary Logos of the earth, for instance, what the personality 402|00:51:32|110|00:51:40|030of form nature is to the soul of man. So the personality nature of the planetary Logos 403|00:51:40|030|00:51:44|450would be included; therefore the astral and lower mental planes would be included in this 404|00:51:44|950|00:51:50|310case. Okay, the spirit of the earth, the embodiment of the physical planet and the sum total of 405|00:51:50|310|00:51:58|650form life in all kingdoms, is subservient to Venus. Well, even the planetary spirit 406|00:51:58|650|00:52:03|610is subservient to Venus. The mysterious entity we call the spirit of the earth is on the 407|00:52:03|610|00:52:09|530evolutionary arc and is to our planet what the physical elemental is to the physical 408|00:52:09|530|00:52:20|290body of man. So, yes, this is that involutionary entity called the physical elemental of man. 409|00:52:20|310|00:52:27|990Physical elemental, it seems to organize the physical matter in the physical body of 410|00:52:27|990|00:52:36|910man. And so we would extend this to the planet as well. The spirit of the earth, the relation 411|00:52:36|910|00:52:40|610of the planetary Logos to the spirit of the earth, the relation of an evolutionary being 412|00:52:40|610|00:52:46|150to an involutionary entity, is reflection distorted under the influence of glamour in the three 413|00:52:46|150|00:52:49|650worlds of the relation of the soul to the personality elemental. Okay, it's distorted. 414|00:52:49|650|00:52:56|630I think we get the idea. Now let's look at the word planetary spirit, of which there are 415|00:52:56|630|00:53:06|35015 references. Yes, planetary spirit is a higher entity. On his vast scale and on his 416|00:53:06|350|00:53:11|390own high level, this planetary spirit is learning to live, learning to contact and expand his 417|00:53:11|390|00:53:18|610consciousness. Okay. To the great planetary spirit, something wider still. Back of the 418|00:53:18|610|00:53:22|710life. This is all in the consciousness of the atom. Perhaps we'll see the nameless one 419|00:53:22|710|00:53:26|990on the confines of the high planes of human evolution and the planetary spirit himself 420|00:53:26|990|00:53:34|670at the final stage. It is high. The planetary spirit is high and represents even the monadic 421|00:53:34|670|00:53:44|290nature of the solar Logos of the planetary Logos. So the difference between the spirit 422|00:53:44|290|00:53:48|330of the earth and planetary entity, they are the same: spirit of the earth and planetary 423|00:53:48|330|00:53:56|430entity and planetary spirit, which is the Logos himself. Okay, so the zodiac and the 424|00:53:56|430|00:54:07|670planets affect this spirit of the earth, or let's give him his other name here, planetary 425|00:54:11|070|00:54:17|050entity, and it's like a kind of a physical elemental, but it's also been related to other 426|00:54:17|050|00:54:24|550elementals, personality elementals in relation to the greater planetary Logos. They affect 427|00:54:24|550|00:54:32|810humanity as a whole 2. Humanity, the individualised and finally initiated man. This is the embodiment 428|00:54:32|810|00:54:46|250of the human soul or ego, a differentiation of the world soul, See, in other words, in 429|00:54:46|250|00:54:56|450other words, individualized human beings are part of the anima mundi. We are a differentiated 430|00:54:56|450|00:55:03|550aspect of the world soul. We, because if we say world soul, we have to understand what 431|00:55:03|550|00:55:11|050particular level of substance we are talking about. Usually we are talking about the embodiment 432|00:55:11|050|00:55:17|490of substance, and so we are talking about a type of consciousness which is not yet individualized, 433|00:55:18|190|00:55:24|950but the world is a big place, and the world includes the higher levels where individualization 434|00:55:24|950|00:55:31|310holds sway. So we, the human ego, are a differentiation of the world soul, which expresses itself 435|00:55:31|310|00:55:38|470as a personality (a correspondence to the spirit of the planet) not the planetary spirit. 436|00:55:38|470|00:55:43|990Personality is a correspondence to the spirit of the planet, and finally as a spiritual soul 437|00:55:44|310|00:55:50|190(a correspondence to the planetary Logos). So the zodiac, what's the important thing here? 438|00:55:51|390|00:56:01|230The energies of the zodiac and the energies of the planets are affecting conscious, self-conscious 439|00:56:01|230|00:56:08|350entities and entities which have not yet achieved self-consciousness. They are also affecting 440|00:56:09|030|00:56:19|410super conscious entities who see and understand in wholes. Okay, now we would be reaching 441|00:56:19|410|00:56:23|670the point at which we would normally say The Great Invocation, but we are going to go on 442|00:56:23|670|00:56:30|510and see if we can extend this a little bit. The energies of the zodiac and the energies 443|00:56:30|510|00:56:36|690of the planets also affect the Lord of the planet, one of the great lives or Sons of 444|00:56:36|690|00:56:42|190God, at present regarded as an imperfect God. Our planetary Logos is here indicated, 445|00:56:42|190|00:56:49|770and he is an imperfect God because he is thus far only an initiate of the first degree cosmically 446|00:56:50|470|00:56:54|730considered. He may be passing through a kind of fourth initiation, but that's a subsidiary 447|00:56:56|790|00:57:01|950initiation. It's in a subsidiary sequence of initiations. Cosmically he has not yet 448|00:57:01|950|00:57:09|710achieved the goal of the second cosmic initiation. 3. The Lord of the Planet, one of the great 449|00:57:09|710|00:57:16|490Lives or Sons of God, at present regarded as “an imperfect God” as far as our planet is 450|00:57:16|490|00:57:22|730concerned and yet, from the angle of humanity, perfect indeed. Sanat Kumara does not fully 451|00:57:22|730|00:57:29|890express all that the planetary Logos is, and we regard Sanat Kumara in the most superlative 452|00:57:29|890|00:57:39|450terms. So it's all relative here, and perfection has to be considered in a relative way compared 453|00:57:39|450|00:57:46|890to the condition of the human being. Our planetary Logos still higher than Sanat Kumara. Sanat 454|00:57:46|890|00:57:55|670Kumara, being an emanation of him, is perfect indeed. So these are three spheres upon which 455|00:57:55|670|00:58:05|030our zodiac and planets play. They play upon the unconscious sphere, the not yet self-conscious 456|00:58:05|030|00:58:09|630sphere. They play upon the self-conscious sphere, and they play upon the superconscious 457|00:58:09|630|00:58:17|330sphere, and they have, emanating as they do these energies from very high cosmic laws, 458|00:58:18|250|00:58:24|050they have differential effects depending upon the form that they touch. This is constantly 459|00:58:24|050|00:58:32|770to be understood, but we cannot so much gauge cosmic energies, the nature of them in themselves, 460|00:58:33|110|00:58:39|410but what we can do is see the effect they have upon the different forms which they condition. 461|00:58:40|750|00:58:46|790Right now we're interested in the conditioning of the self-conscious human being who is moving 462|00:58:46|790|00:58:52|510towards group consciousness and eventually towards consciousness of the One, which is 463|00:58:52|510|00:58:59|270in a way super consciousness. The above triple division expresses the three major aspects 464|00:58:59|270|00:59:07|110of the ancient and esoteric science of astrology how it works on lesser lives, middling lives, 465|00:59:07|110|00:59:13|950and super lives. the ancient and esoteric science of astrology and its three divisions as the 466|00:59:13|950|00:59:20|750Hierarchy today studies them. and hierarchical members are assigned to these different levels. There 467|00:59:20|750|00:59:27|770are some who are working with the soul of substance, with soul in its unselfconscious 468|00:59:27|770|00:59:35|190stage. Humanity, having lost the consciousness—I guess it once had it—which permits contact 469|00:59:35|190|00:59:41|450with the spirit of the planet (sub-human consciousness, sub-human, human, super-human—that's one 470|00:59:41|450|00:59:49|790way of looking at it—and which was the basis of animism) How interesting that those human 471|00:59:49|790|00:59:58|170beings who ascribe to animism feel the soul within substance, and having not yet developed 472|00:59:58|170|01:00:02|030the consciousness which permits him to enter into the Life and Mind of the planetary Logos, 473|01:00:03|000|01:00:14|290has dealt only with the second division that of the human consciousness, that of self-consciousness, 474|01:00:14|290|01:00:20|990and even self-consciousness and that in its lower aspects. So humanity is quite blind, quite ignorant. 475|01:00:21|470|01:00:34|930Humanity quite blind and ignorant of the different phases of the world soul: the lower and the 476|01:00:34|930|01:00:42|270higher, middling, and the highest. Humanity is ignorant of all of those. We are just aware 477|01:00:42|270|01:00:50|370of the lower middling reaches of soul in the realm of self-consciousness. Alright, well, 478|01:00:50|690|01:00:58|250this would be normally the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure Number 52, but instead 479|01:00:58|250|01:01:05|430I will continue as best I can, and thereby preserving time. 480|01:01:12|270|01:01:17|450Alright, now we will continue. We have in a way reached the end of Esoteric Astrology 481|01:01:17|450|01:01:23|790Adventure Number 52, Part 1, and we will see whether GoToWebinar allows me to continue 482|01:01:23|790|01:01:31|930to the two-hour level. I think downloads will not be so slow, so you will be able to use 483|01:01:31|930|01:01:37|230these conveniently. We'll see how I feel, whether I can push on to a three-hour segment. 484|01:01:37|230|01:01:45|470We will see. So we're continuing. Two other points might here be touched upon, and for their 485|01:01:45|750|01:01:50|570understanding you will have to accept my statements as temporary hypotheses at least, 486|01:01:51|390|01:01:57|910for you are in no position to know them as truth for yourselves. Well, sad to say, but 487|01:01:57|910|01:02:07|210this is the true condition of human ignorance. We are in no position to verify, maybe, that 488|01:02:07|230|01:02:20|43095% of what the Tibetan tells us. He is a master of the wisdom; he has profound perception. 489|01:02:21|090|01:02:29|610The siddhis of various kinds have opened up for him, and we are in the position in many 490|01:02:29|610|01:02:37|210respects of trusting students who can follow his authority and his authority in the way 491|01:02:37|230|01:02:43|170that he sees authoritative statements as hypotheses. We can see, eventually, prove 492|01:02:43|170|01:02:49|870these things for ourselves, but for the moment it seems to be the part of wisdom to assume 493|01:02:50|710|01:02:57|210that since he has been correct in so many of the statements he has made, he is probably 494|01:02:58|310|01:03:05|630correct or mostly correct—probably totally correct—in giving those statements which 495|01:03:05|630|01:03:13|330we cannot possibly verify. Not yet. But we're on our way, and towards the later phases of 496|01:03:13|330|01:03:21|950the evolutionary process, it is possible to make rapid progress into the expansion of 497|01:03:21|950|01:03:29|990perception. So many of us are reaching that stage now, having labored long and hard through 498|01:03:29|990|01:03:36|490many lesser stages of consciousness. We are in no position to know the truth for ourselves, 499|01:03:36|570|01:03:43|010he says. Exoteric astrology has said and it is widely accepted that Vulcan, Uranus, 500|01:03:43|350|01:03:52|470Pluto and Neptune do not govern signs but only have affinity with them. Well, okay, I 501|01:03:52|470|01:03:59|970think Alan Leo didn't say that, and there are many who accept that Uranus is the modern 502|01:04:00|810|01:04:05|330ordinary ruler of Aquarius, but it used to be Saturn, didn't it? Vulcan was not known, 503|01:04:05|890|01:04:11|490Pluto was not discovered, and only recently Alan Leo said Neptune is the ruler of Pisces. 504|01:04:12|070|01:04:18|930So there are probably indeed many exoteric astrologers who have not considered these 505|01:04:20|490|01:04:29|330more remote planets, and in one case an undiscovered planet, to have no rulership over any of the 506|01:04:29|330|01:04:32|790Earth signs. I am touching upon this here because we are going to consider the planet 507|01:04:32|790|01:04:39|850Pluto in relation to Pisces. Now remember this book is written in the early '30s, and 508|01:04:41|210|01:04:48|190Pluto was discovered in 1930, so the Tibetan was authorized to speak of it because mankind 509|01:04:48|190|01:04:55|630had discovered it, although it was, they say, recorded on a film as early as 1915 but not 510|01:04:55|630|01:05:04|570recognized. So Pluto discovered in 1930, coinciding with this mass uprising of negativity 511|01:05:04|570|01:05:16|530which Nazism and that type of fascism represented. This affinity has only stated a partial 512|01:05:16|530|01:05:21|990truth and is only temporarily true from the standpoint of the modern astrologer. I think 513|01:05:21|990|01:05:28|230he is saying that indeed these planets do rule signs, but they rule them from a more 514|01:05:28|230|01:05:35|090esoteric perspective. The existence of these planets—right, Their existence has only been 515|01:05:35|090|01:05:44|190inferred or discovered within the last two or three centuries though it has always been 516|01:05:44|190|01:05:51|970known to the Hierarchy. So the Hierarchy, capital H, has been known to the Hierarchy— 517|01:05:51|990|01:05:58|630has known the secret planets, and there are many other planets right now, completely undiscovered 518|01:05:58|630|01:06:03|710by humanity which Hierarchy knows about and which are responsible for many of the pushes 519|01:06:03|710|01:06:09|710and pulls which we experience even now. We don't know where they come from and we attribute 520|01:06:09|710|01:06:15|190these influences to incorrect sources, or to sources which we presently know about when 521|01:06:15|190|01:06:21|970they really come from other unknown sources. I have indicated to you the signs of which 522|01:06:21|970|01:06:26|850they are the rulers and the astrology of the future will accept my statement and work 523|01:06:27|410|01:06:34|750with these planets. Much earlier in human history, they had to accept the fact of Mars and Mercury as rulers of zodiacal signs in a hypothetical manner, and then start to prove the accuracy of the hypothesis. Okay, so, you know, Pluto being the ruler of Pisces esoterically and 524|01:06:34|750|01:06:41|190hierarchically, Uranus the ruler of Aquarius—that much everybody accepts—but also the 525|01:06:41|190|01:06:46|330esoteric ruler of Libra and the hierarchical ruler of Aries, and the veiled hierarchical 526|01:06:46|330|01:06:56|590ruler of Leo, Neptune being the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Cancer and the veiled 527|01:06:56|590|01:07:03|910hierarchical, veiled esoteric ruler of Leo and also in a special category in relation 528|01:07:03|910|01:07:13|470to Pisces, and Vulcan being the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Taurus and the veiled 529|01:07:14|090|01:07:21|630hierarchical ruler, one of them—no, excuse me, the veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo along 530|01:07:21|630|01:07:30|550with Neptune, Neptune, another veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo. And then when we get into 531|01:07:30|550|01:07:41|290Aquarius, Vulcan, Neptune and Uranus are all veiled hierarchical rulers. Ancient astrology 532|01:07:41|290|01:07:49|890was obviously incomplete but until man became patently 533|01:07:49|890|01:07:55|270responsive to the influences which come to him from Uranus or Pluto, for instance, which 534|01:07:55|270|01:08:00|470affect the soul life far more than they do the personality life, because, you know, even 535|01:08:00|470|01:08:10|590though it's a non-sacred planet, Pluto, even though non-sacred planet, non-sacred planet, 536|01:08:11|290|01:08:20|590Pluto is considered an esoteric planet. So he's telling us that this non-sacred planet 537|01:08:20|590|01:08:26|330Pluto affects the soul life more than it does the personality life and that only when a 538|01:08:26|330|01:08:32|070person is truly on the path are the influences of Pluto, I suppose the spiritual influences, 539|01:08:32|310|01:08:41|270registered. As for Uranus, we can well agree. So until a man becomes patently noticeable 540|01:08:41|290|01:08:46|390and patently more responsive to the influence which comes to him from Uranus and Pluto, 541|01:08:47|390|01:08:54|270they remain undiscovered, except by trained esotericists, undiscovered in consciousness. 542|01:08:58|590|01:09:08|030But from another point of view, man was progressing and it was only in recent centuries that man 543|01:09:08|030|01:09:15|070became patently more responsive to these influences as a whole, and so they were discovered. Now 544|01:09:15|070|01:09:19|390for many people they're not discovered in consciousness. They mean nothing in terms 545|01:09:19|390|01:09:25|970of the process of life and consciousness process, but man as a whole became more responsive 546|01:09:26|830|01:09:33|770to these influences, and therefore his responsiveness, man's responsiveness, humanity's responsiveness 547|01:09:33|770|01:09:41|250enabled their discovery even though there are many human beings for whom they mean psychologically, 548|01:09:41|430|01:09:47|650spiritually, nothing yet. Though they can affect the outer elemental life, remember 549|01:09:47|650|01:09:55|950that the planets can affect the sub-human parts of ourselves, the non-self-conscious 550|01:09:55|950|01:10:01|850parts of ourselves, the substantial aspects of ourselves. they remained undiscovered except 551|01:10:01|850|01:10:06|790by trained esotericists. who are members of hierarchy. Today, humanity is rapidly responding 552|01:10:06|790|01:10:12|550to the higher spiritual influences and, therefore, we can look for the discovery of increasingly 553|01:10:12|550|01:10:22|130subtle forces. So let's just say that Vulcan and more planets are about to be discovered 554|01:10:22|910|01:10:31|830because humanity is more responsive. And I guess I would say “discovered” is the most important 555|01:10:32|340|01:10:38|030I would say that when the spiritual will of humanity really begins to assert itself and 556|01:10:38|030|01:10:46|510people look at our dreadful method of relating with each other and say “enough is enough” and 557|01:10:46|510|01:10:52|330“now we will have to have a method of relating this world which is based more upon the spiritual 558|01:10:52|330|01:10:58|130will and upon principles” than Vulcan, the planet of spiritual will, will be discovered. When 559|01:10:58|130|01:11:06|910humanity learns to stand with massed intent for the good, then Vulcan will be discovered 560|01:11:06|910|01:11:14|010just as in the period when revolutionary fervor was sweeping through humanity, Uranus was discovered 561|01:11:14|010|01:11:28|110and when the occult was coming into vogue and anesthesia was making its appearance in 562|01:11:28|990|01:11:37|030the becoming popular in the consciousness, Neptune was discovered and with the mass eruption 563|01:11:37|030|01:11:44|970of the subterranean forces which could be considered to represent the black lodge in 564|01:11:44|970|01:11:51|050many respects, Pluto was discovered. So when the quality sweeps through humanity, the quality 565|01:11:51|050|01:11:57|290which relates to a planet sweeps through human action and human consciousness, then that which 566|01:11:57|290|01:12:06|330is the related but thus far undiscovered planet will be discovered. Okay, so there's 567|01:12:06|330|01:12:11|050a lot more going on and as I've often said, we astrologers, we're just we're not playing 568|01:12:11|050|01:12:19|330with a full deck. We're not playing with a full deck of cards and many other sources 569|01:12:19|330|01:12:27|270of influence which we are unaware we cannot yet control our stars, we cannot even identify 570|01:12:28|190|01:12:35|430all of them, but we can become increasingly sensitive to and discriminate influences affecting 571|01:12:37|150|01:12:41|530our lives even though we may not know the sources of those influences, and if we remain 572|01:12:41|530|01:12:48|510sensitive and begin to differentiate these influences, then perhaps discovery will come. 573|01:12:48|710|01:12:57|270Just imagine the day when some one hundred and fifteen plus planets will be known to 574|01:12:58|730|01:13:07|090humanity. It will be a day of a type of computing power which will entirely dwarf the sophisticated 575|01:13:07|090|01:13:12|510computing power we have at the present time, and we will be able to isolate those influences, 576|01:13:12|510|01:13:21|490learn of their nature, gradation and timing, and negotiate this web of energies in a far 577|01:13:21|490|01:13:29|890more intelligent, plan-centered manner than is presently possible. Well, well, we made 578|01:13:29|890|01:13:41|290it somewhere in tape or program number fifty-two, we made it through Aries. The first sign of 579|01:13:41|290|01:13:48|350the zodiac, and he has told us important things which we will have to identify keynotes, keywords, 580|01:13:48|350|01:13:56|490those nine points to be identified in when studying all the others. I want to take a 581|01:13:56|490|01:14:04|550quick look here. I used to have it. I know that on page approximately page one nineteen, 582|01:14:06|090|01:14:14|570no, that would be… can't do that. One nineteen, I believe, of Esoteric Astrology, or so. Yes, 583|01:14:14|570|01:14:22|610he does deal with the two ways of going around the mutable cross, and I'm wondering if around 584|01:14:22|610|01:14:35|350page one forty three… yes, he does. That's one forty three. He also identifies ways of progressing 585|01:14:35|350|01:14:40|170on the fixed cross. He doesn't do this for the cardinal cross, so these are some of the 586|01:14:40|170|01:14:49|330ways we can compare the signs by going to these particular tabulations.[split Text 01] OK, now we're 587|01:14:49|330|01:14:58|450about to enter into the sign Pisces. You see, we are going backwards. We are going in the 588|01:14:58|450|01:15:10|150direction of spiritually ignorant individualized man. We're not going in the direction of the 589|01:15:10|150|01:15:16|930spiritual man. We are still… the Tibetan is making a point here, and even though he's talking 590|01:15:16|930|01:15:25|650about these signs in ways which are certainly spiritual, he is progressing backwards, what 591|01:15:25|650|01:15:31|570we would consider backwards, to arrest our attention so that we can realize that there 592|01:15:31|570|01:15:39|810are two wheels operating: a wheel of form personality and a wheel of consciousness soul. 593|01:15:40|590|01:15:47|990We have to fix this in our minds, and this is part of the new astrology, so we can understand 594|01:15:48|890|01:15:53|810what is the reversal of the wheel for the human being and understand how human evolution 595|01:15:53|810|01:16:01|350is meant to take place and help ourselves and others to progress in a counterclockwise 596|01:16:01|350|01:16:06|810manner, responding in our form to the higher spiritual potentials of these signs and not 597|01:16:06|810|01:16:19|750the ordinary substantial elemental personal selfish response. Alright, Pisces the Fishes, 598|01:16:22|170|01:16:33|790from page 115 to 134. Pisces the Fishes. Aries was a dual sign, and it represents the life 599|01:16:33|790|01:16:40|750power coming forth and like a fountain and going to the right and going to the right 600|01:16:40|750|01:16:47|310and going to the left. It's unity entering into the world of duality. In a way, you could 601|01:16:47|310|01:16:52|850look at Aries coming down and splitting like this, the horns of the ram. Instead of rising 602|01:16:52|850|01:16:58|210in this way, we could see it descending and splitting like this, which would be more like 603|01:16:58|530|01:17:05|850the horns of the ram. But anyway, unity enters the world of duality in Aries. It has a unitive 604|01:17:05|850|01:17:17|910root and a dual bifurcation at the uppermost or bottommost part of the symbol. This sign 605|01:17:17|910|01:17:27|330is also dual. In Aries we have the duality which is attached to the bringing together 606|01:17:27|330|01:17:31|770of spirit and matter in the great creative activity Remember, creation is one of the 607|01:17:31|770|01:17:40|330keynotes of Aries. The great creative activity is attached to the bringing together of spirit 608|01:17:40|330|01:17:48|950and matter. This is not just soul and personality. Those are a pair of opposites, and a very important 609|01:17:48|950|01:17:55|190pair of opposites for the present human being, and perhaps the opposites of spirit and matter 610|01:17:55|190|01:18:00|650are a little more out of reach, though they are in reach for the initiates. So Aries is 611|01:18:00|650|01:18:07|770associated with the highest and lowest meeting: the first ray, the seventh ray, spirit and 612|01:18:07|770|01:18:15|390matter in the great creative activity of manifestation at the beginning of the evolutionary cycle, 613|01:18:15|970|01:18:24|250Well, when is that? For man en masse, it begins 21 million years ago. But what is the beginning 614|01:18:24|250|01:18:33|830of the evolutionary cycle? Is it when our solar Logos took form with his planets? Let 615|01:18:33|830|01:18:41|330us keep it microcosmic and talk about the beginning of man, and every life in a way is 616|01:18:41|330|01:18:49|870a continuation and a renewed beginning of man's long evolutionary cycle. whilst in Pisces 617|01:18:49|870|01:18:58|850we have the fusion or blending of soul and form as far as man is concerned,—soul and 618|01:18:58|850|01:19:05|710form, consciousness and substance as far as man is concerned—producing the manifestation 619|01:19:06|270|01:19:18|430of the Incarnated Christ, the perfected individual soul, the completed manifestation of the microcosm. 620|01:19:19|130|01:19:29|130So Pisces is the sign, in one way, most associated with Christ. Pisces is most associated with 621|01:19:29|950|01:19:35|730the Christ consciousness. Now, at the present time, it is Virgo, the sign opposite Pisces, 622|01:19:36|290|01:19:43|410which brings in more of the second ray than any other sign at this particular time. And 623|01:19:43|410|01:19:50|510Virgo has much to do with the birth, the gestation and following birth of the Christ 624|01:19:50|510|01:19:57|730consciousness. But Pisces is a cosmic decanate. Exactly what that means we cannot tell, but 625|01:19:57|730|01:20:02|950there are three signs which are cosmic decanates, or three constellations. There is Taurus, 626|01:20:04|010|01:20:09|270Scorpio, and Pisces. And each one of the great world teachers is associated with one of these 627|01:20:09|270|01:20:17|430cosmic decanates: Hercules with Scorpio, Buddha with Taurus, and Christ with Pisces. 628|01:20:18|130|01:20:28|630So the fullest flowering of the second ray can be looked to in Pisces. It is the sign 629|01:20:28|630|01:20:35|710most pervaded by the second ray of love-wisdom, but that in a very high sense. Gemini is another 630|01:20:35|710|01:20:42|430second ray sign, Virgo the other, but finally it is Pisces with which our present Christ 631|01:20:42|430|01:20:50|850is most identified and which most reveals or expresses the Christ consciousness. So 632|01:20:50|850|01:20:58|310Pisces brings together soul and form rather than spirit and matter. In a way it is more 633|01:20:58|310|01:21:05|690on the soft line of energy, and Pisces expresses the second ray and the sixth ray and the third 634|01:21:05|710|01:21:11|790ray at this present time, though it is very much connected with third ray substance, water 635|01:21:11|790|01:21:22|790or matter. Soul and form—even form is not particularly related to the third ray and 636|01:21:22|790|01:21:31|970matter because form results from a second ray building activity utilizing the substances 637|01:21:31|970|01:21:37|050of matter. And soul, of course, is consciousness and represents the second aspect. So both 638|01:21:37|050|01:21:45|090soul and form, though in different dimensions, are related to the second ray. Whereas Aries 639|01:21:45|090|01:21:52|210is a major first ray sign and its rays are one and seven—hard line rays. These are rays 640|01:21:53|410|01:21:57|730at present expressing. As I've tried to indicate, I believe that every sign of the zodiac, every 641|01:21:57|730|01:22:02|310constellation has every ray, just the way our little planet has every ray. But there 642|01:22:02|310|01:22:09|050are certain emphases at certain times. Now what D.K. does not give us—he tells us that 643|01:22:09|050|01:22:16|610certain rays express through certain constellations, but he does not assign these rays to the periodical 644|01:22:16|610|01:22:22|450vehicles of the Lords of the constellations. When it comes to the earth, he gives it a first 645|01:22:22|450|01:22:30|470ray monad, second ray soul, third ray personality. So the rays which earth is emitting, shall 646|01:22:30|470|01:22:38|410we say, these rays are assigned to periodical vehicles—the monad, soul, causal body and 647|01:22:38|410|01:22:47|170personality are periodical vehicles. But not so with the periodical vehicles of the Lords 648|01:22:47|170|01:22:52|390of the Constellations. We are just given the rays, and we would have to ourselves determine 649|01:22:52|390|01:23:02|270if the rays that are expressing through these great beings are in fact conditioning their 650|01:23:02|270|01:23:11|110periodical vehicles. In other words, does Aries in some way have a first ray conditioning 651|01:23:11|110|01:23:21|870one of its periodical vehicles, namely its monad, its egoic body or its personality? 652|01:23:22|330|01:23:29|090Is Aries a first ray monadic cosmic lord? Is it a second ray monadic cosmic lord? Is 653|01:23:29|090|01:23:36|310the lamb slain from the foundations of the world? Does it have the sixth ray or the third 654|01:23:36|310|01:23:43|210ray conditioning one of its vehicles? Because we are given only two rays passing through 655|01:23:43|210|01:23:48|330Aries, at least at this time, and there are three periodical vehicles. So in the same 656|01:23:48|330|01:23:54|810way that a human being has a five-fold, even six-fold ray chart, it seems reasonable to 657|01:23:54|810|01:24:01|750conclude that a planetary Logos also has a six-fold ray chart and that a solar Logos 658|01:24:01|750|01:24:07|250the same, and that a constellation lord also has a six-fold ray chart. But that would enter 659|01:24:07|250|01:24:12|270into the realm of too much complexity. But one day I think we will be able to discover 660|01:24:12|270|01:24:20|970why the qualities of a constellation lord are what they are by examining a fuller ray 661|01:24:20|970|01:24:27|070chart than we are given. Actually, we are given no ray chart at all for these Lords of Constellations. 662|01:24:27|070|01:24:33|170But we are given rays, and we can perhaps attempt to assign some of these rays to periodical 663|01:24:33|170|01:24:40|350vehicles. Okay, so the fusion under the second ray primarily of soul and form—and in one 664|01:24:40|350|01:24:45|550way soul is ruled generically by the second ray and form by the sixth ray, the two rays 665|01:24:45|550|01:24:51|830that are passing through Pisces as they are through Virgo. The blending of soul and form, 666|01:24:51|830|01:24:56|190as far as man is concerned, we are working microcosmically and producing the manifestation 667|01:24:56|190|01:25:03|390of the incarnated Christ, the Christ within man, the fully flowering soul, the perfected 668|01:25:03|390|01:25:10|690individual soul—let's call it the fully flowering soul. That's what we are looking at. Thus 669|01:25:10|690|01:25:18|370the greater and the lesser polar opposites—the human being and God, the microcosm and 670|01:25:18|370|01:25:25|250the Macrocosm—are brought to their destined expression and manifestation. Well, the greater 671|01:25:25|250|01:25:32|650polar opposites—the greater polar opposites—we can imagine spirit and matter. 672|01:25:33|390|01:25:43|630The lesser of the polar opposites, in a certain way, we can consider soul and form. So we have 673|01:25:43|630|01:25:47|930the human being and we have God. God in this case seems to be related to Aries, God the 674|01:25:47|930|01:25:53|130Father, the human being in this case more to Pisces, the individual human fish swimming 675|01:25:53|130|01:26:01|030in the great ocean of matter, water and the lower planes of the solar Logos and planetary 676|01:26:01|030|01:26:05|930Logos. They are brought to their destined expression and manifestation. We, from a practical 677|01:26:05|930|01:26:12|110point of view, we should be most interested in bringing the individual Christ within our 678|01:26:12|110|01:26:19|450nature to the right form of expression. That is our immediate task. We cannot worry so 679|01:26:19|450|01:26:25|330much about the planetary Christ or the solar systemic Christ or the cosmic Christ. These 680|01:26:25|330|01:26:31|910will be handled by the entities who work at those levels. 681|01:26:33|250|01:26:39|530Until man is nearing the goal, these words mean but little What does it mean to near 682|01:26:39|530|01:26:44|710the goal? Well, perhaps to begin taking the first initiation, to enter in some small way 683|01:26:44|710|01:26:51|250the kingdom of God. Perhaps that means nearing the goal, and there are other and higher goals. 684|01:26:52|010|01:26:59|030Maybe D.K. means something even closer to the fourth initiation, but entering the kingdom 685|01:26:59|610|01:27:07|710of God is in a way nearing the goal, and for many first degree initiates these books are 686|01:27:07|710|01:27:12|130written, so maybe we can begin to understand just a little bit. Until man is nearing the 687|01:27:12|130|01:27:19|190goal, these words mean but little though a study of the sign Pisces in the two ways intended 688|01:27:19|190|01:27:24|950i.e., on the wheel of form and the wheel of consciousness, may reveal much that is significant 689|01:27:24|950|01:27:31|510and suggestive. In a way, Pisces is a kind of beginning and a kind of end, just as Aries 690|01:27:31|510|01:27:40|710is, and one day Aries-Pisces will be one sign. Pisces, a kind of beginning and end. There 691|01:27:40|710|01:27:47|790is a certain sense of finality, and we are told about Pisces: “Go forth into matter.” The 692|01:27:47|790|01:27:53|430very first incarnation in an individual sense, as we have been seeing, D.K. says is taken 693|01:27:53|430|01:28:00|770in Pisces, and the final incarnation which will bring a man to Shambhala is often experienced 694|01:28:00|770|01:28:09|570in Pisces, so like Aries, it is a kind of beginning and end. The goal of Deity, the emergence 695|01:28:09|570|01:28:18|210of God's plan and the nature of His eternal purpose is for us only a subject of interested 696|01:28:18|210|01:28:25|030speculation. Is D.K. including himself here? Perhaps when it comes to fathoming the eternal 697|01:28:25|030|01:28:31|770purpose of God, D.K. is including himself. D.K. tells us that he has not been to the 698|01:28:31|770|01:28:37|810cosmic astral plane, is not qualified to speak about that which transpires there except in 699|01:28:37|810|01:28:43|010a very learned sense, maybe not in a direct experiential sense. He can say something about 700|01:28:43|010|01:28:48|390the emergence of God's plan because he, like the other masters, is part of that emergence, 701|01:28:49|370|01:28:54|930but as for the unknown, unheard purpose of Sanat Kumara, the seven great purposes of 702|01:28:54|930|01:29:07|790Sanat Kumara, there are some purposes which Sanat Kumara keeps entirely to himself. He 703|01:29:10|890|01:29:19|650says that the first letter of the first syllable—I think maybe the first syllable of Sanat Kumara's name. 704|01:29:19|710|01:29:26|230Anyway, with every increase in initiatory rank, a letter, a syllable, more than one syllable 705|01:29:26|230|01:29:33|350of the great name of Sanat Kumara is revealed, and along with that, the purpose. So if it 706|01:29:33|350|01:29:40|470is speculative for Master D.K., it's certainly speculative for us—interested speculation. 707|01:29:41|410|01:29:46|710The goal of deity: we're given in a general sense the idea that our deity is to become 708|01:29:46|710|01:29:53|790a great station of light within the solar system. The theme of our planetary Logos is 709|01:29:53|790|01:30:00|850light and illumination. When it comes to the goal of the solar Logos, we understand that 710|01:30:00|850|01:30:06|910he is a heart center in a cosmic Logos, so increasingly the energy of Buddhic love will 711|01:30:06|910|01:30:13|370have to be expressed through our solar Logos. But that doesn't really tell us so much that 712|01:30:13|370|01:30:19|030he will become a greater and greater God of love, a consuming fire of love. It tells us 713|01:30:19|030|01:30:23|950something and gives us the idea that love must condition everything within the solar 714|01:30:23|950|01:30:30|570system, but the specifics of the purpose are not revealed, and the way he goes about achieving 715|01:30:30|570|01:30:35|550them in relation to other aspects of the cosmic Logos of which he is a part are not revealed. 716|01:30:37|170|01:30:41|490The goal of Deity, the emergence of God's plan and the nature of His eternal purpose 717|01:30:41|490|01:30:50|270is for us only a subject of interested speculation. There is a possibility that this plan the 718|01:30:50|270|01:30:56|850divine plan and purpose—whether of the planetary Logos or solar Logos—719|01:30:57|290|01:31:04|770may be vastly different to our surmise which is based upon our formulation of a Deity who 720|01:31:04|770|01:31:11|850is the product of our mental processes and of devoted idealism (two of the three aspects 721|01:31:11|850|01:31:16|890of the personality nature), We have mentality, we have a devoted idealism—at least the high 722|01:31:16|890|01:31:24|350person does, relatively high—and we may speculate upon the nature of our deity, of our planetary 723|01:31:24|350|01:31:30|470Logos, of our solar Logos. Sometimes to speculate upon the nature of the absolute God is utterly 724|01:31:30|470|01:31:38|650futile when we realize that we cannot even do so for our planetary Logos, our solar Logos. 725|01:31:39|550|01:31:47|210So D.K. is warning us that our conceptions may be very much other than truth: the product 726|01:31:47|210|01:31:51|190of our mental processes and of devoted idealism (two of the three aspects of the personality 727|01:31:51|190|01:31:57|710nature), and the attempt to interpret His infinite purposes in terms of our own finiteness. Well, 728|01:31:57|710|01:32:03|430okay, which God are we talking about? Because a planetary God or a solar God cannot have, 729|01:32:03|430|01:32:10|370strictly speaking, infinite purposes. But let us say that—well, for that matter, I think 730|01:32:10|370|01:32:16|600that even the universal God of our cosmos cannot have infinite purposes because the 731|01:32:16|600|01:32:26|880cosmos is a one; it's a unity, it is delimited, it is not a many, it is a particular singularity. 732|01:32:27|800|01:32:32|480It is not the infinity of infinities. So, you know, maybe I'm too particular about this 733|01:32:32|480|01:32:36|760word “infinite”—not that I can say I really understand it, but it is a passion of mine. 734|01:32:37|260|01:32:43|040So sometimes it's just meant to indicate a very large number, a number which we couldn't 735|01:32:43|040|01:32:50|300possibly count because, given our human limitations, we could not spend the time counting it; we 736|01:32:50|300|01:32:58|080could not find a way to count it. But here we are—the idea is that we, in our own little 737|01:32:58|080|01:33:05|340personality nature, cannot attempt to understand the vast purposes of the deities in whom we 738|01:33:05|340|01:33:10|120live and move and have our being: namely, our planetary Logos, our solar Logos, and Logoi 739|01:33:10|120|01:33:16|620beyond. Let us always remember this. And so what is this here, really? This is an injunction 740|01:33:17|400|01:33:25|300to humility and right proportion, which humility is—an adjusted sense of right proportion. 741|01:33:26|100|01:33:31|180The mechanism for divine perception—the higher siddhis—has not yet been developed in the human 742|01:33:31|180|01:33:37|540family on any large scale though some have it and some have some, and is only achieving 743|01:33:37|540|01:33:42|860some measure of usefulness in the initiate of the third degree. So when we are an initiate 744|01:33:42|860|01:33:48|740of the third degree, the Ajna center is awakening to fuller power—the center in the center 745|01:33:48|740|01:33:55|860of the head—the etheric third eye is awakening, and the higher siddhis are gaining the possibility 746|01:33:55|860|01:34:04|340of expression. So the initiate of the third degree has some degree… The initiate of the 747|01:34:04|340|01:34:13|900third degree has some divine perception. Now, this is not just spiritual perception—think 748|01:34:13|900|01:34:22|620of it. Spiritual perception is inaccessible enough. Spiritual perception has to do with 749|01:34:22|620|01:34:28|520the realms of the soul and of the spiritual triad. Divine perception is relating to still 750|01:34:28|520|01:34:33|760higher levels: the higher two sub-planes of the Buddhic plane, the higher two sub-planes 751|01:34:33|760|01:34:39|240of the Atmic plane, and modes of perception which are uncategorized and which are characteristic 752|01:34:39|860|01:34:45|840of the Monadic plane and the Logoic plane. Those are really the divine levels of perception. 753|01:34:46|300|01:34:51|700So only the very high initiate will have them. He's talking about sensitivity here, really, 754|01:34:51|700|01:35:00|740isn't he? Pisces is a sign of a great sensitive consciousness, and so it seems right for him 755|01:35:00|740|01:35:09|500to be discussing our limitations and the possibilities of our eventual growing sensitivity when 756|01:35:09|500|01:35:17|460discussing this sign of impression, of mediation, and, in a lesser sense, of mediumship. This 757|01:35:17|460|01:35:26|600is a very receptive sign, a sign which is maybe so easy to be overwhelmed by circumstance 758|01:35:26|600|01:35:33|320and many lesser energies, but which, when those phases are overcome, can attune with high and 759|01:35:33|320|01:35:38|040subtle energies which for most people seem non-existent. 760|01:35:38|880|01:35:51|920Okay, how are we doing here? We are speaking of a duality in Pisces. We've been talking 761|01:35:51|920|01:36:05|380about the bringing together of soul and form. Okay, soul and form. This duality of Pisces 762|01:36:05|380|01:36:13|380must be studied in relation to its three keynotes which are So D.K. is, as promised, giving us the keynotes 763|01:36:13|380|01:36:21|900and keywords of the sign Pisces. 1. Bondage or captivity.—this is the initial sign of 764|01:36:21|920|01:36:29|620the dual phase. This is the whale swallowing Jonah, the whale of great size. It is the 765|01:36:29|620|01:36:39|880seed of the sea monster. It's related to the Hydra, related to the deluge of elemental 766|01:36:39|880|01:36:46|700forces which can easily overcome a human being who has not yet stabilized himself in his 767|01:36:46|700|01:36:51|820spiritual consciousness. Bondage or captivity—we are subject to many influences in the lower 768|01:36:51|820|01:37:01|940worlds. 2. Renunciation or detachment.—and here we are learning to give up our attachment 769|01:37:02|860|01:37:11|260to these lower influences. We put them aside; we repulse them, perhaps, under the Law of Repulse, 770|01:37:11|460|01:37:18|180the fourth law of the soul, and we can observe them but find that we are not swayed by them. 771|01:37:18|180|01:37:24|920And finally, when we have detached ourselves from that which originally kept us in bondage— 772|01:37:24|920|01:37:35|620and captivity, we learn to sacrifice any possible desire for those levels. We make a sacred 773|01:37:35|620|01:37:43|420offering. We give up what most people cherish because we cherish something still higher, 774|01:37:43|420|01:37:52|700and we die to the lower worlds and are in a way born into still higher areas of opportunity. 775|01:37:52|960|01:38:00|060So it's not a very sad and sort of gruesome death, but great hope and possibility. Pisces 776|01:38:00|060|01:38:04|660being a sign of great hope. Great hope follows the stage and realization. 777|01:38:08|080|01:38:16|640Okay, so these are the keynotes: bondage or captivity; renunciation or detachment. Pluto 778|01:38:16|640|01:38:22|980certainly helps with that, right? Interestingly, bondage can relate to Jupiter and Neptune, 779|01:38:23|140|01:38:29|560two of the rulers of Pisces, because one is thoroughly engaged with all this lower level 780|01:38:29|560|01:38:35|860of expression. And finally, 3. Sacrifice and death. Certainly Pluto is the planet of death, 781|01:38:35|860|01:38:44|560and it cuts the thread which binds us to lesser things. So the rulers of Pisces, Jupiter and 782|01:38:44|560|01:38:50|960Pluto, are very much involved in this process. Interesting that Pisces rules very large animals 783|01:38:50|960|01:38:56|960such as whales of all things, whereas Virgo rules small animals in exoteric astrology. 784|01:38:57|680|01:39:02|640And the whale of great size is a very Jupiterian, Neptunian thing. It's in the Neptunian waters, 785|01:39:02|640|01:39:08|740and it's of great size. It's Jupiter, and it engulfs and swallows and incorporates the 786|01:39:08|740|01:39:18|380soul for a long time, thus keeping it in bondage. So remember that not every planet is wonderful 787|01:39:18|380|01:39:25|620as a planetary God, but there are negative ways in which these planets can express according 788|01:39:25|620|01:39:31|220to the type of form that it influences. So there are some lower expressions of the planets, 789|01:39:31|220|01:39:34|660and you know every time we mention Aquarius we can't say, “Oh, that's a wonderful sign, 790|01:39:34|800|01:39:39|160everything is good about Aquarius.” We have to remember that the Nazi party came into 791|01:39:39|160|01:39:49|160power in Germany as the official ruling party under Aquarius, January 30th. So the signs 792|01:39:49|160|01:39:56|800of the zodiac, their qualities are not all good, not all bad. It depends on how they 793|01:39:56|800|01:40:01|820are used. That's a truism, but we have to keep it in mind; otherwise we will always go on 794|01:40:03|760|01:40:09|440preferring Aquarius to Pisces or preferring the seventh ray to the sixth ray or preferring 795|01:40:10|020|01:40:15|640the second ray to the third ray, not realizing that they are all equally divine and that 796|01:40:15|640|01:40:20|140there are negative expressions of even the rays we prefer and the signs that we prefer. 797|01:40:21|400|01:40:29|760Okay, page 116. In the first cycle of experience upon the wheel, turning clockwise I would 798|01:40:29|760|01:40:36|960assume, the soul itself is in captivity to substance; It's all that the consciousness 799|01:40:36|960|01:40:45|620sees. It's not sensitive to any of the inner impulses yet. It is impressionable. It is 800|01:40:45|640|01:40:53|640real to all the outer impulses, and they sway the soul and lead the soul and compel 801|01:40:53|640|01:41:00|480the soul. You've seen some of these people; they look like they are cut adrift, and the 802|01:41:01|200|01:41:09|020current that comes along from the normal worlds sways them and directs them. They are not 803|01:41:09|020|01:41:19|320self-directing. Let's just talk about that here: not self-directing individuals. it has 804|01:41:19|320|01:41:23|940come down into the prison house 805|01:41:23|940|01:41:29|440of matter Pisces is the twelfth sign. It represents the twelfth house, and typically 806|01:41:29|440|01:41:37|040prisons, places of incarceration, even convents and monasteries where you are in a way voluntarily 807|01:41:37|040|01:41:42|960incarcerated, they are all ruled by the twelfth house. Asylums, institutions, even hospitals 808|01:41:42|960|01:41:48|720where you are confined. Places of confinement, albeit for the purpose of redemption, but 809|01:41:48|720|01:41:54|540nevertheless places of confinement are ruled by Pisces and relate to the twelfth house. 810|01:41:55|340|01:42:01|800The soul has come down into the prison house of matter and linked itself to form. Those 811|01:42:01|800|01:42:11|760are the ties, the magnetic ties, and those are the very ties that Pluto has to cut: magnetic 812|01:42:11|760|01:42:19|880ties. It dissociates itself from what was previously so appealing. Through the eye of 813|01:42:19|880|01:42:26|560glamour, many essentially worthless things appear very appealing. So we are trying to 814|01:42:26|560|01:42:33|820understand that and to eventually achieve our detached freedom. Hence the symbol of 815|01:42:33|820|01:42:41|600Pisces, of the two fishes linked together by a band. and it is 816|01:42:41|600|01:42:48|400also considered to be one of the constellations: magnetic band. The constellations associated 817|01:42:48|400|01:42:56|360with Pisces: Andromeda, Cepheus the King, and the Band. The band binding the two fishes 818|01:42:56|360|01:43:06|300together. Is it true that the Buddha had Pisces on the ascendant? There are some writings 819|01:43:06|300|01:43:13|880by D.K. that seem to indicate this, along with his Taurus sun and his Scorpio moon. Maybe 820|01:43:13|880|01:43:20|260It is so, but anyway, the Buddha came to cut that band, and he was able to use Scorpio to 821|01:43:20|260|01:43:26|420do it and also the brilliant light of Taurus to do it. To dissolve the band which binds 822|01:43:26|420|01:43:33|120the fish of the soul to the fish of form. The vertical fish to the horizontal fish. 823|01:43:33|280|01:43:38|880When you look at Pisces, you see that the two fishes are swimming in two different directions. 824|01:43:39|200|01:43:47|220One is vertical and the other is more horizontal, representing in this case the world of form. 825|01:43:48|260|01:43:55|380So the two fishes are linked together by a band. One fish stands for the soul and the 826|01:43:55|380|01:44:02|280other for the personality or form nature, and between them is to be found the “thread or sutratma,” 827|01:44:02|720|01:44:08|920the silver cord which keeps them bound to each other throughout 828|01:44:08|920|01:44:14|680the cycle of manifested life. Well, that may be one—that is one thread that one wants 829|01:44:14|680|01:44:20|580to be very judicious in cutting. There are other threads that one can cut. Eventually, 830|01:44:20|900|01:44:33|840finally, the sutratma is cut, but only after all has been accomplished. If we cut the sutratma 831|01:44:33|840|01:44:40|580prematurely, we cut away our possibility of working out the purposes of soul in form. 832|01:44:40|580|01:44:48|420But there are threads of consciousness which, in a way, or threads of attachment at least, 833|01:44:48|560|01:44:57|200which have to be cut. One can remain conscious of that to which one is no longer attached. 834|01:44:58|920|01:45:04|620So anyway, the thread or sutratma, the band represents the silver cord. Sometimes silver, 835|01:45:05|100|01:45:12|340maybe another color. D.K. says it's not exactly an apt description, but there is a magnetic 836|01:45:12|340|01:45:20|340cord of life that connects the two fishes, and death followed at the end of every incarnation 837|01:45:20|340|01:45:27|020is the cutting of the cord under Pluto so that the consciousness returns to itself and 838|01:45:27|020|01:45:32|440is no longer engaged with the previous form. You can ask yourself, well, what was the form 839|01:45:32|440|01:45:39|620of my previous life or five lives previously? Do I really care? I only care insomuch as 840|01:45:39|620|01:45:45|780it may affect my consciousness now, but am I attached to those previous physical vehicle 841|01:45:45|780|01:45:53|020per se or the previous etheric substance? Am I attached to those atoms? Probably I am 842|01:45:53|020|01:45:58|680not, although I am attached to the elemental lives which are generated through my permanent 843|01:45:58|680|01:46:03|280atoms. I remain attached to those until the fourth initiation. 844|01:46:05|080|01:46:15|540Later on, upon the reversed wheel, the personality is brought into captivity by the soul, Well, 845|01:46:15|540|01:46:26|880the man swallows the whale in a certain sense. The personality is reduced in its influence, 846|01:46:26|880|01:46:34|020and the soul waxes and grows as in Gemini, and the elemental life is no longer allowed 847|01:46:34|020|01:46:43|880to do precisely what it wants to do. No longer. but for long aeons the situation is reversed 848|01:46:43|880|01:46:49|260and the soul is the prisoner of the personality. Well, let us say that our consciousness is 849|01:46:49|260|01:46:54|460the victim of all of these fire, earth, air and water, fire by friction elemental lives, 850|01:46:55|640|01:47:03|840and this is the case for the majority of human beings. The soul as the prisoner of the personality. 851|01:47:05|060|01:47:14|320This dual bondage—Pisces being a dual sign, the sign of bondage or binding to—is brought 852|01:47:14|320|01:47:20|180to an end by what is called the final death, It makes you think that Pluto is involved 853|01:47:20|180|01:47:27|660there and maybe Uranus is on the final burning ground. The relationship of human awareness 854|01:47:27|660|01:47:38|620to form is—and a form in bondage to the human awareness—is finally terminated at the higher 855|01:47:38|620|01:47:46|040stages of human initiation when the complete release of the life aspect from the life of 856|01:47:46|040|01:48:00|660form takes place. There is a—this is much later in the process—and there is in esoteric 857|01:48:00|660|01:48:12|280healing a rule, a final law. Is it law number 10 in esoteric healing? Let us take a look 858|01:48:12|280|01:48:28|220at that if we can and let us see. Law 10, maybe here. Oh yes, this is it. This is it. 859|01:48:28|300|01:48:42|260This is the final liberation, and it says these are two forms of death. Harken, O Chela, to the 860|01:48:42|260|01:48:47|700Mother and then obey. The word goes forth that form has served its purpose. The principle 861|01:48:47|700|01:48:54|740of mind then organizes itself and then repeats the word. The waiting form responds and drops 862|01:48:54|740|01:48:59|780away, and the soul stands free. So this is the freedom, this is the temporary cutting 863|01:49:01|120|01:49:09|100of the consciousness from the life of form at the end of every incarnation. But look 864|01:49:09|100|01:49:15|840at the next part of the law. Respond, O rising one. This is the spirit itself, the monad. 865|01:49:16|020|01:49:21|780Respond, O rising one, to the call which comes within the sphere of obligation. Recognize 866|01:49:21|780|01:49:26|340the call emerging from the ashram or from the council chamber where awaits the Lord 867|01:49:26|340|01:49:38|000of Life himself, who is calling upon the spirit or monad to rise up out of form and out of 868|01:49:38|000|01:49:43|520form together must renounce the principle of life and thus permit the monad to stand 869|01:49:43|520|01:49:50|600free. The soul responds; the form then shatters the connection. Life, the monadic aspect, 870|01:49:50|600|01:49:56|760is now liberated. Owning the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience, 871|01:49:57|400|01:50:03|360these are the gifts of soul and form combined. This is page 501 and 502 of Esoteric Healing. 872|01:50:04|580|01:50:11|800Yes, and this is where the spirit dissociates itself not only from form but from soul, and 873|01:50:11|800|01:50:22|460this is a final type of Piscean consummation. So this dual bondage in which soul and form 874|01:50:22|460|01:50:28|460are bound to each other is brought to an end by what I've called the final death and which 875|01:50:28|460|01:50:38|080has been described in Law 10 of the Rules and Laws of Esoteric Healing. When the complete 876|01:50:38|080|01:50:45|900release of the life aspect, the rising one from the life of form takes place. So, you 877|01:50:45|900|01:50:58|440know, what is this? Let's just call this the fourth and fifth initiations. It should be 878|01:50:58|440|01:51:02|280the dense physical body of the soul of Logos, even though on the higher levels of that dense 879|01:51:02|280|01:51:09|500physical body. It should be borne in mind also that the soul itself is of the nature of form from the standpoint of the Monad, 880|01:51:10|220|01:51:16|880though it is a form far subtler than any that we know in the three worlds of human evolution. 881|01:51:18|160|01:51:26|760So in other words, the Pisces also rules in its hierarchical sense the release 882|01:51:26|760|01:51:33|920of spirit from the soul body, and this is of course the fourth degree. Later is Pisces 883|01:51:33|920|01:51:42|060involved in the ultimate release of the monad from the spiritual triad itself. We can speculate. 884|01:51:43|120|01:51:49|040There is also a dual renunciation referred to in these key words, Dual renunciation, 885|01:51:49|820|01:51:56|100bondage and captivity, renunciation and detachment, sacrifice and death. There is also a dual 886|01:51:56|100|01:52:03|120renunciation referred to in these key words, for first of all the soul renounces the life 887|01:52:03|120|01:52:10|180and light of the Monad, It comes, it leaves. What is the soul? The soul is the jiva, the 888|01:52:10|180|01:52:16|560awareness of the monad which is projected down into the lower worlds.its source (symbolized by the words “the Father's home”), and descends into the ocean of matter; There is, “I leave 889|01:52:16|560|01:52:20|780my father's home,” and turning back I say… But there is the part of it where we say, “I leave 890|01:52:20|780|01:52:28|380my father's home because I am a lord of ceaseless and persevering devotion,” of persevering, ceaseless 891|01:52:28|380|01:52:34|360devotion as such a lord of consciousness. I leave the highest state of the father, of 892|01:52:34|360|01:52:50|760the monad, of that vast divine awareness. I leave that world of light and life. I leave 893|01:52:50|760|01:52:53|680the world of self-consciousness. And that takes a long time. That's the entire 894|01:52:55|160|01:53:12|420evolutionary process, and then the early stages of evolution during which there is not self-consciousness. 895|01:53:13|440|01:53:19|660then, reversing itself, the soul awakening to itself, let us say, awakening to its true 896|01:53:19|660|01:53:31|160spiritual nature, renounces the life of form, the personality centre. The soul detaches 897|01:53:31|160|01:53:37|060itself (in consciousness) Remember now, this is telling us that the sutratma is not detached 898|01:53:37|060|01:53:44|700here, not until the very end. It is not detached. The soul detaches itself still connected to 899|01:53:44|700|01:53:52|540the monad by life, but in consciousness from the Monad, the One, because all monads are 900|01:53:52|540|01:53:58|760one, <wrao quote>and functions from its own centre,</wrap> on the higher mental plane in the egoic lotus, 901|01:53:58|860|01:54:05|980in the causal body, making its own new and material attachments. in the lower three worlds. 902|01:54:09|280|01:54:17|080So there is a descending detachment and an ascending detachment, and Pisces is ruling 903|01:54:17|080|01:54:22|440both of those. “I leave the father's home” is certainly a Piscean statement. It refers to 904|01:54:22|440|01:54:29|240the descent of the jivic consciousness from the realm of the monad. Then the prodigal 905|01:54:29|240|01:54:37|540son, who is also the soul, awakens to himself and leaves behind the peripheral worlds of 906|01:54:37|540|01:54:46|060the personality and becomes fully soul conscious and eventually spirit conscious. Then, upon 907|01:54:46|060|01:54:50|980the reversal of the wheel, yet the soul it proceeds to detach itself from the personality and 908|01:54:50|980|01:54:57|040re-attach itself in consciousness to the One Who sent it forth. So it is very right 909|01:54:57|040|01:55:10|060to say that the soul looks in two directions, like Janus, the Roman two-faced God, looks 910|01:55:10|060|01:55:19|420in two directions. Such is the climaxing story of Pisces. The Lords of Will and Sacrifice 911|01:55:19|580|01:55:24|240who are the monads, who are ourselves, come down into manifestation, sacrificing their 912|01:55:24|240|01:55:30|860high position and opportunities upon the higher planes of manifestation i.e., the worlds of 913|01:55:30|860|01:55:39|520the cosmic ethers, in order to redeem matter redeem the matter of the dense physical body 914|01:55:39|520|01:55:46|640of the solar and planetary Logos, and raise the lives by which it is informed (the lower 915|01:55:46|640|01:55:53|620Creative Hierarchies) to the status of Themselves in so far as They constitute the fourth Creative 916|01:55:53|620|01:56:02|040Hierarchy. So the mission is redemptive, and the spiritual hierarchies with which we are 917|01:56:02|040|01:56:08|320associated, the lower ones as part of our bodies of expression, are to be redeemed by 918|01:56:08|320|01:56:14|880association with us. We are monads in extension. So this is our purpose. It's not some unhappy 919|01:56:15|580|01:56:21|680thing, although it does lead to much temporary grief and limitation. It is a mission out 920|01:56:21|680|01:56:28|080of divine love from the Lord of persevering ceaseless devotion. Remember, Pisces is a 921|01:56:28|080|01:56:36|060major sign of love and redemption. This is the subjective purpose, underlying the sacrifice 922|01:56:36|640|01:56:45|980of these divine i.e., monadic, Lives Who are ourselves essentially, Who are qualified 923|01:56:45|980|01:56:50|420by knowledge, love and will, But we have that. It's not like the monad is a tabula 924|01:56:50|420|01:56:59|780rasa. It's not a blank slate. The monad has had many forms of experience, has knowledge, 925|01:57:00|040|01:57:08|100love, and will. So we want to say the monad is equipped and not a tabula rasa, not a blank 926|01:57:08|100|01:57:13|300slate by any means, depending upon being informed by all that goes on within the lower life. 927|01:57:13|810|01:57:20|560It's not there so much to gather as it is to serve, although inevitably it does gather 928|01:57:20|560|01:57:26|300some additional knowledge by life in the lower worlds. and animated by ceaseless persevering 929|01:57:26|300|01:57:33|340devotion. the monad is animated by continually shining, shining like a sun, pulsating like 930|01:57:33|340|01:57:39|280a sun, ceaseless persevering devotion. So this is the subjective purpose underlying 931|01:57:39|280|01:57:44|500the sacrifice of these divine lives, who are ourselves essentially, who are qualified by 932|01:57:44|500|01:57:49|120knowledge, love, and will, and animated by ceaseless persevering devotion. 933|01:57:50|620|01:57:56|880They seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance, the death 934|01:57:56|880|01:58:04|080of the form living only unto itself and not living unto a higher and more principled pattern 935|01:58:04|080|01:58:09|180which can redeem it. They seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance 936|01:58:09|180|01:58:14|440and the consequent release of the indwelling lives into a higher state of consciousness. 937|01:58:15|680|01:58:31|680So redemption is elevation. Redemption is elevation. And we are seeking to uplift the 938|01:58:31|680|01:58:38|740lives with which we come in contact, just the way greater lives, to whom we are as little 939|01:58:38|740|01:58:45|740devas or even elementals, are associating with us and uplifting us by their association. 940|01:58:46|480|01:58:51|200Of this process, all the world Saviours—and remember Pisces is the sign of the world savior 941|01:58:51|200|01:58:57|360and of salvation—of this process, all the world Saviours—past, present and to come—are 942|01:58:57|360|01:59:02|540the manifested symbols and the eternal guarantees. There have been many world saviors before 943|01:59:02|540|01:59:09|040the appearance of the Christ. They guarantee this divine redemptive process in which we 944|01:59:09|040|01:59:14|400are all engaged and from which we are all benefiting. And we have to become redeemers 945|01:59:14|400|01:59:20|100or awaken to the fact that we set forth on our great pilgrimage as redeemers. We have 946|01:59:20|100|01:59:25|840set forth in this way. And we have forgotten by becoming selfish and we have forgotten 947|01:59:25|840|01:59:30|020our original purpose, and when we wake up to the plan of the soul and the purpose of 948|01:59:30|020|01:59:33|320the monad, we will again become unselfish redeemers. 949|01:59:34|360|01:59:40|500It is in such recognitions as these that the mainspring to the life of service must be 950|01:59:40|500|01:59:45|760sought. If we want to serve, we have to remember who we are. There are many reasons to serve, 951|01:59:46|180|01:59:51|060but the deepest reason to serve is the recollection of why we set forth on our great pilgrimage. 952|01:59:51|060|01:59:56|460People born in this sign are frequently to be found serving the race and ministering 953|01:59:56|460|02:00:01|300to its needs—they are often ministers in the church—upon some level of consciousness. 954|02:00:02|040|02:00:21|040The need of others is most important to the advancing Piscean individual. They live their 955|02:00:21|040|02:00:27|760lives. I was just in a convent the other day and I attended a Catholic mass, participated, 956|02:00:28|580|02:00:39|160and “Totus Tuus” was the motto of this order of Carmelite nuns, “all for you” or “all yours,” 957|02:00:40|660|02:00:46|800complete altruism. Thus they are prepared for the final sacrifice in Pisces maybe that 958|02:00:46|800|02:00:52|880last incarnation at the fourth degree, which “absorbs them back into their originating Motive,” 959|02:00:52|980|02:00:59|300That's it. We have to recapture our motive, our motive as monads who set forth on the 960|02:00:59|300|02:01:05|200great pilgrimage, as the Old Commentary expresses it. And we've forgotten our motive. And if 961|02:01:05|200|02:01:10|300we can but remember our motive, our entire service life will be reanimated and we will 962|02:01:10|300|02:01:15|200be living life with an entirely different orientation, not one of acquisition. 963|02:01:15|880|02:01:22|700It is for this reason that the life of service and the directed intention to serve constitute 964|02:01:22|700|02:01:28|200a scientific mode of achieving release. almost more powerful than meditation. At times D.K. 965|02:01:28|200|02:01:34|260says it is more powerful than meditation. Service is more releasing and more redemptive 966|02:01:34|260|02:01:45|180even than meditation. The life of service and the directed intention to serve, as the 967|02:01:45|180|02:01:51|720through the exercise of that life of service and that even personality intention or intention 968|02:01:51|720|02:01:59|740of the soul within the personality to serve will bring us back to the realization of our 969|02:01:59|740|02:02:04|280originating motive. First we realize what it is, then we're absorbed back into it and 970|02:02:04|280|02:02:10|660we become that divine will to serve. In Aquarius, the sign of world service, the lesson is finally 971|02:02:10|660|02:02:16|320learned which produces the world Saviour in Pisces. Hence my constant emphasis upon service. 972|02:02:16|320|02:02:23|460So there is here the accent upon the continuity of these two great signs of release, Aquarius 973|02:02:23|460|02:02:27|940being a sign in which you can take the third or fourth initiation, Pisces being a sign 974|02:02:27|940|02:02:35|280in which you can take the fourth initiation so often and even perhaps the fifth initiation, 975|02:02:35|280|02:02:43|840releasing you into Shambhala. Well friends, it looks like I've done a two hour program 976|02:02:43|840|02:03:05|180here without being cancelled. Yeah, a little more. So let us call this, I don't want to 977|02:03:05|180|02:03:12|320go as far as, well maybe the best way to do that is to look down here. We've gone to page 978|02:03:12|320|02:03:29|160117 and I think, 117, and where did we begin? Okay, we began, okay that's E.A. 52 part 1 and 979|02:03:29|160|02:03:39|160we, that's about where we were, page 111. So we've gone from page 111 to 117 in a two 980|02:03:39|160|02:03:45|880hour program. It takes a little bit to set these up in a different form but hopefully 981|02:03:46|820|02:03:55|120they will be of value and when I feel that I'm on a roll that I will be able to roll 982|02:03:55|120|02:04:02|580instead of always having to stop after one hour. Although if one talks too long one loses oxygen 983|02:04:02|580|02:04:08|560and perhaps the brain goes a little bit numb. Anyway, it's almost time for breakfast here and 984|02:04:09|520|02:04:18|000I will attempt to continue this a little bit later. So let us, let us recite together the 985|02:04:18|000|02:04:30|700Great Invocation and conclude this two hour webinar. Okay. 986|02:04:49|340|02:04:55|760From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds 987|02:04:55|760|02:05:06|060of men. Let light descend on earth. From the point of love within the heart of God, let 988|02:05:06|060|02:05:18|420love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. From the center 989|02:05:18|420|02:05:24|060where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose 990|02:05:24|060|02:05:34|940which the masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men, let 991|02:05:34|940|02:05:42|720the plan of love and light work out and may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light 992|02:05:42|720|02:05:46|540and love and power restore the plan on earth. 993|02:06:28|980|02:06:34|820Okay friends, thank you for attending. We are working on Pisces. We have concluded Aries 994|02:06:34|820|02:06:42|380and in this Esoteric Astrology Adventure 52 we have the conclusion of Aries and the beginning 995|02:06:42|380|02:06:51|120of Pisces. So we will stop the process for now and we'll talk to you soon with Esoteric 996|02:06:51|120|02:06:56|260Astrology Adventure 53 whether it's going to be of the normal one hour length or longer 997|02:06:56|260|02:06:58|680we will see. See you then. Bye bye.