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1|00:00:07|480|00:00:08|760Okay, hi everybody. 2|00:00:09|460|00:00:13|520This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 53. 3|00:00:14|000|00:00:20|240The last broadcast was kind of a two-hour broadcast because I figured out a way to do 4|00:00:20|240|00:00:25|060it, and hopefully it was not too difficult to download. 5|00:00:25|060|00:00:32|660We have been working in the sign Pisces in Esoteric Astrology EAA Adventure 52. 6|00:00:33|340|00:00:43|180We completed, in a sense, the sign Aries, discussing the sign Aries, and we began discussing Pisces. 7|00:00:43|180|00:00:52|640And we were discussing releasing a man back into his original, originating motive as a 8|00:00:52|640|00:00:53|000monad. 9|00:00:54|950|00:01:01|000We have the final sacrifice in Pisces does that. 10|00:01:02|260|00:01:11|460And so after the fourth initiation, at least there, and by the sixth, a man is released 11|00:01:11|460|00:01:13|560entirely back into his originating motive. 12|00:01:14|360|00:01:19|820But after the fourth, although he is not yet a liberated monad, as he will be at the sixth 13|00:01:19|820|00:01:28|360degree, he is at least recollecting, realizing, feeling, experiencing his originating motive 14|00:01:28|360|00:01:32|780as a lord of persevering, ceaseless devotion. 15|00:01:34|420|00:01:40|300So this is why D.K. says the life of service is the scientific mode for achieving release. 16|00:01:40|300|00:01:49|300And he told us how much the Piscean individuals are involved in living that life of service 17|00:01:49|300|00:01:52|360and even salvation. 18|00:01:52|860|00:01:56|700Because the true sign of the world server, world service is Aquarius and it leads straight 19|00:01:56|700|00:01:58|540into Pisces. 20|00:01:58|760|00:02:05|340There are, in relation to both of these signs, the salvaging planet Neptune very strong. 21|00:02:05|340|00:02:20|240So Neptune is a veiled hierarchical ruler in Aquarius, along with Vulcan and Uranus. 22|00:02:20|920|00:02:28|960And Neptune is a special ruler in relation to humanity in the sign Pisces. 23|00:02:30|400|00:02:33|100So Neptune is that great second-ray planet. 24|00:02:33|100|00:02:34|180It is Vishnu. 25|00:02:34|180|00:02:36|000It is the Christ. 26|00:02:36|300|00:02:43|880It is the compassion which arises from transcendental realization. 27|00:02:45|980|00:02:52|220And so it is fitting that it would be so very powerful in the last two signs of the zodiac, 28|00:02:52|220|00:02:56|600which are signs of universality and identification. 29|00:02:58|040|00:03:03|440Not to differentiate too much, but the universality goes along with Aquarius and the identification, 30|00:03:03|440|00:03:06|260which is perhaps even deeper, along with Pisces. 31|00:03:07|140|00:03:11|720So that takes us into our next paragraph. 32|00:03:14|040|00:03:22|460When the individual man enters upon his cycle of incarnations, and emerges in the sign Cancer, 33|00:03:24|400|00:03:35|280I want to say, whoops that's not the one, or in the sign Pisces I want to say, because 34|00:03:35|280|00:03:43|300we've had some discussion about whether the individual man emerges in Pisces or in Cancer. 35|00:03:44|480|00:03:46|300Let's see if there's anything here. 36|00:03:47|220|00:03:48|540No, we have to go back looking for it. 37|00:03:48|540|00:03:54|340I just trust that you remember the reference that I have shown you. 38|00:03:55|120|00:04:04|820In Cancer en masse I would say, or in Pisces as an individual at the first incarnation, 39|00:04:06|760|00:04:12|640Cancer which is found in the Cardinal Cross, he metaphorically mounts the Mutable Cross 40|00:04:12|640|00:04:23|300the cross of many changes, the cross of earthly experience, the cross of the first type of 41|00:04:23|300|00:04:31|200blind experience which the man experiences before he enters the hall of learning. Even 42|00:04:31|200|00:04:35|260then he's on the mutable cross, but finally when he enters the hall of wisdom around the 43|00:04:35|260|00:04:38|840period of the first initiation, he will be on the fixed cross. 44|00:04:39|120|00:04:43|180He enters the long term of imprisonment in form. 45|00:04:45|160|00:04:51|200and his long term of imprisonment in form begins and the lessons of servitude must be learned. 46|00:04:51|380|00:04:56|320This is the same as bondage or captivity, one of the Piscean themes. 47|00:04:56|500|00:05:00|260He is forced to serve, let's say, forced to serve. 48|00:05:02|320|00:05:09|520This is the case at the third petal of the first tier of the Egoic Lotus where sacrifice, 49|00:05:09|800|00:05:11|460it is the first sacrifice petal. 50|00:05:12|160|00:05:18|680In the knowledge tier, sacrifice is compelled; man is made to serve. 51|00:05:19|340|00:05:27|720Sometimes in the armed services, in the army, where he undergoes servitude, it's one of 52|00:05:27|720|00:05:28|880the forms of servitude. 53|00:05:31|120|00:05:35|320Slavery to making a living is another form of servitude. 54|00:05:35|500|00:05:44|820It seems that we learn the hard way and must therefore be compelled to learn what service 55|00:05:44|820|00:05:47|160means by experiencing servitude first. 56|00:05:48|040|00:05:49|180Servitude must be learned. 57|00:05:49|440|00:05:55|260He goes on learning until he has transformed servitude into service. 58|00:05:55|260|00:06:06|440There's so much unwillingness in servitude, but eventually service is given freely and 59|00:06:06|440|00:06:08|400for the right motive. 60|00:06:09|340|00:06:14|760Servitude ends when the motive becomes that of the originating motive of the monad, even 61|00:06:14|760|00:06:18|580If it's experienced as the motive of the soul or as some inner power. 62|00:06:21|000|00:06:29|320Servitude ends with the realization of the originating motive and the will to serve. 63|00:06:30|380|00:06:32|740The love of service enters the consciousness. 64|00:06:32|920|00:06:38|260He alternates between the pairs of opposites,—this is the vertical pair of opposites—both from 65|00:06:38|260|00:06:45|500the astral, emotional angle and from the point of view of the four arms of the Mutable Cross. 66|00:06:45|980|00:06:50|940meaning he experiences life in different signs on the mutable cross. 67|00:06:52|320|00:06:55|420In various signs on the mutable cross. 68|00:06:57|640|00:07:02|620However, he can be born in any of the signs, but in terms of consciousness he is still 69|00:07:03|220|00:07:04|400on the mutable cross. 70|00:07:05|220|00:07:10|880The pairs of opposites on the mutable cross is that something higher versus the ordinary 71|00:07:14|080|00:07:17|100attractions and attachments of life. 72|00:07:18|940|00:07:27|200Also there is the right and wrong, the attraction to what is good and what is evil on the emotional 73|00:07:27|200|00:07:28|120plane. 74|00:07:28|460|00:07:35|080So there are many opposites, some of them horizontal, but the major pairs of opposites 75|00:07:35|080|00:07:35|620are vertical. 76|00:07:36|020|00:07:39|180Always where you are and something that is higher. 77|00:07:39|180|00:07:44|120It isn't necessarily the soul yet, but it is perhaps a better motive, something a little 78|00:07:44|120|00:07:44|440higher. 79|00:07:44|820|00:07:51|100So we are always in a certain position with respect to our response apparatus, and we always 80|00:07:51|100|00:07:59|280have a kind of realization of something that could be superior or better or of higher quality 81|00:07:59|900|00:08:01|860than our usual responses. 82|00:08:02|340|00:08:07|780So the pairs of opposites are established even if we don't call them at this earlier stage 83|00:08:07|780|00:08:09|220soul and personality. 84|00:08:12|500|00:08:18|380The fluid, sensitive temperament in Pisces— fluid because it is a water sign of course 85|00:08:18|380|00:08:22|840and Neptune is the most fluid of all the planets and is pervasively present in Pisces. 86|00:08:23|260|00:08:29|920The fluid, sensitive temperament in Pisces—mediumistic and psychically polarised—that 87|00:08:29|920|00:08:36|620is, as in Atlantis, receiving all kinds of impressions from the astral plane which turns out to be 88|00:08:36|620|00:08:45|200the major plane of glamour and illusion for man even now—must be stabilised in Virgo, 89|00:08:45|640|00:08:54|320an earthy sign, in which sign mental introspection and critical analysis become possible and serve 90|00:08:54|660|00:08:57|060to arrest the fluidity of Pisces. 91|00:08:57|100|00:09:04|640So there is an accent on the concrete mind in Virgo. 92|00:09:05|060|00:09:12|400It's one of the signs since Mercury, that mental planet, is its orthodox ruler in which 93|00:09:12|400|00:09:21|180the concrete mind is cultivated, and Virgo, sensitive to its own thoughts and analyses, 94|00:09:21|180|00:09:32|140is less likely to respond compulsively to the impressions of the psychic world, of the 95|00:09:32|140|00:09:33|640astral world. 96|00:09:34|180|00:09:42|440So a center begins to form, a center of resistance against the tendency to be swayed by any type 97|00:09:42|440|00:09:44|640of impulse whatsoever. 98|00:09:44|940|00:09:51|960The fluid sensitive temperament in Pisces, mediumistic and psychically polarized—a medium 99|00:09:51|960|00:10:06|000is a point of communication between two dimensions of reality and bringing through something 100|00:10:06|000|00:10:09|720subtle into a world less subtle. 101|00:10:10|780|00:10:18|640So there is a kind of photographic impressionability in the individual who is experiencing the 102|00:10:18|640|00:10:21|680early Pisces type of life. 103|00:10:22|540|00:10:27|080The fluid sensitive temperament in Pisces, mediumistic and psychically polarized, not 104|00:10:27|080|00:10:32|160mentally polarized, must be stabilized in Virgo, and what we want to say here is that 105|00:10:32|160|00:10:36|780the concrete mind is a great stabilizer. 106|00:10:38|260|00:10:45|620D.K. sometimes talks about the value of the fifth ray in this respect, that it provides 107|00:10:45|620|00:10:52|000a measure of stabilization to the individual who is not yet mentally polarized. 108|00:10:52|440|00:11:01|540So the use of the concrete mind does give stability, and a number of the disciples even 109|00:11:01|540|00:11:11|500in the Tibetan groups had “S” for stability in their threefold or fourfold keynote formula. 110|00:11:12|280|00:11:18|860In which sign, mental introspection, a kind of brooding quality, and critical analysis 111|00:11:18|860|00:11:24|900become possible and serve to arrest the fluidity of Pisces. 112|00:11:25|000|00:11:29|500So the opposites always serve each other; they are complements to each other, they are 113|00:11:29|500|00:11:31|680antidotes often to each other. 114|00:11:31|840|00:11:36|950If you're looking for antidotal energies, look to the sign opposite a major sign in 115|00:11:36|950|00:11:43|010the chart, maybe the sign opposite your sun sign, interpreted not necessarily monadically 116|00:11:43|010|00:11:46|170but interpreted as a correction to sun sign tendencies. 117|00:11:46|350|00:11:55|910Look for the sign opposite your rising sign and also look for the signs adjacent to either 118|00:11:55|910|00:11:57|730your sun or rising sign. 119|00:11:57|870|00:12:04|850Suppose you have a sun sign in Gemini, then look to Cancer or look to Taurus for antidotes 120|00:12:04|850|00:12:06|790to the Gemini attitude. 121|00:12:07|510|00:12:14|810You might also look 150 degrees away from Gemini; you might look into Scorpio, or you 122|00:12:14|810|00:12:24|930might look into Capricorn as somewhat antidotal energies to the kinds of energies you usually 123|00:12:24|930|00:12:31|570experience in Gemini, which are initially tending towards instability. 124|00:12:32|430|00:12:33|910Anyway, Virgo and Pisces. 125|00:12:34|510|00:12:39|210These two signs balance each other. as do any oppositions on a particular cross. 126|00:12:39|690|00:12:45|090We might study the dual process taking place upon the wheel through the medium of the Mutable 127|00:12:45|090|00:12:48|370Cross of which Pisces forms a part in the following manner: 128|00:12:48|370|00:12:54|750And now he's going to give us a tabulation to which we will often need to return. 129|00:12:59|490|00:13:10|210Because we want to study the influences of the signs on the wheel of form and contrast 130|00:13:10|210|00:13:14|530them with the influence of the signs on the wheel of consciousness. 131|00:13:15|950|00:13:24|850Yes, so we begin here with Pisces, and he talks about the beginner in Pisces. 132|00:13:24|970|00:13:31|190Now this is very interesting because we assume that Pisces is found right at the very beginning 133|00:13:31|190|00:13:36|630of the human experience, as there are some statements by the Tibetan which seem to suggest 134|00:13:36|630|00:13:44|510that the first initiation, first incarnation, is taken with a sign. 135|00:13:44|530|00:13:45|950The sun in Pisces. 136|00:13:46|710|00:13:53|970And yet when discovering or studying earlier zodiacs—zodiacs of 8, of 10, of 11 rather 137|00:13:53|970|00:14:03|850than 12 signs—it seems that Pisces and Aquarius are sometimes left out, as if they are not 138|00:14:03|850|00:14:09|910part of the early experience of the man who has just transited from being animal man 139|00:14:09|910|00:14:11|990into individualized man. 140|00:14:12|930|00:14:18|410And what I think about these earlier zodiacs is that the spiritual potentials of the signs 141|00:14:18|410|00:14:25|430that are not emphasized just aren't there, but that the elemental potentials, the involutionary 142|00:14:26|450|00:14:31|650potentials associated with the anima mundi and with the elemental nature of man, they 143|00:14:31|650|00:14:32|430are there. 144|00:14:33|390|00:14:40|770So you know the zodiac of 8 may have ended with Scorpio, leaving 4 signs out, but what 145|00:14:40|770|00:14:44|590I think that means is that the spiritual potentials of those 4 signs are left out because 146|00:14:44|590|00:14:46|630man could not respond to them yet. 147|00:14:47|590|00:14:53|610But that the elemental potentials, the way those signs influence the lower nature, that 148|00:14:53|610|00:14:54|350they are very present. 149|00:14:54|530|00:15:02|190So in that sense we can still go forth into matter in the very first incarnation or one 150|00:15:02|190|00:15:05|390of the first incarnations under the sign Pisces or in the sign Pisces. 151|00:15:06|210|00:15:12|010So he does call the Piscean individual here a beginner. 152|00:15:13|010|00:15:17|8701. Pisces—Here the beginner upon the way of life—and this can be 21 million years ago or many millions 153|00:15:17|870|00:15:29|170of years ago—starts with a material receptivity impressionable to the senses, impressionable, 154|00:15:29|330|00:15:35|370more sensitive perhaps than other types, impressionable to the senses which will enable him to resolve 155|00:15:35|390|00:15:41|070to respond to all contacts in the cycle of manifestation. eventually to all contacts 156|00:15:41|070|00:15:46|290and in the beginning to those which are strictly material and I suppose to a certain extent 157|00:15:46|290|00:15:46|770astral. 158|00:15:47|510|00:15:52|530He is, at this stage, negative, that is, he is impressed upon rather than impressing. He 159|00:15:52|530|00:15:59|330is fluid and very changeable fluid and endowed with an instinctual consciousness which is taking 160|00:15:59|330|00:16:07|150the place or an earlier form of intuitive consciousness later to be assumed by the Pisces 161|00:16:07|150|00:16:13|310individual, endowed with an instinctual consciousness which contains within itself the potentiality 162|00:16:13|310|00:16:18|350of the intuition. after many, many years, after millions of years I would say. 163|00:16:19|330|00:16:26|450So at first instinct must become intellect and then must become intuition. 164|00:16:26|450|00:16:30|570Sometimes the Piscean types, they bypass the intellect a little bit because it is said 165|00:16:30|570|00:16:41|850that Mercury falls in the sign Pisces. It falls, and the concrete mind is not used so 166|00:16:41|850|00:16:47|710much in this particular sign; it defers to the intuition, so it emphasizes instinct and 167|00:16:47|710|00:16:52|130intuition rather than intellect, although you know later obviously there are some brilliant 168|00:16:52|130|00:16:57|210Piscean people. I've seen people with Mercury in Pisces that have a superb concrete mind. 169|00:16:57|790|00:17:06|830This happens later, but there is kind of a deference, deferring to the intuitive impression 170|00:17:07|730|00:17:09|090in those phases. 171|00:17:10|210|00:17:16|890But the seed of the intuition is dormant. in these early days. The mind which is the instrument172|00:17:16|890|00:17:24|050 of reception from the intuition is, at this stage, unawakened. So in the early days we have 173|00:17:24|050|00:17:34|070Pisces with the unawakened concrete mind. He is the beginner on the way of life. There 174|00:17:34|070|00:17:39|970is material receptivity where the environment is overbearing. He senses his environment 175|00:17:39|970|00:17:44|910more than many types, certainly more than the Capricorn type does, the harder signs 176|00:17:44|910|00:17:52|950with stronger rays in the orthodox position. He can respond to all contacts eventually, 177|00:17:52|950|00:18:00|110but at first those upon the physical plane and gradually etheric and astral. He is negative; 178|00:18:00|450|00:18:06|190he is very, very changeable and unstable, endowed with instinctual consciousness which will 179|00:18:06|190|00:18:13|230become intuitive. Now that is Pisces upon the clockwise wheel, the non-reversed wheel, 180|00:18:13|710|00:18:20|910even though we discussed that in a way the clockwise wheel is a reversal from the way 181|00:18:20|910|00:18:26|630the anima mundi or the world soul travels. It is a reversal of the natural order, and 182|00:18:26|630|00:18:31|290we have to reverse the reversal, as we said. Now we are going backwards in a clockwise 183|00:18:31|290|00:18:41|130order, and the next of the signs upon the mutable cross is Sagittarius. We go back in this quadruplicity 184|00:18:41|850|00:18:48|710to Sagittarius, a fire sign, 2. Sagittarius—Here the ordinary man the non-aspiring man, begins to demonstrate 185|00:18:48|710|00:18:59|290a tendency to become more focussed Pisces is sometimes known for its—even among 186|00:18:59|290|00:19:09|090more advanced people, Pisces is known for what we call “spacey,” spaceyness. How shall 187|00:19:09|090|00:19:15|330we spell that thing? Well, maybe that way; maybe there is no such word. But spaceyness, 188|00:19:15|610|00:19:23|370okay. Spaceyness, spaceyness. So Sagittarius is one of those signs of focus—in a way, all 189|00:19:23|370|00:19:31|410the fire signs are eventually. So the man demonstrates a tendency to become more focused, 190|00:19:31|410|00:19:38|430and the fluidity and negativity of Pisces become concentrated upon the attainment of 191|00:19:38|430|00:19:45|450that which is desired. So Sagittarius is not always aimed at or hunting those things which 192|00:19:45|450|00:19:52|410are high. There is a one-pointed focus on the fulfillment of desire with the early Sagittarian, 193|00:19:53|650|00:20:01|550the centaur. One-pointed focus on the fulfillment of low desire which gradually elevates and 194|00:20:01|550|00:20:07|390becomes aspiration. In both of the signs Sagittarius and Taurus, pretty keen aspiration can be 195|00:20:07|390|00:20:14|490developed after sufficient experience has passed. So instead of negativity, there is 196|00:20:14|490|00:20:21|230concentration and pursuit. Pisces drifts, and Sagittarius pursues. Let us look at this. 197|00:20:21|790|00:20:35|330Pisces—this is the word—drifts, and Sagittarius pursues, hunts, focuses upon targets. If you 198|00:20:35|330|00:20:41|350look at the way animals hunt their prey, it's a very Sagittarian attitude. And one of the 199|00:20:41|350|00:20:46|350early mantrams there is “Let food be sought.” So just look at animals seeking their prey. 200|00:20:47|290|00:20:56|010There may be great tact and stealth and incredible undisturbable focus. Just look at a snake 201|00:20:56|010|00:21:04|630as it's about to pounce on its prey. There is a tremendous concentration. Okay, and so 202|00:21:04|630|00:21:11|150there must be for the developing man later on as he concentrates upon his spiritual objective 203|00:21:11|150|00:21:17|070in an undeterred, one-pointed manner. So in these early days, the man demonstrates one- 204|00:21:17|070|00:21:23|170pointed selfish instincts. He doesn't know why he pursues what he pursues, but something 205|00:21:23|170|00:21:30|410in him compels him to do so. That's what we call instinct. It's a kind of intelligence 206|00:21:30|410|00:21:36|590acting in an unconscious manner, and it drives the man and compels the man, and he knows not 207|00:21:36|590|00:21:42|090why. The man demonstrates one-pointed selfish instincts and though he may be, for instance, 208|00:21:42|090|00:21:47|750friendly—after all, it is a Jupiterian sign—friendly and kind, it is through a desire for popularity. 209|00:21:47|750|00:21:54|950because think of it: the second ray personality can go along with this, even though realistically 210|00:21:55|290|00:22:02|910the first and second rays as personality rays don't appear until man is really on the path, 211|00:22:02|910|00:22:08|930but the second ray tendency through Jupiter does appear. Kind and friendly, but with selfish 212|00:22:08|930|00:22:15|370motive. So always with Sagittarius, it's a question of watching the motive, because there 213|00:22:15|370|00:22:22|710is a focus—what is the nature of the desire which is behind and strengthening that focus? 214|00:22:22|710|00:22:29|530This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian subject: “Hail fellow, well met.” 215|00:22:30|190|00:22:38|570Jovial, happy, popular, uplifting, friendly—often especially when influenced by the Jupiterian 216|00:22:38|570|00:22:47|050aspect of it—but the motive behind may not be selfless at all but may be intending to 217|00:22:47|890|00:22:55|810feed that which comes to a person when he is well-liked by others. So This is a good expression 218|00:22:55|810|00:23:01|170of the individual Sagittarian subject and shows also the tendency of the soul to 219|00:23:01|170|00:23:06|390turn all evil eventually into good. because after all, friendliness and kindness are being 220|00:23:06|390|00:23:17|030developed even though the motive is self-centred. So friendliness and kindness develop and turn 221|00:23:18|270|00:23:28|370even, no that's divine, D.V.P., even though there is a selfish motive. The lessons of 222|00:23:28|370|00:23:34|550life are being learned and experiment is going on. and that is the experimental attitude 223|00:23:34|550|00:23:46|830of the Sagittarian. Let's see if that is listed in that tabulation on the expression of the 224|00:23:46|830|00:23:52|030science through different phases of development. It may be that the idea of the experimental 225|00:23:52|030|00:24:01|090attitude is given in relation to Sagittarius. Let us see. Okay, we'll take a look at that 226|00:24:02|870|00:24:11|790and let's get rid of that and get rid of that and open this up and open this up and let's 227|00:24:11|790|00:24:28|390look at our zoom in a larger font and we will talk here about page 333. Sagittarius, yes, 228|00:24:28|390|00:24:34|650the experimental approach: try anything once, take a risk, see how it works out, take a 229|00:24:34|650|00:24:41|770chance, trust to luck, which is kind of an early Jupiterian phenomenon. The person, the 230|00:24:41|770|00:24:48|470gambler trusting his luck—this is often the early Sagittarian attitude. Note here that 231|00:24:48|470|00:24:55|650we have self-centeredness. Self-centeredness is quite different from having a specific 232|00:24:55|650|00:25:03|230spiritual goal which lies higher than oneself or outside oneself. One can be very focused 233|00:25:03|230|00:25:10|110upon one's own satisfaction, the satisfaction of one's desires. Okay, the lessons in life 234|00:25:10|110|00:25:16|130are learned. Sagittarius is one of the signs of great learning through exploration, as is 235|00:25:16|130|00:25:22|330Gemini, and the experiment, the experimental attitude is going on, trying to see what will 236|00:25:22|330|00:25:27|270happen by doing this or that. The fifth ray is connected with Sagittarius, and so one learns 237|00:25:27|270|00:25:32|410through experience. Then if we continue to retrogress around the signs in the clockwise 238|00:25:32|410|00:25:37|370manner, we run into Virgo, still very much on the common cross, not on the fixed cross. 239|00:25:37|990|00:25:44|7503. Virgo—In Virgo, the man who was fluid in Pisces and emotionally selfish and full of desire in 240|00:25:44|750|00:25:52|870Sagittarius,—now that is a real descriptor, emotionally selfish, not really feeling what 241|00:25:52|870|00:25:59|490other people want but so fixed upon one's own desires that it is only those desires 242|00:25:59|490|00:26:05|170that one wishes to see fulfilled and one does not care about the fulfillment of others. 243|00:26:05|170|00:26:11|210That is an early Sagittarian attitude. But such a man begins to focus still more intently 244|00:26:11|730|00:26:19|710and to reason and think. It is not necessarily that the fifth ray is 245|00:26:19|710|00:26:27|530involved, though in some ways when the concrete mind is strongly used, that principle of man 246|00:26:27|530|00:26:35|150which correlates with the number five is active and suggests the fifth ray. Many logicians 247|00:26:35|170|00:26:42|730and those who are reasonable, clear thinking people are born in Virgo, and notice the focus 248|00:26:42|730|00:26:48|150of Virgo. This is a mental focus and not an emotional focus. That is very important in 249|00:26:48|150|00:26:55|450distinguishing it from Sagittarius—a mental focus. The latent soul the soul incarnation, 250|00:26:55|690|00:27:05|150the soul which has not yet come to itself is becoming interiorly 251|00:27:05|150|00:27:14|370active; through introspection. a germination process is proceeding; Something is growing 252|00:27:14|370|00:27:23|050within the consciousness, the consciousness which eventually will become the Christ consciousness. 253|00:27:24|030|00:27:32|290Whoops. The Christ consciousness is growing within. the hidden man who is the Christ, 254|00:27:32|290|00:27:37|730who is the soul behind the outer form and within the outer form, is making his presence 255|00:27:37|730|00:27:45|550felt. and so the pairs of opposites will begin to come into consciousness. The other will begin 256|00:27:46|890|00:27:52|590to enter consciousness. In other words, as we become introspective, we discover there 257|00:27:52|590|00:27:59|270is something in there that is not the individual we thought we were. There is something additional. 258|00:27:59|270|00:28:07|270So a kind of duality is found in Virgo through the tendency towards introspection, the discovery 259|00:28:07|270|00:28:16|370of the soul nature. The intellect is awakening. From intellect to intuition, but from instinct 260|00:28:16|370|00:28:23|290to intellect. The intellect is awakening and instinct—after passing through the emotional 261|00:28:23|290|00:28:29|450stage— as we have physical instincts and emotional instincts—is being transmuted into intellect. 262|00:28:29|870|00:28:37|990Perhaps an intellectual instinct is the urge to inquire. D.K. deals with these instincts 263|00:28:39|320|00:28:48|090in A Treatise on White Magic, and let's just see if we say herd instinct. If we have something 264|00:28:48|090|00:28:55|050like that and the herd instinct, fourth instinct of sex, let's see here, herd instinct. Okay, 265|00:28:55|770|00:29:06|410let's go backwards and whoops, that was a mistake. Okay, that's no good. Herd instinct. Okay. 266|00:29:07|350|00:29:15|770Sex instinct, instinct to inquire, yes. All these are listed. Instinct of self-preservation. 267|00:29:15|770|00:29:22|910I think there is a list somewhere here of the instincts, some of which are emotional 268|00:29:22|910|00:29:34|730and some of which are physical. So we have, let's see if we can find that. The herd instinct, 269|00:29:35|070|00:29:41|270self-preservation. I know there is a list. I know there is a list and there are five 270|00:29:41|270|00:29:46|390of them. Instinct of sex, herd instinct, fourth grade instinct. Okay, we're going in order. 271|00:29:46|930|00:29:59|030Maybe I can't find the exact list, but yeah, okay. Well, it's a call to service and the 272|00:29:59|030|00:30:04|290fourth instinct of sex. Its main route is the fear of separateness and isolation. The 273|00:30:04|290|00:30:11|150herd instinct follows the fourth instinct, the instinct of self-assertion and the instinct 274|00:30:11|630|00:30:20|390to inquire. All of these instincts, five of them, give way to something higher. Oh, here 275|00:30:20|390|00:30:26|230it is. There we go. That's the one I was looking for, right? I might as well copy that and put 276|00:30:26|230|00:30:36|750that in here. Oh, oh. There we go. Okay, let's see. The following instincts should be studied 277|00:30:36|750|00:30:45|770by the students and their higher correspondences. Alright, so let's take a look at that and we'll 278|00:30:45|770|00:30:55|690take this from Treatise on White Magic, page 629, and we'll try to make this just a little 279|00:30:55|690|00:31:06|730bit, just a little bit, hmm, okay. We'll make this a little smaller. Okay. So we'll take 280|00:31:07|450|00:31:18|130a look at that. So yeah. The instinct of self-preservation, the correspondence of immortality 281|00:31:18|850|00:31:24|070and the mode of achieving that transition is through spiritualistic research. There's 282|00:31:24|070|00:31:30|070the sex instinct, its higher correspondence, spiritual union and at-onement. This is pursued 283|00:31:30|070|00:31:35|370by the mode of religion and mysticism. There is the herd instinct which has a higher correspondence 284|00:31:35|370|00:31:41|850of group consciousness and eventually it leads to brotherhood. Group consciousness arises 285|00:31:41|850|00:31:46|750with the practice of brotherhood. The instinct to self-assertion which is the higher correspondence 286|00:31:46|750|00:31:52|730is the assertion of the self. And the mode of bringing this about is the study of psychology, 287|00:31:52|990|00:31:58|350assuming esoteric psychology. There is the instinct to inquiry. The higher correspondence 288|00:31:58|350|00:32:03|170will be the revelation of the intuition and the mode of bringing this forth is education. 289|00:32:03|930|00:32:11|090These are, I think, somehow very important and I don't know why we have all of these 290|00:32:11|090|00:32:16|670numbers here. I should really, I think I'll take care of this a little bit later. I won't 291|00:32:16|670|00:32:25|790waste your time with it right now. Alright. So where were we? I think one of the places 292|00:32:25|790|00:32:33|150we are is we have to straighten out this, yes, there we are. Okay. So we're going to 293|00:32:35|230|00:32:43|770go on to the fourth sign on the mutable cross, proceeding in the clockwise direction, and 294|00:32:43|770|00:32:56|210that is the sign Gemini. So let's see how Gemini can correct some of what is found. 295|00:32:57|270|00:33:02|810Okay. Oh, how I do like to get rid of those things, you know, they are bothersome. That's 296|00:33:02|810|00:33:08|950a little better, but still not satisfying. Difficult to let it go. This is a little bit 297|00:33:08|950|00:33:18|210of compulsion in action, my friends. I am really trying to make sure that this lines 298|00:33:18|210|00:33:25|050up just a little bit better. Alright. That is lining up a little better, a little better. 299|00:33:25|730|00:33:34|790Okay. Alright. Now let's look at Gemini. 4. Gemini—In the undeveloped man or the average man, now we've 300|00:33:34|790|00:33:40|490been through so far the fluid, impressionable Pisces. We've been through the focused emotional 301|00:33:40|490|00:33:47|150desire of Sagittarius. We've been through this more intent, internal, introspective and 302|00:33:47|150|00:33:53|150somewhat, yes, mental focusing in the sign Virgo, which has stabilized the situation 303|00:33:53|930|00:33:58|330and in which there is a cultivation of the inner consciousness, and finally we reach Gemini. 304|00:33:59|910|00:34:06|690And in the undeveloped or average man, the experiences undergone on three arms of 305|00:34:06|690|00:34:14|870the Mutable Cross have brought him to the stage where the “dream of life” the phantasmagoria, 306|00:34:15|050|00:34:23|070the kaleidoscope of life can be changed into the recognition of the reality, which should we 307|00:34:23|070|00:34:31|330say underlies the dream, underlying the dream, and the Great Illusion can be seen as undesirable 308|00:34:31|330|00:34:37|290and untrue. So we begin a process of detachment because we begin to recognize a higher pair 309|00:34:37|290|00:34:44|730of opposites, a higher of the pairs of opposites. I recognize my other self, which is the external 310|00:34:44|730|00:34:49|930self, because I found my truer, higher self, and in the waning of that self I grow and 311|00:34:49|930|00:34:54|850grow. The sense of duality is, at this stage, instinctual in other words it's not really 312|00:34:54|850|00:35:02|890a mental, clear perception, but becoming increasingly real and steadily more complex. There are 313|00:35:02|890|00:35:14|970discovered two points of focus in man. So let's take a look at this. Two points of focus 314|00:35:14|970|00:35:21|950are discovered. The higher of the pairs of opposites, which is the sort of the Pollux 315|00:35:21|950|00:35:27|870self and the lower of the pairs, which is the Caster self. One is the elder brother 316|00:35:27|870|00:35:33|550and the other is the younger brother. The man begins to dream of stability. Well, he 317|00:35:33|550|00:35:40|070might do so because Gemini is so very unstable, and so it is pointed out that which is missing 318|00:35:40|610|00:35:48|750is seen and understood. The man begins to dream of stability, of ordered changes as 319|00:35:48|750|00:35:54|610so often there are chaotic changes in Gemini, and of union with that which he senses to 320|00:35:54|610|00:36:02|810be the most real part of himself. So let's say the man dreams of union, dreams of union 321|00:36:03|290|00:36:12|290with the higher self. Well, maybe I should really… H.S., higher self. The mystical vision 322|00:36:12|290|00:36:20|110emerges into his consciousness There's something else up there, the higher power, and he becomes 323|00:36:20|110|00:36:27|710aware of the higher self through the first faint flickerings of the intuition. So what 324|00:36:27|710|00:36:35|210D.K. is saying here: the higher self reveals, or the intuition reveals the higher self. 325|00:36:35|950|00:36:46|410The first revelation of the intuition is likely the higher self. We're not talking about wresting 326|00:36:46|410|00:36:52|670ideas from the mind of God here; we're talking about a kind of vague intuition of some aspect 327|00:36:52|670|00:37:00|950of our self which is of a higher nature than what we ordinarily experience. So it's interesting 328|00:37:00|950|00:37:07|810that D.K. talks about the dream in relation to Gemini. The mantra ordinarily with Gemini 329|00:37:07|810|00:37:16|010is “let instability do its work.” Well, nothing is more unstable than the fluid dream of life, 330|00:37:16|010|00:37:24|430the constant changes of phenomena, and one wonders: is there any kind of stability underlying 331|00:37:25|050|00:37:32|290this experience of constant change? Where is that place we can call home? This is tending 332|00:37:32|290|00:37:40|470towards the Cancerian revelation, realization. Okay, so we've been on the common cross here, 333|00:37:40|470|00:37:47|250and we've gone backwards clockwise through the common cross, the mutable cross, and The 334|00:37:47|250|00:37:54|430experience upon the Mutable Cross lasts a long time, Well, most of one's lives, let's 335|00:37:54|430|00:38:06|990put it like that. Most of one's incarnations are on the mutable cross and carries the man 336|00:38:06|990|00:38:15|890always back again and again The fish is forever reborn into the ocean; there is always 337|00:38:15|890|00:38:26|430recreation. Remember, we have recreation, and what is the next one? I should remember that. 338|00:38:26|890|00:38:36|970There is certainly regeneration, reorientation, and finally what? Recognition? And finally 339|00:38:38|490|00:38:44|550renunciation, that's it. So while I'm thinking of it, we have here this idea with again and 340|00:38:44|550|00:38:54|990again: we have re-creation, regeneration, re-orientation, and renunciation. The experience 341|00:38:54|990|00:39:00|390upon the Mutable Cross lasts a long time, and carries the man always back again and again 342|00:39:00|390|00:39:05|570into the sphere of influence of Aries going backwards of course through Taurus where the 343|00:39:05|570|00:39:14|230desires are strengthened to be in a way pursued vigorously in Aries. The desire is behind 344|00:39:14|230|00:39:20|270the man and it drives him. We all know that Aries is a very driven sign; the question 345|00:39:20|270|00:39:27|730is: who's the driver? What's driving? And for the ordinary man, the driving is very much 346|00:39:27|730|00:39:35|550the focus, desire, nature. For the disciple, the driving force is the soul seeking not 347|00:39:35|570|00:39:43|950to be thwarted. The soul causes much disease when it is thwarted, and points of friction 348|00:39:43|950|00:39:51|250are created when the personality resists the drive of the soul. So it carries the man always 349|00:39:51|250|00:39:56|850back again and again into the sphere of influence of Aries which, through the ruling activity of the 350|00:39:56|850|00:40:04|690first ray, both strengthens the will of the man (no matter what his ray) and ends cycle 351|00:40:04|690|00:40:11|490after cycle with the “word of destruction.” That will be related to the first ray of Aries 352|00:40:11|490|00:40:17|270and also to Mars. One of the important things here is the idea of strengthening the will 353|00:40:17|270|00:40:23|850of man. See, notice how he doesn't just stick to discussing one particular sign; he has 354|00:40:23|850|00:40:34|670to explain the signs by relating them to other signs. So we have the strengthening of the 355|00:40:34|670|00:40:39|350ray. We all have a will after all; it's not just first ray people that do. And this first 356|00:40:39|350|00:40:45|570ray influence of Aries will strengthen the will. And the word of destruction… well, many 357|00:40:45|570|00:40:50|210Aries people, you know, they go into collision, they self-destruct, they drive themselves 358|00:40:50|210|00:40:57|590until they burn up. This is the influence of Mars more than Mercury, and the cycle of 359|00:40:57|590|00:41:04|030clockwise progression ends with a word of destruction. So this is the man in general: 360|00:41:04|030|00:41:10|850Again and again, he enters into the sign Pisces “go forth into matter,” and finds his way gradually 361|00:41:10|850|00:41:17|670around the great wheel of rebirth until the experience of change and of mutability and the 362|00:41:17|670|00:41:24|070establishing of the transmutation process regeneration, carry his consciousness from 363|00:41:24|070|00:41:29|990the instinctual and intellectual stages to the faint beginnings of the intuitive processes 364|00:41:29|990|00:41:41|830in Gemini. So really, Virgo is intellect, and it leads to Gemini first faint intuitions. 365|00:41:43|010|00:41:53|210Interesting. Okay. That's very interesting how this is gradually established and what 366|00:41:53|210|00:42:00|210are the gifts that we can expect from any one particular sign. This is the—we have 367|00:42:00|210|00:42:07|450to understand whether we are extracting the gifts which are available to us from the sign 368|00:42:07|450|00:42:14|030of our sun and from the rising sign, which should be growing in power as we progress. 369|00:42:15|530|00:42:20|310So we—it's very interesting there's a lot of change in mutability in Pisces. Pisces 370|00:42:20|310|00:42:30|390and Gemini have a lot in common in some respects. Maybe there is more sensory, you know, mutability 371|00:42:30|390|00:42:40|030of impression in Pisces, but interestingly they are both mediating signs, and you know 372|00:42:40|030|00:42:44|450that Gemini is the mediator between the different signs which are opposites in the zodiac. Like, 373|00:42:44|450|00:42:49|550if you want to mediate between Aries and Libra, you use Gemini as the third point. If it's 374|00:42:49|550|00:42:54|830between Taurus and Scorpio, you use Gemini as the third point. But when you want to mediate 375|00:42:54|830|00:42:58|710between Gemini and Sagittarius, what are you going to use? Because Gemini is involved, so 376|00:42:58|710|00:43:04|650you use another mediating sign which has some of the Geminian qualities, and it is Pisces. 377|00:43:05|470|00:43:11|110Pisces becomes the mediating sign. Although there is more kind of a felt mediation in 378|00:43:11|110|00:43:19|530Pisces rather than a mental or conscious act of mediation through meditation. So there 379|00:43:19|550|00:43:26|010is a lot of Mercury, because Mercury is very strong in Gemini but initially weak in Pisces. 380|00:43:26|250|00:43:30|930So the kind of feeling of being a go-between is more like that—a feeling of being the 381|00:43:30|930|00:43:34|830go-between rather than a truly conscious process. 382|00:43:36|710|00:43:43|050Okay, then comes a great—so we've been led to the faint beginnings of the intuitive process 383|00:43:43|050|00:43:48|750in Gemini. Maybe exoteric astrology does not describe Gemini in that way, but it is one 384|00:43:48|750|00:43:54|390of the major intuitive signs. And one of the very first failures of Hercules in Gemini— 385|00:43:55|150|00:44:03|050had five tests. And the very first test was a failure because he failed to listen to the 386|00:44:03|050|00:44:12|290intuition represented by the being called Nereus. N-E-R-E-U-S. So he was not properly 387|00:44:12|290|00:44:15|670guided because he didn't listen to his own intuitive voice. 388|00:44:15|670|00:44:20|550Always there's a communication issue in Gemini. You have to know what voices you're listening 389|00:44:20|550|00:44:26|970to. Many people in Gemini give a voice to what they hear. It may be speaking in tongues. 390|00:44:27|150|00:44:32|490It may be all kinds of psychic utterances. One has to work through all that psychism 391|00:44:33|050|00:44:38|530and discriminate out the false voices and eventually hear the still small voice of the 392|00:44:38|530|00:44:41|950soul and later the voice of the true intuition. 393|00:44:42|750|00:44:50|790Okay, so emotional selfishness, focused selfishness in Sagittarius, focused intellect in Virgo, 394|00:44:50|790|00:44:58|390and the beginning of intuition in Gemini. Going back then, of course, to Pisces where 395|00:44:58|390|00:45:04|570the intuition continues to develop because the Pisces person is no longer sensitive entirely 396|00:45:04|570|00:45:12|150to external impressions. So focused selfishness in Sagittarius. 397|00:45:14|110|00:45:21|170Then comes a great process of polarisation and a moment of transference, Polarization 398|00:45:21|170|00:45:27|590is a fixing of the attention in a certain dimension, and if that attention is fixed in 399|00:45:27|590|00:45:33|150a stable way, then the consciousness is indeed transferred to that higher dimension. after 400|00:45:33|150|00:45:41|910which the influence of the Fixed Cross causes reversal The influence of the fixed cross 401|00:45:41|910|00:45:48|490is overlapping the later part of the common cross or mutable cross. So it is the anticipated 402|00:45:48|490|00:45:54|070fixed cross influence which is causing those positive developments during the later stages 403|00:45:54|070|00:46:00|510of the mutable cross where the man is preparing to go in another direction. So the cause of 404|00:46:00|510|00:46:07|510reversal, the influence of the fixed cross—that's very important. We realize that by 405|00:46:07|510|00:46:14|070the time a man is on the fixed cross, he has begun to reverse, and the causes of reversal 406|00:46:14|750|00:46:22|670are emanating from the fixed cross. and the lessons gained upon the Mutable Cross have 407|00:46:22|670|00:46:29|630to be worked out and the effects demonstrated upon the Fixed Cross. There's a lot of—let's 408|00:46:29|630|00:46:39|910say the common cross climaxes, let's say, in intellect. The fixed cross begins to develop 409|00:46:39|910|00:46:47|670the intuition; the cardinal cross develops identification. We've left instinct out of 410|00:46:47|670|00:46:52|790the picture in that particular comparison. So we've learned a lot of things through the 411|00:46:52|790|00:46:57|430intellect and through experience on the mutable cross, and now we have to demonstrate—that's 412|00:46:57|430|00:47:04|230the big word for the fixed cross. Actually, the fixed cross in a way characterized by 413|00:47:04|230|00:47:12|210Scorpio demands that there be demonstration upon the physical plane. So this is the big 414|00:47:12|210|00:47:19|590word with the fixed cross. It must not be thought that, in the early stages of unfoldment, 415|00:47:19|590|00:47:24|710experience is gained only through the Mutable Cross. Now this is, he's correcting conception 416|00:47:24|710|00:47:31|370because you know the idea might come to some that people who are beginners and simply treading 417|00:47:31|370|00:47:36|810the path of evolution always have births upon the mutable cross. That isn't so. The cross 418|00:47:37|620|00:47:42|910as the cross of consciousness is sustained no matter what sign in which you may be born. 419|00:47:43|630|00:47:49|210The man lives in and experiences in all the signs, including those signs that are left 420|00:47:49|210|00:47:55|250out of the eightfold or tenfold zodiac. I tried to explain my impression about that. 421|00:47:55|790|00:48:02|770Even from the very beginning of man as man, he can be born in any of the signs. The signs 422|00:48:02|770|00:48:07|470are still there as concentrated influences of the constellations, but the higher meanings, 423|00:48:08|150|00:48:13|210spiritually considered, are missing. The man lives in and experiences in all the signs, 424|00:48:13|210|00:48:19|610but the influences pouring through the Mutable Cross have a more potent effect upon him than 425|00:48:19|610|00:48:26|650those pouring in the early stages through the Fixed Cross. The influences pouring through the 426|00:48:26|650|00:48:33|830mutable cross have a more potent effect upon him than those pouring in the early stages through 427|00:48:33|830|00:48:38|510the fixed cross. And you know, if we look at exoteric rulers on the mutable cross, we'd pretty 428|00:48:38|510|00:48:39|710well have Mercury and Jupiter. 429|00:48:40|830|00:48:47|130So he's learning the ropes through Mercury, and he's gradually integrating his personality 430|00:48:47|130|00:48:51|310through Jupiter, which is the force which brings all things together. 431|00:48:52|350|00:48:57|570So Gemini ruled by Mercury, Virgo ruled by Mercury, Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter, and 432|00:48:57|570|00:48:59|230Pisces ruled by Jupiter. 433|00:48:59|350|00:49:02|290Those are the major planets on the mutable cross. 434|00:49:02|530|00:49:08|490Now we're not really talking about esoteric rulers here until maybe in the later stages 435|00:49:08|490|00:49:16|010of the mutable cross when one is influenced by the fixed cross. They begin to flicker into 436|00:49:16|010|00:49:17|870an influential position. 437|00:49:19|650|00:49:25|450Okay, we live and experience in all the signs, but, and you know the corollary to this is 438|00:49:25|450|00:49:32|310that when man is on the fixed cross, he's born in all the signs, but it is the influences 439|00:49:32|310|00:49:38|870pouring from the fixed cross which have the dominating effect upon him, and those would 440|00:49:38|870|00:49:41|250be the esoteric rulers particularly. 441|00:49:42|190|00:49:47|390And when we talk about the influences from other signs than mutable signs which influence 442|00:49:47|390|00:49:52|790a man when he's on the fixed cross of consciousness, it's the orthodox rulers and not the esoteric 443|00:49:52|790|00:49:53|590rulers. 444|00:49:53|990|00:50:00|350So we could just go down the orthodox rulers, and we can say these are influential upon 445|00:50:00|350|00:50:06|790the mutable cross, but the most influential are the rulers of the mutable cross found 446|00:50:06|790|00:50:10|530in the orthodox or exoteric position. 447|00:50:12|190|00:50:16|970Okay, experience is gained only… the man lives in all the signs. 448|00:50:17|450|00:50:20|910The influences pouring through the mutable cross have a more potent effect than those 449|00:50:20|910|00:50:26|830pouring in the early stages through the fixed cross. 450|00:50:26|830|00:50:32|370Some of the later stages of mutable cross can give people who are advanced mentally, 451|00:50:32|730|00:50:37|130they are responding to the higher of the pairs of opposites, maybe without knowing exactly 452|00:50:37|130|00:50:42|270what it is, and they are beginning to gravitate towards the soul. 453|00:50:43|270|00:50:48|910Let's just say that when you're working the fifth petal, and we can become not only the 454|00:50:48|910|00:50:52|890dominant expressive individual but the aspirant. 455|00:50:54|190|00:50:56|370This is before the stage of the first initiation. 456|00:50:56|490|00:51:02|590We're still on the mutable cross, but the influence of the fixed cross is beginning to overlap. 457|00:51:03|870|00:51:09|650And so we have these overlaps; we don't have a cut and dried relinquishment and entry from 458|00:51:09|650|00:51:11|470one cross to the next. 459|00:51:12|430|00:51:15|490We can even think about that in relation to the fixed cross and the cardinal cross. 460|00:51:16|310|00:51:21|970There are ways in which those two overlap, except they have that no man's land of the 461|00:51:21|970|00:51:28|410fourth initiation where neither cross is dominant, though obviously the man taking the fourth 462|00:51:28|410|00:51:35|250initiation is born in some sign or another and on some cross or another from the exoteric 463|00:51:35|250|00:51:39|810perspective. You know, let's just say from Master Jesus taking the fourth initiation 464|00:51:39|810|00:51:40|650was a Capricorn. 465|00:51:41|210|00:51:45|330Some have said with good reasoning that his rising sign was a Virgo. 466|00:51:46|010|00:51:50|550Others have other interpretations, but you know, so he was taking the fourth initiation. 467|00:51:50|550|00:51:56|350And his two major points in his chart: one was found on the cardinal cross, the Capricorn, 468|00:51:56|490|00:52:03|290and the maybe even more important sign was Virgo, his rising sign, in which case he would 469|00:52:03|290|00:52:09|890have had the rising sign and sun sign of the Jewish group into which he was born at that 470|00:52:09|890|00:52:10|670time. 471|00:52:11|790|00:52:18|830It is only when the soul is becoming more alive within the form and the man is aware 472|00:52:18|830|00:52:23|690of his duality—a higher self and a lower self—that the energies of the Fixed Cross 473|00:52:23|690|00:52:28|210supersede in effectiveness those of the Mutable Cross, 474|00:52:28|990|00:52:33|050So what does it mean for the soul to become alive within us? 475|00:52:33|130|00:52:35|390You know, we begin to have instincts that are not selfish. 476|00:52:35|950|00:52:45|970They're based more on sensitivity, on unity, on looking out for the welfare of others. 477|00:52:45|970|00:52:48|050This is a more friendly attitude. 478|00:52:48|290|00:52:54|770One realizes that one has more in common with other people than one has distinctions from 479|00:52:54|770|00:52:55|090them. 480|00:52:55|710|00:52:59|110The hydra of separativeness is giving way. 481|00:52:59|710|00:53:05|830These are fixed cross realizations, but they're not by any means perfected until later on 482|00:53:05|830|00:53:10|390the fixed cross when a person is taking the second and third and fourth—well, second and 483|00:53:10|390|00:53:11|650third initiations. 484|00:53:11|650|00:53:18|650By the time you have taken the third initiation, which is still taken on the fixed cross, you 485|00:53:18|650|00:53:26|730have pretty well overcome the normal ninefold hydra of sex, money and comfort, fear, hatred 486|00:53:26|730|00:53:30|090and ambition, pride, separativeness and cruelty. 487|00:53:31|090|00:53:35|710So you are functioning in an altruistic manner. 488|00:53:35|710|00:53:45|790So let's say that the fixed cross—whoops, for the sake of clarity—fixed cross cultivates 489|00:53:45|790|00:54:01|290altruism, just like—just as the mutable cross is the cross of selfishness, especially in 490|00:54:01|290|00:54:02|230the initial stages. 491|00:54:02|330|00:54:04|610It's the cross of self-centeredness. 492|00:54:04|970|00:54:13|550One is a bit geocentric in a way, and all influences revolve around one who is considered to be 493|00:54:13|550|00:54:18|170the center of the universe, not in any sophisticated way. 494|00:54:18|170|00:54:34|210You know, God is a being who is an infinite circle or an intelligible sphere whose center 495|00:54:34|210|00:54:36|830is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. 496|00:54:37|870|00:54:42|850Those are not—that's not the kind of center of the universe we're talking about with early 497|00:54:42|850|00:54:44|070fixed cross people. 498|00:54:44|850|00:54:52|330There is necessarily an all-absorbing selfishness, and one's eyes are on the lower self and upon 499|00:54:52|330|00:54:59|930the center of selfhood, that apparent center of selfhood which has been gradually emerging, 500|00:55:01|370|00:55:08|050solidifying, concretizing until it's a very definite, if illusory, perception. 501|00:55:08|890|00:55:16|770Okay, so it is only when the soul is becoming more alive within the form and the man is 502|00:55:16|770|00:55:22|730aware of his duality—that of a better self and a lesser self—that the energies of the 503|00:55:22|730|00:55:28|630fixed cross supersede in effectiveness (they're always there, but we're not necessarily receiving 504|00:55:28|630|00:55:33|550them and doing much with them) supersede in effectiveness those of the Mutable Cross, 505|00:55:33|550|00:55:41|250just as after the third initiation—and here we have to be careful because what does “after” 506|00:55:41|250|00:55:41|570mean? 507|00:55:41|730|00:55:47|010It's well after, I would want to say, you know, after the third initiation the 508|00:55:47|010|00:55:53|830energies of the Cardinal Cross begin to control the man and are of more insistent incentive 509|00:55:53|830|00:55:55|730than those of the other two crosses. 510|00:55:55|950|00:56:01|410Well, okay, we could say this: sometimes the third and fourth initiation are taken in the 511|00:56:01|410|00:56:08|090same life, so man is stepping down from the fixed cross and has not yet mounted the cardinal 512|00:56:08|090|00:56:14|350cross, but the feeling of anticipation of the cardinal cross energies lure him forward, 513|00:56:14|590|00:56:15|610attract him onward. 514|00:56:16|970|00:56:22|910It's even possible to take the fourth and fifth initiation in the same life, so we're 515|00:56:22|910|00:56:29|870dealing with the residue of the fixed cross in the fourth initiation—no cross, none of 516|00:56:29|870|00:56:36|130those crosses anyway, although a man mounts his own cross, so to speak—and the cardinal 517|00:56:36|130|00:56:39|670energies are becoming stronger. Certainly they are very strong at the fifth initiation 518|00:56:39|670|00:56:45|690when the man actually does step upon the cardinal cross, definitely so. 519|00:56:46|670|00:56:52|390When the soul is, therefore, becoming more active, the effect of the Fixed Cross 520|00:56:52|390|00:56:59|310will be seen working out in the four signs along with the effects of forces 521|00:56:59|310|00:57:06|770of the Mutable Cross for “that which is dominated and relinquished is held firmly and transformed.” 522|00:57:06|870|00:57:12|990So we don't simply let go of our mutable cross tendencies, but we raise them to a higher 523|00:57:12|990|00:57:18|050level and we bring them into a state of transformation. 524|00:57:19|110|00:57:24|670Alright, well, let's see. Now normally, at this point I would say “the great implication,” 525|00:57:24|670|00:57:33|470but I'm trying to make these programs, let us say, two hours in duration—maybe, if I have 526|00:57:33|470|00:57:42|230the stamina, three hours in duration—and then let the kind of transformation that has to 527|00:57:42|230|00:57:48|950occur as one type of file is transformed into another take place while I'm asleep, and that 528|00:57:48|950|00:57:57|650will save time as there's a lot to accomplish in this book of almost 700 pages. And of course 529|00:57:57|650|00:58:01|150that's just one perspective on Master D.K.'s work, but it's an important one. 530|00:58:01|550|00:58:07|750The third in importance, as it is said, with the teaching on Shambhala being the first 531|00:58:07|750|00:58:13|270in importance, the teaching on the new discipleship being the second, esoteric astrology, esoteric— 532|00:58:13|870|00:58:17|570the rays are the third, and esoteric astrology the fourth. 533|00:58:18|050|00:58:22|050I said the third because astrology is such a third-ray science I thought it might go 534|00:58:22|050|00:58:23|670in the third place, but it's not. 535|00:58:24|330|00:58:30|490The rays—the study of the rays—are the third most important teaching Master D.K. gave, and 536|00:58:30|490|00:58:35|510then there is the fourth most important teaching and the fifth, sixth and seventh as well: 537|00:58:35|730|00:58:40|970work on the new group of world servers and the new world religion and the groups that 538|00:58:40|970|00:58:44|190Master D.K. was working with in an externalized manner. 539|00:58:44|190|00:58:49|250I think that was number six, and then the work of the new world religion number seven. 540|00:58:50|570|00:58:56|610Okay, that which is dominated and relinquished is held firmly and transformed. 541|00:58:56|790|00:59:01|250It's just like, you know, when you change from an exoteric planet to an esoteric one, 542|00:59:02|070|00:59:08|070you do not relinquish all the tendencies of the exoteric planet. 543|00:59:08|170|00:59:12|690You simply raise the quality of expression of the exoteric planet and it becomes sort 544|00:59:12|690|00:59:16|690of a subset of the expression of the esoteric planet. 545|00:59:16|770|00:59:21|350For instance, for the disciple in Aries, Mars is becoming the subset of Mercury. 546|00:59:22|410|00:59:25|070And we can think about how that would work out, you know. 547|00:59:25|710|00:59:29|150The Mercurian pursuits are pursued vigorously under the Martian impulse. 548|00:59:31|210|00:59:34|370For the disciple in Taurus, Venus becomes the subset of Vulcan. 549|00:59:34|550|00:59:36|890In Gemini, Mercury becomes the subset of Venus. 550|00:59:38|490|00:59:41|590In Cancer, the Moon becomes the subset of Neptune. 551|00:59:41|590|00:59:44|350In Leo, the Sun becomes the subset of the Sun. 552|00:59:44|490|00:59:49|810Well, in a way what we're saying is the Sun becomes the subset of the Sun-veiling Neptune, 553|00:59:49|810|00:59:53|050or the Sun-veiling Jupiter becomes the subset of the Sun-veiling Neptune. 554|00:59:53|610|00:59:56|230In Virgo and so forth. 555|00:59:56|330|00:59:58|050I think you can do this yourself. 556|00:59:58|190|00:59:58|410I could. 557|00:59:59|350|01:00:05|490All you have to do is know the esoteric and the exoteric rulers and the idea of what it 558|01:00:05|490|01:00:10|890would be like for an original planet, which is the orthodox planet, to become the servant 559|01:00:11|470|01:00:14|030of the newly emerging planet. 560|01:00:14|110|01:00:17|070What happens when Mars is the servant of Mercury? 561|01:00:17|610|01:00:20|170When Venus is the servant of Vulcan? 562|01:00:20|830|01:00:24|150When, let us say, Mercury is the servant of Venus? 563|01:00:24|470|01:00:27|770How does that work out practically in the life? 564|01:00:27|950|01:00:32|410And we could, of course, speculate upon those matters. 565|01:00:32|410|01:00:37|850But the soul is looking for a slightly lower method of expression in the orthodox planet 566|01:00:38|410|01:00:42|310as servant of a more soul-oriented expression. 567|01:00:43|170|01:00:49|630What does it mean that Uranus is the subset and servant of Jupiter in Aquarius? 568|01:00:50|070|01:00:52|110Or that in fact Jupiter serves Pluto? 569|01:00:52|730|01:00:58|130All of these require concentrated thought, and someday I'll give that kind of thought. 570|01:00:58|270|01:01:02|390But the hint is there and you can think about it yourself and what it means in your own 571|01:01:02|390|01:01:06|970life according to your Sun sign or according to your rising sign. 572|01:01:07|790|01:01:21|630So this would be the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 53, part 1.[split Text 01] 573|01:01:22|650|01:01:35|110And now we will go on to discuss what it is like upon the mutable cross when the fixed 574|01:01:35|110|01:01:37|570cross is influencing it. 575|01:01:38|890|01:01:45|670The fixed cross will be working out through the mutable cross, and those fixed cross rulers 576|01:01:46|430|01:01:51|010will be taking prominence over the mutable cross rulers. 577|01:01:51|010|01:01:57|910The fixed cross rulers are the esoteric rulers of the fixed cross, but also the esoteric rulers 578|01:01:58|570|01:02:01|710of the mutable signs we are considering. 579|01:02:01|910|01:02:05|370Now you know in astrology the power of combination is important. 580|01:02:05|470|01:02:10|870You have to put things together and see how they mix and blend and sort of hierarchicalize 581|01:02:10|870|01:02:11|670them also. 582|01:02:12|030|01:02:14|430You have to say, “Well, what comes first and what comes second?” 583|01:02:14|490|01:02:16|170“What's more important and what's less important?” 584|01:02:17|890|01:02:23|330Prioritization is hierarchical in nature and so important in occultism. 585|01:02:24|050|01:02:27|150So, you know, when you have two things going on in your chart, what's more important? 586|01:02:27|510|01:02:29|770What do you want to be the dominating or the leading factor? 587|01:02:30|490|01:02:35|670If you have a rising sign and a Sun sign, which we all do, how do you hierarchicalize their 588|01:02:35|670|01:02:40|990relationship so they're not just on a par expressing equally or the Sun sign dominating, 589|01:02:40|990|01:02:44|410but the rising sign actually dominates the Sun sign? 590|01:02:44|410|01:02:52|090And this requires some sort of close meditation by every individual so you can learn what 591|01:02:52|090|01:02:57|790to promote and what to hold back, what to dampen, what to subdue. 592|01:02:59|470|01:03:06|150Now, when the effect of the fixed cross is working out in Gemini, what do we have? 593|01:03:07|890|01:03:11|430Gemini—The man upon the reversing wheel in Gemini 594|01:03:11|430|01:03:17|230Well, we've reached that Gemini point and now we are reversing the wheel, going counterclockwise 595|01:03:17|230|01:03:18|630in the natural order of the signs. 596|01:03:19|430|01:03:22|910Gemini—The man upon the reversing wheel in Gemini becomes increasingly aware of the intuition 597|01:03:23|110|01:03:29|150Remember, the first faint flickerings of the intuition were occurring in Gemini, taking 598|01:03:29|150|01:03:35|470over from the intellect of Virgo and increasingly under the influence of “the Brothers who live 599|01:03:35|470|01:03:38|370in the Light,” as the Twins are sometimes called. 600|01:03:38|370|01:03:45|790Well, maybe what happens is the fixed stars of Gemini are influential. 601|01:03:47|810|01:03:49|270Influential, yes. 602|01:03:49|710|01:03:54|430Although it is the particular elder and higher brother who lives in the light that we are 603|01:03:54|430|01:03:59|030interested in, and that is Pollux, a kind of supergiant star. 604|01:04:00|430|01:04:05|530And interestingly, I think I've mentioned that Castor is actually six stars, three doubles. 605|01:04:05|530|01:04:13|870So it fits so well with the seven which are configured with one in the middle of a surrounding 606|01:04:13|870|01:04:14|930six. 607|01:04:15|710|01:04:20|090The first sub-plane expressing through six lesser planes. 608|01:04:21|490|01:04:28|450Okay, so the increased responsiveness to “the Brothers who live in the Light,” and especially 609|01:04:28|450|01:04:34|790the elder brother: The light of the personality dims and the light of the soul waxes. 610|01:04:34|790|01:04:39|150“I recognize my other self, and in the waning of that self, I grow and glow.” 611|01:04:39|310|01:04:44|930We are still two, of course we are still two, but we have hierarchicalized the relationship. 612|01:04:45|630|01:04:51|310We have hierarchicalized the relationship. 613|01:04:52|730|01:05:01|730So now, definitely, the more luminous brother felt within us is the dominating force, and 614|01:05:01|730|01:05:08|910the younger or lesser brother, the more material brother, becomes the instrument. 615|01:05:10|210|01:05:18|730The fluidity of Pisces and the undeveloped Gemini gives place to the responsiveness of 616|01:05:18|730|01:05:23|290the personality to soul impression—a stable responsiveness, one would assume, because the 617|01:05:23|290|01:05:29|770pillars in Gemini do represent stability—and consequent stabilising of the life on the 618|01:05:29|770|01:05:30|370physical plane. 619|01:05:30|370|01:05:36|870Some astrologers have speculated that a former sign associated with Gemini was Ray 7, giving 620|01:05:36|870|01:05:43|810the stability of the pillars of Hercules, of the pillars into the ageless wisdom and 621|01:05:43|810|01:05:49|830inherent in that sign, though so often the Gemini lacking the seventh ray has difficulty 622|01:05:51|090|01:05:58|390grounding the ideas and many thoughts that come into the consciousness. 623|01:05:59|390|01:06:06|910So there is a stabilization when the fixed cross begins to work through the mutable cross, 624|01:06:07|050|01:06:09|030in this case the sign Gemini. 625|01:06:09|690|01:06:14|630Increased responsiveness to the intuition, more responsiveness to the stars in Gemini, 626|01:06:14|810|01:06:22|470especially Pollux, let us say—a fluctuation whereby one of the twins is rising in radiance 627|01:06:22|470|01:06:28|530and another is being subdued—and fluidity and instability, because we have been told 628|01:06:28|530|01:06:35|450in Gemini, “Let instability do its work.” Fluidity and instability are giving way to reliability 629|01:06:36|310|01:06:39|550and the stabilization of the life upon the physical plane. 630|01:06:41|910|01:06:49|330So that's Gemini for the person under the influence of the fixed cross, increasingly 631|01:06:49|330|01:06:51|730under the influence of the fixed cross. 632|01:06:51|730|01:06:54|650Let's move on in natural order—we'd come to Virgo, wouldn't we? 633|01:06:55|230|01:06:55|590Virgo. 634|01:06:56|870|01:07:02|850Well, we have been cultivating the mind in Virgo, probably in a very concrete and rather 635|01:07:02|850|01:07:09|670material, sense-oriented, skeptical way, but Virgo—The mind, under the influence of Virgo, which 636|01:07:09|670|01:07:15|190has been analytical and critical, i.e. with much of the fifth ray involved in it, changes 637|01:07:15|190|01:07:21|470to that quality of mind which is best described by the words, illumination and revelation. 638|01:07:22|070|01:07:31|270All of that internal brooding to which the Virgo is given finally brings about light 639|01:07:31|270|01:07:32|590and revelation. 640|01:07:33|690|01:07:38|830This would be very good for a stage in the archery process called revelation. 641|01:07:38|830|01:07:49|190The inner God is revealed, the plan is revealed: alignment, crisis, light, revelation, integration. 642|01:07:50|710|01:07:54|590So analysis is finally rewarded by the light. 643|01:07:55|550|01:08:03|050Let's call it this: analysis leads to the light. 644|01:08:03|710|01:08:10|550The Christ, the inner loving consciousness, the Christ to whom the virgin must eventually 645|01:08:10|550|01:08:16|930give birth is—and that means the purified personality, really, because the virgin has 646|01:08:16|930|01:08:20|070the V-I-R; it's powerful, it has the strength. 647|01:08:20|550|01:08:25|410The Christ to whom the Virgin must eventually give birth is recognised as present in the 648|01:08:25|410|01:08:30|310womb, of consciousness, deep within us, though not yet born. 649|01:08:31|590|01:08:35|050So the recognition of the inner love, of the inner wisdom. 650|01:08:35|970|01:08:39|790So let's call it recognition of inner love-wisdom. 651|01:08:47|110|01:08:48|830Life is recognised. 652|01:08:49|050|01:08:55|490I am the mother and the child, I God, life, I God, I matter, and Life is recognised. 653|01:08:55|490|01:09:03|210The process of the revelation of the Christ consciousness is carried intelligently 654|01:09:03|210|01:09:11|710forward and the selfish aspirations and experiments of the undeveloped man—we're thinking of 655|01:09:11|710|01:09:16|950Sagittarius now, aren't we—the selfish aspirations and experiments of the undeveloped man give 656|01:09:16|950|01:09:23|070place to the selflessness of the illumined and intuitive disciple. 657|01:09:23|070|01:09:30|290The intuition is not lost; it's further cultivated, and there is an ingrained humility. You know, 658|01:09:30|370|01:09:35|470all of that reasoning has revealed man to be what he is, and a sense of proportion begins 659|01:09:35|470|01:09:41|150to develop, so humility and selflessness develop. 660|01:09:41|150|01:09:53|510Humility and selflessness. We know how often Virgo is involved in doing those small and 661|01:09:53|510|01:10:00|250humble tasks which may seem like servitude at first, but really are service, and they cultivate 662|01:10:00|250|01:10:09|230an appreciation for the idea that no thing done in service is too small to be important. 663|01:10:09|230|01:10:16|330So it's the importance of the little thing done in a selfless manner, sometimes called 664|01:10:16|790|01:10:23|070the service of the immediately present. You know, a very practical, factual look at exactly 665|01:10:23|070|01:10:30|670what needs taken care of, and willing to spend time and attention taking care of those many 666|01:10:30|670|01:10:35|030thankless details which make the larger project actually work. 667|01:10:35|690|01:10:41|350Life is recognised. The process of the revelation of the Christ consciousness is carried intelligently 668|01:10:41|350|01:10:46|110forward keeps growing and growing because there is always that germinating energy, that 669|01:10:46|110|01:10:52|630fostering, nourishing energy found in Virgo, the sign of the mother, and the selfish aspirations 670|01:10:52|630|01:10:57|110which you want for yourself, for your lower self, for your astral body, for instinctual 671|01:10:57|110|01:11:02|490nature, those experiments where you try to get those things in various ways—I'll try 672|01:11:02|490|01:11:09|490this or that—they give way to this attitude of “those things are not important, I'm out 673|01:11:09|490|01:11:14|750of the way, I'm decentralized,” an important sign of decentralization. The light continues 674|01:11:14|750|01:11:20|870to grow—let's remember that about Virgo—and the intuitive disciple is emerging. Light 675|01:11:20|870|01:11:32|470continues to grow and to express through the matter with which, with which, with which 676|01:11:34|150|01:11:45|230Virgo has so much to do. Okay, now on to Sagittarius, which was such an experimental, emotionally 677|01:11:45|230|01:11:52|990selfish, driven toward desire type of sign. Sagittarius—This is now the sign of the one-pointed 678|01:11:52|990|01:11:59|570disciple. We're not off on errant experiments which are simply attempting to fulfill the 679|01:11:59|570|01:12:05|090various selfish desires we have. We have perhaps seen the divine plan; maybe we've had an intuition 680|01:12:05|090|01:12:10|390of it, maybe we've reasoned about it, maybe in Virgo we have humility about serving that 681|01:12:10|390|01:12:16|730divine plan. And so we now focus not on ourselves and our own satisfaction, but on the divine 682|01:12:16|730|01:12:24|310plan in a one-pointed, undeflectable manner. There is this sense of holding that focus 683|01:12:24|310|01:12:29|370not on something low, but on something which has to be materialized, which is part of a 684|01:12:29|890|01:12:35|770higher vision of life. The life of fluid response to matter—that's Pisces—becomes that of 685|01:12:35|770|01:12:44|110the focussed response to spirit and preparation for initiation in Capricorn. Well, there's 686|01:12:44|110|01:12:49|250a lot of land to be covered here. Maybe Sagittarius is not so much a climber, but it certainly 687|01:12:49|250|01:12:56|310can cover ground quickly on the way to the mountain, so let's call it that. Covering 688|01:12:56|310|01:13:08|630ground, well I wish I could spell, quickly on the way to the mountain. So there is this 689|01:13:08|630|01:13:13|750kind of spontaneity of the Sagittarian which is not very much directed in the early days, 690|01:13:13|750|01:13:20|350but later the Sagittarian really draws a bead on what is necessary, you know, the target. 691|01:13:20|610|01:13:27|010The focusing is very strong and the alignment through the Antahkarana, because Sagittarius 692|01:13:27|010|01:13:32|330is one of those signs of projection of light along the Antahkarana. The alignment brings 693|01:13:32|330|01:13:40|910in this sense of the right direction according to spirit. The arrow of the mind is projected 694|01:13:41|550|01:13:47|790unerringly towards the goal. so this involves the Ajna Center, doesn't it? And Sagittarius 695|01:13:47|790|01:13:53|310a major, well, you know, all of the rays involved in the Ajna Center, well they all are involved 696|01:13:53|310|01:13:57|770in the Ajna Center, but the fifth ray of Venus and the fourth ray of Mercury and the 697|01:13:57|770|01:14:06|130sixth ray of Neptune, they're all rays ruling Sagittarius. So this is a constellation sign 698|01:14:06|130|01:14:14|510in which the Ajna Center with its power to envision the goal plays a great role. Projected 699|01:14:14|510|01:14:19|650unerringly towards the goal, there's so much errant shooting of arrows. The arrows of desire 700|01:14:19|650|01:14:26|230are going in all directions, and you know the early Sagittarian is like the man who 701|01:14:26|230|01:14:33|470jumped on his horse and rode off in all directions, in all directions, following all these errant 702|01:14:33|470|01:14:39|110desires, the whole idea of the knight errant. But oftentimes the knight errant was led by 703|01:14:39|110|01:14:46|970a kind of intuition to where he had to go to offer his services, so the intuition will 704|01:14:46|970|01:14:56|690be guiding the true Sagittarian. Okay, and finally we're going to come to Pisces in 705|01:14:56|690|01:15:03|090the higher sense. Pisces—Here, at the final stage, and it's a late stage, Pisces stands 706|01:15:03|090|01:15:09|370for the death of the personality or that's the complete death of the persona, probably 707|01:15:09|370|01:15:15|030at the fourth initiation and the release of the soul from captivity and its return into 708|01:15:15|030|01:15:20|330the task of the world Saviour. and we remember “I leave the Father's home and turning back 709|01:15:20|330|01:15:26|890I say” of the originating motive of the monad, salvation. Let's put it like this. The monad's 710|01:15:26|890|01:15:39|490originating motive is Piscean. Salvation is the originating motive of the monad. So the 711|01:15:39|490|01:15:45|650monad and Pisces have a lot to do with each other, and the release into monadic awareness 712|01:15:45|650|01:15:52|290and into the realization of that originating motive takes place at a very late stage of 713|01:15:52|290|01:16:02|090evolution. Okay, so even the soul itself is released from captivity to the higher mental 714|01:16:02|090|01:16:10|750plane and is abstracted back into the spiritual triad. The spiritual triad or that type of 715|01:16:10|750|01:16:16|290consciousness is a truer type of soul consciousness than the individualized soul consciousness 716|01:16:16|890|01:16:21|710upon the higher mental plane. Like who are we really? Are we this individual or is being 717|01:16:21|710|01:16:26|530this individual on the higher mental plane kind of a limitation? And are we more the 718|01:16:26|530|01:16:33|430soul when we are released with all of our faculties, of course, into the planetary perceptions 719|01:16:35|610|01:16:45|630that come from spiritual triad observation and perception? The great achievement is 720|01:16:45|630|01:16:52|110finished and the final death is undergone. Well, as we said, final deaths, there are 721|01:16:52|110|01:16:55|690a number of them. It depends on what we call final, but in terms of the human kingdom, 722|01:16:56|430|01:17:01|530the final death is the fourth initiation. There is no more sea, no more astral plane 723|01:17:01|530|01:17:15|610in a sense, no more personal desire and wish life for that which is not of the plan and 724|01:17:15|610|01:17:21|670known as the astral plane must persist otherwise we would have a discontinuity in the type 725|01:17:21|670|01:17:30|850of atoms which form the lower levels, but they are underlaid by the Buddhic energy. “There 726|01:17:30|850|01:17:35|670is no more sea” says the ancient book, which means inevitably the “death of the fishes” 727|01:17:35|910|01:17:42|450the individualized souls. Those are the fishes and the solar angels as fish goddesses have 728|01:17:42|450|01:17:47|550spawned these fishes, but there is no more need for incarnating personalities. So we 729|01:17:47|550|01:17:54|450are talking about the fourth initiation. No more need for incarnating personalities. 730|01:17:55|710|01:18:01|570and the release of the imprisoned life into new forms or new cycles of the divine 731|01:18:02|170|01:18:08|030Adventure. and that sounds very much like Sagittarius and the sixth initiation. Sagittarius 732|01:18:08|990|01:18:22|590and the sixth initiation which makes of most monads outward bound units of life initiation. 733|01:18:24|010|01:18:29|230There is no more sea. So this final death, there are many deaths, many relinquishments, 734|01:18:29|490|01:18:35|010many detachments that we are undergoing at all times, but this final death as far as 735|01:18:35|010|01:18:41|690Sagittarius is concerned is the fourth initiation. When it comes to the five worlds of human 736|01:18:41|690|01:18:46|170and superhuman evolution, then the final death is the sixth initiation because you can drop 737|01:18:46|170|01:18:51|490your triadal vehicles unless you willfully desire to preserve them for some planetary 738|01:18:51|490|01:19:02|630purpose, perhaps on the path of earth service. So the great achievement is undergone in Pisces. 739|01:19:02|630|01:19:08|670It's really a lot different when you compare it from the beginning steps in Pisces where 740|01:19:08|670|01:19:15|170we are susceptible. That's a good Pisces word. We are susceptible to every kind of 741|01:19:15|170|01:19:21|550impression, and the outer always overcomes the inner. Very different to that self-directed 742|01:19:21|550|01:19:29|070decision which takes us towards certain planets, a certain star, a certain group of stars on 743|01:19:29|070|01:19:39|790the great paths of higher evolution. So let's just say that susceptibility is overcome and 744|01:19:39|790|01:19:46|510drift is no more. You know, think of it: you don't drift along one of the paths or ways 745|01:19:46|510|01:19:54|650of higher evolution. It's a very concerted, focused, decisive movement forward upon one 746|01:19:54|650|01:20:01|230of the great paths that lead eventually back to the one about whom naught may be said and 747|01:20:01|230|01:20:05|970before that to certain of his chakras which are constellational in nature. It's a long, 748|01:20:06|210|01:20:11|870long journey on the cardinal cross. We have no idea how long, you know, perhaps longer 749|01:20:11|870|01:20:17|770than the duration of our particular solar Logos through a solar system. Timing is difficult 750|01:20:17|770|01:20:23|210to understand in these matters, but we do know that we're spending relatively very little 751|01:20:23|210|01:20:28|870time here on earth preparing for that great journey. Even if it's a twenty-five million 752|01:20:28|870|01:20:35|590year preparation, which even began, let us say, in the previous solar system and therefore 753|01:20:35|590|01:20:41|170would be a longer preparation, even that would be short compared to the great journeys we 754|01:20:41|170|01:20:48|350would be making towards certain of the constellations and eventually to the very heart of these 755|01:20:48|350|01:20:56|390super-constellation Logos, the one about whom naught may be said. Check out page 293 of 756|01:20:56|390|01:20:58|610Cosmic Fire for the Unknown. 757|01:21:00|110|01:21:11|210All right. Now, let's see. This Mutable Cross, of which Pisces is one of the arms, is predominantly 758|01:21:11|210|01:21:15|850the Cross of “repeated incarnations,” Well, you know, the fish goddesses are spawning 759|01:21:15|850|01:21:23|230the little fish and the sea still exists. Now, in a way, the sea is water. So let's 760|01:21:23|230|01:21:35|930look at this. The sea is water. Water is matter. Matter in its lowest grades relates to the 761|01:21:35|930|01:21:48|390non-principled, whoops, principled substance in the dense physical body of the solar Logos. 762|01:21:49|490|01:21:57|190Yes, so in a way, the little fishes are swimming in matter. It's more than the matter of the 763|01:21:57|190|01:22:02|470astral plane. Even etheric physical substance is matter. Even lower mental substance is water 764|01:22:02|470|01:22:12|050matter. So the little fishes no longer need to appear as reincarnating units in the water. 765|01:22:12|830|01:22:21|750The water is all the lower 18 sub-planes. That's another way of looking at water. Water 766|01:22:21|750|01:22:27|930and matter are said to be equivalent. So when the fish goddesses cease spawning their young, 767|01:22:27|930|01:22:33|270it is because they are no longer there, because they've been able to return to the heart of 768|01:22:33|270|01:22:38|230the sun or the central spiritual sun, because the human being they were supervising has achieved 769|01:22:38|230|01:22:43|170the fourth initiation and has been rising to the feet of the solar angels, so to speak, 770|01:22:43|570|01:22:49|570who can be released. Okay, so that, you know, I went back there for a moment because it 771|01:22:49|570|01:22:57|770seemed indicated. This Mutable Cross, of which Pisces is one of the arms, is predominantly the Cross 772|01:22:57|770|01:23:04|770of “repeated incarnations,” How many? Ten thousand? Five thousand? You know, we're not given to 773|01:23:04|770|01:23:12|550know, and the time equation really eventually becomes part of the man's own responsibility. 774|01:23:13|450|01:23:18|310I'm sure, you know, there are, when we look at how many lives it took us to arrive at 775|01:23:18|310|01:23:24|490a certain point, there are great variations depending on the free choices we have made. 776|01:23:24|490|01:23:31|170the Cross of “repeated incarnations,” of varied experiments there's that Sagittarian word, 777|01:23:32|410|01:23:37|730where we try to see what will happen, we make an attempt, not necessarily intuitively guided, 778|01:23:37|870|01:23:44|010mostly not, of varied experiments under the various signs and orthodox rulers, Note that 779|01:23:44|010|01:23:48|370on the mutable cross we are working under the orthodox rulers, so when we relate to 780|01:23:48|370|01:23:55|150a particular sign, it is through the orthodox ruler of that sign, and when we have a planetary 781|01:23:56|430|01:24:01|770influence in our life, we have to trace that planet back to the lord of the constellation 782|01:24:02|570|01:24:08|210of which that planet is the orthodox ruler, and of those many experiences which lead to 783|01:24:08|210|01:24:16|390successive and continuous expansions of consciousness. Yes, consciousness will continue to expand 784|01:24:16|390|01:24:25|710during the millions of years of repeated incarnations. A deliberate meditative expansion of consciousness 785|01:24:26|200|01:24:33|630by approved esoteric spiritual techniques—this is more something that is undertaken 786|01:24:34|140|01:24:41|470on the fixed cross. But through the many, many changes and experiences and experiments 787|01:24:41|470|01:24:50|850and contacts which are found on the mutable cross, consciousness cannot help but expand, 788|01:24:51|330|01:24:56|410although things get much more deliberate upon the fixed cross. It is therefore the cross 789|01:24:56|410|01:25:03|390of the Son of God, the incarnating Christ, though it is, in relation to this Cross, the 790|01:25:03|390|01:25:10|890Cross of the planetary Christ,—which is more the mass effect, just as the Fixed Cross is 791|01:25:10|890|01:25:16|010that of the individual Christ in each human being, and the Cardinal Cross is that of the 792|01:25:16|010|01:25:26|190cosmic Christ. Well, what a wonderful sentence that is! So here we have a description of 793|01:25:26|190|01:25:32|530the mutable cross as the cross of the Son of God, the incarnating Christ, though it's 794|01:25:32|530|01:25:40|870more the planetary Christ. So it is the underlying soul—it's the anima mundi, the underlying 795|01:25:41|410|01:25:49|810substance. We do not yet have the individual, the true self-conscious individual, although 796|01:25:49|810|01:25:57|590he is growing during the fixed cross experience. We have more the unconscious soul. The anima 797|01:25:57|590|01:26:03|130mundi is the unconscious soul—let's say unself-conscious soul. We can't really say unconscious; we 798|01:26:03|130|01:26:10|870have to say unself-conscious. The anima mundi is the non-self-conscious soul. The anima 799|01:26:10|890|01:26:22|350mundi is the self-conscious soul. So the cross of the Son of God—well, there certainly 800|01:26:22|350|01:26:28|690are these signs which are very much connected with the Christ consciousness. They distribute 801|01:26:28|690|01:26:35|750mostly the second and the sixth ray. If you look at—the only difference there is Sagittarius, 802|01:26:35|750|01:26:39|850which distributes the fourth and fifth, but if you look at Gemini, it's the second ray; 803|01:26:39|850|01:26:45|670Virgo, second and sixth; Pisces, second and sixth; and Sagittarius, the greatest amount 804|01:26:45|670|01:26:51|350of sixth, but combined with another of the soft line rays—four—and also ray five. If 805|01:26:51|350|01:26:57|390you look at it, it's all the soft line rays on the mutable cross plus the fifth ray, 806|01:26:57|950|01:27:04|910which gives that kind of concerted thinking which allows the mystic to transfer from off 807|01:27:04|910|01:27:12|070the path of mysticism onto the path of discipleship and occultism. So the fifth ray in this case, 808|01:27:12|070|01:27:18|230in relation to the mutable cross, is a bridging ray. I'm just talking about the rays as they 809|01:27:18|230|01:27:22|610operate through the constellations; I'm not talking about all the other rulers. But even 810|01:27:22|610|01:27:29|110when you look at the orthodox rulers of the fixed cross, it's again soft line. So the subjective 811|01:27:29|110|01:27:36|090life is being cultivated, but in a rather unconscious way. Consciousness is expanding; 812|01:27:37|050|01:27:43|850the true individual is growing, but he's not yet come to himself as a truly centered soul 813|01:27:43|850|01:27:53|730in incarnation as he will on the fixed cross. So the mass effect is prominent on the mutable 814|01:27:53|730|01:28:00|430cross, and the Christ-conscious individual grows on the fixed cross. And it's sort of 815|01:28:00|430|01:28:05|830like the funnel—it's kind of like an hourglass. Here's the mutable cross, here is the fixed 816|01:28:05|830|01:28:10|830cross, and here it widens out tremendously into the cardinal cross, where we're aware 817|01:28:10|830|01:28:23|710of the one God and the one Christ or love-wisdom energy pervading all things—the cosmic 818|01:28:23|710|01:28:28|550aspect, the Christ aspect, the Divine Son of our solar Logos. But further than that, we 819|01:28:28|550|01:28:33|250can become aware of the influence—the Christ-like influence of Sirius—and beyond that, still 820|01:28:33|250|01:28:41|950greater cosmic representations of the great second ray. It might here be noted that 821|01:28:41|950|01:28:46|870the Cross with which we are here concerned is that of the mass, Well, yeah, I was saying 822|01:28:46|870|01:28:55|470that—maybe cryptomnesia, you know, read it before. It's the cross of the mass and of 823|01:28:55|470|01:29:01|130mass consciousness, and that the consciousness which it exemplifies is that of the instinctual 824|01:29:01|130|01:29:06|250consciousness which average man, even with a growing intelligence, exemplifies, and its 825|01:29:06|250|01:29:12|930merging into the intellectual consciousness; By the time we have reached the end of the 826|01:29:14|550|01:29:30|410mutable cross, the intellect is rather well developed, though often still material in 827|01:29:30|410|01:29:41|230its interests. Okay, so this is the cross of instinctual consciousness. It's well directed, 828|01:29:41|230|01:29:48|170but it's directed from sources of which the individual is not aware, and whither it is 829|01:29:48|170|01:29:54|930directed, the individual is not aware—nor why he is directed. It's surprising, even 830|01:29:54|930|01:30:01|470with modern intelligent man, how much he's run by his elemental nature, by his body, and 831|01:30:01|470|01:30:09|850by his emotional impulses. He's run by those things, and that is called instinctual direction. 832|01:30:09|850|01:30:16|130Even the mind gets a hold of him and he becomes curious about things. He can't help it. It's 833|01:30:16|130|01:30:23|330not because he knows why he is so and what is the greater end and objective in his curiosity. 834|01:30:23|690|01:30:29|430You know, the instinct to inquiry, which is like curiosity, is one of the instincts which 835|01:30:29|430|01:30:36|810has to end in true illumination. It is the Cross of the anima mundi, the world soul, which 836|01:30:36|810|01:30:42|930has many divisions. Some of the lower divisions are, of course, unconscious and relate to the 837|01:30:42|930|01:30:48|850mass, but individual consciousness is a specialization of the anima mundi, we've been told, and 838|01:30:48|850|01:30:54|850when we think of the world, you know, there are higher levels of that world and maybe 839|01:30:55|390|01:31:01|870even the great group consciousness and consciousness of the one is an aspect of the anima mundi 840|01:31:01|870|01:31:07|390interpreted in a larger sense, the world soul. Though usually when we use this term, we are 841|01:31:07|390|01:31:15|110referring to the soul of substance. it is the Cross of the anima mundi and of the human 842|01:31:15|110|01:31:22|170soul before the consciousness of duality is clear in the mind of the man I mean, there are many 843|01:31:22|170|01:31:27|330intelligent people. You can become intelligent through the first three petals of the egoic 844|01:31:27|330|01:31:33|970lotus, but they are still in the hall of ignorance, aren't they? Because they are not aware of 845|01:31:33|970|01:31:41|390the consciousness of the higher of the dual parts. The higher self, or whatever you want 846|01:31:41|390|01:31:48|910to call it, this other and higher force center is not part of their awareness. So that's 847|01:31:48|910|01:31:54|170very interesting. It's the cross of the human soul before the consciousness of duality is 848|01:31:54|170|01:31:59|290in the mind of man, which doesn't mean that the man is not self-conscious. He is, of course, 849|01:32:00|030|01:32:13|510self-conscious. Let's put that down. The man is indeed conscious, self-conscious, yes, 850|01:32:13|690|01:32:23|970there it is. The man is indeed self-conscious but not conscious of himself as a higher self. 851|01:32:24|610|01:32:28|510That's what he doesn't have. So he's still in the hall of ignorance and he has to enter 852|01:32:28|990|01:32:38|070the hall of learning, which is the later part of the mutable cross, and it will segue during 853|01:32:38|070|01:32:45|790those love petal experiences into the hall of wisdom or of higher learning. And then 854|01:32:45|790|01:32:51|770that consciousness of duality, that I am two things, is the consciousness developed during 855|01:32:51|770|01:32:54|750the love petal phase of development. 856|01:32:56|670|01:33:00|870So it's the cross of the anima mundi and of the human soul before the consciousness of 857|01:33:00|870|01:33:07|410duality is clear in the mind of man. As we approach the fixed cross, a greater clarity 858|01:33:07|890|01:33:15|990about the higher and lower of the pairs of opposites comes into view. We know that higher 859|01:33:15|990|01:33:22|270of the pairs of opposites within us and we are clear about it and we begin to identify 860|01:33:22|270|01:33:27|330with it. We may have some vague apprehensions in the earlier days, but clarity that we are 861|01:33:27|330|01:33:33|630two comes as we are approaching the fixed cross and before transfer is made on to the 862|01:33:33|630|01:33:40|970Fixed Cross. So how long does that experience last? Well, the mutable cross experience is 863|01:33:40|970|01:33:50|110in a way lasting all the way to the… oops, something is happening here. I better… I 864|01:33:51|510|01:33:58|790better… that's a nice thing to have… yes, one has to hit that. The computer sometimes 865|01:33:58|790|01:34:03|130has a mind of its own and begins to distort letters and then I know I'm in a little 866|01:34:03|130|01:34:03|970bit of trouble here. 867|01:34:04|630|01:34:13|690Okay, the human soul gradually becomes very, very clear about its own two-ness, the higher 868|01:34:13|690|01:34:20|590and the lower self. Now we have to ask ourselves, how clear are we about the higher self that 869|01:34:20|590|01:34:27|190we are and about the lower self that we appear to be and can we really factually make that 870|01:34:27|190|01:34:34|550distinction and not just theoretically? Can we get a very strong felt sense of this higher 871|01:34:34|550|01:34:41|830presence, the angel of the presence and can we contrast that with our sense of the lower 872|01:34:42|750|01:34:51|410self? Okay, so all the way millions and millions of years before the first initiation is taken, 873|01:34:52|610|01:34:58|990this mutable cross will be in effect because transfer is not made onto the fixed cross 874|01:34:58|990|01:35:04|470until a man enters the kingdom of God pretty much around the time of the first initiation. 875|01:35:05|210|01:35:10|130You know, you have to factor in all the different references which give different kinds of hints 876|01:35:10|130|01:35:16|050but you get the generalized idea that in the stage of advancement and kind of on the way 877|01:35:16|050|01:35:20|530to the first initiation, preparation for that, we are stepping foot upon the overlapping 878|01:35:20|530|01:35:24|910presence of the fixed cross and by the time we reach the first initiation, we're really 879|01:35:24|910|01:35:33|930on the fixed cross, though not necessarily experiencing all of its rigors until the lives 880|01:35:33|930|01:35:41|890proceed. It is consequently more closely allied to the Cardinal Cross of the Heavens, for the 881|01:35:41|890|01:35:47|790mass consciousness, which is the significant consciousness of the Mutable Cross, becomes 882|01:35:47|790|01:35:55|410the group consciousness or the synthetic consciousness of divinity, after passing through 883|01:35:55|410|01:36:02|210the interim period or the “vital interlude” of the intense self-consciousness of the man 884|01:36:02|210|01:36:08|230upon the Fixed Cross. What a wonderful synthetic statement here. 885|01:36:11|410|01:36:19|550I talked about the hourglass here, the effect of the mutable cross, fixed cross, cardinal 886|01:36:19|550|01:36:26|010cross, widening out. I talked about that and D.K. is saying the same thing much more eloquently. 887|01:36:28|270|01:36:35|310The mutable cross is more allied to the cardinal cross because you get these group realizations 888|01:36:35|310|01:36:40|270upon the cardinal cross, the sense of the oneness of all groups just as there is sort 889|01:36:40|270|01:36:51|810of a mass oneness effect before the individual is really intensely self-conscious as an internal 890|01:36:53|030|01:37:00|690soul within the form. So we're calling this a vital interlude. The whole fixed cross experience 891|01:37:00|690|01:37:07|830from the first to the third degree is a vital interlude of intense self-consciousness and 892|01:37:07|830|01:37:15|030so there is where we are really taking ourselves in hand as candidates for initiation and as 893|01:37:15|030|01:37:19|870initiates of the threshold and finally as a higher type of initiate, the third degree, 894|01:37:20|130|01:37:25|930and we are really cultivating the individuality at that point. Then there comes a time when 895|01:37:25|930|01:37:31|150we begin to want to merge into the higher group consciousness and eventually into the 896|01:37:31|150|01:37:38|750consciousness of the one which probably reaches a quite full expression at the fifth degree 897|01:37:39|950|01:37:47|230in Leo when we can say “I am that I am” or “I am that and that am I.” So it's really quite 898|01:37:47|230|01:37:53|390a short interlude there, relatively short compared to the millions of years upon the 899|01:37:53|390|01:37:58|430mutable cross and the—oh well, it's not just going to be millions of years upon the 900|01:37:58|430|01:38:03|230cardinal cross, it's going to be much longer than that because the cardinal cross is open 901|01:38:03|230|01:38:09|670ended and even such great beings as our planetary Logos who are separated from the condition 902|01:38:09|670|01:38:18|670of man by many mahamanvantaras is on the cardinal cross. So our whole future, the great 903|01:38:18|670|01:38:23|610length of time that we will be involved in the one about whom naught may be said and maybe 904|01:38:23|610|01:38:31|570beyond is taking our place upon the cardinal cross from which we can act with great freedom 905|01:38:31|570|01:38:39|470because we have become the plan, we have become the purpose. This human interlude, which is 906|01:38:39|470|01:38:46|370the fixed cross, is in the nature of a cross section—that's kind of interesting use of 907|01:38:46|370|01:38:55|950words—in the development of consciousness. When you do a cross section you kind of cut 908|01:38:55|950|01:39:05|350something and you look at it from a different perspective. It's a narrow passage of intense 909|01:39:05|350|01:39:15|070cultivation for the moment. The group conscious emphasis, whether of the unconscious mass 910|01:39:15|720|01:39:26|810or of the super conscious one, are cut off from the man who is intensely self-aware as 911|01:39:26|810|01:39:34|330an individual upon the fixed cross. Of course this is already happening to a degree in the 912|01:39:34|330|01:39:44|250later mutable cross, but his awareness of himself as an immortal soul who is cultivating 913|01:39:45|170|01:39:52|130expression within form—that is cultivated on the fixed cross. This human interlude is in 914|01:39:52|130|01:39:58|030the nature of a cross section in the development of consciousness, but the main emphasis is 915|01:39:58|030|01:40:04|330the unfoldment of the mass consciousness of all the kingdoms in nature into the group 916|01:40:04|330|01:40:11|290consciousness of the three highest kingdoms through the mediatorship of the human kingdom 917|01:40:11|640|01:40:17|670which, through its peculiar and specific type of awareness, can relate the 918|01:40:17|670|01:40:24|230higher and the lower expressions of divinity. Okay, well now is he talking about the mutable cross or the fixed cross? 919|01:40:25|330|01:40:32|810Can relate the higher and lower expression of divinity. The human interlude—well, there 920|01:40:32|810|01:40:38|810is a human interlude on part of the mutable cross as well, but it's a somewhat ignorant 921|01:40:38|810|01:40:43|770human interlude because the man does not really realize who he is. Increasingly he does realize 922|01:40:43|770|01:40:51|830who he is on the fixed cross where he discovers his true soul identity. The main emphasis 923|01:40:53|090|01:40:59|630is the unfoldment of the mass consciousness of all the kingdoms in nature—that is certainly 924|01:40:59|630|01:41:06|450what we serve. We, the macrocosm to the lower kingdom, serve that unfoldment, eventually 925|01:41:06|450|01:41:11|970into the group consciousness as all kingdoms rise towards the human and beyond, towards 926|01:41:11|970|01:41:18|790into the group consciousness of the three highest kingdoms which are specifically the 927|01:41:18|790|01:41:24|770fifth, sixth and seventh through the mediatorship of the human kingdom. So the kingdom of souls 928|01:41:24|770|01:41:30|550reached, the kingdom of planetary lives reached and eventually the kingdom of solar lives 929|01:41:30|550|01:41:37|430reached through the mediatorship of the human kingdom which can relate the three higher 930|01:41:37|430|01:41:46|550kingdoms to the three lower. So man is a bit like the fixed cross in a certain sense because 931|01:41:46|550|01:41:54|930he is a passage through which the great and expansive higher kingdoms can reach down and 932|01:41:54|930|01:42:04|910into the large mass of unconscious lives. So man is a relator under the fourth ray under 933|01:42:04|910|01:42:15|450Mercury. And as we transition from the fixed cross toward the cardinal cross, we become 934|01:42:15|450|01:42:21|570more and more aware of our responsibility as a mediator in a planetary sense between 935|01:42:21|570|01:42:28|210these great super conscious kingdoms and the kingdoms which are still not yet self conscious. 936|01:42:28|410|01:42:34|230So we become a conduit. There's a lot of pressure there; it's a very narrow type of passage 937|01:42:34|230|01:42:39|090as we try to uphold these super conscious kingdoms or at least uphold our relationship 938|01:42:39|090|01:42:45|330with them and bring down the good effect for the uplifting of the lower kingdoms towards 939|01:42:45|330|01:42:50|890humanity and eventually all of us towards the superhuman kingdoms. 940|01:42:54|210|01:43:01|770Man can relate the higher and the lower expressions of divinity. It is here and in this connection 941|01:43:02|290|01:43:08|930that the sign Pisces, a sign of mediatorship, is of much importance as, yes, as it is a sign 942|01:43:08|930|01:43:17|930of mediatorship, that which stands between. Unless you are impressionable, you cannot be 943|01:43:17|930|01:43:24|790a mediator because you cannot somehow receive from a higher position that which has to be 944|01:43:24|790|01:43:31|910transmitted to a lower. One thinks of Mercury also as the mediator and of its very weak 945|01:43:31|910|01:43:37|490position in Pisces, but it's not really weak later because then Mercury represents the 946|01:43:37|490|01:43:45|610intuition, and Mercury in Pisces, which is normally a fall position, becomes a kind of exaltation 947|01:43:45|610|01:43:53|070because then it is really possible to take the intangible impressions from the higher 948|01:43:53|070|01:44:01|410kingdoms and actually transfer them to the lower kingdoms. So Mercury in Pisces becomes 949|01:44:01|410|01:44:09|630a truly mediating type of combination which gets back to the idea that every fall is really 950|01:44:09|630|01:44:16|590an exaltation if carried far enough. Every detriment is an advantage, and I could say 951|01:44:16|590|01:44:22|390that every exaltation is from a certain point of view a fall because it is possible to indulge 952|01:44:22|390|01:44:29|270the vehicles easily and readily. I pointed out the exaltation of the moon in Taurus. 953|01:44:29|270|01:44:34|050It means many good things in terms of the excellence of the form, but in the early days 954|01:44:34|050|01:44:39|890the form is just triumphant. It's exalted over the soul, and that is kind of a negative 955|01:44:39|890|01:44:45|910exaltation, isn't it? OK, It is here and in this connection that the sign Pisces is of 956|01:44:45|910|01:44:54|550much importance, as it is the sign of mediatorship. Mediumship in its true meaning is expressive 957|01:44:55|010|01:45:03|130of the mass consciousness—impressibility, negativity and receptivity. D.K. talked about 958|01:45:03|770|01:45:09|630the Pisces personality of Germany. You can probably figure out what I'm going to say. 959|01:45:11|010|01:45:18|550He said that because Germany had this very strong Pisces personality, it was so easily 960|01:45:18|550|01:45:26|870impressed by the Black Lodge, and a type of mass consciousness developed there which was 961|01:45:26|870|01:45:34|330very negative to those very negative impressions, very receptive to them and therefore carried 962|01:45:34|330|01:45:41|030out through a loss of will, the will of the Black Lodge. I mean, it was very interesting— 963|01:45:41|030|01:45:47|950Germany thought that it had such a strong will. I'm remembering one of those movies 964|01:45:47|950|01:45:56|750by a great German film maker. What was her name? Something like Riefenstahl, something 965|01:45:56|750|01:46:02|130like that, Leni. Leni I think was the first name. I can't remember the proper pronunciation 966|01:46:02|130|01:46:08|410of the second name, but she did this film in the early '30s called “The Triumph of the Will,” and 967|01:46:08|410|01:46:12|150the people in it felt themselves to be so strong. Well, after all they do have an airy 968|01:46:12|150|01:46:17|550soul. They felt themselves to be so strong, so positive, so dominant, so invincible, but 969|01:46:17|550|01:46:26|530in fact they were the impressionable, negative, receptive victims of a much higher internal 970|01:46:27|730|01:46:35|770astral mental force directed by the Black Lodge. So impressionability to mass think 971|01:46:36|790|01:46:44|050is one of the characteristics of Pisces, and mediumship in a way has not much will about 972|01:46:44|050|01:46:51|110it. One gives up one's will and opens oneself entirely to whatever the impressing medium 973|01:46:51|500|01:47:01|130may be. One is not conscious of this, so let's say there is unconsciousness, universal consciousness, 974|01:47:01|410|01:47:13|990there is unconsciousness, there is unconsciousness of the nature of the forces which are impressing 975|01:47:13|990|01:47:18|750one as simply an empty house, and they can possess you, they can obsess you, they can 976|01:47:18|750|01:47:25|290take you over. The leaders of Germany, we are told, were obsessed, were possessed by great 977|01:47:25|290|01:47:32|610negative entities in a way the will of the entity was working through and over the will 978|01:47:32|610|01:47:38|730of any of those selfish individuals. They had cultivated that type of receptivity to 979|01:47:38|730|01:47:46|250the lives of selfishness, Master D.K. tells us. So it is the sign of mediatorship, and 980|01:47:46|250|01:47:54|490mediumship is a lower form of mediatorship. Let's put that down. Mediumship is a lower 981|01:47:54|490|01:48:05|450form of mediatorship, but the mediator is in possession of his own will and chooses 982|01:48:07|890|01:48:19|630what will be given, what will be impressed and filtered and dispensed. So Alice Bailey 983|01:48:19|630|01:48:24|050sometimes thought she had a Pisces rising sign. She said she didn't know too much about 984|01:48:24|050|01:48:32|610the ordinary astrology, and Dane Rudhyar rectified her chart. I think Marc Edmund Jones did too, 985|01:48:33|020|01:48:41|830to a Leo rising, which certainly looks right in terms of her appearance and her life and 986|01:48:42|500|01:48:46|190you know what was going on in the various houses. But she was musing about it. She wondered, 987|01:48:46|190|01:48:51|310“Could she have Cancer rising with its sensitive Neptune? Could she have Pisces rising because 988|01:48:51|310|01:48:58|130she was such a mediator again with Neptune, receiving impression from the Tibetan and 989|01:48:58|130|01:49:04|130then passing it on?” But of course the higher intuition and mental telepathy under Gemini 990|01:49:04|130|01:49:10|790would have been sufficient to give Alice Bailey that ability, plus her long training 991|01:49:10|790|01:49:17|570with the Tibetan in previous incarnations when, as he explains, she was a chela in the 992|01:49:17|570|01:49:25|210light and he was her supervising internal disciple reporting to the Master. How interesting 993|01:49:25|210|01:49:32|910that all of these relationships are prepared lives before they may come into flower and 994|01:49:32|910|01:49:38|330fruition. We can ask ourselves right now, “What is our present life preparing for? What is 995|01:49:38|330|01:49:45|410its trend? What is its trajectory? Towards what are we trending which will be a fuller 996|01:49:45|410|01:49:53|810expression of our soul purpose?” Okay, it is the sign of mediatorship. Mediumship in its 997|01:49:53|810|01:50:01|210true meaning is expressive of the mass consciousness—impressibility, negativity 998|01:50:01|210|01:50:07|570and receptivity. They always come under Neptune. The mediums are ruled by Neptune in relation 999|01:50:07|570|01:50:13|130to Cancer and Pisces. D.K. says either with Sun in Cancer and Pisces rising, or Sun in 1000|01:50:13|130|01:50:19|850Pisces and Cancer rising, and he advises us to do some sort of astrological statistical 1001|01:50:19|850|01:50:25|410analysis of where mediums are found. But he so often refers to what is called the unintelligent 1002|01:50:25|410|01:50:30|170medium, meaning that the mind, the will are not involved. One just sort of opens oneself 1003|01:50:30|170|01:50:36|270to whatever and lets that take over, and that is what is not needed by us at this time. 1004|01:50:36|850|01:50:44|730These points will become clearer as we study the signs and their many inter-relations. The 1005|01:50:44|730|01:50:49|830thought I wish to convey to you here is that at this stage the influence of Pisces on the 1006|01:50:49|830|01:50:56|970involutionary arc,—remember how we began to talk about the beginner— and as the Sun retrogrades 1007|01:50:56|970|01:51:03|030through the signs, (i.e., passes clockwise—that's a symbolic way of speaking) is felt 1008|01:51:03|030|01:51:09|750largely in the anima mundi and in the hidden, incarnated and imprisoned Christ; It is felt 1009|01:51:09|750|01:51:17|970largely in the anima mundi, in the unconscious world soul, and in the hidden, incarnated and 1010|01:51:17|970|01:51:24|930imprisoned Christ. In other words, in this internal sensitivity, internal consciousness 1011|01:51:24|930|01:51:33|170which is not yet expressing itself as the true Christ force. So Pisces on the involutionary 1012|01:51:33|170|01:51:41|850arc is indeed very sensitive, but more vulnerable, we might say, to the lower influences over 1013|01:51:41|850|01:51:49|390which it has no control, no choice, no choosiness. You know how Virgo is—opposite Pisces—it 1014|01:51:49|390|01:51:56|650selects and selects. But Pisces in this early stage is open to just everything. So Pisces 1015|01:51:57|410|01:52:08|110has what we might call non-discriminatory receptivity. the germ of the Christ life 1016|01:52:08|110|01:52:14|550is psychically impressed, Gradually it grows, becoming constantly more sensitive to these 1017|01:52:14|550|01:52:21|530psychical impressions, Now remember what we're told about the Christ. Christ is the great 1018|01:52:21|530|01:52:29|930psychic. He knows immediately, intuitively, that which is within man. So all of these 1019|01:52:29|930|01:52:36|630impressions are sensitizing the internal Pisces soul to the day when it will be truly intuitively 1020|01:52:36|630|01:52:45|250perceptive. But at first, at first it's just confused. Pisces people oftentimes have confusion. 1021|01:52:46|310|01:52:56|570Pisces people are often confused by so many impressions accepted without discrimination. 1022|01:52:58|690|01:53:06|610Okay, the germ of the Christ life is psychically impressed, becoming constantly more sensitive 1023|01:53:06|630|01:53:12|470to these psychical impressions, swept by desire which ever changes, thus the Piscean fluidity 1024|01:53:12|470|01:53:19|370and desires of the astral plane, to which plane Pisces is unusually sensitive, constantly 1025|01:53:19|370|01:53:25|130aware of all impinging contacts, “This is happening, that is happening, I felt this, I felt that,” 1026|01:53:25|510|01:53:32|350unstably vulnerable but unable as yet to interpret them correctly, for the mind has not been awakened 1027|01:53:32|350|01:53:39|670adequately in Virgo. So Virgo is a higher type of medium, a higher type of psychic plus 1028|01:53:39|670|01:53:47|110the intellect, able to interpret the many impressions. So, let you know, for Pisces we have the condition 1029|01:53:47|770|01:53:59|190of being overwhelmed by impression, confused and unable to interpret and discriminate. And 1030|01:53:59|190|01:54:06|450this is the early stage. We even find relatively advanced people today who rather drift along, 1031|01:54:06|450|01:54:13|590impelled by all kinds of impressions which they cannot really analyze, understand, or 1032|01:54:13|590|01:54:19|330of which they cannot know the source. So obviously the antidote lies in the opposite sign. As 1033|01:54:19|330|01:54:25|910is so often the case, the antidote lies in the opposite sign. And we should think of 1034|01:54:25|910|01:54:32|470in terms of our sun sign and our imbalances, because certainly we do have them. This hidden 1035|01:54:32|750|01:54:38|690Christ the hidden Christ or the hidden consciousness which will grow into the Christ consciousness, 1036|01:54:38|890|01:54:46|290the hidden soul in incarnation, is unable to free itself from “contact with the Water.” And 1037|01:54:46|290|01:54:55|210that means the many material impressions. Unable to free itself from contact with water, 1038|01:54:55|210|01:55:00|530needs to be dried out a bit, doesn't it? And in the sun and in the air, of course, the 1039|01:55:00|530|01:55:09|130watery temperament is gradually dried out and becomes more objective and less compelled, 1040|01:55:09|370|01:55:17|190less vulnerable, less inclined to wander, to drift, to meander. That point is eventually 1041|01:55:17|190|01:55:23|830reached and is being reached with great rapidity in the present human stage We are freeing 1042|01:55:23|830|01:55:31|650ourselves from this non-objective, extremely psychically subjective state. We are freeing 1043|01:55:31|650|01:55:40|030ourselves with great rapidity, and where another and major change is deemed desirable and this 1044|01:55:40|030|01:55:43|950is the result of the many lesser changes. So the point is eventually reached and is 1045|01:55:43|950|01:55:48|390being reached where we are drying out. There are so many Pisces people—you know they have 1046|01:55:48|390|01:55:52|950a tendency to drink or some sort of drugs. And it's kind of interesting that part of 1047|01:55:52|950|01:56:00|270their rehabilitative process is called “drying out,” drying. You know, sometimes people who 1048|01:56:00|270|01:56:05|630go through a program of alcoholic rehabilitation, well, they don't really get with it, but they 1049|01:56:05|630|01:56:12|350stop drinking. So they are called “dry drunks.” They still have a great attachment to the 1050|01:56:12|350|01:56:17|210water, but with their will they have simply said no, but they haven't taken the remedial 1051|01:56:17|210|01:56:23|030corrective steps. So they are in the process of drying out, but they're not there entirely. 1052|01:56:25|190|01:56:29|810In the present human stage, where another and major change is deemed desirable, and this 1053|01:56:29|810|01:56:34|770is the result of many lesser changes. So what is that change that is now deemed desirable? 1054|01:56:35|930|01:56:41|830I suppose it is the coming of the decisive consciousness in humanity, or lifting humanity 1055|01:56:41|830|01:56:48|470up into a true state of aspiration. Change is ever needed but the method changes itself 1056|01:56:49|070|01:56:54|050from the constant variability and mutability of the Mutable Cross to certain changes of 1057|01:56:54|050|01:56:58|110a major kind which are brought about by a more permanent and directed life tendency. 1058|01:56:58|110|01:57:06|990and these are called—let's just call them crises, deliberately, let's just say crises 1059|01:57:07|590|01:57:16|250understood and deliberately faced. And there are a few of them on the mutable, on the fixed 1060|01:57:16|250|01:57:23|910cross, and page 472 in this book delineates various crises, and we've been talking about 1061|01:57:23|910|01:57:31|530crises earlier of the battleground and of the birth and of the burning ground, but these 1062|01:57:31|530|01:57:41|030are distinctive of the path, and they are not the constant, meaningless little changes 1063|01:57:41|030|01:57:47|430which make life so unstable that it's impossible to direct yourself forward towards expanding 1064|01:57:47|430|01:57:54|250consciousness. Change is ever needed, but the method changes from the constant variability 1065|01:57:54|250|01:57:58|050and mutability of the mutable cross, so when we think about the mutable cross we think 1066|01:57:58|050|01:58:07|270about constant variability and mutability, instability, to certain fixed changes which 1067|01:58:07|270|01:58:14|570are characteristic of every developing son of God on the fixed cross. They are brought 1068|01:58:14|570|01:58:18|310about by a more permanent and directed life tendency. 1069|01:58:19|510|01:58:28|030Okay, now we, yes, we are reaching the end of this section, Asatira. 1070|01:58:28|050|01:58:39|050Historic Astrology Adventure 53, Part 2. That's the end of this. Do I have the stamina to 1071|01:58:39|050|01:58:44|770go on? Is it wise? Will I slur my words? Will I blur my thought? Is this driving energy 1072|01:58:44|770|01:58:56|030of Aries which makes me want to somehow forge ahead as may be possible? [split Text 02]So anyway, we're 1073|01:58:56|030|01:59:07|610up to page 123, and we began… Where did we begin? Are we really covering ground now? 1074|01:59:09|110|01:59:26|010We began at page 120. So this ends on 120, and we begin at page 120. 1075|01:59:26|030|01:59:35|130And the section here, in case these are ever divided into hour-long sections for convenience, 1076|01:59:36|890|01:59:50|430is page 120 to 123. Alright, we are speaking… You know, it's so interesting 1077|01:59:50|430|01:59:59|590the ways that exoteric astrology, ordinary astrology, usually views these signs so limited, 1078|02:00:00|630|02:00:10|950so unaware of the contrast between the lower, middling, and higher stages of response of 1079|02:00:10|950|02:00:17|350any of these signs. So often the highest levels of response are left out, and we are treated 1080|02:00:17|350|02:00:22|350to a spectacle of all the lowest levels as if they characterized everybody, which they 1081|02:00:22|350|02:00:27|770don't. They may characterize a lot of people, but they don't characterize all. So, you know, 1082|02:00:27|830|02:00:32|930when man tried to develop astrology by himself or whatever he remembered from the ancient 1083|02:00:32|930|02:00:40|670Chaldean days, certain truths were established, but so much was lost. And now I think teachers 1084|02:00:40|670|02:00:46|390like Master D.K. and other members of the great internal astrological department are 1085|02:00:46|390|02:00:56|330attempting to restore to man's consciousness some of the incredible wisdom of vast scope 1086|02:00:56|330|02:01:02|690which was lost in the degeneration of human consciousness. We are at that point in the 1087|02:01:02|690|02:01:09|910new age when the mind of man can begin to again fathom the breadth and depth of this 1088|02:01:09|910|02:01:17|910stupendous science. Okay, well, I'll just… So we'll go on to the third section here. 1089|02:01:18|270|02:01:28|810Yes, we will do that. Okay, we're going to move forward then. And we've ended Part 2 1090|02:01:28|810|02:01:39|890of the approximate, the hour-long Part 2 of Number 53. And we move on to the next section 1091|02:01:39|910|02:01:51|390of Number 54. More into Pisces. The man at this stage has within him the potencies and 1092|02:01:51|390|02:01:56|590the characteristics of the indwelling Christ, We remember that a pair of opposites called 1093|02:01:56|590|02:02:03|030soul and form are being related in Pisces, whereas spirit and matter are being related 1094|02:02:03|030|02:02:18|750in Aries. But these characteristics, but they are not manifesting and are only latent possibilities 1095|02:02:19|250|02:02:26|090for he is as yet entirely controlled by his form nature (the prison) and his environment. 1096|02:02:26|090|02:02:34|490The moon is the prison. The moon rules water. Pisces is water. Matter, water, moon, prism. 1097|02:02:36|470|02:02:45|130This is the whole idea of bondage and captivity in Pisces, being entirely controlled by the 1098|02:02:45|130|02:02:53|830form nature and by his environment. In other words, circumstance reigns, and the man has 1099|02:02:53|830|02:03:01|110no positivity. He is not positive to circumstance, as later he becomes under the influence of 1100|02:03:01|110|02:03:07|750Leo. The hidden powers of the soul are negative and the powers of the form nature 1101|02:03:07|750|02:03:18|170are positive and beginning to find increasingly potent expression. So the man becomes a medium 1102|02:03:18|170|02:03:26|210for many lower forces, a way that they can get through. You know, so many people that 1103|02:03:26|210|02:03:36|870are obsessed or possessed are found in Pisces. Examples of multiple personality or of multiple 1104|02:03:36|870|02:03:44|870users of a single vehicle. The man has no positive resistance against those who would 1105|02:03:44|870|02:03:54|570take him over and use his vehicle. He cannot repel them. He is too receptive in the negative 1106|02:03:54|570|02:04:01|550sense. What has to happen, of course, is that one becomes extremely receptive, extremely 1107|02:04:01|550|02:04:09|030sensitive, but positive at the same time. In other words, able to choose one's receptivity 1108|02:04:09|030|02:04:20|370and not allowing these entering, impressing forces to displace the center of will. The 1109|02:04:20|370|02:04:27|110center of will must be held. The hidden powers of the soul are negative and the powers of 1110|02:04:27|110|02:04:35|270the form nature are positive and beginning to find increasingly potent expression. So 1111|02:04:36|040|02:04:43|210as I explained in relation to Germany, many terrible things can happen when the individual 1112|02:04:43|210|02:04:51|450is open to the often negative and sometimes evil forces that are focused on the astral 1113|02:04:51|450|02:05:03|330plane. The natural spiritual tendencies of man are inhibited. Now there's a word for 1114|02:05:03|330|02:05:10|190Pisces. We find often people who are paying karma are in a handicapped position. So inhibited, 1115|02:05:12|750|02:05:19|750inhibition and handicap. These are words which are connected with Pisces. The natural spiritual 1116|02:05:19|750|02:05:25|470tendencies of man are inhibited (for Pisces is often a sign of inhibition and hindrances) 1117|02:05:26|230|02:05:33|310And, you know, of those helpful, kind, compassionate souls who work with those who are inhibited, 1118|02:05:34|010|02:05:41|570handicapped and hindered. You know, people in special education and people working with 1119|02:05:41|570|02:05:49|110those who have less mental ability or who have emotional disturbances or are addicted 1120|02:05:49|110|02:05:56|550in some manner. You know, people who have lost control of their lives. The Pisces people 1121|02:05:56|550|02:06:02|670often come in and find a way to assist them, for the way they have been there and they 1122|02:06:02|670|02:06:08|910know what to do. I'm thinking about alcoholism in relation to Pisces and Alcoholics Anonymous, 1123|02:06:10|530|02:06:16|370the kind of help that is received by Piscean people. There's nothing like going through 1124|02:06:16|370|02:06:22|130an experience to make you more qualified to help those who are presently going through 1125|02:06:22|130|02:06:28|010the experience. Of course, we say nothing like having gone through the experience. So there 1126|02:06:28|010|02:06:35|530is inhibition here. Inhibition and hindrances and the tendency for some to reach the so-called 1127|02:06:35|530|02:06:43|230bottom of the barrel, the dregs of life. How interesting that the Christ, when he was walking 1128|02:06:43|550|02:06:51|590the earth in Palestine, did in fact associate with many people who were down and out and 1129|02:06:51|590|02:06:58|630having the problems of being rejected as the lowest members of society. There he demonstrated 1130|02:06:59|270|02:07:08|570his redemptive work. and the natural animal and personality powers—particularly the emotional— 1131|02:07:08|570|02:07:15|970in this water sign, are the obvious and visible qualities of the man. So Pisces people often 1132|02:07:16|570|02:07:21|330live an emotional life. I'm thinking about a very famous Pisces who died recently, Elizabeth 1133|02:07:21|330|02:07:27|130Taylor, and her life was very dramatic. There are different horoscopes for her, one with 1134|02:07:27|130|02:07:36|650Libra rising, one with Sagittarius rising, but always with the sun in Pisces and showing 1135|02:07:37|950|02:07:45|350all the melodramas of life. So there is for this type of individual animal powers emerging, 1136|02:07:45|350|02:07:50|230personality powers emerging, and especially an emotional emphasis. I mean, when you think 1137|02:07:50|230|02:07:57|050about it, Neptune, the God of the waters, is pervading the entire sign. A good deal 1138|02:07:57|050|02:08:03|670of symbolism connected with the latent Christ and the outer expressive personality can be 1139|02:08:03|670|02:08:13|110seen if a study is made of the Biblical story of Jonah and the whale. Okay, well, I think 1140|02:08:13|110|02:08:21|130we know a little bit about what the Tibetan will say here. The outer expressive personality 1141|02:08:21|730|02:08:27|810and the latent Christ. Well, I have not time to enlarge upon it here, but it is a parable 1142|02:08:27|810|02:08:35|150concerned with the Piscean stage of consciousness and the awakening of the Christ consciousness 1143|02:08:35|150|02:08:43|090with the consequent dispute which that entails. Jonah stands for the hidden imprisoned Christ, 1144|02:08:43|110|02:08:48|850alive to the perils of the situation, and the whale of large size stands for the bondage 1145|02:08:48|850|02:08:55|890of incarnation and for the personality. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? And Jonah 1146|02:08:56|430|02:09:02|710goes to the belly of the whale. He is swallowed in a Jupitarian fashion, engulfed by all of 1147|02:09:02|710|02:09:13|010this, but he makes his way through and out, and each of us must do that as well. The Piscean 1148|02:09:13|010|02:09:19|250stage of consciousness, well, it is very interesting that we are all emerging now after a little 1149|02:09:19|250|02:09:27|850more than 2000 years from the Piscean stage of consciousness. We have gone through a very 1150|02:09:27|850|02:09:38|330emotional phase. One of captivity, bondage, obedience, obedience often unreasoned, obedience 1151|02:09:38|330|02:09:43|010to authority. This is a very Piscean thing, but it has also been an age of the development 1152|02:09:43|010|02:09:49|130of the intellect because every age has an opposite point. So it has been the age of 1153|02:09:49|130|02:09:55|150Pisces-Virgo, just the way our next age will be one of Aquarius-Leo. So there have been 1154|02:09:55|150|02:10:02|230many intellectual gains by humanity and also the cultivation of a high idealism which we 1155|02:10:02|230|02:10:07|930now see manifested by many in the world and sometimes in a very unintelligent manner. 1156|02:10:09|090|02:10:16|650So the necessity of utilizing the sign Virgo to add intelligence to idealism is very important. 1157|02:10:17|730|02:10:24|130Pisces after all has a lot of sixth ray, so it is an idealistic sign and it is pervaded 1158|02:10:24|130|02:10:32|210by Neptune on the sixth ray. Okay, the latent Christ and the outer experience 1159|02:10:32|230|02:10:39|490of the expressive personality. This is what we want to overcome now. We want the subdued 1160|02:10:39|490|02:10:47|590personality and the energized, expanded, empowered Christ principle, and maybe that will be able 1161|02:10:47|590|02:11:01|970to emerge during the Aquarian age. It is possible. It is desirable. And the reappearance of the 1162|02:11:01|970|02:11:08|270Christ doesn't need to be born into some nice family, to a nice mother, as D.K. has said. 1163|02:11:08|830|02:11:14|030The Christ has his vehicle. The reappearance of the Christ, the reemergence of the Christ 1164|02:11:14|030|02:11:20|530will certainly bring about in our age the growth of soul consciousness, the growth of 1165|02:11:20|530|02:11:31|050group consciousness, the growth of the willingness to serve, the power to serve. We've been well 1166|02:11:31|050|02:11:39|670in horrors. Many dregs of karma have had to be dealt with. Some terrible disillusions 1167|02:11:40|330|02:11:46|890have occurred, and annihilations under Pluto have occurred, and people have been wiped out 1168|02:11:46|890|02:11:53|990in these karmic events almost without knowing why it has occurred, because there is no great 1169|02:11:53|990|02:12:00|970memory of planetary history such as the masters have. When we learn more where we have been 1170|02:12:00|970|02:12:09|230and what we have done, which every man should somehow intuit increasingly as possible, then 1171|02:12:09|230|02:12:16|050we will not rail so much against the injustice of God, the deity. Ultimately, we have to come 1172|02:12:16|050|02:12:21|610to the conclusion that we are God, the deity, or certainly extensions of that deity, and 1173|02:12:21|610|02:12:26|710even now exist on the higher levels in great unitive states. So who is it that is suffering? 1174|02:12:26|710|02:12:35|310There is one great undivided entity that is suffering in a certain sense through all of 1175|02:12:35|310|02:12:43|610his extensions. We have to learn of the justice of karma. Saturn in Libra—as my old teacher 1176|02:12:43|610|02:12:52|790used to say about justice, dividing the word—”just ice.“ I guess it's pretty exact, pretty 1177|02:12:52|790|02:13:02|250mathematical, although the quality of mercy lies behind that very rigorous justice. Pisces 1178|02:13:02|250|02:13:09|590is a dual sign that the imprisoned soul and the personality enter upon that process which 1179|02:13:09|590|02:13:15|250will transmute. It is in the dual sign that the imprisoned soul and the personality enter 1180|02:13:15|250|02:13:22|770upon the process which will transmute, lift the vibrational level of… okay, the vibrational 1181|02:13:22|790|02:13:29|610level of… okay, let's see where we are here, and we don't want this one, this one, need 1182|02:13:29|610|02:13:43|290not be, need not be there. Let's see, if I can go to save that… no, that won't work, 1183|02:13:43|630|02:13:50|910that won't work. Alright, I'll just leave it for the moment. It is in this dual sign 1184|02:13:50|910|02:13:57|190that the imprisoned soul and the personality enter upon that process which will transmute 1185|02:13:57|350|02:14:03|210i.e., elevate, elevate the vibration of, improve the quality of matter, which will transmute 1186|02:14:03|210|02:14:09|7101. The lower nature into the higher manifestation. Pisces: a sign of great sensitivity, also, 1187|02:14:09|930|02:14:16|990you know, also a sign of great pollution, also a sign of great pollution, and so it 1188|02:14:16|990|02:14:28|110is at the end of the Piscean age with matter in an amorphous form, oil related to Neptune, 1189|02:14:28|450|02:14:40|390related to Pisces, the whole hydrocarbon thing, the kind of colloids, smoke, debris in our 1190|02:14:40|390|02:14:45|810atmosphere—all of this is very Piscean, the possibility of dying in a polluted land 1191|02:14:45|810|02:14:51|310is all very Piscean at the end of an age. So transmutation is necessary; the Virgo cleanup 1192|02:14:51|310|02:15:00|630people have to come in under Pluto and Uranus in Virgo and take radical methods to precipitate 1193|02:15:00|630|02:15:15|790out this sort of pervasive choking of our planet on pollutants and various kinds of 1194|02:15:15|790|02:15:22|870things that are needed. So Pisces here—we can witness the transmutation of the lower 1195|02:15:22|870|02:15:30|490nature into the higher manifestation, we can witness or transmute 2. The lower psychical powers 1196|02:15:30|490|02:15:38|990into the higher spiritual faculties, i.e. We have but to look at a certain chart, which I will 1197|02:15:38|990|02:15:51|090find quite rapidly, I hope… yes, here, this chart, “All Planes and Faculties,” that ought 1198|02:15:51|090|02:16:03|370to be it, and we will see here… come now… okay, that there are many lower psychic powers 1199|02:16:03|370|02:16:12|030here given, such as the clairvoyance and clairaudience, clairvoyance, imagination, so forth, so forth, 1200|02:16:12|250|02:16:19|330and so on, and these are on the lower planes, and they are ways of perceiving the qualities 1201|02:16:20|170|02:16:26|610and the vibrations of the lower planes in a direct manner, unmediated by thought, but 1202|02:16:26|610|02:16:35|190up here we have higher psychic powers, which the Piscean individual can also grasp. These 1203|02:16:35|930|02:16:40|630lower powers here on the physical, emotional, lower mental plane in a way belong to the 1204|02:16:40|630|02:16:47|170anima mundi as it is usually considered, the world soul, the soul of substance, but the 1205|02:16:47|170|02:16:52|530higher powers belong to a higher aspect of consciousness, a higher aspect of soul or 1206|02:16:52|530|02:17:01|670of the world soul, and there are high psychics born in Pisces. Once they have clarified their 1207|02:17:01|670|02:17:08|990aura, and they are able then to use the truly spiritual faculties which are related to the 1208|02:17:08|990|02:17:16|770higher mental plane, the intuition plane, the atmic plane, and so forth. Okay, the lower 1209|02:17:16|770|02:17:25|290psychical powers are transmuted into spiritual faculties which are quite unitive and always 1210|02:17:25|290|02:17:31|450relate to the expression of the soul and other higher faculties. When the word “spiritual” 1211|02:17:31|450|02:17:39|690is used, one thinks of the spiritual triad and there are, D.K. gives us ten different psychical 1212|02:17:39|690|02:17:46|750faculties that are related to the spiritual triad, even, not even ten, he gives us eleven 1213|02:17:47|330|02:17:54|090and they are spiritual telepathy, comprehension of the four sounds, healing, divine vision, 1214|02:17:54|310|02:18:00|330intuition, idealism, beatitude, act of service, realization, perfection and the upper one 1215|02:18:00|330|02:18:07|710that we can't see here is all knowledge. Those eleven faculties are at least the spiritual 1216|02:18:07|710|02:18:13|810faculties that he has given us so far. There are many others that are even beyond the ken 1217|02:18:13|810|02:18:19|930of a master we are told. So the lower psychical powers are transmuted into the higher spiritual 1218|02:18:19|930|02:18:28|130faculties. a. Negativity into positive soul control. Negativity or receptiveness to any old thing is transmuted into positive 1219|02:18:28|130|02:18:38|090soul control. So it is the soul that can overcome that vulnerability to many elemental forces. 1220|02:18:38|770|02:18:45|270b. Mediumship into mediatorship. Mediumship is transmuted into mediatorship and we, you know, the will and mind are present, 1221|02:18:47|330|02:18:53|190as they are not in the case of most unintelligent mediumship except when the medium is maybe 1222|02:18:53|190|02:19:00|090a Virgo. A higher form of mediumship is possible; the intelligence can be present. c. Clairvoyance into spiritual perception. Clairvoyance, 1223|02:19:00|990|02:19:05|430which is sort of the involuntary seeing of all kinds of phenomenon, is transmuted into 1224|02:19:05|430|02:19:13|890spiritual perception usually of the formless worlds, of the so-called formless worlds, 1225|02:19:13|970|02:19:18|630so they really have form but they are the A Rupa worlds of our cosmic physical plane. 1226|02:19:19|600|02:19:28|070So we see the energies behind the many forms and phenomena and the phantasmagoria, as Master 1227|02:19:28|070|02:19:35|410D.K. calls it, from which we must detach ourselves. You know, just being able to see and to see 1228|02:19:35|430|02:19:39|570all kinds of phenomena is a bit like, you know, going on a rollercoaster on the physical 1229|02:19:39|570|02:19:43|530plane. You can see a whole lot of things; they don't mean much, they are just there 1230|02:19:44|250|02:19:49|890and they change constantly and they can overwhelm the consciousness and they can prevent the 1231|02:19:49|890|02:19:56|750individual from passing in a direct manner towards his goal. d. Clairaudience into mental telepathy and finally inspiration. Clairaudience is transmuted 1232|02:19:56|750|02:20:03|230into mental telepathy. Instead of hearing the many sounds or the many rushing waters we 1233|02:20:03|230|02:20:08|830hear the word of the soul and finally we hear a still more divine word coming from 1234|02:20:08|830|02:20:15|470the triad and monad which brings us inspiration. Inspiration is interesting because here we 1235|02:20:15|470|02:20:22|670have clairaudience associated with the third degree, third ray, and inspiration associated 1236|02:20:22|670|02:20:29|790with the first. And in the techniques of fusion in Esoteric Psychology 2, D.K. says that third 1237|02:20:29|790|02:20:35|550ray people will have first ray results, first ray people will have second ray results, second 1238|02:20:35|550|02:20:40|810ray people will have third ray results. It kind of goes around the triangle, so third 1239|02:20:40|810|02:20:48|650ray people become inspired by power. e. Instinct into intellect. Instinct will be transmuted into intellect; both are 1240|02:20:48|650|02:20:55|510intelligent but intellect will know why a tendency towards a certain type of activity 1241|02:20:55|510|02:21:02|150or goal is operative. So we will be able to see instead of just feel. So often instinct 1242|02:21:02|630|02:21:09|190kind of blindly feels its way; it's directed by some intelligent pattern which is not conscious 1243|02:21:09|730|02:21:18|330to the individual but intellect brings in consciousness of the goal and the why and 1244|02:21:18|330|02:21:25|370the whither of all this direction. Selfishness in Pisces will be transmuted into divine 1245|02:21:25|510|02:21:30|110selflessness. Well you know in the early Pisces individual there's a lot of preoccupation; 1246|02:21:30|610|02:21:36|850one is the center of many sensations and many impressions and one is just thinking of the 1247|02:21:36|850|02:21:44|010impact that they have upon oneself. But eventually all of those lesser impressions are set aside 1248|02:21:44|790|02:21:52|450and the greatest lessons of humility and self-effacement and general selflessness are learned in Pisces. 1249|02:21:52|450|02:22:00|450The self is really dissolved and identification with a much larger self comes into actuality 1250|02:22:01|390|02:22:12|170and expression. f. Selfishness into divine selflessness. Acquisitiveness you know will go into renunciation. 1251|02:22:12|470|02:22:18|210See these are kind of some interesting Piscean characteristics that we might not think of 1252|02:22:18|210|02:22:24|810as associated with Pisces. But you know one becomes hungry for all of these impressions, 1253|02:22:25|310|02:22:33|290hungry for matter, so identified with matter until one becomes acquisitive, wants all 1254|02:22:33|290|02:22:39|690that one is identified with, cannot discriminate, accumulates indiscriminately. But later all 1255|02:22:39|690|02:22:46|730of that is seen as worthless and a deterrent to true spiritual life and as much as there 1256|02:22:46|730|02:22:50|870has been acquisition under Jupiter, think of it Jupiter, a major planet of acquisition. 1257|02:22:51|590|02:22:59|590I'm going to write that down as much for myself as anyone. Jupiter, Jupiter, a major planet 1258|02:22:59|590|02:23:06|410of acquisition. Yes, indiscriminate acquisition, indiscriminate. There's not too much mercury 1259|02:23:06|410|02:23:10|830there to say what's worth having. You know, I want it all. I want to be it all. Well, eventually 1260|02:23:10|830|02:23:18|030one becomes it all and one realises one is it all. But that's when renunciation has taken 1261|02:23:18|030|02:23:23|290the place of acquisitiveness. Normally, you know, acquisitiveness found in Cancer with 1262|02:23:23|290|02:23:30|110its claws and Capricorn with its ambition, but even Pisces, think of it, identifying 1263|02:23:30|110|02:23:36|010with everything that hits you and sort of wanting to accumulate all that—kind of a perverse 1264|02:23:36|790|02:23:42|210second-rate tendency, just growing too big. You know, a lot of Pisces people can grow big 1265|02:23:42|210|02:23:50|730in the body because they just accumulate indiscriminately too much. g. Acquisitiveness into 1266|02:23:50|730|02:23:58|290renunciation. the divesting of oneself of all that is not necessary, and that divestment 1267|02:23:58|290|02:24:04|570comes under Pluto, not under Jupiter. Jupiter is the accumulation and Pluto is the divestment. 1268|02:24:04|570|02:24:10|350“I don't need all of this. It has nothing to do with my real essence. It's just an impediment. 1269|02:24:10|790|02:24:17|970It's a hindrance, right? It's a handicap to have all of this stuff accumulated in my aura.” 1270|02:24:18|230|02:24:26|850So I give it up, gladly give it up, and some of the monastic and convent lives are spent 1271|02:24:26|850|02:24:34|030in giving it up. Maybe a Virgo-Pisces kind of polarity is involved in such lives, though 1272|02:24:34|030|02:24:41|710not of course in all cases. h. Self-preservation through oversensitivity goes into selfless 1273|02:24:41|710|02:24:46|510world service. when you realise that, look, you are not the personality and form you think 1274|02:24:46|510|02:24:52|990you are. You know, if you're identified with your form, you naturally want to preserve it 1275|02:24:52|990|02:25:02|730against all vulnerabilities, all impingements, all intrusions. You find a way to protect 1276|02:25:02|730|02:25:09|030yourself, oftentimes by hiding away. But eventually you realise that, well, look, that's 1277|02:25:09|030|02:25:13|890not my identity at all. I'm really invested in all these people, in all of these good 1278|02:25:13|890|02:25:19|830events, and then you just say, “Well, I will sacrifice what I thought I was for what I really am, 1279|02:25:19|830|02:25:27|390which is a spiritually pervading essence found in all human beings.” So there are high and 1280|02:25:27|390|02:25:32|550low expressions. Now I think some of us are—we all know there are high and low expressions 1281|02:25:32|550|02:25:39|130of every sign. Some of us are better at detecting the high and the low in different kinds of 1282|02:25:39|130|02:25:46|010signs. Some of us have blind spots when it comes to detecting the high of certain signs 1283|02:25:46|010|02:25:50|950or the low of certain signs. We have to have a little more equal understanding. So if you 1284|02:25:50|950|02:25:56|430find as an astrologer that you really don't understand what the low of certain signs is, 1285|02:25:56|990|02:26:03|850go into it, investigate it. And if you're always like exoteric astrologers are, thinking 1286|02:26:03|850|02:26:10|630that Taurus is always material and so is Capricorn, and you don't understand the spiritual possibilities 1287|02:26:11|090|02:26:18|570of these signs, then go into them and try to flesh out some of the highs of the signs which 1288|02:26:18|930|02:26:26|410you were involuntarily capping at a certain level. Okay, and he's given us H89, H89— 1289|02:26:26|430|02:26:32|630he's given us nine different transmutations. Self-pity—well, no one can do it like a Pisces. 1290|02:26:33|720|02:26:41|910Pisces rules the tear glands. Tears of self-pity have to be transmuted into the tears of compassion. 1291|02:26:42|570|02:26:47|430Self-pity goes along with sensitivity. You know, this “poor me,” “the world is too much with 1292|02:26:47|430|02:26:55|690me,” “how very afflicted I am,” “how many impacts I have experienced.” “No one is more sensitive 1293|02:26:55|690|02:27:00|630than I am”—you know, it's kind of a second-rate Pisces thing. But eventually the transmutation 1294|02:27:00|630|02:27:05|690occurs into compassion where we feel as much outside the form as we do within the form. 1295|02:27:06|210|02:27:11|030Ramakrishna had some Pisces in his chart, quite a bit I think actually, Pisces and Aquarius. 1296|02:27:12|210|02:27:19|650And the old story goes when crossing the river he heard a master beating his slave and said, 1297|02:27:19|650|02:27:27|330“Who is beating me? Who is beating me?” You know, because he was so identified with all 1298|02:27:27|330|02:27:31|650human beings and with all forms. And of course the great statement of the Christ: “In as much 1299|02:27:31|650|02:27:37|670as you have done this unto the least of these, you have done it unto me.” You know, if we really 1300|02:27:37|670|02:27:48|390meditated upon that and the kind of identification that must connote—extraordinary, you know. 1301|02:27:48|910|02:27:53|830When we are living our selfish lives and we begin to realise that there are great souls 1302|02:27:53|830|02:28:00|830who are feeling even more acutely outside of their conventional selves than they are 1303|02:28:00|830|02:28:07|590within it. It's almost as if the greater sensitivity is out there with all the other human beings 1304|02:28:07|590|02:28:15|090rather than in the individual's vehicle. And that is a real change of direction. That is 1305|02:28:15|090|02:28:23|510the art of identification mastered. i. Self-pity into compassion, sympathy and divine 1306|02:28:23|510|02:28:30|070understanding. You know, to understand — it relates to the feet, to stand under and to 1307|02:28:30|070|02:28:36|750be somehow abstracted from all the phantasmagoria and yet part of the essence of it all. That 1308|02:28:36|750|02:28:45|070word “understanding” really needs review, and if we were to look at it, we find it in the 1309|02:28:45|090|02:28:52|510glamour world problem here right in the very beginning and under — well, there you go. Understanding, 1310|02:28:53|890|02:29:01|830this must be appreciated in its literal sense as that which stands under the totality of 1311|02:29:01|830|02:29:10|690forms. It connotes the power of recession or the capacity to withdraw — withdraw, that's 1312|02:29:10|690|02:29:16|330one of the important words — from one's age-long identification with form life. I would 1313|02:29:16|330|02:29:19|650like to point out that this withdrawal is comparatively easy for those who have much 1314|02:29:19|650|02:29:25|110of the first-ray quality in them. The problem is to withdraw in the esoteric sense but to 1315|02:29:25|110|02:29:32|310avoid at the same time the sense of separateness, of isolation and of superiority. Much more 1316|02:29:33|370|02:29:39|230demanding type of withdrawal because there's kind of an attachment to spirit and essence 1317|02:29:39|230|02:29:47|070soul which remains even as the consciousness withdraws from the form side of those beings 1318|02:29:47|070|02:29:53|870through whom the spirit is expressing. It is easy for first-ray people to resist the 1319|02:29:53|870|02:29:58|990tendency to identify themselves with others. To have true understanding involves an increased 1320|02:29:58|990|02:30:09|090ability to love all beings. To have true understanding involves an increased ability to love all 1321|02:30:09|090|02:30:14|630beings and yet at the same time to preserve personality detachment. Not to be moved in 1322|02:30:14|630|02:30:25|590your personality by the fate of various people and beings, but to be moved in your soul. And 1323|02:30:25|590|02:30:32|550not to want anything from the personality in relation to the person that one understands. 1324|02:30:32|550|02:30:41|670One cannot desire something from whom — something from the individual one truly understands. 1325|02:30:41|850|02:30:47|670One is there for them, and personality desire — personality in a way is equivalent to desire. 1326|02:30:47|830|02:30:53|730Personality desire has nothing to do with it. This detachment can be so easily founded 1327|02:30:53|730|02:31:00|850on an inability to love in a selfish concern for one's own comfort: physical, mental, spiritual 1328|02:31:00|850|02:31:07|770and above all emotional. D.K. is kind of making a case here in relation to the first-ray 1329|02:31:07|770|02:31:13|590people, but we all have things to correct, don't we? So second-ray people are too attached 1330|02:31:13|590|02:31:18|070and first-ray people are too detached. They are polar opposites in a way. First-ray people 1331|02:31:18|070|02:31:25|350dread emotion and despise it. But sometimes they have to swing into an emotional condition 1332|02:31:25|350|02:31:32|830before they can use emotional sensitivity in the right manner. I'm remembering in a 1333|02:31:32|830|02:31:40|610way how very emotional General Patton was. He probably — I think he had a first-ray soul 1334|02:31:40|610|02:31:47|230certainly, but fourth-ray personality most likely. And he was one of those who would 1335|02:31:47|510|02:31:55|330cry spontaneously under certain conditions. So our evolution is very important. 1336|02:31:55|350|02:32:02|530Emotion is not all that predictable, and it is hard to discern the ray because we all 1337|02:32:02|530|02:32:08|870have characteristics of other rays which can camouflage what we really more essentially 1338|02:32:08|870|02:32:17|170are. Understanding involves contact with life as an integrated personality. At least we 1339|02:32:17|170|02:32:23|710have to reach that stage. Plus egoic reaction to the group. We realize we are a soul with 1340|02:32:23|710|02:32:32|090other souls in a larger aggregation called the group towards egoic reaction to the group 1341|02:32:32|090|02:32:39|870purposes and plans — the group and their purposes and plans. It connotes personality-soul unification. 1342|02:32:41|210|02:32:47|310Before we are a fairly soul-infused personality, we are not going to really have that recess, 1343|02:32:47|310|02:32:55|170that recession, that understanding, that detachment from form and yet attachment to soul. It concerns 1344|02:32:55|170|02:33:01|230personality-soul unification, wide experience with a lot of human beings I presume and circumstances 1345|02:33:01|230|02:33:10|150and a rapid activity of the indwelling Christ principle. Yes, which is no longer handicapped 1346|02:33:10|150|02:33:17|110or inhibited but is throbbing with life. A rapid activity of the indwelling Christ principle. 1347|02:33:18|110|02:33:22|870Intuitional understanding is always spontaneous. It doesn't have to be thought about, planned, 1348|02:33:23|790|02:33:30|510premeditated. Where the reasoning to an understanding enters, it is not the activity of the intuition. 1349|02:33:30|670|02:33:37|370So he is really relating intuition and understanding. Understanding as a positive and immediate 1350|02:33:37|990|02:33:46|970response to the soul nature of that which has to be understood. I think that is really 1351|02:33:46|970|02:33:50|850useful. If you use a word like understanding, “Oh I understand you,” which means I have kind 1352|02:33:50|850|02:33:56|130of a mental conception of what's happening with you, but my heart isn't there. My identification 1353|02:33:56|130|02:34:02|610with you as a soul isn't there, or if I am detached, I am just in my mind understanding 1354|02:34:02|610|02:34:09|130you cognitively, but my sense of identification isn't there. And maybe I am attached to the 1355|02:34:09|130|02:34:15|290outcome of my interaction with you, which shows my personality is there. So there are so many 1356|02:34:15|290|02:34:24|230ways to misunderstand understanding. So we have had nine transmutations that are related 1357|02:34:24|230|02:34:33|770to Pisces, and of course these are very useful in determining the qualities of the Piscean 1358|02:34:33|770|02:34:42|810individual. These starting qualities are negativity, mediumship, clairvoyance, clairaudience, 1359|02:34:43|550|02:34:49|590instinct. These read like the who's who of Pisces as far as most people are concerned. 1360|02:34:50|290|02:34:53|950Selfishness—well, maybe not that one so much, but it certainly is. Acquisitiveness, yes. 1361|02:34:55|390|02:35:02|770Self-preservation: hide away and protect myself. Pisces people are often in retreat one way 1362|02:35:02|770|02:35:11|650or another. They are hiding themselves from consequences. They like to disappear. Sometimes 1363|02:35:11|650|02:35:19|970Pisces people are really quite invisible. It's startling. You can be in a crowd, and 1364|02:35:19|970|02:35:24|550the one person who is not chosen or who is not seen is the Pisces person. They have this 1365|02:35:24|550|02:35:30|590kind of aura of invisibility. Some of it is out of fear, and some of it is out of subtlety. 1366|02:35:31|330|02:35:36|250Okay, so where are we here? We are looking at transmutations, the lower nature into the 1367|02:35:36|250|02:35:41|930higher, the lower psychical powers into the higher spiritual faculties. Third transmutation: 1368|02:35:42|130|02:35:51|0103. Spiritual and mental inhibition into soul expression and mental sensitivity. 1369|02:35:51|770|02:35:59|550So mental sensitivity, I think, is somehow related to the mind as an organ of feeling, as strange 1370|02:35:59|550|02:36:09|410as that may seem, and this is kind of an intuitive response. You know, can you feel with your 1371|02:36:09|410|02:36:13|050mind? Well, can you think with your heart? Can you feel with your mind? I think there 1372|02:36:13|050|02:36:18|090are people who definitely do feel into things with their mind. I sometimes wonder when Venus 1373|02:36:18|090|02:36:24|790is in Aries, apparently a detriment position, whether it's possible to feel a situation 1374|02:36:26|770|02:36:35|850aesthetically, sentiently, with your mind. So this is not a common phrase, mental sensitivity. 1375|02:36:36|830|02:36:44|470So often Pisces people, their true nature is hidden away. It is latent. They are somehow 1376|02:36:44|470|02:36:50|550in the closet, as it were. The twelfth house associated with Pisces is often in the horoscope 1377|02:36:50|550|02:36:55|270called the closet, and when you come out of the closet, it's like coming out of the twelfth 1378|02:36:55|270|02:37:03|410house into the first house, sort of declaring yourself in many different ways. Some people 1379|02:37:03|410|02:37:07|310stay in the closet their whole life. They are hidden away, and what they really are is 1380|02:37:07|310|02:37:14|970not known by others. There are, of course, some very expressive Pisces people. It depends 1381|02:37:14|970|02:37:19|710on the ray, it depends on which planet is strongest, it depends on other factors as 1382|02:37:19|710|02:37:27|530well, but we always have to watch that tendency to hide oneself for fear of being discovered 1383|02:37:27|530|02:37:33|030and fear of being hurt and fear of being vulnerable. All those things are part of the Piscean 1384|02:37:33|030|02:37:40|990psychology. So, you know, muteness—you know, can you express spiritually? Can you express 1385|02:37:40|990|02:37:49|130through words? Your mental inhibition has a lot to do—if we look at different positions— 1386|02:37:49|930|02:37:57|250of the fall of Mercury in Pisces, because Mercury is that articulate planet, the planet 1387|02:37:57|250|02:38:03|370which relates to the use of words and which is expressive and eloquent and so forth, and 1388|02:38:03|370|02:38:14|150Pisces is just veiling all of that and hiding it. But eventually the lower nature is so 1389|02:38:14|150|02:38:21|490refined that the soul becomes transparent and can express, and the mental sensitivity— 1390|02:38:21|790|02:38:29|290now that's Mercury in Pisces too. Mercury in Pisces, so it's a real feel for what the 1391|02:38:29|290|02:38:38|290person is saying. Also, higher Mercury in Pisces. Any other transmutations? Yes. 4. Devotion 1392|02:38:39|150|02:38:44|350to the needs of the self because Pisces is one of the devoted signs, pervaded by six 1393|02:38:44|350|02:38:50|070ray Neptune, having six ray come through it constellationally, giving up one's self for 1394|02:38:50|070|02:38:55|590others and so forth, but that comes later. First there is devotion to the needs of the 1395|02:38:55|590|02:38:59|270self because one is so sensitive, one is always being self-centered and thinking about the 1396|02:38:59|270|02:39:08|270impacts into developed devotion and response to the needs of humanity. As D.K. says, the 1397|02:39:08|270|02:39:14|810self often found serving and helping and being selfless about it and ministering—he said, 1398|02:39:15|030|02:39:21|090ministering to the needs of other human beings. They know very well what it means to lose 1399|02:39:21|090|02:39:28|010one's life in order to find it. Are there other transmutations? Yes. 5. Attachment to 1400|02:39:28|010|02:39:34|430environment through impact and to personality conditions (identification with form) 1401|02:39:34|430|02:39:43|790not able to discriminate, that's it, not able to discriminate form from formlessness at 1402|02:39:43|790|02:39:50|210first, into detachment from form under Pluto and ability to identify with the soul. You 1403|02:39:50|210|02:39:55|630know, the less I am the form, the more I am what I really am, but then of course there's 1404|02:39:55|630|02:40:03|070that great compassion, the compassion of the Pisces which feels into the form and detects 1405|02:40:03|070|02:40:10|030its need. One of the great psychic powers, says Master D.K., is the ability to detect real 1406|02:40:10|030|02:40:21|050need and this ability is cultivated by the Piscean person. They feel the need immediately 1407|02:40:21|920|02:40:29|470when they are highly developed. So, and they get into and behind the form. There are no 1408|02:40:29|470|02:40:35|150boundaries for these Piscean people. Using Neptune, they get behind and within the form 1409|02:40:35|150|02:40:43|470and they feel the real condition, the disharmony, the lack, the handicap, whatever is behind 1410|02:40:43|470|02:40:50|590and within the form and then they're able to really become one of the major healing 1411|02:40:50|590|02:40:55|650signs. Pisces is, when joined with the second ray and the seventh ray, one of the major 1412|02:40:55|650|02:41:00|650healing signs because of the great empathy, but it's the empathy that comes about after 1413|02:41:00|650|02:41:06|810there is much development. So at first, with Pisces people, you cannot really expect them 1414|02:41:06|810|02:41:12|870to discriminate the two aspects of the pairs of opposites. They will not. They will not 1415|02:41:12|870|02:41:18|750know that there is a type of higher impressionability which will gradually take over from their 1416|02:41:18|750|02:41:24|110impressionability to just about everything, but eventually through Pluto comes the detachment 1417|02:41:24|110|02:41:32|370from form. It fails to satisfy and one identifies with the soul in all forms, even sensitivity 1418|02:41:32|370|02:41:40|170to the subhuman kingdoms, sensitivity to humanity, sensitivity to the super consciousness. Pisces 1419|02:41:40|170|02:41:45|590is a sign of sensitivity even though D.K. says that Leo is the sign of sensitivity. One of 1420|02:41:45|590|02:41:50|890the keynotes of Leo is sensitivity, but that is sensitivity to the self and not self in 1421|02:41:50|890|02:41:59|430Leo especially. Okay, are there any other transmutations operative here? The ordinary 1422|02:41:59|430|02:42:06|990low-grade medium is the outstanding example of the worst aspects of Pisces—negativity, 1423|02:42:07|730|02:42:14|450impressionability, animal and emotional sensitivity with complete undevelopment of the mental principle. 1424|02:42:14|770|02:42:22|250So here really for the ordinary low grade medium, Mercury really does fall in Pisces. 1425|02:42:24|290|02:42:29|330It would be of interest, and here he is going to talk statistically and scientifically, 1426|02:42:30|570|02:42:39|190he says It would be of interest to find out two things scientifically: 1. Whether 1427|02:42:39|190|02:42:45|550the majority of the lowest kind of medium (trance mediums in particular) they sort of 1428|02:42:45|550|02:42:51|710vacate and they are indiscriminate in terms of what comes through them, (trance mediums 1429|02:42:51|710|02:42:58|430in particular) have Pisces dominant in some powerful manner in their charts. I think that's 1430|02:42:58|430|02:43:06|630an astrological kind of investigation which could be undertaken once things settle down 1431|02:43:06|630|02:43:14|130a little bit. Astrology will prove itself statistically before humanity already. It 1432|02:43:14|130|02:43:20|550is in process of doing so as the work of Michel Gauquelin seems to demonstrate and there are 1433|02:43:20|550|02:43:25|030many others. And there are others of course who attempt to disprove it by the same means, 1434|02:43:25|210|02:43:29|550but since it is the greatest and the oldest of the sciences and since those who really 1435|02:43:29|550|02:43:36|090study the subject, as Newton did, as he rebuked Halley for telling him he should have no business 1436|02:43:36|090|02:43:43|250with astrology, those who study the subject will see that in fact it works. OK, and he 1437|02:43:43|250|02:43:48|090wants to find out scientifically 2. Whether those mediums who are becoming more positive and 1438|02:43:48|090|02:43:53|370more self-controlled and who are beginning to get a glimpse of the higher correspondences 1439|02:43:53|370|02:43:59|990in their work—mediatorship and interpretive activity—have not got Virgo appearing somewhere 1440|02:43:59|990|02:44:08|750with real potency and activity. So Virgo more than being simply a sign of acute mental 1441|02:44:08|750|02:44:14|730development, development of the concrete mind is also a sign of sensitivity. The moon is 1442|02:44:14|730|02:44:20|010the esoteric ruler, the moon is receptivity and underneath that moon one of the planets 1443|02:44:20|010|02:44:27|790is Neptune, again the psychic planet. So there is psychism of a less discriminating type 1444|02:44:28|430|02:44:35|450in Pisces at first and psychism of a more discriminating type in Virgo. Neptune is visible 1445|02:44:35|450|02:44:40|210in both and also in Cancer Neptune is very strong. And I've also seen Aquarius there 1446|02:44:40|210|02:44:49|610as well with Neptune as one of the later rulers, veiled ruler. So he wants to find out whether 1447|02:44:49|610|02:44:54|790the positive mediums have not got Virgo somewhere. Well, we could just make an investigation 1448|02:44:55|150|02:45:01|170in that way. Someone with a good fifth ray and a lot of patience could do that. This 1449|02:45:01|170|02:45:06|210might indicate the awakening of the mind, this Virgo, in the first instance, and eventually 1450|02:45:06|670|02:45:12|130that there was a shift in the influence controlling them, from the orthodox planetary 1451|02:45:12|130|02:45:15|910rulership to that of the more esoteric planets. Well, he's just hinted at it: the Moon and 1452|02:45:15|910|02:45:23|810Neptune in Virgo, right? Moon and Neptune in Virgo, a shift in that way plus the intelligence 1453|02:45:23|810|02:45:31|790of Mercury exalted in Virgo and also ruling in Virgo. You know, Saturn is exalted in Libra 1454|02:45:31|790|02:45:37|830and is the hierarchical ruler, and Mercury is the first ruler of Virgo and exalted in 1455|02:45:37|830|02:45:47|890Virgo. So it's a very intelligent sign. Yes, so ordinary low-grade mediums have to have 1456|02:45:47|890|02:45:54|370their mind awakened so that they can perform mediatorship and can interpret that which 1457|02:45:54|370|02:46:00|270impinges upon them rather than simply be a medium through which it happens and viewing 1458|02:46:00|270|02:46:08|170the whole matter unintelligently, not able to really relate what it all means. It might 1459|02:46:08|170|02:46:13|640be added that spiritualism and the work of the spiritualistic movement are under the 1460|02:46:13|640|02:46:18|820influence of Pisces, and I want to say here the spiritualism is also under the influence 1461|02:46:18|820|02:46:25|720of the seventh ray. So when you have a Pisces individual in or under Pisces plus the seventh 1462|02:46:25|720|02:46:33|000ray, perhaps a soul or personality, we will really have the opportunity to reveal along 1463|02:46:33|940|02:46:39|180the spiritualistic path. So It might be added that spiritualism and the work of the spiritualistic 1464|02:46:39|180|02:46:45|180movement are under the influence of Pisces with Cancer rising, or in some stages with the reverse—1465|02:46:45|500|02:46:51|520Cancer with Pisces rising. So more often perhaps Pisces with Cancer rising, and add to that 1466|02:46:51|520|02:46:58|460the seventh ray which does come in under Cancer, and you will have really the ability to materialize 1467|02:46:59|100|02:47:05|280that which is subtle, perhaps in an etheric manner. That is one of the things that happens 1468|02:47:05|280|02:47:13|800in spiritualism: the appearance of the ectoplasm and the ectoplasm taking the shape of the 1469|02:47:13|800|02:47:20|420so-called spirits which are coming in from a still subtler level. In the seventh ray 1470|02:47:20|420|02:47:24|980age, there is going to be a lot of the investigation of spiritualism. You know who was interested 1471|02:47:24|980|02:47:32|520in this? Actually Arthur Conan Doyle. I think he had a lot of Gemini. He was the author 1472|02:47:32|520|02:47:38|680of Sherlock Holmes. He had this strong spirit of investigation and a logical mind as Sherlock 1473|02:47:38|680|02:47:45|640Holmes did, but he was also very sensitive. Sherlock Holmes—I'm thinking of him as kind 1474|02:47:45|640|02:47:53|940of a reflection of Conan Doyle—was very Neptunian. He played the violin, and he took what drug 1475|02:47:53|940|02:48:01|460was it? Was it laudanum? Was it some sort of opium? In other words, he was involved in 1476|02:48:01|460|02:48:06|800this Piscean, Neptunian thing to stimulate his intuition, and he had this incredibly logical 1477|02:48:06|800|02:48:12|920mind. So you kind of wonder about the life of Conan Doyle. It could be researched, and 1478|02:48:12|920|02:48:20|060I could just go to the horoscope of Conan Doyle, but that would be a digression, wouldn't 1479|02:48:20|060|02:48:25|660it? So I'll leave that to someone else. I'm pretty sure—you know, I'm really tempted 1480|02:48:25|660|02:48:31|360to do this. No, no, no, I must resist, or at least I must say I'm resisting while not resisting. 1481|02:48:31|360|02:48:38|880Perhaps I can do that. I'm not sure what role Neptune plays in the horoscope of Conan Doyle, 1482|02:48:38|880|02:48:48|780and oftentimes one's projections, one's characters if one is an author, are not necessarily projections 1483|02:48:48|780|02:48:58|960of oneself. Famous and cleaner, famous and cleaner, additional, famous and cleaner for 1484|02:48:58|960|02:49:12|540the book, and let's see if we can find this man. Okay, oh well. Maybe I can't find him. 1485|02:49:12|840|02:49:20|200Let's see. A-R-T-H-U-R. Arthur, I'll try that. Maybe it's under Doyle, you know. Arthur, 1486|02:49:20|300|02:49:28|940Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke. Okay. Sir—oh, it's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Well, okay. Okay. 1487|02:49:29|660|02:49:37|900Yes, he is a—yes, he is a—oh, look at all that Gemini! Wow. The Moon in Aquarius. And there 1488|02:49:37|900|02:49:44|440is Neptune with Vesta. Ah, Neptune in Pisces. Yes. He is one of those born with Neptune 1489|02:49:44|440|02:49:56|120in Pisces, and it is square his Gemini planets. And it is—let's see—it has this big sextile 1490|02:49:56|700|02:50:03|180to the Sun and to Uranus. It's up in the 11th house of the chart, a bit of a utopian, but 1491|02:50:03|180|02:50:08|680certainly well grounded with Saturn at the bottom of the chart. And Sun, Uranus—well, 1492|02:50:08|680|02:50:13|420there we go, there's the spiritualism, there's the seventh ray, the Sun and Uranus together. 1493|02:50:13|960|02:50:18|780in Gemini and bringing through the higher and the lower. Let's see if there's anything 1494|02:50:18|780|02:50:26|100here in the… Hmm, what are these? These are the declinations, and these are the declinations, 1495|02:50:26|120|02:50:29|780and nothing immediately involving Neptune. Well, there is an elevated Neptune; that's 1496|02:50:29|780|02:50:35|400for sure, and he certainly is a writer, isn't he, with this Gemini rising and Mars and Jupiter 1497|02:50:35|400|02:50:41|700both rising. But we don't know his rays, but we suspect with that prominent, prominent 1498|02:50:41|700|02:50:46|660Sun-Uranus conjunction trine to the moon in Aquarius, which is ruled by Uranus, there's 1499|02:50:46|660|02:50:52|060a strong seventh ray. I suspect that he was a seventh ray soul, and he was bringing that 1500|02:50:52|060|02:51:02|960through as he is writing about Sherlock Holmes with a lot of fifth rays as well. Okay, let's 1501|02:51:02|960|02:51:10|420see, where are we? Is it time to… Well, not quite time. As regards the rays which express 1502|02:51:10|420|02:51:18|000themselves through the planetary rulers and which absorb or collaborate with the influences 1503|02:51:18|000|02:51:25|460of the sign Pisces Now there's a hint; there is a hint that the rays expressing through 1504|02:51:25|460|02:51:31|620the planetary rulers, we would expect, collaborate with the influences of the sign Pisces, but 1505|02:51:31|620|02:51:40|680also absorb them. So, in other words, planetary rulers absorb the influences of the signs 1506|02:51:40|680|02:51:50|220which they rule. Let's put that down. Planetary rulers absorb the influences of the signs 1507|02:51:50|220|02:51:59|980which they rule. The rays which express themselves through the planetary rulers… Aha! And which 1508|02:51:59|980|02:52:06|580absorb or… Aha! It's the rays; it's the planetary… It's the rays which absorb the influence of 1509|02:52:06|580|02:52:18|720the signs. The rays of the sign, I suppose, and the planetary rulers absorb the influence 1510|02:52:18|720|02:52:25|440of the signs through which they express and which they rule, through which they express— 1511|02:52:25|500|02:52:33|500I'll say that. The rays of the signs, the planetary rulers absorb. Okay, so every once 1512|02:52:33|500|02:52:39|180in a while he drops a little hint like that, and you have to understand the significance 1513|02:52:39|180|02:52:44|620of it, or at least attempt to. As regards the rays which express themselves through 1514|02:52:44|620|02:52:51|360the planetary rulers and which absorb or collaborate with the influences of the sign Pisces and 1515|02:52:51|360|02:52:58|160thus influence our planet and humanity, we find a most interesting situation. So I want 1516|02:52:58|160|02:53:07|260to make those big if I can, so I remember them. Absorb and collaborate with… collaborate 1517|02:53:07|260|02:53:15|920with. Okay, he's going to accent the first and second rays, I suspect. Two major rays 1518|02:53:15|920|02:53:25|060which absorb the influence of the sign Pisces and collaborate with it. Two major rays express 1519|02:53:25|060|02:53:28|300themselves through the rulers of Pisces, The major rays are rays one, two, and three, 1520|02:53:29|060|02:53:33|760through the rulers of Pisces, orthodox and esoteric: The first Ray of Will or Power, 1521|02:53:33|760|02:53:38|880focussed through Pluto, probably in the personality aspect of Pluto, and the second Ray of Love-1522|02:53:39|760|02:53:48|180Wisdom. focuses through the orthodox, exoteric ruler, probably in the soul, the second ray 1523|02:53:48|180|02:53:53|800of the soul, ray of Jupiter. It is the interplay of these dual potencies which: do the following. 1524|02:53:53|800|02:53:59|020Rays one and two—they 1. Produces the duality of this sign. Well, what is that duality? 1525|02:53:59|160|02:54:08|860Attachment and detachment, form and soul. And even eventually, I think, in the later 1526|02:54:08|860|02:54:15|480days, the recognition of the monad or spirit. These two rays 2. Brings about the major problem 1527|02:54:15|480|02:54:23|720of Pisces—psychic sensitivity. Well, we can certainly see this with respect to 1528|02:54:23|720|02:54:30|040the second ray. That is the ray of the psychic, especially when combined with the sixth ray. 1529|02:54:30|760|02:54:36|500But there is this whole question of what to be attached to and what to be detached from, 1530|02:54:37|080|02:54:44|340and how to bring about your detachment from your over-identification. What's needed here 1531|02:54:44|340|02:54:58|020is detachment from over-identification. That's what's needed. Okay, these two rays 1532|02:54:58|020|02:55:04|260cause 3. Causes the lure of the Path, in the first instance the path of evolution and later 1533|02:55:04|260|02:55:10|580the lure of the probationary path during which we begin to detach ourselves from all 1534|02:55:10|580|02:55:16|320the phantasmagoria to which we were attached, and later the lure of the probationary path 1535|02:55:16|320|02:55:20|740with the consequence that transference to the Fixed Cross (which is all that we can 1536|02:55:20|740|02:55:25|440intelligently comprehend) begins really in Pisces; That's such an important statement. 1537|02:55:26|840|02:55:33|000Transference to the fixed cross begins really in Pisces. So I suppose when Pluto starts 1538|02:55:33|000|02:55:44|000to affect all of those detachments and losses in the life, one finds oneself able to envision 1539|02:55:44|680|02:55:54|120life upon the cross of the soul. So just think about that. There we are with Pisces, a mutable 1540|02:55:54|120|02:56:01|660sign, and it's taking place at the very end of the mutable cross experience, allowing 1541|02:56:01|660|02:56:09|780a kind of transition onto the cross of the growth of the sensitive soul. But later on, 1542|02:56:09|900|02:56:16|780you know, Pisces, as we have discussed, can be quite influential in ending the fixed cross 1543|02:56:16|780|02:56:22|840experience, which certainly will end with the fourth initiation, and making it possible 1544|02:56:22|840|02:56:32|820to step onto the cross of wholes, W-H-O-L-E-S, which is the cardinal cross. Okay, so this is 1545|02:56:32|820|02:56:38|200lure. Well, you know, Pisces people easily fall into temptation and they are mightily attracted. 1546|02:56:38|740|02:56:49|760Lure, mightily attracted. M-I-G-H. Mightily attracted. Yes, so first there's just this 1547|02:56:49|760|02:56:54|980over-engagement with matter, and then Pluto comes along, the planet of death, and says, 1548|02:56:55|120|02:57:00|620“I'll have none of this, it all repulses me.” The law of repulse begins to operate, the fourth law 1549|02:57:00|620|02:57:08|980of the soul, and then we pull ourselves away and cut the threads which bound us to the 1550|02:57:08|980|02:57:14|900unreal. Let's see, the transference to the fixed cross, which is all we can tell it to 1551|02:57:14|900|02:57:20|800comprehend, begins really in Pisces, though impulsed (if I may use such a word) in Aries 1552|02:57:21|420|02:57:28|620it begins and ends in Pisces. So Aries has the initiative to make the transference, but 1553|02:57:28|620|02:57:35|940really the effective transference onto the fixed cross is made in Pisces, and it seems to 1554|02:57:37|020|02:57:46|860end in Pisces as well. Does the fixed cross, F-X-C-H, no, 1555|02:57:48|520|02:57:58|340fixed cross, goodness, I could do that before, fixed cross end in Pisces also, in a Pisces experience? 1556|02:57:59|380|02:57:59|940Perhaps. 1557|02:58:01|820|02:58:08|000Okay, so the first and second ray within Pisces causes the lure of the path, yes, that's the 1558|02:58:08|000|02:58:14|820secondary part, in the first instance, the path of evolution, and eventually through the mediation 1559|02:58:14|820|02:58:21|320or the assistance of that detaching power, the lure of the probationary path, which with its 1560|02:58:21|320|02:58:27|780promise of expansion and consciousness, it's like a two-one-two. At first, two attaches to matter, 1561|02:58:27|780|02:58:32|680then Pisces says “none of this,” that's the first ray says “none of this, I will detach,” and the 1562|02:58:32|680|02:58:39|740second ray again says “I will reattach to the soul,” though impulsed (if I may use such a word) 1563|02:58:40|240|02:58:46|120in Aries it begins and ends in Pisces. Okay, the first and second ray again 4. Precipitates the 1564|02:58:46|120|02:58:51|940process of transmutation and eventual escape through death. the combination of first and 1565|02:58:51|940|02:58:59|520second rays. There's much to ponder here, the second ray is a refining influence, 1566|02:59:01|700|02:59:08|280purifying influence, and the first ray is the destroying influence, so the three powers of 1567|02:59:08|280|02:59:14|240Shambhala we've been told are purification, destruction, and organization, so those are rays 1568|02:59:14|240|02:59:25|640two, one, and three, so ray two purification, ray two purification, and ray one destruction. 1569|02:59:28|440|02:59:36|560So the first and second ray together, the second ray wants refinement, and the first ray will 1570|02:59:36|560|02:59:41|620destroy all that which is not refined and adequately sensitive. What about the first 1571|02:59:41|620|02:59:46|800and second ray again? 5. Unfolds the significance, activity and beauty of death 1572|02:59:47|100|02:59:52|660and of the work of the destroyer. Well, the beauty of death is Jupiter. Jupiter is often involved, 1573|02:59:52|760|02:59:58|920we are told, in the death experience, a kind of a great magnetism from beyond the body 1574|02:59:59|700|03:00:06|500abstracts and draws the soul up into itself, so that is the eternally lovely secret of death, 1575|03:00:06|500|03:00:14|540as D.K. calls it, significance, activity, and beauty of death, so we go towards a realm of higher, 1576|03:00:14|660|03:00:25|240more beautiful magnetism, and Pluto with its first ray quality applies the work of death 1577|03:00:25|800|03:00:32|000and destroyer, which liberates into the higher life of the death experience. Well, there's much 1578|03:00:32|000|03:00:37|260to ponder on there, much to ponder, but what he's basically saying is that there is a collaboration 1579|03:00:37|260|03:00:41|960of the first and second ray with the energies of Pisces. Collaboration is one of the words, 1580|03:00:42|980|03:00:51|900and the other word is absorption. As regards the rays which express themselves through the 1581|03:00:51|900|03:00:57|640planetary rulers and which absorb or collaborate with the influence of the sign Pisces, so 1582|03:00:57|640|03:01:03|000the rays are absorbing, that's an interesting thought, and we have to ponder on that, 1583|03:01:03|300|03:01:08|820the rays are absorbing the influences of the sign Pisces. Certainly the planetary rulers absorb, 1584|03:01:09|020|03:01:14|040because they are lesser lords and they absorb the energy of the greater lords, but also 1585|03:01:14|040|03:01:26|640their rays absorb the influences of the sign as well. Okay, we are on page 126, I do believe, 1586|03:01:27|290|03:01:40|400we have reached the point, yes, so this is the end now of esoteric astrology adventure 53, part 1587|03:01:42|400|03:01:47|6603, and we are ending with page 126, and we began 1588|03:01:49|520|03:02:01|280on page 123, so from page 123 to 126. Yes, come along now, come along. 1589|03:02:04|000|03:02:15|000Speed reading course, here we go, page 123 to page 126. 1590|03:02:15|980|03:02:19|340All right, so the question is at this point, 1591|03:02:20|520|03:02:24|340shall I go on and try to make this four hours or will three hours be 1592|03:02:25|420|03:02:34|140sufficient? I will see in just a moment, just a moment. Okay. 1593|03:02:37|780|03:02:44|720Well, I think there's quite a bit more, another eight pages in the Pisces, Pisces chapter. 1594|03:02:45|000|03:02:51|780So I think it would be wise at this point to see if this three-hour program does work. 1595|03:02:52|500|03:02:58|820I think a two-hour program has worked, and rather than forge ahead here, 1596|03:02:59|940|03:03:07|820give it a little break and work together, closing our discussion of Pisces, 1597|03:03:08|640|03:03:11|780this part of it at least, with The Great Invocation. 1598|03:03:23|820|03:03:24|580Om. 1599|03:03:31|300|03:03:34|620From the point of light within the mind of God, 1600|03:03:35|180|03:03:41|520let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 1601|03:03:46|600|03:03:52|660From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. 1602|03:03:53|700|03:03:55|800May Christ return to earth. 1603|03:03:59|920|03:04:04|960From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 1604|03:04:05|920|03:04:09|080the purpose which the masters know and serve. 1605|03:04:12|720|03:04:17|720From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 1606|03:04:17|800|03:04:21|080and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 1607|03:04:24|100|03:04:29|260Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 1608|03:04:43|200|03:04:44|600Om. 1609|03:04:55|860|03:04:56|560Om. 1610|03:05:10|600|03:05:11|320Om. 1611|03:05:12|640|03:05:18|300Okay friends, so let's see how this downloads and if this works well, 1612|03:05:19|320|03:05:28|960and we will carry on at our next opportunity. We will see how we go, and 1613|03:05:29|960|03:05:35|960this is the end then of Esoteric Astrology number 53. 1614|03:05:37|560|03:05:39|040Actually I suppose we'd be up to 1615|03:05:43|160|03:05:49|44053, 54, 55, 56. It would be the end of 56 probably, in our old method of doing it, 1616|03:05:49|520|03:05:55|300but let's see if this works well. Okay, until then we will continue with Pisces. There's so 1617|03:05:55|300|03:06:01|940much of interest to be said, you know. When you get the opposites like the first and the second 1618|03:06:01|940|03:06:11|920ray, they really have a contrast and a tension between them, and that tension is revelatory. 1619|03:06:13|620|03:06:20|240So it opens, lifts the veils, penetrates the veils, which is 1620|03:06:22|040|03:06:30|060the cure for the low-grade psychic sensitivity and finally reveals the higher possibilities. 1621|03:06:30|580|03:06:32|560Okay, we'll see you then. Bye-bye.