1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940Hi friends, this is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 54. 2|00:00:11|000|00:00:13|060Redux, second time. 3|00:00:13|720|00:00:15|180Because can you believe it? 4|00:00:15|800|00:00:21|360I recorded two nice hours for you with the sound off entirely. 5|00:00:24|400|00:00:26|880I hope this is not the case this time. 6|00:00:26|880|00:00:30|680I've checked it and you should be seeing my screen. 7|00:00:30|900|00:00:39|040So it will be, of course, entirely different than the one that was just spoken before. 8|00:00:40|280|00:00:51|560We were reviewing the orthodox and esoteric rulers of the mutable cross: Jupiter and Mercury, 9|00:00:53|720|00:00:59|700ruling Sagittarius and Pisces, and Gemini and Virgo respectively. 10|00:01:00|460|00:01:05|660And then come the esoteric rulers: Pluto for Pisces, Earth for Sagittarius, 11|00:01:05|860|00:01:17|660the Moon hiding Vulcan for Venus, the Moon hiding Vulcan for Virgo, and then Venus. 12|00:01:17|660|00:01:22|820I just want to make sure that I'm not… 13|00:01:23|860|00:01:28|100Yes, I was about to start in the wrong place. 14|00:01:28|340|00:01:30|020This has been quite a day for me. 15|00:01:30|300|00:01:38|240Anyway, we finished with part three and we've been talking about the beauty of death. 16|00:01:38|240|00:01:41|340And we began… 17|00:01:41|340|00:01:56|340We ended part three of number Esoteric Astrology 53 with the list of five points related to 18|00:01:56|720|00:01:58|780Pluto and Jupiter. 19|00:01:58|780|00:02:09|040The first ray of Pluto ruling esoterically and hierarchically in Pisces, and the second 20|00:02:09|040|00:02:13|240ray of Jupiter ruling in an exoteric manner. 21|00:02:13|720|00:02:25|680It is unusual, we realize, that there are certain signs that have rulerships where esoteric 22|00:02:25|680|00:02:35|020planets or sacred planets are put in an orthodox or exoteric position, and where non-sacred 23|00:02:35|020|00:02:38|680planets are put in an esoteric or hierarchical position. 24|00:02:39|340|00:02:51|320Among these are two arms of the mutable cross, namely Pisces, where Jupiter, a powerful esoteric 25|00:02:51|320|00:02:57|000planet, a sacred planet, one of the most important in our solar system as it is most closely 26|00:02:57|640|00:03:07|840related to the Sun, is put in an orthodox or exoteric position, whereas Pluto, a non-sacred, 27|00:03:08|020|00:03:14|320though esoteric in a sense, planet—okay, it is esoteric because highly occulted in 28|00:03:14|320|00:03:20|480a certain sense, but it is a non-sacred planet, less sacred even than Mars, its alter ego— 29|00:03:20|480|00:03:25|900and it is put in an esoteric and hierarchical position. 30|00:03:26|140|00:03:28|840When we look at Sagittarius, we find something similar. 31|00:03:29|340|00:03:36|980Here is sacred Jupiter again in the exoteric or orthodox position, ruling ordinary man 32|00:03:36|980|00:03:43|100on the ordinary common cross, and the Earth, which is not yet a sacred planet, is put in 33|00:03:43|100|00:03:48|140the esoteric position, and Mars, which is not yet a sacred planet and even less developed 34|00:03:48|140|00:03:54|140than the Earth, is put in a hierarchical position. 35|00:03:55|320|00:03:59|500We have to realize that these are great gods. 36|00:04:00|320|00:04:06|780The planetary Logos of the various planets may be, with respect to each other, non-sacred, 37|00:04:06|900|00:04:14|460sacred, or synthesizing, but with respect to man, they are all great deities, and so 38|00:04:14|460|00:04:24|880their influences, their emanations can apply to the human being on any of the levels of 39|00:04:24|880|00:04:32|180his expression, whether his personality level, which is the orthodox or exoteric position, 40|00:04:32|720|00:04:37|560or the esoteric position, which relates to the soul, or the hierarchical position, which 41|00:04:37|560|00:04:40|760begins to bring in the power of the monad. 42|00:04:41|480|00:04:49|940So we can find interpretations for any of these deities in a way. 43|00:04:50|820|00:04:58|200We can find interpretations for them which can apply to any of man's areas or levels 44|00:04:58|200|00:04:59|200of expression. 45|00:05:00|180|00:05:06|380We're told in review that the first ray of power is focused through Pluto, the second 46|00:05:06|380|00:05:13|980ray of love-wisdom is focused through Jupiter, and the interplay of these two potencies gives 47|00:05:13|980|00:05:14|740the following. 48|00:05:15|240|00:05:23|360It 1. Produces the duality of this sign. and that gives us the whole question of attachment 49|00:05:23|360|00:05:24|280and detachment. 50|00:05:25|560|00:05:28|580It brings about—well, attachment obviously is Jupiter. 51|00:05:28|700|00:05:31|820Jupiter is a great planet of magnetic attachment. 52|00:05:31|820|00:05:37|980We may think of it in some respects as a planet of magnetic liberation where the consciousness 53|00:05:37|980|00:05:44|700is drawn up into a higher and more expanded sphere, but at the same time it does bring 54|00:05:44|700|00:05:50|740about coherence, cohesion, magnetic attraction, and in a sense attachment and bondage. 55|00:05:51|180|00:05:56|080This is the form's early response to the Jupiterian energy. 56|00:05:56|940|00:06:00|960The second thing which the combination of Pluto and Jupiter, first ray, second ray 2. Brings 57|00:06:00|960|00:06:08|080about the major problem of Pisces—psychic sensitivity. sensitivity, vulnerability 58|00:06:08|080|00:06:11|600to all manner of subtle influences. 59|00:06:12|060|00:06:19|380Pluto does have a specific connection to the astral plane, to Hades, the underworld, as 60|00:06:19|380|00:06:21|280it were, and that is what the astral plane is. 61|00:06:21|340|00:06:27|680As a matter of fact, the astral hell, the seventh subplane of that astral plane, I think, 62|00:06:27|680|00:06:29|780is specifically plutonic. 63|00:06:29|780|00:06:34|640The sixth and seventh subplanes of the astral plane we should have nothing to do with, the 64|00:06:34|640|00:06:42|520Tibetan tells us, but it is possible that these subtle impressions can be received by 65|00:06:42|520|00:06:48|140Pisces perhaps more than any other sign, a very mediumistic and psychic sign. 66|00:06:48|960|00:06:52|160Pluto is a penetrating planet. 67|00:06:52|160|00:07:01|300It pierces certain ring-pass-nots and lets in these energies, and Jupiter is magnetic 68|00:07:01|300|00:07:04|860and attractive and draws them all in. 69|00:07:05|600|00:07:09|940So the first and second ray here, the first ray of penetration, the second ray, truly 70|00:07:09|940|00:07:13|260the ray of psychism producing the true psychic that the Christ was. 71|00:07:13|440|00:07:18|720We're told the Christ on the second ray was the true psychic, and this is the function 72|00:07:18|720|00:07:21|240of the second ray and thus of Jupiter. 73|00:07:22|280|00:07:27|960Jupiter is interesting because it is connected in an orthodox manner with two signs which 74|00:07:27|960|00:07:34|000are either, let's say, Sagittarius, visionary and intuitive, or Pisces, highly impressionable. 75|00:07:35|000|00:07:40|800And as far as the other signs that it is connected with, we can find types of impressionability 76|00:07:40|800|00:07:41|840in them as well. 77|00:07:41|840|00:07:49|740The higher medium found in Virgo and the one who is open to new and descending planetary 78|00:07:49|740|00:07:54|320ideas is found in Aquarius, where Jupiter is the esoteric ruler. 79|00:07:55|300|00:08:00|620Okay, so that's the second factor that the first and second ray and Pluto and Jupiter 80|00:08:00|620|00:08:01|160bring in. 81|00:08:01|380|00:08:02|280This is just a review. 82|00:08:02|660|00:08:05|700They 3. Causes the lure of the Path, 83|00:08:05|760|00:08:11|120in the first instance the path of evolution and later the lure of the probationary path 84|00:08:11|120|00:08:15|760with the consequence that transference to the Fixed Cross (which is all that we can intelligently 85|00:08:15|760|00:08:19|760comprehend) begins really in Pisces; 86|00:08:20|520|00:08:25|440There is that transitional moment at the end of the mutable cross where we are making our 87|00:08:25|440|00:08:28|040transition onto the fixed cross. 88|00:08:28|260|00:08:29|960It's a moment of crisis. 89|00:08:30|300|00:08:33|140It's a highly critical moment. 90|00:08:34|220|00:08:35|640And lure is interesting. 91|00:08:36|840|00:08:41|880The first and second ray combining to cause the lure of the path. 92|00:08:42|800|00:08:49|360We might say that the higher consciousness of the second ray calls to us, and the possible 93|00:08:49|360|00:08:53|300freedom of the spirit under Pluto in the first ray calls to us. 94|00:08:53|720|00:08:57|440Remember that Pluto is definitely connected with Shambhala. 95|00:08:58|340|00:09:04|040Aries-Pluto-Shambhala, and that's one of the connections of Pluto-Shambhala and as well 96|00:09:04|040|00:09:11|180when you think of the final incarnation for some being taken in Pisces under very drastic 97|00:09:11|180|00:09:17|640conditions, this suggests a Pluto and a first ray entrance into Shambhala. 98|00:09:18|120|00:09:22|120So there is the lure of the path of evolution: go forth into matter. 99|00:09:22|320|00:09:29|460If you think about it, all of the signs of the zodiac are operative at all times, but 100|00:09:29|460|00:09:38|860we sometimes have zodiacs of 8, of 10, of 11, and so forth in the history of the development 101|00:09:38|860|00:09:39|520of the zodiac. 102|00:09:39|680|00:09:45|160And what that says, I think, is that the spiritual potentials of certain signs are not available 103|00:09:45|160|00:09:49|640to humanity at all phases of man's unfoldment. 104|00:09:49|700|00:09:55|020No, but that some influence of the sign is available at all times. 105|00:09:55|020|00:10:00|420Otherwise, how could it be that the first incarnation, as we have discussed, can be 106|00:10:00|420|00:10:05|740taken individually in Pisces, whereas the mass incarnation is taken in Cancer? 107|00:10:06|420|00:10:12|100So this whole idea of “go forth into matter” at that very first incarnation, with Pisces 108|00:10:12|100|00:10:18|780considered to be the first of the signs, must mean that man is somewhat responsive to the 109|00:10:18|780|00:10:25|980more material, impressionable, engulfed state of Pisces, and that it is operative even when 110|00:10:25|980|00:10:31|480there is simply a zodiac of 8, ending with Scorpio, or a zodiac of 10, ending with Capricorn. 111|00:10:32|140|00:10:37|980Those influences are ambient; they are transmitted to the earth. 112|00:10:38|660|00:10:43|080The form of man receives them, but his higher spiritual nature does not. 113|00:10:43|180|00:10:47|920He cannot enter into their higher spiritual significances. 114|00:10:47|920|00:10:54|960All we can really intelligently comprehend here is the fixed cross, the cross of the 115|00:10:54|960|00:11:00|500developing soul, the crucified, first the crucified and then the unfolding soul, and 116|00:11:00|500|00:11:04|620we're all beginning to learn about that, but not yet the cardinal cross, because we are 117|00:11:04|620|00:11:10|680not as a rule initiates of the third degree and beyond, and we cannot enter into the life 118|00:11:10|680|00:11:13|760of the spirit yet, so with intelligent comprehension. 119|00:11:14|720|00:11:18|320So, the transference to the fixed cross begins really in Pisces. 120|00:11:18|440|00:11:21|220Remember, Pisces can be considered in a way the first sign. 121|00:11:21|920|00:11:27|000though impulsed (if I may use such a word) in Aries it begins and ends in Pisces. It says it's impulsed in Aries, though it begins in Pisces, and in the clockwise wheel 122|00:11:27|000|00:11:34|780Pisces can be considered the first sign, coming around ending with Taurus and Aries and starting 123|00:11:34|780|00:11:39|060again in Pisces if you're on the clockwise wheel, or on the counterclockwise wheel Aries 124|00:11:39|060|00:11:43|640is considered the first sign and Pisces the ending sign of consummation. 125|00:11:44|240|00:11:48|380This question of where to begin—you know we always begin with Aries on the counterclockwise 126|00:11:48|380|00:11:54|940wheel, but when we come to the clockwise wheel we can in a way end with Aries and thereby 127|00:11:54|940|00:12:00|280call it a beginning, but in a number of the ways that the Tibetan measures the signs and 128|00:12:00|280|00:12:07|480gives them numbers, Pisces is considered number one, the first, and that's the only way really 129|00:12:07|480|00:12:09|880that Leo can be considered the eighth sign. 130|00:12:10|060|00:12:14|780It would be considered the ninth sign if Aries was operating counterclockwise—excuse me, 131|00:12:15|040|00:12:16|700Aries was operating clockwise. 132|00:12:17|380|00:12:22|380We began with Aries and we come to Leo would be number nine, but D.K. says that we must number 133|00:12:22|380|00:12:27|040Leo as the eighth sign as well as the fifth sign, fifth on the counterclockwise wheel 134|00:12:27|040|00:12:34|180and eighth on the clockwise wheel, so that eighth position has to do with beginning with 135|00:12:34|820|00:12:38|060Pisces as sign number one: “Go forth into matter.” 136|00:12:38|900|00:12:45|240Both of them on the clockwise wheel, Aries and Pisces, have mantrams of commencement: 137|00:12:45|620|00:12:47|500“Let form again be sought.” 138|00:12:47|880|00:12:55|480That is certainly the idea of initiating a new clockwise form-related cycle, and “Go forth 139|00:12:55|480|00:12:56|940into matter” is how it's done. 140|00:12:58|120|00:13:04|080So even at the very beginning I'm trying to say that such signs as Sagittarius, Capricorn, 141|00:13:04|080|00:13:12|140Aquarius, Pisces, who are not listed in the Zodiac of Eight, are effective 142|00:13:13|060|00:13:14|800in the life of early man. 143|00:13:18|900|00:13:23|360So I asked you earlier, does the fixed cross end in a Pisces experience? 144|00:13:23|820|00:13:27|200And I think in a way it can. 145|00:13:28|080|00:13:32|700The fixed cross ends in a way at the fourth initiation, and that can well be undertaken 146|00:13:32|700|00:13:33|360in Pisces. 147|00:13:33|360|00:13:43|800There are a number of signs which are, oh let's say, conducive to departing the fourth 148|00:13:43|800|00:13:50|080kingdom of nature and having no more enforced association with it, and certainly Pisces, the 149|00:13:50|080|00:13:51|080sign of release, is that. 150|00:13:51|720|00:13:56|900So we're continuing with looking at rays one and two in relation to Pisces and Pluto and 151|00:13:56|900|00:14:02|820Jupiter in relation to Pisces, and it's causing certain developments of which we've named 152|00:14:02|820|00:14:09|700three, and the fourth is that this relationship 4. Precipitates the process of transmutation 153|00:14:09|700|00:14:13|020and eventual escape through death. 154|00:14:13|800|00:14:18|660Well, when we look at the three potencies coming out of Shambhala, they are purification, destruction, 155|00:14:18|660|00:14:19|900and organization. 156|00:14:20|780|00:14:23|240Ray two is purification; ray one is destruction. 157|00:14:23|440|00:14:30|420So two of the Shambhala potencies—and remember that those who end their incarnation cycle 158|00:14:30|940|00:14:33|800in Pisces do so in relation to Shambhala. 159|00:14:35|260|00:14:36|720They are destined for Shambhala. 160|00:14:38|320|00:14:46|620The ray two purification and ray one destruction under Jupiter, let's say, and under Pluto are 161|00:14:46|620|00:14:51|140related here to the process of transmutation and escape through death. 162|00:14:51|720|00:14:56|940Transmutation and purification go together; destruction and escape through death go together. 163|00:14:57|860|00:15:01|640So these two—there's always a process of refinement. 164|00:15:02|460|00:15:05|440Refinement and purification is a second ray matter. 165|00:15:05|940|00:15:11|280When it comes to actually freeing the consciousness or the spirit from its involvement with the 166|00:15:11|280|00:15:12|880form, that's a destructive process. 167|00:15:13|360|00:15:18|400It's related to Pluto and Pluto in the first ray. 168|00:15:18|560|00:15:24|760Perhaps Pluto is among the planets that we know about at the present time the most destructive 169|00:15:24|760|00:15:25|220planet. 170|00:15:25|460|00:15:32|560There may be byproducts of destruction that come from other planets, but Pluto is purposefully 171|00:15:32|560|00:15:34|660and with intent destructive. 172|00:15:35|020|00:15:44|340It represents the shears, the sharp shears that cuts the connection of the sutratma 173|00:15:44|340|00:15:45|500with its forms. 174|00:15:45|720|00:15:53|920It can never destroy the sutratma, of course—it can only temporarily lead to 175|00:15:55|860|00:16:02|140the ceasing of connection of the sutratma with the forms that it has been animating. 176|00:16:02|940|00:16:07|700The fifth point relating to Pluto and Jupiter, or first and second ray. 177|00:16:08|920|00:16:15|1205. Unfolds the significance, activity and beauty of death and of the work of the destroyer. 178|00:16:15|320|00:16:21|880Well, death operates in relation to the first ray certainly, and D.K. speaks of the eternally 179|00:16:21|880|00:16:25|600lovely secret of death. 180|00:16:25|960|00:16:28|240Is that “eternally lovely”? 181|00:16:28|760|00:16:29|760Is it “secret of death”? 182|00:16:29|840|00:16:30|820It's something like that. 183|00:16:31|320|00:16:33|520I won't go on a search—you can go on that search. 184|00:16:35|240|00:16:39|480But then Jupiter has much to do with death as well, because death is a magnetic event. 185|00:16:40|080|00:16:45|300The soul sounds a great word of destruction, but as well it's a word of attraction because 186|00:16:45|300|00:16:52|880it attracts the immersed consciousness towards the higher realms. 187|00:16:53|520|00:17:00|100So some of my astrological associates who are very astute have observed charts in which 188|00:17:00|100|00:17:06|140Jupiter is very active at the time of death because, as it were, it provides a great escape 189|00:17:06|600|00:17:08|560for the indwelling soul. 190|00:17:08|880|00:17:15|120When you think about escape, certainly Sagittarius goes on those long journeys away from the 191|00:17:15|120|00:17:22|740familiar territory—that's a kind of escape—and Pisces is most notably the elusive sign 192|00:17:22|740|00:17:26|760of escape, slipping out of the bondage of form. 193|00:17:27|300|00:17:32|760So this took us to the end of part three. In the beginning of part four, had a little bit 194|00:17:32|760|00:17:33|840of a false start there. 195|00:17:35|220|00:17:43|280And now we are on page 126 for me, the second glorious time, and I can tell by what I'm saying, 196|00:17:43|280|00:17:49|660you know, that what I said before was completely different, and hopefully some of the valuable 197|00:17:49|660|00:17:56|780points that were made before will not be consigned to their fate as a Charlie Chaplin film—one 198|00:17:56|780|00:18:00|260of the silent films. “Read my lips,” you know—it won't work. 199|00:18:01|020|00:18:08|160Usually at least something picks up this—at least something picks up the words—but this 200|00:18:08|160|00:18:09|020time nothing did. 201|00:18:09|580|00:18:15|020Okay, so onward. From this it will be apparent how important and powerful is this sign. Pisces— 202|00:18:15|020|00:18:22|060a sign of apparent weakness is a sign of great consummatory victory leading to Shambhala. 203|00:18:22|740|00:18:28|700One of my scientific friends said, “Have you ever tried to compress water?” showing something 204|00:18:28|700|00:18:33|200of the strength and resistance of the elements which Pisces represents. 205|00:18:33|960|00:18:42|160How powerful is this sign—this sign of release, consummation, final victory! Victors through 206|00:18:42|160|00:18:51|420clear, pure will can be related to Pisces Through its orthodox ruler, Jupiter, that force is brought 207|00:18:51|420|00:19:00|720to bear which “brings all together”—it's a very magnetic, attractive, coherent force— 208|00:19:00|720|00:19:08|120and— in this case—relates the two fishes and binds them together in 209|00:19:08|120|00:19:12|680a functioning relationship. We rarely think of Jupiter as a binding force—we oftentimes 210|00:19:12|680|00:19:20|060think of it as an expansive, releasing, “go beyond the horizon” type of force—but early Jupiter 211|00:19:20|060|00:19:25|680is extremely cohesive. It does relate to the second law of the solar system, the law of 212|00:19:25|680|00:19:34|360cohesion. Coherence and cohesion and binding—these are the powers of Jupiter: to attract 213|00:19:34|360|00:19:39|980all things together and hold them together. So, you know, we often find the Jupiterian people 214|00:19:39|980|00:19:48|260have that kind of magnanimous, attractive, magnetic generosity which holds all the factors in 215|00:19:48|260|00:19:56|760any whole in the bonds of a loving relationship. There are all kinds of cohesion, you know. Some 216|00:19:56|760|00:20:04|040is cohesion simply through desire—we keep ourselves together on the basis of what we 217|00:20:04|040|00:20:11|000want—and a higher form is to hold all things together through the magnetic power of love. 218|00:20:11|000|00:20:17|000But anyway, this is the force that brings the two fishes together, and they are held together 219|00:20:17|000|00:20:22|220for the duration from individualization all the way to the fourth initiation—that's how 220|00:20:22|220|00:20:30|140long that bondage lasts—until the solar angel is at last free to return to the heart of 221|00:20:30|140|00:20:34|840the Sun, or the central spiritual Sun, whatever its source may have been. Both are possible 222|00:20:34|840|00:20:44|700sources. So it's a long—millions of years—relationship based upon the power of Jupiter as a binding 223|00:20:44|700|00:20:50|300force. It is the activity consequently of the second ray force which relates soul and 224|00:20:50|300|00:20:58|660form and brings the two together, They have a great destiny to work out together, and it 225|00:20:58|660|00:21:05|420takes a long time for them to be able to do that—really, you know, perhaps 25 million years 226|00:21:05|420|00:21:10|980for the average human being. The activity, consequently, of the secondary force which relates soul 227|00:21:10|980|00:21:16|080and form and brings the two together, and this magnetic potency is peculiarly descriptive 228|00:21:16|600|00:21:23|300of the activity of Pisces. Neither one of the pairs of opposites can escape from each other. 229|00:21:23|300|00:21:35|940Over the long period of bonded human evolution, neither can escape. First, it is the soul 230|00:21:36|480|00:21:42|220and incarnation in bondage to the elemental instinctual forces, and later it is these very 231|00:21:42|220|00:21:49|300forces—the forces related to the soul of the world in its lower aspect—which come into 232|00:21:49|300|00:21:57|480captivity to the soul and become thereby magnetized by the soul and uplifted. From another angle 233|00:21:57|480|00:22:03|740and in a dual sign, this can also be seen working out in Gemini. These two signs are very related, 234|00:22:03|740|00:22:09|920as I have said. Usually Gemini is the mediating sign between any zodiacal pairs of opposites. 235|00:22:09|920|00:22:15|220You know, it's Aries-Libra-Gemini, Taurus-Scorpio-Gemini, okay? But what happens when 236|00:22:15|220|00:22:21|560Gemini is concerned? It's Gemini-Sagittarius-Pisces. So Pisces is a mediating sign and Gemini 237|00:22:21|560|00:22:28|360is a mediating sign, and they are both powerful secondary signs. Ultimately, I think that Pisces 238|00:22:28|360|00:22:33|280as a cosmic decanate is the most powerful of all the secondary signs, but not at the present 239|00:22:33|280|00:22:42|360time when Virgo is the most powerful. So from another angle and also in a dual sign, this 240|00:22:42|360|00:22:49|120bringing of two together can be seen working out in Gemini. However, there are distinct differences 241|00:22:49|120|00:22:56|280in the way that works. There are sharp differentiations between soul and personality in Gemini. I'm 242|00:22:56|280|00:23:04|160remembering that D.K. said that the fall of Uranus in Taurus is exalted in Scorpio brings 243|00:23:04|160|00:23:09|920a very sharp cleavage between soul and personality. Well, that kind of cleavage can also be demonstrated 244|00:23:09|920|00:23:16|560in the early days of Gemini when the person involved, once the pairs of opposites do come 245|00:23:16|560|00:23:20|960into the range of consciousness, seems to be very much either the soul or the personality 246|00:23:20|960|00:23:27|720and not either one at the same time—although they can be soul-personality in rapid oscillation. 247|00:23:27|720|00:23:33|040And later, the whole relationship becomes so fluid and so blended that there's a constant 248|00:23:33|040|00:23:37|380communication from soul to personality, from personality to soul, and there's such an interplay 249|00:23:37|380|00:23:44|320that it almost begins to look like the sign Pisces—a condition of such rapid interplay 250|00:23:44|540|00:23:52|100that it almost looks like fusion and the right kind of spiritual bondage, okay? So from another 251|00:23:52|100|00:23:57|900angle and in a dual sign, this can also be seen wis demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship and the twoorking out in Gemini. In Pisces, there 252|00:23:57|900|00:24:05|000is demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship and the two 253|00:24:05|000|00:24:14|300fishes are unable to escape from each other; Yes, the soul would be free, but the 254|00:24:14|750|00:24:20|920personality leads it astray. The personality would go its own way, but the soul has its 255|00:24:20|920|00:24:26|920intense magnetism and doesn't let it go very far. So in either case, the fish is caught—one 256|00:24:26|920|00:24:32|520fish swimming vertically, and that's the soul symbol, and the other swimming horizontal—that's 257|00:24:32|520|00:24:37|700the personality, okay? There is demonstrated the captivity angle of relationship, and the 258|00:24:37|700|00:24:43|360two fishes are unable to escape from each other. In Gemini, there is also a definite relationship 259|00:24:43|360|00:24:49|280between Pollux, the elder brother we might say, and Castor—Castor, the younger 260|00:24:49|280|00:24:53|600brother. in Gemini there is also a definite relationship between the two brothers—or some 261|00:24:53|600|00:25:02|460prefer to say the brother and the sister—but there is no connecting band, So there is, you 262|00:25:02|460|00:25:08|560know, this sense of alternation in time, and as the alternation takes place—“Now I'm 263|00:25:08|560|00:25:15|160the soul, now I'm the personality”—it gives the impression of the two faces of Gemini: 264|00:25:15|160|00:25:21|980Janus, the two-faced God. One—the soul looking towards the spirit—well, actually, Janus is 265|00:25:21|980|00:25:27|860the soul, really—one aspect of it looking towards the spirit, the other aspect looking 266|00:25:27|860|00:25:34|440towards the personality. But it does give that impression of two faces in the Gemini person, 267|00:25:34|440|00:25:40|900so they sometimes seem to be like sharply contrasted individuals. You wonder how people 268|00:25:40|900|00:25:49|060can be so different and so, in a way, disintegrated at first. But the integration comes through rapid 269|00:25:49|060|00:25:54|780and intelligent, loving interplay, and before long there is such a fluid relationship that the signs 270|00:25:54|780|00:26:01|720Gemini and Pisces can show a lot of resemblance. So there's no connecting band at 271|00:26:01|720|00:26:07|820first, and in that relationship is latent free choice and free determination. This is so 272|00:26:07|820|00:26:13|760interesting. Here we're talking about the power of free will, which is so much connected with Sirius. 273|00:26:13|760|00:26:20|180You know, of course, the forces of light could overcome the forces of darkness, and they could 274|00:26:20|180|00:26:29|620impose hierarchical order and law upon humanity, and in doing so there would be rebellion later. 275|00:26:29|620|00:26:36|120Nothing would really be learned, and man would not have evolved out of himself a deeper sense 276|00:26:36|120|00:26:44|220of correct choice. So there is a Sirian-Geminian-Venusian kind of line here which involves free 277|00:26:44|220|00:26:50|660choice and free determination. The personality is free to go its own way. The soul does not compel, 278|00:26:50|660|00:26:58|660though it strongly suggests, and the soul can as well operate on its own plane, following its 279|00:26:58|660|00:27:06|320own predilections unhampered by the personality. And yet it knows its duty, and it knows it must 280|00:27:06|320|00:27:14|780bring the personality into orbit, as it were, around itself, or bring it in as a kind of a sub-ray to 281|00:27:14|780|00:27:22|360itself as a major ray. So this whole idea of the Sirian law of freedom in relation to Gemini, and 282|00:27:22|360|00:27:28|540perhaps in relation to Saturn, the planet of choice, as Saturn is often related to Gemini in dweller 283|00:27:28|540|00:27:36|400on the threshold matters—perhaps there's a triangle there—and that free will really is 284|00:27:36|400|00:27:43|060developed in Gemini. When you think about the hierarchical relationship to humanity, there is 285|00:27:43|060|00:27:52|100very strong suggestion, strong evocation, strong invocation, but there is not compulsion. That's 286|00:27:52|100|00:27:57|460left to the Black Lodge, who is functioning under the negativity of Pluto, which can be a very 287|00:27:57|460|00:28:05|060compulsive, freedom-denying planetary influence. So we think about that—that the separation of the 288|00:28:05|060|00:28:11|420twins gives us this latent free choice and free determination, something that man really must 289|00:28:11|420|00:28:16|660cultivate, something that must be a terrible agony to the members of hierarchy, as they know they 290|00:28:16|660|00:28:21|520could make things right, as it were, as many of us—let's say as parents—know we could make things 291|00:28:21|520|00:28:28|780right, but that would be force. And the inner quality which would have to be developed in the 292|00:28:28|780|00:28:35|400person who was made right might not develop at all, and probably would not. In connection with a 293|00:28:35|400|00:28:40|720lesser duality found in every human being,—so we're talking about greater dualities and lesser 294|00:28:40|720|00:28:47|560dualities—that of head and heart, of mind and love, and of will and wisdom, the work of Jupiter 295|00:28:47|560|00:28:53|540is to develop these two qualities and bring them into synthetic interplay. We are speaking of Jupiter 296|00:28:53|540|00:29:03|840here, the orthodox ruler of Pisces. Now, the greater duality—greatest in man at least—is spirit-matter. 297|00:29:03|840|00:29:09|820The secondary one is soul and personality, and a subsidiary type of duality is mind and heart, or 298|00:29:10|460|00:29:16|360head and heart, and mind and love. I think we can see that the head sometimes represents will, but 299|00:29:16|360|00:29:24|620other times mind. So there is the duality of a head representing mind and third ray generically, 300|00:29:24|620|00:29:30|440and heart representing the second ray soul, or the soul generically on the second ray—let's put 301|00:29:30|440|00:29:36|740it like that—and Jupiter brings those two together. But there's also the head representing will and 302|00:29:36|740|00:29:42|160the spirit, and the heart representing soul. And Jupiter is also involved in relation to Gemini, as 303|00:29:42|160|00:29:47|820we will learn later, infusing the higher of the pairs of opposites, which would be spirit 304|00:29:47|820|00:29:55|400and soul. So Jupiter draws them together. Jupiter draws mind and love together. Mind does contain 305|00:29:55|400|00:30:02|200an aspect of the will, we know, but generally it is connected with the generic third ray, the 306|00:30:02|200|00:30:07|680intelligence aspect with Mercury. It's kind of a Mercury-Venus situation: mind representing Mercury 307|00:30:07|680|00:30:16|540and love being represented by Venus. So Jupiter unites the head and the heart, the mind and love. 308|00:30:16|540|00:30:21|840And on a higher turn of the spiral—well, it doesn't have to be a higher turn of the spiral; it could be 309|00:30:21|840|00:30:28|600personality will and soul wisdom—it could be that. But there is a higher turn as well, that the 310|00:30:28|600|00:30:33|180will of the spirit and the wisdom of the soul can be united as well by Jupiter. Wherever Jupiter is 311|00:30:33|180|00:30:41|880functioning, it's a force which brings about coherence and a bonding, bonding and an 312|00:30:41|880|00:30:48|620interplay. I think there is that great magnetism in Jupiter which pulls the elements 313|00:30:48|620|00:30:56|280together and relates them, so that the feeling is not one of compulsion, but the feeling is one 314|00:30:56|280|00:31:04|120of joy of association—joyful Jupiter. This is the work of Jupiter: is to develop these two qualities 315|00:31:04|120|00:31:09|940and bring them into synthetic interplay. It's really a great agent of fusion, and in this case 316|00:31:09|940|00:31:21|470we are speaking of the fusion of the third aspect of divinity and the second aspect of 317|00:31:21|470|00:31:29|070divinity, although, as I said before, surprisingly the first and second aspects as well can be fused. 318|00:31:29|070|00:31:35|630And finally, you know the old saying “Pisces takes from all the signs”—well, I do think that under 319|00:31:35|630|00:31:42|870generous Jupiter, Pisces gives to all the signs as well. And under Neptune, the special ruler of 320|00:31:42|870|00:31:50|710Pisces, Pisces pervades all the signs. It's a moot point really, you know, whether Neptune or Jupiter 321|00:31:50|710|00:31:55|870should be considered the highest second-ray source in our solar system. Jupiter, with its 322|00:31:55|870|00:32:03|110second-ray soul and probably a hard line monad, and Neptune, with a soft line soul, probably six-ray 323|00:32:03|110|00:32:09|570and definitely a second-ray monad. So you know which is to be considered more related to the Sun? 324|00:32:09|570|00:32:15|990Jupiter has a close relation to the Sun. It may be the orthodox ruler, veiled orthodox ruler of Leo. 325|00:32:15|990|00:32:22|870Neptune has a definite veiled relationship with the Sun. Sun veils Neptune esoterically, and then 326|00:32:22|870|00:32:35|130Uranus. So these great planets of expansion and spiritualization and cosmification, if you 327|00:32:35|130|00:32:45|310will—Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus—are all related to the Sun and all related to Leo and to the 328|00:32:45|310|00:32:53|090expanding individual. The expanding from the individual to the universal leads us from the 329|00:32:53|090|00:32:58|850individual to the universal, and that's done along that particular line. Eventually there has to be 330|00:32:59|230|00:33:07|010the complete fusion of love and mind before a world saviour can manifest and function efficiently, 331|00:33:07|010|00:33:13|570So Jupiter is very important in producing a world savior. A world savior is certainly animated by the 332|00:33:13|570|00:33:23|470Buddhic force. You know, we see here—let's see—yeah, we see here that on the fourth plane it's 333|00:33:23|470|00:33:30|030usually ruled by Mercury, a Buddhic planet. But Jupiter is one of the Buddhic planets. A world 334|00:33:30|030|00:33:36|770savior is bringing great beneficence to all whom he or she saves, and Jupiter is that great planet 335|00:33:36|770|00:33:43|230of abundance and beneficence. I mean, Christ in relation to Aquarius said, “I am come to bring life 336|00:33:43|230|00:33:52|250more abundant.” That is Jupiter in Aquarius, and it is one of the saving, salvaging functions of the 337|00:33:52|250|00:33:59|270Christ to bring this great life abundant of Shambhala through the generosity of 338|00:33:59|270|00:34:06|310Jupiter. Jupiter is not only Buddhic, but Jupiter is monadic. And a world savior, you know, is not 339|00:34:06|310|00:34:11|170simply an initiate of the fifth degree—it is an initiate of the sixth degree and requires that 340|00:34:11|170|00:34:19|430monadic contact. That monadic contact is a special high relationship with Jupiter, and Jupiter there 341|00:34:19|430|00:34:28|750will relate to both Pisces and to Virgo. So Jupiter is definitely involved in the kind of great giving 342|00:34:29|360|00:34:36|450that a world savior brings. And before a world savior can be created, he has to be functioning 343|00:34:36|450|00:34:43|110through the heart and through the monadic will. And so it's not enough to function 344|00:34:43|110|00:34:52|250through mind—mind and love must be united, and that's a Venusian and Jupiterian function. And 345|00:34:52|250|00:35:00|030to be a true world savior—and they are really the world saviors who are on the second ray monad— 346|00:35:00|770|00:35:06|150the spirit aspect should be brought into it as well, remembering that the spirit is an aspect 347|00:35:06|150|00:35:13|070the Sun in a way. It's that which finds its home within the Sun, and the spirit aspect of man is 348|00:35:13|070|00:35:18|650found on the second plane, thus relating it to the second ray. So Jupiter is very much involved in 349|00:35:18|650|00:35:25|130world saviorship. Mind and love must be united before the world savior, motivated by 350|00:35:25|130|00:35:30|790love and wisdom, can function efficiently—i.e., the intelligence of mind is needed. 351|00:35:31|610|00:35:40|950and this is pre-eminently the final result of the forces of the Mutable Cross, 352|00:35:41|710|00:35:47|990Final result, because there are initial results of the mutable cross which are working out in the 353|00:35:47|990|00:35:56|070life of the ordinary human being. But this is a cross closely related to saviorship, because the 354|00:35:56|530|00:36:03|630must descend into the ordinary world of mutability and there bring the qualities of the cardinal and 355|00:36:03|630|00:36:12|630fixed cross. So there is this redemption theme playing through the mutable cross, and we 356|00:36:12|630|00:36:20|890see it very much in relation to Jupiter. That is turning evil into good—it's another quality 357|00:36:20|890|00:36:25|990of Sanat Kumara to be able to turn evil into good, and certainly it's a quality of the Solar Logos. 358|00:36:26|590|00:36:35|870So this fusing love and mind is done just before entering onto the fixed cross. If you 359|00:36:35|870|00:36:41|850think about it, the fixed cross is the cross in which we cultivate love of the soul, and 360|00:36:41|850|00:36:47|670mind to handle all that mutability—constant mutation—is cultivated for the longest period 361|00:36:47|670|00:36:55|110of time on the mutable cross. Remember, you know, millions and millions of years. It can take a 362|00:36:55|110|00:37:01|510human being—let's say 30 lives once he takes the first initiation to become a master, or 20 lives, or 363|00:37:01|510|00:37:07|41010, or maybe even seven—probably no less than seven, I would guess, and that would probably be very, very 364|00:37:07|410|00:37:13|090rare. But thousands and thousands of lives operate on the mutable cross, and they are lives in which 365|00:37:13|090|00:37:19|070the mind aspect is preeminently developed. There is some soul coming in on the mutable cross towards 366|00:37:19|070|00:37:25|690the closing days of the mutable cross, but preeminently it is mind. So we need love and 367|00:37:25|690|00:37:32|450mind for the efficient saviorship, and this is preeminently the final result of the 368|00:37:32|450|00:37:40|910forces of the mutable cross as they work out the qualities released by the planets active 369|00:37:41|550|00:37:47|350in Pisces, Sagittarius, Virgo and Gemini. Now we're going to learn 370|00:37:49|670|00:37:55|570that these esoteric rulers of the signs of the mutable cross—we don't have to wait until we get 371|00:37:55|570|00:38:00|270onto the fixed cross in order to exercise these rulers. In other words, we don't have to wait till 372|00:38:00|270|00:38:08|730we're a disciple of first degree initiates, truly mentally focused and so forth, to be responsive 373|00:38:08|730|00:38:16|090to the esoteric rulers of the mutable cross. During the transition period from the mutable 374|00:38:16|090|00:38:24|490cross to the fixed cross, these esoteric rulers will be active. This we will see later on. 375|00:38:25|430|00:38:34|470They will be—these mutable cross planets will be involved in a magnetic call to a world savior to 376|00:38:35|110|00:38:41|850descend and work with these particular forces, uplifting them towards the fixed cross and 377|00:38:41|850|00:38:48|330towards the cardinal cross eventually. That's always what a world savior does: “If I be lifted 378|00:38:48|330|00:38:57|150up, will draw all men to me.” So there is that incredible magnetism. It's not just a second ray 379|00:38:58|010|00:39:05|210magnetism; it is also a first ray magnetism. “If I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” 380|00:39:05|210|00:39:11|350So now we're talking about this transition. We're talking about the final result of the forces of 381|00:39:11|350|00:39:17|930the mutable cross, which have to be in a way esoteric planets. Although, you know, later if 382|00:39:17|930|00:39:24|010we think about the world savior descending to help on the mutable cross, the hierarchical planets must 383|00:39:24|010|00:39:30|970be involved. Three of the hierarchical rulers of the mutable cross are already found in the 384|00:39:30|970|00:39:36|490esoteric and orthodox rulerships of the mutable cross, but Mars is the one that is not. So 385|00:39:36|490|00:39:42|190hierarchically on the mutable cross, we have Gemini ruled by the Earth—that's found in Sagittarius also 386|00:39:43|130|00:39:50|750as the esoteric ruler. We have Jupiter hierarchically ruling Virgo, and that's found 387|00:39:51|300|00:39:58|410in two places on the mutable cross in orthodox positions. And then we have Mars ruling 388|00:39:58|410|00:40:03|910Sagittarius, which is not found in other positions on the mutable cross. And then we have Pluto 389|00:40:03|910|00:40:13|270hierarchically ruling Pisces, but it's also found esoterically ruling Pisces. So as a true initiate 390|00:40:13|270|00:40:18|230and eventual world savior works in relation to the mutable cross, it's the hierarchical rulers 391|00:40:18|230|00:40:27|050which swing into activity. These planets are: Orthodox—Jupiter and 392|00:40:27|050|00:40:32|010Mercury. Esoteric—Pluto. The Earth. The Moon (hiding Vulcan) and Venus. 393|00:40:32|010|00:40:37|990Pluto related to Pisces, Earth to Sagittarius esoterically, the Moon hiding Vulcan—and not 394|00:40:37|990|00:40:46|530only Vulcan but really Neptune as well, as we will see later. The Moon hiding Vulcan in relation to 395|00:40:47|510|00:40:55|960esoterically—in relation to Gemini. Um, you know, it's a terrible thing when you 396|00:40:56|630|00:41:02|220when you kind of realize that you know you have 397|00:41:04|150|00:41:11|320talked for two hours and hopefully said some pretty good things or useful things anyway, and 398|00:41:11|320|00:41:20|620find them all missing because of a crazy fluke of not turning on the sound. So, and you know what, I 399|00:41:20|620|00:41:26|680have to—I have to remark on this day, which is the 16th of September: the Moon is in Taurus. It's all 400|00:41:26|680|00:41:38|200about sound, and I learned a tough lesson here in relation to sound. Okay, well, let's see. Okay, now we 401|00:41:38|200|00:41:47|040move on. Um, As you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death; The region of death is Hades, 402|00:41:47|040|00:41:54|160but Hades is really, in a sense, the astral plane—at least the ancients used to look at it 403|00:41:54|160|00:41:58|420that way. You know, after a battle, the dead would meet in Hades. It didn't mean they were going to 404|00:41:58|420|00:42:04|560hell per se or some terrible level of the astral plane. Even heroes would meet in Hades. It was the 405|00:42:04|560|00:42:09|040plane, and there are seven different levels, even though level number six and seven are 406|00:42:09|040|00:42:13|620not exactly where you want to go. We're told we shouldn't be in association with them and that the 407|00:42:14|260|00:42:19|360seventh sub-level of the astral plane is, as he puts it, “the hell of the average Christian”— 408|00:42:19|940|00:42:24|780a kind of interesting statement. So, as you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death. 409|00:42:24|780|00:42:29|400the Earth stands for the sphere of experience;—the sphere of experience 410|00:42:29|400|00:42:35|040is the area where we encounter all these different energies, 411|00:42:35|720|00:42:43|640usually in the dense physical levels of the systemic physical plane, um, you know, where we have 412|00:42:43|640|00:42:50|540our tangibility. But we also have in the sphere of experience—we also have the vital body, and the 413|00:42:50|540|00:42:55|760Earth is very much connected with etheric vitality. You find many Sagittarian people 414|00:42:55|760|00:43:02|300esoterically ruled by the Earth, somehow promoting the vitality of the human unit, its etheric body. 415|00:43:02|750|00:43:11|840I think that's an important point, you know. The Earth as etheric Sagittarius is prone to 416|00:43:12|800|00:43:20|000yoga, physical disciplines, exercise—that kind of thing—anything to promote the liveliness, 417|00:43:20|000|00:43:27|080the power of the form to move through space. And that is what vitality is required for. 418|00:43:27|740|00:43:32|700The form cannot move through space unless there is that kind of vitality. And here's the Earth 419|00:43:32|700|00:43:40|100ruled by the third ray, which is movement. So the sphere of experience—we can say we experience on 420|00:43:40|100|00:43:46|400the astral and mental level as well, but especially here—is the etheric physical sphere of experience. 421|00:43:46|400|00:43:54|400Sagittarius being the most earthy and personality-related of the three fire signs: Leo soul and Aries 422|00:43:54|400|00:44:00|180monad. the Moon or Vulcan stands for the glorification, through purification and detachment, 1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940of matter, That's a marvelous sentence. I love that sentence. It's a great hint at the 424|00:44:08|320|00:44:16|880esoteric meaning of Vulcan: the glorification through purification and detachment of matter. 425|00:44:16|880|00:44:24|260Is the glorification of matter achieved through purification and detachment? Purification is 426|00:44:24|260|00:44:34|640often a question of accelerated, increased vibratory frequency. Vulcan is related to the law—systemic 427|00:44:34|640|00:44:42|040law of vibration. Vulcan puts on that kind of pressure which increases vibration. In the lunar 428|00:44:42|040|00:44:51|840realm, we have the reactive sort of third ray factors left over from the previous solar system 429|00:44:51|840|00:45:00|240and, to an extent, from the moon chain. And Vulcan puts pressure upon them. And in the moon, the 430|00:45:00|860|00:45:12|380light of matter is hidden, as we learn on page 330 in relation to Cancer. Let's see, we'll put this 431|00:45:12|380|00:45:22|120here and we'll go to 330 or three… Whoa, that's no good. I did it again. Okay, I'm going to get rid 432|00:45:22|120|00:45:25|140of that and I'll start again. 433|00:45:27|960|00:45:37|720Yeah, so Esoteric Astrology, and we'll go to page 330—and or 329, really, I see—and we have 434|00:45:37|720|00:45:44|520the type of light that Cancer displays: the light within the form. This is the diffused 435|00:45:44|520|00:45:51|100light of substance itself, the dark light of matter referred to in The Secret Doctrine. It 436|00:45:51|100|00:45:55|720is the light awaiting the stimulation coming from the soul light. Well, brilliant soul light 437|00:45:55|720|00:46:04|200is coming through Vulcan. And when the spiritual will is applied with pressure to the matter of the lower forms, one of the results—besides pain—is the evocation of the brilliant, 438|00:46:04|200|00:46:10|580matter of the lower forms, one of the results—besides pain—is the evocation of the brilliant, 439|00:46:10|580|00:46:17|960blinding light which Vulcan represents. So Saint Paul had that glorification experience; 440|00:46:17|960|00:46:24|820it blinded him for three days. Further glorification is found—and higher glorification 441|00:46:24|820|00:46:32|920is found at the fourth degree, which is a great Vulcanian display. Purification: it's the 442|00:46:32|920|00:46:39|800pressure of the soul to achieve its own archetype, and the spiritual will under Vulcan 443|00:46:39|800|00:46:49|940directs the will towards the personality to produce that 444|00:46:49|940|00:46:56|500archetypalization. And eventually we have to achieve this detachment. We're told that Vulcan 445|00:46:56|500|00:47:02|060is active at the fourth initiation with its first ray, when the condition of extreme aloneness 446|00:47:02|060|00:47:09|780and detachment is experienced by the man who is literally between a rock and a hard place. 447|00:47:09|800|00:47:17|640Vulcan images—and the most extreme type of detachment, as far as the human family is concerned, 448|00:47:17|640|00:47:25|940is experienced there. But that leads to a great glorification: the soul is liberated, the solar 449|00:47:25|940|00:47:31|960angel is liberated, man is glorified. Of course, let's just say every initiation following the 450|00:47:31|960|00:47:37|200fourth is a type of glorification. There are probably certain ones that are more on the 451|00:47:37|200|00:47:44|260glorification line, and they are, following that point, the fifth, the seventh, the ninth, and so forth. 452|00:47:45|060|00:47:52|720the Moon or Vulcan stands for the glorification, through purification and 453|00:47:52|720|00:47:59|100detachment, of matter, This is the assumption of the virgin, the upliftment of matter into heaven. 454|00:47:59|100|00:48:03|770That's really what we're doing: we're trying to spiritualize matter, aren't we? We're trying to 455|00:48:03|770|00:48:11|970lift it up into heaven, which is the higher planes. We're trying to lift the lesser lives so that they 456|00:48:11|970|00:48:19|350can truly evolve and are no longer trapped in a lower vibratory condition. So Vulcan, or spiritual 457|00:48:19|350|00:48:25|320will—which is ultimately the heart of the sun—ultimately Vulcan probably has a fourth ray and 458|00:48:25|320|00:48:36|600second ray monad. There is, through extreme pressure and heat and forcing and compulsion, kind of a 459|00:48:36|600|00:48:43|160downward push into matter of the soul pushing down into matter. It's like the law of the pump: something 460|00:48:43|160|00:48:50|500rises. If there's enough pressure from heaven, there will be an uprising of matter. “If I be 461|00:48:50|500|00:48:57|080lifted up will draw all men unto me.” So you know it's not only the magnetism of Jupiter drawing 462|00:48:58|480|00:49:04|760towards the Savior, but it's the pressure that the Savior exerts upon matter itself. 463|00:49:05|700|00:49:10|780And matter responds by rising. Then there's Venus. Venus stands for the emergence of the love 464|00:49:10|780|00:49:18|800principle through the directing power of the mind. Okay, well, you know Venus is an interesting mixture: 465|00:49:18|800|00:49:24|820fifth ray soul, sixth ray, second ray monad, maybe a second ray personality. Fourth ray has got to be 466|00:49:24|820|00:49:30|600involved somewhere. It's an interesting combination of, uh, soft line and hard line rays. It's that 467|00:49:30|600|00:49:37|800fifth ray soul so important in the transference from the mystical path to the occult path that 468|00:49:37|800|00:49:44|080gives the stability of Venus. Otherwise quite a soft line planet, the love principle though 469|00:49:44|860|00:49:51|580has to be emerging intelligently. It's one thing to love, but one can love unwisely. 470|00:49:52|160|00:49:58|080That has to be balanced by the power of the mind, and the mind of course has will within it. So once 471|00:49:58|080|00:50:03|860we reach a certain point in our development, we cultivate love by meditating on love, by thinking 472|00:50:03|860|00:50:12|180about love, just like Saint Paul did in his letter to the Corinthians. He somehow defined in his own 473|00:50:12|180|00:50:18|800fifth ray way all the things that love was. He was much taken by the buddhic energy. He had been— 474|00:50:19|440|00:50:24|300I think passing through the third initiation—his contact with buddhi was much greater. 475|00:50:24|300|00:50:30|260If he was a sixth ray soul, he was probably becoming very much a second ray soul, and 476|00:50:30|260|00:50:35|480the greatest of all things for him was love, even though as a monad he was a very fifth ray, first 477|00:50:35|480|00:50:42|880ray type. So the emergence of the love principle not just through magnetism, but by the directing 478|00:50:42|880|00:50:49|660power of the mind: thinking of all the reasons why something is lovable. When you have an object of 479|00:50:49|660|00:50:56|140your attention, you begin to appreciate it with the mind, and you see what its value is. That's 480|00:50:56|140|00:51:02|000another Venus word: you see what its value is and where it could lead and how it is related. 481|00:51:02|000|00:51:09|140So through this power of mental appreciation, the love principle will grow. It's not just 482|00:51:09|140|00:51:17|020spontaneous magnetism. It's having the illumination to see the lovableness—the 483|00:51:17|020|00:51:24|240lovability of various objects of perception. It's intelligent love is what Venus really is. 484|00:51:24|240|00:51:28|480Students will find it interesting to work out the implications for themselves. Well, indeed, 485|00:51:29|040|00:51:35|180that is what we are attempting to do, and I do offer some thoughts about implications that 486|00:51:35|180|00:51:40|700occur to me, but that's only to set an example in a way for you to make the lists of implications 487|00:51:40|700|00:51:46|480which occur to you, because you know the Tibetan has planted the seed here. He's given us something 488|00:51:46|480|00:51:55|000that is remarkable, but we have to take it far in the direction that our mind and intuition will 489|00:51:55|000|00:52:02|300lead, and everybody is responsible for doing this for himself or herself. Orthodox astrology assigns 490|00:52:02|300|00:52:07|680only two planets to these four signs, which in itself indicates a definite interplay. Well, that 491|00:52:07|680|00:52:15|400interplay is of a couple of kinds. Jupiter is usually the expanded vision, and Mercury the mind. 492|00:52:15|400|00:52:21|240So we hope that our knowledge will lead to expanded vision and understanding. That's one 493|00:52:21|240|00:52:28|000of the great Jupiter virtues. You have to be a bit abstracted from things and underneath things 494|00:52:28|000|00:52:34|580in order to stand under them and understand. So from that type of bondage that Jupiter initially 495|00:52:34|580|00:52:40|880offers, there is later a type of magnetic abstraction that occurs up into the higher levels 496|00:52:40|880|00:52:46|300where you can stand in a detached manner and see. You know, Jupiter of course is one of the great 497|00:52:46|300|00:52:52|540seeing planets. It's related to Sagittarius, the sign of sight, and probably even at a certain 498|00:52:52|540|00:52:57|940point has a relationship with the Ajna center. Yet one can think of that when the Ajna center 499|00:52:57|940|00:53:05|060is ruled by the second ray, which it sometimes is. So there is this Jupiterian sight which evolves. 500|00:53:05|940|00:53:11|300So there's an interplay between Jupiter and Mercury, and that's kind of an ordinary interplay: 501|00:53:11|300|00:53:16|740knowledge leads to expanded vision. But there's also a buddhic interplay. Both of them are buddhic 502|00:53:16|740|00:53:26|400planets, and so Jupiter—it was the same—Mercury is associated with the pure reason part of buddhi, 503|00:53:26|400|00:53:36|140and Jupiter is associated with this detailed unity, this ability to see all the many factors 504|00:53:36|140|00:53:45|400as one in coherent relationship with each other—not incoherent, but in coherent relationship with 505|00:53:45|400|00:53:50|520each other. So they have a definite type of interplay later on on the path, but in the 506|00:53:50|520|00:53:57|780beginning, let us say that knowledge or intellect (Mercury) leads to intuition (Jupiter). That's the first 507|00:53:57|780|00:54:04|940Jupiter and its influences indicate that the way of incarnation Jupiter and its influence says you 508|00:54:04|940|00:54:11|100know many things coming from the planet and rays transmitted through it and emitted from it. Jupiter 509|00:54:11|100|00:54:17|120and its influences indicate that the way of incarnation is the “beneficent” method of 510|00:54:17|120|00:54:22|700evolutionary unfoldment It doesn't always seem beneficent - seems hard, seems under karma, seems 511|00:54:22|700|00:54:28|480under Saturn, seems tough - but ultimately we are being given a chance to exercise our spiritual 512|00:54:28|480|00:54:35|260muscles and grow our consciousness. And Jupiter is always associated with the expansion of 513|00:54:35|260|00:54:40|780consciousness, and that the way of love-wisdom (2nd ray) is the way for humanity to 514|00:54:40|780|00:54:51|980go. Now, eventually humanity - now which I infer as having, let's see, humanity today a fourth ray soul 515|00:54:51|980|00:55:02|920and a fifth ray personality - and later, later a fourth ray personality and second ray soul. 516|00:55:03|920|00:55:11|660So you can see that this is in some ways a cross of humanity, certainly of the fourth kingdom, 517|00:55:12|460|00:55:20|720and eventually the two rays of the orthodox mutable cross will be the second and the fourth. 518|00:55:20|720|00:55:27|020Jupiter will represent the second ray soul of humanity, and Mercury will represent the fourth 519|00:55:27|020|00:55:35|600ray personality of humanity. Right now, maybe - well, the fourth ray soul of humanity is Mercurian 520|00:55:35|600|00:55:40|700at the present time, and the fifth ray personality of humanity is not strictly 521|00:55:40|700|00:55:47|000Venusian - it has elements of Saturn and Mars and other concrete tendencies. 522|00:55:48|040|00:55:52|520Mercury indicates - so that, that's what - let's just say that evolution is beneficent, 523|00:55:52|520|00:55:59|080and for all the tough karma there is beneficence. Mercury indicates that the line of least resistance for 524|00:55:59|080|00:56:05|820humanity is harmony through conflict, We don't always foresee the best way of doing things, and 525|00:56:05|820|00:56:11|540we enter into conflict first, which eventually we have the power to harmonize, for Mercury expresses 526|00:56:11|540|00:56:15|820the fourth ray energy which is buddhic, intuitional and expressive of the Christ, 1|00:00:04|800|00:00:09|940as Mercury and the Sun are one. - well, there is Mercury as buddic and expressive of the Christ. 528|00:56:21|500|00:56:27|500Well, the buddic plane is very expressive of the Christ, but Mercury and the Sun are one, and the 529|00:56:27|500|00:56:33|620Sun and the Christ are equivalent - great second-ray sources. And in a way, the Sun really begins to 530|00:56:33|620|00:56:39|960lay on the buddic plane. We can say that from a certain point of view, the lower - 531|00:56:41|360|00:56:52|340the lower sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane are very Saturnian and lunar - lower Saturn 532|00:56:52|340|00:56:57|060and the Moon. In a way, the Sun begins to come into prominence here on the higher mental plane, but not 533|00:56:57|060|00:57:02|980yet - it's not yet released. And the Sun comes into increasing prominence starting from the buddic 534|00:57:02|980|00:57:09|960plane and rising all the way up to the divine plane, which is ruled by the first of the manifest 535|00:57:09|960|00:57:16|840creative hierarchies, which is ruled by Leo and hence the Sun. So the Sun is really coming into 536|00:57:16|840|00:57:25|800its own - coming into its own on the buddic plane. Mercury and the Sun are one. So we are a struggling 537|00:57:26|600|00:57:32|960creative hierarchy. We are a struggling kingdom of nature with other kingdoms in our creative 538|00:57:32|960|00:57:39|020hierarchy - souls and planetary lives and so forth - and we must struggle first. We tend to 539|00:57:39|020|00:57:45|520struggle first and then realize through interplay harmony - the realization of harmony through 540|00:57:45|520|00:57:52|120conflicted interplay. Let me put it like that: the realization of harmony through conflicted 541|00:57:52|120|00:58:02|240interplay, and that becoming smoother as time passes and as we learn. So Mercury is buddic. 542|00:58:02|240|00:58:06|900Indeed, Mercury stands for, let's say, five levels of the mind: you know, concrete mind, son of mind, 543|00:58:06|900|00:58:12|740abstract mind, transcendental or buddic mind, and then finally atmic mind - the mind that represents 544|00:58:12|740|00:58:19|080the law and the spiritual will. So Mercury expresses the fourth ray energy which is buddic, 545|00:58:19|080|00:58:23|120intuitional, and expressive of the Christ. Think of Mercury as expressive of the Christ. 546|00:58:23|120|00:58:28|820How interesting - its fourth ray aspect is its soul ray. Fourth ray is expressive of the Christ. 547|00:58:29|860|00:58:35|880Actually, though, the monadic nature of Mercury is probably quite a fifth ray, third ray, as 548|00:58:35|880|00:58:41|640I presently conceive it. You know, my opinions possibly will change as time goes on, but 549|00:58:41|640|00:58:47|460at the moment, my present level of ignorance - that's what I think. The esoteric planets - and then he goes 550|00:58:47|460|00:58:52|400on and says, But the esoteric planets are more explicit in their inferences and man appears, 551|00:58:53|100|00:59:00|140when ready for their influence, to be responsive in a fourfold way which he is not in the earlier stages. 552|00:59:00|140|00:59:12|240So that's about - I'm going to - what I'm going to do is I'm going to say here the end of esoteric 553|00:59:12|240|00:59:24|380Astrology 54. I did want to make these a bit longer, but having been sadly surprised by the 554|00:59:24|380|00:59:28|900absence of sound in a two-hour presentation I just made for you, I think I'm going to take things a 555|00:59:28|900|00:59:39|040little more cautiously. Say Esoteric Astrology Adventure 54.2, 556|00:59:39|880|00:59:52|100and that is from page 126, I assume, to 127. Okay, and then we'll see whether we 557|00:59:54|000|01:00:01|780yeah, it's not too bad, not too bad. Almost where I was the last time. So this is… 558|01:00:02|340|01:00:10|760We will now together do The Great Invocation, which is the… okay, from the point of 559|01:00:11|760|01:00:21|920light within, which is the way to end these adventures. After all, it's not just about 560|01:00:21|920|01:00:29|100learning esoteric astrology; it's about preparing for the reappearance of the Christ and the 561|01:00:29|100|01:00:36|0002,000-year reign of hierarchy on our planet, in which esoteric astrology will be very important. So 562|01:00:36|470|01:00:42|760The Great Invocation is our greatest tool for bringing about the 563|01:00:42|760|01:00:46|440rapid and appropriate reappearance of the Christ. 564|01:00:48|020|01:00:48|660Hmm. 565|01:00:58|280|01:01:01|480From the point of light within the mind of God, 566|01:01:01|480|01:01:07|760let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 567|01:01:10|780|01:01:16|360From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. 568|01:01:16|360|01:01:24|620May Christ return to earth. From the center where the will of God is known, 569|01:01:24|620|01:01:31|400let purpose guide the little wills of men—the purpose which the masters know and serve. 570|01:01:34|980|01:01:39|920From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 571|01:01:39|920|01:01:43|640and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 572|01:01:45|020|01:01:50|820Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 573|01:02:13|020|01:02:14|420Um. 574|01:02:18|920|01:02:19|720Um. 575|01:02:36|080|01:02:40|540Okay, friends, so that's the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 576|01:02:41|080|01:02:44|30054, and we'll continue with number 55. And we hope that all 577|01:02:44|860|01:02:51|980works out well in terms of the sound and the picture as well. 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