1|00:00:04|420|00:00:05|320Hi, everybody. 2|00:00:06|640|00:00:11|340This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 56. 3|00:00:12|400|00:00:17|280The last one, 55, we were moving along nicely, but we came to a point where the internet 4|00:00:17|280|00:00:18|120simply stopped. 5|00:00:19|600|00:00:22|800And so it became necessary to discontinue at about a half hour. 6|00:00:23|160|00:00:31|820We had reached page 128, and we were discussing the idea that Pluto or death never destroys the consciousness 7|00:00:31|820|00:00:32|600aspect. 8|00:00:34|800|00:00:40|700That in fact, it destroys the impediments to consciousness rather than consciousness itself. 9|00:00:42|040|00:00:52|060So it acts as a very useful planet in the detachment of consciousness from the lower 10|00:00:52|060|00:01:00|260levels of preoccupation, freeing consciousness to enter higher vibratory levels. 11|00:01:00|840|00:01:04|460It is a non-sacred planet, but it is also in a way an esoteric planet. 12|00:01:05|140|00:01:07|700D.K. tells us it is closely related to Shambhala. 13|00:01:08|580|00:01:16|560And as I've said, the planetary loroi are great deities who are many, many mahakalpas 14|00:01:16|560|00:01:19|740ahead of humanity in their evolution. 15|00:01:19|740|00:01:29|280And so non-sacred, sacred, or synthesizing planets can all act on all levels of the human energy 16|00:01:29|280|00:01:37|860system, whether the personal level, the soul level, or even the spirit level. 17|00:01:38|320|00:01:43|140We had reached the point when we were discussing—of course I discussed it before during my 18|00:01:43|140|00:01:51|600silent film, in which a two-hour program had no audio. 19|00:01:52|320|00:01:56|920But we'll go over this again—the second time for me, the first time for you. 20|00:01:57|560|00:02:03|760Six planets, therefore, govern the Mutable Cross as far as humanity is concerned and this 21|00:02:03|760|00:02:05|040in itself is significant, 22|00:02:05|940|00:02:10|880The mutable cross is a cross of great deities, lords of constellations. 23|00:02:12|380|00:02:21|360That cross and the other two crosses can all of course affect a planetary Logos, a solar 24|00:02:21|360|00:02:25|300Logos, or perhaps even still greater beings. 25|00:02:26|300|00:02:30|060Six planets, therefore, govern the Mutable Cross as far as humanity is concerned and this 26|00:02:30|060|00:02:36|200in itself is significant, for six is the number of the great work of the period of manifestation, 27|00:02:36|200|00:02:46|460That period of manifestation is the descent of the monad and its pilgrimage from the sixth 28|00:02:46|460|00:02:53|940level, counting from below upwards, through five worlds: atmic, buddhic, manasic, 29|00:02:54|440|00:02:56|860astral, and etheric-physical planes. 30|00:02:58|020|00:03:04|200So six is the number of form in a certain strong sense. The zero of spirit descends 31|00:03:04|200|00:03:11|160and finds itself immersed in the lower worlds and then reascends and finds itself as a nine. 32|00:03:12|800|00:03:20|060is the number of “the Beast,” which is the lower nature as far as man is concerned, and 33|00:03:20|060|00:03:25|260is all that which seeks to destroy the higher life, but also that which can be controlled 34|00:03:25|870|00:03:27|660and directed finally by the soul. 35|00:03:27|820|00:03:31|880Well, every one of the planets has a threefold signature. 36|00:03:31|880|00:03:34|060Here the Earth, we are told, is a 777. 37|00:03:34|640|00:03:41|540This is very interesting in terms of the emphasis upon its material manifestation on the seventh 38|00:03:41|540|00:03:42|480or lowest plane. 39|00:03:43|480|00:03:46|220Mars, however, is 666; Venus is 555. 40|00:03:47|420|00:03:52|780This is the number of the beast, 666, but when the five and the six are put together, then 41|00:03:52|780|00:03:59|900the kingdom of God, which is the five, and the kingdom of the lower personality, which 42|00:03:59|900|00:04:06|860is the six, are united. The human and deva aspects are united; the number eleven is created— 43|00:04:07|500|00:04:13|920eleven, the sign of Aquarius where a great fusion occurs; eleven, the number of the initiate. 44|00:04:15|740|00:04:22|020So it's the number of the beast, which is the lower nature—the unregenerate, uncontrolled 45|00:04:22|860|00:04:25|840lower nature as far as man is concerned. 46|00:04:25|840|00:04:33|260And every throne has for its legs the image of the beast or the dragon. 47|00:04:33|560|00:04:40|160We are built in a higher nature upon a very powerful elemental lower nature. 48|00:04:40|940|00:04:49|540And when the forces of form, the elemental life, or the irrational forces of nature are 49|00:04:49|540|00:04:53|720left to their own devices, they seek to destroy and overwhelm the higher life. 50|00:04:53|720|00:05:00|960And our task as man or manus is to learn how to control these lower forces, and we spend 51|00:05:00|960|00:05:06|960millions of years either victimized by them or eventually learning to control them in 52|00:05:06|960|00:05:07|820the later days. 53|00:05:08|700|00:05:13|880So this beast, which is a great power just as Mars is a great power, can be controlled 54|00:05:13|880|00:05:21|260and can be directed by the will of the soul as the illumined mind begins to understand 55|00:05:21|260|00:05:21|660that. 56|00:05:21|660|00:05:24|680Therefore, the number five comes into power. 57|00:05:25|500|00:05:32|060If you think about it, the six can pretty much deal with the irrational, astral, and 58|00:05:32|060|00:05:33|220physical nature of the man. 59|00:05:33|820|00:05:39|360The five is the mind and can turn either way: down to serve the desire nature, or it can 60|00:05:39|360|00:05:42|660turn upward to serve the soul nature. 61|00:05:43|240|00:05:44|080Either way. 62|00:05:44|740|00:05:50|160And we are interested in the five that represents the kingdom of God—this above all. 63|00:05:50|650|00:05:59|480The significance of numbers enters into this science of esoteric astrology, and numerology, 64|00:05:59|480|00:06:03|640as it is, per se, a branch of esoteric astrology. 65|00:06:05|020|00:06:10|800It enters into the science of astrology, esoteric astrology and numerology, as it is per se a 66|00:06:10|800|00:06:12|240branch of esoteric astrology. 67|00:06:12|540|00:06:21|420The great science above all is the science of relations, and I think D.K. has something 68|00:06:21|420|00:06:22|740to say about that. 69|00:06:23|380|00:06:24|220Let's just see here. 70|00:06:25|120|00:06:26|180Science of relations. 71|00:06:26|940|00:06:28|220Yes, in a few places. 72|00:06:29|660|00:06:35|500“The science of astrology is in the last analysis the science of relations, and there is consequently 73|00:06:35|500|00:06:41|880no use in avoiding the term, especially when there is no other which seems to meet the 74|00:06:41|880|00:06:43|080requirements as adequately.” 75|00:06:43|240|00:06:46|060So we are talking about the word “relation” or “relationship.” 76|00:06:48|260|00:06:50|100The science of relations, yes. 77|00:06:51|320|00:06:53|160And finally, there are three references. 78|00:06:54|280|00:06:58|220“The laws governing individual humanity and the kingdoms of nature are studied, and the 79|00:06:58|220|00:07:04|380whole science of relations as it is unfolding in our evolving world becomes the practical 80|00:07:04|380|00:07:06|320interest of the disciple.” 81|00:07:06|320|00:07:15|520I can say that from my perspective, I consider both esoteric astrology and numerology to be 82|00:07:15|520|00:07:21|820aspects of the great science of relations, which takes all of the apparently distinct 83|00:07:21|820|00:07:29|700factors in the whole of creation and shows their archetypal pattern, their interrelationship 84|00:07:29|700|00:07:32|780with each other on an archetypal basis. 85|00:07:33|260|00:07:39|120An archetype being that which is found conceived in the mind of God. 86|00:07:39|300|00:07:42|340It is a purposeful divine ideation. 87|00:07:43|200|00:07:53|700So here we have the need to control the 666 that has been crudely materialized in some 88|00:07:53|700|00:08:00|960of the modern scriptures, where there is no great understanding of the form in relation 89|00:08:00|960|00:08:01|760to the soul. 90|00:08:02|780|00:08:07|140But the beast—whether it is the planetary beast, sometimes called the planetary entity, 91|00:08:07|820|00:08:14|960or the human beast which is the three-fold form as it rejects (because it follows the 92|00:08:14|960|00:08:18|160lunar or first solar system tendency) it rejects the soul. 93|00:08:18|780|00:08:20|200That beast has to be controlled. 94|00:08:20|200|00:08:23|180That beast has to be directed by Vulcan, the spiritual will. 95|00:08:23|840|00:08:30|040So when you think about it, Vulcan is the will of the soul, and Vulcan kills Abel. 96|00:08:30|680|00:08:31|660Abel is the shepherd. 97|00:08:32|020|00:08:39|340Abel the sheep, the shepherd the ram—connection with Aries and Mars, which is the elemental 98|00:08:39|340|00:08:40|100nature. 99|00:08:40|500|00:08:46|780So Vulcan eventually subdues Mars, and we are reaching a point in our development now when 100|00:08:46|780|00:08:47|700that can be the case. 101|00:08:47|700|00:08:53|640If you have, let's say, Sun oppose Mars (because Sun, Vulcan are very close), Sun square Mars, 102|00:08:54|020|00:09:00|240we have that conflict—potential at least—between the center of will and the center 103|00:09:00|240|00:09:07|780of rampant desire, which is Mars and relates to the lower chakras in relation to which 104|00:09:07|780|00:09:13|920Mars has a triple rulership: both of the solar plexus, the sacral, and it's even found 105|00:09:13|920|00:09:17|740latently at the base of the spine, as the Tibetan tells us. 106|00:09:18|540|00:09:24|660So the Tibetan gives us six words here which are meant to deal with six esoteric planetary 107|00:09:24|660|00:09:32|160rulers: love, mind, experience, form, human understanding, and death. 108|00:09:33|340|00:09:35|740Well, there's probably a one-to-one relationship. 109|00:09:35|980|00:09:39|260Remember the six rulers of Pisces—we are dealing with Pisces. 110|00:09:39|820|00:09:42|660Jupiter and Mercury are the orthodox rulers. 111|00:09:43|320|00:09:54|060And then we start with, let's say, Venus as the ruler of Gemini, the Moon veiling Vulcan 112|00:09:54|060|00:10:00|740and sometimes Neptune as the ruler of Virgo, the Earth the ruler of Sagittarius esoterically, 113|00:10:01|200|00:10:03|520and Pluto the esoteric ruler of Pisces. 114|00:10:03|620|00:10:10|240So we can assign these in various ways, but there's no cut-and-dried method to do this. 115|00:10:10|690|00:10:16|940We can say love is—let's see, I think what I'll do here is change the color. 116|00:10:18|300|00:10:22|380So love is, let's say, love is Jupiter. 117|00:10:23|480|00:10:24|540OK, Jupiter. 118|00:10:25|640|00:10:32|700And mind should be considered as—well, it can be considered many things, Venus among 119|00:10:32|700|00:10:36|420them—but mind is certainly Mercury. 120|00:10:38|160|00:10:43|480Experience, the field of experience as the Tibetan describes it, is Earth. 121|00:10:44|840|00:10:48|260And form is Vulcan, is the Moon and Vulcan. 122|00:10:49|500|00:10:54|720We realize that when you compare the Moon and Vulcan, the Moon as the sort of fifth 123|00:10:54|720|00:10:59|840non-sacred and lowest of the non-sacred planets has most to do with the dense physical form. 124|00:10:59|840|00:11:06|080And Vulcan does affect the dense physical form, but it has a strong etheric impact. 125|00:11:06|560|00:11:11|280Of course, we should not eliminate the Moon from an etheric connection because we're told 126|00:11:11|280|00:11:18|560that the devas that constitute the four ethers with their shades of violet all have the Moon 127|00:11:18|560|00:11:19|880upon their forehead. 128|00:11:20|860|00:11:25|400That tells us, of course, that devas have foreheads, and it tells us something about the devic 129|00:11:25|400|00:11:26|240form. 130|00:11:26|240|00:11:32|320But the Moon then has an etheric connection as well and is connected with violet, we are 131|00:11:32|320|00:11:42|040told, and violet is the color of these devas in various categories: purple, light purple, 132|00:11:42|780|00:11:48|180how does it go, violet, light violet and lavender. 133|00:11:51|100|00:11:59|600So as far as human understanding goes, I think we want to look at the planet Venus. 134|00:12:01|100|00:12:06|220Because Venus is a planet of loving understanding, Jupiter is as well. There are some places 135|00:12:06|220|00:12:12|680where with these words more than one planet could operate, and obviously death is certainly 136|00:12:12|680|00:12:13|100Pluto. 137|00:12:13|100|00:12:24|280So there are the six esoteric rulers of the mutable cross, and he's talking… No, they're 138|00:12:24|280|00:12:30|480not all… They're all rulers, they're the orthodox rulers and the esoteric rulers. Jupiter and 139|00:12:30|480|00:12:36|980Mercury, although very high planets, serve as exoteric rulers, and Earth and Moon, although 140|00:12:36|980|00:12:40|780non-sacred, and even Pluto non-sacred, serve as esoteric rulers. 141|00:12:40|780|00:12:46|560Maybe that tells us something about the mutable cross: that it is in fact the cross of evolution, 142|00:12:46|780|00:12:53|380the cross of many changes, and is not one of the highest crosses because when you look 143|00:12:53|380|00:13:00|420in the esoteric positions on the other crosses, you're not finding so much the non-sacred 144|00:13:00|420|00:13:00|820planets. 145|00:13:01|040|00:13:06|420I guess Sun can be considered a non-sacred planet, but it's veiled by Neptune, and let's 146|00:13:06|420|00:13:17|480see the Earth… How do we go? Mars, yes, Mars is a non-sacred planet which is found as 147|00:13:17|480|00:13:19|060an esoteric ruler on the fixed cross. 148|00:13:19|200|00:13:24|220I guess on the cardinal cross we don't find that. We find Mercury as the esoteric ruler 149|00:13:24|220|00:13:33|660of Aries, Neptune esoterically Cancer, Uranus esoterically Libra, and Saturn esoterically 150|00:13:33|660|00:13:34|420Capricorn. 151|00:13:34|420|00:13:41|900So there are no esoteric positions for the cardinal cross… There are no non-sacred planets, 152|00:13:41|900|00:13:49|120whereas for both the mutable cross and the fixed cross there are non-sacred planets in 153|00:13:49|120|00:13:50|040the esoteric position. 154|00:13:50|160|00:13:56|820But as I said, these are great deities, and they can certainly function esoterically with 155|00:13:56|820|00:13:57|680respect to man. 156|00:13:57|680|00:14:06|320Since there are so many Mahamanvantaras or Mahakalpas ahead of man in their development, 157|00:14:07|420|00:14:11|060which is not to say that they are not group entities—indeed, I believe they are. 158|00:14:12|880|00:14:19|980These six qualities are the keynotes of the fourth creative hierarchy, the human kingdom. 159|00:14:19|980|00:14:27|520It's very interesting that he is relating… Let's get something I can work with here… 160|00:14:28|060|00:14:35|920That he is relating humanity to the mutable cross. 161|00:14:41|200|00:14:47|080The fourth creative hierarchy is the hierarchy of humanity, but as we realize, it does contain 162|00:14:47|080|00:14:47|920some other kingdoms. 163|00:14:47|920|00:14:52|740As a matter of fact, it may contain them all except for the kingdom of solar lives. 164|00:14:53|320|00:14:56|940But it certainly contains the kingdom of souls, the fifth, and the kingdom of planetary lives. 165|00:14:57|760|00:15:01|320Some of the chohans are still members of the fourth creative hierarchy. 166|00:15:02|280|00:15:08|000So these are the keynotes: Love—Mind—Experience—Form—Human Understanding—Death: 167|00:15:08|440|00:15:15|260And we can think of humanity's life and our own life in relation to these different qualities. 168|00:15:15|260|00:15:19|360Each one of them means something different depending upon the stage of evolution at which 169|00:15:19|360|00:15:21|040a man may find himself. 170|00:15:21|620|00:15:27|920For the undeveloped man, all of these things exist in some form or other, but very low in 171|00:15:27|920|00:15:32|860their expression compared to the highly developed man, and the man's attitude is very different 172|00:15:32|860|00:15:36|180towards them when he is highly developed. 173|00:15:37|500|00:15:41|620these are the keynotes of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human kingdom 174|00:15:42|000|00:15:48|020Of course, the hierarchy is more than the kingdom, and they are embodied in the planetary influences 175|00:15:48|540|00:15:54|380which pour through these planets from their allied signs. 176|00:15:55|540|00:16:01|800Now each planet has a number of allied signs, and we are talking about the allied signs 177|00:16:01|800|00:16:05|080which are found upon the mutable cross. 178|00:16:06|080|00:16:12|900So in this case, when it comes to Jupiter and we are dealing with love, the allied signs 179|00:16:12|900|00:16:14|840are Sagittarius and Pisces. 180|00:16:15|320|00:16:22|180When it comes to mind, Mercury upon the mutable cross, the allied signs are Mercury—or excuse 181|00:16:22|180|00:16:23|660me, Virgo and Gemini. 182|00:16:24|340|00:16:32|000When it comes to experience or earth, the allied sign is Sagittarius on the mutable cross and 183|00:16:32|000|00:16:35|600actually Gemini hierarchically, but we won't consider that at the present time. 184|00:16:36|260|00:16:41|420When it comes to the moon, there is only one sign on the mutable cross and that is Virgo. 185|00:16:42|200|00:16:47|020Vulcan is veiled in this particular case, but also Neptune, as we will learn later. 186|00:16:47|980|00:16:53|200When it comes to Venus, the only allied sign on the mutable cross is Gemini. 187|00:16:53|860|00:17:00|800When it comes to Pluto, the only allied sign on the mutable cross is Pisces. 188|00:17:01|220|00:17:06|020So basically, what we are learning is that there are lords of planets and there are lords 189|00:17:06|020|00:17:12|280of constellations, and they have relationships to each other just like we might be related 190|00:17:12|840|00:17:17|060to a member of the animal kingdom—let us say to a dog or a cat or some domesticated animal. 191|00:17:17|680|00:17:21|780Probably there is even a greater difference between the lord of the planet and the lord 192|00:17:21|780|00:17:28|060of the constellation—greater analogously than the difference between ourselves and a member 193|00:17:28|060|00:17:29|860of the animal kingdom. 194|00:17:31|380|00:17:33|640Sorry, I keep on doubling on my image there. 195|00:17:34|800|00:17:40|620So they are embodied planetary influences which pour through these planets from the 196|00:17:40|620|00:17:41|000sign. 197|00:17:41|300|00:17:58|040So this is very interesting that these qualities—love, mind, etc.—are all coming from the sign 198|00:18:01|420|00:18:04|200and not just from the planets. 199|00:18:05|440|00:18:10|760So the signs are involved and not just the rulers of the signs. 200|00:18:10|920|00:18:15|300That is an important thing we might overlook if we were not careful in our study here. 201|00:18:15|760|00:18:21|060Through the activity of these forces which work at this stage through the Mutable Cross, 202|00:18:21|380|00:18:24|120you know they certainly can work on the two other crosses. 203|00:18:24|120|00:18:31|760In other words, if you look at these qualities, the activity of these forces—let's call them 204|00:18:31|760|00:18:39|680in this case qualities—let's see, there are higher forms of love than will work on the 205|00:18:39|680|00:18:40|160mutable cross. 206|00:18:40|280|00:18:41|220Higher forms of mind. 207|00:18:41|840|00:18:46|580Our experience on earth changes entirely as we begin to negotiate the various planes. 208|00:18:47|760|00:18:48|940What is a form for us? 209|00:18:49|040|00:18:52|760Well, it can be a dense physical form, but it can also be one of the higher forms— 210|00:18:52|760|00:18:55|040let us say the causal body. 211|00:18:55|300|00:18:56|740What is human understanding? 212|00:18:56|880|00:18:58|220Will it become soul understanding? 213|00:18:58|340|00:18:58|960What is death? 214|00:18:59|100|00:19:03|500Well, it's not just the death of the body as normally conceived on the mutable cross, but 215|00:19:03|500|00:19:09|020it's the obscuration of consciousness and the death to death itself upon the cardinal 216|00:19:09|020|00:19:09|400cross. 217|00:19:10|340|00:19:15|480So these qualities—let's see what we have here. 218|00:19:16|020|00:19:19|660So the activity of these forces are qualities which work at this stage through the mutable 219|00:19:19|660|00:19:23|020cross, and they can work on the other crosses as well, as I've just pointed out. 220|00:19:23|360|00:19:26|920man is brought to a great Crisis of Polarisation 221|00:19:27|520|00:19:32|740It's a crisis of duality and to a point of basic change for which all the earlier and 222|00:19:32|740|00:19:34|340many changes have prepared him. 223|00:19:35|420|00:19:40|340So we're talking about the mutable cross and the crisis of polarization which a man experiences 224|00:19:40|340|00:19:42|880just before he enters the fixed cross. 225|00:19:44|300|00:19:58|060This crisis of polarization is experienced before a man enters the fixed cross. 226|00:20:01|040|00:20:07|740And it is a crisis in which that which is the personality and that which is the soul 227|00:20:08|740|00:20:11|200stand rather distinctly before the man. 228|00:20:11|200|00:20:14|360He knows the great duality of soul and personality. 229|00:20:15|180|00:20:16|880He knows the pairs of opposites. 230|00:20:17|080|00:20:26|020He knows the two directions—upward and downward basically—in which these two poles are pulling 231|00:20:26|020|00:20:27|480or attracting. 232|00:20:28|380|00:20:36|420And he has to make a decision to—often it's under Libra—to throw the weight of his emphasis, 233|00:20:36|420|00:20:43|920his influence, his mental power, his will, upon the side of the soul magnetism. 234|00:20:44|620|00:20:45|500Crisis of polarization. 235|00:20:45|920|00:20:48|020You stand there, you realize you're at the crossroads. 236|00:20:48|200|00:20:54|120You could go one way or another, and this is orchestrated so that as a man is ready to 237|00:20:54|120|00:21:00|680take the first initiation or going towards that, these planets are active in that pre-period 238|00:21:00|680|00:21:06|680before the first initiation, and he is faced with the direction of the soul or the higher 239|00:21:06|680|00:21:12|620power or the direction—the ordinary direction of the personality—and he chooses to emphasize 240|00:21:12|620|00:21:18|200the soul, even though he has great battles for still many lives with the personality. 241|00:21:19|200|00:21:22|320Okay, now moving onward. 242|00:21:23|220|00:21:31|560It is these words also which, from a different angle, govern the processes undergone 243|00:21:31|560|00:21:34|040upon the Path of Discipleship and of Probation. 244|00:21:34|160|00:21:42|320Well okay, you know, we've been talking about love and mind, which is Jupiter and Mercury. 245|00:21:42|440|00:21:48|180Well, that's the love of form and the mind that negotiates in the lower three worlds. 246|00:21:48|180|00:21:53|940And you can even, as I've been saying, you can even look at these other words and say, 247|00:21:53|940|00:21:58|800“Well, an ordinary man can deal with them and can experience them.” 248|00:21:58|860|00:22:03|100Well, certainly there is earthly experience, and there is the form, and man is constantly 249|00:22:03|100|00:22:09|420presented by the—with the form and with issues related to form, and his consciousness is captivated 250|00:22:09|420|00:22:10|120by the form. 251|00:22:10|740|00:22:16|900There is human understanding—just understanding the way of humanity in ordinary life upon 252|00:22:16|900|00:22:25|260the dense physical plane, subject to states of vitality, to various emotional conditions, 253|00:22:25|260|00:22:31|760and to the development of the mind and the obscurations of the mind. Yes, the ordinary 254|00:22:31|760|00:22:40|020man experiences that, but what D.K. is trying to say—these words apply, and this I think 255|00:22:40|020|00:22:44|100is his main point—on the path of discipleship and on the path of probation. 256|00:22:44|840|00:22:51|920So we are looking for these words to operate in a manner higher than they did when applied 257|00:22:51|920|00:22:55|440to the fourth creative hierarchy in general. 258|00:22:56|600|00:23:03|540Okay, the thing about esoteric astrology is we have to learn all the various levels a 259|00:23:03|540|00:23:08|000human being can pass through, whether strictly physically polarized, emotionally polarized, 260|00:23:08|180|00:23:14|080lower mentally polarized, or whether he is becoming a personality who is beginning to 261|00:23:14|080|00:23:19|920aspire, or whether he is a true disciple responsive to the soul, or whether he is an initiate identified 262|00:23:19|920|00:23:20|900as the soul. 263|00:23:22|640|00:23:29|120Those six phases can be discussed, and you know, eventually man becomes the monad itself 264|00:23:29|120|00:23:31|040expressing in the lower worlds. 265|00:23:31|180|00:23:35|340He already is that, but he knows it consciously and can wield monadic power. 266|00:23:36|660|00:23:42|120So we are looking for these planets and the signs connected with them, the allied signs, 267|00:23:42|120|00:23:46|380and we are looking for these words as they express on the path of discipleship and on 268|00:23:46|380|00:23:47|560the path of probation. 269|00:23:48|620|00:23:53|540The task of the disciple is to understand their significance in a practical 270|00:23:53|540|00:23:59|400and effective manner and to deal with the energies which these planets release, 271|00:24:01|560|00:24:06|080We are constantly living in a sea of energy; we cannot help but be subjected to them, but 272|00:24:06|080|00:24:06|980how do we handle them? 273|00:24:07|560|00:24:08|840That is the question. 274|00:24:08|840|00:24:13|500When things come along, things change, do we recognize changes of energy, and can we 275|00:24:13|500|00:24:15|260handle them as a disciple? 276|00:24:15|680|00:24:20|300Well, D.K. tells us sometimes our vibration is a little lower than it should be, and I 277|00:24:20|300|00:24:25|600know we all experience that, and then we experience the release from that low vibration and again 278|00:24:25|600|00:24:31|360the re-grasping of soul control under the spiritual will and Vulcan. 279|00:24:31|960|00:24:39|900So we have to understand these words: love, mind, experience, form, human understanding, 280|00:24:40|260|00:24:41|320death—those are the words. 281|00:24:41|780|00:24:46|120We have to understand them as a probationary disciple would understand and as a disciple 282|00:24:46|120|00:24:50|600would understand that eventually, when we are on the fixed cross and moving towards the 283|00:24:50|600|00:24:53|140cardinal cross, as an initiate would understand. 284|00:24:54|160|00:24:59|500And subordinating these energies, the energies released by the fixed cross, subordinating 285|00:24:59|500|00:25:04|500them to the energies released by the Fixed Cross upon 286|00:25:04|500|00:25:09|560which he stands, and thus increase their potency through occult combination. 287|00:25:09|980|00:25:13|080This is one of the most important sentences. 288|00:25:13|600|00:25:16|360I'm going to read it again so we can really concentrate upon it. 289|00:25:41|000|00:25:44|820An astrologer has to learn the art of combination. 290|00:25:45|080|00:25:51|640How do you take various strands or spheres of energy and blend them so that they become 291|00:25:51|640|00:25:53|140sort of an energy molecule? 292|00:25:54|020|00:26:00|540Let's just say that water has the properties of both hydrogen and oxygen, but in combination 293|00:26:00|540|00:26:07|260it is something else—something else than either hydrogen or oxygen—and thus it is for 294|00:26:07|260|00:26:12|640combinations of planetary influences, combinations of stellar influences. 295|00:26:13|560|00:26:20|560The astrologer is learning how to blend, mix, combine so that the new combination bears 296|00:26:20|560|00:26:26|180the qualities of both the ingredients and yet produces perhaps something even different. 297|00:26:27|060|00:26:34|060So in that period when we are making that transition from the mutable cross to the fixed 298|00:26:34|060|00:26:41|240cross, we are engaged with the esoteric planets of the mutable cross helping us make that 299|00:26:41|240|00:26:46|100transition onto the fixed cross, but we are also coming in touch with fixed cross energies, 300|00:26:46|100|00:26:50|700especially the esoteric rulers of the fixed cross. 301|00:26:50|980|00:26:57|060So we have a contrast here between the esoteric rulers of the mutable cross with which we 302|00:26:57|060|00:27:01|820are engaged and which we are trying to deal with effectively, and the incoming esoteric 303|00:27:01|820|00:27:03|260rulers of the fixed cross. 304|00:27:03|520|00:27:07|820Now everybody who is going to be a disciple here, beginning at the first initiation, true 305|00:27:07|820|00:27:13|860disciple, is going to have to deal with Vulcan as the esoteric ruler of Taurus, which will 306|00:27:13|860|00:27:22|420give him the will to persist towards the greatest light and to use spiritual will rather 307|00:27:22|420|00:27:24|180than simply personal self-determination. 308|00:27:25|260|00:27:29|480It's the grip, the illuminating power of the soul to overcome the personality. 309|00:27:29|920|00:27:32|980We all have to deal with Vulcan strengthening our spiritual will. 310|00:27:33|540|00:27:40|120We will also have to deal with the sun veiling Neptune in Leo, and rather than simply looking 311|00:27:40|120|00:27:47|220at ourselves as an ahamkaraic personal individual around which the world seems to revolve, we 312|00:27:47|220|00:27:52|780begin to feel the influence of the heart of the sun, and we feel that magnetic love relationship 313|00:27:53|340|00:27:57|080with others that binds us into soul union. 314|00:27:57|540|00:28:04|140We begin to feel genuine warmth of heart and the expansion of the Christ love in the heart, 315|00:28:04|680|00:28:07|280which is a Neptunian type of expression. 316|00:28:07|440|00:28:08|800It leads to the second initiation. 317|00:28:09|280|00:28:14|900When we go over to Scorpio, another fixed sign, we have Mars, and we're going to always fight 318|00:28:14|900|00:28:16|080the great battle. 319|00:28:16|480|00:28:17|880And D.K. says, “See that you battle.” 320|00:28:18|100|00:28:21|500He was talking during the Second World War, but as a general principle: 321|00:28:22|060|00:28:25|060“See that you battle.” It is a struggle, and the soul must prevail. 322|00:28:25|660|00:28:32|240So we are willing to fight with the hydra and be noble and valorous in that particular 323|00:28:32|240|00:28:33|760cause—fight the good fight. 324|00:28:34|450|00:28:40|700We are not going to be supine, and we are not simply going to give in to our vices and not 325|00:28:40|700|00:28:41|280resist them. 326|00:28:41|360|00:28:47|720We are going to confront them, and the confrontation of vice is one of the great powers of Mars. 327|00:28:48|660|00:28:55|380“He who goes forth and will enter into battle for the Lord”—it is thus for Ares, and even 328|00:28:55|380|00:28:59|820in a deeper sense with Scorpio, where the fight becomes a matter of life and death. 329|00:28:59|820|00:29:05|520And then we're also going to be subjected to the fixed cross energy of Jupiter in Aquarius, 330|00:29:05|950|00:29:13|200whereby we will learn the beauties of group love and group consciousness, and we will realize 331|00:29:13|200|00:29:20|480that the greatest way to grow is to grow together, because truly we are even more the group than 332|00:29:20|480|00:29:21|480we are the individual. 333|00:29:22|300|00:29:24|820So we expand our identity into that of the group. 334|00:29:24|820|00:29:31|400Our consciousness under Jupiter expands till we begin to merge in consciousness as if we 335|00:29:31|400|00:29:32|040were the group. 336|00:29:33|020|00:29:38|140And you know, we can talk about that, but the question is: do we think individually, or is 337|00:29:38|140|00:29:44|000our identity extended so that whatever the group is is more what we are than our apparently 338|00:29:44|000|00:29:45|340individual self? 339|00:29:46|020|00:29:51|100So there is the life more abundant that the Christ promised with Jupiter in Aquarius. 340|00:29:51|100|00:29:56|500Now all these fixed cross energies are going to start coming in, and they're going to come 341|00:29:56|500|00:30:02|560in while these other energies are operative—the energies of the mutable cross, even esoterically 342|00:30:02|560|00:30:03|020considered. 343|00:30:03|780|00:30:10|940So if the energies of the mutable cross are going to be subordinated to the energies of 344|00:30:10|940|00:30:17|900the fixed cross, we could begin combining them, and by combining these energies we would enhance 345|00:30:17|900|00:30:20|480the energies of the mutable cross. 346|00:30:20|480|00:30:24|680Well, you know, let's take a look at that—how might that work? 347|00:30:26|000|00:30:31|860I wonder if I can—you know, I wonder if I can do something a little different here. 348|00:30:32|760|00:30:41|880So, you know, let's say we have the energy of Venus, and so Venus will be a teaching on the 349|00:30:41|880|00:30:47|360late mutable cross—the presence of the soul, and one will feel soul attraction. 350|00:30:47|640|00:30:56|900But now, what would we have here if we had Venus subordinated to Vulcan, which would 351|00:30:56|900|00:31:06|180be… We'll take the very first influence on the fixed cross and will go through all 352|00:31:06|180|00:31:08|180of the influences on the mutable cross. 353|00:31:08|520|00:31:13|280So Vulcan is the spiritual will. Vulcan is the grip of the soul. Vulcan is the great 354|00:31:13|280|00:31:18|240light descending from the head center and merging with the light of Venus. 355|00:31:18|780|00:31:27|680We will have also… We will have, let's see, we will have Moon subordinated to Vulcan. 356|00:31:28|040|00:31:31|140Well, that is the Moon is the esoteric ruler of Virgo. 357|00:31:31|680|00:31:35|340We will have Earth subordinated to Vulcan. 358|00:31:36|060|00:31:40|300We will have Pluto subordinated to Vulcan. 359|00:31:40|300|00:31:47|240And then as we go on, you see what I have over here is the… I'll try to make them a little 360|00:31:47|240|00:31:49|860bigger. That ought to help. 361|00:31:51|320|00:31:52|920Yeah, that ought to help. Good. 362|00:31:53|340|00:32:01|320Okay, now we look at the next factor in the mutable cross. We'll have Venus subordinated 363|00:32:01|840|00:32:05|100to… Whoops, I'm gonna have to make this larger. 364|00:32:06|080|00:32:07|020Excuse me here. 365|00:32:07|430|00:32:15|200Okay, we have Venus subordinated to the Sun veiling Neptune. 366|00:32:15|900|00:32:24|380Okay, we have the Moon subordinated to the Sun veiling Neptune. 367|00:32:26|600|00:32:34|280We have Earth subordinated to the Sun veiling Neptune. 368|00:32:34|820|00:32:42|460And we have Venus, Moon and the Earth, and finally Pluto subordinated to the Sun veiling 369|00:32:42|460|00:32:42|860Neptune. 370|00:32:43|920|00:32:52|260So, you know, the powers that are already present in Venus, Moon, Earth and Pluto should, 371|00:32:52|260|00:32:58|260by the power of combination, be elevated as they are exposed to these fixed cross energies. 372|00:32:58|780|00:33:02|340I might as well be complete about this, you know, because this is how we would have to 373|00:33:02|340|00:33:02|900test it out. 374|00:33:02|900|00:33:10|620We'd have to make combinations of all the four rulers of the mutable cross, esoterically 375|00:33:10|620|00:33:16|420considered, and then the rulers of the fixed cross, esoterically considered, and we'd look 376|00:33:16|420|00:33:17|260at the combinations. 377|00:33:17|500|00:33:20|720Now I don't think I'm going to go through all these combinations, but at least I will 378|00:33:20|720|00:33:21|700list them. 379|00:33:22|360|00:33:23|980We have Venus next. 380|00:33:25|020|00:33:25|880Spell it. 381|00:33:26|400|00:33:31|540Venus subordinated to Mars. 382|00:33:31|540|00:33:35|780Now that's a real reversal, but we'll try to see how that might work. 383|00:33:36|580|00:33:43|000We have, let's see, Venus… We have Moon subordinated to Mars. 384|00:33:43|720|00:33:46|940We have Earth subordinated to Mars. 385|00:33:47|500|00:33:50|380We have Pluto subordinated to Mars. 386|00:33:50|460|00:33:56|720Of course that makes sense because, you know, Pluto… Mars is the alter ego of Pluto, and 387|00:33:56|720|00:34:02|820Pluto is, though an esoteric planet or at least quite obscure in the way it works, hidden 388|00:34:02|820|00:34:09|040in the way it works, it is of lesser development than Mars, just as the Earth is of lesser development 389|00:34:09|040|00:34:09|800than Venus. 390|00:34:10|040|00:34:21|380And finally, rounding this out, we would have Venus subordinated to Jupiter, the esoteric 391|00:34:21|380|00:34:22|500ruler of Aquarius. 392|00:34:22|500|00:34:31|460We would have, right, Moon subordinated to Jupiter. 393|00:34:32|420|00:34:39|620We would have Earth subordinated to Jupiter, and we would have Pluto subordinated to Jupiter. 394|00:34:39|940|00:34:42|620Now all of this has to be interpreted esoterically. 395|00:34:42|780|00:34:52|480These are 16 combinations of fixed cross planets and later mutable cross esoteric rulers which 396|00:34:52|480|00:34:57|220are helping man make the transition onto the fixed cross of the soul. 397|00:34:58|240|00:35:03|620Venus and Vulcan, of course… Vulcan rules the head center for the disciple. Venus rules 398|00:35:03|620|00:35:13|380the Ajna center, and we have the usual attractions of Venus and the power of the soul growing 399|00:35:13|380|00:35:15|540subjected to the spiritual will of Vulcan. 400|00:35:16|720|00:35:18|740So we're adding will to love. 401|00:35:18|740|00:35:24|920When the Moon is subordinated to Vulcan, we are undergoing purification in Virgo, yes, 402|00:35:25|100|00:35:31|080but that is strengthened greatly by the spiritual will of Vulcan, its power, its gripping power, 403|00:35:31|180|00:35:31|680its endurance. 404|00:35:32|240|00:35:37|900The Earth is the etheric body, and Vulcan has great to do, much to do with the etheric body, 405|00:35:37|900|00:35:44|980and so we are able to willfully pursue our experience upon the sphere of the Earth and 406|00:35:44|980|00:35:46|140make it very purposeful. 407|00:35:46|140|00:35:53|740I'm just giving you some off-the-cuff kind of combinatory possibilities. 408|00:35:54|940|00:35:57|400We could meditate on these and generate quite a few. 409|00:35:57|980|00:36:02|180Pluto is very interesting because Pluto and Vulcan are both involved with the first initiation. 410|00:36:03|340|00:36:10|120Pluto is raising everything found in the depths to the heights, and Vulcan is plunging into 411|00:36:10|120|00:36:12|220the depths to activate Pluto. 412|00:36:12|950|00:36:20|480So in a way, the death process or the elimination process is all being guided by the necessities 413|00:36:20|480|00:36:23|960of the spiritual will of soul will. 414|00:36:24|460|00:36:34|400The soul is guiding the process of purgation, getting negativity out of the system, purification. 415|00:36:35|380|00:36:38|840And so it can be very drastic when these two are together, and very interestingly these 416|00:36:38|840|00:36:43|160two are in combination before the first initiation. 417|00:36:43|880|00:36:47|400If we, let's just say, you know, let's just do this. 418|00:36:48|140|00:36:56|700We go to page 70 in Esoteric Astrology and you will see a familiar quotation, familiar 419|00:36:56|700|00:37:02|060to those who are poring over astrology, and it says that the first initiation the disciple 420|00:37:02|060|00:37:07|280has to contend with the crystallizing and destroying forces of Vulcan and Pluto. 421|00:37:08|480|00:37:17|560Vulcan crystallizes prior to arranging a shattering, and Pluto is destroying and expiating, purgating, 422|00:37:17|900|00:37:20|800you know, eliminating, casting out and so forth. 423|00:37:21|180|00:37:25|760The influence of Vulcan reaches to the very depths of his nature. 424|00:37:25|920|00:37:29|560This is the downward pointing arrow that is sometimes used as a symbol of Vulcan. 425|00:37:30|080|00:37:35|200Whilst Pluto, the upward pointing arrow, which D.K. does give us the symbol of Pluto, drags 426|00:37:35|200|00:37:39|380to the surface and destroys all that hinders in the lower region. 427|00:37:39|560|00:37:44|100So it's a roto-rooter effect, kind of a scouring of the aura. 428|00:37:46|640|00:37:51|940And the two of them together, you see, we're talking about a period of time right before 429|00:37:51|940|00:37:57|840the first initiation when the four planets of the mutable cross, esoterically considered, 430|00:37:58|360|00:38:01|740are helping with that transition and the fixed cross planets are coming in. 431|00:38:01|880|00:38:06|600So that's quite a grip of Vulcan upon Pluto directing the purgation process. 432|00:38:06|860|00:38:14|900Now, okay, now we move on and we are dealing with Venus in Gemini which is helping to build 433|00:38:14|900|00:38:20|420soul rapport, but in comes this very strong energy of Neptune which is the higher octave 434|00:38:20|420|00:38:26|520of Venus and the whole heart of the Sun energy greatly strengthens soul consciousness, soul 435|00:38:26|520|00:38:28|000awareness and soul influence. 436|00:38:28|880|00:38:34|680So it's like two similarly qualified planets being added to each other, Neptune being the 437|00:38:34|680|00:38:40|920higher octave and the heart is swelling here relating to the Ajna center. 438|00:38:41|680|00:38:47|360So it's a very good opportunity to relate heart, solar plexus and Ajna center as we 439|00:38:47|360|00:38:57|680find in Discipleship in the New Age Volume II in the second initiation, the D.K., second 440|00:38:57|680|00:38:58|300group initiation. 441|00:38:58|860|00:39:04|140Now here is the Moon, you know, normally the Moon is beginning the purificatory process 442|00:39:04|140|00:39:11|760under Vulcan and even Neptune, and now when we add the fixed cross Neptune, that Neptune 443|00:39:11|760|00:39:19|060is stimulated so the stimulation of the Christ within the heart rising above and subordinating 444|00:39:19|060|00:39:23|680the responses of form is highly stimulated. 445|00:39:25|860|00:39:30|460It begins to overpower the normal material processes. 446|00:39:31|160|00:39:36|020We have Earth again, the field of experience as D.K. describes it, also the etheric body. 447|00:39:36|180|00:39:40|340We have the etheric body infused by the energies of the heart of the Sun. 448|00:39:41|000|00:39:46|200So the etheric body can carry any energies, we realize that, and it's the energies of 449|00:39:46|200|00:39:50|700the heart of the Sun or the energies of the love petals, the Buddhic energy of the soul 450|00:39:51|120|00:39:55|040which begins to be carried by the etheric body and love is expressed upon the field 451|00:39:55|040|00:39:59|540of experience increasingly rather than a strictly material response. 452|00:40:01|260|00:40:08|160Okay, then we move on to Pluto. It's going to be subordinated to fixed cross Neptune. 453|00:40:08|740|00:40:13|220Pluto is purifying, Pluto is bringing about a type of death. 454|00:40:14|240|00:40:23|180We are dying to our attachment to the lower type of strictly physical plane experiences 455|00:40:23|180|00:40:29|120and Neptune, which is veiled by the Sun, is presenting us with more subjective experiences 456|00:40:29|120|00:40:31|880so we die to one and enter another. 457|00:40:32|280|00:40:37|160The obscuration fades away and the sense of soul presence fades in. 458|00:40:38|300|00:40:40|780Now we will look at something a little stranger. 459|00:40:42|380|00:40:47|200Usually it's Mars that is supposed to be subordinated to Venus rather than Venus to Mars. 460|00:40:47|580|00:40:48|820So how will we interpret this? 461|00:40:49|000|00:40:56|060Because Mars is the personality, elemental as a whole in all the three vehicles, and 462|00:40:56|060|00:41:00|420Venus is uniquely the planet of the soul, at least for us. 463|00:41:01|000|00:41:07|600So, but we have the warrior Mars and this is Mars in relation to Scorpio, fixed cross 464|00:41:07|600|00:41:12|860Scorpio, and Venus is bringing about that increasing soul rapport so that there's more magnetism 465|00:41:12|860|00:41:19|100in the late mutable cross, more magnetism toward the soul and from the soul and we are 466|00:41:19|100|00:41:25|480now willing to fight the battle to increase that magnetism and to confront the obstacles 467|00:41:25|920|00:41:31|160which may prevent the growth of soul awareness. 468|00:41:31|820|00:41:36|340So Mars is again really serving Venus, but it's willing to enter into battle on behalf 469|00:41:36|340|00:41:40|380of the soul so that soul personality rapport can increase. 470|00:41:41|340|00:41:46|100Moon and Mars are interesting together because they do rule the lunar lords. 471|00:41:46|100|00:41:54|940If you look here, I probably should have more than… yeah, they rule the lunar lords. 472|00:41:55|320|00:42:00|980If you take a look here, manifested hierarchy number six, the lunar lords, the planet is 473|00:42:00|980|00:42:03|720Mars, but they are lunar, so the Moon is involved there as well. 474|00:42:04|340|00:42:08|140So we have a Mars and Moon subordination. 475|00:42:08|760|00:42:14|520Interestingly, Mars and the Moon we have seen is very active at the third initiation. 476|00:42:14|520|00:42:20|020At the third initiation, the Moon veiling a hidden planet and Mars bring about a fearful 477|00:42:20|020|00:42:20|460conflict. 478|00:42:20|620|00:42:25|400Well, it's probably the Moon veiling Vulcan plus Mars bringing about a fearful conflict, 479|00:42:25|400|00:42:28|380but at the end the man is released from personality control. 480|00:42:29|180|00:42:33|760So Moon and Mars are really active at all the initiations, one, two and three particularly, 481|00:42:34|280|00:42:44|100but the D.K. singles out the third, and the Moon will begin the purificatory process, bringing 482|00:42:44|100|00:42:48|800out more light and matter through veiled Vulcan and bringing out the impulses of the 483|00:42:48|800|00:42:56|880Christ force, but Mars will energize that purification process and make of it a true battle. 484|00:42:58|680|00:43:07|220It adds will, determination, idealism to the ordinary purification process which the Moon 485|00:43:07|220|00:43:16|240in Virgo represents, and it becomes a matter of great importance to bring the lunar nature 486|00:43:16|240|00:43:25|380into a fit form, so one applies his full effort and strength and directed power of Mars to 487|00:43:25|380|00:43:29|180increase the intensity of the purificatory process. 488|00:43:29|440|00:43:40|020We look at Earth, the field of experience, and Mars is willing to engage in battle the negative 489|00:43:40|020|00:43:43|440experiences which a person always will encounter. 490|00:43:44|180|00:43:50|780The Earth is the etheric body as well, and Mars will fight for the dominance of the higher 491|00:43:50|780|00:43:54|160type of etheric patterns over the lower poles. 492|00:43:54|160|00:44:01|620Mars and Pluto are together, Mars being the higher octave or the alter ego of Pluto, and 493|00:44:01|620|00:44:06|000this is a great intensification of the battle. 494|00:44:06|460|00:44:11|720Pluto is providing a release, and Mars a release from the ordinary common cross experiences, 495|00:44:11|720|00:44:17|480and Mars creates tremendous aspiration towards the soul, so it's not only a question of 496|00:44:17|480|00:44:23|500plutonic release, but the upward force of Pluto is driven by the aspiring force of Mars, and 497|00:44:23|500|00:44:29|500a person is determined, no matter what may be the personal cost, to reach the higher realms. 498|00:44:30|560|00:44:34|040You know, I said I wasn't going to do this, but here I'm doing it while I'm talking 499|00:44:34|040|00:44:35|480about the power of combination. 500|00:44:35|920|00:44:41|540Now, you know, any one of us could create these combinations according to how our mind reveals 501|00:44:41|540|00:44:48|400their nature, but I must say that that is one of the most important things to do: to create, 502|00:44:49|220|00:44:58|120to develop the ability to combine different qualities, notes, patterns, colors and seeing 503|00:44:58|120|00:45:05|100what the third factor will be, or you may be combining three or even four on a cross, or 504|00:45:05|100|00:45:12|260three on a T-cross, and we have to get a sense of how these different qualities and energies 505|00:45:12|260|00:45:14|200work together, just like we would with two people. 506|00:45:14|200|00:45:18|580You know, two people have a relationship—okay, the relationship is more than what either 507|00:45:18|580|00:45:19|200one of them is. 508|00:45:19|380|00:45:25|840Now three get together and the relationship complexifies, and whatever is produced when 509|00:45:25|840|00:45:29|340three get together is different from what any one of them is or what any two of them 510|00:45:29|340|00:45:30|140are in combination. 511|00:45:30|720|00:45:34|440Then you get four getting together—finally, that's the synthetic aspect of the cross— 512|00:45:36|080|00:45:40|420and what will be that particular relationship, what will the foursome really mean. 513|00:45:41|360|00:45:47|440So you can understand that the mind must be articulate, it must be analytical, and yet 514|00:45:47|440|00:45:55|060it must be fluid enough to combine things and see what emerges from the combination. 515|00:45:55|780|00:46:00|980When astrologers go through their tables of aspects, that's really what they're doing— 516|00:46:01|220|00:46:05|080they're telling you what do these two planets do when they relate to each other, and then 517|00:46:05|080|00:46:10|400you apply it to yourself, and usually in relation to a third or fourth factor, because each of 518|00:46:10|400|00:46:16|440the planets is in a particular sign, and the influence of the signs have to be combined 519|00:46:16|440|00:46:17|500as well. 520|00:46:18|560|00:46:26|400So that's what so many of our cookbook astrologies, astrological tables give us: how to read these 521|00:46:26|400|00:46:26|940combinations. 522|00:46:27|600|00:46:30|820Alright, now we've got Jupiter which is bringing life more abundant and Aquarius. 523|00:46:32|080|00:46:38|480Venus is on the late medieval cross, bringing about the soul, personality, union, drawing 524|00:46:38|480|00:46:47|700the two together magnetically and in the bonds of love, and Jupiter reveals the group 525|00:46:47|700|00:46:54|420nature of the soul and inclines the individual who is becoming increasingly soul conscious 526|00:46:55|520|00:47:01|820to put all of those soul abilities at the disposal of the group into which his consciousness 527|00:47:01|820|00:47:02|780is expanding. 528|00:47:02|780|00:47:10|500So let's just say that the establishment of causal consciousness is facilitated when fixed 529|00:47:10|500|00:47:17|380cross Jupiter dominates Venus, which is subordinate, becoming subordinate to it. 530|00:47:17|440|00:47:22|480Now we could have other instances in which Venus would be the major factor and Jupiter 531|00:47:22|480|00:47:23|340would be subordinate. 532|00:47:24|040|00:47:27|660Always try to remember to hierarchicalize your analysis. 533|00:47:27|660|00:47:32|960There's always something first, second, third, fourth, whichever way you want to count. 534|00:47:33|520|00:47:40|480There's always something closer to the peak of the pyramid and something lower down on 535|00:47:40|480|00:47:46|580the pyramid, and we have to retain that sense of status, hierarchical status. 536|00:47:47|660|00:47:51|860This does not suggest that all things are not equal. 537|00:47:51|980|00:47:53|040All things are equal. 538|00:47:53|760|00:47:55|560In spirit, all things are equal. 539|00:47:55|560|00:48:03|180There is only one spirit and all units of life are that spirit, and from the spirit essence 540|00:48:03|180|00:48:06|180they are utterly equal, but they're not equal in manifestation. 541|00:48:07|260|00:48:13|380In manifestation we have a hierarchicalization, and we have to maintain that, otherwise we're 542|00:48:13|380|00:48:18|360just mixing things on the same level instead of mixing things on a prioritized scheme, 543|00:48:18|980|00:48:20|240within a prioritized scheme. 544|00:48:21|300|00:48:24|280Okay, so the moon will be subordinate to Jupiter. 545|00:48:24|460|00:48:30|120Interestingly, Jupiter and the moon oftentimes together they represent the ancestral gods. 546|00:48:30|300|00:48:33|400They're both related to Cancer and to the past in a certain respect. 547|00:48:33|920|00:48:37|200Moon being the ruler of Cancer, Jupiter being the exalted planet in Cancer. 548|00:48:37|360|00:48:42|940So in the Secret Doctrine, the two of them together are fighting against Venus that wants 549|00:48:42|940|00:48:48|780to raise the consciousness up into the world of the soul towards Sanat Kumara, but Jupiter 550|00:48:48|780|00:48:53|600and Venus, Jupiter and the moon want to worship the ancestral gods, but not in this case. 551|00:48:54|320|00:49:01|960The moon is facilitating a purification, but Jupiter hints at the full birth of the Christ 552|00:49:01|960|00:49:08|600and the glory of the Christ's life because Jupiter is the hierarchical ruler of Virgo. 553|00:49:09|100|00:49:17|880So we have the moon in Virgo facilitating this preparation of the form, and Jupiter is 554|00:49:17|880|00:49:22|480expanding the soul consciousness so we know why the form is being prepared. 555|00:49:23|660|00:49:30|200Jupiter is expanding the consciousness as the form is purified because we all know when 556|00:49:30|200|00:49:37|060we have a purified form we become more conscious than when our form is clogged and subjected 557|00:49:37|060|00:49:37|980to the lower energies. 558|00:49:40|140|00:49:44|740Jupiter, okay, now we have Earth, the field of experience in relation to Sagittarius on 559|00:49:44|740|00:49:54|120the late mutable cross subordinated fixed cross Jupiter, and here we have the growth 560|00:49:54|120|00:50:01|220of—very interestingly, we're looking at Jupiter and the Earth; they both have the second ray 561|00:50:01|220|00:50:02|380in their soul nature. 562|00:50:02|900|00:50:08|120Earth's second ray soul, the Logos of Earth and Jupiter's second ray soul, they may as 563|00:50:08|120|00:50:11|080well share a monadic ray in common. 564|00:50:11|080|00:50:17|460The Earth's monadic ray is first ray and Jupiter's may be seventh ray slash first ray; 565|00:50:17|540|00:50:22|140he is after all the king of the gods, but that is simply speculation. 566|00:50:22|940|00:50:27|820So we have the widened experience, the growth of consciousness; wherever Jupiter is present 567|00:50:27|820|00:50:31|960there's always a growth or expansion of consciousness, the pushing back of horizons. 568|00:50:32|420|00:50:36|960So here on Earth we're on that field of experience and our experience is growing under Sagittarius. 569|00:50:36|960|00:50:42|740We're seeing more and more until we begin to realize when Jupiter is bringing in those 570|00:50:42|740|00:50:47|560Aquarian energies, which it does on the fixed cross, that it's all one being, it's all one 571|00:50:47|560|00:50:48|100relationship. 572|00:50:48|900|00:50:54|680That this expanded sphere of experience is all one experience and one identity is having 573|00:50:54|680|00:50:59|420it, so the sense of the wholeness of Earth experience is increased. 574|00:51:00|160|00:51:06|460Pluto subordinated to Jupiter, okay, well here we are; these are two rulers of Pisces we've 575|00:51:06|460|00:51:15|440been talking about them, and again, the purpose of Pluto is to kill the obscurations to consciousness, 576|00:51:15|440|00:51:18|860and the purpose of Jupiter is to expand that consciousness. 577|00:51:19|500|00:51:26|700So here we see that whatever is killed, gotten out of the way, eliminated, leads to a new 578|00:51:27|290|00:51:33|840vision, and vision is one of many entities participating in the group process. 579|00:51:33|840|00:51:39|400Because Pluto is killing the ahamkara, you know, we all are sort of born with the sense 580|00:51:39|400|00:51:44|300that I'm the center of the world, and that intensifies, and we're out of relationship 581|00:51:44|300|00:51:50|760with all things, and we are the most important focus within our field of consciousness. And 582|00:51:50|760|00:51:57|300Pluto starts to kill that, and Jupiter shows, “Well, look, this little identity that you used 583|00:51:57|300|00:52:02|020to focus so much upon is just part of a much larger group.” 584|00:52:02|020|00:52:10|160You know, the group sense can expand: the family, the community, the nation, humanity itself, 585|00:52:10|160|00:52:18|640and beyond and beyond. But Jupiter is always widening the ring-pass-not when new vision 586|00:52:18|640|00:52:24|440is accorded by the destruction which Pluto has inflicted upon the ahamkara principle. 587|00:52:24|940|00:52:31|820Alright, so this gives you an idea of how to combine these energies. 588|00:52:34|900|00:52:39|160The power of combination. Let's read again what D.K. said here as we've gone through it. 589|00:52:39|500|00:52:45|360The task of the disciple is to understand their significance—the significance of the 590|00:52:45|360|00:52:51|280words and the forces and the six rulers of the mutable cross—in a practical and effective 591|00:52:51|280|00:52:57|140manner, because we can't just deal with abstractions. We have to really apply them and to deal with 592|00:52:57|140|00:53:05|100the energies which these planets release via their alliance with the science, subordinating 593|00:53:05|100|00:53:10|420them to the energies released by the Fixed Cross upon which he stands. 594|00:53:11|000|00:53:15|400Subordinating them to the energies released by the Fixed Cross upon which he stands as 595|00:53:15|400|00:53:20|300he becomes a disciple to first-degree initiative and so forth, and thus increase their potency— 596|00:53:20|300|00:53:26|760the potency of the rulers of the mutable cross, esoterically. Thus increase their potency 597|00:53:26|760|00:53:28|460through occult combination. 598|00:53:29|120|00:53:38|040Now, there's another way we can look at making that transition from the mutable cross onto 599|00:53:38|040|00:53:41|180the fixed cross. 600|00:53:41|340|00:53:46|600We can look at each one of these planets, the esoteric rulers, and we can give them 601|00:53:46|600|00:53:48|920sort of fixed cross meanings. 602|00:53:48|920|00:54:00|920We can look at Venus and we can say, “Okay, how would Venus differ if it was operating 603|00:54:00|920|00:54:06|660on the fixed cross than how it operates on the mutable cross, even esoterically?” 604|00:54:07|380|00:54:12|700And let's just say the soul would come into much greater prominence, and the soul, light, 605|00:54:12|700|00:54:14|560and love would become a dominating factor. 606|00:54:18|020|00:54:24|740Whereas the moon begins the process of purification and is really veiling Vulcan and Neptune, 607|00:54:25|140|00:54:32|060there would be an intensification and an impersonalization of those energies if they were truly related 608|00:54:32|060|00:54:34|520to the fixed cross, the cross of the soul. 609|00:54:35|240|00:54:38|700So the spiritual will would grow; the Christ force under Neptune would grow. 610|00:54:38|700|00:54:43|760What is incipient, what is incipient in the mutable cross, what is beginning in the mutable 611|00:54:43|760|00:54:45|020cross, will intensify. 612|00:54:45|480|00:54:53|180When it comes to the earth in relation to the field of experience and enlarging that 613|00:54:53|180|00:54:59|640experience on the late mutable cross, we would have a real regeneration of the etheric body 614|00:55:00|220|00:55:05|380on the fixed cross, and the earth would become a sacred field of experience. 615|00:55:05|700|00:55:13|540So you can take a look at any planetary energy and say, “How would it operate at the mutable 616|00:55:13|540|00:55:17|760level of cross level of consciousness? How at the fixed cross level? How at the cardinal 617|00:55:17|760|00:55:18|940cross level of consciousness?” 618|00:55:19|100|00:55:23|880They all can operate in these different levels because the planets themselves can relate 619|00:55:23|880|00:55:29|840to the very highest aspects of the human being, to the triad, to the monad. 620|00:55:30|800|00:55:34|040Almost all of them probably can—probably all of them can, in fact. 621|00:55:35|580|00:55:38|540So you have to sort of stratify your interpretation. 622|00:55:39|300|00:55:45|620So it is, he says, It is by achieving intelligent and active response to the energies released 623|00:55:46|780|00:55:52|980and earlier mastered through the experience of the Mutable Cross,—they're mastered at 624|00:55:52|980|00:55:59|640a certain mutable cross level—and by relating them to the potencies let loose upon him whilst 625|00:55:59|640|00:56:08|460crucified upon the Fixed Cross, that he learns to prepare himself for the twelve great tests 626|00:56:08|460|00:56:13|780in all the twelve signs for which the experience of the two Crosses prepares him. 627|00:56:14|460|00:56:24|900So you know, D.K. is almost hinting—he almost says here that these twelve great tests would 628|00:56:24|900|00:56:27|400occur upon the cardinal cross, but that's not exactly the case. 629|00:56:27|400|00:56:39|880He seems to be saying, seems to be saying that the twelve great tests are cardinal. 630|00:56:42|260|00:56:47|340But I don't think that's the case, I don't think that's the case. It's just at the later 631|00:56:47|340|00:56:54|420stages of the fixed cross is when the great tests occur, perhaps not the ultimate test 632|00:56:54|420|00:56:59|400of Aquarius or of Pisces where we're taking the fourth initiation. 633|00:57:00|340|00:57:09|500But let's just say that we have to take what we have mastered and spiral it up as we subordinate 634|00:57:09|500|00:57:13|000it to the greater potencies of the fixed cross. 635|00:57:13|220|00:57:17|900We take what we have mastered upon the mutable cross, or that with which we are very familiar, 636|00:57:18|710|00:57:21|800and we subordinate it to fixed cross energy. 637|00:57:21|800|00:57:32|080So you can see how much the power of combination is required as we begin to work with transitions 638|00:57:32|640|00:57:38|820from the mutable cross to the fixed cross and later from the fixed cross down off the 639|00:57:38|820|00:57:40|600fixed cross and towards the cardinal cross. 640|00:57:40|780|00:57:44|880We don't go directly, interestingly enough. We don't go directly from the fixed cross 641|00:57:44|880|00:57:49|700of the soul straight to the cardinal cross. We have to go through that incredible great 642|00:57:49|700|00:57:55|620renunciation of fourth initiation experience where we really learn to stand on our own 643|00:57:56|220|00:57:58|860without the guidance of the solar angel anymore. 644|00:57:59|420|00:58:04|040We have incorporated a great deal of the solar angel. We learn thus to stand. We have risen 645|00:58:04|040|00:58:08|000to the feet of the solar angel. The solar angel is liberated, and when we have shown 646|00:58:08|660|00:58:15|320we can withstand that no man's land of the fourth initiation, then we are allowed to 647|00:58:15|320|00:58:18|220mount the true cardinal cross of the heavens. 648|00:58:19|420|00:58:23|920Okay, achieving… Okay, so we'll just read this one more time, and then I think, you know, 649|00:58:23|920|00:58:33|740we are reaching the end of the… It was Esoteric Astrology Adventure 55, but it is now 56 due 650|00:58:33|740|00:58:38|320to various little mishaps, and hopefully those mishaps are not operative on this recording. 651|00:58:38|600|00:58:45|020At least it seems as if, seems as if they are not. Okay, we certainly hope so. 652|00:58:45|600|00:58:52|520Alright, so it is achieved. Just finishing this: we are increasing the potency of the 653|00:58:52|520|00:58:56|660mutable cross planets, helping us make the transition onto the fixed cross. We are increasing 654|00:58:56|660|00:59:00|800their potency through occult combination. They have a certain tendency, and that tendency 655|00:59:00|800|00:59:05|640is enhanced when coming into combination with the fixed cross planets. 656|00:59:05|860|00:59:09|840The mutable cross planets, their potency is enhanced by coming into combination with the 657|00:59:09|840|00:59:10|640fixed cross planets. 658|00:59:10|640|00:59:16|260It is by achieving intelligent and active response to the energies released and earlier 659|00:59:16|260|00:59:22|220mastered—relatively mastered, I mean. Let's just say that the full panoply of planetary 660|00:59:22|220|00:59:29|060possibility is not mastered yet, but at least mastered with respect to a mutable cross experience, 661|00:59:29|320|00:59:30|300normal human experience. 662|00:59:30|860|00:59:33|900The energies released and earlier mastered through the experience of the mutable cross 663|00:59:33|900|00:59:39|180and by relating them to the potencies let loose upon him—sounds like a rather drastic 664|00:59:39|180|00:59:45|000process—while crucified upon the fixed cross. We can't get off it until we are truly and 665|00:59:45|000|00:59:49|800actively identified as soul, that he learns to prepare himself for the twelve great tests, 666|00:59:50|460|00:59:52|360the labors of Hercules and all the twelve signs. 667|00:59:52|500|00:59:58|380Now we don't necessarily have to follow occult rumor here, as D.K. says, and think that 668|00:59:58|380|01:00:02|500each one of these tests is sequential—we go from Aries to Taurus to Gemini and so forth— 669|01:00:02|500|01:00:08|380but there are ways of passing these twelve tests in less than twelve lives, I do believe, 670|01:00:09|000|01:00:15|620and if we look at a potency of the rising sign and a potency of the sun sign, it is possible 671|01:00:15|620|01:00:21|160to take two tests in one incarnation and even a combination of tests if there are various 672|01:00:21|800|01:00:23|540stelliums and ruling planets. 673|01:00:24|300|01:00:30|320So suffice it to say we will be tested out under twelve streams of influence, but I doubt 674|01:00:30|320|01:00:38|840that it will have to be twelve sequential lives or even twelve lives per se, because 675|01:00:38|840|01:00:45|340it really is possible to… I don't think this full testing can occur until the second initiation 676|01:00:45|340|01:00:50|400begins, and it's certainly possible to achieve mastership from the stage of the second initiation 677|01:00:50|400|01:00:52|960in far less than twelve lives. 678|01:00:53|560|01:00:58|840So the kinds of combinations we are given: look at your sun sign, look at your rising 679|01:00:58|840|01:01:04|180sign and think of the particular labor of Hercules or labors of Hercules through which 680|01:01:04|180|01:01:09|060you are passing under the influence and dominance of those two signs. 681|01:01:09|300|01:01:15|680I mean, I can certainly think in my own life what it may be. I have Aries sun, the man-eating 682|01:01:15|680|01:01:21|380mares, mastering the mental forces to a certain extent, and also Cancer rising, chasing the 683|01:01:21|380|01:01:27|180golden doe of intuition and always trying to grasp it and finding it has returned to 684|01:01:27|180|01:01:31|280the temple and it really belongs to everybody, but following out the intuition. 685|01:01:32|240|01:01:35|220Those particular tests I find active in my life at this time. 686|01:01:35|460|01:01:36|140Am I passing them? 687|01:01:36|240|01:01:45|780I don't know, but suffice it to say we can apply our spiritual will in such a way that 688|01:01:45|780|01:01:51|300whatever astrological potencies we are presented with at a certain time later in our development, 689|01:01:51|300|01:01:56|420we can use these to help us pass the twelve great tests. 690|01:01:56|420|01:02:02|940However it happens, we have to master the lessons of all twelve signs, and that can occur 691|01:02:02|940|01:02:04|560in different combinations. 692|01:02:06|420|01:02:17|460Okay, we have… oh goodness, we've gone over. We will now together do The Great Invocation 693|01:02:17|460|01:02:26|780even though we're just a little over time, and then move on to Esoteric Astrology Adventure 694|01:02:27|360|01:02:32|900number 57, hoping that this one came out in audio in every way in the correct manner. 695|01:02:44|140|01:02:50|340From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds 696|01:02:50|340|01:02:53|760of men. Let light descend on earth. 697|01:02:56|220|01:03:01|280From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts 698|01:03:01|280|01:03:04|520of men. May Christ return to earth. 699|01:03:07|260|01:03:12|280From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 700|01:03:12|900|01:03:15|880the purpose which the masters know and serve. 701|01:03:18|900|01:03:23|920From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 702|01:03:24|580|01:03:28|700and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 703|01:03:28|700|01:03:35|160Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 704|01:04:07|000|01:04:16|120Okay friends, we have gone to the end of page, or at least we have reached page 129. 705|01:04:17|380|01:04:21|720So number 20, Esoteric Astrology Adventure 57, will begin. 706|01:04:23|420|01:04:29|600So until that time, thank you for listening, thank you for studying. 707|01:04:29|740|01:04:34|760I know that a lot is said in rapid order, but you know it's even possible to slow down the 708|01:04:34|760|01:04:35|300speech. 709|01:04:35|840|01:04:40|960I think it's possible sometimes to play these things back at a slower speed, and therefore 710|01:04:40|960|01:04:43|180it might be more assimilable. 711|01:04:44|640|01:04:51|320But hopefully I'm speaking in a language which can be assimilated, and you'll get used to 712|01:04:51|320|01:04:51|580it. 713|01:04:52|520|01:04:56|040Okay, thank you very much, and we will talk to you soon. 714|01:04:56|420|01:04:56|720Bye bye.
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