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1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780Hello everybody. This is Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 75, and we are in the Sagittarius 2|00:00:16|780|00:00:29|720chapter. We had reached almost to page 192, and we were just reading the idea of the 3|00:00:30|440|00:00:40|720detriment of Mercury in Sagittarius. We realise there are no falls, or no great falls at least, 4|00:00:41|140|00:00:49|580within Sagittarius, and there is no exaltation. This being a sign of temperament and of the 5|00:00:49|580|00:00:58|520balance of the archer as he pursues his goal in a steady manner. Even when he rides upon the horse, 6|00:00:58|520|00:01:06|880he has to have an exquisite type of poise in order to loose his arrow properly at his target. 7|00:01:08|420|00:01:16|380Mercury, which is the expression of the fourth ray, certainly in its soul nature, and also the 8|00:01:16|380|00:01:25|460God of the mental processes, probably five levels of the mind are involved, has his power definitely 9|00:01:25|460|00:01:32|800lessened in this sign and this for two reasons, esoterically speaking: Now, we did discuss the 10|00:01:32|800|00:01:38|700idea of whether there really was a lessening of the power of Mercury. There's certainly a lessening 11|00:01:38|700|00:01:47|340of the power of Mercury, considering it as the planet of the concrete mind, which is its lowest 12|00:01:47|340|00:01:54|800level of expression. But when we begin to consider the son of mind, the abstract mind, the transcendental 13|00:01:54|800|00:02:04|760or intuitive mind, and the atmic or nirvanic mind of expressed will, then we cannot necessarily say 14|00:02:04|760|00:02:12|940that Mercury has its power lessened. But certainly in the conventional sense it does. Now we have 15|00:02:12|940|00:02:23|060reached page 192, and we are going to look at the Tibetan's reasons for considering that the power 16|00:02:23|060|00:02:33|720of Mercury is lessened. First, the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with 17|00:02:33|720|00:02:43|240either his own human personality, which is in a way ruled by the fourth ray generically, because 18|00:02:43|240|00:02:51|200of the composite of the four elemental lives. So the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with either 19|00:02:51|200|00:02:57|580his own human personality and processes or with the human kingdom, which is most definitely ruled 20|00:02:57|580|00:03:08|860by Mercury, in relation to Scorpio in this case, prior to taking initiation. So the human personality 21|00:03:08|860|00:03:21|180is in a way detrimental, Mercury as the human personality is detrimental, and Mercury as the 22|00:03:21|180|00:03:29|340taking initiation, the method of identification in the human being changes, and he begins to 23|00:03:29|340|00:03:39|120identify more as a soul or incipient solar angel on the higher mental plane than he does as a 24|00:03:39|120|00:03:48|320fourfold human being in the three lower worlds. His emphasis is, for the future, to be upon the 25|00:03:48|320|00:03:57|480spiritual soul, i.e. not the human soul within the lower three worlds, and the fifth kingdom in 26|00:03:57|480|00:04:05|380nature that is the kingdom of souls, the kingdom of which the majority of masters are a member, 27|00:04:06|180|00:04:16|240and the kingdom of which he as a soul is a member. In Sagittarius he begins to express this first 28|00:04:16|240|00:04:22|800stage. He's no longer identifying himself strictly as a human being or as a human personality. He's 29|00:04:22|800|00:04:29|120beginning to identify himself more as a soul, and this can even take place at the first initiation, 30|00:04:29|140|00:04:37|340which is the entry into the kingdom of souls, and we remember that Sagittarius rules initiates of 31|00:04:37|340|00:04:44|000the first two initiations. It rules in a way much more than that, but certainly there is that keen 32|00:04:44|000|00:04:52|260aspirational nature, which is characteristic of initiates of the first two initiations. So This 33|00:04:52|260|00:05:02|580involves a complete withdrawal, in the personality sense, from the form side of life. and of course we 34|00:05:02|580|00:05:10|320realise that Sagittarius has the power of abstraction, which is why it is so identified 35|00:05:10|320|00:05:20|040with the abstract mind and with distance, shall we say, the power to pull back and to see all 36|00:05:20|040|00:05:30|320things large, which means to see the personality as a smaller thing than it is up close. This again 37|00:05:30|320|00:05:42|020entails (at a certain point of crisis) a point of balance. This is interesting. The individual has 38|00:05:42|020|00:05:51|820to have a very keen sense of what he is and what he is not, and slowly through the power of 39|00:05:51|820|00:06:00|620abstraction in Sagittarius, he leaves behind his sense of closeness to the personality elementals, 40|00:06:00|720|00:06:07|680and he has to keep his balance within his own soul nature in order to do this. In other words, 41|00:06:08|320|00:06:15|140the human soul begins to identify as the soul on its own plane. So this, you know, you can see that 42|00:06:15|140|00:06:23|700D.K. gives esoteric reasons for the detriment of a planet. He is thinking in terms of the pairs 43|00:06:23|700|00:06:28|760of opposites of the personality nature and the soul nature. He's not thinking about the usual 44|00:06:28|760|00:06:34|320meaning of the detriment. I mean, you know, the usual meaning can be that the early Sagittarian 45|00:06:34|320|00:06:44|080is not logical and is leaping from point to point without true reasonableness. Of course, 46|00:06:44|700|00:06:51|220the higher expression here is that he has the intuition which allows him to leap to conclusions 47|00:06:51|220|00:06:57|060with accuracy. In the early days of Sagittarius, he simply leaps to conclusions, and there may be 48|00:06:57|900|00:07:04|380no accuracy at all, and, you know, he will be more opinionated. Okay, so now we're looking at the 49|00:07:04|380|00:07:14|060second reason why the power of the mind is falling, not falling, but in detriment in Sagittarius. The 50|00:07:14|060|00:07:22|260mind is tested and found true in Scorpio. Now let us remember how important Mercury is in 51|00:07:22|260|00:07:29|600relation to Scorpio. It is the hierarchical ruler, but it's involved in more than simply 52|00:07:29|600|00:07:38|220hierarchical processes. It's involved in controlling the emotions, mental control of the emotions, 53|00:07:38|220|00:07:47|920and it's involved in achieving a degree of illumination. In the five stages of meditation, 54|00:07:48|920|00:07:54|120Scorpio rules illumination, the legal concentration, the verbal meditation, 55|00:07:55|820|00:08:01|720Libra contemplation, and as a result of that contemplation comes in Scorpio illumination, 56|00:08:01|720|00:08:07|860and then finally Sagittarius inspiration, and I guess we can go on and we could say 57|00:08:09|060|00:08:16|260Capricorn initiation and so forth. We've discussed this before. It's interesting that Scorpio, 58|00:08:16|760|00:08:26|940which is so often a sign of darkness and death, as the Tibetan speaks of it, brings that quality 59|00:08:26|940|00:08:38|880of darkness to veil ignorance and produce instead the light that you would expect to be found in its 60|00:08:38|880|00:08:46|460opposite sign Taurus. So often the opposite signs do produce similar results. At first they are 61|00:08:46|460|00:08:53|760contrasted, but eventually they produce similar results. For instance, when you're looking at 62|00:08:53|760|00:09:02|200Gemini and Sagittarius, the so-called scattering effect of Gemini is much overcome in the later 63|00:09:02|200|00:09:12|100evolution, and both rule the Antahkarana. Gemini rules the connectivity of the Antahkarana, 64|00:09:12|300|00:09:19|820the interdimensional connectivity we might say, and Sagittarius rules the art of projection into 65|00:09:19|820|00:09:28|400the higher dimension. So we can study the opposite signs as if they can achieve similar objectives, 66|00:09:29|240|00:09:35|700and they do come together. The pairs of opposites do meet, although they may emphasize different 67|00:09:35|700|00:09:44|900aspects of the same objective to be achieved. So we're talking about the detriment of Mercury 68|00:09:44|900|00:09:53|740in Sagittarius, Secondly, the power of the mind, having been developed, tested, tested under very dire 69|00:09:53|740|00:10:02|160circumstances where the emotions and the other elementals are fully rebellious, and the power 70|00:10:02|160|00:10:07|820of the mind has to subdue them, even subdue itself in a way, when it is the soul of the human mind. 71|00:10:07|820|00:10:14|820The higher mind influence has to subdue the lower mind influence, and found true in the sign72|00:10:14|820|00:10:23|800Scorpio, begins to wane in its activity, I would say in its cogitative activity, in its 73|00:10:25|460|00:10:32|580reasoning activity, and the intuition begins to take its place. And so we know that we do not have 74|00:10:32|580|00:10:40|040to go through the process of reasoning and cogitation to arrive at a true answer or 75|00:10:40|040|00:10:49|020revelation. The mind can become illumined directly, and this is called straight knowledge. This is 76|00:10:49|020|00:10:55|760essential before the sign Capricorn is entered by the disciple and preparation for initiation 77|00:10:55|760|00:11:02|560begins. Well, in a way, there is preparation for initiation, even in Sagittarius, but it is largely 78|00:11:02|560|00:11:08|760concerned with the initiations of the threshold. And in Sagittarius also, in a higher sense, you 79|00:11:08|760|00:11:15|780can begin to prepare for the initiatory experience in Capricorn, as I did explain yesterday when 80|00:11:15|780|00:11:26|840looking at the powers of the third degree in which we have integration and science and direction, 81|00:11:26|840|00:11:33|880all of which can be related to Sagittarius. Sagittarius brings in the fifth ray. It is 82|00:11:33|880|00:11:42|600certainly that kind of alignment which produces integration, and of course it is maybe the major 83|00:11:42|600|00:11:50|060sign of direction, all of this leading to the third degree. I think what's important to realize 84|00:11:50|060|00:12:01|080is where your subject is standing. You can be doing the horoscope of a stone, of an organization, 85|00:12:02|920|00:12:12|020of an animal, of a human being, of a human being at many different stages of evolution. Let's just 86|00:12:12|020|00:12:18|880say we're working with people. Where really is your subject standing? And without knowing that, 87|00:12:18|880|00:12:27|480we just don't know how accurately to interpret the chart. So let's just say that we should meet a 88|00:12:27|480|00:12:35|060person in person or maybe through a Skype call or some kind of contact where we can see the 89|00:12:35|060|00:12:41|800individual and can have a conversation with that person and begin to understand the level of their 90|00:12:41|800|00:12:49|620desires and objectives which will so often reveal the stage of evolution at which they stand and as 91|00:12:49|620|00:12:58|340will their accomplishments in relation to those desires and objectives. Okay, you know the great 92|00:12:58|340|00:13:05|660science of all sciences, just the ABCs, this is what we're dealing with. As regards the three 93|00:13:05|660|00:13:14|220decanates of Sagittarius, Sepharial gives us the three governing planets as Mercury, the Moon 94|00:13:14|920|00:13:23|800and the Sun. Now that is not necessarily, let's see if that is in order, that's not necessarily 95|00:13:23|800|00:13:35|860in order. Let us check here in this landscape view of the decanates. And here we are with 96|00:13:35|860|00:13:46|660Sagittarius. Yes, we do have Venus, Mercury, Moon, and then… well, OK. You see, this is interesting. 97|00:13:46|660|00:13:55|300It would normally be, let me put this into a… there, it's just a little better in that way. 98|00:13:56|840|00:14:06|800Now I'll widen it out just slightly. Okay, we have Venus, Mercury, Mercury the Moon, and Moon 99|00:14:06|800|00:14:13|560has the least period around the Earth, and so then we would normally go back to Saturn. But we have 100|00:14:13|560|00:14:22|520here the Sun. And I'm not sure if Sepharial does give the Sun; he is not following the normal 101|00:14:22|520|00:14:30|520procedure, because once you reach the Moon you begin going backwards to the conventional planet 102|00:14:30|520|00:14:35|840with the greatest period around the geocentric Earth, and that would be Saturn. So I have both 103|00:14:35|840|00:14:41|880here Saturn and the Sun, but since the Tibetan did say the Sun, we will keep the Sun. The Sun 104|00:14:41|880|00:14:51|600definitely does show up in Alan Leo's casting of the decanates. Alright, so let's take a look here. 105|00:14:52|600|00:14:57|760And then while we're here in the map, we do see that Alan Leo gives Jupiter because, you know, 106|00:14:57|940|00:15:03|380the Sagittarius-Sagittarius part is definitely ruled by conventional Jupiter, and then we're in 107|00:15:03|380|00:15:11|860the Sagittarius-Aries part ruled by Mars, and then the Sagittarius-Leo part ruled by the Sun. And 108|00:15:11|860|00:15:19|160pretty much the Tibetan is following the Alan Leo assignments. It looks like Jupiter, Mars, 109|00:15:19|420|00:15:30|440and the Sun. Here we have reversed the decanates because we know that the Sagittarian, or any other 110|00:15:30|440|00:15:40|300sign type will, on the wheel of form, we will enter the sign in the clockwise manner. So in a 111|00:15:40|300|00:15:45|220way, he's entering through the Sun for the first decanate, Mars for the second, and Jupiter for 112|00:15:45|220|00:15:53|500the third. And here Nicholas Nieland, who is a very fine theorist on all these matters, he is 113|00:15:53|500|00:16:00|940pretty well following what Sepharial has said, if my chart is correct. Nicholas and I have worked 114|00:16:00|940|00:16:07|000on these things, and we have approached these charts according to the light within us, and 115|00:16:07|000|00:16:12|600sometimes we have differences of opinion, but most of the time I think we're pretty much in 116|00:16:12|600|00:16:20|940agreement on these matters. Okay, so let's see here. Sepharial gives us the three planets as 117|00:16:20|940|00:16:29|360Mercury, the Moon, and the Sun. The only, you know, as I say, the only place where I would have some 118|00:16:31|400|00:16:38|280question here is that once we reach the Moon, we do have to go back out to the orbit of Saturn, 119|00:16:39|800|00:16:45|560and Saturn and the Sun are very contradictory in certain respects. Whilst Alan Leo gives us 120|00:16:45|560|00:16:53|000Jupiter, Mars and the Sun, emphasising as he always does the way of the esotericists. Now 121|00:16:53|000|00:16:57|880basically what D.K. is saying, you know, it's not so much that Alan Leo is emphasizing the way of 122|00:16:57|880|00:17:03|600the esotericist in general and that Sepharial is not. I think what Alan Leo, what D.K. is saying, 123|00:17:04|220|00:17:14|480is that the Chaldean system is not as esoteric usually, although in some cases like Gemini and 124|00:17:14|480|00:17:23|960Cancer it is, but that the Hindu system which Alan Leo adopts is more esoteric. Basically, 125|00:17:24|860|00:17:32|080Alan Leo and Sepharial are simply following ancient systems, but I think D.K. didn't necessarily want 126|00:17:32|080|00:17:39|820to get into that. He just associates those systems with the name Alan Leo and with Sepharial. He 127|00:17:39|820|00:17:48|460usually tunes in on the esoteric significances but not always. Jupiter gives expansion, 128|00:17:50|120|00:17:59|720superseding Mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation yeah, is ever a limitation, 129|00:17:59|780|00:18:09|540even if only a temporary one. Well, how do we see this here? We see the contrast between Alan Leo's 130|00:18:09|540|00:18:17|960Jupiter and Sepharial's Mercury. They are both in the same decanate when we number these decanates 131|00:18:17|960|00:18:28|200from 0 to 30. Now as I've often stated, I don't think Sepharial had in his mind the idea of the 132|00:18:28|200|00:18:34|100reversal of the wheel, so that when he gave a decanate ruler he was simply thinking of going 133|00:18:34|100|00:18:41|360in the counterclockwise direction from 0 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 30 of a sign. Anyway, 134|00:18:41|800|00:18:50|420Jupiter is superseding Mercury. These are two planets on the mutable cross, and they both can 135|00:18:50|420|00:18:56|240be Buddhic in their nature. They both can indicate intuition, but here I think Mercury is more the 136|00:18:56|240|00:19:03|280concrete mind, and Jupiter is more the vision of intuition. And even if they were both indicating 137|00:19:03|280|00:19:10|500intuition, which in the case of Sepharial I don't think they are, Jupiter would give a more holistic 138|00:19:10|500|00:19:19|460view of that which was intuited, and Mercury would relate more to the intricate relationships within 139|00:19:19|460|00:19:27|720that whole. Okay, I'm gonna, you know, kind of go back and forth here. So Jupiter gives expansion, 140|00:19:29|240|00:19:35|100superseding Mercury, for the mercurial mind is ever a limitation even if only a temporary one. 141|00:19:35|160|00:19:43|180Well, it's a great sign of progress in one respect for the person who is moving away from emotional 142|00:19:43|180|00:19:50|780polarization, but the mind is in a certain respect the slayer of the real, and the Mercurial mind can 143|00:19:50|780|00:20:01|020generate many thought forms which are an illusory layer upon true reality. Jupiter is a clearer type 144|00:20:01|020|00:20:11|580of intuitive vision of reality. So Jupiter supersedes Mercury even when the decanates are 145|00:20:11|580|00:20:17|740not being considered backwards and forwards, but just in that very first decanate. The moon, 146|00:20:17|740|00:20:25|960which is Sepharial's designation for the second decanate of Sagittarius, the Aries decanate, 147|00:20:26|120|00:20:34|020gives place to Mars, which is the exoteric ruler of that decanate, which confers the quality of 148|00:20:34|020|00:20:41|740devotion and the capacity to fight for the ideal. You know, we do notice that many Sagittarians are 149|00:20:41|740|00:20:48|940very body conscious, we might say. Now we can relate this to the esoteric rulership of Earth, 150|00:20:48|940|00:20:58|840in which the etheric body is reconditioned, but we can also, when we look at the five non-sacred 151|00:20:58|840|00:21:07|040planets, we can realize that they are all assigned to different layers of the personality. The moon 152|00:21:07|600|00:21:15|580to the dense physical vehicle. Earth, also non-sacred, to the etheric vehicle. Mars 153|00:21:15|580|00:21:24|280to the astral vehicle, particularly. And Pluto with its strong mental component to the concrete 154|00:21:24|280|00:21:31|540mind. I mean, you know, you could ask whether Pluto and Mars could be reversed, and in a way 155|00:21:31|540|00:21:41|300they could, because Pluto has a connection with the astral vehicle and with the dimension 156|00:21:41|920|00:21:48|940in mythology we know as Hades, which is really the astral plane, and probably not necessarily 157|00:21:48|940|00:21:53|980the higher levels of the astral plane, and Mars rules the five senses and the concrete mind, 158|00:21:53|980|00:22:01|040so it's possible to reverse those two. And then we come to the sun, which rules the integrated 159|00:22:01|040|00:22:08|860personality, the ahamkara of it. So we see the five non-sacred planets in connection with the 160|00:22:08|860|00:22:16|860four layers of personality. If we split the dense physical and the etheric, then we get moon, 161|00:22:17|100|00:22:26|460Earth. Of course, moon and Earth are really parts of, still parts of the, 162|00:22:29|220|00:22:36|420what should we call it, the planetary scheme of Earth. They're in the Earth scheme, even though 163|00:22:37|060|00:22:44|880the moon, whatever being the moon lord was, is no longer associated with that 164|00:22:45|580|00:22:53|300dense vehicle. We call the moon, but has in a way moved over and shares space with the lord of the 165|00:22:53|300|00:23:00|260Earth chain, and so the moon chain lord and the lord of the Earth chain are pretty much 166|00:23:01|020|00:23:09|680sharing the field in the fourth or Earth chain. So The Moon gives place to Mars, which confers the 167|00:23:09|680|00:23:13|840quality of devotion and the capacity to fight for an ideal. Now this is interesting because 168|00:23:14|540|00:23:22|700when we connect the three extra zodiacal constellations that are associated with 169|00:23:22|700|00:23:29|360Sagittarius, which would be Lyra or the falling falcon or the falling gripe, as it is called, 170|00:23:29|760|00:23:36|180a kind of bird, falcon-like bird, that's the first. And then Ara, the altar, signifying 171|00:23:36|180|00:23:44|680a great devotion, is found in the second decanate. And then, well, is it true really, the great 172|00:23:44|680|00:23:51|760dragon, Draco the dragon, which is such a superior constellation in a way, it is found in relation to 173|00:23:51|760|00:24:01|480the third decanate. So the moon, which is just gravitating towards the physical activity with 174|00:24:01|480|00:24:09|460which Sagittarius, of all the three fire signs, is the most attuned, gives place to Mars. Mars also 175|00:24:09|460|00:24:16|200rules the physical body, but it rules the quality of devotion, which the moon does not. This idealistic 176|00:24:16|200|00:24:22|960concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship 177|00:24:22|960|00:24:28|820bringing the early stages of unfoldment upon the path. Okay. 178|00:24:40|840|00:24:48|180Okay. So this quality of devotion we're speaking about in relation to Mars, and we know how 179|00:24:48|180|00:24:57|200important Mars is in relation to Sagittarius, which was in the sky, quite a warlike figure, 180|00:24:57|200|00:25:03|880quite a God of war in the old days, responding to its Martian quality. Sometimes we might 181|00:25:05|380|00:25:14|200wonder why Jupiter should not be the final ruler there, and Mars the hierarchical ruler, 182|00:25:14|400|00:25:21|520but so it goes that it is not. And we have a non-sacred planet as the hierarchical ruler, 183|00:25:21|520|00:25:27|920and a very sacred planet as the orthodox ruler. Of course, this happens in Pisces as well. 184|00:25:28|460|00:25:33|840Interesting. Because of the relationship between those two signs, they would both begin with 185|00:25:33|840|00:25:42|080Jupiter as an exoteric ruler, and end with one of the non-sacred rulers, Mars or Pluto. 186|00:25:43|240|00:25:49|880This idealistic concept and method of work is always the characteristic of discipleship during 187|00:25:49|880|00:25:57|880the early stages of unfoldment upon the Path. a great devotion. And so I think we find that many 188|00:25:58|840|00:26:06|080sixth-ray souls, not all certainly, are in that early stage of unfoldment upon the path, 189|00:26:06|680|00:26:15|000and are characterized by great devotion to their objective, even if the objective is rather narrow. 190|00:26:15|750|00:26:22|280The Sun — okay, now we copy here — The Sun, typifying the solar Angel 191|00:26:23|320|00:26:30|120remains constant both through the exoteric and the esoteric processes. Definitely the Tibetan 192|00:26:30|120|00:26:39|560meant to write this; he definitely is assuming that, or knowing, that Sepharial has given 193|00:26:40|270|00:26:49|260the Sun as the ruler of the third decanate. But the problem here is, as I say, it's not in 194|00:26:49|260|00:26:55|620order. So the Tibetan must know something that I don't know. I haven't studied the 195|00:26:55|620|00:27:00|660Chaldean assignments, so we'll just go with what he says. The Sun remains constant, 196|00:27:01|700|00:27:08|740typifying the solar Angel remains constant both through the exoteric and the esoteric processes and therefore 197|00:27:08|740|00:27:15|080astrology recognises it as a constant pressure and presence. What a way to think of the solar 198|00:27:15|080|00:27:20|460angel, and I think what a very accurate way to think of it: the constant pressure and presence. 199|00:27:20|860|00:27:29|580I suppose the pressure of solar angel will be felt before its presence is acknowledged. 200|00:27:30|200|00:27:37|180And of course, even its pressure increases as one moves through the stages of aspiration and 201|00:27:37|820|00:27:43|720probation and discipleship and accepted discipleship; the pressure increases. 202|00:27:44|640|00:27:54|100So we know when we are off the mark and deviating from the solar design, if we fall back and begin 203|00:27:54|100|00:28:04|180to respond to the lunar way of life, we feel that kind of dissonance within ourselves and have to 204|00:28:04|180|00:28:13|860get back on the path, back on the mark which Sagittarius represents. We cannot deviate, 205|00:28:14|080|00:28:18|940because when we fall off the path, we feel the dissonance and the pressure of the solar angel 206|00:28:18|940|00:28:27|540to get back on that one-pointed path. So this fact in itself indicates a significant truth. I mean, 207|00:28:27|540|00:28:34|540solar angel is active in the life of the individual from the very moment of 208|00:28:34|540|00:28:41|980individualization, though perhaps not much sensed, although H.P.B. said that early Lemurian man was very 209|00:28:41|980|00:28:48|060much aware of the presence of his inner God, and perhaps that faded in later Atlantean times and 210|00:28:48|580|00:28:55|100Aryan times as the mind grew. But there was a sense of awe in relation to this inner God, 211|00:28:55|100|00:29:06|680says H.P.B. So this fact in itself, that the Sun remains the same, indicates a significant truth. 212|00:29:07|540|00:29:17|640If it should be Saturn, well, there certainly is the karmic pressure that Saturn applies, 213|00:29:17|880|00:29:24|300and Saturn is the lord of the physical plane, and especially in a way of the dense physical plane, 214|00:29:24|300|00:29:32|120which Sagittarius of all the fire signs is most related to. The soul remains eternally present. 215|00:29:32|340|00:29:39|840This is how D.K. explains the similarity between the Sepharial's — Sepharial's — 216|00:29:40|460|00:29:46|720decanates and Alamelios. The soul remains eternally present—in the past, in the present 217|00:29:47|220|00:29:52|340and on into the future. which Sagittarius so much represents. 218|00:29:53|440|00:30:00|400Okay, okay, hopefully we are not experiencing degraded audio here. Every once in a while, 219|00:30:01|400|00:30:04|940GoToWebinar comes in with that cheerful and friendly announcement, 220|00:30:06|080|00:30:17|800and one has in a way no choice but to go on. Okay, now let's — before going to the very end 221|00:30:17|800|00:30:24|600of the Sagittarian chapter — let's take a look here. We do see that the constellation Lyra, 222|00:30:24|760|00:30:33|440or the falling gripe, or the falling falcon, has been theorized, at least, as being connected 223|00:30:34|040|00:30:42|340with the first decan of Sagittarius. There's something about the guitar, the harp, the 224|00:30:43|780|00:30:49|840sevenfold sounds, which are Jupiterian and uplifting in nature. 225|00:30:51|340|00:30:55|760Ara the altar — yes, as I stated — the second decanate, and Draco the dragon. 226|00:30:57|400|00:31:06|320And it says as well, Corona Australis, the southern crown. One wonders whether this, 227|00:31:06|520|00:31:11|900in some way, can be connected with the base of the spine center, because certainly Draco is. 228|00:31:12|340|00:31:18|260Draco, we are told, has a great seventh-ray component, but also a significant Buddhic 229|00:31:18|260|00:31:24|620component. It's the source of Buddhi to the Pleiades, either all of them or some of them, 230|00:31:25|320|00:31:35|360and it is occupying the place of cosmic Kundalini. And the northern crown would seem to be in a way 231|00:31:35|360|00:31:40|860the head center, and the southern crown perhaps the base of the spine center to be associated with 232|00:31:40|860|00:31:49|080Draco. Now I'd like to turn to this sixfold development chart, which 233|00:31:49|960|00:31:57|620I created for some of the classes that we have in Finland. And, oh, I — you know, this 234|00:31:57|620|00:32:07|500gives us the impression of going forward and backward in this fluid area of the Decanates. 235|00:32:09|440|00:32:20|380Here we have the tabulation laid out in a different way, and we have 10 degrees, 0 to 10, 236|00:32:20|700|00:32:31|04010 to 20, and 20 to 30 laid out here above, as you see. But there are different ways of moving, 237|00:32:31|040|00:32:42|100and the arrows indicate this. So if we have here the progress of the wheel of form, which is 238|00:32:42|100|00:32:50|640clockwise, and we have the progress of the wheel of consciousness. Take a look here at a diagram 239|00:32:50|640|00:33:00|900that Nicholas Milen has created, and we see in Sagittarius that the outer wheel is the 240|00:33:00|900|00:33:05|520wheel of consciousness, and the inner wheel the wheel of form. That's the way he set it up. 241|00:33:06|060|00:33:14|620So we have Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun, and then he has Mercury, the Moon, and Sun, just as D.K. 242|00:33:14|620|00:33:24|060described it for Sepharial. He has not reversed them. Sometimes the theorist Stephen Pugh, 243|00:33:24|240|00:33:33|180and this is his diagram, have reversed these. In Sagittarius he has, um, let's see, how does this 244|00:33:33|180|00:33:38|300go? The outer wheel is the ordinary wheel. He does it differently from Nicholas. So the inner wheel 245|00:33:38|300|00:33:46|560is, hmm, the inner wheel is the reversed wheel, and he does Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars. This is 246|00:33:46|560|00:33:54|840very different from what the Tibetan gives. The Tibetan most definitely gives Jupiter, 247|00:33:56|460|00:34:03|800Mars, and the Sun. Now, in the case of Stephen Pugh, with the outer wheel as being ordinary, 248|00:34:04|380|00:34:15|060he does an exact reversal of what the Tibetan gives, and he gives Mars, Sun, and Jupiter. 249|00:34:15|480|00:34:22|980So this would be the exact reversal of what the Tibetan gave, that reversal being part of the 250|00:34:22|980|00:34:31|960wheel of form. As I say, I don't think anyone has the last word on these matters. They certainly 251|00:34:31|960|00:34:40|440have good reasons by which they justify these things, but there is nothing final to be said 252|00:34:41|410|00:34:53|040at this time. The thing that I also want to emphasize is that all of these esoteric zodiacal 253|00:34:53|040|00:35:00|320constellations, as I said before, do apply to anyone born in Sagittarius, but to 254|00:35:01|040|00:35:08|560a lesser degree, perhaps, if you are born in a decanate which is not associated with that 255|00:35:08|560|00:35:15|560particular extra zodiacal constellation. And yet, this is still theoretical, we must realize, 256|00:35:16|220|00:35:23|220this assigning of the constellations to the particular decanates. There are legitimate 257|00:35:23|220|00:35:31|860differences among reasonable theorists. Now, okay, you know how I've done this before. 258|00:35:32|860|00:35:41|200I've shown the arrows, and the arrows are moving towards the personality integration, 259|00:35:41|940|00:35:51|200and then we have arrows moving in the counter. Well, actually, I've had to do it this way so 260|00:35:51|200|00:36:02|460that the arrows move from 30 to 20, 20 to 10, 10 to 0. All of the arrows, in a way, are moving 261|00:36:02|460|00:36:13|900in a counterclockwise direction, but these three up here represent clockwise motion and entering 262|00:36:13|900|00:36:22|580the sign from 30. Here is the conventional motion that most astrologers follow, and this is 263|00:36:22|580|00:36:29|500definitely for the progressing individual, says Master D.K., and we start here entering from 0 264|00:36:29|500|00:36:44|160to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. So we have taken the Sepharial signs here, the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, 265|00:36:44|740|00:36:53|660but it's also possible to reverse this and to consider, in a way, since we go Jupiter, Mars, 266|00:36:53|660|00:37:03|200Sun, we could do Sun, Mars to be considered, and Sun, Mars to be considered, and Jupiter to be 267|00:37:03|200|00:37:13|560considered over here for the 10 to 0 decanate. We saw that Stephen Pugh did it this way. He did 268|00:37:13|560|00:37:23|500Sun, Mars, and Jupiter, and Nicholas Milen worked with Sun, the Moon, and Mercury. Everyone 269|00:37:23|500|00:37:30|460agrees, however, I think, well at least the Tibetan states, that when we're dealing with a 270|00:37:30|460|00:37:41|260clockwise wheel and moving towards soul infusion, we use Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun. Okay, now notice 271|00:37:41|260|00:37:50|400that in all the fire signs, a combination of Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun are found ruling the 272|00:37:50|400|00:37:59|960decanates. In Aries, it's Jupiter, Sun, Mars. In Leo, it is Mars, Sun, Jupiter, and in Sagittarius, 273|00:38:00|160|00:38:06|760it's Jupiter, Mars, Sun. That in itself is interesting and tells us about the somewhat 274|00:38:06|760|00:38:15|860fiery nature of the planets involved. Okay, and then this in here is a simple statement 275|00:38:15|860|00:38:21|520of Alan Leo's and Sepharial's decanates. Now, the way I've divided this chart, 276|00:38:23|440|00:38:27|800of course, you know, you can simply, if you want to study these things, all you have to do is just 277|00:38:27|800|00:38:33|540freeze the screen. And then if I've glossed over something relatively rapidly, 278|00:38:34|240|00:38:42|200it will be frozen for you, so you can study it if you wish. Now, the way I've done this 279|00:38:42|780|00:38:48|400is I've talked about the different stages. And we're not so interested in the strictly 280|00:38:48|400|00:38:56|400physical or Lemurian stage, the strictly Atlantean or emotional stage, or the early phases of the 281|00:38:56|400|00:39:02|920Arian stage, which has a mental focus. We're interested more in applying this information, 282|00:39:02|920|00:39:08|440at least to the aspirant, who is integrating his personality and reorienting his personality, 283|00:39:08|920|00:39:15|720and is therefore, in a way, on the reversing wheel. He's reorienting his personality 284|00:39:16|840|00:39:25|220aspirationally. And then in the second decanate, he's the disciple who is gaining mental control. 285|00:39:25|320|00:39:32|820And in the third decanate, he is someone who is bringing the spirit in. Now, remember, 286|00:39:33|640|00:39:41|820I think it's obvious and can be proven that no matter what decanate you may be born in, 287|00:39:42|020|00:39:48|120you can be at any of the seven… of the six stages of development. You can be a Lemurian man, 288|00:39:48|180|00:39:54|220Atlantean, early Arian. You can be the aspirant. You can be the disciple. And you can be the soul- 289|00:39:54|220|00:40:01|780infused individual responding to the spirit, born in any of the decanates. So it is not to be 290|00:40:01|780|00:40:07|020decided that because you are born in a particular decanate, you are at a certain stage of evolution. 291|00:40:07|280|00:40:14|460That would be, I think, a mistake. Also, we look at, independently of the decanates, we look at three 292|00:40:15|440|00:40:22|140phases of rulership. Jupiter is the orthodox ruler, and it operates for a long time 293|00:40:22|820|00:40:29|920until the individual is truly becoming soul infused. Then the Earth takes over. 294|00:40:30|780|00:40:39|220And finally, we have Mars as the ruler of the decanate, which indicates that not only are 295|00:40:39|220|00:40:45|320you becoming soul infused, but you are becoming spirit infused in your soul nature. 296|00:40:46|820|00:40:53|660So now let's… you can study this and I can send this to you. I can go through… long, I can go 297|00:40:53|660|00:41:02|620through this slowly enough for you to freeze the screen and study it if you wish. At any point, 298|00:41:02|720|00:41:09|120you could freeze the screen and study this. So I'll go through slowly enough so that is possible. 299|00:41:10|100|00:41:17|000Here's the emotional phase. We're still under Jupiter as the exoteric ruler. 300|00:41:18|540|00:41:27|100Sometimes it is interesting what is said, I think. So, you know, for instance, in the strictly 301|00:41:27|100|00:41:33|320Lemurian stage, if we look at what Jupiter can mean, it is a wonderful esoteric planet. 302|00:41:33|580|00:41:38|360But under the influence of lower Jupiter, we have the primitive instinct-driven man 303|00:41:38|920|00:41:42|920seeking full gratification of the instinctual nature. He is the centaur, 304|00:41:43|810|00:41:49|640an animal as much as a man, and under the lower meaning of the falling gripe or vulture, 305|00:41:49|640|00:41:56|400he grasps what he wants gluttonously. We know that Jupiter is associated with excess and with 306|00:41:56|400|00:42:02|780gluttony. His sacral center is highly stimulated. We understand the Sagittarius rules of the 307|00:42:02|780|00:42:10|380sacral center in general, as well as the Ajna. He covers ground rapidly in search of satiation. 308|00:42:10|940|00:42:17|020He is the hunter conditioned by the evolutionary theme, “let food be sought.” I think that's 309|00:42:17|020|00:42:23|040interesting and you can go into the details yourself later as you wish. This is not strictly 310|00:42:23|040|00:42:30|400the Tibetan's material, so I don't spend as long on it. In the emotional or Atlantean stage of 311|00:42:30|400|00:42:36|840consciousness, you're still under the orthodox ruler Jupiter. Remember, Jupiter is not all high 312|00:42:36|840|00:42:44|360and wonderful things. It is the satisfaction of desire, whether that desire is low or whether it 313|00:42:44|360|00:42:51|660is high. So during the emotional phase of development and still ruled by lower Jupiter, 314|00:42:54|140|00:43:00|540the undeveloped man… I better put that in… the undeveloped man seeks to expand his range of 315|00:43:00|540|00:43:06|760gratifications and fulfillments of his astral body. He seeks a widened scope of pleasurable, 316|00:43:06|900|00:43:14|500sentient contacts. And we are told that the undeveloped man in Sagittarius demonstrates 317|00:43:14|500|00:43:21|480self-centeredness. He's centered very much in his desire nature and the experimental approach. This 318|00:43:21|480|00:43:28|660is in the Esoteric Astrology 333. This applies both to emotionally polarized Sagittarius and to those 319|00:43:28|660|00:43:34|340who are beginning to develop the concrete mind. But the astral body is still in control, of course, 320|00:43:34|800|00:43:40|500even while beginning to develop the concrete mind. As Sagittarius brings in much 6th Ray, the Sagittarian 321|00:43:41|030|00:43:47|420at the strictly… let's see, gotta find it… at the strictly emotional phase of development, 322|00:43:47|520|00:43:53|720is willing to go to inordinate lengths to acquire that which he envisions as desirable. 323|00:43:54|440|00:44:01|200So he sees what he wants and is motivated through desire to attain it. The solar plexus center under 324|00:44:01|200|00:44:07|280Mars, a planet important to Sagittarius, is highly activated. And rather than lay himself upon the 325|00:44:07|280|00:44:16|040altar of sacrifice, which is one of the higher meanings of Ara, the altar, he sacrifices others, 326|00:44:16|360|00:44:23|040animals, and humans, to the satisfaction of his desire nature. Primitive religious instincts may 327|00:44:23|040|00:44:29|200appear at this phase. Okay, so I'm not really getting into the… um, how this would change in 328|00:44:29|200|00:44:34|560every decanate. You can figure that out for yourself. Basically, we're dealing with the 329|00:44:34|560|00:44:43|580rudder shifts of the Sun over here from the 30 to 20. We're dealing with the Moon or Mars from 330|00:44:44|380|00:44:52|26020 to 10. And we're dealing with Mercury or Jupiter from 10 to 0. 331|00:44:55|160|00:45:02|960Yeah, okay. Remembering, of course, you know, that… yeah, that is, that is, that is correct. 332|00:45:03|840|00:45:12|760Okay. Now we go on to the lower mental or lower personal phase. 333|00:45:14|100|00:45:18|300We're still under Jupiter because the lower mental man, who is integrated, you know, 334|00:45:18|440|00:45:26|660beginning to focus his mind somewhat, and Sagittarius always gives the power of increasing 335|00:45:27|340|00:45:34|820focus, is not yet really a spiritual being. The kamma manus, we have been told, 336|00:45:35|280|00:45:41|440is characteristic of Sagittarius, and we are still at that phase where kamma is strong and 337|00:45:41|440|00:45:47|940manus is developing, and the fusion of the two is characteristic of the individual. So here, 338|00:45:48|580|00:45:54|020this is the ordinary man. As he's beginning to use his mind, he demonstrates a tendency to become 339|00:45:54|020|00:46:01|420more focused, and the fluidity and negativity of Pisces becomes concentrated upon the attainment 340|00:46:01|900|00:46:07|180of that which is desired, and he can use his mind to do that. The man demonstrates one-pointed, 341|00:46:07|380|00:46:12|900selfish instincts. Though he may be, for instance, friendly and kind, this is what D.K. says, 342|00:46:13|340|00:46:21|700it is through a desire… it is through a desire for popularity. There's the second ray coming 343|00:46:21|700|00:46:29|000in, and the love of being loved of Jupiter. There is a good expression of the individual. 344|00:46:29|300|00:46:34|160This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian subject, and shows also the tendency 345|00:46:34|160|00:46:41|760of the soul to turn all evil, eventually, into good. The lessons of life are being learned, 346|00:46:41|860|00:46:47|700and the experiment is going on. This is from Esoteric Psychology… no, Esoteric Astrology, 347|00:46:47|700|00:46:56|640page 118. Right around there, 118 and 119, you find a very useful tabulation that we have 348|00:46:56|640|00:47:03|700been through already, and it deals with the mutable cross - the individual moving clockwise on the 349|00:47:03|700|00:47:08|860mutable cross, and the individual moving counterclockwise on the mutable cross. So it is 350|00:47:08|860|00:47:16|500in this phase that D.K.'s description of the undeveloped man in Sagittarius is particularly 351|00:47:16|500|00:47:23|900fitting. He demonstrates self-centeredness and the experimental approach. The cultivation of his 352|00:47:23|900|00:47:32|460concrete mind… now we remember that Mercury can be associated with that first decanate, even though 353|00:47:32|460|00:47:40|080in a way, we would consider for such a person the Sun as the first decanate, but the 10 to 0 354|00:47:40|080|00:47:45|600area is ruled by Mercury, according to Sepharial. The cultivation of his concrete mind under Mercury 355|00:47:45|600|00:47:52|200as the ruler of the third of the clockwise decanates makes experimentation possible. He can 356|00:47:52|200|00:47:59|380learn from his experience. He continues to seek a wider range of experiences under Jupiter, 357|00:47:59|940|00:48:06|480because we remember that Jupiter can also be considered as the ruler of the 0 to 10, when we are 358|00:48:06|480|00:48:14|440moving in the clockwise direction. There are many streams of energy brought in here to explain the 359|00:48:14|440|00:48:21|980dynamics of any particular section of the sign in which the man can be born. As his experiences 360|00:48:21|980|00:48:31|160widen, his mind broadens. He can include more of his environment and develop the 361|00:48:31|160|00:48:39|200ability to compare. So the widening of his understanding and context awakens Mercury, the power 362|00:48:39|200|00:48:45|040of comparison. He can apply his one point of mentality to the fulfillment of his desires. 363|00:48:45|560|00:48:54|860Okay, so that is kind of a… that is kind of a discussion of the exoteric rulership of Jupiter 364|00:48:55|380|00:49:02|260in relation to the first three phases of personality development, which occur over such a very 365|00:49:02|820|00:49:09|820long time, really millions of years before a man can turn into an aspirant, and you might almost 366|00:49:09|820|00:49:20|300think, you know, maybe some 20 million years in many cases. Okay, now, excuse me, we have reached 367|00:49:21|340|00:49:30|220a phase where we have the aspirational nature waking up, and it's the higher personal nature, 368|00:49:30|220|00:49:39|100and we are integrating the personality. In a way, we are still under the power of Jupiter, 369|00:49:40|020|00:49:50|740because Jupiter is not yet superseded. Okay, so Sagittarius is a sign fostering eventually 370|00:49:51|260|00:49:57|840coordination and integration. It represents alignment, bringing all things into a straight 371|00:49:57|840|00:50:04|860line, and we can see how doing that would facilitate the integration process. It greatly 372|00:50:04|860|00:50:11|180promotes the integration of the personality. Jupiter also is an integrative, coordinated 373|00:50:11|180|00:50:15|500influence. It is the force which brings all things together, we have been told. 374|00:50:16|300|00:50:22|480What is said about Sagittarius and the ordinary man still applies here. So let us see what is 375|00:50:22|480|00:50:27|840said about Sagittarius and the ordinary man, even though we are integrating our personality 376|00:50:27|840|00:50:33|940and redirecting it, and in a sense we're on the counterclockwise wheel. Here the ordinary man 377|00:50:33|940|00:50:39|260begins to demonstrate the tendency to become more focused. We've discussed this, and the fluidity 378|00:50:39|260|00:50:44|020and negativity of Pisces become concentrated upon the attainment of that which is desired. 379|00:50:44|780|00:50:48|440The man demonstrates one point of selfish instincts, and though he may be, for instance, 380|00:50:48|440|00:50:53|280friendly and kind, it is through a desire for popularity. So he's still very self-centered, 381|00:50:53|500|00:50:59|000personally centered. This is a good expression of the individual Sagittarian 382|00:50:59|000|00:51:05|120subject, and shows also the tendency of the soul to turn all evil eventually into good, etc. But 383|00:51:06|040|00:51:13|780the factor of aspiration—and we can link Jupiter indeed to that uplifting sense of following a 384|00:51:13|780|00:51:19|340vision, which is aspiration—the factor of aspiration now emerges, and the integrated 385|00:51:19|340|00:51:24|100Sagittarian personality begins to reach beyond itself, which is another of those Jupiterian 386|00:51:24|100|00:51:30|140phases. It's not really right here for us yet to apply the esoteric ruler of Earth, because the man 387|00:51:30|140|00:51:36|040is not truly a disciple, but to a degree he's reaching out to more and more of the aspects of 388|00:51:36|040|00:51:42|480Earth, so his consciousness is being broadened. Not only is there solar plexus development, 389|00:51:43|360|00:51:53|180but Ajna center activation, which increases the one-pointedness of the personality, because the 390|00:51:53|180|00:52:00|760power to focus is very much connected with the Ajna center. Ajna center has many rays associated 391|00:52:00|760|00:52:07|260with it, but at a certain point also the sixth ray of vision. The urge to see that which lies 392|00:52:07|260|00:52:15|340beyond the present and limiting ring-pass-not grows. So he's interested in expanding his scope 393|00:52:15|340|00:52:21|860of experience and awareness, and this of course expands his consciousness. The influence of the 394|00:52:21|860|00:52:29|040Earth enters slightly, beckoning exploration, at least of our planet, and all of its many life 395|00:52:29|040|00:52:34|580forms, and the widening of horizons. We see—you know, I like to call it the National Geographic 396|00:52:34|580|00:52:41|080consciousness, where we want to travel all over the Earth and find out what's going on in all the 397|00:52:41|080|00:52:47|360different areas, and among the different groups of people, the nations, tribes, and so forth. It's an 398|00:52:47|360|00:52:55|900expansive consciousness which begins to take place under Jupiter, which is also the decanate 399|00:52:55|900|00:53:00|900ruler of the first decanate, as we will discuss. The Sagittarian at this stage is becoming the 400|00:53:00|900|00:53:10|640advanced man, and the following applies: one-pointedness and directed approach that 401|00:53:10|640|00:53:19|500we find on page 333 of Esoteric Astrology, where he discusses these different ways in which the 402|00:53:19|500|00:53:25|040people in the different signs respond according to their level of consciousness. Now 403|00:53:25|040|00:53:35|880let's look at at least some of this. We have Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun 404|00:53:36|600|00:53:44|800going—Jupiter from 0 to 10 on the counterclockwise wheel—and if you are an aspiring 405|00:53:44|800|00:53:50|460individual, you are integrating your personality in a higher sense, you are orienting yourself 406|00:53:50|460|00:53:56|540towards something wider and better. How might this Jupiterian rulership work? 407|00:53:58|520|00:54:05|760Excuse me. Jupiter rules this decan and brings the broadening of the personality life, 408|00:54:06|240|00:54:12|080and the elevation of aspiration is no longer strictly low desire, although the individual 409|00:54:12|080|00:54:17|160has not yet entirely solved the problem of low desire because he's not a disciple or initiate. 410|00:54:17|160|00:54:23|840He's simply an aspirant and an advanced man, yet there is an elevation of aspiration. A generally 411|00:54:23|840|00:54:34|140positive and uplifting attitude towards life might be expected, perhaps initially with a selfish or 412|00:54:34|140|00:54:39|520personal motive, as we still are in a relatively personal phase and we know that aspirants can 413|00:54:39|520|00:54:47|400certainly be selfish. Even disciples can. A free-ranging and explorative attitude demonstrates. 414|00:54:47|840|00:54:54|400So under Jupiter, incorporating more and more of one's environment, not only the external 415|00:54:54|400|00:55:00|080environment but the internal environment, and then generally expanding the horizon and the 416|00:55:00|080|00:55:07|800scope of participation and the scope of vision—expanding the consciousness is involved here 417|00:55:08|670|00:55:17|080for the higher personal phase, which is leading into that of the aspirant. Now when we get into 418|00:55:17|080|00:55:26|120the Mars phase for 10 to 20, we have increased personal commitment. Remember we have aura of 419|00:55:26|120|00:55:33|420the altar here and aspiration. Mars is fiery aspiration. Jupiter is the vision towards which 420|00:55:33|420|00:55:41|520aspiration aspires, the uplifting power of it. The man has some great objective towards which 421|00:55:41|520|00:55:47|880He focuses all his energies and he's willing to fight his way there. There's a lot of battle in 422|00:55:47|880|00:55:53|760that second decanate of Sagittarius. In this case, it's battle for what is right, for what is good, 423|00:55:54|220|00:56:01|720for what is seen as best. He is increasingly willing to sacrifice. Mars is a planet of heroic 424|00:56:01|720|00:56:06|740sacrifice and aura of the altar is involved here. He is increasingly willing to sacrifice 425|00:56:07|400|00:56:15|700to fulfill his objective. He fights for his ideal. I think we can… I think that's pretty 426|00:56:16|340|00:56:22|340straightforward. Of course, the thing we would have to do, you know, to substantiate this is to go 427|00:56:22|340|00:56:27|900into the lives of famous people when their son is in a particular decanate, for instance this 428|00:56:27|900|00:56:35|700decanate, and see how the sub-quality of Mars might apply. Now, you know, when you take a decanate 429|00:56:35|700|00:56:41|380you also have its first five degrees and second five degrees. It's day phase, so to speak, the 430|00:56:41|380|00:56:48|740positive day phase, and it's night phase. It's more outward turning effort and it's more inward 431|00:56:48|740|00:56:55|980turning orientation. And then, of course, we can divide things down into the Dvada Shamshas, the 432|00:56:55|980|00:57:02|600two and a half degree sections, each of them ruled by different planets and get a further refinement. 433|00:57:03|100|00:57:10|080I guess, you know, we can split many hairs in astrology. It's possible to become extremely 434|00:57:10|080|00:57:18|320detailed in our analysis, but what is more important, I would say, is to make sure 435|00:57:19|920|00:57:30|640that we have the essentials of our spiritual unfoldment within our minds, so we do not 436|00:57:30|640|00:57:38|140become lost in the details. My old teacher used to say, and I really understand him better now 437|00:57:38|140|00:57:43|700because I was so interested in astrology at the time, he said, “Well, it's best not to become too 438|00:57:43|700|00:57:52|040involved in the sideshow if you miss the main event.” So, no matter how much we become involved 439|00:57:52|040|00:58:01|080in the technicalities of astrology, we must keep the main event in mind. And that main event is 440|00:58:05|140|00:58:13|140liberation, identification, soul infusion, monadic destiny—all of those things. We have to follow 441|00:58:13|700|00:58:20|960the path which we as a soul have determined before birth. That is the most important thing. 442|00:58:21|740|00:58:30|280Okay, now the next decanate, which is the 20 to 30 decanate of the higher type of individual, 443|00:58:31|340|00:58:38|180is ruled by the sun, and the man exerts a positive influence under the sun. 444|00:58:38|180|00:58:45|720He is enthusiastic and inspiring to others. He warms them—the sunny disposition. 445|00:58:46|480|00:58:56|860He vitalizes them. He embodies a Leo sun, his vision, and Sagittarius, and can direct others, 446|00:58:57|140|00:59:05|240can illumine their path, and can reinforce their identity and why they should be treading that 447|00:59:05|240|00:59:12|220particular path. They look to him, they look to you, and you… I guess I'm using the second 448|00:59:12|220|00:59:18|260person here, and you direct, even if only as a personality. Well, let's just say that the sun 449|00:59:18|260|00:59:26|540power of the soul is coming in stronger here. Okay, so we have dealt with the fourth phase 450|00:59:26|540|00:59:33|140of development, which is aspirational. It's related to the higher personal and to integration 451|00:59:33|140|00:59:39|480and to the reorientation of the individual as a true aspirant. And I would say, you know, 452|00:59:39|600|00:59:45|380Sagittarius is one of the major signs of aspiration. And so when you have an aspirant 453|00:59:45|380|00:59:53|640on Sagittarius… in Sagittarius, they really do aspire. Okay, I have many other 454|00:59:54|200|01:00:01|200things being said here, but I'll just go through them slowly here so you can 455|01:00:01|200|01:00:09|220freeze the screen if you wish to. Let's see here. Yeah, there we go. 456|01:00:10|280|01:00:17|060And if you don't wish to, you certainly don't have to. Okay, now we move on into a phase 457|01:00:17|080|01:00:24|480which is very important to us. We have now done one hour of work. So this is, in a way, 458|01:00:24|480|01:00:32|140the beginning of the second part of Esoteric Astrology Adventure, number 75. And we're going 459|01:00:32|140|01:00:41|920on the second hour of it. Now we are talking about the disciple. And he's coming more and 460|01:00:41|920|01:00:48|380more under the influence of the soul. And his mind is being more and more focused as an agent 461|01:00:48|380|01:00:56|520of the plan. As we discussed earlier, Sagittarius can grasp the vision of the plan, which is the 462|01:00:57|180|01:01:07|160directing thought of the planetary Logos. So now he's definitely coming under the influence 463|01:01:07|160|01:01:17|180of the esoteric ruler. I do not think that the exoteric ruler, Jupiter, ever quite abates. It's 464|01:01:17|180|01:01:25|380such an important planet. And I would think that throughout Sagittarius, it is operative, 465|01:01:25|780|01:01:30|960always uplifting. It is, in a way, one of the most important planets in our solar system, 466|01:01:31|580|01:01:42|340most akin, most like the sun in its ray structure, perhaps, a powerful second ray soul of both the 467|01:01:42|340|01:01:57|040sun and Jupiter. So, as D.K. has told us, we do not have the complete waning of any exoteric ruler. 468|01:01:58|080|01:02:08|240But the esoteric ruler makes of the exoteric ruler a kind of subset, and the energies are 469|01:02:09|040|01:02:15|600combined. So we should never say that simply because you are a disciple, you have lost the 470|01:02:15|600|01:02:21|840Jupiterian influence in Sagittarius. It still applies, and I would say tends to apply to the 471|01:02:21|840|01:02:28|840higher levels of your understanding. Okay, now, so let's see what we have here under the Earth. 472|01:02:30|060|01:02:37|280The disciple of Sagittarius is now treading the path, definitely treading the path. The true 473|01:02:37|280|01:02:42|900disciple is an initiate of the first degree and has definitely found the path. And that path 474|01:02:42|900|01:02:52|140pretty much is a path that is trodden here on Earth through certain types of behaviors. 475|01:02:53|060|01:02:59|400With the feet of Pisces and the sort of locomotive thigh power of Sagittarius, 476|01:03:00|160|01:03:07|060and the balance of Libra not too far to the left or to the right, he is treading the path. 477|01:03:07|280|01:03:13|840Matter of fact, when you think about it, if you look at Libra as the balance between two opposites, 478|01:03:14|340|01:03:22|920we can see Sagittarius as the vector or straight line, which rising draws the two opposites 479|01:03:22|920|01:03:31|840together, and in that way, forming a kind of an arrow. So thus we can relate those two particular 480|01:03:31|840|01:03:36|740signs, Libra and Sagittarius, though unlike Sagittarius and Libra, there are definite 481|01:03:37|900|01:03:46|720falls and exaltations. The exaltation of Saturn and the, what is it, the fall of 482|01:03:47|760|01:03:55|020Mars? No, that's the detriment. Okay, well, it's just skipping my mind for the moment. I'll come 483|01:03:55|400|01:04:02|940back to it. What is it that falls in Libra? Certainly Mars is found in detriment, the Sun. 484|01:04:03|680|01:04:10|440Yeah, okay. The Sun exalted in Aries and falling in Libra, where right human relations 485|01:04:11|260|01:04:19|220minimize the lower ego or ahamkara, which is one of the lower interpretations of the meaning of the 486|01:04:19|220|01:04:26|880Sun. So the disciple in Sagittarius is now treading the path. He is oriented towards 487|01:04:26|880|01:04:37|100elevating his energy system, his Earth, as it were. His etheric nature is undergoing great changes. 488|01:04:37|860|01:04:46|160That etheric nature is ruled by the Earth. The Moon is ruling the outer form. Okay. And he's 489|01:04:46|160|01:04:52|860into a more ideal—there's that word again, sixth-ray Sagittarian word—bringing his Earth 490|01:04:52|860|01:05:00|740nature into a more ideal condition. Of course, this we saw even in the early tendency towards 491|01:05:00|740|01:05:07|840exercise and yoga and all kinds of physical disciplines and strengthenings in Sagittarius. 492|01:05:07|960|01:05:15|280But now we have a definite cultivation of the vitality and of the etheric body and of the 493|01:05:15|280|01:05:22|340personality in general, represented by Earth as the collection of energies from a previous 494|01:05:22|340|01:05:29|820solar system, which have to be reoriented more towards the soul. So he's bringing his, 495|01:05:30|020|01:05:37|460so to speak, Earth into a more ideal condition. He's following the vision, which in general 496|01:05:37|460|01:05:44|620is presented by Jupiter, but it's also the vision of our planet as a sacred planet and of 497|01:05:44|620|01:05:52|980him as an individual, as a sacred individual. He's elevating his Earth into sacredness 498|01:05:52|980|01:06:00|540and contributing to the elevation of the planet Earth towards sacredness. Many people in Sagittarius 499|01:06:00|980|01:06:08|300have a great love of the Earth and all of its variety in nature and in peoples. And they are 500|01:06:08|300|01:06:15|920determined to have Earth come into its proper condition, which is a soul-guided condition. 501|01:06:16|920|01:06:25|800He is engaged in rendering the elemental nature sacred. Now we saw that the Moon was the ruler 502|01:06:25|800|01:06:32|100of the second decanate of Sagittarius, according to Sepharial, and that is the elemental nature, 503|01:06:32|100|01:06:39|620which has to be elevated through the aspiration of Mars, also in the second decanate. Mars is a very 504|01:06:39|620|01:06:47|880uplifting planet and aspiration is a scientific method of elevation. So he wants to render his 505|01:06:47|880|01:06:56|580elemental nature sacred. And, you know, so for certain Sagittarian types, slothfulness and 506|01:06:56|580|01:07:03|980a poor condition of the physical body are not acceptable because they are not near the archetype 507|01:07:03|980|01:07:10|680which he envisions. He is engaged in rendering the elemental nature sacred and the Earth a sacred 508|01:07:10|680|01:07:19|320planet. The personality as a form aspires to the heavens. And we have learned, you know, in the 509|01:07:19|320|01:07:24|800early Sagittarian type, they're very heaven-bound, as it were, you know, determined to achieve 510|01:07:25|660|01:07:33|280heaven, that faraway place which is beautiful and ideal. So when you get a fundamentalist type with 511|01:07:33|280|01:07:41|300Sagittarius, they really have this upward-looking, heaven-bound type of aspiration. Now let's see, 512|01:07:41|540|01:07:49|640a bit more here, I think. He is learning to lay his prey, which is his lower nature, and you see 513|01:07:49|640|01:07:55|260the swooping falcon or the falling gripe is swooping towards its prey and from a heavenly 514|01:07:55|260|01:08:03|880perspective grasps that prey and can lay it upon the altar in the second decanate. He is also 515|01:08:03|880|01:08:11|160learning to lay his prey, his lower nature, for he is the spiritual hunter now. He's not just 516|01:08:11|160|01:08:18|060hunting for food; he's hunting for that which has to be redeemed and uplifted upon the altar. 517|01:08:18|540|01:08:24|740He's the spiritual hunter. He lays his lower nature upon the altar, the pyre of self-immolation. 518|01:08:25|500|01:08:36|020Self-immolation is a method of the sixth ray for producing the liberation of the soul. So he is 519|01:08:36|020|01:08:43|520moving towards the burning ground, and he is putting all that is unworthy upon the 520|01:08:43|520|01:08:49|640burning ground. The unworthy is in his grip as the falcon. The falling gripe or falcon, 521|01:08:49|760|01:08:57|340which is the symbol of the spirit as hunter, can then swoop down and bear the personality 522|01:08:58|320|01:09:08|140to heaven. Bear the personality to heaven so that one day the disciple can become a lesser dragon of 523|01:09:08|140|01:09:14|780wisdom under the influence of Draco. Of course, on the way to heaven you have to purify. It's 524|01:09:14|780|01:09:19|160interesting that Draco is very much in the heavens. As you look up in the night sky, 525|01:09:19|680|01:09:26|560even though Draco represents Kundalini, you're not going to find Draco in the lower part of 526|01:09:26|560|01:09:38|120the heavens, at least in the northern hemisphere. You're going to find it in the upper part of the 527|01:09:38|120|01:09:46|580little bear and around the pole star. So in a way it represents the highest heavens towards which 528|01:09:46|580|01:09:53|480Sagittarius aspires, if the purification upon the altar can be successful. In other words, we don't 529|01:09:53|480|01:09:59|200go straight from the heavens, rather straight from grasping the prey straight to the heavens. No, 530|01:09:59|580|01:10:06|720we have to lay the earth of man upon the burning ground, upon the altar, and then carry it to the 531|01:10:06|720|01:10:13|520heavens. What is said here further about Sagittarius in a more elevated manner, 532|01:10:14|700|01:10:21|300Sagittarius upon the reverse wheel: this is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. 533|01:10:21|820|01:10:30|560It's really worth reading those paragraphs from page 118 through about page 121, right in there, 534|01:10:31|280|01:10:37|880of this book. This is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. The life of a fluid 535|01:10:37|880|01:10:45|320response to matter, which is Piscean, becomes that of a focused response to spirit and preparation 536|01:10:45|320|01:10:52|320for initiation in Capricorn. Sagittarius may learn everything about what must be done in Capricorn, 537|01:10:52|320|01:11:02|340but in Capricorn under karmic Saturn and dharmic Saturn lies the doing of those things. 538|01:11:03|220|01:11:08|680The arrow of the mind is projected unerringly towards the goal, and there's where the fifth 539|01:11:08|680|01:11:15|400ray comes in because there's great accuracy. D.K. has told us about the fifth ray being involved in 540|01:11:15|400|01:11:20|380that aspect of the war, which he calls artillery, and I suppose archery is involved as well. 541|01:11:20|380|01:11:28|700And we can well understand that in all instances of letting loose a projectile, 542|01:11:29|560|01:11:38|700Sagittarius is involved, whether it's archery, whether it's the firing of large guns, 543|01:11:38|860|01:11:45|820the artillery, or whether it's rocketry. We can see Sagittarius involved in all cases, 544|01:11:45|820|01:11:51|660and the need for the utmost fifth ray precision, the fifth ray coming through Sagittarius, 545|01:11:52|200|01:11:58|580can be well understood. All right, so you know we're entering the disciplic phase here, aren't we? 546|01:11:58|780|01:12:04|040And Sagittarius, we are told, is the sign of the one-pointed disciple. So Earth is connected 547|01:12:04|040|01:12:08|820with the etheric body, and the Moon with the dense physical body, and here we're definitely 548|01:12:09|800|01:12:15|280reorienting the ethers, but at the same time we are vitalizing the outer physical body and 549|01:12:15|280|01:12:23|830purifying and sanctifying what we can call our Earth. So now let's move up and take a look at 550|01:12:24|300|01:12:32|740some of the possible meanings of the three decanates upon the counterclockwise wheel. 551|01:12:33|880|01:12:38|480We review that Jupiter rules the first 10 degrees, Mars the second 10 degrees, 552|01:12:39|440|01:12:50|780and the Sun, or the solar angel, or even the monad, the last 10 degrees. The Sun has 553|01:12:51|160|01:12:58|300such a ubiquitous meaning. It has a great variety of meanings, and we can find it all the way from 554|01:12:58|300|01:13:06|360representing every chakra and every jewel within every chakra to the personality, to that which is 555|01:13:07|180|01:13:13|120found as the soul, the sunflower of our life. You go to notice them all the way on up to the 556|01:13:13|120|01:13:19|880great, greatest source of radiance within us, the monad. The Sun has many, many meanings, 557|01:13:19|880|01:13:26|260and we have to interpret it properly if we can. So now here we're in the Jupiterian decanate, 558|01:13:26|860|01:13:35|200zero to ten, for the person who is the true disciple and is becoming soul-infused, 559|01:13:35|200|01:13:42|080is on the path, and has taken, I do believe, the first initiation. Otherwise, he would not be the 560|01:13:42|080|01:13:48|500true disciple. He may not yet be the accepted disciple, but he's on his way. The disciple's 561|01:13:48|900|01:13:58|060consciousness is rapidly expanding, especially with regard to inner things. The outer quest, 562|01:13:58|100|01:14:03|140which is typical of Sagittarius, may continue, but there's always an inner meaning applied to 563|01:14:03|140|01:14:08|900what is seen in the outer sense. He speaks the truth. Now, that is a great Sagittarian theme, 564|01:14:09|080|01:14:16|160the truth, just as lying in the earlier days can be a Sagittarian liability. The hunter's tale, 565|01:14:16|400|01:14:22|500the fish tale, you know, how big was that elk that you shot? How big was that fish that you caught? 566|01:14:23|140|01:14:28|340Exaggeration is a problem for Sagittarius, but not later, when the fifth ray comes in. He speaks the 567|01:14:28|340|01:14:35|540truth, that is, his words are in harmony with the truth. Now, take a look here at Lyra, the first 568|01:14:35|540|01:14:41|940decanate. The whole idea of the seven strings in the guitar or the bow or the harp are there, 569|01:14:41|960|01:14:51|520and your words must ring true with these true fundamental sounds that come from the divine 570|01:14:51|520|01:14:56|340harp. Now we're looking at the first decanate associated not so much with the falling gripe, 571|01:14:56|340|01:15:03|440but with the falling gripe in his other guise as the lyre, as the seven-stringed harp, displaying 572|01:15:03|440|01:15:11|080the seven rays, the seven major vibrations and colors, and our words must ring through with the 573|01:15:11|080|01:15:18|020heavenly harmonies. Remember, also, the Sagittarius brings in the fourth ray constellationally, the 574|01:15:18|020|01:15:25|680ray of harmony. He is animated by a vision, always a Jupiterian word. He's animated by a vision and 575|01:15:25|680|01:15:31|420pursues the vision one-pointedly. He has learned to gather his forces by the time he is a mentally 576|01:15:31|420|01:15:39|760focused disciple, guided perhaps by the intuition. He has the power to uplift the vision of those who 577|01:15:39|760|01:15:45|860listen to his words. This is something that Jupiter confers. He has the gift of speech, 578|01:15:46|860|01:15:53|620and this is Lyra conferring the gift of speech and oftentimes magical speech or what we call 579|01:15:53|620|01:16:01|800incantation. So this is a very positive decanate. Everything about the disciple's life is expanding. 580|01:16:02|580|01:16:08|240The abstract mind is coming into view. The Antahkarana is in process of being built, 581|01:16:08|420|01:16:16|140and an entirely wider world of experience and vision is being offered. The horizons 582|01:16:16|140|01:16:25|580are expanding under Jupiter, and the travel, so typical of Sagittarius, the enlarging 583|01:16:26|140|01:16:32|900of the sphere of experience may be occurring in the inner worlds as well as the outer, 584|01:16:33|000|01:16:37|760but certainly in the inner worlds now. All right, now we have Mars. It's a non-sacred planet, 585|01:16:37|780|01:16:45|400but it does belong to discipleship, Mars and Ara the altar. The disciple is burning with zeal, 586|01:16:45|860|01:16:51|640and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The zeal comes from Mars and the spirit of self-sacrifice 587|01:16:52|200|01:16:59|100from Ara the altar. And we do realize that Sagittarius has more of the sixth ray 588|01:16:59|800|01:17:06|460at this time in this world cycle than any other constellation. So in a way, there's something 589|01:17:06|460|01:17:13|240about this central decanate, which is very much attuned to the major ray which Sagittarius is 590|01:17:13|240|01:17:18|080presently displaying. Now, we'd have to do a little research here to see whether the most 591|01:17:18|080|01:17:24|220zealous of Sagittarians are found in the second decanate, and this would also relate, of course, 592|01:17:24|420|01:17:29|680to what may be the rays of their ray chart, regardless of what decanate they're born in. 593|01:17:29|680|01:17:38|720But all of this is for future research. He brings his life to the altar, but his sacrifice is not 594|01:17:38|720|01:17:45|800yet complete. He moves rapidly towards his goal, and Mars gives that rapidity, so does the sixth 595|01:17:45|800|01:17:51|880ray. The decanate tells us of the sixth ray. It's associated with running, run not so straight. 596|01:17:52|340|01:17:58|760He moves rapidly towards his goal and crosses many burning grounds through his devotion, 597|01:17:59|020|01:18:07|940through his zeal. He's willing to walk through fire to reach his goal. So, you know, we do have 598|01:18:07|940|01:18:15|220firewalkers among us, and I would wonder how prominent is Mars or Sagittarius in their fire 599|01:18:15|220|01:18:21|320walking. The idea of fire walking is keep your eye on the objective, and do not let your 600|01:18:21|320|01:18:29|860consciousness dwell upon the hot coals that you are traversing. So a rapid progress across the 601|01:18:29|860|01:18:36|740hot coals in the second decanate can be expected. The disciple will make rapid progress because 602|01:18:36|740|01:18:44|800he is mentally focused and will driven, and he sees a vision which is inspired by the intuition 603|01:18:45|400|01:18:52|060which is increasingly accessible as he rises through the different stages of human development. 604|01:18:52|880|01:18:59|740Now, we are dealing with the disciple and the soul-infusing personality. We're not yet the 605|01:18:59|740|01:19:05|220initiate. We're not yet the initiate of the third degree here, but the Sun is the ruler of the third 606|01:19:05|220|01:19:12|480decanate, the Sun in this case associated with Draco the Dragon. The disciple is illumined, 607|01:19:12|580|01:19:18|380Well, relatively illumined at least, illumined by the intuition. He sees a vision and moves towards 608|01:19:18|380|01:19:26|320it with positivity. He directs others with authority. He's called the guardian of the 609|01:19:26|320|01:19:35|800gate, and he is the director. This we learn in Esoteric Astrology, page 333. He directs others 610|01:19:35|800|01:19:44|000with authority because he has the authority of the soul coming increasingly into expression within 611|01:19:44|000|01:19:51|640his nature. So you have the positivity of the solar angel expressing through your consciousness, 612|01:19:52|240|01:19:58|920and in that way you feel very well guided indeed because you recognize yourself as the 613|01:19:58|920|01:20:04|940soul-infused personality, and you recognize that the solar angel is a definite real presence. You 614|01:20:04|940|01:20:13|880are increasingly the light of the path or light on the path for others. So you are a point of 615|01:20:13|880|01:20:25|360luminosity. You are a beacon. You are a watchtower, a lighthouse as it were, and you can with 616|01:20:25|360|01:20:34|780authority direct others upon the path because in a way you, through the sun, embody the results 617|01:20:34|780|01:20:43|380of treading the path with earnestness, dedication, and without deflection. Okay, so now 618|01:20:44|480|01:20:51|660and you know you can study these things here by just freezing whatever passes. 619|01:20:52|820|01:21:02|260I've tried to look at it from all the different angles, naturally not succeeding, but there are 620|01:21:02|260|01:21:09|220so many energies to be combined, and not only are the number of energies many and their interactions 621|01:21:09|220|01:21:16|440complex, but so much depends on the form of the individual, its condition, how he responds to 622|01:21:16|660|01:21:24|360those energies. Finally we reach the last of the six phases which is usually associated with the 623|01:21:24|360|01:21:31|560last decanate, but remember that you can be an individual of any degree of spiritual advancement 624|01:21:31|560|01:21:37|940and be born in any of the decanates. I think we always have to be careful about making reality 625|01:21:38|550|01:21:49|660fit a mentally conceived theory. I mean we may be able to divide the clockwise and counterclockwise 626|01:21:49|660|01:21:58|260decanates into six parts and we may say, “Okay, Lemurian, Atlantean, Early Aryan, 627|01:21:58|820|01:22:06|860Aspirant, Disciple, Initiate.” We can say that. But then we have to observe reality. 628|01:22:07|440|01:22:19|080We have to realize that reality is not quite so willing to conform to our particular mental 629|01:22:19|080|01:22:25|400formulations. Yes, each one of those decanates may suggest something of the physical, emotional, 630|01:22:25|400|01:22:33|900mental, aspirational, soul culture, spirit culture modes. Yes, each one may suggest something of 631|01:22:33|900|01:22:42|560that. But a rigid placing of any individual into a particular category of evolution because he is 632|01:22:42|560|01:22:55|380born in one of those decanates or with the rising one of those decanates, that I think is not 633|01:22:55|380|01:23:09|620the case. We now come to that sixth level which is triatal or monadic. It is the stage of the 634|01:23:09|620|01:23:17|740initiate and it is at least conceptually correlated with the third or sun decanate 635|01:23:17|740|01:23:25|280of Sagittarius where presumably the soul as the sun shines with complete radiance and even the 636|01:23:25|280|01:23:35|140monad as the sun begins to make its presence felt. So it's under Mars as the hierarchical ruler. Now 637|01:23:35|140|01:23:41|320this does not mean, again, that we have abandoned the influence of Jupiter, that we have abandoned 638|01:23:41|320|01:23:51|000the influence of the Earth, our own planet, but that these two become less focal and Mars in a way 639|01:23:51|000|01:24:00|320more focal. Mars, a non-sacred planet, Mars, a fiery planet, Mars having to do with the entire 640|01:24:01|240|01:24:08|940reorientation of the astral nature so that the lunar lords begin to ascend and become, 641|01:24:08|960|01:24:17|200instead of elementals, devas in their own right and the intuition takes over, the Buddhic nature 642|01:24:17|200|01:24:26|840takes over entirely from the aspiring emotional nature. We fire the arrow of aspiration and it 643|01:24:26|840|01:24:35|600returns as the truth of straight knowledge, the intuition. So what is said here: the initiated 644|01:24:35|600|01:24:41|480disciple has passed the third degree. This is always the case when dealing with true initiation, 645|01:24:41|860|01:24:46|580not just initiations of the threshold. The initiated disciple has passed the third degree. 646|01:24:46|580|01:24:55|560As he advances, he will become the director of men. We began to see that in the other stage, 647|01:24:55|820|01:25:01|300the preceding stage, the stage of discipleship where there was mental focus and the will is 648|01:25:01|300|01:25:07|600increasingly focused. He becomes the director of men and the controller of the gate, the gate 649|01:25:07|600|01:25:16|600presumably to initiation. He allows, as the master does, certain members to pass into the 650|01:25:16|600|01:25:23|820greater light and others are held back, which seem like the prerogatives of the master, the 651|01:25:23|820|01:25:32|500director of men and the controller of the gate. Progress along the path: how wide should the 652|01:25:32|500|01:25:38|640channel to the higher energies be? I'm remembering a discussion that D.K. talked about between himself 653|01:25:38|640|01:25:46|880and Master K.H. in relation to Roberto Assagioli, was the channel to be widened any more than it 654|01:25:46|880|01:25:51|800already was. And they decided at the time that he was already sufficiently sensitive, sufficiently 655|01:25:51|800|01:25:56|500receptive. There was no need for the widening of the channel. But one can understand under 656|01:25:56|500|01:26:03|240Sagittarius that the pathway into the heavens could be widened and more energy could pour down 657|01:26:03|240|01:26:10|620that antahkaranic, sutratmic path. So there are many subtle things connected here when we're 658|01:26:10|620|01:26:26|480talking about the controller of the gate, the gate to greater descending energy. Mars is the 659|01:26:27|100|01:26:33|600In other words, the Moon in a way, and both Mars as well, stand for the personality as a whole and 660|01:26:33|600|01:26:44|260it is now completely reoriented. It is no longer given to its ancient prerogatives. There is 661|01:26:44|260|01:26:51|700complete discipline of the lunar nature, which is entirely reoriented towards the Sun, we might say. 662|01:26:52|740|01:26:59|780So the ancient authority of the personality is rapidly ending. As a matter of fact, D.K. says it 663|01:26:59|780|01:27:06|680ends at the third initiation. The hierarchical ruler controls the entirely reoriented lunar 664|01:27:06|680|01:27:13|860nature, which is now the one-pointed instrument of the soul-centered initiative. No longer that 665|01:27:13|860|01:27:21|720self-centeredness, centered in the lower self. No longer this kind of fourth-ray preoccupation 666|01:27:21|720|01:27:27|440with the lower nature. No, there is a higher reorientation and a preoccupation with the soul 667|01:27:27|440|01:27:37|000on its own plane. Fire by friction is entirely under the direction of solar fire and electric 668|01:27:37|000|01:27:44|040fire. See what's happening here. Electric fire is summoning the rising of the Kundalini 669|01:27:44|650|01:27:52|860needed for the long spiritual journey he envisions. Now, aspiration is a scientific method 670|01:27:52|860|01:27:58|180of elevation. We are always speaking of the Kundalini being elevated. Sagittarius has something 671|01:27:58|180|01:28:05|400to do with this. Mars rules Kundalini latent and Mercury, which is also associated with Sagittarius, 672|01:28:05|400|01:28:15|380speeds that fire upon the upward way, creating in the energy system a complete aspirational burning 673|01:28:15|380|01:28:23|920ground. This is what Mars can do, setting all energies and centers into a higher state of 674|01:28:23|920|01:28:32|360stimulation, raising the fire towards its objective, which is the crown center, ultimately. 675|01:28:32|360|01:28:39|320The center of will at the base of the spine, rising in a directed, fiery manner towards the 676|01:28:39|320|01:28:51|140center of purpose, which is the crown center. So the man is on fire. Under Mars, the initiate 677|01:28:51|140|01:28:58|280has the courage, that's a Martian virtue, to penetrate into the higher realms towards 678|01:28:59|480|01:29:07|560Mount Olympus, not Mt. Olympus here. What have we got here? Towards Mount Olympus, which is, 679|01:29:07|580|01:29:14|860of course, the head and the head center where Jupiter reigns, the God Jupiter. So again, 680|01:29:14|960|01:29:21|360we're coming back to Jupiter, Mars leading into Jupiter, even though Jupiter is the exoteric ruler 681|01:29:21|360|01:29:27|100of Sagittarius. And the last analysis, I think, is probably the most important planet connected 682|01:29:27|100|01:29:33|680with Sagittarius. He is on his way to becoming a lesser dragon of wisdom under the influence of 683|01:29:33|680|01:29:39|860the constellation Draco. Draco is the great dragon of wisdom, the great cosmic dragon of wisdom. 684|01:29:40|400|01:29:47|780Our planetary Logos is a dragon of wisdom, and a master is a lesser dragon of wisdom. He's on his 685|01:29:47|780|01:29:54|600way to becoming a lesser dragon of wisdom who can cooperate in bringing the Earth towards a state of 686|01:29:54|600|01:30:01|480sacredness. I think we can understand how Draco is involved in sacredizing the Earth. 687|01:30:03|280|01:30:12|520Okay, so let's see. This is generally under the esoteric rulership of, rather, the hierarchical 688|01:30:12|520|01:30:20|500rulership of Mars. So now we begin again with the first decanate, zero to ten. It's all under Mars, 689|01:30:20|500|01:30:26|560in a sense, but not leaving out the other esoteric and exoteric rulers, which are the Earth and 690|01:30:26|560|01:30:34|960Jupiter. And now we're under Jupiter as a decanate ruler. The, um, yeah, is that correct? I believe. 691|01:30:36|080|01:30:43|880Yeah, it goes Jupiter, Sun, Mars. Okay. The initiate sees comprehensively with the eye 692|01:30:43|880|01:30:49|620of the soul. Now whenever we're dealing with vision, Jupiter is involved. His vision becomes 693|01:30:49|620|01:30:56|640panoramic. That is the gift of true initiation upon the mountaintop, not just limited vision in 694|01:30:56|640|01:31:03|520one direction, but in a way the eyes are also in the back of the head. One sees 360 degrees all 695|01:31:03|520|01:31:10|940around, and Jupiter represents this panorama. He knows the truth, the truth that comes from 696|01:31:11|620|01:31:18|760being the soul on its own plane and from touching the intuition directly, and he speaks a heavenly 697|01:31:18|760|01:31:25|580truth. He's able to bring the words and ideas down. Actually, he brings ideas down from the 698|01:31:25|580|01:31:33|000realm of ideas and clothes them, instead of in a raucous manner, as the Stymphalian bird suggests, 699|01:31:33|640|01:31:40|720with that which is aptly suited to express the nature of this heavenly truth. 700|01:31:41|120|01:31:48|040He brings down the truth in ways that convey the vision of truth to others. He brings down the 701|01:31:48|040|01:31:59|760words of inspiration and which expands the horizon of vision of others to whom he speaks 702|01:31:59|760|01:32:06|220and in whose presence he finds himself. His effect is the constant enlargement—there's a 703|01:32:06|220|01:32:12|860Jupiterian word—of the consciousness of those who attend to him. So in a way, he's a true teacher. 704|01:32:12|860|01:32:22|540Thinking about Sri Aurobindo, he had lots of Leo and I believe a Sagittarian moon. He was well 705|01:32:22|540|01:32:31|220grounded in this ability. There are other great teachers who somehow can expand the vision of 706|01:32:31|220|01:32:37|980others until it becomes increasingly panoramic and a wider and wider world is seen. He enters a new 707|01:32:37|980|01:32:43|940dimension because Jupiter is also connected with the Buddhic plane and points the way, which 708|01:32:43|940|01:32:52|360Sagittarius does. He points the way towards those he inspires. So he directs others towards the 709|01:32:52|360|01:33:02|300gates of initiation, and as the master, he controls the opening of these energy gates according to the 710|01:33:02|300|01:33:07|720capacity of the individual. You know, if you're a general in an army, you don't want to direct your 711|01:33:07|980|01:33:13|740troops into an untenable position. You want to make sure they're strong enough to accomplish what 712|01:33:13|740|01:33:19|520they have to accomplish when they enter this new field of intensified energies. So he is the 713|01:33:19|520|01:33:26|420controller of the gate. He's the guardian at the gate, but he also directs towards the gate. Okay, 714|01:33:27|380|01:33:35|700now we come to the initiate who is born from 20 to 30 degrees. He's under Mars most definitely, 715|01:33:36|320|01:33:41|780and the initiate sacrifices his life on the altar. It is complete. He is moving towards the fourth 716|01:33:41|780|01:33:48|700initiation and towards self-immolation. He will hold nothing back. In this period when Mars, 717|01:33:48|800|01:33:54|160the hierarchical ruler, dominates, the process is one of the elevation of the lunar vehicles 718|01:33:54|160|01:34:02|300through burning. So in a way, the essence of these vehicles, the spiritual essence, 719|01:34:02|300|01:34:11|720ascends and there is a great transmutation of those lower elements in the vehicles until they 720|01:34:11|720|01:34:19|840no longer resist. They become winged; they become increasingly divine. The personality ascends. 721|01:34:20|440|01:34:27|280Self-immolation is found here, the immolation of the lower self and also pointing towards the 722|01:34:27|280|01:34:33|600immolation of the fourth degree of the higher self or Egoic Lotus, one of the ways of considering 723|01:34:33|600|01:34:39|560the higher self, and the Kundalini fire is involved here. So this is a very burning, 724|01:34:39|560|01:34:47|860sacrificial experience carrying that which is hinted at by the, in the disciple stage, 725|01:34:48|160|01:34:55|680to its consummation. The Sagittarius is not usually one of those signs connected with the 726|01:34:55|680|01:35:03|540fourth degree per se, but I'm thinking about the chart of Sir Thomas More, who is now said to be a 727|01:35:03|540|01:35:12|420master of the wisdom, and I believe that he had Sagittarius rising, the Sun in Aquarius, and maybe 728|01:35:12|420|01:35:21|980the Moon in Aries, and his sacrifice was complete. He, you know, he had that great wisdom and he was 729|01:35:21|980|01:35:31|440called, in a play dedicated to his life, “A Man for All Seasons.” So he had that sense of human 730|01:35:31|440|01:35:39|480universality, at least. Sagittarius was involved. Okay, and also in the life of Mother Teresa, 731|01:35:40|060|01:35:46|340I'm not sure what the initiatory level is there, but that was her rising sign as well. So this 732|01:35:46|340|01:35:54|420ability to see the larger world picture and to be a true world disciple, I would say, of the third 733|01:35:54|420|01:36:04|480degree, I would say so, was present with her in terms of the rulership of, the rulership 734|01:36:05|640|01:36:12|840by the Earth, which would be found heliocentrically opposite her Virgo Sun, so therefore in 735|01:36:13|440|01:36:21|420self-sacrificial Pisces, which is ruled by Pluto, the lord of death, ruled esoterically there. So 736|01:36:21|420|01:36:28|220her Earth position, heliocentrically, is ruled by Pluto, and I think Pluto was, 737|01:36:29|620|01:36:39|540I think Pluto was quite close to her seventh house cusp. I wonder if I can find that just very quickly. 738|01:36:40|290|01:36:46|360So let's see, let's do it this way. 739|01:36:51|700|01:36:55|470Try this, and it would be, 740|01:36:57|600|01:37:08|540okay, yeah, Mother Teresa. Okay, look at that Pluto. Well, look at that Pluto. There it is, 741|01:37:08|540|01:37:18|000as the esoteric ruler of her Earth position, exactly on the seventh house cusp where you 742|01:37:18|000|01:37:24|740meet the other and form relationships. So in a way, she was considered kind of an incarnation of the 743|01:37:24|740|01:37:31|540goddess Kali because she was dealing always with the dead and the dying, and trying to 744|01:37:31|540|01:37:41|900ameliorate their condition under the Neptune aspect of Pisces, and also the Neptune aspect 745|01:37:41|900|01:37:50|480of her Virgo Sun. And there is Sagittarius, and she's born in the Leo decinate, under the Leo 746|01:37:50|480|01:37:58|160decinate of Sagittarius, where she is becoming the great example to others. So it's really worth 747|01:37:58|160|01:38:04|820studying the charts in relation to some of the things that we are saying. Now we come to 748|01:38:06|300|01:38:15|920the initiate working through triadic influence and monadic influence. In the 20 to 30 decinate, 749|01:38:16|060|01:38:22|820the last decinate again ruled by the Sun, a very high expression, a soul expression of the Sun. 750|01:38:23|340|01:38:28|980He is definitely the director of man, yet he himself is directed by the solar angel. He is 751|01:38:28|980|01:38:34|940increasingly the solar angel. He's increasingly entering into solar angelic consciousness, 752|01:38:35|800|01:38:43|620into the consciousness of the angel of the presence who, when penetrated, reveals a great 753|01:38:43|620|01:38:51|200Sagittarian destination towards the monad. His vision and the vision of the soul are united. 754|01:38:51|200|01:39:00|900So he sees with the eye of the soul, and I imagine increasingly the third eye is activated. I think 755|01:39:00|900|01:39:10|220I'll put that in. The third eye is increasingly activated. His consciousness is illumined 756|01:39:10|220|01:39:17|580by the soul. He has achieved a contemplation. He's achieved illumination. He's achieved 757|01:39:17|580|01:39:24|420inspiration, which is the particular gift of Sagittarius in the fivefold system of meditation, 758|01:39:25|600|01:39:31|120correlated with science, beginning with Leo. His consciousness is illumined, and he himself has 759|01:39:31|120|01:39:40|460become a light upon the path, a great demonstration of the path to others. He has a beacon leading to 760|01:39:40|460|01:39:50|400wisdom. He is a beacon of solar light oriented towards the higher worlds, a reliable way-shower. 761|01:39:51|200|01:39:55|520Wisdom is demonstrating, and the solar angel is love-wisdom. 762|01:39:57|360|01:40:03|600Well, you know, of course we have to see who are the people that are born in this way. As I said, 763|01:40:04|160|01:40:11|000Mother Teresa is one. But, you know, can we consider her here in the initiate 764|01:40:11|760|01:40:20|350area? Possibly we can. She seems pretty clearly to be a sixth-ray soul, and we must learn how to 765|01:40:20|940|01:40:28|260discriminate the functioning of initiates on the various rays. Certainly she had given everything, 766|01:40:28|880|01:40:36|020and there were issues of faith as well. Obviously she had been passing through a long 767|01:40:36|020|01:40:43|520dark night of the soul, which in some ways she had lost her faith per se, but she persisted 768|01:40:43|520|01:40:51|520according to the will. And this is a great test, which apparently she was passing. Okay, so now 769|01:40:51|520|01:40:59|020we've gone through this document, and I'll go slowly through it here, in case you want to 770|01:40:59|020|01:41:07|900freeze it to study it a little bit more. W.O.C. is the Wheel of Consciousness; W.O.F. is the Wheel of 771|01:41:07|900|01:41:13|680Form. There's so much to say in relation to the decanates, but I think the thing that we have to do 772|01:41:14|240|01:41:21|060is to make sure we can study the lives of some prominent individuals and see 773|01:41:22|500|01:41:28|620exactly how their lives correlated with the indications that the decanates provide. 774|01:41:30|260|01:41:36|720Now let's see where we are. Yeah, there's a bit more we can do before we start on Scorpio. 775|01:41:37|600|01:41:47|240So the Tibetan is in a way ending. He's ending this discussion. We've discussed the 776|01:41:47|980|01:41:55|500decanates in detail, not so much for the Lemurian, Atlantean, and Early Aryan man, but 777|01:41:56|060|01:42:05|760for people such as ourselves who are on the reversing wheel and are spiritually oriented. 778|01:42:06|430|01:42:15|240Okay, in closing, he says, and here we are on page 193, In closing, 779|01:42:16|920|01:42:27|430I will simply quote to you the two keywords of this sign, both as it proceeds upon the 780|01:42:27|740|01:42:34|100ordinary wheel and upon the reversed wheel. Remember this question of the ordinary and 781|01:42:34|100|01:42:42|380reversed wheel has to do with energy flows and energy orientations within the body. At least 782|01:42:43|370|01:42:51|500when interpreting this question of the wheel in terms of human nature, the etheric energy flows 783|01:42:51|500|01:42:58|500have to be considered, whether they are descending and expressing below the diaphragm or ascending 784|01:42:58|500|01:43:06|340and expressing above the diaphragm. Their meaning and significance are so obvious that there is no 785|01:43:06|340|01:43:16|580need for elucidation. The injunction to the man upon the orthodox wheel is as follows:1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780And the Word said: “Let food be sought.” Well, it's interesting because, you know, to feed the body 787|01:43:27|220|01:43:35|160or whatever body it may be, the Sagittarian hunter goes forth for nourishment and to fulfill 788|01:43:35|160|01:43:41|540the particular vehicle that needs the nourishment. Jupiter comes in there. Of course, also the 789|01:43:41|540|01:43:49|980hunting skills of Mars and Chiron is a kind of planet or planetoid also associated with 790|01:43:49|980|01:43:58|560Sagittarius. Chiron was a centaur after all. “Let food be sought.” So there is an objective 791|01:44:00|020|01:44:10|180and that is determined by desire and one goes forth for what that objective can provide. And 792|01:44:10|180|01:44:15|780in the beginning, you know, it's not a high objective. It's quite an animal instinctual 793|01:44:15|780|01:44:21|220objective. The objective becomes higher and higher. And of course, the nature of the food 794|01:44:22|100|01:44:26|280rises. And eventually, if we want to translate this particular 795|01:44:26|280|01:44:32|940mantram into its higher meaning, it will be heavenly food indeed. To the man upon the reversed 796|01:44:32|940|01:44:44|920wheel the Word goes forth: “I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another.” 797|01:44:45|780|01:44:53|560We have this endless divine discontent. We have a temporary gratification or satisfaction, 798|01:44:54|160|01:45:01|640but it's not enough to hold the progressive Sagittarian who in a way is using some first 799|01:45:01|640|01:45:09|960ray types of motion, the motion of progress onward and the motion of driving forward through space. 800|01:45:10|060|01:45:15|620It is a very one-pointed sign. In this, we see the connection of the sixth ray and the first ray. 801|01:45:15|780|01:45:21|120“I see the goal. I reach that goal and then I see another.” So we can ask ourselves, all of us, 802|01:45:21|540|01:45:27|800because all of these signs are relevant to all of us: what is the goal we see? Where are we in 803|01:45:27|800|01:45:36|000the process of reaching it? If we have reached it and are becoming satiated by it, have we lifted 804|01:45:36|580|01:45:42|740our eyes to see yet another goal beyond the present satisfaction we are experiencing, 805|01:45:43|300|01:45:49|200whether it is a more personal or spiritual satisfaction? May the words of this final 806|01:45:49|200|01:45:58|320injunction to the disciple carry meaning to the heart and mind. Well, I think 807|01:45:59|720|01:46:08|760D.K. wants to see us as progressive human beings. He wants to see us moving on, on the path, 808|01:46:08|760|01:46:16|000and not subject to inertia. Being progressive and not subject to inertia. 809|01:46:17|200|01:46:23|820He wants us to get on with it and to do all we can to travel upon the way, 810|01:46:24|580|01:46:31|400which in a way is the antahkarana, until we can penetrate into the higher dimensions and 811|01:46:32|360|01:46:38|720polarize our consciousness there. And immediately upon that polarization comes the 812|01:46:38|720|01:46:45|140precipitation of those energies, which can be transformative for our life. 813|01:46:46|120|01:46:57|200So this is the discussion of Sagittarius, and over the many years in the future that we will 814|01:46:57|200|01:47:01|860experience the sign, be born in this sign, pass our progressed moon through this sign, 815|01:47:02|420|01:47:08|720we will incorporate the higher meanings, the higher potentials of it into our nature so that 816|01:47:08|720|01:47:14|380it helps us build the causal body. That's one of the most important things. Every sign of the 817|01:47:14|380|01:47:22|480zodiac helps us to build the causal body until it is completely fulfilled and is destroyed. And then 818|01:47:22|480|01:47:27|900the influence of the zodiac does not cease, not at all, because we become triadic beings, 819|01:47:28|040|01:47:36|580indeed we do, but the zodiac continues to give its influence into the triadic life and eventually 820|01:47:36|580|01:47:45|540into the monadic life as we progress towards various sacred planets in order to train for 821|01:47:45|540|01:47:54|120a still greater outward bound motion away from the solar system. And even if we leave our 822|01:47:54|120|01:48:00|040particular solar system, the zodiac is active in relation to all the neighboring solar systems, 823|01:48:00|140|01:48:08|520especially in the seven solar systems of which we are one. And perhaps since the zodiac represents 824|01:48:08|520|01:48:15|140the heart and the head center of the one about whom naught may be said, it includes a number of the 825|01:48:15|140|01:48:21|180constellations towards which the way of higher evolution may lead and influences those 826|01:48:21|180|01:48:31|920constellations as well. So we are not done with the zodiac when we leave our soul nature, so to 827|01:48:31|920|01:48:38|260speak, on the higher mental plane and focus more as monad triads. And we are not done with the 828|01:48:38|260|01:48:45|320constellations of the zodiac as we pursue our paths to other planets and to other stars. We are 829|01:48:45|320|01:48:55|920just learning the ABCs. The ABCs. Okay, I guess we can begin a little bit with Scorpio. We are on 830|01:48:55|920|01:49:06|780page 193. I guess we have only really covered about a page or so in the book because we have 831|01:49:06|780|01:49:12|700to deal with the decanates in greater detail. “Here is a great and powerful sign, which, 832|01:49:13|280|01:49:21|980believe it or not, is intimately related to struggling humanity. It is humanity's sign 833|01:49:21|980|01:49:30|580above all.” So if we wonder why this human experience is so filled with conflict, we have 834|01:49:30|580|01:49:36|080to remember that Scorpio is that particular constellation which at this time brings in more 835|01:49:36|080|01:49:44|640of the fourth ray of struggle than any other constellation, and that humanity as a kingdom is 836|01:49:44|640|01:49:52|860intimately, or as a hierarchy, is intimately connected to Scorpio, its ruler, which is 837|01:49:52|860|01:49:58|360connected with the Buddhic plane where harmony at last has to be achieved, and with the planet 838|01:49:58|360|01:50:08|280Mercury, which is in a way the God of conflict, and is the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio. So this 839|01:50:08|280|01:50:17|880is a dramatic sign, and it is a sign of death, death unto life, a sign of resurrection, and a 840|01:50:17|880|01:50:26|380sign which produces some of the most potent experiences in human living. You know, we're 841|01:50:26|380|01:50:31|740told that the second initiation is the most difficult initiation through which to pass, 842|01:50:32|440|01:50:38|880and Scorpio has almost given its name that the second initiation is associated with all 843|01:50:38|880|01:50:46|940the first three, but with the second initiation it has a peculiar connection. D.K. talks about 844|01:50:46|940|01:50:57|400the terrific testing experiences in Scorpio. So We come now to the consideration of a sign 845|01:50:57|400|01:51:07|120which is of paramount importance in the life of evolving man. not necessarily in the life of the 846|01:51:07|120|01:51:15|520initiate, though it does rule the third initiation too, but for the evolving man it has very great 847|01:51:15|520|01:51:23|280testing importance. We never know whether we are really fit to move on until we have passed through 848|01:51:23|280|01:51:32|300the experiences of Scorpio. Certain of the signs are in very close relation—through the inflow and 849|01:51:32|300|01:51:40|420the outflow of energy—with certain of the major constellations. Certain of the signs are in very 850|01:51:40|420|01:51:45|700close relation with certain of the major constellations. Now by major constellations 851|01:51:47|780|01:51:53|140we are not necessarily meaning the signs of the zodiac or the constellation of the zodiac, 852|01:51:53|280|01:51:59|640but others, perhaps like the Great Bear, Little Bear, Sirius, Pleiades, and so forth, and some 853|01:51:59|640|01:52:09|860others as well. These major constellations are, in a few instances, peculiarly connected with the signs of 854|01:52:09|860|01:52:19|820the zodiac. I think there is with Sirius an unusual connection to Scorpio. There are four 855|01:52:19|820|01:52:29|980of the zodiacal signs which are mysteriously concerned with what one might call the “personality 856|01:52:29|980|01:52:36|780expression” (if such an unsuitable term can be used in default of better) of the solar Logos Himself, 857|01:52:36|780|01:52:42|520or with the Divine Quaternary, the fourfold manifestation of Deity. Now we're up on the cosmic 858|01:52:42|520|01:52:53|880planes here, and we are dealing with the solar Logoic quaternary involving, I suppose, his lower 859|01:52:53|880|01:53:01|560mind on the four lesser levels of the cosmic plane, his cosmic astral body, his cosmic etheric body, 860|01:53:01|560|01:53:24|600and his cosmic physical body. Okay. So, in fact, we are dealing here with agony. Agony is, in a way, 861|01:53:24|600|01:53:35|940the personality nature of the solar Logos, and we are going to discuss the zodiacal constellations, 862|01:53:36|180|01:53:41|040which are particularly, he says, mysteriously, so that's certainly for us beyond our ken, 863|01:53:41|420|01:53:49|460but perhaps Scorpio will be one of them. Let us see. The divine quaternary. We have a kind of 864|01:53:49|460|01:53:57|960quaternary, don't we? We have our physical, our etheric, our astral, and our lower mental vehicle, 865|01:53:57|960|01:54:05|520or we have a quaternary that might be considered to be the physical etheric, the astral, the lower 866|01:54:05|520|01:54:12|180mental, and their union as a personality. That's another way of looking at the divine quaternary, 867|01:54:12|180|01:54:19|700the fourfold manifestation of deity, the soul of deity manifesting through the personality nature. 868|01:54:20|440|01:54:31|080These four signs are Aries—Leo—Scorpio—Aquarius, We have, interestingly here, we have three of them 869|01:54:31|080|01:54:38|240on the fixed cross, except for Aries, which is on the cardinal cross, and they involve the expression 870|01:54:38|240|01:54:44|760of the energy of one Cardinal sign and of three signs which form part of the Fixed Cross of the heavens. 871|01:54:44|900|01:54:56|720Let's see how he assigns them to the solar Logoic quaternary. We remember, yeah, there is a still greater quaternary 872|01:54:56|720|01:55:05|720of which our sun has a non-sacred solar Logos, our solar Logos being temporarily non-sacred, 873|01:55:05|720|01:55:14|760is part of the quaternary of a still greater being, the cosmic Logos. Okay, so the quaternary is the outer nature. 874|01:55:16|720|01:55:28|380Okay, We could express this truth in another manner: God the Father, the Will to manifest, initiates the creative process 875|01:55:29|180|01:55:36|340which is worked out. Now, in the initiation of the creative process, the will to create, we think about Aries. 876|01:55:36|500|01:55:43|400I'm not sure he's going to talk about it in this respect here, but definitely the will to create is Arian. 877|01:55:44|060|01:55:50|880The will to fulfillment is Leonian. The will to conquer death is Capricornian. God the Father, the will to manifest, 878|01:55:51|040|01:55:57|100initiates the creative processes, a process which is worked out through the activity of God the Son, 1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780the cosmic Christ, crucified upon the Fixed Cross in the heavens. So, God the Father, that's the monadic aspect, 880|01:56:06|540|01:56:12|080initiates the creative process, which is worked out through the soul nature of the solar Logos, 881|01:56:12|200|01:56:20|260which we might call, in this case, the cosmic Christ, who is crucified upon the fixed cross of the heavens. 882|01:56:20|260|01:56:24|360Of course, in a way, it's a higher type of fixed cross than we are crucified upon. 883|01:56:25|260|01:56:33|860The crucifixion of God the Son as a cosmic Christ upon the fixed cross is of an entirely higher order than anything we can fathom. 884|01:56:35|140|01:56:45|540The activity of God [194]the Holy Spirit, implicit in the Mutable Cross, is closely allied to the previous solar system, 885|01:56:45|540|01:56:54|300That was the solar system in which the third ray was very prominent, and the third ray is associated with the Holy Spirit. 886|01:56:54|900|01:57:01|420The third ray is also associated with the activity and vitality of the etheric body. 887|01:57:02|120|01:57:12|600and the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from that solar system 888|01:57:12|600|01:57:22|000and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. Okay, inherent to the very nature of substance itself. 889|01:57:27|060|01:57:37|600Okay, so this, our present solar system, is very much the solar system of the cosmic Christ. 890|01:57:37|860|01:57:44|440If we look at the cosmic Christ as the soul or consciousness nature of our solar Logos, 891|01:57:44|440|01:57:56|080the previous solar system was associated with his Holy Spirit aspect, more with the etheric aspect, more with his personality aspect. 892|01:57:56|180|01:58:01|920It was the solar system of the mind and personality of the solar Logos. 893|01:58:02|940|01:58:09|380Okay, the activity of God the Holy Spirit implicit in the mutable cross is closely allied to the previous solar system. 894|01:58:09|380|01:58:19|180And so we can see the mutable cross connected with the previous solar system, the fixed cross in a higher way connected with the present solar system, 895|01:58:19|180|01:58:24|940and the cardinal cross particularly to be connected with the solar system which is to come. 896|01:58:25|860|01:58:38|780And the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied, entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from that system 897|01:58:38|780|01:58:43|560and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. 898|01:58:44|860|01:58:53|500So we do have the Holy Spirit aspect active, but it's very much connected with the body of the solar Logos. 899|01:58:54|660|01:59:02|840I suppose the inherited substance is particularly in the dense physical body of our solar Logos, 900|01:59:02|840|01:59:11|960which involves our lower mental plane or perhaps even our entire mental plane, our astral plane and our etheric physical plane. 901|01:59:12|960|01:59:27|040This divine aspect is to the whole general divine manifestation what the lower nature (form life or personality in the three worlds of human evolution) 902|01:59:27|040|01:59:32|000is to the soul where an individual human being is concerned. 903|01:59:32|000|01:59:46|620So we're talking about the Holy Spirit aspect, very active in the previous solar system and somewhat active in relation to what is called the primordial ray in this solar system. 904|01:59:47|400|01:59:54|980The divine ray is the second ray related to God the Son and to the cosmic Christ and to the fixed cross. 905|01:59:54|980|02:00:04|960Now we realize that we human beings are in a way crucified upon the fixed cross when we become disciples, 906|02:00:05|200|02:00:23|200but this is just a tiny reflection of that crucifixion upon the fixed cross which the solar Logos is undergoing because he is developing his soul consciousness particularly in this solar system. 907|02:00:23|200|02:00:36|340So the fixed cross is always connected with soul consciousness, with the expansion of consciousness found upon the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. 908|02:00:36|440|02:00:44|080And so the fixed cross has a definite connection with the three higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. 909|02:00:44|080|02:00:57|080And the mutable cross I would say will have a strong connection with matter in general and with the personality nature of the solar Logos. 910|02:00:57|200|02:01:09|280That's not just his physical body, but it would be associated with everything which for him is his personality and that involves his lower mind, his astral body and his etheric physical nature. 911|02:01:09|280|02:01:16|360So there are two ways then of looking at the mutable cross and its type of influence. 912|02:01:17|200|02:01:28|500There may be a lot of manipulation in the present solar system in connection with the dense body of our solar Logos which involves our lower three systemic planes. 913|02:01:28|500|02:01:43|080But I think we really have to associate that Holy Spirit aspect, the energies of the mutable cross with the entire personality nature or matter nature of the solar Logos. 914|02:01:43|080|02:01:54|580The solar Logos being a lesser being than the constellational lords who are ruling the various constellations of the zodiac. 915|02:01:55|380|02:02:02|620Maybe there's a lord that rules the entire fixed cross or the entire mutable cross or the entire cardinal cross. 916|02:02:03|020|02:02:10|540The three of them together forming a kind of a, let's say, trinity in the life of a still greater being. 917|02:02:11|760|02:02:15|620The hierarchies ascend higher and higher. 918|02:02:16|500|02:02:27|000It's interesting for us to speculate about these things, but in terms of living a better life right here and now, we have to confine our attention to what is practical. 919|02:02:27|780|02:02:32|580Just the way the Buddha did, although he knew a great deal more than he spoke. 920|02:02:32|580|02:02:49|260As regards these three Persons of the divine Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, we might say that: 1. Aries is the focal point of the expression of the first aspect of divinity, the will aspect. 921|02:02:49|260|02:03:08|020Now we do know that the first ray pours powerfully through Aries, and it is the constellation or sign which is most connected with the first aspect of divinity and with the first ray. 922|02:03:08|160|02:03:13|260More of the first ray comes through Aries at this time than through any other constellation or sign. 923|02:03:13|260|02:03:25|980I use constellation and sign interchangeably. The original energy is from the constellation, but it is adapted by the sign for use in our solar system and upon our planet. 924|02:03:27|680|02:03:30|960All right, so Aries is connected with God the Father. 925|02:03:32|120|02:03:41|0802. Leo [the next one, is connected,] is the focal point for the expression of the second aspect, 926|02:03:41|960|02:03:50|220the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. This, primarily where humanity is concerned. We don't know about other hierarchies and how Leo will work for them. 927|02:03:50|320|02:04:02|320We do know that Leo is connected with the divine flames which have a kind of Logoic position, you know, the hierarchy I'm speaking of here, the divine flames. 928|02:04:02|320|02:04:11|400Let's see how this works. If I can find, yeah, right here? Yes, there we are. 929|02:04:11|800|02:04:21|360Okay, there are the divine flames right up here on the highest level of our Logoic plane, our systemic Logoic plane. 930|02:04:21|360|02:04:45|140All right, yeah. Now, we have been told, you know, when dealing with the three fire signs that Aries is particularly connected with the monad, Leo with the soul or consciousness, and Sagittarius with the body, or considering the personality as the body. 931|02:04:45|140|02:04:49|400Here's yet another tabulation where the same thing holds true. 932|02:04:50|000|02:05:06|420So within the expression of the solar Logos, Leo has a particular connection with the love, wisdom aspect, and I suppose in that respect with what is going on on the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. 933|02:05:07|640|02:05:26|180There are different ways we can look at this. We can look at it in a very expanded sense and take the entire planar structure of the solar Logos going all the way up to the cosmic monadic level where Aries would have something to say and do, and Leo could be on the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane. 934|02:05:26|180|02:05:46|360But we can also confine ourselves to the cosmic physical plane and look at Aries in relation to those aspects of the solar Logos which manifest on the highest cosmic ethers and maybe Leo more in connection with the triadal nature. 935|02:05:46|360|02:06:06|680And let's see what happens next. Virgo, aha, well these are not the signs that were just mentioned. What was mentioned was Aries and three fixed signs. 936|02:06:06|680|02:06:18|640But now D.K. is talking about the Trinity with Aries, Leo, and Virgo relating to the Trinity. Obviously we have a quadruplicity which we have to explain and which we will. 937|02:06:19|480|02:06:29|5203. Virgo is the focal point for the expression of the third aspect, that of active intelligence. So Virgo is particularly connected with the Holy Spirit just as Capricorn is. 938|02:06:29|520|02:06:44|020In that sign the highest function of matter is symbolised. I suppose we could say, we could call it maybe purified matter, the purified or the virgin matter. 939|02:06:45|200|02:06:57|920So all that has to do with the personality of the solar Logos and I suppose with his dense physical body is connected with Virgo. 940|02:06:57|920|02:07:14|940So if we want to confine this to the cosmic physical plane instead of the entire expanse, you know how the expanse is, if we do this, let's see, this is the entire expanse. 941|02:07:14|940|02:07:33|700Yeah, there it is. The entire expanse of the solar Logoic manifestation and even the expanse of beings higher than the solar Logos such as cosmic Logoi and super cosmic Logoi and so forth and even beyond that. 942|02:07:33|700|02:07:56|340So this is an amazing map here on page 344 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. But if we want to confine ourselves to the cosmic physical plane, then we might say in a certain respect that Aries has everything to do with what is found on the Logoic levels and maybe on some of the triadal levels. 943|02:07:56|340|02:08:07|320Leo has to do with that which is expressed on the higher mental plane and Virgo with matter and all that is expressed on the lower 18 subplanes. 944|02:08:07|880|02:08:19|220So you see there are two ways of looking at this, one very compressed like this and one having to do with the higher, with the total expression of the solar Logos. 945|02:08:19|220|02:08:44|740In which case Virgo might have much to do with the lower 18 cosmic subplanes, Leo having to do perhaps with the causal body and the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane and perhaps including the cosmic triadal levels perhaps and Aries with the highest levels of the super cosmic plane. 946|02:08:44|740|02:08:55|240Not just the cosmic physical plane but the super cosmic plane which is a physical plane with respect to still greater being of course. 947|02:08:55|240|02:09:13|420All right. So we have a very important triangle here. A triangle which involves Aries, the father aspect, Leo, the son aspect. 948|02:09:13|420|02:09:27|400And not Sagittarius in this case which is often the third fire sign related to the personality and body aspect but Virgo related to the matter aspect and I suppose then as well resurrected matter. 949|02:09:27|400|02:09:46|660The assumption of the virgin, the purification of previous solar system matter until it is fit and ready for non-resistive participation in our present solar system which is ruled by the fixed cross in a cosmic sense. 950|02:09:47|640|02:10:08|340Okay. Now The four signs—Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius—are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac; they constitute another field of relationships: 951|02:10:09|180|02:10:16|240Another field of relationships in relation to a kind of zodiac of ten, I believe. 952|02:10:17|200|02:10:26|540And they are the constellational chakric systems in the one about whom naught may be said, at least for the most part. Let's see. 953|02:10:26|540|02:10:37|500So he began this a little higher up here by saying… what did he say here? Yeah. 954|02:10:38|960|02:10:54|280The divine quaternary of the solar Logos is connected with Aries, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius. So in a way the divine quaternary is ruled generically by Virgo. 955|02:10:54|280|02:11:07|300So in a way, Aries… well, we're having some interesting developments here. Hopefully everything will stabilize. 956|02:11:08|340|02:11:16|020We have Aries, Leo and Virgo. Now Virgo in a way rules the entire divine quaternary in a cosmic sense. 957|02:11:16|020|02:11:24|900And so we would have sub-Aries, sub-Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius as being part of that particular quaternary. 958|02:11:25|400|02:11:31|100And then we would have a higher form of Aries and Leo ruling the father aspect and the son aspect. 959|02:11:32|920|02:11:39|740Alright, so now we're going to get into the stars related to these four signs. 960|02:11:39|740|02:11:49|980These four signs are related to the divine quaternary and they involve the expression of the energy of one cardinal and three fixed signs. 961|02:11:50|440|02:12:00|160We're looking at another area of relationships when we enter into the stars, and the stars represent certain constellations. 962|02:12:00|480|02:12:08|200That's the key. And these constellations belong to another field of relationships other than the zodiacal field of relationships. 963|02:12:08|200|02:12:21|900Okay, so the four signs Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac and may constitute another field of relationships. 964|02:12:22|220|02:12:29|560Okay, Aries [is related] to one of the two stars, found in the constellation, the Great Bear, which are called the two Pointers. 965|02:12:29|720|02:12:35|500It's the lower one of the pointers. It's the one that's farthest away from Polaris. 966|02:12:35|500|02:12:45|780And it has, in a way, a more spiritual meaning, although it has been discussed in some systems as a sixth ray star. 967|02:12:46|900|02:12:56|840So Aries is related to the pointers, and we know the Great Bear is not in that system of relationships which we call the signs of the zodiac. 968|02:12:57|920|02:13:05|340Leo [is related] to Polaris, the Pole Star, found in the Little Bear. in the tail of the Little Bear. 969|02:13:05|480|02:13:17|140Sometimes Sagittarius, since the pole star is a great star of direction and Sagittarius is a constellation of direction, is said to be related to Polaris. 970|02:13:18|420|02:13:25|920And Leo to the second pointer, or the pointer closest to Polaris. That is another field of relationships. 971|02:13:25|920|02:13:41|300Anyway, what we have right now is Aries related to the farthest pointer in the Great Bear and Leo related to Polaris itself and also, as we will discover, to the closer pointer, the pointer closer to Polaris in the Great Bear. 972|02:13:42|240|02:13:53|220So we can see this is another field of relationships because the Great Bear is a super constellation in a way and it is not part of the twelve constellations of the zodiac. 973|02:13:53|220|02:14:04|660Scorpio is related to Sirius. That's so interesting. We have this, and we're told also that Mercury is the star of Sirius. 974|02:14:05|780|02:14:13|920Or is it Sirius is the star of Mercury? I think Mercury is the star of Sirius. Let's take a quick look here in Esoteric Astrology. 975|02:14:14|680|02:14:27|100And let's see… Mercury… Mercury star Sirius. 976|02:14:27|100|02:14:38|280So let's see what we have. And Sirius is called the dog star. It is the star of Mercury. 977|02:14:39|220|02:14:44|100Or Buddha, called the great instructor of mankind. This is on page 659. 978|02:14:45|260|02:14:52|620So Sirius and Mercury have a very definite connection. Mercury and Scorpio have a very definite connection. 979|02:14:52|620|02:15:00|960So we look to the triangle of Sirius, Scorpio, and Mercury. 980|02:15:02|220|02:15:11|240And so we can see that there is much that will lift a man towards buddhi coming along this line. 981|02:15:12|340|02:15:18|400We have Scorpio as one of the major signs which admits a man into hierarchy, as does Capricorn. 982|02:15:18|400|02:15:29|200Sirius sponsors the entire program of initiation. And Mercury determines the final destination of man, 983|02:15:29|340|02:15:37|200which is on the buddhic plane, where he is meant to work out his harmonizing form of expression. 984|02:15:37|440|02:15:42|800So these are three very important indicators. Mercury is the star of conflict. 985|02:15:42|800|02:15:49|420Sirius is called the scorcher, which is submitting man to a great many tests and burning grounds. 986|02:15:49|940|02:15:58|740And we all know about Scorpio. It is such a difficult instrument to deal with, a difficult constellation to deal with, 987|02:15:58|920|02:16:09|300because it forces man to confront the opposites and to choose the higher of the pairs of opposites rather than the lower. 988|02:16:09|300|02:16:18|940So often with Libra, before the Scorpio experience, you sort of seek to balance the pairs of opposites. 989|02:16:19|120|02:16:27|140So they come into a just and balanced harmonious condition. But with Scorpio, the scales tip, 990|02:16:28|160|02:16:39|220And it is required that the higher of the pairs of opposites be our choice and that we live according to it. 991|02:16:39|220|02:16:43|940So there's a great struggle there because all that represents the previous solar system, 992|02:16:44|060|02:16:50|560which pulls us backward into material temptation, has to be overcome. 993|02:16:50|740|02:16:57|660And of course that is overcome with the help of the intuition of Mercury, which sees through this miasma and illusion. 994|02:16:58|360|02:17:05|100And it overcomes with the constant pressure of Sirius, represented by the pressure of the solar angel, 995|02:17:05|100|02:17:08|480which we had been talking about a little bit earlier. 996|02:17:09|740|02:17:21|500The solar angel is putting the human being under increasing pressure as his elevation proceeds and he goes into higher states of consciousness. 997|02:17:23|140|02:17:30|880Scorpio [is related] to Sirius, the Dog Star. It's a very important hierarchical initiation combination. 998|02:17:32|840|02:17:37|220Aquarius [is related] to Alcyone, one of the seven Pleiades. 999|02:17:37|700|02:17:41|900So the system of Sirius, the system of Pleiades, the system of the Great Bear, 1000|02:17:42|780|02:17:52|500these are three said to be super constellations which are involved in another field of relationships other than the signs of the zodiac, 1001|02:17:52|740|02:17:57|720although very much connected to certain signs of the zodiac. 1002|02:17:57|720|02:18:05|780And there are other constellations which are found closely related to these three super constellations. 1003|02:18:05|980|02:18:17|280We can include Orion, we can include Draco, perhaps we can include Antares, we can include the Little Bear. 1004|02:18:17|980|02:18:24|240These are chakra centers in the one about whom naught may be said. 1005|02:18:25|140|02:18:31|180Okay. So, Alcyone is said to be the star of the individual. 1006|02:18:32|300|02:18:42|520Individuality is related to the third aspect of divinity in a way, to become an ego, a distinct identity. 1007|02:18:43|300|02:18:51|980This seems to be conveyed by Alcyone, and perhaps in some degree that is not easy to explain by Aquarius. 1008|02:18:51|980|02:19:04|240Anyway, Alcyone is the central Pleiade. It's sort of the king or queen, or the central figure in the seven Pleiades. 1009|02:19:04|840|02:19:08|620And it represents centrality of identity. 1010|02:19:09|260|02:19:14|840So what do we have? We have Aries with the pointer farthest from Polaris. 1011|02:19:14|840|02:19:22|860We have Leo with Polaris itself, or as later will be seen, to the pointer closest to Polaris, Dubhe. 1012|02:19:23|440|02:19:29|920We have Scorpio related to Sirius. We have Aquarius related to Alcyone. 1013|02:19:30|580|02:19:36|420And also, you know, Virgo and Taurus are involved as well with the Pleiades. 1014|02:19:36|420|02:19:45|240There's so many interlocking systems of relationship, it seems that in the group interaction of these great beings, 1015|02:19:45|500|02:19:55|340everybody comes to know everybody else and learns how to interact with them in a unique manner. 1016|02:19:56|040|02:20:03|920Just the way we would in human society, each one of us aspects other individuals in a certain way. 1017|02:20:04|620|02:20:12|320And we draw forth different responses from different people, and we are able to help different people in different ways, 1018|02:20:12|400|02:20:14|120and be helped by them in different ways. 1019|02:20:14|680|02:20:21|620So we just have to analogize to the greater beings to see what their interrelationships may be. 1020|02:20:22|080|02:20:27|620I may be in a triangle, personally, with two other people, but I may be in a triangle as well with two other people. 1021|02:20:27|620|02:20:32|880And that does not necessarily minimize my contribution to the first triangle, 1022|02:20:33|520|02:20:40|760nor does the participation in the second in any way diminish the first. 1023|02:20:41|000|02:20:51|200So both can be complementary. In other words, any being can be involved in numerous relationships within the group field. 1024|02:20:51|200|02:20:57|480And finally, probably triangularly related to all the members within the group field. 1025|02:20:58|260|02:21:07|900Long ago what I did was try to look at all the possible triangles between all the constellations of the zodiac. 1026|02:21:08|280|02:21:11|460D.K. only mentioned some of them, maybe some of the more important ones. 1027|02:21:11|920|02:21:19|740But one can figure out that there will be, let's say in relation to someone's sun, moon, and rising sign, 1028|02:21:19|740|02:21:24|540an important triangle represented, provided one of the signs is not repeated. 1029|02:21:25|120|02:21:30|140And we can see what the meaning of that zodiacal triangle might be. 1030|02:21:31|340|02:21:39|460It's a very intricate study, this esoteric astrology, based on the science of triangles, 1031|02:21:39|840|02:21:45|620and just so many different ways of conceiving interrelationships. 1032|02:21:45|620|02:21:54|420But we have to look at the ones somehow that are most relevant, most relevant to our own spiritual growth and development. 1033|02:21:55|260|02:21:56|520All right, he goes on. 1034|02:21:57|600|02:22:02|840“There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring”— 1035|02:22:03|760|02:22:05|480OK, we're having some quality degraded. 1036|02:22:06|020|02:22:07|760Hopefully not. We will proceed. 1037|02:22:07|760|02:22:18|100There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring into the four zodiacal signs 1038|02:22:19|420|02:22:30|380from these distant though potent points of outgoing energy; namely Polaris, the most distant pointer, Sirius, and Alcyone. 1039|02:22:32|120|02:22:37|420He didn't say the word constellation, so maybe they pour into constellations as well. 1040|02:22:37|420|02:22:44|120But they certainly pour into the representatives of the constellations, which are the signs. 1041|02:22:44|980|02:22:54|880they are part of the life expression of an Identity, immeasurably superior [195] to and more advanced than our solar Logos. 1042|02:22:55|700|02:23:02|100OK, of course, I think we are speaking here of the one about whom naught may be said, 1043|02:23:02|820|02:23:13|980or at least that one of the ones about whom naught may be said, which is most closely connected to our particular solar system, 1044|02:23:14|360|02:23:16|980and perhaps to our particular zodiac. 1045|02:23:16|980|02:23:27|380In the chart on page 344, I think a case can be made for discovering a number of ones about whom naught may be said, 1046|02:23:27|520|02:23:34|280but naturally, since we can't even conceive of the one most closely related to us, the rest is purely speculative. 1047|02:23:35|660|02:23:47|620OK, so these stars and the constellations they represent are part of the life expression of an immeasurably superior entity, 1048|02:23:48|460|02:23:52|600immeasurably superior to and more advanced than our solar Logos. 1049|02:23:52|820|02:24:02|060That word “immeasurably”—are we to take it literally? Are we to say that it's so far advanced over our solar Logos 1050|02:24:02|060|02:24:09|200that we cannot even conceive of the degree to which it is advanced over our solar Logos, 1051|02:24:09|960|02:24:21|380or is the word “immeasurably” simply being used to indicate a great span of distinction between them? 1052|02:24:22|100|02:24:32|400OK, so this identity, the one about whom naught may be said—at least the one that we are most concerned with— 1053|02:24:33|440|02:24:46|700he can't tell us too much about the energies of the solar Logos, which probably in a way represent the energies of the Great Bear, 1054|02:24:46|700|02:24:50|860the Little Bear, Sirius, and the Pleiades. 1055|02:24:51|540|02:25:00|220And you can often substitute the Little Bear for the Pleiades, but let's just say that Polaris in a way represents all of the energies of the Little Bear. 1056|02:25:01|200|02:25:07|900That this particular pointer that Aries is connected with represents all the energies of the Great Bear. 1057|02:25:07|900|02:25:23|580That Sirius represents the energies of the constellation Sirius, which includes other stars, and may even include our seven solar systems, of which ours is one. 1058|02:25:24|660|02:25:30|780And let us say that Alcyone represents the entire output of the Pleiades. 1059|02:25:30|780|02:25:40|840So oftentimes a star is used as a kind of blind for the energies of the constellation of which it is a part, 1060|02:25:40|980|02:25:50|300just like Betelgeuse—or Betelgeuse, however you want to pronounce it—can represent the entirety of Orion rather than just itself. 1061|02:25:51|180|02:26:04|040OK, A few hints may, however, be of service to the truly esoteric astrologer—not just the run-of-the-mill esoteric astrologers such as we are attempting to be, 1062|02:26:04|180|02:26:13|420but the member of hierarchy, let us say, who is the true initiate astrologer who may study these pages, 1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780particularly where Scorpio is concerned. because that is what we are studying: the whole system of initiation and how Scorpio participates in providing opportunity for initiation. 1064|02:26:25|820|02:26:36|460Scorpio, at this particular stage of human evolution, governs the Path of Discipleship. as does—in a way—Sagittarius governs the one-pointed disciple, 1065|02:26:36|460|02:26:44|760but Scorpio governs the struggles, the battles, the tests, the proving ground on the path of discipleship. 1066|02:26:45|380|02:26:54|220You will note here also how Leo-Scorpio-Aquarius form a peculiar triangle of force, 1067|02:26:55|160|02:27:00|340 but of this I will later deal in Chapter III under the heading, The Science of Triangles. 1068|02:27:00|340|02:27:11|000Well, I think, you know, we can get a little bit of an idea of what this is because Leo rules the self-centering of the individual in its individuality, 1069|02:27:11|780|02:27:22|020and Scorpio rules the struggle to overcome that sense of isolated individuality, as Scorpio does stage the release of Leo. 1070|02:27:22|020|02:27:31|440And Aquarius is the release into hierarchical life where a measure of unity and universality are experienced. 1071|02:27:32|260|02:27:44|100Now we might also say, because these constellations are related to each other, that Polaris, Sirius, and Alcyone are related to each other. 1072|02:27:45|040|02:27:56|800And this would also mean that the Little Bear in relation to Leo, Sirius in relation to Scorpio, and Pleiades in relation to Alcyone are related to each other. 1073|02:27:58|400|02:28:10|940OK, well, you know, we speculate about these vast things, but the important thing is to feel the energy of these great sources, 1074|02:28:10|940|02:28:19|780even though they are much modified and transformed on the way down to us, and to realize when these energies are present, 1075|02:28:19|980|02:28:30|680and to express these energies in a manner which is fitting for those who want to be successful in treading the path of discipleship. 1076|02:28:31|460|02:28:42|040OK, so, you know, Djwhal Khul is always qualifying, you know. He's talking about Scorpio at this particular stage of human evolution, 1077|02:28:42|160|02:28:49|440at some other stage of human evolution, or the evolution of some other hierarchy. There might be an entirely different description. 1078|02:28:50|180|02:29:01|340Aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear but peculiarly so with one of the stars called The Pointers; 1079|02:29:01|520|02:29:11|040Now that is the more distant star that is Merak, and not Dubhe. So Aries is connected with what we have looked at as a sixth-ray star. 1080|02:29:11|040|02:29:24|660Of course, if we look at Polaris, Dubhe, and Merak as a trinity, then we will assign them different rays, in a way. 1081|02:29:25|340|02:29:38|760We will assign a first ray to Polaris, since it is the representative of the monad and its guiding destiny, or its attractive destiny. 1082|02:29:38|760|02:29:50|140We will assign the second ray to Merak, because it represents the soul. And we will assign the third ray to Dubhe, because it represents the personality. 1083|02:29:51|680|02:30:02|100And this is, you know, a different method of assignment. I'm not saying that those stars particularly represent those rays, 1084|02:30:02|100|02:30:12|680but at least we have three stars representing the three aspects of divinity, Polaris being the highest, Merak being that which represents the second or middle aspect, 1085|02:30:13|280|02:30:18|540and Dubhe representing the personality, or third aspect, as he will somewhat begin to describe. 1086|02:30:19|360|02:30:31|220So Aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear, yes, but peculiarly so with one of the stars called the Pointers. 1087|02:30:31|220|02:30:40|240Now I think I can substantiate this idea of the connection of Aries with the Great Bear, because on page 50 he pretty well demonstrates exactly that. 1088|02:30:41|060|02:30:54|940Here is the tabulation on page 50 of Esoteric Astrology, and we see the Great Bear connected with Aries and with Libra, and the sun is… Vulcan here. 1089|02:30:54|940|02:31:02|920It's the second creative hierarchy, the second creative of the manifested… no, the eleventh hierarchy, that's it. 1090|02:31:03|480|02:31:14|780It's unknown, connected with Aries. So Aries and the Great Bear have a definite connection, so does Leo actually and the Great Bear, because we can see the sun is involved, and the sun rules Leo. 1091|02:31:15|840|02:31:29|660Okay. These pointers, these pointers, point to the pole star. So as my computer stops acting up… I think it's got a little bit of overload here. 1092|02:31:29|660|02:31:50|380these point to the Pole star which is at this time a major “star of direction.” Now as the axis of the Earth gyrates, then perhaps Polaris will no longer be, for us, a major or the major star of direction, 1093|02:31:50|380|02:32:00|360but something else will take its place over an approximately 25,000-year cycle, or even closer to 26,000 years. 1094|02:32:01|280|02:32:11|580When we deal with the term direction, in general we deal with the first ray, because the first ray is the director. 1095|02:32:11|580|02:32:22|800The first ray monads among men are the directors, the second ray monads among men are the teachers, and the third ray monads the creative manipulators. 1096|02:32:22|960|02:32:30|900He calls them the manipulators, but I think since the third ray is the ray of creative intelligence, one might as well call them the creative manipulators. 1097|02:32:31|120|02:32:37|780Put a little better face on it, since the word manipulation, except in occultism, has a rather bad name. 1098|02:32:38|660|02:32:51|460Okay, a major star of direction. Direction, will, purpose and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with His evolutionary undertakings 1099|02:32:52|140|02:32:58|620in connection with the many lives manifesting in the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system. 1100|02:32:58|620|02:33:10|180So, these are all rather sort of first ray factors. Direction, will, purpose, and plan. There's a bit of the third ray that comes into it, 1101|02:33:10|700|02:33:21|760and perhaps some of the divine design comes in with purpose, the divine pattern suggesting the second ray. 1102|02:33:21|760|02:33:31|200But anyway, largely first ray words. Direction, will, purpose, and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with his evolutionary undertakings, 1103|02:33:31|720|02:33:43|380in connection with the many lives. He's behind the evolution of all of us, and even the tiniest material unit, manifesting in the vehicle of expression, which we call the solar system. 1104|02:33:43|380|02:33:53|560There are other lives, of course, that are manifesting within the vehicles of the solar Logos, which are not technically part of the etheric physical solar system, 1105|02:33:53|720|02:34:04|480but which are evolving under his impulse, just the way we have astral entities and mental entities of a lesser kind evolving under our impulse as human beings. 1106|02:34:05|700|02:34:19|100All these respond to the influences of the first ray which is, to all intents and purposes, the energy of divine embodied will, 1107|02:34:19|760|02:34:31|520We are speaking here of the first ray, that power of driving things forward, which Aries confers. Driving forward through space. 1108|02:34:31|520|02:34:41|960Aries is closely related to this divine embodied will, which has been esoterically described as “unavoidable directed purpose.” 1109|02:34:42|360|02:34:57|340There is a final design or relationship towards which all is driven by the will nature of the solar Logos, as it is impulsed by Aries connected with the father aspect. 1110|02:34:58|740|02:35:12|160Within our solar system, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions not the only expressions, okay, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions or custodians of this first ray energy 1111|02:35:12|720|02:35:21|060and are, as I have told you, esoteric planets. And this is one of the places where Pluto is mentioned as an esoteric planet, 1112|02:35:21|060|02:35:33|540probably because so much of its purpose and nature remains unknown, but it is also a non-sacred planet. 1113|02:35:33|860|02:35:49|780So, this is interesting: we have Pluto as an esoteric, non-sacred planet, and Vulcan as an esoteric, sacred planet. 1114|02:35:49|780|02:35:58|140And we are going to see that there are connections here of Pluto with Aries; there is a triangle called Aries-Pluto-Shamballa. 1115|02:35:58|980|02:36:08|540And we have seen that Aries is involved in a great pair relationship, in which the sun-veiling Vulcan is related. 1116|02:36:08|540|02:36:19|900There is something on the first ray, which Aries and Vulcan share: they drive into matter, they force themselves into new fields, 1117|02:36:20|220|02:36:27|680some of them dense, some of them more refined. But let us look at the downward pointing arrow of matter associated with Vulcan, 1118|02:36:28|340|02:36:32|040and the tendency of Aries to drive down into matter as well. 1119|02:36:32|040|02:36:38|860There is also the tendency of Aries, following its lift, to rise up out of matter in terms of resurrection, 1120|02:36:39|660|02:36:49|500and we can think of Vulcan in a similar way, as giving such a quality of intense light that matter is etherealized, 1121|02:36:49|700|02:37:00|680or elevated from its lower vibratory conditions. So Vulcan is involved with increasing the vibration of matter until it becomes radiant and etherealized. 1122|02:37:01|760|02:37:13|880Okay, The first indication of the true spiritual will which I suppose is etheric in its nature, only begins to manifest upon the Path of Discipleship— 1123|02:37:14|140|02:37:23|460The true spiritual will only begins to manifest upon the path of discipleship. hence the late discovery of these two planets 1124|02:37:23|520|02:37:29|700(late in point of time and from the angle of human knowledge) for it is only in this Aryan race which is a mental race— 1125|02:37:29|700|02:37:39|460the mind conveying the will—for it is only in this Aryan race period that humanity is to any large extent beginning to manifest evidence 1126|02:37:39|700|02:37:48|820(and as yet it is no more) of a reaction or a response to the spiritual will of deity as it comes to our planet 1127|02:37:49|220|02:37:53|900and hence to us via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto. 1128|02:37:53|900|02:38:06|960Spiritual will via Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. As spiritual will is also identified with Atma, we can think of Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto as identified to a degree with Atma, 1129|02:38:07|340|02:38:14|260and also their Saturn could enter. Okay, you said a lot here, haven't you? 1130|02:38:15|240|02:38:27|100So only when we are becoming mentally focused and can begin to touch the triadic levels through the building of the Antahkarana on the path of discipleship and the spiritual will begin to manifest, 1131|02:38:27|400|02:38:36|440and then I suppose you could say that we come into relation with the higher natures of Vulcan and Pluto. 1132|02:38:36|440|02:38:42|360We certainly are all exposed to their lower natures at any point in the development of humanity, 1133|02:38:43|020|02:38:49|820but come in relation to the higher nature of these aero-planets, you might call them. 1134|02:38:49|940|02:38:56|120Vulcan pointing downward, Pluto pointing upward, upon the path of discipleship. 1135|02:38:57|940|02:39:08|820Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. That's one important triangle of the constellation and two planets conveying the first ray, and perhaps some other rays as well. 1136|02:39:09|400|02:39:14|940It's interesting when looking at such a triangle to consider the other rays that are involved with each point of the triangle. 1137|02:39:15|840|02:39:24|420And seventh ray is involved with Aries, of course, and Vulcan has, I think, much of the fifth ray with it, and Pluto not only the first ray, 1138|02:39:24|420|02:39:32|560but some of the sixth and some of the fifth. But those are more obscure points which don't really need elaborating at this point. 1139|02:39:32|760|02:39:37|720We want to get the essential idea of what D.K. is saying. 1140|02:39:38|600|02:39:47|200And what is said here is that it's only when humanity is really ready for the energy of certain planets that they are actually discovered. 1141|02:39:47|200|02:39:58|780Now, he seems to act as if Vulcan has already been discovered. This is hence the late discovery of these two planets. 1142|02:39:59|920|02:40:05|380Well, it would mean that they had been discovered, that Vulcan had somehow been discovered. 1143|02:40:06|440|02:40:13|800Pluto, we know, has been discovered, and it was discovered before this book was written, Esoteric Astrology. 1144|02:40:13|800|02:40:19|720It was discovered, or photographed in 1915; it was discovered in 1930, so it has been discovered. 1145|02:40:20|240|02:40:32|080Now, does this mean that Vulcan has in some way been photographed just as Pluto was photographed, but not realized for 15 years after the photograph was made? 1146|02:40:32|960|02:40:40|900Well, anyway, or is he predicting the future that Vulcan will be discovered rather late in the day, perhaps not too far from now? 1147|02:40:40|900|02:40:51|840Because the spiritual will of man is beginning to manifest. So You have, therefore, the following direct line of will energy: 1148|02:40:55|860|02:41:03|7601. The Pointer furthest from the Pole Star in the constellation of the Great Bear. and that is associated with Aries. 1149|02:41:03|760|02:41:14|940Finally, he's saying that This is, esoterically speaking, [196] a great reservoir or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose. 1150|02:41:15|540|02:41:26|800It almost seems not just a six-ray star, according to one of the theoretical enumerations given, where you pretty well count, if I do it this way, 1151|02:41:26|800|02:41:36|540you count across the top of the Great Bear, then come down to the six-ray star, and backwards to the seventh-ray star. 1152|02:41:36|600|02:41:42|300This one way of doing it seems like, then, a great hook in some manner. 1153|02:41:43|600|02:41:50|420So it's a great reservoir, or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose, so it seems like it has some first-ray implications to it, 1154|02:41:50|420|02:42:08|800because it is ruled by Aries, and therefore the first-ray is suggestive, even though there are ways to attribute to it the sixth-ray and kind of the second aspect position within the Trinity of a distant pointer, closer pointer, and Polaris. 1155|02:42:09|740|02:42:19|080The Pointer nearest to the Pole Star is expressive of a lower aspect of the will, which—in speaking of humanity—we call self-will. 1156|02:42:19|080|02:42:28|060Well, there is the Leo star, interestingly enough, and it's connected with Ahamkara and that limiting sense of self. 1157|02:42:28|560|02:42:40|980Now, in a way, anything that's found within the Great Bear can be considered an expression of the will, because the Great Bear is in a sense a cosmic Manu. 1158|02:42:40|980|02:42:54|900This is in the idea of Steven Pugh, who's done a lot of work on these super-constellations, these important constellations which are part of a system of relationships which is beyond that of the zodiac. 1159|02:42:55|640|02:43:16|780So, it is a great center of will, and D.K. says it represents the seven head centers in the one about whom naught may be said, not the crown center, which the zodiac represents, the heart within the head of the one about whom naught may be said, a great heart center, which kind of suggests second-ray meaning, 1160|02:43:16|780|02:43:28|660but in fact represents seven head centers, just as man has seven head centers within or around his head, perhaps represented by Vulcan, which is connected with the Great Bear. 1161|02:43:29|500|02:43:41|960So, these seven head centers would naturally express the will aspect, the different aspects of the will we see according to the seven rays. 1162|02:43:41|960|02:43:55|720So anyway, this star Dubhe, closest to the star Polaris, is a Leo star, and it expresses self-will, and we also see that Polaris is connected with Leo. 1163|02:43:55|860|02:44:05|380So we have two Leo representatives there, and that's very interesting. Maybe one representing the lower self, and another a far higher self, a monadic self. 1164|02:44:05|380|02:44:16|420Okay, so we have here, he's talking about certain direct lines of will energy. The pointer furthest from the pole star, that's one. 1165|02:44:17|440|02:44:29|0002. Aries, in which the will to create or to manifest makes its appearance [ that's kind of a 1-7 relationship] and a great divine experiment is initiated. 1166|02:44:29|000|02:44:45|720Here it seems that the pointer is more powerful than Aries itself. Is this the constellation Aries, or is this the sign Aries as it may pertain to the sun itself or to the earth? 1167|02:44:45|720|02:45:04|080I think we have two systems of signs, one of which relates to the solar orb, and the other of which relates to the various planetary spheres according to the inclination of their axis. 1168|02:45:04|080|02:45:27|880So we know we have a system of signs, or as Alan Leo says, of lunes, L-U-N-E-S, surrounding like sections of an orange, the entire earth, and maybe every constellation has those 12 lunes as well, although their orientation at any point in time will be different from each other. 1169|02:45:27|880|02:45:49|760So we seem to be going from the star farthest from the pointer, farthest from Polaris, the pointer farthest from Polaris, to Aries, either the constellation or sign, and then to Vulcan and Pluto, two first-ray planets, Vulcan probably being a first-ray soul since it is a sacred planet, 1170|02:45:49|760|02:46:02|320and Pluto a non-sacred planet probably being a first-ray personality since D.K. usually talks of the non-sacred planets in terms of their personality ray since they are not just so focused. 1171|02:46:02|900|02:46:16|400Then to Vulcan and Pluto, 3. Vulcan and Pluto are related to the two Pointers and are only now beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response. 1172|02:46:17|160|02:46:42|660A definite and clear manner, there is the qualifier because, you know, Vulcan represents in a certain respect the resistance, the obduracy of matter, and Pluto represents many suppressed negative factors which certainly do, it seems, affect in an unconscious way many human beings who are not yet spiritual in their orientation or understanding. 1173|02:46:43|540|02:46:55|460Their effect has been planetary in its nature up to date well, and has affected many unconsciously as a result, and has not hitherto been at all effective 1174|02:46:56|480|02:47:06|940What does effective mean? I suppose to help the human being progress has been at all effective in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature. 1175|02:47:06|940|02:47:20|400The fourth kingdom of nature is that of the human beings, and Pluto and Vulcan not very effective with respect to the vegetable kingdom. 1176|02:47:21|920|02:47:27|200Perhaps plants will become radiant and in that respect be affected by Vulcan. 1177|02:47:27|960|02:47:36|000I cannot see immediately how Pluto, except for some of the more deadly plants, would be affecting the vegetable kingdom. 1178|02:47:36|000|02:47:41|640But anyway, the rays are such that they do not resonate with the second or vegetable kingdom. 1179|02:47:42|360|02:47:58|000Now we have the next recipient in this line, 4. Shamballa, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet. and one might also think the custodian of the purpose for our planet. 1180|02:47:58|000|02:48:20|440So let's see here. If we turn to the page where he's actually describing these things, Esoteric Astrology 193, we'll see if he's actually drawn a diagram which will help us understand this. 1181|02:48:20|440|02:48:31|880Scorpio the scorpion, Aries… etc., etc. Doesn't look like we have a diagram yet. 1182|02:48:32|420|02:48:39|760But we will have a diagram coming which will show this second pointer, quite elevated. 1183|02:48:39|760|02:48:53|560We will have the constellation or sign Aries, we will have Vulcan and Pluto, and we will have the Earth with its point of reception for the law of assembly of energies, Shambhala. 1184|02:48:54|840|02:49:09|540So, okay, this is a first ray line of force. These planets are definitely related to Shambhala. We know the Aries-Pluto-Shambhala triangle for the destructiveness of Shambhala. 1185|02:49:09|540|02:49:24|560And we know that Vulcan is very connected with Shambhala at the time of the Wesak, Vulcan being the hierarchical esoteric ruler of Taurus, and the imposition of divine will. 1186|02:49:24|560|02:49:34|320Vulcan, a planet of pressured imposition, is very much involved with Shambhala. It may have destructive Plutonic effects. 1187|02:49:34|320|02:49:55|380It's all meant to drive us towards planetary purpose, which we can think of as indicated in part by Aries, and through this pointer which is associated with Aries, and with more of the second aspect of divinity. 1188|02:49:55|380|02:50:08|240It should help bring out the planetary soul. That is what the purpose of Shambhala must be at this time, because the planetary soul, the secondary soul, is not yet expressing fully. 1189|02:50:08|580|02:50:19|200But it's on its way, and as we know, the reappearance of the Christ is one of those signal events which is bringing forward the planetary soul into greater expression. 1190|02:50:20|480|02:50:32|500Leo is the sign wherein the consciousness of individuality is developed, Certainly that is in its lower sense; later, isolated unity is connected with Leo. 1191|02:50:33|020|02:50:48|640It's developed, utilised and finally consecrated to divine purpose. So this is the completely soul-infused personality, a higher Leo and a lower Leo being fused and consecrated to a still greater Leo of divine purpose. 1192|02:50:48|640|02:51:15|340It is related to Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little Bear) and it is also peculiarly susceptible to the influence of that Pointer in the Great Bear which is the nearest to the Pole Star. 1193|02:51:16|020|02:51:33|240Now, you know, it's a great God, it's a great deity. The fact that it has a kind of effect in producing ahamkara and individualism in man is only an adaptation of that energy to the present stage of man's development. 1194|02:51:33|240|02:51:49|500It doesn't necessarily mean that that star is in any way compromised or a lesser influence, because we adapted to our own individuality, and especially I would say at first individualism rather than individuality. 1195|02:51:49|500|02:52:01|780Individuality is a very expansive thing, you know. Maybe later it does not include the sense of separateness. Only at first with individualism does it do this. 1196|02:52:02|220|02:52:13|360But there is a higher individuality, which is the soul consciousness. It's a realization of a center of energy unified with many other centers of energy but having its own distinctness. 1197|02:52:13|360|02:52:32|680And even on the level of the monad, with its own particular vehicle on the second plane, there is a kind of individuality at that level as well, although identification as spirit is the paramount realization in monadic awareness. 1198|02:52:32|680|02:52:47|020This we have been told, none of us having that full monadic awareness yet. So nevertheless, you know, there is a distinct unit. A person is a sun on the monadic level. 1199|02:52:47|740|02:52:56|580And except for the very essence of the monad, which is identical in all cases, there has been a monadic past, there is a monadic present, there is a monadic destiny. 1200|02:52:56|580|02:53:09|220And every monad is upholding a kind of individual role within the manifestation of the planetary Logos, of the solar Logos, and beyond. 1201|02:53:09|220|02:53:30|660So there is a kind of uniqueness through the expression of every monad, even though there is that whole question of whether a monad is subsumed into a larger type of entity, which then becomes the greater individuality of which the monad is simply a part. 1202|02:53:30|660|02:53:41|780But every monad realizing then that it is essentially this larger individuality which has subsumed it. 1203|02:53:41|780|02:53:49|400Okay. So Leo related to Polaris, the Great Bear, the pointer nearest to the Pole Star. 1204|02:53:49|640|02:53:57|460Esoterically speaking, now, the Pole Star is regarded as a star of reorientation, not just a star of direction. 1205|02:53:57|460|02:54:11|940So reorientation of facing something more powerful. Here he describes it: a star of reorientation whereby the art of re-facing and recovering that which is lost is developed. 1206|02:54:12|040|02:54:16|640Well, what is lost? The lost word, the monadic nature is lost. 1207|02:54:16|640|02:54:38|280We need to re-face first the soul and then re-face that brilliant sun, the monad itself, and recover that which we have lost through our descent into the long millions of years of pilgrimage on which we, the jiva, have been progressing. 1208|02:54:38|280|02:55:02|320So when we see Polaris prominent, we have the possibility of turning our face, our Janus face, our two spiritual two-faced ness in a way, toward this higher aspect of ourselves and to recover that which has been lost through emanated descent. 1209|02:55:02|320|02:55:20|320So Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is regarded as the “star of re-orientation” whereby the art of “refacing and recovering that which is lost” is developed. a great opportunity to set one's face towards the greater light. 1210|02:55:20|320|02:55:26|540And some of these stars, D.K. tells us, you know, in the charts of disciples we have to see where they are found. 1211|02:55:27|140|02:55:41|620If we have Sirius, if we have Alcyone, if we have one of the Pointers, if we have Polaris in any way prominent in our astrological chart, opportunity is thereby offered. 1212|02:55:41|620|02:55:55|600Much attenuated opportunity, of course, because they represent stupendous sources, but in our own little ways something trickles down and can give us an opportunity resonant with their nature. 1213|02:55:56|380|02:56:07|580Okay, so This eventually brings a man back to his originating source. and you can kind of see the Sagittarius in it, right? You know, Sagittarius outward bound and Sagittarius inward bound. 1214|02:56:07|580|02:56:35|740So when I sometimes think that I can relate the three fire signs, the two Pointers and Polaris, Sagittarius, a sign of direction, and the Pole Star, a major star of direction, and then this idea of re-facing and journeying back to the Father's home or back to the Pole Star, the Pole Star representing the monad, it all fits with Sagittarius to a degree. 1215|02:56:35|740|02:56:56|080So, this eventually brings man back to his originating source. Well, that's the monad, right? And Sagittarius certainly has everything to do with that trip back to one's source. 1216|02:56:56|080|02:57:11|300It is idealism in the sense of smell on the sixth ray which Sagittarius conveys, which brings us back towards our originating source. We sort of smell our way home the way dogs do, and dogs are on the sixth ray. 1217|02:57:11|300|02:57:38|620We smell our way home using Sagittarius to find our true emanating source, our true originating source. It might, therefore, be correctly inferred that this Pointer and the energy emanating from it guides humanity upon the involutionary path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who is still upon the Mutable Cross. 1218|02:57:38|620|02:58:01|580Now, he's talking about the Pointer, capitalize it, Pointer which is closest to the Pole Star. That's ruled by Leo and it's guiding man when he is still in the ahamkaric phase of isolated identity. 1219|02:58:02|980|02:58:23|160He thinks he is simply an isolated unit, and that is under Leo, yes. Then the energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the Path, 1220|02:58:23|160|02:58:44|600So, he is now reorienting, he is now making his way back towards his originating source, and he is undergoing initiation in order to do this, entering through Aries into one field after another, which takes him closer to his originating source. 1221|02:58:44|600|02:58:54|100“The energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt, and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the path.” 1222|02:58:54|720|02:59:14|580and such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the Hierarchy. It's a bit like the rising sign in that sense. We hear about the driving energies of the rising sign, and we think about the sign Aries and its driving nature and how it embodies the Father aspect, the first ray aspect. 1223|02:59:14|580|02:59:20|100The progress onward is a driving force, home. 1224|02:59:22|120|02:59:26|200Alright, leads a man nearer to the hierarchy. 1225|02:59:26|700|02:59:36|420You see the signs are being presented here in various guises. They don't mean just one thing, and they don't refer to just one source. 1226|02:59:36|420|02:59:41|900They can refer to many sources and mean different things when referred to those sources. 1227|02:59:42|560|02:59:50|600Because in a way, when you look at the three fire signs, it's Aries that represents the monad, Leo the soul, and Sagittarius the body. 1228|02:59:51|200|02:59:59|140And we cannot associate, in the way D.K. is associating the signs here, we cannot use that particular format. 1229|03:00:00|940|03:00:14|780Excuse me. “It is here that the divine necessity, the divine necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed for us in the symbol of the sky.” 1230|03:00:14|880|03:00:22|160In other words, the two Pointers are aligned with Polaris, and that gives us the sense of how to return home. 1231|03:00:22|160|03:00:28|760It's kind of interesting though, isn't it, that the star representing the personality is closest to the star representing the monad. 1232|03:00:29|240|03:00:36|020And the star representing the soul is, in a way, of these three, the outermost or most distant from the monad. 1233|03:00:36|580|03:00:39|360There must be some symbolism in that which escapes me at the moment. 1234|03:00:39|980|03:00:45|580It is here that the divine [197] necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed for us in the symbolism of the sky 1235|03:00:46|300|03:00:58|420and when it has been achieved then there is a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a new and creative manner to sources of divine supply. 1236|03:00:59|400|03:01:10|720So that's what we need to do. All of us achieve alignment so that the sources of divine supply from higher dimensions can be accessed by us. 1237|03:01:10|720|03:01:20|920And that will bring about our release. Once alignment is perfect, the imprisonment of the consciousness can no longer be sustained, 1238|03:01:21|220|03:01:29|050and the man escapes under the influence of these higher energies into more rarefied realms. 1239|03:01:29|720|03:01:36|220A consciousness rises, the quality of matter is elevated, and the prisoner can go free. 1240|03:01:37|500|03:01:43|340OK. Well, we have gone over the three hours. So let's see if we do any more. 1241|03:01:45|240|03:01:51|240Astrologers will do well (in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and particularly of initiates) 1242|03:01:51|400|03:01:56|220because that's when I think the so-called fixed stars are really expressive. 1243|03:01:57|720|03:02:06|120The solar dimension begins as man becomes a solar being at the third initiation, identified as a soul on the higher mental plane, 1244|03:02:06|640|03:02:12|240identified as a sun on the higher mental plane, and all of these stars are really suns. 1245|03:02:12|300|03:02:19|680So it's particularly in connection with initiates that we have to use these stars. 1246|03:02:19|680|03:02:27|040He says, to consider the two Pointers and the Pole Star. particularly in the lives of initiates, 1247|03:02:27|640|03:02:33|180and I don't know why he would want to leave out Sirius and Alcyone either.“ 1248|03:02:34|160|03:02:41|800But these two pointers and the pole star, where are they located? Do they touch angles of the chart? 1249|03:02:42|000|03:02:45|640Are there any planetary conjunctions? Are there aspects? 1250|03:02:45|640|03:02:50|200These are things that we might want to look at. 1251|03:02:50|720|03:03:00|620They are mysteriously connected with the three aspects of incarnated man—Spirit, soul and body. or spirit, soul, and personality. 1252|03:03:00|780|03:03:05|200We might call personality as a whole body. That's another way of looking at body. 1253|03:03:05|860|03:03:12|060 More than this it is not permitted to me to convey to you. I may, however, give you another hint. 1254|03:03:12|960|03:03:15|360Okay. Are we alert? 1255|03:03:16|880|03:03:21|060These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will. 1256|03:03:21|300|03:03:24|900Yes, they're all on the first aspect of divinity. All of that. 1257|03:03:25|760|03:03:33|880Way up high, you know, in our local cosmic sphere, in the position where the head is, the head representing the will, 1258|03:03:33|880|03:03:38|460they are three aspects of the divine will in the entirety. 1259|03:03:38|960|03:03:46|800Great Bear is, in a way, a Logos, a constellation of Logos, which represents the first aspect, and hence the divine will. 1260|03:03:47|340|03:03:56|220It is the three aspects of all expressions of divinity in manifestation which underlie the Science of Triangles. 1261|03:03:56|220|03:04:06|780So every time we have a triangle, we have to look at which one of the points of the triangle represents what phase of divinity. 1262|03:04:07|360|03:04:09|660This I will later elaborate. 1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will. 1264|03:04:14|300|03:04:22|380And the way we've been looking at it is that Polaris represents, perhaps, the will to be the first aspect of divine will, 1265|03:04:22|380|03:04:33|040and the Merak represents the will to synthesis, perhaps, or the will to unify the second aspect of divine will, 1266|03:04:34|060|03:04:43|600and Dubhe, which is the point of closest, representing the third aspect, the will to express, the will to create, perhaps. 1267|03:04:44|400|03:04:49|080Much creativity is found in relation to both Aries and Leo, both, really. 1268|03:04:49|080|03:04:57|360We certainly know that many people with Leo prominent in their chart turn to the creative and expressive life, 1269|03:04:57|540|03:05:00|520usually, at this stage, in the personal sense. 1270|03:05:01|880|03:05:04|920Okay, friends, where are we so far? 1271|03:05:05|840|03:05:12|660We're on page, let's see, we're on Esoteric Astrology adventure 75, 1272|03:05:13|760|03:05:27|420kind of ending with section C, section C, and we're on page 197. 1273|03:05:29|040|03:05:41|860So we really began the whole thing, 197, and E.A. 75, thus far, from 192 to 197. 1274|03:05:41|860|03:05:47|080So we'll just take a little break here, and I'll see whether we will go on or not. 1275|03:05:56|580|03:06:09|100And we move on here, and essentially we're in the D section, the fourth section of Esoteric Astrology adventure, number 75. 1276|03:06:09|100|03:06:14|960It says, “Another triangle of energies also appears. 1277|03:06:16|560|03:06:23|840Aries, Leo, and Polaris,” and Polaris being ruled by Leo and connected with a little bear, 1278|03:06:24|620|03:06:32|340which is the son of the great bear, which is the father, so hence the Leo aspect, as Leo rules the sun. 1279|03:06:33|900|03:06:37|360Another triangle of energy also appears: 1280|03:06:37|360|03:06:43|540Aries, Leo and Polaris, and they are doubly connected through the medium of the Pointers. 1281|03:06:44|780|03:06:52|580Now let's see, let's see if there is here anything that we might be… 1282|03:06:54|100|03:06:58|280No, it doesn't show, so there is no diagram yet. 1283|03:07:00|380|03:07:03|920So they are doubly connected through the medium of the pointers. 1284|03:07:03|920|03:07:18|980Aries, Leo, Polaris, and Aries shows us a connection with the pointer furthest from Polaris, 1285|03:07:19|360|03:07:24|560and Leo shows us a connection with the pointer closest to Polaris. 1286|03:07:24|560|03:07:35|680Okay, so all we have here, a double Leo connection, yes. 1287|03:07:36|580|03:07:44|900And if we had Polaris connected as a star, a major star of direction, with Sagittarius, we would have all three represented. 1288|03:07:45|960|03:07:48|160Now we begin to speak about Scorpio. 1289|03:07:49|760|03:07:55|760Scorpio is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius. 1290|03:07:56|600|03:07:58|600Now either the sign or the constellation. 1291|03:08:00|100|03:08:07|220Scorpio as a constellation is so immense and contains within itself this huge supergiant Antares, 1292|03:08:08|160|03:08:12|960which is certainly a more powerful star than Sirius is, 1293|03:08:12|960|03:08:26|500that, you know, you begin to wonder how Sirius could be considered the superior source to the constellation of Scorpio. 1294|03:08:27|000|03:08:29|360But anyway, it could be the sign Scorpio. 1295|03:08:30|200|03:08:32|880This is the great star of initiation 1296|03:08:33|220|03:08:39|520[This is Sirius] because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) 1297|03:08:39|520|03:08:45|840is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius. 1298|03:08:46|100|03:08:58|100Now, in some respects, Sirius has been called the Cosmic Christ, or it's in one scope of understanding, it is the Cosmic Christ. 1299|03:08:59|780|03:09:07|600So we have here the possibility of Sirius being a great, ultimately second-ray center, 1300|03:09:07|600|03:09:10|460probably in its highest monadic aspect. 1301|03:09:11|300|03:09:15|140It belongs to the second-ray and perhaps in its personality nature as well. 1302|03:09:16|960|03:09:20|080It's hard to say it could belong to the second-ray. 1303|03:09:20|720|03:09:28|460It has much of the sixth-ray in it because of the loyalty inherent in its symbology, 1304|03:09:28|520|03:09:30|560just as Venus has much of the sixth-ray. 1305|03:09:30|560|03:09:37|840As a matter of fact, in many ways, Venus seems to be a tiny replica of Sirius. 1306|03:09:39|480|03:09:45|500There are certain of our planets which are most related to certain of our neighboring stars. 1307|03:09:46|140|03:09:48|940Jupiter most related, I think, to our own sun. 1308|03:09:49|600|03:09:54|280But Venus most related to Sirius, I would say. 1309|03:09:56|100|03:10:06|520These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, 1310|03:10:07|220|03:10:17|240in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. 1311|03:10:18|080|03:10:22|180It is esoterically called the “brilliant star of sensitivity.” 1312|03:10:22|180|03:10:36|520So we have Sirius representing an expression of the Cosmic Christ and working through the sign Scorpio, 1313|03:10:37|100|03:10:48|100working through our solar system, through our planet, working through man in his fourth creative hierarchy, 1314|03:10:48|100|03:10:57|280and thus through, again, Scorpio and Mercury, and also working in the lower forms of life expression. 1315|03:10:58|140|03:11:01|000So this is a great, in a way, second-ray source. 1316|03:11:01|340|03:11:11|240Now, it cannot be denied that like Venus, there is a tremendous fifth-ray associated with Sirius 1317|03:11:11|240|03:11:19|340because it is the source of manas to our solar God, our solar Logos, 1318|03:11:19|740|03:11:25|120just the way we can say that Venus is a source of manas to our Earth. 1319|03:11:26|000|03:11:29|940So Venus carries much more of the fifth-ray than our Earth does, 1320|03:11:29|980|03:11:36|820and I think Sirius carries much more of the fifth-ray than our solar Logos does. 1321|03:11:36|820|03:11:44|000But we have an important line here, and within that line Scorpio plays its part. 1322|03:11:44|740|03:11:52|780We can also, there's also a chart in esoteric astrology that shows Pisces playing an important part 1323|03:11:52|780|03:12:05|400in the conduction of the second-ray from Sirius and working into the planet Uranus and through the hierarchy and so forth. 1324|03:12:05|400|03:12:15|380There are so many different lines of energy being conducted, and they each stand on their own. 1325|03:12:16|020|03:12:27|180A particular source or center of life or radiation can play very different roles in different lines of energy. 1326|03:12:27|760|03:12:31|440I mean, you know, here is Uranus, the home of electric fire. 1327|03:12:31|440|03:12:44|740And yet Uranus is found in this second-ray line of energy which involves Sirius, the sign Pisces, Uranus, 1328|03:12:45|160|03:12:52|360the hierarchy, the heart center, the solar plexus, and so forth, even though Uranus has such a tremendous first-ray origin. 1329|03:12:52|500|03:12:57|920But in different lines of energy, the same kind of source can play different roles. 1330|03:12:57|920|03:13:08|840Now, why it is so, I think the full explanation of that lies in the future, as do so many necessary elucidations. 1331|03:13:09|620|03:13:18|000Polaris—The Star of Direction—governing Shamballa. so hence the first-ray nature of it. 1332|03:13:18|080|03:13:26|440Everything from the Great Bear is on the first-ray, but the three pointers give us three different aspects of the will we have been told. 1333|03:13:27|240|03:13:38|660Later, another Pole Star will take the place of Polaris, owing to the interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and movement. 1334|03:13:38|660|03:13:56|460Well, we're talking minimally about the wobble of the Earth's axis, top-like, which completes one gyration every, what is it, 25,920 years, something of that nature? 1335|03:13:56|980|03:14:03|960Almost 26,000 years, but conventionalized as a 25,000-year gyration. 1336|03:14:04|860|03:14:10|080But the name and quality of this star will only be revealed at initiation.[198] 1337|03:14:10|380|03:14:28|040Well, the scientists seem to think they know what stars are involved with the orientation of our axis at different times along this gyration, this cone, cone that it sweeps out. 1338|03:14:28|040|03:14:38|780But perhaps, perhaps D.K. has something more obscure in mind, something less visible to the sight. 1339|03:14:38|780|03:14:48|180There seem to be many gaps in the circle that is swept out by this gyration of the axis. 1340|03:14:48|380|03:15:00|360It seems that there are times when no particular obvious star is that star towards which the axis of the Earth is oriented. 1341|03:15:00|360|03:15:04|880And yet, we would think that there must always be a pole star. 1342|03:15:05|100|03:15:15|640So perhaps farther in space, and not close to our solar system at all, is a star towards which the axis of the Earth can be oriented. 1343|03:15:15|840|03:15:27|360Because it does seem to say that only at initiation, and one would presume rather high initiation, is the name of the star revealed. 1344|03:15:27|360|03:15:33|760And then there are many movements going on. The stars themselves are moving all the time. 1345|03:15:35|240|03:15:47|180And we sometimes look at this as the radial motion of stars, but we're not at all sure how they are all moving relative to each other and what the name of this pole star will be. 1346|03:15:47|180|03:16:08|700But whatever it may be, we will say that whatever its quality is will come through the point of influx of the Earth atom, and will have a tremendous influential effect even as Polaris has had such an effect. 1347|03:16:09|440|03:16:18|940Alright, we're on page 198, continuing with the Scorpio chapter, so now he summarizes for us. 1348|03:16:19|980|03:16:28|840Sirius—The Star of Sensitivity— [The brilliant star of sensitivity, we are told,] governing the Hierarchy. 1349|03:16:28|840|03:16:39|940And so Scorpio will naturally have a very strong connection with the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, and hence with the second ray. 1350|03:16:39|940|03:17:08|980We'll say Scorpio will be connected with the second ray. It already distributes fourth ray force, and perhaps first ray, as it is one of the cosmic decanates, and it is associated with the first ray hero Hercules. 1351|03:17:08|980|03:17:16|500And so the implication is clear that it has something of the first ray connected with it. 1352|03:17:17|000|03:17:28|760Alcyone—The Star of the Individual— governing humanity. It's more connected with the third aspect, just the way the Pleiades have much of the third ray connected with them, 1353|03:17:28|760|03:17:43|440but not to forget the fact that they are the hub of the wheel, so to speak, of our local cosmic system, and that they carry as well a strong influence of cosmic Buddhi, and thus the second ray. 1354|03:17:43|700|03:17:51|240When we look at a particular source, we cannot say that it carries only one ray. We look at the Earth and we find that it carries all seven. 1355|03:17:52|600|03:17:59|620It is active in the expression of all seven rays, even though by one or two or three of these rays it is best known. 1356|03:18:01|140|03:18:07|760Thus it is for the constellations and for great stars. We cannot say only one ray is involved. 1357|03:18:07|760|03:18:24|420So Alcyone is the star of the individual, hence in a way connected with Dubhe or the pointer closest to the Sun, closest to Polaris, ruled by Leo. 1358|03:18:25|680|03:18:35|880And remember, Alcyone is connected with Aquarius, so naturally there would be a connection between Alcyone and that pointer representing the opposites, one Aquarius and the other Leo. 1359|03:18:37|940|03:18:53|680Okay, interesting then that Alcyone, there must be some kind of connection here between Alcyone, Aquarius and Leo, and maybe the first pointer, the pointer closest to Polaris is involved as well. 1360|03:18:53|680|03:19:02|600There is something here about the transition from individual Ahamkaric consciousness into a greater group consciousness. 1361|03:19:02|820|03:19:13|800But the individual, the encapsulated individual, the individual who thinks he is a separate unit and is still bewildered by that separateness, 1362|03:19:13|800|03:19:25|020is definitely connected with a third aspect, which defines under Saturn our particular boundaries and does not emphasize connectedness. 1363|03:19:25|640|03:19:36|050So Alcyone is involved with humanity, the Pleiades are involved with humanity, the Pleiades are involved in giving manas to the seven sacred planets, 1364|03:19:36|050|03:19:45|250which are of the nature of the third aspect when they are compared with the Sun, which is more in the nature of the second aspect. 1365|03:19:46|810|03:19:54|150You can see from the above how the entire plan of this Treatise is gradually unfolding. 1366|03:19:55|150|03:19:57|110Well, I hope we can see that. 1367|03:19:57|110|03:20:09|350It was necessary for me to indicate to you the nature and the purpose of the three divine centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity— the first, second and third aspects, 1368|03:20:09|710|03:20:20|530the center of purpose and will, the center of love and wisdom, center of manas and intelligence, before I could make this part of the teaching clear to you, 1|00:00:06|240|00:00:16|780or before I could point out the nature of the energies pouring from distant constellations and zodiacal signs into our planetary scheme. 1370|03:20:32|370|03:20:39|710We always have to keep the contrast between constellations and signs in our mind. 1371|03:20:39|710|03:20:56|970The constellations are, as it were, galaxies of stars, and the signs are more local, concentrated influences of the energies of those, as D.K. says, galaxies of stars. 1372|03:20:58|970|03:21:07|770Really, just to the A.B.C. That's all that's being offered to us at this point, but at least we are being oriented in the correct direction. 1373|03:21:07|770|03:21:19|190Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point, both in the life of humanity and in the life of the individual human being. 1374|03:21:19|310|03:21:22|930Well, that's kind of a reversal of the wheel, isn't it? 1375|03:21:23|230|03:21:32|590We're told how much the planet Uranus is involved in this idea of reversing the wheel. 1376|03:21:32|590|03:21:48|030And also when we think about Polaris, this art of refacing and regathering or reacquiring that which has been lost, we have a kind of a Uranian process going on there as well. 1377|03:21:48|770|03:22:00|150And we do know that Uranus is the highest ruler of Leo, which allows the individual, when he conceives of himself, to conceive of himself as Spirit or Monad. 1378|03:22:00|150|03:22:11|850So Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being. 1379|03:22:12|470|03:22:16|850That turning point we can call the initial reversal of the wheel. 1380|03:22:17|570|03:22:29|430And when I'm thinking about the petals of the egoic lotus, now, you know, if we go backwards, 1381|03:22:29|430|03:22:32|730we go forwards and we start with the outermost knowledge petal. 1382|03:22:33|330|03:22:37|910By the time we get to the central petal, we're in what we call a Leo petal. 1383|03:22:38|690|03:22:45|870But if we go backwards, and let's see, do we have to begin with the sign Pisces or would it be Aries? 1384|03:22:46|210|03:22:52|510So it would be Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio. 1385|03:22:52|510|03:22:59|850Yeah, we'd have to begin numbering with Pisces and moving backwards or clockwise for the zodiac. 1386|03:23:00|550|03:23:16|910We would come to Scorpio as ruling the love petal of the egoic lotus where I would say the first reversal of the wheel in the life of the human being occurs. 1387|03:23:17|610|03:23:24|470And maybe, who knows, in the egoic lotus of humanity as a whole, maybe there's also a similar reversal of the wheel. 1388|03:23:26|150|03:23:31|530The turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being. 1389|03:23:31|650|03:23:36|150First time in history, that's now, these years. 1390|03:23:37|310|03:23:42|950For the first time in the history of both mankind and disciples 1391|03:23:43|770|03:23:51|010 the energy of Sirius, pouring into the seven groups which form our planetary Hierarchy evokes a response. 1392|03:23:51|690|03:23:59|810So, Sirius is like a seven-fold prismatic light, a kind of white light that has been divided into seven parts, 1393|03:23:59|810|03:24:04|990and Sirius animates each of the seven ashrams. 1394|03:24:04|990|03:24:16|010So, let's put that down. Let's say the energy from Sirius animates each of the seven ashrams. 1395|03:24:17|830|03:24:30|190Okay, I would remind you of a basic fact in the evolutionary process which astrology will eventually prove scientifically and past all controversy. 1396|03:24:30|290|03:24:34|410How many centuries might it take? We do not know, but it is coming. 1397|03:24:34|410|03:24:45|230This is the fact that energies and forces are pouring upon our system and our planetary lives ceaselessly, [all the time,] 1398|03:24:45|370|03:24:56|090potently and cyclically. all the time, and with real power that may or may not be noticed, and periodically. 1399|03:24:56|090|03:25:07|930So that not all energies are pouring forth at the same time, but they all follow their own cycle, their own rhythm in time. 1400|03:25:09|430|03:25:16|610Yet they are only regarded today as existing when definite response is evoked. 1401|03:25:16|710|03:25:23|770In other words, if there is no response, if there is too much insensitivity to that particular kind of energy, 1402|03:25:23|770|03:25:35|510it's as if the source itself does not exist. They come from all kinds of sources, extraneous to our system and planetary schemes, 1403|03:25:36|250|03:25:47|370but until man responds and registers them both scientists and astrologers fail to recognise them and they are as if they were not. 1404|03:25:48|470|03:25:57|050Okay, so, you know, there's so much that's beating upon us all the time about which we have taken no recognition. 1405|03:25:58|010|03:26:02|050Because without the response, how do we know that they are there, except that we may be told? 1406|03:26:03|130|03:26:06|750This is a point to bear in mind as I continue to teach you, 1407|03:26:06|750|03:26:19|210for I may indicate some sources of active energy which may as yet be unknown to you as playing upon our system and its contents. 1408|03:26:19|410|03:26:21|610Well, I'm sure that is the case. 1409|03:26:22|210|03:26:32|590When we first started reading esoteric astrology, however many years ago, considering the Great Bear and the Pleiades and Sirius and so forth, 1410|03:26:32|590|03:26:38|750all as sources of energy may not have been within our minds at all. 1411|03:26:39|250|03:26:45|190Although we have considered, I'm sure, the zodiac as sources of energy - the zodiac of constellations. 1412|03:26:46|010|03:26:55|370The difficulty will not be because of my inaccuracies but will be owing to the lack of sensitivity which initiation does produce, doesn't it? 1413|03:26:55|370|03:27:03|690Sirius produces sensitivity. Sirius, the brilliant star of initiation, produces sensitivity - the brilliant star of sensitivity. 1414|03:27:04|450|03:27:15|890Sirius produces this sensitivity through the initiatory process. 1415|03:27:16|630|03:27:25|290Okay. But it will be owing to the lack of sensitivity in the mechanism of response which mankind and disciples are at present utilising.[199] 1416|03:27:25|590|03:27:33|890So, D.K. is saying, just because you don't feel it, because you cannot detect it, does not mean that it does not exist. 1417|03:27:34|610|03:27:45|150So, we have to be very cautious about this, very reserved, and take in what he says, even though we may not have experienced the impacts of these various sources. 1418|03:27:46|690|03:27:55|030You have consequently in connection with the path of discipleship - now he already told us something about the path of initiation in relation to Shambhala - 1419|03:27:55|590|03:28:03|050you have the following lines of “influential energy” So, now he's dealing, I think, pretty much with the second ray line. 1420|03:28:03|050|03:28:14|7501. Sirius—working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays Now, I think we can connect the entire science of the seven rays with the Sirian energy. 1421|03:28:15|830|03:28:25|670Connect the science of the seven rays with Sirius. And we already know they can be connected with the Great Bear. 1422|03:28:25|670|03:28:40|090So, I do think we have different expressions of the seven rays coming through the three major super-constellations, which we can call Great Bear, Sirius, and Pleiades. 1423|03:28:40|310|03:28:45|050And in a higher octave spiral, I would call it Great Bear, Little Bear, and Pleiades. 1424|03:28:45|670|03:28:52|010Sirius is working in a sevenfold manner. So, let us remember the sevens and the second ray when we think of Sirius. 1425|03:28:52|010|03:29:03|190Because the science of the seven rays is particularly connected with the second ray - a mode of approaching truth. 1426|03:29:03|910|03:29:07|490The science of esoteric astrology, more with the third ray. 1427|03:29:08|510|03:29:17|990So, we have Sirius working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays, and their seven groups as these constitute the active Hierarchy. 1428|03:29:17|990|03:29:36|070So, let us remember, and I'll say here, let us remember the relation of Sirius to the seven rays as a whole, and to the second ray in general. 1429|03:29:36|830|03:29:50|330Sirius, the Cosmic Christ, or at least one of the Cosmic Christs, probably with a very strong second ray in relation to it, will be involved with the sevenness. 1430|03:29:50|970|03:29:59|050As a matter of fact, I think about this relationship: Sirius, Leo, Jupiter. 1431|03:29:59|050|03:30:10|710And we have here definitely a second ray connection. All of these sources are considered sources of consciousness, sentience, and of the second ray. 1432|03:30:11|170|03:30:22|370And we have the interesting sevenness connected with Sirius, and the sevenness connected with Jupiter, which is a planet conveying the second ray and the seventh ray. 1433|03:30:22|570|03:30:26|550At least those two are found expressing through it, and there may be more. 1434|03:30:27|190|03:30:39|990Okay, so we have Sirius, and then we have 2. The Fixed Cross—a fusion of four major energies, pouring into our solar system, on to our planet and through humanity. 1435|03:30:39|990|03:31:02|370So when we are dealing with the struggles of the fixed cross, let's say, struggles of the fixed cross of the soul, we are dealing with Sirian energy behind it all. 1436|03:31:04|110|03:31:11|290Now of course, you know, it's just one little star, and four great constellations. 1437|03:31:11|770|03:31:23|810Constellations: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius - some of those constellations having stars immensely more powerful than Sirius. 1438|03:31:23|810|03:31:38|870So there's a bit of a reversal here, a bit of a blind. I think we're dealing basically with the signs of the fixed cross rather than the constellations themselves being receptive to the energies of Sirius. 1439|03:31:39|570|03:31:43|170Otherwise, we have the tail wagging the dog. 1440|03:31:43|870|03:31:51|910Sirius is a dwarf star, unless something more is meant by Sirius - for instance, a Sirian system of stars perhaps. 1441|03:31:51|910|03:31:57|510But anyway, Sirius is operative as soul is emerging. 1442|03:31:58|830|03:32:12|610So, as soul or consciousness is emerging, behind this emergence is the energy of Sirius as mediated through the fixed cross. 1443|03:32:13|610|03:32:17|250Okay. Through the fixed cross. 1444|03:32:19|670|03:32:22|830Oops. There we go. Okay. 1445|03:32:24|470|03:32:39|670And then we have 3. Scorpio— [in particular], an aspect of the Fixed Cross, of peculiar and specialized potency - specialized to draw forth discipleship on the path of discipleship, 1446|03:32:39|670|03:32:48|850of peculiar and specialised potency upon the Path of Discipleship and preparing, through its tests and trials with its tests and trials. the following things. 1447|03:32:49|630|03:33:03|570So what do we have so far? We have Sirius, we have the fixed cross, and then especially Scorpio, which in a way is most emblematic of the struggles experienced upon the fixed cross. 1448|03:33:03|570|03:33:10|710So, it is preparing with its tests and trials the following day. 1449|03:33:11|670|03:33:24|510a. The process of re-orientation, whereby a man mounts the Fixed Cross and leaves the Mutable Cross. and this can occur, can occur, the first initiation, 1450|03:33:24|510|03:33:53|450where the mounting of the fixed cross occurs, and Scorpio is involved in the first initiation, just as it is involved in the two subsequent initiations, the second and the third. 1451|03:33:53|450|03:34:03|660So there's a process of reorientation. There are a number of reorientations. There's a reorientation that occurs earlier in the process of the fifth petal when a man becomes an aspirant. 1452|03:34:04|490|03:34:14|450Then there's that reorientation where he leaves the mutable cross and joins the fixed cross and becomes the true disciple involved in soul culture. 1453|03:34:14|450|03:34:31|470And then there's another confirmation of orientation which occurs between the second and third initiations after the temptations in the desert, and the temptations are particularly connected with Scorpio. 1454|03:34:32|430|03:34:51|030So there are three places there where I find Scorpio to be active, and of course it's active in other places too, such as at the second and at the third initiations, and maybe in a way that is quite different at the fourth initiation, which brings about the death of the causal body. 1455|03:34:51|030|03:35:00|950It says its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt after the third initiation, but what other kind of potency may be felt? 1456|03:35:01|790|03:35:12|530Okay, so we're dealing here with the tests and trials of Scorpio, and it produces a reorientation, and then b. The disciple for the first, second and third initiations. 1457|03:35:12|530|03:35:31|450After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt. but is some other aspect of Scorpio felt? Some power of resurrection, perhaps? 1458|03:35:32|370|03:35:54|490Because I think we cannot say that Scorpio is not involved in the fourth initiation after all. The fourth initiation is ruled by the fourth ray, which is the major ray to come through Scorpio, it being the sign through which more intensity of fourth ray comes now than any other sign. 1459|03:35:54|490|03:36:08|590And then its esoteric, rather hierarchical, ruler, Mercury, conveying also the fourth ray, and Mercury and Saturn together being involved at the fourth initiation. 1460|03:36:08|590|03:36:27|930So there are so many hints about why Scorpio could also be involved at the fourth initiation, but in a different way is no longer testing out our relationship to each of the three lower vehicles respectively. 1461|03:36:27|930|03:36:57|910Perhaps in a way it's testing our relationship to the entire personality. But anyway we have to take this at face value. After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt. but there is the idea of life, let's say, death unto life, the death of the lower worlds, giving way through the elixir of the 1462|03:36:58|670|03:37:23|210life which is distilled through sacrifice and death unto a higher form of life, passing through death. When we think about Saint Paul, well he was clearly passing, he had passed through the third initiation, we are told, by the Tibetan, but by the time his life had ended, he had made the great sacrifice it seems, and he was a Scorpio individual. 1463|03:37:23|210|03:37:39|910And I believe he was passing through the fourth initiation, taking maybe mastership in a subsequent life, you know, maybe as the Iamblichus, was that the name of it? 1464|03:37:39|910|03:37:51|590Anyway, Scorpio was involved in his chart, and I believe Scorpio could see him through not only the third initiation, but in some way made possible the sacrifice at the fourth. 1465|03:37:52|470|03:38:17|590Okay, so what are we looking at here? We are looking at Scorpio as an aspect of the fixed cross, it has a peculiar specialized potency, and it's preparing through the tests and trials for the process of reorientation, it's preparing the disciple for the first, second, and third initiation, and those are the two factors that are mentioned. 1466|03:38:17|590|03:38:32|830Now, the next in this alignment, so far, of Sirius, fixed cross, and Scorpio, is the hierarchy itself, and we see how intimately related Scorpio is to the spiritual hierarchy of our planet. 1467|03:38:32|830|03:38:42|9104. The Hierarchy.—The distributing agency presumably of Sirian force and of love-wisdom, to the various kingdoms in nature. 1468|03:38:43|810|03:39:03|250So, these lines of connection are very important. We have seen here an earlier, here's an earlier line of connection, the furthest, the pole star furthest from the Polaris, then Aries, then Vulcan Pluto, and then Shambhala. 1469|03:39:03|250|03:39:16|390Okay, that's one line of connection we have studied. And now we are studying a second ray, a line of descent or distribution. We have Sirius working in a seven-fold manner. 1470|03:39:17|710|03:39:28|590Always, you must remember that, because these rays are not just a product of the Great Bear. We have three different aspects of the rays. 1471|03:39:29|590|03:39:38|350And probably the will aspect of the rays comes from the Great Bear, but the love or magnetic aspect comes from Sirius, or perhaps the Little Bear, or perhaps both. 1472|03:39:38|350|03:39:47|110And then there is the intelligence aspect of the seven rays coming through the Pleiades, presumably. 1473|03:39:48|170|03:39:53|990Okay, so we have Sirius, fixed cross, Scorpio, and then the hierarchy. 1474|03:39:54|970|03:40:02|930And then we're going to have, interestingly, it continues through two planets. Is that correct? 1475|03:40:05|110|03:40:16|450Yes, it looks like it does. Two planets, one the ruler of Scorpio, but exalted in Capricorn, and the other the ruler of Capricorn. 1476|03:40:16|810|03:40:26|450In both of these signs, Scorpio and Capricorn, the ruler, the ordinary ruler is the esoteric ruler as well. 1477|03:40:27|190|03:40:34|790Mars is the esoteric ruler of Scorpio as well as the orthodox, and Saturn is the esoteric ruler of Capricorn as well as the orthodox. 1478|03:40:35|030|03:40:45|0305. Mars and Saturn.—Both these planets are exceedingly potent in connection with initiation into the life of the Hierarchy; 1479|03:40:45|230|03:40:48|790And presumably, both the signs are as well. 1480|03:40:48|790|03:41:00|370Notice that these are, interestingly, from the human personality angle, called malefic planets, meaning they give you hard time in the personality sense. 1481|03:41:00|970|03:41:08|130But they do open the door into hierarchy, strongly connected with initiation into the life of the hierarchy. 1482|03:41:08|130|03:41:18|510Those initiations are ruled by different rays, but all through the expression of those rays, 1483|03:41:19|170|03:41:28|330seventh for the first, sixth for the second, fifth for the third, and fourth for the fourth, Mars and Saturn are involved. 1484|03:41:29|130|03:41:34|950Mars is potent in relation to Scorpio and Saturn in relation to Capricorn. obviously, as the rulers. 1485|03:41:34|950|03:41:43|730This involves the intensified activity of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies, 1486|03:41:45|850|03:41:48|270Sixth and third rays and the energies of the rays. 1487|03:41:48|530|03:41:56|630Interestingly, rays apparently are not just a monolithic source, but they have energies connected to them. 1488|03:41:57|350|03:42:01|990So there are a number of energies contained within any ray, it seems to imply. 1489|03:42:01|990|03:42:10|230and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual. 1490|03:42:10|990|03:42:20|990Well, there's so much connected with the dense physical vehicle and the astral body which seem to hold man into the lower worlds and into the world of form. 1491|03:42:20|990|03:42:32|270And when the sixth ray connected with the astral body and the third ray connected with the dense physical are properly released, properly oriented, properly utilized, 1492|03:42:33|070|03:42:35|370then comes release from those spheres. 1493|03:42:36|030|03:42:45|850It's rather interesting now, isn't it, this correlation, that the majority of people in the world today have either sixth-ray personalities or third-ray personalities. 1494|03:42:46|290|03:42:48|110This is what the Tibetan tells us. 1495|03:42:48|110|03:42:53|470These two rays do cause a lot of difficulty and confinement. 1496|03:42:54|630|03:42:58|830They must be liberated into the soul aspect. 1497|03:43:00|230|03:43:11|910Okay, so Mars and Saturn implicating and drawing in both Scorpio and Capricorn are very active in the process of initiation into the life of the hierarchy. 1498|03:43:11|910|03:43:29|210So we have to see what type of battles, what type of karmic facing we have when we look at our charts in connection with these two planets, because if we handle them rightly, we can, the door into hierarchy can be more rapidly open. 1499|03:43:30|370|03:43:42|830Okay, Again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the disciple. [200] 1500|03:43:43|230|03:43:47|130So, well, okay, I think we can see how we might be able to do that. 1501|03:43:47|330|03:43:53|530You know, we look at the position of Sirius and understand what it means in terms of initiation. 1502|03:43:53|530|03:44:03|630We would look at the positioning of the fixed cross and where its rulers might be and their relationship with each other. 1503|03:44:03|770|03:44:13|290We look particularly at Scorpio for, which we say is power to reorient us, wherever Scorpio may be found. 1504|03:44:14|390|03:44:15|530Let's take a look here at what it says. 1505|03:44:16|230|03:44:19|690A peculiar and specialized potency on the path of discipleship. 1506|03:44:20|510|03:44:24|590But it did say something about reorientation a little bit earlier. 1507|03:44:24|750|03:44:27|910Yes, the process of reorientation. Here it is. 1508|03:44:28|450|03:44:32|210And testing us at the first three initiations. 1509|03:44:33|010|03:44:37|850And thus we would be preparing for those initiations through the Scorpio energy. 1510|03:44:38|510|03:44:43|130Then we would consider our relationship to hierarchy as a soul. 1511|03:44:43|130|03:44:48|530And finally we would consider the positions of Mars and Saturn. 1512|03:44:49|370|03:44:59|130And how rightly used we could tread the burning ground and we could fulfill our command and thus open the door more widely into hierarchy. 1513|03:45:00|050|03:45:08|830So we would do well to consider this line of fused forces, especially this secondary line, which has so much to do with the soul. 1514|03:45:08|830|03:45:17|470Which is, after all, our objective, the broadening of soul consciousness. This is our objective. 1515|03:45:18|710|03:45:23|310As for the other line, which is more Shambolic in nature, I guess it can come later. 1516|03:45:24|450|03:45:25|650Here we are on page 200. 1517|03:45:27|630|03:45:36|850We have Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. 1518|03:45:36|850|03:45:48|130Because really, if we look through the constellation Taurus, we find the Pleiades central within it, although much farther away. 1519|03:45:49|650|03:45:59|030And therefore it is considered that the Pleiades are within the constellation Taurus. 1520|03:45:59|030|03:46:04|350So Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus. 1521|03:46:04|830|03:46:08|610And you know, you kind of wonder again about the central spiritual sun. 1522|03:46:09|390|03:46:16|190And you find as well at the time of Wesak that the Pleiades should be considered. 1523|03:46:17|190|03:46:22|110So we have kind of a Pleiades-Taurus-Shambolic alignment at that time. 1524|03:46:22|110|03:46:28|710So Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. 1525|03:46:28|870|03:46:32|790He's not going to elaborate on this too much. 1526|03:46:33|350|03:46:45|270The key to this relation is to he found in the word desire, which is Taurean in nature, leading, through the transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration 1527|03:46:45|290|03:46:50|690which is a key Taurean factor, especially in the later stages of evolution. 1528|03:46:50|690|03:46:55|190and finally the relinquishing of desire in Scorpio. 1529|03:46:56|330|03:47:10|110So desire in Taurus leads towards Scorpio and its transmutative potency under Uranus, which is the exalted planet in Scorpio. 1530|03:47:10|630|03:47:14|650So whenever you see transmutation or transmutative, Uranus is involved. 1531|03:47:14|650|03:47:24|330And this aspiration, Taurean aspiration, leads finally to the giving up of desire, relinquishing of desire in Scorpio. 1532|03:47:25|070|03:47:28|030That's an important way of relating these two. 1533|03:47:28|850|03:47:37|010Aquarius, Alcyone and Humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. 1534|03:47:38|010|03:47:53|310Yes, so Aquarius, you know, here being related in a way to the lowest of the creative hierarchies, which in a way is a prison for the human consciousness. 1535|03:47:54|470|03:47:57|010Aquarius, Alcyone, and humanity. 1536|03:47:58|190|03:48:01|410There is an individualism in this triangle. 1537|03:48:02|030|03:48:07|430Normally you might think it could be Leo, Alcyone, and humanity, but no, it's Aquarius. 1538|03:48:08|790|03:48:10|710A most interesting triangle of force. 1539|03:48:10|910|03:48:21|070Alcyone is one of the seven Pleiades the central one, in a way the most potent of the Pleiades, I think, in a first-ray sense. 1540|03:48:21|390|03:48:23|670And it's called the star of the individual. 1541|03:48:24|310|03:48:34|390It gives the human being under Ahamkara a sense of its uniqueness, of being one of a kind, of being separate as well. 1542|03:48:34|930|03:48:45|890And sometimes the star of intelligence, in a way the Pleiades as a whole have given manness to the heavenly men and are associated with the third aspect of intelligence. 1543|03:48:46|770|03:48:51|350The question is, which are the highest rays of the Pleiades? 1544|03:48:51|350|03:49:00|770Certainly third ray is involved, second ray for cosmic beauty is involved, is the first ray involved as is the hub of our local cosmic wheel? 1545|03:49:01|890|03:49:08|150Okay, so Aquarius, Alcyone, and humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. 1546|03:49:09|270|03:49:17|630And I suppose one that is going to come somewhat into potency now as a tremendous intelligence overtakes humanity, 1547|03:49:17|630|03:49:21|590given the fifth ray expressed through Aquarius. 1548|03:49:21|810|03:49:36|390So during the Aquarian age this triangle may come in prominently and help with the transition of humanity away from individualism into some of the greater service potentials of Aquarius, 1549|03:49:36|670|03:49:43|630and into the group consciousness, which Aquarius also suggests, not just individualism. 1550|03:49:43|630|03:49:47|510There seems to be a possibility of progression here. 1551|03:49:48|510|03:50:02|830and is called the “star of the Individual” [Alcyone], and sometimes the “star of intelligence.” It was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the Third Person of the Trinity was peculiarly omnipotent and active, 1552|03:50:02|830|03:50:20|490Now remember we studied Virgo in relation to the Holy Spirit, Virgo and the Holy Spirit, and the four mutable signs related to the previous solar system. 1553|03:50:21|230|03:50:28|150So we have to bring Virgo in relation to the Pleiades here, and also in relation to Alcyone. 1554|03:50:28|330|03:50:31|050We're dealing with the material aspect. 1555|03:50:31|050|03:50:36|870Sometimes Virgo represents the woman in the Sphinx, and therefore the soul. 1556|03:50:37|630|03:50:43|470Sometimes Virgo represents the material aspect, and Leo represents the soul nature. 1557|03:50:44|250|03:50:58|510Okay, so it, Alcyone, and even Sirius we are told, was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the Trinity was purely omnipotent and active. 1558|03:50:58|730|03:51:01|490This was the solar system of the Holy Spirit. 1559|03:51:01|490|03:51:15|370Now remember that Cancer, which is connected with the Pleiades definitely, and Virgo also connected with the Pleiades, were the two major signs, ruling the first and second part respectively, of the previous solar system. 1560|03:51:15|930|03:51:29|330Both of them connected with the third aspect of divinity, but the interesting thing about Virgo is that it offers the possibility of transition from the third aspect of divinity into the second. 1561|03:51:29|330|03:51:50|810And its rays, which were more on the intelligence aspect, and perhaps the seventh ray in the previous solar system, have now transitioned to the second and third, showing Virgo, the ruler of the second part of the last solar system, to be a bridge towards the themes of our present second ray solar system. 1562|03:51:50|810|03:52:20|510Okay, so it was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the Trinity was purely omnipotent and active, even active now in the manipulation of forces in our second solar system related to the previous solar system. 1563|03:52:20|510|03:52:39|630So what could that be? Could that be Orion considered as a great constellation, represented by the Cosmic Christ? Could it be Sirius, even though Sirius was very active in its monadic sense in relation to the previous monadic solar system? 1564|03:52:39|630|03:52:53|110Anyway, the Holy Spirit, third person active in the previous solar system, and now Sirius and the fixed cross in just as today the cosmic Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, is peculiarly active in this solar system. 1565|03:52:53|110|03:53:13|810This is a solar system in which our solar Logos becomes more than a cosmic personality. He becomes a cosmic soul and has already taken the first and second cosmic initiations and is destined to take the third, which will make of him, let's say, more of a sacred solar Logos. 1566|03:53:13|810|03:53:29|210The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind. Now by universe, I think we mean—a lesser interpretation of it here—we mean the system of our solar Logos. 1567|03:53:29|730|03:53:41|690The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind, because it is, after all, a star of intelligence and all the Pleiades are related to the third ray. 1568|03:53:43|070|03:53:45|270Not only the third ray, but definitely the third ray. 1569|03:53:45|270|03:54:04|470As a consequence of this most ancient activity, the same force was present at the time of individualisation in this solar system,—individualization of man, presumably. 1570|03:54:04|470|03:54:16|210for it is in this system, and primarily upon our planet, the Earth, that the major results of that early activity have made themselves felt. 1571|03:54:16|510|03:54:31|650So, this is important material. He is relating this kind of Holy Spirit activity, which we can consider to be fohat-ic, and which operated in relation to the earlier phases of our solar system. 1572|03:54:31|650|03:54:38|510We're relating those activities to the individualization process on Earth. 1573|03:54:40|310|03:54:48|790So, those early activities had their major expression in relation to our planet, where a special kind of individualization occurred. 1574|03:54:49|630|03:54:54|710It's much deeper than that, and I wish I could go into it, and one day, maybe I will be able to. 1575|03:54:54|710|03:55:05|390Two of our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are directly the product of this third ray activity. 1576|03:55:06|690|03:55:17|070We know that the monadic ray of Uranus is the first, and the soul ray is the seventh, but perhaps Uranus is associated very much with the intelligence aspect. 1577|03:55:17|070|03:55:24|550Perhaps the third ray is his personality ray, just as for the Earth, the third ray is his personality ray. 1578|03:55:25|050|03:55:38|170And when we really look at that, we would see quite an astonishing connection between the rays of Uranus and the rays of the Earth having the same monadic ray, and perhaps the same personality ray as well. 1579|03:55:39|090|03:55:47|430So, third ray activity, at least outwardly, is associated with the Earth and with Uranus. 1580|03:55:48|530|03:56:03|870Now, there we, I think, are able to tie in some third ray connection to Aquarius, which is a sign of constant movement and mutation, suggesting the third ray, and Uranus is its ruler. 1581|03:56:03|970|03:56:06|890We're talking about the intelligence aspect now. 1582|03:56:06|890|03:56:23|770Two of our planets, the Earth, non-sacred, and Uranus, sacred, are directly the product of this third ray activity, a kind of activity which has seemed that Alcyone set into motion in the early days of our universe, or solar system. 1583|03:56:24|610|03:56:34|450This is of great importance to remember. I would also ask you to link this thought with the teaching that through the divine centre of intelligent activity which we call humanity, 1584|03:56:34|450|03:56:45|090humanity being a kind of throat center in our planetary system, a system of our planetary scheme, and hence much associated with the third ray, 1585|03:56:45|770|03:56:53|230the fourth kingdom in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all the three lower kingdoms. 1586|03:56:53|670|03:57:03|450Humanity stands on top of the three lower kingdoms. It has the harmonizing Buddhic principle which is to flow through it. 1587|03:57:03|450|03:57:09|450But it is the center of intelligence, so Buddhi and Manas will be combined in humanity. 1588|03:57:10|250|03:57:17|750It's an intelligence center which will be motivated by the bridging and harmonizing power of the intuition. 1589|03:57:19|250|03:57:23|930All right. Maybe I can finish just a tiny bit more. I will. 1590|03:57:23|930|03:57:33|350Okay. Humanity is the divine Messenger There's Mercury for you, and Mercury is most associated with humanity, with the fourth grade of hierarchy. 1591|03:57:34|290|03:57:43|330Humanity is the divine Messenger to the world of form; it is essentially Mercury, bringing light and life to other divine manifestations 1592|03:57:43|330|03:57:51|490and of this all divine world Saviours are the eternal symbols. because the world saviors come in under Bodhi, 1593|03:57:51|970|03:57:57|630and they are bringing the harmonizing love-wisdom power to the lower world. 1594|03:57:57|830|03:58:04|030So humanity eventually is to become a world savior. Right now, its rays are the fourth and the fifth. 1595|03:58:04|030|03:58:14|090I believe the fourth-ray soul, the fifth-ray personality, but eventually the rays of humanity will be the same as the rays of the mutable cross, 1596|03:58:14|990|03:58:22|430orthodoxly considered, the second and the fourth-ray. The second-ray soul of humanity and the fourth-ray personality. 1597|03:58:22|970|03:58:25|630And still the destroying power of humanity is there. 1598|03:58:25|630|03:58:30|490So this is the end, Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 75. 1599|03:58:31|670|03:58:37|330And we have gone, essentially, let's see how we go here. 1600|03:58:38|170|03:58:50|810We've gone from page 172 up to, no, 192, up to page 200, where we are now. 1601|03:58:50|810|03:58:54|430And this is the end of section D. 1602|03:58:55|650|03:59:05|090Alright, friends, this is a four-hour program. 1603|03:59:06|190|03:59:11|390Hope it will reduce down into a level that can be properly transmitted. 1604|03:59:12|010|03:59:19|270We will continue, when next I can do this, with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 76, continuing with Scorpio. 1605|03:59:19|930|03:59:24|950So, for the time being, I bid you farewell. 1606|03:59:25|910|03:59:34|870We are considering deep matters and the kinds of thoughts which occur to us as we read what the Tibetan has said. 1607|03:59:35|930|03:59:40|350So, I think we can end with The Great Invocation, I do believe. 1608|03:59:44|270|03:59:52|470Okay, from the point of light. Yes, we can. So, let's do that. 1609|04:00:02|270|04:00:12|510From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men, let light descend on earth. 1610|04:00:14|990|04:00:24|670From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men, may Christ return to earth. 1611|04:00:26|970|04:00:37|130From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the Masters know and serve. 1612|04:00:39|210|04:00:50|290From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 1613|04:00:51|330|04:00:56|810Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 1614|04:00:58|470|04:00:59|870Om. 1615|04:01:06|030|04:01:07|430Om. 1616|04:01:13|710|04:01:15|110Om. 1617|04:01:15|110|04:01:15|670Om. 1618|04:01:25|370|04:01:35|590Okay, we will continue with the Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 76, continuing with Scorpio. 1619|04:01:36|510|04:01:38|250And we'll see you then. 1620|04:01:39|910|04:01:52|870Hopefully we can bring some clarity to these interesting interconnections which are operative, whether recognized or unrecognized, in the lives of all of us. 1621|04:01:53|550|04:01:54|150See you then.