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1|00:00:01|340|00:00:08|580Okay, everybody. Hi. We are dealing now with the beginning of Esoteric Astrology Adventure 2|00:00:10|500|00:00:21|940number 76. We have reached page 200 in the Scorpio chapter. And we have just been 3|00:00:21|940|00:00:29|860speaking about humanity, the fourth kingdom of nature, and the fourth creative hierarchy, 4|00:00:30|120|00:00:40|380and its relationship to the world of form. Humanity is the divine Messenger to the world 5|00:00:40|380|00:00:47|820of form; we are reading. it is essentially Mercury, bringing light and life to other 6|00:00:47|820|00:00:56|760divine manifestations and of this all divine world Saviours are the eternal symbols. And so we see 7|00:00:56|760|00:01:07|400the purpose of humanity and its saving force in relation to this planet. As I may have mentioned, 8|00:01:07|600|00:01:15|040the rays temporarily most associated with humanity are the fourth and the fifth. But eventually it 9|00:01:15|040|00:01:22|280will be the second and the fourth, and together they will be a saving, bridging, harmonizing, 10|00:01:22|640|00:01:33|020uniting force, working with the power of beauty, where the fourth creative hierarchy is actually 11|00:01:33|020|00:01:44|580focused. It says here, This coming process of planetary service through the third divine 12|00:01:44|580|00:01:49|580center —and that is what we are, the third divine center or throat center of our planet— 13|00:01:49|900|00:02:00|600is only truly effective when Aquarius rules and when our sun is passing through that sign of the 14|00:02:00|600|00:02:10|400zodiac. We realize that Aquarius is the sign of great service, of universal service, and it is 15|00:02:10|400|00:02:23|120with us for the next 2,000 years, approximately—2,160 plus another hundred. That's in the smaller 16|00:02:23|120|00:02:31|840cycle, smaller precessional cycle, and in the larger Platonic year cycle, Aquarius is with us 17|00:02:31|840|00:02:40|200for some 25,000 years and maybe more, depending upon when it actually begins. D.K. tells us we cannot 18|00:02:40|200|00:02:47|920calculate the beginning of the age of Aquarius in the larger sense, that our particular science 19|00:02:47|920|00:02:54|920doesn't allow us to do that, but he certainly gives the hint that it is to start relatively 20|00:02:54|920|00:03:04|740soon, and that the great age of Pisces either has ended or is ending—the 25,000-year age of Pisces. 21|00:03:04|740|00:03:12|860Hence the immense importance of the next 2000 years. the lesser precessional age, 22|00:03:12|860|00:03:22|840which will see humanity assuming its proper role as a receiver and distributor of divine energy, 23|00:03:23|940|00:03:30|420receiving from above and distributing to the lower kingdoms. Therefore, only when a man is 24|00:03:30|420|00:03:39|680a world server—which is the way of looking at the true Aquarian, the world server—and becoming 25|00:03:39|680|00:03:46|600group conscious which is another way of understanding the particular gifts of the Aquarian 26|00:03:46|600|00:03:53|520energy, only when the man is a world server and becoming group conscious can this desired 27|00:03:53|520|00:04:02|840objective of manifestation begin to demonstrate. And we can assume that humanity itself is on the 28|00:04:02|840|00:04:11|520way to becoming the disciple, and more and more the world server, imitating that body of servers 29|00:04:11|520|00:04:17|800within its nature, even at this time—the new group of world servers—and increasingly in so 30|00:04:17|800|00:04:25|800many ways, humanity is becoming group conscious. So only when man, a man or even a group of men, 31|00:04:26|080|00:04:30|180is a world server and becoming group conscious can this desired objective 32|00:04:30|900|00:04:38|200of manifestation begin to demonstrate. The sign Aquarius, through all of its trials and tests, 33|00:04:38|760|00:04:46|900is very useful in helping to create the hierarchical consciousness in those who are 34|00:04:47|700|00:04:52|420close enough to that level of evolution where it becomes possible. 35|00:04:54|720|00:05:01|240It is beginning to happen today for the first time in planetary history. 36|00:05:02|060|00:05:09|020It is one of the first fruits of initiation —that is service and group consciousness— 37|00:05:09|520|00:05:14|960 and only in the next root race i.e., the sixth root race, the next root race to our present 38|00:05:14|960|00:05:22|200Aryan race will we begin really to understand the significance of the process and the true 39|00:05:22|200|00:05:28|520nature of the energies to be released through the medium of humanity upon the planet. Well, 40|00:05:29|160|00:05:37|260he can certainly speak of this in this chapter because it is Scorpio that rules humanity and its 41|00:05:37|260|00:05:44|320hierarchical ruler, Mercury, which is the planet particularly associated with humanity. I think if 42|00:05:44|320|00:05:55|560we move here to the table of creative hierarchies, we will see that clearly. 43|00:05:58|900|00:06:06|860Notice Scorpio in the center, and here it is the human creative hierarchy we are discussing. 44|00:06:07|520|00:06:13|880Scorpio is the ruler of this group of monads, and its planet is Mercury. It works through the 45|00:06:14|320|00:06:26|400power of mantra. It is the word made flesh, and in one respect it is deeply connected with the 46|00:06:26|960|00:06:35|860solar angels and with their particular Buddhic focus. Man is in many ways, when upon the higher 47|00:06:35|860|00:06:42|720mental plane, a kind of solar angel himself, although he is not the, as a monad, the returning 48|00:06:42|720|00:06:50|860Nirvani from a previous Mahamanvantara, he is becoming qualified as a solar angel. 49|00:06:53|060|00:07:04|440Okay, now let's see. We're having a little bit of delay here. So It is for this reason that Jupiter 50|00:07:04|440|00:07:14|460and Uranus (expressions of the second and the seventh rays) are the exoteric and esoteric rulers of 51|00:07:14|460|00:07:26|360Aquarius. Well, through both Jupiter and Uranus, a deep expression of service can flow. Jupiter 52|00:07:26|360|00:07:35|780is involved in inducing group consciousness, and Uranus always finds the better, more archetypal 53|00:07:35|780|00:07:45|560way of performing. So these two rays, which are—I think we can, in a way, we can connect them 54|00:07:45|560|00:07:54|180with the human monads, who are focused on the second plane from one perspective. And on the 55|00:07:54|180|00:08:01|600seventh plane, if we count the liberated creative hierarchies and their focus on the cosmic astral 56|00:08:01|600|00:08:09|340planes, if we count down seven, we also find the focus of the monads. So there is a close 57|00:08:10|100|00:08:17|400connection between the Scorpio and Aquarius. And in the seventh ray age, it is through this 58|00:08:18|200|00:08:29|640lower or Aquarian hierarchy, this one here, that humanity will be working, transforming 59|00:08:30|380|00:08:38|600the etheric body of the planet and thereby transforming that which manifests upon the 60|00:08:38|600|00:08:54|100dense physical plane. Okay. All right. Now let's see if we can go a little bit lower than this. 61|00:08:56|220|00:09:00|680Okay. There does seem to be a little bit of a delay here on this computer. I'm sorry for that. 62|00:09:02|800|00:09:14|900But we will find a way, hopefully, to deal with that. Okay. I think it has something to do with 63|00:09:16|200|00:09:25|960too much going on, too much perhaps going on. And we will see whether we can eliminate 64|00:09:26|570|00:09:35|080some of the things that are going on. Okay. All right. We move on. 65|00:09:36|640|00:09:46|900You have, therefore, the following line of force to study: We have 1. Alcyone— the central star 66|00:09:46|900|00:09:54|700in the Pleiades, the Pleiades being the mothers of the seven aspects of form life 67|00:09:54|700|00:10:01|240the seven rays from the intelligence form perspective, and the “wives of the seven 68|00:10:01|240|00:10:08|280Rishis of the Great Bear.” Therefore, each one of the seven Pleiades is connected with one of the 69|00:10:08|780|00:10:15|460seven major stars in the Great Bear. The Pleiades They are connected with the Mother aspect 70|00:10:16|260|00:10:25|040which nurtures the infant Christ. hence the connection of the Pleiades with the sign Virgo, 71|00:10:25|600|00:10:32|920which is the sign of the mother, and also with Cancer, interestingly enough. There is a triangle. 72|00:10:33|500|00:10:50|900How does it go? It goes Pleiades, Cancer, Venus—another one of the mother signs connected with 73|00:10:50|900|00:10:58|960this great source of the third aspect. What role the third aspect plays exactly in the Pleiades 74|00:10:59|740|00:11:05|880has yet to be determined. Is it the very deepest or monadic aspect, or is it more the 75|00:11:07|500|00:11:16|900personal aspect, the outer aspect of this great deity who informs these seven? That has yet to be 76|00:11:16|900|00:11:23|700determined. Okay. We have Alcyone, mother of the Pleiades. We have Aquarius, to which Alcyone is 77|00:11:23|700|00:11:29|660related, as we have discussed, the star of the individual. And interestingly enough, in the 78|00:11:29|660|00:11:38|120Aquarian age, I think we will find, since it is really the age of Aquarius-Leo, many personalities 79|00:11:38|120|00:11:48|420emerging. So it will be a time when personality integration is much accentuated, and many people 80|00:11:48|420|00:11:55|080will be pulling their forces together to make a distinctive impact as integrated personalities. 81|00:11:55|960|00:12:02|600So we have Alcyone, we have Aquarius. We remember that it is Sirius that is related to Scorpio, 82|00:12:02|640|00:12:10|900yes, and Alcyone related to Aquarius, the most distant pointer of the Great Bear related to 83|00:12:10|900|00:12:21|920Aries, and the closer pointer of the Great Bear, the closer to the Polaris star, related to Leo, 84|00:12:22|460|00:12:29|940and Polaris itself related in a certain way to Leo. In one way, we can say that the entire 85|00:12:29|940|00:12:36|680Great Bear is closely related to Aries, and the entire Little Bear is very related to Leo, 86|00:12:36|680|00:12:43|820and that is the father and the son relationship, the first and second aspect relationship. And 87|00:12:43|820|00:12:51|120perhaps in a way, the great dragon that weaves his way between them is not only a seventh-ray 88|00:12:51|120|00:12:58|540constellation but represents, in a certain sense, the great third aspect. So 2. Aquarius—the World 89|00:12:58|540|00:13:04|560Server, the transmitter of energy which evokes magnetic response. Then we have Jupiter and Uranus, 90|00:13:04|560|00:13:12|200which are rulers of Aquarius, and these two together are planets of beneficent 91|00:13:12|200|00:13:22|940consummation. I think we can see how DK arrives at that rubric. Jupiter is the great planet of 92|00:13:22|940|00:13:35|460beneficence, and Uranus brings all things to a conclusion, an archetypal conclusion. Uranus 93|00:13:35|460|00:13:44|640is always hastening the Saturnian forms which have been created towards fulfillment as an 94|00:13:44|640|00:13:52|400archetypal form, and many modifications of structure are necessary along the way. We can say 95|00:13:52|400|00:13:59|220that mastership is a kind of beneficent consummation, and these are the two planets which together 96|00:13:59|860|00:14:08|800are particularly expressive at the time of the fifth initiation, as we learned on page 71 of 97|00:14:08|800|00:14:15|600this book. Just to help us remember that. 98|00:14:19|070|00:14:26|460We have at the fifth initiation, Uranus and Jupiter appear and produce a beneficent 99|00:14:26|460|00:14:32|380organization. On the other page we've just been studying, it's called a beneficent consummation 100|00:14:32|910|00:14:40|480of the totality of energies found in the initiates' equipment. When this reorganization, that's Uranian, 101|00:14:40|580|00:14:47|320is complete, the initiates can then escape from off the wheel and then can truly live. And I suppose 102|00:14:49|440|00:14:55|740well, he still is crucified upon the cardinal cross, but he has no longer a deep affiliation 103|00:14:56|160|00:15:03|060with the way the fixed cross manifests in the life of humanity. Remember that the fixed cross 104|00:15:03|060|00:15:12|140manifests in a different way in the life of the solar Logos, because in this particular 105|00:15:12|700|00:15:19|720solar system, the solar Logos is crucified upon the fixed cross, whereas in the next he'll be 106|00:15:19|720|00:15:22|880crucified upon the cardinal cross. 107|00:15:26|640|00:15:34|740Okay, so 3. Jupiter and Uranus—planets of beneficent consummation. or planets of beneficent 108|00:15:34|740|00:15:43|460organization. I suppose we can call the final organization, which ends any particular 109|00:15:44|460|00:15:48|880process in an archetypal manner, I suppose we can call that a consummation. 110|00:15:49|600|00:15:56|060The second ray of love and the seventh ray which fuses spirit and matter “to the ultimate glory” 111|00:15:56|060|00:16:03|200of the solar Logos are in the fullest eventual cooperation. So we seem to have here, 112|00:16:04|360|00:16:12|460we seem to have here, Alcyone, Aquarius, and Jupiter, and Uranus. And as we discussed, 113|00:16:13|280|00:16:21|580we do not know whether we are speaking of working through the constellation of Aquarius, 114|00:16:22|260|00:16:30|340or whether we are dealing particularly with, whether we are dealing with the sign Aquarius. 115|00:16:31|780|00:16:38|940All right. And next we have, since this is the star of the individual and also in a way the star 116|00:16:38|940|00:16:44|940of humanity, Alcyone is connected with the third aspect, and Aquarius connected with the third 117|00:16:44|940|00:16:52|000aspect from one particular point of view as well. Moving into the clockwise manner, we have Aries, 118|00:16:52|240|00:16:59|700Pisces, and in the third position, Aquarius. We have 4. Humanity—the focal point for all these 119|00:16:59|700|00:17:10|060energies and the divine distributor of them to individual man and later to the lower three 120|00:17:10|060|00:17:23|040kingdoms in nature. So what is our, what is our process here? We have, um, Alcyone, we have, uh, 121|00:17:23|040|00:17:37|660Aquarius, we have Jupiter and Uranus, and finally, uh, humanity. So we have seen a number of these 122|00:17:37|660|00:17:49|820lines of distribution. Um, we had one, uh, which began with the Great Bear. Uh, let's see, how have 123|00:17:49|820|00:17:57|540we, we have the Sirius line. Maybe I can find this as I go up, possibly, just to review. Yeah, 124|00:17:57|600|00:18:06|100here's one. Here's one for the hierarchy. It's, uh, Sirius working through the fixed cross, 125|00:18:06|100|00:18:11|140then working through Scorpio, and finally working through the hierarchy. That's an important one. 126|00:18:11|720|00:18:21|360So maybe we should, um, mention that. And also then Mars and Saturn are listed after 127|00:18:21|940|00:18:31|500the hierarchy. But the idea is similar. Okay. So we have the, this is the line for humanity. 128|00:18:32|130|00:18:40|620And then we have also the line for hierarchy: Sirius, fixed cross, Scorpio, 129|00:18:43|240|00:18:53|780hierarchy, and Mars and Saturn. Perhaps we should reverse those last two. And then we have, uh, 130|00:18:55|120|00:18:56|200still earlier. 131|00:19:02|480|00:19:09|160Um, yeah, here it is. We have the pointer furthest from the pole star. Let's call it the second 132|00:19:09|160|00:19:18|800pointer. Aries, Vulcan and Pluto, and Shambhala. Okay. So we'll call this, just to list all of 133|00:19:18|800|00:19:32|680these lines in a way that can be appreciated. We have, um, second pointer, Aries, um, 134|00:19:34|200|00:19:45|200yeah, second, second pointer, Aries, uh, and let's see, Shambhala. Oh, goodness. I've forgotten the 135|00:19:45|200|00:19:55|300other one that was there. Sorry for that. Let's see. Yeah, here it is. Aries, Vulcan and Pluto, 136|00:19:55|660|00:20:02|860Vulcan and Pluto, and then Shambhala. Right. It seems that the planetary center should be the 137|00:20:02|860|00:20:14|880last one that is mentioned here. Aries, Vulcan, and Pluto. So here, you know, we could also say 138|00:20:14|880|00:20:22|260that we're dealing in a way with the cardinal cross. We could put that in, in this manner, 139|00:20:23|040|00:20:30|540cardinal cross. And here we could, here we are definitely also dealing with the fixed cross 140|00:20:30|540|00:20:35|880for humanity. In a way, I'd like to end this in a different manner. I'd like to say that 141|00:20:35|880|00:20:43|500hierarchy is the last point, and Mars and Saturn are the mediating planets. All right, so we see 142|00:20:43|500|00:20:51|800a number of lines of transmission that begin with some of the stars which we are studying. 143|00:20:52|560|00:20:59|060We do not yet have a particular line of transmission from, uh, Polaris, though we 144|00:20:59|060|00:21:04|180can see that it is definitely connected with, uh, Leo, uh, in an important sense. 145|00:21:05|480|00:21:15|120Okay, so, um, and Leo would be, uh, the, the fourth constellation mentioned. We mentioned 146|00:21:15|120|00:21:19|060these four constellations having to do with the quaternary of the solar Logos, 147|00:21:19|140|00:21:26|680and we called them Aries, that's the cardinal constellation, then three fixed constellations, 148|00:21:27|360|00:21:36|320Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. And we see that the three centers in which these streams of energy 149|00:21:36|320|00:21:46|440from these stars, uh, emanate, terminate in, um, uh, Shambhala, uh, hierarchy and humanity 150|00:21:46|440|00:21:54|140respectively. Alcyone terminates in humanity, Sirius terminates in hierarchy, and it appears 151|00:21:54|140|00:21:59|940that the second pointer, which is connected with Aries, terminates, uh, in Shambhala. 152|00:22:01|500|00:22:09|080Thus you see, that from a generalisation re the exterior constellations 153|00:22:10|240|00:22:17|240(exterior to the zodiac and the solar system itself) we are becoming more specific, 1|00:00:01|340|00:00:08|580showing how certain stars in these constellations are definitely related by direct lines of 155|00:22:27|480|00:22:45|580energy to our planet; and to the three major centers on our planet. I think I'd like to put 156|00:22:45|580|00:22:56|940in here three major centers on our planet, and these are Shambhala, hierarchy, and humanity. 157|00:22:58|700|00:23:07|400To the three major, um, centers on our planet. these lines of force usually reach us via one of 158|00:23:07|400|00:23:16|860the zodiacal signs and—in rare cases— directly to a planet. So we're talking about various 159|00:23:17|640|00:23:26|140mediating, uh, agencies. And, uh, here we, uh, he does specify that we are dealing more with 160|00:23:26|140|00:23:33|180signs than with constellations. Remember signs being, uh, concentrated influences, 161|00:23:33|920|00:23:40|380um, concentrations of the energy which emanates from the constellations, 162|00:23:40|540|00:23:49|580zodiacal constellations themselves. So we seem to be dealing directly with the signs and not 163|00:23:49|580|00:23:56|680the constellations. So in rare cases, uh, these energies come directly to the planet. So we've 164|00:23:56|680|00:24:05|960… the mediatorship takes place. Um, Alcyone is pouring through the sign Aquarius. Sirius is 165|00:24:05|960|00:24:12|100pouring through the sign Scorpio, but through other signs as well, definitely. And, uh, the 166|00:24:12|100|00:24:19|100second pointer is pouring through the sign Aries. Now in this latter case of the energy coming 167|00:24:19|100|00:24:25|800directly to a planet, The latter case is, however, exceedingly rare. I guess we normally need the 168|00:24:26|440|00:24:38|220buffering influence of a sign. Remember that these, um, these signs, the 12 signs have a kind of 169|00:24:38|220|00:24:49|540heart center influence. And so they can buffer the energies of the aspects of the will. Even 170|00:24:49|540|00:24:56|440the constellations, the 12 zodiacal constellations have a heart center influence, uh, the heart 171|00:24:56|440|00:25:06|580within the head of the one about whom naught may be said. So, um, we have a series of heart centers, 172|00:25:06|720|00:25:14|460our own 12-petaled, um, heart center. We have our, uh, our 12-petaled heart center within the head. 173|00:25:14|460|00:25:23|300We have our 12-petaled egoic, uh, lotus. And, uh, we have the zodiac as kind of the prototype. 174|00:25:23|600|00:25:31|160The zodiac of signs is kind of the prototype of all of those 12s. Um, we do not know, perhaps we 175|00:25:31|160|00:25:40|780can infer that there is something about the monad itself, which is 12-fold, in as much as it is much 176|00:25:40|780|00:25:50|980associated with the 12th sign of the zodiac, Pisces. But how many, um, petals may be found 177|00:25:51|560|00:25:56|540in the monadic structure if there is a kind of lotus on those high levels? 178|00:25:57|660|00:26:04|060We know there is a temple on those high levels, the temple of Ezekiel, just as we have the temple 179|00:26:04|060|00:26:11|440of Solomon on the higher mental plane. So if there is a temple and lotus on the higher mental plane, 180|00:26:11|980|00:26:19|640since there is a temple on the monadic plane, will there also be some sort of 181|00:26:20|380|00:26:27|16012-fold configuration? That is a question. The monad, of course, is a first-ray structure within 182|00:26:27|160|00:26:34|120our nature. And yet, at least in this solar system, its structure is found upon the second 183|00:26:34|120|00:26:41|180plane, correlating it to the second ray, the second systemic plane. It is ruled by Jupiter, 184|00:26:41|580|00:26:51|260that plane, a second-ray planet, largely. And it is also associated with the sign Virgo, 185|00:26:51|260|00:26:59|960which is the major second-ray distributor to our solar system at this time. So there are many 186|00:26:59|960|00:27:09|180second-ray factors which seem to relate to the monad's expression, even though it embodies the 187|00:27:10|740|00:27:15|420first-ray nature in man. But since this is the second solar system, 188|00:27:16|200|00:27:23|000all that is expressing along the first ray will have to be considered a sub-ray of the second ray. 189|00:27:23|980|00:27:30|830So it's very rare that these streams of energy, or lines of force as he calls them, 190|00:27:32|280|00:27:43|070reach us directly, and not mediated by one of the signs of the zodiac. See, it's so tricky. We don't 191|00:27:43|070|00:27:48|590know when he's talking about constellations, and when he's talking about signs. But let's say that 192|00:27:50|130|00:28:00|710often, when the source of energy is something less than a constellation for which it must flow, 193|00:28:02|090|00:28:12|070then he may be talking about a sign. We cannot generalise absolutely here, nor need we necessarily 194|00:28:12|070|00:28:17|850determine exactly when he's talking about signs and constellations, because the energy is pretty 195|00:28:17|850|00:28:26|130much the same. The signs are adapting the constellation of energy to the target solar 196|00:28:26|130|00:28:34|090system, or sun, or planet, in such a way that those great energies can be used. So, 197|00:28:34|090|00:28:42|130constellational, zodiacal, constellational energy does need to be transformed, somewhat 198|00:28:44|830|00:28:51|710attenuated, or downgraded, or brought into a usable form. And this is the function of the signs, 199|00:28:52|290|00:29:01|530these concentrated influences. Otherwise, I think there could be no direct transmission of those 200|00:29:01|530|00:29:09|210energies in a useful way to a target planet or sun. Okay, so this latter case of the lines of 201|00:29:09|210|00:29:16|590force coming directly to the planet is exceedingly rare. And he doesn't, is he going to tell us 202|00:29:17|420|00:29:24|050any cases in which this is so? We have also brought into relation to our solar system another 203|00:29:25|030|00:29:30|250constellation, Okay, an important one. He doesn't say too much about it, but 204|00:29:30|750|00:29:35|610it is related to Leo, and it's certainly related to Polaris, because the tail of the bear, 205|00:29:36|310|00:29:42|870of the little bear, is Polaris. It's called the Little Bear which is a reflection 206|00:29:43|790|00:29:52|110of or a corollary to the major energies of its greater prototype, Ursa Major, the Great Bear. 207|00:29:52|110|00:29:59|650We do have the Father and the Son set up. We have the first aspect of divinity and the second aspect 208|00:29:59|650|00:30:06|850of divinity. And since in our zodiacal signs, the first aspect of divinity is particularly connected 209|00:30:06|850|00:30:15|570with Aries, and the second with Leo, I think we can see the appropriateness of linking Aries 210|00:30:15|570|00:30:27|190to the Great Bear and Leo to the Little Bear. These facts contain a great mystery connected, 211|00:30:27|650|00:30:34|830well, it's a great mystery. All right, but it has suggested itself to our consciousness. 212|00:30:35|310|00:30:41|570These facts contain a great mystery connected with the inter-relation of Ursa Major, Ursa Minor 213|00:30:42|110|00:30:51|090and the Pleiades; they constitute one of the greatest and more important 214|00:30:53|650|00:30:59|350of the triplicities to be found in the heavens as far as we have astronomically ascertained 215|00:30:59|850|00:31:06|250the nature of our immediate universe. The word universe, again, is a relative term. It doesn't 216|00:31:07|270|00:31:17|250mean necessarily the grand entirety of all cosmos. It can mean a certain section of space. It even 217|00:31:17|250|00:31:27|320can mean a solar system itself. So notice there is an analogy here because D.K. so often talks about 218|00:31:27|320|00:31:37|880the triplicity of Ursa Major, Sirius, and the Pleiades. Well, now he substitutes a constellation 219|00:31:37|880|00:31:46|340that I would say must be far greater than the dwarf star Sirius. He substitutes the entirety 220|00:31:46|340|00:31:56|160of Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, which contains the supergiant star Polaris. So we have to think 221|00:31:56|740|00:32:07|660that if Sirius represents the Son aspect, the Christ aspect, that Ursa Minor is also the Son 222|00:32:08|320|00:32:17|240to a greater degree, S-O-N, to a greater degree, and is a kind of higher octave of the second 223|00:32:17|240|00:32:25|260aspect. The second aspect is definitely connected with Ursa Minor. At the present time, Polaris 224|00:32:26|160|00:32:35|640which is part of this second aspect demonstration, is a star of redemption. It is our pole star and 225|00:32:35|640|00:32:47|160it allows us to reface and reacquire that which has been lost, with so much suggesting the second 226|00:32:47|160|00:32:58|860ray, the idea of being able to recover that which has been taken away. 227|00:33:00|400|00:33:07|340So he says This is a perfectly unimportant piece of information as far as you are concerned 228|00:33:08|220|00:33:15|340and is only of significance to initiates of the fourth degree. So you begin to wonder 229|00:33:15|850|00:33:23|000whether there is some transcending of one of the influences of Sirius at this degree, 230|00:33:23|980|00:33:31|740and if the Little Bear influence is becoming more prominent at this degree. Obviously, 231|00:33:32|440|00:33:40|820this is a hint, but a very high hint and one that is likely to escape us. It serves, nevertheless, 232|00:33:40|820|00:33:50|520 to add its evidence to the essential integrity and interlocking dependencies of the universe. 233|00:33:52|930|00:33:59|880We might wonder about the connection of the Ajna Centre and the Heart Centre 234|00:34:00|610|00:34:09|480in this particular comparison between the Little Bear and Sirius. Obviously, if 235|00:34:10|250|00:34:16|400a constellation or a star, what we can also call Sirius, perhaps a constellation, 236|00:34:17|540|00:34:24|680are interchangeable in a triangle, namely, Great Bear Sirius Pleiades, Great Bear Little Bear 237|00:34:25|400|00:34:34|300Pleiades, they must have something, some very strong connection to each other. And 238|00:34:34|940|00:34:45|800when you really look at this, Sirius does express a type of sevenfold energy. We learned that 239|00:34:45|800|00:34:54|740earlier, just in one of the most recent of these discussions. Sirius is connected with the seven 240|00:34:54|740|00:35:03|940ashrams and with the seven rays, but so is the Little Bear, probably from a higher point of view. 241|00:35:04|660|00:35:13|700And it does seem that the role of the Son, S-O-N, in relation to the Father, who is the Great Bear, 242|00:35:14|160|00:35:22|840is better played by Ursa Minor than by Sirius itself. It might be that there is a line, 243|00:35:23|040|00:35:31|480a direct line of connection between the Little Bear and Sirius after the Father has related 244|00:35:31|480|00:35:35|840to the Son, i.e., the Little Bear. If I was looking for 245|00:35:39|180|00:35:47|52021 or three times seven ways of expressing the seven rays, I would say that the will aspect 246|00:35:48|820|00:35:54|080emanates from the Great Bear, that the intelligence or matter aspect of the rays 247|00:35:54|080|00:35:59|420emanates from the Pleiades, especially the seven with which we seem to have most to do, 248|00:36:00|140|00:36:10|480and that the Son aspect, or the love or wisdom aspect, emanates from the Little Bear and probably 249|00:36:10|480|00:36:22|960in some way finds itself related to Sirius and the tendency of Sirius to work also with the 250|00:36:22|960|00:36:30|480septonates, as we have discovered by the manner in which Sirius influences the seven ashrams. 251|00:36:31|280|00:36:38|600Well, those are perhaps a few thoughts that might help us work on this particular 252|00:36:38|600|00:36:46|660hint, but I have the feeling that we're just really scratching the surface here. 253|00:36:47|740|00:36:55|620Okay, In order the better to understand the nature of discipleship remember 254|00:36:55|620|00:37:03|520Scorpio being a major sign of discipleship, along with Sagittarius and Virgo to an extent, 255|00:37:05|820|00:37:11|080excuse me, in order the better to understand the nature of discipleship and the processes 256|00:37:11|080|00:37:19|420of stabilisation through mental polarization, I would say, especially in Scorpio where Mercury 257|00:37:19|420|00:37:27|800is so strong and right direction, which is so powerful in Sagittarius, we must precede 258|00:37:27|800|00:37:36|060the Capricornian experience of initiation with a careful study of the spiritual implications 259|00:37:36|760|00:37:43|780of the sign Scorpio and of its function in providing “points of crisis” 260|00:37:45|980|00:37:55|980yes, with its strong first-ray, fourth-ray energy relation, and “moments of reorientation”, 261|00:37:56|100|00:38:02|980So Scorpio is going to provide for us points of crises and moments of reorientation, 262|00:38:03|800|00:38:08|340as this will be of the utmost value to the earnest student. Moments of reorientation, 263|00:38:08|460|00:38:16|980we remember that the reorienting planet, which allows one to face the archetype, 264|00:38:17|040|00:38:24|340which should be manifesting and probably isn't yet, is Uranus. So we have a moment of reversal 265|00:38:24|340|00:38:31|220with Uranus esoterically ruling Libra, but some of this reversing process is also occurring 266|00:38:31|220|00:38:41|060in Scorpio with Uranus as the exalted planet. So the reversals of the wheel have much to do 267|00:38:41|060|00:38:49|240with those two signs, which have Uranus powerfully represented, namely Libra and Scorpio. 268|00:38:50|280|00:38:56|480So we are interested in stabilization and right direction, which precedes the Capricornian 269|00:38:56|480|00:39:04|140experience of initiation. We have to see what kinds of points of crisis we pass through 270|00:39:04|140|00:39:10|700under this Scorpionic energy, remembering that the fourth ray of which it is the major distributor 271|00:39:11|290|00:39:21|050is very much an influence which induces crises. And the idea of reversal comes with moments of 272|00:39:21|050|00:39:28|570reorientation. All right, D.K. goes on. Even though I am endeavouring to lay the foundation 273|00:39:28|570|00:39:37|170for the new astrology just think of the kind of astrology that we have been using and about which 274|00:39:37|170|00:39:44|570many of us have been quite satisfied and even complacent. And then along comes D.K. in the early 275|00:39:45|470|00:39:56|5301930s and introduces an entirely new perspective on astrology. Just think of the way in which this 276|00:39:56|530|00:40:03|730perspective was rejected by the vast majority, naturally, because it would tend to archetypalize 277|00:40:03|730|00:40:10|430the study of astrology and make it much truer to the inner energies. But at the same time, 278|00:40:10|430|00:40:20|550it would upset the present structure in which so many astrologers were invested. It would disrupt, 279|00:40:20|650|00:40:28|030that's Uranian, it would disrupt the thought forms about astrology. Dane Rudhyar tried, I think, 280|00:40:28|050|00:40:35|990in his book The Astrology of Personality to somehow work in D.K.'s information. But at long 281|00:40:35|990|00:40:45|430last, I think even he decided on his own paradigm and left behind the type of astrology here being 282|00:40:45|430|00:40:50|270presented. When I talked to Dane Rudhyar and I asked him about the Alice Bailey astrology, 283|00:40:50|350|00:40:58|290he said, well, it's not astrology as I know it. So it's very hard to assimilate this new astrology 284|00:40:59|070|00:41:07|210If one is greatly invested in one's own formulations or in the prevailing formulations. 285|00:41:08|550|00:41:15|150And if you read the vast majority of books, you'll see that they do not really reflect the esoteric 286|00:41:15|150|00:41:28|270astrology here being presented. So even though I am endeavouring to lay the foundation and to provide some measure of technical information 287|00:41:28|270|00:41:36|690from the point of view of the Hierarchy, and it's not so technical, it's not really a mathematical 288|00:41:36|690|00:41:42|310presentation. I think we see this. There's a lot of complexity in astrology, which is 289|00:41:42|890|00:41:50|450somewhat mathematically based, and D.K. is avoiding that. He's working much more for us in the world 290|00:41:50|450|00:41:59|510of meaning. my underlying motive is ever the same: to indicate the way of living 291|00:41:59|510|00:42:07|690process and to stimulate that divine curiosity and that sense of outgoing spiritual adventure 292|00:42:07|690|00:42:14|350and eager aspiration for progress which is latent in all disciples and which, when stimulated, 1|00:00:01|340|00:00:08|580will enable them to proceed more serenely and sanely upon the Path of Return. Well, 294|00:42:21|350|00:42:31|450this is his motive. This is his objective. He wants to indicate the way of a process we can 295|00:42:31|450|00:42:38|010follow, which leads to greater livingness in his living process. He wants to stimulate our Mercury 296|00:42:38|010|00:42:46|150in a way, the divine curiosity which is latent in all of us. There's sort of a—what can I say— 297|00:42:46|310|00:42:53|590kind of a Geminian, Sagittarian motive here: curiosity and spiritual adventure. Curiosity, 298|00:42:53|730|00:42:59|950Gemini; spiritual adventure, Sagittarius; aspiration. He wants to stimulate an eagerness 299|00:42:59|950|00:43:10|470for progress. And when all of this is stimulated, we will have the sense of real progress, and we 300|00:43:10|470|00:43:17|850will—without so much self-recrimination, self-criticism, even self-torture—we will be 301|00:43:17|850|00:43:25|430able to proceed more serenely and in a more illumined manner along the path of return. 302|00:43:25|430|00:43:31|710Notice he even uses the word “sanely,” meaning that much of what he is able to convey here 303|00:43:31|710|00:43:41|670in esoteric astrology will be able to help the aspirant and the disciple have a much more healthy 304|00:43:42|390|00:43:51|790approach to their spiritual progress, and they will be far more balanced and less fragmented. 305|00:43:52|650|00:43:57|530What does it mean to be sane or insane? It's somewhat of a relative notion, I suppose, 306|00:43:57|590|00:44:05|590but he talks about the sanctified normality, the sanctified normality of the initiate. And I think 307|00:44:05|590|00:44:12|790he wants to see in all of this—when we are armed with this type of valuable information about the 308|00:44:12|790|00:44:21|350subtle energies which influence us—he wants to see in us that sanctified normality which will 309|00:44:21|350|00:44:29|830allow us to proceed along the path with far less difficulty and trouble and upset and so many 310|00:44:29|830|00:44:37|670unnecessary crises. Necessary crises there are, but there are many that are somewhat unnecessarily 311|00:44:38|230|00:44:43|670induced and of a lesser kind and are simply disturbing. And maybe having a knowledge of 312|00:44:43|670|00:44:51|630these energies—when we confront the vicissitudes of life—will enable us to face them with greater 313|00:44:51|630|00:44:58|290understanding, less emotional reactivity, and so forth. Otherwise the practical value of that 314|00:44:58|290|00:45:04|250which I seek to impart is of no real importance at all; Well, he's certainly giving us a large 315|00:45:04|250|00:45:12|150thought form of these energies and their tendencies and the way they promote evolution. 316|00:45:12|150|00:45:18|590I think he's saying, though, that much of what he is imparting is for application in a future time. 317|00:45:19|170|00:45:28|230But if he can induce the aspiration and curiosity and sense of adventure within us so that we really 318|00:45:28|790|00:45:35|970drive forward with our full rational and even intuitive faculties operating and can tread the 319|00:45:35|970|00:45:41|510path with greater surety, he will have accomplished something. I shall be understood 320|00:45:42|310|00:45:48|330and the new astrology will come into being according to the esoteric capacity of those 321|00:45:48|330|00:45:55|070who read and ponder my words. And I suppose here we are somewhat dealing with what D.K. has 322|00:45:55|070|00:46:02|670called the esoteric sense. So we have the five senses, then the sixth, which is the uniting or 323|00:46:02|670|00:46:10|190common sense, which has to do with rationality and thought power. And then we have the 324|00:46:10|190|00:46:21|530esoteric sense, which is the intuitive sense—that which allows us to cognize and to appreciate 325|00:46:21|530|00:46:32|650information directly and in wholes. So we get truth in an unmediated manner. So the esoteric 326|00:46:32|650|00:46:38|930capacity is something linked to intuition, and it's not just a question of using the concrete 327|00:46:39|770|00:46:47|650rational mind. And I suppose it can be questioned how much esoteric capacity we all really do have. 328|00:46:48|650|00:46:56|310I am exceedingly anxious—interesting words for a master, no? “I'm exceedingly anxious that in 329|00:46:56|310|00:47:02|370these days wherein the influence of Scorpio and of the planet Mars is so strongly felt in world 330|00:47:02|370|00:47:08|770affairs that true insight may be cultivated, Now we have to realize we did write this before World 331|00:47:08|770|00:47:19|350War II. It was a long time ago, but D.K. is giving us information and truths as the hierarchy 332|00:47:19|910|00:47:28|090understands these truths. And so they don't just fade away, come and go. This is not just a novelty. 333|00:47:28|470|00:47:34|630This is something that stands over centuries, millennia, ages and so forth. 334|00:47:36|250|00:47:45|950Excuse me. So this was a time when Mars and the war-like energies of Scorpio were building up 335|00:47:46|750|00:47:54|010tremendously. The forces of Pluto had been released and humanity was in the balances with respect 336|00:47:54|010|00:48:01|810to whether the World War would be continued, and indeed it was. So perhaps something about 337|00:48:01|810|00:48:10|090this astrological information would be able to give greater insight as to what was happening and 338|00:48:10|890|00:48:17|870optimism so that perhaps world goodwill could have triumphed over those forces which 339|00:48:17|870|00:48:28|530eventually led to war. He wanted to cultivate insight, optimism and understanding developed 340|00:48:29|690|00:48:36|730and the nature of the tests to which the world disciple, humanity, is today being subjected 341|00:48:37|530|00:48:44|130may be estimated at their true value and thus light be shed upon the way of man. So obviously 342|00:48:44|130|00:48:50|190humanity was going through a tremendous testing period at that time. It's certainly not finished 343|00:48:50|190|00:48:57|590with its testing period after all. It's only when Christ reappears and is recognized that there will 344|00:48:57|590|00:49:03|570be the indication that man has taken the first initiation, or at least a certain significant 345|00:49:03|570|00:49:10|190portion of humanity, has taken the first initiation which is discussed as humanity 346|00:49:10|190|00:49:15|390itself taking the first initiation, and we are still in the Scorpionic testing period 347|00:49:15|390|00:49:25|270before that first initiation can be taken. So let's reread this for continuity. “I'm exceedingly 348|00:49:25|270|00:49:30|510anxious that in these days wherein the influence of Scorpio of the planet Mars is so strongly 349|00:49:30|510|00:49:38|670felt in world affairs that true insight may be cultivated, optimism and understanding developed.” 350|00:49:38|950|00:49:46|930We certainly need that even though we are often dismayed by the kinds of events that are emerging 351|00:49:46|930|00:49:54|230on the world stage, but in the long run optimism is a truer attitude than one of pessimism. 352|00:49:54|970|00:50:01|370We need to see why these things are happening. “So true insight may be cultivated, optimism and 353|00:50:01|370|00:50:06|610understanding developed on the nature of the tests to which the world disciple, humanity, is today 354|00:50:06|610|00:50:12|810being subjected, may be estimated at their true value.” What actually are we passing through? 355|00:50:13|350|00:50:21|950Probably so few human beings realize what we are actually preparing for, what we are actually 356|00:50:21|950|00:50:28|750passing through and to what it may lead, namely the birth of the Christ in the heart of a large 357|00:50:28|750|00:50:37|490portion of humanity and thus an elevation of humanity which so few suspect at this time. 358|00:50:38|630|00:50:46|930And so that having these things in mind, having these insights in mind and with an optimistic 359|00:50:46|930|00:50:55|790and understanding attitude and estimating the nature of the tests, we may emerge into the 360|00:50:55|790|00:51:03|550fuller opportunities of the new age. So Only through understanding will solution come 361|00:51:03|550|00:51:13|650and rectification of error be achieved. So I think we can see here the function of the spiritual 362|00:51:18|570|00:51:30|630propaganda effort, propaganda effort upon the second ray, the educative movement in which so 363|00:51:30|630|00:51:40|770many of us are involved and how it is to induce understanding so that we may have the real 364|00:51:40|770|00:51:46|610solutions. Well, 80 years have passed since this was written, approximately 80 years, 365|00:51:47|090|00:51:52|850and we can ask to what extent there is understanding. I think there is a much greater 366|00:51:52|850|00:51:59|710understanding and there are many spiritually inclined individuals who really do see what the 367|00:51:59|710|00:52:13|030stakes are and have that kind of optimism which will lead within the next hundred years into the 368|00:52:13|030|00:52:19|990beginning of the new age. The battle is still raging. There are many retrogressive forces, 369|00:52:20|930|00:52:28|070especially the retrogressive forces of the sixth ray on which there are so many souls focused. 370|00:52:28|830|00:52:36|070They are reactionary forces. They seem to want to take humanity backwards and it will be up to the 371|00:52:36|070|00:52:44|290more heart-centered, rational and intuitive groups within humanity to counterbalance that 372|00:52:44|290|00:52:51|210retrogressive effort and make sure that we do not slide back and become, as D.K. warned, 373|00:52:51|990|00:53:02|550re-initiated into the earth. Okay, The tests of Scorpio are necessarily three in nature 374|00:53:03|330|00:53:10|910as they concern intimately the readiness of the threefold personality: Well, whether it's three 375|00:53:10|910|00:53:19|010or threefold divisions of three and nine, it's all the same. So we have three, a threefold test. 376|00:53:19|500|00:53:27|8701. To reorient itself that is the personality, to the life of the soul and later 2. To evidence 377|00:53:27|870|00:53:36|130readiness for initiation. So we read that reorientation is part of the process of Scorpio. 378|00:53:37|450|00:53:47|190That was just here, wasn't it? Let's see where we were. Yes, crises producing an understanding for 379|00:53:47|190|00:53:55|050the need of reorientation. So reorient the personality and prepare it for initiation, and 380|00:53:55|050|00:54:02|850then 3. To demonstrate sensitivity to the Plan thus becoming the one-pointed disciple in 381|00:54:02|850|00:54:12|830Sagittarius. I would say there are three signs in which the plan is increasingly appreciated, and 382|00:54:12|830|00:54:22|830would be Scorpio, Sagittarius, and finally Capricorn, where the plan in some detail, I think, 383|00:54:23|410|00:54:30|490can truly be understood. To reorient itself, that is the personality, reorients itself to the life 384|00:54:30|490|00:54:39|330of the soul. It's kind of a reversal and based upon the struggles and the pain of crisis, and 385|00:54:39|330|00:54:47|690a better way is seen and perhaps a higher power is sensed, a saving power. To evidence readiness 386|00:54:47|690|00:54:54|670for initiation by testing oneself out in many strenuous ways or having life circumstances 387|00:54:54|670|00:55:03|030test one, and to demonstrate sensitivity to the plan which is the direction of the thought of God 388|00:55:03|990|00:55:10|330for our planet, thus becoming the one-pointed disciple and Sagittarius. So, 389|00:55:10|330|00:55:17|350sitting in Scorpio, we achieve struggle, strength, and eventually Sagittarian attitudes. We have 390|00:55:17|350|00:55:24|630test, trial, and triumph, which I think he will mention in this chapter. Test, trial, and triumph, 391|00:55:25|370|00:55:31|950and struggle, and then strength developed and Sagittarian attitudes which are no longer 392|00:55:31|950|00:55:40|050succumbing to struggle because they are one-pointed, having resolved the struggle and used 393|00:55:40|050|00:55:47|190the energy involved in struggle and fight to move forward in accordance with the vision 394|00:55:47|190|00:55:56|390which has been revealed as a result of the reorientation. The three major tests are again 395|00:55:56|390|00:56:03|990divided into three stages, So let's just underline these things. Reorient and readiness, 396|00:56:05|260|00:56:17|270and then sensitivity. These are the three tests. So before we start subdividing them, 397|00:56:17|680|00:56:25|390we recognize that we turn around and face another way. Sometimes it's called repentance. 398|00:56:27|690|00:56:34|170You know, when we struggle and there's a great fight within us and we turn around and face a 399|00:56:34|170|00:56:39|210higher and better way, we do not succumb to temptation, but we repent. We turn around 400|00:56:39|210|00:56:46|670and face a better way and perform that which the better way indicates. And as we perform it, we 401|00:56:48|330|00:56:55|510are undergoing one test successfully after another, proving that we are strong enough and ready to 402|00:56:55|510|00:57:02|470take initiation. And then, in terms of our life actually, what should we do with our energy? We 403|00:57:02|470|00:57:08|810no longer follow our own promptings but the promptings of the directed thought of God, which 404|00:57:08|810|00:57:19|390is the divine plan. So following the directed thought of God, which is the divine plan. Okay. 405|00:57:20|030|00:57:27|070Okay. All right. These three major tests are again divided into three stages. 406|00:57:27|910|00:57:35|090and upon the Path of Discipleship the man may find himself passing into this sign for testing 407|00:57:35|090|00:57:46|830and experience nine times. Whoa. Earlier we learned that you can have the same rising sign 408|00:57:46|830|00:57:54|810for one life or for a period of seven lives, perhaps any number of incarnations between the 409|00:57:54|810|00:58:02|210one and the seven. And here we find the man passing into this sign. Now it doesn't tell us 410|00:58:02|890|00:58:11|230whether this is—is this, whoops, I don't want that. So we say, is this the sun sign 411|00:58:11|230|00:58:19|190or the rising sign or either or both? So in any case, he has the opportunity for some 412|00:58:19|190|00:58:29|610nine incarnations, and classically there are nine heads of the hydra. So we can understand 413|00:58:30|870|00:58:37|870the nine incarnations in relation to three physical tests, three emotional tests, and three 414|00:58:37|870|00:58:44|870mental tests. And we might say that there are three phases here. The path of discipleship, 415|00:58:44|870|00:58:53|950let us say, extends all the way to the third initiation. So the third initiation. So 416|00:58:55|450|00:59:01|690we might say before the first initiation there may be three physical tests; before the second, 417|00:59:01|690|00:59:07|670three emotional tests; before the third initiation, three mental tests. So the 418|00:59:08|570|00:59:14|870path of discipleship is long. And between the first and third initiation there may be 419|00:59:14|870|00:59:22|190quite a number of incarnations. And so, well, how many? You know, some people say 30; 420|00:59:22|870|00:59:29|610some people say less. I don't think we can specify at this point, as so much depends upon how the 421|00:59:29|610|00:59:36|590individual takes advantage of the opportunities offered. But let's just say Scorpio must be pretty 422|00:59:36|590|00:59:44|250prominent. There's a sign in which or under which to be born if you can have it prominent 423|00:59:44|250|00:59:50|810nine times in the period between what I call the first initiation and the third. 424|00:59:52|390|00:59:58|850Really, the path of discipleship, I feel, and not just probationary discipleship, begins with the 425|00:59:58|850|01:00:06|950first initiation. Although in a way you can remain what's called a probationary all the way up to 426|01:00:06|950|01:00:10|610the period of accepted discipleship which can occur somewhere between 427|01:00:11|330|01:00:17|590the first and second initiation or perhaps beyond. All right. The fact of the three tests 428|01:00:17|630|01:00:25|690each existing in their three stages may convey a hint to esoteric astrologers 429|01:00:26|250|01:00:33|570as to the purpose of the three decanates into which each sign is divided— And here I think 430|01:00:33|570|01:00:40|250he's going to hint that the first 10 degrees can relate to the physical nature and the second 10 431|01:00:40|250|01:00:46|050degrees to the emotional and the third 10 degrees to the mental. After all, that's where those tests 432|01:00:46|050|01:00:57|170will occur. The different vehicles of the human being have to be tested out. So we have three 433|01:00:57|170|01:01:04|970decanates and perhaps in a way three tests per decanate. Now, you know, we can, if we are born 434|01:01:04|970|01:01:11|530with a prominent Scorpio, either as the sun sign or rising sign or perhaps maybe even the moon sign 435|01:01:11|530|01:01:20|610or a stellium in Scorpio which contains perhaps the ruling planet, we can see how these are 436|01:01:21|350|01:01:27|910focused, which decanate they find themselves in. And according to the level of the path in which 437|01:01:27|910|01:01:36|770we find ourselves, we may be able to discover something about the tests. Now, would it mean that 438|01:01:37|430|01:01:43|630only if you have a prominent rising sign or sun sign or third decanate of Scorpio are you passing 439|01:01:43|630|01:01:51|710the tests for the third initiation? I don't think we can say that for sure. Or only if you have 440|01:01:51|710|01:01:56|790sun or rising sign or something prominent in Scorpio, second decanate, are you passing the tests 441|01:01:56|790|01:02:04|190for the second initiation and so for the first? I'm not sure we can really say that. We can theorize 442|01:02:04|190|01:02:11|110about that. And, you know, we can work up a well-structured theory, but I think we have to 443|01:02:11|110|01:02:20|950study the lives of people who we can determine are passing through particular preparations 444|01:02:20|950|01:02:30|650for a particular initiation and see where their Scorpio influences were placed. I mean, I could, 445|01:02:30|650|01:02:37|530you know, go off on a… I'm tempted to go off on a little search here using the Solar Fire program 446|01:02:39|950|01:02:46|830and thereby, you know, locate famous people. I mean, you can do that, you know, like… 447|01:02:48|350|01:02:55|030Well, you know, yeah, I'll show you how it could be done. You see, we would go into 448|01:02:55|590|01:03:00|830Solar Fire here and I have a file of people that I call famous people. 449|01:03:03|470|01:03:08|270Here it is, as a matter of fact. And I go into the find area and I do a chart search. 450|01:03:11|890|01:03:16|830Well, is this going to come? Yeah, I would do a chart search and hopefully it will come up for me. 451|01:03:18|270|01:03:21|310It seems to be pretty slow at the moment. 452|01:03:25|450|01:03:39|230Let's see. Again, open the file and all and we say find and we do a chart search. Yes. And suppose 453|01:03:39|230|01:03:52|710I wanted to say, um, what do I want? I want, um, planet. So, uh, find, uh, let's say traditional 454|01:03:52|710|01:04:05|210ruler, esoteric ruler, find the sun, let's say, sun in… in… okay, it's the sun in midpoint, 455|01:04:05|410|01:04:15|050in house, in aspect, in phase, in sign, sun in Scorpio. Okay. So I'll replace 456|01:04:17|010|01:04:28|310this and the sun in Scorpio. And then I run this and, um, oh, so I thought, so I thought I could… 457|01:04:30|150|01:04:37|230Sorry for the delay here. Um, I'm the famous and cleaner and I'm not… the point is the sun 458|01:04:37|690|01:04:48|550in Scorpio. So we find the sun in Scorpio and search. And here it is. Here are all these people 459|01:04:49|150|01:04:55|010with the sun in Scorpio and they are famous people. John Adams, Saint Augustine, 460|01:04:56|550|01:05:04|190it looks like Saint Augustine is in the third decanate and John Adams is in the first decanate. 461|01:05:04|190|01:05:08|710Does that mean he was only working before the first initiation? You see what I mean? 462|01:05:09|830|01:05:16|170Sarah Bernhardt, a great actor. She was in the first decanate of Scorpio and yet it would seem 463|01:05:16|170|01:05:21|330that her tests would have more to do with the second degree in the emotional nature. 464|01:05:22|830|01:05:27|950Benvenuto Cellini, well, perhaps fittingly in the second decanate of Scorpio, though we have to be 465|01:05:27|950|01:05:36|870careful about the old style, new style calendars if we go back too far. Marie Curie, she was in the 466|01:05:36|870|01:05:42|890second decanate of Scorpio. This is relatively modern and would… but it would seem to me that her 467|01:05:42|890|01:05:48|170tests would be more along the mental nature, which would be fitting for the third decanate 468|01:05:48|170|01:05:56|470of Scorpio. See what I mean? Fyodor Dostoevsky, he's, um, well, it's difficult to say. It looks 469|01:05:56|470|01:06:02|650like the third decanate. That's possible, but certainly his emotional, his karmic life 470|01:06:03|130|01:06:08|730was very much figuring into his novels. Um, about Erasmus, I don't know too much. 471|01:06:11|750|01:06:18|890Ficino, he was very important mentally in the Renaissance, and yet, um, he would be in the first 472|01:06:18|890|01:06:27|250decanate, I do believe. Um, and so forth. Let's see, well, we can hardly call Goebbels an initiate, 473|01:06:28|330|01:06:34|090although, you know, he might have been one of those who could have taken or did take the second 474|01:06:34|090|01:06:39|870initiation and veered off the path. Billy Graham in the second decanate of Scorpio, I think that 475|01:06:39|870|01:06:46|610fits well for the intensity of his sixth-ray emotional nature. But John Keats, with a great 476|01:06:46|610|01:06:53|730poet of the emotions, he seems to be in the first decanate. So, you see, I think we have to be, uh, 477|01:06:54|910|01:07:01|490very careful when we think about the tests that these different people may be passing, because 478|01:07:01|490|01:07:12|190their birthday, their sun, or even rising sign, may locate itself in a decanate, which, um, does not 479|01:07:12|190|01:07:16|770seem to correlate exactly with the tests that they are undergoing. Of course, look, we're not 480|01:07:16|770|01:07:24|110a master; we are not their master. We do not know specifically, unless we study scrupulously the, 481|01:07:25|090|01:07:33|490the, their biography, which tests they may be, may have been undergoing. And even if we studied 482|01:07:33|490|01:07:39|570their biography scrupulously, we do not have a master's insight. I wonder if we know, 483|01:07:39|570|01:07:46|910if we have strong Scorpio, what specific tests we are undergoing. And one wonders 484|01:07:46|910|01:07:52|150whether the tests of the first decanate, which we can call sex, money, and comfort, 485|01:07:53|090|01:07:58|850ever are completely overcome until all of the heads of the hydra are overcome. In other words, 486|01:07:59|310|01:08:05|430we may overcome them to a degree, but perhaps even in the preparation for the third initiation, 487|01:08:05|430|01:08:12|970there are vestiges of uncompleted work hanging over from the first to second decanate, 488|01:08:13|270|01:08:20|830even as we are completing the third decanate. So I think it's dangerous to be too cut and dried 489|01:08:21|660|01:08:29|870with our theorization. I mean, they make, these theories make nice mental models, but do they 490|01:08:29|870|01:08:38|050actually conform to reality? You know, think about Marie Curie, all of that work being done 491|01:08:38|890|01:08:46|030in the mental nature, with her very strong fifth ray and seventh ray. On the other hand, 492|01:08:46|470|01:08:51|430who knows, there may have been tests which were particularly involved with the second 493|01:08:51|430|01:08:57|990decanate of Scorpio, fear, hatred, and ambition. So the first decanate, sex, money, and comfort, 494|01:08:59|070|01:09:04|710that's the first decanate. Second decanate, fear, hatred, and love of power or ambition. 495|01:09:05|350|01:09:12|550And then the third decanate, pride, separativeness, and cruelty. Maybe even though she was working in 496|01:09:12|550|01:09:21|930the mental field, her emotional nature was in some way being tested out. Well anyway, D.K. says there 497|01:09:21|930|01:09:27|750is a hint here, and I think we can see what the structure of the hint would be. I think that's 498|01:09:27|750|01:09:39|490not so difficult to see. But I would strongly recommend a biographical study in order to make 499|01:09:39|490|01:09:51|030sure we are not imposing a mental structure upon life in any rigid manner that ignores what life 500|01:09:51|030|01:09:57|490is actually demonstrating. Okay, The fact of the three tests each existing in their three stages 501|01:09:58|070|01:10:06|990may convey a hint to esoteric astrologers as to the purpose of the three decanates into which each 502|01:10:06|990|01:10:21|010sign is divided—a point upon which I shall hope to touch when we come to our study of the Science of 503|01:10:21|010|01:10:27|350Triangles. But he would like to touch upon that. Each test, this is test, trial, and triumph. This is Scorpio. 504|01:10:28|270|01:10:36|970And when you are tested, it is demonstrated to yourself and to others of what substance you 505|01:10:36|970|01:10:43|690really are composed. What is your metal? What is your worthiness? What is your merit? Will you be 506|01:10:43|690|01:10:52|530overcome by the opponent, or will the strength and the acumen, the wisdom within you, overcome 507|01:10:52|530|01:10:59|810the opponent? And will you demonstrate victory? Each test (and therefore each decanate) concerns 508|01:11:00|250|01:11:13|670the three aspects which in this Treatise on the Seven Rays we have called: life, quality and 509|01:11:13|670|01:11:22|030appearance. with the form aspect, obviously. Thus, the three great tests in Scorpio 510|01:11:22|030|01:11:30|810are in reality nine tests. And hence the nine-headed hydra, or servant, nine being the number 511|01:11:30|810|01:11:35|530of completion. And when you have completed these nine tests, and there still are, I would say, 512|01:11:36|250|01:11:42|730many subdivisions possible within the nine, when you've completed these nine tests you have 513|01:11:43|310|01:11:52|870passed the curriculum and are ready to declare as a third degree initiate, or be declared, 514|01:11:52|950|01:11:58|170or your life becomes declarative of the third degree. Perhaps that's a better way of putting 515|01:11:58|170|01:12:05|870it. Thus the three great tests in Scorpio are in reality nine tests and hence the nine-headed 516|01:12:05|870|01:12:11|310Hydra or Serpent the serpent of matter in this case, the serpent of personality which is ever 517|01:12:11|310|01:12:19|350associated with Scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory achieved by Hercules, 518|01:12:20|070|01:12:26|450the Sun-God, in this sign. Hercules is the incarnated soul. He's not yet the soul on his 519|01:12:26|450|01:12:32|550own plane, but he is the one who realizes himself, while in the very midst of all the personality 520|01:12:32|550|01:12:39|670fluctuations and battles. He realizes himself as the soul. And you know, he talked—D.K. uses words 521|01:12:39|670|01:12:50|770like stupendous, okay. So this is the testing sign, and there is no easy overcoming of the 522|01:12:50|770|01:13:00|010opponent. And it is said that in many ways the second initiation, of which Scorpio is emblematic, 523|01:13:00|010|01:13:06|930is the most difficult initiation for human beings to take, especially if they are on 524|01:13:07|470|01:13:14|690rays two, four, six, and perhaps also one and seven. He says there's a bit of an easier time 525|01:13:14|690|01:13:21|410taking the second initiation when you are on the third ray or the fifth ray because the emotional 526|01:13:21|970|01:13:29|630body becomes less of an opponent. There's less emotional charge and resistance for the third 527|01:13:29|630|01:13:37|630and the fifth ray types. But on the other hand, they might have more difficulty 528|01:13:39|110|01:13:45|450taking an initiation in which illusion has to be dispelled because the mind is often the creator 529|01:13:45|450|01:13:51|230of illusion. And perhaps it is not as possible for them as for some of those on the soft 530|01:13:51|230|01:14:00|370line rays to access the intuition which dispels illusion. So for all the different ray types, 531|01:14:01|090|01:14:09|250there are different kinds of tests and trials of varying difficulty depending on the ray type. 532|01:14:09|810|01:14:21|330So, okay, threefold tests in the three aspects of the personality, and also as well, 533|01:14:23|870|01:14:28|870the major three can be described differently as reorientation, 534|01:14:29|450|01:14:37|510readiness, and sensitivity. And you might wonder whether we can correlate reorientation 535|01:14:38|290|01:14:44|910with the physical tests, the readiness for initiation with the astral tests, 536|01:14:45|630|01:14:52|330and sensitivity to the plan with the mental tests. Perhaps we can, although they are slightly 537|01:14:52|330|01:14:59|690different words than we might think about when we think about the purifications that one has to 538|01:14:59|690|01:15:07|570undergo in each one of the vehicles. We do need a sound body with rightly consecrated energies. 539|01:15:08|010|01:15:16|390We need a balanced emotional nature in which the normal desires—personal desires—are subdued. 540|01:15:16|890|01:15:21|710We need the death of the astral vehicle in that respect, which can be symbolized by 541|01:15:21|710|01:15:28|550Moon and Scorpio. And we need a sensitivity to God's thought and not just to our own thoughts 542|01:15:29|050|01:15:31|110when we are focused in the mental realm. 543|01:15:33|270|01:15:41|470All right. It is interesting to note that each of the great Sons of God Whose names are pre-eminent 544|01:15:41|470|01:15:46|710in the minds of men—well, certainly the Buddha and the Christ are preeminent these days, 545|01:15:47|090|01:15:52|830whether Hercules… I suppose Hercules has also survived with a kind of preeminence 546|01:15:53|400|01:16:01|450as the symbol of great physical strength. Of course, that is somewhat of a distortion 547|01:16:02|190|01:16:10|070or a partial view of Hercules because he has had to exercise all of the qualities, not just the 548|01:16:10|070|01:16:17|930physical qualities. You know, Hercules is so often depicted as a muscle man—you know, the ultimate 549|01:16:17|930|01:16:26|610in weight training perhaps. But he has to have this great emotional power and mental power as 550|01:16:26|610|01:16:32|490well to pass the test. Anyway, the three great sons of God whose names are preeminent in the 551|01:16:32|490|01:16:38|570minds of men—Hercules, the Buddha and the Christ—one associated with the first ray, that is, 552|01:16:38|610|01:16:46|890Hercules; the Buddha having a combination of first ray and second ray, being a first-ray 553|01:16:46|890|01:16:51|490personality, but essentially the third-ray monad; and the Christ very much on the second ray, 554|01:16:51|920|01:16:58|750are associated in the archives of the Great White Lodge with three special signs of the zodiac, 555|01:16:59|830|01:17:07|130which in a peculiar manner—and this manner is not revealed to us—constitute the zodiacal 556|01:17:07|130|01:17:16|590decanate. The zodiacal decanate, or a zodiacal decanate in some larger zodiac, perhaps… 557|01:17:17|890|01:17:21|990So are associated in the archives of the Great White Lodge with three 558|01:17:21|990|01:17:29|570special signs of the zodiac (which in a peculiar manner constitute the “zodiacal decanate”) in each of which They passed from test to victory. 559|01:17:30|910|01:17:38|090Now I'm sure we can intuit what these are if we have not read them, but we'll go on and let 560|01:17:38|770|01:17:48|070D.K. describe this. They achieved victory in each one—in one sign particularly, 561|01:17:49|230|01:17:54|030and there is a kind of a decanate, presumably then… 562|01:17:54|030|01:17:54|710Um, 563|01:17:58|690|01:18:05|630well, let's just say that… uh, does it represent… A decanate usually represents 1/36th 564|01:18:06|530|01:18:16|650of the zodiacal wheel. Does this particular decanate represent 1/36th of a greater wheel? 565|01:18:17|210|01:18:25|010in which the three signs are involved, or do the three signs together represent kind of a 566|01:18:25|010|01:18:34|3501/12th, a sign in themselves? The word decanate is used, and so it seems that it is a division by, 567|01:18:35|550|01:18:43|850it's a unit based on the number 10. Is the greater wheel a 360 degree wheel? Well, most wheels are. 568|01:18:43|850|01:18:51|750D.K. doesn't say much about the larger system in which these three signs together represent a 569|01:18:51|750|01:18:59|230zodiacal decanate. So in Scorpio, that is the sign particularly associated with Hercules. 570|01:19:00|030|01:19:07|390In Scorpio—Hercules became the triumphant disciple. This is what so many of us are looking 571|01:19:07|390|01:19:15|910forward to, and I suppose that following the second initiate, and you can triumph 572|01:19:15|910|01:19:22|550three times, you can triumph physically, emotionally, and mentally. If you triumph mentally, 573|01:19:22|570|01:19:27|570finally, you are the initiate, the true initiate. But I think this relates mostly 574|01:19:29|110|01:19:37|370to the second degree, because after this point, your next triumph makes of you the true initiate. 575|01:19:37|390|01:19:42|670Here you are the triumphant, let us say, probationary initiate, and you have subdued 576|01:19:43|390|01:19:51|010the vehicle which is most problematic for all human beings on this planet, which is still, 577|01:19:51|030|01:19:56|890in a way, emotionally polarized. And in our solar system, in which the solar Logos is still 578|01:19:56|890|01:20:03|590emotionally polarized, it's the astral body in this astral Buddha solar system, which is, 579|01:20:04|370|01:20:11|550for men, the greatest obstacle to overcome. The triumphant disciple. And I guess we can 580|01:20:12|230|01:20:18|690look at all the areas of our life as we are disciples, intending to be disciples, in which we 581|01:20:18|690|01:20:29|130are not yet triumphant. Okay, we have to win over certain tempting obstacles which are pulling us 582|01:20:29|130|01:20:38|810back into matter, form, and under the sway of the third aspect of divinity. In Taurus, 583|01:20:42|070|01:20:54|230excuse me, In Taurus—The Buddha achieved victory over desire and arrived at illumination. Now, 584|01:20:54|230|01:20:59|150this is not just the illumination of the third degree. This is much beyond that. 585|01:20:59|590|01:21:09|710Not just the illumination of the third degree. His illumination was from the cosmic mental plane 586|01:21:10|350|01:21:18|710and was of the sixth degree. Five hundred years later, the Christ achieved the same sixth degree 587|01:21:18|710|01:21:24|850along another line. But, you know, if we're dealing with the number six, obviously the 588|01:21:24|850|01:21:29|550sixth initiation is related to the sixth principle or the desire principle. So, 589|01:21:30|450|01:21:36|670this victory over desire was not just a kind of victory over personal desires, 590|01:21:37|720|01:21:46|130which the normal disciple has, but a victory over desire for any kind of life, I suppose, 591|01:21:46|530|01:21:53|970in the five worlds of human and superhuman evolution. I suppose at this time, the Buddha 592|01:21:53|970|01:22:03|630became a fully conscious embodied monad on his own monadic ray, which everything in cosmic fire 593|01:22:03|630|01:22:14|030seems to point to as the third ray. Then In Pisces—The Christ overcame death and became 594|01:22:14|030|01:22:23|390the world saviour. And here again, I think we are talking about the sixth degree when he said, 595|01:22:23|510|01:22:34|890“Not my will but thine be done.” Here, speaking of the sixth degree in the Garden of Gethsemane. 596|01:22:35|650|01:22:42|690That's where this would have happened and that anchored, we are told, a strand of truly divine 597|01:22:42|690|01:22:51|710will upon the earth. Oh, that's a funny way to spell illumination. Let's see, illumination. 598|01:22:52|510|01:23:01|250There we go. All right. So, these are three victories and we have to wonder, however, 599|01:23:01|310|01:23:08|370since Hercules is now, we are told, in Shambhala and thus, you know, has remained with the 600|01:23:08|370|01:23:14|950Lord of the World as part of the saving force, what his triumph as a disciple 601|01:23:14|950|01:23:23|190really was. And maybe it did mean becoming the initiate of the third degree. We don't have, 602|01:23:25|130|01:23:30|930I'm wondering if in the labors of Hercules, we have any indication that Hercules took the fourth 603|01:23:30|930|01:23:36|230degree in those Atlantean days when he was demonstrating for people these particular 604|01:23:36|230|01:23:43|930dramas as teaching points. We're told that the personality of Hercules was the second and his 605|01:23:43|930|01:23:50|670soul, the first and presumably his astral body the sixth and presumably, since he was creating plays, 606|01:23:51|130|01:23:57|650his mind the fourth. We don't know whether he has kept those rays or whether now as one who 607|01:23:58|210|01:24:04|570manifests in Shambhala, he has any need of the lower rays at all. But all of that will be 608|01:24:04|570|01:24:11|810clarified in due time. The D.K. was giving in the destiny of the nations the rays of these great 609|01:24:12|570|01:24:20|010sons of God, the Christ having the second-ray soul, sixth-ray personality and first-ray mind, 610|01:24:20|210|01:24:28|030interestingly, and the Buddha having the second-ray soul, first-ray personality and sixth-ray mind. 611|01:24:28|190|01:24:33|350And Hercules, if I remember it properly, the first-ray soul, second-ray personality and probably 612|01:24:33|350|01:24:39|730sixth-ray astro-body, probably fourth-ray mind. One of those was not given, but that looks like the 613|01:24:41|270|01:24:47|210most likely and probably, you know, Hercules with his, well, he was a great teacher. We don't know 614|01:24:47|210|01:24:53|650his monadic ray, but there's very much to suggest it could be the first. That would be a double 615|01:24:53|650|01:25:01|150first ray. Anyway, all in due time these points will be clarified. These three constellations, 1|00:00:01|340|00:00:08|580therefore, form a triangle of initiation from discipleship to illumination to world saviorship. 617|01:25:15|490|01:25:23|430The disciple. We are told that the Christ was teaching the path of initiation. The Buddha was 618|01:25:23|430|01:25:32|050teaching the path of accepted discipleship. And, well, Hercules seems to have been teaching the path of 619|01:25:32|050|01:25:39|170struggles along the path of aspiration and discipleship. Although it is technically true 620|01:25:39|170|01:25:49|050that the Buddha was teaching arhats as well. And the students of the Christ were not so much arhats. 621|01:25:49|050|01:25:55|390His disciples were not that high. The Master Jesus, he who is now the Master Jesus, was the 622|01:25:55|390|01:26:04|230initiate Jesus and the Christ was teaching him the way into arhatship. So, in a way, the Buddha 623|01:26:05|090|01:26:15|230with his 900 arhats, as it were, was teaching in his close circle a higher, more experienced 624|01:26:15|230|01:26:21|250and far older group of students. Probably students from the previous 625|01:26:23|170|01:26:28|410chain, just as the Buddha was. And who knows, maybe the Buddha was even from the previous 626|01:26:28|410|01:26:45|210older system. The Christ, we know, was not. So, his teaching, in a way, was more accessible to the 627|01:26:45|850|01:26:56|530masses than the Buddha's. Okay. So, three constellations then form a triangle of initiation of profound importance 1|00:00:01|340|00:00:08|580because it provides those conditions and that energy which will 629|01:27:04|470|01:27:10|510because it provides those conditions and that energy which will test and perfect 630|01:27:10|510|01:27:17|050of the three divine aspects Now, how would we correlate this, you know? We can correlate 631|01:27:18|230|01:27:24|970Taurus with the physical plane. We can correlate Pisces with the emotional plane. 632|01:27:25|610|01:27:31|690We can correlate Taurus with the illumination of the mind. We can correlate Scorpio with the 633|01:27:31|690|01:27:36|130dense physical vehicle and all the physical tests, but also with the astral tests and 634|01:27:36|130|01:27:45|690even with mental tests. So, let's see if he enlarges upon the correlation that he has in mind here. 635|01:27:49|550|01:27:56|890Excuse me. they concern soul and body primarily and therefore their expression is through 636|01:27:56|890|01:28:00|670the Mutable Cross and the Fixed Cross but not the Cardinal Cross. 637|01:28:01|390|01:28:06|170Okay. That is pretty well understood because the fixed cross is the cross of the soul, 638|01:28:06|530|01:28:12|770and all of the teaching of the Buddha and the Christ, and even of Hercules, is to teach man 639|01:28:12|770|01:28:21|370how to become the true soul in expression, although you have to face circumstances, 640|01:28:22|210|01:28:29|510the ever-changing circumstances on the mutable cross. Perhaps, although it was a high teaching, 641|01:28:29|510|01:28:35|390we can say that Hercules' teaching came first and in a way was the lowest of the three. 642|01:28:36|510|01:28:42|030The Christ and the Buddha were becoming third-degree initiates in a fourth-ray ashram 643|01:28:42|030|01:28:49|150in Atlantean times, and Hercules was an Atlantean teacher. So, in a way, much of this teaching may 644|01:28:49|150|01:28:56|750have come from those who entered the hierarchy in Atlantean times, and maybe new dispensations 645|01:28:56|750|01:29:06|230of teaching are needed for the Aryan adaptation, for the Aryan race, although the Christ coming out 646|01:29:06|230|01:29:12|410of those earlier times is still, of course, the teacher for the Aryan race as it makes its 647|01:29:12|410|01:29:19|170transition into the sixth root race, which will be ruled by buddhi, which is an energy which the 648|01:29:19|170|01:29:30|890Christ is wielding all the time. So, they will test and perfect a body, emotions, mind. We know 649|01:29:30|890|01:29:38|410that the Buddhists are keenly focused on the powers of the mind and on overcoming the mind 650|01:29:38|410|01:29:48|270as an instrument of illusion. We know that in Christianity we have a profound orientation of the 651|01:29:48|270|01:29:54|370astral nature towards love and its infusion by the divine quality of love, and when we deal 652|01:29:55|270|01:30:02|390with Hercules, we are bringing the tests right down onto the dense physical plane, 653|01:30:02|590|01:30:10|730and they're making good. So, Hercules is certainly involved as a man of strength, the Christ as a man 654|01:30:10|730|01:30:16|650of heart, love in the astral body, and the Buddha coming from the Moon Chain and from the previous 655|01:30:16|650|01:30:27|110system, perhaps, as a man of the mind, helping his type of students achieve the enlightenment or the 656|01:30:27|110|01:30:37|210illumination. I think we, in that respect, we could identify the Taurus tests with the mind, 657|01:30:38|170|01:30:45|530the illumination of the mind, the Pisces test with the creation of soul love and Buddhic love 658|01:30:45|530|01:30:51|630in the astral body, Christ's love within the astral body, and Scorpio in this case would 659|01:30:51|630|01:30:58|350represent for Hercules the physical tests, particularly. Okay, so we're not yet on the 660|01:30:58|350|01:31:03|550cardinal cross. It's only when we become initiated with the fifth degree that we can say we are 661|01:31:03|550|01:31:10|810really stepping upon the cardinal cross or offering ourselves for crucifixion upon this more 662|01:31:12|530|01:31:21|450cosmic cross, or even solar systemic cross. Even as an initiate of the fourth degree, 663|01:31:21|890|01:31:25|130we're not really on the cardinal cross, as we have discussed before. 664|01:31:27|890|01:31:33|110Okay, so let's see what D.K. says. Let's see if we're right. Well, no, we're not really right here. 665|01:31:33|330|01:31:39|490There's other ways of looking at it. 1. Scorpio carries the test right down into the physical 666|01:31:39|490|01:31:45|350plane life, That much is correct. and then, when it is faced and handled there, the life of the man 667|01:31:45|350|01:31:53|230is carried up into heaven, I suppose the Buddhic plane, with which Scorpio is associated, as is 668|01:31:53|230|01:32:01|190Mercury. and the problem which the test involved is solved by the use of the reasoning mind. Well, in this 669|01:32:01|190|01:32:08|510case, heaven can be the mind. We have the reasoning mind, and then we have the transcendental mind of 670|01:32:08|510|01:32:17|990pure reason, which does overcome illusion. So we're talking about the three levels on which 671|01:32:19|140|01:32:28|070these three signs can operate and prove the personality, bring the personality into 672|01:32:29|020|01:32:35|850the right condition and bring the three aspects of the personality into that type of condition 673|01:32:35|850|01:32:42|390which truly reflects the three divine aspects. So it looks like we have here the physical plane 674|01:32:42|390|01:32:50|110associated with Scorpio. Now, Taurus is the second sign, and I suppose can connect with the 675|01:32:50|110|01:32:57|250second principle from below, which is the astral nature. 2. Taurus governs desire and carries the 676|01:32:57|250|01:33:05|250test into the emotional or astral plane, and carries desire-sensitivity up from the form 677|01:33:05|250|01:33:11|590side of life into that world of sensitive perception which we call the intuitional plane. Okay, well, we have 678|01:33:11|590|01:33:21|590the Buddha with the wisdom of Buddhi, which is that which emanates from the intuition plane. 679|01:33:22|390|01:33:31|510So I think we can—I guess we can say that the Buddha did deal with the desire factor in man 680|01:33:31|510|01:33:38|050and tried to reorient that desire. I think with his higher students he was dealing with the 681|01:33:38|050|01:33:45|050illumination of the mind, but perhaps his teaching helps people overcome the desire for incarnation, 682|01:33:47|130|01:34:01|490the four noble truths perhaps having to do with one's desire for the 683|01:34:01|490|01:34:08|430mind and thus ending the pain associated with it. It's interesting, though, that Pisces 684|01:34:09|170|01:34:14|470will carry the test into the mental processes. I guess we can look at—you know, Pisces is not 685|01:34:14|470|01:34:21|550usually considered one of the mental signs, but its esoteric and hierarchical ruler, which is 686|01:34:22|550|01:34:33|330Pluto, is a highly cerebral planet involved with research and the penetrating mind. So we do have 687|01:34:33|330|01:34:39|710a connection there. Not so much through Pisces' rays, which are the second and the sixth, 688|01:34:40|730|01:34:47|310with Taurus's rays, which is the fourth. At this time, we do have the conflicts of the desire and 689|01:34:47|310|01:34:53|630body. And really we're dealing with the soft line rays here, aren't we? Scorpio is largely bringing 690|01:34:53|630|01:34:59|530in the fourth ray, Taurus the fourth ray, and Pisces the second and sixth, all of them soft 691|01:34:59|530|01:35:07|230line rays, but they all of them have a connection with the first ray as well. And with that urge 692|01:35:07|230|01:35:13|730towards victory, which the fourth ray gives, yes, but the first ray as well. 3. Pisces carries the test 693|01:35:13|730|01:35:20|450into the region of the mental processes, which is the reflection of the will aspect of 694|01:35:20|450|01:35:25|530divinity So now we understand the method that D.K. is using is kind of a superimposition. 695|01:35:26|710|01:35:32|230He's taking Atma and imposing it upon the mind. It's a kind of a correspondence. He's taking 696|01:35:32|230|01:35:36|490Buddhi and imposing it upon the astral body. And Buddhi is certainly connected with 697|01:35:36|490|01:35:45|430Buddha or wisdom. And he's taking the higher mind and imposing it upon the physical nature. 698|01:35:45|530|01:35:54|990And this would correlate with Scorpio. We are told of how powerful Mercury is when dealing with 699|01:35:55|530|01:36:03|070Scorpio. Powerful in two senses. And I suppose Mercury will have to be connected with Hercules 700|01:36:03|070|01:36:08|870and with Scorpio. So Pisces carries the test into the region of the mental processes, 701|01:36:09|030|01:36:13|650which is the reflection of the will aspect, the atmic aspect of divinity. the problem 702|01:36:13|650|01:36:20|670of the initiate in this sign is voiced by Christ in the words, “Father, 703|01:36:21|090|01:36:32|110not my will but Thine be done.” So I suppose this is using Pluto to eliminate mental self-will and 704|01:36:32|110|01:36:39|230to correlate the consciousness with Shambhala, which is highly plutonic. I think all of these 705|01:36:39|230|01:36:47|050planets and signs do not just have one location or one area of application. It's quite a fluid thing. 706|01:36:47|050|01:36:54|230but we have to observe what D.K. is saying here about how to redeem the three aspects 707|01:36:54|750|01:37:00|290of the lower nature. And all of this is done correctly in time: Hercules coming first 708|01:37:01|250|01:37:07|030and focusing on passing tests on the physical plane, the Buddha coming next, focusing on passing 709|01:37:07|030|01:37:13|950tests on the astral plane. I think Taurus is much connected with the second initiation, just as 710|01:37:15|770|01:37:25|110Scorpio is. And then the Christ coming third in order and carrying this onto the mental plane. 711|01:37:25|750|01:37:34|770Obviously, in all of these systems, in all of these systems, the discipleship 712|01:37:35|530|01:37:41|490under any of these signs has to be successful on all three levels of the personality. “Father, 713|01:37:41|650|01:37:49|110not my will, but thine be done.” The tests carry the self-will of the personality up into the region 714|01:37:49|110|01:37:56|930of the divine will and the result is inspiration and the emergence of a world saviour. Well, this 715|01:37:56|930|01:38:05|770is very high indeed. Usually in the five-fold steps of meditation, Sagittarius, which is the 716|01:38:05|770|01:38:12|370fifth rule's inspiration, but we can see how the in-breathing of spirit from Shambhala is a still 717|01:38:12|370|01:38:19|250higher form of inspiration and comes from the monadic level and the Pisces connection to 718|01:38:19|250|01:38:29|030Shambhala. We are aware that some human beings and their human experience in Pisces are very few, 719|01:38:29|170|01:38:36|390and then find relationship to Shambhala rather than to the hierarchy. Okay, so this has been 720|01:38:36|930|01:38:43|870well-defined by the Tibetan. Scorpio is really active on all three levels, we have been told 721|01:38:43|870|01:38:51|470elsewhere, but here it represents physical plane tests. Taurus is, well, it's certainly a 722|01:38:52|610|01:38:58|390sign connected with the dense physical nature and its appetites, absolutely. But it does govern 723|01:38:58|390|01:39:04|370desire paramountly, and it can lead us into the light of illumination. It's active on all three 724|01:39:04|370|01:39:12|770levels, of course, but here, predominantly in relation to the Buddha, the reorientation of 725|01:39:12|770|01:39:20|370desire. As for Pisces, it's usually considered not much of a physical sign, certainly an emotional 726|01:39:20|370|01:39:26|990sign, but the higher aspects of Pisces under Pluto seem to do with the divine will and the mind is 727|01:39:26|990|01:39:32|310the carrier of the will. So that is really something to remember, that Pisces is training 728|01:39:32|820|01:39:39|990the will as it affects the mental processes. Self-will has very much to do with what we make 729|01:39:39|990|01:39:47|070up our lower mind to do, but we can relinquish all this. We can put that to death under Pluto 730|01:39:47|070|01:39:55|370and acquiesce—that's the word connected with Pisces, acquiescence—acquiesce to the divine 731|01:39:55|370|01:40:01|950will and become eventually a world savior. Well, really both the Christ and Buddha were world 732|01:40:01|950|01:40:07|050saviors. I don't know if we can say that Hercules was on the path of the world saviors, but he was 733|01:40:07|050|01:40:14|270certainly a great server. He was living millions of years ago and we know very little about his 734|01:40:14|270|01:40:21|610life, although he's still active in Shambhala, which tells us that he has chosen the path of 735|01:40:21|610|01:40:28|610service. So we are to Ponder upon the above and learn the lessons of appetite, of desire 736|01:40:28|870|01:40:35|690and of self-will This is so interesting. Appetite in this case is connecting with Scorpio; 737|01:40:36|190|01:40:43|510desire is connecting with Taurus; and self-will is connecting, or its overcoming at least, 738|01:40:43|890|01:40:49|150is connecting with Pisces. Of course we know that Taurus is a sign of immense appetite, 739|01:40:49|150|01:41:00|450but in the designations here, Scorpio is in that position. And once our desires are de-glamorized, 740|01:41:00|630|01:41:07|310as they can be under the light of Taurus at the second initiation, we can truly begin to desire 741|01:41:07|310|01:41:13|890the good, the beautiful, and the true, rather than follow all our many glamorous desires. 742|01:41:14|830|01:41:25|950All right. The three tests in Scorpio also concern the three aspects of the human being as they fuse 743|01:41:25|950|01:41:33|310and blend upon the physical plane. So it's so interesting that appetite is here connected 744|01:41:33|310|01:41:40|390with Scorpio, such a Taurean descriptor, but of course the opposite signs have much in common. 745|01:41:41|080|01:41:47|930So they concern the three aspects of the human being as they fuse and blend upon the physical 746|01:41:47|930|01:41:53|930plane. Remember Scorpio is a triple sign, so it does tell us something about the integration 747|01:41:53|930|01:42:05|510of the three aspects and the coming down to Earth, ruled by the M of matter. M is number four, 748|01:42:05|510|01:42:11|930and we're talking about the dense physical level, with mind being number one, desire being number 749|01:42:11|930|01:42:19|110two, etheric nature number three, and the dense physical matter being number four. So the M gives 750|01:42:19|110|01:42:29|110us a hint about the close association with dense matter and the need to prove what one is to prove 751|01:42:29|110|01:42:35|910through that lower type of field. So They are, first of all, the test of appetite. 752|01:42:37|490|01:42:44|030Okay, I guess this is operative in the physical nature of Scorpio in general. 753|01:42:45|050|01:42:53|610This appetite is the natural predilections and tendencies which are inherent in the animal 754|01:42:53|610|01:43:01|330nature and these are mainly three: So we're dealing with the natural man, his real tendencies 755|01:43:01|330|01:43:09|030and predilections. It's built into the animal nature and must be overcome in Scorpio in the 756|01:43:09|030|01:43:18|170first level of testing in Scorpio. See, what we're going to learn here is that the three decanates 757|01:43:19|990|01:43:26|790are assigned to three different levels of the personality, but with Scorpio assigned mainly to 758|01:43:26|790|01:43:32|770the lowest level, the physical level. But now we're going to learn that in Scorpio, that energy can 759|01:43:32|770|01:43:46|330be applied to overcoming tests on all levels of the personality, including the astral and the 760|01:43:46|330|01:43:56|250emotional. Sex, physical comfort, and money, as concretised energy. are the first level of the 761|01:43:56|250|01:44:05|370physical tests. So I think we see many people still struggling with these or with residuals 762|01:44:05|370|01:44:13|110of these because they do pave the way for pleasure upon the physical plane specifically. 763|01:44:13|690|01:44:21|470And if we are addicted to pleasure, we are treading the broad way rather than the straight 764|01:44:21|470|01:44:30|630and narrow way, which leads to salvation. They are, secondly, the tests connected with 765|01:44:30|630|01:44:36|770desire and the astral plane. So under, you know, under Taurus, we may have the illumination 766|01:44:37|360|01:44:44|050of desire, but under Scorpio, we have to face the tests of the desire body. And These are subtler 767|01:44:44|050|01:44:51|070in nature, producing automatic effects upon the physical plane That's true because according to 768|01:44:51|070|01:45:00|810our desires, our physical elemental will respond. So these more subtle astral tests they are not inherent 769|01:45:01|350|01:45:10|430in the animal nature but are imposed by the desire nature And the body will so respond 770|01:45:10|430|01:45:19|250unless we overcome these effects now. So we have the three, the three areas which must be overcome: 771|01:45:19|490|01:45:27|530fear, hatred, and ambition. And he also defines ambition as the desire for power, the love 772|01:45:27|530|01:45:37|010or and are again three in number: Fear, hatred and ambition or desire for power. And they'll also 773|01:45:37|930|01:45:45|470underline these: sex, physical comfort, and money as concretized energy. And oftentimes people are 774|01:45:45|470|01:45:53|330fighting with a mixture of these. They may not have completely overcome the physical test before 775|01:45:53|330|01:46:00|790dealing with the emotional. There may be residuals and vestigials, things left over, which still have 776|01:46:00|790|01:46:14|970to be conquered. Then there are, thirdly, the tests of the lower critical mind which are: criticism. He says that 777|01:46:14|970|01:46:28|950it's the great, dire cause of misery. It creates misery, criticism does. So, you know, 778|01:46:29|090|01:46:37|770we know that nobody can wield the word of death like the Scorpio individual, you know, to say the 779|01:46:37|770|01:46:47|770most hurtful thing. So there is really a need to control one's speech and one's thought, 780|01:46:48|650|01:46:56|010because speech will surely result as a result of the kinds of thoughts we have been entertaining. 781|01:46:56|290|01:47:05|530So there are the tests now of the—I'm going to say imposed by the desire nature, yeah, underline that. 782|01:47:06|110|01:47:12|410These are the tests of the lower critical mind, not the tests of higher mind. Well, I suppose there are 783|01:47:12|410|01:47:18|550tests there as well, which get in the way of the downflow of intuition. But we have here three 784|01:47:18|550|01:47:25|550factors resonant in the mind, which must be overcome: Pride, separativeness and cruelty. 785|01:47:26|230|01:47:31|210He says, Remember that the worst kind of cruelty is not of a physical nature but is more 786|01:47:31|210|01:47:37|670mental in character. Well, it seems that our divorce courts have recognized 787|01:47:37|670|01:47:46|450this because there is one ground for divorce, which we call mental cruelty. I guess it, you know, 788|01:47:46|590|01:47:54|410stunts the character and prevents any form of happiness. In fact, it's a cause of great misery, 789|01:47:55|990|01:48:01|570mental cruelty. Therefore, you have in the category of that which must be tested 790|01:48:02|090|01:48:09|610and proved to be non-existent There's a very good—all of these residuals, all of these 791|01:48:10|810|01:48:14|170negative qualities must at length in the life of the Scorpio 792|01:48:15|330|01:48:21|090individual be proved to be non-existent. I'm remembering the Dalai Lama kind of taking stock 793|01:48:21|090|01:48:33|170of his own nature and kind of looking at certain faults and assessing whether he still was the 794|01:48:33|170|01:48:40|110victim of them. I remember him coming to the word hatred, and he thought for a minute, and he says, 795|01:48:40|430|01:48:50|430“Well, no, not much, hardly at all.” He was being so objective about it as one who was a scientist 796|01:48:50|430|01:48:56|910of his own nature, and you could feel that in fact he was released from that. Of course, 797|01:48:58|970|01:49:05|410D.K. has said that one of the last things to be overcome by the master is irritation. 798|01:49:07|110|01:49:15|030So I'm sure that working with coworkers, the Dalai Lama and his coworkers and other initiates and 799|01:49:15|570|01:49:23|010co-workers find irritation a difficult and final fetter to relinquish. 800|01:49:24|710|01:49:34|630Okay, so these things have to be overcome. Sex, physical comfort, money, in the sense of 801|01:49:34|630|01:49:41|610the love of money, I suppose, and fear, hatred, and ambition, or the desire for power, and pride, 802|01:49:41|610|01:49:49|970separativeness, and cruelty, especially mental cruelty here. These have to be nullified so that 803|01:49:49|970|01:49:58|430they are cast out. They are no longer really a part of our life demonstration in our personality. 804|01:50:01|970|01:50:06|550So they must be tested and proved to be non-existent. Now the following categories, 805|01:50:06|550|01:50:12|390which I am re-enumerating because of their basic importance: Okay. Well, D.K., 806|01:50:12|850|01:50:19|210being a master teacher, does know how to repeat. So anyway, he's looking at how to consider 807|01:50:19|830|01:50:25|210these factors: sex, the relation of the pairs of opposites, nothing wrong in itself, a divine 808|01:50:25|910|01:50:32|270potency, and most necessary for the continuation of the human race at its present stage. These 809|01:50:32|270|01:50:38|550can be selfish, selfishly utilized or divinely blended, perhaps under the influence of Buddha, 810|01:50:39|430|01:50:48|010where at the fourth initiation, the sex relation is finally solved. So he's not advocating here 811|01:50:48|530|01:50:54|390some strict form of celibacy if one will be a student of spirituality, hardly that. 812|01:50:54|970|01:51:01|530Then there's physical comfort. It involves life conditions, selfishly appropriated. And we do see, 813|01:51:01|530|01:51:08|190you know, that many people are under the Scorpio influence, what D.K. calls cornering the market, 814|01:51:08|550|01:51:16|030seeking to appropriate for themselves as much of the comforts of life and the 815|01:51:17|250|01:51:24|650means of attaining those comforts as may be possible. So they wish to live a luxurious life. 816|01:51:25|430|01:51:31|010He does tell us that the heights of luxury that we have now are as nothing compared to the 817|01:51:32|350|01:51:40|170stupendous luxury, the heights of luxury achieved in Atlantis. So maybe we have come some distance, 818|01:51:40|410|01:51:49|190that incredible type of indulgence, but you do see many people caring only for the plushness, 819|01:51:49|390|01:51:55|490the cushiness, the comfortableness of their own life conditions to shield them from the 820|01:51:56|730|01:52:04|810hard, difficult experiences that so many are forced to encounter. So it's, you know, 821|01:52:04|990|01:52:09|670it's basically grabbing for oneself all that is good and not caring about the others. 822|01:52:10|390|01:52:15|870And money, of course, is related to this, selfishly cornered, grabbing it all for oneself. 823|01:52:15|870|01:52:24|130The spider of Scorpio reaches out and with its many legs or arms, grasps for itself 824|01:52:25|070|01:52:32|490that which can provide the more comfortable, pleasurable life. Cornering the market 825|01:52:33|050|01:52:45|110is a tendency to which a number of Scorpio individuals are given the monster of selfishness 826|01:52:45|870|01:52:52|170which D.K. calls on page 333, the monster of selfishness is at work, grasping for itself 827|01:52:52|170|01:53:01|170alone. Sex, physical comfort, and money, nothing wrong with any of these, all of them needed in a 828|01:53:01|170|01:53:06|230way. I mean, we must be able to live on the physical plane in such a way that we do not 829|01:53:06|230|01:53:11|790always have to attend to the physical body so that we can get on with the expression of our higher 830|01:53:11|790|01:53:19|650principles. And money is the medium of exchange, and at the moment, it can be the representative 831|01:53:19|650|01:53:27|790of the divine will. It can energize those thought forms, those patterns which need energizing, 832|01:53:27|810|01:53:34|910and it can help to circulate the vital principles so that all can live a healthy life. 833|01:53:35|550|01:53:43|810And of course, without the sex relation, there would be no propagation of the human race, 834|01:53:43|930|01:53:52|670which has hardly finished its method of development, hardly. So the sacral center 835|01:53:52|670|01:54:03|510will be kept, D.K. says, in good functioning order until two thirds of humanity is on the path. And 836|01:54:03|510|01:54:09|170perhaps there will be some phasing out of its potency. Right now in the Aquarian Age, 837|01:54:09|210|01:54:14|710ruled by Uranus, with Uranus ruling the sacral center, I think we will see quite an increase 838|01:54:15|270|01:54:22|750of its expression. All right, now we move on here. He's reiterating these points. He's on 839|01:54:22|750|01:54:30|070the astral plane. Fear, he makes a sweeping statement. He says, fear, which conditions 840|01:54:30|070|01:54:36|010activity today. So he's telling us that so much of our human responsiveness is due to the fear 841|01:54:36|010|01:54:41|890factor. The fear factor is said to be the dweller on the threshold in general for our planet, 842|01:54:42|210|01:54:49|650and very much inherited from the moon. When we look to our moon in our horoscope, we will see 843|01:54:49|650|01:54:59|130where a number of fears prevail. Hate, so this is a Martian factor in a way. It is a factor 844|01:54:59|130|01:55:05|950in conditioning relationships. It's under the law of cleavage. It's under the first ray as well. 845|01:55:06|150|01:55:17|030It's repulsive. It tends towards separation, and it tends towards the repudiation of possible 846|01:55:17|030|01:55:25|730harmonization and accommodation. Hate is based on a lack of full understanding. It's certainly based 847|01:55:25|730|01:55:33|470on a lack of identification with a hated object. There's some impelling sense of separateness here 848|01:55:33|470|01:55:41|890in hate relationships. So, you know, let's just say that the fourth ray and the second ray are 849|01:55:41|890|01:55:52|190meant to overcome these repulsive relationships which prevent the unification of our world. 850|01:55:52|830|01:55:58|450Our secondary soul and our planet is tending towards unification, and hate is holding apart 851|01:55:59|330|01:56:06|350the factors which are to be unified. The sixth ray has a lot of this as well, because 852|01:56:06|910|01:56:12|750if you do not adhere to the ideal of the sixth ray person, you are considered a threat, and man 853|01:56:12|750|01:56:20|150hates what he fears. So often this is the case. Then there is ambition. Conditioning our objectives, 854|01:56:20|150|01:56:25|790we want things not so much for humanity, not so much for the planet. We want things for our 855|01:56:25|790|01:56:37|190illusory self. So we have the illusion of being number one, a separate and separative identity. 856|01:56:38|330|01:56:48|690We have a keen individualism which is not linking in group with others. And we want that ego, 857|01:56:48|690|01:56:56|990which we perceive as real, to attain its objectives, even though they will be destructive 858|01:56:56|990|01:57:04|830of larger and better group and planetary objectives. Fear, hate, and ambition, or the desire 859|01:57:04|830|01:57:12|050for personal power. Power can be good as long as power is for the whole, power is for the group, 860|01:57:12|610|01:57:18|990power is for the enactment of the divine plan. But when we are under the illusion of being a 861|01:57:18|990|01:57:27|390separative ego, and we seek power for that illusion, then we inevitably will cause 862|01:57:27|970|01:57:34|570disruption and separation, and we will prevent the gathering unity from occurring. Then we go on 863|01:57:34|570|01:57:42|330to the mental sins, as it were, the mental mistakes. And let's see how we can do this. 864|01:57:43|730|01:57:51|870Yeah, these are the ones that the modern disciple is often facing in the most critical manner. 865|01:57:52|710|01:57:58|270They are the most difficult, I think. Let's just say that the devil, the so-called devil, 866|01:57:58|270|01:58:03|410is really focused on the mental level. We have pride. And this is of course based on 867|01:58:03|410|01:58:09|290ahamkara again. It's based on the misperception of identity. One thinks one is the isolated 868|01:58:09|290|01:58:17|890individual and one seeks to gain power over others, largely not to be vulnerable, not to 869|01:58:17|890|01:58:24|330be compromised, ultimately not to be destroyed, and have the sense of identity disappear, you know, 870|01:58:24|670|01:58:31|390the great fear of the annihilation of identity. So pride, which is intellectual satisfaction, 871|01:58:32|350|01:58:40|630quite happy with the way one does things, making the mind the barrier to soul control. You find all 872|01:58:40|630|01:58:52|670these reasons to support your own perceived superiority. So you refuse to identify with 873|01:58:52|670|01:59:00|180states which you consider inferior to the state which you are upholding. They're all forms of 874|01:59:00|180|01:59:09|000pride and intellectual pride is perhaps one of the worst. Let's just say if the lower concrete 875|01:59:09|000|01:59:16|840mind is to become a sphere unto itself, a very dangerous thing, it happens for those who turn 876|01:59:16|840|01:59:26|280to the left-hand path. Intellectual satisfaction with their own mental state is at the cause of 877|01:59:26|280|01:59:33|340this separation of the lower mind from the higher energies which could possibly influence it for 878|01:59:33|340|01:59:38|320the better. When there is intellectual pride, intellectual satisfaction, you will not have 879|01:59:38|320|01:59:48|600a mind held steady in the light of the soul, a mind illumined by soul values. Then we have the 880|01:59:49|700|01:59:55|420separativeness. And this is the basis of what D.K. calls the one and only heresy, the great heresy, 881|01:59:55|420|02:00:02|800the great heresy of separativeness, which is the isolated attitude and which makes the mind 882|02:00:03|220|02:00:11|200the barrier to right group relations. So one again, as a lower ego, seems to be standing alone 883|02:00:11|880|02:00:19|320and feels that he is worthy to stand alone and is perhaps better than those which he has conceived 884|02:00:19|320|02:00:28|060as other than himself. There is no desire to join with others because their ways are considered 885|02:00:28|760|02:00:35|560inferior. And we certainly see this in separate religion today with various religions thinking 886|02:00:35|560|02:00:43|260they are the one and only religions and all other methods are inferior and not even to be approached. 887|02:00:43|260|02:00:50|340They are simply to be repudiated or destroyed. So nothing is seen in common. And the fourth 888|02:00:50|340|02:00:56|960ray, which is very prominent in Scorpio, is not at work except in the struggle aspect. In terms of 889|02:00:56|960|02:01:03|880looking for things in common, at which the fourth ray is very good, that quality of the fourth ray 890|02:01:03|880|02:01:10|580is not used. But when you can begin to see, let us say, that we all suffer, we all experience 891|02:01:10|580|02:01:16|600these things, we all pass through the common human experience, then the separateness breaks 892|02:01:16|600|02:01:23|940down. One of the great ways of breaking it down is through the factor of pain. So the path of pain, 893|02:01:24|060|02:01:33|160which is the fourth path, is ideally calibrated to break down our inherent egoistic separativeness, 894|02:01:33|160|02:01:40|680especially when people have the hard line raised very strong. And then cruelty. And each one of 895|02:01:40|680|02:01:48|680these could be meditated upon. I'm just giving my own impressions. And they are brief and not 896|02:01:48|680|02:01:54|040necessarily as deep as they could be. We could each take these particular sins of the mind into 897|02:01:54|040|02:01:58|720consideration and see the extent to which we suffer from them because we do have to nullify 898|02:01:58|720|02:02:06|200them. We do have to negate them. And as D.K. says, prove them to be non-existent. Then there is 899|02:02:06|200|02:02:13|920cruelty, which is satisfaction with personality methods and which makes the mind the instrument 900|02:02:13|920|02:02:21|560of the sense of power. So in other words, “I'm just fine as I am. Nothing needs to be changed. 901|02:02:21|560|02:02:31|000My methods are better than yours and I would impose them upon you.” So I will prove in some way 902|02:02:31|000|02:02:40|280that you are less than I am. I will, regardless of your structure, impose my structure upon you. 903|02:02:40|380|02:02:50|780I will disregard what is good for you and instead make you to perform that which is good for me or 904|02:02:50|780|02:02:56|980which I have decided is good for me, that with which I am most satisfied. So I think we see how 905|02:02:57|580|02:03:06|250these three sins all play into each other, all support each other. In separativeness there is 906|02:03:06|580|02:03:12|080pride, there is a cruel attitude. In cruelty, separativeness is implied and so is pride. 907|02:03:14|100|02:03:24|300So in pride we hold ourselves apart separatively and we inevitably turn cruel because we look down 908|02:03:24|300|02:03:33|800upon others and we seek to make sure that they do not rise to the level that we have conceived 909|02:03:33|800|02:03:40|340ourselves as occupying. So there, you know, it's a triangle, it's a negative triangle in rotation. 910|02:03:40|980|02:03:47|960All of these negative factors support each other and thus it will be with sex, physical comfort, 911|02:03:48|340|02:03:55|060and money; they will support each other. And so with fear and hatred and ambition; they will 912|02:03:55|060|02:04:02|400support each other. So on each level we have rotating triangles and let us say that all of 913|02:04:02|400|02:04:12|960these negative factors are interpenetrating. All right, well we've gone on into our second hour, 914|02:04:13|240|02:04:18|840I didn't — into our third hour, I didn't realize that, but we can move ahead a bit. 915|02:04:20|080|02:04:25|540When these faults are realized, first you have to see them — so often they are unconscious and it 916|02:04:25|540|02:04:31|160takes circumstance and others to point them out — When these faults are realised and are overcome, 917|02:04:31|700|02:04:40|940the result is twofold: the establishing of right relations with the soul — we're no longer blocking 918|02:04:40|940|02:04:47|360soul influence — and also with the environment. We're not getting that karmic backlash from the 919|02:04:47|360|02:04:54|920environment because we are harmless. Now let's just say that, let's just say that all of the 920|02:04:54|920|02:05:12|620nine are methods of harmfulness, and we have to become harmless. So Scorpio, the monster of 921|02:05:12|620|02:05:22|440selfishness, can cause great harm, this we realize, at the same time we are to use this energy of 922|02:05:23|000|02:05:30|580overcoming — this energy which produces victory — we are to use this energy to overcome 923|02:05:31|160|02:05:40|580these negativities, and not necessarily by the method of Mars, where we simply fight them to the 924|02:05:40|580|02:05:46|560death, because they tend to spring up two-fold or three-fold for every one that is vanquished, 925|02:05:46|560|02:05:54|680but rather by the method of illumination, by the intuitive realization and the dispelling 926|02:05:55|320|02:06:04|720of the great illusion. We dispel the maya and the deception which are inherent in the serpent 927|02:06:04|720|02:06:11|620of matter, in the serpent of personality, and this we do through the illuminating power of Mercury. 928|02:06:11|620|02:06:18|020So we are able at last to see the personality as it is from a higher or Buddhic perspective. 929|02:06:18|860|02:06:27|600We can destroy for once and for all, take away the life, the vitality of these nine means of 930|02:06:27|600|02:06:34|560negativity, and all of their many offshoots — as we could, you know, list, you know, hundreds of sins, 931|02:06:34|580|02:06:40|760let us say, and we could correlate them with these nine. So These two results are the goal 932|02:06:40|760|02:06:48|740of all tests in Scorpio. and they are establishing the right relations through the fourth ray, 933|02:06:48|980|02:06:54|200the ray of harmony, and through the second ray with the soul and also with the environment. 934|02:06:54|980|02:07:01|480So through meditation and through humility, we allow in soul power, the higher power, 935|02:07:01|540|02:07:10|540and also we cease our egoistical conflict with our environment in which we of the lower ego 936|02:07:10|760|02:07:21|540seek to be a dominating, prideful, separative, cruel force as if to somehow secure our position 937|02:07:22|180|02:07:29|460in the realm of being, you know, unless we are all those things and fend off any possible attack by 938|02:07:29|460|02:07:36|080the environment, it is as if we are not. So when we come into a truer identity, we no longer have 939|02:07:36|080|02:07:43|820to be in an adversarial condition with our position, with our environment. So these two 940|02:07:43|820|02:07:51|640tests are the goal of all the tests. These two results are the goal of all the tests in Scorpio. 941|02:07:52|220|02:08:04|540So I'll make that a little bit bigger. Excuse me. And we have to establish right relations with the 942|02:08:05|120|02:08:11|440and also with the environment services. So very important. And when we cease our internal 943|02:08:12|060|02:08:18|920war with ourselves, perhaps we will as well cease our war with the environment. 944|02:08:21|400|02:08:29|740Okay. The keynotes of this sign are, therefore, test, trial and triumph. 945|02:08:30|740|02:08:38|700So let's just say that a trial may be more like a prolonged test. Much is in the balance during 946|02:08:38|700|02:08:46|120a trial, and we see through our own observation whether or not we have succeeded in overcoming 947|02:08:46|120|02:08:52|920the various tests presented to us. Our whole life can be like a trial to see if we can emerge 948|02:08:52|920|02:08:58|940victorious over at least one of the heads of the hydra. Maybe more, however. I think the 949|02:08:59|540|02:09:11|460individual who experiences life as a higher disciple in later Scorpio picks up all of the 950|02:09:11|660|02:09:21|160unpassed tests and resubmits himself, perhaps to—accumulatively—to all of the nine major tests 951|02:09:21|160|02:09:28|060before entering that point of tension which is equivalent to the third degree. Finally, 952|02:09:28|060|02:09:34|990there is the emergence, and let's just say there is a fearful conflict, D.K. calls it, before the 953|02:09:35|500|02:09:42|060third degree, and the truly triumphant disciple can enter that point of tension where he becomes the 954|02:09:42|060|02:09:47|560true initiate. That is his real triumph. Along the way there is the physical and emotional triumph. 955|02:09:47|740|02:09:53|060They are partial triumphs. And finally, at the third degree, he triumphs physically, emotionally, 956|02:09:53|060|02:09:58|480and mentally, dispelling illusion, dissipating glamour, and dispersing maya. 957|02:10:01|040|02:10:07|360So there are certain keynotes, things which are always true and always sounding in relation to 958|02:10:07|360|02:10:15|060the sign. These keynotes They can also be called struggle, strength and Sagittarian attitudes. 959|02:10:15|160|02:10:20|280as we discussed before. First comes the struggle. On the basis of struggle, if we cannot struggle, 960|02:10:20|280|02:10:27|000we will not develop strength. So when the fourth ray comes in, it will help to develop steadfast 961|02:10:27|000|02:10:32|840strength. That's one of the keynotes of the fourth ray: steadfastness. And eventually we'll be able 962|02:10:32|840|02:10:38|280to be so stable and not contending with the right and the left and the up and the down that we can 963|02:10:38|280|02:10:47|880develop consolidated, focused, one-pointed Sagittarian attitudes. And that may be what 964|02:10:47|880|02:10:54|280emerges in the later part of the Scorpio experience. This is—if every sign in the later 965|02:10:54|920|02:11:02|600part of its expression looks forward to the gift of the succeeding sign. Another angle of 966|02:11:02|600|02:11:09|920the experience in Scorpio can be covered by two words : re-capitulation and re-orientation. Well, 967|02:11:10|440|02:11:16|340the factor of memory is involved here. You know, we're not allowed to leave any stone unturned. 968|02:11:17|190|02:11:22|900We might say, you know, the scorpion is hiding under the rock. So we need to go backward 969|02:11:23|520|02:11:31|740and to recapture many types of confrontations which may not have been entirely successful. We 970|02:11:32|210|02:11:39|440must not leave anything in the lower aura of which we are not aware. We cannot leave any 971|02:11:40|100|02:11:45|420poisonous serpents or scorpions or, you know, things that represent poison to the integrity 972|02:11:45|420|02:11:52|440of our system. We have to go back over earlier semi-successes until they become complete 973|02:11:52|440|02:11:58|980successes. And then we are able really to reorient ourselves to our spiritual principles 974|02:11:59|460|02:12:10|180and, using Sagittarian attitudes, stay reoriented. In Scorpio, two most occult factors emerge from 975|02:12:10|180|02:12:16|420the past and begin to engross the attention of the disciple. Well, in other words, 976|02:12:16|800|02:12:22|220we're dealing with that which is gross, with that which is lower, that which memory reveals. 977|02:12:25|120|02:12:32|420So Pluto is the planet that dredges up experience from the past and will not let us overlook that. 978|02:12:32|420|02:12:41|460If we think about Sigmund Freud, whether we agree with the completeness of his method or whether we 979|02:12:41|460|02:12:45|640think other things are needed as well, he certainly was a highly Scorpionic individual. 980|02:12:47|320|02:12:54|560He had Scorpio rising. His son was in Taurus, dealing with the instinctual nature. 981|02:12:54|560|02:13:03|380I wonder if we can find his horoscope here. It would be interesting to see. So, F-R-E-U, 982|02:13:03|620|02:13:13|420Freud. There he is. And we can see, now, this Scorpio rising, and Pluto also is found in Taurus. 983|02:13:13|580|02:13:19|940Much is found in the therapeutic sixth house, and he's dealing in general with seventh house issues, 984|02:13:19|940|02:13:27|940issues of sex and relationship. And he's certainly an iconoclast. He has Uranus here, conjunct the 985|02:13:27|940|02:13:35|360sun. And he's certainly breaking up many old traditions and preconceptions 986|02:13:36|720|02:13:40|800and conveying thought through Gemini. But Scorpio is the main thing. 987|02:13:41|380|02:13:52|040And here he is very disruptive of the Victorian method of relating. The relationships were presumably 988|02:13:52|040|02:13:58|860based upon certain principles. And he's showing there are so many overlooked, 989|02:13:59|120|02:14:07|820unsuspected, plutonic, scorpionic factors lurking in the psyche of man, which are really poisoning 990|02:14:07|820|02:14:19|360the relationships. And unless faced, will always produce a disintegrative type of behavior. 991|02:14:21|200|02:14:26|500So a memory emerges. One is memory and the other is, as a consequence of the memory, 992|02:14:27|040|02:14:35|960the Dweller on the Threshold. This is one of those signs in which we are faced with many things 993|02:14:35|960|02:14:44|960we would rather not recall. They become shocking to us and we have to find a way to deal with them. 994|02:14:45|240|02:14:53|220We can even be overcome by the negativity of our memories and our forward progress stopped because 995|02:14:53|220|02:15:02|420we feel so appalled at what we may have committed, not only in this life, but in many lives into which 996|02:15:02|420|02:15:10|180memory might extend. Memory in the sense here involved is not simply just a faculty of the mind, like we 997|02:15:10|180|02:15:17|000memorize this or that. It is a recall of past experience, as is so often supposed, but it's 998|02:15:17|000|02:15:32|400essentially a creative power. Now this is interesting. Essentially a creative power. It is 999|02:15:32|400|02:15:37|860because thoughts are things. Well, when these memories come into our mind, they can definitely 1000|02:15:38|560|02:15:45|060influence the patterns of our thought and the patterns of our behavior. Also, I suppose the 1001|02:15:45|060|02:15:53|980artist can draw creatively upon that which is stored in the memory. So when memories resurface, 1002|02:15:53|980|02:16:04|480they have a power to compel the life, to create forms which the life process follows. So we have 1003|02:16:04|480|02:16:12|300to be in good control of the negative ones and I suppose there are suppressed positive memories 1004|02:16:12|300|02:16:20|720as well. From ancient recesses of memory, I suppose hidden away—recesses, crevices, things 1005|02:16:20|720|02:16:30|020overlooked, not suspected—far from the focus of the normal consciousness, normally focused in what 1006|02:16:30|020|02:16:36|720we call the middle of consciousness, the middle consciousness, and not in the unconsciousness. 1007|02:16:36|940|02:16:44|800From ancient recesses of memory, from a deeply rooted past, which is definitely recalled in 1008|02:16:44|800|02:16:51|360Scorpio and overlooked by many who don't have Scorpio or Pluto strong, and from the racial 1009|02:16:51|360|02:16:57|740and individual subconscious—as we can, as Jung says, recall that which was not necessarily 1010|02:16:57|740|02:17:04|580personal experience at all, but which was racially based, or founded and established—thought 1011|02:17:04|580|02:17:12|920reservoirs and desires inherited from ourselves, presumably, and inherent in our nature. 1012|02:17:13|780|02:17:22|000This is so well expressed, isn't it? You know, it really gives depth psychology its reason for being. 1013|02:17:22|560|02:17:28|980We think about Freud and Jung as the preeminent depth psychologists, those who have given their 1014|02:17:28|980|02:17:38|400name to that, and it is the deep recollection of the distant past which is found to be influential 1015|02:17:38|400|02:17:45|780and thus creative in our modern behavior, in our present behavior. From ancient recesses of the 1016|02:17:45|780|02:17:51|560memory, from a deeply rooted past which is definitely recalled, and from the racial and 1017|02:17:51|560|02:18:00|620the individual subconscious (or founded and established thought reservoirs and desires, inherited and 1018|02:18:00|620|02:18:10|020inherent) there emerges from individual past lives and experience 1019|02:18:10|540|02:18:17|880Okay, let's see what's emerging here. Okay, there emerges from individual past lives and experience 1020|02:18:17|880|02:18:28|500that which is the sum total of all instinctual tendencies, Well, I'm having a little trouble here. 1021|02:18:28|500|02:18:36|080I think the computer is a little overloaded. The sum total of all instinctual tendencies, 1022|02:18:36|740|02:18:46|820of all inherited glamours and of all phases of wrong mental attitudes Okay. 1023|02:18:49|960|02:18:57|180Pausing while the computer goes through its thing—that pale look is not especially welcome, 1024|02:18:57|900|02:19:03|520because it can mean we are just about to crash, which I hope is not the case. 1025|02:19:05|400|02:19:11|320Hope that is not the case. So, um, right. 1026|02:19:13|520|02:19:20|280Okay. It's going through several, it's going through a recapitulatory cycle here, 1027|02:19:21|360|02:19:27|380um, and I can only hope that before long it settles, it settles down. 1028|02:19:28|360|02:19:34|860I'll have to not overload it with too much information. Let's see if, um, 1029|02:19:36|860|02:19:45|600oh, all right. Let's just see if this will keep on doing this, or whether it is possible to, 1030|02:19:46|680|02:19:53|500No, perhaps it is. Okay. There emerges from individual past lives and experience 1031|02:19:53|500|02:19:58|300that which is the sum total of all instinctual tendencies. That's the physical 1032|02:19:58|960|02:20:06|720level which he has correlated with Scorpio and with Hercules, of all inherited glamours, 1033|02:20:07|560|02:20:13|240and that's the astral level, and all phases of wrong mental desires. We have wrong desires 1034|02:20:13|660|02:20:20|080and wrong mental attitudes. So, um, these things come into the consciousness 1035|02:20:20|540|02:20:27|460of the strongly Scorpionic individual, or let us say the strongly Plutonic individual, 1036|02:20:27|980|02:20:32|340or the individual, let's say, born in water signs where the Scorpio 1037|02:20:32|340|02:20:38|920decanate is somehow emphasised, to these (as they constitute a blended whole) 1038|02:20:39|880|02:20:49|120we give the name of the Dweller on the Threshold. You know, the great phantasm about which so much has 1039|02:20:49|120|02:20:58|060been written, sort of our collective unredeemed past, the unredeemed sins of the past which face 1040|02:20:58|060|02:21:08|900us and provide a definite obstacle as we seek to enter the realm of initiation. This Dweller is the 1041|02:21:08|900|02:21:15|380sum total of all the personality characteristics which have remained unconquered and unsubdued [ND:unresolved] 1042|02:21:15|380|02:21:22|660and which must be finally overcome before initiation can be taken. 1043|02:21:24|340|02:21:31|440So it is a wholeness, isn't it? It's not just instinctuality or glamour or illusion. It's all 1044|02:21:31|440|02:21:44|460of that combined into some great obstructive figure or source or even entity which we have to 1045|02:21:44|460|02:21:51|720confront and overcome before true initiation can be taken. Probably we overcome an aspect of the 1046|02:21:51|720|02:22:00|080Dweller with each initiation, but there's a major Dweller confrontation before 1047|02:22:00|080|02:22:08|820the third initiation, and before the fourth we are dealing with an aspect of humanity's Dweller 1048|02:22:09|280|02:22:19|120to which I suppose our Dweller has been resonant. But the unconquered, okay, Each life sees some 1049|02:22:19|120|02:22:25|160progress made especially I suppose each Scorpionic life. some personality defects 1050|02:22:25|160|02:22:32|780straightened out and some real advance effected. Evolution is slow. Indeed it is slow. 1051|02:22:33|780|02:22:37|460And we would like to hasten it and things are hastening at this time. 1052|02:22:38|360|02:22:42|980New opportunities exist for us, but we've been through this for thousands of lives, 1053|02:22:43|340|02:22:49|620thousands of lives and over millions of years. So we got ourselves into a big mess 1054|02:22:50|380|02:22:56|860through unwise decisions and just through basic ignorance and through wilful 1055|02:22:59|100|02:23:07|560rebellion against the law. And now comes the disentanglement for many and for humanity as a 1056|02:23:07|560|02:23:18|480whole. Excuse me. But the unconquered residue and the ancient liabilities are numerous. Probably if 1057|02:23:18|480|02:23:26|620we could see what they are, we would be appalled, which is why only so much of memory is released 1058|02:23:26|620|02:23:34|540into our present consciousness. For a man to remember all of his past lives and experiences 1059|02:23:34|540|02:23:41|160suddenly, I think it would be an overwhelming experience. So we have to build up the strength 1060|02:23:41|700|02:23:52|980to face this unconquered residue a bit at a time. Of course, there do come great revelations and 1061|02:23:52|980|02:24:01|880even purgings where much of it is dealt with at once on any of the three levels of the personality. 1062|02:24:03|480|02:24:10|320I'm reminded of T. Subba Row who was considered to be the spiritual equal of H.P.B. 1063|02:24:10|320|02:24:19|100and he asked his master to precipitate all of his karma at once. I guess the master complied and he 1064|02:24:19|100|02:24:25|300got a terrible disease, of a cancerous nature, Hodgkin's disease, I think from which he died. 1065|02:24:26|240|02:24:33|960But it was a drastic purging on the physical level. I guess there are similar kinds of purgings 1066|02:24:33|960|02:24:42|820possible on emotional and mental levels, but probably the incremental approach is safer for 1067|02:24:42|820|02:24:51|920most souls, although maybe the very vigorous first-ray souls say, “Put it on the table all at 1068|02:24:51|920|02:24:58|380once.” Okay, But the unconquered residue and the ancient liabilities are numerous and excessively 1069|02:24:58|380|02:25:05|860potent and—when soul contact is adequately established— because you do need that balancing 1070|02:25:05|860|02:25:12|740factor of the soul if you're going to face this stuff, there eventuates a life wherein the highly 1071|02:25:12|740|02:25:20|380developed and powerful personality becomes, in itself, the Dweller on the Threshold. And so 1072|02:25:20|380|02:25:28|340usually we do not consider our entire personality nature to be that obstruction, but at a high 1073|02:25:28|340|02:25:34|740stage of development we see the entire third aspect of divinity and all that it has achieved 1074|02:25:35|300|02:25:42|060within the lower worlds and in its own right as an individual, as the Dweller, 1075|02:25:42|160|02:25:49|060not just the negative parts but even the positive parts. Then, see all of this harkens back to the 1076|02:25:49|060|02:25:57|340Glamour book where he tells us how to deal with the Dweller, when it appears, how all the different 1077|02:25:57|340|02:26:04|380initiations are involved in dealing with dweller phenomena. So this is harkening back to that 1078|02:26:04|380|02:26:12|060particular book. Then the Angel of the Presence which is the silver angel, the self, I suppose, 1079|02:26:12|340|02:26:20|560and the Dweller stand face to face and something… the suspense of it all here, 1080|02:26:21|160|02:26:28|120and something must then be done. And something… so that is a standoff, that is a 1081|02:26:28|120|02:26:35|560showdown, that is a kind of high noon, that's a face-off, that's a crisis. Something must be done 1082|02:26:35|560|02:26:44|460because the disciple is in a way in the middle. We have here the Kurukshetra experience; we have the 1083|02:26:44|460|02:26:52|880experience of Arjuna. He is in a way invested in both of these opponents. He can identify with 1084|02:26:52|880|02:27:00|660either one. He's going to have to throw his power of identification towards the angel of the 1085|02:27:00|660|02:27:06|360presence and not towards the dweller. Eventually, the light of the personal self i.e., dweller, 1086|02:27:06|440|02:27:13|400fades out and wanes in the blaze of glory which emanates from the Angel.s. So in a way 1087|02:27:13|960|02:27:23|860then the personality ray becomes truly a sub-ray, becomes truly a sub-ray of the 1088|02:27:24|580|02:27:32|620soul ray, and the personality becomes merely an instrument that can be wielded by the angel or 1089|02:27:32|620|02:27:42|800by the man identified as the soul on the higher mental plane. And then the battle is over, 1090|02:27:43|400|02:27:51|080and the right force, the hierarchically superior force, has won and has not actually 1091|02:27:51|080|02:27:58|860repudiated the dweller or the complete personal self, but has in fact subsumed it, has in fact 1092|02:27:58|860|02:28:05|740used it, redeemed it really. Then the greater glory obliterates the lesser. the greater light 1093|02:28:05|740|02:28:13|180obliterates the lesser light. “In that light I shall see light.” And then both of these factors 1094|02:28:13|400|02:28:21|300can be used and put at the disposal of the spirit itself. This is, however, only possible 1|00:00:01|340|00:00:08|580when the personality eagerly enters into this relation with the Angel, This is soul 1096|02:28:28|640|02:28:35|580identification. This is the purpose of all our occult meditation. We are increasingly identifying 1097|02:28:35|580|02:28:42|980with the ego and the higher mental plane, or that part of the angel which subtends our causal 1098|02:28:42|980|02:28:54|180structure. We find a new focus or locus, and we find a new place, a new elevation at which to 1099|02:28:54|180|02:29:01|840recognize our identity. We become the soul, not just the soul in incarnation; we realize ourselves 1100|02:29:01|840|02:29:08|860as the soul. This is however only possible when the personality eagerly, not reticently, 1101|02:29:08|860|02:29:15|640reluctantly, now with feet dragging, eagerly enters into this relation with the angel, 1102|02:29:16|260|02:29:25|220recognises itself as the Dweller and—as a disciple—begins the battle 1103|02:29:25|220|02:29:33|280between the pairs of opposites and enters into the tests of Scorpio. So this is the 1104|02:29:33|280|02:29:43|940predecessor action which has to occur. If the greater blaze which emanates from the angel 1105|02:29:43|940|02:29:52|420is to obliterate the lesser light, we have to be willing to engage in the great battle between the 1106|02:29:52|420|02:30:02|540pairs of opposites. So we identify as the angel, we recognize ourselves as well as the dweller, 1107|02:30:03|100|02:30:09|600we stand in the center as a disciple, and we allow the battle between the pairs of opposites to 1108|02:30:10|240|02:30:17|040occur. At the same time we realize that it's not just through might and main and brute force and 1109|02:30:17|040|02:30:23|320Martian methods that the battle is won, but the battle is won in consciousness and through the 1110|02:30:23|320|02:30:30|300power of, at first, the light of the soul, and later through the power of the intuition. Finally 1111|02:30:30|980|02:30:38|000the battle which leads to the attainment of the third degree is won through the application of the 1112|02:30:38|000|02:30:45|840intuition and the realization of the personality nature as an aspect of the great illusion. We see 1113|02:30:45|840|02:30:53|420through the illusion of the personality. These tests and trials are ever self-initiated 1114|02:30:54|340|02:30:59|980They are not forced upon us and it's only when we decide to really do something 1115|02:31:00|540|02:31:08|000about our realized crisis and difficult situation that the battle is on and a 1116|02:31:08|980|02:31:17|020positive outcome can be expected. the disciple puts himself into the positive or conditioning 1117|02:31:17|020|02:31:24|660environment wherein the trials and the discipline are unavoidable and inevitable. In other words, 1118|02:31:25|400|02:31:31|260what we're saying here is the disciple does not run away but stands his ground and says, 1119|02:31:32|100|02:31:38|800“I'm on the battleground, I will not leave the battleground, I will see this battle through 1120|02:31:38|800|02:31:46|540to its conclusion even if it is a fight to the death.” Now I'm sure that all of us have undergone 1121|02:31:46|540|02:31:54|900some mode of this process, maybe not the final process, but we've been born in Scorpio, we've 1122|02:31:54|900|02:32:02|040had Scorpio prominent, we've been born under Scorpio, and inevitably we will face these great 1123|02:32:02|700|02:32:08|180temptations which have to be overcome. So When the mind has reached a relatively high stage 1124|02:32:08|180|02:32:16|260of development, as it can, in this quite mental sign of Scorpio with Mercury Silverstone, 1125|02:32:16|960|02:32:26|160 the memory aspect is evoked in a new and conscious manner and then every latent 1126|02:32:26|160|02:32:31|440pre-disposition, every racial and national instinct, every unconquered situation and every 1127|02:32:31|440|02:32:36|140controlling fault rises to the surface of consciousness In other words, you might say we 1128|02:32:36|140|02:32:43|660enter therapy and we say, “Okay, I want to experience depth psychology.” I remember in my 1129|02:32:43|660|02:32:52|020own life that when I had Pluto transiting the sun, I went into depth psychology and Jungian training, 1130|02:32:53|760|02:32:59|700and I kept a dream log, and I think I… you know, the tape recorders of those days were clunky 1131|02:32:59|700|02:33:06|000affairs, but I slept with a microphone in my hand so that when I would wake up, I would mutter a few 1132|02:33:06|000|02:33:11|400things about the dream into the microphone and then I'd turn it off and wait for the next one. 1133|02:33:11|720|02:33:19|960It wasn't very restful, but I certainly had found a lot of nice Plutonic material that I had not 1134|02:33:19|960|02:33:27|940recognized before to deal with, and I did this purposefully. And I saw that indeed what D.K. says 1135|02:33:27|940|02:33:34|720is true, that, you know, things you could never think about yourself as really existing come to 1136|02:33:34|720|02:33:42|200the surface because all those crevices and recesses had the light thrown upon them by your own 1137|02:33:43|040|02:33:50|640deliberate, willful entry into those areas. So every latent predisposition, every racial and 1138|02:33:50|640|02:33:58|260national instinct, every unconquered situation, and every controlling fault—interesting way of 1139|02:33:58|260|02:34:04|320looking at it. We have faults; do they control us or not? Every controlling fault rises via Pluto 1140|02:34:04|320|02:34:15|200to the surface of the consciousness, and then—the fight is on. Okay, so what do you do when that 1141|02:34:15|200|02:34:21|800fight is on? You really do need the skill in action. The keynote of Scorpio is, however, 1142|02:34:22|080|02:34:27|220Triumph. This is something I personally often forget. You know, I know all about the struggles 1143|02:34:27|860|02:34:34|780having Pluto rising in my chart, and I know that it's unavoidable, and I usually try to 1144|02:34:34|780|02:34:42|220avoid doing things on Scorpio days and all the rest, forgetting that the outcome really is 1145|02:34:42|220|02:34:50|480triumph. This is its major expression upon the physical plane. particularly, and we saw how much 1146|02:34:50|480|02:34:55|800D.K. connected Scorpio to bringing all difficulties down onto the physical plane 1147|02:34:55|800|02:35:03|640where there would be, in fact, an important fight where you would prove on the physical plane and in 1148|02:35:03|640|02:35:09|340the physical plane that you had overcome these obstructions and controlling faults. 1149|02:35:10|440|02:35:18|380As a result of struggle and of victory, the whole divine man—not yet perfectly expressing himself, 1150|02:35:18|940|02:35:24|180 if I might word the situation thus— because after all we're not necessarily the master of 1151|02:35:24|180|02:35:29|020wisdom here, we're just the struggling disciple—is anchored upon the physical plane 1152|02:35:30|320|02:35:37|640with such accuracy and clarity that there is no escape from the environing conclusions 1153|02:35:38|340|02:35:44|600of the disciple's family, friends and group that he is a disciple. Well, you know, oftentimes 1154|02:35:44|600|02:35:50|820it is the disciple's family that attempts to prove to the disciple that he is not what he claims 1155|02:35:50|820|02:35:57|460to be. D.K. discusses this elsewhere, but let's just say that right here on the physical environment, 1156|02:35:58|340|02:36:06|540in the physical environment, the condition of the disciple declares itself. He is either winning or 1157|02:36:06|540|02:36:14|000is losing, and everybody is seeing what he is doing right on the physical plane. So this is an 1158|02:36:14|000|02:36:23|380important factor, bringing it onto the physical plane for a decisive battle. Now there are many 1159|02:36:23|380|02:36:31|340internal Scorpionic battles, I think, in the mind, in the emotions, but finally the whole thing 1160|02:36:31|340|02:36:39|060is made manifest, and the person has to win the battle on the physical plane just the way 1161|02:36:39|740|02:36:46|780the true initiate has to demonstrate his initiation in the physical brain in most cases. 1162|02:36:47|000|02:36:51|160Sometimes there are inter-plane initiations, but in the great majority of cases you need 1163|02:36:51|160|02:36:58|820a physical incarnation in which to prove initiation in yourself. So the keynote of 1164|02:36:58|820|02:37:04|180Scorpio is triumph. This is its major expression upon the physical plane. 1165|02:37:05|120|02:37:11|820As the result of struggle and of victory, the whole divine man—that means the soul in 1166|02:37:11|820|02:37:19|880incarnation has, well, not yet perfectly expressing himself, if I might word the situation thus—is 1167|02:37:19|880|02:37:26|440anchored upon the physical plane with such accuracy that our inner resources are right 1168|02:37:26|440|02:37:31|660here and now to deal with the difficult situation right here and now with such accuracy and clarity 1169|02:37:32|160|02:37:38|240that there is no escape from the judgment, from the environing conclusions of the disciples, 1170|02:37:38|480|02:37:43|000family, friends, and group, that he is a disciple. In other words, he proves himself 1171|02:37:43|520|02:37:52|460to be a disciple if all goes well. Let's say he proves his discipleship if all goes well, 1172|02:37:52|460|02:38:00|880or proves his failure and suffers the repudiation of his family, friends, and group, as often 1173|02:38:00|880|02:38:07|740happens as well. Then you try again. You get up and you try again. The story of Robert Bruce 1174|02:38:07|740|02:38:15|380and the spider, an old kind of story from medieval days of the Scottish chieftain Robert Bruce 1175|02:38:16|580|02:38:25|000retreating, beaten in battle, hiding away, wondering about his future, to see a spider 1176|02:38:25|000|02:38:33|980try to climb the thread many times. Maybe it was 13 times; I forget how ever many it was, 1177|02:38:34|380|02:38:40|860but failing almost every time until the last time. Maybe the 13th time, he succeeded, from which 1178|02:38:40|860|02:38:49|580Robert Bruce is said to have gained new courage, understanding how one must try and try again. 1179|02:38:49|580|02:38:59|840One must persist in order to achieve. So, the life on the physical plane anchored with accuracy 1180|02:39:00|220|02:39:09|620and clarity, and you're cornered now; there's no escape. The judgment will be there, either a 1181|02:39:09|620|02:39:21|120positive recognition or a recognition of failure, and there will be, for the moment, a decision 1182|02:39:21|120|02:39:27|060with regard to the disciple. And the disciple will also decide with respect to himself; he will see 1183|02:39:27|060|02:39:36|260whether or not he is the true disciple. From that angle he is meticulously watched 1184|02:39:37|360|02:39:45|520Yes, he is meticulously watched because, after all, he may serve as an example to others, an inspiring example. 1185|02:39:45|960|02:39:53|620Or the dweller in other people may watch him to prove that he could not accomplish… 1186|02:39:55|620|02:40:10|300Whoopsie. Okay. Let's see… It seems that we are still broadcasting. I hope that is the case. 1187|02:40:12|940|02:40:21|560It seems to be the case, but it tells me that my audio connection has been lost. I will go on, 1188|02:40:21|560|02:40:28|640because I seem to have the microphone set up, and now that has disappeared. I hope that over the past 1189|02:40:28|640|02:40:38|740couple of seconds, there was not that… Yeah, I hope that it did not disappear. 1190|02:40:40|300|02:40:50|560Anyway, I will go on hoping that this will be taken properly. So he is meticulously watched, and as I 1191|02:40:50|560|02:40:59|120was saying, the dweller in other people may watch him as well, because they do not want to have to do 1192|02:40:59|120|02:41:04|340what he is doing. Their dweller nature does not want to have to make the efforts he is making. 1193|02:41:04|600|02:41:12|440So they would be very happy from their dweller perspective. Okay, they would be… 1194|02:41:12|940|02:41:20|620Uh-huh, it says to start the broadcast. Okay, let's try it. 1195|02:41:22|880|02:41:27|180The broadcast is now starting. All attendees are in listen-only mode. 1196|02:41:28|000|02:41:34|420Okay, I am hoping here… Excuse me, I have to do something over here. 1197|02:41:38|780|02:41:41|560Let's see, let's see. 1198|02:41:42|540|02:42:01|920Okay, okay, okay. Well, I'm hoping that this is continuing. We had a little bit of a glitch there. 1199|02:42:04|840|02:42:11|080I'm holding this webinar by myself with another computer, so there can be failures. 1200|02:42:12|720|02:42:22|120And here I am talking about how the dweller in other people does not like to… 1201|02:42:24|300|02:42:35|340does not like to acknowledge success in a fellow disciple. This would be a problem. 1202|02:42:38|900|02:42:44|340So from that angle, it says he is meticulously watched. he learns the meaning of the word 1203|02:42:45|040|02:42:49|590“example” We are told that we must set a good example. That's one of the 1204|02:42:50|590|02:42:57|210four requirements in the White Magic book. We are to obey the inner impulses of the soul. 1205|02:42:59|530|02:43:03|850We are to inquire the way to obey the inner impulses of the soul. We are to 1206|02:43:04|490|02:43:11|230follow the path of the soul, even if the best and wisest in the world say that it's foolish. 1207|02:43:11|230|02:43:21|250And number four, we are to set an example. So he is pilloried. he is pilloried by those who are 1208|02:43:22|290|02:43:28|190onlookers and the first conscious stages toward group awareness and group response, 1209|02:43:28|550|02:43:35|950plus group service, are now taken. because the group “I” is focused on the disciple to see what he will 1210|02:43:35|950|02:43:43|970do. And this has an effect for better or for worse, according to the quality of his attainment. 1211|02:43:44|530|02:43:49|890Such is the outcome and the reward of the experience in Scorpio. It is leading towards group consciousness 1212|02:43:50|430|02:43:56|890interestingly. So he is meticulously watched. He learns the meaning of the word “example” 1213|02:43:56|890|02:44:05|790because he is anchored with accuracy, inescapably upon the physical plane. 1214|02:44:06|850|02:44:14|490He's anchored with accuracy and clarity. His whole nature is anchored upon the physical plane 1215|02:44:14|490|02:44:25|590and his struggle is visible. And so he either sets an example or he fails in that example. 1216|02:44:25|590|02:44:33|950And I'm sure we have all failed many times. The bitterness, the woe of failure, I think is acutely 1217|02:44:33|950|02:44:46|130felt in the fourth ray sign Scorpio. The pain of victory, the agony of defeat, these held him down 1218|02:44:46|130|02:44:57|390as it is said in the fourth ray stanza. It is in this sign that the prodigal son comes to himself, 1219|02:44:57|910|02:45:05|190and having eaten of the husks of life and then experienced the bitterness of having done that, 1220|02:45:05|550|02:45:13|010and having exhausted the resources of worldly desire and ambition— seeing that all is worthless in 1221|02:45:13|010|02:45:18|810these lower worlds, relatively speaking, except from the perspective of service, he says: 1222|02:45:19|470|02:45:30|150 “I will arise and go to my Father.” There are two such major crises in the life of the 1223|02:45:30|150|02:45:38|350aspirant: Okay. So the idea of reversal, of reversing the wheel, of heading finally towards 1224|02:45:38|350|02:45:46|450the monad and towards Shambhala is undertaken in Scorpio. “I will arise and go to my father.” Okay. 1225|02:45:51|050|02:45:57|350So there are two such major crises in the life of the aspirant. Okay. 1226|02:45:58|230|02:46:09|170The first, 1. When the intelligent man of the world comes to himself and then re-orients himself to the 1227|02:46:09|170|02:46:19|690soul and its requirements. this leads to the test in Scorpio. Okay. So he is a personality. 1228|02:46:20|510|02:46:26|990He comes into the realization of his nature as a soul and incarnation. And then he 1229|02:46:26|990|02:46:33|650reorients himself. Remember, this is a sign of reorientation and reversal involving Uranus. 1230|02:46:34|170|02:46:39|150He reorients himself to the soul and its requirements, and then he allows himself to be 1231|02:46:39|150|02:46:56|970tested. So this is one of those circumstances in which he arises and goes in a new direction. In 1232|02:46:56|970|02:47:04|010the fifth petal in which this kind of thing happens is ruled by Scorpio when we begin 1233|02:47:04|870|02:47:11|770to move clockwise in counting, in assigning the petals to the zodiacal signs, beginning with 1234|02:47:11|770|02:47:20|250Pisces. Then the fifth, the petal becomes Scorpio. Then he reverses his method. Now there is another 1235|02:47:20|670|02:47:31|150type of arising. So let us call this a lesser arising. Now we have another type of arising 2. When 1236|02:47:31|150|02:47:39|770the initiate of the third degree—upon a higher turn of the spiral—re-orients himself to the Monad 1237|02:47:40|310|02:47:48|110and passes through most subtle tests to certain undefinable and spiritual 1238|02:47:48|810|02:47:54|810recognitions. And Upon these we need not enlarge. because I suppose these are recognitions leading 1239|02:47:54|810|02:47:59|650to the fourth degree, which is ruled by the fourth ray, which makes me think that Scorpio, 1240|02:48:00|070|02:48:06|090being the major fourth ray sign, would be involved in this fourth degree. And perhaps if one is on 1241|02:48:06|090|02:48:12|610one's way to the father, one can even go to the fifth degree and even to the sixth. So 1242|02:48:13|270|02:48:20|650determining what are the signs of these high souls who need not be reborn, they most definitely do 1243|02:48:20|650|02:48:27|430have certain signs most associated with them. For instance, we are told of the signs of the Buddha, 1244|02:48:27|690|02:48:35|530I think largely Taurus and probably Pisces, and Master K.H. Signs are given for him as well. And 1245|02:48:35|530|02:48:40|770these are initiates of the fifth and sixth, of the sixth degree and seventh degree. They have 1246|02:48:40|770|02:48:47|490signs associated with their nature, but they are not signs that are taken from being born in the 1247|02:48:47|490|02:48:53|950lower three worlds unless they are continued in a higher way from having been born in the lower 1248|02:48:53|950|02:49:02|350three worlds. We are told that the body, the Maya Varupa of a master, is often constructed 1249|02:49:03|150|02:49:10|310on the body in which the fifth initiation was taken. So there could be some extension 1250|02:49:10|770|02:49:18|690of the signs which were prevalent in that particular birth or life experience. Anyway, 1251|02:49:18|850|02:49:26|070we don't know, but suffice it to say, you know, the Christ is deeply associated with Pisces and 1252|02:49:26|070|02:49:32|650probably as the Prince of Peace, he would be associated with Libra as well. So these signs 1253|02:49:32|650|02:49:41|570do follow a master or a chohan, a high initiate. They remain with him for a long time. Probably, 1254|02:49:41|830|02:49:49|190you know, there's a horoscope of our planet in which the great signs of the zodiac working 1255|02:49:49|190|02:49:59|110at a higher turn of the spiral are operative in the life of the Logos. Okay, now let us move 1256|02:49:59|110|02:50:09|130forward. There is little for me to add here in connection with the fact that Scorpio is upon one of 1257|02:50:09|130|02:50:15|970the four arms of the four arms of the Fixed Cross. We remember how it went. We had Sirius, the fixed cross, 1258|02:50:16|150|02:50:24|270then we had Scorpio, then we had Mars and Saturn, and we had hierarchy. There is little for me to 1259|02:50:24|270|02:50:29|370add here in connection with the fact that Scorpio is upon one of the four arms of the fixed cross. 1260|02:50:30|170|02:50:34|430I wonder if it's the most important arm as far as humanity is concerned. I think it is 1261|02:50:34|430|02:50:41|070because the entire group of human monads is ruled by Scorpio and its hierarchical ruler Mercury. 1262|02:50:41|750|02:50:48|830In the study of previous signs, much anent the Fixed Cross has already been covered 1263|02:50:49|290|02:50:56|190and there is no need for me to repeat the information here. and try to remember exactly 1264|02:50:56|190|02:51:04|550where this may have occurred. I think perhaps around page 143. Yes, there it is. So there on 143, 1265|02:51:05|590|02:51:13|050the discussion of the fixed cross for the man upon the reversing wheel is present: Taurus, Leo, 1266|02:51:13|690|02:51:21|030Scorpio, and Aquarius. So in Scorpio, in this sign, the disciple undergoes those tests which 1267|02:51:21|030|02:51:27|910would enable him to take the second initiation, not just, but particularly, and demonstrate that 1268|02:51:27|910|02:51:34|170the desire nature is subdued and conquered, and that the lower nature is, by being lifted up into 1269|02:51:34|170|02:51:39|610the air, i.e. into heaven, towards the higher mental plane or even the Buddhic plane, that 1270|02:51:39|610|02:51:44|650lower nature is capable of reaching the goal for this world period, and that from the earthly 1271|02:51:44|650|02:51:50|170foundations of Scorpio, again indicating the physical plane, the personality can be so tested 1272|02:51:50|170|02:51:57|850that it shows fitness for the world service demanded in Aquarius. The strength demonstrated 1273|02:51:57|850|02:52:05|690in Scorpio has to be, is demanded in Aquarius, has to be expressed in Aquarius. This is beautifully 1274|02:52:05|690|02:52:12|230expressed for us in the legend of Hercules, the sun God, who overcomes the nine-headed hydra, 1275|02:52:12|370|02:52:19|250or serpent of desire. Desire, I guess, on all three levels of the personality, by being forced 1276|02:52:19|250|02:52:26|510to his knees, and from that position of humility, lifts up the serpent into the air, and then 1277|02:52:26|510|02:52:32|930deliverance comes. I guess we have an example of esoteric or occult weightlifting going on there, 1278|02:52:32|930|02:52:41|410because what can be heavier than the, what can be heavier than the weight of our accumulated 1279|02:52:44|770|02:52:50|830unredeemed energy patterns and force patterns? Okay, so there's little for me to add here in 1280|02:52:50|830|02:52:55|690connection with the fact that Scorpio was upon one of the forearms of the fixed cross. In the 1281|02:52:55|690|02:53:01|170study of previous signs, much anent the fixed cross has already been covered, and there is no 1282|02:53:01|170|02:53:10|190need for me to repeat it. So go to page 143 if you want to have more about that. Desire in Taurus 1283|02:53:10|190|02:53:16|910becomes spiritual aspiration in Scorpio. Well, this is true, but remember that he says the highest 1284|02:53:17|490|02:53:25|870form of aspirational idealism is found in Taurus. Isn't that interesting? So spiritual aspiration 1285|02:53:25|870|02:53:34|910occurs in Scorpio, but also the highest form of aspirational idealism is found in Taurus. 1286|02:53:35|550|02:53:44|990Now, just in case you don't believe me, I'll try to find it. There is one factor, there it is. 1287|02:53:45|370|02:53:52|030Desire in its lowest expression is linked with the form in Taurus. Aspirational idealism in its 1288|02:53:52|030|02:53:59|890highest possible expression is also achieved in Taurus. This is page 391 of Esoteric Astrology. 1289|02:54:02|670|02:54:09|370Okay, hopefully I will not be sent into this spiral again. Kind of looks like it. 1290|02:54:10|350|02:54:16|270I think the whole computer is going to need a little bit of cleaning up before I get into this 1291|02:54:16|270|02:54:25|630again. All right. The darkness of the experience in Scorpio becomes illumination in Taurus. 1292|02:54:27|270|02:54:34|130And yet, interestingly, in the five phases of meditation, the Scorpio phase is called 1293|02:54:34|130|02:54:41|170illumination. So this is one of those examples in which, in the opposing signs, similar types 1294|02:54:41|170|02:54:46|590of results can be achieved. The darkness of the experience in Scorpio becomes illumination in 1295|02:54:46|590|02:54:52|570Taurus, where it must never be forgotten, where the pairs of opposites are concerned, they gain 1296|02:54:52|570|02:54:57|490and profit from each other. Yes, they interplay with each other, and oftentimes, although 1297|02:54:57|490|02:55:04|790demonstrating opposite characteristics, are synthesized to produce similar results. All 1298|02:55:04|790|02:55:09|850things must meet at the center. All opposition lines must come to the center, and in doing so, 1299|02:55:09|850|02:55:15|730they demonstrate their similarity. For there is a direct line of force, or contact, between the two. 1300|02:55:16|310|02:55:22|910This is a fact which is seldom recognized, because we are operating too far down on the pyramid. Now, 1301|02:55:22|950|02:55:32|550we don't realize that as we ascend, the opposites will come together and demonstrate a victory which 1302|02:55:32|550|02:55:41|510could not be had without the participation of both. They both participate in a type of elevated 1303|02:55:41|510|02:55:50|230expression. So we oftentimes study the signs of the zodiac in opposites. We have a session on 1304|02:55:50|230|02:55:59|370Aries-Libra, a session on Taurus-Scorpio, and Gemini-Sagittarius, and so forth. Okay. Now, we are at a point 1305|02:55:59|370|02:56:06|470where I do think, you know, given the fact that we've had a little bit of difficulty with the 1306|02:56:07|210|02:56:15|070webinar, we can say that this is end of E.A.A., Esoteric Astrology Adventure, number 76, 1307|02:56:15|610|02:56:27|770point A, B, and C, and we went from page 200, I believe, and we'll see where we are now, to 210. 1308|02:56:30|530|02:56:37|110I believe that is true. I hope that is true. And I don't want to go back to take a look. But what I 1309|02:56:37|110|02:56:46|230do want to do is to have us do the Great Invo… no, that's 78, it should be 76. I want us to do the 1310|02:56:46|230|02:56:51|890Great Invocation together. I'd like to end each program with a Great Invocation, but when, as in 1311|02:56:51|890|02:56:57|510this case, it looks like it's going to be a three-hour program, we can end with it after the three 1312|02:56:57|510|02:57:09|910hours. Okay. This being the great mantram of power and light, and the method by which we are able to 1313|02:57:09|910|02:57:30|010prepare best for the reappearance of the Christ. From the point of light within the mind of God, 1314|02:57:30|650|02:57:36|950let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 1315|02:57:39|870|02:57:42|870From the point of love within the heart of God, 1316|02:57:43|510|02:57:49|210let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. 1317|02:57:51|190|02:57:57|050From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, 1318|02:57:57|670|02:58:01|250the purpose which the masters know and serve. 1319|02:58:04|170|02:58:08|530From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love 1320|02:58:08|530|02:58:14|010and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 1321|02:58:17|290|02:58:23|770Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 1322|02:58:39|050|02:58:53|610And so we are leaving off at this point in the Scorpio chapter, and around page 210, 1323|02:58:54|470|02:59:02|050and we will continue with our next, it's a rather long chapter, so we will continue with our 1324|02:59:02|550|02:59:10|250next webinar, this webinar, Esoteric Astrology Adventure, number 77, assuming that the 1325|02:59:14|170|02:59:22|830computer cooperates here. Hopefully it will. So we will see you everybody, and there's all kinds 1326|02:59:22|830|02:59:29|670of light and demonstrations going on here, but we will do our best to stabilize here, 1327|02:59:29|830|02:59:34|410and we'll be back to you as soon as we can. All the best.