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1|00:00:06|000|00:00:07|840Hello, everybody. 2|00:00:08|360|00:00:29|980This is our seventy-ninth esoteric astrology adventure, and we have concluded our last 3|00:00:29|980|00:00:43|400difficulties that Christianity has experienced due to the bias of Saint Paul, which, as D.K. 4|00:00:44|240|00:00:51|520tells us at some point, tried to blend the ancient, as he calls it, blood religion of 5|00:00:51|520|00:01:00|560Jews with the new dispensation which the Lord Maitreya was offering humanity. 6|00:01:02|020|00:01:12|820And also Saint Paul brought in a number of Hellenistic features, given the way that he 7|00:01:12|820|00:01:14|300was trained. 8|00:01:16|120|00:01:19|580None of these were the intention of the original founder. 9|00:01:19|580|00:01:24|700We're contrasting here Neptune and Mars. 10|00:01:25|340|00:01:28|900The Saint Paul coloring was largely Martian. 11|00:01:30|620|00:01:38|180That of the Lord Maitreya, the Christ, the world teacher, was Neptunian because he is, 12|00:01:38|420|00:01:48|880in many respects, Vishnu, the first initiator, the initiator of the first and second initiations. 13|00:01:48|880|00:01:58|440So what is required is that we enter the new civilization, the manifestation of the new 14|00:01:58|440|00:02:08|120civilization and culture, by transmuting the sixth ray energy of Mars into the sixth ray 15|00:02:08|120|00:02:09|280energy of Neptune. 16|00:02:10|120|00:02:19|980And this is, in a way, the movement from a relatively gross and materialistic consciousness 17|00:02:21|100|00:02:31|440under Mars, a non-sacred planet, into a subtle, sensitive, psychic, and to a certain extent 18|00:02:31|440|00:02:40|460otherworldly consciousness provided by the energies of the subtle vehicle. 19|00:02:42|180|00:02:50|200So D.K. ends with the idea here that Mars is objective and full of blood, and we've certainly 20|00:02:50|200|00:02:59|560had enough of that recently, and Neptune is subjective and full of life. 21|00:03:01|120|00:03:04|620So that is the transmutation which must occur. 22|00:03:04|760|00:03:12|840We're here on page 217 in Esoteric Astrology. 23|00:03:14|040|00:03:27|300Okay, we continue then in the beginning of Esoteric Astrology adventure number 79, and 24|00:03:27|300|00:03:42|820it says here, A great mystery is veiled and hidden in the above relationship, for Cancer, 25|00:03:42|820|00:03:44|980the eighth creative hierarchy. 26|00:03:52|500|00:03:53|460Eureka! 27|00:03:54|460|00:04:05|780So, here is a picture of the eighth creative hierarchy, also the fifth almost-manifested 28|00:04:05|780|00:04:14|340creative hierarchy, and very interestingly, it does show that the ray involved is the 29|00:04:14|340|00:04:15|340seventh ray. 30|00:04:16|560|00:04:25|240I suppose this is occurring on the seventh subplane of the cosmic astral plane, and hence 31|00:04:25|240|00:04:27|780its association with the seventh ray. 32|00:04:27|840|00:04:34|880It does not really give the hierarchical ruler, but we know the hierarchical ruler of Cancer 33|00:04:35|520|00:04:42|720is Neptune, and when we think of Cancer, of course, there is a very strong seventh ray 34|00:04:43|500|00:04:45|580and third ray influence coming through it. 35|00:04:45|640|00:04:52|060Now this is not the case for all of the liberated hierarchies. 36|00:04:53|580|00:04:57|140For instance, Aries has no fourth ray coming through it. 37|00:04:57|820|00:05:03|360Constellationally, Taurus no fifth, and Gemini no sixth, though when we look at planets we 38|00:05:03|360|00:05:04|900may get different rays coming through. 39|00:05:05|740|00:05:14|660But Cancer, constellationally, does have the seventh ray associated with it, and in a way, 40|00:05:17|390|00:05:27|920the desire element here is responsible for the manifestation of all life upon the cosmic 41|00:05:27|920|00:05:28|860physical plane. 42|00:05:30|180|00:05:37|420Interestingly, although this hierarchy is destined for the seventh subplane of the cosmic 43|00:05:37|420|00:05:39|500astral plane, it is not yet located there. 44|00:05:40|160|00:05:43|340It is still located on the cosmic physical plane. 45|00:05:43|920|00:05:53|080So there is a strong element of desire involved, and also of manifestational capacity. 46|00:05:55|720|00:06:00|900A great mystery is veiled and hidden in the above relationship, I suppose, of Mars and 47|00:06:00|900|00:06:07|780Neptune,for Cancer-Neptune is expressive of the seventh ray, which rules and controls 48|00:06:07|780|00:06:13|260the eighth Creative Hierarchy. counting from below to above in this case. 49|00:06:14|220|00:06:21|480This is one of the five Hierarchies whose names are unknown to us and this particular 50|00:06:21|480|00:06:25|320one stands upon the verge of liberation. 51|00:06:26|080|00:06:35|180In this case, liberation means release into the cosmic astral plane where the quality 52|00:06:35|180|00:06:51|460of pure love is found, at least as far as we are concerned, but also in a sense, and 53|00:06:51|460|00:07:00|500correspondence to the focus of evil on our own astral plane, a lesser type of evil, in 54|00:07:00|500|00:07:07|040a place that Master Morya in the Agni Yoga series calls Mara Kara, I suppose the home 55|00:07:07|040|00:07:15|740of Mara, who is the source of all illusion and the being that the Buddha symbolically 56|00:07:15|740|00:07:18|860fought under the Bodhi tree. 57|00:07:19|640|00:07:29|640At the same time, this hierarchy, being the fifth, I suppose, of the liberated or almost 58|00:07:29|640|00:07:34|460liberated hierarchy, so At the same time it is closely connected with the mind principle 59|00:07:36|140|00:07:42|720as it works out through the solar Angels or through the human hierarchy. 60|00:07:43|780|00:07:46|780Well, this is a question. 61|00:07:46|940|00:07:51|280Do we mean that the human hierarchy is the hierarchy of solar Angels? 62|00:07:51|820|00:07:55|060This is an important question. 63|00:07:55|680|00:08:07|440We'll look at the next diagram here, and we will see—yeah, that's about the right size—that 64|00:08:07|440|00:08:13|900the human hierarchy, hierarchy number nine, ruled by Mercury, connected with the number 65|00:08:13|900|00:08:22|660five, just as Venus is, we are told in the comments that the solar angels are found here. 66|00:08:24|040|00:08:33|620But from another point of view, the solar Angels are found as, within the fifth Creative 67|00:08:33|620|00:08:41|160Hierarchy, their own true hierarchy, where they sacrificially present themselves in what 68|00:08:41|160|00:08:48|680is for them a very low form of expression within the dense physical body of the solar 69|00:08:48|680|00:08:49|220Logos. 70|00:08:49|500|00:08:57|000And this is something that they need not have done, but have chosen to do. 71|00:08:57|000|00:09:03|940And as D.K. says, they are not purely avataric, for they do have something to gain by this 72|00:09:03|940|00:09:08|720immersion in the dense physical body of the solar Logos. 73|00:09:11|770|00:09:19|440So anyway, the five of the Cancer-Neptune hierarchy is reflected, or sort of a higher 74|00:09:19|440|00:09:29|280correspondence of the five, of the Solar Angelic hierarchy, which interestingly enough 75|00:09:29|280|00:09:31|920is ruled by Venus—that is appropriate. 76|00:09:32|700|00:09:37|900But the solar angels have kind of a dual area of expression. 77|00:09:38|100|00:09:44|680One is upon the Buddhic plane, which is a very complete form of expression, compared 78|00:09:44|680|00:09:50|220to what the members of the human hierarchy at large can now do. 79|00:09:50|860|00:09:55|060Not yet can we express upon the Buddhic plane as the solar angels can. 80|00:09:56|060|00:10:01|560And yet we are also learning to express ourselves upon the mental plane, which the solar angels 81|00:10:01|560|00:10:09|920long ago mastered, and upon which they can express in great fullness, though at great 82|00:10:09|920|00:10:12|020sacrifice to themselves. 83|00:10:13|060|00:10:21|600So, this fifth, almost liberated hierarchy is closely connected with the mind principle, 84|00:10:22|200|00:10:28|380as it works out through the solar angels, and/or through the human hierarchy. 85|00:10:31|960|00:10:41|880The human hierarchy is Mercurian, and I think the planet that most represents the number 86|00:10:41|880|00:10:44|640five at this time is actually Mercury. 87|00:10:44|820|00:10:48|060Venus does, but not monadically, I feel. 88|00:10:49|080|00:10:55|080There's a soft line ray for the monadic expression of Venus, whereas for Mercury it's kind of 89|00:10:55|080|00:10:56|640a 5-3 ray. 90|00:10:57|320|00:10:59|460This is my speculation at this time. 91|00:11:02|180|00:11:10|080So this higher hierarchy works out through the hierarchy over which Mercury presides, 92|00:11:10|080|00:11:12|440which is the human creative hierarchy. 93|00:11:12|820|00:11:20|020It's number four of the manifested creative hierarchies, and through the fifth creative 94|00:11:20|020|00:11:26|220hierarchy intimately associated at this time with the solar angels, or at least with a 95|00:11:26|220|00:11:28|220projection of their nature. 96|00:11:28|320|00:11:36|060It's kind of a dual hierarchy, and that is a mystery it does represent as well, the human 97|00:11:36|060|00:11:46|600personality, which is deriving more from the concrete mental plane, whereas the true expression 98|00:11:46|600|00:11:55|660of the solar angels in the dense body of the solar Logos is upon the higher mental plane. 99|00:11:55|660|00:12:08|260Anyway, the idea here is to see the connection between the almost liberated Cancer-Neptune 100|00:12:08|260|00:12:12|260hierarchy and the solar angelic hierarchy. 101|00:12:13|590|00:12:19|320There's also, I suppose, a connection between this almost liberated hierarchy ruled by Cancer-Neptune 102|00:12:20|100|00:12:28|900and the sixth manifested creative hierarchy ruled by Mars and the Moon, especially by 103|00:12:28|900|00:12:33|120Mars but inevitably connected with the Moon since they are the lunar lords. 104|00:12:36|160|00:12:39|700Cancer is definitely associated with the ocean, with the astral plane, and so is Neptune. 105|00:12:40|600|00:12:49|000So we have a much higher expression of this on the highest of our planes, the lower plane, 106|00:12:49|000|00:12:53|860and tending towards the lowest of the cosmic-astral subplanes. 107|00:12:55|060|00:12:56|620But the quality is similar. 108|00:12:56|800|00:12:59|520It's an astral quality. 109|00:13:00|220|00:13:06|260It's a quality which is meant to reflect the cosmic-astral plane into manifestation upon 110|00:13:06|260|00:13:18|020our dense physical, cosmic-dense plane, our cosmic-physical plane, and the astral plane, 111|00:13:18|020|00:13:23|740the systemic-astral plane, is meant to somehow absorb this higher love energy eventually 112|00:13:24|380|00:13:25|680from the cosmic-astral plane. 113|00:13:25|780|00:13:33|240Those who are on the second path, the path of magnetic work, are very much involved in 114|00:13:33|240|00:13:41|880creating the possibility for this to occur by the manner in which they send energy into 115|00:13:41|880|00:13:47|480our systemic-astral plane and draw off negative energy, substituting a higher energy for a 116|00:13:47|480|00:13:47|740lower power. 117|00:13:50|060|00:13:54|640This fifth, almost liberated, creative hierarchy is said here. 118|00:13:55|180|00:14:01|140It is related to the birth of the fourth Creative Hierarchy in a sense not to be understood 119|00:14:01|800|00:14:05|760by anyone below the stage of the fourth initiation, 120|00:14:05|940|00:14:12|980So then we will not really understand this, but we can see that the very first incarnation 121|00:14:14|400|00:14:24|480of humanity as a group took place under Cancer, and that this fifth creative hierarchy is 122|00:14:24|480|00:14:26|100ruled by Cancer. 123|00:14:26|260|00:14:30|600So we see the very strong link. 124|00:14:31|760|00:14:38|420The solar angels are involved in the creation of the birth of the fourth creative hierarchy 125|00:14:38|420|00:14:44|220as human beings, and we can say that these solar angels are in a higher sense sponsored 126|00:14:44|900|00:14:50|660by the members of the fifth, almost liberated, creative hierarchy. 127|00:14:50|900|00:15:02|720Some theoreticians have even concluded that when we're talking about the fifth, almost 128|00:15:02|720|00:15:07|460liberated hierarchy, almost onto the astral plane, we really are speaking of the solar 129|00:15:07|460|00:15:07|760angels. 130|00:15:07|880|00:15:14|160Some have said that, but D.K. has assured us we will not solve the mystery, certainly completely, 131|00:15:14|180|00:15:16|160and sometimes I wonder even if partially. 132|00:15:16|360|00:15:18|340It's so complicated, he tells us. 133|00:15:19|240|00:15:26|240So this fifth, almost liberated, creative hierarchy is related to the birth of the fourth 134|00:15:26|240|00:15:36|600creative hierarchy, and I don't think that means as monads, but in the expression of 135|00:15:36|600|00:15:41|840these monads as human beings through egoic lotuses. 136|00:15:42|060|00:15:44|220That's the kind of birth I think we're talking about. 137|00:15:45|620|00:15:49|420Interesting that it's not to be understood by anyone below the stage of fourth initiation, 138|00:15:50|040|00:16:00|600with Cancer being the fourth sign, with this fourth creative hierarchy, fourth manifested 139|00:16:00|600|00:16:05|860as a creative hierarchy, human hierarchy, being ruled by Mercury distributing the fourth 140|00:16:05|860|00:16:12|160ray, it being also focused upon the fourth plane, with which Buddhic Neptune has much 141|00:16:12|160|00:16:13|160to do. 142|00:16:14|300|00:16:21|480So I think we see these number fours lining up, and at least numerically we have the inference 143|00:16:21|480|00:16:29|700why the complete understanding of this relationship cannot be achieved by anyone who has not achieved 144|00:16:31|760|00:16:36|340Buddhic polarization, which does occur at the fourth initiation. 145|00:16:37|280|00:16:44|360Says D.K., but it is an interesting fact to remember for it is in the connection between 146|00:16:44|360|00:16:53|020the sixth and seventh rays that that potent “desire for incarnation”147|00:16:53|020|00:17:00|040 was aroused which resulted in the fall of the angels 148|00:17:00|880|00:17:11|080in primordial times. The fall of the angels here being a positive sacrificial descent, 149|00:17:12|000|00:17:15|460and not a fall through some sort of sin. 150|00:17:15|840|00:17:23|360We human beings kind of project our own rather matter-engaged sinful psychology upon these 151|00:17:23|360|00:17:29|460higher beings who are as far as humanity is concerned without sin, that is the solar angels. 152|00:17:30|130|00:17:40|060And the members of the fifth, almost liberated, creative hierarchy, probably far more sinless. 153|00:17:41|520|00:17:48|790So the descent was sacrificial and not the result of being cast out of heaven because 154|00:17:50|220|00:17:53|980of pride or other forms of sinfulness. 155|00:17:54|940|00:18:01|920Interesting, the Cancer sign gives us the seventh ray and this hierarchy is ideally 156|00:18:01|920|00:18:07|160positioned on the seventh subplane of the cosmic Cancer plane, hence the seventh ray, 157|00:18:07|740|00:18:16|460and yet Neptune is a powerful sixth-ray planet, and so we have the possibility of the descent 158|00:18:17|380|00:18:20|480through a powerful potent desire for incarnation. 159|00:18:21|340|00:18:26|800The incarnation part is the seventh ray and the desire part is the sixth ray. 160|00:18:28|840|00:18:34|480And this probably stimulated the solar angels in such a way that they came in sacrificially 161|00:18:34|480|00:18:37|980and made the incarnation possible. 162|00:18:38|640|00:18:42|860In a way they descended into the realm of Mars, producing the human personality ruled 163|00:18:42|860|00:18:43|460by Mars. 164|00:18:44|020|00:18:49|820So there's the relation between Neptune, a higher sixth ray, and the human personality 165|00:18:49|820|00:18:55|600connected with the solar plexus sixth ray, and connected with Mars, the entire personality 166|00:18:56|280|00:19:00|420and every aspect of it being ruled by Mars, interestingly. 167|00:19:01|720|00:19:06|400So that impulse from on high created this Martian being. 168|00:19:06|440|00:19:13|000It's kind of like an alignment between Neptune, Venus, and Mars in that order, with Neptune 169|00:19:15|420|00:19:25|940being a planet that offers a sublime impulse for the descent of the Christ consciousness 170|00:19:26|540|00:19:31|320of the cosmic Cancer plane, which these beings are certainly sensing, even if they are not 171|00:19:31|320|00:19:36|640fully liberated onto the cosmic Cancer plane, i.e. the members of the fifth almost liberated 172|00:19:36|640|00:19:44|120hierarchy are ruled by Neptune and therefore easily attuning with the Christ impulse, the 173|00:19:44|120|00:19:46|200true cosmic love of the cosmic-astral plane. 174|00:19:46|340|00:19:52|560This descends into the lower octave of Neptune called Venus, which rules what we call the 175|00:19:52|560|00:19:53|300solar angels. 176|00:19:54|500|00:19:58|640At least I think there are all kinds of solar angels of different magnitudes. 177|00:19:58|640|00:20:07|200And this makes possible the creation of that Martian vehicle, which we call the personality, 178|00:20:07|300|00:20:15|660interestingly found upon the lower concrete plane of lower concrete mind, where Mars is 179|00:20:15|660|00:20:17|100said to rule. 180|00:20:17|240|00:20:21|620It's one of the planets that is ruling the five senses and the lower concrete mind, which 181|00:20:21|620|00:20:25|460is connected to the number five in a concrete sense. 182|00:20:25|460|00:20:35|440So we see the line-up, even though we may not understand the full import of this descent. 183|00:20:35|620|00:20:40|740We've been talking basically about the connection of Scorpio, ruled by Mars, to Cancer, ruled 184|00:20:43|300|00:20:44|500by Neptune. 185|00:20:46|100|00:20:52|100And there is—you know, we've been talking about the connection between the two hierarchies 186|00:20:52|100|00:20:56|520which are associated with the science, the almost liberated hierarchy associated with 187|00:20:57|100|00:21:02|240Cancer, and the hierarchy of human monads associated with Scorpio. 188|00:21:03|980|00:21:10|760So in a sense, interestingly, we are not only… we are hierarchically ruled by Mercury, yes, 189|00:21:11|600|00:21:15|400which is the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio, but we have a lot of Mars in our nature as 190|00:21:15|400|00:21:23|840well, and I suppose we're destined to produce, or to become in a sense, the Martian personality, 191|00:21:25|320|00:21:31|720this old expression working out in the lower dense physical vehicle of the planetary Logos. 192|00:21:32|840|00:21:37|940I oftentimes discriminate between the dense physical vehicle of the solar Logos, which 193|00:21:37|940|00:21:45|200includes 21 subplanes, systemic subplanes, and the dense physical vehicle of the planetary 194|00:21:45|200|00:21:51|900Logos, which I think includes 18 subplanes, 18 being the number of the Moon. 195|00:21:53|200|00:21:58|000So there again, Mars and the Moon are found together. 196|00:22:00|040|00:22:05|760There is a sense also in Kabbalistic numerology where Mars is associated with the number 9. 197|00:22:07|800|00:22:12|980Interesting that 1 and 8 add to 9, so we have a lunar number here. 198|00:22:13|800|00:22:15|160Well, there are many associations. 199|00:22:15|400|00:22:21|560You can think of the Moon as presiding primarily over the third ray or the most material aspect, 200|00:22:21|920|00:22:30|260and 9 is the number of the third ray, and we have the 18 leading to 9, which is Kabbalistic 201|00:22:30|260|00:22:30|680Mars. 202|00:22:31|980|00:22:39|280So anyway, we've produced in the lower world some kind of material reflection of these 203|00:22:39|280|00:22:47|220higher impulses, meant gradually to rise into receptivity to these higher impulses, which 204|00:22:47|220|00:22:54|260are Neptunian and Venusian, and they're altogether more spiritually civilized than the rebellious 205|00:22:54|260|00:22:56|880Martian instinct. 206|00:22:57|100|00:23:04|580I think we're told that we have a planetary Logos in whose psychology the principle of 207|00:23:04|580|00:23:06|980rebellion is strongly expressing. 208|00:23:06|980|00:23:17|740But I think that's because there is so much of the Martian influence still expressing 209|00:23:19|370|00:23:28|100in our planetary Logos, and we have to overcome this Martian influence and allow Venus to 210|00:23:28|100|00:23:31|860be the majority influence, and this we overcome at the Last Judgment, which is essentially 211|00:23:31|860|00:23:35|360a discrimination between Venus and Mars. 212|00:23:36|400|00:23:42|620It's a long way ahead, some millions of years ahead, and whether it occurs in the fifth 213|00:23:42|620|00:23:49|320chain round or the fifth scheme round is, I think, still to be determined. 214|00:23:52|480|00:23:58|460If in the fifth scheme round, it's much farther ahead than if in the fifth chain round. 215|00:23:58|460|00:24:08|000There seem to be different references which point in both directions, in either direction. 216|00:24:09|160|00:24:14|220I guess the important thing is, though, that Venus wins and Mars loses, and so the two 217|00:24:14|220|00:24:22|420fifths that are still responsive in the Martian sense are transported into another dimension 218|00:24:22|420|00:24:32|280temporarily, and then sent off for further education on the planet Mars itself, or at 219|00:24:32|280|00:24:34|260least within the Martian scheme. 220|00:24:35|920|00:24:43|120So this is an interesting connection between low desire and high desire. 221|00:24:44|100|00:24:49|640Neptune, in this case, representing the high desire, which is reflective of the type of 222|00:24:49|640|00:24:56|840divine desire of the cosmic astral plane, which is really love desire, and material 223|00:24:56|840|00:25:03|720desire is Martian in nature, and eventually through education by Venus has to rise into 224|00:25:03|720|00:25:09|480the fuller responsiveness to a still higher energy, which is Neptune. 225|00:25:11|900|00:25:17|860So this potent desire for incarnation was aroused, which resulted in the fall of the 226|00:25:17|860|00:25:18|960angels in primordial times. 227|00:25:18|960|00:25:25|440If the time had come for the opening of the planetary heart center, wherever specifically 228|00:25:25|440|00:25:30|580that is located as one of the chains to be considered the planetary heart center, this 229|00:25:30|580|00:25:31|620remains uncertain. 230|00:25:32|840|00:25:38|480Ours is the fourth chain, and the planetary heart center—well, let's just say the 231|00:25:38|480|00:25:39|900heart center is our fourth chakra. 232|00:25:40|960|00:25:46|320But from another point of view, the base of the spine center can also be connected with 233|00:25:46|320|00:25:47|020the number four. 234|00:25:48|760|00:25:54|980It is its number, and our particular planet is said to be the base of the spine center 235|00:25:54|980|00:25:57|460of the solar Logos, certainly not the heart center. 236|00:25:57|780|00:26:01|180But we're talking about the awakening of the heart center within our planet. 237|00:26:03|740|00:26:09|320So is it our particular planetary chain or another? 238|00:26:10|280|00:26:14|860I've speculated on this in the commentaries that I've made, written commentaries in 239|00:26:14|860|00:26:15|440“A 240|00:26:15|440|00:26:16|120Treatise on Cosmic Fire.” 241|00:26:17|800|00:26:27|420The speculations do not arrive at anything conclusive, but they point thought in possibly 242|00:26:27|420|00:26:29|500productive directions. 243|00:26:30|560|00:26:38|280And then hopefully the true answer, intuitively received, will arrive for all of us. 244|00:26:38|280|00:26:46|760This sixth ray influence coming from three angles—orthodox, esoteric and hierarchical—245|00:26:47|240|00:26:53|120and hence involving both Neptune and Mars—predisposes the race and individual man as 246|00:26:53|120|00:26:57|140well to become one-pointed disciple in Sagittarius. 247|00:26:57|420|00:26:59|040So we have a sixth-ray influence. 248|00:27:00|390|00:27:07|220We have the orthodox Mars ruling Scorpio, the esoteric Mars ruling Scorpio, the hierarchical 249|00:27:07|220|00:27:13|080Neptune ruling Cancer, but also the esoteric Neptune ruling Cancer. 250|00:27:14|880|00:27:21|540So the sixth-ray influence is a desire influence, and in this case we're talking about the desire 251|00:27:22|380|00:27:32|140for incarnation in the dense levels of the cosmic physical plane, but impulse from above 252|00:27:32|140|00:27:44|220and involving the fall—the deliberate sacrificial fall of certain entities who have made high 253|00:27:44|220|00:27:47|940achievements and have certainly transcended the normal human state. 254|00:27:48|740|00:27:52|560So the sixth-ray influence comes from three angles—orthodox, esoteric, and hierarchical— 255|00:27:53|160|00:28:00|820and hence involving both Neptune and Mars, predisposes the race and individual man as 256|00:28:00|820|00:28:05|000well to becoming one-pointed disciples in Sagittarius. 257|00:28:05|820|00:28:12|040This one-pointedness, I suppose, is not only due to the Sagittarian influence, but is due 258|00:28:12|040|00:28:18|120to the Martian influence, since Mars is, interestingly here, the hierarchical ruler of Sagittarius. 259|00:28:18|400|00:28:21|900So basically what we're doing here is blending three signs together. 260|00:28:22|320|00:28:23|900We're looking at them in relation. 261|00:28:23|900|00:28:36|600We're looking at Cancer, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, which rule in that order a very high creative 262|00:28:36|600|00:28:38|680hierarchy, almost liberated. 263|00:28:38|840|00:28:43|560Then comes Scorpio ruling the human creative hierarchy, and then comes Sagittarius ruling 264|00:28:43|560|00:28:51|380the lunar lords, and it becomes necessary to orient the lunar lords in a way that is 265|00:28:51|380|00:28:54|900not full of material desire, but which is aspirational. 266|00:28:55|760|00:29:01|240And both Mars and Sagittarius are capable of great aspiration and capable of orienting 267|00:29:01|240|00:29:03|800these lives in the proper direction. 268|00:29:05|200|00:29:11|440So if we want to become one-pointed disciples, Mars has a lot to do with our discipleship, 269|00:29:11|540|00:29:15|600which is full of fight, full of battle, regardless of our race. 270|00:29:15|600|00:29:21|380And that is the nature of discipleship, because we are, in a way, having to choose one of 271|00:29:21|380|00:29:28|840the higher—we're having to choose the higher of the pairs of opposites over the lower, 272|00:29:28|840|00:29:31|600and that frequently does involve a battle. 273|00:29:32|140|00:29:38|540Oftentimes it's a battle in the dark, and we do need the light of Mercury, revealing 274|00:29:38|540|00:29:43|040the intuition to help us battle in a more intelligent manner. 275|00:29:43|360|00:29:49|400So that is the whole story of Scorpio: not to battle with might and main and with ferocious 276|00:29:49|400|00:29:57|340strength in the dark, but to allow the dispelling intuition, the illusion-dispelling intuition 277|00:29:57|340|00:30:00|860of Mercury, to enter and clarify the situation. 278|00:30:02|120|00:30:09|920And thereby, much of the need for the strenuous battle is taken over by the discernment of 279|00:30:09|920|00:30:17|140the enlightened consciousness, which simply does not direct energy toward material desire 280|00:30:17|140|00:30:17|860any longer. 281|00:30:19|280|00:30:24|460So anyway, Sagittarius—This latter constellation is ruled by Mars, hierarchically, right? 282|00:30:24|980|00:30:34|740bringing the man into control or closer touch with the lunar lords, the 283|00:30:34|740|00:30:35|820sixth Creative Hierarchy. 284|00:30:35|820|00:30:41|620These are beings that I think did not really originate at all upon our particular chain, 285|00:30:42|480|00:30:48|720but are continuing their evolution from the previous third chain, called the Moon Chain, 286|00:30:48|760|00:30:56|280on our chain, and they're given an opportunity to rise in that way. 287|00:30:57|060|00:31:03|080Our particular chain, we are told, is the host not only of the failures of the Moon 288|00:31:03|080|00:31:05|440Chain, but of its own particular type of life. 289|00:31:05|440|00:31:13|800So it has a very complex evolutionary trajectory, and two forms of life are having to learn 290|00:31:13|800|00:31:16|260to accommodate each other. 291|00:31:16|400|00:31:21|440This complicates things very much in many ways, because these lunar and Earth lives 292|00:31:21|440|00:31:29|480are not only found in relation to the human kingdom, but they're found also in relation 293|00:31:29|480|00:31:30|660to lower kingdoms. 294|00:31:30|660|00:31:37|240In other words, the lunar lords from the third chain are in process of gradually becoming 295|00:31:37|240|00:31:45|680men, but so are the lives who are actually part of our fourth chain and are not lunar 296|00:31:45|680|00:31:46|320in their nature. 297|00:31:46|420|00:31:49|400They also are rising towards humanity. 298|00:31:49|540|00:31:55|480So we have two streams that are feeding into the possibility of becoming a human being. 299|00:31:56|040|00:32:03|960So this latter constellation, Sagittarius, is ruled by Mars, bringing the man into control 300|00:32:03|960|00:32:06|400or closer touch with the lunar lords. 301|00:32:06|520|00:32:07|700Certainly we have to control. 302|00:32:08|320|00:32:11|800Sagittarius is one of the major controlling signs. 303|00:32:12|660|00:32:22|100It has the clear vision of the future and can direct in a purposeful manner those lives 304|00:32:22|100|00:32:25|420which must enter that future in the proper way. 305|00:32:26|260|00:32:32|400So it's the guardian of the gate, and if we look at Aries as more the soldier, Sagittarius 306|00:32:32|400|00:32:37|220is more the general, let us say, with keen, far-sighted vision. 307|00:32:37|620|00:32:44|980And actually that particular constellation has a rather war-like tradition associated 308|00:32:44|980|00:32:46|060with it. 309|00:32:46|880|00:32:52|360So anyway, it is a controlling energy, and the lunar lords need to be directed. 310|00:32:53|460|00:33:00|080Students should study their charts with care, remembering to differentiate between the five 311|00:33:00|080|00:33:07|260Hierarchies which are the non-manifesting Hierarchies, and by that he means non-manifesting… 312|00:33:08|160|00:33:12|680Let's call it this way… whoops, that's not exactly what I wanted. 313|00:33:15|380|00:33:22|720I'm trying to find… yes, non-manifesting on the cosmic physical plane. 314|00:33:23|080|00:33:24|360That's what we're talking about. 315|00:33:24|460|00:33:29|260We're not talking about non-manifesting, because it is manifestation on the cosmic 316|00:33:29|260|00:33:32|580astral plane for at least four of these hierarchies. 317|00:33:32|740|00:33:38|660And let us say that the fifth, almost liberated hierarchy is still manifesting on the Logoic 318|00:33:38|660|00:33:39|020plane. 319|00:33:39|020|00:33:45|360So let us say non-manifesting on the cosmic physical plane. 320|00:33:46|580|00:33:46|760Okay. 321|00:33:47|340|00:33:52|100and the seven Hierarchies which are in expression now, in expression on the cosmic physical 322|00:33:52|100|00:33:56|640plane, and of which the sixth Creative Hierarchy is a part. 323|00:33:56|780|00:34:02|980So we have the non-manifesting and manifesting creative hierarchies, but we have to understand 324|00:34:02|980|00:34:08|960that the word manifestation has to do with manifestation upon the cosmic physical plane. 325|00:34:09|360|00:34:16|380This hierarchy, from the larger angle of the entire twelve hierarchies and not simply the 326|00:34:16|380|00:34:19|620seven manifesting hierarchies, is the eleventh. 327|00:34:19|720|00:34:27|440So when it says this hierarchy, he switches, you see. Here we speak of the Sagittarian 328|00:34:28|800|00:34:38|580creative hierarchy directing, let's put it down here, directing the lunar lords. 329|00:34:41|280|00:34:45|600So it is the eleventh in a way, and I think we can see that, of course. 330|00:34:46|500|00:34:53|640We look closely, there are five above, and so this is six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. 331|00:34:54|440|00:35:01|420So the hierarchy of lunar lords is the eleventh, interestingly, that sums to two. 332|00:35:03|120|00:35:10|040If you start from below, it's also two, suggesting the principle of love or of desire, that which 333|00:35:10|040|00:35:13|080connects, magnetically connects. 334|00:35:14|140|00:35:15|380And yet it is the sixth. 335|00:35:16|020|00:35:29|100So its numbers are two, and in another sense, eleven, and in another sense, even six, coming 336|00:35:29|100|00:35:33|600from above, one, two, three, four, five, six. 337|00:35:34|240|00:35:37|320So we have an eleven, which is a two, and a two, and a six. 338|00:35:37|320|00:35:45|700So we get the idea of the magnetic connectiveness of this hierarchy. 339|00:35:45|860|00:35:52|480Without the principle of desire, it would be impossible for us to put this world back 340|00:35:52|480|00:35:52|840together. 341|00:35:52|940|00:35:59|120It's been divided by a form of consciousness we call illusion, which separates one thing 342|00:35:59|120|00:36:05|480from another and has to be reconstituted as a whole through the factor of desire, and 343|00:36:05|480|00:36:07|720eventually a desire of becoming love. 344|00:36:08|460|00:36:12|240This Hierarchy, from the larger angle of the entire twelve hierarchies and not simply the 345|00:36:12|240|00:36:15|780seven manifesting hierarchies, is the eleventh or the second. 346|00:36:16|560|00:36:23|700The sixth ray of devotion is consequently most powerful in this age or cycle. 347|00:36:24|800|00:36:32|540Now it's been powerful during the age of Pisces, some 2,160 years, which is not quite 348|00:36:32|540|00:36:40|860terminated, but we're in a much larger sixth ray cycle, which I understand still has 21,000 349|00:36:40|860|00:36:42|000years to run. 350|00:36:43|000|00:36:46|180And that is an aspect of a still greater fourth ray cycle. 351|00:36:46|220|00:36:53|600So we can see how amazing and how complicated, and I suspect how beautiful, is this entire 352|00:36:53|600|00:36:54|700science of cycles. 353|00:36:55|830|00:36:59|180We're given just a little peek at some of the possibilities. 354|00:36:59|840|00:37:04|880But we certainly have enough to manage, as human beings, even considering the smaller 355|00:37:04|880|00:37:10|240cycles without considering the great planetary and sort of systemic cycles, which the members 356|00:37:10|240|00:37:11|700of the hierarchy have to consider. 357|00:37:13|300|00:37:18|480So the sixth ray of devotion is consequently most powerful in this age or cycle, and hence 358|00:37:18|480|00:37:22|680the expression in every land today of its best and worst features. 359|00:37:22|700|00:37:24|640That's always the way it's going to be. 360|00:37:26|080|00:37:27|700We human beings have a choice. 361|00:37:29|380|00:37:34|740We are a fourth ray hierarchy in a certain sense, and always choice will be made. 362|00:37:35|760|00:37:40|200And we can… there's two types of angels in a way, you know, the good angels and the 363|00:37:40|200|00:37:46|740bad angels, and we can decide to put our energy on the side of the good angels, our better 364|00:37:46|740|00:37:50|820angels, as it were, as Abraham Lincoln said, our better angels. 365|00:37:51|740|00:37:56|720So the sixth ray is manifesting its best and worst features, and at the present time there's 366|00:37:56|720|00:38:03|380a tremendous recrudescence of the worst reaches of the sixth ray. 367|00:38:04|060|00:38:11|060Well, we can consider them fairly inhibitory as we look forward to the Aquarian age emerging, 368|00:38:11|060|00:38:22|040but perhaps they are giving… this recrudescence is giving a kind of opportunity to those who 369|00:38:22|040|00:38:28|660are still on this ray in their soul nature to rise in a way which may look quite horrible 370|00:38:28|660|00:38:33|880to us, but for them may be a progressive step. 371|00:38:34|820|00:38:39|380We always have to move on apace and look at things from a larger picture with a single 372|00:38:39|380|00:38:44|660eye, and perhaps the reason for some of the horrors of the sixth ray have to do with an 373|00:38:45|140|00:38:48|520opportunity to advance for those who are focused on this ray. 374|00:38:50|220|00:38:56|420So the best and the worst features are manifesting themselves, this being written I think mostly 375|00:38:56|420|00:39:03|380in the '30s, and there was just a kind of militant idealism operating throughout the Great War, 376|00:39:03|980|00:39:10|060and probably also in the interim, which was a period of preparation for the second phase 377|00:39:10|060|00:39:16|820of the war, of which the intense devotion to material things and the intense devotion 378|00:39:16|820|00:39:19|840to spiritual values are dramatic instances. 379|00:39:20|020|00:39:26|400So D.K. is seeing, from a higher perspective, an intense devotion to spiritual values, but 380|00:39:27|140|00:39:29|840at once an intense devotion to material things. 381|00:39:29|840|00:39:35|300And I think we see this interestingly working out in the psychology of the United States, 382|00:39:35|460|00:39:41|160which is a polarized Gemini personality, focused on the sixth ray. 383|00:39:42|400|00:39:48|960And there can be no question that although the devotion to material things is lessening 384|00:39:48|960|00:39:55|720in those who are more conscious, there are millions upon millions who are devoted to 385|00:39:55|720|00:40:01|740the acquisition of material things and to maintaining their prerogative thus to acquire. 386|00:40:03|020|00:40:09|420This seeming to them of greater importance than sharing with their fellow human beings. 387|00:40:11|300|00:40:16|280We remember that in the integration format of the sixth ray, we're told, the sixth ray 388|00:40:16|280|00:40:23|260type is told, “Love more your fellow men,” rather than perhaps your ideals and the material 389|00:40:23|260|00:40:25|000things to which you are devoted. 390|00:40:26|620|00:40:28|740D.K. has so much to say in this particular chapter. 391|00:40:28|840|00:40:30|960You see how his style operates. 392|00:40:31|200|00:40:37|580It's certainly not linear, and since I'm trying to follow pretty closely what he's saying, 393|00:40:37|680|00:40:43|280I'm not presenting any kind of linear commentary either. 394|00:40:44|840|00:40:56|320It's a commentary which is meant to fertilize the occultly tending mind so that a growing 395|00:40:56|320|00:41:02|820synthesis in consciousness is possible, a unification of the linking of many strands 396|00:41:02|820|00:41:07|020of energy and patterns for which those energies are responsible. 397|00:41:07|020|00:41:15|000If I can serve some sort of mediatorial function here, helping students of these commentaries 398|00:41:15|000|00:41:26|740to link together many unsuspectedly related factors, then I will have done something of 399|00:41:26|740|00:41:27|540at least some value. 400|00:41:28|460|00:41:33|580Scorpio and Aquarius, it says, are also in a peculiar relation to each other. 401|00:41:33|580|00:41:39|940He is talking of Scorpio's relation to Cancer, so the almost liberated hierarchy and the 402|00:41:39|940|00:41:43|940human hierarchy are closely related, and he does relate to solar angels, interestingly, 403|00:41:44|740|00:41:46|300to our human hierarchy strongly. 404|00:41:46|900|00:41:53|580But now he goes on and looks for another relation and finds one between Scorpio and Aquarius, 405|00:41:53|680|00:42:01|740which relates to the human hierarchy, to the sign Aquarius, and to the hierarchy called 406|00:42:01|740|00:42:08|140the “Baskets of Nourishment,” which is the lowest of the hierarchies, the elemental lives, 407|00:42:08|700|00:42:09|720the blinded lives. 408|00:42:10|640|00:42:14|060And here is a lunar relation. 409|00:42:14|900|00:42:19|400There must be a very close relation between Mars, the Martian hierarchy of lunar lords, 410|00:42:19|840|00:42:31|720and the elemental lives called the “Baskets of Nourishment,” because both Mars and 411|00:42:31|720|00:42:36|020Aquarius are said to rule the dense physical bodies, so the elemental lives are involved 412|00:42:36|020|00:42:40|680with that, and the Moon is associated with the lunar lords. 413|00:42:40|880|00:42:43|580So there's kind of a crisscross here going on. 414|00:42:43|880|00:42:50|720Mars descending in its influence into the seventh creative hierarchy, systemic manifest 415|00:42:50|720|00:42:56|540creative hierarchy, and the Moon ascending towards the lunar lords. 416|00:42:57|120|00:43:03|440All of them—you know, Mars and the Moon represent that which is profane in human life, 417|00:43:03|460|00:43:06|600or outside the temple, outside the walls or gates of the temple. 418|00:43:07|700|00:43:13|980So Mars and the Moon definitely have to be overcome, as they are said to be at the third 419|00:43:13|980|00:43:20|620initiation when the man becomes not the entirely sacred human being, but a far more sacred 420|00:43:20|620|00:43:24|500human being with the ancient authority of the personality overcome. 421|00:43:24|500|00:43:29|060That is, Mars and the Moon represent the ancient authority of the personality, and they are overcome. 422|00:43:30|080|00:43:35|260So Scorpio and Aquarius are also in a peculiar relation to each other through the planet 423|00:43:35|260|00:43:42|480Mercury, which governs the human family being the hierarchical ruler, the hierarchical planet 424|00:43:42|480|00:43:50|440of Scorpio, and through Neptune, which rules Cancer, thus a governing expression upon the 425|00:43:50|440|00:43:51|840physical plane. 426|00:43:53|020|00:43:56|520Now, you know, there are different ways of making this connection. 427|00:43:56|640|00:44:05|860It says in this connection the Moon is given as the orthodox ruler of Cancer and the hierarchical 428|00:44:05|860|00:44:07|220ruler of Aquarius. 429|00:44:08|080|00:44:14|840And the six-ray connection, of course, is there with Neptune. 430|00:44:14|840|00:44:21|300Neptune is one of the hierarchical rulers of Aquarius. 431|00:44:23|080|00:44:27|940Well, let's say Neptune is one of the hierarchical rulers of Aquarius veiled by the Moon. 432|00:44:28|120|00:44:35|980So the Moon is the hierarchical ruler of Aquarius, but it veils all three of the normally veiled 433|00:44:35|980|00:44:36|420planets. 434|00:44:36|860|00:44:42|420It veils Vulcan physically, it veils Neptune emotionally, and Uranus mentally. 435|00:44:42|960|00:44:52|040So we have a Moon-Neptune connection, and the Moon connects us to Cancer, of which it 436|00:44:52|040|00:45:00|700is the orthodox ruler, and Neptune connects us with Scorpio via the sixth ray, as we have 437|00:45:00|700|00:45:01|900been seeing. 438|00:45:03|100|00:45:08|420So there is this strong sixth-ray Neptune connection between these three. 439|00:45:08|420|00:45:18|160He says, “I would here remind you that the Moon is usually regarded as veiling or hiding 440|00:45:18|160|00:45:23|800some planet, and of these there are three which the Moon may be veiling.” 441|00:45:23|880|00:45:28|180I think that's a very big hint, a very big hint, because he's been talking about the 442|00:45:28|180|00:45:29|720Moon as the hierarchical ruler. 443|00:45:30|200|00:45:34|280So hint in the Aquarian context. 444|00:45:36|220|00:45:44|220The Moon is simply the ruler in Cancer, although in a way it may veil the more material aspect 445|00:45:44|220|00:45:44|820of Vulcan. 446|00:45:45|780|00:45:54|300The Moon goes on as the esoteric ruler of Virgo to veil both Vulcan and Neptune, and 447|00:45:54|300|00:46:02|840then it has a still further veiling power in Aquarius, where I believe we can say it 448|00:46:02|840|00:46:10|180veils all three of the usually veiled planets: Vulcan, Neptune, and adding Uranus. 449|00:46:11|160|00:46:20|220So I think there's a lot about Vulcan that we can connect to the sign Cancer, because 450|00:46:20|220|00:46:27|400Vulcan is a planet which really pushes towards manifestation, towards the concretization 451|00:46:27|400|00:46:35|060and materialization of purpose and intention, and Cancer is a sign of manifestation. 452|00:46:36|140|00:46:44|280The Moon really gives no vibration of its own, no living vibration of its own. Perhaps 453|00:46:44|280|00:46:53|840a retrospective thought form association is triggered by the cycles of the Moon, but 454|00:46:54|600|00:47:03|600It makes you kind of wonder whether in Cancer the Moon is not in a sense veiling Vulcan, 455|00:47:03|600|00:47:14|160even in the orthodox aspect, just as we may infer that the Sun may veil Jupiter orthodoxly 456|00:47:14|760|00:47:16|320in Leo. 457|00:47:17|040|00:47:24|700Really, I don't think we should leave the Sun or the Moon as the sole rulers of any sign. 458|00:47:25|140|00:47:29|960Always planets must be finally the rulers. 459|00:47:30|400|00:47:39|220So he's asking us here to use our intuition to see what planet the Moon may be veiling 460|00:47:39|220|00:47:45|540in relation to any particular sign, and I suppose in relation to any human being who 461|00:47:45|540|00:47:50|640is at his or her particular level of evolution working through that sign. 462|00:47:51|500|00:47:55|660Here the intuition of the astrologer and of the esoteric student must be called out. 463|00:47:55|660|00:48:01|140Not all esoteric students of course are astrologers, but I think they generally know enough about 464|00:48:01|140|00:48:05|860astrology to derive some spiritual value from it. 465|00:48:06|440|00:48:08|700So these planets are Vulcan, Neptune, and Uranus. 466|00:48:09|540|00:48:15|240See, as he begins to discuss this, when talking about the Moon as the hierarchical ruler of 467|00:48:15|240|00:48:20|400Aquarius, we do get the very strong hint that all three are involved. 468|00:48:20|990|00:48:25|840When we talk about hierarchical rulers, the mind must certainly be involved because it 469|00:48:25|840|00:48:38|220is the illumined mind at the third initiation, which produces the initiate. 470|00:48:39|400|00:48:45|290The first time the initiate is produced, we are not initiated until we really take the 471|00:48:45|290|00:48:50|510higher degree, and it is there particularly that the hierarchical rulers are applying. 472|00:48:50|730|00:48:54|990Now whether we can use them specifically in relation to the mental vehicle of ordinary 473|00:48:54|990|00:49:01|030people, we have to be careful of getting too much data and forcing that data upon life 474|00:49:01|030|00:49:08|950when life itself does not testify to the correctness of the data. 475|00:49:08|950|00:49:15|790This is always a problem when there is a pattern in the mind, and we love that pattern and 476|00:49:16|390|00:49:24|430seek to show that it is real and so force that pattern upon what reality actually demonstrates. 477|00:49:25|170|00:49:30|450This is a great danger for astrologers always, or for any systemic thinkers. 478|00:49:32|090|00:49:35|010So here the intuition of the astrologer and of the esoteric student is called out. 479|00:49:35|070|00:49:36|650These planets are Vulcan, Neptune, and Uranus. 480|00:49:37|000|00:49:44|830These three create and influence certain aspects of the Mother Principle, the material form 481|00:49:44|830|00:49:53|410principle, which nourish and feed the life of the inner divine reality until the time 482|00:49:53|410|00:49:55|510comes when the Christ Child has brought forth the birth. 483|00:49:55|690|00:50:00|650So we can see he's talking about the preparation of the personality here. 484|00:50:01|270|00:50:10|010This is brought most closely to our attention in Virgo, where the material nature is purified 485|00:50:10|010|00:50:17|470and prepared and improved in many ways prior to the descent of the Christ principle. 486|00:50:18|490|00:50:23|470Through it, the animation of this material aspect, personal aspect, by the Christ principle. 487|00:50:24|530|00:50:29|150But we can see that Aquarius is also involved in the same process. 488|00:50:29|150|00:50:36|250Now Virgo is a mental sign, and its normal rulership and exaltation of Mercury, rulership 489|00:50:36|250|00:50:41|410by Mercury and exaltation of Mercury, shows that the mentality is strongly there. 490|00:50:42|050|00:50:49|390But also in Aquarius, the three aspects are nurtured and probably brought to the point 491|00:50:49|390|00:50:59|350when there can be probation of the soul, or by the—appropriation of the personality by 492|00:50:59|350|00:50:59|750the soul. 493|00:50:59|950|00:51:07|470So Aquarius, again, is one of those strongly mental signs, preparing the mind, nature, 494|00:51:08|470|00:51:15|030perhaps even more than Virgo does, for the appropriation of the higher soul principle. 495|00:51:15|430|00:51:23|330Or at least Virgo cultivates wisdom, of course, but I think Aquarius prepares the lower mind 496|00:51:23|330|00:51:31|710so that it can be truly illumined by the occult mind of Uranus, which has more to do with 497|00:51:31|710|00:51:33|410the soul, of course, than with the personality. 498|00:51:34|410|00:51:40|590So anyway, these three planets, and associated with the three aspects of the mother principle, 499|00:51:40|590|00:51:45|790which are the three aspects of the personality, nature, they determine or condition the physical, 500|00:51:45|790|00:51:49|010astral, and mental natures, thus creating the personality. 1|00:00:06|000|00:00:07|840So basically he's telling us these three planets are the real energies behind the personality, 502|00:51:58|350|00:51:59|910or expressing through the personality. 503|00:52:00|370|00:52:10|430These three planets are archetypally expressing through the personality. 504|00:52:13|030|00:52:13|450Okay. 505|00:52:14|550|00:52:22|430Now, they form a triangle of immense creative potency, upon which theme I will later enlarge 506|00:52:22|430|00:52:25|110when dealing with the science of triangles. 507|00:52:25|110|00:52:33|890So we're going to watch for these three veiled planets, Vulcan, Neptune, and Uranus. 508|00:52:34|170|00:52:39|690And I think we can find them, in a way, in the highest head center. 509|00:52:42|470|00:52:44|130How will that be done? 510|00:52:44|130|00:52:56|890Perhaps Vulcan rules the jewel within the center most, within the center of the twelve-petaled 511|00:52:56|890|00:52:57|950lotus within the head. 512|00:52:58|350|00:53:08|090Perhaps Neptune rules the twelve petals themselves, associating that with the second aspect of 513|00:53:08|090|00:53:08|570divinity. 514|00:53:09|190|00:53:17|750And Uranus rules all the thousand petals, the other petals, other than the heart petals 515|00:53:17|750|00:53:18|430within the head. 516|00:53:19|050|00:53:22|970They are definitely associated with the head centers. 517|00:53:23|830|00:53:30|190I think we can also look at Vulcan as the ruler of the seven head centers in general, 518|00:53:30|330|00:53:35|510wherever they may be found, whether within the head or in some superstructure above the 519|00:53:35|510|00:53:35|630head. 520|00:53:35|730|00:53:36|930That still has to be determined. 521|00:53:36|930|00:53:43|550It depends on the tradition we consult when we want to see the location of those seven 522|00:53:43|550|00:53:44|250head centers. 523|00:53:46|350|00:53:54|790And of course there are other areas that these planets are said to rule, with Neptune, the 524|00:53:54|790|00:53:56|490solar plexus, and Uranus the sacral center. 525|00:53:56|490|00:54:05|750But those are very low expressions of the influence of these synthesizing planets. 526|00:54:05|750|00:54:12|890They also must necessarily be found in relation to the heart and the throat center, and even 527|00:54:12|890|00:54:18|450higher as we go in relation to points within the head, which are the great controlling 528|00:54:18|450|00:54:18|830centers. 529|00:54:19|430|00:54:29|930These two great synthesizing planets in a way control all the lesser planets. 530|00:54:29|930|00:54:35|410And we could say that the twelve petal lotus within the head, with its particular jewel, 531|00:54:35|630|00:54:36|950are the controlling points. 532|00:54:38|010|00:54:39|110And we should add as well… 533|00:54:39|190|00:54:40|070See, Uranus is interesting. 534|00:54:40|150|00:54:46|530It has a third-ray component to it, as well as a latent and coming first-ray component. 535|00:54:48|370|00:54:49|050Did I say first-ray? 536|00:54:49|050|00:54:49|610Yes, I did. 537|00:54:51|430|00:54:54|810So perhaps in the next solar system, Uranus takes its true place. 538|00:54:54|810|00:55:01|970Maybe Neptune, of the three synthesizing planets, is the most important in this particular solar 539|00:55:01|970|00:55:02|410system. 540|00:55:02|530|00:55:09|690You kind of wonder whether there hasn't been an intervention in this solar system by Neptune 541|00:55:09|690|00:55:15|710or whatever Neptune represents by its forces, just the way the solar angels have intervened 542|00:55:15|710|00:55:18|090on a lower turn of the spiral. 543|00:55:18|170|00:55:22|150Because we are told that Neptune doesn't really belong to our particular solar system. 544|00:55:22|210|00:55:23|510It's a mysterious statement. 545|00:55:23|930|00:55:29|210It doesn't particularly obey Bode's law in terms of its position from the Sun. 546|00:55:29|430|00:55:33|690It can be an intervening source. 547|00:55:34|510|00:55:38|930But I wouldn't even speculate as to how that intervention might be occurring. 548|00:55:39|590|00:55:44|470So anyway, this triangle is a triangle of immense greater potency, upon which theme 549|00:55:44|470|00:55:48|990I will later enlarge when dealing with the science of triangles. 550|00:55:49|610|00:55:58|110The point which I am here making is that through the influence of Mercury and Neptune—okay, 551|00:55:58|930|00:56:04|250both of them Buddhically related, right?—the group consciousness of the individual is developed 552|00:56:04|250|00:56:06|290because group consciousness is a Buddhic factor. 553|00:56:07|570|00:56:13|530And group consciousness develops through our cycle of initiations, during which Bodhi is 554|00:56:13|530|00:56:15|170constantly growing. 555|00:56:16|570|00:56:26|770So that, through the tests in Scorpio and the experience in Aquarius, the disciple emerges 556|00:56:26|770|00:56:30|470on the physical plane into the position of the world server. 557|00:56:30|630|00:56:36|270Now, it is Aquarius that rules the world server, but Aquarius also, interestingly, that is 558|00:56:36|270|00:56:41|270very strongly conditioning the matter, the elemental matter of the physical plane. 559|00:56:41|270|00:56:47|130And I suppose the strictly elemental matter of the other planes as well. 560|00:56:47|290|00:56:50|930I mean, the lunar lords are not simply found on the astral plane, they're found mentally 561|00:56:50|930|00:56:55|850and physically, and they are a higher form of life than the lower elemental lives, which 562|00:56:55|850|00:56:59|250are tiny little lives, and Aquarius rules over those. 563|00:56:59|770|00:57:07|070It rules over the physical elemental lives, and I suppose over the atoms of substance, 564|00:57:07|130|00:57:10|610but also it rules the atoms of subtle substance. 565|00:57:10|610|00:57:18|830But at the moment we see this emerging understanding of atomic energy coming in under Aquarius, 566|00:57:19|810|00:57:29|650and thus associated with Aquarius' rule of the atomic substance in a physically-etheric 567|00:57:29|650|00:57:32|630sense associated with Aquarius. 568|00:57:32|870|00:57:39|690I think the fact that we're going to realize that atoms are matter as energy is a very Aquarian 569|00:57:40|210|00:57:47|730realization. Aquarius being a sign associated much with ether, so matter, dense matter transforms 570|00:57:47|730|00:57:56|750into ether, and Aquarius has given us occult mind, occult scientific mind, Uranus, to help 571|00:57:56|750|00:57:58|510make this discovery. 572|00:58:00|410|00:58:09|410Okay, so he's linking these three to the influence of Mercury associated with Scorpio and 573|00:58:09|410|00:58:17|030Neptune associated with Cancer, and we found the ways in which we can relate Mercury, one 574|00:58:17|030|00:58:23|790of the decanate rulers of Aquarius, and Neptune, a veiled ruler, hierarchical of Aquarius. 575|00:58:24|450|00:58:31|130We found a way to relate Aquarius to Cancer and Scorpio. 576|00:58:31|530|00:58:36|670There are also stars which involve the science. 577|00:58:37|490|00:58:44|090So through the tests of Scorpio and the experience in Aquarius, experience in the outer plane, 578|00:58:45|670|00:58:51|410the disciple emerges on the physical plane, well tested, into a position of the world 579|00:58:51|410|00:58:59|870server, his lower ego having been dominated in Scorpio, so that it is put to death. It 580|00:58:59|870|00:59:05|410and all of its hydra-like tendencies are put to death so that there's a sufficient amount 581|00:59:05|410|00:59:12|630of selflessness and absorbed universal love to make the person the selfless server in 582|00:59:12|630|00:59:17|650Aquarius, and there I think we can see how important the veiled Neptune, the moon-veiling 583|00:59:17|650|00:59:21|110Neptune in hierarchical Aquarius would be. 584|00:59:21|510|00:59:25|270All world servers are decentralized workers. 585|00:59:25|730|00:59:34|270Decentralization means that we are no longer solidly fixed upon our lower egoic expression, 586|00:59:34|850|00:59:39|510thinking that we are in the center of the universe in a somewhat Leonian way, and that 587|00:59:40|070|00:59:46|190all things revolve around us. The centralized ego becomes smaller and smaller and smaller 588|00:59:46|190|00:59:50|270until it finally vanishes, and in a sense then is found everywhere. 589|00:59:50|990|00:59:57|330So all world servers are decentralized workers and are governed by the need and the reactions 590|00:59:57|330|00:59:58|590of the mass or group. 591|00:59:58|590|01:00:07|530Now, this is interesting because here is the serving Aquarian responding to the mass consciousness 592|01:00:07|530|01:00:16|310of Cancer, and serving those who are still involved in the limitations of this mass consciousness. 593|01:00:17|350|01:00:25|530And here is a very strong lunar connection, and also a strong Neptunian connection. 594|01:00:25|530|01:00:32|850The selflessness and Neptune go together because Neptune is instrumental in dissolving this 595|01:00:34|070|01:00:39|590rather material illusion of the lower ego as if it were something real, as if it were 596|01:00:39|590|01:00:41|010something substantial. 597|01:00:41|470|01:00:49|210It's really a false identity and Neptune is involved in vaporizing it, dissolving it, 598|01:00:50|030|01:00:57|290taking away its boundaries and making it less substantial, less of a material aggregate. 599|01:00:58|350|01:01:03|250And Neptune is involved in breaking the bonds which hold the lower ego together, so Neptune 600|01:01:03|250|01:01:07|350is involved in the de-aggregation of the lower ego. 601|01:01:08|130|01:01:12|930So all world servers are decentralized workers and are governed by the need and the reactions 602|01:01:13|570|01:01:14|750of the mass or group. 603|01:01:15|990|01:01:22|130This is… that is one of the reasons, okay, let me see if I can get this here, somehow. 604|01:01:23|490|01:01:30|390Okay, that is one of the reasons… whoa, I went down too far. 605|01:01:30|950|01:01:36|610Why when in training disciples are absorbed into a master's group. 606|01:01:36|850|01:01:42|030Well even the whole idea of absorption is Neptunian, it's osmotic, you know, you can 607|01:01:42|030|01:01:53|170pass… when your lower ego has become less of a consolidated dense factor, when it's 608|01:01:53|170|01:02:04|110been loosened by the energy of Neptune, it's possible for the true individual to pass into 609|01:02:05|270|01:02:08|750the master's group, to be absorbed into the master's group. 610|01:02:09|240|01:02:15|430The whole idea of the principle of the blotter is involved with Neptune too. 611|01:02:16|150|01:02:26|210So this osmotic… this ability to pass through a permeable membrane, this is the result of 612|01:02:26|210|01:02:28|150Neptune working upon the disciple. 613|01:02:29|190|01:02:33|820So this is one of the reasons why when in training disciples are absorbed into a master's 614|01:02:33|820|01:02:41|040group, which is integrally a collection of individuals who are imbued with a group idea 615|01:02:42|660|01:02:46|460and are learning increasingly to react to it. 616|01:02:47|000|01:02:50|360But first it's an idea and then later it becomes a way of life, right? 617|01:02:50|760|01:02:58|780And they are not just a collection of individuals but are an increasingly integrated collection 618|01:02:58|780|01:03:05|040of individuals, and this certainly means that their lower egoic barriers, their personality 619|01:03:05|040|01:03:07|960barriers are being broken down. 620|01:03:09|220|01:03:14|440This is done through the dissolving power of Neptune among other things, and Neptune 621|01:03:14|440|01:03:25|580of course brings the tears of purification which have the effect of sensitizing us to 622|01:03:25|580|01:03:35|080other lower egos, to other souls, and thereby dissolving the ramparts of our own lower ego. 623|01:03:35|080|01:03:35|660structure. 624|01:03:35|740|01:03:37|580When I use the word “ego,” I use it two ways. 625|01:03:38|020|01:03:43|460I try to say “lower ego” when I mean the personality and the lower identity, and of course the 626|01:03:43|460|01:03:45|780higher ego is the soul. 627|01:03:48|100|01:03:51|860So disciples are absorbed into a master's group, which is integrally a collection of 628|01:03:51|860|01:03:57|900individuals who are imbued with a group idea and are learning increasingly to react to 629|01:03:57|900|01:03:58|380it. 630|01:03:58|660|01:04:04|180In this world period and in a peculiar manner as far as the race, the Aryan race, to which 631|01:04:04|180|01:04:09|220the Western world belongs, Neptune is known esoterically as the initiator. 632|01:04:10|880|01:04:17|680Now races, as D.K. describes them, are largely a matter of consciousness, and the Western 633|01:04:17|680|01:04:25|080world is that world into which the occult consciousness is presently precipitating itself, 634|01:04:25|180|01:04:27|080moving from East to West. 635|01:04:27|200|01:04:33|280Interesting how the Eastern world is in many respects now imitating the materialism of 636|01:04:33|280|01:04:40|240the West, and the West is harvesting the best tradition of spirituality from the East. 637|01:04:40|900|01:04:46|300But this is as it's intended to be, with the rays of the West being the second ray of love 638|01:04:46|300|01:04:49|180and wisdom and the fourth ray of harmony through conflict. 639|01:04:49|380|01:04:54|360The personality ray of the East is the third, and we are moving away from that in its material 640|01:04:54|360|01:04:55|320sense. 641|01:04:55|520|01:05:00|420So there is a transition point between the fourth ray soul of the East and the fourth 642|01:05:00|420|01:05:06|080ray personality of the West, and that can move into the second ray soul of the East. 643|01:05:07|580|01:05:15|860Divine wisdom is moving into the West, and Neptune in many respects is a planet of deep 644|01:05:15|860|01:05:21|380divine intuitive wisdom, ruling as it does not only the Buddhic plane, but in a sense 645|01:05:21|380|01:05:25|860the monadic plane, and in another sense the cosmic astral plane. 646|01:05:27|680|01:05:36|880So Neptune is known esoterically as the initiator that connects it with the esoteric rulership 647|01:05:36|880|01:05:44|820of Cancer and the hierarchical rulership of Cancer, and it associates it, of course, 648|01:05:45|000|01:05:47|400with Christ, with the Lord Maitreya. 649|01:05:47|680|01:05:53|360It says in certain formulas, the great teacher of the West and the present world initiator, 650|01:05:53|540|01:06:05|860the Christ, is spoken of as Neptune, who rules the ocean, whose trident and astrological 651|01:06:06|460|01:06:14|680symbol signifies the Trinity in manifestation, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as one, and who 652|01:06:15|620|01:06:18|780is the ruler of the Piscean age. 653|01:06:19|360|01:06:24|340Neptune is that, but the Christ also is in a way the ruler of the Piscean age, and he 654|01:06:24|340|01:06:30|040is the one who deals with the elevation of emotional man. 655|01:06:31|160|01:06:40|520At the time of both the first and second initiations, important strides are made in the emotional 656|01:06:40|520|01:06:41|240development. 657|01:06:41|640|01:06:49|080The first initiation is not strictly a physical, etheric initiation, because the infusion of 658|01:06:49|080|01:06:56|960buddhi at that time of initiation suggests the power of Neptune, which is associated 659|01:06:56|960|01:06:58|260directly with the Buddhic plane. 660|01:06:58|970|01:07:05|580The soul absorbing ever more buddhi at each one of those first two initiations. 661|01:07:06|960|01:07:16|180So the ocean as well can be perhaps considered the ocean of matter, from which the initiation 662|01:07:16|180|01:07:19|280process frees the individual. 663|01:07:19|280|01:07:27|980So, two-thirds of that freeing are under the power of the Christ, who is representing, 664|01:07:29|980|01:07:34|140well, you know, it says, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” 665|01:07:35|140|01:07:42|580He is somehow the embodiment of the will, the love-wisdom, and also the animating Holy 666|01:07:42|580|01:07:43|100Spirit. 667|01:07:43|100|01:07:51|400He is the one who lifts us into an entirely new stage of subtle consciousness. 668|01:07:51|820|01:07:57|720This happens at initiation, and everything subtle, Neptune is associated with everything 669|01:07:58|240|01:08:05|820subtle and with the abstracting from materiality, which occurs as a result of the initiatory 670|01:08:05|820|01:08:13|080process and these first two initiations, particularly initiations with the threshold lifting, and 671|01:08:13|820|01:08:19|080the human being into an altogether more subtle state of appreciation of reality. 672|01:08:20|300|01:08:25|860So in certain ancient forms, it is the great teacher of the West, and the present world 673|01:08:25|860|01:08:33|080initiator Christ is spoken of as Neptune, who rules the ocean, either the astral ocean 674|01:08:33|080|01:08:39|560or actually all three of the material planes in the dense physical body of the planetary 675|01:08:39|560|01:08:51|280Logos whose trident and astrological symbol—well, okay, the astrological symbol of Neptune, 676|01:08:51|280|01:08:59|020of course, is the trident—signifies the trinity in manifestation and who is the ruler 677|01:08:59|020|01:09:00|180of the Piscean Age. 678|01:09:00|220|01:09:04|240He's also going to be, interestingly enough, the ruler of the Aquarian Age. 679|01:09:04|240|01:09:08|100The formula runs as follows, speaking esoterically. 680|01:09:09|920|01:09:18|680The fish goddesses who have leapt from earth, Virgo, to water, Pisces, unitedly give birth 681|01:09:18|680|01:09:27|140to the fish God, Christ, who introduces the water of life into the ocean of substance. 682|01:09:27|400|01:09:33|540These are cosmic etheric energies being introduced into the ocean of substance of the dense physical 683|01:09:33|540|01:09:39|500vehicle of the planetary Logos and perhaps even of the solar Logos, and thus brings light 684|01:09:39|980|01:09:40|840to the world. 685|01:09:42|200|01:09:45|560There is the sense in which Neptune does rule the ocean of light. 686|01:09:46|020|01:09:47|760Thus does Neptune work. 687|01:09:48|540|01:09:53|640So this is, however, he says, a great mystery revealed only at the time of the second initiation, 688|01:09:53|820|01:10:00|260in which the control of the fluidic astral plane is demonstrated. 689|01:10:01|060|01:10:08|740And, of course, Neptune is a planet of great fluidity, but the control, I think, is involved 690|01:10:08|740|01:10:17|520with the planet Vulcan, which I think we can find as an important controlling planet at 691|01:10:17|520|01:10:20|120each of the five initiations. 692|01:10:20|580|01:10:22|340Each of the five initiations. 693|01:10:23|320|01:10:34|060Okay, so, and especially, you know, bringing in a form of light, the control of the light 694|01:10:34|060|01:10:38|860of the soul, the entry of the power of the will over desire at the second degree. 695|01:10:40|640|01:10:44|040Okay, just, oh goodness, I've run over. 696|01:10:44|940|01:10:46|660All right, I'll just pause here for a moment. 697|01:10:46|660|01:10:54|560I usually try to end at the hour, or at least to signify the hour, but I guess I got caught 698|01:10:54|560|01:10:55|000up here.