1|00:00:01|560|00:00:04|660Okay, friends, let's move forward now. 2|00:00:05|720|00:00:14|900This is still Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 80, but we're in section C. And I was 3|00:00:14|900|00:00:19|000going to go right into Libra, but I realized I'd left out a paragraph here. 4|00:00:19|360|00:00:24|060So let us conclude our work in Scorpio. 5|00:00:26|420|00:00:32|300The keywords of this sign are significant and illuminating. 6|00:00:34|700|00:00:39|180So it is: “Let Maya flourish and deception rule.” 7|00:00:39|380|00:00:40|880That's one of them, right? 8|00:00:42|540|00:00:50|160And the other is: “Warrior am I, and from the battle I emerge triumphant.” 9|00:00:51|340|00:00:53|320It's obvious which is which. 10|00:00:54|420|00:00:59|420So we have, as he says here, deception and triumph. 11|00:01:02|960|00:01:03|520Deception. 12|00:01:04|840|00:01:20|060It's almost as if there is a kind of a plot to veil the truth in the swirl of Maya, glamour, 13|00:01:20|060|00:01:20|940and illusion. 14|00:01:23|020|00:01:30|420It's as if this creative imagination, which was discussed earlier in terms of aligning 15|00:01:30|420|00:01:41|660with the intuition, is used in order to conceal the spiritual truth, because the imagination 16|00:01:41|660|00:01:49|500is under the spell of instinct and egoistic desire. 17|00:01:52|120|00:02:05|660So obviously there is a triumph over the three-headed dog, triumph over the three major mental, emotional, 18|00:02:05|760|00:02:07|240and physical heads of the hydra. 19|00:02:08|000|00:02:18|760Each of those sections being threefold, there's a triumph over the number three, the delusive 20|00:02:18|760|00:02:27|440aspect of the number three that almost deliberately misleads. 21|00:02:28|900|00:02:38|780The hosts of Mara, which the Buddha fought, are found in Scorpio, and it is a creation 22|00:02:38|780|00:02:47|560of a false reality, and one that deceives the human being for millions upon millions 23|00:02:47|560|00:02:55|880of years, until the factor of extrication at last takes hold. 24|00:02:57|820|00:03:07|240Through the will to see, the will to penetrate, through the light of day, which eventually 25|00:03:07|240|00:03:16|340dawns for the Scorpionic individual, that consciousness rises into the cosmic ethers, 26|00:03:16|340|00:03:23|840onto the Buddhic plane and beyond, and sees the full light of the spiritual sun eventually. 27|00:03:26|260|00:03:40|440And it is no longer confined in those forms which stir a type of false desire for an unreal world. 28|00:03:41|160|00:03:49|120So there is, as he says here, control by Maya, or control by the soul, and here Maya is capitalized. 29|00:03:49|220|00:03:58|480I think it stands for all three delusive aspects: the usual Maya, then glamour and illusion. 30|00:03:59|500|00:04:10|020The great Maha Maya, which is the very opposite of the reality which the greatest light reveals, 31|00:04:12|240|00:04:15|480the kind of reality that the greatest light is. 32|00:04:18|460|00:04:25|660Conflict and peace. Well, it is a fourth-ray sign primarily, isn't it? It has so much Mars 33|00:04:25|660|00:04:40|000in it, and even Mercury is sometimes called the star of conflict, so the warring aspect 34|00:04:41|840|00:04:48|700of the family, the group of human monads in the fourth grade of hierarchy, will be eventually 35|00:04:48|700|00:04:56|320peacemakers even though they are ruled by Scorpio. It's interesting the amount of force 36|00:04:56|320|00:05:05|460and courage and tenacity that may be required in order to create the peace. The United Nations, 37|00:05:05|460|00:05:16|540United Nations Day, at least the ideal of what it is to be, is October 24th. It's in 38|00:05:16|540|00:05:28|260Scorpio, interestingly enough. So we must look at Scorpio as a sign of eventual triumph 39|00:05:28|960|00:05:40|240through peace. “Let victory crown the efforts of the Blessed One by harmonizing all.” It 40|00:05:40|240|00:05:52|120tells us in the old commentary on the fourth ray, Blessed One. Victory is the theme of 41|00:05:52|120|00:06:00|740Scorpio, but it's a victory through peace and harmony, and this perhaps should be emphasized. 42|00:06:01|940|00:06:10|780We still seem to be in the warlike position with regard to this sign which has so often 43|00:06:10|780|00:06:19|160been associated with war. I think, though, that in order for the peace to prevail, some 44|00:06:19|160|00:06:28|880very strong measures often have to be taken. We sometimes look to great warriors as those 45|00:06:28|880|00:06:35|460who have eventually created the peace. Deception and triumph—control by Maya and 46|00:06:35|460|00:06:49|140control by the soul—conflict and peace—such are the hidden secrets of this 47|00:06:49|140|00:06:57|760sign and these are summed up for all disciples in the two keywords. or key phrases, really. 48|00:06:58|280|00:07:07|420Upon the ordinary wheel, whereon the soul is found, the soul in incarnation is found, blind 49|00:07:09|650|00:07:19|100blinded by the threefold deception, and apparently helpless, not powerful, not courageous, not 50|00:07:19|100|00:07:28|280selfish. the Word goes forth in the following terms: The Word is a statement from a spiritual 51|00:07:28|280|00:07:36|500source which declares the kind of experience through which this immersed soul must pass 52|00:07:37|200|00:07:47|160before attaining liberation. “And the Word said, Let Maya flourish and let deception 53|00:07:47|160|00:07:59|520rule”;—a great vitalization of the forces of deception. I'm reminded of the three types 54|00:07:59|520|00:08:17|140of members of the Black Lodge. They are the destroyers of souls on the first ray, the 55|00:08:17|820|00:08:26|280fourth and sixth ray found in Scorpio, and finally the manipulators of souls found on 56|00:08:26|280|00:08:35|840the third ray. There is no chance but to be confined to the underworld which Pluto rules. 57|00:08:37|060|00:08:46|220And this world is the dense physical vehicle of the planetary Logos, with all of the Maya's 58|00:08:47|140|00:08:57|960glamours and illusions found thereon. The soul is entirely bewildered and does not know 59|00:08:57|960|00:09:03|800its true origin, and without knowing its true origin, how can it be ever triumphant? 60|00:09:04|980|00:09:13|140upon the reversed wheel, the soul chants or sings the words: and we should not ignore 61|00:09:13|580|00:09:28|900these words, “chants or sings.” It's an especially triumphant form of expression, which interestingly 62|00:09:28|900|00:09:40|100is on the axis with Taurus, which is a primary ruler of the great wave of sound. So the triumphant 63|00:09:40|100|00:09:53|400soul in kind of a victory paean, chants or sings the triumphant words, “Warrior I am 64|00:09:54|980|00:10:05|300and from the battle I emerge triumphant.” There are a number of triumphs here. One can 65|00:10:05|300|00:10:11|720triumph over each one of the vehicles, and there are lesser triumphs, preparing for the 66|00:10:11|720|00:10:22|120final triumph, which sees the immersed soul, really an extension of the monad, emerging 67|00:10:22|120|00:10:29|960onto the Buddhic plane after the destruction of the causal body. That Buddhic plane being 68|00:10:29|960|00:10:40|060ruled by Scorpio, at least the human creative hierarchy which has its focus there is ruled 69|00:10:40|060|00:10:50|040by Scorpio. So it must be a sign of harmony as well as of conflict, since it is so closely 70|00:10:50|040|00:10:57|540associated with the Buddhic plane. A simple statement of words is not as strong as that 71|00:10:57|540|00:11:08|620which is chanted or sung, because it accords with the great musical basis of our created 72|00:11:08|720|00:11:20|500worlds, and the chant is magical in its effect, and is sustained by the great current of sound. 73|00:11:21|320|00:11:29|340I guess my eyes have fallen now on this sentence maybe for the first time so consciously. The 74|00:11:29|340|00:11:39|020soul, who really is the one who is liberated, chants or sings. It's a very powerful affirmation, 75|00:11:40|980|00:11:46|540and it is all along the soul that has been the warrior. The disciple really is the soul, 76|00:11:47|540|00:12:00|960and now emerges out of identification with and out from under the domination of the threefold 77|00:12:00|960|00:12:08|600personality and even emerges finally out of the dense physical vehicle of the solar Logos 78|00:12:08|600|00:12:16|600whereon the causal body is found. “Warrior I am, and from the battle I emerge triumphant.” 79|00:12:18|720|00:12:28|040Okay friends, what I see here, you know, I thought I had finished Scorpio. Well, you 80|00:12:28|040|00:12:36|060never finish with these signs. D.K. has given us something of great value, but he would 81|00:12:36|060|00:12:45|800be the first to say that he's given us material in outline form, and that many of the details 82|00:12:46|590|00:13:06|040have to be filled in by students such as we are. So continuing with Libra in 1980, I think 83|00:13:06|790|00:13:22|520in E.A.A. 80 C, page 226. Well now we, moving clockwise through the signs as is D.K.'s method 84|00:13:23|830|00:13:34|460to impress upon us this mode of energy travel. He's written his whole book in a most impressive 85|00:13:34|460|00:13:42|180manner, seemingly backwards, but making his point about the necessity of reversing the 86|00:13:42|180|00:13:49|760wheel at a certain point in the developmental history of the human being, with Scorpio much 87|00:13:49|760|00:13:56|580involved through its exalted planet Uranus, and Libra involved as well, and Aries, also 88|00:13:56|580|00:14:04|420ruled by Uranus, hierarchically, giving the impulse. There's this Martian-Uranian urge 89|00:14:04|420|00:14:14|380which wants to break out of the usual rotary conditioning in which the immersed soul has 90|00:14:14|380|00:14:24|340been entrapped. And so comes the day, comes the time when it is no longer sufferable, 91|00:14:24|710|00:14:35|660to remain in a limited condition of consciousness. One intuits that there is a higher possibility 92|00:14:35|660|00:14:46|260looming ahead, and one drastically and dramatically throws oneself against the prevailing currents, 93|00:14:48|300|00:14:55|600creating a great friction and rending process. One swims against the stream as the salmon 94|00:14:55|600|00:15:03|060does on its way to its source. I wonder what the analogy for the waiting bears may be, 95|00:15:03|120|00:15:11|900you know, as the salmon attempt to leap against the waterfalls that they once negotiated with 96|00:15:11|900|00:15:23|600ease when they were small. The bears are waiting for them as they try to jump over 97|00:15:23|600|00:15:33|100the waterfalls. What an amazing metaphor here. What a story. I guess it's a dangerous trip. 98|00:15:34|820|00:15:41|800The form does not so easily survive it, and those who do have certainly proved their power. 99|00:15:42|580|00:15:47|460Maybe they have a chance to try again and again until they are among the successful 100|00:15:47|460|00:15:51|560ones escaping the many snares that await them. 101|00:15:54|740|00:16:04|400Well, anyway, we are going to move into Libra. Also pronounced Libra, also pronounced Libra. 102|00:16:04|400|00:16:13|740I remember “Lib” and “liberation.” I remember the well-known astrologer Mark Edmund Jones 103|00:16:13|740|00:16:20|460calling it “Libra,” and also “Pisces” instead of “Pisces.” He was not a man to make mistakes. 104|00:16:21|540|00:16:27|440The pronunciations were probably quite legitimate, but I'll stick with the ones that we have 105|00:16:27|440|00:16:28|500been using. 106|00:16:30|860|00:16:41|200And D.K. begins here on page 226. The sign Libra is one of peculiar interest, but 107|00:16:41|200|00:16:47|740in a most paradoxical manner, for much of its interest is based upon the fact that it 108|00:16:47|740|00:16:58|120lacks spectacular interest of any kind—except in the case of disciples or those nearing 109|00:16:58|120|00:17:12|680the Path. because it is, after all, one of the signs of crisis, along with Leo and, I 110|00:17:12|680|00:17:21|800think, Capricorn. So, very eventful decisions have to be made in this sign, but it is a 111|00:17:21|800|00:17:28|100sign which attempts, at least, to avoid extremes, though quite a number of Libra people seem 112|00:17:28|100|00:17:35|100to be involved in various kinds of extremes. As one of my colleagues said, “Well, the tail 113|00:17:36|040|00:17:41|420of the scorpion is pointing towards it, and so is the spear of the centaur. How peaceful 114|00:17:41|420|00:17:42|460can it be?” 115|00:17:46|120|00:17:56|940Yet it is often a sign of moderation, which attempts to blend and harmonize and not be 116|00:17:56|940|00:18:10|880too noteworthy for a position which is taken. So there is a kind of quality of modesty, 117|00:18:11|060|00:18:21|760of moderation, of in-betweenness, before a certain point, of non-commitment. Of course, 118|00:18:21|760|00:18:29|000once the scales do fall, once the pans of the scales do fall, there is a commitment, 119|00:18:29|020|00:18:36|380and it is, after all, a sign of decision, and it's not entirely of a harmonizing nature 120|00:18:36|380|00:18:43|240under the influence of Venus. It is also strongly under the influence of Uranus, and even more 121|00:18:43|240|00:18:52|780so under the influence of Saturn, which is definitely a determining and decisive planet. 122|00:18:54|420|00:19:06|300So when judgment finally comes in, and Libra is the judge, it is determining. It is a 123|00:19:06|300|00:19:16|980sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values, I remember some associating this sign 124|00:19:16|980|00:19:23|940with the fourth ray, although it does not specifically, as given, come through Libra, 125|00:19:25|920|00:19:33|680but as I say, there are a number of rays constellationally associated with each of the signs, so perhaps 126|00:19:33|680|00:19:41|140on one of its levels the fourth ray is to be found. I remember Mary Bailey speaking 127|00:19:41|140|00:19:51|860of the judicial mind. She related it to the fourth ray when it was functioning in a proper 128|00:19:51|860|00:20:02|260manner, and we certainly think of the judicial attitude, the legislative attitude, the cautious 129|00:20:02|260|00:20:08|060attempt to arrive at the right decision. We associate all these things with Libra. 130|00:20:09|880|00:20:17|860So both Libra and the fourth ray, in the minds of some, have similar qualities, especially 131|00:20:17|860|00:20:27|960the harmonizing aspects of the fourth ray, not those which promote conflict. Though Libra 132|00:20:27|960|00:20:37|100is involved in many wars, once aggression has been committed, the equal and opposite 133|00:20:37|100|00:20:44|360reaction is often in the hands of Libra, the striking back to recreate the disturbed balance. 134|00:20:45|900|00:20:55|020It is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values, Therefore, what should we say? 135|00:20:58|460|00:21:09|280This is not entirely so, but with a tendency to avoid bias and to be fair-minded, and of 136|00:21:09|280|00:21:14|260achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of opposites. In this case, the pairs 137|00:21:14|260|00:21:23|680of opposites, the most notable of them in our work is that pair: the soul and the personality. 138|00:21:25|160|00:21:29|840But there are other opposites as well. Spirit and matter, of course, are opposites, and 139|00:21:30|600|00:21:36|400there are horizontal opposites as well, more or less on the same level. The vertical pairs 140|00:21:36|400|00:21:41|260of opposites and the horizontal pairs of opposites. Achieving the right equilibrium between the 141|00:21:41|260|00:21:51|040pairs of opposites. And we know that it is possible for some people to go to extremes, 142|00:21:52|360|00:21:58|400denying the personality and the vehicles, or denying the soul and its higher potentials. 143|00:21:58|840|00:22:06|240Either one of those attitudes will lead to difficulty and imbalance. So there 144|00:22:06|240|00:22:17|460come certain lives when these pairs of opposites have to be justly balanced against each other, 145|00:22:18|320|00:22:26|420a fair sharing of emphasis. This does not last forever because the universe is hierarchical 146|00:22:26|420|00:22:36|420in its nature. At least, occultism asserts this. And always the higher of a pair of opposites 147|00:22:37|660|00:22:44|980must prevail. It might be regarded, this sign might be regarded, as the sign in which the 148|00:22:44|980|00:22:53|580first real vision of the path appears. You kind of wonder whether the purifications undertaken 149|00:22:53|580|00:23:01|820in Virgo, the clarification of vision, the deglamorization, at least of some of the worst 150|00:23:01|820|00:23:07|720glamours, the improvement of the physical etheric condition—all the things which Virgo 151|00:23:07|720|00:23:23|080does, so clarifies consciousness that the first vision of the path, the first real vision 152|00:23:23|570|00:23:33|300of the path, or the first vision of the real path, appears. Interesting that Venus, a planet 153|00:23:33|300|00:23:42|460so much connected with the idea of the beam of light, is the ruler here, and the path 154|00:23:42|460|00:23:49|120is the one that can be trodden between the pairs of opposites, and trodden with greater 155|00:23:50|520|00:23:59|520safety than when one overemphasizes, let us say, the spirit aspect, and does not consider 156|00:23:59|520|00:24:06|660the integrity of the form, which will only have to be rebuilt if unwisely destroyed. 157|00:24:08|740|00:24:13|440It might be regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the Path appears 158|00:24:13|520|00:24:22|730and of the goal towards which the disciple must ultimately direct his steps. Now that 159|00:24:22|730|00:24:38|050goal is at first the soul, and then the monad and Shambhala. And I'm thinking about this 160|00:24:38|050|00:24:46|050path, which is in a way symbolized by the spinal column and by the central channel of 161|00:24:46|050|00:24:57|550the etheric spine, the sushumna, and how it does lead from the base to the crown, and 162|00:24:57|550|00:25:04|050back again. Probably the involution takes us from the crown to the base, and the evolution 163|00:25:04|050|00:25:14|270from the base to the crown. But it is a direct and unobstructed channel for the evolving 164|00:25:14|270|00:25:24|350son of man towards a higher purpose, which the head and the head center represent. And 165|00:25:24|350|00:25:32|990interestingly, Libra is intimately associated with Shambhala as the center of perfect peace, 166|00:25:33|190|00:25:39|830and presumably balance, where archetypal intention prevails in the world of being. 167|00:25:40|630|00:25:47|470I'm remembering from the Sabian Symbols book, commented on by Dane Rudhyar and Mark Edmund 168|00:25:47|470|00:25:53|870Jones, that the very first degree of Libra has to do with perfect archetypes, which are 169|00:25:53|870|00:26:04|490seen as butterflies in a collection. They are stable, they are static. They are the 170|00:26:04|490|00:26:09|010forms to which all other forms must eventually conform. 171|00:26:13|690|00:26:25|950So, after much battle in the realm of lower ego, and much need for humility, and a clarification 172|00:26:25|950|00:26:33|170of consciousness, divesting it of its own self-importance, divesting the lower ego of 173|00:26:33|170|00:26:43|010its self-importance, perhaps then it is that the path can be seen. I think Libra and 174|00:26:43|010|00:26:48|890Leo are very related. D.K. will tell us that the reversal of the wheel is going to occur 175|00:26:50|010|00:26:59|430under the Leo and Libra influence. So it's in the fifth or Leonian petal that the path 176|00:26:59|430|00:27:11|130of aspiration becomes a reality, and where the grossest forms of egoism are lived beyond. 177|00:27:13|230|00:27:22|870And it is there in relation to that petal, and perhaps in relation to the seventh petal, 178|00:27:22|870|00:27:30|810which in terms of sequence we can consider ruled by Libra, that the man can become the 179|00:27:30|810|00:27:38|210true aspirant, and eventually the first degree initiate, once that fifth petal is completely 180|00:27:38|210|00:27:46|690unfolded. So, perhaps while the fifth petal is unfolding, stirrings and developments in 181|00:27:46|690|00:27:53|670the Libran petal, the seventh, offer up a vision which makes it possible to pursue the 182|00:27:53|670|00:28:02|230higher potentials of the fifth petal and eventually become a first degree initiate. It might be 183|00:28:02|230|00:28:16|670regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the path appears. Of course, the 184|00:28:17|450|00:28:24|030various byways which can mislead and can take one back into the realm of Maya-Glamour 185|00:28:24|030|00:28:33|150illusion. The symbolism is there as we think of the Libran path, and in the human body 186|00:28:33|150|00:28:38|650and the human etheric nature, and even with the Antahkarana, that path is a straight path. 187|00:28:40|170|00:28:45|570Although it may have some figure-eight energy flows associated with it, but essentially 188|00:28:45|570|00:28:54|190straight. And the first real vision of the goal towards which the disciple must ultimately 189|00:28:55|570|00:29:06|090direct his steps, I suppose as the spiritual will comes in, sort of enforced and imposed 190|00:29:06|090|00:29:17|270by Vulcan, but basically emanating from the Libran plane of Atma, a vision of ultimate 191|00:29:17|270|00:29:36|070destinations is likely to appear, because the will will take us there. The will has 192|00:29:36|070|00:29:45|230a very simple aspect. This Path is the narrow razor-edged Path It's so easy to lose our 193|00:29:45|230|00:29:55|170balance upon this path. It seems to imply a degree of vigilance and possibly discomfort 194|00:29:55|170|00:30:03|170in those who tread that path, because they must ever be watchful as they put one foot 195|00:30:03|170|00:30:12|350in front of another. It's not a broad path. It's not the primrose path. It is narrow. 196|00:30:15|170|00:30:21|490This Path is the narrow razor-edged Path which runs between the pairs of opposites 197|00:30:22|950|00:30:32|830There is a proper balance step for each human being to take as he puts one foot in front 198|00:30:32|830|00:30:43|990of another on his spiritual quest. And this path will respect the spirit soul, the soul 199|00:30:43|990|00:30:51|890spirit, without disrespecting the form. It's so easy to make the mistake of Hercules in 200|00:30:51|890|00:30:59|770Virgo and disrespect, or even kill, the form which is meant to serve the higher intentions. 201|00:30:59|770|00:31:08|990In Libra, this is corrected. Every sign, in a way, holds the corrective to the mistake 202|00:31:09|790|00:31:19|710that was made in the previous sign. So this path is the narrow, razor-edged path which 203|00:31:19|710|00:31:28|810runs between the pairs of opposites. There is a just way, a correct way to take that 204|00:31:28|810|00:31:37|490next step. And Saturn, as such a strong ruler of Libra, tells us that there will be a degree 205|00:31:37|490|00:31:42|910of caution in the more advanced Libra about how that step is taken. Sometimes this looks 206|00:31:42|910|00:31:52|910like indecision. Also, the third ray, which the Tibetan tells us is a ray of watchfulness 207|00:31:52|910|00:32:01|150and planning and caution, is at this time, it appears, the preeminent ray, constellationally 208|00:32:01|630|00:32:10|110passing through Libra, and also through two of its rulers, Saturn and Uranus. Yes, Uranus 209|00:32:10|110|00:32:19|510does have some third ray passing through it. This narrow path, which—if it is to be safely 210|00:32:19|510|00:32:25|530trodden—requires the development of a sense of values and there's Venus as the 211|00:32:25|530|00:32:32|570ruler of Libra—the development of the sense of values, weighing up these values, and the 212|00:32:32|570|00:32:45|010power to utilise rightly the balancing, analytical faculty of the mind. so that errors are avoided. 213|00:32:45|010|00:32:54|190Or, should we say, let's put it this way: so that missteps upon the path are avoided. 214|00:32:56|410|00:33:02|830Missteps. If we are cautious and we decide where that foot must go, the amount of energy 215|00:33:02|830|00:33:07|390that must be put into that next step, how big a step it will be, how small a step it 216|00:33:07|390|00:33:16|610will be, whether it respects all factors that have to be sustained in relationship to each 217|00:33:16|610|00:33:25|550other—if we can do all those things, we can rightly tread the Path. 218|00:33:27|350|00:33:36|730It is also the sign of intuitive perception Interesting, this. The Jupiterian signs are 219|00:33:36|730|00:33:41|630said to be intuitive signs: Sagittarius among them, certainly Pisces we recognize as intuitive. 220|00:33:42|250|00:33:50|890The advanced Aquarian, ruled esoterically by Jupiter, is intuitive. But here we're speaking 221|00:33:50|890|00:34:03|010of intuitive perception in Libra, even though it's ruled by the third ray, and has this 222|00:34:03|010|00:34:10|070planetary expression: fifth ray Venus, seventh ray Uranus, third ray Saturn—hardline rays. 223|00:34:10|970|00:34:22|090But perhaps it's because what we can say is that intuition enters at the interlude. And 224|00:34:22|090|00:34:29|710Libra is the sign of the interlude, the pause for reception or impression. It rules in a 225|00:34:29|710|00:34:36|570way a kind of higher interlude where the consciousness is held up for possible impression 226|00:34:37|650|00:34:46|730from a higher source. So, you know, it's very important for us to see how Master D.K. sees 227|00:34:47|470|00:34:56|010these signs. They may not be the conventional explanations that we are used to, but he has 228|00:34:56|010|00:35:06|370good reason for saying what he says. So, when a person begins to tread the path, he is guided 229|00:35:06|370|00:35:14|530by what? The voice of the soul, the still small voice, the inner counsel. Well, this 230|00:35:14|530|00:35:23|110is the beginning, perhaps, of intuitive perception: being open to guidance from that which is 231|00:35:23|110|00:35:33|950not entirely obvious, but which comes from the higher of a pair of opposites. Interesting. 232|00:35:40|930|00:35:53|090OK, then. Resuming. It is also the sign of intuitive perception and, on the ordinary way of progression around the zodiac, 233|00:35:53|090|00:36:04|210it comes after the normally drastic experience of the man in Scorpio; Seems to 234|00:36:04|210|00:36:15|430be a bit of an interlude of peace, relative peace, after the loss and the trials and the 235|00:36:15|430|00:36:29|870success of the Scorpio experience. this is usually of such a nature that the instinct 236|00:36:29|870|00:36:35|910to self-preservation has been aroused to such an extent that in the dire need of the man 237|00:36:35|910|00:36:43|910(not the disciple, at this time) a call to the soul has gone forth and has evoked response. 238|00:36:45|510|00:36:57|930So, calling upon the soul in Scorpio as an act of self-preservation. This may be put 239|00:36:57|930|00:37:05|850forth to come forth as, “God help me!” You know, the prayers of those who are threatened, when 240|00:37:05|850|00:37:14|670surrounded on all sides by the powers of negativity or darkness. Master Morya says the disciple 241|00:37:14|670|00:37:22|430is meant to look up, because that is the only way he can look for sustainment. 242|00:37:23|530|00:37:35|090So, some sort of soul response is coming in for the Scorpio individual due to the dire 243|00:37:35|090|00:37:47|090necessity, the dire need. And this response from the soul may be recognized as intuition. 244|00:37:47|090|00:37:56|270The first few faint flashes of the intuition have been sensed and vaguely recognised. because 245|00:37:57|370|00:38:07|170the soul will respond. And even though the man does not really understand—it is the 246|00:38:07|170|00:38:16|630man, not the disciple here, D.K. tells us—even though the man will not respond, will not 247|00:38:16|630|00:38:18|710come forth and they are registered. 248|00:38:21|450|00:38:29|110This is interesting. He's speaking of the way the ordinary man has drastic experiences 249|00:38:29|110|00:38:35|290in Scorpio, even though he's not being tested spiritually, per se. These are experiences 250|00:38:35|290|00:38:46|610of forced renunciation. You can imagine if you are working on the third petal of the 251|00:38:46|610|00:38:51|950petal, and you don't have Scorpio powerful in your chart, you can imagine what you might 252|00:38:51|950|00:38:55|190be put through. Or, let us say, Pisces there. 253|00:38:59|810|00:39:08|610Then follows the experience in Libra wherein I suppose, relatively, a life is spent in 254|00:39:08|610|00:39:17|070quiet, thoughtful reflection I'm sometimes interested to see how Libra plays its part 255|00:39:17|070|00:39:25|110in the lives of mathematicians. Some of the most famous have Sun in Libra, Libra rising. 256|00:39:26|950|00:39:30|690I'm reminded of this by the idea of quiet and thoughtful reflection. Of course, they 257|00:39:30|690|00:39:39|190represent a high stage of development. quiet, thoughtful reflection or in a condition 258|00:39:39|190|00:39:52|170of static unresponsiveness: It may seem that not much is accomplished and not much movement 259|00:39:52|170|00:39:57|930can be made. Different alternatives are given, and of course, with Libra, all those alternatives 260|00:39:57|930|00:40:05|050are given. it may be a life of balancing, of weighing this and that, and of determining 261|00:40:05|740|00:40:15|530which way the scales shall fall so that in the next sign certain designed results will 262|00:40:15|530|00:40:23|950occur. It seems that there is a possibility of reorientation here: the idea of preparation, 263|00:40:23|950|00:40:33|330an interlude, preparation for another life in another sign. 264|00:40:35|910|00:40:47|870Now, I suppose the next life may follow in sequence—the sign suggested—or it may not. 265|00:40:47|870|00:40:55|310I mean, so many people die in signs that are not sequentially related, either clockwise 266|00:40:55|310|00:41:02|470or counterclockwise, to the sign in which they were born. But now we're talking about 267|00:41:02|470|00:41:11|510the reverse, the clockwise wheel, the backwards wheel, as it were, and D.K. is assuming that 268|00:41:11|510|00:41:17|590the life will continue to move, as it were, clockwise—i.e., backwards. The following Virgo 269|00:41:17|590|00:41:27|410life will be either one of a personality, materialistic nature, presuming that the values 270|00:41:27|410|00:41:47|570weighed up were material… presuming that in the Libran weighing, the values weighed up 271|00:41:53|570|00:42:03|050were material—material values dominated. And if that is the case, and not spiritual 272|00:42:03|350|00:42:16|830values… if that is the case, that spiritual values did not, as it were, win, then the 273|00:42:18|870|00:42:29|290sign on the clockwise side of Libra—that that life will be one of a personality, materialistic 274|00:42:29|290|00:42:39|770nature, lived under the influence of the material aspect of Virgo, the Mother,—i.e., “let matter reign,” which 275|00:42:39|770|00:42:53|290is the, let's say, the human mantram of Virgo, demanding reorientation through evolution, 276|00:42:55|790|00:43:03|270or the human mantram which can only be corrected through long years of gradual evolution. So 277|00:43:03|270|00:43:08|330it will be lived under the material aspect of Virgo, the Mother. That's one possibility: 278|00:43:08|330|00:43:20|590either stasis, or a material decision which leads to material personal life. It would 279|00:43:20|590|00:43:26|910be interesting to confront various Virgos and see where they came from. or there will 280|00:43:26|910|00:43:33|230be evidenced a slowly emerging soul vibration, the result of that intuitive revelation of 281|00:43:33|230|00:43:46|630the soul in Libra. Or there will result, or be evidenced, a slowly emerging soul vibration, 282|00:43:47|890|00:43:56|590indicating that hidden spiritual life of which the Virgin Mother is the fore-ordained custodian. 283|00:43:56|590|00:44:14|870So spiritual values are planted in Virgo, having emerged in Libra—well, having emerged 284|00:44:14|870|00:44:30|790in Scorpio, and then subjected to weighing in Libra. Under necessity, calling for help, 285|00:44:30|950|00:44:44|850calling for some aid to survive in one way or another, the soul has been evoked. That 286|00:44:44|850|00:44:50|110is, and the values are weighed up. If the decision is made in favor of those emerging 287|00:44:50|110|00:44:58|290spiritual values, then there will be the gradual germination of the seed of spirituality in 288|00:44:58|290|00:44:59|270the Virgo life. 289|00:45:00|670|00:45:12|850As progress is made, recurrently or cyclically, around the wheel of life, these experiences 290|00:45:12|850|00:45:19|310and vibratory activities intensify in character until the time comes when the reversal of 291|00:45:19|310|00:45:30|890the wheel takes place. By this time, presumably, we are moving, or ready to move, in a counterclockwise 292|00:45:30|890|00:45:40|090manner. It's interesting—it seems that similar experiences are building up in the same sign 293|00:45:41|090|00:45:49|790as the ongoing cycle reactivates that sign time after time. So a certain amount of accomplishment 294|00:45:49|790|00:45:56|550has been achieved in a particular sign. Perhaps that type of accomplishment in specificity 295|00:45:56|550|00:46:12|430is left behind, but when the focus is again in that sign, then a new and greater building 296|00:46:12|430|00:46:23|690up of the achievement occurs. So, you know, it would be interesting to compare what was 297|00:46:23|690|00:46:30|410it like for us the last time the sign or signs that are most emphasized in our chart 298|00:46:30|410|00:46:35|670this time were emphasized before. What was it like when they were emphasized before? 299|00:46:38|050|00:46:43|670Let's say, if I was born in Aries, which I am, what type of Ariesian person was I when 300|00:46:43|670|00:46:50|510last in Aries? Probably don't want to look. Or, you know, if my rising sign is Cancer, 301|00:46:50|510|00:46:58|730which it is, then the last time that occurred, to what level of building did the process 302|00:46:58|730|00:47:04|650bring me, and was there a continuation and an elevation from that point? All of this 303|00:47:04|650|00:47:14|510is part of accurate reincarnational research taking in the consideration of astrology and 304|00:47:15|260|00:47:23|010the gradual unfoldment of the egoic lotus. It will be a real spiritual psychology, and 305|00:47:23|010|00:47:33|730we will be in a position to advise ourselves and to advise others about the next best step 306|00:47:34|450|00:47:43|750to be taken on the path. So the wheel is going to be reversed here now from clockwise to 307|00:47:43|750|00:47:48|290counterclockwise, and then Libra leads on to Scorpio. Well, does it do so immediately? 308|00:47:48|530|00:47:55|710This is the question. Is it all so very sequential, as the Tibetan seems to imply, or are there 309|00:47:55|710|00:48:01|790other ways we can consider the phrase that Libra leads on to Scorpio? But let's just 310|00:48:01|790|00:48:09|230assume for the moment that this paradigm of sequence is an accurate one. Then Libra leads 311|00:48:09|230|00:48:16|030on to Scorpio and the active soul life (active through the medium of the personality nature 312|00:48:16|610|00:48:22|990and not simply on its own plane) Well, it's probably always active on its own plane. But 313|00:48:22|990|00:48:33|310then the active soul life is registered, recorded and noted in Virgo, and balanced and assessed 314|00:48:33|310|00:48:42|570in Libra, eventually bringing about the tests and trials in Scorpio. So we've gotten as 315|00:48:42|570|00:48:54|350far back as Virgo, and then a kind of reversing of the wheel is going to occur. This spiritual 316|00:48:54|350|00:49:04|370life of which the Virgin Mother is the foreordained custodian is growing, and then Libra will 317|00:49:04|370|00:49:14|030lead on to Scorpio and the active soul life. And the active soul life, active through 318|00:49:14|030|00:49:20|430the medium of the personality nature, is registered, recorded and noted in Virgo. 319|00:49:20|430|00:49:29|450I think Virgo takes very good notes. So there's a clarity in Virgo about what the soul is 320|00:49:29|450|00:49:38|430saying, clarity about the message conveyed by the soul. After all, it is a Mercurian 321|00:49:38|430|00:49:49|990sign, and Mercury is the one with the pen in his hand, the communicator. Then the overall 322|00:49:50|790|00:50:00|410value of each way of proceeding is again balanced and assessed in Libra. That which is registered, 323|00:50:00|410|00:50:09|550recorded and noted in Virgo, which is the testimony of the soul life, is weighed to 324|00:50:09|550|00:50:20|720determine its value relative to the more familiar material values. What really is worth the 325|00:50:20|720|00:50:31|460effort? This is determined in another Libran life, or a life dominated by this sign. Eventually, 326|00:50:31|960|00:50:37|940assuming then that the decision is for the spiritual values in a decisive way, eventually 327|00:50:37|940|00:50:43|020bringing about the tests and trials between the soul and the personality, This is going to 328|00:50:43|020|00:50:50|780occur in Scorpio, which latter i.e. the personality, fights with power and determination Look 329|00:50:50|780|00:51:02|820at those Scorpionic words: power and determination. to preserve the status quo of the balanced 330|00:51:02|820|00:51:09|000expression of these two where the preponderance of the personality influence is not possible. 331|00:51:09|000|00:51:21|000Perhaps this even happens in Libra itself. But the tests and trials particularly are 332|00:51:21|700|00:51:32|620known to occur in Scorpio, and the Martian personality is much empowered. Even though 333|00:51:32|620|00:51:38|860the disciple has made the decision that spiritual values are of the utmost importance, there 334|00:51:38|860|00:51:43|900is an aspect of his nature which is not touched by that decision, and which is operating according 335|00:51:43|900|00:51:52|880to its ancient habits, and will fight against the new determination. Will fight with power 336|00:51:52|880|00:52:08|840and determination against the new decision which has been made in Libra. The preserving 337|00:52:08|840|00:52:14|400decision will at length be made. Now just think about those lives in which, let us say, 338|00:52:15|060|00:52:21|820the sun is in Libra, and Scorpio is the ascendant. You can get the picture. A decision is made 339|00:52:21|820|00:52:28|360and then the battle is on. Because there will be an aspect of the nature which wants to 340|00:52:28|360|00:52:36|860preserve the status quo, the person will be empowered by Scorpio, both in his disciplic 341|00:52:36|860|00:52:42|740nature and in his personal nature, and there will be a real contention with the will of 342|00:52:42|740|00:52:52|740the disciple, focused on bringing soul values into predominance. But the empowered personality 343|00:52:52|740|00:53:02|980will fight against this. And this is all preparatory to a true reversal, achieving of triumph and 344|00:53:02|980|00:53:14|000freedom, so that there is not just a battlefield where no real progress is shown by one or 345|00:53:14|000|00:53:22|980by the other. Uranus is involved in both of these signs, and Uranus is the planet of reversal 346|00:53:22|980|00:53:31|720leading to a new and better way. And the militancy of the battle is indicated by Mars. But Mars 347|00:53:31|720|00:53:39|020is in detriment in Libra, so we're not likely to get such a battle there. It's only after 348|00:53:39|020|00:53:46|600the Saturnian decision is made and we enter into the Scorpio influence that the real battle 349|00:53:46|600|00:53:53|720will occur. Of course, in an astrological chart, you can be a… Let's say you're born 350|00:53:53|720|00:54:03|180as a Libra. Let's say maybe you are born with Virgo rising. Maybe the midpoint of Virgo. 351|00:54:03|560|00:54:12|640After 45 years, your progressed descendant—45 years or so—your progressed descendant will 352|00:54:12|640|00:54:23|480reach Scorpio. That too is a way of bringing in the battlefield. Once a decision has been 353|00:54:23|480|00:54:33|500made in Libra, if it has been made, there are many astrological setups which can follow 354|00:54:33|500|00:54:40|200what the Tibetan is speaking of here. The nurturing of the soul's message in Virgo, 355|00:54:40|720|00:54:49|300the weighing up of the value of the recorded message of the soul, and then the struggle 356|00:54:49|300|00:55:02|680to establish that soul impression as reality against the ancient prerogatives of the personality. 357|00:55:04|580|00:55:09|880Maybe some of us who are listening to this are passing through it at the moment. 358|00:55:12|780|00:55:20|080Libra can also be spoken of in terms of the meditation process as taught both in East 359|00:55:20|080|00:55:31|600and West. It can, therefore, be regarded as the “interlude between two activities,” which 360|00:55:32|680|00:55:41|280is the explanation given to that stage in meditation which we call contemplation. Now here, 361|00:55:41|540|00:55:48|020he gives this famous listing of the ways in which the stages of meditation are associated 362|00:55:48|600|00:55:55|440with certain signs of the zodiac. In the five stages of meditation (as usually taught) you 363|00:55:55|440|00:56:01|920have the following: Concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination and inspiration. 1|00:00:01|560|00:00:04|660These five stages are paralleled in the five strictly human signs of the zodiac: This is 365|00:56:08|820|00:56:17|860interesting. It doesn't mean that the glyph of these signs is a human character. Only 366|00:56:17|860|00:56:24|440Gemini and the water carrier, which are not mentioned here, have specifically human characters. 367|00:56:26|640|00:56:40|940So, still, they take us from the instinctual side of man to the divine side. They take 368|00:56:40|940|00:56:52|000us all the way from the emergent egoic personality consciousness, the lower ego of Leo, the lower 369|00:56:52|000|00:57:00|120type of identification, through a purification process, through a weighing up of values, 370|00:57:00|280|00:57:08|480through a struggle to establish those values, and to an aspirational orientation which leads 371|00:57:08|480|00:57:21|260beyond the human state. Well, let's just say it leads into the world of the divine, where 372|00:57:21|260|00:57:28|520the human being is established as a member of the fifth kingdom of nature, and in a way 373|00:57:28|520|00:57:37|460Capricorn, which is not a sign mentioned here, but toward which Sagittarius leads, gives 374|00:57:37|800|00:57:45|360us full entrée into the fifth kingdom of nature where we are no longer, strictly speaking, 375|00:57:45|360|00:57:51|740a human being. We are individualized in a way in Leo and become a human being in Leo, 376|00:57:52|400|00:57:58|060with the help of certain other signs like Gemini and so forth. But we are still very 377|00:57:58|060|00:58:03|660subject to mass consciousness, to instinctual, non-individualized consciousness in Cancer. 378|00:58:05|260|00:58:12|940So, Cancer shows us the human being who is not really awakened to his own distinct humanity. 379|00:58:13|720|00:58:21|580And Sagittarius shows us the human being who is about to launch into another kingdom altogether. 380|00:58:22|360|00:58:50|860Alright, so this takes us to Esoteric Astrology Adventure EAA 80C and page 228. And we will 381|00:58:50|860|00:58:51|180see you in the next lecture.
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