1|00:00:01|120|00:00:10|800Now we go to 3. Gemini, beginning in this next session, 98B. 2|00:00:14|230|00:00:24|680The colors have been suggested by the Tibetan, and they were used in meditation in the glamour 3|00:00:24|680|00:00:29|700group, in the observers of reality group, that group of nine that the Tibetan was training. 4|00:00:29|700|00:00:35|240So whatever may be the source, and some have said that they are derived from the Golden 5|00:00:35|240|00:00:38|040Dawn, but then what did the Golden Dawn derive them from? 6|00:00:38|700|00:00:47|820Whatever may be the source, the Tibetan found them useful enough to introduce them in meditations 7|00:00:48|520|00:00:52|780that he gave to his groups of nine. 8|00:00:54|280|00:00:56|320So there must be some validity here. 9|00:00:58|380|00:01:07|960Let's see if… yeah, I suppose I could make these a little bit smaller. 10|00:01:09|020|00:01:11|880That would be one way of doing it, and keep everything together. 11|00:01:14|500|00:01:25|080So here we have Gemini, and for the undeveloped man: mutation of relation, and “I serve myself.” 12|00:01:25|080|00:01:29|520This is “let instability do its work.” 13|00:01:31|740|00:01:39|880For the advanced man, the love energy is growing, and there is the orientation of “I serve my 14|00:01:39|880|00:01:40|180brother.” 15|00:01:40|340|00:01:44|400Notice how service is found in relation to this Gemini energy. 16|00:01:45|340|00:01:51|580And finally, for the disciple or initiate: right relation, which is based on archetypal 17|00:01:51|580|00:02:03|520living, and “I serve the one” – “I serve the one of whom the archetypes are aspects of 18|00:02:03|520|00:02:04|360its intention.” 19|00:02:06|480|00:02:08|860Well, “let instability do its work.” 20|00:02:09|040|00:02:19|320Always the undeveloped man is separative and has a vision of himself as the material personality. 21|00:02:19|320|00:02:27|360Materiality exists in all cases, no matter what the sign may be, in these stages when 22|00:02:27|360|00:02:31|720the higher of the pairs of opposites is not glimpsed. 23|00:02:33|540|00:02:44|840So there is a constant changeability here of the unit coming into contact with many 24|00:02:44|840|00:02:48|240different types of units and learning something about them. 25|00:02:49|720|00:02:53|600But the environment and others are used for the self. 26|00:02:55|840|00:02:57|880The idea of service is pervasive here. 27|00:02:58|740|00:03:06|980Gemini is, at least at this time, a constellation which conveys the second ray energy, and thus 28|00:03:06|980|00:03:12|140the idea of service – of being for others. 29|00:03:12|140|00:03:15|700But in this case, the other is oneself. 30|00:03:17|480|00:03:22|500So there is manipulation here as well, because Gemini is the third sign of the zodiac. 31|00:03:24|060|00:03:35|360And the service is towards the only convincing reality sensed by the individual at this stage. 32|00:03:36|400|00:03:44|120So all things, the many things that Gemini can come in contact with, are used for the 33|00:03:44|120|00:03:51|040benefit of the one – the lower one, the selfish one. 34|00:03:53|680|00:04:03|180So there is opportunism amidst all of this instability, and whatever comes along, whatever 35|00:04:03|180|00:04:10|320energy threads are presented, are utilized for the welfare of the lower ego. 36|00:04:13|070|00:04:22|380There's great flexibility, much instability, and the gathering of energies for oneself 37|00:04:22|380|00:04:22|860alone. 38|00:04:24|200|00:04:28|420But now there is an orientation – that word is not by accident, because it means to face 39|00:04:28|420|00:04:30|700the sun, and the sun is the soul. 40|00:04:30|700|00:04:37|420So at least the sun is the mind, and the mind brings light. 41|00:04:37|720|00:04:40|020So the advanced man certainly has the mind working. 42|00:04:41|680|00:04:46|560And we remember that the advanced man can become the aspirant. 43|00:04:49|300|00:04:57|320That's important because there need not be only selfish advancement, but the sense of 44|00:04:57|320|00:05:00|340a higher power and higher types of relationship. 45|00:05:00|560|00:05:07|740This entire sign is dealing with the light of interplay, the light of relationship, really. 46|00:05:09|720|00:05:15|680So there is the sense that all human beings are brothers. 47|00:05:17|280|00:05:19|120A little bit of Venus comes in. 48|00:05:19|280|00:05:20|720We had Mercury at first. 49|00:05:21|660|00:05:27|240Oh yes, I suppose I should have spoken of the heaviness of Vulcan in relation to the 50|00:05:27|240|00:05:27|540Earth. 51|00:05:30|040|00:05:30|560Yes. 52|00:05:31|740|00:05:38|760But how Vulcan, when in Taurus – how Vulcan is connected with the heart of the sun, strangely, 53|00:05:38|940|00:05:42|360at least in its higher rays. 54|00:05:43|480|00:05:51|980And so my old teacher used to play with the word Vulcan and said, “Well, love can,” reversing 55|00:05:51|980|00:05:55|420these syllables. 56|00:05:56|840|00:05:57|400Love can. 57|00:05:58|960|00:06:05|280So Vulcan – the light of Vulcan reveals the love of the solar Logos, 58|00:06:05|280|00:06:06|860and so does the higher Venus. 59|00:06:06|860|00:06:13|340Taurus being a love-wisdom type of planet essentially reveals the love of the solar 60|00:06:13|340|00:06:13|900Logos. 61|00:06:16|120|00:06:26|780And Vulcan, being on the first ray, at least in its soul, is a representative of the intense 62|00:06:26|780|00:06:27|700light of life. 63|00:06:27|880|00:06:29|320Well, I've gone back there a bit. 64|00:06:30|400|00:06:31|180Forgive me for that. 65|00:06:31|300|00:06:34|860I just realized some of the things I have not said. 66|00:06:35|760|00:06:37|800Well, there are so many things I have not. 67|00:06:38|700|00:06:45|740But anyway, incipient brotherhood is here in Gemini, and we do remember that the esoteric 68|00:06:45|740|00:06:53|260ruler is not mutable Mercury, which fits so well with mutation of relation, probably through 69|00:06:53|260|00:06:56|500its ever-active third-ray personality. 70|00:06:59|220|00:07:06|120But now we have the esoteric ruler of Gemini coming in as the person becomes more of the 71|00:07:06|120|00:07:15|600aspirant, and the realization that there is a potentially loving relationship between 72|00:07:15|600|00:07:17|700human beings—a type of brotherhood. 73|00:07:19|040|00:07:23|500We remember that the third decanate of Aquarius is the decanate of brotherhood, and it's ruled 74|00:07:23|500|00:07:24|040by Venus. 75|00:07:24|040|00:07:34|200So Venus always has to do with the attempt to make the two brothers come into a loving 76|00:07:34|200|00:07:35|340relationship with each other. 77|00:07:35|500|00:07:42|720Mars is the lower brother in a way and doesn't see that brotherly relation, but sees more 78|00:07:42|720|00:07:43|380of a conflict. 79|00:07:43|660|00:07:50|660But Venus, from its soul perspective, tries to bring the brothers into harmonious, loving 80|00:07:50|660|00:07:51|400relationship. 81|00:07:53|100|00:08:02|440We remember in the labors of Hercules how it was that the service theme was strongly 82|00:08:02|440|00:08:03|280accented. 83|00:08:05|620|00:08:08|940Hercules began by not recognizing the intuition. 84|00:08:10|940|00:08:16|120His second labor involved Antaeus, or overcoming glamor. 85|00:08:18|020|00:08:23|680His third labor involved discrimination because he was chained to the altar by the false teacher 86|00:08:23|680|00:08:24|440of Osiris. 87|00:08:26|860|00:08:35|340And only when he really began to serve—serving the chained Prometheus by freeing him, serving 88|00:08:35|340|00:08:46|100the overburdened Atlas by sharing some of the burden—did the object of his quest, the 89|00:08:47|900|00:08:53|780So when we are dealing with liberty, equality, and fraternity, fraternity is particularly 90|00:08:53|780|00:08:54|960connected with Gemini. 91|00:08:56|640|00:09:00|420Liberty with Aquarius, and equality of course with Libra. 92|00:09:03|260|00:09:11|540I serve my brother facing the son of the soul and realizing the magnetic, loving relationship 93|00:09:11|540|00:09:19|040between human beings and the need to serve the other who is really the brother. 94|00:09:20|180|00:09:27|680So looking away then from the lower ego toward the welfare of others. 95|00:09:29|320|00:09:38|680And it's a right enough type of relation, but finally, for the disciple or the initiate, 96|00:09:38|680|00:09:40|900we have true right relationship. 97|00:09:42|360|00:09:48|060Right human relations is coming in under Aquarius, but also under Gemini. 98|00:09:49|480|00:09:50|480True fraternity. 99|00:09:51|980|00:09:54|920And here are the spiritual souls being revealed. 100|00:09:56|340|00:10:00|740The soul reveals the relationship between human beings. 101|00:10:01|580|00:10:07|400The spiritual soul reveals the relationship of all things to the One. 102|00:10:09|120|00:10:12|000So a large perspective is in view here. 103|00:10:12|520|00:10:15|220It's more Jupiterian even than Venusian. 104|00:10:15|360|00:10:23|080We've been told of how the second ray works particularly through Gemini and Jupiter combined, 105|00:10:23|080|00:10:33|660and how the union of spirit and soul is undertaken under the energy pattern of Jupiter in Gemini. 106|00:10:36|380|00:10:43|600So the sense that to serve one's brother really is to serve the One begins to dawn. 107|00:10:44|720|00:10:47|940And the oneness is in mind. 108|00:10:49|700|00:10:53|260Now when we serve, how do we think of it? 109|00:10:54|380|00:11:03|280Are we serving others, or are we somehow, through our service to them, serving the planetary 110|00:11:03|280|00:11:05|920whole or the solar systemic whole? 111|00:11:07|940|00:11:11|100We're moving toward synthesis for sure. 112|00:11:13|740|00:11:17|600The keynote is Gemini turns toward Libra. 113|00:11:17|720|00:11:20|080Well, these are two air signs. 114|00:11:21|320|00:11:25|940They do not have animal figures associated with them. 115|00:11:29|300|00:11:37|920And the interplay of Gemini, which is fluctuating, oscillatory, revelatory, but not binding, 116|00:11:39|400|00:11:46|700moves towards Libra where a very magnetic energy is fusing, uniting, marrying the opposites, 117|00:11:46|700|00:11:48|220and they begin to merge with each other. 118|00:11:48|400|00:11:52|000With Gemini, there is not the merging. 119|00:11:53|260|00:11:59|100There is the visibility of the nature of each unit. 120|00:12:00|810|00:12:05|600And there is exchange, but there is not this coming together that we find in Libra. 121|00:12:06|600|00:12:15|640So the pairs of opposites recognize each other in Gemini but really merge in Libra. 122|00:12:18|840|00:12:19|620“I serve myself.” 123|00:12:20|060|00:12:20|920“I serve my brother.” 124|00:12:21|100|00:12:21|840“I serve the One.” 125|00:12:22|000|00:12:28|720Well, what about the esoteric rulership of Gemini? 126|00:12:28|920|00:12:33|680It is Venus, and Venus reveals the solar orb. 127|00:12:33|680|00:12:36|880It does reveal the One through love and wisdom. 128|00:12:37|540|00:12:40|640But also, the hierarchical ruler is Earth. 129|00:12:42|080|00:12:42|880“I serve the planet.” 130|00:12:43|040|00:12:44|360“I serve the One Earth.” 131|00:12:45|960|00:12:54|720Hereupon the playing field of Earth, the individual understands that every act of service is really 132|00:12:55|460|00:12:59|480an act of service to the planetary Logos. 133|00:12:59|480|00:13:08|800So right relations truly achieved, and the Earth rulership of Gemini has some very practical 134|00:13:08|800|00:13:15|720service implications, moving our planet towards sacredness. 135|00:13:17|740|00:13:23|480And all things will come not just into relationship, which is very mutable, fleeting and so forth, 136|00:13:23|580|00:13:27|400but into right and stable relationship. 137|00:13:28|220|00:13:36|100And this, the Gemini individual can further. 138|00:13:38|040|00:13:39|080Okay. 139|00:13:39|860|00:13:44|560Keynote: Gemini moves towards Libra. 140|00:13:51|900|00:14:01|320Now our next focus: Gemini having moved towards Libra and towards its magnetism, you know, 141|00:14:01|580|00:14:06|200it's a question of the rays of Gemini and Libra, if you really think about it. 142|00:14:07|260|00:14:16|360Gemini brings in only the second ray according to the Tibetan's assignment for this world 143|00:14:16|360|00:14:18|740period, and Libra only the third ray. 144|00:14:19|840|00:14:26|300And yet there is implied in Gemini a kind of third ray, it being the third sign and 145|00:14:26|300|00:14:30|880the constant mutability of its nature, the constant movement. 146|00:14:30|880|00:14:39|740And with Libra, we have descriptors which are very similar to the second ray, not just 147|00:14:39|740|00:14:49|380the third: the Prince of Peace as the representative of the spirit of peace, conducting the second 148|00:14:49|380|00:14:49|720ray. 149|00:14:49|980|00:14:58|580And if we look down here, we see in Libra that divine love is found, and understanding. 150|00:14:58|580|00:15:03|420Understanding, I suppose, we can apply either to the second or third ray, but certainly 151|00:15:03|420|00:15:07|960loving understanding is the quality of the second ray. 152|00:15:09|660|00:15:17|120So each of them has similar rays, and neither one of them, either Gemini or Libra, is an 153|00:15:17|120|00:15:18|660animal sign. 154|00:15:19|220|00:15:23|280The circle of animals applies only to a certain extent. 155|00:15:23|280|00:15:30|560The air signs do not show the animal nature but rather the human nature, and the one thing 156|00:15:30|560|00:15:35|460we seem to have is an object in Libra: that is, the scales. 157|00:15:36|540|00:15:39|060So Aquarius has the human being, the water carrier. 158|00:15:39|860|00:15:47|280Gemini has two human beings, and Libra, the other air sign, not an animal, although it 159|00:15:47|280|00:15:53|180has rather the—excuse me—the object called the scales. 160|00:15:54|100|00:15:58|290This may be somewhat different in the labors of Hercules. 161|00:15:59|120|00:16:10|300I mean, the boar, the wild pig, features strongly in the Libran labor, but perhaps not as the 162|00:16:10|300|00:16:11|160major feature. 163|00:16:11|460|00:16:14|980There again, we have Hercules and his friends. 164|00:16:16|240|00:16:24|340All right, now we move on to 4. Cancer, and for the undeveloped man, the blind unit is lost, 165|00:16:25|800|00:16:32|980blinded by mass consciousness, and the epitome here is the mass. 166|00:16:34|740|00:16:42|240The mass of lower lives all found within the dense physical vehicle of the planetary Logos: 167|00:16:42|240|00:16:44|820the 18 lower sub-planes. 168|00:16:46|200|00:16:51|520The number 18 correlating with the moon, which rules Cancer, interestingly. 169|00:16:53|260|00:16:58|860We have the dark light, the latent light, the hidden light. 170|00:16:59|400|00:17:02|640We do not have the blazing forth of illumination. 171|00:17:03|400|00:17:07|560We don't really have the effects of individualization. 172|00:17:07|560|00:17:12|920Well, individualization did occur some 21 million years ago for Earth humanity, and 173|00:17:12|920|00:17:16|220much earlier than that for moon chain humanity. 174|00:17:17|420|00:17:24|500But the Tibetan told us this interesting thing: that the psychological nature, the psychic 175|00:17:24|500|00:17:32|700nature, the emotions and mind of the Cancerian units in the mass consciousness are not really 176|00:17:32|700|00:17:33|900individualized. 177|00:17:34|540|00:17:41|900There may be a distinctive body, but in terms of building an individuated, truly individualized 178|00:17:43|860|00:17:49|180subtle nature or psychic nature, it hasn't happened for the great majority of those who 179|00:17:49|180|00:17:52|140are subject to the influence of Cancer. 180|00:17:52|840|00:17:54|540There is great isolation here. 181|00:17:55|140|00:18:03|880The man may be part of a herd, part of a group or a tribe, but there is no spiritual light 182|00:18:03|880|00:18:05|320to be found. 183|00:18:06|360|00:18:07|960So isolation rules. 184|00:18:11|020|00:18:18|580When we move on to the advanced man, the encapsulated unit—the unit awakens to that which is around 185|00:18:18|580|00:18:26|480and is not only preoccupied with his own vehicles and their satisfaction, but is beginning to 186|00:18:26|480|00:18:27|400become sensitive. 187|00:18:28|280|00:18:34|680Now, the three rulers are the moon, Neptune, and Neptune. 188|00:18:34|820|00:18:40|380In fact, the Tibetan said that the moon is really a veil. 189|00:18:41|300|00:18:50|260The real ruler is Neptune in all three cases, just like the ruler is the sun in Leo in all 190|00:18:50|260|00:18:51|420three cases. 191|00:18:52|420|00:18:58|560So there is a growing sensitivity, and the ring pass not is expanding to include the 192|00:18:58|560|00:19:03|260environment, the family, that which is around. 193|00:19:04|200|00:19:10|400We are moving towards the perception of greater wholeness in the advanced man. 194|00:19:12|190|00:19:21|080And the place of stability, the place of safety and security and of refuge, if you will, the 195|00:19:21|080|00:19:23|860home is coming into focus. 196|00:19:24|380|00:19:32|660So one knows the point of retreat and the point of protection. 197|00:19:34|840|00:19:41|400The house can be a small house or an increasingly large house until it includes the entire whole, 198|00:19:41|800|00:19:46|120which it will later for the disciple and the initiate. 199|00:19:46|120|00:19:53|120The growing sensitivity of this second stage of advanced man shows that at least in the 200|00:19:53|120|00:19:57|460later part of the stage, he is beginning to respond to Neptune. 201|00:19:58|580|00:20:05|760He awakens to that which is around through his growing vulnerability, sensitivity, his 202|00:20:05|760|00:20:12|280capacity to feel that which the environment produces, and the associated persons are also 203|00:20:12|280|00:20:13|800part of the environment. 204|00:20:13|800|00:20:25|240So he's no longer so self-centered and begins to include in his increasingly lighted house— 205|00:20:25|500|00:20:31|460it's certainly beginning to be lighted mentally by this point—he begins to include others. 206|00:20:32|120|00:20:38|220Cancer: a great sign of exclusiveness in the beginning, but inclusiveness later on. 207|00:20:38|220|00:20:46|840Perhaps Neptune is the most boundary-destroying, inclusive planetary energy that we have in 208|00:20:46|840|00:20:47|820our solar system. 209|00:20:49|440|00:20:53|340Then for the disciple and the initiate, well, usually the disciple begins with the type 210|00:20:53|340|00:20:57|100of consciousness which ends with the initiate consciousness. 211|00:20:57|620|00:20:59|900The whole is seen as one. 212|00:21:02|580|00:21:06|920Perhaps if we want to think of the universal whole, we can say the universal whole is felt 213|00:21:06|920|00:21:07|680as one. 214|00:21:07|920|00:21:16|500But eventually for the initiate, his particular macrocosm is seen as one, is experienced as 215|00:21:16|500|00:21:16|880one. 216|00:21:17|920|00:21:22|800And then all human beings are included in this picture. 217|00:21:22|920|00:21:25|620I guess we're talking pretty much about life on this planet. 218|00:21:26|260|00:21:30|160The planetary whole is experienced as one. 219|00:21:30|340|00:21:35|800We remember that inclusive Jupiter is the exalted planet in the sign Cancer, and it 220|00:21:35|800|00:21:43|720includes an increasing number of people and of contents of consciousness within its ever- 221|00:21:43|720|00:21:48|660expanding ring-pass-not, broadening its horizons constantly. 222|00:21:49|120|00:22:00|000Neptune, of course, comes along and dissolves every boundary and thus necessitates a ring- 223|00:22:00|000|00:22:05|380pass-not which is still beyond the one dissolved, and yet that farther one is dissolved again. 224|00:22:06|480|00:22:16|740So this is the embrace of humanity and the planet and the feeling that although within 225|00:22:16|740|00:22:24|380the house is the limited family of familiars, within this larger all-encompassing house 226|00:22:24|380|00:22:29|220is all of humanity, and every human being is thereby included. 227|00:22:29|880|00:22:40|780I can't say that “the whole is seen as one” will characterize every disciple, but by the 228|00:22:40|780|00:22:46|240time one is a true initiate of the third degree and has passed through the transfiguration, 229|00:22:46|500|00:22:50|880then we can truly say the whole is seen or experienced as one. 230|00:22:52|520|00:23:02|720And perhaps the identicality on some level of all human beings is embraced, is experienced. 231|00:23:04|020|00:23:10|080In general, though, when we look at these keynotes, we're not looking at the climactic phases 232|00:23:10|080|00:23:11|700of the initiate. 233|00:23:13|040|00:23:20|220We're looking at the general process, and in the general process, Cancer visions through 234|00:23:20|220|00:23:26|240the planet of aspirational vision, which is Cancer. Keynote: Cancer visions life in Leo. 235|00:23:26|940|00:23:31|160In other words, the one who is indistinct, who has not accomplished a great deal, who 236|00:23:31|160|00:23:41|100is not focused, who is not distinctly luminous and noticeable, visions the individuated life 237|00:23:41|100|00:23:46|300of the truly distinct individual who is mentally radiant and radiant as the soul. 238|00:23:47|130|00:23:58|120So it's inevitable that the inchoate, dim, even hidden light of Cancer will begin to 239|00:23:58|120|00:24:03|960move towards a center, a brighter light, and the individuation will occur. 240|00:24:05|180|00:24:11|200The diffusion of Cancer will come to a point in Leo. 241|00:24:12|420|00:24:15|240This is the sign we have been studying. 242|00:24:16|720|00:24:26|780It is a sign which touches on many states of consciousness and being which are still 243|00:24:26|780|00:24:35|680vague to humanity, vague even to fairly advanced thinkers, because it has to do with the cardinal 244|00:24:37|140|00:24:37|980cross. 245|00:24:39|480|00:24:47|280But in general, we see the mass consciousness moving towards the individualized consciousness, 246|00:24:47|500|00:24:57|380and I wouldn't be surprised if a long period before individualization by the solar angels 247|00:24:57|380|00:25:00|000was under the direction of Cancer. 248|00:25:02|400|00:25:10|480The mass consciousness of gradually evolving animal man until he evolved to the point, 249|00:25:11|740|00:25:17|520with the sign Cancer still involved, when the Leo factor could enter, even though in 250|00:25:17|520|00:25:22|800a way he continued in the Cancerian mode for three million years, we are told, before he 251|00:25:22|800|00:25:26|680really came to himself and noticed himself as distinct. 252|00:25:27|680|00:25:40|940So the arrows shot forth in Sagittarius — the arrows of the unit of fire which was plunged 253|00:25:40|940|00:25:44|700into the lower man and into his brain even. 254|00:25:45|140|00:25:52|120They shot forth 21 million years ago, and he was technically individualized but continued 255|00:25:52|120|00:25:59|760in a fairly inchoate state of consciousness until the point which was established by the 256|00:25:59|760|00:26:09|760solar angels was in fact noticed, and he began to develop his sense of lower ego. And that 257|00:26:09|760|00:26:16|240was occurring some 18 million years ago, perhaps 18.5 million years ago. Perhaps that was occurring 258|00:26:16|240|00:26:23|800at the time of the coming of the Lords of the Flame, who may have stimulated that process. 259|00:26:26|020|00:26:34|360So the indistinct becomes distinct, the diffuse becomes focused, the loosely integrated becomes 260|00:26:34|360|00:26:41|420powerfully centralized. All of these are meanings of Cancer visioning life in Leo. 261|00:26:42|960|00:26:43|840Okay. 262|00:26:46|200|00:26:49|680Now we move on to 5. Leo itself. 263|00:26:52|740|00:26:54|840It concerns the point. 264|00:26:56|040|00:27:02|700We realize that life in Leo entails concentration. 265|00:27:03|160|00:27:09|720Concentration at a point is the beginning of the meditative process which is governed by Leo. 266|00:27:11|280|00:27:17|460So we have, in a straightforward manner, the lower self, the higher self, and the one self. 267|00:27:17|600|00:27:18|820These are the three phases. 268|00:27:21|400|00:27:27|620When we talk about the higher self, we can wonder whether it really should include advanced man. 269|00:27:28|040|00:27:34|620Advanced man has an intellectually advanced consciousness, but one that is not yet spiritual. 270|00:27:34|820|00:27:38|960But perhaps the higher self is at least influential 271|00:27:38|960|00:27:40|000here. 272|00:27:43|000|00:27:47|140The Sun can be associated with the lower self. 273|00:27:48|780|00:27:53|400The Sun which perhaps veils Jupiter — there's a hint about that. 274|00:27:54|600|00:28:04|840The Sun veiling Neptune with the higher self, which is a subtler organization and requires the sensitivity of Neptune to detect. 275|00:28:04|840|00:28:22|300But that higher self is not really coming into notice until certain experiences within the love petals occur and the higher of the pairs of opposites is somehow felt and aspirational application is made towards it. 276|00:28:23|360|00:28:31|840The one self: the disciple begins to appreciate that the higher self is part of the one self, and the initiate truly knows the one self. 277|00:28:32|900|00:28:39|500The hidden point is found here in connection with the lower self. 278|00:28:41|380|00:28:49|110Almost hidden in the mass, not revealing, not expressing, not radiating — simply present but unrevealed. 279|00:28:50|960|00:28:58|120It's a bit like the second ray story of the Blessed One. 280|00:28:58|120|00:29:02|340“I am a blessed one, but unrevealed.” 281|00:29:06|140|00:29:12|620That Blessed One — let's find that because it's kind of interesting. It's in Esoteric Psychology. 282|00:29:14|240|00:29:18|300Oh, let's say around page… maybe… 283|00:29:20|180|00:29:22|380It's in the thirties here. 284|00:29:27|020|00:29:31|600“And stage by stage he built this arc and floated upon the bosom of the waters. 285|00:29:32|040|00:29:41|060Deeply he hid himself, and his light was no more seen — only his floating arc. Only his floating arc.” 286|00:29:43|920|00:29:52|400So deeply he hid himself, and his light was no more seen. 287|00:29:54|160|00:30:06|480The hidden point. Now, of course, here when we're discussing the Blessed Ones, we're really discussing the monadic nature and its extension as the monad in incarnation, or the jiva. 288|00:30:09|860|00:30:26|620So all of us are individuals, but we don't know that our inner point of light, where the solar angel has touched and continues to stimulate the mental unit… 289|00:30:29|800|00:30:42|280That point of fire — the point of mind, of love, and of will — which is the influential point sponsored by the solar angel or extended from the solar angel. 290|00:30:43|260|00:30:52|680That point is, for a long time, hidden within the lower vehicles. We could call it the veiled soul — the hidden soul. 291|00:30:53|580|00:31:01|840And at the heart of the soul is the monad, which is represented as the jewel in the lotus. 292|00:31:02|660|00:31:10|260But eventually the man begins to realize himself as dual — as two. 293|00:31:11|780|00:31:21|200And he can begin to do this under the influence of Virgo, and then there are two suns (S-U-N-S) in his life. 294|00:31:22|100|00:31:29|580The higher self, at first vaguely felt, and the lower self with which he is familiar. 295|00:31:30|540|00:31:42|540So the familiar and the unfamiliar — and this is dramatized somewhat in the Gemini experience, and the fusion of these two selves occurs in the Virgo experience. 296|00:31:43|500|00:31:54|560But anyway, there is, from this higher power or higher point or point of soul, revelation beginning to pour forth. 297|00:31:54|560|00:32:02|920It can come in form of sound, of light, of color, of vibration. Something is sensed. 298|00:32:04|020|00:32:11|220Something is revealed from this higher subtle world, and the Neptune rulership is sensitive enough to begin to pick it up. 299|00:32:11|340|00:32:18|700Now, in the early stages of advanced man, there can be a lot of egoism. 300|00:32:19|570|00:32:28|020We don't for a minute think that in the early fifth petal process, the full higher self is known or appreciated. 301|00:32:28|200|00:32:43|180This can be one of the most egotistical times in the development of the human being when we have individualism, the sense of the powerful self. 302|00:32:43|180|00:32:55|960And perhaps this can go on, as D.K. seems to suggest on page 18 of Esoteric Psychology 2, 4, 3, 7, or even 11 lives before the higher point is really revealing. 303|00:32:56|160|00:33:00|700Well, the higher point may be revealing, but is it recognized as revealing? 304|00:33:00|880|00:33:09|180In the stage of aspiration and probationary discipleship, the soul can be recognized as a source of revelation. 305|00:33:09|180|00:33:17|460And then light is entering: alignment, crisis, light, revelation, integration. 306|00:33:17|700|00:33:21|000The two stages of light and revelation can be covered here. 307|00:33:21|120|00:33:27|240The The Light Of The Soul (LOS), the type of light in Leo, begins to come forth and be recognized. 308|00:33:28|340|00:33:33|260But perhaps it's not recognized for what it is until we reach the truly disciplic stage. 309|00:33:34|740|00:33:52|920And in the stage of discipleship, we recognize that this higher self is a group being linked to many other group beings, and there is no real separation such as the earlier experience in Leo seemed to indicate. 310|00:33:53|820|00:33:56|380And then we are on our way towards inclusiveness. 311|00:33:57|480|00:34:00|400First the sense of unity, and eventually the sense of oneness. 312|00:34:00|400|00:34:13|700So whereas the disciple may not fully appreciate the oneness of the self, the true initiate does appreciate this. 313|00:34:14|380|00:34:27|580And then this sense of being one and only—a one and only center, or one center and only that center—is relinquished. 314|00:34:28|880|00:34:37|840It's not that there are not points, but one relinquishes ownership over one's own point, as it were. 315|00:34:38|840|00:34:48|260One is decentralized and realizes that all the other points are centers of being for it as well. 316|00:34:49|120|00:34:57|580If in this state I center myself in you, I'm really centering myself in me. 317|00:34:58|400|00:35:01|280And in a larger sense, in the one. 318|00:35:02|200|00:35:11|800So every point is realized as a center within this larger being—the one. 319|00:35:12|800|00:35:26|290And it is appreciated with Pascal that God is an intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. 320|00:35:27|600|00:35:40|240So one gives up ownership of a distinct center with which one identifies as distinct from all other centers. 321|00:35:40|240|00:35:43|100No, there's only one center. There's only one point. 322|00:35:44|300|00:35:52|220One relinquishes proprietary ownership over one's own point and finds all points to be one's own. 323|00:35:53|700|00:35:57|680And every point is the center of one's self. 324|00:35:58|020|00:36:03|160So you can transfer your center of identity into any being. 325|00:36:03|160|00:36:10|800And I think such great beings as the Christ were adept at doing this. 326|00:36:12|000|00:36:24|420I think it is a form of Tibetan yoga—the transferring of one's center into other apparent centers, only to find out that they're all one point and they're all one center. 327|00:36:25|840|00:36:38|360At that point we relinquish locality. We become non-local beings and can find ourselves everywhere. 328|00:36:38|500|00:36:46|400After all, harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who knows himself to be everywhere, we are told. 329|00:36:47|780|00:36:52|660Wherever anyone is, there he is. Wherever there is any point of being, there he is. 330|00:36:52|660|00:36:59|000And that is the Uranian aspect of Leo. 331|00:37:01|720|00:37:07|560Space is negated by Uranus, so one is everywhere. 332|00:37:08|560|00:37:24|820And the eternal now is going to emerge, and the whole sense of sequence will change under this quality of simultaneity, which is also conferred by Uranus. 333|00:37:25|920|00:37:32|120Or in the higher Leo, the truly initiatic Leo experience. 334|00:37:33|160|00:37:40|140So one becomes then the relinquished point, the truly decentralized being. 335|00:37:40|320|00:37:55|320It's a bit like first removing the Earth from the center of one's contents of consciousness and then removing the Sun from its centrality in the whole cosmos. 336|00:37:55|320|00:38:04|120It's really peripheral. It has its place, but its place is certainly not center. As a matter of fact, there is no center. 337|00:38:05|340|00:38:10|700The center is everywhere. That's the perception that we have to understand. 338|00:38:12|600|00:38:21|220Keynote: Leo seeks release in Scorpio. The release is from the sense of isolated ahamkara: 339|00:38:21|220|00:38:32|520“I am this and only this.” It's into a larger group identification and eventually identification with the whole. 340|00:38:32|840|00:38:38|580But a certain destruction of the ring-pass-not must occur. 341|00:38:38|580|00:38:52|640Now Scorpio gives entrée to the Buddhic level of understanding, which is intuitive and non-local, or can sense the self everywhere. 342|00:38:54|100|00:39:02|820So through the destruction of the causal body, which in a way is associated as a great sunflower, a Goit Lotus, with Leo, 343|00:39:02|820|00:39:16|120Through that destruction, through the death-dealing powers of Scorpio, there is a release from centrality, a release from distinctive onliness, 344|00:39:17|440|00:39:28|040a release into other beings, the ability to find oneself as others and to find oneself as the one. 345|00:39:29|020|00:39:33|500But the powers of Pluto under Scorpio are needed here. 346|00:39:34|620|00:39:45|800So we have a constant decentralizing process moving towards oneness. We discover ourselves to be a soul in the process of revelation. 347|00:39:47|320|00:40:03|460The revealing point. I suppose, in the soul is the jewel in the lotus, but that is consummated at the fourth degree when it is realized that the jewel in the lotus is really the monad, and the monad is, in a sense, everywhere. 348|00:40:04|720|00:40:22|860So, although Aquarius is the sign of universalization, or universality, Leo also achieves this growing universality in which all others are subsumed into the self, which is the one. 349|00:40:26|500|00:40:39|280Now if we move on here to 6. Virgo, notice I've been putting them in these colors: violet for Cancer and orange for Leo. 350|00:40:40|080|00:40:53|400I did kind of a blue-green for Virgo. It's not what the Tibetan suggested. He suggested yellow, probably through the Mercury rulership because Mercury is considered to be the yellow planet. 351|00:40:54|600|00:41:04|280And I have spoken with some Virgoans who strongly identify with the color yellow, probably through the intelligence aspect of Mercury. 352|00:41:05|420|00:41:15|960But there's a sense of the mother being blue-green. We live on the blue-green planet; maybe that's somewhat turquoise in nature. 353|00:41:17|180|00:41:42|160And the association of green with personality and blue with the soul and the merging of these two into blue-green seems legitimately associated with Virgo, but the Tibetan has his own, of course, good reasons for allowing a meditation to take place for Virgo people using the color yellow. 354|00:41:45|960|00:41:52|820We have here for the undeveloped man the germinating energy epitomized here as the mother. 355|00:41:54|600|00:42:12|840Then we have for the advanced man the creative force, the protector. Of course, the mother is also the protector, but the one who cherishes, and this is similar in some respects to the Cancerian energy, both of them ruled by the moon and in part by Neptune. 356|00:42:14|040|00:42:24|360And then for the disciple initiate, the Christ activity is entering; it's even entering in the later stages of the period of the advanced man. 357|00:42:26|140|00:42:37|220And then the light, the light which is the light which Christ referenced when he said, “I am the light of the world,” this is appreciated. 358|00:42:37|220|00:43:00|000Interesting that in the earth signs which are apparently opaque, we do encounter different qualities of light: the greatest light in Taurus and the Christ light in Virgo and the light sublime in Capricorn. 359|00:43:01|860|00:43:10|980Different types of light encountered in the earth signs, and for that we need the esoteric astrological interpretation. 360|00:43:12|840|00:43:24|960Well, Virgo is the great mother as it was in the previous solar system, and it provides the forms which have to be infused by the uplifting soul spirit. 361|00:43:26|120|00:43:46|200The process of germination is a slowly coming into form, so Virgo will, with its very, with its great power of endurance, will represent the slow growth of different types of forms in response to the evolutionary urge. 362|00:43:49|340|00:43:57|370The evolutionary thrust of Virgo… I think it had a lot of third ray and seventh ray connected with it in the previous solar system. 363|00:43:57|370|00:44:21|710The slow will to evolve, I think, is foundational in Virgo and the slow growth of form within the mother matter and as a result of the energies of mother matter when stimulated by higher energy still. 364|00:44:22|550|00:44:40|070So everything is hidden here; it's one of the hidden signs. We learned that when we considered the five rulers of the cardinal cross, or the five planetary rulers and when we considered the five signs. 365|00:44:40|070|00:44:47|570Now it's the seven rulers of the cardinal cross and seven signs which appeared at a certain stage of evolutionary development. 366|00:44:49|130|00:45:05|930And they were Cancer and Virgo, and both of them had the hidden factor, but what was hidden in them was brought to light by the Scorpio experience ruled by Pluto, which drags all things into the light. 367|00:45:05|930|00:45:12|790And by the type of light that Scorpio is: the light of day, bringing things into the light of day. 368|00:45:13|670|00:45:18|410So where things are veiled and covered in Cancer and Virgo, they are brought into the light of day. 369|00:45:19|430|00:45:33|010There's a lunar activity going on allied with germination in both Cancer and Virgo, but the moon is falling in Scorpio so that hidden quality is exposed. 370|00:45:33|010|00:45:42|300And all that's going on in the lower realms of form is seen in the light of Mercury, which is very powerful in Scorpio. 371|00:45:44|770|00:45:55|030We enter now another phase for the advanced man who has certain high ideals. Idealism is brought in here in the sign Virgo. 372|00:45:55|030|00:46:06|390We're not talking about the intelligent activity of matter which is intelligently creating forms under an early expression of Mercury for the mother. 373|00:46:06|890|00:46:15|390We're talking about the moon as it is veiling two creative forces. 374|00:46:16|390|00:46:31|630Well, Vulcan is definitely a creator in matter, and it is veiled by the moon and perhaps most frequently understood as the veiled ruler in the esoteric position, but later Neptune is also there. 375|00:46:33|010|00:46:45|030And Neptune is bringing forth the presence of the Christ, the individual Christ in this case, not the cosmic Christ as in the case of Aries. 376|00:46:46|010|00:46:55|310The individual Christ is brought forward, and the soul within us becomes a truly creative force. 377|00:46:55|430|00:46:58|230It always is a creative force, but we begin to notice that it is. 378|00:46:58|330|00:47:09|130It's something in the higher realm of mind and on still higher levels which is creatively working in form. 379|00:47:09|130|00:47:19|050And that which is created in this way through the higher creativity of Vulcan and through the Christ force needs to be protected. 380|00:47:19|610|00:47:33|810So values of a high nature and high ideals and even ideas need to be protected by the Virgoan individual who is the advanced man now. 381|00:47:33|810|00:47:42|930So often we think of Virgo in terms of purification. It is there in terms of purification. 382|00:47:44|330|00:48:07|810But it would be a very small description of the nature of this sign if we simply focus on the fastidiousness of the Virgoan which accompanies the sensed need to purify on physical levels, especially at this time, and also on emotional and mental levels. 383|00:48:07|810|00:48:18|970First of all, we're working on physical purification, it seems. When one becomes a true aspirant, the need for emotional and mental purification also becomes evident. 384|00:48:20|670|00:48:35|650So the creative force which will create the forms through which the higher ideals and ideas can work and through which the will of the soul can work are encountered here in the advanced man. 385|00:48:37|270|00:48:51|030And he becomes the protector of the forms which are instrumental to the expression of those energies which the soul seeks to see expressed. 386|00:48:51|030|00:48:58|930But again, not until the later part of the fifth petal is the Christ light coming in. 387|00:48:59|810|00:49:08|210And that segues into the reception of Virgo energy by the disciple and the initiate and the Christ activity. 388|00:49:08|210|00:49:23|410And nurtured through initiation, it is growing until at the third degree we have the full grown man in Christ, or at least grown sufficiently. 389|00:49:23|410|00:49:29|610And by the fifth degree, one is truly fully mature in this Christ energy. 390|00:49:30|830|00:49:37|610And the five of the heart, the five of Leo, the five of the fifth kingdom is active at this fifth degree. 391|00:49:38|810|00:49:43|510So we have different intensities of the Christ activity at the first, second, and third degree. 392|00:49:43|510|00:50:05|230The birth, the baptism of purification, and the transfiguration or the actual entering into the higher world where the Christ energy is less trammeled, not so buried as it has been in the lower 18 sub-planes. 393|00:50:05|230|00:50:13|150At the same time, the lower 18 sub-planes are being purified under the Virgo energy so that the Christ activity can express. 394|00:50:13|370|00:50:26|250And the man becomes luminous, and through purification the aura is seen and the three centers in the head which give the healing energy, or about the head let's say, 395|00:50:26|250|00:50:31|610the crown center, the Ajna, and the Alta major center form their triangle. 396|00:50:32|510|00:50:47|290The light breaks forth in the area of the pineal gland, and this dispelling radiance can be used in the healing arts in which Virgo is so involved along with Aquarius and some other signs. 397|00:50:48|070|00:50:56|450Those on any sign can heal. It's just, and even on any ray, it's just a question of using the correct technique. 398|00:50:58|010|00:51:02|670And we can do so because we are all related to each other foundationally. 399|00:51:02|830|00:51:14|830The magnetism, the unification between us is a real factor, and our energy can flow into that of our brothers and sisters and it can make a difference. 400|00:51:14|830|00:51:22|070So the healing work is dependent upon this innate connection. 401|00:51:26|530|00:51:39|710Now the Keynote: Virgo hides the light. It's the Christ light eventually, which irradiates the world and shines on Earth across the sea in Aquarius. 402|00:51:40|590|00:52:01|690So we have here the individual Christ coming to birth, and it is growing along the way until in Aquarius it is broadcast far and wide and as a great giving in service can meet the needs of the many. 403|00:52:01|690|00:52:30|690So it's the universal radiation of what began as the hidden Christ, slowly growing within the personality and demonstrated in personal virtue until the group idea is grasped and the person becomes soul-infused and hence powerful in a group sense and can irradiate all indiscriminately. 404|00:52:31|690|00:52:41|390In Aquarius, that's the thing about Aquarius: the radiance of the sun falls equally upon the just and the unjust. 405|00:52:41|670|00:52:59|970It is a spherical broadcasting energy. It is suggested by the symbol in the law of service where the urn or the full powers of the head center are properly balanced on the head of the individual and can be sent forth in all directions. 406|00:52:59|970|00:53:16|890There is a more focal giving when we have the vessel which the water bearer carries, and there he pours out more specifically but still it is poured upon many. 407|00:53:17|950|00:53:25|610So Aquarius definitely has a Christ force connected with it, but it is universal in nature. 408|00:53:26|370|00:53:52|510So the germinating energy of the mother, the creative force, the protector coming under the Moon, which is the sphere in which creativity occurs under the impress of Vulcan who is shaping matter to the ends of the soul and Neptune which is revealing the ideals and ideas which need to be poured into the form. 409|00:53:52|510|00:54:07|750And finally we come to Jupiter which suggests the great abundance of the Christ activity, especially once transfiguration has occurred and it's poured forth widely, inclusively to many. 410|00:54:08|470|00:54:18|710And it fits, doesn't it, that Jupiter is the esoteric ruler of Aquarius which is part of this keynote, the final term in the keynote? 411|00:54:18|710|00:54:32|510Virgo hides the light which eventually we would say irradiates the world in Aquarius as Jupiter pours it forth in Aquarius for all in a most inclusive manner. 412|00:54:33|870|00:54:56|310Now those are the first six of the responses, the first six of the tabulation of the responses of individuals at various points of development to the incoming zodiacal energies. 413|00:54:56|310|00:55:14|990We have to realize, I guess it's a point to be driven home, that people at different stages of evolution respond in different ways to apparently the same energy, the zodiacal energy. 414|00:55:14|990|00:55:29|290The zodiacal energies are very rich but they are veiled to many because the response apparatus just cannot register them or do anything useful with them. 415|00:55:30|190|00:55:42|570So there's a wide range of energies in each one of these zodiacal signs but there cannot be proper response to all of them until a higher stage of evolution is reached. 416|00:55:43|470|00:55:54|650The advanced man who is verging on spirituality can respond to more than can the undeveloped man going through the many, many stages of being undeveloped. 417|00:55:54|810|00:56:01|850He's developing of course slowly, but still taken as a whole, he's in the undeveloped stage and still walking in the Hall of Ignorance. 418|00:56:02|370|00:56:10|650There's another way of looking at this. We could assign the three halls to these three categories. 419|00:56:10|830|00:56:20|090The Hall of Ignorance in which the great majority of time is spent can be assigned to the undeveloped phase, the undeveloped man. 420|00:56:22|550|00:56:35|430The Hall of Learning to the advanced man and to the second three petals, which are the love petals. 421|00:56:36|150|00:56:39|530It's not a full development of love there but that's where the activity is occurring. 422|00:56:40|270|00:56:49|150And we are learning that we have a higher self in that Hall of Learning and by the end of the fifth petal process we pretty well know it. 423|00:56:50|770|00:56:56|810And then the Hall of Wisdom for disciples and initiates. 424|00:56:58|890|00:57:02|390So I think that's a good way of thinking of these three. 425|00:57:03|550|00:57:16|930And although the rulerships orthodox, esoteric, and hierarchical do not have a strict one-to-one correspondence, there are overlaps, they too can be used. 426|00:57:18|130|00:57:33|990Alright, well we are at the point where we can say we're going to go on to Esoteric Astrology Adventure 98C. 427|00:57:34|750|00:57:46|830We're still on page 332 and we've completed in a way the first half of the Methods of Response. 428|00:57:47|390|00:57:48|150We have to continue. 429|00:57:49|630|00:58:10|230So here is the end of Esoteric Astrology Adventure 98B and the beginning of 98C still on page 332 but now moving really to 333, come to think of it. 430|00:58:10|970|00:58:11|310Alright.
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