1|00:00:02|040|00:00:09|240Okay, welcome again, and now we are dealing with esoteric astrology adventure number 12. 2|00:00:09|640|00:00:17|100We have just concluded, let's see, with discussing four forces which affect the personality of 3|00:00:17|100|00:00:17|300the Earth. 4|00:00:17|460|00:00:24|800Actually, what we've been doing is talking about all manner of forces which are impinging 5|00:00:24|800|00:00:33|320upon our planet and man: the forces of the zodiacal signs, the forces of the inner group 6|00:00:33|320|00:00:41|020of seven solar systems, and three greater forces which are operative after the third 7|00:00:41|020|00:00:46|980initiation and are correlated, at least at this time, with the Great Bear, Sirius, and 8|00:00:46|980|00:00:53|760the Pleiades, and then with these other four forces which are operating on the personality 9|00:00:53|760|00:00:54|680of the Earth. 10|00:00:56|380|00:01:02|540Four types of force, and these are: the quality, the energy of our solar system, our solar 11|00:01:02|540|00:01:07|280Logos, second ray largely; the quality of the Logos of our planet, which is also primarily 12|00:01:07|280|00:01:11|020second ray, though working through a third ray personality. 13|00:01:11|480|00:01:15|580If you think about it, the solar Logos has a second ray soul and is working through 14|00:01:15|580|00:01:16|700a second ray personality. 15|00:01:17|300|00:01:22|180Our planetary Logos has a second ray soul, yes, but is working through a third ray personality. 16|00:01:22|180|00:01:31|280And continuing, we have the quality of the Earth's complementary planet, which is Venus. 17|00:01:31|560|00:01:35|900It's actually the polar opposite, but in this case, D.K. calls it the complementary planet 18|00:01:35|900|00:01:36|600as well. 19|00:01:37|280|00:01:41|780And then the quality of three planets together which produce an esoteric triangle of force, 20|00:01:42|200|00:01:45|140and I had given some possibilities here. 21|00:01:45|140|00:01:51|980If we want to exclude the Earth and just name three other planets which are fairly local, 22|00:01:52|380|00:01:58|460they would be Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and there's different ways to arrange the meaning 23|00:01:58|980|00:02:01|620of these planets. 24|00:02:02|760|00:02:13|100So now, D.K. is on page 25. We did take a bit of a detour going to A Treatise on White Magic 25|00:02:13|100|00:02:20|260and the astrological section there, which is quite wonderful, and spent time discussing 26|00:02:21|020|00:02:29|820the seven solar systems and the zodiacal signs and the elements and the planes and so forth. 27|00:02:31|160|00:02:33|580Okay, now D.K. goes on, on page 25. 28|00:02:34|240|00:02:42|100I have several times used the phrase “pass through” the centres 29|00:02:42|100|00:02:43|280and forms. 30|00:02:44|900|00:02:51|340There are always subtler energies passing through energies of a more gross nature, which 31|00:02:51|340|00:03:00|780are themselves more refined than still others, and so many energies can occupy the same apparent 32|00:03:01|820|00:03:05|460section of what we perceive as space. 33|00:03:06|460|00:03:14|000This concept of passing through, This concept necessitates the idea of distributing centres 34|00:03:14|820|00:03:24|080to which the incoming energies may go and from which they may pass out again as radiation. 35|00:03:25|580|00:03:34|200D.K. later in the book — he gives us kind of a double diamond picture — this idea of passing 36|00:03:34|200|00:03:42|560through, and if I can remember the page number well enough, it would be probably around page 37|00:03:42|560|00:03:46|020610 in that area. 38|00:03:47|380|00:03:53|000So here is one diagram showing the passing through. 39|00:03:54|580|00:04:01|380We begin with transcending forces from the Great Bear and they pass through transmitting 40|00:04:01|380|00:04:08|340forces and continue to pass through: transforming forces and transfiguring forces, and finally 41|00:04:08|340|00:04:10|960to the planet Earth itself. 42|00:04:11|840|00:04:19|600This double diamond or the dorje of Tibetan ceremonialism is a very powerful figure related 43|00:04:19|600|00:04:23|480to the figure 8 and shows us this process of passing through. 44|00:04:23|640|00:04:28|920The higher ones pass through all the lower ones, the secondary pass through all lower 45|00:04:28|920|00:04:35|220than it, the tertiary through all lower than it, planetary forces pass through the Earth 46|00:04:35|220|00:04:36|400and through each other. 47|00:04:38|500|00:04:50|180When we look at diagram 4, we see the same type of figure only with energies filled in 48|00:04:50|180|00:04:53|260related to the first ray. 49|00:04:53|740|00:05:05|200So the idea of transmission is quite graphically portrayed in these dorje-like figure 8 figures, 50|00:05:05|200|00:05:15|840and we get the idea that subtler energies pass through denser energy fields and continue 51|00:05:15|840|00:05:19|580to reach as low as they possibly can. 52|00:05:20|500|00:05:21|820There are limits, of course. 53|00:05:22|460|00:05:28|260We are told that some influences can descend no lower than a certain plane, etc. 54|00:05:31|300|00:05:36|940So the concept of passing through necessitates the idea of distributing centers. 55|00:05:38|300|00:05:44|180Every chakra is a distributing center, every sun is a chakra, every constellation is a chakra, 56|00:05:44|360|00:05:49|640every group of seven constellations is a chakra, every galaxy is a chakra, and on and on. 57|00:05:49|640|00:05:56|280They are all distributing centers and they receive still higher energies which pass through 58|00:05:56|280|00:06:00|920them and which they join in that passage. 59|00:06:02|320|00:06:05|800Let us say that, suppose the sixth ray energy passes through Mars. 60|00:06:06|520|00:06:11|860The energy of Mars itself joins that sixth ray energy in the passage and continues with 61|00:06:11|860|00:06:12|460it. 62|00:06:12|760|00:06:22|000So the energies become more and more complex as we descend lower and lower into the more 63|00:06:22|000|00:06:22|980dense fields. 64|00:06:24|080|00:06:26|500Some idea of this might be grasped 65|00:06:28|500|00:06:35|100if I gave you the new proposition (new to you though old to esotericists)—well, the 66|00:06:35|100|00:06:37|520real esotericists, who does he mean here? 67|00:06:38|580|00:06:44|420When he talks about a real esotericist, I think he means a master and beyond. 68|00:06:47|360|00:06:51|680So this proposition of the centres in the human etheric body. 69|00:06:53|060|00:06:56|340A new proposition of the centers in the human etheric body: 70|00:06:56|820|00:07:05|640The four centres above the diaphragm—the heart, throat, ajna and head centres——that's 71|00:07:05|640|00:07:12|640an interesting word—are basically and primarily receiving centres. 72|00:07:12|780|00:07:17|780This is a very important section which I have quoted at other times. 73|00:07:19|100|00:07:25|760They are receiving centers, and we want to say “at first” they are. 74|00:07:26|720|00:07:33|860Because when they receive at first, they pass what they receive right through towards the 75|00:07:33|860|00:07:41|220four centers which are stimulated and growing and much more powerful than the higher centers 76|00:07:41|220|00:07:42|080initially. 77|00:07:43|140|00:07:47|980So the four centers above the diaphragm are primarily receiving centers. 78|00:07:48|800|00:07:53|400The centres below the diaphragm—the base of the spine, the sacral, solar plexus 79|00:07:53|620|00:08:02|440and spleen centres——always includes the spleen, which in a way is a substitute for the sun because 80|00:08:02|440|00:08:03|820it is the center of vitality. 81|00:08:04|960|00:08:13|780One wonders whether the non-sacred planet veiled by the sun would not have a lot to 82|00:08:13|780|00:08:20|240do with the splenic nature—with the spleen, the splenic center, and the spleen itself. 83|00:08:21|800|00:08:27|260These centers below the diaphragm are galvanised into activity by the four higher receiving 84|00:08:28|020|00:08:32|180centres. and this is especially at first. 85|00:08:34|280|00:08:42|640This, when accomplished, demonstrates as personality and physical magnetism 86|00:08:43|680|00:08:45|960So, always the personality is the first thing to develop. 87|00:08:46|600|00:08:54|000The elemental vehicles, the lunar lords, are the first things to develop, and that takes 88|00:08:54|000|00:08:59|340the lion's share of human development in terms of years. 89|00:09:00|260|00:09:06|940Let's just say that it takes 25 million years to make the fully developed human being. 90|00:09:10|040|00:09:20|140Well, if it is so, then one can think that all but a few thousand of those 25 million 91|00:09:20|140|00:09:26|780years are going to be dealing with the development of the personality. 92|00:09:27|740|00:09:36|080How long does it take to make a soul from the first degree, or let's just say from the 93|00:09:36|080|00:09:39|680time that the higher power, let us call it, is recognized? 94|00:09:39|940|00:09:44|520Well, a number of thousands of years, but compare that to millions. 95|00:09:45|280|00:09:55|540So let's just say that the radiant higher centers demonstrate at a much later stage 96|00:09:55|540|00:10:00|720of human development than the radiant lower centers, and it takes a long time to make those 97|00:10:00|720|00:10:04|720lower centers radiant as well—just millions and millions of years. 98|00:10:05|160|00:10:14|060Look: 21 million years ago and something, Earth humanity was individualized, and where 99|00:10:14|060|00:10:18|800is the majority of Earth humanity 21 million years later? 100|00:10:20|120|00:10:27|500Still emotionally polarized with some use of the mind, but kama-manas is as far as it's 101|00:10:27|500|00:10:34|020gone for most of those people—although some are still, are even now members of the hierarchy 102|00:10:34|020|00:10:41|310because we do have free will and we can press ahead according to our will, and some have 103|00:10:41|310|00:10:47|270done that—but just think: it's taken 21 million years to produce the average emotionally polarized 104|00:10:47|270|00:10:52|270individual in which the higher centers are not radiant at all. 105|00:10:53|070|00:10:59|630Although they naturally exist and have some effect, maybe the throat center is developing 106|00:10:59|630|00:11:00|410to some extent. 107|00:11:01|210|00:11:11|370So we see how this time span is divided in terms of personality and soul development. 108|00:11:12|190|00:11:18|590When it comes to spiritual—spirit development within what we still call the human being— 109|00:11:18|910|00:11:20|430that's the shortest period yet. 110|00:11:20|810|00:11:32|810Though when we expand spirit development into the realms of possibility far beyond the human, 111|00:11:32|810|00:11:35|990then that takes a huge amount of time. 112|00:11:36|530|00:11:50|730Okay, so anyway, when the higher receiving centers are stimulating the lower centers, 113|00:11:50|730|00:11:57|910we have personality and physical magnetism, and influence until the time comes when there is 114|00:11:57|910|00:12:05|370a reversal in the way of passing—as a soul—around the zodiac. 115|00:12:06|710|00:12:10|490Now he does use that word as a soul, and that is significant. 116|00:12:11|470|00:12:16|570So let's just say there comes a time, the time comes when there is a reversal of the 117|00:12:16|570|00:12:23|550way of passing around the zodiac. And as I've tried to explain before, what this really 118|00:12:23|550|00:12:33|530means is that the human being adapts these various energies from various sources in a 119|00:12:33|530|00:12:45|670new way, and that this way is unitive, integrative rather than separative and selfish and materially 120|00:12:45|670|00:12:47|250focused. 121|00:12:48|030|00:12:53|610That's really what it means in human terms to be reversing the wheel. 122|00:12:54|850|00:13:04|330We take the same energy and we use it in a new manner in the human form, and this is probably 123|00:13:05|130|00:13:12|610reflected in different types of energy flows which are within the human system. 124|00:13:12|610|00:13:24|610I suspect that the figure eight is a very important symbol of energy flow within the 125|00:13:24|610|00:13:32|950human energy system and that it relates very much to the Antakarana, which is mercurial 126|00:13:32|950|00:13:38|950in a strong sense. Mercury being a planet that can be symbolized, I believe, by the numbers 127|00:13:38|950|00:13:46|510888. And Mercury being related to the number 8. 128|00:13:46|630|00:13:47|470Mercury is Buddha. 129|00:13:48|970|00:13:56|090Buddha appears for eight minutes a year, at least he did so when the Wesak Festival was 130|00:13:56|090|00:13:57|890fully going, whether it is or not. 131|00:13:58|230|00:14:08|470At this time there may be debate. But the number eight describes an energy pattern, a flow 132|00:14:08|470|00:14:13|570pattern within the human energy system, and there's probably different variations of 133|00:14:13|570|00:14:20|870that energy pattern which are related to what is called the reversal of the wheel. Because 134|00:14:20|870|00:14:30|610we know that human beings are not simply born in reverse signs one after another, or in progressive 135|00:14:30|610|00:14:32|910signs, Aries to Gemini, one after another. 136|00:14:33|030|00:14:37|370So there's got to be something subtler about this idea of reversing the wheel, and let's 137|00:14:37|370|00:14:39|550look to the microcosm for what it means. 138|00:14:39|690|00:14:48|270It means, in a way, a return of the energies which reach the low and a return of them to 139|00:14:48|270|00:14:48|710the high. 140|00:14:50|210|00:14:55|670Okay, this is - we did review this, so I don't really need to do too much about this. 141|00:14:56|330|00:15:00|950This is symbolised as the revolution of the sun around the zodiac from Aries to Pisces 142|00:15:00|950|00:15:07|110instead of the reverse movement, from Aries to Taurus. and this is repeated in the human 143|00:15:07|110|00:15:07|750frame. 144|00:15:09|950|00:15:11|710That's what I've been trying to drive at. 145|00:15:12|910|00:15:19|870This reversal of the wheel is repeated in the human frame with the change from the stimulation 146|00:15:19|870|00:15:27|630of the lower centers to a return of what has been given to them and an absorption, an upward 147|00:15:27|630|00:15:31|450rising so that there will be a stimulation of the higher centers. 148|00:15:32|040|00:15:37|910This is repeated - This is repeated in the human frame and the four lower centres eventually 149|00:15:37|910|00:15:45|030return that which has come to them. And we often times talk about some of the major channels 150|00:15:45|030|00:15:45|750of return. 151|00:15:46|290|00:15:46|810What are they? 152|00:15:47|390|00:15:59|710Major channels are the base of spine center to the head center, the solar plexus to the 153|00:15:59|710|00:16:06|630heart, the sacral center to the throat center - and of course not in that order. 154|00:16:07|790|00:16:14|290The real order here is the sacral to the throat center, then the solar plexus to the heart, 155|00:16:14|290|00:16:20|690then long afterwards the base of the spine center to the head center. 156|00:16:22|090|00:16:29|850And thus, says the Tibetan, they reverse the process normally followed, which in the normal 157|00:16:30|340|00:16:35|410way is to stimulate the centers below the diaphragm, which is the case for the vast 158|00:16:35|410|00:16:36|530majority of human beings. 159|00:16:37|310|00:16:42|170They thus reverse the process normally followed and the centres above the diaphragm become 160|00:16:42|170|00:16:50|870radio-active, dynamic and magnetic. And therefore we have the highly developed human being at 161|00:16:50|870|00:16:51|670that point. 162|00:16:52|810|00:16:59|850He says this is an intricate occult study, which he does unfold somewhat in books like 163|00:17:00|410|00:17:03|710Esoteric Healing and Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle. 164|00:17:04|250|00:17:10|230This is an intricate occult study and is concerned with the response of the etheric body to the 165|00:17:10|230|00:17:11|150incoming energies. 166|00:17:11|150|00:17:16|790In other words, look to the etheric body for the idea of reversal. 167|00:17:17|290|00:17:29|250Let me put it - look to the etheric body for the playing out of the concepts of reversal 168|00:17:30|570|00:17:35|750or of clockwise and counterclockwise movement. 169|00:17:36|710|00:17:39|490That's where it will be dramatized. 170|00:17:41|270|00:17:47|090And since there is a kind of etheric body in the astral body as well, and there are chakras 171|00:17:47|090|00:17:57|090there, we can expect analogous energy flows there and maybe within the lower mental area 172|00:17:57|090|00:17:59|950in relation to the egoic lotus. 173|00:18:00|670|00:18:05|170Maybe we can expect those kinds of energy flows there as well, but beginning in the 174|00:18:05|170|00:18:14|050etheric body first, because the etheric body is the one that is very active at the first 175|00:18:14|050|00:18:20|590initiation, continues to be active but is influenced by higher vehicles as the initiations 176|00:18:21|430|00:18:22|030proceed. 177|00:18:22|230|00:18:27|270In other words, at the second initiation there is a lot of stimulation of astral chakras, 178|00:18:28|010|00:18:33|550and at the third initiation stimulation of mental chakras and of some of the higher petals 179|00:18:33|550|00:18:34|790of the egoic lotus. 180|00:18:35|850|00:18:42|110Okay, an intricate occult study and is concerned with the response of the etheric body to the 181|00:18:42|110|00:18:42|910incoming energies. 182|00:18:43|590|00:18:51|510It relates finally the lowest centre at the base of the spine to the highest centre, 183|00:18:51|510|00:18:55|910the head centre. and there are many ways that this can be done. 184|00:18:57|350|00:19:02|450This is a correspondence to the relation of the Earth to the Sun. 185|00:19:02|450|00:19:03|290Think this out. 186|00:19:03|390|00:19:05|950This is one of the great hints. 187|00:19:07|710|00:19:17|670And essentially what is being said here is an analogy, an analogy that the relationship 188|00:19:18|870|00:19:27|990of the head center to the base of the spine center, let me get that straight, head center 189|00:19:28|590|00:19:36|650to the base of the spine center is as the relationship of the sun to the earth. 190|00:19:38|450|00:19:43|370So what would be our conclusions based upon this statement? 191|00:19:44|890|00:19:52|690In our conclusion, one conclusion would be that indeed the earth is the base of the spine 192|00:19:52|690|00:19:57|730center in relation to the system of our solar Logos. 193|00:19:59|690|00:20:09|170Now whether it fully functions in that manner, whether a triangle of planets is somehow involved 194|00:20:09|170|00:20:13|110in the function of every chakra, I think these are legitimate considerations. 195|00:20:15|150|00:20:16|030These are debatable. 196|00:20:16|030|00:20:25|890I think when our planetary Logos is sacred and when its monadic ray, which is the first 197|00:20:25|890|00:20:34|610ray, is effective and not occultly ineffective, then I think earth as a base of the spine 198|00:20:34|610|00:20:38|850center in the planetary Logos will at least be fully functioning. 199|00:20:38|850|00:20:46|890Right now, for many of us as human beings, we have, let's say, five centers more or less 200|00:20:46|890|00:20:50|350fully functioning, but the base of the spine center is not. 201|00:20:51|390|00:20:57|150And the full power of the head center is not fully functioning. 202|00:20:57|370|00:21:03|690And thus it may be within the energy system of our solar Logos that earth as a base of 203|00:21:03|690|00:21:07|350the spine center is not fully functioning yet. 204|00:21:07|750|00:21:18|770But as our solar Logos becomes a sacred solar Logos and takes his third initiation, his 205|00:21:18|770|00:21:25|770third cosmic initiation, which I do not believe he has done yet, page 384 of “A Treatise on 206|00:21:25|770|00:21:36|490Cosmic Fire,” then beyond that point our planetary Logos will have to be a sacred planetary Logos 207|00:21:36|490|00:21:42|830because our solar Logos will need a base of the spine through which to function increasingly 208|00:21:42|830|00:21:51|810until his fifth initiation, which may in fact be taken in this incarnation, in this solar 209|00:21:51|810|00:21:57|810system, either the fourth as the climax or the fifth. 210|00:21:57|810|00:22:05|270We don't know yet which it will be because, you know, just as human beings have opportunities 211|00:22:06|090|00:22:12|630to take initiation in a particular incarnation, they may succeed, they may not. 212|00:22:13|790|00:22:14|990What about a solar Logos? 213|00:22:15|210|00:22:23|490Well, in this particular solar system, which is an incarnation, he may succeed in taking 214|00:22:23|490|00:22:29|410the fifth initiation, but he may not and take only the fourth initiation. 215|00:22:29|610|00:22:36|710All of this is trillions of years into the future, at least if the chronology of H.P.B. 216|00:22:36|710|00:22:38|890is to be credited as worthy. 217|00:22:39|950|00:22:42|090So we don't have to worry about that right now. 218|00:22:42|190|00:22:44|830Mostly we have to worry about can we control our astral body? 219|00:22:45|030|00:22:45|910Can we think straight? 220|00:22:46|450|00:22:48|750That's mostly what we're dealing with. 221|00:22:48|750|00:22:57|470Okay, As we work and study over these matters, let us bear in mind always the fact that we 222|00:22:57|470|00:23:03|590are considering the seven rays and their inter-relations in the cosmic process. 223|00:23:03|890|00:23:15|890Well, it's interesting that esoteric astrology is a study that finds its place as volume 224|00:23:15|890|00:23:21|230number three in a five-fold treatise on the seven rays. 225|00:23:23|190|00:23:29|510When I was a devoted astrologer, I still am in a way, I would oftentimes argue for the 226|00:23:29|510|00:23:32|470equality of the astrological factors and the ray factors. 227|00:23:33|630|00:23:44|310At least I wouldn't want to see the astrological factors given, well, a short shrift or a lower 228|00:23:44|310|00:23:44|770place. 229|00:23:44|770|00:23:52|430But it must be admitted that when D.K. is speaking of the importance of the teachings that he 230|00:23:52|430|00:24:02|850has given to humanity, the seven rays are listed first as the third most important teaching 231|00:24:02|850|00:24:09|050he gave, and esoteric astrology is listed fourth. 232|00:24:10|230|00:24:20|650As the fourth most important teaching he gave to humanity, Shambhala is first and the 233|00:24:20|650|00:24:22|410new discipleship is second. 234|00:24:22|550|00:24:26|110This can be found in “The Rays and the Initiations.” 235|00:24:26|450|00:24:32|110I could take a moment and try to find that page for you. 236|00:24:36|530|00:24:38|470And here we are. 237|00:24:38|470|00:24:43|330This is page 251 of “The Rays and Initiations.” 238|00:24:43|550|00:24:47|790And he says, what does he say here? 239|00:24:48|690|00:24:53|530“What are some of the newer truths for which I am responsible as transmitting agent to 240|00:24:53|530|00:24:54|850the world of occult students?” 241|00:24:55|030|00:24:55|850Yes, newer truths. 242|00:24:55|970|00:24:56|970I always call it teachings. 243|00:24:57|070|00:24:58|490That's why I have trouble finding it. 244|00:24:59|090|00:25:02|070“Let me briefly state them in order of their relative importance.” 245|00:25:02|250|00:25:03|690And then he does go on. 246|00:25:04|130|00:25:06|570“The teaching on Shambhala is certainly the first. 247|00:25:08|110|00:25:11|090Teaching on the new discipleship is the second. 248|00:25:12|870|00:25:16|810Teaching on the seven rays is the third. 249|00:25:17|910|00:25:21|750And teaching on the new astrology is the fourth.” 250|00:25:23|070|00:25:31|030And interestingly enough, well, we can't really say, you know, that the second ray is more 251|00:25:31|030|00:25:33|390important than the third ray or anything like that. 252|00:25:33|390|00:25:35|090They're all equally important. 253|00:25:35|330|00:25:37|370But this is the second-ray solar system. 254|00:25:37|490|00:25:46|290This is the solar system in which the second ray, the divine ray, must reach a full expression. 255|00:25:46|410|00:25:53|730So in this solar system, the second ray is the more important and has to take precedence 256|00:25:54|830|00:25:57|630over the third ray. 257|00:25:58|450|00:26:03|950And so when you look at it, the third ray is the great ray of the astrological teaching, 258|00:26:03|950|00:26:10|150and the second ray is the great ray of the teaching on the seven rays. 259|00:26:10|750|00:26:17|010“The seven streams of light must wean away the attention of the scholar from all that 260|00:26:17|010|00:26:21|270has been found and sought and used,” something like that. 261|00:26:21|570|00:26:25|870It's in the law of repulse on the second ray. 262|00:26:26|270|00:26:30|850So the second ray is associated with the teaching of the seven rays particularly, and the third 263|00:26:30|850|00:26:32|750ray with esoteric astrology. 264|00:26:34|270|00:26:38|090And we have to keep that priority, that hierarchical priority. 265|00:26:38|970|00:26:44|730So that's why he does say, “Look, we are considering the seven rays above all.” 266|00:26:45|270|00:26:54|310And as we know when we study esoteric astrology, every astrological factor we mention has a 267|00:26:54|310|00:26:56|090ray associated with it. 268|00:26:56|550|00:26:58|710A planet has a ray. 269|00:27:00|270|00:27:03|010Solar Logoi have rays. 270|00:27:04|950|00:27:07|610Constellations of the zodiac have rays. 271|00:27:07|790|00:27:12|890And I wouldn't be surprised, he does hint at it, that the great super-constellations, 272|00:27:13|030|00:27:17|170which are chakras in the one about whom naught may be said, they have rays as well. 273|00:27:18|930|00:27:20|090Rays are foundational. 274|00:27:20|830|00:27:28|430Now, if you look at how we go from the one to the two to the three to the seven to the 275|00:27:28|430|00:27:34|750twelve to the forty-nine to the three forty-three and so forth, the twelve definitely follow 276|00:27:34|750|00:27:35|630the seven. 277|00:27:36|630|00:27:41|930And if you put that all together, the first three, then the seven, then the twelve, you 278|00:27:41|930|00:27:45|590get the master number twenty-two, which speaks for itself. 279|00:27:46|410|00:27:53|050Okay, we are considering the seven rays and their interrelations in the cosmic process. 280|00:27:53|250|00:28:01|030We are concerned esoterically with: 1. The seven rays and the twelve signs of the zodiac. 281|00:28:03|690|00:28:13|830Okay, now that's a bit like mixing the testimony of the seven solar Logoi or seven solar systems 282|00:28:13|830|00:28:16|130as they work through the twelve signs of the zodiac. 283|00:28:16|570|00:28:17|430We discussed that. 284|00:28:18|650|00:28:26|9102. The seven rays and the twelve Creative Hierarchies. and every one of those rays, every one of 285|00:28:26|910|00:28:29|090those hierarchies is ruled by a ray. 286|00:28:29|290|00:28:31|950And this I think you have seen. 287|00:28:32|430|00:28:37|910Let me just find the “Treatise on Cosmic Fire,” okay, “Treatise on Cosmic Fire.” 288|00:28:38|590|00:28:46|590And right here in the A.A.B. diagrams, diagram number, let's try that one, okay. 289|00:28:48|610|00:28:52|650You see here, yeah, okay. 290|00:28:53|590|00:29:00|270So if we zoom this up a bit, we will see that every one of these creative hierarchies is 291|00:29:00|270|00:29:02|130connected with a ray. 292|00:29:02|750|00:29:07|270Here it goes, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. 293|00:29:08|150|00:29:11|710And these are the hierarchies that are found on our cosmic physical plane. 294|00:29:11|810|00:29:17|170They all have a ray, actually they have a number of rays that can be associated with 295|00:29:17|170|00:29:22|550them, but they all have a ray and they all have a particular sign of the zodiac, as you 296|00:29:22|550|00:29:26|010will see here: Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, etc. 297|00:29:27|690|00:29:36|430Yeah, it all works out quite well because passing through Leo is certainly ray one, 298|00:29:36|570|00:29:40|910passing through Virgo is certainly ray two, passing through Libra ray three indeed, passing 299|00:29:40|910|00:29:46|250through Scorpio ray four, but look at this: passing through Capricorn ray five. 300|00:29:47|370|00:29:57|070And in the normal expression of the constellations that express the fifth ray, Capricorn is not 301|00:29:57|070|00:30:01|570included, but there is definitely a connection with the fifth ray and Capricorn in all the 302|00:30:01|570|00:30:06|910processes of concretion, over which the fifth ray rules. 303|00:30:07|510|00:30:14|710Ray six, yes, Sagittarius indeed, but ray seven, according to what the Tibetan has given 304|00:30:14|710|00:30:17|550us, does not pass through Aquarius. 305|00:30:18|230|00:30:26|370They merely coincide for approximately 2,500 years, or as D.K. once said in the Treatise 306|00:30:26|370|00:30:35|810on White Magic: 2,200 years, which is closer to the 2,160 years of a normal precessional 307|00:30:35|810|00:30:36|190age. 308|00:30:36|290|00:30:41|390But anyway, the seventh ray in Aquarius are now for the seventh time in the Aryan age 309|00:30:43|750|00:30:50|850associated, but the seventh ray, at least from what D.K. has given us, is not transmitted 310|00:30:51|390|00:30:54|310by or through the constellation Aquarius itself. 311|00:30:54|430|00:31:02|690Anyway, this table of the seven creative hierarchies is something that we can and will study together 312|00:31:02|690|00:31:04|170as we go. 313|00:31:06|990|00:31:12|590So, he says we're interested in the seven rays and the twelve creative hierarchies— 314|00:31:13|350|00:31:19|470an intricate study. Why should certain rays be related to certain hierarchies, and what 315|00:31:19|470|00:31:25|290are the implications of that relationship? And look, look at humanity. 316|00:31:25|810|00:31:34|410Here is humanity, right there, related to the fourth ray and Scorpio. 317|00:31:34|850|00:31:36|930There's our human creative hierarchy. 318|00:31:37|650|00:31:39|830We are a fourth-ray soul kingdom. 319|00:31:40|610|00:31:43|110We are the fourth of the manifested creative hierarchies. 320|00:31:43|330|00:31:50|190Fourth ray is extremely important in our planetary function, and Scorpio, which is the major 321|00:31:50|190|00:31:56|270sign through which the fourth ray comes, is our sign—the sign ruling humanity. 322|00:31:58|270|00:32:03|930So much can be learned from this particular table, and certainly much about humanity, 323|00:32:03|950|00:32:05|850by considering the fourth ray. 324|00:32:06|950|00:32:10|190He keeps on repeating “seven rays this, seven rays that.” 325|00:32:10|490|00:32:15|130He's trying to emphasize for us that this is indeed, even though it is an astrology 326|00:32:15|130|00:32:23|270book, a book about the seven rays and how the seven rays relate to esoteric astrology. 327|00:32:23|430|00:32:24|810Now that is a simplification. 328|00:32:25|870|00:32:28|690We astrologers—we certainly can't get lost in complexity. 329|00:32:28|830|00:32:30|470It happens over and over again. 330|00:32:31|170|00:32:36|510And when we start moving towards the number seven rather than the number twelve, things 331|00:32:36|510|00:32:39|830do become a little more simple. 332|00:32:40|210|00:32:47|890Though D.K. is never one to tell us that intricacy is to be avoided. 333|00:32:48|710|00:32:54|730Sometimes he avoids discussing the intricacy that he mentions as present, but only to spare 334|00:32:54|730|00:32:57|510us something we could not understand and would probably confuse. 335|00:32:58|370|00:33:02|510But one day the intricacy does have to be known. 336|00:33:03|260|00:33:10|890And 3. The seven rays and the planets as they govern the twelve 337|00:33:10|890|00:33:11|730houses of expression. 338|00:33:12|670|00:33:23|230So we have talked about the different rays expressed by the planets, either the personality 339|00:33:23|230|00:33:32|490ray or the soul ray, and it is my impression that when he gives a non-sacred planet, he's 340|00:33:32|490|00:33:36|950talking about a personality ray; when he gives a ray for a sacred planet, we are talking 341|00:33:36|950|00:33:41|270about a soul ray. 342|00:33:41|730|00:33:54|250And as I pointed out to you, page 517 is one of the places where this can be found, and 343|00:33:54|250|00:34:00|510he deals with the different chakras and the planets passing through them, and I think— 344|00:34:00|510|00:34:03|190does he mention the—yep, he mentions the rays. 345|00:34:04|730|00:34:10|650Pluto first ray, Venus fifth ray, Earth third ray, Sun second ray, Mars sixth ray, Uranus 346|00:34:10|650|00:34:17|490seventh ray, Pluto first ray, and then for disciples he includes Neptune sixth ray and 347|00:34:17|490|00:34:18|890Uranus seventh ray as well. 348|00:34:19|330|00:34:28|270So this is a treatise on the seven rays, and all these factors that he will necessarily 349|00:34:28|270|00:34:32|550discuss in an astrology book—The Science of the Zodiac, the Hierarchies and the Planets— 350|00:34:32|990|00:34:35|410will be undertaken from a ray perspective. 351|00:34:37|370|00:34:37|590Okay. 352|00:34:41|010|00:34:47|910As we ponder and think, did you get the sense we have to do that with a book like this? 353|00:34:47|970|00:34:57|790I know it's very mental stuff, but one day all of this mental attention, reasoning you 354|00:34:57|790|00:35:04|690might say, does become pure reason or straight knowledge or intuition or direct knowing, 355|00:35:04|970|00:35:09|830all of those things related to the Buddhic plane, but we have to earn our way there. 356|00:35:10|730|00:35:14|590Some people think that, okay, I'm just going to get it straight from my astral body, I'm 357|00:35:14|590|00:35:16|230just going to know I don't have to study. 358|00:35:16|230|00:35:28|490But, if we don't study, then the mind does not have the ability to clothe our intuitions 359|00:35:28|490|00:35:33|790in the proper verbal and symbolic form. 360|00:35:34|610|00:35:43|670So the true bridge to the intuition is via the well-trained mind, and then when we reach 361|00:35:43|670|00:35:49|910the intuitive realm, we will not be aghast. We will be able to correlate and interpret 362|00:35:49|910|00:35:56|990that which is revealed to us, which is not always the case, or often not the case, with 363|00:35:56|990|00:36:00|670the mystical approach, the strictly mystical approach to intuition. 364|00:36:01|270|00:36:06|070In other words, let us assume that the mystic does not often have the well-trained mind, 365|00:36:07|130|00:36:12|630and so a revelation comes but it becomes very hard to interpret, and then it can be easily 366|00:36:13|550|00:36:19|930misinterpreted or distorted, a glamorous interpretation given to the revelation of intuition. 367|00:36:20|390|00:36:25|630This will not happen when we are very exacting in our studies. 368|00:36:27|170|00:36:34|330Okay, As we ponder and think and as we correlate the various aspects of the teaching, we shall 369|00:36:34|330|00:36:42|430find three propositions emerging which govern the inflow of life to the planet and to the 370|00:36:42|430|00:36:43|930individual man. 371|00:36:44|150|00:36:45|590Three propositions. 372|00:36:46|950|00:36:48|450He's repeating these, I believe. 373|00:36:49|150|00:36:54|390These have been laid down earlier in A Treatise on the Seven Rays but it might profit us 374|00:36:54|390|00:36:56|050to state them here: 375|00:36:57|210|00:37:00|610Okay, proposition one. 376|00:37:00|790|00:37:03|850Oh, this is a tough one here. 377|00:37:03|850|00:37:12|670Okay, he didn't exactly state these in an earlier presentation. 378|00:37:13|050|00:37:24|090This has been one over which my astrological friends have debated long and hard, and I 379|00:37:24|090|00:37:32|450don't know that I'll be able to throw any definitive light upon it, but maybe I'll be 380|00:37:32|450|00:37:36|710able to offer some alternative interpretations. 381|00:37:37|770|00:37:38|470Proposition One— 382|00:37:39|070|00:37:44|090Every ray life is an expression of a solar life 383|00:37:45|550|00:37:53|090Okay, a solar systemic, a solar Logoic life, and every planet is therefore: 1. Linked with 384|00:37:53|090|00:37:54|630every other planetary life. 385|00:37:54|630|00:38:01|570Well, the planets are the chakras within a solar Logos. 386|00:38:03|590|00:38:09|630Well, since the chakras come from the monad, you know, in a human being, they are vortices 387|00:38:09|630|00:38:14|830of force which are essentially emanating from monadic life, probably from the third aspect 388|00:38:14|830|00:38:22|630of the monadic life, you begin to wonder whether the planetary Logoi themselves, since they 389|00:38:22|630|00:38:31|070are chakras of the solar Logos, are not an inherent aspect of solar Logoic life. 390|00:38:31|190|00:38:38|010In other words, somehow the planetary Logoi are parts of the solar Logos. 391|00:38:38|010|00:38:44|230They are included within his being, almost as if they are not independent beings at all, 392|00:38:44|230|00:38:48|810but are pervaded by his particular identity. 393|00:38:50|350|00:38:57|390Philosophically, this deals with the pyramidal nature of the universe, but let's just say 394|00:38:57|390|00:39:04|330obviously a ray life is a solar life, and a planet is an expression of a solar life, 395|00:39:04|530|00:39:11|270so all the different chakras are part of the same solar being, and so therefore naturally, 396|00:39:12|010|00:39:16|950as functions within the same solar being, they are linked with each other. 397|00:39:17|400|00:39:24|170And if we could see it, we would see all the lines of connection linking our particular 398|00:39:24|170|00:39:28|790planet to every other planet in the solar system, and each planet to every other planet 399|00:39:28|790|00:39:35|290in the solar system, just the way we have these lines of etheric energy linking every 400|00:39:35|290|00:39:37|310chakra to every other chakra. 401|00:39:37|690|00:39:46|570So okay, so he's talking about planets now, that every planet is therefore 2. Animated by 402|00:39:46|570|00:39:53|850energy pouring into it from the seven solar systems, of which ours is one. 403|00:39:53|950|00:40:07|790You see how important it is to learn what are really the seven solar systems of which 404|00:40:07|790|00:40:08|450ours is one. 405|00:40:09|310|00:40:11|430Are they constellations? 406|00:40:12|730|00:40:15|530C and SDS, yes. 407|00:40:16|030|00:40:20|910Or are they simply solar systems? 408|00:40:21|810|00:40:22|670Are they one or the other? 409|00:40:22|790|00:40:22|990Okay. 410|00:40:24|290|00:40:30|850So we know that the planets are animated, we do suspect, by neighboring solar Logoi. 411|00:40:31|090|00:40:40|190We also know that in a deeper way they can be considered tenuously animated by great 412|00:40:40|190|00:40:44|190constellational chakras in the one about whom naught may be said. 413|00:40:46|490|00:40:54|910So okay, so every planet is animated by energy pouring into it from the seven solar systems, 414|00:40:54|910|00:40:58|090of which ours is one. 415|00:40:58|870|00:41:03|050In other words, maybe Sirius will animate particularly a planet, maybe it's Venus. 416|00:41:03|490|00:41:07|610Okay, that's a really good possibility because when I've thought about the rays of Sirius 417|00:41:07|610|00:41:13|550and the rays of Venus, I think they're just about identical, namely a second-ray major 418|00:41:13|550|00:41:21|890monad, a sixth-ray sub-monad, a fifth-ray soul, and a second-ray personality, something 419|00:41:21|890|00:41:22|570of that nature. 420|00:41:23|110|00:41:24|470At least that's my speculation. 421|00:41:26|850|00:41:29|350Our sun maybe animates Jupiter particularly. 422|00:41:31|470|00:41:44|650Maybe the planet Mars can be considered to be animated by one of the centaurs, Alpha 423|00:41:44|650|00:41:49|830or Beta Centaurs. There's a sacral center connection there, and Mars is most definitely 424|00:41:50|290|00:41:51|050a sacral center. 425|00:41:51|170|00:41:57|950Anyway, that would require some real working out at this point, but you get the idea that 426|00:41:57|950|00:42:02|510the seven solar systems have connections with the seven sacred planets and probably 427|00:42:02|510|00:42:04|970with the non-sacred planets as well. 428|00:42:05|990|00:42:12|810Yeah, one of my colleagues, Nicholas Nelenn, believes that one of these solar systems is 429|00:42:13|570|00:42:22|350Fomalhaut, not Formalhaut but Fomalhaut, and that has a special connection. The solar 430|00:42:22|350|00:42:31|430Logos of the star Fomalhaut in the mouth of the Piscis Austrinus, the great fish, is 431|00:42:31|430|00:42:34|630connected with Neptune, and that would make a lot of sense as well. 432|00:42:35|550|00:42:42|270We have to work out these cosmic relations, but probably more important at this moment 433|00:42:42|270|00:42:47|710that we get the microcosmic perspective so we can do something with these astrological 434|00:42:47|710|00:42:48|150energies. 435|00:42:48|150|00:42:57|590Okay, so every planet is linked with every other planetary life, is animated by force 436|00:42:57|590|00:43:02|290from the seven solar systems, and is activated by three streams of force. 437|00:43:02|450|00:43:08|710Every planet… so let's remind ourselves what we're saying here. Every planet… we are discussing 438|00:43:08|710|00:43:26|330the planets and the energy streams, energy streams which animate the planets, 439|00:43:28|810|00:43:34|5503. Actuated by three streams of force: a. Coming from solar systems other than our own. 440|00:43:34|550|00:43:41|950Well, that to me just says solar systems, okay, one of the other six. 441|00:43:42|650|00:43:49|670b. Our own solar system. and c. Our own planetary life. … in other words, our planetary life is 442|00:43:49|670|00:43:52|390influencing the other planets as well. 443|00:43:53|050|00:43:57|470Forces of our own solar system, all the planets and the sun are influencing every planet. 444|00:43:57|470|00:44:05|730And the other solar systems are also influencing the various planets. 445|00:44:06|230|00:44:11|790So that's the first one, and that's fairly easy to explain. 446|00:44:14|050|00:44:16|850So, actuated by three streams of force. 447|00:44:17|190|00:44:18|450Okay, now what's the next thing? 448|00:44:18|870|00:44:19|630Proposition two. 449|00:44:21|190|00:44:23|030Okay, Proposition Two— 450|00:44:23|790|00:44:31|550Each one of the ray lives is the recipient and the custodian of energies coming from… 451|00:44:31|670|00:44:33|430Now what do we mean by the ray lives? 452|00:44:33|550|00:44:34|810What do we really mean by that? 453|00:44:35|610|00:44:46|310Okay, in Shambhala there are seven spirits before the throne… no, seven spirits, seven 454|00:44:46|310|00:44:51|790spirits before the throne, the throne of Sanat Kumara. 455|00:44:53|890|00:45:09|710These are, let's call them intraplanetary… P-L-Y… heavens, I'll just write it. 456|00:45:11|070|00:45:12|750Intraplanetary ray lords. 457|00:45:13|050|00:45:19|230There are also extraplanetary ray lords. In other words, what you might consider is that 458|00:45:19|230|00:45:23|890every planet itself is a ray lord, but I'm talking about ray lords inside our planet. 459|00:45:25|050|00:45:34|090So each one of these ray lives is the recipient and custodians of energy coming from… 460|00:45:34|090|00:45:38|470Now maybe this is a special case that I've been talking about. 461|00:45:39|550|00:45:43|490Okay, 1. The seven solar systems. 462|00:45:44|330|00:45:48|070Okay, now what can we call a ray life? 463|00:45:48|210|00:45:49|770This is one type of ray life. 464|00:45:50|830|00:45:54|890Let's just say types of ray lives. 465|00:45:56|690|00:46:02|470One kind of ray life, and I'll try to make this a little clearer. 466|00:46:03|150|00:46:07|470Types of ray lives: one type of ray life is intraplanetary. 467|00:46:08|390|00:46:22|090Then planetary Logoi are also ray lives, and solar Logoi are also ray lives. 468|00:46:22|770|00:46:34|570And even the constellational chakras, you know like Great Bear, Little Bear, 469|00:46:35|730|00:46:43|230whoops, that's not going to do it, Little Bear, etc., are ray lives. 470|00:46:43|850|00:46:48|970So each one of these ray lives, each one of the ray lives, 471|00:46:53|090|00:46:56|770and we want to know the level at which D.K. is speaking of these, 472|00:46:57|530|00:47:01|550Each one of the ray lives is the recipient and custodian of energies coming from, okay, 473|00:47:02|410|00:47:04|490coming from the seven solar systems. 474|00:47:04|670|00:47:12|070Well, if we call the seven solar systems simply as seven solar Logoi, 475|00:47:12|070|00:47:19|450then we're going to have to talk about some lesser type of recipient. 476|00:47:20|070|00:47:29|290So is, let's just say here, let's just ask ourselves here, 477|00:47:29|290|00:47:43|570is the recipient a, whoops, oh,
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