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cycles A service project of The School of Ageless Wisdom Cycles is a monthly publication of The School of Ageless Wisdom. The members of the School are experimenting with rejoining astrology and astronomy. The experiment is called Astrochemistry and involves using astronomical calculation to determine cyclic energy patterns and the works of Alice A. Bailey and the Agni Yoga series as aids in determining the meaning and significance of these cycles. This information is intended to be useful in daily life. Disciple/Initiate: Taurus – Illumined living. The Light of Life. SPIRITUAL OPPORTUNITY The School will be open from 7 am, Sunday, June 11, for study and meditation. The Great Invocation will be sounded by all present every half hour. Candle lighting and group meditation begin at 7:30 pm. We now arrive at the last of the twelve signs which we have been considering and the last of those which affect humanity. It is also the second sign which — after the reorientation preceding discipleship — produces changes and opportunity for the disciple. We come also to the sign which is called “the sign of the major life incentive,” because Tau- Festival in Taurus p rus is the symbol of desire in all its phases. Whether the subjective man is impelled by desire, or the disciple is driven forth upon the path of return by the urge of aspiration, or whether the initiate is controlled by the will to cooperate with the Plan, he is, nevertheless, being responsive to the most potent manifestation of a little known and understood aspect of divinity, to which we give the inadequate name of the Will of God. (Esoteric Astrology, pp 370-371) Now, as the Shamballa force is beginning to pour into the world, man is seeking another interpretation of God’s will which will not involve the hitherto blind acquiescence and unavoidable acceptance of the inscrutable dictates of a potent, inescapable Providence, but which will produce an understanding cooperation with the divine Plan and an enlightened fusion of the individual will World Invocation Day, FESTIVAL OF GOODWILL Candle lighting & Full Sun Meditation At the time of the full moon, the moon is completely out of the way of the Sun’s radiation to the Earth. This is the time of highest spiritual potential and the time that the school holds a public meditation. All are welcome to this planetary service. Sun 11 June 2006, 7 am - 7:30 PM New Moon Meditation We also have a meditation at the time of the new moon. All are welcome. Mon 26 June 2006, at 7:00 PM (map on last page) Key Word for the Disciple: “I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light.” Soul-Light of Taurus : The penetrating Light of the Path. This is a beam of light, streaming forth from the point in Aries, and revealing the area of light control. 1 with the great, divine will and this for the greater good of the whole. For this desirable attitude there is worldwide preparation going forward in a simple and unobtrusive manner through the gradual fomentation of the will-to-good everywhere and the demand, so universally voiced, that human conditions may be more truly enlightened, more acutely polarised for the benefit of the whole and more definitely subordinated to the innate divine urge for beauty, synthesis and the free expression of the hidden mystery which is to be found at the heart of all forms. It is going forward also through the constant attempt to comprehend and interpret the Plan for humanity, as its broad outlines begin to become apparent to the developing intelligence of man. (Esoteric Astrology, pp 371-372) There is at this time, owing to the influx of the Shamballa force, the establishing of a peculiar relation or alignment between the constellation, Taurus (with its own specific alignment with the Pleiades and Great Bear) the planet, Pluto, and our Earth. This produces much of the present world difficulty and one which the modern astrologer would do well to consider. It constitutes a major cosmic triangle at this time, conditioning much that is now happening. This Shamballa force is that which “fans or intensifies the light by the removal of obstructions and proceeds from far distant places, pouring through the eye of illumination into those spheres of influence upon the sorrowful planet, the Earth, impelling the Bull upon its onward rush.” So speaks the Old Commentary. The import of this is that the energy of will — newly released by Sanat Kumara upon our planet — emanates, via the head centre of the planetary Logos, from the Great Bear; it is stepped down in vibration via one of the Pleiades (hence its influence upon matter and hence also its pronounced Taurian effects upon humanity) and so enters into the solar system. It is there absorbed by that major centre of our planetary life to which we give the name, Shamballa. Its effect is necessarily twofold. It produces in certain nations, races and individuals, a welling up of the self-will or of the willto-power which is characteristic of the developed lower nature, the personality aspect of integrated selfhood. It produces — though less readily — a stimulation of the will-to-serve the plan as it Pleiades Star Cluster from hubblesite.org Credit: NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech Image Type: Astronomical STScI-PRC2004-20 2 is grasped by the world aspirants, the world disciples and initiates. Thus are the purposes of Deity materialised. Owing to the world glamour, the true purpose and ideal set before our planetary forces by the all-creating Will become distorted by many people. They are not polarised in the divine will but are as yet centred in their personalities and hence only the few appreciate the beauty of the intended group life, group purpose and group fusion. Group living tends to the fulfillment of free will in service and a free subordination of the lower will to the higher purpose in group formation. Through the glamour contacted, however, this group activity and life becomes twisted into the imposed will and the concept of the super-state. This gives a clue to much that is happening today and to the headstrong progress of the glamoured peoples, to the stiffening of individuals in their separative, wrong idealisms and to their acceptance of the imposition of a rule of life and an order of living which is imposed upon them by force and which is not the free expression of a free people. The same force, secondly, brings to other peoples and individuals a measure of illumination — an illumination which reveals the underlying synthesis, which indicates the dualism which must finally vanish and which indicates also the secret of right human relations. One reaction produces the onward rush of the materialistic systems of life, thought and desire, dashing blindly forward in the force of their own momentum and producing a stage of powerful expression and active movement; the other demonstrates in a far vision of possibility and a steady movement forward in spite of the immediate dangers and difficulties. (E.A., pp 376-378) We come now to a brief study of the Rulers of this sign. As Taurus is so close, esoterically speaking, to the sign Aries which — in this world cycle — is the sign of beginning, it constitutes, relatively speaking, a very complex aggregation of forces, being related not only to Aries with its cosmic contacts, but also to the Pleiades and the Great Bear. Yet at the same time, it is very simple in its expression for it is governed by only two planets. Venus is its exoteric ruler and Vulcan its esoteric and hierarchical ruler. We touch upon one of the mysteries of the Ageless Wisdom. Venus holds a unique relation to the Earth, different to that of any other planet and this, therefore, brings about a much closer relation between Taurus and the Earth than perhaps exists in any other zodiacal relation where our planet is concerned. In saying this, I mean in this particular world cycle and it the peculiar stage of evolutionary unfoldment at which mankind now finds itself. All is in a state of flux and change; as man unfolds his consciousness, other constellations may come into pronounced activity in conjunction with the controlling sign and still others may become more remote in their contact and effect. Today, however, Taurus, Venus and the Earth have a very close karmic relation and a very definite dharma to work out together. Just what that karma and relationship may prove eventually to be lies beyond ordinary human understanding but some idea of it may be gained by relating in your mind the words: Will, Desire, Light and Plan. In voicing it thus, I but step down and distort the relation, but until men can think in simple symbols and without words and can interpret these hitherto unrecognized symbols correctly, more it is not possible to add. SPRING ‘SIGN’ CONFUSION The Universe is NOT confused, but the SUN DID ENTER PISCES, on March 11; will enter Aries on April 18; will enter Taurus on May 14; and will enter Gemini on June 21 at the Summer Solstice. The Festivals often vary from the supposed Aries, Taurus, Gemini Energies. The SPRING FESTIVALS 2006 will be on Wednesday, April 12 (EASTER FESTIVAL); Friday, May 12 (WESAK FESTIVAL); and Sunday, June 11 (CHRIST FESTIVAL). The meanings and significance of the Festivals does not alter, regardless of the specific dates. To understand the relation of Venus and the Earth, I would have you ponder on what I earlier gave in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. The entire relationship has been summed up in the words: The planet Venus is to the planet Earth what the higher Self is to the Personality. Remember that the planet Venus is one of the seven sacred planets whereas the Earth is not. This statement involves, as you can see, a deep mystery of relativity, of interplay and of eventual revelation. This revelation as to the relation of Earth’s alter ego to the world of human life will only be revealed at the third initiation, at which time all glamour and illusion is dissipated and “the light which shines through the eye of the Bull will be unimpeded” and carry light into the darkness. (E.A., pp 382-384) quently acquire the facility to penetrate into the world of the Hierarchy and reach eventually the door to the Way of the higher Evolution. He will, again consequently, function efficiently in the three worlds as the serving disciple. Discipleship Taurus: Ruler–Vulcan, Ray–1st We are pressed to move forward without delay, without misused energy or wasted time, into the life of simplicity and spiritual power. From DINA II, pg. 197-199 Instruction anent the antahkarana – from the group angle – It is a reflection – a conscious focused attitude – carried forward in all life circumstances, which automatically registers the events conditioning the life of humanity. It therefore creates a stream of ascending energy which is tinctured by the life quality and the ray characteristics of the group personnel. Along this stream both the ascending and the descending life quality and ray characteristics can pass at will, and the disciple will increasingly register the “things of the spirit”; he will conse- In this paragraph you have indicated the spiritual, meditative way of life of the individual disciple in relation to his own soul, and later to the Ashram; you have the group way of life, as it penetrates into the Hierarchy, and you have also the hierarchical technique which enables that great Group to penetrate into a still higher spiritual center and bring down The entire Science of Invocation and Evocation is contained in the word “meditation” 3 from Shamballa that understanding of divine Purpose which will precipitate as the hierarchical Plan; this will enable the Hierarchy to form a great serving group. No matter how high you may go in the scale of Being, you will find – from the fourth kingdom of nature onward – that the technique of meditation governs all expansions of consciousness, all registration of Plan or Purpose and, in fact, the entire process of evolutionary unfoldment. It is a technique of spiritual apprehension, of focusing attention on some level of consciousness or other, and also of originating modes of contact. The entire Science of Invocation and Evocation is contained in the word “meditation”; this science ranges from the subjective, unconscious appeal of the inchoate, voiceless masses, through many phases, until it attains that high mode of scientific invocation which gov- erns the contact made in the Council Chamber of Shamballa with extra-planetary sources of spiritual inflow. It is through meditation in some form or another that contact is made; this again is progressive in nature. The formulated idea of the unspiritual man to make a contact with that which will later condition his life and lead to a betterment of his daily life in a material sense, or which will make living possible, is perhaps the lowest aspect; the brooding, experimental thinking of the scientist or artist is another form of meditation and higher in purpose and in intention, and this meditative process is better formulated and has (if you think correctly) definite group implications. The mode whereby the Members of Hierarchy and the personnel of their Ashrams arrive at an intense spiritual perception, and arrive also at a selfless formulation of the divine Plan which will implement divine Purpose in the world, is likewise an ex- the technique of meditation governs all expansions of consciousness pansion of all previous meditations; whilst the concentrated clear and dynamic invocation of the spiritual Beings who have created – or more accurately – have formed Shamballa, is the highest form of meditation possible upon our planet. It might also be stated that it is meditation which is responsible for transforming the desire of the ordinary human The Great Invocation From the Point of Light within the Mind of God Let Light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Eatth From the point of Love within the Heart of God Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth From the Center where the Will of God is known let Purpose guide the little wills of men The Purpose which the Masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men Let the Plan of Love and Light work out. And may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth. The Hodge 301 Cluster: Multiple Generations of Stars in the Tarantula Nebula 4 being upon our planet into the spiritual will, which is ever the agent of the Purpose. It is therefore meditation which produces individual, group and planetary alignment, and this alignment is always the first stage of the meditation objective and the final or permanent stage attained. Think on this. Meditation is also eliminative in its effects and (if I may use such a term) ejects out of the individual and out of the group that which is undesirable – from the angle of the immediate spiritual goal. Meditation is essentially the highest instrument and the perfected consummation of the third divine aspect, that of intelligent activity, and – as I have earlier pointed out – is from every possible angle carried on within the ring-pass-not of the Universal Mind. It is the essential, divine Prompter, the predominant creative agent, and the factor which fuses and blends every aspect in the great Hierarchy of Being which is related to the basic spiritual nature of our planet; this was our major inheritance from the previous solar system – the Mind or Active Intellect. Meditation brings into creative alignment instinct, intellect and the intuition, as well as conscious Identification. It relates (in an indissoluble unity) the so-called lower or concrete mind, the group mind, the hierarchical mind and the universal Mind; it leads to a conscious alignment of the disciple’s centers and also of the three planetary Centers; it is invocative, demanding, fusing, receptive and distributory in nature. In the disciple it is the agent which creates or builds the antahkarana, controls – via the soul or the Spiritual Triad – the head center, M101 (also nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy) lies in the northern circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major (The Great Bear) Credit for Hubble Image: NASA and ESA which is the point of focus, of spiritual appeal and of spiritual reception; it controls also the ajna center (the center between the eyebrows) which, in the disciple, is the prime agent for the distribution of spiritual energy. In the group, meditation leads to the fusion of the group personnel, to their united invocative appeal, and – when invocation has evoked response – it leads to group receptivity to that which has been spiritually demanded, and thus to the spiritual service of the group. In the group, meditation leads to the fusion of the group personnel, to their united invocative appeal, and – when invocation has evoked response – it leads to group receptivity to that which has been spiritually demanded, and thus to the spiritual service of the group. 5 In the Hierarchy, meditation takes two major forms, and (you must remember) in that great spiritual Center meditation is an instinctual habit and needs no forced process: 1. Meditation is that which sets in motion hierarchical response to the invocative appeal rising from the three worlds, and mainly to the invocative appeal carried forward consciously by all who pray, all who make mystical appeal and all who employ the method of occult meditation and direct invocation. 2. Meditation is the instinctual mode whereby the Hierarchy – in response to the invocation from the three worlds – approaches the higher Center, Shamballa; then the Hierarchy evokes the energies, the Beings and the spiritual inflow which hierarchical service in the immediate future requires. It is also – in a unique sense – the technique whereby the Masters themselves prepare for the sixth initiation, thus conditioning the Path of Life upon which they will eventually find themselves and pass thence to higher cosmic undertakings. Astrochemistry Mar Jan Feb m n x Astrological Signs Nov Dec Sep Oct v w t u Jul Aug r s Virgo Libra Aquarius Capricorn x Sagitarius w v Scorpio q Apr p Mar o n Ecliptic Ophiuchus m May Jun Leo t s u r Cancer o q Taurus Gemini Map of the Astronomical Constellations Aries n Pisces p Orion The bar at the top of this chart represents the distribution of the astrological signs throughout the year. Each sign is one twelfth of the year. Below it is a map of the zodiacal constellations as they ap- pear in the sky. The straight line through them represents the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun through the sky. Note that the signs and the constellations do not match in time any longer, and that the Sun appears to be in some constellations longer than others (44 days for Virgo and only 8 days for Scorpio). Also that the ecliptic passes through a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus. BROTHERHOOD 119. It may be noticed that patience is developed to the extreme in certain people while others are totally lacking in this quality. What is the reason for this? Such a basic quality cannot be a matter of chance. Know that the possessor of patience has built it up in many lives. A patient man is a worker of vast experience. Only in great labors does a man cognize the worthlessness of irritation. Before the Great Image he perceives the complete insignificance of transitory manifestations. Without many testings it is impossible to appraise and distinguish the qualities of manifestations in life. One should not assume that patience is a distinction conferred without reason; on the contrary, it belongs to the qualities that have been earned with special difficulty, both in the earthly and in the subtle sojourn. Hence, the patient man is rich in experience while the impatient one is a novice in life. Thus let us remember, for the Path. 120. Independence of action is an indispensable quality. It is likewise not easily acquired. It may slip into arbitrariness or weaken to the point of dissolution. Every Teacher exerts his efforts to instill effective independent activity in the disciple, but how is one to reconcile this with Hierarchy? There are many misinterpretations impeding the encompassing of this concept. Whole treatises can be written about the contradiction between independent action The Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant 6 and Hierarchy. There will be found very cunning whisperers who will try to prove that in this manner the immutability of Hierarchy is being shaken. The whisperers will try to conceal the fact that the independent action must be accompanied by attunement, or, as is said, by harmony, with all the degrees of consciousness. 121. One should know how to conquer the illusion of contradictions. It is needful on the one hand to cultivate kindheartedness and on the other to understand austerity. For many, such a task is completely insoluble; only the heart can prompt when the two qualities will not contradict each other. The heart will prompt when it is necessary to rush to the help of one’s neighbor. The heart will indicate when to stop short the Key to Symbols A Sun Aries v Vulcan Taurus D Mercury Gemini o p q r s t u v d w x m n Earth Cancer Moon Capricorn 5 C E v G H J Aquarius I Pluto Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Ophiuchus Sagitarius Mars Jupiter Scorpio Saturn Uranus Neptune madness of a fierce animal. It is impossible to express in a word of law just when the necessity of this or that action becomes evident. Unwritten are the laws of the heart, but only therein does justice dwell, for the heart is the bridge of the worlds. Where are the scales of self-abnegation? Where is the judge of achievement? Where is the measure of duty? The sword of knowledge flashes at the command of the heart. For the heart there will be no contradiction. 2. It must not be forgotten that each discovery is followed by discovery of its antithesis. You have heard how radio transmission has been interrupted over wide expanses; this means that even such a great discovery is not untrammelled. Some rays make objects invisible, and others pass through solid bodies. Only thought and psychic energy are absolutely untrammelled. Humanity must select the most firm paths. All mechanical discoveries merely demonstrate the need of the power in man himself. Let us be solicitous toward everyone who can bring to humanity his best strength. And let us be grateful to the Brothers, who untiringly bring realization of psychic energy. On this path there has to be much selflessness. The ignorant cannot stand all the seekers of the immutable treasures. Robbery may be expected on the best path. Fortunately, the Bearers of the unseen treasures are invulnerable. 64. It must be understood that approach to such a lofty concept as Brotherhood imposes not an easy obligation. Each deliverance from a petty habit requires tension of the will. Furthermore, it may happen that a seemingly abandoned habit comes back again, and in a stronger degree; this means that this defect has continued to exist in the depths of the consciousness. It may be asked, "Do habits linger on for several incarnations?" They can remain, and even grow, if the sojourn in the Subtle World has not been passed in the higher spheres. Everywhere motive has the decisive significance. Hence, at passage into the Subtle World the motive will be the conductor. Not the apparent but the heartfelt good intention will be beautiful, more beautiful than the most illustrious deeds. Only the man himself knows how this or that feeling has been engendered in him. He can inwardly follow the process of growth. Thus, the best judge is within oneself. 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