This book, as well as all the other books by Oris Oris, is intended only for those readers who seriously, deeply and sincerely want to understand everything that concerns Life and Death independently, who see in their forthcoming Death not the most terrible and dangerous enemy, a reliable adviser and friend able to help them to understand correctly all their priorities and to give advice about how to open their hearts to Love and Light when they are already living, and more importantly - in the most important moment of life - when they die "here" and are born "there".

Then Death turns from a frightening enemy, from an annoying failure or a fatal mistake in Creation into yet another, another Transformation to which we have been subjected more than once, into the deepest self-disclosure of Consciousness and the final moment of one of the stages of our evolutionary growth.

The Soul In the Zodiac

"Surrounded by vortexes of forces, I stand confused. I do not know them, for in the course of my past they have rushed me up or down here on Earth, on which I have been moving, blind and unaware. From place to place, from point to point chased me up and down countries, and there was no rest anywhere. I know them now, and here I stand immovable until I recognize the Law that governs all this movement up and down the Earth. I can turn and turn my face to many different paths; I am facing a number of wide horizons, but for now I am standing here. I am determining the path I will take. Then I will move forward. I will not wander the earth, nor return to space. But forward I will move."

(From "The Ancient Commentary")

In our first book we already told you about the Zodiac and the role played in human Evolution by these twelvefold radiations of Forces emanating from the four Persons of God. The question which we have now touched upon and want to explain is very difficult to understand, so we will try to present our Thoughts in as much detail as possible. In order to do this, we will literally remind you in a nutshell what we have already talked about in our first book).

So, the whole world around us is a single system, the parts of which are in very close relationships and interconnections. The whole Universe is subject to unified rhythms and unified cycles, of which there are a great many and which have different manifestations at different levels of Divine Being.

Some of these cycles began at the creation of the Worlds and determine the Evolution of the Universe as a whole. Others determine the course of geological processes that change the face of our planet and, in turn, also influence the development of all mankind and the emergence and collapse of earthly civilizations. Even more minor and rapid rhythms affect the daily life of humans, animal and plant kingdoms.

The nature of all these influences, both global and individual rhythms, on World objects is determined by the laws of the Zodiac, whose symbolism is much deeper than many novice astrologers think. In addition, each cycle can also be divided into twelve basic and twelve current phases or micro cycles, whose characteristics are also related to the passage of the Soul in qualities and zodiac symbolism.

The planets themselves - in astrological terms - are considered by us rather as the hands of cosmic clocks, because it is not the planets themselves and, especially, not their sizes and masses that influence the developing Soul, but the cycles of the planets and their relations with each other. Our ancient ancestors not only knew about the existence of the stationary and mobile Zodiac, but they also used it quite differently. Let us remind you that the zodiacal constellations and the Zodiac signs are completely different concepts.

We shall note also that many astrologists consider the beginning of Aquarius Era as 2003 but this Era has already begun in 1991 according to the information received by us (this period is determined by transition of the Earth's axis projection, - taking into account its last, rather prompt deviation, - because of precession in Aquarius). You and I have already entered one of the most important global evolutionary cycles of planet Earth which greatly influences the development of all human civilization.

So, the Space through which the planets move, starting from the point of the vernal equinox, is divided into 12 parts called the Zodiac Signs. The word "Zodiac" comes from the Greek "Life", that is, the Zodiac is the "Circle of Life". In an ancient Avestan book "Bundahishn" ("Creation of the Basics") it literally says the following about it:

"Ahura-Mazda produced illumination between Heaven and Earth by the stars of the constellations, and those that manifest the constellations, being outside them. And then the moon, and after that the sun, as I shall narrate further. He created the celestial sphere and defined for it the stars of the constellations, especially those twelve whose names are Aries (Varak), Taurus (Taran), Twos or Gemini (Dopatkar), Crab or Cancer (Kalakanga), Leo (Shagr), Virgo (Kushak), Libra (Tarazam), Scorpio (Gardum), Sagittarius (Nimasp), Capricorn (Nahazigan), Aquarius (Do-apdan) and Pisces (Mahik). Which from their incarnation were divided into 28 divisions, the lunar standings. And all beings in the world are entrusted to them. So when the Destroyer advances, they defeat the enemy and their own adversities. By their special concern for the welfare of all the creatures of this world are saved from their enemies. In the image and likeness of an army destined for battle, they have disposed of each individual constellation of these 6 million 480 thousand stars as their helpers. And among these constellations four chiefs, appointed to the four sides of the world and the four sides of time, are chief. On the advice of these chiefs, many innumerable stars are specially assigned to different quarters and different places, representing a united force, and are endowed with the authority of these constellations."

The Zodiac and the stars are considered by Avestan astrology as protection of the world from the destroyer Angra Mainyu. The four Chieftains mentioned in this ancient text are supreme Essences placed at the very beginning of Creation, even before the invasion of Cosmic Evil (Angra Mainyu) into our World.

These Entities correspond to the four forms of Time: the present corresponds to the guardian of the North Hauranga, the past to the guardian of the West Shatavaesh, the future to the guardian of the East Tishtriya, the eternal to the guardian of the South Vanand. On Earth, the functions of the constellations are realized only through the planets, which are referred to in the text as "those that manifest the constellations".

Present time is so fleeting and short-lived that the human Consciousness hardly has time to grasp or realize it. It is a point of contact, transition, oscillation of Mind, Consciousness on the one hand and instincts, sub consciousness on the other. It is a certain transitional state of the Soul, which is most susceptible to the influence of Cosmic Evil.

The Guardian of the North is associated with it, and he warns us against dwelling on the present moment of Life for a long time. We must learn to fully and fully live and trace every moment of our Life, bringing the subconscious and the conscious to a kind of harmonious equilibrium. Otherwise one deprives oneself of the opportunity to break out of the established boundaries and find freedom.

The Guardian of the North is not only opposed but harmoniously supplemented by the Guardian of the South who stands guard over the Gateway to Eternity which no Soul can enter without being first completely cleansed of the virus of Cosmic Evil. It is this gate which attracts the evolving Soul most of all, because it is with it, with Eternity, with Divinity, that the notion of freedom is bound, of the overcoming of any systems and restrictions which suffocate and constrain the Soul in the lower Worlds.

Man's relation to the past is determined by the Guardian of the West, who is very closely connected with the 'wheel of samsara' - the circle of numerous incarnations of the Soul on the Physical and Astral Planes of the Earth and therefore very much in touch with all the unconscious, instinctive in every human being. It is also the custodian of the true knowledge that enables man to fight against evil.

The Guardian of the East holds the keys to all Worlds and opens the doors to the future. I am often asked: does the future exist for each individual or is everything in this Life fatal and unchangeable? Well, first of all, if a man has a right to choose, this circumstance alone tells you that each of us has future and it is multi variant, i.e. from the multitude of variants of future events you choose the one which is the most harmonious with your present position on evolutionary ladder and thus you yourself create your own Life.

The future is a certain branching corridor in which each branch starts from a point of your choice. There are strictly fatal incarnations and purposeful, missionary incarnations, when the incarnated Soul clearly, according to a preconceived plan, fulfills the task assigned to it in the next incarnation. In such cases the "corridor" of Life has practically no branches.

But there are also Destinies with great freedom of choice, where there are many ramifications and few associations into a common corridor. Through the development of reason in man, the Guardian of the East allows the individual to more fully reveal his individual qualities and characteristics. But by overdeveloping Reason, to the detriment of the soul, it is very easy to fall into a very dangerous extreme, into the delusion of the omnipotence of Reason. In every human being, apart from Reason, mentality, awareness, there are also many uncontrolled, unconscious instincts, which not only oppose each other, but must complement and guide one another.

Each of the Guardian Entities has its own rhythms, in accordance with which the strength of their influence in our World changes. Characteristically, in these cycles there is still no division into Good and Evil and the higher Entities themselves continue to retain the original states they had before the invasion of the Cosmic Evil virus on our planet.

The contact of human Consciousness with these Essences could reveal the secrets of our Universe, but for this man must first overcome the evil in himself by being completely cleansed of its virus. Each of these Essences carries in itself a higher principle and if man by the level of his vibrations is not capable of perceiving it, then he is out of the guardianship of the given higher Essence and becomes a victim or slave of the demonic Egregors.

But besides above mentioned three guardians, in Avestan tradition there is one more supreme Being, who is also a representative of Zerwan (God) in our World - it is Vakshya, who unites all four forms of Time, mixes them up, breaks habitual order, destroys established laws. She stops the course of Time, unlocks its rings and spirals, makes its reverse course possible, and is also able to expand and contract Space at will.

On the Physical plane this essence acts with the help of elemental forces of Nature, which can set in motion not only wind, fire and water, but also entire masses of people, infecting them with a common Idea. Initially, Vakshya is also devoid of Good or Evil in itself, but acts as a universal equalizing Force, bringing everything to the so-called golden mean.

It is she who erases or removes those of the people who are too infected with evil and take too much on themselves, misusing their abilities and capacities in an unseemly manner. The Archons of Destiny or Lords of Karma are her impassioned servants and enforcers of the Law. The influence of Vakshya is not strongest on individuals, but on the fate of entire nations, states and regions of our planet, which, as you already know, is itself a reasonable living Entity.

But back to the Zodiac. It is known that in ancient astrology there were not twelve but ten Zodiacal signs: there were no signs of 3rd, 4th and 5th Earth Initiation - Aquarius and Pisces, because humanity was not yet so developed to feel the qualitative influence of Energies emitted by these constellations. And even earlier, in the times of the Lemurian Race, when mankind did not have sufficiently developed conductors to contact and receive the Energies of the constellations Leo and Virgo, the Zodiac had only eight Signs.

When the seeds of spirituality, sown into the astral "soil" of the first humans, began to take root and some people, through a reorientation of their thinking, acquired the ability to consciously perceive the vibrations of these Signs, the Energies emanating from the constellations Leo and Virgo were also taken into account. It was not until the time of the Atlantic Race that the door of Consecration to Hierarchical experience was opened to a sufficiently large group of human Consciousnesses, and therefore the need to consider the influence of the emanations coming from the polar spiritual opposites Leo and Virgo (which were not totally separated at that time) - the constellations Aquarius and Pisces - arose. Libra was the midpoint of the division between the involutionary and evolutionary Circles of Life:

ARIES, TAURUS, GEMINI, CANCER, LEO, VIRGO, LIBRA, SCORPIO, SAGITTARIUS, CAPRICORN, AQUARIUS, PISCES

The analogue of the Universe, the Macrocosm, is the human body. Each constellation sign ruled over a particular organ or part of the body. It is quite obvious that the vigorous Aries had power over the head, Taurus over the neck, and Gemini, Pisces and Libra over the three parts of the body respectively, the hands, feet and kidneys. Shield-like Cancer controlled the chest, Virgo the abdomen and Scorpio the genitals. Feet were controlled by Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius.

The lines on the palms of the hands and face, associated with the so-called "bodily stars", have been used for centuries to interpret a person's character and determine their destiny. Each finger is a projection of the influence of one of the planets or one of the signs of the Zodiac. The palm is also divided into zones of planetary influence. The longer, flatter and longer the line, the stronger the influence of the signs and planets on a particular person.

The face is also controlled by the signs of the Zodiac. The forehead is divided into seven zones controlled by the heavenly bodies. Thus, people with pronounced wrinkles in the Sun area can gain power, authority and strength in Life. In the great circle of earthly incarnations, the Soul passes the zodiacal circle from the sign of Pisces to Aries (through Leo), i.e. against the movement of the Sun.

Only when a Soul develops to such an extent that it begins to consciously emerge from the captivity of the Great Earthly Illusion (Maya) - then the movement of its great Wheel of Life is reversed and only from that moment on does man begin to patiently and consciously act as a Soul proper, making its way through the thorns to its Star.

Only by going backwards in an evolutionary circle from Aries to Aquarius and Pisces (through Leo) and by taking the first three Consecrations does the meaning of the Triumph over Death come to man, because he has overcome all trials and has been able to rise above Death. Then the Soul appears before the Highest Hierarchs of our planet and receives his Fourth Consecration.

Books with esoteric content are becoming more and more common, with their authors referring to themselves as "initiates" of the fifth (!) and even sixth (!!) degrees (which is not customary among the initiated). The very fact that in one's own mind reverence for a hierarchical table of ranks is too much prominent should put the seeker of truth on guard, because an experienced and observant mind cannot easily overlook the outward correctness and spirituality of the contents and unmask the usual ploy of the dark, calculated on the inexperienced seeker, to deliberately encode his mind into aggression and throw him off the righteous path. This is a common and proven tactic of the dark forces for thousands of years.

What, in fact, does this term, to which many now try to give such a mysterious and significant connotation, actually mean? The GOVERNMENT is nothing else than the Evolution of man concentrated in a small space of time. Many people confuse two unequal concepts: "development" and "evolution". The first is associated with millions of years, while the second is instantaneous.

Evolution is a change in thinking with Consciousness moving to higher Planes of Being, it is a qualitative transformation of Matter through transmutation of Consciousness. Man prepares for Evolution for a long time, but evolves instantly.

Due to certain circumstances which depend on the individual development of the incarnating Soul, in one of their Lives a person gets an opportunity to go through at an accelerated pace those stages of their development which sometime, but in later Periods or even Cycles, all mankind will go through. A special wide-ranging mission is always imposed on the Souls of such people, linking the Spiritual Plan with the Physical and Astral Planes. The distinguishing feature of the initiated is the utmost humility and complete determination to fulfill the task entrusted to them by the Higher Powers.

So, as you see, the degrees of Consecration are essentially just the public steps of the Knowledge which is revealed earlier than that of the majority of people. Few of the true initiates - because of the sublimity of their Consciousness - are interested in the question of which level of the unearthly Hierarchy their Spirit stands on. So, do not trust too much the high titles and mysterious names of the authors who claim to be worshipers.

Note also that the Door of Consecration has always been and remains open to man, but for many millions of years ambition has been driving the incarnating human Soul from Life to Life until it discovers the futility of all earthly gratification. Only after this realization does earthly ambition gradually replace earthly ambition in the incarnating Soul, a spiritual longing and an irrepressible desire for Liberation, which becomes the driving impulse of the Soul on its return, the evolutionary circle.

Only at the beginning of the so-called War of the Gods, in which the Forces of the space civilizations of the Dark Ring were defeated, many people managed to reach the discipleship stage and some of them even received the Main Initiation. Since those times - when humanity was in Scorpio - some part of the human Consciousnesses was able to move from the involutionary to the evolutionary Circle of development and mastering of the twelve qualities of the Earth Energies, but the most part of the incarnating Souls of humanity still continues their rotation on the involutionary Circle under the leadership of the group of Dark Ring Hierarchs (the so called Masters of Materiality).

In the present world period, due to the obvious duality of human Evolution and conscious realization, the Signs of Leo and Virgo are completely divided between themselves. When, by the end of the current cycle, more than two-thirds of mankind will be exposed (to varying degrees) to the Principle of Christ and the final so-called "Last Judgment of God" will occur, Virgo and Libra as well as Aries and Pisces will again be merged into one Sign.

Then "Fire" and "Water" will mingle, and "Earth" and "Air" will fuse, establishing a single fusion on the planet and in a cosmic sense the unfolding of Christ will manifest, revealing finally the One whose Second Coming is expected by all those who believe in the Resurrection. Then again there will not be 12, but only 10 Signs of the Zodiac:

ARIES - PISCES, TAURUS, GEMINI, CANCER, Leo, Virgo - Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius

Mankind's experience in "LIBRA", in which all agreements and experiments are now being conducted, must also be added, so that the libra tilts alternately to one side and to the other, until either the universal wish or the prevailing spiritual yearning of all mankind, when mentally polarized, weighs down one of the scales enough to show the way which men should follow in a given historical or evolutionary stage. This will be the "Judgment Day", about whose imminent arrival everyone is now arguing.

The first indication that such a "Day" is fast approaching is a "moment of crisis" in LIBRA, when the astral plane of the earth will be extremely polarized by two general Opposite Wishes of the people of our planet, which will turn them either upwards towards the spiritual plane, or downwards, to the very "bottom" of the matter. The next point of separation of mankind will be the Day of Judgment (see the tenth volume of this publication, "APOCALYPSIS").

After such a brief introduction to this difficult, but very necessary topic for understanding the issues of Death, let us remind you that all the Space around us, visible and invisible, is a living, Super conscious and Super conscious Entity, which we call "GOD" of our Solar System.

All the "heavens" we see are only the phenomenal appearance of this Infinite and Incomprehensible Entity, which in turn is also an integral part of an even grander Life, manifesting itself through the agency of the seven Solar Systems. Space is the field in which and through which Energies from the many sources that generate them pass.

This field is etheric in Nature, and its Life Body consists of the totality of the Etheric Bodies of all constellations, all solar systems and all planets that are part of them. Suffice it to say that there are about seventy "hidden" (so far) planets in our Solar System alone. As for the planets as physical bodies, they (just like our Earth) are living Beings, having their Destiny (Karma) and going through their own way of Evolution.

All of our subtle bodies are inseparable parts of the Etheric Body of the Essence of the Hierarchy above us, the Essence which we call the "human kingdom". Its Etheric Body is an essential part of the Etheric Body of our Planetary Logos, which is inseparable from the Etheric Bodies of the Logos of all other planets, which together with the Etheric Body of the Solar Logos constitute the Etheric Body of the Logos Essence of our Solar System.

All these constellations, solar systems, planets and man as a reflection of Microcosm, are only the result of the activity and manifestation of the energies of some Lives whose manifestation cycles and limitless purposes are simply incomprehensible to us. Just as the Forces of the planets, interacting with the etheric body of the manifested Human Soul on the Physical plane, condition all its activities and all its qualities, in the same way the various Forces of God of the Universe are poured out upon every part of the Etheric Bodies of each of the innumerable Logos of the various lower levels, conditioning and determining the outer manifestation, the activities and the individual qualities of each of these Cosmic Entities.

By the way, through the planets and constellations a person can be influenced by both the forces of Good and Evil. There are no (except for spiritual, higher ones) unambiguously good planets and unambiguously evil ones. There is a constant battle between the Hierarchy of Light and the Hierarchy of Darkness through any of the planets.

In general, the planets, especially the physical bodies of the first seven (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), i.e. those whose cycle is less than the average life span of a human (Saturn, for example, has a cycle of 29.5 years), are considered to be initially defiled when Cosmic Evil invades our system. Therefore, through their cycles, a person may come to be seduced, introducing evil viruses (vibrations) into their subtle bodies.

This is due to the fact that these planets are in an intermediate state and in the time scale of human life their action is not constant, it fluctuates and changes, therefore, as stated in Christianity, through them in man may incarnate demons. That is why (in terms of influence on the human soul) they are even opposed to the pure and unspoiled zodiacal constellations, because during one human life the constellations practically do not shift.

But here it should be noted immediately that in terms of universal Evolution, which has huge cycles in its duration, the constellations can also be considered as tainted with evil. The higher planets, beginning with Uranus (84-year cycle), may be considered as far less tainted with evil with respect to human Life, and for this reason they are considered as conductors between the first seven planets and the Zodiac. Their involvement in Cosmic Evil manifests itself on the course of world history, on the fate of generations, civilizations and peoples.

But these higher planets are dangerous for an individual person because he, because of the brevity of his life, is not able to fully understand their cycles and is therefore also exposed to all sorts of seductions on their part. So we may say that the Zodiac is nothing but the imaginary path of the Sun across the sky. The Sun, which is not in any of the Signs, simply appears at one time or another in their background as it passes between the Earth and the constellations.

The twelve constellations that make up our Zodiac are themselves receivers of many streams of Energy coming to them from cosmic sources such as: the constellation of Ursa Major, the seven sister stars of Pleiades, Sirius, the Hound Star; seven solar systems, including our own, seven sacred and five non-sacred ("dark") planets...

The twelve main types of Energies (five major - which for us are now minor - and seven minor - which for us are now major) emanate from the seven stars of the Big Dipper, transmitting to us through the seven stars of the Little Dipper; two types of these Energies come from Sirius, and three from Pleiades.

The Seven Stars of the Big Dipper are the seven sources of each of the Seven Rays of our Solar System, transmitted to us through the three constellations of the Zodiac (we will talk about them in detail later). Thus, our Solar System is just a tiny reflection of: One Creator God, the Three Rishis, the Seven Stars of Ursa Major and the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

We have named only those Cosmic Entities whose influences are perceived to a greater or lesser extent at a given evolutionary stage by human energy centers, but here we should also add other energy flows emanating to us from the star Antares or Betelgeuse, as well as from other giant suns not belonging to our Galaxy, but influencing you and me through the Zodiac. Note again that the Energy of each particular constellation or Sign in which one is born has a deeper meaning than some ignorant and pragmatic scientists think.

Each Energy shows the present, specific problem of each person, sets the speed and tempo of his Life and is very closely related to the quality of his Life, controlling the aspect of his Soul's activity during incarnation. Zodiacal systemic and planetary Energies act on the incarnate human Soul, depending on the qualities of the bodies of its manifestation, either as restraining or stimulating Forces.

The degree of this influence depends entirely on the capacity of the soul to respond to them, to attract and absorb, to reject or transform in itself these vibrations, on the capacity of the individual to identify himself with the energies and impulses flowing through him, which depends entirely on the degree of the Evolution of his Soul and does not depend on what is already a conscious part or aspect of himself.

A constellation consists of two or more solar systems or a series of suns with their planetary satellites. These systems are held together as a whole through the powerful interconnections between their star suns, which maintain their relative distances and enliven their planets. But it is possible, though very rare, for the balance of the Forces to be disturbed and then, as in the constellation Gemini, there is an increase and predominance of influence and magnetism.

Through the influence of the Energies pouring forth from the Signs of the Zodiac, the Soul prepares for the "moment of reorientation of Consciousness" when it slowly and gradually reverses its form of progress on the Wheel of Life and begins to move back to its origin, from Aries to Pisces through Leo. On this difficult Path, accompanied by immense suffering and boundless pain, the human Soul learns to function not only as an equal member of the human community, but also as a Divine Being.

The solar system is an electromagnetic coupling of planets orbiting around a central focal point, the Sun. The Solar Energies have a double effect on humans. First, the physical Sun affects us with the Energy of its Prana, which causes specific physical or sensory results in objective Forms. Prana enters a person through the spleen and the centre between the shoulder blades - between Vishudha and Anahata chakra.

Secondly, the Energies of the spiritual Sun", flowing through a particular planet in seven large streams, flow into each of the seven Souls-aspects of the individual Spirit manifested on the Physical Plane, bringing them into a state of sensitivity that can be described as AWARENESS.

It is these seven types of Energies that create opportunities for the simultaneous manifestation on the Physical plane of Earth of the SEVEN MAIN TYPES OF SPIRITS or ASPECTS-ANALOGES of each individual Spirit. Through these seven energetic influences on the Matter of the Earth Space, the Spirit manifests in our Phenomenal World in seven areas at once, seven different levels of Consciousness of their own Souls, seven ray characteristics (while the other five Soul-Consciousnesses are in an undeveloped state, each going through their own postmortem Existence path).

Each incarnated Soul, to one degree or another (depending on the level of its development on the involutionry or evolutionary Circle), experiences, as we have already said, the influence of the Seven Main Rays emanating from the seven stars of the Big Dipper, which are enclosed in complex relationships with the Little Dipper and the Pleiades. This Trinity of Galaxies of Stars, dominating in our seventeenth Universe, has the most direct relation to the One Whom we call the Creator God, being the three aspects of the Absolute Divine Monad and the Reason for the Existence of seven solar systems, which includes our own.

These Seven Rays manifest their effects through the energetic radiations of the following planets:

- The first ray is PLUTON - the Holy of Holies - Shambhala, the Abode of the Most High on Earth. This is Spirit. This is Life in the seed, successfully destroying all forms to reach the stage of fruition. This is the Energy which may be called "Divine prompting". This is the Will to begin (initiate, initiate). This is Identification. It is what awakens to Dedication and delivers it. This is the Beam of Will and Power containing the destructive aspect manifested by Consciousness focused on Pluto emanations. In this regard, we remind you once again that the common human approach to Death as the destroyer of Life is erroneous and temporary due to the evolutionary level of human Consciousness.

The Force has a dual nature: if it is accompanied by Love, the Will manifested promotes self-denial and the advancement of the Divine Providence, and if it is mixed with selfishness, it is expressed only from the destructive side, contributing to the influence of Evil on the Life of the Cosmos. The energies of this Ray manifest as yet on the young Earth in the destructive qualities of Darkness and Death, which is expressed by the as yet undeveloped human Soul in its thirst for violence and change.

Pluto passes through the Zodiac in about 250 years and is associated with collective, elemental Energies; ruled by Scorpio. It is indicative of one's interaction with large masses of people, gives concentration of Will and directs it in the right direction. Pluto's vibrations give man the abilities of a hypnotist, healer, endowing him with the ability to influence various phenomena of nature and objects. Souls who have mastered the qualities of the First Ray are best manifested in extreme situations, when huge masses of people come into motion.

Pluto, like Mars, is also associated with sexual Energy, which it uses for sublimation and creativity. The nuclear, elemental energy contained in matter is also associated with Pluto. At its worst, the First Ray forms destroyers, troublemakers, instigators of mass riots, wreaking havoc and disorder around them.

The Law of Life states that all new cycles of Being and Consciousness are generated by conflict. The First Ray destroys Death because in reality there is no such phenomenon, as most of you understand it, nor is there the Great Illusion in which the development of human Souls now takes place. The first Ray, by destroying the forms, abolishes not just "Death" but "Death of negation", because only after it does the Soul begin its true activity. Mastering the qualities of this Ray is very important on the Path of Consecration. That is why it is so important for Aries, Leo and Capricorn.

- The second ray - Jupiter (Sun) - is the Holy City of the Initiates of the Earth Hierarchy, the secret place of the Forces of Light on Earth. This is the Soul. This is Consciousness. This is Light. This is Love. This is Consecration. This basic Energy represents the Will to unite, to synthesize, to create connectedness and mutual attraction, to establish a relationship completely free from consciousness of connection. This Ray carries soul expression and spiritual Consciousness and the need to pour Love and Wisdom into the Earth and everything around.

The qualities of this Ray create an inner tendency towards fusion which nothing can stop, thus contributing to achieving the final synthesis - the fusion of Heart and Mind, which is the subjective Goal of the manifestation of every human Soul. This is the fact of Oneness, inherent from the Beginning and existing forever in the Mind of God the Creator. These vibrations of Oneness are especially necessary when mastering the qualities of GEMINI, VIRGO and PISCES.

This Ray rules and dominates all the other Rays, as Jupiter and the Sun (hiding the secret planet) gather all the Energies of the constellations Leo, Sagittarius, Pisces, Aquarius and Virgo on our planet and carry these Forces through all its Natural Realms. The Ray expresses the characteristic aspiration towards pure Knowledge and absolute Truth on the basis of Love, altruism and self-denial. It formulates the plan according to which the Ideas of God the Creator are to be constructed and materialized.

Jupiter passes the Zodiac in 11 years and 31 days; leads Sagittarius. Manifests as the connection of man with society, relations with society, social psychology of man, attitude to authority, in the ability to choose an ally; gives the ability to be an organizer and educator, gives a flair for contradiction and the ability to understand the unfavorable moment of Life for oneself. Brings glory, honour and success in learning.

Ideological attitudes, religious beliefs, and the desire to extend one's influence are also associated with this Ray. A person who has mastered the qualities of the Second Ray has excellent organizational and pedagogical abilities, a strategic type of thinking. In its highest manifestation, this Ray forms true guardians of the Law, while in the worst case a person develops arrogance, the desire to impose his opinion on others as the most correct at all costs, all sorts of justification of their unseemly transgressions by reference to the authorities.

- The third ray is SATURN, the HOLY SPIRIT GOD, He Who Knows, one of the four most powerful Lords of Karma, who makes man face his past and prepare for the future in the present. It is - Christ in us, the future humanity. This is the Form. It is the Identification. It is - The Body. This is Mind. This is Individuality. It is the Will of the conditioned purpose, the Will for Evolution. The qualities of this Ray express the Principles of human consciousness, the Energy of Active Intelligence, that is Active Mind. It strongly influences the development of the Soul in the Signs of Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, because unlike Jupiter, which corresponds to the centrifugal beginning and expansion, Saturn conditions the action of centripetal Forces.

From a certain point of view this planet can be seen as the planetary Resident of the Threshold, the steward of the cycles of life and therefore humanity must see it as clearly as the Angel of the present, which are essentially two aspects of the same duality, duality - all humanity. The qualities of the Energies of this Ray are very important on the Path of Discipleship.

There is an inner core, a well-established system of values, and life principles independent of outside influences, associated with Saturn, which passes through the Zodiac in 29 years and 155 days. This planet rules psychological crises and subsequent more or less stable periods. Or marks crashes, states of love, destiny, infatuation, encourages people to rebuild and begin again. It rules Capricorn.

This is the Ray of Higher Intelligence and abstract thinking which can be possessed by a spiritually developed person with an extraordinary propensity for self-sacrifice. He materializes the plan of the Creator and creates life guided by the Son of God - the Soul who has developed Christ Consciousness.

The Third Ray person is serious, withdrawn, demanding, system-forming, focused, and loves solitude. At worst, he is a gloomy pessimist, misanthrope, and miserly person, unable to go beyond the rigid system he himself has formed.

- The fourth ray is the MOON and MERCURY - the "Ray of Struggle", as a result of which Christ must be born in the Soul through the agony of crucifixion of material lusts. It is the Ray of attaining inner Harmony through the conflict of Spirit and Matter; the energies of this Ray form a field of help and enablement to achieve the goal. It is the Ray of man going towards the goal, overcoming the conflict situations with the surrounding World of material desire. Through this Ray, humanity gradually, through error and suffering, learns to be in Oneness with the Divine Trinity and the Divine Will.

The Moon passes the Zodiac in 27 days; marks good fortune and its impermanence, genius and its adversities, popularity and its dangers. Occupies the same place in birth and conception, sometimes even in Death. In man, Soul, emotions, sub consciousness are associated with this planet. A person with a strong Moon is characterized by sensitivity, mental flexibility, good primary intuition. On the involutionary Circle, the Moon endows the Soul with melancholy, pessimism, capriciousness. Ruled by Cancer.

The Evolutionary help of the Energies of this Ray is that the Soul is given such conditions which will lead to the critical transformation of instinct into intelligence, so that through conflict and struggle it can achieve Harmony and thereby express all the truly human characteristics. The Fourth Ray and the Fourth Creative Hierarchy essentially constitute a single manifestation of Truth. This is the Will to BE and KNOW, the Will to Harmonize, plus the merging of Heart and Mind.

The qualities of this Ray prevail on the Path of human Evolution, because their Energy inevitably and inevitably causes a struggle between Life and what, at first sight, limits it, that is Death. The Energy of the Ray destroys Death until full Harmony is achieved. As soon as the Soul reaches the inner balance of Life, a fresh outpouring of Will immediately begins to manifest.

Thus, Christ inevitably had to go through physical Death because He achieved in His Life Harmony with God's Will. Through the Energy of the Fourth Ray, it is not Death that manifests itself, which is nothing more than an aspect of this Will, but the "seed of Death". Death is an act of intuition which the Soul transmits to its personality, which then acts - according to the Will of God - on the individual Will of man.

Mercury passes the Zodiac in about one year. It is an eternally young, carefree planet, following the Sun and aspiring to resemble it. Guides the practical mind through word, gesture, writing, enlightens the Mind and serves as a mediator between the Soul and the personality, being a messenger of the Gods.

In man, the qualities of Mercury are associated with intellect, speech, communication, and memory. This Ray gives intellectual sensitivity, quick wit, sociable and communicative nature. On the Involutionary Circle, it forms chatteriness, excessive talkativeness and intemperance, a tendency to deceit and theft. Leads Gemini and Virgo.

The vibrations of the Fourth Ray inevitably generate deep contradictions between pairs of opposing qualities in man, leading to inner conflict, contributing to the dissipation of the Illusions of Life through the enlightenment of the lower Mind. Taurus, Scorpio and Sagittarius are very susceptible to the effects of these Energies.

- The fifth ray - VENERA, GOD-SON, Son of Mind, He Who embraces all - is especially active for the Soul who has set out on the Path of Discipleship and is mastering specific Knowledge and sciences; it promotes the development of the Mind acting either through desire (in the early stages) or through love (in the later stages). Through the qualities of this Ray, humanity develops the means of its knowledge of the nature of the Divine Trinity and the Divine Will. In its essence, the Energy of this Ray represents Will, which causes concretization and sets a limit to the equilibrium of Spirit and Matter.

This is the Ray of a particular lower Mind, the Consciousness of the Self, the intellect for the sake of intuition manifested in a particular knowledge or science. A person who has mastered the qualities of this Ray has the sharp Mind, precision and practicality of a researcher or practitioner. The most amenable to the influence of this Ray are the Souls undergoing the mastering of the qualities in Leo, Sagittarius and Aquarius, consciously aspiring to the Mental plane, on which during the Fifth Initiation the Soul acquires Liberation.

This Ray is closely related to the first Solar System, until the Consciousnesses of the released humanity form the nucleus of Mind around which the next Solar System after ours can be created. Its Energy is the seed of the Consciousness which was a product of the previous Solar System and represents the inner Life of Matter and the Will to act in it consciously. The highest manifestation of the action of this Energy in relation to man is the Liberation of the Soul through Death or Consecration.

Venus passes through the Zodiac in 255 days, ruling Taurus and Libra. In man, Venus is associated with the senses, with aesthetic perceptions, with love and the desire for inner harmony, gives the embodied Soul physical attractiveness and happiness through the love it inspires.

On the evolutionary Circle this Ray endows the Soul with softness, refinement, sensuality and sensitivity to beauty, striving for beauty, for internal and external comfort, love of Life with all its sorrows and joys. In the first circle there is excessive passivity, deep-rooted formalism, laziness and indifference to manifestations of higher feelings.

- The sixth ray - MARS and NEPTUNE - devotion, reverence (worship) and idealism, leading to destructive fanaticism, struggle, battles, efforts and, eventually, to Evolution; This is the war of Death of the personality or Form. The qualities of this Ray contribute to the full flowering of planetary Life in all its Forms, enhance the tendency of the individual to ambition, which, after Consecration, translates into spiritual aspiration.

It is the Will that embodies God's Providence on the Physical plane. Any Idea is associated with the aspect of Will. Sixth Ray energies embody the prevailing Power and desire of God the Creator. Will is not related to Consciousness, but desire is related to it, so we are not dealing with Consciousness, but with that impersonal Force, which moves through all the Planes of the Solar System and puts the Idea of God at the head of the Eternal Present.

Thus the Idea becomes an embodied Being, which has no capacity in itself to sustain Life, but which gives shape and form to amorphous Matter and itself becomes the cause of manifestation. Through the qualities of this Ray, humanity goes towards complete identification with the Divine Trinity and the Divine Will. Consequently, this Ray is extremely important for the Soul on the Path of its Evolution.

The soul of this Ray is characterized by religiosity, inner unbalance and a tendency towards idealization. It actively influences Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. Mars passes the Zodiac in one year and three days, ruling Aries. The soul who has mastered the qualities of Mars on the evolutionary Circle manifests in a brave, courageous, energetic and honest man-warrior. In the first Circle, however, it will be a rude and aggressive boor, a cruel and cold-blooded murderer. Mars gives exactly the active first impulse, the capacity for heroism, but then there is a rapid decline of Energy.

Neptune, on the other hand, is associated with the deep subconscious, with entering into higher harmony, with deep faith, with fantasy, imagination, premonition, with creative ecstasy and mystery. It rules Pisces. This mysterious planet provokes in man hallucinations, fascination with mysticism, develops deceitfulness and a tendency to adventurism. People of this Ray have an intuitive sense of the hidden meaning of things. Prophets, seers, prominent religious figures, as well as artists, poets and musicians with a mystical disposition are very common among them.

The qualities of Neptune combined with those of Jupiter or the Sun can give very famous, significant people, spiritually very subtle and intelligent. On the First Circle Neptune gives the Soul strong suggestibility, illusions, melancholy, erratic thinking, a tendency to drunkenness and drug abuse (especially in the first decade of Pisces).

- The seventh ray - URAN, GOD-FATHER, He Who brings the sources of duality into connection, Who comprehends the end from the beginning - is the embodiment of the Principle of concretization and materialization of what needs objective manifestation, bringing together the electric Fire and the Fire of the Self, Spirit and Matter, thereby giving birth to the manifestation of the Soul. It determines the expression on the Physical plane of this main pair of opposites and relates them to each other, generating in the end one functional whole.

Through the qualities of the Seventh Ray mankind demonstrates on Earth the nature of the Divine Trinity through the identification of the Form and Purpose of Divine Providence. But it is not merely the bringing together of Spirit and Matter, as the occultists understand it, but the binding together of physical need and physical provision, and the bringing together of the two duties by the Power of the Creative Imagination.

This is what binds together the periphery and the centre. This is the Will to BE and KNOW simultaneously on all the Planes of Soul manifestation. This is spiritual Consciousness. This is the intuition for inspiration. It is the need to express oneself through one's Divine Nature: to incarnate that which is "above" and that which is "below" in order to create order, integrity, beauty and perfection in all.

The qualities of the Energies of this Ray create inner spontaneous activity leading to evolutionary natural and spiritual development, which in turn creates even more favorable conditions for the manifestation and realization of the Divine Initiative in man. Uranus guides the Soul through the final stages on the Path of its return to its Home. It is the planet of freedom. Free choices are associated with it, allowing the Soul on the Second Circle, in Aquarius, to make the leap to Liberation.

It is always unexpected and eternal changes, transformations, reforms, paradoxical and unpredictable Ideas, inspiration, insight and originality. People with strong Uranus (Aquarius evolutionary circle) are experimenters, innovators, reformers, excellent and loyal friends, they do not like to obey rules, but also do not press on the Consciousness of others. Very often they are clairvoyants, prophets and in general, as astrologers believe, the most sympathetic and the fairest people among all 12 astral Signs.

Uranus in Aquarius gave mankind about two thousand geniuses. The Involutionary Circle, on the other hand, gives birth to anarchists, people who are unconscious, cynics, vagrants (bums) and rebels. The Seventh Ray is ultimately the focused differentiated Energy of the First Ray as it expresses the Will of the first aspect of God on Earth, by being able to relate and bring to objective manifestation by an act of Will both Spirit and Matter.

The qualities of these Energies cause a great shift in human Consciousness from intellectual perception - to intuitive Knowledge and are of great importance to the disciple on the Path of Consecration. People of this Ray find pleasure or satisfaction in all things done well and in strict accordance with order or tradition. The energies of the Ray have a strong influence on Souls in the Signs of Aries, Cancer and Capricorn.

The action of all these types of Energy is truly infinite and their variations explain the various infinite complexities that make up the World around us. These Energies leave their traces on every Form of every Realm of Nature, acting either as a delaying or as a stimulating Force for the Evolution of the Earth and all the Forms on it. It is therefore necessary to consider this dual nature of the influence of the Ray Energies on the embodied Soul, manifesting the lowly or the sublime, depending on the free Will of the individual and his choice of life path.

Just as power can have a creative or destructive quality, so the influence of the radiations of the Zodiac has a very different effect on the undeveloped person living "below the iris" and on the disciple or initiate. In this connection we wish to point out that the Soul developing on the Path of Discipleship is greatly exposed to the influences of the Third and Fourth Rays, of which the qualities of the former provide opportunity, and the vibrations of the latter provide illumination.

After each Consecration the energies of the same Rays have completely different effects on the Soul. Thus, during the First Consecration the crystallizing and destructive Forces of VULCAN and PLUTON, which are opposite in their influence, are very strong. During the Third Consecration, the influences of the Fourth and Sixth Ray energies temper the Soul with fear and hopelessness, which lead it to liberation from the control of the personality.

Then, at the Fourth Initiation, during the mastering of the qualities of Aquarius, the Forces of the Third and Fourth Rays again cause tremendous spiritual changes and unique revelations in the Soul, incomparable to anything it has experienced before. During the Fifth Consecration at the end of the evolutionary Aquarius or Pisces, the vibrations of the Second and Seventh Rays produce a qualitative transmutation of all the energy bodies of the initiate to cleanse his Soul of all karmic debts and enable it to truly Exist within our Solar System without attachment to any planet.

Always one type of Energy brings to a fuller expression the quality of the Form, while the other delays from the achieved manifestation. The Ascending Sign shows the direction in which the Energy of the Soul as a whole can flow, if it is ready to manifest it correctly and thereby fulfil the purpose of its incarnation on Earth.

These are the types of Forces that enable a person to succeed, to become what he wants and to achieve what he desires. They bring a person into harmony with the Will of the Soul during a particular incarnation. Thus, the emanations of the Moon affecting a person are indicative of his past birth. They summarize all the limitations and obstacles that a person encounters on his life path.

The powers of the Moon take part in the formation of our astral and physical bodies which contain the secret of the Soul's past experiences, and therefore any lunar form in which the Soul has to achieve its expression is itself a product or synthesis of the past. Through the medium of the Lunar Gods (Pitris) and what they have given to the Soul as a result of its past experiences over the centuries, it (the Soul) must express itself on the Physical plane.

Through the action of all types of Energies and emanations of the Zodiac, which surrounds us with its "constellations", the Earth can exist. The vibrations of all 12 radiations, meeting at a point in Cosmic Space, cause interference in the waves of Energy, which in turn leads to materialization of objects on the Physical plane of the Earth. This has made possible that manifested existence of Consciousnesses in which we all now temporarily reside.

The Earth is the result of the materialization of the various radiations it receives from the Sun (physical and spiritual) as well as from the sister planets of our Solar System. There is a different Form of materialization for each stage of the Earth's creation, which primarily expresses its particular Energy of each of the Signs of the Zodiac.

Mineral, plant, animal kingdoms, as well as humans, all living things of any level of Consciousness, are materialized radiations of a particular constellation of the Zodiac, as well as of a particular planet. The names of the constellations are merely Symbols, designations of the qualities inherent in the emanations of the Sign.

Each of the 12 Souls of an individual spirit evolving in parallel incarnates once again on the physical plane of the Earth only at a strictly definite moment of activity of one of the Signs so that from Life to Life they may cognize, incarnate and master in themselves EXACTLY ALL the qualities potentially embodied in the emanations of this Sign. Each of the twelve qualities being mastered on Earth cannot be expressed in any single word or comparison, because there are no such concepts in human language.

Quality is a separate Ray of Divine Reality, consisting of a 12-frequency spectrum, where each frequency is a different aspect of all quality, inextricably linked to the other eleven. For example, if you take one wire out of a solid 12-wire electrical cable, it will already be a completely different cable, both in quality and in its basic indicators (GOST).

The Spirit undergoes Evolution on Earth simultaneously in all the 12 qualities, and each of its 12 parts is only a means of deep mastering of a single quality or a separate phase of it. This is why, when we speak of the immortality of the Soul, we mean first of all the individual Spirit, as all other lower aspects of it can only be called relatively immortal. Only the Divine Monad is absolutely immortal.

The process of cognition of the qualities by the Soul is not linear but discrete and cyclical, as if in a circle: without mastering the present, one cannot go further. This is why the soul's experience of each quality aspect is divided into time phases - periods of its incarnation on the Earth's physical plane.

To go through the full cycle of development of one quality, a soul needs quite a certain number of incarnations, where, depending on the spiritual development of Consciousness, there are both maximums and minimums. On our planet, simultaneously and in parallel with each other, cosmic beings of qualitatively different levels of the development of Consciousness go through their Evolution: three-, six-, twelve- and 24- qualitative beings.

In human language there are no words or concepts capable of conveying even approximately the qualitative states of these cosmic beings, and our very ideas about these or those Cosmic qualities are so wrong and distorted that any attempt to describe them will still fail to convey their essence and will only lead to confusion in the mind and a faulty interpretation of them. Still, we shall try to convey at least the main points of this extremely important part of Knowledge for us.

So, all beings listed above can be conventionally divided into several so-called GENERATIONS, the first of which, at the present stage of their development, is mastering only three basic qualities: Will, Love and Creative Activity (see Volume 1, Section "Space and Time"). A super quality for them is mastering the Law of Being.

The developmental phases of the first generation of three-form creatures can be represented as follows:

- The first phase - Life unfolding, assimilation, perception and unification Ideas on the level of Consciousness - the phase of the Father;

- The second phase is the mastery of the Idea at the level of inner understanding, acquiring the ability to adjust to various possibilities in order to translate the Idea into Life, and gathering information and gaining inner experience in order to adapt to changing environmental conditions - the Son phase;

- The third phase is the application of the acquired life experience to the realization of the Idea in order to consciously enrich the common Whole with one's own knowledge and inner experience - the Holy Spirit (Mother) phase.

In beings of the second generation the above three basic qualities are developed by splitting the quality of Will into Free Will and Aspiration; Love is transformed into Wisdom and Open Cognition, and Creative Activity is manifested as Creativity and Self-Cognition. Thus, with each new generation, along with the increase in the number of phases, there is an increasing deciphering and specification of each phase, while maintaining their basic character.

The third generation of cosmic beings, which our Earth belongs to, is mastering not six (with the Law of Genesis - seven) but twelve qualities (with super quality - 13): four phases of the Father (Will), four phases of the Son (Love-Wisdom) and four phases of the Holy Spirit (Creation). This is why in Christianity Glory is given to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - the whole gamut of qualities that characterize the manifestation of the ONE GOD ON EARTH. Each Soul-aspect of an individual Human Spirit, which is an inner creation of the Earth Essence, and due to certain deviations of a human being in its Evolution, has to go through all 12 qualities in a 12-phase cycle until all of them are assimilated by it. On Earth, the quality of Will is formed by the radiations emanating from the Essences of the planet VULCAN, the constellation BETA DOGS, ZOGAR and SUN SYRIUS.

The entities ALPHA CENTAVRA, LUCIFER, ASTARTA and STAR ANTARES participate in the development of the qualities of Love-Wisdom. The qualities of Creative Activity in us are formed by the radiations sent to Earth by the Entities DEMETRA, TELENA, TERNIS and JUPITER.

The Anti-World within the Earth, at the level of the first of its seven underground layers belonging to the previous generation, is populated mainly by beings undergoing the qualities of the Will in the six phases of the cycle, while in the very centre, in the magma layer, where the foundation for the beings of the next generation is laid, and in the airy Zone - the so-called " Mirror" or Noosphere - the beings of the 24 phase cycle are developing.

The four major points - the four faces of God - in the Divine State of Being are formed by the radiations of the following constellations: Leo (Fire Face), Aquarius (Air Face), SCORPIO (Water Face), Taurus (Earth Face).

Each of these Divine Persons contains within Himself three aspects of the unrevealed Divinity: LEO - ARIES - SAGITTARIUS (fire triad), AQUARIUS - GEMINI - LIBRA (Air Triad), SCORPIO-PISCES-CANCER (water Triad), TAURUS - CAPRICORN - VIRGO (Earth Triad).

During incarnation of each of the 12 Soul-analogues on the Physical plane, a Soul incorporates in turn the whole set of qualities which fill the Space of the Earth at the moment of incarnation. Each of these 12 qualities has to be learnt by the soul in its life experience, going through all the phases of the cycle one by one so that they can be included in the common internal experience of an individual spirit, gradually building up its own potential and becoming more and more individualized as it develops.

THE FIERY FACE OF GOD "LEO"

Leo is the Sign in which individual Consciousness develops and through which the Soul eventually begins to dedicate itself to the fulfillment of the Divine Plan. It is the constellation through which the Will-to-Completeness is poured out on Earth with humanity living on it.

In its essence, it is the aspiration of the Spirit for self-determination: as a small self of an individual, conscious of itself as an individual, as well as the self-determination of the Soul, the individual, as part of the One Whole, individually conscious of itself in the group Consciousness. Having reached the highest point in spiritual states during its numerous manifestations on the Physical plane of the Earth, having fully developed all the qualities of FEELING and SUSPENSION, overflowing with an irrepressible desire for immortality, the Soul in the Sign of Leo again receives a powerful impulse to move forward.

The concept of "forward" is very vague and unspecific in the Ethereal World: one cannot ascend to the next ascending level of one's evolutionary spiral without descending one or even several levels "below" in one's conditional movement "forward". Leo is precisely characterized by the first movement "forward" of the descending part of the Soul in its eternal progressive course, revealing all the properties of the Heart from the inside out. This constellation refers to Polaris, the Polar Star in the constellation of Ursa Minor, which is the Star of Direction and Reorientation that develops the art of "turning to the lost and recovering the lost". Ursa Minor is a reflection or result of the main Energies of its great prototype, Ursa Major.

Incidentally, Polaris currently rules Shambhala as well. But due to the interaction of Forces in the Universe, the general shift and movement of Cosmic Focuses, another Polaris will eventually take the place of the present Polaris, whose name and qualities are only revealed to the initiates at their Fourth Initiation.

Apart from the influences of Polaris, the Sign of Leo is also very strongly influenced by one of the two Stars located in the constellation of Ursa Major, called Pointers. The energies of the Pointer closest to the Polaris, expressing the lower aspect of Will (willfulness, stubbornness), govern the human Soul in the Sign of Leo on the involutionary circle.

More distant from the Polar Star, the Pointer can be roughly compared to an incredibly huge cosmic reservoir or Focus of Divine Energy carrying the Mystery of God's Providence. When the Soul passes to the evolutionary Circle of mastering the 12 qualities, then in the Sign of Leo one switches to the sources of Divine Energies emanating from this Pointer. Their stimulating spiritual influences begin to be felt more and more and one notes in his Life the feelings of right direction or guidance, which gradually brings him closer to an understanding of the Goals of the Higher Hierarchy of the Earth.

The entire mental activity of Leo is always focused on an avid and constant striving to reach some higher state of Consciousness. Due to the fact that the thinking of the Leo of the evolutionary circle is always distinguished by clarity, naturalness and sublimity, this Sign is not without reason considered royal.

The Sun rules this Sign both esoterically and exoterically. This Star reveals, or "illuminates" the two stages of the hidden Will: the physical Sun, illuminating the personality on the Physical plane, and the Heart of the Sun, revealing the Divine Nature of the Soul. The Sign of the Leo is the Solar Leo of the Mysteries, which with its inner warmth gives ripening to the fruit ripening in the depths of the Soul. This Sign helps people to know the ancient Law of Sacrifice and the inevitability of a generous reward for it.

Encouraged by its own immortal courage, the Soul in Leo, in its greedy striving for the knowledge of the Truth, disregards all consequences, Karma and all frameworks of responsibility, thus asserting the imperiousness of immortal courage. This is the embodiment of the supreme Sacrifice: By incarnating on the Physical plane the Soul in Leo deliberately renounces its pure Paradise state and deliberately chooses the hard conditions of Life and hard work in order thereby to acquire new Knowledge and thereby to develop its latent capacities.

In Leo the centre of man and the focus of Consciousness is himself; he is self-centered and revolves around his own axis, in respect for himself, and all the time he is a self-centered individual, giving all time, all thoughts and attention to his own well-being and personal interests. The radiations of the constellation Leo provide the first manifestation of the Face of God and therefore impose on all creations, manifested at the moment of the greatest activity of this Sign, a paternal character that gives Life to all living things.

It is known that there are five main stages in Meditation: concentration, reflection, contemplation, insight and inspiration. So, each of these corresponds to the characteristics of the following five Signs:

1. Concentration - Leo - the maximum degree of individuation of the undeveloped and medium-developed soul, leading to the development of self-awareness and the accumulation of life experience.

2. Reflection - Virgo is a period of unconscious and latent nurturing by the Soul of an already fully intelligent human being in its Heart - the germ of Christ, which is in every human form.

3. Contemplation - Libra - putting Soul and personality in a state of unstable and relative equilibrium between themselves, when spiritual Forces are preparing for a formidable battle, and personal qualities are weaving subtle but strong nets of future intrigues and intrigues. Ambiguity and ambiguity prevail in all of Life. This is a serious and responsible testing period for the Soul.

4. Illumination - SCORPIO - as a result of difficult and fierce battles, the spiritual Forces achieve convincing victories in battles with the magic of the Astral Plan (mercantile feelings, desires and emotions), dispelling the fog of illusion and releasing the Light of the Soul, illuminating the human Path of Discipleship.

5. Inspiration - Sagittarius - one's personal life is completely under the control of the Soul, which carefully prepares one for the Dedication in Capricorn.

The qualities mastered by the Soul in the Sign of Leo are distributed in phases among the 12 cosmic Essences as follows:

- Phase 1 - Vulcan radiations promote a reverent attitude towards all that is new and unexplored.

- Phase 2 - Beta Hound dog entities stir up perceptual fluctuations, forcing you to master the art of maneuvering in encounters with the unknowable.

- Phase 3 - The Zohar empowers the Leo with interdimensional perception, developing qualities of acceptability and selectivity.

- Phase 4 - The Sun's Sirius emissions impose a moment of vagueness, unspecificity and uncertainty in the assimilation of experience with the various Forms.

- Phase 5 - This same work is continued by the Alpha Centauri Entities, forcing man to arrange his inner world with vague Ideas and live by them.

- Phase 6 - During incarnation at the time of greatest influence of the Essences of the constellation Lucifer, the Soul learns to overcome futile attempts at conscious design; the intellect governing ambition.

- Phase 7 - When this experience is also assimilated, Astarte's radiations help the Soul to bring about an inner stabilization of all new experiences into the familiar forms of the already familiar old ones.

- Phase 8 - The Star Antares Energy will develop qualities to transmute old experiences, infusing them with new content so that they can be put into practice more successfully; individual Consciousness.

- Phase 9 - In the next incarnation, this work will be continued and further refined with the help of Demeter's radiations.

- Phase 10 - Higher Essences of Jupiter bring these qualities to perfection. Man shows the greatest caution, farsightedness, afraid on the basis of his vast experience to make even the slightest mistake; "I know!".

- Phase 11 - This leads to one of their next incarnations being under the influence of Telena energies, where the person will experience a constant dissatisfaction in translating their inner experience into life, showing indecision and inner instability.

- Phase 12 - When passing through the last phase of this Sign under the guidance of Ternis entities, one is subjected to karmic instability, one's entire life experience becomes jumbled, one becomes homesick for the present.

Symbolically, the sequence of mastering the qualities can be expressed as follows: self-consciousness - physical nature - interpreted man - human Soul - individuation - personality - centralization - individual unity - Fire - self-love - Evolution.

The Soul in Leo is particularly strongly influenced by the emanations of the six planets - the Sun, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Venus and Mars - whose qualities are very strongly expressed in this Sign, reaching a certain point of opening and forming in their combined activity and interaction the symbol of the six-pointed star of humanity. This indicates that at this stage of his Evolution man is gaining control over his Consciousness.

The whole process of mastering the qualities of this Sign and their influence on the incarnating Soul can be expressed in one word - "sensitivity" which manifests itself in the attitude of the Soul to the influences of the world of human Evolution, to the Will and desires of the person it animates, and also to the Self as an aspect of the Divine Spirit. Let us remind you that the principal and main function of the Essence of the Logos of our Solar System is to gradually reveal the Self-consciousness of all Monads undergoing the stage of human Evolution.

Therefore only Souls, who have developed the quality of a strong Will, are capable of moving out of a further circle with incarnation in the Sign "Leo", so as to start mastering qualities of the next Sign - "Virgo". But it should be remembered that the "LEO" who is just beginning to master the first phases of qualities of this Sign and the "LEO" completing this cycle are completely different in character and aspirations, not to mention their spiritual difference depending on the "age" and development of the incarnating Spirit.

The same should be said about people born in different Decanates of this Sign (and not only it): the first incarnations of the Soul in each of the subsequent Signs occur not at its calendar beginning, as it is commonly believed, but starting from the last Decanate of this Sign, slowly moving as the Soul learns its qualities to the calendar end of the preceding Sign.

As in all other Signs, the Soul, having just entered the study of the phases of the Quality Ray, is at first strongly influenced by centrifugal forces and very deeply immersed in the material sphere of earthly existence, turning all its attention not to the search for its true Essence, but to the egoistic and frenetic desire for material goals, to the wholeness and absorption of external beauties and goods of the Physical plane, seeing in them a wonderful opportunity for the manifestation of its higher qualities.

Having developed the qualities of mass Consciousness in the constellation Cancer, the Soul in Leo proceeds to intensive individualization of Consciousness, bringing this quality to the highest degree when passing through the last phases. Here the Soul enters the real battlefield between the Forces of Darkness and the Forces of Light, becoming an active participant in all the battles and taking turns on the side of the fanatical supporters of Matter and the true adherents of Spirit. Only a developed Soul can act in Leo as an inspired spiritual sacrifice, sensitive to the conditions of its manifestation on the Physical plane and free from the influence of personal desires. From the consciousness of the vast crowd and the passions of the human mass the germ of a soul gradually begins to germinate, self-aware of its sole and unique individuality, of its separateness in the centre of its microcosm.

With the mastering of each successive phase this individual position becomes more and more apparent, becoming the basis of the egocentric Consciousness inherent in a reasonable and ambitious man, striving to apply his egoistic abilities to a larger and larger field. This is why many " LEOs" devote several of their LIVES exclusively to studying and mastering the field of business, commerce, anything related to money, jewels and the opportunity to enjoy earthly goods.

At the same time, they very ingeniously and masterfully use their peculiar property, which allows them to burn, eradicate and destroy everything that hinders the manifestation of their individuality. As a rule, in this arena, they are for the time being very successful and reach a stage where there comes the saturation of material values and refined Soul "Leo" begins to rush around in search of something that could finally satisfy all its exquisite needs.

It is when mastering these phases of the Quality Ray that Leo inevitably and irresistibly (on an intuitive level) becomes attracted and interested in people born in the sign of Aquarius and completing the mastering of qualities on the evolutionary, ascending Circle. Aquarius of the evolutionary Circle is the polar spiritual opposite of Leo and the energy interaction between them is always much more powerful than it manifests and expresses on the purely Physical plane.

Spiritually healing Energies of developed Aquarius begin to balance the influence of Leo Sign Energies on the Soul, gradually shifting the focus of human attention from exclusively personal interests to the interests of society. As the interaction between the Souls of Leo and Aquarius continues, there comes a deepening of all the qualities of the former, its superficiality disappears, until the intense self-consciousness of Leo expands to the group awareness of Aquarius

The energies of Leo and the exceptional spiritual potencies of Aquarius are the key to the progress of the Soul and the basis of its transition to the next quality. A great deal can be said about the relationship of diametrically opposed Signs, as they express the interaction of Spirit and Matter in the play of energies of different qualities, first of all showing that the two are in fact only two aspects of one, differently expressing fixed and initiated spiritual Desires.

Spiritual Union of Aquarius and Leo inevitably leads the Soul of the latter to sometimes very sharp reorientation of Consciousness from purely selfish purpose of Life to more altruistic and spiritual plans and applications of their abilities. But, refusing the material benefits, man begins to experience one after another the blows of Destiny: bankruptcy, loss of wealth and material prosperity from all kinds of financial machinations and scams, stock manipulations, etc. It is only after having learned in Leo, in the course of many incarnations, the bitterness of the loss of everything that previously formed the meaning of Life, that the Soul begins to look deeply into the spiritual realms and there to seek answers to many of its questions which arose in the course of gaining experience of Life in this Sign when studying the material realm. Possessing a singular intuition, the "Leo" in search of the Truth begins to rush desperately from one realm of spiritual Knowledge to another, which often leads many Souls into the deftly laid snares of the Anti-World psychologists and makes them slaves of beings of negative intelligence for a long time.

A great many Souls, having mastered the Ray phases of this quality, are seduced by the truly grandiose opportunities offered them by the antics for their ever increasing attainment of material benefits, without quite noticing that while working on the Physical plane according to the programmes of the Anti-World, they are gradually degrading in their spiritual development. Tempted by the temporary and transitory delights of earthly pleasures, they sink more and more into the material realms of existence, and for a long time they lose the exclusive opportunity of acquiring their own individuality and their true immortality in the Spirit.

Especially the "Leo" evolves on the involutionary circle of the earthly qualities, while the "Leo" of the evolutionary circle is less amenable to the usual promises of the priests of the material plane. They are more attracted by the possibility of continuously expanding the scope of their abilities and ambitions, and thus they are more attracted to power and fame, rather than to money in itself.

In general Leo are the qualities of a perfectly developed, dignified and decent person. They have a predominant influence in the Life of the seeker, who must come to know himself, his Divine Spirit through true self-awareness. They are also the mature father or gentle and caring mother, radiating the creative power of their experience, love and warmth upon their children.

The loving and self-conscious Soul, who is finishing mastering in its second circle the qualities of the constellation Leo, during its next incarnation on Earth, transfers the power of its expression from the higher Spheres of the Ethereal Plan - directly to the Physical one, retaining at the same time the inner control and continuing, through acquiring sensitivity to higher vibrations and through direct intelligent service to the Plan of incarnation, to keep its ideal Goal a fact in its Consciousness.

The mature Leo is a man of the Will and aspiration for Knowledge, which moves him towards self-awareness through self-knowledge, giving him the intellectual confidence that leads him to power and control over others. It is the desire to rule and dominate people that leads the Soul, having mastered the qualities of the Sign of Cancer before, to incarnate in the Sign of Leo, which must inevitably develop in man the ability to dominate himself and other individuals, united in groups and communities.

In Leo, the self-centered person eventually becomes Soul in life manifestation and concentrates on achieving the spiritual Will of self-affirmation. In this Sign he prepares for the first Consecration and receives it when the personality becomes the captive of the Soul.

The Soul in this Sign awakens to its own identity by concentrating its intention, and learns the lessons of selfishness. This selfishness eventually drives it into such a corner that the interest of the Soul in its manifested identity gradually not only diminishes, but disappears altogether.

A developed Leo is a person who is aware of his purpose in Life, directs his development and has a well-defined Life programme. He is characterized by a developed mentality and a certain degree of integration, he also does not follow his emotions and does not base his actions on desire, all the time being aware of himself as an active agent of all his actions and plans.

The key words for the Soul who has successfully mastered the qualities of this Sign are: "I am That, and That is I!" Of course, human language cannot express what cannot be put into a familiar form, but still try to catch in all the key words that underlying Thought, which characterizes this quality and to this end directs and coordinates all the work of the emanating Energies.

The words of the self-conscious and self-serving Leo are: "I am!" When the Leo begins to quickly acquire a higher Consciousness and under the influence of Aquarius prepares himself for a new universal expression, his key words become: "I am That!" When the Soul in Leo is spiritually awakened, it immediately becomes aware of its motivating impulses, which leads it to self-discipline, which the human Leo greatly needs and which must always be not only self-imposed but also self-applied, for Leo cannot tolerate any disciplinary and restrictive measure by others, which can lead to nothing other than rebellion, rebellion and the manifestation of all that such a measure was intended to eradicate. At the same time, self-discipline imposed by Leo on himself is far more effective in leading Leo to excellence and achievement.

Therefore "the Leo himself must come out of his lair"; only then can his Consciousness, centered solely on himself, be transmuted into the fully decentered and self-sacrificing Consciousness characteristic of Aquarius. This transformation will change the principle of Leo's service to itself into service to the Goals of its polar opposite, Aquarius. Then the key words of this Sign can be expressed in the words said by Jesus: "Father, let not my Will but Yours be done.

ASPECT OF THE FIERY FACE OF GOD "SAGITTARIUS"

The soul embodied in a person mastering the qualities of this Sign has already outgrown its animal nature, has overcome most of its physical desires and attachments and is now directing its Consciousness towards higher Purposes. But at the same time she continues in her incarnations to sink deeper and deeper into material forms.

The evolution of the sex has already opened those necessary channels through which the hosts of gross energetic forces enter it and find their reflection and activity, and therefore the soul at this stage begins to lose very quickly even what little remains of its original spiritual Consciousness. In other words, the Soul in Sagittarius symbolizes the state of the soul when in its downward march on the circle of evolution it reaches a point of polarization, such as that of a vortex formed by powerful currents of countless opposing forces, which are seeking expression in various material forms.

This is the original Fire, but reflected from a different angle. It is the expression of the immortal Power of Fire, the highest boldness and courage manifested by the Soul in its deepest material states. The intellect, developed, used and ultimately illuminated, becomes sensitive to an even higher mental experience, which we call as 'intuitive perception'.

The Soul of the developed Sagittarius no longer wanders in the dark, seeing and knowing what it should do, so it progresses quickly, moving swiftly along the Path. But the trouble is that here all the Powers of the restless and restless Soul come into disorder. In the ancient treatises this Sign is not in vain allegorized in the Tower of Babel, in the complete scattering of the sons of men to the four corners of the world.

Here they are fully immersed in dense Matter, and all their migrations from Life to Life have as their purpose the entry into the Karmic Cycle. This Sign symbolizes the governing Forces of humanity, which come to realize the necessity of fulfilling the Law and the reasonableness of the Order, hence the purpose and nurturing of the basic qualities of Sagittarius - the ability to rule.

The drawn bow of Sagittarius is ready to release its energy arrows in any direction, if only the timing is right, when the Energy of these arrows, refracted in human Souls and reflected in the outer plane, will induce Souls to show themselves as restless, striving forward Consciousnesses, seeking more and more areas for their expression. This forward movement promotes a sense of order, the curbing of one's passions and the cultivation of the Will, which gives Sagittarians power over themselves and the ability to govern others.

In Sagittarius, the Soul has to discover two things: the power to become on the Path, to walk on it and make progress on it, and the capacity to create in a higher and spiritual sense. While the energy centers such as Svadhisthana (sacral) and Vishudha (throat) in this Sign are in their embryonic state, as the Soul cyclically returns to mastering the qualities of this Sign, these centers become increasingly developed and powerful, endowing the person with the abilities corresponding to them.

Through the activation of these centers, man begins to progress so clearly in his Evolution that he very soon ceases to identify himself not only with his personality but also with the whole of humanity, shifting more and more attention to the contents of his inner Essence, which greatly helps him to advance on the Path to Consecration. In addition, the power of his Mind, developed and experienced in Scorpio, becomes less active, giving way to intuition.

The emanations of a person of this Sign are aspiration to spiritual Spheres, effulgence and purposefulness, spiritual emancipation and progression, which at the very beginning of mastering the qualities of this Sign can be expressed by the motto: "Let food be found!". The key words of the Soul that has passed through all the trials of the Sign of Sagittarius may be: "I see the goal, I reach the goal and I see another". Usually Sagittarians are wise and good-natured parents, who help their adult children with kind spiritual Thoughts and wise advice. But it should not be forgotten that depending on what phase of the quality of a given Sign a person's Soul is mastering in this particular incarnation, the character properties of each individual representative of this Sign also differ from the above-mentioned characteristics.

The sequence of mastering qualities through the phases of the incarnating Soul can be represented as follows:

- Phase 1 - mastery of a new Idea, the ambition of desires.

- Phase 2 - developing an objective and positive approach when considering the Idea; direction.

- Phase 3 - reassessment of values in the process of working on the Idea, transformation of Consciousness to a higher level of spirituality, search for philosophical or religious foundations for one's worldview; orientation.

- Phase 4 - the ability to construct logically, the skill to give clarity to any form, the ability to perceive spiritually.

- Phase 5 is the deliberate search for the new, the demolition of the old, the getting rid of negativity.

- Phase 6 - the ability to quickly analyze and justify optimal choices.

- Phase 7 - Consciousness of the Soul in the early stages: Permanence of Consciousness and purity of inner judgement, striving to get rid of everything superfluous and unnecessary that impedes progress.

- Phase 8 - high intuition driving aspiration; the ability to concentrate on a particular goal, the desire to find a worthy application of one's abilities.

- Phase 9 - attempts at deep immersion in materiality, disillusionment with the material sphere of activity and a new transformation of Consciousness.

- Phase 10 - sharp reorientation of activities and goals towards greater spirituality, acquisition of the gift of clairvoyance and spiritual guidance, final definition of spiritual values; discipleship; First Consecration.

- Phase 11 - combining the experience of all phases of the Sign for rapid qualitative ascent and its application in any field of social or professional activity; unidirectional spiritual aspiration; Second Consecration.

- Phase 12 - striving to expand the scope of one's knowledge even further in order to gain a wider application of one's experience. "I'm visualizing!"

Growth of Consciousness goes in the following sequence: concentrated Consciousness - emotional nature - ambition - spiritual-human Soul - discipleship - choice of the Path - orientation - perception of duality - Fire - struggle - final Path. Remember that the transition to the development of each next phase of one quality occurs only after the Soul has developed, assimilated and recycled in the posthumous period of its Existence all the previous qualities determining specific abilities of the Soul, embodied in the given Sign.

The transition of the soul to mastering the qualities of the next Sign - Capricorn - takes place only after the Death of a man, in a new incarnation of the Soul and only if the mental part of its memory, which is in the Permanent Atom of the mental body, has managed to get rid of all the Ideas that occupied the Consciousness of man during the last lifetimes. If an Idea has over-occupied the Consciousness, the soul can go on incarnating on Earth in one and the same Sign for a very long time.

ASPECT OF THE FIERY FACE OF GOD "ARIES"

Aries is the constellation through which inducing conditions flow into our solar system. It embodies the Will-to-Create, which expresses the First Divine Idea, the Will-to-Benefit. In other words, it is Mind in action, the first pulsation of Deity in the dual aspect of man as 'Master and Creator'. To the incarnating human Soul this is always the prototype, remaining unacknowledged on the Physical plane of the Earth by the invisible power which is commonly called 'intellect', that is What Knows and gives to every Consciousness that distinctive, universal and immortal power which constitutes in man not only his spiritual likeness to the Creator, but brings him into the state of uttering the words: 'I am who I am'.

The qualities of the radiations of this beautiful constellation symbolise the first pulsation of that Ray of Pure Mind which is in the human Soul that very Divine Spark, the Ego-Spirit which distinguishes man from the other divine creatures of the three lower realms of Nature. These emanations are the Power which eternally impels human Consciousness to move forward towards evolutionary progress and opens to it the Beginning in its first manifested state on Earth.

In the Involutionary Circle in the sign of Aries soul is irresistibly attracted by desire and inner need for new and new incarnations on the Physical plane - Willingness to manifest in order to master the qualities and experience of Life (on the Cardinal Cross). This is the Sign, starting the creative process of Soul, the beginning of the period in which there is a reorientation of the Wheel of Life for aspiring.

The emanations of this Sign are saturated with the Fire of youth, which gives strength to a young father, awakening and setting in motion a new Life. It is a symbol of Sacrifice and embodiment of the forces of spring, which in their action are often in their manifestations wild and unrestrained, lustful and unreasonable, careless and rash.

This is the first action of the Pure Mind, which manifested the first expression of form and was directed from the angelic state to Earth according to the Law of Karma as a Sacrifice; the Mind which has already triumphed over the lower kingdoms of Nature and has now plunged back into the Spring of new Life with the promise of Light and Love. The main attributes of the qualities of this Sign are: wholeness, intolerance, temper tantrums and the urge to reproduce. The nature of Aries is reflected in creativity, activity, constant struggle and continuous synthesis.

This Sign represents the thinking forces of humanity, the active Intellectual Being, the ruler of Creation - Man. He is the supplier of electric Fire to our Solar System and the conductor of the dynamic Nature of the Creator, warming with Fire all Souls developing in spiritual Harmony with the Law, and destroying all that creates dissonance of the Spirit.

Key Words: "I come forward and rule from the plan of Mind". The key Ideas for the incarnate Soul are: the desire to express the Will to Be and to create; the need to reveal the Will to manifestation; on the evolutionary circle, the desire to enter into a struggle for the Divine manifestation in oneself; the longing to find unity with the Whole through the efforts made.

Mastering the qualities of the Sign in phases is rapid in turnover (in one incarnation you can "go through" all the phases several times), but long in time (complete mastering of each phase may take several lifetimes). Usually, this process goes as follows:

- Phase 1 - rapid infatuation with a new Idea.

- Phase 2 - an abrupt transformation of Consciousness and active, unrestrained activity to put the new Idea into Life.

- Phase 3 - intolerance of vagueness, vagueness and abstraction, the ability to act rashly and make atypical decisions.

- Phase 4 - work on concretizing and shaping Ideas, searching for new forms.

- Phase 5 - aggressiveness towards anything that gets in the way of active work with the Idea.

- Phase 6 - the ability to quickly group and focus your attention on what is new.

- Phase 7 - excessive ego and self-confidence, a conviction that you are right.

- Phase 8 - inner dissatisfaction, searching for new Ideas to apply your creative forces and inner energy.

- Phase 9 is the application of the acquired knowledge in order to gain experience, fighting against anything that hinders or opposes this.

- Phase 10 is a clear understanding of the goal and an irrepressible desire to achieve it.

- Phase 11 - the joy of victory and the successful application of one's experience, the pleasure of having achieved one's goal.

- Phase 12 - dissatisfaction with what has been achieved, crushing everything old, searching for new Ideas and goals.

Only when all Ideas and Forms are destroyed and annihilated does birth into a new quality take place. The phases of the passage of qualities have the same principle:

The first four, defined by the radiations of the cosmic Essences Vulcan, Hound Dogs, Zogar and Sirius, work to perceive the Idea, which in its spiritual level can be either low or high;

The next four phases, conditioned by the passage through the Earth of the vibrations of the Cosmic Essences of Centauri, Lucifer, Astarte and Antares, develop in man the capacity for inner comprehension and mastering of the Idea which, gradually nurtured, man then begins to embody on the Physical plane;

The last four phases, characterized by the vibrations of the cosmic Essences Demeter, Jupiter, Telena and Ternis, allow the development of qualities in man capable of bringing the Idea into Life and, having summarized the experience of the previous phases, complete the work of mastering this quality.

Since this Sign carries in itself the power of the beginning, it is primarily associated with everything that comes into being, is born. Although all Signs possess this quality in one way or another, but for Aries this aspect is absolute, internal and defining. When the Soul has passed the assimilation of the qualities in Taurus and Capricorn, it receives its first Consecration and through Aries the doors to Shambhala open before it.

Through the imposition of the qualities of the Sixth Ray, the Soul is imbued with a tendency to idealize the material World, which eventually leads it to uncompromising inner struggle and Death on the Physical plane. For the advanced man, the qualities of this Ray produce purification, through the capacity of inner vision and awareness of the reality of the Divine Plan. The Fourth Ray gradually brings the Soul to Harmony with the surrounding and inner Worlds, enlightening the Mind and enriching the Soul with inner content.

THE AIRY FACE OF GOD "AQUARIUS"

The qualities of this Zodiac Ray are largely due to the influence of the emanations emanating from one of the seven Pleiades stars, the Alcyone (Alcyone). Recall that the cosmic stellar Entities we call Pleiades, which are in the constellation Taurus, are the "mothers" in the seven aspects of Existence Form and the "wives" of the seven Rishis of the Big Dipper. This constellation is very closely related to the maternal aspect of God nourishing His Son, the Cosmic Christ.

The energies emanating from the Star of Alcyone impregnate the Substance of the Universe with the quality of Mind, therefore this Star is sometimes also called the 'Star of the Individual' or the 'Star of the Intellect'. It was exceptionally influential during Existence in the last Manvantara of the previous solar system, when the Third Personality of the God-Trinity was particularly powerful and active.

In the present Solar System, the most active is the manifestation of the Second Hypostasis - the Divine Love of Christ. Developing in Aquarius on the involutionary Circle (Aries - Pisces - Aquarius), the Soul devotes all of itself (on the Fixed Cross) to the service of its lower self, expressing itself in extreme degrees of selfishness and satisfaction of all material needs of the individual. On the peculiarities of the Evolution of undeveloped Souls we shall dwell in more detail elsewhere. Released from the crystallized cycle of Matter, the Soul in its movement in qualities from Leo to Aquarius begins in this Sign to evolve very rapidly into states though material, but already quite different in the qualities of its vibrations.

Aquarius is the type and prototype of the last great Goal of the future material state of the Soul, the last point in its earthly evolutionary Arc: from Taurus through Leo and Eagle - to Man or human Spirit proper. Embodied in the Sign of Aquarius already in its second, evolutionary Circle, the Soul becomes on the World Servant Path and is the transmitter of the Star Energy of Alcyone to all mankind, awakening in other prepared Souls a magnetic response to the vibrations of these higher Energies.

In this Sign the Soul successfully learns to apply in practice, in Life, all the knowledge acquired by it in passing through the 12 phases of the qualities of Gemini, which it has learned to weigh carefully, mastering the qualities of Libra. All the knowledge she has learned has undergone a long and thorough test of life experience, has been validated and has been secured by the Laws of Being.

Here the solitary and separate Soul becomes in its response and awareness the whole of humanity and at the same time, it continues to retain its singular individuality. Aquarius is no longer just a single individual, individually centered on himself and his individuality, but it is already humanity itself, in whose Goodness only the personal identity of the particle has dissolved, while its spiritual identity remains intact and strengthened.

The soul of Aquarius rises from self-service to world-service, and yet - it is still, until the third Consecration, the level of Consciousness of the individualized Son of God, Christ, is received. The influence of Aquarius is also felt as the influence of the Sign that gave Life among other Forms of planetary Life and other Kingdoms of Nature.

Aquarius, thanks to the extremely developed qualities of the Will and the Imagination, is the most powerful and unsurpassed of all the Signs initiator, generator, synthesizer and at the same time implement in Life the most original and incredible in its grandiosity Ideas. The ability to easily summarize and classify into a coherent system a huge and beyond the control of other Signs, makes Aquarius an ideal implementer of the most ambitious projects in practice.

The radiating Energy of this Sign cannot be shaken by any hindrances or obstacles in achieving the goals set; this Energy knows no bounds. Low-spirited and undeveloped Souls, while incarnating in this Sign, very often go down the ramp of degradation turning into evil earthly Geniuses; the Souls who have managed to develop a high spiritual potential in other Signs, after mastering the qualities of this Sign, complete their Evolution in the Physical plane, becoming an individual Spirit and occupying various Angelic ranks in the Earth Cosmic Hierarchy.

Aquarius has the invaluable qualities of giving his accumulated treasures to others. Experiencing a dire need to pass on his spiritual Knowledge and experience, he irrigates Souls striving for Truth with the living water of a mature and strong Spirit, turning the most distant Worlds of our Solar System into the sphere of his spiritual interests.

It is not in vain that many Souls, who complete mastering the qualities of this sign, during the intervals between their earthly incarnations, perform in the Ethereal World all kinds of very important work of a diplomatic nature, being intermediaries in relations between various cosmic civilizations of both 'Light' and 'Dark' Rings. These souls have no centre or circle of limitations on their influence, but there are only two lines of Energy coming from each of them, which are continuously pouring vivifying currents into the world of people.

Radiating into the surrounding Space animating high-frequency spiritual vibrations, this Sign exemplifies for all the irrepressible freedom of the Spirit and the unwavering desire to cast off all earthly fetters. It is the Sign of constant movement, changing activity and repetitive mutation.

At the same time - when the influence of the emanations of Saturn intensifies - Aquarius may experience all the depths of inner depression and self-depression or, under the influence of the emanations of Uranus, - may cognize the unknowable and manage to go through the maximum exaltation of the Soul and feelings of great spiritual power, which gives soul control, and know them as interaction, and also as action and opposition, extremely necessary for his spiritual growth and comprehension of the Mystery of Divine Being.

The main characteristics of the qualities of this Sign are sanity, reasonable perspective, spiritual companionship and inner respectability. Having passed through the phases of the quality ray of the first two periods, Aquarius literally tries to scatter the spiritual treasures accumulated by him during numerous incarnations on everyone and everything, knowing that not only will he not lose, but he will also gain significantly from it.

If his Spirit is sufficiently developed, such a person is seen by clairvoyants as a shining silhouette glowing with inner Light on the Subtle plane. In this sign the person rises above the usual sexual preoccupation and sexuality, beginning to value sincere friendship with members of the opposite sex much more than the passionate need for purely sexual intimacy.

That is why, being themselves faithful friends, and relating to others with the same rigorous measure as to themselves, Aquarius often after many years of life have close to him only one, maximum - two real and true friends. For them, the concept of "friendship" is much more than it is understood by most people, so do not be surprised that many of the historically known personalities, went to death for the sake of a friend or for the sake of the sublime idea, were Aquarius. By giving Light to people himself, "Aquarius" becomes for other Signs a source and conductor of higher, Divine, spiritual Power. Beginning with the passage of the eighth phase of the Ray, he enters into a process of gradual transformation and dematerialization from the Physical plane of Earth, devoting the periods between earthly incarnations to the service of Good and Light. It takes centuries and significant changes in historical formations to attract a Soul, which is finishing mastering the qualities of an Aquarius on the second Circle, to get a new experience in its next incarnation on Earth.

For example, the last incarnation of the author of these lines - also Aquarius - took place eight hundred forty years ago (1154 - 1224). The present incarnation, one of the last ones on the Earth, was brought about by the necessity to bring to life the plan of several Consciousnesses of the planetary level to write and to publish in twelve world languages these books which, as well as the fruits of the last of the previous incarnations of his Soul, were to play their positive role in raising the general level of spirituality of a rather large part of humanity.

Key words for "Aquarius", conveying the basic quality of this Sign: "I am the water of Life, pouring out for all those who thirst". Mastering by the Soul of phases of the Ray of quality "Aquarius" - both during seven-year cycles of one earthly Life, and from incarnation to incarnation - goes as follows:

- Phase 1 - a non-serious attitude towards the High Idea and a lack of a definite approach to it; the service of the individual to the lower self, which rapidly transforms itself into an aid and service to humanity.

- Phase 2 - perception and appreciation of the Idea, its originality and perspective; superficial and still selfish activity, gradually changing into a deep and active desire to be active on behalf of the earthly Hierarchy.

- Phase 3 - a reassessment of spiritual values and a fascination with new spiritual Knowledge.

- Phase 4 - projecting past incarnations' experiences onto the new Knowledge.

- Phase 5 - assimilation of the acquired Knowledge, comparing and linking it to what has been learned before.

- Phase 6 - finding traditional ways of applying the new Knowledge.

- Phase 7 - collation and synthesis of the acquired Knowledge into a logical system.

- Phase 8 - using all the lessons learned to put the new experience into practice.

- Phase 9 is the introduction of new experiences into ready-made structures.

- Phase 10 is about finding structures that are ready to accept new Ideas and to implement them.

- Phase 11 is an active social activity associated with the realisation of new Knowledge and Ideas; a self-conscious Living that transitions into empathetic humane awareness.

- The 12th phase is a desire for peace of mind and a longing for solitude, a detachment from the vanity of the world, a spiritual union with God.

In developed Aquarius, the Soul manages to recognise the nature of that bond which subjectively and in Truth holds everything together. Matter and the Soul imprisoned in it, begin to create together, showing tolerance to each other; Soul and Spirit express and manifest themselves through the substance of Matter, while acting as one, as a synthetic whole.

Esoterically developed Aquarius puts all spiritual that he has in his vessel, constantly making new and new accumulation, which he is happy to give out to help other people who are in need and special thirst for knowledge of the Divine Truth. The exit of the Soul from this quality usually coincides with drastic social and spiritual changes taking place in the state system or in the environment and is not always associated with Death, because that spiritual transformation of Consciousness and inner dematerialization that takes place in the Life of an "Aquarian" can be equated with the Death of the physical body.

The long effort of the Soul is completed here and Aquarius, having taken the third Consecration, becomes free from personality control, and having received two more consecrations on the cosmic Cardinal Cross of Transcendence, becomes completely free also from the influences of planetary Life. The consecrations are the most important milestones on the ascending, evolutionary path of the soul, confirming and securing its successes and achievements. It is as a fact that the Soul in the manifestation of its true Nature and character has conquered the personality. After successfully mastering the qualities of this Ray and receiving the third Consecration, one already serves as a Soul and not a personality, based on free choice and knowledge of all its intentions and intentions regarding its tasks in manifestation on the Physical plane of Earth.

The Aquarius devotee sums up all that has been achieved by the Soul in mastering the qualities of Leo through the influence of the Sun. After the third Consecration, the light of the personality dims in the Light of the subjective Sun influencing the Soul. The three constellations of the Aerial Face of God, Aquarius, Libra and Gemini, being spiritual in nature, are very favorable for the manifestation of the Forces requiring free and unhindered movement.

These three Signs symbolize duality - perceived, overcome and resolved in the synthesis of the great Servant of the World, contributing fully all his accumulated experience and all his Energy to the Service of the Great Idea, the embodiment of the Whole. These Signs clearly show the Seal of God's Mind, as He expresses Himself through human Nature: duality, balance, synthesis and Consecration to the Universal Mind.

THE AIR ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "LIBRA"

Radiation of Libra brings everything obtained by the Soul in mastering the qualities of other pairs of opposite Signs, into the equilibrium. It indicates the Will-to-Expression - in perfect harmony and proportion - of both the Life of Spirit and the capabilities of Matter. All the experience of past incarnations, gathered by man, in this Sign, is carefully weighed, tested, leaving only the most valuable and ridding man of all unnecessary and false.

This results in an inner harmony that develops the power of intuition and discernment, and brings the bilateral Energy developed by the Soul in the Sign of Gemini, first to a precarious and then to a stable equilibrium: the influences of the constellations ruled by Aries ("the Lamb") are separated from those ruled by Capricorn ("the Goat"). This Sign is the symbol of the Mother which draws the Form and establishes balance and justice in our THREE-MORE WORLD.

Here the soul has its first real vision of the Path to the Goal it must eventually reach. To be able to walk this extremely narrow and dangerous Path between pairs of opposites, making the right choice with each successive step, one must first develop the ability to use the analytical properties of the Mind and intuition correctly to keep the Soul in a state of equilibrium and tranquility.

The Sign of Libra is closely related to the third aspect of the Triune God - the aspect of Creator and Energy, which produces the external tangible Plan of manifestation - the formal side of Life. Consequently, it is the guiding Sign in all that concerns the fulfillment of the law (Will and Power - qualities of Uranus), the relationship of the sexes (the relationship between pairs of opposites - qualities of Venus) and the sphere of money (Concretized Energy - qualities of Saturn).

On the involutionary Circle the harsh experiences and severe trials in the previous Sign, Scorpio, allowed the Soul to develop to a high degree the instinct of self-preservation and the first faint glimmers of intuition. Because of this, the subsequent experience of mastering the qualities in Libra the Soul spends in a quiet and contemplative state of relative static safety, in careful weighing the facts of all aspects of its own and the surrounding Life, to understand and determine the mechanism of the cosmic "Bowl of Libra" - the Law of Equivalence and, through knowledge of this Law, learn to achieve what is intended.

If the Soul reaches the conversion of its Wheel of Life and enters the evolutionary Circle of development, the active Life of the Soul, being carefully registered and marked in Virgo, is first evaluated and aligned in Libra, and then the Soul, in a state of extreme opposition between its spiritual and personal contents, which are in unstable equilibrium, again enters the Sign of Scorpio. This Sign - Libra - carries out the separation between the ordinary, involutionary Circle and the reversed, evolutionary Circle.

In this Sign, man is constantly weighing his actions, each time opposing each other all the positive and all the negative. Therefore, the attention of the Soul in Libra is alternately directed alternately to the sphere of materiality and spirituality, resulting in gradual and difficult to establish an internal balance, causing the predominance of the divine, spiritual beginning over the material and relative within man to act.

Very often this experience of "swinging" confuses the uninitiated, for usually the spiritually evolved Libra man always manages to find that which is not the best in himself, which again and again draws him back into the sphere of his former material interests, habits and desires. In other words, the astral and physical darkness clouds the spiritual vision of the Soul and, leaving the realms of Innocence and Bliss, it sinks back into the whirlwind of the great Astral World.

The heavenly state is now permanently lost to her as the realm of Angelic Innocence and can only be regained through sorrow, suffering and the terrible vicissitudes of earthly experience. From the moment of its swift and voluntary descent into the Matter of the physical plane of the earth, the soul can no longer be regarded as an innocent Angel and Cherub, because from then on it becomes for itself both disciple, teacher and ruler of its own destiny.

Acquisition of the qualities of the Sign when the Soul passes through the phases of earthly incarnations is as follows:

- Phase 1 - acquisition and assimilation of principles, vagueness of awareness.

- Phase 2 - an enthusiastic perception of everything new, a thoroughness and depth of knowledge, projecting general Laws onto the particularities of material Life.

- Phase 3 is a total rejection of all that has been accumulated and built up in past incarnations and a joyful acceptance of all that is new.

- Phase 4 is the consistent assimilation of the Ideas for the New.

- Phase 5 is the meticulous examination and "decomposition" of new images and their alignment with one's own being.

- Phase 6 is the birth of an imaginative solution within oneself.

- Phase 7 - detailing and fleshing out the new Knowledge in order to put it into practice.

- Phase 8 - turning your inner gaze to God and trying to find your place in Life without compromising spiritually.

- Phase 9 is about "finding yourself" and consistently engaging all your internal reserves in the production process.

- Phase 10 - building strength and Energy.

- Phase 11 - emotional stability and spiritual steadfastness, sobriety and prudence.

- Phase 12 - goal attainment, activity satisfaction, mental equilibrium.

In the individual sense and in the sense of the evolutionary process esoterically the state of the Soul here can be expressed by the words: "Before Creation is the silence and stillness of the focused point. The nature of this constellation has been hidden for centuries from all but the initiated because it contains the most important Mysteries associated with the human Soul. In this Sign is the great transitional arc between the Spiritual World and the Subtle Astral World, between ideal intentions and elemental forms, between the World of Premonitions and the Realm of Power.

In the process of passing through all the 12 phases of the Ray of this Sign, the Soul gradually brings the next pairs of its opposites into balance:

- unbalanced and balanced;

- bias, prejudice and fairness, judgement;

- dumb stupidity and enthusiastic Wisdom;

- preference for the outsides of Life and a predisposition towards true short expression;

- a penchant for intrigue and straightforward behavior;

- material desires and spiritual aspirations...

The Soul's mastering of the quality of Libra is constantly influenced by the material plane, on the one hand, and by the spiritual plane, on the other hand, which leads to drastic changes of goals and programmes, as a result of which the soul now and then plunges into inner conflicts with itself, where by analysis and right choice a temporary state of inner harmony is formed and a relative equilibrium is established.

Libra gives an opportunity to the Soul on the evolutionary Circle to balance within itself the operation of the material and spiritual Laws and when the Soul achieves this, then it becomes capable of going into much deeper experiences of life, being embodied in this World both as a direct participant in the Divine Providence on the one hand and as a collaborator in the Divine Precept on the other hand. She herself then becomes her own initiate and is ready to accept the Consecration. You are reminded that Consecration is just another name for fusion and synthesis.

But when a soul through tribulation and suffering has had the bitter experience of life, or when it has reached the equator of the highest arc of its evolutionary progress, it unites again with its lost - angelic! - half, then it gives expression to the immortal Power with which it began its cyclical march in the sign of Aries. But it is no longer that embryonic embryo whose motto was reduced to the expression: "I am what I am. At this point in its development the Soul represents being in the universal Soul of Being.

One of the main Mysteries of Libra is the expression of bipolarity (androgyny) in the Nature of Secondary Material Creation. As soon as an androgynous human Soul accomplishes Evolution in the Spiritual Worlds, it is put back on the Heavenly Libra between its two further Paths. Bending to temptation, it accepts the forbidden fruit and immediately sinks from its spiritual state into the Illusion of Material Creation.

In the highest, or first part of this Sign, the bipolar nature of the Soul is manifested in the form of a symbol, to a certain extent positive and masculine. It may be said that the Soul, pure and clothed in divine garments, still continues for some time in the Garden of Eden. Incidentally, in the Chaldean statues the Soul in Libra was depicted in the form of Venus, who had a very unusual appearance - she had a beard!

Between Venus, the Angel of Libra, and the Morning Star or the shining Archangel Lucifer can be confidently equated. But after a Soul has tasted the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (notice: positive and negative sides of Being), the light-bearing Archangel "falls down", and the rising Sun of shining Morning turns into the Evening Star - the symbol of the approaching Night. In the same way, the Soul, which has come to know and has sunk to temptation, loses its heavenly garment (spiritual Consciousness) and puts on Matter - the symbol of the spiritual night.

The unfolding of human Consciousness in Libra goes through a progressive series of beginnings, manifestations and accomplishments, relative in nature, but conducive to absolute accomplishment, allowing one to receive Consecration in Capricorn and thereby become a collaborator in the great creative process and purpose. Keeping the Mystery of balance and equilibrium, Libra eventually utters the Word which frees the Dedicated One from the Power of the Guardians of Karma.

Exit from the Sign occurs with a complete reversal of programs under the influence of external factors after passing through and assimilating the vibrations of the twelfth phase of quality. The initial key words of this Sign (for the average person with undeveloped spiritual Consciousness) may sound as follows: "And the Word is spoken: let the choice be made. When the Soul comes out of this Sign evolutionarily enriched, it may say, "I choose the Path that runs between the two great lines of Power.

THE AIR ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "GEMINI"

The sign of the "GEMINI" represents the two halves of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is one of the most important Signs, as it represents the duality inherent in human Nature. It is the great symbolic constellation of the Two Brothers, expressing the relationship between dualities.

It forms a third factor with each of the pairs of opposites in the Zodiac, thus strongly influencing the other two constellations. It generates the Force which produces the changes necessary for the Evolution of Christ Consciousness in man. This is why Gemini is also called "the constellation of the resolution of duality into a kind of fluid synthesis".

Gemini belongs to the element Air, which determines their sphere of influence on the human Soul. Radiations of this quality act in two opposite directions, to accumulate life experience in different spheres of human activity. It is this wealth of experience, as well as the thirst for its acquisition, that endows the Soul with such qualities as communicability in communication, mobility and mutability.

The light of intuition here blends with the light of Mind into one illuminated whole. It is typical of Gemini Souls to merge Spirit with Matter and demonstrate their essential unity. The qualities of this Sign are very closely related to the etheric body of the embodied Soul, which is the guardian of the conditioning Energy and the mediator between the physical body and the rest of its subtle bodies.

In a Soul developing on an involutionary Circle, the etheric body serves as a transmitter of astral and mental Energy to the physical body, while in a Soul developing on an evolutionary Circle it ensures the transmission of spiritual Energy to the individual, thereby weakening the negative influence on the Soul of the individual and strengthening spiritual influences.

Due to interaction from incarnation to incarnation with the Energies of the Earth, which is the hierarchical ruler of Gemini, in this Sign there is a gradual refinement of the etheric body of the Soul. Seeking experience, the Soul, mastering the qualities of this Sign, tries literally from everything that happens to it and around it, to extract experience, to cognize everything, to feel it, to hear and see it.

Because of this, she develops in different directions and gains from this broad, far-reaching Knowledge, which will get the opportunity of its maximum realization when she develops the qualities of Aquarius.

The key words of this incarnation are: "I recognize my other (lower) self and as that self diminishes, I grow and glow."

The process of mastering by the soul of the phases of the Ray of quality "Gemini" - both during seven-year cycles of one earthly life and from incarnation to incarnation - is as follows:

- Phase 1 - Dazzle by the Idea, total absorption and rapture by it.

- Phase 2 - a strongly developed Imagination, causing a craving for mystery, enigma, pomposity and giving visions excessive imagery.

- Phase 3 - the abandonment of old values in order to gain a deeper understanding of the world around us, and the quickness and comprehension to learn new things.

- Phase 4 - separation of the known from the unknowable, unspecific judgement.

- Phase 5 - passion for the Idea, internal commitment.

- Phase 6 - understanding the illusory nature of existence and playing along with it.

- Phase 7 is about going inside yourself, digging around in search of an application of your experiences.

- Phase 8 - going outward, into materiality, meanness, mercantilism and caution in trying to put your own Idea into practice.

- Phase 9 - cunning and foresight in working towards the Idea.

- Phase 10 - the ability to achieve a goal easily through accumulated experience and people skills.

- Phase 11 is a floundering search for the application of experience, quick change of Ideas and goals, and superficiality in the execution of plans.

- Phase 12 - achieving great success with an Idea, a quick cooling off of interest in it and the final results, an immediate search for a new suitable Idea and an enthusiastic dazzle by it.

Spinning through all the phases of quality may last for many lifetimes and is learned only by a few Souls. The others emerge from this Sign after a long period of development only with the help of the Higher Consciousness supervising them. Gemini is the guardian of the Mystery or Mystery of the essential duality of man - material and spiritual, Divine; this Sign rewards the Devotee with the Word leading to the fusion of this great pair of opposites.

Gemini is the Sign of Divine interconnection; it is the Life of the Father, poured out through the Two Brothers, through the struggle of polar opposites, making them in manifestation two parts of one Whole. The true nature of the Sign - as "elder brother and younger brother - prodigal son" - is revealed through the Mind by intuition, which in relationship with the Will-to-Love generates in the Soul, eventually, the synthesis.

Man in his blindness and ignorance has plunged his intuition into darkness and perverted the pure Love of the divine state. The executive forces in him are in an unbalanced state and make him a slave to the Illusions and the elemental material forms of the Physical Plan of the Earth, instead of being their rightful ruler, as God's Providence intended.

Only when man, with his pure hands and pure Heart, restores his intuition to its rightful throne by uniting it with his Mind can he hope to understand the full reality of the mystery of the Gemini -Souls. It should be emphasized that all three aspects of each Face of God are closely related to one another: each of the preceding ones prepares the foundation for the ascent of the soul from the interests of the purely material plane to its spiritual rebirth.

Schematically, all the four triangles reflecting the Persons are actually connected in such a way that their centers are identical. Thus they form a Zodiacal Circle of 12 manifestations, so that the different aspects of these triangles form an interconnected series of evolutionary steps. In addition, there is also a very close relationship between the opposing constellations, each significantly complementing the others.

THE WATERY FACE OF GOD "SCORPIO"

The qualities of this Sign are largely determined by the influence of the Energies coming to us from the Sun Sirius, the "Diamond Star of Sensibility" which governs the Hierarchy. Sirius is the great Star of Consecration and our earthly Hierarchy is under the constant supervision and spiritual control of the Hierarchy of this Star. The energies of Sirius produce the main controlling influences through which the Cosmic Christ (the Second Aspect of God) works in a semeric way through the Seven Rays and their seven groups over the Christ Principle in the Logos of our Solar System as well as in all Planetary Logos, in man and in the lower Life Forms.

In passing through the last phases of the quality of the Sign of Scorpio, the Soul is approaching its solstice point, when man begins to realise his Divine Essence. Scorpio is the great constellation influencing the turning point both in the development of all humanity and in the Existence of each human Soul.

But to do this, it must first kill within itself all that is low and fallen, which is akin to the Devil, which makes it a slave to earthly illusions. Only then can the Soul become free and justify the second name of this Sign - "Eagle" - the symbol of a free Soul, flying high above the temptations of the material world. In Scorpio, the incarnating Soul is no longer divided into male and female personality as in Libra. "And, behold, they saw that they were naked..." Deprived of its spiritual garments, the Soul in its descent into the Matter of the Earth plane feels very strongly and acutely its coldness and the overwhelming desires of the animal nature of this Matter, with which the soul is literally enveloped by the myriad living entities of the Astral: sylphs, dwarves, undines and salamanders.

They are the basis of those states which are known in esotericism as the elements of Fire, Air, Water and Earth. Through the earthly Evolution of the Soul, through its periodical incarnations into male and female gender with the accompanying desire of reproduction, these elemental Forces of Nature find ways for their self-expression and Evolution. In this interdependence between the Forces of microcosm and macrocosm lies the basic Law of Evolution, according to which the Higher is responsible for the destiny of the lower.

A person of this Sign, the Eagle, must spiritualize the Divine Creative Power which has hitherto manifested within him as a basic instinct and aspiration. In order that this Divinity may begin to manifest itself first in him, in the mastering of the qualities of the Sign "SCORPIO" The soul must learn to use this Power primarily to serve other people, to give up the extreme selfishness inherent in the initial phases of this Quality Ray and to feel the sweetness of altruism and unselfishness from benevolent relationships with the people around it.

To do this the "Scorpio" must completely overcome his chief enemy and illusion, his personality, his "ego", which makes him always think of his own benefit, even at the cost of the poverty and misery of others who ask for help. Otherwise, for many, many Lives he will have to revolve in a vicious circle of this quality.

But if man in one of his Lives is able to experience the mystical 'Death' of his personality, his Soul receives Resurrection and immortality in Spirit. From then on, man ceases his service in the material field and begins his flight to perfect spiritual Freedom. The Fire of Life in this Sign manifests itself through the fluids of the body (energy currents, emanations).

In the beginning these Energies help the Soul to incarnate on the Physical plane in order to enchant it completely with the charms of earthly Life and turn it into a slave of its desires, feelings and passions. But if the Spirit, through the incarnate Soul, instead of being active in the purely material sphere, finds the strength to transform its coarse vibrations into spiritual purity, then the Consciousness of man begins to see through to find its way back to the Divine Lair.

"Water" of this Sign, depending on the spiritual sophistication of the embodied Soul, can simultaneously serve as a rotting swamp in which there is a process of latent fermentation, and as "living water" capable of reviving a Soul that is rotting and deadened in its materiality. The key words for this Sign, its motto may be the following: "I am a fighter and I emerge from the battle triumphant".

Having set out on the Path of Discipleship, the Soul enters into incarnations in this Sign nine more times - three in each of its three decimates in order to overcome the trials and gain experience. In the end, the Soul is convinced of the futility of its material aspirations and says: "I will arise and come to my Father.

The qualities mastered by the Soul by phase in the Sign of Scorpio between the twelve cosmic Essences-Rays are distributed as follows:

- Phase 1 is the absorption of the Idea and its elevation to a pedestal of its highest aspirations.

- Phase 2 - enjoying the twilight of the Idea, cosmic perception.

- Phase 3 is the careful nurturing and zealous development of the Idea.

- Phase 4 is the metaphysical principle of mastering the Idea in Radiant Forms.

- Phase 5 is the internal unification of the Idea, the fusion with it.

- Phase 6 is the gradual and imperceptible transformation of Consciousness, where everything old and dear without a fight gives way to the new.

- Phase 7 is a detailed introduction to the new, looking at the reality around you through the prism of the new Knowledge.

- Phase 8 - an urgent need to share new discoveries with others.

- Phase 9 - the desire to apply the learned experience in all areas of one's activities; the Mind rises to management.

- Phase 10 - the talent of introducing new Knowledge into one's environment and the inspired work of destroying all that is old and outmoded; the intellect becomes dominant and powerful and eventually begins to control the emotional nature.

- Phase 11 - a dramatic qualitative leap of Consciousness, enjoyment and satisfaction in the successful and widespread application of experience in daily Life; the intellect is illuminated by the Light of the Soul.

- Phase 12 - Observing from the outside the implementation of your experience, material disinterest and detachment, joy and pride in what you have done.

The purpose of all trials of the Soul in Scorpio is for it to acquire even greater strength and willpower in the process of overcoming the difficulties of life and struggling with adversity. These qualities will enable her to draw the right conclusions from all her mistakes and internally prepare herself to adopt the positions characteristic of the Sign of Sagittarius: mastering the first conscious stages on the way to group awareness and responding positively to it.

The Scorpio experience allows the Soul to eventually reorient its Consciousness and make a second surrender. This transformation of Consciousness towards Spirit rather than Matter is the triumph of the Soul on the Physical plane, when the prodigal son returns to God within himself, having satiated himself with the Illusions of Life and exhausted himself in the relentless pursuit of satisfying his insatiable desires.

Man's relationship with his inner Essence, with his Soul, as well as with his environment, cannot be fully understood and overcome in this Sign until the following categories of influences of the lower human nature are eliminated: the craving for the gratification of sexual lust and sexual pleasures, the desire for wealth and comfort, the need for money as the embodied form of the lower energies. These influences of the physical nature, in turn, are due to the nature of the Astral plane, which is reflected in man in the form of fear, anger and ambition.

All this on the lower Mental plane generates pride, a sense of superiority over others and, as a consequence, subtle cruelty and hatred. The qualities of this Sign create many trials and tests for the Soul, and thereby endow man with a special specialized power on the Path of his Discipleship, so that he is able to refocus his Consciousness and prepare his Soul for the first, second and third Initiation.

In Scorpio man is subjected to such trials as will enable him to receive the second Consecration and show that the nature of desire is subdued and subdued, and that by cleansing his lower nature from unnecessary junk, it is possible to reach the goal of human Evolution of this world period. The same trials may move the personality to that readiness for world service which is peculiar only to Aquarians.

In this Sign the need of the soul to come out to that which is not "I" and the desire to pass the Path of its Return to the Father become so strong and irresistible that man himself constantly puts himself to trial, at the cost of great pain and suffering changes his position on the Wheel of Life to the reverse and thus finally replaces the position of the test subject to that of an outside observer. All trials of the Soul in this Sign are intended to direct the thought work of the individual to reorient his Consciousness towards the Life of the Soul, so as to develop his receptivity to the spiritual plane and thereafter to demonstrate his readiness for Consecration.

The Soul in Scorpio transfers all its tests to the Life of the Physical plane, but as all the lower and material things are taken over by man, the Life of the Soul is more and more transferred to the Higher Planes. Thus the problems presented to the Soul in this Sign as tests, are resolved as it moves to a higher level of thinking and using the powers of its Mind. After receiving the third Consecration, the special testing power of this Sign is no longer perceived by the initiate.

THE WATER ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "CANCER"

The three aspects of the manifestation of the watery Face are of a more emotional nature and manifest more in the sensual plane. The sign of Cancer is the involutionary stage of the deepest immersion of the Spirit into Matter, where their especially fierce battle takes place. Here the Soul comes into its outward manifestation and acquisition of form.

This constellation, symbolizing the Will and the element of the crowd, conditions the responses of the masses and their psychology. At its core, Cancer is the focusing of the prevailing Will of the masses in Human Consciousness through the medium of so-called "public opinion" or "propaganda". It is Public Opinion that creates the fertile ground for the growth of the mass Will-benefit, gradually and persistently inculcating this quality in every individual.

Let us remind you that the Divine Monad leaves its Creator possessing only the mass Consciousness of the Cosmic Whole and impelled by the impulse to be useful for the evolution of lesser Lives which is wholly dependent upon high spiritual inspiration. But for this it must descend to the lowest of the Divine Planes and sink into the very depths of Matter so that through the accumulation of experience it may acquire self-awareness, a higher Manas which individualizes it and enables it to begin its creative return to its Creator. Only then can the Monad itself become an independent creator of the cosmic levels of Life.

Consciousnesses directed outwards in search of spiritual nourishment digest all impressions within themselves, transforming them into an organized experience purified of sensory layers. Radiations of this Sign manifest themselves as a Consciousness directed inwards and engaged in self-observation and introspection in search of Truth or at least truth.

This Sign is the complete psychological opposite of group self-consciousness, expressing a mass Consciousness which is increasingly less characteristic of the present humanity. Having received in the Gemini Sign from outside a large stock of versatile and extensive Knowledge, when passing through the qualities of "CANCER" the Soul is again drawn within its Being to digest all its spiritual accumulations and process them into experiences which will enable it to develop its own inner core - the Higher Manas. In Cancer we have the devotion of a Soul developed to the point where the thirst to manifest on the Physical plane overrides all other desires and needs of the Soul; in this Sign the necessity of the process of re-incarnation is imposed on the disembodied Soul. The qualities of the Sixth Ray - the idealistic devotion to the service of the lower states of Matter - eventually help it to see the Divine Light through the Darkness of gross materiality and go towards it.

Thus in Cancer is hidden the problem of the Law of Reincarnation, associated with the World of Reincarnation Causes. The quality acquired in this Sign can be characterized as latency, contemplation and primordiality. The key words for the Soul undergoing the mastering of this quality are: "I am building a light house and in it I abide.

The Incarnate Soul learns the qualities of the Ray of this Sign through the phases and cycles of its incarnations in the following sequence:

- Phase 1 - raycasting, searching through time, historicity.

- Phase 2 - creating your own inner space, surrounding yourself with it.

- Phase 3 - transcendent attunement, location.

- Phase 4 is inference, latency.

- Phase 5 - internal tuning, expression.

- Phase 6 - inner inspiration, the prototypes of creativity.

- Phase 7 - internal stimulation, contact with the inner material of the egg in a confined Space.

- Phase 8 is a reassessment of values and the replacement of the object of contemplation with a new one.

- Phase 9 is ternary, a three-way choice of forms.

- Phase 10 - constructive rearrangement in the world of images, active activity in the world of images.

- Phase 11 is self-reflection and self-discovery, directing the experience inwards.

- Phase 12 is the undercutting from within, the primacy of hatching from the egg.

It is only through the transformation of powerful sexual energies into creative impulses that one can leave the Sign and thereby break down the surrounding constraints of the egg and enter Freedom.

THE WATER ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "PISCES"

On the Involutionary Circle in the Sign of Pisces, the Soul is drawn by the desire to exist in Form, the thirst for possession of material things and the experience of constant mutation. Here it becomes captive to Matter and binds itself to the form of the second Pisces Soul.

Between these two incarnate Souls a close connection is established which helps them together to master the qualities of this Sign, by developing their material sensitivity so as to learn to respond to all the contacts in the cycle of each of their manifestations. At this stage the soul is mostly endowed with an instinctive consciousness which contains within itself only the capacity for intuition, which is still only asleep, as is the unawakened mind which is the instrument of receiving intuition.

If we compare the true Human Nature with a boundless and infinite Ocean, the part of Consciousness that we live by will be on its very surface, while the main part of it, the much larger and deeper part, where the causes of all our Thoughts, feelings and Actions arise, lies in the unconscious area. Thus "Pisces" souls on the involutionary circle abide in these immeasurable depths most of their lives, only occasionally rising to the surface to convince themselves of the poisonousness of their alien environment.

Later, returning on the evolutionary Circle through dozens of Lives again to this Sign, the Soul completely takes over the personality. The following qualities are characteristic of the "Pisces" undergoing the mastery of the Energies of the Signs on the evolutionary Circle - esotericism, independence, peacefulness, sympathy, virtuosity. Here comes the liberation of the Soul from the bondage of Matter, the death of all individual worldly desires and passionate earthly aspirations.

In Pisces the Soul completes its earthly Path, as all that the aspect of matter could give it, it has already received and revealed to the World Christ the Savior. At the end of its earthly experience in Pisces, the Soul transfers all its trials into the realm of the Mental Plan, which is a reflection of the aspect of God's Will expressed through humanity and which finds its completion in the Hierarchy.

The approach of the Dedicated to the problems that arise before him in this Sign as a test is very well expressed by the words of Jesus Christ to God: "Father, let not my will be done, but Yours. The key words for evolutionary "Pisces" are: "I leave the Father's house and, turning back, I save.

A person who has attained Liberation and fully cognizes himself and through himself - God, whose Consciousness has submerged into his Divine Essence and attained realization in it, no longer has sub consciousness or over consciousness because there is no unconscious part in him - he remains in the Divine All-Consciousness being absolutely conscious. After Liberation, it is that part of Consciousness which we do not now recognize or perceive that becomes our Home.

The qualities of the Pisces Sign can be described as Liberation, complete dissolution of the personal in the impersonal, in the mysterious depths of the immortal Being, in the Divine Oneness of Universal Being. The individual experiences reunification with the hidden, complementary half. There is a complete and final spiritualization of Matter, its disintegration and the whole work of liberation of Spirit from the Physical Plan of the Earth is finally completed.

When the souls of men have become perfect and have attained their full individuality, a process of translation takes place which lifts them up and transports them from planet Earth to one of the seven Cosmic Paths the doors of which are opened to the human souls after they have received the Seven Consecrations.

The soul's development of qualities of the sign Pisces as it passes through the phases of earthly incarnations is as follows:

- Phase 1 is the natural perception of a new Idea as being long familiar and learned.

- Phase 2 - a versatile approach to the Idea and a deep dive into it, plasticity.

- Phase 3 - surrounding the Idea with a curtain of mystery, mysticism and the play out of mystery.

- Phase 4 is the inspired shaping of Ideas into comprehensible and simple forms.

- Phase 5 - spiritualizing Ideas based on your own intuition.

- Phase 6 is a complete adjustment to the self-created images of the new Idea.

- Phase 7 - creativity in creating Forms and admiring their inner perfection.

- Phase 8 - seeking application of what has been created, contemplation, skilful use of intuition to avoid repeating past mistakes.

- Phase 9 - caution and prudence in putting the Idea into practice.

- Phase 10 - creativity and inventiveness, variety of Forms and experimentation.

- Phase 11 - resourcefulness and determination, sobriety and Wisdom.

- Phase 12 - pride in one's work, absence of mercantilism, indifference to the former Idea, search for spiritual paths, keen sense of the Ethereal World and aspiration of the Soul to Exist in it.

Exit from the Sign occurs only through Death, imperceptibly and joyfully, without abrupt jerks or falls, with an awareness of the essence of all the processes that occur during dying. Karma knots in Pisces are unleashed under the influence of the Ray of Mars.

As you and I are considering with all possible attention the problems and processes involved in Death, it should be noted that the Death of a person in Pisces, defined by Pluto energies, and the Death of, say, Scorpio, defined by Mars, are very different from each other. In the first case it is simply a natural transformation from Matter to Spirit, dying "to eternal resurrection", i.e. the Death of all earthly attachments and the Liberation of the Soul for service on a universal scale.

This process was described in the ancient scriptures seven thousand years ago as follows: "...he (the dying man) plunges into the depths of the ocean of life, he descends into hell, but the gates of hell will not hold him. He, new and alive, leaves below him who has suppressed him throughout the ages, and ascends from the depths to the heights to the divine throne.

The person who has completed the assimilation of experience in Scorpio dies in a very different way: the Death of the individual with all his worldly desires, "decrepit" aspirations and ambitious ambitions comes: "...The Old One dies by sinking into the waters. This is the test. The waters cover him and there is no escape. He sinks and the fires of passion fade away. The life of desire ceases its Call, now he sinks to the bottom of the lake. Later he rises again to Earth, where a white horse awaits his arrival. And he mounts it, heading for the second death (that is, preparing to incarnate in the next Sign)." But not many people sum up the experience of Life in the Sign of Pisces, thus becoming Saviors of the World. At the present stage of humanity's development, the bulk of the world's Initiates reach the highest point of Soul experience in Aquarius and become free servants of the World, giving up for the time being further progress for themselves IN THIS CYCLE. They become 'water carriers of the living water of Life' to humanity, joining the already large enough army of the earthly Hierarchy based in the Mental plane in the centres belonging to Shambhala, or working in a second Centre with the staff of the Helping Hierarchy.

THE EARTHLY FACE OF GOD "TAURUS"

Each of the 12 Souls, irrespective of the Sign of incarnation, during their incarnation has to accomplish the task that was predetermined for them only at birth - no matter how hard this task may be from the human point of view - and only when the allotted time period is over will they return to their place - to the reincarnation cell of Spirit. The entire structure of the passage of the Soul along the Signs of the Zodiac can be compared to a pyramid, in which each stone has its own load and is valuable exactly in its place, because it is the basis for the higher stones.

This comparison is also valuable because it shows another side of this evolutionary system: The higher one has "fallen" spiritually, not fulfilling his programmes from Life to Life, the harder it is for the soul to rise to its previous level, because in "falling" from a greater height it also captures greater depths of "sin".

All three aspects of the earthly Face of God - Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn - are of a material, grounded nature. Of these, Taurus assumes great importance in the incarnation of Spirit on the Physical plane of Earth, as it promotes the awakening of the feminine aspect of Spirit, thereby allowing the "Divine seed" to enter the earthly body, i.e. to become flesh. After birth every new creation has to put down roots, take root wherever Destiny has thrown it. The quality of the Taurus Sign contributes to this very initial task of every Soul incarnated on Earth. The new incarnate being learns to accept and assimilate earthly food - both physical and spiritual - which provides him a two-way communication with the outer World and the vitality of his dense body.

When the experience of Gemini and Leo is passed, in the Sign of Taurus the Soul receives its second Consecration and finds the Path to Hierarchy. Taurus governs desire and transfers all trials carried by the Soul to the emotional or Astral plane, raising the desire-sense from the Life of Form to the World of Sensitive Perception, to the intuitive level.

Taurus is the guardian of Light and grants Enlightenment to the Initiate. The quality of this Sign can generally be defined as the acquisition of initial stability and benignity, the knowledge of the Laws and the operation of them on Earth. The key words of the Taurus are: "I see, and when my eyes are open, all things are illuminated".

In Taurus the desire of the Soul is transformed into aspiration, darkness gives way to light and inspiration, resulting in the acquisition of the capacity for spiritual vision. Then his attention begins to focus more and more on his spiritual attainments and he first sets foot on the difficult Path of Discipleship.

The sequence of the Soul's passage through the phases of the Sign shows this clearly and concisely:

- Phase 1 - first getting to know, learn and gradually delve into the new Idea, while showing expediency and sobriety of Mind.

- Phase 2 - a gradual abandonment of conservatism in favor of the new, a comparison of the old and the new, common sense in making decisions in search of Truth.

- Phase 3 is the painful parting with old experiences and delving fully into the new.

- Phase 4 is meticulous and greedy assimilation, digging down to the heart of the matter.

- Phase 5 - learning new experiences in practice, learning from mistakes, separating the "tares" from the "grains" in order to spiritualize what has been learned.

- Phase 6 is a complete reassessment of values, a total acceptance of the new.

- Phase 7 is the gradual trivialisation of one's view of life, the desire for social significance, the fear of being alone, neglected and out of touch.

- Phase 8 - increasing conflict between the inner and outer, hesitation to choose the right path, apathy and indifference to oneself.

- Phase 9 - being drawn into the experience under the pressure of external circumstances, overcoming the overwhelming difficulties dictated by Life.

- Phase 10 - intuitive application of experience to changing factors and circumstances, learning from one's own mistakes, severe tests of Fate and disappointments of Life.

- Phase 11 - the ability to find the right way out of the most difficult situations, to further gain experience of Life in "dark" and "light" stripes, to be lucky and comfortable.

- Phase 12 - fear of withdrawal from the "heights" achieved, extreme conservatism and rigidity in everything, unwillingness to lose the hard-won peace and bliss in Life.

The transition to a new quality occurs only under the strongest and harshest external pressure, due to extraordinary circumstances and only after the Death of the physical body. A soul which has been incarnated into a physical body at least once inevitably acquires Karma, the presence of which will not allow complete Liberation.

This is because during incarnation a soul in turn absorbs into itself the material of each of the planes and in so doing absorbs the entire set of qualities inherent in each layer, which in the incarnate state it will have to learn in its life experience, passing step by step through all the phases of the cycle. This is a very difficult Sign, but it is also the most ideal one for the working off of Karma and it gives later on a good basis for the successful development of the soul of the brilliant qualities of a Gemini. If upon passing the quality of "Taurus" The soul starts to consciously strive for the quickest release from the karmic bonds that made Consciousness incarnate again on the Physical plane, then its further way of going through all of those 12 earthly qualities can be significantly accelerated and in the next incarnation the soul can go not only through one quality in one Life but also turn the Wheel of Time backwards, that is to receive its First Consecration.

If a person takes initiation (see "Spirit of Consecration"), he becomes beyond the control of the usual flow of time for most people, his Consciousness is more closely connected with his Spirit, and through him with God. Earthly hours for the initiate seem to be minutes, instants, his Life literally "swiftly rushes" through the Physical plane and, having fulfilled his task, he calmly and quickly dies without regrets or sobs.

THE EARTHLY ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "VIRGO"

This constellation symbolizes the second stage of the relationship between a pair of opposites. This sign is a symbol of the purity of the Feminine Nature, which has never been touched by the Masculine, but which nevertheless, in its potency, contains the hosts of Consciousnesses generated by its Divine Body.

It is the most significant in the Zodiac in the sense that its symbolism concerns the Goal of the evolutionary process, which consists in the full disclosure through the Physical Plan of the spiritual Divine Essence, the Christ Child, conceived, but not yet born to full Life in the Cosmos. Here before us stands the Mother of Christ Child, that is, the cherished process of mutual exchange, which creates Life, Love and their lunar manifestation in one Form.

The Second Ray is very closely linked to the qualities of this Sign, so that the lowest aspect of Virgo is maternal love, dictated by instinct, and the highest is Wisdom, accompanied by the Will-to-Reveal, the result of which is the birth of Christ. The power of the qualities of this Sign is in spiritual fruitfulness; the three symbolic Virgo - Eve, Isis and Mary - are here the story of the formation and functioning of the three aspects of personality through which Christ must find expression.

The first Virgo is a symbol of the mental Nature and Mind of man in order to express himself on the Physical plane. The second Virgo - symbolizes the same qualities, but already in application to the Astral Plan, guarding the Divine Conception and developing maternal feelings towards it. The third one, Virgo Mary, brings what was started by the first two to incarnation, giving birth to a baby Christ.

This Sign is thus an expression of the physical, sensual and mental expression of the hidden Divinity as a reflection of the influence of the earthly element in the incarnation of the Soul into earthly Matter. The Soul evolving in the " Virgo" is the Soul cleansed from all earthly filth and untainted by anything material, having received the Divine seed from the Spirit and managing not only to preserve it but to give it Life.

This is the cosmic Mother, representing the cosmic negative pole in relation to the positive Spirit. This is the expectant aspect of motherhood: the soul awaits the appearance of the divine infant in whom the two Great Principles - the divine and the material - will merge in perfect unity.

Will, Love and Harmony through the conflict of Spirit and matter - these are the main Forces that contribute to the evolution of the Soul in Virgo. In this Sign, the Soul gathers its harvest - both "tops" and "roots", putting it all into the baggage of its experience. After fully mastering the quality of a Virgo, the Soul gives birth to a divine child - universal, universal Love.

The progression of the incarnate Soul's mastery of the qualities of the Virgo Sign through the phases of its cycle is as follows:

- Phase 1 - isolation from the outside world, caution and hesitation in choosing a new Idea.

- Phase 2 - intuitively applying all your experience to it, striving to give the new Idea familiar forms.

- Phase 3 is a careful comparison of everything that is realised from the new with what is already familiar, practically tested and theoretically familiar.

- Phase 4 is the birth of one's own relationship to the Idea being cognised.

- Phase 5 - meticulous self-consciousness, pedantry, inactivity, commitment, precision and certainty in all things.

- Phase 6 is the construction of a rigid structure for the Idea to be cognized through logical deduction, a fixation on minutiae and particularities.

- Phase 7 is the production of learned experiences into the outside world.

- Phase 8 is the development of your own views on Life and a great thirst to implement them as soon as possible.

- Phase 9 is the gradual and steady unwinding of one's programmes, dictated by life experience.

- Phase 10 - meticulous implementation of the Idea with meticulous thinking down to the last detail, categorical and adamant in achieving the goal.

- Phase 11 is the complete assimilation of experiences and their consolidation, systematization and cooperation.

- Phase 12 - detailed analysis of the minutest details of the experience, awareness and recognition of one's merits, looking around prospectively to master new experiences.

Usually the latter phase is not mastered in one go, but as the Soul, after a long period of saturation of its own contentment, increasingly comes out from within itself into the outer World and is attracted by the lure of mastering new Ideas. The first third of the Path is dominated by the influence of the Fourth Ray Energy, Mercury, which provides the Soul on the involutionary Circle with a slow opening of the Mind.

In the middle of the Path, the qualities of the Fifth Ray, Venus, intensify the mental potential, which then manifests itself in the development of brotherly love and the first inclinations of Wisdom. In the final stage, the Third Ray - Saturn - forces exacerbate the conflict as a result of this opening, which through suffering and loss leads the Soul to the right choice and transition to the evolutionary Circle.

This Sign and the closely related Second Ray of Will have a mysterious relation to Time, to the process and to the Life sustaining Mother-Matter, who throughout the period of her gestation nourishes the future Christ Child and takes every possible care of Him. The Moon, which expresses the qualities of this Ray, also has a special function which can only be expressed through the Idea of Death - the cessation of the Mother's connection with her Christ Child when He leaves the womb of Time and Matter, gaining Liberation and Independence from the Material World.

The turning point in the life of a "Virgo" is the "age of Jesus Christ", i.e. 33 years, which it is advisable not to miss, because otherwise mastering the quality after the fifth phase may considerably delay the passage of the whole cycle. One must try to be sufficiently prepared spiritually by the time the turning point is reached. The key words of the Sign are: "I am Mother and Child, I am God and Matter.

THE EARTHLY ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "CAPRICORN"

All the best and all the worst that man is capable of comes down upon the incarnating Soul in Capricorn, the Sign of extremes. Esoterically, all world Saviors and Solar Gods were "born" in Capricorn, as well as the worst type of man - selfish and cruel, ambitious and materialistic, narcissistic and cynical. This is the constellation through whose qualities the Will is accomplished, which frees Life from form and brings man into the realm where the Will aspect of God is revealed.

It is known that the centripetal law of Matter allows matter to reach its highest degree of hardness when it crystallizes. In this state, in the process of the greatest resistance of Matter, everything turbid and opaque begins to transmute, to become crystal clear, revealing the primary Forms of the Creative Principle.

When the forces of concentration and centripetal movement reach their maximum, Divine Consciousness is born, opening to the Spirit a direct path upwards into the One Divine Essence. In Capricorn Matter reaches its full triumph, its densest and most concrete expression, but for the Soul developing in the evolutionary Circle, mastering the qualities of this Sign is also associated with the triumph of Spirit, when not only the maximum expression of the earthly nature but also of its vast spiritual capabilities takes place.

There is a close astral connection between our planet and the constellation Capricorn: Earth, due to the fact that it is in a transitional stage of development from a non-sacred - to a sacred planet, provides the most favorable conditions for creation of a human Soul of a certain type. And at this stage the emanations of the dynamic qualities of the First Ray of Power emanating from Saturn, the patron planet of Capricorn, acquire great influence.

The dangers awaiting the soul on passing through the cycle of this quality lie in the tremendous force with which matter begins to press upon the embodied soul, forcing it against its Will, first to fall into its lowest Nature, only to then, having gained strength and experience in overcoming its own self, begin the gradual and difficult ascent to its spiritual heights.

Many and many incarnating Souls cannot withstand the condensing action of Matter and its concentration in the Sign of CAPRICORN. Many here, deeply immersed in the lower self, choose the path of degrading Consciousness and subsequently become what we call "devils in the flesh". The only way out that can lead the Soul out of the earthly Hell to the lost Paradise is to focus and concentrate on the inner, on the Divine within.

No matter how heavy are the radiations of Capricorn, yet through the hellish pressure of Matter, they still help man to manifest his Divinity fully and merge with it. When one becomes capable of bowing both in Spirit and in Truth, then one may be considered as ready for Consecration. This constellation holds the influence that carries the Devotees in the World of the Will of Shambhala, strengthening them with a dynamic spirit that enables the Devotees to carry God's Providence on Earth to completion.

It is Capricorn that allows the Soul to consciously participate in the life of this World Centre inhabited by the Earth Hierarchy. When the Soul has passed the last three Consecrations and the meaning of Energies of Scorpio and Virgo is fully understood, then in Capricorn Sign the doors to the Earthly Hierarchy in its highest aspect open before it. Capricorn keeps the Mystery of the Soul itself ("The Secret of the hidden Glory") and reveals it to the initiate during the third Consecration.

On the memorable night before the Crucifixion, spent by Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, an "angel born under Capricorn" appeared to Him to help Jesus to strengthen Himself in the Spirit by fusing His Will with the Divine Will of God the Father. After successfully overcoming the last phase of this quality, the Soul becomes pure and transparent as a crystal, ready to incarnate in the next Sign to lavish its spirituality on all people in Aquarius.

- Phase 1 is a swift and reckless leap into the unknown, the collapse of everything old.

- Phase 2 - an unquenchable thirst for learning and experimentation, a concentration of experience.

- Phase 3 - falling into Matter, going outside, misinterpreting the new.

- Phase 4 - rigidity and intransigence, imposing their Ideas by force.

- Phase 5 - aggressiveness in competition with dissenters, revenge to assert oneself by any means, at all costs.

- Phase 6 - an increase in self-contradiction and conflict.

- Phase 7 - unwillingness to listen to the inner voice of Conscience, " devilism".

- Phase 8 is a bitter experience and harvesting the fruits of one's aggressiveness and self-worth.

- Phase 9 is about finding a point of reasonable application of one's inner experience.

- Phase 10 - the predominance of activity with a lack of Knowledge.

- Phase 11 - categoricalness, lack of spiritual creativity, spiritual blindness.

- Phase 12 - qualities of a dictator, unwavering firmness, an inevitable and precipitous fall into the abyss, an abrupt transformation of Consciousness into a new quality.

The unfolding phases of the qualities of Capricorn can be described as shrewdness and haughtiness, arrogance and cockiness, the highest degree of "fallenness" and the highest degree of "holiness".

If on the involutionary Circle in this Sign the Soul obeys the impulse which can be expressed in the following words: "Let ambition rule and let the door remain open," then on the reverse, evolutionary Circle, when the sense of true Reality seeks to replace not only the material but also the spiritual aspirations of the Soul, the key words of the Soul become: "I lose myself in the Divine Light and turn away from this Light".

The developed Soul in this Sign has only the task of helping other people and is ready to master more spiritual Energies and their qualities. After world Consecration in Capricorn, the Soul becomes an incarnate servant of Peace in Aquarius, to later become a world savior in the Sign of Pisces.

Capricorn is the aspect of Matter being resolved from its burden - the Divine Spirit. After full mastery of the qualities of this Sign on the evolutionary Circle, man becomes conscious in his Spirit, identifies with his Higher Self, and in his Heart is born a divine child - universal Love for the World and for people inhabiting this World.

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Table of Contents

THE SOUL IN THE ZODIAC

THE FIERY FACE OF GOD "LEO"

ASPECT OF THE FIERY FACE OF GOD "SAGITTARIUS"

ASPECT OF THE FIERY FACE OF GOD "ARIES"

THE AIRY FACE OF GOD "AQUARIUS"

THE AIR ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "LIBRA"

THE AIR ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "GEMINI"

THE WATERY FACE OF GOD "SCORPIO"

THE WATER ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "CANCER"

THE WATER ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "PISCES"

THE EARTHLY FACE OF GOD "TAURUS"

THE EARTHLY ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "VIRGO"

THE EARTHLY ASPECT OF THE FACE OF GOD "CAPRICORN"

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