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Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Astrology - I - The Zodiac
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Esoteric Astrology - The Zodiac and the Rays
CHAPTER I - THE ZODIAC AND THE RAYS
What I have to say first on this subject is entirely of a preliminary nature. I seek to lay the ground
for a somewhat new approach - a far more esoteric approach - to the science of astrology. Certain
things I may say will probably be regarded by the academic and uninspired astrologer as
revolutionary, or as erroneous, as improbable or unprovable. As yet, however, astrology has not
really proved itself to the world of thought and science, in spite of many definitely demonstrable
successes. I would ask all of you, therefore, who read and study this section of A Treatise on the
Seven Rays to bear in mind the above comments and to preserve a willingness to consider
hypotheses and to make an effort to weigh a theory or suggestion and to test out conclusions over
the course of a few years. If you can do this, there may come to you an awakening of the
intuition which will translate modern astrology into something of real moment and significance
to the world. It is intuitional astrology which must eventually supersede what is today called
astrology, thus bringing about a return to the knowledge of that ancient science which related the
constellations and our solar system, drew attention to the nature of the zodiac and informed
humanity as to the basic [4] interrelations which govern and control the phenomenal and
subjective worlds.
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1. Three Basic Statements
The statement is frequently made that astrology is an exact science but that is far from correct in
spite of the many mathematical computations. Astrology is based, curiously enough, upon
illusion for, as well you know, the zodiac is naught but the imaginary path of the sun through the
heavens, and this as it appears from the standpoint of our totally insignificant planet. The sun is
not, as stated, in any sign of the zodiac. It simply appears to be so as it passes between our little
sphere, the Earth, and the constellations at any particular time or season.
In ancient days it was believed that the earth was the center of the solar system and that around it
revolved the sun and all the other planets. This was the exoteric knowledge and position, though
not the esoteric understanding. Later, when further discoveries brought more light to the human
mind, our planet was decentralized and the truth was more clearly seen, though much remains as
yet to be discovered and may even be of as revolutionary a nature. From certain astrological
angles, a similar process of decentralization must take place and the solar system must no longer
be regarded as a point around which the zodiac revolves or through which the sun passes in its
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great cycle of approximately 25,000 years. Astrologers with insight may deny that this is the
commonly accepted attitude. Yet - for purposes of clarity and in connection with the general
public - the inference is permitted and accepted by the ignorant. Upon this theory anent the
zodiac rests very largely what we call the Great Illusion, and I would have [5] you bear this in
mind as you study with me the newer approaches of this greatest and oldest of all the sciences.
Astrology is a science which must be restored to its original beauty and truth before the world
can gain a truer perspective and a more just and accurate appreciation of the divine Plan, as it is
expressed at this time through the Wisdom of the Ages.
The second statement which I would make is that astrology is essentially the purest presentation
of occult truth in the world at this time, because it is the science which deals with those
conditioning and governing energies and forces which play through and upon the whole field of
space and all that is found within that field. When this fact is grasped and the sources of those
energies are better comprehended and the nature of the field of space is correctly understood, we
shall then see a far wider and at the same time a more closely related horizon; the relationships
between individual, planetary, systemic and cosmic entities will be grasped, and we shall then
begin to live scientifically. It is this scientific living which it is the immediate purpose of
astrology to bring about.
At present, the position of the average believer in astrology is that he is an individual of
importance (at least to himself), that he is living on that important planet, the Earth (important to
humanity), and that, through astrology, he can discover his destiny and know what he ought to
do. In making this comment, I do not refer to those few astrologers who possess real esoteric
knowledge. They are few in number indeed, and only a handful of them are to be found
practicing at this time. The modern investigator likes to believe that on him impinge and through
him flow all those energies which come from the sign in which the sun "finds" itself at the time
of his birth. He regards himself [6] also as responsive to the various planets as they govern the
houses in his horoscope and he believes that his life trends and circumstances are thus
determined. This makes him feel himself to be a factor of isolated importance. Modern
interpretations fail to emphasize the importance of the rising sign (the ascendant) and this has
been due to the fact that few have been as yet ready to function as souls; small allowance has
been made for the energies which play upon our planet all the time from other constellations or
from the many "hidden" planets. Of these, the Ageless Wisdom claims that there are around
seventy in our solar system.
I desire to give you a truer and more accurate picture. This has now become possible because
group awareness, group relations and group integrity are coming to the fore in the human
consciousness. As this takes place, the personality which is individual, separative and self-
centered will recede increasingly into the background, and the soul, non-separative, group
conscious and inclusive, will come more and more to the fore. Interest, therefore, in the
individual horoscope will gradually die out, and increasingly the planetary, the systemic and the
universal picture will stand out in the awareness of the individual; he will then regard himself
only as an integral part of a far more important whole and his world group will interest him far
more than himself, as an individual.
I shall not, therefore, deal with the subject of esoteric astrology from the standpoint of the
horoscope at all. Universal relationships, the interplay of energies, the nature of what lies behind
the Great Illusion, the deluding "Appearances of things as they are," and the destiny of our
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planet, of the kingdoms in nature and of humanity as a whole - these will constitute the major
part of our theme. [7]
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It is immaterial to me whether modern astrologers accept or reject these presented ideas. I will
endeavor to give you certain facts as the Hierarchy recognizes them; I will indicate, if I can, the
subjective realities of which the outer illusion is but the phenomenal appearance, conditioned by
men's thoughts throughout the ages; I will emphasize the fact of the livingness of the Sources
from which all the energies and forces which play upon our planet flow and emanate; I will
endeavor, above all else, to demonstrate to you that all-pervading unity and that underlying
synthesis which is the basis of all religions and of all the many transmitted forces; I will seek to
remove you, as individuals, from out of the center of your own stage and consciousness and -
without depriving you of individuality and of self-identity - yet show you how you are part of a
greater whole of which you can become consciously aware when you can function as souls, but
of which you are today unconscious, or at least only registering and sensing the inner reality in
which you live and move and have your being.
This brings me to the third statement, which is so basic and fundamental that I would ask you to
pause and contemplate it, even though you grasp not its full implications as yet. The Ancient
Wisdom teaches that "space is an entity." It is with the life of this entity and with the forces and
energies, the impulses and the rhythms, the cycles and the times and seasons that esoteric
astrology deals. H. P. B. stated this in The Secret Doctrine. I would remind you that there is an
astrological key to The Secret Doctrine which cannot yet be given in completeness. I can,
however, give you some hints and suggest some lines of approach, and these, if carried in the
consciousness of the illumined astrologers, may enable one of them at a later date to discover
that key and then - turning it on behalf of humanity - reveal [8] the fourth great fundamental of
the Ageless Wisdom of which three are already given in the proem of The Secret Doctrine.
Space is an entity and the entire "vault of heaven" (as it has been poetically called) is the
phenomenal appearance of that entity. You will note that I did not say the material appearance,
but the phenomenal appearance. Speculation about the nature, the history and identity of that
entity is useless and of no value. Some dim idea, providing analogy even when eluding
specifications, might be gained if you will endeavor to think of the human family, the fourth
kingdom in nature, as an entity, as constituting a single unit, expressing itself through the many
diversified forms of man. You, as an individual, are an integral part of humanity, yet you lead
your own life, you react to your own impressions, you respond to exterior influences and
impacts, and in your turn you emanate influences, send forth some form of character radiation
and express some quality or qualities. You thereby, and in some measure, affect your
environment and those whom you contact. Yet all the while you remain part of a phenomenal
entity to which we give the name of humanity. Now extend this idea to a greater phenomenal
entity, the solar system. This entity is itself an integral part of a still greater life which is
expressing itself through seven solar systems, of which ours is one. If you can grasp this idea, a
vague picture of a great underlying esoteric truth will emerge into your consciousness. It is the
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life and the influence, the radiations and emanations of this entity, and their united effect on our
planetary life, the kingdoms in nature and the unfolding human civilizations, which we shall
have briefly to consider.
The subject is so vast that I have been faced with the problem of the best method whereby to
handle it. [9] I decided on brevity, the concise statement of facts (facts to those of us who are
working on the inner side of life, but which must rightly be only hypotheses to you) and the
avoidance of detail and of detailed discussion. We will endeavor to work from the universal to
the particular and from the general to the specific, but our emphasis will always be on the
universal and the general, and not upon the particular and specific. It will rest with those of you
who are students of astrology to make due application of the truth to the specific. It is definitely
in this connection that modern astrology has gone astray. It has reversed the true and right
procedure and has laid the emphasis upon the specific and particular, upon the personal
horoscope and the individual destiny, and has not laid the emphasis upon the great energies and
their Source. These sources are ultimately responsible for the manifestation of the specific. This
position and presentation of truth must be altered.
In esoteric astrology we are, therefore, dealing with the Life and Lives which inform the "points
of light" within the universal Life. Constellations, solar systems, planets, kingdoms in nature and
microscopic man are all of them the result of the activity and the manifestation of energy of
certain Lives whose cycle of expression and whose infinite purposes lie outside the
comprehension of the most advanced and illumined minds on our planet.
The next point for each of you to grasp is the fact that the ether of space is the field in and
through which the energies from the many originating Sources play. We are, therefore,
concerned with the etheric body of the planet, of the solar system, and of the seven solar systems
of which our system is one, as well as with the general and vaster etheric body of the universe in
which we are located. I employ the word "located" here with deliberation and because [10] of the
inferences to which it leads. This vaster field, as well as the smaller and more localized fields,
provides the medium of transmission for all the energies which play upon and through our solar
system, our planetary spheres and all forms of life upon those spheres. It forms one unbroken
field of activity in constant ceaseless motion - an eternal medium for the exchange and
transmission of energies.
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In connection with this, and in order more correctly to understand, it will be useful to study
individual man; in this way we can arrive at a faint comprehension of the basic and underlying
truth. Students should never forget the Law of Analogy as an interpretive agency. Esotericism
teaches (and modern science is rapidly arriving at the same conclusion) that underlying the
physical body and its comprehensive and intricate system of nerves is a vital or etheric body
which is the counterpart and the true form of the outer and tangible phenomenal aspect. It is
likewise the medium for the transmission of force to all parts of the human frame and the agent
of the indwelling life and consciousness. It determines and conditions the physical body, for it is
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itself the repository and the transmitter of energy from the various subjective aspects of man and
also from the environment in which man (both inner and outer man) finds himself.
Two other points should here be added. First: the individual etheric body is not an isolated and
separated human vehicle but is, in a peculiar sense, an integral part of the etheric body of that
entity which we have called the human family; this kingdom in nature, through its etheric body,
is an integral part of the planetary etheric body; the planetary etheric body is not separated off
from the etheric bodies of other planets but all of them in their totality, along with the etheric
body of the sun constitute the etheric [11] body of the solar system. This is related to the etheric
bodies of the six solar systems which, with ours, form a cosmic unity and into these pour
energies and forces from certain great constellations. The field of space is etheric in nature and
its vital body is composed of the totality of etheric bodies of all constellations, solar systems and
planets which are found therein. Throughout this cosmic golden web there is a constant
circulation of energies and forces and this constitutes the scientific basis of the astrological
theories. Just as the forces of the planet and of the inner spiritual man (to mention only one factor
among many) pour through the etheric body of the individual man upon the physical plane, and
condition his outer expression, activities, and qualities, so do the varying forces of the universe
pour through every part of the etheric body of that entity we call space and condition and
determine the outer expression, the activities and qualities of every form found within the cosmic
periphery.
The second point I would make is that within the human etheric body there are to be found seven
major force centers which are in the nature of distributing agencies and electrical batteries,
providing dynamic force and qualitative energy to the man; they produce definite effects upon
his outer physical manifestation. Through their constant activity his quality appears, his ray
tendencies begin to emerge and his point in evolution is clearly indicated.
This "control of form through a septenate of energies" (as it is defined in the Old Commentary)
is an unalterable rule in the inner government of our universe and of our particular solar system,
as well as in the case of individual man. There are, for instance, in our solar system, seven sacred
planets which correspond to the seven individual force centers in man, the seven solar systems,
of which [12] our solar system is one, and in their turn the seven energy centers of the One to
Whom I have referred in my other books as the One About Whom Naught Can Be Said.
Much has been given in the occult books of which the average astrologer remains profoundly
unaware. It is essential that he learns to think in larger Wholes and to be more deeply concerned
with the emanating Sources and with the eternal persistent Causes than with the effects of these
Sources upon that ephemeral creation, a human being and his temporary existence upon a most
unimportant planet. As he seeks to do this, he will discover for himself the signs of the essential
divinity of man - a divinity which is to be found in the infinite grasp of man's consciousness
when illumined by the light of the soul and in his power to project his thought into the
consciousness of those manifold Lives Whose "energetic movements" he must perforce share
because his small modicum of energy is an integral part of Theirs.
There is one aspect of energy for which the modern astrologer makes very little allowance, and
yet it is of paramount importance. This is the energy which emanates from or radiates from the
Earth itself. Living as all human beings do upon the surface of the Earth and being, therefore,
projected into the etheric body of the planet (for the reason that "man stands erect") man's body
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