Libra Full Moon -- Wednesday September 26, 2007

Libra Full Moon

Wednesday September 26, 2007

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Exoteric ruler: Venus - 5th Ray
Esoteric ruler: Uranus -7th Ray

The 3rd ray is transmitted through Libra.

The sign Libra is one of peculiar interest, but in a most paradoxical
manner, for much of its interest is based upon the fact that it lacks
spectacular interest of any kind - except in the case of disciples or
those nearing the Path. It is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing
of values, and of achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of
opposites. It might be regarded as the sign in which the first real
vision of the Path appears and of the goal towards which the disciple
must ultimately direct his steps. This Path is the narrow razor-edged
Path which runs between the pairs of opposites and which - if it is to
be safely trodden - requires the development of a sense of values and
the power to utilize rightly the balancing, analytical faculty of the
mind. It is also the sign of intuitive perception ...

Libra can also be spoken of in terms of the meditation process as
taught both in East and West. It can, therefore, be regarded as the
"interlude between two activities," which is the explanation given to
that stage in meditation which we call contemplation. In the five
stages of meditation (as usually taught) you have the following:
Concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination and
inspiration. These five stages are paralleled in the five strictly
human signs of the zodiac:

Leo - Concentration - Soul life focused in form. Individualization.
Self-consciousness. Undeveloped and average man. Human experience.

Virgo - Meditation - Soul life, as sensed in man, the gestation
period. The stage of the hidden Christ. Intelligent man. Personality,
as hiding the Christ life.

Libra - Contemplation - Life of soul and form is balanced. Neither
dominates. Equilibrium. An interlude wherein the soul organizes itself
for battle and the personality waits. This is the probationary path.
Duality known.

Scorpio - Illumination - The soul triumphs. Experience in Taurus
consummated. Astral glamor dissipated. Soul light pours in. The Path
of Discipleship. The Disciple.

Sagittarius - Inspiration - Preparation for initiation. Soul inspires
personality life. Soul expresses itself through personality. The
Initiate.

I would here remind you that, though initiation is taken in Capricorn,
the man is an initiate before he is initiated. This is the true secret
of initiation.

You have, therefore, the activity wherein the personality grows and
develops, and yet at the same time it veils and hides the hidden "man
of the heart," which is the Christ, within each human form. You have
then the interlude wherein the point of balance is reached between
these two and neither is dominant. The "scales tip back and forth" in
either direction or - as it is sometimes expressed - man swings
between the pairs of opposites. Hence the importance of this sign in
the life expression of the man and hence also its peculiar difficulty;
it provides the curious see-saw experience which proves so
distressingly bewildering first to the man who seeks to be entirely
human but finds within himself impediments and urges which drive him
on to something which is higher than the human and, secondly, to the
aspirant or the disciple. His focus of interest and his aim is soul
life, yet he finds within himself that which seeks ever to draw him
back to the old ways, the old habits and the old desires.

This sign is sometimes called "the place of judgment" for it is here
that the decision is made and the die is cast which separate the
"sheep from the goats" or those constellations ruled by Aries (the Ram
or Lamb) and those ruled by Capricorn, the Goat.

There is therefore the individual experience in Libra of the balanced
life wherein experiment is made and the consequent tipping of the
Scales in one direction or another until either desire or spiritual
aspiration weighs the balances down sufficiently so as to indicate the
way that the man must go at the time. There is the experience of
humanity in Libra in which the same adjustments and experiments are
being made, but this time the entire race of men is involved and not
just an individual.

It is because of this balancing quality in Libra that this
constellation can be associated more specifically with the problem of
sex than can any of the others.

For most aspirants in the early stages, sex does constitute a
fundamental problem. Esoterically, however, it is in Libra that the
whole question comes up and will increasingly come up for answering,
and it is in Libra that the balancing of the pairs of opposites must
take place and reach solution through the activity of the judicial
mind and the establishing of a point of equilibrium between the male
and the female principles. This again (for it is a piece of recurrent
symbology) is the problem existing basically between the Sheep and the
Goats, between negative and positive, and between those who blindly
follow either instinct or custom and those who climb freely where they
choose and are self-directed in conduct and attitude. This self-
direction may lead them in either direction upon the wheel of life,
following either selfish desire or spiritual aspiration, but the point
to have in mind is that, judicially and with intent and after due
reflection and balancing of the various ways, they then do as they
will and as seems to them right and desirable. This is of itself of a
basic usefulness and thereby they learn; for all action produces
results and the judicial mind weighs cause and effect more correctly
than any other.

When the basic "sex" relation is finally established and soul and body
(positive and negative) are permanently related in the lives of the
world aspirants, then we shall see the right handling of the world
teaching on the subject of physical sex. This teaching will come from
the merging and synthesis of the best views of all the spiritually
minded teachers in both hemispheres, embodying the experience of the
East and of the West, and of the mystical and the scientific
approaches to a mystery which is both physical (requiring scientific
understanding) and mystical (requiring spiritual interpretation). It
will involve the aid and conclusions of the medical profession in
order to give the needed wise, physical instruction and the aid also
of the cultural knowledge of the yogis of India in connection with the
energy flowing through the centers - in this case the sacral center.
Finally, through the intelligent activity of the judicial and legal-
minded men of the world, the search for a balanced and desirable point
of view will come to an end.

Libra, as you know, governs the legal profession and holds the
balances between so-called right and wrong, between negative and
positive and also between East and West. This last point of adjustment
may seem to you to be a meaningless phrase, but when the true and
right relationship is established between the orient and the occident
(which is not yet the case) it will come about through the activity of
Libra and the work of the legal profession.

Libra has been the "sponsor of the law." Legislation has hitherto been
engrossed with the enforcing of those negations and those attitudes of
fear which have been preserved for us in the Mosaic code and imposed
through the medium of punishment for infringement. This has been a
probably necessary stage for child races and for the preservation of a
"nursery regime" for men. But mankind is reaching maturity and a
different interpretation of the purposes and intents of Libra through
the medium of law is now required. The law must become the custodian
of a positive righteousness and not simply the instrument of
enforcement. Just as we are attempting to eliminate force out of our
national relationships, and just as it is obvious today that the
process of drastic penalties has not succeeded in preventing crime or
in deterring people from violent selfishness (for that is what all
crime is), and just as the social attitude (in contradistinction to
the anti-social position of all law-breakers) is being regarded as
desirable and taught in our schools, so it is beginning to dawn upon
the public consciousness that the inculcation of right relations and
the spread of self-control and the growth of unselfishness (and these
surely are the goal, subjective and oft unrealized, of all legal
procedure) are the needed approach to the young.

The influence of Libra should be imposed in childhood along spiritual
lines. Crime will be stamped out when the environing conditions in
which children live are bettered, when physical attention is given in
the early formative years to glandular balance as well as to teeth and
eyes and ears, to right posture and correct feeding, and when there is
also a more proper apportionment of time; when esoteric psychology and
esoteric astrology give their contribution of knowledge to the
bringing up of young people. The old methods must give way to the new
and the conservative attitude must be dropped in favor of religious,
psychic and physical training and experiment, scientifically applied
and mystically motivated. When I say religious, I do not refer to
doctrinal or theological teaching. I mean the cultivation of those
attitudes and conditions which will evoke reality in man, bring the
inner spiritual man to the foreground of consciousness and thus
produce the recognition of God Immanent.

In this transition period through which the world is now passing and
in this interlude between two activities - that of the Piscean Age
which is passing and that of Aquarius which is coming in - Libra will
eventually rule, and the end of this century will see the influence of
Libra steadily coming into pronounced control and into a position of
power in the planetary horoscope. There is, therefore, no need for
real anxiety.

A certain relationship or configuration of stars - of which one is the
star Regulus, in Leo - will bring about a situation wherein the
reorientation of the attitude of the legal profession will take place;
its functions and duties will be centralized for the purpose of world
usefulness, and in this process legislation for children will assume
great importance and be the motivating power. This legal step will be
primarily advocated by Russia and endorsed by the United States of
America. Before 2035 A.D. such legislation will be universal in its
sphere of influence and control.

All this will come about because Libra rules the present interlude and
might be regarded as "the master of no-man's land," as one of the
Masters of the Wisdom called it lately.

Uranus is the esoteric ruler and is of supreme importance in this sign
for the seventh ray works through this planet and is the embodiment of
the principle of concretion and the materializing of that which is in
need of objective manifestation, through the bringing together of
spirit and matter. It is here that the whole mystery of money lies hid
and the creation and production of money. I would like here to point
out to you that it is with the third aspect of divinity and the third
aspect alone that the creative process is concerned. It is through the
relation of the three aspects of the third divine manifestation - law,
affinity and concretized energy - that money is created.

It is here that many mystics and world servers prove futile. They work
from far too high a level and from the standpoint of spiritual
incentive. They normally and naturally (because that is where their
focus of consciousness is placed) work from the standpoint of the
second aspect, whereas it is the third aspect (equally divine and
equally important) which must be invoked and evoked. Ponder upon these
words. It is not the bringing together of spirit and matter as
occultism understands those terms but the relating of physical need
and physical supply and the bringing together of two tangibles through
the power of the creative imagination. It is for this reason that so
many schools of thought prove so successful in materializing that
which is required and why other schools of thought so signally fail.
They work from too high a plane and have not the ability to carry
through. I have here given you hints which can be fruitful of result
if interpreted correctly and acted upon from right motive, in group
formation and with selfless purpose.

The words or keynotes of this sign are so clear and plain that any
elucidation of mine would serve but to confuse the issue. They speak
straight to the heart and without obscurity. To the average man with
no developed spiritual consciousness, the word goes forth again and
again throughout the aeons:

"And the Word said: Let choice be made."
The response eventually comes back as a result of the evolutionary
process and from the soul:

"I choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force."

(Source: Alice Bailey - Esoteric Astrology)

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At the time of the full moon...

Speaking symbolically, and remembering that symbols always veil a
truth, it might be stated that, at the time of the full moon it is as
if a door were suddenly opened wide, which at other times stands
closed. Through that door, aspirants and disciples can contact
energies which are otherwise not easily available. Through that door,
approach can be made to Those Who guide the race and to truth and
reality, which at other times is not possible. Of this, all who stand
on either side of the door can avail themselves, and this will be so
increasingly.

At the time of the full moon festivals, the moon stands on the far
side of the earth, away from the sun. This leaves a full, direct and
unimpeded relationship between the earth and the sun, the source of
our life, energy and consciousness, symbolic of the relationship
between the human personality and the soul.

Each festival covers a special period of five days (two days
preceding, the day of the Festival, and the two following days), with
the climax on the day of the Festival itself, when women and men of
goodwill can cooperate much more effectively than at other times, in
meditation and through the direction of energy, with the spiritual
Hierarchy and those who stand behind the evolution of consciousness
of  our planet.

Excerpted from 'The Wesak Festival --A Technique of Spiritual
Contact' by Alice A. Bailey, from the Arcane School
http://www.lucistrust.org/arcane/

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Hundreds of meditation groups all around the world gather every week
and at the time of the full moon. They join together in service to
humanity and are stepping down energies which are helping transform
the  world, as it struggles to move out of the dark and into the
light.

http://www.TransmissionMeditation.org

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Lecture given by Benjamin Creme gave in Paris - April 2007
http://www.source77.net/video/
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