Lecture\u00a010b of 25 by [R]\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some Social Problems and the Aquarian Age<\/p>\n
Autolysis is found in the most wondrous of all processes, metamorphosis.\u00a0 Going as far back as we can go in history, metamorphosis has been spiritually inspiring to all spiritual investigators.\u00a0 It is when a worm or a caterpillar sews itself or \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s astounding when you look at a butterfly or a moth and you see those brittle little legs and the sensitive antennae and those glorious fragile wings that do things with light that engineers can\u2019t even figure out how they do it.\u00a0 You know, I\u2019m talking about engineers that burn butterfly wings because they say butterfly wings work with light and heat in such a way that they would love to be able to dissipate heat in computers with the efficiency that is done on butterfly wings.\u00a0 So, they burn butterfly wings to see how it\u2019s done.\u00a0 This has advanced into science, I guess.\u00a0 At any rate, it\u2019s a miracle!\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Everything stays in that cocoon which doesn\u2019t get any bigger and those legs are bent into the right place and the antennae are bent into the right place and then it eats its way out and it unfurls the wings!\u00a0 And all of that is out of a worm or a caterpillar; that\u2019s really inspirational.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this talk we\u2019re trying to talk about autolysis and metamorphosis in a different way\u2014in relationship to our inner work and our way into the Aquarian Age and some of the problems we encounter along the way.\u00a0 In a number of these talks we\u2019ve been speaking about cosmogony which is the birth of the cosmos and cosmology which is the orderly process through which the cosmos develops, and we\u2019ve been talking about epigenesis where creative beings, as humans are beginning to be, are joining the Gods in epigenesis, which is bringing new creations into the whole process so that it isn\u2019t just a cut-and-dried unfoldment of what was there all along.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although simplistically we have tried to show how all began with a very simple state, in that it became more and more concentrated and more and more materialized and condensed and things became more complicated as forms reached up toward the spirit that created them and the spirit reached down towards its form until it entered through the center of being and we are now in our vehicles and we can look out at the universe and see it as the glory of creation outside of us.\u00a0 We have noted that all of this detailed experience is necessary to bring out all the different facets of our becoming being, as divine spiritual creators. It\u2019s necessary that we have all of these experiences and that none of these experiences be lost.\u00a0 Everything, all of the seemingly unnecessary nothings of our lives become useful.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last time we spoke about cosmic regression and forward progress.\u00a0 We spoke about a backward-looking that is super-imposed on the forward-going process of evolution.\u00a0 We used the metaphor of the wheel which when spun at just the right speed is still going forward but the spokes look like they\u2019re going backwards.\u00a0 That image is something like our looking back at our life at the same time that we\u2019re going forward and when we do that we live life more efficiently because we can see from the past how our conditions are now and where they\u2019re going in the future.\u00a0 And so, the looking back is super-imposed on the looking-forward.\u00a0 We\u2019re saying that this is a process that works throughout the entirety of creation.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We started looking at the interlocking spirals of the caduceus of Mercury \u2013 one serpent backing into matter and being an involutionary serpent, and the other serpent working its way out of matter and back into spirit.\u00a0\u00a0 Between the involution when we are creatures and everything is done for us by the Gods and we are worked on by the Gods to the point where we become creators and we give where previously we have received, we have to take the leap of faith.\u00a0 The tails of the two serpents do not meet. \u00a0They\u2019re there and we can take the leap of faith and we enter into a life as creative beings.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve been using the astrological mandala as the grand symbol, the grand astrological symbol of everything in the universe from the human point of view.\u00a0 We have been, especially last time, looking into the ideas and principles behind all of this, using geometry as a symbol of abstract principles of creation.\u00a0 In this entire series of talks we have been looking at how one sign of the zodiac relates to Aquarius and how it brings out different issues of the Aquarian Age.\u00a0 We\u2019ve looked at various signs, one by one, and this time we\u2019re looking at the progress of going forward in time in the zodiac.\u00a0 Last time we spoke about the relationship, the trine relationship of Gemini to Aquarius.\u00a0 The purpose of that was simplicity and perfection.\u00a0 This time we\u2019re going to use the trine again with a few other things and we\u2019re going to look a little more deeply into the air signs.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last time we started at the beginning of the mandala, the Aries point, and we followed its triangle to the ultimate which is the cusp of the sign, Sagittarius and the ninth house.\u00a0 We said that the initial raw action of Aries, by the time that it was perfected and got to Sagittarius, was purpose and through that we understood that the principle of the trine finds purpose.\u00a0 We then put the cosmic triangle on the earth signs to prove out and to elucidate the principle a little better.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We said that the second house in Taurus, which rules possession, finds purpose in use; and that use (you know, you just can\u2019t be hygienic and be healthy, you have to have a goal or an aim, so you train to an end) finds purpose in a goal, but when you\u2019re at the top and you have reached the height of humanity, if you don\u2019t want to come tumbling down, you have to find purpose for being on the top.\u00a0 And that brings you right back to being productive.\u00a0 We used that as an example for understanding the principle of finding purpose through the trine.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, we\u2019re looking at the air signs and we\u2019re looking at the trines because Aquarius is an air sign, and the elements are associated with the trine.\u00a0 There are other kinds of purpose.\u00a0 Last time we saw that Mercury was associated with the first of the air signs and that all of the air signs have intellection as part of their activity.\u00a0 This time we want to look at something else in order to understand the air signs so that we can understand the Aquarian Age so that we can understand what we\u2019re living in.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uranus is the principle of the greatest law of creativity.\u00a0 It\u2019s an intuition that is whole and true and that doesn\u2019t need any explanation.\u00a0 It is something that is completely new and in that regard it is raw creativity.\u00a0 It\u2019s something heretofore never seen.\u00a0 Neptune intuition, for example, is very complicated and has all kinds of explanations and things like that.\u00a0 So, if we\u2019re looking at Aquarius, we can see that one of the important things of Aquarius is creativity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at intellectual creativity.\u00a0 Gemini represents polarization and represents contrast.\u00a0 Libra represents loving attachment.\u00a0 It represents compensation or fulfillment so it represents comparison.\u00a0 Uranus or Aquarius represents creative synthesis.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to get at.\u00a0 The third house and Gemini represent communication \u2013 getting the facts across.\u00a0 Libra represents sharing or sacrificing.\u00a0 Aquarius represents total unification \u2013 total unification in friendship.\u00a0 Mercury and Gemini mean very simple tools.\u00a0 In fact it\u2019s not actually a sign of beauty, so what happens is Libra brings in beautification, it brings in aesthetics, it makes something pleasant to look at.\u00a0 Aquarius brings in invention.\u00a0 It adds a spiritual understanding or meaning; it isn\u2019t just a simple expediency, and it isn\u2019t just pretty; it is that there is a meaning to all of these things and that becomes important.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We can see then that what is done by Gemini in the third house works with differences.\u00a0 Arguments are differences.\u00a0 What works with Libra is similarity.\u00a0 It is \u201cliking\u201d<\/em> or bringing things into a state of liking with each other.\u00a0 But, with Aquarius what is brought in is a total understanding.\u00a0 There is a wholeness about things and holism<\/em> which is actually an old word but hasn\u2019t gotten much press until just recently as we\u2019re becoming more aware of the Aquarian Age.\u00a0 Last time we talked about the relationship of Gemini to Aquarius which is a 240-degree relationship.\u00a0 This time we\u2019ll be looking at the relationship of Libra to Aquarius which is a 120-degree relationship.\u00a0 So, before we can go further, we have to go right back to the beginning again and try to understand what the basic, simple 120-degree relationship is so we can work with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, we go right to the first cusp and the first house is the initiation of anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s the moment of birth, right here this is the early childhood and this is the past, from the immediate past life if we\u2019re looking at the houses.\u00a0 So, if we\u2019re setting out to do something, like we\u2019re going to write a poem, the initial urge, saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to write a poem,\u201d is ruled by the first house.\u00a0 When you get your materials together, that\u2019s like the second house.\u00a0 The third house is like beginner\u2019s luck and you\u2019ve got your basic skills and can do a few things, and then you go to incubation.\u00a0 But, in the fifth house is when the project is completed.\u00a0 It\u2019s whole, it\u2019s fulfillment, it\u2019s attainment, it\u2019s accomplishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In terms of Libra, Aquarius is an attainment or a fulfillment or an accomplishment for what is begun with Libra.\u00a0 In words or terms that we have been talking about we should see creative fruitfulness in the relationship between Libra and Aquarius \u2013 but, what kind of fruit?\u00a0 To look at the kind of fruit, once again we look at some simple astrology.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope that you understand that this is not meant to be purely astrological.\u00a0 It\u2019s helpful to understand things, using this as a universal symbol, so there\u2019s going to be some astrology.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the pictorial zodiac, Gemini is represented by two twins arm in arm, Castor and Polydeuces, one mortal and one immortal, but they share the immortality such that when one is alive the other one is dead.\u00a0 Libra in the pictorial zodiac is Venus, the blindfolded goddess of justice.\u00a0 She has her eyes closed for impartiality, and that\u2019s one of those peculiar things that a thing and its opposite are in the same sign.\u00a0 Libra is the sign that loves to have pets \u2013 favorites, but at the same time strives for impartiality.\u00a0 Aquarius is Gannymede, the water bearer who very carefully pours out water, only so much at a time.\u00a0 The thing that is in common between all three of the air signs is that they all have humans in their picturing, human pictures.\u00a0 What we\u2019re talking about are human values; human interactions; social values.\u00a0 Certainly, for Venus that is meeting people and being brought together by love.\u00a0 Venus, you might say is the social lubricant of society, is a love of people.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to necessarily be deep; all it has to do is be genuine and it puts people at ease, relaxes them, brings them together, and finds them to be more attractive to each other.<\/p>\n Gemini<\/p><\/div>\n Libra<\/p><\/div>\n Aquarius<\/p><\/div>\n You scratch my back, I\u2019ll scratch yours.\u00a0 The seventh house represents partnerships, especially marriage partnerships.\u00a0 The partnerships are made in freedom, but there is still need there.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You need the other person, if only for childbearing.\u00a0 The Libra sign is not completely two parallel lines.\u00a0 There is a point that is missing, which is the fulcrum point \u2013 the point of law; it is called, res<\/em> in legal terms.\u00a0 Aquarius represents friendships, even international friendships\u2014something that is done for its own sake.\u00a0 A person would bend over backwards for friendship.\u00a0 You can\u2019t make your brother not be your brother.\u00a0 You can marry someone freely, but when you marry you\u2019re legally bound.\u00a0 But, friendships are always free.\u00a0 You are a friend with someone because you freely love him and want to be\u00a0his friend.\u00a0 So, those are the social relationships that we want to look at, especially with regard to Libra.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Libra symbol, as we just said, is not completely accurate because the fulcrum is missing.\u00a0 The fulcrum, or that pivotal point, is a very sharp point.\u00a0 It\u2019s often a crystal in a very accurate scale.\u00a0 A beam rests on it, and it is a crux.\u00a0 It\u2019s a horizontal crux.\u00a0 Saturn is exalted in Libra.\u00a0 And its exaltation is in being accurate to the very jot and tittle.\u00a0 All sides of the wall, all sides of the scale share that common central point.\u00a0 Libra comes after Virgo.\u00a0 If we become involved in society, this is a pioneering state.\u00a0 This is when people become landed; this is when boundaries and weights and measures are established; this is when a family situation develops and out of the family situation comes children, and when you have children you have free labor and specialization of labor, and when you have a specialization of labor then you have to have a legal system.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So we\u2019re talking about fairness under a legal system.\u00a0 When you develop a legal system, civil law, you sacrifice.\u00a0 It\u2019s no longer like Aries on the frontier, every man for himself, and let the best man win. (If we have any Aries here, they\u2019re of the more sophisticated variety.)\u00a0 We can see when there\u2019s a civil law, there\u2019s a philosophical term for it; one enters into social contract<\/em>.\u00a0 The seventh house is a house of contracts and the most important one is an unwritten one that finds its way into all of the legal code and that is the basic social contract<\/em>.\u00a0 The personal individual sacrifices rights for the collective good of all.\u00a0 Social contract is based on points of mutual agreement.\u00a0 Those become social fulcra.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We could even say that the contract withers without being held together by commitment to it.\u00a0 Once we fell into materialism and separation, especially the separation of the sexes, specialization demanded cooperation.\u00a0 Half of our energy had to be used for sharing bodies for procreation.\u00a0 On a higher parallel level, what happened at the same time as the separation of the sexes was a change into individuality, and it was a more fundamental change, so that there are two types of human beings.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the biblical story, there are the children of Cain and the children of Seth.\u00a0 They are the children of fire and the children of water.\u00a0 They have two totally different temperaments, and they maintain those temperaments through all of their lives.\u00a0\u00a0 No matter how many times they are reborn, they have that basic stamp.\u00a0 The children of fire are people who are freemasons.\u00a0 They are people of works.\u00a0 The children of water are called catholics, and they are children of faith.\u00a0 We\u2019re not talking about the presumptive masons that meet downtown or the Catholic Church.\u00a0 Those are representatives of something much bigger.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the same way that by cooperation from the segregated sexes new personalities are born, in that same creative stroke, new individualities have become and each has a flavor that is all its own.\u00a0 Ultimately, the individuality is to be wed to the personality.\u00a0 This is the alchemical way \u2013 this is the divine way where spirit and matter come together and carry out the work of creation with waking consciousness after that.\u00a0 We talked about this in the past; we said that human beings jumped the gun as far as procreation is concerned and that we have plunged ourselves into material darkness and we have made it difficult for the spirit to enter into the personality because we have developed in the personality a lower nature or a second self that is \u2026\u2026. the development of the spiritual individuality.\u00a0 When we took this act of creation into our own hands we became free beings, and the gods could no longer lead us around willy-nilly.\u00a0 We were free, on our own.\u00a0 We are helped by indirect influences like astrological influences and things like cultural spirits and race spirits which bring us to ultimate individuality.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the same way that there is parturition of a body in the womb, there is the same in the development of the individuality.\u00a0 Of what we are as separate beings; we have to become that.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t just born whole.\u00a0 It has to be developed before we can wake up.\u00a0 It has to know this world as much as we need to know it.\u00a0\u00a0 We are brought to individuation by steps and stages. At one time it was through races, and then nations, and then clans and then families and now marriages.\u00a0 In marriages we see the individuality, we see ourselves, reflected in the other.\u00a0 The part of ourselves that we do not see, we see in the marriage partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, we\u2019ve mentioned things like cultural spirits, etc. before and we\u2019ve just talked about them, but now we can see that they represent different stages in a process.\u00a0 It\u2019s just like a garden.\u00a0 You take a shovel first and you turn the soil over and you use another tool to break it up and things get finer and finer until there\u2019s complete atomization.\u00a0 This is a process that\u2019s going on all the time.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s a process that\u2019s accelerating, that\u2019s being helped by all sorts of things that we would never believe.\u00a0 The process of individuation and separation from the previous forms in which we were collected is carried out by things like The Rolling Stones and McDonald\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We used to have only a cultural diet and some people like the ancient Yiddish kings would only drink water out of a certain river.\u00a0 When they went to fight against the Greeks they had to bring water thousands of miles for the king to drink. \u00a0So now the breaking up of the ethnic diet is being accomplished by McDonald\u2019s.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same thing with ethnic music like rock-and-roll.\u00a0 It\u2019s enough to break up anything.\u00a0 Gradually, what is it(?) I think a thousand languages die every year.\u00a0 And language is one of the strongest tools of cultural forms.\u00a0\u00a0 It may seem crass and it may seems like we are producing a blah kind of uniformity, but it really isn\u2019t that way at all, because we still have unique individual experiences, and we\u2019re finding our unique individual experiences as each one of us having a separate path rather than being tied into a racial kind of path.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, we find larger cultural divisions breaking up more and more.\u00a0 We are going toward a time when we will re-unify.\u00a0 But when we re-unify it can only be voluntarily.\u00a0 We can\u2019t be forced into a loving spiritual unity.\u00a0 This is what we call in Christianity \u201cthe kingdom of Christ.\u201d\u00a0 We can\u2019t enter into the kingdom of Christ or be followers of Christ until we are individuated.\u00a0 We have to know our selves, and have to know fully what we are and be ourselves before we can offer that to the collective, the whole, the one.\u00a0 We can help in all of this, for example I believe racial and cultural spirits are being asked to withdraw their influence, and we have examples of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think one of those examples is Yugoslavia.\u00a0 There are things that go back and forth.\u00a0 When things go to religion or to the right, and the individual or the Holy Spirit is all important, there\u2019s more nationalism.\u00a0 When things swing to the left, there\u2019s totalitarianism.\u00a0 There\u2019s a kind of unity.\u00a0 Neither is truly like the human spirit or life spirit because things don\u2019t work that way.\u00a0 These are imperfect representations.\u00a0 In Yugoslavia some people are comfortable under a racial and cultural spirit, and when that spirit is removed from them, the people of Serbia for example, the people are intentionally trying to produce a cultural spirit because they feel comfortable and they have strength and power in it.\u00a0 They\u2019re not going to succeed, because you cannot replace an archangel that brings a certain kind of tone to things; you can\u2019t replace that with human will.\u00a0 We\u2019re much too feeble for that.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Another example is Rwanda.\u00a0 There the racial spirit is being withdrawn and the people still have their desire natures and they still have their residual natures in the desire natures, so there is genocide, because when it was under the racial spirit the archangels would bring wars between them so they would have experiences of just the type they needed.\u00a0 But once the racial spirits are removed and you have only the desire bodies, then you have things like genocide where it\u2019s an all-out hatred.\u00a0 What I\u2019m trying to say is that even though there are horrible things in the world, like ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia or genocides in Rwanda, this is a positive thing \u2013 not that I\u2019m saying that we should all walk out the door and start genocides or something, but it\u2019s a positive thing because it is hastening individuation.\u00a0 It\u2019s hastening individuation through very extreme kinds of experiences and some of those experiences aren\u2019t very pleasant.\u00a0 So, for the moment it seems like the opposite from individuation.\u00a0 It seems like the opposite of producing uniformity, but that\u2019s only in outer appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Small-minded materialism and secrecy of the Age of Pisces are giving way to the Aquarian Age.\u00a0 People are worried about privacy things.\u00a0 Just think what\u2019s going to happen when everyone is clairvoyant.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to have to be hard to see, unless you can retreat to a higher spiritual level and then your desire for privacy causes you to aspire to higher and higher spiritual levels until you get to the level of life spirit and then you won\u2019t have any secrets from anyone.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to be\u2026\u2026.. We\u2019re seeing that many of these things which appear to be unchristian really are Christian, and they are leading us to where we need to be in terms of individuation.\u00a0 This is radical, but it is important.\u00a0 We have only a certain amount of time that this plane is going to be all together and it\u2019s important that we get to the individuation of our consciousness which parallels the individuation of all the elements and the mineral stuff. \u00a0It has to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s why they make those statements like \u201cThe ax is laid to the root.\u201d\u00a0 And in all of this there is the statement that God is not a respecter of persons.\u00a0 The universal spirit doesn\u2019t favor one religion or one race or one culture over another.\u00a0 Each has its part, and universal spirit is working through all men to accomplish this end for individuation and open communication and ultimate unification so that there can be creative completion, creative fulfillment.\u00a0 It would be much better if we could do what we can to hasten the intent of that.\u00a0 Individuation in ourselves and doing so by becoming loving beings does that.\u00a0 Even our spiritual practices do that.\u00a0 As we individuate \u2013 the thoughts that we are thinking here tonight, if we can hold them in our consciousness they radiate through all of society and it helps the whole process go on.\u00a0 It behooves us to at least in a little bit think about the esoteric purposes of the activities that are going on in the world around us so that we can help other people make sense of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right now it\u2019s not happening in theology.\u00a0 In theology, the deepest theologians have become atheists.\u00a0 I heard an interview on the radio with a man who is one of the top authorities on the bible in the world who began as a fundamentalist Christian.\u00a0 The more he studied the bible the more contradictions he found and the more questions he had, and then he started looking at the world itself.\u00a0 When he looked at the world itself he came upon that big paradox that is a stumbling block for so many people.\u00a0 That is, \u201ceither God is evil in allowing evil to take place in the world or God is not God and does not have the power to stop it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is what happens when you have the dualistic, material mind and it permeates theology.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t that understanding of the spiritual unity and especially there isn\u2019t the understanding of the principle of freedom.\u00a0 The reason that we individuate is to become free creators.\u00a0 This is a very important thing. We\u2019re told repeatedly, \u201cyou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d\u00a0 The outer agencies were given to us to keep us in line and bring us the kinds of experiences we need.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The marriage partner represents the last of those outer agencies, and that outer agency softens us up for receiving or being total in the individuality.\u00a0 \u00a0If someone can make appointments for you or open your mail or spend your money or tell you how you\u2019re going to spend your time, it softens you up for listening to the still small voice from within. \u00a0\u00a0These agencies that we\u2019re talking about, especially Libra and partnership and marriage, are highly airy-sign in their makeup.\u00a0 How does it go?\u00a0 A nation of the people, by the people, for the people<\/em> \u2013 is something of a human end to the end of producing individual humans.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0What appears to be in the world with regard to social activities; everything seems to be going into decadence.\u00a0 There seems to be wholesale immorality, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be any respect for civil law, and marriages don\u2019t last very long at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we look at this, it looks like things are going to pieces.\u00a0 When we study mysticism, we have to find the invisible things behind these things and help them come into being.\u00a0 This is only a step.\u00a0 The future is different from the past. \u00a0There was a time when you got married, because religion said it, and the law said it and you stayed married and you couldn\u2019t even be divorced.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was good, because I\u2019ve seen people in those marriages grow through things that they had to grow through, because they didn\u2019t have any choice but to do that.\u00a0 But what we\u2019re talking about is something that nothing outside can do for us; not the law, not social custom, nothing like that.\u00a0 We have to be free in and of ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, what appears to be decadence is a \u2026\u2026.. for attention.\u00a0 Now, I like some of the ideas that are coming out.\u00a0 I like the renewable marriage contract.\u00a0\u00a0 Renewable marriage contract is when people are married and they say, all right, a year from now we will renegotiate our contract and there will be bargaining all anew and if we can\u2019t renegotiate a contract, we will part as friends.\u00a0![\"Butterfly](\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Butterfly-Caterpillars.jpg\" "\\"Butterfly")
<\/a> weaves itself into a cocoon or a chrysalis and transforms itself.\u00a0\u00a0 It completely transforms itself into a moth or a butterfly.\u00a0 It does this by a very extensive and very radical autolysis, and it never stops during the entire process.\u00a0 Most of the digestive system and part of the control system remain the same, but otherwise, everything else is digested and turned into something else.\u00a0 If that isn\u2019t a wondrous symbol or metaphor for the whole spiritual process whereby we take the lower parts of our being and transform them into something beautiful and wonderful, I don\u2019t know what is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> I like it that when I want to continue, in each moment that we renew a contract there is not such a thing as saved once is saved forever.\u00a0 We want consciousness that is universal.\u00a0 We want to be awake and we want to be awake all of the time.\u00a0 This means that we have to be giving ourselves to our commitment to each other if we\u2019re to be a real unifying whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n