Lecture 13a of 25 by [R]<\/p>\n
Science, Technology and the Aquarian Age<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we left off last time we spoke about regeneration and the Aquarian Age.\u00a0 We were relating Scorpio to Aquarius and we came into that subject which is The Fall of Humanity.\u00a0 Every time I come to that subject there are always a lot of problems.\u00a0 The purpose of the talk was to look at spiritual regeneration\u2014spiritual regeneration from a place where we are way too absorbed with materialism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Fall - Titian - 1570<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We talked about materialism and the Aquarian Age with Taurus and then we talked about regeneration of that with Scorpio, but in doing that we reviewed how we got into the fix where we became materialistic.\u00a0 We went into the Adam and Eve story and the Fall of Humanity and how by directing the creative energy, the spinal force too much downward and outward, we produced materialism, both for ourselves and for the world.\u00a0 We hardened the world, we hardened ourselves and we got ourselves into a terrible fix.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we talked the last time, we tried to talk about a new humanity, a humanity that was redeemed from materialism and we tried to talk about the things we have to do to redeem ourselves or to be redeemed in the case of grace.\u00a0 We saw that there were serious difficulties in reaching that new state, whether by works or by grace or by both, there were things that we had to change our attitudes about.\u00a0 But apparently what happens is that most people don\u2019t focus on the positive new humanity and many people have a lot of problem dealing with the whole idea of the fall, that there is even a fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Early in life I was quite surprised by all of that, but as time has gone on and I have seen this phenomenon again and again, there\u2019s something fascinating about the concept of sin that people become attracted to it and repulsed by it at the same time and they become very preoccupied with it.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the course of years I have participated in a number of study groups in which we have read The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception.<\/span>\u00a0 I no longer do that for several reasons, because I find that prayer unified people whereas discussion and difference of opinion or different ways of getting at things tends to divide people.\u00a0 Usually, with many people the divisiveness of discussion is stronger than the attraction of prayer.\u00a0 I\u2019m not snobbish about it, because it isn\u2019t a matter of intellectual capacity, because that\u2019s not what you look for in spiritual discussion anyway.\u00a0 You look for originality from peoples\u2019 own experience of the matter, but I just don\u2019t like to participate in those groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At one time there was a group here in town, one of the times that they formed, and it was a straight reading-through of the Cosmo-Conception. \u2013 a slow, steady progress, page by page, paragraph by paragraph, and article by article, but when they got to the part of studying the fall of humanity, once that subject of sin and evil and all of the things we call by that name, it was as if everybody just forgot about what they were doing.\u00a0 When that happens, it happens with many different people.\u00a0 You hear all kinds of statements made, \u201cbut, Max Heindel can\u2019t be true, because he did not focus or tell us enough about evil.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard this, and heard this on several occasions.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t tell us enough about the different forms and forces of evil that there are.\u00a0 Well, this is for spiritual growth and it\u2019s not for the study of evil, but in this little group it was a matter that no progress could be made at all.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of page by page it became word by word and eventually it shut down the whole group altogether.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those kinds of things, so the subject that we dealt with last time carries into the talk this time, things of that nature, of that subject, and we hope that we don\u2019t get stuck in that again.<\/p>\n Ares-Ludovisi<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In astrology there are what is called the greater and the lesser benefic: Jupiter being the greater benefic and Venus being the lesser benefic.\u00a0 There are also a greater and a lesser malefic.\u00a0 The greater malefic is Saturn and it is associated with the sins of omission.\u00a0 Mars is the lesser malefic and it is associated with the sins of commission.\u00a0 Since probably all of us that are in this study or in these talks are children of fire, and being children of fire, we tend to make errors more toward the direction of commissive sins.\u00a0 We are the children of the fiery Mars, and we tend to do that.\u00a0 Even if we\u2019re careful after having made a lot of mistakes, we get like Mars.\u00a0 We get cocky and when we get over-confident we fall all over again.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We think we\u2019re going to make it; we think we\u2019re going climb up that difficult slope of generation, but we count our chickens before they\u2019re hatched \u2013 chickens and the eggs, of course, being associated with Mars and Aries.\u00a0 \u00a0This, by the way, is the Mars talk, so it will take us a long time to realize that.\u00a0 So, in our over-confidence, we overstep.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As people of the sins of commission, we almost all think we know more than we really do.\u00a0 The children of fire are not people who are given to humility very easily.\u00a0 So, I guess I shouldn\u2019t be surprised that this kind of thing comes up.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t be discouraged, and I no longer am discouraged, because I have realized it in myself; there being so many days when I have said, well, today is going to be the perfect day, and I\u2019m going to put all of my focus and attention on truth, healing, and goodness, and I\u2019m going to be a thoroughly loving person and then something comes along and I don\u2019t do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s always some kind of a fool, or an adversary, or an enemy, or a heretic, or a bad driver or an impertinent clerk or a cop, and someone gets in the way so you can\u2019t see the light.\u00a0 They stand between us and Christ.\u00a0 And it\u2019s very difficult to see the face of Christ in their being.\u00a0 That always comes up and then I fall.\u00a0 It happens to me quite frequently, usually every day.\u00a0 But, when I watch friends for a long time who aspire on the spiritual path, none of them is perfect and all of them have had their transgressions and their regressions.\u00a0 All of them have fallen in little ways and sometimes in big ways, but it\u2019s really good to see that once the spiritual life has taken hold in someone\u2019s consciousness, they don\u2019t give up.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, over the years of watching people with this same struggle, it almost seems that when they\u2019ve fallen they seem to strive harder rather than less.\u00a0 So, we shouldn\u2019t be discouraged and we shouldn\u2019t let the subject material that we talked about last time get us down.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t mean that we are going to stay in the fall; it just means that there is hope, there is promise, that we can come out of it.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk some more about the fall, a little bit.\u00a0 We hope that it isn\u2019t merely vain repetition, because the spiritual things are such that we can look at them again and again and if we look at them as being new each time, we discover something new in them each time.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t just a vain, rote, automatic repetition.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since I can talk as an Aries tonight (I try to live within these signs as I give talks), since I\u2019m talking like an Aries tonight and I\u2019m doing the talking, I get to pick the topics.\u00a0 I get to choose what is relevant, and I get to choose what I like to talk about.\u00a0 What I\u2019m going to talk about is one item in the third chapter of Genesis, and the other item is in the fourth chapter of Genesis. . They are things that I have never understood well, and even after putting together these thoughts for these talks, I still don\u2019t understand them really well, but I have a better understanding of them, at least in relation to what I\u2019m going to try to talk about tonight.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think that the things that are mentioned in the third and fourth chapters of Genesis are related to each other in that they have to do with the first and second sins\u2014the sins of Adam and the sins of Cain which we know in the modern world as the sins of sex and violence.\u00a0 The thought form or the thoughts that I\u2019m trying to use tonight are far from mature.\u00a0 So what we\u2019re going to be doing is a little bit of exploration and we won\u2019t be quite so authoritative about things.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the second chapter of Genesis, Adam and Eve are naked and unashamed; they are naked and unashamed.\u00a0 That\u2019s in the second chapter.\u00a0 In chapter three, they eat the fruit, and their eyes are opened and immediately they see their bodies and they sew fig leaves and before long Jehovah is making them skins <\/em>to cover themselves which is interesting because it involves the death of animals to get the skins, whether you kill them (hopefully you don\u2019t) or whether they die. \u00a0<\/em>If you look in the first chapter of Genesis, we are told to be vegetarians.\u00a0 We are told to eat only of herbs.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t until after the fall that meat is incorporated into the diet.\u00a0 In chapter four, Jehovah shows a preference for the gift of Abel over the gift of Cain, and it seems that Jehovah apparently has respect for the shepherds but not for the croppers.\u00a0 Gardeners like you and I and Ken; we\u2019re on the \u201cbad\u201d list.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, this is certainly very curious and it\u2019s certainly very figurative and it must mean something more than just simple things, so we are going to look at these ideas, but as we look at them I must warn you that the way we look at them is going to be somewhat biased.\u00a0\u00a0 I am a child of fire; I am one of the children of Cain and I see things from that point of view and it doesn\u2019t have to be a bad way of looking at things; there are many virtues to this way of looking at things, from the viewpoint of fire.\u00a0 The only thing is that when you look at things from a viewpoint, it is a viewpoint.\u00a0 Until each of us, myself included, has the Christ-like consciousness, that I can see everything without bias, there is always the likelihood that there will be bias and there will be no distortion.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to fault the idea of the firelings or anything like that, but I won\u2019t be shy about it either.\u00a0 I won\u2019t exaggerate it to distortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One has to discriminate between bias and ideas and between bias and fact.\u00a0 The ideas and the facts are like the substance of the soup, whereas the bias or the individual outlook is like the seasoning where we season according to taste.\u00a0 Max Heindel, when he wrote, wrote from cosmic fact, but when he did so, he said it\u2019s still likely to bias, because. I\u2019m interpreting it.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m interpreting it, I have an individual point of view.and that automatically indicates a bias.\u00a0 I\u2019m not even a seer as Max Heindel was a seer, so all I\u2019m working from is thought and intuition.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s go back to what we\u2019re looking at.\u00a0 We\u2019re saying that in chapter three, they eat the fruit, their eyes are opened, and immediately they see their bodies and they are ashamed and they sew fig leaves and eventually they make coats of skins for them.\u00a0 And in the fourth chapter, Jehovah shows a preference for the gift of Abel that is from the sheep rather than the produce from Cain.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All right, that\u2019s where we are.\u00a0 It seems that these passages are two viewpoints and two issues which are each separate issues.\u00a0 The two viewpoints involved in them are the viewpoints of Jehovah, the divine being, and the viewpoints of the humans, that is, Adam and Eve or Abel and Cain.\u00a0 The issues are the issue of nakedness and the issue of cropping.\u00a0 There are a lot of fascinating things about these two passages, but it would get awfully long if we were going to follow all of the fascinations, so we\u2019re going to pass on most of them and reduce it right down to the simplest things, because we are trying to get to the Aquarian Age.\u00a0 When we do that there is always the danger of eliminating something that is essential and not getting at something which is a necessary view of the truth, but I don\u2019t thing it is that kind of a mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nakedness might not even be the central issue at all.\u00a0 If we think about being naked, it wasn\u2019t an issue before they ate the fruit and got their knowledge of good and evil.\u00a0 If their being naked wasn\u2019t an issue before that why should it be afterwards?\u00a0 If Adam hadn\u2019t spilled the beans, Jehovah might not even have known that they were naked.\u00a0 Jehovah, being the highest initiate of the angels, didn\u2019t have eyes.\u00a0 So, he couldn\u2019t see the external nakedness the way Adam and Eve could.\u00a0 What is most likely in all of this is the disobedience \u2013 the disobedience at eating the fruit.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lemur<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, Jehovah is certainly the chief of the children of water.\u00a0\u00a0 He is the highest initiate of the angels and therefore the angels are associated with water and life and all of the things that grow in life that are regulated by the Moon and so he certainly has to have the watery point of view.\u00a0 Children of water do not like disobedience.\u00a0 The \u2026..was also an issue and that\u2019s hard to figure out.\u00a0 Nakedness should not be a big deal.\u00a0 We see naked animals all the time.\u00a0 If the statements given by the mysteries that our bodies were more animal-like at that time than they are now in the human form, it would have been no big deal for us to be naked.\u00a0 The way they\u2019re described in the writings of Max Heindel is they\u2019re described as being something like parisiters or lemurs, like from the island of Madagascar.\u00a0 That\u2019s the way he describes them both in size and in shape and the nascent development of eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Probably what was at issue was the desire for naked bodies, that desire having been acquired through indulgence.\u00a0 When we\u2019re talking about stories like the Adam and Eve story, it\u2019s not like it all transpires in one diurnal day, like today.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about something that transpires over thousands of years.\u00a0 By the time we\u2019re speaking of here, the self indulgence probably had a pretty good hold on them.\u00a0 Our innocence had been lost, and we began to see the body as something desirable, something that we would like to possess, because we were insecure and we were incomplete.\u00a0 What we are insecure about and what we desire is often what we try to possess.\u00a0 Possessive and materialism and such all go together.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we begin to experience spiritual things and when we see that they have an irresistible value, the basic desires become replaced.\u00a0 Sexual desire and sexual experience, even though it is a powerful desire and a powerful experience, are greatly overrated.\u00a0 If we had even one little spiritual experience, we\u2019d know very clearly that what\u2019s the big deal about sex?<\/em>\u00a0 I think it is very, very important that we express this fact often, because it is a conspiracy.\u00a0 This is the satanic side.\u00a0 Don\u2019t say anything<\/em>.\u00a0 Don\u2019t say that you find sex to be not the \u2018be all, end\u2019 all that the world makes it out to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are\u00a0 things like conspiracy jokes.\u00a0 A conspiracy joke is if all of us were to agree that when I said, \u201cdollop mushroom\u201d that everybody would laugh.\u00a0 And then somebody new comes walking in the room \u2013 I\u2019d start telling the story and I\u2019d say \u201cdollop mushroom\u201d and everybody would laugh and then you watch that other person, and that\u2019s what\u2019s called a conspiracy joke.\u00a0 The person doesn\u2019t know what to do, and it\u2019s interesting to watch all of the expressions that pass across the face.\u00a0 What finally happens, is the person, to be sociable, laughs along.\u00a0 Most people, with regard to sexual experience, go along with the idea that it must be something great, even if it isn\u2019t great to them.\u00a0 You expose the whole conspiracy every time that you put forward, you know, that this is what it is.\u00a0 It is no more than this.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, it must have something to do with the nakedness.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about nakedness and a lack of clothing in relation to a loss of innocence and to desire.\u00a0 Our outer eyes were opened when we ate the fruit.\u00a0 That\u2019s saying this happened at the same time in time.\u00a0 As we came into our body more through sexual activity it had a partially benign effect.\u00a0 We began to see through our senses more and, literally, our eyes were opened and we could see things outside of us.\u00a0 But, coetaneous with that was a loss of inner vision so that as we became outwardly more aware, we became inwardly unaware.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where we were opening our eyes, we were missing something.\u00a0 We felt that we really were missing something important.\u00a0 What we did was we project it; we projected our insecurity in losing the glory of these spiritual worlds, which is what the Garden of Eden represents.\u00a0 It represents the type of clairvoyance that we used to have that came naturally to us.\u00a0 The loss of that, that something was missing, we projected outward onto nakedness, and it must be because of that nakedness outside that we feel incomplete; there must be something wrong with that<\/em>.\u00a0 There was a realization that there was something wrong, but it didn\u2019t really sink into our consciousness.\u00a0 This was a different kind of shame than just a mere shame about how the physical body looks or doesn\u2019t look, whether it\u2019s beautiful or not beautiful.\u00a0 (This begins to sound more like a cabalistic sermon than it does like a talk on the Aquarian Age.)<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clothing the body was an outward attempt to cover up shame, because that\u2019s what our life has become.\u00a0 Our life has become a cover-up.\u00a0 We try to hide things; we try to hide our selfish desire.\u00a0 So, that\u2019s what clothing represents.\u00a0 It turns out that it doesn\u2019t work, because the same desire that made us possessive of other peoples\u2019 bodies instead of taking them naturally \u2013 that same desire has been transplanted to clothing.\u00a0 Clothing has provocative values, and people who want to continue on with that Luciferic consciousness put it into the clothing.\u00a0 But it was more than that.\u00a0 It was an attempt to supplement an inadequacy, an incompleteness of which we were becoming self-conscious.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The more we were cut off from the spiritual worlds, the more we felt inadequate and the more we sought something outside of us.\u00a0 When we supplemented that, at least those of us who are primarily children of fire, it was through works, through Luciferian works.\u00a0 Some works, if they are done with the exclusion of faith, turn out to be detrimental and they only tend to bring us deeper into matter.\u00a0 That\u2019s the way our vanity works, and that is what is happening; we become more and more with those works and not with the purpose of those works.\u00a0 We become more and more materialistic.\u00a0\u00a0 Works and deeds are something that have always been present in the struggle between the children of water and fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It carries right over into the New Testament where the disciples fought over faith and works, faith being a watery principle and works being a fiery principle.\u00a0 The tilling of the soil that Cain did, which contracts with the picking of the fruit in the garden, that was there, that grew on the tree of life, was a self-reliant deed.\u00a0 That self reliance is what Jehovah (being with the children of water) who wants authoritarianism \u2013 and appeal to power \u2013 and obedience, didn\u2019t want, and they didn\u2019t respect and even felt that it was a punishment.\u00a0 That was the punishment: if you\u2019re cast out of the garden, you\u2019re going to have to learn by the sweat of your brow, and that means works.\u00a0 But work is how we progress, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to say, is there s an attitude in the bible, a Jehovistic attitude about the question of works.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about deeds, and that means to do things\u2014tools and devices \u2013 infertile machines if you\u2019re talking about the children of water, but we\u2019re talking about the subject of tonight\u2019s talk which is technology and the science that produces it.\u00a0 In passing, before we move on, the clothing of Adam and Eve by Jehovah seems to have been a protective act, just as you would expect from the highest of all the children of water.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Titian-The-Fall-15701.jpg\" "\\"Titian")
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