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Microcosm Lecture Series Notes<\/p>\n

Transitioning Into The Aquarian Age\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lecture\u00a013b of 25 by [R]<\/p>\n

\u00a0Regeneration\u00a0and the Aquarian Age<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because the fundamental understandings have been skewed by the Satanic and Luciferic taint of commission and omission, there is a price to all of this.\u00a0 The material blindness is Satanic in nature.\u00a0 We think we can hide things, and the emergency with which we approach everything is Luciferic.\u00a0\u00a0 The whole idea that we can just rush forward and dispose \u2013 the whole idea of disposability instead of looking at things as cycles or spiral cycles in an integrated whole is a Luciferic idea.\u00a0 I can just throw this beer can out the window; it doesn\u2019t make any difference<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s that kind of attitude because there is not the realization of connectivity of everything in truth, of everyone in spirit\u2014in life spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Saturnus - Caravaggio<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve come up with these kinds of outlooks and these are the things that we have to not allow ourselves to fall into if we want to progress forward.\u00a0 So, we try to dispose of things, either enemies or insects or things like that.\u00a0 We poison ourselves and we produce devices and we produce substances with big escapist tendencies.\u00a0 It\u2019s not only that we\u2019re ashamed of the nudity and we try to cover it up with clothing or whateer other things you try to cover it up with \u2013 we try to escape from it with things like drugs and things of that nature.\u00a0 So, we have the same misdirected illusions that the Lucifers intended for us.\u00a0 We keep making more and more progress and buy sex and violence. \u00a0It\u2019s all a Luciferic progress and the Lucifer spirits like that we don\u2019t see things that clearly.\u00a0 They like that we are skewed into materialism, because if we could see through all of that and recognize the unified truth to all things, the game would be up for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We would follow into those ways like, you know, food that has no nourishment.\u00a0 You can eat and eat and eat and it may taste good, but there\u2019s no nourishment to it, so it.\u00a0 If we once see the unity, which is our duty to bring forth to people, that\u2019s the end of that.\u00a0 We have the misdirected illusions that we were intended to have.\u00a0 Some of them are pretty subtle, but when you look at them they\u2019re silly.\u00a0 For example, technology, take television.\u00a0 At one time people believed that all of the problems of the world would be solved by technology.\u00a0 They believed, for example, that the dishonesty in politics would be solved by the television, because you could see a candidate on the television screen and you could know when he was lying.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t work; all it did was produce more sophisticated liars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now we think that communication is only facilitated by the internet and by cell phones, and we have all these people that are supposedly communicating with each other, but what they really are is they are very, very lonely, and they\u2019re not saying anything significant to each other.\u00a0 In fact I\u2019ve never heard anyone jabbering over a cell phone that really told them that they love them.\u00a0 There are all these people jabbering on the internet, and they think this is communication.\u00a0 Do you tweet?\u00a0 I don\u2019t.\u00a0 The whole idea is almost funny to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This isn\u2019t saying that science or technology are bad or evil or anything like that, because to say that would be wrong.\u00a0 It would be a sin worse than the first sin, because there would be no new actions.\u00a0 And there would be no new soul power that would come out of those actions.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the science and technology per se, but how we go about science and technology.\u00a0 What are our interactions with each other, and what is the integrity of our deeds?\u00a0 That has to be within science and technology.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to hide behind the computer screen and not be forthcoming about who you are and not be honest about all things.\u00a0 All of these problems that we\u2019ve just mentioned\u2014pollution and things like that could be solved by technology.\u00a0 There are ways, even, that we could destroy radioactive nuclear waste, but it always comes down to saying, \u201cIt would cost too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, if human life and having a concern for everything that\u2019s living and evolving is dispensable, if it costs too much, where are our values?\u00a0 If we\u2019re lying to ourselves, if we have these wrong kinds of values and we\u2019re told openly in St. Matthew \u2013 (in the Old Testament the sin against the Holy Ghost is implied as abuse of the sexual function), but it\u2019s in Matthew\u2019s Gospel that we\u2019re told literally by the biblical Christ that the sin against the Holy Ghost is lying \u2013 at the other<\/em> end of the spinal fire.\u00a0 And so what we\u2019re talking about is how the same creative principle, the same creative attitudes are not just merely the sexual things.\u00a0 They are the lying and the false values that we have applied to spiritual energy too, which is the way the Lucifers gain experience, through our reveling in excitement and emergency.\u00a0 That is how they grow and how they further their own evolution, at least for awhile.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christ didn\u2019t teach science and technology.\u00a0 He could have, and he even declined anything in that direction.\u00a0 In the Lemurian Epoch we jumped the gun with creativity and we got our entire nature out of balance.\u00a0 We\u2019re morally incapable, it seems, of abstaining.\u00a0 We can\u2019t abstain from things.\u00a0 The imbalance is that our moral nature is out of harmony with the advancement of our intellectual and desire nature.\u00a0 We build bombs that we can\u2019t not<\/em> use; we have all sorts of things, but we don\u2019t seem to be working as hard on our moral and ethical development as we are in technical development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to talk about appropriate<\/em> technology.\u00a0 This applies to us as spiritual students, especially, because with our knowledge we\u2019re capable of horrendous abuse.\u00a0 This is why at the center of all our aspiration we have the exercises that help to purge us from all our moral and ethical deviations and to cleanse us from our desires whether they be commisive or omissive.\u00a0\u00a0 If we don\u2019t heed any of these things, and if we don\u2019t respect each other, like The Rosicrucian Fellowship, we can destroy each other over petty church politics rather than just thinking about loving as much as we can and working together however we can.\u00a0 All right, that\u2019s the end of the ranting and raving part.\u00a0 There can only be so much of that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To repeat, our understandings now are reflective imitations.\u00a0 However, not all of the reflections of the mandala come through the opposition aspect.\u00a0 Some come through the principle of the sextile which is what we\u2019re trying to get at.\u00a0 The adjacent points on the two triangles are sextiles.\u00a0 Sextiles indicate the reflective consciousness, but without the deadlocking opposition.\u00a0 They are the reflections into a new element which means a new kind of experience and looking at things in a new way.\u00a0 It gives you a bigger perspective and that perspective is a perspective that is closer to the perspective of the universal spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is a very broadening versatility in the sextile.\u00a0 It introduces us to new things and it introduces us to new ways in a complementary manner.\u00a0 There is a reflection, but a complementary reflection.\u00a0 Moreover, since the sextile figure represents the macrocosm there is for us a broadening from the dark material perspective into the softer, more-illumined, spiritual perspective.\u00a0 This is broadening and reflecting and expanding in the greatest sense, as when we talk of a great person or of a big man or a big woman.\u00a0 We\u2019ll come back to this in a minute, but we have to go on to something else.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s return to \u201cour part of the work,\u201d\u00a0 and that is the earth triangle pointing up.\u00a0 Even here there is frustration for the speaker, because we haven\u2019t even glanced at the surface of this subject, and we have to now move on to something else.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the things with giving talks like this \u2013 you discover things.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of like if you\u2019re in Carlsbad Caverns or some place like that.\u00a0 You walk along and suddenly discover that there\u2019s as whole corridor down there of other places that you could go and they\u2019re all wonderful and they have different things for the imagination to feast on.\u00a0\u00a0 Before passing on, let\u2019s look at one other point that seems to be important.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturn is at the top of the earth triangle, and Saturn represents time, Capricorn.\u00a0 To some extent we didn\u2019t know time until we knew matter.\u00a0 By matter we mean anything concrete.\u00a0 Concrete worlds are the worlds of time.\u00a0 The transcendent worlds, especially the transcendent worlds of pure spirit, are the realms of eternity.\u00a0 It\u2019s a funny thing that all of our time is measured in terms of space and matter, so there is an inseparable relationship of time with space and matter.\u00a0 Whereas a potential it is filled with spirit.\u00a0\u00a0 The other triangle points downward; it points to Cancer which represents space in a sense of a womb of the spirit.\u00a0 We see a time\/space in the vertical, the spirit\/matter pole as the basis of the grand sextile as it appears in the standard position on the mandala.\u00a0 The vertex, is, as we have seen, connected by an opposition.\u00a0 There are oppositional paradoxes of both time and space; spirit and matter, intension and extension.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at a paradox in time.\u00a0 That is in all of this because we jumped the gun, that is we committed, we followed the Luciferic marshal quality.\u00a0 We jumped ahead of time and because of that it takes us longer.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those ironies of time and space.\u00a0 The opposition, as we said earlier, always gives the opposite of what we\u2019d expect.\u00a0 In this case it is so that when we jumped the gun we focused in a specializing way, in that Saturnine materialistic specializing way and we became ignorant to the greater cosmos and working in harmony with it and having healthy, positive cycles of experience.\u00a0 Like science and technology, specialized, concentrated, material consciousness is not wrong, but it is the motivation, selfishness.\u00a0 We were going to buy ourselves eternity, or so we thought with the part that was omitted.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t told about acting ad-harmoniously with what was going on which was basically an omission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s try to get at this in another way, and that means telling a story.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s a story from probably one of the best all-time story-tellers in history\u2014someone who made up allegorical stories almost at the drop of a hat and they were beautifully conceived.\u00a0 It is from Plato who is one of the best story-tellers, and this happens to be the allegory of the cave, which I\u2019m sure most people are familiar with.\u00a0 The story was told to people so that by analogy they could see just how blinded and be-rooted they were by materialism.\u00a0 Now, Plato was oriental in some of his thinking in that he thought that matter was an illusion \u2013 not illusory, but he thought it was an illusion.\u00a0 This was because he had deep spiritual experience and the nature of deep spiritual experience is that it has the character of being more real or feeling more real.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same way that a materialist believes that because you can stub your toe on a stone, this indicates true reality.\u00a0 Someone like Plato who could see the universal ideas as they issued from the realm of pure truth which we would call the life spirit\u2014because he had that he recognized that that was reality and comparatively speaking he thought that this world was illusion.\u00a0 I hope he\u2019s been cured of that by now but that\u2019s\u2026\u2026.even great people make great mistakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the story of people who are imprisoned in a cave and is something like this.\u00a0 There are people that are chained to this wall, and all they could see was this wall.\u00a0 This is the opening to the cave.\u00a0 The light shines in and they think that light is only the reflected light on the cave wall.\u00a0 They see people walking along up here and they take the shadows as the reality.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember the story exactly.\u00a0 I think somebody escapes.\u00a0 He gets out and he sees the sun and he sees the sunlight and he comes back and tells them, and they don\u2019t believe him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They believe that these are the realities; that the shadows are the realities.\u00a0 Something like that is what our consciousness has come to be like.\u00a0 Ironically, materialistic philosopher, even those of great intelligence, don\u2019t get the point when he\u2019[s saying it.\u00a0 This is a lovely allegory, but they\u2019re taking it as a superstitious mystical view about what truth and reality are.\u00a0 He was a great storyteller, but as great a storyteller as he was, he was biased by his own insight.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t like painting, for example.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t like painting because he thought these bodies of ours are like the shadows on the wall.\u00a0 They are illusions and the real people can only be seen in spirit.\u00a0 If someone makes a painting of someone else they\u2019re making an illusion of an illusion.\u00a0 From his way of thinking that\u2019s true, but there\u2019s so much more to art than that and there\u2019s so much more to insight and seeing all of that, but of course he wasn\u2019t too big on sensory experience, and sensory experience is exceedingly important.\u00a0 So, as brilliant as he was and with as much insight as he had, he wasn\u2019t perfect.\u00a0 We all grow and we all get better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have a friend at the University of Iowa who is a molecular biologist.\u00a0 He publishes, and publishes successfully, in experiments more than his colleagues do.\u00a0\u00a0 He tells them outright, I do this by intuition.\u00a0 I have this positive attitude about their being an answer to things and the truth of things, and I intuitively know what experiments will work and what will prove to be positive.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to get into Aquarius.\u00a0 Saturn is punctilious.\u00a0 It\u2019s a data collector.\u00a0 It\u2019s an organizer.\u00a0 It shares the realm of science with Uranus which is the intuitive insight person.\u00a0 Saturn in Aquarius is the lower lightening stroke.\u00a0 It\u2019s the data master.\u00a0 The higher lightening stroke is Uranus. \u00a0So, now we\u2019re finally at Aquarius, however to get more deeply into Aquarius we have to again return to the mandala.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are two ways that the double triangle can be placed on the cusps of the mandala.\u00a0 In the same way that this is one configuration of the sextile, there is another which is like this.\u00a0 We have looked at the one with the vertical.\u00a0 It puts the vertexes of the interlocking triangles between the fire and earth signs.\u00a0 When we look at the other one we are looking at the horizontal.\u00a0 The first way we looked at it, it is centered on the solstices.\u00a0 The second one where everything is centered on the horizontal is focused on the equinoxes and the cusps fall on the fire and air signs.\u00a0 For Aquarius that means the adjacent points on the sextile or the double trine is on the cusps of Aries and Sagittarius.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This, believe it or not is the Aries talk, in that we\u2019ve been focusing on building and deeds instead of faith and we\u2019re talking about a life of action.\u00a0 This certainly had a lot of bluster in it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what an Aries talk has to be about; it has to have some bluster and scolding and things like that.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t take anybody to task, because I don\u2019t think that\u2019s my place, but we talked about the bluster that builds up when the fiery Aries is restrained and held back by the mud of fire and water.\u00a0 That\u2019s why there had to be all of this scolding.\u00a0 These talks are meant to be experiential.\u00a0 They\u2019re meant to put our consciousness into the sign that we\u2019re looking at relative to Aquarius so that we can really feel the spiritual environment that we\u2019re in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We very rarely are aware of the spiritual effects, the astrological effects that surround us.\u00a0 We know when we\u2019re around somebody who\u2019s angry, and sometimes we can feel that we\u2019re with some really strange person.\u00a0 Sometimes we can feel something like Christmas or Easter or something like that, but for the most part there are all kinds of changes happening every day, but they are so subtle that we miss them.\u00a0 Then we wonder why we aren\u2019t clairvoyant; it\u2019s because we haven\u2019t been in touch with the spiritual forces, so in these talks we\u2019re trying to be cognizant of the nature of Aries or of the nature of Sagittarius as we give the talk.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The vertical pole is the hierarchical pole.\u00a0 It is the pole of stratification, of elites, of hierarchy, and that\u2019s just what we expect with water and earth and the watery children of water.\u00a0 The horizontal orientation likes equality, especially the ultimate vertex. Zodiacally speaking, moving forward in the zodiac is Aquarius where there is parallelism and equality and altruism and everybody is everybody else\u2019s friend.\u00a0 Aries, like the grasshopper, does leap before it looks.\u00a0 Aquarius leaps, but it suspends; it stays in heaven.\u00a0 Aries does have first-hand experience, even if that experience is science, and it\u2019s right at the frontier.\u00a0 For Aries, everything has to be hands-on.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t want somebody telling me what the truth is; I want to experience it myself.\u201d\u00a0 Even if it\u2019s preemptive and energy oriented more than oriented toward facts or things like that, it wants to be part of the cause \u2013 not part of the effect.\u00a0 So, we already feel what it is like with the energetic, positive signs.\u00a0 We can clearly get the idea of Aries and Aquarius in the idea of sublimation and rapid expansion which is explosion.\u00a0 That combination of Aries\/Aquarius: great fireworks lovers; they like that explosive kind of quality.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to spend too much tie on these simple kinds of relationships, so let\u2019s try to get something of a more universal understanding via the mandala or else this might become just a practical astrology talk.\u00a0 The basic pole is the horizontal pole on the mandala.\u00a0 It runs between Aries and Libra, and it shows the most basic horizontal relationships.\u00a0 They are the \u201cI\u201d and \u201cThou\u201d relationship.\u00a0 It is the two of us together.\u00a0 Aries in the Ascendant indicates a direct relationship with the world.\u00a0 \u201cLet me see for myself.\u201d\u00a0 Libra represents seeing the world through someone else\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 What kind of comfort; what does the other person need?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>So, it is a basic introduction to two ways of looking at the world, each of which is equally important.\u00a0 Having my own opinion; having my own action; and seeing through other people.\u00a0 The air is focused in Libra in the same way that the fire is focused in Aries.\u00a0 It\u2019s \u201cother\u201d oriented or some times it\u2019s \u201cculturally\u201d oriented.\u00a0 This otherness takes us outside of ourselves the same way that a friends in trouble can cause us to forget our own situation and lead us to do things of bravery that we would never do.\u00a0 For the love of another, we do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carried to the extreme, it is the ultimate otherness of the life spirit.\u00a0 It is the selflessness or the definition of self in others\u2014the universal other which is what the altruistic love is made of.\u00a0 Ultimately, when the Aries doing things is through the airy signs and the reflectiveness of Aquarius is brought to its ultimate in that sextile relationship, it is literally doing something for the Christ\u2019s sake.\u00a0 This gives us the spirit of expansiveness that we have been looking for all night.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This cramping of the mud of water and earth; now we can see the sextile expansiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now let\u2019s take that spirit of expansiveness and see how Adam\u2019s apron of figs has evolved into expanded technology of our time so we can use them and use them to progress in our spiritual lives and progress the whole of the collective other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Technology is here.\u00a0 We cannot deny that fact.\u00a0 There are potential downsides to that\u2014potential negatives and there\u2019s always when dealing with technology, the risk of falling into the hands of Lucifer if we are not aware of them.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to address only the positives, and we hope we\u2019re not going to address the positives with Luciferic over-confidence.\u00a0 We only have so much time left, so let\u2019s spend it looking at things more positive than what we have been looking at.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adam and Eve were told that they would have to work by the sweat of their brows.\u00a0 And we have.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve worked mightily and we\u2019ve worked persistently.\u00a0 We can even move mountains.\u00a0 They do it in China; they cut mountains down with chain saws.\u00a0 Did you know that and that\u2019s how they pave a lot of their highways?\u00a0 They do it with motor scooters and chainsaws.\u00a0 They cut out blocks and they have a continuous run of motor scooters going back and forth, each with a block on the back, and that\u2019s the way they pave a lot of their highways.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, in doing all of this work we have become wiser.\u00a0 We even use laziness, which is the reflection of overweening egoism.\u00a0 We have used that to make our lives better; we have more and more technology and less grunt labor.\u00a0 Now, some things like processed food isn\u2019t very good, but a lot of things of technology are.\u00a0 In the process of developing technology we used to learn how to carry something from the very beginning to the end.\u00a0 That developed self-reliance in us, an artisanship.\u00a0 But, lest we become too self-oriented, we needed to share technology with everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mass production came along, and some people think that the idea of mass-production is demeaning or impersonal, because one thing specializes in one thing.\u00a0 There\u2019s a positive side to mass production and that is \u2013 if you carry something all the way from beginning to end by yourself, there\u2019s a certain amount of pride in craftsmanship and the ability to do the things, but if you have to rely on someone else to do their job, that\u2019s opening to the Aquarian type of consciousness.\u00a0 So, even in things like assembly lines, we\u2019re learning to trust other people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s a sign of a self-made person, somebody who\u2019s a rugged individualist who has to always be on top of everything and do things only his way and doesn\u2019t trust other people.\u00a0 Robotics will probably take things a step further and nanotechnology will carry things even further.\u00a0 But with the technology we have to learn to shift our consciousness according to what we have learned by the technology rather than becoming the prisoner of the technology itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The television is a wonderful thing, as is the computer.\u00a0 You can get a very fine education through watching television or by working with the computer.\u00a0 But, what happens is we can also put ourselves into that again, escaping from the nakedness, escaping into the fantasy world of television, and we are not going forward when we do something like that.\u00a0 Probably the person who built the television or who designed or discovered it in the first place is the one who really gets the most out of the television, because that person understands the principle where the actors that put on the shows are getting something from the television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What I\u2019m trying to say here with regard to technology is we learn something from technology, but then we take that information or experience that we gain from technology and we internalize it or spiritualize it.\u00a0 This is what the spiritualization of matter is all about.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to have more and more idleness, and right now the tendency is to escape from idleness into indulgence and entertainment.\u00a0 In terms of salary, entertainment figures are extremely high paid.\u00a0 Athletes, singers, people who entertain us (And they can\u2019t entertain us for very long because we get bored quickly.)\u00a0 Ultimately, something outside of ourselves can\u2019t entertain us.\u00a0 The thing is, if we work with the spiritualization of matter, what we learn from technology and from technological experiences, even cultural experiences, we internalize that, and we live that in our consciousness.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ultimately, our work is not going to be grunt work at all.\u00a0 Our work is going to be in consciousness, because it is consciousness that is going to cause the mineral kingdom that we are now manipulating technologically to become plant-like.\u00a0 You can\u2019t do that through technology; you can only do that through consciousness.\u00a0 So, the greater and greater amount of free time that we have will be spent more and more in inner work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We should also apply what we learn from technology to our own consciousness.\u00a0 What is happening is that we are removed; we have this notion that we are removed from nature and that we can do with it what we want\u2014like poison it and then eventually poison ourselves, but in this removal we enter into empty abstraction..\u00a0 This is not transcendence from nature; this is an escape from nature which is again one of those things of escaping through illusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Through technology we can build photo-multiplier tubes that are so accurate they can sense one photon!\u00a0 But all of the perception is being externalized.\u00a0 It\u2019s all being done by the machines, which is good for the machines, but at the same time we should ourselves be extending, not leaving it all to technology.\u00a0 We should be extending our own observations, out own faculties so that we not only see things by the light reflected off of them, but that we see through them, so what we learn or accomplish through technology is again something that we should find inside of ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is nothing that we can find in the world outside of us that is not inside of us.\u00a0 If we are only fulfilling one side of the equation it doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u00a0 We need to be internal to the degree that we are external.\u00a0 A lot of things in society, using technology, are forcing us into spiritual awakeness \u2013 like is happening right now with the credit card crisis.\u00a0 You had to have a certain kind of consciousness to barter.\u00a0 You had to see whether that item looked good and whether your item that you were going to trade was, you know, a worthy deal.\u00a0 But you can\u2019t do everything by bartering.\u00a0 That\u2019s, again, trying to do without any technological advance at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, we invented currency \u2013 coins and paper, and it was something that represented something else.\u00a0 It was artificial; it was symbolic.\u00a0 Again, you can make mistakes with that, and you can print all kinds of money and then you run into inflation, but now by technology, value has become something completely invisible.\u00a0 When you put a credit card down, you can\u2019t see what you\u2019re worth.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s true they do all of this data mining.\u00a0 They know everything of your buying history and they know what you want and what you don\u2019t want, and they have a really good insight into your psychology so that they can sell you more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with that; they\u2019re taking advantage of people with that but, think of it<\/em>.\u00a0 By the time the Aquarian Age is over we\u2019re all going to have clairvoyance and none of us is going to have any secrets so that you can see that technology \u2013 even many of the things that we don\u2019t like are things that are advancing us toward Aquarian consciousness.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have any secrets to protect; if you don\u2019t put your fig-leaf apron on, you\u2019re open for the world to see.\u00a0\u00a0You see, technology is not a bad thing, and it is through technology that we are going to advance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The final point we want to make is that technology has to be in proportion.\u00a0 It has to be something that is not with that Mars attitude that we can do whatever we want and that we become techno-crazy and not responsible.\u00a0 We need to be self-forbearant.\u00a0 We need to develop technology that is good for everyone\u2014that is good for everything and not just something that satisfies self-indulgence.\u00a0 It would be silly to try and become Luddites and say that technology is going to go away and we can make it go away or something like that; that\u2019s silly.\u00a0 It\u2019s more a matter of self-discipline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can have all kinds of temptations around you if you have inner strength, if you have inner values, if you have self-discipline, if you can control yourself and maintain yourself.\u00a0 And it\u2019s very good to be in an environment with all kids of temptations because you need to learn that.\u00a0 There is an individual personal thing and that\u2019s what we\u2019re talking about when we\u2019re talking about the cusp of Aries being sextile to the cusp of Aquarius.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about individual responsibility.\u00a0 We\u2019re not talking about inaction; we\u2019re talking about action in which a person is completely self-conscious of what the result of his actions will be with regard to the whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s a very important thing, and this is why I think as far as the Aquarian Age is concerned, the appropriate technology has as its slogan what I think is the perfect kind of slogan.\u00a0 It says, \u201cThink globally (which is Aquarius), but act locally.\u201d (locally right within your own being, which is Aries, the personality.)\u00a0\u00a0 So, we can do wondrous transformations.\u00a0 We\u2019re even going to have to do (in order to clean up the mess that we\u2019ve made so that things can go on), we\u2019re going to have to do some wondrous things.\u00a0 So, instead of being Aries-like in having technology be a fad, it can be translated into creative novelty.\u00a0 Creativity novelty as when in the Book of Revelation, the being that is to represent Christ says, \u201cBehold, I make all things new.\u201d<\/p>\n

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