The Signal we’re in, Libra, is indicated because the ruler and regulator of the three elements of the Third Ray: Regulation, Intercourse and Cash.
Listed here are some illuminating indications on the topic from the third quantity of the Treatise on the Seven Rays: Esoteric Astrology (p. 233-246).
Libra is “intently related with the third facet of the Godhead and therefore it’s a governing signal and a significant conditioning issue the place Regulation, Intercourse and Cash are involved. … All of the three divine elements in themselves are triune and manifest in three manners or by means of three lesser elements and this third facet isn’t any exception to this rule underlying all of the triplicities which situation the processes of evolution and manifestation. It’s by means of a examine of Libra that gentle upon the third facet will come. The primary facet of will or energy expresses itself on this signal as Regulation, as laws, legality, justice; the second facet manifests because the relation between the pairs of opposites (of which the scales are the image) and upon the bodily aircraft reveals itself as Intercourse; the third facet demonstrates as concretised power and this we name Cash. It’s actually gold and that is the externalised image of that which is created by the bringing collectively of spirit and matter upon the bodily aircraft. The third facet is, as , the creator facet and the power which produces the outer tangible aircraft of manifestation—the type facet of life.
If college students will, due to this fact, make a cautious examine of those three—legislation, intercourse and cash—as they categorical themselves right this moment and as they’ll categorical themselves sooner or later, they’ll have an image of bodily human achievement and of future religious expression which shall be instructive and most worthwhile.
(…) It’s due to this balancing high quality in Libra that this constellation will be related extra particularly with the issue of intercourse than can any of the others. Intercourse is normally related within the thoughts of the common astrological pupil with the indicators Taurus and Scorpio. That is most likely as a result of the truth that the Bull is so ceaselessly considered the image of the mad urges of the uncontrolled intercourse precept and since in Scorpio elementary assessments are utilized. For many aspirants within the early levels, intercourse does represent a elementary downside. Esoterically, nevertheless, it’s in Libra that the entire query comes up and can more and more come up for answering, and it’s in Libra that the balancing of the pairs of opposites should happen and attain answer by means of the exercise of the judicial thoughts and the establishing of some extent of equilibrium between the male and the feminine rules. This once more (for it’s a piece of recurrent symbology) is the issue present principally between the Sheep and the Goats, between adverse and constructive, and between those that blindly comply with both intuition or customized and those that climb freely the place they select and are self-directed in conduct and angle. This self-direction could lead them in both course upon the wheel of life, following both egocentric need or religious aspiration, however the level to keep in mind is that, judicially and with intent and after due reflection and balancing of the varied methods, they then do as they’ll and as appears to them proper and fascinating.
That is of itself of a primary usefulness and thereby they be taught; for all motion produces outcomes and the judicial thoughts weighs trigger and impact extra appropriately than another.
It isn’t my intention right here to point the answer of the issue of intercourse. Humanity will inevitably work it out because the aeons slip away and because the herd intuition offers place to the premeditated and self-conscious attitudes of the aspirant and the intelligentsia. I might remind you, nevertheless, that the herd intuition in relation to intercourse has its foundation both in regular and pure animal instinctual need or in emotional attitudes, and of those the final class are by far the worst and carry with them by far the extra deep-seated seeds of bother. They vary all the best way from the stage of free love and a common promiscuity to the orthodox slender and bigoted Christian angle, as that’s usually understood although not within the sense wherein Christ considered life. This slender viewpoint and the conventional Anglo-Saxon angle (an end result of the instructing of the Center Ages) regard intercourse as unusually sinful, ever undesirable, and as one thing to be lived down and overcome, and stored secretly within the background of the Christian consciousness, the place it’s hidden as a prurient thriller. This once more is because of the affect of St. Paul however to not the instructing of Christ.
From these attitudes, there was a violent response which is right this moment at its peak and this, in its flip, is each undesirable and harmful, as are all violent reactions, for the one is as unfaithful as the opposite; it’s on the centre of the Scales or on the hub of the wheel that the true perspective and indicated motion will be seen appropriately. When the essential “intercourse” relation is lastly established and soul and physique (adverse and constructive) are completely associated within the lives of the world aspirants, then we will see the precise dealing with of the world instructing as regards to bodily intercourse.
This instructing will come from the merging and synthesis of one of the best views of all of the spiritually minded academics in each hemispheres, embodying the expertise of the East and of the West, and of the magical and the scientific approaches to a thriller which is each bodily (requiring scientific understanding) and mystical (requiring religious interpretation). It would contain the help and conclusions of the medical career so as to give the wanted sensible, bodily instruction and the help additionally of the cultural information of the yogis of India in reference to the power flowing by means of the centres—on this case the sacral centre. Lastly, by means of the clever exercise of the judicial and legal-minded males of the world, the seek for a balanced and fascinating perspective will come to an finish. Out of the various sexual experiments now happening, the approaching era will arrive at some extent of stability after which, as a consequence, they’ll tip the scales within the desired and fascinating course. Of this there isn’t a query of doubt; there’s solely the cut-off date and this shall be astrologically decided. By means of the authorized minds and thru proper laws, intercourse shall be seen ultimately to be a correct and divine perform and can then be safeguarded by proper schooling of the younger and the ignorant, and the precise motion of the younger and very smart rising era—the kids and infants of right this moment. [editor’s note: written around 1940].
The instructing of improper sexual habits, the instance of widespread prostitution (I take advantage of this phrase in reference to males in addition to ladies), the expansion of homosexuality (not in its uncommon physiological kinds and predispositions however from the angle of a perverted mentality and an unwholesome creativeness, which right this moment lie behind a lot of its expression), the narrow-minded Christian inheritance of a “guiltcomplex” the place intercourse is worried, and the heritage of diseased and over-or under-sexed bodily our bodies, have introduced the race to its current chaotic and unintelligent dealing with of the essential downside. The answer is not going to be discovered by means of non secular pronouncements, based mostly upon an outworn idea, or by means of physiological inhibition or legalised license; neither will it come by means of laws, impressed by varied faculties of thought in any neighborhood or nation. It is going to be the results of the united exercise of the spiritually minded consciousness, the judicial angle, the mental notion and the regular urge of the evolutionary course of. Nothing can stop the inevitability of the answer and the looks of fascinating attitudes and situations whereby intercourse can discover proper expression.
Libra, as , governs the authorized career and holds the balances between so-called proper and improper, between adverse and constructive and likewise between East and West. This final level of adjustment could appear to you to be a meaningless phrase, however when the true and proper relationship is established between the orient and the occident (which isn’t but the case) it should come about by means of the exercise of Libra and the work of the authorized career.
Libra has been the “sponsor of the legislation”. Laws has hitherto been engrossed with the implementing of these negations and people attitudes of concern which have been preserved for us within the Mosaic code and imposed by means of the medium of punishment for infringement. This has been a most likely vital stage for little one races and for the preservation of a “nursery regime” for males. However mankind is reaching maturity and a special interpretation of the needs and intents of Libra by means of the medium of legislation is now required. The legislation should change into the custodian of a constructive righteousness and never merely the instrument of enforcement. Simply as we try to remove pressure out of our nationwide relationships, and simply as it’s apparent right this moment that the method of drastic penalties has not succeeded in stopping crime or in deterring individuals from violent selfishness (for that’s what all crime is), and simply because the social angle (in contradistinction to the anti-social place of all law-breakers) is being considered fascinating and taught in our faculties, so it’s starting to daybreak upon the general public consciousness that the inculcation of proper relations and the unfold of self-control and the expansion of unselfishness (and these certainly are the objective, subjective and oft unrealised, of all authorized process) are the wanted strategy to the younger.
The affect of Libra ought to be imposed in childhood alongside religious strains. Crime shall be stamped out when the environing situations wherein youngsters stay are bettered, when bodily consideration is given within the early youth to glandular stability in addition to to enamel and eyes and ears, to proper posture and proper feeding, and when there’s additionally a extra correct apportionment of time; when esoteric psychology and esoteric astrology give their contribution of information to the mentioning of younger individuals. The previous strategies should give technique to the brand new and the conservative angle have to be dropped in favour of non secular, psychic and bodily coaching and experiment, scientifically utilized and mystically motivated. After I say non secular, I don’t consult with doctrinal or theological instructing. I imply the cultivation of these attitudes and situations which is able to evoke actuality in man, convey the inside religious man to the foreground of consciousness and thus produce the popularity of God Immanent.
(…) Uranus is the esoteric ruler and is of supreme significance on this signal for the seventh ray works by means of this planet and is the embodiment of the precept of concretion and the materialising of that which is in want of goal manifestation, by means of the bringing collectively of spirit and matter. It’s right here that the entire thriller of cash lies hid and the creation and manufacturing of cash. I would really like right here to level out to you that it’s with the third facet of divinity and the third facet alone that the artistic course of is worried. It’s by means of the relation of the three elements of the third divine manifestation—legislation, affinity and concretised power—that cash is created.
(…) It’s not the bringing collectively of spirit and matter as occultism understands these phrases however the relating of bodily want and bodily provide and the bringing collectively of two tangibles by means of the ability of the artistic creativeness. (…) I’ve right here given you hints which will be fruitful of consequence if interpreted appropriately and acted upon from proper motive, in group formation and with selfless function.”
