2025 The Astrological Key And 4th Fundamental

2025, the Astrological Key to the Secret Doctrine and the 4th Fundamental I have put together a list of references on the Astrological Key, the Fourth Fundamental and the timing of the centennial release of new teachings, by the Lodge in the first quarter of each century. The claim that one has discovered the Astrological Key is difficult to refute or to even consider with intelligence without all the facts on the table. DK seems to contradict himself, by saying (in one reference) that someone may discover the astrological key to the Secret Doctrine, and then in many others explicitly states that an initiate will come forth around 2025 and further his teaching on Esoteric Astrology (we would expect this to cover some, if not all of the Astrological Key) and other esoteric subjects. Indeed DK explicitly states that his books, which were written down by AAB, will be superseded by a far more advanced new teaching, given by himself via an Initiate, who will appear around the year 2025. We are explicity told that the major new teaching from the Lodge is given once a century and in the first quarter of each century. I think the Astrological Key includes knowledge of all time cycles (the Law of cycles) including the esoteric Hindu cycles and the Ray cycles on all planes at least on our planet, and these are not understood completely until the 5th initiation. Go to the bottom of this compilation and see the ref on (CF 1144), where DK tells us exactly what one who understands the Law of Cycles can do. Its very advanced stuff and I would have thought way beyond the capacity of a mortal man. My conclusion (as you will see when you read through this ordered list of extracts from the Bailey books) is that a large chunk, if not all, of the astrological Key to the Secret Doctrine, (along with the teaching to supersede most of DK's other books), will be given by an Initiate representing DK, from around the year 2025. In the mean time I think individuals will continue to figure out parts of DK's writings. I have ordered the references so they explain themselves, but I've paraphrazed most refs to highlight the essential meaning where possible. I have also included DKs explanation of the first three fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine from Cosmic Fire.

Once a century, after the Conclave in the first quarter of each century a new body of teaching is given.

once in a century after their Conclave at the close of the first quarter) there is the imparting of a more advanced body of teaching. This (DINAII 318) Occassionally (usually

teaching will only be recognised by a few of the foremost disciples in the world; it will, however, prove to be the ordinary form of occult teaching during the next developing cycle. It is this type of work which I have been endeavouring to do with the aid of A.A.B.

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, which was published in 1925, is the Psychological Key to the Secret Doctrine, and contains the most advanced teaching given for the 20th century. (Unfinished Biography 214)

In many ways today H.P.B.'s book The Secret Doctrine is out of date and its approach to the Ageless Wisdom has little or no appeal to the modern generation. But those of us who really studied it and arrived at some understanding of its inner significance have a basic appreciation of the truth that no other book seems to supply. H.P.B. said that the next interpretation of the Ageless Wisdom would be a psychological approach, and

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, which I published in 1925, is the psychological key to The Secret Doctrine. None of my books would have been possible [Page 215] had I not at one time made a very close study of The Secret Doctrine.

The climax for the Aryan race in the West will reach its zenith between 1965 and 2025 (LOS xii) In the time of the Buddha and [Page xii] through the stimulation He produced there was a great gathering in of Arhats. These were men who had achieved liberation through self-initiated effort. This period, in our Aryan race, marked a climax for the East. Since then the tide of spiritual life has steadily flowed westward, and we may now look for a corresponding climax in the West, which will reach its

zenith between the years 1965 and 2025.

Towards this end the adepts of the East and of the West are unitedly working, for they follow always the Law.

Early in the next century an initiate will appear with more teaching from DK

next century and early in the century an initiate will appear and will cary on their teaching. It will (EA 532) & (RI 255)…In the

be under the same “impression” for my task is not yet completed and this series of bridging treatises between the material knowledge of man and the science of the initiates has still another phase to run….Then and only then will it be possible to carry the revelation further.

DK’s books (in particular Cosmic Fire, which is the psychological Key to the Secret Doctrine) are the core teachings up to 2025 at which time much more will be given. (DINAI 778) …This was succeeded by A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. This book was an expansion of the teaching given in The Secret Doctrine on the three fires-electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction-and it was an awaited sequence; it also

presented

the psychological key to The Secret Doctrine and is intended to offer study to disciples and initiates at the close of this century and the beginning of the

next century, up until the 2025 A.D. There will be much more teaching on Esoteric Astrology around the year 2025 (EA 589) We have now the difficult task of considering an aspect of divine manifestation which is as yet so little apparent upon the physical plane that we lack the exact word with which to express it and those words available are likewise misleading. I can, however, attempt to give you certain concepts, relationships and parallels which may serve to

close this section on astrology and lay a foundation for future teaching around the year 2025. That is the mode whereby all revelation comes. A thought is given; a symbol described; an idea portrayed. Then, as the minds of men ponder upon it and the intuitives of the world pick up the thought, it serves as a seed thought which eventually comes to fruition with the presentation and the unfolding of a revelation which serves to lead the race of men nearer to their goal.

DK says his books will be superseded next century. As the above refs show, an initiate will come forth and provide this new teaching from 2025 (DINAI 31) It is for my disciples to safeguard this presentation of truth during this century and to see to it that the books are sent forth steadily upon their mission, until they are finally more adequate teaching.

superseded next century by a newer and

The true esoteric astrology will embody itself in the fourth Fundamentalthe reference given above in (EA 589) states the new teaching on Esoteric Astrology, and indeed, a teaching that will supersede all DK’s will be presented from around 2025 by an Initiate sent forth by the Lodge. Clearly this Initiate will come forth in alignment with the usual Centenary efforts, just like Cosmic Fire was released in 1925.

real and esoteric astrology will deal with four kinds of force, when it seeks to explain the (CF 1191) It will be apparent, therefore, that the

nature of the Energies which influence any human being:

1. The quality of the solar system. 2. The quality of the Logos of the planet as it pours through the chains and globes and rounds in a sevenfold differentiation. 3. The quality of our earth's complementary planet. 4. The quality of the attraction of our earth's polar opposites.

This involves information as yet veiled in deepest mystery, but which will unfold as the true

eventually embody itself in a fourth fundamental of the Secret Doctrine so that later psychology is studied, and which will students will have the three

as they are now found in the Proem to that book,

plus the fourth.29 This might be expected in this fourth round. The true astrology will reveal the nature of this fourth

proposition at some later date. More attention will eventually be paid to the planetary influences, and not so much to the signs of the zodiac where the nature of an Ego is concerned. The great signs of the zodiac concern the Heavenly Man, and

The planetary influences must be studied to find out the quality of a man's Ray, and this in the above indicated threefold manner. Man is the Monad, therefore, he expresses a small part of his enfolding life. In necessarily, therefore,

the Monads of every human being.

this solar system he is essentially the Ego.

Astrologers should study the planetary schemes in the light of the Heavenly Man, viewing them as an incarnation [Page 1192] of a planetary Logos, and thus strive to cast the horoscope of the planetary Logos. They cannot succeed in doing so, but in the attempt may learn much and achieve new light upon a most difficult subject.

In considering this question of the adaptation of the form to vibration, or the construction of a vehicle which will be a fitting instrument for spirit, the following factors must be borne in mind:

1. That it is the quality of the indwelling life which decides the type of form. 2. That these qualities are the sumtotal of the attributes of divinity which the indwelling life has succeeded in unfolding. 3. That these qualities—as may well be surmised—fall

into the usual septennate.

4. That they fall also into two groups, those which concern the lower principles, and are, therefore, four in number, and those which concern the higher and middle and are, therefore, three.

The above reference at (CF 1191) states that the 4th fundamental will be given during the 4th round. The highest evolution of manas in this round will take place about 500 years after Cosmic Fire was written. 1925+ 500= 2425, which is exactly 1,000 years after the pivotal 1425 Centennial conference.

(CF 499) b. Synthesis. We have seen that during the coming races and subraces certain very definite development may be looked for in connection with manasic unfoldment; and it is worth

evolution of manas in this round is concerned its highest efflorescence may be looked for during the next five hundred years. while to note particularly that as far as the

The coming in of the two final root races marks the point of synthesis, and the gradual utilisation of that which has been manasically achieved; this will be brought about by a development of abstract thought, and of intuitive recognition

(CF 109) We have dealt with the functional and organic ills of the etheric, giving certain indications for the extension of the concept to other realms than the purely human. In the human

turning of that key opens up a door to a wider interpretation as it admits one into the mysteries of nature. Though that key has to be turned seven times, yet even one turn reveals untold avenues of eventual comprehension.47,48 kingdom lies the key, but the

The Astrological Key reveals the 4th Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine

basis of the astrological teaching that is one of the keys to the Secret Doctrine.3 We should therefore bear in mind that [Page 626] the Deva (CF 625) These ideas of force and the sheaths are the

Lords, Agni, Varuna, Kshiti,4 represent in the exoteric teaching the substance aspect of the dense body of the Logos whilst the force aspect as flowing through the etheric body of the Logos is considered under various names, such as Shiva, Surya, Brahma. Yet the two aspects are but one.

DK presents the idea that an illumined astrologer may discover the astrological Key and reveal the fourth great Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine. (EA 9) This brings me to the third statement, which is so basic and fundamental that I would ask you to pause and contemplate it, even though you grasp not its full implications as yet. The Ancient Wisdom teaches that "space is an entity." It is with the life of this entity and with the forces and energies, the impulses and the rhythms, the cycles and the times and seasons that esoteric astrology deals. H.P.B. stated this in The Secret Doctrine. I would remind you

that there is an astrological key to The Secret Doctrine which cannot yet be given in completeness. I can, however, give you some hints and suggest some lines of approach, and these, if carried in the consciousness of the

may enable one of them at a later date to discover that key and then—turning it on behalf of humanity—[Page 8] reveal the fourth great fundamental of the Ageless Wisdom of which three are already given in the proem of The Secret Doctrine. illumined astrologers,

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire gave the Psychological Key to the Secret Doctrine, and DK’s book on Esoteric Astrology gives some indications as to the Astrological Key to the Secret Doctrine (EA 290) You will note how consistently the emphasis is laid upon consciousness and its progressive unfoldment, and not upon the form or the aggregate of forms which veil the

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire endeavoured to give the psychological key to The Secret Doctrine and to interpret the underlying consciousness which the Beings conscious entity of whatever nature or grade of being. Just as

(considered in The Secret Doctrine) express, so in A Treatise on the Seven Rays, I am carrying on the same idea and, at the same time, seeking to give the needed key to modern exoteric

also some indications as to the astrological key to The Secret Doctrine to which H.P.B. refers. The Entities dealt psychology and

with in her masterpiece of esoteric truth are here revealed as cosmic, solar and planetary influences evoking—in response to Their outpoured energy or vibratory [Page 291] activity—an awakening of consciousness in the form so that it becomes aligned to or closely related to Their Own. All revelations appear to emerge into the consciousness of the race in their lowest or most material form because the "ascent of knowledge towards wisdom" is always the key to progress, and, therefore, exoteric psychology and exoteric mundane astrology had to precede the revelation of their significance; the nature of the form had to be made apparent and man accustomed to it before the meaning behind the form could be revealed.

(OM 51) Fundamental Postulates.

First, I seek to lay down certain basic postulates which, though realised as mental concepts, may yet be too deep for easy comprehension.

These postulates are five in number—five out of a number too vast for your apprehension. These postulates themselves are based on certain fundamental facts, and these facts (seven in

number) are not as yet all comprehended.

H.P.B. touched on

three in his statement of the fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine. Four yet remain hid, though the fourth is emerging somewhat through the study of psychology and mental science. The other three fundamentals will emerge during the next three rounds. This round will see the apprehension of the fourth fundamental.

The full quote on the first three Fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine from Cosmic Fire are included at the end of this document on the Astrological key to the Secret Doctrine. The short version here is pretty much identical with the short version in the Proem of the Secret Doctrine. (CF 3) The teaching which is given in this Treatise on Cosmic Fire might be formulated in the following terms. These postulates are simply extensions of the three fundamentals to be found in the Proem in the first volume of the Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky. 1 Students are recommended to study them carefully; in this way their understanding of the Treatise will be greatly aided.

The first Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine (CF 3) I. There is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression.

The Second Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine (CF 5) II. There is a basic law called the Law of Periodicity.

In this section on the details of the second Fundamental, DK explicitly tells us that the Law of Periodicity is only in possession of the perfected adept. An adept would is a Master of the 5th degree. Does this mean the Astrological Key is only in possession of the perfected adept too?

Full knowledge of the mystery of the cycles is the possession only of the perfected adept. (CF 7) 8.

The Law of Cycles is mastered at the 5th initiation. (CF 1144) The Law

of Cycles has ever been regarded as one of the most difficult for a man to master, and it has been truly said that when a man has mastered its technicalities, and can understand its methods of time computation, he has attained initiation. Its intricacies are so numerous and so bound up with the still greater law, that of cause and effect, that practically the

whole range of possible knowledge (One becomes omniscient at the 5th initiation, therefore the Law of cycles is mastered by the 5th initiation) is thereby surmounted. To comprehend this law involves ability to:

All cycles are masterd by the time of the 5th initiation (IHS 174) At the fifth initiation the secret makes clear to him "The

mathematical formula which sums up all the cycles of manifestation." The Third Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine (CF 8) III. All souls are identical with the Oversoul.

DK again emphasizes the need to recognize the Fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine (CF 238) (The problem of duality is the problem of existence itself, and cannot be solved by the man who refuses to recognise the possibility of two occult facts:

1. That the entire solar system embodies the consciousness of an Entity, who originates on planes entirely without the solar ring-pass-not.

2. That manifestation is periodical and that the Law of Rebirth is the method that evolution takes in dealing with a man, a planetary Logos, and a solar Logos. Hence, the emphasis laid in the Proem of the Secret Doctrine on the three fundamentals,97

a. The Boundless Immutable Principle and b. The periodicity of the Universe. c. The identity of all souls with the Oversoul.

(CF 259) VI. WHAT IS THE MIND ASPECT? WHY IS THE MANASIC PRINCIPLE OF SUCH IMPORTANCE? WHO ARE THE MANASAPUTRAS?

We are now to touch upon the profoundest mystery of the whole manifested solar system—the mystery spoken of by H. P. B. as the mystery of electricity.5 It is intimately connected with the life of God as demonstrated through His seven Centres, the seven Heavenly Men, the Divine Manasaputras. This problem is not soluble as yet exoterically and but little can be revealed to the general public. This is for three reasons:

First, the stage reached by man does not permit of his correct apprehension of these abstractions.

Second, the greater part of the possible explanation is only revealed to initiates who have passed the third Initiation, and even to them in a carefully guarded manner.

Third, the revelation of the close connection between mind and fohat or energy, or between thought power and electrical phenomena—the effect of fohatic impulse on matter—is fraught with peril, and the missing link (if so it might be termed) in the chain of reasoning from phenomena to its initiatory impulse, can only be safely imparted when the bridge between higher and lower mind, is adequately constructed. When the lower is under the control of the higher, or when the quaternary is merging into the triad,

then man can be trusted

with the remaining [Page 260] four fundamentals. Three of these fundamentals are laid down for us in the Proem of the Secret Doctrine,6 and with the evolving concept of psychology, make the revealed three and the dawning fourth. The other three are esoteric and must remain so until each man has for himself worked at his spiritual development, built the bridge between the higher and the lower mind, prepared the shrine in the temple of Solomon for the Light of God, and turned his activities into altruistic helping of the evolutionary plans of the Logos.

When these qualities are assuming a foremost place and when man has demonstrated the thoroughness of his will to serve, then the clue will be put into his hands and he will find the method whereby electrical impulse, demonstrating as heat, light and motion, is controlled and utilised; he will discover the source of the initial impulse from extra-systemic centres, and discover the basic rhythm. Then, and only then, will he be a truly intelligent co-operator, and (escaping from the control of the Law in the three worlds) wield the law himself within the lower spheres.

DK explains what the first three Fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine contain (CF 3) INTRODUCTORY POSTULATES

The teaching which is given in this Treatise on Cosmic Fire might be formulated in the following terms.

three fundamentals to be found in the Proem in the first volume of the Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky. 1 Students are recommended to These postulates are simply extensions of the

study them carefully; in this way their understanding of the Treatise will be greatly aided.

The first Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine

There is one Boundless Immutable Principle

I. ; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression.

The manifested Universe is contained within this Absolute Reality and is a conditioned symbol of it.

In the totality of this manifested Universe, three aspects are to be conceived.

1. The First Cosmic Logos, impersonal and unmanifested, the precursor of the Manifested.

2. The Second Cosmic Logos, Spirit-Matter, Life, the Spirit of the Universe.

3. The Third Cosmic Logos, Cosmic Ideation, the Universal World-Soul.

From these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in ordered sequence the numberless Universes comprising countless Manifesting Stars and Solar Systems.

Each Solar System is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great Cosmic Existence, Whom we call, for lack of a better term, a Solar Logos.

[Page 4] This Solar Logos incarnates, or comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar system.

This solar system is the body, or form, of this cosmic Life, and is itself triple.

This triple solar system can be described in terms of three aspects, or (as the Christian theology puts it) in terms of three Persons.

ELECTRIC FIRE, or SPIRIT.

1st Person

Father. Life. Will. Purpose. Positive energy.

SOLAR FIRE, OR SOUL. 2nd Person

Son. Consciousness. Love-Wisdom. Equilibrised energy.

FIRE BY FRICTION, or Body, or Matter. 3rd Person

Holy Spirit. Form. Active Intelligence. Negative energy.

Each of these three is also triple in manifestation, making therefore

a. The nine Potencies or Emanations. b. The nine Sephiroth. c. The nine Causes of Initiation.

These, with the totality of manifestation or the Whole, produce the ten (10) of perfect manifestation of the perfect MAN.

These three aspects of the Whole are present in every form.

a. The solar system is triple, manifesting through the three above mentioned. b. A human being is equally triple, manifesting as Spirit, Soul and Body, or Monad, Ego and Personality. c. The atom of the scientist is also triple, being composed of a positive nucleus, the negative electrons, and the totality of the outer manifestation, [Page 5] the result of the relation of the other two.

The three aspects of every form are inter-related and susceptible of intercourse, because

a. Energy is in motion and circulates. b. All forms in the solar system form part of the Whole, and are not isolated units. c. This is the basis of brotherhood, of the communion of saints, and of astrology.

These three aspects of God, the solar Logos, and the Central Energy or Force (for the terms are occultly synonymous) demonstrate through seven centres of force,—three major centres and four minor. These seven centres of logoic Force are themselves so constituted that they form corporate Entities. They are known as a. The seven planetary Logoi. b. The seven Spirits before the Throne. c. The seven Rays. d. The seven Heavenly Men.

The Seven Logoi embody seven types of differentiated force, and in this Treatise are known under the names of Lords of the Rays. The names of the Rays are

Ray I

Ray of Will or Power

1st Aspect

Ray II Ray of Love-Wisdom

2nd Aspect

Ray III Ray of Active Intelligence 3rd Aspect These are the major Rays. Ray IV Ray of Harmony, Beauty and Art. Ray V Ray of Concrete Knowledge or Science. Ray V Ray of Devotion or of Abstract Idealism. Ray VII Ray of Ceremonial Magic or Order.

The Second Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine

II. There is a basic law called the Law of Periodicity.

1. This law governs all manifestation, whether it is the manifestation of a solar Logos through the [Page 6] medium of a solar system, or the manifestation of a human being through the medium of a form. This law controls likewise in all the kingdoms of nature.

2. There are certain other laws in the system which are linked with this one; some of them are as follows:

a. The Law of Economy......the law governing matter, the third aspect. b. The Law of Attraction...the law governing soul, the second aspect. c. The Law of Synthesis....the law governing spirit, or the first aspect.

3. These three are cosmic laws. There are seven systemic laws, which govern the manifestation of our solar Logos:

a. The Law of Vibration. b. The Law of Cohesion. c. The Law of Disintegration. d. The Law of Magnetic Control. e. The Law of Fixation. f. The Law of Love. g. The Law of Sacrifice and Death.

4. Each of these Laws manifests primarily on one or other of the seven planes of the solar system.

5. Each law sweeps periodically into power and each plane has its period of manifestation and its period of obscuration.

6. Every manifested life has its three great cycles: Birth

Life

Appearance

Death. growth

disappearance.

[Page 7] Involution

evolution

Inert motion

activity rhythmic motion.

Tamasic life

rajasic life

7. Knowledge

obscuration.

sattvic life.

of the cycles involves knowledge of number, sound and

colour.

8. Full

knowledge of the mystery of the cycles is the possession only of the perfected adept.

The Third Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine

III. All souls are identical with the Oversoul. 1. The Logos of the solar system is the Macrocosm. Man is the Microcosm.

2. Soul is an aspect of every form of life from a Logos to an atom.

3. This relationship between all souls and the Oversoul constitutes the basis for the scientific belief in Brotherhood. Brotherhood is a fact in nature, not an ideal.

4. The Law of Correspondences will explain the details of this relationship. This Law of Correspondences or of Analogy is the interpretive law of the system, and explains God to man.

5. Just as God is the Macrocosm for all the kingdoms in Nature, so man is the Macrocosm for all the subhuman kingdoms.

6. The goal for the evolution of the atom is self-consciousness as exemplified in the human kingdom.

The goal for the evolution of man is group consciousness, as exemplified by a planetary Logos. 2

The goal for the planetary Logos is God consciousness, as exemplified by the solar Logos.

7. The solar Logos is the sum-total of all the states of consciousness within the solar system. 3

DK gives a list of the skills that someone who comprehends the Law of Cycles has. (CF 1144) The Law

of Cycles has ever been regarded as one of the most difficult for a man to master, and it has been truly said that when a man has mastered its technicalities, and can understand its methods of time computation, he has attained initiation. Its intricacies are so numerous and so bound up with the still greater law, that of cause and effect, that practically the whole range of possible knowledge is thereby surmounted. To comprehend this law involves ability to: a. Deal with the higher

mathematical formulas of the solar system.

b. Compute the relationship between a unit of any degree and the greater whole upon whose vibration that unit is swept into periodic display. c. Read

the akashic records of a planetary system.

d. Judge of karmic effects in time and space.

e. Differentiate between the four streams of karmic effects as they concern the four kingdoms of nature. f. Distinguish between the three main streams of energy [Page 1145] —the units of inertia, mobility and rhythm—and note the key of each unit, and its place in the great group of transitional points. These latter units are those who are on the crest of one of the three waves, and ready, therefore, to be transferred into a wave of a higher vibratory capacity. g. Enter the Hall of Records and there read a peculiar group of documents dealing with planetary manifestation in a fourfold manner. It concerns the planetary Logos, and deals with the transference of energy from the moon chain. It concerns the transmission of energy to another planetary scheme, and concerns the interaction between the human Hierarchy (the fourth Kingdom) and the great informing Life of the animal kingdom. When a man can do all these things and has earned the right to know that which produces the phenomenon of manifestation, he has earned the right to enter into the councils of the planetary Hierarchy, and himself to direct streams of energy upon, through and out of the planet.