What, then, does the current astrology tell us?
Let’s look at a major astrological cycle that’s just begun. It’s the 12-year transit of Pluto in Sagittarius. It will conclude in 2008. During this cycle we can expect momentous changes in religion and government, in our values and beliefs, and in our education and culture. We will see a dramatic transformation in the vision we hold of ourselves, our world, our place in the universe and our relationship to God.
In the past, the transit of Pluto in Sagittarius coincided with the golden age of Pericles in Greece, the mission of Jesus Christ, the Italian Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Europe. It saw the introduction of Buddhism in central China and Christianity in Saxony. It coincided with the first unification of China and the codification of law in the sixth-century Roman Empire and in eleventh-century Russia.
Adventure, discovery and vision were on the march. The Portuguese reached China by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope. Roger Bacon predicted the invention of the steamship, the airplane and television. The Sorbonne was founded in Paris, and many cathedrals and temples were built in Europe and Asia.
This cycle also coincided with great religious conflict. Jesus was crucified and John the Baptist was beheaded. The Roman emperor Diocletian unleashed his notorious persecution of Christians. In Athens, Plato’s school of philosophy was shut down because of its so-called pagan ideas. In Persia, Mani was executed for claiming he was a prophet who received divine revelations. In Europe, Germans persecuted so-called heretics and Martin Luther led the Protestant Reformation.
The cycle of Pluto in Sagittarius also coincided with war—war over the control of the oracle of Delphi, the Second Peloponnesian War, the Second Punic War and the Seven Years War.
So what does all of this mean?
During the next 12 years, we can give birth to an age of enlightenment and a new world religion. But we must anticipate a counterforce to this progres—the repression of religions and new ideas. And we could see religious wars.
This could be a time of optimism and expansion. We could see advances in education and greater appreciation of foreign cultures, but we could also see education denied to people or used to indoctrinate and control them. Information and culture will move across borders as never before. We may be richer for the experience—but we could also see cultures in conflict, conflict of the kind that is now taking place in Bosnia, Rwanda and the Middle East.
Persecution along class or ethnic lines could cause mass migrations, and that could have unpredictable effects. The question of immigration will be debated in many nations. Some nations will accept refugees; others will not.
This 12-year cycle will set the stage for a transformation of governments and even the nature of government itself. Empires and groups of nations are likely to expand and come into conflict with each other. In the process, they could be destroyed or reconfigured.
This will be a time of political ferment like the one that preceded the American and French revolutions. A new world order will take shape. New powers will emerge. We will settle the question that has dominated most of the twentieth century: Can the world exist half slave and half free?
A political system of freedom or one of tyranny and chaos will begin to coalesce. The political culture developed during this cycle will begin to crystallize into the dominant form of government that will be established during the transit of Pluto in Capricorn, the 16-year cycle that runs from 2008 to 2024.
Another current astrological cycle is the transit of Uranus (the planet of freedom) in Aquarius (the sign of freedom). Uranus will stay in Aquarius until 2003. It will be joined by other slow-moving planets during that time. The combination of these planets and the transit of Pluto in Sagittarius have much to do with the inauguration of the age of Aquarius.
These planets can give us the impulse for freedom, a transcendent spirituality and a sense of brotherhood. We could find new solutions to our many social problems and dissolve the barriers that divide us by religion, race, nationality, class and gender.
But we must be careful how we “fix” the social order. The last two times Uranus was in Aquarius were periods of war and revolution. There were revolutions and independence movements in Europe and South America. Slavery was abolished in Mexico and the British Empire, and the movement to abolish slavery gained power in the United States.
These events were momentous, but they are overshadowed in the pages of history by two conflicts that caused millions of deaths and changed the course of history—the Russian Revolution and World War I.
It is dangerous when two cycles that portend war coincide, especially when nuclear proliferation is accelerating and when so many Russian leaders are trying to restore Russia to the “good old days” before the breakup of the Soviet empire. But still more ominous is the fact that there are other powerful cycles between 1998 and 2001 that portend war, even a world war.
In the past, the transit of Uranus in Aquarius has also coincided with great scientific discoveries and technological progress. Einstein, for example, formulated his general theory of relativity during such a transit. Today we are on the verge of making another great technological leap.
Imagine a world without television or computers, a world in which man had never traveled to the moon or launched a satellite, a world where man had not split the atom or unlocked the DNA code, a world without the Internet!
These scientific and technological advances have taken place during the last complete revolution of Uranus. It is from this base of knowledge that we will launch the next revolution in science—in microelectronics and microbiology, in computer science, information science, military science and communications technology.
The scientific breakthroughs of the next 12 years—and the next 200 years—could greatly improve the quality of life for all. They could provide greater wealth and leisure, greater health and longer life. They could help us launch a real revolution in education.
These new discoveries will give us new powers. But we will need a commensurate spiritual revolution so that we will use these powers wisely and well. In our lifetime, we will have to decide where to draw the line.
Scientists have already genetically engineered pigs and cows to bear human genes. <1> They have grown a human ear on the back of a mouse. <2> It was precisely this kind of genetic manipulation taken to extremes that led to the sinking of Atlantis. The message: Man should not play God!
Technology is a two-edged sword. It can imprison just as easily as it can liberate.
Will we use new communications technology to educate and inform—or to control people and deprive them of their privacy?
Will we decide that people with defective genes shouldn’t be allowed to procreate—or even to be born?
Besides a technological challenge, we will also face a social challenge. Scientific progress is on the verge of permanently dividing societies into those who understand technology and those who do not. If that happens, the technological elite will control the wealth and power. The technological have-nots will become a permanent underclass. That’s a formula for disaster.
During the transit of Uranus in Aquarius, we must change and grow. But we must avoid anarchy, and we must avoid revolution along the lines of the Russian Revolution, which promised freedom but delivered tyranny and stifled the human spirit.
These are issues we will have to deal with.
What can we do to beat the Fates?
How can we bring in an age of enlightenment?
Enter the Master Saint Germain, Hierarch of the Aquarian Age, luminary of the twenty-first century. He brings a solution to the problem of our very ancient, very complex karma. He brings a teaching and a way of life. Of greatest importance, he brings the gift of the violet flame, a spiritual energy that when used in accordance with the laws of alchemy can actually erase karma!
Saint Germain is the Master Alchemist, but his solution is only as good as the people who apply it. If we invoke the violet flame daily, religiously, as if the world depended on us, we can literally dissolve the mountain of karma that besets us!
Archangel Zadkiel, the Archangel of the Seventh Ray (or violet ray), has given us a vision of alternative futures. The first is a vision of our hemisphere covered by violet flame. “It is a future of hope, prosperity,...light and [the soul’s] inner walk with God.”
The second is a vision of warfare and bloodshed in the United States, a future that can be avoided only by divine intercession and our invocation of the violet flame. <3>
Zadkiel refers to more than the mere repetition of such wars as we have had in the past. He is talking about the “Great War” that will come to pass if we do not take the necessary spiritual and material steps to stop it before it begins.
So he sets before us two futures. We have to choose: this or that—the bright future or the lapse into the barbarism and darkness of the past.
The philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” While that is true, even those who do remember the past will repeat it—if they do not use the violet flame.
On February 26, 1996, the Messenger, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, departed on a 33-day stumping tour of South America. Her lecture “Saint Germain’s Prophecy for the Aquarian Age” was the keynote address in each of the seven cities where she spoke: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pôrto Alegre, Santos and São Paulo, Brazil; Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia; and Quito, Ecuador. In each city, Saint Germain and one of the Seven Archangels dictated. Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
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