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[1] Dante, The Divine Comedy. Inferno, last verses.

[2] A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 183

[3] Ex, 4: 19- 24

[4] Genesis, 31: 3

[5] Ibid, 32: 11

[6] Ibid, 32:25 – 32: 30

[7] Ibid, 33:4

[8] Ibid, 27:36

[9] This passage illustrates what psychoanalytical thought calls “the return of the repressed” and its part in the process of psychological integration and Individuation (as realization of Self: “your name shall be Israel).

[10] Cf. Exodus, 4:2

[11] These can be envisioned as well as the exoteric pole of the law (staff) and the esoteric pole of Being (the Serpent power of Life).

[12] Ex, 33: 21

[13] Ex., 25: 8-9 ; 26; 30

[14] A. Bailey, EP I, p. 377

[15] Jn, 14: 9

[16] Jn 13: 34

[17] In his series of conferences entitled The Gospel of Saint John, R. Steiner states that through the Mystery of Golgotha, “the earth began to shine” (astrally) and took the first step towards its gradual development into a sun (p. 250)

[18] Ma 14: 33

[19] Lu, 22: 44

[20] Exodus, 4: 13

[21] Mk 16: 2-4

[22] Mark Twain, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p. 499-500

[23] syn- Gk ‘with’ — the Libran preposition.

[24] A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology Vol 1, p. 70

[25] The Tarot of Marseille is the deck referred to.

[26] The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, p.8

[27] “Arjuna was staggered to see that the whole battle of Kurukshetra had already been fought in the foreordained mind of the Lord and that the combatants destined to die had already met their death”. The Bhagavad Gita, xx.

[28] “This evenness is called yoga.” (The Bhagavad Gita, verse 27) “When your mind, now perplexed, will stand firm and steady in the Self, then you will have attained yoga.” (verse 28)

[29] A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 251

[30] A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 630

[31] A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 440

[32] A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 139 : “Uranus — the will to be and to know simultaneously on all planes of manifestation ”

[33] A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p. 693-694

[34] A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 619