Mars 265initiations concerned there with. Mars does this with
Uranus as the joint ruler of Aries. The activity of Aries is
located in Sahasra-ra. Hence, for those students who reach
that level, the combined influence of Mars and Uranus
gives the link with Shamballa through the Hierarchy.
The whole evolution is an adjustment between
power and beauty. The power of man works restlessly
on the mundane plane in mass levels, while the beauty of
woman controls it. The first result is that the powerful
man tries to possess the beauty of woman for his own
indulgence. The nature of woman is to seek protection
under the power of man. As a consequence woman comes
to bear all troubles and tortures meted out to her by the
primitive man. The forbearance and patience of woman
leads to a softening of the power of man. Expression of
beauty through finer forms is the eventual result. The giant
primitive race of man is transformed into one of angelic
beauty. Finally, there is the happiest blending of beauty
and power in the forms of man. This history of the races
is concealed in the opposition of the signs of Mars with
those of Venus. From the level of discord indicated by
Taurus-Scorpio, man is raised to the harmony expressed
through Aries-Libra. For this reason, among others, the
higher initiations stipulate the presence of a woman.
The sacred purpose of Mars in the spiritual evolution
of man can be understood by the sextile aspect between
Virgo and Scorpio. All the limitations and sufferings of
the lower man, before he receives the grace of the World
Mother, are denoted by the sixth-house affairs of Virgo.
The suffering humanity at large can be understood by
the role of sixth house in Virgo and twelfth house in Pisces;
ignorance, poverty, competition, struggle for existence,
limitation and self-conditioning are the traits of these two