Basic Catechism of Esoteric Teachings.
A Study Today – The Ages, the Teachers, the Rays, etc.
Understanding humanity’s religions as developmental stages
in the evolutionary (return) of humanity – Age by Age.
And so today….
Friday, Venus’s day, Ray 5 day.
Knowledge, true science & truth day.
The color is a golden orange, like persimmons.
It’s July 18 2025 & it’s our first full day of retrograde Mercury.
Mercury is a Ray 4 planet – harmony at the heart of conflict & chaos.

Our last week of Cancer (3/7) Sun.
Taurus (4) moon (4) today w/ Mercury (4) sextile Venus (5).
A comforting, nourishing friendly day today.
Sun enters Leo next Tuesday July 22nd.
And there’s a Leo new moon on Thursday, the 24th.

Religions, Rays, Ages, Signs, World Teachers, Laws.
Humanity’s Developmental Stages – as understood via the religions, the Laws, the astrological signs, the Ages, the Rays & World Teachers.

The Esoteric teachings (from the Tibetan, writing through Helena Blavatsky [Theosophy] & Alice Bailey [blue books] for the western mind/world, and Master Morya writing thru the Roerichs for the Russian mind) explain the different religions, their purpose & also the ongoing developmental stages of humanity.

In each Age (2,500 years long w/ overlaps of 500 years before & after) the atmosphere of the world changes. Our Sun shifts into a new constellation or sign. As this occurs a new Age (era) unfolds.

Then a World Teacher with new Teachings appears & humanity is working under a new astrological sign with its accompanying planets with one or more of the Ray stars from the Big Dipper directing & guiding all events. The Esoteric Teachings offer humanity the ability to understand itself through time & space.

The information below is like a basic catechism (Greek: summary of doctrines, principles offered as an introduction to specific information). I suggest the information below be placed in one’s Esoteric Astrological Journals.

Learning about humanity’s religions.
Understanding them via the Rays & the Ages, the Teachers, the Teachings, the signs & planets.

Each religion is guided by one or more of the Seven Rays (stars in the Big Dipper). During each Age, humanity cultivates a religion, which are developmental stages for humanity. These are the Ages, beginning in the Taurus Age.

1. Taurus Age (5000 – 2500 BC), Age of Krishna, was ruled over by Ray 4 (Harmony through Conflict/Chaos, Beauty) & the religion was Hinduism. The Chosen People, the Jewish people lived in Egypt during the Taurus Age, experiencing slavery (physical, material, emotional, mental, spiritual). As the Taurus Age ended & Krishna died, humanity was given the Bhagavad Gita.

2. Aries Age (2500 BC – 0 AD) , Age of the Law (Torah, Ten Commandment, via Moses), was guided by Rays 1 & 7 – the anchoring (Ray 7) of the Laws (Ray 1). The religion was Judaism. In the interim between the Age of Taurus & Aries was the great pilgrimage of the Jewish people, walking for 40 years in the Sinai desert before reaching the Promised Land of Canaan. The “long walk” was a unificatory process, so the thoughts of slavery could die out. The Jewish people Teacher was Saturn & Jehovah.

3. Buddhism (500BC – 0 AD) – 500 years before the Pisces (2/6) Age (each Age overlaps with the previous Age & the Age ahead by 500 years) began at 0AD, the Buddha appeared in the East for the purpose of clearing the minds of humanity from magical thinking which was distorted thinking. Buddha is Ray 4. He taught the 8 Noble Truths. These were preparatory Teachings so humanity could recognize the Buddha’s brother, the Christ, in the form of the body of Jesus, when the Christ appeared as the Piscean World Teacher.

4. Pisces Age (0 AD – 2.500 AD), the Law of Love via the Christ, the Rays 2 & 6 (humanity is to develop love/wisdom, devotion, vision). The religion was Christianity.
As Ray 2 is the Love Principle, Ray 6 is also the Crusades.
It is also fanaticism, wars.

Humanity can respond to the influence & power of the Rays with extreme unskillfulness. As the energies from the signs, planets & rays come into our world with neutrality. How humanity, each individual responds to the cosmic energies has to do with each person’s state of beliefs, understandings, growth and conscious awareness.

4a. Islam is a tribal/combination religion of Judaism & Christianity. Islam, a monotheistic (One God) religion (like Judaism & Christianity), came into being in the 7th century AD. It is a Ray 6 religion (warrior, tribal religion) & came in after Christianity during the Pisces Age, the Age of Devotion.

5. Aquarian Age (presently/now slowly unfolding & it began w/ the anchoring of Rays 5 & 7 – 1475, 15th – 18th centuries & it created the flowering of creativity in the Renaissance). New World Religion in the Aquarian Age, guided by Ray 5/2/7 – Ray 5 (Venus/knowledge). Ray 2 (love/wisdom). Ray 7, anchoring of the new archetypes, via Uranus. Aquarius is the Age of Knowledge, of humanity, of freedom, the Age of Flowers, Cooperation & Communities.
The Aquarian religion becomes a worldwide spirituality, a religion of & for the people implementing astrology (the language of Aquarius, the Wisdom teachings, the Science of Invocation & Evocation, the new/full moon meditations.
The guidance for the Aquarian Age are the 3 Laws & 3 Principles of the Aquarian Age.
The major festivals are Easter/Resurrection & Pentecost & the teachings are the Beatitudes. This religion is just now manifesting.

Note: And now we all know more….love, Risa

Note: There are multiple graphics today. Each one attempts to help us understand the evolution of humanity via the religions, the teachers, the teachings, the rules & laws, the sign & the Rays. It is a Great Teaching, thus we enter into a comprehensive and great understanding. Risa