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       The Scorpio
       By: Glorious Date: April 11, 2019, 2:40 am
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       SCORPIO, THE SCORPION
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       We come now to the consideration of a sign which is of paramount
       importance in the life of evolving man. Certain of the signs are
       in very close relation—through the inflow and the outflow of
       energy—with certain of the major constellations. These major
       constellations are, in a few instances, peculiarly connected
       with the signs of the zodiac. There are four of the zodiacal
       signs which are mysteriously concerned with what one might call
       the "personality expression" (if such an unsuitable term can be
       used in default of better) of the solar Logos Himself, or with
       the Divine Quaternary, the fourfold manifestation of Deity.
       These four signs are Aries—Leo—Scorpio—Aquarius, and they
       involve the expression of the energy of one Cardinal sign and of
       three signs which form part of the Fixed Cross of the heavens.
       We could express this truth in another manner: God the Father,
       the Will to manifest, initiates the creative process which is
       worked out through the activity of God the Son, the cosmic
       Christ, crucified upon the Fixed Cross in the heavens. The
       activity of God [194] the Holy Spirit, implicit in the Mutable
       Cross, is closely allied to the previous solar system, and the
       energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied
       with manipulating the forces inherited from that system and
       inherent in the very nature of substance itself. This divine
       aspect is to the whole general divine manifestation what the
       lower nature (form life or personality in the three worlds of
       human evolution) is to the soul where an individual human being
       is concerned. As regards these three Persons of the divine
       Trinity, we might say that:
       1. Aries is the focal point of the expression of the first
       aspect of divinity, the will aspect.
       2. Leo is the focal point for the expression of the second
       aspect, the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. This, primarily
       where humanity is concerned.
       3. Virgo is the focal point for the expression of the third
       aspect, that of active intelligence. In that sign the highest
       function of matter is symbolised.
       The four signs—Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius—are related to
       the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs
       of the zodiac; they constitute another field of relationships:
       Aries to one of the two stars, found in the constellation, the
       Great Bear, which are called the two Pointers.
       Leo to Polaris, the Pole Star, found in the Little Bear.
       Scorpio to Sirius, the Dog Star.
       Aquarius to Alcyone, one of the seven Pleiades.
       There is little that I can tell you in connection with the
       energies pouring into the four zodiacal signs from these distant
       though potent points of outgoing energy; they are part of the
       life expression of an Identity, immeasurably superior [195] to
       and more advanced than our solar Logos. A few hints may,
       however, be of service to the truly esoteric astrologer who may
       study these pages, particularly where Scorpio is concerned.
       Scorpio, at this particular stage of human evolution, governs
       the Path of Discipleship. You will note here also how
       Leo-Scorpio-Aquarius form a peculiar triangle of force, but of
       this I will later deal in Chapter III under the heading, The
       Science of Triangles.
       Aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great
       Bear but peculiarly so with one of the stars called The
       Pointers; these point to the Pole star which is at this time a
       major "star of direction." Direction, will, purpose and plan are
       all connected with the solar Logos and with His evolutionary
       undertakings in connection with the many lives manifesting in
       the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system. All
       these respond to the influences of the first ray which is, to
       all intents and purposes, the energy of divine embodied will,
       which has been esoterically described as "unavoidable directed
       purpose." Within our solar system, Vulcan and Pluto are
       expressions or custodians of this first ray energy and are, as I
       have told you, esoteric planets. The first indication of the
       true spiritual will only begins to manifest upon the Path of
       Discipleship—hence the late discovery of these two planets (late
       in point of time and from the angle of human knowledge) for it
       is only in this Aryan race period that humanity is to any large
       extent beginning to manifest evidence (and as yet it is no more)
       of a reaction or a response to the spiritual will of deity as it
       comes to our planet and hence to us via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto.
       You have, therefore, the following direct line of will energy:
       1. The Pointer furthest from the Pole Star in the constellation
       of the Great Bear. This is, esoterically speaking, [196] a great
       reservoir or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's
       purpose. The Pointer nearest to the Pole Star is expressive of a
       lower aspect of the will, which—in speaking of humanity—we call
       self-will.
       2. Aries, in which the will to create or to manifest makes its
       appearance and the great divine experiment is initiated.
       3. Vulcan and Pluto are related to the two Pointers and are only
       now beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect human
       response. Their effect has been planetary in its nature up to
       date and has not hitherto been at all effective in either the
       fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.
       4. Shamballa, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet.
       Leo is the sign wherein the consciousness of individuality is
       developed, utilised and finally consecrated to divine purpose.
       It is related to Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little
       Bear) and it is also peculiarly susceptible to the influence of
       that Pointer in the Great Bear which is the nearest to the Pole
       Star. Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is regarded as the
       "star of re-orientation" whereby the art of "refacing and
       recovering that which is lost" is developed. This eventually
       brings a man back to his originating source. It might,
       therefore, be correctly inferred that this Pointer and the
       energy emanating from it guides humanity upon the involutionary
       path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who
       is still upon the Mutable Cross. Then the energy of the Pointer
       furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt and
       a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the
       disciple upon the Path, and such guidance (when followed) leads
       man nearer to the Hierarchy. It is here that the divine [197]
       necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed for us in the
       symbolism of the sky and when it has been achieved then there is
       a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a new
       and creative manner to sources of divine supply. Astrologers
       will do well (in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and
       particularly of initiates) to consider the two Pointers and the
       Pole Star. They are mysteriously connected with the three
       aspects of incarnated man—Spirit, soul and body. More than this
       it is not permitted to me to convey to you. I may, however, give
       you another hint. These three stars are embodiments of the three
       aspects of divine will. It is the three aspects of all
       expressions of divinity in manifestation which underlie the
       Science of Triangles. This I will later elaborate.
       Another triangle of energy also appears: Aries, Leo and Polaris,
       and they are doubly connected through the medium of the
       Pointers.
       Scorpio is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius.
       This is the great star of initiation because our Hierarchy (an
       expression of the second aspect of divinity) is under the
       supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of
       Sirius. These are the major controlling influences whereby the
       cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar
       system, in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life
       expression. It is esoterically called the "brilliant star of
       sensitivity." You have therefore:
       Polaris—The Star of Direction—governing Shamballa. Later,
       another Pole Star will take the place of Polaris, owing to the
       interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and
       movement. But the name and quality of this star will only be
       revealed at initiation.
       [198]
       Sirius—The Star of Sensitivity—governing the Hierarchy.
       Alcyone—The Star of the Individual—governing humanity.
       You can see from the above how the entire plan of this Treatise
       is gradually unfolding. It was necessary for me to indicate to
       you the nature and the purpose of the three divine
       centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity—before I could
       make this part of the teaching clear to you, or before I could
       point out the nature of the energies pouring from distant
       constellations and zodiacal signs into our planetary scheme.
       Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning
       point both in the life of humanity and the life of the
       individual human being. For the first time in the history of
       both mankind and disciples the energy of Sirius, pouring into
       the seven groups which form our planetary Hierarchy evokes a
       response. I would remind you of a basic fact in the evolutionary
       process which astrology will eventually prove scientifically and
       past all controversy. This is the fact that energies and forces
       are pouring upon our system and our planetary lives ceaselessly,
       potently and cyclically. Yet they are only regarded today as
       existing when definite response is evoked. They come from all
       kinds of sources, extraneous to our system and planetary
       schemes, but until man responds and registers them both
       scientists and astrologers fail to recognise them and they are
       as if they were not. This is a point to bear in mind as I
       continue to teach you, for I may indicate some sources of active
       energy which may as yet be unknown to you as playing upon our
       system and its contents. The difficulty will not be because of
       my inaccuracies but will be owing to the lack of sensitivity in
       the mechanism of response which mankind and disciples are at
       present utilising.
       [199]
       You have consequently in connection with the path of
       discipleship the following lines of "influential energy":
       1. Sirius—working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays
       and their seven groups as these constitute the active Hierarchy.
       2. The Fixed Cross—a fusion of four major energies, pouring into
       our solar system, on to our planet and through humanity.
       3. Scorpio—an aspect of the Fixed Cross, of peculiar and
       specialised potency upon the Path of Discipleship and preparing,
       with its tests and trials:
       a. The process of re-orientation, whereby a man mounts the Fixed
       Cross and leaves the Mutable Cross.
       b. The disciple for the first, second and third initiations.
       After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no
       longer felt.
       4. The Hierarchy.—The distributing agency to the various
       kingdoms in nature.
       5. Mars and Saturn.—Both these planets are exceedingly potent in
       connection with initiation into the life of the Hierarchy; Mars
       is potent in relation to Scorpio and Saturn in relation to
       Capricorn. This involves the intensified activity of the 6th and
       the 3rd rays and their energies, and when these are rightly
       employed there comes liberation from form control and the
       release of the conscious individual.
       Again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused
       forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the
       disciple.
       [200]
       Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to
       Taurus in an unusual manner. The key to this relation is to he
       found in the word desire, leading, through the transmutative
       processes of life experience, to aspiration and finally the
       relinquishing of desire in Scorpio. Aquarius, Alcyone and
       Humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force.
       Alcyone is one of the seven Pleiades and is called the "star of
       the Individual" and sometimes the "star of intelligence." It was
       potently active during the previous solar system wherein the
       Third Person of the Trinity was peculiarly omnipotent and
       active, just as today the cosmic Christ, the Second Person of
       the Trinity, is peculiarly active in this solar system. The
       energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the
       universe with the quality of mind. As a consequence of this most
       ancient activity, the same force was present at the time of
       individualisation in this solar system, for it is in this
       system, and primarily upon our planet, the Earth, that the major
       results of that early activity have made themselves felt. Two of
       our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are
       directly the product of this third ray activity. This is of
       great importance to remember. I would also ask you to link this
       thought with the teaching that through the divine centre of
       intelligent activity which we call humanity, the fourth kingdom
       in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all
       the three lower kingdoms. Humanity is the divine Messenger to
       the world of form; it is essentially Mercury, bringing light and
       life to other divine manifestations and of this all divine world
       Saviours are the eternal symbols.
       This coming process of planetary service through the third
       divine centre is only truly effective when Aquarius rules and
       when our sun is passing through that sign of the [201] zodiac.
       Hence the immense importance of the next 2000 years. Therefore,
       only when a man is a world server and becoming group conscious
       can this desired objective of manifestation begin to
       demonstrate. It is beginning to happen today for the first time
       in planetary history. It is one of the first fruits of
       initiation and only in the next root race to our present Aryan
       race will we begin really to understand the significance of the
       process and the true nature of the energies to be released
       through the medium of humanity upon the planet. It is for this
       reason that Jupiter and Uranus (expressions of the second and
       the seventh rays) are the exoteric and esoteric rulers of
       Aquarius.
       You have, therefore, the following line of force to study:
       1. Alcyone—in the Pleiades, the mothers of the seven aspects of
       form life and the "wives of the seven Rishis of the Great Bear."
       They are connected with the Mother aspect which nurtures the
       infant Christ.
       2. Aquarius—the World Server, the transmitter of energy which
       evokes magnetic response.
       3. Jupiter and Uranus—planets of beneficent consummation. The
       second ray of love and the seventh ray which fuses spirit and
       matter "to the ultimate glory" of the solar Logos are in the
       fullest eventual cooperation.
       4. Humanity—the focal point for all these energies and the
       divine distributor of them to individual man and later to the
       lower three kingdoms in nature.
       Thus you see, that from a generalisation re the exterior
       constellations (exterior to the zodiac and the solar system
       itself) we are becoming more specific, showing how certain stars
       in these constellations are definitely related by direct [202]
       lines of energy to our planet; these lines of force usually
       reach us via one of the zodiacal signs and—in rare cases—
       directly to a planet. The latter case is, however, exceedingly
       rare. We have also brought into relation to our solar system
       another constellation, called the Little Bear which is a
       reflection of or a corollary to the major energies of its
       greater prototype, Ursa Major, the Great Bear. These facts
       contain a great mystery connected with the inter-relation of
       Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and the Pleiades; they constitute one of
       the greatest and more important of the triplicities to be found
       in the heavens as far as we have astronomically ascertained the
       nature of our immediate universe. This is a perfectly
       unimportant piece of information as far as you are concerned and
       is only of significance to initiates of the fourth degree. It
       serves, nevertheless, to add its evidence to the essential
       integrity and interlocking dependencies of the universe.
       #Post#: 107--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The Scorpio
       By: Glorious Date: April 11, 2019, 2:40 am
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       In order the better to understand the nature of discipleship and
       the processes of stabilisation and right direction, we must
       precede the Capricornian experience of initiation with a careful
       study of the spiritual implications of the sign Scorpio and of
       its function in providing "points of crisis" and "moments of
       reorientation," as this will be of the utmost value to the
       earnest student. Even though I am endeavouring to lay the
       foundation for the new astrology and to provide some measure of
       technical information from the point of view of the Hierarchy,
       my underlying motive is ever the same: to indicate the way of
       living process and to stimulate that divine curiosity and that
       sense of outgoing spiritual adventure and eager aspiration for
       progress which is latent in all disciples and which, when
       stimulated, will enable them to proceed more serenely and sanely
       upon the [203] Path of Return. Otherwise the practical value of
       that which I seek to impart is of no real importance at all; I
       shall be understood and the new astrology will come into being
       according to the esoteric capacity of those who read and ponder
       my words. I am exceedingly anxious that in these days wherein
       the influence of Scorpio and of the planet Mars is so strongly
       felt in world affairs that true insight may be cultivated,
       optimism and understanding developed and the nature of the tests
       to which the world disciple, humanity, is today being subjected
       may be estimated at their true value and thus light be shed upon
       the way of man. Only through understanding will solution come
       and rectification of error be achieved.
       The tests of Scorpio are necessarily three in nature as they
       concern intimately the readiness of the threefold personality:
       1. To reorient itself to the life of the soul and later
       2. To evidence readiness for initiation.
       3. To demonstrate sensitivity to the Plan thus becoming the
       one-pointed disciple in Sagittarius.
       The three major tests are again divided into three stages, and
       upon the Path of Discipleship the man may find himself passing
       into this sign for testing and experience nine times. The fact
       of the three tests each existing in their three stages may
       convey a hint to esoteric astrologers as to the purpose of the
       three decanates into which each sign is divided—a point upon
       which I shall hope to touch when we come to our study of the
       Science of Triangles. Each test (and therefore each decanate)
       concerns the three aspects which in this Treatise on the Seven
       Rays we have called: life, quality and appearance. Thus the
       three great [204] tests in Scorpio are in reality nine tests and
       hence the nine-headed Hydra or Serpent which is ever associated
       with Scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory
       achieved by Hercules, the Sun-God, in this sign.
       It is interesting to note that each of the great Sons of God
       Whose names are pre-eminent in the minds of men—Hercules, the
       Buddha and the Christ—are associated in the archives of the
       Great White Lodge with three special signs of the zodiac (which
       in a peculiar manner constitute the "zodiacal decanate") in each
       of which They passed from test to victory.
       In Scorpio—Hercules became the triumphant disciple.
       In Taurus—The Buddha achieved victory over desire and arrived at
       illumination.
       In Pisces—The Christ overcame death and became the world
       saviour.
       These three constellations, therefore, form a triangle of
       initiation of profound importance because it provides those
       conditions and that energy which will test and perfect the three
       aspects of the personality so that they are true reflections of
       the three divine aspects; they concern soul and body primarily
       and therefore their expression is through the Mutable Cross and
       the Fixed Cross but not the Cardinal Cross. We might add to the
       above the following:
       1. Scorpio carries the test right down into the physical plane
       life, and then, when it is faced and handled there, the life of
       the man is carried up into heaven, and the problem which the
       test involved is solved by the use of the reasoning mind.
       2. Taurus governs desire and carries the test into the emotional
       [205] or astral plane, and carries desire-sensitivity up from
       the form side of life into that world of sensitive perception
       which we call the intuitional plane.
       3. Pisces carries the test into the region of the mental
       processes, which is the reflection of the will aspect of
       divinity; the problem of the initiate in this sign is voiced by
       Christ in the words, "Father, not my will but Thine be done."
       The tests carry the self-will of the personality up into the
       region of the divine will and the result is inspiration and the
       emergence of a world saviour.
       Ponder upon the above and learn the lessons of appetite, of
       desire and of self-will for they are many and useful.
       The three tests in Scorpio also concern the three aspects of the
       human being as they fuse and blend upon the physical plane. They
       are, first of all, the test of appetite. This appetite is the
       natural predilections and tendencies which are inherent in the
       animal nature and these are mainly three: Sex, physical comfort,
       and money, as concretised energy. They are, secondly, the tests
       connected with desire and the astral plane. These are subtler in
       nature, producing automatic effects upon the physical plane;
       they are not inherent in the animal nature but are imposed by
       the desire nature and are again three in number: Fear, hatred
       and ambition or desire for power. Then there are, thirdly, the
       tests of the lower critical mind which are: Pride,
       separativeness and cruelty. Remember that the worst kind of
       cruelty is not of a physical nature but is more mental in
       character. Therefore, you have in the category of that which
       must be tested and proved to be non-existent the following
       categories, which I am re-enumerating because of their basic
       importance:
       [206]
       
       
       | 1. Sex—the relation of the pairs of opposites. These can be
       selfishly utilised or divinely blended.
       (1)
       
       | 2. Physical comfort—life conditions, selfishly appropriated.
       
       
       | 3. Money—selfishly cornered (if I may use such a phrase).
       
       
       
       
       
       | 1. Fear—which conditions activity today.
       (2)
       
       | 2. Hate—which is a factor in conditioning relationships.
       
       
       | 3. Ambition—conditioning objectives.
       
       
       
       
       
       | 1. Pride—which is intellectual satisfaction, making the mind
       the barrier to soul control.
       (3)
       
       | 2. Separativeness—which is the isolated attitude and which
       makes the mind the barrier to right group relations.
       
       
       | 3. Cruelty—which is satisfaction with personality methods and
       which makes the mind the instrument of the sense of power.
       
       When these faults are realised and are overcome, the result is
       twofold: the establishing of right relations with the soul and
       also with the environment. These two results are the goal of all
       tests in Scorpio.
       The keynotes of this sign are, therefore, test, trial and
       triumph. They can also be called struggle, strength and
       Sagittarian attitudes. Another angle of the experience in
       Scorpio can be covered by two words : re-capitulation and
       re-orientation. In Scorpio, two most occult factors emerge from
       the past and begin to engross the attention of the disciple. One
       is memory and the other is, as a consequence of the memory, the
       Dweller on the Threshold. Memory in the sense here involved is
       not simply just [207] a faculty of the mind, as is so oft
       supposed, but it is essentially a creative power. It is
       basically an aspect of thought and—coupled with imagination—is a
       creative agent because thoughts are things, as well you know.
       From ancient recesses of the memory, from a deeply rooted past
       which is definitely recalled, and from the racial and the
       individual subconscious (or founded and established thought
       reservoirs and desires, inherited and inherent) there emerges
       from individual past lives and experience that which is the sum
       total of all instinctual tendencies, of all inherited glamours
       and of all phases of wrong mental attitudes; to these (as they
       constitute a blended whole) we give the name of the Dweller on
       the Threshold. This Dweller is the sum total of all the
       personality characteristics which have remained unconquered and
       unsubdued and which must be finally overcome before initiation
       can be taken. Each life sees some progress made; some
       personality defects straightened out and some real advance
       effected. But the unconquered residue and the ancient
       liabilities are numerous and excessively potent and—when soul
       contact is adequately established—there eventuates a life
       wherein the highly developed and powerful personality becomes,
       in itself, the Dweller on the Threshold. Then the Angel of the
       Presence and the Dweller stand face to face and something must
       then be done. Eventually, the light of the personal self fades
       out and wanes in the blaze of glory which emanates from the
       Angel. Then the greater glory obliterates the lesser. This is,
       however, only possible when the personality eagerly enters into
       this relation with the Angel, recognises itself as the Dweller
       and—as a disciple—begins the battle between the pairs of
       opposites and enters into the tests of Scorpio. These tests and
       trials are ever self-initiated; the disciple puts himself into
       the positive or conditioning environment [208] wherein the
       trials and the discipline are unavoidable and inevitable. When
       the mind has reached a relatively high stage of development, the
       memory aspect is evoked in a new and conscious manner and then
       every latent pre-disposition, every racial and national
       instinct, every unconquered situation and every controlling
       fault rises to the surface of consciousness and then—the fight
       is on. The keynote of Scorpio is, however, Triumph. This is its
       major expression upon the physical plane. As a result of
       struggle and of victory, the whole divine man—not yet perfectly
       expressing himself, if I might word the situation thus—is
       anchored upon the physical plane with such accuracy and clarity
       that there is no escape from the environing conclusions of the
       disciple's family, friends and group that he is a disciple. From
       that angle he is meticulously watched; he learns the meaning of
       the word "example"; he is pilloried by those who are onlookers
       and the first conscious stages toward group awareness and group
       response, plus group service, are now taken. Such is the outcome
       and the reward of the experience in Scorpio.
       It is in this sign that the prodigal son comes to himself, and
       having eaten of the husks of life and having exhausted the
       resources of worldly desire and ambition—he says: "I will arise
       and go to my Father." There are two such major crises in the
       life of the aspirant:
       1. When the intelligent man of the world comes to himself and
       then re-orients himself to the soul and its requirements. This
       leads to the tests in Scorpio.
       2. When the initiate of the third degree—upon a higher turn of
       the spiral—re-orients himself to the Monad and passes through
       most subtle tests to certain undefinable [209] and spiritual
       recognitions. Upon these we need not enlarge.
       There is little for me to add here in connection with the fact
       that Scorpio is upon one of the four arms of the Fixed Cross. In
       the study of previous signs, much anent the Fixed Cross has
       already been covered and there is no need for me to repeat the
       information here. Desire in Taurus becomes spiritual aspiration
       in Scorpio. The darkness of the experience in Scorpio becomes
       illumination in Taurus, for it must never be forgotten that
       where the pairs of opposites are concerned they gain and profit
       from each other, for there is a direct line of force and of
       contact between the two. This is a fact which is seldom
       recognised.
       We come now to a consideration of the Rulers which govern the
       sign, Scorpio. Their influence is potent in the lives of the
       average or undeveloped man who responds more easily to the
       planetary influences in the twelve houses of his personality
       horoscope than does the more advanced man who is coming under
       the direct influence of the zodiacal signs. Through these
       Rulers, two rays are brought into a potent controlling position
       in Scorpio; they are the sixth Ray of Devotion and the fourth
       Ray of Harmony through Conflict, the latter having a peculiar
       relation to the mode of human development and the former to the
       methods of the Piscean age which is just passing. Mars and
       Mercury control and Mars is particularly active, owing to the
       fact that Mars is both the orthodox planet controlling the
       personality in Scorpio and also the esoteric planet conditioning
       the unfoldment of the disciple. Mars is the dominating factor in
       the tests and trials of the disciple, prior to the experience in
       Sagittarius and the initiation in Capricorn, and this for the
       following reasons:
       [210]
       First, Mars is definitely the planet which rules and controls
       the physical vehicle. Mars appears first of all as the orthodox
       ruler in Aries, the sign in which the first move is made towards
       bringing about objective manifestation, or physical incarnation.
       In Scorpio, the result of all the struggles carried forward
       during the seemingly endless pilgrimage around the zodiac or
       wheel of life is brought to a point of climax, again through the
       activity of Mars which has not appeared actively in the
       intervening signs between Aries and Scorpio as far as the
       reversed wheel is concerned. The disciple has now to demonstrate
       the strength, character and quality which he has unfolded and
       developed within himself during his long pilgrimage. He started
       in Aries with Mars ruling, and the great war between the
       dualities which constitute the man began. The pairs of opposites
       were thus brought into relation with each other. In Scorpio,
       with the same planet ruling his interior life, the war is on and
       in this case Mars rules not only the physical body but the
       entire form vehicle, which we call the personality in the three
       worlds. All aspects of the lower nature are involved in this
       crisis, for Mars is the esoteric ruler in Scorpio and the tests
       applied involve the form nature—gross and subtle, integrated and
       potent. Mars, therefore, rules Aries from the orthodox angle and
       Scorpio esoterically, and does not again appear in the life of
       the individual except as that individual responds to mass
       vibration in Sagittarius, where Mars appears as ruling the sixth
       Creative Hierarchy, the lunar lords of the form nature who must
       eventually be sacrificed to the higher spiritual aspect and
       brought under the control of the solar Angel. The effect of Mars
       is, therefore, largely mass effect and group results, producing
       great struggles but leading finally to great revelation. In
       Aries, it is the final revelation of the nature of knowledge and
       the purpose of [211] incarnation; in Scorpio, it is the
       revelation of the vision of liberation and service; in
       Sagittarius, it is the revelation of the purpose of soul control
       over the lower kingdoms in nature, via the human centre of
       energy. It must consequently never be forgotten that Mars
       establishes relations between the opposites and is a beneficent
       and not a malefic factor, as is so often supposed. When we come
       to study the Hierarchies and their relation to the signs,
       certain points which are at present obscure will be clarified.
       This we shall do when dealing with our final point in this
       section upon astrology and the rays. We shall then find that
       Scorpio rules and governs the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the
       human from the angle of the soul and not from the angle of the
       lower nature. The final struggle in Scorpio only takes place
       when the point of balance between soul and body has been reached
       in Libra and it is in Scorpio that the preponderance of the
       spiritual energy is imposed upon the lower personal forces.
       Scorpio governs "the initiates," which is the true esoteric name
       of man, and through its hierarchical planetary ruler, the Sons
       of Mind, the Messengers of Deity are revealed, but it is through
       Mars and the Martian activity that the revelation comes about.
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       Re: The Scorpio
       By: Glorious Date: April 11, 2019, 2:42 am
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       3. Spiritual Effects of the Zodiacal Constellations
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       Secondly, Mars is closely related to sex, which is an aspect of
       the pairs of opposites, and its effect is also definitely to
       vitalise the blood stream; it vitalises, purifies and stimulates
       all aspects and organisms in the body, via the blood stream. It
       will be obvious to you, therefore, how the tests in Scorpio and
       the activity of Mars are potent to arouse the entire lower
       nature and bring about its final rebellion and the last stand,
       so to speak, of the personality against the soul. It is Mars who
       brings the world Arjuna into the active fight. The whole man is
       then engaged and the "quarrel of the sexes" is resolved in its
       highest aspect [212] through the battle between the highly
       developed personality or form nature and the soul which seeks to
       be the ultimate controlling factor.
       The colour assigned to Mars is, as you know, red and this is a
       correspondence to the colour of the blood stream and hence also
       the association of Mars with passion, with anger and a sense of
       general opposition. The sense of duality is exceedingly
       powerful. Hence also the necessity for the entire life of man
       (for the blood is the life in this sense) to be swung into the
       conflict, leaving no side of human nature uninvolved; hence
       again the need for the disciple to carry his physical nature,
       his emotional or desire nature and his mental processes up into
       heaven. This takes place as a consequence of overcoming the
       "serpent of evil" (the form nature with its promptings and
       demands) by the means of the "serpent of wisdom," which is the
       esoteric name oft given to the soul.
       In connection with the symbolic connection between Mars and the
       blood, producing the resultant conflict between life and death
       (for Scorpio is one of the signs of death), it is interesting to
       note that Christianity is governed by Mars. One is apt to
       recognise with ease that the sixth ray, working through Mars,
       rules Christianity. It is a religion of devotion, fanaticism, of
       high courage, of idealism, of the spiritual emphasis upon the
       individual and his worth and problem, of conflict and of death.
       All those characteristics are familiar to us in the presentation
       of Christian theology. It is however pre-eminently a religion
       which has waged a cruel and oft illogical war upon sex and its
       implications; it has emphasised a militant celibacy (militant
       where women and their rights and natures are concerned); it has
       regarded the sex relation as one of the primary evils in the
       world and has laid the emphasis upon [213] the inviolable nature
       of the marriage bond when endorsed by the Church. This has all
       been the result of the beneficent or the malefic effect of the
       impact of sixth ray force upon the form nature. Little emphasis
       has been laid nevertheless upon the influence of Mars upon
       Christianity, making it a definitely militant religion, oft
       cruel and sadistic (as witness the murders and tortures carried
       out in the name of Christ, who was the outstanding
       Representative of God's love). Throughout the teaching of
       Christian theology, the theme of blood runs ceaselessly and the
       source of salvation is laid upon the blood relationship and not
       upon the life aspect which the blood veils and symbolises. It is
       the creed of a crucified and dead Christ which rules
       Christianity and not that of the risen Master. One of the
       reasons for this travesty of the truth has been that St. Paul,
       that great initiate, prior to taking the third initiation which
       he did at the time he was functioning as related in The Acts of
       the Apostles, was potently under Martian influence and was born
       in Scorpio; a study of his horoscope would demonstrate this were
       you in a position to study as can we who are connected with the
       Hierarchy. It was he who gave the Scorpio-Mars slant to the
       interpretation and exposition of the Christian teaching and
       deflected its energy into channels of teaching which its Founder
       had never intended. Such is often the undesirable effect of the
       activities of well-meaning disciples upon the work which they
       undertake to carry on after the originator of some work for the
       Hierarchy passes over to the other side through death or
       relinquishes his task in order to take up other duties.
       The blood theme and the death theme, the suffering and the dire
       testing of the disciple, the value of the individual conflict
       and the consciousness of the misery of existence are basically
       due to the combined influences of Scorpio and of [214] Mars
       which have ruled Christianity for so long and which are only now
       beginning somewhat to lose their influence.
       A study of the processes of death as the sign Scorpio conditions
       them and the processes of death as we see them working out in
       the sign Pisces would be of very real value. Death through the
       influences of Pluto and death through the influences of Mars are
       widely different. Death in Pisces through the energy of Pluto is
       transformation—a transformation so vital and so basic that the
       "... Ancient One is no longer seen. He sinks to the depth of the
       ocean of life; he descends into hell, but the gates of hell hold
       him not. He, the new and living One leaves below that which has
       held him down throughout the ages and rises from the depths unto
       the heights, close to the throne of God."
       The connection of these words with Christ, the present world
       Saviour, is obvious in their implications, and yet they were
       written in our archives over seven thousand years ago. Death in
       Scorpio is of a different nature and is also described in the
       same ancient writing in the following words:
       "... Ancient One dies by drowning. Such is the test. The waters
       envelop him and there is no escape. He drowns. The fires of
       passion are then quenched. The life of desire ceases its appeal
       and to the bottom of the lake he now descends. Later, he
       re-ascends to Earth where the white horse waits his coming. And
       this he mounts, proceeding towards the second death" (that is,
       towards Pisces).
       The reference here to Sagittarius is clear. The disciple—after
       the death of the personality and after the killing out [215] of
       desire—goes on towards Pisces where again he dies "unto an
       eternal resurrection." In Scorpio there is the death of the
       personality, with its longings, desires, ambitions and pride. In
       Pisces there is the death of all attachments and the liberation
       of the soul for service upon an universal scale. Christ, in
       Pisces, exemplified the substitution of love for attachment.
       Christianity exemplifies the death of the personality, with
       individual and not universal implications; love has been
       conspicuously lacking and the controlling colour of Christianity
       has indeed been red. It is not Christ's expression but the
       Scorpio-Mars presentation of St. Paul. Mars has ruled
       Christianity because St. Paul misinterpreted the esoteric
       significances of the New Testament message and he misinterpreted
       because the truth—like all truths as they reach humanity—had to
       pass through the filter of his personality mind and brain; it
       was then unavoidably given a personal slant and twist and this
       is responsible for the sorry historical story of Christianity
       and the dire plight of the nations today—ostensibly Christian
       nations yet swept by hate, ruled by fear and at the same time by
       idealism, governed by a fanatical adherence to their national
       destiny as they interpret it and "out for blood" as the piling
       up of armaments discloses. All these are sixth ray
       characteristics, emphasised by Scorpio and conditioned by Mars
       which ever rules the path of the individual disciple, and today
       the world disciple, humanity as a whole, stands at the very
       portal of the Path. The entire west is at this time under
       Martian influence but this will end during the next five years.
       Thirdly, Mars governs the senses which are five in number. These
       senses are the basis of all human knowledge where that which is
       tangible and objective is concerned or inferred. Mars,
       therefore, rules science and hence the reason in this present
       era for the fundamental but not permanent [216] materiality of
       science—a materiality which is rapidly lessening as Mars nears
       the end of its present cycle of influence. Already, the trend of
       modern science is shifting into the realm of the intangible and
       into the world of the non-material. Hence also the fact that the
       opposition to occultism is waning and its day of power
       approaching. These subtler senses will supersede the physical
       senses over which Mars has so long had a successful control, and
       hence again the growth in the world today of the psychic senses
       and the appearance on every hand of the subtler and more
       esoteric powers of clair-voyance and clair-audience. This
       development is inevitable as the influence of Scorpio and of
       Mars begins to lessen, as is the case today. The year 1945 saw
       this influence almost completely vanish, particularly from the
       astral plane. Astrologers would do well to remember that the
       influence of the constellations, signs and planets, work out
       upon three levels of awareness—three descending levels—and are
       felt first of all upon the mental plane, then upon the astral
       plane and finally upon the physical plane. But it is with this
       last plane that astrologers are primarily concerned, emphasising
       happenings and events and not their conditioning causes. At
       present, astrology deals with effects and not with that which is
       causing them. There is much confusion over this matter and the
       horoscopes of the three levels are often much distorted. A
       horoscope which could be interpreted purely upon the mental
       plane is given a physical interpretation, and thus happenings
       which are entirely mental are portrayed as physical occurrences.
       A clue to this triple interpretation which astrology must
       eventually recognise can be found in the relation of the
       orthodox, the esoteric and the hierarchical planets and the rays
       of which they are the expression.
       You will see from this how important are the functions [217] of
       Scorpio and Mars upon our planet at this time, and you will note
       also how brief a time remains in which humanity can (rightly or
       wrongly) handle its tests. You will realise also the pressure
       under which the Hierarchy at this time struggles now that
       Martian energy is expressing itself upon the astral plane. Will
       the world Hercules lift this problem up into heaven and "elevate
       the Hydra" of passion and hate, of greed and aggression, and of
       selfishness and ambition up into the region of the soul? Or will
       it carry the whole matter down on to the physical plane with the
       inevitable corollary of world disaster, world war and death?
       Such are the problems with which the guiding Hierarchy is faced.
       Scorpio is also most interestingly connected with the
       constellation, Cancer, through the influences of the sixth ray,
       for it should be remembered that that ray is also expressing
       itself through Neptune, but in a spiritual and esoteric manner.
       Neptune governs Cancer esoterically. The significance is
       therefore clear, for Cancer is the sign of birth; it is the door
       into incarnation and the sign of generation. Scorpio is the sign
       of sex and of regeneration, and birth is ever the intended
       result of the sex relation. Father-spirit and Mother-matter when
       brought together produce the Son. The tests and difficulties and
       pains of this era are symptoms or indications of the "entering
       into manifestation" of the new civilisation and culture. They
       portend the birth of the new era for which the entire world
       waits. This will happen if—speaking esoterically—the sixth ray
       energy of Mars is transmuted into the sixth ray energy of
       Neptune, for the one is "objective and full of blood" and the
       other is "subjective and full of life."
       A great mystery is veiled and hidden in the above relationship,
       for Cancer-Neptune is expressive of the seventh [218] ray which
       rules and controls the eighth Creative Hierarchy. This is one of
       the five Hierarchies whose names are unknown to us and this
       particular one stands upon the verge of liberation. At the same
       time it is closely connected with the mind principle as it works
       out through the solar Angels or through the human hierarchy. It
       is related to the birth of the fourth Creative Hierarchy in a
       sense not to be understood by anyone below the stage of the
       fourth initiation, but it is an interesting fact to remember for
       it is in the connection between the sixth and seventh rays that
       that potent "desire for incarnation" was aroused which resulted
       in the fall of the angels in primordial times. This sixth ray
       influence coming from three angles—orthodox, esoteric and
       hierarchical—and hence involving both Neptune and
       Mars—predisposes the race and individual man as well to become
       one-pointed disciples in Sagittarius. This latter constellation
       is ruled by Mars, bringing the man into control or closer touch
       with the lunar lords, the sixth Creative Hierarchy. Students
       should study their charts with care, remembering to
       differentiate between the five Hierarchies which are the
       non-manifesting Hierarchies, and the seven Hierarchies which are
       in expression now, and of which the sixth Creative Hierarchy is
       a part. This Hierarchy, from the larger angle of the entire
       twelve hierarchies and not simply the seven manifesting
       hierarchies, is the eleventh or the second. The sixth Ray of
       Devotion is consequently most powerful in this age or cycle and
       hence the expression in every land today of its best and its
       worst features, of which the intense devotion to material things
       and the intense devotion to spiritual values are dramatic
       instances.
       Scorpio and Aquarius are also in a peculiar relation to each
       other through the planet Mercury which governs the [219] human
       family (being the hierarchical planet in Scorpio), and through
       Neptune which rules Cancer, thus governing expression upon the
       physical plane. In this connection the Moon is given as the
       orthodox ruler and the hierarchical rule of Aquarius. I would
       here remind you that the Moon is usually regarded as "veiling"
       or "hiding" some planet and of these there are three which the
       Moon may be veiling. Here the intuition of the astrologer and of
       the esoteric student must be called out. These planets are
       Vulcan, Neptune or Uranus. These three create and influence
       certain aspects of the Mother principle, which nourish and feed
       the life of the inner divine reality until the time comes when
       the Christ child is brought to the birth. They determine or
       condition the physical, astral and mental natures, thus creating
       the personality. They form a triangle of immense creative
       potency, upon which theme I will later enlarge when dealing with
       the Science of Triangles. The point which I am here making is
       that through the influence of Mercury and Neptune the group
       consciousness of the individual is developed, so that through
       the tests in Scorpio and the experience in Aquarius the disciple
       emerges on the physical plane into the position of a world
       server; all world servers are decentralised workers and are
       governed by the need and the reactions of the mass or group.
       That is one of the reasons why, when in training, disciples are
       absorbed into a Master's group which is integrally a collection
       of individuals who are imbued with the group idea and are
       learning increasingly to react to it. In this world period and
       in a peculiar manner, as far as the race (Aryan) to which the
       Western world belongs, Neptune is known esoterically as the
       Initiator. In certain ancient formulas, the great Teacher of the
       West and the present world Initiator, Christ, [220] is spoken of
       as Neptune, Who rules the ocean, whose trident and astrological
       symbol signifies the Trinity in manifestation and Who is the
       ruler of the Piscean Age. The formula runs as follows, speaking
       esoterically: "... the fish goddesses who have leapt from earth
       (Virgo) to water (Pisces) unitedly give birth to the Fish God
       (Christ) who introduces the water of life into the ocean of
       substance and thus brings light to the world. Thus does Neptune
       work." This is, however, a great mystery, revealed only at the
       time of the second initiation in which the control of the
       fluidic astral plane is demonstrated.
       Cancer, being the door to incarnation, has a close relation to
       Scorpio through Neptune and Mars, both of whom are expressions
       of the sixth ray energy. In Cancer, you have the devotion of the
       soul, developed to such an extent that the urge to manifest
       overcomes all other urges, and the processes of incarnation
       impose themselves upon the soul. In Scorpio, that same spirit of
       devotion (which is based on the sense of duality and the need to
       go out towards that which is not the Self) is turned in the
       reverse direction and the urge towards liberation and the desire
       to tread the Path of Return becomes so strong that the disciple
       submits to tests, reverses—at tremendous cost and pain—his
       position upon the wheel of life and assumes the attitude of the
       Observer in contradistinction to that of the Experiencer. Old
       identifications cease; new trends toward higher, subtler and
       more spiritual identifications begin to appear and then Neptune
       and Mars begin to play their part.
       A close study of all the above relations will reveal the fact
       that four signs of the zodiac play a dominant part, therefore,
       in the life of the man who is working whilst in incarnation with
       his Sun in Scorpio or with Scorpio rising. These are:
       [221]
       1. Aries
       
       Cardinal Cross
       
       Initiating impulse
       
       Life.
       2. Cancer
       
       Cardinal Cross
       
       Focussed impulse
       
       Incarnation.
       3. Scorpio
       
       Fixed Cross
       
       Reversing impulse
       
       Return.
       4. Aquarius
       
       Fixed Cross
       
       Group impulse
       
       Service.
       
       These are signs 1-4-8-11. These numbers in themselves are most
       significant for they are the signs of will-desire, of human
       expression, of the Christ principle and of initiation. There is
       no need for me to enlarge upon this fourfold theme and the truth
       of its implied teaching, for it is obvious and clear and the
       history of the soul is sealed up in these numbers.
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       Re: The Scorpio
       By: Glorious Date: April 11, 2019, 2:42 am
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       I would like to touch upon another interesting point which will
       serve to demonstrate the potency of Scorpio and its energies in
       the life of the disciple. Scorpio is one of the four arms of the
       Fixed Cross of the heavens, as you well know. Upon that Cross,
       the correctly poised man stands right at the centre where the
       four arms meet and, therefore, at the point where the energy of
       all the four signs and of their ruling planets can pour through
       him and evoke the needed reactions, produce the conditions
       wherein test is possible and so bring about the necessary
       reversal of the life currents in the man's nature and place him
       upon the reversed wheel. The planets which will rule and
       condition him in some aspect or other of his nature are:
       
       Planet
       
       Sign
       
       Ray
       
       School
       1. Venus
       
       Taurus
       
       5th
       
       Orthodox
       2. Vulcan
       
       Taurus
       
       1st
       
       Hierarchical. Esoteric
       3. The Sun
       
       Leo
       
       2nd
       
       All three
       4. Mars
       
       Scorpio
       
       6th
       
       Orthodox and Esoteric
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       5. Mercury
       
       Scorpio
       
       4th
       
       Hierarchical
       6. Uranus
       
       Aquarius
       
       7th
       
       Orthodox
       7. Jupiter
       
       Aquarius
       
       2nd
       
       Esoteric
       8. The Moon
       
       Aquarius
       
       4th
       
       Hierarchical
       
       From this tabulation, it will appear that the influence of only
       one ray, that of the third Ray of Active Intelligence, [222] is
       missing. All the other rays pour through, vertically and
       horizontally, into the man's nature and his environment. Life,
       quality and appearance are all tested, but as the entire
       experience has to be fought out subjectively and lifted "up into
       the air" finally and raised into the world of spiritual values
       where all problems must be solved in the light of the intuition
       and by the soul, the stimulation of the intellect and the
       focussing of the disciple's attention upon the physical plane
       (the world of material values) is not desirable. Therefore, the
       influence of the third ray is omitted or "occultly deflected,"
       as it is called, except in so far that the substance of the
       brain is automatically conditioned by the third ray which is the
       subconscious ruler of matter. This pouring in of six potencies
       is that which provides the setting and conditions of the tests;
       all these ray energies express themselves as the active sub-rays
       of the ray upon which the soul of the disciple is found; hence
       the necessity to ascertain the ray of the soul, prior to casting
       the horoscope and setting up the chart.
       This brings me to two points about which I would like to speak a
       word. In dealing with the horoscope of the personality and with
       the average non-aspiring man, the astrologer should endeavour to
       discover the personality ray from a study of character, of the
       physical indications, of the emotional qualities, of the type of
       mind and the nature of the environment. He will then be able to
       lay out a far more useful chart with the orthodox planets ruling
       the life. In the case of the horoscope of a disciple, he should
       do the same, endeavouring to discover the ray of the soul. The
       soul ray only sets its mark and emphasises its quality and
       nature in the case of advanced people, and when that emerges
       clearly, the man is obviously a disciple and the esoteric
       planets will then govern his chart. Having determined the ray of
       the man undergoing tests in Scorpio, the astrologer can then
       place the other rays in relation to him and his probable
       experience.
       The other point to which I sought to refer is the constant use
       of the word "relation" or "relationship" and analogous phrases.
       This is unavoidable for the reason that the entire Science of
       Astrology is, in the last analysis, the Science of Relations and
       there is consequently no use in avoiding the term, especially
       when there is no other which seems to meet the requirements as
       adequately. Inter-relation, inter-dependence,
       inter-communication, interplay—these are words governing the
       scientific basis of astrology, and they are beginning to be
       words in general use today in connection with human affairs and
       human conduct. This will be increasingly the case. The
       preparatory stages for world fusion, blending and synthesis are
       present at this time, and in this fact lies the hope of the
       world and the surety of the ultimate solution of the world
       problem along right lines.
       In connection with the vertical and the horizontal life of the
       Fixed Cross, it is instructive to note that the vertical life of
       the man upon that Cross (no matter in what sign his sun may
       temporarily find position), is ever Aquarius-Leo. This indicates
       that the self-centred individual in Leo learns the lesson of the
       Cross and becomes decentralised, group conscious, and given to
       service. The horizontal arm is Taurus-Scorpio, indicating that
       desire for materiality is finally superseded by desire for the
       spiritual values, and this is demonstrated through the tests in
       Scorpio. Earth and water (Taurus and Scorpio) must be blended
       and related and it is this truth connected with these two signs
       of the zodiac which lies behind all teaching upon baptism and
       purification. The earthly material desires of Taurus must in
       [224] due time be brought under the influence of the purifying
       water in Scorpio. Baptism by water (a name for the second
       initiation) needs a preparatory period of testing and
       purification, and this the experience in Scorpio is intended to
       give. Likewise, fire and air (Aquarius and Leo) must also be
       blended and thus the four elements as well as six out of the
       seven rays must all play their part in conditioning the man in
       Scorpio for the final stages of the Path.
       The place of the planets in this sign is also most revealing,
       and in line also with the general purpose of the experience in
       Scorpio, as outlined above. Uranus is exalted in Scorpio; the
       power of Venus is lessened in this sign, whilst the Moon falls.
       What do these facts symbolically portray? Let me see if I can
       make the beauty of these implications clear to you.
       Uranus is the planet whose characteristics are the scientific
       mind, which, at this stage of the disciple's career, means that
       he can begin to live the occult life and the way of divine
       knowledge can take the place of the mystic way of feeling. It
       means also that knowledge can be transmuted into the way of
       wisdom and of light. This necessarily brings in the will aspect
       or the influence of the first ray (Vulcan) blended with the
       seventh ray (Uranus) producing the desired manifestation upon
       the physical plane. Uranus, therefore, initiates a new order of
       life and conditions and this—when developed in the life of the
       disciple—in its turn produces an understanding of the causes of
       things as they are, and the desire to change the old order and
       the old orientation into the new. This produces the reversal of
       the wheel. This can be seen happening today most clearly in
       connection with humanity and with world processes. Carried
       forward to its logical conclusion, the influence of Uranus
       finally produces an unfolded spiritual consciousness in
       contradistinction to [225] the human; for this reason, Uranus is
       exalted in this sign and assumes a position of power and of
       directed influence.
       Venus, the intelligent mind, has its power lessened in this sign
       because the intellect—having been developed and used—must now be
       subordinated to a higher power of the soul, the spiritual
       intuition. The Son of Mind, the solar Angel, must now manifest
       as a Son of God. This solar Angel, when in control, must give
       place eventually to the Presence. This it has hitherto veiled or
       hidden. Venus must wane and the Sun—as a symbol of Deity—must
       wax in influence and finally take its place. Such are the
       symbolic and esoteric significances.
       The Moon is here regarded as functioning in its true nature and,
       therefore, as expressing symbolically that which is dead. The
       Moon here stands for the personality and, in the final victory
       in Scorpio, the personality is entirely vanquished and defeated.
       Desire is killed, for it is through expressed desire of some
       kind that personality demonstrates life, quality, appearance.
       Ponder upon this, for in Scorpio the Moon falls and its
       influence fades out.
       Extremes ever meet in the disciple who stands at this midway
       point or at the centre of the Fixed Cross in Scorpio. The
       spiritual imagination, which is the factor of greatest service
       to man, begins to take the place of the ancient glamour by means
       of which we have fabricated the untrue world in which we appear
       to live and move and have our being. The self-indulgence which
       was initiated in Taurus gives way in Scorpio to the selfless
       attitude of the disciple; ambition gives place to the executive
       activity of the soul, whilst attachment to personality desires,
       likes and dislikes is transmuted into the tenacity of soul
       purpose. The hidden powers of the soul nature—secret and misused
       because misunderstood and misapplied and, therefore,
       misdirected—are [226] superseded by the mysteries of initiation,
       and the practical understanding of the energies thereby
       conferred upon the recipient. Such are some of the great
       transformations which take place in the life of the disciple who
       submits intelligently to the tests and difficulties in Scorpio.
       The three decanates and their rulers are given very differently
       by various astrologers. One group posits Mars, the Sun and Venus
       as ruling the decanates of Scorpio whilst another regards Mars,
       Jupiter and the Moon as the three rulers. Perhaps the truth lies
       in both conclusions, if we view them from the esoteric
       standpoint or from that of the undeveloped man. This will be an
       interesting point for astrologers to investigate and study. Some
       day they will arrive at a clear decision as to the position of
       the five planets suggested as ruling the decanates (they agree
       on one); I cannot indicate to you the essential truth because a
       new planet is arising in this sign and it is for man to discover
       and rightly place it within the circumference of the Great
       Wheel.
       The keywords of this sign are significant and illuminating.
       Deception and triumph—control by Maya and control by the
       soul—conflict and peace—such are the hidden secrets of this sign
       and these are summed up for all disciples in the two keywords.
       Upon the ordinary wheel, whereon the soul is found, blind and
       apparently helpless, the Word goes forth in the following terms:
       "And the Word said, Let Maya flourish and let deception rule";
       upon the reversed wheel, the soul chants or sings the words:
       "Warrior I am and from the battle I emerge triumphant."
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