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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. | |
| #Post#: 108-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: The Scorpio | |
| By: Glorious Date: April 11, 2019, 2:42 am | |
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| 3. Spiritual Effects of the Zodiacal Constellations | |
| https://www.lucistrust.org/nl/online_books/esoteric_astrology_obooks/chapter_ii… | |
| />- Part 6 | |
| 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. | |
| #Post#: 109-------------------------------------------------- | |
| 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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