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Tapestry of the Gods Volume III by Michael D. Robbins (c) Astro-Rayology in progress Scorpio & Ray 7 Introduction - Expression in the self-centered - Expression in developed man - Expression in disciples and initiates - Directives - Mantra - Symbols - Contrasts - Similarities - Famous People

Sun or Ascendant in Scorpio with Ray 7   .	Sun Scorpio (or Ascendant Scorpio), R7P (or R7S) Plus Constellationally Transmitted R4 No significant mutual reinforcement of ray and astrological energies emerges with respect to this combination, whether through rays transmitted constellationally through the sign Scorpio or through its ruling planets. One reinforcement does exist, however, due to the seventh ray transmitted through Uranus, the planet exalted in Scorpio. It is common knowledge that Scorpio is a sign of transformation, and the influence of the exalted Uranus must certainly further this transformational tendency. The operative category of reinforcement would, therefore, be Weak by Numerical Affinity.
Selfish, Self-Centered or Self-Serving Human Being	Selfish, Self-centered or Self-Serving Human Being A dedicated indulgence of the lower appetites—a trait characteristic of the selfish, self-centered Scorpio person—combines with a deep love of physicality induced within the insufficiently spiritualized personality by the seventh ray. Covertly seeking control for selfish purposes. Attempting to manipulate and condition others by surreptitious means. Trapped by the physical nature and its compulsive rhythms. The habitual strength (seventh ray) of the instinctual nature (Scorpio). Demanding that instinct be gratified rather than transmuted and redirected. Powers of destruction (Scorpio) used to preserve the “old order” (seventh ray). Secret (Scorpio) organizations (seventh ray). Hidden governments. Covert operations. Secret security forces. Even, hidden wars. In the most negative sense, the Black (Scorpio) Lodge (seventh ray) itself—especially in its ritualistic aspects. Effective in the precipitation (seventh ray) of that which is negative (Scorpio). Black Magic. Although there are said to be no black magicians upon the physical plane, itself, (cf. TWM 544-545), negatively motivated people under the influence of Scorpio and the seventh ray may come under the direct or indirect influence of the true black magician.
Advanced Human Being; Aspirant; Disciple: Additionally, where relevant, combine Ascendant Sign with the ray of either the ray of the personality or soul.	Advanced Human Being; Aspirant; Disciple Additionally, where relevant, combine Ascendant Sign, Scorpio, with the seventh ray as either the ray of the personality or soul. The power achieved through reserve—a quality characteristic of the advancing Scorpio individual—combines with a steadfast self-control under rule and law induced within the spiritually unfolding personality by the seventh ray. Strong powers of self-control are cultivated and demonstrated. Building great reserves of strength through containment and discipline. Power generated through organization. Organization for power. The efficient use of all powers of a system. A well-organized fighting force. From another perspective, the immune system of the body, and whatever strengthens the body’s “secret defenses”. On the Path of Discipleship: the theoretical must become the practical. Application to “practical occultism”. On the Path of Discipleship: bringing the instinctual nature under rhythm and regulation. On the Path of Discipleship: focus upon the control of the instinctual nature. Real discipleship demands achieving control over forces which, left to themselves, wish to keep the human soul subjugated to the forces of matter. On the Path of Discipleship: learning the occult power of secrecy. On the Path of Discipleship: initial cultivation of the occult powers hidden in the human energy system. On the Path of Discipleship: rituals (seventh ray) practiced for the transformational purposes (Scorpio and the seventh ray). On the Path of Discipleship: the work of transmutation and transformation proceeds, in preparation for later transfiguration.
Advanced Disciple; the Initiate: Additionally, where relevant, combine Ascendant Sign with the ray as either the ray of the personality or soul.	Advanced Disciple; the Initiate Additionally, where relevant, combine Ascendant Sign, Scorpio, with the seventh ray as either the ray of the personality or soul The ability to achieve the transformation and regeneration of the lower self—a capacity possessed by the soul-infused disciple/initiate born in or under the sign Scorpio—combines with a great knowledge of alchemical processes (transfigurative, transformational and transmutational) induced within the soul or spiritualized personality by the seventh ray. Occult orders and brotherhoods. Releasing the powers latent in the third aspect of divinity. (What we call “atomic energy” is one such power.) Releasing the power of kundalini—the greatest of all transformers and regenerators. Becoming the Phoenix through the ascent of kundalini. Detecting the secrets of immortality. The profound alchemical researcher—especially when the fifth ray was added (as in the case of Mme. Curie). The precipitation (seventh ray) of occult energies. The true occultist. “Practical occultism”. The practicing occultist. Engaging in “Wizard’s Wars” with the Forces of Darkness. (Gandalf from “Lord of the Rings”) Creating the “philosopher’s stone”. Active in solving the “Mystery of Sex” at the fourth degree. Alchemy: the secret, arcane, occult work—the “Great Work”
Directives (On Behalf of Humanity and the One Great Work. These are Meant to be Suggestive; Your Intuition Will Supply the Directives and Counsels Most Suitable to You)	Directives and Counsels for Scorpio and the Seventh Ray (On Behalf of Humanity and the One Great Work) (These are Meant to be Suggestive; Your Intuition Will Supply the Directives and Counsels Most Suitable to You) Abolish Imperfection Accomplish Deeply And Thoroughly Accumulate Power Through Ceremony Achieve Exactitude And Depth In Your Expression Alchemize The Latent Powers Of Matter Apply Appropriate Punishments (Even Death) For Violations Of Law Be A Living Example Of Fearless Intelligence Be A Resourceful Administrator Be Congruently Worthy—Earn Respectability Be Severe In Applying Transmutation To Energy System Be Polite But Firm Behave Well In The Midst Of Extreme Conflict Bring Things To Finality, Completion, To An End Brood Deeply Upon Magical Formulas Build The Square Upon A Deep Foundation Bury Vital Secrets Until The Hour Appropriate For Their Exhumation Challenge Rigidity Clear Away Imperfections Compete With Yourself For Ever More Perfect Expression Conceal What Should Not Be Known From Those Who Should Not Know It Confer Respect When It Is Due, Regardless Of Likes And Dislikes Confront The Dragon Who Guards The Secret Treasure Conquer Illusion, Glamor And Maya Through Right Practice Control The Form—Its Active And Its Latent Powers Create Secret Formulas To Bring About Intended Results Create The Form With A Deep Knowledge Of Interior Structure Cross The Threshold Of Magic In Search Of The Secrets Of The Magical Art Decipher Encryptions Deepen Your Spiritual Practices Deeply Understand The Secrets Of Sex Magic, But Do Not Abuse Them Defy Unreasonable Taboos Destroy The Completed Form Destroy Structures And Resurrect Them According To New Principles Detect The Flaw Diagnose Systemic Difficulties Die To Unoriginality Discover The Psychological Roots Of Conformity Do Battle With Fearful Conservatism Do Not Spare Yourself In The Formidable Task Of Bringing Heaven To Earth Empower The Law Enforce Policies Engage In Radical Reformation Enter The Silence In The Presence Of The Shekinah Execute The Plan Divine Exemplify Both Bravery And Discretion Expel Those Who Do Not Conduct Themselves Properly Express The Will From The Heights To The Depths Fathom The Art And Science Of Occult Transformation Feed The Sacred Fire So That It Rises From The Depths Of Matter Into The Heights Of Spirit Fight To Establish Uprightness Find The Hidden Power Of Cultural Traditions Follow The Rules Of Initiation As If To Do So Were A Matter Of Life Or Death Guard The Temple With Lethal Effectiveness Hold Nothing Back In The Effort To Bring Spirit Into Matter Identify With Both Spirit And Matter Immerse Yourself In Deep-Seated Change Initiate With The Sword—Confer Yet Another Step Leading To The Triumph Of Spirit Over Matter And Soul Over Form Invest In Tangible Assets Investigate The Secrets Of Alchemy Invoke The Heavenly And Subterranean Forces Invoke The Wrath Of The Hell In The Service Of Heaven Keep The Magical Word Safe, Secure And Secret Keep Your Composure Through Test And Trial Keep Your Knowledge Of The Secrets Of Initiation Hermetically Sealed Keep Your Own Counsel And A Trusted Chamberlain Kill Out Stubbornness And Obstructiveness Lift To Life—Overcome Death Lose Thyself In Manifesting The Plan Of God On Earth Maintain Inviolable Secrecy Manage Crisis Manifest Boldly Observe The Rules Scrupulously When Performing Dangerous Rituals Order All Things For Transformational Purposes Overcome Death Through A Thorough Understanding Of The Mysteries Of The Form Passionately Desire Perfection Penetrate Deeply Into The Magical Process Perform Rituals Of Exorcism Persist Steadfastly Until Consummation Is Achieved Plumb The Depths To Achieve Fulfilled Expression Preserve Inviolate The Secrecy Of Temple Rites And Rituals Probe Deeply Into Hermeticism Provide The Key To The Mystery—The Secret Of The Ages Purge Yourself And The World Of Indecency Put And End To Prejudice “Rebuild The Shrine Of Man’s Living” Reform Organizations Regulate Intense Emotion Renew The Vital Life Of The Body Renovate Networks Regenerate Systems Relinquish Intolerance Reorganize Drastically Renounce Judgmentalism Research The True Nature Of Archetypes Repudiate Conventionality Research The Occult Secret Of Immortality Restructure Paradigms Resurrect Ancient Practices Revive Ancient Rites Sacrifice Your Life For The Fulfillment Of Your Duties See Behind And Within Appearances See Things Through Into Their Final Form Silently Labor For The Consummation Of All Speak Magical Words With Power And Intensity Summon Root Power To The Surface Strengthen Your Rectitude Struggle With Yourself To Adhere To Proper Codes Of Conduct Study The Occult Art Of Shape-Changing Summon The Deva Kingdom For Acts Of Beneficent Destruction Temper Your Response To The Allure Of Matter And Form Terminate Once Perfection Has Been Reached Transform Your Habit Nature Transform Your Nature Through The Practice Of Karma Yoga Tread The Burning Ground With Dignity Undermine Materialism Understand With Occult Depth The Secrets Of Materialization Unify Fierily—The Fire Of Kundalini With The Fire Of Spirit Utilize Rituals To Generate Occult Power Wield The Power Of Magic Work In The Magical Art With Depth And Power Wreck The Old Structure And Replace It With A New
Mantra	Mantra for Scorpio and the Seventh Ray Mantram for the Disciple’s Consciousness I fight to bring the High to Low, the Low to High again; I war to bring the Heavens to Earth, that Earth may rise and peace prevail. Mantram for the Initiate’s Consciousness When “Highest and the Lowest Meet”, I stand as Soul Triumphant—Victorious in Triadal Light, Triadal Love and Power.
Proposed Symbol, Image, or Scene	Proposed Symbol/Image for R7/Scorpio Invoking at the center of a ‘Magic Circle’ rightly drawn, the ‘Magician of his Life’, calls upon the depths to rise unto the heights, and calls upon the heights to plunge into the deep; the monstrous depths must be disclosed, the glorious heights revealed; man is both; man is one—the synthesis complete.
Discover Potentials to be Derived from Energetic Contrasts	Discover Potentials to be Derived from Energetic Contrasts Between Scorpio and R7 Utilize these contrasts to understand how these two energies may contrast or conflict with each other when they are found together within the human energy system. Scorpio In Comparison With R7 Transmits R4 Constellationally.   R7 Scorpio rulers transmit R6, R1 and R4.   R7 Color: crimson (given by D.K.) and possibly (on a hypothetical color-scale incrementally related to the chromatic musical scale) greenish-blue, blue or blue-indigo. (A color-chromatic scale has fourteen steps and a musical chromatic scale only twelve—hence the discrepancies and alternatives. The shading of decanates may offer a partial solution.) Black is a strong but non-chromatic possibility.   Color: violet (and various shades of purple). Note: possibly SOL or G.   Note: TI or B. Pervades solar plexus, sacral and base of spine centers. Expression through throat and ajna centers is possible via hierarchical Mercury.   Expresses through the sacral center and also (at a later stage of evolution) through the base of the spine center. Additionally, throat center expression is found in disciples. Creative Hierarchy number IV/IX, unliberated.   Creative Hierarchy number V, liberating, and Creative Hierarchy number VII/XII, unliberated. Hypothesized as especially expressive in relation to the Animal Kingdom via Mars, the Human Kingdom via Mercury and R4, the Kingdom of Souls via Mercury and R4.   Relates to the Kingdom of Solar Lives and the Mineral Kingdom. Passionate, intense.   Moderate Extreme (in battle).   Regulated “All’s fair in love and war”.   Follows the rules. Form destroying.   Form-preserving (for much of its evolutionary career) (though later, reorganizational). Conflicted   The skillful, sometimes gracious avoiding of conflict. Brutally frank.   Tactful, politic, polite. Most focussed upon the psychological word of kama, manas and kama-manas.   More focussed upon the physical-etheric plane, and within the mind, to a degree. A more extroverted influence than Scorpio . Disrupts and “makes waves” consistently.   Seeks to operate according to policy and precedent, more impersonally. Inventive approaches are forced in the extremity of battle.   Tried and true methods of achievement are carefully followed, without deviation if possible. (Later, inventive Uranus may guide, but even then, the archetype is followed.)
Discover Potentials to be Derived from Energetic Similarities	Discover Potentials to be Derived from Energetic Similarities Between Scorpio and R7 Utilize these similarities to further understand how these two energies may combine with or reinforce each other (for better of for worse) when they are found within the same energy system. Related to Sexuality and the Physical Appetites: Both Scorpio and the seventh ray combine in the field of sexuality, and in relation to other physical appetites. They are active together in this regard, at the time of the first initiation. Scorpio is active at all three of the first initiations, and the seventh ray is the focal ray for the first initiation. The physical body and its appetites have to be somewhat controlled. Scorpio’s capacity for control and the seventh ray capacity for regulation thus combine to make this initiation possible (although other signs of the zodiac are more well-known in relation to the first initiation). Related to “Sex-Magic”: Scorpio and the seventh ray also combine in the area of “sex magic”. Scorpio is a powerful sign of sexuality and the seventh ray brings the poles into relation. Both energies suffer from the “Glamour of the mysterious and the secret”—a glamor given specifically in relation to the seventh ray. (GWP 123). Sex magic is involved with the secret, mysterious and illicit generation of power, using the sexual energy for purposes never intended. Also, more conventionally, sexual energy can be used to manipulate others and bring them under one’s power and ones spell. Both Scorpio and the seventh ray, negatively considered, can combine to support this retrogression. Related to the Power to Transform: These two influences are highly transformational. The seventh ray is the Ray of Alchemy, and Scorpio brings about major transitions, such as those 1) from darkness to light; 2) from the unreal to the real; 3) from death to immortality. Both these energies are focused upon elevating the rate of vibration and the quality of matter to be found within the lunar fields. In a more technical sense, we might say that the seventh ray is specifically (though not exclusively) focussed upon the physical/etheric plane and Scorpio very much upon the astral plane (though the physical and mental planes must surely be included), but both are transmutative in the larger sense of the term. Closely Related to the Planet, Uranus: Both these influences have a close relation to Uranus, the destroyer of the past. Uranus transmits, primarily, the seventh ray, and Uranus is exalted in the sign Scorpio. Although a different aspect of the seventh ray is traditional and mummifies the spirit, the Uranian seventh ray can cause chaos and disruption in the process of reorganization. Secret Police and Covert Security Forces: Secret police (under Scorpio) operate, ostensibly, for purposes of national security (seventh ray). Veiling, Hiding and Concealing: Both influences induce the power to veil, cover, hide, conceal. Motives are easily withheld. When Scorpio influences, there is secrecy and the carefully controlled release of information. When the seventh ray influences, there is impersonality and official policy and protocol behind which it is easy to conceal one’s more personal thoughts. Related to an Interest in the Occult: Both influences relate through an interest in the occult. To a disciple whose personality and physical body were on the seventh ray, the Tibetan says the following: “Your physical body is upon the seventh ray, and this will be easily apparent to you, accounting, as it does, for your interest in music, ritual, psycho-analysis. The goal of all these three methods of expression is to bring together and relate harmoniously the soul and the form, which is the major task of the seventh ray upon the seventh or physical plane”. (DINA I 640) The founder of modern psycho-analysis, Sigmund Freud, had the Sun in Taurus opposed by a singleton Mars in Scorpio. There are a number of charts drawn for him in which Scorpio is also the Ascendant. While the seventh ray can be superficial, it can also be deep. The Generation of Power Through Ritual: Both the seventh ray and Scorpio are capable of generating power through ritual—especially when their forces are combined. The seventh ray is, in many respects, the ‘Ray of Community’. Those upon this ray realize the power of the group, and seek to bring group energies to focus through the art and science of ritual. Scorpio rules “the money of others”, which is the same as the power of others. Scorpio individuals know how to encourage others to pool their power in “joint ventures” which increases power to a degree far greater than any individual could hope to achieve singly. Active in Relation to the First Initiation: Scorpio is active in relation to the first three initiations, and the seventh ray especially at the first. Additionally, both Pluto and Vulcan have a strong role to play at the first initiation. Pluto rules Scorpio in a special sense, and Vulcan can be related to the first kingdom, the Mineral Kingdom, ruled by the first and seventh rays. Scorpio and the seventh ray combine to given the initiate of the first degree a new type of control over the instinctual forces of his nature, the physical appetites particularly. Relevant in Relation to the Third Initiation: The seventh ray is not usually associated with the third initiation, but it is the initiation of the completely integrated personality (soul-infused) and the seventh ray is a great integrative factor. Scorpio is the energy which destroys obstructions to integration. Relevant to the Fourth Initiation: Scorpio is a preeminent sign of sexuality (especially related to the psychological and spiritual dimensions of sex). The seventh ray brings the opposites into relation, and so conditions sex in many contexts. We are told: “At the fourth initiation another of the great secrets is revealed to him. It is called ‘the mystery of polarity,’ and the clue to the significance of sex in every department of nature on all the planes is given to him” (IHS 172). Scorpio transmits the fourth ray, related by numerical affinity to the fourth initiation, and the seventh ray presides over the meeting and the uniting of the polarities, “The Highest and the Lowest Meet”. It is fitting that these two energies should be involved (at least in preparing for an initiation) at which the secrets (Scorpio) of sex and polarity (seventh ray) are revealed.
A List of Famous Individuals for whom this combination is prominent	A List of Famous Individuals for Whom Scorpio is Either the Sun Sign or Ascendant and in Whom the Seventh Ray is Proposed as Prominent Giovanni Casanova— Adventurer, Notorious Lover of Hundred of Women, Meticulous Diarist, ‘Magician’ (Ascendant) Nicholas Culpeper— British Physician, Astrologer and Herbalist of the 17th Century, Known for “Culpeper’s Herbal” (Sun Sign) Maria Skeodowska Curie— Polish-Born French Physicist Famous for her Work on Radioactivity and Twice a Winner of the Nobel Prize. (Sun Sign) Henry George— American Land Reformer and Economist who Proposed the Single Tax (Ascendant) Paracelsus— German-Swiss Physician and Alchemist, Physician (Proposed Sun Sign) Dr. Francis “Israel” Regardie— Occultist, Secretary to Aleister Crowley, Explicator of the Rituals of the “Order of the Golden Dawn” (Sun Sign and Ascendant)