Scorpio 005

Video Transcript: More excerpts from The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. ‘The eagle was also the Hermetic symbol of sulphur, and signified the mysterious fire of Scorpio–the most profoundly significant sign of the zodiac and the Gate of the Great Mystery. Being one of the three symbols of Scorpio, the eagle… was an emblem of the theurgic art and the secret processes by which the infernal fire of the scorpion was transmuted into the spiritual light-fire of the gods.’ Regarding the Great Seal of the United States he says, ‘Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called American Eagle — a bird which Benjamin Franklin declared unworthy to be chosen as the emblem of the great, powerful and progressive people. Here again, only the student of symbolism can see the through the subterfuge and realize the American eagle upon the Great Seal is but a conventionalized phoenix. The eagles of Napoleon and Caesar and the zodiacal eagle of Scorpio are really phoenixes, for the latter bird — not the eagle — is the symbol of spiritual victory and achievement.’