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Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880 December 15, 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to
use the term New Age. Bailey was born as Alice LaTrobe Bateman, in Manchester, England.[1] She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of
her life as a writer and teacher.
Bailey's works, written between 1919 and 1949, describe a wide-ranging system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the solar
system, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general. She described the majority of her work as having
been telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom, initially referred to only as "the Tibetan" or by the initials "D.K.", later identified as Djwal Khul.[2] Her
writings were somewhat similar to those of Madame Blavatsky and are among the teachings often referred to as the "Ageless Wisdom". Though Bailey's writings
differ in some respect to the Theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, they have much in common with it. She wrote on religious themes, including Christianity, though her
writings are fundamentally different from many aspects of Christianity or other orthodox religions. Her vision of a unified society included a global "spirit of religion"
different from traditional religious forms and including the concept of the Age of Aquarius.[3][4]
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Childhood and early life
1.2 With the Theosophical Society
1.3 Lucis Trust
2 Main ideas
2.1 The Seven Rays of energy
2.2 Esoteric astrology
2.3 Esoteric healing
2.4 The constitution of man
2.5 The Great Invocation
2.5.1 Criticism
2.6 Discipleship and service
2.7 Unity and divinity of nations and groups
2.8 Comparison with Theosophy
2.9 Ideas about races and evolution
2.9.1 Criticism of her ideas on races
2.10 On organized religions
3 Influence
3.1 Groups founded by Bailey or her followers
3.2 Influence on the New Age Movement
3.3 Influence on neopaganism
3.4 Influence on women in religion
3.5 Influence on psychotherapy and healing
3.6 Influence on UFO groups
4 In popular culture
5 Bibliography
5.1 Credited to Alice Bailey
5.2 Credited to Alice A. Bailey alone
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Biography
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Bailey's writings includes a detailed exposition of the "seven rays" which are presented as the fundamental energies that are behind and through all manifestation. They are seen as the basic creative forces of
the universe and emanations of Divinity that underlies the evolution of all things.[5] The rays are described as related to human psychology, the destiny of nations, as well as the planets and stars of the
heavens. The concept of the seven rays can be found in Theosophical works.[22] Campbell writes that Bailey, "... was the first to develop the idea of the seven rays, although it can be found in germ in earlier
Theosophical writings."[23] The seven rays also appear in Hindu religious philosophy.[24][25]
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evolution proceeds, things are accelerated and humanity will soon be predominantly distinguished by the Aryan consciousness. "I speak not in terms of the
Aryan race as it is generally understood today or in its Nordic implications.[58] In her book Education in the New Age, Bailey made predictions about the use of
this esoteric racial concept in the schools of the future and that these schools would incorporate the idea of "root races". These "races" are a way of
conceptualizing evolution as it occurs over vast prehistoric spans of time, and during which humanity developed body (Lemurian), emotion (Atlantean), and
mind (Aryan). She states that there is now being developed a "new race" with a spiritual dimension that expresses as "group qualities and consciousness and
idealistic vision".[59] However, she stated that this new development may take many thousands of years and may therefore not be the quick advance some of
her New Age followers wish for. In her The Destiny of the Nations, Bailey described a process by which this "new race" will evolve, after which "very low grade
human bodies will disappear, causing a general shift in the racial types toward a higher standard."[60] For Bailey, the evolution of humanity was intimately bound
up with its relationship to this Spiritual Hierarchy. She believed that the influences of religions, philosophies, sciences, educational movements, and human
culture in general are the result of this relationship.[61]
Bailey's sometimes elusive and abstract ideas on the races are perhaps more clear in following passage in which she address the phenomena of mixing of
races.
from page 222 of her book, Esoteric Healing and it provides context for the criticisms that follow.
"...Inter-marriage between nations and races, the fusion of bloods for hundreds of yearsdue to migration, travel, education and mental unity
has led to there being no really pure racial types today. This is far more certainly the case than the most enlightened think, if the long, long history
of mankind is considered. Sexual intercourse knows no impenetrable barriers, and people today have in them all the strains and the blood of all
the races, and this (as a result of the world war, 1914-1945) will be increasingly the case. This development is definitely a part of the divine plan,
no matter how undesirable it may appear to those who idealize purity of relationship ... Something intended is being brought about and it cannot be
avoided."
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Bailey's ideas about race were criticized by Victor Shnirelman, a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, who in a survey of modern Neopaganism in Russia,
drew particular attention to "... groups [that] take an extremely negative view of multi-culturalism, object to the 'mixture' of kinds, [and] support isolationism and the prohibition of immigration." Shnirelman saw
some of Bailey's ideas on race as similar to the racism he perceived in the writing of Julius Evola, saying that "... racist and antisemitic trends are explicit, for example, in the occult teachings of Alice Bailey and
her followers, who wish to cleanse Christianity of its "Jewish inheritance" and reject the "Jewish Bible" as a prerequisite for entering the Age of Aquarius.".[62]
Shnirelman's view was echoed by Isaac Lubelsky who criticized not only Bailey, but Blavatsky, Steiner, and others. In Lubelsky's view, racists ideas were common to the whole "Theosophical family".[63]
Monica Sj, a Swedish painter, writer and a radical anarcho/eco-feminist wrote that Bailey, through her published teachings, had a "reactionary and racist influence on the whole New Age movement."[64] She
also noted what she called Bailey's (and Theosophy's) "pro-fascist religious views", such as the belief in a secret elite of "Masters" who influence world events and human minds through occult means and
attempt to bring about the evolution of an Aryan race (although this is an understandably modern misunderstanding of her teaching 'Aryan' as used by Bailey is easily confused with the modern terminology,
and the "Masters" are not an elite, but instead are 'enlightened' individuals originally introduced in theosophy as having evolved beyond the human or "4th kingdom" into the fifth or "Kingdom of souls", and
who in her view guide the human race as a whole).[65]
Controversy has arisen around some of Bailey's statements on nationalism, American isolationism, Soviet totalitarianism, Fascism, Zionism, Nazism, race relations, Africans, Jews, and the religions of Judaism
and Christianity. Yonassan Gershom and others have claimed that her writings contain racist material.[39][66][67][68]
Sj, Monica (1998). New Age Channelings Who Or What Is Being Channeled? Bristol, England: Green Leaf Bookshop. Entire text online at Monica Sjoo website , page found 2010-06-28.
Sj, Monica, Sinister Channelings Notes and explanations to accompany the "New Age Channelings" book. Entire text online, page found 2010-06-28.
A comparison between H.P.Blavatsky & Alice Baily. The Pseudo-Occultism of Alice Baily by Alice Leighton Cleather and Basil Crump. 1929
The American Chassidic author Rabbi Yonassan Gershom wrote that Bailey's plan for a New World Order and her call for "the gradual dissolutionagain if in any way possibleof the Orthodox Jewish faith"
revealed that "her goal is nothing less than the destruction of Judaism itself." Gershom also wrote that "This stereotyped portrayal of Jews is followed by a hackneyed diatribe against the Biblical Hebrews, based
upon the "angry Jehovah" theology of nineteenth-century Protestantism. Jews do not, and never have, worshipped an angry vengeful god, and we Jews never, ever call God 'Jehovah'."[66]
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Roberto Assagioli, founder of Psychosynthesis, was a lecturer at School of Spiritual Research.[91] He continued a close association with Bailey during the 1930s; some of his writings were published in Bailey's
magazine The Beacon; and he was a trustee of Bailey's organization, the Lucis Trust.[92] He had developed his approach to psychology, called Psychosynthesis, beginning in 1910; his methods were later
influenced by some elements of Bailey's work.[93][94][95][96][97] However, authors John Firman and Ann Gila write that Assagioli kept what he referred to as a "wall of silence" between the areas of psychosynthesis
and religion or metaphysics, insisting that they not be confused with each other.[98]
Roger J. Woolger said, in a paper presented to the "Beyond the Brain" Conference held at Cambridge University in 1999, "In Tansley as in Brennan you will find descriptions of a hierarchy of subtle bodies
called the etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual that surround the physical body. (Interestingly Tansley attributed the source of his model to Alice Bailey's theosophical commentary on The Yoga Sutras of
Patanjali, the locus classicus of Hindu teaching.)"[99]
Bailey's influence can be found in therapeutic communities with which she was never directly involved, such as the Human Potential Movement.[6] She was also cited in THERAPEUTIC TOUCH: Healing Science
or Psychic Midwife? by Sharon Fish.[11]
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In 1975, Todd Rundgren released an album titled Initiation which has a song called "Initiation" on side one. The title of the album is apparently based on the Theosophical concept of Initiation, taught by Alice A.
Bailey and C.W. Leadbeater. The entire second side of the album is taken up by a song called "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire"; the three parts of the song are listed as: "I. The Internal Fire, or Fire by Friction; II.
The Fire of Spirit, or Electric Fire; The Fire of Mind, or Solar Fire." The second parts of these three phrases are taken directly from Alice A. Bailey's book A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. Also in 1975, Rundgren
released an album by his side-project Utopia titled "Another Live". This album contained a song titled "The Seven Rays" (see reference above). Finally, in 1977, Rundgren followed up with another Bailey
reference with a song entitled "Love in Action" from the Utopia album Oops! Wrong Planet. Love in Action was the concept promoted by Bailey's and Foster Bailey's "World Goodwill" organization.
In 1982, Bailey's influence appeared in pop culture, with the release of Van Morrison's album Beautiful Vision, in which he directly referred to the teachings and the Tibetan in the lyrics of the songs "Dweller on
the Threshold" and "Aryan Mist".[106] Morrison also used the phrase "world of glamour", reminiscent of Bailey's Glamour: A World Problem, in the songs "Ivory Tower" and "Green Mansions". The song Ancient of
Days from the 1984 Sense of Wonder album appears to be a reference to a Bailey concept found in such books as The Externalization of the Hierarchy. Alice A. Bailey and the Tibetan's Glamour: A World
Problem is also directly cited in the liner notes to Morrison's album Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.
The Wikipedia article on Jos Lpez Rega, Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare during the Peronist government, cites his interest in esoteric studies. Apparently, these included the writings of Alice Bailey:
"Also found in his home were 12 volumes by Alice Bailey on telepathy and Cosmic Fire ..."[107]
Bibliography
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The Lucis Publishing Company and the Lucis Press Limited are the official publishers of Alice Bailey's books.
See also
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Esoteric cosmology
Esoteric healing
List of spirituality-related topics
Lucis Trust
Magic and religion
New World Order
Planes of existence
Reincarnation
Western mystery tradition
References
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