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Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949): |
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From her conservative British
background, Alice Bailey's life led her in many directions, but always in
one direction-towards the time when through drastic personal experience of
many kinds she had acquired a synthesis of outlook and understanding, and
an absolute conviction that one divine life pervades and animates the one
humanity; that the Plan for humanity requires the cooperation and service
of trained and dedicated human beings intelligently informed about world
affairs, in collaboration with those who form the spiritual Hierarchy, the
inner government of the planet. Her life work became an integral part of
this synthesis and this realization. Without in the least losing any of
her very human qualities and involvement, her soul took up its commitment
to her Master, and her personality provided full cooperation in the field
of her accepted service.
Basically her work developed as a duality-her discipleship service which included the establishment of an esoteric school; and her initially reluctant agreement to work with the Tibetan, Djwhal Khul, in the writing of a series of books presenting the next phase in the continuity of the Ageless Wisdom teaching for the present and the immediate future. |
| To her additional credit, Ms. Bailey coined the term, "new age". Towards the end of her life Alice A. Bailey somewhat reluctantly agreed to attempt her own autobiography. What finally decided her to write about her life was a letter from a friend who, she says, felt deeply that "I would really render a service if I could show people how I became what I am from what I was. It might be useful to know how a rabid orthodox Christian worker could become a well-known occult teacher." | |
