Einstein also touched upon this urge to penetrate beyond the outer realms in his statement, "The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. People who are new to the Alice Bailey books. Through scientific investigation, research and discovery, they are preparing the new world. He stated Bailey accepted Leadbeater's "fantasy" of the return of Christ and disparaged Bailey's Great Invocation, a prayer supposed to "induce Christ and his Masters to leave their hidden ashrams [and] enter into major cities" to lead the Aquarian Age. 1st ray energy streams from Shamballa and lies behind the present world crisis, for "It is the Will of God to produce certain radical and momentous changes in the consciousness of the race which will completely alter mans attitude to life", Alice Bailey said. many refer to her as the mother of the modern form of the new age movement. Lower Expression: Spiritualism emphasis on form, "phenomena.". Is not this your immediate aim, my brother? Campbell writes that Bailey's books are a reworking of major Theosophical themes, with some distinctive emphases, and that they present a comprehensive system of esoteric science and occult philosophy, cognizant of contemporary social and political developments. This soul ray must be evoked into increased activity by the new group of world servers, the subjective worldwide network of all servers, working in all fields of activity, not just the overtly spiritual. Its the bond of coherence, the principle of magnetic cohesion which works through all creation of forms on every level, from a crystal to a solar system. In Alice Baileys words: "Each person is potentially a transmitter of ray energy, either egoic or personality rays. [111], Alice Bailey makes no reference to unidentified flying objects. The 7th ray is steadily gaining influence. Then followed a difficult period in which she worked in a sardine factory to support herself and the children. by Sharon Fish. ", Alice Bailey sums up process of integration as follows: "As the three rays which govern the lower triplicity blend and synthesise and produce the vital personality, and as they in their turn dominate the ray of the dense physical body, the lower man enters into a prolonged condition of conflict. In 1919, during the month of November, I made a contact with A.A.B. The ray of the physical bodythe first Ray of Power. The Arcane School gives instruction and guidance in meditation, via correspondence, based on the ideas in Bailey's books. 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). [101], In 1930, with the patronage of English-Dutch spiritualist, theosophist and scholar Olga Froebe-Kapteyn, Bailey established the short-lived "School of Spiritual Research" located on Froebe-Kapteyn's estate, Casa Gabriella, in Switzerland. 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. Wessinger stated that they were "an important source of the contemporary New Age movement. A ray confers physical conditions, the quality of the astral nature, and the distribution of energy. [122], In 1975, Todd Rundgren released an album titled Initiation which has a song called "Initiation" on side one. The intelligence expressed through the 3rd ray is the authority the Buddha pointed his disciples to in his final sermon: "Be a lamp unto yourselves. Keep these two themes clearly in your mind for they are basic and important. Alice Bailey's writings downplayed traditional devotional and religious aspects of the spiritual life, in favor of a life of meditation, service to humanity, and cooperation with "the Plan of the Hierarchy The 1st ray is the most powerful force in the world today. She described the majority of her work as having been telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom, or spirit entity identified as Djwal Khul. "Each of the great rays has a form of teaching truth to humanity which is its unique contribution", Alice Bailey wrote, yet only in their composite do we understand nature of the One, of Deity. Ask yourself, does my mind express power easily (1st), or does it strive for balance by seeing many different points of view (4th), or does it crave detail and tend to observe with detachment (5th)? 3rd ray The energy of Active Intelligence or, to reverse it, intelligent activity; the intelligent use of form building, of all creative effort, to reveal divine purpose. In terms of living expression, this means that you can transmute devotion into love, and idealism into proven wisdom. "[10] For a more recent example of Bailey/Theosophy division, see Theosophy in Scandinavia. "Your soul ray is the seventh, which would enable you to work with facility in the new world which is emerging into manifestation with such rapidity. [66] 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. From the Preface by Foster Bailey. It makes for understanding, intelligently applied, and for the emergence of beauty through that established rapport. Neither has initiation for the disciple anything to do . They bring about a "righteous compromise", and adapt the new and the old so that the true pattern is preserved. It is the quality in you which gives you an ordered sense of colour, proportion and of harmony in your planned environment. Isn't that what God wants of us? The scientist David Bohm also touched upon the 7th ray in his theory of the Implicate Order, a new form of insight which he defined as Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement. You have, however, nearly completed the task and the worst part of the process is over. The higher expression of the 7th ray is white magic: the power of the trained worker to bring together the "within and the without" so that that which is below may be patterned on that which is above. In addition, the ray of the personality in a previous life leaves definite habits of thought and activity. #4. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. (In 1932 the school was closed because of personal conflict between Bailey and Froebe-Kapteyn, at which time Froebe-Kapteyn replaced it with the Eranos group. The Science of the Antahkarana is concerned with the problem of the continuity of consciousness and with the problem of life and death. Higher Expression: The science of the soul. The concept of the seven rays was introduced by H. P. Blavatsky and later developed by Ernest Wood. ), Roberto Assagioli, founder of Psychosynthesis, was a lecturer at School of Spiritual Research. [112] This is not surprising since Alice Bailey's books were written between 1919 and 1949[113] and "the emergence of religion specifically focused on UFOs is a post-1947 phenomena. The incoming 7th ray plays through the planetary sacral centre, and then through the sacral centre of every human being. British-American esoteric, theosophist and writer (1880-1949), For the American writer of children's books and articles for periodicals, see, Groups founded by Bailey or her followers, A commentary on the Great Invocation on Lucis Trust's website says "Christ emphasised ever the Fatherhood of God and substituted it in place of the cruel, jealous tribal Jehovah.". The books of Alice A. Bailey, written in cooperation with a Tibetan teacher between 1919-1949, constitute a continuation of the Ageless Wisdom a body of esoteric teaching handed down from ancient times in a form suitable to each era.Together Alice Bailey and The Tibetan produced 19 books of esoteric philosophy, and Alice Bailey wrote five additional titles independently. Yonassan Gershom and others have claimed that her writings contain racist material. she later became known as a writer of the occult. The 3rd ray influence is seen in money, which is the concretized expression of the spiritual energy of intelligence. Religiously inclined, Alice's first marriage wed her to fellow Englishman Walter Evans, a former military officer who was to become an Episcopal clergyman. This leads to quick results on the physical plane when both types of energy are simultaneously applied. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de rduction . The 1st ray also expresses as a destructive element. The "Triangles" are groups of three people who agree to link up in thought each day and to meditate on right human relations, visualizing light and love pouring into human minds and hearts, followed by the use of the Great Invocation. [26] The rays are described as related to human psychology, the destiny of nations, as well as the planets and stars of the heavens. But the shift of your soul energy on to the second ray will now most definitely offset this and lead to a condition of focussed stability. Author Ryan H. Walsh suggests that book had an influence on the Velvet's second album, White Light/White Heat. They work by manipulating ideas to make them easier to grasp by those intelligent people whose intuition isnt yet developed. Your mental body is definitely on the fourth ray and it is through this fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict that you can establish a rapid rapport with your brothers. The teachings on initiation are also given an essentially practical presentation as "facts of life", to be understood and applied. [15], The Theosophist published the first few chapters of her first work, Initiation, Human and Solar,[16][17] (p.762) but then stopped for reasons Bailey called "theosophical jealousy and reactionary attitude". Alice A. Bailey delivered the second transmission of the Ageless Wisdom for the New Era. He cannot as yet enter into the consciousness of that basic essential Unity, but he can enter into that of his own ray-life, of the emanating source of his own temporarily specialised life.". This is now only occasional (relatively speaking). [10] The marriage did not last and Bailey pushed for and received a divorce. [85] John Michael Greer's New Encyclopedia of the Occult states that the school "seeks to develop a New Group of World Servers to accomplish the work of the Hierarchy of Masters, under the guidance of its head, the Christ. From this we can begin to see that when the true nature of the seven rays is grasped, we shall approach the subject of mans duality with greater intelligence. They participate in the bridging process, for they are the true intuitives. 4.26. Thank you very much for this opportunity to share some of the teachings on the seven rays from the books of Alice Bailey. Differentiation becomes marked, and the sense of duality becomes more definitely established. [64], Bailey described a concept of racial differentiation that posited a division of humanity into races that are on different levels in a "ladder of evolution". [73][74][75][76][77][78][79], The American Chassidic author 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." [99][100][self-published source?] The glamourous idea of initiation as a reward for a good, self-disciplined way of life, dissipates in the light of the reality. Perhaps the words of Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth-century mystic whose puzzlement over the existence of sin was appeased in the revelation that "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well". [81][82], Author Steven Sutcliffe wrote that Bailey's "World Goodwill" organization was promoting groups of "world servers" to, as he quotes Bailey, "serve the Plan, Humanity, the Hierarchy and the Christ". Alice Ann Bailey. (Alice A. Bailey) and asked her to do some writing for me and also to undertake the publishing of certain books which -- under the sequential giving out of truth -- were due to appear. "As you know, I find it useful to indicate to all in my group of pledged disciples their five determining or conditioning rays so that they can work with intelligence at the fusion of. She stated that all religions originate from the same spiritual source, and that humanity will eventually come to realize this, and as they do so, the result will be the emergence of a universal world religion and a "new world order". The field of energy we call the soul absorbs, dominates or utilises the lesser energy we call the personality (itself composed of four energies). The past 2000 years have produced fantastic gains in the understanding of what were, to early man, "magical" realms. Her books have also introduced shifts in emphasis as well as new doctrinal elements. This school provides educational correspondence, meditation instruction, and guided study based on her writings. 6th ray people are often the reactionaries, the conservatives, diehards and fanatics, who hold on to the past and hinder progress. These differentions are like the colouring that the prism takes when subjected to the rays of the sun. Perhaps the best example of the first rays potency is found in the mineral kingdom, for radium is said to hold the key to the mystery of the 1st ray. Higher Expression: All forms of white magic. [citation needed], The many claims and teachings of the spin-off groups underscores their divergences, for example there appears to be a widespread confusion about the phrase and meaning of "Ascendant Master" in that it was adopted by Mark and Elizabeth Prophet but not by Theosophists or Alice Bailey. The mind and emotional nature are seen as auras. This is the true relation of the personality to the soul. Ray VI servers over the past 2000 years have trained humanity to recognise ideals, which are blue prints of ideas, by training world thinkers to desire the good, the true, and the beautiful. Advanced souls, disciples, occasionally will choose a different ray for a particular body than the ones Ive just cited, but its always a good idea to begin with the premise that one is fairly ordinary, dont you think? A talk given at the Theosophical Society of Edinburgh, 30 September 2010 by Sarah McKechnie. [original research?]. [88][89], James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, in Perspectives on the New Age wrote, "The most importantthough certainly not the onlysource of this transformative metaphor, as well as the term "New Age", was Theosophy, particularly as the Theosophical perspective was mediated to the movement by the works of Alice Bailey. called the "preparatory" phase of the teaching. [70], 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. Although the 6th ray began to pass out around 1625, its still the most powerful influence. Her teachings and writings are viewed as foundational and authoritative within the New Age Movement. The result of the increasing flow of the 7th ray and the decreasing power of the 6th ray is to throw the millions of people who dont respond to either ray, into a state of bewilderment a feeling of being entirely lost, for all that they hold dear is rapidly fading. Books by Alice Bailey. 27 . [27] Its job is to transmit the seven rays from the heart of the Sun through the seven spirits before the [solar] throne to all the life waves of the Solar System. "God is love" is a great truth, for love is the basic law of this solar system. This is the ray coming into power. La Trobe-Bateman on June 16, 1880, in Manchester, England,ii Alice Bailey was raised in an upper-class family and reared in the Anglican or Episcopalian church. The ray of the physical bodyfirst Ray of Will or Power. The task of new age workers is to bring these two apparent opposites together, to demonstrate that spirit and matter are not antagonistic to each other, and that throughout the world there is only spiritual substance, working on and producing the outer tangible forms. "[50] Olav Hammer writes, "Her first book, Initiation Human and Solar, was at first favorably received by her fellow theosophists. The past 2000 yrs have been conditioned by the 6th Ray of Devotion and Idealism. You are learning to leave others freea hard lesson for a first ray personality, animated as yours is by knowledge and goodwill. The ray types give the new psychological approach to man through an understanding of the energies which animate him and make him what he is. Wrong Planet. The disciple becomes a "man of God",a person whose powers are controlled by the dominant vibration of the soul ray and whose inner, sensitive mechanism is vibrating to the measure of that soul ray" (EP II 17). Born Alice A. Alice Bailey, along with Rudolf Steiner and Krishnamurti, brought Theosophical teachings to their own audiences, helping to perpetuate continuing interest in the Ageless Wisdom. ", Higher Expression: Christianity and diversified religions. The forces of the 7th ray work out on the seventh or physical plane the plane whereon major changes in all forms are made. The first in the series of three interpretations of the Ageless Wisdom teachings planned by the Hierarchy and entrusted to the Tibetan Master, was given to the world through H.P. Lower Expression: Modern diplomacy and politics. "[69], Shnirelman's view was echoed by Isaac Lubelsky who criticized not only Bailey, but Blavatsky, Steiner, and others. "[114] But she did speak of Masters as having evolved beyond the human level, and expounded a cosmology of a living universe in which even planets and stars are regarded as living entities. They investigate the form in order to find its hidden idea, its motivating power, by proving the idea either true or false. During a thirty year period Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949), in telepathic collaboration with the Tibetan teacher Djwhal Khul, wrote two dozen volumes on the origins and evolutionary development of Matter and Consciousness within our solar system, our planet, and the human kingdom. THE SEVEN RAY METHODS OF SERVICE also provide insights into understand ray differences of method and expression: Ray I servers, if trained disciples, work through what might be called the imposition of the Will of God upon human minds. There are many degrees and stages in this experience, and they cover many lives. Each of these seven streams or emanations of energy was coloured by a divine quality, an aspect of love, and all of them were needed for the ultimate perfecting of the latent and unrevealed purpose.". The incoming 7th ray expresses the power to organise, integrate and synthesise the great pairs of opposites, producing new forms of spiritual manifestation, but also new forms of material evil. Quotations are from Alice Bailey's Esoteric Psychology I. Higher Expression: Masonry, based on formation of hierarchy, and rules for admittance. [103] He had developed his approach to psychology, called Psychosynthesis, beginning in 1910; his methods were later influenced by some elements of Bailey's work. A hologram is the symbol of the implicate order, he said: A total order is contained, in some implicit sense, in each region of space and time. In response to the September 11 attacks (2001), the Great Invocation was used as a central element of a new daily program at Findhorn known as the "Network of Light meditations for peace". Source for information on Alice Bailey: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained dictionary. Soon, however, her claims to be recipient of ageless wisdom from the Masters met with opposition. "You cant pour new wine into old bottles", its been said. [1] She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher. . The history of the world is based on the emergence of ideas, their acceptance, their transformation into ideas, and their eventual superseding by the next imposition of ideas. "[14] In 1919, Foster Bailey (18881977), who was to be her second husband, became National Secretary of the Theosophical Society. Does this explain the growing sense that something is being destroyed in order to make way for the new? It will aid you also in producing order and rhythm in your environment; in these days of turmoil and difficulty, every rhythmic centre is of value to us. "[71] 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). Five ray energies are presently manifesting: the 6th, 7th, 2nd (always present), 3rd , and 1st. Remember now, from Steiner, Lucifer was associated with Shamballa (Shambhala). The old age method was to empower an individual leader who could impose his idea on followers; the new age method is to evoke group idealism. The radio, telephone, telegraph and the power to travel. So the progression is: 1st ray servers register ideas, which are then rendered attractive by 2nd ray servers, and adapted to immediate need and rendered vocal by 3rd ray workers. In contrast to this, Daren Kemp in Handbook to the New Age sees critical differences between neopaganism and New Age movements and indicates that it is a mistake to conflate them. Initially, that Life expressed in triple formation: as Life, Quality and Appearance, or Monad, Soul, and Personality; Will, Love, and Intelligence. Jesus said only those who follow God's commands love God and only these will be saved (Matthew 19:17; Matthew 7:21-23; Rev 20:12) and He gave a "new command": Love one another. Below the surface was a hidden controversy regarding Alice's work with the Tibetan. This is the coordinating capacity which unifies inner quality and outer tangible form or appearance. Christ prophesied this when he said the hidden things would be made plain, and secrets shouted from the housetops. Bailey's teachings revolve around the central concept of the Second Coming of a personal Christ, the so-called "Lord Christ-Maitreya" who is the "World Teacher" for humanity and who is said to be preparing his "return" or "reappearance" on the world scene. "[28] The seven rays also appear in Hindu religious philosophy. Jon Klimo, in Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, writes, "As with Blavatsky/Theosophical material, and more recent contemporary channeled material from other sources, we find in the Bailey work the same occult cosmological hierarchy: physical, etheric, astral, mental, causal, and higher inhabited levels of existence. Bailey also established the "Triangles" program to bring people together in groups of three to meditate daily. Judah, Stillson J. She left with their three children after formal separation in 1915. It gives the human being his colouring and quality. The energies which emanate from what is esoterically called the "heart of the sun" sweep through the planets in seven great streams and pour into human soul producing what we call awareness. [45] Rosemary Keller described the Great Invocation as a call for "the Christ to return to Earth" and wrote that Bailey-related groups purchased radio and television time to broadcast the invocation as part of their mission, and that often the invocation was recited in what Keller called "light groups", to accomplish what Bailey's disciples considered to be attracting and focusing "spiritual energies to benefit the planet". [83], Despite her focus on unity of religion, Bromley and Hammond point out that Bailey and other "occultists" "hammered home the central idea, 'The East is the true home of spiritual knowledge and occult wisdom'."[84]. Alice Bailey No preview available - 1951. . She said "The endless diversity of forms hides a subjective synthesis. Interestingly, when a ray cycle passes out, the lower manifestation of that ray lingers on longer than the higher expression. Generally speaking, in the case of most people the mental body is governed by rays 1,4,or 5; the astral body by 2 or 6; and the physical by ray 3 or 7. The work of the 7th ray is the relating of life and form, but when the emphasis is laid upon the form aspect, then wrong procedure eventuates and the work of the black magician can begin. [37][38] She also speaks of these as "vehicles" or "sheaths", and alternately as the "mental body", "astral body", or "physical body". Is this whats evoking the "reactionary" elements and the growing fundamentalism we see in so many areas of life? First Edition. Higher Expression: The process of initiation as taught by the hierarchy of adepts. 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In terms of the ray of the physical body, ask yourself if your body likes to be active and handles diversified tasks well (3rd) or if it prefers an organised, rhythmic physical pace. It is not necessary for each person to link in thought at the same time each day and need only take a few moments of time. Leadbeater. The Pseudo-Occultism of Alice Baily, "The Great Invocation: Its Use and Significance", Brown University Press Releases, April 19, 2007, "Mahatmas versus Ascended Masters - Theosophical Society in America", "THERAPEUTIC TOUCH: Healing Science or Psychic Midwife?
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