*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 which is always suitable to each period.
Intended to precede and condition the coming era, the Alice A.
Bailey writings offer an unparalleled spiritual approach to such
subjects as the teaching on Shamballa and the Path of spiritual
evolution; the spiritual Hierarchy; the new discipleship and
training in meditation as a form of service; the teaching on the
seven rays and the new psychology of the soul; the teaching on
esoteric astrology; and the new world religion, which emphasizes
the common thread of truth linking all the major world faiths.
Although this book was one of the first to be written by Alice
Bailey in collaboration with the Tibetan, it is probably the most
timeless, profound and least understood. "A Treatise on Cosmic
Fire" deals with the underlying structure of occult teaching for
the present era, with vast cosmic processes reproduced though all
areas of life from universe to atom. It is, therefore, no book for
the proof-demanding concrete mind, or for those who dabble in the
spectacular and the phenomenal. The true student, however, the
seriously applied aspirant, will find his mind stimulated and his
consciousness expanded. The book is dedicated to Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky, and is said to be "the psychological key to the Cosmic
Creation". Certainly in its revelation of relationship and
correspondences throughout the Cosmos, all aspects of life
unfolding through consciousness are included, based on the aphorism
- "Having pervaded the entire universe with one fragment of Myself,
I remain." The One Life manifests through all form within the
universe as fiery energy; and the three main streams of cosmic
energy, differentiated into seven systemic rays, are shown in
relation to the three aspects of fire controlling all manifested
life: Electric Fire, the Fire of Spirit; Solar Fire, the Fire of
Mind; Fire by Friction, the Internal Fires. A large section of the
book is directed to a detailed exposition of Solar Fire, the Fire
of Mind, since this is the dominant energy to be understood and
controlled during this second solar system. The cosmic Laws
operating through the system are shown in relation to the lesser
laws of planetary origin and the laws of nature, operating through
substance, as distinct from the life and the consciousness of the
planet. In her foreword to the book, the author mentions a
five-fold purpose within its teaching; briefly: (a) To provide a
compact and skeleton outline of a scheme of cosmology, philosophy
and psychology which may serve as a reference and textbook; (b) As
an elucidation of the relation between Spirit and Matter,
demonstrating as consciousness; (c) To show the coherent
development of all that is found within a solar system and to
demonstrate that everything evolves; (d) To give practical
information about focal points of energy found in the etheric
bodies of the Solar Logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the
microcosm; (e) To give some information of the place and work of
those sentient lives who form the essence of objectivity, and to
indicate the nature of the Hierarchies of Existences who form out
of their own substance all that is seen and known. These five
objectives, and more, the book encompasses; for the effect in the
individual consciousness is such that theories become transcended
and the mind begins to experience through contemplative thought
what the words on paper reveal to the intelligence. The finite
human mind can touch its cosmic origins and its fiery essence when
it opens to the three cosmic Laws of Synthesis, of Attraction and
of Economy. The fire of love, the flame of life within the heart,
is the touchstone for all intuitive thought, and the alchemist to
the dense materiality of gross substance.
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