- Alice Ann 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 said, 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." 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 may 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 man 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
realisation. 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 to her own Master, Koot Humi, which
included the establishment of the Arcane School; and her initially
reluctant agreement to work with the Tibetan, the Master Djwhal
Khul, in the writing of a series of books presenting the next phase
in the continuity of the Ancient Wisdom teaching for the present
and the immediate future. This work with the Tibetan Master started
in 1919. In his introduction to "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire", Foster
Bailey remarks: "The story of many years of telepathic work by the
Tibetan with Alice A. Bailey is revealed in her Unfinished
Autobiography published in 1951. This includes the circumstances of
her first contact with Him on the physical plane which took place
in California in November 1919. Thirty years work was planned. When
this has been accomplished and within 30 days after that period (in
December 1949) Mrs. Bailey gained her release from the limitations
of the physical vehicle." This quick release accounts also for the
fact that the autobiography is unfinished. As her work with the
Tibetan developed, and as her own writing, lecturing and early
Arcane School work began to demonstrate their usefulness, the
Tibetan took advantage of his close telepathic link with AAB to
establish certain activities required by the work of Hierarchy for
humanity. The Arcane School, although never controlled or
supervised by the Tibetan, was used to anchor such service
activities as Triangles, World Goodwill and the distribution of the
Great Invocation. Certain types of meditation work were also
suggested by the Tibetan as a planetary service, particularly the
Redemptive Meditations of Preparation for the Reappearance of the
Christ and on Attracting Money for Hierarchical Purposes; and the
Arcane School in 1947 began a serious study of the basic problems
of humanity based on his book of that title. The Arcane School,
therefore,as an increasingly useful and useable channel between
Hierarchy and humanity, was used by the Master DK with AAB's co
sent and cooperation to anchor certain needed esoteric principles
and realities firmly in human consciousness and to demonstrate the
fact that esotericism is a way of life, and not an escape into
vague, mystical abstractions. Her whole life work, although devoted
to two distinct services, demonstrated that synthesis of outlook
and attitude characteristic of every world disciple. In the words
of Foster Bailey, included in the introduction to the
Autobiography: "By far the greater part of her life work has always
been subjective. We have seen the outer effects, watched the outer
comings and goings, helped her and loved her, sometimes criticised,
sometimes complained, but always gone on with her, and because of
her yet a little higher and a little better than would otherwise
have been the case...Her chosen path is on the line of the World
Saviours. She has gone back to her own Master KH for yet more
daring work with Him and for the Christ." 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.
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