Her 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 the Wisdom", initially referred to only as "the Tibetan", or by the initials "D.K.", later identified as Djwal Khul.
Selected Quotes of Alice Bailey are:
- Just as money has been in the past the instrument of men's
selfishness, now it must be the insturment of their goodwill.
- In the heart of every [human being] lies hid the flower of the
intuition.
- All good things come to those who live harmlessly, who are kind
and considerate as well. But harmlessness is the key and I leave you
to find out for yourselves how difficult it is to be harmless in
word and deed and thought.
- Goodwill is contagious; once a definite start has been made in a
pure and disinterested spirit, goodwill will permeate the world,
right human relations will be rapidly established.
- There are adequate resources for the sustenance of human life,
and these science can increase and develop… Man is the controller of
it all, and they belong to everyone and are the property of no one
group, nation, or race. It is solely due to man’s selfishness
that…thousands are starving whilst food is rotting or destroyed; it
is solely due to the grasping schemes and the financial injustices
of man’s making that the resources of the planet are not universally
available under some wise system of distribution.
- From the earliest possible time we were taught to care about the
poor and the sick and to realize that fortunate circumstances
entailed responsibility. Several times a week when it was time to go
for a walk we had to go to the housekeeper’s room for jellies and
soup for some sick person on the property, for baby cloths for the
new baby at one of the lodges, for books for someone who was
confined to the house to read. This may be an instance of the
paternalism and the feudalism of Great Britain but it had its good
points. It may be a good thing that it has disappeared – personally
I believe it is – but we could do with that trained sense of
responsibility and of duty to others among the wealthy of this land.
We were taught that money and position entailed certain obligations
and that these obligations must be met.
- I believed in the power of Christ to save then and I believe in
it a thousandfold more today. I know that people can turn from the
error of their ways and I have seen them again and again find that
reality in themselves which St. Paul calls “Christ in you, the hope
of glory.” Upon that knowledge I stake my eternal salvation and the
salvation of mankind. I know that Christ lives and that we live in
Him and I know that God is our Father and that, under God’s great
Plan, all souls eventually find their way back to Him.
- If a person is highly developed they will begin to rule their
stars. They will do the unpredictable and their horoscopes will
prove inaccurate and have no meaning at all. If a person is
undeveloped then the probability is that their stars completely
condition them and their horoscopes will therefore be entirely
accurate from the predictional angle. When this is so and the person
accepts the dictum of their horoscope their free will is completely
stultified, they work entirely within the limits of their horoscope
and the result of this is that they fail to make any personal effort
to free themselves from the possible determining factors.
- I have always held the theory that the deepest and most esoteric
truths could be shouted from the housetops to the general public and
unless there was an inner mechanism of spiritual recognition no harm
could possibly be done. Therefore pledges to secrecy became
meaningless. There are no secrets. There is only the presentation of
truth and its understanding.
- People must be free to abort unwanted children. If a man can
have sex and then live without the consequences then the same should
be true for a woman too. A woman must have the right to abort an
unwanted child.
- Every person develops soul bonds, so when a soul bond wears out
a person must be free to divorce. When one starts to grow, one must
be free to get together with that person even if they are married.
- The purpose of meditation is soul contact and, ultimately, union with the soul; its whole object is to enable one to become in outer manifestation what one is in inner reality. Through the practice of meditation one is enabled to identify with the soul aspect and not simply the lower characteristics of the personality.
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