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graciously granted to Mind, Body, Spirit of Waldwick by the Lucis Trust,
which holds copyright of the books of Alice Bailey published by the
Lucis Publishing Company.
“Go your own way with strength and silence, and do that which your soul demands.
Let not the lesser voices of the loved and near deflect you from your progress upon the path of service.
You belong now to the world, and not to a handful of your fellowmen.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “Food for Thought” #63, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971), p. 8.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age—Vol. 1, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1989), p. 140.
“The reactions of others are not your responsibility.
It is your responsibility to give them strength
and detachment.
Shoulder not, therefore, responsibilities which
are not yours.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “Food for Thought” #64, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971), p. 8.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age—Vol. 1, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1989), p. 405.
“The immediate goal for all aspiring disciples at this time can be seen to be as follows:
1. An achievement of clarity of thought as to their own personal and immediate problems, and primarily the problem as to their objective in service. This is to be done through meditation.
2. The development of sensitivity to the new impulses which are flooding the world at this time. This is to be brought about by loving all men more, and through love and understanding, contacting them with greater facility. Love reveals.
3. The rendering of service with complete
impersonality. This is to be done by eliminating personal ambition and love of power.
4. The refusal to pay attention to public opinion or
to failure. This is done by the application of strict attention to the voice of the soul, and by an endeavour to dwell ever in the secret place of
the Most High.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “Aspirant” #5, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971),
pp. 20-21.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1987),
pp. 635-636.
“Stand ready and watch the heart. . . . It is not easy
to love as do the Great Ones, with a pure love which requires nothing back; with an impersonal love that rejoices where there is a response, but looks not for it, and loves steadily, quietly, and deeply through all apparent divergences, knowing that when each has found his own way home, he will find that home to be the place of at-one-ment.’
“Be prepared for loneliness. It is the law. As a man dissociates himself from all that concerns his physical,
astral, and mental bodies, and centres himself in the Ego, it produces a temporary separation. This must be endured and passed, leading to a closer link at
a later period with all associated with the disciple through the karma of past lives, through group work, and through the activity of the disciple (carried on almost unconsciously at first) in gathering together those through whom later he will work.’
“Cultivate happiness, knowing that depression,
an over-morbid investigation of motive, and undue sensitiveness to the criticism of others leads to
a condition wherein a disciple is almost useless. Happiness is based on confidence in the God within,
a just appreciation of time, and a forgetfulness of
the self. Take all the glad things which may come as trusts to be used to spread joy, and rebel not at happiness and pleasure in service, thinking it an indication that all is not well. Suffering comes as the lower self rebels. Control that lower self, eliminate desire, and all is joy.’
“Have patience. Endurance is one of the characteristics of the Ego. The Ego persists,
knowing itself immortal. The personality becomes discouraged, knowing that time is short.”
Alice Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1992), p. 76.
“An aspirant succeeds in contacting his soul or ego through right effort. Through meditation, good intention, and correct technique, plus the desire to serve and to love, he achieves alignment. He becomes then aware of the results of his successful work.
His mind is illumined. A sense of power flows through his vehicles. He is, temporarily at least, made aware
of the Plan. The need of the world and the capacity of the soul to meet that need, flood his consciousness. His dedication, consecration and right purpose enhance the directed inflow of spiritual energy.
He knows. He loves. He seeks to serve, and does all three more or less successfully.’
“The result of all this is that he becomes more engrossed with the sense of power, and with the part he is to play in aiding humanity, than he is with the realisation of a due and proper sense of proportion and of spiritual values. He over-estimates his experience and himself. Instead of redoubling
his efforts, and thus establishing a closer contact
with the kingdom of souls, and loving all beings more deeply, he begins to call attention to himself and to the mission he is to develop . . . . As he does so, his alignment is steadily impaired; his contact lessens, and he joins the ranks of the many who have succumbed
to the illusion of sensed power.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “Illusion” #7, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971),
pp. 189.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, Glamour, A World Problem, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1988),
pp. 52-53.
“Meditation involves the living of a one-pointed life always and every day. . . . This process of ordered meditation, when carried forward over a period of years, and supplemented by meditative living and
one-pointed service, will successfully arouse the entire system, and bring the lower man under the influence and control of the spiritual man.’
“I cannot too strongly advise students against the following of intensive meditation processes for hours at a time . . . . The average aspirant is so sensitive
and finely organised that excessive meditation,
a fanatical diet, the curtailing of the hours of sleep,
or undue interest in and emphasis upon psychic experience, will upset the mental balance and often
do irretrievable harm.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “Meditation” #18, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971),
p. 270.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1972), pp. 18-19.
“Man is in essence divine. This has ever been enunciated throughout the ages, but remains as
yet a beautiful theory or belief, and not a proven scientific fact, nor is it universally held.’
“Man is in fact a fragment of the Universal Mind,
or world soul, and as a fragment is thus partaker of the instincts and quality of that soul, as it manifests through the human family. Therefore, unity is only possible upon the plane of mind. This, if true, must lead to the tendency to develop within the physical brain a conscious realisation of group affiliations on the mental plane, a conscious recognition of group relationships, ideals and goals, and a conscious manifestation of that continuity of consciousness which is the object of evolution at this time . . . . '
“It must lead to the education of the public as to the nature of man, and the development of the powers latent within him—powers which will set him free from his present limitations, and which will produce in the human family a collective repudiation of the present conditions. When men everywhere recognise themselves and each other, as divine self-conscious units, functioning primarily in the causal body but utilising the three lower vehicles only as a means of contact with the three lower planes, we will have government, politics, economics and social order readjusted upon sound, sane and divine lines.”
Alice Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1989),
pp. 809-810.
Asato Maa Sad Gamaya Lead us from unreal to real.
Tamaso Maa Jyotir Gamaya Lead us from darkness to the light.
Mrityor Maamritam Gamaya Lead us from the fear of death to
the knowledge of immortality.
[Transliteration and translation from Sanskrit
of traditional Hindu chant]
“Nothing under heaven can arrest the progress of
the human soul on its long pilgrimage from darkness
to light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality, and from ignorance to wisdom.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “The New World Religion” #4, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971), p. 294.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1948), p. 159.
“The day is dawning when all religions will be
regarded as emanating from one great spiritual source; all will be seen as unitedly providing the
one root out of which the universal world religion
will inevitably emerge. Then there will be neither Christian nor heathen, neither Jew nor Gentile,
but simply one great body of believers, gathered
out of all the current religions.
They will accept the same truths, not as theological concepts, but as essential to spiritual living; they will stand together on the same platform of brotherhood and of human relations; they will recognize divine sonship; and will seek unitedly to co-operate with
the divine Plan as it is revealed to them by the
spiritual leaders of the race, and as it indicates to them the next step to be taken on the Path of Approach to God.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “The New World Religion” #5, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971), pp. 294-295.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, Problems of Humanity, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1969), p. 140.
“Virtue is the manifestation in man of the spirit of
co-operation with his brothers, necessitating unselfishness, understanding, and complete self-forgetfulness. Vice is the negation of this attitude. These two words signify in reality simply perfection and imperfection, conformity to a divine standard of brotherhood, or a failure to achieve that standard.’
“Standards are shifting things, and change with man’s growth towards divinity. They vary also according to man’s destiny, as it is affected by his time and age, his nature and surroundings. They alter also according to the point of evolutionary development. The standard for attainment is not today what it was one thousand years ago, nor a thousand years hence will it be what
it is today.”
Alice Bailey, Ponder on This, “Virtue” #2, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1971),
pp. 418-419.
Originally extracted from:
Alice Bailey, Esoteric Psychology – Vol. 1, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1991), p. 284.
“Wisdom has to do with the development of
the life within the form, with the progress of the
spirit through those ever-changing vehicles,
and with the expansions of consciousness
that succeed each other from life to life.
It deals with the life side of evolution.
Since it deals with the essence of things and
not with the things themselves, it is the intuitive apprehension of truth apart from the reasoning faculty, and the innate perception that can distinguish between the false and the true, between the real
and the unreal. . . .’
“Wisdom is the science of the spirit,
just as knowledge is the science of matter.
Knowledge is separative and objective,
whilst wisdom is synthetic and subjective.
Knowledge divides; wisdom unites.
Knowledge differentiates whilst wisdom blends.”
Alice Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1992),
pp. 11-12.
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