Miscellanous Talks and Articles
An Esoteric Reflection on the Pandemic:
Most students of the Ageless Wisdom will be familiar with the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths that arose from His enlightenment; simply stated they concern: the truth of suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the path that leads to the end of suffering.
Read MoreSome quotes from the Alice Bailey writings on epidemics
The current coronavirus pandemic is naturally raising a lot of questions from students of the Ageless Wisdom and we have therefore compiled a selection of relevant quotes from the Alice Bailey writings on the subject.
Read MoreThe Deep, Sustaining Centre of Ashramic Work
Elan vital is a term used by the philosopher, Henri Bergson, to describe the creative force responsible for growth and evolution in all organisms.
Read MoreSymbols, Capricorn and the Festival Week
Constructing symbolic imagery in the group mind is a powerful means of preparing for the Festival Week of the New Group of World Servers.
Read MoreHolding on to the Vision
In line with the spiritual law – energy follows thought – how can we best use the energy of our thinking to usher in a more enlightened age of love and sharing that we all long to see?
Read MoreGroup Service and Gift Waves
One of the discoveries to be made by each person who aspires to serve humanity through meditation is that waves of energy or ‘gift waves’ are continuously breaking upon the collective aura of the serving group of which he or she is a part.
Read MoreSpiritual Training and Group Identity
There is much symbolism connected with the observatories that stand high above the clouds on Mount Palomar peering into deep space; equally so with the great radio telescopes of the world that link up as one to ‘listen’ to the faint emissions of distant stellar objects.
Read MoreEnergy Direction and Service
The service activities of the Lucis Trust are based upon the essential truth that energy follows thought. And although this is a simple truth it has far-reaching implications.
Read MoreThe Effect of Thought on the Lower Kingdoms of Nature
The rapid developments in light technology are a symbol of the soul light that is steadily waxing in human consciousness; energy follows thought and the more enlightened humanity’s thinking, the more beautiful and refined will become the illumination of the physical plane.
Read MoreEsoteric Work in the 21st Century
How can we best use the energy of our thinking to usher in a more enlightened age of love and sharing that we all long to see? Holding onto the vision requires much spiritual stamina when wars and terrorism still take place in the world and materialistic ideologies condition international affairs.
Read MoreThe Nature of Esotericism
Educators in the new age will lay an increasing emphasis upon the esoteric approach, and it might be of service if I here attempted to define esotericism in terms of the general average intelligence
Read MoreAn Esoteric View of Christmas
As we come to an end of our consideration of the world today and its dominating rays, working through the nations and conditioning the people, there is a final point which I would like to make....
Read MoreThe Science Of The Seven Rays
A Tool For Understanding Ourselves, Our Fellowmen, And Our World
A talk given at the Theosophical Society of Edinburgh, 30 September 2010 by Sarah McKechnie
A New Age Symbol
This symbol indicates some of the significant forces and deeper factors now increasingly operating as the new age advances.
Read MoreThe Esoteric Meaning of Lucifer
There are comments on the World Wide Web claiming that the Lucis Trust was once called the Lucifer Trust. Such was never the case.
Read MoreDescent and Sacrifice
There is always a choice of two paths, and it is a choice which must, for the human being, be guided by free will. (Reprinted from The Beacon, September-October 1989)
Read MoreConcerning The Ageless Wisdom Writings On The Jewish People
The following thoughts are offered for consideration by people of goodwill who seek to reconcile their interest in and respect for the books of Alice Bailey with the occasionally controversial statements found in the books about the role of the Jewish people in the divine Plan for our world.
Read MoreRestoring the Divine Circulatory Flow
In essence, money is a mutual agreement and an agreement implies relationship.
Read MorePersonalities and Authority
There is a good deal of speculation as to my identity prevalent at this time, and much discussion as to the authority or non-authority of the books for which I am responsible. For this there is no need and it is quite profitless.
Read MoreThe Force of Liberation
Death as Transition -- Esoteric Perspectives on the Survival of Consciousness
...the only real death is limitation, which is what incarnation into dense physical substance is from the perspective of the illumined mind – liberation from it being entrance into greater life.
The Conscience of Love
The relationship between love and consciousness is a prime focus of the Alice Bailey teachings
Read MoreFull Moon Talks
Talks given in recent years at full moon meetings in London, New York and Geneva
Read MoreGlossary from Letters on Occult Meditation
This glossary of esoteric terms has been reproduced from the book by Alice Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation. A Note at the end of the document states: "This glossary does not undertake fully to explain all the terms. It is simply an attempt to render into English certain words used in this book, so that the reader may understand their connotation. The majority of the definitions have been culled from the Theosophical Glossary, The Secret Doctrine, and the Voice of the Silence.
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