| The
Unfinished Autobiography |
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 says, 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 many 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 miner government of the planet.
Her life work became an initegral 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 the work developed as a duality--her discipleship
service to her own Master, Koot Humi, which included the establislinnent
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 the first contact with
Him on the physical plane which took place in California in November
1919. Thirty years work was planned. When this had been accomplished
and within 30 days after that period (in December 1949) Mrs. Bailey
gained her release from tIne 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 activitjes 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 on 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 humanitv 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 consent 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 Autobiogaphy: "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."
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