 Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949): 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 humanity 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
realization. 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 which included the establishment of
an esoteric school; and her initially reluctant agreement
to work with the Tibetan, Djwhal Khul, in the writing of
a series of books presenting the next phase in the
continuity of the Ageless Wisdom teaching for the present
and the immediate future.
Towards the end of her life Alice A.
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."
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