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.
