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ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

en the tibetan (d.k) and a.a.b. that she as the working disciple on the outer plane should shoulder as much as possible of karmic responsibility on that plane, and that the teaching should go to the public over her signature. this involved the burden of leadership in the esoteric field and precipitated attack and condemnation from persons and organisations whose positions and activities were more piscean and authoritarian. the entire platform upon which esoteric teaching stands before the public today has been liberated from the limitations and follies of mystery, glamour, claim-making and impracticality, by the position taken by the tibetan and a.a.b. the stand taken against dogmatic assertion has- 2- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust helped to establish a new era of me

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ercise care. the usual connotation of the words spiritual growth is largely that of religious growth in understanding. a man is deemed spiritual if he is interested in the world scriptures, if he is a church member and if he lives a saintly life. but this is no true definition for it is not sufficiently comprehensive. it has grown out of the impress set upon human thought and terminologies by the piscean age, and through the influence of the sixth ray, and the work of the christian church all most necessary and all inherent in the great plan, but which (divorced from their eternal context) lead to the over-emphasis of certain divine expressions, and the overlooking of other as vital manifestations of the divine consciousness. is far wider and more inclusive than their manifestation through

o aspiration and to service is right and good and should be seen as forming part of the coming universal consciousness and equipment of the race as a whole. it is steadily coming to the surface owing to the growing strength of the aquarian influence which (from about the year a.d. 1640) has been gaining in potency and is producing two effects: it is breaking down the crystallised old forms of the piscean age, and is stimulating the creative faculties, as they express themselves in group concepts, and group plans. as all of you well know, this is the cause of the present disturbed conditions, and these conditions can be summed up in the words- 354- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust impersonalization wherein the state, group or groups are regarded as of more importance tha

355- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust these and other questions which will arise may serve to indicate the responsiveness of the aspirant to the coming in of the new age. in this treatise on individual development and on astral control, a vision has been given and a rule of life expounded which holds in it the needed instruction for the interlude between the two great ages the piscean and the aquarian. a part of the underlying purpose has been expressed in words a purpose which is recognised by many all over the world and which is working out in practically every department of human life. it is subconsciously registered and intuitively followed by many who know nothing of the technicalities of the plan. those who guide the human race are not particularly concerned as to

eep so closely in touch with his soul that he can stand with steadiness whilst he endeavours to make that vision a reality; he aims to achieve what, from the standpoint of the world seems to be impossible, knowing that the vision is not materialised through expediency and undue adaptation of the suggested ideas of worldly or intellectual counsellors. public opinion and the advice of those who are piscean in their tendencies and not aquarian are carefully considered but not unduly so, and when advice is found to be separative and tends to eliminate harmony, and produces a lack of brotherly love and understanding, it is discarded at once. when there is evidenced a constantly critical attitude towards other workers in the field of world service and where there is a capacity to see only selfis

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

ersonality and working therefore on mental levels, works very close to the soul. the developed personality produces the clear distinctions of the dominant lower mind, but (if one may use such a symbolic way of expression) the close proximity of the soul negates a separative attitude. the religious man is pre-eminently astral or emotional and works in a more separative manner, particularly in this piscean age which is passing away. when i say the religious man i refer to the mystic and to the man who senses the beatific vision. i refer not to disciples nor to those who are called initiates, for they add to the mystical vision a trained mental apprehension. the sixth ray of devotion embodies the principle of recognition. by this i mean the capacity to see the ideal reality lying behind the f

fluence, expressing itself through the cereals and flowers. ray iv. is the life quality, expressing itself through the grasses and the smaller forms of vegetable life, those which provide the "green carpet whereon the angels dance- 151- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust an important symbolic happening has been consummated at the close of this piscean age, which is the period of the sixth ray influence. this has been the world-wide devastation of the forests of the world. everywhere they have been sacrificed to the needs of man. thus have been brought under the influence of fire, those vegetable forms of life which were ready for the initiation. the major agency in the development of this kingdom has been water, and this new development

must now begin what really constitutes an outline of the new psychology this will work out to its fulfillment and true usefulness in the aquarian age. it will then become the basic and fundamental science of that age, just as electrical science (the electricity of matter) is the basic- 206- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust achievement of the piscean age. what we are really going to consider are the influences which make a man what he is, and which determine the quality of his appearance. this appearance must be studied in terms of the entire integrated personality, and not just from the outer and objective physical condition. the influences which determine him are his own personal and soul rays which play upon him and affect his consc

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

to aid. each of us has to make "of twain, one new man, so making peace" for peace is unity and synthesis. but the lesson and message which christ brought to individual man he brought also to the nations, holding before them the hope of future world unity and world peace. he came at the- 13- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust beginning of that astronomical age which we call "the piscean age" because, during this period of approximately two thousand years, our sun is passing through that sign in the zodiac which we call pisces, or the fishes. hence the frequent references to fishes, and the appearance of the symbol of the fish in christian literature, including the new testament. this piscean age comes between the previous jewish dispensation (the two thousand years wherei

r thousands of years, and are our joint heritage today. the ancient zodiac of dendera (antedating christianity by several thousand years) is ample proof of this. in the sun's journey around the zodiac, this "man of the heavens" eventually arrives at pisces; this sign is exactly opposite the sign virgo, and is the sign of all world saviours. we have already seen that the age of christianity is the piscean age, and christ came to the holy land when our sun transitted into that sign. therefore that which was started and had its being in virgo (the birth of the christ child) is consummated in pisces when that christ child, having attained maturity, comes forth as the world saviour. one other astronomical fact is of interest in this connection. closely associated with the constellation virgo, a

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

his law of sacrifice, which is the first of the laws to be grasped by the human intelligence, and is therefore the easiest for man to understand (because he is already governed by it and, therefore- 55- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust aware of it) came to its first major expression during this slowly disappearing age, the present age, the piscean age. this law has always been functioning and active in the world, for it is one of the first of the inner subjective laws to express itself consciously, and as an active ideal, in human life. the theme of all the world religions has been divine sacrifice, the immolation of the cosmic deity through, the process of universal creation, and of the world saviours, by their death and sacrifice

to a better understanding of the law of sacrifice if it were expressed through synonymous words and terms. a. the significance of the law of sacrifice it means the impulse of giving. the whole secret of the doctrines of "the forgiveness of sins" and of the "at-onement" lies hid in this simple phrase. it is the basis of the christian doctrine of love and sacrifice. hence the emphasis laid, in the piscean age and through the influence of christianity, upon just these two things, forgiveness and atonement. that man, as usual, distorted and misinterpreted the teaching and the truth, and that it fell, as does all else at present, under the glamour and illusion of the astral plane, plus the piscean influence, is true. man's thought dominated and distorted the ideal and produced such a damnable

ut here that in the new age, we shall enlarge our concept of this term world saviour. at present we apply it predominantly to those souls who emerge upon the teaching ray, the second or christ ray. they- 59- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust enact the drama of salvation. but this is an error, due to the overpowering emotional glamour of the piscean age. this astral influence has its roots in the past atlantean civilisation, which preceded ours. in that age, the astral body was the subject of attention. much that happens today, and which may develop, has its roots in that aspect of energy. seeds sown at that time are now brought to flower. this is very good and necessary, even if distressing in experience. but the world saviours must

- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust thirdly this law of service was expressed for the first time fully by the christ two thousand years ago. he was the forerunner of the aquarian age, and hence his constant emphasis upon the fact that he was the "water of life, the "living water" which men needed. hence the esoteric name of this law is that of "water and the fishes" the piscean age slowly, very slowly, prepared the way for the divine expression of service, which will be the glory of the coming centuries. today, we have a world which is steadily coming to the realisation that "no man liveth unto himself, and that only as the love, about which so much has been written and spoken, finds its outlet in service, can man begin to measure up to his innate capacity. the s

l the time, the physical man is responding to the injunctions and impulses of his own personality. this often happens to three types of people: a. those whose egos or personalities are upon the sixth ray. b. those who have laid themselves open to the glamours of the astral plane through over stimulation of the solar plexus. c. those who are susceptible, for some reason or another, to the receding piscean energy. 10. guidance can come, as you well know, from a man's own soul when through meditation, discipline and service, he has established contact, and there is consequently a direct channel of communication from soul to brain, via the mind. this, when clear and direct, is true divine guidance, coming from the inner divinity. it can, however, be distorted and misinterpreted if the mind is

t is important in so far that it is a group activity, carried forward as a whole and is not the act of one individual or a small handful of individuals within the group. i refer to the way in which at this time a group drains the life of its leader or leaders. the umbilical cord (speaking symbolically) is seldom cut between the leader and the group. that was the major mistake of the groups in the piscean age. always they remained- 374- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust attached to the leader or when aroused to hate or dislike they violently disrupted the tie and severed the relationship, causing much distress and unnecessary suffering to the group as well as to the leader. in the new age the cord will be cut early in the life of the

mature human being. the problems, difficulties, diseases and disturbances of the man who is mystically oriented, introspective and enquiring, will, during the next few centuries, give place to the problems and complexities of the man who is becoming group conscious and who is working with an extraverted awareness in a group of some kind or another. i would remind you here that as a result of the piscean influence during the past two thousand years such groups are predominantly idealistic. this brings us to one of the most interesting parts of our treatise, which is the influence of the rays today and in the aquarian age which is now upon us. this should prove of practical value. let us bring to the work of the new cycle which is opening before us a renewed aspiration, a deepened love and

ye of the inner vision open, and with our intuition alert and awake, perhaps some apprehension of the problems before the council may dawn upon our minds. it is not possible to enlarge upon these forces, nor may we interpret them. we can simply state what are facts to the hierarchy but which may only be an interesting supposition, hypothesis or chimera to us: 1. the cumulative forces of the great piscean age powerful, fundamental and, at this time, destructive. to these forces the unenlightened masses react; for them they are the line of least resistance. when we say masses, we refer to all who do not truly think, but who believe and who accept on the lower or ordinary levels of consciousness. 2. the incoming forces of the aquarian age. these are having a wide and general effect upon the e

ge fall into three general lines. a. between the three major ideologies: the fascists, the communistic and the democratic. b. between the reactionary and fundamentalist groups and the liberal minded people who react to the newer spiritual impression and the emerging ways of approach to god. c. between the old cultures and civilisations and the new incoming ways of living and thinking; between the piscean way of life and the aquarian attitude of thought and life; between the laws of the kingdom of god, the fifth kingdom and those of humanity, the fourth; between the self-conscious individualistic way of life and the way of brotherhood, of love and of group consciousness. 2. to heal those divisions and bridge these cleavages through the agency of the world group, which we call the new group

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

onder of group love, of group intuition and of group service; you will thus undergo a joint illumination, a shared response and a united effort. you will comprehend then that a line of exclusion may spiritually exist, indicating those who can pass on to the preparatory stage of group initiation and those who must approach that great event singly and alone. these latter belong predominantly to the piscean age. they take initiation as separate identities; you can take initiation in group formation. none of us who do the work of preparing candidates for initiation are in a position to pronounce as to time; that has to be determined by each individual aspirant. see to it, however, as individuals, that your group is not held back through your inability to see, by your personal glamours, by your

lt of this tendency is an excessive intensity of vibration which wrecks and shatters the mechanism. your sixth ray personality produces an intense adherence to your ideals and to the truth, as you see it; it produces also a one-pointedness which has led to a focussing of energy in the head. this has been intensified also, owing to our western civilisation being immersed in the thoughtforms of the piscean age the age of the sixth ray which is still with us. when the first ray energy of the soul pours in and blends itself with the sixth ray force, the shattering effect is increased and the personality carries more force than it can handle. that energy is also unevenly distributed and goes primarily to the throat and to the solar plexus, causing a disturbance and an upsetting of the balance o

ehicles, for i seek to place your interest, not in yourself but in others. february 1938 my brother and my friend: i would recall to you certain remarks which i made in my last instruction. with your usual aptitude to select that which your personality prefers, and which intrigues your sense of sin (i say this with a smile, brother, but the dramatic glamour of the sixth ray person, working in the piscean christian age, loves public conviction of wrong doing) and, feeding your sense of drama, enables you to say "now i know" when you do not. you emphasised that which was obvious, and ignored the real things with which i sought to reach you. what were the points of real importance in my last communication to you? i will list them briefly: 1. the illusion of selection and reward to which, i wa

of your mystical interior life. of this interior life, few are aware. it is the sweetening, inclusive aspect in your life and your polarisation is largely there and should be so increasingly. it is the factor in your life which makes you magnetic and loved. you have a non-separative mind. your astral body is under the influence of the sixth ray of devotion and hence your early interest in things piscean and your strong christian tendency. hence, also, your strong emotional nature which is, however, well controlled, largely because in this life you have a masculine body. as you might well imagine, your physical body is conditioned by the seventh ray. upon this i need not enlarge. you are, therefore, a composite aggregate of forces, as follows: 1. the soul ray first ray of will or power. 2

ing together of opposites into an intelligent unity. but it is a harmony interpreted in terms of emotion; to this fact i would call your attention. you must ponder on harmony as the mind understands it, and remember that only those succeed in resolving discord into harmony who themselves work from a stable centre of adjustment. your astral body is definitely sixth ray and hence predisposes you to piscean attitudes, emotional id es fixes, violent astral storms, great devotions which call your emotional reactions into play on matters and subjects which, in this day of world suffering and crisis, do not warrant attention and constitute an easy tuning-in on glamour and illusion. your physical body is first ray in type and this gives your first ray personality an easy line of least resistance

therefore, been interested in three phases of the work: the books, the arcane school, and the new group of world servers. the impact made upon the world by these three aspects of the work has been definitely effective and useful. the sum total of the useful work accomplished is what counts and not the criticisms and the misunderstanding of those who, basically, belong to the old order, and to the piscean age. they are, therefore, unable to see the emergence of the new ways of life and the new approaches to truth. i have stood all this time behind the scenes. the books and pamphlets have been my responsibility and carry the authority of truth if truth is there and not the authority of my name or of any status which i might claim, or which might be claimed for me by the curious, the inquisit

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ages. but christ also looked ahead to the work he would have to do in the aquarian age, in the next sign into which the sun would enter. prior to his "disappearance" he referred to the symbol of the aquarian age and to the task he would then perform. with his twelve disciples, he enacted a dramatic episode which epitomises the work which he would later undertake when the two thousand years of the piscean era would have passed away. he told his disciples to go into the city and that there they would meet a man, carrying a pitcher of water, that they should follow him to the upper room and there make ready the communion feast in which he and they would share (luke xxii.10) this they did and the last supper took place. the ancient symbol for the sign aquarius (into which our sun is now enteri

ions and this will be the great gift of the aquarian age to humanity. this the church has ignored and yet their ecclesiastics cannot explain away the fact that the jews demonstrated their liking for the taurian worship of the bull in the golden calf, that the jewish dispensation used the symbol of the scapegoat or ram in the age of aries, the ram, and that the christian emphasises the fish in the piscean era, the christian era. christ came to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away as a religion with the movement of the sun out of aries into pisces. he, therefore, presented himself to them as their messiah, manifesting through the jewish race. in the rejection of the christ as the messiah, the jewish race has remained symbolically and practically

s ago and shows as yet little desire to change. the coming in of the aquarian age, christ foresaw and reduced to pictorial form for us, thus preserving for us down the centuries a prophetic episode, the interpretation of which is possible of demonstration only in our time and age. astronomically, we are not yet functioning fully within the influence of aquarius; we are only just emerging from the piscean influence, and the full impact of the energies which aquarius will set loose has not yet been felt. nevertheless, each year carries us closer to the centre of power, the major effect of which will be to induce recognition of man's essential unity, of the processes of sharing and of cooperation and of the emergence of that new world religion whose keynote will be universality and initiation

hrist consciousness- 43- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust in june, 1945, at the time of the full moon (so significant a day in the spiritual experience of the christ, he definitely and consciously took over his duties and responsibilities as the teacher and leader during the aquarian solar cycle. he is the first of the great world teachers to cover two zodiacal cycles the piscean and the aquarian. this is a statement easily made and written down, but again it involves the three modes or techniques of appearance to which i have already referred. his outpouring love and spiritual vitality (augmented by the energies of the spirit of peace, the avatar of synthesis and the buddha) were refocussed and channelled into a great stream, pulled through into expression (if i m

by transmitting the energies from the three points of the surrounding triangle to humanity. this blended, impersonal energy, triple in nature, will be spread abroad universally, producing evolutionary growth, attracting people and nations magnetically to each other and automatically causing the unfoldment of the sense of synthesis, of provable unity and of a desirable fusion. just as, during the piscean age, there was unfolded in humanity a mass responsiveness to knowledge and to the principle of intelligence, so in the aquarian age, a mass response to right relations will equally be evoked, and goodwill (as its expression) will be distinctive of the mass consciousness. it may be difficult to realise and appreciate this possibility but it was equally difficult for the mass of men in the f

humanity a mass responsiveness to knowledge and to the principle of intelligence, so in the aquarian age, a mass response to right relations will equally be evoked, and goodwill (as its expression) will be distinctive of the mass consciousness. it may be difficult to realise and appreciate this possibility but it was equally difficult for the mass of men in the first centuries of the christian or piscean era to realise the future growth of the educational systems of the world and the spread of that knowledge which is distinctive of our present civilisation and culture. past attainment is ever the guarantee of future possibility. as dispenser of the water of life, his work is most mysterious and not at all easy to comprehend. in his public work, two thousand years ago, he said "i am come th

ows and understands the second stanza of the invocation "from the point of love within the heart of god, let love stream forth into the hearts of men; the group which (in the aquarian age) the christ himself will "nourish" and prepare will know the meaning of the third stanza "from the centre where the will of god is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men" the work of christ, during the piscean age, was to relate humanity to the hierarchy of the planet; in the aquarian age, his work will be to relate this rapidly growing group to that higher centre where the father is contacted, where recognition of sonship is accorded and where the divine purpose can be known. through the coming work of christ, the three divine aspects, recognised by all the world religions (including the christ

ts derivation) someone who is an artificer in timber or a builder of wooden houses. this is the true meaning of the biblical story of christ's being crucified upon the cross of wood or the tree. it is related in reality to the decision made by christ in the garden of gethsemane to take over the building or reconstruction work in aquarius, and thus complete the task which he attempted to do in the piscean age. he and his disciples and the new group of world servers are the pledged builders of the new civilisation, the new "house of humanity" the preparatory work he is now doing will fit him to demonstrate in wisdom (and not only through love) the nature of the hierarchical plans, wise constructive measures, wise choice of builders and correct methods of construction. it is apparent, therefo

is reappearance, certain major fused and blended dualities. it would profit us to study them and know which they are: 1. the fusion of the second divine aspect of love and the first divine aspect of will the- 52- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust will-to-good. 2. the fusion of love and wisdom, enabling him to be the builder of the new age and civilisation. 3. the fusion of piscean energy, generated during the past two thousand years of christ's spiritual activity and the aquarian energies to be generated and active on earth during the next two thousand years, or two thousand five hundred. it is for this process of fusion and all that it entails that he now subjects himself to training. when this is completed, he can become in a sense hitherto unknown to him the foca

on earth during the next two thousand years, or two thousand five hundred. it is for this process of fusion and all that it entails that he now subjects himself to training. when this is completed, he can become in a sense hitherto unknown to him the focal point and the transmitting agent for all these five divine energies: 1. the energy of love. 2. the energy of will. 3. the energy of wisdom. 4. piscean energy, generated during the christian era. 5. aquarian energy, already generating upon the inner planes of thought and feeling, and to be generated during the centuries ahead of us. the lines which his training follows are known only to christ, to the buddha and to the avatar of synthesis. all esoteric or spiritual training has to be self-applied; this is as true of the christ as it is of

e forth to give the answer and to lay the foundation for a more enlightened approach to life, giving the teaching which would open the door to the work of the christ who would, he knew, follow in his steps. it is interesting to remember that when the buddha came, approximately five hundred years before christ (for the exact date of christ's birth remains debatable, the first dim influences of the piscean age could be felt, impinging upon the powerful quality of the age of aries, the scapegoat or the ram. it was the influence of this age persisting throughout the jewish dispensation which led eventually to the distortion of the simple teaching of the christ when he came. he was erroneously presented to the world as the living scapegoat, bearing away the sins of the people, and thus originat

christ, on the verge of revelation. through the revelation of the soul that mystery (which soul knowledge veils) will stand revealed. the scriptures of the world have ever prophesied that, at the end of the age, we shall see the revelation of that which is secret and the emergence of that which has hitherto been concealed, into the light of day. as we know, our present cycle marks the end of the piscean age; the next two hundred years will see the abolition of death or rather of our misconceptions as to death and the firm establishing of the fact of the soul's existence; the soul will then be known to be an entity and the motivating impulse and the spiritual force behind all manifested forms. the work of the christ (two thousand years ago) was to proclaim certain great possibilities and t

eal; his acknowledged presence with us and the presence of his disciples will make possible a far more rapid development than would otherwise be the case. the stimulation of the objective hierarchy will be increasingly potent and the aquarian age will see so many of the sons of men accepting the great renunciation that world effort will be on the same scale as the mass education of mankind in the piscean age. materialism as a mass principle will be rejected and the major spiritual values will assume greater control. the culmination of a civilisation, with its special note, quality and gifts to posterity, is significant of the reflection of the spiritual intent, and (through its massed populations) of one of the initiations. history will some day be based and written upon the record of the

into the world to feed the sheep, to seek, to guide and to become "fishers of men" the relation of the disciples of the christ was only secondarily to their master but primarily to a demanding world; that attitude still controls the hierarchy, yet with no loss of devotion to the christ. what the buddha had instituted symbolically and in embryo became factual and existent under the demands of the piscean age. in the age into which we are now emerging, the aquarian age, this mode of group work will reach a very high point of development, and the world will be saved and reconstructed by groups far more than by individuals. in the past we have had world saviours sons of god who have given to men a message which brought an increase of light to the people. now, in the fullness of time, and thro

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

applied eventually by love, motivated by wisdom in cooperation with intelligence. all will be actuated by a dynamic (not a passive) will-to-good. we will divide what i have to say under two points- 3- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the situation and its ray causes in the immediate present. 2. the situation in the future when the aquarian age is really established and the piscean influences are no longer dominant. before we take up these points, however, i have a few introductory comments to make. these it is essential that you should study and comprehend for upon their right acceptance and understanding will depend the benefit you will gain from my teaching upon these points. it is a truism to remark that the history of the world is based on the emergence of ideas

tant fact that all these ideologies may be temporarily adapted to the groups or nations who adopt them. they are none of them suitable for general use (and i say this equally of democracy as of any other ideology; they suit well in all probability the nations who accept them and mould their national life on their premises; they are only transitory substitutes in this transition period between the piscean and the aquarian ages and cannot permanently last. nothing as yet is permanent. when permanency is reached, evolution will cease and god's plan will be consummated. and then? the greatest revelation of all will come at the close of this world period when the human mind, intuition and soul consciousness is such that understanding will be possible. 5. the idea of a spiritual hierarchy which

t law of attraction and repulsion which has much to do with the intercourse and relationships between nations. let us now look at a few of them. france is a pisces-leo country, and is expressive egoically of the fifth ray of concrete knowledge or science and the personality ray of active intelligence. the soul of france, subjectively ruled europe for the most important and influential part of the piscean age, now passing out; she coloured and dominated, by her leo personality, a large part of the happenings- 38- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust in europe during the middle ages and for centuries; she mediated the piscean quality to the civilisation of the then known world and her definitely leo personality self-conscious, self-centred, brilliantly intelligent and indivi

uality to the civilisation of the then known world and her definitely leo personality self-conscious, self-centred, brilliantly intelligent and individual conditioned europe. it is this leo personality which is responsible for the intensely nationalistic spirit of the modern french and which negates in them the more aquarian tendency to universal consciousness or to the expression of the advanced piscean soul to save the world; france comes before the world. the lesson france has to learn today is that the salvation of others is the goal of her piscean soul and in this the self-interest of leo precipitates conflict one to which france is slowly awakening. the egoic ray of france is that of concrete science and this, working in conjunction with the energy of the fifth zodiacal sign, leo, ha

eat capital through the soul of the city, energised by virgo and, forget not, that virgo is the polar opposite of pisces and the infant christ in virgo comes to full flower in pisces. here lies the hope of france. you will remember perhaps that some years ago i indicated that from france will come a great psychological or soul revelation which will bring illumination to world thought. if the true piscean element can be drawn forth and the selfishness and the self-protective interests of the french nation can be offset, france then stands free some day to lead the world spiritually as she has effectively in past history from the more political and cultural aspects, but this can only happen when the personality ray is subordinated to the soul ray and leo can respond to the aquarian influence

me saturn offers most definite opportunity through the focus of power now to be found in paris. d. ray 4. harmony through conflict, via mercury. can france work for world harmony in the post-war period? e. ray 5. concrete science or knowledge, via venus. in this a realised cooperation with the soul ray, which is also the fifth ray, can bring about, through the french nation, a consummation of the piscean influence or genius. f. ray 4. this time through the moon, thus aiding the work of mercury and producing that needed internal conflict which will release france from leo and from the control of her self-centred personality. i would here call your attention to the fact that the astrology which i am emphasising is that which is concerned with the effective energies what they are and from whe

i am not concerned with predictive astrology. the coming emphasis in astrology will be upon the available energies and the use the subject makes of them and the opportunity which they present at any given time. i have given you france somewhat in detail so that you can appreciate the extent of the influences which determine any nation and make it for the first time what it is. the combination of piscean power in the piscean age, plus a potent leo nature, enabled france at one time to express quite phenomenally its innate subjective tendency to save the world (for france is essentially on the path of a world saviour; this was aided by the brilliant clear vision of the fifth and third rays with their intellectual bias, plus the opportunity offered by saturn, ruling paris- 40- the destiny of

a world saviour; this was aided by the brilliant clear vision of the fifth and third rays with their intellectual bias, plus the opportunity offered by saturn, ruling paris- 40- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust this enabled france to stage the great french revolution and strike one of the major blows for the release of humanity from bondage. this has twice occurred during the piscean ages: once at the signing of the magna charta at runnymede and again at the french revolution. the recognition of the importance of the rights of humanity, as a whole, came to the world via france. it marked a climax and high point in the evolution of the nation. since then capricorn and pluto have produced crystallisation and the death or obscuration temporarily of the then emerging soul

a new phase and cycle in the history of the country which emerges into prominence through conflict but which is essentially a process of releasing the soul to fuller expression. it is ruled also by pisces, cooperating with the influences of its first ray personality, which is the ray of power and the ray of the destroyer. the whole problem of french-german relation is tied up in this fact for the piscean soul of france and the piscean personality of germany must eventually come to terms and it is obvious, is it not, that the real solution lies in the hands of france, which must let its soul control? it is because of this that, at the close of the piscean age, this whole relationship has come to a focus. france has an integrated personality whilst germany has not; france is mental whilst ge

vities. they did, however, provide a good medium through which the ancient atlantean conflict could be precipitated and brought to the surface, and the ancient feud between materialism and the forces of light be finally resolved for this particular world cycle. germany is mediumistic, as was its dictator, as i have earlier indicated; it is the aries-leo influences which produced the dictator. the piscean personality of germany (which is the sign governing mediumship) accounts for the apparently fluid grasp of essentials and the inability of its people and ruling government to stand by pledges. the influence of the sixth ray, coming via mars, martially applied, and the lack of true spiritual love as it is diverted into sentimental personality devotions, account temporarily for the mass negl

nment to stand by pledges. the influence of the sixth ray, coming via mars, martially applied, and the lack of true spiritual love as it is diverted into sentimental personality devotions, account temporarily for the mass negligence to assert itself on behalf of the oppressed and in the interests of the higher principles. the need for this assertion is realised by many in germany but the negative piscean personality attitude provides a great obstacle and accounts for what has puzzled all who know and love the german people. at present, the influence of mars, of leo and of pisces in their lower octave or connotations, are dominant. that which can offset this unhappy situation is the influence of scorpio, the sign of discipleship and one of the death signs in the zodiac. the struggle for the

ominant. that which can offset this unhappy situation is the influence of scorpio, the sign of discipleship and one of the death signs in the zodiac. the struggle for the soul of the people and its emergence into control is really taking place today in berlin and upon the decision of this conflict much depends. france whose soul is governed by pisces, the world saviour, can do much to release the piscean personality of germany. here lies the crux of the world problem. great britain, with her soul ray ruled by gemini (which understands both the soul nature and the personality nature, can do much to help. i cannot elaborate on this further beyond pointing out that both for nations and individuals the first great crisis in scorpio upon the path of discipleship is determining in its effect upo

xth ray influence can easily be seen. when, however, an individual sixth ray influence can be noted in an era wherein the sixth ray is uniquely active, then the reason for the potency of the religious idea, as expressed in theological dogma and doctrine and the universal authority of the churches can be seen. this orientation of man to the world of higher values has been the main objective of the piscean age which is ending now and of the sixth ray influence which is so rapidly passing out. though there has never been a time when this basic orientation has not been going steadily forward, it is of value to bear in mind that during the past two thousand years a much higher, rarer and more difficult process of orientation has been held before the race and for the following reason. the fourth

nt jesus grew to manhood and could then take the second initiation, the baptism in jordan, and begin his public service. today the many who in this life have taken the first initiation are entering the long silence of that symbolic thirty years wherein they too will grow to manhood and take the second initiation. this initiation demonstrates the complete control of the emotional nature and of all piscean characteristics. the thirty years can be looked upon as a period of spiritual unfoldment during the three divisions into which aquarius (and consequently the new age now upon us) will be divided. i refer to what is technically known as the three decans of each sign. in this sign the waters of the piscean age will, symbolically speaking, be absorbed into the water-pot carried on the shoulde

y one preceding and one following immediately after the apparent death of the christ. they are: 1. the story of the upper chamber to which the man carrying the water pot and typifying aquarius led the disciples, and in which the first communion service was held, participated in by all and foretelling that great relationship which will distinguish humanity in the coming age, after the tests of the piscean age. such a communion service has never yet been held, but the new age will see it take place. 2. the story of the upper chamber in which the disciples met and arrived at a true recognition of the risen christ and at a perfect and complete understanding of each other in spite of the symbolic diversity of tongues. they had a touch of prevision, of prophetic insight, and foresaw a little of

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

and glamour. thus, with knowledge, you can begin to free yourselves from the glamour of the world. the glamour of devotion causes many probationary disciples to wander circuitously around in the world of desire. this is primarily a glamour which affects sixth ray persons and is particularly potent at this time owing to the age-long activity of the sixth ray of devotion during the rapidly passing piscean age. it is today one of the potent glamours of the really devoted aspirant. they are devoted to a cause, to a teacher, to a creed, to a person, to a duty, or to a responsibility. ponder on this. this harmless desire along some line of idealism which confronts them becomes definitely harmful both to themselves and to others, because through this glamour of devotion they swing into the rhyth

nt world problem are as follows: a. the soul ray. 2nd. humanity must express love. b. the personality ray. 3rd. developing intelligence for transmutation into love-wisdom. c. mind ray. 5th. scientific achievement. d. astral ray .6 th .i dealistic development. e. physical ray. 7th. organisation. business. the soul ray controls for an entire life period. the personality rays given above are for the piscean age which is now beginning to pass out; but these have definitely and irrevocably conditioned humanity. you will note also that the first ray of will or power is missing as is the fourth ray of harmony through conflict. this fourth ray is always active as it controls in a peculiar manner the fourth creative hierarchy and might be regarded as forming the basic personality ray of the fourth

ysical which goes on to crystallisation) when maturity was achieved and a certain initiation became possible for its advanced humanity. 15. when a racial incarnation and a zodiacal cycle synchronise (which is not always the case) then there comes a significant and important focussing of the attention of the dweller on the angel and vice versa. this is taking place at this time at the close of the piscean era and when the aryan race has reached maturity and a relatively high water mark of development. discipleship is significant of maturity, and it is with mature development that the dweller is met. the aryan race is ready for discipleship. 16. the development of sensitivity in the individual and in the race indicates the imminence of the recognition of the angel from both angles of vision

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

hibition and hindrances) and the natural animal and personality powers particularly the emotional are the obvious and visible qualities of the man. a good deal of symbolism connected with the latent christ and the outer expressive personality can be seen if a study is made of the biblical story of jonah and the whale. i have not time to enlarge upon it here, but it is a parable concerned with the piscean stage of consciousness and the awakening of the christ consciousness with the consequent dispute which that entails. jonah stands for the hidden imprisoned christ, alive to the perils of the situation, and the whale of large size stands for the bondage of incarnation and for the personality. it is in this dual sign that the imprisoned soul and the personality enter upon that process which

upon the fixed cross, that he learns to prepare himself for the twelve great tests in all the twelve signs for which the experience of the two crosses prepares him. pisces governs the feet and hence the whole thought of progress, of attaining the goal, and the treading of the path of return has been the underlying spiritual revelation of the great cycle through which we are passing; also, in the piscean age, the lesser cycle out of which we are at this time moving, it has been the origin of all the teaching given by the world religions anent the various stages of the path of return. some astrologers hold also that pisces governs the generative processes. they are essentially correct because once a man is nearing or upon the path he should become increasingly creative in the higher sense a

personality horoscope than does the more advanced man who is coming under the direct influence of the zodiacal signs. through these rulers, two rays are brought into a potent controlling position in scorpio; they are the sixth ray of devotion and the fourth ray of harmony through conflict, the latter having a peculiar relation to the mode of human development and the former to the methods of the piscean age which is just passing. mars and mercury control and mars is particularly active, owing to the fact that mars is both the orthodox planet controlling the personality in scorpio and also the esoteric planet conditioning the unfoldment of the disciple. mars is the dominating factor in the tests and trials of the disciple, prior to the experience in sagittarius and the initiation in capric

orld period and in a peculiar manner, as far as the race (aryan) to which the western world belongs, neptune is known esoterically as the initiator. in certain ancient formulas, the great teacher of the west and the present world initiator, christ, is spoken of as neptune, who rules the ocean, whose trident and astrological symbol signifies the trinity in manifestation and who is the ruler of the piscean age. the formula runs as follows, speaking esoterically. the fish goddesses who have leapt from earth (virgo) to water (pisces) unitedly give birth to the fish god (christ) who introduces the water of life into the ocean of substance and thus brings light to the world. thus does neptune work" this is, however, a great mystery, revealed only at the time of the second initiation in which the

hat upon sex and the judicial system as they are both ruled and conditioned by libra and this will be increasingly the case. the subject is too vast and too important for me to do more than indicate lines of approach. a cursory handling of the problem is of no real usefulness. in this transition period through which the world is now passing and in this interlude between two activities that of the piscean age which is passing and that of aquarius which is coming in libra will eventually rule, and the end of this century will see the influence of libra steadily coming into pronounced control and into a position of power in the planetary horoscope. there is, therefore, no need for real anxiety. a certain relationship or configuration of stars of which one is the star regulus, in leo will brin

ign which is now passing out of influence as we progress upon the great wheel of the zodiac. it is this sign with its combination of energies which has produced such a potent vibratory activity in humanity that it can successfully and eventually enact the role of world saviour. of this salvation, pisces is the sign. pisces is also the sign of death, as you know, and in its death aspect we see the piscean correspondence to the first aspect, the destroyer aspect of the logos. this death aspect is naturally active at the close of the piscean age and is consequently bringing about the present death of form in all the three worlds. b. uranus is the planet of occultism for it veils "that which is essential; it hides that which must be discovered and, at the right moment, it transmits knowledge o

a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust individual disciple. these are: sagittarius, libra, taurus, pisces and aquarius. pisces has, however, at this time a unique relation to the seven constellations which produce the great human crises; it also completes the final united effort of the triangle: leo, virgo, pisces. it has been the steady impact of piscean force which has at long last brought humanity, the world disciple, to the very door of initiation. for over two thousand years, piscean influence has been playing upon mankind; it has brought about the demand for world adjustment; it has developed the international spirit and has led to the formation of groups in every department of human living and so laid the foundation for the future sy

the form life to the will of the indwelling christ; this was consummated when "divinity descended upon him" at the baptism. the sagittarian energy enabled him to say, when confronted with full knowledge of the imminent sacrifice which he would have to make "i must go up to jerusalem" and, we read, he then "set his face" and trod the path of the saviour, leading to the liberation of humanity. the piscean aspect in its highest expression is demonstrated by his sensitivity to immediate and unbroken contact with his "father in heaven; he was in constant communication with the monad, thereby proving to the world that he was initiated into states of consciousness of which the third initiation is but the beginning. all the three crosses are shown as functioning simultaneously in his life a thing

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

have, therefore, been interested in three phases of the work: the books, the arcane school and the new group of world servers. the impact made upon the world by these three aspects of the work has been definitely effective and useful. the sum total of the useful work accomplished is what counts and not the criticisms and the misunderstanding of those who basically belong to the old order, to the piscean age and who are therefore unable to see the emergence of the new ways of life and the new approaches to truth. all this time i have stood behind the scenes. the books and pamphlets have been my responsibility and carry the authority of truth if truth is there and not the authority of my name or of any status which i might claim or which might be claimed for me by the curious, the inquisiti

losophy and cosmic law, who was given the task of providing that bridging teaching necessary to the guidance of the hard-pressed disciples of the great ones in our present era; more especially also to provide the necessary expanding knowledge of spiritual realities which had to become available to humanity during that critical period of our present world history, when we are transiting out of the piscean era into the aquarian age. d.k. worked with the great disciple whom we know as h.p.b. her writings, and especially the secret doctrine, were a courageous pioneering effort which broke through in the earlier days and made all that we now can do far more possible than it otherwise could have been. the time had come for the next expanded teaching to be given out. d.k. stood next to k.h. whose

k in the world its pioneering aspect and has made us ever conscious that to a considerable degree the whole thing was in the nature of an experiment. another real need in the esoteric field was a type of discipleship teaching and action which would help to offset the crystalisations of the esoteric schools that had been produced in the- 179- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust piscean era, which is now closing. these errors and unfortunate aspects were in a certain sense inevitable and do not justify criticism of any other esoteric group or work. they nevertheless existed and were proving a stumbling block and were shutting off the reception of the newer forms of spiritual expression. a.a.b. saw this clearly and has always persistently worked with this in mind. among ot

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

d people, upon the dreaming state and frequently conditions quite drastically, the neurotic and erotic conditions so prevalent at this time- 201- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the tremendous increase in insanity and imbalance today is due to three major causes: 1. the transitional period of today producing a clash between the aquarian and the piscean forces, has led to a condition which makes it very difficult for sensitive people to live normally at all. to express the idea in symbol: it is almost as if the race, after habituating itself to live on the earth, had now to accustom itself to live in water. i am talking from the standpoint of the form. 2. the intense spiritual and mental stimulation which is being applied today to the mas

e more ancient schools, such as the allopathic, call for a process of elimination in order to arrive at the vital and true contribution which they have to give. others of a modern and tentative experimental kind must be lifted out of the hands of the fanatics; for until fanaticism with its blindness and lack of intelligent synthesis dies out (as it inevitably will as the sixth ray recedes and the piscean age passes out, the new schools cannot exist as they should; there must be a keener understanding of the underlying and fundamental good in all the schools and a better grasp of the principles which underlie the true healing art, before the schools, referred to in letters on occult meditation, can come into being. when, as is the case today, some healer or school lays the entire emphasis u

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

and arranged so as to equip the child to compete with the information which other people possess. iii. education to date has been largely memory training, though there is now emerging the recognition that this attitude must end. the child has to assimilate the facts that the race believes to be true, has tested in the past and found adequate. but each age has a differing standard of adequacy. the piscean age dealt with the detail of the endeavour to measure up to a sensed ideal. hence we have a history which covers the method whereby tribes acquired national status through aggression, war and conquest. that has been indicative of racial achievement. geography has been based on a similar reaction to an idea of expansion, and through it the child learns how men, driven by economic and other

orbed lands. this too has been regarded, and rightly so, as a racial achievement. the various- 8- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust branches of science are also regarded as constituting the conquest of areas of territory, and this again is acclaimed as racial achievement. the conquests of science, the conquests of nations, and the conquests of territory are all indicative of the piscean method, with its idealism, its militancy, and its separativeness in all fields religious, political and economic. but the age of synthesis, of inclusiveness and of understanding is upon us, and the new education of the aquarian age must begin very gently to penetrate the human aura. iv. education is more than memory training and more than informing a child or student as to the past and its

deal. the task is to train students in the recognition of energy and force; to discriminate between the various types of energy, both in relation to themselves and to world affairs, and to begin to relate that which is seen and experienced to that which is unseen, conditioning and determining. this is the esoteric task. there is a tendency among esoteric students, particularly those in the older piscean groups, to regard any interest in the energies producing world events or which concern governments and politics as antagonistic to esoteric and spiritual endeavour. but the newer esotericism which the more modern groups and the more mental types will sponsor sees all events and world movements and national governments, plus all political circumstances, as expressions of the energies to be

as yet practically untrained and undeveloped, they have little power of discrimination and small ability to differentiate between the old and the new, or between the right and the more right. having been trained in selfishness and in material attitudes while under parental control and in the educational systems of the day, their trend of thought normally runs along these undesirable lines. in the piscean age which is passing, the youth in every country has been brought up under the influence of three foundational ideas. the result of these ideas might be expressed under the terms of the following questions: 1. what shall be my vocation in order that i may have as much of the material world as my state in life and my wants permit? 2. who are the people who are above me, to whom i must look

attitudes of great national leaders who are not, as a rule, animated at all by selfish ambition, but are controlled by love of their nation and thus by some definite form of idealism hence the great emerging ideologies. ponder on this point, get a wider picture of the growth of the human consciousness, and grasp somewhat the goal of the new and coming educational system. third, the ending of the piscean age, which has brought to the point of crystallisation (and therefore of death) all those forms through which the piscean ideals have been moulded. they have served their purpose and done a great and needed work. it might be asked here: what are the major piscean ideals? 1. the idea of authority. this has led to the imposition of the different forms of paternalism upon the race political

f individuals. such idealists are apt to forget that the only true sacrifice is that which is self-initiated, and that when it is an enforced sacrifice (imposed by the more powerful and superior person or group) it is apt to be, in the last analysis, the coercion of the individual and his enforced submission to a stronger will. 4. the idea of the satisfaction of desire. above everything else, the piscean age has been the age of material production and of commercial expansion, of the salesmanship of the products of human skill which the general public is educated to believe are essential to happiness. the old- 81- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust simplicity and the true values have been temporarily relegated to the background. this was permitted to continue without arrest

fourth, the coming into manifestation of the aquarian age. this fact should provide the grounds for a profound and convinced optimism; nothing can stop the effect growing, stabilising and final of the new, incoming influences. these will inevitably condition the future, determine the type of culture and civilisation, indicate the form of government and produce an effect upon humanity, as has the piscean or christian age, or the earlier period governed by aries, the ram or goat. upon these steadily emerging influences the hierarchy counts with assurance, and the disciples of the world must likewise learn to depend upon them. the consciousness of universal relationship, of subjective integration and of a proven and experienced unity will be the climaxing gift of the period ahead of us. in t

at he is doing will subordinate his personality to the good of the whole. the growth of organised brotherhoods and fraternities, of parties and of groups, dedicated to some cause or idea, is another indication of the activity of the coming forces. the interesting thing to note is that they are all expressive of some grasped idea more than of some specific person's determined and imposed plan. the piscean type of man is an idealist along some line of human development. the aquarian type will take the new ideals and the emerging ideas and in group activity materialise them. it is with this concept that the education of the future will work. the idealism of the piscean type and his life upon the physical plane were like two separate expressions of the man. they were often widely separated and

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

abitation" as time goes on i will convey information anent the work of the masters' ashrams, their planned externalisation and, eventually, the externalisation of the hierarchy. such, brother of mine, is our appointed task. out of all that might be said or written by me will eventually emerge a treatise on discipleship which will be useful in the new age. you are accustomed to the teaching of the piscean age upon this subject and also to the piscean interpretation. it is part of my work to begin to indicate the methods and processes and the modes of instruction which will distinguish the aquarian age. this will only be possible to aspirants with an open mind. for this you must strive. this programme is an ambitious one, my brothers; it will call forth your utmost capacity and staying power

re exists amongst its personnel a complete unity of purpose and an utter dedication (without any reservations, as far as the disciple involved is concerned) to the furthering of the immediate ashramic enterprise. the position of the master at the centre of the group has no relation to that of a teacher at the centre of a group of learners and devotees, such as we have learned to recognise in this piscean age. he is the centre simply because through the quality of his vibration, through karmic ancient relationship and through the invocative demand of disciples, initiates and some aspirants, he has gathered them together in order to further the ends of his ashramic enterprise; he has not gathered them together in order to teach them or to prepare them for initiation as has hitherto been taug

needed interior changes have taken place. formula six is sometimes called "the word of death" it negates the destructive effect of the death process which is going on all the time within the mechanism of the disciple or initiate. the death proceeds with its needed work, but it is not destructive in effect. this formula has never been given out before to disciples, but can now be known because the piscean age is one in which at last the power of physical death is definitely broken and the signature of the resurrection is- 172- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust revealed. in this esoteric negation of death are the deeply hidden and impressive causes of the two stages of the world war (1914-1945, and in this formula lies the significance lying behind the "fight

n of the nature of life, and is therefore related to the circulation and interplay of energy. formula five. deals with the will aspect. it is concerned with the revelation of divine purpose, and is therefore related to shamballa. formula six. deals with the nature of death. it is concerned with the revelation of the constructive work of the destroyer aspect. it is therefore related to the passing piscean age and- 185- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust with all processes of "abstraction" these formulas have seven interpretations; only three of them are, however, possible of discovery by the disciple in training at this particular time, because only the light from the spiritual triad can convey this type of revelation and interpretation. 3. through the present

eferred: 1. the higher and more intelligent type of disciple who is now affiliating with the ashram and his instinctive demand for group work and recognition. 2. the new energies pouring through shamballa into the hierarchy; these are of an extra-planetary nature and have their source largely in the aquarian quality of the present cycle; these energies are steadily eliminating the energies of the piscean age. therefore, my brother, from the angle of the searching disciple, this first hint (in one of its deeper meanings) provides you with three lines of thought or of meditative reflection: evolutionary change, reorganisation, group responsibility. the concept of service rendered by the hierarchy is consistently present. the way to world change is also given. the hierarchy as a meeting-place

of personality reactions. will you therefore rest back on facts and lived experience and waste not time in wishing and in emotional reactions? you have made much progress in this life, my brother. you are not young but that, in your case, need not deter you from further search for liberation, based on a planned relinquishing. sixth ray aspirants have a particularly hard task at the close of this piscean age, due to the sixth ray expression of the christian era. today the energies are concretising and working through that which is old and honoured, that which is "conditioned by gold (as the saying is) and that which belongs to a passing age an age which should pass. this affects also your sixth ray personality and, consequently, from many angles your allegiances and your loyalties are moti

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

sychic awareness. it would be of value here to remember that the condition of humanity at this time is not the result of simply one factor, but of several all of them being active simultaneously, because this period marks the close of one age and the inauguration of the new. the factors to which i refer are, primarily, three in number: 1. this is a transition period between the passing out of the piscean age, with its emphasis upon authority and belief, and the coming in of the aquarian age, with its emphasis upon individual understanding and direct knowledge. the activity of these forces, characteristic of the two signs, produces in the atoms of the human body a corresponding activity. we are on the verge of new knowledges and the atoms of the body are being tuned up for reception. those

upon authority and belief, and the coming in of the aquarian age, with its emphasis upon individual understanding and direct knowledge. the activity of these forces, characteristic of the two signs, produces in the atoms of the human body a corresponding activity. we are on the verge of new knowledges and the atoms of the body are being tuned up for reception. those atoms which are predominantly piscean are beginning to slow down their activity and to be "occultly withdrawn" as it is called, or abstracted, whilst those which are responsive to the new age tendencies are, in their turn, being stimulated and their vibratory activity increased. 2. the world war marked a climax in the history of mankind, and its subjective effect was far more potent than has hitherto been grasped. through the

and develop the techniques and methods of the new schools of thought which will determine the new culture; together and as a group they can bring these ideas and ideals into the consciousness of the masses, so that schools of thought and world religions can be blended into one, and the new civilisation can emerge. it will be the product of the mental and emotional fusion of the techniques of the piscean age, and it will thus produce an eventual manifestation- 20- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the physical plane of the plan of god for the immediate future. this is the vision which lies behind the experiment being carried on in the new seed groups. looking at the whole problem from another angle, it might be stated that the effort of the past has been

inding you that some of the causes lie in so remote a past that history knows nothing of them. you would find it useful to re-read those few pages at this point, for in them i sought to give some insight into the essential situation which confronts mankind due to certain evolutionary developments: 1. the point reached by humanity itself 2. the emergence of the new racial type 3. the ending of the piscean age 4. the coming in of the aquarian age. we barely touched upon the fourth point and i am not enlarging at length upon it here either, fascinating as speculation might be, because i am anxious to have its major characteristics those of unity and synthesis stand out with clarity in your minds. it gives the clue to all that is happening today in the world of politics and international gover

d in the jewish problem, is definitely producing cleavage as a part of the divine plan. the jews are instruments in the working out of the plan for the production of certain syntheses and to bring humanity to certain realisations and decisions. a close study of this tabulation will bring you much of knowledge. however, it only expresses the present situation in this interim period between the old piscean age which is passing and the new aquarian age which is coming in. it depicts this present world cycle. the emphasis of the rays changes in connection with the last two types of energy expressions quite constantly, because they are symbolic (in this day and age) of the personality nature in its physical and emotional forms. i wonder whether you can grasp the implications of this paragraph

her upon the way to which you are ordained, and this way you can travel rapidly and with eager feet or slowly and with lagging steps. the above enumerated forces are, however, part of the temporary interlocking of energies which is going on between the many expressions of the creative process at this time. they are likewise conditioned by the incoming aquarian force and "measured" by the outgoing piscean forces. i would have you note here my use of the word "forces" and "force" for not idly have i made them- 61- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust singular and plural. in this process of founding the kingdom of heaven upon earth, the same procedure is being followed as was used in the earlier stage of founding the fourth kingdom. the "seven men, each on his own l

ples. at-one-ment is ever (under evolutionary law) the consequence of sacrifice. of this, christ's sacrifice was the symbol and the guarantee, impulsed as his life and activities were by the spirit of peace. as he made "of twain, one new man, so making peace (ephesians 2:15) so today out of the duality of soul and body, humanity is achieving the same ends and the result of this final stage of the piscean age will be the fusion in consciousness of soul and body. the aquarian age will demonstrate an increasing expression of this at-one-ment, wrought out in the crucifixion of humanity at the present time. the difference between this coming stage and that of the past is that, in the past, the soul has sought this development and at-one-ment and (from the angle of evolution) it has been slowly

ad. i do not mention the christ or the buddha as among these avatars because they are avatars of another class and of infinitely greater potency. 3. ray avatars. these great beings come forth at relatively long intervals when a ray is coming into manifestation. they embody the quality and the force of a particular ray. next century, when the seventh ray has achieved complete manifestation and the piscean influence is entirely removed, the seventh ray avatar will appear. his work will demonstrate the law, order and rhythm of the creative process as it works out on the physical plane, blending spirit and matter. and as this ray is called the ray of ceremonial order or ritual, he will be largely instrumental in producing those conditions which will permit of the reappearance upon earth of the

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nto active thought expression at the end of this century; they will inaugurate the framework, structure and fabric of the new age which will start with certain premises which today are the dream of the more exalted dreamers and which will develop the civilisation of the aquarian age. this coming age will be as predominantly the age of group interplay, group idealism and group consciousness as the piscean age has been one of personality unfoldment and emphasis, personality focus and personality consciousness. selfishness, as we now understand it, will gradually disappear, for the will of the individual will voluntarily be blended into the group will. it will be obvious to you, therefore, that this could well bring about a still more dangerous situation, because a group would be a combinatio

umanity, just as the hierarchy overshadows the new group and just as the soul overshadows the personality of man; you have all the needed illumination and light upon all the coming problems, waiting to precipitate itself through the new group of world servers under the influence of taurus, the nurturer of all illumination, and you have humanity, at the same time, conditioned and made sensitive by piscean energy during the past two thousand years. you have, therefore, a condition of great spiritual promise, and in this combination of energies you have present those forces which will implement the activities of the hierarchy, condition its initiates, affect every ashram, bring light into the present darkness, and as can already be seen stir into new understanding the present piscean consciou

n of the aquarian age. the full tide of light is inevitably moving upon its way towards us- 152- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust this rule tells us that "the group toils in pisces" this simply means that the field wherein the new group of world servers works is that of mankind, conditioned and ruled for the past two thousand years by piscean energy. this is, as you know, the energy which produces mediation and which develops sensitivity in the individual. the work accomplished by and through this energy is so successfully accomplished that it has produced a mediating group of servers; this group acts as an intermediary between the hierarchy and humanity, and it has also developed the sensitive response of humanity to contacts

accomplished that it has produced a mediating group of servers; this group acts as an intermediary between the hierarchy and humanity, and it has also developed the sensitive response of humanity to contacts, and to such a degree of sensitivity that the response to be accorded to the activities of the new group of world servers is very real and cannot be negated. it should be remembered that the piscean energy with which the group has to work is opposed to the incoming energies from the hierarchy and the new group of world servers. this is owing to the fact that the energy of this constellation is passing out concurrently with the sixth ray energy, with which it peculiarly "coincided" as it is esoterically called. hence the present difficulties. the passing out of the influence of pisces

for what has been called "the evocation of the initiate consciousness" it is becoming obvious to the hierarchy that with the arrival of the aquarian age, group preparation, group initiation and group acceptance must and will supersede the older methods. these older methods, built around the direct relationship between a master and a disciple, reached their highest point of usefulness early in the piscean age. for nearly two thousand years these methods have proved so successful that the intensity of humanity's response is such that hundreds are now ready "for absorption" this readiness and success present a difficulty and pose a problem for the masters, necessitating a reorganisation of their plans and a readjustment of their techniques. 2. not only has the individual approach to the hiera

into the world to feed the sheep, to seek, to guide and to become "fishers of men" the relation of the disciples of the christ was only secondarily to their master, and primarily to a demanding world; that attitude still controls the hierarchy, yet with no less of devotion to the christ. what the buddha had instituted symbolically and in embryo became factual and existent under the demands of the piscean age. 3. the third great change has been in the relation of the hierarchy to shamballa, and of this you can necessarily know and understand little. i could perhaps express the underlying significance to you in symbolic language. the energy, emanating from shamballa, has been divided into two direct and distinctive streams. one stream, embodying the dynamic of purpose, is now pouring into th

christ (the hierarchy) until such time as he is beginning to think and live in terms of group relationships and group activities. some well-meaning aspirants interpret the group idea as the instruction to them that they should make an effort to form groups their own group or groups. this is not the idea as it is presented in the aquarian age, so close today; it was the mode of approach during the piscean age, now passed. today, the entire approach is totally different. no man today is expected to stand at the centre of his little world and work to become a focal point for a group. his task now is to discover the group of aspirants with which he should affiliate himself and with whom he must travel upon the path of initiation a very different matter and a far more difficult one. he needs to

ble by three major happenings: 1. the conclusion of a twenty-five thousand year cycle or movement around what is called the lesser zodiac. this connotes a major cycle of experience in the life of our planetary logos. it is related to the interplay between the planetary logos and the solar logos as the latter responds to energies emanating from the twelve zodiacal constellations. 2. the end of the piscean age. this simply means that the energies coming from pisces during the last two thousand years are now being rapidly superseded by energies coming from aquarius. these result in major changes in the life of the planetary logos and potently affect his body of manifestation through the medium of his three major centres: shamballa, the hierarchy and humanity. 3. the increasingly dominant acti

ever precede initiation, and by means of which those capable of taking the second initiation are today passing. i cannot here enlarge upon the various ideologies which are presenting themselves to the world of men impulsed by the hierarchy, precipitated into the human consciousness from the mental plane by the new group of world servers, implemented by the energy of the sixth ray, by the dominant piscean energy and by the organising energy of the incoming seventh ray, and responded to emotionally by the masses of men focussed on the astral plane. to all intelligent observers, this ideological situation is clear; it is a needed and preliminary stage to the creation of the new world order; it provides a point of crisis and the required point of tension which will enable those aspirants who a

on. through this experience the kama-manasic aspirant will be in a positive and spiritual condition to bring about (on the astral plane) those fundamental changes, rearrangements and readjustments which will bring that level of planetary consciousness into line with the immediate divine purpose: the manifestation of the kingdom of god. the work of sixth ray energy, the result of the long cycle of piscean energy, and the impact of the incoming aquarian energy will bring a potent transformation in the "watery realm" of the astral- 380- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust plane. the symbol of that plane has ever been water fluid, stormy, reflecting all impressions, the source of mist and fog, and yet ever essential to human living. t

cean energy, and the impact of the incoming aquarian energy will bring a potent transformation in the "watery realm" of the astral- 380- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust plane. the symbol of that plane has ever been water fluid, stormy, reflecting all impressions, the source of mist and fog, and yet ever essential to human living. the piscean age, now in process of passing away, is also closely related to this plane and to the symbol of water; it fixed in the human consciousness the realisation that "men are as fishes, immersed in the sea of emotions" aquarius is also known by the symbol of water, for aquarius is the "water-carrier" the sixth ray will bring together all these energies in time and space: ray energy, piscean ener

as brought these subjective spiritual tendencies of mankind to the surface and made these two initiations possible; it is the activity of the seventh ray of order and of the sixth ray of idealism which has generated the tendency in humanity towards the white magic of right human relations. they have fostered the trend to ideological control of the human consciousness. it is the passing out of the piscean age with its type of energy, and the coming into power of the aquarian age (with its potent purificatory energies and its quality of synthesis and universality) which will make the new world order possible. it is therefore apparent that the opportunity confronting humanity has never been so promising and that the corporate relation and fusion of all these energies makes the manifestation o

gy relating the two..ray of harmony through conflict..ray iv these rays 2, 4, 6 are all on the second line of spiritual energy and lack all the stiffening and strengthening dualities of the first line of ray energy l, 3, 5, 7 which are governed by will or power. the american civilisation, with all its clamour of youthful precocity, is in reality the heir of the passing sixth ray civilisation, the piscean; therefore, you have here the reason for the tendency of the american people to adopt violently conditioning idealisms and ideologies. it is the idealistic tendency in conflict with pronounced materialistic trends of this particular modern era which will finally evoke the harmony which will liberate the spirit of america, which will reveal to its people that it is one world and which will

tion of pain, and this to an extent hitherto unknown. even a casual glance at world affairs will reveal the truth of this statement. what, therefore, is really happening, and what are the major facts involved? much will depend upon my answer and upon your interpretation of it. i would ask you consequently to give careful consideration to my reply to these two questions. under the influence of the piscean cycle which is now in process of termination, the sixth ray of idealism or devotion was predominantly active. this is the ray of one-pointed determination and from one angle it is the ray of blind procedure. the individual, the group or humanity, sees only one aspect of reality at any one time, and (because of man's present point in the evolutionary process) usually the least desirable asp

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with technique, with health and hygiene, with analytical vivisection of himself and others, is actually a focalization on the negative values of crisis" if the crisis in virgo is positively met then "the substance of consciousness itself is renewed and with this renewal, undertoning it, goes necessarily a restatement of purpose" for pisces, the opposite pole, the keynote given is courage, and the piscean temperament is called a battlefield, for its message is "liberation" and liberty must be fought for and earned, it cannot be a gift. the climax reads "all conflicts are absolved, all transitions are resolved into christ births" which is the climax of the birth of the latent christ-consciousness in virgo [124] keynotes the heights and the depths of this sixth labor are clearly indicated in

on of follower to that of independent seekers. entrance into heaven is entrance into the aquarian age, begun during the last two hundred years. we are told that about the year two thousand our pole star and another star (vega) in the heavens will be in conjunction with each other [183] and the aquarian age will be fully with us, but only fully with us in the sense that we shall be entering it and piscean forces will be receding rapidly. all that transpires in physical plane expression is due to subjective forces. a school of thought exists which traces all the mysteries, all the teachings that we are now calling the ageless wisdom, to a form of animal worship and temple mysteries of a sordid and sexual kind. i shall not go into details, but i want to tell- 105- the labours of hercules you

our speech. why do you raise your voice when emoting? because the energy sweeping through you has an effect upon your vocal apparatus. you are dealing with energies and you are misusing energies. watch yourself and begin to work in the world of forces within yourself. this sign inaugurates the school of world saviors. it is almost a "john the baptist" sign, a sign of preparation for what the next piscean age is going to bring in. aquarius is depicted as a man holding an inverted vase. the man inverts the vase and out of it come two streams of water, the river of life and the river of love, and those two words, life and love, are the two words that embody the technique of the aquarian age; not form, not mind, but life and love. two words we use constantly but which, back of them, do not bea

rmoil is brought about by saturn, between those who bow to material things and those who are letting them go in order to get the better things; between those who grab possessions for themselves, those who hoard and keep, and those who let go in order to acquire what christ calls "treasures in heaven. in almost any field of thought we find these two compelling forces because of [188] the impact of piscean and aquarian energies. there are two diverse groups: those who are tied to the past and to the material aspect, and those who are getting the vision and are seeing the life, the consciousness, the purpose and the plan emerging through the medium of them all. the wonderful thing, if you study the world intuitively, if you keep apace with what is going on in this and other sections of humani

that you will see that, in spite of superficial disturbances and dire happenings, the spirit of man is sound and pure, is rising to the occasion and we are coming through, but don't think it will be in a week or a year! we may get better conditions, improvements here, there and everywhere- 108- the labours of hercules it is up to us how fast we learn the lesson of how to let go, in order that the piscean age of materialism and of authority, possession and mentality can be superseded by the age of spirituality, of intuition, and of universal consciousness. the second decanate of aquarius is governed by mercury, and out of the present time will come illumination. the illumination that came in leo, the opposite of aquarius, was "i am the self, the illumination we call self consciousness. illu

therly love which is identification with every form in every kingdom in nature. a tremendous future lies ahead; two thousand five hundred years will have been consummated. we are on our way. remember, the more rarefied the forms through which the life is acting, the more rapid the reaction. that is why we have this tremendous speed in every department of life, why we are all so strung up. we have piscean bodies and we are trying to vibrate to the aquarian age. we are not aquarians yet; there are no true aquarians; we are not yet equipped. for that age some of the children coming in have the earmarks, but even they are few and far between. the aquarian age is going to manifest over the whole world; there will be aquarians born everywhere because there is the working out of the subjective sp

to express the new ideals, is always non-recognition and sometimes worse. you won't be praised, you won't be pitied, you will have a difficult time, but [194] remember, you are hewing the path so that in the future, hatred and separation may die out. i like to think of aquarius as the "john the baptist sign" in terms of the initiate. we are leaving pisces in one respect and we are headed toward a piscean era in another respect when the world savior will come. and as we look upon the aquarian age as a john the baptist sign, so we can look upon ourselves in our own fields wherever we may be. in view of the cosmic picture, doing all we can do at this particular time, we are fulfiling the function of john the baptist and preparing the way for that extraordinary happening that is going to take

ed with us down the ages. you must be a very dominant figure to remain in the minds of men for thousands of years. most of us are forgotten in twenty. significant aspect of the sign the sign pisces marks a triangular place in the heavens, a symbol of reality. this sign rules the feet and hence the idea of treading the path and attaining the goal has been the underlying spiritual revelation of the piscean age. pisces is also the sign of death in various aspects. the death of the body sometimes, or it may be that an old foolishness has come to an end, an undesirable friendship will cease, devotion to some religious form of thought that has held you will now [200] end and you will emerge and set your feet upon a new path. it is the sign of death to the personality. if we could give up the ide

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ey are what might be termed 'thinking' people. people who, rather than accept something or someone else's word, will investigate for themselves; read, research, look at the thing from all angles before reaching a conclusion. they are housewives, clerks, teachers, businesspeople, truck-drivers, soldiers all sorts. astrologically speaking we are one third of the way through the twelfth house of the piscean age. at the end of this house we enter the aquarian age. this is, then, the eve of the age of aquarius, and it is one of general unrest. of dissatisfaction^particularty with religion and of searching for 'inner peace. there has, over the past four or five years, been a tremendous rebirth of interest in the occult, a veritable renaissance of thinking. young people have realized that they do

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eage centro di ricerca psichica del convivio encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 264 from a secret surviving templar order. over the succeeding decades the number of such groups claiming templar roots has multiplied. cercle international is grounded in the idea that each era (defined by astrological ages) is unique in the way that the cosmos impact human consciousness. the previous piscean era was keynoted by jesus and his admonition to love one another. the keynote for the present era, the aquarian, is the search for personal integration, in a manner previously modeled by mystics and sages. in this era, mysticism will become common. in attempting to assist people in finding personal integration, cercle international emphasizes that each individual must find his/her own path

njunction of the sun and moon at the spring equinox that occurs approximately every 600 years. changes of cycles are marked by social disruptions and messianic expectations. a neros cycle was coming to an end as higgins wrote and he noted the existence of various millennial teachers claiming special insight in his day such as joanna southcott and richard brothers. he also set the beginning of the piscean age in 350 b.c.e, thus dating the emergence of the aquarian age in 1801. higgins believed that all religions had their bases in solar worship as the sun was the most universal symbol of the one. jesus is seen as a solar christ and his crucifixion symbolizing the sun crossing the celestial equator at the vernal equinox, between two astrological ages. he described himself as a christian, but

ship and psychology the next year. along with his traditional spiritualist ideals, hurley taught a form of black judaism. he believed that blacks were god s original hebrew people and that the mark of cain (god s curse) was the pale skin of white people. hurley also suggested that he was the bearer of god s spirit on earth for the emerging aquarian age, just as jesus was the spirit bearer for the piscean age, and moses and adam had been for prior astrological ages. he believed that the aquarian age had begun with the signing of the armistice following world war i, that it would last 7,000 years, and that it would see the end of protestantism, segregation, and injustice. hurley died on june 23, 1943. he was succeeded by his wife, who led the church until her death in 1960. sources: baer, ha

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orter of franklin d. roosevelt. the church planted congregations across the northeast and midwest during hurley s lifetime. as the church expanded, hurley acquired an increasingly grandiose self-understanding. he told his followers that his carnal flesh had been transformed into the flesh of christ and that he had become the god of this aquarian age, just as jesus had been the god of the previous piscean age. since hurley s death, the uhsc has been led by prince thomas surbacher, mother mary hatchett, prince alfred bailey, and rev. g. latimer, hurley s daughter. hurley welcomed women to the ministry, and they have always been well represented on the wiseman s board, the church s ruling structure. state directors are called princes, a term taken over from triumph the church and kingdom of g

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and preparing. as he completes each stage it would represent a aspects of the heraldic period, only at the moment of the movement from one age to the next would he enter the sanctuary and transit the energies to the priesthood and to egypt. to fully appreciate the heraldic cycle as it leads towards aquarius, we should examine the four dates at the climax of pisces. from 18444 to 21024 we have the piscean heraldic cycle ruled by the sign of aries. aries is ruled by the planet mars and hence this suggests the violent and martial tone that pisces, which is assigned the egyptian god horus, has taken in this last age. while pisces is water, aries is fire and hence we have the interaction of will and emotion, while pisces distributes power, aries generates it and hence the combination of these p

kely. the aeon of horus was the age of pisces and crowley had experienced a further transmission of the energy which was becoming aquarius. at the same time this energy restated much of the teachings of the solar tradition since it had become garbled through the ages. however, since this knowledge was filtered through crowley s unconscious, difficulties arise. the current of 93 he outlined is the piscean current, agape (love, thelema (will) and logos (word) all are aspects of it and 93 reduces to 12- the zodiac and of course the twelve disciples, twelve being the sacred number of completion within biblical numerology. there are many difficulties as crowley disciples transformed his gnostic vision into a counter culture cult. the relevance is in crowley declaration of the revelation. furthe

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at, pisces to aquarius. this change will bring about a significant variation in the experience of humanity, both in terms of light and darkness, positivity and negativity. all aspects of the fourfold solar cross (negative and positive x and y factors) are influenced by the changeover. as the heraldic period takes hold, humanity is drawn throught the transition and experiences vibrations of both a piscean and aquarian nature. at each of the nexus dates within the heraldic period, the energies further accelerate and transform. religious perceptions of the change there were many who witnessed the start of the heraldic period from the perception of traditional christianity. in the adventist movement people were experiencing revelations and visions as early as the 1830 s, as 1844 came close the

owever, of great relevance. if we strip away the grandstanding and arrogance of crowleyanity we find a comprehensive record of the equinox of the gods. the major difference between the gnostic and thelemite view is that there is no evidence a new aeon began in 1904. the aeon of horus, which many claim began on this date, was the age heralded by jesus and james and existed since the dawning of the piscean age. crowley's revelation was a re-instatement of the primal gnosis and a witness to the gnostic theurgy page 213 start of the heraldic period, which has been developing since 1844. for the gnostic it is important to see crowley and indeed the whole golden dawn tradition as part of the gnostic continuum rather than allowing them to be re-interpreted by those who want to emphasize the ritua

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ubjected to one sovereignty" the period of 2,160 years required for the regression of the sun through one of the zodiacal constellations is often termed an age. according to this system, the age secured its name from the sign through which the sun passes year after year as it crosses the equator at the vernal equinox. from this arrangement are derived the terms the taurian age, the aryan age, the piscean age, and the aquarian age. during these periods, or ages, religious worship takes the form of the appropriate celestial sign--that which the sun is said to assume as a personality in the same manner that a spirit assumes a body. these twelve signs are the jewels of his breastplate and his light shines forth from them, one after the other. from a consideration of this system, it is readily

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