Advice for Teachers & Parents from the Work of Djwhal Khul &
Alice A. Bailey
Excerpted from "Education
in the New Age" by Djwhal Khul through Alice A. Bailey
First, and above everything else, the
effort should be made to provide an atmosphere wherein certain qualities can flourish and
emerge.
1. An atmosphere of love, wherein fear is
cast out and the child realizes he has no cause for timidity, shyness or caution, and one
in which he receives courteous treatment at the hands of others, and is expected also to
render equally courteous treatment in return. This is rare indeed to find in schoolrooms
or in homes for that matter. This atmosphere of love is not an emotional, sentimental form
of love but is based upon a realization of the potentialities of the child as an
individual, on a sense of true responsibility, freedom from prejudice, racial antagonisms,
and above everything else, upon compassionate tenderness. This compassionate tenderness is
founded on the recognition of the difficulty of living, upon sensitivity to the child's
normally affectionate response, and upon a knowledge that love always draws forth what is
best in child and man.
2. An atmosphere of patience, wherein the
child can become, normally and naturally, a seeker after the light of knowledge; wherein
he is sure of always meeting with a quick response to inquiry and a careful reply to all
questions, and wherein there is never the sense of speed or hurry. Most children's natures
are warped by the rush and hurry of those with whom they are perforce associated. There is
no time to instruct them and to reply to their small and most necessary inquiries, and the
time factor therefore becomes a menace to right development, and leads eventually to a
life of evasions and of wrong perspectives. Their standard of values becomes distorted by
watching those with whom they live, and much of it is brought to their attention by the
impatience which is displayed towards them. This impatience on the part of those upon whom
they are so pathetically dependent, sows in them the seeds of irritation, and more lives
are ruined by irritation than can be counted.
3. An atmosphere of ordered activity,
wherein the child can learn the first rudiments of responsibility. The children who are
coming into incarnation at this time, and who can profit by the new type of education, are
necessarily on the very verge of soul consciousness. One of the first indications of such
soul contact is a rapidly developing sense of responsibility. This should be carefully
borne in mind, for the shouldering of small duties and the sharing of responsibility
(which is always concerned with some form of group relation) is a potent factor in
determining a child's character and future vocation.
4. An atmosphere of understanding, wherein
a child is always sure that the reasons and motives for his actions will be recognized,
and that those who are his older associates will always comprehend the nature of his
motivating impulses, even though they may not always approve of what he has done or of his
activities. Many of the things which the average child does are not in themselves naughty
or wicked or intentionally bad. They are frequently prompted by a thwarted inquiring
spirit, by the desire to retaliate for some injustice (based on the adult's lack of
understanding his motivation), by an inability to employ time rightly (for the directional
will is often, at this age, entirely quiescent and will not become active until the mind
is beginning to function), and by the urge to attract attention - a necessary urge in the
development of self-consciousness, but one which needs understanding and most careful
guidance.
It is the older generation who foster in a
child an early and most unnecessary sense of guilt, of sinfulness and of wrongdoing. So
much emphasis is laid upon petty little things that are not really wrong but are annoying
to the parent or teacher, that a true sense of wrong (which is the recognition of failure
to preserve right relations with the group) gets overlaid and is not recognized for what
it is. The many small and petty sins, imposed upon children by the constant reiteration of
"No," by the use of the word "naughty," and based largely on parental
failure to understand and occupy the child, are of no real moment. If these [78] aspects
of the child's life are rightly handled, then the truly wrong things, the infringements
upon the rights of others, the encroachments of individual desire upon group requirements
and conditions, and the hurting or damaging of others in order to achieve personal gain,
will emerge in right perspective and at the right time. Then the voice of conscience
(which is the whisper of the soul) will not be deadened, and the child will not become
anti-social. He only becomes anti-social when he has not met with understanding and
therefore does not understand or when circumstances demand too much of him.
We need also to realize that we must do two
things We must place the emphasis educationally upon those who are under sixteen years of
age (and the younger the better) and, secondly, that we must begin with what we have, even
whilst recognizing the limitations of the present systems. We must strengthen those
aspects which are good and desirable; we must develop the new attitudes and techniques
which will fit a child for complete living and so make him truly human - a creative,
constructive member of the human family. The very best of all that is past must be
preserved but should only be regarded as the foundation for a better system and a wiser
approach to the goal of world citizenship.
It might be of value at this point to
define what education can be, if it is impulsed by true vision and made responsive to
sensed world need and to the demands of the times.
Education is the training, intelligently
given, which will enable the youth of the world to contact their environment with
intelligence and sanity, and adapt themselves to the existing conditions. This today is of
prime importance and is one of the signposts in a world which has fallen to pieces.
Education is a process whereby the child is
equipped with the information which will enable him to act as a good citizen and perform
the functions of a wise parent. It should take into consideration his inherent tendencies,
his racial and national attributes, and then endeavor to add to these that knowledge which
will lead him to work constructively in his particular world setting and prove himself a
useful citizen. The general trend of his education will be more psychological than in the
past and the information thus gained will be geared to his peculiar situation. All
children have certain assets and should be taught how to use them; these they share with
the whole of humanity, irrespective of race or nationality. Educators will, therefore, lay
emphasis in the future upon
A developing mental control of the emotional
nature.
Vision or the capacity to see beyond what
is, to what might be.
Inherited, factual knowledge upon which it
will be possible to superimpose the wisdom of the future.
Capacity wisely to handle relationships and
to recognize and assume responsibility.
The power to use the mind in two ways
As the "common sense" (using this
word in its old connotation), analyzing and synthesizing the information conveyed by the
five senses.
As a searchlight, penetrating into the world
of ideas and of abstract truth.
Knowledge comes from two directions. It is
the result of the intelligent use of the five senses and it is also developed from the
attempt to seize upon and understand ideas. Both of these are implemented by curiosity and
investigation. [82]
Education should be of three kinds and all
three are necessary to bring humanity to a needed point of development.
It is, first of all, a process of acquiring
facts - past and present - and of then learning to infer and gather from this mass of
information, gradually accumulated, that which can be of practical use in any given
situation. This process involves the fundamentals of our present educational systems.
It is, secondly, a process of learning
wisdom as an outgrowth of knowledge and of grasping understandingly the meaning which lies
behind the outer imparted facts. It is the power to apply knowledge in such a manner that
sane living and an understanding point of view, plus an intelligent technique of conduct,
are the natural results. This also involves training for specialized activities, based
upon innate tendencies, talents or genius.
It is, finally, a process whereby unity or
a sense of synthesis is cultivated. Young people in the future will be taught to think of
themselves in relation to the group, to the family unit and to the nation in which their
destiny has put them. They will also be taught to think in terms of world relationship and
of their nation in relation to other nations. This covers training for citizenship, for
parenthood, and for world understanding; it is basically psychological and should convey
an understanding of humanity. When this type of training is given, we shall develop men
and women who are both civilized and cultured and who will also possess the capacity to
move forward (as life unfolds) into that world of meaning which underlies the world of
outer phenomena and who will begin to view human happenings in terms of the deeper
spiritual and universal values.
Education should be the process whereby
youth is taught to reason from cause to effect, to know the reason why certain actions are
bound inevitably to produce certain results and why (given a certain emotional and mental
equipment, plus an ascertained psychological rating) definite life trends [83] can be
determined and certain professions and life careers provide the right setting for
development and a useful and profitable field of experience. Some attempts along this line
have been undertaken by certain colleges and schools in an effort to ascertain the
psychological aptitudes of a boy or a girl for certain vocations but the whole effort is
still amateurish in nature. When made more scientific it opens the door for training in
the sciences; it gives significance and meaning to history, biography and learning and
thus avoids the bare importation of facts and the crude process of memory training which
has been distinctive of past methods.
The new education will consider a child
with due reference to his heredity, his social position, his national conditioning, his
environment and his individual mental and emotional equipment and will seek to throw the
entire world of effort open to him, pointing out that apparent barriers to progress are
only spurs to renewed endeavor and thus seeking to "lead him out" (the true
meaning of the word "education") from any limiting condition and train him to
think in terms of constructive world citizenship. Growth and still more growth will be
emphasized.
The educator of the future will approach
the problem of youth from the angle of the instinctual reaction of the children, their
intellectual capacity and their intuitional potentiality. In infancy and in the earlier
school grades, the development of right instinctual reactions will be watched and
cultivated; in the later grades, in what is equivalent to the high schools or the
secondary schools, the intellectual unfoldment and control of the mental processes will be
emphasized, whilst in the colleges and universities the unfoldment of the intuition, the
importance of ideals and ideas and the development of abstract thinking and perception
will be fostered; this latter phase will be soundly based upon the previous sound
intellectual foundation. These three factors - instinct, intellect and intuition - provide
the keynotes for the three scholastic institutions through which every [84] young person
will pass and through which, today, many thousands do pass.
In the future, education will make a far
wider use of psychology than heretofore. A trend in this direction is definitely to be
seen. The nature - physical, vital, emotional and mental - of the boy or girl will be
carefully investigated and his incoherent life purposes directed along right lines; he
will be taught to recognize himself as the one who acts, who feels and who thinks. Thus
the responsibility of the central "I," or the occupant of the body will be
taught. This will alter the entire present attitude of the youth of the world to their
surroundings and foster, from the earliest days, the recognition of a part to be played
and a responsibility to be assumed and that education is a method of preparation for that
useful and interesting future.
It, therefore, becomes increasingly
apparent that the coming education could be defined in a new and broader sense as the
Science of Right Human Relations and of Social Organization. This gives a comparatively
new purpose to any curriculum imparted and yet indicates that nothing hitherto included
need be excluded, only a better motivation will be obvious and a nationalistic, selfish
presentation avoided. If history is, for instance, presented on the basis of the
conditioning ideas which have led humanity onward and not on the basis of aggressive wars
and international or national thievery, then education will concern itself with the right
perception and use of ideas, of their transformation into working ideals and their
application as the will-to-good, the will-to-truth and the will-to-beauty. Thus a much
needed alteration of humanity's aims from our present competitive and materialistic
objectives into those that will more fully express the Golden Rule will come about and
right relations between individuals, groups, parties, nations and throughout the entire
international world will be established.
Excerpted from the book Education
in the New Age, by Djwhal Khul through Alice A. Bailey - Click on the title to
see the book.
Leaves Of Morya's Garden
Book One The
Call
Into the New World my first message.
You who gave the Ashram,
And you who gave two lives,
Proclaim.
Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps.
Reader, if you have not grasped — read again,
after a while.
The predestined is not accidental,
The leaves fall in their time.
And winter is but the harbinger of spring.
All is revealed; all is attainable.
I will cover you with My shield,
if you but tend to your labors.
I have spoken.
There is no salvation
surer than that through devotion. One can
forgive much where there is unswerving devotion.
The man who is devoted in heart can be relied
upon. It is cause for rejoicing when Hierarchy
is upheld by devotion. At present it is
especially needed. If yesterday's confusion
seemed enormous, what can one say of tomorrow's?
I have already prepared you for the growth ofArmageddon,
and you know that the black wings of darkness
will not withstand the Fiery Sword. Be not
astonished, the Battle increases!
Agni Yoga:
Fiery World I,605.
Excerpts from some of the books by
the Master Djwhal Khul
(also known as the Tibetan and the Master DK)
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An excellent online catalogue and library
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Collection of articles by
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He wrote some compilations from Alice A. Bailey's books
along with commentaries on those teachings. His work has
helped many students of the Ancient Wisdom Teachings.
Agni Yoga Teachings (all the books
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www.agniyoga.org)
Agni Yoga Teachings regarding
sex
If we compare two
individuals, of whom one dissipates the vital substance while
the other consciously conserves it, we will be amazed at how
much more sensitive the spiritual apparatus of the second
becomes. The quality of his labors becomes entirely different,
and the quantity of his projects and ideas multiplies. The
centers of the solar plexus and brain are being heated, as it
were, by an invisible fire.
http://www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/introduction/esoteric_training This article was dictated by the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul, in 1934. It is printed in
the book, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, pp. 3-20, published by the Lucis
Publishing Company. The need for trained esotericists is more urgent today than it was
then.
The Alice Bailey books were published by Lucis Trust
and can be purchased directly from them, or from fine bookstores
everywhere:
http://www.lucistrust.org
Lucis Trust has a ~new 14-page introductory PDF booklet about
the 3 major full festivals
The GREAT INVOCATION No one can use this
Invocation or prayer for illumination and for love without causing
powerful changes in attitudes and life intention.
Benjamin Creme discusses the emergence of Maitreya, The World Teacher
Maitreya Dancing in Karbala (believe it or
not!)
The
"Horseman" appears @ 1:23:
Kalki Avatar with the sword of cleavage
"In Hinduism, Kalki (Devanagari: कल्कि; meaning 'Eternity,' 'White
Horse,' or 'Destroyer of Filth') is the final incarnation of Vishnu
[Maitreya, the World Teacher] in the current Mahayuga, foretold to
appear at the end of Kali Yuga [now!]...the Puranas foretell that
Kalki will be atop a white horse with a drawn blazing sword. He is
the harbinger of the end time in Hindu eschatology, after which he
will usher in Satya Yuga [New Age]."Source:
Wikipedia
"When Maitreya comes before
the worldthere
will begin for men a period of intense heart-searching and
reflection. It is only to be expected that for many it will be a
painful, even traumatic, one. So steeped in the ways and ideas
of the past, so fearful of a future unknown and strange, are
millions today, that men will want to take stock of the new
situation which will then pertain…. When Maitreya first
announces His plans and hopes for the rehabilitation of the
world, His energy of Love – the Sword of Cleavage – will further
delineate the divisions which now exist. Men will take sides –
for or against the new principles that He will present for the
betterment of all. Thus will it be. Thus will a period of
discord and discontent precede the acceptance of the new.
Gradually, however, even the least sanguine will acknowledge the
need for a reconstructed world and add their weight to the task.
"There will begin a time unlike aught seen before on Earth. On
every hand and at every level the changes will pursue their
logical course, cementing in law and principle and form the
aspirations of all. Thus will men regain a hold on their destiny
and turn away for ever from the abyss. (The Master -- from
‘Coping with change’)
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The Sword of Cleavage is the energy of Love. As people respond
to this energy the world will be divided – those who are
clamouring for change along the lines Maitreya is advocating,
and those who are fearful and looking to the past, who see Him
as the Antichrist, are fearful and do not know what to do. They
will stand aside and watch the events, and so lose the
opportunity presented, for the first time in history, to take
part in the transformation of the world. It is up to each
individual, from where he or she stands, to assert their
divinity. (Benjamin Creme, The Awakening of Humanity)
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"Much that is loved must go. Cling
not to the old forms. Much will depend on man’s ability to
renounce these outworn structures, and to create a new and
simpler world. Remember this. Forget not that I come to change
all things. My Coming brings peace. Likewise, My Presence brings
cleavage. My Sword, that Love which I am, will separate all men,
will show the True from the false, will clear the way for the
New Light which I bring. May it be that you can withstand this
change and accept My Light. (Maitreya, from Message No.74)
-- the selection of quotations is
after the letters to the editor.
In an interview
with the German author Peter Andreas, the scientist Prof. G.
Quispel expresses his amazement that the demonstrably wrong
ideas on this subject have not been abandoned:
"I am constantly astonished
to see that people still do not appear to know what has been
recognized for one and a half centuries: that the beast
from the Apocalypse refers to none other than the Caesar,
Nero. Only the later Christian church, in the time of
Constantine (325 AD), put the Apocalypse into a future,
historical time-frame."(From:Was
Morgenwahr sein kann,Econ
Verlag)
Source:
666 -- and other misunderstandings
http://www.share-international.org/archives/agelesswisdom/aw_pl666.htm
One of the easiest ways to know me, Maitreya says, is to
be
honest in your mind, be sincere in your spirit, and practice detachment. Any
action performed with dishonesty of mind, an insincere spirit and attachment
is destructive. For example, when you think one thing, say another, and do
something which is different again, you are lost. Honesty of mind leads to
honest speech and honest action. This harmony leads to peace and happiness.
Without detachment there is no salvation.
Be what you are. Do not surrender your self-respect, your
dignity, to others. Do not allow anyone to cast his shadow over you. A
Master gives experiences, but does not cast his shadow.
Do not follow one another. If you practice honesty of mind,
sincerity of spirit and detachment, you will know me, you will know the
Lord.
SRI SAI BABA - COSMIC AVATAR chanting the Gayatri
Mantra
The Gayatri is a great prayer for the
blessing of all creatures.
Download this 125 KB mp3 file recording of Sai
Baba sounding the Gayatri Mantra ~30 seconds long.
It has a profoundly nice effect - and can be set repeat
on most of the free sound players.
People in previous generations have not had such a
treasure freely available to them.
Eckhart Tolle - The Flowering of Human Consciousness
THRIVE (full movie)
ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
"The problems confronting us should be faced with courage,
with truth, and understanding,
as well as with the willingness
to speak factually, with simplicity and with love,
in the effort
to expose the truth and clarify the problems which must be
solved.
The opposing forces...must be routed..." The
Tibetan
"Without sharing there can be no justice;
without justice there can be no peace;
without peace there can be no future...
Man must change or die.
There is no other course."
The World Teacher
"Almost anything you do [to help humanity] will seem
insignificant, but it's very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi
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