Quotations from the Work of the
Tibetan
(Djwhal Khul), through Alice A. Bailey
The Rays & the Initiations
All moods, all display of sorrow, of pain, or of happy excitement, are due to our
identification with objects of desire, with the form aspect and with that which is
material. (5)
In the steady adherence to self-appointed rules comes the
gradual refining of the instrument and the perfecting of the vehicles. (11)
True understanding is, I realise, not possible for you but
much can be gained by your effort to comprehend. (304)
To be static, to have attained all that can be attained and
to be at a complete standstill, would be utter death and, my brothers, there is no death.
There is only progress from glory to glory, a moving forward from point to point on the
divine Way and from revelation to revelation, towards those points and revelations which
are perhaps part of the Goal of God Himself. (328)
Love and light are the great revealers and if the student
truly seeks to understand and profit by what I am endeavouring to teach, let him love all
men more deeply and let him see to it that his light shines forth in a dark place, for
"in that light shall he see Light." (329)
The goal of all endeavour upon our planet, is right
relations between man and man and between man and God, between all expressions of divine
life, from the tiniest atom up and on into infinity. (737/8)
From stage to stage, from crisis to crisis, from point to
point and from centre to centre, the life of God progresses, leaving greater beauty behind
it as it moves through one form after another and from kingdom to kingdom... The
manifestations of the Kingdom of God on Earth, the preparing of the way for its great
Inaugurator, the Christ, the making possible the externalisation of the Hierarchy upon
Earth, give us each and all a fully adequate task and something for which to live and
work, to dream and aspire. (738)
May light and love and power shine upon your ways and may
you in due time and with as little delay as possible, stand before the Initiator and join
the ranks of Those Who - actively and consciously - love Their fellow men, work as
reconstructive and regenerative Energies and forever - SERVE. (738)
THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST
Ever down the ages and at every great human crisis, always
in the hours of necessity, at the founding of a new race, or in the awakening of a
prepared humanity to a new and wider vision, the Heart of God - impelled by the Law of
Compassion - sends forth a Teacher...a Christ. (9/10)
(The Christ's) reappearance will knit and bind together all
men and women of goodwill throughout the world, irrespective of religion or nationality.
(21)
It is to the whole world that Christ comes and not just to
the Christian world. He comes to the East and to the West. (100)
He will come unfailingly when a measure of peace has been
restored, when the principle of sharing is at least in process of controlling economic
affairs, and when churches and political groups have begun to clean house. Then He can and
will come; then the Kingdom of God will be publicly recognised, and will no longer be a
thing of dreams and of wishful thinking and orthodox hope. (163)
Nothing under heaven can arrest the progress of the human
soul on its long pilgrimage from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from
death to immortality and from ignorance to wisdom... Nothing can keep the spirit of man
from God. (159)
All spiritually inclined men and women, all who seek and
work for the establishing of right human relations, all who practise goodwill and truly
endeavour to love their fellow men, are an integral part of the New Group of World Servers
and their major task at this time is to prepare the way for the reappearance of the
Christ. (186)
THE DESTINY OF NATIONS
Once an idea becomes ideal, humanity can freely reject or
accept it but ideas come from a higher source and are imposed upon the racial mind,
whether men want them or not. (8)
Only a few, here and there, really grasp the vision of the
future and realise what is going on, seeing truly the beauty of the emerging Plan. (20)
All formulated theologies are the lower expression of the
higher spiritual truths, because they embody the mind reactions of the religious man, his
confidence in his own personal mind deductions and the surety that he is obviously right.
(39)
The little conclusions of the little minds are some of the
most dangerous factors today in world affairs. (41)
The world is one world, and its sufferings are one;
humanity is in truth a unity, but many are still unaware of this, and the whole trend of
the present teaching is directed to the awakening of humanity to this, while there is yet
time to avert still more serious conditions. The sins of humanity are also one. Its goal
is one, and it is as one great human family that we must emerge into the future. I would
emphasise this thought: It is as one humanity, chastened, disciplined but illumined and
fused, that we must emerge into the future. Those who do not grasp this important
fact, whether they are called belligerents or neutrals, will suffer deeply as a result of
their non-participation in the fate of the whole....The Hierarchy is not neutral.
It is one with the right element in every nation, and set against all separative,
isolationist and materialistic attitudes. Such attitudes prevent the apprehension of the
true spiritual values, and hinder human development. Identification with all, and
participation in world conditions -- voluntarily and not from force -- is the way out
today for all peoples. Ponder on this. (65)
There is no power on earth which can prevent the advance of
man towards his destined goal and no combination of powers can hold him back. (106)
The unintelligent work upon the physical plane ... has led
to a world which is suffering from cleavage in as true a sense as an individual person can
suffer from a "split personality." The lines of demarcation between science and
religion are a striking instance of this and have been clearly and forcefully drawn...
When a form and an activity is what you call evil, it is only so because the motivating
energy behind the form and responsible for the activity is wrongly oriented, selfishly
impulsed and incorrectly used. (127)
ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY - VOL. I
Sincerity is the first thing for which those of us who
teach, inevitably look. (xvii)
Students need to remember that they themselves evoke and
call forth the teaching they receive. (110)
You will grow and your soul will take increasing hold upon
its instrument, when your mind and effort are turned towards group service and when your
tongue is rendered harmless, through the inflow of Love. (111)
Psychology has shown that in the consciousness of every
human being is a sense of duality, that man is in some mysterious sense two beings and
that it is the warfare between these two which has led to all the neuroses and complexes.
(119)
I care not where or to whom you give, only that you give -
little if you have but little of time or money, much if you have much. Work and give, love
and think and aid those groups who are building and not destroying, loving and not
attacking, lifting and not tearing down. (189)
Few people can evolve from within themselves the thoughts
and ideas which should lead them on in the realisation of truth; and those of us therefore
who are responsible for the teaching of the race, must perforce provide that which is
required. (232)
Standards are shifting things and change with man's growth
towards divinity. They vary also according to man's destiny as it is affected by his time
and age, his nature and surroundings. They alter also according to the point of
evolutionary development. (284)
Man stands midway between heaven and earth, with his feet
deep in the mud of material life and his head in heaven. In the majority of cases his eyes
are closed, and he sees not the beauty of the heavenly vision, or they are open but fixed
upon the mud and slime with which his feet are covered. But when his open eyes are lifted
for a brief moment, and see the world of reality and of spiritual values, then the torn
and distracted life of the aspirant begins. (312)
Men are always searching for the novel and the unusual,
forgetting that every new truth and every new representation of an old truth, carries with
it the onus of increased responsibility. (315)
ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY - VOL. II
The basic truths of today may be seen later as simply
aspects of still greater truths and when the greater truth is grasped, the significance
and interpretation of its formerly important part is seen to be widely different to what
was supposed. (20)
The lesson needs to be learned that death as the human
consciousness understands it, pain and sorrow, loss and disaster, joy and distress, are
only such because man, as yet, identifies himself with the life of the form and not with
the life and consciousness of the soul. (94)
Pursue your own duty and task, shoulder your own
responsibility and then leave your fellow disciples to do the same, free from the impact
of your thought and criticism. The ways and means are many; the points of view vary with
every personality. (107)
As the individual aspirants lose sight of self in service
and as they arrive at the stage of indifference to personality claims and happenings, they
learn to cherish a spirit of confidence, of joy and of love, deep and lasting, for each
other; they learn to work together whole-heartedly for the helping of the world and the
assistance of the Hierarchy. (117)
Service is a life demonstration. It is a soul urge and
is...an evolutionary impetus of the soul...It is the outstanding characteristic of the
soul, just as desire is the outstanding characteristic of the lower nature. (125)
It takes the soul itself to reveal to the poised and
peaceful mind the next step to be taken in the work of the world evolution, through the
impartation of ideas. Such is the Plan for humanity. (15-136)
There slowly arises in man a divine discontent: the savour
of his life experience and enterprises begins to prove unsatisfactory. Another shift in
consciousness takes place and he reaches out - at first unconsciously and later
consciously -to the life and significance of a dimly sensed reality. (337)
Humanity is weary and tired of unwholesome ways of living,
of the exploitation of the defenceless, of the growth of discontent and of the
centralisation of power in wrong and selfish hands. (450)
The expansions ... need not be along the line of recognised
religious effort ... there is no life activity, no vocational calling, no mental
occupation and no condition which cannot provide the key to the unlocking of the door into
the desired wider world, or serve to lead a man to the mountain top from which the wider
horizon can be seen and the larger vision grasped. (466)
Guidance can come from a man's own soul, when through
meditation, discipline and service, he has established contact...This, when clear and
direct, is true divine guidance, coming from the inner divinity. (491/2)
It should be remembered that criticism is a virulent
poison. It damages in every case eventually the one who criticises - owing to the fact of
voiced direction - it hurts still more the one who is criticised. (617)
There are millions of these men of goodwill in the world;
they have been increasing steadily in numbers as a result of the agony of the world war
but, feeling isolated and alone, they have been impotent and futile. (645)
Human beings are innately kind when their minds are not
distorted and their vision impaired by the false teaching of any selfish interest,
political propaganda and racial or religious difficulties. (655)
It is only through constant reiteration that men learn and
these things must be said again and again. (668)
We live in an era of extremes - of extreme riches and
extreme poverty; of extreme ignorance and extreme learning; of extreme discontent and the
extreme satisfaction of personal ambitions; of extreme selfishness and extreme
self-sacrifice. (670)
Resist not evil but so organise and mobilise the good and
so strengthen the hands of the workers on the side of righteousness and love, that evil
will find less opportunity. (691)
ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY
It is always confusing to the beginner who has not yet a
developed and trained intuition, to reconcile the seeming discrepancies and apparent
contradiction which appear in the teaching of the Ageless Wisdom...Interpretation and
right understanding are based upon the stage of the development of the individual. (64/5)
My underlying motive is ever the same: to indicate the way
of living process and to stimulate that divine curiosity and that sense of outgoing
spiritual adventure and eager aspiration for progress which is latent in all disciples and
which, when stimulated, will enable them to proceed more serenely and sanely upon the Path
of Return. (202/3)
Shirk not these crises, hard and difficult though they may
appear to be. Difficult they are. Forget not that the habit of confronting crises is a
long-established one within the consciousness of humanity...(They) are only the points of
examination as to strength, purpose, purity and motive and the intent of the soul. They
evoke confidence when surmounted and produce greatly expanded vision. (477)
(Crises) foster compassion and understanding, for the pain
and inner conflict they have engendered is never forgotten, for they draw upon the
resources of the heart. They release the light of wisdom within the field of knowledge and
the world is thereby enriched. (477)
The intuition is the ability to arrive at knowledge through
the activity of some innate sense, apart from the reasoning or logical process. It comes
into activity when the resources of the lower mind have been used, explored and exhausted.
Then and then only, the true intuition begins to function. (516)
ESOTERIC HEALING
It is impossible for me to convey to you the truth, because
there exist neither the terminology nor an adequate groundwork of knowledge on your part.
(12)
Bitterness, disgust, hatred and a sense of frustration can
and do produce many of the prevalent toxic conditions and a state of general poisoning and
ill health, from which many people habitually suffer. (92)
The goal of all development is integration - integration as
a personality, integration with the soul, integration into the Hierarchy, integration with
the Whole, until complete unity and identification has been achieved.(126)
If you will have patience and will be willing to learn by
absorption more than by analysis, you will later discover that you know much - intuitively
and discriminately. (308)
Above everything else in life, give to all who seek your
aid the fullest measure of love, for love releases, love adjusts and interprets and love
heals on all three planes. (353)
As regards those who have passed into the light, whom you
want to help, follow them with your love, remembering that they are still the same people,
minus the outer limiting shroud of the body...Go to them but seek not to bring them back
to you. (365)
Let us not fear death, or that which lies beyond it. The
wise disciple labours in the field of service but looks forward steadily to the dawn of
the "clear cold light" into which he will some day enter and so close the
chapter for a while upon the fever and the friction and the pain of earth exist- ence.
(365)
My work and the work of all the teachers in this transition
period, is to stimulate (students) and fertilise their minds with ideas... They must carry
their own responsibility and fail or succeed in arriving at the truth through their own
self-initiated effort. (368)
Death appears frequently to be so purposeless; that is
because the intention of the soul is not known. (436)
The truth is that much of the divine expression, as any man
can demonstrate at his particular point in evolution and at any given stage in his
incarnated history. (567)
Man....no matter how low his position on the ladder of
evolution, is conscious ever of the unattainable; he is constantly aware of an urge to
betterment. (17-568)
If you were entirely free from all emotional reactions,
your clarity of mind and your ability to think clearly, would be enormously increased,
with all that that involves. (673)
Everything that is of true spiritual value is persistent,
ageless, immortal and eternal. Only that dies which is valueless. (684)
I seek to lay the foundation for a future structure of
knowledge...I seek to generate in you also a wise and searching expectancy, which will use
the little that I am able to impart and the symbolic words I may dictate and so prepare
for a greater understanding later. (694)
We are on the verge of entering a new era in scientific
unfoldment, owing to the discovery of how to release the energy of the atom. Not even the
scientists responsible for the discovery have the faintest idea of the far-reaching
effects of the momentous happening. (713)
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.
--- The Agni Yoga books can be freely downloaded (available in seven languages): http://agniyoga.org/index.html
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 of Armageddon,
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.
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