37 Facts About Alice Bailey

Alice Ann Bailey was a British and American writer.

Alice Bailey wrote about 25 books on Theosophy and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age.

Alice Bailey was born Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England and moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.

Alice Bailey's writings bore some similarity to those of Madame Blavatsky and are among the teachings often referred to as "Ageless Wisdom".

Alice Bailey wrote on religious themes, including Christianity, though her writings are fundamentally different from many aspects of Christianity or other orthodox religions.

Alice Bailey was born into a wealthy middle-class British family and, as a member of the Anglican Church, received a thorough Christian education.

At the age of 22, Alice Bailey did evangelical work in connection with the YMCA and the British Army.

The marriage did not last, and Alice Bailey pushed for and received a divorce.

Alice Bailey left with their three children after their formal separation in 1915.

Alice Bailey discovered the Theosophical Society and the work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

The Theosophical Society states that Alice Bailey became involved in 1917.

Alice Bailey became editor of its magazine, The Messenger, and member of the committee responsible for Krotona.

Alice Bailey "objected to the 'neo-Theosophy' of Annie Besant" and worked with Foster Alice Bailey to gain more power in the American Section.

Alice Bailey outlined her vision for the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society; however, her efforts to influence the society failed, and she and her husband were dismissed from their positions.

Alice and Foster Bailey founded the Lucis Trust in 1922.

Alice and Foster Bailey founded "Lucifer Publishing Company".

Alice Bailey continued to work up until the time of her death in 1949.

Alice Bailey's writings includes a detailed exposition of the "seven rays" which are presented as the fundamental energies that are behind and exist throughout all manifestation.

Alice Bailey's teaching on healing primarily concerns the relationship of soul to personality, of the spiritual to the material nature.

Alice Bailey's writings downplayed traditional devotional and religious aspects of the spiritual life, in favor of a life of meditation, service to humanity, and cooperation with "the Plan of the Hierarchy".

Campbell writes that Alice Bailey's books are a reworking of major Theosophical themes, with some distinctive emphases, and that they present a comprehensive system of esoteric science and occult philosophy, cognizant of contemporary social and political developments.

Alice Bailey describes Bailey as a 'post-Theosophical' theorist, reporting that Bailey received instruction from "former personal pupils of Blavatsky" and notes that her third book not only reproduces Blavatsky's apocryphal Stanzas of Dzyan but is dedicated to Blavatsky, as well.

Parallels between Theosophy and Bailey are many, for instance, one principle of Theosophy, the Law of Attraction was discussed in esoteric writings by Blavatsky, Annie Besant, William Quan Judge, and others; and was discussed in the writings of Alice Bailey, including a whole chapter in one of her books.

Alice Bailey inherited from Blavatsky and Leadbeater a predilection for profuse details and complex classificatory schemes.

Alice Bailey's books have introduced shifts in emphasis as well as new doctrinal elements.

Alice Bailey described a concept of racial differentiation that posited a division of humanity into races that are on different levels in a "ladder of evolution".

Alice Bailey stated that this newer type is forming in every land but primarily in lands where Caucasian peoples are found and indicates a culture where thought or intellect is dominant.

Alice Bailey stated that as evolution proceeds, things are accelerated and humanity will soon be predominantly distinguished by the Aryan consciousness.

Alice Bailey believed that the influences of religions, philosophies, sciences, educational movements, and human culture in general are the result of this relationship.

Alice Bailey made extensive use of the term "New Age" in her books and some writers have described her as the founder of the New Age movement, although The New Age was used as the title of a Journal of Christian liberalism and Socialism, published as early as 1894, predating Alice Bailey's use of the term.

Sir John Sinclair, in his book The Alice Bailey Inheritance, commented on the seminal influence of Alice Bailey, which, he said, underlies the consciousness growth movement in the 20th century.

In 1930, with the patronage of English-Dutch spiritualist, theosophist and scholar Olga Froebe-Kapteyn, Alice Bailey established the short-lived "School of Spiritual Research" located on Froebe-Kapteyn's estate, Casa Gabriella, in Switzerland.

Alice Bailey continued a close association with Bailey during the 1930s; some of his writings were published in Bailey's magazine The Beacon; and he was a trustee of Bailey's organization, the Lucis Trust.

Alice Bailey had developed his approach to psychology, called Psychosynthesis, beginning in 1910; his methods were later influenced by some elements of Bailey's work.

In 1982, Alice Bailey's influence appeared in pop culture, with the release of Van Morrison's album Beautiful Vision, in which he directly referred to the teachings and the Tibetan in the lyrics of the songs "Dweller on the Threshold" and "Aryan Mist".

The song "Ancient of Days" from the 1984 Sense of Wonder album appears to be a reference to a Alice Bailey concept found in such books as The Externalization of the Hierarchy.

Works in which Alice Bailey claimed sole authorship of the material.