Esoteric Psychology, Vol.1

by Alice A. Bailey

Five volumes have been written under the overall title of A Treatise on the Seven Rays, based on the fact, the nature, the quality and the interrelationship of the seven streams of energy pervading our solar system, our planet and all that lives and moves within its orbit. The first two volumes go extensively into the psychological make-up of a human being as the life, quality and appearance of an incarnating, evolving spiritual entity. They also relate the circumstance of a human psychology to world conditions and to future possibilities.

Genres: Psychology, Spirituality, Theosophy, Philosophy, Occult, Nonfiction, Personal Growth

460 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1951

About the author

Pease note: this is a different author from Alice Bailey.

Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949) was an English esoteric practitioner and writer.
At the age of 35, she entered the Theosophical Society center in Los Angeles (USA), at the Pacific Grove Theosophical Lodge. In 1919, Bailey (39 years old) severed her ties to the Theosophical Society and began to write texts that he claimed were dictated telepathically by a certain "Tibetan," or "D. K. ». She published those texts under the title Human and Solar Initiation. There she made known the existence of the spiritual hierarchy, which Madame Blavatsky had already spread, although not in an orderly way.
She later revealed that the Tibetan D.K. was the master Djwal Khul. She wrote using the teacher's name for 30 years, from 1919 until her death in 1949.

Reviews

[Roger Buck]

Whilst I found this book utterly absorbing, whilst I studied it nearly 30 years ago at Findhorn, I later found psychologically damaging.

Fortunately, Meditations on the Tarot saved my soul http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2009/...

For here I found an esotericism which was neither de-personalising, nor de-humanising ...

[Roger Buck]

How devoted I was to these teachings in my youth! And how they then de-personalised and de-humanised me ...

But Meditations on the Tarot saved my soul http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2009/...

[Jaison Dixon]

this is truly ageless wisdom.

[Susy]

One of my all time favorites, but JJ Dewey explains some of the concepts in easier terms.

[Anjalica]

Very interesting read