2019-02-16 14 Good Reasons to reject the Alice Bailey Teachings – T H E O S O P H Y

THEOSOPHY

14 Good Reasons to reject the Alice Bailey

Teachings

By an ex-student of those teachings, who discovered them to be not only highly questionable but also extremely
deceptive and sinister in both their content and the aims and intentions of the Movement behind them, most
prominently represented by the Lucis Trust and the Arcane School.

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#1. Despite presenting her teachings as a “continuation” or even a conclusion of those of H.P. Blavatsky,
Bailey’s books instead contradict the work and teachings of Blavatsky at almost every turn and on almost
every subject and substitute her pure Eastern Esoteric Philosophy with a distinctly Christianised and
Westernised system, derived almost solely from the works of C.W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant, the
parents of what many Theosophists call “Pseudo-Theosophy,” this being a term first coined by HPB
herself.

#2. The Bailey teachings degrade and anthropomorphise the ancient philosophical concept of an
impersonal Logos and turn the Logos into a “He,” a “Him,” an entity repeatedly referred to as “God” who
feels “the need to contact humanity and to have relationship with men” and who has to send “divine
intermediaries” and “mediators” as “Representatives of God,” this being “the appropriate mechanism …
through which divinity can reach and communicate with humanity.”

#3. Bailey’s teachings revolve around the central concept of the Second Coming of a personal Christ, the
so-called “Lord Christ-Maitreya” who is the “World Teacher” for humanity and who is said to be
preparing his “return” or “reappearance” on the world scene.
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#4. This teaching and its emphasis, including the equation of Christ with the Bodhisa va Maitreya of
Buddhist teachings, was originated in 1909 by the infamous and highly controversial C.W. Leadbeater of
the Adyar Theosophical Society, who admi ed on record to having performed sexual acts on young boys
and who was constantly dogged with complaints and accusations of paedophilia throughout much of his
life and Theosophical career. (See The Unavoidable Facts about C.W. Leadbeater
(h ps://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-unavoidable-facts-about-c-w-leadbeater/)) Bailey was a
member of the Adyar Society, somehow chose to turn a blind eye to the many scandals surrounding
Leadbeater, and accepted most of his proclamations and “clairvoyant discoveries” as genuine and
important, incorporating them into her own work and teachings.

#5. All the Mahatmas, Masters, and Adepts of the Great Lodge or Brotherhood are transformed in the
Bailey teachings into the “Disciples of Christ” and this supposed “Lord Christ” is described as being the
Master of all the other Masters.

#6. According to Bailey, the role and work of Christ 2,000 years ago when he “overshadowed the Master
Jesus” (yet another Leadbeater concept) was literally of supreme and superior importance. Her book “The
Reappearance of the Christ” states that it was “He”, who “for the first time in planetary history, as far as
we know – transmi ed the divine energy of love directly to our planet and in a most definite sense to
humanity” and again “He” who “gave men the new command to love one another” (as if this had never
been said or emphasised before by any other great Teachers or Masters in history!) and “He” alone who
purportedly “altered all human living, goals and values.”

#7. The central Theosophical teachings of Karma and Reincarnation, repeatedly emphasised by H.P.
Blavatsky as being of such vital importance to humanity, receive hardly any a ention or mention in the
Bailey teachings. Bailey students are advised not to concern themselves too much with promulgating such
ideas and are informed that the Masters actually know very li le about reincarnation and that they are
totally ignorant as to how it works. From what They have wri en, however, we can see that the real
Masters behind real Theosophy do not claim to “know li le” or to “know as yet nothing” about it but just
the opposite.

#8. The majority of the Bailey books are claimed to have been dictated telepathically to Alice Bailey by the
“Master Djwhal Khul” or D.K., “The Tibetan,” an Initiate of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood and
disciple of the Master Koot Hoomi. Bailey says he passed what she calls the 5th Initiation in 1875, the year
the Theosophical Society was founded, and thereupon became a full Master and Adept. She claims that it
was he who inspired and dictated “The Secret Doctrine” to H.P. Blavatsky. However, D.K. was only a
chela (disciple) “of the first degree” according to both HPB and the Master K.H.’s Indian chela Damodar
K. Mavalankar and thus not a Master. He did not even take his very first initiation until the 1880s and did
not dictate any books or writings of HPB or anyone else. It was repeatedly stated in writing by the Master
K.H. and the Master M. that they were the authors of “The Secret Doctrine” with HPB and that it was the
“triple production” of the three of them. (See Who wrote “The Secret Doctrine”?
(h ps://blavatskytheosophy.com/who-wrote-the-secret-doctrine/)) The idea of D.K. being a full
Master since 1875 was first invented by Leadbeater and, not surprisingly, copied by Bailey.

#9. The Masters and the Founders of the Theosophical Movement made it clear that no further teachings or
public communications from the Masters would or could be given out after the closing of the 1875-1900
cycle, not until the 1975-2000 cycle, which in itself was provisional and would be determined by how well
and effectively Theosophists in the meantime would spread and promulgate the vast mass of teaching and
knowledge already given. (See The Closing Cycle (h ps://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-closing-
cycle/)) The Masters of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood also made it clear that their profoundly
nontheistic and pro-Buddhistic Eastern doctrine “knows no compromises” and that “Truth is One and
cannot admit of diametrically opposite views.” Both these facts immediately and automatically invalidate
the Bailey teachings which were given between 1919-1949, regardless of what source they claim to come
from.
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#10. Whereas H.P. Blavatsky’s major books contain literally thousands of supporting references and
quotations from the realms of religion, philosophy, classical literature, ancient and modern history, and
science, in order to show the timelessness, reliability, and universality of her teachings, the books of Alice
Bailey contain nothing of the sort. They are content to simply present their manifold claims and statements
on what have been described as “lines of pure assertion with implied authority in the background” and
usually without the slightest philosophical basis whatsoever. As indicated in her footnotes, most of the few
supporting references ever used by Bailey are from books by Leadbeater and Besant.

#11. What Bailey really thought of Blavatsky is apparent from the way in which the la er is subtly and not
so subtly depreciated, minimised, beli led, and “corrected,” both in the Bailey books and in other
statements, articles, lecture transcripts, and interviews. The versions of HPB’s books used and referred to
by Bailey are not the original editions but the “revised” and “improved” editions published by Annie
Besant, which were so full of deliberate alterations, deletions, and distortions, that even the Adyar
Theosophical Society which once published them has long since allowed them to go out of print. On many
occasions when HPB is quoted by Bailey, she is misquoted, with Bailey removing and adding words and
terms so as to sometimes change even the whole meaning, but without informing the reader.

#12. In Bailey’s “The Reappearance of the Christ,” it is asserted that the separation between religion and
politics must end and that the world of politics and government should be ruled over by religion once
again, this time in the form of the Christocentric “New World Religion” described in the Bailey books.

#13. Bailey’s “A Treatise on Cosmic Fire” states that the so-called “Master Jesus” (who is a different being
from Christ, in those teachings) is planning to travel to Rome in order to become the new Pope and usher
in a glorious new era for the Roman Catholic Church.

#14. In Bailey’s “The Externalisation of the Hierarchy,” we are informed that the explosion of the atomic
bomb at Hiroshima was a wonderful day for humanity and that the new atomic presence in the
atmosphere will help to quicken the dawning of the New Age. In fact, it was “the greatest spiritual event
which has taken place since the fourth kingdom of nature, the human kingdom, appeared,” and “The
atomic bomb emerged from a first ray Ashram, working in conjunction with a fifth ray group; from the
long range point of view, its intent was and is purely beneficent.” And the Second World War, “with all its
unspeakable horrors, its cruelties, and its cataclysmic disasters – was but the broom of the Father of all,
sweeping away obstructions in the path of His returning Son.”

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It would not be unreasonable to suggest that the Alice Bailey books have a hidden threefold agenda, one
which becomes quite apparent after a while, especially if one starts to read and study the original teachings
of Theosophy:

(1) To relentlessly promote Christianity, Christ, and the Second Coming of a personal bodily “Lord Christ”
who is supposedly “the Master of all the Masters”; (2) To depreciate, beli le, and obscure H.P. Blavatsky,
the actual Masters and actual teachings of Theosophy, and misrepresent what Theosophy and the
Theosophical Movement is all about; (3) To trap unsuspecting students of Theosophy and other spiritually
interested people in a maze and imposing mass of seemingly highly complex and deeply esoteric
teachings, charts, diagrams, lists, etc. which actually mean and say next to nothing, if anything at all, thus
hindering the usefulness and potentialities of people who could be of great service to the Cause of genuine
Theosophy and, through that, to humanity.

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The Alice Bailey Movement – whether in the form of its official organisations such as the Lucis Trust, the
Arcane School, World Goodwill and its affiliated groups, or related offshoots and groups such as the
Morya Federation – is nothing but deliberate Christian propaganda, carried out in a most Jesuitical way.
Many of the most devoted supporters and defenders of the Movement may not realise this and will
certainly not admit it but this does not alter obvious facts.

The world headquarters of the Lucis Trust was for many years based within the world headquarters of the
United Nations at United Nations Plaza in New York and is today a member of the Economic and Social
Council of the U.N. with which it has a “consultative status.” They also created and maintain the United
Nations Meditation Room at the U.N. world headquarters. This makes the situation all the more
disturbing. May Truth prevail!

~ BlavatskyTheosophy.com ~

IMPORTANT NEW ARTICLE – JUNE 2015

Tibetan Master or Christian Priest?

(https://blavatskytheosophy.com/tibetan-master-or-christian-priest/)

(Uncovering the real inspiration behind the Alice Bailey Books)

16 thoughts on “14 Good Reasons to reject the Alice

Bailey Teachings”
1.
Arve says:
MAY 19, 2015 AT 9:24 AM
#7 “Bailey students […] are informed that the Masters actually know very li le about reincarnation
and that they are totally ignorant as to how it works.” Could you back this assertion with a reference /
quote?

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secretdoctrine says:
MAY 19, 2015 AT 9:52 AM
Certainly, as this article is not based on assertions but facts.

On p. 118 of Alice Bailey’s book “The Reappearance of the Christ,” which she claimed to have been
telepathically dictated to her by the “Tibetan” Djwhal Khul – and which is thus viewed by Bailey
supporters as being the words of the Master – the following is wri en:

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