A Treatise on White Magic

Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949) lived a life that led her in many directions, always towards the time when, through drastic personal experience, she acquired a synthesis of outlook and understanding. She developed an absolute conviction that one divine life pervades and animates humanity, and that the Plan for humanity requires the cooperation and service of trained and dedicated human beings intelligently informed about world affairs, in collaboration with the spiritual Hierarchy.

Her life work became an integral part of this synthesis and realization. Her soul committed to her Master, and her personality cooperated in her accepted service. Her work developed as a duality: discipleship service, which included the establishment of an esoteric school, and her agreement to work with the Tibetan, Djwhal Khul, in the writing of a series of books presenting the next phase in the continuity of the Ageless Wisdom teaching for the present and the immediate future.

In 1934, the Tibetan teacher explained the intent of these teachings: “The books that I have written are sent out with no claim for their acceptance. They may, or may not, be correct, true and useful. It is for you to ascertain their truth by right practice and by the exercise of the intuition. Neither I nor A.A.B. is the least interested in having them acclaimed as inspired writing, or in having anyone speak of them (with bated breath) as being the work of one of the masters. If they present truth in such a way that it follows sequentially upon that already offered in the world teachings, if the information given raises the aspiration and the will-to-serve from the plane of the emotions to that of the mind (the plane whereon the Masters can be found) then they will have served their purpose. If the teaching conveyed calls forth a response from the illumined mind of the worker in the world, and brings a flashing forth of the intuition, then let that teaching be accepted. But not otherwise. If the statements meet with eventual corroboration, or are deemed true under the test of the Law of Correspondences, then that is well and good. But should this not be so, let not the student accept what is said.”

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