A Treatise on White Magic

*Alice A. Bailey, (1880-1949) From her conservative British background, Alice Bailey's life led her in many directions, but always in one direction--towards the time when through drastic personal experience of many kinds she had acquired a synthesis of outlook and understanding, and an absolute conviction that one divine life pervades and animates the one humanity; that the Plan for humanity requires the cooperation and service of trained and dedicated human beings intelligently informed about world affairs, in collaboration with those who form the spiritual Hierarchy, the inner government of the planet. Her life work became an integral part of this synthesis and this realization. Without in the least losing any of her very human qualities and involvement, her soul took up its commitment to her Master, and her personality provided full cooperation in the field of her accepted service. Basically her work developed as a duality--her discipleship service which included the establishment of an esoteric school; and her initially reluctant 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. An extract from the Tibetan teacher, written in 1934 briefly explains 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."

Introductory Remarks. Man's Three Aspects. RULE ONE: Some Basic Assumptions. The Way of the Disciple. RULE TWO: Hindrances to Occult Study. The Overcoming of the Hindrances. RULE THREE: Soul Light and Body Light. Principles and Personalities. RULE FOUR: The Creative Work of Sound. The Science of the Breath. RULE FIVE: The Soul and It's Thoughtforms. Heart, Throat and Eye. The Awakening of the Centres. RULE SIX: The Work of the Eye. RULE SEVEN: The Battleground of the Astral Plane. The Two Paths. RUEL EIGHT: Types of Astral Force. Cyclic Ebb and Flow. RULE NINE: The Necessity for Purity. Fundamental Forms. RULE TEN: Thought Form Building. The Centres, Energies and Rays. Astral Energy and Fear. The Right Use of Energy. The Present Age and the Future. The Founding of the Hierarchy. The New Group of World Servers. Astrology and the Energies. RULE ELEVEN: Analysis of the Three Sentences. Salvation From Our Thoughtforms. Salvation from Death. RULE TWELVE: Interludes and Cycles. The Prisoners of the Planet. RULE THIRTEEN: The Quaternaries to be Recognised. The Precipitation of Thoughtforms. RULE FOURTEEN: The Centres and Prana. The Use of the Hands. The Treading of the Way. The Awakening of the Centres. RULE FIFTEEN: The Esoteric Sense. The Negation of the Great Illusion. A Call to Service. The New Age Groups and Training. Index