A Treatise on White Magic

Readers drawn to the wisdom in our featured text by Alice A. Bailey, Serving Humanity, may wish to explore her wider body of work. 

In Serving Humanity, Bailey and the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul teach that true service is not effort or moral duty, but the spontaneous outflow of a loving heart and an intelligent mind, arising only once the personality has cleared and aligned with the soul. Compiled from across her 24 books, it moves from the qualities of the true server out to a larger vision: a Plan carried forward by a Hierarchy of advanced beings. On Earth, that Plan is worked toward by a New Group of World Servers, scattered across every nation and field of human endeavour. 

A Treatise on White Magic takes up the Fifteen Rules for Magic first given in Bailey’s work A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, but shifts their application: where the earlier book treated them at the scale of the solar system, this one applies them directly to the individual aspirant's development. Its own textual anchor is a verse from the Bhagavad Gita, on the soul becoming manifest through its own magical power. Bailey and the Tibetan present the soul as the true magician, working through the personality once it has been mastered rather than suppressed, with practical instruction throughout on the training of the emotional nature.