Education in the New Age

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. 

Education in the New Age teaches that education should be a continuous, lifelong process, and that its true concern is the expansion of consciousness rather than the acquisition of knowledge. The education that is offered is the process of learning to reconcile our human and divine compositions, and come into right relationship with the realities of spirit and matter. Turning to child training specifically, it sets out the faults in existing educational systems and proposes methods for the future, with particular emphasis on educating for world citizenship. The book closes with a chapter on “the science of the Antahkarana”: a bridge built, through meditation, between the lower mind, the soul, and the higher mind, creating a channel through which spiritual energies of light, love, and power can transform daily life.