Esoteric Psychology, Volume I

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. 

Esoteric Psychology, Volume I opens the five-volume 'A Treatise on the Seven Rays,' followed by Esoteric Psychology, Volume II, Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Healing, and The Rays and the Initiations. The Tibetan frames it as an expansion of a single line from the opening of The Secret Doctrine – “all souls are one with the Oversoul” – and, in contrast to A Treatise on Cosmic Fire's “cosmic note,” approaches the rays instead through ordinary human psychology. He states his aim plainly: not the growth of any individual reader, but the training of a group able to work and respond together. Esoteric psychology, in this sense, begins from the human being as a soul manifesting through a personality of mental, emotional, and physical substance, more or less under that soul's control depending on the personality's stage of evolution. Evolution itself, from this view, is the evolution of consciousness: the soul gradually identifying its own spiritual source within the personality and becoming one with it.