Esoteric Psychology, Volume II

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 II turns from the seven rays in general to their interplay within a single human being. Its opening section on the egoic ray describes an ongoing contest: early in a person's development, the ray of the personality dominates, but the Tibetan describes the ray of the soul gradually gaining ground until it, rather than the personality, becomes what is actually expressed. A second section turns to the ray of the personality itself, addressing the coordination of the physical, emotional, and mental bodies, and the diseases and psychological problems that can arise for mystics and disciples specifically. The volume's final section, 'Humanity Today,' applies this same ray analysis to world affairs at the time of writing, reading contemporary events as an expression of ray energies in conflict. Where Volume I lays out the ray system as a whole, this volume follows its consequences from the individual disciple all the way to the fate of nations.