Glamour: A World Problem

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. 

Glamour: A World Problem was written by Bailey over nine years, from 1935 to 1944, and grew out of the training given privately to a small group of disciples by the Tibetan and recorded in Discipleship in the New Age, Volumes I and II. The book distinguishes three forms of self-deception working through different parts of a person: maya, through the etheric body; glamour, through the emotions; and illusion, through the mind. When all three combine in one person, the result becomes “the dweller on the threshold.” Each has its own corrective energy – maya answered by inspired feeling, glamour by mental clarity, illusion by the light of intuition, and the dweller on the threshold met only by the soul itself. The book includes meditation formulas designed for group use; individual use is not ruled out, but the book cautions that they are generally less effective alone, and require real selflessness and discipline of character to use safely.