Initiation, Human and Solar

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. 

Initiation, Human and Solar, published in 1922, was among the earliest works in Bailey's collaboration with the Tibetan, and it lays the foundation much of their later teaching builds on. An initiation, it teaches, is an expansion of consciousness experienced by every form of life, not only humans. The book maps the structure and work of the planetary Hierarchy itself – its departments, the Lodge of Masters, and the Path of Initiation that leads towards it – and sets out the Fourteen Rules for Applicants, the guidance by which the aspirant becomes a candidate at the Portal of Initiation.