Letters on Occult Meditation

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. 

Letters on Occult Meditation is composed of a series of letters written to a private student, addressing meditation as an exact science rather than a general devotional habit. It teaches that meditation works through energy – impersonal, fiery, and potentially dangerous if approached carelessly – and sets out the safeguards a student needs before using sound, colour, or form as tools for concentration. The letters move from the alignment of the personality with the soul through to its natural outcome: a life of planetary service.