Problems of Humanity

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. 

Problems of Humanity was first published as pamphlets between October 1944 and December 1946, during and immediately after the Second World War. The six problematic areas it addresses – the psychological rehabilitation of the nations, the children of the world, capital and labour, racial minorities, the churches, and international unity – had long existed, but the war forced the issues into higher visibility. Its core teaching is that clear and unbiased thought, held meditatively, creates a “thoughtform of solution” to these problems – framed not as private practice but as “a vital and practical service.” The importance of the task is put in stark terms: there has been an “interference with the divine circulatory flow” between Hierarchy and humanity, and it falls to every disciple, as an act of service, to work towards restoration of that flow.