The Destiny of the Nations

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. 

The Destiny of the Nations treats each nation as an evolving spiritual entity in its own right, responsive to energy in the same way an individual is – subject to what the book calls a “mechanism of response” paralleling the Monad-soul-personality structure of a human being. It analyses the ray energies shaping specific nations, groupings of nations, and major cities, tracing how each is predisposed towards particular qualities and their own destiny. Humanity as a whole is described as a “state of becoming,” guided towards a stable “state of Being” by the Hierarchy, the planet's inner government. The book closes on a vision of the future in which differences of language, tradition, and culture no longer divide nations, and in which the Christ stands at the centre of that unity.