The Rays and the Initiations

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 Rays and the Initiations is the final work in the five-volume 'A Treatise on the Seven Rays,' following Esoteric Psychology, Volume I, Esoteric Psychology, Volume II, Esoteric Astrology, and Esoteric Healing. Its first part gives the Fourteen Rules for Group Initiation, extending the Fourteen Rules for Applicants first set out in Initiation, Human and Solar, now addressed to disciples working together rather than alone. Its second part addresses nine initiations, the stages by which a disciple progressively frees themselves from the forms of life on this planet. Central to this teaching is revelation, stated plainly: “Revelation concerns Oneness and nothing else.” Throughout, the emphasis falls on group service and group responsibility as a distinguishing need in the present era.