The Reappearance of the Christ

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 Reappearance of the Christ presents the second coming not as a specifically Christian expectation but as an event common, in one form or another, to every major world religion, imminent for the age now beginning. The Christ, the book explains, belongs to all humanity and is known as “the same great Identity in all the world religions.” Bailey and the Tibetan describe him not only as a spiritual teacher but as Head of the spiritual Hierarchy, the planet's inner government. His reappearance marks the shift from one astrological age to another, from Pisces to Aquarius, and with it a wider turn in human consciousness: from individual salvation to world service, from materiality to spirituality. Crucially, they explain, the Christ is not coming to save humanity from the results of its own sins, but to show humanity how to save itself – and preparing the conditions that will draw him forth is described as humanity's own responsibility.