Compilation on The Aquarian Christ from the Bailey Works
In the past we have had world Saviours—Sons of God who have enunciated a world message and brought an increase of light to the peoples. Now, in the fullness of time, and through the work of evolution there is emerging a group who perhaps will bring salvation to the world, and who—embodying the group ideas and demonstrating the group nature, manifesting in a small way the true significance of the body of Christ, and giving to the world a picture of the true nature of a spiritual organism—will so stimulate and energize the thoughts and souls of men that the new age will be ushered in by an outpouring of the love, knowledge and harmony of God Himself.
Religions in the past have been founded by a great soul, by
an Avatar, by an outstanding spiritual personality, and the stamp of their
lives and words and teaching has been set upon the race and has persisted for
many centuries. What will be the effect
of the message of a group Avatar? What
will be the potency of the work of a group of knowers
of God, enunciating truth and banded together subjectively in the great work of
saving the world? What will be the effect of the mission of
a group of world Saviours, not as Christs,
but all knowers of God in some degree, who supplement
each other's efforts, reinforce each other's message, and constitute an
organism through which the spiritual energy and principle of spiritual life can
make their presence felt in the world?
Such a body now exists with its members in every land. Relatively they are few and far between, but steadily their numbers are increasing and increasingly their message will be felt. In them is rested a spirit of construction; they are the builders of the new age; to them is given the work of preserving the spirit of truth, and the reorganizing of the thoughts of men so that the racial mind is controlled and brought into that meditative and reflective condition which will permit it to recognize the next unfoldment of divinity.
Connected with these two groups, the reactionary doctrinaires and the subjective band of mystics, is the majority of the new generation of young people who are part of neither band and whose ideas are largely disorganized by the recognition of both. This majority do not belong to the past and refuse to accept the authority of that past. They do not belong to the inner group of Knowers who are working at the task of swinging the thoughts of men into right channels, for they hare not reached as yet the point of knowledge. They only recognize two things: their need for freedom, and an intense eagerness for knowledge. They despise the tradition of the past; they reject the old formulations of truth ; and because as yet they stand on no sure ground but are only in the position of seekers and enquirers, we have our present state of world upheaval, of apparent license and disruption. It should not be forgotten that this world state is therefore the result of the clashing of the three types of force prevalent in the world of today.
1. That emanating from the holders with the old tradition, who, emphasizing the forms and the past produce the destruction of those forms.
2. That emanating from the inner group of mystics, who, under the guidance of the planetary Hierarchy are building the new form.
3. That emanating from the masses who belong to neither group and who are wielding force as yet blindly and often unwisely until such time comes when they recognize those constructive channels into which it can wisely be poured.
Hence the problem of this transition period and hence the necessity for the giving out of teaching which will enable the seeking aspirant and enquirer to find himself. Hence the need for the laws of the soul and for the truth as to individual unfoldment to be made clear to those who, rejecting the old tradition, and refusing recognition to the mystic, yet seek to know themselves as liberated souls. With that knowledge will come the steady growth of the Building Mystics, for when a man has found his soul and recognizes its relationship to its mechanism of expression, the threefold lower man, he automatically passes into the consciousness of the subjective life, begins to work with cause and is no longer lost in the world of effects. Then he finds himself standing shoulder to shoulder with the mystics and knowers of all time. This is the trend of the religious impulse at this time and this is the glory of the coming age. TOWM 330
May I repeat and beg you to attend, that this group which is slowly forming is gathered out of every imaginable group of thinking and intelligent men. As yet, and this may surprise a few, there are not very many occultists (so-called) among them. This is due to the fact that the occultists are numerically few in relation to the masses of humanity, and also to their tendency to be sectarian, exclusive and self-righteous. Selfless humanitarian workers are there; political leaders and economists and scientific workers in the world's laboratories are also there; churchmen and religious adherents from all the world religions are there and the practical mystics and a few occultists. The true occultist is rare.
The group is and will be kept entirely subjective. Its members are linked telepathically, or they recognise each other through the quality of the work they are doing in the outer world and the inclusiveness of the note they sound. It is inspired from above by the souls of its members and the Great Ones, and is energised into activity by the need of humanity itself. It is composed of living conscious souls, working through coordinated personalities. Its symbol is a golden triangle enclosing an even-armed cross with one diamond at the apex of the triangle. This symbol is never reproduced in form at all. It shines above the heads of all who are in the group and cannot be seen by anyone (not even a clairvoyant) except a group member, and then only if—for purposes of work—his recognition needs stimulation. The motto of the group is The Glory Of The One. TOWM 4
In the cycle which Christ will inaugurate after His
reappearance, the goal of all the religious teaching in the world will be the
resurrection of the spirit in mankind; the emphasis will be upon the livingness
of the Christ nature in every human being, and upon the use of the will in
bringing about this living transfiguration of the lower nature. The proof of it
will be the risen Christ. This "Way of Resurrection" is the radiant
Way, the lighted Way which leads from one great expression of divinity in man
to another; it is the way which expresses the light of the intelligence, the
radiant substance of true love, and the inflexible will which permits of no
defeat or withdrawal. These are the characteristics which will be declarative
of the
Under the divine will, He had to reappear on Earth in
visible Presence. He had to preside over the materialisation
of the
The emphasis during the Aquarian Age, the age into which we
are fast entering, will shift away from
The ancient story of the Birth will become universalised and be seen as the story of every disciple and initiate who takes the first initiation and in his time and place becomes a server and a lightbearer. In the Aquarian Age two momentous developments will take place:
1. The Birth Initiation will condition human thinking and aspiration everywhere.
2. The religion of the Risen Christ, and not of the newly born Christ or of the crucified Christ, will be the distinctive keynote.
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In the Aquarian Age, the Risen Christ is Himself the Water-Carrier; He will not this time demonstrate the perfected life of a Son of God, which was His main mission before; He will appear as the supreme Head of the Spiritual Hierarchy, meeting the need of the thirsty nations of the world — thirsty for truth, for right human relations and for loving understanding. He will be recognised this time by all and in His Own Person will testify to the fact of the resurrection, and hence demonstrate the paralleling fact of the immortality of the soul, of the spiritual man. The emphasis during the past two thousand years has been on death; it has coloured all the teaching of the orthodox churches; only one day in the year has been dedicated to the thought of the resurrection. The emphasis in the Aquarian Age will be on life and freedom from the tomb of matter, and this is the note which will distinguish the new world religion from all that have preceded it.
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It is significant that two important episodes are related in the final part of the Gospel story — one preceding and one following immediately after the apparent death of the Christ. They are:
1. The story of the upper chamber to which the man carrying the water pot and typifying Aquarius led the disciples, and in which the first communion service was held, participated in by all and foretelling that great relationship which will distinguish humanity in the coming age, after the tests of the Piscean Age. Such a communion service has never yet been held, but the New Age will see it take place.
2. The story of the upper chamber in which the disciples met and arrived at a true recognition of the Risen Christ and at a perfect and complete understanding of [Page 152] each other in spite of the symbolic diversity of tongues. They had a touch of prevision, of prophetic insight, and foresaw a little of the wonder of the Aquarian Age.
The vision in men's minds today is that of the Aquarian Age, even if they recognise it not. The future will see right relationships, true communion, a sharing of all things (wine, the blood, the life and bread, economic satisfaction) and goodwill; we have also a picture of the future of humanity when all nations are united in complete understanding and the diversity of languages — symbolic of differing traditions, cultures, civilisations and points of view — will provide no barrier to right human relations. At the centre of each of these pictures is to be found the Christ.
Thus the expressed aims and efforts of the United Nations
will be eventually brought to fruition and a new
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The Procedure required for the manifestation of "light supernal" takes place when a transitory point of synthesis is reached and the seven energies are blended into one great energetic Light. These seven energies have ever, unitedly, created the "light supernal" upon the highest levels of divine expression, but that revealing light only finds Location when the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order is active and in process of manifestation in the three worlds, and necessarily, therefore, upon the seventh plane, the physical plane. Such a manifestation inevitably takes place in moments of planetary crisis, when the seventh ray is active and when the Sun is in Aquarius. Such a combination of relationships is being established now, for the seventh ray is rapidly coming into manifestation and the Sun is in Aquarius, for the Aquarian Age is just beginning. The Objective of this combination (which has occurred six times during the period of the fifth root-race) is to bring about illumination and the establishment of order upon the Earth. The first indication of the possibility of the effectiveness of these divine proposals was the giving out of the New Invocation; its potency was so great that right conditions had to be considered before its enunciation was possible. That was the first step in the planned precipitation of the "light supernal"; the second step will be the reappearance of the Great Lord, Who will act as the lens through which the light can be focussed and adapted to human need. Conditions are rapidly being brought about whereby this great event of light distribution will be possible. The Christ can and does function now upon the atmic plane and embodies within Himself the great Point of Revelation which has been expressed by me in the words: "The Will is an expression of the Law of Sacrifice." The invocation now mounting from humanity to that high Place where dwells the Christ is, at this time, focussed in or originates upon the plane of the emotions; because of this, we find the words in the Scriptures that at the end of the age "the Desire of all Nations" will come forth. The movement to bring Him—from the angle of the masses—emanates, therefore, from the astral plane. The plans for His coming are being laid in the higher correspondence of that plane, the buddhic plane, or the plane of pure reason.
The motivating power for His coming is being provided by all disciples and initiates; it is therefore a joint movement, qualified by the desire and the motivation of the united Hierarchy and Humanity; this Invocation cannot consequently be denied. Astrologically, the time is propitious; from the planetary angle, great and momentous events are imminent, as the planetary Logos is taking a cosmic initiation; the energy which produces order and which magically brings spirit and matter together (the energy of the seventh ray) is already organising human affairs and these three great coinciding events in time and space make it possible for the seventh ray energies to reach a high point of fused activity and of blended cooperation.
The result will be the creation of a direct channel for the precipitation of "light supernal" into the three worlds and its dominant focussing upon the physical plane. Thus will be brought about the new civilisation and the new world order, and the new approach to divinity will be rendered possible; the initial steps will then be taken to create the "new heavens and the new earth." You will need here to discriminate carefully between symbols and facts; more, I need not here indicate.
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The keynote of this effort to eliminate world glamour was sounded by Christ when He said (following the example of Hermes, Who initiated the process of enlightenment for our race, the Aryan), "I am the Light of the World."
Disciples must learn the significance of illumination, received in meditation, and the necessity to work with light as a group for the dissipation of glamour. Hermes and Christ undertook this work of astral enlightenment and are constantly occupied with this task. Their work in the new age is to be aided by the intensive activity of certain groups of which this second group is one. Later, when the new civilisation is nearing appearance, these groups will all have in them two key persons or points of energy through which the forces of Hermes and the will of Christ will be focussed, and through which They will be enabled to work. When this takes place, the task of dissipating the world glamour will be much more rapid than it is today. In the meantime groups of disciples can "nurture and conceal," thus protecting from trouble the germ or seed of the new Aquarian culture and civilisation along this particular line of freedom. Again, I repeat, they must do this along with other groups, working along similar lines, either consciously or unconsciously EXH 39
If all that we now know of God is all that can be known, the
divinity of God is but a limited matter. What the new formulation of truth will
be, who can say? But the light is slowly pouring into men's hearts and minds,
and in this lighted radiance they will vision the new truths and arrive at a
fresh enunciation of the ancient wisdom. Through the lens of the illumined mind
man will shortly see aspects of divinity hitherto unknown. May there not be
qualities and characteristics of the divine nature which are as yet totally unrecognised and unknown? Can there not be revelations of
God utterly unprecedented, and for which we have no words or adequate means of
expression? The ancient mysteries, so shortly to be restored, must be
re-interpreted in the light of Christianity, and re-adapted [page 21] to meet
modern need, for we can now enter into the Holy Place as intelligent men and
women, and not as children looking on at dramatic stories and procedures in
which we, as individuals, play no conscious part. Christ enacted for us the
dramatic story of the five initiations, and urged us to follow in His steps.
For this the past era has prepared us, and we can now pass intelligently into
the
This passing of the Sun into the sign Aquarius is an astronomical fact, as any one can ascertain by writing to any observatory; it is not an astrological prognostication. The great spiritual achievement and evolutionary event of that age will be the communion and human relationships established among all peoples, enabling men everywhere to sit down together in the Presence of the Christ and share the bread and wine (symbols of nourishment). Preparations for that shared feast (symbolically speaking) are on their way, and those preparations are being made by the masses of men themselves, as they fight and struggle and legislate for the economic sustenance of their nations, and as the theme of food occupies the attention of legislators everywhere. This sharing, beginning on the physical plane, will prove equally true of all human relations and this will be the great gift of the Aquarian Age to humanity . ROC 80
In June, 1945, at the time of the full moon (so significant a day in the spiritual experience of the Christ), He definitely and consciously took over His duties and responsibilities as the Teacher and Leader during the Aquarian solar cycle. He is the first of the great world Teachers to cover two zodiacal cycles—the Piscean and the Aquarian. This is a statement easily made and written down, but again it involves the three modes or techniques of appearance to which I have already referred. His outpouring love and spiritual vitality (augmented by the energies of the Spirit of Peace, the Avatar of Synthesis and the Buddha) were refocussed and channelled into a great stream, pulled through into expression (if I may word it so inadequately) by the words of the Invocation, "Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.... Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth."
In those three words—light, love and power—the energies of
His three Associates (the great Triangle of Force which stands in power behind
Him) are described: the energy of the Buddha: Light, for the light ever comes
from the East; the energy of the Spirit of Peace: Love, establishing right
human relations; the energy of the Avatar of Synthesis: Power, implementing
both light and love. At the centre of this Triangle the Christ took His stand; from that
point His Aquarian work began, and it will continue for two thousand five
hundred years. Thus He inaugurated the new era and, upon the inner spiritual
planes, the new world religion began to take form. The word
"religion" concerns relationship, and the era of right human
relations and of a right relation to the
Christ can draw upon the energies which are defined by the phrase "life more abundantly," because they will set loose (in the Aquarian Age) in a new and dynamic manner the new energies needed in order to bring about restoration and resurrection. This new energy is the "implementing force of universality"; it concerns the future. This inflow of Aquarian energy is one of the factors which will enable the Christ to complete His task as world Saviour and world Teacher. ROC 85
The work of Christ, during the Piscean Age, was to relate humanity to the Hierarchy of the planet; in the Aquarian Age, His work will be to relate this rapidly growing group to that higher centre where the Father is contacted, where recognition of sonship is accorded and where the divine purpose can be known. Through the coming work of Christ, the three divine aspects, recognised by all the world religions (including the Christian religion)—Intelligence or the Universal Mind, Love and Will—will be consciously developed in mankind; humanity, the spiritual Hierarchy and the "centre where the will of God is known" will be brought into a more open and general relationship. ROC 88
When the searchlight of the mind is penetrating slowly into hitherto unrecognised aspects of the divine mind, when the magnetic qualities of the heart are awakening and becoming sensitively responsive to both the other aspects, then the man becomes able to function in the new unfolding realms of light, love and service. He is initiate.
These are the mysteries with which the Christ will deal; His acknowledged Presence with us and the presence of His disciples will make possible a far more rapid development than would otherwise be the case. The stimulation of the objective Hierarchy will be increasingly potent and the Aquarian Age will see so many of the sons of men accepting the great Renunciation that world effort will be on the same scale as the mass education of mankind in the Piscean Age. Materialism as a mass principle will be rejected and the major spiritual values will assume greater control.
The production of the culture of any given period is simply the reflection of the creative ability and the precise consciousness of the initiates of the time—those who knew they were initiate and were also conscious of admittance into direct relation with the Hierarchy. At present, we use neither of these two words, civilisation and culture, in their rightful sense or with their true meaning. Civilisation is the reflection in the mass of men of some particular cyclic influence, leading to an initiation. Culture is esoterically related to those within any era of civilisation who specifically, precisely and in full waking consciousness, through self-initiated effort, penetrate into those inner realms of thought activity which we call the creative world. These are the realms which are responsible for the outer civilisation. ROC 129
In the age into which we are now emerging, the Aquarian Age,
this mode of group work will reach a very
Those disciples who
are working along this line are the nurturers of the seed of the future
intuitional civilisation, which will come to its full
glory in the Aquarian Age. The intuition is the infallibly sensitive agent,
latent in every human being; it is based, as you know, upon direct knowledge,
unimpeded by any instrument normally functioning in the three worlds. Of this
intuitional future age, Christ is the Seed Man, for "He knew what was in
man." Today, a group or a unit of groups can be the nurturers of the seed
of the intuition; the cultivation of sensitivity to telepathic impression is
one of the most potent agencies in developing the coming use of the intuitive
faculty.
The truly telepathic
man is the man who is responsive to impressions coming to him from all forms of
life in the three worlds, but he is also equally responsive to impressions
coming to him from the world of souls and the world of the intuition. It is the
development of the telepathic instinct which will eventually make a man a
master in the three worlds, and also in the five worlds of human and superhuman
development. By a process of withdrawal (of occult abstraction) and of
concentration upon the telepathic cult, the whole science of telepathy (as a
seed of a future racial potency) can be developed and understood. This is a
process now going forward, and it is going on in two ways: through the medium of telepathic groups and of
telepathic people, and through the medium of exoteric scientific investigation.
The building of the thoughtform which will accustom the race to the idea of
telepathic work is proceeding apace, and the seed of this development is
becoming very vital and powerful and germinating with real rapidity. It is, in
the last analysis, the seed of MASTERHOOD. Tev 36
I would have all disciples begin to train themselves to
respond to the Aquarian energy now pouring into the Hierarchy. Some of you can do so as accepted disciples,
and as members of my Ashram. Take
advantage, therefore, of the opportunity for re-energising
that comes to all those who have established contact, via their souls, with the
Hierarchy, or who are members of an Ashram, or who, as probationers, are upon
the periphery of the great Ashram of Sanat Kumara, the Hierarchy. This Aquarian influence produces mainly the
intensifying of the hierarchical relationship to Shamballa, and therefore
affects every member of His Ashram, from the Christ down to the most newly
accepted disciple.
It is through the disciples that the New Group of World Servers are brought under the stepped-down Aquarian influences; this has to be an individual matter, largely dependent upon the point of evolution. Some members of the New Group of World Servers will not respond in any way; they cannot. Others will respond as fully as their spiritual status permits. This inflow of Aquarian energy is one of the factors which will enable the Christ to complete His task as World Saviour and World Teacher; it will also enable Him to take the initiation which lies immediately ahead of Him and for which He has been preparing for close upon three thousand years—so exalted and peculiar an initiation it is. It is this influence also which has enabled the Master R. to assume the mantle of the Mahachohan and become the Lord of Civilisation—a civilisation which will be conditioned by the rhythm of the seventh ray. R& I 232
Rule XII.
Let the group serve
as Aquarius indicates; let Mercury speed the group upon the upward Way and let
Taurus bring illumination and the attainment of the vision; let the mark of the
Saviour, as the group toils in Pisces, be seen above
the aura of the group. RI 232
The third great change has been in the
relation of the Hierarchy to Shamballa, and of this you can necessarily know
and understand little. I could perhaps
express the underlying significance to you in symbolic language. The energy, emanating from Shamballa, has
been divided into two direct and distinctive streams. One stream, embodying the dynamic of purpose,
is now pouring into the Hierarchy and into its seven major Ashrams; another
stream, embodying the dynamic of determination or of enlightened enthusiastic
will, is reaching humanity direct, via the New Group of World Servers. Hitherto a blended stream of Shamballa force
has poured into the Hierarchy and has streamed, in its undifferentiated type
and quality, into all the groups within the Hierarchy. Now the quality of determination, or of what
the average person understands by the use of the word "Will," is
pouring into the New Group of World Servers, whilst the energy of dynamic purpose,
differentiated into seven diverging streams, is pouring into each of the "seven points of
reception," the Masters' Ashrams within the ring-pass-not of the
Hierarchy. These seven types of purpose
embody the seven energies which will reorganise and
redefine the hierarchical undertakings, and thus inaugurate the New Age. These seven purposes might be called: RI 241
As you are well aware, human history has
been essentially the history of great spiritual Messengers Who—from time to
time, in the hours of human crisis—have come forth from the secret place
of the Most High to aid, inspire, reveal, lead and direct. It is the history of
the presentation of ideas, brought to the attention of humanity and gradually
developed into civilisations and cultures. Such is
the urgency of human need at this time, and such is the opportunity, that one
such Son of God is—during this cycle of tension—seeking to cooperate with the
Christ. As a result of Christ's decision and His "spiritual fusion"
with the Will of God, the Avatar of Synthesis has become, for the time being,
His close Associate. [Page 77] This is an event of supreme and planetary
importance. His relationship and planned help date from the time of the
pronouncing of the great Invocation and its use by men everywhere. Owing to the
stupendous task confronting Christ, the Avatar of Synthesis will fortify Him,
and He will be buttressed by this "Silent Avatar" Who (to speak
symbolically) will "keep His eye upon Him, His hand beneath Him and His
heart in unison with His."
This Being is closely related to the Will Aspect of
divinity, and His cooperation has been made possible through Christ's Own
attainment along the line of the highest, spiritual will. He works under the
great natural Law of Synthesis, producing at-one-ment,
unification and fusion. His function (in unison with the energy of Christ) is
to generate spiritual will in humanity, the will-to-good; His potency works in
three fields of activity at this time:
a. Within the spiritual Hierarchy itself, revealing the
nature of the divine will-to-good which the
b. Within the Assembly of the United Nations, though not
within the Security Council; He is there generating a slowly growing
will-to-unity.
c. Within the masses of men everywhere, fostering the urge
to a general betterment.
His activity is necessarily a mass activity, for He can only
channel His energies through the mass consciousness or through a group
conscious entity, such as the Hierarchy, the United Nations or Humanity. The
focal point of His effort and the Agent through which distribution of His
energy can be made is the New Group of World Servers; [Page 78] this group is
uniquely related to this Avatar of Synthesis. The bringing together of all the
agents of goodwill (who are responsive to the energy of the divine
will-to-good) constitutes the major objective of the New Group of World Servers
and always has been. Their work can now be constructively and creatively
intensified through the association of the Avatar of Synthesis with the Christ.
Their task is to usher in the New Age; in that New Age, the five Kingdoms in
Nature will begin to function as one creative whole. Their work falls into the
following parts, functions or activities:
a. The production of a human synthesis or unity which will
lead to an universal recognition of the one humanity,
brought about through right human relations.
b. The establishing of right relations with the subhuman
kingdoms in nature, leading to the universal recognition that there is One
World.
c. The anchoring of the Kingdom of God, the spiritual
Hierarchy of our planet, in open expression on Earth, thus leading to the
universal recognition that the sons of men are one.
These objectives the Avatar of Synthesis will foster and aid
and for this purpose He has associated Himself with the Christ, working through
the Hierarchy, under instruction from the "centre where the will of God is
known." These three related events and distributing points of energy have
all come into activity during the point of tension in which Christ and the
Hierarchy are at this time held. They all serve to re-direct and focus energy
in relation to humanity, for all are the result of the decision made by Christ
after His point of crisis, and are all connected with the hierarchical
preparation for Christ's reappearance. ROC 79