INTRODUCTION
Alice A. Bailey’s claimed “Tibetan” source (Djwhal Khul or “the Tibetan”) and the political idealism in her writings diverge sharply from Helena P. Blavatsky’s Theosophy. I am contending that Bailey’s system is a quasi-monotheistic, Christian-inflected esotericism emphasizing a personal Christ (“Master Jesus”) reorientation of religion from the papal chair in Rome, the “Church Universal,” and related prophecies, rather than the non-theistic Indo-Tibetan esoteric framework of Blavatsky and the original Theosophical sources. Its purpose is demarcation and clarification: to distinguish authentic Blavatsky-oriented Theosophy from Bailey’s “Neo-Theosophy,” expose the latter’s political idealism as a form of hierarchical, neo-papal and technocratic globalism that subverts the original movement, and counter the Lernaean Hydra of religious-political conspiracy literature that conflates the two while rarely engaging the primary materials carefully.
This site engages “Political Cosmologies” (how sacred, secular, esoteric, mythological, and philosophical frameworks have historically justified and shaped free states and self-governing polities) and related currents such as modern providentialism (beliefs that divine, hierarchical, or cosmic forces actively direct historical and political destinies). The purpose of this piece is to clarify how religious and esoteric ideas intersect with politics, so that readers can better distinguish frameworks compatible with republican non-domination from those that tend toward external hierarchical control, while combating the misinformation that clouds public understanding of these currents.
Christians that use Alice A. Bailey (born Alice La Trobe-Bateman) to attack Theosophy prove to believe in the ideas of Alice Bailey far more than we Theosophists do. If they did not, then Christians would help Theosophists demarcate the great differences, and who are engaged in this very task, between Theosophy and Alice A. Bailey’s teachings. But Christian conspiracists continue to not do so.
Alice A. Bailey was a political idealist, as well as her unseen source. The writings and style of Bailey and her source reveal itself. This could also explain the angst with which certain credulous Christians so willingly claim an affinity and connection between Theosophy and Alice A. Bailey to fill the internet with misinformation. Her work could also be attributed to psychological explanations. Whatever is the case, we do not believe in the sham of Bailey’s writings and source of knowledge.
Bailey’s system is a concrete, influential modern political cosmology and providentialist vision: a spiritual Hierarchy of “Executives” and “Great Ones” that allegedly meets, plans, and inspires (or works through) world leaders and institutions toward an internationalist “New World Order,” the externalization of that Hierarchy, and the reappearance of the Christ. These ideas have fed New Age thought, certain strands of global institutional idealism, and, conversely, the conspiracy theories that weaponize them against freemasonry, esoteric groups, or broader internationalism. By rigorously separating Bailey from Blavatsky (whose work the blog links to eclectic republican humanism, illumination, and anti-authoritarian currents), the article protects the integrity of esoteric traditions that can support civic self-governance. It resists both their co-optation into hierarchical-technocratic providentialism and their distortion in polemical attacks that obscure genuine political-cosmological analysis.
“The long divorce between religion and politics must be ended and this can now come about…” (“The Reappearance of The Christ” p. 18-19)
Why does Bailey and her source care so much about acquiring power in the political world?
Any honest person who also has done their research well on Theosophy, the inner conflicts within its movement from the nineteenth to twentieth-century would be intellectually capable of realizing that Bailey’s writings are the kind of distractions that Helena Blavatsky herself warned against. No person requires the Bible to teach them this very fact, because they ought to and can be made to discriminate between Theosophy and Bailey themselves if they read.
- INTRODUCTION
- THE LERNAEAN HYDRA OF RELIGIOUS POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES
- ALICE BAILEY POLITICAL WRITINGS ON THE “NEW WORLD ORDER”
- THE SEVEN RAYS AND POLITICS
- ALICE BAILEY REVEALS THE SOURCES OF HER WRITINGS
- BAILEY’S ALLEGED TIBETAN SOURCE: AN EVANGELICAL DISGUISE
- “THE EXECUTIVES” MEET AND PLAN
- ALICE BAILEY ON PLANS FOR REVIVING FREEMASONRY
- ALICE BAILEY’S “INTERNATIONALISM” IN STEPS TOWARD THE NEW WORLD ORDER
- RECOMMENDED SOURCES: CRITIQUES OF BAILEY
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