Alice Leighton Cleather was one of the most
outstanding disciples of Blavatsky, and about Alice Bailey, she wrote the
following:
SUBTLE DEPRECIATION OF H.P. BLAVATSKY
Observe how cleverly H.P.B. is gradually pushed into the background;
little hints and remarks, “damning with faint praise,” being thrown out now and
again – a well-known form of “suggestion.”
We have no
“evidence” for the existence of this “Tibetan Brother”; simply Mrs. Bailey’s
word, her own ipse dixit
for everything. I am inclined to believe that if her “teacher” is not actually Annie Besant or Charles
Leadbeater, it is someone behind all three, with a pseudonym cleverly adapted
to conceal his identity with a certain Christian hierarchy, and by repeated
“suggestion” plant in the minds of Mrs. Bailey’s readers the concept of a
TIBETAN origin for the “teachings.”
The complete omission by this supposed member of the Lodge (!) of all
reference to the true status and nature of the Buddha and his place in
Evolution, as given by the Masters and H.P. Blavatsky, tends to bear out my
theory.
Whether Mrs. Bailey believes whole-heartedly in her “mission” is not
clear. She is evidently a psychic. Whatever may be the truth of the matter, the
whole “plot” is most cleverly contrived, and she must surely be a willing
“tool,” if not a fully conscious agent.
Observe in this “new cycle teaching” there is no place for or mention of
the necessity for
the twin laws of Karma and Reincarnation, although they are often mentioned
incidentally; nor of the great sweep of Cyclic Law through which they work.
Nothing really definite, reasonable or rational; and, as a matter of fact, but
little relation to the teachings of H.P.B., despite the constant references
thereto.
THE SO-CALLED “NEW CYCLE OF TEACHING”
To such proportions has this new cult already grown that the following
astounding assertions are boldly made in the May Occult Review (1928, p.305) by H. Adams, in
an article on Mrs. Bailey’s latest book on Patanjali (The
Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect): “the Tibetan Brother who is responsible for the
impartation of Mrs. Bailey’s previous works. …”
Mr. Adams then gives a few supposed facts culled from the book, and
continues: “This authoritative statement. …” (The “authority” is Mrs. Bailey’s
invisible teacher, and for him we have only her own word) “emanates from the
Brotherhood (!!), in that it has been produced by the express authority and
under the personal supervision of the Brother specially appointed to
communicate the new cycle teaching necessary at this point of evolution in
connection with the second Ray impulse.”
The last few words are typical of her A Treatise on Cosmic Fire “teaching.”
Note the piling up of assumption after assumption. First, he is “a
Tibetan brother,” then his pronouncements are forthwith identified with “the
Brotherhood”! There is talk of their “express authority” and so on.
Boiled down, what does it all amount to? Simply Mrs. Bailey’s calm,
unchecked (and uncheckable) assertions, for the validity of which she claims
the equally unchecked (and uncheckable) “authority” of her “Tibetan.” The
concluding sentences actually go the length of placing her on a level with H.P.
Blavatsky.
ALLEGED INSPIRATION OF TIBETAN MASTERS
Mr. Adams further says: “In the midst of religious controversies on
every hand emptying the churches and filling sincere and seeking souls with
disquiet and eager:
(1) Questioning, and our friends the Theosophists divided into half a
dozen societies and pathetically asking one another “What is Truth?” surely it
is a great solace and matter for thankfulness that the ever watchful.
(2) Brotherhood of
Masters, ignoring all the petty issues, or, rather.
(3) Answering them
most effectively by the voice of an accredited messenger, declares
once again in clear solid
English (!) the Science of the Spirit hidden in the Sutras.” (Italics mine. –
A.L.C.)
Here we may note:
(1) A clever touch, giving the idea that this new scheme has nothing to
do with Theosophy or its societies; leading to the unblushing assertion
(2) that this new teaching actually emanates from the Masters. Further
(3) that the “accredited messenger,” whether Mrs. Bailey or her supposed
teacher, has been inspired by Them!
At the beginning of Mr. Adams’s article H.P. Blavatsky is referred to
only as the translator of The
Voice of the Silence; his idea evidently being to blot out from the
reader’s mind the existence of her magnum
opus, the Secret Doctrine, the teachings of which are in flat
contradiction to some of the bewildering material we have found in Bailey A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.
DOCTRINE OF “RAY IMPULSES”
With reference to H.P. Blavatsky it should also be noted that Mr. Adams
says on p.306:
“An interesting point is made by Mrs. Bailey in her introduction to the
effect that the coming spiritual impulse is a second Ray impulse and will reach
its zenith towards the close of the present century, but it has no relation to the first Ray
impulse which produced the work of H.P.B.”
This is, of course, one of Mrs. Bailey’s usual arbitrary statements, not
in the least what H.P.B. herself told us, but evidently made as part of the
whole scheme to subordinate her and her work to the “new dispensation” of the
Besant-Leadbeater-Bailey cult.
THE “WORLD-TEACHER” IMPOSTURE
It is clear that the efforts now being made by the enemies of the
Masters is to focus the attention of the whole thinking world of the West on
the “Christ-World-Teacher” idea originated by the Besant-Leadbeater cult, and
here shown to be a leading feature in Mrs. Bailey’s scheme, vide the specimens cited
by Mr. Crump. Nor is it any less dangerous to the progress of humanity,
although the intellectual form in which it is so ably presented tends to disarm
criticism and conceal the cloven hoof.
The warnings of the Masters on the dangers of psychic communications and
the work of the Dugpas –
“the infamous Shammars”
– the “Red-Capped Brothers of the Shadow . . . whose pernicious work is
everywhere in our way” (Mahatma
Letters, p.272, 284) must be applied to such cases as this. Also
the extremely important letter in H.P.
Blavatsky’s Letters to Sinnett, p.230 re the work of the Jesuits, (which was
evidently written by one of the Masters), especially the concluding paragraph
on p.233.
CLAIMS OF HIGH INSPIRATION BY PSYCHICS
In the same number of the Occult
Review, at p.354, is an advertisement of a book called Living Secrets by Luma
Valdry.
It is described as follows: “Produced by automatic writing under the
direct inspiration of a Master of the Wisdom, the authoress during its
composition being in a state of dual consciousness. It is a prose poem of
transcendental esoteric import. This book may well become the type of a new
mode of communion. …”
Here we have a precisely similar claim to that of Mrs. Bailey, and this
sort of thing is quite common in spiritualistic and psychological literature.
Mediums generally have a list of eminent “controls,” and therefore it is quite
natural for psychics who wish to appeal to those seeking new “occult teaching”
should claim to get it in the same manner and from the same source as H.P.
Blavatsky.
Psychism is so little understood as yet that few realize how, especially
in female psychics, the line is very difficult to draw between conscious and
unconscious deception (which includes self-deception).
Paracelsus is very illuminating on the power of the female imagination, and
such imposing works as Mrs. Bailey’s may quite well be the product of her own
imagination, using occult ideas and terminology, and filtering into her brain
as definite “teaching,” spoken or inspired by an entity that calls itself “the
Tibetan.”
(This
text is part of the book “The pseudo-occultism of Alice Bailey” by Alice
Leighton Cleather and Basil Crump.)
OBSERVATION
Here Alice Cleather is generous
to Mrs. Bailey, as Cleather considers the possibility that Alice Bailey may
have been a medium who was tricked by some trickster entity which posed as a
Tibetan teacher related to the Brotherhood of Masters.
But after having investigated
this matter, I am convinced that Alice Bailey in reality made up that story,
because it makes no sense that a "spirit" had been blatantly and
systematically plagiarizing all the lies that Charles Leadbeater invented for
more than thirty years.
And instead it has much more
logic than Alice Bailey not knowing that this individual was a charlatan, she
copied her falsehoods. But to impress the public she pretended that a Tibetan master
had dictated them to her telepathically.
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