Lucis Trust Īlice and Foster Bailey founded the Lucis Trust in 1922. According to Bailey, she had come to see the society as authoritarian and involved with "lower psychic phenomena". Īccording to historian of religion Olav Hammer, Bailey's early writings of communications with the Tibetan were well received within the society, but society president Annie Besant questioned Bailey's claims of communications with "the Tibetan" and allowed the Baileys to be expelled from the organization. She outlined her vision for the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society however, her efforts to influence the society failed, and she and her husband were dismissed from their positions. According to Theosophist Josephine Maria Davies Ransom, she became part of a progressive "Back to Blavatsky movement, led mainly by Mr. Bailey "objected to the 'neo-Theosophy' of Annie Besant" and worked with Foster Bailey to gain more power in the American Section.
The Theosophist published the first few chapters of her first work, Initiation, Human and Solar, (p. 762) but then stopped for reasons Bailey called "theosophical jealousy and reactionary attitude". She became editor of its magazine, The Messenger, and member of the committee responsible for Krotona." In 1919, Foster Bailey (1888–1977), who was to be her second husband, became National Secretary of the Theosophical Society. Campbell notes, "She quickly rose to a position of influence in the American Section of the Adyar society, moving to its headquarters at Krotona in Hollywood. Theosophist Joy Mills states that in 1918 she became a member of the Esoteric Section of the society. The Theosophical Society states that Bailey became involved in 1917. The Society's seal incorporated the Swastika, Star of David, Ankh, Aum and Ouroboros symbolsīailey discovered the Theosophical Society and the work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Then followed a difficult period in which she worked in a sardine factory to support herself and the children. She left with their three children after formal separation in 1915. The marriage did not last and Bailey pushed for and received a divorce. Together they moved to America, where Evans became an Episcopalian priest. This took her to India where, in 1907, she met her future husband Walter Evans. Īt the age of 22, Bailey did evangelical work in connection with the YMCA and the British Army. This turned out to be the creation and publication of 19 books together with educational and meditation work that reached into "practically all the countries of the world". Her autobiography states that at the age of 15, on June 30, 1895, Bailey was visited by a stranger, ".a tall man, dressed in European clothes and wearing a turban" who told her she needed to develop self-control to prepare for certain work he planned for her to do. 3.5 Influence on psychotherapy and healingīiography Childhood and early life īailey was born to a wealthy middle class British family and, as a member of the Anglican Church, received a thorough Christian education.3.1 Groups founded by Bailey or her followers.2.7 Unity and divinity of nations and groups.Her vision of a unified society included a global "spirit of religion" different from traditional religious forms and including the concept of the Age of Aquarius. She wrote on religious themes, including Christianity, though her writings are fundamentally different from many aspects of Christianity or other orthodox religions. Though Bailey's writings differ in some respects to the Theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, they have much in common with it. Her writings bore some similarity to those of Madame Blavatsky and are among the teachings often referred to as the " Ageless Wisdom". She described the majority of her work as having been telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom, initially referred to only as "the Tibetan" or by the initials "D.K.", later identified as Djwal Khul. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.īailey's works, written between 19, describe a wide-ranging neo-Theosophical system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the Solar System, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general.
Bailey was born as Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England. Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880 – December 15, 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age.
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