ENDNOTES
PROLOGUE
1. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1998), 118.
2. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol. 2 (London: Lucis Press, 1981), 218–19.
3. D. Fideler, Jesus Christ, Sun of God (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1993), xvi.
INTRODUCTION
1. N. Goodrick-Clarke, The Western Esoteric Traditions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 35ff.
2. In this book I have made no attempt to deal in any detail with the many and varied subbranches of modern theosophical thought pursued by such as Besant, Leadbeater, and Steiner (and many others). That is simply because very few of their concepts or lines of thought were actually original.
3. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations (London: Lucis Publishing, 1971), 538.
4. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett.
CHAPTER ONE. ON SPIRIT, SOUL, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN GENERAL
1. C. G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), 4, 66, 81, 99, 106, 110.
2. W. J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture (New York: SUNY Press, 1998), 126.
3. Ibid., 145.
4. Ibid., 163–67.
5. B. Reynolds, ed., Embracing Reality: The Integral Vision of Ken Wilber (New York: Penguin, 2004), 45–46.
6. K. Wilber, Quantum Questions (Boston: Shambhala, 2001), 3.
7. D. Lindorff, Jung and Pauli—The Meeting of Two Great Minds (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 2004), 2.
8. A. Faivre quoting a paper by F. B. Nicolescu titled “The Metamorphosis of Hermes,” Access to Western Esotericism (New York: SUNY Press, 1994), 281.
9. A. Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe (London and New York: Penguin Putnam, 1995), 10.
10. Ibid., 61.
11. A. Goswami, The Visionary Window (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 2006), 18.
12. Ibid., 96.
13. Ibid., 42–48.
14. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence (Los Angeles: The Theosophy Co., 1987), 2.
15. Plotinus, The Enneads 4.3 (London: Penguin Classics, 1991), 1–2.
16. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 34.
17. Ibid., 46.
18. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1979), vol. 1, 568, and vol. 2, 672.
19. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 175.
20. Ibid., 499.
21. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, trans. A. Wilder (London: Rider, 1911), 44.
22. Plato’s Phaedo from J. M. Cooper, The Complete Works of Plato (Indianapolis, Ill.: Hackett Publishing Co., 1997), 79.
23. A. Goswami, The Visionary Window, 46.
24. B. Lipton, Spontaneous Evolution (London: Hay House, 2001), 7–42. See also Rupert Sheldrake’s A New Science of Life.
25. Ibid.
26. Plato, Phaedra, 250c6, from The Complete Works of Plato.
27. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 147.
28. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 6 and 13.
29. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 245.
30. G. Scholem, Zohar—The Book of Splendour (London: Rider and Co., 1977), 79.
31. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 2.
32. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 29.
33. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927), xiii.
34. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 33.
35. Eliphas Levi, The Key of the Mysteries (London: Rider and Co., 1969), 96.
36. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 373 and 572.
37. Plato, The Banquet, v. 189–190.
38. Plato, The Republic, Bk. 7, v. 514–20.
39. Plato, Timaeus, 83.
40. Ibid., 62.
41. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (New York: Lucis Press, 1964), 1097.
42. G. R. S. Mead, Echoes from the Gnosis (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 2006), 76.
43. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 199.
CHAPTER TWO. HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
1. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 32.
2. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 489.
3. Ibid., 490.
4. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 132.
5. Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, Bk. 2, 561.
6. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 2.
7. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 689.
8. Ibid., 92.
9. G. de Santillana and H. von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill (Boston: D. R. Godine, 1977), 308–9.
10. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 184–85, and vol. 2, 185, 1195, and 200.
11. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 36.
12. Ibid., 43.
13. Ibid., 363.
14. Herodotus, The Histories (London: Penguin Classics, 1983), 157.
15. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 109.
16. S. A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1982), 195.
17. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 197.
18. S. A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung, 91.
19. A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age (London: Lucis Press 1954), 67.
20. Ibid., 111–12. See also Esoteric Psychology, vol. 2, 576–78.
21. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar (London: Lucis Press, 1977), 63–70.
22. The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians VI: 3.
CHAPTER THREE. THE UNSEEN KINGDOMS OF NATURE AND THEIR ROLES
1. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 244, 251, and 270.
2. Ibid., 488–89.
3. Ibid., 654.
4. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 626, and vol. 2, 633.
5. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 245.
6. Ibid., 629–31.
7. Ibid., 951–52.
8. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 36.
9. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 406.
10. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 97.
11. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 489.
12. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 105.
13. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 280.
14. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 489.
15. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 21.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., 23.
18. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 36.
19. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 29.
20. Ibid., 259, and 319–21.
21. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 257.
22. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 2nd ed. (New York: Lucis Press, 1958), 505.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 506–7.
25. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 87.
26. Ibid., 89.
27. Ibid., 95.
28. J. S. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of Atlantis (London: Watkins Books, 2008), 86–87.
29. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 589.
CHAPTER FOUR. ON KARMA AND REINCARNATION
1. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 9.
2. Ibid., 85.
3. G. Hodson, The Kingdom of the Gods (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 39–49.
4. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 10–15.
5. A. Besant and B. Das, Bhagvad Gita (Ninth Discourse) (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1926), 161.
6. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 715.
7. Ibid., 692.
8. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 457, and vol. 2, 281.
9. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 188.
10. Ibid., 545.
11. W. J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture, 276–301.
12. J. S. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of Atlantis, 192ff.
CHAPTER FIVE. EVOLUTION AND INITIATION IN NATURE
1. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 6.
2. Ibid. See also H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Los Angeles: The Theosophy Co., 1990), 278.
3. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 107–8 and 126–27.
4. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 188.
5. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 181.
6. Ibid., vol. 2, 172 and 260.
7. G. Hodson, The Kingdom of the Gods, 98.
8. Ibid., 115.
9. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 295.
10. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 286.
11. A. A. Bailey, The Soul: The Quality of Life (London: Lucis Press, 1974), 176–78.
12. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 364.
13. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 61–62.
14. Ibid.
CHAPTER SIX. SACRED METAPHOR AND ALLEGORY IN RELATION TO THE ANCIENT MYSTERY TRADITIONS AND ASSOCIATED INITIATION
1. J. S. Gordon, Land of the Fallen Star Gods (subsequently republished by Inner Traditions as Egypt, Child of Atlantis).
2. G. R. S. Mead, Echoes from the Gnosis, 41.
3. B. P. Copenhaver, ed. Hermetica, 87–88.
4. J. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2005), 193–286.
5. E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Religion (London: Bell Publishing, 1959), 61–84.
6. R. T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson, 1959), 109–12 and 195–208.
7. J. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 160 and 280.
8. Iamblichus, Theurgia—De Mysteriis, 254.
9. A. E. Waite, The Occult Sciences (Reprint, London: Kegan Paul, 1972), 11.
10. D. A. Mackenzie, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1915), 342.
11. Ibid., 138ff.
12. Ibid., 75.
13. Ibid., 171ff.
14. Ibid., 53 and 84ff.
15. Y. Stoyanov, The Other God (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 72–83.
16. S. H. Nasr, The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia (London: Curzon Press, 1996), 73.
17. Ibid., 14.
18. P. Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2005), 80–89.
19. Ibid., 30–41.
20. Ibid., 78.
21. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 268 and 322, and vol. 2, 269 and 559.
22. R. Graves, The Greek Myths (London: Penguin Books, 1960), 27–41.
23. Ibid., 89–92.
24. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools (Belfast: W. Tait, 1909), 175ff.
25. T. Taylor, Hymns and Initiations (Frome, England: Prometheus Trust, 1994), 10–11.
26. A. David-Neel, Initiations and Initiates in Tibet (London: Rider and Co., 1970), 15.
27. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
28. D. Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings (Salt Lake City, Utah: Passage Press, 1991), 281.
29. S. Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (London: Verso, 2009), 98 and 118–22.
30. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 313, vol. 2, 200 and 471.
31. N. Glatzer, The Judaic Tradition (New York: Behrman House, 1969) 4.
32. G. R. S. Mead, Echoes from the Gnosis, 186–99.
33. G. Scholem, Zohar—Book of Splendour, 79.
34. G. Scholem, Origins of the Kabbala (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), 134, 136, and 361.
35. G. Scholem, On the Kabbala and Its Symbolism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965), 25.
36. C. H. Kahn, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing Co., 2001), 55.
37. T. Taylor, Collected Writings on the Gods and the Worlds (Westbury, England: Prometheus Trust, 1994), 206.
38. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 27ff.
39. D. Fideler, The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Phanes Press, 1987), 30–31 and 51.
40. Ibid., 37.
41. I. Shah, Oriental Magic (London: Octagon Press, 1956), 78–86.
42. I. Shah, The Sufis (London: Octagon Press, 1977), 108–10.
43. B. Jowett, Plato’s Republic and Other Works (London: Anchor Press, 1973), 312. See also Copenhaver, Hermetica, 306–7.
44. Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato (Frome, England: Prometheus Trust, 1998), 17–18.
45. Plato, The Banquet, v. 189–90.
46. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 86ff.
47. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 25.
48. Ibid., 2.
49. A. Faivre and J. Needleman, eds., Modern Esoteric Spirituality (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1992), 3.
50. Editors, The Chaldean Oracles (Fintry, England: Shrine of Wisdom, 1936), 13.
51. Ibid., 52.
52. Ibid., 28.
53. S. A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung, 22.
54. W. J. Hanegraaff, “On the Construction of Esoteric Traditions,” in Faivre and Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 1998), 20.
55. S. H. Nasr, The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia, 128.
56. S. Hoeller, Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 2002), 38–40.
57. D. A. Mackenzie, Myths of Babylonia and Syria, 332.
58. The Acts of the Apostles, Matthew XIII:11; Mark IV:11; and Luke VIII:10.
59. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 163.
60. Origen, Philocalia, trans. G. Lewis (Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 1911), 1, 17.
61. Ibid.
62. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 159–60.
63. K. Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras, 48–49.
64. Y. Stoyanov, The Other God, 122.
65. Ibid., 104.
66. Ibid., 105.
67. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 169.
68. K. Armstrong, Muhammad—A Biography of the Prophet (London: Phoenix Press, 1991), 45ff.
69. Ibid., 110.
CHAPTER SEVEN. THE “DARK AGES” AND THE RISE OF WESTERN ESOTERICISM
1. R. H. Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), 393.
2. R. Bauval and G. Hancock, Keeper of Genesis (London: Random House, 1997), 65, 79, and 140–43.
3. Herodotus, The Histories, 149.
4. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 750, vol. 2, 746. See also her Collected Writings, vol. 5, 286, and vol. 11, 227 and 263.
5. Plato, Timaeus and Critias, 131–45.
6. Y. Stoyanov, The Other God, 67.
7. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 62.
8. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 369. See also Esoteric Psychology, vol. 2, 15–210.
9. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 62.
10. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 697.
11. S. A. Hoeller, Gnosticism, 74 and 112.
12. Y. Stoyanov, The Other God, 75.
13. J. Godwin, The Golden Thread (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 2007), 67. See also Faivre and Needleman’s Modern Esoteric Spirituality, 23.
14. J. Godwin, The Golden Thread, 69 and 118.
15. Faivre and Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, 65.
16. S. A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung, 97.
17. J. Jacobi, ed., Paracelsus: Selected Writings (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951), 45–46.
18. J. S. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of Atlantis, 238–40 and 322–23.
19. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 254.
20. G. Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 41.
21. S. Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, 75ff. and 280ff.
22. D. Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings, 282.
23. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 463.
24. N. Goodrick-Clarke, The Western Esoteric Traditions, 34ff.
25. A. E. Waite, The Occult Sciences, 7.
26. Ibid., 212–25.
27. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 401 and 418.
CHAPTER EIGHT. MODERN SPIRITUAL PROBATION AND DISCIPLESHIP
1. B. P. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 43.
2. C. H. Kahn, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, 8.
3. H. P. Blavatsky, Practical Occultism (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, n.d.), 4–5.
4. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 71.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., 76.
7. Ibid., 84.
8. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 498.
9. H. P. Blavatsky, Five Years of Theosophy, facsimile edn. (Los Angeles: The Theosophy Co. 1980), 223–24.
10. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 498.
11. Ibid., 682.
12. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 539.
13. Ibid., 562–63.
14. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 651.
15. A. A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ (London: Lucis Press, 1969), 18–19 and 480.
16. H. P. Blavatsky, Practical Occultism, 64.
17. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation (New York: Lucis Press, 1973), 3.
18. Ibid., 2.
19. Ibid., 3.
20. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 453.
21. Ibid., 455.
22. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 206.
CHAPTER NINE. INITIATIONS OF THE THRESHOLD
1. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, 475.
2. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 585.
3. The Holy Bible, Romans VII:15.
4. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 18.
5. Ibid., 57.
6. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 82.
7. Ibid., 84.
8. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 58.
9. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 85.
10. Ibid.
11. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Healing, 406.
12. Ibid.
13. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 13.
14. A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age (London: Lucis Press, 1980), vol. 2, 337 and 375.
CHAPTER TEN. THE GREAT TRANSITION
1. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 600.
2. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 401.
3. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 86.
4. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 60.
5. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 88.
6. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 589–602.
7. Ibid., 522. See also her Discipleship in the New Age, vol. 2, 388.
8. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 60–61.
9. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 197.
10. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 89.
11. A. A. Bailey, Serving Humanity, 210–12.
12. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, 194 and 208.
13. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 494.
14. Ibid., 495.
15. Ibid.
16. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Healing, 406.
17. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 539.
18. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 62.
19. B. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 16.
20. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, 208.
21. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 162.
22. Ibid., 523.
23. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 62.
24. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 118–20.
25. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 46.
26. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 59.
27. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 486–95.
28. Ibid., 585.
29. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 67.
30. A. T. Barker, ed. The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 48.
31. M. Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (London: Collins Fontana, 1957), 238.
32. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 68.
33. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 37.
34. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 20.
35. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 273.
36. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 341.
37. G. R. S. Mead, The Subtle Body (London: Stuart and Watkins, 1919), 99.
38. Ibid., 66–67.
39. Ibid., 66.
40. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 118.
CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE VARIOUS STAGES OF ADEPTSHIP
1. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 123.
2. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 52–53.
3. Ibid., 65–66.
4. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 568–69.
5. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 257.
6. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 66–67.
7. Ibid., 67–68.
8. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 572.
9. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 31.
10. A. A Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 699.
11. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, 422 and 589.
12. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 244 and 251.
13. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 668.
14. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 245.
15. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 721–22.
16. Ibid., 719.
17. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 739.
18. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 722.
19. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 222–24 and 302–12.
20. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 70.
21. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 696.
22. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 75.
23. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 71.
24. J. Naydler, Temple of the Cosmos, 242.
25. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 395ff. and 729–30.
26. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 121.
27. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 363.
28. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 289–90.
29. Ibid.
30. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 577. See also The Rays and the Initiations, 688.
31. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 72–73.
32. Ibid., 73–74.
33. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 62.
34. Ibid., 63.
35. Ibid., 59.
36. S. A. Hoeller, Gnosticism, 87.
37. Ibid., 88.
38. G. Scholem, Zohar—The Book of Splendour, 79.
39. S. A. Hoeller, Gnosticism, 91.
40. E. Arnold, The Light of Asia (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1997), 154–62.
41. B. Copenhaver, ed., Hermetica, 6.
42. Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 577.
43. E. Arnold, The Light of Asia, 163.
44. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 535.
45. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1157.
46. Ibid., 904.
47. H. Corbin, Temps Cyclique et Gnose Ismailienne (Oxford: Berg International, 1982), 65.
48. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 197.
49. G. R. S. Mead, Echoes from the Gnosis, 49.
50. S. A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung, 191.
51. Ibid., 70–71.
52. H. S. Olcott, Old Diary Leaves (Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 2002), 236–54.
53. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 392, 829.
54. Ibid., 618–19, 686, and 847.
55. Ibid., 364.
56. D. Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings, 41.
57. Ibid., 41.
CHAPTER TWELVE. THE “MASTERS” OF THE MODERN THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT
1. K. Johnson, The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge (New York: SUNY Press, 1994).
2. K. Johnson, Initiates of Theosophical Masters (New York: SUNY Press, 1995).
3. Ibid., 12.
4. K. Johnson, The Masters Revealed, 4–15.
5. A. T. Barker, ed. The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 91.
6. A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, 787.
7. Ibid., 788.
8. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 410–11.
9. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 87.
10. Ibid., 129.
11. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 248 and 442.
12. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 31.
13. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 573.
14. Ibid., vol. 1, 63 and 235.
15. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 189 (see also her A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 436).
16. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 451.
17. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 250 and 321, vol. 2, 146ff.
18. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 241. See also Initiation, Human and Solar, 54.
19. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 662–63.
20. Ibid., 479–80. See also Initiation, Human and Solar, 54.
21. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 108.
22. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 83–84.
23. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 505 and 644.
24. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 55.
25. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 411, 416, and 434.
26. Ibid., 129.
27. A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol. 2, 383.
28. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 27. See also A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, 135.
29. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 541.
30. Ibid., 644 and 667–69.
31. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 59–60. See also her The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 664–67.
32. A. A. Bailey, Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle (New York: Lucis Press, 1950), 4.
33. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 46. See also her A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1259.
34. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 682.
35. A. A. Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, 59.
36. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 305.
37. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1259. See also Manly Hall, The Most Holy Trinosophia of the Complete St. Germain (Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1933), xiii.
38. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 56–57.
39. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 109.
40. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 504.
41. H. S. Olcott, Old Diary Leaves, vol. 1, 236–54.
42. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1193.
43. A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age, 52–54 and 225.
44. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 442–48.
45. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 586.
46. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 57–58.
47. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 507. See also her Initiation, Human and Solar, 53.
48. M. K. Neff, Personal Memories of H. P. Blavatsky (London: Rider and Co., 1937), 222 and 279.
49. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 758.
50. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 304–5.
51. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1080.
52. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 410.
53. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 304–5.
54. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 527.
55. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol. 2, 33.
56. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 206 and 387.
57. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 753.
58. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 531.
59. A. A. Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, 88–89.
60. A. A. Bailey, The Destiny of the Nations, 17–20.
61. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 523.
62. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 67.
63. A. T. Barker, ed. The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 70.
64. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 519.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid., 113.
68. A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol. 2, 201–18.
69. Ibid., 201.
70. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 73.
71. Ibid., 19.
72. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 530.
73. Ibid., 107–8.
74. A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol. 2, 326.
75. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 568.
76. Ibid., 567.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE JESUS-AS-CHRIST MYSTERY
1. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 377.
2. W. Whiston, trans., The Works of Flavius Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1883), Bk. VIII ch. Iii.
3. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 524.
4. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 182.
5. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 151.
6. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2 (Los Angeles: The Theosophy Co., 1982), 155.
7. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 154. (See also The Works of Philo regarding the Therapeutai.)
8. C. Ginsburg, The Essenes: Their Histories and Doctrines (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1864), 7.
9. Ibid., 10–15.
10. Ibid., 15–16.
11. Ibid., 40–49 (echoing the ancient Jewish historian Josephus in his book The Works of Flavius Josephus: The Jewish War, Bk II Ch. 8, sections 2–18).
12. H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, 108, and Isis Unveiled, vol. 2, 180.
13. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 149.
14. Ibid., 98.
15. Ibid., 154.
16. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 198.
17. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 157–58.
18. D. Fideler, Jesus Christ, Sun of God (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1993), 176.
19. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 159–60.
20. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2, 204.
21. Ibid., 386, referring to the Sepher Toledoth Jeshu.
22. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 56.
23. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2, 548.
24. Ibid., 132.
25. J. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, 158.
26. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2, 197–98.
27. H. P. Blavatsky, Collected Writings, vol. vi (Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 2002), 265.
28. M. Meyer, The Secret Gospels of Jesus (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005), xxi and xxvii.
29. E. B. Szekely, The Essene Origins of Christianity (Nelson, Canada: International Biogenic Society, 1993), 110.
30. Ibid., 109.
31. D. Fideler, Jesus Christ, Sun of God, 29–30.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., 51.
34. Ibid., 38.
35. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 231.
36. H. P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy, 79.
37. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2, 341.
38. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 56.
39. Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993), Bk. I, xi–xvii.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., xiii–xiv.
42. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 254.
43. See J. Wansborough, Quranic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), and also Ibn Warraq, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad (New York: Prometheus Books, 2000).
44. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 706.
45. Ibid., 706, and A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, 564.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. THE CHRIST–MAITREYA BUDDHA MYSTERY
1. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 120 and 211.
2. A. A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, 82–83.
3. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 384.
4. Ibid., 470.
5. Ibid., 109.
6. Ibid., vol. 2, 207.
7. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1195ff. and 1224–26.
8. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 207.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., vol. 1, 129–32.
11. Ibid., vol. 1, 108.
12. Ibid., 108 and 162.
13. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 351.
14. J. S. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of Atlantis, 219ff.
15. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 696–98.
16. J. Overton Fuller, Blavatsky and Her Teachers, 113.
17. Ibid., 114.
18. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 62 and 275.
19. The Holy Bible, John XIV:6. See also A. A. Bailey’s Education in the New Age, 52–53.
20. See H. J. Spierenberg, The Buddhism of H. P. Blavatsky (San Diego, Calif.: Point Loma Publishing, 1991).
21. H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, 70–79.
22. A. A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, 96–97.
23. Ibid., 40.
24. A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age, 53.
25. H. J. Spierenberg, The Vedanta Commentaries of H. P. Blavatsky (San Diego, Calif.: Point Loma Publishing, 1992), 90.
26. Ibid., 110.
27. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 305.
28. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 108.
29. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 555.
30. Ibid., 553–54.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. THE MODERN RESTORATION OF THE MYSTERIES
1. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 477.
2. Ibid., 478.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 18–357.
5. Ibid., 383–84.
6. Ibid., 334–35.
7. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 333–35 and 372.
8. Ibid., 399.
9. Ibid., 334.
10. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 124.
11. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 230.
12. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 46 and 680.
13. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 225–26 and 230.
14. Ibid., 437–38.
15. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 374.
16. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 277.
17. G. Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism, 105.
18. Ibid.
19. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 30.
20. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 266–67.
21. A. A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, 122.
22. Ibid., 151.
23. Ibid., 86.
24. A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age, 119.
25. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1079–80.
26. A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age, 4–7.
27. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 298–99.
28. A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age, 94–95.
29. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 582.
30. A. A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, 307–8.
31. Ibid., 309.
32. Ibid.
33. P. G. Bowen, The Sayings of the Ancient One (Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1985), 38.
34. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy.
EPILOGUE
1. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 39.
2. F. Schuon, The Transcendent Unity of Religions (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1984), 9.
APPENDIX A. PLANETARY CHAINS AND ROUNDS
1. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 159.
2. W. Y, Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 6–7.
3. A. T. Barker, ed., The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 180.
4. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, 198–207.
5. Hence the suggestion made by the Adepts themselves that the Sun would be “the first to disintegrate at the solar pralaya” (The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 188).
APPENDIX B. THE ISSUE OF SHAMBALLA
1. D. Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings, 295.
2. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 161ff. (See also A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, 378.)
3. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, 379–80.
4. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 33.
5. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 224 and 337–40.
6. R. Bernard, Agharta: The Subterranean World, n.p., 1960.
7. G. de Santillan and H. von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill, 227 and 232–33.
8. A. A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, 267–68.
9. Ibid., 268.
10. Ibid., 269.
11. A. A. Bailey, Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, 41–51.
APPENDIX C. THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN RACIAL TYPE
1. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 184ff.
2. Ibid., 227ff.
3. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol. 2, 111.
4. Ibid.
5. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 425.
6. G. R. S. Mead, The Subtle Body, 9.
7. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol. 2, 213ff.
8. Ibid.
APPENDIX D. THE THREE SOLAR SYSTEMS AND THE FAILURE OF THE MOON CHAIN
1. A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 618–19, 686–87, and 847.
2. A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 33. (See also A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 700.)
3. A. T. Barker, ed. The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 179.
4. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 556.
APPENDIX E. SPIRITUAL AVATARS
1. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, 233.
2. A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 491.
3. Ibid., 299.