First and foremost, there must be the recognition of the fact of God. That central Reality can be called by any name that man may choose according to his mental or emotional bent, racial tradition and heritage, for it cannot be defined or conditioned by names. Human beings perforce always use names in order to express that which they sense, feel and know, both of the phenomenal and also of the intangible. Consciously or unconciously, all men recognise God Transcendent and God immanent. They sense God to be the Creator and the Inspiration of all that is.
The Eastern faiths have ever emphasised God Immanent, deep within the human heart, "nearer than hand and feet," the Self, the One, the Atma, smaller than the small, yet all-comprehensive. The Western faiths have presented God Trancedent, outside His universe, an Onlooker. God transcendent, first of all, conditioned men's concept of Deity, for the action of this transcendent God appeared in the processes of nature; later, in the Jewish dispensation, God appeared as the tribal Jehovah, as the soul (the rahter unpleasant soul) of a nation. Next, God was seen as a perfected man, and the divine God-man walke the Earth in the Person of Christ. Today, we have a rapidly growing emphasis upon God immanent in every human being and in every created form. Today, we should have the churches presenting a synthesis of these two ideas which have been summed up for us in the statement of Shri Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita: "Having pervaded thise whole Universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain." God, greater than the created whole, yet God present also in the part; God transcendent guarantees the plan of our world and is the Purpose, conditioning all lives from the minutest atom, up through all the kingdoms of nature, to man. 

THE FACT OF GOD

ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

GOD IS LOVE

ESSENTIAL TRUTH 1

The second truth to which all give allegiance - no matter what the faith - is that of man's essential relationship to God. Inherent in the human consciousness - inchoate often and undefined - is a sense of divinity. "We are all the children of God" (Gal. III:26); "One is our Father, even God," says the Christ and so say all the world Teachers and Avatars down the ages. "As He is, so are we in this world" (1 John IV :17) is another Biblical statement. "Closer is He than breathing, nearer than hands and feet," chants the Hindu. "Christ in us, the hope of glory" is the triumphant affirmation of St. Paul.

THE FACT OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD

WE ARE SONS OF GOD

ESSENTIAL TRUTH 2

ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

Third, is the sense of persistence, of eternal life or of immortality. From this recognition, there seems to be no escape; it is as much a part of humanity's reaction as is the instinct of self-preservation. With that inner conviction, we face death and we know that we shall live again, that we come and we go and that
we persist because we are divine and the controllers of our own destiny. We know that we have set ourselves a goal and that the goal is "Life more abundantly"—somewhere, here, there, ad eventually everywhere.
The spirit in man is undying; it forever endures, progressing from point to point and stage to stage upon the Path of Evolution, unfolding steadily and sequentially the divine attributes and aspects. This truth involves necessarily the recognition of two great natural laws; the Law of Rebirth and the Law of Cause and Effect. The churches in the West have refused officially to recognise the Law of Rebirth and
have thereby wandered into a theological impasse and into a cul-de-sac from which there is no possible exit. The churches in the East have over-emphasised these laws so that a negative, acquiescent attitude to life and its processes, based on continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people. Christianity
has emphasised immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: Be a true professing Christian and live in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting Christian, or a negative professional Christian, and go to an impossible hell—a hell growing out of the theology of The Old Testament and its presentation of a God, full of hate and jealousy. Both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people. No one of any true reasoning power or with any true belief in a God of love accepts the heaven of the churchmen or has any desire to go there. Still less do they accept the "lake that burneth with fire and brimstone" (Rev. XIX.20) or the everlasting torture to which a God of love is supposed to condemn all who do not believe in the theological interpretations of the Middle Ages, of the modern fundamentalists or of the
unreasoning churchmen who seek—through doctrine, fear and threat—to keep people in line with the obsolete old teaching. The essential truth lies elsewhere. "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap" (Gal. VI.7) is a truth which needs re-emphasising. In these words, St. Paul phrases for us the ancient and true teaching of the Law of Cause and Effect, called in the Orient the Law of Karma.
The immortality of the human soul, and the innate ability of the spiritual, inner man to work out his own salvation under the Law of Rebirth, in response to the Law of Cause and Effect, are the underlying factors governing all human conduct and all human aspiration. These two laws no man can evade. They condition him at all times until he has achieved the desired and the designed perfection and can manifest on earth as a rightly functioning son of God.

THE FACT OF
IMMORTALITY &
ETERNAL PERSISTENCE

THE IMMORTAL SOUL &
THE DIVINE SPARK OF GOD

ESSENTIAL TRUTH 3

ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPPERANCE OF THE CHRIST

ESSENTIAL TRUTH 4

THE SCIENCE OF
INVOCATION & EVOCATION

This is as much a foundational spiritual fact as is God Himself, because it is linked with our knowledge of Him as Father.
This relationship we call "brotherhood" and it expresses itself (or should I say, it will eventually express itself?) through human fellowship and right human relations. For this we work, and humanity is moving towards that relationship—and that in spite of the fact of war.

THE FACT OF OUR
RELATIONSHIP
WITH EACH OTHER

ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

BROTERHOOD
RIGHT HUMAN RELATIONS

ESSENTIAL TRUTH 5

ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPEARNACE OF THE CHRIST

Awareness of this has been preserved for us down the ages by those who knew God and whom the world called mystics, occultists and saints. Opening out before aspiring men stretches the Way. The history of the human soul is the history of the search for that Way and its discovery by the persistent.

THE FACT OF
THE PATH TO GOD

THE ART OF SELF-REALISATION
& SERVICE

ESSENTIAL TRUTH 6