THE NEW
WORLD RELIGION
THE ESSENCE OF ALL RELIGIONS IS ONE
"My plan is to realise within you that which you truly are, to show you that you stem from the Godhead Itself, and to that Divine Source must return.
My Mission will ease for you that passage, that long journey back to your rightful heritage.
When we meet as brothers, My friends, you will find in Me a Teacher and Guide Who knows well the way, for long since have I made that self-same journey, and know by heart the signposts on the way."
THE WORLD TEACHER
Lord Maitreya
God is Love
We are Sons of God
The immortal soul &
Divine spark of God
The great Teachers
& their Teachings
Brotherhood
Right human relations
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The Art of Self-
Realisaton & Service
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THE FACT OF
IMMORTALITY
AND ETERNAL
PERSISTENCE
THE CONTINUITY
OF REVELATION
AND THE DIVINE APPROACHES
THE FACT OF OUR RELATIONSHIP
WITH EACH OTHER
THE FACT OF
THE PATH TO GOD
THE FACT OF
MAN'S RELATION-
SHIP TO GOD
THE FACT OF GOD
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6 ESSENTIAL TRUTHS
"This new knowledge will transform men's experience of the world and of each other and confirm for them the truth that God and man are One. Thus, the new science will demonstrate man's divinity and will lead to establishment of the New World Religion. The ancient schism between religion and science will be healed and a new impulse given to man's spiritual growth."
A MASTER SPEAKS
THE NEW CIVILIZATION
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
NEW WORLD RELIGION
"When the Christ reappears, the non-essentials will surely disappear; the fundamentals of faith will remain, upon which He can build that new world religion for which all men wait. That new world religion must be based upon those truths which have stood the test of ages and which have brought assurance and comfort to men everywhere."
ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST
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
TOP
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
TOP
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
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ESSENTIAL TRUTH 3
ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST
A fourth essential truth and one which clarifies all the planned work of the Christ is tied in with
spiritual revelation and the need of man for God and of God for man. Never has Deity left Itself at any time without witness. Never has man demanded light that the light has not been forthcoming. Never has there been a time, cycle or world period when there was not the giving out of the teaching and spiritual
help which human need demanded. Never did the hearts and minds of men go out towards God, but that divinity itself came nearer to man. The history of mankind is, in reality, the history of man's demand for light and for contact with God, and then the giving of light and the approach of God to man. Always the Saviour, the Avatar or the World Teacher issued forth from the secret place of the Most High and brought to man fresh revelation, fresh hope and a fresh incentive towards fuller spiritual living.
Some of these Approaches have been of a major nature, affecting humanity as a whole and some of them are of less importance, affecting only a relatively small part of mankind—a nation or a group.
Those Who come as the Revealers of the love of God come from that spiritual centre to which the Christ gave the name "the Kingdom of God" (Matt. VI.33). Here dwell the "spirits of just men made perfect" (Heb. XII.23); here the spiritual Guides of the race are to be found and here the spiritual Executives of God's plan live and work and oversee human and planetary affairs. It is called by many names by many people. It is spoken of as the Spiritual Hierarchy, as the Abode of Light, as the Centre
where the Masters of the Wisdom are to be found, as the Great White Lodge. From it come those who act as Messengers of the Wisdom of God, Custodians of the truth as it is in Christ, and Those Whose task is to save the world, to impart the next revelation, and to demonstrate divinity. All the world Scriptures bear witness to the existence of this centre of spiritual energy. This spiritual Hierarchy has been steadily drawing nearer to humanity as men have become more conscious of divinity and more
fitted for contact with the divine.
Another great Approach of divinity and another spiritual revelation are now possible. A new revelation is hovering over mankind and the One Who will bring it and implement it is drawing steadily nearer to us. What this great approach will bring to mankind, we do not yet know. It will surely bring us as definite results as did all the earlier revelations and the missions of Those Who came in response to
humanity's earlier demands. The World War has purified mankind. A new heaven and a new earth are on their way. What does the orthodox theologian and churchman mean when he uses the words "a new heaven"? May these words not signify something entirely new and a new conception as to the world of
spiritual realities? May not the Coming One bring us a new revelation as to the very nature of God Himself? Do we yet know all that can be known about God? If so, God is very limited. May it not be possible that our present ideas of God, as the Universal Mind, as Love and as Will may be enriched by some new idea or quality for which we have as yet no name or word, and of which we have no slightest understanding. Each of the three present concepts of divinity—of the Trinity—were entirely new when first sequentially presented to the mind or consciousness of man.
For some years now the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet has been drawing nearer to humanity and its approach is responsible for the great concepts of freedom which are so close to the hearts of men everywhere. The dream of brotherhood, of fellowship, of world cooperation and of a peace, based on right human relations, is becoming clearer in our minds. We are also visioning a new and vital world religion, a universal faith which will have its roots in the past, but which will make clear the new dawning beauty and the coming vital revelation.
Of one thing we can be sure, this approach will, in some way—deeply spiritual, yet wholly factual—prove the truth of the immanence of God. The churches have emphasised and exploited the extraterritoriality of Deity and have posited the presence of a God Who is creating, sustaining and creatively active, but at the same time outside His Creation—an inscrutable onlooker. This type of transcendent
Creator must be shown to be false and this doctrine must be countered by the manifestation of God in man, the hope of glory. It is this surely that the expected Approach will demonstrate; it will prove also the close relationship between God Transcendent and that in "Him we live and move and have our
being," because, "having pervaded this entire Universe with a fragment of Himself, He remains." God is immanent in the forms of all created things; the glory which shall be revealed is the expression of that innate divinity in all its attributes and aspects, its qualities and powers, through the medium of humanity.
On the fact of God and of man's relation to the divine, on the fact of immortality and of the continuity of divine revelation, and upon the fact of the constant emergence of Messengers from the divine centre, the new world religion will be based. To these facts must be added man's assured, instinctive knowledge of the existence of the Path to God and of his ability to tread it, when the evolutionary process has brought him to the point of a fresh orientation to divinity and to the acceptance of the fact of God Transcendent and of God Immanent within every form of life.
These are the foundational truths upon which the world religion of the future will rest. Its keynote will be Divine Approach. "Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you" (James IV.8) is the greatinjunction, emanating in new and clear tones from Christ and the spiritual Hierarchy at this time.
The great theme of the new world religion will be the recognition of the many divine approaches and the continuity of revelation which each of them conveyed; the task ahead of the spiritually minded people of the world today is to prepare humanity for the imminent and (perhaps) the greatest of all the Approaches. The method employed will be the scientific and intelligent use of Invocation and
Evocation and the recognition of their tremendous potency.
THE CONTINUITY OF REVELATION AND THE DIVINE APPROACHES
ALICE BAILEY
THE REAPPERANCE OF THE CHRIST
THE GREAT TEACHERS
& THEIR TEACHINGS
TOP
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
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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
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ESSENTIAL TRUTH 6
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