NEW TAXONOMY
HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
& THE PLAN OF GOD
"Thus we stand today on the verge of
an era of new knowlegde, broader concepts, wider horizons and richer experience than aught known before."
A MASTER SPEAKS
THE NEW CIVILIZATION
TAXANOMY
HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
NEW TAXONOMY
THE PLAN
OF GOD
SHAMBALLA
HUMAN ENDEAVOUR & THE PLAN OF GOD
SPIRITUAL
HIERARCHY
HUMANITY
FIELDS OF HUMAN
ENDEAVOUR
NEW GROUP OF
WORLD SERVERS
GROUP WORK
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE 7 PILLARS
NEW ERA
CONCEPTS
3 ASPECTS
OF THE MIND
SOUL
HIGER ABSTRACT
MIND
LOWER
CONCRETE MIND
3 ASPECTS OF THE MIND
UNIVERSAL
MIND
INTUITION
PURE REASON
SON OF MIND
1
2
3
HUMAN ENDEAVOUR & THE PLAN OF GOD
NEW TAXONOMY
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification and categorization.
Its purpose is to create an outer framework for organized knowledge, providing a structure for the lower concrete mind.
This framework is founded upon the Plan of God, the alignment of the three planetary centres—Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity—and the role of human endeavour in manifesting the Plan within civilisation. It also relates human endeavour to the New Group of World Servers and the principle of group work.
This taxonomy is an attempt to bring order to the New Era Concepts by revealing their relationships within a coherent and meaningful structure.
From this foundation begins the process of inner knowledge: discovering the living reality behind the ideas and concepts. It is a process of integrating and synthesising concepts and sciences, deepening and broadening our understanding of ourselves, the world processes, and our place within the greater planetary and cosmic scheme.
The ultimate goal is the transformation of knowledge into wisdom—into living experience, insight, and understanding of the realities that lie behind the ideas and concepts.
Humanity, and each individual as Self, soul, and personality, is inseparably connected with this greater scheme. Self-knowledge is therefore the primary key to the deepening of understanding, revealing the relationship between the human being, the Plan, and the greater whole.
Its purpose is to create an outer framework for organized knowledge, providing a structure for the lower concrete mind.
This framework is founded upon the Plan of God, the alignment of the three planetary centres—Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity—and the role of human endeavour in manifesting the Plan within civilisation. It also relates human endeavour to the New Group of World Servers and the principle of group work.
This taxonomy is an attempt to bring order to the New Era Concepts by revealing their relationships within a coherent and meaningful structure.
From this foundation begins the process of inner knowledge: discovering the living reality behind the ideas and concepts. It is a process of integrating and synthesising concepts and sciences, deepening and broadening our understanding of ourselves, the world processes, and our place within the greater planetary and cosmic scheme.
The ultimate goal is the transformation of knowledge into wisdom—into living experience, insight, and understanding of the realities that lie behind the ideas and concepts.
Humanity, and each individual as Self, soul, and personality, is inseparably connected with this greater scheme. Self-knowledge is therefore the primary key to the deepening of understanding, revealing the relationship between the human being, the Plan, and the greater whole.
The divine purpose and evolutionary blueprint for humanity and the planet.
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THE 7 PILLARS
1. The Plan of God
2. The 3 Planetary Centers
The three planetary centres through which the Plan is conceived, transmitted, and expressed.
1. Shamballa
1. Shamballa
2. Spiritual Hierarchy
3. Humanity
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3. Human Endeavour
4. The New Group of World Servers
5. Group Work
7. Self-Knowledge
The fields of civilization through which the Plan is progressively manifested.
The world group that bridges Hierarchy and Humanity, translating spiritual ideas into practical service.
The method through which the Plan is implemented in the Aquarian Age, emphasizing cooperation, synthesis, and shared responsibility.
Self-Knowledge is the most fundamental and essential pillar of the New Taxonomy, enabling the understanding of the wrong activities of the mind, reinforced by desire, and how thought, feeling, conditioning and identification shape perception. Through direct observation of these movements, the mind becomes a clearer organ of perception, deepening understanding of the Plan of God and our capacity for intelligent and purposeful service.
The 7 pillars form the philosophical and structural foundation of this New Taxonomy. Together they provide a framework for understanding the relationship between divine purpose, planetary evolution, human civilization, and individual spiritual development. They unite the outer classification of knowledge with the inner path of wisdom, enabling knowledge to become a living experience.
6. The three aspects of the Mind
The three aspects of Mind add a vertical dimension of consciousness to the New Taxonomy, showing how knowledge is perceived and understood through progressively higher levels of the mind.
They connect the evolution of consciousness with an increasing understanding of the Plan of God, enabling the mind to become a clearer instrument of perception and a more effective instrument of service.
They connect the evolution of consciousness with an increasing understanding of the Plan of God, enabling the mind to become a clearer instrument of perception and a more effective instrument of service.
NEW ERA CONCEPTS
The New Taxonomy provides an ordered framework for the New Era Concepts. Its purpose is not simply to classify and store information, but to establish an outer structure through which an inner, living reality can be approached and understood.
The New Era Concepts represent emerging ideas concerning the development of humanity, consciousness and civilization. Through the New Taxonomy, these ideas are differentiated, related and placed within a larger context. The taxonomy creates relationships between concepts that might otherwise appear as separate subjects, revealing their connections to the Plan of God, planetary life, Human Endeavour, group work, service and human development.
This ordering therefore serves a deeper purpose. Classification is the outer form; contact with the living reality behind the concepts is the deeper objective. By bringing knowledge into an ordered and interconnected structure, the mind is provided with a clear framework through which it can move beyond isolated information and begin to perceive the relationships, principles and living ideas expressed through that knowledge.
In this sense, the New Taxonomy is not intended to become a static collection of concepts. It functions as an instrument of orientation: it organizes the outer forms of knowledge so that the mind can recognize the deeper reality, meaning and purpose that they represent.
NEW ERA
CONCEPTS
THE PLAN OF GOD
The Plan of God is the central organizing principle of this New Taxonomy. It is the evolutionary blueprint through which the divine Purpose gradually unfolds in the life of humanity and the planet. The Plan is dynamic rather than static, revealing itself progressively through the expansion of consciousness and the cooperation of humanity with higher spiritual principles.
Every field of knowledge, every civilization, every culture, and every stage of human development contributes to the manifestation of this Plan. The New Taxonomy presents knowledge as part of this larger evolutionary process, showing how ideas become institutions, civilizations, and ultimately expressions of the divine Will.
The Plan provides meaning, direction, and purpose to all study and service.
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PILLAR 1
THE 3 PLANETARY CENTERS
The three planetary centres form the living planetary organism through which the Life of the Planetary Logos is expressed. They are the fundamental framework of planetary evolution and the channels through which the divine Purpose is conceived, interpreted, and manifested. Understanding the relationship between these centres is essential for understanding the Plan of God and humanity's role within it.
Just as the human being expresses consciousness through major energy centres, the Earth likewise functions through three primary planetary centres. These centres are not merely symbolic but represent living fields of consciousness, each fulfilling a distinct function within the evolutionary process.
PILLAR 2
Shamballa is the highest planetary centre, the centre of Divine Will and Purpose. It is the planetary Head Centre, where the Purpose of the Planetary Logos is known and held in its purest form. Here resides the dynamic impulse that drives planetary evolution and initiates every major cycle of development.
The energy of Shamballa is the energy of will, synthesis, direction, and purposeful evolution. It provides the originating impulse behind the Plan and continually directs the unfolding destiny of the planet. Although its energies are too powerful to be directly contacted by the majority of humanity, they increasingly influence the world during periods of major planetary transition.
Shamballa is associated with leadership, vision, courage, initiation, and the power to bring about transformation. Its purpose is not control but the fulfillment of the divine evolutionary Purpose for all kingdoms of nature.
SHAMBALLA
PLANETARY CENTRE 1
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SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY
Hierarchy is the planetary centre of Love-Wisdom and serves as the planetary Heart Centre. It is the Kingdom of Souls, comprising the Masters of Wisdom, Initiates and advanced disciples who are progressing through the spiritual kingdom and dedicating themselves to the service of humanity and the Plan of God.
The Hierarchy receives the Purpose held within Shamballa and translates it into the evolutionary Plan that humanity can gradually understand and implement. It acts as the intermediary between Divine Purpose and human civilization, ensuring that spiritual energies are distributed according to humanity's readiness and need.
The primary function of the Hierarchy is education, guidance, inspiration, and the expansion of consciousness. Rather than imposing change, it works through impression, intuition, ideas, goodwill, and the awakening of human understanding. Every major spiritual movement, humanitarian advance, and expansion of consciousness throughout history reflects, to some degree, the influence of the Hierarchy.
The Hierarchy demonstrates that true leadership is founded upon love, wisdom, inclusiveness, and selfless service.
The Hierarchy receives the Purpose held within Shamballa and translates it into the evolutionary Plan that humanity can gradually understand and implement. It acts as the intermediary between Divine Purpose and human civilization, ensuring that spiritual energies are distributed according to humanity's readiness and need.
The primary function of the Hierarchy is education, guidance, inspiration, and the expansion of consciousness. Rather than imposing change, it works through impression, intuition, ideas, goodwill, and the awakening of human understanding. Every major spiritual movement, humanitarian advance, and expansion of consciousness throughout history reflects, to some degree, the influence of the Hierarchy.
The Hierarchy demonstrates that true leadership is founded upon love, wisdom, inclusiveness, and selfless service.
PLANETARY CENTRE 2
ASHRAMS
EXTERNALIZATION
OF HIERARCHY
HUMANITY
Humanity is the planetary centre of Active Intelligence, the planetary Throat Centre, and the creative centre through which the Plan is externalized within the world.
Humanity occupies a unique position within planetary evolution because it forms the bridge between the higher and lower kingdoms of nature. Through intelligence, creativity, science, culture, education, government, economics, religion, philosophy, technology, and every field of human endeavour, humanity gradually anchors spiritual principles into civilization.
The essential task of humanity is to consciously cooperate with the Plan by creating right human relations, expressing goodwill, developing right use of resources, and becoming a responsible steward of the Earth and all its kingdoms. As human consciousness expands, humanity increasingly functions as a unified planetary centre rather than as competing nations, cultures, or ideologies.
Humanity is also the centre in which free will is most actively expressed. Through individual and collective choices, human beings determine the speed and quality with which the Plan can manifest within civilization. The future of the planet therefore depends upon humanity's growing capacity for intelligent cooperation, harmlessness, group consciousness, and spiritual responsibility.
THE SCIENCE
OF IMPRESSION
THE GREAT
INVOCATION
WHITE
MAGIC
PLANETARY CENTRE 3
RELATED SCIENCES
1. The Science of Impression
Reception and Registration
2. The Science of Invocation & Evocation
Contact & Alignment
3. The Science of White Magic
Manifestation and Precipitation
HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
Human endeavour represents the practical expression of the Plan within civilization. Every discipline of human activity contributes to the unfolding of consciousness and the building of a more enlightened world.
This New Taxonomy organizes knowledge into the major fields of human endeavour, including science, philosophy, psychology, education, government, economics, religion, art, history, ecology, medicine, astrology, culture, and community life.
Each field develops according to its own evolutionary rhythm while simultaneously contributing to the greater synthesis of human civilization.
Human endeavour demonstrates that spiritual evolution is not separated from everyday life but is expressed through creative work, service, discovery, cooperation, and responsible citizenship.
This New Taxonomy organizes knowledge into the major fields of human endeavour, including science, philosophy, psychology, education, government, economics, religion, art, history, ecology, medicine, astrology, culture, and community life.
Each field develops according to its own evolutionary rhythm while simultaneously contributing to the greater synthesis of human civilization.
Human endeavour demonstrates that spiritual evolution is not separated from everyday life but is expressed through creative work, service, discovery, cooperation, and responsible citizenship.
PILLAR 3
FIELDS OF HUMAN
ENDEAVOUR
CIVILIZATION
CULTURE
THE NEW GROUP
OF WORLD SERVERS
The New Group of World Servers is the bridge between Hierarchy and Humanity. It is not an organization but a worldwide subjective group composed of men and women in every nation, religion, profession, and culture who consciously or unconsciously work for the common good.
They respond to the impression of the Hierarchy and translate spiritual principles into practical action. Their work is found in education, science, politics, religion, culture, economics, environmental stewardship, humanitarian service, and every field where humanity is moving toward greater unity.
The New Taxonomy presents this group as the principal agent through which the ideas of the New Era are anchored within civilization.
The New Group of World Servers demonstrates that true service transcends nationality, ideology, and personal ambition, working instead for the welfare of the whole.
PILLAR 4
NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS
RAY-DATABASE
OF DISCIPLES
GROUP WORK
Group work is the method of the Aquarian Age. The future of spiritual development depends increasingly upon cooperation rather than individual achievement.
True group work is founded upon shared purpose, harmlessness, goodwill, right human relations, mutual responsibility, and recognition of the One Humanity. It requires each individual to contribute unique capacities while subordinating personal interests to the welfare of the group and the fulfillment of the Plan.
Group work reflects the growing realization that evolution proceeds through synthesis and interdependence.
The New Taxonomy therefore emphasizes relationships between ideas, people, disciplines, and civilizations rather than isolated knowledge. It encourages the recognition of patterns, networks, and living wholes.
PILLAR 5
GROUP WORK
The three aspects of Mind add a vertical dimension to the horizontal structure of the Knowledge Tree, showing not only what humanity knows, but also the level of consciousness through which knowledge is perceived and understood.
The mind is an organ of perception. Its development is therefore not merely an accumulation of knowledge, but a progressive refinement of the instrument through which reality can be perceived. As the mind becomes less conditioned by personal thought, desire and identification, it becomes increasingly suitable for receiving, registering and understanding higher levels of impression.
1. Lower Concrete Mind
Organizes, analyzes, classifies and applies knowledge to the concrete world. It is also the level at which thought can become conditioned by desire, producing emotion-thought and distorted perception.
2. The Soul — the Son of Mind
Integrates and illuminates knowledge, transforming it into wisdom and consciousness.
3 Higher Abstract Mind
Perceives principles, ideas and patterns beyond concrete thought and links with higher consciousness.
Beyond these are Intuition and the Universal Mind, representing progressively higher levels of perception and participation in consciousness. Intuition is the direct perception of truth, principle or reality beyond the analytical process of the concrete mind, providing a point of contact through which the individual consciousness can open to the Universal Mind. Universal Mind can be understood as the greater field of universal intelligence and consciousness, corresponding to the Mind of God, in which individual mind participates and from which higher understanding can be received.
Thus, the Knowledge Tree provides the horizontal organization of knowledge, while the New Taxonomy adds a vertical axis of consciousness and evolution. Together they relate the branches of human knowledge to the levels of mind through which knowledge is received and to the greater purpose of the Plan of God.
The mind is an organ of perception. Its development is therefore not merely an accumulation of knowledge, but a progressive refinement of the instrument through which reality can be perceived. As the mind becomes less conditioned by personal thought, desire and identification, it becomes increasingly suitable for receiving, registering and understanding higher levels of impression.
1. Lower Concrete Mind
Organizes, analyzes, classifies and applies knowledge to the concrete world. It is also the level at which thought can become conditioned by desire, producing emotion-thought and distorted perception.
2. The Soul — the Son of Mind
Integrates and illuminates knowledge, transforming it into wisdom and consciousness.
3 Higher Abstract Mind
Perceives principles, ideas and patterns beyond concrete thought and links with higher consciousness.
Beyond these are Intuition and the Universal Mind, representing progressively higher levels of perception and participation in consciousness. Intuition is the direct perception of truth, principle or reality beyond the analytical process of the concrete mind, providing a point of contact through which the individual consciousness can open to the Universal Mind. Universal Mind can be understood as the greater field of universal intelligence and consciousness, corresponding to the Mind of God, in which individual mind participates and from which higher understanding can be received.
Thus, the Knowledge Tree provides the horizontal organization of knowledge, while the New Taxonomy adds a vertical axis of consciousness and evolution. Together they relate the branches of human knowledge to the levels of mind through which knowledge is received and to the greater purpose of the Plan of God.
SCIENCE OF THE
ANTAHKARANA
NEW
EDUCATION
SCIENCE OF
MEDITATION
THE 3 ASPECTS OF THE MIND
PILLAR 6
SOUL
HIGER ABSTRACT
MIND
LOWER
CONCRETE MIND
3 ASPECTS OF THE MIND
UNIVERSAL
MIND
INTUITION
PURE REASON
SON OF MIND
1
2
3
The lower concrete mind is the aspect of mind concerned with the world of form, facts, differentiation, classification, analysis and concrete thought.
It is the reasoning principle. It is the aspect of mind most strongly developed through ordinary education and through humanity's scientific and intellectual development.
It asks:
Its great function is therefore to know.
The concrete mind takes impressions and experiences and organizes them into mental structures. It creates definitions, categories, systems, theories, classifications and explanations.
This is why it is extremely important for something such as a taxonomy. Taxonomy is, in a sense, a highly developed expression of the concrete mind: it takes a field of knowledge and gives it structure.
Limitation of the Lower Concrete Mind
The positive function of the concrete mind
Overview
It is the reasoning principle. It is the aspect of mind most strongly developed through ordinary education and through humanity's scientific and intellectual development.
It asks:
- What is this?
- How does it work?
- What are its parts?
- What is its relationship to other things?
- What can be observed, measured or demonstrated?
- How can this knowledge be organized?
Its great function is therefore to know.
The concrete mind takes impressions and experiences and organizes them into mental structures. It creates definitions, categories, systems, theories, classifications and explanations.
This is why it is extremely important for something such as a taxonomy. Taxonomy is, in a sense, a highly developed expression of the concrete mind: it takes a field of knowledge and gives it structure.
Limitation of the Lower Concrete Mind
- It tends to work primarily with what already exists in form.
- It can analyze an existing reality extraordinarily well, but by itself it has difficulty perceiving the deeper idea or purpose behind that reality.
- It is transient in time and space. It is related to the personality and to the world of changing phenomena.
The positive function of the concrete mind
- The concrete mind should not be regarded as something that has to be overcome or rejected.
- It must be trained, disciplined and illumined.
- When controlled, it becomes a kind of searchlight of the soul. Concentration brings it under control, allowing the mind to become a precise instrument rather than an uncontrolled producer of thoughts.
Overview
- Untrained concrete mind → fragmentation, analysis and mental activity
- Disciplined concrete mind → clarity, precision, discrimination and useful knowledge
- Illumined concrete mind → intelligent instrument of the soul
LOWER CONCRETE MIND
The second aspect is particularly important because it is the point of union between the higher and lower aspects of mind.
This is the Son of Mind, or the Ego/Soul.
This is not simply another form of thinking.
It represents a higher level of consciousness in which accumulated knowledge becomes wisdom.
Bailey describes the soul as summarising the results of accumulated knowledge and illuminating them through intuition. She also associates the soul with the second aspect—love-wisdom—and with the transformation of knowledge into something capable of expressing the Plan.
The distinction can therefore be expressed as:
Concrete mind:
"I know."
Soul:
"I understand."
The concrete mind gathers experience.
The soul extracts meaning from experience.
The concrete mind sees the multiplicity.
The soul begins to perceive the underlying unity.
The concrete mind asks:
"What is happening?"
The soul asks:
"What does this mean?"
And eventually:
"What is the purpose behind it?"
This is the Son of Mind, or the Ego/Soul.
This is not simply another form of thinking.
It represents a higher level of consciousness in which accumulated knowledge becomes wisdom.
Bailey describes the soul as summarising the results of accumulated knowledge and illuminating them through intuition. She also associates the soul with the second aspect—love-wisdom—and with the transformation of knowledge into something capable of expressing the Plan.
The distinction can therefore be expressed as:
Concrete mind:
"I know."
Soul:
"I understand."
The concrete mind gathers experience.
The soul extracts meaning from experience.
The concrete mind sees the multiplicity.
The soul begins to perceive the underlying unity.
The concrete mind asks:
"What is happening?"
The soul asks:
"What does this mean?"
And eventually:
"What is the purpose behind it?"
THE SOUL - SON OF MIND
Bailey describes this as the custodian of ideas and as the faculty that can convey illumination to the lower mind once the lower mind has established relationship with the soul.
That distinction is fundamental.
A useful sequence is:
Divine Idea → Abstract Mind → Soul → Concrete Mind → Thought-form → Physical expression
This is why Bailey associates the abstract mind with the world of ideas and with philosophy.
The abstract mind therefore asks questions such as:
- This is a completely different level from ordinary intellectual thinking.
- The concrete mind works principally with thought-forms.
- The abstract mind works with ideas.
That distinction is fundamental.
- An idea is not yet a fully developed thought-form.
- An idea is more like a seed, archetypal pattern or blueprint from which thought-forms can subsequently be constructed.
A useful sequence is:
Divine Idea → Abstract Mind → Soul → Concrete Mind → Thought-form → Physical expression
This is why Bailey associates the abstract mind with the world of ideas and with philosophy.
The abstract mind therefore asks questions such as:
- What principle lies behind this?
- What larger pattern is emerging?
- What idea is attempting to incarnate?
- What is the relationship between apparently separate phenomena?
- What is the archetypal pattern behind this particular form?
- How can an idea be brought into manifestation?
HIGHER ABSTRACT MIND
In A Treatise on White Magic, she identifies three aspects as:
Mind-stuff or chitta
Abstract mind
Intuition or pure reason
These three have to become unified within the consciousness of the disciple.
Here, intuition is not instinct, feeling, imagination or a sudden personal impression.
In Bailey's terminology, intuition represents a much higher faculty of perception.
It is the faculty through which consciousness can contact the Universal Mind and apprehend fundamental truth or divine ideas.
This is why intuition should not simply be equated with "having a hunch."
A hunch may come from the personality, the astral nature, subconscious material or accumulated experience.
Esoteric intuition is different.
It is direct apprehension of truth.
It does not proceed primarily through sequential reasoning.
It recognises.
Mind-stuff or chitta
Abstract mind
Intuition or pure reason
These three have to become unified within the consciousness of the disciple.
Here, intuition is not instinct, feeling, imagination or a sudden personal impression.
In Bailey's terminology, intuition represents a much higher faculty of perception.
It is the faculty through which consciousness can contact the Universal Mind and apprehend fundamental truth or divine ideas.
This is why intuition should not simply be equated with "having a hunch."
A hunch may come from the personality, the astral nature, subconscious material or accumulated experience.
Esoteric intuition is different.
It is direct apprehension of truth.
It does not proceed primarily through sequential reasoning.
It recognises.
INTUITION
The concept of the Universal Mind takes the entire structure to a still greater level.
The three aspects of mind find their overshadowing or enveloping field of expression in the third aspect of the Logos, which is called the Universal Mind, the active intelligent Deity.
This is a very important distinction.
Universal Mind is not simply:
"the sum of all human minds."
It is a cosmic principle of intelligent activity.
It belongs to the third aspect of divine manifestation:
Active Intelligence
and provides the larger field within which differentiated mental activity occurs.
Therefore:
Human mind is not isolated from Universal Mind.
It is a localized expression within a much greater field of intelligent activity.
Universal Mind and the Third Aspect
Bailey's threefold divine structure can be related as:
Divine aspect Principle Human correspondence
First Aspect Will / Purpose Spiritual Will
Second Aspect Love-Wisdom Soul / Intuition
Third Aspect Active Intelligence Mind
The Universal Mind belongs particularly to the third aspect.
But human evolution progressively brings the third aspect into relationship with the second and eventually the first.
Thus intelligence becomes:
intelligence → illuminated intelligence → intuitive understanding → spiritual will
This is why Bailey's teaching cannot be reduced to intellectual development.
The goal is integration of the divine aspects.
Universal Mind and the Plan
This becomes particularly interesting in relation to the Plan of God.
This creates an important chain:
Purpose
↓
Plan
↓
Idea
↓
Intuition
↓
Higher Mind
↓
Soul
↓
Concrete Mind
↓
Thoughtform
↓
Human Endeavour
↓
Civilization
This could become one of the deepest conceptual structures underlying DiscipleBook.
The three aspects of mind find their overshadowing or enveloping field of expression in the third aspect of the Logos, which is called the Universal Mind, the active intelligent Deity.
This is a very important distinction.
Universal Mind is not simply:
"the sum of all human minds."
It is a cosmic principle of intelligent activity.
It belongs to the third aspect of divine manifestation:
Active Intelligence
and provides the larger field within which differentiated mental activity occurs.
Therefore:
Human mind is not isolated from Universal Mind.
It is a localized expression within a much greater field of intelligent activity.
Universal Mind and the Third Aspect
Bailey's threefold divine structure can be related as:
Divine aspect Principle Human correspondence
First Aspect Will / Purpose Spiritual Will
Second Aspect Love-Wisdom Soul / Intuition
Third Aspect Active Intelligence Mind
The Universal Mind belongs particularly to the third aspect.
But human evolution progressively brings the third aspect into relationship with the second and eventually the first.
Thus intelligence becomes:
intelligence → illuminated intelligence → intuitive understanding → spiritual will
This is why Bailey's teaching cannot be reduced to intellectual development.
The goal is integration of the divine aspects.
Universal Mind and the Plan
This becomes particularly interesting in relation to the Plan of God.
- The Plan exists within the larger field of divine purpose, intelligence and consciousness.
- The human being does not create the Plan.
- The human being gradually becomes capable of registering, interpreting and cooperating with it.
This creates an important chain:
Purpose
↓
Plan
↓
Idea
↓
Intuition
↓
Higher Mind
↓
Soul
↓
Concrete Mind
↓
Thoughtform
↓
Human Endeavour
↓
Civilization
This could become one of the deepest conceptual structures underlying DiscipleBook.
UNIVERSAL MIND
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Self-Knowledge is the most fundamental and essential pillar of the New Taxonomy. It is the direct observation of the movement of thought, feeling and the “I”, including conditioning, desire, identification and the psychological processes through which thought creates a sense of self.
Among the 7 pillars, Self-Knowledge is the most fundamental. The other six pillars provide the framework for understanding the Plan, the planetary centres, humanity's role, and the work of service. Self-Knowledge gives life to that framework. Without it, knowledge remains external, conceptual, and intellectual. Through it, knowledge becomes living wisdom, transforming both the individual and the way he or she participates in the greater evolutionary process.
Self-Knowledge is therefore not merely acquiring knowledge about oneself, but seeing what is actually taking place in the mind without choice or judgment. Through this observation, wrong activities of the mind, reinforced by desire, can be understood and brought to an end. As psychological thought and identification lose their hold, the mind becomes a clearer organ of perception, allowing a deeper recognition of the Plan of God, humanity’s place within it, and the possibility of intelligent and purposeful service.
The essential question is not merely the development of higher thought, but seeing how thought operates. Practical thought is necessary for everyday life, while psychological thought—shaped by memory, conditioning, desire and identification—can distort perception. As this movement is understood, the mind can become clearer, quieter and more receptive, leading to a deeper understanding of the Plan of God and greater fitness for service.
Self-knowledge begins with direct observation of oneself. By becoming aware of the movement of thought, emotion, desire, fear, conditioning, and the sense of a separate self, the individual gradually develops right perception and intelligent discrimination. This awareness is not based on judgment or the accumulation of conclusions, but on attentive observation and direct experience.
Through study, meditation, service, and daily living, consciousness progressively distinguishes the transient personality from the enduring soul. As this process unfolds, identification shifts from the lower self to the higher Self, revealing humanity's relationship with the Plan, the three planetary centres, and the greater planetary and cosmic Life. Self-knowledge is therefore both psychological and spiritual: it frees the mind from illusion while awakening a deeper realization of one's true nature and purpose.
Self-knowledge becomes the bridge between outer knowledge and inner wisdom. Information is transformed into living experience; ideas become realized truths; understanding naturally expresses itself as intelligent, compassionate service. The purpose is not merely to know more, but to be more—to live in conscious alignment with reality.
Self-Knowledge is the essential principle that unites the outer classification of knowledge with the inner transformation of consciousness. It enables the student not only to understand the world of ideas but also to discover his or her own place within the greater evolutionary and planetary scheme. In this sense, Self-Knowledge is not simply one pillar among six—it is the foundation that gives meaning and purpose to all the others.
PILLAR 7
1. Art
2. Science
3. Government
4. Religion
5. Education
6. Cosmology
7. History
8. Philosophy
9. Envirionment
10 Economy
11. Community
12. Healing
13. Astrology
14. Psychology
2. Science
3. Government
4. Religion
5. Education
6. Cosmology
7. History
8. Philosophy
9. Envirionment
10 Economy
11. Community
12. Healing
13. Astrology
14. Psychology
THE FIELDS OF HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
SCIENCE
RELIGION
ART
GOVERNMENT
COSMOLOGY
EDUCATION
ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMY
HISTORY
PHILOSOPHY
COMMUNITY
HEALING
PSYCHOLOGY
ASTROLOGY
1. Art
1. Painting
2. Music
5. Living space
8. Other Arts
2. Music
- Composers
- Musicians
- Conductors
- Writers
- Poets
- Dramatists
- Journalists
- Publishers
5. Living space
- Architecture
- Interior design
- Landscape architecture
- Urban design
- Actors
- Directors
- Television & Radio
- Theatre
8. Other Arts
- Photography
- Design
- Cooking
- Fashion
- Origami
Expressing beauty, creativity and the inner life of humanity.
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2. Science
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Mathematics
4. Biology
5. Enginering & Invention
6. Social Sciences
9. The Science of Energies
10. The Science of Triangles
11. The Science of the 7 Rays
2. Chemistry
3. Mathematics
4. Biology
5. Enginering & Invention
6. Social Sciences
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Anthropology
- Criminology
- Geology
- Paleontology
- Botany
- Horticulture
- Oceanography
- Archeology
- Anthropology
- Ecology
- Meteorology
9. The Science of Energies
10. The Science of Triangles
11. The Science of the 7 Rays
Exploring the laws of nature, matter, energy and consciousness.
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3. Religion
1. Religious people
2. New World Religion
6. Full Moon Festivals
2. New World Religion
- The fact of God
- The fact of man's
- The fact of immortality
- The continuity of revelation
- The fact of our relationship
- The fact of the Path to God
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Cristianity
- Islam
- Judaism
- Confucianism
- Baha'i
- Janaism
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Zoroastrianism
6. Full Moon Festivals
- Festival Eastern (Aries)
- Wesak Festival (Taurus)
- Festival of the Christ (Gemini)
Seeking meaning, spiritual truth and relationship with the divine.
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4. Government
1. United Nations
3. Diplomats
4. Military
5. Lesgislation
6. Explorers
7. Rulers & Aristocrats
8. The New Politics
- General Assembly
- Security councel
- Other departments
3. Diplomats
4. Military
5. Lesgislation
6. Explorers
7. Rulers & Aristocrats
8. The New Politics
- Serving the will of the people
- Securing bascic needs for citizens
- Making progess in the Destiny of the Nation
- Fascism - Ray 1 of Will or Power
- Democracy - Ray 2 of Love-Wisdom
- Communism - Ray 3 of Active Intelligence
- Department of Education
- Department of Health
- Department of the Interior / Home affairs
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Department of Finance
- Department of Justice
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Transport/Transportation
- Department of Environment
- Department of Labor/Employment
- Department of Energy
- Department of Culture/Arts
- Department of Science or Technology
- Department of Defence
- Department of Immigration and Emigration
- The archetype of a race
- Manvantara
- Initiating Manu
- Ending Manu
- Destiny of the nations
- Continents
- Countries
- Cities
- Leaders of the Nations
- Destiny of Humanity
Organizing society through justice,
cooperation and right human relations.
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5. Education
1. Teachers
2. Educators
3. Pedagogists
4. Esotericists
5. The New Education
6. The Aims of Education
7. The 4 Atmospheres
9. Mystery schools
2. Educators
3. Pedagogists
4. Esotericists
5. The New Education
6. The Aims of Education
7. The 4 Atmospheres
- Atmosphere of Love
- Atmosphere of Patience
- Atmosphere of Ordered Activity
- Atmosphere of Understanding
9. Mystery schools
- Probationary schools
- Advanced schools
- Personel
- Curiculum
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6. Cosmology
1. Cosmologists
5. Space Brothers
7. Cosmogenesis
8. The Cosmic Chain
- Objective and subjective
Cosmos
- Objective Cosmos
- Subjective Cosmos
5. Space Brothers
- Brothers from other planets
- Service to humanity
- Light Technology
- Crop Circles
7. Cosmogenesis
- Secret Doctrine: Stanza's van Dzyan
- The great chain of Being
- Atom
- Human being
- Kingdoms of nature
- Planet
- Solar System
- One About Whom Naught May be Said
- Galaxies
- Infinity
- Planets (Sacred and non-sacred)
- Solar System
- Stars
- Galaxies
- Krita Yuga
- Treta Yuga
- Dwapara Yuga
- Kali Yuga
- Maha Yuga
- Reign of Manu: 71 Maha Yugas
- Reign of 14 Manus: 994 Maha Yugas
- Sandhis (Intervals)
- Kalpa (Day of Brahma)
- Night of Brahma
- Year of Brahma
- Maha Kalpa (100 years of Brahma)
- Hubble
- James Webb
- Vera Rubin Observatory
- Parker Solar Probe
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12. Healing
1. Medics
2. Psychologists
3. Endocrinilogists
4. Healers
5. Ostheopaths
6. Chiropractors
7. Homeopaths
8. Rules & Laws
11. Diagnosis
2. Psychologists
3. Endocrinilogists
4. Healers
5. Ostheopaths
6. Chiropractors
7. Homeopaths
8. Rules & Laws
- Radiation
- Magnetism
- Law 1: Energy follows thought
- Law 2: Soul governs personality
- Rule 1: Healer aligns with soul
- Law 3: Energy circulates freely
- Law 4: Disease is misalignment
- Rule 2: Purity enables healing
- Law 5: Healing obeys karma
- Rule 3: Energy follows healer’s focus
- Law 6: Death releases consciousness
- Law 7: Life animates form
- Rule 4: Healer remains detached
- Law 8: Disease precedes healing
- Rule 5: Know patient’s ray
- Law 9: Perfect health is balance
- Rule 6: Avoid personal desire
- Law 10: Soul heals indirectly
- Rule 7: Healing is group work
- Restitution
- Elimination
- Integration
11. Diagnosis
- Psychologist
- Physician
- Endocrinologist
- The monad
- The soul
- The personality
- The mental body
- The emotional body
- The etheric body
- The dense physical body
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13. Astrology
1. Astrologers
2. New Astrology
3. 12 sign of the Zodiac
7. The Science of Triangles
2. New Astrology
3. 12 sign of the Zodiac
- Aries (Ram)
- Taurus (Bull)
- Gemini (Twins)
- Cancer (Crab)
- Leo (Lion)
- Virgo (Maiden)
- Libra (Scales)
- Scorpio (Scorpion)
- Sagittarius (Archer)
- Capricorn (Goat)
- Aquarius (Waterbearer)
- Pisces (Fishes)
- Rising sign
- Sun sign
- Moon sign
- Houses
- Crosses
- Planets (Sacred and non-sacred)
- 7 Rays
- Decanates
- The axes
- The Quadrants
- Conjunction 0°
- Sextile 60°
- Square 90°
- Trine 120°
- Opposition 180°
7. The Science of Triangles
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14. Psychology
1. Psychologist
2. The New Psychology
6. Constitution of man
2. The New Psychology
- Science of consciousness
- The science of the Soul
- The science of the Personality
- The science of the Mind
- The science of the Emotions
- The science of the Etheric body
- The science of the Physical body
- Classification of Emotions
- Emotion
- Character
- Behaviour
- Science of Human Relations
- Ray 1: Will or Power
- Ray 2: Love-Wisdom
- Ray 3: Active Intelligence
- Ray 4: Harmony through Conflict
- Ray 5: Concrete Knowledge or Science
- Ray 6: Devotion or Abstract Idealism
- Ray 7: Ceremonial Order or Magic
6. Constitution of man
- The monad
- The soul
- The personality
- The mental body
- The emotional body
- The etheric body
- The dense physical body
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SCIENCE OF IMPRESSION
The Science of Impression is the science of receiving, interpreting, and transmitting spiritual ideas and energies. It describes the process by which divine Purpose is impressed from Shamballa to the Hierarchy, from the Hierarchy to the New Group of World Servers, and ultimately into Humanity and every field of human endeavour.
Its purpose is to cultivate a mind that is receptive, intuitive, and free from personal distortion, enabling the individual and the group to respond consciously to the Plan of God. Through impression, higher ideas become living realities that inspire culture, science, education, government, religion, and all aspects of civilization. It is therefore one of the key sciences of the New Era, linking the inner world of spiritual purpose with its outer expression in human life.
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THE GREAT INVOCATION
The Great Invocation is a world prayer and a scientific formula of invocation that aligns humanity with the three planetary centres: Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity. It invokes the energies of Light, Love, and Will, creating a conscious relationship between humanity and the higher spiritual centres through which the Plan of God is revealed and expressed.
Its purpose is to strengthen the flow of spiritual energy into human consciousness, fostering right human relations, goodwill, and the externalization of the Plan. As an act of group invocation, it enables individuals and groups to cooperate consciously with planetary evolution, serving as a bridge between divine Purpose and practical service within civilization.
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WHITE MAGIC
White Magic is the science of consciously cooperating with the Plan of God by bringing spiritual ideas into outer manifestation. It is the creative process through which energies received from the higher planetary centres are transformed into constructive thought, right action, and service.
Working in alignment with Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity, White Magic enables the disciple to become a conscious creator rather than an unconscious reactor. Through right motive, meditation, and group service, the individual learns to build forms that express the soul's purpose and contribute to the evolution of civilization.
White Magic is the practical application of the relationship between the three planetary centres. It demonstrates how divine Purpose, transmitted through the Hierarchy, is intelligently expressed by Humanity, transforming spiritual ideas into living realities that further the unfolding of the Plan.
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CIVILIZATION
- Expression of the Plan in form — Civilization is the outer organization of human life through which the Plan of God gradually takes form, shaping institutions, systems, relationships, and collective human activity.
- Expression of Humanity — It reflects the stage of development reached by Humanity as the third planetary centre, demonstrating how human consciousness, values, and ideas are translated into social, cultural, and material conditions.
- Progress toward synthesis — Civilization evolves from the organization of material life toward greater cooperation, right human relations, intelligent stewardship, and conscious alignment with the Purpose and Plan of God.
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CULTURE
- Expression of the Soul — Culture represents the expression of the Soul through human consciousness, giving form to higher values, ideas, beauty, meaning, wisdom, and the deeper qualities of human life within civilization.
- Refinement and integration — It reflects the gradual refinement of human thought, feeling, and behaviour, bringing greater harmony between the individual, humanity, and the higher principles that guide human evolution.
- Expression of the Plan — Culture provides a field through which higher Ideas can enter human consciousness and become expressed through art, philosophy, education, religion, science, and human relationships.
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LOWER CONCRETE MIND
- Concrete and analytical — It works with facts, details, forms, and specific relationships, organizing experience through observation, analysis, comparison, classification, and logical reasoning.
- Discriminative and separative — It distinguishes, defines, and differentiates, enabling consciousness to establish clear boundaries between objects, concepts, experiences, and fields of knowledge. Its strength lies in precision, but its limitation is the tendency toward fragmentation and separation.
- Instrument of the personality — It provides the personality with the capacity to think, plan, interpret, and solve problems. Through spiritual development, however, it is progressively subordinated to the Soul and becomes an instrument for expressing higher understanding.
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SOUL - SON OF MIND
- Unifying and inclusive — The Soul perceives relationships, synthesis, and the underlying unity within diversity. It enables consciousness to move beyond identification with separate forms toward an awareness of the whole.
- Illuminating and intuitive — The Soul brings light, meaning, and understanding to the mind, revealing the deeper reality and purpose behind outer forms and experiences. It is the principle of consciousness that transforms knowledge into wisdom.
- Mediator and bridge — As the Son of Mind, the Soul stands between the personality and the higher spiritual nature. It links the Lower Concrete Mind with the Higher Abstract Mind and provides the pathway through which higher impression can enter human consciousness.
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HIGHER ABTRACT MIND
- Abstract and synthetic — It functions beyond concrete facts and details, perceiving principles, ideas, patterns, and universal relationships. Rather than focusing primarily on separate forms, it seeks the underlying principle that unites them.
- Conceptual and purposeful — It apprehends ideas in relation to meaning, purpose, and the larger evolutionary Plan, enabling consciousness to recognize how individual developments fit within a greater whole.
- Bridge to higher consciousness — The Higher Abstract Mind forms an important link between the Soul and the Spiritual Triad. As the mind becomes increasingly abstract, synthetic, and detached from personality identification, it becomes receptive to intuition and higher spiritual impression.
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INTUITION
- Direct and perceptive — Intuition apprehends truth directly, without requiring the sequential processes of analysis, deduction, or reasoning. It is a faculty of immediate recognition through which consciousness can perceive what is true or essential.
- Inclusive and synthetic — It perceives the whole rather than merely its separate parts, revealing relationships, meaning, unity, and purpose that cannot be fully reached through the analytical mind. It therefore represents a higher form of synthesis.
- Revelatory and impressionable — Intuition provides a channel for higher impression and revelation, allowing aspects of the Purpose and Plan to enter consciousness. The mind can then interpret, formulate, and eventually translate this intuitive perception into thought and action.
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UNIVERSAL MIND
- Universal and all-inclusive — The Universal Mind reflects the Mind of God, encompassing the totality of divine Ideas, principles, patterns, relationships, and intelligence underlying the manifested universe. It transcends individual and planetary thought.
- Archetypal and purposeful — It contains the archetypal patterns and creative Ideas through which the Purpose of God can progressively take form in manifestation. Evolution is the gradual externalization of these higher Ideas.
- Source of divine intelligence — The Universal Mind is the higher field of Intelligence through which the Mind of God can be contacted and understood. As consciousness develops, the human mind becomes increasingly receptive to this universal intelligence and the divine Plan.
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UNIVERSAL MIND
- Universal and all-inclusive — The Universal Mind reflects the Mind of God, encompassing the totality of divine Ideas, principles, patterns, relationships, and intelligence underlying the manifested universe. It transcends individual and planetary thought.
- Archetypal and purposeful — It contains the archetypal patterns and creative Ideas through which the Purpose of God can progressively take form in manifestation. Evolution is the gradual externalization of these higher Ideas.
- Source of divine intelligence — The Universal Mind is the higher field of Intelligence through which the Mind of God can be contacted and understood. As consciousness develops, the human mind becomes increasingly receptive to this universal intelligence and the divine Plan.
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