Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!in.100proofnews.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Gnomedplume@unowhere.com (Gnome d Plume) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Alice Bailey Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:40:55 GMT Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <400f5fc8.23617078@trialnews.peoplepc.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 48 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:365129 On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:03:18 GMT, "Lars Hedström" wrote: >Magining wrote: > >"Has anybody read Alice Bailey? I've been looking at her boods for awhile >now, and they seem equally fascinating and frustrating. What's this lady >about? Is she for real? If these books were telepathically transmitted >from some Tibetan monk, as she claims, why is there so little in them that >appears Tibetan? There does seem to be a heavy Vedic influence--where did >this come from? Please save me!" > > >The same questions you can ask about A course in miracles. I think we face >the edge of reality here. >Anywhere, anyplace old human kowledge can be reproduced by channeling it >back again to the humans by a vocie in the head or something like that. > > >Lars > **** The Course in Miracles is (imo) a course in born-again Christian brainwashing. Alice Bailey is something else again: When she channeled and wrote her books, HPB's alleged "Great White Brotherhood" was still in vogue and very little was known about real Tibetan magical practice. Blavatsky was financially sponsored by the anti-British Rajah of Kashmir. He and his brother-in-law were Sikh Sant gurus who insisted that she publish their work under other names and locate them elsewhere; hence "Koot Homi and Mooriah" the "Masters" from --you guessed it--Tibet. This was safe at the time as Col. Younghusband hadn't invaded yet and nobody knew what was going on up there. Koot & Co. (who were at least real Sikh magicians) spawned lots of Sikhish Tibetan knock-offs on the astral including Bailey's "Tibetan." When Evens Wentz and lama Samdup's books started coming out in the 1920s discerning people began to suspect something in HPB and Bailey wasn't very Tibetan. After Tibetan refugees began seriously training Westerners (this Westerner included) we were sure there was something wrong, and when K. Paul Johnson came out with *The Masters Revealed* a few years ago, the seeking for Sikhish "Tibetan" masters was over. **** Good Magick! (good Vajrahyana too!) Gnome d Plume > >