Alice Bailey - Autobiography - Foreword
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Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey - Foreword
ForewordThe first four chapters of this
Autobiography were written during the year 1945. Chapters five and six were written in
1947. These dates are significant in relation to world events at that time.
The first typed manuscript was rewritten in 1948. The entire writing was reread by Mrs.
Bailey and certain corrections made. Various people worked with Mrs. Bailey at different
times on the text and copies of portions were given to a few people for comment. In some
cases these have not been returned but in all cases they are incomplete, inaccurate in
certain particulars and not finally approved by her.
Four more sections of this Autobiography were planned but were never written. The
mounting pressure of the worldwide, organized work for which Mrs. Bailey was responsible,
the confused and strained conditions of humanity to which she was sensitively attuned, the
sense of futility and therefore of negativity of men of goodwill everywhere which she
sought strenuously to offset, the strain of inadequate finances for the expansion of the
worldwide work and the frustration and disappointment of inability to meet the need and
often the inability to take advantage of opportunity because of mere lack of dollars -
these were some of the pressures which combined to produce a condition of utter
exhaustion. The physical vehicle was given no respite. The heart and blood condition grew
steadily worse.
During the last two years of her life she fought against these pressures and conditions
with a truly iron will. Her First Ray personality rose to the final effort in response to
the demand of her soul. It was in 1946 that she made the decision to refuse invalidism.
Each day therefore, as it had been her life's custom, she worked to the limit of physical
capacity regardless of fatigue or pain. She chose to go out actively working and still on
the job. This she did. Even during the last days in the hospital in [X] New York in
1949, she received visitors, consulted with the senior executives and wrote letters. When
the hour of death arrived her own Master K.H. came for her as He had promised long ago.
The morning after her death I sent the following letter to thousands of her students and
friends all over the world.
Dear
Friend:
This letter brings you word of the ending of one cycle and the opening of another more
useful and less restricted cycle for your true friend and mine, Alice A. Bailey. She was
released, peacefully and happily, Thursday afternoon December 15th, 1949.
As we talked together that last afternoon she said, "I have much to be thankful
for. I have had a rich and full life. So many people all over the world have been so kind
to me."
For a long, long time she had wanted to go and had been held only by her strong will to
finish her job and by her ardent desire to complete those arrangements for the future of
the Arcane School which would best help you and me to be better servers of our fellowmen.
She had fashioned and molded the pattern of our School through the years with the
precision of her keen mind and filled it with the magnetic potency of her own great
long-suffering heart.
Some have asked why she should have had to suffer - for she did suffer mentally and
emotionally as well as physically. I alone know how triumphantly she opened herself to
receive the impact of many types of destructive forces so rampant in this time of world
turmoil and how amazingly she transmuted them, thus safeguarding all those hard pressed,
struggling aspirants and younger disciples who have come to her and to her School through
the years.
By far the greater part of her life work has always been subjective. We have seen the
outer [XI] effects, watched the outer comings and goings, helped her and loved her,
sometimes criticized, sometimes complained, but always gone on, with her and because of
her, yet a little higher and a little better than would otherwise have been the case. We
are all very human and she was very human too.
Why did she
suffer? Because her chosen path is on the line of the World Saviors. She has gone back to
her own Master K.H. for yet more daring work with Him for the Christ.
She asks us to keep the Arcane School bright and shining as it is now, to keep it
filled with the saving power of a worldwide gathering of loving hearts, which it is, and
to see to it that we truly serve.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed)
Foster Bailey
New York,
December 16, 1949 [1]
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