Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00715)

Bart wrote:
> Well, Blavatsky was long dead when the Nazi's started. Many attribute
> the statements of Alice Bailey, who, in spite of her spiritual
> connections, was something of a bigot (she felt Blacks were inferior,
> Jews deserved any bad thing that happened to them because of their
> rejection of Jesus, and that all homosexuals were inherently evil), and
> made a number of statements supportive of the Nazi's.
>

I have the complete set of Alice Bailey's 24 books on CD-ROM, and so I
decided to check the accuracy of Bart's claim that Alice Bailey "made a
number of statements supportive of the Nazi's." By doing a search on the
word "Nazi", I learned that Bailey, in her books, used this word exactly
nine times. The paragraphs in which she used this word are as follows:

1) The dangers growing out of hate, revenge and pain. These dangers will be
the most difficult to avoid. A deep-seated hatred of the Nazi regime (and of
the German nation as endorsing that regime) is steadily rising. This is
almost inevitable, being based on the facts of Nazi activity. The task of
the United Nations after the war will of necessity be-among other things-to
protect the German people from the hate of those whom they have so
appallingly abused. This will be no easy thing to do. Retribution and
revenge must not be permitted, and yet at the same time a just payment for
evil action cannot, and should not, be avoided. The law ever works, and that
law states that whatsoever a man or nation sows, that shall it also reap.
Germany has sown evil broadcast throughout the civilised world, and for some
time to come her lot must be hard and she will have to pay in sweat and toil
and tears for her evil deeds. But this payment should be part of the great
work of rehabilitation and not a vengeful exaction, and if this is borne in
mind, no serious mistakes will be made. The German people must work
strenuously to put right the evil they have done, as far as in them lies,
but the next generation-at present in the cradle or at school-must not be
penalised. (Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, pp. 370-371)

2) Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see
established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling
in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that
all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear
and want; (Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 319).

3) The group of those who violently and actively and sincerely are partisans
of certain basic and well-known ideologies which we can roughly divide into
the fascist-nazi group, the democratic group and the communistic group.
Such are the major ideas to which the leading nations of the world are
pledged and for which they are ready to fight if need arises. (Bailey,
Esoteric Psychology, vol. II, pp. 736-737)

4) The Mutable Cross of material change and constant movement can be
depicted by the swastika. The man is unconscious of the nature of the four
entering energies and interprets little in terms of the soul. The energies
make their impact upon him and drive him into material activity. This Cross
of the personality dedicates the man who is crucified thereon to material
ends in order that he may learn eventually their divine use. It is in the
lower aspect of this Cross that the Nazis chose this symbol as theirs; they
were expressing, at the close of the material cycle of human existence, the
false and evil use of matter, of which separativeness, cruelty and
selfishness is the key. The misuse of substance and the prostitution of
matter and form to evil ends is the sin against the Holy Spirit. It might be
said that the swastika "drives into danger dire and into evil ways, those
whose greed is great and who see no beauty in the dawning light and who know
no love of human lives." To those who respond not to the lower aspects and
effects of the whirling Cross (as it is sometimes called) "the swastika
flings them from itself and far afield until they come to rest upon the
Cross of chosen crucifixion," the Fixed Cross of the pledged disciple.
(Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 560)

5) The thought of the children in the subjugated lands did not arrest the
onward march of Hitler's soldiers; the sanctity of the home and the physical
and moral needs of small children aroused no flicker of compassion in the
young men trained under the Nazi system of education; the relationship of
mother and child did not enter into the calculation of the German agents as
they separated children from parents and set the child adrift in a world of
carnage or in an institutionalised establishment. The planned cruelty must
be remedied, and it must be remedied by the men and women of goodwill and
loving hearts. (Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 386)

6) At the time of the second phase of the World War, which started in 1939,
many pacifists and well meaning, though unthinking, people among the
students of the Arcane School and the general public, which we could succeed
in reaching, took the position that I had written the pamphlets and papers
endorsing the United Nations and the need to defeat the Axis Powers, and
that the Tibetan was not responsible for the anti-Nazi point of view of
these articles. This, again, was not true. The pacifists took the orthodox
and idealistic point of view that because God is love it would be impossible
for Him to be anti-German or anti-Japanese. Because God is love, He had no
alternative, or the Hierarchy either, working under the Christ, to do
anything else but stand firmly on the side of those who were seeking to free
humanity from slavery, evil, aggression and corruption. The words of the
Christ have never been more true, "He that is not with Me is against Me."
The Tibetan in His writings at that time took a firm and unshakable stand,
and today (1945) in view of the unspeakable atrocities, cruelties and
enslavement policies of the Axis nations, His position has been justified.
(Bailey, Unfinished Autobiography, p. 169)

7) Refuse to be afraid of any results of right and positive action. Fear
lies behind much of the dissenting attitudes today, and fear kills truth,
hides the vision and arrests right action. The great Leader of this
Christian era has warned us not to be afraid of those who kill the body, but
to fear only those who seek to kill the soul. The forces of aggression are
slowly and ruthlessly killing out love and hope (qualities of the soul) in
the conquered lands and in Germany. This, along with the great humanitarian
plea, is sufficient reason to impel all men of goodwill to take up arms on
the side of the Forces of Light. I would commend this to your imaginative
attention. To put it even more practically, I would ask you if you would
care to have your children subjected to the educational processes of the
Nazi regime-with its crushing of all humanity, its emphasis upon pride of
race and its cult of cruelty? Can you then stand idly by or simply resort to
prayer and talk about the beauties of peace when the little children in the
appropriated lands come under the soul-killing system of Germany? Refuse,
then, in their interests, to be afraid. (Bailey, Externalization of the
Hierarchy, p. 245)

8) .Mass psychology and mob determinations have been exploited down the
ages, for the unthinking and the emotional are easily swayed in any
direction, and hitherto this has been turned to their own advantage by those
who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart. It has been used
for selfish and evil ends far more often than for good. Of this tendency the
negative and helpless attitude of the German people under the Nazi rulers is
the outstanding example. (Bailey, Externalization of the Hiearchy, p. 279)

9) Attack by one party upon another party in public, national or political
life, or of one group of thinkers (advocating their peculiar ideas) upon
another group of thinkers with differing ideas, has long been the custom.
In this process the more powerful obliterate the weaker, and the masses are
exploited and told what to do and to think, with no real effort to bring
them into a condition of right understanding. It is the same in the
religious field, but the religious differences of the race are of such old
standing that there is no need to enumerate them here. Militarists and
pacifists in their many groups, Communists and conservatives, socialists and
Nazis, republicans and Fascists, democrats and progressives, labour and
capital, Catholics and Protestants, agnostics and fanatics, politicians and
idealists, criminals and the enforcers of the misinterpreted law, ignorant
masses and the intelligent few, plus the class distinctions, the racial
differences, and the religious feuds in both hemispheres, have reduced the
world to turmoil and complete disunion and feebleness. (Bailey, Esoteric
Psychology, vol. II, pp. 671-672)


The above paragraphs contain all of the instances in which Alice Bailey used
the word "Nazi" in her 24 books. Nowhere do I see any justification for
Bart's claim that Alice Bailey "made a number of statements supportive of
the Nazi's."


Zack Lansdowne