Alice Bailey and the Lucifer Trail – Part 3 Glamour
Alice Baily wrote a book entitled, Glamour A World Problem. Before I give a quick analysis of the work that was quite boring, I want to give the definition of Glamour from the dictionary.
Glamour – the attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing or special. Beauty or charm that is sexually attractive.
-The Oxford American College Dictionary
In the book, Alice wrote about the problem with glamour and how many people just need to give up their attraction to glamour in order to “serve” and make the world a better place. She created some terminology for this natural desire and associated it with Lemurians (who did not have the problem of glamour according to Alice Bailey), Atlantians, and Ayrans.
Here is some of what she wrote:
There are four phrases which have for long been bandied about among so-called occultists and esotericists. They are : glamour, illusion, maya and the expression, the dweller on the threshold. They all stand for the same general concept or some differentiation of that concept. Speaking generally, the interpretations have been as follows, and they are only partial interpretation, and are almost in the nature of distortions of the real truth, owing to the limitations of the human consciousness.Glamour has oft been regarded as a curious attempt of what are called the “black forces” to deceive and hoodwink well-meaning aspirants. Many fine people are almost flattered when they are “up against” some aspect of glamour, feeling that their demonstration of discipline has been so good that the black forces are interested sufficiently to attempt to hinder their fine work by submerging them in clouds of glamour. Nothing could be further from the truth. That idea is itself part of the glamour of the present time, and has its roots in human pride and satisfaction.
Alice Bailey, Glamour A World Problem, Page 20.
The book continues on repeating over and over about glamour and how people have to loose their desires for material things, accomplishments, emotional needs, status, and so on. What I find completely hypocritical is the fact that Alice couldn’t wait to find another job instead of working in a sardine factory. Maybe she had her own issues with glamour. I find this to be typical double-speak by elitists who want the rest of the world to live like ascetics and paupers (Feudalistic System) and feel that this is natural.
I can agree that some people can go too far and live in envy and covet everyone else’s things, but human nature does not operate the way Alice Bailey thinks it should. If the goal is to become completely spiritual, why don’t these elites kill themselves then? Why are spirits here in a human body and having a fleshly experience? I’m not promoting complete hedonism, because that system does not work. The whole point these occultists aren’t getting is that the physical experience has a purpose and most occultists in truth are really looking for occult powers and not “truth” or “self-knowing.” I think Alice missed the whole point of life in this book.
