REVELATION
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 252
The entire objective of the initiation
preparatory process is to bring about revelation. You must ever bear in mind
that that which is revealed is eternally present. There is, therefore, occult
truth in the statement that there is "nothing new under the sun." All
that is revealed upon the Path of Discipleship and of Initiation is forever
there, but that which can perceive, reach out and include has developed with
the ages. Upon the Path of Discipleship, in the earlier stages, the eye of
vision is the illumined mind. Upon the Path of Initiation it is that of which
the eye of the mind is the exteriorisation—the intuitional perception of the
soul itself. But as evolution proceeds, that which is brought to the point of
perceiving the existing verities differs vastly as the centuries slip away.
E'en the adept of the present is pronouncedly more perceptive and more
accurately interpretive and his vision more penetrative than was the adept in
Atlantean days, and the initiate who will achieve initiate-perception during
the coming Aquarian Age will be greatly in advance of those who now function as
the adepts of today.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 257
I have stated that initiation is essentially
a process of revelation. For the disciple who is being prepared to take an
initiation the emphasis is necessarily laid upon recognition—the intelligent
recognition of what is to be revealed. This requires on his part a definite
emergence from the world of glamour so that there can be a clear perception of
the new vision; a new light is thrown upon old and well-known truths so that
their significance is extraordinarily [Page 258] changed, and in that changing
the plan or purpose of Deity takes on an entirely fresh meaning. The
inexperienced neophyte is constantly receiving revelations and recording what
he regards as most unusual intuitions. All that is really happening, however,
is that he is becoming aware of soul knowledge, whereas for the initiate the
intuition is ever the revelation of the purpose of Shamballa and the working
out, both from the short range and the long range angle, of the divine Plan.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 293
As man the human being, man the disciple, and man the initiate gradually move onward on the stream of life, revelation comes step by step, moving from one great point of focus to another until naught more remains to be revealed.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 308
Every revelation has its place in a great
series of revelations and enlightenments; the disciple has to find, within the
form of the revelation, that which he must use in order to achieve the next
destined point of attained revelation.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», pp. 312/3
[…] That once the initiate has penetrated to
the point where revelation becomes possible he automatically attains the needed
fixation, concentration, poise, polarisation and focus which will enable him to
translate what has been revealed to him in terms and symbols which will convey
significance to the intelligentsia with whom all initiates principally work. […]
the most urgent and the most difficult part of his task is correctly to
apprehend the precipitating truth, information or revelation, and then to give
it an equally correct format so that it can meet the immediate human need.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 318
As a man progresses nearer and nearer to his
goal, he finds himself beginning to realise that the entire technique of this
unfoldment consists of a sequence of revelations which are induced by his
recognition of subjective significances which are of a nature entirely
different to the usual and apparent meanings. […] My one effort today is to
indicate the relation between initiation and revelation. The revelation—induced
by right orientation and right thinking—is a part of the training of the
initiate, and many thus in training delay their progress by not recognising the
revelation when it tops the line of their spiritual horizon.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 321
Revelation seldom breaks in all its completed
beauty into the consciousness of the disciple; it is a gradual and steadily
unfolding process.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 346
Life for all men everywhere is full of
revelation, recognised or unrecognised; it might be said that there is little
else, though the majority of them are of small importance except in their
combined sequence. They might rather be regarded as creating or constituting a
"field of revelation" […]
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 367
[…] in the initiatory process where the
disciple is concerned, revelation is simply one way of expressing the
constantly recurring effects of pressure forward and of vision. Throughout the
entire evolutionary process there is essentially nothing but a growing
revelation. The two terms, Evolution and Revelation, go together. Any
distinction lies within the field of revelation or—to word it otherwise—within
the various planes of consciousness, and particularly that in which the
revelation is taking place. […] Revelation is both formless and also within
form, and the closer to realisation, the more subtle and devoid of form will be
the revelation. […] ; it can be a pictorial symbol or a subtle demonstration;
it can be expressed only in words, or it can take the form of wordless
recognition; it can be a goal or a future sensed possibility, but it can also
be an incentive and the dynamic impulse of the initiate's life because it is
not distant but is a real aspect of his divine equipment […].
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 389
You talk of a series of initiations, but the
Masters talk in terms of a series of revelations, and Their work with Their
disciples is to prepare them for revelation. Bear in mind, brother of mine,
that revelation is hard to take and to hold—a point oft overlooked. It is
exhausting to the personality of the disciple, but it is of no service unless
the personality recognises it; it is excessively stimulating and the initiate
passes through three stages where a revelation is concerned: First comes the
stage of ecstacy and of supreme recognition; then darkness follows and almost
despair when the revelation fades and the disciple finds that he must walk
again in the ordinary light of the world; he knows now what is, but it is at
this point that his test lies, for he must proceed on that inner knowledge but
dispense with the stimulation of revelation. Finally, he becomes so engrossed
with his service, with aiding his fellowmen and with leading them towards their
next revelation that the excitement and the reaction are forgotten. He then
discovers to his surprise that at any time and at will—if it serves his
selfless interests—the revelation is forever his. Ponder on this.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 417
There is no initiation possible without a
preceding revelation, and yet each initiation leads to a subsequent revelation.
The objective of all initiation is a conferred revelation, yet no initiation is
attained without an earlier self-engendered and not conferred revelation.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», pp. 434/5
The word "revelation" is one that
has been greatly misused by the mystics of the Church and of the great world
religions; by them, its use is usually of a selfish nature and the concept
implied is that revelation is the due reward, conceded to the mystic because of
his struggles and his deep search for God. Then, suddenly, God is revealed to
him; [Page 435] suddenly the Angel speaks; suddenly his search seems ended and
reward in the form of revelation is accorded him. This procedure and sequence
of events has been the ordinary form for centuries and all the time the idea of
God Transcendent dominated religious thought. But the revelation accorded is,
in reality, related (until the sixth Initiation) to God Immanent, to God in
form, to God in the human heart, and to that veiled and hidden supreme Reality
which motivates all existence and which is for ever consciousness aware of
itself. Revelation is a progress of penetration: first into the Mind, then into
the Heart, and lastly into the Purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and
have our being.
Alice Bailey, «Discipleship in the New Age, II», p. 436
The whole theme of revelation is the revelation of light, and that implies many different interpretations of the word "light"; it concerns the discovery of the lighted areas of being which otherwise remain unknown, and therefore hidden. We create light; we employ light; we discover greater lights which serve to reveal to us the Unknown God. It is the guiding light within us which eventually reveals those brighter lights which usher in the process of revelation. I am, my brother, speaking symbolically as you can well understand.
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