From Bethlehem to Calvary : the initiations of Jesus

\*The books of Alice A. Bailey, written in cooperation with a Tibetan teacher between 1919-1949, constitute a continuation of the Ageless Wisdom--a body of esoteric teaching handed down from ancient times in a form which is always suitable to each period. Intended to precede and condition the coming era, the Alice A. Bailey writings offer an unparalleled spiritual approach to such subjects as the teaching on Shamballa and the Path of spiritual evolution; the spiritual Hierarchy; the new discipleship and training in meditation as a form of service; the teaching on the seven rays and the new psychology of the soul; the teaching on esoteric astrology; and the new world religion, which emphasizes the common thread of truth linking all the major world faiths. In her foreword to this book, the author remarks, The conscious evocation of the Christ life in the human heart and our rapid integration into the Kingdom of God are the immediate tasks ahead, embodying our responsibility, opportunity and destiny. The five expansions of consciousness by which this integration and evocation proceed are clearly portrayed here as the correspondences of the five climaxing experiences of the Master Jesus during His life in Palestine. These are the five initiations known as the Birth, Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension. Through these five stages on the Way, we follow the Master from Bethlehem to Calvary. While these initiations are popularly known by the Christian terminology, within the experience of the spiritual Hierarchy the fourth and fifth initiations are known as the initiation of Renunciation and the initiation of Revelation. The crucifixion experience of the Master Jesus involved Him in the great renunciation of His own soul, with a resulting revelation in the light of the Spiritual Triad. These experiences are both symbolic and actual, setting guideposts along the way of the disciple. Some understanding of these Mysteries revealed by the Christ and the Master Jesus, as They exemplified the experience of the human soul through the five stages of its spiritual journey, can be invaluable to individual man facing the vast span of the same five-fold experience. This is probably the factor of greatest value and service to the aspirant, setting his feet on the Path of Return; that the experience of the Master Jesus, including that of the Crucifixion, the Great Renunciation, reflects through the lives of all human beings. Through the divine life in us, and as the Christ principle unfolds in our heart and consciousness, the sons of men walk the Way of the Cross eventually to become soul-illumined Sons of God. Knowing something of these things, aware of the spiritual journey before all men from stage to stage on the Path of Initiation, an exact service opens before the aspirant. Service must expand and express itself on broader and more inclusive lines, and we must learn to serve as Christ served, to love all men as He loved them and, by the potency of our spiritual vitality and the quality of our service, stimulate all we meet so that they too can serve and love and become members of the Kingdom ...the call is for sane and normal men and women who can comprehend the situation, face what must be done, and then give their lives to expressing for the world the qualities of the citizens of the Kingdom of Souls; love, wisdom, silence, non- separativeness and freedom. Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - Table of Contents......Page 1 Local Disk......Page 0 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - Foreword......Page 2 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - Foreword......Page 3 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 4 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 6 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 8 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 11 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 14 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 17 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 19 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - I - Introductory Remarks on Initiation......Page 22 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 26 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 29 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 31 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 33 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 36 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 38 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 40 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 43 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 46 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 49 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 52 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 55 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 57 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 59 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - II - The First Initiation - The Birth at Bethlehem......Page 62 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 66 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 69 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 71 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 73 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 75 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 77 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 79 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 81 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 84 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 87 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 89 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 92 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 94 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - III - The Second Initiation - The Baptism in Jordan......Page 96 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 100 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 102 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 105 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 108 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 110 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 112 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 114 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 116 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 119 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 121 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 123 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - IV - The Third Initiation - The Transfiguration on a High Mountain......Page 125 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 127 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 129 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 132 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 135 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 138 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 139 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 141 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 144 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 147 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 149 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 151 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 153 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 156 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 158 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 161 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 164 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - V - The Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion......Page 166 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 169 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 171 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 174 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 176 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 179 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 181 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 184 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VI - The Fifth Initiation - The Resurrection and Ascension......Page 186 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 189 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 191 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 194 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 197 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 200 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 202 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 205 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 208 Alice Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary - VII - Our Immediate Goal - The Founding of the Kingdom......Page 210 The life experience of the Master Jesus, including the Crucifixion, the Great Renunciation, is reflected in the life experience of all human beings. We can know and consciously cooperate in the journey which leads from the place of spiritual birth to the place of renunciation and resurrection.