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Alice Bailey

People · Articulation · 1880–1949 · documented

The Hierarchy idiom. Bailey broke from Theosophy and built her own institutional current.12

Documented core

With Foster Bailey she incorporated the organization that became Lucis Trust (1922) and founded the Arcane School (1923). Her doctrine of an initiated Hierarchy guiding humanity toward a planned unity, served by trained disciples, is rule-by-elect in the most fully esoteric idiom — and the one that built the most durable institutions.

Held-open / discard

The organization’s first name, Lucifer Publishing Company (1922), is a documented fact and a favorite of conspiracy sources; it referred to the Theosophical “light-bearer” usage and is not evidence of a hidden cabal. The schism from Besant’s Theosophy is a documented break, cited so the current is not mistaken for a chain.

Role in the thesis

Articulation. Bailey names the impulse — an elect administering human evolution — in its purest esoteric form, held apart from the sociology as testimony, never routed into it as cause.

  1. Alice A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy and the Arcane School curriculum — the Hierarchy doctrine ↩︎

  2. Incorporation of the Bailey organization (Lucifer Publishing Company, 1922; later Lucis Trust) and the Arcane School (1923) ↩︎

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  • Two Testimonies — “The Hierarchy. Alice Bailey, who broke from the Theosophical Society, incorporated Lucis Trust in New Jersey on 5 April 1922 and founded the Arcane School the following year.”
  • The Seed — “Neither did the later esoteric idioms descend from him: Annie Besant was his rival and no student of his; Alice Bailey drew her Hierarchy from a Theosophy he had no part in; Andrija Puharich's séances came half a century on, through people who had never worked off a line of his.”
  • The Hinge and the Four Idioms — “The Hierarchy. Alice Bailey incorporated with her husband Foster the body that became Lucis Trust in 1922, and founded the Arcane School the year after.”
  • The Nucleus That Split — “In 1920, Alice Bailey was expelled and went on to found her own Lucis Trust.”
  • A Great Deal of Reading — “Alice Bailey, who had walked out of the Theosophy that Besant led, chartered a trust for a guiding hierarchy in New Jersey in 1922.”
  • Either Way — “Crowley set it into a received book in Cairo in 1904; Besant built an institution around a living boy at Madras and lost the boy's father in a London court; Alice Bailey, who had walked out of Besant's movement, chartered her own hierarchy in New Jersey; Puharich's circle transcribed a voice in the 1970s that had never heard of the other three.”