This is a second-hand copy of the book A Treatise on Cosmic Fire by Alice A. Bailey.
Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.
Publisher: Lucis Publishing
Year: 2005 (originally published in 1925)
ISBN: 0853301177
Format: Softback
Pages: 1367
Condition: Used (Very Good)
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.
Although this book was one of the first to be written by Alice Bailey in collaboration with the Tibetan, it is probably the most timeless, profound and least understood. “A Treatise on Cosmic Fire” deals with the underlying structure of occult teaching for the present era, with vast cosmic processes reproduced though all areas of life from universe to atom. It is, therefore, no book for the proof-demanding concrete mind, or for those who dabble in the spectacular and the phenomenal. The true student, however, the seriously applied aspirant, will find his mind stimulated and his consciousness expanded.
The book is dedicated to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and is said to be “the psychological key to the Cosmic Creation”. Certain in its revelation of relationship and correspondences throughout the Cosmos, all aspects of life unfolding through consciousness are included, based on the aphorism - “Having pervaded the entire universe with one fragment of Myself, I remain.”
The One Life manifests through all form within the universe as fiery energy; and the three main streams of cosmic energy, differentiated into seven systemic rays, are shown in relation to the three aspects of fire controlling all manifested life: Electric Fire, the Fire of Spirit; Solar Fire, the Fire of Mind; Fire by Friction, the Internal Fires. A large section of the book is directed to a detailed exposition of Solar Fire, the Fire of Mind, since this is the dominant energy to be understood and controlled during this second solar system.
The cosmic Laws operating through the system are shown in relation to the lesser laws of planetary origin and the laws of nature, operating through substance, as distinct from the life and the consciousness of the planet. In her foreword to the book, the author mentions a five-fold purpose within its teaching; briefly:
- To provide a compact and skeleton outline of a scheme of cosmology, philosophy and psychology which may serve as a reference and textbook;
- As an elucidation of the relation between Spirit and Matter, demonstrating as consciousness;
- To show the coherent development of all that is found within a solar system.
