Alice Bailey - Autobiography - Appendix - The Arcane School Teaches that the
"Souls of Men are One"







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Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey - Appendix - The Principles of the
Arcane School





IV. The Arcane School Teaches that the "Souls of
Men are One"This truth grows normally out of any consideration of the
Plan of Evolution and proves to be a developing realization of all who attempt to practice
the rules of the spiritual life and so bring themselves under the laws which govern the
Kingdom of God. Much teaching has gone out during the past three hundred years about
brotherhood and fraternal relationship between men. In the Arcane School, we study the
basis of this belief and the inclusiveness of the divine Life, informing as it does all
the subhuman kingdoms, the human family and the superhuman lives which stretch beyond the
strictly human into the very light of eternity itself.
The practical acceptance of this is being developed through the international aspect of
the Arcane School. Students belong to every nation and every religion. The school lessons
and papers are available in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish and are
now being translated into Polish, Greek, Roumanian and Armenian. Much progress has been
made along these lines. The school secretaries belong to every nationality and the
students are assigned frequently to the supervision of a secretary of a different
nationality to their own; this is part of the effort to fuse and blend men into a great
spiritual brotherhood which knows no distinction of race, nation or religion. The new
Invocation which is used by all the students daily has been translated into sixteen
different languages. (By 1951 this number had increased to forty-two known languages plus
a great number of little known dialects.)
In the
Arcane School, we make a definite effort to counter the "great heresy of
separateness" which is so distinctive of modern thinking and thus lay the foundation
for that new world in which there will emerge a civilization based upon the belief that
the "souls of men are One." Isolationism, insularity and individualism
are all expressions of the deep seated separateness which has been so unhappily
distinctive of humanity; it is this which lies at the bottom of all our religious,
political and ideological differences and which is the fruitful source of all wars. The
solution of this world problem lies in the emergence of a spiritual group (gathered out of
all races and nations) which is banded together to tread the Path of Discipleship, to
bring into manifestation the Kingdom of God and to demonstrate right human relations. Such
a group will recognize similarity [290] of idealism, origin and goal in all other groups
and will express a fundamental spiritual unity. They will lay the emphasis upon the points
of contact and not upon the points of difference; they will endeavor to cooperate with all
groups which have a sane spiritual vision and objective without losing, at the same time,
their individuality and integrity.
It is for
this reason that the Arcane School does not start groups, lodges or organized meetings in
the many cities in the world where students are to be found. It has no desire to be a
competitive organization with related loyalties to local lodges, local meetings and local
leaders. As we said above, our students are free to work in other organizations and are
not expected to owe allegiance to anyone in the Arcane School. Its students are taught
to realize that the souls of men are one and to try and live in the power and
application of this fundamental truth. The attitude which the Arcane School student is
encouraged to develop is best summed up in the following lines which constitute the
blueprint upon which he is asked to pattern his life:

"The souls of men are one and I am one with them.
I seek to love, not hate;
I seek to serve and not exact due service;
I seek to heal, not hurt.


Let pain bring due reward of light and love.
Let the soul control the outer form
And life and all events,
And bring to light the Love
That underlies the happenings of the time.


Let vision come and insight.
Let the future stand revealed.
Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone.
Let love prevail. Let all men love."







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