BLAVATSKY AND THE ETHER ACCORDING TO ALICE BAILEY

 

In her book A Treatise on Cosmic Fire Alice Bailey wrote:

 

« These major seven planes of our solar system being but the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, we can consequently see the reason for the emphasis laid by H. P. B.* upon the fact that matter and ether are synonymous terms and that this ether is found in some form or other on all the planes, and is but a gradation of cosmic atomic matter, called when undifferentiated mulaprakriti or primordial pre-genetic substance, and when differentiated by Fohat (or the energising Life, the third Logos or Brahma) it is termed prakriti, or matter.

 

* See: SD I, p.153; SD II, p.43; SD I, p.50, call 8; SD I, p.112, 152-153; SD II, p.359-360. »

(1-C-3-2)

 

 

 

 

Here Alice Bailey makes numerous references to The Secret Doctrine to make her readers believe that Theosophy confirms her assertion that "matter and ether are synonymous terms" but that is completely false.

 

If you go to those references you will see that is not said there this asseveration, nor in any other part of the Secret Doctrine.

 

Nor does Blavatsky say so because Blavatsky defined the ether as follows:

 

« Students are but too apt to confuse this with Akâsa and with Astral Light. It is neither, in the sense in which ether is described by physical Science. Ether is a material agent, though hitherto undetected by any physical apparatus; whereas Akâsa is a distinctly spiritual agent, identical, in one sense, with the Anima Mundi, while the Astral Light is only the seventh and highest principle of the terrestrial atmosphere, as undetectable as Akâsa and real Ether, because it is something quite on another plane. »

(Theosophical Glossary)

 

 

And in the instructions that Blavatsky gave to her students of the Esoteric Section, she showed the following classification:

STATES OF THE MATTER	ELEMENT WITH IT IS ASSOCIATED	TATTVAS (IN SANSKRIT)
still unknown in Occident	primordial or supreme matter (aether)	adi
still unknown in Occident	self-existing matter, «parentless»	anupadaka or aupapaduka
ethereal	ether	akasha or alaya
incandescent	fire	taijasa or tejas
gaseous	air	vayu
liquid	water	apas
solid	earth	prithivi

We see therefore that Blavatsky defines the ether as the fourth state of physical matter, which is very different from what Alice Bailey wrote.

 

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

This is one more example of how Alice Bailey pretends to rely on what Blavatsky taught to appear to lend credibility to her teaching, but in reality Alice Bailey is saying things that are very different and often wrong from what Theosophy teaches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DESTRUCTION OF HUMANITY AND THE ETHERS ACCORDING TO ALICE BAILEY

 

In her book A Treatise on Cosmic Fire Alice Bailey wrote:

 

« Once in the history of the race (in Lemurian days) this was seen in the destruction of the race and the continents by means of fire. The Guides of the race at that time availed themselves of just this very thing to bring about the finish of an inadequate form. The latent fire of matter (as seen in volcanic display, for instance) and the radiatory fire of the system were combined. Planetary kundalini and solar emanation rushed into conjunction, and the work of destruction was accomplished.

 

The same thing may again be seen, only in matter of the second ether, and the effects therefore will be less severe owing to the rarity of this ether and the comparatively greater refinement of the vehicles.

 

We might here note a fact of interest, though of a mystery insoluble as yet to most of us, and that is, that these destructions by fire are part of the tests by fire of an initiation of that one of the Heavenly Men Whose karma is bound up with our earth. »

(1-C-3-3)

 

 

 

 

As usual Alice Bailey writes in a very ostentatious way to impress her readers by making them believe that she knows a lot about the occultism, but it turns out that the ethers do not exist because they were a lie invented by the liar Charles Leadbeater as I show you in this other article (link).

 

And when you know that, then you realize that the explanation she gave is full of lies, which shows once again the enormous charlatanism that Alice Bailey had.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE ETHERIC VISION ACCORDING TO ALICE BAILEY

 

In her book The Consciousness of the Atom, Alice Bailey wrote:

 

« We can look for (and it is already being recognized somewhat) is the development of the ability to see in subtler matter. Everywhere there are children being born who see more than you or I can. I am here referring to something that is based purely on material grounds, and concerns the physical eye. I refer to etheric vision, which is seeing in the finer matter of the physical plane, or in that which is called the ethers.

 

Much interesting work has been done along this line by students and scientists in California. Dr. Frederick Finch Strong has been working along this line in a valuable way, and teaching that the physical eye is capable of seeing etherically, and that etheric vision is the normal function of the eye.

 

What will the development of this faculty mean?

 

It will mean that science will have definitely to readjust its point of view as to the subtler planes. If there come within the range of vision of the normal man or woman within the next one hundred years certain aspects and forms of life that have been regarded hitherto as imaginary, we have broken once and for all that rank materialism which has distinguished us for so long, and if that which is now invisible is recognized along any particular line, who shall say how far forward it will be possible for us to go as time progresses? »

(Sixth lecture)

 

 

 

 

Here Alice Bailey is wrong because the etheric vision does not exist since the ethers are a lie invented by Charles Leadbeater as I show you in this other article (link).

 

And instead what does exist is the clairvoyant vision that allows to perceive the subtle planes, but even the densest subtle plane is not composed by ethers but by energy in different degrees of density.

 

 

~*~

 

And this is one more example of how ignorant and charlatan Alice Bailey was.