Initiation: Human and Solar

These books are excellent! All of Alice Bailey's books are a treasure. Difficult for many to read, but if you have the type of mind that is truly searching for metaphysical truths, this one is a jewel.

This is one of the most inspirational and insightful spiritual books I have ever read. It always cracks me up, because I'll read this book, and then read it again a year later, and I swear that I've never read half the stuff in it -- that's how many details there are in it. And these are mind-blowing details, which is why I can't believe that it feels like I've never seen those points! If you are interested in the topic of initiation, this book goes into points you've probably never read anywhere else. While reading some sources that speak with this kind of authority you can get turned off; but this is such sincere material, and you can corroborate enough by experience, and it all fits together so well ... you can't help having such an authority to guide you! To be honest, there is no writer who more inspires me to live as ideally as possible like D.K. can (through this author, Alice Bailey). This was my first introduction to the writer, and still ranks as my favorite (although all his books are wonderful), and despite the fact that I love grasping this information, it is the inspiration that does me more good on my spiritual path than anything else. I am, by the way, a lover of complex material. In comparison to many of my favorite titles, this one is relatively simple, and I think this simplicity is what makes it so accessible to anyone on the spiritual path.

The processes of spiritual enlightenment are outlined in this book even if written with an occassional dogmatic term. This was no doubt due to the consciousness of the times even though the information is ancient and the steps of enlightenment universal. Only a Master could outline such information while keeping the deeper meanings obscured. What meaning a person gives to the phraseology can only be conjucture and is limited by the capacity of the intellect, meanwhile, the imagination runs rampant, hopefully, to open the door to higher intuitional knowing. A very valuable read for those experiencing evolutionary changes in their lives for which they have no reference. It might be said that this book can only be understood years later.....after a person has traversed certain life passages.

This book was the first written of the 24 books by Alice Bailey. As such, this book addresses some essential spiritual and esoteric ideas. Its theme is that of initiation, or spiritual crisis--moments of spiritual realisation and evolutionary change. In many ways this theme is the centre and essence of all spiritual study, because the spiritual crises, or initiations, that all beings experience are the great moments of their existence and, in many ways, embody and express the purpose and meaning and quality of that existence.The book also touches on the life of the disciple (person consciously treading the path) and the two main stages of the spiritual path, the later stage being called the Path of Initiation.The book contains a fair amount of esoteric and technical detail of the processes whereby initiations are undergone. Whilst these technicalities can be evocative and inspiring to some readers, for those who would not find it so, it nevertheless presents an expansive view of the vastness of Life, and the amazing interconnectedness of, and purpose behind, all things living.

This book adds a truly remarkable insight into the previously stated but obscure theosophical texts on initiation. It is non-sectarian and inclusive of all people in its approach. It seeks to expound facts about human life and in some sense it is a forerunner of many New Age philosophies and groups' belief systems. It is a crucial key for the modern disciple's understanding.