Keys to the Aquarian Age

Summer 2010

Joann S. Bakula

Introduction Even though some denigrate anything called new age or Aquarian Age, the ancient Mayan his article contains an explanation of the predictions for 2012 only reinforce the cos- term “Age of Aquarius” as the combina- T mic picture of great cycles and ages begin- tion of the sidereal zodiac of astronomy and ning and ending. the tropical zodiac of astrology. In it are dis- cussed compassion and synthesis, two of the Can we visualize what humanity will be like characteristics and qualities signifying the at the end of the Age of Aquarius? Alice Bai- emergence of the Age of Aquarius. The arti- ley writes, “The soul, the consciousness as- cle concludes with a new, gender-free Aquar- pect, that universal urge in each of us that ius version of the Great Invocation. puts us in rapport with God, will have surged to the front....we will have left behind the Aquarian Age human kingdom and... our consciousness will s we all know by now, the Aquarian be focused in the fifth kingdom of nature, the Age, or the new age, is an astronomical spiritual kingdom. That is the prophecy, the A 3 cycle of over 2,000 years based upon the si- thing that lies ahead for humanity.” The dereal, helio-centric zodiac, which is deter- fifth kingdom is already in nature, but we do mined by the path through the constellations not see it. Awakening Soul or consciousness that the sun apparently circles through. As- will change our perception so that we can see trologers use the tropical, geocentric, Earth- what is all around us all the time to which we centered zodiac, minus adjustment for the are blind. This awakening is to a better rela- equinox precession, to determine the natal tionship to our environment, but this is only chart. Jungian astrologer Alice Howell1 the tentative beginning. “The perception of a points out that it is the interaction of the higher reality, in itself, is little more than an tropical and sidereal zodiacs that determines insight. Only when such an insight is vital- these ages. The significance and interpreta- ized by intense aspiration can it gather tion of the influence of the stars is mytho- enough momentum to become a catalyst for transformation,” write Seifer and Vieweg in logical, hypothetical and useful in placing 4 Earth in the cosmos and recognizing the lar- When the Soul Awakens. ger whole in which we all live. Psychologi- ______cally, therefore, it represents a “mandala of totality” 2 or a symbol of relationship with About the Author the whole that can’t be overestimated in an .Joann S. Bakula, Ph.D. is a transpersonal, inte- age of apparent isolation of the individual gral psychologist, writer, and lecturer who writes and the planet. Space travel and exploration a monthly meditation letter and commentary at began at the beginning of the Aquarian Age www. worldservicegroup.com. Her publications and end of the Piscean Age, signifying our include one book and many articles on medita- first steps as we enter the larger whole. Seen tion, higher states and stages, the Bardos, plane- as great cycles of time, the ages have an in- tary living and many other subjects. She is the terface of several hundred years due to the Review Editor of the Esoteric Quarterly, has taught at various universities for 30 years, and is amount of starless space between the visible currently on the faculty of an on-line university. constellations. Her new email address is: [email protected].

In The Labours of Hercules, the eleventh la- lem. Progress may seem slow, but we have bor is associated by Alice Bailey with the come very far in the last 100 years in under- eleventh month and constellation of Aquar- standing integral environmental relation- ius. Hercules is seen as the mythic World ships. Careful meditation precedes wise ac- Disciple, representative of the archetypal tion before the calculations of the lower mind hero or humanity itself. The labor of the an- can be tasked with working out the details. cient Greek hero in the sign of Aquarius en- “The Aquarian law is based on spiritual illu- tails cleaning up the stables, long neglected mination, on intuitive perception and broth- despite constant use. Hercules is said to have erly love, which is identification with every diverted two rivers into the stable to flush out form in every kingdom in nature. A tremen- the corruption. Bailey has called these two dous future lies ahead; two thousand five underlying streams of energy the rivers of hundred years will have been consummated. “life and love.”5 We are on our way.” 6 Today, there is general awareness that cor- Compassion ruption exists in many areas and needs to be cleaned up. One such area is our physical ne of the most comprehensive defini- environment, which has been polluted by Otions of compassion is from Tibetan irresponsible practices. Who can doubt that Buddhist and Tibetologist Robert Thurman: this is indeed one task ahead of humanity as [C]ompassion... means the will to free we face the tasks of Aquarius? The Hercules others from suffering, based on an empa- of today would have to deal with what past thetic sensitivity to that suffering. Its op- generations have left polluted, even to the posite is hatred, which wills others to point of changing the climate. Meditating on suffer. Its counterpart is love, which wills Hercules, as the archetypal World Disciple, others to have happiness along with free- taking responsibility for past behaviors and dom from suffering. Universal compas- developing a cleaner lifestyle respectful of sion is considered the automatic reflex of nature and the climate would demonstrate a perfect wisdom, since the realization of more mature and holistic behavior. It would essential selflessness is an experience of signify an intention to regulate our destruc- the ultimate unity of self and other, tive behaviors. Visualization is one method which causes the suffering of others to for stimulating the energy of purpose, inten- become one’s own, making the will to tion and responsibility. Through visualiza- eliminate it spontaneous and immediate.7 tion, prayer and meditation as world service in an esoteric, religious or secular group, we This ultimate unity of self and other is de- can form a common voice enhanced by deep scribed by Bailey as a function of the intui- contemplation. Many people in these various tive state or intuition, which, when function- groups are already united in their commit- ing, produces a “complete loss of the sense of ment to care for the Earth and stop climate separateness. At its highest point, it is known change. Meditators bring the added dimen- as Universal Love, which has no relation to sentiment...but is, predominantly, in the na- sion of intuition, visualization and appercep- 8 tion. ture of identification with all beings.” Intui- tive identification, in esoteric philosophy, The “catalytic task” that Seifer and Vieweg results in an ability to see the divine essence referred to is for the united group of compas- latent in all forms and to “contact the light sionate, intelligent and wise people of all centre in all forms.” 9 Seeing light as latent in ideologies to strengthen their vision and mo- all forms is what establishes relationship with tivation until this intention becomes the pol- all life. When this identification is known, icy of the nations. Even though there was no the “the sense of superiority and separateness legally binding new green document signed recedes into the background.”10 Intuitional at the 2009 Copenhagen climate change sum- understanding “connotes personality-soul mit, world leaders met to talk about the prob- unification, wide experience”11 and under-

38 Copyright © The Esoteric Quarterly, 2010 Summer 2010 standing resulting from a sense of synthesis. ture suffering, and we are compelled to re- Bailey called this “synthetic understand- spond. A good heart is required. ing,”12 which is associated with the intu- 2) Compassion for reality begins “when itional plane or buddhic plane, as it’s called we have a genuine experience of the power in Theosophical literature. She describes “in- of ignorance” and the suffering brought on tuitional activity” as “always spontaneous” in by misperception and illusion, when “moti- meditation, dreams, events and other occur- vations and actions contradict one another.”17 rences. “Where the reasoning to an under- The power of ignorance brings on additional standing enters, it is not the activity of the suffering. The knowledge of underlying real- intuition....[Intuition] is that synthetic, inclu- ity beyond space/time requires an intuitive, sive grasp of the life and needs of all be- compassionate, intelligent mind. ings... [It is] the sense of universal Oneness.” 13 The activity of intuition expresses, then, as 3) Compassion without reference has “no spontaneous universal compassion or univer- notion of subject, object or intention.”18 It is sal love. the ultimate form of the bodhisattvas’ or buddhas’ meditation and depends upon the Critical analysis, concentration, study, in- realization of emptiness, or formless, dimen- creased awareness and experience in medita- sionless, limitless meditation on no-thing, tion all help to prepare for the flashes and from no-thing.19 This ultimate form of com- flickers of spontaneous intuition. passion might be compared to Kaivalya, the Compassion has been held up as the highest state of “Isolated Unity,” as described in the ideal in many fields from religion to pop cul- last of the four books or stages of the ancient ture. Karen Armstrong, author of The Case source book on meditation called the Yoga for God, said that traditionally in religion Sutras of Patanjali.20 This ultimate end state “Compassion was the major test of any true of Being is called “illumination” by Bailey,21 spirituality and the chief means by which “liberation” by Isherwood and Prabha- human beings came into contact with God, vananda,22 and “enlightenment,” among other Nirvana or Brahman.”14 Armstrong initiated terms, by Mishra.23 a multinational, interfaith movement that The last stage of meditation or ultimate medi- produced the Charter for Compassion, which tation takes us back to the First Noble Truth is on the Internet and to which you, too, can of Buddhism, “Existence is suffering” add your name: (dukha). Karen Armstrong reminds us that www.charterforcompassion.org. Song writer this is “an insight that in nearly all faiths is and poet Leonard Cohen—whom some call indispensable for enlightenment.”24 Realiza- the conscience of a generation—voices real- tion of the impermanent nature of life, along istic fear for the future in the song and album with the awareness that life inevitably leads named The Future. Despite his concerns, he to the suffering of death, disease and old shows the way through in the line, “Love is age—not to mention the daily hunger and the only engine of survival” in “the order of thirst of millions—is the first noble truth that the soul.”15 Love/compassion is widely con- opens the mind to the eight-fold path of right sidered to be a generating engine for life. relationship. Such a path leads to enlighten- Tibetan Buddhist Kalu Rinpoche writes that ment and compassion without reference or in Mahayana Buddhism, meditation on com- permanent freedom from maya and illusion, passion is considered on three consecutive described as kaivalya. levels: “compassion with reference to beings, In Tibetan Buddhism, once there is the compassion with reference to reality, and enlightened feminine (receptive) principle of compassion without reference.” 16 space and wisdom, the enlightened masculine 1) Compassion for living things first (dynamic) principle of compassion and skill- arises when we see people, creatures and na- ful means can arise for both genders. Once a

Copyright © The Esoteric Quarterly 39 The Esoteric Quarterly principle has been accepted by the mind, a for the purification of selfishness, illusions, door to its energy can open and the presence unskillful means, distortions and maya. As a of the energy behind the principle can em- Soul, we can begin to quench humanity’s power the meditation, the service and the life. thirst for truth with the spiritual teaching of This begins with an attitude synthesis, light and of expansion, inclusiveness [C]ompassion... means the love. and possibility combined with an acceptance of the will to free others from The interior work of spiritual and holistic nature suffering, based on an em- bridging between the of life. pathetic sensitivity to that Spiritual Triad and the Soul-infused person- Interior Synthesis suffering. Its opposite is ality is accomplished he holistic view, which hatred, which wills others through meditation, Tembraces the in- to suffer. Its counterpart is study and service. terdependence and Eventually, if interaction of all parts of the love, which wills others to successful, “it is as if a whole, is already permeated have happiness along with magnetic field were with synthesis and is freedom from suffering. then established and widespread among intel- these two vibrating and ligent, compassionate peo- Universal compassion is magnetic units, or ple. But it takes time to find considered the automatic grouped energies, workable practical ap- swung into each other’s reflex of perfect wisdom, 28 plications. That deep field of influence.” meditation precedes intel- since the realization of es- This happens only ligent, loving and harmless sential selflessness is an occasionally at first. action is a given in most “By the time the third esoteric philosophies. experience of the ultimate initiation is completed, Bailey reminds us that unity of self and other... this Way is completed, “synthesis is an aspect of and the initiate can the first divine characteristic, the Will, or ‘pass to higher worlds at will, leaving the rather, the will-to-good”25and that when the lower worlds far behind; or he can come will-to-good supersedes the will-to-dominate, again and pass upon the way that leads from then the quality of the new Aquarian Age dark to light, light to dark, and from the un- 29 will be apparent. “The Aquarian Age will be der lower worlds into the realms of light.’” predominantly the age of synthesis and This higher triad of spiritual energies must be light,”26 Bailey writes, in addition to the blended and fused with the lower triad and brotherly love and the rivers of life and love physical livingness. “After the third initia- already mentioned. She also writes that the tion the ‘Way’ is carried forward with great principal quality of the Aquarian Age is rapidity, and the ‘bridge’ is finished which world service symbolized by the water carrier links perfectly the higher spiritual Triad and glyph of the astrological sign Aquarius. This the lower material reflection. The three glyph is depicted as a man or woman pouring worlds of the Soul and the three worlds of the water from a jug for others. Bailey goes on personality become one world wherein the to say that “through symbolism of water and initiate works and functions, seeing no dis- 30 purification, we shall learn how to be the tinction,” regarding both together as form- Soul and not the human being.” 27 ing one world of activity. “Spiritual mind, conveying illumination; the intuitive nature, This gives us a profile of a Soul-infused per- conferring spiritual perception; and divine 31 sonality compassionately serving the world livingness,” as Bailey says, must be with the will-to-good, pouring forth waters blended with the lower mind, emotional/

40 Copyright © The Esoteric Quarterly, 2010 Summer 2010 feeling nature and in the life lived. Psychia- scribing the integration of the various func- trist Roberto Assagioli, a student of both tions within the personality and higher as- Freud and Jung and a longtime friend of Al- pects of cognitive development, such as the ice Bailey, gives techniques for achieving a Spiritual Triad of atma-buddhi-manas of synthesis of higher and lower aspects in Psy- Theosophical literature. Wilber correlates chosynthesis, best carried out in didactic the various systems of Aurobindo, Theoso- form if possible, but through auto- phy, Vedanta, Kabbalah and others using a psychosynthesis or through self-synthesis. 32 number of charts that refer to the highest The later stage of this process, to be dis- state (in his system) as non-dual. He also cussed in what would become his later book, charts cognitive development through Piaget The Act of Will, concerns the functioning of and others, naming many levels of post- the will, which “does not produce results by formal development such as “logic, psychic means of sheer force..., but through regula- (vision), subtle (archetypal), causal (form- tion and harmonizing of the other psycho- less) and nondual.”41 His is the broadest of all logical functions, which it ‘steers’ toward the the psycho-spiritual approaches and is known chosen goal.”33 for the integration of all levels of development in the quadrants he has used to describe Sri Aurobindo developed the “integral and the complete human psycho-social evolution. synthetic Yoga” of union with “Life- 34 Divine” which “while it embraces the Exterior Synthesis knowledge received from the past...seeks to organize it anew for the present and the fu- In Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Alice ture.... By this Yoga we not only seek the Bailey informs us that there is “relationship, Infinite, but we call upon the Infinite to un- interplay and mutual impression between the fold...in human life.”35 beings or lives who make up the sumtotal of our manifested universe...leading up to a Aurobindo’s integral experience involves planetary synthesis or a planetary integrity of three factors: non-temporal union (Shiva), a nature hitherto not even envisioned.”42 This mobilizing powers of will (atman) and the 36 relationship is both extra-planetary and inter- creative fellowship of Shakti. Haridas planetary and thus creates “in time and space Chaudhuri, head of the California Institute of a living intelligent planetary Entity of sys- Asian Studies, later to become the California temic maturity, qualified by immense attrac- Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), devel- tive and integrating energies.”43 We can re- oped a system described in Integral Yoga that gard these energies as having centers similar represents a “higher creative synthesis of the 37 to the familiar human ones of head, heart and traditional ideals” of the previous forms of throat, Bailey says: yoga: hatha, bhakti, karma, jnana, raja, tantra and purna. Agni Yoga, developed by Nicho- 1) The head center is the “dynamic Agent las and Helena Roerich, presents methods for of the extra-planetary Purpose, the expression achieving union (yoga) through identifying of the divine planetary Will as focused in with the animating fiery life principle in all Shamballa. This is the energy of Synthesis, sentient beings. It is called the yoga of syn- the source of all planetary life; it connotes thesis. The Lucille Cedercrans material de- essential Being.” scribes an Aquarian Age synthesis of ash- 2) The heart center is the “Agent of the rams in the pamphlet The Synthetic Ashram: Plan of evolution. This is the expression of 38 Its Purpose, Meaning, and Work. It is one divine Love or pure Reason, the Hierarchy. It of the many works in which the idea of syn- is essentially the energy of Attraction, the thesis is expounded. kingdom of souls.” Psychologist Ken Wilber has developed the 3) The throat center is the “Agent of all “Integral approach” in such books as Integral the three Aspects in relation to the three sub- 39 40 Psychology and Integral Spirituality. human kingdoms in nature, the expression These terms might be more accurate in de- also of the divine Intelligence, Humanity.

This is the energy of active Mind and makes man Rights, the United Nations, and other humanity the macrocosm of the microcosm, laws, courts and documents. Indeed, history the three subhuman kingdoms.” 44 could be written as the slow evolutionary growth of human and civil rights, based upon Here we have presented a living world with increased sensitivity and awareness. In keep- each level or holon a part of a larger whole, ing with this, an alternative version of the interrelated in both livingness and life. What Great Invocation was written omitting gender remains is for us to consciously awaken to and culture bias, but disrupting the rhythm of the larger world and relationships that live in the original and changing its quality. A con- us and in which we live. tinuous meditation has been going on ever The Great Invocation since to find gender-free word choices in the Great Invocation that would restore the he extraordinary power of the prayer, or original rhythm. Tmantra, called the Great Invocation is in its linking of the individual mind, heart and In light of this, the following alternative will—universally the same in structure for wording is offered: we suggest that the word everyone, if not in content—with the plane- “all” quite simply be substituted for the word tary centers of mind, heart and will. It reveals “men” in the first three stanzas. We offer this an interior structure of patterned synthesis. version in honor of Helena Roerich, who Beyond this, it begins the evolutionary chap- wrote that the coming era will be called both ter of the Aquarian Age with conscious co- the Epoch of Woman and the Epoch of Great 45 operation in the process of integrating the Compassion. This small change offers a three planetary centers to each other in a version of the Great Invocation to those great triangle of subtle energy, interaction women who will use nothing but gender-free and interrelationship as it exists in the larger language. Gender bias keeps some women exterior pattern. The importance of saying from using this powerful mantra, which is the Great Invocation for world service is cru- intended to sound a universal note. Increased cial. This prayer allows us to focus on the awareness changes customs, and women and whole macrocosm of Earth within the solar men alike are beginning to realize, with He- system from the highest center of evolution- lena Roerich, that women who are slaves ary will and purpose to all kingdoms in na- give birth to men who are slaves, and that ture in one great synthesis of energy express- men will not be free until women are. For the 46 ing quality and form. It is the Aquarian Age numerologists, the same mantric, rhythmic mantra par excellence for revealing the mi- form is used with the same number of words, crocosmic/macrocosmic pattern of the plane- syllables and letters. tary and systemic whole. Through the use of It is further suggested that in an Aquarian age the Great Invocation, we can accelerate the alternate version of the Great Invocation, the integration of humanity as the throat center word “all” instead of “men” carries with it with the heart and head centers of planet the added quality of synthesis, a characteris- Earth, producing the first effects of an evolu- tic of the new age of compassionate world tionary integration of the three primary cen- service, not just to humanity, but to all king- ters. The cause and effect of this integrated doms. For those long-time meditators who triangle is compassionate service to all king- have used the original Great Invocation for doms of nature, including the spiritual. many years, it is suggested that you might Today, women are more aware of and sensi- even try including all sentient beings and tive to inequality than ever before, especially whole kingdoms in nature, as initiates do, when bias is in the very structure of a lan- when you meditate using “all” instead of guage. Alice Bailey noted the increase in “men.” The qualities of unity and integration sensitivity to human and civil rights, injustice stemming from the underlying reality of syn- and inequality as an evolutionary trend re- thesis can expand our meditation to include sulting in the Universal Declaration of Hu- all sentient life, all kingdoms in nature and

42 Copyright © The Esoteric Quarterly, 2010 Summer 2010 all planes of expression. This new, expanded It doesn’t matter if you say the Great Invoca- and inclusive view of the recipients of light, tion in its original form or choose an alterna- love and power from the Great Invocation tive version in order to reach out to women, stems from the sense of synthesis that is ush- or if you extend your invocation to all sen- ering in the new era of Aquarius. tient beings. The important thing is to use it, building a strong and lasting thoughtform of In saying the fourth stanza of the Great Invo- integration and synthesis interiorly and exte- cation, the Sanskrit term “manas,” meaning riorly as an act of Aquarian world service. To higher mind or higher intelligence, can be repeat a key phrase from Alice Bailey’s lec- shortened to “man” as a substitute for “men,” ture on Aquarius, “The Aquarian law is in recognition that we can only be called in- based on spiritual illumination, on intuitive telligent when we treat each other with intel- perception and brotherly love which is identi- ligence. Replacing the “race of men” with the fication with every form in every kingdom in “human race” is also a viable alternative nature. A tremendous future lies ahead.... We from the first alternate version. The Aquarian are on our way.” 49 version changes only the word “men” four times. The Great Invocation The issue of culture bias in the name “Christ” From the point of Light within the Mind of God is more difficult. As we know, Alice Bailey Let light stream forth into the minds of men (all). transcribed the Great Invocation in 1945 in Let Light descend on Earth. her native language, English, which was not its original language. Since then, the Great From the point of Love within the Heart of God Invocation has been translated into over Let love stream forth into the hearts of men (all). May the Christ return to Earth. thirty languages. Each translation reflects its own religious term for the archetypal, his- From the center where the Will of God is known toric figure or avatar who brings redemption, Let purpose guide the little wills of men (all), salvation and liberation to the world in every The purpose which the Masters know and serve. age, regardless of whether this figure is called the Christ, the Messiah or the World From the center which we call the race of men Bodhisattva. Let the Plan of Love and Light work out And may it seal the door where evil dwells. In esoteric philosophy, “Christ” refers to a planetary office, the head of the Hierarchy or Let Light and Love and Power restore the heart center of the planet, rather than to a Plan on Earth. cultural figure such as a racial avatar. In reality, the Christ is said to be the same figure no Conclusion matter by what name He is known. Keeping onscious cooperation with the evolution this and our new global village in mind, Ava- Cof consciousness is seen as emerging in tars are said to appear at the beginning of this, the transitional era, as we enter the ep- every new age. Two great manifestations are och named after the constellation Aquarius. 47 expected now, according to Bailey. The first Writings of diverse spiritual leaders empha- is the coming of the Avatar of Synthesis to size the emergent qualities of world service, the spiritual heart center or Hierarchy. The compassion and synthesis. The macrocosmic second is the coming of the Avatar known as pattern is reflected in the microcosm and the Christ, to the human center. The film both are united in the Great Invocation, 48 Avatar increases familiarity with this San- which may be used by individuals and groups skrit term, even though the word in the movie in meditation for the purpose of consciously has quite a different meaning. Do a web cooperating in the plan of love and light. search for the Vedanta Society S. CA and look under “avatar” for more on the original (This article is an adaption of an Aquarius 2010 commentary online at: www:worldservice- Sanskrit meaning. No substitution for the group.com. entitled Compassion and Synthesis: word Christ is offered. Keys to the Aquarian Age.)

1 Alice Howell, The Heavens Declare (Whea- Hierarchy (NY: Lucis, 1957), 648. ton, IL: Quest, 2006), 143. 26 Ibid., 648. 2 Ibid., 26. 27 Bailey, The Labours of Hercules, 184. 3 Alice A. Bailey, The Labours of Hercules 28 Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations (NY: (NY: Lucis, 1992), 184. Lucis, 1968), 444. 4 Nancy Seifer & Martin Vieweg, When the 29 Ibid. Soul Awakens, 2nd ed. (Reston, VA: Gather- 30 Ibid., 445. ing Wave, 2009), 52-53. 31 Ibid., 445. 5 Bailey, The Labours of Hercules, 193. 32 Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis (NY: 6 Ibid., 189. Viking, 1965), ii. 7 Robert Thurman, The Tibetan Book of the 33 Ibid. Dead (NY: Bantam, 1994), 252. 34 Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, A Practical 8 Bailey, Glamour, A World Problem (NY: Guide to Integral Yoga (a compilation) Lucis, 950), 3. (Pondicherry, India: Ashram, 1955), 5. 9 Ibid., 2. 35 Ibid., 314. 10 Ibid., 2. 36 Ibid., 15. 11 Ibid., 3. 37 Haridas Chaudhuri, Integral Yoga (Whea- 12 Ibid., 4. ton, IL: Quest, 1965), 16, Ch III & IV. 13 Ibid., 4-5. 38 Lucille Cedercrans, The Synthesis Ashram 14 Karen Armstrong, The Case for God (NY: (Whittier, CA: Wisdom Impressions, 1997). Knopf, 2006), 324. 39 en Wilber, Integral Psychology (Boston: 15 Leonard Cohen, “The Future” in The Future Shambhala, 2000). (Columbia Records, 1992). 40 Wilber, Integral Spirituality (Boston: Inte- 16 Kalu Rinpoche, Luminous Mind (Boston: gral Books, 2006). Wisdom, 1997), 131. 41 Wilber, Integral Psychology, 201. 17 Ibid., 133. 42 Bailey, Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle 18 Ibid., 134 (NY: Lucis, 1980), 124. 19 Ibid., 132. 43 Ibid., 124. 20 I.K. Taimni, The Science of Yoga (Whea- 44 Ibid., 125. ton, IL: Quest, 1975), 433. 45 Helena Roerich, Woman (NY: Agni Yoga 21 Bailey, The Light of the Soul: The Yoga Society, 1958), 7. Sutras of Patanjali (NY: Lucis, 1972), xv. 46 John Berges, Hidden Foundations of the 22 Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Ish- Great Invocation (Northfield, NJ: Planet erwood, How to Know God: The Yoga work Press, 2000), 13. Aphorisms of Patanjali (Hollywood: Ve 47 Bailey, The Externalisation of the danta Press, 1981), 202. Hierarchy, 309. 23 I.K. Mishra, The Science of Yoga (Wheaton, 48 James Cameron, Avatar, directed by James IL: Quest, 1975), 433. Cameron (LA: Twentieth Century Fox, 24 Armstrong, 324. 2009). 25 Bailey, The Externalisation of the 49 Bailey, The Labours of Hercules, 184.