Alice Bailey on Expansiveness & Inclusion
Posted by mu on December 25, 2007
Alice Bailey wrote in The Unfinished Autobiography:
"I was discovering that the only thing that was wrong [with 'the old theology' as she called it] was man-made interpretations of the truth and it dawned on me how silly it was just because some learned preacher or scholar said that God meant this or that we should accept it.
He might be right and if so, intuitively one would know it; but the intuition does not work unless the mind is developed and that has been a lot of the trouble. The mass of people do not think and the orthodox theologian, no matter what he says, can always get a following. With the best intentions in the world he exploits the unthinking. It dawned on me, too, that there was really no reason because a priest or teacher six hundred years ago interpreted the Bibile in one way - probably suitable for his time and age, that it should be acceptable now in a different time and age, under a different civilisation and with widely different problems. If God's truth is truth then it will be expansive and inclusive, and not reactionary and exclusive." - end -
