Alice Bailey: Progress & Perils of a Modern Occultist

Mitch Horowitz

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Of all the twentieth-century migrants from Theosophy, among the most remarkable is Alice Bailey (1880–1949), an esoteric teacher who began her career in the Theosophical Society and soon branched off to found her own widely influential school, publisher, and spiritual groups.

Bailey’s life and myriad work dramatize the soaring progress and depressing pitfalls of occult…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China