Alice Bailey on Theosophical mysticism

“What are some of these newer truths for which I am responsible as transmitting agent...? Let me briefly state them in the order of their relative importance:1. The Teaching on Shamballa... 2. The Teaching on the New Discipleship... 3. The Teaching of the Seven Rays... 4. The Teaching on the New Astrology... 5. Information about the New Group of World Servers and their work...”

“These ancient mysteries were originally given to humanity by the Hierarchy, and were – in their turn – received by the Hierarchy... They contain the clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers and in words; they veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing for him in rite and ritual the long, long path which he must tread. They provide also, when rightly interpreted and correctly presented, the teaching which humanity needs in order to progress from darkness to Light, from the unreal to the Real, and from death to Immortality. . .”