Glossary entry for
glamour
In esoteric teachings the word "glamour" has a particular meaning. Alice
A. Bailey defines it as mental illusion when intensified by desire, occurring
on the astral plane. "Glamour has been likened to
a mist or fog in which the
aspirant wanders and which distorts all that he sees and contacts,
preventing him from ever seeing life truly or clearly or the conditions
surrounding him as they essentially are... He is deceived by the appearance
and forgets that which the appearance veils. The emanatory astral reactions
which each human being initiates ever surround him and through this fog and
mist he looks out upon a distorted world." (Glamour - A World Problem (1950)).
The human race is held sway, Bailey says, "by a very ancient glamour or
series of glamours, of entrenched desires, potent aspirations of some kind
and definitely human-made forms which seek to hold the consciousness of
humanity upon the astral plane. Such a glamourous concept is that of money
and its materialistic value. This glamourous desire is like a dense fog,
cutting off the vision of truth, and distorting a very large number of human
values."
Contributed by Alan Pert, Sydney, Australia
Alice A. Bailey writes about various New Age/New Thought topics such as esoteric
astrology. This discipline attempts to understand the energies conditioning
life on earth beyond the (traditional astrological) planetary and zodiacal
influences to embrace the Seven Rays, their distant star sources and other
non-ecliptic fixed stars. Ms. Bailey's book Esoteric Astrology was one of
the last in a series of 19 books telepathically dictated and transmitted to
her by the Tibetan Master, Djwal Khul, over a period of 30 years in the first
half of this century.
The reincarnating soul as the purposeful initiator of experience in the human
kingdom is the underlying assumption of esoteric astrology, which asserts
that all astrological influences are energies the seeker toward mastery must
learn to manage wisely.
Van alludes to Alice Bailey in the Beautiful Vision liner notes: "Lyrics on
"Dweller on the Threshold" and part of "Aryan Mist" inspired by
Glamour - A World Problem
by Alice Bailey and the Tibetan"
Contributed by Kimberly Livingston
Other books by Alice A. Bailey [and the Tibetan] - click on the links below to
order or review them at Amazon.com:
More information available at:
Van references in:
- "Dweller On The Threshold"
(on Beautiful Vision)
- "Aryan Mist"
(on Beautiful Vision)
- "Ivory Tower"
(on No Guru, No Method, No Teacher)
- "Green Mansions"
(on Hymns to the Silence)
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