The Significance of Cycles: Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis and Alice Bailey Revisited

 

 

     Cycles of time are interesting.  Fifty years ago, the Ascended Master Kuthumi and the Brothers of the Golden Robe, gave a series of 15 dictations through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet, known as the Exposè of False Teachers and False Teachings.  Forty-eight years ago, while in graduate school, I conducted a workshop on Psychosynthesis, the work of Italian Psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, having been introduced to the subject while visiting the late Dr. C. Norman Shealy’s clinic in Wisconsin. And, twelve years ago, two teachers with counseling backgrounds who were in the process of developing a spiritual psychology course for students of the Ascended Masters, excitedly told me about what they believed was a new approach to psychology that they thought I would be interested in—Psychosynthesis.  They considered it to be complementary to the teachings of the ascended masters. 

   Knowing full well that the “esoteric roots” of psychosynthesis included messages channeled through Alice Bailey from an entity called “The Tibetan,” given specifically to Assagioli, who was one of her life-long disciples, I was taken aback, and, over a period of several months, attempted to explain to them the difference between the source of Assagioli’s psychology of psychosynthesis and the teachings on psychology that were brought forth by the Ascended Masters—to no avail.  

   They were not interested in hearing the truth of the matter, in spite of the fact that in his Exposè, the Ascended Master Kuthumi flat out stated, “Alice Bailey, due to her lack of surrender to the will of God, never passed the final initiations which would have qualified her as our amanuensis.” The Master exposed “the false teachings subtly woven into the work of Alice Bailey, whose failure to surrender totally rendered her unfit as an instrument of the Tibetan Master [Djwal Kul].”

   And, the Ascended Master Kuthumi further declared, “The way of the intellect is not the path of the Buddha or of the chohans of the rays.  It should not be the path of their chelas. Now the masters of the Far East must seek to undo the harm that has been done to their chelas by the Lucis Trust organization, which claims our backing but has it not at all.”

   I do not know how many students of the Ascended Masters have been influenced by the false teachings from the channeled entity that Assagioli credited as the source of his psychological system of psychosynthesis (1), which were subsequently interwoven with the teachings of the Ascended Masters on the psychology of the soul—but one can only imagine how long it will take the Ascended Masters to undo the harm that has been done to their chelas who have studied such works unaware of their true origin.

   As one student of the Ascended Masters recently impressed upon me—(and I agree): 

“Defense of personality is never lawful nor is it right.  When dealing with the teachings of the Ascended Masters, one’s loyalty must be to the Masters and their Truth, regardless of one’s human circumstances and allegiances.  To interweave the teachings of the Ascended Masters with false teachings is wrong.”

 

Excerpts taken from: Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 19 No. 5—Kuthumi  and the Brothers of the Golden Robe, February 1, 1976, “The True Teacher and the False Teacher; To Those Who Would Know the One God in the Four Cosmic Forces”   

(1) Stanislov Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, (SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology), (State University of New York, 1988), page 123.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Kuthumi's Exposé on False Teachings and False Teachers

 

    Forty-four years ago, Elizabeth Clare Prophet gave a landmark presentation on The Guru-Chela Relationship with the Ascended Masters.(1)   During the lecture, Mrs. Prophet explained the importance of the Exposé of False Teachers and False Teachings by the Ascended Master Kuthumi and the Brothers of the Golden Robe.  Although over four decades have passed, the information and Mrs. Prophet's comments about the Exposé are still relevant to those who aspire to be chelas of the Ascended Masters:

·        "Everyone who reads it and studies it says, 'This is what we needed to know because it pinpoints what are the lies, what are the things that we have heard preached by the various teachers of East and West that are simply not doctrinally correct. It also exposes many teachers who have come and gone who are not sponsored by the Great White Brotherhood.  And, since the path of the Great White Brotherhood is the highest path, we need to know that the person we are working with has met the requirements of being a chela under the seven chohans….'”                    

                                                    

          Below is a beautiful rendition of the Ascended Master Kuthumi's musical keynote, Kashmiri Song, by Amy Woodforde-Finden (2):

       (1) The Guru-Chela Relationship with the Ascended Masters, A Lecture by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, July 3, 1978, tape cassette B7876.

       (2) Reference.

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Attribution.

Kuthumi's Exposé of False Teachings

  Several years ago,  I added  8 (now archived) posts that focused on excerpts from the Exposé of False Teachings series by the Ascended Master Kuthumi, from the 1976 Pearls of Wisdom, which are no longer available in print.

   For some unknown reason, spiritual seekers worldwide have been denied the Master's complete teachings on a most critical and relevant topic.  The unavailability of such a body of work by an ascended master regarding one of the most devastating hindrances to a soul's evolution is disconcerting.

   For anyone interested in reading the complete 15-part Exposé of False Teachings by the Ascended Master Kuthumi, here is a link to an excellent website that has all of them posted. 

[Original post: 8/13/2015]

Attribution.  

Alice Bailey and Roberto Assagioli

   

       Just how far can false teachings penetrate into the hearts and minds and souls of men and women—into a society unaware? Quite far. Consider the subtle (or not so subtle) influence of

Alice Bailey on psychotherapy in the 20th and 21st centuries through the work of Roberto Assagioli, an Italian psychiatrist, who began developing his theory of psychosynthesis around 1910 and who, from 1930 on, was a close friend and student of Bailey’s.

     Assagioli, known within Bailey’s Arcane School as FCD, received channeled messages and assignments from “The Tibetan,” or "DK," a reference to the Master Djwal Kul, who originally sponsored Bailey, but who, according to the Ascended Master Kuthumi, soon removed his sponsorship due to Bailey’s “intellectual pride and brittleness” and failure to surrender to the will of God. (1)



     In Al Mankoff’s article, Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis and the Esoteric Roots of Transpersonal Psychology, we read:  



 ...Perhaps the disciple of greatest world-wide fame of all 42 disciples was Doctor Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychotherapist, said to be the father of Psychology of the Soul, Psychosynthesis. He is shown in the volume as “FCD” or “Freedom from Ties, Chelaship and Detachment.” 

    Mankoff goes on to describe several of the messages and instructions Assagioli received from “The Tibetan” (DK) via Bailey regarding several projects and ideas regarding the field of psychology, stating that, “Here, then, was the spark that lit the flame of Psychosynthesis and Transpersonal Psychology.”



      In his book The Adventure of Self-Discovery:Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof mentions Assagioli and Bailey and The Tibetan in his section on Dimensions in Consciousness:



      An entity who called himself the Tibetan was acknowledged by Alice Bailey as the real author of a large series of her spiritual writings. Roberto Assagioli credited the same entity as the source of his psychological system of psychosynthesis. (2)



      And, in The Future of New Religious Movements, edited by David G. Bromley and Phillip E. Hammond, Assagioli is also mentioned in connection with Alice Bailey:



... Lesser known is Roberto Assagioli, an Italian psychiatrist who absorbed Theosophy and especially its revisionist presentation produced by Alice Bailey. His thought and the professionals who practice his system, psychosynthesis, have become thoroughly intertwined with Bailey’s Arcane School and its offshoots. (3)



      Just as the Ascended Master Kuthumi warns of the “false teachings subtly woven into the work of Alice Bailey,” Mankoff tells how deeply enmeshed Assagioli was with Bailey and The Tibetan; Grof ties Bailey and The Tibetan to Assagioli and psychosynthesis, and Bromley and Hammond, like Kuthumi, mention the interweaving—the intertwining—of psychosynthesis and Alice Bailey’s Arcane School (and her “Tibetan”).






1. Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 19 No. 5—Kuthumi and the Brothers of the Golden Robe—February 1, 1976, The True Teacher and the False Teacher. (Pearls of Wisdom: 1958-1996, First Edition CD-ROM, (Corwin Springs, Montana: Church Universal and Triumphant, 1997) 

2. Stanislav Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, (SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology), (State University of New York, 1988), page 123. 

3. David G. Bromley and Phillip E. Hammond, The Future of New Religious Movements, (Mercer University Press, 1987), page 55.