Below are all of the known references to the Law of Expediency in the writings of Alice A. Bailey (AAB) and Djwhal Khul (DK). Links on these pages of the Laws of Alice A. Bailey are to the online books at the Lucis Trust website.
lFor a discussion of what AAB means by a “law” please see Alice A. Bailey – What is a Law?
They work with this type of sentient matter without the least understanding of the situation, and without any comprehension of the factors with which they are dealing; they work magnetically if on the second ray, and with the inspiring of fear through destruction if on the first ray. If on the third ray, they use the Law of Expediency.
A Treatise on White Magic , THE RIGHT USE OF ENERGY
These energies change within themselves and sometimes one will strike the dominating note and sometimes another; sometimes a secondary energy will become a major conditioning force and sometimes the lesser expression will come to the top and become, for the cycle, the outstanding characteristic of the triangle. Such cosmic events are governed by a great Law of Expediency, evoked by the evolutionary process and incident also to zodiacal movement and its own interior mathematical conditioning—a subject of such vast dimensions and mystery that no Life within our solar system has more than sensed its significance.
Esoteric Astrology , 1. Triangles of Energy—Constellations. – Part 1
AAB on “expediency”:
“There are two kinds of compromise, brother of mine. There is the compromise in which the balance is attained for the sake of expediency, and this is usually on the side of the least desirable, the more material and the easiest.” -Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II , SECTION THREE – TEACHINGS ON INITIATION – Part 7
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