Below are all of the known references to the Law of Group Progress (Law of Elevation) 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.
For a discussion of what AAB means by a “law” please see Alice A. Bailey – What is a Law?
Law 5. The Law of Group Progress. This is sometimes called “the Law of Elevation” for it concerns the mysteries of group realisation, and expansions of consciousness and the part each unit plays in the general progress of a group. In relation to the human family, for instance, the truth must ever be borne in mind that no human atom arrives at “fullness of life” without adding much to the general nature of his own group.
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire , III. GROUP RELATIONS
2. The Law of Group Progress. Buddhi. Spiritual Love. This Fifth Law comes via the love petals of the egoic lotus, and the subsidiary Law of Magnetic Impulse.
Esoteric Psychology – Volume II , II. The Seven Laws of Soul or Group Life – Part 3
4. Pranayama The law of rhythmic living Seventh ray force The Law of Group Progress.
The Law of Group Progress.
No. | Exoteric Name | Esoteric Name | Symbol | Ray Energy |
5. | The Law of Group Progress. | The law of Elevation. | The Mountain and the Goat | Progressive Energy Seventh Ray.. Factor of Evolution |
The Law of Group Progress can only begin to have a conscious effect in the life of the disciple who has been pledged and accepted.
THE LINK OF THE WORLD GROUPS It would be possible to go on listing the various developments which indicate to the onlooking Hierarchy that a disciple, or a group of disciples, are now ready for “more light. ” The major indication is, however, their reaction to the Law of Group Progress.
Esoteric Psychology – Volume II , II. The Seven Laws of Soul or Group Life – Part 4
I would like here to give you some thoughts anent the new groups which come into functioning activity under the Law of Group Progress. It must be constantly remembered, as one considers these coming new groups, that they are primarily an experiment in Group Activity, and are not formed for the purpose of perfecting the individual member in any group.
d. ASTROLOGY AND THE NEW GROUPS This Law of Group Progress embodies one of the energies which have gradually been released over the past two centuries.
As has several times been pointed out to students, this law is connected with a certain realised impulse in the minds of men, and this is, in its turn, the effect of various types of energy, which are playing upon the earth. The name “Law of Group Progress” is the phrase given by human beings to a particular type of energy which is producing the coherence of units in a group, thus forming them into one living organism.
On the astral plane the linking is stronger and is based upon love of humanity; on the mental plane the major linking takes place, from the angle of the three worlds as a whole. It will be apparent, therefore, that certain developments must have taken place in the individual before he can consciously become a functioning member of the New Group of World Servers, which is the principal group at this time definitely working under the Law of Group Progress.
Then too the “forces of creative life” will circulate from the “point within the head” (the head centre) along the “line to the heart” and then, with the throat centre, form a “triangle of fiery light”. Such is the Way of Group Progress, and when this is being consummated, then the Law of Group Progress begins definitely to function and to control.
Esoteric Psychology – Volume II , II. The Seven Laws of Soul or Group Life – Part 5
May I therefore close with these simple words: Please give us your aid, my brothers. SEED GROUPS IN THE NEW AGE July 1937 Earlier I gave you some thoughts anent the new groups which come into functioning activity under The Law of Group Progress.
The Externalisation Of The Hierarchy , SECTION ONE – INTRODUCTORY REMARKS – Part 1
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