Glamour: A World Problem by Alice A. Bailey

Glamour: A World Problem Reviews

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  Javier Villar

  By default or design, the human mind has so many layers of beliefs that is impossible for it to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Lies tend to be glamorized by sentimentality, importance, justifications, titles... lies are seductive and emotionally rewarding... the truth is simple.
  
  It seems that the committed spiritual student is better off by not trusting his own thoughts and what his eyes are telling. Whatever comes up from the psyche (dweller on the threshold) is to be healed and surrendered to God. Be in silence, skip the mind and trust God.
  
  Both, illusion and glamour, seem to be the underpinnings upon which falsehood is built in this world. The question then arises: is their nature luciferic?
  
  Glamour is the sentimental projection of importance where there is nothing. This projection reflects an inner unconscious desire or aversion. In order not to be at the effect of glamour is necessary to understand that the value of something is in the degree of how present God is.
  
  Illusion is the intellectual projection of cause where there is an expression of the field. This projection reflects an inner unconscious resentment. In order not to be at the effect of illusion is necessary to understand that the cause of everything is the totality of life since the beginning of time.
  
  I guess that through the final door there is no glamour nor nonglamour, neither illusion nor reality, for everything is equally God or the Self.
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  Gwyndyllyn

  An excellent book on an important topic. It includes some meditations and is the most thorough book on the topic of the glamours that I have read. It is essential for anyone dealing with occult development because it has the clearest discussion of the Dweller on the Threshold of any text I have come across.
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  Ayam Abraxas

  In the book Glamour, Alice examines the phenomena of illusion, know to the hindus as Maya. She details the ways to rise above the astral temptations through meditation and self-examination. Thus does the higher self emerge out of the animal, as a promethean phoenix.
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  Paul Bard

  First book by Bailey I have found value in.
  
  Proposes visualisations and meditative acts of will to remove falsehood from inner life.
  
  Since her book many methods have been developed to do this. But Bailey's seems very direct and simple.
  
  A book to re-read and study.
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  R.K. Cowles

  3 3/4 stars
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  Roger Buck

  Dangerous to one's humanity. I speak as intensive student of Alice Bailey in my youth at Findhorn.
  
  But Meditations on the Tarot saved my soul
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  Bodo Balsys

  Great Book - many messages here for the new generation of disciples among us - understanding what Glamour is so that you may overcome it will help on the path to your enlightenment.
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  Mindy Burge

  Excellent