The Consciousness of the Atom is a series of lectures of Alice Bailey which guides the reader through her Theosophist theory. Theory is based on contemporary scientific discoveries regarding the atom, philosophy and both Eastern and Western religions, applying what is known about the atom to the cosmos, the solar system and to humankind. In Bailey’s teaching, God is not definitely defined as existing in the biblical sense, but as a force of energy.
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Alice Bailey (1880-1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. Bailey was born in England, but she moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher. Bailey’s works, written between 1919 and 1949, describe a wide-ranging system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the Solar System, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general. She described the majority of her work as having been telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom, initially referred to only as ’the Tibetan’ or by the initials ‘D.K.’, later identified as Djwal Khul.