Editing Alice Bailey (section)

{{Short description|American esoteric, theosophist and writer (1880–1949)}}
{{for|the American writer of children's books and articles for periodicals|Alice Cooper Bailey}}
{{distinguish|Alice Bailly}}
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{{Original research|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Alice Ann Bailey
| image       =
| alt         = 
| caption     = Alice Bailey
| birth_name  = Alice La Trobe-Bateman
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|df=yes|1880|06|16}}
| birth_place = [[Manchester]], England
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1949|12|15|1880|06|16}}
| death_place = [[New York City]], United States
| nationality = British and American
| other_names = 
| occupation  = Esoteric author
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| spouse      = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Walter Evans|||end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Foster Bailey|1921}}
}}
| children    = 3
}}
[[File:Alice Ann Bailey.jpg|thumb|Alice Bailey (circa 1930)]]

'''Alice Ann Bailey''' (16 June 1880&nbsp;– 15 December 1949) was a British and American writer. She wrote about 25 books on [[Theosophy]] and was one of the first writers to use the term [[New Age]]. She was born '''Alice La Trobe-Bateman''', in [[Manchester]], England<ref>''American Astrology'' magazine, September 1937</ref> and 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 [[Neo-Theosophy|neo-theosophical]] system of [[Western esotericism|esoteric]] thought covering such topics as how [[spirituality]] relates to the [[Solar System]], [[meditation]], [[alternative medicine|healing]], [[spiritual psychology]], the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general. She described the majority of her work as having been [[telepathy|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]].<ref name="Bailey, Alice 1951 p 1">Bailey 1951 p.1. From the Preface by Foster Bailey.</ref> Her writings bore some similarity to those of [[Helena Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky]] and are among the teachings often referred to as "[[Ageless Wisdom]]". Though Bailey's writings differ in some respects from the Theosophy of Blavatsky, they have much in common with it. She wrote on religious themes, including [[Christianity]], though her writings are fundamentally different from many aspects of Christianity or other orthodox religions. Her vision of a unified society included a global "spirit of religion" different from traditional religious forms and including the concept of the [[Astrological age|Age of Aquarius]].<ref>Bailey 1951. pp.233–234.</ref><ref name=jenkins>Jenkins 2000. p.87. "Writers of the 1920s and 1930s presented themselves as advocates of a New Age of occult enlightenment, and Alice Bailey did much to popularize the dual terms 'New Age' and 'Aquarian'"</ref>