Editing Alice Bailey (section)

==== Criticism of her ideas on races ====
Bailey's ideas about race were criticized by Victor Shnirelman, a [[Cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologist]] and ethnographer, who in a survey of modern [[Neopaganism]] in Russia, drew particular attention to "...{{nbsp}}groups [that] take an extremely negative view of [[Multiculturalism|multi-culturalism]], object to the 'mixture' of kinds, [and] support isolationism and the prohibition of immigration." Shnirelman saw some of Bailey's ideas on race as similar to the racism he perceived in the writing of [[Julius Evola]], saying that "...{{nbsp}}racist and antisemitic trends are explicit, for example, in the occult teachings of Alice Bailey and her followers, who wish to cleanse Christianity of its "Jewish inheritance" and reject the "[[Hebrew Bible|Jewish Bible]]" as a prerequisite for entering the Age of Aquarius."<ref name="Shnirelman">[http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/13shnir.html Shnirelman, Victor A. ''Russian Neo-pagan Myths and Antisemitism''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810224751/http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/13shnir.html |date=2007-08-10 }} in ''Acta no. 13, Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism.'' The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1998. Retrieved 2007-08-22.</ref>

Shnirelman's view was echoed by Isaac Lubelsky who criticized not only Bailey, but Blavatsky, Steiner, and others. In Lubelsky's view, racists ideas were common to the whole "Theosophical family".<ref>{{Cite book|title = Mythological and Real Race Issues in Theosophy, in "Handbook of the Theosophical Current"|last = Lubelsky|first = Isaac Lubelsky|publisher = Brill|year = 2013|url = https://isaaclubelsky.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/lubelsky-mythological-and-real-race-issues-in-theosophy.pdf|pages = 335–353}}</ref>

[[Monica Sjöö]], a Swedish painter, writer and a radical [[Anarcha-feminism|anarcho]]/[[Ecofeminism|eco-feminist]] wrote that Bailey, through her published teachings, had a "reactionary and racist influence on the whole New Age movement."<ref name="Sjoo">[[Monica Sjöö|Sjöö, Monica]] of the 1960s onward. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063909/http://monicasjoo.org/artic/channelbrief/sinisterchannelings1.htm ''The Racist Legacy of Alice Bailey'']}} in ''From the Flames&nbsp;– Radical Feminism with Spirit'' issue 22. Winter 1998/1999. Retrieved 23 August 2013.</ref> She also noted what she called Bailey's (and Theosophy's) "[[Fascism|pro-fascist]] religious views", such as the belief in a secret elite of "Masters" who influence world events and human minds through occult means and attempt to bring about the evolution of an Aryan race (although this is an understandably modern misunderstanding of her teaching&nbsp;– 'Aryan' as used by Bailey is easily confused with the modern terminology, and the "Masters" are not an elite, but instead are 'enlightened' individuals originally introduced in theosophy as having evolved beyond the human or "4th kingdom" into the fifth or "Kingdom of souls", and who&nbsp;– in her view&nbsp;– guide the human race as a whole).<ref>Sjöö, Monica, ''Some Thoughts About the New Age Movement, ''Wood and Water'' magazine, Summer 1989:2–6. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lokPtsd7Vr4C&dq=Wood+and+Water+magazine%2C+Summer+1989%3A2%E2%80%936&pg=PA123 as cited] in York, Michael, ''The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-Pagan Movements'', p. 124, [[Rowman & Littlefield]], {{ISBN|0-8476-8001-0}}''</ref>

Controversy has arisen around some of Bailey's statements on [[nationalism]], [[American isolationism]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet totalitarianism]], [[Fascism]], [[Zionism]], [[Nazism]], [[race relations]], Africans, [[Jew]]s, and the religions of [[Judaism]] and Christianity. [[Yonassan Gershom]] and others have claimed that her writings contain racist material.<ref name="newman351">{{cite book|last=Newman|first=Hannah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tdn6FFZklkcC&q=%22Invocation%2C+The+Great%22|title=Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2005|isbn=1-85109-439-3|editor-last=Levy|editor-first=Richard S.|pages=351–352|contribution=Invocation, The Great}}</ref><ref name=Gershom /><ref>{{cite book |last=Penn |first=Lee |title=False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One World Religion |publisher=Sophia Perennis |year=2004 |pages=267–268, 273, 299 |isbn=1-59731-000-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Elliott |title=A Crash Course on the New Age Movement: Describing and Evaluating a Growing Movement |url=https://archive.org/details/crashcourseonne00mill |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Baker Book House]] |year=1989 |page=[https://archive.org/details/crashcourseonne00mill/page/197 197] |isbn=0-8010-6248-9}}</ref><ref>Sjöö, Monica (1998). ''New Age Channelings&nbsp;– Who Or What Is Being Channeled?'' Bristol, England: Green Leaf Bookshop. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110808131005/http://monicasjoo.org/books/naessay/newageessay1.htm Entire text online at Monica Sjoo website]}}, page found 2010-06-28.</ref><ref>Sjöö, Monica, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063909/http://monicasjoo.org/artic/channelbrief/sinisterchannelings1.htm Sinister Channelings]}} Notes and explanations to accompany the "New Age Channelings" book. Entire text online, page found 2010-06-28.</ref><ref>[http://www.teosofiskakompaniet.net/BlavatskyvsBailyALC.htm A comparison between H.P. Blavatsky & Alice Baily. The Pseudo-Occultism of Alice Baily] by Alice Leighton Cleather and Basil Crump. 1929</ref>

The American [[Hasidic Judaism|Chassidic]] author [[Yonassan Gershom]] wrote that Bailey's plan for a [[New World Order (conspiracy)|New World Order]] and her call for "the gradual dissolution—again if in any way possible—of the [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] faith" revealed that "her goal is nothing less than the destruction of [[Judaism]] itself." Gershom also wrote that "This stereotyped portrayal of Jews is followed by a hackneyed diatribe against the Biblical Hebrews, based upon the "angry Jehovah" theology of nineteenth-century [[Protestantism]]. Jews do not, and never have, worshipped an angry vengeful god, and we Jews never, ever call God 'Jehovah'."<ref name=Gershom>{{cite web |url=http://www.pinenet.com/rooster/bailey.html |title=Antisemitic Stereotypes in Alice Bailey's Writings |last1=Gershom |first1=Yonassan |year=2005 |orig-year=orig. 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012013627/http://pinenet.com/~rooster/bailey.html |archive-date=2007-10-12 }}</ref>

Researcher Hannah Newman described what she found to be an [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] element in the Great Invocation. According to Newman, "the Plan" named in the invocation refers to the plan authored by "the Hierarchy", that Newman states places "high priority on removing all Jewish presence and influence from human consciousness, a goal to be achieved by eliminating [[Judaism]]."<ref name="newman351" />{{efn|A commentary on the Great Invocation on Lucis Trust's website says "Christ emphasised ever the Fatherhood of God and substituted it in place of the cruel, jealous tribal Jehovah."<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Lucis Trust|title= The Great Invocation: Its Use and Significance |url=https://www.lucistrust.org/the_great_invocation/the_use_and_significance_the_great_invocation1}}</ref> See also [[Marcionism]].}}