Editing Alice Bailey (section)

=== Childhood and early life ===
Bailey was born into a wealthy middle-class British family and, as a member of the [[Church of England|Anglican Church]], received a thorough Christian education.<ref>Bailey 1951. pp. 9, 12.</ref>

Her autobiography states that at the age of 15, on 30 June 1895, Bailey was visited by a stranger, "...a tall man, dressed in European clothes and wearing a [[turban]]" who told her she needed to develop self-control to prepare for certain work he planned for her to do.<ref name=Keller763>}Keller 2006. p.65.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bailey|first=Alice|title=The Unfinished Biography|publisher=Lucis Publishing Company|year=1951|isbn=0853301247|pages=34|language=English}}</ref> This turned out to be the creation and publication of 19 books, together with educational and meditation work that reached "practically all the countries of the world".<ref>{{Cite book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lokPtsd7Vr4C
| title = The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-pagan Movements
| last = York
| first = Michael
| date = 1995-01-01
| publisher = Rowman & Littlefield
| isbn = 978-0-8476-8001-6
| language = en
}}</ref>

At the age of 22, Bailey did [[evangelism|evangelical]] work in connection with the [[YMCA]] and the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite book
 |title=Krotona of Old Hollywood, Vol. II
 |last=Ross
 |first=Joseph E.
 |author-link=Joseph E. Ross
 |year=2004
 |publisher=Joseph Ross
 |isbn=0-925943-12-6
 |page=340
}}</ref> This took her to India, where, in 1907, she met her future husband, Walter Evans. Together, they moved to America, where Evans became an [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]] priest.<ref name="Keller, Rosemary 2006 p 762">Keller, Rosemary Skinner. ''Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America''. Indiana University Press. 2006. p 762</ref> The marriage did not last, and Bailey pushed for and received a divorce. She left with their three children after their formal separation in 1915. Then followed a difficult period in which she worked in a sardine cannery to support herself and the children.<ref name="Keller763" /><ref name="sutcliffe46">{{cite book |last=Sutcliffe |first=Steven J |title=Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |page=46 |isbn=0-415-24299-1}}</ref>