Spiritual Perspectives Blog

reflections on human and world affairs


Author: Sarah McKechnie

  • Some Thoughts on Capricorn – The Revelation of the Mystery

    The transition into Capricorn coincides with the sun’s movement northward (in the northern hemisphere), as well as the beginning of a new calendar year. For many inquirers, this is […]

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  • Holding the Inner Vision

    “From the very night of time, the period wherein the sun moves northward again has been regarded as a festival season”, according to the writings of Alice Bailey. This […]

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  • Some Thoughts on Sagittarius – Faith in the Long Arc of the Plan

    Following the drastic testing of Scorpio, balance is restored in Sagittarius, the sign of the Archer whose steady hand draws the bow taut prior to releasing the arrow of […]

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  • Some Thoughts on Libra – The Place of Judgment

    Libra, we’re told in the writings of Alice Bailey, is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values, and of achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of […]

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  • Some Thoughts on Scorpio – Testing and Triumph

    In the Bhagavad Gita we find a wonderful depiction of a particular stage of the Path with profound spiritual implications. Arjuna, representing the world disciple, stands between the opposing […]

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  • The Challenge of Sacrificial Living

    “Today two qualities are “tincturing” the ideal of the coming civilization for which all disciples are working: Freedom and spiritual security”, Alice Bailey wrote. Yet, insecurity might be a […]

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  • More Thoughts on the Present World Crisis

    “A great awakening is in process”, Alice Bailey wrote some decades ago—an awakening which is coming through, not in spite of, the widespread conflict so visible throughout the world. […]

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  • Thoughts on Virgo – The Womb of Time

    The keynote of Virgo again focuses on the declaration, “I am”.  From Leo’s keynote – I am That and That am I – the focus shifts to the realization […]

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  • Some Thoughts on Leo – The Self within the Whole

    The purpose of this solar system, the writings of Alice Bailey tell us, is the unfoldment of consciousness. In the progression of cosmic energies that flow throughout the zodiac, […]

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  • Democracies, Demagogues and Dictators

    Many of us might have assumed that the worst examples of dictators and dictatorships ended with the conclusion of the World War in its two phases, and in regard […]

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