Alice Bailey vs. Annie Besant
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Alice Bailey
1880 – 1949
Alice Ann Bailey 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 and moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.
"We are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the average human being uses only …"
Annie Besant
1847 – 1933
Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She supported both Irish and Indian self-rule. She became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
"That which we know as Yoga is the method by which evolution is quickened in the individual, and all the powers of the Self, up to the threshold of divinity, may…"
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