Abstraction

ALICE A. BAILEY: Discipleship in the New Age II, page
693 – 696: The law is described over these pages, but here are a few statements:
“This is a law which is ever present in the world in relation to the processes of death. The as-pect of its importance in connection with physical death is deemed of slight importance in com-parison to its emphasis in connection with the world of thought. The training given to a disciple when he enters the periphery of an Ashram lays an emphatic emphasis upon the need of ab-stracting one’s consciousness from phase after phase of thought. …

When the Law of Abstraction is wielded consciously by you from within the Ashram, you will discover that it has (as it might have been expected) various meanings and policies which will function on the different planes of consciousness …

There is a close relation between pain and the law with which I am dealing. It is the Law of Ab-straction which lifts a disciple out of the three worlds of human endeavour; it is this same law which brings about the upward drive which all units of life express and the search of all of them for identification with the ONE. …”