Positive and Negative Relationships

ALICE A. BAILEY: Discipleship in the New Age I, page
748 – 49: “To the average aspirant, the implications of this stage of discipleship [Chelas on the thread] are valuable from the angle of emphasising what has not been achieved. The implications are, therefore, negative. This is frequently desirable where accepted disciples are concerned whose attitude should be positive and intelligent. The Law of Positive and Negative Relationships underlies all these stages. That which is higher is, at first, always negative to that which is lower; then interim changes take place which make the higher positive to the lower and lead, therefore, to the steady ascending of the Way of Life and the Ladder of Spiritual Ascent.”