The path of development from ego to service is a natural evolution of the motives for transformation. At each stage, a person is driven by different goals: from survival and personal success to an inner calling and service.
Understanding your current level allows you to avoid wasting energy and build goals that truly match your state.
In this article, read how goals change depending on your development.
Stages of Human Development According to Alice Bailey
We have a series of articles, written based on the materials of Lauren Gorgo, “From Awakening to Ascension,” which contains patterns. First, you connect with the soul, then with your Higher Self, then with the Divine Self, and you become a kind of mouthpiece.
At any stage of life, any motive for transformation is correct. But you need to clearly understand what stage you are currently at.
Alice Bailey’s books provide a detailed classification of a person, precisely according to the stages of transformation that we examined in previous articles of this series.
The Undeveloped Person: Motivation for Survival
The first stage is the undeveloped person. This type of person is characterized by an instinctive life, practically devoid of mental control.
Consciousness is focused in the physical body and directed towards satisfying basic animal needs: self-preservation, reproduction, and economic stability.
The Moderately Educated Person: Goals Through the Ego
The second stage of development is the moderately educated person. The bulk of modern humanity belongs to this category.
Their motivation is egocentrism, personal happiness, and ambition. The mind is used only as a tool to achieve what is desired.
These people set ambitious goals, for example, writing a book, making a film, winning some award, and they pursue it.
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The Aspirant: Transition from Ego to Service
The next type is the aspirant person.
Here the question arises: aspiring to what? In our context, this is essentially called a person who has embarked on the path of spiritual development. That is, one who has awakened.
Consciousness is characterized by a sharp awareness of duality and a conflict between the soul and the personality.
It is important to understand that the motivations for moving differ between the previous type and the aspirant person. At this stage, the motivation is the striving for light, the beginning of selfless service. But one must still arrive at this.
The motivation of the aspirant must change. It cannot help but change. Provided that you have chosen this yourself.
Therefore, I am against unconscious entry into the topic of spirituality, because it is fashionable, because everyone uses this tool, because someone said so.
A conscious approach helps to see the motive and the goal, where you are going; otherwise, it somehow gets lost.
When you transition from one stage to another, for example, from personal ambitious goals to something global, this may be accompanied by a state of “between heaven and earth”.
This is a transitional moment when the old no longer motivates or inspires, you lose interest in what was, and the new has not yet taken shape.
This is that very moment to look at the motive driving you. And most often, the bridge consists of switching from “everything for my beloved self” to something greater.
See also Reidentification of the Awakened: Integration of Experience and Transition to Collective Service
Disciple: Service and Group Consciousness
And only then does the stage appear — the disciple. A disciple is one who has been taken into training by a teacher, most often a teacher from the subtle plane.
Remember the common phrase “when the student is ready, the teacher appears”?
In the past, if you read about it, there were secret schools. A disciple would come, and at first he was a server, something like the teacher’s attendant.
And only if he deserved it, or in fact, if he began to meet certain conditions, would they start teaching him. And this stage lasted for some for many years.
Then came conversation with the teacher, sitting in the teacher’s presence, and this was already a disciple. Because he had firmly integrated his physical, emotional, and mental bodies, becoming an integrated personality. The main thing is that he lost the ego-personal component.
At this stage, the soul and personality merge into a single instrument of service. The disciple possesses “group consciousness” and sees himself as part of the Whole.
The main task becomes building a bridge between the lower mind and the Spirit.
Note how many stages there are: undeveloped, moderately educated, aspirant, disciple.
Such hierarchical structures help to see at which stage you are. Not to say that you fall short of something. But to understand what drives you.
Is It Necessary to Go Through All Stages of Development in One Lifetime
This classification may not be very suitable for us in modern conditions, but it shows that this is a long path, and it is not necessary to go through all stages within one lifetime.
Much of what I do is not the result of growth and transformation in this life; there were already certain inclinations, experience of the soul.
If you have learned to work with your emotions over centuries, then in this life this issue no longer stands before you. You move further and deal with the mental sphere.
Therefore, when someone throws hysterics, falls into uncontrollable rage, reads books on emotional intelligence, of which many have appeared recently, you stand nearby and do not understand how one can explode like that and get so carried away by emotions.
Because it is not about you, not about the results of your work. It is simply that you have already arrived with something, and it is written into you by default, while someone else is just beginning. And this life is like integration — to gather all the accumulated experience of taming your emotions and move forward.
This greatly broadens your horizons, perspective, and helps you interact with other people based on the stage they are at.
What truly drives you today — habit, desire, or an inner calling?
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