Glossary entry for
Aryan mist
What exactly does VM mean when he uses the word "aryan"? Since
he was influenced by Alice Bailey's writing (as he admits in
the notes to the album Beautiful Vision),
we can assume that his use of the word is the same as Bailey's use of the word.
So the question becomes, what does Bailey mean by the term "aryan"?
In fairness to VM, I will limit quotes from Bailey's writings only to
those which VM cites as having read (i.e., Glamour - A World Problem) and
won't assume he read anything else by her. This is important since Bailey's
more questionable views are surprisingly absent from Glamor, the work in
question. Below is a selection of quotes representing how she uses the
term "aryan" in her book Glamor:
- In our race, the Aryan, the world illusion is gathering weight
and slowly emerging into recognition in the human
consciousness. (Glamor, 32)
- The world today is divided into three groups, all of whom are
subject to certain phases of glamor: [...]
2. Those who are more definitely Aryan in their consciousness.
This means that the mind factor is awakening and thus
constituting a difficulty and that the illusions of the mental
plane are now added to the glamors of the astral plane. These
illusions are theoretical and intellectual in nature. (Glamor, 113)
- I speak not in terms of the Aryan race as it is generally
understood today or in its Nordic implications. (Glamor, 114)
And for further clarification of the use of the word "aryan," two quotes from
other works by Bailey:
In the coming Aquarian Age we shall see humanity producing a
culture which is sensitive to the finer and higher spiritual
values, a civilization which is free from glamor and from much
of the illusion which today colors the Aryan peoples. (The
Externalization of the Hierarchy, 44)
The Aryan root race, to which the Hindu, European, and
modern American races belong, is the fifth, the Chinese and
Japanese belonging to the fourth race. (Initiation, Human and
Solar, 224)
It appears that Bailey is, therefore, not using "aryan" in the same way
the Aryan Nation, for example, uses it. Her use is more esoteric. [...] So when
VM sings about "aryan mist", apparently he's singing about the mist the
Aryan race is presently caught up in ("fog of illusion" etc.).
Submitted by Joel Heiman
More information on Alice Bailey is available in the glossary entry for
"glamour"
Van references in:
Part of the van-the-man.info unofficial website
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