: Primarily mental, affecting intellectual types who may misunderstand or misinterpret abstract ideas and thoughtforms.
Bailey argues that these glamours are not just individual but national and racial. For example, she cites the "materialistic value" placed on money as a massive, ancient glamour that distorts human values on a global scale. This collective fog creates a "sea of fog" where humanity is immersed, unable to distinguish its true soul nature from these surrounding emotional currents. The Path to Dissipation
Bailey categorizes the delusions affecting humanity based on the level of consciousness they occupy:
: The culmination of these three on the personality level, representing the sum total of all personal obstacles to spiritual enlightenment. The Global Impact
In her seminal work, Glamour: A World Problem , Alice A. Bailey explores the spiritual "fog" that she argues obscures human perception and prevents the recognition of truth. Writing in collaboration with the Tibetan teacher Djwhal Khul, Bailey frames "glamour" not as a personal vanity, but as a dense, collective energy of ignorance, fear, and greed that stalls global spiritual progress. The Anatomy of Misconception
: Glamour on the emotional plane must be met with mental illumination.
: Illusion on the mental plane is dispelled by the light of the intuition.
According to Lucis Trust , the primary cure for glamour is "illumined thinking" and the application of a "higher form of energy" to break through the fog: