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Baird T Spalding
Born October 3, 1872
Cohocton, New York, United States
Died March 18, 1953 (aged 80)
Tempe, Arizona, US
Occupation Writer, miner
Genre Religion
Baird Thomas Spalding (1872–1953) was an American writer, author of the spiritual book series: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.
Contents
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• 1 Biography
• 2 Works
• 3 Influence
• 4 References
• 5 External links
Biography[edit]
Although Spalding’s books claimed he was born in England in 1857, Spalding was born in North Cohocton, New York in 1872.[1] He spent much of his life as a mining engineer in the American West.
Anecdotal biographical detail was widely promulgated even during his lifetime. At his death in 1953 in Arizona, obituaries conflictingly cited his age as 95 or 107. His date of birth is given as “1872-1873” in the 1880 US census The same date is given in a 1911 California marriage certificate, but his place of birth is now given as England.[2]
Spalding does appear to have briefly visited India in 1935/6, as there is a US passport application dated 1935, and a Seattle immigration record on his return from India, dated 1936. A biography of Spalding, Baird T Spalding As I Knew Him was published by fellow mystic and DeVorss author David Burton in 1954. About Spalding’s claims regarding his birthplace, Burton wrote:
“On two different occasions I asked him where he was born. The first time he told me in ‘upstate New York;’ the second, ‘Spalding, England.’ During one of his last public lectures a member of the audience asked where he was born and he answered, ‘In India.’ He spoke with equal affection for the ‘old family home’ in upstate New York, in Spalding, England and in Coconada, Madras Province, India”
Works[edit]
In 1935, Spalding published the first volume of Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East. It describes the travels to India and Tibet of a research party of eleven scientists in 1894. During their trip they claim to have made contact with “the Great Masters of the Himalayas”, immortal beings with whom they lived and studied, gaining insight into their lives and spiritual message. This close contact enabled them to witness many of the spiritual principles evinced by these Great Masters translated into their everyday lives, which could be described as ‘miracles’. Such examples are walking on water, or manifesting bread to feed the hungry party. However, despite most of the action taking place in India, the Great Masters make it clear that the greatest embodiment of the Enlightened state is that of the Christ (as personified by Jesus): “The Masters accept that Buddha represents the Way to Enlightenment, but they clearly set forth that Christ IS Enlightenment, or a state of consciousness for which we are all seeking – the Christ light of every individual; therefore, the light of every child born into the world.” (From the foreword, Volume I, Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, DeVorss & Co.)
Spalding published three add synoitional volumes before his death in 1953. Volumes 5 and 6 were published by DeVorss & Co posthumously from various articles that Spalding had written…………………….”
As has been the practice in previous blogs, I have revealed my understanding of God and my personal beliefs, by quoting from my reading material, that which I feel agrees with progression in my life.
So I will quote from page 62 The Life of the Masters of the Far East Volume V as follows:
“………….Where the scientists lack evidence, we have forged ahead to complete knowing that we are that great emanating frequency. Sit quietly for a few moments with the statement, “God I am, as we all are,” “God I am Divine Intelligence,” and know, then admit to yourself, with all doubt removed, “I am Divine Principle, I am Divine Love, and it flows through me to all the world.” Then see yourself as God and everyone you meet or see, as God, and you will see that which is being accomplished in the sub-microscopic zone of life, for you will see an almost invisible drop of protoplasm, that is transparent, jelly-like, capable of using the light from the sun to break up the carbon dioxide in the air, forcing the atoms apart, seizing the hydrogen from the water and producing carbohydrates, thus making its own food out of the world’s most stubborn compounds.
This single cell, this transparent droplet, holds itself the germ of all life. it not only has the germ but it has the power to distribute this life to all living things, great and small, and it also fits that creature to environment wherever life exists, even from the bottom of the ocean to the universe above. Time and environment have moulded the form of every living thing so that it meets the infinite variety of all conditions, and as these living things develop their individuality, they sacrifice some of their flexibility to change and become specialized and fixed, losing the power to go back, but gaining a better and greater adjustment to the conditions as they exist.
The power of this droplet of protoplasm and its contents is greater than the vegetation that clothes the earth in green; greater than all the animals that breathe the breath of life, for all life comes from it, and without it no living thing would have been or could be………….”
As I read the above statement, my “applied scientific mind” is able to comprehend my existence in harmony with all that there is. That I am what I am because I was meant to be.
The book goes on at page 64:
“………An amoeba is a microscopic highly developed living cell composed of untold millions of atoms in orderly arrangement. Size is nothing to the Infinite. The atom is perfect as the solar system. This cell divides and forms two. The two divide and form four, and so on, ad infinitum, as cells do in every living creature. Each cell contains within itself the power to produce a complete individual. The cells themselves are immortal. They form cells of all creatures, animal and vegetable of today, and are exact replicas of their progenitors. We, as all humanity, are well-ordered replicas of billions on billions of similar cells, each cell a citizen intelligently doing its full quota of devoted service. This one cell has the power to use sunlight to break up a chemical compound and make its own food and enough for its brother cell. You will find that this division is absolutely basic as one of the essentials of life. Can it be further defined that man is immortal here, when there is every proof of divinity and immortality?
All things that live start from a single cell, and this cell compels all of its descendants to perform the service and follow without deviation the design of the creature the original cell is to duplicate, whether it be human, a turtle, or a rabbit. It is found that these cells have distinct intelligence, instinct as well as reasoning power, as it is known that after division, portions of these cells are forced to change an entire nature to meet the requirements of that being that they are part. Why? Because the plan is set forth and is invincible to change, and that is the reason that man is divine, perfect, and invincible. It does not matter what thinking structure he evolves, this plan is absolutely irresistible and can never be changed; it is the first principle dominant and compelling, and is also the very reason that man is capable and abundantly able to reach the highest. in the event that he fails to reach the highest in his immediate understandings, all that is necessary is for him to change his thought structure, which has circumvented him, to the true thought structure that is steadfastly fixed in his own mind, of which he has an inherent instinct, and build a dominant thought structure which will allow him to reach to the highest conception to which his thoughts aspire. His easiest and most successful way of attainment to the highest goal is forever to let drop the thought structure that has bound him to the wheel of repetition and set into immediate action that which will build up an invincible thought structure which will never fail in carrying him to the highest…………..”
I think I have suggested that this series of books is a good read. I am satisfied that Lawrence Popoff loaned me these five volumes on “Teaching of Masters of the Far East”.
Try it and you might benefit as a result.
This appreciation was written by Elmer Verigin from information Derived from five volumes of Books that DeVross & Co compiled from notes and lectures delivered by Baird T. Spalding. These books were loaned to the writer, Elmer Verigin (EWV), by Lawrence Popoff over a period of time that started in 2014. The writer completed volume V on May 30, 2015,
1. May 30, 2015, EWV was inspired to make this first entry into this Post
My posting of this article was May 31, 2015