(1872-1953)
Short Biographical Information:
Bayard Spaulding was born in
North Cohocton, New York in October 3, 1872 as one six children to
Stephen T Spaulding and Mary Hartwell. Bayard had two brothers - Hiram and George
and three sisters- Nettie, Hattie and Mary. In 1911 Bayard married Stella M Stiles in
Oakland. In the early 20's Bayard wrote Volume 1 of
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
The wife to the builder of the Oakland Municipal Railways then asked Mr. Spalding for
the permission to let the California Press in San Francisco print one thousand copies
using an inexpensive paperbinding, because she wanted to give them away to her
friends. Six days after they had been printed and given away, more then 20 000 orders
was recieved for copies of that book (1924)!
Mr. Spalding was astonished at the interest in his discoveries and experiences so he
wrote Volume 2 (1927) and in 1935 Spalding wrote Volume 3 and had a
thirty days tour and visited 30 cities
during that time.
The last part of his life until he left his physical form in
1953, he spent as a world traveller and worked as a research mining enginner.
Volume 4 (1948) and Volume 5 (1955) was
compelied from his question and answer material. Volume 6 (1996) contains historical
reference to Spalding and his articles for the Mind Magazine 1935-37.
Where did the spiritual content of the books come from?
Much of the
content of Life and Teaching was inspired by the
New Thought movement. Spalding
was a member of a New Thought group in San Francisco during the early 1920’s when he
wrote Life and Teaching Volume One and the first chapters of the book were published
in the groups magazine. His wife Stella Spalding was an intelligent, University
educated woman who helped Spalding greatly when writing the books. Spalding’s
publisher Doug DeVorss was raised in the
Unity Church, a New Thought
group, and it is likely he had input on the later volumes of Life and Teaching.
Examples of Baird T. Spaldings Teaching:
Q: How is it possible
to bring about a great change under our present condition in which people are
drinking, gambling, smoking and doing everything that is bad?
A: The very expression you have used allow those conditions to go on today. We use
such thoughtless words that we allow those conditions to continue. It is better to say
that nothing but good and perfect can be. See absolute perfection for all.
Q: What is the proper medium for the awakening?
A: The individual awakening.
As it is with the individual, it is with the group; as it is with group, it is with
the nation, as it is with the nation, it is with the world.
Q: Is it necesarry
to overcome all flesh?
A: It is not necessary to overcome all flesh, but to put a
better conception upon it by the resurrection of this body from a material to a
spiritual condition. If we come into true spirit, this flesh is immortalizes always.
Why overcome flesh? It is perfectly beautiful and pure, if we overcome the idea that
has held it out of that condition."
Q: What about healing?
A: There is no
healing. Healing is a name for a condition that comes about. You can not keep
perfection away if you allow it to come to you.
Truth:
"Truth is
the same regardless of the book that presents it or the teacher who proclaims it."
"If we would find Truth, we must rise above our own weakness and dare to face the
Truth wherever it may be found or whatever its discovery may do to the narrow confines
of our own beliefs and speculations."
Accomplishment:
"Everything is
accomplished under a defintive law. Every individual works with that law if they
accomplish anything, even to walking or breathing. There is no doubt about that."
"You can not accomplish a thing unless you stand one with it."
About
negative and positive thoughts:
"Greater civilization than ours have lived by
it. But they begun to see dual. Then what happened? Duality began to take energy from
their bodies to keep duality in existence, and immediately that energy was flowing
from their bodies to their own thoughts, building up the psychic condition.
At times we get beyond the hypnotic stage, and then a flash of the real comes trough.
Then we do not hesitate to accept it. Each experience of this kind makes us stronger
in acceptance. Then we are "about our Father's business."
"Negative thoughts begets
a hypnotic influence. Negative thinking takes energy from the body, whereas
positive thinking adds and creates energy."
"Humanity is going to see that
is far better to be in positive influences at all times. Then we are going to take the
great step forward."
Belief:
"We have forgotten our birthright; we
are hypnotized into a condition in we do not believe."
"Without belief there can
be no creative power"
"You have been told often that if one endeavors to
accomplish and succeeds, all can. The power has always existed and always will exist.
Why is it kept away? It is because we put up the barriers of disbelief."
The
Ideal of Christ:
"There is but one Christ of all mankind. If we stand one
with Christ, we are that very thing. Jesus presented the Christ to the world,
which all men may present if they will."
"Always, man's divinity is man's higher
attitude. It can be proved in every instance."
"You are perfectly free to make
the ascension at any instant, and you are always living to a higher level because you
are presenting that ideal."
How to look on children:
"'I see the
Christ in every face and in every form. When the first child was born, the Christ was
born.'If we let the child alone, we never submerge him. The influence surrounding
him would keep him completely. All we need to do is to see the Christ in that child.
The moment we present that child as the Christ, we bind ourselves together with that
child in the greatest enlightenment."
Baird T. Spalding was kind and
simple man who lived a simple life. He was always moving and could travel 1000 miles
to do a favour for a friend. He spent most time of his life as an research mining
engineering. His writings seems to have made him rich, becuse he was always willing to
give away money if somebody needed. One thing Mr. Spalding didn't need much for
himself was - sleep, only three-four hours each night.
Early,
Douglas DeVorss (the founder of
DeVorss & Company, Publisher P.O. Box 550
Marina del Rey, CA 90294) and Baird T. Spalding agreed that Mr. Spalding never was to
be introduced as an Master, but only as an author, but never the less Mr. Spalding
made some extraordinary doings.
One very remarkable thing happened in New York
(USA) when he was visting a friend. Spalding was to lecturing in Montreal (Canada) the
same afternoon. At 5.00 his friend asked him if it was not time for him to leave.
-"No, Its not until 7:30, and I have plenty of time." It was not until 6.00 he said
goodbye and left. His friend was very nervous, because she new that he hardly have
time to get ready and go to the airport, much less Montreal! She waited until just
before the time for his leacture and then phoned Montreal. -"Please tell me." she said
"has Baird Spalding arrived yet? The woman who answered said, "Why, he's walking up on
the platform right now."
Baird T. Spalding's teaching was a mixture of
taoism, early hinduism, buddhism and
christianity.
He believed that the teaching of life was very simply and therefore,
he was an opponent to Mysticism and Theosophy and those Christian Sects who denied
that man was Divine. He said that the people he knew in Eastern said, it was a heresy
to accept man less than Divine.
"The person seeing perfection is the Master."
- Baird T. Spalding
See Life and Teachings Of the
Masters Of The Far East teleporting" January 15, 2006
People who
Spalding was in contact with:
Cecil B. DeMille
Luther Burbank
Kahlil Gibran
Krishnamurti
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Annie Besant
Helena Blavatsky
Claude Fayette Bragdon
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Dr. Norwood
- Cleargyman from New York, who had a small church in Nova Scotia and made a
visit to
Saint Bartholomew's Church in New York. 109 E 50th St New York, NY 10022
In less than five months, it was overcrowded so Dr. Norwood had to put out
loudspeakers outside the church!
Frederick L. Rawson
was a brother to a great engineer in England - Sir. Rawson-Rawson.
F. L. Rawson
took 100 men into world war one. They all returned without a scratch on any of them.
"There is nothing but God." was his statement to that miracle.
A letter dated
December 2, 1935 tells that:
"....Baird T. Spalding is now carrying on with his
research work in Calcutta University. We have met some of his former teachers,
Professors Ghose, Physics Department, Jesse Bose, Nag, Roy, Das etc., of
Trancendental Physics, Physcology, Chemistry, Metaphyscics and philosophy, all of the
Science College..."
Baird T. Spalding made some sensational claims during his later years
about different kinds of inventions that like the
camera to past events, until
now his claims has sounded like Science Fiction.
He stated that things could
travel faster than Light and of course it sounded impossible to those who believed in
Einsteins theory. But now it has come to pass with
Faster than Light communication!
Baird T. Spalding's suggested the following books:
Henry Drummond
- Love, the Greatest Thing in the World.
Alexis Carrel - Man the unknown (People healed from incureable conditions)
The author Colonel James Churchward is
probably the man standing between Douglas DeVorss and Baird T. Spalding on the
S.S President Hoover before leaving
San Francisco for India to visit the Masters known as Siddhas.
David Bruton who became friend with Baird T. Spalding in his last three years,
wrote a book entitled Baird T. Spalding as I knew him (1954). Burton observed
that Spalding had a photograpic memory: "There was no end to Spalding's ready
knowledge. I heard him repeatedly come up with the right answer on almost any topic,
any place or any time." but Spalding also "seemed to be unusually malleable and open"
and that "everyone had a tendency to take Spalding over".
One of Bruton's
friends who practiced "clairvoyant vision" and had know Spalding for many years. Told
Bruton in an interview that: "Baird was under the control of three astral beings." his
grandfather Baird Spalding, an old miner and a little child. This could explain why he
could be both an excellent writer and make contradictions at the same time. (like
living with Jesus for about 2 1/2 years in the mid 1890's and then invent the camera
to past events and had difficult to find Jesus. When Jesus was giving the Sermont of
the Mount, because he didn't know that Jesus was 6'2" tall.)
"Spalding, didn't
know when his words were being dictated by an control and when they weren't."
When Baird T. Spalding died he had only $126.72, no property and no fixed address.
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