1935 Spalding Life and Teachings of The Masters of The Far East v3 PDF
1935 Spalding Life and Teachings of The Masters of The Far East v3 PDF
1935 Spalding Life and Teachings of The Masters of The Far East v3 PDF
L os A ngeles , California
Copyright , 1935
BY
BAIRD T. SPALDING
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FOREWORD
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CHAPTER II
our work for the rest of the day and wandered aim
lessly about the village until sunset.
We returned to the lodge to await the return of
our hostess, and upon entering we found the table
loaded with good things to eat. You can imagine
our astonishment to see her seated at the head of
the table and greeting us with that radiant smile of
hers. We were speechless; words failed us entirely.
She assumed an air of mock hauteur and tried to
say sternly, “Gentlemen, a greeting is in order” ;
whereupon we bowed and extended our salutations.
Then she continued, “I failed utterly to convince
them, but they did agree to give me an answer with
in the next three days. I know now that the answer
will be an attempted attack, but I did save the life
of that poor creature for the time being, at least.
We shall be obliged to prepare ourselves to with
stand the siege; nothing will deter them from
making the attempt.”
I think that nearly all of us saw our
fondest dreams and the results “go a-glimmering”
as the familiar saying has it. Our hostess read
our inmost thoughts, and repeated this poem:—
When you come to the Red-Sea-place in your life,
When, in spite of all you can do,
There is no way ’round, there is no way back,
There is no other way but THROUGH;
Then know God with a soul serene,
And the dark and storm are gone.
God stills the wind. God stills the waves.
God says to your soul, “GO ON!
GO ON! GO ON! GO ON!”
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CHAPTER IV
E resumed our work next morning with re
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THE LIGHT
“As I stand alone in Your great silence, God my
Father, in the midst of me there blazes a pure light
and it fills every atom of my whole being with its great
radiance. Life, Love, Strength, Purity, Beauty, Per
fection, stand forth in all dominion within me. As I
gaze into the very heart of this light, I see another
light, liquid, soft, golden-white and radiantly lumi
—
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B
Y noon of the second day, the wounded had all
been cared for, and we made a last survey to
make sure that there were no more wounded
alive among the debris. On our way to the lodge for
lunch and much-needed rest, one of the party voiced
the thought which had been uppermost for hours in
all our minds. Why this terrible holocaust, this de
struction of life?
We were tired to the very m arrow of our bones
and were completely floored by the shock. The
brunt of the rescue work, especially in the early
hours, had fallen to our lot, as the inhabitants had
stood in such mortal terror of these bandits that it
was very difficult to persuade them to lend assist
ance even after we had freed many from the en
tangled horses.
The villagers could see no reason why they should
assist in saving the lives of those who were attempt
ing to take their lives. Many of them have a deep
aversion to touching any dead thing. Had it not
been for our friends, the inhabitants would have left
the scene immediately, never to have returned. As
it was, we were weary and heartsick, having under
gone the most terrible experience of our whole lives.
We arrived at the lodge, refreshed ourselves and
sat down at the table completely unnerved. Shortly
the food began to appear. We were all alone, our
chief having accompanied one or two of our friends
and Lin Chu, the Black One, on a trip down the
valley. After the meal we retired to our rooms to
rest and none of the party awoke till late the enxt
afternoon.
While we were dressing, it was suggested that we
go directly to our sanctuary as we called the upper
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CHAPTER VII
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CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER X
Here were the four tablets set before us, each one
worth a King’s ransom.
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CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XIII
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CHAPTER XIV
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CHAPTER XV
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CHAPTER XVI
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CHAPTER XVII
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CHAPTER XVIII
A
S THE RISHI finished, a number of people
walked toward our camp and Jesus was in
“ the group. We had noted that they had
gathered on the slope of the ridge a short distance
from the camp, but had supposed that they were
gathering for a private conference, as these gath
erings were in evidence all about the countryside.
As they approached, Weldon arose, stepped for
ward, and clasped both of Jesus’ hands. There was
no need for an introduction, as they were all close
friends of the Rishi and Jesus. As for ourselves, we
felt like little atoms ready to take root in any niche
where soil presented itself.
All gathered around our campfire. Weldon asked
Jesus if he would talk to us of the Bible. This met
with a most hearty approval from all, and Jesus
began:
“Let us consider David’s prayer in the twenty-
third psalm, ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want.’ You will note this was not a prayer of sup
plication. Do you not see that the real meaning
implies that the One great Principle is leading us
into the way we should go, or Great Principle goes
before on our pathway, and thus we make the
crooked places straight? This Principle prepares
our pathway as a shepherd does for his trusting
and dependent sheep; thus we can say, ‘W here Our
Father leads I am unafraid.’
“The good shepherd knows where everything is
located that is good for his sheep; thus we can say,
‘I shall not want.’ W ith David we can say ‘I can
not want,’ for I AM is guarded against every ill.
“Every want of our physical nature is supplied.
Not only shall we be well fed in the green pastures,
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but there will be an abundance to spare. We rest
in complete assurance that every desire is already
fulfilled and provided for. We can let go of every
weary sense and say, one with David, ‘He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures, He leadeth me
beside still waters.’ The blue of their quiet depths
gives great peace to our minds and our troubled
consciousness is stilled.
“W ith body and mind at rest, the heavenly inspi
ration of the most high Principle floods our souls
with the pure light of life and power. The light
within us glows with the glory of my Lord, the law
wherein we are all one. This radiant light of spirit
renews our understanding; we stand revealed to our
true selves, so that we know ourselves as one with
the Infinite and each is sent from this Principle to
manifest the perfection of the Father Principle. In
the quiet calm of our souls, we are restored to our
pure selves and know that we are whole; thus, ‘He
restoreth my soul. Yea though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'
In the fullness of the bounty of this God Principle,
what can we fear? Here we rest our physical na
tures, God quiets our minds, God rests our souls,
God illumines us for service; therefore with this
perfect preparation from within, what other tests
could cause us to fear that any evil thing could
harm us? God is in the midst of every one of us;
to each he is an ever-present help in time of trouble.
In Him we live and move and have our being. We
say with one voice ‘All is well.’
“Now each can say, ‘God love leads me directly
into the fold. I am shown the right path and cor
rected when I stray from this fold. The power of
God love attracts me to my good; thus all that
would harm is shut from me.’
“Now with David each can say, ‘For thou art
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with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.’
“In first taking up this work and perceiving the
truths or the fundamental scientific facts under
lying all life and the way of attaining thereto, you
take the first step, and the exhilaration and enlight
enment are so far beyond anything you have hith
erto experienced that you decide to go on in the
work. Then doubts, fears, and discouragements are
allowed to creep in, and your on-going seems to He
retarded. You struggle first one way, then another,
and you seem to be losing ground. The struggle
seems to be too great for human beings to accom
plish, and you begin to look at the failures all about
you.
“You say God’s children are dying on every
hand,’ and none within your generation have ac
complished the ideal of everlasting and eternal life,
peace, harmony, and perfection which I idealize.
You say that accomplishment must come after
death; so you let go and find for a time that it is
much easier to drift on and on with the human tide
on the downward trend.
“Again the race consciousness has had another
setback; another who had a great spiritual enlight
enment and understanding, and could have suc
ceeded, has failed, and the race consciousness has
another binding hold upon humanity. Generation
after generation gives it a still greater and tenacious
grip. Is it any wonder that human nature becomes
weak and frail; and each in turn follows on and on,
in the same eternal treadmill, the blind following
the blind, on and on into eternal oblivion; and into
the great vortex, where not only the body is forced
into dissolution and decay, but the soul is ground
between the never-relenting millstones of human
perception and mistakes?
“If you would realize as I did, and as so many
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have done, that it is far easier to work out your own
problem in one earthly experience than it is to go
on and on and accumulate a race consciousness of
good and evil, that soon becomes an encrusted shell;
that has been added to, layer by layer, upon an en
crustation by each succeeding experience, until it
takes superhuman force and sledge-hammer blows,
to break the shell and release your true self.
“Until you do break the shell, and release your
true self, you will continue to be ground in the same
vortex. You can work until you have released your
self sufficiently to get a glimpse of the horizon’s
‘grander view.’ Here again you cease to struggle,
your mental vision is cleared, but your body is still
encased in the shell. Realize, that the newborn
chick, when its head is free from its shell, must still
go on with the struggle. It must be entirely free
from its old shell or environment, before it can
grow into the new, which it has sensed and per
ceived as soon as it had broken a hole through the
shell once encasing the egg from which it grew.
“You fail utterly to see, that I, as a boy working
at the carpenter’s bench with my father, perceived
that there was a higher life for the God-born so-
called human being, than to be born into a human
existence for a short time and during that short
existence, be ground between the millstones of man
made laws, superstitions, and conventions, and thus
struggle on through that existence for perhaps three
score years and ten, then pass on to a heaven and a
glorious reward of harps and psalm singing, that
could have no logical existence except in the gullible
minds of those preyed upon by the priesthood of
my day.
“You fail utterly to see, that after this great
awakening or realization within myself, it took long
days and nights of struggle in seclusion and silence,
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all alone, right within myself and with myself. Then
when the self was conquered, it took the far greater
and more bitter experiences of personal contact
with those I loved dearly, and to whom I wished to
show the light that I had perceived; knowing it was
the light that burns so brightly, lighting the path of
every child of God that is created or that comes
into the world.
“You fail utterly to see the great temptation that
beset me to go on and be the carpenter I might have
been, and thence live the short span of life allotted
to man by hierarchy and orthodoxy; instead of tak
ing up a life which perception had only given me a
glimpse of, thus allowing me to see through the
m urk and mire of superstition, discord, and dis
belief.
“You fail utterly to follow the bodily anguish,
the ignominous insults that were heaped upon me
by my own kin alone, aside from those to whom I
strove to show the light I had perceived. You failed
to see that this took a will stronger than my own,
which sustained me through these trials. How little
you can know of the trials and struggles, tempta
tions, and defeats that beset me. How at times, I
struggled on and on with clenched fists and set
teeth, seeing and knowing that the light was there;
although there seemed to be but one last flickering
ray, and at times it seemed that that last ray had
gone out and a shadow was cast in its place. Even
then, something within me was ever strong and
dominant, that, back of the shadow, the light was
as bright as ever. I went on and cast aside the shad
ow and found the light burning even brighter be-
caus of the temporary dimming. Even when the
shadow proved to be the cross; and I could see be
yond, the final awakening of a triumphant mom
that passed beyond the understanding of mortal
man, still immersed in fear, doubts, and supersti-
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ADDENDUM
The word A ry a means cultured, refined, noble.
A rya va rta was the land wherein the people gave
great heed to race culture.
A rya-bliava was the ancient name for the highest
virtue.
A rya-m arga was the path to noble life.
These precepts had been handed down through
eons of time.
In ancient India, culture was most human in its
outlook, the thought being ‘great men for a great
country’; hence we find a great people, complete
brotherhood, true love and reverence for each hu
man unit, truly humble souls knowing that all are
God. This could in no way become another name
for strife and contention; it must become the domi
nant factor in its essential relationship toward the
building of true world consciousness.
The Aryans dreamed and philosophised; yet their
dreams were most real. They not only dreamed of
God, they knew that God was actually enthroned in
the hearts and lives of all mankind, as the true and
beautiful in every human unit.
Is there an intelligent man that does not have
such a philosophy, a viewpoint or attitude toward
the world? W hat better attitude could there be than
viewing the world through the eyes of the God-
man? Is it not through this attitude that all hu
manity lives richer and more harmonious lives?
The Aryan message is, “Build up your manhood
and womanhood and you build up all humanity.”
By so doing, you avoid the so-called sins against the
body. Through the accomplishment of this ideal,
you realize the supreme opportunity of earth’s pil
grimage and with the right sense of proportion, the
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