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Comment on The Baird T Spalding FAQ by todd

todd — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:03:04 +0000

Tony, that’s interesting speculation but it’s not true. Spalding did not spend decades in the Himalayas. His sole trip to India in 1935 was only a few weeks, and he spent most of it in the cities. The time camera is simply another Spalding tall tale he concocted for his books.

Comment on Translations added to the Baird T Spalding blog by todd

todd — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:59 +0000

It appears Google no longer offers free translations so the translate function no longer works. I’ve removed it for now.

Comment on The many names of Baird T Spalding – Part 2 by B+

B+ — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:00:23 +0000

In fictional books, there are always elements of veracity, or coincidences, even for unknown locations, that maintain some doubt in the mind of readers. (Provided that the very author was informed somewhere…).
Two examples: 1) Tablets 2) Potal and Asmah.
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From one book of Spalding, namely
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 2
Copyright © 1927, 1937, 1944 by Baird T. Spalding, Copyright renewed, 1972,
we find
” These tablets were of reddish dark-brow color, quite well glazed. Some were about
14 x 24 inches and about two inches thick and weighted from ten to twelve pounds each.
Others were much larger…” see page 23 – Vol. 2 [Chapter II].
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From data given about the woodblock tablets of Tripitaka Koreana (more than 80000), where some original engraved tablets were stored since 1098 in the buddhist temple of Haeinsa (South Korea), we can take a look at the format of some of them containing miscellaneous sacred scriptures.
Range of dimensions: between 7×14 inches and 24×38 inches, thickness 1.5 inches, weight around 8 pounds. Each woodblock is lacquered on both sides. As said, the diversity of sizes depended on different kinds of tablets used through centuries.
Many printing and diffusions were disseminated widely in the Far East (and could have been seen by some world travelers).
If we leave aside that these tablets are written in Chinese characters, the fact remains that they were mainly translated from Tibetan or Indian languages.
Note also that the amazing process of their conservation and the format, particularly adapted, could have been discovered by other civilizations many thousands of years ago.
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For a long time we wondered if the place names such as Potal and Asmah (with exactly the same spelling as that used by Spalding) had actually existed somewhere in the world, even if it was not in India’s northwest (West Pakistan), as one might suspect.
Surprisingly we have found an answer, but in East Pakistan !
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First remember the text of Spalding,
Ref.: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 1 Copyright © 1924, 1937 by Baird T. Spalding, Revised Edition Copyright renewed, 1964, see p. 15, Chapter II, and p. 19, Chapter III.
” … our little party assembled at Potal, a small village in the remote part of India…. ”
” We left this village for Asmah, a smaller one, about ninety miles distant.”
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From “A gazetteer of the territories under the government of the East-India company and of the native states on the continent of India, by E. Thornton” (East India Company, Edward Parry Thornton – 1870), we can find:

POTAL.-A town in the British district of Mymunsing, lieut.-gov. of Bengal, 44 miles S.W. by west of Nusserabad (Nasirabad ?). Lat. 24° 21’, long. 89° 50’.
ASMAH, in the British district of Mymunsing, lieut.-gov. of Bengal, a town 52 miles E. from Jumalpoor, 61 miles W. of Silhet. Lat. 24° 53’, long. 90° 53’.
About seventy miles distant (this remains approximate, taken into account the approximations done about Long./Lat. themselves) . These two places (clearly not villages however) were located at the present site of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and their names have been certainly known to J. Churchward who traveled extensively in India.
Our reflections are just a few ideas, not evidence. Le 28 janvier 2012.

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Comment on The Baird T Spalding FAQ by Tony

Tony — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:00:18 +0000

Spalding and his entourage stayed in the Himalayas area for a couple of decades and wrote a series of books on the subject of Jesus {Immanuel} and claims he lived there for many years before dying at a very old age {117}. His research encouraged Hitler to send teams of explorers to the area in the 1930s. Spalding reported on time travel technology and magical events associated with the appearances of a ‘Christ-like being’.

Comment on Hanh Trinh Ve Phuong Dong – A Vietnamese prelude to Spalding’s Life and Teachings? by Kayleigh

Kayleigh — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:42:10 +0000

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Comment on Frequently asked questions by Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:26:25 +0000

How does one go about being introduced to their guru, Sita Paloma?

Comment on Frequently asked questions by Sita Paloma

Sita Paloma — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:45:35 +0000

Hi, I have just begun reading the first book. Naturally I believed it true as it was given to me as real. Then began to question it as the stories unfolded. I asked and again was told it was real. I love the book, but still questioned it.

Being now in the “new age” some 18 years, I just loved it and thought it great and just what I need now. I was a non god believer for 27 years before. I came to believe because strange things began to happen to me. Very strange. Finally I was introduced to my guru Sai Baba, and really freaked out. Then he gave me personal miracles and I broke down more. Ratherthan loose my mind I asked for help and help came.

I did not care to travel to India to meet him as I was having plenty to work with. I was led on a path to become a reader and learned how to read eyes. Finally I need to look up this Spalding person, no matter what I was told. I found a picture of Spalding and saw he never witnessed a true miacle. That is what led me to research the web more and found this site.

The fact is he was led to write this book and has changed lives, as should be. Miracles do happen. I finally have witnessed real one. Believe me, your eyes change, big time. Do not give up. His book is worth believing. In a way it is all true. I am only on page 72 of the first book. I has taken me a month to read that far as I needed to digest the truth of it. I will read all the volumes, I believe because I know it will teach me great truth. And I am enjoying it, fiction and all.

Comment on An interview with Poven Leace, English translator of Hanh Trinh Ve Phuong Dong by todd

todd — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:18:42 +0000

Thanks for the comment Antelope. The reason for Volumes 4 and 5 being different to the others is that they were published posthumously from a collection of group study guides Spalding had published in DeVorss inhouse magazine before his death. That is why there is a section titled ‘For the teacher’.

There are numerous hints in HTVPD that it is fiction, not the least of which the biographies of people like Evans-Wentz and other in HTVPD do not mention on Spalding or the supposed India tour. At least one of the people mentioned in HTVPD, Paul Brunton, never met Spalding until the 1930′s, which is clearly stated in Brunton’s published notebooks. And HTVPD opens with a reference to a Time magazine cover from the 1960′s, which is fairly unlikely for a book allegedly written in 1924 by an author who died in 1953. As you said, I believe HTVPD was simply cashing in on the Spalding name. The author of HTVPD had written several other similar unofficial sequels, prequels and translations, and no information to the contrary has turned up despite extensive searches and the input of many readers of the blog.

Comment on Frequently asked questions by todd

todd — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:04:06 +0000

The author of Unveiled Mysteries (Godfrey Ray King, aka Guy Ballard) and Spalding were associates, and spent some time together. There are a lot of common elements in their writing, as well as their interests in topics like gold mining. Ballard became very wealthy in the 1930′s due to his creation of the I AM movement. He died in 1939, just before the famous fraud case United States v Ballard, which went all the way to the Supreme Court (see http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=322&invol=78)