Baird spalding biography

Baird Thomas Spalding (1872–1953) was an American spiritual writer, author of the spiritual book series: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.
As for Baird Spalding, already 70 years old when his second volume came out in 1927, not very much is known.
Baird Thomas Spalding was an American spiritual writer, author of the spiritual book series: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.

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As so often happens in the fortunes of successful publishers, there was the eventual crossing of paths of "the" author and "the" publisher. DeVorss was the publisher; the author was Baird T. Spalding, who a few years before DeVorss' arrival in LA had arranged for a small, paperback printing of his two volumes entitled Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East - "a breakthrough in Western spirituality," according to a recent New Age newspaper account; "a landmark work in spiritual literature."

These words typify the praise that has been heaped upon the Life and Teaching books for three-quarters of a century. Doug DeVorss was quick to see in the slender volumes these same merits and the New Age in all its fullness: spiritual values and healing techniques transcending time, space, theology, and medicine - set against the exotic backdrop of an expedition to India in 1894 by Spalding, one of the most brilliant yet enigmatic seers of recent times.

Here was also a New Age publishing phenomenon of the kind we have become familiar with: starting from a private printing and word-of

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Baird T. Spalding

American spiritual writer

Baird T Spalding
Baird T. Spalding in 1935
Born	(1872-10-03)October 3, 1872 Cohocton, New York, United States
Died	March 18, 1953(1953-03-18) (aged 80) Tempe, Arizona, US
Occupation	Writer, miner
Genre	Religion

Baird Thomas Spalding (1872–1953) was an American spiritual writer, author of the spiritual book series: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.

Biography

Although Spalding's books claimed he was born in England in 1857, Spalding was also reported born in North Cohocton, New York in 1872.^[1] He spent much of his life as a mining engineer in the American West. Research on his life and the purported eleven person research expeditions to the Far East beginning in 1894 to study the "Masters" has turned up evidence and pictures that are included in later volumes of his book. Spalding visited the Far East first in the late 1800s and then again in the 1920s and then again in the 1935 trip to India at the bequest of his publisher, Devorss & Company.^[2]

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Baird Thomas Spalding (1872–1953) was an American spiritual writer and author of the spiritual book series: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East. Although Spalding's books claimed he was born in England in 1857, Spalding was also reported born in North Cohocton, New York, in 1872.

He spent much of his life as a mining engineer in the American West. Research on his life and the purported eleven-person research expeditions to the Far East beginning in 1894 to study the "Masters" has turned up evidence and pictures that are included in later volumes of his book. Spalding first visited the Far East in the late 1800s, then again in the 1920s, and then again in the 1935 trip to India at the bequest of his publisher, Devorss & Company.

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 birth date is "1872-1873" in the 1880 US census. However, that could mean that was the time he first came to th