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Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far EastBy Baird T. SpaldingVolume III FORWARD:Dear Reader, you are not only a reader but a friend whom I have met face to faceand conversed with, just as you have met and conversed with each of the charactersin this book. I am certain they surround you with the full glory of the Divine Lightof Life, Love, and Wisdom; and by surrounding you thus, they aid you in your understanding.They enfold you in the ever-present Divine Light of Life, Love and Wisdom,which is theirs to send out and to give. They see you always enfolded in thisOmnipresent Divine Presence. They see you seated on your own throne as a trueking or queen, ruling through and by this divine Presence. They envisage youknowing and accomplishing your Divine Mission, always alive, always peacefuland happy, always the Divine You. They see not only you but the whole humanfamily, divine and pure, and every created thing or form as divine, created in theimage and likeness of the divine; not one nor one sect nor one creed but all and thatall inclusive. None can appreciate these great people save those who have been admitted to thequiet of their sacred places and thoughts. They LIVE Truth, which is a part of theUniverse itself. Life is really traceable back into the misty past, which bears to usthe accomplishments of hundreds of thousands of past centuries. To us, life is bound about by every limitation and convention. To them, life is boundless,ceaseless, unending bliss and happiness; the longer the span of life, the greater the joy and the more worthwhile the living. None that understand and love these people can doubt their teachings; neither canhe doubt their true sincerity when he has partaken of their hospitality.The western world looks to the outer, thereby touching the hem of the garment.The eastern puts on the robe but not as a garment that may be laid aside.
 
The West polish the vessel of the lamp. The East fan the flame that it may giveforth a more intense light.The West look to the outer with longing eyes, back of which is the glow of spiritualvision, the seeking of true knowledge. The East know that flesh must be illumined by the light of the flame that is first kindled from within, then allowed to shineforth to the without as the full blaze of the noonday sun.The West name themselves material. The East live truly in the allness of spirit.They behold each and every one living by compelling, impelling, sustaining Spirit —it matters not what the location, be it in the great snows of Alti Himalaya, the busy modern city, or the most secluded monastery.That which to the western world seems miraculous and unbelievable is to the poised Hindu thought, the natural outcome of the acceptance and the bringing forthof Spirit, that which is set forth as God in manifest form. They that are fully aliveknow full well that there is far more than that which comes under their personalrecognizance; in fact, there is much more than ever has been dreamed of in any philosophy.Therefore, there are no apologies offered for this book or for those which have preceded it.When you look longingly with a clear vision toward an accomplishment, it is your divine heritage to command that you place yourself in such a receptive attitude thatthe ability is already yours to bring forth your ideal.God speaks through the God-man today just as God has spoken down the longages. The knowledge which the people in this book convey is by no means new,although the presentation brings a new light to the western world.The main object of their lives is to give knowledge and enlightenment to humanitythrough pure knowledge, aflame with love. Their great mission is to pave the waytoward peace and harmony through man’s great power to accomplish. They are thegreatest friends of true science, religion, and philosophy; and they proclaim theseas well as all men, brothers, as Truth is one. Thus science becomes the goldenthread upon which the pearls are strung.The day is here in which a large portion of humanity has already outgrown the oldconcept of Divinity. They have lost their faith in teachings based upon faith alone;they have learned that to be good in order to gain a heavenly reward after death is afallacy, a very low ideal—this idea of being good for the reward’s sake and thespecial privilege of playing harps and singing psalms forever. They have realizedthat this is an expression of self-interest only and completely foreign to theteachings of the Christ of God, the God-man fully alive.
 
The idea of death is foreign to—in fact, it is a direct contradiction of—the divine purpose and is not in accord with the law of the Cosmos or its vibrant radiations. Neither is it in accord with the teachings of Jesus.The church and the graveyard are often in the same field. This alone is a directacknowledgment that Christian teachings have not been even comprehended. TheChrist-man has spoken and the listening ear has heard, “If a man believes in me, heshall never die.” The God-man knows that the one who is in sin or lives withsinful vibrations surrounding him dies, and unto him “the wages of sin is death”; but the gift of God to the God-man in the kingdom of God here on earth, thehuman body perfect in the flesh, when man lives true to the God vibration andwholly in that vibratory thought.The people in this book have taken God out of the realm of the supernatural and of superstition and have placed Him wholly in vibratory frequency, knowing that asthey keep their bodies in the divine vibration, they never grow old and never die.When the vibrations of their bodies are lowered or allowed to slow down, deathensues. In fact, these people know that when the mistake of death is accomplished,the body is vibrating at such a low rate that the emanating life-vibrations areactually crowded out of the body temple and that those vibrating life-emanationsstill hold together and maintain the same form which the body had when they werecrowded out. Those emanations have intelligence and still revolve around a centralnucleus or sun which attracts and holds them together. These emanating particlesare surrounded by an intelligent emanation that assists them to keep their form andfrom which they again draw substance to erect another temple. This is in directaccord and works in complete harmony with the intelligence that has been builtaround the body during their life cycle. If that intelligence vibrates at a lowfrequency or, in other words, is weak, it loses contact with the emanations of lifeand energy that have been forced out of the body (or form of clay after the life-emanations have left it) and the emanations finally disperse and return to thesource, then complete death is accomplished; but, if the intelligence is strong,vibrant, and active, it takes full charge immediately and a new body is instantlyassembled. A resurrection has taken place; and through that resurrection man is perfected in the flesh. Not all can hear or accept such a revelation. “He that hathears to hear, let him hear.” [Mark 4:9.] He whose understanding is developedsufficiently, is able to comprehend.Thus, large portions of humanity are developing a science through which they areagain discovering that God has always lived in man and with humanity; yet theyfor a time have not known God, they have only lost sight of the God-man.
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