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,a° AN aw’) THE CHINTAMANI STONE AND THE CITY OF EIGHT IMMORTALS THE CHINTAMANI STONE AND superstition regarding the monolith, espe- THE CITY OF EIGHT IMMORTALS cially the assertion that if anyone slept in t appears to be a trapezohedron made _ its vicinity they would be haunted by mon- of black stone or ore, with glowing — strous nightmares of another world forever striations. However it is more, or less, _ after. than stone. Scientists would not be In many texts, the Chintamani Stone is able to study it completely because it exists referred to as "the shining trapezohedron". only partially in humanity's concept of mat- A number of esoteric and suppressed vol- ter and space. The Chintamani Stone is umes of the Gnostic tradition mentioned more than an artefact: it is a key to doors _ the original form of the stone as a trapezo- that were sealed aeons ago. hedron. An Arab scholar who went by the Part of the stone was kept in a monastery name of Abdul Al-Hazred wrote of it in his in Tibet, the second in the Museum of 18th-century manuscript, the Kitab Al-Azif. Natural History in New York City, andthe Von Junzt alluded to it in his final piece in the city of Agartha. Unaussprechlichen Kulten, as did the One ancient South American legend Ponape scripture and Prinn's De Vermiis relates that the god Tvira built a temple on Mysteriis. an island in Lake Titicaca to hold three The most recent mention of the stone is holy stones called the Kala. from the 1920s and directly references the Similarly, three black stones were vener- reason why the stones were called "keys". ated by the Muslims in the Ka'aba at the In Buddhist and Taoist beliefs, there is Great Mosque in Mecca. There are several the tradition of "eight immortals": eight traditions associated with the stones, but all | masters who reside beneath a mountain on agree on their celestial origin. Muslims say the Chinese-Tibetan border. The city, that the stones were originally white, but known as Agharta in some legends and Hsi turned black after absorbing dark or evil Wang Mu in others, is possibly under- thoughts. ground and has been said by many to be In Hungary, near the village of near Lhasa. Stregoicavar, there was a monolith that There have been numerous and dubious 19th-century occultists spoke of as being — reports of explorations of tunnels leading to one of the keys. There was a great deal of the city, but the most convincing came from Nicholas Roerich, the Russian artist and mystic (1874-1947). During his trav- els in Asia in the first decade of the 20th century, he heard about the eight immor- tals and their abode in the mountains. He learned from a native guide about a huge Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) (Source: www.roerich.org/NicholasRoerich.html) NEXUS ¢ 67 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com