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vault inside the Kunlun mountain range, where treasures had been stored from the beginning of history, and of strange, grey people. In the 1920s, a high abbot from the Trasilumpo lamasery entrusted Roerich with a fragment of a magical stone from another world: the Chintamani Stone, alleged to have come from the Sirius sys- tem. Ancient Asian texts claim that "when the son of the Sun descended upon the Earth to teach mankind, there fell from the heavens a shield which bore the power of the world". Roerich's wife Helena wrote that the stone possessed a dark lustre, like a dark heart, and bore four unknown letters. Roerich recognised the four letters on the stone to be Sanskrit and translated them to mean: "Through the stars I come. I bring the chalice covered with the shield. Within it I bring a treasure, the gift of Orion." Its radiation was stronger than radium, but on a different frequency. Asian legends state that this radiation covers a vast area and influences world events, and that the main mass of the stone is kept in a tower in the city of the Starborn. According to ancient texts, the stone was sent from Tibet to King Solomon in Jerusalem, who split the stone and made a ring out of one piece. Centuries later, Muhammad took three other fragments to Mecca. A smaller fragment was sent with Roerich to Europe to help aid the establish- ment of the League of Nations. With the failure of the League, Roerich returned the fragment to the Trasilumpo lamasery in Tibet. Supposedly the 13th Dalai Lama decreed that the fragments were to be kept in separate places for safekeeping. Roerich speculated that the stone was a form of moldavite—a magnetic mineral that is also said to be a spiritual accelerator. Some historians said that the stone could act as a homing beacon, leading to the City of the Eight Immortals. The abbot told Roerich how the immor- tals were made of air and clay, formed by Mu Kung, the sovereign of the eastern air, and Wang Mu, the queen of the western air. A post-Taoist twist is that they were from a planet in the solar system of Sirius and established an outpost in the mountains of Tibet to conduct their genetic hybrid experiments. Roerich reported that during his journey to Tibet he saw a flying disc (a term he used two decades before it was popu- larised). His guide had told him it was from the city of Agharta. Roerich's theory about the stone is that it is charged with shugs—currents of psychic force. He speculated that it resembled an electrical accumulator and in one way or another may give back the energy stored within it. For instance, it will increase the spiritual vitality of anyone who touches it, infusing him with knowledge or enhancing psychic abilities that allow him to glimpse Agharta, the Valley of the Eight Immortals. The stone, according to Balam, is a key to all futures and everyone's destiny. It is a point of power, a nontechnological quantum vortex. References ¢ Agharta — Secrets of the Subterranean Cities: www.za.spiritweb.org/Spirit/ agartha.html © Chintamani — Treasure of the World: www.roerichs.org/icmr/Collection/ Paintings/Chintamani.html ¢ Nicholas Roerich: www.roerich.org/ ¢ Searching for Shambhala: www. atlantisrising.com/shambhala.html ¢ Underground Cities: www.crystalinks.com/underciv.html (Source: www.jamesaxler.com/dlwsg/ chintamani_stone.htm) ROERICH'S SEARCH FOR THE SECRETS OF SHAMBHALA uch energy has been spent by adherents to the Hollow Earth theory in trying to locate the polar entrances, specifically the northern one, to the hollow portion of the Earth. Their research material has come from many sources—for example, modern scientific methods of gathering information have been employed, from satellite pictures to seismological surveys. But earlier on, Hollow Earthers looked towards legend and folklore as well as the results of polar exploration as their sources of information. The Bhagavat Purana, for example, con- tains the story of the sons of Maharaj Sagara, who were ordered by their father to search the entire globe for the sacrificial horse which had been stolen by Indra. At one point, it tells us that the sons of Sagara went off in the northeastern direction from India and entered into the interior of the Earth, where they found the horse at the hermitage of Kapila Rishi (they were not nice about it to the rishi). Other Puranas offer a bit more detail. They tell that the Sagaras came upon a northern ocean, which they passed over, and that they then entered into the bowels of the Earth. There are traditional Tibetan Buddhist beliefs regarding the city of Shambhala and the kingdom of Agharta, in which the city is situated. Specifically, some conversations "Chintamani — Treasure of the World" by Nicholas Roerich (Source: www.roerichs.org/icmr/Collection/Paintings/Chintamani.html) 68 ¢ NEXUS WWW.NeXU smagazi ne.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2002