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prophetic abilities. In one letter to Sinnett in 1881, the author, the venerable Mahatma Morya, an eastern initiate of Rajput birth, describes the imposing secret entrance into the Valley of the Immortals: At a certain spot not to be mentioned to outsiders, there is a chasm spanned by a frail bridge of woven grasses and with a raging torrent beneath. The bravest member of your Alpine clubs would scarcely dare to venture the passage, for it hangs like a spider's web and seems to be rotten and impassable. Yet it is not; and he who dares the trail and succeeds...as he will if it is right that he should be permitted...comes into a gorge of surpassing beauty of scenery, to one of our places and to some of our people, of which and whom there is no note or minute among European geographers. Ata stone's throw from the old lamasery stands the old Tower within whose bosom have gestated generations of Bodhisattvas "The Dal [compassionate persons whose . essence is perfect knowledge]. explain (Passport to Shambhala, published phenom by the West Siberia Geographical ° Society, 1923, Letter 18, p. 31, saying t English translation by Professor party was Vladimir Andrei Vasiliu, 1933 {includes a complete collection of part C The Mahatma Letters to A. P. —_ forbidder prophetic abilities. In one letter to Sinnett in 1881, the | Roerich Museum Press, New York, 1930; also Andrew author, the venerable Mahatma Morya, an eastern Tomas, Shambhala, op. cit., p. 54). initiate of Rajput birth, describes the imposing secret The Russian explorer N. M. Prjevalsky and the German entrance into the Valley of the Immortals: linguist and historian A. H. Francke record in their books At a certain spot not to be mentioned to outsiders, there is a the strange behaviour of natives who could not be chasm spanned by a frail bridge of woven grasses and with a forced under any condition to enter certain districts in raging torrent beneath. The bravest member of your Alpine northern Tibet (N. M. Prjevalsky, Mongolia, op cit., p. 101; clubs would scarcely dare to venture the passage, for it hangs A. H. Francke, A History of Western Tibet, Partridge and Co., like a spider's web and seems to be rotten and impassable. Yet London, 1907). A Russian member of one of Roerich's it is not; and he who dares the trail and succeeds...as he will if expeditions personally told Andrew Tomas that their it is right that he should be permitted...comes into a gorge of group had the same experience in the depths of Asia, surpassing beauty of scenery, to one of our places and to some where, for no apparent reason, assistants in the of our people, of which and whom there is expedition refused to proceed further no note or minute among European at one spot in northern Tibet. The geographers. Ata stone's throw from Russian himself admitted that he the old lamasery stands the old Tower could not understand why he did not within whose bosom have gestated " . feel like riding any further, saying that generations of Bodhisattvas The Dalai Lama it was "weird and inexplicable", a [compassionate persons whose : feeling that he did not wish to essence is perfect knowledge]. explained the experience again (Andrew Tomas, (Passport to Shambhala, published phenomenon by Shambhala, op. cit., p. 58). by the West Siberia Geographical 9 Society, 1923, Letter 18, p. 31, saying that the Mysterious Mountain People English translation by P! i In Turfan, Sinki t hi "Madimir Andrei Vasiliy, 1933 | PAFEY WAS CrOSsINg | ch expedition members listened {includes a complete collection of part of the to an intriguing story of a tall, dark- The Mahatma atest ny forbidden zone of haired woman wearing an earnest inne expression on her face who Shambhala whose regularly came out of the deep _Tiegucles lores ons MI psychic vibration MM G2 10 hon rect be can pass certain areas without a was too high for among the populace throughout permit: Mahatma Morya added the travellers " the entire Asiatic region. "Riders vanishing with torches into subterranean passages were also mentioned" (Andrew Tomas, Shambhala, op. cit., p. 59), as were eyewitness reports of brightly clad, crowned lamas (supposedly from Shambhala) seen seated in to the intrigue: You have already heard from reliable travellers how guides refuse to lead them in certain directions. They would rather let themselves be killed than lead you forward. So, if a reckless traveller nevertheless goes forward, a mountain landslide begins to rumble before him. If palanquins, each carried by four men. the traveller surmounts this obstacle, then a shower of stones Roerich indicates that tall, slim, white-skinned people will carry him away, for the unwelcome one shall not attain his had been seen disappearing into rock galleries upon the destination. approach of strangers. Later, when his expedition was (op. cit., Letter 18, p. 32 crossing the Karakoram Pass, Roerich relates that he was informed by a native guide that tall, white-clad men People and animals are known to have unnaturally | and women had been seen on occasions appearing from trembled on approaching certain localities in that area, secret entrances in that area, and sometimes travellers as if bombarded by invisible rays. An unnamed 19th- — were helped by these mysterious mountain people. In century Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, "...at the early 1900s, the Statesman newspaper in India one stage travelled the long journey from Lhasa to _ published a story about a British major who had seen a Mongolia and at one place on the route people and tall, lightly clad man with long hair leaning on a high animals in his caravan began to quiver for no apparent bow and scanning the valley. reason. The Dalai Lama explained the phenomena by Noticing the major, the man jumped down a vertical saying that the party was crossing part of the forbidden slope and disappeared. The natives calmly said to zone of Shambhala whose psychic vibration was too __Roerich, "He had seen one of the snowmen who guard high for the travellers" (N. K. Roerich, Heart of Asia, the sacred land" (N. K. Roerich, Heart of Asia, op. cit.). ‘saying that the party was crossing part of the forbidden zone of Sinnett]) was too high for the travellers..." " People and animals are known to have unnaturally trembled on approaching certain localities in that area, as if bombarded by invisible rays. An unnamed 19th- century Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, "...at one stage travelled the long journey from Lhasa to Mongolia and at one place on the route people and animals in his caravan began to quiver for no apparent reason. The Dalai Lama explained the phenomena by saying that the party was crossing part of the forbidden zone of Shambhala whose psychic vibration was too high for the travellers" (N. K. Roerich, Heart of Asia, NEXUS ¢ 57 "The Dalai Lama explained the phenomenon by Shambhala whose psychic vibration (op. cit., Letter 18, p. 32) AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com