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Himalayan foothills have concealed entrances leading | remember when such money was in usage here" (Sergy to subterranean passages and chambers deep below the __C. Tatyana, Crimson Snow-heaps in the Himalayas, op. cit., p. surface, where mysterious artefacts and exotic treasures 231). Author Andrew Tomas was of the opinion that "all have been stored from the beginning of world history. hese secret places are connected with the mystery of Roerich was also told of a secret underground Shambhala" (A. Tomas, Shambhala: Oasis of Light, Sphere storehouse on the Karakoram Pass in the Himalayas a Books, London, 1977, p. 53). an elevation of 19,500 feet (5,944 metres). His chie Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), the guide advised him that great treasures were preserved Russian-born traveller and mystic who founded the under the snowy ridge, and he remarked that even the Theosophical Society in 1875, alluded to the existence lowly ones among the populace know of vast caverns — of Shambhala, giving it currency for western enthusiasts that hold ancient artefacts. He enquired whether _ of the occult. She claimed that sages of the East are in Roerich was aware of books in the outer world tha a position to release to the world ancient documents record the location of these subterranean vaults. The hat will upset the opinions of historians. She saw a wise old courier had spent years in the mountains and number of secret repositories in northern India, and he questioned Roerich as to why foreigners, who claim wrote that initiated yogis know of a vast network of to know so much, could not find the underground libraries that expands obvious entrances to underground out from cave temples right across palaces on the Karakoram Pass. northern Tibet. During his 12 years in northern Tibet She saw a Vatican archives preserve rare reports in the mid-1800s, Chinese explorer Jia number of secret from early-19th-century missionaries Chun-Pingwa spoke with Buddhist 9 Cava 9 which record that, in times of crisis, monks who claimed that in a secluded repositories In leaders of various countries sent part of the Altyn Tagh Ridge there northern India, deputations into the Himalayas to seek exists a vast network of underground advice from the "Genii in the galleries and museums housing a and wrote that Mountains" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci collection of several million initiated yogis Edition, vol. ii, p. 299). However, these breathtaking artefacts, protected by k f documents do not reveal where the ever-watchful caretakers. In his now OF a vast representatives went. memoir, Jia wrote about a network of An undated manuscript written by subterranean museum that holds Monseigneur Delaplace around miscellaneous objets d'art depicting underground 20 years ago supports the belief he evolution of mankind on this libraries that of sages of Central Asia that planet over the course of people with special knowledge housands of years (Jia Chun- expands out from ive in inaccessible and exclusive Pingwa, The Land of No Grass and No parts of the Himalayas (Annales de Water, The Great Liberation SEM temples la Propagation de la Foi, translation Publishing House, Lhasa, Tibet, right across by Pierre L. Josselin, 1929; extrac 917; extracts translated for Tony northern Tibet. cited in A. Tomas, Shambhala, op. Bushby by Wendy Shin Liu, iangwan Town, Shanghai, China, 2009). He described the entrance han foresaw the opening o o this particular series of certain hidden halls of records a chambers as being to the left of a a time "when steel ships fly in the deep gorge containing a small cluster of unimpressive sky", and Madame Blavatsky opined that some hidden ouses that mark the site of what may be the world's — manuscripts would be subtly and intentionally released cit., p. 28). The Tibetan epic of Ghessar greatest museum. in "a spiritually richer future" (The Theosophist, July 1912). Jia was not the only one to have described this Great is the Tibetan belief in an illumined collection. "It is secure from intrusion, and nothing will | subterranean people, who on occasion have been seen disturb its age-old collected works ... the entrances are __ with torches in the dark. Roerich told of "a man of grea concealed, and vaults with manuscripts and artefacts lie | appearance who arrived in Tibet from Siberia with his deep within the bowels of the earth" (Fundamental caravaneers and proudly stated, 'I shall prove to you Promises, a Chinese Buddhist manuscript c. 1820, author _ that the tale about the subterranean people is not a unknown, translation by Ti-tzang, 1911, pp. 79-81, passim; | fantasy. I shall lead you to the entrances of their original housed in the Library of Tibetan Works and _ subterranean kingdoms" (N. K. Roerich, Flame in Chalice, Archives, Dharamsala, India). "A local resident said that | Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, 1929). Whether or at our bazaar, the people of this area come out with not he did is not recorded in Roerich's books. strange, very ancient money, and nobody could even Through all of Asia, through all the deserts, and from She saw a repositories in northern India, initiated yogis know of a vast network of underground libraries that right across northern Tibet. greatest museum. Jia was not the only one to have described this collection. "It is secure from intrusion, and nothing will disturb its age-old collected works ... the entrances are concealed, and vaults with manuscripts and artefacts lie deep within the bowels of the earth" (Fundamental Promises, a Chinese Buddhist manuscript c. 1820, author unknown, translation by Ti-tzang, 1911, pp. 79-81, passim; original housed in the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India). "A local resident said that at our bazaar, the people of this area come out with strange, very ancient money, and nobody could even NEXUS ¢ 51 number of secret and wrote that expands out from cave temples OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com