Mongolia | Roerichs | Orion

Bardarchin and Gazarchin Glenn Mullin has just penned an article about the Nicholas Roerich Museum and Buddhist Art Institute here in Ulaan Baatar. While we are on the subject of the Roerichs, you might want to gaze up at the early evening sky to the southeast where Orion is currently putting on quite a show. Helena Roerich, Nicholas Roerich’s better half, wrote:

The wide-spread popularity of cults [in Inner Asia] surrounding Orion and other constellations is amazing . . . The constellation of Orion contains the signs of the Three Magi, and in the ancient teachings it was as important as Atlas, who supported the weight of the world. Thus we see that Orion has unceasingly attracted the eye of man. Now the astronomy journals are telling of inexplicable pink rays suddenly flashing from Orion. Verily, it is the Star of the East. And only here in the East does one feel the vital sense and the scientific importance of astrology and astro-chemistry. The observatories in Jaipur and and in Delhi overwhelmed me with their knowledge, and much remarkable information could undoubtedly be found in the old observatories.

While the Roerichs were making their great three-year-long circumnavigation, or khora, of Inner Asia, including a stretch from Amarbuyant Khiid to Shar Khuils Oasis here in Mongolia, Helena Roerich reportedly carried in a locket a piece of the Chintamani Stone which according to occult legend had originally come to Earth by some unknown means from the constellation of Orion. The current location of the Chintamani Stone is unknown.

“The Treasure of the World — Chintamani” by Nicholas Roerich