Agni Yoga

Agni Yoga
Founders Helena Roerich and Nicholas Roerich
Practice emphases
Conscious striving in one's daily life
Related schools
Theosophy (Blavatskian)
Roerichs Banner of Peace sign.

Agni Yoga (Russian: Агни Йога) or the Living Ethics (Russian: Жива́я Этика), or the Teaching of Life (Russian: Учение Жизни) is a one of the neo-theosophical religious doctrine transmitted by the Helena and Nicholas Roerichs from 1920. The followers of Agni Yoga believe that the teaching was given to the Roerich family and their associates by Master Morya, the guru of Roerichs and Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of the modern theosophical movement and the Theosophical Society.

Agni Yoga is a path of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind. According to Helena Roerich, Agni Yoga is the synthesis of all yogas. In all the ancient Hindu scriptures, the approaching Fiery Age was predicted. Agni-Fire, which to a varying degree is at the heart of all the yogas, will extremely sate the atmosphere of our planet, and all the branches of Yoga will be merged into a fiery synthesis. Agni Yoga is a fire baptism.

The most significant features of Agni Yoga are cosmism and universalism. They are expressed in the interpretation of any phenomena of human existence from the point of view of their cosmic significance and interrelation with the being of the Universe.

Agni Yoga played a significant role in bringing knowledge of Asian religions to Western world. Living Ethics has an international following and has thousands of adherents. The ideas of Teaching of Life have exerted an influence on another esoteric movements and philosophies, among them the New Age and Transhumanism.

Birth of the new religion

Two women had a strong influence on the creation of the religious doctrine of Agni yoga, Helena Roerich (left) and Helena Blavatsky.

Etymology and concept

Agni (Sanskrit: अग्नि) is the Vedic and Living Ethics God of Fire, one marks immortality and the symbol of life. Agni is one of the supreme gods in the Rigveda. In Agni Yoga it is the Creative Fire of the Universe, the root of the "Fire of Space"; and "psychic energy", the powers of the human mind and heart, particularly those manifesting in love, thought, and creativity.[1]

Yoga (Sanskrit: योग;  pronunciation) is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Yoga is a group of spiritual, mental, and physical practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.[2]

Aum or Oṃ (Devanagari: ॐ),  listen , is a sacred sound and a spiritual symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. This word has three phonemes: a, u, and m, though it is often described as trisyllabic despite this being either archaic or the result of translation.[3][4] That signifies the essence of the ultimate reality, consciousness or Atman.[5] The twelfth book of the Scriptures of Agni Yoga is called AUM.[6]

Agni Yoga is a synthesis of all Yogas. In all the ancient Hindu scriptures the approaching Fiery Epoch has been predicted. It is said that Agni—the Fire that is found in varying degrees at the foundation of all Yogas will saturate the atmosphere of our planet tremendously, and all the branches of Yoga will be fused into a fiery synthesis. Verily, Agni Yoga is a fiery baptism

 —Helena Roerich[7]

Ur or Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति "limitless"),[8] in the Vedas and Living Ethics is the Mother of the gods and all twelve zodiacal spirits from whose cosmic matrix the heavenly bodies were born. As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space and with mystic speech. She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda: the verse "Daksha sprang from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha" is seen by Theosophists as a reference to "the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine Essence" and divine wisdom.[9] "Ur is the root of the Light of Fire", it is stated in the holy writ of Agni Yoga.[10]

Shambhala (Sanskrit: शम्भलः, Tibetan: བདེ་འབྱུང ;) is a birthplace of Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu, who will usher in a New Age — Satya Yuga. Shambhala is ruled over by Maitreya.[11] The Kalacakra Tantra prophesies that when all is lost, Kalki will emerge from Shambhala to vanquish "Dark Forces" and usher in a worldwide Golden Age. Shambhala is also called Shangri-la.[12]

Master Morya by Hermann Schmiechen, 1884.[13]

Morya is one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom within modern Theosophical beliefs.[14] He is one of the Mahatmas who inspired the founding of the Theosophy and Agni Yoga. He has written and dictated the letters with the goal of elevating mankind and bringing in a New Age.[15]

Tara Urusvati (The Light of the Morning Star) is the spiritual name of Helena Roerich (1879 – 1955) in Agni Yoga and Rerikhism.[16] She was a teacher and healer as well as the inspired co-author of the Agni Yoga series, the first English books about Living Ethics and the Roerichs' relationship with their Guru.[17] Each of the 935 paragraphs of the book "Supermundane" begins with the word "Urusvati".[18] In the epilogue of the book "Agni Yoga" she was called the Mother of Agni Yoga.[19]

Fuyama is the spiritual name of Nicholas Roerich (1874 – 1947) in Agni Yoga and Rerikhism. He was an internationally acclaimed artist, conservationist, archeologist, humanitarian and peacemaker.[20] Nicolas Roerich called Urusvati “She Who Leads” in his creations.[21]

Spiritual evolution is the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings and human culture evolve: either extending from an established cosmological pattern (ascent), or in accordance with certain pre-established potentials. The phrase "spiritual evolution" can occur in the context of higher evolution, a term used to differentiate psychological, mental, or spiritual evolution from the lower evolution or biological evolution of physical form.[22] The concept of spiritual evolution is also complemented by the idea of a creative impulse in human beings, known as epigenesis.[23]

Agni Yoga, in general, is a neo-theosophical religious doctrine[24] transmitted by the Helena and Nicholas Roerichs from 1920. The followers of Living Ethics believe that the teaching was given to the Roerichs' family[25] and their associates by Master Morya, the guru of Roerichs and Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of the modern theosophical movement and the Theosophical Society.[26] Teaching of Life is a path of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind.[27] The most significant features of Agni Yoga are cosmism and universalism. They are expressed in the interpretation of any phenomena of human existence from the point of view of their cosmic significance and interrelation with the being of the Universe.[28]

Precursors of Agni Yoga

The Voice of the Silence presented by Helena Blavatsky to Leo Tolstoy (Yasnaya Polyana, a writer's home).

Theosophy

The Theosophical Society was officially formed in New York City on 17 November 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and others. It was self-described as "an unsectarian body of seekers after Truth, who endeavour to promote Brotherhood and strive to serve humanity." After a few years Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India and established the International Headquarters at Adyar, in Madras.[29]

Madame Blavatsky, the greatest occultist in the history of Western civilization, insisted that Theosophy is not a religion, although did refer to it as the modern transmission of the "once universal religion" that she claimed had existed deep into the human past. Theosophical organisations, regard it as a system that embraces what they see as the "essential truth" underlying religion, philosophy, and science. Theosophical groups allow their members to hold other religious allegiances, resulting in Theosophists who also identify as Christians, Buddhists, or Hindus.[30]

The term Neo-Theosophy was coined by Ferdinand T. Brooks around 1912. This term used by the followers of Helena Blavatsky to denominate the system of theosophical ideas expounded following the death of Blavatsky in 1891. This material differed in major respects from Blavatsky's original presentation, but it is accepted as genuinely theosophical by many theosophists around the world.[31] Daryl S. Paulson associates "Neo-Theosophy" with Alice Bailey.[32] She introduced the term New Age – Age of Aquarius.[33]

Other neo-theosophists include Rudolf Steiner's contemporary Peter Deunov and Samael Aun Weor. Dion Fortune and Aleister Crowley were also influencers of the leading edge of the theosophical movement. Some examples of neo-theosophists today include Benjamin Creme and Victor Skumin. So, in 1990, Skumin, based on the theosophical concept of spiritual evolution, proposed a classification of Homo spiritalis (Latin: Spiritual man), the sixth root race, consisting of eight sub-races (subspecies): HS-0 Anabiosis spiritalis, HS-1 Scientella spiritalis, HS-2 Aurora spiritalis, HS-3 Ascensus spiritalis, HS-4 Vocatus spiritalis, HS-5 Illuminatio spiritalis, НS-6 Creatio spiritalis, and HS-7 Servitus spiritalis.[34]

Russian philosophy and Russian Cosmism

Vladimir Solovyov by Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1892
Nikolai Fyodorov by Leonid Pasternak

Russian philosophy as a separate entity started its development in the 19th century, defined initially by the opposition of Westernizers, advocating Russia's following the Western political and economical models, and Slavophiles, insisting on developing Russia as a unique civilization. The latter group included Nikolai Danilevsky and Konstantin Leontiev, the early founders of eurasianism. Slavophilia was an intellectual movement originating from 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed upon values and institutions derived from its early history. There were also similar movements in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Serbia. Depending on the historical context, its opposite could be termed Slavophobia, a fear of Slavic culture.[35]

The discussion of Russia's place in the world has since become the most characteristic feature of Russian philosophy. Notable philosophers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries include Vladimir Solovyev, Vasily Rozanov, Lev Shestov, Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Pitirim Sorokin.In its further development, Russian philosophy was also marked by deep connection to literature and interest in creativity, society, religion, and Russian cosmism.[36]

Vladimir Solovyov described his encounters with the entity Sophia in his works, such as Three Encounters and Lectures on Godmanhood. His fusion was driven by the desire to reconcile or unite with Orthodox Christianity the various traditions by the Russian Slavophiles' concept of sobornost. His Russian religious philosophy had a very strong impact on the Russian Symbolist art movements of his time. His teachings on Sophia, conceived as the merciful unifying feminine wisdom of God comparable to the Hebrew Shekinah or various goddess traditions, have been deemed a heresy by Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and as unsound and unorthodox by the Patriarchate of Moscow.[37]

The cover of the book "The Will of the Universe. Unknown reasonable forces" by Tsiolkovsky, 1928

Nikolai Fyodorov was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism. Fedorov argued that humanity is the culmination of evolution, as well as its creator and director. Humans must therefore direct evolution where their reason and morality dictate. Fedorov stated that the struggle against death can become the most natural cause uniting all people, regardless of their nationality, race, citizenship or wealth. He called this the Common Cause. Fedorov thought that death and afterdeath existence should become the subject of comprehensive scientific inquiry, that achieving immortality and revival is the greatest goal of science.[38]

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, largely driven by the fiction writers such as Jules Verne and Herbert Wells as well as philosophical movements like Russian cosmism. In 1903, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published the first serious scientific work on space travel. His work was essentially unknown outside the Russia, but inside the country it inspired further research, experimentation and the formation of the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel.[39]

The ideas of the Russian philosophers and cosmists later were developed by those in the transhumanist movement and Rerikhism.[40][41] For example, the Russian scientist Victor Skumin argues that the Culture of Health will play an important role in the creation of a human spiritual society into the Solar System.[42]

Historical development

Information about Vedanta and Buddhism spread in Western countries in the first decade of the 20th century. In the United States of the 1920s, when the voises in religion were arguing over fundamentalism and modernism as the only available choice, and long before Shangri-La had become a popularly accepted myth, a vanguard movement was promoting the alternative of the wisdom of the Eastern world.[43]

The Agni Yoga Society

The Agni Yoga Society was founded in 1920 by Helena and Nicholas Roerich. It is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in 1946 under the laws of the State of New York, and is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and membership dues. The organization was located in the building Master Apartments. The aims of the Society are embodied in the philosophy that gives it its name—Agni Yoga—as contained in the books of the Agni Yoga Series published by the Society. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind. Though not systematized in an ordinary sense, it is a teaching that helps the student to discover moral and spiritual guide-posts by which to learn to govern his or her life and thus contribute to the common good. For this reason Agni Yoga has been called a Living ethic. Speaking about the role of personality in the spiritual evolution of mankind, Helena Roerich wrote,[27]

The greatest benefit that we can contribute consists in the broadening of consciousness, and the improvement and enrichment of our thinking, which, together with the purification of the heart, strengthens our emanations. And thus, raising our vibrations, we restore the health of all that surrounds us.

Master Institute of United Arts

Master Building, 1929 view.

Nicolas Roerich is known as a thinker and a builder of life. His art and writings are an evocation to Beauty, to Knowledge, and to Culture. His vision is nicely captured in his philosophical statement of the Master Institute of United Arts which he formed in New York City in 1921:[44]

Art will unify all humanity. Art is one – indivisible. Art has its many branches, yet all are one. Art is the manifestation of the coming synthesis. Art is for all.

Mr. and Mrs. Horch financed and directed the Master Institute that taught the fine and dramatic arts. For much of its existence, the Master Institute was housed in the Master Apartments, designed by Harvery Wiley Corbett in 1929 for Roerich and built on the site of the former Horch mansion at 310 Riverside Dr. in New York City.[45]

Roerich planned to realize the educational concepts at the Institute. He invited as teachers such famous people as George Bellows, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Norman Bel Geddes, Stark Young, Deems Taylor, Robert Edmond Jones, and Lee Simonson.[46]

Himalayan Research Institute named Urusvati

Himalayan Research Institute named Urusvati.

Roerich's family moved to India in December 1923. They settled in Darjeeling, a town in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the Lower Himalayan Ranges at an elevation of 6,700 ft (2,042.2 m).[47]

The plethora of materials collected during the Central Asia Expedition became the foundation for the establishment of the Himalayan Research Institute named 'Urusvati' in Darjeeling in 1928. A few months later the institute moved to Naggar in Kulu Valley. The center engaged in scientific exchange with 285 institutes, universities, museums, and libraries around the world. George de Roerich was a world-renowned scientist, orientalist, and guru.[48] His monumental translation of the Blue Annals (Tibetan: དེབ་ཐེར་སྔོན་པོ )[49] , and his 11-volume Tibetan-Russian-English dictionary with Sanskrit parallels were published in 1934.[50]

Prof. George de Roerich, director of the Himalayan Research Institute.

One of his main focuses for the center was to bring people to the Institute who practiced and lived the cultures being examined by the center. George Roerich was the director of the Himalayan Research Institute named Urusvati for 10 years.[51]

Svetoslav Roerich postage stamp.

Svetoslav Roerich was in charge of the work of the Natural Sciences Department. He carried out unique researches in various fields of the natural sciences. At the basis of his scientific investigations was understanding of nature as one whole that is inalienably connected with the cosmic laws. The scope of his interests: cultural studies, comparative religious studies and philosophy, botany, mineralogy, tibetan pharmacopoeia, chemistry and its alchemical sources.[52]

The work of the Himalayan Research Institute was based on wide international cooperation.[53] Major scientists and cultural workers collaborated with the Institute Urusvati. Such as Soviet academician Nikolai Vavilov, biologist and biophysicist Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, the father of Indian journalism Ramananda Chatterjee, Indian philosopher and statesman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin, and many others.[54]

The Journal of the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute (U.J.) published articles on various aspects of science and culture. The publications presented a multi-level perception of the authors who were looking for a new integration of different cultural models in the mainstream of Agni Yoga.[55]

Nicholas Roerich Museum

Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City was originally located in the Master Apartments at 103rd Street and Riverside Drive (Manhattan), which were built especially for Roerich in 1929. Now the museum is located in a brownstone at 319 West 107th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Currently, the museum includes between 100 and 200 of Roerich's works as well as a collection of archival materials and still attracts pilgrims from throughout the world. The mission of the Nicholas Roerich Museum is one: to make available to the public the full range of Roerich’s accomplishments. They cover the realms of art, science, spirituality, peacemaking, and more.[56]

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York is the largest center of Roerich-related activity outside of Russia.[57]

International Center of the Roerichs

International Center of the Roerichs (The hall of Living Ethics) in 2014.

International Center of the Roerichs (Russian: Междунаро́дный це́нтр Ре́рихов) is a non-governmental public association of citizens and public associations incorporated on the basis of their common interests in the cause of study, preservation, and popularization of the Roerich family heritage. The Center is an associated member of the Non-Governmental Organizations Association under the United Nations Department of Public Information.[58]

Museum named after Nicholas Roerich (Russian: Музе́й и́мени Н. К. Ре́риха Междунаро́дного це́нтра Ре́рихов) contents comprises the Roerichs' cultural heritage passed on to the Soviet Roerichs' Foundation (now International Center of the Roerichs) by Svetoslav Roerich in 1990. It carries in itself a new cosmic world view for which new interest grows more each year. The core of the Rerikhism is the philosophy of cosmic reality – the Agni Yoga, which develops the idea of a close relationship between man and Cosmos, contains knowledge which assists in understanding the specific features peculiar to the new evolutionary stage of mankind's development.[59]

The World Organisation of Culture of Health

Victor Skumin, president-founder of WOCH.
The Board of the International Buddhist Meditation Centre

The World Organisation of Culture of Health (WOCH) — International social movement To Health via Culture (Russian: Междунаро́дное обще́ственное Движе́ние «К Здоро́вью че́рез Культу́ру») was founded in the year 1994. Victor Skumin was elected to the post of the President-founder of this organisation. The WOCH operates in accordance with the registered in Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Charter.[60]

WHCO, in order to promote international relations, has established a link with the International Buddhist Meditation Centre.[61]

In Agni Yoga much attention is paid to health. So in the book Supermundane (paragraph 525) recorded the words of Mahatma Moria, addressed to Urusvati,[62]

Urusvati knows that people are responsible for three aspects of health. First, their own health; second, the health of the planet; and finally, the health of the Supermundane World... People must safeguard their own health, not only for themselves but also for those around them. The human organism, though seemingly small, is a powerful repository of energy, and truly dominates its earthly environment.

It is from these positions that WOCH approaches the solution of problems related to health.

The anthem of WOCH (To Health via Culture) consists of four stanzas. The capital letters each of the four stanzas form the word Agni.[63][64] (Anthem "To Health via Culture." on YouTube). Another anthem by Skumin is termed "Urusvati". Helena Roerich, known as the Tara Urusvati in Agni Yoga and Rerikhism. This anthem begins with the phrase, "The fire of the heart ignites Urusvati, she teaches the spirit take-off on the wings of the grace".[64]

In the Russian Orthodox Church the social activities of this international organization qualifies as an ideology of the Agni Yoga and New Age (NA),[65][66]

The ideology of the NA serves outstanding contemporary philosophers: Gregory Bateson, Ken Wilber, Paul Feyerabend. On a grand scale is the creation and support of international organizations, contained in the ideology of the NA. In Russia and in Ukraine, International movement "To Health via Culture", based on the teachings of Agni Yoga, operates and has a great publishing activity.

The WOCH has its own publishing house ("To Health via Culture"), who has the right to publish the books with the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). The Journal of the World Organisation of Culture of Health (″World Health Culture Organization″) is based in Novocheboksarsk. The journal received an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 0204-3440.[67] The main topics of the magazine are the dissemination of ideas of culture of health, holistic medicine, Rerikhism, and Agni Yoga.[68]

The Holy Scripture of Agni Yoga

The book "New Era Community" (Russian: ″Община″[69]) which was on board of orbital station "Mir", 1999.
Cover of the book Чаша Востока I Письма Махатмы. Translated by Iskander Hanum (Helena Roerich), Alatas, 1925.[70]
The book "Aum" 1936 Last page.

Agni Yoga is a Holy Scripture consisting of a series of books with a total volume of about 5000 pages.[71]

  1. "Leaves of Morya's Garden Book One The Call". agniyoga.org. 1924. Retrieved 11 September 2018. . Transmitted from 1920 to 1923. First published in Paris in 1923.
  2. "Leaves of Morya's Garden Book Two Illumination". agniyoga.org. 1925. Retrieved 11 September 2018. . Transmitted from May 1923 to June 1925.
  3. "New Era Community". agniyoga.org. 1926. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  4. "Agni Yoga". agniyoga.org. 1929. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  5. "Infinity Part I". agniyoga.org. 1930. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  6. "Infinity Part II". agniyoga.org. 1930. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  7. "Hierarchy". agniyoga.org. 1931. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  8. "Heart". agniyoga.org. 1932. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  9. "Fiery World I". agniyoga.org. 1933. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  10. "Fiery World II". agniyoga.org. 1934. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  11. "Fiery World III". agniyoga.org. 1935. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  12. "Aum". agniyoga.org. 1936. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  13. "Brotherhood". agniyoga.org. 1937. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  14. "Supermundane". agniyoga.org. 1938. Retrieved 13 September 2018.

Further reading

  • Roerich, Helena (1929–1935). "Letters of Helena Roerich I". agniyoga.org. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  • Roerich, Helena (1935–1939). "Letters of Helena Roerich II". agniyoga.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  • Roerich, Helena. "Foundations of Buddhism". agniyoga.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  • Roerich, Helena (1992). "On Eastern Crossroads Legends and Prophecies of Asia". Agni Yoga Society, New York. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  • Roerich, Nicolas (2017). Realm of Light. New York: Nicholas Roerich Museum. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  • Roerich, Nicolas (2017). Shambhala. New York: Nicholas Roerich Museum. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  • Roerich, George (2012). По тропам Срединной Азии [On the paths of the Middle Asia] (in Russian). Moscow: International Center of the Roerichs. p. 780. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  • Roerich, Svetoslav (2004). Creative Thought / Articles by Svetoslav Roerich. Moscow: International Center of the Roerichs. p. 780. ISBN 5-86988-132-3. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  • Skumin, V. A. (1997). Учение Жизни: Хрестоматия Т. 1 [The Teaching of Life: Reader] (in Russian). 1. Novocheboksarsk: Teros. ISBN 5-88167-009-4. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  • Skumin, V. A. (1998). Учение Жизни: Хрестоматия Т. 2 [The Teaching of Life: Reader] (in Russian). 2. Novocheboksarsk: Teros. ISBN 5-88167-019-1. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  • Skumin, V. A. (1995). Легенды, притчи, сказания Агни Йоги [Legends, parables, and stories of Agni Yoga] (in Russian). Novocheboksarsk: Teros. ISBN 5-88167-008-6. Archived from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.

Many works of Nicholas Roerich and Svetoslav Roerich, as an artists, are thematically related to Agni Yoga.[72] Roerichs artistic works speak about the internal needs of the individual and about the ways of their realization. Roerich's paintings are a kind of Teaching of Life, on the spiritual development of mankind, about culture and its role in human life. This is a conversation about the Eternal.[73]

See also

References

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    «Hermann Schmiechen was a German painter living in London who had joined the Theosophical Society. He agreed to take part in a psychical experiment to see if images could be transferred to his mind from those who had seen the Masters...»
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  20. ↑ Skumin VA (2004). "Фуяма — огненный Гуру-Покровитель духовного человечества" [Fuyama (N. Roerich's spiritual name) is a Fiery Guru-patron of spiritual humanity]. To Health via Culture. 10: 31–34. ISSN 0204-3440. Archived from the original on 17 December 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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