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ancestors and the writings of the wise and must therefore take place. When natural disasters and
crimes begin to pile up on Earth, the warriors from Shambhala will appear. At the head of their army
stands the Buddha Maitreya Morya, who “ [combats] the prince of darkness himself. This struggle
primarily takes place in the subtle spheres, whereas here [on earth] the ruler of Shambhala operates
through his earthly warriors. He himself can only be seen under the most exceptional circumstances
and would never appear in a crowd or among the curious. His appearance in fiery form would be
disastrous for everybody and everything since his aura is loaded with energies of immense
strength” (Schule der Lebensweisheit, 1990, p. 152). It could be thought that this concerned an atomic
bomb. At any rate the battle will be conducted with a fire and explosive power which allows of
comparison only to the atomic detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Fiery the battle
with blazing torches,
Blood red the arrows
against the shining shield
(Schule der Lebensweisheit, 1990, p. 110)
Thus the armies of Shambhala storm forth. „Space is filled with fire. The lightning of the Kalki avatar
[Rudra Chakrin] — the preordained Maitreya — flashes upon the” (N. Roerich, 1985, p. 76). Even if
Kalki also goes by the epithet of “Lord of Compassion”, with his enemies he knows no mercy.
Accompanied by Gesar, the mythic war hero of the Tibetans, he will storm forward mounted on a
“white horse” and with a “comet-like, fiery sword” in his hand. Iron snakes will consume outer space
with fire and frenzy (N. Roerich, 1988 p. 12). “The Lord”, we read, “ strikes the people with fire. The
same fiery element presides over the Day of Judgment. The purification of evil is performed by fire.
Misfortunes are accompanied by fires” (H. I. Roerich, 1980, vol. I, 46).
Those who fight for Shambhala are the precursors of a new race who take control of the universe after
Armageddon, after the “wheat has been separated from the chaff” (Augustat,1993, p. 98). That is, to
put it plainly, after all the inferior races have been eradicated in a holocaust.
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As far as the fate of Tibet is concerned, the prophecies that Roerich made at the end of the twenties
have in fact been fulfilled: „We must accept it simply, as it is: the fact that the true teaching shall
leave Tibet”, he has a lama announce, „and shall again appear in the South. In all countries, the
covenants of Buddha shall be manifested. Really, great things are coming.” (N. Roerich, 1985, p. 3)
In 1959 the Fourteenth Dalai Lama fled to India in the south and from this point in time onwards
Tibetan Buddhism began to be spread all around the world.
Roerich and his wife saw themselves as agents of Shambhala who were supposed to make contact
with those governing our world in order to warn them. They could at any rate appeal to a meeting
with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Their followers, however, believe that they were higher up in the
hierarchy and that they were incarnated Mahatmas from the kingdom.
In the meantime the Roerich cult is most popular in Eastern Europe, where even before the fall of
Communism it had penetrated the highest circles of government. The former Bulgarian Minister for
Culture, Ludmilla Shiffkova, daughter of the Communist head of state Todor Shiffkov, was almost
fanatically obsessed with the Agni master’s philosophy, so that she planned to introduce his teachings