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ON EASTERN CROSSROADS
Legends and Prophecies of Asia
BY HELENA ROERICH
AGNI YOGA SOCIETY, NEW YORK
1992
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First Edition 1930
Copyright by Frederick A. Stokes Company
published under the pseudonym Josephine Saint-Hilaire
Second Edition 1992
Copyright © Agni Yoga Society, Inc.
319 West 107th Street, New York, NY 10025
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written
permission from the publisher.
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O
FTEN the so-called Apocrypha preserve many traces of reality taken from
authentic texts. In these unexpected tales and parables scattered among the
peoples of Asia we learn precisely what images live in the folk consciousness.
From Altai to Ceylon people dream of the Great Teachers, recalling from
antiquity fragments of their lives and bringing the tale closer to the character of
their country.
To gather these Cryptograms of great thought is to glimpse the souls of
the peoples.
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD.............................................................................................................................................. 6
A PAGE FROM THE SACRED HISTORY.............................................................................................. 7
OF THE LORD BUDDHA ............................................................................................................................. 7
THE BEGINNING OF THE PATH............................................................................................................ 8
THE PREDESTINED MAITREYA ......................................................................................................... 10
DEPARTURE .......................................................................................................................................... 12
COMMANDS .......................................................................................................................................... 13
THE ELECTED FOR ACHIEVEMENT.................................................................................................. 14
BUDDHA’S FAVORITE PASTIME WITH HIS DISCIPLES ................................................................ 15
THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEACHING................................................................................................ 16
THE RENUNCIATION OF POSSESSION ............................................................................................. 17
THE CONDEMNATION OF FANATICS....................................................................................................... 18
THREE ARHATS .................................................................................................................................... 19
SHEPHERD AND SANNYASIN ............................................................................................................ 20
THE TRADER OF MONKEYS ............................................................................................................... 21
A PARABLE ABOUT THE ONE WHO QUESTIONED............................................................................. 22
THE WHEEL OF THE LAW ................................................................................................................... 23
THE SENSE OF NECESSITY ................................................................................................................. 24
THE SEEKER FOR BUDDHA ................................................................................................................ 25
TO THE GREAT ILLUMINED ............................................................................................................... 26
THE RESCUE OF MAN .......................................................................................................................... 27
PARABLE OF THE KING OF MARAGOR............................................................................................ 28
PRECEPTS TO THE RULER OF RAJAGRIHA ......................................................................................... 29
FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST ............................................................................................................... 30
THE STAR ............................................................................................................................................... 31
THE WAY OF CHRIST ........................................................................................................................... 33
THE SIGNS OF CHRIST ......................................................................................................................... 35
THE STORY OF MARY MAGDALENE................................................................................................ 36
THE SCRIBES ......................................................................................................................................... 37
THE QUESTIONER OF CINEDRION .................................................................................................... 38
EYES—OPEN WOUNDS ....................................................................................................................... 39
THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD .......................................................................................................... 40
THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD........................................................................................................... 41
THE EFFULGENCE OF THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD .................................................................... 42
THE COMMAND .................................................................................................................................... 43
THE PLAY OF THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD ................................................................................. 44
THE FIERY SHIELD ............................................................................................................................... 45
THE FIERY VEIL .................................................................................................................................... 46
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA ...................................................................................................................... 47
THE VISIT OF APOLLONIUS TO THE NORTH OF INDIA .................................................................. 48
THE PASSING OF APOLLONIUS ......................................................................................................... 49
FROM THE LIFE OF ST. SERGIUS OF RADONEZH .......................................................................... 50
THE PROCLAMATION OF THE MOTHER CELESTIAL (A N I NCIDENT IN THE L IFE OF S ERGIUS ) .................. 51
SAYINGS OF SERGIUS ......................................................................................................................... 52
THE TRAVAIL OF SERGIUS................................................................................................................. 53
FORESIGHT OF SERGIUS..................................................................................................................... 54
AKBAR THE GREAT ............................................................................................................................... 55
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THE SILVERY MESSENGER ................................................................................................................ 56
THE HELP OF HEAVEN ........................................................................................................................ 57
THE COMMANDERS............................................................................................................................. 58
ENEMIES................................................................................................................................................. 59
INVISIBLY VISIBLE .............................................................................................................................. 60
LEGENDS AND LORE ............................................................................................................................. 61
A TALE OF COSMOGONY.................................................................................................................... 62
THE MESSENGER OF LIGHT ............................................................................................................... 63
SEVEN SERVANTS................................................................................................................................ 64
THE CITADEL OF LOYALTY ............................................................................................................... 65
REVERENCE TO THE TEACHER......................................................................................................... 66
MILAREPA.............................................................................................................................................. 67
THE HERMIT .......................................................................................................................................... 68
BATUR-BAKSHA................................................................................................................................... 69
THE WHITE MOUNTAIN ...................................................................................................................... 70
ARROWS OF THOUGHTS..................................................................................................................... 71
THE THOUGHT OF THE WORLD ........................................................................................................ 72
THE SOURCE OF PATIENCE................................................................................................................ 73
THE KEEPER OF THE SEVEN GATES................................................................................................. 74
THE FLAMING ONE .............................................................................................................................. 75
THE GIFT OF DARKNESS ..................................................................................................................... 76
THE REWARD ........................................................................................................................................ 77
TWO PITRIS............................................................................................................................................ 78
PRINCE OF DARKNESS ......................................................................................................................... 79
LUCIFER ................................................................................................................................................. 80
GOLD AND DARKNESS .......................................................................................................................... 82
GOLD....................................................................................................................................................... 83
DARKNESS............................................................................................................................................. 84
LEGEND OF THE STONE....................................................................................................................... 85
LEGEND OF THE STONE ...................................................................................................................... 86
PROPHECIES OF SHAMBHALA AND MAITREYA.............................................................................. 91
PROPHECIES OF SHAMBHALA AND MAITREYA.............................................................................. 92
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