The Significance and the Legend of the Chintamani Stone

There is a special story about a piece of stone from the Star Sirius. (I was reading upon the Agni Yoga discussion forum). A meteorite stone supposedly, given to Nicholas Roerich, in circumstances hard to verify.

While the Chintamani Stone as other supernatural stones and objects, the search often relates to the physical item and the very possession of such item is the alleged key to its magic, in reality the physical item is seldom as important as its corresponding, “doppelganger” on the subtle plans.

The Holy Grail

For example even centuries later it is hard to imagine if the chalice of Christ was a real tangible item or a metaphysical object important only in its esoteric meaning. When we have very little understanding of the historical time and life of Jesus of Nazareth, the existence of such grail can be elusive. The Holy Grail often mesmerized people’s imagination and they became obsessed by it. In reality they became obsessed by the search and ownership of a magical item.

The metaphorical lesson in the search and the “object”

The item is seldom as important as our mental projection of it. The importance of a Grail, or any philosopher’s stone is only as important as we project into it from our mind.

This is why I found the recent Agni yoga group’s fascination by the Chintamani Stone somewhat perplexing and curious.

The physical items while never as important as people made them out to be, have a certain place in the Spiritual path. It is often an important reminder that while seemingly lost in the mundane, we are on the right track. For example small items (albeit seldom precious stones) were customarily given to disciples as amulets and objects of great value. The guru customarily conjured these items from thin air, and gave them to the disciple, as the reminder that objects can be “created” with our minds if our mind is strong enough and the purpose is pure and just.

As everything fleeing, in our lifetime we sometimes find comfort and reassurance of something tangible that was created out of thin air, as a reminder that all we perceive is not an illusion and the physical realm is always supported by the layers of the unseen world.

When we  understand the true, esoteric message in the search of the philisopher’s stone, at that moment, we have the “stone” and all the world’s riches with it.

Magic Square Talisman – Luck, Mojo or Karma

Magic squares have fascinated humanity throughout the ages, and have been around for over 4,120 years. They are found in a number of cultures, including Egypt and India, engraved on stone or metal and worn as talismans, the belief being that magic squares had astrological and divinatory qualities, their usage ensuring longevity and prevention of diseases.
The Kubera-Kolam is a floor painting used in India which is in the form of a magic square of order three. It is essentially the same as the Lo Shu Square, but with 19 added to each number, giving a magic constant of 72.
23 28 21
22 24 26
27 20 25

Talismans are psychic batteries. They store psychic energy and can render it to the owner of the talisman, to whichever purpose he/she deems..

The above has been the subject of more modern interpretation than almost any other print, including a two-volume book by Peter-Klaus Schuster, and a very influential discussion in his Dürer monograph by Erwin Panofsky.

Suggestions that a series of engravings on the subject was planned are not generally accepted. Instead it seems more likely that the “I” refers to the first of the three types of melancholia defined by the German humanist writer Cornelius Agrippa. In this type, Melencholia Imaginativa, which he held artists to be subject to, ‘imagination’ predominates over ‘mind’ or ‘reason’.