Chintamani_Magnum Opus

The word Cintamani itself can be translated to thought-gem or wishing stone.

Chintamani is also heavenly abode of Goddess Kamakshi as per Hindu traditions
and she is wish fulfiller!! There is also a raga named as Chintamani in Carnatic
music which is very rare!! Prayers to Goddess in this raga is also very auspicious.
Famous song "Devi Brova" sung by great M. Subba lakshmi is in Chintamani RAGA.
It is more than an artifact, it is a key to doors that were sealed aeons ago.
The philosopher's stone, or stone of the philosophers (Latin: lapis philosophorum) is
a legendary alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury
into gold (chrysopoeia, from the Greek khrusos, "gold," and poiin,
"to make") or silver. It is also able to extend one's life and called the elixir of life,
useful for rejuvenation and for achieving immortality; for many centuries, it was the
most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosopher's stone was the central symbol
of the mystical terminology of alchemy, symbolizing perfection at its finest,
enlightenment, and heavenly bliss. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were
known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work").[1]
This Chintamani Stone, which is of extra-terrestrial origin, had supposedly been
brought to Earth by emissaries from a planet orbiting the star Sirius and then
handed over to Shambhalas principal resident, the elusive King of the World, a
monarch known by many mystics in the East but only by a handful of occultists in
the West. In regards to its identity in the Holy Grail legends, the Chintamani Stone
appears to be synonymous with the Stone of Heaven, the Holy Grail manifestation
mentioned by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his famous Grail rendition known as
Parzival, which is regarded by most Grail scholars to be the most complete and
authoritative of the Grail legends.
In Buddhist and Taoist, there is the Tradition of Eight Immortals, eight masters who
reside beneath a mountain on the Chinese-Tibet border. The City, known as Agartha
in some legends and Hsi Wang Mu in others, is possibly underground and has been
said by many as to be near Lhasa. There have been numerous and dubious reports
of explorations of tunnels leading to the city, but the most convincing came from
Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist and Mystic.
The Chintamani Stone certainly fits the profile of Eschenbachs enigmatic Stone of
Heaven because, like its literary counterpart, the Treasure of the World is said to
possess both the power to make a human immortal, as well as to have come to
Earth from Heaven (Sirius), a truth that is supposedly engraved upon it as Sanscrit
letters that Roerich once translated as,
Through the Stars I come. I bring the chalice (Grail) covered with the shield.
Like Eschenbachs stone the Chintamani Stone is, apparently, also green in color,
since Roerich is on record as also stating that the Chintamani Stone is similar in
appearance to a species of meteorite known as Moldavite, which is dark green in
color.

If the Chintamani Stone is indeed Eschenbachs Stone of Heaven could it also be the
original Philosophers Stone, which legends assert could turn a base metal into gold
and a human into an immortal deity? Could it be the original Holy Grail, the one that
was later emulated by all Holy Grails, including the Cup of Christ and the wood of
the True Cross?
With so much evidence in its support of its power and existence, it does indeed
appear that the study of the Chintamani Stone should warrant special consideration
in any contemporary Holy Grail research.
With the current massive outpouring of information regarding the fabled Holy Grail
(or Grails) it is impossible to ignore what may be the very first Holy Grail on Earth,
the Chintamani Stone, the Treasure of the World.
According to ancient texts the stone was sent from Tibet to King Solomon in
Jerusalem, who split the stone and made a ring out of one piece. Centuries later
Muhammad took three other fragments to Mecca. A smaller fragment was sent with
Roerich to Europe to help aid the establishment of the league of nations. With the
failure of the League, Roerich returned the fragment to the Trasilumpo lamasery in
Tibet.
There is some indication that one part of the stone has been the sacred stone of the
Kaaba, which has united millions of Moslems around the globe.
It is also believed that part of the stone was kept in a monastery in Tibet, the
second in the Museum of Natural history in Manhattan, and the final piece in the
city of Agartha(Shangrila/Shambala).
It has further history in Atlantis and with the Pharoahs of Egypt, and as per another
school of thought, finally it was discovered in New England by Robert Blake. After
the death of Robert Blake, who came to grief after discovering the Shining
Trapezohedron and deciphering texts about it from ancient evil cults, the artifact
was removed from the black windowless temple where it was found, and thrown into
the deepest channel of Narragansett Bay. Presumably it will stay in the depths until
it is once again discovered and brought forth to curse mankind.
Between 1923-1928 this stone, which first manifested on Earth many thousands of
years before the Cup of Christ, was taken by the great Russian artist and mystic
Nicholas Roerich into the heartland of the Far East in order to reunite it with the
mother stone it had been separated from, a massive jewel that resided in
Shambhala, the Land of the Immortals.
Did Roerich complete his journey to Shambhala? Is the sacred stone back in the
Land of the Immortals? Most historians agree that Roerich did not technically reach
Shambhala but instead arrived in a Tibetan location which is intimately connected
to it.

One such location is Shigatse, home of the Tashilumpo Monastery and headquarters
of the Panchen Lama, one of the ruling lamas of Tibet who is sometimes referred to
as higher in the planetary spiritual hierarchy than even the Dalai Lama himself.
Legends state that there are many underground tunnels connecting the Tashilumpo
Monastery with Shambhala, and it is an accepted truth that certain incumbent
Panchen Lamas have physically traveled there over the course of many hundreds of
years.
The Third Panchen Lama even wrote a book, called Road to Shambhala, within
which he outlined directions on how to travel overland to Shambhala. Another
salient connection that forever links the Panchen Lama, Shigatze and Shambhala is
the Kalachakra Tantra, an intensive form of Tantric Buddhism taught and practiced
in both places.
During the time that Roerich would have visited Shigatse the holy Tibetan city was a
world headquarters of the Great White Brotherhood and swarming with Ascended
Masters, such as Master Koothumi and Master Morya, an adept who taught Nicholas
and his wife, Helena, the path of Agni Yoga, an alchemical path based upon the
teachings of the Kalachakra.
Previous to Roerichs visit in Tibet Madam Blavatsky had similarly made an
excursion to Shigatse to study with the Great White Brotherhood and to acquire
information for her tomes on esoteric history, which include Isis Unveiled and The
Secret Doctrine.
One of Blavatskys students, Alice Bailey, is noted for having later received
numerous transmissions regarding Shambhala and the King of the World from the
Master Djwhal Khul, who was a resident of Shigatse at the time.
Furthermore, legends about the stone, this relic with strange Sanskrit text
supposedly engraved upon it (Through the stars I come.
I bring the chalice covered with the shield.
Within it, I bring a treasure,
The gift of Orion.), claim that its magnetic properties are vitally responsible for
maintaining our planet's natural rhythms. It is said to be used every night in a ritual
held deep within the earth's crust, to recalibrate the actual magnetic charge of the
planet.
In support of this theory, it has been suggested that this ritual has actually been
visually documented as the subject of the Nicholas Roerich painting, Treasure of the
Mountain. It is further described in a passage from At the Threshold of the New
World, in a message to Helena Roerich from one of her spiritual teachers:
Yes, the Stone rests on a cushion, which lies on a marble foundation and is
separated from it by a disk of lithium. After establishing the rhythm, We silently
saturate space. This Repository is located deep underground, and many people do
not suspect that, during their sleep, the White Brotherhood descends through the
galleries for the nightly vigil.

References:
Mark Amaru Pinkham for Four Corners Magazine from FourCornersMagazine Website
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_shambahla11.htm

Nicholas Roerich - The Life and Art of a Russian Master by Jacqueline Decter and the
Nicholas Roerich Museum
http://www.triuneoflight.org/newsletter/shambhala-chintamani-stone.html