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Recently, with the great outpouring of information about the fabled Holy Grail (or Grails), it is impossible to ignore what may be the very first Holy Grail on Earth, the Chintamani Stone, or the "Treasure of the World."
We first hear of this stone in our era through a story. The great Russian artist and mystic, Nicholas Roerich, some time between 19231928, took the stone 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 resides in Shambhala, the Land of the Immortals.
This Chintamani Stone first manifested on Earth many thousands of years before the Cup of Christ. Emissaries brought it to Earth from a planet orbiting the star Sirius. Then it was gifted to Shambhala's 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. 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 saga known as Parzival - regarded by most Grail scholars to be the most complete and authoritative of the Grail Legends.
The Chintamani Stone fits the profile of Eschenbach's enigmatic Stone of Heaven. 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 with the Sanskrit letters that Roerich once translated as "Through the Stars I come. I bring the chalice (Grail) covered with the Shield."
As with Eschenbach's stone, the Chintamani Stone is, apparently, also green in color. 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 Eschenbach's Stone of Heaven could it also be the original Philosopher's 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...