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{{Short description|Neo-Theosophical doctrine by Roerikh's family}}
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'''Agni Yoga''' ({{lang-ru|А́гни Йо́га}}) or the '''Living Ethics''' ({{lang-ru|links=no|Жива́я Э́тика}}), or the '''Teaching of Life''' ({{lang-ru|links=no|Уче́ние Жи́зни}}), is a [[Philosophy:Neo-Theosophy|Neo-Theosophical]] religious doctrine transmitted by [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]] and [[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] from 1920. The term ''Agni Yoga'' means "Mergence with Divine Fire" or "Path to Mergence with Divine Fire". This term was introduced by the Roerichs. The followers of Agni Yoga believe that the teaching was given to the Roerich family and their associates by [[Philosophy:Masters of the Ancient Wisdom|Master]] [[Philosophy:Morya (Theosophy)|Morya]], the [[Biography:Guru|guru]] of the Roerichs and of [[Biography:Helena Blavatsky|Helena Blavatsky]], one of the founders of the modern Theosophical movement and of the [[Philosophy:Theosophical Society|Theosophical Society]].

Agni Yoga is a path of practice in daily life. It is the [[Philosophy:Yoga|yoga]] of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the [[Philosophy:Planetary consciousness|planetary consciousness]] is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind. According to Helena Roerich, Agni Yoga is the [[Thesis, antithesis, synthesis|synthesis]] of all [[Philosophy:Yoga|yoga]]s. In all the [[Religion:List of Hindu texts|ancient Hindu scriptures]], the approaching Fiery Age was predicted. Agni–Fire, which to a varying degree is at the heart of all yogas, will saturate the atmosphere of our planet, and all the branches of yoga will be merged into a fiery synthesis. Agni Yoga is a fire [[Religion:Baptism|baptism]].

The most significant features of Agni Yoga are cosmism and [[Philosophy:Universalism|universalism]]. They are expressed in the interpretation of any phenomena of human existence from the point of view of their cosmic significance and interrelation with the being of the [[Astronomy:Universe|universe]].

Agni Yoga played a significant role in bringing knowledge of Asian religions to the Western world. Living Ethics has an international following and has thousands of adherents. The ideas of the Teaching of Life have exerted an influence on other esoteric movements and philosophies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peakvisor.com/en/news/nicholas-roerich.html|title=Nicholas Roerich, The Master of the Sacred Mountains#The Outcomes of Roerich's Travels and the New Religion|publisher=peakvisor.com|access-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116175318/https://peakvisor.com/en/news/nicholas-roerich.html|archive-date=16 January 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Birth of the new religion==
===Etymology and concept===
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|quote     = ''Agni Yoga is a synthesis of all [[Philosophy:Yoga|yoga]]s. In all the ancient [[Religion:Hindu texts|Hindu scriptures]] the approaching Fiery Epoch has been predicted. It is said that Agni – the Fire that is found in varying degrees at the foundation of all yogas will saturate the atmosphere of our planet tremendously, and all the branches of yoga will be fused into a fiery synthesis. Verily, Agni Yoga is a fiery [[Religion:Baptism|baptism]]''.
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|source    =&nbsp;— [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHVaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA411|last=Roerich|first=Helena|year=1929–1938|title=Letters of Helena Roerich|volume=1|page=411|publisher=Litres |isbn=9785041147877}}</ref>
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The term ''Agni Yoga'' means "mergence with fire" in Sanskrit. This term was introduced to the Western public by [[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] and [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highest-yoga.info/en/yoga/agni-yoga.html|title=Agni Yoga|publisher=highest-yoga.info|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023071905/http://www.highest-yoga.info/en/yoga/agni-yoga.html|archive-date=23 October 2018|url-status=live }}</ref>

''Agni'' ({{lang-sa|अग्नि}}) is the [[Religion:Vedas|Vedic]] and Living Ethics' "god of fire", who marks immortality and is the symbol of life. Agni is one of the highest gods in the [[Religion:Rigveda|Rigveda]]. In Agni Yoga it is the creative fire of the universe, the root of the "Fire of Space"; and the "psychic energy", the powers of the human mind and heart, particularly those manifesting in love, thought, and creativity.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bowker|first=John|title=World Religions|publisher=New York: DK Publishing, Inc.|year=1997|oclc=659908115|author-link=John Bowker (theologian)}}</ref> In the original myth found in many Indo-European cultures Agni is a bird-like being, that brings fire from the gods to mankind. Alternatively, this messenger brings an elixir of immortality from Heaven to [[Astronomy:Earth|Earth]]. In the early Vedic literature, Agni primarily connotes fire as a god, reflecting the primordial powers to consume, transform and convey.<ref name="Macdonell1898p15">{{cite book|author=Arthur Anthony Macdonell|title=Vedic Mythology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b7Meabtj8mcC|year=1898|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-1113-3|pages=15–16, 92–93|author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell}}</ref>

''[[Philosophy:Yoga|Yoga]]'' ({{lang-sa|योग}}; {{pronunciation|Yoga pronunciation.ogg|help=no}}) is one of the six orthodox schools of [[Philosophy:Hindu philosophy|Hindu philosophy]]. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in [[Religion:Hinduism|Hinduism]], [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhism]], and [[Philosophy:Jainism|Jainism]]. Yoga is a group of [[Philosophy:Soul|spiritual]], [[Philosophy:Mind|mental]], and [[Medicine:Human body|physical]] practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. The term ''Yoga'' has been applied to a variety of practices and methods. In Hinduism these include ''Jnana Yoga'', ''Bhakti Yoga'', ''Karma Yoga'', ''Laya Yoga'' and ''Hatha Yoga''. The term ''Rāja Yoga'' originally referred to the ultimate goal of yoga, which is ''[[Philosophy:Samadhi|Samadhi]]'' ([[Social:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]]: {{lang|sa|समाधि}}, {{IPA-hi|səˈmaːdʱi}}), but was popularised by [[Biography:Swami Vivekananda|Swami Vivekananda]] as the common name for ''Ashtanga Yoga''. In the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, ''Samadhi'' is the eighth and final limb identified in the [[Religion:Yoga Sutras of Patanjali|Yoga Sutras of Patanjali]].<ref name="Feuerstein2012">{{cite book|first=Georg|last=Feuerstein|title=The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cI5XDwAAQBAJ|date=23 October 2012|publisher=Hohm Press|isbn=978-1-935387-39-8|page=37|author-link=Georg Feuerstein}}</ref><ref name=yogadarsanabook3>{{cite book|url=http://www.universaltheosophy.com/pdf-library/Yoga%20Darshana%20Eng%20with%20Vyasa%20Bhashya%20&%20Notes%20-%20Ganganath%20Jha%201907.pdf|title=The Yoga-darsana: The sutras of Patanjali with the Bhasya of Vyasa – Book 3 (G.N. Jha, translator)|publisher=Harvard University Archives|pages=94–96|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210829035318/http://universaltheosophy.com/pdf-library/Yoga%20Darshana%20Eng%20with%20Vyasa%20Bhashya%20&%20Notes%20-%20Ganganath%20Jha%201907.pdf |archive-date=29 August 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Aum'' or ''Oṃ'' (Devanagari: {{script|Deva|'''ॐ'''}}), {{audio|Om pro.ogg|listen}}, is a sacred sound and a spiritual symbol in [[Religion:Hinduism|Hinduism]], [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhism]], and [[Philosophy:Jainism|Jainism]]. This word has three [[Social:Phoneme|phoneme]]s: ''a'', ''u'', and ''m'', though it is often described as trisyllabic despite this being either archaic or the result of translation.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e89eDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT287|author=Nityananda Misra|title=The Om Mala: Meanings of the Mystic Sound|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2018|isbn=9789387471856}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLlIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA61|author=Vālmīki|year=1891|title=The Yoga-vásishtha-mahárámáyana of Válmiki|volume=1|page=61|publisher=Bonnerjee and Company|oclc=504109595}}</ref> It signifies the essence of the ultimate reality, consciousness or ''Atman''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/482|author=James G Lochtefeld|title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism|year=2002|volume=2 N-Z|page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/482 482]|publisher=Rosen Publishing|isbn=978-0823931804|oclc=911883533}}</ref> The twelfth book of the scriptures of Agni Yoga is called "Aum". Aum, as this book says, was a synthesis of sonant strivings. Prayer and inward concentration are excellent attainments which render healthful the state of the spirit. Each one in his own way has contributed a manifestation useful to spiritual concentration, whether he sought the solution in music, in song, or in the dance; man was striving to create a particularly exalted state of mind, promoting the reception of the higher energies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Aum.php|title=Aum, §4|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1936|access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928061132/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Aum.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 September 2018}}</ref>

''Ur'' or ''[[Religion:Aditi|Aditi]]'' ([[Social:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]]: अदिति "limitless"),<ref>From ''a-'' (privative a) and ''diti'' "bound", which is from the Proto-Indo-European root *''da-'' "to bind."</ref> in the [[Religion:Vedas|Vedas]] and Living Ethics is the mother of the gods and all twelve zodiacal spirits from whose cosmic matrix the heavenly bodies were born. As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space and with mystic speech. She is mentioned nearly eighty times in the [[Religion:Rigveda|Rigveda]]: the verse "[[Religion:Daksha|Daksha]] sprang from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha" is seen by Theosophists as a reference to "the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine essence" and divine wisdom.<ref name=theosociety>{{cite web|url=http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/adi-ag.htm|title=Adi-Ag: Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary|publisher=Theosociety.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921034204/https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/adi-ag.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=21 September 2018}}</ref> "Ur is the root of the Light of Fire", it is stated in the holy writ of Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-I.php|title=Fiery World Part I Preface|publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018231845/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-I.php|url-status=live|archive-date=18 October 2018}}</ref>

''[[Philosophy:Shambhala|Shambhala]]'' ({{lang-sa|शम्भलः}}, {{bo|t=བདེ་འབྱུང}};) is the birthplace of [[Philosophy:Kalki|Kalki]], the final incarnation of [[Religion:Vishnu|Vishnu]], who will usher a New Age – Satya Yuga. Shambhala is ruled by [[Philosophy:Maitreya|Maitreya]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docviewer.yandex.ru/view/94772562/?*=pJNhApHCEiN8vf%2FRWPuXaI3zG%2FJ7InVybCI6InlhLWRpc2stcHVibGljOi8vSUI2cSs0NnNtSG1DV1RYVUp3dDU3azRuNDNDWVljM2daeVI5a1hrOE8rdz06L0VuZ2xpc2gvQWduaSBZb2dhL0NvbXBpbGF0aW9ucy9heV90YWxrc19mMjAwNl9NYXl0cmV5YV9SVS5kb2MiLCJ0aXRsZSI6ImF5X3RhbGtzX2YyMDA2X01heXRyZXlhX1JVLmRvYyIsInVpZCI6Ijk0NzcyNTYyIiwieXUiOiI3MDU0Njk4NjcxNTAxODM0MzIxIiwibm9pZnJhbWUiOmZhbHNlLCJ0cyI6MTUzNzY3NTMyMTE3MX0%3D&page=1|title=Maitreya|year=2006|publisher=Agni Yoga Society}}</ref> The ''Kalachakra Tantra'' prophesies that when all is lost, Kalki will emerge from Shambhala to vanquish the "Dark Forces" and usher a worldwide [[Social:Golden Age|Golden Age]]. Shambhala is also called [[Unsolved:Shangri-La|Shangri-La]].<ref name=Hindu>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUIum8H_9qgC|last=LePage|first=Victoria|title=Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth Behind the Myth of Shangri-La|year=1996|publisher=Quest Books|pages=125–126|isbn=9780835607506}}</ref>

[[File:Moryaportrait.jpg|thumb|240px|right|<div class="center">Master Morya by Hermann Schmiechen, 1884.<ref name="port">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74jEiVAhVHEC&pg=PA142|first=Sarah Diane|last=Sasson|title=Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality (Religion in North America)|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2012|pages=142–144|isbn=9780253001771}}<br/>«Hermann Schmiechen was a German painter living in London who had joined the Theosophical Society. He agreed to take part in a ''psychical experiment'' to see if images could be transferred to his mind from those who had seen the Masters...»</ref></div>]]
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''[[Philosophy:Morya (Theosophy)|Morya]]'' is one of the [[Philosophy:Masters of the Ancient Wisdom|Masters of the Ancient Wisdom]] within modern Theosophical beliefs.<ref name="Bringers">{{cite book|last2=Aunovsky|first2=O. K.|last1=Skumin|first1=V. A.|year=1995|script-title=ru: Светоносцы (о семье Рерихов)|trans-title=The Bringers of the Light (The story of the Roerich family)|location=Novocheboksarsk|publisher=Teros|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/svet.html|isbn=978-5-88167-004-7 |language=ru|access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513181225/https://biblmdkz.ru/svet.html |archive-date=13 May 2021|url-status=live|author2-link=:cv:Ауновская Ольга Константиновна}}</ref> He is one of the Mahatmas who inspired the founding of Theosophy and Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sirius-eng.net/liki/moria.htm|title=Master Morya|publisher=sirius-eng.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210143654/http://www.sirius-eng.net/liki/moria.htm |archive-date=10 December 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> He has written and dictated the letters with the goal of elevating mankind and bringing a New Age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reversespins.com/agninewera.html|title=Morya on Prophecy, the New Era and the Age of Maitreya|publisher=Reverse Spins|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001204325/http://www.reversespins.com/agninewera.html|url-status=live|archive-date=1 October 2018}}</ref> Master Morya will physically incarnate in order to be the Manu ("[[Social:Progenitor|progenitor]] ") of the new [[Philosophy:Root race#The sixth root race|root race]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Skumin|first=V.A.|author-link=Victor Skumin|script-title=ru: Гимны Культуры Здоровья|trans-title=Gimns of Culture of Health|year=2007|location=Cheboksary|publisher=To Health via Culture|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/gimn.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-030-6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524174619/https://biblmdkz.ru/gimn.html |archive-date=24 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Besant-353">Besant/Leadbeater, ''Man: How, Whence, and Whither?''. pp. 353–495.</ref>

''[[Religion:Tara (Buddhism)|Tara]] Urusvati'' (''The Light of the Morning Star'') is the spiritual name of [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]] (1879–1955) in Agni Yoga and [[Philosophy:Roerichism|Roerichism]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Skumin|first=V. A.|script-title=ru: Афоризмы Агни Йоги|trans-title=Sutras of Agni Yoga|year=1995|location=Novocheboksarsk|publisher=Teros|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/af.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-007-8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614045433/https://biblmdkz.ru/af.html|archive-date=14 June 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> She was a teacher and healer as well as the inspired co-author of the Agni Yoga series of books, the first English books about Living Ethics and the Roerichs' relationship with their guru.<ref name=drayer>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YltbBgAAQBAJ|last=Drayer|first=Ruth Abrams|year=2014|title=Nicholas & Helena Roerich: The Spiritual Journey of Two Great Artists & Peacemakers|isbn=9780835631143|publisher=Quest Books|orig-year=2005|page=309}}</ref> Each of the 935 paragraphs of the book "Supermundane" begins with the word "Urusvati".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Supermundane.php|title=Supermundane|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1938|access-date=14 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003072908/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Supermundane.php|url-status=live|archive-date=3 October 2018}}</ref> In the epilogue of the book "Agni Yoga" she is called the Mother of Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga.php|title=Agni Yoga Epilogue|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1929|access-date=14 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006030251/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga.php|url-status=live|archive-date=6 October 2018}}</ref>

''Fuyama'' is the spiritual name of [[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] (1874–1947) in Agni Yoga and [[Philosophy:Roerichism|Roerichism]]. He was an internationally acclaimed artist, conservationist, archeologist, humanitarian and peacemaker.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/j10_2.html|title=Фуяма – огненный Гуру-Покровитель духовного человечества|trans-title=Fuyama (N. Roerich's spiritual name) is a Fiery Guru-patron of spiritual humanity|last=Skumin|first=V.A.|year=2004|journal=To Health Via Culture|volume=10|pages=31–34|issn=0204-3440 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530171337/https://biblmdkz.ru/j10_2.html |archive-date=30 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Nicolas Roerich called Urusvati "She Who Leads" in his creations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://irmtkullu.com/the-roerich-family/helena-roerich/|title=Helena Ivanovna Roerich (1879–1955)|publisher=irmtkullu.com|access-date=4 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912022712/http://irmtkullu.com/the-roerich-family/helena-roerich/|url-status=live|archive-date=12 September 2018}}</ref>

''[[Philosophy:Karma|Karma]]'' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɑr|m|ə}}; {{lang-sa|कर्म|karma}}, {{IPA-sa|ˈkɐɽmɐ|IPA|Karma.ogg}}) means action, work or deed. It also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect where intent and actions of an individual influence his future. Good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and future suffering. With origins in ancient India's Vedic civilization, the philosophy of karma is closely associated with the idea of [[Philosophy:Reincarnation|rebirth]] in many schools of Indian religions, particularly [[Philosophy:Karma in Hinduism|Hinduism]], [[Philosophy:Karma in Buddhism|Buddhism]], [[Unsolved:Karma in Jainism|Jainism]] and [[Religion:Sikhism|Sikhism]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Parvesh Singla|title=The Manual of Life – Karma|publisher=Parvesh singla|year=2002|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1mXR35jX-TsC|pages=5–7}}</ref> Karma works as one of the great principles of cosmic action. ''When man realizes the power of karma and strives to express the best aspirations, his path is parallel with the universal energy. The universal energy attracts the creative strivings. The future and the infinite are thus being built'', written in the holy scripture of Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Infinity-II.php|title=Infinity Part II, 159|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1930|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928051112/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Infinity-II.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 September 2018}}</ref>

[[Philosophy:Spiritual evolution|Spiritual evolution]] is the [[Philosophy:Philosophy|philosophical]], [[Religion:Theology|theological]], esoteric or [[Philosophy:Spirituality|spiritual]] idea that nature and human beings and human culture evolve either extending from an established cosmological [[Philosophy:Pattern|pattern]] (ascent), or in accordance with certain pre-established potentials. The phrase "spiritual evolution" can occur in the context of "higher evolution", a term used to differentiate psychological, mental, or spiritual evolution from the "lower evolution" or biological evolution of physical form.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Piyasīlo|title=The Buddha's Teachings: A Study of Comparative Buddhism in Truth, Tradition and Transformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKMEAQAAIAAJ|series=Dharmafarer Integrated Syllabus Series|issue=4|edition=2|publisher=Dharmafarer Enterprises|date=1991|page=130|isbn=9789839030013|quote=The instrument of this growth is the Dharma which is the path of the Higher Evolution. The term 'Higher' here refers to the mind - the basis of spiritual evolution. In contrast to the Higher Evolution, the biological (or Darwinian) evolution is known as the Lower Evolution.}}</ref>

The concept of spiritual evolution is also complemented by the idea of a creative impulse in human beings, known as [[Biology:Epigenesis|epigenesis]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Heindel|first1=Max|title=The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers|url=https://archive.org/details/rosicrucianphilo00heinrich|publisher=Rosicrucian Fellowship|date=1922|edition=3|page=[https://archive.org/details/rosicrucianphilo00heinrich/page/10 10]|oclc=782161707|quote=Since the mind was given to man, it is this original creative impulse, epigenesis, which has been the cause of all our development[...]}}</ref>

''Agni Yoga'', in general, is a Neo-Theosophical religious doctrine<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZYsPQgBNioC&pg=PA103|title=Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age|isbn=9789004136380|last=Hammer|first=Olav|date=1 September 2003|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> transmitted by the Helena and Nicholas Roerichs from 1920. The followers of Living Ethics believe that the teaching was given to the Roerichs' family<ref name=rf>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/family/|title=Roerichs' family|publisher=International Centre of the Roerichs|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915122613/http://en.icr.su/family/|url-status=live|archive-date=15 September 2018}}</ref> and their associates by Master Morya, the guru of Roerichs and Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of the modern Theosophical movement and the Theosophical Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katinkahesselink.net/path6.htm|title=The Esoteric Studies Guide|publisher=katinkahesselink.net|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905112921/http://www.katinkahesselink.net/path6.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=5 September 2018}}</ref> The Teaching of Life is a path of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the [[Philosophy:Planetary consciousness|planetary consciousness]] is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind.<ref name=homepage>{{cite web|url=http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_info.html|title=About Agni Yoga|publisher=agniyoga.org|access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027173931/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_info.html |archive-date=27 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

The most significant features of Agni Yoga are cosmism and universalism. They are expressed in the interpretation of any phenomena of human existence from the point of view of their cosmic significance and interrelation with the being of the Universe.<ref>{{cite book|last=Samokhina|first=N. E.|script-title=ru: Проблема человека в Агни-Йоге. Автореф. дисс. на соиск. уч. ст. канд. философ. наук|trans-title=The problem of man in Agni Yoga. Thesis for the degree of candidate of philosophical sciences|url=http://cheloveknauka.com/v/401041/a#?page=3|year=1994|pages=3–4|language=ru|publisher=Moscow State University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803090704/http://cheloveknauka.com/problema-cheloveka-v-agni-yoge|url-status=live|archive-date=3 August 2017}}</ref>

===Precursors of Agni Yoga===
[[File:Leo Tolstoy The Voice of the Silence.jpg|270px|thumb|<div class="center">''[[Religion:The Voice of the Silence|The Voice of the Silence]]'' presented by Helena Blavatsky to Leo Tolstoy (Yasnaya Polyana, a writer's home)</div>]]
{{Quote box|width=20em|align=right|quote="The [[Philosophy:New Age|New Age]] movement is the cultic milieu having become conscious of itself, in the later 1970s, as constituting a more or less unified "movement". All manifestations of this movement are characterized by a popular [[Social:Western culture|Western culture]] criticism expressed in terms of a secularized esotericism."|source=—Scholar of esotericism [[Biography:Wouter Hanegraaff|Wouter Hanegraaff]], 1997.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newagereligionwe0000hane/page/522|author=Wouter J. Hanegraaff|title=New Age Religion and Western Culture. Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought|publisher=Suny Press: Suny series in Western Esoteric Traditions|year=1997|page=[https://archive.org/details/newagereligionwe0000hane/page/522 522]|isbn=978-0791438541|df=dmy-all|}}</ref>}}

====Theosophy====
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The [[Philosophy:Theosophical Society|Theosophical Society]] was officially formed in {{wipe|New York City}} on 17 November 1875 by [[Biography:Helena Blavatsky|Helena Blavatsky]], [[Biography:Henry Steel Olcott|Henry Steel Olcott]], William Quan Judge, and others. It was self-described as "an unsectarian body of seekers after Truth, who endeavour to promote Brotherhood and strive to serve humanity". After a few years Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India and established the International Headquarters at [[Philosophy:Theosophical Society Adyar|Adyar]], in Madras.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OC4IAQAAIAAJ|year=1951|title=The Theosophical Movement 1875–1950|publisher=Cunningham Press|location=Los Angeles|oclc=5050326}}</ref>

Madame Blavatsky (''Upasica'' – this spiritual name means a female lay disciple. So the "Teachers" called her<ref>{{cite book|title=Theosophy and culture: Nicholas Roerich|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AdpG8sGt8K8C|author=Stasulane, Anita|publisher=Gregorian Biblical Bookshop|location=Rome|volume=8|year=2005|pages=26–27|isbn=978-88-7839-035-5}}</ref>) insisted that [[Philosophy:Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]] is not a [[Religion:Religion|religion]], although she did refer to it as the modern transmission of the "once universal religion" that she claimed had existed deep into the human past. The motto of the Theosophical movement is: "There is no Religion higher than Truth".<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.ultindia.org/tm_magazine/TMOct2018.pdf|title=The motto is located at the top of the magazine page|journal=The Theosophical Movement. A Magazine Devoted to the Living of the Higher Life|year=2018|volume=10|issue=6|publisher=Theosopy Company ({{wipe|India}}, {{wipe|Mumbai}}) Private LTD|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109112103/http://www.ultindia.org/tm_magazine/TMOct2018.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=9 November 2018}}</ref>

Theosophical organisations regard it as a system that embraces what they see as the "essential truth" underlying religion, philosophy, and science. Theosophical groups allow their members to hold other religious allegiances, resulting in Theosophists who also identify as [[Religion:Christians|Christians]], Buddhists, or [[Religion:Hindus|Hindus]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Kd5ngEACAAJ|last=Blavatsky|first=Helena|year=2013|title=Is Theosophy a Religion?|page=24|publisher=Literary Licensing, LLC |isbn=9781258977719}}</ref>

The term [[Philosophy:Neo-Theosophy|Neo-Theosophy]] was coined by Ferdinand T. Brooks around 1912. This term used by the followers of Helena Blavatsky to denominate the system of theosophical ideas expounded following the death of Blavatsky in 1891. This material differed in major respects from Blavatsky's original presentation, but it is accepted as genuinely Theosophical by many Theosophists around the world.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/thomas/|title=Theosophy Versus Neo-Theosophy: Margaret Thomas' Study of C. W. Leadbeater's and Annie Besant's Theosophical Teachings|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125070201/http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/thomas/|url-status=live|archive-date=25 November 2017}}</ref> Daryl S. Paulson associates "Neo-Theosophy" with [[Biography:Alice Bailey|Alice Bailey]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799372/|first=Daryl S.|last=Paulson|title=The Near-Death Experience: An Integration of Cultural, Spiritual, and Physical Perspectives|journal=Journal of Near-Death Studies|publisher=New York, N.Y.: Human Sciences Press|volume=18|number=1|year=1999|pages=13–25|issn=0891-4494|oclc=14781775|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928003351/https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799372/|archive-date=28 September 2018|url-status=live|doi=10.1023/A:1022956128611|s2cid=49566444}}</ref> She introduced the term [[Philosophy:New Age|New Age]] – [[Unsolved:Age of Aquarius|Age of Aquarius]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.gettextbooks.co.uk/isbn/9780853301059/|last=Bailey|first=Alice A.|year=2012|title=Education in the New Age|pages=174|publisher=gettextbooks.co.uk|isbn=978-0853301059|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928082920/https://www.gettextbooks.co.uk/isbn/9780853301059/|archive-date=28 September 2018|url-status=live|}}</ref>

Other Neo-Theosophists include [[Biography:Rudolf Steiner|Rudolf Steiner]]'s contemporary [[Biography:Peter Deunov|Peter Deunov]], and [[Biography:Samael Aun Weor|Samael Aun Weor]]. Dion Fortune and [[Biography:Aleister Crowley|Aleister Crowley]] were also influencers of the leading edge of the Theosophical movement. Some examples of Neo-Theosophists today include [[Biography:Benjamin Creme|Benjamin Creme]]<ref>{{cite book|url=http://share-international.org/books/PDFs/BCreme_TransmissionAMeditationForTheNewAge_Jun06.pdf|first=Benjamin|last=Creme|title=Transmission A Meditation for the New Age|publisher=share-international.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703160721/https://www.share-international.org/books/PDFs/BCreme_TransmissionAMeditationForTheNewAge_Jun06.pdf|archive-date=3 July 2019|url-status=live|author-link=Benjamin Creme}}</ref> and [[Biography:Victor Skumin|Victor Skumin]]. So, in 1990, Skumin, based on the theosophical concept of [[Philosophy:Spiritual evolution|spiritual evolution]], proposed a classification of ''Homo spiritalis'' ([[Social:Latin|Latin]]: "Spiritual man"), the sixth root race, consisting of eight sub-races (subspecies): ''HS-0'' Anabiosis spiritalis, ''HS-1'' Scientella spiritalis, ''HS-2'' Aurora spiritalis, ''HS-3'' Ascensus spiritalis, ''HS-4'' Vocatus spiritalis, ''HS-5'' Illuminatio spiritalis, ''НS-6'' Creatio spiritalis, and ''HS-7'' Servitus spiritalis.<ref>{{cite book |last=Skumin |first=V. A. |author-link=Victor Skumin |script-title=ru:Человек духовный: роль культуры духовного здоровья в утверждении новой человеческой расы на планете |trans-title=Spiritual man: The role of the Culture of spiritual health for approval of the new human race on the planet |year=1996 |publisher=biblmdkz.ru |url=https://biblmdkz.ru/hs.html |language=ru |isbn=978-5-88167-012-2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309182123/https://biblmdkz.ru/hs.html |archive-date=9 March 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Russian philosophy and Russian Cosmism ====

[[File:Vladimir Solovyov 1892 by Nikolay Yarochenko.jpg|180px|thumb|left|{{center|[[Biography:Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]] by Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1892}}]]
[[File:Pasternak fedorov.jpg|180px|thumb|left|{{center|Nikolai Fyodorov by Leonid Pasternak}}]]

Russian [[Philosophy:Philosophy|philosophy]] as a separate entity started its development in the 19th century, defined initially by the opposition of Westernizers, advocating Russia's following the Western political and economical models, and Slavophiles, insisting on developing {{wipe|Russia}} as a unique civilization. The latter group included Nikolai Danilevsky and Konstantin Leontiev, the early founders of [[Earth:Eurasianism|Eurasianism]]. "Slavophilia" was an intellectual movement originating from 19th century that wanted the [[Place:Russian Empire|Russian Empire]] to be developed upon values and institutions derived from its own early history. There were also similar movements in Bulgaria, Croatia, [[Place:Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]], {{wipe|Poland}}, and Serbia. Depending on the historical context, its opposite could be termed Slavophobia, a fear of Slavic culture.<ref name=Brit>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068172/Slavophile|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|title=Slavophile Russian history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010135930/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slavophile|url-status=live|archive-date=10 October 2018}}</ref>

The discussion of Russia's place in the world has since become the most characteristic feature of Russian philosophy. Notable philosophers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries include [[Biography:Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyev]], Vasily Rozanov, [[Biography:Lev Shestov|Lev Shestov]], [[Biography:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]], [[Biography:Sergei Bulgakov|Sergei Bulgakov]], [[Biography:Pavel Florensky|Pavel Florensky]], [[Biography:Pitirim Sorokin|Pitirim Sorokin]]. In its further development, Russian philosophy was also marked by deep connection to literature and interest in [[Philosophy:Creativity|creativity]], [[Organization:Society|society]], [[Religion:Religion|religion]], and [[Philosophy:Russian cosmism|Russian cosmism]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James T. Andrews|title=Red Cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry (Centennial of Flight Series)|year=2009|pages=168|publisher=Texas A & M University Press|oclc=680622488|isbn=9781603443609}}</ref>

Vladimir Solovyov described his encounters with the entity ''Sophia'' in his works, such as ''Three Encounters'' and ''Lectures on Godmanhood''. His fusion was driven by the desire to reconcile or unite with Orthodox Christianity the various iterations of the Russian Slavophiles' concept of [[Religion:Sobornost|sobornost]]. His Russian religious philosophy had a very strong impact on the Russian symbolist art movements of his time. His teachings on ''Sophia'', conceived as the merciful unifying feminine wisdom of God comparable to the Hebrew ''Shekinah'' or various goddess traditions, have been deemed a [[Religion:Heresy|heresy]] by Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and as unsound and unorthodox by the Patriarchate of Moscow.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ecumenizm.tripod.com/ECUMENIZM/id17.html|title=The Sophian heresy and attempts to feminize God|publisher=ecumenizm.tripod.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904010747/http://ecumenizm.tripod.com/ECUMENIZM/id17.html|url-status=live|archive-date=4 September 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Volition-of-the-Cosmos.jpg|180px|right|thumb|{{center|The cover of the book "The Will of the Universe; Unknown Intelligent Forces" by [[Biography:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky|Tsiolkovsky]], 1928}}]]

[[Biography:Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov|Nikolai Fyodorov]] was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmist movement and a precursor of [[Transhumanism|transhumanism]]. Fedorov argued that humanity is the culmination of [[Biology:Evolution|evolution]], as well as its creator and director. Humans must therefore direct evolution where their reason and morality dictate. Fedorov stated that the struggle against death can become the most natural cause uniting all people, regardless of their nationality, race, citizenship or wealth. He called this the "Common Cause". Fedorov thought that death and afterdeath existence should become the subject of comprehensive scientific inquiry, that achieving [[Unsolved:Immortality|immortality]] and revival is the greatest goal of science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1915_186.html|first=Nikolai|last=Berdyaev|title=The religion of resuscitative resurrection The "Philosophy of the Common Task" of N. F. Fedorov|publisher=berdyaev.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014115444/http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1915_186.html|archive-date=14 October 2018|url-status=live|}}</ref>

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, largely driven by fiction writers such as Jules Verne and [[Biography:H. G. Wells|Herbert Wells]] as well as philosophical movements like [[Philosophy:Russian cosmism|Russian cosmism]]. In 1903, [[Biography:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] published the first serious scientific work on space travel. His work was essentially unknown outside the [[Place:Russian Empire|Russian Empire]], but inside the country it inspired further research, experimentation and the formation of the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Spaceflight.<ref name="Riper2007">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8CxJeFzCdQC&pg=PA26|first=A. Bowdoin|last=Van Riper|title=Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology|date=29 October 2007|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8792-5|pages=26–28|access-date=13 October 2018}}</ref> Tsiolkovsky wrote a book called "The Will of the Universe; Unknown Intelligent Forces" in which he propounded a philosophy of [[Philosophy:Panpsychism|panpsychism]]. He believed humans would eventually colonize the [[Astronomy:Milky Way|Milky Way]]. His thought preceded the Space Age by several decades, and some of what he foresaw in his imagination has come into being since his death. Tsiolkovsky did not believe in traditional religious cosmology, but instead he believed in a cosmic being that governed humans.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/node/404538|last=Tsiolkovsky|first=Konstantin Eduardovich|title=The Will of the Universe; Unknown Intelligent Forces|place=Kaluga|year=1928|pages=23|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019001447/https://www.prlib.ru/en/node/404538|url-status=live|archive-date=19 October 2018}}</ref>

The ideas of the Russian philosophers and cosmists later were developed by those in the transhumanist movement and [[Philosophy:Roerichism|Roerichism]].<ref>{{cite book|year=2013|url=http://sovieteramuseum.com/?product=art-works-by-russian-cosmism-painter-xx-xxi-ct-catalogue-of-exhibition-2013|title=Art works by Russian cosmism painter XX – XXI ct. Catalogue of exhibition 2013|publisher=Roerich Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208011633/http://sovieteramuseum.com/?product=art-works-by-russian-cosmism-painter-xx-xxi-ct-catalogue-of-exhibition-2013|url-status=live|archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/work/conferencies/2003/index.php|title=International Scientific and Public Conference "Cosmic World Outlook – New Mentality of the ХХI Century"|publisher=en.icr.su|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016125908/http://en.icr.su/work/conferencies/2003/index.php|url-status=live|archive-date=16 October 2018}}</ref>
For example, the Russian scientist [[Biography:Victor Skumin|Victor Skumin]] argues that the [[Biography:Victor Skumin#Culture of Health, Agni Yoga and Theosophy|Culture of Health]] will play an important role in the creation of a human spiritual society into the [[Astronomy:Solar System|Solar System]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Skumin|first=V. A.|script-title=ru: Культура здоровья – фундаментальная наука о человеке|trans-title=A Culture of Health as a fundamental human science|year=1995 |url=https://biblmdkz.ru/kz.html |language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-003-0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623174117/https://biblmdkz.ru/kz.html|archive-date=23 June 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://900igr.net/prezentatsii/fizkultura/Kultura-zdorovja/007-Kultura-zdorovja-fundamentalnaja-nauka-o-Dukhovnom-CHelovechestve.html|year=2009|last=Kovaleva|first=E. A.|title=Педагогический совет. Культура здоровья учащихся как фактор здоровьесберегающей среды школы. Слайд 7|trans-title=Pedagogical Council. Slide 7 of the presentation "culture of health" to the lessons of physical education on the theme the "Health"|publisher=900igr.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115211850/http://900igr.net/prezentatsii/fizkultura/Kultura-zdorovja/007-Kultura-zdorovja-fundamentalnaja-nauka-o-Dukhovnom-CHelovechestve.html|url-status=live|archive-date=15 November 2013}}</ref>

==Historical development==
[[File:Roerich memorial and house (17293917288).jpg|thumb|180px|right|<div class="center">140th birth anniversary of Nicholas Roerich.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/10/12/nicholas_roerichs_140th_birth_anniversary_celebrated_in_kullu_valley_38961|title=Nicholas Roerich's 140th birth anniversary celebrated in Kullu Valley|publisher=The Voice of Russia|date=12 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111215352/https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/10/12/nicholas_roerichs_140th_birth_anniversary_celebrated_in_kullu_valley_38961|url-status=live|archive-date=11 November 2018}}</ref></div>]]
[[File:Roerich-Museum-1929.jpg|thumb|upright|{{center|Master Building in NYC, 1929 view.}}]]

Information about [[Philosophy:Vedanta|Vedanta]] and [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhism]] spread in Western countries in the first decade of the 20th century. In the United States of the 1920s, when the voices in religion were arguing over [[Religion:Fundamentalism|fundamentalism]] and [[Philosophy:Modernism|modernism]] as the only available choice, and long before [[Unsolved:Shangri-La|Shangri-La]] had become a popularly accepted myth, a vanguard movement was promoting the alternative of the wisdom of the [[Place:Eastern world|Eastern world]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Brian Taves|year=1985|title=Philosophy into Popular Fiction: Talbot Mundy and The Theosophical Society|journal=Southern California Quarterly|volume=67|issue=2|pages=153–186|doi=10.2307/41171147|jstor=41171147}}</ref>

[[Philosophy:Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]] proposed the existence of a society of Secret Chiefs called the [[Philosophy:Great White Brotherhood|Great White Brotherhood]]. The members of this Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophy and [[Philosophy:New Age|New Age]], are said to be perfected beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the [[Philosophy:Masters of the Ancient Wisdom|Masters of the Ancient Wisdom]] or the Ascended Masters. They are referred to by Theosophists as Elder Brothers of the human race, [[Philosophy:Adept|Adept]]s, [[Philosophy:Mahātmā|Mahātmā]]s, or simply as the Masters. The first person to talk about them in the West was [[Biography:Helena Blavatsky|Helena Blavatsky]], after she and other people claimed to have received messages from them. These included [[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] and [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]], too.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TI6fAwAAQBAJ|title=The myth of the Masters revived: The Occult Lives of Nikolai and Elena Roerich|isbn=978-90-04-27043-5|last=Andreyev|first=Alexandre|date=8 May 2014|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> She emphasized that knowledge was the leading path of all great Teachers. Knowledge will permit a free and vital approach to the great Teaching, as vitally real as is the great Matter itself.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/702099|author=Helena Roerich|title=Foundations of Buddhism|publisher=Agni Yoga Society|year=2017|isbn=9781946742353|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104085505/https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/702099|url-status=live|archive-date=4 November 2018}}</ref>

When Nicholas Roerich died, his wife is believed to have carried on the work prescribed by Master Morya, "I exist only due to the ray of the Great Master, who said it was necessary for me to remain because no one could replace me as I worked under the highest Cosmic Sign, and this century was in need of my attainment". The main aim of Helena Roerich was to spread the message of Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbth.com/blogs/tatar_straits/2017/03/18/when-helena-roerich-called-kalimpong-home_721753|title=When Helena Roerich called Kalimpong home|author=Ajay Kamalakaran|publisher=Russia Beyond|date=18 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021249/https://www.rbth.com/blogs/tatar_straits/2017/03/18/when-helena-roerich-called-kalimpong-home_721753|url-status=live|archive-date=12 November 2018}}</ref>

===The Agni Yoga Society in the State of New York===
The Agni Yoga Society was founded in 1920 by Helena and Nicholas Roerich. It is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in 1946 under the laws of the State of New York, and is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and membership dues. The organization was located in the building ''Master Apartments''. The aims of the Society are embodied in the philosophy that gives it its name—Agni Yoga—as contained in the books of the Agni Yoga Series published by the Society. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.agniyoga.ws/agni-yoga.html|title=Agni Yoga (Sacred Heart Fire), The Great Synthesis|publisher=agniyoga.ws|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602055254/http://www.agniyoga.ws/agni-yoga.html|url-status=live|archive-date=2 June 2019}}</ref>

Unlike previous [[Philosophy:Yoga|yoga]]s, Agni Yoga is a path of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind. Though not systematized in an ordinary sense, it is a teaching that helps the student to discover moral and spiritual guide-posts by which to learn to govern his or her life and thus contribute to the [[Philosophy:Common good|common good]]. For this reason Agni Yoga has been called a "Living Ethics". Speaking about the role of [[Philosophy:Personality|personality]] in the [[Philosophy:Spiritual evolution|spiritual evolution]] of mankind, [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]] wrote:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aquaac.org/un/elttrs/201003.html|title=The Spiritual Work of the United Nations and the Liberation of Humanity Creating Fundamental Global Transformations through the Power of Thought|publisher=aquaac.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222054552/http://www.aquaac.org/un/elttrs/201003.html|url-status=live|archive-date=22 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Letters-of-Helena-Roerich-II.php|title=Letters of Helena Roerich II, 25 October 1936|publisher=agniyoga.org|access-date=25 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224065553/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Letters-of-Helena-Roerich-II.php|url-status=live|archive-date=24 February 2017}}</ref>
{{blockquote|''The greatest benefit that we can contribute consists in the broadening of consciousness, and the improvement and enrichment of our thinking, together with the purification of the heart, in order to strengthen our emanations; and by thus raising our vibrations, we restore the health of all that surrounds us. True, it is impossible to increase our store of psychic energy without the help of the Teacher; however if our hearts are open and purified, and if our organism permits it, the Teacher will not tarry in manifesting himself''.}}

===Latvian Roerich Society in Riga===
The Latvian Roerich Society is one of the oldest society established by the Roerich family. In 1920 Vladimir Schibayev, while being in [[Place:London|London]], met Nicholas and Helena Roerich. In [[Place:Riga|Riga]] they created a group of people to study Agni Yoga and other theosophical literature. In 1928, Schibayev went to {{wipe|India}}, to become the secretary of Roerich.<ref name="la">{{cite web|url=http://www.latvijasrerihabiedriba.lv/images/RXLVang.htm|title=In short about Latvian Roerich Society|publisher=latvijasrerihabiedriba|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118234925/http://www.latvijasrerihabiedriba.lv/images/RXLVang.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=18 November 2017}}</ref>

In Riga the place of the leader of Latvian Roerich Society was taken by [[Social:Doctor (title)|doctor]]-[[Unsolved:Homeopathy|homeopath]] Felix Lukin. He and his son Harald Lukin conducted clinical trials and many natural [[Chemistry:Medication|medication]]s that they received from Svetoslav Roerich of the Himalayan Research Institute named ''Urusvati''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xB-0B1OWsbIC&pg=PA144|title=History and status of homoeopathy around the world |author=Aswarda Das |isbn=978-81-8056-573-1 |year=2005 |pages=144–147|publisher=B. Jain Publishers }}</ref>

In 1936 Richard Rudzitis officially became the president of the Latvian Society. During his lead, the books of Living Ethics, the works by the Roerichs, [[Biography:Helena Blavatsky|Helena Blavatsky]]'s and works by Rudzitis himself were published. In 1937 the first conference of [[Place:Baltic states|Baltic]] Roerich Societies took place. The Latvian Society was renewed in the [[Place:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]] in 1988. Harald Lukin carried the Roerichs Banner of Peace. The new president Gunta Rudzite, the daughter of Rihard Rudzitis, held contacts with many people of the republics in the USSR who were interested in the ideas of Agni Yoga. On 2005 the Roerich Society received social beneficial status in the Republic of Latvia.<ref name="la"/>

===Master Institute of United Arts in New York City===
Nicolas Roerich is known as a thinker and a builder of life. His art and writings are an evocation to beauty, knowledge, and culture. His vision is captured in his philosophical statement of the Master Institute of United Arts which he formed in {{wipe|New York City}} in 1921:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/2017/07/12/nicholas-roerichs-symbolic-journey/|title=Inspired By Art: Nicholas Roerich's Symbolic Journey|date=12 July 2017 |publisher=philosophicalsociety.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921115023/https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/2017/07/12/nicholas-roerichs-symbolic-journey/|url-status=live|archive-date=21 September 2018}}</ref>
{{blockquote|''Art will unify all humanity. Art is one – indivisible. Art has its many branches, yet all are one.  Art is the manifestation of the coming synthesis. Art is for all''.}}

Louis L. Horch and Nettie S. Horch financed and directed the Master Institute that taught the fine and dramatic arts. For much of its existence, the Master Institute was housed in the Master Apartments, designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett in 1929 for Roerich and built on the site of the former Horch mansion at 310 Riverside Dr. in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6636038/|title=Louis L. and Nettie S. Horch Papers, 1920s–1960s|publisher=columbia.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112131453/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6636038/|url-status=live|archive-date=12 January 2016}}</ref>

Roerich planned to realize the educational concepts at the institute. He invited as teachers such famous people as George Bellows, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Norman Bel Geddes, Stark Young, Deems Taylor, Robert Edmond Jones, and Lee Simonson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roerich.org/roerich-biography.php|title=Nicholas Roerich Biography America|publisher=Nicholas Roerich Museum New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105124603/http://www.roerich.org/roerich-biography.php|url-status=live|archive-date=5 November 2018}}</ref> Intensive work was in process under direct supervision of Roerich. Nicholas gave lectures, organized new classes, for example classes of music and sculpture for the blind. Many representatives of American science and culture expressed their willingness to educate students in accordance with the proposed curriculum. There were Felix Salmond, Ernest Bloch, and Michael Fokin. In the ''Institute of United Arts in New York City'' also taught Rockwell Kent, Claude Bragdon, George Bellows, and Norman Bel Geddes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roerich-izvara.ru/eng/museum/roerich-and-america-13.htm|first=O. A.|last=Cherkasova|title=N. K. Roerich and America|publisher=Nicholas Roerich Estate Museum in Izvara (Leningrad Region)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106092928/http://www.roerich-izvara.ru/eng/museum/roerich-and-america-13.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=6 November 2018}}</ref>

Some contemporaries were skeptical spiritual mission of Nicholas Roerich. But those who embraced his philosophy experienced something transformative in his canvases. Roerich's name is universally known not only as a master of the brush but also as a thinker and a builder of life. The works of the artist are an evocation to beauty, knowledge, and culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/tag/master-institute-of-united-arts/|title=Tag Archives: Master Institute of United Arts|date=12 July 2017 |publisher=The Masonic Philosophical Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106092919/https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/tag/master-institute-of-united-arts/|url-status=live|archive-date=6 November 2018}}</ref>

===Himalayan Research Institute named ''Urusvati'' in India===
[[File:Urusvati base.jpg|thumb|240px|left|<div class="center">Himalayan Research Institute named ''Urusvati'' in Naggar (Himachal Pradesh, {{wipe|India}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbth.com/articles/2012/05/02/nicholas_roerichs_legacy_lives_on_in_himalayan_hamlet_15652|author=Ajay Kamalakaran|title=Nicholas Roerich's legacy lives on in Himalayan Hamlet|date=2 May 2012 |publisher=rbth.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030131238/https://www.rbth.com/articles/2012/05/02/nicholas_roerichs_legacy_lives_on_in_himalayan_hamlet_15652|url-status=live|archive-date=30 October 2018}}</ref></div>]]

Roerich's family moved to {{wipe|India}} in December 1923. They settled in Darjeeling, a town in the {{wipe|India}}n state of West Bengal. It is located in the Lower Himalayan Ranges at an elevation of {{convert|6700|ft|1|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ignca.gov.in/roerich-himalayan-museum-of-folk-and-tribal-art/|title=Roerich Himalayan Museum of Folk And Tribal Art|publisher=ignca.gov.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914132456/http://ignca.gov.in/roerich-himalayan-museum-of-folk-and-tribal-art/|url-status=live|archive-date=14 September 2018}}</ref>

From 1925 to 1928, Roerich took part in a [[Place:Central Asia|Central Asia]] expedition, that traveled through hard-to-reach and little-investigated regions of {{wipe|India}}, {{wipe|China}}, [[Place:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]], Mongolia and [[Place:Tibet|Tibet]]. Sikkim was the starting point of the expedition. During the expedition, research in topics such as [[History:History|history]], archeology, [[Social:Ethnography|ethnography]], [[Philosophy:History of philosophy|history of philosophy]], arts and religions, and [[Earth:Geography|geography]] was conducted. Rare manuscripts were found, and rich linguistic materials were collected. Special attention was paid to the problem of historical unity of cultures of various peoples. In 1925, Helena Roerich began to translate an extensive selection from ''[[Religion:The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett|The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett]]''. She also wrote a book entitled "Chalice of the East", which was published under the pen name "Iskander Khanum". Helena Roerich's manuscript "Foundations of Buddhism" was published in 1926, at [[Place:Ulaanbaatar|Urga]], where her expedition was staying at the time. In this book, the fundamental philosophical notions of Buddha's teaching were interpreted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.found-helenaroerich.ru/eng/biography/|title=Helena I. Roerich (1879–1955) philosopher, writer, spouse of Nicholas Roerich|publisher=found-helenaroerich.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022044433/http://www.found-helenaroerich.ru/eng/biography/|url-status=live|archive-date=22 October 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Юрий Рерих.jpg|thumb|180px|<div class="center">Prof. George de Roerich, director of the Himalayan Research Institute named ''Urusvati''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roerich-izvara.ru/eng/museum/roerich-and-america-18.htm|title=N.K. Roerich and America|publisher=roerich-izvara.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323054022/http://www.roerich-izvara.ru/eng/museum/roerich-and-america-18.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=23 March 2018}}<br/>The subtitle beneath the first picture: ''George Roerich – director of «Urusvati» Institute. Courtesy of N. Roerich Museum, New York''.</ref></div>]]

The plethora of materials collected during the Central Asia Expedition became the foundation for the establishment of the Himalayan Research Institute named ''Urusvati'' in Darjeeling in 1928. A few months later the institute moved to Naggar in Kulu Valley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/nagar-himachal-pradesh-india-interior-of-the-roerich-estate-museum-where-the-russian-artist-philosopher-and-traveller-nicholas-roerich-settled-i-image183921077.html|title=Nagar, Himachal Pradesh, India: Interior of the Roerich Estate museum, where the Russian artist, philosopher and traveller Nicholas Roerich settled|publisher=alamy.com|access-date=11 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016130020/https://www.alamy.com/nagar-himachal-pradesh-india-interior-of-the-roerich-estate-museum-where-the-russian-artist-philosopher-and-traveller-nicholas-roerich-settled-i-image183921077.html|url-status=live|archive-date=16 October 2018}}</ref>

The center engaged in scientific exchange with 285 institutes, universities, museums, and libraries around the world. George de Roerich was a world-renowned scientist, Orientalist, and [[Biography:Guru|guru]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/j9.html|title=Удрая – наш Духовный Наставник|trans-title=Udraia (George Roerich's spiritual name) is our Guru|last=Skumin|first=V.A.|year=2003|journal=To Health Via Culture|volume=9|pages=3–12|issn=0204-3440|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530170309/https://biblmdkz.ru/j9.html|archive-date=30 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> His monumental translation of the ''Blue Annals'' ({{bo|t=དེབ་ཐེར་སྔོན་པོ}}),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2R6OaXn76IgC|first=George N.|last=Roerich|title=The Blue Annals Parts 1–2|pages=1141|isbn=9788120804715|author-link=George de Roerich|year=1988|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. }}</ref> and his 11-volume "Tibetan-Russian-English dictionary with [[Social:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]] parallels" were published in 1934.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000054567489?query=Tibetan-Russian-English+dictionary+|title=The Tibetan-Russian-English dictionary with Sanskrit parallels|year=1983|publisher=The European Library|isbn=9785020175853|oclc=602097058|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115014959/http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000054567489?query=Tibetan-Russian-English+dictionary+|archive-date=15 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

One of his main focuses for the center was to bring people to the institute who practiced and lived the cultures being examined at the center. George Roerich was the director of the Himalayan Research Institute named ''Urusvati'' for 10 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/family/gnr/02.php|title=George Roerich /Yuri Nikolayevich Roerich (1902–1960)|publisher=en.icr.su|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728035814/http://en.icr.su/family/gnr/02.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 July 2018}}</ref>

[[File:S.Roerich Stamp.jpg|left|245px|thumb|{{center|Svetoslav Roerich. Russian postage stamp}}]]

Svetoslav Roerich was in charge of the work of the Natural Sciences Department. He carried out unique researches in various fields of the natural sciences. At the basis of his scientific investigations was understanding of nature as one whole that is inalienably connected with the cosmic laws. The scope of his interests: [[Social:Cultural studies|cultural studies]], comparative religious studies and [[Philosophy:Philosophy|philosophy]], [[Biology:Botany|botany]], [[Earth:Mineralogy|mineralogy]], Tibetan pharmacopoeia, [[Chemistry:Chemistry|chemistry]] and its alchemical sources.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/family/snr/02.php|title=Svetoslav Nikolayevich Roerich (1904–1993)|publisher=en.icr.su|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915122350/http://en.icr.su/family/snr/02.php|archive-date=15 September 2018|url-status=live|access-date=14 November 2018}}</ref>

The work of the Himalayan Research Institute was based on wide international cooperation.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Aunovska|first=Olga|date=1985|title=Seeds of fraternity|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/articles/ukr485.html|journal=Ukraine|volume=4|pages=14–15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004170619/https://biblmdkz.ru/articles/ukr485.html |archive-date=4 October 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Major [[Scientist|scientist]]s and cultural workers collaborated with the Institute Urusvati, including the Soviet academician Nikolai Vavilov, the biologist and biophysicist [[Biography:Jagadish Chandra Bose|Jagadish Chandra Bose]], the [[Social:Bengalis|Bengali]] [[History:Polymath|polymath]] [[Biography:Rabindranath Tagore|Rabindranath Tagore]], the father of Indian journalism Ramananda Chatterjee, the Indian [[Biography:Philosopher|philosopher]] and [[Social:Politician|statesman]] [[Biography:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan|Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], the Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin, and many others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/evolution/urusvati/03.php|title=The Light of the Morning Star|publisher=International Centre of the Roerichs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917181848/http://en.icr.su/evolution/urusvati/03.php|url-status=live|archive-date=17 September 2018}}</ref>

''The Journal of the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute (U.J.)'' published articles on various aspects of science and culture. The publications presented a multi-level perception of the authors who were looking for a new integration of different cultural models into the mainstream of Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBO3pmzzhWkC|title=Journal of Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute, Volumes 1–3|isbn=9788179360118|publisher=Roerich Museum|date=August 2003}}</ref>

===Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City===
[[File:WTM3 The Fixers 0015.jpg|180px|thumb|right|{{center|Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City}}]]

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City was originally located in the Master Apartments at 103rd Street and Riverside Drive (Manhattan), which were built especially for Roerich in 1929. Now the museum is located in a brownstone at 319 West 107th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. This museum is one of the most off-the-beaten-path of Manhattan's museums, a collection of works by Nicolas Roerich, who lived on the Upper West Side for a time in the 1920s. The brownstone has natural scenes from the Himalayas, where the artist spent two decades of his life. Roerich usually painted in stark tempera, with orange skies or deep blue mountains.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/travel/journeys-specialty-museums-finding-art-not-crowds-in-new-york.html|date=16 April 2006|first=Seth|last=Kugel|title=Journeys: Speciality Museums; Finding Art, Not Crowds, in New York. The Himalayan Upper West Side|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001211918/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/travel/journeys-specialty-museums-finding-art-not-crowds-in-new-york.html|url-status=live|archive-date=1 October 2019}}</ref>

Currently, the museum includes between 100 and 200 of Roerich's works as well as a collection of archival materials and still attracts pilgrims from throughout the world. The mission of the Nicholas Roerich Museum is one: to make available to the public the full range of Roerich's accomplishments. They cover the realms of art, science, spirituality, peacemaking, and more.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5Kyo03NxncC&pg=PA86|title=Spiritual Places|last=Squires|first=Emily|author2=Len Belzer|year=2000|pages=86|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1931044035}}</ref>

The Museum seeks to realize the ideas of Agni Yoga on the role of culture in the evolution of the world and evolution of the human consciousness. Information about these ideas of Roerich's is always available. The museum also provides an opportunity for young musicians to perform in front of an audience on a voluntary and free basis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roerich.org/museum-about.php?mid=about_en|title=Nicholas Roerich Museum New York|publisher=roerich.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602175504/http://www.roerich.org/museum-about.php|url-status=live|archive-date=2 June 2019}}</ref>

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York is the largest center of Roerich-related activity outside of Russian Federation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_roerich.html|title=Nikolay Roerich|publisher=isfp.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316173655/http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_roerich.html|archive-date=16 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

===The International non-governmental organisation "International Centre of the Roerichs"===
[[File:Зал Музея Рериха в Москве. 2014.JPG|thumb|240px|left|{{center|International Center of the Roerichs (The hall of ''Living Ethics'') in 2014.}}]]

The International Center of the Roerichs ([[Social:Russian language|Russian]]: ''Междунаро́дный це́нтр Ре́рихов'') is a non-governmental public association of citizens and public associations incorporated on the basis of their common interests in the cause of study, preservation, and popularization of the Roerich family heritage.<ref name=rf/> The center is an associated member of the Non-Governmental Organizations Association under the United Nations Department of Public Information. Conducting its activities, this international public organization proceeds by applying the law of the states in which its structural divisions are acting, the United Nations Charter, norms of [[Finance:International law|international law]] and international legal acts related to the center's sphere of activity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/about/statute/|title=Extract from the Charter of the International public organization "International Center of the Roerichs"|publisher=en.icr.su|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622235630/http://en.icr.su/about/statute/|archive-date=22 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Museum named after Nicholas Roerich ([[Social:Russian language|Russian]]: ''Музе́й и́мени Н. К. Ре́риха Междунаро́дного це́нтра Ре́рихов'') contains the Roerichs' cultural heritage passed on to the Soviet Roerichs' Foundation (now International Center of the Roerichs) by Svetoslav Roerich in 1990. It carries in itself a new cosmic worldview. The core of Roerichism is the philosophy of cosmic reality – Agni Yoga, which develops the idea of a close relationship between mankind and the [[Astronomy:Cosmos|cosmos]], contains knowledge which assists in understanding the specific features peculiar to the new evolutionary stage of mankind's development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.icr.su/museum/|title=The Nicholas Roerich Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623105616/http://en.icr.su/museum/|publisher=en.icr.su|archive-date=23 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

===The World Organisation of Culture of Health===
[[File:Skuminpadma083020.jpg|thumb|left |{{center|Skumin at the age of 72}}]]

The World Organisation of Culture of Health (WOCH) – International [[Social:Social movement organization|social movement]] "To Health via Culture'" ([[Social:Russian language|Russian]]: Междунаро́дное обще́ственное Движе́ние «К Здоро́вью че́рез Культу́ру») was founded in the year 1994. [[Biography:Victor Skumin|Victor Skumin]] was elected to the post of the president-founder of this organisation. The WOCH operates in accordance with the charter registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kult-zdor.ru/?page_id=824|title=Charter of the World Organisation of Culture of Health (Russian: Устав)|publisher=Kult-zdor.ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126120523/http://kult-zdor.ru/?page_id=824|archive-date=26 January 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

In Agni Yoga much attention is paid to health. So in the book ''Supermundane'' (paragraph 525) recorded the words of [[Philosophy:Morya (Theosophy)|Master Morya]], addressed to Urusvati,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Supermundane.php |title=Supermundane, 525|publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003072908/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Supermundane.php|url-status=live |archive-date=3 October 2018}}</ref>

{{blockquote|''Urusvati knows that people are responsible for three aspects of health. First, their own health; second, the health of the planet; and finally, the health of the supermundane world... People must safeguard their own health, not only for themselves but also for those around them. The human organism, though seemingly small, is a powerful repository of energy, and truly dominates its earthly environment''.}}

It is from these positions that WOCH approaches the solution of problems related to health.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kult-zdor.ru/?page_id=5|first=V.A.|last=Skumin|title=Culture of Health is a science of future|publisher=The World Organisation of Culture of Health |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627104056/http://kult-zdor.ru/?page_id=5|archive-date=27 June 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> As the holy scripture of Agni Yoga says, physicians can be true helpers of humanity in the ascent of the spirit. The intellect of a physician must be reinforced by his heart. The physician must be a psychologist, and he must not ignore the wondrous psychic energy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Aum.php |title=Aum, §3 |publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1936|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928061132/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Aum.php|archive-date=28 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Professors Verhorubova and Lobanova from Tomsk State Pedagogical University argued (2012) that, in accordance with the concept of the culture of health, proposed by [[Biography:Victor Skumin|Skumin]], culture – spiritual, mental, and physical – determines the status of human health. And health – spiritual, mental, physical – is a prerequisite for achieving a higher level of culture.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/mnogoobrazie-opredeleniy-fenomena-kultura-zdorovya-kak-pokazatel-ego-mnogogrannosti-v-pedagogicheskom-obrazovanii|last2=Lobanova|first2=N.A.|last1=Verhorubova|first1=O.V.|title=Многообразие определений феномена "культура здоровья" как показатель его многогранности в педагогическом образовании|trans-title=The diversity of definitions the phenomenon of "culture of health" as an indicator of its versatility in education|journal=Вестник Томского государственного педагогического университета|year=2012|issue=5|pages=161–5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107165104/http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/mnogoobrazie-opredeleniy-fenomena-kultura-zdorovya-kak-pokazatel-ego-mnogogrannosti-v-pedagogicheskom-obrazovanii|archive-date=7 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The culture of heath is an integral sphere of knowledge that develops and solves theoretical and practical tasks of harmonious development of people’s spiritual, mental, and physical strength, health improvement of biosocial environment that provides a higher life creative level on this basis (by Skumin and Bobina, 1994).<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://culturehealth.org/ijes_archive/IJES,Vol.2,No1,2019_(7).pdf |last1=Melnyk |first1=Yuriy Borysovych |last2=Pypenko |first2=Iryna Sergiivna |title=Concept "Health Culture" in System of Categories "Culture" and "Health" |journal=International Journal of Education and Science |publisher=Kharkiv Regional Public Organization - Culture of Health |year=2019 |volume=1 |page=55 |issn=2618-0553 |doi=10.26697/ijes.2019.1.07 |doi-access=free |access-date=4 September 2023}}.</ref>

The World Organisation of Culture of Health, in order to promote international relations, has established a link with the International Buddhist Meditation Centre. The anthem of WOCH (''To Health via Culture'') consists of four stanzas. The capital letters each of the four stanzas form the word Agni.<ref>{{cite book|last=Skumin|first=Victor|script-title=ru: Молитвы, гимны, притчи Культуры Здоровья|trans-title=Culture of Health: prayers, hymns, parables|year=2002|location=Cheboksary|publisher=To Health via Culture|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/m.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-018-4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524172751/https://biblmdkz.ru/m.html |archive-date=24 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Gimns of Culture of Health">{{cite book|last=Skumin|first=Victor|script-title=ru: Гимны Культуры Здоровья|trans-title=Gimns of Culture of Health|year=2007|location=Cheboksary|publisher=To Health via Culture|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/gimn.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-030-6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524174619/https://biblmdkz.ru/gimn.html |archive-date=24 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Another anthem by Skumin is termed "Urusvati". [[Biography:Helena Roerich|Helena Roerich]] is known as the ''[[Religion:Tara (Buddhism)|Tara]] Urusvati'' in Agni Yoga and [[Philosophy:Roerichism|Roerichism]]. This anthem begins with the phrase, "The fire of the heart ignites Urusvati, she teaches the spirit take-off on the wings of the grace". Six more [[Religion:Hymn|hymn]]s have the names: "Heart", "Shambhala", "Morya", "Ur", "Agni", and "Sun".<ref name="Gimns of Culture of Health"/>

The [[Religion:Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox Church]] criticises Agni Yoga as [[Philosophy:New Age|New Age]]:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orthodox-institute.ru/biblioteka/materialyi-po-sektovedeniyu/okkultizm/grantsev-v.i.-kriticheskiy-analiz-ideologii-nyu-eydzh-i-otsenka-ee-obschestvennoy-opasnosti/|last=Grantzev|first=V. I.|title=Критический анализ идеологии "Нью Эйдж" и оценка её общественной опасности|trans-title=A critical analysis of the ideology of the "New Age" and an assessment of its threat to society|publisher=Orthodox-institute.ru |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220222144900/http://www.orthodox-institute.ru/biblioteka/materialyi-po-sektovedeniyu/okkultizm/grantsev-v.i.-kriticheskiy-analiz-ideologii-nyu-eydzh-i-otsenka-ee-obschestvennoy-opasnosti/|archive-date=22 February 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.creationism.org/crimea/text/85.htm |last=Grantzev|first=V. I.|title=Критический анализ идеологии "Нью Эйдж" и оценка ее общественной опасности. Текст|trans-title=A critical analysis of the ideology of the "New Age" and an assessment of its threat to society. Text|publisher=scienceandapologetics.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143329/https://www.creationism.org/crimea/text/85.htm |archive-date=10 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{blockquote|The ideology of the New Age serves outstanding contemporary philosophers: [[Biography:Gregory Bateson|Gregory Bateson]], [[Biography:Ken Wilber|Ken Wilber]], [[Biography:Paul Feyerabend|Paul Feyerabend]]. On a grand scale is the creation and support of international organizations, contained in the ideology of the New Age. In {{wipe|Russia}} and in {{wipe|Ukraine}}, the international movement "To Health via Culture", based on the teachings of Agni Yoga, operates and has a great publishing activity.}}

The WOCH has its own publishing house ("To Health via Culture"), which has the right to publish the books with the [[International Standard Book Number]] (ISBN). ''The Journal of the World Organisation of Culture of Health (″World Health Culture Organization″)'' is based in Novocheboksarsk. The journal has received the [[International Standard Serial Number]] (ISSN) 0204-3440.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=STNO&searchType=1&recCount=25&searchArg=0204-3440|title=K zdorovʹi︠u︡ cherez kulʹturu: zhurnal Mezhdunarodnogo obshchestvennogo dvizhenii︠a︡ "K zdorovʹi︠u︡ cherez kulʹturu"|trans-title=To health via culture: journal of the World Health Culture Organization |publisher=catalog.loc.gov |oclc=70966742|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602181820/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=STNO&searchType=1&recCount=25&searchArg=0204-3440|url-status=live|archive-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> The main topics of the magazine are the dissemination of ideas of culture of health, holistic medicine, [[Philosophy:Roerichism|Roerichism]], and Agni Yoga.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/articles/j25_3.html|title=Skumin's sutras of Agni Yoga. Russian-English parallel texts. Leaves of Morya's garden. Book One: The Call |last=Ostrovidova |first=L. A.|year=2016|journal=To Health Via Culture|volume=25|pages=16–28|issn=0204-3440|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530173848/https://biblmdkz.ru/articles/j25_3.html|archive-date=30 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

==The Holy Scripture of Agni Yoga==
[[File:Obshina (orbital station Mir).jpg|thumb|right|230px|<div class="center">The book "New Era Community" (Russian: ″Община″<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_ru/New-Era-Community.php|title=New Era Community|trans-title=Община|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1926|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007203922/http://agniyoga.org/ay_ru/New-Era-Community.php|url-status=live|archive-date=7 October 2018}}</ref>) which was on board of orbital station "Mir", 1999.</div>]]
[[File:Обложка книги «Чаша Востока. I. Письма Махатмы. Перевод Искандер Ханум (Е.И. Рерих). Нью-Йорк, Париж, Рига, Харбин. Алатас, 1925».jpg|right|thumb|230px|<div class="center">Cover of the book "Chalice of the East. Letters of Mahatma" (Pussian: "Чаша Востока. Письма Махатмы". Translated by Iskander Hanum (Helena Roerich), 1925.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://ligatma.org/mahatma_letters/chasha_vostoka/letter1.html|title=Chalice of the East. Letters of Mahatma|trans-title=Чаша Востока. Письма Махатмы|publisher=Alatas|location={{wipe|New York City}}, Paris, Riga, Harbin|language=ru|isbn=978-5884840201|oclc=1055902429|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011191455/http://ligatma.org/mahatma_letters/chasha_vostoka/letter1.html|url-status=live|archive-date=11 October 2018|year=1992}}</ref></div>]]

The beginning of the religious and philosophical book series of Agni Yoga was delivered on 24 March 1920.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCgKBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|first=Daniel H.|last=Shubin|title=Helena Roerich: Living Ethics and the Teaching for a New Epoch (Agni Yoga)|year=2013|page=11|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-0-9662757-4-2}}</ref> These records eventually became the holy scripture, consisting of a series of books with a total volume of about five thousand pages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lebendige-ethik-schule.de/whatay.htm|title=What is Agni Yoga?|publisher=lebendige-ethik-schule.de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912092209/http://www.lebendige-ethik-schule.de/whatay.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=12 September 2018}}</ref>
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Leaves-of-Moryas-Garden-I.php|title=Leaves of Morya's Garden Book One The Call|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1924|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403110554/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Leaves-of-Moryas-Garden-I.php|url-status=live|archive-date=3 April 2017}} Transmitted from 1920 to 1923. First published in Paris in 1923.
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Leaves-of-Moryas-Garden-II.php|title=Leaves of Morya's Garden Book Two Illumination|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1925|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021105527/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Leaves-of-Moryas-Garden-II.php|url-status=live|archive-date=21 October 2018}} Transmitted from May 1923 to June 1925.
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/New-Era-Community.php|title=New Era Community|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1926|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920091814/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/New-Era-Community.php|url-status=live|archive-date=20 September 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga.php|title=Agni Yoga|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1929|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006030251/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga.php|url-status=live|archive-date=6 October 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Infinity-I.php|title=Infinity Part I|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1930|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805172704/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Infinity-I.php|url-status=live|archive-date=5 August 2020}}
# {{cite web| url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Infinity-II.php|title=Infinity Part II|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1930|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805173431/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Infinity-II.php|url-status=live|archive-date=5 August 2020}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Hierarchy.php|title=Hierarchy|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1931|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928044009/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Hierarchy.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 September 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Heart.php|title=Heart|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1932|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007212701/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Heart.php|url-status=live|archive-date=7 October 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-I.php|title=Fiery World I|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1933|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018231845/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-I.php|url-status=live|archive-date=18 October 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-II.php|title=Fiery World II|publisher=agniyoga.org |year=1934|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918072733/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-II.php|url-status=live|archive-date=18 September 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-III.php|title=Fiery World III|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1935|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021105514/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Fiery-World-III.php|archive-date=21 October 2018|url-status=live}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Aum.php|title=Aum|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1936|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928061132/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Aum.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 September 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Brotherhood.php|title=Brotherhood|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1937|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928054041/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Brotherhood.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 September 2018}}
# {{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Supermundane.php|title=Supermundane|publisher=agniyoga.org|year=1938|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003072908/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Supermundane.php|url-status=live|archive-date=3 October 2018}}

===Further reading===
* {{cite web|last=Roerich|first=Helena|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Letters-of-Helena-Roerich-I.php|title=Letters of Helena Roerich I|year=1929–1935 |publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318084557/http://www.agniyoga.org/ay_en/Letters-of-Helena-Roerich-I.php|archive-date=18 March 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=9 September 2018}}
* {{cite web|last=Roerich|first=Helena|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Letters-of-Helena-Roerich-II.php|title=Letters of Helena Roerich II|year=1935–1939 |publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224065553/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Letters-of-Helena-Roerich-II.php|url-status=live |archive-date=24 February 2017}}
* {{cite web|last=Roerich|first=Helena|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Foundations-of-Buddhism.php|title=Foundations of Buddhism|publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928053137/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Foundations-of-Buddhism.php|url-status=live|archive-date=28 September 2018}}
* {{cite web|last=Roerich|first=Helena|year=1992|title=On Eastern Crossroads Legends and Prophecies of Asia|publisher=Agni Yoga Society, New York |url=https://docviewer.yandex.ru/view/94772562/?*=RqAFLf5FUfFL9p7W9ygrQVtl6j17InVybCI6InlhLWRpc2stcHVibGljOi8vSUI2cSs0NnNtSG1DV1RYVUp3dDU3azRuNDNDWVljM2daeVI5a1hrOE8rdz06L0VuZ2xpc2gvQWduaSBZb2dhL1JvZXJpY2ggSEkgLSBPbiBFYXN0ZXJuIENyb3Nzcm9hZHMucGRmIiwidGl0bGUiOiJSb2VyaWNoIEhJIC0gT24gRWFzdGVybiBDcm9zc3JvYWRzLnBkZiIsInVpZCI6Ijk0NzcyNTYyIiwieXUiOiI3MDU0Njk4NjcxNTAxODM0MzIxIiwibm9pZnJhbWUiOmZhbHNlLCJ0cyI6MTUzNzY3MzQ2NDQ4MX0%3Dagniyoga.org}}
* {{cite book|url=http://www.roerich.org/roerich-writings-realm-of-light.php|last=Roerich|first=Nicolas|title=Realm of Light|year=2017|location=New York |publisher=Nicholas Roerich Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012190341/http://www.roerich.org/roerich-writings-realm-of-light.php|url-status=live|archive-date=12 October 2018}}
* {{cite book|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/Shambhala-Nicholas-Roerich/9780892813056?a_aid=LearnFromMasters#rating-distribution |last=Roerich|first=Nicolas |title=Shambhala: In Search of the New Era|year=1990|location=Rochester, VT, United States|publisher= Inner Traditions Bear and Company |oclc=21332745|isbn=9780892813056}}
* {{cite book|url=https://roerich-lib.ru/index.php/yu-n-rerikh/po-tropam-sredinnoj-azii |language=ru |last=Roerich|first=George|script-title=ru: По тропам Срединной Азии|trans-title=On the paths of the Middle Asia|year=2012|location=Moscow|pages=780|publisher=International Center of the Roerichs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924145235/http://historitime.ru/yuriy-rerih-po-tropam-sredinnoy-azii|url-status=live|archive-date=24 September 2018}}
* {{cite book|url=http://knigisibro.ru/books/detail/31752|last=Roerich|first=Svetoslav|title=Creative Thought / Articles by Svetoslav Roerich |year=2004|location=Moscow|pages=780|publisher=International Center of the Roerichs|isbn=978-5-86988-132-8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021171400/http://knigisibro.ru/books/detail/31752|url-status=live|archive-date=21 October 2018}}
* {{cite book|last=[[Biography:Victor Skumin|Skumin]]|first=V. A.|script-title=ru:Учение Жизни: Хрестоматия Т. 1|volume=1|trans-title=The Teaching of Life: Reader |year=1997|location=Novocheboksarsk|publisher=Teros|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/1.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-009-2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519180951/https://biblmdkz.ru/1.html |archive-date=19 May 2021|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|last=Skumin|first=V. A.|script-title=ru: Учение Жизни: Хрестоматия Т. 2|volume=2|trans-title=The Teaching of Life: Reader |year=1998 |location=Novocheboksarsk|publisher=Teros|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/2.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-019-1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519181844/https://biblmdkz.ru/2.html |archive-date=19 May 2021|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|last=Skumin|first=V. A.|script-title=ru: Легенды, притчи, сказания Агни Йоги|trans-title=Legends, parables, and stories of Agni Yoga |year=1995 |location=Novocheboksarsk|publisher=Teros|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/legenda.html|language=ru|isbn=978-5-88167-008-5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627074002/https://biblmdkz.ru/legenda.html |archive-date=27 June 2021|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|url=https://biblmdkz.ru/sun.html |last=Skumin |first=Victor |title=Agni Yoga. Sunny Path |year=2019 |isbn=978-5-88167-046-7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200816073416/https://biblmdkz.ru/sun.html|archive-date=16 August 2020|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966275748 |last=Shubin |first=Daniel H. |title=Helena Roerich: Living Ethics and the Teaching for a New Epoch |year=2013 |publisher=Lulu.com |trans-title=A biography and English translation of selections |isbn=978-0966275742}}

==Gallery==
Many works of [[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] and Svetoslav Roerich, as artists, are thematically related to Agni Yoga. Roerich's artistic works tell about the internal needs of the individual and about the ways of their realization. Roerich's paintings are a kind of "Teaching of Life", on the spiritual development of mankind, about culture and its role in human life. They are a conversation about the [[Eternity|eternity]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roerich.org/museum-about.php|title=The Museum Collection|publisher=Nicholas Roerich Museum NY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602175504/http://www.roerich.org/museum-about.php|url-status=live|archive-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> {{wipe|Germany}}-born [[Philosophy:New Age|New Age]] and ambient musician Karunesh (Bruno Reuter) believes that Roerich's paintings have healing properties. The same opinion was expressed earlier by [[Biography:Victor Skumin|Victor Skumin]].<ref>{{cite journal|date=1992|volume=8|journal=Gydytojų žinios|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/articles/g892.html|last=Skumin|first=V.A.|title=Yoga, society and culture|trans-title=Yoga, visuomenė ir kultūra|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905111922/https://biblmdkz.ru/articles/g892.html |archive-date=5 September 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last2=Aunovsky|first2=O. K.|last1=Skumin|first1=V. A.|author-link1=Victor Skumin|year=1995|script-title=ru: Светоносцы (о семье Рерихов)|trans-title=The Bringers of the Light (The story of the Roerich family)|location=Novocheboksarsk|publisher=Teros|url=http://biblmdkz.ru/svet.html|isbn=978-5-88167-004-7|language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513181225/https://biblmdkz.ru/svet.html |archive-date=13 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px">
File:She who leads.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">[[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]]. She who leads. 1943</div>
File:Nicholas Roerich. Agni Yoga. Diptych. Left part.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Agni Yoga. [[Engineering:Diptych|Diptych]]. Left part. 1928</div>
File:Nicholas Roerich. Agni Yoga. Diptych. Right part.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Agni Yoga. Diptych. Right part. 1928</div>
File:She_who_holds_the_World.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. She who holds the World. 1933</div>
File:Precept of the Teacher.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Precept of the Teacher. 1947</div>
File:Maitreya the Conqueror 1925.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. [[Philosophy:Maitreya|Maitreya]] the Conqueror. 1925</div>
File:Song of Shambhala.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Song of [[Philosophy:Shambhala|Shambhala]]. 1943</div>
File:Fiat Rex.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Fiat Rex. [[Triptych]]. 1931</div>
File:Na visotah Tummo.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. [[Unsolved:Tummo|Tummo]]. 1936</div>
File:Chintamani.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Chintamani - Lung ta. Between 1935 and 1936</div>
File:Vestnik 1946.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Messenger. 1946</div>
File:Blagoslovennaj dusha.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. [[Philosophy:Bhagavan|Bhagavan]] [[Biography:Ramakrishna|Ramakrishna]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga-Glossary.php|title=A Treasury of Terms and Thoughts from the Agni Yoga Teachings: Ramakrishna|publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007213207/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga-Glossary.php|archive-date=7 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Between 1930 and 1945 </div>
File:Command of Rigden Djapo.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich.Command of Rigden Djapo. 1924.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://roerichmongoliamonthly.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/vol-7-prof-s-bira-portrait-of-a-mongol-hero-2/|year=2011|title=Roerich Mongolia Monthly Vol 7: Prof. S. Bira, Portrait of a Mongol Hero|publisher=roerichmongoliamonthly.wordpress.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016165551/https://roerichmongoliamonthly.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/vol-7-prof-s-bira-portrait-of-a-mongol-hero-2/|archive-date=16 October 2018|url-status=live}}<br/>«The painting  "Rigden Djapo" or "King of Shambhala" is one of the many paintings created by [[Biography:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] during his residence in [[Place:Ulaanbaatar|Ulaanbaatar]] in 1926-1927. This painting was presented by Roerich to the Mongolian government in 1927. Its survival was in doubt for many years. It was rediscovered in 1958 at Ulaanbaatar during the Prof. George de Roerich visit with Prof. Shagdaryn Bira as guide.»</ref></div>
File:Tsong-Kha-Pa.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Je Tsongkhapa. 1924</div>
File:Milarepa, the One Who Harkened.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Milarepa, the One Who Harkened. 1925</div>
File:From Beyond.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. From Beyond. 1936</div>
File:Gesar Khan.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Gesar Khan. 1941</div>
File:Mother of the World.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Mother of the World.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga-Glossary.php|title=A Treasury of Terms and Thoughts from the Agni Yoga Teachings: Mother of the World|publisher=agniyoga.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007213207/http://agniyoga.org/ay_en/Agni-Yoga-Glossary.php|archive-date=7 October 2018|url-status=live }}</ref> 1924</div>
File:Buddha the Conqueror.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Buddha, the Conqueror. 1925</div>
File:Guru Guri Dhar.jpg|<div style="text-align:center">Nicholas Roerich. Guru Guri Dhar (The Path of the Guruji of the Gurus). 1931</div>
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==See also==
*Banner of Peace
*[[Philosophy:Roerich Pact|Roerich Pact]]
*[[Philosophy:Roerichism|Roerichism]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.agniyoga.org Agni Yoga Society]
* [http://irmtkullu.com/ International Roerich Memorial Trust]
* [http://www.roerich.org/museum-about.php Nicholas Roerich Museum New York] 
* [http://www.lebendige-ethik-schule.de/ School for Living Ethics (Agni Yoga)]

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