The Archive · 1940

The Magic City

OF interest Is "the sacred magic name" Shamballa, a. city Idden in the Gobi desert,' which remains. Invisible until etheric sight ix developed. In this city at regular times each year councils are held by the Hierarchy. "Here the initiates travel their etheric bodies. Some few who have attended festivals at Shamballa The task presented many dimculties. 'Texts are Fare indeed: a few diplo-marie documents, some local. agrecments, and. beyond. that various Usages which will ston pass. the hundred-year mark." Dr." 'Tehang Teng-ti had, therefore, to apply rim= self to long' and painstaking research in the records of the various consulates, inthe Land Office of the Chinese Municipality of Shanghai and in the offices of foreign companies which dealing real estate. The information gathered from these investigations enabled him to present the whole question in a clear synthesis,

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