The Agni Texts

By Nicholas and Helena Roerich

The Agni texts are incredibly hard to get. The only place to get them (as far as I know) is through the Agni Yoga Society, inc. although they are always out of print and you must wait untill they feel like printing some more (sometimes we have to wait a year or more) The only other option that I know of is through the Karin Kabalah Center. They usually have a small stock of what is available in their bookstore. These are primarily for the students, so she may not have any available, but its worth trying.

Agni texts include:

 

Also by Nicholas and Helena Roerich:

Quotes

Wayfarer, friend, let us travel together. Night is near, wild beasts are about, and our campfire may go out. But if we agree to share the night watch, we can conserve our forces.

 

Tomorrow our path will be long, and we may become exhausted. Let us walk together. We shall have joy and festivity. I shall sing for you the song your mother, wife, and sister sang. You will relate for me your father's story about a hero and his achievements. Let our path be one.

 

Be careful not to step upon a scorpion, and warn me about any vipers. Remember, we must arrive at a certain mountain village.

 

Traveler, be my friend.

New Era Community, page 3

 

Once, according to an old legend, there came a messenger from a distant world to give people equality, brotherhood and joy. Long since had people forgotten their songs. They remained in a stupor of hate. The messenger banished darkness and crowdedness, smote infection, and instituted joyful labor. Hatred was stilled, and the sword of the messenger remained on the wall. But all were scilent and knew not how to begin singing. Then the messenger assembled the little children, led them into the woods, and said to them: "These are your flowers, your brooks, your trees. No one has followed us. I shall rest-and you fill yourselves with joy." Thereupon, timidly they ventured into the forest. At last the littlest one came to a meadow and sighted a ray of the sun. Then a yellow oriole sounded its call. The little one followed it, whispering. And soon joyously he sang out, "The sun is ours!" One by one the children gathered upon the meadow, and a new hymn to light rang out. The messenger said: "Man has again begun to sing. Come is the date!"

New Era Community, page 134

 

Many dragons stand guard to impede each advance. Multi colored are these monsters! Among the most repulsive is the drab dragon of everyday routine. It would make an empty gray cobweb of even the most lofty communion. Yet even in everyday life people know how to preserve the freshness of renewal. People wash themselves daily and find themselves refreshed before the next task. Likewise, spiritual ablutions should not become dusty drudgery. Few know how to overcome the dragon of everyday routine. But such heroes multiply their forces tenfold, and each day they raise their eyes anew unto the heavens.

 

Since Infinity is, the spirit of man has no single commonplace instant. Joy can be born of a uniqueness of sensation. But lofty communion cannot become something ordinary. Boredom is not in Infinity, but in human limitation.

 

Do not permit the gray dragon to triumph. It is not really strong, and its repulsiveness is only in the uglieness of habit. Where filth and uglieness have been eliminated, the gray dragon cannot exist. Thus, the conquest of daily routine is reverence of the Higher World.

Aum, page 155

 

Prayers to the Creator are offered not only in temples-the wax of the candle is consumed in the labor of life.

Leaves of Morya's Garden I (The Call) page 30