Nicholas Roerich - Yogi to a Vice President

Nicholas Roerich (Russian- Николай Константинович Рёрих) was a poet, artist and eminent man of learning who had emigrated from White Russia and settled in Paris. He was regarded as one of the most distinguished of the Theosophical elite of the period. Apart from searching for the home of the Mahatmas, the purpose of his scientific expedition across Tibet and Xinjiang to Altai (1923-26) was never made entirely clear in his diary, but appears to have been related to the return of a certain sacred stone. Roerich also laid claim to having had an encounter with UFO's.



Henry Wallace, the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–45), also Franklin Delano Roosevelt's two-term secretary of agriculture, sampled a great many religious creeds, studying Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Christian Science, among others. He also investigated secret societies and Eastern cults, developing a fondness for the arcane symbols and practices favored by such groups. Not long after Wallace assumed his post at the Department of Agriculture, he became acquainted with a strangely charismtic Russian emigre named Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich. The business matter that brought Roerich and Wallace in contact was a pet project of the guru called the Roerich Paca and Banner of Peace. Wallace was so taken with Roerich's plan - and promoted it so energetically - that in 1935, delegates from twenty-one nations turned out to put their names to the agreement at a White House ceremony. Franklin Roosevelt himself presided over the gathering.



Shortly after Wallace pursuaded his fellow cabinet officer, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., to make a change in the U.S. currency. An exotic-looking symbol of a pyramid with an all-seeing eye at its apex had long been part of the Great Seal of the United States. At Roerich'surging, Wallace convinced his colleague to make the symbol a fixture on the back of every one-dollar bill. Morgenthau later claimed that it was not until after the change had been made that he learned of the pyramid's "cabalistic significance for members of a small religious sect." Documents leaked into newspapers soon there after showing personal letters between Wallace and Roerich, calling Roerich "My Yogi". Wallace was then accused of harboring communist sympathies. Shortly there after Wallace publicly cut ties with Roerich. The two where never in contact again.

Or as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. explains, "Wallace's search for inner light took
him to strange prophets.... It was in this search that he encountered Nicholas
Roerich, a Russian emigre, painter, theosophist and con man. Wallace did Roerich
a number of favors, including sending him on an expedition to Central Asia
presumably to collect drought-resistant grasses. In due course, H.A. [Wallace]
became disillusioned with Roerich and turned almost viciously against him." [2]

Sources :FusionAnomaly - Wiki - Wallace - Wiki - Roerick