Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

High above the mundane struggles of the terrestrial plane, amidst the unforgiving ice and rarefied air of the Himalayas, exists a phenomenon that confounds the rigid strictures of biological science. The entity known as the Yeti, the Abominable Snowman of popular lore, is widely misunderstood by the profane as an undiscovered primate, a relic of a bygone evolutionary epoch surviving in the extreme altitudes. However, the true esoteric nature of the Yeti is far more profound and terrifying. The Yeti is not a creature of flesh and bone in the conventional sense; it is a Tulpa, a powerful, autonomous thought-form manifested by the concentrated spiritual resonance of the ascended masters and the collective psychic pressure of the region. To grasp the reality of the Yeti, one must delve into the arcane practices of Tibetan mysticism and the concept of the etheric double. In the esoteric traditions, it is understood that the mind possesses the power to coagulate astral matter, to weave th...

High in the Indian Himalayas, more than sixteen thousand feet above the sea, in a lonely bowl of rock and ice where no one lives and few have any reason to go, there lies a small, shallow glacial lake called Roopkund. For most of the year it is frozen and buried under snow. But when the brief mountain summer thaws its surface and clears the ice from its shores, the lake gives up a spectacle that has horrified and baffled every traveler who has come upon it. Scattered across its bed and heaped along its banks are human bones — hundreds upon hundreds of them. Skulls, ribs, thigh bones, whole skeletons, along with scraps of hair, leather, and preserved flesh, lie exposed in the thin cold air. By most estimates the remains of somewhere between three hundred and six hundred people rest in and around this one tiny alpine pool. It is known, with grim simplicity, as Skeleton Lake. A Discovery in Wartime The bones had long been known to the shepherds and pilgrims of the region, but the wider...