The Russian, the Eye of Shambala and the Dollar

Over dinner tonight with some visiting environmentalists from the Altai in Siberia, one of the guests brought up the rumor that the famous Russian artist Nikolai Roerich designed the back of the one dollar bill. We debated it a little and of course none of us knew anything about the dollar bill and its art. So, thank you Wikipedia, for clearing this up.

Roerich's influence on his devotee cabinet secretary Henry A. Wallace led to the inclusion of the Great Seal of the United States on the U.S. dollar bill known for the depiction of the Great Pyramid topped with an all-seeing eye — a religious, occult and Masonic symbol.

The FDR American Heritage Center backs this story up.


Nicholas Roerich, a Russian born artist, poet, writer and distinguished member of the Theosophical Society, led an expedition across the Gobi Desert to the Atlai mountain range from 1923 to 1928, a journey which covered 15,500 miles across 35 of the world's highest mountain passes. Roerich was a man of unimpeachable credentials: a famous collaborator in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a colleague of the impresario Diaghilev and a highly talented and respected member of the League of Nations. Roerich was an esoteric Russian painter, and went to Central Asia to become a lama. His earliest paintings, filled with Himalayan light, are in the astonishing Oriental Museum, also known as the Museum of East and West, in the Russian capital of Moscow, and others at Roerich societies like the ones in New York City in the United States and St. Petersburg in Russia. Roerich was credited with introducing the West to Agharthi and Shambhala. Nicholas Roerich was also influential in FDR's administration, and was the pivotal force behind placing the Great Seal of the United States on the dollar bill.

I wish that page had some anchors so I could just link around the page, and I don't feel like quoting the page further, but there are some amazing things in there about this Henry A. Wallace character and his obsession with all things Russian and also weird-ass mystic sects. Boy, nowadays you could NOT get to the heights of government this guy got to and still be openly obsessed with the Illuminati.

So anyway, Roerich didn't design the US seal (with mystic pyramid and Eye of Shambala) that is on the dollar, but he was behind it being placed on the dollar.

What's especially cool for me is that, looking at the Wikipedia examples of Roerich's art, I recognize his work. I have visited his paintings in the Russian Museum (in St. Pete) for years. He is an AMAZING artist. And I am very sorry he did NOT design the dollar bill's art-- that would be a fanTAStic dollar.

Check THIS out. One of Roerich's paintings I've been admiring for years.