And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” ![]() In my Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you. From the mouth of Christ come the words, “Let not your heart be troubled you believe in God, believe also in Me. ![]() John 14:1-3 is a biblical description of our coming Paradise. Beyond the cold and rugged path there must be a warm, lush valley where all is perfect. We never stop looking for a solution that will reverse aging and all its attendant issues. There is a belief and longing for a “Paradise.” Somewhere there must be a place better than the present one of trouble and turmoil. Hilton captured something that many look for. It was filmed, not in the mountains of Tibet, but in Sherwood Forest and Palm Springs, California. In 1937 Frank Capra made a movie of Hilton’s “Lost Horizon” starring Ronald Coleman, Jane Wyatt and Edward Everett Horton. The writer saw Conway leaving China and believed he was going in search of that special mountain trail that would take him back to Shangri-la. When his memory returned, he told his story to a writer, Rutherford, who gave his manuscript to a narrator and the unbelievable story was told. Hugh, joined by one of the beautiful, young looking women, Lo-Tsen, agreed to lead Mallinson out.Ĭonway was stricken with amnesia and was hospitalized in China. He wanted to leave and pushed Hugh to guide him out through the secret mountain passage. One of Conway’s associates, Charles Mallinson, felt this paradise was more a curse than a blessing. Conway was the chosen one and was given charge of Shangri-la as its new lama. If anyone chose to leave this paradise, their real age quickly overwhelmed them and they died soon after their departure.Ī French friar, Perrault, who had supposedly come to the place in 1719 and became the head Lama, was now (in 1930) looking for a successor. There was one strange circumstance to this longevity of life in Shangri-la. It was hard to tell how long the people had been around because they looked so young. All those in Shangri-la lived long beyond normal age. However, a shocking reality was soon discovered. In almost every way it was a perfect environment, a Paradise beyond description. Surprised, but delighted, Hugh Conway and his fellow travelers comfortably settled in this remarkable place. At the crash a Chinese man named Chang led Conway and three other passengers on a mysterious path through the snow covered mountains to an unbelievable lush and green valley called Shangri-la. ![]() In the novel a British diplomat, Hugh Conway, escaping his post in a dangerous part of India, was a passenger on a plane that was hijacked and crashed in the mountains. In 1933 James Hilton wrote his intriguing novel, “Lost Horizon.” It was a remarkable story about Shangri-la, a legendary place of a mystical lamasery in the Hulan Mountains of Tibet.
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