. . .  Families shall be scattered. . . .  Truth and love shall disappear. . . .  From ten thousand men one shall remain; he shall be nude and mad and without force and the knowledge to build him a house and find his food. . . .  He will howl as the raging wolf, devour dead bodies, bite his own flesh and challenge God to fight. . . .  All the earth will be emptied.  God will turn away from it and over it there will be only night and death.  Then I shall send a people, now unknown, which shall tear out the weeds of madness and vice with a strong hand and will lead those who still remain faithful to the spirit of man in the fight against Evil.  They will found a new life on the earth purified by the death of nations.  In the fiftieth year only three great kingdoms will appear, which will exist happily seventy-one years.  Afterwards there will be eighteen years of war and destruction.  Then the peoples of Agharti will come up from their subterranean caverns to the surface of the earth.’”

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Afterwards, as I traveled farther through Eastern Mongolia and to Peking, I often thought: 

“And what if . . . ?  What if whole peoples of different colors, faiths and tribes should begin their migration toward the West?”

And now, as I write these final lines, my eyes involuntarily turn to this limitless Heart of Asia over which the trails of my wanderings twine.  Through whirling snow and driving clouds of sand of the Gobi they travel back to the face of the Narabanchi Hutuktu as, with quiet voice and a slender hand pointing to the horizon, he opened to me the doors of his innermost thoughts: 

“Near Karakorum and on the shores of Ubsa Nor I see the huge, multi-colored camps, the herds of horses and cattle and the blue yurtas of the leaders.  Above them I see the old banners of Jenghiz Khan, of the Kings of Tibet, Siam, Afghanistan and of Indian Princes; the sacred signs of all the Lamaite Pontiffs; the coats of arms of the Khans of the Olets; and the simple signs of the north Mongolian tribes.  I do not hear the noise of the animated crowd.  The singers do not sing the mournful songs of mountain, plain and desert.  The young riders are not delighting themselves with the races on their fleet steeds. . . .  There are innumerable crowds of old men, women and children and beyond in the north and west, as far as the eye can reach, the sky is red as a flame, there is the roar and crackling of fire and the ferocious sound of battle.  Who is leading these warriors who there beneath the reddened sky are shedding their own and others’ blood?  Who is leading these crowds of unarmed old men and women?  I see severe order, deep religious understanding of purposes, patience and tenacity . . . a new great migration of peoples, the last march of the Mongols. . . .”

Karma may have opened a new page of history!

And what if the King of the World be with them?

But this greatest Mystery of Mysteries keeps its own deep silence.