CHAPTER XLIX

The Hutuktu of Narabanchi related the following to me, when Ivisited him in his monastery¹ in the beginning of 1921:

"When the King of the World appeared before the Lamas, favored ofGod, in this monastery thirty years ago he made a prophecy for thecoming half century. It was as follows:

"'More and more the people will forget their souls and care abouttheir bodies. The greatest sin and corruption² will reign³ on theearth. People will become as ferocious⁴ animals, thirsting for theblood and death of their brothers. The 'Crescent' will grow dimand its followers⁵ will descend⁶ into beggary and ceaseless war. Itsconquerors will be stricken by the sun but will not progress upwardand twice they will be visited with the heaviest misfortune, whichwill end in insult before the eye of the other peoples. The crownsof kings, great and small, will fall . . . one, two, three, four,five, six, seven, eight. . . . There will be a terrible battleamong all the peoples. The seas will become red . . . the earthand the bottom of the seas will be strewn with bones . . . kingdomswill be scattered⁷ . . . whole peoples will die . . . hunger,disease, crimes unknown to the law, never before seen in the world.

The enemies of God and of the Divine Spirit in man will come.

Those who take the hand of another shall also perish. Theforgotten and pursued shall rise and hold the attention of thewhole world. There will be fogs and storms. Bare mountains shallsuddenly be covered with forests. Earthquakes will come. . . .

Millions will change the fetters⁸ of slavery and humiliation⁹ forhunger, disease and death. The ancient roads will be covered withcrowds wandering from one place to another. The greatest and mostbeautiful cities shall perish in fire . . . one, two, three. . . .

Father shall rise against son, brother against brother and motheragainst daughter. . . . Vice¹⁰, crime and the destruction of bodyand soul shall follow. . . . Families shall be scattered. . . .

Truth and love shall disappear. . . . From ten thousand men oneshall remain; he shall be nude¹¹ and mad and without force and theknowledge to build him a house and find his food. . . . He willhowl as the raging wolf, devour¹² dead bodies, bite his own flesh andchallenge God to fight. . . . All the earth will be emptied. Godwill turn away from it and over it there will be only night anddeath. Then I shall send a people, now unknown, which shall tearout the weeds of madness and vice with a strong hand and will leadthose who still remain faithful to the spirit of man in the fightagainst Evil. They will found a new life on the earth purified bythe death of nations. In the fiftieth year only three greatkingdoms 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 subterraneancaverns to the surface of the earth.'"* * * * * *Afterwards, as I traveled farther through Eastern Mongolia and toPeking, I often thought:

"And what if . . . ? What if whole peoples of different colors,faiths and tribes should begin their migration¹⁴ toward the West?"And now, as I write these final lines, my eyes involuntarily turnto this limitless Heart of Asia over which the trails of mywanderings twine¹⁵. Through whirling snow and driving clouds of sandof the Gobi they travel back to the face of the Narabanchi Hutuktuas, with quiet voice and a slender hand pointing to the horizon, heopened 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 herds¹⁶ of horses and cattle and the blueyurtas of the leaders. Above them I see the old banners of JenghizKhan, of the Kings of Tibet, Siam, Afghanistan and of IndianPrinces; the sacred signs of all the Lamaite Pontiffs; the coats ofarms of the Khans of the Olets; and the simple signs of the northMongolian tribes. I do not hear the noise of the animated¹⁷ crowd.

The singers do not sing the mournful songs of mountain, plain anddesert. The young riders are not delighting themselves with theraces on their fleet steeds. . . . There are innumerable crowds ofold men, women and children and beyond in the north and west, asfar as the eye can reach, the sky is red as a flame, there is theroar and crackling of fire and the ferocious sound of battle. Whois leading these warriors¹⁸ who there beneath the reddened sky areshedding their own and others' blood? Who is leading these crowdsof unarmed old men and women? I see severe order, deep religiousunderstanding of purposes, patience and tenacity¹⁹ . . . a new greatmigration 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.

GLOSSARYAgronome.--Russian for trained agriculturalist.

Amour sayn.--Good-bye.

Ataman.--Headman or chief of the Cossacks.

Bandi.--Pupil or student of theological school in the Buddhistfaith.

Buriat.--The most civilized²¹ Mongol tribe, living in the valley ofthe Selenga in Transbaikalia.

Chahars.--A warlike Mongolian tribe living along the Great Wall ofChina in Inner Mongolia.

Chaidje.--A high Lamaite priest, but not an incarnate²² god.

Cheka.--The Bolshevik Counter-Revolutionary Committee, the mostrelentless establishment of the Bolsheviki, organized for thepersecution of the enemies of the Communistic government in Russia.

Chiang Chun.--Chinese for "General"--Chief of all Chinese troops inMongolia.

Dalai Lama.--The first and highest Pontiff of the Lamaite or"Yellow Faith," living at Lhasa in Tibet.

Djungar.--A West Mongolian tribe.

Dugun.--Chinese commercial and military post.

Dzuk.--Lie down!

Fang-tzu.--Chinese for "house."Fatil.--A very rare and precious root much prized in Chinese andTibetan medicines.

Felcher.--Assistant of a doctor (surgeon).

Gelong.--Lamaite priest having the right to offer sacrifices toGod.

Getul.--The third rank in the Lamaite monks²³.

Goro.--The high priest of the King of the World.

Hatyk.--An oblong piece of blue (or yellow) silk cloth, presentedto honored guests, chiefs, Lamas and gods. Also a kind of coin,worth from 25 to 50 cents.

Hong.--A Chinese mercantile establishment.

Hun.--The lowest rank of princes.

Hunghutze.--Chinese brigand²⁵.

Hushun.--A fenced enclosure, containing the houses, paddocks,stores, stables, etc., of Russian Cossacks in Mongolia.

Hutuktu.--The highest rank of Lamaite monks; the form of anyincarnated god; holy.

Imouran.--A small rodent²⁶ like a gopher.

Izubr.--The American elk²⁷.

Kabarga.--The musk²⁸ antelope²⁹.

Kalmuck.--A Mongolian tribe, which migrated from Mongolia underJenghiz Khan (where they were known as the Olets or Eleuths), andnow live in the Urals and on the shores of the Volga in Russia.

Kanpo.--The abbot of a Lamaite monastery, a monk²⁴; also the firstrank of "white" clergy³⁰ (not monks).

Kanpo-Gelong.--The highest rank of Gelongs (q.v.); an honorarytitle.

Karma.--The Buddhist²⁰ materialization of the idea of Fate, aparallel with the Greek and Roman Nemesis³¹ (Justice).

Khan.--A king.

Khayrus.--A kind of trout³².

Khirghiz.--The great Mongol nation living between the river Irtishin western Siberia, Lake Balhash and the Volga in Russia.

Kuropatka.--A partridge.

Lama.--The common name for a Lamaite priest.

Lan.--A weight of silver or gold equivalent to about one-eleventhof a Russian pound, or 9/110ths of a pound avoirdupois.

Lanhon.--A round bottle of clay.

Maramba.--A doctor of theology.

Merin.--The civil chief of police in every district of the Soyotcountry in Urianhai.

"Om! Mani padme Hung!".--"Om" has two meanings. It is the name ofthe first Goro and also means: "Hail!" In this connection:

"Hail! Great Lama in the Lotus Flower!"Mende.--Soyot greeting--"Good Day."Nagan-hushun.--A Chinese vegetable garden or enclosure in Mongolia.

Naida.--A form of fire used by Siberian woodsmen.

Noyon.--A Prince or Khan. In polite address: "Chief,""Excellency."Obo.--The sacred and propitiatory³³ signs in all the dangerous placesin Urianhai and Mongolia.

Olets.--Vid: Kalmuck.

Om.--The name of the first Goro (q.v.) and also of the mysterious,magic science of the Subterranean¹³ State. It means, also: "Hail!"Orochons.--A Mongolian tribe, living near the shores of the AmurRiver in Siberia.

Oulatchen.--The guard for the post horses; official guide.

Ourton.--A post station, where the travelers change horses andoulatchens.

Pandita.--The high rank of Buddhist monks.

Panti.--Deer horns in the velvet³⁴, highly prized as a Tibetan andChinese medicine.

Pogrom.--A wholesale³⁵ slaughter³⁶ of unarmed people; a massacre³⁷.

Paspa.--The founder³⁸ of the Yellow Sect³⁹, predominating now in theLamaite faith.

Sait.--A Mongolian governor.

Salga.--A sand partridge.

Sayn.--"Good day!" "Good morning!" "Good evening!" All right;good.

Taiga.--A Siberian word for forest.

Taimen.--A species of big trout, reaching 120 pounds.

Ta Lama.--Literally: "the great priest," but it means now "adoctor of medicine."Tashur.--A strong bamboo stick.

Turpan.--The red wild goose or Lama-goose.

Tzagan.--White.

Tzara.--A document, giving the right to receive horses andoulatchens at the post stations.

Tsirik.--Mongolian soldiers mobilized by levy⁴⁰.

Tzuren.--A doctor-poisoner.

Ulan.--Red.

Urga.--The name of the capital of Mongolia; (2) a kind of Mongolianlasso.

Vatannen.--The language of the Subterranean State of the King ofthe World.

Wapiti.--The American elk.

Yurta.--The common Mongolian tent or house, made of felt.

Zahachine.--A West Mongolian wandering tribe.

Zaberega.--The ice-mountains formed along the shores of a river inspring.

Zikkurat.--A high tower of Babylonish style.

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1 monastery   

n.修道院，僧院，寺院

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• She was appointed the superior of the monastery two years ago.两年前她被任命为这个修道院的院长。

2 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

3 reign   

n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势

参考例句：

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
• The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

4 ferocious   

adj.凶猛的，残暴的，极度的，十分强烈的

参考例句：

• The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。
• The ferocious panther is chasing a rabbit.那只凶猛的豹子正追赶一只兔子。

5 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

6 descend   

vt./vi.传下来，下来，下降

参考例句：

• I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
• We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。

7 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

8 fetters   

n.脚镣( fetter的名词复数 )；束缚v.给…上脚镣，束缚( fetter的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They were at last freed from the fetters of ignorance. 他们终于从愚昧无知的束缚中解脱出来。
• They will run wild freed from the fetters of control. 他们一旦摆脱了束缚，就会变得无法无天。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 humiliation   

n.羞辱

参考例句：

• He suffered the humiliation of being forced to ask for his cards.他蒙受了被迫要求辞职的羞辱。
• He will wish to revenge his humiliation in last Season's Final.他会为在上个季度的决赛中所受的耻辱而报复的。

10 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

11 nude   

adj.裸体的；n.裸体者，裸体艺术品

参考例句：

• It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
• She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。

12 devour   

v.吞没；贪婪地注视或谛听，贪读；使着迷

参考例句：

• Larger fish devour the smaller ones.大鱼吃小鱼。
• Beauty is but a flower which wrinkle will devour.美只不过是一朵，终会被皱纹所吞噬。

13 subterranean   

adj.地下的，地表下的

参考例句：

• London has 9 miles of such subterranean passages.伦敦像这样的地下通道有9英里长。
• We wandered through subterranean passages.我们漫游地下通道。

14 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

15 twine   

v.搓，织，编饰；（使）缠绕

参考例句：

• He tied the parcel with twine.他用细绳捆包裹。
• Their cardboard boxes were wrapped and tied neatly with waxed twine.他们的纸板盒用蜡线扎得整整齐齐。

16 herds   

兽群( herd的名词复数 )； 牧群； 人群； 群众

参考例句：

• Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
• There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。

17 animated   

adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的

参考例句：

• His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
• We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。

18 warriors   

武士，勇士，战士( warrior的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• I like reading the stories ofancient warriors. 我喜欢读有关古代武士的故事。
• The warriors speared the man to death. 武士们把那个男子戳死了。

19 tenacity   

n.坚韧

参考例句：

• Tenacity is the bridge to success.坚韧是通向成功的桥。
• The athletes displayed great tenacity throughout the contest.运动员在比赛中表现出坚韧的斗志。

20 Buddhist   

adj./n.佛教的，佛教徒

参考例句：

• The old lady fell down in adoration before Buddhist images.那老太太在佛像面前顶礼膜拜。
• In the eye of the Buddhist,every worldly affair is vain.在佛教徒的眼里，人世上一切事情都是空的。

21 civilized   

a.有教养的，文雅的

参考例句：

• Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
• rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为

22 incarnate   

adj.化身的，人体化的，肉色的

参考例句：

• She was happiness incarnate.她是幸福的化身。
• That enemy officer is a devil incarnate.那个敌军军官简直是魔鬼的化身。

23 monks   

n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
• He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》

24 monk   

n.和尚，僧侣，修道士

参考例句：

• The man was a monk from Emei Mountain.那人是峨眉山下来的和尚。
• Buddhist monk sat with folded palms.和尚合掌打坐。

25 brigand   

n.土匪，强盗

参考例句：

• This wallace is a brigand,nothing more.华莱士只不过是个土匪。
• How would you deal with this brigand?你要如何对付这个土匪？

26 rodent   

n.啮齿动物；adj.啮齿目的

参考例句：

• When there is a full moon,this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.月圆之夜，这种夜间活动的啮齿类动物会小心地呆在地洞里不出来。
• This small rodent can scoop out a long,narrow tunnel in a very short time.这种小啮齿动物能在很短的时间里挖出一条又长又窄的地道来。

27 elk   

n.麋鹿

参考例句：

• I was close enough to the elk to hear its labored breathing.我离那头麋鹿非常近，能听见它吃力的呼吸声。
• The refuge contains the largest wintering population of elk in the world.这座庇护所有着世界上数量最大的冬季麋鹿群。

28 musk   

n.麝香, 能发出麝香的各种各样的植物，香猫

参考例句：

• Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
• She scented her clothes with musk.她用麝香使衣服充满了香味。

29 antelope   

n.羚羊；羚羊皮

参考例句：

• Choosing the antelope shows that China wants a Green Olympics.选择藏羚羊表示中国需要绿色奥运。
• The tiger was dragging the antelope across the field.老虎拖着羚羊穿过原野。

30 clergy   

n.[总称]牧师，神职人员

参考例句：

• I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望，我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
• All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。

31 nemesis   

n.给以报应者，复仇者，难以对付的敌手

参考例句：

• Uncritical trust is my nemesis.盲目的相信一切害了我自己。
• Inward suffering is the worst of Nemesis.内心的痛苦是最厉害的惩罚。

32 trout   

n.鳟鱼；鲑鱼(属)

参考例句：

• Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.成千上万的鲑鱼和鳟鱼的鱼苗因污染而死亡。
• We hooked a trout and had it for breakfast.我们钓了一条鳟鱼，早饭时吃了。

33 propitiatory   

adj.劝解的；抚慰的；谋求好感的；哄人息怒的

参考例句：

• She saw the flowers as a propitiatory offering. 在她看来，送花是主动和解的表示。
• He sent her flowers as a propitiatory gesture. 他将花送给她以求好感。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

34 velvet   

n.丝绒，天鹅绒；adj.丝绒制的，柔软的

参考例句：

• This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
• The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。

35 wholesale   

n.批发；adv.以批发方式；vt.批发，成批出售

参考例句：

• The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物，以零售价卖出。
• Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。

36 slaughter   

n.屠杀，屠宰；vt.屠杀，宰杀

参考例句：

• I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
• Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。

37 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

38 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

39 sect   

n.派别，宗教，学派，派系

参考例句：

• When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
• Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。

40 levy   

n.征收税或其他款项，征收额

参考例句：

• They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
• A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。