ere will be
a terrible battle among all the peoples. The seas will become red . . .
the earth and the bottom of the seas will be strewn with bones . . .
kingdoms will be scattered . . . 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. The forgotten and pursued shall
rise and hold the attention of the whole world. There will be fogs
and storms. Bare mountains shall suddenly be covered with forests.
Earthquakes will come. . . . Millions will change the fetters of slavery
and humiliation for hunger, disease and death. The ancient roads will
be covered with crowds wandering from one place to another. The greatest
and most beautiful cities shall perish in fire . . . one, two, three.
. . . Father shall rise against son, brother against brother and mother
against daughter. . . . Vice, crime and the destruction of body and soul
shall follow. . . . 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