"Has anybody seen the King of the World?" I asked.

"Oh, yes!" answered the Lama. "During the solemn holidays of theancient Buddhism in Siam and India the King of the World appearedfive times. He rode in a splendid car drawn by white elephants andornamented with gold, precious stones and finest fabrics; he wasrobed in a white mantle and red tiara with strings of diamondsmasking his face. He blessed the people with a golden apple withthe figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, thedumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the deadarose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested. He alsoappeared five hundred and forty years ago in Erdeni Dzu, he was inthe ancient Sakkai Monastery and in the Narabanchi Kure.

"One of our Living Buddhas and one of the Tashi Lamas received amessage from him, written with unknown signs on golden tablets. Noone could read these signs. The Tashi Lama entered the temple,placed the golden tablet on his head and began to pray. With thisthe thoughts of the King of the World penetrated his brain and,without having read the enigmatical signs, he understood andaccomplished the message of the King.""How many persons have ever been to Agharti?" I questioned him.

"Very many," answered the Lama, "but all these people have keptsecret that which they saw there. When the Olets destroyed Lhasa,one of their detachments in the southwestern mountains penetratedto the outskirts of Agharti. Here they learned some of the lessermysterious sciences and brought them to the surface of our earth.

This is why the Olets and Kalmucks are artful sorcerers andprophets. Also from the eastern country some tribes of blackpeople penetrated to Agharti and lived there many centuries.

Afterwards they were thrust out from the kingdom and returned tothe earth, bringing with them the mystery of predictions accordingto cards, grasses and the lines of ............