the Bolsheviki through the
treachery of his officers and, it is reported, was executed at the end
of September.

Baron R. F. Ungern von Sternberg. . . . Like a bloody storm of avenging
Karma he spread over Central Asia. What did he leave behind him? The
severe order to his soldiers closing with the words of the Revelations
of St. John:

"Let no one check the revenge against the corrupter and slayer of the
soul of the Russian people. Revolution must be eradicated from the
World. Against it the Revelations of St. John have warned us thus: 'And
the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, and upon her
forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman
drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs
of Jesus.'"

It is a human document, a document of Russian and, perhaps, of world
tragedy.

But there remained another and more important trace. In the Mongol
yurtas and at the fires of Buriat, Mongol, Djungar, Kirkhiz, Kalmuck and
Tibetan shepherds still speak the legend born of this son of crusaders
and privateers:

"From the north a white warrior came and called on the Mongols to break
their chains of slavery, which fell upon our freed soil. This white
warrior was the Incarnated Jenghiz Khan and he predicted the coming of
the greatest of all Mongols who will spread the fair faith of Buddha and
the glory and power of the offspring of Jenghiz, Ugadai and Kublai Khan.
So it shall be!"

Asia is awakened and her sons utter bold words.

It were well for the peace of the world if they go forth as disciples of
the wise creators, Ugadai and Sultan Baber, rather than under the spell
of the "bad demons" of the destructive Tamerlane.

Part IV

THE LIVING BUDDHA

CHAPTER XL

IN THE BLISSFUL GARDEN OF A THOUSAND JOYS

In Mongolia, the country of miracles and mysteries, lives the custodian
of all the mysterious and unknown, the Living Buddha, His Holiness
Djebtsung Damba Hutuktu Khan or Bogdo Gheghen, Pontiff of Ta Kure. He
is the incarnation of the never-dying Buddha, the representative of the
unbroken, mysteriously continued line of spiritual emperors ruling
since 1670, concealing in themselves the ever refining spirit of Buddha
Amitabha joined with Chan