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2 Lord of the World
the most improbable statements offered by Saint-Yves must be
that an underground world exists, its network branching
everywhere - underneath whole continents, even oceans - to
attain and maintain communication with all the regions of
this world. Ossendowski does not attempt to verily this liom
his own experience, and indeed admits that he does not know
what to think of it, but gives the testimony of various people
he met in the course of his journey. There is also, on more
particular points, the passage where the 'Lord of the World'
is depicted in front of his predecessor's tomb and where the
question is raised of the origin of the gypsies, 3 who are said
to have lived originally in Agarttha. Saint-Yves writes that
there are moments during the subterranean celebration of the
'cosmic Mysteries' when desert travellers stop motionless and
even animals are silent; 4 Ossendowski assures us that he was
present himself at such a moment of universal contemplation.
