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5 The adversaries of Mr Ossendowski wanted to explain the same fact by pretending
that he had a Russian translation of the Mission de I'lnde at hand; however, the
existence of such a translation is very doubtful, as the heirs of Saint-Yves are totally
ignorant of it. Mr Ossendowski has also been blamed for writing Om while Saint-Yves
writes Aum; however, while Aum is indeed the representation of the sacred
monosyllable split into its constituent elements, Om is the transcription which is both
correct and which corresponds to the actual pronunciation as it exists in India as
well as in Tibet and in Mongolia; this detail alone allows one to appreciate the
competence of certain critics.
Mr Ossendowski, who does not know that the stone is a meteorite, tries to explain
certain phenomena, such as the appearing of letters on its surface, by supposing that
it was a kind of slate.
7 A curious connection could also be made with the lapsit exillis, a stone fallen
from heaven, on which inscriptions also appear under certain circumstances, and
which is identified with the Grail in Wolfgang von Eschenbach's version. What makes
the thing still more peculiar is that, according to this same version, the Grail was
4 Lord of the World
is another example: the 'Bogdo-Khan' or 'Living Buddha' who
resides at Urga preserves, amongst other precious memorabilia,
