edit it we will put it on YouTube and get our translator to help her get to a local town with internet and see it! Who knows, maybe that will provide the impetus for her to pursue her dream. We were given ample evidence for the intersection of different global cultures the next day when our rescuer arrived in a brand new 2007 Toyota freshly imported from USA. Our driver had got word to our translator’s brother, who then set out to retrieve us. A decade before he had been a simple herder with a dream. In Mongolia there is an annual festival where people compete in the three local sports wrestling, archery and horse racing. He won the wrestling and with that, overnight fame and subsequent wealth. Now he was ‘a river to his people’ helping horse breeding programmes, building temples and—luckily for us—riding out on his white charger to rescue stranded foreigners.
During the three days at our campsite we had time to integrate and contemplate the Mongolian experience, and one of the things I thought about was power. Mongolia forms an obvious triangle with Tibet and China, with Mongolia holding the First Ray point, Tibet the Second Ray and China the Third. There were said to be three types of ruler at Shamballa (equated in a way to the three kings of the Orient and also to the three Buddhas of Activity). One of these rulers holds the outer ‘king’ function—rulership of civilisation. The second holds the ‘priest’ function, and the third is the ‘priest-king’ or Melchisedek. Out of Mongolia came Genghis Khan to create the largest empire the world had known. His brief was simple. God had told him that he was chosen to be Master of all the world. He simply rode up to a town 28