Agartha
The Subterranean World
The following contents and research material is from Dr. Raymond Bernard.
The following contents and research material is from Dr. Raymond Bernard’s book, “The Hollow Earth.”
The following contents and research material is from Dr. Raymond Bernard’s book, “The Hollow Earth.”
The word “Agharta” is of Buddhist origin. It refers to the subterranean World or Empire in whose existence all true Buddhists fervently believe. They also believe that this subterranean World has millions of inhabitants and many cities, all under the supreme domination of the subterranean world capital, Shamballah, where dwells the Supreme Ruler of this Empire, known in the Orient as the King of the World. It is believed that he gave his orders to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who was terrestrial representative, his messages being transmitted through certain secret tunnels connecting the Subterranean World with Tibet. Similar mysterious tunnels honeycomb Brazil. Brazil in the West and Tibet in the East seem to be the two parts of the earth where contact between the Subterranean World and the surface world may be most easily achieved, due to the existence of these tunnels.
The famous Russian artist, philosopher and explorer, Nicolas Roerich, who traveled extensively in the Far East, claimed that Lhasa, capital of Tibet, was connected by a tunnel with Shamballah, capital of the Subterranean empire of Agharta. The entrance of this tunnel was guarded by lamas who were sworn to keep its actual whereabouts a secret from outsiders, by order of the Dalai Lama. A similar tunnel was believed to connect the secret chambers at the base of the Pyramid of Gizeh with the Subterranean World, by which the pharaohs established contact with the gods or supermen of the underworld.
The various gigantic statues of early Egyptian gods and kings, as those of Buddha found throughout the Orient, represent subterranean supermen who came to the surface too help the human race. They are generally represented as sexless. They are emissaries of Agharta, the subterranean paradise which it is the goal of all true Buddhists to reach.
Buddhist traditions state that Agharta was first colonized many thousands of years ago when a holy man led a tribe which disappeared underground. The gypsies are supposed to come from Agharta, which explains their restlessness on the earth’s surface and their continual travels to regain their lost home. This reminds one of Noah, who was really an Atlantean, who saved a worthy group prior to the coming of the flood that submerged Atlantis.
It is believed that he brought his group to the high plateau of Brazil where they settled in subterranean cities, connected with the surface by tunnel, in order to escape from poisoning by the radioactive fallout produced by the nuclear war the Atlanteans fought, which brought on the flood that submerged their continent.
The subterranean civilization, of Agharta is believed to represent a continuation of Atlantean civilization, which, having learned the lesson of the futility of war, remained in a state of peace ever since, making stupendous scientific progress uninterrupted by the setbacks of recurrent wards, as our surface civilization has been. Their civilization is many thousands of years old (as Atlantis sunk about 11,500 years ago), while ours is very young, only a few centuries old.
Subterranean scientists are able to wield forces of nature we know nothing about, as demonstrated by their flying saucers, which are operated by a new, unknown force of energy, more subtle than atomic energy. Ossendowski claims that the Empire of Agharta consists of a network of subterranean cities connected with each other by tunnels through which vehicles pass at tremendous speed, both under land and under the ocean.
These people live under the benign reign of a world government headed by the King of the World. They represent descendants of the lost continents of Lumeria and Atlantis, as well as the original perfect race of Hyperboreans, the race of gods.
During various epochs of history, the Aghartan superman of gods came to the surface to teach the human race and save it from wars, catastrophes and destruction. The coming of flying saucers soon after the first atomic explosion in Hiroshima represents another such visitation, but this time the gods themselves did not appear among men, but they sent their emissaries.
The Indian epic, “Ramayana” describes Rama as such an emissary from Agharta coming on an aerial vehicle, which was probably a flying saucer. A Chinese tradition speaks of divine teachers coming on aerial vehicles. Similarly, the founder of the Inca Dynasty, Manco Copac, came the same way.
One of the greatest of Aghartan teachers in America was Quetzalcoatl, the great prophet of the Mayas and Aztecs and of the Indians of the America in general, both in South and North America. That he was a stranger among them, coming from a different race (Atlantean) is indicated by his being fair, while they were dark, his being tall, while they were short; his being bearded, while they were beardless. He was reverenced as a savior by the Indians of Mexico, Yucatan and Guatemala long before the coming of the white man. The Aztecs called him “God of Abundance” and the “Morning Star.” His name Quetzalcoatl means “Feathered Serpent,” meaning a teacher of wisdom (symbolized by the serpent) who flies. He was given this name because he came on an aerial vehicle, which appears to have been a flying saucer. He probably came from the Subterranean World, because after he remained sometime with the Indians, he mysteriously vanished the same way as he came; and was believed to have returned to the Subterranean World from which he came.
Quetzalcoatl is described as having been “a man of good appearance and grave countenance, with a white skin and beard, and dressed in a long flowing white garment. He was also called Huemac, because of his great goodness and continence. He taught the Indians the way of virtue and tried to save them from vice by giving them laws and counsel to restrain them from lust and to practice chastity. He taught pacifism and condemned violence in all forms. He instituted a vegetarian diet, with corn as a principal food, and taught fasting and body hygiene. Accordingly to the South American archaeologists, Harold Wilkins, Quetzalcoatl was also the spiritual teacher of the ancient inhabitants of Brazil.
After remaining some time with the Indians, and seeing how little they cared to follow his teachings, except his recommendation to plant and eat corn as a basic food in place of meat, Quetzalcoatl departed, telling them that some day he would return. That this “visitor from heaven” left the same way in which he came – on a flying saucer – is indicated by the following facts. When Cortez invaded Mexico, the emperor Montezuma believed that the predicted “return of Quetzalcoatl” had occurred, because a fireball then gyrated over Mexico City, making the people wail and scream, setting the temple of the war god on fire. This fireball was believed to have been the flying saucer on which Quetzalcoatl traveled.
Osiris was another such subterranean god. According to Donnelly, in his book, Atlantis the Antediluvian World”, the gods of the ancient were the rulers of Atlantis and members of a superhuman race which governed the human race. Before the destruction of their continent, which they foresaw, they travelled by flying saucer through the polar opening to the Subterranean World in the Hollow Interior of the earth, where they continued to live ever since.
“The Empire of Agharta,” wrote Ossendowski in his book, Beasts, Men and Gods,” extends through subterranean tunnels to all parts of the world.” In this book he speaks of a vast network of tunnels constructed by a prehistoric race of remotest antiquity, which passed under both oceans and continents, through which swift-moving vehicles traveled. The empire of which Ossendowski speaks and concerning which he had learned about from lamas in the Far East, during his travels in Mongolia, obviously consists of a subterranean world, one more superficial and one in the center of the earth.
Huguenin, whose book on flying saucers and the subterranean world we previously mentioned, believes that there exist many subterranean cities at various depths, between the earth’s crust and its hollow interior. Concerning the inhabitants of these subterranean cities, he writes:
“This other humanity has reached an elevated grade of civilization, economic and social organization and cultural and scientific progress, in comparison with which the humanity which lives on the earth’s surface are a race of barbarians.” In his book, Huguenin shows a diagram of the earth’s interior, showing various subterranean cities at various depths, connecting with each other by tunnels. He describes these cities as existing in immense cavities in the earth. The city of Shamballah, the capital of the subterranean empire, he portrays as existing at the center of the earth, in its hollow interior, rather than inside its solid crust. Ossendowski writes:
All the subterranean caverns of America are inhabited by an ancient people who disappeared from the world. These people and the subterranean regions where they dwell are under the supreme authority of the King of the World. Both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were once the home of vast continents which later became submerged; and their inhabitants found refuge in the Subterranean World. The profounder caverns are illuminated by a resplendent light which permits the growing of cereals and other vegetables, and gives the inhabitants a long life span free from disease. In this world exist a large population and many tribes.”
In his book, “The Coming Race,” Bulwer Lytton describes a subterranean civilization far in advance of our own, which existed in a large cavity in the earth, connected with the surface by a tunnel. This immense cavity was illuminated by a strange light which did not require lamps to produce it, and appeared to result from an electrification of the atmosphere. This light supported plant life and enabled the subterranean people to grow their own foods. The inhabitants of the Utopian described by Lytton were vegetarians. They had certain apparatuses by which, instead of walking, they flew. They were free from disease and a perfect social organization so that each received what he needed, without exploitation of one by another.
It is claimed that the earth’s crust is honeycombed by a network of tunnels passing under the ocean from continent and leading to subterranean cities in large cavities in the earth. These tunnels are especially abundant in South America, especially under Brazil, which was the chief center of Atlantean colonization, and we may believe they were constructed by the Atlanteans. Most famous of these tunnels is the “Roadway of the Incas” which stretches for several hundred miles south of Lima, Peru, and passes under Cuzco, Tiahuanaco and the Three Peaks proceeding to the Atacambo Desert. Another branch opens in Africa, Chile, visited by Madame Blavatsky.
It is claimed that the Incas used these tunnels to escape from the Spanish conquerors and the Inquisition, when empire armies entered them, carrying with them their gold and treasures on the backs of Llamas, which they did when the Spanish Conquerors first came. Their mysterious disappearance at this time, leaving only the race of Quetchua Indians behind, is also explained by entering these tunnels. It is explained that when Atahualpa, the last of the Inca Kings, who was brutally murdered by Pizarro, the gold that was being carried to his ransom on a train of 11,000 packed Llamas, found refuge in these tunnels. It is claimed that these tunnels had a form of artificial lighting and were built by the race that had constructed Tiahuanco long before the first Inca appeared in Peru. Since the Incas who entered these tunnels to escape from the Spaniards were never seen since and disappeared from the earth’s surface, it is probable that they continued to live in illuminated subterranean cities to which these tunnels lead.
These mysterious tunnels, an enigma to archaeologists, exist in greatest number under Brazil, where they open on the surface in various places. The most famous is in the Roncador Mountains of northeast Matto Crosso to where Colonel Fawcett was heading when last seen. It is claimed that the Atlantean city for which he searched was not the ruins of a dead city on the surface but a subterranean city with still living Atlanteans as its inhabitants, and that he and his son Jack reached this city and are still living therein. This is the belief of Professor de Souza, Commander Strauss and O.C. Huguenin.
The Roncador tunnel opening is guarded by fierce Chavantes Indians who kill anyone who dares to enter uninvited and who might molest the subterranean dwellers whom they respect and revere. The Murcego Indians also guard these secret tunnel openings leading to subterranean cities in the Roncador Mountain region of Motto Grosso. We quote a letter to the author from an American, named Carl Huni, who lived many years in Matto Grosso and made a special study of this subject:
“The entrance to the caverns is guarded by Murcego Indians, who are a dark skinned, undersized race of great physical strength. Their sense of smell is more developed than that of the best bloodhounds. Even if they approve of you and let you enter the caverns, I am afraid that you will be lost to the present world, because they guard the secret very carefully and may not let those who enter leave.”
The Murcego Indians live in caverns and go out at night into the surrounding jungles, but they have no contact with the subterranean dwellers below, inhabiting a subterranean city in which they form a self-contained community and have a considerable population. It is believed that the subterranean cities they inhabit were first constructed by the Atlanteans. One thing is certain, that no radio active fallout can reach them. No one knows whether those who live in these ancient Atlantean subterranean cities are Atlanteans themselves or others who settled there after the original builders were gone. The name of the mountain range where these Atlantean subterranean cities exist is Roncador in northeast Matto Grosso. If you go in quest of these subterranean cities, you take your life in your own hands as you may never be heard of again, like Colonel Fawcett.
“When I was in Brazil I heard a lot about the underground caverns and subterranean cities. They are, however, a long way from Cuiaba. They are near the Rio Araguaya, which empties into the Amazon. They are to be northeast of Cuiaba at the foot of the tremendously long mountain range named Roncador. I desisted to investigate further because I heard that the Murcego Indians jealously guard the entrance to the tunnels from people who are not sufficiently developed, because they do not want trouble. In the first place, they do not want anyone who is still enmeshed in commercialism and who has a desire for money.”
“I know that a good part of the immigrants who helped in the uprising of General Isidro Lopez back in 1028 disappeared into these mountains and were never seen again. It was under the reign of Dr. Benavides who bombarded Sao Paulo for four weeks. Finally they made a truce for three days and let the 4,000 troops, who were mainly Germans and Hungarians, to go out of town. About 3,000 of them went to Acre in the northwestern part of Brazil and about 1,000 disappeared in the caverns. I heard the story consistently. If I remember the place where they disappeared, it was in the southern end of Bananal Island (near Roncador Mountains).”
“There are also caverns in Asia and Tibet that travelers mentioned. But as far as I know, in Brazil are the biggest ones and they exist at three different levels. I am sure I would get permission if I wanted to join them and they would accept me as one of theirs. I know they use no money at all, and their society is organized on a strictly democratic basis. People do not become aged and live in everlasting harmony.”
This subterranean Utopia mentioned by Mr. Huni (now residing in New York) seems to resemble greatly the one described by Bulwer Lytton in his book, “The Coming Race.” Lytton was a Rosicrucian and probably based his novel on occult information concerning existing subterranean cities.
The ruins of a number of Atlantean cities were found in northern Matto Grosso and the Amazon territory, indicating that Atlanteans once colonized this country. Some years ago an English School teacher, hearing rumors of a lost Atlantean City on a high plateau in this region went to find it. He did, but the hardships of the journey cost him his life. Before he died he sent a carrier pigeon a note describing a magnificent city he discovered whose streets were lined with gold statues.
If the Atlanteans once colonized Brazil and constructed cities in Matto Grosso on its surface, why did they build subterranean cities here? It could not have been to escape the deluge that submerged Atlantis and outlying areas, because Matto Grosso is a high plateau where floodwaters could not have reached. The South American archeologist, Harold Wilkins, offers another theory: THAT THE SUBTERRANEAN CITIES WERE BUILT TO ESCAPE THE RADIO ACTIVE FALLOUT RESULTING FROM A NUCLEAR WAR THE ATLANTEANS FOUGHT. This seems to be a very reasonable explanation, for otherwise there would be no reason to undergo the great labor of excavating the earth and constructing subterranean cities when the Atlanteans already had magnificent cities on the earth’s surface.
If and when we are endangered by a nuclear war, we too, will have to find refuge inside the earth and dwell there in illuminated subterranean cities and produce out foods under this light. It would be of course be much easier to join existing subterranean cities constructed by the Atlanteans thousands of years ago, who vastly surpassed us in engineering skill, than to construct our own. If friendly contact with the subterranean dwellers could be established, when war comes, or even before, when radioactive fallout increases beyond the danger point and menaces our survival, it would be our advantage to contact these subterranean cities, and if we were admitted, to establish residence in them.
There is no old age in Agharta and no death. It is a society in which everyone is young looking, even if many centuries or even thousands of years of age. This seems incredible to surface dwellers exposed to the harmful effects of solar radiation and the autointoxication of food poisoning from a wrong diet. The symptoms of old age are not the natural result of the passage of time, nor an assumed aging process, but to adverse biological conditions and habits. Senility is a disease; and since Agharthans are free from disease, they do no grow old.
The sexes live apart in Agharta and marriage does not exist. Each is free and independent and one sex does not depend on the other for its economic support. Reproduction is by parthenogenesis; and the virgin-born children are all female. In this matriarchal civilization the female is considered the normal, perfect and superior sex. Children are raised collectively by special teachers and not by private families. They are supported by the community. So are their mothers.
The superior scientific culture of the subterranean people of which their flying saucers are an evident example, is the result of superior brain development and more energetic brains. This is due to the fact that their vital energies flow up to their brain, rather than being dissipated through the sexual channel as among so-called “civilized” surface races. In fact, sex indulgence is completely out of their lives, because of their fruit diet, their endocrine systems are in a state of perfect balance and harmonious functioning, as in little children, and are not stimulated to abnormal activity by metabolic toxins, as produced by such foods as meat, fowl, fish and eggs and by such aphrodisiacs as salt, pepper, coffee and alcohol. By keeping their blood-stream pure and free from toxins, the subterranean people are able to live in complete continence, conserving all vital energies and converting them into superior brain power. Their superior scientific achievements result from the fact that their brains are superior to ours in intellectual development. They are the race that created the flying saucers.
Professor Henrique J. de Souza, President of the Brazilian Theosophical Society and a leading authority on the Subterranean World, published an article in his magazine, entitled, “Does Shangri-la Exists?”
We quote:
“Among all races of mankind, back to the dawn of time, there existed a tradition concerning the existence of a Sacred Land or Terrestrial Paradise, where the highest ideals of humanity were living realities. This concept is found in the most ancient writings and traditions of the people of Europe, Asia Minor, China, India, Egypt and the Americas. This Sacred Land, it is said, can be known only to persons who are worthy, pure and innocent, for which reason it constitutes the central theme of the dreams of childhood.
The road that leads to this Blessed Land, this Invisible World, this Esoteric and Occult Domain, constitutes the central quest and master key of all mystery teachers and systems of initiation in the past, present and future. This magic key is the ‘Open Sesame’ that unlocks the door to a new and marvelous world."
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The old Rosicrucian’s designated it by the French word VITRIOL, which is a combination of the first letters of the sentence;, ‘VISTA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENES OMNIA LAPIDEM’, to indicate that,
‘In the interior of the earth is hidden the true mystery.’ The path that leads to this Hidden World is the Way of Initiation.”
In ancient Greece, in the mysteries of Delphos and Eleusis, this Heavenly Land was referred to as Mount Olympus and the Elysian Fields. Also in the earliest Vedic times, it was called by various names, such as Ratnasanu (peak of the precious stone), Hermadri (mountain of gold) and Mount Meru (home of the gods and Olympus of the Hindus). Symbolically, the peak of this sacred mountain is the sky, its middle portion on the earth and its base in the Subterranean World.
The Scandinavian Eddas also mention this celestial city, which was in the subterranean land of Asar of the peoples of Mesopotasmia. It was the Land of Amenti of the Sacred Book of the Dead of the ancient Egyptians. It was the city of Seven Petals of Vishnu, and the City of Seven Kings of Edom or Eden of Judiac tradition. In other words, it was the Terrestrial Paradise.
In all Asia Minor, not only in the past but also today, there exists a belief in the existence of a City of Mystery full of marvels, which is known as Shamballah (Shamb-Allah), where is the Temple of the Gods. It is also the Erdami of the Tibetans and Mongols.
The Persians call it Alberdi or Aryana, land of their ancestors. The Hebrews called it Canaan and the Mexicans Tula or Tolan, while the Aztecs called Maya-Pan. The Spanish Conquerors who came to America believed in the existence of such a city and organized many expeditions to find it, calling it El Dorado, or City of Gold. They probably learned about it from the aborigines who called it by name of Manoa or City Whose King Wears Clothing of Gold.
By the Celts, this holy land was known as “Land of the Mysteries” – Duat or Dananda. A Chinese tradition speaks of Land of Chivin or the City of a Dozen Serpents. It is the Subterranean World, which lies at the roots of heaven. It is the Land of Calcas, Calcis or Kalki, the famous Colchida for which the Argonauts sought when they set out in search of the Golden Fleece.
In the Middle Ages, it was referred to as the isle of Avalon, where the Knights of the Round Table, under the leadership of King Arthur and under the Guidance of the magician Merlin, went in search of the Holy Grail, symbol of obedience, justice and immortality. When King Arthur was seriously wounded in a battle he requested his companion Belvedere to depart on a boat to the confines of the earth, with the following words:
‘Farewell, my friend and companion Belvedere, and to the land where it never rains, where there is no sickness and where nobody dies.’
This is the Land of Immortality or Agarths, the Subterranean World. This land is the Walhalla of the Germans, the Monte Salvat of the Knights of the Holy Grail, the Utopia of Thomas More, the City of the Sun of Campanella, the Shangri-la of Tibet and the Agartha of the Buddhist World.
We have indicated previously that the subterranean cities of Agartha were constructed by Atlanteans as refuges from the radioactive fallout produced by the nuclear war they fought, and also referred to Hugenin’s theory that flying saucers were Atlantean aircraft which were brought to the Subterranean World prior to the occurrence of the catastrophe that sank Atlantis. The abandonment of their former home on top of the four-sided sacred mountain in the center of Atlantis (Mount Olympus or Meru, later memorialized by the four-sided, truncated pyramids of Egypt and Mexico) and their skyward journey over the Rainbow Bridge of the Aurora Borealis, through the polar opening, to the new home Walhalla, the Golden Palaces of the City of Shamballah, capital of Agartha, the Subterranean World. This migration of the Atlantean god-rulers to the Subterranean World, prior to the destruction of Atlantis, was referred to in Teutonic mythology as the “Gotterdamerung” or Twilight of the Gods. They made the journey in flying saucers, which were Atlantean aircraft.
Whereas, in the days of Atlantis, flying saucers flew in the earth’s outer atmosphere, after they entered the Subterranean World they continued to fly in its internal atmosphere in its hollow interior. After the Hiroshima atomic explosion in 1945 they rose again to surface in numbers, seeking to avert a nuclear catastrophe.
The tragedy that befell Atlantis was due to its scientific development running ahead of its moral development, resulting in a nuclear war, which heated the atmosphere, melted polar ice-caps and brought on a terrific deluge that submerged the continent. A group of survivors, Led by Noah, found refuge in the highlands of Brazil (then an Atlantean colony), where they constructed subterranean cities, connected by tunnels to the surface, to prevent destruction by radioactive fallout and flood.
According to Plato’s account, Atlantis was submerged by a series of inundations which came to a climax about 11,500 years ago. Some four million inhabitants lost their lives. Those who were more spiritual and were forewarned escaped in time to Brazil, where, it is claimed, they or their descendants still live in subterranean cities.
In this connection it is interesting to refer to Jules Vern’s book, “A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH,” which presents a similar conception of the earth’s formation as did Gardner’s book by a similar name. Verne describes a party of explorers who entered a volcanic shaft, and after traveling for months finally came to the hollow center of the earth, a new world with its own sun to illuminate it, oceans, land and even cities of Altantean origin. Verne believed that prior to the destruction of Atlantis, some of the Atlanteans escaped and established subterranean cities in the earth’s hollow center. Since most of Vern’s predictions were later verified, it is possible that this one also will be but not by entering a volcanic shaft, but by an aerial expedition through the polar openings into the hollow interior of the earth.
One of the early German settlers in Santa Catarina, Brazil, wrote and published a book in old German, dealing with the Subterranean World, deriving his information from the Indians. The book described the Earth as being hollow, with a sun in the center. The interior of the earth was said to be inhabited by a disease-free, long lived race of fruitarians. This Subterranean World, the book claimed, was connected by tunnels with the surface, and these tunnels, it was claimed, open mostly in Santa Catarina and surrounding parts of South Brazil.
The Author has devoted nearly six years to investigations to study the mysterious tunnels which honeycomb Santa Catarina, obviously built by an ancient race to reach subterranean cities. Research is still in progress. On a mountain near Joinville the choral singing of Atlantean men and women has been repeatedly heard – also the “Canta Gallo” (cock crowing), which is the standard indication of the existence of a tunnel opening leading to a subterranean city. The crowing is not produced by a living animal, probably by some machine.
The Russian explorer, Ferdinand Ossendowski, author of “Beasts, Men and Gods,” claims that the tunnels which encircle the earth and which pass under the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, were built by men of a pre-glacial Hyperborean civilization which flourished in the Polar region at time when its climate was still tropical, a race of supermen possessing scientific powers of a superior order, and marvelous inventions, including tunnel boring machines we know nothing about, by means of which they honeycombed the earth with tunnels. We shall now quote from Ossendowski’s remarkable book relating to his own experience in Mongolia, where belief in the existence of a Subterranean World of Agartha, ruled by the King of the World, who resides in his holy city of Shamballah, is universal.
Ossendowski writes: “Stop!’ said my Mongol guide, when we crossed the plateau of Tzagan Luk, ‘Stop!”
His camel bowed down without him ordering it. The Mongol raised his hands in a gesture of adoration and repeated the sacred phrase:
“’OM MANI PADME HUM!’
The other Mongols immediately stopped their camels and began to pray.
“ ‘What Happened?’, I wondered, bringing my camel to a halt.
“The Mongols prayed for some moments, then mounted their camels and rode on.
“ ‘Look,’ said the Mongol to me,
‘How the camels move their ears with terror, how the manes of the horses remain immobile and alert and how the camels and cattle bow down to the ground. Note how the birds stop flying or the dogs barking. The air vibrates sweetly and one hears a song that penetrates to the hearts of all men, animals and birds. All living beings, seized with fear, prostrate themselves. For the King of the World, in his subterranean palace, is prophesying the future of the peoples of all the earth.’
“Thus spoke the old Mongol.”
“In Mongolia, with its terrible mountains and limitless plateaus was born a mystery which was preserved by the red and yellow lamas. The rulers of Lhasa and Ourga guarded their science and possessed these mysteries. It was during my trip to Central Asia that I heard for the first time this Mystery of Mysteries, to which I formally paid no attention, but only did later, when I was able to analyze it and compare certain testimonies frequently subjected to controversy. The old men on the border of Amyil told me an old legend, according to which a Mongolian tribe, seeking to escape from Genghis Khan, hid in a subterranean land. Later, near Nogan Lake, I was shown by Soyota a door that a hunter entered into this region and, after he returned told of his visit. The lamas cut off his tongue to prevent him from speaking about the Mystery of Mysteries. In his old age, he returned to the entrance of the cavern and disappeared into the Subterranean World, which memory always brought emotion to the nomad.
“I obtained more detailed information from Houtouktou jelyl Djamsrap de Narabanch Kure. He told me the history of the arrival of the all-powerful King of the World to the door exit of the Subterranean World, his appearance, his miracles and prophecies. I then commenced to understand this legend, this hypothesis, this collective vision, which no matter how we interpret it, conceals not only a mystery but a real force which governs and influences the course of the political life of Asia. From that moment, I commenced my investigations. The Lama Gelong, favorite of Prince Choulton Beyil, gave me a description of the subterranean World.”
“More than six thousand years ago, he said, a holy man disappeared into the earth accompanied by a tribe of people and never returned to its surface. This inner world was also visited by various other men, as Cakya-Muni, Undur-Chengen Paspa, Baber and others. No one knows where they found the entrance. Some say it was Afghanistan, others say it was India.”
“All inhabitants of this region are protected against evil, and no crime exists within its boundaries. Science developed tranquility, uninterrupted by war and free from the spirit of destruction. Consequently the subterranean people were able to achieve a much higher degree of wisdom. They have composed a vast empire with millions of inhabitants governed by the King of the World. He masters all the forces of nature, can read what’s within the souls of all, and in the great book of destiny. Invisible he rules over eight hundred million human beings, all willing to execute his orders.”
All the subterranean passages in the entire world lead to the World of Agartha. The lamas say that all the subterranean cavities in America are inhabited by these people. The inhabitants of submerged prehistoric continents (Lemuria and Atlantis) found refuge and continued to live in the Subterranean World.”
The lama Turgut, who made the trip from Ourga to Pekin with me, gave me further details:
"The capital of Agartha (Shamballah) is surrounded by villas where live the Holy Sages. It reminds one of Lhasa, where the temple of the Dalai Lama rises on top of a mountain surrounded by temples and monasteries. His palace is surrounded by the palaces of the Gurus, who control the invisible and visible forces of the earth, from its interior to the sky, and are lords of life and death. If our crazy humanity will continue its wars, they may come to the surface and transform it into a desert. They can dry the oceans, transform continents into seas and cause the disappearance of mountains. In strange vehicles, unknown above, they travel at unbelievable speed through tunnels inside the earth. The lamas found vestiges of these men in all parts and in inscriptions on rocks; and saw remains of the wheels of their vehicles. “
When I asked him to tell me how many persons visited Agartha, the lama answered:
‘A great number, but most of those who are there maintain the secret as long as they live. When the Olets destroyed Lhasa, one of their regiments, in the mountains of the southwest, reached the limits ofAgartha and were then instructed in mysterious sciences, for which reason the Olets and Talmuts continued to live there for centuries. Later they were expelled from the Subterranean World and returned to live on the surface of the earth, bringing with them knowledge of the mystery of prophecy by means of cards and reading the lines of the hands. (they were the ancestors of the gypsies). In a certain region in the north of Asia there exists a tribe which is on the verge of disappearing and which frequents the caverns of Agartha. Its members can invoke the spirits of the dead which live in space.”
The lama then remained silent for some time and then responding to my thoughts continued:
‘InAgartha, the sages write on stone tablets all the sciences of our planet and of other worlds. The Chinese Buddhist sages know that well. Their science is the most advanced and purest. In each century the sages of China unite in a secret place near the sea and on the backs of a hundred large turtles that come out of the ocean they write the conclusions of the divine science of their century.”
“This brings to my mind a story that was related to me by an old Chinese attendant in the Temple of heaven in Pekin. He told me that turtles live for three thousand years without air or food and for this reason all the columns of the blue temple of heaven rest on the backs of the living turtles, so that wooden supports would not rot.”
Many times did the rulers of Ourga and Lhasa send ambassadors to the King of the World, said the lama librarian, but they could not reach him. However, a Tibetan chief, after a battle with the Olets, came to a cavern whose opening bore the following inscription:
‘THIS DOOR LEADS TO AGARTHA.’
From the cavern loft a man of beautiful appearance, who presented to him an ancient tablet bearing strange inscriptions, saying:
“The King of the World will appear to all men when comes the time of the war of the good against the evil; but this time has not yet come. The worst members of the human race have yet to be born.’
Chang Chum Ungem sent young prince Pounzig as an ambassador to the King of the World. The ambassador returned with a letter for the Dalai Lama of Ohasa. He wished to send him a second time but the young ambassador never returned.”
Agartha or the interior world has been featured in myths and legends for thousands of years. Perhaps there are mysteries still that man’s science has yet to discover.
