Agharta

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

Agartha (sometimes Agartta or Agarttha) is a legendary city that is said to reside in the Earth's core. It can be related to the Hollow Earth theory. It is a popular subject in discussing Esotericism.

Agartha is one of the most common names cited for the society of underground dwellers and its capital city, Shamballa (also known as Shambalah) [1]. An early source for this belief is The Smoky God, which claims to be the biography of a Norwegian sailor named Olaf Jansen. Agartha - Secrets of the Subterranean Cities by Willis Emerson, explains how Jansen's sloop sailed through an entrance to the Earth's interior at the North Pole. For two years he lived with the inhabitants of the Agartha network of colonies who, Emerson writes, were a full 12 feet tall and whose world was lit by a "smoky" central sun. Shamballa the Lesser, one of the colonies, was also the seat of government for the network. While Shamballa the Lesser is an inner continent, its satellite colonies are smaller enclosed ecosystems located just beneath the Earth's crust or discreetly within mountains.

Cataclysms and wars taking place on the surface drove these people underground, according to Secrets. These were said to include a lengthy Atlantean-Lemurian war and the use of thermonuclear weaponry that eventually sank and destroyed these two highly advanced civilizations. The Sahara, Gobi, the Australian Outback and the deserts of the southwestern U.S. are said to be but a few examples of the devastation that resulted. The sub-cities were created as refuges for the people and as safe havens for sacred records, teachings and technologies that were cherished by these ancient cultures.

The mythical paradise of Shamballa is known under many different names: It has been called the Forbidden Land, the Land of White Waters, the Land of Radiant Spirits, the Land of Living Fire, the Land of the Living Gods and the Land of Wonders. Hindus have known it as Aryavartha, the land from which the Vedas come; the Chinese as Hsi Tien, the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu, the Royal Mother of the West; the Russian Old Believers, a nineteenth-century Christian sect, knew it as Belovodye and the Kirghiz people as Janaidar. But throughout Asia it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, meaning 'the place of peace, of tranquillity.'

While once a popular concept, in the last century little serious attention has been paid to these conjectures (with the possibly apocryphal exception of Adolf Hitler), and the theory is not supported by modern science. The idea of subterranean worlds may have been inspired by ancient religious beliefs in Hades, Sheol, and Hell.

Contents

[edit]

Entrances

Alleged entrances to Agartha: Some are planetary grid points - inwells and outwells of energy.

[edit]

Theory

Atlanteans are believed to be a race of subterranean supermen and superwomen who occasionally come to the surface to oversee the development of the human race. It is also believed that this subterranean world has millions of inhabitants and many cities, with its capital being Shamballa.

Ancient philosophy states that Agartha was first colonized thousands of years ago when a holy man lead a tribe underground. The people are said to have scientific knowledge and expertise far beyond that of the people who live on the surface of the planet.

It is also said that Agarttha and Shangri-la (Shamballa) are small, Agrarian city-states in which people live in peace and good health. The leaders of these states (variously called Ascended Masters, Guardians of the Tradition, psychoteleios – "the perfected ones" –, Ancient Ones, the Watchers, the Immortals, the Monitors, the Hidden Directorate, the Children of Seth, etc.) all follow what is known as the Ancient Path and are said to control the world.

In 1869 Cyrus Teed, a self-described alchemist, proposed a concave hollow earth theory in his theory of "Cellular Cosmogony", and founded a cult called the Koreshan Unity for converts to Koreshanity.

The association of Hohlweltlehre theories and the Nazis arises from the unsubstantiated surmise that Adolf Hitler sent an expedition, led by Dr. Heinz Fischer, to the Baltic island of Rugen to spy on the British fleet. Fischer did so not by aiming his telescopic cameras across the waters, but by pointing them up to peer across the atmosphere to the Atlantic Ocean.

[edit]

India

The Ramayana one of the most famous Indian religious texts, tells the story of the great avatara, Rama. It describes Rama as "an emissary from Agartha" who arrived on an air vehicle.

In India there is an ancient belief, still held by some, in a subterranean race of serpent people who dwell in the cities Patala and Bhogavati. According to the legend, they wage war on the kingdom of Agharta. "The Nagas," according to The Deep Dwellers, "are described as a very advanced race or species, with highly-developed technology. They also harbor a disdain for human beings, whom they are said to abduct, torture, interbreed with and even to eat."

While the entrance to Bhogavati is somewhere in the Himalayas, believers assert that Patala can be entered through the Well of Sheshna in Benares, India. Says William Michael Mott in The Deep Dwellers: "According to herpetologist and author Sherman A. Minton, as stated in his book Venomous Reptiles, this entrance is very real, with forty steps which descend into a circular depression, to terminate at a closed stone door which is covered in bas-relief cobras."

[edit]

Tibet

In Tibet, there is a major mystical shrine also called 'Patala,' which is said by the people there to sit atop an ancient cavern and tunnel system, which reaches throughout the Asian continent and possibly beyond. The Nagas also traditionally have an affinity with water, and the entrances to their underground palaces are often said to be hidden at the bottom of wells, deep lakes and rivers.

[edit]

Inhabitants

The Old Ones - In an article entitled "The Hollow Earth: Myth or Reality" for Atlantis Rising, Brad Steiger writes of the legends of "the Old Ones," an ancient race that populated the surface world millions of years ago and then moved underground. "The Old Ones, an immensely intelligent and scientifically advanced race," Steiger writes, "have chosen to structure their own environment under the surface of the planet and manufacture all their necessities."

"The Old Ones are hominid, extremely long-lived, and pre-date Homo sapiens by more than a million years. The Old Ones generally remain aloof from the surface peoples, but from time to time, they have been known to offer constructive criticism; and it has been said, they often kidnap human children to tutor and rear as their own."

The Elder Race - One of the most controversial tales of inner-Earth-dwellers is the so-called "Shaver Mystery." In 1945, Amazing Stories magazine under the editorship of Ray Palmer ran a story told by Richard Shaver, who claimed he had recently been the guest of what remained of an underground civilization. Although few really believed the story, and many suspect that Shaver may actually have been psychotic, Shaver always averred that his story was true.

He contended that the Elder Race, or Titans, came to this planet from another solar system in our prehistoric past. After a time of living on the surface, they realized our sun was causing them to age prematurely, so they escaped underground, building huge subterranean complexes in which to live. Eventually, they decided to seek a new home on a new planet, evacuating the Earth and leaving behind their underground cities populated by artificial beings: the evil Dero - detrimental robots - and the good Tero - integrated robots. It was these beings that Shaver claimed to have met.

Despite the enormous popularity of the Shaver Mystery in Amazing Stories - Palmer milked it for all it was worth, and then some - the location of the entrance to this underground world was never divulged.

[edit]

Influences

Works inspired by or named for Agharta include:

  • Agharta, a manga.
  • Agharta: The Hollow Earth, a computer game.
  • A Miles Davis album.
  • The Diabolical Tales film series (2005) features evil villains who rise from the ancient underground civilization of Agartha.
  • This mythical city is also mentioned in Foucault's Pendulum, a book by Umberto Eco
  • An avant-garde jazz club in Prague.
  • The film Voices of a Distant Star features a fictional planet in the Sirius star system called Agharta. The planet is of importance in that a humanlike civilization has developed there, noted for building semi-underground cities and structures.
  • The video game Final Fantasy IV contains a city named Agart connected to an underground "world" populated by dwarves and full of lava flows--a clear reference to Agartha.
[edit]

See also

[edit]

External links

Retrieved from "http://www.book-of-thoth.com/thebook/index.php/Agharta"