In Etidorhpa, The Man and his Guide encounter a fungus forest in the
inner shell (See pic). If sunlight is passing through the Earth´s
shell in a transformed state, then who knows what could exist down
there. Joseph H. Cater tells that sunlight forms photon aggragates,
which our eyes don´t perceive, then breaks up into regular sunlight
again further down, at certain strata.
Etidorhpa:
"But toadstools are foul elements of low organization. They are
neither animals nor true vegetables, but occupy a station below that
of plants proper," I said.
" You are acquainted with this order of vegetation under the most
unfavorable conditions; out of their native elements these plants
degenerate and become then abnormal , often evolving into the
poisonous earth fungi known to your woods and fields. Here they grow
to perfection. This is their chosen habitat. They absorb from a pure
atmosphere the combined foods of plants and animals, and during their
existence meet no scorching sunrise. They flourish in a region of
perfect tranquility, and without a tremor, without experiencing the
change of a fraction of a degree of temperature, exist for ages. Many
of these specimens are probably thousands of years old, and are still
growing; why should they ever die? They have never been disturbed by
a breath of moving air, and, balanced exactly on their succulent,
pedestal-like stems, surrounded by an atmosphere of dead nitrogen,
vapor, and other gases, with their roots imbedded in carbonates and
minerals, they have food at command, nutrition inexhaustible."
" Still, I do not see why they grow to such mammoth proportions."
" Plants adapt themselves to surrounding conditions," he remarked. "
The oak tree in its proper latitude is tall and stately; trace it
toward the Arctic circle, and it becomes knotted, gnarled, rheumatic,
and dwindles to a shrub. The castor plant in the tropics is twenty or
thirty feet in height, in the temperate zone it is a herbaceous
plant, farther North it has no existence. Indian corn in Kentucky is
luxurient, tall, and graceful, and each stalk is supplied with roots
to the second and third joint, while in the northland it scarcely
reaches to the shoulder of a man, and, in order to escape the early
northern frost, arrives at maturity before the more southern variety
begins to tassel. The common jimson weed ( datura stramonium )
planted in early spring, in rich soil, grows luxuriently, covers a
broad expanse and bears an abundance of fruit; planted in midsummer
it blossoms when but a few inches in height, and between two terminal
leaves hastens to produce a single capsule on the apex of the short
stem, in order to ripen its seed before the frost appears. These and
other familiar examples might be cited concerning the difference some
species of vegetation of your former land undergo under climatic
conditions less marked than between those that govern the growth of
fungi here and on surface earth. Such specimens of fungi as grow in
your former home have escaped from these underground regions, and are
as much out of place as are the tropical plants transplanted to the
edge of eternal snow. Indeed, more so, for on the earth the ordinary
fungus, as a rule, germinates afte sunset, and often dies when the
sun rises, while here they may grow in peace eternally. These
meandering caverns comprise thousands of miles of surface covered by
these growths which may yet fulfill a grand purpose in the ceremony
of nature, for they are destined to feed tramping multitudes when the
day appears in which the nations of men will desert the surface of
the earth and pass as a single people through these caverns on their
way to the immaculate existence to be found in the inner sphere."
http://www.holloworbs.com/Etidorchapter_xvii.htm
Posted by Dean