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What Became of Hyperborea?
One would imagine that after the Hyperborean region became a frozen waste of
ice and snow that it would cease to feature in world mythology, except
perhaps as a fondly-remembered homeland in the race-memory of the Aryans and
perhaps the Atlanteans. However, this appeard to be far from the case! As
mentioned earlier, that first group of Hyperboreans who migrated to Atlantis
were very much given to sorcery and conquest, whilst those who went to Asia,
retained much of their pure character. Could this signify a division of the
Hyperboreans into two moral factions? Those who chose the Left-Hand Path and
those who preferred to follow the Right? Perhaps this might account for the
first contingent (the Atlanteans) leaving Thule so much earlier than those
who became the Aryans.
Obviously, if there was a gap of thousands of years between the two groups
leaving the Pole, it seems to infer that perhaps the first group (the
Atlanteans), were expelled from their homeland by the rest of the
inhabitants. Clearly, the second, Aryan group, only left because of the ice
cataclysm which overtook their homeland and didn’t initially seek anything
other than a place to live in peace. This would seem to indicate that they
were of quite a different and more peaceable nature to their Atlantean
cousins. Maybe, in this expulsion of the first group from this "Garden of
The Hesperides" we are seeing some sort of parallel to the expulsion of Adam
and Eve from the "Garden of Eden"?
Shambhala, Agartha, and "The Hole at The Pole".
That there was some further mystery related to the Boreal region, is
indicated in the myth of Shambhala, which is supposed to have emanated from
the early lamas of Tibet. It is thought to have been an ancient realm once
located somewhere in Asia - possibly in the Gobi - when it was still the
Gobi Sea. It was thought to have been an island realm, called the "Sacred
Island" which, in many respects seems to have been curiously similar to
Thule or Hyperborea!
The mystery deepens when we learn that its inhabitants were the last
survivors of the "White Island" which had perished long ages earlier!
According to Madame Blavatsky, the inhabitants were descended from the
Lemurians, but, since her information was alleged to be from a Theosophist,
spiritual origin, we might be wiser in concluding that they were more likely
to have been from Hyperboria-Thule!
Shambhala.
From some of the accounts available, Shambhala appears to have been a centre
of spiritual enlightenment, very reminiscent of James Hilton’s "Shangri-La",
but others say that it was a centre of occult power and arcane teaching.
Its leader was thought variously to be either an evil, tyrannical
Sorcerer-King or a God-like "Lord of The World". We seem to be left with a
choice of which story we prefer to follow, and evidently which Path one
desires to follow, too. The evil Left, or the good Right! Apparently there
were two factions (as in Hyperborea), one of which followed the Golden Sun,
and the other the Black Sun. (The "Black Sun", incidentally, was as
prominent an emblem of the Nazi mythos as was the Swastika!) According to
Jean-Claude Frére, author of "Nazisme et Sociétiés Secretès", the people of
Hyperborea, after migrating to the Gobi Desert over 6000 years ago, founded
a new centre, which they named Agartha. It became a great centre of world
learning, and people flocked there from all over the world to enjoy its
culture and civilization.
However, a huge catastrophe supervened, and the earth’s surface was
devastated, but the realm of Agartha somehow survived, under the earth. The
legend continues to relate that, as with the original Hyperboreans, the
Aryans now split into two factions: one group heading north-west, hoping to
return to their lost Hyperborea, and the second going south, where they
founded a new secret centre under the Himalayas.
Jean-Claude Frére concludes: The sons of the Outer Intellegences split into
two groups, one following the "Right Hand Path" under the "Wheel of The
Golden Sun", the other the "Left Hand Path" under the "Wheel of the Black
Sun". The first preserved the centre of Agartha, that undefined place of
contemplation, of the Good, and of the Vril force. The second supposedly
created a new place of initiation at Shambhala, the city of violence in
command of the elements and human masses, hastening the arrival of the
"charnel-house of time." A portent of the Jewish Holocaust in World War Two?
The Aryan Swastika.
As a matter of passing interest, in this connection of Right and Left Hand
Paths, it’s intriguing to note that the swastika, which is a true Aryan
symbol and represents a "square wheel", has a duality in its symbolism. The
right-handed swastika represents the "Wheel of the Golden Sun" and the Right
Hand Path of Good, whereas the opposite applies to the left-handed swastika.
Hitler chose the right-handed swastika as the emblem of his Nazi Party
because it was the Aryan symbol of power and good fortune. The left-handed
and far more appropriate one, he rejected, fearing that it might bring him
evil and misfortune! That he was in error on both counts, is matter of
history!
Asgaard -Agartha.
"Asgaard" in Norse mythology, is the Home of the Gods - rather like Olympus
is to the Greeks, and strangely, a French student of Indian mythology, named
Louis Jacolliot, tells us in one of his books on the subject, "Le Fils de
Dieu" ("The Sons of God"), how local Brahmin priests in Villenoor told him
the story of a place called "Asgartha". It was known as the "City of The
Sun", and was the ancient seat of Brahmatma. It appeared to date back to
13,000 BC, and Jacolliot claimed it was there long before the advent of the
Aryans. He completely discredited the Aryans, saying that they were merely a
break-away caste of Brahmins. In 10,000 BC, these "Aryan Brahmins" rebelled
against their priestly masters and took over Asgartha, forging an alliance
with the other priests, who under their leadership became a warrior caste,
instead. Later, in 5,000 BC, two Norse brothers, Ioda and Skandah, who
invaded Hindustan from the Himalaya region, finally destroyed Asgartha,
before being driven away by the Brahmin warrior-priests. These two,
continued northward, back to their homeland, the land of the Norsemen. Here
they became immortalised as "Odin" and "Scandinavia". The Norse remembered
the story so well, that when they set off to pillage Rome, they cried: "We
go to sack Asgaard, the City of The Sun!" Thus the legend of Agartha was
born, and it continued to crop up in legends always connected with the
Aryans, the Brahmahatma, and various mysterious Mahatmas - including those
who communicated with Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophists!
Eventually, another French mystic investigator, Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, in
1886 revealed in his book, "Mission of India", that Agartha is a hidden land
beneath the surface of the earth, ruled over by a black sovereign Pontiff,
called the Brahmatma. He goes on to say that the realm was shifted
underground around 3,200 BC, at the beginning of the Kali Yuga (or Golden
Age) and that Agartha has known technology such as artificial lighting,
mechanised transport, and even air-travel, far in advance of our own modern
technology, for millennia! Periodically, Agartha sends emissaries to the
upper world, about which it keeps well informed. Agartha also has huge
libraries which enshrine the whole wisdom of the ages, engraved in stone.
Many great secrets lie there, regarding many esoteric and spiritual
subjects, including amazing skills and abilities long-forgotten by those who
dwell on the surface.
Fiction, Fantasy or Fact?
His book, which reads like pure science-fantasy, bears a great resemblance
to Bulwer-Lytton’s book "The Coming Race", which also tells of an
underground world of high-tech beings possessed of that mysterious "Vril"
force, so keenly sought by the Nazis in World War II, and who will one day
emerge from their subterranean realm to take over the surface! Saint-Yves
insists that such a day really is coming, and that we will be totally
defenceless against these super-beings, who will become the true
world-rulers. Nor is he the only one to insist that this is true! Many other
authors, mystics and investigators have attempted to solve this whole
mystery, with varying degrees of success or failure. However, most seem to
agree that Agharta and Shambhala seem to be closely connected, either as
being one and the same place, or as two totally opposed realms, one of light
and goodness the other of darkness and evil.
The Holes at the Poles.
However, it is only comparatively recently that they have again captured
public attention through the alleged NASA photographs of the so-called "Hole
at the Pole", which seem to lend some positive evidence of what had been
suspected for centuries. Namely, that there has always been a hole at either
pole giving access to an inner earth, somewhat akin to Rice-Burroughs famous
"Pellucidar", but with a highly advanced people and technology, instead of
the wild, prehistoric surroundings, savages and animals with which Burroughs
furnished his subterranean world!
Scholars have written about these polar holes for centuries, and it would
take several pages to go through their theories and notions, so I will avoid
retelling the many legends of these "entrances to the underworld". Some
suggested giant maelstroms, down which careless sailors could be swept,.
Others spoke of them as the portals of Hell itself. Yet others went so far
as to describe fantastic voyages, whereby sailors entered at one pole and
emerged safely at the other, after sailing an internal ocean and seeing a
whole new world within, lit by a central sun! Science-fiction is not a new
thing!
However, to return to our subject. Let us now consider some of the more much
modern views on this fascinating concept.
In 1926, a young New England student, named Amadeo Giannini, had an
"epiphanous experience" during which he was taken upon an
angelically-conducted tour of a land beyond the polar regions, and shown the
great, magical secret of the earth. That instead of us being dwellers upon
the outside shell of the globe, we are in fact, living inside it! The stars
of the interior sky are actually simply distorted visions of the underside
of the heavenly sky, although the sun actually exists in the centre of the
earth - though he does not present a coherent account of why (or how) it
sets at night, or rises in the morning!
Giannini’s cosmology is, to say the least, unique, in that he is able to
shift the inner earth’s shape to suit every difficulty he encounters.
Sometimes it seems flat, and at others it’s like a doughnut! Often his
picture is of an infinite flattened disc with the earth surrounded by a
polar-style ice barrier. Above, below and beyond all this disc-world the
heavens extend into infinity. He even supported his wild fantasies with the
discovery of land beyond the South Pole by Sir George Wilkin’s 1928
expedition, and also with Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd’s polar fights in 1947.
Then, later still, he alleged that the U.S. expedition of 1956 had flown
over 2000 miles beyond the South Pole! Naturally, Giannini’s ideas were
ridiculed by science, although he did attract a lot of attention from the
"flying-saucer" fraternity. There have been several other claimants to
"indisputable knowledge"of the existence of these polar holes, and some have
even heard first-hand accounts of trips in flying-saucers into their depths!
However, here we are getting into another realm altogether, as there are
those"UFOlogists" who believe that "flying-saucers" are not from outer space
at all, but are actually "Vimana" craft sent from the inner earth, to keep
watch upon our outer surface activities.
The King of The World.
Whilst this entire business of Shambala and/or Agharta might appear to be
merely a fantasy, there are many who believe that they really exist, either
as an underground realm, or as a lost city, hidden away somewhere in the
Himalayas. It is also called "Paradesa", the University of Esoteric
Knowledge, and a large number of travellers and mystics claim to have
visited the city over the past century, in search of spiritual and occult
enlightenment. The leader of the Aghartans, by the way, is claimed to be
"The King Of The World", the Metraton and the "High Lord of Agharta", and,
according to Ray Palmer and Richard Shaver ( who wrote the "Shaver
Mysteries", published in "Amazing Stories" in the 1940s), he is said to be a
Venusian, who came here thousands of years ago from the planet Venus (then
orbiting between Mars and Jupiter) to instruct and guide our then dawn-age
humanity. According to "witnesses", notwithstanding his enormous age, he
still appears youthful and very well-developed!
However, despite this seemingly altruistic desire to help humanity, there
are other accounts which say that Agartha is really a centre for evil occult
forces bent upon our destruction, and Metraton is identified with Set, the
Egyptian god of the Underworld and Evil, who is, in fact, none other than
Satan. (The name "Satan" was originally derived from "Set.") It would seem
appropriate then that, if this were so, that this Satan should be from the
very planet which now so closely resembles the real hell which Venus has now
become, according to Russian "Venera" lander photos!
Also if this person were Satan, his incalculable age yet continuing youth
would also be accounted for, as would his title of "Prince, or Ruler of This
World", since Satan is thus styled by no less an authority than Jesus
Christ, in the New Testament of the Christian Bible! There is some
additional support for this concept in the earlier comment that Venus was
also referred to as Lucifer, The Morning Star. "Lucifer" was, of course, the
original Archangelic name of Satan! And, let us not forget the the coming
World Dictator prophesied in the Biblical Book of Revelation, the so-called
seven-headed Beast, whose name will add up to 666. The number of all evil
incarnate
The Switched Swastika?
Thus we are faced with the possibility that the alleged Right-Hand Path /
Left Hand Path positions as they relate to Agharta and Shambala,
respectively, might well have been deliberately switched, and that the
opposite may be the truth. This could also apply to the direction of
"rotation" of the swastika, to right or left, since, when we compare a
swastika with a spiral galaxy - with regard to its "arms" and direction of
rotation - the swastika-emblem of the Nazis then really does becomes a
left-handed one! The Aryan symbol of Evil and Misfortune!.
Oddly enough, and whilst we are discussing all these curious coincidences,
it is worth remembering that Hell was always believed, even when I was a
youngster, to be a huge underworld region deep inside our own earth!
Modernist Christian thinking has since come up with the concept of a Planet
Heaven and a Planet Hell, but perhaps the old beliefs might have had some
reasonable foundation in fact - if such an evil inner realm of Agartha does
exist.
Nicholas Roerich.
Before I close this brief introduction to the Inner Earth mythos, I should
perhaps make mention of Nicholas Roerich, who was a famous Russian explorer,
artist and mystic, who traversed these mysterious regions during the 1920s
and 30s in search of adventure and enlightenment. Roerich was particularly
interested in the lost realm of Shambala, about which he later wrote a book,
entitled simply enough "Shambhala" published in 1930, along with "Himalayas:
Abode of Light" and "Heart of Asia", among others.
At one time, Roerich had possession of a "magical stone from another world"
which was known as the Chintamani Stone. It was supposed to have come from
the Sirius star system, and ancient Asian chronicles said it been given to
Tazlavoo, the Emperor of Atlantis, by an angelic messenger from the skies.
Legend says that it was sent from Tibet to King Solomon in Israel on a
vimana airship (one of which he was also believed to have owned)!
The stone, which is said to have had magical properties, is believed to have
been Moldavite, a magnetic stone which is sold in many crystal shops, and is
thought to have fallen in a shower of meteors some 15 million years ago.
(The sacred black stone inside the Kabah at Mecca, which all Muslims
venerate, is also a fragment of meteorite, and could well be of the same
Moldavite stone). Roerich wrote of Shambala in his book that: "Shambhala
itself is the Holy Place, where the earthly world links with the higher
states of consciousness...many speculations have been made about the
location of the earthly Shambhala. Certain indications put this place in the
extreme North, explaining that the rays of Aurora Borealis are the rays of
Shambhala.... but this is incorrect, Shambhala is only north in relation to
India, being perhaps on the Pamir, in Turkestan, or in the Central Gobi..."
He associates it with the underground city of "Agharti" and with the "White
Island", and that its "Splendid Valley" is reached via subterranean passages
from the Himalayas. He further adds that "the underground caverns of Central
Asia are inhabited to this day by the people called the Agharti, or Chud,
and that when the time of purification comes, say the legends, they will
emerge in their glory".
The Religion of Shambala.
If one can properly describe it as a religion, according to Roerich, that of
Shambala is of Fire. He relates it to the old cults of Fire and Sun, and the
Swastika is its emblem, found carved or painted everywhere. He definitely
associates it with the Aryan Race. However, it was not only confined to
Buddhist temples. He found it also connected to Bön-Po, a pre-Buddhist Black
Faith "which reveres some mysterious gods of the Swastika." He said that
they drew the symbol counter-clockwise or left-handed - which, as we’ve
seen, was the version chosen by the Nazis! (There seems to also be some
confirmation here that "Bön-Po" was adopted by the Aghartis.)
Flying Saucers and Atom Power.
It was on August 5th, 1927, that Roerich and his party had a typical UFO
sighting, 20 years before Kenneth Arnold saw his in 1947. "We saw, in a
direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the sun,
like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp, this thing
changed in its direction from south to south west. And we saw how it
dis-appeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field
glasses and saw quite distinctly an oval form with a shiny surface, one side
of which was brilliant from the sun."
According to a lama who was travelling with Roerich’s group, this was a good
omen "A very good sign." he said. "We are protected. Rigden-Jyepo himself is
looking after us!" He was referring to the prophesied "Lord of Shambala’s
New Era" . The "Ruler of The World", "Maitreya", the "Last Avatar of the
Kali Yuga", who was to herald in a New Age - somewhat as Christ is to bring
in the new Millennium of Peace upon the earth. however, there is reference
to an esoteric college of astrology, which was to be established in Urga
(Ulan Bator, Mongolia) "as a centre from which comes the impulse for the
imminent renewal of humanity, and to a Lord, King or Ruler of the World who
is neither Christ nor Lucifer".
It’s of interest to note that in the mid-1980s, a full-page advertisement
appeared in all the world’s leading daily newspapers announcing the imminent
revelation of the "Maitreya", who would appear to everyone in the world
simultaneously, whether by direct sight or by television. I personally still
have a copy, in my files of this advertisement! (But, as I write this,
almost twenty years later, he still hasn’t put in an appearance!)
Roerich’s wife, Helena, herself a mystic, wrote in her own book, "Agni Yoga"
about the Agni or Fire of Shambhala, and how it will be used in the New Age,
describing it as "the great eternal energy, this fine imponderable matter
which is scattered everywhere and which is within our use at any moment".
Roerich himself said of this same power in the 1940s: "energies of cosmic
fire will approach the earth and create many new conditions of life".
Joscelyn Godwin comments in his book, "Arktos, The Polar Myth", "This could
be a definition of Bulwer-Lytton’s Vril force.....if Nicholas Roerich, the
indefatigable worker for world peace, had known the form in which Agni would
be compelled to manifest in 1945, he might have been more cautious in
recommending it..." It seems patently clear that this Agni fire, or Vril
force, (which appear to be the same thing) could only have been what we
nowadays describe as atomic energy!
Anyhow, the foregoing should more than suffice for the historic background
to the Hollow or Inner Earth concept, so I shall now pass on to the theory
itself.
Whence The "Hollow Earth" Theory?
It was Sir Edmund Halley, the 17th century astronomer who discovered Halley’
s Comet, who first suggested a hollow earth. His idea was that it comprised
three concentric spheres, that each supported life and which had at their
centre a white-hot shining core. He ascribed the shifting of the earth’s
magnetic poles to their movements one within another. This might sound
rather crackpot, until one considers that other reputable scientists have
deduced that "polar wander" might be due to slippage of the mesosphere
within the lithosphere, or the slippage of the latter over the former, as
hypothesised by people like Wegener and Hapgood.
A theological dabbler in Science, Thomas Burnet, in his book "Sacred Theory
of the Earth", proposed that the waters of the oceans came out of a hole at
the North Pole, but only in accordance with Divine Will, as and when
required for Deluges and suchlike Heaven-sent catastrophes, but not as a
continuous, self-sustained process of replenishment.
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