Members,
From Chapter seven of 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 his 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, Nicholas 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 to help the human race. They are generally represented as
sexless. They were emissaries of Agharta, the subterranean paradise which it
is the goal of all true Buddhists to reach.
Members,
I think that this is the general idea. I don't know that ALL of Dr. Raymond
Bernard's ( the author ) ideas on Agartha were correct, but I think that
most surface cultures, if not all, have an ancient link with the hollow
portion. I go over this in my article called The Hollow Earth and the Aryan
Invasion Revised. Notice that the Russian culture, and all the cultures of
Northen Europe were Indo European. The Hindus feel that the different
cultures of Europe were warrior cultures which left India- The avatar
Parasurama met 21 different such communities in battle, 21 different times,
and banished them from India. Europeans are definitely of warrior stock!
Vikings, Germans, Romans, et cetera.
But why would expulsed warrior communities go to Northern Europe, of all
places? Why not the tropical island of Mauritius, or some other tropical
area? Maybe some place in Thailand? It is obvious that those cultures
spilled out from the hollow portion through the opening.
And the Hindus say that the Parasurama Avartar appeared in Goa in India. I
don't know about that. The Puranas were revised at some point- long
stretches of the Puranas are written in post Vedic Sanskrit. So I don';'t
know that we can attach such absolute credence to each word. What if
somebody comes along 5,000 years from now and confuses York with New York?
Some archaeologist, let's say. What if Parasurama threw these deviant
warrior communities out of the hollow portion? What if there is a Goa in
there. And Ayodhya of the Rama Avatar?
I'm not insisting on these last points, but we have to stop and re-consider
the Vedic version in the light of the Hollow Earth Theory. Certainly no
philosophical conclusions are threatened. Maybe the unfortunate contrast of
our situation, with the situation of the hollow earthers, inclined them to
allow some things to be forgotten from the collective momory of the surface
population, including the Hindu surface population.
Dharma/Dean