Members,
The following piece is from the article You could Learn a Lot from a Daitya:
http://skyboom.com/hollowearthpuranas/index13.html
Let's say that the article is my take on the book Etidorhpa, a book which is
a hollow earth classic. Below the article is the ENTIRE book Etidorhpa,
complete with drawings. Do investigate. Here is the piece from the article:
The book Etidorhpa described this amazing trip through the caverns of the
inner earth in detail. It also presented some of the philosophy and
sci-entific truths the guide imparted to this man.
The author [ Joseph H. Cater narrating ] was astounded when he read the
book, since it confirmed many of the new ideas he had already formulated. In
fact, some of the factual material presented in the book enabled him to
extend the new concepts to a more comprehensive view of the universe. It was
then pos-sible to explain many things not properly resolved in the book.
According to Etidorhpa, the shell of the hollow earth is 800 miles thick,
which an analysis of the satellite pictures confirms. Gravity at the 25-mile
depth was one-third normal earth gravity. From that level, gravi-ty
decreased gradually until it disappeared at the 700-mile depth. At that
point, the narrative ended. The reasons for these conditions were not
giv-en, but they are to be expected from the principles already outlined. "
Mr. Cater feels that, if ever there were a book written as fiction in order
to present a great truth, then Etidorhpa was such a book.
One of the two main protagonists of the book was The-Man-That-Did-It. This
person is referred to as the " stranger " by Mr. Cater above. He seemed to
play a passive role in the book as he was led by The Guide through the shell
of the Earth on a subterrainian tour, though he turned out to be a very
brave and wise man as he obviously comprehended and passed his tests, for
which reason he was referred to in the book as The-Man-Who-Did-It (
Henceforth, we shall simply refer to him as The Man. ) . Rod M. Cluff, a
hollow Earth researcher, had the following to say about The Man: " A fellow
hollow Earth researcher, Bruce Walton, came to the conclusion that the
nameless person was actually William Morgan. I have a copy of the book
Morgan wrote on Free Masonry. It makes perfect sense that he was taken by
the Free Masons who faked his death and sent him on a life-long journey to
inner earth through a cavern in Kentucky. No mention is made of polar
openings in this book."
The way in which The Man was abducted by a network of people allied with
underground beings strongly suggests that, especially by now, some 150 years
later, institutions of the surface world could be quite infiltrated.
Of as much interest to us as the man was the Guide, referred to as the cave
dweller by Mr. Cater. He was described in the book as a man with " ... a
forehead which extended from crown to cheekbone in an unbroken plane (
eyeless ) ... [ with ] a body color of light blue putty [ which ] glistened
in the sunlight like the slimy hide of a water dog, [ with ] a chubby tip of
an abortive nose without nostrils ... cold, clammy hands ... sappy skin from
which moisture seemed to ooze, as from the hide of a water lizard." The
description of The Guide reminds us of descriptions of UFO occupants, with
their small noses and grey complexions. The way his skin is described with
the words " sappy " and " moisture " smacks of the slimy surface of a
mushroom; indeed, this denizen of the underworld was not a sun-based
biological entity. It occurs to us that he was a Daitya, a follower of
Shukra Acharya, the Daitya Guru, the preceptor of a race of beings who take
an opposite stance to the demigod followers of Vishnu. The role of Shukra in
Puranic lore corresponds to Venus in the West. Why do we suspect that The
Guide was a Daitya-follower of Shukra Acharya in particular? As the book
unfolds, and particularly, when the book ends, the Guide is revealed as a
highly placed, confidential functionary of Aphrodite- Etidorhpa is Aphrodite
spelled backwards- who according to Vedic lore is but the daughter of Venus,
not actually the predominating deity of the planet itself.
Careful consideration of the phenomena experienced in Etidorhpa will allow
the reader to decide for him or herself if the book actually describes
knowledge, scientific truths, and the mysteries of the inner shell and
hollow Earth, as well as whether or not an understanding of Mr. Cater's soft
particle physics is able to bring rational justification to the book. Our
consideration can begin on page 193.
While conversing about the configuration of continents, The Guide
illuminated his charge by saying: " You argue from an erroneous hypothesis.
The Earth is neither rigid nor solid."
" True," I answered. " If it were solid I could not be a hundred miles
beneath its surface in conversation with another being; but there cannot be
many such cavities as that which we are now traversing, and they cannot
surely extend entirely through its mass; the great weight of the
superincumbent material would crush together the strongest materials, if a
globe as large as our earth were extensively honeycombed in this manner."
" Quite the contrary," he replied; " and here let me, for the first time,
enlighten you as to the interior structure of the terrestrial globe. The
earth-forming principle consists of an invisible sphere of energy that,
spinning through space, supports the space dust which collects on it, as
dust on a bubble. By gradual accumulation of substance on that sphere a
hollow ball has resulted, on the outer surface of which you have hitherto
dwelt. The crust of the earth is comparatively thin, not more than eight
hundred miles in average, thickness, and is held in position by the central
sphere of energy that now exists at a distance about seven hundred miles
beneath the ocean level. The force inherent to this sphere manifests itself
upon the matter which it supports on both sides, rendering matter the
lighter the nearer it lies to the center sphere. In other words, let me say
to you: `The crust, or shell, which I have just described as being but about
eight hundred miles in thickness is firm and solid on both its convex and
concave surface, but gradually loses in weight, whether we penetrate from
the outer surface toward the center, or from any point of the inner surface
towards the outside, until at the central sphere matter has no weight at
all.' Do you conceive my meaning?"
" Yes," I replied; "I understand you."
Here the guide is explaining that huge caverns and cavities deep within the
Earth's inner shell do not typically collapse due to the weight of the Earth
above them because the effects of gravity diminish the deeper one
penetrates.
On page 201 we can see that, the deeper the pair penetrated the Earth's
shell, the less exhaustive was simple movement thanks to a diminuition of
gravity:
" ... we had been rapidly walking, or I should better say advancing, for we
no longer walked as men do, but skipped down into the Earth, down, ever
downward. ... I was sensible of a marked decrease of muscular energy
required to carry us onward, and I realized that my body was quite exempt
from weariness. Motion became restful instead of exhausting, and it seemed
to me that the ratio of the loss of weight, as shown by our free movements,
in proportion to the distance we traversed, was greater than formerly. The
slightest exhibition of propelling force cast us rapidly forward. Instead of
the laborious, short step of upper earth, a single leap would carry us many
yards. A slight spring, and with our bodies in space, we would skip several
rods, alighting gently, to move again as easily. I marveled, for, although I
had been led to anticipate something unusual, the practical evidence was
wonderfully impressive, and I again questioned my guide.
We are now nearing what physicists would call the center of gravity," he
replied, arid our weight is rapidly diminishing. This is in exact accordance
with the laws that govern the force called gravitation, which, at the
earth's surface, is apparently uniform, though no instrument known to man
can demonstrate its exact variation ... as we descend into the Earth."