After a long time spent in this slow
progress they became conscious of a faint and inexplicable luminosity in the
heavy atmosphere which surrounded them, and presently they came out into a
cavity so vast that they were unable to see its limits. It seemed to be full of
a curious pale radiance, by means of which, however, they were able to see
distinctly enough to dispense altogether with the torches. Their eyes required
a great deal of adjustment to this extraordinary light, so for some time they
could not at all calculate the distance
of objects, and met with some awkward falls in consequence.
Everything felt abnormally heavy to them,
and every motion seemed somehow a violent effort. They soon discovered that
this enormous cavity was inhabited not only by animals but also by human
beings, though these last were in various ways unlike any others that they had
ever seen. The impression conveyed to then was that the inhabitants of this
strange inner world had at some time or other in the far past belonged to the
outer, though it would appear that the people themselves held rather the
opposite idea, and thought of themselves as original, and of those who had
escaped into the outer world as men upon whom some dismal fate had fallen.
The men whoa they saw were wild-looking, and
somehow indescribably strange and inhuman. They seemed to constitute numerous
communities, and there were many things about them which were inexplicable to
our explorers. They had no means of communicating with them, except, by
gestures, but it was evident that their arrival excited great wonder. If these
primitive cave-men had ever had communication with any humanity on the surface
of the earth it must have been long ago, for their characteristics at this day
differed widely from those of any of the known races.
The utter strangeness of everything daunted
the spirits of our explorers, and although their interest was naturally intense
they often wished that they had never undertaken the adventure. The life in the
midst of which they had found themselves was in so many ways quite
incomprehensible to them. The Inner voice directed them only occasionally, and
they had no means of obtaining the information on hundreds of points which they
were naturally so eager to acquire. They
were unable to form any opinion as to the nature of the diffused radiance which
filled the vast cavern. The vegetables which grew in it, and the animals which
moved among them, were alike strange to them. The people seemed to be in many
ways what we should call savages, for they had no visible dwellings of any
sort, nor was it clear that they engaged in any definite work, such for example
as the cultivation of their soil. They appeared to live partly upon the flesh
of certain semi-reptilian animals which they caught, and partly upon huge
fungoid growth which was exceedingly common, a sort of gigantic toadstool. Our
adventurers shrank in horror from the reptilian form of food, which the
inhabitants devoured raw -- indeed there was nothing whatever to show that they
knew of fire or any of its forms -- but since the stores which our friends had
brought with them were running low, and they had no certainty of being able to
replenish them, they did eat the fungus, and found it to be sustaining, though
far from palatable. It seemed to have a curious exhilarating or almost
intoxicating effect upon their unaccustomed organisms.
The people were evidently greatly astonished
to see their visitors, and indeed at first fled from then in fear, but
presently they ventured to approach and examine them more closely. Nothing in
the nature of clothing was seen, and the colour of the people was an unpleasant
and curious livid kind of lead-colour, probably produced by this strange
diffused light. Women were seen among them and also large numbers of children.
They may have been a remnant of some early Lemurian race, for they had many of
the characteristics of the blue egg-headed people, who at one time occupied a
considerable portion of the Lemurian continent. Among other things, they were somewhat below the ordinary height
of men, though broad and squat in appearance, whereas the ancient Lemurian
races from which they might have sprang were distinctly taller and looser in
build then the men of the later races. If, however, they did originally come
from that stock, they must have been considerably modified by long ages of
sojourn under these unearthly conditions...
These people still exist at this present
day. There are many of these cavities and some of them are peopled by tribes
much more advanced than those encountered by our adventurers. The mental body
of these people is not at all highly developed. Their speech is an unholy
compound of clicks and grunts, helped out with a good deal of clumsy gesture.
No ceremonies have so far been observed among them. Marriage is between one man
and one woman in many cases, but in other cases not. There seems no sign of
rank, nor any kind of government -- indeed, there is nothing to govern.
Sometimes there are quarrels, but all on a small scale. As regards property,
they may be said to own some sort of weapons. The majority of them have no
clothing. There is no day and night with them; they mostly throw themselves
down to sleep after taking a meal. The children sometimes amuse themselves with
dances. There are plenty of rivers and the people swim in them in a curious
dog-like fashion.
Our two friends abode among these
extraordinary savages for a period which, measure by day and night, would have
been perhaps a couple of weeks. Their difficulties were considerable, and a
great portion of each day had to be devoted to sleep, as they never both slept
at the same time, feeling it always necessary that one should be on the watch.
The savages seemed to have no evil intention towards them, and it is also
certain that some of the reptiles were carnivorous, and probably poisonous.
There was a good deal of vegetation, specially in the neighborhood of water;
nothing of any great size, except what might be called a sort of gigantic
grass, a kind of bamboo which could not support itself, but crept along the
ground. There were also spiky plants of the general appearance of aloes, and
various kinds of cactus and rushes and sedges and that kind of thing, but all
of a curious bleached unhealthy colour, many of them darkish, but none really
green (ne doubt due to the lack of photosynthesis as is found in the outer
world - Branton).
After they had become somewhat accustomed to
this weird and uncomfortable condition of affairs, the voice directed Alcyone
and his friend to proceed straight out into the cavity and to walk for many
hours in a straight line, leaving the great wall. They soon lost sight of the
wall in this curious diffused luminosity, and felt strangely lost in this
nightmare of a world, with no certainty of
getting out of it again. But they continued walking, in spits of the
difficulties of the atmosphere, and at last came upon a different type of
people, who by comparison with the others might be said to be quite advanced,
for they had places to live in, though they were only hollowed out of the
ground -- chambers in the rock. But these people wove a sort of matting. They
did not seem to know fire, but they may be said to have kept domestic animals.
They had a kind of goat, of which they drank the milk. Their settlement was
pitched round a number of boiling springs or geysers, and in these boiling
springs they cooked the flesh of their goats, also that of some turtle-like
creatures. It may have been the same race, but it was certainly a stage further
advanced. They could draw to a certain extent, and also they engraved or
scratched signs upon the rocks according to some primitive scheme, consisting
entirely of round impressions (cup-shaped marks) arranged in a form which
signified something -- so many in a straight line meaning one thing, and so
many arranged in an angle something else. These were not letters, but
ideograms, or signs for certain things. The marks were produced by grinding a
sharpened edge into the rock. They had thus a series of intelligible signs, but
no idea beyond the making of these round depressions.
They made also a kind of string or rope out
of their reeds, and the women were beginning to wear coloured stones. Our
friends cone in one place upon a kind of pocket of precious stones, and carried
them away with them -- fine specimens, splendid gems, which proved on their
return to the upper world to be of great rarity. These people, who might be
said to be a little more advanced, sometimes smeared themselves with colour,
for there was coloured mud to be found in connection with the boiling springs.
We noticed a sort of rose-colour, green, and yellow (which may have been
sulphur); it was something like the "paint-pots" in the Yellowstone
Park. To scoop out the mud these people used flat stones.
Eventually our friends found their way back,
with great difficulty, to the hole by which they entered the cavity. They had
still some of their original food, though it was hard and dry, and they also
took with them some of the fungus. They made a fresh bundle of torches out of
the bamboo, but they were not satisfactory, as they often went out. However,
they were able to relight them, as they carried with them the primitive
instrument for fire-making which they had brought with them -- a stick and
string and a little cup. At last they struggled up to the surface again, but
with great difficulty in climbing; and came out into the daylight dazzled and
bewildered. Indeed, they had to remain in the cavern for more than a day, in
order to get their eyes gradually used to the daylight. They had a curious
feeling of sickness, arising apparently from the change in the density of the
air; this sickness lasted for a good many hours, but they were thankful indeed
to get back again.
The voice told Alcyone that this experience
was necessary for him, that now he had a wider knowledge of the possibilities
of life and evolution, so that he might understand and sympathize more fully,
and that later on he would know more about all this. But now he was to go home
again, to rejoin his family, and to prepare himself for another great trial
which was to come. The two friends agreed to say nothing of their story
anywhere in the places through which they passed, but to reserve all mention of
it until they reached home. There they told the story to Alcyone's father and
the family circle. The father said, "Yes, there is a tradition, not among
us, but among the Atlanteans, of such underground races of men." Something
of the story was also told by Demeter to some other people outside; but they supposed
it to be mere fabrication. The family of course knew it to be true, and fully
realized what a wonderful experience it was..."
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#35
--- The following passages can be found on pages 20-21 of "THE
SUBTERRANEAN WORLD", edited by Timothy Green Beckley. In one chapter
titled "The Inner Earth", detailing some of the writings of 'Doreal',
we read:
"...They
say this also, concerning the manner of heat increasing, by so many hundreds of
feet that we descend into the earth. That was one of the things you were
probably taught in school and probably still are, though in mines in Russia
where one mine extends to a depth of seven miles, one finds that the heat
increases up to a certain point, then remains static and then begins to
decrease. There is only a certain area of the outer skin of earth subjected to
the cosmic ray that has a heated area. That is also true of thermometers which
have been let down deep, dry oil wells.
"...First, this inner earth is not just
a succession of caverns with nobody in them. They are inhabited by one of the
races of ancient Atlantis who disappeared from the earth before Atlantis sank;
that is, the Blue Race of Atlantis... Before Atlantis sank the Blue Race had
lived in the interior part of the earth. During that long period of time, they
lost the use of their physical eyes - not that the inner part of the earth is
dark and dismal. I want to correct any idea you might have of that. These
passages are filled with a certain luminous atmosphere. Second, (this)
atmosphere supplies all the needs of the body. If one merely breathes it, one
does not have to eat. Third, this race has lost the use of eyes. They have no
eyes at all in their heads (their psychic sense is so well developed they do
not need them).
"The greatest of all caverns is under
the Caroline Islands where our soldiers fought during World War II.
"The Blue Race went below to supplant a
yet more ancient race who were the guardians of the center of the
earth..."
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#36
--- There is, in India, a tradition of an Underworld Paradise called Patalas.
Patalas is divided into seven different worlds: Rasatala, Mahatala, Atala,
Sutala, Vitala, Talatala and Patala. They lie directly below Vasumati, the
earth. Legends of this world tell of beautiful subterranean gardens, forests,
and jeweled palaces where heavenly beings dwell. Upon occasions, surface
dwellers are permitted to enter to enjoy a life of peace and happiness, usually
beloved kings and princes who are well known for their good deeds. A good
description of this Subterranean Paradise can be found`in the (East) Indian
manuscript "SOMADEVA'S KATHA SARIT SAGARA" (or, "Ocean Of
Streams Of Story"), in ten volumes. Volume VI, pages 108-109 of the
translated version carries the following example,
from "The Adventures of King Bhunandana":
"...'King, that Daitya maiden that you
love lives in Patala, so be of good cheer. I will take you to her. For I am a
Brahman named Bhlrivasu, the son of a sacrificing Brahman of the Deccan, named
Yajuh, and I am a chief among magicians. My father communicated his knowledge
to me, and I learned from a treatise on Patala the proper charms and ceremonies
for propitiating Hatakesana. And I went to Sriparvata and performed a course as
asceticism there for propitiating Siva, and Siva (an astral entity, one of the
many thousands of so-called 'gods' which manipulate the strange belief-system
of the Hindu's - Branton), being pleased with it, appeared to me and said to
me: 'Go; after you have married a Daitya maiden and enjoyed pleasures in the regions
below the earth, you shall return to me; and listen; I will tell you an
expedient for obtaining those delights. There are on this earth many openings
leading to the lower regions; but there is one great and famous one in Kasmira
made by Maya, by which Usha the daughter of Bana introduced her lover Aniruddha
into the secret pleasure-grounds of the Danavas, and made him happy there. And
Pradyumna, in order to deliver his son, laid it open, making a door in one
place with the peak of a mountain, and he placed Durga there, under the name of
Sarika, to guard that door, after propitiating her with hundreds of praises.
Consequently even now the place is called by the two names of Peak of Pradyumna
and Hill of Sarika. So go and enter Patala with your followers by the famous
opening, and by my favor you shall succeed there.
(Note: I should state here that other
traditions relate that 'Nagaloka', a major underground 'city' within the
seven-leveled caverns of 'Patala', is said to be the underworld of the reptilian
'Nagas'. So then, could this 'voice of
Siva' have been some form of hologram which originated from the Naga-reptilians
themselves in order to bring many more people down into the caverns to re-stock
the reptilian food supply? Of course,
this is speculation entirely and does not mean that these people met with such
a fate. Yet, one must wonder... - Branton)
"...And then the great ascetic,
triumphed by the favor of the boon of Siva, revealed the opening by scattering
mustard-seeds in the prescribed manner, and the king entered with him and his
pupils, and marched along the road to Patala for five days and five
nights..."
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#37
--- The following account appears in Warren Smith's book "THIS HOLLOW
EARTH", on pages 63-65 & 76-79. It tells of Doc Anderson's visit to
the Far East, where he learned of the legends concerning tunnels and
subterranean civilizations. Anderson was a well known 'psychic' whose
predications had a fair degree of accuracy. Most of these are recorded in
"DOC ANDERSON - THE MAN WHO SEES TOMORROW", by Robert E. Smith. As a
matter of interest, I received a letter from my friend and follow researcher
TAL LeVesque, dated 3-27-80, which contained the following: "...'Doc'
Anderson (The Man Who See's Tomorrow) who told us he would be using his psychic
power to find openings in the U.S.A. to the ancient tunnel network; this week
DISAPPEARED... his car was found wrecked but NO body anywhere...":
('Doc'
Anderson's account as related by Warren Smith):
"...'Several times we were told by the
bogdos, the Holy Ones, that the mystery of the subterranean kingdom would be
solved when the seven pyramids of Shensi were opened.' Anderson drawled in a
deep, southern accent. 'One old bogdo was a good friend of ours. We'd hear of
the pyramids of Egypt, buddy, but pyramids in Asia were something else again.
These pyramids were in a westerly direction from Sian-fu, the capital of Shensi
province.'
"The two young men traveled along the
great caravan road that stretches from Peking, China, to the shores of the
Mediterranean sea. 'We asked about the pyramids at each village,' Anderson
said. 'Frank couldn't speak the local dialect, but there was usually a chief in
each place who knew pure Chinese. At one place, an old man said the pyramids
were a couple of days' travel from his village.'
"...The land around the pyramids was a
long, desolate flatland. The entire region was under cultivation and forested
areas had been cleared away. There were seven pyramids, flat-topped, with three
giants resting along the outer edges. 'There was a tiny village about two miles
from the large pyramid,' Anderson related. 'We asked the old lama there about
the pyramids, but he could only shake his head. They were another of the
mysteries of Asia. The pyramids were mentioned in ancient scrolls in the
temples. He believed they were at least 5,000 - perhaps 6,000 - years old. No
one knows for certain who built them, why they were constructed, or how they
were built out of that flat plain.'
"Anderson, Frank Shearer, and the lama
walked out to inspect the largest pyramid. 'It may be the largest man-made
structure on earth.' Doc drawled. 'We estimated it was about 2,000 feet at the
base and about 1,200 feet high. This makes the Asian structure twice as large
as the largest pyramid in Egypt.' (Anderson visited Egypt's pyramids at Giza in
1970 and believes he is the only man now living to have seen both the Asian and
Egyptian structures).
"...A network of subterranean tunnels
that link the continents of the world is one of the most persistent beliefs in
hollow earth lore. Stories of these tunnels can be gleaned from the legends,
folklore, and myths of almost every country. Monasteries on the craggy slopes
of Tibet are supposed to be constructed over large, tranquil subterranean
lakes. Many European visitors to Tiber have fascinated their western audiences
with descriptions of tunnels that run from the monastery to the lake, then on
down into the inner earth.
"...Many occultists believe that
Eastern mystics have knowledge of secrets unknown to our present world,
claiming there is seldom smoke without fire, and many legends have a basis in
fact. The reader must determine his own attitude toward these unique facets of
the hollow earth mystery.
