The Lost Kingdom of Agharti or our memories of the Underground World. Part 3.

  • 2017

In this article we will continue analyzing the myth of Agharti. For a better understanding, the previous reading of the first and second part is recommended.

We closed the last article, referring to Preste Juan, a mythical King they say ruled the underground kingdom of Agharti, and who came to be known as "The King of the World ." But ... what is really that legend? Where does fantasy end and reality begin? We will try to give an answer, reviewing the opinions of several experts who have deepened the myth throughout history

Medieval Stories

Agharti's " King of the World " belief was first expressed by Athanasius Kircher in his work " Mundus Subterraneus (1665) ", in which he places the heart of the kingdom of Preste John in Mongolia. Later followers of this theory have cited evidence that the empire of that King embraced " the three Indies and the lands that extended beyond India ." More recently, André Chaleil stated in his book " Les Grands Inities de Notre Temps (1978) " the following:

" After all, the esoteric people of all ages have spoken of the underground kingdom of Agharti, and if we think about the Middle Ages we will see that the enigmatic Preste Juan was nothing other than the governing entity over e va t and unknown kingdom ."

Baring-Gould in his book " Cliff-Castles and Cave Dwellings in Europe (1911)" tells another amazing story about a descent into a mysterious underground world.

A story is told of Father Conrad, the confessor of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia, a barbaric and brutal man, who was sent to Germany by Gregory IX to burn and slaughter the heretics. The pope called him his 'dilectus filius'. In 1231 he was involved in a controversy with a heretical professor who, beaten in his arguments, according to Conrad's account, offered to show Christ and the Blessed Virgin, who with their own lips would ratify the doctrine taught by the heretic. Conrad accepted and was led to a cave in the mountains. After a long descent, they entered a brightly lit hall where a king sat on a golden throne. The heretic prostrated himself with adoration and asked Conrad to do the same; but he took out a consecrated host and conjured the vision, at which point everything disappeared. ”

The similarity between that “ R ey on a golden throne with the King of the World of Agharti seems unquestionable.

If we go a little deeper into history, we find that the German flute of the Pied Piper of Ham and lÃn, is also linked to the legend of Agharti, surprising as it may seem.

Harold Bayley and Robert Dickhoff were convinced that the fable was based on certain real events, and that the said flutist was an inhabitant of the underground world.

Dickhoff says so:

There is a well-known story, told and recounted, that tells of a city in Germany called Hamel n that suffered the plague of rats, and of a foreigner who with the sound effect of his flute m Logic enchanted the animals to follow him to a place where they were all drowned. And how, after refusing to pay the agreed reward to the flute player, he again used the magic of his flute playing other melodies that all Hamel's children loved so that follow. When he had taken his victims to a certain mountain, a hidden passage appeared through which all the children and the flute player passed and were never seen again. .

Dickhoff then asks himself: “ What knowledge did the foreigner have of that passage or tunnel, and where did he really get with his human burden? " He suggests that his destiny was Agharti, and adds " Not all similarities can always be coincidence ."

Harold Bayley goes further, and speculates that the flutist and children entered a passage in the Koppenburg mountains of Germany. Perhaps the truth of what happened is never proven, but there is no doubt that something true must exist in a legend that is repeated so many times, and in so many parts of the world .

The other voyage of Columbus and the American Legends

The great Crist or bal Colón, discoverer of a new world, also appears in the same legend. According to several accounts of his trip to America, he had heard stories of huge underground passageways near the Antilles, whispered by the Caribbean in 1493.

The natives claimed that in the former kingdom of the female warriors, the " A mazonas " (of which it is said they had settled in Martinique), there were tunnels that extended " beyond the knowledge of man . " The Amazons used them as shelters when they were attacked by enemies or harassed by any kind of danger. There they could hide, and if the enemy's advances persisted, they could trick them into the network of underground tunnels, where they ended up finding their downfall. However, there is no evidence that Columbus discovered the origin or scope of these passages . What he came to know, we will never know.

There is also considerable historical evidence of huge networks of underground tunnels both in North America and in South and Central America ; the same can be said on the other side of the Atlantic in Africa, Europe and Asia, which will be discussed later. For now, suffice it to say that the evidence reinforces the assertion that the legend of Agharti was world-wide known since ancient times, and that in itself, already constitutes an extraordinary fact.

Wise Words of India

There is another continent to which we must turn our attention, since particularly from its ancient traditions and teachings a more complete picture of Agharti emerged . This continent was India, and as a direct result of the research carried out there, the underground world went from being just a legend, although very popular, to becoming the focal point of an intense study in research .

As anyone with the slightest knowledge about India will know, its culture is an absolute mine of ancient knowledge and cosmic legends, and the study of its history is truly fascinating and full of wonders. Although this " history " is authoritatively documented since the 6th century BC, in large part what happened in prehistoric times helped shape the civilization of India, and resulted in the great moral philosophies that continue to flow today. over millions of people across the East . The oldest literary works of India are the hymns of the Rig-Veda, which are certainly based on much older oral traditions, and describe the invasion of the Aryan tribes, whose fusion with the local population between 1700 and 1200 BC. It gave rise to the modern nation. However, it is the times before that period that are of greatest interest to us, since the first stories of an underground world come from them.

These prehistoric ages are known as pre - Vedic (that is, prior to the texts of the Rig-Veda), and during them, India extended over a much larger area than today. According to the great Anglo-German orientalist, Professor Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), in his vast study " Sacred Books of the East (1875) ", at that time there were three Indies: one superior, one inferior and one western .

Muller says that Western India was what Iran is today, and among other countries he considered Tibet, Mongolia and the Tatar regions of Russia to be part of that nation.

He also states that there are good reasons to suspect that the great civilizations of the primitive world - Egypt, Greece and Rome - actually received their laws, arts and sciences from that pre-Vedic India where once they inhabited several races that preceded ours.

One of the universal traditions accepted by all ancient peoples was that there were many races of men before our current races. Each one of them was different from the one that preceded it, and each one disappeared when the next one appeared.

Professor Muller cites an ancient Brahminic manuscript The Code of Manu, which speaks of the existence of six races prior to ours, and quotes: And there came from Swayambhouva, or the being that exists by itself, another six manus, each of which gave rise to a race of men. These manus, all powerful, of which Swayambhouva is the first, in their time each one produced and directed this world composed of mobile and immovable beings.

Professor Muller then tells us that in the heart of this cradle of humanity there was an island settled in the middle of a large inland sea . This sea occupied what are now the salty lakes and deserts of Central Asia to the north of the Himalayan mountain range. The island was very beautiful and the last remnants of the river that immediately preceded ours inhabited it . Those people were a truly remarkable species. According to the teacher:

This race could live with equal ease in water, air or fire, as it had unlimited control over the elements. They were the Children of the Gods . It was they who imparted to man the strangest secrets of Nature and revealed the word ineffable and now lost. This word has traveled the Globe, it remains a distant and dying echo in the hearts of some privileged men .

However, despite their absolute powers, these peoples could not prevent the disappearance and final extinction of their island, which they called Shangri-La . It is believed they were destroyed by a holocaust of some kind. The name Shangri-La, was recovered by James Hilton to illustrate his wonderful novel Lost Horizons, which in a way refers to the same myth.

Perhaps, however, the most interesting information that comes from this investigation is that this lost island was linked to the continent through secret tunnels.

There was no communication with the beautiful island by sea, but underground passageways that only the chiefs knew communicated with her in all directions. The tradition points to many of the majestic ruins of India, Ellora, Elephanta, and the Ajunta caverns - in the mountain ranges of Chandor -, with which those underground worlds were communicated neos .

The professor, along with some of his successors, wondered if this description of a lost island could be a variant of the legend of Atlantis, and weighed the implications that the tradition about a landmass that disappeared under the waters, was Somehow transferred from the Atlantic Ocean to the continent of India. You could think long and hard about it.

While Professor Muller was writing and publishing his masterpiece, a French layman who lived in India, he was fascinated by the subject; in particular by the popular knowledge about worlds before ours . Like the Anglo-Germanic orientalist, this Frenchman heard the references about a lost kingdom and about the existence of a network of underground passageways that connected with him. But he decided to investigate the field to find out if the legend was something more than that.

This Frenchman was called Louis Jacolliot, and his investigation was about to reveal the mystery of Agharti.

The story of Louis Jacolliot will be revealed in the next article. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoyed reading, and that the secrets of the Kingdom of Agharti have aroused your interest, and perhaps some other forgotten memories.

SOURCE; "The Lost World of Agharti" by Alec McClellan

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