Agartha

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Agartha (AKA "Agarthi", "Agartta", "Agarttha", "Aggartha", "Aghardi", "Asgartha", "Aryavartha", "Hsi Tien", "Hsi Wang Mu", "Belovodye", "Janaidar", and others) first appeared in western literature in Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre's Theosophical treatise, "Mission de l'Inde en Europe".

The capitol city of Agartha is Shambhala (AKA "Shambhalla", "Shambhallah", "Shamballah", and others.)

In the Mythos

In the world, everything is constantly in a state of transition and change: people, religions, laws and customs. How many great empires and brilliant cultures have perished! More than six thousand years ago a holy man disappeared with a whole tribe in the depths of the earth. Since then he has never reappeared on the surface of the world, but several people were able to visit his kingdom: Sakya Muni, Undur Gheghen, Pasba, Baber and many others. No one really knows where it is. One says in Afghanistan, others in India In this region, all people are protected against evil. The crime does not exist within its borders. Science developed in peace, nothing is threatened with destruction. The subterranean people have reached the highest degree of knowledge. Now it is a kingdom that has millions of subjects on which reigns the King of the World. The latter knows all the forces of nature reads in all souls and in the great book of Fate.Invisible, he rules eight hundred million men, ready to execute his orders.

This kingdom is Agartha. It spreads through underground passages around the world. I heard a Chinese Lama scholar say to Bogd Khan that all the subterranean caves of America are inhabited by the ancient people who once disappeared underground; traces of his existence still remain on the surface of the country. All the inhabitants of this underworld are ruled by leaders who recognize the sovereignty of the King of the World. None of this is inexplicable. You know that in the midst of the two greatest oceans of the East and West were formerly two continents. They were buried under the waters, but their people went into the underground kingdom. The deep caves where they live are illuminated by a particular light that allows plant growth and protects from disease.
— Ferdynand Ossendowski, Beasts, Men and Gods (treatise) (1926)

Agartha is a globe-spanning civilization existing in the Hollow Earth, whose hidden masters form a secret world government that controls the nations of the world in Dreams. An early source for the belief in the underground civilization of Agartha is the 19th-century biography of a Norwegian sailor named Olaf Jansen, whose sloop sailed through an entrance to the Earth's interior at the North Pole, to wreck leaving him to leave for two years with the inhabitants of an underground network of colonies whose inhabitants were a full 12 feet tall and whose world was eternally lit by a hazy "sun" of living fire. This narrative sometimes appears as the minor tome The Smokey God (tome).

Agartha is said to be one of the oldest human civilizations, older than Ancient Khem, older than Babylon, older Lemuria. It is said to have been the original Garden of Eden from which mankind and all mortal life on Earth arose; the surface-dwelling human races were cast out of Agharta to the surface world in an imperfect form to evolve further spiritually before they could be welcomed back to Agartha when the Stars are Right, at which time the hordes of the undying citizens of Agartha would flood up out of the tunnels and caverns onto the surface world to conquer it in the name of the Old Ones.

At the heart of Agartha lay the pyramid city of Shambhala, which is exceedingly ancient, but anointed over 5,000 years ago as the capitol of the world, where it is said to be ruled by a "race of Deathless Chinamen", ascended masters of the universe who hear the voices of the stars and, under the guidance of the spirits of the outer spheres, control the destinies of the nations of the surface world through Dreams. It is said that the city of Shambhala never sleeps, but rings eternally with the unearthly, ceaseless, hypnotic music of bells, gongs, drums, and the lunatic piping of tireless flute-players.

Agartha would become widely known to esotericism via Theosophists in 1886, with Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre's "Mission de l'Inde en Europe", which in its original and rarely-seen form revealed the secret entrances of Agartha; the author was compelled by the unseen Masters to destroy all but one copy of the book before it was able to be distributed to the public; the surviving copy was heavily edited by anonymous Theosophists in 1910 and republished with many of Agartha's deepest mysteries concealed from the general public. Ferdynand Ossendowski would further elaborate on Agartha and its relationship to the rest of the world, as conveyed to him by strange princes he met in his travels in India.


Heresies and Controversies

  • Shambhala is a Buddhist concept of paradise achieved through spiritual enlightenment, adopted by Theosophy which conceived of it as an underground utopia and seat of the immortal Asian ascended masters of their beliefs, which in turn was described as the capitol city of a secret world government at the heart of a Hollow Earth kingdom in some esoteric and paranoiac writings, which would, apparently, in one form or another inform pulp literature, including the Cthulhu Mythos.


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