the ancient underground

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Toronto Entrance - There is a small opening to the underground tunnels off Parliament Street in downtown Toronto. (The entrance is between two apartment buildings, and leads to the tunnels via the sewers.) The underground city (abandoned?) beneath Toronto has its center beneath Gerrard Street and Church Street. Above this area, strange magnetic effects have been observed. (Note: This corner of Gerrard & Church streets has a higher accident rate than anywhere else in Toronto. It is believed that underground equipment utilizing powerful magnetic fields (which have caused many strange magnetic effects in houses near this intersection) are responsible for the bizarre equipment failures that often are the cause of these accidents.) The Indians near Toronto have legends of these tunnels.

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The famous Russian channel, Nicholas Roerich, who was a channel for the Ascended Master, El Morya, claimed that Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, was connected by a tunnel with the inner earth, Shamballa. The entrance of this tunnel was guarded by lamas who were sworn to secrecy. This picture is a portrait of Prof Nicholas Roerich in the garden of his home in Kulu, India, stood beside a statue of Guga Chohan. Painted by his son Svetoslav Roerich.

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If we turn to Chinese folklore, we find a time lapse of hundreds of years. There is a book entitled " The Report Concerning the Cave Heavens and Lands of Happiness in Famous Mountains," by Tu Kuang-t'ing, who lived from 850 to 933 A.D. This book lists ten 'cave heavens ' and thirty-six ' small cave heavens' that were supposed to exist beneath the mountains in China. Here are the reported exper
iences of a man who entered a passageway leading to one of these cave heavens:

After walking ten miles, he suddenly found himself in a beautiful land ' with a clear blue sky, shining pinkish clouds, fragrant flowers, densely growing willows, towers the color of cinnabar, pavilions of red jade, and far flung palaces.' He was met by a group of lovely,seductive women, who brought him to a house of jasper, and played him beautiful music while he drank ' a ruby-red drink and a jade-colored juice.' Just as he felt the urge to let himself be seduced, he remembered his family and returned to the passageway. Led by a strange light that danced before him, he walked back through the cave to the outer world; but when he reached his home village, he did not recognize anyone he saw, and when he arrived at his house, he met his own descendents of nine generations hence. They told him that one of their ancestors had disappeared into a cavern three hundred years before and had never been seen again.'

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Borneo cave entrance amid the rain forest

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The Entrance to Smallin's Cave -National Geographic 1923

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Page 52 of the November, 1954 issue of FATE Magazine carried the following story about a mysterious 'gate to the unknown'.

In March, 1954, a French Jesuit priest in Sorata, Bolivia, told a strange story of an exploring trip he had made in the cavern of San Pedro, on 20,000 foot Mount Illampu of the Andes chain (just east of lake Titicaca).

The cavern must be entered on all fours through a narrow passage which widens after a few yards and leads into an immense cavern filled with stalagmites and stalagtites. At one end of the cavern is a subterranean lake.

The French priest claimed to be the first person to cross to the far end of the lake. After several hours of rowing a small boat by artificial light, he related, the cave narrowed and gave way to a trail barred by an enormous gate of wrought iron. The grille, he said, bore all the characteristics of 17th Century Spanish ironwork.

The priest tried unsuccessfully to break through the barrier. He was eager to see what lay beyond, but he had to return to Sorata without solving the mystery.

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Captain Symmes Monument -Hollow Earth Theory

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The Ajanta Caves - Maharashtra - India

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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), was a Russian born artist, poet, writer, mystic and distinguished member of the Theosophical Society, who led an expedition across the Gobi Desert to the Altai mountain range from 1923 to 1928, a journey which covered 15,500 miles across thirty-five of the world's highest mountain passes.

One of the reasons for Roerich's expedition, may have been a return of a stone, said to be part of a larger meteorite, possessing occult powers. This stone was called the Chintamani Stone, alleged to have come from the constellation of Orion. The stone "was capable of giving telepathic inner guidance and effecting a transformation of consciousness to those in contact with it."

According to Lamaist legend, a fragment of this Chintamani Stone is sent to Earth to help establish spiritual missions vital to humanity, and is returned, when missions are completed, to its rightful home in the King's Tower in the centre of Shambhala. Such a stone was said to be in the possession of the failed League of Nations, its return being entrusted to Roerich. Though it is not known whether he was able to return the fragment, but his expedition helped those who believed that Shambhala was more than a myth. Roerich believed in the transcendental unity of religions – in the notion that one day the Buddhist, the Muslim, and the Christian would realize their separate dogmas were husks obscuring the kernel of truth within. All his works embraced the belief that all faiths awaited a new age in which this chaff of dogma would be stripped away, humanity would toss aside its discords, and all would come together in a paradise of universal brotherhood. His symbol for the coming paradise was Shambhala.

Roerich kept a diary during his entire expedition and, while in Mongolia, noted that, "belief in the imminence of the era of Shambhala was very strong." The Roerich Peace Pact, which obligated nations to respect museums, cathedrals, universities and libraries as they did hospitals, was established in 1935 and became part of the United Nations organisational charter. The connection between Shambhala and the Peace Pact is clearly evident in the following speech given at the Third International Roerich Peace Banner Convention in 1933.

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MINNESOTA REDWOOD FALLS  A WWII trainee claimed to have discovered a small underground passage near [west of?] Redwood Falls, which led to an ancient tiled concourse and to an under ground alien realm. He spoke of the "deros" and "teros" and stated that he emerged 6 months later with a "tero" woman who became his wife, with no intention on returning, although both lived in fear as if they were constantly being watched or followed.

Source:letter sent to Richard Shaver[circa 1950's]

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Exploring the Underground World

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The book ''Mysteries of the Andes'', by Robert Charroux, contains an unusual story about two Venezuelan volcanoes which have been subjected to secret scientific investigations. Page's 106-108 has the following:

'The Agartha, that mysterious underground kingdom that, according to the writer Ossendowski, lies under the Himalaya's, is now also in South America if we are to believe certain traditions. It was perhaps this South American Agartha that Harry Gibson, a Venezuelan pilot, saw during a routine flight in 1964, at the bottom of two craters in the jungle somewhere between the Sierra Maigualida and the Orinoco River.

'It is a strange story, and one would be tempted to place it in the same category as reports of imaginary kingdoms -- El Dorado, Paititi, Moricz's tunnel - if it had not been taken very seriously by two respected archeologists, David Nott Rofi Liverpool and Charles Brewer Carias, assisted by Venezuelen Air Force and ten scientists from different nations.

'The craters are near the sources of the rivers Caura and Ventuari, and two mountains known as Pava and Masiati, at the edge of the Sierra Pacaraima. The volcanoes have been extinct for thousands... of years, so scientists hope to find plant and animal life in them that has long since disappeared from the rest of the world.

'In January 1974 a first three-member team went down into one of the craters, about a thousand feet deep and twelve hundred feet wide. They brought back living plants and animals of species that were either unknown or had been extinct since the Mesozoic.

'The two craters are connected by an underground passage nearly a mile long. According to unverified rumours, it is stillin use, because traces of recent activity were found in it.

'So much for the openly announced part of the discovery. The most important results are being kept secret by the Venezuelan scientific authorities, for mysterious reasons. This secrecy has given rise to private inquiries among the people living in surrounding mountains, whose local names are Jaua-Jidi and Sari Inama-Jidi. Fantastic legends concerning the mystery of the two craters have been gathered...

'The rgeion of Jaua-Jidi is a dense, very sparsely inhabited forest. It has been difficult for Venezuelan investigator to make contact with the primitive people who live there. They shun outsiders, speak an unknown language and do not understand Spanish. Half-breeds from the town of Esmeralda, on the Orinoco, have been able to approah them, however.

'Strange people wearing strange clothes have been seen several times in the forest of Jaua-Jidi, one of the reported. They seem unwilling to approach the Indians and they venture only a short distance way from the craters. Their skin is the color of yellowed ivory; they have big eyes, like a jaguar's, and long hair of different colors. They seam fearful and run away whenever they hear an unusual sound. They are thought to live at the bottoms of the craters and in vast underground rooms, with secret entrances in the forest.'

'Other reports would seem to indicate that the people of the kingdom of Two Craters' are in almost constant contact with space beings, but it should be pointed out that sightings of flying saucers are more common in Central and South America that any where else in the world.

'The Indians of the forest say that at night the trees on the rim of each volcano are illuminated by a soft green light that apparently comes from the bottom. Occasionally something, that looks like a 'little round airplane' comes out of the darkness, enters the green halo and disappears into the volcano.

'Two or three nights before David Nott, Brewer Carias, G. Dunsterville and their companions came to the site, intensified activity by the flying 'things' was observed. They were as numerous as a swarm of bees but, perhaps because of their distance from the observers, they flew without making any discernible sound.

'The Indians felt that the strange people were receiving heavy reinforcements, or else that they were moving out before the archaeologists came. In any case they left little trace of their presence in the underground passages, but enough to give convincing evidence that their existence is not a myth. The Indians believe that the 'Kingdom of the Two Craters' extends under the mountains and that, for the time being, its entrances are tightly closed.

'In Lima, Zizi Ghenea told me that a little forest of trees extinct everywhere else grew inside the caves and the craters, and that in it lived animals from the Tertiary.

'What is strange about the whole affair, in which legend is mingled with fact, is the Venezuelan governments' inexplicable silence and secrecy in which the expedition's report has been kept.

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Pages 48-49 of Raymond Bernards book, 'Flying Saucers from the Earths Interior' records the following account:

'Recently the Brazilian press and radio announced that a party of geologists and other scientists entered one of the many tunnels that open on the tops of mountains here (evidently constructed by an antideluvian race of Atlanteans before the deluge), and after descending some distance, came to a subterranean city. Then a sudden fright seized the party, and they fled before they entered the city. They refused to return or to reveal what made them get frightened. Perhaps the city was inhabited and perhaps its inhabitants did not want to be molested and projected certain types of radiation on them...''

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Symbol of Telos

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In Legends & Lore of the American Indians by Terri Hardin we find; "Several tribes claim to have emerged from the interior of the earth. The Oneidas point to a hill near the falls of Oswego River, N.Y. as their birthplace; the Witchitas rose from the rocks around Red River; the Creeks from a knoll in the valley of Big Black River in the Natchez area, where dwelt the Master of Breath; the Aztecs were one of seven tribes that came out from the seven caverns of Aztlan - and the Navajos believe that they emerged at a place known to them in the Navajo Mountains."