The Amazing Story of a Freemason who Undertook a Journey into the Inner Earth

[zorgon]

The Amazing Story of a Freemason who Undertook a Journey into the Inner Earth



The report from the book 'Etidorhpa' takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1860's regarding a student of science named Llewellyn Drury that had a visitation from a mysterious stranger. This strange being claimed to have formerly been a freemason who undertook a remarkable journey into the Earth's crust and eventually into the interior itself, some 800 miles beneath the outer surface of the earth.
?Unfortunately his name was never revealed but he made a promise with Mr. Drury to write a manuscript in which the stranger was to read to him and publish 30 years later.

Requiring many sessions, the manuscript was then read aloud over a period of time. After the last reading the manuscript was presented to Llewellyn Drury along with sealed instructions to be opened at the proper time.

After the agreed upon interval Llewellyn uncovered the manuscript and gave it to a friend: the author John Uri Lloyd, who, after hearing his story of the visit by the mysterious man, set upon the task at hand. Also, as the being instructed, he hired an artist, J. Augustus Knapp, to illustrate the volume.

According to the manuscript, the stranger who was only referenced as 'I am the Man' was taken into the inner-earth through a cave in Kentucky during the early nineteenth century. His guide was a subterranean dweller who was a member of a secret society whose objective was the preservation of important knowledge or wisdom for the future enlightenment of mankind. The objective of this excursion was to learn about the Earth's inner shell, where the student was to receive advanced schooling in the mysteries of the universe. The book Etidorhpa described this amazing descent through the caverns of the inner earth in detail.
From Chapter XV

""....we now approach a zone of earth light; let us hasten on."

"A zone of light deep in the earth! Incomprehensible! Incredible!" I muttered, and yet as we went onward and time passed the darkness was less intense. The barely perceptible hue became gray and somber, and then of a pearly translucence, and although I could not distinguish the outline of objects, yet I unquestionably perceived light.

"I am amazed! What can be the cause of this phenomenon ? What is the nature of this mysterious halo that surrounds us?" I held my open hand before my eyes, and perceived the darkness of my spread fingers.

"It is light, it is light," I shouted; "it is really light!" And from near and from far the echoes of that subterranean cavern answered back joyfully, "It is light, it is light!"

I wept in joy, and threw my arms about my guide, forgetting in the ecstasy his clammy cuticle, and danced in hysterical glee and alternately laughed and cried. How vividly I realized then that the imprisoned miner would give a world of gold, his former god, for a ray of light.

"Compose yourself; this emotional exhibition is all evidence of weakness; an investigator should neither become depressed over a reverse, nor unduly enthusiastic over a fortunate discovery."

But we approach the earth's surface? Soon I will be back in the sunshine again."

"Upon the contrary, we have been continually descending into the earth, and we are now ten miles or more beneath the level of the ocean."

I shrank back, hesitated, and in despondency gazed at his hazy outline, then, as if palsied, sank upon the stony floor; but as I saw the light before me, I leaped up and shouted:

"What you say is not true; we approach daylight, I can see your form."

"Listen to me," he said. "Can not you understand that I have led you continually down a steep descent, and that for hours there has been no step upward? With but little exertion you have walked this distance without becoming wearied, and you could not, without great fatigue, have ascended for so long a period. You are entering a zone of inner earth light; we are in the surface, the upper edge of it. Let us hasten on, for when this cavern darkness is at an end- and I will say we have nearly passed that limit- your courage will return, and then we will rest."

"You surely do not speak the truth; science and philosophy, and I am somewhat versed in both, have never told me of such a light."

"Can philosophers more than speculate about that which they have not experienced if they have no data from which to calculate? Name the student in science who has reached this depth in earth, or has seen a man to tell him of these facts?"

"I can not."

"Then why should you have expected any of them to describe our surroundings? Misguided men will torture science by refuting facts with theories; but a fact is no less a fact when science opposes.""

?Read full book HERE
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/etidorhpa/EtidorhpaHome.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QOLrzUlbslk

[The Seeker]

Rather interesting find Z, as usual
800 miles beneath the crust doesn't sound too far fetched but then again I am not a geologist  I like rocks just never studied the deeper elements of the crust, tho the announcement of the discovery of great amounts of water does make one ponder...

Seeker

[zorgon]

In 1864 Jules Verne wrote his book Journey to the Center of the Earth

A sketch from that book shows this...

[zorgon]

In 2002 in a mine in Mexico they opened into a cave and found THIS

The Cave of the Crystals is a located 980 ft below the surface in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. The cave is known for its massive gypsum crystals. It's also very hot sitting at about 136 degrees making it mostly inaccessible for most people.



How did Jules Verne KNOW?

[zorgon]

Etidorhpa, or the End of Earth (Classic Reprint) Paperback – October 12, 2016
by John Uri Lloyd (Author)

[zorgon]

Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne 1864 - Amazon

[zorgon]

[guohua]

The problem I've always been told is the Heat.
It gets so hot the deeper you go, you can't breath without sheering your throat and lungs and your eyes dry out, very dangerous.

[zorgon]

I can buy a copy of the original signed by the author for $350.00

Any donations?

[zorgon]

The problem I've always been told is the Heat.
It gets so hot the deeper you go, you can't breath without sheering your throat and lungs and your eyes dry out, very dangerous.

That seems to be the case as that Crystal Mine is at 980 feet  and is 136 degrees yet all caves and old mines I have been in are cold

The Cave of the Crystals is a located 980 ft below the surface in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. The cave is known for its massive gypsum crystals. It's also very hot sitting at about 136 degrees making it mostly inaccessible for most people.

[The Seeker]

That seems to be the case as that Crystal Mine is at 980 feet  and is 136 degrees yet all caves and old mines I have been in are cold

The Cave of the Crystals is a located 980 ft below the surface in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. The cave is known for its massive gypsum crystals. It's also very hot sitting at about 136 degrees making it mostly inaccessible for most people.

I believe it may depend on the location; After watching a program on the science channel about research projects to detect some unproven particle, the mine location they are using is very deep, I want to say a mile in depth but will have to research that some more but I seem to recall it is in Canada...

But no mention of extreme heat that I recall...

Seeker

[astr0144]

It seems there are some Science experiments that take place in deep underground caverns of about 4500 feet below, almost a mile deep....but the deepest Cavern known is about 7200 feet,  over a mile down....

http://www.dunescience.org/neutrino-detectors/

The deepest Hole on Earth however is over 40,000 feet.

I could not find much in relation to temperatures in deeper Caves ...but this gives some idea what average cave temps maybe...

The temperature of a cave is usually close to the average annual temperature for the region where it's located. For example, caves in Texas can be as warm as 70º F. Caves in Missouri might be between 55º F and 60º F. Caves in Wisconsin might be a chilly 50º F.

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-cool-are-caves/

Krubera Cave (Georgia,  or Voronya Cave, sometimes spelled Voronja Cave) is the deepest-known cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagra Range of the Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia.[1][note 1]
The difference in elevation of the cave's entrance and its deepest explored point is 2,197 ± 20 metres (7,208 ± 66 ft). It became the deepest-known cave in the world in 2001 when the expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association reached a depth of 1,710 m (5,610 ft) which exceeded the depth of the previous deepest-known cave, Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, by 80 metres (260 ft).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krubera_Cave


Deepest Hole on Earth....

The deepest hole in the world is on the Kola peninsula of Russia near the Norwegian border. This hole is being drilled for scientific study purposes and is currently over  40,000 feet ...or 12,200 meters deep.

http://www.universetoday.com/81980/deepest-hole-in-the-world/


Temperatures below the Earth.

Geologists redefine the Earth's "forbidden zone"

While it may be a pleasant 75º F three miles below the surface, at extreme depths you would encounter hellish temperatures and pressures so intense that ordinary carbon is transformed into precious diamonds.

Geologists calculate that, for every mile you dig beneath the Earth's surface, the temperature rises 15º F and the pressure increases simultaneously at a rate of about 7,300 pounds per square inch.

Violations of the 15-degrees-per-mile rule are unknown and constitute the notorious forbidden zone.

At least that's what geologists used to think.

But researchers around the globe are finding unusual rocks that violate geological dogma.

Embedded in the rocks are microscopic bits of a mineral known as garnet that crystallized millions of years ago under extreme conditions.

Chemical analysis revealed that the garnet fragments formed 120 miles underground, where the pressure is more than 800,000 pounds per square inch and the temperature is normally 2,200º F.

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/00/000315rocks.html

Seeker

I believe it may depend on the location; After watching a program on the science channel about research projects to detect some unproven particle, the mine location they are using is very deep, I want to say a mile in depth but will have to research that some more but I seem to recall it is in Canada...

But no mention of extreme heat that I recall...

[zorgon]

I was never convinced that the earth was HOLLOW... but I can see that it may be like Swiss Cheese with huge pockets and caverns

We have been finding more and more of those, like the giant cave in Viet Nam and that Cave of Crystals

Now the Cave of crystals is hot because it is fed by volcanic forces, the hot liquid that filled the cave originally was responsible for that growth 

The cave however is cool  and HUGE

[zorgon]

I have collected many stories of strange things happening with caves and into mountains. People vanishing, trolls, Pied Piper, reptilians etc etc  Seems the whole planet is indeed honeycombes with endless caverns

I have been inside many 

Mammoth Caves  600 miles of charted caves  unknown number of uncharted

Ruby Falls, Tennessee   A water fall taller than Niagara falls inside a deep cave

Lost Sea Tennesee   A huge lake underground with blind fish

There is no shortage of water under ground

This is the map cut away of the mountain for the Viet Nam cave system



Even the map from Jules verne's book shows a system of caves, not really a Hollow earth

[zorgon]

In fact all the sketches I find  show huge caverns as oppsoed to a hollow planet



The sea and the giant mushrooms  Not that deep





In comparrison...