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This treatment of Agartha draws on a variety of lunacy including Theosophy, the musings of various German occultists with ties to National Socialism, and of post-war neo-Nazi writers like Wilhelm Landig. The background section is representative of real world perceptions of Agartha. Ossendowski and Guenon were real, as was Himmler’s interest in Agartha. The material on Karl Haushofer is almost certainly apocryphal although many occultists take it as the gospel truth. This article draws heavily on Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity and on wikipedia’s entry for Agartha. Glanzman and Jurgens are my own inventions.


Background
Agartha is a legendary underground city, often said to be located within the Hollow Earth. Over the course of history it has been known to many arcane traditions. The ancient Hindus called it Aryavarsha (The Land of the Aryans or The Land of the Noble Ones). Han Chinese mystics knew it as the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu, the Royal Mother of the West. Amongst the Russian Old Believers it was called Belovodye, while the Kirghiz nomads of Central Asia named it Janaidar.

In Theosophical teachings, as well as in some sects of Vajrayana Buddhism and Tibetan Kalachakra, Agartha is described as a university for adepts into the greater mysteries, presided over by a Mahatma known as “The Lord of the World.” It is believed to be a place of peace and meditation, characterized by non-participation in the affairs of the world. Many accounts indicate it to be the center of the White Order, dedicated to the “Right Hand Path.” Some accounts place it in opposition to Shamballah another mystical center whose forces seek to use violence, power, and manipulation to bring humanity to a “turning point of time.”

Believers hold that Agartha is a physical place, often said to be located in Central Asia to the north of Tibet. While it is believed to exist in the physical world, only initiates who have reached a state of illumination also know as Agartha are said to be able to reach it.


Agartha in 20th Century Occultism
Polish adventurer Ferdynand Ossendowski encountered legends of Agartha during his travels through Siberia and Mongolia following the Russian Revolution. He also reported that the Lord of the World had appeared at Narabanchi monastery in Tibet in 1898 and prophesized that the world was entering a period of hunger, disease, war, and dreadful crime that would culminate in a battle against evil after which life on Earth might be purified by the death of nations. French fascist and esotericist Rene Guenon drew on Ossendowski for his own book Le roi du monde (1927), which placed Agartha as the spiritual center of the world.

Within the occult underground it is believed that the German general Karl Haushofer helped found the Thule Society with the goal of seeking out Shamballah and forging an alliance with its ruler, The King of Fear. After the rise of the Nazi party, Heinrich Himmler took an interest in Agartha, based on its alleged status as the original Aryan homeland. This led him to dispatch expeditions to Tibet and other locations under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe SS.

Avner Glanzman, a London based Jewish émigré, Zionist financier, and kabalistic thaumaturge has suggested that Agartha may in fact be a gateway or series of gateways to a parallel world or pocket universe inhabited by human adepts. Fritz Jurgens, an adept from the Fraternitas Saturnii proposes an alternative theory in which Agartha and Shamballah are allegorical for secret orders of adepts and initiates of the Right and Left Hand Paths, whose battles have shaped human history.