In it there is not
much of the wonderful. You know that in the two greatest oceans of the
east and the west there were formerly two continents. They disappeared
under the water but their people went into the subterranean kingdom. In
underground caves there exists a peculiar light which affords growth to
the grains and vegetables and long life without disease to the people.
There are many different peoples and many different tribes. An old
Buddhist Brahman in Nepal was carrying out the will of the Gods in
making a visit to the ancient kingdom of Jenghiz,--Siam,--where he met a
fisherman who ordered him to take a place in his boat and sail with him
upon the sea. On the third day they reached an island where he met a
people having two tongues which could speak separately in different
languages. They showed to him peculiar, unfamiliar animals, tortoises
with sixteen feet and one eye, huge snakes with a very tasty flesh and
birds with teeth which caught fish for their masters in the sea. These
people told him that they had come up out of the subterranean kingdom
and described to him certain parts of the underground country."

The Lama Turgut traveling with me from Urga to Peking gave me further
details.

"The capital of Agharti is surrounded with towns of high priests and
scientists. It reminds one of Lhasa where the palace of the Dalai
Lama, the Potala, is the top of a mountain covered with monasteries and
temples. The throne of the King of the World is surrounded by millions
of incarnated Gods. They are the Holy Panditas. The palace itself is
encircled by the palaces of the Goro, who possess all the visible and
invisible forces of the earth, of inferno and of the sky and who can do
everything for the life and death of man. If our mad humankind should
begin a war against them, they would be able to explode the whole
surface of our planet and transform it into deserts. They can dry up
the seas, transform lands into oceans and scatter the mountains into the
sands of the deserts. By his order trees, grasses and bushes can be made
to grow; old and feeble men can become young and stalwart; and the dead
can be resurrected. In cars strange and unknown to us they rush through
the narrow cleavages inside our planet. Some Indian Brahmans and Tibetan
Dalai Lamas during their laborious struggles to the peaks of mountains
which no other human feet had trod have found there inscriptions carved
on the rocks, footprints in the snow and t