Enchanted soul. The underground country of Agharti is the spiritual capital of the world

Of the three mythical names: White Island, Agharti, Shambhala - the European reader is most familiar with Shambhala. The myths about Agharti or Agartha (“inaccessible”, “invulnerable” in Sanskrit) are similar to the myths about Shambhala, but much less known, and their origin is almost not studied.
The dissemination of information about Agharti was facilitated by the publication of the French Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveydre "Mission to India" (written in 1866, published posthumously in 1910) andF. Ossendovsky "And animals, and people and gods"(1922) about his wanderings in Mongolia during the years civil war, in which he talked in detail about the mythical underground country. Prior to these publications, there was not a single mention of Agharti in Europe.

Numerous commentators on these texts and researchers of Eastern traditions subsequently failed to find any references to Agharti either in Buddhist or in historical documents, and the well-known Swedish researcher of Central Asia, Sven Gedin (1865–1955), sharply criticized Ossendovsky’s book, stating in his book “Ossendovsky and Truth” (1925) that F. Ossendovsky completely borrowed the story about Agharti from d’Alveidre’s book and invented the details myself.

Sources of information about Agharti

The only and still unconfirmed sources of information about the mysterious Agharti are the publication of the Pole F. Ossendovsky, a member of the Council of Ministers in the government of Kolchak, who during the civil war served as director of the Credit Office in the Siberian government, who later fled to Mongolia, and published by twelve years earlier, the work of Saint-Yves d'Alveydre "Mission to India". Both authors claim the existence underworld- a spiritual center that has a non-human origin, and stores the Primordial wisdom, passing it through the centuries from generation to generation by secret societies. The inhabitants of the underworld are far superior in their technical development to mankind, they have mastered unknown energies and are connected with all continents through underground passages.
Comparative analysis Both versions of the myth about Agharti were performed in his work "King of the World" by the French scientist Rene Guenon:“If there really are two versions of this story, coming from sources very distant from each other, then it was interesting to find them and make a careful comparison.”

Agharti in "Mission in India" by the Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveyde

The French esoteric thinker, the Marquis of Saint-Yves d'Alveidre (1842-1909) left a significant mark on history by writing books on the occult ancient history and formulating a new universal law of history and human society, which he called "Synarchy". The ideas of the new world order, set forth in the teachings of Saint-Yves "Synarchy", attracted the attention of the future leaders of the National Socialist Party in Germany.
According to Saint-Yves, all information about Agartha (Agartha) received by him "from the Afghan prince Harji Sharif - the messenger of the "World Occult Government" - and Agarthi is located in the Himalayas.This is a whole cave center with a population of 20 million people - "the most secret sanctuary of the Earth", keeping in its bowels the annals of mankind for the entire time of its evolution on this earth for 556 centuries, written on stone tablets. The chronology of mankind and the prescription of the teachings of Saint-Yves, based on Indian sources, elevates to the era of the progenitor of mankind, the legendary Manu, i.e. 55,647 years ago.It is curious to note that recently there has been information about the mysterious “Bayan-Khara-Uul disks” found in Tibet, according to one version, having spiral grooves on their surface with indecipherable writing. 716 stone discs found so far in the Bayan-Khara-Uul caves, like gramophone discs, have a hole in the center. There are published photographs of these discs, in particular from the Banpo Museum, the Chinese city of Xi'an.
In his literary work, oriented, as he wrote, "for educated people, the most enlightened secular people and statesmen," Saint-Yves describes the state structure of Agharti in detail and convincingly and gives quite original details, for example, such as:

- “The modern mystical name of the Rama Cycle Sanctuary was given to it approximately 5100 years ago, after the schism of Irshu. This name is "Aghartta", which means: "inaccessible to violence", "inaccessible to Anarchy". It is enough for my readers to know that in some areas of the Himalayas, among 22 temples depicting 22 arcana of Hermes and 22 letters of some sacred alphabets, Agartta is the mystical Zero (0). "Unfindable".

- “None of our terrible punishment systems apply in Agharta, and there are no prisons. Does not exist death penalty. Begging, prostitution, drunkenness, cruel individualism are completely unknown in Agharti. The division into castes is unknown.

- “Among the tribes expelled from the great University (Aghartta) there is one wandering tribe, which, starting from the 15th century, has been showing its strange experiences to all of Europe. This is the true origin of the gypsies (Bohami - in Sanskrit: "Get away from me")».

- “Agartha can follow the Souls on all the ascending levels of the worlds up to the extreme limits of our solar system. In some cosmic periods one can see and speak with the dead. This is one of the mysteries of the ancient Ancestor Cult."

- Sages of Agharta"checked on our Planet the limits of the last flood and determined the possible starting point for its renewal in thirteen or fourteen centuries."

- "The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, was initiated into the Sanctuary of Agartta, but he could not take his notes out of Agartta and subsequently dictated to his first disciples only what his memory was able to retain."

- “Not a single initiate can take away from Agharta the original texts of her scientific works, because, as I have already said, they are engraved on stone in the form of characters incomprehensible to the crowd. The Threshold of the Sanctuary is inaccessible without the will of the disciple. Its basement is built magically, in various ways in which the Divine word plays a role, as in all ancient temples.

- “The sacred texts, due to political conditions, have been systematically changed everywhere, with the exception of only one Agharta, where all the lost secrets of the Hebrew-Egyptian text of our own Holy Scriptures and the keys to their mysteries are preserved”

Saint-Yves does not give an answer to the question where Agartta is located, there is only one indirect indication in the text that Agartta symbolically touches Afghanistan with his head, and with his feet, i.e. its foot rests on Burma. This area corresponds to the area Himalayan mountains little explored at the time. A striking description of the most secret sanctuary on Earth, which has lost ancient knowledge, subsequently inspired the search for this secret sanctuary in Tibet, both various scientists and adventurers, and statesmen. different countries who sent expeditions to the little-explored regions of Central Asia, in particular, to establish an alliance with Agartha.

The Polish writer F. Ossendowski (1876–1945) left a great literary heritage, writing only about his travels in North Africa about 20 books. However, the greatest success went to the book, which tells about his wanderings during the civil war in Tuva and Mongolia, in which he gives interesting details about the underground country of Agharti and the King of the World. In the story of F. Ossendovsky, based on Mongolian sources, this mysterious state is called Agharti, and on a superficial reading of the book it seems that the entrance to it is in Mongolia. So, and considered subsequent authors, retelling this myth. Over time, the belief has taken root that the myth of Agharti belongs to the mythology of Mongolia and, accordingly, the mysterious underground country is supposedly located in the very heart of the Asian continent.

For a long time I was also convinced that Agharti should be sought in Mongolia - where F. Ossendowski wandered and about which he wrote his famous book. But it turned out that in Mongolia there is no and never was the lake Nogan-Kul, which F. Ossendovsky mentions in connection with Agarti, and, most importantly, in 10 years of traveling around Mongolia I did not manage to find at least one person who at least Have you heard of this myth? When asked about this lake, the Mongols reasonably noted that "Nogan-Kul" -this is a Turkic name; in Mongolia, lakes have the prefix "nur".

In fact, the location of this lake is the Western Sayan, in the mountains in the south of Siberia, through which the route of flight of F. Ossendovsky passed.

Here is how the initial information sounds in the text of F. Ossendovsky (F. Ossendovsky. And animals, and people, and Gods, 1994):"Old people living on Amyl , told me an ancient legend about how a certain Mongol tribe, fleeing from the yoke of Genghis Khan, hid in an underground country. Then nearbyfrom lake Nogan-KulOne Soyot showed me a smoky gate leading, as he said, to that same kingdom of Agharti. Once through these gates I got into the underworld alonehunter. Upon returning from there, he began to talk about what he had seen, but the lamas cut off his tongue so that the hunter could not reveal the mystery of mysteries. Having grown old, he returned to the entrance to the cave, attracted by old memories, and disappeared into the underworld..

The Amyl River is a tributary of the river. The Tuba, which flows into the Yenisei and is located north of Kyzyl in Western Sayan where the Soyots originally lived. On geographical maps it is easy to find the Nogan-Khol pass (3460 m), which is located in the southern part of the Muzur-Taiga ridge between the Ak-Oyuk and Beldy peaks and connects the upper reaches of the river. Onguluk-Oyuk (Shui river basin) and the valley of the river. Ching-Khem. In the valley of the left source of the river. Onguluk-Oyuk there are two lakes. It is to these places that F. Ossendovsky's description of the entrance to the mysterious kingdom of Agharti refers.
Managed to find modern description this area for tourists:

“Having climbed the green grassy hills, go out to the lake. From the border of the forest to it is 1 hour. Continuing the ascent along the meadows, after 1.5 hours, go to the second lake Nogan-Kul, which is located near the black rocky walls of the circus and is significantly larger in size. more than the first. In front of this lake, you need to cross the stones across the river to the right bank and climb the sheep's foreheads on the left along the way. Bypassing the lateral spurs of the ridge along the coarse scree and snowfields, go to the final moraine of the Beldy glacier. It’s a 50-minute walk from the upper lake.”Through these places, he left Krasnoyarsk for Mongolia, rising along the valleys of the Enesei and Amyl rivers and crossing the Western Sayan ridge through the Alzhiaksky passage F. Ossendovsky. It was here in Tuva that he first heard a story about Agharti from a Soyot.

It remains to add that Baron R.F. Ungern in 1921, having freed Urga from Chinese troops with four regiments of Cossacks, sent loyal people to Tibet in search of the underground country of Agharti, in which, as he believed, three-meter giants and the Prince of Darkness sleep. The second expedition did not return. Why Baron R.F. Ungern sent people to Tibet, and not to the Western Sayan, remains a mystery.

Agharti and the King of the World

The myth of Agharti became popular because of the story of the King of the World. The Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveidre speaks of the supreme head of Agartti as the "High Priest". According to Saint-Yves, the highest head of the Agartti bears the title Brahatma and could speak directly to God.In his description of the center of Agharta, according to René Guénon (1993):"gathered the legacy of the ancient Sun Dynasty (Suryavansha), who once dwelt in Ayodhya, and is descended from Vaivaswata, the Manu of the present cycle".

F. Ossendowski leads details about the mysterious underground country Agharti and the King of the World, mentions a conversation with Je-lama, who said to him:“Only one person out of all living knows the sacred name of the King of the World, only one out of all has visited Agharti. That person is me."

ancient legend tells about the underground country, known since the time of Genghis Khan, the entrance to which was located near the lake Nogan-Kul in Tuva, Western Sayan.“More than sixty thousand years ago, a certain saint hid with his tribe underground, and no one saw them again. Many have visited the underworld, among them Shakya-Muni, Undur-gegen, Paspa, Sultan Baber and others. Now no one knows where this kingdom is located. Who speaks - in Afghanistan, who - in India. Peoplethere they know no evil, there are no crimes in the kingdom. Science develops peacefully there, and nothing threatens death. The underground people have reached extraordinary heights of knowledge. NowThis big kingdom with a population of many millionswhich is wisely controlled by the King of the World. He knows all the hidden springs of the universe, he comprehends the soul of every human being and reads great book fate. He secretly controls the behavior of eight hundred million people on earth, they all do his will. This kingdom is called Agharti. It stretches underground all over the planet. In Agharti, enlightened pandits write down on stone tablets all the knowledge of our planet and other worlds.

In the afterword of his notes on wanderings in Mongolia, F. Ossendovsky once again clarifies that he first encountered evidence of the underground country of Agharti in the Ulan-Taigshi mountains in Tuva and supplements his previous story about Agharti with new details, such as:“Peoples who have long disappeared from the face of the earth have taken refuge in Agharti. Among them are the tribes of Atlantis, Gondwana, Lemuria, Lelirtsia and other mythological continents, information about which is in Buddhist monasteries ... A people hitherto unknown to anyone will come to the surface of the earth when the earth is empty, when darkness and death reign on earth, when out of ten thousand they survive just one"thanks to the gene pool of mankind, preserved in the dungeons of Agharti, it will be destined to revive a new life on earth.

Does Agharti exist?

Unfortunately, the origins of the Agharti myth have never been established.
in diaries famous travelers in Central Asia, the myth of Agharti is not mentioned. E. Blavatsky says nothing about Agharti in her works. Among the legends and historical traditions collected by G.N. Potanin during his travels 1884–1886. in Mongolia, there is also no mention of Agharti. It was not possible to find any evidence on this topic from modern Mongolian historians and lamas in Mongolian monasteries. However, in last years, more and more new journalistic publications appear, retelling in their own way F. Ossendovsky's information about Agharti. With each new publication, the underground sanctuary of Agharti in the scale of good-evil values ​​is exalted higher and endowed with more and more humanity, kindness and wisdom.

Based on the analysis of identical retellings by Saint-Yves d'Alveidre and F. Ossendowski, the famous "researcher of Tradition" Rene Guenon concludes that"Agartha is the only true center of esoteric Initiation, which opposes the demonic pseudo-spirituality of Shambhala, which feeds the ideology of theosophists, occultists and spiritualists."

According to F. Ossendovsky, the underground country of Agharti, a system of caves and tunnels, extends under all the continents of the planet.Tales about Shambhala also often contain a story about long underground passages, often ending in a stone door, "never opened by anyone." Passages are protected from uninvited guests by killing gases and force fields.

N. Roerich in his work "Altai-Himalayas" (1974) writes:“Secrets for the future are hidden behind the stone door in the cave, but the timing has not yet come. ... Mongolian guides talk a lot about underground passages. Looking for in sandy? Hills entrance to secret dungeons. The entrance to them is very narrow, but then it expands and leads to a whole underground city. ... The Buryat lama reports that when he went to Shambhala, he was led by an underground passage. The passage sometimes narrowed so much that they could hardly push through the breeding ram, which was led to a reserved place..

In the "Secret History of the Mongols" you can read about the campaign of Genghis Khan to the mountains of Kun-Lun, during which they met people living in vast cave systems. The same fact is reflected in the work of Plano Carpini in 1247, several decades before Marco Polo visited Central Asia and compiled the first original European work about those remote regions of Asia, about which there was no reliable information in Europe before him.

In his written testimonies, he writes:“Before reaching the mountains, the troops of Genghis Khan walked for more than a month through the vast desert. They passed through a large steppe and reached a certain land, where, as we were told for quite certainty, they saw well-traveled roads, but could not find a single person; but they searched so hard on the ground that they found one man with his wife, whom they brought to Genghis Khan; and when he asked them where the people of this country were, they replied that they lived in the ground, under the mountains.(P. Carpini "History of the Mongols, 1997).

An interesting mention of Agharti is in the Agni Yoga books compiled by E. Roerich:“In every legend there is a piece of truth. They talk about the underground people of Agharta - there is no such people. But the basis of the legend originated near Our Abode. Underground passages do not exist in such a size as indicated in the legend, but still We have underground passages that are quite common. Other legends speak of Belovodye and Heavenly Jerusalem - both legends are related to Our Abode. It would be unreasonable to reject all legends without considering their meaning. Each of them keeps the most precise indication, often deliberately covered up. Not infrequently We ourselves shield the meaning of the legend, for otherwise knowledge local residents can reveal a lot."

E.I. Roerich wrote in one of her letters:“Also, the work of Saint-Yves d” Alveider “Agarta” should not be considered a wonderful and truthful record. In fact, he visited Agarta of his own imagination and heaps of the subtle world. Saint-Yves was a typical psychic and medium. Therefore, his descriptions are so at odds with the truth Namely, his Agartha has nothing to do with the White Brotherhood. The realm of psychism is deceptive. In the subtle world, there are many lovers of personifying the Great Images. Books by Saint-Yves d "Alveider, books by Shure -vivid examples of mediumistic creativity, and it is impossible to base oneself on them. They are full of the most ridiculous delusions. Read the biography of Saint-Yves d'Alveider, and much will become clear.

In the final chapter of his book, F. Ossendowski departs from the documentary description of his wanderings and gives amazing information about the King of the World, who controls the underground country of Agharti. From the initial reference on the first pages of the book to the Soyot story about the entrance to the underground kingdom of Agarti near Lake Nogan-Kul in Tuva, in the last chapter, a myth is born on the theme of a hollow earth with extended underground passages between all the continents of the Earth, similar to plots from the adventure novels of Jules Verne. After the publication of the work of F. Ossendowski in 1922, over the next 80 years, not a single researcher of ancient traditions, even such a serious thinker as Rene Genonon, managed to find any additional information in historical documents or myths that have come down to us, confirming the story of F. Ossendowski about the King of the World and the underground kingdom of Agharti. Almost identical fantastic retellings of information about Agharti in the writings of Saint-Yves and F. Ossendowski remained the only ones in the history of mankind.

Mankind does not leave hope to reveal the secrets of Atlantis, Hyperborea and Shambhala. But there are legends about one more mystical place, hidden from the consciousness of people - the country of Agarti, the spiritual center of the universe.

In the sacred book of the sages of Tibet, "The Book of Dzyan", two world sources of power are described: "The source of the left hand" and "The source of right hand". The center of the first was the supermundane country of violence, anger and cruelty - Shambhala, which was ruled by the king of Fear. The one who has made an alliance with the lord of Shambhala will submit to the whole world. That is why the most bloodthirsty tyrants in history, such as Hitler, tried in vain to find the mysterious land.

The "source of the right hand", on the contrary, was hidden in the sanctuaries of the underground country of Agharti. This center had a much more powerful force generated by contemplation and meditation. But he had little interest the mighty of the world this, since it did not promise world power, all the benefits and fantastic weapons. The almighty king of the World ruled over the country Agharti, who controlled everything that happens on Earth.

The first who wanted to find the underground world of meditation was Ossendoevsky Anton Martynovich. A Pole by origin, he visited Siberia, Far East and Central Asia. While in Asia, he wrote memoirs from the words of Buddhist priests about the mysterious underground country of Agharti. Subsequently, later studies were based on these records.

What is the underground country of Agharti, the spiritual capital of the world?

Legends say that 60 thousand years ago, one Asian ruler sheltered his people from earthly problems in the underworld. Later, another mysterious tribe found the entrance to the country of Agarti, fleeing from, and hid underground forever. The underworld exists without wars and violence, crimes and cruelty, culture and science flourish in it, a mysterious country will open for everyone who is tired of the crazy "upper world" and who is looking for it.

No one knows the location of the center of Agharti, but its underground possessions stretched across the planet. Some inhabitants of the disappeared Hyperborea and Atlantis hid from the impending catastrophe in the underground country.

However, it is traditionally considered the location of Tibet or the Himalayas (according to Wikipedia).

The lamas told that the ruler of Agharti, the “King of the World,” lives in a palace surrounded by the palaces of the gurus. The power of the guru is enormous, they are able to command everything in heaven, on earth and in hell. Life and death are subject to them: they heal the sick and raise the dead. They have the power to dry up the seas or, on the contrary, flood the continents, raise mountains and blow up the earth's crust.

Revealing the Asian "secret of secrets" is prohibited. However, some of the chosen ones, called "the first", nevertheless descended into the underground country of Agharti, and brought invaluable knowledge to mere mortals. But if an uninitiated person who, by the will of fate, got into Agarti and returned from there, begins to reveal secret knowledge and talk about miracles, the lamas will cut out his tongue.

Sometimes it happened that secret knowledge was revealed not to one person, but to a whole people or tribe. There is a legend that says that the gypsies acquired their skills to skillfully guess on cards, on herbs and read along the lines of the hand, descending to Agharti.

Legends say that the ruler of the underworld, the “king of the World” himself, ascended five times to our mortal world from the depths of Agharti. The ancient walls of the Erdeni-Dzu monastery, built on the ruins of Karakorum, saw the King of the World five hundred years ago. In 1890, the ruler of the mysterious Agharti consecrated Narabanchi-Kure, a monastery in the east of Mongolia, with his visit.

It is interesting that in the records of researchers and travelers who have ever been to Central Asia, mentions of the underground country of Agharti are extremely rare. But there are enough records and legends about the “Source of the Left Hand” of Shambhala. In Mongolia, no one has ever heard of Agharti or the legends about her.

On this moment there are only two sources describing Agharti. The first belongs to the aforementioned Ossendoevsky, the second came from the pen of the mystic Alexander Saint-Yves d "Alveidre and was called the Mission of India in Europe." Later, the author was declared insane, which casts doubt on his work.

Ossendoevsky's memoirs were analyzed, since he mentioned real geographical names. The results of the analysis showed that the gates to the country of Agharti were located not in Mongolia, but in Russia, on the territory of the Western Sayan. Nothing more was discovered by scientists. Well, it remains to be hoped that the “secret of secrets” of Central Asia, the great underground country of Agharti, will open up to people in all its splendor and bring universal knowledge to the world.

Everyone has heard about mysterious Hyperborea, the mighty Shambhala and Atlantis, which disappeared in the 3 depths of the ocean. But few people know about another mystical center of the earth, the "spiritual" capital of our planet, an underground country called Agharti.

The word "agharti" or in another way - "agarthi" is translated from Sanskrit as "invulnerable, inaccessible." In the collection of ancient texts - the sacred for the Tibetan sages "The Book of Dzyan" it is said that there are two sources of power in the world: "The source of the left hand" is responsible for material power; its center is located in the aboveground country of Shambhala, the country of violence and cruelty, where the king of Fear rules. Whoever manages to find Shambhala and make an alliance with the king of Fear will be the ruler of the world. It is for this reason that almost all conquerors and tyrants purposefully searched for Shambhala.

But the second center of an even more powerful force, for some reason, interested the earthly rulers much less. Most likely, for the simple reason that the “Source of the Right Hand”, described in the same “Book of Dzyan”, located in the sanctuaries of the country of Agarti, hidden deep underground, is a force generated by contemplation, meditation, and it does not promise earthly blessings, physical power or possession of fantastic weapons. However, according to ancient legends, it is from there, from Agharti, that the unknown king of the World directs the course of absolutely all events.

One of the first who became seriously interested in the “world capital of meditation” and wrote down the myths about Agharti in sufficient detail was a certain Ossendoesky Ferdinand Anthony, a Pole, better known under the pseudonym Ossendovsky Anton Martynovich. After graduating from the Sorbonne and St. Petersburg University, Ossendoesky worked as an engineer in Siberia and the Far East. After the revolution of 1905 he went to prison. The October Revolution threw the former engineer to Admiral Kolchak, who gave him the post of Minister of Finance. Then, for some time, Ossendowski served with a descendant of the Teutons, Baron Ungern, after which in 1922 he moved to his homeland - to Poland.

It was during this short period of wandering around Central Asia that Ossendovsky wrote down, from the words of local Buddhist priests, the legends about the almighty underground country Agharti. Most of the later research is based on his memoirs.

What is the " spiritual center land”, “mystery of secrets” of Central Asia?

More than sixty thousand years ago, one of the earthly Asian rulers led his tribe underground. Subsequently, another tribe, hiding from the hordes of Genghis Khan, found a gate to the underworld and disappeared there forever. Legends say that any person who is tired of the madness of the "upper" life, if he searches, he will find and fall into underworld. There are no wars and crimes, and therefore science and culture are widely developed - an incarnation of paradise.

No one knows exactly where the center of Agharti is, but its subordinate spaces stretch underground throughout the planet. Lamas argued that part of the population of Atlantis and Hyperborea managed to take refuge in the underworld shortly before the death of their mighty states. American Indians, driven into the mountains by "white devils", descended underground and became subjects of the ruler Agharti.

The lamas told that the palace of the King of the World “is located in the center of the ring of palaces of the gurus who command all visible and invisible forces on earth, in heaven and in hell; The life and death of a person is entirely in their power. Even if crazy humanity unleashes a war against the underground inhabitants, they can easily blow up the earth's crust, turning the planet into a desert. They have the power to dry up the seas, flood the land, and raise mountains among the sands of the desert. At the behest of the guru, trees, grasses and shrubs grow, decrepit and sick people become young and strong, and the dead rise from their deathbed.

In chariots unknown to us, they rush underground inhabitants through narrow crevices within the planet.

If an “uninitiated” person accidentally ends up in Agharti, and upon his return begins to talk about the miracles he saw there, then the lamas will cut off his tongue - the “secret of secrets” of Asia must remain inviolable. However, according to the legends, some were allowed to descend to Agharti and bring crumbs of knowledge from there. Among the "initiates": Shoir-Eddin-Mohammed Babur - the first great Mogul in India, Undurtegen - the first head of the lamaist church in Mongolia and other "firsts".

Sometimes it happened that they went down and came back, carrying with them the secrets of the underworld, entire tribes and peoples. One of the legends says that “when the Olets (a tribe of Western Mongols) destroyed Lhasa (the capital of Tibet), one of their detachments, operating in the southwestern mountainous region, penetrated the outskirts of Agarti. There, the Olets comprehended the basics of secret knowledge and brought them to earth. That is why the Olets and Kalmyks are such skillful sorcerers and soothsayers. And from eastern regions A tribe of dark-skinned people penetrated Agharti and remained there for many centuries. However, they were eventually expelled from the kingdom, and the tribe had to return to the earth, where they brought the art of divination on cards, herbs, and along the lines of the hand. This tribe is called Gypsies…”.

The gates leading to Agharti are open in both directions - the King of the World himself occasionally rises to the surface. According to the legends, the ruler of Agharti appeared five times among mortals. Half a thousand years ago, the king of the world visited Erdeni-Dzu - ancient monastery, erected on the ruins of Karakorum, the Mongolian capital of Genghis Khan, and in 1890 consecrated the monastery of Narabanchi-Kure, located in the eastern part of Mongolia, with its appearance.

The most mysterious thing in all the above legends is that very few travelers who have ever crossed Central Asia mention the mysterious country of Agharti in their diaries. Although in the records of many of them there are legends about visits by mysterious rulers to earthly monasteries and temples, but here we are talking about the rulers of the "Source of the Left Hand" - Shambhala. In Mongolia itself, neither historians nor nomads know anything about Agharti and have never heard the above tales.

There are only two more or less detailed sources of information about Agharti in the world: these are the memoirs of the already mentioned A.M. Ossendowski and the book "Mission of India in Europe", written by a certain mystic Alexander Saint-Yves d'Apveidre in 1866. True, even d'Alveidre's contemporaries doubted the mental health of the author of the Mission of India, and if we assume that he is crazy, then there remains only one detailed source that can no longer be verified - Ossendowski's memoirs.

However, it is difficult to imagine how, in essence, civilian man, being on the run, besides being completely wild places amuses himself with writing non-existent legends, Historians have tried to analyze the writings of Ossendowski, since his memoirs contain real geographical names, in particular, a description of the gate leading to the underground country. As a result of the search, the “entrance” turned out not to be in Mongolia, but on the territory of Russia in Tuva, in the Western Sayan. Hence, it was here that the fugitive engineer first heard about the country of Agharti. However, it is known for certain that the “patron” of Ossendovsky, Baron Ungern, sent his people in 1921 in search of the underground country of Agharti in Tibet. Why Ungern sent people to Tibet and not to the Western Sayan is still a mystery. The "source of the right hand" - the underground country of Agharti - briefly opened to one person and closed again, and remained the "secret of secrets" of Central Asia.

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The Polish writer F. Ossendowski (1876–1945) left a great literary heritage, writing about 20 books about his travels in North Africa alone. However, the greatest success went to the book, which tells about his wanderings during the civil war in Tuva and Mongolia, in which he gives interesting details about the underground country of Agharti and the King of the World. In the story of F. Ossendovsky, based on Mongolian sources, this mysterious state is called Agharti, and on a superficial reading of the book it seems that the entrance to it is in Mongolia. So, and considered subsequent authors, retelling this myth. Over time, the belief has taken root that the myth of Agharti belongs to the mythology of Mongolia and, accordingly, the mysterious underground country is supposedly located in the very heart of the Asian continent.
For a long time I was also convinced that Agharti should be sought in Mongolia - where F. Ossendowski wandered and about which he wrote his famous book. But it turned out that in Mongolia there is no and never was the lake Nogan-Kul, which F. Ossendovsky mentions in connection with Agarti, and, most importantly, in 10 years of traveling around Mongolia I did not manage to find at least one person who at least Have you heard of this myth? The Mongols, when asked about this lake, reasonably noted that “Nogan-Kul” is a Turkic name, in Mongolia the lakes have the prefix “nur”.
In fact, the location of this lake is the Western Sayan, in the mountains in the south of Siberia, through which the route of flight of F. Ossendovsky passed.
Here is how the initial information sounds in the text of F. Ossendovsky (F. Ossendovsky. And animals, and people, and Gods, 1994): "Old people living on Amyl, told me an ancient legend about how a certain Mongol tribe, fleeing from the yoke of Genghis Khan, hid in an underground country. Then nearby from lake Nogan-Kul One Soyot showed me a smoky gate leading, as he said, to that same kingdom of Agharti. Once a hunter got into the underworld through this gate. Upon returning from there, he began to talk about what he had seen, but the lamas cut off his tongue so that the hunter could not reveal the mystery of mysteries. Having grown old, he returned to the entrance to the cave, attracted by old memories, and disappeared into the underworld..

The Amyl River is a tributary of the river. The Tuba, which flows into the Yenisei and is located north of Kyzyl in the Western Sayan, where the Soyots originally lived. On geographical maps it is easy to find the Nogan-Khol pass (3460 m), which is located in the southern part of the Muzur-Taiga ridge between the peaks of Ak-Oyuk and Beldy and connects the upper reaches of the river. Onguluk-Oyuk (Shui river basin) and the valley of the river. Ching-Khem. In the valley of the left source of the river. Onguluk-Oyuk there are two lakes. It is to these places that F. Ossendovsky's description of the entrance to the mysterious kingdom of Agharti refers.

I managed to find a modern description of this area for tourists:
“Having climbed the green grassy hills, go out to the lake. From the border of the forest to it is 1 hour. Continuing the ascent along the meadows, after 1.5 hours, go to the second lake Nogan-Kul, which is located near the black rocky walls of the circus and is much larger in size than the first. In front of this lake, you need to cross the stones across the river to the right bank and climb the sheep's foreheads on the left along the way. Bypassing the lateral spurs of the ridge along the coarse scree and snowfields, go to the final moraine of the Beldy glacier. It’s a 50-minute walk from the upper lake.”
Through these places, he left Krasnoyarsk for Mongolia, rising along the valleys of the Enesei and Amyl rivers and crossing the Western Sayan ridge through the Alzhiaksky passage F. Ossendovsky. It was here in Tuva that he first heard a story about Agharti from a Soyot.
It remains to add that Baron R.F. Ungern in 1921, having freed Urga from Chinese troops with four regiments of Cossacks, sent loyal people to Tibet in search of the underground country of Agharti, in which, as he believed, three-meter giants (and) and the Prince of Darkness sleep. The second expedition did not return. Why Baron R.F. Ungern sent people to Tibet, and not to the Western Sayan, remains a mystery.

Agharti and the King of the World

The myth of Agharti became popular because of the story of the King of the World. The Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveidre speaks of the supreme head of Agartti as the "High Priest". According to Saint-Yves, the highest head of the Agartti bears the title Brahatma and could speak directly to God.In his description of the center of Agharta, according to René Guénon (1993): "gathered the legacy of the ancient Solar Dynasty (Suryavansha), who once dwelt in Ayodhya, and traces its origins to Vaivaswata, the Manu of the present cycle".
F. Ossendowski gives detailed information about the mysterious underground country Agharti and the King of the World, mentions a conversation with Je-lama, who told him: “Only one person out of all living knows the sacred name of the King of the World, only one out of all has visited Agharti. That person is me."
An ancient legend tells about an underground country, known since the time of Genghis Khan, the entrance to which was located near Lake Nogan-Kul in Tuva, Western Sayan.
“More than sixty thousand years ago, a certain saint hid with his tribe underground, and no one saw them again. Many have visited the underworld, among them Shakya-Muni, Undur-gegen, Paspa, Sultan Baber and others. Now no one knows where this kingdom is located. Who speaks - in Afghanistan, who - in India. People there do not know evil, there are no crimes in the kingdom. Science develops peacefully there, and nothing threatens death. The underground people have reached extraordinary heights of knowledge. Now it is a large kingdom with a population of many millions which is wisely controlled by the King of the World. He knows all the hidden springs of the universe, he comprehends the soul of every human being and reads the great book of fate. He secretly controls the behavior of eight hundred million people on earth, they all do his will. This kingdom is called Agharti . It stretches underground all over the planet. In Agharti, enlightened pandits write down on stone tablets all the knowledge of our planet and other worlds.
In the afterword of his notes on wanderings in Mongolia, F. Ossendovsky once again clarifies that he first encountered evidence of the underground country of Agharti in the Ulan-Taigshi mountains in Tuva and supplements his previous story about Agharti with new details, such as: “Peoples who have long disappeared from the face of the earth have taken refuge in Agharti. Among them are the tribes of Atlantis, Gondwana, Lemuria, Lelirtsia and other mythological continents, information about which is found in Buddhist monasteries... A people hitherto unknown to anyone will come to the surface of the earth when the earth is empty, when darkness and death reign on the earth, when only one out of ten thousand will survive., thanks to the gene pool of mankind, preserved in the dungeons of Agharti, it will be destined to revive a new life on earth.

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. In the 1922 book Beasts, Men and Gods, Ferdinand Ossendowski is a Polish scientist who lived most life in Russia, described his travels in Outer Mongolia during the military campaigns of Baron von Ungern-Sternberg.

Ossendovsky said that some Mongolian lamas told him about Agarti - an underground kingdom located under Mongolia, which was ruled by the "King of the World".

In the future, when materialism destroys the world, a terrible war will break out. At this time, the inhabitants of Agharti will come to the surface and help stop the violence.

Ossendowski reported that he convinced Ungern of the veracity of this story and that subsequently Ungern twice sent expeditions led by Prince Paulsig in search of.

These expeditions did not bring any result, and during the second of them the prince himself disappeared. Kamil Gizycky, a Polish army engineer who also fought against the Bolsheviks in Siberia, subsequently joined Ungern's army in Mongolia.

In his book describing the events of that time, “Crossing Urankhai and Mongolia” (“Poprzez Urjanchej i Mongolie”, 1929), he does not mention Agharti.

It is also interesting that he mentions how Ossendowski helped the "mad baron" by giving him the chemical formula for making poisonous gas. Although the texts relating to the Kalachakra tantric system never described Shambhala as an underworld, Ossendowski's report has a clear parallel to the description contained in these texts of how the ruler of Kalka from Shambhala comes to the aid of the world in order to stop the war leading to the end of the world. .

The word "Agarti" first appeared in the French novel "Sons of God", written in 1873 by the writer Louis Jacolliot. Another French writer, Joseph-Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveidre, added to the popularity of the Agharti legend by mentioning it in his 1886 novel India's Mission to Europe.

There he describes Agharti as an underground kingdom, on the territory of which there is a certain university, which is a repository of secret knowledge.

Originally located in Ayodhya (India), it has moved to secret place under the Himalayas in the 18th century BC. Its king, "mahatma", guards the secrets of his kingdom and does not reveal them, since this secret knowledge is able to allow the forces Antichrist create a powerful weapon.

Once the forces of evil are destroyed, the Mahatmas will reveal their secrets for the benefit of mankind.

Saint-Yves d'Alveidre may actually have borrowed some elements of his story from the description of Shambhala found in the texts of the Kalachakra tantric system.

The number 1800 recurs as a leitmotif in the literature relating to the Kalachakra tantra. There are references in these classical texts that the leaders of Shambhala had the knowledge necessary to make weapons that would help repel the attack of the invaders. Be that as it may, these two French authors were undoubtedly writing fiction.

In his work entitled "Ossendowski and the Truth" ("Ossendowski und die Wahrheit", 1925), the Swedish scholar of Tibet, Sven Hedin, refuted Ossendowski's claim that he learned about Agharti from Mongolian lamas.

He wrote that the Polish scholar borrowed the myth of Agharti from Saint-Yves d'Alveidre and wove it into his story in order to attract German readers familiar with some degree of occultism. Hedin, however, admitted that Tibet and the Dalai Lama were the keepers of secret knowledge.

One way or another, an additional explanation may be that Ossendowski used the Agharti myth to win Ungern's sympathy. Ungern would no doubt have identified the materialistic forces of the Antichrist, which Agharti would have helped to overcome, with the Bolsheviks against whom he fought.

Just as Sukhbaatar used the legend of Shambhala to rally his troops, Ungern could similarly use the story of Agharti for his own benefit.

If this conjecture is correct, we can trace from here the emergence of another version of the legend about Shambhala, a version that presents Shambhala rather in an unfavorable light.