Knowledgeable and experienced ufologists will
recognize the theme of this blog entry as the title of book written by British
ufologist Brinsley Le Poer Trench (1911-1995) published in 1974, Secret of the
Ages: UFO´s From Inside the Earth. Coming from one of the mainstream ufologists
of the 1960s and 70s this was of course a very controversial book. The idea for
this work may have been inspired by esotericist
Millen Cooke, married to Brinsley Le Poer Trench 1961-1969.
Brinsley Le Poer Trench
In 1981 I made a short summary of the inner earth
theme in relation to ufology and esotericism, published in AFU Newsletter (The Inner Earth Theory – A Source Study, AFU Newsletter, no. 22, August-December
1981). At that time very few ufologists were interested in these ideas, but
today there is a plethora of more or less fantastic conspiracy theories and claims
of inner earth contacts, especially from various channelers. For a serious ufologist
or esotericist to separate the wheat from the chaff in this underground djungle
of conflicting information is an undertaking worthy of a Sisyphos. An agnostic
or interesting-if-true-attitude is the best option when dealing with the these controversial
ideas and experiences. In this blog I present some of the data from my files
that I personally find interesting.
Who are these people, was the question I posed in a
former blog entry, referring to contact experiences with aliens who look like
us and mingle in our society. In their discussion of theories in The Edge of
Reality, Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee used the term earth-bound aliens for
this group of visitors. Mac Tonnies called them Cryptoterrestrials in his book,
published in 2010. A group of people with an advanced technology, sharing our
planet but who have kept themselves hidden and unknown for various reasons. According
to some contactees and esotericists they have developed an advanced civilization
in large caverns, deep inside the interior of the earth and this is the ”secret
of the ages”.
The first pre-Adamski contactee, Eugene H. Drake (1889-1973)
mentioned this civilization in his first book Visitors From Space (1950): ”There
is an ancient civilization living underground with entrances in Mexico, and not
such a great distance from Mexico City. They often come to the surface and
mingle with the people, but aside from a few mystics, the people of Mexico do
not know this, and they would have a difficult time, if they did, to locate the entrances to their underground
cities.” (p. 26)
There is also a very cryptic statement in Howard
Menger´s book From Outer Space to You. When discussing a conspiracy of ”others”
operating on our planet a space woman relates to Menger: ”They use people not
only from this planet… but ”Also other people of your own planet – people you
don´t know about. People who live unobserved and undiscovered as yet. It is a
kind of ”underground” in your popular terminology.” (p. 144)
I 2015 I asked my American contactee friend about
these claims. He divulged some rather startling experiences:
”At first, there were the people, who since ancient
times, have lived inside our planet… I have met some of them, fine people.
Håkan: Do the people living inside our planet have
saucers? Do they look like us?
X: Yes, they have craft. Yes, they look like you and me, although they have other sizes among them because of the gravity variations over the centuries I would assume.
Håkan: How do you know which people are from inside the earth and which are the friends upstairs?
X: Friends upstairs are light beings, they have one hundred percent control over light, people inside our earth, just Human. The types of craft, the methods of travel and communicating, all telling signs. Friends upstairs can go invisible at the snap of a finger, walk thru walls, levitate by thought travel.” (Email, October 21, 2015).
X: Yes, they have craft. Yes, they look like you and me, although they have other sizes among them because of the gravity variations over the centuries I would assume.
Håkan: How do you know which people are from inside the earth and which are the friends upstairs?
X: Friends upstairs are light beings, they have one hundred percent control over light, people inside our earth, just Human. The types of craft, the methods of travel and communicating, all telling signs. Friends upstairs can go invisible at the snap of a finger, walk thru walls, levitate by thought travel.” (Email, October 21, 2015).
From The Hollow Hassle, vol. 2, no. 1, 1981
Very little is said about the inner earth in the
Esoteric Tradition, although a few hints are given by some authors. The reason
for this scarcity of information is also in esotericism ascribed to the extreme
secrecy of the subject. It is truly regarded as the ”secret of the ages”. This
was explained by Theosophist Charles Leadbeater in the 1895 classic The Astral
Plane: ”… there are two other great evolutions which at present share the use
of this planet with humanity; but about them it is forbidden to give any
particulars at this stage of the proceedings.” (p. 91) But he did give a few
hints in a later work, The Inner Life I, originally published in 1910: ”The conditions
of the interior of our earth are not easy to describe. Vast cavities exist in
it, and there are races inhabiting these cavities, but they are not of the same
evolution as ourselves. … One of these evolutions… is at the level distinctly
lower than any race now existing upon the surface of the earth… the other is
more nearly at our level, yet utterly different from anything that we know.” (p.
231, 1967 ed. Theosophical Publishing House).
Meade Layne, founder of Borderland Sciences Research
Associates (BSRA) had a deep fascination with the inner earth enigma. He had a
conversation on this issue with one of the Inner Circle members on November 22, 1947. Medium
Mark Probert hearing the answers clairaudiently and relaying them to Meade:
”Yes, indeed, there are vast underground regions
(caverns) that stretch from equatorial Africa to the North Pole, and also to
Venezuela., where there is an opening… The opening in Venezuela is in the
southern tip, in the region north of Loreto…
(Q. of size of underground population) I would say several millions. Oh, yes, they are humans. Yes, there is some contact, but mainly through their secret organizations. These people as a whole are much more healthy than those of the surfaces… Yes, in some parts of the underground world people possess a high degree of culture… Yes, there are openings in Mexico, and one in the region of Alberta, Canada.” (Those Underground Regions, Round Robin, vol. 18, no. 2, March 1962, p. 17).
(Q. of size of underground population) I would say several millions. Oh, yes, they are humans. Yes, there is some contact, but mainly through their secret organizations. These people as a whole are much more healthy than those of the surfaces… Yes, in some parts of the underground world people possess a high degree of culture… Yes, there are openings in Mexico, and one in the region of Alberta, Canada.” (Those Underground Regions, Round Robin, vol. 18, no. 2, March 1962, p. 17).
Irene and Mark Probert
In 1871 one of the most famous classics in esoteric
literature was published, The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton. He was a
member of the real and secret Rosicrucian order and obviously decided to
disclose the ”secret of the ages”, but using a fictional form. I am somewhat
surprised that, to my knowledge, no ufologists, nor esotericists have noticed
the close resemblance between the people described in The Coming Race and some
contactee experiences. It is even mentioned that the inhabitants of the inner
earth travel in ”air-boats” (p. 56) All quotes are from the edition published
by Wesleyan University Press, 2005. Ufologists who have made an in depth study
of contactee cases will surely associate these quotes with various observations
made in another context:
”It was the face of a man, but yet of a type of man
distinct from our known extant races… Its colour was peculiar, more like that
of the red man than any other variety of our species, and yet different from it
– a richer and a softer hue, with large black eyes, deep and brilliant… The
face was beardless… They seemed as void of the lines and shadows which care and
sorrow, and passion and sin, leave upon the faces of men, as are the faces of
sculptured gods… I never met one person
deformed or misshapen. The beauty of their countenances is not only in symmetry
of feature, but in the smoothness of surface, which continues without line or
wrinkle to the extreme of old age… ” (pp. 12, 14, 60)
”A figure, in a simpler garb than that of my guide,
but of similar fashion, was standing motionless near the threshold. My guide
touched it twice with his staff, and it put itself into a rapid and gliding
movement, skimming noicelessly over the floor. Gazing on it, I then saw that it
was no living form, but a mechanical automaton… Four automata (mechanical contrivances which,
with these people, answer the ordinary purposes of domestic service) stood phantom-like at each
angle in the wall.” (pp. 13, 19).
”These subterranean philosophers assert that, by one
operation of vril… they can influence the variations of temperature… that by
other operations, akin to those ascribed to mesmerism, electro-biology, odic
force but applied scientifically through vril conductors, they can exercise
influence over minds, and bodies animal and vegetable, to an extent not
surpassed in the romances of our mystics. To all such agencies they give the
common name of vril.” (p. 27)
These are only a few of the quotes in the novel, but
ufologists and esotericists can find many more that give very clear
associations to the contactee cases of our time. Probing into these areas can of course be somewhat mind-shattering
and unnerving. Suppose you really find out that there is a secret war going on,
on this planet, a power-struggle between secret groups of various motives cooperating with, or manipulating,
hitherto unknown intelligences and that the UFO phenomenon is only the tip of
the iceberg of this cosmic Watergate. A phenomenon cleverly used by both the
alpha and omega groups. Few ufologists, not
to mention the public, could take such a revelation without developing at least a mild form of paranoia. How
about stamp-collecting?
