Agharta has been, for many years, a mystery to searchers of lost cities. The belief in its existence has been so relevant throughout history that it is even known that the army of the Third Reich dedicated time to searching for this lost civilization.
A hollow world inside
Hypotheses about the existence of different unknown civilizations have been present even since ancient times. Greek stories, for example, proposed the existence of a lost citadel called Hyperborea, but they were not the only ones who believed in the existence of lost worlds. There are even stranger ones where it is suggested that the Earth is actually a hollow world and that in the center, there is a lost city called Agharta.
Before Jules Verne wrote his famous work Journey to the Center of the Earth, there were already concerns about the exploration of underworlds unknown to humans. One of these ideas strangely belongs to Edmund Halley, the discoverer of the one who bears his last name and who, after analyzing the fluctuations of terrestrial magnetism and their possible causes, postulated that the planet houses three concentric cones inside, each one separated by independent atmospheres.
Supposedly Halley’s hypothesis, one of these cones would be composed of a lava center that would serve as an internal sun. In addition, he also believed that natural phenomena such as the northern lights and variations in the magnetic field came precisely from the interaction of these different layers of our planet.
Although the idea of the city known as Agartha did not come directly from Halley, his hypotheses did give life to the belief that earthlings much older than us lived in the center of the Earth and since then the idea of an unknown intraterrestrial civilization was implanted in the collective imagination.
In search of Agartha
The evidence for the existence of the intraterrestrial civilization known as Agartha was never strong enough to prove it scientifically. However, the concept infiltrated the masterminds of occultism, who desperately sought to prove that intraterrestrials really existed.
When talking about occultism, we cannot leave aside the Nazi scientists who, under the orders of the Third Reich, desperately searched for all kinds of evidence that would prove mystical theories for use in war. Not surprisingly, they also became involved in the search for Agartha, supposedly to use this secluded world in case Hitler had to urgently escape from our terrestrial outside world. In addition, they considered that this world could have been the origin of the Aryan race, since they sought at all costs to support their idea of superiority in the face of racial diversity.
Despite great attempts to contact the lost world of Agartha, the Nazi efforts were in vain and even a small amount of evidence that this citadel really existed was never found. So it remained existing only in the occult imagination and even today some followers of these hypotheses still believe that Agartha could be in the center of the Earth and that it is waiting to be discovered.