I became as light as cork

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What is being described in Etidorhpa is the diminution of gravity

with penetration into the Earth's shell. The result was ease of

movement and conservation of energy.

 

The difference was gravity. The Vedic literature describes humanity

as being 12 feet tall or more, with great intelligence, photographic

memory, and a duration of life of hundreds of years.

 

There was a cloud mantle as it is described that clouds were ever-

present though it did not rain, except at night. Then the cloud

mantle fell, resulting in 40 days and 40 nights of rain ( I betcha ),

exposing humaity to the unrefined rays of the Sun.

 

In another section of Etidorhpa, our breathing on the surface is

described by the Guide as " convulsive heaving." Imagine that! No

wonder our vital energies are finished by the time we reach 70 or 80

years of age. The heavy gravity of the surface, combined with the

effects of the unrefined rays of the Sun, finishes us off before we

even have a chance to grow and develop -our minds/brains included- as

in days of yore.

 

Within the inner crust a different type of atmosphere exists, in the

cavern worlds, where the sunshine as we know it doesn't reach, and

where gravity diminishes. This allows us to conserve our energies and

grow right in the first place, asw ell as to conserve our longevity.

 

Other types of beings live in those cavern worlds, as well as other

human beings. Once in a while, some of those beings come to the

surface, and we see them as bigfoot or chupa cabras. But I doubt that

the underworld is limited to them, we hear desriptions of elves,

goblins, dwarves and hobitts who inhabit the realms below.

 

The book Etidorhpa provides a very interesting justification for the

under worlds of materialists and demons, celestial and otherwise,

described in the Vedic literature. Please consider the diminishing

gravity described by Etidorhpa:

 

 

He halted before me. " Jump up," he said. I promptly obeyed the

unexpected command, and sprung upward with sufficient force to carry

me, as I supposed, six inches from the earth; however I bounded

upward fully six feet. My look of surprise as I gently alighted, for

there was no concussion on my return, seemed lost on my guide, and he

quietly said:

 

" If you can leap six feet upward without any excessive exertion, or

return shock, cannot you jump twenty feet down? Look!"

 

And he leaped lightly over the precipice and stood unharmed on the

stoney floor below.

 

Even then I hesitated, observing which, he cried:

 

" Hang by your hands from the edge then, and drop."

 

I did so, and the fourteen feet of fall seemed to affect me as though

I had become as light as a cork. I fluttered to the earth as a leaf

would fall, and leaned against the precipice in surprise meditation.

 

" Others have been through your experience," He remarked, " and I

therefore can overlook your incredulity; but experiences such as you

now meet, remove distrust. Doing is believing."

 

He smilied benignantly.

 

I pondered, revolving in my mind the fact that persons had in mental

abstraction, passed through unusual experiences in

ignorance of conditions about them, until their attention had been

called to the seen and yet unnoticed surroundings, and they had then

beheld the facts plainly. The puzzle picture stares the eye and

impresses the retina, but is devoid of character until the hidden

form is developed in the mind, and then that form is always prominent

to the eye. My remarkably light step, now that my attention had been

directed thereto, was constantly in my mind, and I found myself

suddenly possessed of the strength of a man, but with the weight of

an infant. I raised my feet without an effort; they seemed destitute

of weight; I leaped about, tumbled, and rolled over and over on the

smooth stone floor without injury. It appeared that I had become the

airy similitude of my former self, my material substance having

wasted away without a corresponding impairment of strength.

 

>From Chapter 21 of Etidorhpa:

 

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Dharmapada