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Saint-Yves d'Alveydre

  • Esoteric thinker
  • France
  • 1842–1909

Saint-Yves d’Alveydre was a French esoteric thinker, known for advocating “synarchy,” a principle for governing society ideally.

In The Mission of India in Europe, written around 1886, he described a hidden kingdom called “Agartha” deep beneath Asia that guards advanced wisdom. This made the legend of Agartha widely known.

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Agartha

A legendary underground world said to spread through the interior of the Earth. People with an advanced civilization are said to live there, with a capital called Shambhala. It spread through the writings of a 19th-century mystic.

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