From: The New Atlantean Journal: Vol.6 - No.3

THE HIDDEN SECRETS OF THE SOUTHWEST by TAL LEVESQUE

The Hopi Say: "We are entering 'The Purification ', which will settle their Fate and that of the rest of Mankind. If their white brother does not come to save them, the 4 Forces of Nature will come, with natural disasters, earthquakes, floods, famine, and a change in the weather. And in the whole world, only FOUR CORNERS will be a sanctuary, for it is to this place that all good people will come when the day of Purification arrives."

The whole region around the Gila River, in Southwestern New Mexico, is covered with ruins. The remains of ancient cities that appear to have been violently destroyed in a vast catastrophe involving the levels of heat which can only be attributed to thermonuclear explosions! These cities are burnt out and VITRIFIED in part, full of fused stones and craters, caused by heat that was hot enough to liquefy any rock or metal. Strangely enough, as the Cycles of Time would have it; when nuclear weapons were test-fired in the New Mexico desert, the sand was also VITRIFIED (fused into glass) by the heat of the explosions. Intense heat is needed for this - volcanic action will not produce this effect, not ordinary explosives, nor fires. The heat of millions of degrees, that of thermonuclear reactions, is necessary.

Many Indian traditions speak of how long ago their Ancestors took refuge underground from cataclysms and aerial war. In the Southwestern states are found signs of great civilizations in areas now desolate. Helmeted figures have been found on rock and cave walls. These figures are often associated with Flying Discs. Our explanation for this is, perhaps, they are people wearing protective clothing to guard them against radioactive contamination. Also, protection from increased solar radiation and against possibly highly dangerous Terrestrial microorganisms. The surface-dwelling Survivors witnessed the suited visitors on survey missions, that had arrived by some sort of flying machine - from areas not so severely affected by contamination, for from their deep underground shelters. From Man's golden past age, come the hidden Remnant of past advanced earth cultures. And the Cycle may be getting ready to repeat itself AGAIN!

Our government after World War Two researched into the quite advanced underground installations of Sweden. They had moved the most important defense manufacturing far below ground. Also vital installations were put underground, like docks for destroyers and submarines; hangers for inteceptors and light attack planes. Big underground storages were built for oil, gas and coal. And hydro-electric power plants were constructed using underground rivers. In 1958, Project Rand, held the first annual Deep Underground-Protective Construction Symposium. The list of attendees to these meetings, found people from all the armed services, etc... Inside Sandia Peak, near Albuquerque, the real story of Sandia Labs Scientific achievement has only been partially revealed because of security. But they do tell of developing a Laser Tunnel boring machine, that forms a protective outer shell on the sides of the tunnel as it goes.

Isn't it strange that the Spanish explorers talked about this land as "LA NUEVA MEXICO" - the NEW Mexico... after the Indian name "MEXITLI", · - THE WAR GOD -! Yet this area holds the Seed of Hope for survival. With the Hopi (which means "Peaceful") Indians, who live in NE Arizona; the Zuni Indians who live close to the Arizona-New Mexico border, and the Rio Grande Indians who live in and around Santa Fe and Alburquerque. The Zuni and Hopi Indians have retained a remarkable degree of the ancient culture. The Zuni state they "Came out of the earth" many years ago. The tribe came from a subterranean land, with Maize (Corn) seeds that were necessary for the tribes' survival on the surface. With the help of "Magical Beings" of the middle world, they lived here in a land believed, by others, to be too dangerous.

We have learned that (the) Navajo Indian legend is as follows: "...The Navajos, the Coyoteros and the White People once lived together underground, under a Mountain near the River called San Juan." (Near the Four Corners). After coming to the surface, the Indians built Pueblos and grew crops. But the White People started off at once for the rising sun. (Note: we suspect that the White People re-entered at a main tunnel entrance, into the Center of the Earth; due East of Four Corners, not far from the town of Sulphur Springs, Oklahoma.)

A few years ago, in New Mexico, Jerry Trout, 37, the U.S. Forest Service's only designated "Cave Specialist", and Charlie Peterson, 28, the only person carrying a similar title with the National Park Service, discovered another new cave. Inside the deep cave, on the shores of an underground lake, they came upon the skeletal remains of a man. Carbon dating showed the man apparently died 10,000 years ago!

This research into the bowels of the earth might discover the remains of human habitation - vast cities whose ruins attest the civilizations of Races, which flourished before our very incomplete Recorded History.

Ufo's are attracted to deposits of metal ore; like iron, nickel and Titanium. Checking through files of UFO reports, we can also find numerous instances of Flying Saucers sighted near caves. Could there be a Network of subterranean caves that are somehow used by SkyCrafts? If Ufonauts do occupy the inner earth, they may be slowly teaching, from below, knowledge lost to surface dwellers. "They" continue to develop in their own network of tunnels, interconnecting caves and underground rivers. Protected from harmful solar rays, radioactive dust, weather changes and the eyes of barbarian surface beings.

These Interior Lands may be inhabited by all kinds of beings; from the Giants to "the Wee People"; from a race of gentle, advanced people to demonic animal-men. So - when exploring these "UNKNOWN" areas, the new pioneer must venture into the subterranean lakes, in search of the Treasure Trove of Data on Mans' enigmatic past.

Tunnels... Treasure... Lost Worlds and Cities of Mystery! These legends of Inner-Earth Civilizations contain the essential ingredients of exciting adventure!

...The Alchemists used the word VITRIOL to stand for Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem. "Visit the Interior of the Earth; through Purification thou wilt find the Hidden Stone." Such a descent into the underworld is the theme of most initiation rituals. In general, the Hidden Stone (LAPIS) is a kind of "Philosophers' Stone or aid to meditation ... with the same meaning as the Mandala holds. Hermes asserted that the LAPIS was composed of Body, Soul and Spirit. The way to the Power of the Lapis is by a spiral or Labyrinth. As depicted in ancient temples, it implies a re-entry into the Womb of the Earth. It is none other than a model of Existence as we know it -- the Spherical Vortex. The Hopis express this Labyrinth with the symbol for "Mother Earth" and liken it to their own Underground sanctuaries. It is carved on a rock near Oraibi (Arizona, on the Hopi nation / reservation). Another is carved on the inside wall of an upper story of the Ruin of Casa Grande, near Florence, Arizona. (NOTE: this symbol is almost identical to that of a coin -­- from Knossos, Crete - First Millennium B.C.).

The book "Oahspe" - (Sky, Earth and Spirit) was written in New Mexico in 1881. In it can be found: "I made the Etherean worlds inhabitable both within and without, with entrances and exits, in arches and curves..." There are many reasons to look within the Earth, and we shall come back to Where and How to look for Entrances later in this article.

In the ancient past, the Colorado Plateau (the Four Corners area) was in the eastern section of the Motherland, Lemuria, a land known as - TELOS. Here was a great trade center and the location of the most advanced scientific research. Here in underground vaults were placed the valuable Records and secrets of its great scientific knowledge. These 'vaults' are safe and await rediscovery. There are a lot of underground 'bases' in the Southwest. Being of crystal-like rock, it is a very positive and useful area, as well as being on the Earth's Time Coil. As in the past, the eventual release of Polar ice caps - both at the North and South Poles, will deluge the world with a super-abundance of water. The melting of the ice will give the world a new supply of Purified Oxygen; and the water will wash the soil clean from all radioactive impurities that have settled into it as a result of fallout from the Worlds' misuse of nuclear energy.

A Refuge from this flood could be found on Mountain peaks (above the level of floodwaters) by entering openings into the Earth via tunnels high upon the land. Some believe the saucers will take them off the Earth when that time comes, but evidence on this matter indicates that this is not possible for most. Therefore, being this way, mankind will eventually have to go underground. It would help to be guided by beings who have already burrowed into Mother Earth, and have established under world or Sub-Surface Kingdoms, and their remains can still be found here in the Southwest. The tunnels afford refuge and extend into the subterranean world, where it is said, it is lit by a strange green luminescence which favors the growth of crops. This underground source of energy (VRIL) replaces that of the Sun and prolongs human life...