Synarchy is the governance by a small select group, requiring no formal vote to place them in power. Synarchy, as the opposite of anarchy, requires complete unity across faith, politics and social classes.
      Alexandre Saint-Yves D’Alveydre (1842-1909) wrote The Kingdom of Agarttha as a submission on the importance of the subject to his time, to be studied at the highest levels of society.
      The Kingdom of Agarttha is a spiritual and political plea to those who would listen that the earth is hollow, populated by people who enjoy a synarchic society, and who contacted Saint-Yves to pass this message on to all of humanity.
      Nowhere in the pages of The Kingdom of Agarttha will you find references to fantastic beasts or extraterrestrials haunting the bowels of the hollow earth.
      This is a serious study of how humanity can improve itself, with special reference to religious and political harmony, if we follow the Agartthian example.
      Saint-Yves adamantly opposed the many rebellious voices of his era, who called for social, political and religious revolution.
      Saint-Yves, as a French aristocrat, used his book to deliver a history lesson on the ineffectiveness of anarchy, proposing the paradisiacal land of Agarttha as a solution to our problems. He seemed to see anarchy everywhere; some might call it free speech or the democratic process of debate. Certainly his view of wars as a form of anarchy we might all agree upon. Synarchy, in his interpretation, sought to limit debate to learned circles.
      The language and context used in The Kingdom of Agarttha can be difficult to understand. The continual reference to empires, some of which have fallen, allies that are now enemies, and people who were important in his time frame but who are now not recognisable to us, mean this book is, at times, not easy to follow.
          Yet The Kingdom of Agarttha lives again today through its recent translation into English, reaching a new audience who have a great deal more information about the hollow earth than ever before. Here is where the name Agarttha seems to originate. The legend of Agarttha has since been embellished by many explorers and authors, some of whom claim to have visited the fabled land.
      Despite 122 years having passed between the publishing of The Kingdom of Agarttha and now, we still know little more about Agarttha than what Saint-Yves tells us in his book. One might ask why no other spokesperson has been chosen to update and enlighten us.
      The landscape for studying the hollow earth has changed immensely since The Kingdom of Agarttha was first published. Reading it calls for an adjustment to a gentler age when a book could be attacked not because Saint-Yves suggested that he had had physical and mental contact from people who lived in the hollow earth, but because he promoted a different political philosophy in contrast to the trend of the times.
      It is unclear as to whether Saint-Yves’s knowledge is a first hand sighting of this fabled land, or only recordings of the spoken words of his informants. He does state being visited by ‘Initiates’ from Agarttha, and from these meetings Saint-Yves gives us information about Agarttha as a living society of peaceful beings, but not defenceless. On more than one occasion he warns anyone who may try to find the land to beware of their armies of soldiers, who even if killed can resume life, and get up to battle again, stronger than before.
      Saint-Yves refuses to provide exact details as to Agarttha’s location or how to access it, only making an obscure reference to Asia, and to say that the underground areas beneath America once belonged to Agarttha.
      Saint-Yves writes at length on what he has been told is the everyday functioning of Agartthan society. Details on their social, family and justice system illustrate a lack of hierarchy, rather a belief towards individual responsibility for one’s own actions and the actions of one’s family members.
      Saint-Yves impresses the reader with details of how the society of Agarttha runs on a daily basis and its powerful armed forces. His overall description is that of a vast empire, possibly encompassing other societies not coming under the name Agarttha but with simpatico ideals.
      Whilenot a lengthy book by any means, the somewhat radical ideas presented in The Kingdom of Agarttha were eloquently and proficiently argued in the face of an apparently hostile society of that era (1886). One cannot but repeatedly refer to the book for golden threads of wisdom hidden since the previous century.
      For all those who search for more information about Agarttha and the hollow earth, The Kingdom of Agarttha provides readers with a more spiritual approach, and shows the thoughts of a man, Alexandre Saint-Yves D’Alveydre, who realistically believed that surface humanity could place their trust in the people of Agarttha and change a monarchical system of government of the late nineteenth century, to mirror that of a land that the majority of the world would never see.