![]() The objective of this trip was to reach the inner shell of the earth, where the nameless one was to receive advanced schooling in the mysteries of the universe. ![]() The adventurous story becomes an inner journey of the spirit as much as a geographical trip through underground realms. The cavern dweller was a member of a secret organization whose objective was the preservation of vital knowledge for the future enlightenment of mankind. I-Am-The-Man is taken to a cave in Kentucky there he is led by a cavern dweller on a long subterranean journey into the core of the earth. ![]() By his account, the speaker is kidnapped by fellow members of a secret society because he is suspected to be a threat to their secrecy. The book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. The book contains many illustrations by J Augustus Knapp and the beautifully haunting images add to the strangeness of the tale. The word Etidorhpa is the backward spelling of the name Aphrodite. ![]() It was written by John Uri Lloyd, a pharmaceutical manufacturer from Cincinnati, in 1895. ![]() Etidorhpa is one of my favourite books, an occult science fiction adventure story that contains profound metaphysical and scientific truths. ![]()
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