The Hidden Meaning of Caves

Caves can be symbolically described as various types of natural or man-made voids inside or underneath a larger physical mass that are open to the surface. These enclosed spaces include caves, grottos, caverns, cave-dwellings, labyrinths, pyramid chambers, mountain-side caves, subterranean rooms and temples, rock-cut shrines and catacombs. Due to their common Atlantean origin, all of the world’s major pyramids have hidden tunnels, stairwells, passageways, and halls linking the rooms and chambers in and/or below them together.
Although caves have been historically used as sites for human habitation, storage, animal shelters, religious study and worship, healing practices and burial, esoterically, caves are a physical womb or chrysalis where as a result of a personal metamorphosis, the individual experiences an Initiation, a new birth, and some form of consciousness expansion and resurrection. According to Rosicrucian doctrine, Jesus received his Great Initiation in the womb of the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. Caves are also places of guidance and oracles. The famous Greek priestess known as the Oracle of Delphi gave many prophecies while seated on a golden tripod above an abyss, within a cave.
Caves symbolize an inner sanctum, a womb of Mother Earth, or primeval egg within which a process of growth, transformation and renewal takes place in the life of the person being transmuted inside the cave. Traditionally, the Initiate awakens from the darkness of their symbolic tomb facing East into the light of the rising sun on the morning of the third day of their ceremonial rebirth.
The use of caves, and cave-temples for religious purposes is as old as it is widespread. Underneath the city of Cercenes in Atlantis, a large labyrinth approximately nine hundred feet wide by thirteen hundred feet long existed in the hardened lava. Called by Atlanteans “The Great Labyrinth”, this vast cavern contained numerous rooms, chambers, secret passages, corridors, an altar at the center of a circular court, and a spectacular “Hall of Illumination” encircled by twelve sacred shrines. The Ancient Mysteries were taught to Atlanteans in the womb of “The Great Labyrinth”.
Cave-Temples and rock-cut shrines are common in India, China, Tibet, Egypt, Ceylon, and throughout the Mediterranean region. The Essenes are known to have studied and worshipped in large grottos twenty to sixty feet below the Earth’s surface. The Mysteries of ancient Druidism, Mithraism, and Judaism were commonly taught in secret subterranean rooms known only to the religion’s followers.
A series of underground caves, chambers, stairs and tunnels connect The Pyramid of the Sun, The Pyramid of the Moon, and the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl to each other in the city of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Another pyramid linked to Quetzalcoatl is located in the Central American city of Chitzen Itsa. This famous Temple- Pyramid is known as the Pyramid of Kukulkan, another name for Quetzalcoatl. The Pyramid of Kukulkan, like the three pyramids of Teotihuacan, has it’s caverns and rooms beneath it where the ancestral Wisdom-Teachings were given.
The Step Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt has a complex of rooms, halls and chambers within and below it that were used by the Egyptian priests for the instruction of the Ancient Wisdom, healing, astrology, and magic. The Step Pyramid is more than a complicated burial chamber. Yet to be discovered concealed corridors link the three Giza Pyramids to each other and the Sphinx.