Poseidonis

Map of Atlantis according to William Scott-Elliott (The Story of Atlantis, Russian edition, 1910) Solon of Athens

If the hypothesis (now so much doubted, and positively denied by some learned authors, who regard it as a joke of Plato's) is ever verified, then, perhaps, will the scientists believe that the description of the god-inhabited continent was not altogether a fable. And they may then perceive that Plato's guarded hints and his attributing the narrative to Solon and the Egyptian priests, were but a prudent way of imparting the fact to the world, and, by cleverly combining truth and fiction, so disconnecting himself from a story which the obligations imposed at initiation forbade him to divulge. –SD2:221

Mount Atlas, Bolivia

18th-century illustration of Mount Kailash, depicting the holy family: Shiva and Parvati, cradling Skanda with Ganesha by Shiva's side Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam. The map is oriented with south at the top. S.

N. The description of the Atlantean sudden death of her parents she civilization given by Plato in the was wooed by Poseidon, who Critias may be summarized as begat by her five pairs of male follows. In the first ages, the gods children. Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born surrounded the central island, primitive human beings– Evenor; which Poseidon caused to be his wife, Leucipe; and their only irrigated with two springs of daughter, Cleito. The maiden was water– one warm and the other very beautiful, and after the cold. The description of the Atlantean sudden death of her parents she civilization given by Plato in the was wooed by Poseidon, who begat Critias may be summarized as by her five pairs of male children. follows. In the first ages, the gods Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born surrounded the central island, primitive human beings--Evenor; which Poseidon caused to be his wife, Leucipe; and their only irrigated with two springs of daughter, Cleito. The maiden was water--one warm and the other very beautiful, and after the cold. Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 The Etheric, by Ernst Marti The description of the Atlantean death of her parents she was civilization given by Plato in the wooed by Poseidon, who begat by Critias may be summarized as her five pairs of male children. follows. In the first ages, the gods Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born primitive surrounded the central island, human beings--Evenor; his wife, which Poseidon caused to be Leucipe; and their only daughter, irrigated with two springs of Cleito. The maiden was very water--one warm and the other beautiful, and after the sudden cold. Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 The Etheric, by Ernst Marti Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. Cleito is referred to as an The humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 When the humid body of the solar system of the planet was prepared, the god Poseidon took upon himself a humid form, described in the Chaldaic Oracles as serpentine, that is, vibratory. In this form, he united with Cleito, and from this union was born a tetraktys, the Pythagorean pattern of ten dots, the key to the entire formula of material generation. These ten dots are, likewise, the ten brothers, the framework of the material world and the common denominator of all magnitude and multitude. –Atlantis, An Interpretation:25

Omphalos at Delphi The description of the Atlantean parents she was wooed by civilization given by Plato in the Poseidon, who begat by her five Critias may be summarized as pairs of male children. Poseidon follows. In the first ages, the gods apportioned his continent among divided the earth among these ten, and Atlas, the eldest, he themselves, proportioning it made overlord of the other nine. according to their respective Poseidon further called the dignities. Each became the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and the into concentric zones of land and island continent of Atlantis. In the water, which were as perfect as midst of the island was a mountain though turned upon a lathe. Two which was the dwelling place of zones of land and three of water three earth-born primitive human surrounded the central island, beings--Evenor; his wife, Leucipe; which Poseidon caused to be and their only daughter, Cleito. irrigated with two springs of The maiden was very beautiful, and water--one warm and the other after the sudden death of her cold. Solon of Athens The five pairs of children received their names in this: Atlas, Eumelus Ampheres, Evaemon Mneseus, Autochthon Elasippus, Mestor Azaes, Diaprepas It is to be understood that these are the Grecian forms of the original names. Solon declared that the Egyptians had taken the Atlantean names and adapted them to the language of their own country. He, in turn, had taken the Egyptian names and had Grecianized them. This is stated positively in the dialogue. –Atlantis, An Interpretation:7

Solon of Athens This imaginary northern nation of M. Bailly [Atlantis} was in fact the whole body of antediluvians, who were indifferently termed Atlanteans and Titans; Atlanteans, from their devotion to the worship of At-Al-As, the divine Sun, and Titans, from Tit, the deluge. –A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri v.2:284-5 This imaginary northern nation of M. Bailly [Atlantis} was in fact the whole body of antediluvians, who were indifferently termed Atlanteans and Titans; Atlanteans, from their devotion to the worship of At-Al-As, the divine Sun, and Titans, from Tit, the deluge. –A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri v.2:284-5 The description of the Atlantean death of her parents she was civilization given by Plato in the wooed by Poseidon, who begat by Critias may be summarized as her five pairs of male children. follows. In the first ages, the gods Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born primitive surrounded the central island, human beings--Evenor; his wife, which Poseidon caused to be Leucipe; and their only daughter, irrigated with two springs of Cleito. The maiden was very water--one warm and the other beautiful, and after the sudden cold. Poseidonis

Poseidon… breaking the ground, enclosed centre of the island, equidistant every bringing two streams of water under the the hill in which Cleito dwelt all round, way, so that no man could get to the earth, which he caused to ascend as making alternate zones of sea and land, island, for ships and voyages were not yet springs, one of warm water and the other larger and smaller, encircling one another; heard of. He himself, as he was a god, of cold, and making every variety of food there were two of land and three of water, found no difficulty in making special to spring up abundantly in the earth. which he turned as with a lathe out of the arrangements for the centre island, –Atlantis: The Antediluvian World:13 Atlas is a form of Adam. Both principalities, that is, they are names are derived from the root assigned spheres of manifestation; at or ad. As Adam was the first of they are given rulerships over the ten patriarchs, so Atlas is the orders of seminal life. first of the ten princes of Atlantis, In the meantime, Poseidon, as the and the monad is the first and great sea-serpent, runs the waters chief of the numerations. Atlas, of Space into the nebular, representing the monad or unity, spherical form of the globe. The is therefore given rulership over key to the symbolism is apparent, the whole world which he must for in the account of Atlantis, support by the principle of unity. Poseidon is described as turning In other words, the universe is out the concentric zones as sustained by its own oneness. The though upon a lathe, even and other brothers, each of whom symmetrical in all their parts. In esoterically represents a law and the midst of the bands or zones is the principle working within and a mountain rising in the middle of under unity, are given the imperishable land or island.

Atlas We know from the Egyptians surround the golden-domed and the Greeks that this central shrine of Poseidon. Here mountain represents the sun in Poseidon is the invisible sun the solar system, and in the which, in the words of planetary arrangement, the Paracelsus, lights the humid polar mountain, Meru or worlds as our physical sun Olympus, the abode of the lights the material world. gods. This part of the The zones with which Poseidon symbolism could be developed surrounds the central island at great length. In the Norse represent the orbits of the theology, the mountain Asgard planets, five in number (in the with its three temples rises in old Atlantis system the sun and the middle of the earth and is moon were not planets). In the surrounded by the zones and development of the earth itself, sea, the outer extremity of these zones are the magnetic which is a wall formed of the bands which have descended to eyebrows of Emir, the us under the symbolism of the primordial giant, a type of Atlas. five belts, that is, the Equator, Plato refers to the central the tropics of Capricorn and island of Atlantis as an acropolis Cancer, and the Arctic and where are gathered temples Antarctic circles. –Atlantis, An and great buildings which Interpretation:26-8 Meru We know from the Egyptians surround the golden-domed and the Greeks that this central shrine of Poseidon. Here mountain represents the sun in Poseidon is the invisible sun the solar system, and in the which, in the words of planetary arrangement, the Paracelsus, lights the humid polar mountain, Meru or worlds as our physical sun Olympus, the abode of the lights the material world. gods. This part of the The zones with which Poseidon symbolism could be developed surrounds the central island at great length. In the Norse represent the orbits of the theology, the mountain Asgard planets, five in number (in the with its three temples rises in old Atlantis system the sun and the middle of the earth and is moon were not planets). In the surrounded by the zones and development of the earth itself, sea, the outer extremity of these zones are the magnetic which is a wall formed of the bands which have descended to eyebrows of Emir, the us under the symbolism of the primordial giant, a type of Atlas. five belts, that is, the Equator, Plato refers to the central the tropics of Capricorn and island of Atlantis as an acropolis Cancer, and the Arctic and where are gathered temples Antarctic circles. –Atlantis, An and great buildings which Interpretation:26-8 Meru We know from the Egyptians surround the golden-domed and the Greeks that this central shrine of Poseidon. Here mountain represents the sun Poseidon is the invisible sun in the solar system, and in the which, in the words of planetary arrangement, the Paracelsus, lights the humid polar mountain, Meru or worlds as our physical sun Olympus, the abode of the lights the material world. gods. This part of the The zones with which Poseidon symbolism could be developed surrounds the central island at great length. In the Norse represent the orbits of the theology, the mountain Asgard planets, five in number (in the with its three temples rises in old Atlantis system the sun and the middle of the earth and is moon were not planets). In the surrounded by the zones and development of the earth itself, sea, the outer extremity of these zones are the magnetic which is a wall formed of the bands which have descended to eyebrows of Emir, the us under the symbolism of the primordial giant, a type of Atlas. five belts, that is, the Equator, Plato refers to the central island the tropics of Capricorn and of Atlantis as an acropolis Cancer, and the Arctic and where are gathered temples Antarctic circles. –Atlantis, An and great buildings which Interpretation:26-8 Meru Mount Olympus

Black Elk Peak Mount Meru The description of the Atlantean death of her parents she was civilization given by Plato in the wooed by Poseidon, who begat by Critias may be summarized as her five pairs of male children. follows. In the first ages, the gods Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born primitive surrounded the central island, human beings--Evenor; his wife, which Poseidon caused to be Leucipe; and their only daughter, irrigated with two springs of Cleito. The maiden was very water--one warm and the other beautiful, and after the sudden cold. The descendants of Atlas Atlanteans employed continued as rulers of themselves also in the Atlantis, and with wise erection of palaces, temples, government and industry and docks. They bridged the elevated the country to a zones of sea and later dug a position of surpassing deep canal to connect the dignity. The natural outer ocean with the resources of Atlantis were central island, where stood apparently limitless. the palaces and temple of Precious metals were Poseidon, which excelled all mined, wild animals other structures in domesticated, and perfumes magnificence. A network of distilled from its fragrant bridges and canals was flowers. While enjoying the created by the Atlanteans to abundance natural to their unite the various parts of semitropic location, the their kingdom. They arranged the whole country depth, and fifty stadia in length, in the following manner: First of which they carried through to all they bridged over the zones of the outermost zone, making a sea which surrounded the passage from the sea up to this, ancient metropolis, and made a which became a harbor, and passage into and out of the royal leaving an opening sufficient to palace; and then they began to enable the largest vessels to find build the palace in the habitation ingress. Moreover, they divided of the god and of their ancestors. the zones of land which parted This they continued to ornament the zones of sea, constructing in successive generations, every bridges of such a width as would king surpassing the one who leave a passage for a single came before him to the utmost trireme to pass out of one into of his power, until they made the another, and roofed them over; building a marvel to behold for and there was a way underneath size and for beauty. And, for the ships, for the banks of the beginning from the sea, they dug zones were raised considerably a canal three hundred feet in above the water. width and one hundred feet in –Atlantis: The Antediluvian World:15

Ignatius Donnelly, author and translator Plato then describes the white, princes of the island were born black, and red stones which and here each year their they quarried from beneath descendants brought offerings. their continent and used in the Poseidon's own temple, its construction of public exterior entirely covered with buildings and docks. They silver and its pinnacles with circumscribed each of the land gold, also stood within the zones with a wall, the outer citadel. The interior of the wall being covered with brass, temple was of ivory, gold, the middle with tin, and the silver, and orichalch, even to inner, which encompassed the the pillars and floor. The citadel, with orichalch. The temple contained a colossal citadel, on the central island, statue of Poseidon standing in contained the palaces, temples, a chariot drawn by six winged and other public buildings. In horses, about him a hundred its center, surrounded by a Nereids riding on dolphins. wall of gold, was a sanctuary Arranged outside the building dedicated to Cleito and were golden statues of the first Poseidon. Here the first ten ten kings and their wives. Plato then describes the white, princes of the island were born black, and red stones which and here each year their they quarried from beneath descendants brought offerings. their continent and used in the Poseidon's own temple, its construction of public exterior entirely covered with buildings and docks. They silver and its pinnacles with circumscribed each of the land gold, also stood within the zones with a wall, the outer citadel. The interior of the wall being covered with brass, temple was of ivory, gold, the middle with tin, and the silver, and orichalch, even to inner, which encompassed the the pillars and floor. The citadel, with orichalch. The temple contained a colossal citadel, on the central island, statue of Poseidon standing in contained the palaces, temples, a chariot drawn by six winged and other public buildings. In horses, about him a hundred its center, surrounded by a Nereids riding on dolphins. wall of gold, was a sanctuary Arranged outside the building dedicated to Cleito and were golden statues of the first Poseidon. Here the first ten ten kings and their wives. "Now, the relations of their governments to one another were regulated by the injunctions of Poseidon, as the law had handed them down. These were inscribed by the first men on a column of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle of the island, at the Temple of Poseidon, whither the people were gathered together. . . .

[Here] they received and gave judgments, and at daybreak they wrote down their sentences on a golden tablet, and deposited them as memorials with their robes.

There were many special laws which the several kings had inscribed about the temples." –Critias, trans. T. Taylor:120 Plato then describes the princes of the island were white, black, and red stones born and here each year which they quarried from their descendants brought beneath their continent and offerings. Poseidon's own used in the construction of temple, its exterior entirely public buildings and docks. covered with silver and its They circumscribed each of pinnacles with gold, also the land zones with a wall, stood within the citadel. The the outer wall being covered interior of the temple was of with brass, the middle with ivory, gold, silver, and tin, and the inner, which orichalch, even to the pillars encompassed the citadel, and floor. The temple with orichalch. The citadel, contained a colossal statue on the central island, of Poseidon standing in a contained the palaces, chariot drawn by six winged temples, and other public horses, about him a hundred buildings. In its center, Nereids riding on dolphins. surrounded by a wall of Arranged outside the gold, was a sanctuary building were golden dedicated to Cleito and statues of the first ten kings Poseidon. Here the first ten and their wives.

In the groves and gardens were hot and cold springs. There were numerous temples to various deities, places of exercise for men and for beasts, public baths, and a great race course for horses. At various vantage points on the zones were fortifications, and to the great harbor came vessels from every maritime nation. The zones were so thickly populated that the sound of human voices was ever in the air. The Central Island by Ubisoft

Now the largest of the zones into the central island was a stadium only towers, and gates on the bridges which a passage was cut from the sea in width. The island in which the where the sea passed in. The stone was three stadia in breadth, and the palace was situated had a diameter of which was used in the work they zone of land which came next of equal five stadia. This, and the zones and the quarried from underneath the centre breadth; but the next two, as well the bridge, which was the sixth part of a island and from underneath the zones, zone of water as of land, were two stadium in width, they surrounded by on the outer as well as the inner side. stadia, and the one which surrounded a stone wall, on either side placing –Atlantis: The Antediluvian World:13 That part of Atlantis facing the sea was described as lofty and precipitous, but about the central city was a plain sheltered by mountains renowned for their size, number, and beauty. The plain yielded two crops each year, in the winter being watered by rains and in the summer by immense irrigation canals, which were also used for transportation. The plain was divided into sections, and in time of war each section supplied its quota of fighting men and chariots. That part of Atlantis facing the sea was described as lofty and precipitous, but about the central city was a plain sheltered by mountains renowned for their size, number, and beauty. The plain yielded two crops each year, in the winter being watered by rains and in the summer by immense irrigation canals, which were also used for transportation. The plain was divided into sections, and in time of war each section supplied its quota of fighting men and chariots. Dredging and sounding equipment on the H.M.S. Challenger. mountains," which sheltered the plain One has but to look at the profile of the " the frontispiece to this volume, to see from the north, are represented in the Dolphin's Ridge," as revealed by the deep- that this is a faithful description of that present towering peaks of the Azores. sea soundings of the Challenger, given as precipitous elevation. "The surrounding –Atlantis: The Antediluvian World:26 The ten governments differed azure robes and sat in from each other in details judgment. At daybreak they concerning military wrote their sentences upon a requirements. Each of the kings golden tablet: and deposited of Atlantis had complete control them with their robes as over his own kingdom, but their memorials. The chief laws of mutual relationships were the Atlantean kings were that governed by a code engraved by they should not take up arms the first ten kings on a column against each other and that of orichalch standing in the they should come to the temple of Poseidon. At alternate assistance of any of their intervals of five and six years a number who was attacked. In pilgrimage was made to this matters of war and great temple that equal honor might moment the final decision was be conferred upon both the odd in the hands of the direct and the even numbers. Here, descendants of the family of with appropriate sacrifice, each Atlas. No king had the power of king renewed his oath of loyalty life and death over his kinsmen upon the sacred inscription. without the assent of a majority Here also the kings donned of the ten. But when they were about to sit in to him, viz. a victim taken without iron, imprecations against those that were judgment on any one, they bound each and hunted with clubs and snares. disobedient. When, therefore, sacrificing other by the following compact. As, Hence, whatever bull was caught by according to their laws, they began to prior to this judicial process, there were them they led to the pillar, and cut its burn all the members of the bull, they bulls in the temple of Neptune, free from throat on the summit of the column, poured out of a full bowl a quantity of all restraint, they selected ten of these, agreeably to the written mandates. But clotted blood for each of them, and gave and vowed to the God, they would offer on the pillar, besides the laws, there was the rest to the fire; at the same time a sacrifice which should be acceptable an oath, supplicating mighty lustrating the pillar. After this, drawing out of the bowl in would neither govern, nor be the fire about the sacrifice was golden cups, and making a libation in obedient to any one who governed, abated, all of them, invested with a the fire, they took an oath that they contrary to the prescribed laws of most beautiful azure garment, and would judge according to the laws their country. When every one had sitting on the ground near the burnt inscribed on the pillar, and would thus supplicated both for himself and victims, spent the whole night in punish any one who prior to this those of his race, after he had drunk, extinguishing the fire of the sacrifice, should be found guilty; and likewise and had dedicated the golden cup to and in judging and being judged, if any that they would never willingly the temple of the God, he withdrew person had accused some one of transgress any one of the written to the supper, and his necessary them of having transgressed the laws. mandates. They added, that they concerns. But when it was dark, and –Timaeus and Critias, trans. T. Taylor:246-7 Plato concludes his description a further description of by declaring that it was this Atlantis, supposedly given to great empire which attacked Solon by an Egyptian priest and the Hellenic states. This did not which concludes as follows: occur, however, until their "But afterwards there occurred power and glory had lured the violent earthquakes and floods; Atlantean kings from the and in a single day and night of pathway of wisdom and virtue. rain all your warlike men in a Filled with false ambition, the body sank into the earth, and rulers of Atlantis determined to the island of Atlantis in like conquer the entire world. Zeus, manner disappeared, and was perceiving the wickedness of sunk beneath the sea. And that the Atlanteans, gathered the is the reason why the sea in gods into his holy habitation those parts is impassable and and addressed them. Here impenetrable, because there is Plato's narrative comes to an such a quantity of shallow mud abrupt end, for the Critias was in the way; and this was caused never finished. In the Timæus is by the subsidence of the island.” August Böckh

“In the greater Panathenaea there was carried in procession a peplum of Minerva, representing the war with the giants and the victory of the gods of Olympus. In the lesser Panathenaea they carried another peplum (covered with symbolic devices), which showed how the Athenians, supported by Minerva, had the advantage in the war with the Atlantes.”

Panathenaic Festival –Atlantis: The Antediluvian World:91

A discussion of Atlantis would be natural clairvoyants, or it might incomplete without a brief be better to say, natural mediums. outline of the causes for its They could see the invisible disappearance. The great King worlds but they did not Thevetat, the invisible Dragon, is understand the proper use of the unquestionably what Eliphas Levi great forces of the astral light… would call the "astral light," the The Atlanteans, like the medium, same force which the Knights did not possess supernatural Templars were accused of power technically– they were worshipping under the form of possessed by it. They were moved the Goat of Mendes. The astral by the astral king like ouija- light is the seat of sorcery or what boards and, as his sphere was one the ancients termed infernal of excess and fury, he poured magic. The ruler of this sphere is forth his qualities through them the great Fire Prince, Samael, who until the whole civilization is supposed to have taken upon collapsed in a common ruin. himself the form of a serpent and Before the destruction of the seduced Eve. His sphere is ruled continent, the Atlanteans were by Mars, or more correctly divided, for in a portion of the symbolized by it, and his keyword people was born the realization of Eliphas Levi’s “Goat of Mendes” is ambition. The Atlanteans were personal responsibility. These escaped from the in Atlantis to protect the people) rulership of the Draqon King who could no longer protect the and, obeying the instructions of continent from the demon of the great White Lord, prepared the astral liqht, became the for themselves a better destiny. leaders of the several When the destruction came and migrations. These adepts were the fire which the sorcerers had also termed Serpents but with invoked consumed them, the them the serpent had been white adepts led by the great raised as is described in the Father of the Thinkithians Bible- it had not lost its feet as (Noah) escaped and established shown in the Egyptian glyphs themselves in those lands which and it wore the feather of Maat, had survived the great the symbol of truth. destruction. Quetzalcoatl, whose proper The demon king Thevetat did symbol is an upraised snake and not always control Atlantis; he who carried the cross, was one gradually gained dominion over of the white adepts, for it is it as an evil habit gradually gains declared in the Codices that he control of a human life. He was a "white" man. a term which finally obsessed Atlantis and may not necessarily mean color those of the Atlantean adepts but rather purity. –MPH: All Seeing (superior beings who incarnated Eye, January, 1931, p.105-7 In the introduction to his commenting upon Plato, translation of the Timæus, asserted that the Egyptian Thomas Taylor quotes from a priests declared the story of History of Ethiopia written by Atlantis to be written upon Marcellus, which contains the pillars which were still following reference to preserved circa 300 B.C. (See Atlantis: "For they relate that Beginnings or Glimpses of in their time there were Vanished Civilizations.) seven islands in the Atlantic Ignatius Donnelly, who gave sea, sacred to Proserpine; and the subject of Atlantis besides these, three others of profound study, believed that an immense magnitude; one horses were first of which was sacred to Pluto, domesticated by the another to Ammon, and Atlanteans, for which reason another, which is the middle they have always been of these, and is of a thousand considered peculiarly sacred stadia, to Neptune." Crantor, to Poseidon. (See Atlantis.) In the introduction to his Neptune." Crantor, translation of the Timæus, commenting upon Plato, Thomas Taylor quotes from asserted that the Egyptian a History of Ethiopia written priests declared the story of by Marcellus, which Atlantis to be written upon contains the following pillars which were still reference to Atlantis: "For preserved circa 300 B.C. they relate that in their time (See Beginnings or Glimpses there were seven islands in of Vanished Civilizations.) the Atlantic sea, sacred to Ignatius Donnelly, who gave Proserpine; and besides the subject of Atlantis these, three others of an profound study, believed immense magnitude; one of that horses were first which was sacred to Pluto, domesticated by the another to Ammon, and Atlanteans, for which reason another, which is the middle they have always been of these, and is of a considered peculiarly sacred thousand stadia, to to Poseidon. (See Atlantis.) In the introduction to his commenting upon Plato, translation of the Timæus, asserted that the Egyptian Thomas Taylor quotes from a priests declared the story of History of Ethiopia written by Atlantis to be written upon Marcellus, which contains the pillars which were still following reference to preserved circa 300 B.C. (See Atlantis: "For they relate that Beginnings or Glimpses of in their time there were Vanished Civilizations.) seven islands in the Atlantic Ignatius Donnelly, who gave sea, sacred to Proserpine; and the subject of Atlantis besides these, three others of profound study, believed that an immense magnitude; one horses were first of which was sacred to Pluto, domesticated by the another to Ammon, and Atlanteans, for which reason another, which is the middle they have always been of these, and is of a thousand considered peculiarly sacred stadia, to Neptune." Crantor, to Poseidon. (See Atlantis.) The Egyptian priests of Sais told Solon that the accounts of Atlantis which they possessed had been deciphered from inscriptions upon ancient columns. These pillars composed of some unknown and imperishable substance (possibly the fabled Pillars of Enoch) had been erected before the Deluge; in fact, the columns had been constructed for the express purpose of withstanding the terrific upheavals which were to lay barren a considerable part of the earth. Crantor, writing circa 300 B.C., declared that at that time the pillars were still in existence. –MPH: All Seeing Eye, January, 1931, p.100

Temple of Sais, 3000 – 525 BCE From a careful consideration of symbolizes the threefold Plato's description of Atlantis it nature of both the universe and is evident that the story should the human body. The ten kings not be regarded as wholly of Atlantis are the tetractys, or historical but rather as both numbers, which are born as allegorical and historical. five pairs of opposites. (Consult Origen, Porphyry, Proclus, Theon of Smyrna for the Iamblichus, and Syrianus Pythagorean doctrine of realized that the story opposites.) The numbers 1 to 10 concealed a profound rule every creature, and the philosophical mystery, but they numbers, in turn, are under the disagreed as to the actual control of the Monad, or 1– the interpretation. Plato's Atlantis Eldest among them. From a careful consideration of symbolizes the threefold nature Plato's description of Atlantis it of both the universe and the is evident that the story should human body. The ten kings of not be regarded as wholly Atlantis are the tetractys, or historical but rather as both numbers, which are born as five allegorical and historical. pairs of opposites. (Consult Origen, Porphyry, Proclus, Theon of Smyrna for the Iamblichus, and Syrianus Pythagorean doctrine of realized that the story opposites.) The numbers 1 to 10 concealed a profound rule every creature, and the philosophical mystery, but they numbers, in turn, are under the disagreed as to the actual control of the Monad, or 1--the interpretation. Plato's Atlantis Eldest among them.