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Each issue of the Rosicrucian Digest provides members and all interested readers with a compendium of materials regarding the ongoing flow of the Rosicrucian Timeline. The articles, historical excerpts, art, and literature included in this Digest span the ages, and are not only interesting in themselves, but also seek to provide a lasting reference shelf to stimulate continuing study of all of those factors which make up Rosicrucian history and thought. Therefore, we present classical background, historical development, and modern reflections on each of our subjects, using the many forms of primary sources, reflective commentaries, the arts, creative fiction, and poetry. This magazine is dedicated to all the women and men throughout the ages who have contributed to and perpetuated the wisdom of the Rosicrucian, western esoteric, tradition. May we ever be worthy of the light with which we have been entrusted. In this issue we explore the mysteries of the lost continent of Atlantis, one of the most powerful and enduring ideas of the Western World, and of Rosicrucian heritage. ANCIENT SOURCES Official Magazine of the Worldwide Timaeus 2 Plato Rosicrucian Order Critias 5 Plato Established in 1915 by the Supreme Grand Lodge of the English Language Ancient Sources for the Atlantis Story 11 Jurisdiction, AMORC, Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, CA 95191. CLASSIC VIEWS ON ATLANTIS Copyright 2006 by the Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, Inc. All rights The New Atlantis 13 reserved. Republication of any portion of Rosicrucian Digest is prohibited Sir Francis Bacon, F.R.C. without prior written permission of the publisher. The Secret Doctrine: Western Speculations 15 Founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ROSICRUCIAN DIGEST (ISSN H.P. Blavatsky #0035–8339) is published bi–annually for $12.00 per year, single copies $6.00, 18 by the Grand Lodge of the English Atlantis: The Antediluvian World Language Jurisdiction, AMORC, Inc., Ignatius Donnelly at 1342 Naglee Ave., San Jose, CA 95191. POSTMASTER: Send address The Lost Land (poem) 23 changes to ROSICRUCIAN DIGEST Ella Wheeler Wilcox, S.R.C. at 1342 Naglee Ave., San Jose, CA 95191–0001. Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis: Selections from 24 his Readings Twenty–Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 31 Jules Verne Yermah the Dorado: The Story of a Lost Race 34 Fiona Wait 21ST CENTURY APPROACHES TO ATLANTIS Beyond the Western Seas: 37 The Quest for Atlantis Continues Steven Armstrong, F.R.C. Atlantis, Arise (poem) 48 Gary Weibert, F.R.C. Atlantis and the Evolution of Humanity 49 Richard A.Schultz, Ph.D, F.R.C. and Otu Ekpo–Otu, P.G., F.R.C. Plato (ca. 427––ca. 347 BCE), written 360 BCE Selections adapted from the 1871 translation by Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) lato, the famous Athenian philosopher, is Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their the primary ancient source for the legend descendants, and reckoning up the dates, of Atlantis. His Socratic dialogue Timaeus tried to compute how many years ago the Pis the first in what had been planned as a trilogy events of which he was speaking happened. of discourses, followed by Critias and concluding Priests of Egypt Teach Solon with Hermocrates (which was never written). In Thereupon one of the priests, who was of Timaeus, mention is made of Atlantis, from the a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you reports that the great lawgiver Solon brought back Hellenes are never anything but children, and from Egypt. Amynander is speaking: there is not an old one among you. Solon in Amynander: Tell us, the whole story, return asked him what he meant. I mean to and how and from whom Solon heard this say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; veritable tradition. there is no old opinion handed [Critias] replied: In the down among you by ancient Egyptian Delta, at the head of tradition, nor any science which is which the river Nile divides, hoary with age. And I will tell you there is a certain district which is why. There have been, and will be called the district of Sais, and the again, many destructions of great city of the district is also humanity arising out of many called Sais, and is the city from causes; the greatest have been which King Amasis came. The brought about by the agencies of citizens have a deity for their fire and water, and other lesser foundress; she is called in the ones by innumerable other causes. Egyptian tongue Neith, and is There is a story, which even asserted by them to be the same you have preserved, that once whom the Hellenes call Athena; upon a time Phaethon, the son they are great lovers of the of Helios, having yoked the Athenians, and say that they are Plato in Rafael’s School of Athens steeds in his father’s chariot, in some way related to them. because he was not able to drive To this city came Solon, and was received them in the path of his father, burnt up all there with great honor; he asked the priests that was upon the earth, and was himself who were most skilful in such matters, about destroyed by a thunderbolt. antiquity, and made the discovery that neither Now this has the form of a myth, but he nor any other Hellene knew anything really signifies a declination of the bodies worth mentioning about the times of old. moving in the heavens around the earth, On one occasion, wishing to draw them and a great conflagration of things upon on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell the earth, which recurs after long intervals; about the most ancient things in our part of at such times those who live upon the Rosicrucian the world–about Phoroneus, who is called mountains and in dry and lofty places are Digest “the first human,” and about Niobe; and after more liable to destruction than those who No. 2 the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and dwell by rivers or on the seashore. 2006 Page 2 Stories of the Flood destruction died, leaving no written word. From this calamity the Nile, who is our For there was a time, Solon, before the great never–failing savior, delivers and preserves us. deluge of all, when the city which now is When, on the other hand, the gods purge Athens was first in war and in every way the the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors best governed of all cities, is said to have in your country are herdsmen and shepherds performed the noblest deeds and to have had who dwell on the mountains, but those who, the fairest constitution of any of which like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers tradition tells, under the face of heaven. into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither Athena Founds Sais and Athens then nor at any other time, does the water Solon marveled at his words, and earnestly come down from above on the fields, having requested the priests to inform him exactly and always a tendency to come up from below; in order about these former citizens. You are for which reason the traditions preserved welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the here are the most ancient. priest, both for your own sake and for that of The fact is, that wherever the extremity your city, and above all, for the sake of the of winter frost or of summer does not prevent, goddess who is the common patron and parent humanity exists, sometimes in greater, and educator of both our cities. sometimes in lesser numbers. And whatever She founded your city a thousand years happened either in your country or in ours, before ours, receiving from the Earth and or in any other region of which we are Hephaestus the seed of your race, and informed – if there were any actions noble or afterwards she founded ours, of which the great or in any other way remarkable, they constitution is recorded in our sacred have all been written down by us of old, and registers to be eight thousand years old. As are preserved in our temples. touching your citizens of nine thousand Whereas just when you and other years ago, I will briefly inform you of their nations are beginning to be provided with laws and of their most famous action; the letters and the other requisites of civilized life, exact particulars of the whole we will after the usual interval, the stream from hereafter go through at our leisure in the heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring sacred registers themselves. If you compare down, and leaves only those of you who are these very laws with ours you will find that destitute of letters and education; and so you many of ours are the counterpart of yours as have to begin all over again like children, and they were in the olden times. know nothing of what happened in ancient In the first place, there is the caste of times, either among us or among yourselves. priests, which is separated from all the others; As for those genealogies of yours, which you next, there are the artificers, who ply their just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no several crafts by themselves and do not better than the tales of children. intermix; and also there is the class of In the first place you remember a single shepherds and of hunters, as well as that of deluge only, but there were many previous husbandmen; and you will observe, too, that ones; in the next place, you do not know that the warriors in Egypt are distinct from all the there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest other classes, and are commanded by the law and noblest race of people which ever lived, to devote themselves solely to military and that you and your whole city are pursuits; moreover, the weapons which they descended from a small seed or remnant of carry are shields and spears, a style of them which survived.

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