Atlantis

Atlantis: and the Origins of Civilization. Some day we will know that 25,000 years ago on this earth dwelt human beings of great culture who governed according to the laws of rational democracies.Not every answer to the problem lines up simple, obvious and straight. We will know that 25,000 years ago on this earth dwelt human beings who could read and write, build cities, teach 'the sciences, tame and train animals for their use, ·build great monuments, write books, and govern according to the laws of rational democracies. This is an excerpt from Manly P Hall's  Horizon the Magazine of Useful and Intelligent Living August 1941

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First mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in c. 360 BC “across the Pillars of Hercules” that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa in the 10th millennium BC. Atlantis sank into the ocean “in a single day and night of misfortune.”


"...into Egypt through the Atlantean Mystery School of which Isis is the symbol."- Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians, by Manly Hall

"the Atlanteans of old worshipped the rising sun, but also how the modern Mason symbolizes this sun as Hiram the highborn who, when he rises to the top of the temple, places a golden stone upon it and raises to life all things in man.." - Anatomy of Man Manly P. Hall pg. 36

"Among all the Ancient people there was both a Public and a Secret worship. The Secret worship - Ancient did not originate in Egypt, but in Ancient Atlantis and from thence to Egypt. The Secret Worship has always been known as "The Mysteries" Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 132-133

"Ever since the time of Atlantis, the true Initiates and Masters have been the keepers of the Great School. These Initiates have taught the Secret Religions and true Science. The Ancient governments were Patriarchal; the Ruler was always a Master Initiate, and the people were regarded by him as his children." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 81

"We know absolutely that these mysteries primarily came from Atlantis, then connected with Yucatan where the ruins of the Fire Philosophers still remain, and that the Initiation into these Mysteries was first had there. We know that in the Temples of Atlantis these Mysteries were first taught to the Neophytes and that these Mysteries were brought into Asia and India, thence into Egypt by the Initiates of the older School of Atlantis." - The Philosophy of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 29

"The religious philosophy of Masonry is as old as is the First religion, for Masonry itself is founded on the Mysteries of Antiquity, which was already taught on the lost Atlantis." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 127

"...we know that for thousands of years since the time it was built (the great pyramid) by the Atlanteans it has been the greatest temple of Initiation in the world. It seems also that its work is not yet done, for mutely it is teaching those who will see the mysteries of creation." -The Initiates of the Flame Manly P. Hall pg. 80,81

"We can see that the esoteric teachings which in Atlantis first, then in Egypt, in Persia, and in Greece, were kept from the ears of an illiterate multitude precisely because it was known that they could not, in their then uneducated and ignorant condition, understand the deeper truth of Nature and of God.  Hence, the secrecy with which these pearls of great price were guarded and handed on with slight modifications into the possession of those grand early Christians, the Gnostics, the so-called heretics; then straight from the Gnostic schools of Syria and Egypt to their successors, the Manichaeans, and from these through the Paulicians, Albigenses, and Templars to the Hermetics, the Rosicrucians, and other less powerful Secret Fraternities — these Occult traditions, or rather, Occult Truths, have been bequeathed to the Mystic bodies of our own times. Persecuted by Protestants on one side and by Catholics on the other, the history of Mysticism, outside of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, is a history of martyrdom." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 81-82

"The Ancients of Atlantis preserved not less than sixteen distinct Secret Orders, all of which constituted — what was known at the time of the advent of Poisedon to the Kingdom of Atlantis — as the Mystic Brother or the Great White Circle. What is now the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross was recognized as the very highest of these Orders, by virtue of their knowledge of the Secret Forces throughout Nature. This Order of men ruled the Destiny of nations and all Institutions" - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg.  84

"...the great Atlantean Mystery School, which stood with all its splendor in the ancient City of the Golden Gates, where now the turbulent Atlantic rolls in unbroken sweep."- The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret of Hiram Abiff by Manly P. Hall

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"Atlas is a form of Adam. Both names are derived from the root at or ad. As Adam was the first of the ten patriarchs, so Atlas is the first of the ten princes of Atlantis, and the monad is the first and chief of the numerations. Atlas, representing the monad or unity, is therefore given rulership over the whole world which he must support by the principle of unity."- Atlantis: An Interpretation Manly P. Hall pg. 26-27

"The laws given by Poseidon were preserved and the race of Atlantis flourished and grew richer than all the races and kingdoms that would come after. This is the story of the Golden Age so beautifully set forth by Hesiod in his Theogony."- Atlantis: An Interpretation Hall, Manly P. Pg. 28

"The rebellion of the angels is the story of the lost Atlantis. The same is contained in the biblical statement that the sons of God beholding the daughters of the earth and seeing them to be fair, descended unto them and conceived by them a race of giants" - Atlantis: An Interpretation Manly P. Hall pg.30

Francis Bacon wrote New Atlantis a utopian novel. Bacon describes a utopian society that he called "Bensalem," located off the western coast of America. A character in the narrative gives a history of Atlantis that is similar to Plato's and places Atlantis in America. People had begun believing that the Mayan and Aztec ruins could possibly be the remnants of Atlantis.

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Genesis 11 talking of Pangea/Atlantis

Is it possible that Pangea/Atlantis was destroyed with the Tower of Babel?

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. - Genesis 11:1-9  King James Version

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. - Isaiah 14:12-14 King James Version

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"It is a fact that at Memphis, Egypt, in the Pyramids, under the guidance of the Kings, the Mystic Rites of Masonry were worked many thousands of years ago, but at that time Egypt and the continent of America were one and the same." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 25

"In America, re-discovered in the fifteenth cen-
tury and re-populated in the seventeenth, was re-
covered Egypt and the promised land, or the land of the constellation of the Eagle." - Parsons, "New Light from the Great Pyramid"

"America (known to the Mystic as Atlantis),
when this ruin befel, was the seat of the greatest empire that has ever existed, and its irresistible armies were terrorizing all Europe and Asia." - Ancient Masonry Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 26

"When Atlantis ruled the word, that which is now America was connected with Egypt by what is now Mexico, and in Mexico, in the territory of Yucatan, there is a Pyramid in which the Fire Philosophers worshiped God as Divine Fire and Life in like manner as did the Initiates of Egypt, for the two were then one. America is not complete, and will not be complete, cannot be complete, until Mexico is again part of America as she was in the long ago, and when Mexico is once again a part of the United States, then will the cap‐stone have been set on the Pyramid and the reverse side of the United States seal will be cut. Thus you will see that the Soul Science Primer with its drawings, is but the beginning of the article concerning the Seal of the United States, while the article on 'Body, Mind, Spirit and Soul' is the finale thereof. May it not be long until the Holy Pyramid shall be completed and may it be completed without the shedding of blood. Lovingly given, R. Swinburne Clymer. 'Beverly Hall,' Quakertown, Pennsylvania, July 6th, 1916."-Fundamental Laws: A Report of the 68th Convocation of the Rose Cross Order: pg. 24

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"It is the story of the origin of man himself. The whole physical human race is the fallen Atlanteans. Atlantis was the homeland from which we have come to our present estate." -Atlantis: An Interpretation Hall, Manly P. Pg. 31

“Both the sinking of Atlantis and the Biblical story of the “fall of man” signify spiritual involution–a prerequisite to conscious evolution.”  - Hall, Manly P. – The Secret Teachings of All Ages p. 83

"Both Homer and Horace apparently sensed the allegorical import of Atlantis, for by reading between the lines one gathers from their writings the impression that to them Atlantis signified a superior universe or higher world, possibly the one which descended into matter when the physical universe was created.This was the fabled Eden, or that antediluvian sphere referred to in scriptures as ruled over by the kings of Edom. Atlantis thus becomes the Elysian Fields or the Abode of the Blessed, and the Avalon of the Welsh."- Atlantis: An Interpretation Manly P. Hall pg. 16-17

"The Atlantic civilization describes the descent of living souls individualized under the constellation of Pisces from their previous ethereal state into material form at the beginning of human evolution upon the planet."-Atlantis: An Interpretation Hall, Manly P. Pg. 32

"Yet the old Atlantis is not truly gone. It is now emerging through man. The civilization we are building today is the resurrection of Atlantis." - Atlantis: An Interpretation Manly P. Hall pg. 30

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Atlantean deluge

Plato described the vast continent of Atlantis, which sank beneath the oceans as the result of a seismic cataclysm. [Now, ] there are several possible interpretations of Plato's account. The lost Atlantis could represent a submerged body of knowledge drowned in a sea of forgetfulness. This would explain and justify Bacon's restoration of the fable, which was nothing more than bringing into the light matters long hidden. According to the Critias, the oceans became so agitated and laden with mud and slime that navigation to the west ceased. Sailors feared to go beyond the Pillars of Hercules toward those Hesperic Isles sacred to the Mysteries. Even had Christian nations dared to violate the edicts of the Secret Schools, such audacity would have been held in check by the power of Islam, seated in the Holy House at Cairo, and the edicts of Lhasa, backed by the armed strength of the Mongol Empire. The East agreed to preserve the boundaries of Europe, if the European states would bind themselves in a solemn alliance to refrain from exploiting the resources of the Western Hemisphere. - America's Assignment with Destiny, written by Manly P. Hall

"Ambition, however, personified by Typhon, knowing that temporal power must die if divine power, in the form of truth, be reestablished, put forth all its power again to scatter the doctrine, this time so thoroughly that it should never be rediscovered. If Typhon, as Plutarch has suggested, in one of his manifestations represents the sea, then it appears that this second destruction of Osiris may refer to the Atlantean deluge..." - Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians, by Manly Hall

"...Osiris may refer to the Atlantean deluge by which the doctrine was swallowed or lost and its fragments scattered among all of the existing civilizations of that time. [And] the story continues. The body of Osiris, the Secret Doctrine, is divided into fourteen parts..." - Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians, by Manly Hall

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Racist Agenda

"The two sides of America's seal express in Heraldry the countless ages of the evolution of man. This evolution had its beginning even before the time of the so‐called or misinterpreted 'fall' of man. The seal symbolizes man's progress in Egypt (eagleland ‐‐ America's actual fatherland) where, for a time, a wondrous race incarnated to build an unexplainable and inconceivable monument as a symbol of, and memorial to, the knowledge imparted to her by the more ancient Atlantis." - The Teachings of the Masters, the Wisdom of the Ages Swinburne Clymer

"The Aryan races, for instance, now varying from dark brown, almost black, red-brown-yellow, down to the whitest creamy colour, are yet all of one and the same stock — the Fifth Root-Race — and spring from one single progenitor, … who is said to have lived...  at the time of the sinking of the last remnants of the great continent of Atlantis.”" - Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, p. 249"

According to Madame Blavatsky, each round of the cosmic cycle has associated with it seven root races. The first root race to evolve on earth, she calls the Astral race. It was a race of pure spirit, the highest form of existence. The second race she calls the Hyperborean race. Its home was a now vanished continent in the northern ocean. The third race was the Lemurians. Blavatsky is clear about the reason for the fall of the Lemurian race: it had interbred with animals. The fourth race in the history revealed to Madam Blavatsky is the race of Atlantis. The Atlanteans had possessed psychic powers and had constructed giant cities using an energy source of mysterious origins. The Atlanteans were destroyed in a great flood. The fifth root race Madam Blavatsky sees as the race of hope ‐‐ the race that has once founded the culture of ancient Greece, and soon would return man to the pinnacle of spirituality. That race she named, the Aryan. By 1914, Blavatsky's mystical doctrine of the destiny of the Aryan man has spread throughout Germany and Austria. - The Occult and the Third Reich (The SS ‐ Blood and Soil)

Adolf Hitler believed in Atlantis when it was destroyed, left behind a remnant, a surviving element of that race which is a super race or master race. This was his vision of world history, Nazi philosophy, National Socialism.

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In Untied States the Freemasons established the city of Atlanta as the new Atlantis.

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“A total of six Orbiters were built for flight: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour and Enterprise. The Challenger was destroyed in an explosion, in 1986, which has been said could have been averted. Thus making the statement, "A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed."

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More to read: Occult Digest v3 n8 Aug 1927