The Wonder of the Sunken Island
The mystique of a prehistoric advanced society has stimulated wonder among students of the unknown and attracted researchers for a score of centuries. There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this realm was like and where it was located and how the wisdom of the ancients might be encountered than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. Yet the tale of a genius race which perished in a Deluge has endured exactly for the reason that it seems to hold spiritual value to the modern mind.
New Age aficionados can enjoy a massive list of volumes theorizing about the myth of Atlantis, both non-fiction and novels. The topic is frequently associated with reincarnation, and is sometimes referred to in World Rebirth prophecy.
Socrates’ student, Plato, originally wrote detailing a sunken civilization, known as Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. He believed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and met a fateful end over ten millennia before his time.
American mystic Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a large land mass, approximately equal in size to Europe. According to the medium’s amazing version, the inhabitants of the Island had mastered powerful telepathic talents and technologies, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar solar-worshipping cultures of the founders of Western Civilization and the pre-Columbian Americans.
Hypotheses regarding the position of the “Lost Continent” vary widely from the Indonesia to the Americas, although the likeliest possibilities, of course, have been European islands, most notably Crete and Malta.
It might never be certain what marvels the Atlanteans mastered, however, one thing seems clear: the cycle of development and destruction has previously culminated, maybe over and again, long before what we habitually consider as “history,” even began.
