The story of Atlantis E-Book

William Scott-Elliot

• Herausgeber: FV Éditions
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The destruction of Atlantis was accomplished by a series of catastrophes varying in character from great cataclysms in which whole territories and populations perished, to comparatively unimportant landslips such as occur on our own coasts to-day. When the destruction was once inaugurated by the first great catastrophe there was no intermission in the minor landslips which continued slowly but steadily to eat away the continent. Four of the great catastrophes stand out above the rest in magnitude. The first took place in the Miocene age, about 800,000 years ago. The second, which was of minor importance, occurred about 200,000 years ago. The third--about 80,000 years ago--was a very great one. It destroyed all that remained of the Atlantean continent, with the exception of the island to which Plato gave the name of Poseidonis, which in its turn was submerged in the fourth and final great catastrophe of 9564 B.C.Now the testimony of the oldest writers and of modern scientific research alike bear witness to the existence of an ancient continent occupying the site of the lost Atlantis.Before proceeding to the consideration of the subject itself, it is proposed cursorily to glance at the generally known sources which supply corroborative evidence. These may be grouped into the five following classes:First, the testimony of the deep-sea surroundings.Second, the distribution of fauna and flora.Third, the similarity of language and of ethnological type.Fourth, the similarity of religious belief, ritual, and architecture.Fifth, the testimony of ancient writers, of early race traditions, and of archaic flood-legends.

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The Story of Atlantis

Preface to the First Edition

The Story of Atlantis

Deep-Sea Soundings

Distribution of Fauna and Flora

Similarity of Language

Similarity of Ethnological Types

Similarity of Religious Belief,

Testimony of Ancient Writers

The Occult Records

First Map Period

Second Map Period

Third Map Period

Fourth Map Period

The Manus

The Sub-Races

The Rmoahal Race

The Tlavatli Race

The Toltec Race

The First Turanian Race

The Original Semite Race

The Akkadian Race

The Mongolian Race

Political Institutions

Sorcery versus the Good Law

Emigrations

First Settlement in Egypt

Stonehenge

Arts and Sciences

Architecture

Education

Agriculture

City of the Golden Gates

Air-Ships

Manners and Custom

Food

Weapons

Money

Land Tenure

Religion

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The Story of Atlantis

byWilliam Scott-Elliot

— 1896 —

Preface to the First Edition

by A. P. SINNETT

For readers unacquainted with the progress that has been made in recent years by earnest students of occultism attached to the Theosophical Society, the significance of the statement embodied in the following pages would be misapprehended without some preliminary explanation. Historical research has depended for western civilization hitherto, on written records of one kind or another. When literary memoranda have fallen short, stone monuments have sometimes been available, and fossil remains have given us a few unequivocal, though inarticulate assurances concerning the antiquity of the human race; but modern culture has lost sight of or has overlooked possibilities connected with the investigation of past events, which are independent of fallible evidence transmitted to us by ancient writers. The world at large is thus at present so imperfectly alive to the resources of human faculty, that by most people as yet, the very existence, even as a potentiality, of psychic powers, which some of us all the while are consciously exercising every day, is scornfully denied and derided. The situation is sadly ludicrous from the point of view of those who appreciate the prospects of evolution, because mankind is thus wilfully holding at arm's length, the knowledge that is essential to its own ulterior progress. The maximum cultivation of which the human intellect is susceptible while it denies itself all the resources of its higher spiritual consciousness, can never be more than a preparatory process as compared with that which may set in when the faculties are sufficiently enlarged to enter into conscious relationship with the super-physical planes or aspects of Nature.