Atlantis

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Atlantis was an ancient civilization that lasted four to five million years and existed about a million years before Egypt entered the official history books. It is commonly believed to be a myth but Theosophy tells us differently. The continent and islands which composed Atlantis were centered mainly in what we now know as the Atlantic Ocean. The common belief according to Plato was that the island continent disappeared beneath the ocean in one day. Actually the empire sank in portions in a series of earthquakes that began 800,000 years ago before the last island of Atlantis, Poseidonis, sank in 9564 BC.

Mainstream historians balk at the idea that Atlantis ever existed, categorizing it as a legend or a fairytale. Academic historians seeking tenure or simply trying to keep the respect of colleagues would never publically suggest that Atlantis could actually have been a real civilization. But Theosophy has given us details and there is verifiable proof coming to light that Atlantis really did exist and thrived as a civilization in some ways more advance than our own for millions of years.

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An illustration by Sir Gerald Hargreaves shows a utopian scene on a cove of the mythical land of Atlantis


Plato's account

Theosophical viewpoint

Poseidonis

In 1882, Master K.H. wrote:

The great event — the triumph of our "Sons of the Fire Mist", the inhabitants of "Shamballah" (when yet an island in the Central Asian Sea) over the selfish but not entirely wicked magicians of Poseidonis occurred just 11,446 ago.[1]

This means that the sinking of the last large island, Poseidonis, occurred in the year 9,564 B.C.E.

Research of Sinnett, Scott-Elliot, and Leadbeater

NOTE: Joscelyn Godwin wrote of this research in his book Atlantis and the Cycles of Time.

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Notes

  1. Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 93B (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), ???.