Atlantis
La Atlántida fue una civilización antigua que duró cuatro a cinco millones de años y existió cerca de un millon de años antes que Egipto entrara en los libros oficiales de historia. Se cree comúnmente que es un mito pero la Teosofía nos dice diferente. El continente e islas que componían la Atlántida se centraron principalmente en lo que conocemos como el Océano Atlántico. La creencia según Platón era que la isla continente desapareció bajo el océano en un sólo día. En realidad el imperio se hundió en porciones en una serie de terremotos que comenzaron 800.000 años atrás antes que la isla de la Atlántida, Poseidonis, se hundiera en 9564 AC.
Los historiadores de la corriente principal se resisten a la idea de que la Atlántida haya existido alguna vez, categorizándola como una leyenda o un cuento de hadas. Los historiadores Académicos que buscan un puesto o simplemente intentan mantener el respeto de sus colegas nunca sugerirían públicamente que la Atlántida pudiera haber sido una civilización real. Pero, la Teosofía nos ha dado detalles, y prueba saliendo a la luz que la Atlántida realmente existió y prosperó como una civilización en algunos aspectos más avanzada que la nuestra durante millones de años.
Plato's account
In 355 BC Plato wrote the book Timaeus, in which his character, Kritias, recounts the story of Atlantis, a story which has been in his family for generations. The tale of this great civilization had been originally told to his ancestor by an Egyptian priest named Solon.
According to Plato’s account the powerful empire of Atlantis was founded by Poseidon, the God of the Sea. It was located to the west of the "Pillars of Hercules" (the Straights of Gibraltar). On the island nation, Poseidon fathered five sets of twins. The firstborn was Atlas, for whom the empire and the surrounding ocean was named. Poseidon divided the land into ten sections, each to be ruled by a son, or his heirs.
The capital city of Atlantis was laid out as a series of concentric walls and canals. Atlantis was a marvel of engineering and advanced technology but according to Plato the people became corrupt and greedy. The gods decided to destroy them. There was a violent earthquake that supposedly sunk the huge island nation in one day. Many historians think Plato made up the story of Atlantis as an illustration of his teachings, but many other ancient historians and philosophers other than Plato have written about Atlantis.
Theosophical viewpoint
Atlantis is often spoken of in the same breathe as Lemuria as if they existed simultaneously which they did not. Lemuria existed before Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean and was home to the Third Root-Race of humanity. Atlantis was the home of the Fourth Root-Race. The Fifth or Aryan Race exists today. There is to be a Sixth and a Seventh Race. According to Theosophy many thousands of years from now the Aryan Race will have had its run. At this time the land masses we know of, beginning with the British Isles, will sink beneath the sea and the land that was Atlantis will rise again from the ocean and after a time (having been under water of millions of years) will become habitable again and will be the home of the Sixth Race.
Due to Plato's account, Atlantis is often thought of as an island. However, according to H. P. Blavatsky it was "a whole continent of whose isles and islets many have to this day survived."[1] Plato's reference is to Poseidonis, the last island that survived by the end of Atlantis.
The Atlantean continent was gradually formed from parts of the old Lemuria, so we can see some overlapping between the two, especially in early Atlantis:
The Atlantic portion of Lemuria was the geological basis of what is generally known as Atlantis. The latter, indeed, must be regarded rather as a development of the Atlantic prolongation of Lemuria, than as an entirely new mass of land upheaved to meet the special requirements of the Fourth Root-Race. Just as in the case of Race-evolution, so in that of the shifting and re-shifting of continental masses, no hard and fast line can be drawn where a new order ends and another begins. Continuity in natural processes is never broken. . . . Their continent was formed by the coalescence of many islands and peninsulas which were upheaved in the ordinary course of time and became ultimately the true home of the great Race known as the Atlanteans. After this consummation was once attained . . . “Lemuria should no more be confounded with the Atlantis Continent, than Europe with America.”[2]
Atlantis united parts of Europe and Asia (Africa was mainly submerged)<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing Hou