EXCLUSIVE — Spiritual reading; Atlantis: an amazing theory involving the Pleiades; materialism and race-mixing were its downfall

…..Spiritual reading for July 6

This is a perfect day to slow down. If you feel inclined to deepen what you did yesterday, by all means do. It is incredibly powerful and important work with radiating benefits. But trust your own intuition on this. The fact is that the most critical thing for you to focus on today is moment-to-moment awareness. With no goal, no purpose other than simple observation. Watch yourself without judgment: your feelings, actions, words, physical experience, and movement of the mind.

Watch others if you can manage to do it with an open mind and heart. Watch the natural world. Watch the clock. Notice time and how it works. You can gain much by focusing the beam of your awareness in almost any direction at all.

Just be sure that you are watching the watching, and not allowing your mind or your heart or your body to hijack your status as a witness.

Take some time tonight, if not before, to give yourself a small gift. It needn’t be anything major—even a few minutes doing something you love will serve. But make a point of the gesture. Both the giving and the receiving.

It will help you to understand just a litle more clearly, consciously or not, the relationship, between the rich and varied aspects of self which comprise the amazing you.

All blessings and love to you, dear ones.

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…..Beautiful, rounded swastika crop circle in England

 

…..Wayne Herschel, independent Atlantis researcher

I am adding this (21 August 2023): Herschel wrote me that he does not advocate, endorse or entertain Nazi racial doctrines.  

This Herschel is obviously a genius or at least a brilliant idealist, and of German blood, obviously, as his last name and appearance indicate.

He is also a native white Rhodesian, now living in South Africa, so he may understand racial realities quite well. His wife and co-author, Birgitt Lederer, is directly from Germany and is a professional translator.

Among other things, Herschel says that:

1) great ancient civilizations, especially in Egypt, used art to show that their ancestors came — in spaceships –specifically from the Pleiades star system, over 400 light years distant, which is within the Taurus constellation;

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2) Atlantis was a real island, founded by Pleiadian Nordics and specifically by a real person, called Poseidon, who married an earth woman and had ten children with her.

It was located on what is now called Iberia, namely Spain and Portugal, which today form a peninsula jutting off of France.

Its capital city, he says, was located in in what is now a long plain in the south of Spain. He says two huge crop circles in Spain, which are actually permanent, deep indentations into the soil (and not a mere flattening of some crops which some irritated farmer can plow under) show the exact location of the downtown area of the capital.

And he says the Pleiadians will openly contact us on August 2, 2027,  during a solar eclipse that will be total in this very area of Spain.

Yes, Iberia, the Rhodesian Herschel claims, was once a very large island that got inundated by water and shoved southeastward as a result of massive comet strike around 12,800 years ago.

This cataclysm via a comet ended the last Ice Age, and it occurred in the area of the North Pole, smashing also through Greenland.

Other scientists and scholars also believe a comet hit the earth, because something caused an ERE, an “Extinction-Level Event.” Something did suddenly end the Ice Age, and most of the current United States shows evidence on the soil of a stratum of charred debris. This suggests that a gigantic fire raged over the lower two-thirds of the current USA. The upper third of the US, all of Canada and the northern half of Europe were then still under glaciers, a thick, huge sheet of ice.

Before our era, the Holocene, which is post-Ice Age, North America and the ice-free southern half of Europe were full of woolly mammoths…..

….and truly huge cave bears —

….and North America separately also had saber-tooth tigers, twice the size of an African lion of our time, and called by scientists “Smilodon.”

“Something” definitely wiped all these hardy animals out, and quickly….

The island of Iberia,  Portugal and Spain, in Herschel’s theory, then drifted in a southeasterly direction and connected with the south of France.

As I blogged very recently, the theory of the great German scientist Alfred Wegener has been validated — huge islands and even whole continents do drift, either breaking apart or coming together.

*** Wegener and continental “drift”

A.J. Gentile has pointed out in his mostly superb “Why Files” series on Yutube that two scientific theories (continental drift and the existence of now-extinct dinosaurs), which are now completely accepted, were assaulted initially with withering ridicule by the very scientific community that supposedly is all about logic and facts.

One revolutionary idea they trashed was the idea of continental drift proposed by the German scientist Alfred Wegener – that there was once one, big, actually humongous,  truly gigantic mega-continent, now called “Pangaea,” that broke up.

(The theory of tectonic plates is now used to explain this drift. These island and continents rest on huge plates that float on a fluid stratum.)

Severely wounded as a German army officer in WWI, the scientist Wegener, of Berlin, Germany, had the sheer guts to proclaim this radically new ideaof the continents drifting.

From Day One his idea made perfect sense, however. You can SEE how the continents once fit perfectly together.

I find it amusing how India was a big island just sailing around the “Indian Ocean” before it crashed up into Asia, creating the Himalaya Mountains.

The reason why the Himalayan Mountains exist is that the then-huge island of India crashed violently into Asia, pushing up an enormous wall of rock, including, of course, the infamous K2 and Mount Everest.

The Himalayas, showing all 8,000-meter (26K feet) mountains and major rivers 

Part of the Himalayan range in Nepal, bordering China

And the same would apply to the Arabian then-island, which crashed into what is now Palestine, Syria,  Turkey and Iran, throwing up mountains along the edges.

Of  course, we are taught that all this happened millions of years ago, but the island of Iberia, believes Herschel, collided with France just 12,800 years ago, pushing up yet again a wall of rock, this time the Pyrenees, which, of course, stopped Spain’s movement.

View from a NASA Landsat satellite

View from Toulouse, France (an important aerospace city that builds the Airbus) of the Pyrenees

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Herschel also claims that at the exact location of the seat of government in the now obliterated capital of Atlantis, in 2011, an extremely unusual crop circle of a unique kind, dug right into the earth, was created in Doñana, Spain. (The “ña” is pronounced “-nya-,” so “Donyana.”)

In this case, unlike other crop circles, the ground was deeply indented and SALT (somehow) entered the circles and keep it all white to this day.

Well, I looked up the coordinates myself and, indeed, these crop circles are still there now —  over a decade later. Herschel says this crop circle appeared in 2011 — and it appeared while he was there.

The southern pattern clearly forms a swastika enclosing a kind of cross:

This is east of the Parque Nacional de Doñana (Doñana National Park), located close to the Atlantic coast and west of the big city of Seville (called “Sevilla” in Spanish).

(Malaga, btw, east of here, on the Mediterranean coast, is where the late, great Belgian-French author, fascist party leader and Waffen-SS hero Léon Degrelle lived for decades in exile.)

Màlaga is up and to the right of Gibraltar

 

General Degrelle, a French-speaking Walloon, was the most highly decorated of the 400,000 non-Germans in the Waffen-SS.  My late wife Margaret and I translated into English his memoirs.

I must add that, for Herschel, all the circles we see in this area also have meaning in terms of the constellation Taurus. In fact, there is a rounded swastika in one of these patterns — on the right in this photo:

And he says Whites came from planets from the constellation of Taurus, specifically the Pleiades, and the swastika symbolizes their location.

And these kindred aliens (Pleiadians = nordics) will contact us, he believes, on August 2, 2027.

A solar eclipse happens on that date, meaning the moon passes exactly in front of the sun, and supposedly the famous Mayan Calendar   says that OPEN CONTACT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING A SOLAR ECLIPSE.

The dark band below, showing where the eclipse is absolute, also reveals that it passes right over this Doñana/supposed Atlantis area. (The broader band shows the area of partial eclipse and some darkening, but not total darkness.)

*** The Pleiades

Pleiades, (catalog number M45), open cluster of young stars in the zodiacal constellation Taurus, about 440 light-years from our solar system.

It contains a large amount of bright nebulous material and more than 1,000 stars, of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye and have figured prominently in the myths and literature of many cultures.

In Greek mythology the Seven Sisters (Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Sterope, names now assigned to individual stars), daughters of Atlas and Pleione, were changed into the stars. The heliacal (near dawn) rising of the Pleiades in spring of the Northern Hemisphere has marked from ancient times the opening of seafaring and farming seasons, as the morning setting of the group in autumn signified the seasons’ ends. Some South American Indians use the same word for “Pleiades” and “year.”

The cluster was first examined telescopically by Galileo, who found more than 40 members. It was first photographed by Paul and Prosper Henry in 1885.

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Herschel also says that one of the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, depicts a huge spaceship which disgorges a very large number of people, Pleiadians, in his view.

With its rectangular edges, this large object is certainly no animal (no bear, horse, lion or bird), unlike the other Lascaux paintings.

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At this juncture I wish to draw attention yet again to my articles on the Baltic UFO, which crash-landed around 12,800 years ago and has been the subject of a big cover-up.  A major donor to my site first brought this to my attention.

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*** The crashed Baltic UFO and an eruption of blond, blue-eyed genes on both sides of the crash site

Actual underwater photo of the slice right through an underwater hill made of mud,  cauded by the crashing UFO 

The crashed spaceship seemingly was sprayed with something to hide it and make it look like a natural object.

 

In black and white, you can see better that it is not a natural object. In fact, it looks like the “Millennium Falcon” piloted by the renegade smuggler Han Solo (played by Harrison Ford) in the first “Star Wars” movie.

It so happens or it was my dharma, to move up here. There are many blond Finns in the UP of Michigan and also some blond Swedes and Germans.

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Ontonagon on Labor Day

LOL — I found this on the men’s room wall in the then Shamrock Bar. I know who wrote it, a bitter US Army combat veteran of Afghanistan.

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This Swede was one of the divers who found the sunken UFO while working for a Swedish maritime salvage company that investigates sunken ships that went down generations or centuries ago,looking for their possibly valuable cargoes. Was he perhaps exploring the very ship that brought his distant ancestors here?

UPDATED Think Roswell was the last UFO crash? Think again; more on the possibly Nordic UFO in the Baltic; FOX News and media smear the project: “mere rocks” explored by “con men”; the Reich and Aldebaran

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Wayne Herschel is also excited by the rounded-swastika crop circle which is the feature image for this article, at the top, from 3 September 2020, which appeared in the Wiltshire, England area long famous for its crop circles as well as for Stonehenge and the ancient White Horse symbol on a hillside.

Showing it again:

It is no surprise that Herschel, as he says mournfully, is getting a rigorous “silent treatment,” being shadow-banned on Google’s YouTube and also by Amazon. 😉

Being a blond German, a white Rhodesian and now a South African to boot ( oh, the horrors of apartheid 😉 ) , and having a German wife, and on top of all that, championing the swastika as a symbol of the Pleiadians (who, he says, were our advanced white ancestors), and also promoting the symbol of the cross — which the jews HATE —   he is never going to charm the Khazars. 😉

Herschel points out sadly that while Amazon does carry his books, per copy sold he gets only a five-cent royalty!

I see basically zero mention of him on Google, except for a listing of his very own websites and videos. It seems they are indeed very strictly shadow-banning him.

Otherwise, the Rhodesian’s topics — Atlantis, aliens, the Great Flood, Spain, the last Ice Age, crop circles, etc. — are things in which many people are very, very interested.

This video below is one of his videos. It and his other videos are all, to be honest, kind of hard to follow.

I think Wayne moves forward too fast, and his choice of words is often unusual and is in scientific jargon.

Even a college-educated person who has no strong background in astronomy will find him challenging.

Probably I need to go and read his three books, turning the pages only after slowly pondering, evaluating and verifying (as I have begun to do) his revolutionary claims.

The poor fellow seems desperate for donations, so I can feell for him. And he actually acts surprised that he is being shadow-banned. 😉

But of course he is — for promoting, as he does, the “Hitlerian” notion of the Aryan origin of all positive, highly advanced, earthly civilizations!

Here is his main website:

https://www.thehiddenrecords.com/

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….Why Atlantis had to be destroyed

Did God, or some higher ETs, send that comet that destroyed Atlantis?

Well, the final stage of Atlantis was that it degenerated and became ever more wicked and greedy, said the famous psychic Edgar Cayce as well as Plato, and the stories of the Great Flood in the Hebrew Bible and other epics.

Severe conflict arose, said Cayce, between an increasingly open satanic group, the Sons of Baal, and another, representing the old, traditional values, the Sons of the Law of One.

But the evil group won out, and over a few generations many disgusted Atlanteans proceded to leave the island behind, for all its beauty and prosperity, for new lands to settle where they could live without the immorality and constant war that were prevalent in end-stage Atlantis.

As these disgusted and scared people began leaving Atlantis over the course of several decades, they began moving to both the very ancient Athens (long, long before Plato), and to Ancient Egypt.

Then Atlantis, by this point almost completely controlled by the evil element, declared war on both Athens and on Egypt, because they were angry ex-Atlanteans; they had money the Atlanteans wanted — and they symbolized societies that thrived by rejecting its wickedness and had become moral again, healthy, and free from the Atleanteans’ disgusting, luciferian culture.

 

*** Sound like anything today? 😉

Then Vice-President Biden (with Alejandro Mayorkas, the jew who is now his Secretary of Homeland Security)

 

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While Egypt was nearly conquered, Athens actually defeated those end-stage, wicked Atlanteans…

But then the whole island of Atlantis, weakened by greedy but dangerous deep-shaft mining operations, collapsed into the sea.

The resulting mega-tsunami wiped out also almost all the Athenians except those living on mountaintops. When the great Athenian lawgiver Solon visited Egypt, the high priest told him all this about Atlantis, Athens  and Egypt.

This was a few centuries before the great Greek philosopher Plato, who retold this in his dialogues Critias and Timaeus.

Plato was one of the most important classical Greek philosophers. He lived from 427 BC to 348 BC. A wealthy man, he owned at least 50 slaves and created the first university school, called “The Academy”.[1] Plato was a student of Socrates (who did not write his teachings down, kind of like Jesus) and he was also the teacher of Aristotle, who founded another university, known as the Lyceum (and who became the tutor of Macedon’s Alexander the Great).

Plato wrote about many ideas in philosophy that are still talked about today. He wrote about deductive reasoning. One modern philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, said that all philosophy since Plato has just been comments on his works.

Later, the great mystic Edgar Cayce in Virginia/USA — to his own surprise, because he, as a standard American, Kentucky-born Christian, did not believe at all in reincarnation — began doing readings for Americans who came to him with various physical and spiritual issues.

He would close his eyes as if asleep and see things about them–and their previous lives.

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*** Cayce in 1926 predicted something science would validate in 1994

…that the Nile River in Egypt once flowed, not north from Sudan and Ethiopia, but came from the west!  Modern satellites had finally seen the ancient riverbed.

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Cayce’s readings claimed that these Americans had spent lives in Atlantis, and they offered very detailed biographies of their names and lives back then….. both when Atlantis was rising (because it was virtuous, its people descended from the (nordic alien) god Poseidon, and possessed impressive technology), and also in the latter stage, when its people hand changed and become evil, 1) mixing the races and 2) becoming ever more materialistic, atheistic, warmongering, and greedy……obviously, just like America now.

I do believe that the jews of today are the reincarnation of the Sons of Baal from then.

A friend told me that Cayce said, in records which his foundation in Virginia Beach, Virginia dares not release, that

“the jews are reincarnated criminals.”

(I know this, that earlier versions of Wikipedia’s biographical article on Cayce did state that Cayce had “typical racial and antisemitic views that were common in his generation in Virginia.” But this may be deliberately minimizing the real vehemence of his actual beliefs.)

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…..Plato on Atlantis

My favorite course at Georgetown was on the actual political philosophy of the great Ancient Greek thinker, Plato. In class, the professor, a nice Columban father, was out to teach the dead-wrong notion that Plato was NOT what he indeed was, a proto-national socialist.

Plato believed 1) in the importance of the white race; 2) that democracy was a dangerous con; and 3) that the best man in the nation should run things and get the nation’s work done.

(In Atlantis’s golden age, as Plato relates, and you will see this below, ten kings had absolute authority.]

The Hellene’s overarching concern was why great civilizations would arise via being virtuous, but then all sicken and die. (And he discussed Atlantis for this very reason, because it rose very high and fell very far.)

The great poet and short-story-teller Edgar Allan Poe was a pessimist about us earthlings:

The good Columban Father at Georgetown had to give me an A. 😉

Plato also said, in his Timaeus, that race-mixing is what brought down Atlantis!

 

….Plato’s book Critias 

[The oral tradition from Egypt which the Athenian lawgiver and scholar Solon told to the grandfather of Critias,who retold it to his friend, the noted Athenian philosopher Socrates]

CRITIAS    Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest of the seven sages. (20e) He was a relative and a dear friend of my great-grandfather, Dropides, as he himself says in many passages of his poems; and he told the story to Critias, my grandfather, who remembered and repeated it to us.

There were of old, he said, great and marvellous actions of the Athenian city, which have passed into oblivion through lapse of time and the destruction of mankind, (21a) and one in particular, greater than all the rest.

This we will now revisit. It will be a fitting monument of our gratitude to you, and a hymn of praise true and worthy of the goddess, on this, her day of festival.

SOCRATES    Very good. And what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which Critias declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact?

CRITIAS    I will tell an old-world story which I heard from an aged man; (21b) for Critias, at the time of telling it, was as he said, nearly ninety years of age, and I was about ten. Now the day was that day of the Apaturia which is called the Registration of Youth, at which, according to custom, our parents gave prizes for recitations, and the poems of several poets were recited by us boys, and many of us sang the poems of Solon, which at that time had not gone out of fashion.

One of our tribe, either because he thought so or to please Critias, said that in his judgment Solon was not only the wisest of men, (21c) but also the noblest of poets. The old man, as I very well remember, brightened up at hearing this and said, smiling: Yes, Amynander, if Solon had only, like other poets, made poetry the business of his life, and had completed the tale which he brought with him from Egypt, and had not been compelled, by reason of the factions and troubles which he found stirring in his own country when he came home, (21d) to attend to other matters, in my opinion he would have been as famous as Homer or Hesiod, or any poet.

And what was the tale about, Critias? said Amynander.

About the greatest action which the Athenians ever did, and which ought to have been the most famous, but, through the lapse of time and the destruction of the actors, it has not come down to us.

Tell us, said the other, the whole story, and how and from whom Solon heard this veritable tradition.

[Solon in Egypt]

(21e) He replied: In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais, and the great city of the district is also called Sais, and is the city from which King Amasis came. The citizens have a deity for their foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue “Neith,” and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers of the Athenians, and say that they are in some way related to them.

To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; (22a) he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about very olden times. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world-about Phoroneus, who is called “the first man,” and about Niobe; and after the Deluge [=the Great Flood which also the Hebrew Bible retells], of the survival of [the married couple] Deucalion and Pyrrha [on a Greek mountaintop]; (22b) and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened.

[Recurring natural disasters spare Egypt]

Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you.

Solon in return asked him what he meant.

I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. (22c)

There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.

There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Phaeton, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father’s chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt.

Now this has the form of a myth, (22d) but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals;

at such times, those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves us. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. (22e)

Whereas in this land, [Egypt], neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient. The fact is, that wherever the extremity of winter frost or of summer does not prevent, (23a) mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers.

[Only in Egypt did the knowledge about primeval Athens survive]

And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informed-if there were any actions noble or great or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old, and are preserved in our temples.

Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are [illiterate], destitute of letters and education; (23b) and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves.

As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place. you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land [Athens] the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant (23c) of them which survived.

And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died without leaving any written word. For there was a time, Solon, before the Great Deluge over all the earth, when the city which now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven.

[Primeval Athens]

(23d) Solon marvelled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to inform him exactly and in order about these former citizens.

You are welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for your own sake and for that of your city, and above all, for the sake of the goddess who is the common patron and parent and educator of both our cities. She founded your city a thousand years before ours, (23e) receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the constitution is recorded in our sacred registers to be eight thousand years old.

As touching your citizens of nine thousand years ago, I will briefly inform you of their laws and of their most famous action; the exact particulars of the whole we will hereafter go through (24a) at our leisure in the sacred registers themselves.

If you compare these very laws with ours you will find that many of ours are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time. In the first place, there is the caste of priests, which is separated from all the others; next, there are the artificers, who ply their several crafts by themselves and do not intermix; and also there is the class of shepherds and of hunters, as well as that of husbandmen; (24b) and you will observe, too, that the warriors in Egypt are distinct from all the other classes, and are commanded by the law to devote themselves solely to military pursuits;

moreover, the weapons which they carry are shields and spears, a style of equipment which the goddess taught of Asiatics first to us, as in your part of the world first to you. Then as to wisdom, do you observe how our law from the very first made a study of the whole order of things, (24c) extending even to prophecy and medicine which gives health, out of these divine elements deriving what was needful for human life, and adding every sort of knowledge which was akin to them.

All this order and arrangement the goddess first imparted to you when establishing your city; (24d) and she chose the spot of earth in which you were born, because she saw that the happy temperament of the seasons in that land would produce the wisest of men. Wherefore the goddess, who was a lover both of war and of wisdom, selected and first of all settled that spot which was the most likely to produce men most like herself. And there you dwelt, having such laws as these and still better ones, (24e) and excelled all mankind in all virtue, as became the children and disciples of the gods.

[Atlantis]

Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which, unprovoked, made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles.

The island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent (25a) which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbor, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent.

Now in this island of Atlantis, there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected (25b) the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.

[War and destruction of primeval Athens and Atlantis]

This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country [Egypt] and yours [Athens] too, and the whole of the region within the straits.

And then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. (25c) And when the rest [of the Hellenes] fell away as allies from [Athens], being compelled to stand alone, Athens defeated and triumphed over the invaders after having undergone the very extremity of danger, and she preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.

But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune (25d) all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

[Critias’ memory]

(25e) I have told you briefly, Socrates, what the aged Critias heard from Solon and related to us.

 

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…..Excerpt from the other work by Plato discussing Atlantis, “Timaeus”

c.428 – c.347 BC

reprinted from “The Antediluvian World” by Ignatius Donnelly

“But in addition to the gods whom you have mentioned, I would specially invoke Mnemosyne; for all the important part of what I have to tell is dependent on her favor, and if I can recollect and recite enough of what was said by the priests, and brought hither by Solon, I doubt not that I shall satisfy the requirements of this theatre. To that task, then, I will at once address myself.

“Let me begin by observing, first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between all those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and those who dwelt within them: this war I am now to describe.

Of the combatants on the one side the city of Athens was reported to have been the ruler, and to have directed the contest; the combatants on the other side were led by the [ten] kings of the islands of Atlantis, which, as I was saying, once had an extent greater than that of Libya and Asia Minor (Turkey); and, when afterward sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to the ocean.

The progress of the history will unveil the various tribes of barbarians and Hellenes which then existed, as they successively appear on the scene; but I must begin by describing, first of all, the Athenians as they were in that day, and their enemies who fought with them; and I shall have to tell of the power and form of government of both of them. Let us give the precedence to Athens. . . .[text omitted?]

“Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years which have elapsed since the time of which I am speaking; and in all the ages and changes of things there has never been any sediment of the earth flowing down from the mountains, as in other places, which is worth speaking of.

It has always been carried round in a circle, and disappeared in the depths below. The consequence is that, in comparison of what then was, there are remaining in small islets only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called, all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the country being left. . . .

“And next, if I have not forgotten what I heard when I was a child, I will impart to you the character and origin of their adversaries [the Atlanteans]; for friends should not keep their stories to themselves, but have them in common. Yet, before proceeding farther in the narrative, I ought to warn you that you must not be surprised if you should hear Hellenic names given to foreigners.

I will tell you the reason of this: Solon, who was intending to use the tale for his poem, made an investigation into the meaning of the names, and found that the early Egyptians, in writing them down, had translated them into their own language, and he recovered the meaning of the several names and retranslated them, and copied them out again in our language. My great-grandfather, Dropidas, had the original writing, which is still in my possession, and was carefully studied by me when I was a child. Therefore, if you hear names such as are used in this country, you must not be surprised, for I have told you the reason of them.

“The tale, which was of great length, began as follows: I have before remarked, in speaking of the allotments of the gods, that they distributed the whole earth into portions differing in extent, and made themselves temples and sacrifices. And Poseidon, receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal woman, and settled them in a part of the island which I will proceed to describe.

*** The trident-bearing Poseidon; his name probably meant in Ancient Greek “lord of the sea”; he was a brother of Zeus

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On the side toward the sea, and in the center of the whole island, there was a plain which is said to have been the fairest of all plains, and very fertile. Near the plain again, and also in the center of the island, at a distance of about fifty stadia (one stadia=606 feet), there was a mountain, not very high on any side.

In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth-born primeval men of that country, whose name was Evenor, and he had a wife named Leucippe, and they had an only daughter, who was named Cleito. The maiden was growing up to womanhood when her father and mother died.

Poseidon fell in love with her, and had intercourse with her; and, breaking the ground, enclosed the hill in which she dwelt all round, making alternate zones of sea and land, larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were two of land and three of water, which he turned as with a lathe out of the center of the island, equidistant every way, so that no man could get to the island, for ships and voyages were not yet heard of.

*** Poseidon and the mortal earthling Cleito

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Wiki: “Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided by lot among Cronus’ three sons; Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three.”

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He himself, as he was a god, found no difficulty in making special arrangements for the center island, bringing two streams of water under the earth, which he caused to ascend as springs, one of warm water and the other of cold, and making every variety of food to spring up abundantly in the earth.

Later on, when Atlantis felt stronger and safer from attack, the circular canals, which were in effect moats to keep enemies out, were transversed by causeways.

 

Poseidon also begat and brought up five sets of male twins, dividing the island of Atlantis into ten portions. He gave to the first-born of the eldest pair his mother’s dwelling and the surrounding allotment, which was the largest and best, and made him king over the rest; the others he made princes, and gave them rule over many men and a large territory.

And he named them all: the eldest, who was king, he named Atlas, and from him the whole island and the ocean received the name of Atlantis/c.

To his twin-brother, who was born after him, and obtained as his lot the extremity of the island toward the Pillars of Heracles, as far as the country which is still called the region of Gades in that part of the world, he gave the name which in the Hellenic language is Eumelus, in the language of the country which is named after him, Gadeirus.

*** Gadeira was an important city in ancient Spain, now called Cadiz.

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Of the second pair of twins, he called one Ampheres and the other Evaemon. To the third pair of twins he gave the name Mneseus to the elder, and Autochthon to the one who followed him. Of the fourth pair of twins he called the elder Elasippus and the younger Mestor, And of the fifth pair be gave to the elder the name of Azaes, and to the younger Diaprepes.

All these and their descendants were the inhabitants and rulers of divers islands in the open sea; and also, as has been already said, they held sway in the other direction over the country within the Pillars as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia (Italy).

Now Atlas had a numerous and honorable family, and his eldest branch always retained the kingdom, which the eldest son handed on to his eldest for many generations; and they had such an amount of wealth as was never before possessed by kings and potentates, and is not likely ever to be again, and they were furnished with everything which they could have, both in city and country.

For, because of the greatness of their empire, many things were brought to them from foreign countries, and the island itself provided much of what was required by them for the uses of life.

In the first place, they dug out of the earth whatever was to be found there, mineral as well as metal, and that which is now only a name, and was then something more than a name — orichalcum [some special kind of copper, apparently] — was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, and, with the exception of gold, was esteemed the most precious of metals among the men of those days.

There was an abundance of wood for carpenters’ work, and sufficient maintenance for tame and wild animals. Moreover, there were a great number of elephants in the island, and there was provision for animals of every kind, both for those which live in lakes and marshes and rivers, and also for those which live in mountains and on plains, and therefore for the animal which is the largest and most voracious of them.

Also, whatever fragrant things there are in the earth, whether roots, or herbage, or woods, or distilling drops of flowers or fruits, grew and thrived in that land; and again, the cultivated fruit of the earth, both the dry, edible fruit and other species of food, which we call by the general name of legumes, and the fruits having a hard rind, affording drinks, and meats, and ointments, and good store of chestnuts and the like, which may be used to play with, and are fruits which spoil with keeping–and the pleasant kinds of dessert which console us after dinner, when we are full and tired of eating–all these that sacred island lying beneath the sun brought forth fair and wondrous in infinite abundance.

All these things they received from the earth, and they employed themselves in constructing their temples, and palaces, and harbors, and docks; and they arranged the whole country in the following manner: First of all. they bridged over the zones of sea which surrounded the ancient metropolis, and made a passage into and out of the royal palace; they began to build the palace and then the habitation of the god and of their ancestors. This they continued to ornament in successive generations, every king surpassing the one who came before him to the utmost of his power, until they made the building a marvel to behold for size and for beauty.

And, beginning from the sea, they dug a canal three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth, and fifty stadia in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a passage from the sea up to this, which became a harbor, and leaving an opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress. Moreover, they divided the zones of land which parted the zones of sea, constructing bridges of such a width as would leave a passage for a single trireme to pass out of one into another, and roofed them over; and there was a way underneath for the ships, for the banks of the zones were raised considerably above the water.

Now the largest of the zones into which a passage was cut from the sea was three stadia in breadth, and the zone of land which came next of equal breadth; but the next two, as well the zone of water as of land, were two stadia, and the one which surrounded the central island was a stadium only in width. The island in which the palace was situated had a diameter of five stadia.

This, and the zones and the bridge, which was the sixth part of a stadium in width, they surrounded by a stone wall, on either side placing towers, and gates on the bridges where the sea passed in. The stone which was used in the work they quarried from underneath the center island and from underneath the zones, on the outer as well as the inner side. One kind of stone was white, another black, and a third red; and, as they quarried, they at the same time hollowed out docks double within, having roofs formed out of the native rock. Some of their buildings were simple, but in others they put together different stones, which they intermingled for the sake of ornament, to be a natural source of delight.

The entire circuit of the wall which went round the outermost one they covered with a coating of brass, and the circuit of the next wall they coated with tin, and the third, which encompassed the citadel flashed with the red light of orichalcum.

The palaces in the interior of the citadel were constructed in this wise: In the center was a holy temple dedicated to Cleito and Poseidon, which remained inaccessible, and was surrounded by an enclosure of gold; this was the spot in which they originally begat the race of the ten princes, and thither they annually brought the fruits of the earth in their season from all the ten portions, and performed sacrifices to each of them. Here, too, was Poiseidon’s own temple, of a stadium in length and half a stadium in width, and of a proportionate height, having a sort of barbaric splendor.

All the outside of the temple, with the exception of the pinnacles, they covered with silver, and the pinnacles with gold. In the interior of the temple the roof was of ivory, adorned everywhere with gold and silver and orichalcum; all the other parts of the walls and pillars and floor they lined with orichalcum. In the temple they placed statues of gold: there was the god himself standing in a chariot–the charioteer of six winged horses–and of such a size that he touched the roof of the building with his head; around him there were a hundred Nereids riding on dolphins, for such was thought to be the number of them in that day.

There were also in the interior of the temple other images which had been dedicated by private individuals. And around the temple on the outside were placed statues of gold of all the ten kings and of their wives; and there were many other great offerings, both of kings and of private individuals, coming both from the city itself and the foreign cities over which they held sway. There was an altar, too, which in size and workmanship corresponded to the rest of the work, and there were palaces in like manner which answered to the greatness of the kingdom and the glory of the temple.

“In the next place, they used fountains both of cold and hot springs; these were very abundant, and both kinds wonderfully adapted to use by reason of the sweetness and excellence of their waters. They constructed buildings about them, and planted suitable trees; also cisterns, some open to the heaven, other which they roofed over, to be used in winter as warm baths, there were the king’s baths, and the baths of private persons, which were kept apart; also separate baths for women, and others again for horses and cattle, and to them they gave as much adornment as was suitable for them.

The water which ran off they carried, some to the grove of Poseidon, where were growing all manner of trees of wonderful height and beauty, owing to the excellence of the soil; the remainder was conveyed by aqueducts which passed over the bridges to the outer circles: and there were many temples built and dedicated to many gods; also gardens and places of exercise, some for men, and some set apart for horses, in both of the two islands formed by the zones; and in the centre of the larger of the two there was a race-course of a stadium in width, and in length allowed to extend all round the island, for horses to race in.

Also there were guard-houses at intervals for the body-guard, the more trusted of whom had their duties appointed to them in the lesser zone, which was nearer the Acropolis; while the most trusted of all had houses given them within the citadel, and about the persons of the kings. The docks were full of triremes and naval stores, and all things were quite ready for use.

Enough of the plan of the royal palace. Crossing the outer harbors, which were three in number, you would come to a wall which began at the sea and went all round: this was everywhere distant fifty stadia from the largest zone and harbor, and enclosed the whole, meeting at the mouth of the channel toward the sea. The entire area was densely crowded with habitations; and the canal and the largest of the harbors were full of vessels and merchants coming from all parts, who, from their numbers, kept up a multitudinous sound of human voices and din of all sorts night and day.

I have repeated his descriptions of the city and the parts about the ancient palace nearly as he gave them, and now I must endeavor to describe the nature and arrangement of the rest of the country. The whole country was described as being very lofty and precipitous on the side of the sea, but the country immediately about and surrounding the city was a level plain, itself surrounded by mountains which descended toward the sea; it was smooth and even, but of an oblong shape, extending in one direction three thousand stadia, and going up the country from the sea through the centre of the island two thousand stadia; the whole region of the island lies toward the south, and is sheltered from the north.

The surrounding mountains he celebrated for their number and size and beauty, in which they exceeded all that are now to be seen anywhere; having in them also many wealthy inhabited villages, and rivers and lakes, and meadows supplying food enough for every animal, wild or tame, and wood of various sorts, abundant for every kind of work.

I will now describe the plain, which had been cultivated during many ages by many generations of kings. It was rectangular, and for the most part straight and oblong; and what it wanted of the straight line followed the line of the circular ditch.

The depth, width and length of this ditch were incredible and gave the impression that such a work, in addition to so many other works, could hardly have been wrought by the hand of man. But I must say what I have heard. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length.

It received the streams which came down from the mountains, and winding round the plain, and touching the city at various points, was there let off into the sea. From above, likewise, straight canals of a hundred feet in width were cut in the plain, and again let off into the ditch, toward the sea; these canals were at intervals of a hundred stadia, and by them they brought down the wood from the mountains to the city, and conveyed the fruits of the earth in ships, cutting transverse passages from one canal into another, and to the city.

Twice in the year they gathered the fruits of the earth–in winter having the benefit of the rains, and in summer introducing the water of the canals. As to the population, each of the lots in the plain had an appointed chief of men who were fit for military service, and the size of the lot was to be a square of ten stadia each way, and the total number of all the lots was sixty thousand.

“And of the inhabitants of the mountains and of the rest of the country there was also a vast multitude having leaders, to whom they were assigned according to their dwellings and villages. The leader was required to furnish for the war the sixth portion of a war-chariot, so as to make up a total of ten thousand chariots; also two horses and riders upon them, and a light chariot without a seat, accompanied by a fighting man on foot carrying a small shield, and having a charioteer mounted to guide the horses; also, he was bound to furnish two heavy-armed men, two archers, two slingers, three stone-shooters, and three javelin men, who were skirmishers, and four sailors to make up a complement of twelve hundred ships.

Such was the order of war in the royal city–that of the other nine governments was different in each of them, and would be wearisome to narrate. As to offices and honors, the following was the arrangement from the first: Each of the ten kings, in his own division and in his own city, had the absolute control of the citizens, and in many cases of the laws, punishing and slaying whomsoever he would.

“Now the relations of their governments to one another were regulated by the injunctions of Poseidon as the law had handed them down. These were inscribed by the first men on a column of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle of the island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither the people were gathered together every fifth and sixth years alternately, thus giving equal honor to the odd and to the even number.

And when they were gathered together they consulted about public affairs, and inquired if any one had transgressed in anything, and passed judgment on him accordingly–and before they passed judgment they gave their pledges to one another in this wise:

There were bulls who had the range of the temple of Poseidon; and the ten who were left alone in the temple, after they had offered prayers to the gods that they might take the sacrifices which were acceptable to them, hunted the bulls without weapons, but with staves and nooses; and the bull which they caught they led up to the column; the victim was then struck on the head by them, and slain over the sacred inscription.

Now on the column, besides the law, there was inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on the disobedient. When, therefore, after offering sacrifice according to their customs, they had burnt the limbs of the bull, they mingled a cup and cast in a clot of blood for each of them; the rest of the victim they took to the fire, after having made a purification of the column all round.

Then they drew from the cup in golden vessels, and, pouring a libation on the fire, they swore that they would judge according to the laws on the column, and would punish any one who had previously transgressed, and that for the future they would not, if they could help, transgress any of the inscriptions, and would not command or obey any ruler who commanded them to act otherwise than according to the laws of their father Poseidon.

This was the prayer which each of them offered up for himself and for his family, at the same time drinking, and dedicating the vessel in the temple of the god; and, after spending some necessary time at supper, when darkness came on and the fire about the sacrifice was cool, all of them put on most beautiful azure robes, and, sitting on the ground at night near the embers of the sacrifices on which they had sworn, and extinguishing all the fire about the temple, they received and gave judgment, if any of them had any accusation to bring against any one; and, when they had given judgment, at daybreak they wrote down their sentences on a golden tablet, and deposited them as memorials with their robes.

There were many special laws which the several kings had inscribed about the temples, but the most important was the following: That they were not to take up arms against one another, and they were all to come to the rescue if any one in any city attempted to over throw the royal house. Like their ancestors, they were to deliberate in common about war and other matters, giving the supremacy to the family of Atlas; and the king was not to have the power of life and death over any of his kinsmen, unless he had the assent of the majority of the ten kings.

“Such was the vast power which the god settled in the lost island of Atlantis; and this he afterward directed against our land on the following pretext, as traditions tell: For many generations, as long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient to the laws, and well-affectioned toward the gods, who were their kinsmen; for they possessed true and in every way great spirits, practicing gentleness and wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another.

They despised everything but virtue, not caring for their present state of life, and thinking lightly on the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth deprive them of their self-control; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtuous friendship with one another, and that by excessive zeal for them, and honor of them, the good of them is lost, and friendship perishes with them.

“By such reflections, and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, all that which we have described waxed and increased in them; but when this divine portion began to fade away in them, and became diluted too often, and with too much of the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper-hand, then, they being unable to bear their fortune, became unseemly.

To him who had an eye to see, they began to appear base, and had lost the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they still appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were filled with unrighteous avarice and power.

Zeus, the god of gods, who rules with law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honorable race was in a most wretched state, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improved, collected all the gods into his most holy habitation, which, being placed in the center of the world, sees all things that partake of generation. And when he had called them together he spoke as follows:”

[Here, sadly, Plato’s story abruptly ends. You get the image of this wise, old, bearded man taking a break to work out the words that Zeus would speak, and never getting back to it… Or was the rest lost when the Roman Empire fell?]