THEOSOPHY AND ATLANTIS

[Bianca]

FROM:

ATLANTIS - Myth or Reality?
by Murry Hope



                                                   T H E O S O P H Y


Theosophical teachings conceive of our present race being the Fifth, or Aryan Race.
The Fourth Race was the great race of Atlantis.  Catastrophes such as those experienced by the Fourth Race have not as yet made their appearance on Fifth
Race horizons, although many people (other than Theosophists) are of the opinion that we will shortly be bidding a fond farewell to the period of stability we have en-
joyed since the Old Country went down.  The Theosophists opine that 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 landslides of the type that occur on coastlines to this day.

Four great catastrophes are conceived of: the first took place in the Miocene Age, some
800,000 years ago; the second, which was less important, occurred about 200,000 years ago; the third, which destroyed all of Atlantis except the island of Poseidon, mentioned by
Plato, 80,000 years ago.  The fourth, and final catastrophe, they see as having occurred around 9564 BC.

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Colonel W.Scott-Elliot, to whom the task of presenting the Atlantis and allied data seems to have fallen in the 1890s, included in his book four maps that purport to show the world prior to each of the four events.  Where the worthy  gentleman
obtained these maps we are not told, but I am inclined to suspect that they have been 'put together' by early scholars within the Theosophical movement to illustrate
their beliefs.  Scott Eliot tells us:


"The first map represents the land surface of the earth as it existed about a million
years ago, when the Atlantean Race was at its height, and before the first great submergence took place about 800,000 years ago.  The continent of Atlantis itself, it will be observed, extended from a point a few degrees east of Iceland to about
the site now occupied by Rio de Janeiro, in South America.  Embracing Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, the Southern and Eastern States of America, up to and including Labrador, it stretched across the ocean to our own islands - Scotland and Ireland,
and a small portion of the north of England, forming one of its promontories - while
its equatorial lands embraced Brazil and the whole stretch of ocean to the African Gold Coast.  Scattered fragments of what eventually became the continents of
Europe, Africa and America, as well as remains of the still older, and once wide-spread continent of Lemuria, are also shown on this map.  The remains of the still older Hyperborean continent, which was inhabited by the Second Root Race, are
also given.....

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As will be seen from the second map, the catastrophe of 800,000 years ago caused very
great changes in the landdistribution of the globe.  The great continent is now shorn of its northern regions, and its remaining portion has been still further rent.  The now growing American continent is separated by a chasm from its parent continent of  Atlantis, and this no longer comprises any of the lands now existing, but occupies the bulk of the Atlantic basin, from about 50 degrees north to a few degrees south of the equator.  The sub-sidences and upheavals in other parts of the world have also been considerable - the British Islands for example, now being part of a huge island which also embraces the Scandinavian peninsula, the north of France, and all the intervening and some of the surrounding seas.  The dimensions of the remains of Lemuria have been further curtailed, while Europe, Africa and America have received accretion of territory.

The third map shows the results of the catastrophe which took place 200,000 years ago.
 With the exception of the rents in the continents both of Atlantis and America, and the submergence of Egypt, it will be seen how relatively unimportant were the subsidences and upheavals at this epoch, indeed the fact that this cata-
strophy has not always been considered as one of the great ones, is apparent from the quotation already given from the sacred book of the Guatemalans- three great ones only being there mentioned.  The Scandinavian island, however, appears now as joined to the mainland.  The two islands into which Atlantis was now split were known by the names of Ruta and Daitya.

The stupendous character of the natural convulsion that took place 80,000 years ago will
be apparent from the fourth map.
 Daitya, the smaller and more southerly of the islands, has almost entirely disappeared, while of Ruta there only remains the relatively small island of Poseidonis.  This map was
compiled about 75,000 years ago.
 It, no doubt, fairly represents the land surface of the earth from that period
onwards, till the final submergence of Poseidonis in 9564 BC, though during that period minor changes must have taken place.  It will be noted that the land outlines
had then begun to assume roughly the same appearance they do today, though the British Islands were still joined to the European continent, while the Baltic Sea was non-existent, and the Sahara desert then formed part of the ocean floor."

[Tom Hebert]

Where are the maps?

[Bianca]

Oh, Tom

YOU would be the one to catch me..........They're in my book.  Once I type the "rest
of the story", I'll do a search and try to find them.  Then, maybe you'll be so kind to
transpose them here for me.  Nothing like being "outed" (again!!) for the computer
'deficient'  that I am.  -  I'm on the verge of crying 'uncle' and find someone to teach
me how.

Love and Peace,
Bianca

[Tom Hebert]

Okay Bianca,

I think I found your maps.  Here is the world as it appeared 1,000,000 years ago.

[Tom Hebert]

Here is the world after the catastrophe of 800,000 years ago.

[Tom Hebert]

Here is the world after the catastrophe of 200,000 years ago.

[Tom Hebert]

And lastly, here is the world after the catastrophe of 80,000 years ago up until the final sinking of Atlantis in 9564 B.C.

[Bianca]

My HERO!!!

Tom, you just saved my day!  I googled everything I could think of.  Totally forgot
about "Sacred Texts". 

Forget about my usual "Love and Peace".  I'm sending you :

XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO

Bianca

[HereForNow]

This is a wonderful collection of maps. I would love to have them be accurate and all but.......

That would mean that the ruins of Atlantis really is off the coast of Spain.

This means that A whole group of us from AR owes Hertz Saltsman an apology.
We all kept telling him that he was full of it. 


Where did these maps come from?

[HereForNow]

Here is the world after the catastrophe of 200,000 years ago.

Tom in regaurds to the Island continent below Atlantis, what is the proper spelling for it's name?
I couldn't make it out very well.

That fact that it's there is even more interesting.
This means that there is a possibility to find it as well.

[Bianca]

Hi, HFN:

I can't believe you're here!

The maps were made by Colonel W. Scott-Elliot, of Mme. Blatvasky's Theosophical
Society, in the 1890's.

You can read how he came to his conclusions in the posts above.  All information
was 'channeled" from Ascended Masters.

(((HFN)),
Bianca

[Tom Hebert]

Hi Bianca,

"Sacred Texts" is one of my favorite reference sites.  I bought Scott-Eliots book back in the 60's when I was looking into Theosophy.  I later gave it away when I became more interested in the Cayce material and his interpretation of Atlantis.

I don't know what to think of those maps.  I suppose they could be reasonably accurate, but how would we know for sure?

There are some similarities with Cayce, for example, the idea that Atlantis was originally much larger and shrank in successive stages due to cataclysmic events.

I find it curious that the earliest map mentions a place called the City of the Golden Gates.  There is a similar reference in the Cayce readings.  Coincidence?

2750-1 F 44  3/12/30   Life Reading
In the one before this we find in that land known as the Atlantean. In that period, the entity then among those of the princess of the land, and the RULER in the Poseida, in the city called that of the Gate of Gold. The entity then gained and lost through this experience. In the name Ameeel. In this experience the entity found MUCH that were of the forces as apply in that called the night-side, or the negative side of life. The forces as being positive and negative became to the entity, in the application in the latter period, negative in their results. Hence the consternation and the destruction that ensued in the second generation from the entity's experience IN the earth's plane. In the present there is seen for the entity, that all must ever have a material standard, for which mental or spiritual forces, or elements, may be measured by. Not a materialist, no; but the entity REASONS rather from that, that it must be a material MANIFESTATION of some ELEMENT that may be expressed IN the mental or the spiritual sense.

[Bianca]

Tom,

No, it's not coincidence.  There are a lot of similarities between Cayce and the
Theosophists.  The only difference is the vehicle through which they got their
information.  E.C. was a Fundamentalist Christian and everything he was given
has the aura of his belief.  The Theosophists were more receptive to getting
their knowledge through the more Oriental sources.  Essentially, the information
is the same.

By the same token, you and I and millions of others were in the "thick" of our quest
in the '60s.  It is a 'generational thing'.  It's actually quite well explained by Astro-
logy.  It is as though the "Rays of Perceptions" shine through the clouds at certain
times and the receptive ones acquire knowledge according to their basic beliefs.
Were it otherwise, it would be too much for one to accept.

Love and Peace,
Bianca