The mystery of Atlantis has mystified seekers after ancient wisdom and bewildered academics for a score of centuries. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age metaphysical on-line book store browsers have at their disposal a large selection of literature treating different aspects of the legend of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic read.

There are more ideas concerning what the nature of this legendary locale engendered and beneath which sea the ruins could be found than virtually any other Greek myth. Indeed, the topic of a Utopian culture which perished in a Deluge has endured exactly for the reason that it explains many mysteries as we confront what may turn out to be our own Deluge or Golden Age.

Prolific author Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a large land mass, about the scale of Australia. As recounted in the prophet’s dynamic version, the people of Atlantis were gifted with powerful telepathic talents and tools, and were the progenitors of the strangely reminiscent solar-worshiping civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the Empires of native America. The subject is frequently associated with past lives stories & reincarnation and parapsychology, and is part of the mythos of Golden Dawn. The Greek philosopher Plato first began to write of a sunken civilization, that he named Atlantis, three centuries before the murder of Caesar.

According to Plato, the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and had perished approximately ten thousand years earlier. Conjectures on the location of the ruins range from the Far East to the Americas, although, as might be expected the likeliest possibilities that are European islands, especially Crete and Cyprus.

We may never know the actual details, but the evidence appears overwhelming: cultural innovation has achieved great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a process of development and fall, possibly many times, in the forgotten recesses of what we often think of as being initial spark of society.

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