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OUR STORY OF
ATLANTIS. Written down for the
HERMETIC By W. Author of
P.
BROTHERHOOD PHELON,
"THREE SEVENS"; "
EFFECT";
LOVE, SEX,
M. D.
"HEALING,
CAUSES AND
IMMORTALITY,"
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. HERMETIC BOOK CONCERN. 1903.
Etc.
the year 1903, by
s, in
in the office of the Librarian
of
Congress
at
Washington, D. C.
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FOREWORD. It is
not necessary for an author in these
days, always to be
later
He may
a recognized fact.
another
s
reliability,
write from
whose honesty and
experience, in
he has as much, and sometimes
more confidence, than sense.
say, he
to
own knowledge. This has be
writes of his
come
able
This
own
in his
the .case with .this
is
personal
little
book,
treating of a subject of interest to the whole
For
world, to-day.
MSS. almost ready
six years I
have had the
for the printer.
Now,
with the encouragement and helping hand of
my
Dear Comrades
Brotherhood,
May
it
I
am
bid to
be a help to the
TIAN BORN,
of
the let
it
Hermetic go
ONCE ATLAN-
wherever they may
W.
P.
forth.
PHELON,
120215
be.
M. D.
CONTENTS CHAPTER
I.
Poem, "Lost Atlantis." Why is this book written? Authorities pointing to the existence of a former Continent and City. Definite assertions of destruc tion by deluge, of an island Continent, positively declared. Testimony of the whirling straws, the flotsam and jetsam of the day. Concurrent evidence of the existence and influence of these people on our civilization.
PAGE
I
CHAPTER
II.
Continued crossPoem, examination of witnesses, human and divine, con "Atlantian
Memories."
cerning the facts in evidence of the existence of Atlantis Island and City. Description of mountains, cities, caves, and other evidences of occupation by civilized and enlightened people. Speculations, and deductions of the Past, Present and Future. PAGE 25-
CHAPTER
III.
Beginning of a voyage. The attractive stranger. Acquaintance ripens rapidly. "Such a face as child hate." An eloquent and in Atlantian memories seem to the new friend, personal experiences. The wonderful cities of the Past that have disappeared. The little black-lettered manuscript in a strange language. History of Atlantis. "Your desire for information on these lines will be gratified." PAGE 41.
ren love structive
and scoundrels talker.
CHAPTER
IV.
The
student and master of the Cabala. The solving of the problem. The odd volume from the
Boston second-hand book
store.
The Fourth Con-
CONl^ENTS
viii
The wonderful play of visible form never equaled elsewhere in the whole world, before or since. Supremely dominant now, in the affairs of the world. PAGE 174. of Instruction.
and
color,
CHAPTER
XVI.
The Cellars of the Great Elemental Mint and Treasury, under the Temple. Their occupants, uses and the influences upon the State and world, then and now. Date of the opening of these Treasuries to the PAGE; 186. inspection of the Temple Inspector.
CHAPTER The Treasury PAGE 194.
of
-XVII.
the Temple;
its
contents and
uses.
CHAPTER
XVIII.
Concerning Convocations. The kinds and meth ods of calling and their uses and influence even upon the world of to-day. PAGE 197.
CHAPTER
XIX.
The Messiah that must come is a nation and not an individual. It was the stone cut out of the mountain without hands. For this work and wait. PAGE
203.
CHAPTER
XX.
We, as Atlantians, did not break the law but we made a mistake. For our ignorance, we suffered. The instrument cannot be superior to the Maker and User. PAGE 210. ;
CHAPTER Corroborating present day, as on the Walls,"
it
XXI.
evidence from the news of the conies to the ears of the "Watchers
Atlantis, Egypt, India.
PAGE
214.
OUR STORY OF ATLANTIS. CHAPTER
I.
THE LOST ATLANTIS. AIR
F
Atlantis, peerless country
Lulled within the Ocean
s
!
arms,
Lying beautiful and shining
Far beneath the storm
s
alarms;
Never has a plague come near thee In thy halls were love and ease
Now, above
thee
lost
;
;
Atlantis
!
Roll the ever restless seas.
In those histories, half tradition,
With
We
their mythical thread of gold,
shall find the
name and
story
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thy
cities,
fair
and old;
Dreaming bard has told
in
Wandering minstrel sung
Now, above
fancy
of thee,
thee, lost Atlantis,
Rolls the ever restless sea.
Every heart has such a country
Some
Atlantis loved, and lost
Where upon Once
;
the gleaming sand bars
life s fitful
Mighty
cities
ocean tost;
rose in splendor
Love was monarch
Now, above
of that clime
that lost Atlantis
Rolls the restless sea of Time.
Happy
From Deems His
he,
a
who
life
looking backward
of larger scope
a youthful idle fancy
lost continent of
Or by
light of love
Hope
;
and gladness,
Find the present home sublime
Glad that over
his Atlantis
Rolls the restless sea of Time.
Why is
this
book written ?
is
the most pertinent
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3
question asked an author at the outset of It
position.
echoed and re-echoed by
is
and reader upon
its
publication.
com critic
It certainly ap
pears to be a fair question whenever, the subjects
seem
much out
so
of the route of ordinary in
formation, as the present volume.
The
scattered records of the Past, within the
historical period,
enough material of any interest,
make
to to
yield scarcely
a short magazine article
say nothing of swelling in
the dignity of a book.
size, to
It
would apparently
now
is
scientists,
conceded, however, by our wisest
that
and corres
every configuration
ponding circumstance points to the
possibility of
the existence of an island continent in the neigh
borhood,
if
not directly over the great
West In
dian Archipelago, just as the whole configuration of the
North American Continent
tells
of the inland sea that broke through at
the
river,
Thousand and hurling
Islands in itself
the
St.
the story
its
barriers
Lawrence
over Niagara Falls,
left
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4 habitable
the
man
legacy to
The
valley
of
the
a
for future settlement.
sacred writings of
all
nations concur in the
same declaration and statement of portion of the earth,
disaster to
some
most generally including
In a late issue of Mind, appears an article
all.
headed: says
as
Mississippi,
"A
"A
:
Monument
to
which
Atlantis,"
notable discovery of more than ordinary
interest for historians, especially those
who have made
a leaning toward antiquities, has lately been
by the well-known archaeologist, Augustus Le
This discovery should particularly
Plongeon.
tract the attention of Americans, since
them
to lay claim to one of the
monuments the
of ancient times.
it
at
enables
most important
The
edifice in
ques
Pyramid of Xochicalo, standing 5,396
tion
is
feet
above the level of the
sea,
and situated
to the
south-southwest of Cuernavaca, 60 miles from the City of Mexico.
For more than a century the
pyramid has been occasionally guished
travelers,
visited
by
including the learned
distin
Hum-
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5
boldt; but none succeeded in discovering the pur
monument had been
pose for which the
nor
erected,
in deciphering the mysterious inscriptions
on
its sides.
As
far back as
1886, Dr.
lished his alphabetic key to the
Le Plongeon pub
Maya
hieroglyphs,
comparing
this
with the ancient Egyptian hieratic
alphabet.
He
has
the
now found
that the signs on
Pyramid of Xochicalo are both
Egyptian
;
Maya
and
and a careful study of these decorative
inscriptions has
made
it
him that the
plain to
pyramid was a monumental structure erected
commemorate the submergence and the great
Land
gether with
man
its
of
Mu
Atlantis), to
beings, about 11,500 years ago.
"Queen
then,
s
destruction of
population of 64,000,000 of hu
Dr. Le Plongeon,
four
(Plato
to
Moo
Maya is
in
his
remarkable work,
and the Egyptian
Sphinx,"
accounts of the same cataclysm.
the
fifth,
most important of
and, in his all
the
own
known
gives
This,
opinion, the
records in
Maya
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6
language of the appalling event that gave to the story of a universal in
Deluge that
is
rise
found
the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians
and the Mohammedans.
These
records, on stone, on sun-dried bricks, on
papyrus, all
know same
tell
the same story.
of the Aztecs fact.
is
The
also confirmatory of the
Whence came
the people of South
America, with their advanced civilization traditions of the Past?
cities
and
What mighty people built
the great cities and temples of the
covered
we
little
now
forest-
of Yucatain and Central America,
with their carved glyphs, and correspondencies
to
the hieroglyphs of the Valley of the Nile and the
East Indian entablatures; and moreover, on
most precisely similar those of
Egypt and India.
pose there
between
styles
all
Is
of architecture it
al
to
reasonable to sup
was no common bond of fellowship these?
The
Ancient Egyptian ideas
have dominated the world down to the present day.
Instead of a mummy-case,
we
use a coffin
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The
idea
7
the same
is
the de
parted ghost was to be saved the trouble of
new
ing a
mak
body, perhaps at short notice, at the
great day of the resurrection.
The
trinity in unity of
God, now universally
received,
was an Egyptian
wrought
into the stone tablets
idea,
and the same
which La Plon-
geon and his amiable wife have unearthed forests of the
the
If
feeble
in the
Maias and Quiches.
nation,
of
which these are but the
remnants, had not disappeared by some
cataclysmal climax
some
is
we must
later, historical data.
present generation sirous of
is
more
certainly have
As
the
mind
had
of the
largely than ever, de
Truth, the idea of Astral presentation
and perception may not be without especially as the books of
Wisdom
its
weight,
of the Past
declare, that automatic books of record are kept
of all deeds and manifestation, It
may
upon the
be asked, why, those
into the rest of the
earth.
who have
Unseen should be
entered
at all con-
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8
cerned in the unfoldment and development of the
who
race,
are ever toiling over the rocky paths of
the planet?
If the doctrine of re-incarnation
true, then would
coming Egos,
it
is
not be to the interest of the
for all the race of
vanced just as far as
men
to be ad
possible, so that the re-in
carnated from time to time, might receive the
advantage attainable, from their touch
highest
with the earth, at any particular time.
who if
Those
are coming back into the present civilization,
they were of the advanced and cultured classes
of Atlantis and the most ancient Egypt,
more advantages
find
of
acquirement,
would
through
our leisure and experience, than when hurled into life
amid the horrors and darkness of the Stone
Age.
From
time to time, the material and data ob
tained as hereinafter described, from which this
book as
is
made, has been pressed upon
something that would be of
to all
who
are seeking to
use,
my
attention,
and
KNOW.
I
interest
do not
OF ATLANTIS. doubt the authenticity of
g
information, nor
my
the statements given as facts, by those so kind
and courteous
mouthpiece
in
this
as to
make
re-collection
who were
the writer their of
the ancient
memories. I
do not doubt, that
come
to
many
readers,
fleeting glimpses of these scenes, as
had been part of them.
It
is
if
will
they
a conceded fact,
there have never been, since the fall of Atlantis, so
many
at the
re-incarnated Atlantians upon the earth
same time,
as
now.
This accounts for the
almost universal demand out of the Astral records for the forgotten
knowledge
they there recorded. ness of the public
the doctrines of
This
mind
which
also explains the readi
to receive
Mental Healing,
Theosophy, and occultism Ignatius
of the occult,
knowledge of Spiritualism,
in all its branches.
Donnelly finds a supporter of
.Atlantis theory in Sir
of the University of
his
Daniel Wilson, president
Toronto,
who
a great deal of search, that the
declares after
lost Atlantis
was
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io
not a myth, but that
it
continent of America.
was
He
really a part of the
accounts for
its
dis
appearance from view in a different way, but that is
merely incidental.
Donnelly
s
theory was that the land was sub
merged by some great volcanic upheaval, and that from those
who
escaped to the continents of
Europe and Asia came the
tradition of the deluge.
Sir Daniel rejects this explanation as being dis
proved by the fact that there are no traces of such volcanic action either on the continent or in the
ocean bed. tians, the
He
believes that the ancient
Egyp
most progressive and adventurous people
of ancient times,
discovered the continent, but
that in the decline both of their learning and
power,
it
became
lost to
view and existed
at the
time our knowledge of Egypt begins merely as a
shadowy It
is
tradition.
his opinion that traces of the
Egyptians
of those days are to be sought in the ruined cities
of Central America,
whose
origin has never been
n
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determined nor even been made the basis of any reasonable
theory.
Such
a
would
discovery
furnish a substantial basis for the legend of tHe
won
lost Atlantis
and the theory
derful
with a new interest for the an
ruins
invests those
tiquarians.
The
Louis Republic said:
St.
was
"Atlantis
a continent supposed to have existed at a very early period in the Atlantic Ocean, over against
the Pillars of
Hercules,"
but which was subse
quently sunk in a cataclysm of which history gives
no record.
account of
it,
information
whom
Plato
and he
is
is
said to
"Atlantis
was
a
gives an
have obtained
from some Egyptian
he had come in contact.
says:
who
the first
priests
Plato
continent
s
with
account
larger
Asia and Africa put together, and that at
his
its
than
west
ern extremity were islands which afforded easy
passage to a large continent lying this last
to be
mentioned continent being
South
America."
still
now
beyond supposed
Nine thousand years
be-
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12
.
fore the time of Plato, according to the tradition,
Atlantis
was a powerful,
which extended portion of as the
its
what
way
Tyrrhenian
over Africa and the major
now
is
thickly settled-county
Europe,
Sea."
Greeks.
efforts
of
the
to as far
Further progress of the
was checked by
invasion of the Atl an tides
combined
"even
Athenians
and
the
other
Shortly after the invaders were driven
from the continents of Europe and Africa
a great
earthquake shook Atlantis from center
to
cumference.
First,
the
islands
outlying
cir
sank;
Waves
then great areas of the mainland.
ran
mountain high across hundreds of square miles of
what had
the day before been
Great temples were racked and affrighted
populace climbed
riven,
fields.
and the
upon the ruins
escape the encroaching waters. day, after a night of terrors
fertile
On
to
the second
which no pen could
possibly describe, the earthquake shocks
were of
greatly increased violence, ending only after the entire continent
had been engulfed.
There
is
no
OF ATLANTIS. in history or tradition that records a
page
more absorbing
interest than a
work
voted to giving an account of what
entirely de
known con
is
it.
cerning
To
more
and nothing would be of
frightful catastrophe,
who
the objector
urges that the explorers
world have never discovered any traces of
of the
whose
the great city and continent,
endeavored to give mit
13
me
to give a
in
few straws
may
I
have
the following pages; per
of current literature, \vhich
tory of past ages
story
floating
show
on our sea
that the his
yet be read in the Central
part of our continent: recent report that a citizen of the United
"The
States has discovered
Mexican tallies
among
the mountains of the
State of Sinaloa a long-forgotten city
with a curious local tradition of the region.
Adjoining the State of Sinaloa on the south the State of Jallisco, and of this State,
jara
is
the capital.
Jallisco,
part
of
Living the
great
in the
Sierra
is
Guadala
mountains of
Madre
or
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14 "Mother
and
Range"
thence
that extends through Sinaloa
the
are
northward,
unconquered
Yaquis, a brown-haired people with light eyes
and almost
fair
Guadalajara
complexions.
only civilized town that these Yaquis it
is
visit,
the
and
has long been believed there that the Yaquis
Madre
fastnesses of the Sierra
only rich mines of
the
mountain
but as well the
silver,
No
of the Aztec race.
lost city
one has hitherto pierced
wilderness,
Yaquis have an
range conceal not
because
the
naked
effective system of passive resist
ance that has hitherto successfully closed the sole line of approach.
The
only
human
beings other
than the Yaquis themselves admitted to the tains of Jallisco are a
moun
few renegade Apaches, mur
derous wretches, vastly more dangerous to wouldbe
explorers
than
the
peaceful
but
persistent
Yaquis."
There
is
no question
have given attention
in the
to
the
minds
of those
who
that
the
subject,
Aztecs are the lineal descendants of the mighty
OF ATLANTIS. who
nation
know beyond
to
sought
Of
governing the created. above mentioned,
15
we add
the
the
law
unknown
city
another description from
a different source: "During
Mexico,"
to
said a
to
mining engineer of Philadelphia
an Inquirer reporter,
tact
made
the frequent visits I have
"I
have come
in
con
with many of the Indians resident there and
have heard some very
which
all
stories.
the Indians unite in telling,
in the interior exists
visited
singular
an enormous
by white men.
It
is
is
city,
that far
never yet
described as peopled
by a race similar to the ancient Aztecs, sun worshipers and offer
One
human
who
are
sacrifices to their
deity. "The
race
civilization, full
of
is
said
to be
in
a high state of
and the Indians say that the
city
is
huge structures which are miracles of
quaint but beautiful architecture, and are situated
on broad paved
streets,
the City of Mexico.
far surpassing those of
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16 "One
had seen the
own
eyes,
and had but,
all
I
Indian,
assured
recollect,
and
city
me
that he
inhabitants with his
its
but had been afraid of being captured
Of
fled.
course,
the same,
it
the accounts of the
I
did not believe him,
not a
is
Mexican
little
strange that
Indians, relative to
the mysterious and magnificent, interior city agree perfectly."
These are but of many
of the allusions
ditions pointing to the fact,
the Southwest, there
is
that
and tra
somewhere
in
who undoubtedly
a people
hold a complete historical record of the chain of events from Atlantis in
While
present day. city
inhabited
and
world of to-day dom, we yet
its
there
is
down
prime,
to the
perhaps but a single
secluded
from the outside
as keepers of the
find ruins of such
Ancient
magnitude
Wis as to
impress us more strongly with the idea that the people
who
not have nent.
builded the original structures, could
w holly
The
r
disappeared
from
this
Conti
following from San Diego, Cal.,
we
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17
offer in proof, calling attention to the fact that
the dragon
sculptures "The
is
a favorite design in the East Indian
:
ruins of a prehistoric city have just been
Yurna
discovered by a party of prospectors from
the Colorado desert in search of the
when on
Pegleg mine.
The wind had
laid bare the walls
a distance
and the remains of the stone buildings of
420
feet
Gigantic
dragons
in
length
pillars,
heads
by 260
quaintly
and
carved
rattlesnakes,
width.
in
feet
to still
represent
stood
in
the sands of the desert, supporting on their tops slabs of granite
huge frieze
weighing many
The
tons.
ornamentation resembled Egyptian sculp
tures and exhibited a greater degree of skill than is
possessed by the Indian artisans of the present
day.
Fragments of pottery were found underneath
the debris, and together with the crumbled piece of frieze this
city.
were brought by one
One
of
his
of the party, to
associates
Diego and the others returned
to
came
Yuma,
to
San
nearly
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i8
two weeks
ago.
But the
story of their discovery
was
carefully guarded, in the hope that in
way
they might profit by
"The
discoverers, in
some
it.
company with four
others,
afterwards went to the desert to explore the ruins.
They were
driven back by a sand storm, reaching
this city to-day,
but will make a careful exam
ination of the ruins in the season ditions are favorable
From
the con
for extensive explorations.
the relics exhibited
important
when
it
archeaeological
is
evident that an
has
discovery
been
made."
In connection with the above, there liarity
be noticed
to
sand storm.
It has
in
to
always been
so.
A
storm or off all ef
reach these wonderful remains of the
prehistoric,
men
a pecu
the occurrence of the
some sudden natural event has warded forts
is
or even
the existing
cities.
shall be ready to seek them, desiring
edge and not treasure, there
is
When knowl
no doubt the keys
for the unlocking of the mysteries of the Past,
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19
worthy hands and what we
have herein written will receive ample corroboration.
We
add
another account of wonder
still
discovery in proof of the immense popula
ful
tion of the old Atlantian
This time,
it
center of the
is
kingdom
in its prime.
from the City of Mexico, the
modern Atlantian or Aztec
civiliza
tion: "What
appears to be the verification of an old
Aztec fable of a buried race of cave-dwellers and a hidden city in southwestern in
which the
present.
Mexico
scientists
local
are
is
a matter
interested
L. P. Leroyal, a French engineer,
at
who
has lived long in this republic, has just arrived
form the wilds of the Southwest and reported that he has discovered in the State of Guerrero a
huge natural
cave,
greatest in Mexico, it is
much
if
which he
believes to be the
not in the world.
He
says
larger than the famous cavern of Caca-
huamilpa, situated some distance south of Guernavaca, which has hitherto been supposed to be
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20
the largest natural cave in existence in Mexico.
Mr.
Leroyal, after penetrating a considerable dis
tance into the cave, determined to
ough investigation
of
it,
make
a thor
and accordingly a few
days ago furnished himself with food sufficient
provided himself with lanterns,
for a day,
and
set
out upon his task
etc.,
As he went
all alone.
along he made a thorough plan of the cave, but did
not
arduous
anticipate as
was
task
his
At
proved.
it
of the cave
that
the
would be
first,
so
the bottom
downward, then
a gradual slope
changed upward and afterward alternated for the
most part between descents and
and
there,
how ever,
was met.
r
The
a level
height
of
ascents.
Here
bottom of great width the
cave varied,
some places
as
might naturally be expected;
in
was
For some distance
several
hundred
feet high.
it
from the entrance no trace of human beings was found.
Occasionally magnificent stalactites and
stalagmites, the finest
were met with.
Mr. Leroyal had
ever seen,
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21
proceeding for some hours he came upon
what had evidently been an ancient cemetery, there were at least
400
with ancient
etc.
idols,
petrified bodies, together
There was
as
two or three
skulls,
Some
this
of the tools, as well
now
distance
his
was not
of
at
twenty-one
leagues that he thought
it
the distance
still
to
had traveled a
and
one-half
time to call a halt and
proceed on his return journey. see
shake
Mr. Leroyal con
until after he
least
to
while hour after hour
explorations
It
The
hundreds of years was grew-
the nerves of the explorer.
passed.
this city.
extreme and well calculated
in the
tinued
in
charnel house thus lighted up
for the first time for
some
foun
Mr. Leroyal brought away
with him, and they are appearance of
also a
water which was
tain of beautiful clear spring
found to be excellent.
as
So far as he could
be traversed might be
very considerable, with the chances for the cave
opening out, as the floor seemed by
human
feet.
to be well
trodden
Fie retraced his steps as speedily
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22 as possible,
and after being underground for up
ward
of twenty-four hours, found himself once
more
at the entrance of the cave.
promised to make further long.
It
Mr. Leroyal before
explorations
expected that a party fully equipped
is
for the exploration of this
wonderful cavern of
the dead, will soon be fitted out under the guid
ance of the discoverer, and the outcome of the investigations will be awaited with interest.
natives of the locality,
in
as,
The
the Indian
fact,
population in general, in Mexico, believe that at
some place near the southwestern coast there
Mexico
a great white city with countless
exists
treasure
of
which has never been seen by white men,
and the approach
to
which
is
so
intricate
and
cleverly concealed that a stranger has never en
tered
its
With
solitary all
precincts."
the increasing mass of information on
the subject, at collection
it
seems there should be some effort
under guidance, of what
about Atlantis the Mighty.
To make
is
known
a beginning
OF ATLANTIS. and thus
answer
call
attention in
the
to
question:
this
23
direction
"Why
this
my
is
book
is
written."
ATLANTIAN MEMORIES. Out
of the
dim
From where As
Past, old
memories come
the light in all
the people worshiped
its
to
me;
glory seemed to be,
near the Sun
s
resplendent
rays
And
lotus-crowned hailed with joy the festal days.
Golden
lyres,
sending forth
rich,
Sounding the key-note, which o
harmonious er
strains
the world
still
reigned.
High above
all,
the Vestal
s
song enchanting soars,
Mingling with the ripples on the wave-washed shores.
From
the
Temple
floats the bell s
So deep and mellow
melodious chimes,
in that old Atlantian time.
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24
Throughout the Ages, linger these old memories
And hover round me Still in
my
heart
is
with no effort of
my
still
will.
throbbing with the rythm of the
waves,
Those slumbering waves which,
became our
alas,
graves.
Again,
I
hear the glad hozannas to the Sun
Isis in the sanctuary, is veiled
Which
from human
arise.
eyes,
read no warning in the skies celestial hue
Nor heard
it
murmured
in the
;
Ocean calm and blue
Neither listened to the whispering wind so
;
free,
Telling of the doom, fair Atlantis was to see.
I
am
thankful that the gates of
memory
ope,
That great Angels weave the scattered threads of hope
And
clothe us freshly with
While on our
The
its
robes of
snowy white
altar shines again the mystic light,
radiant star, which once o er Egypt shone.
Glimmers once again, with a message
all its
Humble
is
The
tho the Temple, the melody
bell s
Amid
sweet chiming breaks upon the
own.
there, silent air,
the incense rising from our sacred Shrine,
Old Atlantian glories round our
spirits twine.
;
CHAPTER
is
and THERE
yet a little
II.
more
of the flotsam
jetsam upon the stormy waves of
human unfoldment which mental tailed
two old
to
supple
is
our opening chapter, and must be de
now
or put entirely to one side.
distinct sources,
Mexican
we
city that has
the foot of a white
From
give an account of an
never been entered by
man and which was known
to
be in existence long before the Spanish Conquest "Mr.
Juan Alvarez, who has
from an exploring expedition
:
just returned
in the southwestern
part of the republic, reports that he has found a
which has never been entered by a white
city
man, and which has evidently been for
existence
hundreds of years, going back before the time
of the conquest of the country It
in
is
an old Aztec
city,
by the Spaniards.
and the approaches to
it
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26
are so guarded by nature that to reach
an impossibility
it is
the inhabitants do not
it if
want a
trav
eler to get in.
The tains
city lies in the
almost inaccessible
the extreme southwestern
in
country and
is
so far
away from
few white men have ever been hood.
It
was by
tc
reach
city
and after he found it
part of the
civilization that in the
neighbor
the purest accident that Alvarez
became aware that a vicinity,
moun
was anywhere it,
all of his
the
in
endeavors
were unavailing on account of the
persistent opposition of the natives.
He
had been traveling over the mountains
search of an outlet to the Pacific
came
to the top of
in
Ocean when he
an elevated plateau and crossed
to the further edge.
He
had a magnificent view,
and while looking over the country, saw what he took to be houses in a far distant valley. inspection with a glass convinced
A
close
him that what
he saw was really a collection of houses, and he at once set about reaching the place to see
who
OF ATLANTIS.
27
lived in that part of the country.
After days of hard work climbing over
cliffs
and mountains, he reached a point from which he obtained a good view of the city and saw that it
was regularly
pled
The
r
flowers and shrubs.
shown by
and was peo
something about
houses were of stone and were
surrounded by yards,
of taste
in streets
w ho knew
with a race
civilization.
out
laid
which were growing
in
On
all sides
were evidences
the inhabitants, and
it
was
evi
dent that he had found a city which was not
known "A
to the outside
w orld. r
careful examination of the country
him that the
city
was
showed
located within a natural
amphitheater and was accessible from one side only.
He saw
that the only
through a long and narrow
of access
was
which led
into
means defile
the mountains from the Pacific coast side, and he started to reach the place, this entrance.
the city as
it
He made
where he could
find
an outline drawing of
appeared to him from the distant
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28
mountain there
is
for he
this
he has to show that
is all
a city within the heart of the mountains,
was never allowed this
"From
not
and
top,
drawing
to reach the spot.
it is
plain that the city has
than four thousand inhibitants.
less
The
all
of stone and are supplied with doors
and windows.
In the center was a large building,
houses are
which was undoubtedly the temple for
on
of worship,
walls could be seen sculptured designs
its
representing the Deity.
was
It
in the
shape of
the ancient teocalli, which are to be found in
many
parts of this country, and the people could
be seen passing in and out of
it
during
all
hours of
the day. "After
ten days
the
himself
at
western
slope,
arduous work Alvarez found of
foot
and
set
canyon leading to the
marked the
the
mountains on
about searching for the city.
He
had so well
lay of the land that he
culty in finding the entrance, but he
a band of Indians
who
the
refused to let
had no
diffi
was met by him proceed.
OF ATLANTIS. him no
offered
They
He
should return.
29
violence, but insisted that he
told
them that he had come
know how
over the mountains and did not find his
back.
way
"After
to
was
a consultation, he
would
told he
have to remain awhile as a prisoner, and two runners were sent into the mountains,
who
re
turned in a day with orders from some one in authority,
and
Alvarez
was
blindfolded
He
placed on the back of a mule. this
condition
for
three
bandage removed from
On
days,
traveled in
only having the
his eyes at night.
the fourth day, he
was
when
so,
bandage, and
and
he did
told to
remove
his
he found himself on
the borders of the Pacific Ocean.
The
Indians
had gone, leaving him with nothing to guide him back to the place where he had seen the
This of
city
is
America,"
the body,
We
described in full in
and has been
who have
city."
"Future
visited
Rulers
by persons
in
been permitted so to do.
conclude our extracts with the description
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30
of another mighty city, the
work
of the powerful
nation whose capital, located on the great island of Atlantis, exercised
its
power both East and
West, of which we are trying "The
to tell:
American archaeologists who went
the recently discovered city in the Sierra
Mountains have returned, and hidden city
The
city.
five
tell
of
Madre another
Spanish leagues north of the
leader of the party, C.
W.
first
Pantion,
were
of Philadelphia, says that these cities
to
evi
dently twin capitals of a wealthy district long before the Aztecs appeared.
The two
rock,
and
these passages
it
of
was while exploring one
of
that the second
was
discovered.
It lies in a deep basin of the mountains, exit
are
hewn out
connected by underground passages solid
cities
except the underground
tunnel.
with no
At
least
none has been found.
To
that
which we have thus drawn from
accessible sources in the visible,
I
now
all
desire to
add supplementary testimony from the Astral
OF ATLANTIS. which
Records,
believe
I
to
31
be
and
reliable
worthy of credence.
Does not in
this collated evidence of the similarity
nature and civilization west of the great
city,
which could not possibly have had commerce with the mother-country for centuries, prove conclu
even to the
sively,
a
common
realistic
and
scientific
mind,
origin for religious teachings, customs,
languages, both oral and written?
All the dis
coveries relative to this subject, confirm this con
We
clusion.
are indebted to those
who
and know.
pelled by an irresistible desire to learn
Who, selves;
are im
in this cause are willing to expatriate
them
endure danger and overcome obstructing
difficulties, if
they
may but by some chance
ance, bring again to the light of day,
some of the
various records, which were left
w hen
the manifested spiritual world
went down
r
guid
the sun of into
the shuddering earth?
To
the
Aryan
heart, there
is
people,
much
who
listen
with a willing
that can be given concerning
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32
this ancient city.
and Religion whether
It
matters
little
which
shall accept that
in a scientific
is
Science offered,
way, or from the unseen as Science and Religion have
true and of value.
new upon
never received anything of thought, until
how
untried lines
they have been forced to the
exception.
That
why
is
the priests, of all ages, are so con
servative and have withheld so
much more than
they should, even on their conservative line of
thought.
It has ever
been their rule, to hold fast
upon that of which they had become possessed; content and
satisfied
exertion of seeking the
admitting
without the trouble and
new
fields for themselves,
possibility
of
broadening
or
truth,
for others.
All that has ever been learned, to distinguish the savage from civilization
wise
men
upon the at
of Atlantis.
was known
Whenever
earth, a sufficient
number
to the
there has been of Atlantians,
one time to control a nation, or to form one by
OF
ATLAN9S$&^*
33
themselves, that nation or epoch has always ex
In the days
perienced a most wonderful growth. of the last Egyptian splendor,
school to which the Greeks and for instruction,
was
when
it
Romans
was
the
resorted
the last time noted in history
numbers
of such a re-appearance in sufficient
admit of a national control.
What
to
we
they did,
have the pyramids; the Temple of Karnac; and the mighty ruins of the Nile and the Euphrates
all
in evidence.
As soon were
the
sufficiently
Atlantians, the
as
Anglo-Saxon speaking races
developed out of savagery, the
commenced
whole world ever and anon, with
strides
startling
re-appearing,
their great
toward wisdom and knowledge,
as
they
slowly paved the
way by conquest and
for the settlement
and re-occupation of that which
discovery,
belonged to them; and for the utilization of their old resources,
under new conditions of added
strength and experience.
we
all
In no other
way can
account for the wilting and extermination of
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34
the red-skinned usurpers,
nor strength to maintain
who had title to
neither claim
that into
which
they had strayed by accident during the temporary
absence of the real owners.
Much
sympathy has been wasted on the red
He
son of the forest.
Who
cannot dominate the resources of the en
vironment must yield
much would our agricultural
ment,
has but obeyed the law:
if
title to
How
him who can.
vast storehouses of mineral and
wealth have helped
man
they had never been used?
s
unfold-
The
differ
ence between the American Indian and the Anglo-Saxon-Atlantian,
is
plain to the dullest intel
lect.
As
the city of Atlantis grew, her population
was drawn
off into colonies
abiding influence on the
which had deep and
whole of the Western
continent, but especially centering along the belt in
which Atlantis
itself
was
located.
Between the fading away civilization,
of the last Egyptian
and the concealment of the world
s
OF ATLANTIS. records at that time, there
which can be accounted
When
Atlantis
was
units in the world
were not so on
in the
is
for
a mysterious gap,
only in one way.
category of nations which
s
If Atlantis
even tenor of her way,
all
cut
they
off,
When
when
this
its
light,
own
and
stand
chance of development was
this
groped
class
had held
other nations
would have received the
been uplifted to something near point, but
were other
in its prime, there
far advanced.
of the world
35
in
comparative
of people incarnated
darkness.
again in
force of numbers, such scenes as the conquest of
Rome of
by the Goths and Vandals
;
the overrunning
Europe by the Huns, and the eruption of the
Tartars,
occurred.
times without number,
they disappeared from the mortal vision,
we
As can
but recognize their sameness of purpose, and the
most pertinent
fact that
this trouble for the
their
comrades and
the lesson that no
undone duty made
all
Atlantians of the Far Past, associates.
human
being
Have we is
learned
separate from
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36
A
ourselves? It
is
wrong once done must be
righted.
the eternal law of exact justice.
As
these misbegotten impedimenta to progress
pass out
put off
into
all
unseen, having overborne or
the
heads that towered above their own,
intellectually, Atlantian influence revives.
by
little
have these
"fellows
of
Little
ignorance,"
the uplifting of influence of the
"sons
of
felt
light"
and every generation increases the widening wave of educated and spiritualized people, which finally include within
people of the earth tants.
s
it
every nation, tongue, or
full
The American
must
complement of inhabi
nation has done a vast .
deal for the enlightenment of the whole world.
Thus
it is
easy to understand
ing power of
all
why
the extinguish
that holds the soul in chains
is
projected toward us.
In the ancient times, tion
when
the
lamp
burned at Rome, and Athens, or
Antioch and other
of civiliza later, as at
cities; single centers of learn
ing blazed out and lessened the darkness as do
OF ATLANTIS. beacon lights
set
on a
But with
hill.
pare the events of to-day. nationality, its
felt
felt
Yet
it
off
from easy ap
make
has been able to
Not only
it
American nation and
common
its
is
power
unites
the its
civilization
its
power
Although the
has this nation
everywhere, but
push the
com
compact, unified
throughout the whole world.
spected.
these
which resembles the old Atlantis, had
English name be detested,
to
A
beginning on an island, cut
proach.
37
is
always re
made
itself
founder of the force with that,
and thought cur
rents into every part of the globe.
The freedom
of
the
thought-body,
aptitude of the minds engendered
and the
thereby,
has
once more drawn to the American continent more Atlantians than were ever incarnated at one time, since the fall of that city. their inventions
It thus
happens that
and knowledge and wisdom and
the results of thought-force, modified fected by the assimilation of
devachanic
rest,
is
and per
hundreds of years
coming upon the nation
in
in a
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38 as
flood,
with outstretched hands they demand
from the Silence that which they themselves de posited in the Astral records long ages since.
We way
often
wonder
at events transpiring in the
of discoveries, or at the applications of prin
ciples
which are perfectly
We
upon another. and begun
logical,
and linked one
have surely reached a point
to guess about the uses
and methods of
application of that vehicle of force about
the Atlantians
knew much, and
which
know
desiring to
more, found there was a limit which barred their
We
further progress.
we
another, and
already have hold upon
desire only that they
essay to advance in this direction,
body, soul and
mind
who may
may do
so
with
so purified, they will not need
the reprimand of obstruction, that
came
the
to
original investigators of our nation on that line.
The
reason
why
this
others of the near past, stated.
We
age is
is
so celebrated above
due
to the facts thus
perceive in the near future, as has
been repeatedly foretold* the end of a cycle
is
at
OF ATLANTIS. hand. in
39
Cataclysmic results; the sinking of land
some places; and the
When
minent.
cities
rising in others,
peculiarly
crowded with inhabitants, who have
own
ception of everything but their
im
is
are
situated lost all
con
desires cen
tering in selfish purpose, their thought vibrations
become inharmonious with the universal thought vibrations.
enough
to
which the
If this
inharmony continues strong
communicate
the ground upon
itself to
city stands, this foundation being sub
ject also, to a set of vibrations
of
plane
Liquidity,
serious
upon the natural
consequences
may
occur.
Just what the outcome of the present period will be
none but the Council of the Seven Great
But
Builders know.
That within
much waves.
a
we
have gathered:
years,
and possibly a
this
hundred
shorter time, Atlantis will be above the
Whatever her monuments
whatever may be be investigated.
in her ruined
contain,
or
temple can then
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40
Within 500 years the bulk
of population will
be south of the equator; that which will
now
sea,
become dry land, and the old continent
Lamuria
will once
inhabitants. fixed
is
when
mined.
more
Scientists all
How
sustain
its
millions of
us that the time
tell
of
is
the gold, silver and coal will be short-sighted
!
Under
the sea
is
a
thousand-fold more than has ever been brought to light
by
man
s
busy hands.
CHAPTER
III.
the early seventies, having by constant and
IN severe
attention
when
point
sea voyage. of
mine
owner.
I
mentioned
New York
in
He
offered
this
City,
me
fact
"around
and occupation for the
My
a vessel
it
gave
sail for
I
Horn."
me
gladly
San ac
both motive
trip.
preparations were made
sailed out of
to a friend
the position of super
the
cepted the chance, for
to take a
who was
cargo in one of his vessels about to Francisco,
a
and change were imper
was advised by my physician
I
ative,
rest
reached
business
to
New York
rapidly.
Harbor on
We
the I5th of
June, 1872.
As
the last lighthouse sank slowly beneath the
waves, and the full
moon
rose in the heavens, I
stood watching the receding land marks,
little
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42
dreaming of the momentous events
to
happen
as
a part of the voyage, nor of the marvelous revealings to
come
my
to
should again touch
my
knowledge,
before
I
Of
all
upon land.
foot
these the following pages are but a feeble por
But
trayal.
part,
it
is
come and
always so
in life,
The
go.
we meet and the
consequence of
meeting and the pain of the parting may be expressible in spoken language
know? ly
Who
oncoming
will
tell,
or
future, with
;
but
warn its
how
in
we
shall
us, of the swift
burden of weal or
woe?
As our
vessel
was devoted
to freight, we, as I
knew, carried but a single passenger, who by pecial favor of the
owner had been permitted
occupy the one spare cabjn. space
was occupied by
cluding myself.
I
man, when he had ing in
at that
The
rest
of
to
the
the officers of the ship, in
had been introduced first
moment,
to
this
come on board, but be
much preconcerned about
hand
es
I
the business
I
had
had simply responded
OF ATLANTIS.
45
with the usual meaningless phrase of: to
make your
an
afterwards
But
acquaintance."
of
impression
I
"Happy
remembered
dignity
bear
of
on his part; ing; of sweetness of real courtesy
and that peculiar, indescribable
thrill
we
as
shook hands, which once or twice in a lifetime, it
be our good fortune to experience, as the
may
lines of
our
lives cross
sential to our highest
with those
who
are es
and best unfolding.
the Standing thus, leaning meditatively over tafrrail,
I
came back
name pronounced voice,
to
myself by hearing
distinctly,
with just the slightest
Looking around,
I
in
a low,
my
musical
foreign
accent.
acknowledged the address, as
he went on to say: "I
see
you are leaving part of yourself behind
you."
"Oh,
not a large
part,"
I replied,
"but
I
was
the thinking about the certainty of parting and
uncertainty of "Don t
meeting."
you think that
we
part forever from
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44
we have
our friends, only when or finished
that
all
we
accomplished
can do for each
we
So long as our work remains undone
meet
certainly "Yes,"
human
shall
again?"
I said,
"that
uncertainty that
Looking
other.
full at this
be
may
so,
but
it
is
the
saddens."
man,
whom, with
to
his
every word, I was most indescribably attracted, I
saw a
from that time
picture,
Eyes black, while
proportioned. narily
in
their ordi
kind expression, one might easily imag
ine their possibilities,
when
honest indignation or
righteous anger stirred their depths.
beard white, and worn a
tom
stamped
Tall, and almost perfectly
my memory.
upon
indelibly
prescribed.
little
Hair and
longer than cus
His bearing was majestic
in
strength; serene in harmony; attractive beyond
compare
in
others.
With
sion, in all if
its
he
unselfish all
said,
this,
desire for the
there
he could
tell
good of
was an impres very
much more
he only would, about any subject concerning
OF ATLANTIS.
45
which he might be conversing.
was such a
It
drels
hate,
face as children love
containing within
tenderness of a mother
s
the pitying
itself
love and a father
In
taining watchfulness.
and scoun
our
sus
s
I
interview,
passed from the outermost border of casual ac
confident
quaintance to the
sworn I
am
At
friendship.
this,
championship
too, I
of
marveled, for
slow to receive or offer friendship, but
come slowly be, in those
the
to
perception of
who honor me with
Although we
stood
some
what might
their
little
good
will.
time longer
gazing upon the ocean, as the night and waters
met
in closer
and
still
closer embrace,
we
lapsed
into silence, with that strange feeling of being
company and
said,
for each other, although finally
we
no word was
descended to our respective
cabins for the night.
As
my inal,
is
usual with the position which I held,
duties during the voyage
making up
were almost nom
for this leisure, however, during
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46
the receiving or discharging of the cargo or any
Consequently
part.
had
I
sufficient
time to im It
prove the acquaintance so curiously begun. did not take long to find out that
my
a zealous, unremitting student, and
we were
familiar with
there
terest,
lines of
others, in
which
of
versed,
were
many
was
friend
that while
common
in
which he was well
knew comparatively noth
I
ing.
He was
talker
and readily and gladly answered
a very eloquent and instructive
my
ques
tions.
Especially
was
this true of things in the past,
which the present generation has moved on and and a peculiarity of
forgotten,
was
that they
were given
ences of his own. first it
seemed that
and movement
As
Later it
I
as
if
his
descriptions
personal experi
knew why, but
was done
to give
at the
more
life
to the story.
a child I had always been fascinated with
whatever
I
had chanced upon,
either in reading
or conversation which related to Atlantis.
But
OF ATLANTIS. as
I
grew
older,
ideas of the
gard the
enveloped in the materialistic
modern that
little
47
schools,
had come
I
was known
mistress of the seas as largely
to re
of that ancient if
not
been out from port four or
five
fabulous,
wholly unworthy of credence.
we had
After days,
we
as
sat
chatting on
the quarter deck,
me
something was said which induced
to
ask
him the question squarely: you believe there ever was such a coun
"Do
try as
Atlantis?"
"Most
certainly,"
was
his
quiet,
decisive an
swer. "But
you do not think
it
possible that a
whole
continent could disappear so utterly beneath the
waves
more
as
that
trace of
the case with "And
why
is
its
said
to
have done, leaving no
former existence than has been
that?"
does this seem impossible to you?
know anything
Does
history
stood
under ancient Troy.
of
the
Who
city
that
knows who
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48
were the builders or what the design
Pyramids of Egypt?
Who
can
tell
the
of
of the cities
lying strata upon strata in the valley of the Nile?
own
In your
Mound
of the
know
country,
Builders?
who
can
What
tell
anything
does the world
of Palmyra, of Babylon, or of the great
cities in
But
for
would by
this
the Valley of the Euphrates?
the accessibility of their ruins, they
time have been as thoroughly forgotten as lantis
now
"And,"
ite
pity,
is."
here his face softened with an infin
"perhaps
we may have
within forty years from
to hear
now
another lesson in the opportunity
for denying the existence of the "But
At
maybe,"
he continued,
past."
"you
would
like
some of the actual records brought down
even to your day, of an event that concerns so intimately
every
living
person
now upon our
planet."
Upon my
eager assent he went into his cabin
and soon returned with a small black-letter
vol-
OF ATLANTIS. ume, written after the
style of the
parchment, from right to
left.
49 Far East, upon
Opening
it
he
read in his sweetly modulated tones, translating as he read, the following extract:
Facing the Pillars of Hercules was an island larger than Africa and side
this
main
island
smaller ones, so that
one
to
Europe put together. Be there it
were
was easy
many
other
to cross
from
another as far as the further continent.
This land was indeed a continent, and the sea
was Sea"
the real ocean in comparison to which of the Greeks
w as r
"The
but a bay with a narrow
mouth. "In
the Atlantic island a powerful federation
of Kings island
and
was formed, who subdued the larger
itself
and many of the smaller islands
also parts of the
further continent.
They
also reduced Africa within the Straits as far as
Egypt, and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. ther
aggression,
Far
however, was stopped by the
heroic action of the then inhabitants of Attica,
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50
who, taking the lead of the oppressed
States,
who dwelt
within
finally secured liberty to
the
Hercules.
Pillars of
were destroyed
laces
all
mighty
by
which brought destruction night.
were
The
both
Subsequently,
in
cataclysms,
a single day and
natural features of the Attic land
changed and the Atlantic island
entirely
sank bodily beneath the waves. "In
fair
and beautiful
plain
a
and nearly
low range of
plain.
six miles
or Atlantis.
sons,
hood.
the
this
from
was
its
Here dwelt
hills.
the whole island and sea
the
In the center of confines
for
The
ruling Kings
succession
of
power
ever to
cure hereafter. all
their
younger sons going into the
They were
whom
were named Atlantic handed eldest priest
possessed of such wealth as
no dynasty ever yet obtained or will
from
many gen
renowned race of Atlan, from
erations the
down
was a
the center of the Atlantic Island
easily pro
This wealth was drawn both
foreign nations with
whom
the Atlan-
OF ATLANTIS. and from Atlantis
tians traded
rich
especially
only
in
minerals,
known mines
a mineral with
which was
itself,
and
possessed
the
of orichalcum in the world,
most wonderful and inexhaustible
a metal which
properties
51
was then second only
to gold in its value.
country was rich also
"The
pasturage.
timber and
Moreover, there were vast numbers
of elephants, spices,
every description tables
in
of all
gums and odorous
flowers, fruit trees
;
kinds,
plants of
and vege
and many other luxurious
ow
products which this wonderful Continent, ing to
its
beneficent
These were nite in
climate,
brought
sacred, beautiful, curious
number.
Nor were
forth.
and
infi
the inhabitants con
tent with simply the natural advantages of their
glorious country, but also displayed a marvelous
industry
and
structive arts.
skill
in
engineering and the con
For, in the center of the island
they built a royal palace, every succeeding trying to surpass his predecessor in
King
adorning and
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52
adding to the building, so that
it
struck
all
be
holders with the greatest admiration. "They
cut about the Royal Palace a series of
waterways or at
intervals,
canals.
These were bridged over
while an immense canal admitted
the largest vessels from the sea, giving at once
protection as a harbor, and
making
more con
it
venient for the transportation of freight to and
from the
streams they
where
left
docks cut out of the solid rock
their triremes could land their cargoes.
"The
colors,
In fashioning their interior
interior.
stone used in their building
was
white, black and red, so that
of three
many
the buildings presented a gay appearance.
of
Their
walls were covered witii brass (which they used like plaster),
tin
and orichalcum, which had a
glittering appearance. "Northeast
of
the center of the
stood the great Temple.
The
Continent,
interior
was cov
ered with silver, except the pediments and pin nacles,
which were
lined
with gold.
Within,
the roof
OF ATLANTIS.
53
was a magnificent mosaic
of gold, ivory
and orichalcum, and
all walls,
pillars
and pave
ments were covered with orichalcum. "By
tural
a system of aqueducts leading from na
springs of hot and cold water, they had
supplies for baths,
and for the irrigation of
their
beautiful plantations and gardens. "The
docks were
with
filled
naval stores of every description at
that time.
The whole
dense population.
city
The main
shipping
known
to
and
men
teemed with a
canal and largest
harbor were crowded with merchant shipping re turned from, or making ready to parts their
of
the
world.
The
commerce continued
night through as well.
sail
din and
all
Such
for,
all
tumult of
day long, and the is
a general sketch
of their wonderful city. "Now,
as regards the rest of the
country;
was very mountainous with exceedingly
it
precipi
tous coasts, and the plain surrounding the city
was
itself
environed by a mountain chain broken
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54
The
only at the sea entrance.
and
level
plain
was smooth
and of an oblong shape, lying North
The mountains were
and South.
said to be the
grandest in the world for their number, size and beauty.
The whole
country was a constant suc
cession of prosperous
there
and wealthy
was an abundance of
meadows and pasturage
rivers
for all
and quantities of timber.
villages,
and
for
lakes,
kinds of cattle
They surrounded
this
plain with an enormous canal or dike, 101
feet
deep,
By
it
606
feet
broad and 1,250 miles in length.
the water from the mountains
was con
ducted around the whole plain, and while a part flowed out to the
sea,
the rest
They were
for irrigation.
able,
was husbanded by raising two
crops a year, to double their productive capacity. "In
the polity
of
the Atlantians the Kings
maintained an autocracy and the priesthood were their council State,
until
of consultation in at
last
the
hands of the priesthood.
all
matters
power passed
into
of
the
OF ATLANTIS. "For
many
generations, the rulers,
For they possessed true and altogether
ditions.
and exercised mildness and practical
ideas
wisdom, both
in the
and
mutual
in
their
ordinary vicissitudes of relations.
above everything except virtue. ered
King and
remained obedient to their ancestral tra
priest
lofty
5$
things
present
of
small
life
They
looked
They
consid
importance,
and
contentedly bore their weight of riches as a bur
Nor were
den.
they
intoxicated
with luxury,
but clearly perceived that wealth and possessions are increased by mutual friendship and the prac tice
of true virtue
;
whereas, by a too anxious
pursuit of riches the possessions themselves are
corrupted and friendship also perishes therewith.
Thus
it
was they reached
prosperity "But
we have
when,
the great height
of
described.
at the last,
their mortal natures
began seeking to dominate and override the Di vine within to display
and about them, they commenced
unbecoming conduct, and
to degener-
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56 ate;
thus blighting and finally
fairest of their "This,"
said
most valuable
my
friend,
possessions."
"is
history, for
to son in
was
it
authentic an
as
account as that of any nation of
any
the
destroying
whom we
was handed down from
have
father
the ancient Atlantian writing, which
perfected
about 25,000
years
before
the
Christian era commenced.
Just then some duty claimed
immediate
my
attention and as he rose up to return to his cabin
he looked I
me
fully in the face
mistake not, the time
is
and remarked:
close at
hand when
your desire for information on these be more fully gratified.
"If
lines
will
CHAPTER
IV.
was a day or two before we had
IT any more conversation, very busy like
an ancient
in his
own
map and
along that verify
seemed to be
cabin with what looked
a
of cabalistic calculations, nized, for I
for he
a chance for
number
which
I
of diagrams fully
recog
had some experience with researches line,
and could,
to a certain extent,
some of the simpler rules of deductions
from the Caballa. ations
But, as
I
could
see,
the oper
upon which he was engaged were very
complex and far reaching and concerned some of the mightiest secrets of planetary creation. I
also noticed while the problems
seemed very
abstruse and complicated, he did not seem at a loss
in
any
sense,
or puzzled.
being the result rather of process.
the
His absorption length
of
the
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58
At able
last
he appeared to have reached a favor
and
conclusion
a
and memoranda
data
Once more he came upon
were put away. Although for
his
deck.
few days he apparently put aside
a continuation of his former talk about Atlantis,
was an
yet there
uplifted expression of content,
lending an added charm to the ever-restful dig nity of the perfect face.
While he had been thus busy to
me
I
had an odd volume
in
had occurred
it
my
picked up in a second-hand
stall
tending to examine
my
leisure.
I
brought
ing
my
interest
it
at
aroused
locker
in
I
had
Boston, in
Now, hav it
out and
found among much that was quite discursive, the following pertinent paragraphs: "The
fourth
Continent,
which
it
has
been
agreed to call Atlantis, was formed by the coal escence of
many
upheaved
in the
islands
and peninsulas that were
ordinary course of evolution and
became ultimately the true home of the great race
known
as the Atlantians,
a race developed
OF ATLANTIS.
59
from a nucleus of Northern Lemurians, generally speaking,
tered,
land
tis
in
what
is
now
towards
cen
a point
of
the mid-Atlantic Ocean.
"In
connection with the Continent of Atlan
we
should bear in mind that the account which
come down
has
us
to
Greek
through the old
writers contains a confusion of statements, some
them referring
of
to
the great Continent as a
whole, and others to the Posidonis.
Plato,
last,
for instance,
small island of
condensed
the
whole history of the Continent of Atlantis, cov ering several
millions
of
years
into
an event,
he located upon the island of Poseidonis (about as large as Ireland)
;
whereas, the priests spoke
always of Atlantis as a continent as large as
Europe and Africa put together. of the Atlantes
and their
island.
Homer
The
speaks
Atlantes
and the Atlantides of mythology are based upon history.
The
story of Atlas gives clearly to us the clue.
Atlas
the
is
Atlantes
and Atlantides of
the personification in a single symbol of the
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60
combined continents of Lemuria and Atlantis.
The
poets attribute to Atlas, as to Proteus, a su
wisdom and a
perior
especially
a
universal knowledge, and
thorough
with
acquaintance
the
depths of the ocean; because both continents hav ing borne races instructed
were each transferred
by
to the
where they now slumber
divine
masters,
bottom of the
until
the
seas,
appointed
time shall come to reappear above the waters.
And
as both
fires,
and Atlantis submerger by the waves, per
Lemuria, destroyed by submarine
ished in the ocean depths, Atlas
is
said to have
been compelled to leave the surface of the earth
and join
his father lapetus in the depths of
Tar
tarus. "Atlas
West, that
then personifies a
said to support
is,
the
feet
continent
in
the
heaven and earth at once;
of the
giants tread
the earth
while his shoulders support the sky, an allusion to the gigantic peaks of the ancient continents,
Mount
Atlas and the Teneriffe Peak.
These
OF ATLANTIS. two dwarfed were
relics
of
two
the
61 lost
continents
thrice as lofty during the day of
and twice
was an
as
high
in
Lemuria Atlas
that of Atlantis.
inaccessible island peak in the days
ol
had not Lemuria, when the African Continent yet been raised. "Lemuria
should no more be confounded with
the Atlantis Continent than ica.
Europe with Amer
Both sank and were drowned with
their
between the two high civilizations and gods, yet
two catastrophes a period
of about 700,000
yean
elapsed. "Why
in mind should not your geologists bear
that under the continents explored
by them,
in the
and fathomed
found bowels of which they have
the Eocene age, there
may
be hidden deep in the
other and far older unfathomable ocean beds, continents whose strata have never been geologi cally explored, set their
and that they may some day up
present
Amazed
theories."
at this singular corroboration of
what
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62
friend had previously read me,
my I
concluded
I
would ask him something more about
it,
at
the first opportunity, not dreaming that the op
portunity of lives
was
close at hand.
all this
time
we had
During
time toward the South.
been making good
Both
and men
officers
had been attracted toward our passenger, and
were ready
to give
make a stranger tion
this
feel at
we
fitful,
West
I
men
been brisk and favorable, but
approached the Spanish
Main
they grew
and when we had traversed a part of that Indian Archipelago, they
Our
a dead calm.
third
we were
away
into
ship drifted a little to
the
made no
South, but the
home anywhere.
little later.
The winds had as
which
attentions
little
explanatory of some events which
as
happened a
him the
all
day,
particular
moon
the
fell
headway.
fulled
tude and 42 degrees friend asked
me
if
I
noon and
at
lying in about 30 degrees
On
North
West
longitude,
would
like to
lati
when my
go with him
OF ATLANTIS.
about a couple
to visit a peculiar looking island,
of miles
to
westward.
the
63
my
Upon
rather
eager assent, the captain granted us the use of
yawl, and though he proffered us the help
his
of
some
of the crew, our friend declined, saying
he had been
We
much accustomed
pushed
steering.
I
off,
I
taking a pair of oars and he
had hardly taken a couple of strokes
with the oars, when pulsion of the boat
glanced
at
to the water.
my
felt
I
was not due
companion.
im
that the rapid
my
to
strength.
His face was
with a peculiar expression, of which
I
I
set
had be
fore had experience in other directions.
A
very short time sufficed to bring us to this
island,
which on
summit
of
closer inspection
some huge obelisk or
The
raised above the waves.
high,
seemed
were sheer and
to be the
pillar,
sides,
precipitous.
a
little
although not In the
still
waters they extended below the surface, as far as vision could penetrate.
How much
had no means of ascertaining.
We
farther, I
rowed slowly
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64 around
On
ence.
was about 150
It
it.
the side farthest from the vessel the
the rock
face of
feet in circumfer
The
weather.
was broken jaggedly by
projections gave opportunity for
fastening the yawl, and for climbing to the mit.
even
If there this
a sea of glass all about us
Having
impossible, but with it
was not a very
we might
To my
dif
securely knotted the boat s
painter to a stout protuberance, best
sum
had been any swell of the ocean
would have been
ficult task.
the
we scrambled
as
to the top.
utter surprise, instead of the
flat,
solid
mass, roughened by the weather, which I expected to find, filling
it
was cup-shaped
with water during storms,
out under the hot sun. bottom.
in the center, evidently
Looking
It
and drying
was now dry
closely at the sides I
at the
saw that
instead of being a mass of natural rock,
it
was
a structure built of masonry by cunning hands, so perfectly fierce action
and
solidly as to defy, thus far, the
of the most erosive forces of na-
OF ATLANTIS. The
ture.
floor
was
in
laid
65
regular
flagging.
Almost stunned by the
discovery,
my
exclamation of surprise
companion, but
was checked by
my
his actions.
I
turned to
Standing
the very center, with his face
erect,
the
to
North,
guiding himself by a small compass and a square
were
of
parchment,
which
upon
little
characters
inscribed, he turned 15 degrees to. the East
and stepped forward one pace. 15
in
degrees
pace.
He
due East. to dilate,
whole
more he stepped
Then
turning
forward
another
repeated this operation until he faced
There standing and
outline.
disc of stone
his face
erct, his
grew
All at once
had revolved
fixed I
and
to himself he
set in its
perceived a large
at his
feet,
a flight of stone steps leading into a
Coming back
form seemed
exposing
room below.
motioned
low him, and slowly we descended the
me
to fol
stairs into
an ante-room below, opening into a larger room.
As we
stepped upon this floor a light which came
from nowhere
in particular, lighted
up the whole
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66
Limitless age had laid his desecrating
interior.
hand upon everything.
But
as this
metically sealed by the waves,
the
would otherwise have accumulated air
was not
were
present.
My
companion,
As he
Power.
still
in the
upper
silent,
little
it
made one
was not
Then
to be unmistakable.
pile
stepped to
did so I thought
a suppressed sob of joy, but
enough
that
on each was a
the East, and facing the seats, signs of
dust
In the center of the room
five stone seats,
of dust.
had been her
of the
I
heard
distinct
going to the
exact opposite side of the wall, which
was par
titioned into a series of curious entablatures, he
touched
some
mechanism,
which,
preserved
through the ages, obeyed the will of this derful man.
we
into
passed
found seven little piles
made
A
door
back, through which
a chamber below.
seats.
of dust.
in the
slid
On
My
won
Here
we
each rested those curious friend repeated the sign
room above, and then a sound
like
the tremor of an Folian harp rose in volume un-
OF ATLANTIS. til
67
the vibration filling the room, shook the walls
Turn
which we were standing.
of the tower in
ing to the Eastern face of the wall, from a niche therein he
drew out
this carefully,
upper
air,
a little stone box.
he retraced his steps towards the
closely
enue, thus sealing once
more
him every av
for future unfold
whatever there might be of knowledge or
mystery here concealed. top had rolled into
was placed this
With
followed by myself.
the greatest care he closed behind
ing,
Holding
When
the disc at the
place, a roll of
its
hand by unseen
in his
pigment
helpers.
With
he traced upon the tightly joined edges a
character which burst into a silvery flame as
appeared upon the stone, and
mark behind
where the boat without any push
off,
a blood-red
proceeding to the side
lay waiting for us,
we managed
difficulty to seat ourselves in
it
and
he steering, as before.
Singular as certed
Then
it.
left
it
it
may
instruction
or
seem, without any precon
word
of
warning, not a
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68
word had been interchanged between us from
moment
the
of our landing until
On my
motion upon the water.
in
silence
was involuntary.
I
we were
I
part the
seemed to stand
vortex of recurring memory, coming
whelmingly upon me.
again
down
in a
over
was too busy within
myself in attempting to readjust the
past,
the
present and the promises of the future, to leave
any time for the not
resist
I
of speech.
knew
could
I
the feeling that these rock-ribbed
bers were, in self.
frivolity
cham
some peculiar way, a part of I
my
had been perfectly familiar with
the purposes of their erection, their use, and of
some
final issue, appalling
effect.
More
than that.
and benumbing
The
in its
five seats of the
upper chamber and the seven seats of the lower, to
my
inner vision, were
filled
with an occu
pant, shadowy, but so distinct I could recognize
the features, as one recalls the lineaments of a
long absent friend. I
Then came
the
names
had parted with them only yesterday.
as
if
Oh,
OF ATLANTIS. the Eternal!
Memory
was
sands of years ago since
it
yesterday, or thou
I
looked upon
feeling of present reality, of
er than friendship
friend
made
tie
strong
When my
the sign I mentioned, a burden of
my
shoulders, as
an expiation were finished, a terrible mistake
whose consequence
rectified
that hour, had
unfolding and
more held ly
some
overwhelmed me.
untold weight was lifted from if
these
and forms of comrades loving and true?
faces
The
69
that
me
my
its
my
utterly
friend did,
to do, taking
me
all
as
fail
to
to
my
much
All this and
energies.
words will
up
life,
cramped and restrained
silent as
came
all
portray,
what he evident
an involuntary ac
complice. Sitting in
the stern of the boat,
with the stone casket resting on looked at "My
me
facing me,
his knees,
with a grave smile, and said
brother: I see
my
he
:
confidence in thee
was
not founded in simple assumption, but in knowl edge.
Thou
hast learned well the lesson whose
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70 closing clause
is
to
keep
Thereby thou
silent.
hast proved also thy position in the
erhood,
whose
Atlantian Kings.
was
charter
first
I
greet
Great Broth issued
by the
Ancient Wise
thee,
One."
While saying if
from an inner
thetic exaltation
of
this his
words
The
fire.
face lighted
action of the
up
as
sympa
on myself was beyond the power
to describe.
denly come
whole
to a
was
It
as
perception of
if
one had sud
almost
infinite
power, and without a particle of arrogance in the possession. "I
I
feel that
could only reply:
we must
you do me great honor "Before
continued
have been brothers, but in
naming me
we
reach the ship I must
my
comrade,
"that
it
thus."
tell
you,"
has been per
mitted you for purpose, to revisit the tower of the Great
Temple
of Atlantis,
in
which were
gathered for concentration during the last awful cataclysm which sent the continent beneath the
waters
all
the living
members
of the
most po-
OF ATLANTIS.
71
tent Brotherhood that has ever existed. "You
five
entered the chambers of the three, the
and the seven.
ly rising once
The whole The
more.
which was 100
feet in
continent the
of
top
is
slow
tower,
diameter at the base, and
210
feet high,
The
transparent dome, which covered the
has again reached the upper
air.
cham
ber of the three has been destroyed by the ac tion of the waves.
the
We
masonry of the upper
know whether
do not
stories will
resist the erosion of fierce tropical
as little "It
rescue
by
little it
was thought this;"
"before it
be able
to
storms or not,
reaches the surface. best by the
Brotherhood to
here he touched the
little
casket,
might be overwhelmed and forever hid
den by the insatiable
maw
of the waters.
It
contains the fullest continuous record of the last years of our once glorious country,
at
present
accessible. "The
chambers which
we
entered were built
perfectly air and water-tight, and for that rea-
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72
son have preserved their contents to the pres ent time.
was
Below
the last chamber
that of the fifteen, and
chamber of the for I
I did
forty-five.
was warned
still
we
below
entered
that, the
not enter them,
that I might thereby afford
opportunity for the waters pressing up from be low, to wipe out
all vestiges
of the Brotherhood,
may
home
to later generations
be ocular demonstration of our existence.
"Obligation
five
which
of this ancient
rested heavily
and the seven.
entirely
from
as either the
its
They
on the
three,
the
could not be set free
responsibility
until
such time
bounds were destroyed, as
in
the
upper chamber, or one clothed with authority entering their resting place should their signal of release,
seven,
the
which
I did.
give
them
Below
the
the failure of conditions above absolved
members
of
the
remaining chambers,
and
they were set free in a very short time after the cataclysm. "You
are well
known
to
me
as to the rest of
OF ATLANTIS.
73
the Ancient Brotherhood, and have been chosen
again as in the long ago past, to be the spokes
man to
of our beloved Order, in
mankind, and
we
its
newest appeal
are sure that mistakes of
the intellect in the past will not be repeated in
But we
the present.
The most
are approaching the ship.
important object of our voyage, the
possession of these records,
which no person
liv
actual ing or dead could obtain without your
presence in the flesh
The
accomplished.
is
voy
for this pur age was planned and undertaken pose,
and will result
as
planned.
Our
vessel
has been lying over the entrance to the great port, at the tinent,
nificent
mouth draining the Atlantian Con
from which, before the overthrow, a
panorama of the
ever shone on, "We
could
was
fairest
land
mag
the sun
visible.
not accomplish our object until
near the full moon, so the calm has lasted until this time.
But to-night
as the sun goes
down
a
breeze will spring up, and by to-morrow our voy-
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74
age will be moving rapidly forward to
its
com
pletion."
It did not
occur to me, during
all this recital,
to object either to the facts stated or to the cer
quiet assumption of myself as one of the
tain,
willing accessories of the plan he had thus hastily sketched.
It
seemed quite a matter of course
that the sole object of
was
the accomplishment of
mortal I
my making
ears, for the first
felt a certain
what
this
I
time heard.
now, with Nay, more,
enthusiasm, a quiet joy in being
thus permitted to do the task, whatever be that
was
I
know
that this
at all the thing likely to happen,
deduction from what
we know
But
one of
as this story
it
might
me, as an integral factor of
set for
the whole, to complete.
we
voyage
is
of
facts
is
not
according to
human
nature.
on new
lines,
cannot be guided by precedents, or the work
ing of
known laws
;
as
we
seek rather in the fields
of the unexplained laws of nature, for a solution
of the
phenomena
presented.
OF ATLANTIS. But we were now
men were making As we reached
close to the ship
and the
ready to hoist the yawl aboard.
the deck
my
friend
showed
his
a curious souvenir of the stone pile
casket,
as
we had
visited.
After looking at
assented to the fact: looks a
75
trifle
"It
water-worn
was
it
casually they
a nice bit of rock,
though."
And
so,
knowledge of incalculable value passed beyond their reach, forever; or at the least, until the re finer
s
furnace of the ages shall have prepared
them more
may
at
fully for the perception of that
any time be offered them.
which
CHAPTER
the sun sank on the
AS
V.
Western horizon a
northeastern wind began to strain out
our
flapping
sails,"
moon
full
sat
to
him
Suddenly, as
my
if
moment
of
his hands,
;
"Yes,
once."
which
I
had
was put
into
after, the stone casket
coming about
as fast as a
walk, out of the companion way. else
various
some one had spoken
seen in his cabin just before sunset,
no one
friend and
reminder of some event, he said
in
certainly; at
A
the waters.
on the quarter-deck, chatting
matters.
good
of the tropics climbed out of
the great wastes of waters, and I
and the
more moved merrily over
ship once
The
"idly
was near us on
man would
At
that time
the deck, therefore no
remarks were made. In
my
peculiar state of
mind
this,
too,
seemed
OF ATLANTIS. what followed.
perfectly natural, as well as
me
out to
casket
the
Taking
several
hands he pointed
his
in
and symbols en
characters
Calling
my
form of the winged globe,
he
graved deeply in the stone. tion to a is
"That
77
most learned, Ancient Brother. contents of the casket in trust for
Let us
"Lay
the open
palm
see
of
said:
him who was our
the signet seal of
the password.
atten
him wEo hath
we may
if
your
the
holds
It
open
it.
hand on mine,
left
the fingers straight, and say as thou mayest re If
ceive out of the silence. I
have expected to meet,
well.
left
did so, a
an
hand upon
little
it,
palm
shock passed over
waiting."
Then
I
felt
I
placed
to palm.
As
I
my whole body
electric thrill, only a little
His eye shining with a piercing mine.
If not,, then
held out his left hand, palm up.
my own
like
is
only patience for further
it is still
He
it
whom
thou art he
more
brilliancy,
intense.
caught
another hand lying on the
back of mine, and a form shadowed out of the
OUR STORY
7$ thin air by
my
and simultaneously
side,
see the full, regal proportions of a
figure standing beside us.
the shadow, as
could
when one the
feel
distinctly
I
could
most majestic
Prominently out of feels the
sun
brightness
pair of eyes similar to those of
my
s rays,
I
of another
friend in the
body.
At
same moment
the
ing through the air to chant.
Instantly
where beneath me
my
position.
I
had
in
Without
its
many
leagues.
in the
same
my
intonation,
my
same cadence
friend
arrested
At s
this
any
dif
who
instant,
lips,
indescrib
my
attention.
lower consciousness, I
We
relative
three present,
every respect.
volition of
exactly the
the
in
a single syllable from able in
up-borne
lost all consciousness of
ference of condition
seemed equal
be
to
a vast city lay spread out, in
remained together
still
came ring
ears a low, musical
appeared
beauty and glory for
all its
three
I
of time there
in
uttered a syllable, and
then, like the soft, clear ringing of a silver bell,
OF ATLANTIS. from the
thrilled
all
of our bodyless brother,
lips
the third syllable of a
79
word whose awful powers
mystics concede.
As
the last note rang out into space the casket
came once more saw
it
my
fully into
consciousness.
I
open slowly, until the cover turned fully
back, and revealed a large roll of the finest papy clearly written
rus,
acters of
Egyptian
transi
civilization.
friend reverently raised the scroll from
resting place.
As he
and of bewildering
from
but minute char
plain
what we have supposed was a
tion period of
My
in
it.
did so a fragrance inimitable
upon the senses poured
effect this
Holding
its
precious
record
of
the
past in his hands he said: "For
over 29,000 years,
my
rus has not seen the light.
brother, this papy
When
inclosed in this casket and sealed, .
in
we
it
was
last
three, still
the body, looked forward to the accomplish
ment ited
of
much
that
was beyond
mortal potency.
I
am
the
power
of lim
glad to greet thee,
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8o
-
my companion
and brother.
in thee, for to
no power but the presence of the
three
would the casket have yielded
When in
was not mistaken
I
I shall
have read
it
to
you
your hands for safe keeping.
it
its
contents.
will be left
To-morrow we
will begin our work, giving six of the early hours
of the day to
it."
CHAPTER
VI.
we commenced
on the next morning
SO
of
tale
and
transfer
down
hand that which he thus gave me.
was slowly
ing a
little
recalled
my
given,
owing
rusty in
my
skill,
that
wonderful
many
country and involved
disaster, because they lacked
my
my
be I
But
I
country,
another seeking
have come
tact witfi impassible limitations
submit to
first
stenography, but as
that
leaders, like
out their designs.
the
to the fact of
to manifest unusual power,
their
At
a full and complete record of
concerned
whose daring
in short
our speed increased.
The MSS. was all
He
rescription.
translated while I wrote
it
our
in
con
and pulled down
all
in
irretrievable
omnipotence to carry
will not anticipate, but
readers the history of Atlantis and
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82
the story of the secret causes that led to the final
overthrow, as
have copied
I
it
from the notes
of that never-to-be-forgotten voyage.
It begins
with an invocation by the Scribe, as follows: Tlana, Scribe of the Mighty Three, to
"I,
whom
has been given strictly in charge so to
it
do, herein write the history of
This
try.
is
lightenment of off ages to
my
come
to recurring
my
beloved coun
to be for the instruction
people,
shall
when
and en
they, in the far
need more than bread, help
memory.
taking, the necessary
I
demand
for this
assistance
and
under
guidance
from the Brotherhood of both the Invisible and the Visible, so soon to become of the Invisible;
from the gods of Wisdom and Power, and from the
Supreme Ruler of
which
is
actions
best
may
say that
and most instructive concerning the
and conditions of our nation from
beginning "Our
All, that I
to
now.
its
(About 29,000 B. C.)
Continent follows the general outline
of all the others
now
in manifestation
upon the
OF ATLANTIS. Earth.
It
about 1,000 miles broad at
is
and 3,000 miles long
est point,
The
mension.
83
surface
at
mostly
is
But
ing of vast fertile plains.
wid
longest di
its
level,
to
its
consist
West,
the
North and East the country becomes mountain ous.
From
river
with
these mountains, as a water shed, a
branches drains nearly the whole
its
length of the Continent.
through an
artificial
Its
waters,
diverted
canal and locks, forms the
great port of the City of Atlantis, which extends
from
this canal, northeast of the central portion
of the continent, quite
to the foothills of the
up
Among
elevated portion of the country.
these
mountains has been built the Great Temple ded
OM., who
icated to "Our
records
the
fail to
of the beginning of is
is
man
ONE,
the All.
give us any information s
occupancy here, and
it
only through the power of perception of our
wise ning.
men It
that is
we
gain any idea of that begin
sufficient
to
Race men needed a home
say,
for
when their
the
Fifth
unfolding,
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84 they found
it
here.
Their unfolding has been
along the lines of the strongest development.
We
may
now
therefore simply describe the conditions
existing as the
outcome of the thought-forces of
the most powerful nation of the "The
fertility of
where upon the
our
soil
is
Our
earth.
known world.
unparalleled any difference of ele
vation above the sea level gives variety to our climate,
and whatever grows otherwhithers on
the globe, will
grow here
also,
We
luxuriance and perfection. to
in
the greatest
have no need
import anything grown out of the ground
from other nations. "Our
from the bosom of
supplies of minerals
the earth are incomparable in their
abundance.
We
have
where upon the surface
all
metals
amount and found
of the earth.
We
any also
have one, of which none has ever been discov ered in any other country. tility
iron.
It possesses the
duc
and color of copper and the strength of
We
have named
it
Orichalcum.
OF ATLANTIS. fauna holds every
"The
85 of
species
which from here has been carried of the earth, there
become of use
new
habitat and
men
either for
This was the center of
dis
it
on
who
to those
stood in need
In short, whatever mankind possesses
it.
we
any degree anywhere,
also
possess
in
in
vast
Never has any
abundance, far beyond our needs.
Nation or Potentate ever before concen
State,
trated so
much
of wealth
plies of all kinds, as "No
Temple
we
;
No
like ours,
residences
of
is,
surplus of sup
will truly describe our
nation has even dreamed of a
much
our
that
hold to-day.
word but immense,
public works.
less built one.
citizens,
even
of
The
private
the
poorer
outshine in beauty of design and suitable
ness of material the kings of
Do
parts
experience has given them, they have
line
freely passed
sort,
all
Whatever knowledge or wisdom on
tribution.
of
a
to the children of
labor or pleasure.
this
find
to
to
animal,
not consider that
I
am
many
other nations.
seeking to belittle
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86
others or to extol ourselves, but
and
as fully
I
am
as candidly as I can, that
really the fact, as I
now
stating
which
is
write.
mountains have springs of hot and cold
"The
water which act as natural
them the water
reservoirs.
From
conveyed by stone pipes to the
is
public baths and to the private residences of such citizens as choose to avail themselves of the priv ilege
under certain conditions.
"In
aces,
the center of the city are the royal pal
and these are protected by three immense
canals,
which are
built
entirely
around
with two intervening zones of land. nals are connected with the
them,
These ca
Great Sea by an
other canal 300 feet wide and 100 feet deep and six miles "The
long to connect with the port.
Great Temple
of the city.
Its lofty
is
in the northeast part
tower bearing upon
its
top,
the finest observatory ever yet built, occupies the
northeast quarter of the
and the Temple
itself
is
Temple grounds. This protected from attack
OF ATLANTIS.
87
on the North, East and West by the mountains,
which serve both as a defense and a foundation to
hold up the massive structures
built
upon
them. the mountains the city of cities extends
"From
in
a circular
form southward.
mense area occupied by the another, comprising miles,
city proper
upwards of 75,000
still
is
square
which has been cultivated from time im
memorial, and is
Beyond the im
is
in fact
liberally irrigated
This
one vast garden.
from the river and from a
canal 600 feet in width and 100 feet deep, ex
Not
tending through the country i,2OO miles. only are these waters used
for
irrigation,
but
through a system of locks at the port, galleys are raised
and lowered into the grand canal, where
they both
and distribute cargoes of
receive
all
kinds of products in the interests of commerce. "It
is
hardly necessary to mention
population
many
of
millions.
this
plain
Never
that
and the mountains will
there be so
the is
many
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88
people gathered in the same place at the same time, so say our prophets "Nor
must
forget to say that the
I
of our population
owing
to the
of the spirit, to
is
volume
increased by the fact that
dominance of the
life-giving
power
which has not been weakened yet
any great extent there are three or four gen
erations of all
and Magi.
men upon
the earth at the same time,
strong and vigorous.
plies for the
As
the necessary sup
maintenance of the body at
its
best,
are in the greatest profusion, nature in no sense retards the increase of population,
would
but
support to the utmost limit the most prolific in crease possible. "During
the day the myriad sounds of voice
and action that
arise over the
docks and the quar
ters of the city devoted to labor
is
like
the roar
of a tornado on the sea, hurling itself against the
embattled rocks. "The
Atlantian
galleys
have
reached
every
port and nation under the whole broad heaven.
OF ATLANTIS. They have
89 under
laid the entire surface of earth
tribute to our
We
commerce.
ask another nation
for
But they seek from us
have no need to
we have
anything
not.
the fruits of our soil
and
our incomparable bronze manufactures, in whose production our artizans have become very expert, especially in clubs, axes, knives "The
and swords.
barbarians of the Eastern world have
never been able to make these things for them
and
selves,
artizans are very fine,
can possibly
we
in
fail
mand
is
and tempering of our
as the material
we
The
offer.
find
market for
all
we
only article of which
making the supply equal
to the de
which
a bright yellow metal,
offers a
powerful resistance to the action of the elements. It
is
eagerly sought for purposes of decoration,
both of building and persons. of our
traders
own mines
is
total
product
thus appropriated, and our
have discovered that
parts of the world.
The
exists
it
So they seek
and when found offer our
own
it
in
other
everywhere,
products in ex-
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90 change for
it.
When
they bring
it
home
they
are offered certain immunities and privileges in
addition to the market value for it
with
us,
is
but with
Magi
that this peculiar con
through the foul greed of man, will grow
into a calamity for the
upon which
become
its
whole
gathering by us
irrepressible
The
race.
and destructive
in the
also true that
if
evil
shall be forced to
come, as
we
evil.
meet
it
in the
Thus
new
far, strained
intensity for acquisition has not acquired in
is
long ages yet
are again called to face in
enough to injure us
It
does come upon the race
bodies the lives allotted to us.
line.
how
tried to deal justly, they can hardly be
considered responsible for any such
to
As,
more
our nation has done no intentional wrong
and have
we
desire
founded will
is
physical nations in the years to come. ever,
a
the nations of the earth.
all
predicted by our
dition,
in
has become a measure of value, not only
way,
It
Thus,
it.
force
our development on any
OF ATLANTIS.
91
are not a nation of flesheasters, for the
"We
warmth
of our climate does not compel the con
centration of food sought in the use of flesh. is
because
efforts
we
to
we
are not
overcome the
much
can give so forces
real
bound
and
circle
our
of necessity that
time to the study of the of
facts
to the soil in
It
the universe, and
the
methods by which they could be made useful
to
themselves. "At
the
North are three high mountain
which have become landmarks men.
In the
written, permit
the highest
of
way
me
summit
for all seafaring
review of what
to take
my
peaks,
have
I
future readers to
of the great peak Alyhlo,
and
from thence point out the paradise of mountain
and
valley, hill
plateaux.
and
plain, interspersed
These are covered with
with broad
tropical vege
tation bearing all kinds of edible fruits
known
man throughout
the
the
Limped streams from
whole
circle of
to
year.
the mountain sides water
a large portion of this vast
district.
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92
this all, for the
"Nor is
thick with
towns.
substantial
But above
whole picture
dwellings, is
all,
dotted
is
hamlets
and
the capital as a center
of interest, and an exchange of thought, so wide, so far-reaching, that all the other centers in the
whole country seem but suburbs. "Notice
also the varied greens of the vegeta
and the blue of the
tion fect,
sky, so clear
as yet undisturbed in
and
so per
vibrations by the
its
shock of either offense or defense.
Beyond these
can be seen the canal leading to the land-locked sea
and the great port with
its fleets
of arriving
and departing galleys from every quarter of the globe. oar,
These
move
galleys
neither by sail nor
nor any impulsion of elemental
mounting
all
these our
Magi
wind nor
the fairest land that
tide
man
thus far has ever seen.
Sur
have imparted the
secret of etheric impulse born
against this,
force.
of
thought, and
have no power.
It
is
in all his generations
CHAPTER VII.
going forward with the descrip
BEFORE
tions of the
MSS.
comparing with as
we now know Continent
Ancient
Carribean
part
the
were
so raised as to
miles high,
Mexico.
seas
present
The
it.
must
have
make
in
of the
covered If
the
is
old
fertility
of
continent the
upon
broad wings, for the teeming population. there
land
Gulf
the
succession
winds, bringing moisture and
configuration,
in
have resulted two im
where now
constant
little
the highest peak six
Across these and the
would blow
a
situation,
location
Archipelago.
there must
mense inland
the
do
us
let
trade their
In
must have been a striking
resemblance to our upper lake country.
The
range of mountains to
the
West and
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94
North must have
whose peaks and
the Continent,
form a chain of
On
islands.
backbone of
the
constituted
table lands
now
the line of drainage
from the inland sea the Amazon must now be
The
located.
sult not so
fertility
much
must have been the
re
of a torrid temperature, as of
the absence of cold winds, which gave a peculiar, equable, tables
life-developing_climate,
and animals.
both for vege
Everything possible grew,
because there were no drawbacks to It
was always seedtime;
Bud, blossom and
it
tree.
What
of the orange and fruit-bearing trees.
condition of the of those
who
growth.
was always
harvest.
fruit in all their different stages
of maturity could be seen
the same
its
is
growing partially
at once
true
to-day
lemon was then true of So
soil,
fertile
and
so
on
all
was the
original
great the
wisdom
directed, that the matter of planting
seed and gathering harvest
became
sequence and not of season.
With
a matter of this
tion let us return to our manuscript:
explana
OF ATLANTIS. "The
is
change of condition from
95 life
to death
one accepted and welcomed by our people
not
;
any sense feared, because during their long
in
continued existence the monotony of physical is
fully satisfied
and the only inducement for ac
cepting prolongation
the increasing of the spir
is
force and potency, with
it s
life
which we are well
acquainted and fully educated as to
its
limitless
possibilities. "Our
many and
years
been
acknowledged.
On
seas
all
every port are the galleys that supply the
in
world
place as carriers for the world, has for
s
marts,
winged globe therefore
in
the
flying
Atlantian
flag
blue on a yellow ground.
happens
in
our
ample
harbor,
a It
the
myriad swarms of shipping, although loaded with the products of the whole earth are ours. "The
sailors of other nations dare not
move
out into the vast wastes of waters, separating the different countries one "Great
warehouses
lie
from another. along the water
s edge,
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96 which
bordered from the
is
sea,
for
many
miles
into the interior, by immense, solidly-built walls.
These are
raised high
enough
to be above
any
high-water mark of either flood from the interior or tide from the ocean.
But
the result of changes in the
snow on
for the melting of
amount
crease of
vapor,
from
was a thing
"The
kingdom by
were rather
amount
of drainage,
the mountains or in
suddenly
iron tramways,
moved by a motive
only our
Magi know.
it is
bidden by
wagons, "The
to
forth,
its
which
whole
parts of the
all
upon which enormous
loads are
moves back and
precipitated
of but slight importance.
connected with
is
capital
floods
But
force,
whose
secret
the obedient force
drawing and pushing,
as
controller, the heavily ladden
it is
city
harnessed.
is
built
of
a
pure
white
marble, taken from quarrries in the Northern Hills,
whose
supplies are used not only for build
ing at home, but also for export.
So
fine
is
the
grain and so elegant the polish that the blocks
OF ATLANTIS.
97
are used over and over in rebuilding in the cities
This stone cannot en
of the Mediterranean.
dure the extremes of temperature of the North ern climate, but
is
for all that
amply strong
may
be demanded under an Atlantian sky. "From
what
have already
I
will be plain, the city
is
"Broad
it
begin
other
forming the
radii of the circle,
which
King
s
There
palace.
ship of land, save in the
King
resentative of the nation.
It
labor,
man
can
own
the
s
is
anything
is
name
the
at
These are
mountains.
in the
crossed at regular intervals by
that no
with
fitted against the
is
avenues in semi-circle
the
it
Northern mountain ranges.
mountains and end
is
perhaps
laid out like a disc,
a segment wanting, where foothills of the
said,
avenues, center
of
no owner as the rep
held by our Magi, in
which
his
own
or some representative thereof, does not
constitute a
component
part.
All
articles
of
handiwork therefore can be claimed by the con tributors thereto, but
man
has not, and can never
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98
ownership
attain,
manifestation shall
attempt
in
the four great elements of
it,
disaster
tend the attempt.
If he ever
water, earth.
fire, air,
and degradation will at
If a
man
builds a house or
plants a tree, or cultives a crop, then the house
or tree or harvest belong to him, and he should
be protected in his right to enjoy fully,
can come from
lands are parceled out by
"All
improvements only, have a like his
bor
all
that
his labor.
neighbor
s
price.
lot,
and the
He who would
location must, with his neigh
consent, buy the improvements, but the land
s
has no
more value than
"The
comfort.
when
the air about
it.
houses are built for convenience
Every family owns
a young
man
its
and
own home, and
takes to himself a wife, he has
a portion of land assigned him, under conditions
which make equable
all
quality or surroundings.
inequalities
No
of
crowding
place, is
lowed, not even in the thickest part of the
The
al city.
buildings are of permanent material, fash-
OF ATLANTIS. ioned to let in the air and light. principle
rooms
The
underlying
a central open court, with the living
is
all
99
about
many ways
This plan
it.
modified
is
in
and needs
to suit the individualities
of the owners.
court
"The
is
ing easily on
its
entered by a broad gate, swing
ample
In the center
fittings.
a pool with an overflowing fountain to prevent stagnation, cools the air and helps modify the vi brations.
The water was
supplied by an acque-
This was
duct from the mountains.
so old that
no Atlantian of the present people can give
But there are records
age.
the
Temple concerning
in
erally
About two
this pool the
stories, so
form no obstruction "When
the
the archives of
the planning of the huge
undertaking and the manner of ment.
its
its
building stands, gen
supported on
to free
accomplish
pillars, as to
movement
young couple decide
of the air.
to locate
it
is
the custom to receive from the chief astrologer of the
Temple
a horoscope
definitely
naming the
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ioo
number
new
of the
For each
family to come.
one a room was built
allotment prevents crowding, and to the utmost, of progress
This
home.
in the
and
is
special
productive
growth on
all
lines. "Animals
ency.
At
herd,
man
individualizes in his tend
end of the
either
scale, acceptation of,
or rebellion against the herding, indicates where
he stands at any given time, as regards either his spiritual or his physical nature. to be brutish
matters not
it
with
his,
he
spiritually unfolded he
is
dip into the
himself.
This
is
to
if fifty
inclined
hands eating
would prefer
own way,
and prepared
not, as is
work which
takes
Ego
If
to ap
that which
especially for
might at the outset
it
appear, selfishness, but
the
is
same bowl of porridge.
propriate and use, in his
comes belonging
If he
the outcropping of the
upon
itself
during
the earth lives, the soul-building out of the in carnations. "The
rooms on the
first
story are larger and
OF ATLANTIS. mostly used for the
offices of living, in
family relations are concerned
Most
101
of their leisure time
is
and spent
which the perfected.
about
the
fountain in the court, where there are always
The
agreeable shadows, with the blue sky above.
courts are paved in colored patterns with a kind of glass,
and carpeted with rugs and mats woven
from vegetable
These goods are made sides
these
products of
s
earth, the richest
fancifully
dyed.
principally for export.
furnishings,
man
and
textiles
Be
there are side by side,
thought from every part of the
and the
best.
None
stained as the spoils of war, for our
dustrious and honorable has
made
are blood traffic,
in
us beyond per-
adventure the richest nation that ever existed
upon the "From
No
earth.
the
first,
we have
traded everywhere.
galley of ours has ever been seized by the
god of the
seas
and
left
lying upon the ocean
bottom whether bearing our
goods
forth
or
bringing back to us the merchandize of other
OUR STORY
102
This natural increase by labor and by
lands. trade,
without
sufficient to
loss,
should of
have enriched
have been
itself
us
without
other
means "Thus it is
selves,
each
perceived the families are by them
an
is
independent
Their houses and gardens are
dom
of that
ceived.
This
community is
as
community.
much
the king
as can possibly be con
the rule of the spiritual and not
of the physical. "But
I
must not forget
and roads of the
city
to speak of the streets
proper and the outlying
country.
These are
eral plan,
which once established has never been
changed.
Although they have been many years
in
construction
laid out
on a certain gen
and extension, every foot has
been added under the direction of a master mind in
conformity to a uniform plan adopted thou
sands of years ago. they are finished
So far as they are extended
and
used for the road beds
lasting. is
our
The
substance
secret, of the
whole
OF ATLANTIS. Our ways
world.
The
are
103
and
dustless
noiseless.
peculiar composition readily yields traction
to bodies
moving over them.
Never has there
been so perfect a system of easy transportation
upon the
earth.
public buildings are always large,
"The
and of varied
styles,
roomy
surmounted with domes,
pinnacles and minnarets statutes of artistic design
and ornamented with and workmanship.
material of which these are built
is
The
white marble.
Atlantis can well claim not only the honor of
being so created, but of remaining a white
There
is
city.
no darkening effluvium in the air nor
the climate to obscure the white walls set in the
Our Magi
great billows of surrounding green. say, that in
days to come, a nation on the
Medi
terranean Sea called the Greeks, will personify in their tiful
works of
woman
"The
art,
rising
our beloved city as a beau
from the
more important of
sea.
these buildings are
profusely decorated with gold, and
it
is
for this
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104
purpose that metal
is
so eagerly
Atlantian traders, a poetical
bought by the
name
the tears of
the sun,
has been adopted by our people, and by
this
most widely called here.
it is
Of
the palace
of the King; of the Great Temple, I will speak
more "In
cial
at length
by and by.
these public buildings are rooms for so
meetings, to discuss public topics and for the
convenience of classes studying things that do not
belong to the physical plane.
A
description of
one will be a description of the general plan of
all.
They
are elliptical in form, with a foun
tain in the center.
The
Atlantians are extrava
gantly fond of the presence of water. of the foci are a
number of
seats,
At one
arranged
like
an amphitheater, built of stone and rising one above another.
At
the other of the foci stands
a Tribune, upon which the speaker stands public addresses are made. also are seats,
About the fountain
where the auditors
converse one with another.
when
sit
easily
and
OF ATLANTIS. "In
of the
like
manner
105
are built the training schools
young; the central part of the structure
being open to the sunlight and the the
young Atlantians are educated
air.
in the things
that belong to the nation, the family
themselves. to
make
and
Our
fathers
a rule of living:
play, eight years to
physical things,
Here
had a saying
and
we
to
seek
Eight years to infancy
boyhood and training
eight years to
in
young manhood
and learning of the world outside of Atlantis, and one thousand years to learning of the visible
and
ly correct.
real.
It
in
proportions are very near
CHAPTER
VIII.
Atlantians of either sex are almost
THE
perfect in their physical organizations.
They
are nearly all equally trained by
the master of wisdom.
It
may
be asked
why
they
are not all on the same plane of development.
The
reply
and
times.
is
the conclusive answer of
Man
all
ercise his individual potency in exactly the
The
way. first,
how
is
little variation,
same
hardly perceptible at
increased by every increment, no matter
small, of each of the succeeding lives.
difference lectual
ages
never has and never will ex
is
This
increased also by the force of intel
power which comes
to
necessity to the individuals of
a nation and of the nation,
who
will seek to occupy the best bodies and positions, as the returning egos claim place in the lives.
OF ATLANTIS.
of the absolute equality of the sexes
"Because
the bodies of the
women
are just as strong and
vigorous as those of the men. that in other nations, with in
in
contact,
women
107
other parts
But we know
which we have come of
the
world,
are inferior in size and strength.
the
This
happens because the people of those nations have allowed themselves from generation to genera
and from age
tion,
sert
to age, to believe in
the inferiority of
women.
and as
This continued
thought has belittled and dwarfed her, not only in body,
but has also bound her aspirations and
her mental capacity with steel.
While
row and
loss,
bonds stronger than
the barbarian races,
have made
this
to
their sor
sad mistake, the
Atlantian nation, on the other hand, have con stantly held to the equality of the sexes. result
now
is,
physically, both sexes are
The models
which painter or sculptor are proud and eager to copy.
perfection
Each one is
beauty.
is
a specimen of beauty, for
The
action of the climate
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io8
and transmitted principles have brought lectual vigor
of perception
marvelous grasp
a
upon the laws of nature and Their
themselves.
pediments
and daring with
intel
bodies, instead of being
to spiritual
of
im
growth and advancement,
who
are helps indeed to the spirits
seek through
them experience, knowledge and
understanding.
Those who might be
common
the
called
class,
doing the necessary labor of the nation, are far
advanced beyond the literary
class
of the bar
barian nations in their perception of the truth
and
their
knowledge of nature
s
laws.
when men
The day mourn
will
come
this
knowledge forgotten, when the fatigue and
in the future
monotony of burden bearing
whelming "We
in its
will
will be almost over
crushing awfulness.
have schools for the development of the
physical and for the directing of the mental habits of thought.
orized
In these schools very
knowledge
is
imparted.
to so train the faculties that
if
little
The
mem
design
is
desired or needed
OF ATLANTIS.
109
the cipher of the Astral books could easily be read. "Sickness
is
deaf
blind,
halt,
We
unknown. nor
dumb,
have no lame,
nor
beggars
as
models for maternal pre-natal mind, to misform embryos,
and thus build monstrosities for the
public charge. of the nations
merce,
of
This of which
who
I
speak
is
are busy in the affairs of
agriculture,
or
who
are
true
com
builders
and decorators of houses and public buildings.
But
there are
some who from natural impulsion
have sought more and more of the truths which belong to the rest in
IT.
ONE,
invisible, of the
and those
who
These are willing and anxious
to
devote themselves and their powers constantly to obtaining and attaining, and youth.
The
the
only class distinction
teaching
we
have
of is
founded upon knowledge. has come to pass in a natural fashion that
"It
these thinkers have
other
;
gravitated
toward one an
that they have kept records of observation,
i
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io
experiment and experience; that they are wiser in speech; in in
seen;
mathematics as applied in
alchemy,
astrology,
specially wise in the physics
laws of the unseen.
At
and they are
which embrace the
first
buildings were set
apart for these students and their teachers. city
grew each body
of students had
ing,
now known
temples.
as
Later,
might be "In
tion,
ONE
build
were
in
order
is
ALL
perfect.
the teachings of our Magi, all manifesta
on
back to the
all planes, is referred
for everything obtained
mind dwelling on
make
bol of the
the Great
ONE.
Its
ONE,
and power
and obtainable. this
Thus
thought has striven
in design, in material, in finishing
ing to
the
all
who
as the single central source of strength
the
As
its
gathered into the one great Temple, that the symbolism of the
un
to the
Temple worship
and furnish
a perfected in all its
sym
imagery
and suggestion combines every element for the impressiveness of
mode and
subject,
under
dis-
in
OF ATLANTIS. upon the minds of the student.
cussion
Is
it
any wonder that there has come to us as a na tion a deep-seated veneration for the
name and "It
is
sion of
Omnipotent
laws.
also a fact that
our
Magi
most wonderful powers,
are in posses
in the control of
elemental forces
who
their tasks, not
under confinement, but because
obey their will, coming to
who
obedient to the will and behest of those singly or unitedly for their services.
known
that this
power never
It
is
call
also
will be held except
by Atlantian born people, regardless of the chang ing conditions of the globe. "It
is
also true that a far greater proportion
of our people have attained to the superior light
and knowledge than any other nation upon the earth either in the past or present. less
This
is
doubt
due to the fact that our incarnating egos,
having the right of choice, have again and again sought their
own
spot in which to
people as the most privileged
make advancement during
the
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ii2 lives. "When
these advanced egoes have found their
we
have the spectacle of children born old,
bodies
for the brightness of the last life
is
heavy
them, and the newness of the body does not
ways
act as a defense or shield
ous blaze.
It
is
from
not in each, but
ordinary, detailed development.
is
its
on al
imperi
a matter of
CHAPTER
WE
IX.
have but one basic law throughout called the
golden rule, or preference
the whole country and city. of another before
We
self.
have no
It
is
evils aris
ing out of the action of selfishness, for this con dition tution,
is
the primary result of the fear of desti
either for ourselves or others,
during the position or period of they
who
sometime
earth-life.
Even
are the least advanced understand from
our teaching the true idea of Brotherhood; that
no man, no
man
s
wife, no
man
s
children, can,
under the law, suffer from deprivation of the necessities of
than enough
life.
physical is
He who
has more
held to be always the steward in
trust for
him who temporarily
enough.
But
this does
has
less
than
not relieve from the ne-
OUR STORY cessity for labor, of every individual in the direct
of their ability,
ratio
they are best "In
whatever employment
at
fitted.
the building of our houses, the quarrying
of the stones, the transportation and the fitting all
is
done by elemental
tion of a master, It
is
his
who
force,
is
in
under the direc
charge of a section.
duty to educate them and to see that they
are duly provided for, out of the Astral store house, by the
power given
into his hands.
The
form of government has already been copied from us by a powerful nation in the Northern part of Asia, but because of their situation on the physical plane,
it
is
most
likely they will be
able to retain only the form, spiritual
power which
is
and will
lose the
the foundation and po
tent principle.
The whole
nation
is
linked together by the
master of the families, these are classes,
those
under instruction
who
and
in
groups and
direction
are most competent to teach.
from
These
OF ATLANTIS.
115
teachers are grouped under the masters or
These Magi
of the Temple.
are under the instruction of the
Magi
the
Temple
Most
Ancient,
of
the Seven, the Five and the Three.
So, in the
hands of the Three, mightiest of
human
tellects, rests
as directors
and
Karmic conditions
of
in
the destinies, the prosperity and the
happiness of the whole nation.
them
all
Moreover, upon
arbiters, the responsibility
rested,
as
they were en
gendered by the currents of potency issuing from themselves and returning upon their cycle bore
with thenij whatever had been impressed upon, or mingled with them during their revolvment
among "It
those to
whom
the currents
must be apparent,
to
whom
were
this
sent.
MSS. may
come, that the power of the Unseen, and their application to greatest tians.
man
interest
There
is
s
earth-life are matters of the
and importance
ing
organized
the Atlan-
no temporal power, save as a
symbol of the Manifested. to
to
effort
Everything pertain
originates with,
and
is
n6
OUR STORY
carried forward by the Priesthood of the
Temple, which
represents
over matter of the spirit at
They have
Great
the
dominant power
its
highest and best.
specially in charge the study
and de
velopment of all occult knowledge. "Every
house
independent of
is
Atlantians are Monogamists of one wife.
the one husband
This, experience has demonstrated
to be the best condition for the
We
a strong, spiritual race. races
polygamist
The
itself.
always
development of have
decrease
seen in
that
power,
strength and energy of purpose. "In
Atlantis,
to
be diseased
or crippled
in
body, or to be at the head of a family, in which is
such a member,
people.
Therefore
interest are ditions,
only
to
is
deemed a crime against the all
thought,
all
desire
and
brought to bear upon physical con
through occult and spiritual
make
forces,
not
the nation whole, but whole in
the highest and best sense. "Those
who
are
particularly
gifted
with
OF ATLANTIS. whose
psychic qualities, or
117 have attained
spirits
familiarity with the instrument intrusted to their
hands are trained for the
but in either
Masters or
they are persons to
case,
number
council, advice "For
of
These may or may not have
Guides.
certain
offices
families,
whom
a
of persons or families look for
and guidance.
thousands of years have the
Temple, who give
their
whole time
of the
Magi
to the study
of the Unseen, and lay aside their bodies at their
own
volition, really placed the welfare
and best
good of the people beyond any other consider ation
have no poor. necessary labor generation,
more
The
whatever.
like
nation
They have no is
honorable.
we have the gods
is
inferior class.
Generation
All after
been growing stronger and
come down
have perfect communication
world and each other.
We
to
with
know
the fairest city on this planet, and tent.
They
happy.
earth.
the
We
outside
Atlantis
we
is
are con
CHAPTER
X.
thus far advanced in the descrip
HAVING tion
of the most wonderful
known
to
man, permit me
to quote
words of one who saw what he
the
and graphically describes for you "To
from
so fluently
:
the Northeast of this island Continent
located the
Great Temple,
symbolism. tent,
ever
city
On
and
built both for use
a plateau of
where the gradually
many
rising
to break into the foothills, the
is
acres in ex
ground began
whole surface had
been leveled and paved with some soft material, of
which the Atlantians alone knew the
secret.
This hardened under the action of the sun and atmosphere, until
it
was
like
adamant.
To
the
East, a belt of country reaching to the seacoast,
but
not
on
a
level
with
it,
had
also
been
n9
OF ATLANTIS.
smoothed and paved, so that there was no ob struction to the eye, until
rested
it
on the
far-off
horizon. "Upon
enough
broad expanse of level space, close
this
mountains
to the
mighty arms, stood the ple,
to
be buttressed by their
great, white-walled
Tem
areas for facing the South, and the ample
assemblage.
The
closed courts
the cloisters of the
Temple
and
faced the mountains
Temple
of the North, and thus secured for the
Dwellers the privacy needed for
Masters
the
and student Brotherhoods of the Temple,
were seeking "The
the
first
to
know
and
offices,
who
out of the Silence.
Temple proper
consists of
two
stories,
one consisting of pillars springing from
the rocky foundations of the mountain and sup
porting arches, which in turn, held up immense slabs of stone, the floors of the second story.
the
first floor
there
is
little
On
or no inclosure, but
within the walls of the second story
it
ranged for privacy and quiet thought.
is all
ar
He who
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120
looks over the battlements of the upper story, looks
down about
On
paved court below. the
Temple
feet, into the beautifully
ninety
the East and
West
of
are gardens, groves of trees,
itself,
fountains, running streams of water, domesticated
animals, and flowers of every hue and fragrance.
These are sacred
to the
Temple, but open
to the
people under the surveillance of the caretakers,
except certain reserved spots close to the Temple,
which are for the teachers.
special use of the students
In the northeast section of the
ple building
was
Tem
the great tower and observa
tory, fifty feet in diameter,
landmark and
and
rising
light extending
210
feet,
a
hundreds of miles
and ever a joy-inspirer for the sea-tossed marin ers of the State. "Looking
from the plaza
interior of the ests of
white
ing roof
fills
Temple,
pillars
and
in front,
its
vast recesses,
its
high-lifted over-arch
the spectator with awe.
this feeling lessened
toward the
by the
its
for
Nor was
cleanliness, the con-
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121
tinuous shifting of huge masses of sunlight and
new and
shadow, ever into
the
During
tesquerie.
indescribable
awful
the
services
grosol
emnity evoked was of a character that modified the
whole Atlantian thought and national pur
pose. "The
great tower
was commenced
The
below the surface.
fifteen feet
original trap rock
was
supplemented by a square block of concrete rock,
and upon
this
was
carried
to a total height of
teen.
Upon
a raised dais
.of Holies.
225
up the superstructure
the floor of the
was
the square of
feet,
the secret
Temple
on
at
High
and flashed the Veil of
Isis.
Above, on a level with the upper
chamber of the
resting
chamber of the Holy
Across and through
Festivals, blazed
fif
Forty-five,
and
this,
floor,
still
was
the
above that
the chambers of the Fifteen, the Seven, the Five
and the Three.
In the outer, the
smooth and unpenetrated on
tom
to top.
its
Tower was
surface from bot
It resembled a solid block, chiseled
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122
out of quarries and set on end, so deft was the
workmanship and
so
perfect the jointings and
finish.
the cloisters anJ
"In
the
of
story
rooms
Temple were
the
of
second
apartments for
private study and class instruction. also
the
There were
supplemental apartments, hollowed out of
the neighboring mountains and reached by secret
passages so arranged that whatever should be de
them
posited in held, even
if
as treasuries
would be
securely
buried beneath the surface of the
sea for ages. "Beyond
trees
up
the great plaza,
toward
the
city,
and fountains shaded and beautified clear
to the
This
naked edge of the vast
is
a faint portrayal of that which was
really the culmination
Nation
s
pavement."
and concentration of the
thousands of years of existence and un
folding. "In
all
our Temples, and more especially
in the
Great Temple, the outer courts were but the sim-
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123
from those who have no inspira
pie separation
tion for the inner
In the outermost
and higher.
court, or court of the people,
were always gath
thoughts of their own, and
ered those
who had
who were
undecided as to what direction they
dawn
should take in pursuit of the light slowly ing upon them.
those
court
inner
"The
who have
of
the
far perceived,
so
contained
people
that they are
willing to obligate themselves to carry out cer tain purposes, of
but
little,
whose
except that the farther end
the light of
life,
this court they
it
is
who
seek
must be
natural that they
striving to advance,
through their
is
know
lost in
and the halo of obligation. fitted
ing and preparation for that which
them, so
can
full intent they
who
In
by train
lies
before
linger there,
must do whatever they can
own power
of
assimilation,
by
themselves. "At
is
the
first,
if
the lesson
is
concentration,
their individual concentration.
it
If the lesson
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124 is
passivity,
It
is
it
own
their
is
when one
exactly as
beginning, the voice
is
when some
learning to sing, as a
trained to use
After
culiar function alone. tice,
is
individual passivity.
its
own
this solitary
pe
prac
aptitude has been attained and
a facility of use, then they are
massing of singles for a united
ready effort.
the
for It
must
follow then, that the outer court of the Broth
erhood cannot but lap over into the inner court of the
Temple.
"That
which
is
done singly and alone,
is
ab
solutely necessary for the next step in advance,
which
is
made
in
unison with another or
same way
as musical students are
to be
others, in the
trained by twos and fours for united efforts of action and harmony. "The
shall
question considered in
growth and attainment
plished? "In
What
music
tain key,
we
is
all
be
this
best
is,
how
accom
the basic principle?
say the sounds are set to a cer
and however prolonged the action of the
OF ATLANTIS.
and time will be the same, and
vibrations, the key all
It
the vibrations are aligned.
when
125
the students
come
is
exactly thus,
to act together
occult planes, the vibrations
on the
which they produce
will not, of course, be alike, but they
must chord
;
the parts of one vibration fitting and filling in
with the vibrations of another, so there shall be no jangle. "To
they
get the best results
who
it
is
always best that
are in the outer court of the Brother
hood should be watchful and careful forth
brations sent
lest
the vi
from themselves should be
hastened or intensified or even drag through the thoughtlessness of their "When
own
carelessness.
once unity of action
this matter,
it
is
that the key on
is
attempted in
absolutely necessary to success,
which they
start should
remain
the same. "It
is
easy to see
as anger, or
would
any of
how
intense passions, such
the
disturbing
interfere with the vibrations.
conditions It
would be
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126 like a
chord out of tune
in
a stringed
instru
ment, where, though the strings do not give out the same sounds,
This alignment "It
is
still
they must be in alignment.
the source of all music.
is
not needful that the most intense feel
ings of one
s
nature should be given rein, and
make
lowed
to
those
whom
he
al
disturbance, both for himself and is
contracting.
It
is
also,
on a
small scale, like the sharping and flatting at the
wrong
whereby
points,
changed,
the
the
vibrations
are
harmony broken and discord be
comes perceptible. "It
is
also absolutely necessary that all condi
tions in the outer
which can cause a disturbance
should be held in abeyance,
when one
desires to
concentrate, in order that during a united effort for concentration the
not be marred.
This
harmony and strength is
true of all
shall
work on any
occult line. "It
is
not to be supposed
when two
or
of the Brothers are concentrating, exactly
more the
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127
gone through within the mind
is
That would
The end
be impossible.
each working in sought for can be attained by
own way, with
his
A
not follow because
It does
same thought.
the
does not perform his task
B
exactly as B^does, that
should
set
up a
dis
turbance in the vibration as reflected from A, thus in a measure destroying the effect to be
and
"The
law
second, in
co-operation
produced.
of the
Temple
company with
then,
who
those
alone;
is first,
are seeking
as the Masters of by united force to accomplish,
Destiny, at plish.
fore
times, have been able to
all
Unity of action
we must guard
turb this unity.
is
most important, there
against anything that can dis
If vibrations,
in
their
conditions lay along side by side, and one ened, then the
harmony
tion of the impulse in
is
the length of their
when meeting
accom
is
normal is
hast
destroyed and the ac
to increase the vibrations
wave
force.
We
must,
for united effort, insist that each
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128
become
for themselves, shall ans.
Knowing
we must
cur,
them
guardi
be ever prepared, at once, to put this once,
Thus
stronger to continue. soul
own
that disagreeable things will oc
Having done
aside.
their
we
shall be
the music from our
action will not only affect ourselves, but
s
those about us. "Upon
built the
others
statement of principles has been
this
great
as
law of the Temple:
you would have
Do
unto
them do unto you.
All the teaching and training,
all
the ceremonies
and symbolism of the Temple are founded upon this
law
as the corner-stone of the religion of
Having given
people.
this brief
summary
our
of the
truths, our priesthood have in charge, let us pass
on
to a description
of the
Temple
will take the
more
of
some of the ceremonies
service, and, as
an illustration,
Great Feast of the
New
fully including the whole, than
"The
feast of the
March, consummated
New and
we
Year, as
any other.
Year, on the 2ist of
commemorated
the
OF ATLANTIS. Sun
s
re-birth,
when, out of
129 days
equal
new Spring and Summer began
nights a
and
for the
northern hemisphere, and the promise of seed time and harvest was renewed. "At
this celebration
it
is
expected that every
either family in the kingdom should be present,
personally or represented by
some member of the
All the going and coming of the year
family.
planned with privilege
this
for all
made welcome
in
the
view.
It
is
is
considered a
outlying population to be
in the capital at this time.
The
feast lasts seven days. "Let
me
attempt to describe at length, for no
pen can truly portray
all
the wonders of that
marvelous assemblage, one of the
last feasts
which
took place, ten years before the destruction of
The government and
the city.
people were at
that time in their most perfect unity. "About
three days before the set date of the
feast there could be noticed a little stir of prep
aration
all
over the country.
It
was
a
quiet
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130
movement toward
had
one
If
participation.
been lifted above, so he could have looked upon the continent as
upon a map, there would have
been perceived during these three days, long lines of travelers,
some on
foot,
and others by every
method of conveyance, moving upon the converging
As
lines.
extent of these lines close to the city
to overflowing.
and
the time
and
in all the
there
by
its
tents
in the city itself
who had
filled
When
were spread
from the
tents,
and some of cotton, but
white by a process
known
and never imparted
to
in
not some friend
in
was a new appearance given
of linen
were
the houses
the
gardens,
parks and places of assembly.
reflection
the
grew shorter and the ways
or relative in the city proper. filled,
grew shorter
There were but few people
the outlying country
were
city in
Thus
to the light
which were some all
bleached very
only to the Atlantians
any
other
nationality.
Only on the great plateau of the Temple and the areas of the outer courts, no tents were al-
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131
lowed, for that space was necessarily kept clear, that there might be
room
for the greater assem
bly. "As
the ceremonies
were
in
commemoration
of
the new-born sun, the hours of assembly were
morning and evening, and
On
meridian height. as the
dawn
the
at the first
moment
day of the
of the feast,
brightened in the East, out of the
early twilight, there could be heard throughout
the whole city a low, muffled sound like the pour
ing of a swift torrent through a smooth bed, and as soon as
it
was
light
enough
to see all the outer
courts and the great plateau of the
be perceived, crowded with those
Temple could
who had
ar
rived to take part in the inauguration ceremo nies.
Their
faces
were turned toward the East,
between whose far horizon and the eyes of the numberless watchers no obstruction intervened. "When
the
moment approaches
for the appear
ance of the Ruler of the Day, a low, sweet har
mony, sounding
in
rythmic change, welled out
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132
upon the
air in slow, restful time
ing tones, from the great
Temple
and far-reach
choir,
who were
gathered in one of the porches of the Temple, so raised as to be seen by all the vast multitude.
As
the sounds of the chant gradually swelled by the voices of the worshippers, in
power and heavier
titude seemed
to
in
volume,
to
who
one
pose.
The
cation
is
all
the vast
mul
sway, under the psychic spell
of this invocation to the
come
became more intense
Sun
;
this
returns to his
symbol of wel
work and pur
minutes move quickly on, the invo
finished, a blast of
trumpets accompany
ing the final note; the orb of day, with tropical
suddenness springs from his bed beneath the
As
his first
beams
tude, they drop
fall
upon
sea.
upon the countless multi their knees.
With bowed
heads, in silent adoration, they ascribe all glory, all
power,
all praise to
that which stands to
as the manifested source of
life,
of
health, of
strength, the ever sleepless eye of the One.
they separate.
The
them
Then
hours are spent in social con-
OF ATLANTIS. verse, or the it is
rest
and quiet until
high noon.
"As
streets
places
Sun approaches
the
and byways,
the meridian, all the
the
all
in
housetops,
all
where there may be a worshipper, behold
face
his
abandonment of
133
moment
At
turned towards the Temple.
the
of meridian altitude, above the highest
pinnacle, a crystal ball, almost as dazzling in brilliancy as the sun itself, shoots up,
few moments
its
and for a
receives the concentrated thought
of all the faithful throughout the city, as the re
minder of the good messenger of the One, the heighth of whose glory in the ple.
evening there
The
is
is
now
perceived.
Tem
ceremonies of the morning are re
peated, with the exception that the song
of farewell
Again,
a convocation at the
;
the multiude facing the
is
West
stead of the East, and the hushing sounds
stringed instruments attend his exit
from
one in
of
the
Western horizon. "These
ceremonies are continued for six days.
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134
There are various other ceremonies which take up the time of portions of the Convocation, between
whole.
assemblies of the
these
lines of
Temple
services,
of the sciences having
There
work and
are
who
are allied in
This em
the great Brotherhood of the Temple.
braced the whole people in
its
ramifications.
not necessary to describe these in
But during
minutiae.
these six days there
always having
The moving
and
talks
from those who were
from
all
after the
ness
waning
the courts of the
The hum
Temple.
so
well
full fountains to the
But
inner souls, eager to be fed.
more,
city,
guides or guards, lec
Temple
qualified to give forth
draws on
was
of a procession through the streets,
a convening of the tures
moving
force at the
It
their
all
continually something taking place in the its
Each
study.
appropriate place and
its
each being developed by those
is
also
as the evening
of the sixth day, once
Temple were thronged.
of conversation dies
grows more and more
away
intense.
as the
dark
OF ATLANTIS. when
"Now,
the
it
have become quite dark,
shall
Temple Choir opens of
song
invocation.
13$
the exercises with the
It
differs
from
all
the
music of the Convocation, hitherto, in key, rythm
and
time.
In this
sound vibrates
was
tians
As
the people join.
ef
perfectly indescribable, for the Atlan-
were
especially celebrated for being sweet
When
singers.
the
swelling cadence, rising and
amongst the echoing mountains, the
falling fect
in
all
the singing
was
finished the chief
upon a Tribune
instructor of the people stood
high raised, and there discoursed of the things
which concerned them most intimately physical life; of whatever they stood
need; of health,
how
the
Sun was
most
the in
and
life
and plenty and peace, the sign and repre
sentative of all good.
Then he
tention to the darkness,
upon them, enforcing
Then
them
to
in
his peroration
"The
darkness
is
rest
was
directed their at
which and
sat so uneasily
inability to
work.
after this fashion:
death and desolation, and
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136
when
thus, in the beginning, the Existent saw,
he said this
Let there
:
word
be,
and there was,
At
light.
millions of lights gleamed out all over
the Temple, inside, outside, even on the highest It stood forth
points.
was only one thing about
glory, for there tricity
one blaze of white marble
the Atlantians do not know, that
elec is
the
point where knowledge lays hold with potency
upon the One,
in its
inmost and supreme integ
rity of existence. "There
are other ceremonies of minor impor
tance, pertaining to the night, but this
most important.
There
are no
sacrifices,
shedding of the blood of animal or tims.
The
is
Atlantians do not believe
human it is
the
no vic
neces
sary to teach destruction or destructive action by
such
sacrifice, in
the burning or destroying of any
living thing, for they say
structive site.
So
and we ought all
man
is
to teach
naturally de
him the oppo
our ceremonies lacked the hideous
shadow of agony and
horror, that will be sure to
OF ATLANTIS. come
if
man
forgets our teachings.
137
But
the great
object lessons served well their purpose in ele
vating the whole people to the same level, and
cementing them into a
common
Brotherhood.
In
the next chapter I will describe as well as I may,
the last great day of the Feast.
CHAPTER XL
of
which
am now
to
speak
concerns the Atlantian nation
when
I
THAT
there
more
beyond,
am
I
edge.
was in
for
it
of
to write unguardedly, but lest there
prosperity
glory,
warned
come power
seemingly
the
with
nothing or knowl
Unseen
not
circumspection,
for mischief, to the
unob
ligated. "In
the olden days,
when
step
by step we had
painfully and laboriously climbed the mountain
heights into the broad blaze of the everlasting truth, the
world lay at our
intellectual
was
and physical
in the earth itself
feet.
status.
That was our Whatever
there
worth having or knowing
OF ATLANTIS. was
our possession
in
and ages of previous
as
the birthright of ages
existence.
we coming
"Furthermore,
139
into
clouded, as the generations to
are not
life
come
will be, by
which will grow thicker and
physical conditions
heavier all along the pathway of the unrolling It will be because,
centuries.
whatsoever there
we
may
having dominated
be of physical workings,
have sought also to master that which
shall
belongs only to the spiritual realm, that
be cut
can
off.
sit in
exist
There
but one God.
is
to explain that
Cause of "In
None
the seat of the uncreated.
by the thought of the Infinite
which
is
we
shall
created
None who
One
can hope
of itself the Existent, the
manifested or unmanifested.
all results
the first part of the development of the
Atlantian nation
all
communication was carried
on by outer sense vibration, even as now. haps the vibrations present.
But
in
were not
Per-
as intense as at the
the latter days they
who
are
instructed are taught by thought transference. "The
education of the young
is
not along the
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140 line of simple
memorizing.
Nor
is
only the
it
unfolding of partially physical senses.
It does
not appeal to material sense for the building of the soul. ditions
We
we
do not hope that out of bodily con
can bring any help to the spiritual.
For we know whatever belongs
to
the line of the physical, rising to
source within
itself
can
rise
and
lies
the
along
highest
no higher than that
point.
More
perfect
form begets weakness and death.
than that, the physical in
can there be anything beyond
this
its
most
How
but weakness
and death? "This
is
one of our axiomatic doctrines.
manifestation
we
In
simply see an exemplification
of that which occurred on the spiritual plane. "In
the days to
come
the professor of
mathe
matics will state an axiom or a proposition, and
then going to the blackboard, and upon
it,
ap
pealing to the sense of sight, will demonstrate in
manifestation the impression he seeks to make, of the secret workings of the force beyond.
If
OF ATLANTIS. he
is
141
a chemist he will bring before his hearers
and out of the unions of these
certain elements,
elements, out of the separation of the conditions,
there will tain,
grow up or manifest
themselves, cer
But
perhaps, startling conditions.
which then takes place ing to prove;
Nor
truth.
it is
is
is
not the truth he
that is
try
simply a demonstration of the
the professor of mathematics try
ing to show you the truth.
He
will simply be
trying to prove that to be true which
he
has
learned from the physical side. "Do
not confound that which
with the manifested.
The
cause, reaching
we
do not
tions,
unmanifested,
unmanifested
cause of everything manifested. exists because the
is
unmanifested
down through
The is
all
way
the
manifested its
primal
the ages.
in these days linger over
or in any
is
So
demonstra
try to prove by simple
festation the existence of the invisible
mani
and un
manifested. "But
the
first
course of training our students
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142 receive
a line of strengthening for their
is
who
If there are those
tality.
men
are so physically
constituted that the machinery of their thought,
the
power by which they could
force outside of themselves,
incompetent, they are of those
who
first
is
treated by the thought
into a healthful condition, as
one of
is
simply
harmony."
days, to us
who
itual conditions
science of
has
come
in these latter
have the pleasure of perusing
manuscript, variously
named
"the
mental science
knowing"
call it
clear-sighted idea, has
and who,
in the
science of truth
what you
will,
is
who was
development of the
manifested the bravery of the old soul.
only to these old souls are
works that of them.
this
science of spir
really a glimpse gotten hold of, by one
is
them up
termed, on the
it is
Really the condition
The knowledge which
It
the
any way unfit or
in
are about them, to bring
physical plane.
of
receive
will stir every It
is,
man
s
intrusted
the
heart that hears
however, by standing before the
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143
world and demonstrating for years and that
which
is
the germ-cell of a most wonderful
knowledge, the unfolding along spiritual lines
years,
and
invisible
can be accomplished.
But
must
I
not forget to state that the privilege of giving out these truths, so that they can be understood belongs to the Atlantian-born. If
these stand in their places to-day
clare their personal
that truth
is
and
afterwards.
it
thick
That
have put forth
So what
to be truth, until
recognized, they have done for
selves a service
clouds
knowledge
not
whether
darkness
may
inclose
w ill
we know
Those who united
them
stand forever and forever. as
an occasional matter
of
was a thing
Old
Atlantians.
for the purpose of increasing
mated themselves
knowledge belonging
those days.
the
portion of the truth which they r
of every-day occurrence with the
best
them
matters
healing after a miraculous fashion
the race
and de
Thus mated,
first,
to it
according to the
the astrologers of rarely happened as
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one of our poets hath sung: ished, sent before
my
time into
world, scarce half-made
one born of woman. this
kind appeared,
on the mental plane.
"Deformed,
up,"
was the
When it
was
this
unfin
breathing fate of
any
any unripeness of
treated
successfully
CHAPTER XII.
students
came together
in classes, or
THE
small assemblies to hear and the
learn of
The Wise Ones
Wise Ones.
did
not undertake to talk to the outer physical senses as I
am
talking to you
to-day,
but
through
more vigorous and per
thought-transference, that
meating condition, which some day, some of you will perceive and
know, and
so largely Atlantian, will session of. to be
this
come
Not only could
whole nation,
into the full pos
the subject intended
taught be fully and completely received, but
with more intensity and a broader wave action on the plane of
intellect,
than you
now
receive.
Suppose, as has been said to you, in this day,
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146
we
while
listened
sit
still
a
it
delightedly,
to give to a class of students,
were
possible
by asking them to
few moments, a demonstration of the
vibrations of color, sound or other sensed vibra tion, that lies just
and you to
you
:
If I, as a professor,
beyond.
as a class, sit listening eagerly, "Sit
for a
still
consciousness and
and
I say
moment, turn inward your
perceive,"
then I could by the
force of thought directed by
my own
mentality
make
visible to
mony
that always does, and must, attend the in
how much
ner vision
much
you the quiet, the peace, the har
better
which
I
it
would save; how
you would remember
when you have brains the
time
to
words
own
symbolyzing
the
vibrations
poorly convey to you, and which no two
This was our
alike.
exactly
intellectually exceptional
and
bril
mental training.
Whoever was
know
than now,
formulate within your
of you can conceive or perceive
liant
it,
of all
particularly bright, desirous to
truth,
whose eyes turning
to
the
OF ATLANTIS. white tower, lifting
great,
14?
itself aloft
shadow they might learn more
its
were always sure
these things,
When
portunity.
the gateway
some
that
Temple, wished within themselves day within
above our
this
to
of
have the op
eventful time
came and
was opened wide, there came
also
the obligation for fulfilling even as the obliga tions
come
to-day.
That which
a master of the later day said
new commandment one
another,"
was
the
the inspiration, the
There must be
Temple.
ten,
you
who
tice all the
this latter
taught
perfect unity,
another.
day had never forgot
have remembered and put
commandments
thought
who
perfect harmony, perfect love for one
Oh, that you of
"A
give I unto you, that ye love
and the most intense dictum of those in
:
of the
in
"dreadful
prac ten,"
concerning the physical, would only recall and practice the Eleventh.
Then
needed
would come.
in the visible life
Seek ye
first
all
that could be
the knowledge and potency of the
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148
Unseen
in
come
you knowledge of
to
the realm of
Truth and all
there
will
The knowl
else."
edge of the physical cannot be so very much. lies
few
along the contemplation of a
not so
foundamental
principles.
make gold
might be considered.
to
difficult
come
as
It
is
simple,
difficult to
It
is
not so
do various other things which have
to our knowledge.
Every
you have
step
climbed along the way, which seemed so cult at
its
It
first
contemplation, after
it
diffi
has been
accomplished, grew easier with the added knowl edge.
Our
records in stone, contained in the great
treasury of the waters, hold embodied tal principles as established truths,
fundamen
which many
earnest souls groping in search along the higher lines to
discover,
lives to
know.
will
come
would give years
Some
of their
of these, sooner or later,
into knowledge.
Those willing
vance, to expend the time necessary, to sacrifices
own
to
make
ad the
and take upon themselves the obliga-
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tion
who
rest
149
upon the consciences of
all
are admitted to participation in the truths
world-wide
in the scope of their action, are
didates for
knowing and understanding.
will certainly advance beyond
can
They
three-fold
the
gates into the great mysteries.
That which belonged
to the Atlantians as a
nation intellectually and morally of all knowledge, except that
the origin and
One
of
whom
I
life.
the control
which belonged
to
This concerns the
alone.
Some days, I
that
power
was
lies
of you
now
knew
perceive as
as
men
women.
behind each one of you
in the olden
But is
the spirit
the same; the
perception that looks out of the eyes
is
the same
perception that looked out of the body or dress
you wore then, thousands of years ago. you of
this
Oh,
if
day and generation could only un
derstand and perceive the treachery of the physi cal embrace, cal
is
how
the
enwrapping
into the physi
only a manifestation for the processes of ac-
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complishment.
If the experiences can
through the body of a man, object of the
coming back
it
come only
takes that.
into the lives can only
be accomplished through the body of a it
accepts that, with
rible
modicum
burdens of pain and
planes.
Ego
its
is
The body everything.
is
If the
mad
nothing!
of joy
agony
The
woman, and
on
ter all
soul of the
CHAPTER
was a doctrine
IT body
XIII.
of the Atlantians that the
of the physical
which enwraps
us,
adapted to the need of the Ego holding
is
it,
as a manifestation of the processes of accomplish
ment.
If the ego
not accomplish
its
coming back
own
unfolding, save through
some particular experience, ticular experience,
From
if
it
into the lives can
is
it
compasses that par
within
its possibilities.
age to age, from generation to generation,
that which stands behind
That which overshadows vine Existence,
is
all,
is
all is
one with the
ever the same.
a part of the
One
Di
a part of
the Divine Existence, indivisible and always the
same.
This was the primary knowledge, taught
first in
the forests, amid the rocks and mountains;
and afterwards
in the
these mountains.
It
Great Temple builded into
must be remembered that
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much
of the
work done
in the
Temple was
accomplished by the control of the elements or elemental forces, which the Brotherhood under stood and exercised even in those far off days, for the lightening of the toil
of
the
physical.
This, you in this day and generation have some
what
But
recovered.
instead of saying to the
force universal, do this,
of
it,
and bring
These
it
you chain some portion
under
limitations act for you,
day and night.
And
so,
of
form.
tirelessly
toiling
limitation
there does not
come out
of the surrounding conditions and vibrations the
reacting powers and forces which generally tend to the physical retarding of any great building
or other
work
made up
of the groans and
toil in
of importance, because they are
moans of those who
the physical body to accomplish.
When
elemental force builds,
cause of
its
retard.
In no sense
forcefulness,
or reparation.
is
There
builds
it
and there
is
be
nothing to
there anything for regret are no tears, there are no
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153
work.
It
It
clean.
is
man
set in
motion and
di
in the
po
which originates
rected by the force
tency of
is
the created,
who
whole
the
blood marks anywhere throughout
thus becomes a
connecting link with the potency of the
One who
manifested as the Universe.
In the northeastern part of the Continent was a group of
reached far the
soil.
down
These
mountains.
rocky
rocks
beneath the ordinary level of
They seem
to
have been buttressed up,
earth apparently from the very center of the self,
but that
future events.
enough
was
it
But
to hold tons
whatever shape So, first
it
in
not
so,
appeared by
it
the
any event they were strong
upon tons of
piled
up rock
in
might appear.
the rocks were cut
down
to a level,
and a huge plaza was thus cleared from
east to
the rising west, in such a fashion that both
and
the setting sun could be seen from any part there of.
Also, the
North Star and
the
Southern
be seen Cross, each low in the heavens could
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154
by anyone standing upon the Plaza.
The human
view was unobstructed from horizon so far as the
to horizon,
power of the eye could
This plaza was ample enough to hold fines every single
at It
one is
time.
It
wonderful
one acre,
if
member
penetrate. in its
con
of the Atlantian nation
was many
how many
acres in
extent.
people can stand on
they are only harmonious.
This great plaza was necessary for the Con vocations,
people
and the yearly ceremonies when
went up
to the
Temple
all
the
to receive guid
ance and instruction for the coming year.
This
Convocation was always at the time of the Ver nal Equinox
when renewed impetus comes both
to the vegetable
Thus
and the animal.
the mountains partly cut
space also for the facade which
of the
from the
this excavation additional structures
added from time
to time, to
Temple Colony.
left
was tunneled
for the interior of the building
and to
down,
meet the
That
is,
into
front,
were
necessities
wings were
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and additional
155
stories added,
all
The rooms
gard to the symmetry of the whole.
and colonnades
all
the whole, which ple Staff,
At
yielded to the unification of
was the education of the
Tem
and through them of the whole people.
the northeast corner, as I
have
mentioned, on the foundations of reaching far
down
into the earth,
story after story a tower,
was
with re
upon
already
solid
rock,
was builded tower
this
s
top
located the tallest observatory that has ever
known
been
in the world.
There, they
were wise, and who were considered
who
best, after
having passed triumphantly through the intrica cies,
the education and unfolding of the lower de
grees,
kept constant
this tower, at its
ward and watch.
lower part,
proceeded
over the great area, the wall of the closing the
Temple
Out
of
forth
Temple
in
Great Hall of Convocation, and the
proper, and from the
the bottom of the tower,
Holy
of Holies at
Light, Strength and
Force, at times of Convocation, streamed forth
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156
as the result of the united
of the Three,
power
But
Five, Seven, Fifteen and Forty-five.
let
us
turn to a fuller description of the tower. "The
tower was
22^
feet in
highest point of the coping.
hewn
It
was
of
built
stone in the shape of the trunk of a tree,
large at
its
ameter, half
growing a
base,
way
smaller in di
little
and then widening again.
up,
model from nature, was considered the
"This
strongest form. nicely cut in
diameter at the
and
The
stones, as I
have
laid in a peculiar cement,
the southern part of the Continent,
once hardened was as firm as the rock the tower bore itself aloft, as
if it
were
said,
found
which
itself.
were one
So
solid
stone.
Over
the top, at the distance of ten feet from
the floor at the coping
was
of glass, and
was a
more than
spherical dome. that,
it
It
was made
of a single piece, as transparent as water itself.
Through ies
this all the
motions of the heavenly bod
could be seen and minuted from convenient
OF ATLANTIS. chamber
points of observation, in the
The
and when
figures,
wise
was
floor of the hall
may
of mosaic,
shall reappear,
it
which
lar disc that
date, its object
its
was
it
At one edge
of
there
was
set in the
was movable
"holy
was another
of
holies,"
"holy
of
highest person of the the Superior
ferior
Wisdom.
spread to protect linen,
who
is
he
woven
and the pur
wall a circu
who knew to the
the secret
Three, one
constantly on duty, in attendance of this
was
it
There Hall
the symbol of the
"Superior Wisdom."
Wisdom and Over
Temple.
in the great
holies"
of Convocation, but that
was
in
at the time of the en
This was known only
whom was
on the
wrought
dedicated.
trance or departure, for him spring.
below.
read in this a history of the founding
of the temple,
poses to
157
the other the In
this floor so tasselated
from
was
injury, a carpet of heavy
so closely that
it
was almost im
pervious to impressions from without upon
The
One
it.
usual wear and tear of things earthly, did
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in the least.
it
upon the whole
surface of this
This was stretched
Upon
floor.
was drawn a
drawn
joined
each
other
at
per
which and
distant
Through
from the
these
were
the intersecting equilateral triangles and
the six-pointed star. scribed circles
of the Three.
the
this
their circumferences,
center of the great circle.
was a
Within
three other circles,
whose centers were each equally
drawn
whole
circle of the
circumference of the chamber. iphery were
the upper
In the center of these in
was placed a
seat,
one for each
In the center of the great
circle
tripod holding a censor, in which burned
Eternal Fire.
In their invocations, when
they were reaching out to conquer in the invisible,
it
new
territory
was absolutely necessary
that
the potency of the
Three should be embodied
the outer circle.
Co-ordinate with
the potency of each ticular circle, while sential should be
must guard
his
from the center
this
effort,
own it
in
was
par es
wafted into space, the potency
OF ATLANTIS. which could
call
These were
and conquer.
used upon especial occasions.
159
These
vigils
all
were
nightly and daily and the record of their observa
were carefully
tions
kept.
These three were
wise men, for they had risen step by step from
knowledge of earthly things and
the
vironments all
to a point
that could or
lantis,
but to
They had furnishings
all
their en
where they could perceive
would happen, not only
to
At
the remainder of this planet.
also attained the point
were not necessary
where other
for their assist
ance, for in the perception of the Divine Birth right, they declared themselves
one with the All
Potency, and so acted, so demanded and so per ceived.
This perception
of station,
was
finally
which conjoined
engendered pride
to their
the cause of their overthrow.
knowledge,
CHAPTER
XIV.
considering the remaining secret
IN
let us
remember that
all
Chambers
knowledge comes
from the home of the Great Gods
where everything
lence
Between the
was
Five,
of
which
that
si
is.
station of the
Three
and
the
a heavy floor of masonry, each stone fitted
into all the others, even as one
piece of solid rock
Had
rock.
is,
the
it
all
is
fitted into its
been one piece
surrounding it
could not
have been more lasting nor more compact.
The
arch of the lower chamber was like the arch of the
upper chamber.
From
the
highest
cavity of the lower ceiling to the floor of
con the
upper chamber was three and eight-tenths feet of solid
masonry.
rested
The
arch of the lower chamber
upon or sprang from
walls of the circular chamber.
five
pillars
in
the
Between each of
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161
was
these a single piece of marble
set,
polished
One was
to the highest possible point.
white,
one was black, one was white, one was black and
Between the two white ones
one was white.
of burnished gold, the art of pre
was a band
re paring which, after being lost for ages, was
covered again in Etruria, whose wondrous mas terpieces are the
time.
marvel and glory of the present
It glittered
and shone,
can respond to the artizan ble mirrors
as only that
These mar
hand.
s
were turned towards the
slight angle,
and
in
them could be
the pages of an open book,
all
metal
earth, at a seen,
as
in
things that were
happening, had happened or were about to hap pen.
That
these had
is
to say,
become
Whoever knew
know
by the art of the Wise Ones,
reflectors of the Astral Books.
the cipher could
the cipher they
must be able
and no person could be in
the Five,
fest this
who under
power
read,
eligible
to
but
to perceive,
membership
training did not
of perception.
When
to
mani
the love of
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1 62
learning and the desire for understanding had
given him the
rudiments of the cipher, he
first
was transferred
hither.
as
Then,
in a vision,
if
he was allowed to give proof whether he could see
and
whence he came
for further training,
was
peared the gift
It
to
him was
his as if
me
it
ap
he had
to say that the Five
were rapid and accurate readers their wills sought to
good was perceived
which was
evil
black mirrors. greatest
if
it.
not necessary for
is
returned
If not, then only that
his.
which had happened dreamed
was
If he failed he
read.
know.
in the
of
whatever
That which was
white mirrors.
or obstructive
was
seen in the
So long as Atlantis was
power and
ber maintained as
I
glory, so long
have described
That
was it.
the
in
its
num
But dur
ing the last twenty-five years of the existence of the
Temple
in the city, the
odd mirror
white had clouded over in a singular
in the
fashion,
growing darker and darker, until the final de-
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163
and to-day, under the waters there are
three black and
two white mirrors; but when
the hour of redemption shall have struck, stain will be
more there
and two black mir
In the records of the past, written on the
rors.
floor of the
ecy:
Once
wiped away from the white.
will be three white
the
upper chamber, there was
"When
struction
this
proph
the three are all black, swift de
cometh
to
the
Temple and
the
peo-
pie."
This had been well known by those whose bition should things,
have led to
higher
and although they wondered
tinuous change for the worse, their
minds become by
so
and
am
better
at the
con
clouded had
their selfish ambitions that
no notice was taken of the dreadful warning.
Although the chamber was
and
there
were neither windows nor doors,
there
were
means of ventilation by which fresh
air
veyed into and out of
this
solid
was con
apparent tomb.
means of entrance were the same
The
as those of the
1
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64
upper chamber.
Although no aperture communi
cated with the sunlight, yet apparently the light
from the great dome overhead, passed through the solid masonry, as though
it
were
ever could be seen by the light
chamber, with
its
magnificent
glass.
What
the
in
dome
upper
of crystal,
could just as easily be seen in the chamber of the
On
Five.
extremely
the floor of this
fine,
chamber
also
mosaic record of the nation, and of
Over
the occult happenings to the same.
was a carpet and a
circle
thirteen
of the
same material
this
this
as that above,
twenty-two and eight-tenths
Within
diameter.
was an
feet in
was drawn a pentagon,
and eight-tenths
feet
on a
From
side.
the center of each side of the pentagon
to
the
point of contact with the circle, a semi-circle
was
drawn. circle
In the center of the circle was a smaller
touching
all
the semi-circles,
eight-tenths feet in diameter. circles
intersected
resembling
elipses.
Where
four
and
these semi
each other were four figures
At
the point
corresponding
OF ATLANTIS.
the point farthest from the center,
to the focus
was
the station of
him who
when you draw
see
was
the sustaining
officiated.
these lines
power
of each
great circle of the environment. ited,
165
supported and sustained.
how
You
will
intimately
bounded by the All were lim
In the inner, the
smaller circle representing with the center,
power
of the
One was
semi-circle of each,
the
reached and held by the
and each was supported
in
turn by that of his brother, next to him, on the left,
cle
and by
his
own
power, until the whole
was completed.
Here
the
triangle has
become the pentagon
and the symbol of the intimate
who
are brothers
pletely.
day
cir
is
was
relations of those
carried out fully and
com
All the civilization the world boasts to the result of the vibrations set in motion
within this noted tower of the Atlantians.
Between the
divisions of the
Three and
Five were three feet of solid masonry.
was arched
as
The
the
roof
the heavens seem to be arched,
1
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66
and
this
arch was lined with an alloy of silver,
gold and copper, an alloy which the citizens of the world to-day
would give much
to be able to
imitate. It
was polished
but strange to
to the highest degree of finish,
say,
it
did not reflect a single thing
taking place in the chamber. in its place
by seven pilasters
one of gold, one of
silver,
:
It
was supported
One
of orichalcum,
one of lead, one of
tin,
one of copper and one of platinum.
This was used instead
of quicksilver, because
the quicksilver could not be retained in place nor
form, and the platinum plate of platinum at
was
its
its
base,
On
the
was engraved
the
opposite.
proportions of the alloy used in this great con cavity.
There were always sounds emanating from Sometimes they were
sweet
and
harmonious,
sometimes sonorous and turbulent; for reflect
anything within the chamber.
reflector of the nation s sounds,
it.
and of
it
did not
It all
was a those
OF ATLANTIS. with
whom
with
all
they had dealings.
the planets, and
it
make sound produce
that in one
So you
color also.
in the
fact
same vibrations
chamber attention was
working of the One
touch
in
also reflected the
colors of the sounds, because the
that
was
was a curious
it
that in reflecting the sounds
It
167
see
called to the
Heavens, and in the
next chamber could be perceived the operations of
man
s
chamber
thought on the Astral plane, and
scribe, the study in
its
we
of the Seven,
first
was
are
now
about to de
of the manifesting of thought
Thus
potency.
in
each
grade,
proaching nearer and nearer to those to
who
they ministered, and first
in the
ap
whom
should have been their
care always, and above everything else their
supreme concern.
This chamber meated by the
no obstruction.
also,
light
like the others,
was per
which knows and recognizes
The
light
quality and quantity as that
permost chamber, and
it
was of equal volume, which lighted the up
had the same peculiarity
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168
and giving
of penetrating
distinct view.
It per
vaded the whole chamber, without having any
Upon
visible source.
this floor also
in mosaic, as in the other
of the history
was written
chambers, a continuance
and progress of the nation and the
city.
Over
this,
too,
was
chambers, the carpet. circle of circle
spread, as in the
Upon
this carpet
other
was a
twenty-one feet in diameter. Within
was
described a heptagon, to the
were drawn
radii,
this
center
thus making each side of the
heptagon the base of a triangle of which the two radii
were the other two
these triangles
each of the
was
was
sides.
sides.
Within each
inscribed a circle,
The
of
touching
center of these circles
the station of one of the Seven.
In operat
ing they might look to the center or the circum ference, or to each alternately.
was done was always with
But whatever
the utmost
harmony
and unity of potency.
There
is still
one more chamber of potent
ef-
OF ATLANTIS. that
fort,
the
Chamber
of the fifteen.
of the
forty-five
was more
is
Chamber
169
school of training than a laboratory force.
The
was seven
In the center
rising above the roof of the
was
that of a
of
thickness of the separating
feet.
occult
masonry
presented a square
it
Within
Temple.
room with the
a square
The
it
sides facing each of
the points of the compass.
Circular windows,
one each, pierced the walls of the four
sides.
The
one on the east was red, the one on the west was blue, the south
The
floor
was yellow, and
was
of a material
and the
laid in tiles,
tiles
were
which generations of wear could
And upon
not destroy.
the north, white.
these
was a
lesson
which
contained absolutely, from beginning to end, the knowledge that
man would
ever need or could
The
expect to attain upon the earth.
might read standing,
if
it
partially.
To
all
wisest
those lacking under
they could decipher,
it
was
still
a
.mystery and foolishness.
This may seem impossible, but
it is
true never-
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170
when man
theless,
the One, find the
will not be such a difficult task to
it
way
to the source
and origin of
and perplexes him on the
mystifies
come from
learns that all rays
all
earth.
that It
is
because he believes there are many, and that the
shadows and changing
are of the es
illusions
sence and quality of the real, that he diffuses his
power and In seats,
arch. foci
this
baffles his
own
inquiries.
in a semi-elipse
Chamber,
were
fifteen
seven on each side of the keystone of the
The
was
roof
was
also square.
a crystal globe,
emanated.
In one of the
from which
In the hours of rest
it
light always
was
necessary.
In the hours of day, light from the outer per
The
meated the room.
way from port,
floor
to
crystal globe
ceiling
without
hung mid
visible sup
swaying gently with the movements of the
thought currents about
it.
In the other focus
of this semi-elipse three brazen
ported on their aloft in their
tails
serpents,
sup
and rearing upwards, held
mouths a censer
in
which burned
OF ATLANTIS. the perpetual
During
fire.
the time of sessions, incense and per
fumes fed by
invisible hands,
fects to those
ance.
It
171
was
brought peculiar
ef
waiting for instruction and guid
who were
here, those
fitted, after
training in the school of the forty-five and wait ing,
were
for admisssion
selected
and
tion for further training
under obliga If they
practice.
kept their obligation they then might sometime
hope for promotion. If they did not keep their obligation then they fell
back.
There
going on in
this
w as r
always more or
chamber
Seven, Five and Three.
know
change
From
Nor were
they allowed
of the powers beyond them, except they
occupied the chair of the Elder Brother,
was
their appointed leader
were considered
Temple
the people, and
as persons of authority
Dwellers.
who
and guide.
They came and went amongst
the
these
from the whole nation, came the
Fifteen, culled
to
of trial.
less
They
were but
amongst little
re-
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moved from
the forces lying below them, which
they utterly and entirely controlled for the pur
pose of massing and using them for concentrated
power.
This chamber rested upon the massive walls of the Forty-five by a ponderous spherical edges
met the
arch,
whose
solid rock, the buttressed
foundation of the world, seemingly uplifted for the very purpose of this support.
Beneath the five
floor of the
was hewn out
the
chamber
"Holy
Great Hall of Convocation,
of
of the Forty-
Holies"
of the
so that the mysteries
intended and desired to be communicated, could
be
made manifest
to the people at
times and seasons.
come
the
stated
This was the ultimate out
of all this interlinking of organization.
The chamber by twenty-five feet thick.
of the Forty-five feet,
Within
was twenty-five
and the walls were twelve this wall,
impervious to sound
or impression from without, the students of this
degree met.
The chamber was
so arranged,
with
OF ATLANTIS. its
lofty,
arched roof and solid floor
woods brought from
all
They who were
sitting,
pounded
finest
were
fully met.
sometimes for a shorter
time, sometimes for days that
seemed but hours,
was
enchantedly to that which to them.
of
quarters of the earth,
that the conditions of pure air
listened
173
There was no lack
pro
of under
standing from crudeness or from any disarrange
ment peace,
of the physical conditions of
which
all
men must
highest point of perception.
have,
harmony and to be at the
CHAPTER XV.
sitting, the Forty-five
THUS
in four
rows of
arranged
seats,
were arranged
eleven in each row,
eliptically, facing a raised dais,
on which sat the Elder Brother, during the hours of instruction.
The rows
of seats
were
raised
one behind the other, and thus gave perfect and unobstructed liberty of sight and perception to
who
the Brothers
sat
upon them
There was always
their ages.
in the
close to the seat
of the Elder Brother, another seat, to
empty always
Elder Brother from the Invisible, as
from
ing in touch
this,
who
filled
as
by an
a mentor
an influencer of the Elder Brother
of the visible, to receive either
and
personal sense; to those
could see on the psychic plane was
and guide,
order of
his
whatever might be given
own knowledge,
more
com
or by his
readily with the invisible
;
thus
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175
receiving out of the realms of the Invisible that
which was needed
for instruction
on any and
all
of the mortal-touched planes.
A wall,
narrow
staircase
which
led to the
was arranged
chamber of the
and a sliding door, opening of those
who knew,
This chamber was
in the thick
Forty-five,
touch
to the lightest
admitted into the chamber.
ceiled
and floored
top
sides,
and bottom, with wood they obtained from the country, to be
known
in the later days as
America, but then a large island.
It
South
was
of a
peculiar hardness, dark red in color, and suscep tible of the
most
was
so well
one
piece.
brilliant
fitted
together that
They who were
trolled the elemental force,
persistently
was
and
set to do.
appeared as there
and lasting
was no
if
it
It
polish.
seemed
like
the builders con
which was able
to
do
manner, whatever
it
So when the door was closed,
it
in the finest
they were in a shell from which
possible escape.
There was no dan
ger from any outer accident, except possibly an
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176
But
earthquake.
for
many hundred
no
years
For many years
earthquake had occurred.
come none was predicted by even the wisest trologers of the
to as
The doorway by which
Temple.
they entered was in the open end of the oval upon
which the
were placed.
seats
Within the whole
chamber, at distances far enough to protect the sight of those
who were
instruction,
receiving
from any bewilderment by the
light,
What
emanating brilliancy were placed. points of light
men
were composed
in the days to
of their lives to
of,
points of these
hundreds of
come, will give several years
know, and never be able
to find
out.
Before these facts shall have again come into the possession of men, there will have been those
who
have come to the place where their
will
hands have
laid,
and so covet. invisible
almost upon the thing they crave
These
torch-bearers,
lights,
held as
it
were by
could be perfectly
sta
tionary for any length of time, or they could be
OF ATLANTIS. moved
as there
diffusing that
At
177
necessity for concentrating or
was
which they gave
forth.
view of the whole number,
times, in full
would come up something acting
as a reflector of
thought action and picturing either the Past or
This great transparent blackboard,
the Future.
so to speak, so
am
you may understand just what
trying to say, held
to dissolve
under the will of those
and while one could
structing,
was an impermeable through stoutly
itself in place,
it;
barrier
see to
or seemed
who were through
any
While
there
such force that
though
invisible.
large enough to rising
up
as
it
it,
of
was
served as an obstruction,
Upon fill
the
it
more
was nothing
that appealed to the sense of sight, there
in
passage
no thick bar of brass could
resist.
I
it
still
al
this clear sheet, of size
whole twenty-five
feet,
might be necessary, for the accom
modation of whatever was thrown upon of the mental conditions of those
der the law set up by those
who
who
it,
out
taught un
in the highest
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178
Chamber
of the
Temple, watched and waited
through the Centuries.
So
the times of in
in
struction, the Elder Brother detailed whatsoever
should come to him out of his
own
mentality, or
should be given him out of the records of the Past, or out of that
which should be the
of sequence, in the Future.
demonstrated upon
this
At
the same time he
invisible screen,
as he described, both as to
result
exactly
what had already oc
curred, or might take place.
Did he
desire to
unfold a line of sequence, then as he talked of the sequence in a particular way, the
whole com
pany would
were
see that all the sequences
that everything
One
moved forward on
Creative Thought, in perfect harmony for
accomplishment of
The
alike;
the line of the
all
events in
manifestation.
things that seemed to happen
were due
to
the perception of the investigator, and to the non-
manifestation at the same time of the peculiari ties
appearing in the individual through which
cognizance was made.
S* But
179
Minute by
us describe one session:
let
minute, there have been persons coming through the door into the chamber, which
close
at
enough for perception, except
clear
range.
and without speaking, come
quietly
forward each
held in the
pleasant twilight, not
softness of a dim,
They have
is
to the seats,
where they have
evi
dently been assigned, then, sitting, have restfully
waited
have
all
tion
was
where the square
held, thus
showing
passed on, and
There was not a as
of defonstra-
came
as they
was nothing between them and
They have
they
in,
from the door of entrance
advanced
across the space
In coming
and peace.
in silence
in,
there
their seats.
all
are
now
seated.
Such a thing
single absentee.
absenteeism or tardiness in the workings of
the Great
knew
Temple was unknown.
the wonderful
power
of
BROKEN ACTION. The hour
Too
well they
CONTINUOUS,
strikes
UN
from a sonor
ously-toned bell, semingly in the center of the
room.
To
the personal sense, no bell
is
visible.
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i8o It
might seem strange that we Atlantians had
any idea of measuring time, but
membered
there
that will ever be
is
known nothing ;
those,
were not only eager
eager for knowledge,
We
had perceived and
human knowledge.
received all
the hour strikes in the
scribed,
re
that the world
was not received by
to understand, but to use.
As
must be
nothing not known; nothing
will ever receive, that
who,
it
the
forty-four
manner
I
have de
and the Elder Brother
looking up, perceived a form dim and misty in outline, has filled the chair of the presiding in
structor.
which their
Sitting in the position of meditation,
in the later times the
Temple work, and
their books of stone,
Egyptians copied in
left
us on record, on
they concentrate on
the
thought of unity.
There were
three points
upon which they con
centrated in succession: Unity,
Love,
for
these
fested, so they
Harmony
three constitute
who were
the
and
Unmani-
in the Forty-five
were
OF ATLANTIS. When
taught.
181
the quickening of the Invisible
within themselves had become exalted, at a sign
from the Elder Brother, they stood, and making a sign that
is
recognized by both the visible and
the invisible, repeated selves potency, force
bration.
them
words having of
and intense harmonious
vi
These words were reinforced by other
vibrations resembling the rolling sound of a great v
It
organ.
was a reverberation
partly
reflected
and partly responsive, out of the Invisible by
which they received answer, and thus
the sense and condition of desire,
into
unified
most perfect form for whatever might and
in its
could be given them. I
became
am
speaking,
On
this night of
the Elder Brother
which
commenced
describing the possibilities of unfolding in all
who
were present; of the unfolding of the Earth condition; of the things that in the
way
s
would bear down
of clouds and darkness; of limitation,
obstruction and opposition, and as he described, step
by
step,
that
which might come under
cer-
1
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82
tain circumstances, the screen of almost invisible
material quivered and
shimmmered
with
the
those
who
perceived with only the physical eye, there
was
lights
and shades passing over
only a dancing of lurid
come
into
more
sible to perceive,
To
it.
To
fires.
each
perfect condition,
it
who had was pos
not only the play of the light,
but the varying colors and forms which lay be hind the colors, not only upon the pictures of the scenes, but
upon the scenes themselves.
ture presented itself as the Eternal
The Fu
Now.
One
of the Forty-five, looking forward, not dreaming that all that seemed to occur, in
was about
to
come
the close Future, hardly attempting to esti
mate
time,
Wisdom,
saw
then,
for the Ages,
how
the Brotherhood of
might
find itself for a time
unrepresented upon the earth ligations
;
but,
under the ob
which make the members of the Broth
erhood acting, living members, whether living or dead, so the membership in the invisible sought, desired and brought about the
remanifestation
OF ATLANTIS. and rehabilitation.
made and trated
went
new
183
and
All the signs
were
desired to be emphasized,
upon our
on, in that
And
screen.
which was
recreation, so to speak,
points illus
thus, as the time
dawn
to be the
we
of a
perceived certain
gatherings of the far Future were also being pic
tured upon the scren. for
it
seemed, as the
I
remember
memory comes
it
to
all
me
well,
out of
was some responding condition
the Past, there
within myself, not only did
I see it
and
feel
it,
as
regarding myself, but that others would then
come
into
help
would
as
it
at
that time,
recall the
whose presence and
now, but
ancient days, and they
to be
would
known
testify
then
to the
truth of the then pictured.
cannot
I
tell
you fully of
all
the drapings and
decorations and precious metals this
chamber, but you
may imagine
nothing was spared to make in
that
it
a
adorned
for yourselves fit
place,
both
the conditions of the visible and in the po
tencies of the invisible,
drawn from
all
over the
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1 84
world for the inculcating
in
strongest, the truth of that
They who now
verified.
its
and
fullest
which will be
in life,
know
its
fully
not only
of the lower, but also of the higher, thus per ceive the apparently futile in
for
to fulfill in the
Thus
through the sense of
or by thought transference. used, the vibrations
plainly visible to the sense to
addressed.
made themselves which they were
which the thought was projected.
at all times,
during a sessison of the Forty-
there were shadows
more or
in outline, playing over this
the
Whichever
Their vividness depended upon the
intensity with
When
move on
the lessons given to the Forty-five were
method was
five,
All
to be accomplished.
either in voiced vibration,
But
it.
completed outline, whatever was
and designed
sight,
respects has
governing, impelling force, the strength
its
and power of the ages behind
set
many
instructions
Three the play
less
distinct
wonderful spectrum.
were being received from of forms
and colors
were
OF ATLANTIS.
18$
something that has never been seen elsewhere in the whole world.
The
reflections then obtained
have really so impinged upon the Great Astral
Record that the works accomplished have become mighty influences upon the Globe. of
what
Temple thought and
become supremely dominant
the world. will
record
these denizens of the secret chambers of
the Great to
The
As
did,
is
one day
in the affairs of
the cycle rises to completion,
it
He who
is
become more and more potent.
wise and able, has thus given some outline.
CHAPTER
XVI.
tried thus far to give
you a descrip
1HAVEof the Great Temple of Atlantis and tion
Tower
of the
of the world.
by any means after
its
that
was one
That which was all;
even as the
kind above the earth,
largest nor
of the
wonders
in sight
was not
tree, is
bearing fruit
by no means the
most important part of the organic
development.
The
organs of growth and trans
mutation are hidden from the curious eyes of the idle.
So
we
have in the mid-heavens the angels
and
spirits of light;
and
invisible; beneath the earth s surface are the
on earth mortals both
beings belonging to the lower races,
visible
who have
never been subjugated by the spiritual powers of such as held sway in the upper chambers.
These elemental beings later
day as Salamanders,
will be classed in the
Water
Spirits,
Ko~
OF ATLANTIS. and Dwarfs.
holds, Goblins in the Fire, the
It
was
Water and
187 are workers
They
the Earth or Rocks.
in the internal fires of unregisterable heat,
im
that during the latter days of Atlantis, the
mense ple
and jewels, which the
stores of gold
Treasury
held,
were
PRIMAL CONDITIONS.
under
In this also was illustrated
law of Transmutation.
the great
As
manufactured
Tem
the Great
Tower
toward the
itself
flung
mid-heavens, pointing everlastingly upwards,
man
indicated the constant search the extent of his ability,
The
tency.
part of the
is
making
it
to
for truth, light and po
Tower
that sank lower
and lower into the bowels of the Earth, pypied the material and physical uses of that which
capable of transmutation. the lesson of the
itself
man
s
environments.
concerned, Brains.
it
To
It
also
"Descent
So far
as
held within
into
man
Matter"
himself
held also the doctrine of the all
was
was
Three
the world, both Atlantian and
foreign the lesson was:
"In
the heavens above
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1 88
and the earth beneath, and the waters under the earth."
It has already
Atlantis
been said that the whole city of
was arrayed
was never
equaled.
whose glory
in a splendor,
Its buildings
surpassed, either in the
have never been their archi
symmetry of
tecture, in the material used, or in the tasteful-
ness of
was
its
also a
els, in
preparation and artistic designs.
There
marvelous exhibition of gold and jew
a profusness carried
up
to the
verge of the
barbaric.
These means also
used by
all
humble walks
of
for personal
the people, life, if
adornment,
were
even those in the
Atlantis could be said to
have had any such, the relations of poverty and riches long since
had ceased
tention of the nation. ter days that
ply
must be
lifted
It
to press
on the at
was evident
in the lat
some source of almost
easily accessible.
proudly
its
limitless sup
The Tower which
head on high, went
down
into
the mountains the same distance, and the cellars
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189
and sub-cellars were occupied by beings
who had
longed to the lower races,
jugated by the spiritual powers of those
sway
that
be
been sub
who
held
upper chambers.
in the
None
who
of the uninitiated
knew
for a certainty of
which was going on within the mountain.
Three was
Only
to the
fided
by the
Builders.
this
knowledge
To
fully con
them, long ago
all
material things which are deemed of any value
by mortals, or of any use or importance what ever,
had ceased
far as they
the
Temple
to be of consequence, only so
might adorn or make beautiful, either or the City.
Underneath the Sanctuary, entered by a door opening into the solid rock, at the flight of stairs leading
out of the rock.
down
Out
into a
rear,
was a
chamber hewn
of this another staircase
led into a similar chamber,
and
still
another, and
another, and yet another staircase and chamber.
Within
these
chambers were curious imple
of the ments, fashioned for use in the operations
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190
These operations required the use of
workers.
make
certain materials,
to
finishing of their
work more
jected spirit
the manifesting and easy.
power brought back the
Their pro results pro
duced by the various combinations. these implements
Many
of
and operations will come into
the hands of the re-incarnated Atlantians,
from
time to time, and more of them will not be given
out except into the hands of the most trusted few.
In the First Cellar, Spirits of the Air labored
and
toiled,
doing the will of the Masters.
In the Second Cellar, the Spirits of the Earth
moved
to
and
fro, intent
which they were
on carrying out that
to
set.
In the Third Cellar, Elementals whose forms
but thinly clothed the
fierce,
blazing
fires
within,
solved the varying problems of metallurgy.
In the Fourth Cellar, the lowest of Spirits of the great,
ever
man
all,
the
watery deep, fashioned what
needs and lays hold upon from their
realm, either for use or adornment.
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191
moun
Vast tunnels led into the interior of the tains
and the Continent, from each of these
The
lars.
spirits of the air
by a
cel
spiral course,
ascended to the highest points of the mountains,
and here communicated with their fellows
in the
outer world, receiving supplies.
The its
tunnel from the Cellar of the Earth Spir
opened into an inaccissible part of the
tain,
on a
little
plateau,
which was constantly
guarded by an impenetrable
The
moun
veil of fog.
tunnel of the Fire Spirits led under the
Continent, diagonally
down
to the volcanic fires
of the Earth.
The
tunnel of the
Water
Spirits
communi
cated directly with the seas by the shortest feasi ble route.
In the center of the mountain was a cave-like
room, which was the Treasury of the Temple.
This storehouse communicated with
all
four of
the tunnels, and by a secret entrance, with the
Temple
itself.
It
was not only the Treasury
of
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IQ2
the Temple, but of the nation as well.
He who knew would stand at the
the secret
of
in the rear of the
the
Treasury
Moly Holy
Place,
hour of high noon, on a certain day of
the year, and watch until by a peculiar arrange
ment
of the polished marbles, a single ray of sun
light
thrown from the chambers above would be
reflected
upon the wall
only be seen
when
ticular position,
minutes.
the observer
to
this,
the right, and
was
in
a par
he would turn
move seven
steps
a straight line, then turning to his original
position, he took five steps more,
one-quarter to the to
This could
and then but for a period of three
Having perceived
one quarter in
at the back.
left,
and then turning
three steps brought
him
an apparently blank wall, highly ornamented.
But
to
him who had the
key, a slight pressure
on a jewel of immense value, apparently placed there for ornamentation, opened a huge door of rock,
weighing
moved
easily
tons,
but so
and without
balanced
noise,
that
it
and was screened
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193
from view by the shrine which stood
front.
in
Entering boldly, as soon as he stepped upon the settled flagging inside the door, the great stone
back into
first
its
It could be
position.
opened
on the inside by pressing upon a slight projection Thirteen
at the back.
brought him again
to
times
thirteen
steps
a blank wall, through a
high, arched passage, lighted by the never-dying lights
produced by the action of positive and neg
ative earths
combined with the rock, which gave
out an electrical phosphorescent light, the secret of
which perished with the nation, but which
may
be recovered at a later day by the chemists,
as those
who
are expert in safes, recover the for
gotten combination of the locks thereof.
more, he
who knew
and pass within. to the
Temple
Once
the secret spring, might open
The Treasure Chamber opened
Inspector on the day of the Vernal
Equinox, when the sun went
down
in the
West.
CHAPTER XVII.
was a
IT
met
sight that
avarice-tainted soul
lowed gold, silver
would never
to contemplate.
Great
was
charged magnets of the
be very
when
heaps
al
of
the result of con
densed electrical power, acting
come
be
and aluminum, the method used by
us for obtaining which,
to
which an
his gaze,
through
finest steel.
sur
In the times
the forces of induction will, for a time, little
understood.
But
the day will
come
they will have the very best method of ex
tracting
aluminum from the
secret.
These stacked
original clay as their
up heaps of the noble
metals were in quantity sufficient to last for cen turies,
nor
had
their
continuous
production
ceased, but every day added to the increasing store.
Beside these, were heaps upon heaps of price-
OF ATLANTIS. less jewels, fires
some of them
still
of earth and water, in
warm from
tered and shone here in the light
and strong
Here
as
as in the passage-way.
the workers in the various cellars de
From
the civil rulers received whatever they
upon sudden
in the city their
of wealth.
here
needed,
pressure, in their traffic with all out
But
side nations of the earth.
own
there were also
storehouses and treasuries
This was only that which belonged
Temple, and was the
of the servants of the sity,
glit
which was
posited the results of their labors.
to the
the
which they were crys
Both the polished and the uncut
tallized.
full
195
Temple.
the civil rulers could
for reserves in
No human
result of the labors
In case of neces
draw upon
the
Temple
any amount. eye hath seen, nor any tongue de
scribed the immensity of the wealth lying to this
day, in that strong,
the waves.
There
is
mountain treasury beneath enough gold lying
destroy the value of the gold
now
in
in use
it
to
upon
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196 the earth. shall
come
But when it
ury
discovery
who
no karmic weight transferred from its
this
finders.
the inner door that opens into this treas
rests a seal.
inscription:
Upon
"The
Mighty holds
this seal
is
potent Will
of
the following
Most
the
this treasure safely, until the
The Angel
of the restoration shall come.
waters has charge of
and gold were
cupants of the
it."
all
cellars,
jew
manufactured by the oc
and that
tion out of the Astral light, clear-sighted, that
time
of the
It seems hardly necessary to say that the els
shall
from avarice that there
itself
treasure to the shoulders of
Upon
its
will belong to a nation,
have so purified shall be
the day of
made
so
it
was the
reflec
on the vision of the
many
earnest believ
ers in the transmutation of base metals into gold
and jewels.
CHAPTER
manner
THE
tion
was
XVIII.
of adjustment
and
Convoca
after the following fashion
:
As
has already been stated, the priesthood
had charge of the education of the people. There
were some better
fitted
for one thing than an
But those who
other, as even at the present day.
were
especially gifted
with understanding,
combined reverence with intense desire for
who the
knowledge of that which was unseen and hid den, wherever found,
temple
service,
and
separation of the
Those,
Temple
who
were transferred
this
was
chaff.
their training, as part of the
family, exhibited a
intelligence
the
the first step in the
wheat from the
in
to
still
higher degree of
and perception were again
for the Forty-five,
and again
for the Fifteen.
The
in the
selection
set aside
same manner
for the
higher
1
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98
Chambers followed
in
the
same
work
hose best developed and adapted to the
The
be done.
from
order,
training of the Forty-five
was
to
first,
submission to unseen guidance, in a more intense degree than as ordinary scholars of the Temple.
When
they had
reached
the
point where,
be
cause they were asked, they took pains to think
out along any line that ought or might be de sired,
tion
their
power
for broad, intense contempla
had increased until
come second
The
their meditations
had be
nature.
next step was concentration.
steps,
submission,
When
the thought
Notice the
concentration.
meditation,
was well massed and
the vi
brations were uniform and persistent, then they
were taught
to project the concentered
which had been the essence of
As
the absolute Unity,
vine Ideation,
Thought, dweller
meditates, as the
It concentrates,
It projects.
may
IT
thought
their meditations.
as
So nearly
follow this line of
Di
the Creative as the Earth-
procedure,
so
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199
nearly will he be able to lay hold of the
and make
force
it
Unseen
available for all good
pur
poses.
Years of discipline later in the Fifteen,
made each member
Seven ready and expert fection
was
carried
the Forty-five and
in
farther
in
of the
The
in these labors.
still
still
the
per
Five,
where they practiced the attracting of the vibra tions of unseen force, of
alignment with their trolling the It
was
any kind whatever into
own
projection, thus con
powers of the great names.
as
if
workmen
taking a ball of soft
metal from the crucible or furnace, should whirl it
until
it
had assumed a cer
and then launch
it
forth to
rapidly in the
tain form,
air,
fulfill their
will.
But
to the Three, belonged the directing of all
the force thus gathered.
Nor was
there allowed
to be any chance for mistake, not even a clash
ing thought in the minds of the Three.
always determined by the casting of
It
lots,
was
who
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200
should control the outward moving of the vibra tions at
any Convocation, and
the one of the Three, the other potency.
The
the Full
Moon
power of
to the
two added
their
regular Convocations were under of each month.
But
the special
Convocations were under the will of the Three.
When
special
Convocation was desired, the word
given at the last Convocation
WAS
whispered to
each, out of the Invisible, in such a manner, that all
could recognize and understand the
At
the close of the Convocation,
call.
the Elder
Brother of each Section received from the Elder Brother of the highest Section, a word "Myld."
like this:
This the Elder Brother communicated
to the inner sense of the instructed (it never being
spoken aloud), as the closing password of the session.
If there
was a
special Convocation, then,
to
Word
to
each one, came out of the Silence, the the inner ear, and thereby not only
named, but the hour was
fixed,
was
the day
being always at a
OF ATLANTIS. certain distance
was no
from the Sun
s
201
setting.
If there
special Convocation, then at the nxt regu
lar meeting, each one present at the opening, in
low breath, pronounced the given
succession, in
word, so that which had been given out, was again recalled.
The work was Chamber by
the Three.
vocation, the flashed,
ranged
formally opened in the upper
"Center
At of
the
first
word
of in
glowed
Fire"
and
and whatever had been planned or ar for,
was
needing potency
amongst the lower chambers.
apportioned
In the chamber
of the Five, the polished marble slabs reflected
the orders.
In the chamber of the Seven, the
notes of the bell v like the tones of
mony,
told the story.
But
some sweet har
to the trained inner
ear of the Elder Brother, in the Fifteen, as by inspiration,
came
that
which was necessary to be
done.
There was no
hesitation
in
compliance,
timidity in obedience, and no delay in
no
action.
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202
The
gathered force of the whole nation, in charge
were sent forward
of the Forty-five teen,
and
there, as intensified
the Seven, where,
bound
was passed on
together, solidified
shaped, the projected potency
on to the Five,
to the Fif to
and
was again handed
who harmonized
the activity of
the potent vibrations with the vibrations of the
Universe.
Thus
the Universal,
Three,
who
it
changed, from the Special to
was placed
this
hands of the
uniting their force in the One, stood
ready to hurl into space, in
power,
in the
all
the awfulness of
projection of the concentrated po
tency of a nation, by which they could really ex pect to hold and keep everything they had seized
upon.
The
matter of training cannot be understood
from mere description.
Only when students
at
tempt of themselves to bring their mental condi tions
under subjugation, can be understood, how
long
it
takes to accomplish the wonderful things
done by our Ancient Brothers.
CHAPTER
who
XIX.
ruled in Atlantis, as the priest
THEY
hood, were successful
ship of State wisely
in
guiding
the
and fortunately, so
long as they considered the interests of the whole
As long
nation as one.
as they put aside the sense
of separateness, while they only sought for wis
dom, that the benfit growing out of utilized in
for light
As long
common by
all
the nation,
and guidance from them, as the
it
might be
who
looked
was
all
well.
Three, Five and Seven, with the
Fifteen and Forty-five were separate and yet one, the only distinction being, to see
work with
could best
the highest potency in the position
where he was placed, perfect
who
satisfied that the
well and
doing and the acquiring of knowledge
from experience, would bring the reward that comes always
to attainment.
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204
They
looked to the perfect doing, and not to
the result, and out of this desire
grew the con
centration of potency in their hands, which
them the one nation
made
of the earth exceeding all
others in the unravelling of the hidden myster
But
ies.
it
was not a
sometimes of
mains of the
fierce,
task of idle floating, but
desperate warfare in the do
As one
Invisible.
point after an
other unfolded to their perceptions, those
who
held guard over the hidden truths, or those
who
wrought ignorantly or malevolently
to
confuse
mortal understanding, used every effort to up set,
and
if it
were
possible, to cut off the keys of
the Universal principles. years,
And
it
was
many
aye centuries, before they had compassed
the fact that
numbers harmoniously united and
agreed upon a certain, single point, on spiritual lines,
were just
as
powerful as the combinations
on the physical plane, spiritual conditions
w ith T
the difference that
if
were once perfectly trained
and harmonized, there could be no defection nor
OF ATLANTIS. sudden weakness, for weakness
205 no sense a
in
is
While an army, or other mass
spiritual attribute.
of physical conditions might at any time be stam
peded. in
Therefore,
all
none were ad
the work,
mitted to the separate and secret assemblies until the overcoming of the body and
its
was
desires
far advanced, thus leaving the Spirit a clear field in
which
to operate.
Another
point, so soon as the occult ideas
thoughts were strongly developed, a
magnet
lines of
for those
also
served as
who w ere
in or
on the same
from
the
incarnating
r
thought, both
spheres, and
it
and
from other points upon
the
earth,
where lamps lighted from the Atlantian
torch,
by
those
its
inspiring reflection,
who came
more vigorous they gravitated
within
its
search. thither,
had stimulated
reach, to a higher
Knowing and here
of
and
Atlantis,
they
would
have remained and shared with Atlantis the fate that overtook her, blotting out for a time
from
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206 the earth,
had not
the knowledge that
all
those,
who
went
in the Silence of the
before,
Unseen,
watched and foreseen the cataclysm (but not cause),
worked
enough
to
to scatter
its
abroad upon the earth,
become the seed and
salt of salvation
for the generations that have followed.
In
all
the
movements
of the earlier day, the
segregation and massing unavoidably led to the pressing forward to the front, upon the develop
ment, along the
new
lines,
of
some
one
could become, under inspiration, a leader.
was
all well,
and
resists the aggressiveness of
the knife,
who This
excpt as the world always resents
new
ideas,
with
the fagot, the scaffold, and in later
days with the subtiler force of mind, thus crush ing, torturing
and destroying the instruments or
leaders.
They who were
the depositaries of
for the time being, thus
death.
The knowledge
suffered itself
knowledge
ignominious
has been in great
danger from the machinations of secret enemies,
OF ATLANTIS.
from the earth and the per
of total eradication
ceptions of
happen before
its
likely to
firm establishment could be ac
This
complished.
This was
inhabitants.
its
20?
fact
was well known and un
derstood by the malign forces.
Upon
this
knowl
edge they acted, again and again, seeking to have the leaders in occult
movements
either bring de
struction
upon themselves or have others
cut them
off.
entirely
Therefore, those having this matter in charge,
have resolved instead of teaching
men through
the tongue and brain of a Brahma, or a Jesus,
His place should be supplied by a sodality of
many welded
But even her they stand
into one.
face to face with another obstacle.
an
essential, that if the truth
viduality reality,
fronted people,
must
and
in
the
intense
been
be preserved, indi its
perception
in the latter days they will
with
who
increase
It has
individuality
and
be con of
the
are confused and overcome by the
sense of separateness.
They who*
seek to study
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208 on these
lines,
and
wisdom, must as
to gain
were, train the units,
made up
of
it
members, into
a oneness or individuality of the whole and thus shall be
The
born a new
Christos of
union of
many
MESSIAH,
that Great
or a
Cycle,
individuals, or a nation
stand as the representatives of the
ment
new Truth.
who
new
be a shall
unfold-
of Truth.
In the Record of the Adepts, there described as seen by one of the of an image
made up of
will
a vision
Mighty Ones
;
whose head, body and limbs were
of different metals,
iron and
is
and the
feet
were
Each of these metals
aluminum.
represented a Messianic age, a
new Truth, and
an Empire directly relatinfg to some manifesta tion
of
that
leaders of
truth.
These will represent the
the previous dispensations,
and then
follows the vision, a stone cut out of the tain
moun
without hands, which represents a nation
fashioning
itself,
MESSIAHSHIP,
until
it
shall
have obtained
and thus more powerful,
it
OF ATLANTIS. overshadow
shall
pensation
its
manifestation and
that has
come
before.
toward the
light,
ALL
all
are looking
in
209 dis
ALL who
who
are seek
ing unselfishly for wisdom, must, as constituent parts of that nation, attain such light, such wis
dom like
;
and drawing closer and closer together,
drops of mercury
become
as one.
For
when this
they touch, they shall
we work and
wait.
CHAPTER XX.
the
archives
AMONG
country has our
prophecy "And
come
present
of
to
that
time
and
the knowledge of
generation,
the
following
:
shall
it
come
to pass in those days,
in
which the highest knowledge that has ever been given to the world, shall be seized upon by the few, and
if
rightfully
many, will bring
upon the
earth,
But there must
to
and truthfully held for the all
those
who
shall
come
wisdom, blessing and growth. also
be an overcoming of the
natural and physical, which will bring disturb
ance and sore
distress,
because the physical yields
not to the rule of the Spirit, without ance.
All progress in the soul
s
much
career
is
resist
stim
ulated by the instinct of the Spirit to return to the
condition of
its first
powers and
estate, before it
OF ATLANTIS. should have individualized It
the
no
is
power of the
the
or undertake.
Nor
such attempts.
On
or later, enter into
the contrary,
all
resent as sin,
IT
intends that
individualized, shall sooner
all
perfect attainment. fits
ONE.
Spirit to grasp
ONE
does the
who have become
ever
from the
nor crime to seek to know, by
sin,
means within
they
itself
211
knowledge.
come
It shall
That
the
is
to pass,
who
the self for knowledge, shall receive
it,
but whoever attempts to grasp potency without fitted to
being
handle
serious consequences will
and the thing already attained, may be
ensue,
There can be no
taken away.
have knowledge,
shall
it,
in the
that
which
is
of potency,
law of the sults,
or
so far
who
grasping of the very
highest in their pursuit; but
before they have
sin for those
if
they shall seek,
made themselves ready
withheld, simply by their
to grasp
own
force
disregarding the consenting, or the
ONE,
if it
so
then there will come dire re
happen that the nation
shall
have
advanced that their knowledge would be
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212
dangerous to the other nations of the world, use, then will it
its
true, that the physical
an agent
as
upon the
in the
man
is
this
is
of no value, only
computation of the happenings
While
earth.
But
be withdrawn.
in
it
might seem
to
man an
awful thing that millions of bodies should cease to exist, there
was nothing
in that issue that
That was some
be charged against the leaders.
thing distinct, by filled
The
the law.
suffered
itself,
and something that
of the law,
to the created the forceful taking
any
ful
thing for which the leaders
was disobedience
knowledge, for
could
which denied
from the
which the taker
is
ONE,
not pre
pared.
When
limited
there can
t
desire,
lawful, the
now under
be but one
issue.
was no
but simply the outcome
stand, there
of the
power meets Universal potency,
sin,
law of the Universe. which might seem a
sin,
So
Even was
the intense in
one sense
and the result of causes implanted by
Creative
Thought
itself.
They were
not
OF ATLANTIS. responsible, but they
was necessary
that the
213
were the instruments.
It
law should be proved.
It
has always been a saying of the
Wise Ones,
that
those things which seem to be great disasters to the earth-dwellers,
must come
to pass,
and
struments must be used for that purpose. these instruments standing suffer for that
As
in
the
front,
in
But must
which they have provoked.
to the outlook
The
for accomplishment.
instruments of the mighty forces of the Unseen evidently have not desire,
nor that
culmination.
is
developed necessary,
the
strength
for
the
we
perfect
Until further training can develope
proper concentration, they seek to bridge over and to hold
as
much
as possible of that
already been gained.
which has
CHAPTER XXI.
show
of addenda, and to
By way
has authoritative substance for information,
we
assertions
and
give our readers a couple of
from the mass of newspaper flotsam
clippings
and jetsam, of the
The
its
that this book
following
last years. is
the
Maya
account of the
destruction of Atlantis, from Dr. Augustus
Plongeon
s
rendering
of
Troano
the
Le
manu
script : "The
in the
year six Kan, on the eleventh Muluc,
month Zac,
quakes,
which continued without intermission Chuen.
The
mud, the land of
Muj
until the thirteenth hills of
there occurred terrible earth
Being twice upheaved,
it
during the night,
basin
the
shaken by volcanic forces.
country of the
was
sacrificed.
suddenly disappeared being continually
Being confined, these
OF ATLANTIS.
215
caused the land to sink and rise several times and
At
in various places.
last,
the surface gave way,
and the ten countries were torn asunder and scattered into fragments
;
unable to withstand the
force of the seismic convulsions, they sank with sixty-four millions of inhabitants, eight thousand
years before the writing of this
The
other extract
is
book."
of one of the buildings
which reincarnated Atlantians put up, when they held sway in the land of the Nile, centuries after the destruction of their
beloved country:
months ago, while workmen were en
"Some
gaged
own
an attempt to restore the partly fallen
in
Hypnostyle Hall of the great Temple of Karnac, in
Egypt,
eleven
columns gave way and
This was some months ago. had fallen
in ancient times,
and
arations for their restoration that the others
fell,
fell.
Thirteen columns it
was while prep
were being made,
and three others were so
shaken as to compel removal. "Our
archaeological readers will be delighted
OUR STORY
216 to learn that
hundreds of Arab laborers, under
the direction of able engineers, are
now engaged and
in restoring those ancient ruins, the largest
best
preserved
of any
in
Egypt
which
have
reached these times. of these twenty-seven columns will be
"All
reconstructed and placed in their original posi
The uppermost member
tion.
weighs 1242 tons.
The
of each
architraves
column
weigh 25
tons each. "Modern
engineering processes are not equal to
the task of reconstructing this work, so a huge inclined
plane,
requiring
of earth, after the
manner of the ancient arch
will be constructed and
itects,
work
ioo,OOO cubic meters
is
finished,
pleted by "In
which
May of
December
the work,
it is
removed when the
expected will be
com
1904. last
M.
Legran, in charge of
came upon a wonderfully beautiful bust
of one of Egypt
s
olden gods.
of the statue have subsequently
Other portions
come
to light,
and
OF ATLANTIS. it is
to
217
hoped the residue may be found and restored
its
entirety,
save,
complete one of the
Khonsu pieced
in
of Thebes,
the
possibly, legs.
God
a small piece to
This of
statue,
labeled
the Day, will be
reconstructed Temple,
and
it
is
expected other treasures of ancient art will be
unearthed in the farther removal of the debris of ages
which has accumulated
FINIS
in these
ruins."
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