ANCIENT MYSTERIES / NEW AGE "Scholarly, meticulously researched, and superbly presented. Joscelyn Godwin has produced a wonderful book that will delight and impress all those who seek 'Atlantis, ' be it a myth or reality. I urge you to read it!" --Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery and Egypt Code "As absorbing as it is erudite, both comprehensive and profound, essential as a reference work, and quintessential to grasp the depth and breadth of a grievously misunderstood, perennially fascinating, and perhaps critical subject, Atlantis and the Cycles of Time is a unique work: the 'compleat' Atlantis." --John Anthony West, author of Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt Atlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity from ancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and esoteric world wrote at length on their theories of Atlantis--about its high culture, its possible location, its ultimate demise, and their predictions of a return to Atlantean enlightenment or the downfall of modern society. Beginning with a review of the rationalist writings on Atlantis--those that use geographic and geologic data to validate their theories--renowned scholar Joscelyn Godwin then analyzes and compares writings on Atlantis from many of the great occultists and esotericists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Fabre d'Olivet, G. I. Gurdjieff, Guido von List, Julius Evola, Edgar Cayce, Dion Fortune, and Rene Guenon, whose writings often stem from deeper, metaphysical sources, such as sacred texts, prophecy, or paranormal communication. Seeking to unravel and explain the histories and interpretations of Atlantis and its kindred myths of Lemuria and Mu, the author shows how these different views go hand-in-hand with the concept of cyclical history, such as the Vedic system of the four Yugas, the Mayan calendar with its 2012 end-date, the theosophical system of root races, and the precession of the equinoxes. Venturing broader and deeper than any other book on Atlantis, this study also covers reincarnation, human evolution or devolution, the origins of race, and catastrophe theory. Educated at Cambridge and Cornell, JOSCELYN GODWIN, Ph.D., is a professor of music at Colgate University and the author, editor, and translator of more than 30 books, including Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World. Known for his translations of the works of Fabre d'Olivet and Julius Evola as well as Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he lives in Hamilton, New York.

Preface and Acknowledgments

One - Atlantis of the Rationalists
The Atlantic Ocean d Arctica - Sweden - Germany -Britain - The Sahara Desert - Crete and Thera -Malta - Sicily - Cyprus - Turkey - The Caribbean -Central America - Venezuela - Bolivia - Antarctica - Everywhere - Allegorical - Nowhere

Two - The French Esoteric Tradition
Delisle de Sales and the Age of the Earth - Fabre d’Olivet’s Philosophical History - Saint-Yves d’Alveydre’s Synarchic History - Edouard Schuré’s Great Initiates - Papus and the Cancerous Moon - Paul Le Cour and the Sacred Heart - Pandora’s Box - Jean Phaure: Return to Tradition

Three - H. P. Blavatsky and the Early Theosophists
Neoplatonic Forerunners and Isis Unveiled - The Mahatma Letters - Fragments of Forgotten History - The Secret Doctrine: The First Two Root Races - The Third (Lemurian) Root Race - The Fourth (Atlantean) Root Race

Four - Later Theosophists
A. P. Sinnett and “Mary” - William Scott-Elliot and His Sources - A Child’s Story - Leadbeater Again - Rudolf Steiner and Theosophy - Alice Bailey and “The Tibetan”

Five - Germanic Atlantology
Lanz-Liebenfels and the Sodomite Apelings - Guido von List, Father of Ariosophy - Postwar Reconstruction I - Herman Wirth and The Ascent of Mankind - The Fall of Herman Wirth - Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century - Karl Maria Wiligut’s Ancestral Traditions - Peryt Shou, the Outsider - Postwar Reconstruction II

Six - Two Traditionalists
René Guénon’s Early Investigations - The Polar Mountain and the Underground Kingdom - Julius Evola and Pagan Imperialism - Guénon, Evola, and Wirth - The Primordial Tradition and Its Decline - Priests versus Warriors

Seven - The Britons
Atlantis in the Inner Light - The Revelations of a Normal Lad - Psychometry on the Brink of War - Lewis Spence’s Occult Trilogy - The Messages of Helio-Arkan/Arcanophus - The Return of Stainton Moses - The Sky People and the Avalonians

Eight - Some Indepenents
Mayan Connections - Raleigh and the Yucatán Brotherhood - The Churchwards and Mu - The Rosicrucians - Beelzebub’s Descents to Planet Earth

Nine - Channeling in the New World
Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible - Phylos the Tibetan - An Inspirational Lecture - Rĭn-gä’-sĕ nŭd Sï-ï-kĕl’zē - Edgar Cayce - Mount Shasta Again - We Are All Star Guests -
Tibetan Pretensions

Ten - Channeling in the New Age
Remembering Lemuria - Meeting Orthon - Other Flesh, Secret Places - Seth Speaks - Tom and the Nine Ramtha the Lemurian - The Changing Light at Sandover

Eleven - The Four Ages
432,000, the Ubiquitous Number - Guénon Reveals the Code - Alain Daniélou’s Puranic Chronology - Gaston Georgel and the Rhythms of History - Interim Reflections - Fabre d’Olivet Reverses the Yugas - Buddhist Systems - The System of the Jains - Sri Yukteswar

Twelve - The Precession of the Equinoxes
Precession of the Rationalists - Before and After Hamlet’s Mill - Precession of the Mythologists - The Age of Aquarius - The Reigns of the Archangels

Conclusion Recurrent Themes of Occult Atlantology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Educated at Cambridge and Cornell, Joscelyn Godwin, Ph.D., is a professor of music at Colgate University and the author, editor, and translator of more than 30 books, including Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World. Known for his translations of the works of Fabre d’Olivet and Julius Evola as well as Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he lives in Hamilton, New York.