A comprehensive study of the major occult writings on Atlantis

• Fully examines the many occult teachings on Atlantis, including those from G. I. Gurdjieff, Madame Blavatsky, Julius Evola, Edgar Cayce, Fabre d'Olivet, and Dion Fortune

• Shows how these writings correlate with the concept of cyclical history, such as the Mayan calendar and 2012, the Age of Aquarius, and the four Yugas

• By a renowned scholar, author, editor, and translator of more than 30 books

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 René Guénon, 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.

Joscelyn Godwin was born in Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England on January 16, 1945. He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B., 1966, M.A. 1969). Coming to the USA in 1966, he did graduate work in Musicology at Cornell University (Ph. D., 1969; dissertation: "The Music of Henry Cowell") and taught at Cleveland State University for two years before joining the Colgate University Music Department in 1971. He has taught at Colgate ever since.

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'ze - 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

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Index