Edgar Cayce's Atlantis. John Van Auken

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       Map showing general locations of Atlantis and Lemuria according to Cayce’s readings. Illustration—Greg Little.

      In addition to the beginning of Atlantis in 210,000 B.C., key dates in the history of Atlantis are 106,000 B.C., when Amilius and Lilith begin a new era of enlightenment and gender-separated bodies. 50,722 B.C. was the approximate date of the first major destruction of Atlantis, which broke the massive continent into five island regions. The second destruction of Atlantis began in 28,000 B.C. and seems to have occurred in several stages, ending in 22,006 B.C. The end point of the second great destruction of Atlantis was, according to Cayce, the historical Great Flood of the Bible. One reading dates this event to 22,006 B.C. (E.C. 364-6). After this second destruction only three major islands remained: Poseidia, Og, and Aryan. At each of these destructions, massive migrations to other lands occurred, taking Atlantean influence far beyond its shores.

      Another key date in the history of Atlantis is linked to the purposeful division of humankind into five distinct parts. Five divisions of humanity were chosen because it is “the natural number of incarnate man.” The date for this event is slightly problematical, but it probably occurred before the 50,722 B.C. destruction. W.H. Church’s book, Story of the Soul, concluded that the five races developed in 12,000 B.C. by calculating back in time using biblical chronology of Adam and his descendants. But two Cayce readings (364-13; 5748-1) indicate that the division of the races happened before 50,722 B.C. Thus, we conclude the correct date for the appearance of the five races was likely before 50,000 B.C. The reason that the division of humanity occurred was because the souls of the incarnate beings had become so enmeshed and entwined with the physical matter experience that “escape” from the physical world required perfected bodies that focused on specific sensory problems.

      A Mayan legend may well be addressing this exact event. The legend tells how the Lords of the Underworld had so confused and brought down the Children of God, that the Children entered into the “Seven Caves” for a pow-wow. At this meeting the Children acknowledged for the first time that they were not going to get out of this third dimension of form easily because they had become trapped in matter and were now caught up in the evolution of matter. This was to be a long and difficult journey, filled with struggle and suffering. Cayce called this “the journey up through selfishness.” To help share the challenges, the one soul group of descended human souls decided to separate into five groups, each taking on some of the challenges of celestial spirits trapped in terrestrial matter, of cosmic, formless minds encased in finite physical form. Prior to 50,000 B.C. the one group of incarnating souls separated into the five “races” of humanity that we know today (yellow, red, black, brown, white), and into the five initial nations, at five initial locations: Gobi for the yellow race, Atlantis for the red race, Nubia (Africa) for the black race, western Lemurian highlands of the Andes mountains for the brown race, and the Caucasus and Carpathian mountains for the white race. Each race took on one of the five senses as their special burden to optimize while subduing the sense’s negative aspects. The yellow race took hearing, brown smell, black taste, red touch, and white sight. More on these later. In addition to the five senses, five races, and five nations, Cayce’s readings mention five reasons, five spheres, and five developments, but the readings do not explain these further.

      The final key date in Atlantis’ long history is 10,000 B.C. This is the approximate date that Cayce gives for Atlantis’ final and complete destruction.

       The Glory Days of Atlantis

      According to Cayce’s readings, the glorious period for Atlantis depends on what one considers to be the highest good: high-technology, physical comforts, and power or celestial attunement, psychic abilities, harmony with Nature, and consideration of others. He breaks these glory days into two periods, but does not give exact dates. We can surmise from his many comments that the high-attunement, relatively low-tech period was from it’s beginnings in 210,000 B.C., through the period in which Amilius ruled, beginning in 106,000 B.C. and ending with the rise of warrior energies and a leader named Esai.

      Esai and his kind sought personal pleasure, high technology, and physical power. They devoted the Atlantean resources to the development of high-tech devices and weaponry. They introduced blood sacrifice and sought guidance from discarnates, mostly ancestors who had passed on. They developed hierarchies and formed armies and slaves to do their unpleasant work. Though it is not clear when Esai began his reign, it was before the first destruction, in 50,722 B.C., because one of the causes for this destruction was a result of Esai’s edicts that allowed the Temple crystals to be recalibrated for warfare.

      Cayce said that the Atlanteans were originally a “peaceful peoples” whose development in physical form and physical power grew rapidly. He explained that this was because: “They recognized themselves to be a part of that about them. Hence, as to the supplying of that as necessary to sustain physical life as known today, in apparel, or supplying of the bodily needs, these were supplied through the natural elements.”

      Due to their oneness with the Natural Forces, the Atlanteans quickly developed those abilities that “would be termed the aerial age, or the electrical age, and supplying then the modes and manners of ‘transposition’ by that ability lying within each to be transposed in thought as in body.” They could travel in their minds as well as travel in their bodies. Amazingly, this was not simply in the earth realms! Cayce said that they were able “to transpose them bodily from one portion of the universe to the other”! However, as time passed and materiality took greater hold on the Atlanteans, many lost these psychic abilities. They therefore began developing the famous high-tech Atlantean devices for air, water, and space flight.

      Initially, their technology was not motivated by desires for power but by need. For example, the need arose for particular individuals to travel fairly quickly over vast distances. This led to the development of lighter-than-air ships. When asked to describe Atlantean airships, Cayce gave different answers depending upon which period in Atlantis’ history was being discussed. In a reading for the early periods of Atlantis, he described a flying ship that used low-tech pachyderm skins that were sewn together. The airship was filled with gases for lifting the device and simple panels were used to convert the sun’s rays into heat or electricity for impelling the device to move by turning a propeller.

      However, he said that the metals used were a result of a lost art for making very light metals that could be used as both conductors and nonconductors. The nonconductors were used to construct the framing СКАЧАТЬ