This article starts with a description and layout of the continent of Atlantis, which matches the features of North America. As you read this section, you will find that the structures and terrain features have been given their present day names, with Internet links provided for your reference. This will help to identify the features when reading the descriptions of Atlantis in the actual books.
The Brief Summary
Our Story of Atlantis
Our continent of Atlantis follows the general outline of other continents found in the world. It is about 1,000 miles wide at its narrowest point, which was measured between Guatemala and the Florida Plain and 3,000 miles long at its widest dimension, which was measured between California and New York. The surface is mostly level and consists of vast fertile plains, which cover the great plain states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The Great Plain States:
www.luventicus.org/maps/unitedstates/greatplains.html
The continent is mountainous, with the Rocky Mountains running north and south near the western side of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run northeast along the eastern side. From these mountains, the Mississippi River acts as a watershed. With its many branches, it drains nearly the whole length of the continent.
Mississippi River:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Mississippirivermapnew.jpg
Much of this water is diverted through artificial canals to the Tampa Bay bypass canal, which flows into McKay Bay at Tampa. This canal has locks that help transport cargo to the great port at Hillsborough Bay near the city of Tampa.
McKay Bay in Tampa:
www.google.com/maps/search/McKay+Bay+into+Tampa/@27.9411802,-82.405119,4046m/data=!3m1!1e3
The Great Temple in Chichen Itza, built both for use and symbolism, is to the northeast of this boundless continent on the Yucatan Peninsula. It is located on this plateau of many acres where the gradually rising ground begins to break into foothills. The whole surface had been leveled and paved with some soft material of which the Atlantans alone knew the secret. This hardened under the action of the sun and atmosphere, until it was like adamant.
Chichen Itza:
www.world-mysteries.com/chichen_kukulcan.htm
Upon this broad expanse of level space, close enough to the mountains (the Sierra Madres) to be buttressed by their mighty arms, stood the great, white-walled temple, Teotihuacan, facing the south with ample area for assemblage. Beyond the great plaza, toward the city, trees and fountains shaded and beautified clear up to the naked edge of the vast pavement.
Teotihuacan:
www.world-mysteries.com/wm_dwp_teot1.htm
Teotihuacan is in the northeastern part of the city. Its lofty tower bears upon its top the finest observatory ever built and occupies the northeastern quarter of the Temple grounds. This and the temple itself are protected from attack on the north, east, and west by the local mountains, which serve both as a defense and a foundation to support the massive structures.
To the east of Mexico City, a belt of country called the Florida Plain reaches to the seacoast. It was not level with the ocean because of its height above sea level. However, it had also been smoothed and paved so that there would be no obstruction to the eye until it rested on the far horizon.
The belt of country:
www.google.com/maps/@23.8232598,-92.1917529,2005321m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
This city which is beyond the immense area occupied by the grand city covers upwards of 75,000 square miles, has been cultivated from time immemorial and is one vast garden.
This plain is liberally irrigated from the river, which is a canal 600 feet in width and 100 feet in depth, extending around the plain 12OO miles. Not only were these waters used for irrigation, but through a system of locks at the port, galleys can be raised and lowered into the grand canal where they both receive and distribute cargo. Here they transported all kinds of products in the interests of commerce. It is hardly necessary to mention that the population of this plain and the surrounding Appalachian Mountains was in the millions.
The First Americans – Part 5, “The Windover Bog People”:
youtu.be/teh90FTIKec
In the center of the city, now Tampa, were the royal palaces, protected by three immense canals which were built entirely around them, with two intervening zones of land. These canals are connected with the great sea by another canal 300 feet wide, 100 feet deep, and six miles long.
Small Island of Atlantis:
www.google.com/maps/@27.9323936,-82.4513301,1948m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Another great landmark is found in the foothills of the country leading away from Florida into Georgia. The Great Temple, dedicated to MO, has been built among these hills and mountains, which is now known as the Kolomoki Mounds in Georgia. This temple was dedicated to the God known as the ONE and, the All. This temple seems to have been destroyed by the flood.
Kolomoki Mounds:
www.rd.com/advice/travel/historic-park-kolomoki-mounds-in-georgia
From what I have already described, perhaps this next feature will be plain to see. The new royal city was laid out like a disc, with a segment wanting where it is fitted against the foothills of the northern mountain range. Broad avenues in a semicircle begin at the mountains and end at the mountains. These are crossed at regular intervals by other avenues, forming the radii of the circle. In the center of this circle is what is now El Caracol, Texcoco, but was at one time the King’s palace.
This is a faint portrayal of that which was really the culmination and concentration of the Nation’s thousands of years of existence and unfolding. “Never will there be so many people gathered in the same place at the same time,” said our prophets and Magi.
The King’s Palace, El Caracol, Texcoco:
www.google.com/maps/@19.570296,-99.002685,1025m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
This brief chapter discusses some of the important features that both Plato and Dr. Phelon wrote about. Each writer mentioned the same features more than once in their books, giving a bit of new information each time. This is where we learned that Mexico City became the grand city and Tampa was the great port city of Atlantis. To get the story the way the authors told it, you must read their books. Also, keep in mind that your interpretation of the stories might be different from that given here.
Our Story of Atlantis: Written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood By W. P. Phelon, M. D., Research Done by La Plongoen.
Found in Perking Library, Duke University, Rare Books
archive.org/stream/ourstoryofatlant00phel#page/n2/mode/1up
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PLATO’S ATLANTIS – THE COMPLETE STORY
The full story of Atlantis was told by Critias, recorded by Plato, and translated by Benjamin Jowett. Since Jowett’s translation contains errors in grammar and syntax, scholars have criticized his work and attributed those errors to carelessness. Some of the mistakes and errors may have been corrected in editing. The complete story is presented here. It has three sections: The Overview, The Story of Athens, and The Story of Atlantis. If necessary, scroll down to find the story of Atlantis.
Note: As you read the story, disregard the mythology for now. Also, Solon, the original author, changed some of the names in Plato’s story so that they would be familiar to the people in Greece.
The Overview
Note: The overview covers the discussions that took place leading up to the telling of the story.
Socrates: Very good. And what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which Critias declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact?
Critias: I will tell an old-world story which I heard from an aged man; for Critias, at the time of telling it, was as he said, nearly ninety years of age, and I was about ten. Now the day was that day of the Apaturia which is called the Registration of Youth, at which, according to custom, our parents gave prizes for recitations, and the poems of several poets were rec
ited by us boys, and many of us sang the poems of Solon, which at that time had not gone out of fashion.
Note: The Apaturia was a festival during which people registered the children who had been born in the previous year. On the third day of the festival, schoolboys were expected to give recitations as entertainment.
One of our tribe, either because he thought so, or to please Critias, said that in his judgment, Solon was not only the wisest of men but also the noblest of poets. The old man, as I very well remember, brightened up at hearing this and said, smiling: Yes, Amynander, if Solon had only, like other poets, made poetry the business of his life, and had completed the tale which he brought with him from Egypt, and had not been compelled, by reason of the factions and troubles which he found stirring in his own country when he came home, to attend to other matters, in my opinion he would have been as famous as Homer or Hesiod, or any poet.
And what was the tale about, Critias? said Amynander.
About the greatest action which the Athenians ever did, and which ought to have been the most famous, but, through the lapse of time and the destruction of the actors, it has not come down to us.
Tell us, said the other, the whole story, and how and from whom Solon heard this veritable tradition. He replied:
In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais, and the great city of the district is also called Sais, and is the city from which King Amasis came. The citizens have a deity for their foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers of the Athenians, and say that they are in some way related to them.
To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old.
On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world—about Phoroneus, who is called “the first man,” and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened.
Note: The story of Deucalion and Pyrrha is the Greek version of Noah’s Great Flood. They thought the flood was a means to punish humankind.
Greek Version of the Great Flood:
www.authorama.com/old-greek-stories-6.html
Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why.
There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father’s chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt.
Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; at such times those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves us.
When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient.
The fact is, that wherever the extremity of winter frost or of summer does not prevent, mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers. And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informed—if there were any actions noble or great or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old, and are preserved in our temples.
Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves. As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children.
In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which survived.
And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when the city which now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven.
Solon marveled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to inform him exactly and in order about these former citizens. You are welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for your own sake and for that of your city, and above all, for the sake of the goddess who is the common patron and parent and educator of both our cities. She founded your city a thousand years before ours, receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the constitution is recorded in our sacred registers to be eight thousand years old.
As touching your citizens of nine thousand years ago, I will briefly inform you of their laws and of their most famous action; the exact particulars of the whole we will hereafter go through at our leisure in the sacred registers themselves. If you compare these very laws with ours you will find that many of ours are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time.
In the first place, there is the caste of priests, which is separated from all the others; next, there are the artificers, who ply their several crafts by themselves and do not intermix; and also there is the class of shepherds and of hunters, as well as that of husbandmen; and you will observe, too, that the warriors in Egypt are distinct from all the other classes, and are commanded by the law to devote themselves solely to military pursuits; moreover, the weapons which they carry are shields and spears, a style of equipment which the goddess taught of Asiatics first to us, as in your part of the world first to you.
Then as to wisdom, do you observe how our law from the very first made a study of the whole order of things, extending even to prophecy and medicine which gives health, out of these divine elements deriving what was needful for human life, and adding every sort of knowledge which was akin to them.
All this order and arrangement the goddess first imparted to you when establishing your city; and she chose the spot of earth in which you were born, because she saw that the happy temperament of the seasons in that land would produce the wisest of men. Wherefore the goddess, who was a lover both of war and of wisdom, selected and first of all settled that spot which w
as the most likely to produce men likest herself. And there you dwelt, having such laws as these and still better ones, and excelled all mankind in all virtue, as became the children and disciples of the gods.
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end.
This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent.
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.
This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was preeminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.
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