The Myth of the Missing City of Gold
The mystique of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of students of the unknown and confounded scholars for a score of centuries. With our own rapid “magical” advances in communication, New Age connoisseurs can now enjoy a vast array of literature regarding the myth of Atlantis, both academically oriented and a more fantastic read.
There are more ideas concerning what that legendary locale engendered and how the remnants can be recovered than virtually any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of a Utopian culture which perished in a Deluge has engaged the imagination of generations precisely because it rings so true as we confront what may turn out to be our own Deluge or Golden Age.
Socrates’ student, Plato, first began to write about a sunken civilization, that he named Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. He believed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and had perished over 10,000 years before his time.
Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As recounted in the prophet’s vivid version, the Atlanteans were gifted with powerful psionic talents and mechanisms, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar pyramid building peoples of the ancient Egyptians and the Empires of native America. The subject is frequently associated with reincarnation and telepathy, and is part of the mythos of Golden Dawn 2012 prophesies.
Hypotheses on the location of the ruins vary widely from the Indonesia to the Carribbean, although, naturally most of the focus centers on well-known options which are islands in the vicinity, especially Crete and Cyprus.
It might never be certain what marvels the Atlanteans mastered, nevertheless, we’d be foolish to doubt: human kind has achieved great levels of sophistication rising and falling in a cycle of expansion and annihilation, perhaps in a recurring pattern, long before what we habitually think of as being dawn of civilization.
