The enigma of an ancient civilization has mystified the metaphysically inclined and intrigued history-buffs for over two millennia. Thanks to the Ethersphere, New Age & metaphysics book enthusiasts have at their disposal a massive list of works concerning the legend of Atlantis, both academically oriented and a more fantastic read.

There are more theories about what the nature of this early race engendered and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients might be encountered than nearly any other story of a Golden Age. Indeed, the topic of a genius race which was destroyed in a cataclysm has persisted precisely because it resonates so clearly to the quester after knowledge.

Socrates’ student, Plato, originally wrote of a forgotten Paradise, that he named Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. According to Plato, Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and had perished more than ten millennia before his time. Prolific author Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a a huge expanse, approximately equal in size to Europe. As recounted in the prophet’s complete account, the Atlanteans were gifted with supernatural psychic abilities and mechanisms, and were the progenitors of the oddly congruent solar-worshiping peoples of the ancient Egyptians and the Empires of native America.

The subject is identified by many writers with past lives stories & reincarnation. Hypotheses on the location of the "Lost Continent" range from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the New World, though, of course the most popular candidates that are small local islands with a long tradition, most notably the Azores and Malta.

The mystery may always remain concerning the facts, however, the literature seems to indicate: our species has achieved great levels of sophistication in the distant past and the cycle of proliferation and annihilation, perhaps in a recurring pattern, prior to that which we often regard as the earliest hint of history.

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