The mystery of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of devotees of esoterica and bewildered philosophers for over two millennia. Thanks to the Ethersphere, online book store browsers have at their disposal a wide variety of volumes theorizing about the enigma of Atlantis, both academically oriented and novels.
There are more thoughts regarding what the nature of this early race entailed and beneath which sea the remnants could be found than practically any other story of a Golden Age. The legend of a genius race which preceded ours has lived on exactly because it holds so much meaning in the New Age.
Plato, student of Socrates, first began to write chronicling a powerful race of builders, which he referred to as Atlantis, three centuries before the murder of Caesar. According to Plato, the lost Island had been in the Atlantic Ocean and had perished more than 10,000 years prior.
American mystic Edgar Cayce wrote of the island as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the medium’s inspired vision, the people of Atlantis made use of powerful telepathic qualities and tools, and seeded colonies to the peculiarly similar pyramid building cultures of the early Mesopotamians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The subject is frequently associated with reincarnation and telepathy, sometimes referred to in Golden Dawn prophecies.
Conjectures about the true whereabouts of this culture’s remains stretch from the coast of India to the New World, although, naturally the most promising options that are Mediterranean islands, most notably the Azores and Malta.
The mystery may always remain concerning where the Island lay, but it appears difficult to dispute: our species has reached high levels of advancement rising and falling in a process of expansion and destruction, possibly many times, prior to that which we usually consider as the first gasp of modern man.