Description
A comprehensive study of the major occult writings on Atlantis. This book fully examines the many occult teachings on Atlantis, including those from G. I. Gurdjieff, Madame Blavatsky, Edgar Cayce, Rene Guenon, and Dion Fortune. Atlantis and the Cycles of Time shows how these writings correlate with the concept of cyclical history, such as the Mayan calendar and 2012, the Age of Aquarius, and the four Yugas. It is written by a renowned scholar, author, editor, and translator of more than thirty books.
Atlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity from ancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and esoteric world wrote at length on their theories of Atlantis – about its high culture, its possible location, its ultimate demise, and their predictions of a return to Atlantean enlightenment or the downfall of modern society. Beginning with a review of the rationalist writings on Atlantis – those that use geographic and geologic data to validate their theories–renowned scholar Joscelyn Godwin then analyzes and compares writings on Atlantis from many of the great occultists and esotericists of the 19th and 20th centuries, whose writings often stem from deeper, metaphysical sources, such as sacred texts, prophecy, or paranormal communication. Seeking to unravel and explain the histories and interpretations of Atlantis and its kindred myths of Lemuria and Mu, the author shows how these different views go hand-in-hand with the concept of cyclical history, such as the Vedic system of the four Yugas.
