Atlantis

I believe in Atlantis� if the geological, linguistic, historic and archaeological evidence was presented to a court of law, it would be proven overwhelmingly to have existed, just as Plato said. I believe in UFO's too, they have been seen, filmed and documented, and the scientific basis for electromagnetic, interstellar travel is a reality. I also believe that the Earth is hollow and inhabited by an advanced race, but a certain �Cabal� have suppressed all this knowledge and more, for centuries.

By Daniel Pipes� standards, that makes me the archetypal crank, an unfashionable, scandalous heretic and a danger with occultist leanings, who needs to be fought against and rendered marginal. I have spent a lifetime investigating the "unexplained" only to find it is inexplicable, not due to any great mystery, but because the truth would upset the status quo and threaten "National Security." Therefore, I am already on the margins... far beyond the lunatic fringe!

I fell into the Hollow Earth rather late in the 90�s�but after making an analyses of mythological texts, I concluded that it was the 'Lost Paradise' - the original untainted garden contained in all scriptures, which was promised to the faithful and known universally as the Land of Promise, amongst a variety of other names, like the Isle of the Blessed, Summerland and Avalon. After writing a book on the subject, entitled 'The Underworld' I then found there were many other H.E. believers, who confirmed what I had independently discovered.

At the turn of the last century, Marshall B. Gardner and William Reed compiled extensive evidence based on the results of explorers findings, which proved conclusively and beyond a shadow of doubt that the Earth is hollow, with an interior sun. Later, Dr. Raymond Bernard deduced that it also the source of �flying saucers� and Brinsley Le Poer Trench, who was the Earl of Clancarty and a member of the House of Lords, made the same claim in 1974, which according to Daniel Pipes� convoluted reasoning, automatically makes them "anti-Semites" (?)

In modern times, Hollow Earth proponents include Dean de Lucia, Rodney Cluff, Dennis Crenshaw and Sadek Adam, none of whom are prone to �nonsensical, ugly, and pernicious ideas.� If freedom of speech, however outlandish, is curtailed, there can be no intellectual debate, and if everyone who thinks differently or deviates from the official line is perceived as mentally unstable, we are compelled to treat lies and disinformation as established fact.

Bona fide researchers such as Graham Hancock seldom mention the 'A' word, (Atlantis) lest it undermines their credibility, but when ancient history goes down the �memory hole� and alternative thinkers or seekers are persecuted by �thought police� like Daniel Pipes and his ilk, it will simply prove the "conspiracy theorists" correct, there is a secret society, intent on global control of every aspect of our lives to protect their own interests and a hidden agenda.

The 'A' Word

Were it not for Plato's lucid account of the legendary Atlantis, which he emphasized explicitly was true, we would have no recollection of this lost island which Poseidon the brother of Zeus, and son of Cronos and Rhea, turned into a tropical, terrestrial paradise for his mortal wife Cleito, by bringing forth fertilizing streams from under the earth and creating hot and cold springs. Holy waters, wells, and crystal-clear fountains are still venerated today for their miraculous healing powers, and are places of pilgrimage.

A paradisiacal garden on the Island of Scilly exists on the site of an underground well. A Benedictine monastery was built there on a barren hillside in 1114 and transformed by a wealthy reformer, Augustus Smith, in 1834. He used the conducive conditions, aided by the warmth of the Gulf Stream, as a repository for the sub-tropic plants discovered in the Southern Hemisphere, with which he landscaped seventeen acres with luxuriant species that grow nowhere else on the British Isles.

Otto Muck said the Gulf Stream altered its course after the Atlantean island platform sank into the ocean floor, and radically changed the icy climate of northwestern Europe. At the Abbey garden there is also an interesting display of figureheads recovered from wrecked vessels, in a museum called Valhalla (the Halls where fearless Viking warriors can indulge their pleasures eternally.)

Poseidon, Lord of the Waves, who came from a golden submarine palace, provided an abundance of exotic flora and fauna on the land apportioned to him. He drove a chariot pulled by horses with bronze hoofs and golden manes and he built impressive cities and cyclopean temples for his ten sons which he adorned with the much prized orichalcum. The outside walls of Poseidon's Citadel were covered in silver and the pinnacle, with gold. Inside, the roof was made of ivory and decorated with other precious metals. Dwellings were built for the thriving community, and the ports and docks of the canals were bustling with traders from all over the World.

Poseidon made his sons' Kings and distributed the territory amongst them; where they observed the just laws of their father. Atlas, the first-born son, was allotted the central part of the island, the mountain dwelling of his mother Cleito, which was designed like a replica of the universal Mount Meru, with its central temple surrounded by alternating circles of land and sea. Atlas had seven offspring to Pleione, an Oceanid. They were seven sisters, born in Arcadia, called the Pleiades.

Although we may have been aware of a lost heritage, because archaeological evidence indicates that the birth of civilization came from a 'third party' in prehistory, Plato gave us the name, exact location and fate of this ancient empire destroyed 9,000 years before Solon's time. Plato's uncle Critias heard the story when he was nine years old, from his ninety year old grandfather, who was told in turn by his father Dropides, who spoke of 'Basileia,' an Atlantic island which became a World power.

The sage Solon, who related the tale to his friend Dropides, learned it from old Egyptian priests of Neith, at Sais in 600BC, who were privy to the Greater Mysteries. Still scholars presume to supersede their wisdom and relocate Atlantis to regions where islands are known to be submersed, like Thera or to Antarctica with its compelling beauty, shrouded in mystique.

But Thera lies in the Aegean sea not beyond the Columns of Heracles and it's destruction around 1,500BC does not fit the time-frame. Thera�s eruption may have contributed to other biblical calamities mentioned in Exodus but the events of which Solon was informed were of great antiquity� even to the ancient Egyptians. Antarctica's barren wasteland (discovered by Cook in 1773, although it had been mapped before 1513) could have been the cradle of an archaic culture when it enjoyed a temperate climate, before the poles shifted, (purely speculation) but it did not sink beneath the sea and vanish without trace. It still exists... albeit covered in ice.

Neither is Antarctica in an ideal geographical location to have extended its territory to Central America and into the Mediterranean (Crete) as far as Greece, as the dominant Atlanteans did. It is more likely that Antarctica was a colony of Atlantis, whose last archaeological relics from Mexico to Egypt, support the theory that it's origin was a landmass in the mid-Atlantic from which it spread out, before submerging (as Plato said) and making the Sargasso Sea motionless and impassible, until the time of Columbus, who went in search of the 'Indies.'

The Azores (and West Indies) in the opinion of American congressman Ignatius Donnelly, the Father of Atlantology, who thoroughly researched the lost continent in 1882, are the mountain peaks of the Kingdom of Atlantis which are still visible and prone to devastating volcanic activity today. Poseidon's hot sulphur and cold springs abound in the mountains of the submerged Azores plateau and in the Caribbean, the tropical island of Montserrat, named after a Benedictine monastery by Columbus, had a terrific volcanic eruption as recently as 1997. Oceanographers dispute this evidence but time and time again, science is proved wrong... it is not infallible.

The cyclopean walls and marble pillars of a sunken Atlantean temple rose up from the sea-bed in 1968 off the Bimini coast, as predicted by the 'sleeping prophet' Edgar Cayce in the 1930's. He said this temple once supported a special dome of fire-crystals which captured the sun's energy. Undersea megalithic ruins have also been located 2,200 feet down off the western tip of Cuba, resembling roads, buildings and pyramids.

It may have been a transposition of the terrestrial poles which triggered the 'Apocalypse' which destroyed this civilisation. That would explain why, for ancient Egyptians, the source of the Nile arising from the underworld at the Equatorial lakes, flowed into Upper Egypt, while the Delta was the Lower Kingdom. Since 'up' is normally associated with the north and 'down' is south, this is an odd discrepancy for people who demonstrated an advanced level of mathematics, geophysics,and astronomy.

In 'Worlds in collision,' Immanuel Velikovsky (derided by 'experts') explains that in the tomb of Senenmut, a vizier who designed the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri, a zodiac on the ceiling has a reversed orientation and inscriptions say that 'Harakhte, (the sun,) he riseth in the West'. Plato wrote of the heavenly bodies that 'in those times they used to set in the quarter where they now rise.'

Egyptians believed this change of occident had occurred four times and in order for the constellation of Orion to correspond to the pyramids around 10,500BC, the map must be reversed. A map of Atlantis published in a strange book called, Mundus Subterraneous by a Dutchman, Father Athanasius Kircher, who had a museum of authentic Egyptian antiquities in the 17th.Century, portrays the Earth upside down!

But the fact that the island existed, is more important than where it actually was, because then we must ask who this race were and why it is that their omniscience does not seem obvious to us. Could survivors live in a subterranean realm and continue to flourish? How was the Atlantean superpower finally destroyed and of what significance has this for humanity at this time, as history repeats?

We have come full circle, it is the 'End of Days' and like the Atlanteans we are causing storms on the planet by environmental destruction and do not understand that we are helping to create our own demise by upsetting our natural evolutionary development. We are interfering with genetics and responsible for the ecocide of many life forms, for whom we have no respect.

We have poisoned our land, air and seas, the very things which sustain us. Viral warfare has been unleashed on members of the human race with horrendous consequences and scientific discoveries which could transform the lives of everyone, for the better, are being adapted solely for profit, militaristic purposes (geophysical warfare) and global domination.

Our present civilization is technologically advanced but spiritually debased, our primeval instincts are predominant yet again and we are in denial of our divine nature. It is the archetypal doomsday scenario, but if mankind is wiped out once more and all knowledge is lost, the �gods� will still be there, in that Holiest of places at the Centre of the Earth, where they have always been, waiting to restore the land to the Garden of Eden... as it was in the beginning.

But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath past away a glory from the earth.

(William Wordsworth)