The two dialogs of Plato which contain the primary ancient account of Atlantis. There is a short framing story about Solon in Egypt in Timaeus, and Critias, which contains the description of Atlantis, breaks off mid-narrative. Did Plato mean the tale literally or as an allegory?
The complete text of the 19th Century bestseller that started the modern Atlantis craze. Required reading for anyone interested in Atlantis, in spite of much dated and incorrect information. This etext was scanned at sacred-texts and appears here in its entirety for the first time on the Internet. This text is also available through the Project Gutenberg (thanks to Norman Wolcott, for working on the text version of this file). The illustrations, proofing and formatting of this etext were revised as of July 2003.
A sensational description of how a cometary impact could have destroyed an unknown prehistoric civilization. Donnelly ties his comet impact into the death of Atlantis, and the lost origins of our own civilization. A perennially rediscovered hypothesis.
Blatavskys' channeled sacred text from Lemuria. This excerpt from Helena Blatavskys' "The Secret Doctrine" is supposed to be an actual book from Lemuria summarizing occult knowledge about the evolution of the universe. In reality it was 'channeled'. The Theosophists greatly elaborated the Atlantis story, adding numerous additional lost continents such as Hyperborea, Lemuria, Daitya, Ruta, Poseidonis; and peopled them with an entire succession of pre-human species. (See the Scott-Elliot text, below).
A very influential speculative novel of Atlantis and points beyond, purportedly composed via automatic writing by a teenager in the shadow of Mount Shasta.
1894
How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization
The two dialogs of Plato which contain the primary ancient account of Atlantis. There is a short framing story about Solon in Egypt in Timaeus, and Critias, which contains the description of Atlantis, breaks off mid-narrative. Did Plato mean the tale literally or as an allegory?
The complete text of the 19th Century bestseller that started the modern Atlantis craze. Required reading for anyone interested in Atlantis, in spite of much dated and incorrect information. This etext was scanned at sacred-texts and appears here in its entirety for the first time on the Internet. This text is also available through the Project Gutenberg (thanks to Norman Wolcott, for working on the text version of this file). The illustrations, proofing and formatting of this etext were revised as of July 2003.
A sensational description of how a cometary impact could have destroyed an unknown prehistoric civilization. Donnelly ties his comet impact into the death of Atlantis, and the lost origins of our own civilization. A perennially rediscovered hypothesis.
Blatavskys' channeled sacred text from Lemuria. This excerpt from Helena Blatavskys' "The Secret Doctrine" is supposed to be an actual book from Lemuria summarizing occult knowledge about the evolution of the universe. In reality it was 'channeled'. The Theosophists greatly elaborated the Atlantis story, adding numerous additional lost continents such as Hyperborea, Lemuria, Daitya, Ruta, Poseidonis; and peopled them with an entire succession of pre-human species. (See the Scott-Elliot text, below).
A very influential speculative novel of Atlantis and points beyond, purportedly composed via automatic writing by a teenager in the shadow of Mount Shasta.
1894
How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization
The two dialogs of Plato which contain the primary ancient account of Atlantis. There is a short framing story about Solon in Egypt in Timaeus, and Critias, which contains the description of Atlantis, breaks off mid-narrative. Did Plato mean the tale literally or as an allegory?
The complete text of the 19th Century bestseller that started the modern Atlantis craze. Required reading for anyone interested in Atlantis, in spite of much dated and incorrect information. This etext was scanned at sacred-texts and appears here in its entirety for the first time on the Internet. This text is also available through the Project Gutenberg (thanks to Norman Wolcott, for working on the text version of this file). The illustrations, proofing and formatting of this etext were revised as of July 2003.
A sensational description of how a cometary impact could have destroyed an unknown prehistoric civilization. Donnelly ties his comet impact into the death of Atlantis, and the lost origins of our own civilization. A perennially rediscovered hypothesis.
Blatavskys' channeled sacred text from Lemuria. This excerpt from Helena Blatavskys' "The Secret Doctrine" is supposed to be an actual book from Lemuria summarizing occult knowledge about the evolution of the universe. In reality it was 'channeled'. The Theosophists greatly elaborated the Atlantis story, adding numerous additional lost continents such as Hyperborea, Lemuria, Daitya, Ruta, Poseidonis; and peopled them with an entire succession of pre-human species. (See the Scott-Elliot text, below).
A very influential speculative novel of Atlantis and points beyond, purportedly composed via automatic writing by a teenager in the shadow of Mount Shasta.
1894
How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization