Atlantis

1 section·17 books
Sacred Texts: Atlantis
  • Timaeus
    Timaeus Plato
    1871
  • Critias
    Critias Plato
    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?
    1871
  • Vril, the Power of the Coming Race Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    The Victorian science fiction novel from which introduced the concept of 'Vril.'
    1871
  • The Oera Linda Book Wiliam R. Sandbach
    A purported chronicle of the descendants of the lost Atlantis--of the North Sea.
    1876
  • Atlantis, the Antediluvian World Ignatius Donnelly
    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.
    1882
  • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
    Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel Ignatius Donnelly
    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.
    1883
  • The Book of Dzyan
    The Book of Dzyan
    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).
  • The Story of Atlantis
    The Story of Atlantis W. Scott-Elliot
    An imaginative Theosophic history of the Earth, the Theosophic concept of human evolution and everyday life in old Atlantis.
    1896
  • The Lost Continent Cutcliffe Hyne
    The decline and fall of decadent Atlantis; a cruel queen, and ancient magic: a long-forgotten swashbuckling adventure.
    1900
  • The Lost Lemuria
    The Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
    A short essay by Scott-Elliot on the lost continent which preceeded Atlantis in Theosophic beliefs: Lemuria.
    1904
  • A Dweller on Two Planets Phylos the Thibetan
    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
    How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization Paul Schliemann
    A famous and often cited Atlantis hoax, republished at sacred-texts for the first time in over ninety years.
    1912
  • The Treasure of Atlantis J. Allan Dunn
    A pulp-fiction era Atlantis in South America yarn.
    1916
  • Altantida (L'Antlantide) Pierre Benoit
    A harrowing trip through the Sahara to ... Atlantis, and the strange allure of its ultimate queen.
    1920
  • The Sacred Symbols of Mu James Churchward
    Mu, the other lost continent, and its sacred symbology.
    1933
  • Selestor's Men of Atlantis Clara Iza von Ravn
    The history of Atlantis, told as a channeled vision of an ancient sage.
    1937
  • I Remember Lemuria Richard S. Shaver
    Beware the devolved tunnel-dwellers who rule the earth: the dress-rehearsal for the UFO craze.
    1948

Atlantis

1 section·17 books
Sacred Texts: Atlantis
  • Timaeus
    Timaeus Plato
    1871
  • Critias
    Critias Plato
    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?
    1871
  • Vril, the Power of the Coming Race Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    The Victorian science fiction novel from which introduced the concept of 'Vril.'
    1871
  • The Oera Linda Book Wiliam R. Sandbach
    A purported chronicle of the descendants of the lost Atlantis--of the North Sea.
    1876
  • Atlantis, the Antediluvian World Ignatius Donnelly
    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.
    1882
  • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
    Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel Ignatius Donnelly
    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.
    1883
  • The Book of Dzyan
    The Book of Dzyan
    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).
  • The Story of Atlantis
    The Story of Atlantis W. Scott-Elliot
    An imaginative Theosophic history of the Earth, the Theosophic concept of human evolution and everyday life in old Atlantis.
    1896
  • The Lost Continent Cutcliffe Hyne
    The decline and fall of decadent Atlantis; a cruel queen, and ancient magic: a long-forgotten swashbuckling adventure.
    1900
  • The Lost Lemuria
    The Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
    A short essay by Scott-Elliot on the lost continent which preceeded Atlantis in Theosophic beliefs: Lemuria.
    1904
  • A Dweller on Two Planets Phylos the Thibetan
    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
    How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization Paul Schliemann
    A famous and often cited Atlantis hoax, republished at sacred-texts for the first time in over ninety years.
    1912
  • The Treasure of Atlantis J. Allan Dunn
    A pulp-fiction era Atlantis in South America yarn.
    1916
  • Altantida (L'Antlantide) Pierre Benoit
    A harrowing trip through the Sahara to ... Atlantis, and the strange allure of its ultimate queen.
    1920
  • The Sacred Symbols of Mu James Churchward
    Mu, the other lost continent, and its sacred symbology.
    1933
  • Selestor's Men of Atlantis Clara Iza von Ravn
    The history of Atlantis, told as a channeled vision of an ancient sage.
    1937
  • I Remember Lemuria Richard S. Shaver
    Beware the devolved tunnel-dwellers who rule the earth: the dress-rehearsal for the UFO craze.
    1948

Atlantis

1 section·17 books
Sacred Texts: Atlantis
  • Timaeus
    Timaeus Plato
    1871
  • Critias
    Critias Plato
    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?
    1871
  • Vril, the Power of the Coming Race Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    The Victorian science fiction novel from which introduced the concept of 'Vril.'
    1871
  • The Oera Linda Book Wiliam R. Sandbach
    A purported chronicle of the descendants of the lost Atlantis--of the North Sea.
    1876
  • Atlantis, the Antediluvian World Ignatius Donnelly
    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.
    1882
  • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
    Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel Ignatius Donnelly
    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.
    1883
  • The Book of Dzyan
    The Book of Dzyan
    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).
  • The Story of Atlantis
    The Story of Atlantis W. Scott-Elliot
    An imaginative Theosophic history of the Earth, the Theosophic concept of human evolution and everyday life in old Atlantis.
    1896
  • The Lost Continent Cutcliffe Hyne
    The decline and fall of decadent Atlantis; a cruel queen, and ancient magic: a long-forgotten swashbuckling adventure.
    1900
  • The Lost Lemuria
    The Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
    A short essay by Scott-Elliot on the lost continent which preceeded Atlantis in Theosophic beliefs: Lemuria.
    1904
  • A Dweller on Two Planets Phylos the Thibetan
    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
    How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization Paul Schliemann
    A famous and often cited Atlantis hoax, republished at sacred-texts for the first time in over ninety years.
    1912
  • The Treasure of Atlantis J. Allan Dunn
    A pulp-fiction era Atlantis in South America yarn.
    1916
  • Altantida (L'Antlantide) Pierre Benoit
    A harrowing trip through the Sahara to ... Atlantis, and the strange allure of its ultimate queen.
    1920
  • The Sacred Symbols of Mu James Churchward
    Mu, the other lost continent, and its sacred symbology.
    1933
  • Selestor's Men of Atlantis Clara Iza von Ravn
    The history of Atlantis, told as a channeled vision of an ancient sage.
    1937
  • I Remember Lemuria Richard S. Shaver
    Beware the devolved tunnel-dwellers who rule the earth: the dress-rehearsal for the UFO craze.
    1948