The Rise & Fall of Atlantis: And the Mysterious Origins of Human Civilization
The Rise & Fall of Atlantis: And the Mysterious Origins of Human Civilization
Could the lost civilization of Atlantis provide the answers to the origins and development of human existence? The rise and Fall of Atlantis delves into the history of the lost continent and its effect on the world it left behind.
CONTENTS:
Part One PLATO AND HIS STORY
The Cultural Background of Plato's Time
The Interpretation of Plato's Myth'
Part Two PLANET EARTH
The Genesis of Intelligence
Gods, Angels and Man
Light and the Philosophy of Creation
Our Planetary Nature
Darwinism and the Changing Face of our Planet
Cataclysms and Continental Drift
Part Three HUMANITY
The Origins of Humankind
Lemuria and the Early Third Race of Humankind
Lemuria and 'The Descent of the Gods'
Greater Atlantis and its Heirs
The Post-Diluvian World
The Destruction of Poseidonis and the Pillars of Herakles
The Mediterranean Colonies of Poseidonis
Part Four CULTURE
The Religious Culture of the Atlanteans
Atlantean Magic and Mysteries
Ancient Science and Technology
Epilogue: Looking Towards the Future
Figure 1 The Greek philosopher Plato
Figure 2 Depiction of Sisyphus, from a Greek vase
Figure 3 The sevenfold kosmos, according to the Greeks
Figure 4 The sacred tetraktvs of Pythagoras
Figure § The ten-planet sequence
Figure 6 The astronomical explanation of Plato's island'
Figure 7 The initiate Nefer-tem, from an Egyptian papyrus
Figure 8 The concentric structure of universal consciousess
Figure 9a The evolving intelligence of humankind
Figure 9b The sequence of the Five Races, corresponding to 9a
Figure 10 The perpetually boiling surface of the Sun
Figure 11 The squeezing of the ionosphere and its torsion effect on the Earth
Figure 12 The suggested reason for the importance of Earth's spring
Figure 13a The full polar angle of deflection
Figure 13b The raising of the Djed Pillar in honour of Osiris at Abydos
Figure 14 The correlation of the zodiacal cycle with the greater evolutionarv life wave
Figure 15 The modern 'geological column'
Figure 16 Volcanic ranges and fault lines
Figure 17 Detail of World Ocean Floor Panorama by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp
Figure 18 The creation of the 'black smokers' on the ocean floor
Figure 19 Charles Hapgood's reconstitution of the Piri Re'is navigational map
Figure 20 Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon man)
Figure 21 The Assyrio-Babylonian winged kabiri-bull
Figure 22 Easter Island statues
Figure 23 the zodiacal temple at Stonehenge
Figure 24 The round zodiac at Dendera
Charles Hapgoods chart of the diminishing
Figure 26 Detail of the Phippe Buache map of 1737
Figure 27 Cataclysm shown on a Mayan wall relief
Figure 28 Effects of the tsunami at the Pillars of Herakles Gibral
Figure 29 Effects of the cataclysm on the coastlines of Iberia. northwest Africa, and nearby islands
Figure 30 Egyptians in battle against the 'Sea People;, from Medin Mabu
Figure 31 An Etruscan couple sculpted in terracotta, from Cerveteri Figure 32 An example of the Etruscan script
Figure 33 A depiction of bull-leaping from Knossos. Crete
Figure 34 A Mayan ziggurat, or stepped pyramid, at Palenque
Figure 35 The Egyptian goddess Net (Neith)
