Atlantis And The Cycles Of Time
Ancient Mysteries/New Age 19.95“As absorbing as it is erudite, both comprehensive and profound, essential as areference work, and quintessential to grasp the depth and breadth of a grievouslymisunderstood, perennially fascinating, and perhaps critical subject, Atlantis andthe Cycles of Time is a unique work: the ‘compleat’ Atlantis.”John Anthony West, author ofSerpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient EgyptInner TraditionsRochester, Vermontwww.InnerTraditions.comCover design by Peri SwanCover images courtesy of Corbis ImagesCyclesof TimeEducated at Cambridge and Cornell, Joscelyn Godwin, Ph.D., is a professorof music at Colgate University and the author, editor, and translator of more than30 books, including Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World. Known for histranslations of the works of Fabre d’Olivet and Julius Evola as well as FrancescoColonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he lives in Hamilton, New York.andtheAtlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity fromancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and esoteric worldwrote at length on their theories of Atlantis—about its high culture, its possiblelocation, 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 thatuse geographic and geologic data to validate their theories—renowned scholarJoscelyn Godwin then analyzes and compares writings on Atlantis from many ofthe great occultists and esotericists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Fabred’Olivet, G. I. Gurdjieff, Guido von List, Julius Evola, Edgar Cayce, Dion Fortune,and René Guénon, whose writings often stem from deeper, metaphysical sources,such as sacred texts, prophecy, or paranormal communication. Seeking to unraveland explain the histories and interpretations of Atlantis and its kindred myths ofLemuria and Mu, the author shows how these different views go hand-in-handwith the concept of cyclical history, such as the Vedic system of the four Yugas, theMayan calendar with its 2012 end-date, the theosophical system of root races, andthe precession of the equinoxes. Venturing broader and deeper than any other bookon Atlantis, this study also covers reincarnation, human evolution or devolution, theorigins of race, and catastrophe theory.GodwinAtlantis“Scholarly, meticulously researched, and superbly presented. Joscelyn Godwinhas produced a wonderful book that will delight and impress all those who seek‘Atlantis,’ be it a myth or reality. I urge you to read it!”Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery and Egypt Code
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Atlantisand theCycles of Time“In this important book Joscelyn Godwin has accomplished thenearly impossible, masterfully summarizing and synthesizing widelydisparate approaches to the perennial question of Atlantis. Muchmore than a catalog of possible Atlantis locations, occult Atlantologyis finally accorded the importance it deserves, including a cogentanalysis of esoteric cycles of time, the Four World Ages, the YugaCycle, and the Precession of the Equinoxes, placing Atlantis in alarger temporal context. This is a must-read for anyone who wishesto truly understand the Atlantis debate.”Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., author of Voyages of thePyramid Builders and The Parapsychology Revolution“From the sublime to the ludicrous, from the poetic to the simply mad, Joscelyn Godwin gives us a chart of the many versions ofAtlantis (with all their ‘glaring lack of consensus’) that will last ustill the lost continent rises again. Truly Godwin is the Master ofAtlantis.”Peter Lamborn Wilson, coauthor of Atlantis Manifestoand Green Hermeticism: Alchemy & EcologyAtCyTi.indd 111/1/10 4:56:38 PM
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Atlantisand theCycles of TimeProphecies, Traditions,and Occult RevelationsJoscelyn GodwinInner TraditionsRochester, Vermont Toronto, CanadaAtCyTi.indd 311/1/10 4:56:40 PM
Inner TraditionsOne Park StreetRochester, Vermont 05767www.InnerTraditions.comCopyright 2011 by Joscelyn GodwinAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form orby any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by anyinformation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataGodwin, Joscelyn.Atlantis and the cycles of time : prophecies, traditions, and occult revelations / JoscelynGodwin.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.eISBN-13: 978-1-59477-857-51. Atlantis (Legendary place) 2. Prophecies (Occultism) I. Title.GN751.G63 2011398.23 4—dc222010028510Text design and layout by Virginia Scott BowmanThis book was typeset in Garamnd Premier Pro with Caslon, Gils Sans, Agenda, andItalian Electric used as display typefacesTo send correspondence to the author of this book, mail a first-class letter to the author c/oInner Traditions Bear & Company, One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767, and we willforward the communication.AtCyTi.indd 411/1/10 4:56:41 PM
ContentsOnePreface and AcknowledgmentsixAtlantis of the Rationalists1The Atlantic Ocean d Arctica d Sweden d Germany dBritain d The Sahara Desert d Crete and Thera dMalta d Sicily d Cyprus d Turkey d The Caribbean dCentral America d Venezuela d Bolivia d Antarcticad Everywhere d Allegorical d NowhereT woThe French Esoteric Tradition36Delisle de Sales and the Age of the Earth d Fabred’Olivet’s Philosophical History d Saint-Yvesd’Alveydre’s Synarchic History d Edouard Schuré’sGreat Initiates d Papus and the Cancerous Moon d PaulLe Cour and the Sacred Heart d Pandora’s Box d JeanPhaure: Return to TraditionThreeH. P. Blavatsky and the Early Theosophists64Neoplatonic Forerunners and Isis Unveiled d TheMahatma Letters d Fragments of Forgotten History dThe Secret Doctrine: The First Two Root Races d TheThird (Lemurian) Root Race d The Fourth (Atlantean)Root RaceAtCyTi.indd 511/1/10 4:56:41 PM
FourLater Theosophists88A. P. Sinnett and “Mary” d William Scott-Elliot and HisSources d A Child’s Story d Leadbeater Again d RudolfSteiner and Theosophy d Alice Bailey and “The Tibetan”FiveGermanic Atlantology117Lanz-Liebenfels and the Sodomite Apelings dGuido von List, Father of Ariosophy d PostwarReconstruction I d Herman Wirth and The Ascentof Mankind d The Fall of Herman Wirth d AlfredRosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century d KarlMaria Wiligut’s Ancestral Traditions d Peryt Shou, theOutsider d Postwar Reconstruction IISixTwo Traditionalists157René Guénon’s Early Investigations d The PolarMountain and the Underground Kingdom d JuliusEvola and Pagan Imperialism d Guénon, Evola, andWirth d The Primordial Tradition and Its Decline dPriests versus WarriorsSevenThe Britons172Atlantis in the Inner Light d The Revelations of aNormal Lad d Psychometry on the Brink of War dLewis Spence’s Occult Trilogy d The Messages ofHelio-Arkan/Arcanophus d The Return of StaintonMoses d The Sky People and the AvaloniansEightSome Indepenents206Mayan Connections d Raleigh and the YucatánBrotherhood d The Churchwards and Mu d TheRosicrucians d Beelzebub’s Descents to Planet EarthAtCyTi.indd 611/1/10 4:56:42 PM
NineChanneling in the New World235Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible d Phylos the Tibetan d AnInspirational Lecture d Rĭn-gä’-sĕ nŭd Sï-ï-kĕl’zē d EdgarCayce d Mount Shasta Again d We Are All Star Guests dTibetan PretensionsTenChanneling in the New Age270Remembering Lemuria d Meeting Orthon d OtherFlesh, Secret Places d Seth Speaks d Tom and the Nine dRamtha the Lemurian d The Changing Lightat SandoverElevenThe Four Ages298432,000, the Ubiquitous Number d Guénon Revealsthe Code d Alain Daniélou’s Puranic Chronology dGaston Georgel and the Rhythms of History d InterimReflections d Fabre d’Olivet Reverses the Yugas dBuddhist Systems d The System of the Jains d SriYukteswarT welveThe Precession of the Equinoxes336Precession of the Rationalists d Before and AfterHamlet’s Mill d Precession of the Mythologists d TheAge of Aquarius d The Reigns of the ArchangelsConclusion Recurrent Themes of Occult Atlantology357aAtCyTi.indd 7Notes360Bibliography404Index42311/1/10 4:56:42 PM
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Preface andAcknowledgmentsaMost writers on Atlantis begin with the discouraging news that there arealready thousands of books on the subject. Why write another one? Whyread one? It is because of an idea, a dream, a theory that will not let go:That there was high culture in prehistoric times.This is the core of the Atlantis myth, ever since the Egyptian priesttold the story recorded by Plato. The sciences of time prefer to close thecurtains on it. They assure us that such things as cities, technology, a leisured class, organized religion, and warfare only arrived within the historic period. The lines of development and influence, they say, are wellmapped. Beyond a certain time barrier, there was no high culture anywhere on Earth: only the primitive culture, however ingenious and admirable, of Stone Age peoples and nomads.The least interesting books on Atlantis are the ones that toe this line,proclaiming that Plato’s Atlantis was really somewhere quite normal andrecent, like the volcanic island of Santorini that erupted in the secondmillennium BCE. The first chapter of this book is a worldwide survey ofsuch theories.ixAtCyTi.indd 911/1/10 4:56:42 PM
xa Preface and AcknowledgmentsOther authors, more bold, cling to the myth and reject the scientists’time barrier. They are suspicious of experts who preserve the status quoby dampening speculation. Just as historical civilizations and empires riseand fall, they ask, why should not the broader waves of human development? Even if our own civilizing wave began with the city cultures ofJericho or the Indus Valley, that does not mean it was the first and onlyone. There has been plenty of time for other waves, other cultures, evenother humanities to come and go.The “New Archaeology” that holds, for instance, that there was highcivilization in pre-dynastic Egypt or the Andes, tries to argue this onrational grounds. It draws on archaeological evidence and aligns it withancient texts and myths. But the writers of those texts had a worldviewas different as possible from scientific materialism. To credit them startsone on a slippery slope that may lead to actually believing them. Then, assome of the New Archaeologists have found, one enters the company ofthe Damned.I borrow that word from Charles Fort, author of The Book of theDamned (1919) and other chronicles of anomalous phenomena. “So bythe damned,” wrote Fort, “I mean the excluded.” In the present case,this would be all those Atlantologists whose view of human prehistoryrests on something other than rational deduction and material evidence.It is wrong to call them irrational, for they do not reject those avenuesof knowledge: they just find others supplementary, if not superior. TheTraditionalists rely on an esoteric reading of scriptures and sacred authorities. Theosophists and others open to the paranormal call on intuition,initiation, clairvoyance, or mediumship. There is much disagreementamong them, just as there is among the rationalists, but they agree thatthere was high culture in prehistoric times and that it holds a lesson thatwe do well to learn. Chapters 2–10 trace their various strands and influences, with special attention to the national schools and their agendas. Nomatter how much or little one credits them, they open up vastnesses thatare exhilarating to contemplate.None of the myriad books on Atlantis has dealt comprehensivelyAtCyTi.indd 1011/1/10 4:56:42 PM
Preface and Acknowledgmentsa xiwith this branch of the history of ideas, which we may call “occultAtlantology.” Nor has there been a proper study of another topic profoundly linked to it: that of the cycles of time, one phase of whichsupposedly ended with the Atlantean cataclysm. Both subjects are thepreserve of true believers wedded to their own theories, and of carelessrepeaters of second-hand data.The subject of esoteric time cycles deserves a book to itself, but itwould be one with limited appeal, full of tables and calculations. Chapters11–12 are a preliminary decluttering of the field. They explain the twomain cyclical systems, the Four World Ages and the Precession of theEquinoxes. I have made this summary with a certain sense of urgency,because at the time of writing there is much agitation concerning thecoming year 2012. The reader will discover that the present period, eventhe fateful year, has figured quite prominently in cyclical theories thathave nothing to do with the Mayan calendar. It seems important to setout the bases of these and other theories, and also to clarify the controversy about which of the four ages we are living in. My hope and expectation is that long after 2012, others will follow up some of these leads inthe same spirit of open-minded curiosity.Unless otherwise attributed, all translations are mine.AcknowledgmentsFirst I must thank Colgate University, especially those in charge of theScientific Perspectives Core Courses, for their support of “The AtlantisDebate,” and the hundreds of students who have passed through thiscourse in ten years. If any of them should read this, I greet them as fellow explorers. Colgate’s president and dean of the faculty generouslygranted me leave in fall 2009. I thank the staff of Colgate’s Case Library,especially its Interlibrary Loan Service; also those at Cornell UniversityLibrary, the British Library, the Cambridge University Library, theBibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (Amsterdam), the National Libraryof Malta (Valletta), and the libraries of the University of Strasbourg andAtCyTi.indd 1111/1/10 4:56:42 PM
xiia Preface and Acknowledgmentsthe Theosophical Society (London), to which I paid short but fruitful visits. I thank Phyllis Benjamin of the International Fortean Organizationand Walter Cruttenden of the Conferences on Precession and AncientKnowledge for giving me a forum for some of these ideas. A friendfrom Portugal supplied me with recondite material and insights into theTraditionalist current. My colleague Anthony Aveni has encouraged mefor many years through conversation and his own teaching and research.Others who have given me materials or ideas on these topics include FrankDonnola, Antoine Faivre, Deborah Belle Forman, Patrick Harpur, JohnMajor Jenkins, Gary Lachman, Jean-Pierre Laurant, Ernest McClain,the late John Michell, James Santucci, Guido Mina di Sospiro, RüdigerSünner, Jay Weidner, Peter Lambourn Wilson, and the guest lecturersin my course: Paul LaViolette, Robert Schoch, Laird Scranton, and JohnAnthony West. None of them are responsible for my omissions, errors, oropinions. Lastly I thank my wife, Janet, especially for her piano-playingthat accompanied the writing of this book.Joscelyn GodwinHamilton, New YorkAtCyTi.indd 1211/1/10 4:56:42 PM
OneAtlantis of the RationalistsaThe Atlantic OceanThe narrator of Plato’s Timaeus said that Atlantis was “beyond the Pillarsof Hercules,” the classical name for the Straits of Gibraltar, and “largerthan Libya and Asia combined,”1 that is, much of North Africa plus present-day Turkey. So the Atlantic Ocean is the obvious place to begin.The Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) was the first topublish a map of Atlantis, putting it fairly and squarely in the middle ofthe Atlantic.2 There was no reason for him to do otherwise. Plato’s testimony made sense, did not contradict the Bible, and agreed with Kircher’sown experience of the mutability of land and sea. In 1638 he himself hadseen the city of Euphemia in Calabria disappear in a volcanic cataclysm,leaving a putrid lake in its place. Noah’s Flood, the subject of his bookArca Noë, had caused the whole earth to be submerged, then reappearwith a different arrangement of land and sea. The followers of CharlesHapgood (see below under “Antarctica”) imagine that Kircher based hisillustration on some ancient map he had found. Had this been so, Kircherwould not have failed to announce the fact, as he did whenever he madesome fortunate discovery.3 While he states his reasons for believing thatAtlantis existed, his map is an imaginary reconstruction, just like innumerable other illustrations in his works.1AtCyTi.indd 111/1/10 4:56:42 PM
2a Atlantis of the RationalistsA mid-Atlantic location was the keystone of Atlantis: The AntediluvianWorld (1882), the book by Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901) that Spraguede Camp calls “the New Testament of Atlantism”4 (Plato’s Timaeus andCritias being the Old). Donnelly was a U.S. senator from Minnesota whomade good use of the Library of Congress: he also wrote on the catastrophist model of prehistory (Ragnarök: The Age of Fire and Gravel)and on Francis Bacon’s authorship of the Shakespeare corpus (The GreatCryptogram). He was a strict diffusionist, treating all cultural phenomenaas imports rather than as indigenous inventions. Given that, the similarities on the eastern and western sides of the Atlantic had to have a commonsource. Donnelly spread his net to include not only pyramids and floodlegends, but also metallurgy, agriculture, shipbuilding, language, alphabets, religion, and mythology. Consequently he found so many parallelsthat he assumed they must have all originated in the vanished continent.As for Atlantis itself, Donnelly accepted Plato’s exuberant descriptionof it as the most wealthy, powerful, and highly cultured of all ancientcivilizations, its memory preserved in worldwide myths of a Golden Age,Paradise, Asgard, Avalon, Elysium, and other vanished Utopias. He wrotein conclusion:The Atlanteans possessed an established order of priests; their religious worship was pure and simple. They lived under a kingly government; they had their courts, their judges, their records, their monuments covered with inscriptions, their mines, their founderies,* theirworkshop, their looms, their grist-mills, their boats and sailing-vessels,their highways, aqueducts, wharves, docks, and canals. They had processions, banners, and triumphal arches for their kings and heroes;they built pyramids, temples, round-towers, and obelisks; they practised religious ablutions; they knew the use of the magnet and of gunpowder. In short, they were in the enjoyment of a civilization nearly ashigh as our own, lacking only the printing-press, and those inventionsin which steam, electricity, and magnetism are used.5*All quotations preserve the original spelling.AtCyTi.indd 211/1/10 4:56:42 PM
Atlantis of the Rationalistsa 3A “modern revised edition” of Atlantis: The Antediluvian Worldappeared in 19496 with contributions from Egerton Sykes, who editedit and wrote a foreword; H. S. Bellamy, who wrote “An Appreciationof Donnelly”; and Lewis Spence, who wrote a short introduction that isreally more about himself.This is an interesting trio. Egerton Sykes (1894–1983) was a lifelongAtlantologist who ran a bimonthly, Atlantis, A Journal of Research, from1948 to 1976. He was also drawn to parapsychological and Fortean topics, but from a generally rational approach. As editor, Sykes smoothedout Donnelly’s citation system, cut several chapters whose archaeologicaland linguistic conclusions he considered outdated, and added many postscripts of his own. The publisher was probably to blame for omitting the128 engravings that enhanced the original book.Hans Schindler Bellamy (1901–1980) was a contributor to Sykes’sAtlantis journal and author of eight books published in London from1936 onward.7 Bellamy’s main object in his books, articles, and in this“Appreciation” was to promote the “World Ice Doctrine” (Welteislehreor WEL) of Hans Hoerbiger (1860–1931) as the solution to the fall ofAtlantis, whose prior existence he accepted in more or less Donnellianterms. “I firmly believe that atlantologists, and all those interested in t
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