CONCLUSION
Recurrent Themes of Occult Atlantology
THESE LAST TWO CHAPTERS on the cycles of time could well be expanded into another book, though it would not have the entertainment value of lost lands and bizarre visions. Nevertheless, the myth of time cycles is an essential pendant to the Atlantis myth, and not just because of its pretension to mathematical rigor. To be complete and satisfying, the occult or esoteric worldview requires a past, a present, and a future. For the individual, there are doctrines of preexistence, reincarnation, the spiritual path, and so on. Atlantis and the Cycles of Time refers instead to the collectivity. The authors we have been studying view the whole “human life-wave,” and purport to make sense of it. If they succeed, they make sense of the present and assure us that there will be sense to the future, too, since all is proceeding according to a cosmic plan.
Such a plan is the core assumption of occult Atlantology and most distinguishes it from the so-called rationalists. It may be interesting, in conclusion, to list some of the other recurrent themes, with the names of those in whose works they appear. (“Theosophists” includes all or some.)
| RECURRENT THEMES OF OCCULT ATLANTOLOGY | |
| Effect of axial tilt or polar wandering | Fabre d’Olivet, Phaure, Theosophists, List, Wirth, Rosenberg, Neate, Plummer, Gurdjieff, Oahspe, Colville, Cayce, Pelley, Doreal, Adamski, Seth, Phaure |
| Polar or far northern location of early civilization or races | Bailly, Fabre d’Olivet, Phaure, Theosophists, Steiner, List, Zschaetzsch, Wieland, Gorsleben, Wirth, Guénon, Evola, Plummer, Doreal |
| Different origins for the differently colored races | Fabre d’Olivet, Saint-Yves, Schuré, Papus, Charroux, Theosophists, Lanz, List, Zschaetzsch, Wirth, Rosenberg, Wiligut, Machalett, Evola, Randall-Stevens, Raleigh, Urantia, Cayce, Tom |
| Root races, sub-races | Theosophists, Steiner, Bailey, List, Gorsleben, Wiligut, Fortune, Raleigh, Heindel, Lewis |
| Early races were nonphysical | Theosophists, Steiner, Bailey, Williamson |
| Early races were sexless | Theosophists, Steiner, List, Wiligut, Randall-Stevens, Cayce, Tom, Ramtha |
| Mating of angels/gods/ETs with humans | Theosophists, Wiligut, Randall-Stevens, Cayce,Pelley, Williamson |
| Mating of humans with animals/subhumans | Theosophists, Lanz, Gorsleben, Wiligut, Cayce, Pelley, Shaver, Williamson, Daniélou |
| Apes descend from humans | Theosophists, List, Gurdjieff |
| Ram, Rama, Ramtha, Ramu | Fabre d’Olivet, Saint-Yves, Schuré, Papus, Raleigh, Ramtha, Adamski |
| Gobi Desert center | Saint-Yves, Charroux, Theosophists, Bailey, Guénon, Gurdjieff, Tom |
| Moon: late birth or arrival | Papus, Steiner, Neate, Trench, Gurdjieff, Adamski, Merrill |
| Moons: Hoerbiger theory | Pauwels and Bergier, Saurat, Bellamy, Wieland, Wiligut, Peryt Shou, Machalett |
| Atlanteans were sun worshippers | Bernard, Theosophists, Wirth, Fortune, Brown, Randall-Stevens, Brunton, Forbes, Vigers, Mandasoran, Raleigh, J. Churchward, Phelon, Phylos, Cayce, Williamson |
| Atlanteans had spiritual or psychic powers | Charroux, Theosophists, Steiner, Lanz, Gorsleben, Wirth, Wiligut, Peryt Shou, Fortune, Brown, Randall-Stevens, Forbes, Vigers, Neate, Michell, Lewis, Gurdjieff, Phylos, Doreal |
| Atlanteans had technology unknown today | Charroux, Bernard, Theosophists, Steiner, Lanz, List, Gorsleben, Fortune, Brown, Fawcett, Vigers, Neate, Mandasoran, Trench, Seth, Michell, Raleigh, J. Churchward, Phelon, Lewis, Phylos, Doreal, D. Leslie, Seth |
| Sound used as power source | Theosophists, Brown, Forbes, Neate, D. Leslie, Seth, Tom |
| Atlanteans had aircraft | Bernard, Theosophists, Steiner, Trench, Raleigh, Lewis, Oahspe, Colville, Cayce, Ballard, Williamson, Tom, Ramtha, Phylos, Cayce, Ballard, Adamski, Doreal |
| Atlanteans were literate | Theosophists, J. Churchward |
| Atlanteans were vegetarian | Theosophists, Zschaetzsch, Wieland, Randall-Stevens, Neate (partial) |
| Megaliths are Atlantean | Papus, Le Cour, Sinnett, Machalett |
| Great Pyramid is Atlantean | Bernard, Theosophists, Machalett, Randall-Stevens, Brunton, Forbes, Trench, Gurdjieff, Cayce, Doreal, Tom |
| Atlantis fell through misuse of technology | Steiner, Peryt Shou, Van Rijckenborgh, Cayce, Ballard, Williamson, Ramtha, Merrill |
| Evil forces in Atlantis caused catastrophe | Theosophists, Steiner, Guénon, Fortune, Randall-Stevens, Spence, Vigers, Oahspe |
| Atlanteans are reincarnated today | Theosophists, Steiner, Bailey, Fortune, J. Churchward, Phelon, Williamson, Seth |
| Space visitors | Charroux, Pauwels and Bergier, Peryt Shou, Trench, Gurdjieff, Oahspe, Pelley, Shaver, Adamski, D. Leslie, Tom |
| Visitors from Venus | Charroux, Theosophists, Neate, Phylos, Adamski, Williamson |
| Winged humanoids | Lanz, Wiligut, Gurdjieff, Merrill |
| Giants in early races | Theosophy, Bellamy, Saurat, Steiner, Heindel, Oahspe |