Contents

Cover Image

Title Page

Preface and Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE—Atlantis of the Rationalists

The Atlantic Ocean

Arctica

Sweden

Germany

Britain

The Sahara Desert

Crete and Thera

Malta

Sicily

Cyprus

Turkey

The Caribbean

Central America

Venezuela

Bolivia

Antarctica

Everywhere

Allegorical

Nowhere

CHAPTER TWO—The French Esoteric Tradition

Delisle de Sales and the Age of the Earth

Fabre d’Olivet’s Philosophical History

Saint-Yves d’Alveydre’s Synarchic History

Edouard Schuré’s Great Initiates

Papus and the Cancerous Moon

Paul Le Cour and the Sacred Heart

Pandora’s Box

Jean Phaure: Return to Tradition

CHAPTER THREE—H. P. Blavatsky and the Early Theosophists

Neoplatonic Forerunners and Isis Unveiled

The Mahatma Letters

Fragments of Forgotten History

The Secret Doctrine: The First Two Root Races

Third (Lemurian) Root Race

The Fourth (Atlantean) Root Race

CHAPTER FOUR—Later Theosophists

A. P. Sinnett and “Mary”

William Scott-Elliot and His Sources

A Child’s Story

Leadbeater Again

Rudolf Steiner and Theosophy

Alice Bailey and “The Tibetan”

CHAPTER FIVE—Germanic Atlantology

Lanz-Liebenfels and the Sodomite Apelings

Guido von List, Father of Ariosophy

Postwar Reconstruction I

Herman Wirth and The Ascent of Mankind

The Fall of Herman Wirth

Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century

Karl Maria Wiligut’s Ancestral Traditions

Peryt Shou, the Outsider

Postwar Reconstruction II

CHAPTER SIX—Two Traditionalists

René Guénon’s Early Investigations

The Polar Mountain and the Underground Kingdom

Julius Evola and Pagan Imperialism

Guénon, Evola, and Wirth

The Primordial Tradition and Its Decline

Priests versus Warriors

CHAPTER SEVEN—The Britons

Atlantis in the Inner Light

The Revelations of a Normal Lad

Psychometry on the Brink of War

Lewis Spence’s Occult Trilogy

The Messages of Helio-Arkan/Arcanophus

The Return of Stainton Moses

The Sky People and the Avalonians

CHAPTER EIGHT—Some Indepenents

Mayan Connections

Raleigh and the Yucatán Brotherhood

The Churchwards and Mu

The Rosicrucians

Beelzebub’s Descents to Planet Earth

CHAPTER NINE—Channeling in the New World

Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible

Phylos the Tibetan

An Inspirational Lecture

Rĭn-gä’-sĕ nŭd Sï-ï-kĕl’zē

Edgar Cayce

Mount Shasta Again

We Are All Star Guests

Tibetan Pretensions

CHAPTER TEN—Channeling in the New Age

Remembering Lemuria

Meeting Orthon

Other Flesh, Secret Places

Seth Speaks

Tom and the Nine

Ramtha the Lemurian

The Changing Light at Sandover

CHAPTER ELEVEN—The Four Ages

432,000, the Ubiquitous Number

Guénon Reveals the Code

Alain Daniélou’s Puranic Chronology

Gaston Georgel and the Rhythms of History

Interim Reflections

Fabre d’Olivet Reverses the Yugas

Buddhist Systems

The System of the Jains

Sri Yukteswar

CHAPTER TWELVE—The Precession of the Equinoxes

Precession of the Rationalists

Before and After Hamlet’s Mill

Precession of the Mythologists

The Age of Aquarius

The Reigns of the Archangels

CONCLUSION—Recurrent Themes of Occult Atlantology

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Footnotes

Endnotes

Bibliography

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