Contents
CHAPTER ONE—Atlantis of the Rationalists
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
Paul Le Cour and the Sacred Heart
Jean Phaure: Return to Tradition
CHAPTER THREE—H. P. Blavatsky and the Early Theosophists
Neoplatonic Forerunners and Isis Unveiled
Fragments of Forgotten History
The Secret Doctrine: The First Two Root Races
The Fourth (Atlantean) Root Race
CHAPTER FOUR—Later Theosophists
William Scott-Elliot and His Sources
Alice Bailey and “The Tibetan”
CHAPTER FIVE—Germanic Atlantology
Lanz-Liebenfels and the Sodomite Apelings
Guido von List, Father of Ariosophy
Herman Wirth and The Ascent of Mankind
Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century
Karl Maria Wiligut’s Ancestral Traditions
CHAPTER SIX—Two Traditionalists
René Guénon’s Early Investigations
The Polar Mountain and the Underground Kingdom
Julius Evola and Pagan Imperialism
The Primordial Tradition and Its Decline
CHAPTER SEVEN—The Britons
The Revelations of a Normal Lad
Psychometry on the Brink of War
The Messages of Helio-Arkan/Arcanophus
The Sky People and the Avalonians
CHAPTER EIGHT—Some Indepenents
Raleigh and the Yucatán Brotherhood
Beelzebub’s Descents to Planet Earth
CHAPTER NINE—Channeling in the New World
CHAPTER TEN—Channeling in the New Age
The Changing Light at Sandover
CHAPTER ELEVEN—The Four Ages
432,000, the Ubiquitous Number
Alain Daniélou’s Puranic Chronology
Gaston Georgel and the Rhythms of History
Fabre d’Olivet Reverses the Yugas
CHAPTER TWELVE—The Precession of the Equinoxes
Precession of the Rationalists
Before and After Hamlet’s Mill
Precession of the Mythologists
CONCLUSION—Recurrent Themes of Occult Atlantology