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OUR STORY
OF
ATLANTIS.
Written down for the
HERMETIC
By W.
Author of
P.
BROTHERHOOD
PHELON,
"THREE SEVENS";
"
EFFECT";
LOVE, SEX,
M. D.
"HEALING,
CAUSES AND
IMMORTALITY,"
Etc.
s, in
of
Congress
at
Washington, D. C.
4OC M ALLSTER
ST., 8.
F.
9
"
>-
1.
;
In
tl
FOREWORD.
It is
days, always to be
later
He may
a recognized fact.
another
reliability,
write from
experience, in
say, he
to
writes of his
come
able
This
own
in his
is
personal
little
book,
For
world, to-day.
six years I
Now,
my
Dear Comrades
Brotherhood,
May
it
am
bid to
be a help to the
TIAN BORN,
of
the
let
it
Hermetic
go
ONCE ATLAN-
W.
P.
forth.
PHELON,
120215
be.
M. D.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I.
PAGE
CHAPTER
II.
Continued crossPoem,
examination of witnesses, human and divine, con
"Atlantian
Memories."
CHAPTER
III.
ren love
structive
and scoundrels
talker.
CHAPTER
IV.
The
store.
CONl^ENTS
viii
and
color,
CHAPTER
XVI.
CHAPTER
The Treasury
PAGE 194.
of
-XVII.
the Temple;
its
contents and
uses.
CHAPTER
XVIII.
CHAPTER
XIX.
203.
CHAPTER
XX.
CHAPTER
Corroborating
present day, as
on the Walls,"
it
XXI.
PAGE
214.
OUR STORY OF
ATLANTIS.
CHAPTER
I.
arms,
alarms;
Now, above
thee
lost
Atlantis
With
We
name and
story
OUR STORY
Of
thy
cities,
fair
and old;
in
Now, above
fancy
of thee,
Some
Where upon
Once
life s fitful
Mighty
cities
ocean tost;
rose in splendor
Now, above
of that clime
Happy
From
Deems
His
he,
who
life
looking backward
of larger scope
lost continent of
Or by
light of love
Hope
and gladness,
his Atlantis
Why is
this
book written ?
is
OF ATLANTIS.
position.
is
its
publication.
com
critic
It certainly ap
seem
much out
so
The
historical period,
enough material
of any interest,
make
to
to
yield scarcely
size, to
It
would apparently
now
is
scientists,
that
and corres
every configuration
possibility of
borhood,
if
West In
tells
the
river,
Thousand
and hurling
Islands in
itself
the
St.
the story
its
barriers
Lawrence
left
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4
habitable
the
man
legacy to
The
valley
of
the
sacred writings of
all
disaster to
some
all.
headed:
says
as
Mississippi,
"A
"A
Monument
to
which
Atlantis,"
who have
made
Plongeon.
them
monuments
the
of ancient times.
it
at
enables
most important
The
edifice in
ques
tion
is
feet
sea,
and situated
to the
travelers,
visited
by
distin
Hum-
OF ATLANTIS.
nor
erected,
on
its sides.
As
far back as
1886, Dr.
Le Plongeon pub
Maya
hieroglyphs,
comparing
this
alphabet.
He
has
the
now found
Egyptian
Maya
and
inscriptions has
made
it
plain to
Land
gether with
man
its
of
Mu
Atlantis), to
"Queen
then,
destruction of
population of 64,000,000 of hu
Dr. Le Plongeon,
four
(Plato
to
Moo
Maya
is
in
his
remarkable work,
Sphinx,"
the
fifth,
most important of
and, in his
all
the
own
known
gives
This,
opinion, the
records in
Maya
OUR STORY
Deluge that
is
rise
found
These
papyrus, all
know
same
tell
of the Aztecs
fact.
is
The
Whence came
cities
and
covered
we
little
now
forest-
to
pose there
between
styles
all
Is
of architecture
it
al
to
reasonable to sup
The
Instead of a mummy-case,
we
use a coffin
OF ATLANTIS.
for our dead.
The
idea
the same
is
the de
new
ing a
mak
The
trinity in unity of
received,
was an Egyptian
wrought
idea,
which La Plon-
the
If
feeble
in the
nation,
of
cataclysmal climax
some
is
we must
present generation
sirous of
is
more
certainly have
As
the
mind
had
of the
Wisdom
its
weight,
of the Past
may
upon the
earth.
who have
Unseen should be
entered
at all con-
OUR STORY
who
race,
the planet?
coming Egos,
it
is
men
to be ad
highest
who
if
Those
more advantages
find
of
acquirement,
would
through
Age.
From
book
as
is
to all
who
are seeking to
use,
my
attention,
and
KNOW.
interest
do not
OF ATLANTIS.
doubt the authenticity of
information, nor
my
and courteous
mouthpiece
in
this
as to
make
re-collection
who were
the ancient
memories.
I
come
to
many
readers,
It
is
if
will
they
a conceded fact,
many
at the
same time,
as
now.
knowledge
the doctrines of
This
mind
which
to receive
Mental Healing,
of the occult,
knowledge of
Spiritualism,
of the University of
his
Toronto,
who
declares after
lost Atlantis
was
OUR STORY
io
it
continent of America.
was
He
accounts for
its
dis
merely incidental.
Donnelly
who
ocean bed.
tians, the
He
Egyp
of ancient times,
power,
it
became
lost to
at the
shadowy
It
is
tradition.
Egyptians
of Central America,
whose
OF ATLANTIS.
theory.
Such
would
discovery
won
lost Atlantis
derful
ruins
invests those
tiquarians.
The
St.
was
"Atlantis
the Pillars of
Hercules,"
no record.
account of
it,
information
whom
Plato
and he
is
is
said to
"Atlantis
was
gives an
have obtained
says:
who
the first
priests
Plato
continent
with
account
larger
his
its
than
west
to be
South
America."
still
now
beyond
supposed
be-
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12
Atlantis
was a powerful,
which extended
portion of
as the
its
what
way
Tyrrhenian
now
is
thickly settled-county
Europe,
Sea."
Greeks.
efforts
of
the
to as far
was checked by
combined
"even
Athenians
and
the
other
a great
to
cumference.
First,
the
islands
outlying
cir
sank;
Waves
ran
what had
populace climbed
riven,
fields.
and the
fertile
On
to
the second
were of
There
is
no
OF ATLANTIS.
in history or tradition that records a
page
more absorbing
interest than a
work
entirely de
known con
is
it.
cerning
To
more
frightful catastrophe,
who
the objector
of the
whose
endeavored to give
mit
13
me
to give a
in
few straws
may
have
story
floating
show
on our sea
"The
Mexican
tallies
among
jara
is
the capital.
Jallisco,
part
of
Living
the
great
in the
Sierra
is
Guadala
mountains of
Madre
or
OUR STORY
14
"Mother
and
Range"
thence
the
are
northward,
unconquered
and almost
fair
Guadalajara
complexions.
is
visit,
the
and
Madre
the
mountain
silver,
No
lost city
wilderness,
Yaquis have an
because
the
naked
The
only
human
beings other
moun
explorers
than
the
peaceful
but
persistent
Yaquis."
There
is
no question
in the
to
the
minds
of those
who
that
the
subject,
OF ATLANTIS.
who
nation
know beyond
to
sought
Of
15
we add
the
the
law
unknown
city
a different source:
"During
Mexico,"
to
said a
to
an Inquirer reporter,
tact
made
"I
have come
in
con
which
all
stories.
visited
singular
an enormous
by white men.
It
is
is
city,
that far
never yet
described as peopled
One
human
who
are
sacrifices to their
deity.
"The
race
civilization,
full
of
is
said
to be
in
a high state of
city
is
on broad paved
streets,
OUR STORY
16
"One
own
eyes,
and had
but,
all
Indian,
assured
recollect,
and
city
me
that he
its
Of
fled.
course,
the same,
it
not a
is
Mexican
little
strange that
Indians, relative to
of the allusions
is
that
and tra
somewhere
in
who undoubtedly
a people
While
present day.
city
inhabited
and
world of to-day
dom, we yet
its
there
is
down
prime,
to the
secluded
as keepers of the
Ancient
magnitude
Wis
as to
who
not have
nent.
w holly
The
disappeared
from
this
Conti
we
OF ATLANTIS.
17
the dragon
sculptures
"The
is
Yurna
when on
Pegleg mine.
a distance
420
feet
Gigantic
dragons
in
length
pillars,
heads
by 260
quaintly
and
carved
rattlesnakes,
width.
in
feet
to
still
represent
stood
in
huge
frieze
weighing many
The
tons.
day.
city.
One
of
his
of the party, to
associates
to
came
Yuma,
to
San
nearly
OUR STORY
i8
two weeks
ago.
But the
was
way
"The
discoverers, in
some
it.
others,
They were
From
the con
important
when
it
archeaeological
is
evident that an
has
discovery
been
made."
be noticed
to
sand storm.
It has
in
to
always been
so.
storm or
off all ef
prehistoric,
men
a pecu
is
or even
the existing
cities.
is
When
knowl
OF ATLANTIS.
will be given into
19
We
add
still
ful
This time,
it
center of the
is
kingdom
in its prime.
civiliza
tion:
"What
which the
present.
Mexico
scientists
local
are
is
a matter
interested
at
who
huge natural
cave,
greatest in Mexico,
it is
much
if
which he
believes to be the
He
says
huamilpa, situated some distance south of Guernavaca, which has hitherto been supposed to be
OUR STORY
20
Mr.
ough investigation
of
it,
make
a thor
for a day,
and
set
etc.,
As he went
all alone.
not
arduous
anticipate
as
was
task
his
At
proved.
it
of the cave
that
the
would be
first,
so
the bottom
downward, then
a gradual slope
and
there,
how ever,
was met.
The
a level
height
of
ascents.
Here
cave varied,
some places
as
in
was
several
hundred
feet high.
it
ever seen,
OF ATLANTIS.
"After
21
400
with ancient
etc.
idols,
There was
as
two or three
skulls,
Some
this
now
distance
his
was not
of
at
twenty-one
it
the distance
still
to
had traveled a
and
one-half
shake
until after he
least
to
explorations
It
The
passed.
this city.
in the
tinued
in
some
foun
also a
found to be excellent.
as
So far as he could
be traversed might be
human
feet.
to be well
trodden
OUR STORY
22
as possible,
ward
more
It
Mr. Leroyal
before
explorations
is
wonderful cavern of
in
as,
The
the Indian
fact,
Mexico
exists
treasure
of
to
which
is
so
intricate
and
tered
its
With
solitary
all
precincts."
the subject,
at collection
it
To make
is
known
a beginning
OF ATLANTIS.
and thus
answer
call
attention in
the
to
question:
this
23
direction
"Why
this
my
is
book
is
written."
ATLANTIAN MEMORIES.
Out
of the
dim
From where
As
Past, old
memories come
its
to
me;
resplendent
rays
And
Golden
lyres,
sending forth
rich,
harmonious
er
strains
the world
still
reigned.
High above
all,
the Vestal
From
the
Temple
melodious chimes,
OUR STORY
24
my
heart
is
with no effort of
my
still
will.
waves,
became our
alas,
graves.
Again,
Which
from human
arise.
eyes,
Nor heard
it
murmured
in the
free,
am
memory
ope,
And
While on our
The
its
robes of
snowy white
all its
Humble
is
The
bell s
Amid
own.
there,
silent air,
spirits twine.
CHAPTER
is
and
THERE
yet a little
II.
more
of the flotsam
two
old
to
supple
is
now
distinct sources,
Mexican
we
From
give an account of an
to
just returned
in the southwestern
city
existence
in
is
an old Aztec
city,
by the Spaniards.
it
OUR STORY
26
an impossibility
it is
it if
want a
trav
The
tains
almost inaccessible
in
country and
is
so far
away from
It
was by
tc
reach
city
part of the
civilization that
in the
neighbor
moun
was anywhere
it,
all of his
the
in
endeavors
He
came
to the top of
in
Ocean when he
He
close
who
OF ATLANTIS.
27
cliffs
was regularly
pled
The
shown by
something about
surrounded by yards,
of taste
in streets
w ho knew
with a race
civilization.
out
laid
in
On
all sides
were evidences
it
was
evi
known
"A
to the outside
w orld.
r
city
was
showed
He saw
of access
was
which led
into
means
defile
the city as
it
He made
where he could
find
an outline drawing of
OUR STORY
28
mountain
there
is
for he
this
is all
"From
not
and
top,
drawing
it is
less
The
all
and windows.
houses are
on
of worship,
its
was
It
in the
shape of
many
it
during
all
hours of
the day.
"After
ten days
the
himself
at
western
slope,
foot
and
set
marked the
the
mountains on
He
had so well
a band of Indians
who
the
refused to let
had no
diffi
was met by
him proceed.
OF ATLANTIS.
him no
offered
They
He
should return.
29
told
know how
back.
way
"After
to
was
a consultation, he
would
told he
who
re
and
Alvarez
was
blindfolded
He
condition
for
three
On
days,
traveled in
was
when
so,
bandage, and
and
he did
told to
remove
his
he found himself on
The
Indians
This
of
city
is
America,"
the body,
We
described in full in
who have
city."
"Future
visited
Rulers
by persons
in
OUR STORY
30
work
of the powerful
its
to tell:
The
city.
five
tell
of
Madre
another
W.
first
Pantion,
were
to
evi
The two
rock,
and
these passages
it
of
of
was
discovered.
are
hewn out
cities
tunnel.
with no
At
least
To
that
now
all
desire to
OF ATLANTIS.
which
Records,
believe
to
31
be
and
reliable
worthy of credence.
Does not
in
city,
even to the
sively,
common
realistic
and
scientific
mind,
We
clusion.
who
and know.
Who,
selves;
are im
them
difficulties, if
they
some of the
w hen
went down
guid
the sun of
into
To
the
Aryan
heart, there
is
people,
much
who
listen
with a willing
OUR STORY
32
and Religion
whether
It
matters
little
which
in a scientific
is
Science
offered,
new upon
how
untried lines
exception.
That
why
is
thought.
It has ever
satisfied
exertion of seeking
the
admitting
new
possibility
of
broadening
or
truth,
for others.
wise
men
upon the
at
of Atlantis.
was known
Whenever
earth, a sufficient
number
to the
OF
ATLAN9S$&^*
33
In the days
was
when
it
Romans
was
the
resorted
numbers
What
to
we
they did,
all
in evidence.
As soon
were
the
sufficiently
Atlantians,
the
as
commenced
strides
startling
re-appearing,
their great
as
they
discovery,
we
all
In no other
way can
OUR STORY
34
who had
title to
neither claim
that into
which
Much
He
Who
ment,
if
title to
How
man
unfold-
The
differ
is
lect.
As
was drawn
which Atlantis
itself
was
located.
OF ATLANTIS.
records at that time, there
When
Atlantis
was
were not so
on
in the
is
for
a mysterious gap,
If Atlantis
all
cut
they
off,
When
when
this
its
light,
own
and
stand
this
groped
class
had held
other nations
were other
far advanced.
of the world
35
in
comparative
of people incarnated
darkness.
again in
Rome
of
the overrunning
Tartars,
occurred.
we
As
can
most pertinent
fact that
their
comrades and
all
human
being
Have we
is
learned
separate from
OUR STORY
36
ourselves?
It
is
righted.
As
pass out
put off
into
all
the
by
little
have these
"fellows
of
Little
ignorance,"
"sons
of
felt
light"
it
full
The American
must
complement of inhabi
Thus
it is
easy to understand
ing power of
all
why
the extinguish
is
when
the
lamp
of civiliza
later, as at
OF ATLANTIS.
beacon lights
set
on a
But with
hill.
felt
felt
Yet
it
off
from easy ap
make
Not only
it
common
its
is
power
unites
the
its
civilization
its
power
Although the
everywhere, but
push the
com
compact, unified
spected.
these
to
proach.
37
is
always re
made
itself
founder of the
force with that,
The freedom
of
the
thought-body,
and the
thereby,
has
It thus
happens that
devachanic
rest,
is
and per
hundreds of years
in
in a
OUR STORY
38
as
flood,
We
way
often
wonder
ciples
We
upon another.
and begun
logical,
and methods of
the Atlantians
which
know
desiring to
We
further progress.
we
another, and
mind
who may
may do
so
with
came
the
to
The
reason
why
this
We
age
is
is
so celebrated above
due
is
at
OF ATLANTIS.
hand.
in
39
When
minent.
cities
rising in others,
peculiarly
own
im
is
are
situated
lost all
con
desires cen
enough
to
which the
If this
communicate
itself to
of
plane
Liquidity,
serious
consequences
may
occur.
But
Builders know.
That within
much
waves.
we
have gathered:
years,
and possibly a
this
hundred
whatever may be
be investigated.
in her ruined
contain,
or
OUR STORY
40
of population will
now
sea,
Lamuria
will once
inhabitants.
fixed
is
when
mined.
more
Scientists
all
How
sustain
its
millions of
tell
of
is
Under
the sea
is
by
man
busy hands.
CHAPTER
III.
IN severe
attention
when
point
sea voyage.
of
mine
owner.
mentioned
New York
in
He
offered
this
City,
me
fact
"around
My
a vessel
it
gave
sail for
Horn."
me
gladly
San
ac
both motive
trip.
sailed out of
to a friend
the
to take a
who was
ative,
rest
reached
business
to
New York
rapidly.
Harbor on
We
the I5th of
June, 1872.
As
moon
little
OUR STORY
42
to
happen
as
come
my
to
my
knowledge,
before
Of
all
upon land.
foot
But
trayal.
part,
it
is
come and
always so
in life,
The
go.
we meet and
the
consequence of
know?
ly
Who
oncoming
will
tell,
or
future, with
but
warn
its
how
in
we
shall
burden of weal or
woe?
As our
vessel
was devoted
to freight, we, as I
was occupied by
cluding myself.
at that
The
rest
of
to
the
moment,
to
this
hand
es
the business
had
OF ATLANTIS.
45
make your
an
afterwards
But
acquaintance."
of
impression
"Happy
remembered
dignity
bear
of
on his part;
ing; of sweetness of real courtesy
thrill
we
as
may
lines of
our
lives cross
with those
who
are es
the
Standing thus, leaning meditatively over
tafrrail,
came back
name pronounced
voice,
to
myself by hearing
distinctly,
Looking around,
in
a low,
my
musical
foreign
accent.
he went on to say:
"I
see
you."
"Oh,
not a large
part,"
I replied,
"but
was
the
thinking about the certainty of parting and
uncertainty of
"Don t
meeting."
we
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44
we have
that
all
we
accomplished
we
meet
certainly
"Yes,"
human
shall
again?"
I said,
"that
uncertainty that
Looking
other.
full at this
be
may
so,
but
it
is
the
saddens."
man,
whom, with
to
his
saw a
picture,
proportioned.
narily
in
their ordi
when
honest indignation or
tom
stamped
my memory.
upon
indelibly
prescribed.
little
Hair and
in
compare
in
others.
With
sion, in all
if
its
he
unselfish
all
said,
this,
there
he could
tell
good of
was an impres
very
much more
OF ATLANTIS.
45
was such a
It
drels
hate,
containing within
tenderness of a mother
the pitying
itself
In
taining watchfulness.
and scoun
our
sus
interview,
confident
quaintance to the
sworn
I
am
At
friendship.
this,
championship
too, I
of
marveled, for
come slowly
be, in those
the
to
perception of
Although we
stood
some
what might
their
little
good
will.
time longer
met
in closer
and
still
closer embrace,
we
lapsed
company
and
said,
we
no word was
As
my
inal,
is
making up
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46
Consequently
part.
had
sufficient
time to im
It
my
we were
familiar with
there
terest,
lines of
others, in
which
of
versed,
were
many
was
friend
that while
common
in
ing.
He was
talker
my
ques
tions.
Especially
was
forgotten,
was
that they
were given
seemed that
and movement
As
Later
it
as
if
his
descriptions
personal experi
was done
to give
at the
more
life
to the story.
whatever
either in reading
But
OF ATLANTIS.
as
grew
older,
ideas of the
gard the
modern
that
little
47
schools,
had come
was known
to re
of that ancient
if
not
five
fabulous,
we had
After
days,
we
as
sat
chatting on
me
to
ask
"Do
try as
Atlantis?"
"Most
certainly,"
was
his
quiet,
decisive an
swer.
"But
it
possible that a
whole
waves
more
as
that
trace of
why
is
its
said
to
that?"
know anything
Does
history
stood
of
the
Who
city
that
knows who
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48
Pyramids of Egypt?
Who
can
tell
the
of
of the cities
own
In your
Mound
of the
know
country,
Builders?
who
can
What
tell
anything
cities in
But
for
would by
this
now
"And,"
ite
pity,
is."
"perhaps
we may have
to hear
now
At
maybe,"
he continued,
past."
"you
would
like
every
living
person
planet."
Upon my
vol-
OF ATLANTIS.
ume, written after the
style of the
left.
49
Far East, upon
Opening
it
he
this
main
island
one
to
were
was easy
many
other
to cross
from
was
Sea"
w as
r
"The
mouth.
"In
of Kings
island
and
itself
further continent.
They
aggression,
Far
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50
States,
who dwelt
within
the
Hercules.
Pillars of
were destroyed
laces
all
mighty
by
were
The
both
Subsequently,
in
cataclysms,
entirely
fair
and beautiful
plain
and nearly
low range of
plain.
six miles
or Atlantis.
sons,
hood.
the
this
from
was
its
Here dwelt
hills.
the
In the center of
confines
for
The
ruling Kings
succession
of
power
ever
to
cure hereafter.
all
their
They were
whom
from
many gen
erations the
down
was a
easily pro
whom
the Atlan-
OF ATLANTIS.
and from Atlantis
tians traded
rich
especially
only
in
minerals,
known mines
a mineral with
which was
itself,
and
possessed
the
a metal which
properties
51
"The
pasturage.
timber and
of elephants, spices,
every description
tables
in
of all
kinds,
plants of
and vege
ow
its
beneficent
These were
nite in
climate,
brought
number.
Nor were
forth.
and
infi
industry
and
structive arts.
skill
in
King
adorning and
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52
it
struck
all
be
waterways or
at
intervals,
canals.
making
more con
it
from the
streams they
where
left
"The
colors,
interior.
was
of three
many
of
Their
tin
glittering appearance.
"Northeast
of
The
Continent,
interior
was cov
which were
lined
with gold.
Within,
the roof
OF ATLANTIS.
53
of gold, ivory
all walls,
pillars
and pave
tural
their
docks were
with
filled
that time.
The whole
dense population.
city
The main
shipping
known
to
and
men
teemed with a
of
the
world.
The
commerce continued
sail
din and
all
Such
for,
all
tumult of
a general sketch
country;
it
precipi
was
itself
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54
The
and
level
plain
was smooth
and South.
said to be the
The whole
cession of prosperous
there
and wealthy
was an abundance of
rivers
for all
villages,
and
for
lakes,
kinds of cattle
They surrounded
this
feet
deep,
By
it
606
feet
was con
sea,
the rest
They were
for irrigation.
able,
was husbanded
by raising two
the polity
of
until
of consultation in
at
last
the
all
matters
power passed
into
of
the
OF ATLANTIS.
"For
many
ditions.
ideas
wisdom, both
in the
and
mutual
in
their
ordinary vicissitudes of
relations.
King and
priest
lofty
5$
things
present
of
small
life
They
looked
They
consid
importance,
and
Nor were
den.
they
intoxicated
with luxury,
of true virtue
Thus
it
prosperity
"But
we have
when,
of
described.
at the last,
to degener-
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56
ate;
fairest of their
"This,"
said
most valuable
my
friend,
possessions."
"is
history, for
to son in
was
it
authentic an
as
any
the
destroying
whom we
have
father
perfected
about 25,000
years
before
the
immediate
my
he looked
I
me
is
and remarked:
close at
hand when
"If
lines
will
CHAPTER
IV.
an ancient
in his
own
map and
along that
verify
seemed to be
of cabalistic calculations,
nized, for I
for he
a chance for
number
which
of diagrams
fully
recog
and could,
to a certain extent,
But, as
could
see,
the oper
seemed very
in
any
sense,
or puzzled.
the
His absorption
length
of
the
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58
At
able
last
and
conclusion
and memoranda
data
his
deck.
was an
yet there
me
in
had occurred
it
my
picked up in a second-hand
stall
tending to examine
my
leisure.
brought
ing
my
interest
it
at
aroused
locker
in
had
Boston, in
Now, hav
it
out and
fourth
Continent,
which
it
has
been
many
upheaved
in the
islands
known
as the Atlantians,
a race developed
OF ATLANTIS.
59
tered,
land
tis
in
what
is
now
towards
cen
a point
of
"In
we
come down
has
us
to
Greek
them referring
of
to
Plato,
last,
for instance,
small island of
condensed
the
millions
of
years
into
an event,
and their
island.
Homer
The
speaks
Atlantes
The
Atlas
the
is
Atlantes
and Atlantides of
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60
The
wisdom and a
perior
especially
thorough
with
acquaintance
the
by
to the
divine
masters,
bottom of the
until
the
seas,
appointed
And
as both
fires,
is
said to have
and join
Tar
tarus.
"Atlas
West,
that
then personifies a
said to support
is,
the
feet
continent
in
the
of the
giants tread
the earth
Mount
These
OF ATLANTIS.
two dwarfed
were
relics
of
two
the
61
lost
continents
and twice
was an
as
high
in
Lemuria
Atlas
that of Atlantis.
ol
had not
Lemuria, when the African Continent
yet been raised.
"Lemuria
their
of about 700,000
yean
elapsed.
"Why
in mind
should not your geologists bear
by them,
in the
and fathomed
found
bowels of which they have
may
present
Amazed
theories."
what
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62
my
I
concluded
it,
at
portunity of lives
was
close at hand.
all this
time
we had
During
Both
and men
officers
were ready
to give
make a stranger
tion
this
feel at
we
fitful,
West
men
Main
they grew
Our
a dead calm.
third
we were
away
into
the
made no
South, but
the
home anywhere.
little later.
which
attentions
little
as
happened a
him the
all
day,
particular
moon
the
fell
headway.
fulled
me
if
noon and
at
On
North
West
longitude,
would
like to
lati
when my
go with him
OF ATLANTIS.
about a couple
of miles
to
westward.
the
63
my
Upon
rather
his
of
some
he had been
We
much accustomed
pushed
steering.
off,
glanced
at
to the water.
my
felt
companion.
im
my
to
strength.
set
had be
island,
which on
summit
of
closer inspection
The
high,
seemed
to be the
pillar,
sides,
precipitous.
little
although not
In the
still
How much
We
farther, I
rowed slowly
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64
around
On
ence.
It
it.
the rock
face of
feet in circumfer
The
weather.
even
If there
this
Having
we might
To my
dif
sum
ficult task.
the
we scrambled
as
to the top.
flat,
solid
it
was cup-shaped
Looking
It
and drying
at the
saw that
it
was
and
OF ATLANTIS.
The
ture.
floor
was
in
laid
65
regular
flagging.
discovery,
my
exclamation of surprise
companion, but
was checked by
my
his actions.
turned to
Standing
erect,
the
to
North,
were
of
parchment,
which
upon
little
characters
in
degrees
pace.
He
due East.
to dilate,
whole
more he stepped
Then
turning
forward
another
There standing
and
outline.
disc of stone
his face
erct, his
grew
All at once
had revolved
fixed
I
and
to himself he
set in its
perceived a large
at his
feet,
Coming back
form seemed
exposing
room below.
motioned
me
to fol
stairs into
As we
from nowhere
in particular, lighted
up the whole
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66
interior.
But
as this
the
was not
were
present.
My
companion,
As he
Power.
still
in the
upper
silent,
little
it
made one
was not
Then
to be unmistakable.
pile
stepped to
did so I thought
enough
that
on each was a
dust
of dust.
of the
heard
distinct
going to the
was par
touched
some
mechanism,
which,
preserved
we
into
passed
found seven
little piles
made
door
a chamber below.
seats.
of dust.
in the
slid
On
My
won
Here
we
like
OF ATLANTIS.
til
67
Turn
of the tower in
drew out
this carefully,
upper
air,
closely
more
him every av
was placed
this
With
followed by myself.
ing,
Holding
When
place, a roll of
its
hand by unseen
in his
pigment
helpers.
With
mark behind
off,
a blood-red
we managed
it
and
he steering, as before.
Singular as
certed
Then
it.
left
it
it
may
instruction
or
word
of
warning, not a
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68
moment
the
On my
in
silence
was involuntary.
we were
part the
seemed to stand
again
down
in a
over
past,
the
resist
of speech.
knew
could
bers were, in
self.
frivolity
cham
my
some
effect.
More
than that.
and benumbing
The
in its
my
filled
with an occu
Then came
the
names
as
if
Oh,
OF ATLANTIS.
the Eternal!
Memory
was
it
yesterday, or thou
looked upon
er than friendship
friend
made
tie
strong
When my
my
shoulders, as
whose consequence
rectified
unfolding and
more
held
ly
some
overwhelmed me.
these
faces
The
69
that
me
my
its
my
utterly
friend did,
to do, taking
me
all
as
fail
to
to
my
much
energies.
words will
up
life,
silent as
came
all
portray,
what he evident
an involuntary ac
complice.
Sitting in
me
facing me,
his knees,
brother: I see
my
he
confidence in thee
was
Thou
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70
closing clause
is
to
keep
Thereby thou
silent.
erhood,
whose
Atlantian Kings.
was
charter
first
greet
Great Broth
issued
by the
Ancient Wise
thee,
One."
While saying
if
from an inner
thetic exaltation
of
this his
words
The
fire.
face lighted
action of the
up
as
sympa
to describe.
denly come
whole
to a
was
It
as
perception of
if
almost
infinite
feel that
we must
continued
naming me
we
my
comrade,
"that
it
thus."
tell
you,"
Temple
of Atlantis,
in
which were
waters
all
the living
members
of the
most po-
OF ATLANTIS.
71
five
ly rising once
The whole
The
more.
feet in
continent
the
of
top
is
slow
tower,
210
feet high,
The
air.
cham
the
We
know whether
do not
stories will
as little
"It
rescue
by
little it
was thought
this;"
"before it
be able
to
storms or not,
Brotherhood to
little
casket,
maw
of the waters.
It
at
present
accessible.
"The
chambers which
we
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72
was
Below
chamber of the
for I
I did
forty-five.
was warned
still
we
below
entered
that, the
all vestiges
of the Brotherhood,
may
home
to later generations
"Obligation
five
which
of this ancient
rested heavily
entirely
from
as either the
its
They
on the
three,
the
responsibility
until
such time
in
the
seven,
the
which
I did.
give
them
Below
the
members
of
the
remaining chambers,
and
are well
known
to
me
as to the rest of
OF ATLANTIS.
73
man
to
mankind, and
we
its
newest appeal
But we
the present.
The most
which no person
liv
actual
ing or dead could obtain without your
The
accomplished.
is
voy
as
planned.
Our
vessel
nificent
panorama of the
could
was
fairest
land
mag
the sun
visible.
But to-night
down
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74
its
com
pletion."
It did not
tain,
It
was
the accomplishment of
mortal
I
my making
felt a certain
what
this
time heard.
now, with
Nay, more,
was
know
that this
we know
But
one of
as this story
it
might
set for
we
voyage
is
of
facts
is
not
according to
human
nature.
on new
lines,
ing of
known laws
as
we
of the
phenomena
presented.
OF ATLANTIS.
But we were now
and the
the deck
my
friend
showed
his
casket,
as
we had
visited.
After looking at
75
trifle
"It
water-worn
was
it
casually they
though."
And
so,
them more
may
at
which
CHAPTER
AS
V.
Western horizon a
our
flapping
sails,"
moon
full
sat
to
him
Suddenly, as
my
if
moment
of
his hands,
"Yes,
once."
which
had
was put
into
coming about
as fast as a
various
no one
friend and
in
certainly; at
the waters.
matters.
good
and the
ship once
The
"idly
was near us on
man would
At
that time
my
peculiar state of
mind
this,
too,
seemed
OF ATLANTIS.
what followed.
me
out to
casket
the
Taking
several
hands he pointed
his
in
and symbols en
characters
Calling
my
he
"That
77
Let us
"Lay
the open
palm
see
of
said:
the password.
atten
we may
if
your
the
holds
It
open
it.
hand on mine,
left
well.
left
did so, a
an
hand upon
little
it,
palm
waiting."
Then
felt
placed
to palm.
As
my whole body
If not,, then
my own
like
is
it is still
He
it
whom
thou art he
more
brilliancy,
intense.
caught
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7$
thin air by
my
and simultaneously
side,
the shadow, as
could
when one
the
feel
distinctly
could
most majestic
Prominently out of
feels the
sun
brightness
my
s rays,
of another
friend in the
body.
At
same moment
the
Instantly
where beneath me
my
position.
had
in
Without
its
many
leagues.
in the
same
my
intonation,
my
same cadence
friend
arrested
At
s
this
any
dif
who
instant,
lips,
indescrib
my
attention.
lower consciousness,
I
We
relative
three present,
every respect.
volition of
exactly the
the
in
up-borne
ference of condition
seemed equal
be
to
remained together
still
came ring
appeared
all its
three
of time there
in
OF ATLANTIS.
from the
thrilled
all
lips
79
mystics concede.
As
it
my
fully into
consciousness.
rus,
acters of
Egyptian
transi
civilization.
resting place.
As he
and of bewildering
from
plain
tion period of
My
in
it.
effect
this
Holding
its
precious
record
of
the
my
When
in
we
it
was
last
three, still
ment
ited
of
much
that
was beyond
mortal potency.
am
the
power
of lim
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8o
my companion
and brother.
in thee, for to
three
When
in
I shall
have read
it
to
you
it
its
contents.
will be left
To-morrow we
of the day to
it."
CHAPTER
VI.
we commenced
SO
of
tale
and
transfer
down
was slowly
ing a
little
recalled
my
given,
owing
rusty in
my
skill,
that
wonderful
many
my
my
be
I
But
country,
another seeking
have come
submit to
first
stenography, but as
that
leaders, like
the
to the fact of
their
At
concerned
whose daring
in short
He
rescription.
it
our
in
con
all
in
irretrievable
omnipotence to carry
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82
overthrow, as
have copied
it
of that never-to-be-forgotten
voyage.
It begins
"I,
whom
it
This
try.
is
lightenment of
off ages to
my
come
to recurring
my
beloved coun
people,
shall
when
and en
memory.
demand
for this
assistance
and
under
guidance
Supreme Ruler of
which
is
actions
best
may
say that
beginning
"Our
All, that I
to
now.
its
now
in manifestation
upon the
OF ATLANTIS.
Earth.
It
is
est point,
The
mension.
83
surface
at
mostly
is
But
wid
longest di
its
level,
to
its
consist
West,
the
From
river
with
its
through an
artificial
Its
waters,
diverted
from
up
Among
these
OM., who
icated to
"Our
records
the
fail to
of the beginning of
is
is
man
ONE,
the All.
it
wise
ning.
men
It
that
is
we
sufficient
to
say,
for
when
their
the
Fifth
unfolding,
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84
they found
it
here.
We
may
now
existing as the
fertility of
our
soil
is
Our
earth.
known world.
unparalleled any
difference of ele
grow here
also,
We
in
the greatest
have no need
supplies of minerals
abundance.
We
have
all
metals
amount and
found
of the earth.
We
any
also
iron.
It possesses the
duc
We
have named
it
Orichalcum.
OF ATLANTIS.
fauna holds every
"The
85
of
species
become of use
new
habitat and
men
either for
dis
it
on
who
to those
stood in need
it.
we
also
possess
in
in
vast
State,
trated so
much
of wealth
Temple
we
No
like ours,
residences
of
is,
surplus of sup
much
our
that
hold to-day.
public works.
citizens,
even
of
The
private
the
poorer
Do
parts
line
freely passed
sort,
all
tribution.
of
to the children of
labor or pleasure.
this
find
to
to
animal,
am
many
other nations.
seeking to belittle
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86
and
as fully
am
now
stating
which
is
write.
"The
reservoirs.
From
is
"In
aces,
canals,
which are
built
entirely
around
them,
These ca
Great Sea by an
other canal 300 feet wide and 100 feet deep and
six miles
"The
Great Temple
of the city.
Its lofty
is
its
top,
itself
is
OF ATLANTIS.
87
built
upon
them.
the mountains the city of cities extends
"From
in
a circular
form southward.
city proper
upwards of 75,000
still
is
square
memorial, and
is
Beyond the im
is
in fact
liberally irrigated
This
Not
for
irrigation,
but
they both
receive
all
is
population
many
of
millions.
this
plain
Never
that
there be so
the
is
many
OUR STORY
88
must
of our population
owing
to the
of the spirit,
to
is
volume
dominance of the
life-giving
power
erations of
all
and Magi.
men upon
As
its
best,
would
but
is
like
the roar
embattled rocks.
"The
Atlantian
galleys
have
reached
every
OF ATLANTIS.
They have
89
under
tribute to our
We
commerce.
for
have no need to
we have
anything
not.
and
and swords.
and
selves,
can possibly
we
in
fail
mand
is
as the material
we
The
offer.
find
market for
all
we
to the de
which
offers a
is
traders
own mines
is
total
product
The
exists
it
So they seek
own
it
in
other
everywhere,
products in ex-
OUR STORY
90
change for
it.
When
they bring
it
home
they
with
us,
is
but with
Magi
upon which
become
its
whole
gathering by us
irrepressible
The
race.
and destructive
in the
if
evil
shall be forced to
come, as
we
evil.
meet
it
in the
Thus
new
far, strained
is
enough to injure us
It
line.
how
to
As,
more
and have
we
desire
founded will
is
all
predicted by our
dition,
in
way,
It
Thus,
it.
force
OF ATLANTIS.
91
"We
warmth
because
efforts
we
to
we
are not
overcome the
much
can give so
forces
real
bound
and
circle
our
of necessity that
facts
to the soil in
It
the
to
themselves.
"At
the
In the
written, permit
the highest
of
way
me
summit
review of what
to take
my
peaks,
have
future readers to
and
and
valley, hill
plateaux.
and
plain, interspersed
with broad
tropical vege
known
man throughout
the
the
whole
circle of
to
year.
district.
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92
"Nor is
thick with
towns.
substantial
But above
whole picture
dwellings,
is
all,
dotted
is
hamlets
and
tion
fect,
sky, so clear
as yet undisturbed in
and
so per
vibrations by the
its
Beyond these
its fleets
of arriving
These
move
galleys
mounting
all
these our
Magi
wind nor
tide
man
Sur
against this,
force.
of
thought, and
have no power.
It
is
CHAPTER VII.
BEFORE
tions of the
MSS.
comparing with
as
we now know
Continent
Ancient
Carribean
part
the
were
so raised as to
miles high,
Mexico.
seas
present
The
it.
must
have
make
in
of the
covered
If
the
is
old
fertility
of
continent
the
upon
land
Gulf
the
succession
configuration,
in
where now
constant
little
would blow
situation,
location
Archipelago.
there must
mense inland
the
do
us
let
trade
their
In
The
range of mountains to
the
West and
OUR STORY
94
the Continent,
form a chain of
On
islands.
backbone of
the
constituted
table lands
now
The
located.
sult not so
fertility
much
re
of a torrid temperature, as of
life-developing_climate,
and animals.
it
tree.
What
condition of the
of those
who
growth.
was always
harvest.
the same
its
is
growing
partially
at once
true
to-day
soil,
fertile
and
so
on
all
was the
original
great the
wisdom
became
With
a matter of
this
explana
OF ATLANTIS.
"The
is
95
life
to death
not
in
fully satisfied
cepting prolongation
is
it s
life
its
limitless
possibilities.
"Our
many
and
years
been
acknowledged.
On
seas
all
in
world
marts,
winged globe
therefore
in
the
flying
Atlantian
flag
happens
in
our
ample
harbor,
a
It
the
move
warehouses
lie
from another.
along the water
s edge,
OUR STORY
96
which
is
sea,
for
many
miles
These are
raised high
enough
to be above
any
But
snow on
amount
crease of
vapor,
from
was a thing
"The
kingdom by
were rather
amount
of drainage,
the mountains or in
suddenly
iron tramways,
moved by a motive
only our
Magi know.
it is
bidden by
wagons,
"The
to
forth,
its
which
whole
parts of the
all
loads are
precipitated
connected with
is
capital
floods
But
force,
whose
secret
as
it is
city
harnessed.
is
built
of
pure
white
whose
So
fine
is
the
OF ATLANTIS.
97
of the Mediterranean.
is
amply strong
may
what
have already
is
"Broad
it
begin
other
forming the
which
King
There
palace.
King
It
labor,
man
can
own
the
is
anything
is
name
the
at
These are
mountains.
in the
that no
with
is
avenues in semi-circle
the
it
is
perhaps
said,
avenues,
center
of
no owner
as the rep
which
his
own
constitute a
component
part.
All
articles
of
man
OUR STORY
98
ownership
attain,
manifestation
shall
attempt
in
it,
disaster
If he ever
water, earth.
fire, air,
If a
man
builds a house or
"All
bor
all
that
his labor.
neighbor
price.
lot,
and the
He who would
has no
"The
comfort.
when
it.
a young
man
its
and
all
quality or surroundings.
inequalities
No
of
crowding
place,
is
The
al
city.
OF ATLANTIS.
ioned to let in the air and light.
principle
rooms
The
underlying
is
all
99
about
many ways
This plan
it.
modified
is
in
and needs
of the owners.
court
"The
is
ing easily on
its
ample
In the center
fittings.
supplied by an acque-
This was
so old that
age.
the
Temple concerning
in
erally
About
two
stories, so
form no obstruction
"When
the
the archives of
its
its
supported on
to free
accomplish
pillars, as to
movement
of the air.
to locate
it
is
Temple
a horoscope
definitely
naming the
OUR STORY
ioo
number
new
of the
For each
family to come.
This
home.
in the
and
is
special
productive
growth on
all
lines.
"Animals
ency.
At
herd,
man
end of the
either
matters not
it
with
his,
he
spiritually unfolded he
is
himself.
This
is
to
if fifty
inclined
hands eating
would prefer
own way,
and prepared
not, as
is
work which
takes
Ego
If
to ap
that which
especially for
it
the
is
comes belonging
If he
upon
itself
during
rooms on the
first
OF ATLANTIS.
mostly used for the
offices of living, in
Most
101
is
and
spent
which the
perfected.
about
the
The
from vegetable
these
products of
fancifully
dyed.
furnishings,
man
and
textiles
Be
and the
best.
None
made
are blood
traffic,
in
us beyond per-
upon the
"From
No
earth.
the
first,
we have
traded everywhere.
god of the
seas
and
left
goods
forth
or
OUR STORY
102
lands.
trade,
without
sufficient to
loss,
should of
have enriched
have been
itself
us
without
other
means
"Thus it is
selves,
each
an
is
independent
dom
of that
ceived.
This
community
is
as
community.
much
the king
of the physical.
"But
city
country.
These are
eral plan,
changed.
in
construction
laid out
on a certain gen
and
lasting.
is
our
The
substance
secret, of the
whole
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Our ways
world.
The
are
103
and
dustless
noiseless.
to bodies
upon the
earth.
"The
and of varied
styles,
roomy
is
The
white marble.
There
is
city.
Our Magi
Medi
works of
woman
"The
art,
rising
from the
more important of
sea.
it
is
for this
OUR STORY
104
is
so eagerly
bought by the
name
the tears of
the sun,
this
it is
Of
the palace
more
"In
cial
at length
by and by.
description of
all.
They
The
number of
seats,
At one
arranged
like
At
when
sit
easily
and
OF ATLANTIS.
"In
of the
like
manner
105
air.
in the things
themselves.
to
make
and
Our
fathers
a rule of living:
physical things,
Here
had a saying
and
we
to
seek
eight years to
in
young manhood
and
ly correct.
real.
It
in
CHAPTER
VIII.
THE
They
It
may
be asked
why
they
The
reply
and
times.
is
Man
all
The
way.
first,
how
is
little variation,
same
hardly perceptible at
difference
lectual
ages
is
This
to
a nation and of
the nation,
who
OF ATLANTIS.
"Because
women
in
contact,
women
107
other parts
But we know
the
world,
the
This
tion,
sert
to age, to believe in
the inferiority of
women.
and as
This continued
While
row and
loss,
have made
this
to
their sor
now
is,
The
models
perfection
Each one
is
beauty.
is
The
OUR STORY
io8
of perception
marvelous grasp
themselves.
pediments
intel
to spiritual
of
im
who
seek through
understanding.
common
the
called
class,
class
of the bar
and
their
knowledge of nature
laws.
when men
The day
mourn
will
come
this
in the future
whelming
"We
in its
will
crushing awfulness.
orized
knowledge
is
imparted.
if
little
The
mem
design
is
desired or needed
OF ATLANTIS.
109
is
deaf
blind,
halt,
We
unknown.
nor
dumb,
have no lame,
nor
beggars
as
public charge.
of the nations
merce,
of
This of which
who
speak
is
agriculture,
or
who
are
true
com
builders
But
there are
IT.
ONE,
invisible, of the
and those
who
to
The
the
teaching
we
have
of
is
"It
other
gravitated
toward one an
OUR STORY
io
seen;
mathematics as applied
in
alchemy,
astrology,
At
first
of students had
ing,
now known
temples.
as
Later,
might be
"In
tion,
ONE
build
were
in
order
is
ALL
perfect.
on
back to the
mind dwelling on
make
bol of the
the Great
ONE.
Its
ONE,
and power
and obtainable.
this
Thus
ing to
the
all
who
the
As
its
un
to the
Temple
worship
and furnish
a perfected
in all its
sym
imagery
mode and
subject,
under
dis-
in
OF ATLANTIS.
upon the minds of the student.
cussion
Is
it
name and
"It
is
sion of
Omnipotent
laws.
our
Magi
are in posses
in the control of
elemental forces
who
who
known
that this
power never
It
is
call
also
is
This
is
doubt
own
spot in which to
the
OUR STORY
ii2
lives.
"When
we
bodies
is
heavy
ways
ous blaze.
It
is
from
is
its
on
al
imperi
a matter of
CHAPTER
WE
IX.
We
self.
have no
It
is
evils aris
is
who
sometime
earth-life.
Even
no man, no
man
wife, no
man
children, can,
than enough
life.
physical
is
He who
has more
trust for
enough.
But
this does
has
less
than
OUR STORY
cessity for labor, of every individual in the direct
of their
ability,
ratio
whatever employment
at
fitted.
is
done by elemental
tion of a master,
It
is
his
who
force,
is
in
charge of a section.
power given
The
it
is
most
power which
is
and will
lose the
tent principle.
The whole
nation
is
those
under instruction
who
and
in
groups and
direction
from
These
OF ATLANTIS.
115
These Magi
of the Temple.
Magi
the
Temple
Most
Ancient,
of
So, in the
human
tellects, rests
as directors
and
Karmic conditions
of
in
them
all
Moreover, upon
rested,
as
they were en
among
"It
those to
whom
the currents
must be apparent,
to
whom
were
this
sent.
MSS. may
man
interest
There
is
and importance
ing
organized
the Atlan-
to
effort
Everything pertain
originates with,
and
is
n6
OUR STORY
Temple, which
represents
They have
Great
the
dominant power
its
and de
house
independent of
is
We
polygamist
The
itself.
always
development of
have
decrease
seen
in
that
power,
Atlantis,
to
be diseased
or crippled
in
such a member,
people.
Therefore
interest are
ditions,
only
to
is
thought,
all
desire
and
make
forces,
not
who
are
particularly
gifted
with
OF ATLANTIS.
whose
psychic qualities, or
117
have attained
spirits
but in either
Masters or
case,
number
council, advice
"For
of
Guides.
certain
offices
families,
whom
and guidance.
their
whole time
of the
Magi
to the study
own
and best
have no poor.
necessary labor
generation,
more
The
whatever.
like
nation
They have no
is
honorable.
we have
the gods
is
inferior class.
Generation
All
after
come down
We
to
with
know
They
happy.
earth.
the
We
outside
Atlantis
we
is
are con
CHAPTER
X.
HAVING
tion
known
to
man, permit me
to quote
the
from
so fluently
located the
Great Temple,
symbolism.
tent,
ever
city
On
and
a plateau of
many
rising
is
acres in ex
ground began
secret.
it
was
like
adamant.
To
the
but
not
on
level
with
it,
had
also
been
n9
OF ATLANTIS.
rested
it
on the
far-off
horizon.
"Upon
enough
this
mountains
to the
to
be buttressed by their
great, white-walled
Tem
areas for
facing the South, and the ample
assemblage.
The
closed courts
Temple
and
Temple
Masters
the
were seeking
"The
the
first
to
know
and
offices,
who
Temple proper
consists of
two
stories,
the
first floor
there
is
little
On
or no inclosure, but
it
is all
ar
He who
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120
down about
On
Temple
ninety
West
of
itself,
to the
to the
ple building
was
Tem
landmark and
and
rising
light extending
210
feet,
hundreds of miles
interior of the
ests of
white
ing roof
fills
Temple,
pillars
and
in front,
its
vast recesses,
its
high-lifted over-arch
toward the
by the
its
for
Nor was
OF ATLANTIC
121
new and
the
During
tesquerie.
indescribable
awful
the
services
grosol
pose.
"The
great tower
was commenced
The
fifteen feet
was
and upon
this
was
carried
to a total height of
teen.
Upon
a raised dais
.of Holies.
225
up the superstructure
was
the square of
feet,
the secret
Temple
on
at
High
Isis.
chamber of the
resting
Festivals, blazed
fif
Forty-five,
and
this,
floor,
still
was
the
above that
tom
to top.
its
Tower was
OUR STORY
122
workmanship and
so
finish.
"In
the
of
story
rooms
Temple were
the
of
second
apartments for
the
There were
them
posited in
held, even
if
as treasuries
would be
securely
trees
up
toward
the
city,
to the
This
is
Nation
pavement."
folding.
"In
all
in the
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123
pie separation
In the outermost
and higher.
ered those
who had
who were
dawn
those
court
inner
"The
who have
of
the
far perceived,
so
contained
people
but
little,
whose
the light of
life,
it
is
who
seek
must be
striving to advance,
through their
is
know
lost in
them, so
can
who
In
by train
lies
before
linger there,
own power
of
assimilation,
by
themselves.
"At
is
the
first,
if
the lesson
is
concentration,
it
If the lesson
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124
is
passivity,
It
is
it
own
their
is
when one
exactly as
is
when some
learning to sing, as a
trained to use
After
is
individual passivity.
its
own
this solitary
pe
prac
ready
effort.
the
for
It
must
Temple.
"That
which
is
is
ab
which
is
made
in
same way
to be
others, in the
shall
question considered in
plished?
"In
What
music
tain key,
we
is
all
be
this
best
is,
how
accom
OF ATLANTIS.
It
when
125
the students
come
is
exactly thus,
to act together
on the
must chord
they
who
it
is
brations sent
lest
the vi
own
carelessness.
this matter,
it
is
is
attempted in
which they
start should
remain
the same.
"It
is
easy to see
as anger, or
would
any of
how
the
disturbing
conditions
It
would be
OUR STORY
126
like a
in
a stringed
instru
This alignment
"It
is
still
is
ings of one
make
lowed
to
those
whom
he
al
contracting.
It
is
also,
on a
wrong
whereby
points,
changed,
the
the
vibrations
are
comes perceptible.
"It
is
when one
desires to
not be marred.
This
true of all
shall
work on any
occult line.
"It
is
not to be supposed
when two
or
more
the
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same process
of each.
127
is
That would
The end
be impossible.
each working in
sought for can be attained by
his
It does
same thought.
the
should
set
up a
dis
and
"The
law
second, in
co-operation
produced.
of the
Temple
company with
then,
who
those
alone;
is first,
are seeking
as the Masters of
by united force to accomplish,
Destiny, at
plish.
fore
all
Unity of action
we must guard
is
If vibrations,
in
their
harmony
is
when meeting
accom
is
normal
is
hast
wave
force.
We
must,
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128
become
Knowing
we must
cur,
them
guardi
Thus
stronger to continue.
soul
own
Having done
aside.
their
we
shall be
built the
others
this
great
as
Do
unto
all
the ceremonies
law
Having given
people.
this brief
summary
our
of the
on
to a description
of the
Temple
more
of
service, and, as
an illustration,
New
"The
feast of the
March, consummated
New
and
we
Year, as
any other.
commemorated
the
OF ATLANTIS.
Sun
re-birth,
when, out of
129
days
equal
nights a
and
for the
this celebration
it
is
either
family in the kingdom should be present,
personally or represented by
family.
planned with
privilege
this
for all
made welcome
in
the
view.
It
is
is
considered a
outlying population to be
The
me
all
last feasts
which
the city.
people were at
aration
all
It
was
quiet
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130
movement toward
had
one
If
participation.
some on
foot,
As
lines.
to overflowing.
and
the time
and
in all the
there
by
its
tents
who had
filled
When
were spread
from the
tents,
white by a process
known
to
in
in
of linen
were
the houses
the
gardens,
reflection
the
grew shorter
were
city in
Thus
to the light
bleached very
any
other
nationality.
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131
room
bly.
"As
the ceremonies
were
in
commemoration
of
On
meridian height.
as the
dawn
the
at the
first
moment
day of the
of the
feast,
it
was
light
enough
Temple could
who had
ar
Their
faces
the
moment approaches
mony, sounding
in
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132
upon the
Temple
and far-reach
choir,
who were
As
titude seemed
to
in
volume,
to
who
one
pose.
The
cation
is
all
the vast
mul
come
Sun
this
returns to his
symbol of wel
finished, a blast of
trumpets accompany
As
his first
beams
fall
upon
sea.
With bowed
power,
all praise to
life,
of
health, of
they separate.
The
them
Then
OF ATLANTIS.
verse, or the
it is
rest
high noon.
"As
streets
places
Sun approaches
the
and byways,
the
all
in
housetops,
all
face
his
abandonment of
133
moment
At
the
few moments
its
and for a
evening there
The
is
is
now
perceived.
Tem
of farewell
Again,
a convocation at the
is
West
from
one
in
of
the
Western horizon.
"These
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134
whole.
assemblies of the
these
lines of
Temple
services,
There
work and
are
who
are allied in
This em
its
ramifications.
But during
minutiae.
always having
The moving
and
talks
from
all
after the
ness
waning
The hum
Temple.
so
well
But
more,
city,
Temple
draws on
was
a convening of the
tures
moving
force at the
It
their
all
Each
study.
its
is
also
as the evening
of conversation dies
away
intense.
as the
dark
OF ATLANTIS.
when
"Now,
the
it
shall
song
invocation.
13$
It
differs
from
all
the
and
time.
In this
sound vibrates
was
tians
As
ef
were
When
singers.
the
falling
fect
in
all
the singing
was
upon a Tribune
need; of
health,
how
the
Sun was
most
the
in
and
life
Then he
Then
them
to
in
his peroration
"The
darkness
is
rest
was
directed their at
which
and
sat so uneasily
inability to
work.
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136
when
he said
this
Let there
word
be,
At
light.
points.
elec
is
the
in its
rity of existence.
"There
most important.
There
are no
sacrifices,
The
is
human
it is
the
no
vic
neces
such
sacrifice, in
structive
site.
So
and we ought
all
man
is
to teach
naturally de
OF ATLANTIS.
come
if
man
137
But
the great
common
Brotherhood.
In
CHAPTER XL
of
which
am now
to
speak
when
THAT
there
more
beyond,
am
edge.
was
in
for
it
of
prosperity
glory,
warned
come power
seemingly
the
with
nothing
or knowl
Unseen
not
circumspection,
unob
ligated.
"In
when
step
by step we had
intellectual
was
and physical
feet.
status.
there
OF ATLANTIS.
was
our possession
in
as
existence.
we coming
"Furthermore,
139
into
are not
life
come
will be, by
physical conditions
centuries.
whatsoever there
we
may
having dominated
be of physical workings,
shall
be cut
can
off.
sit in
exist
There
is
to explain that
Cause of
"In
None
which
is
we
shall
created
None who
One
can hope
manifested or unmanifested.
all results
Atlantian nation
all
But
in
were not
Per-
as intense as at the
who
are
is
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140
line of simple
memorizing.
Nor
is
only the
it
It does
We
we
to
source within
itself
can
rise
and
lies
the
along
highest
point.
More
perfect
this
its
most
How
but weakness
and death?
"This
is
manifestation
we
In
the days to
come
the professor of
mathe
it,
ap
If
OF ATLANTIS.
he
is
141
certain elements,
there will
tain,
grow up or manifest
themselves, cer
But
Nor
truth.
it is
is
is
that
is
try
He
will simply be
he
has
The
cause, reaching
we
do not
tions,
unmanifested,
unmanifested
is
unmanifested
down through
The
is
all
way
the
manifested
its
primal
the ages.
or in any
is
So
demonstra
mani
and un
manifested.
"But
the
first
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142
receive
is
who
tality.
men
are so physically
the
who
first
is
one of
is
simply
harmony."
days, to us
who
itual conditions
science of
has
come
in these latter
manuscript, variously
named
"the
mental science
knowing"
call it
clear-sighted
idea, has
and who,
in the
science of truth
what you
will,
is
who was
development of the
works that
of them.
this
science of spir
is
them up
termed, on the
it is
It
the
in
physical plane.
of
receive
is,
man
intrusted
the
OF ATLANTIS.
143
which
is
years,
and
invisible
can be accomplished.
But
must
that truth
is
and
afterwards.
it
thick
That
So what
to be truth, until
selves a service
clouds
knowledge
not
whether
darkness
may
inclose
w ill
we know
them
an occasional matter
of
was a thing
Old
Atlantians.
mated themselves
knowledge belonging
those days.
the
best
them
matters
the race
and de
Thus mated,
first,
to
it
according to the
the astrologers of
rarely happened as
144
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my
time into
kind appeared,
"Deformed,
up,"
was the
When
it
was
this
unfin
breathing
fate of
any
any unripeness of
treated
successfully
CHAPTER XII.
students
came together
in classes, or
THE
learn of
Wise Ones.
did
am
talking to you
to-day,
but
through
thought-transference, that
know, and
this
come
whole nation,
intellect,
than you
now
receive.
OUR STORY
146
we
while
listened
sit
still
it
delightedly,
to give to a class of
students,
were
possible
by asking them to
and you
to
you
If I, as a professor,
beyond.
for a
still
consciousness and
and
I say
perceive,"
my own
mentality
make
visible to
mony
how much
ner vision
much
better
which
it
time
to
words
own
symbolyzing
the
vibrations
alike.
exactly
intellectually exceptional
and
bril
mental training.
Whoever was
know
than now,
liant
it,
of all
truth,
to
the
OF ATLANTIS.
white tower, lifting
great,
14?
itself aloft
its
these things,
When
portunity.
the gateway
some
that
above our
this
to
of
have the op
eventful time
came and
also
come
to-day.
That which
new commandment
one
another,"
was
the
There must be
Temple.
ten,
you
who
this latter
taught
perfect unity,
another.
commandments
thought
who
"A
of the
in
"dreadful
prac
ten,"
Then
needed
would come.
Seek ye
first
all
that could be
OUR STORY
148
Unseen
in
come
you knowledge of
to
the realm of
Truth and
all
there
will
The knowl
else."
few
not so
foundamental
principles.
make gold
might be considered.
to
difficult
come
as
It
is
simple,
difficult to
It
is
not so
to our knowledge.
Every
you have
step
its
It
first
contemplation, after
it
diffi
has been
Our
fundamen
which many
discover,
lives to
know.
will
come
Some
of their
into knowledge.
Those willing
own
to
make
ad
the
OF ATLANTIS.
which must
tion
who
rest
149
all
world-wide
didates for
can
They
three-fold
the
to the Atlantians as a
One
of
whom
life.
the control
which belonged
to
alone.
Some
days, I
that
power
was
lies
of you
now
knew
perceive as
as
men
women.
in the olden
But
is
the spirit
is
the same
this
Oh,
if
is
how
the
enwrapping
150
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complishment.
coming back
it
come only
takes that.
rible
modicum
planes.
Ego
its
is
The body
everything.
is
If the
mad
nothing!
of joy
agony
The
woman,
and
on
ter
all
soul of the
CHAPTER
was a doctrine
IT body
XIII.
of the physical
which enwraps
us,
is
it,
ment.
If the ego
not accomplish
its
coming back
own
From
if
it
is
it
within
its possibilities.
is
all,
is
all is
a part of the
One
Di
a part of
same.
first in
and afterwards
in the
these mountains.
It
OUR STORY
very
much
of the
work done
in the
Temple was
of
the
physical.
what
But
recovered.
of
it,
and bring
These
it
under
And
so,
of
form.
tirelessly
toiling
limitation
come out
or other
work
made up
toil in
When
cause of
its
retard.
In no sense
forcefulness,
or reparation.
is
There
builds
it
and there
is
be
nothing to
OF ATLANTIS.
153
work.
It
It
clean.
is
man
set in
motion and
di
in the
po
which originates
tency of
is
the created,
who
whole
the
thus becomes a
One who
reached far
the
soil.
down
These
mountains.
rocky
rocks
They seem
to
earth
apparently from the very center of the
self,
but that
future events.
enough
was
it
But
to hold tons
whatever shape
So, first
it
in
not
so,
appeared by
it
the
upon tons of
piled
up rock
in
might appear.
down
to a level,
east to
the rising
west, in such a fashion that both
and
Also, the
the
Southern
be seen
Cross, each low in the heavens could
OUR STORY
154
The human
to horizon,
at
It
one
is
time.
It
wonderful
one acre,
if
member
penetrate.
in its
con
was many
how many
acres in
extent.
people
went up
to the
Temple
all
the
to receive guid
This
to the vegetable
Thus
of the
from the
to time, to
Temple Colony.
left
was tunneled
and to
down,
meet the
That
is,
into
front,
were
necessities
wings were
OF ATLANTIS.
built,
and additional
155
stories added,
all
The rooms
and colonnades
all
At
Tem
have
down
was
with re
upon
already
solid
rock,
was builded
tower
this
top
known
been
in the world.
There, they
who
best, after
grees,
kept constant
lower part,
proceeded
Temple
Out
of
forth
Temple
in
Holy
of Holies at
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156
of the Three,
power
But
let
us
tower was
22^
feet in
hewn
It
was
of
built
large at
its
ameter, half
growing a
base,
way
smaller in di
little
up,
"This
strongest form.
nicely cut
in
diameter at the
and
The
stones, as I
have
if it
were
said,
found
which
itself.
were one
So
solid
stone.
Over
was
of glass, and
was a
more than
spherical dome.
that,
it
It
was made
Through
ies
OF ATLANTIS.
chamber
The
and when
figures,
wise
was
may
of mosaic,
shall reappear,
it
which
its
was
it
At one edge
of
there
was
set in the
was movable
"holy
was another
of
holies,"
"holy
of
ferior
Wisdom.
spread to protect
linen,
who
is
he
woven
wall a circu
who knew
to the
the secret
Three, one
was
it
There
Hall
"Superior Wisdom."
Wisdom and
Over
Temple.
in the great
holies"
was
in
whom was
on the
wrought
dedicated.
below.
of the temple,
poses to
157
from
was
so closely that
it
was almost im
The
One
it.
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not affect
tightly
in the least.
it
surface of this
Upon
floor.
was drawn a
drawn
joined
each
other
at
per
which
and
distant
Through
from the
these
were
of the Three.
the
this
their circumferences,
was a
Within
drawn
whole
circle of the
the upper
was placed a
seat,
circle
Eternal Fire.
it
new
territory
that
Co-ordinate with
must guard
his
this
effort,
own
it
in
was
par
es
OF ATLANTIS.
which could
call
These were
and conquer.
159
These
vigils
all
were
were carefully
tions
kept.
the
vironments
all
to a point
that could or
lantis,
but to
They had
furnishings
all
their en
to
At
where other
This perception
of station,
was
finally
which conjoined
engendered pride
to their
knowledge,
CHAPTER
XIV.
IN
let us
remember that
all
Chambers
knowledge comes
where everything
lence
Between the
was
Five,
of
which
that
si
is.
station of the
Three
and
the
Had
rock.
is,
the
it
all
is
surrounding
it
could not
The
upper chamber.
From
the
highest
con
the
masonry.
rested
The
five
pillars
in
the
Between each of
OF ATLANTIS.
161
was
set,
polished
One was
white,
one was black, one was white, one was black and
was a band
re
paring which, after being lost for ages, was
time.
It glittered
and shone,
as only that
These mar
hand.
slight angle,
and
in
them could be
all
metal
earth, at a
seen,
as
in
That
these had
is
to say,
become
Whoever knew
know
must be able
the Five,
fest this
who under
power
read,
eligible
to
but
to perceive,
membership
of perception.
When
to
mani
the love of
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1 62
first
was transferred
hither.
as
Then,
in a vision,
if
and
whence he came
was
It
to
him was
his as if
me
it
ap
he had
which was
evil
black mirrors.
greatest
if
it.
is
returned
his.
was
If he failed he
read.
know.
in the
of
whatever
white mirrors.
or obstructive
was
seen in the
power and
ber maintained as
glory, so long
have described
That
was
it.
the
in
its
num
But dur
Temple
odd mirror
in the
fashion,
OF ATLANTIS.
struction,
163
more there
rors.
floor of the
ecy:
Once
the
"When
struction
this
proph
cometh
to
the
Temple and
the
peo-
pie."
have led to
higher
minds become by
so
and
am
better
at the
con
clouded had
and
there
there
were
air
this
solid
was con
apparent tomb.
The
as those of the
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64
upper chamber.
it
were
chamber, with
its
magnificent
glass.
What
the
in
dome
upper
of crystal,
On
Five.
extremely
fine,
chamber
also
Over
was a carpet
and a
circle
thirteen
of the
same material
this
this
as that above,
Within
diameter.
was an
feet in
and eight-tenths
feet
on a
From
side.
to
the
was
drawn.
circle
touching
all
the semi-circles,
intersected
resembling
elipses.
Where
four
and
these semi
At
the point
corresponding
OF ATLANTIS.
to the focus
was
the station of
him who
see
was
the sustaining
officiated.
these lines
power
of each
165
how
You
will
intimately
bounded by the
All were lim
power
of the
One was
semi-circle of each,
the
in
cle
and by
his
own
was completed.
Here
the
triangle has
who
are brothers
pletely.
day
cir
is
was
relations of those
com
Between the
divisions of the
Three and
was arched
as
The
the
roof
OUR STORY
66
and
this
to be able to
imitate.
It
was polished
but strange to
say,
it
by seven pilasters
silver,
It
was supported
One
of orichalcum,
tin,
of quicksilver, because
was
its
its
base,
On
the
was engraved
the
opposite.
sweet
and
harmonious,
it.
and of
it
did not
It
all
was a
those
OF ATLANTIS.
with
whom
with
all
it
that in one
So you
color also.
in the
fact
same vibrations
touch
in
that
was
was a curious
it
It
167
see
called to the
man
chamber
its
we
of the Seven,
first
was
are
now
about to de
Thus
potency.
in
each
grade,
who
in the
ap
whom
supreme concern.
This chamber
meated by the
no obstruction.
also,
light
was per
The
light
it
OUR STORY
168
and giving
of penetrating
distinct view.
It per
Upon
visible source.
of the history
was written
chambers, a continuance
city.
Over
this,
too,
was
spread, as in the
Upon
this carpet
other
was a
was
were drawn
radii,
this
center
these triangles
each of the
was
was
sides.
sides.
Within each
inscribed a circle,
The
of
touching
In operat
But whatever
the utmost
harmony
There
is still
ef-
OF ATLANTIS.
that
fort,
the
Chamber
of the fifteen.
of the
forty-five
was more
is
Chamber
169
The
was seven
In the center
was
that of a
of
feet.
occult
masonry
presented a square
it
Within
Temple.
a square
The
it
Circular windows,
sides.
The
one on the east was red, the one on the west was
blue, the south
The
floor
was
of a material
and the
laid in tiles,
tiles
were
And upon
not destroy.
these
was a
lesson
which
man would
The
might read
standing,
if
it
partially.
To
all
wisest
it
was
still
it is
true never-
OUR STORY
170
when man
theless,
the One,
find the
it
way
to the source
and origin of
mystifies
come from
all
earth.
that
It
is
are of the es
illusions
power and
In
seats,
arch.
foci
this
baffles his
own
inquiries.
in a semi-elipse
Chamber,
were
fifteen
The
was
roof
was
also square.
a crystal globe,
emanated.
In one of the
from which
it
light always
was
necessary.
The
way from
port,
floor
to
crystal globe
ceiling
without
hung mid
visible sup
it.
ported on their
aloft in their
tails
serpents,
sup
mouths a censer
in
which burned
OF ATLANTIS.
the perpetual
During
fire.
fumes fed by
invisible hands,
fects to those
ance.
It
171
was
brought peculiar
ef
who were
here, those
fitted, after
were
for admisssion
selected
and
under obliga
If they
practice.
back.
There
going on in
this
w as
r
always more or
chamber
know
change
From
Nor were
they allowed
was
were considered
Temple
as persons of authority
Dwellers.
who
and guide.
the
these
Fifteen, culled
to
of trial.
less
They
were but
amongst
little
re-
OUR STORY
i;2
moved from
power.
met the
arch,
whose
Beneath the
five
floor of the
the
chamber
"Holy
of
of the Forty-
Holies"
of the
be
made manifest
to the people at
come
the
stated
The chamber
by twenty-five
feet thick.
of the Forty-five
feet,
Within
was twenty-five
impervious to sound
degree met.
so arranged,
with
OF ATLANTIS.
its
lofty,
all
sitting,
pounded
finest
were
fully met.
was
of
listened
173
pro
of under
ment
peace,
which
all
men must
have,
harmony and
to be at the
CHAPTER XV.
THUS
in four
rows of
arranged
seats,
were arranged
The rows
of seats
were
raised
who
the Brothers
sat
upon them
their ages.
in the
empty always
from
ing in touch
this,
who
filled
as
by an
a mentor
and
and guide,
order of
his
own knowledge,
more
com
or by his
thus
OF ATLANTIS.
175
for instruction
on any and
all
A
wall,
narrow
staircase
which
led to the
was arranged
chamber of the
who knew,
in the thick
Forty-five,
touch
to the lightest
ceiled
and floored
top
sides,
known
It
South
was
of a
most
was
so well
one
piece.
brilliant
fitted
together that
persistently
was
and
set to do.
appeared as
there
and lasting
was no
if
it
It
polish.
seemed
like
to
do
manner, whatever
it
it
in the finest
possible escape.
OUR STORY
176
But
earthquake.
for
many hundred
no
years
to
as
Temple.
which the
were placed.
seats
who were
instruction,
receiving
light,
What
men
were composed
in the days to
of their lives to
of,
points of
these
hundreds of
to find
out.
who
will
hands have
laid,
and so covet.
invisible
These
torch-bearers,
lights,
held as
it
were by
could be perfectly
sta
OF ATLANTIS.
moved
as there
diffusing that
At
177
was
forth.
times, in full
as a reflector of
the Future.
so to speak, so
am
to dissolve
structing,
was an impermeable
through
stoutly
itself in place,
it;
barrier
see
to
or seemed
who were
through
any
While
there
though
invisible.
large enough to
rising
up
as
it
it,
of
was
served as an obstruction,
Upon
fill
the
it
more
was nothing
in
passage
resist.
it
still
al
whole twenty-five
feet,
who
who
it,
out
taught un
in the highest
OUR STORY
178
Chamber
of the
So
the times of in
in
own
mentality, or
demonstrated upon
this
At
invisible screen,
as he described, both as to
result
exactly
Did he
desire to
whole com
pany would
were
that everything
One
moved forward on
accomplishment of
The
alike;
all
events in
manifestation.
were due
to
S*
But
179
Minute by
let
close
at
clear
range.
quietly
forward each
held in the
softness of a dim,
They have
is
to the seats,
evi
waited
have
all
tion
was
held, thus
showing
of defonstra-
came
as they
They have
they
in,
advanced
In coming
and peace.
in silence
in,
there
their seats.
all
are
now
seated.
Such a thing
single absentee.
the Great
knew
the wonderful
power
of
Too
well they
CONTINUOUS,
strikes
UN
from a sonor
room.
To
is
visible.
OUR STORY
i8o
It
membered
there
is
known nothing
;
those,
We
human knowledge.
received all
scribed,
re
As
must be
who,
it
the
forty-four
manner
have de
structor.
which
their
Egyptians copied in
left
us on record, on
they concentrate on
the
thought of unity.
There were
three points
Love,
for
these
fested, so they
Harmony
three constitute
who were
the
and
Unmani-
in the Forty-five
were
OF ATLANTIS.
When
taught.
181
is
bration.
them
words having of
vi
It
organ.
was a reverberation
partly
reflected
into
unified
in its
became
am
speaking,
On
this night of
which
commenced
who
way
by
step,
that
cer-
OUR STORY
82
shimmmered
with
the
those
who
was
lights
come
into
more
sible to perceive,
To
it.
To
fires.
each
perfect condition,
it
who had
was pos
The Fu
Now.
One
was about
to
come
mate
time,
Wisdom,
saw
then,
how
the Brotherhood of
might
but,
under the ob
remanifestation
OF ATLANTIS.
and rehabilitation.
made and
trated
went
new
183
and
were
desired to be emphasized,
upon our
on, in that
And
screen.
which was
recreation, so to speak,
points
illus
dawn
to be the
we
of a
perceived certain
it
seemed, as the
remember
memory comes
it
to
all
me
well,
out of
I see it
and
feel
it,
as
come
into
help
would
as
it
at
that time,
recall the
now, but
to be
would
known
testify
then
to the
cannot
tell
you fully of
all
may imagine
that
it
adorned
for yourselves
fit
place,
both
drawn from
all
over the
OUR STORY
1 84
in
verified.
its
and
fullest
which will be
in life,
know
its
fully
not only
for
to fulfill in the
Thus
or by thought transference.
used, the vibrations
addressed.
made themselves
which they were
at all times,
more or
the
Whichever
intensity with
When
move on
method was
five,
All
to be accomplished.
But
it.
and designed
sight,
respects has
its
set
many
instructions
less
distinct
wonderful spectrum.
and colors
were
OF ATLANTIS.
18$
The
what
the world.
will
record
the Great
to
The
As
did,
is
one day
in the affairs of
it
He who
is
CHAPTER
XVI.
you a descrip
Tower
of the
of the world.
by any means
after
its
that
was one
even as the
largest nor
of the
wonders
in sight
was not
tree,
is
bearing fruit
by no means the
development.
The
So
we
and
spirits of light;
and
visible
who have
day as Salamanders,
Water
Spirits,
Ko~
OF ATLANTIS.
and Dwarfs.
holds, Goblins
in the Fire, the
It
was
Water and
187
are workers
They
im
mense
ple
stores of gold
Treasury
held,
were
PRIMAL CONDITIONS.
under
law of Transmutation.
the great
As
manufactured
Tem
the Great
Tower
toward the
itself
flung
man
The
tency.
part of the
is
making
it
to
Tower
capable of transmutation.
the lesson of the
itself
man
environments.
concerned,
Brains.
it
To
It
also
"Descent
So far
as
held within
into
man
Matter"
himself
was
was
Three
"In
OUR STORY
1 88
It has already
Atlantis
was arrayed
was never
equaled.
whose glory
in a splendor,
Its buildings
symmetry of
ness of
was
its
also a
els, in
There
a profusness carried
up
to the
verge of the
barbaric.
These means
also
used by
all
humble walks
of
for personal
the people,
life, if
adornment,
were
had ceased
ply
must be
lifted
It
to press
on the at
was evident
in the lat
easily accessible.
proudly
its
limitless sup
down
into
OF ATLANTIS.
189
who had
sway
that
be
been sub
who
held
upper chambers.
in the
None
who
of the uninitiated
knew
for a certainty of
Three was
Only
to the
fided
by the
Builders.
this
knowledge
To
fully con
all
had ceased
far as they
the
Temple
to be of consequence, only so
down
Out
into a
rear,
was a
chamber hewn
and
still
another, and
Within
these
of the
ments, fashioned for use in the operations
OUR STORY
190
workers.
make
certain materials,
to
finishing of their
work more
jected spirit
Their pro
results pro
Many
of
from
and
toiled,
moved
to
and
fro, intent
to
set.
fierce,
blazing
fires
within,
ever
man
all,
the
ATLANTIS.
191
moun
The
lars.
by a
cel
spiral course,
in the
The
its
tain,
on a
little
plateau,
guarded by an impenetrable
The
moun
veil of fog.
Continent, diagonally
down
of the Earth.
The
tunnel of the
Water
Spirits
communi
all
four of
Temple
itself.
It
of
OUR STORY
IQ2
He who knew
would stand
at the
the secret
of
the
Treasury
Moly Holy
Place,
ment
light
reflected
only be seen
when
ticular position,
minutes.
the observer
to
this,
was
in
a par
he would turn
move seven
steps
one-quarter to the
to
This could
Having perceived
one quarter
in
at the back.
left,
him
But
to
weighing
moved
easily
tons,
but so
and without
balanced
noise,
that
it
OF ATLANTIS.
193
front.
in
back into
first
its
It could be
position.
opened
at the back.
to
times
thirteen
steps
ative earths
may
as those
who
more, he
who knew
Temple
Once
down
in the
West.
CHAPTER XVII.
was a
IT
met
sight that
avarice-tainted soul
lowed
gold, silver
would never
to contemplate.
Great
was
be very
when
heaps
al
of
come
be
to
which an
his gaze,
through
finest steel.
sur
In the times
understood.
But
come
tracting
secret.
These stacked
nor
had
their
continuous
production
OF ATLANTIS.
less jewels,
fires
some of them
still
warm from
and strong
Here
as
as in the passage-way.
From
upon sudden
of wealth.
here
needed,
But
own
glit
which was
to the
the
tallized.
full
195
Temple.
for reserves in
No human
In case of neces
draw upon
the
Temple
any amount.
eye hath seen, nor any tongue de
the waves.
There
is
now
in
in use
it
to
upon
OUR STORY
196
the earth.
shall
come
But when
it
ury
discovery
who
this
finders.
rests a seal.
inscription:
Upon
"The
Mighty holds
this seal
is
potent Will
of
the following
Most
the
The Angel
cupants of the
it."
all
cellars,
jew
manufactured by the oc
and that
time
of the
shall
itself
Upon
its
have so purified
shall be
the day of
made
so
it
was the
reflec
many
earnest believ
and jewels.
CHAPTER
manner
THE
tion
was
XVIII.
of adjustment
and
Convoca
As
fitted
were
especially gifted
with understanding,
who
the
temple
service,
and
separation of the
Those,
Temple
who
were transferred
this
was
chaff.
family, exhibited a
intelligence
the
in
to
still
higher degree of
and again
The
in the
selection
set aside
same manner
for the
higher
OUR STORY
98
Chambers followed
in
the
same
work
The
be done.
from
order,
was
to
first,
When
they had
reached
the
point where,
be
tion
their
power
come second
The
their meditations
had be
nature.
steps,
submission,
When
the thought
Notice the
concentration.
meditation,
the vi
were taught
As
vine Ideation,
Thought,
dweller
meditates, as the
It concentrates,
It projects.
may
IT
thought
their meditations.
as
So nearly
Di
the Creative
as the Earth-
procedure,
so
OF ATLANTIS.
199
and make
force
it
Unseen
pur
poses.
Years of discipline
later in the Fifteen,
was
carried
in
farther
in
of the
The
in these labors.
still
still
the
per
Five,
was
own
as
if
workmen
until
it
it
forth to
rapidly in the
tain form,
air,
fulfill their
will.
But
Nor was
there allowed
It
lots,
was
who
OUR STORY
200
The
the Full
Moon
power of
to the
two added
their
But
the special
When
special
WAS
whispered to
At
call.
the Elder
like this:
If there
was a
to
Word
to
fixed,
was
the day
being always at a
OF ATLANTIS.
certain distance
was no
201
setting.
If there
succession, in
the Three.
vocation, the
flashed,
ranged
"Center
At
of
the
first
word
of in
glowed
Fire"
and
was
needing potency
apportioned
In the chamber
the orders.
mony,
But
came
that
done.
There was no
hesitation
in
compliance,
no
action.
OUR STORY
202
The
of the Forty-five
teen,
and
there, as intensified
bound
was passed on
together, solidified
on to the Five,
to the Fif
to
and
who harmonized
the activity of
Universe.
Thus
the Universal,
Three,
who
it
was placed
this
hands of the
power,
in the
all
the awfulness of
upon.
The
at
long
it
CHAPTER
who
XIX.
THEY
in
guiding
the
and fortunately, so
As long
nation as one.
for light
As long
common by
all
the nation,
it
might be
who
looked
was
all
well.
work with
could best
who
well and
to attainment.
OUR STORY
204
They
made
But
ies.
it
was not a
sometimes of
mains of the
fierce,
As one
Invisible.
point after an
who
who
to
confuse
and
if it
were
And
it
was
many
were just
as
w ith
T
if
OF ATLANTIS.
sudden weakness, for weakness
205
no sense a
in
is
spiritual attribute.
peded.
in
Therefore,
all
none were ad
the work,
its
was
desires
which
to operate.
Another
magnet
lines of
for those
also
served as
who w ere
in or
on the same
from
the
incarnating
thought, both
spheres, and
it
and
the
earth,
torch,
by
those
its
inspiring reflection,
who came
more vigorous
they gravitated
within
its
search.
thither,
had stimulated
reach, to a higher
Knowing
and here
of
and
Atlantis,
they
would
from
OUR STORY
206
the earth,
had not
all
those,
who
went
before,
Unseen,
worked
enough
to
to scatter
its
salt of salvation
In
all
the
movements
new
lines,
of
some
one
was
all well,
and
the knife,
who
This
new
ideas,
with
leaders.
the depositaries of
death.
The knowledge
suffered
itself
knowledge
ignominious
OF ATLANTIS.
of total eradication
ceptions of
happen before
its
likely to
This
complished.
This was
inhabitants.
its
20?
fact
Upon
this
knowl
movements
either bring de
struction
cut them
off.
entirely
men through
many welded
into one.
an
viduality
reality,
fronted
people,
must
and
in
the
intense
been
be preserved, indi
its
perception
with
who
increase
It has
individuality
and
be con
of
the
sense of separateness.
They who*
seek to study
OUR STORY
208
on these
lines,
and
wisdom, must as
to gain
made up
of
it
members, into
The
born a new
Christos of
union of
many
MESSIAH,
that Great
or a
Cycle,
individuals, or a nation
ment
new Truth.
who
new
be a
shall
unfold-
of Truth.
made up
of
will
a vision
Mighty Ones
of different metals,
iron and
is
and the
feet
were
aluminum.
of
that
leaders of
truth.
and then
moun
fashioning
itself,
MESSIAHSHIP,
until
it
shall
have obtained
it
OF ATLANTIS.
overshadow
shall
pensation
its
manifestation and
that has
come
before.
toward the
light,
ALL
all
are looking
in
209
dis
ALL who
who
are seek
dom
like
drops of mercury
become
as one.
For
when
this
we work and
wait.
CHAPTER XX.
the
archives
AMONG
country has
our
prophecy
"And
come
present
of
to
that
time
and
the knowledge of
generation,
the
following
shall
it
come
in
if
rightfully
upon the
earth,
to
those
who
shall
come
be an overcoming of the
distress,
much
career
is
resist
stim
condition of
its first
powers and
estate, before it
OF ATLANTIS.
should have individualized
It
the
no
is
power of the
the
or undertake.
Nor
such attempts.
On
the contrary,
all
resent as sin,
IT
intends that
all
perfect attainment.
fits
ONE.
Spirit to grasp
ONE
does the
ever
from the
sin,
means within
they
itself
211
knowledge.
come
It shall
That
the
is
to pass,
who
it,
being
handle
ensue,
There can be no
taken away.
have knowledge,
shall
it,
in the
that
which
is
of potency,
law of the
sults,
or
so far
who
if
to grasp
own
force
ONE,
if it
so
shall
have
OUR STORY
212
its
an agent
as
upon the
in the
man
is
this
is
of no value, only
While
earth.
But
be withdrawn.
in
it
might seem
to
man an
was nothing
thing distinct, by
filled
The
the law.
suffered
itself,
of the law,
any
ful
was disobedience
knowledge, for
could
which denied
from the
is
ONE,
not pre
pared.
When
limited
there can
desire,
lawful,
the
now under
be but one
issue.
was no
stand, there
of the
sin,
sin,
So
Even
was
the intense
in
one sense
Creative
Thought
itself.
They were
not
OF ATLANTIS.
responsible, but they
was necessary
that the
213
It
It
Wise Ones,
that
must come
to pass,
and
As
in
the
front,
in
But
must
to the outlook
The
for accomplishment.
nor that
culmination.
is
developed
necessary,
the
strength
for
the
we
perfect
as
much
as possible of that
which has
CHAPTER XXI.
show
of addenda, and to
By way
we
assertions
and
clippings
The
its
following
last years.
is
the
Maya
account of the
Plongeon
rendering
of
Troano
the
Le
manu
script :
"The
in the
month Zac,
quakes,
The
Muj
it
basin
the
country of the
was
sacrificed.
suddenly disappeared
being continually
OF ATLANTIS.
215
At
in various places.
last,
The
other extract
is
book."
beloved country:
"Some
gaged
own
in
Egypt,
eleven
in ancient times,
and
fell,
fell.
Thirteen columns
it
OUR STORY
216
to learn that
now engaged
and
best
preserved
of any
in
Egypt
which
have
"All
tion.
The
of each
architraves
column
weigh 25
tons each.
"Modern
plane,
requiring
itects,
work
is
finished,
pleted by
"In
which
May of
December
the work,
it is
expected will be
com
1904.
last
M.
Legran, in charge of
of one of Egypt
olden gods.
Other portions
come
to light,
and
OF ATLANTIS.
it is
to
217
its
entirety,
save,
Khonsu
pieced
in
of Thebes,
the
possibly,
legs.
God
a small piece to
This
of
statue,
labeled
reconstructed Temple,
and
it
is
FINIS
in these
ruins."
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