Edgar Cayce's Atlantis. John Van Auken

faced rebuilding itself. But the much smaller islands apparently never saw a full return to the height of technology reached just before the second destruction in 28,000 B.C. During this final phase of Atlantis, the Sons of Belial seemed to have become the dominant political force oppressing all those who opposed them. Cayce does not discuss a war with the people living inside the Straits of Gibraltar, but this time period corresponds to the Atlantis described by Plato. Curiously, Cayce relates that an Atlantean priest became aware that an inevitable cataclysmic event was going to result in the near total destruction of all the remaining lands of Atlantis. This awareness came from contacts with a higher intelligence that could be interpreted as either extraterrestrial or psychic in nature and occurred sometime between 11,000 B.C. to 10,500 B.C. This source also revealed to the priest a plan to preserve records of Atlantis in three different locations. The priesthood of Atlantis subsequently made three identical sets of records and sent out groups to establish these identical “Halls of Records” at three locations. One of these was placed in the Bahamas, another at Giza near the Sphinx, and the third in the Yucatan peninsula. Shortly before the final destruction, more Atlanteans migrated to various places around the world. Cayce never gave an exact date for the final destruction of Atlantis. However, Cayce scholars generally agree that it was around 10,000 B.C. The cause of this destructive event is obscure, but Cayce related that the last destruction was ultimately brought about because of war between the Children of the Law of One and the Sons of Belial. As to the source of the destructive act, Cayce quoted scripture: “They that turn their face far from me, I will blot them out.” In so doing, Cayce may have given us a clue about the source of the final catastrophe—it may well have been caused by a heavenly body striking the earth, the same cause implied by Plato.

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      Cayce’s Dates, Geography, and Descriptions of Atlantis

      Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings on Atlantis do not contradict Plato … the Cayce readings seem to complement Plato’s story while expanding detail.

      Greg and Lora Little (2003) The A.R.E.’s Search for Atlantis

      Cayce’s story of Atlantis actually begins well before Atlantis existed. In the beginning, individualized “thought forms”—or consciousness—became intrigued with physical matter and physical life forms. Many of these thought forms projected their consciousness into primitive life forms. The process of this projection is termed involution. Cayce related that the first involution was in an ancient land called Mu or Lemuria, sometime prior to 10.5 million years ago. This first descent into matter was supposed to be a simple look-see visit motivated by curiosity. The descending entities were formless, energy beings attempting to discover how it felt to be manifest in form and matter. Since there were no human bodies on the planet at that time, these early visitors pushed their minds and spirits into whatever matter already existed.

      It is said that Lemuria originally got its name from those isolated creatures found only in the Indian Ocean on Madagascar, called lemurs. These little creatures may have been among the first bodies to experience possession by these early human minds attempting to feel and experience this world through the physical senses. But the readings tell us that these early souls “pushed” or projected themselves into all variations of matter: from animals to elements. However, lemur is not just the name for an animal, it also means “ghost.” Lemuria may have gotten its name not from the animals but from the many ghosts that were possessing matter in those lands. In one sense, Lemuria was indeed a land of discarnate ghosts. This also allows us to move the location of Lemuria from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, where Cayce’s readings of the Akashic Records placed it.

      The next great influx of souls was 10 million years ago. This time the incoming souls were not just curious, they had decided to get deeply involved in the third dimension. They attempted to create physical bodies for themselves, but Cayce’s readings say that their bodies were not the “perfected bodies” that were to come during the age of Atlantis. In one description of these post-10 million-years-ago creatures, Cayce stated that some were very small, like midgets and others were essentially gigantic, up to 10 or 12-feet tall (E.C. 364-11).

      The third influx of souls is the focus of this book. According to Edgar Cayce’s reading of the Akashic Records, Atlantis was a new land on earth and a new attempt by human souls to find meaning and understanding in this strange world of matter. It was, according to Cayce’s readings, the third and most significant involution of human spirits into matter. It began in 210,000 B.C. and went through many changes until it ended with the final destruction of Atlantis circa 10,000 B.C. However, Atlanteans continued to have profound impact on earth for many thousands of years after the last lands of Atlantis sank, because they had established a large number of outposts around the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. In addition, some Atlanteans migrated to specific places to escape the destructions. These Atlanteans often merged with the indigenous populations and exerted an influence in many areas. For example, America’s Mound Builder culture was influenced by several groups of Atlanteans as well as others.

       Map showing general locations of Atlantis and Lemuria according to Cayce’s readings. Illustration—Greg Little.

      In addition to the beginning of Atlantis in 210,000 B.C., key dates in the history of Atlantis are 106,000 B.C., when Amilius and Lilith begin a new era of enlightenment and gender-separated bodies. 50,722 B.C. was the approximate date of the first major destruction of Atlantis, which broke the massive continent into five island regions. The second destruction of Atlantis began in 28,000 B.C. and seems to have occurred in several stages, ending in 22,006 B.C. The end point of the second great destruction of Atlantis was, according to Cayce, the historical Great Flood of the Bible. One reading dates this event to 22,006 B.C. (E.C. 364-6). After this second destruction only three major islands remained: Poseidia, Og, and Aryan. At each of these destructions, massive migrations to other lands occurred, taking Atlantean influence far beyond its shores.

      Another key date in the history of Atlantis is linked to the purposeful division of humankind into five distinct parts. Five divisions of humanity were chosen because it is “the natural number of incarnate man.” The date for this event is slightly problematical, but it probably occurred before the 50,722 B.C. destruction. W.H. Church’s book, Story of the Soul, concluded that the five races developed in 12,000 B.C. by calculating back in time using biblical chronology of Adam and his descendants. But two Cayce readings (364-13; 5748-1) indicate that the division of the races happened before 50,722 B.C. Thus, we conclude the correct date for the appearance of the five races was likely before 50,000 B.C. The reason that the division of humanity occurred was because the souls of the incarnate beings had become so enmeshed and entwined with the physical matter experience that “escape” from the physical world required perfected bodies that focused on specific sensory problems.

      A Mayan legend may well be addressing this exact event. The legend tells how the Lords of the Underworld had so confused and brought down the Children of God, that the Children entered into the “Seven Caves” for a pow-wow. At this meeting the Children acknowledged for the first time that they were not going to get out of this third dimension of form easily because they had become trapped in matter and were now caught up in the evolution of matter. This was to be a long and difficult journey, filled with struggle and suffering. Cayce called this “the journey up through selfishness.” To help share the challenges, the one soul group of descended human souls decided to separate into five groups, each taking on some of the challenges of celestial spirits trapped in terrestrial matter, of cosmic, formless minds encased in finite physical form. Prior to 50,000 B.C. the one group of incarnating souls separated into the five “races” of humanity that we know today (yellow, red, black, brown, white), and into the five initial nations, at five initial locations: Gobi for the yellow race, Atlantis for the red race, Nubia (Africa) for the black race, western Lemurian highlands of the Andes mountains for the brown race, and the Caucasus and Carpathian mountains for the white race. Each race took on one of the five senses as their special burden to optimize while subduing the sense’s negative aspects. The yellow race took hearing, brown smell, black taste, red touch, and white sight. More on these