Atlantis the Lost Continent: From Theosophy’s Sacred Teachings in ‘The Secret Doctrine’ Volume 2, Part 1 of 2

Today, it is a delight to share selections on “Atlantis” from “The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2,” in which Blavatsky explains Atlantis’s downfall and submergence, which occurred during the Great Flood described in the Holy Bible.

Stanza 9. The Final Evolution Of Man.

“Who can tell whether the lost Atlantis—which is also mentioned in the Secret Book, but, again, under another name, peculiar to the sacred language— did not still exist in those days? We went on to ask. It did exist most assuredly, for it was approaching its greatest days of glory and civilization when the last of the Lemurian continents went down. […]

In other words, they were the Lemuro-Atlanteans, the first who had a Dynasty of Spirit-Kings; not of Manes, or ‘Ghosts,’ as some believe, but of actual living Devas, or Demi-gods or Angels, again, who had assumed bodies to rule over this Race, and who, in their turn, instructed them in arts and sciences. Only, as these Dhyânîs were Rûpa or material Spirits, they were not always good. Their King Thevetat was one of the latter, and it is under the evil influence of this King-Demon that the Atlantis-Race became a nation of wicked‘magicians.’

In consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of Cain, the giants, and that of Noah and His righteous family. The conflict came to an end by the submersion of Atlantis, which finds its imitation in the stories of the Babylonian and Mosaic flood. The giants and magicians ‘and all flesh died ... and every man.’ All except Xisuthrus and Noah, who are substantially identical with the great Father of the Thlinkithians, who, they say, also escaped in a large boat like the Hindû Noah Vaivasvata.

If we believe the tradition at all, we have to credit the further story that, from the intermarrying of the progeny of the hierophants of the island and the descendants of the Atlantean Noah, a mixed race of righteous and wicked sprang up. On the one side, the world had its Enochs, Moseses, various Buddhas, its numerous ‘Saviors,’ and great hierophants; on the other hand, its ‘natural magicians’ who, through lack of the restraining power of proper spiritual enlightenment, ... perverted their gifts to evil purposes. […]”