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

Let us continue with selections from “Atlantis” in “The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2,” in which Blavatsky analyzes the existence of Atlantis through the ancient accounts of Asian and Polynesian peoples.

Stanza 9. The Final Evolution Of Man.

“The high plateaux of Hindûstan and Asia, according to this hypothesis, would only have been represented in those distant epochs by great islands contiguous to the central continent.... According to the Brâhmans, this country had attained a high civilization, and the peninsula of Hindûstan, enlarged by the displacement of the waters, at the time of the grand cataclysm, has but continued the chain […] of the traditions born in this place. These traditions give the name of Rutas to the peoples which inhabited this immense equinoctial continent, and from their speech was derived the Sanskrit. […]

Apart from this fact, the supposition of an ancient continent in those latitudes, the vestiges of which may be found in the volcanic islands and mountainous surface of the Azores, the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands, is not devoid of geographical probability. […]

A religious belief, common to Malacca and Polynesia, that is to say, to the two opposite extremes of the Oceanic world, affirms ‘that all these islands once formed two immense countries, inhabited by yellow men and black men, always at war; and that the gods wearied with their quarrels, having charged Ocean to pacify them, the latter swallowed up the two continents, and, since then, it has been impossible to make him give up his captives. Alone, the mountain-peaks and high plateaux escaped the flood, by the power of the gods, who perceived too late the mistake they had committed.’

Whatever there may be in these traditions, and whatever may have been the place where a civilization more ancient than that of Rome, of Greece, of Egypt, and of India was developed, it is certain that this civilization did exist, and it is highly important to Science to recover its traces, however feeble and fugitive they may be.

This Oceanic tradition corroborates the legend given from the ‘Records of the Secret Doctrine.’ The war mentioned between the yellow and the black men relates to a struggle between the ‘Sons of Gods’ and the ‘Sons of Giants,’ or the inhabitants and magicians of Atlantis. […]”