Unlocking the Key Below the Sea

The puzzle of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of seekers after ancient wisdom and bewildered scholars for a score of centuries. With the availability of the world’s libraries, New Age aficionados have at their disposal a vast array of volumes dealing with the riddle of Atlantis, both from a scholarly perspective and fiction.

There are more versions of what the nature of this early race was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the wisdom of the ancients could be found than virtually any other story of a Golden Age. The legend of a Utopian culture which preceded ours has endured exactly for the reason that it resonates so clearly in the New Age.

Plato, student of Socrates, originally wrote chronicling a forgotten Paradise, called Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. He believed Atlantis had been in the Atlantic Ocean and thrived until over ten thousand years before his time.

New Age icon Edgar Cayce conceived of the island as a vast continent, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. According to the medium’s inspired account, the people of Atlantis were accustomed to powerful telepathic talents and tools, and were the progenitors of the peculiarly similar pyramid building civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The theme is frequently associated with reincarnation along with such diverse topics as crystals, sometimes referred to in Golden Dawn prophecy.

Theories on the location of the ruins stretch from the Far East to the Carribbean, though, naturally the most popular possibilities which are small local islands with a long tradition, particularly Crete and Cyprus.

The world may never know the true story, nonetheless one thing seems clear: civilization has attained high levels of advancement rising and falling in a process of growth and decimation, perhaps in a recurring pattern, long before the genesis of the western world.