Atlantis is the mystery of a lost civilization. Atlantis. The history of a lost civilization. Scientific and technological progress in Atlantis

Socrates. Wonderful. However, what is this feat that Critias, according to Solon, spoke about as being hushed up, but actually accomplished by our city?

Critias. I will tell you what I heard as an ancient legend from the lips of a man who himself was far from young. Yes, at that time my grandfather Critias was about ninety years old, and I was about ten. We were just celebrating “Children’s Day” on the holiday of Apaturia, and according to the established ritual for us boys, our fathers gave out awards for reading poetry. A lot of works by different poets were performed, including many boys performing poems by Solon, which were still new at that time. And so one of the members of the phratry, either out of conviction, or thinking to please Critias, declared that he considered Solon not only the wisest of men, but also the greatest poet. The old man was very happy and said, smiling: “Yes, Aminander, if he still studied poetry not in fits and starts, but seriously, like others, and if he completed what he said, which he brought here from Egypt, and did not abandon it due to troubles, with which he encountered upon returning to his homeland, then I believe that then neither Hesiod, nor Homer, nor any other poet could surpass him in his glory. “What was that story, Critias?” - asked Aminander. “It concerned,” answered the grandfather, “the greatest deed ever committed by our city, which would have deserved to become the most famous of all, but due to time and death that committed it, the story of it has not reached us.” “Tell me from the very beginning,” Aminander asked, “under what circumstances and from whom did Solon hear what he told as the true truth?” “There is in Egypt,” Critias began, “at the top of the Delta, where the Nile diverges into separate streams, a nome called Saissky; main city This nome is Sais, where, by the way, King Amasis was from. The patroness of the city is a certain goddess, who in Egyptian is called Neith, and in Hellenic, according to local residents, is Athena: the Saisians are very friendly towards the Athenians and claim some kind of kinship with them.”

Solon said that when he arrived there on his travels, he was received with great honor; when he began to ask the most knowledgeable among the priests about ancient times, he had to make sure that neither he himself nor any of the Hellenes knew almost anything about it. One day, intending to turn the conversation to old legends, he tried to tell them our myths about ancient events - about Phorons, revered as the first man, about Niobe and how Deucalion and Pyrrha survived the flood; at the same time, he tried to deduce the genealogy of their descendants, as well as to calculate the time period that had elapsed since those times by the number of generations. And then one of the priests, a man of very advanced years, exclaimed: “Ah, Solon, Solon! You Hellenes always remain children, and there is no elder among the Hellenes!” "Why do you say that?" - asked Solon. “You are all young in mind,” answered the priest, “for your minds do not retain in themselves any tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation, and no teaching that has grown gray with time. The reason for this is this: there have already been and will continue to be numerous cases of death of people, the most terrible of them are due to fire and water, but there are others among them, less significant. Hence the legend that is also widespread among you about Phaeton, who supposedly once harnessed his father’s chariot, but could not direct it along his father’s path, and therefore burned everything on Earth and himself died, incinerated by lightning.

Suppose this legend looks like a myth, but it also contains truth: indeed, bodies rotating in the sky around the Earth deviate from their paths, and therefore from time to time everything on Earth dies from a great fire. At such times, the inhabitants of mountains and high or dry places are subject to more complete destruction than those who live near rivers or the sea; and therefore our constant benefactor, the Nile, saves us from this misfortune by overflowing, but when the gods, doing cleansing over the Earth, flood it with waters, boot-herders and cattle-breeders in the mountains can survive, while the inhabitants of your cities find themselves carried away by streams into the sea, but in our country, water neither at such times nor at any other time falls onto the fields from above, but, on the contrary, by its nature rises from below. For this reason, the traditions that remain among us are the most ancient of all, although it is true that in all lands where excessive cold or heat does not prevent it, the human race invariably exists in greater or lesser numbers. Whatever glorious or great deed or generally remarkable event may have happened, whether in Athens, in Egypt, or in any other country of which we receive news, all this has been recorded from ancient times in the records that we keep in our temples; Meanwhile, among you and other other peoples, whenever writing and everything else that is necessary for city life has time to develop, again and again at the appointed time, streams fall from the heavens, like a pestilence, leaving all of you only illiterate and unlearned. And you start all over again, as if you were just born, knowing nothing about what happened in ancient times in our country or in your own country.

Take, for example, these genealogies of yours, Solon, which you just outlined, because they are almost no different from children's fairy tales, so first of all you keep the memory of only one flood, and there were many of them before that; Moreover, you don’t even know that the most beautiful and noble race of people once lived in your country. You yourself and your entire city descend from those few who remained from this family, but you know nothing about it, for their descendants died for many generations, leaving no records and therefore, as it were, silent. Meanwhile, Solon, where Athens now stands, long before the greatest and most destructive flood there was a state, it was the first in military valor, and the perfection of its laws stood beyond all comparison; Tradition ascribes to him such deeds and institutions that are more beautiful than anything we have ever heard.” Having learned this, Solon, by his own admission, was amazed and fervently begged the priests to tell in detail and in order about these ancient Athenian citizens.

And the priest answered him: “Oh, Solon, I will tell everything for the sake of you and your state, but first of all for the sake of that goddess who received as an inheritance, raised and educated both your and our city. However, she founded Athens a whole millennium earlier, receiving your seed from Gaia and Hephaestus, and ours later. And the date of our founding is reflected in sacred records made eight thousand years ago, and for the Athenians this is calculated at nine thousand years. I will briefly tell you about their laws and greatest feats. Later, at our leisure, we will consider in order how true they are. You can imagine the laws of your ancestors by comparing them with those here: you will now find in Egypt many of the institutions adopted in those days among you, and first of all, a class of priests isolated from all others, then a class of artisans, where everyone is engaged in his own craft, with no one else no longer communicating, as well as the classes of shepherds, hunters and farmers; and also the military class, as you must have noticed yourself, is also separated from the others, and its members are required by law not to care about anything other than war.

Add to this that the warriors are equipped with shields and spears; the goddess gave these weapons to people, and we were the first to introduce them in Asia, just as you were the first in your lands.

As for mental pursuits, you can see for yourself how carefully our law developed the fundamental principles - from the laws of nature to the divine sciences and medicine, this art of healing, adding useful things to all other sciences. The goddess introduced such an order among you even earlier, having established your state, and she began by finding a place for your birth where, under the influence of a mild climate, you would be born as the most intelligent people on Earth. Being the patroness of war and wisdom, the goddess chose a region that promised to give birth to people similar to herself, and there she settled you. And you began to live there according to the laws that I spoke about, and even better, and surpassed all people in virtue. Of the great deeds of your state, there are many that are known from our records and are the subject of admiration; however, among them there is one that exceeds all the others in greatness and valor. Indeed, according to our records, your state put a limit on the audacity of countless warriors who set off to conquer all of Europe and Asia, heading from Atlantic Ocean.

Indeed, in those days it was possible to cross this sea, because beyond the strait, which in your language is called the Pillars of Hercules, there was still an island. This island was larger in size than Libya and Asia combined, and from it it was easy for travelers of that time to move to other islands, and from the islands to the entire opposite continent, enclosing the sea that truly deserves such a name. After all, the sea on this side of the said strait is just a bay with a narrow entrance, while on the other side of the strait the sea in the proper sense of the word extends, just as the land surrounding it can truly and quite rightly be called a continent. On this island, called Atlantis, arose a kingdom of amazing size and power, whose power extended not only to this entire island, but also to many other islands, as well as part of the mainland, and in addition, east of the strait they ruled Libya until to Egypt and Europe up to Etruria. And so all this united power was thrown at one blow to plunge both your and our lands and all the countries on this side of the strait into slavery. It was then, Solon, that your state showed the whole world a brilliant proof of its valor and strength: surpassing everyone else in fortitude and experience in military affairs, it first stood at the head of the Hellenes, then, when the allies withdrew, it fought alone and, suffering terrible failures, it defeated the conquerors and triumphed over them.

It saved those who were not yet enslaved from the threat of slavery; it generously made all the others who lived on this side of the Pillars of Hercules free. But later, when the period of unprecedented earthquakes and floods came, in one terrible day all your military strength was swallowed up by the open earth; likewise, Atlantis disappeared, plunging into the abyss. After this, the sea in those places became, to this day, unnavigable and inaccessible due to shallowing caused by the huge amount of silt that the settled island left behind.” Well, I have retold to you, Socrates, as briefly as possible what old Critias related from the words of Solon. When you spoke yesterday about your state and its citizens, I remembered this story, and I was surprised to notice how many of your words, by some amazing coincidence, coincide with the words of Solon.

But then I did not want to say anything, because after such a long time I did not remember enough the content of the story; Therefore, I decided that I should not speak until I remembered everything with due detail. And that’s why I so willingly accepted the responsibilities that you offered me yesterday: it seemed to me that if in such a matter the most important thing is to base the speech on an object that agrees with our plan, then we have nothing to worry about. As Hermocrates already noted, yesterday, as soon as I left here, in a conversation with him I immediately began to remember the essence of the matter, and then, left alone, I recalled the details in my memory all night long and remembered almost everything.

It is a true saying that what is memorized in childhood is retained in memory much better. I am not at all sure that I could fully remember what I heard yesterday; but if anything escapes me from this story, which I heard a long time ago, I will be surprised. After all, at one time I listened to all this with such truly boyish pleasure, and the old man so willingly answered my constant questions and explained everything, that the story was indelibly imprinted in my memory, like a picture burned into wax by fire that cannot be erased. And today, early in the morning, I shared the story with them, so that they, like me, would have something to talk about. So, in order to finally get to the heart of the matter, I agree, Socrates, to repeat my story, no longer in an abbreviated form, but with all the details with which I myself heard it. We will transfer the citizens and the state that you presented to us yesterday as if in some kind of myth into reality and proceed from the fact that your state is this homeland of ours, and the citizens you were thinking about are our ancestors who actually lived from the stories priest

The correspondence will be complete, and we will not sin against the truth by asserting that they lived in those times. And, having divided the responsibilities among ourselves, we will try together to properly cope with the task that you have set for us. All that remains is to decide, Socrates, whether such an object is to your heart, or whether you need to look for some other one instead.

Socrates. Why, Critias, what subject could we prefer to this? After all, he is the best suited for sacred ceremonies in honor of the goddess, for he is akin to her herself; Moreover, it is important that we are not dealing with a fictitious myth, but with a true story. If we reject it, where and how will we find something better? This is impossible. So good morning! Begin, and in return for my speeches yesterday, I will listen to you in silence.

With this we say goodbye to Timaeus.

The next work of Plato in which Atlantis is mentioned is his dialogue "Critias", which is the story of this same Critias about the conditions of life in Atlantis, retold to his great-great-grandfather Dropidas Solon. Nine thousand years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC. e., there was a war between peoples within and outside the Pillars of Hercules. Athens led the eastern peoples, the kings of the island of Atlantis led the western ones. Atlantis was an island larger in area than Asia (Asia Minor) and Libya (North Africa) combined, but it was swallowed up by the shaking of the earth, and its location is now marked by dangerous quicksands that make the sea in this area unnavigable.

At this ancient time, Athens owned endless lands, its fields were fertile, and its inhabitants were numerous. As for the inhabitants of Atlantis, Critias explains to his listeners that he must translate the names of their heroes into Greek. Solon, who wrote their history in verse, discovered that the priests of Sais had already given these names an Egyptian sound. So he could allow himself the same freedom, while maintaining the meaning of their names. His ancestor had this story written down, but he, Critias, had to rely on his own memory, telling about what he heard in childhood and what made a deep impression on him.

The gods divided the entire earth into possessions - some larger, others smaller. So Poseidon, or Neptune, received the island of Atlantis as his inheritance and populated it with his children, conceived from a mortal woman. This island had no mountainous shores, a plain stretched from the sea to the middle of it - according to legend, more beautiful than all other plains and very fertile, and again in the middle of this plain, about fifty stadia from the sea, stood a low mountain. On this mountain lived one of the men who was born there at the very beginning of the earth, named Evenor, and with him his wife Leucippe, with whom he had a daughter named Cleito. After the death of her parents, Poseidon seduced this girl and fortified the hill on which she lived, fencing it alternately with embankments and ditches. There were two embankments, three ditches, they were filled sea ​​water and are located at an equal distance from each other, which made the mountain impregnable, because there were no ships and shipping at that time. Poseidon also created two springs on the island - one hot, the other cold - which made the land more fertile. There God gave birth to five pairs of male twins. He raised them and divided the entire island of Atlantis into ten parts, and to the one of the eldest couple who was born first, he gave his mother's house and surrounding possessions as the largest and best share, and gave the rest of his sons land in other parts of Atlantis and endowed him with power over different on odami. He gave these names to everyone: to the eldest and to the king he gave the name by which both the island and the sea are named, which is called Atlantic, for the name of the one who first received the kingdom then was Atlas. The twin, who was born immediately after him and received as an inheritance the extreme lands of the island from the side of the Pillars of Hercules up to the present country of the Gadirites, called after that inheritance, was given a name that could be rendered in Hellenic as Eumelus, and in the native dialect as Gadir . Of the second pair of twins, he named one Amphir and the other Evemon, of the third pair he named the elder Mnesaeus and the younger Autochthon, then Elasippus and Mestor, Azaes and Diaprepus. All of them ruled safely on the island for many centuries, creating a strong power in the middle of the ocean and extending their power to many other lands, right up to Egypt and Tyrrhenia.

The Atlas clan reigned supreme on the island for many centuries. The eldest was always the king and passed the crown on to the eldest of his sons, maintaining power in the family from generation to generation. They accumulated such wealth that no royal dynasty had ever had in the past and is unlikely to ever be again, for they had at their disposal everything they needed, prepared both in the city and throughout the country. They imported a lot from the countries they controlled, but the island itself provided most of the necessities for life - first of all, any types of stone and minerals, and among them the so-called orichalcum (mountain copper), a mineral then second only to gold in value. The forest, which was abundant on the island, supplied everything that the builders needed to work, as well as to feed domestic and wild animals and even elephants, of which there were a great many on the island - there was plenty of food for everyone in the swamps, lakes and rivers, on mountains or plains. The earth bestowed wealth: roots, herbs, wood, resins, flowers, fruits, sweet grapes, grains and vegetables. The crowns of the trees sheltered the happy people from the scorching rays of the sun; fruits quenched hunger and thirst, and one special fruit with a hard peel provided pulp, juice, and oil. In a word, on this island, which was so unfortunately destined to disappear, there was everything to satisfy both body and spirit, and even to anoint the gods with its offerings. Taking advantage of these gifts from the earth, the inhabitants of Atlantis rebuilt sanctuaries and palaces, threw bridges over water rings that surrounded them three times. ancient capital, and they also built a bridge from the palace to the sea. Taking the palace as an inheritance, each king expanded and decorated it more and more, trying to surpass his predecessor, until in the end a structure of amazing size and beauty was created. From the sea they made a canal 300 feet wide and 100 feet deep and about 60 miles long. This canal was navigable, and a harbor was built on it large ships . Near the bridges, they dug channels of such width that one trireme or three-decker galley could pass from one water ring to another: the height of the bridges above the sea surface was sufficient for these simple ships. The largest ring of water in circumference, directly connected by the sea, was 1800 feet wide, the next one was 1200 feet wide, and the third, closely surrounding the island, was 600 feet wide. This island, on which the palace stood, was five stades, or 1000 yards in diameter; The island, as well as the surrounding earthen rings, were surrounded by stone walls, and towers and gates were placed everywhere on bridges at passages to the sea. The bridge at the main gate was about 100 feet wide. They mined black and red stone for the columns from the quarries of the island. The walls enclosing the outer area had a light copper coating, while the inner wall was covered with tin plates, while the walls of the citadel itself were covered with orichalcum. Inside the abode of the kings was arranged as follows. In the very center, the inaccessible sanctuary of Cleito and Poseidon sparkled with gold - here the descendants of the first inhabitants of Atlantis made their sacrifices to the gods every year. The Temple of Poseidon was 600 feet long, proportionate to its height, and covered an area of ​​three acres. The entire outer surface of the temple was lined with silver, while the acroteria sparkled with gold; Inside, the eye-catching ceiling was made of ivory, decorated with gold, silver and orichalcum, and the walls and floors were entirely lined with orichalcum. There were also statues made of pure gold: Poseidon himself on a chariot drawn by six winged horses, around him 100 Nereids on dolphins, as well as many other statues depicting princes and princesses of the royal family and sacrificial gifts from kings and the population of the empire. The sacrificial altar was commensurate with this wealth in size and decoration; in the same way, the royal palace was in proper proportion, both with the greatness of the state and with the decoration of the sanctuaries. There were hot springs and fountains in various parts of the city, which provided water in abundance. Large baths were built, open and under a roof, as well as hot baths for the winter, separately for kings, separately for women, and even for horses and other domestic animals. Each bath corresponded to the position of those for whom it was built. In each urban area there were many sanctuaries of various gods, countless gardens and gymnasiums. A hippodrome with a diameter of 600 feet was built in the middle of the central island. On both sides of it there were rooms for numerous royal dignitaries and guards. The royal guards were stationed closer to the palace, around the mountain on which it stood, and the most reliable were entrusted with rooms inside the palace, next to the princes' chambers. The shipyards were filled with triremes and all the gear necessary for navigation.

Beyond the gates of the outer zone, a wall began from the sea itself, which encircled the island with its zones for 9,000 feet and closed near the canal. The space inside it was cultivated, and on the side facing the sea there were villas and warehouses. The harbor was filled with ships, on which merchants arrived from everywhere, and in such numbers that talking, noise and knocking were heard day and night. From the shore the island presented a mountainous terrain, especially from the side open sea. The plain that surrounded the city of the kings, and itself, with the exception of the coast, surrounded by mountains that stretched all the way to the sea, was a flat surface. Only the higher elevations on this plain were exposed to the destructive effects of the wind. The entire island faced south. Tradition praises these mountains for the fact that they surpassed all the current ones in their abundance, size and beauty: there were many populous villages, there were rivers, lakes and meadows that provided food for all domestic and wild animals, as well as huge forests rich in various species trees, which supplied wood in abundance for any business. The island had an oblong shape, although after the digging of the canal it changed somewhat. If you indicate the depth, width and length of this channel, no one will believe that human hands could have created this. Stretching for more than 1000 miles, it absorbed all the mountain streams that crossed out the entire city with smaller canals, and carried its waters further into the sea. Its tributaries served as waterways; timber and harvested crops were floated along them. The land produced two harvests a year - both all kinds of fruits and grains. In winter, the gods protected the earth from rains and floods.

Of all the legendary kingdoms, it is the most popular, although it has never been found. Its fame is quite understandable: Europeans consider themselves heirs of ancient culture, which was the successor to the more ancient civilizations of Egypt and Crete, and those, in turn, to the Atlantean empire. And the evidence of a historical person, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, although transmitted by the Egyptian priests through Solon, seems more authoritative in comparison with the myths of the peoples of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, about Lemuria and Mu.
Many different scriptures and documentaries were filmed about Atlantis and speculated about the island's location and culture. But no one named exactly where to look lost city. Some investigators say that it is in the waters of Santarini, others in the waters of Bimini. According to the scientist Plato, the island was located in front of the Pillars of Hercules, in our time it is the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates the two states of Spain and Africa.

In 2011 in Spain, in national park Donada, where there are many swamps, cities and memorials were found that were similar to the construction of the sunken Atlantis.

Thus, scientists decided that this is one of the Far Eastern parts of Antlantis. Since the city found in the swamps is located near the village of Cadiz, it was previously called Hades.

There are references in the chronicles to this city in 1100 BC, in some myths the city is mentioned in earlier years.

The scripture also says that the sunken city-memorial belonged to one of the Atlantean princes, the son of Poseidon.

He gave his first son Atlas a part of the island, which was named Atlantis in his honor, and the coastal waters were also named.

The “non-findability” of Atlantis may have its own explanation: in the fact that they do not want to recognize it as a reality, preferring to see in it a utopian ideal state invented by Plato. Here is the will of the famous archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered Troy, which was previously considered to exist only in the poetic imagination of Homer. Henry, dying in Naples in 1890, gave the antique vase to his friends along with a letter in which the following was written: “Permission is given to open it to one of the family members who swears that he will devote his life to the search mentioned here.” An hour before his death, he wrote a note: “You must break the vase with the owl’s head, examine its contents. It concerns Atlantis. Conduct excavations in the eastern part of the Sais temple and in the Shakkuna cemetery. It is important. You will find evidence to support my theory. Night is coming, goodbye."

Henry's son, named Agamemnon after the Greek king, did not dare to open the vase and devote his life to the search for Atlantis. This was done by his son, the grandson of Heinrich Schliemann - Paul, Doctor of Historical Sciences. With a feeling of deep regret, he broke an ancient vase, finding there archaeological antiquities, about which his grandfather wrote: “I came to the conclusion that Atlantis was not only a large continent between America and the western coast of Africa and Europe, but also the cradle of our entire culture...

During excavations in 1873 at the ruins of Troy in Hisarlik... I found an unusual-looking bronze vase. It contained small gold items, coins and objects made from fossilized bones. Some of them, like the bronze vase, bore the inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs: “From King Chronos of Atlantis.”

Fulfilling Henry's will, Paul Schliemann followed in his footsteps to Egypt and began excavations in the Sais ruins. At first he was unlucky, but soon he received from one of the aborigines a collection of old coins found in the tomb of a priest from the time of the first dynasty. Paul writes about this: “Who could describe my amazement when in this collection I recognized two coins that were almost no different from the coin in the Trojan vase! Isn't this a success? Thus, I had a coin from a Trojan vase, which, if my grandfather was right, came from Atlandita, as well as two other similar coins from the sarcophagus of a priest of the Sais temple, which contained information about Atlantis, transmitted by the priests to Solon.

Later, the researcher discovered the same coins found in Central America, in Mexico, which, judging by many evidences, was once one of the colonies of the Atlantic Empire.

These and other material finds indicated that Atlantis was by no means a fiction, but scientists considered them... the invention of Paul Schliemann! He himself was shot by the British as a German, and his collection disappeared, like many other things that sunk into oblivion during the Second World War.

Another piece of evidence belongs to the English traveler Fossett and relates to a mysterious figurine, whose origin the leading experts of the British Museum could not explain. The traveler turned to a psychometrist or, as we would now say, a psychic. He left quite clear descriptions of his visions caused by contact with the figurine: “I see a large, irregularly shaped continent stretching from northern shore Africa before South America. Numerous mountains rise on its surface and in some places volcanoes are visible, as if ready to erupt. The vegetation is abundant and of a subtropical or tropical character.”

It is unlikely that the psychic was familiar with Plato’s work “Timaeus”, which says: “It was possible to cross this sea (the Atlantic) in those days, for there was still an island that lay in front of that strait, which is called in your language the Pillars of Hercules (modern Gibraltar) . This island was larger in size than Libya and Asia combined, and from it it was easy for travelers of that time to move to other islands, and from the islands to the entire opposite continent (America)... On this island, called Atlantis, arose a great and amazing union of kings..."

And further, already in Critias, Plato writes about the nature of Atlantis: “The forest provided in abundance everything that the builders needed for their work, as well as for feeding wild and domestic animals. There were even a great many elephants on the island... Further, all the incense that the earth now nourishes... - she gave birth to all this and cultivated it perfectly.”

The Russian visionary writer Daniil Andreev wrote about Atlantis in “The Rose of the World”: “Atlantis was located on an archipelago of islands, the largest and most important of which was similar in size to Sicily. It was inhabited by the red race... Of the cultures well known to us, Atlantis would be closest to Egypt and partly to the Aztecs, but darker and heavier... Main Island and the small ones surrounding it died from a series of seismic disasters. Small groups of residents escaped to America, one - to Africa, where they disappeared into the Negroid population of Sudan.”

Interesting views about the Atlanteans are expressed by the mystic Eduard Schure in “Divine Evolution”: “...From a physiological point of view, the primitive Atlas was closer to an animal than to a modern man... But, on the other hand, he occupied a higher level in some psychological capabilities, atrophied in subsequent generations: instinctive perception of the soul of things, second sight in a state of wakefulness and sleep, and with it an amazing acuity of feelings, wonderful memory and impulsive will... He was endowed with a kind of natural magic... He commanded nature with his gaze and voice... He charmed snakes , conquered predators. His influence on the plant kingdom was especially energetic. He knew how to obtain the magnetic living force of plants..."

Atlantis was discovered more than once, but they did not want to recognize it! In 1898, when laying a telegraph cable from Europe to North America at Azores rocks were discovered covered with a glassy mass, which can only be formed during the eruption of an above-ground, but not an underwater volcano. In 1917, near the island of Bimini, rectangular structures were found at the bottom, which were examined in 1968 by Dr. Manson Valentine. He opened a transport route and a pier. In 1973, the research vessel Akademik Petrovsky, near Gibraltar, photographed an underwater structure similar to the wall of a building. The picture clearly showed the blocks laid in strict order. Cuban archaeologists found an obsidian lens near their shores. Despite the fact that it was concave, the image through it was not distorted. Modern optics cannot explain this phenomenon.

And finally, the flights of birds from Europe to South America, unprecedented in their range. This path turns out to be so long and difficult that calluses the size of a man’s fist form under their wings. Why should they fly far away from warm lands to the North? There can be only one answer: once this path was much shorter and it ended in the warm, flowering gardens of the land of Atlantis. Instinct drives birds from year to year from South America across the Atlantic... and further to cold Europe.

Russian writer Vladimir Shcherbakov promises us a meeting with legendary country: “Astrologers predicted that Atlantis will emerge from the depths of the ocean in the 21st century. If so, then the wait won't be that long. If you’re lucky, we’ll see everything with our own eyes.”

Modern researchers have not yet managed to fully reveal all the hidden secrets of the existence of Atlantis. However, thanks to the many studies carried out in this area, there are still a number of assumptions and hypotheses regarding the existence of the described ancient civilization.

Official science, of course, does not recognize the existence in the past of this mysterious - perhaps, really only mythical - civilization.

The achievements of the Atlantean civilization are impressive.

There is an opinion among scientists that the Atlanteans achieved a very high level of progress in all spheres of life. They could plan their lives in completely different ways. For example, telepathic communication with family and friends was not alien to the people who once inhabited this sunken continent. They also loved to have long conversations on the topic of what role they occupy in the Universe.

According to theosophists, the Atlanteans were the fourth race on earth. They appeared after the death of the Lemurian civilization, having absorbed some of its achievements, and existed until the appearance of the fifth race, the Aryans. The Atlanteans, compared to the Lemurians, were much more godlike. Beautiful, smart and ambitious.

They worshiped the sun and quickly developed their technology, just as we do today.

Description of Atlandita by Plato

In four hundred and twenty-first BC, Plato in his writings spoke about the disappeared civilization of the Atlanteans.

According to him, it was big Island, located in the middle of the ocean, beyond Gibraltar. In the center of the city there was a hill with temples and the palace of the kings. Upper town was protected by two earth mounds and three water ring canals. The outer ring was connected by a 500-meter canal to the sea. Ships sailed along the canal.

Copper and silver were mined in Atlantis. The ships that arrived brought pottery, spices, and rare ores.

The temple of Poseidon, the ruler of the seas, was built from gold, silver, and orchilac (an alloy of copper and zinc). His second temple was protected by a golden wall. There were also statues of Poseidon and his daughters.

Forty years later, after the death of the philosopher, the Athenian resident Krantor went to Egypt to find Atlantis. In the temple of Neith, he found hieroglyphs with texts about the events that took place.

Scientific and technological progress in Atlantis

Thanks to their high level of psychic and mental development, the inhabitants of Atlantis were able to establish contact with alien beings. Some researchers provide information that the Atlanteans knew how to create ultra-fast and practical flying machines. Their very deep knowledge in the field of physics, mathematics and mechanics made it possible to produce equipment of the highest quality with unusual properties. And it was these devices that easily helped them travel through outer space!

Progress in technology has been so stunning that even today humanity has not yet been able to develop analogues to those flying devices, even taking into account the fact that science is constantly taking leaps and bounds forward in all spheres of life, without exception.

All this suggests that the inhabitants of Atlantis were extraordinary people, possessed of enormous intelligence and knowledge. At the same time, the Atlanteans willingly shared the acquired skills and experience with the younger generation. Therefore, progress in technical development gradually improved and reached unprecedented heights.

The first pyramids were built just on the territory of Atlantis. This unusual phenomenon still puzzles researchers as to what available means and equipment were used to build such unusual structures!

Also economically, their country was prosperous. The work of any person in it was paid according to his dignity. According to legend, Atlantis was an ideal country; there were no beggars or rich people boasting of their wealth.

In this regard, the social situation in this country was always stable, no one worried about food.

Appearance and morality of the Atlanteans

Due to the fact that the Atlantean body had remarkable physical strength compared to modern man, they could do much more work than our contemporaries.

The body of the Atlanteans was staggering in size. According to evidence, it reached 6 meters in height. Their shoulders were very wide, their torsos were elongated. There were 6 fingers on the hands and 7 on the feet!

The facial features of people who once lived on Atlantis are also unusual. Their lips were very wide, their noses were slightly flattened, and they also had huge, expressive eyes.

According to their physiological data, the average lifespan of the average Atlantean was about 1000 years. At the same time, each of them tried to look beautiful in the eyes of others. Often, a variety of jewelry made of silver or gold, as well as precious stones, were used as decorations.

Atlanteans were highly moral people. Therefore, bad habits and an immoral image were alien to them. Everyday life. They tried to treat those around them honestly in any situation; no one tried to deceive or set anyone up. In family relationships, marriage once for a lifetime was the norm. And the relationship itself was built solely on mutual trust, support and love for each other.

The political system in Atlantis was built in a democratic field. In many ways, it is similar to the one that reigns in modern successful European states with freedom of speech and the right to choose. The ruler of the Atlanteans was chosen by voting. Moreover, he ruled for a very long period - from 200 to 400 years! But no matter who ruled Atlantis, each of its leaders always sought to create such a universal social environment within the state, thanks to which any person could always feel protected and cared for.

Causes of the death of Atlantis

One of the assumptions about why Atlantis disappeared is based on the fact that the kings and population of this continent began to abuse the knowledge with which they carried out their aggressive intentions.

For example, the pyramids they built created portals with other worlds. All this contributed to the fact that the energy coming from a parallel reality could be negative and at a certain moment could have a detrimental effect on the entire continent, completely destroying it in an instant.

In their daily lives, magic began to be increasingly used exclusively with malicious intent.

Too much knowledge creates a temptation to use it for selfish interests. And no matter how morally pure the inhabitants of Atlantis were at first, in the end negative trends began to grow in their society over time. Predatory attitude towards nature, increasing social inequality, abuse of power by the small elite who controlled the Atlanteans ultimately led to tragic consequences associated with the outbreak of a long-term war. And it was she who became the main reason that one fine day the entire continent was swallowed up by the waters of the ocean.

Some scientists also confidently claim that the death of Atlantis occurred approximately 10-15 thousand years ago. And this large-scale event was provoked by a huge meteorite that fell on our planet. The fall of a meteorite could change the earth's axis, which caused a tsunami of unprecedented proportions.

What Helena Blavatsky said about the reasons for the death of Atlantis

According to Helena Blavatsky, the fall of Atlantis occurred because the Atlanteans played with God. It turns out that the Atlanteans slipped from high morality to indulgence of passions.

The Atlantean technologies, which surpassed their spiritual qualities, allowed them to create chimeras - crosses between humans and animals, to use them as sexual slaves and physical workers. The Atlanteans had a high level of knowledge of genetic modification and cloning technology. This is similar to what people do now in the 21st century.

Telepathically warned that the continent would sink, many Atlanteans fled, boarding ships before the continent's final sinking in 9,564 BC. as a result of a series of earthquakes.

The American mystic Edgar Cayce, who looked into the so-called astral akashic records in a trance state, argued that many of the souls who once lived in Atlantis are currently living as representatives of modern Western civilization in order to fulfill their destiny.

Searches for a lost civilization

Over the past two thousand years, multiple speculations have arisen about the location of Atlantis. Interpreters of Plato's works pointed to the modern Atlantic islands. Some argue that Atlantis was located in what is now Brazil and even Siberia.

Modern archaeologists consider the thinker's story about the Atlanteans to be fiction. Circular networks of canals and hydraulic structures in those days were still beyond the capabilities of mankind. Scholars of Plato's philosophy and literature believe that he wanted to call for the creation of an ideal state. As for the period of disappearance, Plato cites information that it happened eleven and a half thousand years ago. But during this period, man was just emerging from the Paleolithic, Stone Age. Those people's minds were not yet sufficiently developed. Perhaps these data from Plato about the time of the destruction of Atlantis are incorrectly interpreted.

There is one assumption why Plato’s figure for the death of Atlandita appears 9 thousand years ago. The fact is that in Egyptian calculation “nine thousand” was represented by nine lotus flowers, and “nine hundred” by nine knots of rope. Externally, in terms of spelling, they were similar, which is why there was confusion.

Modern research

In nineteen seventy-nine, all European newspapers were full of headlines “The Russians have found an island.” Pictures were presented in which vertical ridges, similar to walls, peeked out of the sand. The search operations took place exactly where Plato indicated - behind the Pillars of Hercules, above the underwater volcano Ampere. It was reliably established that it protruded from the water and was an island.

In nineteen eighty-two, another Russian ship, sinking under water, discovered the ruins of the city: walls, squares, rooms. These findings were refuted by another expedition, which found nothing. Except for frozen volcanic rocks.

There are suggestions that the disaster occurred due to a sudden shift of the African tectonic plate. Its collision with the European one caused the eruption of Santorini - and the western islands sank.

Of course, it is now impossible to say with certainty what exactly happened to Atlantis and what contributed to its destruction. And many of the hypotheses set forth by researchers can only approximate the truth.

Whether Atlantis was simply a figment of the imagination of Plato and other thinkers, or a reality reflected in ancient legends, miraculously preserved to this day, remains a mystery...

Perhaps our civilization is heading towards the same ending, when we will become for our distant descendants the same mythical event that Atlantis is for us. And our continents will also unsuccessfully search for deep oceans for days.

Fierce debates, measured discussions, assumptions, myths and versions - all this has been exciting humanity for many centuries. Mysterious land called Atlantis, haunts neither pundits nor researchers who love to fantasize. Atlantis did not pass by, lost World, and the common man. It seems that today every second person has heard about this mysterious island, about the fact that in ancient times there was a lost Atlantis, a civilization that had no equal in technological and scientific development, in the culture of life. Its Atlanteans were inhabited by a free people, but not without human vices, which, in the end, destroyed the mysterious empire. It is believed that the secrets of Atlantis rest somewhere at the bottom of the world's oceans. Let's try to figure out whether this is true or not.

Atlanta and their appearance on the pages of history.

In 428 BC, in one rich and noble family, in the city-state of Athens, a seemingly ordinary boy was born, who received the name Plato. The child's father was Ariston. His family takes its roots from the legendary king Codru. Mother - Periktiona, great-great-granddaughter of the no less great Solon. Not Atlanteans, of course, but very revered and important people, both by the standards of Athens and by historical canons.

The child grew up alive in every sense; he was sociable, cheerful and inquisitive. Surrounded by all sorts of benefits, he did not know what hard work and need were, spending most of his time on physical exercise and education. Having matured, the young man wanted to develop not only his body, but also his mind. You and I know that the result of this decision will be the Atlanteans and many other discoveries no less important for history, philosophy and other sciences. However, the guy had yet to understand his own thoughts, ideas and plans. At the age of 20, fate gave young Plato a chance to answer many questions that tormented him, among which were the Atlanteans: at this time Plato met Socrates, the greatest philosopher of antiquity, fell under the influence of his ideas and became his faithful student and follower.

All these events, which later gave birth to the Atlanteans, take place against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, which has shaken the ancient world since 431 BC. The last battle of this long war took place in 404, when the troops of Sparta entered Athens. Thirty tyrants seize power in the city; freedom of speech, democracy and the right to choose are disappearing from the lives of local residents. But only a year passes, and the hated regime of tyranny collapses. The invaders are expelled from the city in disgrace, returning its independence. Having defended its freedom and independence, Athens, the city where they first started talking about the Atlanteans, regained strength and influence among other Greek settlements.

Victory is given to Athens, the city where the Atlanteans were “born,” with heavy losses: many famous, noble and courageous men die. Among the dead were many friends of Plato, the “father” of the Atlanteans, a future leader, thinker and activist. The young man finds it difficult to cope with the loss and promises himself to change this cruel world. To come to his senses and escape from the darkness of days alone, Plato, who discovered the “Atlanteans” to the whole world, goes to long journey. He goes to Syracuse, then he visits the colorful villages and cities of the Mediterranean. At the end of his journey, our hero, who discovered the Atlanteans to the world, ends up in Egypt. Plato has a special interest in this country and its people - his great ancestor, Solon, studied here for many years.

The excellent upbringing, manners and education of young Plato, the man to whom the Atlanteans owe their fame, impress the local elite. After some time, the young man is introduced to representatives of the highest priestly caste of Egypt. It is difficult to say exactly how this acquaintance influenced the views of the future great philosopher, to whom the Atlanteans owe their place in history, but Plato returns back to Athens as a completely different person. It is quite possible that it was in Egypt that Plato learned who the Atlanteans were and how human civilization actually developed. By the way, priests Ancient Egypt were revered not only by the local people, but also by the entire ancient world, as keepers of the most valuable information about the distant past and the peoples who inhabited the Earth. Who knows, maybe the Egyptians really knew who the Atlanteans were, how they lived, and how their story ended.

Long decades passed, but Plato did not tell in any of his works what the great priests of the pyramids told him, whether they told him about the Atlanteans or discovered some other secrets of the ancient world. Plato's teacher, Socrates, has long gone to another world, and the philosopher himself has aged, turned gray and become much wiser than in his youth. During this period, he already introduced his own philosophy and opened a corresponding school, which over time turned into an academy. However, the Atlanteans are still not open to the scientific world. Plato's influence on the minds of young men and even elders is invaluable; he is revered as one of the greatest minds that ever lived in Athens and Greece. But the philosopher is tormented by internal conflicts. He struggles with the desire to tell the whole world what it is ancient Atlantis, open true story human race. And now, half a century after visiting Egypt, Plato writes two of the most important dialogues in his life - Critias and Timaeus. A similar unique genre of conducting philosophical treatises was introduced by Plato himself. In it he asks questions and answers them himself. This method, in which the Atlanteans will be revealed to the world, better reveals the whole essence of doubts and inconsistency of judgments tormenting a person.

Atlanteans are finally becoming a world-famous phenomenon. It is in Critias and Timaeus that Plato talks about a mysterious land that existed about 9 thousand years ago, about a land that was inhabited by the Atlanteans, about a land that does not exist now. It is a huge island with mountainous terrain. The mountains surrounded the perimeter in a ring, which was once inhabited by Atlantean people; their land smoothly passed into gentle foothills, and those, in turn, into a wide plain. It was here that the Atlanteans lived, it was here that they built their life, science and civilization.

Atlantis is a land of great minds and no less great miracles.

The secret city, at one time opened only to Egyptian priests and young Plato, was called Atlantis. The people who inhabited it descended from the god of the seas and oceans himself, Poseidon. It is believed that the progenitor of Atlantis, Poseidon, allegedly once turned to Zeus for help, he asked the supreme god to give him a place on earth. The king of all gods responded favorably to the request of the god of waters and allowed him to settle on a huge island, Atlantis, with a fertile climate, but mostly with rocky and infertile soil for crops.

Here Poseidon met local residents, Atlanteans. First, he became acquainted with the small people who inhabited the great and mountainous Atlantis, and then, in peace and tranquility, he began raising sheep. At first he suffered from loneliness, but soon one of the neighboring families of Atlantis had a daughter. She turned out to be a girl of extraordinary beauty and intelligence, her name was Cleito. God took her as his wife, and after a while they had five twins, all boys, beautiful, smart and healthy, like gods. What else could you expect from a girl for whom Atlantis was her home, and from the almighty god of the seas, oceans and waters.

When the children grew up, the island, Atlantis, was already divided into ten parts. Each son got not most of sushi, where he became the ruler. The best piece of land went to the eldest son and at the same time the wisest, Atlan. It was in his honor that the ocean surrounding Atlantis on all sides was named Atlantic.

Very soon the island, or rather its seventh and largest part, the lost city, Atlantis, turned into a densely populated state, an empire. The people who inhabited this state, Atlanta, built huge cities with amazing architecture, created magnificent examples of sculpture, and brought luxurious temples into reality. The most majestic of them was the temple of Kleito, dedicated to the father of Atlantis, Poseidon. It was located in the center of the island, on a hill, and was surrounded by a wall made of gold.

To protect themselves from external enemies, the Atlanteans built a serious defense system. The plain was surrounded by two water rings and three earthen rings. Numerous canals were dug across the entire island of Atlantis, connecting the ocean waters with the central part of the land. The main, wide canal ended near the marble steps of Atlantis, which led to the top of the hill, that is, to the temple of Poseidon.

Having become stronger and stronger, the population of Atlantis created the strongest army in the history of mankind. This army consisted of 1,200 ships with a crew of 240 thousand people, whose homeland was Atlantis, and ground forces of 700 thousand people. For comparison, this is twice the world average today. All these people of Atlantis needed to somehow feed, clothe and put on shoes. In most cases, funds were found on the side: the Atlanteans built their economy and politics on waging constant and bloody wars that could bring profit.

Successful conquests further strengthened the city-state; Atlantis has become stronger than ever. It seems that there could no longer be a single enemy who could provide worthy resistance to the aggressor. But the universe does not like the proud; it did not forgive pride and Atlantis: proud Athens stood in the way of the island people.

Plato wrote that 9 thousand years ago Athens was a powerful state that could not be compared with the current state of affairs. However, Civilization-Atlantis was strong and it was impossible to defeat such a large army alone. The philosopher’s ancient ancestors turned for help to the neighboring states that inhabited the Balkan Peninsula at that time. An unprecedented military alliance was created, the main task of which was the destruction of Atlantis, or at least the weakening of its military power, in order to conclude a peace treaty.

On the decisive day of the battle, the allies who were opposed by Atlantis were afraid to engage in battle, betraying their neighboring alliance. The Athenians were left alone with a million-strong army of Atlanteans, the number of which continued to grow and grow. The courageous Greeks rushed into battle without fear or hesitation and, in an unequal struggle, nevertheless lost to the aggressor. It seems that everything is victory, Atlantis has gained the upper hand, and the time has come to blow the horn victoriously, but then the gods intervened in human affairs. The great and immortals did not want Atlantis to become higher than the land of Greece they controlled and cared for.

Zeus and his closest associates have been closely monitoring Atlantis and the people who inhabited this land for centuries. If at the beginning local population did not evoke negative emotions among the celestials, then centuries later the situation changed radically. The Atlanteans from noble, highly spiritual and moral people gradually turned into selfish, greedy, greedy for power and gold, depraved individuals, brazenly and shamelessly ignoring basic human laws and values. The lifestyle and general situation in which Atlantis found itself, thousands of years after its settlement, caused a sharp negative reaction among those whose status was supposed to monitor the purity and morality of human civilization.

Atlantis was on the edge of the abyss. Today, in our humane and progressive 21st century, fallen and base individuals are treated quite tolerantly, for many of us such behavior has become the norm, but in those distant times the mentality was completely different. The pantheon of supreme gods and demigods decided to destroy the entire continent; Atlantis was to be wiped off the face of the Earth. This is what the celestials did - quickly and unnoticed by most people.

Atlantis was drowning, both in its own greed and literally. The earth opened up and stormy ocean waters poured onto the land. The mysterious island has plunged into an eternal abyss. Proud Athens was also unlucky. The wrath of the gods, who did not forgive their charges for the loss, was no less cruel than the fate to which Atlantis, a once powerful and beautiful civilization, was doomed. The gods unleashed a catastrophe on Greece and the neighboring lands; the state of Athens was just as erased from the map as Atlantis. , mired in her own sins. There were no Athenians left capable of celebrating the fall of the aggressor, Atlantis, everyone fell, everyone died.

The secrets of Atlantis, a civilization that disappeared in the pages of history.

This information can be gleaned from two extensive dialogues revealing the secrets of Atlantis, written by Plato at the very end of his life. It seems nothing special - there is no direct evidence based on serious scientific research, no references to any ancient manuscripts or authoritative sources. At first sight secrets of Atlantis, like the ancient civilization itself, is a funny myth, a fairy tale. However, in spite of everything, the secrets of Atlantis and the legends about this civilization survived not only the philosopher himself, they survived centuries, millennia, giving rise to a huge number of discussions, theories and assumptions.

The main opponent who opposed the existence of this nation and dispelled the secrets of Atlantis was Aristotle, who lived from 384 to 322 BC. Aristotle was the teacher and mentor of Alexander the Great. He was one of Plato's main students, who began studying at the Academy in 366 BC and completed it in 347.

For almost 20 years, this venerable man, who in every possible way dispelled the secrets of Atlantis, listened to the speeches of philosophers, himself preached the theory of eternal good, and treated both the works and statements of his mentor with great respect. As a result, Aristotle expressed disagreement with Plato’s dialogues, calling them the delirium of an old man. Allegedly, the secrets of Atlantis are not secrets at all, but a rebellion of the fantasy and imagination of an honorable elder.

This negative reaction continued. In Western Europe in the middle of the centuries, Aristotle had unquestioned authority. His judgments and theories were accepted as the ultimate truth. Therefore, one can imagine that until the end of the 8th century, the beginning of the 9th century, although they talked about the mysterious land, about the secrets of Atlantis, they spoke with reluctance, with an eye on the representative adherents of the philosophical concepts of Aristotle, one of the greatest, if not the most important philosopher of Ancient Greece.

What is the reason for such an attitude towards the mystery of Atlantis, towards the existence of this civilization? Why did Plato's honorary student, Aristotle, categorically reject the possibility that Atlantis city existed and flourished for several millennia? Maybe he had irrefutable evidence at his disposal that left no trace of the mystery of Atlantis? But there is nothing in the writings of the venerable husband that would point to this evidence. On the other hand, it is also impossible to dismiss Aristotle’s judgments. He was too authoritative a man and a philosopher to turn a blind eye to what he said and wrote.

To understand everything, you need to imagine the learned men of the past, shrouded in dreams and an unclouded gaze aimed at the future, as mere mortals, people who are characterized by envy, greed, selfishness and other things that do not fit with philosophers and such respectable men.

Who was Plato, who gave birth to the secrets of Atlantis, exciting the minds of even modern scientists? Plato was the darling of fate, the favorite of fortune. He was born into a rich family, and from childhood he knew no worries, lack of attention and no need for money. Thanks to his origin, he received all the benefits of life easily, with a wave of his hand. Without any effort, he created the Academy, surrounded himself with fans and people who sincerely revere him. All doors were open for him in Athens. He could shout at the top of his lungs that the sunken city, Atlantis, exists, and they would believe him. Today, such people are usually called masters of life, golden youth and oligarchs, but before, such concepts did not exist, however, a prejudiced attitude towards the rich and wealthy of this world could be traced even before our era.

And who was Aristotle, who did everything possible to dispel the mysteries of Atlantis brought by his mentor? The son of an ordinary doctor at the court of the Macedonian ruler, already by birth doomed to a miserable existence in poverty and social helplessness. From childhood he knew, if not need, then at least the need for money and livelihood. Each new step upward was given to him with great difficulty. Only thanks to his perseverance, willpower, determination and efficiency, which the Atlanteans themselves would envy, this man achieved everything he deserved: money, fame, respect.

Carefully hidden hostility and envy towards a prosperous and caressed mentor in life ultimately played the worst joke on Aristotle that the human mind and fate are capable of. Atlantis, lost civilization, became his Achilles heel. He forgot everything good and good that his mentor did for him; if he did not betray Plato, then he certainly desecrated his eternal memory with his doubts and mistrust. After all, in the end, the secrets of Atlantis might not have interested Aristotle at all, however, he not only turned his attention to them, he considered it his duty and obligation to refute the latest works of Plato. God will be his judge, but the truth is that with all his efforts, Aristotle did not have a single fact that could refute the statements of his mentor. The Atlanteans remained unproven, but also not refuted, no matter how hard the envious student tried.

Lost Atlantis and the mystery of its existence.

For two millennia, the question of the mysterious continent either came to life in the minds of individual researchers, or faded away under the influence of militant antagonists of Plato’s instructions. The most serious opponent, fending off any evidence of the presence of the mystical and lost Atlantis on earth, has long been the church. The servants of the Lord considered the official date of the creation of the world to be 5508 BC. Plato, in his theories, climbed into the darkness of centuries, indicating a time interval of 9 thousand years, when, according to the church, there was no Earth, no people, no universe, much less some lost Atlantis could not physically exist.

It was only in the second half of the 9th century, when the church split and its influence began to wane, that lost atlantis may exist, they started talking again, and then in a whisper. The first who again loudly began to talk about the possibility that the lost Atlantis took place in the history of human civilization was Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) - theosophist, researcher, writer and famous traveler. Being a gifted, talented person, no matter how you look at it, she had a bright and extraordinary personality, this amazing woman categorically asserted that the lost Atlantis existed, and Plato was not mistaken in arguing about this mysterious island. True, there were discrepancies in her theories with Plato’s version of Atlantis; the researcher assigned her two continents at once - one in the Pacific, and the other, located in the Atlantic Ocean. The remnants of the once great and ancient empire the islands of Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, individual islands of Polynesia and famous island Easter.

Many other researchers followed Blavatsky, furiously arguing about where the lost Atlantis was located, and about the very fact of its existence on the map of antiquity. However, the researchers were unable to present anything concrete, evidence-based and definite to the scientific community.

A beautiful, but as it seemed to many a mythical legend, the world of Atlantis came to life and received rapid development only at the very end of the 19th century. This is the period of the beginning of powerful progress, both scientific and technical. It is no wonder that it was in this era, when more and more new resources appeared at people’s disposal, that interest in adventure arose again in the minds of many. And the lost Atlantis in their eyes became exactly that adventure. In fact, humanity has just entered a new phase of its existence. Heavy and light industry developed by leaps and bounds, science showed enormous interest in what this lost Atlantis really was, technology, finance - all this required increasingly advanced means of communication not only between individual cities and countries, but also between entire continents.

In 1898, a significant event took place in history around the lost Atlantis and research aimed at finding it. This year, a telegraph cable was pulled underwater from Europe to America. And suddenly, for some unknown reason technical reasons it broke off; as a result of which one of the ends sank to the very bottom of the ocean. They lifted it as usual with steel cats. The surprising thing is that along with the cable, an unexpected surprise was also pulled out of the water, presumably related to the lost Atlantis: These were small pieces of glassy lava, stuck between the legs of the mechanisms used to lift the cable.

Luck or not, at that moment there was a geologist on the ship, and a very, very experienced specialist. In addition, he was familiar with what the underwater city of Atlantis was and knew firsthand about the hype around it. He took pieces of a strange rock, the origin of which was almost immediately associated with such a phenomenon as the lost Atlantis, and took them to Paris to his colleague, the French geologist Termier. He carefully studied the presented samples and soon made a detailed report at the Oceanographic Society in the capital of France.

As you might guess, his speech was truly sensational and the main topic of this speech was the lost Atlantis, which at that time was the main bone of contention in the research world. In fact, Termier stated with full responsibility that lava takes this form only when it hardens in air. In an underwater eruption, it would have been completely different and would not have had a glassy, ​​but rather a crystalline structure. Thus, the conclusion naturally suggested itself that once upon a time, in the boundless waters of the Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and the Azores, there was land; it is obvious that we are not talking about some unknown island, but about such a phenomenon as the lost Atlantis , perished in the depths of the world's oceans.

It seemed that the question of the presence and location of the mysterious continent should be resolved by itself. It would be time to open a bottle of expensive champagne and celebrate such a serious and important discovery for science as the lost Atlantis, but that was not the case. To make it clearer what exactly the catch is, it’s worth going from afar and telling about everything in order.

Atlantis is a lost world, a bone of contention for the scientific community.

The status of a discoverer in that era was almost the main, cherished dream of the entire life of every respectable man of science. So, in 1900, an English archaeologist named Evans conducts excavations in the Cretan city of Knossos and, surprisingly, finds traces of the most ancient civilization in the entire Mediterranean. He calls it Minoan, but at the same time claims that Atlantis, the lost world famous in scientific circles, and his Minois are one and the same.

In his research, the archaeologist refers to a layer of ash discovered in the sea soil, the age of which exceeds three thousand years. The island of Santorini is located 120 kilometers from Crete. It was here, according to Arthur Evans, that Atlantis, the lost world famous in scientific circles, was located. In 1400 BC, the Santorini volcano exploded. The entire middle of the island sank to the bottom of the sea, destroying Atlantis, a lost world that excites the minds of scientists. But what about the fact that Plato’s works speak of the age of Atlantis, a lost world that is at least 5 thousand years older than the remains of the civilization discovered by Evans. It's simple, according to Evans, Plato simply made a mistake, indicating 9 thousand years instead of 900 years.

Throughout the century, scientists different countries tried to steal the palm from each other, competing in their inventions, ingenuity of mind, and pseudo knowledge about ancient world. Wherever their tireless searches took them. Mysterious Atlantis, the lost world, famous in scientific circles, was found on Canary Islands, and off the coast of Iceland, and predictably in the central waters of the Atlantic Ocean. But all to no avail. No one has been able to indicate the specific location of the mysterious ancient continent. Atlantis, the lost world, was not discovered, and what’s more, researchers were unable to find even one single piece of evidence or clue that could indicate the location of the mysterious island.

Disputes about the mysterious Earth, about what the lost city - Atlantis is, do not subside even today. Theories appear and disappear, legends are born and die, and with them more and more scientists, archaeologists and historians climb to the research Olympus, and then fall from it. Some of their assumptions are very similar to the truth, others are more like a fantastic story or a good invention of a sick mind. This story is one of these: the basis of the entire Atlantis, the lost world, was a certain huge crystal that accumulates and transforms the energy of the universe into the more familiar earthly one. Was this crystal artificial or natural origin- unknown, or maybe deliberately kept silent. This source of endless energy was kept in the central temple of Poseidon under the watchful supervision of the best, chosen warriors.

The crystal fully satisfied all the everyday and other needs of the people whose homeland was Atlantis, the lost world, but they did not want to be content with little. Being aggressive and warlike by nature, the inhabitants of the ancient empire used it as a powerful weapon, destroying and burning the lands of their enemies.

Nowhere and no one around had such a means of protection that could protect them from the power of the crystal, and very soon all the neighboring states were enslaved by power-hungry invaders. The mysterious Atlantis, a lost world, turned into a majestic empire, its borders expanded and expanded until they reached the endless steppes, beyond which lay the no less endless China.

Atlantis is the homeland of conquerors.

The process of taking over a new, unknown country and race was slow, and ancient atlanteans decided to send a powerful beam of energy across the entire planet. Choking with impatience and greed, people who believed that Atlantis was their home, hurriedly went to the crystal and the main custodian activated the energy weapon.

A pillar of hellfire hit the rocky ground. But instead of piercing the earth like a knife through butter, it split Atlantis itself into several parts. The foaming waters of the ocean quickly rushed onto the island, sweeping away everything living and inanimate in its path. Ancient city, Atlantis, sank to the bottom of the ocean in the blink of an eye. All the Atlanteans disappeared along with her, taking the greatness and heritage of their civilization into oblivion. This is such a legend, a colorful legend. It is clear that it is based on real facts. All this, most likely, is the invention of some researcher tired of fruitless searches.

Centuries and millennia have passed, and the question of whether the ancient civilization of Atlantis existed or not is still unanswered? Perhaps the most serious and demonstrative theory was put forward by Thor Heyerdahl, the famous Norwegian traveler. He drew his attention and the attention of the scientific world to the similarities between the ancient cultures of Asia Minor, Egypt, Crete and the ancient civilizations that inhabited Central America. Indeed, if you reject skepticism and look at all this from the outside, these cultures have many similar features. Atlanta, or rather their empire, was a state where the cult of the sun occupied no less important position in society than the cult of Poseidon, who was the father of the inhabitants of this city. We can observe the same thing in Central America, Asia Minor and Crete. The sun god was also worshiped there, and marriages between family members were practiced to preserve the purity of the family. We don't know what it was like ancient language Atlantis, but we can note that the writing of the cultures of Crete, Central America and Egypt are like two peas in a pod.

An important similar factor are pyramids, sarcophagi, mummification, and masks. These pagan symbols and examples of art, unusual for European states, were often found in Egyptian, Asian and American settlements. Again, we do not know whether Atlantis was the pride of the pyramids, we only find common features between ancient empires that seem different at first glance. In addition, it has long been proven that there was once a connection between the American and European continents. We all once lived on one large continent, why shouldn’t it be the same Atlantis that researchers have been unsuccessfully searching for for two thousand years now?!

Could it be that Atlantis was not destroyed, but was simply reborn in Egyptian pyramids and in American analogues? Who knows?! Perhaps we will get an answer to this question in the very near future. Now we, like the entire scientific world, can only assume that Atlantis existed, and was not an invention of the old mind of a philosopher from Athens.

Daria KHAZANOVA. The Epoch Times

One of the Ica Stones with a Map of North (top center) and South America (bottom center), on the left the lost Continent of Mu, on the right Atlantis. According to legend, Atlantis was a continent with a highly developed civilization. Modern scientists believe that the continent of Atlantis existed between America and Western Europe, although their opinions differ, perhaps because before Atlantis there were other advanced civilizations about which we know little. According to the Greek philosopher Plato, the Atlantean civilization was a powerful empire with a large naval force that attacked the island of Crete in ancient Greece.

We know about Atlantis from Plato’s speeches in two dialogues: Timaeus and Critias. Plato received this knowledge from the legendary Athenian legislator Solon, who visited Egypt in the sixth century BC. In Egypt, Solon met the priest Sais, who translated the stories of ancient Athens and Atlantis, written on papyri, from Egyptian hieroglyphs into Greek.

The dialogue “Timaeus” begins with the reasoning of Socrates and the Pythagorean Timaeus about the best state structure. Having briefly described the ideal state, Socrates complains about the abstractness and sketchiness of the resulting picture and expresses a desire to “listen to a description of how this state behaves in the fight against other states, how it enters into war in a dignified manner, how during the war its citizens do what it befits them, in accordance with their training and upbringing, whether on the battlefield or in negotiations with other states.” Responding to this wish, the third participant in the dialogue, the Athenian politician Critias, talks about the war between Athens and Atlantis, allegedly from the words of his grandfather Critias the Elder, who, in turn, retold him the story of Solon, which he had heard last from the priests in Egypt. The meaning of the story is this: once upon a time, 9 thousand years ago, Athens was the most glorious, powerful and virtuous state.

Their main enemy was the aforementioned Atlantis. “This island was larger than Libya and Asia combined.” A “kingdom of amazing size and power” arose on it, ruling all of Libya to Egypt and Europe to Tyrrhenia (western Italy). At some point, all the forces of this kingdom were thrown into the enslavement of Athens. The Athenians stood up to defend their freedom, and although all their allies betrayed them, they alone, thanks to their valor and virtue, repelled the invasion, crushed the Atlanteans and freed the peoples they had enslaved. Following this, however, a tremendous natural disaster occurred, as a result of which the entire army of the Athenians died in one day, and Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea.

The dialogue “Critias”, with the same participants, serves as a direct continuation of “Timaeus” and is entirely devoted to the story of Critias about ancient Athens and Atlantis. Athens then (before the earthquake and flood) was the center of a large and unusually fertile country; they were inhabited by virtuous people, government system was ideal (from Plato's point of view). Everything was managed by rulers and warriors who lived separately from the main agricultural and craft masses on the Acropolis in the community. Modest and virtuous Athens is contrasted with the arrogant and powerful Atlantis. The ancestor of the Atlanteans, according to Plato, was the god Poseidon, who met with the mortal girl Cleito, who gave birth to ten divine sons led by the eldest, Atlas, between whom he divided the island and who became the ancestors of his royal families.

The central plain of the island stretched 3 thousand stadia in length (540 km), in width - 2 thousand stadia (360 km), the center of the island was a hill located 50 stadia (8-9 kilometers) from the sea. For protection, Poseidon surrounded it with three water and two land rings; The Atlanteans threw bridges over these rings and dug canals, so that ships could sail along them to the city itself or, more precisely, to the central island, which had 5 stades (somewhat less than a kilometer) in diameter.

On the island there were temples decorated with silver and gold and surrounded by golden statues, a luxurious royal palace, and shipyards. “The island on which the palace stood (...) as well as round earthen ramparts and a bridge pletra wide (30 m) wide, the kings surrounded with circular stone walls and placed towers and gates everywhere on the bridges at the passages to the sea. They mined white, black and red stone in the depths of the middle island and in the depths of the outer and inner earthen rings, and in the quarries, where there were recesses on both sides, covered with the same stone, they arranged anchorages for ships. If they made some of their buildings simple, then in others they skillfully combined stones of different colors for fun. They covered the entire circumference of the walls of the outer earthen ring with copper, applying the metal in molten form. The wall of the inner rampart was covered with tin, and the wall of the acropolis itself was covered with orichalcum, which gave off a fiery shine.”

In general, Plato devotes a lot of space to describing the incredible wealth and fertility of the island, its dense population, rich natural world. As long as the divine nature remained in the Atlanteans, they disdained wealth, putting virtue above; but when the divine nature degenerated, sinking to the level of people, they became mired in luxury, greed and pride.

From these texts we can conclude that Atlantis suffered destruction due to the decline of morality. There is a version that Atlantis disappeared not 9,000 thousand years ago, but earlier, during the Flood, that is, approximately 5,000 thousand years ago. Although scientists have differing opinions about whether there was a Flood, many archaeologists agree that it did occur, based on signs of severe water erosion on many rocks and very ancient remains of structures.

One can even assume that perhaps entire continents are going under water. If human morality falls below the limit allowed for a person, then both the people and the place itself accumulate many sins. Dive into salt water the oceans is a kind of cleansing. Scientists have already found many traces of ancient buildings and even highways at the bottom of the oceans. If such an advanced civilization as Atlantis was destroyed in one day at the peak of its development, it only reminds us of our own fragility and insignificance. It is possible that we also need to reorient our values ​​towards increasing morality, and not just the pursuit of technological achievements.

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Photo from atlantisqueen.com Some people have the superpower to see the past and future. Edgar Cayce, a famous psychic of the last century, first mentioned Atlantis in 1923, and then suggested that it was originally a region stretching from the Azores to the Bahamas, which was home to an ancient, highly developed civilization that had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious type of crystal energy.

Edgar Cayce stated that Bermuda Triangle at the bottom of the ocean, where the ruins of Atlantis are now located, the energy accumulated in the sunken and damaged “fire” crystals can periodically materialize something. This explains the mysterious phenomena that occur in the Bermuda area. According to the famous clairvoyant Sylvia Brown from America, Atlantis (and Lemuria) will begin to manifest in 2023 and will fully manifest in 2026. Before we continue talking about Cayce’s “readings” about Atlantis, below is another version of the Chinese psychic’s vision of Atlantis:

“Let me put it this way: our modern civilization would not even be considered civilized by them; it would probably even be considered “underdeveloped.” Their cities were made of crystals of great clarity and transparency, the most common being diamond. The clothes they wore were not made from ordinary fabrics, but from matter created by the inspiration of the creatures that lived in the depths of the sea and on the earth. Everything on that earth, including the level of existence of lives and their culture, was established by the gods, based on their moral standards.

Those people had almost gone beyond the human level. When their level of morality was up to standard, many things could happen as they wished. For example, to eliminate pirates, they sent naval forces into the sea, and they did not suffer any losses from strong winds and huge waves, while pirate ships were capsized and sank into the sea, even when the water was calm.

That civilization was handed down from the gods, and it allowed society and ethics to develop accordingly. People followed the rules set by the gods. Of course, everything that happens on Earth gets worse. Social connections among people led to friction and conflict. If people could solve problems correctly, the gods would give them wisdom and they could enjoy “special benefits” and glory.

They have achieved great success in space research. They traveled in spaceships using special fuel to fly to other planets and carved sculptures into rocks to demonstrate their presence there. I am not able to say more, please forgive me.

When the time came for Atlantis to disappear, people's morals went downhill - jealousy among people became very strong, and they did anything to satisfy their selfish desires. In addition, they felt that they were more capable than the gods, no longer respected the gods, and were immensely proud, launching invasions of other countries.

At noon on a wonderful day, huge sea ​​waves more than a hundred meters high suddenly appeared on the horizon, accompanied by a hurricane and a powerful tsunami, along with a strong rise and fall of the seabed. Before people could react, the city made of crystals sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. All the beauty of this civilization has become a beautiful legend. Over time, gradually people completely forgot about it.”

In the last century, scientists found traces of this civilization, various hypotheses, versions and assumptions began to spread among people again.

Photo from crystalinks.com Charles Berlitz in his book Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed described the following story: In 1970 year dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic physician and teacher from Mesa, Arizona, was diving off Berry Island ( Bahamas) with five other divers in search of treasure from Spanish galleons. He was familiar with the area because he had been there before.

Let us quote him: “[...] We saw that our compasses were spinning and our pressure gauges were not giving readings. We sailed northeast of the island. It was dark, but suddenly we saw the outlines of buildings under water... It looked like a large underwater city. There were five of us divers, and we all dove down, wanting to find something. As we swam, the water became clear. I was 135 feet below the surface and trying to keep up with the diver in front of me. I turned to look at the sun through the murky water and saw the shape of a pyramid sparkling like a mirror. Thirty-five to forty feet from the top there was an opening. I doubted whether to swim in... but I swam. The opening was like a door to an inner room. I saw something sparkling. It was a crystal framed by two metal ties. I had gloves on and I tried to loosen it and it came free. As soon as I grabbed it, I felt that I had to quickly swim away from here and not return.”

In the center of the room was a tile on which stood a pyramid and on which was a crystal held by two "hands". The hands seemed to be made of copper. There was a metal rod hanging from the ceiling, and at the end of it was a multifaceted red gemstone, indicating a crystal. The crystal is spherical in shape, with three images of a pyramid inside, one smaller than the other. When you hold the crystal in your hands, there is a feeling of pulsation.”

The crystal was tested at the University of Florida and the result was that the crystal amplifies the energy that passes through it. It is worth mentioning that Berry Island is part of the famous Bermuda Triangle.

One of the most detailed descriptions The Atlanteans' use of a mysterious instrument called the Great Crystal was given by Edgar Cayce, as mentioned above, a famous clairvoyant of the last century, who spoke about it many times. According to him, the crystal was placed in a special oval-shaped building, with a dome that could be opened, exposing the crystal to the light of the sun, moon and stars at the most favorable time. The building's interior was constructed of non-conductive metal or stones similar to asbestos or bakelite (phenol-formaldehyde resin) and thermosetting plastics.

The Crystal itself, the Tuaoi Stone, or "fire stone", was enormous in size, cylindrical in length, and prismatic in shape, cut on six sides. At the top of the crystal was a retractable capstone, used to concentrate incoming beams of energy and also send them to various parts of Atlantis. It appears that the Crystal collected solar, lunar, atmospheric and terrestrial energies, as well as energies of unknown elemental forces, and concentrated them at a specific point located between the top of the crystal and the bottom of the capstone.

The energy was used for various purposes. In the beginning it was used as a purely spiritual tool by initiates who could handle a large flow of energy. The early Atlanteans were a peaceful people. They used the crystal to rejuvenate their bodies and were able to live for hundreds of years while maintaining a youthful appearance.

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