Library of books about Atlantis

Lord Arundell of Wardour, London, 1885. Plato’s Atlantis as Hanno’s Carthaginian voyage, with Cerne, the Canaries, and the dates he keeps.

Athanasius Kircher treats the earth as a house of hidden stores. Water, fire, air, and earthy matter sit in receptacles inside the globe. The weight of the sea drives water through canals into the mountains, and those stores feed the rivers. Fires under the earth feed the volcanoes. In the second book he takes Plato’s Atlantic island as true history, not a fable. He prints a map of it in the ocean between Spain, Africa, and America, and says the island and its people were swallowed by a flood or by earthquakes. He does not date that end. In the second tome he refuses the opinion that the mountains first rose out of the mud after the flood. The ark, he says, rested on the mountains of Armenia, above Ararat, which were already there. Read my chapter-by-chapter review of the book .

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s novel. This copy prints no year. Deucalion’s story of Phorenice, Yucatan, and the drowning of Atlantis.

Proclus, translated by Thomas Taylor, London, 1820, Volume I. The Atlantic war is a history that also images the two ranks of the world.

M. Bailly’s 1779 letters to Voltaire. Plato did not invent the island, and the people are sought in the North.

Hermann Wieland’s 1925 reading of Plato’s Atlantis, the Edda, and the Bible as one Germanic history, with the city sunk in 9564 B.C.

Count J. R. Carli, Tome II, Boston and Paris, 1788. A drowned Atlantic land, and a separation he puts about 4000 years before our era.

Brasseur de Bourbourg, Paris, 1868. A crescent over the Gulf and the Caribbean, swallowed in one day and one night, read out of Mexican books.

Max Heindel’s third edition. The title page prints no year. Copyright 1911. Sixteen Races, from the end of the Lemurian Epoch through Atlantis, and no date for the inundation.

J. Ben Leslie’s 1911 Lontidri, its six Teltzie, the 22000-year Gandero, and the remnant peoples he carries into Egypt, Genesis, and the Americas.

Augustus Le Plongeon, Robert Macoy, New York, 1886. The mysteries began in Mayax and an Atlantic island, Atlan, sank beside the two Americas.

Roisel, Paris, 1874. Les Atlantes. A drowned Atlantic land whose remains he puts at the Azores, the Antilles, and the Sargasso, and whose colonies he follows into Egypt, Europe, and America.

Sir Daniel Wilson, New York, Macmillan, 1892. Eight studies. Plato’s Atlantis stays a myth until an Old World inscription turns up in America.

Hyde Clarke, London, 1886. No sunken continent. Ships on the currents, Atalantis as a king-title, and a seat that may be St. Domingo.

W. S. Blacket’s 1884 case that Plato’s Atlantic Isle is America, read from the zodiacs, and not an island that sank.

W. Scott-Elliot’s 1904 case that Lemuria was the continent of the Third Root Race, with his two maps and his date of 9564 B.C. for Poseidonis.

Ignatius Donnelly, New York, 1883. A comet laid the Drift. The fire, cave, and darkness myths remember it. Atlantis is the island where he thinks man survived.

James Churchward’s third Mu book. The sun as Ra, the Forces, the serpents, and a motherland whose sinking he dates both about 10,000 B.C. and about 12,000 years ago.

James Churchward’s account of Mu’s colonies, from Mexico and the Amazon to Atlantis, Egypt, India, and the Uighur empire.

Col. James Churchward, New York, 1926. A Pacific Mu of three lands and 64,000,000 people, sunk about 12,000 years ago, and not Atlantis.

Lewis Spence on the occult arts he places in Atlantis. This copy’s title page prints no year. He dates the disappearance about 9400 B.C. and again about 9600 B.C.

Lewis Spence’s 1925 site for Atlantis on Dolphin’s Ridge, his two land-masses, and the city he dates later than Plato’s catastrophe.

W. P. Phelon’s 1903 account of a claimed 1872 voyage, a papyrus he dates about 29,000 B.C., and the temple, customs, and cataclysm in that record.

G. I. Gurdjieff’s first series. Atlantis enters within the planet, Samlios and King Appolis, and the lands he calls Africa, Asia, and Egypt.

Paschal Beverly Randolph’s 1888 case that Adam was not the first man, with his 35,000 and 100,000 years and his Atlantis dates.

The 1988 English Nag Hammadi library. A jar on the Jabal al-Tarif, and Noah hidden in a cloud and called Deucalion.

Andrew Tomas’s 1972 Atlantic site, his 9560 B.C. date, the calendars he stacks beside it, and the 1968 Bahamas finds.

Mariana Giovino on the Nimrud relief, a constructed cult object, and the kiskanu at Ur under Rim-Sin.

Dolores Cannon on Atlantis as a name for the whole world, an Atlantic continent, and a sinking she describes without a year.

Michael E. Salla on Altea as the head of Atlantis, Hoova’s three re-seedings of the Earth, and arks under the Atlantic and the Antarctic ice.

James Jackson Jarves on Kaiakahinalii, the flood that left only Mauna Kea, and the voyage from Tahiti or Kahiki.

Marie, Countess of Caithness, on the lost Continent of Atlan and on 1881 as the pyramid’s last year of the old dispensation.

Zénaïde A. Ragozin’s 1886 account of Shumir and Accad, Sargon at 3800 B.C., and the Chaldean deluge tablet.

Lewis Spence’s 1926 site, dates, and races for Atlantis, and the customs he puts in place of ready-made colonies.

The Oahspe Bible is a spiritual text first published in 1882. John Ballou Newbrough claimed to have received the content through automatic writing.

In 1953 the German pastor Jürgen Spanuth placed Atlantis in the North Sea, near Heligoland.