Edgar Cayce: First cycle of Atlantis

The Edgar Cayce readings describe Atlantis as going through three great destructions. Writers on the readings usually date them as follows, though the dates vary from author to author:

• First destruction: about 50,000 BC (some give about 50,700 BC). In the readings, Atlantis is one large continent “until the first eruptions brought those changes” (reading 364-6), after which it breaks into large islands.
• Second destruction: often placed about 28,000 BC. The land breaks up further into smaller islands.
• Third (final) destruction: about 10,500 to 10,000 BC. The last islands, including Poseidia, sink. The readings link this period to migrations to Egypt, Yucatan and the Pyrenees.

Reading 364-13 belongs to the first cycle.

Reading 364-13 (17 November 1932) answers the question “Describe the earth’s surface at the period of the appearance of the five projections.” Its answer describes a very early world, before or at the start of the first destruction.

A green Sahara

The reading places the Nile’s mouth in the Atlantic and describes the Sahara as fertile:

The reading goes on to describe the Mississippi basin as under the ocean, with only the plateau of Nevada, Utah and Arizona standing as land. The Atlantic seaboard formed the lowlands of Atlantis, and the Pacific coast of South America the western edge of Lemuria. The Urals were tropical, and the Mongolian desert was fertile.

The later readings in the 364 series describe the second and third destructions, when the land had broken up further. Reading 364-13 sets the scene for the earliest phase.

A different channeled source gives its own dates. In The Only Planet of Choice, Tom puts it this way.