For example, the address to the poets: 'Best of strangers, we also are poets of the best and noblest tragedy; for our whole state is an imitation of the best and noblest life, which we affirm to be indeed the very truth of tragedy.' Or again, the sight of young men and maidens in friendly intercourse with one another, suggesting the dangers to which youth is liable from the violence of passion; or the eloquent denunciation of unnatural lusts in the same passage; or the charming thought that the best legislator 'orders war for the sake of peace and not peace for the sake of war;' or the pleasant allusion, 'O Athenian—inhabitant of Attica, I will not say, for you seem to me worthy to be named after the Goddess Athene because you go back to first principles;' or the pithy saying, 'Many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors, but education is never suicidal;' or the fine expression that 'the walls of a city should be allowed to sleep in the earth, and that we should not attempt to disinter them;' or the remark that 'God is the measure of all things in a sense far higher than any man can be;' or that 'a man should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible;' or the principle repeatedly laid down, that 'the sins of the fathers are not to be visited on the children;' or the description of the funeral rites of those priestly sages who depart in innocence; or the noble sentiment, that we should do more justice to slaves than to equals; or the curious observation, founded, perhaps, on his own experience, that there are a few 'divine men in every state however corrupt, whose conversation is of inestimable value;' or the acute remark, that public opinion is to be respected, because the judgments of mankind about virtue are better than their practice; or the deep religious and also modern feeling which pervades the tenth book (whatever may be thought of the arguments); the sense of the duty of living as a part of a whole, and in dependence on the will of God, who takes care of the least things as well as the greatest; and the picture of parents praying for their children—not as we may say, slightly altering the words of Plato, as if there were no truth or reality in the Gentile religions, but as if there were the greatest—are very striking to us.
The conception of justice as the union of temperance, wisdom, courage (Laws; Republic): the latent idea of dialectic implied in the notion of dividing laws after the kinds of virtue (Laws); the approval of the method of looking at one idea gathered from many things, 'than which a truer was never discovered by any man' (compare Republic): or again the description of the Laws as parents (Laws; Republic): the assumption that religion has been already settled by the oracle of Delphi (Laws; Republic), to which an appeal is also made in special cases (Laws): the notion of the battle with self, a paradox for which Plato in a manner apologizes both in the Laws and the Republic: the remark (Laws) that just men, even when they are deformed in body, may still be perfectly beautiful in respect of the excellent justice of their minds (compare Republic): the argument that ideals are none the worse because they cannot be carried out (Laws; Republic): the near approach to the idea of good in 'the principle which is common to all the four virtues,' a truth which the guardians must be compelled to recognize (Laws; compare Republic): or again the recognition by reason of the right pleasure and pain, which had previously been matter of habit (Laws; Republic): or the blasphemy of saying that the excellency of music is to give pleasure (Laws; Republic): again the story of the Sidonian Cadmus (Laws), which is a variation of the Phoenician tale of the earth-born men (Republic): the comparison of philosophy to a yelping she-dog, both in the Republic and in the Laws: the remark that no man can practise two trades (Laws; Republic): or the advantage of the middle condition (Laws; Republic): the tendency to speak of principles as moulds or forms; compare the ekmageia of song (Laws), and the tupoi of religion (Republic): or the remark (Laws) that 'the relaxation of justice makes many cities out of one,' which may be compared with the Republic: or the description of lawlessness 'creeping in little by little in the fashions of music and overturning all things,'—to us a paradox, but to Plato's mind a fixed idea, which is found in the Laws as well as in the Republic: or the figure of the parts of the human body under which the parts of the state are described (Laws; Republic): the apology for delay and diffuseness, which occurs not unfrequently in the Republic, is carried to an excess in the Laws (compare Theaet.): the remarkable thought (Laws) that the soul of the sun is better than the sun, agrees with the relation in which the idea of good stands to the sun in the Republic, and with the substitution of mind for the idea of good in the Philebus: the passage about the tragic poets (Laws) agrees generally with the treatment of them in the Republic, but is more finely conceived, and worked out in a nobler spirit.
But the lawgiver, though not a myth, was a fixed idea in the mind of the Greek,—as fixed as the Trojan war or the earth-born Cadmus.
'True.' After the great destruction we may imagine that the earth was a desert, in which there were a herd or two of oxen and a few goats, hardly enough to support those who tended them; while of politics and governments the survivors would know nothing.
At first, the few inhabitants would have had a natural fear of descending into the plains; although they would want to have intercourse with one another, they would have a difficulty in getting about, having lost the arts, and having no means of extracting metals from the earth, or of felling timber; for even if they had saved any tools, these would soon have been worn out, and they could get no more until the art of metallurgy had been again revived.
A man does not honour his soul by flattery, or gifts, or self-indulgence, or conceit of knowledge, nor when he blames others for his own errors; nor when he indulges in pleasure or refuses to bear pain; nor when he thinks that life at any price is a good, because he fears the world below, which, far from being an evil, may be the greatest good; nor when he prefers beauty to virtue—not reflecting that the soul, which came from heaven, is more honourable than the body, which is earth-born; nor when he covets dishonest gains, of which no amount is equal in value to virtue;—in a word, when he counts that which the legislator pronounces evil to be good, he degrades his soul, which is the divinest part of him.
As to walls, Megillus, I agree with Sparta that they should sleep in the earth; 'cold steel is the best wall,' as the poet finely says.
The sun, and earth, and stars, moving in their courses, the recurring seasons, furnish proofs of their existence; and there is the general opinion of mankind.' I fear that the unbelievers—not that I care for their opinion—will despise us.
These narratives have a bad influence on family relations; but as they are old we will let them pass, and consider another kind of tales, invented by the wisdom of a younger generation, who, if any one argues for the existence of the Gods and claims that the stars have a divine being, insist that these are mere earth and stones, which can have no care of human things, and that all theology is a cooking up of words.
Their meaning is that fire, water, earth, and air all exist by nature and chance, and not by art; and that out of these, according to certain chance affinities of opposites, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the earth have been framed, not by any action of mind, but by nature and chance only.
Thus, in their opinion, the heaven and earth were created, as well as the animals and plants.
'He should.' You agree with me, Cleinias, that the heresy consists in supposing earth, air, fire, and water to be the first of all things.
For the controller of heaven and earth and the circle of the world is either the wise and good soul, or the foolish and vicious soul, working in them.
'What do you mean?' If we say that the whole course and motion of heaven and earth is in accordance with the workings and reasonings of mind, clearly the best soul must have the care of the heaven, and guide it along that better way.
Even if you say—'I am small, and will creep into the earth,' or 'I am high, and will mount to heaven'—you are not so small or so high that you shall not pay the fitting penalty, either here or in the world below.
There is little virtue to be found on earth; and evil natures fawn upon the Gods, like wild beasts upon their keepers, and believe that they can win them over by flattery and prayers.
For no one either in life or after death has any right to deprive other men of the sustenance which mother earth provides for them.
The men of a former generation had a suspicion, which has been confirmed by later thinkers, that things inanimate could never without mind have attained such scientific accuracy; and some (Anaxagoras) even in those days ventured to assert that mind had ordered all things in heaven; but they had no idea of the priority of mind, and they turned the world, or more properly themselves, upside down, and filled the universe with stones, and earth, and other inanimate bodies.
Secondly, he remarks the self-conceit of a newly-fledged generation of philosophers, who declare that the sun, moon, and stars, are earth and stones only; and who also maintain that the Gods are made by the laws of the state.
The attempt to reconcile the ideal with actual life is an advance; to 'have brought philosophy down from heaven to earth,' is a praise which may be claimed for him as well as for his master Socrates.
The earth to spin off balance describes the Berelekh bone-bed in Arctic Siberia, where more than 9,000 bones from at least 156 woolly mammoths lie in one deposit about 20 meters long.
Ignatius Donnelly summarizes Ragnarok (1883), where a comet's near-collision with the Earth caused the Flood, the destruction of Atlantis and the extinction of the mammoths.
The earth to spin off balance
The Mandan were a Siouan-speaking people who lived in large, fortified earth-lodge villages along the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
To which be replied by narrating the sad catastrophe which had happened on the earth’s surface by the overflowing of the waters, saying that ‘he was the only person saved from the universal calamity; that he landed his big canoe on a high mountain in the west, where he now resides; that be has come to open the medicine lodge, which must needs receive a present of an edged tool from the owner of every wigwam, that it may be sacrificed to the water; for,’ he says, ‘if this is not done there will be another flood, and no one will be saved, as it was with such tools that the big canoe was made.’
Some of the most adventurous climbed up the vine, and were delighted with the sight of the earth, which they found covered with buffalo, and rich with every kind of fruit.
Men, women, and children ascended by means of the vine, but, when about half the nation had reached the surface of the earth, a corpulent woman, who was clambering up the vine, broke it with her weight, and closed upon herself and the rest of the nation the light of the sun.”
“the world was once a great tortoise, borne on the waters, and covered with earth, and that when one day, in digging the soil, a tribe of white men, who had made holes in the earth to a great depth digging for badgers, at length pierced the shell of the tortoise, it sank, and the water covering it drowned all men with the exception of one, who saved himself in a boat; and when the earth re-emerged, sent out a dove, who returned with a branch of willow in its beak.”
He taught at Lehigh University from 1930 to 1944 and began applying explosive seismology to study the Earth’s crust.
In 1949, Ewing founded the Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, LDEO) on the former Lamont estate in Palisades, New York.
It is Earth's largest geological feature and wraps around the globe like the seams on a baseball.
Immanuel Velikovsky quoted the same passage in Earth in Upheaval (1955).
In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), Ignatius Donnelly advanced a catastrophist theory, claiming that a comet’s near-collision with Earth caused the biblical Flood, the destruction of Atlantis, and the extinction of mammoths.
Halu Gamashi presents Lemuria and Atlantis as real civilizations that existed on the same planetary space as modern Earth, but at earlier stages when the planet was less dense (more water, less land).
She compares this directly to current Earth problems: excess materialism, pollution, waste, and disconnection from spirit.
On the fall and similarity to today:"It was exactly this that led them to have a great revolution, a great war inside that exterminated them… It is very similar to what we are living today on planet Earth as well.
Kryon presented itself initially as an entity responsible for the Earth’s magnetic grid and later as an angelic being offering guidance on humanity’s spiritual evolution.
The Kryon series covers topics such as the magnetic service to Earth, human DNA layers, spiritual contracts, ascension, synchronicity, and the transition to higher consciousness.
Key themes include avoiding the pitfalls that affected Bashar’s ancestral line (former humans in a parallel Earth who mutated into Greys through negative choices) and embracing positive timelines.
A sequel, An Earth Dweller’s Return, was published in 1940 by the Lemurian Fellowship.
De Stefano developed the philosophical framework “Ater Tumti” (Heaven on Earth), emphasizing that individuals create their own reality and can reconnect divine, earthly, and human consciousness.
He earned the nickname “the Rememberer.” In 2009, he formalized his philosophical worldview as “Ater Tumti,” meaning “Heaven on Earth.” This framework draws on memories he attributes to universal consciousness from roughly 12,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean and stresses personal creation of reality, reconnection of the divine with Earth and humanity, and multidimensional understanding.
In 2012, he led an expedition across 40 countries on all seven continents aimed at awakening planetary consciousness, reconnecting with “Heaven on Earth,” and activating the planet’s Kundalini energy through continental chakras and energy lines.
His authored works include Living on Earth, Towei Lumbar, The Keys of the World, The Great Inheritance, Living in The Universe, Handbook for Planetary Activations, and Conversations between I and Am.
Keepers of the Garden (1993) and Custodians: Beyond Abduction (1998), exploring extraterrestrial seeding of life on Earth and UFO abductee accounts.
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth (2011), describing patterns from sessions indicating new souls arriving to assist planetary transition.
It derives from the sacred measure of the Earth, focusing on geometric patterns found in both ancient traditions and modern science.
Gilbert suggests that the Earth itself produced this plant as a response to the traumatic energies present in the location.
His spiritual status is beyond human comprehension, and Babaji continues to incarnate on Earth.
This was part of his preparation to fulfill his mission on Earth.
The Native Americans have been keepers of the ancient wisdom of the Earth ever since.
The Wise Ones of the tribes are now reminding humanity that it is important to tread lightly on the ground, for Earth does not belong to us.
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.
In the days before the destruction, a large comet entered the solar system, taking up an eccentric orbit that crossed Earth’s path twice a year, raining down remnants that caused great destruction over two decades.
And the change was brought principally by a vast comet that crossed the path of Planet Earth during the end times of Atlantis and which moved the civilization to a point of completion.
Furthermore, the continuous bombardment of this comet with all its debris upon the surface of the Earth lasted for a period of thirty years, deeply and dramatically affecting Gaia, producing earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
Bashar: Not literally drawing the comet in, but vibrationally attracting to themselves that particular choice, that particular version of Earth.
There are many versions of Earth where Atlantis was not destroyed.
The leader is identified as “Tim from Poseidia, Atlantis.” The event involved representatives from various groups and nations who gathered to address the problem of large, marauding beasts overrunning parts of the earth, including areas associated with Atlantis.
The animals were eventually reduced through a combination of these efforts and major natural changes, including shifts in the earth’s poles and climatic shifts.
The crystal focused solar, cosmic, and earth energies.
When the Creator finished making the earth, four powerful beings were assigned to the four directions.
Other tribes lived near them, including one which built villages fortified with stockades of poles and banks of earth.
Maintain harmony between humanity and the Earth.
And this was a transmitter of the intergalactic forces that poured into your Earth’s atmosphere — solar, lunar, and stellar energies poured into Atlantis — and which generated a superpower beyond description, an electromagnetic force for all of the systems of energy that sustained the lives that you lived as Atlanteans.
Souls first began projecting into the earth plane as “thought-form” beings.
OAHSPE has strong pre-flood parallels: angels/ethereans (“sons of God” type beings) descending and mixing with early earth beings (Asu/proto-humans), producing new races, leading to corruption, drujas (dark spirits), false gods causing chaos, and eventual floods/sinking of lands (e.g., Whaga/Pan).
Kings/emperors on earth can also receive the title.
Diana Cooper's teachings present 36 spiritual laws that govern life on Earth.
During the Golden Age many great beings came to Earth to experience physical incarnation and undergo the training to become Initiates or High Priests and Priestesses.
He was aware that our planet had, in ancient times, collided with another planet and when they finally separated Earth had taken all the minerals of both.
Molten metal within the Earth generates a current that produces a magnetic field.
It was exactly this that led them to have a great revolution, a great war inside that exterminated them… It is very similar to what we are living today on planet Earth as well.
After sowing in the spring, in order to activate life from seeds, they filled the air with reverberations of loud, persistent drum beats and passionately danced in ritual ceremonies to the Earth.
The powerful vibrations, combined with their compassion for the land, were like an injection into the living Earth, invigorating it with positive energy and stimulating plant growth.
It also stabilised the vortices within the Earth’s energy field.
It also stabilised the vortices within the Earth’s energy field.
For hundreds of years the Atlanteans maintained heaven on Earth.
One plant that is a possibility is what you call “corn.” Corn has also blended with native plants, but it has more predominant genes from the home planet than other Earth plants.
Sumerian texts describe seeds of wheat, barley, and hemp sent to Earth in the distant past as a gift from the god Anu in his Celestial Abode.
The metals of each tray were chosen according to the planet of the person’s origin and most of these are no longer present on the Earth.
The Earth tells us where she would wish the house to be.
Of course, this meant that the spiritual technology available on Atlantis was not accessible to the other cultures on Earth.
All the elements were represented within the place of worship and oriented as the Native Americans still do: north for air, south for water, east for fire and west for earth.
The Earth is round, as are the sun, moon and planets.
They are the one species who came to Earth so evolved that they had nothing to learn from humans and consequently they did not need us.