Time

While others may have known of the place, I never found a companion brave enough to stand by my side on the horrid brink where I had stood several times in the past.

For a time, fear held me fast, gazing into the hellish depths of the blazing elements.

But it was a greater treasure than I had ever possessed or seen at one time, and so I was content.

Passengers can also use the naima, a technology that allows for real-time visual and vocal communication with distant people, appearing life-sized in mirrors.

Poseid: The narrator’s homeland, referred to several times.

For several days we remained in the capital, and during this time were escorted over it by no less a person than Rai Emon himself.

Thousands of years later, in the time of Jesus of Nazareth, these were called "Essenes." But Atla, which possessed such a wealth of literature, had, with a single exception, no books on the subject.

It grew still more when the Rai remarked later on that "the girl Anzimee would one day be an Incalenu." But the growth was not great in that olden time; it was reserved for a life to come, when decades upon decades of centuries had flown, till now!

And in that day thou shalt suffer until the time of him who shall be called Moses.

Then, giving the Governor his commission, a document which he received with the remark, "Thou art a man, indeed, not longer a boy,"—words which, though so kindly meant, fell on heedless ears at the time, for as I made my return to the vailx I felt actually heartsick at what I feared had been the acme of indiscretion on my part.

He was troubled at the effect of his words upon me, an effect not intended, as he told her, and one which would never have occurred if he had not at that time been engaged in solving the very abstruse political problem presented by the new aspect of affairs through the decease of Rai Emon.

The remaining two thousand miles would occupy some three hours for transit, a length of time that seemed to my impatient desire so long, that I paced the floor of the salon in very fretfulness.

I have seen, since the days of Poseid, a time when a vastly slower progress would have seemed swift, but then the past had a veil obscuring it so that comparison was impossible—

These automatic writing spells continued for several years; he would write a few pages at a time.

The Atlanteans possessed machinery and devices far beyond what was known at the time of writing, including flying machines called "vailxi" and other forms of advanced transportation and communication.

He implies that many souls who lived during the time of Atlantis have reincarnated in the modern era, carrying with them both the positive and negative consequences of their past lives.