Atlantis rose and fell in 3 distinct cycles

In almost every source on this page, Atlantis did not fall once. These sources describe a series of rises and falls over a very long time. They disagree on the number of cycles and on the dates.

Three distinct cycles

Bashar: the comet and the last flood

Bashar, channeled by Darryl Anka, links the final flood to a comet. In his account it was the last of three destructions.

Many knew by looking at the comet that had appeared in the sky for months before the comet struck the Atlantic Ocean, creating a tsunami that was the final deluge that washed over the Atlantean islands, wiping out that civilization in the last of 3 different destructions that occurred over thousands of years to the Atlantean landmasses.

Bashar

Patricia Cori: 100,000 years in three cycles

Patricia Cori also counts three cycles, over 100,000 years. She dates the last civilization from 27,000 to 10,800 BC.

During its 100,000 years of evolution, Atlantis rose and fell from greatness in 3 distinct cycles, knowing in its transformation the cold of barren icelands, as well as the warmth of tropical breezes. In each period, the natives achieved highly sophisticated standards of civilization and then, completing a cycle, fell into irreconcilable social decline. None, however, was more significant than the last civilization of Atlantis, which spanned a period of time dating from 27,000 to 10,800 BC, when it met with its tragic end.

Patricia Cori

Edgar Cayce: three periods of division

Edgar Cayce saw Atlantis go through 3 major periods of division. According to his readings, the first two came around 15,600 BCE. They split the mainland into islands. Cayce named the three main islands Poseida, Og and Aryan.

Michael Le Flem on Cayce’s dates

Michael Le Flem gives a different set of dates from the Cayce readings. He places the first upheaval in 50,722 B.C. and ties a later eruption to the Biblical Flood.

The first of its major upheavals was, according to Cayce, in 50,722B.C., under the rule of Esai, a second around 28,000B.C., another vaguely described eruption in 22,006B.C. (Which he equates with the Biblical Flood), and its utter and most infamous destruction – that alluded to by Plato – near the end of the last Ice Age, in the centuries after 10,500B.C.

Visions of Atlantis, Michael Le Flem

In one reading Cayce was asked for the date of the first destruction. His answer counts back from the final one.

What was the date of the first destruction, estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.? (A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction, which came as has been given.

Edgar Cayce

John Van Auken: three periods from 210,000 BC

John Van Auken studies the Cayce readings. He also splits Atlantis into three periods, but over a much longer span.

Atlantis was a much closer period that lasted from 210,000 BC to 10,014 BC. And it is helpful if we divide Atlantis into three periods: the early formative centuries, the middle struggling centuries of increasing self-awareness resulting in rising selfishness, and then the final migration period as Atlantis sank in stages.

John Van Auken (Based on the Study of Edgar Cayce’s readings)

W. Scott-Elliot’s 4 cycles

W. Scott-Elliot divides the history of Atlantis into 4 periods. His time scale is the longest here.

• Atlantis in its prime: 1,000,000 to 800,000 years ago
• Atlantis in its decadence: 800,000 to 200,000 years ago
• Ruta & daitya: 200,000 to 80,000 years ago
• Poseidonis: 80,000 years ago to 9,564 BCE

Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater follow the same frame in chapter IX of Man: Whence, How and Whither. Ruta and Daitya were the great islands left after the cataclysm of 200,000 B.C. They write that “explosions of gas, floods, and earthquakes” destroyed them.

These islands were lost in 75,025 B.C. Only Poseidonis remained. It survived until 9,564 B.C., when the ocean took it too.

Arthur E. Powell: the catastrophe of 75,025 B.C.

Powell describes the same event. In his account the people were warned and many escaped by air.

The servants of the Great Four warned their people, and many escaped. Their Kings reached them in their Vimânas (aeroplanes) and led them on to the lands of fire and metal (i.e., east and north). Explosions of gas, floods and earthquakes destroyed Ruta and Daitya, and only Poseidonis remained. This was the catastrophe of 75,025 B.C.

Lieut.-Colonel Arthur E. Powell

Five main epochs of Atlantean development

Atlantis and the New Consciousness by Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis gives five phases. They run from about 250,000 BCE to about 10,000 BCE. Each phase ends in its own destruction.

• First phase, 250,000 to 150,000 BCE: destroyed by volcanic activity.
• Second phase, 150,000 to 100,000 BCE: destroyed by the impact of a giant comet.
• Third phase, 100,000 to 52,000 BCE: destroyed when the use of anti-matter got out of control.
• Fourth phase, 28,000 to 18,000 BCE: destroyed by a violent shift of the Earth’s magnetic pole, which led to an Ice Age.
• Fifth phase, 16,000 to 10,000 BCE, with the Golden Age from about 14,000 to 12,500 BCE: destroyed by shifting tectonic plates, which caused major earthquakes and tidal waves.

The authors say all these dates are approximate. Between a destruction and the next civilization there was always a gap, sometimes of many thousands of years.

Reseeding around 25,000 BCE

The same book says Atlantis was “reseeded” with new souls before the Golden Age.

Anquel and his companions came to Atlantis in 25,000 BCE. This was at a time when Atlantis had been reseeded again with incoming souls. It was well before the Golden Age, which began around 14,000 BCE.

Atlantis and the new consciousness

Alariel: why the Golden Age lasted 1,500 years

Joanna asks Alariel how long Golden Atlantis lasted. Alariel answers 1,500 years, because no epoch could hold its high vibration for long.

Joanna: Various authors talk about Golden Atlantis lasting for different periods of time. Some say about ten thousand years and some only 1500 years.

How do you perceive this? Alariel: It was always going to be difficult to sustain a civilization at a very high vibrational level. You could achieve it if you vetted all those coming in to be born and excluded all those of lower vibration, only allowing in the souls with the very highest and purest consciousness. As Atlantis was considered to be a school of spiritual evolution for a wide range of beings, the input was never controlled that rigidly. It was hoped that with a majority of high vibrational people in place, they would inspire the incoming souls to higher achievement than they had managed in their previous lives elsewhere. Sadly that was not the continuing pattern during any of the five main epochs of Atlantean development, and each epoch became volatile and difficult to sustain. That is why the 1500 year period of time is the correct one as those conditions were so hard to keep in a stable and enduring balance for long periods of time. Keeping Atlantis going at the Golden Peak level even for 1500 years was a major achievement from our point of view.

Atlantis and the new consciousness

Atlantis was a vast spiritual experiment

The book also gives a purpose to all these cycles.

Atlantis was a vast spiritual experiment, testing whether human beings could live a physical life and still remain linked to Oneness, also perceived as the Source or the All. This experiment was planned and overseen by the Intergalactic Council, a collaboration of human Master-souls, advanced Star Beings from this galaxy and other galaxies, and a host of angels.

Atlantis and the new consciousness

Other timelines

Matias de Stefano

Matias de Stefano tells the end of Atlantis as a break in a planetary network. In his account the Arcturians were involved, and 12 families ruled the 12 faces of the planet. Temples and pyramids opened portals in magnetic structures. Atlantis was powerful because every human was connected to the network.

Over time the families began to think like separate civilizations. They tried to rule time and to prepare humans to become gods. In his words, they put the ‘I’ over the ‘am’. Atlantis became an empire instead of a government.

The colonies asked for independence. The main island tried to control them, and the colonies fought back. The war destroyed the network, and its energy destroyed the main island. People lost their memory of the connection.

Then the poles moved faster. Over a thousand years the north pole broke down, and the ice melted. Walls of ice between Scotland, Iceland and Greenland gave way, and the water reached the Atlantic. The big flood took less than 50 years. The Atlantic and Mediterranean colonies had to leave, mostly for the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central America.

Huna Flash

Huna Flash speaks of four primary eras of development. In this account Atlantis began in Yucatan.

Read more

The beginning of Atlantis

Toba Explosion 70,000 years ago

Maps of Atlantis

Cycles and Stages

The Fall of Atlantis