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For this new Poet had seen in a vision that same 'excellent beauty' which 'the divine' ones saw of old, and 'the New Atlantis, the celestial vision of her kingdom; and being also 'ravished with that excellence, and awakening, he determined to seek her out.
The most High Gods, that sit behind the stars, have a limit to even Their sublime patience; and that has been passed. The city of Atlantis, the great continent that is beyond, and all that are in them are doomed to unutterable destruction.
We will have neither priest nor scribe to join us and set down the union. I am the law here in Atlantis, and you soon will be part of me. We will not be demeaned by profaner hands. We will make the ceremony for ourselves, and for witnesses, there are sufficient in waiting.
She set down the object which was to be gained, and it was her policy that the people of Atlantis were there to gain it for her. Two gates then had she carried in this dreadful fashion, slaughtering those Priests that stood behind, them who had not been already shot down. And here I came down from above to take my share in the fight.
Afterward, in one day and one fatal night, there came mighty earthquakes and inundations, which ingulfed that warlike people; Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea, and then that sea became inaccessible, so that navigation on it ceased on account of the quantity of mud which the ingulfed island left in its place.” This invasion took place many ages before Athens was known as a Greek city.
The Hy-Brasail of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atlantis of Plato; who, in his 'Timaeus, says that that island was totally swallowed up by a prodigious earthquake." In Pizigani's map there appear three islands of this name, two off the Azores and one off Ireland.
One time, Atmananda took us to Warlords of Atlantis. He bought five buckets of heavily buttered popcorn, Tabs, Cokes, diet Cokes, boxes of licorice, Sno-caps, and Raisinetes. Then, from the fourth row Atmananda claimed that four was a power number we watched a film which, at the time, seemed extraordinary. Atmananda sat by the aisle of the nearly empty theatre.
But this is a real interest and a serious lesson, if we remember that now as formerly the human mind is liable to be imposed upon by the illusions of the past, which are ever assuming some new form. When we have shaken off the rubbish of ages, there remain one or two questions of which the investigation has a permanent value: Did Plato derive the legend of Atlantis from an Egyptian source?
"Came back!" he repeated below his breath. But she heard him. "They once had expression. Egypt, Atlantis knew them spiritual Powers that never visit the world to-day." "Bodies," he whispered softly, "actual bodies?" "Their sphere of action, you see, would be their body. And it might be physical outline.
The bearings not being yet taken, perhaps designedly, I was ignorant of our exact position. In any case, such a wall seemed to me to mark the limits of that Atlantis, of which we had in reality passed over only the smallest part. Much longer should I have remained at the window admiring the beauties of sea and sky, but the panels closed.
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