The Rise & Fall of Atlantis: And the Mysterious Origins of Human Civilization

Could the lost civilization of Atlantis provide the answers to the origins and development of human existence? The rise and Fall of Atlantis delves into the history of the lost continent and its effect on the world it left behind.

CONTENTS:

Part One PLATO AND HIS STORY

1. The Cultural Background of Plato's Time

2. The Interpretation of Plato's Myth'

Part Two PLANET EARTH

1. The Genesis of Intelligence

2. Gods, Angels and Man

3. Light and the Philosophy of Creation

4. Our Planetary Nature

5. Darwinism and the Changing Face of our Planet

6. Cataclysms and Continental Drift

Part Three HUMANITY

1. The Origins of Humankind

2. Lemuria and the Early Third Race of Humankind

3. Lemuria and 'The Descent of the Gods'

4. Greater Atlantis and its Heirs

5. The Post-Diluvian World

6. The Destruction of Poseidonis and the Pillars of Herakles

7. The Mediterranean Colonies of Poseidonis

Part Four CULTURE

1. The Religious Culture of the Atlanteans

2. Atlantean Magic and Mysteries

3. Ancient Science and Technology
   Epilogue: Looking Towards the Future

Figure 1 The Greek philosopher Plato

Figure 2 Depiction of Sisyphus, from a Greek vase

Figure 3 The sevenfold kosmos, according to the Greeks

Figure 4 The sacred tetraktvs of Pythagoras

Figure § The ten-planet sequence

Figure 6 The astronomical explanation of Plato's island'

Figure 7 The initiate Nefer-tem, from an Egyptian papyrus

Figure 8 The concentric structure of universal consciousess

Figure 9a The evolving intelligence of humankind

Figure 9b The sequence of the Five Races, corresponding to 9a

Figure 10 The perpetually boiling surface of the Sun

Figure 11 The squeezing of the ionosphere and its torsion effect on the Earth

Figure 12 The suggested reason for the importance of Earth's spring

Figure 13a The full polar angle of deflection

Figure 13b The raising of the Djed Pillar in honour of Osiris at Abydos

Figure 14 The correlation of the zodiacal cycle with the greater evolutionarv life wave

Figure 15 The modern 'geological column'

Figure 16 Volcanic ranges and fault lines

Figure 17 Detail of World Ocean Floor Panorama by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp

Figure 18 The creation of the 'black smokers' on the ocean floor

Figure 19 Charles Hapgood's reconstitution of the Piri Re'is navigational map

Figure 20 Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon man)

Figure 21 The Assyrio-Babylonian winged kabiri-bull

Figure 22 Easter Island statues

Figure 23 the zodiacal temple at Stonehenge

Figure 24 The round zodiac at Dendera

Charles Hapgoods chart of the diminishing

Figure 26 Detail of the Phippe Buache map of 1737

Figure 27 Cataclysm shown on a Mayan wall relief

Figure 28 Effects of the tsunami at the Pillars of Herakles Gibral

Figure 29 Effects of the cataclysm on the coastlines of Iberia. northwest Africa, and nearby islands

Figure 30 Egyptians in battle against the 'Sea People;, from Medin Mabu

Figure 31 An Etruscan couple sculpted in terracotta, from Cerveteri Figure 32 An example of the Etruscan script

Figure 33 A depiction of bull-leaping from Knossos. Crete

Figure 34 A Mayan ziggurat, or stepped pyramid, at Palenque

Figure 35 The Egyptian goddess Net (Neith)