Atlantis and Plato

According to Plato’s works the Critias and the Timaeus:

• The original Atlantis existed about 11.500 years ago was a huge island-empire stretched out across the ocean we now call the Atlantic.
• Atlantis was ruled by a king chosen by the Gods.
• Atlantis was first and foremost a civilization of sea folk and sailors that sailed west and east and had connections with lands on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean; North- and South America and Europe. The knowledge and history of Atlantis reached Egypt where it was kept by the priests of Solon.
• Atlantis sank into the ocean after an asteroid (son of Helios) hit the earth and caused enormous earthquakes and floods.
• The cause of this ‘punishment from the gods’ was the spiritual degeneration of the people who had lost their respect for the divine and were falling into materialism and immorality.

Plato is known to be one of the greatest philosophers ever to have lived yet his account of Atlantis is rarely taken seriously and mostly seen as nothing more than myth. His pupil Aristotle not initiated in the mysteries or ideology of Plato later dismissed the Atlantis story as utopia fantasy.

Early Christianity saw Aristotle as greater than Plato and had no use for the accounts of Atlantis, for Christianity the mere fact of a civilization existing so many years ago was preposterous and in conflict with the story of creation found in the Bible.

The church no longer dominates history like it used to and Christianity is finding it harder and harder to defend itself against the searching mind, hence the return of Plato’s accounts of Atlantis and early civilization to the public.

These days a lot of research has been done about ‘pre-historic’ civilization and human evolution especially in the esoteric philosophy and Atlantis is rising, not back to the surface of the Atlantic ocean but back to the surface of world history.