origin of the Atlantis destruction and our own civilization

Originally dedicated to the principles of civil liberty and spiritual virtue, they eventually turned away from those fundamentals that comprised the foundation of their very existence. They embraced selfish materialism and worshipped, no longer the Soul of Nature, but technology, because it, they believed, could fulfil all their hopes and desires, aspirations now sunk to levels of vulgarity, banality, and sensationalism. Since greed feeds upon itself, becoming hungrier the more it consumes, the debased Atlanteans looked beyond their island for additional riches. They invaded and seized the natural wealth of foreign lands, blaming the victims for their own conquest.

Over time, an immense empire, history's first global corporation, stretched from Atlantis far beyond horizons. Puffed up with pride in the supremacy of their armed forces and the economic might of their kingdom, the Atlanteans sought to impose their way of life on the rest of the world – for the benefit of other peoples, but most especially for their own insatiable thirst for power. For many years, Atlantis was the richest, most militarily potent, feared and hated capital on Earth.

As Plato wrote of its citizens, “To those who had an eye to see, the depth of their degeneracy was obvious enough. To the majority, whose judgment was distracted by superficial appearances, however, they appeared, in the pursuit of unbridled self-indulgence and power, to be at the height of their good fortune. But Zeus, the god of gods, who reigns by law, and whose eye can see into such things, when he perceived the deplorable condition of this formerly admirable people, decided to punish them, and reduce them through the terrible agency of his stern justice.”

At the zenith of their political, economic and military magnificence, the Atlanteans precipitated a war in the Eastern Mediterranean. Typically successful at first, their arrogance was humbled by the entirely unexpected humiliation of their armed forces. In the midst of this debacle and mired in the awful consequences of aggression gone terribly wrong, the splendid city of Atlantis was reduced to flaming ruins by a natural catastrophe and dragged with most of its screaming inhabitants to the bottom of the sea. The formerly all-powerful Atlantean Empire utterly collapsed in chaos, followed by a prolonged Dark Age.

In the millennia following these cataclysmic events, Atlantis was not forgotten, but so little of its story endured, most scholars dismissed it as a “myth,” or fable. Surviving generations of humanity had suffered a planetary amnesia, from which we are only just now beginning to recover, as evidence mounts for the one-time existence of the sunken city. But more than archaeological artefacts are resuscitating Atlantis.

As the present condition of our own civilisation begins to more resemble its decline, comparisons are unavoidable. When Plato stated that the Atlanteans were punished by Zeus, “who reigns by law,” he inferred that moral law and natural law are neither separate nor unrelated to each other, but actually component parts of the same universal force that not only permeates the entire universe, but is the stuff of which all existence itself is made. In other words, the Atlanteans had brought about their own destruction through their greed, hubris, and mass-murder masquerading as self-defense, all covered by a gloss of patriotic lies to justify their decadent behaviour.

Remarkably, the moral cause Plato defined as the origin of the Atlantis destruction was likewise cited in literally hundreds of similar flood-accounts preserved by native peoples around the globe.

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