Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00279)

HPB Atlantic Ridge Prophecy


    In Blavatsky's time I believe it was 
known (from the line and sinker method?) 
that there was a chain of under-water 
mountains that ran down the Atlantic to 
Tristan D'Acuna, some small volcanic mountains 
in the southern Atlantic.  In the 
Secret Doctrine she stated that this chain 
of mountains curved around Africa and into 
the Indian Ocean.  How did she know?  This 
wasn't discovered to be true until the 
"International Geophysical Year in 1956-57.  
Below is her quote from the Secret Doctrine, 
and also some other relevant quotes.


Secret Doctrine:


   "No more striking confirmation of our 
position could be given, than the fact 
that the ELEVATED RIDGE in the Atlantic 
basin, 9,000 feet in height, which runs 
for some two or three thousand miles 
southwards from a point near the British 
Islands, first slopes towards South America, 
then shifts almost at right angles to proceed 
in a SOUTH-EASTERLY line toward the African 
coast, whence it runs on southward to 
Tristan d'Acunha. This ridge is a remnant 
of an Atlantic continent, and, could it be 
traced further, would establish the reality 
of a submarine horse-shoe junction with 
a former continent in the Indian Ocean."  
Secret Doctrine, Vol. II, p. 333


   "But then - consider that Atlantic Ridge 
beyond Tristan d'Acunha, and H.P.B.'s 
description of it in 1888.  If you are an 
orthodox geophysicist, you read that passage, 
and you look at that ocean bottom map;  you 
can't believe it and you can't disbelieve it, 
and your mind goes numb." (August, 68, 
Theosophical Notes, p. 22) ..... This description 
was published in 1888, nearly 70 years before 
the beginning of the International Geophysical 
Year in n 1956." (June 68, p 6, Theosophical 
Notes) .... Note that in H.P.B.'s time the 
Atlantic ridge had been followed only to 
'Tristan d'Acunha.  How did she know about 
the rest of it?  Here we have a perfect welding 
of S.D. science and modern discovery."  
(No. 1, 1961, Theosophical Notes, appendix p. 2)



    "The Atlantic has a submerged mountain 
chain that runs its entire length, which 
supports the continental drift theory as 
well as the claims of Theosophy about Atlantis. 
A hundred years ago it was known by science 
that this ridge ran the whole length of 
the Atlantic. Blavatsky stated that it also 
circled around Africa and ran up into the 
Indian Ocean, which was not known at the 
time, and presumably followed the land mass 
of the old Atlantean continent and islands. 
Blavatsky states that "perhaps" Ceylon is 
one of the last remnants of this horseshoe 
shaped continent. (SD II, pp. 313-14, 333)"  
(Protogonos, No. 9, p. 25)
                                                      
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    On another note on "Atlantis."  R. Robb 
turned me onto a book that seems to be a 
"memory" of some sort, or astral light 
reflection, or.... on the sinking of part 
of Atlantis, or one of the island chains.  
Taylor Caldwell, when she was only 13 or 
14 wrote a book later published as 
"The Romance of Atlantis."  Philosophy and 
other things in the book seem far beyond 
a young teenager, and it does read more 
as a memory and has a certain ring of 
authenticity about it, more than just 
fiction.  The 1975, Fawcett Crest paperback 
has an introduction by Jess Stearn that 
describes how it was written.


             - jake j.

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