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HPB's Prophecy

Oct 23, 2006 05:47 AM
by carlosaveline


Jake,


Thanks. Most  interesting. 

How can one obtain the book "The Romance of Atlantis", by Taylor Caldwell? 


Carlos. 
 
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Data:Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:19:57 -0700 (PDT)

Assunto:[Spam] Theos-World HPB Prophecy

> 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)
> 
> ====
> 
> 
> 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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