The Sinking of Atlantis

The Sinking

Atlantis

An interpretation

of the

Edgar Cayce readings

Norman Scherer

Introduction

A relatively small portion of the over 14,000 Edgar Cayce readings mention the lost continent of Atlantis. Even fewer is the number that detail its sinking. Aside from the 364 series of readings, the rest are scattered about in various "life" readings which examine the past lives of the people requesting them. Due to this "scattering" of information, it is difficult to weave together a coherent story of that alleged ancient continent's demise. Even more difficult, is interpreting the readings that do give clues to what happened.

Where was Atlantis?

Before discussing its sinking one must first try to locate Atlantis according to the Cayce readings. Reading 364-3, given February 16, 1932, provides us with some clues:

The position as the continent Atlantis occupied, is that as between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand - and the Mediterranean upon the other. Evidences of this lost civilization are to be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco on the one hand, British Honduras, Yucatan and America upon the other. There are some protruding portions within this that must have at one time or another been a portion of this great continent. The British West Indies or the Bahamas, and a portion of same that may be seen in the present - if the geological survey would be made in some of these - especially, or notably, in Bimini and in the Gulf Stream through this vicinity, these may be even yet determined.

(364-3)

(Q) How large was Atlantis during the time of Amilius?

(A) Comparison, that of Europe including Asia in Europe - not Asia, but Asia in Europe - see?

(364-6)

A current map of Europe that includes "Asia in Europe" is reproduced below:

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The colorized portion of the map should be a close approximation of the size of Atlantis at its greatest extent. Does this fit in the space of the Atlantic Ocean? To compare these areas properly, I used an "equal-area" (also called equivalent or authalic) projection which preserves areal relationships; in other words, given any two regions A and B on the Earth and the corresponding regions A' and B' on an equal-area map, the surface ratios A/A' and B/B' are identical. In a conventional map, shapes and distances start becoming distorted beyond 15° of the Equator. To illustrate map distortions on a conventional (Mercator) map look at the following:

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Compare the size of Greenland transposed next to Africa in a conventional map (below left) as opposed to its true size which is depicted in an equal area map (below right):

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Tracing out the approximate area of Europe plus "Asia in Europe" I circled the area in black and pasted it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to see if it would fit:

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Equal-area map displaying the size of Atlantis as described in the Cayce readings and lying between the

Gulf of Mexico on the one hand - and the Mediterranean upon the other.

As the above map illustrates, the size of Atlantis as described in the Cayce readings fits comfortably in the Atlantic Ocean. We don't know however, what its true shape or exact location within this area. The above is my best "guess" as to its original location. What this also illustrates is why.....

Evidences of this lost civilization are to be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco on the one hand, British Honduras, Yucatan and America upon the other.

Another possibility is depicted in the following picture:

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An Egress of People

One of the few Cayce readings that gives a broad overview of the demise of Atlantis is reading 364-4. It is apparent, when studying this reading, that Atlantis did not sink all at once, but occurred in stages over a long period of time. Also you will notice that something happened in each of these stages that caused an "egress of people" out of Atlantis:

Then, with the coming in or the raising up of Esai [Mt. Esau? See Obadiah], with the change that had come about, began in that period when there were the invasions of this continent by those of the animal kingdoms, that brought about that meeting of the nations of the globe to PREPARE a way and manner of disposing of, else they be disposed of themselves by these forces.

With this coming in, there came then the first of the destructive forces as could be set and then be meted out in its force or power. Hence that as is termed, or its first beginning of, EXPLOSIVES that might be carried about, came with this reign, or this period, when MAN - or MEN, then - began to cope with those of the beast form that OVERRAN the earth in many places.

Then, with these destructive forces, we find the first turning of the altar fires into that of sacrifice of those that were taken in the various ways, and human sacrifice began. With this also came the first egress of peoples to that of the Pyrenees first, OF which later we find that peoples who enter into the black or the mixed peoples, in what later became the Egyptian dynasty.

In summary, we have Atlantis being invaded or "OVERRAN" by "those of the animal kingdoms". This invasion was a threat to their very existence. To survive this invasion, they called a global meeting of the nations of the Earth so that they could prepare a way to destroy these animals or they would be destroyed themselves. This coincided with the first use of "destructive forces" or "explosives" to try and eliminate these animals that "OVERRAN the earth in many places" and this apparently caused "the first egress of peoples". Whether any of Atlantis sank at this time is unknown from this particular reading, but something occurred that caused people to leave.

Next we have a summary of the second "egress of people" from Atlantis:

With the continued disregard of those that were keeping the pure race and the pure peoples, of those that were to bring all these laws as applicable to the Sons of God, man brought in the destructive forces as used for the peoples that were to be the rule, that combined with those natural resources of the gases, of the electrical forces, made in nature and natural form the first of the eruptions that awoke from the depth of the slow cooling earth, and that portion now near what would be termed the Sargasso Sea first went into the depths. With this there again came that egress of peoples....

Apparently, we again have the use of destructive forces by the rulers of Atlantis. But this time they somehow combined the man-made destructive forces with the natural resources of the gases and electrical forces made in nature, and this caused the "first of the eruptions that awoke from the depths" and a portion of Atlantis now near the Sargasso Sea first sank. So now we have our first mention of an actual sinking of a portion of Atlantis and a second mass exodus of people.

As we continue on, we have the conclusion and the final demise summarized in the next section of 364-4:

....in those latter periods, ten thousand seven hundred (10,700) years before the Prince of Peace came - again was the bringing into forces that to TEMPT, as it were, nature - in its storehouse - of replenishing the things - that of the WASTING away in the mountains, then into the valleys, then into the sea itself, and the fast disintegration of the lands, as well as of the peoples - save those that had escaped into those distant lands.

Although not as clear as the previous section, there again seems to be a hint that there was a similar misuse of "forces" with nature and this somehow caused the "fast disintegration of the lands, as well as of the peoples" except for those that once again fled to other lands. So here we have, apparently, the final sinking and the third fleeing of people.

In summary then, we have three times in the history of Atlantis when there was a mass exodus of people from that land. From this single reading (364-4) we are told that there was sinking of parts of the continent at the time of the last two "egress of peoples". It is unclear from this reading what exactly caused the first egress of people except that it occurred with the first use of destructive forces to defend themselves from being destroyed by the beasts that OVERRAN the earth. It does not mention any sinking of Atlantis at that time, nor do we have any dates for any of these events except for the final sinking which is said to have happened around 10,700BC. We obviously need to search more of the readings to see if we can flesh out some of the details and also try and obtain some dates for these events.

The First Destruction

We now turn to another informative reading in this series, 364-6. Here we receive more details as to what exactly happened to Atlantis during the "first of the destructions", as it is termed here, whenever that may have been:

(Q) How large was Atlantis during the time of Amilius?

(A) Comparison, that of Europe including Asia in Europe - not Asia, but Asia in Europe - see? This composed, as seen, in or after the first of the destructions, that which would be termed now - with the present position - the southernmost portion of same - islands as created by those of the first (as man would call) volcanic or eruptive forces brought into play in the destruction of same.

So apparently the first destruction of Atlantis by "volcanic or eruptive forces" caused the land to be split into islands. But when? How many islands? It seems the person conducting the reading was also confused and asked a follow-up question that seemed to annoy the source channeled by Cayce:

(Q) Was Atlantis one large continent, or a group of large islands?

(A) Would it not be well to read just that given? Why confuse in the questionings? As has been given, what would be considered one large continent, until the first eruptions brought those changes - from what would now, with the present position of the earth in its rotation , or movements about its sun, through space, about Arcturus, about the Pleiades, that of a whole or one continent. Then with the breaking up, producing more of the nature of large islands, with the intervening canals or ravines, gulfs, bays or streams, as came from the various ELEMENTAL forces that were set in motion by this CHARGING - as it were - OF the forces that were collected as the basis for those elements that would produce destructive forces, as might be placed in various quarters or gathering places of those beasts, or the periods when the larger animals roved the earth - WITH that period of man's indwelling.

The way I interpret this reading is that Atlantis was originally one large continent which was then broken up into large islands. These "first eruptions" were caused by the "various ELEMENTAL forces that were set in motion by this CHARGING....OF the forces that were collected as the basis for those elements that would produce destructive forces" and these forces were placed in the gathering places of those beasts at the time these larger animals "roved" the Earth.

This use of force in the "gathering places" of the enormous beasts to destroy them would seem to tie in with the first egress of people that occurred with the meeting of all the nations of the globe as described in 364-4. According to reading 262-39 this meeting took place in 50,722BC:

(Q) HLC: Please advise me regarding the preparation and presentation of the article or story which I am preparing on the Great Congress held during the age of the destruction of the enormous animals that once roamed the earth.

(A) In the period when this became necessary, there was the consciousness raised in the minds of the groups, in various portions of the earth, much in the manner as would be illustrated by an all-world-broadcast in the present day of a menace in any one particular point, or in many particular points. And the gathering of those that heeded, as would be the scientific minds of the present day, in devising ways and means of doing away with that particular kind or class of menace.....

....the ways and means devised were as those that would alter or change the ENVIRONS for which those beasts were needed, or that necessary for their sustenance in the particular portions of the sphere, or earth, that they occupied at the time. And this was administered much in the same way or manner as were there sent out from various central plants that which is termed in the present the Death Ray, or the super-cosmic ray, that which many are seeking into which will give their lives much, from the stratosphere, or cosmic rays, that will be found in the next twenty-five years. This presented, then, in such a manner, and drawing upon the varied conditions that existed in the various portions of the land then occupied by man.

(Q) What was the date B.C. of this gathering?

(A) 50,722.

So in 50,722BC, the "Great Congress" met to decide on a means for destroying the enormous beasts that were threatening the world at that time. And it seems that the method chosen was for the destructive forces to be "sent out from various plants" of the "Death Ray or the super-cosmic ray" to the "gathering places of the beasts" to "alter or change the environs" that the beasts needed to live. According to 364-6, these destructive forces, during "the periods when the larger animals roved the earth" caused volcanic or eruptive forces to break up Atlantis "producing more of the nature of large islands." How many islands? Apparently five:

The use of these influences by the Sons of Belial brought, then, the first of the upheavals; or the turning of the etheric rays' influence FROM the Sun - as used by the Sons of the Law of One - into the facet for the activities of same - produced what we would call a volcanic upheaval; and the separating of the land into SEVERAL islands - five in number.

Poseidia, the place or the settlement of that particular sojourning of the entity - Deui - at the time, then became ONE of these islands.

Hence the confusion that at times is seen by those who would interpret such records.

(877-26)

That there was an actual destruction at this time is also confirmed by the following reading:

Before that we find the entity was in that known as the Atlantean land, during those periods when there were the destructive forces being sent out and used by the sons of Belial and those that followed close therein.

The entity was rather among those peoples that followed the law of One, and was in the name and in the household of Ajahel; being the princess of the temple in Poseidia, and executed much of those forces that dealt with the various manners of their communications with the varied lands.

During those periods when there were the gatherings of nations, or the peoples of the world for the pitting of themselves against the beasts that overran the earth, the entity aided in such gatherings of those; for the entity - as given - RULED the connections, or associations, or communications.

Hence the entity guided those influenced for the right; being overcome only by the forces of Belial when the destruction was brought by the use of that which had been applied for the destruction of the animals in that particular experience.

(587-3)

Notice how the same descriptive term to describe the beast's actions is used: "overran", that was also used in 364-4 which described the first egress of people. One also gets the sense that this was a life and death struggle as the "peoples of the world" were "pitting of themselves against the beasts..." which is also similar to what was conveyed by 364-4.

We get additional details from reading 5249-1:

In the experience which followed this, we find the entity was in the Indian land or in those periods of Saad as the leader, the ruler. The entity was then what would be called the secretary of state, or in the inner group of the leader Saad, that made for contacts or associations with or agreements with other lands.

The entity then was among those who were of that group who gathered to rid the earth of the enormous animals which overran the earth, but ice, the entity found, nature, God, changed the poles and the animals were destroyed, though man attempted it in that activity of the meetings.

Now we have important new information. Not only was the destruction caused by man, it seemed that God or nature in the form of "ice" intervened. This ice brought about a changing of the poles "and the animals were destroyed". This apparently happened shortly after man "attempted" to destroy them with his "Death Ray" at the time of the Great Congress meeting circa 50,700BC.

Was this the only time nations met about problems with animals? No! Reading 2157-1 also gives us a glimpse of perhaps another series of meetings that was held. However, this series of meetings was for the "control and handling" of destructive animals to the "lands". It does not appear to be a life and death struggle of the people for survival against the animals but instead the animals seem to be more of a nuisance at this time:

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power; when there were the meetings called for those of many lands, to determine means or manners in which there would be the control or handling of the animals that were destructive to many of the lands.

(2157-1)

Note the different description used for these meetings as opposed to first meeting. First of all, it occurred during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands. The first destruction, according to my interpretation, resulted in the formation of only five islands. This second destruction caused the formation of "so many of the islands" that they couldn't be counted. The fact that it is labeled as the "second" destruction also precludes it from being the same meeting that occurred before the pole shift. There is no evidence in the Cayce readings of a destruction prior to the alleged pole shift, so the pole shift can be classified as the first destruction. Also the meetings that were called at the time of the second destruction were for the control or handling of the animals that were destructive, as opposed to the first destruction [that] was brought by the use of that which had been applied for the destruction of the animals in that particular experience.

The Pole Shift

So now we are starting to get a clearer picture of what caused this first "egress of people" from Atlantis to the Pyrenees. Apparently enormous animals OVERRAN the earth at this time (circa 50,000BC) and caused such destruction that the survival of mankind was at stake. The leaders of the world gathered to find a solution. The Atlanteans possessed some sort of power source that could also be used as a Death Ray device (a.k.a. as the Great Crystal or Firestone). When used as a super-cosmic death ray it could somehow eliminate the habitats of these beasts in the hope that this would destroy them. Apparently something went wrong when they attempted this because this death ray unleashed volcanic or eruptive forces and subsequently the poles then shifted their positions due to an ice buildup and the enormous beasts were destroyed.

Do the Cayce readings provide any more details regarding this alleged pole shift event? If we return to reading 364-4, which we referred to earlier we find the following excerpt in the Q&A portion of the reading:

Ready for questions.

(Q) Please give a description of the earth's surface as it existed at the time of Atlantis' highest civilization, using the names of continents, oceans and sections of same as we know them today?

(A) As to the highest point of civilization, this would first have to be determined according to the standard as to which it would be judged - as to whether the highest point was when Amilius ruled with those understandings, as the one that understood the variations, or whether they became man made, would depend upon whether we are viewing from a spiritual standpoint or upon that as a purely material or commercial standpoint; for the variations, as we find, extend over a period of some two hundred thousand years (200,000) - that is, as light years - as known in the present - and that there were MANY changes in the surface of what is now called the earth. In the first, or greater portion, we find that NOW known as the southern portions of South America in the Arctic or North Arctic regions, while those in what is NOW as Siberia - or that as of Hudson Bay - was rather in that region of the tropics, or that position now occupied by near what would be as the same LINE would run, of the southern Pacific, or central Pacific regions - and about the same way.

Then we find, with this change that came first in that portion, when the first of those peoples used that as prepared FOR the changes in the earth, we stood near the same position as the earth occupies in the present - as to Capricorn, or the equator, or the poles. Then, with that portion, THEN the South Pacific, or Lemuria, began its disappearance - even before Atlantis, for the changes [to Atlantis] were brought about in the latter portion of that period, or what would be termed ten thousand seven hundred (10,700) light years, or earth years, or present setting of those, as set by Amilius - or Adam. [brackets added by author]

Needless to say this is not one of the most lucid passages in the Cayce readings. However, I highlighted what I feel are the more important points made. If you break it down, phrase by phrase, it starts to make sense. To summarize my interpretation of this excerpt: the various physical changes to the landmass of Atlantis extend over a period of 200,000 years. So if we roughly put the final sinking of Atlantis at 10,000BC we are covering a period from 210,000BC to 10,000BC. In this time period of 210,000BC to 10,000BC the first part of it or "portion", was the greater portion of time, or in other words this portion was at least over 100,000 years of time. In this portion of time the poles occupied a different area because Siberia and the Hudson Bay were "in that region of the tropics". So, since I believe the Cayce readings say the poles shifted around 50,000BC we could infer that this "first or greater portion" of time extends all the way down to that date of 50,000BC. So now we can conclude that this first or greater portion of time was the time covered from 210,000BC to 50,000BC. At that time (50,000BC), God or nature intervened and ice shifted the poles destroyed the large animals. I created a crude timeline to illustrate what I think is being conveyed:

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As the timeline illustrates, the first (i.e. earliest) or "greater portion" of this 200,000 year history is indicated by the two red lines. This covers the period from 210,000BC to 50,000BC or some 160,000 years or 80% of the entire history. At 50,000BC, we get the first change in this first or greater portion of their history and so the remaining 40,000 years of this history (from 50,000BC to circa 10,000BC) is the time covered by the sinking of Atlantis.

To what location did the poles go? "With this change that came first in that portion....we [then] stood near the same position as the earth occupies in the present - as to [the Tropic of] Capricorn, or the equator, or the poles." [brackets added by author].

So the poles moved to near their current positions "with this change that came first, in the greater portion" of time which we see is after 160,000 years had transpired out of this 200,000 year period or in 50,000BC. Also, it appears, that this pole shift caused the beginning of the end for that Pacific continent called Mu or Lemuria:

Then, with that portion, THEN the South Pacific, or Lemuria, began its disappearance

So, in other words, with this new portion, which is the portion where the poles are in their current position, Lemuria began to disappear.

A further description of the Earth's surface prior to the 50,000BC pole shift event is given further along in this 364 series of readings in 364-13:

(Q) Describe the earth's surface at the period of the appearance of the five projections.

(A) This has been given. [in 364-4] In the first, or that known as the beginning, or in the Caucasian and Carpathian, or the Garden of Eden, in that land which lies now much in the desert, yet much in mountain and much in the rolling lands there. The extreme northern portions were then the southern portions, or the polar regions were then turned to where they occupied more of the tropical and semi-tropical regions; hence it would be hard to discern or disseminate the change. The Nile entered into the Atlantic Ocean. What is now the Sahara was an inhabited land and very fertile. What is now the central portion of this country, or the Mississippi basin, was then all in the ocean; only the plateau was existent, or the regions that are now portions of Nevada, Utah and Arizona formed the greater part of what we know as the United States. That along the Atlantic board formed the outer portion then, or the lowlands of Atlantis. The Andean, or the Pacific coast of South America, occupied then the extreme western portion of Lemuria [remember this is prior to the pole shift]. The Urals and the northern regions of same were turned into a tropical land. The desert in the Mongolian land was then the fertile portion. This may enable you to form SOME concept of the status of the earth's representations at that time! The oceans were then turned about; they no longer bear their names, yet from whence obtained they their names? What is the legend, even, as to their names? [brackets added by author]

Apparently this pole shift event of 50,000BC had a much greater effect on Lemuria than on Atlantis. Lemuria "began its disappearance" while, relatively speaking, Atlantis got off pretty easy in that it was "only" broken up into five large islands.

The use of these influences by the Sons of Belial brought, then, the first of the upheavals; or the turning of the etheric rays' influence FROM the Sun - as used by the Sons of the Law of One - into the facet for the activities of same - produced what we would call a volcanic upheaval; and the separating of the land into SEVERAL islands - five in number. Poseidia, the place or the settlement of that particular sojourning of the entity - Deui - at the time, then became ONE of these islands.

(877-26)

.....after the first of the destructions, that which would be termed now - with the present position - the southernmost portion of same - islands as created by those of the first (as man would call) volcanic or eruptive forces brought into play in the destruction of same.

......one large continent, until the first eruptions brought those changes - .....Then with the breaking up, producing more of the nature of large islands, with the intervening canals or ravines, gulfs, bays or streams, as came from the various ELEMENTAL forces that were set in motion by this CHARGING - as it were - OF the forces that were collected as the basis for those elements that would produce destructive forces, as might be placed in various quarters or gathering places of those beasts, or the periods when the larger animals roved the earth - WITH that period of man's indwelling.

(364-6)

Although Atlantis was "only" broken up into five islands this DID occur at the time of the pole shift:

Before that we find the entity was in that land now known or spoken of as the Atlantean, during those days when there were the attempts of those to bring quiet, to bring order out of chaos by the destructive forces that had made for the eruptions in the land that had divided the lands and had changed not only the temperate but to a more torrid region by the shifting of the activities of the earth itself.
(884-1) April 9, 1935

This reading makes quite clear the idea that a shifting of the earth changed the climate on Atlantis from temperate to more torrid, and that this was caused by destructive forces that had also "divided the lands". This proves that the first destruction of Atlantis occurred at the time of the pole shift which we can infer from 5249-1 happened at the time of the meeting of the nations in 50,722BC:

The entity then was among those who were of that group who gathered to rid the earth of the enormous animals which overran the earth, but ice, the entity found, nature, God, changed the poles and the animals were destroyed, though man attempted it in that activity of the meetings.

(5249-1)

(Q) HLC: Please advise me regarding the preparation and presentation of the article or story which I am preparing on the Great Congress held during the age of the destruction of the enormous animals that once roamed the earth......

(Q) What was the date B.C. of this gathering?

(A) 50,722.

(262-39)

At least Atlantis didn't "begin to disappear" like Lemuria. Yet.

The Sargasso Sea

We now turn our attention to the events surrounding the second egress of people from Atlantis. As noted earlier, this apparently involved the sinking of a landmass near the Sargasso Sea. Where is the Sargasso Sea? We get an approximation from the map below:

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So how big of an area does the Sargasso Sea comprise? From Britannica online we find that the:

Sargasso Sea is an area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. It lies between the parallels 20°N and 35°N and the meridians 30°W and 70°W.

Transferring these coordinates to our equal-area map we get the following:

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circled area depicts dimensions of the Sargasso Sea area within the proposed location of Atlantis

As you can see, this representation of the Sargasso Sea constitutes a large portion of Atlantis.

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If you superimposed this ellipse over America it appears it would constitute most of the country:

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What do the Cayce readings say about this destruction?

As we recall, reading 364-4 details three times there was "an egress of people" out of Atlantis. The second egress apparently involved some event involving the Sargasso Sea:

.....man brought in the destructive forces as used for the peoples that were to be the rule, that combined with those natural resources of the gases, of the electrical forces, made in nature and natural form the first of the eruptions that awoke from the depth of the slow cooling earth, and that portion now near what would be termed the Sargasso Sea first went into the depths. With this there again came that egress of peoples....

In another reading later on in this 364 series (364-11) we find additional information about this event:

(Q) Describe in more detail the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea.

(A) As there were those individuals that attempted to bring again to the mind of man more of those forces that are manifest by the closer association of the mental and spiritual, or the soul forces that were more and more as individual and personal forms in the world, the use of the these elements - as for the building up, or the passage of individuals through space - brought the uses of the gases then (in the existent forces), and the individuals being able to become the elements, and elementals themselves, added to that used in the form of what is at present known as the raising of the powers from the sun itself, to the ray that makes for disintegration of the atom, in the gaseous forces formed, and brought about the destruction in that portion of the land now presented, or represented, or called, Sargasso sea.

The above description seems to be indicating a nuclear type explosion:

....what is at present known as the raising of the powers from the sun itself, to the ray that makes for disintegration of the atom....

The material that is really of interest to this article is contained in the follow-up question:

(Q) What was the date of the first destruction, estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?

(A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction, which came as has been given.

I am fairly certain that everyone who reads this exchange immediately concludes that the phrase "What was the date of the first destruction" assumes that he meant of Atlantis as a whole continent. However, one must remember that the topic of this exchange is the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea., and not of ALL the various destructions of Atlantis. It is my contention that this 7500 year period was the length of time it took for the entire area of the Sargasso Sea to sink. Reading the exchange without all the details in the middle, you get a different perspective:

(Q) Describe in more detail the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea.

(A) As there were those individuals that.....brought about the destruction in that portion of the land now presented, or represented, or called, Sargasso sea.

(Q) What was the date of the first destruction, estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?

(A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction, which came as has been given.

Again, the question wasn't "What was the date of the first destruction" of Atlantis? The topic being discussed was exclusively about the details of the sinking of the part of Atlantis known as the Sargasso Sea and I believe the question was answered within this frame of reference. Now I admit, it may very well be true that the intent of the person asking the question was to obtain a date for the first destruction of the continent of Atlantis. However, that detail was not specified in the way the question was posed. I believe the source channeled by Cayce answered this question within the framework of the topic being discussed: the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea. I don't believe it is unreasonable to assume that it may have taken 7500 years for a landmass almost equal to the United States to sink. If you read the question with the topic being discussed inserted in brackets you get a clearer understanding of my interpretation of this passage:

(Q) What was the date of the first destruction [of the part of Atlantis now called the Sargasso sea], estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?

(A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction [of the Sargasso Sea area], which came as has been given.

Was there, in fact, a "first destruction" of the Sargasso Sea? In reading 364-4, quoted above, there is a line that could be construed to mean that:

....the first of the eruptions that awoke from the depth of the slow cooling earth, and that portion now near what would be termed the Sargasso Sea first went into the depths....

In the one before this we find the entity was in the Atlantean period, during those greater upheavals in the land, from the first and the beginning of the second destruction of the greater body of the continent. (268-3)

It seems clear to me that if you look at the map above, the Sargasso Sea comprises the "greater body of the continent" of Atlantis so there may well have been several destructive events within this 7500 year period. In fact, the word "period" is used many times in conjunction with readings describing the second destruction:

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power;

(2157-1)

As indicated from that just given, the entity was in Atlantis when there was the second period of disturbance....

(470-22)

The entity was a priestess in that experience just before there were the activities of the sons of Belial that brought about the period of the second destruction to the land.

(2390-1)

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, at those periods when there were the second divisions, or when there was the destruction of the lands which made Poseidia the remaining portion in which there was the greater activity of the sons of the Law of One.

(2562-1)

In the active forces of these the entity brought destructive forces, by the setting up - in various portions of the land - the character that was to act as producing the powers in the various forms of the people's activities in the cities, the towns, the countries surrounding same. These, not intentionally, were TUNED too high - and brought the second period of destructive forces to the peoples in the land, and broke up the land into the isles that later became the periods when the further destructive forces were brought in the land.

(440-5)

So when did this 7500 year period occur? We note that the reading says the final destruction "has been given". But where? If my interpretation is correct then it can't be the 10,700BC date given for the final destruction of Atlantis, because I believe we are only discussing the final destruction of the Sargasso Sea area, which I have interpreted as the second destructive period in the history of Atlantis. In reading 364-6 we find our answer:

(Q) In relation to the history of Atlantis as presented, at what period did the flood as recorded in the Bible in which Noah took part, occur?

(A) In the second of the eruptions, or - as is seen - two THOUSAND - two-two thousand and six [22,006 BC] - before the Prince of Peace, as time is counted now, or light years - day and night years.

This would seem to indicate that the date of the final sinking of the Sargasso Sea area coincided with the date of the biblical flood. This was described in the Bible, as a worldwide flood event and could be the date associated with the final sinking of the Sargasso Sea area. If we assume that this date was the final sinking of the Sargasso Sea area, then the time when the area near the Sargasso Sea "first went into the depths" would be 7500 years earlier or around the year 29,506 BC. This timeframe of 29500BC to 22000BC would be the period of the second destruction:

In the one before this we find in the days of the peoples coming from the waters in the submerged areas of the Southern portion [of Atlantis, and going to] as is now of Peru, when the earth was divided, and the people began to inhabit the earth again. [words in brackets added by author]

(470-2)

(Q) What was the date of the Peruvian incarnation as given in Life Reading [470-2], and what was the disturbance in the earth as mentioned? Give such details as will clear up this period.

(A) As indicated from that just given, the entity was in Atlantis when there was the second period of disturbance - which would be some twenty-two thousand, five hundred (22,500) before the periods of the Egyptian activity covered by the Exodus; or it was some twenty-eight thousand (28,000) before Christ, see? Then we had a period where the activities in the Atlantean land became more in provinces, or there were small channels through many of the lands.

(470-22)

In this entity's appearance, then, in this particular experience, there was brought to those peoples of Zu's the condemnation of those of Ararat, who had established what would now be called a COMMUNITY home in the land later known as Ararat, or where the flood later brought those peoples who again joined with many in peopling the earth after that destruction which was caused by those changes in the land known as Og.

(294-147)

WHY Egypt? This had been determined by that leader or teacher (not physical leader, but spiritual interpreter or guide) as the center of the universal activities of nature, as well as the spiritual forces, and where there might be the least disturbance by the convulsive movements which came about in the earth through the destruction of Lemuria, Atlantis, and - in later periods - the flood.
(281-42) 1st day of Nov., 1939

Before that, in those periods when there were the activities in the land such that there had come those determinations for the bringing about of the destruction of the wickedness of the world, - the entity was among those that were saved. For the entity then was the companion of Shem, that first brought the activities to Noah in that experience.
(2624-1) 26th day of November, 1941

It seems (though we can't be certain) that there were at least three destructive events in this second period of disturbances involving the Sargasso Sea. The first occurred when an area near the Sargasso Sea first went into the depths which I believe occurred around 29,500BC. Then we have another event that happened in 28,000BC. The last event coincided with Noah's flood in 22,006BC and was the final sinking of the Sargasso Sea area. These three principle events (and there may have been more) which span a total of 7500 years, sank the greater body of the continent.

It also appears from 294-147 that this second period of destruction involving the Sargasso Sea affected the land of Og the most. What is confusing in the Cayce readings is that Og is also depicted as being located in Peru. However there is evidence that this area of Peru was a land that Og had only conquered (among others) and was ruled by them, instead of being the actual location of the land of Og:

In the one before this we find in that rule when the laws were being made in now the Peruvian country. Then in the rule of Og.
(2656-1)

Before that we find the entity was within that same Peruvian land, though not exactly in the same territory; rather in that from a part of the Atlantean as well as a part of what became later the On or the Incal land - and the activities of those from the actions of the children of the Law of One. (1637-1)

We also find that entering into Og, or those peoples that later became the beginning of the Inca, or Ohum that builded the walls across the mountains in this period,

(364-4)

(Q) What were the principal islands called at the time of the final destruction?

(A) Poseidia and Aryan, and Og

(364-6)

Before this we find the entity was in that land known as the Peruvian, during those experiences when there was the establishing of the customs and laws as related to the peoples that sojourned there from the upheavals in the land of Atlantis; for the entity was among those that journeyed hither, in the name Ilt-ale. In that activity the entity was of the household of the RULERS and the BELIEVERS in the experience. For, the law of ONE was adhered to by Ilt-ale. And in establishing the relationships with those people in Og, as called then...

(442-1)

....the Incals were themselves the successors of those of Oz, or Og, in the Peruvian land, and Mu in the southern portions of that now called California and Mexico and southern New Mexico in the United States.

(5750-1)

In the one before this we find in that land [ruled by?] known as the land of Og, now known as that of the American plateaus, or in north portion of now New Mexico, and such. [brackets added by author]

(993-1)

Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Inca or Peruvian or Ecuador land, during those periods when the people from On and Og were making for so many changes, - by the disturbing forces which arose from individuals who came into the land from the Atlantean land, as well as those who were to journey for the establishing of activities in what is now the Yucatan land.

(1895-1)

Before that the entity was in Atlantis when there were those changes in those periods before the second breaking up, when there was the escape to the Incal land.

(3285-2)

So it appears that the people of Atlantis that lived on the island of Og had conquered some neighboring territories: Peru and Ecuador and apparently land as far north as the American Plateau. These areas were then perhaps ruled by Og. Since much of Og was perhaps destroyed by the year 22,006BC, the island of Poseidia then became the unquestioned dominant seat of power remaining on Atlantis:

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power;

(2157-1)

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, at those periods when there were the second divisions, or when there was the destruction of the lands which made Poseidia the remaining portion in which there was the greater activity of the sons of the Law of One.

(2562-1)

This second destructive period seems to have reduced Og to a mere scattering of islands (perhaps located in the Caribbean?) and was possibly located in the southern portions of Atlantis. Remember after the first destruction of Atlantis the land was divided into five islands which were mostly located in the southern portion:

....after the first of the destructions, that which would be termed now - with the present position - the southernmost portion of same - islands as created by those of the first (as man would call) volcanic or eruptive forces brought into play in the destruction of same.

(364-6)

Since it was the southern portion of Atlantis that was predominately divided into five islands, it would seem logical that Poseidia was most likely located more in the northern portion of Atlantis perhaps in an area near the Azores. If so, then Og, Aryan and the other islands were then the southern islands that either sank completely or caused the principle islands that were left to split up further into so many of the islands. This apparently followed the destruction of 28,000BC:

Before this we find the entity was in the Atlantean period before the second of the turmoils that separated the islands [that already existed?] or broke up the land into [more?] islands; and in the city of Eden in Poseidia did the entity then dwell. [brackets added by author]
(390-2)

As indicated from that just given, the entity was in Atlantis when there was the second period of disturbance - which would be some twenty-two thousand, five hundred (22,500) before the periods of the Egyptian activity covered by the Exodus; or it was some twenty-eight thousand (28,000) before Christ, see? Then we had a period where the activities in the Atlantean land became more in provinces, or there were small channels through many of the lands.

(470-22)

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands,...

(2157-1)

Atlantis Disappears

So far, we have discussed the first two destructions of this once mighty continent. What appears to be left at this point, is the remnants of two islands, Aryan and Og, and one main island that was "greater in power", Poseidia.

(Q) What were the principal islands called at the time of the final destruction?
(A) Poseidia and Aryan, and Og.

(364-6) Feb 17, 1932

(364-4)

In that before this we find when the ruling force of Poseida was before the gates of the mighty waters that in ages back submerged this plain. This entity's forces in spirit and in soul was the greater ruling forces in that sphere or plane.

(4228-1)

Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were turmoils and strifes arising in the land.

The entity was among those of the Atlanteans who came into Egypt, and whose land was destroyed during that period.

Hence the entity was among the children of the Law of One that entered the Egyptian land; being a priestess in Poseidia, and brought much of the record that was attempted to be preserved for future activity, future proofs to those who would seek out these influences that were the happenings in the Atlantean land.

It would be well for the entity to gain all of that as urged by groups or individuals to acquaint man with the truth or the possibilities or that land, the Atlantean, and the message it is to bring to the earth yet again.

(2556-1) May 5, 1941

Before that we find the entity was in the Yucatan or Mayan land, when there were those activities that destroyed the Atlantis land - or that portion of the Poseidian isle or city.

The entity was among those who journeyed to other lands, knowing much of the activities of the sons of Belial as well as the precautions and warnings that had been issued by the children of the Law of One.

Hence we find the entity was among those who in the early portions of that material sojourn entered into the new buildings, the new activity that became destructive because of the influences from the land of Og and On, and the activities that arose in the western portion of that particular period of sojourn.

For there, during the entity's experience, was the upheaval which settled so much in portions of that now known as the southwestern U.S.A.

In the experiences then the entity rose to that position of the priestess of the sacrificial activity. Much blood flowed by the hand of the entity during that sojourn.

(1604-1)

Thus the entity was one who builded the planes, those activities in air, in water, as directed by the stone from which the forces were generated - or such as the radio beam in the present, - from that central facet for which the entity made those experiences - and that are the dreams of the entity in the present.

These may be used for constructive or destructive forces. These were allowed to become, or did become, those forces that brought about the last breaking up of Poseidia. In the experience the entity held fast to the creative purposes but was overruled by the sons of Belial, when those warrings began between the sons of the children of the Law of One and the sons of Belial.

(2795-1)

In the one before this we find in that fair country of Alta, or Poseidia proper, when this entity was in that force that brought the highest civilization and knowledge that has been known to the earth's plane, and this entity was one of those who lent much assistance to the developing of those forces that made the common peoples that they became the assistance in the knowledge as obtained.

Again we find the entity in that sex as given, and was in the household of the ruler of that country. This we find nearly ten thousand years before the Prince of Peace came, and this entity then found the destructive forces to life in the misapprehension of those who were attempting to be of assistance, and not by their fault was the catastrophe brought; yet not until the entrance into the land of the unknown did this entity come to the realization of this as truth, and in the affliction as brought to the physical were the personalities and manifestations of same brought through to the sphere at present.

(288-1)

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land when there were those periods of the last upheavals, or the disappearance of the isles of Poseidia.
(3611-1)

In the one before this in that of Poseidia, and in that Atlantean rule this entity then was in the household of the peasant that gave the information regarding the upheaval in the mountains that brought the destruction to the land.
(4353-4)

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, just before the breaking up, when the lands of Poseidia were being warned -- when individual groups were leaving for the various realms to which some had been classified, or had been given their term of activity.

The entity chose rather to remain in the land, yet the expeditions that were known of - to the various lands - disturbed the entity. And yet, as is found at times in the present - the entity was too hardheaded, or too much centered in self, to even attempt to save self.

Thus the entity worries easily, as to that it doesn't know, and as to that it does know - that it has the wrong slant on same!

(2981-1)

Then, with the leavings of the civilization in Atlantis (in Poseidia, more specific), Iltar – with a group of followers that had been of the household of Atlan, the followers of the worship of the ONE with some ten individuals – left this land Poseidia, and came westward, entering what would now be a portion of Yucatan. And there began, with the activities of the peoples there, the development into a civilization that rose much in the same matter as that which had been in the Atlantean land.

Others had left the land later. Others had left earlier. There had been the upheavals also from the land of Mu, or Lemuria, and these had their part in the changing, or there was the injection of their tenets in the varied portions of the land – which was much greater in extent until the final upheaval of Atlantis, or the islands that were later upheaved, when much of the contour of the land in Central America and Mexico was changed to that similar in outline to that which may be seen in the present.

The first temples that were erected by Iltar and his followers were destroyed at the period of change physically in the contours of the land. That now being found, and a portion already discovered that has laid in waste for many centuries, was then a combination of those peoples from Mu, Oz and Atlantis.

(5750-1)

We can conclude from the above excerpts, that the final destruction of Atlantis mainly involved the sinking of the island of Poseidia and occurred around 10,000BC. Remnants of Og, perhaps located near the Caribbean Sea, and Aryan, which may have lied the furthest south and included a portion of Yucatan, also apparently met their final demise:

It would be well if this entity were to seek either of the three phases of the ways and means in which those records of the activities of individuals were preserved - the one in the Atlantean land that sank, which will rise and is rising again; another in the place of the records that leadeth from the Sphinx to the hall of records, in the Egyptian land; and another in the Aryan or Yucatan land, where the temple there is overshadowing same.

(2012-1)

Summary

While it is true that there is no single reading that clearly states what parts of the former continent of Atlantis sank when, we can use logic and simple deductive reasoning to tie together several disparate readings to form a clearer picture of what may have happened. Obviously the readings can be interpreted in almost as many ways as the number of people who read them. My interpretation is only one of them. My interpretation of the events that led to the sinking of Atlantis (with quotes from some of the supporting readings) are summarized as follows:

Reading 364-6: after the first of the destructions,.....islands as created by those of the first (as man would call) volcanic or eruptive forces brought into play in the destruction of same.

.....one large continent, until the first eruptions brought those changes.....Then with the breaking up, producing more of the nature of large islands, with the intervening canals or ravines, gulfs, bays or streams, as came from the various ELEMENTAL forces that were set in motion by this CHARGING - as it were - OF the forces that were collected as the basis for those elements that would produce destructive forces, as might be placed in various quarters or gathering places of those beasts, or the periods when the larger animals roved the earth - WITH that period of man's indwelling.

Reading 364-4: .....the change that had come about, began in that period when there were the invasions of this continent by those of the animal kingdoms, that brought about that meeting of the nations of the globe to PREPARE a way and manner of disposing of, else they be disposed of themselves by these forces.

Reading 877-26: The use of these influences by the Sons of Belial brought, then, the first of the upheavals; or the turning of the etheric rays' influence FROM the Sun - as used by the Sons of the Law of One - into the facet for the activities of same - produced what we would call a volcanic upheaval; and the separating of the land into SEVERAL islands - five in number.

From these three readings we can surmise that Atlantis was one large continent until the first destruction or upheaval which then transformed the continent into more of the nature of large islands - five in number. The change that had come about, began in that period when there was an invasion of this continent by those of the animal kingdom that OVERRAN or roved the earth in many places. This caused a meeting of the nations of the globe to prepare a way of disposing them. This breaking up from a continent to large islands occurred when destructive forces were placed in the gathering places of those beasts.

When was this meeting of the nations of the globe convened?

Reading 262-39: (Q) HLC: Please advise me regarding the preparation and presentation of the article or story which I am preparing on the Great Congress held during the age of the destruction of the enormous animals that once roamed the earth.

......the gathering of those that heeded, as would be the scientific minds of the present day, in devising ways and means of doing away with that particular kind or class of menace.........the ways and means devised were as those that would alter or change the ENVIRONS for which those beasts were needed, or that necessary for their sustenance in the particular portions of the sphere, or earth, that they occupied at the time. And this was administered much in the same way or manner as were there sent out from various central plants that which is termed in the present the Death Ray, or the super-cosmic ray, that which many are seeking into which will give their lives much, from the stratosphere, or cosmic rays, that will be found in the next twenty-five years. This presented, then, in such a manner, and drawing upon the varied conditions that existed in the various portions of the land then occupied by man.

(Q) What was the date B.C. of this gathering?

(A) 50,722.

This clearly ties in with the material in 364-6 that states the result of the first destruction was the formation of large islands and this was caused by the destructive forces that were "placed in various quarters or gathering places of those beasts, or the periods when the larger animals roved the earth - WITH that period of man's indwelling". Reading 262-39 uses similar language: "enormous animals" "change the environs the beasts needed". The date of this "Great Congress" was given as 50,722BC. It is true that 262-39 does not specifically say that a destruction of Atlantis occurred at that time, but by inference we can clearly see that 364-4, 364-6 and 262-39 are all talking about the same event. Every reading does not have to repeat every detail of every event that happened for it to be considered valid. To conclude that 262-39 and 364-6 are talking about completely separate and different events flies in the face of logic and common sense. The key words tying the first destruction to the formation of large islands and the meeting of the Great Congress, is the usage of the words: destruction of enormous or large animals that OVERRAN the earth and destroying them by changing the environs or gathering places of these beasts. Reading 587-3 also supports this contention:

Reading 587-3: During those periods when there were the gatherings of nations, or the peoples of the world for the pitting of themselves against the beasts that overran the earth, the entity aided in such gatherings of those; for the entity - as given - RULED the connections, or associations, or communications.

Hence the entity guided those influenced for the right; being overcome only by the forces of Belial when the destruction was brought by the use of that which had been applied for the destruction of the animals in that particular experience.

That is the theme that runs through all of these readings and we can confidently assume this happened circa 50,700BC. There indeed were most likely other meetings of world leaders that took place involving problems with animals but this meeting in 50,722BC was unique in that the animals threatened the very existence of mankind itself, and his survival was at stake at this particular time. Another reading mentions a different meeting to control or handle the animals that were destructive to the lands but were not threatening the survival of mankind. How else do we know it was a different meeting at a different time? Because it occurred during the second destruction of Atlantis and therefore was NOT part of the first destruction which 364-4 clearly emphasizes:

Reading 2157-1: Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power; when there were the meetings called for those of many lands, to determine means or manners in which there would be the control or handling of the animals that were destructive to many of the lands.

Did anything else happen at the time of the first destruction of Atlantis? Yes, apparently a pole shift:

Reading 5249-1: The entity then was among those who were of that group who gathered to rid the earth of the enormous animals which overran the earth, but ice, the entity found, nature, God, changed the poles and the animals were destroyed, though man attempted it in that activity of the meetings.

Reading 884-1: Before that we find the entity was in that land now known or spoken of as the Atlantean, during those days when there were the attempts of those to bring quiet, to bring order out of chaos by the destructive forces that had made for the eruptions in the land that had divided the lands and had changed not only the temperate but to a more torrid region by the shifting of the activities of the earth itself.

To conclude that all these readings, using similar (and in some instances identical) language, are all describing different events is ludicrous. A pole shift event occurred at this time and yet some still conclude that Atlantis escaped any "destruction". A pole shift! When you read the description of the Earth's surface prior to this pole shift in reading 364-13, it is hard to imagine that there was not some "destruction" on Atlantis at this time. There of course was a change, and the continent of Atlantis took on more of the nature of five large islands.

Moving on to the second destructive period we find that this involved the enormous area encompassing the Sargasso Sea and therefore involved the destruction of the greater body of the continent even though this continent was now more in the nature of five large islands with the intervening canals or ravines, gulfs, bays or streams. It seems to have occurred over a 7500 year period. One of these destructive events within this period involved perhaps a nuclear-type explosion:

Reading 364-11: (Q) Describe in more detail the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea.

(A).....the individuals being able to become the elements, and elementals themselves, added to that used in the form of what is at present known as the raising of the powers from the sun itself, to the ray that makes for disintegration of the atom, in the gaseous forces formed, and brought about the destruction in that portion of the land now presented, or represented, or called, Sargasso sea.

(Q) What was the date of the first destruction, estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?

(A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction, which came as has been given.

My interpretation of this key reading is crucial to the timing of all the other destructive events to Atlantis presented in the Cayce readings. Everything hinges on this reading. The original question was to give details on the destruction of the part of Atlantis now known as the Sargasso Sea. The follow-up question then asks for the date of the first destruction. First destruction of what? The questioner doesn't elaborate. I assume then, that the answer given, was still on topic and was still within the context of the original question: the destruction of the part of Atlantis now known as the Sargasso Sea. I interpret the response given to this question to mean that it took 7500 years for that part of Atlantis now known as the Sargasso Sea to be destroyed. This is quite a long period but we are talking about a very large landmass indeed, about equal to 75% of the continental United States. In fact, many of the readings involved with the second destruction describe it as a "period" of time as opposed to a sudden single event. There may have been several destructive events or "eruptions" or "disturbances" to sink this enormous area:

Reading 364-4: ....the first of the eruptions that awoke from the depth of the slow cooling earth, and that portion now near what would be termed the Sargasso Sea first went into the depths....

Reading 268-3: In the one before this we find the entity was in the Atlantean period, during those greater upheavals in the land, from the first and the beginning of the second destruction of the greater body of the continent.

Reading 2157-1: Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power; when there were the meetings called for those of many lands, to determine means or manners in which there would be the control or handling of the animals that were destructive to many of the lands.

When was this 7500 year period? The date of the final destruction of the Sargasso Sea "was given" according to Cayce's source:

Reading 364-11 (Q) What was the date of the first destruction [of the Sargasso Sea], estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?

(A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction [of the Sargasso Sea], which came as has been given. [brackets added by author]

There is, however, no date of destruction given in the Cayce readings that specifically mentions the "final" sinking of the Sargasso Sea area. Therefore, assuming my interpretation of 364-11 is correct, the date given for the final Sargasso Sea sinking would have to be associated with some other event. I concluded this event was the date associated with Noah's flood around 22000BC. A large flood event, that is depicted in the Old Testament as "world-wide", could fit the bill as the final destructive event of a large continental-sized landmass that was already fractured into five areas. But was this date "already given" in this 364 series of the Cayce readings? Yes! In reading 364-6 we find our answer:

Reading 364-6: (Q) In relation to the history of Atlantis as presented, at what period did the flood as recorded in the Bible in which Noah took part, occur?

If this assumption is correct, then the time of the first destruction of the Sargasso Sea area occurred around 7500 years before Noah's flood or 29,500BC. Is this timeframe for the second period of destruction (from 29500BC to 22000BC) supported anywhere in the Cayce readings? Yes! One reading seems to associate this timeframe with the second period of disturbances. I believe the terms "destruction", "disturbance" and "eruption" are interchangeable and therefore do not place much emphasis on their distinction.

Reading 470-22: (Q) What was the date of the Peruvian incarnation as given in Life Reading [470-2], and what was the disturbance in the earth as mentioned? Give such details as will clear up this period.

(A) As indicated from that just given, the entity was in Atlantis when there was the second period of disturbance - which would be some twenty-two thousand, five hundred (22,500) before the periods of the Egyptian activity covered by the Exodus; or it was some twenty-eight thousand (28,000) before Christ, see? Then we had a period where the activities in the Atlantean land became more in provinces, or there were small channels through many of the lands.

This would seem to confirm then that 28000BC was within the timeframe of the "second period of disturbance" which I believe was the 7500 year period from 29500BC to 22000BC.

The final sinking of Atlantis involved primarily the last large island remaining, namely Poseidia. Although remnants of Og and Aryan may have still existed, Poseidia was the only major portion left of this once massive continent.

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power;

(2157-1)

Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land when there were those periods of the last upheavals, or the disappearance of the isles of Poseidia.

(3611-1)

Apparently this final sinking of Posedia occurred around 10,700BC or "nearly" 10,000BC:

Reading 364-4: In the latter portion of same we find as CITIES were built, more and more rare became those abilitie