Archive CXI: The Origins (Foundation Center for Antediluvian Research)
In the depths of the Ice Age more than 20,000 years ago, there were seven tribes who lived in the old Nile valley of northern Africa. The old Nile was not the Nile of today, but an even mightier river that flowed westward across the present Sahara desert into what is now known as the Atlantic Ocean. The Sahara itself was not a desert but a vast temperate grassland bounded by the ice of the North and filled with flowing streams and diverse plants and animals. The seven tribes were nomads and traders, and over their millennia of wanderings, they had created an exceptionally rich culture with well-developed literature, science and religion. And unique among the peoples of the age, the seven tribes were united by their pacifistic philosophy and their beautiful hymns and ideals of Sacrifice to an unseen and infinite One. And also unlike their primitive neighbors, the seven tribes enjoyed a sophisticated political system that approximated the modern federal republic.
Because of their pacifism, they were driven from place to place, always refusing to fight with their growing and powerful competitors. For a long time the vast expanse of the old Sahara permitted such expediency, but fierce tribes from the north were a particular problem, and so was a large migration of peoples from central Africa and the Middle East. The seven tribes will use cultural conquest, commerce, diplomacy and on occasion, tribute to fend off these neighbors, but the increasing population of northern Africa had begun to exert an inexorable pressure on them. The seven tribes had a large population, advanced metallurgical skills and were indeed far better organized and richer than any of their neighbors. In addition, they had managed to domesticate a relative of the lion, and could field a fearsome force with these beasts as offensive mounts. In a great conference organized by the Council of Seven--their supreme elected leaders--and the advisory council of the Melchi, the prophetic priest-sages of their religion, the tribes conferred and discussed whether they should build up an army, destroy their enemies and carve up a secure homeland.
There were many vehement debates, but the head Melchi of the time had received a strange series of dreams and visions instructing them to do an astounding thing. In these visions, they had seen a lush continent across the ocean to the northwest, and that land was totally uninhabited by human beings. If they will eschew bloodshed and have faith in this guiding Hand, they will claim this land as their own for all generations to come. Such was the authority and power of the Melchi in those days that they managed to inspire the desperate tribes to stick firm to their pacifistic ideals and travel to the Nile delta at the Atlantic Ocean.
Thus transpired the Atlantean Exodus. Guided by the Melchi who were skilled in the scientific arts, the gifted artisans of the tribes constructed a huge fleet of sea-worthy ships, and at an unknown but momentous date, they set sail for the continent that later generations will know as Atlantis. Guided by the visions of the Melchi and the stars, they landed at Atlantis months after they set sail. The first point of landing will become the city housing the Atlantean Union (akin to the modern United Nations), the city where the Council of Seven and their representatives will meet annually for all of Atlantean history.
Soon afterwards, sailors circumnavigated the mainland of Atlantis and other explorers penetrated the interior, and sure enough, the whole land was devoid of human beings. It was also temperate, well watered and being a volcanic region, was extremely fertile. Thus at the city of the Union, another great conference established the different borders of each tribe in accordance to their nature and numbers. And given that they saw the land of Atlantis as being a holy gift of God, and freed from any pressures from aggressive neighbors, the Atlanteans gave up their nomadic ways and settled down. The seven tribes thus became the Seven Atlantean Nations. At this point the Melchi of the seven tribes also had a conference of their own, and they decided to belong to no nation but become an international order that will be impartial servants of all.
However in these earliest centuries of the Settlement, the Melchi themselves gradually split into three groups. The first evolved into the Atlantean priesthood and church that was wholly dedicated to religion and based in their holy city in the middle of the Atlantean mainland. Another became the mainstream ‘mages’ of lore, an order dedicated to pursuing the knowledge and dominion of nature. This group, which later split into countless schools and orders, will gradually transform Atlantis over thousands of years into a spectacularly advanced and complete civilization. The third decided to retain their ancient ways, and continue the integration of religion, politics, science and mysticism of the early Melchi. However the third order was a dwindling minority as there were too few candidates with the diverse talents suited to the demanding training in so many fields. And the increasing materialism of Atlantean society brought about by growing prosperity, coupled with the competition by the other two orders worsened their situation. After a few thousand years, the third order disappeared from history and only scattered remnants of what became known as the ‘mad mages’ survived.
But before the demise of the third order, the last true Melchi, those who led the Exodus, had conceived another plan to ensure the future of the Atlantean nations. These Melchi lived an exceptionally long time by later standards, and it was rumored that a few of the early Melchi even lived till the end of the third order. In any case, in the first thousand years of the Settlement, when the old ways of the Melchi were in danger of dying out, the remaining Melchi and their disciples in the third order decided to use all the means at their disposal to solve what they saw as the chief problem of Atlantean civilization—the increasing ‘degeneration’ of the Atlantean population. For in the pre-Exodus days, the seven tribes had a relatively small population that was centered (through education and subtle spiritual influence) around great Melchi. This situation produced an exceptionally healthy, refined and intelligent population that persevered in peace and civilization through thousands of years of nomadic wandering.
With the massive growth of the Atlantean population and economy, the death of the pre-exodus Melchi and the relative dwindling of the third order, the Atlantean population were growing more and more ‘ordinary’ and like their old neighbors in Africa—increasingly dominated by greed, hatred and ignorance. Since there was no practical way of increasing their numbers, the Melchi and their disciples decided on the risky and unprecedented way of replicating their spiritual influence in physical vessels. Thus was initiated the fateful forging of the Atlantean Stones, the greatest achievement of human technology before or since.
These stones, more than a hundred in number, were designed as windows to the spiritual world. Each of them emanated a powerful and specific wave of beneficent energy, and coordinated by eleven master stones, all of them resonated with each other to create an all-encompassing field of energies wide enough to envelope the entire land of Atlantis and every living thing there. Thus, all Atlanteans, whether they know it or not, lived in a spiritual atmosphere of intense truth and light and harmony. Children and the unborn especially were intended to benefit from this arrangement due to their heightened receptiveness. Clearly, it was man’s first attempt to shape the direction of his evolution.
In another fateful move, the forgers of the Stones made them practically indestructible. The whole work was also done over centuries of secrecy to ensure an absence of opposition. Both measures were meant to ensure the perpetual influence of the Stones after the Melchi themselves are gone. And indeed, their plan worked magnificently. The degeneration of the Atlantean race was eventually arrested, and the other two orders were invigorated. For thousands of years, peace and harmony flourished in Atlantis, and the Atlantean people evolved into perhaps the most beautiful, civilized and powerful race ever seen on the face of earth. Thus was born the legend of the Atlanteans as a semi-divine race, the children of the gods. The regeneration came however too late and too slowly to save the third order from extinction, and soon after the final Stones were forged, their creators faded away.
The original guardians of the Stones were of course the third order, but with their dwindling numbers they were forced to hide the stones in special complexes in the mountains and the wilderness. When the third order ended, the mysterious ‘mad mages’ took over the stewardship of most of the stones. However the knowledge of their construction was lost. Some stones even went missing (but not destroyed), but regardless the whole matrix of energy throughout Atlantis was maintained for many thousands of years.
One consequence of this field over Atlantis was the Atlanteans were never very comfortable anywhere outside Atlantis—though almost none of them knew why. Most will simply attribute this to the innate ‘holiness’ of the Atlantean motherland. Serious colonization efforts outside of Atlantis (other than the Atlantean isles around the mainland) were never undertaken. The only exception was the great Return, but that shall not be elaborated upon here. Thus regardless of the Atlanteans’ great achievements in technology, their legendary wealth and relatively massive population, they did not spread across the globe like the latter Europeans. Another reason for this lack of colonization was of course the Atlanteans’ continuing inclination (mostly) towards pacifism. Missionary efforts however were pursued in earnest. Thus did the Atlantean religion, language and culture spread over thousands of years to the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and some parts of the Far East. The Americas were relatively untouched due to several massacres of Atlantean missionaries.
Thus was initiated the first world civilization.
In the depths of the Ice Age more than 20,000 years ago, there were seven tribes who lived in the old Nile valley of northern Africa. The old Nile was not the Nile of today, but an even mightier river that flowed westward across the present Sahara desert into what is now known as the Atlantic Ocean. The Sahara itself was not a desert but a vast temperate grassland bounded by the ice of the North and filled with flowing streams and diverse plants and animals. The seven tribes were nomads and traders, and over their millennia of wanderings, they had created an exceptionally rich culture with well-developed literature, science and religion. And unique among the peoples of the age, the seven tribes were united by their pacifistic philosophy and their beautiful hymns and ideals of Sacrifice to an unseen and infinite One. And also unlike their primitive neighbors, the seven tribes enjoyed a sophisticated political system that approximated the modern federal republic.
Because of their pacifism, they were driven from place to place, always refusing to fight with their growing and powerful competitors. For a long time the vast expanse of the old Sahara permitted such expediency, but fierce tribes from the north were a particular problem, and so was a large migration of peoples from central Africa and the Middle East. The seven tribes will use cultural conquest, commerce, diplomacy and on occasion, tribute to fend off these neighbors, but the increasing population of northern Africa had begun to exert an inexorable pressure on them. The seven tribes had a large population, advanced metallurgical skills and were indeed far better organized and richer than any of their neighbors. In addition, they had managed to domesticate a relative of the lion, and could field a fearsome force with these beasts as offensive mounts. In a great conference organized by the Council of Seven--their supreme elected leaders--and the advisory council of the Melchi, the prophetic priest-sages of their religion, the tribes conferred and discussed whether they should build up an army, destroy their enemies and carve up a secure homeland.
There were many vehement debates, but the head Melchi of the time had received a strange series of dreams and visions instructing them to do an astounding thing. In these visions, they had seen a lush continent across the ocean to the northwest, and that land was totally uninhabited by human beings. If they will eschew bloodshed and have faith in this guiding Hand, they will claim this land as their own for all generations to come. Such was the authority and power of the Melchi in those days that they managed to inspire the desperate tribes to stick firm to their pacifistic ideals and travel to the Nile delta at the Atlantic Ocean.
Thus transpired the Atlantean Exodus. Guided by the Melchi who were skilled in the scientific arts, the gifted artisans of the tribes constructed a huge fleet of sea-worthy ships, and at an unknown but momentous date, they set sail for the continent that later generations will know as Atlantis. Guided by the visions of the Melchi and the stars, they landed at Atlantis months after they set sail. The first point of landing will become the city housing the Atlantean Union (akin to the modern United Nations), the city where the Council of Seven and their representatives will meet annually for all of Atlantean history.
Soon afterwards, sailors circumnavigated the mainland of Atlantis and other explorers penetrated the interior, and sure enough, the whole land was devoid of human beings. It was also temperate, well watered and being a volcanic region, was extremely fertile. Thus at the city of the Union, another great conference established the different borders of each tribe in accordance to their nature and numbers. And given that they saw the land of Atlantis as being a holy gift of God, and freed from any pressures from aggressive neighbors, the Atlanteans gave up their nomadic ways and settled down. The seven tribes thus became the Seven Atlantean Nations. At this point the Melchi of the seven tribes also had a conference of their own, and they decided to belong to no nation but become an international order that will be impartial servants of all.
However in these earliest centuries of the Settlement, the Melchi themselves gradually split into three groups. The first evolved into the Atlantean priesthood and church that was wholly dedicated to religion and based in their holy city in the middle of the Atlantean mainland. Another became the mainstream ‘mages’ of lore, an order dedicated to pursuing the knowledge and dominion of nature. This group, which later split into countless schools and orders, will gradually transform Atlantis over thousands of years into a spectacularly advanced and complete civilization. The third decided to retain their ancient ways, and continue the integration of religion, politics, science and mysticism of the early Melchi. However the third order was a dwindling minority as there were too few candidates with the diverse talents suited to the demanding training in so many fields. And the increasing materialism of Atlantean society brought about by growing prosperity, coupled with the competition by the other two orders worsened their situation. After a few thousand years, the third order disappeared from history and only scattered remnants of what became known as the ‘mad mages’ survived.
But before the demise of the third order, the last true Melchi, those who led the Exodus, had conceived another plan to ensure the future of the Atlantean nations. These Melchi lived an exceptionally long time by later standards, and it was rumored that a few of the early Melchi even lived till the end of the third order. In any case, in the first thousand years of the Settlement, when the old ways of the Melchi were in danger of dying out, the remaining Melchi and their disciples in the third order decided to use all the means at their disposal to solve what they saw as the chief problem of Atlantean civilization—the increasing ‘degeneration’ of the Atlantean population. For in the pre-Exodus days, the seven tribes had a relatively small population that was centered (through education and subtle spiritual influence) around great Melchi. This situation produced an exceptionally healthy, refined and intelligent population that persevered in peace and civilization through thousands of years of nomadic wandering.
With the massive growth of the Atlantean population and economy, the death of the pre-exodus Melchi and the relative dwindling of the third order, the Atlantean population were growing more and more ‘ordinary’ and like their old neighbors in Africa—increasingly dominated by greed, hatred and ignorance. Since there was no practical way of increasing their numbers, the Melchi and their disciples decided on the risky and unprecedented way of replicating their spiritual influence in physical vessels. Thus was initiated the fateful forging of the Atlantean Stones, the greatest achievement of human technology before or since.
These stones, more than a hundred in number, were designed as windows to the spiritual world. Each of them emanated a powerful and specific wave of beneficent energy, and coordinated by eleven master stones, all of them resonated with each other to create an all-encompassing field of energies wide enough to envelope the entire land of Atlantis and every living thing there. Thus, all Atlanteans, whether they know it or not, lived in a spiritual atmosphere of intense truth and light and harmony. Children and the unborn especially were intended to benefit from this arrangement due to their heightened receptiveness. Clearly, it was man’s first attempt to shape the direction of his evolution.
Additionally, the founding Melchis had long mapped the inner worlds, and mastered their spiritual and occult energies. Through the Stones, they sought to incarnate many of these forces on earth so that those who come after them can work with these forces with much greater facility. Collectively, the Stones form a ‘circuitry’ that readily makes available on the physical plane a vast range of important occult energies that are usually reached with immense difficulty. It is as if the ladder of creation has been flattened, turned into a wheel, and pressed onto the earth. Unlike the cumbersome machinery of the modern world, the Stones, like other living beings, have subtle bodies that allow their energies to be reached and channeled with concentrated thought and will from anywhere—so long as the user is properly empowered and has the requisite knowledge. Subsidiary artifacts also exist to allow the more efficient channeling of the stones and their powers—but these are not essential. Collectively, this ‘infrastructure’ empowered the mass efficient weaving of miraculous feats, machinery and artifacts inconceivable in our current cycle of civilisation.
In another fateful move, the forgers of the Stones made them practically indestructible. The whole work was also done over centuries of secrecy to ensure an absence of opposition. Both measures were meant to ensure the perpetual influence of the Stones after the Melchi themselves are gone. And indeed, their plan worked magnificently. The degeneration of the Atlantean race was eventually arrested, and the other two orders were invigorated. For thousands of years, peace and harmony flourished in Atlantis, and the Atlantean people evolved into perhaps the most beautiful, civilized and powerful race ever seen on the face of earth. Thus was born the legend of the Atlanteans as a semi-divine race, the children of the gods. The regeneration came however too late and too slowly to save the third order from extinction, and soon after the final Stones were forged, their creators faded away.
The original guardians of the Stones were of course the third order, but with their dwindling numbers they were forced to hide the stones in special complexes in the mountains and the wilderness. When the third order ended, the mysterious ‘mad mages’ took over the stewardship of most of the stones. However the knowledge of their construction was lost. Some stones even went missing (but not destroyed), but regardless the whole matrix of energy throughout Atlantis was maintained for many thousands of years.
One consequence of this field over Atlantis was the Atlanteans were never very comfortable anywhere outside Atlantis—though almost none of them knew why. Most will simply attribute this to the innate ‘holiness’ of the Atlantean motherland. Serious colonization efforts outside of Atlantis (other than the Atlantean isles around the mainland) were never undertaken. The only exception was the great Return, but that shall not be elaborated upon here. Thus regardless of the Atlanteans’ great achievements in technology, their legendary wealth and relatively massive population, they did not spread across the globe like the latter Europeans. Another reason for this lack of colonization was of course the Atlanteans’ continuing inclination (mostly) towards pacifism. Missionary efforts however were pursued in earnest. Thus did the Atlantean religion, language and culture spread over thousands of years to the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and some parts of the Far East. The Americas were relatively untouched due to several massacres of Atlantean missionaries.
Thus was initiated the first world civilization.
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