Message #211

[Bianca]

MYSTERIES OF ATLANTIS                                                                     continued
                                                         

Edgar Evans Cayce (E.C.'s Son)

Virginia Beach,
Virginia




THE FIRST DESTRUCTION

The first destruction of a portion of Atlantis appears to have been accidental; or to
have been caused by explosives that got out of control and triggered volcanic action: "    with the continued disregard of those who were keeping the pure race
and the pure peoples....man brought in destructive forces to be used by people that were rulers.  These destructive forces combined with those natural resources of the gases, of the electrical forces made in nature, caused volcanic eruptions in
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." (no.364-4; February 16, 1932).

Unfortunately, there is no simple chronology of events between 10,000 BC and 50,000 BC, the next definite date in the Cayce readings.  A few readings refer to a time "before the first destruction" are to some period before this first sinking.  How long before is anyone's guess.  It may be a hundred, a thousand or even a million
years.  We get the impression, because many of these references are "just before" or "prior to", that the time frame is relatively close; that is, within a few hundred or
most a few thousand years.

Two extracts mention this period and the high technology that had developed since human entry to the physical plane: "In Atlantis before destructive forces arose - associated with communications....lighter-than-air machines....radio-active forces"
(no. 1023-2, October 17, 1935).  "In Atlantis before the first destructive forces...entity builded those that made for the carrying those machines of destruction that sailed both through the air and under the water" (no. 1735-2,
October 16, 1930).

Another clue to Atlantean technology and its potential for misuse comes from a reading given in 1941: "....in Atlantean land...just preceding the first breaking up of the land when there was the use of many of those influences that ARE AGAIN
BEING DISCOVERED that the sons of Belial turned into destructive forces...intended for benefits to communications, transportation, etc." (no 2560-1, May 8, 1941).

What could Cayce have been talking about when he spoke of influences just being
discovered in 1941, which were powerful enough to cause the destruction of a country, yet could also have a beneficial use in communications and transportation?  In 1940 scientists discovered that the fission in ordinary uranium did not come from U-238, but from the isotope U-235.  In December 1942 the first sustained and controlled production of atomic energy was accomplished at the University of Chicago.  If Cayce was right, this was not the first time human beings had control of a force powerful enough to be a blessing or a curse.  Since 1941, the by-products of atomic energy development have been extremely useful.  For example, many of the most up-to-date medical procedures are an outgrowth of this development.