The Story of Atlantis - Complete Historical, Geographical & Ethnological Study (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Illustrated by four maps of the world's configuration at different periodsBy William Scott-Elliot
Length3h 4m
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William Scott-Elliot's The Story of Atlantis presents an ambitious occult history of a vanished continent, combining geography, ethnology, dynastic narrative, and civilizational speculation into a single synthetic account. Written in the late Victorian theosophical milieu, the book adopts the tone of scientific reconstruction while relying on esoteric sources and "clairvoyant" inquiry. Its style is orderly, confident, and taxonomic, reflecting nineteenth-century fascination with racial origins, lost worlds, and alternative histories of human development. Scott-Elliot was a Scottish theosophist closely associated with the intellectual currents of the Theosophical Society, whose members sought to reconcile ancient wisdom traditions with modern evolutionary and historical models. His work was shaped by the era's appetite for comparative religion, archaeology, imperial ethnography, and speculative prehistory. Atlantis offered him a framework through which to explain cultural diffusion, human variation, and spiritual evolution beyond the limits of conventional scholarship. This book is recommended for readers interested in esoteric literature, Victorian occultism, and the cultural history of Atlantis as an idea. It should not be approached as academic history, but as a revealing document of theosophical imagination and late nineteenth-century alternative thought.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length3 hrs 4 mins
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Publish dateDec 13, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of Atlantis - Complete Historical, Geographical & Ethnological Study (Annotated)
2The Story of Atlantis – Complete Historical, Geographical & Ethnological Study
3PREFACE.
4A Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch. (pt. 1)
5A Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch. (pt. 2)
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6MAPS
7Memorable Quotes
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