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latter, culminating eventually in the Atlantean cataclysm. In this interpretation of

the past, he opposed Marxism. To him, spirit, not economics, drives history.

Steiner died on March 30, 1925, in Dornach, Switzerland, where his “school

of spiritual science” had been founded 12 years earlier.

Sterope

The third Pleiade, an Atlantis (“daughter of Atlas”), she was synonymous

for the Atlantean occupation of Etruria, in west-central Italy, through her son’s

foundation of Pisa, the Etruscan Pisae.

(See Etruscans, Pleiades)

Stonehenge

The world’s most famous megalithic site, located on England’s Salisbury Plain,

evidences several important Atlantean features. For example, the sacred numerals, 5

and 6, incorporated in Atlantean architecture, according to Plato, recur throughout

Stonehenge. The structure even resembles the concentric city-plan of Atlantis itself.

Stonehenge was first laid out by

3000 B.C., began to reach the

apex of its construction 1,500

years later, and was suddenly

discontinued around 1200 B.C.

Its development, use, and aban-

donment parallel Atlantean

immigration at the close of the

fourth millennium B.C., the ze-

nith of Atlantis as the foremost

Bronze Age civilization, and the

final destruction in 1198 B.C.

(See Mestor)

Strath-Gordon, Alexander Edmund Ronald

Internationally renowned speaker and founder of a society for the investigation

of Atlantis, which both influenced and networked important, early 20th-century

Atlantologists.

Dr. Strath-Gordon was born in 1873, in Aberdeen-Huntly, Scotland, and

educated at Rugby school. Following graduation with highest honors from the

Edinburgh University medical school, he entered the British Army which stationed

him with the Cree Indians of northwest Canada. During his seven years in the

Stonehenge’s most significant periods and physical features

closely coincide with the rise and fall of Atlantis.