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of the Road was visible at low tide, when its location was even designated “a
navigational hazard.” Older natives still living in the 1990s personally testified
they saw waves washing over the tops of the stones on numerous occasions when
they were young, although most inhabitants of the island avoided the site with
superstitious dread. In the early 1920s, a Florida salvage company dismantled the
structure down to its bottom course. The blocks were removed to Miami, where
they were used as fill for the city’s new quayside.
Cayce may in fact have described the Bimini Road as early as 1932. He said in
a reading for May 5:
This we find (at Poseidia) not an altogether walled city, but a portion
of same built so that the waters of these rivers became as the pools
about which both sacrifice and sport, and those necessities for the
cleansing of the body, home and all, were obtained, and these—kept
constantly in motion so that it purified itself in its course;—water in
motion over stone—purifies itself in twenty feet of space.
The base of the Bimini Road is 1 foot short of 20 feet underwater. Rivers do not
exist on the island today, but they did in its geologic past. Cayce seems to have
portrayed the Road, not as part of a harbor, but a ritual and recreational feature.
Ongoing investigations at Bimini with increasingly sophisticated search tech-
nology may prove that “the Place of the Encircling Walls” was indeed Cayce’s
Alta, where ships 3,000 years ago, heavy-laden with copper ore mined in North
America, replenished their provisions of fresh water on the last leg of their return
voyages to Atlantis.
(Cayce 364-12 5/6/32)Blake, William
Famed English poet and artist (1757 to 1827) whose visionary style—radically
advanced for his own time—is still highly valued by modern audiences. In his free
verse epic, America, Blake wrote of “those vast, shady hills between America and
Albion’s shore now barred out by the Atlantic Ocean, called Atlantean hills.”A lone, square pillar lies half buried in the sand,
under 19 feet of water, at Bimini’s Moselle
Shoals. Photograph by William Donato.This block at the Bimini Road is similar to other
“fingerprint masonry” found in the Andean walls
at Cuzco, Machu Picchu, and Sacsahuaman.
Photograph by William Donato.