Earths Forbidden Secrets By Maxwell Igan

Chapter Six

The Lost Lands

As we now return to earth and consider what catastrophic celestial events may have actually

happened in the distant past, another nagging question and ground that many scholars loathe to
tread inevitably arises. I speak of course of the dreaded “A Word” – Atlantis. It has been the goal
of many expeditions, the source of endless debate, countless books and a myriad of theories.
The legend of Atlantis is one that has persisted for longer and captured the imagination of more
people than perhaps any than any other tale in our history. There have been countless expeditions,
archeological digs and underwater excursions made in the hope of finding some trace of the
elusive sunken land that many believe must exist but we are told that so far, few real clues to its
reality have been found. There have been many under water ruins found, like those in the
Mediterranean which is literally full of ruins, plus traces have been found off the shores of
Indonesia and other places but scholars have argued that none so far have seemed to be in the
correct location to be Atlantis – judging from what information we have to go on.
However there have been various other discoveries that don’t seem to come to public attention.
The re have been reports of structures and even pyramids that have been found underwater and
still more reports that others have been glimpsed beneath the waves on clear days by seasoned
fishermen and pilots.

A Sunken World
Our primary source of information and first real glimpse of Atlantis comes from Plato in his
two ancient works ‘Timaeus’ and ‘Critius’. These two dialogues offer us a rich glimpse into the
workings, government and infra structure of Atlantis from the perspective of Plato. There are
many people believe that these are the only two sources of the tale but such a belief could not be
further from the actual truth. There are numerous mentions of the island-continent by other
Grecian scholars who were not adding to or embellishing Plato’s original account but were in fact
corroborating it and there are other things that lend credence to Plato’s accounts as well.
One significant contributing clue is Plato’s mention of ‘the Pillars of Heracles’ (also known as
Hercules) which were apparently two pillars of gold inscribed with ancient teachings in the form
of hieroglyphs. Consider also, these other ancient references from a number of sources:

1. Such pillars are mentioned in works by a commenter of Plato’s writings called Proclus.
   Proclus mentioned that the traveler Crantor visited ‘Sais’ in Egypt as Solon had also done,