THE LOST ATLANTIS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4365, 13 January 1922, Page 3

THE LOST ATLANTIS.

WILL IT BE FOUND I Mr Mitchell-Hedges, the explorer and famous big-game hunter, will very soon be setting out on his expedition to South America, one of the objects of which (as was recently ex-> plained in the "Daily Express”) will be to cast fresh light on the history of that mysterious race, the Aztecs of Mexico.' Their stone idols bear a strange resemblance to those of ann cient Egypt, and Mr Mitchell-Hedges hopes, among other things, to solve the problem of their common origin by searching that treasure ground untouched for millions of years, the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. He may also in the course of his researches throw new light, perhaps, on that other entrancing, subject, the lost continent of Atlantis,’ which tradition has long held to be the missing link between the two, and which was well known to Plato, writing 500 years before the birth of Christ. In this connection the so-called "re vealed truths” of the Theosophists aie curiously fascinating, although as reliable data off 'little, if any, material value. They tell us that where the Atlantic flows there was once this continent called "Atlantis,” and that under the Pacific there lay .an even more ancient continent of “Lemur.” The people of Atlantis, they assert, were so clever as to be diabolical. They had conquered the laws of nature, and they had airships that would put our present ones to shame, insomuch as they sailed by natural forces, not by petrol or machinery. They also had magicians, who were remarkable for the art of ! manufacturing artificial elementals of extreme virulence and power. Their animals could speak, and at the time of the destruction of the Ati lantls had to be quieted by the offering of blood, lest they should awaken their masters, the magicians, and warn them of their impending Instruction. Apart from these strange beasts, they created other artificial entities of power and energy so tremendous that it is darkly hinted that some of them have kept themselves in existence to this day although It is, roughly, some 4,000.000 years since Atlantis was destroyed.

They name the terrible Indian goddess, whose devotees were compelled to commit In her name the awful crimes of Thuggu. The ghastly "Kali,” worshipped even :o this day, with rites too abominable to be described”, might well be a relic of a system which had to be swept away even at the cost of the submerging of a continent and the loss of 65,000,000 lives. We are told, too, that the men of Atlantis had but one eye, placed in the centre of the forehead. Strangly enough, it has been but recently dis' cpvered by modern medical scientists there are all the nerves for an eye. in that position in our foreheads, ini dicatlng that at some remote period there was an eye there. The .world, they say, is to be destroyed seven times alternatively by water and Are. It Is easy to see the Bible Flood was utilised here, just as the period of Atlantis ifs based, bn the Hindu calculation of the world’s history. which was divided un into four periods, as follow's: Years. Satya Yuga — 1,728000 Treta Yuga — l,296;000 Dwapara Yuga 864,000 Kall Yuga — 432000 4,320,000 And the Kali Yuga began about B.C 3004, according to the Hindu beliefs. They also tell us among other probable and Interesting things that the Pyramids are built, of material that Is only; found in South America. How came it transported to Egypt ? We know that the floor under th 71 Atlantic is like a tableland, and per haps we are now on the verge of un imaginable discoveries through thU expedition that is setting out to fry fo solve some of the hidden mysteries of that old world which Columbus called the new.