Reports of Atlantis were read between 1924 and 1944. They represent the most fantastic, bizarre, incredible information in a series of messages from the famous clairvoyant Edgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce argues that the inhabitants of Atlantis used airplanes and submarines, and possessed advanced technologies that surpassed the level achieved in the 20th century. Also, the inhabitants of Atlantis were experts in "remote photography" and "reading inscriptions through walls, even at a distance."
Keyes says that “the electric knife used to cut metals was shaped so that it could be used as a microsurgery tool today. Due to its properties of stopping blood, the knife caused the formation of coagulation forces when entering large arteries or veins or operations on them."
There is reason to believe that survivors from Atlantis brought to Egypt “electronic music, in which color, vibration and liveliness helped to tune in to the emotions of individuals or nations. This provided the opportunity to change their morals. The same was applied in general to change the temperaments of individuals for the sake of treating mental illness. The music corresponded to the natural vibrations of the body."
Keyes spoke of "a deadly ray that emanated from the very womb of the Earth and, when used with power sources, caused the destruction of parts of the land."
This "deadly beam" could have been a laser: the author of the Atlantis study reported in 1933 that the beam "would be discovered within the next twenty-five years." He spoke of "electrical appliances used by these people in beautiful buildings." The inhabitants of Atlantis were skilled “in the use of electrical forces and influences, especially in connection with their effect and in view of this effect on metals. The same impact was used for the beneficiation of metals and the discovery of other deposits. They were just as adept at using various forms of transporting electrical forces and influences, or transforming them through these influences."
At the same time, Keyes said: in Atlantis, they used electric current to process metals. But there is no evidence that the ancients knew anything about electricity, let alone the possibility of using it in metallurgy. In 1938, Dr. Wilhelm Koening, a German archaeologist, took an inventory of artifacts at the Iraqi State Museum in Baghdad. He noticed an incredible similarity between a set of earthenware jars, which were two millennia old, with a series of dry cell batteries. His curiosity was aroused by the peculiar internal parts of the jugs, each of which contained a copper cylinder, closed at the bottom by a disc (also made of copper) and sealed with asphalt.
Several years later, Dr. Koening's assumptions were tested. Willard Gray, an engineer at the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has completed work on a replica of the Baghdad pitchers. He found that an iron rod inserted into a copper tube and filled with citric acid generated an electric current with a voltage of 1.5 to 2.75 V. This is enough to cover the object with gold. Gray's experiment demonstrated that ancient craftsmen could use electricity for practical purposes in metalworking.
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There is no doubt that the "Baghdad battery", which has since received this name, was not the first device of this type. This device represented an unknown technology that predates it by perhaps thousands of years. It included much more outstanding achievements in electrical engineering, long lost by the time of the creation of the "Baghdad battery".
According to Keyes, the inhabitants of Atlantis were not limited to the use of electricity in metallurgy. Atlantis resorted to "using sound waves on the basis of principles that made it possible to use light communications," he said.
In the construction business in Atlantis, "hoists and connecting pipes operated with compressed air and steam" operated.
Atlantis technology extended to aeronautics. Air ships made of elephant skins were transformed "into containers for gases, which were used to lift into the air and move aircraft around various parts of the continent and even beyond its borders … They could cross not only land areas, but also fly over water spaces."
Human-controlled aircraft are practically the emblem of our time. From our point of view, references to aeronautics by the ancients seem incredible. But a number of serious researchers believe that Peruvian travelers on balloons, two millennia before our time, could survey the famous lines in the Nazca desert from the air.
Despite the stubborn reluctance to take Cayce's statements at his word, there is some inaccurate, but very tempting, evidence that suggests that there were man-controlled aircraft in the ancient world.
The earliest reliable records of air travel date back to the 5th century BC, before the birth of Plato. The Greek scientist Ar-hit from Tarentum built a kite out of leather. The lifting force of the kite was sufficient to support the weight of a person. This innovation was used in practice by the Greek armies - this is the earliest example of aerial reconnaissance.
A more startling discovery was made almost at the end of the 19th century in the Upper Nile Valley. The famous writer and researcher David Hetcher Childress has beautifully recounted this story: “In 1898, a model was found in an Egyptian tomb near Saqqara. She was given the name "bird". In the catalog of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, it is registered as object 6347. Then, in 1969, Dr. Khalil Massiha was shocked to see that the "bird" had not only straight wings, but also a vertical tail. From the point of view of Dr. Massich, the object represented a model of an airplane. The “bird” is made of wood, weighs 39.12 g, and is in good condition.
The wingspan is 18 cm, the nose length of the aircraft is 3.2 cm, the total length is 18 cm. The aircraft itself and the wing tips have an aerodynamic shape. Apart from the symbolic eye and two short lines under the wings, there are no other decorations on the model, and there is also no landing gear. Experts have tested the model and found that it meets the requirements for aircraft."
In total, during archaeological excavations in Egypt, fourteen such aircraft models were found. It is interesting to note that the Saqqara model was found in an archaeological area associated with the earliest dynastic periods, the beginning of the civilization of the pharaohs. This gives reason to believe that the aircraft is not one of the newest achievements, but belongs to the first years of civilization in the Nile Valley.
Anomalous Egyptian artifacts may, in fact, be models of real objects that were ruled by our ancestors from Atlantis. A wooden model of a working glider in the Cairo Museum suggests that the ancient Egyptians, at least, understood the fundamental principles of man-controlled flight of objects heavier than air. Perhaps this knowledge was the only legacy that has survived from earlier times. That is, before these principles found serious application.
The quotation is taken from Childress's book The Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis (co-authored by Ivan Sendersen). It provides the most complete study of this topic. Childress has amassed astonishing evidence of the earliest Indian tradition of flying machines believed to have taken off in antiquity.
Known at the time as vimanas, they are mentioned in the famous Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as in the lesser known, earlier Indian epic, Drona Parva.
Aircraft are discussed in startling technical detail in a number of ancient Indian manuscripts. Classical sources such as Vimaanika Shastra, Manusya and Samarangana Sutradhara provide additional descriptions of "air machines." They are believed to have been operated on in distant "prehistoric" times.
Each of these epics tells about the past, distant times, dating back, it is believed, to the last warlike years before the catastrophe of Atlantis. Childress's astounding material from primary sources dating to the dawn of Indian literature is incontrovertible proof of the description of aircraft operating in Atlantis. This is what Casey discussed at the time. However, it should be understood: the vimanas had nothing to do with modern aviation. Their motive power is completely different from internal combustion engines or jet engines. They also have nothing to do with aeronautics in the modern sense.
Apparently, there were two types of aircraft operating in Atlantis: controlled air-filled devices and vimaanas. The latter vehicles are heavier than air, they were controlled from a central power source on the ground. Vimana is an aeronautical technology that goes beyond the known achievements in this field. But balloons, according to Cayce's descriptions, are characterized by a number of features that imply reliability.
He reports that the shell of the apparatus was made of elephant skins. Perhaps they must have been too heavy to serve as a container for any gas that was lighter than air. But lighter, expanding, sealed elephant bladders could also be used. In any case, Cayce writes - Atlantis used animals that lived on its territory.
In "Kritiya" it is also reported that elephants were found in abundance on the island of Atlantis. Skeptics for a long time (until the 1960s) believed that Plato was wrong to include this discrepancy in his description. But in the 1960s. oceanographers unexpectedly lifted hundreds of elephant bones from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean two hundred miles west of the coast of Portugal from a number of different sites of interest. Scientists have come to the conclusion - in ancient times, these animals roamed the narrow isthmus, which is currently under water, and in prehistoric times connected the Atlantic coast of North Africa with Europe. This discovery instills special confidence not only in the work of Plato, but also in the work of Cayce.
Submarines that existed before the 5th century BC are no less amazing. Greek historian Herodotus and Roman naturalist of the 1st century A. D. Pliny the Elder, as well as Aristotle, wrote about submarines. Aristotle's most famous student, Alexander the Great, was reported to have boarded a glass-clad submarine on his spectacular underwater voyage in the Eastern Mediterranean around 320 BC.
These submersible vehicles date back to around the 23rd century BC. But Atlantis disappeared from the face of the Earth a millennium earlier. Even if this is so, if such inventions occurred in ancient times, they could be operated during the Bronze Age.
The achievements of the ancients in aeronautics pale in comparison with the greater successes achieved by the scientists of Atlantis: “In the splitting of the atom and in the release of nuclear forces used as a driving force for vehicles, for lifting huge loads, for changing the surface of the Earth, for using the forces of nature itself - considered Edgar Cayce.
His work explains that explosives were invented in Atlantis. Seven years earlier, Case referred to what he called "the period when the first explosives were made."
Ignatius Donnelly, the father of modern Atlantis science, wrote earlier that explosives were developed in Atlantis.
Cayce explained: such an advanced society was created in Atlantis, because civilization there developed over a more or less continuous historical period, which ended in a final catastrophe. Cultural evolution has been fostered by centuries of development in which scientifically based arts flourished and perfected. This is the knowledge and application of the power of crystals. With its help, the driving forces of nature were somehow directed to the service of man and his needs. Transportation by air and under the surface of the sea was carried out, the whole world of Atlantis was enmeshed in a web of long-distance communications.
We do not understand the high level of material progress that existed in prehistoric times. We believe that such progress is beyond our imaginations. But many more well-known civilizations have managed to achieve technological breakthroughs that were forgotten in their downfall, and sometimes reopened only after millennia. Until the last century, we could not rise to the level of the Maya from Central America, in the knowledge of celestial mechanics. The agricultural practices abandoned by the Spanish conquest produced crops that were three times that of Peru today using modern methods.
When Plato wrote about Atlantis, his Greek contemporaries sailed on the ship Alexandria. It is a gigantic vessel over four hundred feet in length. Ships like him will appear only after two thousand years. The pregnancy test used by the eighteenth dynasty Egyptians did not reappear until the 1920s. As for Egypt, our contemporary outstanding engineers do not have the knowledge to reproduce the Great Pyramid in every detail. Of course, with the fall of the ancient civilization, much more has been lost than has been discovered so far.
Moreover, our times are not the only ones when brilliant and inventive people were born. The fact that they were able to create complex technologies in other, long-forgotten eras, in a different, long-forgotten society, should not put too much pressure on us.
And if one of those lost eras belongs to a place known as Atlantis, then we know about it thanks to the works of the most influential philosopher of Western civilization.
An excerpt from Douglas Kenyon's book "Forbidden History" 2005 (translated into Russian 2011)