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52. What Do Intellectuals Make of Theosophy? 28 Apr 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
You know that I have pointed to ancient times of development when our civilisation did not yet exist when there has been a continent between this Europe and America, the continent of the old Atlantis. I have already pointed to the fact that this Atlantis has been found again by the naturalists. In the magazine Kosmos, 10th issue, a naturalist speaks of animals and plants which lived on this Atlantis. Indeed, such a naturalist admits this, but he does not admit that other human beings lived in those days.
Über Schopenhauer (1899) Atlantis: cf. R. Steiner CW 11 Cosmic Memory Kosmos: Theodor Arldt (1878–1960), German geographer.
The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: Whitsun: the Festival of United Soul-Endeavour 07 Jun 1908, Cologne
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

Rudolf Steiner
Let us follow the evolution of man back into ancient Atlantis. Mankind once lived in Atlantis, a continent now lying beneath the Atlantic Ocean. At that time the vast Siberian plains were covered with immense seas; the Mediterranean was differently distributed, and in Europe itself there were extensive seas.
101. Occult Signs and Symbols: Lecture I 13 Sep 1907, Stuttgart
Translated by Sarah Kurland, Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
Then the waters that were so much spread out in the air, condensed. They covered Atlantis. The Flood signifies the mighty condensation of the mist masses into water. When the water separated itself from the air, our present kind of perception came about.
In other words, herewith the proportions of a normally organized human body are given. When man emerged from the Flood of Atlantis, the proportions of his physical body corresponded to these measures. This is expressed in the Bible in a beautiful way in the following words: “And God commanded Noah to build a chest three hundred ells long, fifty ells wide, and thirty ells high.”
Awareness—Life—Form: About this volume

Hella Wiesberger
See [in German]b. Cosmic Memory. Atlantis and Lemuria, GA 11, tr. K. E. Zimmer. New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications 1971.*.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: The Spiritual Development of Man 15 Oct 1905, Hamburg

Rudolf Steiner
A being that we would hardly call human today populated the early earth. It was only with the end of Atlantis that the human ego had developed to such an extent that one can speak of a conscious ego. We know the place, near present-day Ireland, where the human ego has elevated itself to such an extent that one can speak of a conscious ego, of a consciousness soul.
266-I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 27 Aug 1909, Munich
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Today we want to occupy ourselves with occult symbols that a pupil gets to know during his development and through which the masters of wisdom and of the harmony of feelings give us wisdom that was brought over to us from Atlantean times. After Atlantis sank, great initiates led two main streams of people from west to east, on through Africa, the other through Europe.
93. The Temple Legend: Whitsuntide — Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit 23 May 1904, Berlin
Translated by John M. Wood

Rudolf Steiner
Man assumed his present-day form during the third Root Race, the time of ancient Lemuria, developed it further during the fourth Root Race, the time of ancient Atlantis, and then progressed to the fifth Root Race with what he had thus acquired. Whoever heard my Atlantis lectures9 will remember that a vivid memory of those times still existed among the Greeks.
Only in Atlantean times, at the transition from Lemuria to Atlantis, were these originally high gods transformed into non-gods.In the notes of a hitherto unpublished lecture by Rudolf Steiner, given in Berlin, 17th October 1904, the following is said: ‘If we wish to understand the point of view of spiritual evolution we must be clear about an important event of the Atlantean epoch.
109. The Principle of Spiritual Economy: On the Occasion of the Dedication of the Francis of Assisi Branch 06 Apr 1909, Malsch
Translated by Peter Mollenhauer

Rudolf Steiner
Therefore, the greatest spiritual event and deed of the post-Atlantean era had its beginning in the people who belonged to the most despised human beings in the eyes of the leaders of the Atlantean civilization, and this event gave rise to the immense spiritual progress that supports and maintains all spiritual life in our time—weaves through it and makes it productive. The events in Atlantis are paralleled by those of our time. Seeing that the germinal beginnings of man's ability to do arithmetic and to count were present in Atlantis, we can recognize how these capabilities are today furthered in a marvelous conquest of the physical plane and how they brought about all kinds of technical progress.
On the other hand, a class of plain people exists everywhere—irrespective of positions its members might hold in the world, whose hearts are filled with the mighty magnet that attracts us to spiritual life, just as people in Atlantis were attracted to a life in which the external faculties for the physical plane could be developed.
121. The Mission of Folk-Souls: Lecture Ten 16 Jun 1910, Oslo
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Whereas on the one hand we have the Indian, coming thus to his etheric body, and from this and its forces creating his mighty civilization and his magnificent spiritual life, we have coming from the other side a culture which originated in Atlantis and continued to work on in the post-Atlantean epoch; a culture which for its foundation and development works out the other side, as it were, of the consciousness of the etheric body.
Let us clairvoyantly observe the old continent of Atlantis, which must be sought where the Atlantic Ocean now lies, between Africa and Europe on the one side, and America on the other.
Thus we have there something pre-Indian, something coming from Atlantis. Let us now turn, in the further progress of the Germanic Scandinavian Folk-spirit, to the description of what follows it.
101. Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols: The First Chapters of Genesis 13 Nov 1907, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
But let us bear in mind that the ancient Persian people – not the people you have met in history, but the ones from whom these legends of the gods actually originated – belonged to the most advanced part of the masses of peoples who migrated eastward from ancient Atlantis. When the old Atlantis was swept down, it was the peoples who later moved down to India and mixed with the peoples living there, and those who settled on the soil of present-day Persia, Bactria, Media, who moved furthest east; the other peoples had remained on the soil of present-day Europe.
Now let us imagine the good spirits, whether we call them Ormuzd, as in the Persian myth, or Wotan, Wili and We, as in the Germanic myth, and see how these solar powers stream towards us. When the waters of Atlantis had been lost and the sun had been released, they worked in the sun's rays and permeated the air.

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