The Atlantean Origin of Greeks and Romans

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Atlantean Realities Series · 8 pages

Eight pages, and the most compressed statement of the case the series makes repeatedly at greater length: that the old Greeks and Romans were the dwarfed and weakened remnants of the Atlantean Race — its last sub-race, already absorbed into one of the early sub-races of the Aryan stock that had been spreading across the continent and islands of Europe as they emerged from the sea.

The narrative it sets out has the progenitors of the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and the northern stocks emigrating westward from the lofty plateau of Asia and settling the new lands of Europe; the Phoenicians identified with the Cyclopes, the one-eyed race of giants; and later Atlantean offshoots invading the new continent, being defeated, and fleeing to distant lands. The Trojan War is presented not as myth but as a historical event surviving in memory as legend, and dated eight millennia ago. The methodological claim underneath is the one that separates this material from academic prehistory: where the profane ethnologist relies on relics when relics happen to survive, the occultist claims to trace the line by other means.

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