Ireland Was the Last Outpost of Atlantis

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Atlantean Realities Series · 3 pages

Three pages, and the shortest document in the series — a brief note from the Miscellaneous Notes of Blavatsky Collected Writings, written in connection with an article by Dr C. Carter Blake on the possible survival of the Atlantean type. Its claim is simple and stated without elaboration: that what is now Ireland was once the abode of the Atlanteans, emigrants from the submerged island Plato describes, and that of all the British Isles Ireland is the most ancient by several thousand years.

What makes the note worth reading is its candour about its own standing. Blavatsky states plainly that inferences and working hypotheses are left to the ethnologists, anthropologists and geologists; that the Masters and keepers of the old science claim to have preserved genuine records; and that Theosophists — most of them, she allows — believe it implicitly. Official science may deny it, she adds, and asks what that matters, given that science has begun by denying almost everything it now accepts. It is a small piece, but an unusually clear statement of the epistemic position the rest of the series argues from.

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