Ulysses Was an Atlantean Hero and Sage

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Atlantean Realities Series · 11 pages

A reading of the Odyssey as evidence rather than as literature. Homer, who preceded Plato by many centuries, also speaks of the Atlanteans and of their island — and in Blavatsky's account Atlas is a personification and symbol of the old continents of Lemuria and Atlantis combined, which is why the Odyssey makes him the guardian and supporter of the huge pillars separating the heavens from the earth.

From that the familiar descent argument follows: the old Greeks as the dwarfed and weakened remnant of a once-glorious sub-race of the Fourth Race, with Egypt and Greece, the Phoenicians and the northern stocks all proceeding from the last Atlantean sub-race already absorbed into an early sub-race of the Aryan stock. The closing sections turn to the initiatic reading of the myths themselves — the Odyssean Tityos, who grew so large that he split his mother's womb and had to be carried to term by Gaia, set beside the Initiates of Greece who were themselves called sons of Gaia. It is one of the more literary studies in the series, and a good illustration of its method: the classical texts read as garbled but recoverable records.

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