Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - Horus Centre

inhospitable arctic regions which begin at 55 degrees latitude in eastern America, do not start
until 70 degrees north latitude in Norway. Unaffected by the Gulf Stream, Labrador is sub-arctic
though at the same latitude as England.
If the Gulf Stream’s influence were removed, by, say a large continental island in the middle
of the Atlantic such as Atlantis was supposed to have been, it would mean that the climate of
north-western Europe would undergo a radical change, and would then become normal for that
kind of latitude.
During the Pleistocene Epoch of Earth’s history, there was about the same amount of ice
cover to the east of the Atlantic as there was to the west. Both continents were buried under huge
ice caps that occasionally reached as far down as 50 degrees north latitude. The limits of
glaciation leave their mark in the form of piled up rock called terminal moraines. The belts of
terminal moraines found in Canada and Europe, which indicate the southern limit of advance of
inland ice sheets, clearly show that during the Ice Age northwestern Europe did not enjoy a better
climate than northeastern America. Thus it can be concluded that the Gulf Stream did not flow or
did not reach northwest Europe during that time, blocked as it would have been at the time by the
remaining islands of Atlantis.
Experts differ as to exactly when the Earth moved into its fifth geological age. Experts using
different criteria place the time from 20,000 to 8,000 years ago. One scientist counting the bands
of Swedish varved clay, arrived at an “optimum” of 12,000 to 10,000 years BC, the time when the
final remnants of Atlantis were supposed to have sunk beneath the ocean. This means that much
of England and most of Northern Europe only became hospitable for human habitation after the
sinking of Atlantis. As we can see from recorded history, this is exactly the time when civilization
began to take root on the European continent.
It is also postulated that the Mayans, being one of the outerlying colonies of Atlantis which
survived the global changes of that time, date their calendar from the destruction of Atlantis . . .
June 5, 8498 BC, just as the Romans began counting their calendar from the founding of Rome
and the Christians from the birth of Christ.
Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis readings are important to a concept of our history, not only because
they were given to help individuals, but also because they were given to help mankind. They point
out very strongly the cyclical nature of history—those things which we do not learn from and
which keep cropping up again and again until we learn their hard lessons. In the case of the life
readings dealing with past incarnations in Atlantis then, the problems described seem to have a
special urgency, a special relevance to the events going on today.
According to Cayce, many of the people he did readings for who lived in Atlantis were
active, influential, and capable individuals. His suggestion in these readings, however, is that
these past Atlanteans are once again incarnating on the planet in hope that they may once again
be able to greatly influence the world events currently taking place—that is, to right some wrongs,
to heal some old wounds, and potentially to divert the course of world events away from further
destruction.
Much has been written about Atlantis, but it is Ignatius Donnelly in particular who, much like
Churchward for Lemuria, is the best-known proponent of its existence. As W. Scott-Elliot says of
Donnelly’s arguments for the existence of Atlantis, they excited a good deal of interest and
respect when he made them in 1882. Today, however, they would probably be dismissed by
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