Survivors of Calamity

Atlantis Chapter 1 - Exploration of the World After the Flood

The origins of two great civilizations on the outer continent thousands of years apart were in neither case by accident. The late rise of American power is well studied and has a large body of official history. The origin of the older Atlantis is shrouded in the mists of time and myth, but the basic elements of the truth behind the legends may still be discerned. 

Even the myth of Atlantis seems to be based on two different historical events. The first was a world with an advanced civilization that was destroyed by the Flood.  The survivors of this Flood possessed knowledge in the form of a library, or hall of records, which enabled certain groups such as the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Sidonians to reproduce the more ancient system of measurement and technologies. 

The second event, and the primary one that Plato wrote about, was the rise of Atlantis on the Outer Continent as a Sidonian colony, its temporary domination of the center of the world, followed by its decline, and the destruction of the capital city by a localized cataclysm.

Before we dive into the details of Atlantis, the context that led to its rise must first be understood. We have many ancient traditions which tell us that after the Flood the world was divided among the patriarchs.  Rather than one central government to rule the world, it was divided into seventy sovereign nations.  Each nation was responsible directly to God for their own actions.  Therefore each nation had its own land, as well as its own king and priesthood.   We will examine the evidence for this in this chapter.

Though the ancient traditions did not use this word to describe it, this arrangement was the original multipolar order.  The fact that it was attributed to the command of God means that multipolarism is arguably the oldest geopolitical system with a claim to divine authorship.