Our Story of Atlantis

About this book

Atlantis becomes a remembered spiritual homeland in W. P. Phelon's account. Its vanished society provides a stage for questions about early humanity, moral development and the supposed survival of ancient knowledge.

Our Story of Atlantis is one of the nineteenth-century works that helped turn the lost island into an elaborate esoteric past. Phelon's reconstruction follows the assumptions of his movement, with no archaeological basis for the civilisation described. The interest lies in the imaginative freedom of a history that cannot be checked, and in the spiritual hopes its author chooses to place there.