Atlantis
The Empire of the WestThe Atlantic civilization and its legacy in two worlds.
From the heart of the Atlantic, Atlantis radiated its science and its Law. When the waters swallowed it, its priests carried wisdom to Egypt, the Andes and Mesoamerica. These gateways hold the footprints of the submerged empire — from the Bimini Road to the pyramids that repeat, in stone, the memory of a lost homeland.
Sources & Readings
We present real places through a symbolic, mythic reading. The works below are the traditions that inspire this path — not archaeological proof.
- Timeu & Crítias— Platão(c. 360 a.C.)Classical text
The original source of the myth: the Egyptian priests of Saïs recount to Solon the island beyond the Pillars of Heracles and its sinking.
- Atlantis: The Antediluvian World— Ignatius Donnelly(1882)Book
The founding text of modern Atlantis: proposed the continent as the diffusing cradle of all ancient civilizations.
- A Doutrina Secreta— Helena P. Blavatsky(1888)Book
In Theosophical cosmology, Atlantis is the Fourth Root Race — a link in the great chain of soul evolution.
- Leituras sobre Atlântida (Poseidia)— Edgar Cayce(1923–1944)Psychic readings
Identified Poseidia near Bimini and foresaw its rising in 1968–69 — the root of the Bimini ⇄ Atlantis link.
- The History of Atlantis— Lewis Spence(1926)Book
A scholarly systematization of the Atlantean myth and the cultural routes said to link the Atlantic to two worlds.
- O Segredo da Atlântida— Otto Muck(1976)Book
The German engineer who dated the fall of Atlantis to 8498 BC and tied it to an asteroid impact in the Atlantic — a bridge between myth and natural catastrophe.
- Fingerprints of the Gods— Graham Hancock(1995)Book
Argues for an advanced mother civilization destroyed in the Younger Dryas cataclysm (~10,800 BC), whose wisdom is said to have seeded later cultures.
- Atlantis and the Cycles of Time— Joscelyn Godwin(2011)Book
Esoteric historian who maps how Atlantis runs through Theosophy, Traditionalism and fringe science — a guide to the currents we inherit.
The heritage we receive comes from Plato, Theosophy and Cayce’s readings, and echoes in modern authors such as Otto Muck, Graham Hancock and Joscelyn Godwin. It is striking that Plato’s 11,600 years coincide with the end of the Ice Age and the Younger Dryas cataclysm — a meeting of myth and geology that fascinates us. We also acknowledge the academic hypothesis that sees in Thera/Santorini and the Minoan civilization a historical root of the tale. The selection of these gateways — from Bimini and Richat to the pyramids on both shores of the Atlantic — and their reading as footprints of a single empire is Gaia Gateways’ own synthesis, not an archaeological claim.
The Memories of Gaia gather narratives handed down through the ages — legends, spiritual traditions and accounts that cross centuries. The places are real; the stories, however, hold no historical consensus nor scientific proof. We do not present ourselves as a source of factual truth: we offer the symbolic weave and leave the conclusion to those who read, feel and research.