The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JULY 1933
We call your especial attention to the copyright date of 1894—before we had airplanes, airships, submarines, radios or television, all of which are plainly described in the book as having been commonly in use in Atlantis; not to speak of greater things claimed to be waiting to come forth for our use in the near future.
The book is attested to have been dictated to a youth of eighteen years, having but slight knowledge of the subjects treated therein, by the author from the spirit realms; who told in great detail of his life in Atlantis of that period and who later reincarnated in America and tells of his life there and of his instruction in a mysterious Brotherhood whose temple was hidden in the slopes of Mount Shasta in the state of Washington. But we will let him tell in his own words the interesting things we want you to know (the italics are ours):
“Electric service? Electric power? Indeed, we had deepest knowledge of this motor-force of the universe; we used it in countless ways which have yet to be re-discovered in this modern world of ours, and ways, too, which are every day coming more and more into recollection as men and women of that past age reincarnate in this.
“It is not strange that thou art incredulous, my friend, when I speak of these inventions which thou hast considered the special property of today; but I speak from a knowledge born of experience, seeing that I lived then, and live now; lived not only in Poseid (as Atlantis was named then) twelve thousand years ago, but also in the United States of America, before, during and after the War of Secession.
“We drew our electrical energies partly from the waves beating the ocean shores; more largely from the rise and fall of the tides; from mountain torrents and from chemicals; but chiefly from what might aptly be termed the ‘Night-Side of
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