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Is Atlantis a mythical Continent long lost in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean or is it The UB Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve?

For a UB related answer to this question read about Robert Sarmast returning to Cyprus (2006) for the next leg of the discovery of Atlantis at www.squarecircles.com

WOW!

That's amazing!

Howdy, folks.

Let's not forget Dalamatia, the headquarters of the fallen planetary prince Caligastia.

UB 67:5.4 "One hunderd and sixty-two years after the rebellion a tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated."

It seems likely to me that the myth of Atlantis is bolstered not only by the true story of the original Eden sinking into the sea some thirty-plus thousand years ago, but also by the memory of the sinking of Dalamatia into the sea some 500,000 years ago. Both were highly advanced, relative to their neighbors, and both were punished for getting too big for their britches. It's easy to imagine how over the years these two realities might merge into one myth. Atlantis.

Food for thought.

Peace,
Arc

Atlantis
http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/

P.890 - §8 About the time of these climatic changes in Africa, England separated from the continent, and Denmark arose from the sea, while the isthmus of Gibraltar, protecting the western basin of the Mediterranean, gave way as the result of an earthquake, quickly raising this inland lake to the level of the Atlantic Ocean.
P.891 - §0 Presently the Sicilian land bridge submerged, creating one sea of the Mediterranean and connecting it with the Atlantic Ocean. This cataclysm of nature flooded scores of human settlements and occasioned the greatest loss of life by flood in all the world's history.

Yes, we cannot overlook the submerged Dalmatian civilization. And it seems to me that Cypress is much further west than the peninsula that jutted out into the Mediterranean from the coast, but to my mind, Sarmast's discovery is "close enough for horseshoes."

It may not be a dead ringer, but with millions of people subscribing to and believing in the lost civilization of Atlantis described by Plato (not to mention the lost world of Lemuria), and the similarities between these popular perceptions and the Urantia Book's description of the original Garden of Eden, I think it is worth a shot.

Paul compromised with the fourth epochal revelation in order to establish what is now known as Christianity. With all its pros and cons, it is still the religion that kept the concept of Jesus alive over the past two millennia. I don't see why we can't compromise the fifth revelation once in a while in order to wrap up a few loose ends and move things along. Maybe we could throw in the early civilization of Knossos which, as I heard it, "vanished into the sea."

After reading Gerdean's post I had a flashback to a book I read in High School "There is a River" by Edgar Cayce.

Thank you all for a trip back in time.