Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Atlantis and Lemuria craze: The novelist, the ‘source’ and the hoax

The Lost Continent by Cutcliffe Hyne [1900]
Victorian-era Atlantis story where Hyne sets the story in the last decadent years of Atlantis, which disappears under the waves 'in a single day.'.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/tlc/index.htm





Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866–1944), also known by the pen name Weatherby Chesney, was a novelist. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, which was published as part of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, as well as his Captain Kettle stories.





A Dweller on Two Planets by Phylos the Thibetan [Frederick S. Oliver] [1905]
This book is openly acknowledged as source material for many new age belief systems. Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Claire Prophet and Shirley MacLaine.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm







How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization by Dr. Paul Schliemann [1912]
A famous and often cited Atlantis hoax.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/hif/index.htm

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