{"id":1082,"date":"2010-05-06T05:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T05:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/john-s-gordon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:30:41","slug":"john-s-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/john-s-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon, John S."},"content":{"rendered":"

John S. <\/strong>G<\/strong>ordon <\/strong>(1946-2013 ) <\/strong>was a senior fellow of the Theosophical Society of England and is the author of two books with an Atlantis connection \u2013 T<\/em>he <\/em>R<\/em>ise and <\/em>F<\/em>all of <\/em>A<\/em>tlantis<\/em>[<\/sup>339<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> and E<\/em>gypt: \"john_gordon\"<\/a><\/em>C<\/em>hild of <\/em>A<\/em>tlantis<\/em>[<\/sup>338<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>. <\/b>Mark Newbrook has written a short, but critical review of the former(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

In his books, he considers a radical re-appraisal of the age of the Egyptian civilisation, as he was convinced that Plato\u2019s 9000 years are to be taken literally.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Gordon proposed that in addition to Plato\u2019s story recounting a real civilisation, his narrative also contains \u2018a complex metaphor for cosmic creation.\u2019 However, neither book brings us any nearer to locating Atlantis and is of little value to serious Atlantis seekers. He constantly quoted Blavatsky as a reliable source and is quite happy to accept Cayce\u2019s \u2018revelation\u2019 that the Atlanteans had flying machines. This begs the question, that with such a technological advantage, how were they defeated by the Athenians?<\/p>\n

Gordon suggests that the region of the Canaries<\/a> and the Azores<\/a> was the most likely location for Atlantis, which was destroyed by the eruption of a supervolcano, and suggests that Atlantean migrants founded that ancient Egypt civilisation. However, nobody has addressed the unavoidable questions that flow from that idea. Firstly, is it credible that the Egyptians would not have recorded such a pedigree and related it to Solon? And secondly, is it not strange that the Atlanteans would launch an attack on their own relatives?<\/p>\n

In 2012 Gordon returned to the subject of very ancient origins of the Egyptians with the publication of Land of the Fallen Star Gods<\/em>[<\/sup>1110<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>, \u00a0which is a re-working of Egypt: Child of Atlantis<\/em>. Along with recycling of earlier material, he also re-introduces us to the colourful concept of ‘the cosmic dung ball’!<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> \u00a0https:\/\/www.hallofmaat.com\/atlantis\/the-rise-fall-of-atlantis-and-the-mysterious-origins-of-human-civilization\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John S. Gordon (1946-2013 ) was a senior fellow of the Theosophical Society of England and is the author of two books with an Atlantis connection \u2013 The Rise and Fall of Atlantis[339] and Egypt: Child of Atlantis[338]. Mark Newbrook has written a short, but critical review of the former(a). In his books, he considers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,79,28,3922,82,2555,3923,146,2256],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azores","tag-blavatsky","tag-canaries","tag-cosmic-dung-ball","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-egyptians","tag-j-s-gordon","tag-solon","tag-theosophical-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66549,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/66549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}