{"id":538,"date":"2010-01-18T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=538"},"modified":"2022-05-23T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:15:19","slug":"occult-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/occult-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Occult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An<\/strong> <strong>O<\/strong><strong>ccult <\/strong>connection with Atlantis was first suggested by Blavatsky with a very brief mention in her earliest (1877) book, <em>I<\/em><em>sis <\/em><em>U<\/em><em>nveiled<\/em> <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>1834<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><em>,<\/em> and then cashing in on the popularity of Donnelly\u2019s book, let her imagination run riot with a lengthier elaboration in <em>S<\/em><em>ecret<\/em><em> D<\/em><em>octrine <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">1495<\/a>]<\/sup><em>. <\/em>Her literary lunacy was eagerly accepted by her gullible followers in the Theosophical Society.\u00a0 A German variant of theosophy was developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/steiner-rudolf\/\">Rudolf Steiner <\/a>with even more bizarre claims regarding Atlantis. Waldorf schools founded by Steiner are still operating today and continue to draw accusations of racism<sup>(a)(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spence-james-lewis-thomas-chalmers\/\">Lewis Spence<\/a> was the author of <em>An Encyclopedia of Occultism<\/em> \u00a0<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">1930<\/a>]<\/sup> in 1920 and later <em>The Occult Sciences in Atlantis <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">0260<\/a>]<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A wide-ranging overview of the contribution of mystics and occultists to the question of Atlantis is provided in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/godwin-joscelyn\/\">Joscelyn Godwin\u2019s <\/a>book, <em>Atlantis and the Cycles of Time <\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>746<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waldorfcritics.org\/active\/articles.html\">http:\/\/www.waldorfcritics.org\/active\/articles.html#Racism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/waldorfwatch.com\/\">http:\/\/waldorfwatch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Occult connection with Atlantis was first suggested by Blavatsky with a very brief mention in her earliest (1877) book, Isis Unveiled [1834], and then cashing in on the popularity of Donnelly\u2019s book, let her imagination run riot with a lengthier elaboration in Secret Doctrine [1495]. Her literary lunacy was eagerly accepted by her gullible [&hellip;]<\/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":[1811,108,804,1125],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-helena-blavatsky","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-joscelyn-godwin","tag-rudolf-steiner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54475,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/54475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}