Plato, who was a mystery school initiate, located Atlantis beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the Atlantic Ocean. Pythagoras learned of Atlantis when he studied the secret teachings with the priests in the mystery temples of Egypt. Let's examine this civilization that flourished around one million years ago, on a now sunken continent.

Contrasting modern science and Christian fundamentalists, the Ancient Wisdom teaches that humanity has lived on Earth 18,000,000 years. Ancient history tells of the destruction of the Lemurian continent by subterranean fires and earthquakes millions of years ago. The annihilation of Lemuria was followed by the gradual rising of the Atlantean continent. The Lemurians, called the third root race, perished with the advanced souls becoming the seed stock for the fourth root race, or Atlanteans.