Sir Francis Bacon authored a work called “The New Atlantis“, which was posthumously published in 1626. It is an utopian novel that describes an island where science and technocrats create a new world. The title refers to the myth of Atlantis as presented by Plato, which is the first historical reference to this ancient island-continent that sank itself through the abuse of energy some 10,000 years ago. In an account by Filis Fredrick, the final sinking of Atlantis was precipitated by a corrupt priestly class murdering the child-Avatar.
Bacon was referring to America as the new Atlantis. He was mad about the possibility of science, specifically the power of induction based on careful observation, to account for the laws of nature, and thereby create a new and ideal world. Bacon played a leading role in establishing the first English colonies in Virginia and the Carolinas.
America as a political experiment became devoted to exceptionally grand thinking about creating a completely new form of government in which sovereignty would lie with The People. In this quaint imagining, representative government referred exclusively to white male gentry who possessed the right to buy and sell Africans as slaves and exterminate native Americans as soulless savages. Such was the beginning of the “New Atlantis”.
But according to Edgar Cayce, this was precisely the problem that brought about Atlantis’ demise:
“Cayce blamed the final destruction of Atlantis and the disintegration of their culture on greed and lust. According to Cayce, two rival parties fought for control of the Atlanteans in its final days. The Children of the Law of One wanted to return to a spiritual stewardship of the land based on natural laws. The other group, the Sons of Belial, wanted to exploit natural resources for material gain.”
“The chief focus of their conflict was a third class of dull, half-awake sub-humans used by the Sons of Belial for slave labor. The Children of the Law of One wanted to enlighten these sub–beings by raising their consciousness; the Sons of Belial wanted to keep them in ignorance and exploit them for their own gain.”
Essentially, the problem of Atlantis and the problem of America is the one and the same: the rise of a technocracy and ruling elites promoting empire in opposition to spiritual progressives over the disposition of a slave/ exploited worker class.
According to both Manly P. Hall and Edgar Cayce, the Americas were populated by Atlanteans in waves of emigration as a consequence of the protracted sinking of Atlantis. This refers to Native Americans, particularly certain tribal groupings, perhaps especially the Maya, Iroquois, Navajo and Hopi, the Sioux, the Cherokee and other tribes. Pharonic culture in ancient Egypt was also established by Atlanteans. Filis Fredrick states that she remembers a past life fleeing the final Atlantean catastrophe and arriving with other spiritual elites on the Carolina coast, near present day Myrtle Beach.
America is the New Atlantis, the New World promising both the possibility of democracy by the people and for the people on the basis of technological innovation, or the reprise of Atlantean misuse of energy, natural resources and the exploitation of a slave/ worker class and its ultimate destruction.
White evangelical Christians claim that God has appointed America a special destiny to rule the world in a Pax Americana that denies global warming and the problem of sustainability. They are fully supportive of Zionism which seeks to establish a white and Jewish settler colonialism through ethnic cleansing and genocide and to perpetuate endless war in the Middle East to secure the interests of empire.
Avatar Meher Baba has confirmed that America has a special destiny to guide the world spiritually- if it can overcome its longstanding abuse and misuse of energy. Baba has given the organization Sufism Reoriented a charter and mandate to represent love for God in his name- but only on the basis of absolute honesty on its part, which has already been called into question.
Filis Fredrick has also stated that Akhenaten, the great spiritual iconoclast of ancient Egypt and a minor incarnation of the Avatar, was murdered by a rival high priest serving the status quo; she identified this high priest as the occult usurper of Sufism Reoriented, Jim Mackie.
What will be the destiny of the New Atlantis? How will the dark karmas that represent its past and inform its future play out? How will abusive technology and priestly lineages warp the divine destiny of America? Will the New Atlantis survive?
