Her prophecies inevitably extended to the earth and its geographical and spiritual future. She believed strongly, for example, that the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria would reemerge, and added:
The elevated ridge in the Atlantic basin, 9000 feet in height, which runs from a point near the British Islands, first slopes towards South America, then shifts almost at right angles to proceed in a south-easterly line toward the African coast … This ridge is a remnant of an Atlantic continent … Could it be traced further, it would establish the reality of a submarine horseshoe junction with a former continent in the Indian Ocean … An impenetrable veil of secrecy was thrown over the occult and religious mysteries taught [there], after the submersion of the last remnant of the Atlantean race, some 12,000 years ago.
In March of 1996, Discover magazine published satellite photographs of the areas she described more than a century earlier. Discover explained the photographs as follows:
The Midatlantic Ridge snakes down the center of that ocean off Greenland to the latitude of Cape Horn … Under South Africa, the Southwest Indian Ridge shoots into the Indian Ocean like a fizzling rocket, or perhaps like the trail of some giant and cartoonish deep-sea mole.
Years earlier, in 1954, the Geological Society of America Bulletin reported on an exploration of the summit of this same Mid-Atlantic Ridge:
The state of lithification of the limestone suggests that it may have been lithified under subaerial [i.e., above water, on land surface] conditions, and that the sea mount [summit] may have been an island within the past 12,000 years.
Expanding her prophecies to other parts of the world, Helena Blavatsky also wrote in The Secret Doctrine:
England is on the eve of such or another catastrophe; France, nearing such a point of her cycle, and Europe in general threatened with, or rather, on the eve of a cataclysm. A world destruction as happened to Atlantis will occur. Instead of Atlantis, all of England and parts of the northwest European coast will sink into the sea. In contrast, the sunken Azores region, the Isle of Poseidonis will again be raised from the sea. [The Isle of Poseidonis is thought to be an island approximately the size of Ireland that is a remnant of Atlantis.]
As cataclysmic as some of Madame Blavatsky’s geological predictions were, her prophecy for the ultimate nonphysical future of our planet was optimistic:
We are at the close of the cycle of 5000 years of the present Aryan Kali Yuga or dark age. This will be succeeded by an age of light. Even now under our very eyes, the new Race or Races are preparing to be formed, and that is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced. This Race will be altered in mentality and will move toward a more perfect spiritual existence.
H. G. Wells
A discussion about what lies ahead for us and our planet would seem incomplete without acknowledging a prolific author and social activist who came to be known as The Man Who Invented Tomorrow.
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His parents were hardworking blue- collar people, which purely by chance provided Wells with a wealth of access to his childhood passion: books. His mother was a house-keeper at an estate near the Wells home, and he went with her at every opportunity to sneak into the mansion’s vast library and read until his mother had finished her work.
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