Chapter 1764
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He witnessed and remembered it too, as “the final disappearance of the largest continent [of Atlantis] was an event coïncident with the elevation of the Alps,” a Master writes (see Esoteric Buddhism p. 70). Pari passu, as one portion of the dry land of our hemisphere disappeared, some land of the new continent emerged from the seas. It is on this colossal cataclysm, which lasted during a period of 150,000 years, that traditions of all the “deluges” are built, the Jews constructing their version on an event which took place later, on Poseidonis.