Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

The Goetheanum at Dornach, Switzerland -- the center of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, where Steiner developed his most systematic accounts of the Akashic Records and the evolution of human consciousness Somewhere beyond ordinary time and space -- so the teaching goes -- there exists a field in which every thought, every emotion, every action of every being that has ever lived is recorded. Not metaphorically recorded, as in the faint impressions left on the world by events, but actually, precisely, and permanently recorded, in a medium that is neither physical nor purely spiritual but something that underlies both. This is the Akashic Records -- the cosmic memory of everything that has ever been. The name comes from Sanskrit: akasha , the fifth element of Indian cosmology, the subtle medium that pervades and underlies the other four (earth, water, fire, air). Akasha is sometimes translated as "ether" or "space," but it is neither empty space nor physical...

It appears in exactly two dialogues of Plato — the Timaeus and the Critias , written around 360 BCE. It is described as a powerful island civilization that existed nine thousand years before Plato's own time, located in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar). It conquered much of Europe and Africa before being defeated by Athens, then sank beneath the ocean in a single day and night of catastrophic destruction. That is the entire ancient textual record of Atlantis . Two dialogues. One author. No corroborating ancient sources. And yet Atlantis has generated, in the roughly 2,400 years since Plato wrote those words, a literature larger than almost any other single subject in the history of Western thought — histories, theories, novels, films, channeled transmissions, geological surveys, esoteric cosmologies, and competing schools of thought that have consumed the serious attention of scholars, mystics, scientists, and visionaries in roughly equ...