Plato, Egypt and the Seven Great Islands of the Western Sea

By Nicola Bizzi

The question of Plato, as the primary and universally known and recognized profane source regarding the mention of Atlantis, its history, its description and its tragic end, necessarily deserves some reflections, considerations and insights, since, in the vast bibliography concerning this argument, the Athenian philosopher is always and punctually called into question, both by supporters of the past existence of the lost continent, and by skeptics, detractors and deniers of its existence. But Plato was certainly not the first ancient author to mention Atlantis. Many others did it before him, although their works have been lost. In ancient Greece and in all the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East no cultured person doubted the real historical existence of the mythical lost continent.
Likewise, the memory of a terrible catastrophe that changed the face of our planet, annihilating all previous forms of civilization, has remained imprinted in the collective memory, in the myths and legends of all peoples.
The historian and essayist Nicola Bizzi, with this new work, sheds new light on one of the greatest secrets of our past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Release date: May 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9791255044598

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¹. A civilization that would have tragically disappeared around 9,600 BC. due to that second great cometary impact which, as many scientists claim today, hit and heavily ravaged our planet, shifting its axis, putting an end to the Recent Dryas and causing a sudden rise in the level of the seas and oceans from 120 to 200 meters. That apocalyptic event, remembered by all the ancient mythological and religious traditions that would have plunged the world into barbarism, bringing about the end of a previous long evolutionary line of civilization.

In a certain sense, this publication represents a landmark, because until now certain texts had never left the restricted area of mystery schools and were therefore not accessible to the layman, available or freely consultable.

As I explained in the first volume of my essay Da Eleusi a Firenze: la trasmissione di una conoscenza segreta (From Eleusis to Florence: the Transmission of a Secret Knowledge)

², in many of my subsequent essays

³, and in a long series of articles published during the years 2016-2021 on the magazine Archeomisteri, the Mystery Schools of the Mother Eleusinians, surviving the Christian persecutions of the late Roman Empire and necessarily entering secrecy to continue to exist and perpetuate themselves, they have handed down and preserved over the centuries a vast heritage of ancient texts and documents which have remained completely unknown to the profane world until today. Texts and documents that were originally kept in the libraries and archives of the Mother Shrine of Eleusis and its priestly schools, as well as other important Temples and Sanctuaries of Eleusinity in Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Italy and other regions of the Mediterranea area, and which were saved from destruction and made safe by diligent Priests and Initiates, often at the risk of their own lives.

The Eleusinian texts are now safeguarded in Florence. They mostly come from the private libraries of the Eleusinian Family of Prytanic priestly rank of the Mariani di Costa Sancti Severi, descendant by bloodline from the Primary Eleusinian Tribe of the Keryx, and are mostly of a religious, theological-mythological, ceremonial and ritual nature. There are sacred texts of Eleusinity, some of which are preserved in their entirety, others in scattered fragments brought into medieval codes; there are collections of sacred hymns, prayers and religious songs. There are ritual and ceremonial calendars concerning religious festivities and ceremonies, including those of an initiatory nature, establishing the content and conduct of the ceremonies themselves. Among the texts of a theological-mythological nature, there are cosmogonic and theogonic treatises concerning the origin of the Gods and the Universe, texts relating to the creation of mankind, texts on the nature and characteristics of the Gods, and collections of prophecies and prophecies, with truly impressive contents. Then there are numerous treatises of a scientific nature (astronomical, mathematical and geographical), philosophical texts, historical chronicles relating to the Eleusinian ecclesial institutions and their priestly hierarchies and, finally, texts that we could define as purely historical and literary in nature, acquired in ancient times from the archives of the Sanctuary of Eleusis and preserved in the clandestine phase due to the importance attributed to their contents.

The vast majority of these texts are, for obvious and understandable reasons, covered by the rigor of the initiatory secret and, consequently, have never been and probably never will be usable by profane circles, or in any case unrelated to the mystery schools themselves, despite the fact that the Eleusinians Mother have on several occasions admitted and confirmed its existence. But, within the framework of a gradual opening of the Eleusine Mother institutions to the profane world, started albeit with caution since the 1980s – an opening, thanks to which the publication of numerous articles and some essays has been made possible – the decision to gradually make part of this vast textual heritage available to the public, but above all to researchers and scholars. This decision, made at the top of the