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Review of "The Empires of Atlantis" by Marco M. Vigato

1/18/2022

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The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages
Marco M. Vigato | Bear & Company | January 18, 2022 | 416 pages | ISBN: 9781591434337 | $25
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​Everything you need to know about The Empires of Atlantis, a new book by Italian Atlantis research Marco Vigato, can be summed up in one of the blurbs that opens the volume. It’s from Frank Joseph, the former head of the American Nazi Party and a convicted child molester, who can nevertheless only bring himself to tepidly praise the author for having a “different perspective.” That anyone thought this endorsement was a good idea tells you exactly how careful and ethical the brain trust behind Bear & Company’s latest foray into recycling Ignatius Donnelly is. (Bear & Company is an imprint of Inner Traditions, the publisher of occult and pseudoscientific books.) Vigato goes on to thank Graham Hancock, the Ancient Origins website, and conspiracy theory podcasts for inspiring and encouraging him.
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​Vigato’s exploration of Atlantis hits all the usual notes, but he claims to have a radically different idea about how to prove the reality of Atlantis; namely, to absolve himself of the need for scientific evidence. “This is a nonconventional book that combines two radically different approaches: that of modern science and that of the Western esoteric tradition. The product is an entirely new picture of the true origins of civilization.” When material evidence fails, he gives himself permission to suggest esoteric and occult explanations, thus removing the argument from the realm of the provable.
 
Things don’t get off to a very good start when Vigato says that he is not bound by Plato’s description of Atlantis and denies that the civilization vanished in a day and a night, as Plato said. Therefore, what he seeks to find isn’t the Atlantis of Plato but rather a generic “lost civilization” in the style of Graham Hancock, whose fingerprints he claims to see in Göbekli Tepe, Giza, and other familiar locations. He accepts Robert Schoch’s redating of the Sphinx to the Ice Age, a claim no mainstream geologist endorses, and his arguments are transparently summarized from Graham Hancock’s books and those of Hancock’s followers. A long section discussing the Edfu Building Texts as evidence for Atlantis is an obvious summary of the parallel discussion in Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods, including the conclusions that do not follow from the evidence. The succeeding section on Mexican art from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Xochicalco as evidence of Atlantis is derived directly from Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath’s The Atlantis Blueprint (2008), ultimately recycling Auguste Le Plongeon’s faulty claim from 1901. Le Plongeon thought Mexico to be an Atlantean stronghold, and Vigato tries to preserve the argument, despite the chronological challenges, by positing an “esoteric” continuity that allows Atlantis to survive in Mexico with thousands of vacant years between eruptions of Atlantean influence because it’s all part of a divinely ordained 25,000-year cycle governed by the wobble of the Earth’s axis. Don’t ask. It’s Abu Mashar’s faulty astrology as misunderstood by Hamlet’s Mill and Graham Hancock.
 
And so it goes, for chapter after chapter of “research” pulled from earlier, better books. The second chapter fixates on esoteric notions of cyclical time and the decline Ages of Man (gold, silver, bronze, etc.) familiar to everyone who has read a pseudo-history book in the past half century. A big blob of text takes seriously the made-up mysteries of Theosophy as a potentially authentic account of Earth’s prehistory, but in tracing the various ideas of Helena Blavatsky’s successors, Vigato offers no indication that he sees the racist underpinnings of various systems that separate humanity into separately created races or ranks them based on their supposed evolutionary perfection. This naturally leads to a credulous discussion of the various Near Eastern lists of kings stretching back into hoary antiquity, though our author seems to know nothing of the centuries of criticism and commentary about the mythological nature of the antediluvian kings of Mesopotamia and Egypt or the corruptions that have creeped into the texts over the millennia. Many of the dates for the Egyptian king lists, for example, were rewritten, revised, or remixed by later writers to conform to theological or astrological agendas. Nor does the author seem to consider the interactions of cultures around the Near East, choosing to see the various Greek accounts of Near Eastern rulers as independent and accurate representations not just of other cultures but also the deep past. For example, he seems unaware that the Phoenician mythology preserved in the fragments of Sanchuniathon has been euhemerized, indicating that the stories have been altered to fit into a Hellenizing framework.
 
Vigato occasionally strikes on something interesting, without quite understanding what he found. He correctly notes that the ten kings of Atlantis bear a close similarity to those of the antediluvian kings of Babylon, just as the end of Atlantis echoes the divine wrath of the Near Eastern Flood Myth. However, instead of following the obvious conclusion that Plato modeled his text on Near Eastern myths known to him, Vigato concludes that all the various myths of antediluvian kings and floods are independent memories of Atlantis, a claim Ignatius Donnelly made in 1882. He even makes use of fragments from the Arab-Islamic myth of the antediluvian pyramids, but it is obvious from his outdated transliterations and ignorance of variants and parallel texts that he doesn’t know any modern scholarship on the subject and is copying uncritically from his source, Col. Vyse’s Operations, published in 1840. Humorously, he also takes the medieval Arabic stories as true reflections of a genuine Ice Age tradition, 13,000 after the fact. His long discussion of Fallen Angels and their Near Eastern parallels is worse than I would have imagined; the sources he cites are only those in the public domain, and he relies heavily on the uncorrected Cory’s Ancient Fragments (1828/1832 and 1876), despite the volume’s many errors.
 
At this point, a quarter of the way through the book, it is clear that the author’s fifteen years of research were primarily spent in reading other pseudo-archaeology books of dubious value, with little understanding of the underlying source texts or their relationships to their cultures or each other.
 
As we move deeper into the book, the author becomes more mystical, accepting the idea from Theosophy and Anthroposophy that modern humans first evolved in Atlantis from the incarnation of a supernatural essence that transformed mere apes into humans. I would try to discuss the author’s use of haplogroup X, Rh- blood, and other fragments of science to defend this position, but, truth be told, the author barely understands it himself, having cited all of it from previous books about Atlantis and seems utterly unaware of scientific rebuttals of past claims, nor does he attempt to refute them. And when he does cite primary sources, Vigato makes the amateur’s error of treating every text written at any time as authentically ancient, independent, and truthful. Therefore, his discussion of prehistory collapses all myths and legends from antiquity to modern times into a series of coeval and coequal stories, thus ignoring their development over time, relationship to one another, and attempts to create mythic precedent for real events.
 
However, Vigato accidentally stumbles onto a profound truth when he talks about the supernatural origins of humanity and its paranormal potential: “The search for our Atlantean ancestors becomes therefore also a search for our divine origins to unlock this potential in all and each one of us.” And that, ultimately, is what it’s all about: searching for (im)plausibly (pseudo-)scientific reasons to believe in God, the afterlife, and all the other divine detritus that material science disenchanted more than a century ago.
 
The second half of the book is a mixture of Theosophy, Graham Hancock, and Ancient Aliens, wrapped around an attempt to synthesize Blavatsky, Rudolph Steiner, Edgar Cayce, and other occultists’ fact-free fantasies into a single meta-fantasy of Earth’s “forgotten” history. What, exactly, are we to make of someone who with a straight face proclaims the Great Pyramid a work of the “neo-Atlantean period” of 10,500 BCE? Or still believes in the myth of “flash-frozen” mammoths and earth-crust displacement pole shifts? I should, at this point, have a long, incensed discussion of all the ways Vigato mangles the myth of antediluvian wisdom, particularly the Pillars of Wisdom erected either by Enoch, Seth, or the Watchers—for Vigato knows the story only from secondary accounts and not the voluminous primary sources. After all, I wrote a book that is rooted in untangling this myth. But it is so very obvious that Vigato has neither critical capacity nor the ability to research beyond fringe books.
 
I will confine myself instead to observing that Vigato cannot understand that ancient cultures near to one another influenced one another’s mythologies, and he makes the ridiculous claim that the Nephilim were the sons not of Watchers or Sethites but of paranormal Atlanteans possessed of divine essence: “In purely genetic terms, the Nephilim were thus 75 percent Atlantean and 25 percent hominin.” Naturally, he doesn’t bat an eye at describing the prehistoric superhuman divine heroes as white skinned, blue-eyed, and blond, nor does he notice that nineteenth century racists imagined the Master Race as being Aryan Übermenschen. Even Graham Hancock eventually came around to realizing identifying the “gods” as white men was bad optics.
 
Eventually, the author realizes that Vigato doesn’t actually think of “Atlantis” as Plato’s sunken city. Instead, he is using it to slap a veneer of Greek legitimacy on a theological idea: His Atlantis is actually the subtitle of Ignatius Donnelly’s book: the antediluvian world. But where Donnelly thought the Bible took inspiration from Atlantis, Vigato prefers to imagine the pre-Flood world depicted in Abrahamic religions’ apocryphal legends and pagan myths was a super-civilization of divine heroes possessed of superior white genes and supernatural wisdom. He even suggests that Satan is trying to hide the truth about the antediluvian world as part of “a great deception aimed at depriving mankind of its rightful place in the universe and of its legitimate right to knowledge.” It’s not quite clear how he squares that with God’s insistence in Genesis that the pre-Flood world was full of such sin that it warranted the end of all flesh. But his selective knowledge shows that he has no real understanding of the deeper issues involved in his subject. He talks of how legends prove that postdiluvian civilization began at Babel, with the Tower, though the very sources he knows only partially from his secondhand sources offer an alternative that placed the origins of postdiluvian civilization in Egypt, where the priest Philemon, who rode with Noah on the Ark, took Mizraim to recover the pre-Flood wisdom. The story isn’t true, of course, but it’s from the same story Vigato claimed was true—and he has no idea.
 
The final part of the book is primarily a summary of Graham Hancock’s various works, notably Fingerprints of the Gods, Heaven’s Mirror, and Magicians of the Gods. It ends, as Fingerprints does, with fear-mongering about the end of the world. Vigato claims that only when our civilization has completely collapsed with the “Atlantean sages” (the Watchers, the Apkallu, etc.) return to restore Atlantean values. Just think about that: Vigato has reimagined the Christian Millennium and the Apocalypse of Revelation with the villains of Christianity, the Fallen Angels and the Nephilim, elevated to the savior role previously held by Christ. Even if Vigato doesn’t think of it in those terms, it is the upshot of any effort to glorify the pagan myths that the Judeo-Christian theologians tried to diabolize.
 
But, ultimately, the unspoken motive behind such efforts is the creation of a new, glorious, and divinely sanctioned mythic history for the white race—sorry, European and Euro-Americans—who can turn to this fallen kingdom for a puissant precedent to justify the efforts they make to cling to empire and the comfort of imagining divine blood flows through their own veins. I’m sure Vigato and most of his readers don’t think of it that way. They’d probably tell you they are just following the “facts.” But this theme was obvious when Ignatius Donnelly explicitly imagined Atlantis as the forebear of the white empires of the Victorian era, and nothing has changed since then, except that the emphasis has shifted with the fate of empire from the power of Atlantis in its prime to how it supposedly preserved white culture around the world after the collapse. The Empires of Atlantis is not about Atlantis as much as it is about Western Civilization. Vigato doesn’t want Atlantis to have been destroyed because he fears the West might disappear as well.
 
 

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Paul
1/18/2022 11:53:35 pm

When will they let Atlantis sink into the sunset? Speaking of sinking, looks like wolter and muir are at it again, scottie’s Twitter, “Exciting and historic day! This journal arrived from Europe today and contains shocking Templars in America secrets including the answers to the Oak Island treasure mystery. Stay tuned for huge revelations in the coming days! “ btw, muir is looking for a burn barrel, so you know what that means……

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Mr. Pyramid
1/19/2022 03:28:49 am

If the book is that bad (and I have no reason to believe otherwise), why does it receive two stars instead of one?

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Charles link
1/20/2022 02:13:19 pm

Plato's explanation of a semi-divine bloodline degenerating over time is no different than the biblical one. Or it's other iterations in ancient cultures. But the image of a primordial Golden Age is still powerful. But as you imply you can't have it both ways. Atlantis had debased so far that a tiny city state like Athens could overwhelm them. And even after that humiliation was wiped away by a disgusted god. Not exactly exemplars of ancient wisdom and noble blood.

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Marco M. Vigato link
1/28/2022 10:34:48 pm

Dear Mr. Colavito,

First of all, I'd like to thank you for your review of my latest book The Empires of Atlantis. Although I may not agree with your opinions, I do value criticism as an opportunity to improve on my own hypotheses.

As you yourself acknowledge, the book represents an attempt to bridge and reconcile the numerous esoteric traditions of Atlantis with the latest scientific evidence. That of Atlantis is here treated as one of the foundational myths of the Western Esoteric Tradition, hereby suggesting that Plato was but a link in a very long chain of transmission stretching back into remote prehistory. A different name could have been used to describe this civilization, but I'd rather use the time-honored name of Atlantis than speak of a generic "Lost civilization".
As Rudolf Steiner remarked, "Historic evidence throws light on only a few thousand years, and even what archeology, paleontology and geology can teach us is very limited...Time destroys what in time arises". Esoteric and occult sources provide avenues of knowledge that, albeit admittedly controversial to most scientifically minded readers, help nevertheless to shed light on many fundamental questions of human origins in ways that seem moreover to agree with and complement the scientific narrative. What I advocate for is, of course, not an uncritical acceptance of the esoteric tradition as a whole, but a careful examination of the concordances and the potentially valuable elements contained in these accounts as reflecting a genuine "Primordial Tradition" common to all of humanity.
Part of the purpose of this book is to uncover the esoteric Atlantis, not just Plato's Atlantis, weighing it against the latest scientific evidence.

I also openly and transparently admit my debt to other authors, many of which I acknowledge in the introduction. As any scientific endeavor, the discipline of Atlantology is also largely a collaborative effort, one that moreover requires the contribution of a broad range of disciplines and that cannot be therefore the exclusive domain of "specialists".

In this respect, the discipline of History is far from being an exact science. It is still largely a matter of interpretation, which requires connecting the dots while filtering out the noise. Hypotheses may stand or be refuted as new evidence emerges, and the mainstream historical paradigm is certainly not immune to this process.

Concerning then the use of historical sources, I went to great lengths to access the primary sources for all the classical works cited in the book, consulting the most reliable editions of each work available in the public domain. I then often went back to the original Greek and Latin text to corroborate specific points of translation. The book references over 500 classical as well as modern sources, and provides footnotes for each one of the sources used. If any mistakes were made in the use of sources, I would kindly ask you to please point me to the correct and most updated editions and translations.

With respect to the specific question of ancient king lists, many of which covering periods of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, I am certainly aware of the many revisions to which these texts were subjected over the course of centuries. This is why I often compare and contrast different editions in an attempt to uncover the earliest redactions and the key patterns in the number and sequence of dynasties. In truth, the information that I provide in the chapters on ancient chronologies and king lists is a much abridged version of a research that would have otherwise required far more space than what editorial considerations allowed.

You then seem to adopt a purely diffusionist model to explain the similarities between the mythical traditions and ancient chronologies of the Near East, of Egypt and Mesopotamia, but fall short of explaining why the similarities would extend to nearly identical myths found in India, China and even as far as Mexico and South America. What I show in the book is that such similarities may only be explained by assuming a common ancestor of prehistoric antiquity for all these traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.

While you accuse my work of racist underpinnings for its references to Theosophy, you show a basic misunderstanding of the notion of "Race" according to Theosophy and in the Esoteric Tradition. This is a concept that has truly nothing to do with modern definitions of "racism", and even less with a supposed "white suprematism" (A view from which I clearly distance myself). If anything, the different "Races" of Esoteric Tradition are seen as having one thing in common, namely the divine spark that ultimately makes all humanity the same in essence. In this sense, the Atlantean "Race" simply represents the humanity of a previous Cycle, the one immediately before our own. I also make it abundantly clear in the book that it is impossible to reduce the Atlantean "Race" to

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Bob of Atlanta
1/30/2022 05:16:37 am

Similar does not mean the same. Cherry picking instances of "this here kind of looks like that over there" does not prove an ancient hearth society. Diffusion and coincidence in parallel innovations work well as explanations and do not require one to resort to esoteric knowledge in order to hammer square pegs into round holes.

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1/31/2022 12:21:22 pm

For some reason the last few paragraphs of my reply got cut off, so I will repost them again:

While you accuse my work of racist underpinnings for its references to Theosophy, you show a basic misunderstanding of the notion of "Race" according to Theosophy and in the Esoteric Tradition. This is a concept that has truly nothing to do with modern definitions of "racism", and even less with a supposed "white suprematism" (A view from which I clearly distance myself). If anything, the different "Races" of Esoteric Tradition are seen as having one thing in common, namely the divine spark that ultimately makes all humanity the same in essence. In this sense, the Atlantean "Race" simply represents the humanity of a previous Cycle, the one immediately before our own. I also make it abundantly clear in the book that it is impossible to reduce the Atlantean "Race" to just one ethnic type, even less to the stereotype of the "Aryan" super-human. Once again, this shows a basic misunderstanding of esoteric doctrines, for according to Theosophy all humans living today (independent of their ethnicity or ancestry) belong to "Aryan" humanity, a term used here simply to describe the civilization of the present Cycle as opposed to the "Atlantean" humanity of the previous cycle. "Aryan" and "Atlantean" are in no way synonyms, but represent the mutually antagonistic forces of the present and the previous Cycle.

Ultimately, the main thesis of my book is that Atlantean civilization did not vanish in one single day and night, but rather continued to exert its influence over the course of human civilization and culture for thousands of years after its fall. Indeed, the Atlantean Tradition survived remarkably intact in many parts of Europe, the Near East, North Africa and South America until at least the time of the European Bronze Age. I further show that the numerous Sea Peoples invasions and the diffusion of the Atlantic megalithic culture on the western coast of Europe and North Africa are but facets of the same Atlantean diaspora.

When you say that The Empires of Atlantis is not about Atlantis as much as it is about Western Civilization, this is only because of the cyclical view of history that underpins the book. To conclude using the words of another great Traditionalist, "Modern civilization is certainly not the first one to become extinct, nor is it the one after which none will follow...Only the ignorance of modern man has induced him to believe that his civilization, which is characterized by the deepest roots in the temporal, and contingent element, will enjoy a different and more privileged fate". This is perhaps the true reason why, as another cycle of civilization approaches its closing, we feel so much drawn to our Atlantean past.

Finally, since you bring up the questionable moral character of some of the sources and authors referenced in the book, I have always believed in the importance of separating the message from the messenger and letting ideas stand or fall based on their own merits. The question of bias is certainly not limited to the "fringe", but affects much peer-reviewed science as well. It would be indeed very naive to think otherwise.

In the specific case of Frank Joseph, this was only one of many endorsements that the book has received, and I was admittedly not aware of the allegations that you make against his person. I still value Frank Joseph's contributions to the Atlantis subject through his many books, independent of what his personal background or bias might be.

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Joseph Cannon link
4/12/2022 06:13:07 am

"I was admittedly not aware of the allegations that you make against his person...."

Seriously? When the books of "Frank Joseph" first came to my attention some years ago, it took me -- oh, I dunno -- maybe 75 seconds to find out that he was "that Skokie guy."

After doing another half-minute's worth of research, I found out that Frank Collins is a convicted child molester. Yet his books remain popular with the Q crowd. Fun fact: Collins inspired the character portrayed by Henry Gibson in "The Blues Brothers." (Remember that bit? "I hate Illinois Nazis...")

If Vigato could not be bothered to do two minutes' worth of research into the guy who contributed to his book, then we can't trust anything else Vigato writes. He simply won't read anything that contradicts what he wants to believe.

Then again, it is possible that Vigato agrees with "Frank Joseph" but doesn't want to say so in public.

Option 1: Vigato is a terrible researcher. Option 2: Vigato is a neo-Nazi. I don't see an option 3. Being a charitable sort, I vote for option 1.



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Visionary
11/20/2022 05:02:23 pm

Frank Joseph can't be much of a Nazi as he is Jewish with paternal grandparents who died in the Holocaust.

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