The vast prairie country of Khe had no borders other than a mountain shield which formed an effective barrier against its unruly neighbours to the north and east. High hills sketched a tentative southern boundary.

The outlying regions were populated by small, scattered tribes whose social and spiritual progress depended on traveling missionaries and students from Swn, the capital city, which stood upon the south bank of the Khe River, adjacent to the lake.

Khe'ans lived co-operatively in self-contained units modeled on the system established in Swn.

** Note: We claim approximate figures to within one hundred and fifty years in all timetables. KEPH-A-RA.

All members donated to the common stores those items which they were best suited to produce. No monetary exchange system existed; there was no concept of accumulated wealth in terms of over-abundance of goods or property and, consequently, no poverty or discrimination.

An ideal common wealth? The practical man of today might balk at the idea of contributing hard-earned goods to a pool of goods, freely accessible to the less industrious. But this question did not arise in Khe, owing to a basic recognition that superior intelligence or a more able body was just a lucky stroke of genetics, requiring greater responsibility from its fortunate possessor, while superior educational methods rendered laziness as inconceivable to Khe'ans as it would be to a worker bee in a beehive.

Six major rivers flowed down from the mountains and across the rich grasslands to meet in the great central lake near Swn. Three of these flowed from the north, two from the northwest (one on either side of what is now the Pyrenees), and one from the east in the vicinity of the Black Sea area. The population settled mainly on the fertile river banks, with a few individuals braving the southern hills to make their homes on the banks of the Nile in what finally became Lower Egypt.

These emigrants gradually intermarried and mixed with other tribes already living on the plains that extended far to the east and west of the Upper Nile. In time the Khe ex-patriots became cut off from their former culture, though they influenced the natives of their new domicile to the extent that Khe-oriented religious practices evolved. In later times this form of worship was grossly distorted when roving Atlantean "missionaries", preaching a vastly different gospel from that taught in Loliad's day, paused to fatten their purses in the area by encouraging the growth of ritual and spectacle.

Far to the north of Khe the Euphrates River sprang from the Caucasus mountains. A second river, also having its source in the mountains, followed a course through the valley of the Lebanon mountains southwest, to empty into the Indian Ocean, then the South Sea. This waterway, which we will call the "Red River" was eventually divided, with the south half becoming swollen into what is now known as the Red Sea, while the northern portion became the Jordan complex.

To the west and slightly south of Gibraltar lay Atlantis. In prehistoric times Atlantis, too, had been part of the solid land mass which formed earth's girdle. But when our story opens this peninsular continent had already been broken from the basic crust by a catastrophe which involved displacement of the moon. It now formed an effective buffer to the pressures of the "Great South Sea." Atlantis' western border was formed by what is today South America and the southern United States -- all the way up to the Hudson River. We believe that they had originally been connected and that this land mass, along with Australia, Borneo, etc., had been joined to China, India and Eastern Africa. However, that era extends back before the advent of the human race on earth, and only serves now to indicate that great turbulences had set back the evolution of earthly life, when our planet fought to find a place in the scheme of nature's law.

It is necessary to lay this basic groundwork of earthly geography, a history of broken continents, incredible noise effects, polarity changes, inundated lands, floating and drifting continents, in some detail to try to show how difficult it is to endeavour to utilize existing names and points of the compass. The main intention here is to establish the place occupied by the Atlantean Continent during the lifetime of the mentor of this series, Loliad-R-Kahn. At this time, the Americas lay approximately twenty-five hundred miles to the west of Atlantis, and earth was girdled by a solid land mass which divided the north and south seas. The polarity was unrecognizable compared to that of today.

Ancient extra-terrestrial advisors tell us that at one time earth basked in sunlight. Then it received a gigantic push from the moon which forced it out of orbit into a position behind Mars. This left much of the planet in constant shadow. At this time, earth's polarity was radically changed and it began to spin on a new axis. The moon became a satellite of both earth and Mars, causing much longer periods of moonless nights which added to the almost total darkness of large areas of earth's surface.

This, as we have said before, took place in prehistoric times. The present-day significance of these long-past cosmic events lies in the fact that earth's new orbital path and newly formed equator affected the life style and pigmentation of the evolving Homo sapiens. Sub-humanity gradually emerged after the decline of the huge, dominant life forms which were less able to adapt to changing conditions on the planet which had formerly been so favourable to them. The Inner Power gives a good background of the general trends under discussion.

Meanwhile, the emerging antecedents of the human race struggled either under the extreme of constant semi and total darkness or in direct burning heat and sunlight which continued for generation after generation.

Those who lived in darkness developed very fair skins so as to utilize the maximum amount of light-vitamins, together with a powerful survival urge and keenness of intellect, for their continued existence depended on their ability to outwit other species, to become the predator rather than the prey.

The sub-humans who lived in equatorial conditions developed dark protective pigmentation for survival in the extreme heat, and the tendency to conserve body energy with a more lethargic attitude. Between these two extremes there was a temperate zone which afforded comparatively ideal conditions for human evolution -- a veritable Garden of Eden which served as a cradle of civilization, and indeed became the birthplace of all the world's great philosophical concepts.

During this period in history five great nations emerged, each one to influence much larger groups of people. One of these cultures, my own homeland, established between the "Red River" and the Nile, had built a fabulous city known as "The City of Pillars". Its influence spread westwards where eventually other pillared cities rose. The most important of these, a city situated on the west bank of the Nile, was called Hurakanopolis. Many years later a second large city was established and named after what was then the lost capital of Khe. They called this city Syene (Swn, Suerne). This point is introduced to avoid possible scholastic confusion over the true location of Swn.

A philosopher, looking ahead to the imminent disaster of Atlantis, might view it as one of the many battles in the struggle between the forces of Spirit and the forces of Intellect, an aspect of the Psi-Ego battle raging daily in each human breast.

In this particular story Ego won -- even at the cost of self destruction, which is always the eventual price it has to pay.

The Holocaust 3900 B.C. to 3500 B.C.

In the four hundred years from 3900 B.C. to 3500 B.C. the most spiritually evolved band of life on earth was undoubtedly the country of Khe, and the culture which originated in its capital city of Swn (Suerne). The great city of technical knowledge was indisputably Atlantis, and the continent which its doctrines influenced. Each of these cultures was, in its own respect, quite superior to anything known on earth today.

It would be an understatement to describe the disaster which caused their destruction as an explosion. One cannot call a fusion of magnetic forces an explosion in the true sense. The Atlantean holocaust was a disintegration of molecules which were forced apart to become part of the atmosphere, rather than remain as solids in any form; whereas, when there is any change in the chemical structure of a solid, the "solid" remains but in a different form. This destruction included all known forms of devastation: fire, explosion, electrical disturbance, flood, earthquake, landslide and gaseous discharge. All solids within a five-hundred-mile radius of the cause simply disintegrated under the sudden pressure. They were replaced by a total vacuum when the energy force changed, as the polarity of the earth changed under tremendous internal and external pressures; one force was pulling against the other while endeavouring to continue its previous pattern in opposition to the new path now being forced upon it.

The fall of Atlantis was the ultimate result of a scientific egoism, fostered by generations of effective research and experimentation in the field of Black Light and other aspects of anti-matter. Powerful theurgist sects, convinced that their puny human intelligence could devise ways to harness nature, in trying to unravel natural mysteries, delved deeper and deeper into the field of nature's opposites. They continued to probe this forbidden area, hoping to find therein the secret of all power -- even the key to life itself. A series of minor successes led the Atlantean scientists to their downfall in spite of repeated warnings from the Swnian metaphysicians, who had long since realized the probable outcome.

Intuitively the metaphysicians recognized that the force known as nature is subservient to a far higher authority. Nature's dimension is governed by positive and negative charges which are held apart by a third, unknown buffer element acting in nature just as the neutron does in the atomic structure. It is common knowledge that in magnetic field forces, such as two common magnets, the like forces repel and the unlike forces attract. In Earth's polarity of positive and negative, the magnetic waves emanating from one pole are attracted to the other. This causes our sphere to be surrounded by a magnetic force field which extends from pole to pole. But as our globe is also spinning on an axis, a new force field of energy is set in motion, for the simple law of dynamics states that any movement of an object releases an energy force, no matter how slight the motion -- thus the magnetic forces of the poles are released.

In addition, earth's motion also involves an orbital path. This produces another energy force which has no relation to the former, for that energy has become self-contained through its poles. This self-contained polarity is the first principle of nature. The second principle concerns the force set up by earth's orbital motion.

The original plan conceived by Atlantean scientists was to transfer one of the two opposite poles, such as the negative, into the buffer position and use the third, or buffer force, to replace the negative. This idea worked on a limited scale to produce the heatless flame commonly used in Loliad's day for lighting purposes. The same principle also made it possible to move massive stones, such as those used for building pyramids. These were maneuvered and stacked into the desired structures as they became weightless. Many other useful applications, which added much to the creature comforts and accomplishments of the Atlantean people were evident in this early culture. But these initial triumphs only convinced the scientists of their own infallibility to manipulate nature's power. A parallel to this myopic viewpoint can again be seen rising among twentieth century scientists. Again the metaphysicians would remind them that in the case of Atlantis, the whole continent became a floating island which moved rapidly to circle half the globe, before halting in its southward plunge over what is now the South Pole.

This event (coupled with its repercussions which brought further changes in earth's polarity as will be described in later chapters) caused the Atlantean continent to be buried for thousands of years under ice and snow. It now sits beneath the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Small remnants may yet be found, though having undergone the devastating effects of what amounts to a heavily concentrated nuclear reaction, it is doubtful that any artefacts of historical significance could be pieced together by anthropologists.

In seeking to prevent a modern recurrence of the Atlantean disaster, perhaps it is advisable to deviate at this point to discuss the principles of anti-nature in greater detail. The forces which are bound up in the Opposites of Nature are equal to all the positive and negative poles contained therein, and therefore must contain all the forces of nature. To release anti-nature power indiscriminately, without a sure means of control, means that nature as a positive force would be temporarily negated -- its rules and laws suspended for that period of time when the opposite force was in control. We use the word "force" very loosely here when dealing with nature.

Anti-nature is that field of force which is diametrically opposite to the positive side; this is despite the fact that there are many minor positive-negative poles included within the general framework. If nature has an X-positive force with an equal Y-negative force, there must be a third force equal in power to both X and Y to hold the positive and negative at bay.

or X + Y = Z

To utilize the Y-negative force of nature it is first necessary to find its equal power in X-positive, then to exchange these poles into opposite positions. This cannot be done without first removing the buffer force Z, which allows the X-positive and Y-negative to unite and become equal to the third force Z. By this means, only two forces, each equal and in opposite polarity, therefore repelling, would remain and become a self-contained part of the whole sphere. However, X + Y would then be combined in opposition to Z, but if any of these forces should become altered in any way there would be a fusion of the whole, resulting in holocaust. Meanwhile, if the forces remained in perfectly balanced opposition, there would be a state best described as the "energy dance of nature."

On the surface of the earth one might say that nature rules supreme in that all things which exist do so by compliance with natural law. Each has some sort of vibratory life, a combination of chemicals and water. On any planet of the universe where these basic requirements are met, together with the essential axial and orbital motion, there will be at least some basic form of life present.

Were a further catastrophe to occur which was drastic enough to change Earth's present spinning motion, human life would change rapidly -- even cease to exist as the change of motion favoured the evolutionary rise of some other species now dormant under present conditions.

The Atlantean folly had repercussions in every direction. Huge tidal waves inundated Khe, and one vast section was sucked down into the vortex left by the fleeing Atlantean Continent. The land loss in the northern hemisphere was even greater. In all parts of the world sudden shifting of mountain ranges caused tremendous havoc. Massive walls of water, ten to twenty thousand feet high, flooded some parts of the globe. Men, beasts and rocks, temporarily free of gravitational pull, floated high into the air as though in a chimney, then were smashed down again as the sudden return of gravitational pull drew them back to earth. Other vast areas became arid desert as surface moisture was sucked downwards and towards the vortex.

Older mountain ranges were carried across the land surfaces, while others were formed -- the Himalayas are a prime example. Younger mountains moved forward to rest on the tops of older ranges and cause great confusion among latter-day historians. Land masses were divided into islands, especially in the north. Two deep underwater rifts, giving credence to the tearing away of Atlantis, appeared down the far eastern shoreline as an aftermath of the separation of the Americas from their original position. But repercussions of the Atlantean folly were not yet passed. Earth still knew no peace. The main force of the released energy went upwards into the universe and other planets were affected. It hit some more violently than others, depending on their size and position. Even today we can still see planets racing away on the tide of nature's negative forces.

Khe, then occupying the area now known as the Mediterranean Sea, was only partly demolished. As the floods subsided the eastern portion slowly emerged, but the city of Swn was lost forever, and with it almost all of the great culture so painstakingly developed by many generations. That small portion which remained for a time became the basis of the ancient South American and Egyptian cultures. Man surely suffered in the name of the great greed-god, Ego.

The scattered survivors soon noted a change in climate. A new equator meant new seasons, or rather that former seasons revolved on a different schedule. Even the length of the year had changed.

Prior to the year 3900 B.C., the calendar was composed of 356 days. The new calendar showed that earth's orbit now followed a path farther from the sun than it had done previously. This enlarged orbit indicated that unless Mars, too, had changed course, then earth had to necessarily spend at least some part of the year outside of Mars' persistent shadow. This did indeed occur, improving the overall situation on earth, as longer periods of sunshine were now experienced over wider areas of earth's surface. One result was the gradual recession of the vast ice shield which had covered a large part of earth's crust prior to this time.

There had been global collisions before this time; there will probably be others. Each of these prehistoric clashes had involved adjacent planets. For example, at one time a wayward Jupiter had plunged earthwards, only to be deflected by the moon which then circled both Mars and earth. This permitted earth to survive a severe displacement and gradually re-evolve its badly damaged life forms. The 356-day calendar of Loliad's era and the 360-day year immediately prior to the Biblical Exodus, when compared to the 365-day year of modern times, indicates that two critical astronomical changes must have affected earth's orbit, pushing it farther and farther away from the sun. We then find that in the two thousand years between 3900 B.C. and 1700 B.C., when earth first began to count its years in terms of 365 days, it had swung into an orbit which took an extra nine days to complete its journey around the sun.

Changes in calendar calculations, together with a new equator and definite changes in seasons, proved very confusing to earth's survivors. To further complicate matters, there was also a change in the direction of the rising sun. Very ancient legends of people living along the edges of earth's sunlit strip tell how the sun changed its rising and setting pattern no less than five times within mankind's memory records. One of these changes took place at the time of the Atlantean tragedy.

For more than 2,000 years great thinkers have pondered the knotty problem of white, red, yellow, brown and black races. By glancing at a newly formed map, arranged on the basis of the information given herein, we can conclude that the white people lived for thousands of years in the shadow of Mars, receiving no beneficial sunlight or exposure to the ultraviolet rays necessary to make a permanent impression on pigmentation. The very dark skinned races were those subjected to heavy concentrations of sunlight, their pigmentation darkening as a protection against over exposure to the ultraviolet rays. Another interesting fact is that among the dark skinned races who have remained untainted by northern bloodlines, hair is very sparse. Profuse hair, especially on the head and to a lesser extent the body, is found only in lighter skinned races.

A study of these facts enables fairly accurate determination of the original areas occupied by ethnic groups. Coupled with ancient legends of various races, it allows quite definite placements. The native North American, for example, by legend, basic beliefs, and pigmentation has many indications of originating from the early Atlantean civilization. Long before the advent of "Christian missionaries," the North American Indian had a name for the Supreme Spirit who alone reigned over the universe. They believed in heaven, or an eternal "happy hunting ground"; they understood spiritual guidance and visitations of spiritual apparitions, and the relationship between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God -- all beliefs of Khe origin transferred to Atlantis, which helps to date the migration time of these people.

According to their timeless legend, the Indian people were made up in the sky by the great Spirit Kitchemanitou, who then sent a "Thunderbird" to find a suitable place for His people to live.

The term "Thunderbird" might well describe the advanced aeronautical transportation common in Atlantis just after Loliad's time. And we know that even today people migrate from politically deteriorating countries to find greater freedom of spiritual expression in new lands, or can even be deported if they oppose the establishment. Another point of interest worth mentioning here is the common belief among spiritualists that many people have a North American Indian Guide, which suggests rapid spiritual advancement for these people after they have passed beyond the physical boundary. Fascinating food for thought!

Various earthly authorities have repeatedly declared that the end of the glacial epoch may have been almost contemporaneous with the rise of the great civilizations of Egypt, Sumeria, India, China and Mexico. At the same time this era marks the rise of European man, who was as yet living in the stone age, when a bronze age was well advanced in the older cultures. This apparent rise coincides with the Atlantean catastrophe, and Europe's jolt out of the constant shadow of Mars. All was lost of the great ancient civilizations then, save the outlying tribes of Khe who knew little of the major philosophies of their mother culture. Those living in Mexico, less hard hit than other portions, carried on a sub-Atlantean culture for many years, until even this remnant was eventually wiped out in a later disaster.