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What did Cayce say about Atlantis?

Among the 14,301 readings we counted, 790 have him naming Atlantis, an Atlantean past or Poseidia, its main land, and our sort files 727 of them as life readings. They run from late 1923 to August 1944 and tell one story. A people split into the Children of the Law of One and the Sons of Belial, the land broke up three times, and records were hidden in Poseidia and Egypt, with a third site in the Yucatan. Two of his claims were tested later. One is the Hall of Records placed beside the Sphinx, and the other is a rising of Poseidia dated to 1968 and 1969, which the Bimini Road, found that September, was taken to prove.

Open the map Hall of Records Bimini Road

790: readings name it, 5.5 percent of all 14,301
92%: of them are filed as life readings, 727 in all
621: of the 790 also name Egypt
252: readings name the Law of One, against 147 for Belial
78: Atlantis readings in 1943, the busiest year

Chart one · the places

Where the Atlantis readings put things

Each ring is a place the Atlantis readings name, sized by how many of the 790 name it. Tap one for its count, its first reading and a line on what is said there. Positions are ours and approximate, because the readings give names far more often than coordinates. The dashed arc is the one line they do draw, in reading 364-3, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mediterranean.

Coastline Natural Earth 110m land, public domain. Ring area follows the count. Table of the same data below.

The map as a table

Places and counts

Counts are readings among the 790 Atlantis readings whose own words name the place, with the bracketed notes and the questions left out. Poseidia and Alta are partly the same country, so the rows overlap. A place named once or twice still gets its row.

Place	Readings	Share	Uses	First reading	In our words
Poseidia	104	13.2%	121	288-1Nov 20, 1923	The main Atlantean land, with its temple, its rulers and the last warring between the two camps. Reading 958-3 dates its return to 1968 and 1969.
Alta	14	1.8%	19	288-1Nov 20, 1923	A country of Atlantis, called Poseidia proper in 288-1. In 339-1 and 378-13 the same name belongs to a person, a scribe and patriarch.
Bimini	2	0.3%	2	364-3Feb 16, 1932	Named in his own words in two Atlantis readings. 364-3 says a survey of the Bahamas, Bimini above all, could show what is left, and 440-5 puts temple remains under the sea near it.
Sargasso Sea	2	0.3%	2	364-4Feb 16, 1932	364-4 says the part of Atlantis near the Sargasso Sea went under first, and 364-11 blames gases and an atomic ray.
Yucatan	59	7.5%	71	1730-1Aug 29, 1930	Where people fled after the first eruptions and built temples. 5750-1 and 2012-1 put one of the three record sites here.
Aryan	9	1.1%	9	364-6Feb 17, 1932	A land of Atlantean descendants. 2012-1 and 1895-1 equate it with the Yucatan, while 1472-10 pairs it with Persia, so the mark sits beside the Yucatan as a guess.
Peru	34	4.3%	43	122-1Feb 14, 1925	The land of the Ohums and the Incal (2686-1, 122-1), where Atlantean entities turn up again.
Og	35	4.4%	42	364-4Feb 16, 1932	The Andean branch. 364-4 sends the early emigrants there, as the start of the Inca, or Ohum, who built walls across the mountains. Placed in the Andes by us.
Pyrenees	51	6.5%	56	779-9Aug 14, 1925	First stop for the people who left after the first eruptions (364-4). 378-14 says the old record at Gizeh runs from the journey to the Pyrenees.
Morocco	2	0.3%	2	364-3Feb 16, 1932	364-3 lists Morocco with the Pyrenees as the eastern evidence of the lost civilization.
Egypt	621	78.6%	1,258	288-1Nov 20, 1923	Where the Law of One people went before the last destruction, and where the pyramid, the Sphinx and the records come in. Most of these are Egyptian lives that also mention Atlantis.
Gizeh and the Sphinx	15	1.9%	27	378-12Jul 31, 1933	The record house facing the Sphinx and the pyramid of initiation, sealed with copies of the Atlantean records (5748-6, 378-16). Counts readings naming Gizeh, the Sphinx or a hall, tomb, temple or house of records.
Gobi	46	5.8%	55	364-9Apr 28, 1932	Mostly a name in a list. One of five places where the races first appeared (364-9), and a site where records are to be uncovered (815-2, 987-2).
Lemuria or Mu	53	6.7%	80	2698-1Aug 3, 1925	A second lost land, also called Mu or Zu. 364-4 has the South Pacific going before Atlantis. It lies off this map, so it has a row and no ring.

The story as told, in order

One land, three breakups

The readings never tell it in one sitting. It arrives in pieces across 790 readings, mostly as a line or two inside a life reading, and the order below is ours, assembled from the reading numbers beside each step. Where two readings disagree, the next chart shows it.

The fullest account is the 364 series of 1932, and readings 364-3 and 364-4, both given on Feb 16, carry most of it. They are the source for the Sargasso Sea, the Pyrenees, Og and the Congress of the nations. The yearly counts climb in steps, with no more than ten a year through 1929, 22 in 1930 and 62 in 1934.

A thought-form people
364-3 puts Amilius in Atlantis about 98,000 years before Ram entered India, by that reading’s own count. He is the first to notice the split into male and female, and the early bodies are thought forms that grow hard as desire builds on them.
Two camps
The Children of the Law of One keep the worship of one God. The Sons of Belial turn the same powers to their own use. 113 readings name both sides.
The first eruptions
The part near the Sargasso Sea goes down first (364-4, 364-11). People leave for the Pyrenees, for Og in the Andes and for the Yucatan, and in 2126-1 a priestess is among those who go. 364-4 also has the South Pacific, Lemuria, beginning to go before Atlantis.
The islands
After the second breaking the land is islands, and Poseidia is the greater power (958-3, 2157-1). 2157-1 has meetings called there for people from many lands.
The last departure
Leaders of the Law of One see the final breakup coming and take their people to Egypt (1007-3, 955-1, 2411-1), and Iltar leads a group west toward the Yucatan (5750-1). The records go with them.

Chart two · the dates

The three destructions on the readings’ own dates

One axis, 55,000 years back to now, with only the dates the readings themselves give. Tap a mark for the reading and its words in ours. The hollow mark is a date we had to compute.

Event	Date the readings give	Reading	In our words
The Great Congress	50,722 BC	262-39 · 21 Feb 1933	Not a destruction. A gathering of the nations to deal with the great beasts that overran the earth, dated in answer to a direct question.
Second disturbance	28,000 BC	470-22 · 5 Jul 1938	The entity was in Atlantis for the second period of disturbance, given as about 22,500 years before the Exodus period, or 28,000 before Christ.
First destruction	18,200 BC, computed	364-11 · 29 Apr 1932	The date is not given as a year. 364-11 says it came 7,500 years before the final one. Taken from the 10,700 in 364-4, that is 18,200 BC, which we computed.
Final destruction	10,700 BC	364-4 · 16 Feb 1932	Ten thousand seven hundred years before the Prince of Peace came, when the lands disintegrated into the sea and the survivors had already left. Only two readings use the word third.
Great Pyramid built	10,490 to 10,390 BC	5748-6 · 1 Jul 1932	The pyramid took a hundred years, from 10,490 to 10,390 before the Prince entered Egypt, in the time of Araaraart, Hermes and Ra.

Put on one axis, the dates do not agree. If the final destruction is 10,700 BC, then 364-11 puts the first at about 18,200 BC, which is later than the 28,000 BC that 470-22 gives for the second. The readings never reconcile them. A date that circulates online for the end, 10,014 BC, is in none of them. Searching all 14,301 turns up 0 hits.

The two sides

Sons of Belial and the Children of the Law of One

Neither name is in the early readings. The Law of One first turns up in reading 365-3 on Jul 6, 1933, Baalilal in 378-13 on Aug 14, 1933 and the phrase Sons of Belial in 537-1 on Apr 18, 1934. After that they recur through the Atlantis readings, up to the last on Aug 26, 1944.

A reading usually says which side the entity stood on, and 958-3 shows how mixed that could be. Its subject was among the children of the Law of One, yet close to one of the sons of Belial.

252readings say Law of One, 328 times in all. 129 of them name the children of it.
147readings name Belial or Baalilal, 108 of them as the Sons of Belial.
113name both sides in the same reading.

The stone

The fire stone, the terrible crystal and the Tuaoi

The power source of Atlantis has more names than readings. The firestone is in 440-5 on Dec 20, 1933, the mighty, terrible crystal in 519-1, the great crystals that stored the forces of nature in 813-1, and finally the Tuaoi stone in 2072-7 and 2072-10, both from 1942. Three readings carry the first three names and 2 the last, so the whole stone story rests on 5 readings out of 790. 2072-7 describes a six-facet stone, opalescent, lit from the top. 2072-10 calls it the central power station for craft that travelled by air, on the water and under it.

Edgar Cayce Hall of Records

The Hall of Records and the Sphinx

The phrase hall of records is in 6 readings, and the wider set of hall, tomb, temple or house of records is in 15. He names three sites, and 5750-1 of Nov 12, 1933 is the first to use the phrase. One site is the sunken Atlantean land, one is in Egypt and one is in the Yucatan, where 2012-1 says a temple overshadows it. He says there will be “the opening of the temple or hall of records in Egypt” as change draws near.

The Egyptian one is the one people search for. 5748-5, of Jun 30, 1932, puts a storehouse facing the Sphinx, between it and the Nile, where Arart and Araaraart kept the records. The next day 5748-6 describes “a chamber or passage from the right forepaw to this entrance of the record chamber”. Hermes and Ra then raised the pyramid, the records were sealed at its completion (378-14), and 378-16 says they are copies from the sunken Atlantis, to be opened when the earth changes.

Searches have not found it. In 1978 the A.R.E. worked with SRI International on radar under the Sphinx, and test drilling found natural fissures. A 1991 survey led by Robert Schoch reported a possible chamber under the right paw, and in 1998 a drilling test of a radar anomaly near the Great Pyramid found only a natural cavity, after which Egypt’s antiquities council refused permission to drill elsewhere. Nothing matching his description has ever been found, so Hall of Records here means the claim in the readings and not a place anyone has located.

5748-530 Jun 1932The Sphinx and the storehouse facing it, records kept by Arart and Araaraart.
5748-61 Jul 1932Passage from the right forepaw. Pyramid dated 10,490 to 10,390 BC.
378-1426 Sep 1933The record at Gizeh runs to 1998, sealed in the tomb yet to be found.
378-1629 Oct 1933Record chambers hold copies of the Atlantean records, to open when the change is near.
5750-112 Nov 1933Three sites, and the first reading to use the phrase hall of records.
519-120 Feb 1934The entity helped build the hall, which is yet to be uncovered.
1436-39 Sep 1937The records are in the hall not yet opened.
2012-125 Sep 1939Three places again, with the way from the Sphinx to the hall in Egypt.
2329-31 May 1941Tablets placed with the entity in the Tomb of Records.

Bimini

The Bimini Road, found in 1968, and the Poseidia reading

Reading 958-3 was given at Virginia Beach on Jun 28, 1940, and it says “Poseidia will be among the first portions ... Expect it in sixty-eight and sixty-nine ('68 and '69); not so far away!” No other reading gives those years. Another, 2012-1 of 1939, says the sunken land “will rise and is rising again”, and 378-16 says the temple must rise.

The place he names is a different matter. Bimini is in his own words in 6 readings, and only 2 are Atlantis readings. 364-3 in 1932 says a geological survey of the Bahamas, notably Bimini, could show remains, and 440-5 in 1933 puts temple remains under the sea near it. The others are from 1926 and 1927, when he was asked about oil, treasure and a land scheme there, and they do not touch Atlantis.

On September 2, 1968, the zoologist J. Manson Valentine, Jacques Mayol and Robert Angove, diving, found a line of flat stone blocks in about 18 feet of water off North Bimini, 0.8 kilometres long. It was called the Bimini Road. Cayce’s foundation paid a professor to investigate, and the find was taken as the 1940 reading coming true.

Geologists examined it. Eugene Shinn of the U.S. Geological Survey took cores in 1977, and the University of Miami dated them in 1978 at about 3,500 years for the shells and 2,800 radiocarbon years for the cement. John Gifford and Mahlon Ball of the University of Miami reported in 1980 that no block sits on another, no tool marks show and the inner blocks rest on loose sand. The consensus of the geologists who studied it is natural beachrock that has cracked along joints, 2,000 to 4,000 years old by radiocarbon, far short of the 10,000 BC and earlier the readings give for Atlantis.

1940Poseidia named, rising in 1968 and 1969

1968Sep 2, the Bimini Road found, 28 years later

1977Shinn’s cores, dated in 1978

1980Gifford and Ball, natural beachrock

Where it came from

Plato, Donnelly, the Theosophists and Arthur Lammers

The only ancient sources are two of Plato’s dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias, written about 360 BC. Plato puts the story in the mouth of Egyptian priests who told it to Solon, and Wikipedia’s summary reads it as an allegory about the pride of nations. Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis, the Antediluvian World of 1882 turned it into history, and Helena Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine of 1888 turned it into doctrine. In 1896 William Scott-Elliot’s Story of Atlantis set out the Atlantean races from the clairvoyance of C. W. Leadbeater.

In October 1922 he addressed the Birmingham Theosophical Society. Atlantis entered the readings after Arthur Lammers, a wealthy printer with a deep interest in metaphysics, persuaded him in 1923 to give readings on philosophical subjects, and what Cayce said in them turned out to describe past lives. The first reading whose own words name Poseidia and Alta is 288-1 of Nov 20, 1923, though the filing notes say material from a February 1924 reading was blended into that copy. The word Atlantis itself first appears in 4361-1 of Jan 19, 1924, and the next is 779-5 a month later.

A history of the claim on Wikipedia says his Atlantis owes much to Donnelly and adds advanced technology. His Hall of Records also resembles hidden chambers under Giza that H. C. Randall-Stevens and H. Spencer Lewis wrote about from the late 1920s to 1936.

1923 to 192947
1930 to 193395
1934 to 1938261
1939 to 1944383

Edgar Cayce map

Which Cayce map were you looking for?

Most people who search for a Cayce map want the earth changes map of the future, with the western United States broken up and new coasts drawn in. That is a forecast and not Atlantis, and the readings behind it are scored on the predictions page. The map on this page shows only where the Atlantis readings place the past. For how the readings speak about stored records of every soul, see the Akashic records page.

Questions

Edgar Cayce and Atlantis, answered

How many of Edgar Cayce’s readings mention Atlantis?

In the 14,301 readings we counted, 790 have him naming Atlantis, Atlantean or Poseidia in his own words, 5.5 percent of the whole. By our sort 727 of them are life readings. The word Atlantis itself is in 208 and Atlantean in 649. Counted that way, the first is 288-1 from November 20, 1923 and the last is 5395-1 from August 26, 1944.

Where did Edgar Cayce say the Hall of Records is?

Near the Sphinx at Giza, with a passage from its right forepaw, in 5748-6 of July 1, 1932. He names three sites in all, the sunken Atlantean land, Egypt and the Yucatan. Radar and drilling tests in 1978 and 1998 found natural fissures and cavities, and no chamber matching his description has been found.

Did a Cayce reading give a year for Atlantis to rise?

One did. Reading 958-3, given June 28, 1940, puts the return of Poseidia, the first part to come up, at sixty-eight and sixty-nine. The Bimini Road turned up on September 2, 1968, but the geologists who cored it found beachrock a few thousand years old and not a ruin.

What is the Tuaoi stone in the Cayce readings?

The name for the Atlantean power crystal in two readings, 2072-7 and 2072-10, both from 1942. The first describes a six-facet opalescent stone lit from the top and the second a central station that guided craft in the air, on the water and under it. Earlier readings call the same thing the firestone, the terrible crystal and the great crystals.

Did Edgar Cayce date the end of Atlantis to 10,000 BC?

He gives 10,700 BC in 364-4, with the lands wasting into the sea, and 28,000 BC for a second disturbance in 470-22. The date 10,014 BC, often quoted online, appears in no reading at all. The first destruction has no year of its own, only 7,500 years before the final one in 364-11.

Who were the Sons of Belial in the Cayce readings?

The side in Atlantis that used spiritual and natural forces for its own gain, set against the Children of the Law of One. We counted 147 readings naming Belial or Baalilal and 252 naming the Law of One, and 113 name both. The first mention is Baalilal in 378-13 on August 14, 1933.

Sources

Our counts come from 14,301 readings in full, restricted to his own words, with bracketed notes and conductors’ questions stripped out. Types follow our own sort. To look a reading up, the A.R.E. site lets members search every one.
Bimini Road: Wikipedia, accessed November 14, 2026, source of the Sep 2, 1968 find and the Shinn, Calvert and Gifford and Ball dating.
Eugene Shinn, A Geologist’s Adventures with Bimini Beachrock and Atlantis True Believers, Skeptical Inquirer 2004, and Shinn, Atlantis: Bimini’s Hoax, Sea Frontiers 24, 1978.
J. A. Gifford and M. M. Ball, Investigation of submerged beachrock deposits off Bimini, Bahamas, National Geographic Society Research Reports 12, 1980, pages 21 to 38.
Hall of Records searches: Hall of Records on Wikipedia, checked on November 14, 2026.
Atlantis in Plato, Donnelly and Blavatsky: Atlantis on Wikipedia, with William Scott-Elliot and Edgar Cayce on the same site.
Coastline: Natural Earth 110m land, public domain, via world-atlas 2.0.2, converted to a static path.