Questions by C. Carter Blake | Editor’s Note by H.P.B.
. . . It behoves me, therefore, to ask you:—
s it not possible that this race may be the descendants of the old Atlanteans, and, like them, of diverse origin from the populations of the rest of Ireland?
On the theory that these people existed at a former time in greater number, may such a fact in any way account for the legends of great magicians having lived in the West of Ireland? . . .
Editor’s Note [H.P.B.]
It is a tradition among Occultists in general, and taught as an historical fact in Occult philosophy, that what is now Ireland was once upon a time the abode of the Atlanteans, emigrants from the submerged island mentioned by Plato. Of all the British Isles, Ireland is the most ancient by several thousands of years. Inferences and “working hypotheses” are left to the Ethnologists, Anthropologists and Geologists. The master and keepers of the old science claim to have preserved genuine records, and we Theosophists—i.e., most of us—believe it implicitly. Official Science may deny, but what does it matter? Has not Science begun by denying almost everything it accepts now?