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16 last, built in commemoration of the first, was on the island of Atlantis.

We have only given a rough sketch, of what could be expanded into a large book, but it is enough to start the mystic mind into making a study of the various proofs given in other works upon this subject.

About fifteen thousand years ago, Atlantis was in the height of her glory, with her colonies planted in all parts of the world, accessible to her commerce. Her strongest possessions, however, were situated in Egypt and South America, although she had cities as far north as the great lake that covered what is now Michigan and the chain of lakes surrounding that state.

For instance, the great city of Bab, stood 14,600 years ago, nearly where her modern representative, Chicago, now stands. Only the river, which is a small affair in this age, was then a wide and beautiful stream, flowing from the "Great-Lake-of-the-Northland" to the ocean, nearly 300 miles farther north than where New Orleans is now.

Nearly fourteen thousand nine hundred years ago, or about B. C. 13,000, the order of the Magi dedicated their first Temple in Egypt; the country which was destined to become the theater of the future exploits of the mystic brotherhood for thousands of years.

As long as Atlantis stood, she held the supreme jurisdiction over all parts of the earth, and Egypt was of course subordinate to her in the occult and spiritual line.

But the time came a few hundred years later, when a terrible catastrophe hurled the rocky foundations from beneath Atlantis and in a day and night of the most