Atlantis is woven into the Plan as both a transmitter of primordial knowledge and a possible victim of its destructive power. In the account the narrator presents to Jacopo Belbo and Diotallevi, the vanished continent belongs to a chain of migration and secret transmission that makes the invented history of telluric currents appear to connect prehistory, sacred geography, and modern catastrophe.

Atlantis in the Chain of Transmission

The narrator proposes that the Celts learned about telluric currents from the Atlantides, survivors of the submerged continent who emigrated partly to Egypt and partly to Brittany. He extends this invented genealogy further back: the Atlantides, he says, had received the knowledge from ancestors who travelled from Avalon across Mu to central Australia, when all the continents were still joined as Pangaea. Atlantis is therefore not the origin of the secret but a link in a succession of migrations through which the Plan imagines knowledge passing across continents and ages.

A Lost Answer and Its Geography

This account turns the loss of Atlantis into one part of a wider geography of concealed knowledge. The narrator speculates that the Aborigines can still read an alphabet carved on Ayers Rock, but remain silent; deciphering it, he claims, would disclose the Answer. He identifies the rock as the antipode of an unknown, occult Pole, distinguishing this inaccessible pole from the one reached by ordinary explorers. These claims place Atlantis within the Plan’s pattern of hidden correspondences: a submerged continent, an unreadable inscription, and an unseen center are made to reinforce one another, although the account is delivered as the narrators’ own constructed solution rather than established history.

The Telluric Secret and the Threat of Catastrophe

The supposed knowledge transmitted through Atlantis concerns the routing and control of telluric currents. The narrator’s explanation assigns ancient monuments practical functions within that system: menhirs act as valves at branching currents, leys mark their routes, dolmens store energy, and cromlechs and Stonehenge serve as observatories for comparing celestial patterns with terrestrial ones. Atlantis’s disappearance then becomes more than a lost civilization’s fate. The narrator suggests that it may have sunk during a reckless experiment in the currents’ power.

From Prehistory to Coercive Power

The exchange makes the Plan’s imagined secret politically consequential. The narrator says that a powerful valve at the Telluric Navel could be used to predict weather and unleash hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, or even split continents and sink islands. He presents this force as greater than the atomic bomb because it would also harm the person who used the bomb, then jokes about threatening governments with geological destruction to extort money or political concessions. Atlantis supplies the ominous precedent for this fantasy: the same power that promises command over nature may destroy the land on which its possessors depend. Its role thus exposes the Plan’s characteristic escalation, in which a chain of analogies turns speculative antiquity into a universal instrument of control.