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What are the universal laws the people in Atlantis believed in?
According to Edgar Cayce's 14,306 documented readings, Atlantean spiritual life was organized around a coherent body of universal laws, the foremost being the Law of One — the recognition that all life emanates from a single Divine Source. Plato's own account preserves a legal-spiritual system inscribed on a pillar of orichalcum inside the Temple of Poseidon, suggesting the laws were not merely civic but cosmological. The Cayce record and the Platonic texts converge on a civilization that understood itself as governed by principles above human legislation.
Evidence
- Edgar Cayce's readings, catalogued across 14,306 sessions at the Association for Research and Enlightenment, describe Atlantean society as divided between two spiritual-political factions: the Children of the Law of One and the Sons of Belial.
- Opposed to them, the Sons of Belial treated others as instruments of personal gain, misusing the same crystal technologies until, Cayce claimed, their misuse triggered the final cataclysm.
- The Drumsofatlantis.com reconstruction of the Temple of Poseidon's symbolic architecture identifies seven spiritual laws encoded in its seven peaks: the Law of One, Karma, Manifestation, Grace, Responsibility, Unconditional Love, and Intention — a framework echoed in later Hermetic and Theosophical traditions.
- Plato's Critias preserves the detail that the ten Atlantean kings gathered every fifth and sixth year at the Temple of Poseidon to renew their sacred laws, which were inscribed on a pillar of orichalcum.
- The Law of One held that all life is interconnected and originates from a single Divine Source — a principle Cayce said fostered unity, peace, and what he called 'universal law' consciousness.