“All the various changes in their presences began for the most part after the second misfortune occured to this planet, during which misfortune the chief continent of that ill-fated planet, then existing under the name ‘ATLANTIS ‘, entered within the planet. (BTG XIV)

“During this second serious catastrophe to that planet, the continent ATLANTIS, which had been the largest continent and the chief place of the being-existence of the three-brained beings of that planet during the period of my first descent, was engulfed together with other large and small terra firmas within the planet with all the three-brained beings existing upon it, and also with almost all that they had attained and acquired during many of their preceding centuries. (BTG XIX)