The First Wasteland: The Corruption of the Antediluvian World
The mythic pattern:
- humanity receives extraordinary gifts;
- knowledge advances;
- beings of higher order intervene;
- boundaries are violated;
- power outpaces wisdom;
- violence and corruption spread;
- sacred order collapses;
- civilization becomes technologically or magically advanced but spiritually disordered;
- catastrophe inevitably follows.
A powerful archetypal warning for modernity.
Atlantis is the first, or the most recent, great civilization that failed the test of power.