THE LOST CONTINENT

                       By Aleister Crowley


                      Ordo Templi Orientis
                          P.O Box 2303
                       Berkeley, CA 94702


                      (C) COPYRIGHT O.T.O.
                       June 21, 1985 e.v.

                          Sun in Cancer
                           Moon in Leo  

                           AN 81 e.n.



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                        The Lost Continent


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                             PREFACE

  Last year I was chosen to succeed the venerable K-Z--who had it 
in his mind to die, that is, to join Them in Venus, as one of the 
Seven Heirs of Atlantis, and I have been appointed to declare, so 
far  as  may be found possible,  the truth about that  mysterious 
lost land.  Of course,  no more than one seventh of the wisdom is 
ever confided to one of the Seven,  and the Seven meet in council 
but  once in every thirty-three years.  But its  preservation  is 
guaranteed  by the interlocked systems of "dreaming true" and  of 
"preparation of the antinomy". The former almost explains itself; 
the latter is almost inconceivable to normal man.  Its essence is 
to train a man to be anything by training him to be its opposite. 
At  the  end  of anything,  think they,  it turns out to  be  its 
opposite,  and that opposite is thus mastered without having been 
soiled  by  the labours of the student,  and  without  the  false 
impressions of early learning being left upon the mind.
   I myself,  for example, had unknowingly been trained to record 
these observations by the life of a butterfly. All my impressions 
came  clear  on  the soft wax of my brain;  I had  never  worried 
because  the scratch on the wax in no way resembled the sound  it 
represented. In other words, I observed perfectly because I never 
knew that I was observing. So, if you pay sufficient attention to 
your heart, you will make it palpitate.
   I accordingly proceed to a description of the country.

                                             Aleister Crowley

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                               I.
                  OF THE PLAINS BENEATH ATLAS,
                      AND ITS SERVILE RACE*.

   Atlas  is the true name of this archipelago--continent  is  an 
altogether false term, for every 'house' or mountain peak was cut 
from its fellows by natural,  though often very narrow waterways. 
The  African  Atlas is a mere offshoot of the range.  It was  the 
true  Atlas  that supported the ancient world by  its  moral  and 
magical strength,  and hence the name of the fabled globe-bearer. 
The  root  is the Lemurian 'Tla' or 'Tlas',  black,  for  reasons 
which  will  appear in due course.  'A' is the  feminine  prefix, 
derived  from  the shape of the mouth when  uttering  the  sound. 
'Black  woman' is therefore as near a translation as one can give 
in English; the Latin has a closer equivalent.
   The  mountains are cut off,  not only from each other  by  the 
channels of the sea,  but from the plains at their feet by cliffs 
naturally  or  artificially smoothed and undercut  for  at  least 
thirty feet on every side in order to make access impossible.
   These  plains  had been made flat by  generations  of  labour. 
Vines and fruit-trees growing only on the upper slopes, they were 
devoted  principally  to  corn,  and to grass  pastures  for  the 
amphibian  herds of Atlas.  This corn was of a kind now  unknown, 
flourishing  in sea-water,  and the periodical flood-tides served 
the same purpose as the Nile in Egypt.  Enormous floating  stages 
of  spongy rock--no trees of any kind grew anywhere on the plains 
so wood was unknown--supported the villages. These were inhabited 
by a type of man similar to the modern Caucasian race.  They were 
not  permitted to use any of the food of their  masters,  neither 
the corn, nor the amphibians, nor the vast supplies of shellfish, 
but  were  fed by what they called  "bread  from  heaven",  which 
indeed  came  down from the mountains,  being the whole of  their 
refuse of every kind.  The whole population was put to  perpetual 
hard labour. The young and active tended the amphibians, grew the 
corn,  collected the shell-fish, gathered the "bread from heaven" 
for their elders,  and were compelled to reproduce their kind. At 
twenty they were considered strong enough for the factory,  where 
they  worked in gangs on a machine combining the features of  our 
pump  and  treadmill for sixteen hours of  the  twentyfour.  This 
machine  supplied  Atlas with its 'ZRO'* or 'power',  of which  I 
shall speak presently. Any worker showing even temporary weakness 
was transferred to the phosphorus works, where he was sure to die 
within a few months.  Phosphorus was a prime necessity of  Atlas; 
however,  it  was not used in its red or yellow forms,  but in  a 
third  allotrope,  a blue-black or rather violet-black substance, 
only  known in powder finer than precipitated gold,  harder  than 
diamond,  eleven  times  heavier than  yellow  phosphorus,  quite 
incombustible,  and  so shockingly poisonous that,  in  spite  of 
every  precaution,  an ounce of it cost the lives (on an average) 
of  some  two hundred and fifty men.  Of its properties  I  shall 
speak  later.
   The  people  were left in utmost slavery and ignorance by  the 
wise counsel of the first of the philosophers of Atlas,  who  had 
written:  "An  empty  brain  is  a threat  to  Society."  He  had 
consequently  instituted a system of mental  culture,  comprising 
two parts:

          1.  As a basis, a mass of useless disconnected facts.
          2.  A superstructure of lies.

   Part  1 was compulsory;  the people then took Part  2  without 
protest.*
   The  language of the plains was simple but profuse.  They  had 
few nouns and fewer verbs. 'To work again' (there was no word for 
'to  work' simply),  'to eat again',  'to break the law' (no word 
for 'to break the law again'),  'to come from without',  'to find 
light'  (i.e.  to go to the phosphorus factory) were  almost  the 
only  verbs used by adults.  The young men and women had a  verb-
language  yet  simpler,  and  of degraded  coarseness.  All  had, 
however,  an  extraordinary wealth of adjectives,  most  of  them 
meaningless,  as attached to no noun ideas,  and a great quantity 
of abstract nouns such as 'Liberty', 'Progress', without which no 
refined  inhabitant could consider a sentence complete.  He would 
introduce  them into a discussion on the most material  subjects. 
"The immoral snub-nose",  "the unprogressive teeth",  "lascivious 
music",  "reactionary  eyebrows"--such were phrases  familiar  to 
all.  "To eat again,  to sleep again,  to work again, to find the 
light--that is Liberty, that is Progress" was a proverb common in 
every mouth.
   The  religion of the people was Protestant Christianity in all 
essentials,  but  with an even closer dependence upon  God.  They 
asserted  its  formulae,  without attaching any  meaning  to  the 
words,  in a manner both reverent and passionate. Sexual life was 
entirely  forbidden  to  the workers,  a single  breach  implying 
relegation to the phosphorus works.
   In  every  field was,  however,  an enormous tablet  of  rock, 
carved  on one side with a representation of the three stages  of 
life:  the fields, the labour mill, the factory; and on the other 
side  with these words:  "To enter Atlas,  fly." Beneath this  an 
elaborate  series of graphic pictures showed how to  acquire  the 
art of flying.  During all the generations of Atlas,  not one man 
had been known to take advantage of these instructions.
   The principal fear of the populace was a variation of any kind 
from routine.  For any such the people had one word only,  though 
this   word  changed  its  annotation  in  different   centuries. 
'Witchcraft',  'Heresy', 'Madness', 'Bad Form', 'Sex-Perversion', 
'Black Magic' were its principal shapes in the last four thousand 
years of the dominion of Atlas.
   Sneezing, idleness, smiling, were regarded as premonitory. Any 
cessation  from speech,  even for a moment to  take  breath,  was 
considered highly dangerous.  The wish to be alone was worse than 
all;  the  delinquent would be seized by his fellows,  and either 
killed  outright  or thrust into the compound of  the  phosphorus 
factory, from which there was no egress.
   The  habits of the people were  incredibly  disgusting.  Their 
principal  relaxations were art,  music and the drama,  in  which 
they  could  show  achievement hardly inferior to that  of  Henry 
Arthur Jones,  Pinero,  Lehar,  George Dance,  Luke  Fildes,  and 
Thomas Sidney Cooper.
  Of  medicine they were happily ignorant.  The outdoor  life  in 
that  equable  climate bred strong youths and  maidens,  and  the 
first  symptoms  of  illness in a worker was held to  impair  his 
efficiency  and qualify him for the  phosphorous  factory.  Wages 
were  permanently  high,  and as there were no merchants even  of 
alcohol,  whose  use  was  forbidden,  every man  saved  all  his 
earnings,  and died rich.  At his death his savings went back  to 
the  community.  Taxation was consequently  unnecessary.  Clothes 
were unnecessary and unknown, and the 'bread from heaven' was the 
"free gift of God".  The dead were thrown to the amphibians. Each 
man  built  his  own  shelter of the  rough  stone  sponge  which 
abounded.  The  word 'house' was used only in Atlas;  the servile 
race  called its huts 'Hloklost' (equivalent to the English  word 
'home').  Discontent  was  absolutely unknown.  It had  not  been 
considered necessary to prohibit traffic with foreign  countries, 
as  the inhabitants of such were esteemed barbarians.  Had a ship 
landed  men,  they would have been murdered to a  man,  supposing 
that  Atlas  had permitted any approach to its  shores.  That  it 
hindered  such,  and  by  infallible  means,  was  due  to  other 
considerations,   whose  nature  will  form  the  subject  of   a 
subsequent chapter.
   This  then is the nature of the plains beneath Atlas,  and the 
character of the servile race.


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                               II.
                      OF THE RACE OF ATLAS

   In  the  city or 'house' which was formed from  the  crest  of 
every  mountain,  dwelt a race not greatly superior in height  to 
our own,  but of vaster frame.  The bulk and strength of the bear 
is  not  inappropriate  as a simile for the  lower  classes;  the 
higher had the enormous chest and shoulders and the lean haunches 
of  the  lion.  This  strength gave an  infallible  beauty,  made 
monstrous  by  their most inexorable law,  that every  child  who 
developed  no special feature in the first seven years should  be 
sacrificed to the Gods.  This special feature might be a nose  of 
prodigious size, hands and wrists of gigantic strength, a gorilla 
jaw,  an elephant ear--or any of these might entitle its owner to 
life:*  for in all such variations from the normal they perceived 
the possibility of a development of the race.  Men and women were 
hairy as the ourang-outang and all were closely shaven from  head 
to  foot.  It had been found that this practice developed tactile 
sensibility.  It was also done in reverence to the 'Living Atla', 
of which more in its place.
   The  lower  class  were few in number.  Its  function  was  to 
superintend the servile race,  to bring the food of the  children 
to  the  banqueting-hall,  to remove the same,  to attend to  the 
disposition of the 'light-screens',  to ensure the continuance of 
the race by the begetting, bearing and nourishing of the children.
   The  priestly class was concerned with the further preparation 
of  the Zro supplied by the labour-mills,  and  its  impregnation 
with  phosphorus.  This  class had much  leisure  for  'work',  a 
subject to be explained later.
   The  High  Priests  and High Priestesses  were  restricted  in 
number to eleven times thirty-three in any one 'house'.  To  them 
were  entrusted  the  final secrets of Atlas,  and  to  them  was 
confided  the conduct of the experiments in which every will  was 
bound up.*
   The colour of the Atlanteans was very various, though the hair 
was invariably of a fiery chestnut with bluish  reflections.  One 
might see women whiter than Aphrodite, others tawny as Cleopatra, 
others  yellow as Tu-Chi,  others of a strange,  subtle blue like 
the  tattooed faces of Chin women,  others again red  as  copper. 
Green  was  however a prohibited hue for women,  and red was  not 
liked in men.  Violet was rare,  but highly prized,  and children 
born   of  that  colour  were  specially  reared  by   the   High 
Priestesses.
   However,  in one part of the body all the women were perfectly 
black with a blackness no negro can equal; from this circumstance 
comes  the name Atlas.  It is absurdly attributed by some authors 
to  the deposit of excess of phosphorus in the Zro.  I need  only 
point  out  that the mark existed long before  the  discovery  of 
black  phosphorus.  It is evidently a racial stigma.  It was  the 
birth  of a girl child without this mark which raised her  mother 
to  the rank of goddess,  and ended the terrestrial adventure  of 
the Atlanteans, as will presently appear.
   Of  the ethics of this people little need be said.  Their word 
for  'right' is 'phph' made by blowing with the jaw drawn sharply 
across from left to right,  thus meaning 'a spiral life  contrary 
to  the  course  of the sun'.  We may assume  it  as  'contrary'. 
"Whatever is, is wrong" seems to have been their first principle. 
Legs  were 'wrong' because they only carry you five miles in  the 
hour:  let us refuse to walk; let us ride horseback. So the horse 
is 'wrong' compared to the train and the motor-car; and these are 
'wrong'  to  the  aeroplane.  If speed had been  the  Atlantean's 
object,  he  would have thought aeroplanes 'wrong' and  all  else 
too, so long as the speed of light was not surpassed by him.
   Curious  survivals  of  these  laws are found  in  the  Jewish 
transcript of the Egyptian code,  which they, being a slave race, 
interpreted in the reverse manner.
   "Thou  shalt not make any graven image." Every male  child  on 
attaining  manhood,  had a graven image given him to  worship,  a 
miracle-working  image,  whose principle exploits he would tattoo 
upon it.
   "Remember  the  Sabbath Day and keep it holy."  The  Atlantean 
kept  one  day  in seven for all purposes  unconnected  with  his 
principle task.
   "Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery."  Though  the  Atlanteans 
married, intercourse with the wife was the only act forbidden.
   "Honour  thy  father and thy mother." On  the  contrary,  they 
worshipped their children,  as if to say: "This is the God whom I 
have made in my own likeness."
   Similarly,  there is one exception and one only to the rule of 
silence.  It is the utterance of the 'Name' which it is death  to 
pronounce.  This  word  was  constantly in their  mouths;  it  is 
'Zcrra', a sort of venomous throat-gargling.  Hence, possibly the 
Gaelic  'Scurr' 'speak',  English 'Scaur' or 'Scar' in  Yorkshire 
and the Pennines.  'Zcrra' is also the name of the 'High  House', 
and of the graven image referred to above.
   Others   traces   may  be  found  in   folklore;   some   mere 
superstitions.   Thus  the  correct  number  for  a  banquet  was 
thirteen, because if there were only one more sign in the Zodiac, 
the  year would be a month longer,  and one would have more  time 
'for   work'.   This  is  probably  a  debased  Egyptian  notion. 
Atlanteans  knew  better than anyone that the Zodiac is  only  an 
arbitrary division. Still it may be laid down that the impossible 
never  daunted Atlas.  If one said,  "Two and two make Four"  his 
thought would be "Yes, damn it!"*
   I now explain the language of Atlas. The third and greatest of 
their  philosophers  saw that speech had wrought more  harm  than 
good,  and  he consequently instituted a peculiar rite.  Two  men 
were chosen by lot to preserve the language,  which,  by the way, 
consisted  of  monosyllables only,  two hundred and  fourteen  in 
number,  to  each  of which was attached a  diacritical  gesture, 
usually ideographic.
   Thus  'wrong' is given as 'phph' moving the jaw from right  to 
left.  Wiping  the brown with 'phph' means 'hot',  hollowing  the 
hands  over the mouth 'fire',  striking the throat 'to  die;'  so 
that  each  'radicle' may have hundreds  of  gesture-derivatives. 
Grammar,  by the way,  hardly existed,  the quick apprehension of 
the Atlanteans rendering it unnecessary.
   These  two  men then departed to a cavern on the side  of  the 
mountain  just  above  the  cliff,  and there  for  a  year  they 
remained,  speaking the language and carving it symbolically upon 
the  rock.  At  the end of the year they returned;  the elder  is 
sacrificed and the younger returns with a volunteer,  usually one 
who  wishes  to expiate a fault,  and teaches him  the  language. 
During his visit he observes whether any new thing needs a  name, 
and  if  so  he invents it,  and adds it to  the  language.  This 
process  continued to the end.  The rest of the people  abandoned 
altogether the use of speech, only a few years' practice enabling 
them to dispense with the radicle. They then sought to do without 
gesture,  and in eight generations the difficulty was  conquered, 
and  telepathy* established.  Research then devoted itself to the 
task of doing without thought;  this will be discussed in  detail 
in the proper place.  There was also a 'listener',  three men who 
took  turns  to  sit upon the highest  peak,  above  the  'light-
screens',  and  whose duty it was to give the alarm if any  noise 
disturbed  Atlas.  On their report that High Priest charged  with 
active governorship would take steps to ascertain and destroy the 
cause.
   The 'light-screens' spoken of were a contrivance of laminae of 
a  certain  spar  such that the light and heat of  the  sun  were 
completely  cut  off,  not  by  opacity,  but  by  what  we  call 
'interference'.  In this way other subtle rays of the sun entered 
the  'house',  these rays being supposed to be necessary to life. 
These matters were the subjects of the deepest controversy.  Some 
held  that  these rays themselves were injurious  and  should  be 
excluded.  Others considered that the light-screens should be put 
in position during moonlight,  instead of being opened at sunset, 
as was the custom.  This, however, was never attempted, the great 
mass of the people being devoted to the moon.  Others wished full 
sunlight, the aim of Atlas being (they thought) to reach the sun. 
But  this theory contradicted the prime axiom of attaining things 
through their opposites,  and was only held by the lower classes, 
who were not initiated into this doctrine.
   The 'houses' of Atlas were carved from the living rock by  the 
action of Zro in its seventh precipitation. Enormously solid, the 
walls  were lofty and smoother than glass,  though the  pavements 
were  rough and broken almost everywhere for a reason which I  am 
not  permitted to disclose.  The passages were invariably narrow, 
so that two persons could never pass each other. When two met, it 
was  the  law to greet by joining in 'work' and then  going  away 
together  on  their separate errands,  or passing one  above  the 
other.  This was done purposely, so as to remind every man of his 
duty to Atlas on every occasion on which he might meet a  fellow-
citizen.
   The  Banqueting-Hall  of the children was usually very  large. 
The furniture, which had been brought by the first colonists, and 
gradually  disused by adults,  never needed repair.  A vast  open 
doorway  facing  North  opened  on the  mountainside  on  to  the 
vineyards  and orchards,  the meadows and gardens,  in which  the 
children  passed  their  time.  Suckled by the mother  for  three 
months only, the child was then already able to nourish itself on 
the bread and wine,  and on the flesh of the amphibious herds, of 
which there were several kinds;  one a piglike animal with  flesh 
resembling  wild  duck,  another  a sort of amatee  tasting  like 
salmon,  its  fat  being somewhat like caviar in  everything  but 
texture,  and a sure specific for any of childhood's troubles.  A 
third, an ancestor of our hippopotamus, was really tamed, and was 
employed  by the serviles for preparing the ground for the  corn, 
trampling  through the fields while they were covered  with  sea-
water,  and thus leaving deep holes in which the seeds were cast. 
Its flesh was not unlike bear,  but more delicate.  Notable, too, 
was  the great quantity of turtle;  also the giant  oysters,  the 
huge  deep  sea  crabs,  a  kind of octopus whose  flesh  made  a 
nutritious and elegant soup, and innumerable shell-fish, added to 
the  table.  The waterways were haunted by shoals of a small  and 
poisonous  fish,* whose bite was immediate death to man,  a  fact 
which  altogether  cut off communication between one  island  and 
another  except  by air,  as  the  hippopotamus-animal,  although 
immune to its bite, was unable to swim.
   Of the sleeping chambers I shall tell more particularly in the 
course of my remarks on Zro.

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                              III.

                 OF THE AIM OF THE MAGICIANS OF
                ATLAS: OF ZRO; AND ITS PROPERTIES
                     AND USES: OF THAT WHICH
                    COMBINED WITH IT: AND OF
                        BLACK PHOSPHORUS.

   It  was the most ancient tradition of the Atlantean  magicians 
that  they  were  the survivors of a race  inhabiting  a  country 
called Lemuria, of which the South Pacific archipelago may be the 
remains.  These Lemurians had, they held, built up a civilization 
equal,   if   not   superior  to  their  own;   but   through   a 
misunderstanding of magical law--some said the 2nd, some the 8dhl 
so

There are also people breaking into systems they have no right to
access...and it doesn't matter why they do it or whether they harm
anything, it is wrong and illegal.  There are people committing fraud
against banks, credit card companies, and telecommunications companies --
against all of us.  There are instances of industrial and political
espionage going on.  There are computer-run racist hate groups, kiddie porn
rings, and conspiracies to commit all kinds of awful things.

How would you write the laws so that illegal activity could be prosecuted
appropriately without endangering the rights of the innocent?  Instead of
being critical, let's see some of you "authorities" apply your expertise to
something constructive!  Suggest how we can write good laws that work but
can't be abused.  This would be a good forum for that.  If we come up with
some good suggestions, I suspect we could even get them into more
appropriate forums.  But we have to have reasonable ideas, first, not
simply cries of "foul" that fail to acknowledge that there are real
criminals out there amongst the rest of us.


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The following originally appeared in TELECOM Digest, #467.
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 23:04:32 CDT
From: TELECOM Moderator 
Subject: TELECOM Digest V10 #467

Date: Wed, 4 Jul 90 00:00:00 gmt
From: dunike!isis!well!emmanuel (Emmanuel Goldstein)
Subject: Mitch Kapor and "Sun Devil"


It's real disturbing to read the comments that have been posted recently on
TELECOM Digest concerning Operation Sun Devil and Mitch Kapor's
involvement.  While I think the moderator has been chastised sufficiently,
there are still a few remarks I want to make.

First of all, I understand the point he was trying to get across. But I
think he shot from the hip without rationalizing his point first, thereby
leaving many of us in a kind of stunned silence. If I understand it
correctly, the argument is: Kapor says he wants to help people that the
Moderator believes are thieves. Therefore, using that logic, it's okay to
steal from Kapor.

Well, I don't agree. Obviously, Kapor DOESN'T believe these people are
criminals. Even if one or two of them ARE criminals, he is concerned with
all of the innocent bystanders that are being victimized here.  And make no
mistake about that - there are many innocent bystanders here. I've spoken
to quite a few of them. Steve Jackson, Craig Neidorf, the friends and
families of people who've had armed agents of the federal government storm
into their homes and offices. It's a very frightening scenario - one that
I've been through myself.  And when it happens there are permanent scars
and a fear that never quite leaves.  For drug dealers, murderers, hardened
criminals, it's an acceptable price in my view. But a 14 year old kid who
doesn't know when to stop exploring a computer system? Let's get real. Do
we really want to mess up someone's life just to send a message?

I've been a hacker for a good part of my life. Years ago, I was what you
would call an "active" hacker, that is, I wandered about on computer
systems and explored. Throughout it all, I knew it would be wrong to mess
up data or do something that would cause harm to a system. I was taught to
respect tangible objects; extending that to encompass intangible objects
was not very hard to do. And most, if not all, of the people I explored
with felt the same way. Nobody sold their knowledge. The only profit we got
was an education that far surpassed any computer class or manual.

Eventually, though, I was caught. But fortunately for me, the witch-hunt
mentality hadn't caught on yet. I cooperated with the authorities,
explained how the systems I used were flawed, and proved that there was no
harm done. I had to pay for the computer time I used and if I stayed out of
trouble, I would have no criminal record. They didn't crush my spirit. And
the computers I used became more secure.  Except for the fear and
intimidation that occurred during my series of raids, I think I was dealt
with fairly.

Now I publish a hacker magazine. And in a way, it's an extension of that
experience. The hackers are able to learn all about many different computer
and phone systems. And those running the systems, IF THEY ARE SMART, listen
to what is being said and learn valuable lessons before it's too late.
Because sooner or later, someone will figure out a way to get in. And you'd
better hope it's a hacker who can help you figure out ways to improve the
system and not an ex-employee with a monumental grudge.

In all fairness, I've been hacked myself. Someone figured out a way to
break the code for my answering machine once. Sure, I was angry -- at the
company.  They had no conception of what security was. I bought a new
machine from a different company, but not before letting a lot of people
know EXACTLY what happened. And I've had people figure out my calling card
numbers. This gave me firsthand knowledge of the ineptitude of the phone
companies. And I used to think they understood their own field! My point
is: you're only a victim if you refuse to learn. If I do something stupid
like empty my china cabinet on the front lawn and leave it there for three
weeks, I don't think many people will feel sympathetic if it doesn't quite
work out. And I don't think we should be sympathetic towards companies and
organizations that obviously don't know the first thing about security and
very often are entrusted with important data.

The oldest hacker analogy is the
walking-in-through-the-front-door-and-rummaging-through-my-personal-belongings
one. I believe the Moderator recently asked a critic if he would leave his
door unlocked so he could drop in and rummage. The one fact that always
seems to be missed with this analogy is that an individual's belongings are
just not interesting to someone who simply wants to learn. But they ARE
interesting to someone who wants to steal. A big corporation's computer
system is not interesting to someone who wants to steal, UNLESS they have
very specific knowledge as to how to do this (which eliminates the hacker
aspect). But that system is a treasure trove for those interested in
LEARNING. To those that insist on using this old analogy, I say at least be
consistent. You wouldn't threaten somebody with 30 years in jail for taking
something from a house. What's especially ironic is that your personal
belongings are probably much more secure than the data in the nation's
largest computer systems!

When you refer to hacking as "burglary and theft", as the Moderator
frequently does, it becomes easy to think of these people as hardened
criminals. But it's just not the case. I don't know any burglars or
thieves, yet I hang out with an awful lot of hackers. It serves a definite
purpose to blur the distinction, just as pro-democracy demonstrators are
referred to as rioters by nervous leaders. Those who have staked a claim in
the industry fear that the hackers will reveal vulnerabilities in their
systems that they would just as soon forget about. It would have been very
easy for Mitch Kapor to join the bandwagon on this. The fact that he didn't
tells me something about his character. And he's not the only one.

Since we published what was, to the best of my knowledge, the first
pro-hacker article on all of these raids, we've been startled by the
intensity of the feedback we've gotten. A lot of people are angry, upset,
and frightened by what the Secret Service is doing. They're speaking out
and communicating their outrage to other people who we could never have
reached. And they've apparently had these feelings for some time. Is this
the anti-government bias our Moderator accused another writer of harboring?
Hardly. This is America at its finest.


Emmanuel Goldstein
Editor, 2600 Magazine - The Hacker Quarterly

emmanuel@well.sf.ca.us          po box 752, middle island, ny 11953


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Date:         Sun, 01 Jul 90 15:59:43 EDT
From:         Michael Rosen 
Subject:      Re: articles
To:           Computer Underground Digest 


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%The following was excerpted from:  Computerworld, 6/25/90 (pp. 1,6).  The
author is Michael Alexander (CW Staff).%
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"...civil libertarians asserted last week that authorities have crossed the
bounds of the Constitution in carrying out searches..

...Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp. and On Technology, Inc.,
and John Barlow an author and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, will announce
the official launch of a computer hacker defense team "within a few weeks,"
as a result of the government's crackdown on computer crime, Kapor said
last week.

Two Law firms, Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky & Lieberman in New York
and Silverglate Gertner Fine & Good in Boston, are the other members of the
planned hacker defense team.

...Government agents have intimidated some hackers who sought legal counsel
and stampeded over their constitutional rights to free speech by illegally
seizing computers used to operate bulletin-board systems, said Terry Gross,
an attorney at Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky & Lieberman.  The firm is
noted for its expertise in handling cases that it believes are deliberate
attacks on constitutional rights.  For example, it defended Daniel Ellsberg
in the celebrated Pentagon Papers case.

Computerworld learned last week that Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky &
Lieberman is already providing legal assistance in the defence of Craig
Neidorf, a 20-year-old hacker and newsletter editor who has been indicted
in Chicago in a scheme to steal Bellsouth Corp. documentation for an
enhanced 911 emergency telephone system.

"I personally asked the attorneys to provide some informal advice in these
matters, and that is obviously a logical precursor to more formal
involvment," Kapor said in an interview.

The defense team is in the midst of setting up a formal structure and
strategy for the organization, Kapor said.  Asked if the group will provide
funds to pay legal fees for computer hackers, Kapor replied: "I contemplate
doing that very strongly, but none of these decisions are final or public."

..."The government is overreacting," said Sheldon Zenner, Neidorf's
attorney and a member of the katten Muchin & Zavis law firm in Chicago.
"They are grappling with legitimate concerns of computer crime but are
trampling constitutional rights at the same time."

Zenner said that he will file First Amendment motions this week on his
client's behalf.  Neidorf was slated to go to trial in federal district
court in Chicago last week, but the trial was rescheduled for next month to
allow the defense to file new motions.

"Craig is a 20-year-old nebish, so they don't mind going after him," Zenner
said.  "They didn't think that it would raise the same issues as if they
went after _The New York Times_ or _The Wall Street Journal_."

Neidorf, who recently completed his junior year at the University of
Missouri, is a co-editor of "Phrack," a newsletter for computer hackers.
He has admitted to publishing an edited version of 911 documentation but
contended that he did not know the information had been stolen.

Federal and state law enforcers have maintained that it is necessary to
seize a computer to evaluate its contents for evidence of a crime, not to
block publication of any information on a bulletin board.

"I don't see this as a First Amendment issue," said Kirk Tabbey, a Michigan
assistant prosecuting attorney and coordinating legal counsel to the
Michigan Computer Crime Task Force.

"It is an intrusion only as far as we need to prove the crime," Tabbey
said.  "You try to take only what you need because you have to comply with
the Fourth Amendment, which limits illegal searches and seizures."

Steve Jackson, founder of Steve Jackson Games in Austin, Texas, said he
thinks otherwise.  In March, the Secret Service raided his office and the
home of an employee and seized computers that it said contained a "handbok
on computer crime," Jackson said.  The handbook was in fact a game, he
said."


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in board?  What procedures does the Secret
 Service have for obtaining information from computer bulletin
 boards or networks?  Please list the occasions where
 information has been obtained since January 1988, including
 the identity of the bulletin boards or networks,  the type of
 information obtained,   and how that information was obtained
 (was it downloaded, for example).

 Response:

 Yes, during the course of several investigations, the U. S.
 Secret Service has "down loaded" information from computer
 bulletin boards.  A review of information gained in this manner
 (in an undercover capacity after being granted access to the
 system by it's system administrator)  is performed in order to
 determine whether or not that bulletin board is being used to
 traffic in unauthorized access codes or to gather other
 information of a criminal intelligence nature.  At all times,
 our methods are in keeping with the procedures as outlined in
 the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

 If a commercial network was suspected of containing
 information concerning a criminal activity, we would obtain
 the proper court order to obtain this information in keeping
 with the ECPA.

 The U. S. Secret Service does not maintain a record  of the
 bulletin boards we have accessed.

 Question 6:

 Does the Secret Service employ, or is it considering employing,
 any system or program that could automatically review the
 contents of a computer file, scan the file for key items,
 phrases or data elements, and flag them or recommend further
 investigative action?  If so, what is the status of any such
 system.  Please describe this system and research being
 conducted to develop it.

 Response:

 The Secret  Service has pioneered the concept of a Computer
 Diagnostic Center (CDC)  to facilitate the review and
 evaluation of electronically stored information.  To streamline
 the tedious task of reviewing thousands of files per
 investigation, we have gathered both hardware and software
 tools to assist our search of files for specific information or
 characteristics.  Almost all of these products are
 commercially  developed products and are available to the
 public.  It is conceivable that an artificial intelligence process
 may someday be developed and have application to this law
 enforcement function but we are unaware if such a system is
 being developed.

 The process of evaluating the information and making
 recommendations for further investigative action is currently
 a manual one at our CDC.  We process thousands of computer
 disks annually as well as review evidence contained in other
 types of storage devices (tapes, hard drives, etc.).   We are
 constantly seeking  ways to enhance our investigative mission.
 The development of high tech resources like the CDC saved
 investigative manhours and assist in the detection  of criminal
 activity.

 Again, thank you for your interest.  Should you have any further
 questions, we will be happy to address them.

                                                 Sincerely,
                                                 /s/
                                                 John R.  Simpson, Director


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was held in exoteric circles. For in Atlas the poet was not as in 
England  a  holy and exalted being,  one set apart for  his  high 
calling,  throned in the hearts of the people, cherished by kings 
and  nobles,  one  on whom no wealth and honour are too great  to 
shower,  but  one  of the people themselves,  of no  greater  con 
sequence than any other.  Every man was an artist in so far as he 
was a man;  and every man being equally so in nature,  whether so 
in achievement or not mattered nothing, as appreciation was of no 
moment.  Accomplishing Art for the sake of Art,  the interest  of 
the creator in his work died with its creation.  It may therefore 
be possible that these words are those of poetic exaggeration, or 
that  there  is  a concealed meaning in them,  or that  they  are 
intended  to mask and mislead,  or that the poet was not  himself 
fully instructed.  Indeed it is certain that only the High  House 
had  the  secrets of Atlas,  and that the magicians of the  House 
held  the  undeniable if sometimes dangerous  doctrine  that  the 
truth  and  falsehood of any statement alternated as do  day  and 
night  according  to the status of the hearer of  the  statement. 
However,  so  strong  is the tradition concerning the  'Angel  of 
Venus' that it must at least be considered carefully.  The theory 
appears  to have been that if the magicians of Venus invited  the 
Atlanteans,  means  would  assuredly follow,  just as if  a  King 
summons  a  paralysed  man to his presence,  he  will  also  send 
officers  to  convey  him.  Now whether the 'Angel of  Venus'  is 
really an angel in anything like the modern sense of the word, or 
merely  a title of one of the principal magicians of the  planet, 
it is evident that the High House ardentl  desired his  presence. 
That  this  might be manifested by the birth of a child  'without 
the  stain  of  Atla' was clearly  an  ultimate  desideratum,  an 
outward and visible sign of redemption,  an obvious guarantee  of 
the  reality  of  the  occurrence.  It was  then  a  Virgin  high 
priestess  who achieved so notable a renown;  whether or not this 
is a mere poetic parable of the abiogenesis--if it is indeed fair 
so to describe it--of the eleventh stage of Zro is another and an 
open question.  In any case,  such is the tradition, and numerous 
parodies  of it are still extant in the stories of the births  of 
Romulus  and  Remus,  Bacchus,  Buddha and many  other  legendary 
heroes  of  modern times;  we even catch an echo in the myths  of 
such barbarian lands as Syria.
   So  much  and  no more concerning the Underground  Gardens  of 
Atlas, and of their commerce with the inhabitants of Venus.
                              VII.

              OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER CURIOUS CUSTOMS
                      OF  THE  ATLANTEANS:
                 AND OF SACRIFICES TO THE GODS.

   I  have  already adverted to that most singular conception  of 
the  duty  of the married which opposes the customs of  Atlas  to 
those  of any other race on Earth.  But the considerations  which 
established  it have yet to be discussed.  I will not  insist  on 
that  gross  and  cynical point of view which might  perceive  in 
English  marriage today a practical vindication of the  Atlantean 
position.  On the contrary, in Atlas marriage formed the loftiest 
of  ideals.  It  resembles  the 'Hermetic  marriage'  of  certain 
alchemists.  The  bond between the parties was only stronger  for 
the  absence of the lower link.  The idea underlying this was  in 
the  main  a  particular  case of the  general  proposition  that 
whatever  was natural should be transcended.  As will be seen  in 
the final chapter, the very stigma of success in their Great Work 
was the transcending of the sexual process.  The bond of marriage 
was not, however, entirely of this negative character. It had its 
positive side, and here closely resembled the so-called Christian 
doctrine  of Christ and the church.  Husband and wife were to  be 
father and daughter,  mother and son, brother and sister, teacher 
and  pupil,  and above all,  friends.  And this relation  was  to 
subsist on all planes.  The hieroglyph of love was a cross;  that 
of marriage,  parallel straight lines, and as the cross was to be 
transcended in the circle, so were these lines to converge not on 
earth,  but  in Venus.  In the meanwhile each partner led his own 
free life;  and it often occurred that a woman,  having borne two 
children  to a man and married him,  would bear two  children  to 
another man,  and so on perhaps for two centuries, thus acquiring 
a cohort of husbands.  Such an arrangement must clearly have lead 
to  grave confusion had any question of property and  inheritance 
been involved, but notions so unfortunate were unknown. Where all 
had  every heart's desire,  of what value were they?  It is  true 
that  some division of labour (though little) was involved in the 
social  scheme,   but  it  occurred  to  no  one  to  regard  the 
supervision  of serviles as less honourable than the offering  of 
great sacrifices.  In a perfect organism one part is as necessary 
and  decent as any other part,  and no sane observer  can  reason 
otherwise.  For a perfect organism has a single definite aim, and 
the  only dishonourable feather on an arrow would be one that was 
out of place. Human nature being what it is, one may nevertheless 
agree  that  this measureless content with  the  existing  order, 
except  in  so  far as the purpose of the establishment  of  that 
order  was  unfulfilled,  was rendered possible  by  the  extreme 
lightness  of  the  toil demanded of any individual.  But  it  is 
impossible  for  slaves to understand free men.  It is  always  a 
wonder  to  Englishmen  that  a  man  should  devote  himself  to 
unremitting  toil  for an ideal. He is  called  a  crank,  basely 
slandered,  the  lowest motives being without any reason assigned 
to his actions,  mocked,  persecuted,  perhaps crucified. This is 
partly   forgivable,   as  in  England  philanthropy  is   almost 
invariably the mask of vice and fraud.
   The ceremony of marriage* was simple, dignified, yet poignant. 
The  lovers  in  the presence  of  their  whole  house,  publicly 
embraced  for  the  last time.  Their two children  pressed  them 
apart.  Elevating  their hands in a crossed clasp they gave  way, 
and  the  children passed through,  preceding a most  holy  image 
which was borne by a priest and priestess between them. Then they 
parted,  and each was severally congratulated and embraced by any 
of  the  others who chose,  and the priest  and  priestess  then, 
exalting  the image and setting it in a suitable  shrine,  closed 
the  ceremony  by the command "To work" and adding force  to  the 
same by their example.
   The  education of the children was another important matter in 
which  their  ideas were wholly opposed to  our  own.  It  ceased 
altogether at the age of puberty, which was sometimes as early as 
six,   never  later  than  fourteen.  Were  it  so  delayed,  the 
delinquent  was  crowned  in  mockery with a  square  black  cap, 
sometimes  tasselated,  and sent among the serviles  to  instruct 
them  in  religion and similar branches of  learning,  and  never 
permitted  to return to Atlas.  The ignorance and superstition of 
the plains was thus kept at a proper height.
   The   method  of  education  was  indeed   singular.   Certain 
Atlanteans  who  made  it  their study would  place  the  various 
articles in the hands of the infants,  and observe what use  they 
made  of  them.  In  the course of a few months the  experts  had 
accurately mapped the psychology of the child,  and it was led in 
accordance  therewith.  The marriage customs of Atlas allowed  no 
too  rapid growth in numbers,  and it was therefore easy to  give 
each child attention. The method of opposition was again employed 
in   education,   the  child's  natural  wish  being   constantly 
stimulated  by  a  parallel training  in  the  contrary  subject. 
Children  were  also  shewn a series of  ordered  facts,  and  an 
explanation given. But not the least pains was taken to ascertain 
whether the child had retained those instructions; they were left 
as  impressions  on the mind.  The brain was not injured  by  the 
strain of being constantly forced to bring up its stores from the 
subconscious.  It  was found in practice that every child  learnt 
everything  that it was shown,  and that this learning was always 
ready  for  use,  while the consciousness was  never  wearied  or 
overcrowded.  It  was  also found that those whose memories  were 
what  we call good were precisely those who failed to develop  in 
other ways more useful to society.
   The most peculiar of their methods was the search for  genius. 
It  was  the business of the experts to pay the most serious  and 
reverent  attention to all that a child did,  and  whenever  they 
failed to understand the workings of its mind,  to place it under 
the  charge  of  a  special  guardian,  who  did  his  utmost  to 
comprehend sufficiently to be able to encourage it to become  yet 
more unintelligible.
   Apud eos membrum virile membrano lucido erat;  ob quod  qualis 
circumscisio die nativitatis facta erat.  Vix credere dignum est, 
tanquam  verum,  feminarum montes venereales similutidine  facies 
fuere,  facies demonicae, sardonicae, Satyricae, cujus os erat os 
vulvae,  res  horribiles  atque  ridiculosa.  Ferunt  similia  de 
virorum membris,  quae fingunt sicut imagines homunculorum fuere. 
Lege--Judice--Tace.
   Many of the men had ossified extensions of the frontal process 
which amounted to horns, and the formation was occasionally found 
in  the higher types of women.  Curiously carven head-dresses  of 
gold were worn by both sexes,  and those of priestly rank adorned 
these with living serpents, and the high priests yet further with 
feathers or with wings,  such being not the spoils of dead birds, 
but  the blossoms of the live gold of the crowns.  Some tradition 
of  this custom is found in the pictures of the 'Gods' of  Egypt, 
these  gods being merely the Atlanteans whose  mission  civilized 
the country.  The names of some of the earlier gods confirm this. 
Nu  (Hebrew  Noah) is Atlantean for arch,  Zu (Egyptian Shu)  for 
many ideas connecting with wind,  Asi means 'cum quasi  serpens', 
obviously  the  name  of an actual High  Priestess.  Ra  is  pure 
Atlantean for Sun, and 'Mse' (Egyptian Chomse) for moon. The idea 
in  'Mse  is that of a strong woman ('M) closing the mouth  of  a 
serpent (S) or dragon, and from this we have the XIth card of the 
Bohemian Tarot,  and the legend in the Apocalypse.  In the mystic 
Greek used by the Gnostics we find similar traces,  SOPHIA  being 
from S Ph,  giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e.  wisdom. IAO 
is  PHALLOS,  KTEIS,  PROKTOS.  The word LOGOS means the Boy  (G) 
naturally engendered of the Virgin (L) and the Serpent (S). THEOS 
(root O,  first written 0) means the sun in his strength and also 
the  Lingam-Yoni conjoined.  CHRISTOS is 'The love of passion  of 
the  Rising Sun (R) and the serpent' (S).  The I and  T  indicate 
certain  details  which  are foreign to the  present  discussion. 
NEUMA  (Atlantean  N M) is the 'Arch of the  Woman',  MARIA,  the 
Woman  of  the  Sun.* The words MEITHRAS and  ABRAXAS  are  again 
derived from Atlas.  "The woman entered,  Lingam being  conjoined 
with  Yoni,  bears  the sun from her serpent womb" and "From  the 
womb's mouth the sun (cometh seeking) a womb for his desire, even 
the womb of a serpent", the course of the year being signified in 
this  manner,  as usual with the ancients.  This plan of an  idea 
corresponding to each letter was carried out very strictly:  thus 
TLA,  black,  means the stigma or mark of the virgin's  womb,  IA 
(Hail!  Greeting!)  'Face  to Face',  from the other  peculiarity 
described above.  These few examples will suffice to indicate the 
singular  character  of the language,* and the way in  which  its 
essential dogmatic symbols have been incorporated by the heirs of 
Atlas in the inmost sanctuaries of races which they deemed worthy 
of such assistance.
   I  must not pass over in silence the question of sacrifice  to 
the  gods,  to  which a passing reference has already been  made. 
Such  sacrifices  were not very frequent;  the victims  were  the 
'failures',  those  who were useless to the social  economy.*  As 
they  represented capital expenditure,  the object was to recover 
this,  at least,  since no interest could be expected. The victim 
was  therefore  handed over to a High Priest  or  Priestess,  who 
extracted  the life by an instrument devised for and  excellently 
adapted to the purpose,  so that it died of exhaustion.  The life 
thus regained was given to 'the gods' in a manner too complex  to 
be described in this brief account.
   The early age at which puberty occurred was due to design. The 
normal  period  of  gestation  had also been  shortened  to  four 
months.  This was all part of the scheme to economize  time.  Old 
age  had been almost done away with by the great readiness of the 
Atlanteans to 'go and see' at the first sign of failing power. No 
doubt, further improvements would have been made but for the loss 
of interest in the matter,  all generation being regarded as 'the 
old  experiment',  not  likely  to repay the trouble  of  further 
research.  In the 200 or 300 years of a man's full vigour, only 8 
years on an  average was the wastage of childhood,  and even this 
was not all waste, since some time at least must be necessary for 
the  experts to discover and direct the tendencies of  the  mind. 
The  body  ought  therefore  to be regarded  as  an  engine,  the 
theoretical limit of whose efficiency had been reached.
   So much I mention of the customs of the Atlanteans with regard 
to marriage, education and religious sacrifices.
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                              VIII.

                  OF THE HISTORY OF ATLAS, FROM
                      ITS EARLIEST ORIGINS
                    TO THE PERIOD IMMEDIATELY
                   PRECEDING THE CATASTROPHE.


   The origin of Atlas is lost in the obscurity of antiquity. The 
official  religious  explanation is this:  "We  came  across  the 
waters  on  the living Atla",  which is pious but  improbable.  A 
mystic  meaning is to be suspected.  The lay historian  says  "We 
came, escaping from destruction, eight persons in a ship, bearing 
the  living Zro." This reminds one of later legends of presumably 
equal value.  Poets frankly claim "We descended from heaven", and 
it  has been seriously urged that seafarers would have  preferred 
the  plains  to  the rocks.  The law  of  contrariety  to  Nature 
explains  this away.  Others maintain that the earliest  settlers 
came  'by  air,' or  'through air'.  This must mean  balloons  or 
airplanes, as flying was not known until centuries after. What is 
definitely  known is that the earliest settlers were of a  purely 
fighting race.
   An  Atlantean Homer,  Ylo,  has described the first battle  in 
such  detail as to leave no doubt that he is  retelling  facts--a 
marked  contradiction to his earlier books.  There appear to have 
been  but  few Atlanteans,  unless the names given are  those  of 
chiefs,  which internal evidence contraverts.  Their valour seems 
to  have  been prodigious.  The natives were  armed  with  every 
possible instrument of precision, having cavalry and artillery in 
abundance,  as well as weapons that must have been as superior to 
the  modern  rifle  (unless Ylo exaggerates) as that  is  to  the 
arquebus.  In  spite  of this the men of Atlas 'smote  them  with 
rods'  or  'fell  upon them with their cones',  and  routed  them 
utterly.  This  mention of rods and cones has absurdly  suggested 
to  commentators  that  the  Atlanteans  used  their  eyes,   and 
hypnotised the enemy.  To state such an opinion is sufficient  to 
expose  its author to the contempt of the thoughtful.  Altogether 
86  battles were fought,  extending over five years,  before  the 
natives  were  reduced  to sue for peace.  This  was  granted  on 
generous terms,  which the colonists broke, as soon as they dared 
to  do so,  in accordance with the invariable rule of  colonists, 
then as much as today.  However,  it was nigh on a hundred  years 
before the first college of magic was established. Previously the 
Atla  had  been carried about as occasion demanded.  It  was  now 
enshrined with some decency of ceremonial upon a mountain.  About 
three hundred years later we find ourselves face to face with the 
first great Mystery of Atlas. This is a translation of the record 
of that most strange event.
   "Now  it came to pass that all men turned black and died,  and 
that the living Atla abode alone,  bearing Mercury,  whereof  the 
Sun  knoweth.  Thus came again the true men of Atlas,  and  their 
women, bearing gods and goddesses. And the void suffered nothing, 
and  the earth was at peace.  Now then indeed arose Art,  and men 
builded,  being blind. And there was light, and some of the light 
wrought  mischief.  Wherefore  the wise men destroyed  them  with 
their magic, and there is no record because it is written in that 
which  is." A sort of 'Si monumentum quaeris,  circumspice'  seems 
here  implied.  In any case there were clearly two gaps  unbridge 
able  between the early struggles of the settlers,  the period of 
great buildings,  and the modern period,  which proved stable  of 
'houses'.  The 'houses' were only made possible by the perfecting 
of  Zro,  and this helps considerably to fix the date.  The  next 
2500  years  were years of peaceable progress;  the  labour-mills 
were run without a hitch, and the next event was the discovery of 
black phophorus.  It had been the custom to worship the Atla with 
lights, and these lights had been candles of yellow phosphorus in 
golden  sheathes.  At  that  time the Atla  was  veiled.  At  one 
festival  of  Spring  the  veils  were  burnt  up,   the   lights 
extinguished,  and  the yellow phosphorus was found to have  been 
turned  into the black powder.  The magicians examined this,  and 
brought Zro to its ninth stage. This revolutionized the condition 
of things: old age and disease were no more, and death voluntary. 
Strangely enough this led directly to the Great Conspiracy.
   At the end of this period of 2500 years the system of 'houses' 
was well established.  There were over 400 such 'houses', each of 
perhaps  1000  souls  on an average.  These were  governed  by  4 
'houses of houses' whose rulers took orders from the High  House, 
at the head of which was the living Atla.  The plain principle of 
Atlas was  revolution;  and like all  revolutionary  bodies,  was 
obliged to adopt the strictest form of autocracy.  A democracy is 
always soddenly conservative. The only hope is to catch it in one 
of  its moments of crazy enthusiasm,  and crush it before it  has 
time to recover. Caesar and Napoleon both did this as far as they 
could;  Cromwell  and Porfirio Diaz did the same within  narrower 
limits.
   Now  a certain sophist--for philosopher one cannot call  him--
tried  to enunciate a magical law to the effect that the  present 
standard  of  life was all that could be  desired;  that  further 
progress  would be harmful,  that Venus was not worth  attaining, 
and  that  the  sole  endeavour of the  magicians  should  be  to 
preserve  things as they were.  That such a proposition could  be 
supposed  a  'law'  reflects  no  credit on  its  author  or  its 
supporters.  Yet of these it found many.  The ninth stage of  Zro 
was  a leap calculated to unsettle the calmest mind.  Its reality 
had beggared the optimist's daydream. Poets had thrown down their 
stilettos.*  High  Priests  who  had  spent  decades  in  hopeful 
experiment  saw  their results attained by an entirely  different 
method.   In short,  two thirds of the people were infected  with 
the heresy, and hoped to hear it promulgated as a Law of Magic.
   It  should  here be explained that every Law of Magic had  its 
turn  as the principal law of practical working,  and the  school 
supporting any law, or insisting on it, became prominent with it. 
Every   dominant  law  in  all  history  had  always  been   made 
insignificant  by a new discovery about Zro,  or other matter  of 
practical importance,  just as the "Peace with Honour" battle-cry 
of  Disraeli  was  drowned  by the calculation  of  the  cost  of 
warships,   soldiers  and  patriotism.   Each  step  in  Zro  had 
consequently  implied the rise to power of a new school;  and the 
sophist was ambitious, and yet the law he wished to establish was 
the ruling law of the servile races.
   The 'law' was accordingly sent to the High House for approval. 
Some  opposition may have been forseen,  but no one was  prepared 
for  the  blackness  of  disapproval  which  actually   radiated, 
striking hearts cold.  A course without precedent,  no answer was 
vouchsafed.  On  the  contrary,  even  normal  communication  was 
suspended.  The  houses  which  favoured the  innovation--333  in 
numbers--took counsel,  came to the decision that it was  useless 
to  oppose the High House,  and were about to acquiesce,  when  a 
woman  who  had  once been in the presence of 'To Her'  rose  and 
thought   vehemently  'The  Living  Atla  is  the  head  of   our 
conspiracy'.  In  other  words,  they  were  the  loyalists,  the 
Magicians of the High House the rebels. This was why they had cut 
themselves off,  because their own head was against them.  It was 
instantly  resolved  to  go to the High  House,  and  demand  the 
custody of 'To Her'.  Nearing the goal, however, a remnant of the 
ancient reverence half cowed even the ringleaders--I may  mention 
that  five of every six of the heretics were women--when they saw 
a stern phalanx of magicians, its point threatening their centre. 
As  they  wavered,  a woman cried "They are only men such  as  we 
are." The ranks stiffened;  on all sides the army closed upon the 
tiny phalanx,  which only numbered 66 all told.  It was then that 
the truth was known.  Ere a blow could be struck,  the  attacking 
party  vanished;  it was instantaneous and complete annihilation. 
From  that moment it was certain that the ruling power  in  Atlas 
was  Something* infinitely more awful than the  Living  Atla.  In 
order  to  avoid any possible repetition of such a  disaster--for 
the  Magicians of the High House knew that any  manifestation  of 
the  Supreme must undo the work of centuries--they gave out  that 
they  had  become too terrible to look upon,  and for the  future 
they always appeared with heavy veils, or rather masks, since for 
the  most part they were carven fantastically by the  wearers  in 
their leisure hours.  A further alteration was made in the system 
of government. The head of one of the 'houses of houses' was made 
supreme:  the  High House took no part in affairs of state.  Thus 
the  Atla was to all intents and purposes deposed,  although  the 
same  reverence  and sacrifice were paid to it  as  formerly.  It 
became a 'constitutional monarch', in our modern jargon.
   The  next thousand years were years of serious trial in  other 
ways.  The  toil of repopulation was excessive,  and there was  a 
revolt or rather strike of the servile races,  which was ended by 
the substitution of 'bread from heaven' for those products of the 
earth on which they had formerly been fed, a diet which proved so 
adapted to their natures that no labour troubles ever recurred.
   The Greek legends of the wars between Gods, giants, Titans are 
traditional of a real war or series of wars which continued  with 
intervals over 200 years.  The enemy had developed naval armament 
to an extreme. Their tactics were these:

   1.  To wipe out the servile races and so to interfere with the        
       production of Zro.

   2.  To rush and destroy the High House.

   The  first  of these met with a great  deal  of  success,  the 
floating  rock  being  struck with  projectiles  and  sunk.  This 
occurred  chiefly on the outlaying islands,  where they were  not 
too  much afraid to make raids in force.  They also sent epidemic 
disease  of many kinds.  Atlas was reduced to such  extremity  in 
these  ways  that at one time the waterways were forced  and  the 
assault  on the High House was actually carried out,  bombardment 
continuing  day  and  night  for  months  together.   Through   a 
misunderstanding of a well known magical law,  Atlanteans at that 
time  considered themselves prohibited from employing  any  other 
defence  than  the rods and the cones of their  forefathers;  and 
these, it appears, were useless against machinery, or against men 
protected  by fortification in such a way that they could not  be 
got  at from any quarter.  Thus the sharklike submarines  of  the 
enemy were unassailable.  The war was therefore at first entirely 
one-sided. A certain youthful magician, however, resolving to die 
for his country if need were,  decided to retaliate. He had found 
that  Zro in its nascent state (i.e.  between the globes) had the 
power  of  bringing  about  endothermic  reaction,  seawater  for 
example, becoming caustic soda and hydrochloric acid; and further 
that this acid thus produced was many thousand times more  active 
than in its normal state.  For example,  the rock basins in which 
he  conducted his first experiment dissolved as rapidly as butter 
under  boiling  oil.  He  then  prepared a  number  of  pairs  of 
receiver-globes,  and dropped them in the vicinity of the enemy's 
submarines  by night.  In this manner he destroyed the  hulls  of 
almost the whole fleet in a single night;  and the remainder fled 
in panic at dawn.  They returned the following year, carrying out 
daylight raids only and devoting themselves chiefly to destroying 
the  labour-mills.  The young magician had been rewarded for  his 
services  by  being  presented  to the  Atla,  and  this  example 
encouraged  others  to  find means  of  attacking  the  invaders. 
Artificial darkness was therefore invented, and combined with the 
former  method;  but  this  was only  partially  successful,  the 
tremendous  pace  of  the 'sharks' enabling  them  to  evade  any 
threatening clouds. They did enormous damage, and the supplies of 
Zro were seriously curtailed.  Things now went from bad to worse, 
and  culminated in the attack on the High  House,  the  besiegers 
keeping  their battleships surrounded by rafts of fire,  so  that 
attack  was impossible even by night.  It was then that the  High 
House  called on the heorism of its sons.  Armed with long swords 
of Zro,  they plunged into the sea,  to perish under the tooth of 
the Zhee-Zhou,  but not before they had time to hack the invading 
battleships to shreds.  Their floating torch-rafts only  assisted 
the attack by directing the swimmers to their quarry.  The attack 
on  the High House had aroused Atlas at last.  A counter invasion 
was plotted and carried out with immediate and complete  success, 
the  enemy  being  exterminated,  and their  country  not  merely 
ravaged  but destroyed by arousing the forces of earthquake.  All 
activity  of this kind however was deprecable,  a recurrence  was 
guarded against by removing the High House to the lofty  mountain 
previously  described,  and a 'house' was chosen to cultivate the 
art of war,  and entrusted with the duty of destroying any living 
thing that might approach within a hundred miles of Atlas.
    Only one other adventure of historical importance remains  to 
be  recorded.  It  is the attempt of some foolish  Atlanteans  to 
found  an 'Empire',  and so to be entirely distinguished from the 
missionary effort referred to previously. The original settlement 
of Atlas, as has been the case with all flourishing colonies, was 
made  by  a  few  hardy  pioneers,  who  strengthened  themselves 
gradually  by growth.  But Atlas in her momentary madness  poured 
out  blood  and treasure in the fatuous attempt to  impose  alien 
domination on lands utterly unsuited to the genius of the people. 
The  idea,  of course,  was to increase the supply of labour  and 
consequently of crude Zro.  In the first place the adventure  was 
expensive.  It was uneconomical (in the scientific sense) to send 
ships with less than 1000 fighting men. The Zro required for these 
meant  the employment of at least 7000 serviles,  and  the  naval 
construction  was  therefore of a colossal  order.  But  although 
little  difficulty  was  found in conquering the country  in  the 
military sense,  the natives had to be almost  exterminated,  and 
the  labour of the survivors proved difficult to enforce.  It was 
even  then  not a tenth as efficient as that of the  serviles  at 
home.  The imported serviles moreover caught native diseases, and 
died  in hundreds;  and though by prodigious sacrifices the  West 
African Empire was kept going for nearly 200 years, it had to end 
at last no less ingloriously than the French adventure in Mexico, 
or the English in India, and South Africa.*
   The main causes were the impossibility of breeding children in 
a climate so unsuitable, even of maintaining their own women, and 
above  all the fact that the crude Zro was not of a quality equal 
to  that  obtained in Atlas,  and that the Zro generated  by  the 
Atlanteans themselves was not to be made at all outside their own 
country.  The lesson was learnt. Until the end no further attempt 
was  made  to advance in any but the true  direction.  The  great 
majority   of  the  colonists  returned  to  Atlas;   but   many, 
degenerating as is the fashion with colonists of this  conquering 
kind,  abandoned  Zro  for  gross  food,  intermarried  with  the 
natives,  and  have  generally degenerated yet further  to  races 
inferior  even  to the present descendants of those who  were  in 
those days the equivalents of the serviles of Atlas.
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                               IX.

                       OF THE CATASTROPHE,
                       ITS ANTECEDENTS AND
                        PRESUMED CAUSES.

   In  my  remarks on Zro I have a necessarily  somewhat  diffuse 
account of the properties of this remarkable substance.  It  must 
now  be  made  clearer  that the crude Zro  in  its  nine  stages 
produced  by the serviles,  and consumed in the 'houses'  was  in 
each  stage  of  inferior  quality to that  of  the  same  degree 
produced by the Atlanteans,  and consumed by the High House.  For 
example,  the  crude Zro was made in a labour-mill with all sorts 
of insulations.  The first stage of the priest's Zro could be made 
anywhere  and at any time,  and naturally directed itself to  the 
receptable for it without any precautions.  It must,  I think, be 
presumed  that the Zro generated in the High House was  again  of 
far  greater  purity  and potency.  Very little of  it  can  have 
been  used  in  the  experiments of  the  magicians,  and  it  is 
therefore necessary to account for enormous quantities,  produced 
during many centuries of uninterrupted labour.  I have,  however, 
no data of any kind for this investigation;  the mysteries of the 
High  House  have  ever been inscrutable,  and  were  not  wholly 
delivered to the Heirs of Atlas. They must be rediscovered by the 
magicians  of the new race.  It may be that in some form or other 
the Zro had been made stable,  and used to impregnate the  column 
which  is  alleged  to  have been  driven  'through  the  Earth'; 
perhaps,  and less improbably, only to the depth of a few hundred 
miles.  This column, however long it may have been, had certainly 
its  top immediately beneath the reservoir of the High House.  It 
had  been completed about 70 years before the  'catastrophe'  but 
apparently no effort was made to utilize it in any way.  To me it 
appears  probable  that in some one mind the whole  'catastrophe' 
was brooding,  that the column was part of the device,  and  that 
the event which I shall now describe was the other part.
   This event was the birth of a child in the High House, a child 
without the distinguishing mark of the daughters of  Atlas.  That 
any  child  at all should have been born there is  so  incredible 
that I am inclined to suspect an improper use of the word 'born'. 
I think rather that a magician brought Zro to its eleventh stage, 
when  it takes human form,  and lives!  The alternative theory is 
that  of  the 'Angel of Venus' described in the  chapter  on  the 
Underground Gardens of Atlas.  The supporters of this theory hold 
that  the  child was not born of a priestess,  but of the  Living 
Atla.
   In  any case,  the whole country gave itself up  to  unbridled 
rejoicing.  Work  was  carried  on at a greater speed  than  ever 
before: one might say a delirium of labour. For eleven years this 
continued  without cessation,  and then without warning came  the 
order to repair to the High House--every man,  woman and child of 
Atlas.  What was then done,  I know not, and dare not guess; that 
same  day seven volunteers,  heroic exiles from the reward of  so 
many  centuries  of  toil,  voluntary maroons  on  the  discarded 
planet,  the  Heirs of Atlas,  turned their faces from  the  High 
House,  and  severally  sought distant mountains,  there each  to 
guard his share of the Secrets of the Holy Race,  and in due time 
to discover and train up fit children of other races of the earth 
so  that  one day another people might be  founded  to  undertake 
another such task as that now ended.
   Hardly  had  the pinnacle of Atlas melted into the sea  behind 
them,  than  the 'catastrophe' occurred.  The High House and  the 
column beneath it,  with all the inhabitants of Atlas,  shot from 
the earth with the vehemence of a million lightnings,  bound  for 
that green blaze of glory that scintillated in the West above the 
sunset.
   Instantly  the  Earth,  its god departed,  gave itself  up  to 
anguish.  The  sea  rushed unto the void of the column and  in  a 
thousand  earthquakes  Atlas,  'houses' and plains together  were 
overwhelmed  forever in the ocean.  Tidal waves rolled round  the 
world;  everywhere great floods carried away villages and  towns; 
earthquakes  rocked and tempests roared;  tumult was  triumphant. 
For  years  after the catastrophe the dying tremors of the  Event 
still shook mankind with fear.* And the eternal waves of the great 
mother rolled over Atlas, save where Earth in her agony thrust up 
gaunt  pinnacles,  bare  masts of wreckage to mark  the  vanished 
continent.  Save  for  its heirs,  of whose successors it  is  my 
highest honour to be the youngest and the least worthy,  oblivion 
fell,  like  one  last night in which the sun should  be  forever 
extinct, upon the land of Atlas and its people.
   Shall  such high purpose fail of emulation,  such  achievement 
and  example not excite us to like striving?  Then let earth fall 
indeed  from  her high place in heaven,  and mankind  be  outcast 
forever from the sun!  Men of Earth! Seek out the heirs of Atlas; 
let  them  order you into a phalanx,  let them build you  into  a 
pyramid,  that  may pierce that appointed which  awaits  you,  to 
establish  a  new  dynasty of Atlanteans to be the  mainstay  and 
mainspring  of  the  Earth,  the pioneers of their  own  path  to 
heaven,  and to our lord and Father, the Sun! And he put his hand 
upon his thigh, and swore it.
   By the ineffable    , Tla,  and by the holy Zro,  did he swear 
it,  and entered into the body of the new Atla that is alive upon 
the earth.
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                             NOTES:


Chapter I:
    p3.  There  were four (some say five)  distinct  races,  each
having  several sub-races.  But the main characteristics were the
same. Some alleged the Portuguese and the English to be survivals
of this or kindred stock.
    p3.  Or ZRA'D.  The ZR is drawled slowly;  then the lips  are
suddenly  curled back in a sneering snarl,  and the vowel sharply
and  forcibly  uttered.  It  is disputed  whether  this  word  is
connected with the Sanscrit SRI, holy.
    p4.  The  same  danger  to society in our own time  has  been
forseen,  and  an  identical  remedy discovered  and  applied  in
compulsory education and cheap newspapers.

Chapter II:
    p6.  Gautama  Buddha  was the reincarnation or  legend  of  a
previous  Buddha  who  was a missionary  from  Atlas,  hence  the
account  of his immovable neck,  the ears that he could fold over
his face, and other monstrous details.
    p6.  There was a Governor of these, of whose name, nature and
function I am not permitted to speak.
    p7.  One  of the most brilliant children committed suicide on
learning that he could not move his upper jaw. This boy is of the
eleven  heroes  who  had  statues in  the  High  House.  And  the
Atlantean  for  'sorrow'  in  its  ultimate  sense  ('dukka'   or
'weltschmerz') is to wrench at the upper jaw.
    p8.  This  system of communication has great advantages  over
any  other.  It is independent of distance,  and dependent on the
will  of  the  transmitter.  Telepathic  messages  could  not  be
'tapped' or miscarry in any way.
    p9.  Called by them Zhee-Zhou,  in imitation of the swish  of
the tail and the cry of its victim.

Chapter III:
    p10. The point was discussed fully, and finally relegated, in
the Council of Stockholm, 1913.
    p10. The  scene is so real to me that I find it impossible to
avoid   using   the   historic  present   here   and   elsewhere,
inadvertently.
    p10. There  are six other pieces of apparatus to insulate and
carry to the basin the six subtler principles of sweat.
    p11. Only  the  smallest  quantity is  required,  and  it  is
unchanged,  its  function being purely catalytic.  This  form  of
phosphorus  is one of the most stable elements.  It combines  (so
far  as  is  known) only with Zro.  But if thrown out of  such  a
combination, it becomes ordinary yellow phosphorous.
    p12. In spite of the absolute promiscuity of the  Atlanteans,
this  was never in doubt,  owing to the special mark of each man,
whose stigma or variation was infallibly transmitted.
    p13. This item is loosely used,  as equivalent of 'life.' The
sacrifice is described later, and the point made clear.

    p13. No other disease was known after the bringing of the Zro
to its ninth stage,  all indisposition being instantly cured by a
single dose.

Chapter IV:
    p14. No known state of pure Zro is stable.  From this it will
be seen how entirely Atlas was in the hands of the servile races.
Fortunately  no  trouble ever arose;  the supply  of  labour  was
always ample.
    p15. There was also a settlement in Finland. Its only remains
in historic periods is 'Lapland Witches.'

Chapter V:
    p16. There are various theories; one a sort of avatar affair,
another  that  the Atla is a quintessence of some  kind;  another
calls 'To Her' the 'Angel of Venus, the force of our aspiration.'
    p16. A mere compliment.
    p17. Especially monkeys.  The results of this experiment were
sent to colonize an island, but escaped, and after many journeys,
reached Japan, where their descendents flourish still.
    p19. A partial exception existed for prime numbers,  as being
self-generated, and each of these which had been investigated had
its special (and comparatively simple) signification.

Chapter VII:
    p25.There was also the marriage of those of the Magicians who
refused all intercourse with the opposite sex, and were therefore
married to the whole sex as such.  Here was no ceremony used; but
each  had  a  special mark signifying that he  or  she  was  thus
consecrated.
    p26. MAR  is  Atlantean (also Sanscrit) for  die.  This  word
throws light on their conception of death.
    p26.Note that no tautologies defile its linguistic wells. "As
I have written" is never changed to 'as I have  observed,  noted,
described, said, indicated, remarked, pointed out' and so on.
    p26. I must revert for a moment to the language.  OIK,  Greek
OIKOS meant the 'House of the penetrating men.' NOM, Greek NOMOS,
the 'arch of the House of the Women,' i.e. that which roofed them
in or protected them. Hence "the law.'

Chapter VIII:
    p29. Needle-sharp  daggers  of Zro in its seventh stage  were
used to write on the rock walls of Atlas.
    p30. This  matter  is not for open discussion.  Even at  this
distant date it would be dangerous to do so much even as  indulge
in speculation.
    p32.I write a little, but not much, in advance of the events.
To  illustrate the theory here advanced I will ask the reader  to
compare  the  results of the attempts to colonize America by  (a)
the whole military power of Spain at her zenith,  (b) the handful
of exiles in the 'Mayflower.'

Chapter IX:
    p34.The Legend of the Deluge is derived from this event.