Additional details of the first upheaval are found in this reading.
"The name then, was Deui (pronounced Dar, or D-R); and the entity was active in recording messages, and directing those forces. These were not only the rays from the sun, amplified by crystals, but were the combinations of these.
"For it was these gases, that were used for what we call today the conveniences as for light, heat, motivative forces; or radial activity, electrical combinations; themotivative forces of steam, gas and the like— for the conveniences. "Then this entity, Deui, was among those who attempted to make such influences a part of the experience of those who were—as indicated—the producers of food, clothing; for these ‘human machines’ as we would call them today (not the machines used for obtaining power from the crystals).
"The use of these devices by the Sons of Belial brought, then, the first of the upheavals; or the turning of the rays from the sun—as used by the Sons of the Law of One into the crystal for the activities of same produced, what we would call a volcanic upheaval; and the separating of the land into several islands— five in number.
"Poseidia, the place or the settlement of that particular entity— Deui—at the time, then became one of these islands. Hence the confusion that at times is seen by those who would interpret such records." (877-26; May 23, 1938)
Unfortunately, no dates were asked for or given to cover the period from man’s appearance on earth millions of years ago to the first of at least three destructions of, or land changes in, Atlantis. There are a number of readings that seem to refer to the same event, a meeting of nations to combat the animal life that threatened to overrun the earth. A date is given for this meeting—50,722 B.C.—but whether this is connected with the first destruction of Atlantis is not known. The meeting seems to have been held in Atlantis and scientific accomplishments, including airships and laser-like death rays, are mentioned. One reading mentions a “polar shift” that might have accompanied land changes.
"in Atlantean land during those periods when there were the first of the rebellions that brought the misapplication of the knowledge; or the forces that might have been used constructively but were used in destructive activities— entity joined with Sons of Belial who brought about destructive forces in the attempts to destroy the animal life that in other lands overran same." (1378-1; June 1, 1937)
A number of readings refer to a sort of world council that was held to cope with the animal problem.
"among those who came as messengers from foreign lands when people planned to protect themselves from beasts of field and fowls of the air." (2675-4; April 15, 1926)
"in days when the peoples of nations gathered together to defend themselves against fowls of air and beasts of fields, came to meeting in lighter-than-air machine" (2749-1; May 13, 1926)
"in that land where people came as representatives of those who would make the lands secure against the beasts of the fields and fowls of the air or the animals of the air in the second rule in the Atlantean period." (2470-2; Jan. 21, 1926)
"in Indian land when Said was ruler—among those who gathered to rid the earth of enormous animals which overran the earth but ice, nature, God, changed the poles and the animals were destroyed, though man attempted it at the time." (5249-1; June 12, 1944)
"of that country to which messengers came when there was gathering together of men to defend themselves against beasts of fields and fowls of the air." (2855-1; May 29, 1926) •
"in that land when there were gathering of nations to combat forces of animal world and kingdom that made men and men's life miserable, entity among those that stood for use of elements in the air, the elements in the ocean, the elements in the lands as applied to forces to meet and to combat those of the animal kingdom. Oft has the entity from this experience been able to almost conceive wherein the disappearance of those known as prehistoric animals came about." (2893-1; Aug. 13, 1929)
“—when Poseidian land was greater in power, when there was the meeting called for those of many lands to determine means and manners in which there would be control of the animals that were destructive to many lands. Entity in capacity of those who guided the ships that sailed both in the air and under the water, also maker of that which produced the elevators and connecting tubes that were used by compressed air and steam and the metals in their emanations—especially as to things controlled by the facet for the radiation activity of the sun on metals and control of such and airships." (2157-1; March 27, 1940)
Here are eight separate references to an event given in eight different life readings over a period of eighteen years. The least that can be said about Edgar Cayce is that when asleep he had a remarkable memory.
Due to the repeated references to this meeting specific questions were asked about it.
Q.13 HLC: "Please advise me regarding the preparation and presentation of the article or story which I am preparing on the Great Congress held during the age of the destruction of the enormous animals that once roamed the earth."
A.13: "In the period when this became necessary, there was the consciousness raised in the minds of the groups, in various portions of the earth, much in the manner as would be illustrated by an all-world broadcast in the present day of a menace in any one particular point, or in many particular points. And the gathering of those that heeded, as would be the scientific minds of the present day, in devising ways and means of doing away with that particular kind or class of menace.
"As to the manner in which these gathered, it was very much as if the Graf were to start to the various lands to pick up representatives, or those who were to gather, or were to cooperate in that effort. And, as this, then, was in that land which has long since lost its identity, except in the inner thought or visions of those that have returned or are returning in the present sphere, the ways and means devised were as those that would alter or change the environs which those beasts needed, or that necessary for their sustenance in the particular portions of the sphere, or earth, that they occupied at the time. And this was administered much in the same way or manner as if there were sent out from various central plants that which is termed in the present the Death Ray, or the super-cosmic ray, that will be found in the next 25 years.”
Q.14: "What was the date B.C. of this gathering?**
A.14: "50,722." (262-39)