"Two of the earliest modern fictions on Atlantis were Atalantis (1832) an epic poem by William G. Sims about a sea maiden by the same name who is kidnapped by a demon king from whom she is eventually able to escape; and The Atlantis (1838) by Peter Prospero, in which a magnificent city hidden among the icebergs in the Antarctic is the arrival dock for famous people after their death."
 
Celeste Olalquiaga
 

 
      "In conclusion, my findings vindicate the stance taken by many people in the ‘new age’ community, who have long felt that Atlantis should be viewed as a symbol or metaphor of spiritual perfection and a lost golden age. Until now, this approach has relied solely on intuition, but in this book I offer a complete intellectual justification for it. Indeed, if the reader will accept my argument, which in essence is straightforward and logical, he will retrieve Plato’s Atlantis from its metaphorical position at the bottom of the sea, and restore it to its rightful place as the supreme symbol for the spiritual quest - the quest for knowledge of the origins of the Universe, the quest for knowledge of the origins of life, and the quest for knowledge of what life truly is. Plato - one of the world’s greatest ever spiritualists and mystic visionaries - surely deserves nothing less."
Alan F. Alford