"So just to confirm you think that this could be a clue as to the whereabouts of Atlantis?" I asked hanging on to my last hope for simplicity, but he nodded in confirmation dashing all of my hopes of the simple treasure salvage operation I had envisioned.
Matt talked then as if to himself, "I wondered how that ship could come out of nowhere like that after twenty some years had gone by. There must be a gateway and this is the key."
"Key?" I asked, as I remembered what was said in the note about a key in the most gloomiest of overtones.
"Yup." Matt responded abstractly, as he picked up a petal of the star.
"What kind of a key and a gateway to where?" I asked growing more perturbed by the moment.
"Couldn't say, but that ship was somewhere for twenty years."
I glanced at the note laying on the table before asking, "What do you know about Atlantis?"
Matt glanced at me and then at the note, "I know many things, but separating fact from myth and legend is what's difficult. However I would say this note, if it's to be believed, is rather full of clues. Did you catch this line here?" He asked pointing to the line I had looked up.
"Yes I did. It's part of a verse in Isaiah."
"And what did the word 'dead' translate across as?" Matt asked knowingly.
"Rephaim."
He nodded having already known the answer.
"It would seem of all the available myths of Atlantis and for that matter Lemuria that the one that rings with the most truth is the darkest of all. A story that is a far cry from the romanticized version in the imaginations of those who came after. If we wish to go down the mythical road to Atlantis from the route that this note suggests than the legend would go like this. The legend as a whole takes and is understood from a Christian bibliographical understanding. Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. He soon thereafter made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. Now up to that point there were many cannons of Holy Scripture, which were taken to be inspired by God. Now Constantine took issue with one of the books and declared it to be not of Divine inspiration. That book was the Book of Enoch. His reasoning for his decision was because he thought the heavy mention of angelic influence and behavior found within the Books of Enoch were too hard to understand and presented a picture of the origin of strife and contention before the great flood that was not true. Many early church fathers insisted he was in error to remove the Books of Enoch from the canon of Holy Scripture contained within the Bible. Some churches still have it in their Bibles, namely, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Many of the oldest surviving manuscripts are written in an early Ethiopian area language. Anyway compared against the body of Holy Scripture, the Book of Enoch, seems to have no contradictions with what is viewed as Divinely inspired, but what it does do is go into the detail of the state of the world before the Genesis flood and why things had gotten so bad that God was moved to destroy His creation. It contends that it wasn't just commonplace wickedness that led to man's downfall and straying from God, but rather fallen angels were of primary blame. At several points in the Bible it is clearly copied down of the transgression of some of the heavenly angels having intimate relations with the daughters of men and creating an offspring referred to as the Nephilim. The Nephilim were the giants of old and it was with them, along with the fallen angels that helped corrupt both man and man's pure bloodline to the point that God even repented that he had made man. It wasn't just man that the fallen angels corrupted, but all of creation including the animals and the plants. Now the Book of Enoch goes into the actual names of the angels involved in this lustful falling away. Not only according to Enoch did these angels commit the sin of lusting after human women, but they gave secret knowledge to humanity that God had not intended for them to have. So you can see according to this extra Biblical view into the past how such a civilization such as Atlantis could've happened. If you go into the more secular tale of Atlantis and examine it through a Biblical lens some compelling clues are revealed as to who the Atlantean's were. Now according to the Greek mythology, in Plato's story of it, long ago there was a large island continent, which the god Poseidon came down to. It's helpful to remember that from a Biblical perspective that all the false gods of the ancient world were personified after either fallen angels or demons, with the latter being the spirits of the offspring of the fallen angels and human women known as the Nephilim. This Poseidon of Greek lore, who is linked to one of the angels who lusted after the daughters of men, saw the daughter of Cletus a human woman and married her. She bore him ten sets of twins, which ruled as king's over both Atlantis and surrounding satellite kingdoms. All of her sons were giants according to Plato's account. Atlantis then was a place of giants. They were fed information in the form of an angelic being, who set himself up to be worshiped as a god. The Holy Scripture clearly points to the giants as a race of beings at sharp enmity with the race of mankind. They even fed upon mankind, which lines up with what we know of Atlantis being a nation always at war with the ancient world around them. The demise of Atlantis and all of its great knowledge is telling. According to Plato, Atlantis is defeated in battle by the Athenians, who will one day become the models of gods like Zeus and Hercules. Through some corresponding unfortunate weather patterns Atlantis is flooded and lost forever beneath the waves. Now Biblically speaking, throw out the Athenian part of the story, because that's just more preening being done on the part of demons in the guise of false gods and focus in on the one truth of the story, which is Atlantis sunk beneath the waves. What they're not telling you is that everything else was also sinking beneath the waves during the Genesis flood. Now extensive research has been done today to find the remnants of both the island continents of Atlantis and Lemuria, without any luck. Hence why one might need a key to unlock a gateway or channel."