Angels of Atlantis

Stewart Pearce works as a voice and presence teacher, and this forty-four card oracle with Richard Crookes's artwork runs his angelology through the Atlantis myth: twelve archangels of a lost golden civilization, channeled into contemporary guidance practice. Atlantis has served Western esotericism as a screen for projected wisdom since Plato invented it as a cautionary tale, and the deck stands in that long tradition, the drowned city as the address where lost knowledge can be said to live. Read it as mythopoeia, story doing spiritual work, rather than history, because that is the only defensible frame and the deck functions perfectly well inside it: the Atlantean framing gives the angelic material a register of depth and loss that plain angel decks lack. It suits readers drawn to angelic guidance with mythic atmosphere, students of how esoterica uses Atlantis, and collectors of channeled-tradition oracles. Readers who need their sources historical should note that Plato would side with them, and read something else.