Rosenkreuz's crypt, according to the description presented in the legend, is located in the interior of the Earth, recalling the alchemical motto V . I . T . R . I . O . L . : Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem [ " Visit the interior of the Earth; by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone . " ].
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Rosenkreuz's crypt, according to the description presented in the legend, is located in the interior of the Earth, recalling the alchemical motto V . I . T . R . I . O . L . : Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem [ " Visit the interior of the Earth; by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone . " ].
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The details of Alford s theory are as follows : that Atlantis was a metaphor for the primeval underworld ( the interior of the earth ); that the invasion of the known world by Atlantis allegorised the eruption of the underworld; and that Ancient Athens represented the ideal city an archetypal and metaphorical city-which fell from the sky and defeated Atlantis by breaking into the underworld.
