“Atlantis and Mu existed for tens of thousands of years, but the two peoples were not always on the best of terms. Actually, they spent a lot of time fighting. But they had so much history together, they were also friendly for long centuries at a time. Still, they could never remain friendly. The main reason was that they were never left alone. You see, in those days the technology was far more advanced than it is today. They had machines that could beam you from one side of the planet to the other. Ships that could travel to other galaxies.

“I know in school your history teachers never talk about these things. Few people in the world realize how old civilization really is. How old mankind is. You see, we did not originate on Earth, but came from a star cluster called the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters as it is commonly called. You can see it in the winter sky if you look up on a dark night. The cluster is hundreds of light-years from Earth. Our most ancient ancestors came from worlds that circled those blue stars in the Pleiades. But the people of the Pleiades originally came from somewhere else. From a world that was long ago destroyed. No one can really say where it all started.

“People from the Pleiades and other worlds often visited Earth. Their spaceships landed in Atlantis and in Mu. The trouble was that the same star people didn’t visit Mu and Atlantis. There are many Pleiades worlds, dozens. They didn’t all get along either. I don’t know how they’re doing these days. The witch—Ann Templeton—might know. Some say Madeline Templeton, Ann’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother, was from one of those worlds. But that, too, is another story.

“So we had these two large lands, Mu and Atlantis, and they were being told what to do by different races. And these different star races didn’t like each other. Toward the end of Atlantis and Mu, the star people were at war, and they wanted the people of Earth to join their war. These different races from Pleiades saw the Earth as just another battlefield. It was a mess. The scientists from one planet were telling the people of Atlantis how to make a bomb to blow up Mu, while other star scientists were telling the people of Mu how to blow up Atlantis.”

Adam interrupted. “Why didn’t the people of Earth just tell these guys to get in their spaceships and fly away and leave them alone?”