It became clear that the experiment would have to be ended. The guardians into whose care the human soul group had been entrusted decided there was only one way to accomplish the termination, and that was to sink the entire continent beneath the ocean. The inundation did not occur without warning. In fact, the guardians arranged for many minor upheavals to occur beforehand, hoping that the Atlanteans would realize that they had strayed from the upward path, and would seek to make the necessary changes before it was too late. A minority of them did recognize the advance warnings of disaster, and managed to escape from the doomed continent before it sank.
Time turns in circles.
The screen of human history repeats the major disasters many times, in the hope that individuals facing catastrophe will subconsciously remember that they have lived it all before, and will realize not only that the upheavals have a cause, but that they themselves are that cause . Perhaps worst of all, they believe they are justified in the hatred and resentment which they carry about, often for generations, not realizing that they are merely staining their own souls with such negativity. But everything in the earth realm comes with a price-tag, and every debt has its day of reckoning. For mankind on this planet, that day is now. Only time can determine how the impasse will be resolved, for mankind has the gift of free will, and no higher spiritual source can say ahead of time exactly how that gift will be exercised.