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Speaker 1: Section four The Story of Atlantis by William Scott Elliott.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Story
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis, Part four, Emigrations. Three causes contributed to produce emigrations.
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Speaker 1: The Turanian race, as we have seen, was from its
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Speaker 1: very start imbued with the spirit of colonizing, which it
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Speaker 1: carried out on a considerable scale. The Sea Mites and
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Speaker 1: Accadians were also, to a certain extent colonizing races. Then,
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Speaker 1: as time went on and population tended more and more
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Speaker 1: to outround the limits of subsistence, necessity operated with the
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Speaker 1: least well to do in every race alike, and drove
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Speaker 1: them to seek for a livelihood in less thickly populated countries.
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Speaker 1: For it should be realized that when the Atlanteans reached
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Speaker 1: their zenith in the Toldic era, the proportion of population
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Speaker 1: to the square mile on the continent of Atlantis probably equalled,
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Speaker 1: even if it did not exceed our modern experience in
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Speaker 1: England and Belgium. It is at all events certain that
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Speaker 1: the vacant spaces available for colonizing were very much larger
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Speaker 1: in that age than in hours. While the total population
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Speaker 1: of the world, which at the present moment is probably
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Speaker 1: not more than twelve hundred to fifteen hundred millions amounted
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Speaker 1: in those days to the big figure of about two
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Speaker 1: thousand millions. Lastly, there were the priest led emigrations which
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Speaker 1: took place prior to each catastrophe, and there were many
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Speaker 1: more of these than the four great ones referred to above.
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Speaker 1: The initiated kings and priests who followed the Good Law
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Speaker 1: were aware beforehand of the impending calamities. Each one therefore
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Speaker 1: naturally became a center of prophetic warning and ultimately a
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Speaker 1: leader of a band of colonists. It may be noted
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Speaker 1: here that in later days the rulers of the country
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Speaker 1: deeply resented these priest led emigrations as tending to impoverish
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Speaker 1: and to populate their kingdoms, and it became necessary for
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Speaker 1: the emigrants to get on board sheep secretly during the night,
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Speaker 1: in roughly tracing the lines of emigration followed by each
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Speaker 1: sub race. In turn, we shall of necessity ultimately reached
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Speaker 1: the lands which their respective descendants to day occupy. For
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Speaker 1: the earliest emigrations, we must go back to the Rema
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Speaker 1: Hall days. It will be remembered that that portion of
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Speaker 1: the race which inhabited the northeastern coasts alone retained its
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Speaker 1: purity of blood. Harried on the southern borders and driven
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Speaker 1: further north by the Tlavati warriors, they began to overflow
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Speaker 1: to the neighboring land to the east and to the
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Speaker 1: still nearer promontory of Greenland. In the second mop period,
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Speaker 1: no pure more halls were left on the then reduced
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Speaker 1: from other continant, but the northern promontory of the continant,
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Speaker 1: then rising on the west, was occupied by them, as
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Speaker 1: well as the Greenland Cape already mentioned. On the western
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Speaker 1: shores of the Great Scandinavian Island. There was also a
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Speaker 1: colony on the land lying north of the Central Asian Sea.
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Speaker 1: Brittany and Picardee then formed part of the Scandinavian Island,
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Speaker 1: while the island itself became in the third MOP period
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Speaker 1: part of the growing country of Europe. Now it is
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Speaker 1: in France that the remains of this race have been
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Speaker 1: found in the quaternary strata, and the brachidzephalus, or a
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Speaker 1: round headed specimen known as the furfus Man, may be
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Speaker 1: taken as a fair average of the type of the race.
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Speaker 1: In its decay, many times forced to move south by
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Speaker 1: the rigors of a glacial epoch, many times given north
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Speaker 1: by the greed of their more powerful neighbors. The scutters
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Speaker 1: and degraded remnants of this race may be found today
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Speaker 1: in the modern lapse, though even here there was some
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Speaker 1: infusion of other blood, and so it comes to pass
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Speaker 1: that these faded and stunted specimens of humanity are the
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Speaker 1: lineal descendants of the Black race of giants, who arose
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Speaker 1: of the equatorial lands of Limuria well nigh five million
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Speaker 1: years ago. The Lavatli colonists seem to have spread out
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Speaker 1: toward every point of the compass by the second Map period.
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Speaker 1: Their descendants, who were settled on the western shores of
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Speaker 1: the then growing American continent California, as well as its
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Speaker 1: extreme southern coast ria, the Geneira, We also find them
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Speaker 1: occupying the eastern shores of the Scandinavian Ireland, while numbers
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Speaker 1: of them sailed across the ocean, rounded the coast of
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Speaker 1: Africa and reached India. There, mixing with the indigenous Lemurian
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Speaker 1: population there, formed the Dravidian race. In later days, this
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Speaker 1: in its stern received an infusion of Aryan or fifth
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Speaker 1: race blood, from which results the complexity of type found
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Speaker 1: in India today. In fact, we have here a very
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Speaker 1: fair example of the extreme difficulty of deciding any question
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Speaker 1: of race upon merely physical evidence, for it would be
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Speaker 1: quite possible to have fifth rais egos incarnate among the Brahmans,
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Speaker 1: fourth Rais Egos among the lower castes, and some lingering
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Speaker 1: third race among the hill tribes. By the Fourth Moth period,
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Speaker 1: we find a Lavatli people occupying the southern parts of
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Speaker 1: South America, from which it may be inferred that the
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Speaker 1: Patagonians probably had remote Slavatli and try remains of this race,
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Speaker 1: as of the Remahals, have been found in the quaternary
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Speaker 1: strata of Central Europe, and the jollihood Cephalus cromagnon man
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Speaker 1: may be taken as an average specimen of the race
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Speaker 1: in its decadence, while the Lake dwellers of Switzerland formed
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Speaker 1: an even earlier and not quite pure offshoot. The only
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Speaker 1: people who can be cited as fairly pure blooded specimens
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Speaker 1: of the race at the present day are some of
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Speaker 1: the brown tribes of Indians of South America. The Burmese
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Speaker 1: and Siamese have also clavatly blood in their veins, but
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Speaker 1: in their case, it was mixed with and therefore dominated
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Speaker 1: by the noble stock of one of the Aryan sub races.
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Speaker 1: We now come to the Tautecs. It was chiefly to
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Speaker 1: the west that their emigrations tended, and the neighboring coats
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Speaker 1: of the American continent, where in the second Mob period
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Speaker 1: peopled by a pure Tautaic race, the greater part of
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Speaker 1: those left on the mother continent being then of very
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Speaker 1: mixed blood. It was on the continents of North and
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Speaker 1: South America that this race spread abroad and flourished, and
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Speaker 1: on which thousands of years later were established the empires
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Speaker 1: of Mexico and Peru. The greatness of these empires is
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Speaker 1: a matter of history or its list of traditions, supplemented
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Speaker 1: by such evidence as is afforded by magnificent architectural remains.
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Speaker 1: It may here be noted that while the Mexican Empire
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Speaker 1: was for centuries great and powerful in all that is
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Speaker 1: usually regarded as power and greatness in our civilization of today,
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Speaker 1: it never reached the height attained by the Peruvians about
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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand years ago under their inca sovereigns. For as
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Speaker 1: regards the general well being of the people, the justice
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Speaker 1: and beneficence of the government, the equitable nature of the
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Speaker 1: land tenure, and the pure and religious life of the inhabitants.
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Speaker 1: The Peruvian Empire of those days might be considered a traditional,
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Speaker 1: though faint, echo of the golden age of the Tautics
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Speaker 1: of the mother continent of Atlantis. The average red Indian
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Speaker 1: of North or South America is the best representative today
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Speaker 1: of the Taultic people, but of course bears no comparison
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Speaker 1: with the highly civilized individual of the race at its zenith.
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Speaker 1: Egypt must now be referred to, and the consideration of
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Speaker 1: this subject should let in a flood of light upon
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Speaker 1: its early history. Although the first settlement in that country
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Speaker 1: was not in the strict sense of the term a colony,
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Speaker 1: it was from the Tauta race that was subsequently drawn
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Speaker 1: the first great body of emigrants intended to mix with
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Speaker 1: and dominate the Aboriginal people. In the first instance, it
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Speaker 1: was the transfer of a great lodge of initiates. This
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Speaker 1: took place about four hundred thousand years ago. The golden
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Speaker 1: age of the Tautics was long past. The first great
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Speaker 1: catastrophe had taken place, the moral degradation of the people
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Speaker 1: and the consequent practice of the Black Arts were becoming
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Speaker 1: more accentuated and widely spread. Purer surroundings for the White
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Speaker 1: Lodge were needed. Egypt was isolated and was thinly peopled,
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Speaker 1: and therefore Egypt was chosen the settlement so made answered
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Speaker 1: its purpose and undisturbed by adverse conditions. The Lodge of
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Speaker 1: Initiates for nearly two hundred thousand years, did its work.
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Speaker 1: About two hundred and ten thousand years ago, when the
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Speaker 1: time was ripe, the Occult Lodge founded an empire, the
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Speaker 1: first Divine Dynasty of Egypt, and began to teach the people.
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Speaker 1: Then it was that the first great body of colonists
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Speaker 1: was brought from Atlantis, and sometime during the ten thousand
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Speaker 1: years that led up to the Second Catastrophe, the two
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Speaker 1: great pyramids of Giza were built, partly to provide permanent
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Speaker 1: hales of initiation, but also to act as treasure house
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Speaker 1: and shrine for some great talisman of power. During the submergence,
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Speaker 1: which the Initiates knew to be impending, Map number three
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Speaker 1: shows Egypt at that time date as under water. It
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Speaker 1: remained so for a considerable period, but on its re
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Speaker 1: emergence it was again peopled by the descendants of many
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Speaker 1: of its old inhabitants who had retired to the Abyssinian
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Speaker 1: Mountains shown in map number three as an island, as
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Speaker 1: well as by fresh bands of Atlantean colonists from various
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Speaker 1: parts of the world. A considerable immigration of Acadians then
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Speaker 1: helped to modify the Egyptian type. But this is the
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Speaker 1: era of the Second Divine Dynasty of Egypt, the rulers
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Speaker 1: of the country being again initiated adepts. The catastrophe of
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Speaker 1: eighty thousand years ago again laid the country underwater, but
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Speaker 1: this time it was only a temporary wave. When it receded,
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Speaker 1: the thirty Divine dynasty that mentioned by Manetho began its rule,
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Speaker 1: and it was under the early kings of this dynasty
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Speaker 1: that the Great Temple of Karnak and many of the
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Speaker 1: more ancient buildings still standing in Egypt were constructed. In fact,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of the Two Pyramids, new building in
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Speaker 1: each Egypt predates the catastrophe of eighty thousand years ago.
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Speaker 1: The final submergence of Posidonis sent another tidal wave over Egypt.
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Speaker 1: This too was only a temporary calamity, but it brought
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Speaker 1: the divine Innastics to an end, for the Lodge of
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Speaker 1: Initiates had transferred its quarters to other lands. Various points
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Speaker 1: here left untouched have already been dealt with in the
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Speaker 1: transaction of the London Lodge, the Pyramids and Stonehenge. The Turanians,
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Speaker 1: who in the First Map period had colonized the northern
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Speaker 1: parts of the land lying immediately to the east of Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: occupied in the Second Map period its southern shores, which
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Speaker 1: included the present Morocco and Algeria. We also find them
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Speaker 1: wandering eastwards, and both the east and west coasts of
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Speaker 1: the Central Asia Sea were peopled by them. Bounds of
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Speaker 1: them ultimately moved still further east, and the nearest approximation
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Speaker 1: to the type of this race is to day to
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Speaker 1: be found in the inland Chinese. A curious freak of
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Speaker 1: destiny must be recorded about one of their western off shoots.
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Speaker 1: Dominated all through the centuries by their more powerful tall
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Speaker 1: Tech neighbors, it was yet reserved for a small branch
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Speaker 1: of the Turanian stock to conquer and replace the last
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Speaker 1: great empire that the tall texts raised for the brutal
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Speaker 1: and barely civilized Aztecs were of pure Turanian blood. The
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Speaker 1: Semight emigrations were of two kinds. First, those which were
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Speaker 1: controlled by the natural impulse of the race. Second that
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Speaker 1: special emigration which was affected under the direct guidance of
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Speaker 1: the Manu. For strange as it may seem, it was
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Speaker 1: not from the tall texts, but from these lawless and turbulent,
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Speaker 1: though vigorous and energetic sub rays that was chosen the
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Speaker 1: nucleus destiny to be developed into our great fifth or
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Speaker 1: Aryan race. There reason no doubt lay in the menacy
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Speaker 1: characteristic with which the number five is always associated. The
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Speaker 1: sub race of that number was inevitably developing its physical
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Speaker 1: brain power and intel, although with the expense of the
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Speaker 1: psychic perceptions, while that same development of intellect to infinitely
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Speaker 1: higher levels is at once the glory and the destined
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Speaker 1: goal o our fifth root race. Dealing first with the
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Speaker 1: natural emigrations, we find that in the second mop period,
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Speaker 1: while still leaving powerful nations on the mother continent, the
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Speaker 1: Semites had spread both west and east, west to the
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Speaker 1: lands now forming the United States, and thus accounting for
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Speaker 1: the Semitic type to be found in some of the
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Speaker 1: Indian races and ea to the northern shores of the
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Speaker 1: neighboring continent, which combined all there then was of Europe, Africa,
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Speaker 1: and Asia. The type of the ancient Egyptians, as well
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Speaker 1: as of other neighboring nations, was to some extent modified
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Speaker 1: by this original Semite blood. But with the exception of
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Speaker 1: the Jews, the only representatives of comparatively unmixed race at
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Speaker 1: the present day are the lighter colored Cabyles of the
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Speaker 1: Algerian Mountains. The tribes resulting from the segregation affected by
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Speaker 1: the Manu for the formation of the new Root race,
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Speaker 1: eventually found their way to the southern shores of the
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Speaker 1: Central Asia Sea, and there the first great Aryan kingdom
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Speaker 1: was established. When the transaction dealing with the origin of
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Speaker 1: a Root race comes to be written, it will be
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Speaker 1: seen that many of the peoples we are accustomed to
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Speaker 1: call Semitic are really Aryan in blood. The world will
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Speaker 1: be enlightened as to what constitutes the claim of the
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Speaker 1: Hebrews to be considered a chosen people. Shortly, it may
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Speaker 1: be stated that they constitute an abnormal and unnatural link
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Speaker 1: between the fourth and fifth root races. The Accadians, though
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Speaker 1: eventually becoming supreme rulers of the Mother continents of Atlantis
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Speaker 1: owed their birthplace, as we have seen in the second
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Speaker 1: Mob period, to the neighboring continent that part occupied by
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Speaker 1: the basin of the Mediterranean, about the present island of
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Speaker 1: Sardinia being their special home. From this center, they spread eastwards,
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Speaker 1: occupying what eventually became the sh shores of the Levant,
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Speaker 1: and reaching as far as Persia and Arabia. As we
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Speaker 1: have seen, they also helped to people Egypt. The early Etruscans,
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Speaker 1: the Phoenicians, including the Carthaginians and the schumero ACADs were
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Speaker 1: branches of these rays. While the Basques of today have
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Speaker 1: probably more of the Accadian than of any other blood
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Speaker 1: which flows in their veins. A reference to the early
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Speaker 1: inhabitants of our own islands may appropriately be made here,
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Speaker 1: for it was in the early Acadian days, about one
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand years ago, that the colony of Initiates who
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Speaker 1: founded Stonehenge landed on these shows. These shaws being, of course,
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Speaker 1: the shows of the Scandinavian part of the continent of Europe.
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Speaker 1: As shown in map number three, the initiated priests and
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Speaker 1: their followers appear to have belonged to a very early
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Speaker 1: strain of the Acadian race. They were taller, fairer, and
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Speaker 1: longer headed than the Aborigines of the country, who were
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Speaker 1: a very mixed race, mostly degenerate remnants of their Maa haus.
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Speaker 1: As readers of the transaction of the London Lodge on
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Speaker 1: the Pyramids and Stonehenge will know, their rude simplicity of
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Speaker 1: Stonehenge was intended as a protest against the extravagant ornament
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Speaker 1: and over decoration of the existing temples in Atlantis, where
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Speaker 1: the debased worship of their own images was being carried
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Speaker 1: on by the inhabitants. The Mongolians, as we have seen,
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Speaker 1: never had any touch with the Mother's continent. Born on
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Speaker 1: the white plains of Tartary, their emigrations for long found
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Speaker 1: ample scope within those regions, But more than once tribes
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Speaker 1: of mongol descent have overflowed from Northern Asia to America
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Speaker 1: across burying straits, and the loss of such emigrations that
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Speaker 1: of the Khitans some thirteen hundred years ago, has left
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Speaker 1: traces which some Western Savants have been able to follow.
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Speaker 1: The Presence of Mongolian blood in some tribes of North
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Speaker 1: American Indians have also been recognized by various writers on ethnology,
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Speaker 1: the hunger Maarians and Malays are both known to be
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Speaker 1: offshoots of this race, and nobbled in the one case
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Speaker 1: by a strain of variant blood, degraded in the other
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Speaker 1: by mixture with the effete Lemurians. But the interesting fact
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Speaker 1: about the Mongolians is that its last family race is
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Speaker 1: still in full force. It has not in fact yet
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Speaker 1: which it ze neith, and the Japanese nation has still
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Speaker 1: got history to give to the world arts and sciences.
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Speaker 1: It must primarily be recognized that our own Aryan race
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Speaker 1: has naturally achieved far greater results in almost every direction
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Speaker 1: than the Atlanteans. But even where they failed to reach
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Speaker 1: our level, the records of what they accomplished are of
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Speaker 1: interest as representing the high water mark which their tide
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Speaker 1: of civilization reached. On the other hand, the character of
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Speaker 1: the scientific achievements in which they deta outstreeperus are of
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Speaker 1: so duzzling a nature that bewilderment at such unequal development
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Speaker 1: is apt to be the feeling left. The arts and
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Speaker 1: sciences as practiced by the first two races were of
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Speaker 1: course crude in the extreme, but we do not propose
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Speaker 1: to follow the progress achieved by age sub race. Separately,
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Speaker 1: The history of the Atlantean, as of the Aryan race,
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Speaker 1: was interspersed with periods of progress and of decay. Eras
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Speaker 1: of culture were followed by times of lawlessness, during which
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Speaker 1: all artistic and scientific development was lost, these again being
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Speaker 1: succeeded by civilizations reaching to still higher levels. It must
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Speaker 1: naturally be with the periods of culture that the following
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Speaker 1: remarks will deal, chief among which stands out the great
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Speaker 1: Toltec era. Architecture and sculpture, painting, and music were all
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Speaker 1: practiced in Atlantis. The music, even at the best of times,
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Speaker 1: was crude, and the instruments of the most primitive type.
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Speaker 1: All the Atlantic races were fond of color, and brilliant
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Speaker 1: hues decorated both the insights and the outsides of their houses,
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Speaker 1: but painting as a fine art was never well established,
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Speaker 1: though in the latter days some kind of drawing and
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Speaker 1: painting was told to the schools. Sculpture, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: which was also taught in the schools, was widely practiced
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Speaker 1: and reached great excellence, as we shall see later on.
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Speaker 1: Under the head of religion, it became customary for every
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Speaker 1: man who could afford it to place in one of
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Speaker 1: the temples an image of himself. These were sometimes carved
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Speaker 1: in wood or in hard black stone like basalt, but
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Speaker 1: among the wealthy it became the fashion to have their
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Speaker 1: statues cast in one of the precious metals oriclecom gold
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Speaker 1: or silver. A very fair resemblance of the individual usually resulted,
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Speaker 1: while in some cases a striking likeness was achieved. Architecture, however,
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Speaker 1: was naturally the most widely practiced of the arts. Their
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Speaker 1: buildings where massive structures of gigantic proportions. The dwelling houses
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Speaker 1: in the cities were not as ours, are closely crowded
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Speaker 1: together in streets like their country houses. Some stood in
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Speaker 1: their own garden grounds, others were separated by plots of
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Speaker 1: common land, but all were isolated structures. In the case
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Speaker 1: of houses of any importance, four blocks of buildings surrounded
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Speaker 1: a central courtyard, in the center of which generally stood
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Speaker 1: one of the fountains, whose number in the city of
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Speaker 1: Golden Gates gained for it the second appellation of the
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Speaker 1: City of Waters. There was an exhibition of goods for sale.
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Speaker 1: As in woodern streets, all transactions of buying and selling
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Speaker 1: took place privately, except at stated times when large public
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Speaker 1: fairs were held in the open spaces of the cities.
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Speaker 1: But the characteristic feature of the Toltic house was a
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Speaker 1: tower that rose from one of its corners or from
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Speaker 1: the center of one of the blocks. A spiral staircase
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Speaker 1: built outside led through the upper stories, and a pointed
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Speaker 1: dome terminated the tower, this upper portion being very commonly
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Speaker 1: used as an observatory. As already stated, the houses were
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Speaker 1: decorated with bright colors. Some were ornamented with carvings, others
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Speaker 1: with frescoes or painted patterns. The windows spaces were filled
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Speaker 1: with some manufactured article similar to but less transparent than glass.
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Speaker 1: The interiors were not furnished with the elaborate detail of
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Speaker 1: our modern dwellings, but the life was highly civilized of
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Speaker 1: its kind. The temples were huge holes, resembling more than
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Speaker 1: anything else the gigantic piles of Egypt, but built on
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Speaker 1: a still more stupendous scale. The pillars supporting the roof
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Speaker 1: were generally square, seldom circular. In the days of the decadence,
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Speaker 1: the ales were surrounded with innumerable chapels, in which were
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Speaker 1: enshrined the statues of the more important inhabitants. These side shrines, indeed,
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Speaker 1: were occasionally of such considerable size as to admit a
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Speaker 1: whole retinue of priests, whom some specially great man might
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Speaker 1: have in his service for the ceremonial worship of his image.
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Speaker 1: Like the private houses, the temples, too were never complete
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Speaker 1: without the dome capped towers, which of course were of
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Speaker 1: corresponding size and magnificence. These were used for astronomical observations
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Speaker 1: and for sun worship. The precious metals were largely used
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Speaker 1: in the adornment of the temples, the interiors being offered
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Speaker 1: not merely inlaid but plaited with gold. Gold and silver
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Speaker 1: were highly valued, but as we shall see later on
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Speaker 1: when the subject of the currencies dealt with, the uses
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Speaker 1: to which they were put were entirely artistic and had
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with cornage. While the great quantities that
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Speaker 1: were then produced by the chemists, or as we should
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Speaker 1: nowadays call them alchemists, may be said to have taken
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Speaker 1: them out of the category of the precious metals. This
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Speaker 1: power of transmutation of metals was not universal, but it
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Speaker 1: was so widely possessed that enormous quantities were made. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the production of the wished for. Metals may be regarded
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Speaker 1: as one of the industrial enterprises of those days by
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Speaker 1: which these alchemists gained their living. Cold was admired even
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Speaker 1: more than silver, and was consequently produced in much greater quantity.
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Speaker 1: And of Section four