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Speaker 1: Section ten The Lost Lemuria by William Scott Elliot. This
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Speaker 1: liprivox recording is in the public domain. The Lost Lamuria,
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Speaker 1: Part four.
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Speaker 2: The arts continued under the guidance of their divine teachers.
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Speaker 2: The people began to learn the use of fire and
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Speaker 2: the means by which it could be obtained, at first
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Speaker 2: by friction, and later on by the use of flints
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Speaker 2: and iron. They were taught to explore for metals, to
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Speaker 2: smelt and to mob them, and instead of spears of
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Speaker 2: sharpened wood, they now began to use spears tipped with
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Speaker 2: sharpened metal. They were also taught to dig and till
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Speaker 2: the ground, and to cultivate the seeds of wild grain
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Speaker 2: till it improved in type. This cultivation, carried on through
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Speaker 2: the vast ages which have since elapsed, has resulted in
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Speaker 2: the evolution of the various cereals which we now possess barley, oats, maize, millet,
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Speaker 2: and so on. But an exception must here be noted.
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Speaker 2: Wheat was not evolved upon this planet like the other cereals.
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Speaker 2: It was a gift of the divine beings, who brought
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Speaker 2: it from Venus ready for the food of man. Nor
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Speaker 2: was wit their only gift The one animal form whose
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Speaker 2: type has not been evolved in our chain of worlds
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Speaker 2: is that of the bee. It too, was brought from Venus.
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Speaker 2: The Lemurians now also begun to learn the art of
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Speaker 2: spinning and weaving fabrics with which to clothe themselves. These
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Speaker 2: were made of the coarse hair of a species of
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Speaker 2: animal now extinct, but which bore some resemblance to the
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Speaker 2: Lamas of to day, the ancestress of which they may
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Speaker 2: possibly have been. We have seen above that the earliest
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Speaker 2: articles of clothing of Lemurian man were robes of skin
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Speaker 2: stripped from the beasts he had slain. These skins he
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Speaker 2: still continued to wear on the colder parts of the continent,
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Speaker 2: but he now learned to cure and dress the skin
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Speaker 2: in some rude fashion. One of the first thing the
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Speaker 2: people were taught was the use of fire in the
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Speaker 2: preparation of their food, and whether it was the flesh
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Speaker 2: of animals this slew or the pounded grains of wheat,
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Speaker 2: their modes of cooking were closely analogous to those we
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Speaker 2: hear of as existing today among savage communities. With reference
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Speaker 2: to the gift of wheat so marvelously brought from venus.
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Speaker 2: The divine rulers doubtless realized the advisability of at once
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Speaker 2: procurring such food for the people, for they must have
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Speaker 2: known that it would take many generations before the cultivation
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Speaker 2: of the wild seeds could provide an adequate supply. Rude
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Speaker 2: and barbarous as were the people during the period of
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Speaker 2: the fifth and six subraces, such of them as had
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Speaker 2: the privilege of coming in contact with their divine teachers,
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Speaker 2: were naturally inspired with such feelings of reverence and worship,
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Speaker 2: as He helped to lift them out of their savage condition.
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Speaker 2: The constant influx, too, of more intelligent beings from the
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Speaker 2: first group of the lunar Pea trees, who were then
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Speaker 2: beginning to return to incarnation, helped the attainment of a
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Speaker 2: more civilized state, great cities and statues. During the later
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Speaker 2: part of the sixth and the seventh sub rays, they
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Speaker 2: learned to build great cities. These appear to have been
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Speaker 2: of Cyclopean architecture, corresponding with the gigantic bodies of the race.
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Speaker 1: The first cities were.
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Speaker 2: Built on that extended mountainous region of the continent, which included,
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Speaker 2: as will be seen in the first map, the present
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Speaker 2: Island of Madagascar. Another great city, is described in the
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Speaker 2: Secret Doctrine as having been entirely built of blocks of lava.
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Speaker 2: It lay some thirty miles west of the present Easter Island,
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Speaker 2: and it was subsequently destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions.
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Speaker 2: The gigantic statues of Easter Island, measuring as most of
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Speaker 2: them do, about twenty seven feet in height by eight
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Speaker 2: feet across the shoulders, were probably intended to be representative
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Speaker 2: not only of the features, but of the height of
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Speaker 2: those who carved them, or it may be of their ancestors,
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Speaker 2: for it was probably in the later ages of the
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Speaker 2: lemuro Atlanteans that the statues were erected. It will be
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Speaker 2: observed that by the second mop period the continent of
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Speaker 2: which Easter Island formed a part had been broken up,
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Speaker 2: and Easter Island itself had become a comparatively small island,
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Speaker 2: though of considerably greater dimensions than it retains to day.
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Speaker 2: Civilizations of comparative importance arose on different parts of the
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Speaker 2: continent and the great islands, where the inhabitants built cities
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Speaker 2: and dwelt in settle communities, but large tribes who were
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Speaker 2: also partially civilized, continued to lead a nomadic and patriarchal life,
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Speaker 2: while other parts of the land, in many cases the
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Speaker 2: least accessible as in our own times, were peopled by
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Speaker 2: tribes of extremely low type religion, with so primitive a
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Speaker 2: rays of men. At the best, there was but little
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Speaker 2: in the shape of religion that they could be taught
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Speaker 2: simple rules of conduct. The most elementary precepts of morality
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Speaker 2: were all that they were fitted to understand or to practice.
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Speaker 2: During the evolution of the seventh sub rays. It is
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Speaker 2: true that their divine instructures stopped them some primitive form
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Speaker 2: of worship and imparted the knowledge of a supreme being,
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Speaker 2: whose symbol was represented as the sun destruction of the continent.
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Speaker 2: Unlike the subsequent fate of Atlantis, which were submerged by
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Speaker 2: great tidal waves, the continent of Lemuria perished by volcanic action.
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Speaker 2: It was raked by the burning ashes and the red
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Speaker 2: hot dust from numberless volcanoes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, it
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Speaker 2: is true heralded each of the great catastrophes which overtook Atlantes.
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Speaker 2: But when the land had been shaken and rened, the
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Speaker 2: sea rushed in and completed the work, and most of
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Speaker 2: the inhabitants perished by drowning. The Lemurians, on the other hand,
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Speaker 2: met their doom chiefly by fire or suffocation. Another marked
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Speaker 2: contrast between the fate of Lemuria and Atlantis was that
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Speaker 2: while four great catastrophes completed the destruction of the latter,
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Speaker 2: the former was slowly eaten away by internal fires. For
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Speaker 2: from the time when the disintegrating process began towards the
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Speaker 2: end of the first Map period, there was no cessation
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Speaker 2: from the fiery activity, and whether in one part of
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Speaker 2: the continent or another, the volcanic action was incessant, while
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Speaker 2: the invariable sequence was the subsidence and total disappearance of
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Speaker 2: the land, just as in the case of Krakatoa in
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Speaker 2: eighteen eighty three. So closely analogous was the eruption of
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Speaker 2: Mount Pelle, which caused the destruction of Saint Pierre, the
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Speaker 2: capital of Martinique, about two years ago to the whole
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Speaker 2: series of volcanic catastrophes on the continent of Lemuria, that
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Speaker 2: the description of the former given by some of the
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Speaker 2: survivors may be of interest. Quote, an immense black cloud
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Speaker 2: had suddenly burst forth from the crater of mont Pelle
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Speaker 2: and rushed with terrific velocity upon the city, destroying everything inhabitants, houses,
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Speaker 2: and vegetation alike that it found in its path. In
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Speaker 2: two or three minutes it passed over, and the city
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Speaker 2: was a blazing pyre of ruins. In both islands Martinique
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Speaker 2: and sun vent Song, the eruptions were characterized by the
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Speaker 2: sudden discharge of immense quantities of red hot dust mixed
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Speaker 2: with steam, which float down the steep hill sides with
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Speaker 2: an ever increasing velocity. In sun and sun these had
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Speaker 2: filled many valleys to a depth of between one hundred
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Speaker 2: feet and two hundred feet, and months after the eruptions
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Speaker 2: was still very hot, and the heavy rains which then
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Speaker 2: fell thereon caused enormous explosions, producing clouds of steam and
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Speaker 2: dust that shot upwards to a height of from fifteen
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Speaker 2: hundred feet to twenty hundred feet and filled the rivers
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Speaker 2: with black, boiling mud. Unquote. Captain Freeman of the Raw
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Speaker 2: Dam then described quote experience which he and his party
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Speaker 2: had at Martinique one night when they were lying at
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Speaker 2: anchor in a little sloop about a mile from Saint Pierre,
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Speaker 2: the mountain exploded in a way that was apparently in
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Speaker 2: exact repetition of the original eruption. It was not entirely
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Speaker 2: without warning, Hence they were unable to sail it once
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Speaker 2: a mile or two further away, and thus probably saved
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Speaker 2: their lives. In the darkness, they saw the summit glow
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Speaker 2: with a bright red light. Then soon with loud detonations,
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Speaker 2: great red hot stones were projected into the air and
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Speaker 2: rolled down the slopes. A few minutes later, a prolonged
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Speaker 2: rumbling noise was heard, and in an instant was followed
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Speaker 2: by a red hot avalanche of dust, which rushed out
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Speaker 2: of the crater and rolled down the side with a
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Speaker 2: terrific speed, which they estimated at about one hundred miles
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Speaker 2: an hour, with a temperature of one thousand centigrade. As
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Speaker 2: to the probable explanation of this phenomena, no lava, he said,
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Speaker 2: had been seen to flow from either of the volcanoes,
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Speaker 2: but only steam and fine hot dust. The volcanoes were
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Speaker 2: therefore of the explosive type, and from all his observations
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Speaker 2: he had concluded that the absence of lava flows was
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Speaker 2: due to the material within the crater being partly solid
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Speaker 2: or at least highly viscous, so that it would not
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Speaker 2: flow like an ordinary lava stream. Since his return, this
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Speaker 2: theory had received striking confirmation, for it was now known
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Speaker 2: that within the crater of Montpeller there was no lake
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Speaker 2: of molten lava, but that the solid pillar of red
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Speaker 2: hot rock was slowly rising upwards in a great, conical,
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Speaker 2: sharp pointed hill until it might finally overtop the old
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Speaker 2: summit of the mountain. It was nearly one thousand feet
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Speaker 2: high and slowly grew as it was forced upwards by
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Speaker 2: pressure from beneath, while every now and then explosions of
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Speaker 2: steam took place, dislodging large pieces from its summit or
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Speaker 2: its sides. Steam was set free within this mass as
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Speaker 2: it cooled, and the rock then passed into a dangerous
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Speaker 2: and highly explosive condition, such that an explosion might sooner
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Speaker 2: or later take place, which shivered a great part of
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Speaker 2: the mass into fine red hot dust. A reference to
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Speaker 2: the first Lemurian map will show that in the lake
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Speaker 2: lying to the southeast of the extensive mountainous region, there
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Speaker 2: was an island which consisted of little more than one
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Speaker 2: great mountain. This mountain was a very active volcano, the
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Speaker 2: four mountains which lay to the southwest of the lake
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Speaker 2: were also active volcanoes, and in this region it was
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Speaker 2: that the disruption of the continent began. The seismi cataclysms
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Speaker 2: which followed the volcanic eruptions caused such widespread damage that
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Speaker 2: by the second Mob period a large portion of the
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Speaker 2: southern part of the continent had been submerged. A marked
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Speaker 2: factteristic of the land surface in early Lemurian times was
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Speaker 2: a great number of lakes and marshes, as well as
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Speaker 2: the innumerable volcanoes. Of course, all these are not shown
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Speaker 2: on the map. Only some of the great mountains which
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Speaker 2: were volcanoes, and only some of the largest lakes are
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Speaker 2: there indicated. Another volcano on the northeast coast of the
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Speaker 2: continent began its destructive work at an early date. Earthquakes
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Speaker 2: completed the disruption, and it seems probable that the sea
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Speaker 2: shown in the second map, as dotted with small islands
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Speaker 2: to the southeast of the present Japan, indicates the area
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Speaker 2: of seismic disturbance. In the first map, it will be
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Speaker 2: seen that there were lakes in the center of what
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Speaker 2: is now the island continent of Australia. Lakes where the
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Speaker 2: land is at present exceedingly dry and parched. By the
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Speaker 2: second Map period, those lakes had disappeared, and it seems
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Speaker 2: natural to conjecture that the districts where those lakes lay must,
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Speaker 2: during the u eruptions of the great volcanoes which lay
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Speaker 2: to the southeast between the present Australian New Zealand, have
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Speaker 2: been so raked with red hot volcanic dust that the
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Speaker 2: very water springs were dried up founding of the Atlantean rays.
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Speaker 2: In concluding this cage, a reference to the process by
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Speaker 2: which the Fourth root race was brought into existence will
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Speaker 2: appropriately bring to an end what we know of the
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Speaker 2: story of Lemuria and link it to that of Atlantis.
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Speaker 2: It may be remembered from previous writings on the subject
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Speaker 2: that it was from the fifth or Semitic subrays of
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Speaker 2: the fourth root race that was chosen the nucleus destined
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Speaker 2: to become our great fifth or Aryan root race. It
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Speaker 2: was not, however, until the time of the seventh subrays
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Speaker 2: on Limuria, that humanity was sufficiently developed physiologically to warrant
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Speaker 2: the choice of individuals fit to become the parents of
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Speaker 2: anew root rays.
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Speaker 1: So it was from the seventh.
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Speaker 2: Subrays that the segregation was affected. The colony was fir
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Speaker 2: Settleton Land, which occupied the site of the present Ashanti
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Speaker 2: and Western Nigeria. A reference to the second map will
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Speaker 2: show these as a promontory lying to the northwest of
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Speaker 2: the island continent, which embraced the Cape of Good Hope
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Speaker 2: and parts of Western Africa. Having been guarded for generations
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Speaker 2: from any admixture with the lower type, the colony gradually
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Speaker 2: increased in numbers, and the time came when it was
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Speaker 2: ready to receive and to hand on the new impulse
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Speaker 2: to physical heredity which the Manu was destined to impart.
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Speaker 2: Students of theosophy are aware that up to the present day,
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Speaker 2: no one belonging to our humanity has been in a
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Speaker 2: position to undertake the exalted office of Manu, though it
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Speaker 2: is stated that the founding of the coming six fruit
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Speaker 2: rays will be entrusted to the guidance of one of
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Speaker 2: our masters of wisdom, one who, while belonging to our humanity,
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Speaker 2: has nevertheless reached the most exalted level in the divine hierarchy.
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Speaker 2: In the case we are considering the founding of the
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Speaker 2: fourth Root race, it was one of the adept from Venus,
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Speaker 2: who undertook the duties of the Manu. Naturally, he belonged
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Speaker 2: to a very high order. For it must be understood
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Speaker 2: that the beings who came from the Venous system as
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Speaker 2: rulers and teachers of our infant humanity did not all
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Speaker 2: stand at the same level. It is this circumstance which
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Speaker 2: furnishes a reason for the remarkable fact that may, in
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Speaker 2: conclusion be stated, namely, that there existed in Limuria a
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Speaker 2: lodge of initiation, a lodge of initiation. Naturally, it was
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Speaker 2: not for the benefit of the Limurian race that the
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Speaker 2: lodge was founded. Such of them as were sufficiently advanced,
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Speaker 2: where it is true, taught by the adept gurus, but
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Speaker 2: the instruction they required was limited to the explanation of
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Speaker 2: a few physical phenomena, such as the fact that the
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Speaker 2: Earth moves round the Sun, or to the explanation of
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Speaker 2: the different appearance which physical objects assumed for them when
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Speaker 2: subjected alternately to their physical side and their astral vision.
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Speaker 2: It was, of course, for the sake of those who,
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Speaker 2: while endowed with the stupendous powers of transferring their consciousness
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Speaker 2: from the planet Venus to these are Earth, and of
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Speaker 2: providing for their use and their work, while here appropriate
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Speaker 2: vehicles in which to function were yet pursuing the cause
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Speaker 2: of their own evolution. For their sake, it was for
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Speaker 2: the sake of those who, having entered the path, had
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Speaker 2: only reached the lower grades, that this lodge of initiation
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Speaker 2: was founded. Though, as we know, the goal of normal
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Speaker 2: evolution is greater and more glorious than ken from our
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Speaker 2: present standpoint be well imagined, it is by no means
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Speaker 2: synonymous with that expansion of consciousness, which, combined with and
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Speaker 2: alone made possible by the purification and ennoblement of character,
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Speaker 2: constitute the heights to which the pathway of initiation leads.
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Speaker 2: The investigation into what constans dude this purification and ennoblement
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Speaker 2: of character, and the endeavor to realize what that expansion
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Speaker 2: of consciousness really means our subjects which have been written
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Speaker 2: off elsewhere, suffice it now to point out that the
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Speaker 2: founding of a lodge of initiation for the sake of
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Speaker 2: beings who came from another scheme of evolution, is an
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Speaker 2: indication of the unity of object and a aim in
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Speaker 2: the government and the guidance of all the schemes of
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Speaker 2: evolution brought into existence by our solar logos, apart from
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Speaker 2: the normal cause. In our own scheme, there is we
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Speaker 2: know a path by which he may be directly reached,
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Speaker 2: which every son of man, in his progress through the ages,
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Speaker 2: is privileged to hear of and to tread, if he
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Speaker 2: so chooses. We find that this was so in the
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Speaker 2: Venus scheme also, and we may presume it is or
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Speaker 2: will be so in all the schemes which form part
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Speaker 2: of our solar system. This path is the path of initiation,
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Speaker 2: and the end to which leads is the same for all,
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Speaker 2: and that end is union with God.
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Speaker 1: End of Section ten, end of the Story of Atlantis
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Speaker 1: and the Loslemuria by William Scott Elliott