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004 - The Story of Atlantis - Part 3 · Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

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Speaker 1: Section three 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 three. Some reference to the very mystical
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Speaker 1: subjects of the manus is a necessary preliminary to the
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Speaker 1: consideration of the origin of a root race. In Transaction
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Speaker 1: number twenty six of the London Lodge, reference was made
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Speaker 1: to the work done by these very exalted beings, which
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Speaker 1: embraces not only the planning of the types of the
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Speaker 1: hall man Vanara, but the superintending the formation and education
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Speaker 1: of each root race. In turn, the following quotation refers
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Speaker 1: to these arrangements. There are also manus whose duty it
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Speaker 1: is to act in a similar way for each root
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Speaker 1: rays on each planet of the round. The seed Manu
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Speaker 1: planning the improvement in type which each successive root Rays inaugurates,
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Speaker 1: and the root man who actually incarnating amongst the new
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Speaker 1: race as a leader and teacher to direct the development
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Speaker 1: and ensure the improvement. The way in which the necessary
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Speaker 1: segregation of the picked specimens is affected by the Manu
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Speaker 1: in charge and his subsequent care of the growing community
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Speaker 1: may be dealt with in a future transaction. The merest
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Speaker 1: reference to the mode of procedure is all that is
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Speaker 1: necessary here. It was, of course, from one of the
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Speaker 1: sub races of the third root race of the continent,
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Speaker 1: which is spoken of as Lemuria, that the segregation was affected,
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Speaker 1: which was destined to produce the fourth root race. Following
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Speaker 1: where necessary the history of the race through the four
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Speaker 1: periods represented by the four maps, it is proposed to
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Speaker 1: divide the subject under the following headings. One origin and
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Speaker 1: territorial location of the different sub races. Two the political
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Speaker 1: institutions their respectively evolved, Three their emigrations to other parts
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Speaker 1: of the world. Four the arts and sciences they developed,
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Speaker 1: five the manners and customs they adopted. Six the rise
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Speaker 1: and decline amongst them of religious ideas. The names of
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Speaker 1: the different sub races must first be given one more
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Speaker 1: hal two Clavatli, three tall Tech four First Uranian, five
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Speaker 1: Original Semite, six Acadian seven Mongolian. Some explanation is necessary
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Speaker 1: as to the principle on which these names are chosen.
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Speaker 1: Wherever modern ethnologists have discovered traces of one of these
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Speaker 1: sub races, or even identified a small part of one,
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Speaker 1: the name they have given to it is used for
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Speaker 1: the sake of simplicity. But in the case of the
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Speaker 1: first two sub races, there are hardly any traces left
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Speaker 1: for science to seize upon, so the names by which
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Speaker 1: they call themselves have been adopted now. The period represented
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Speaker 1: by map number one shows the land surface of the
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Speaker 1: Earth as it existed about one million years ago, but
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Speaker 1: the Moa Hala race came into existence between four and
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Speaker 1: five million years ago, at which period large portions of
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Speaker 1: the great southern continent of Lemuria still existed, while the
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Speaker 1: continent of Atlantis had not assumed the proportions it ultimately attained.
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Speaker 1: It was upon a spur of this Lemurian land that
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Speaker 1: their more hall rays was born. Roughly, it may be
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Speaker 1: located in latitude seven degrees north and longitude five degrees west,
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Speaker 1: which a reference to any modern atlas would show to
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Speaker 1: lie on the Ashanti coast of to day It was
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Speaker 1: a hot, moist country where huge antediluvian animals lived in
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Speaker 1: reedy swamps and dark forests. The fossil remains of such
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Speaker 1: plants are to day found in the coal measures. Their
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Speaker 1: Moa halls were a dark rays, their complexion being a
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Speaker 1: sort of mahogany black. Their height in these early days
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Speaker 1: was about ten or twelve feet, truly a race of giants,
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Speaker 1: but through the centuries their stature gradually dwindled, as did
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Speaker 1: that of all the races in turn, and later on
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Speaker 1: we shall find they had shrunk to the struture of
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Speaker 1: the firfoos Man. They ultimately migrated to the southern shores
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis, where they were engaged in constant warfare with
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Speaker 1: the sixth and seventh sub races of the Lemurians then
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Speaker 1: inhabiting that country. A large part of the tribe eventually
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Speaker 1: moved north, while the remainder settled down and intermarried with
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Speaker 1: these black Lemurian aborigines. The result was that at the
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Speaker 1: period we are dealing with, the first mop period, there
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Speaker 1: was no pure blood left in the south, and as
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Speaker 1: we shall see, it was from these dark races who
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Speaker 1: inhabited the equatorial provinces in the extreme south of the
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Speaker 1: continent that the Taultec conquerors subsequently drew their supplies of slaves.
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Speaker 1: The remainder of the race, however, reached the extreme northeastern
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Speaker 1: promontories contigious with Iceland, and dwelling there for untold generations.
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Speaker 1: They gradually became lighter in color, until at the date
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Speaker 1: of the first map period, we find the them a
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Speaker 1: tolerably fair people. Their descendants eventually became subject, at least
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Speaker 1: nominally to the Semite kings that they dwelt. Therefore, untold
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Speaker 1: generations is not meant to imply that their occupation was unbroken,
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Speaker 1: for stress of circumstances at intervals of time drove them south.
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Speaker 1: The cold of the glacial epochs, of course, operated alike
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Speaker 1: with the other races. But the few words to be
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Speaker 1: said on this subject may as well come in here
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Speaker 1: without going into the question of the different rotations which
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Speaker 1: the Earth performs, or the varying degrees of eccentricity of
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Speaker 1: its orbit, a combination of which is sometimes held to
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Speaker 1: be the cause of the glacial epochs. It is a fact,
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Speaker 1: and one already recognized by some astronomers, that a minor
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Speaker 1: glacial epoch occurs about every thirty thousand years. But in
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Speaker 1: addition to these, there were two occasions in the history
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis when the Eyes Belt desolated, not merely the
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Speaker 1: northern regions, but invading the bulk of the continent, forced
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Speaker 1: all life to migrate to equatorial lands. The first of
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Speaker 1: these was in process during their more hall days about
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Speaker 1: three million years ago, while the second took place in
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Speaker 1: the Teltec ascendancy about eight hundred fifty thousand years ago.
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Speaker 1: With reference to all glacial epochs, it should be stated
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Speaker 1: that though the inhabitants of Northern Lands were forced to
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Speaker 1: settle during the winter far south of the ice belt,
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Speaker 1: there yet were great districts to which in summer they
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Speaker 1: could return, and where for the sake of the hunting
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Speaker 1: they encumbed until driven south again by the winter cold.
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Speaker 1: The place of origin of the Lavatli or second sub
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Speaker 1: rays was an island off the west coast of Atlantis.
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Speaker 1: The spot is marked on the first map with a
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Speaker 1: figure two. Thence they spread into Atlantis proper, chiefly across
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Speaker 1: the middle of the continent, gradually, however, tending northwards towards
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Speaker 1: the stretch of coast facing the promontory of Greenland. Physically
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Speaker 1: they were a powerful and hardy ray of a red
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Speaker 1: brown color, but they were not quite so tall as
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Speaker 1: that Moahals, whom they drove still further north. They were
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Speaker 1: always the mountain loving people, and their chief settlements were
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Speaker 1: in the mountainous districts of the interior, which a comparison
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Speaker 1: of maps one and four would show to be approximately
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Speaker 1: co terminous with what ultimately became the island of Poseidonis.
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Speaker 1: At this first map period, they also, as just stated,
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Speaker 1: peopled the northern coasts, whilst the mixture of Lavatli and
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Speaker 1: Shalta crays inhabited the western islands, which subsequently formed part
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Speaker 1: of the American continent. We now come to the Taultec
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Speaker 1: or third sub rays. This was a magnificent development. It
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Speaker 1: ruled the whole continent of Atlantis for thousands of years
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Speaker 1: in great material power and glory. Indeed, so dominant and
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Speaker 1: so endowed with vitality was this race that intermarriages with
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Speaker 1: the following sub races failed to modify the type, which
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Speaker 1: still remained essentially Tautech and hundreds of thousands of years
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Speaker 1: later we find one of the remote family races, ruling
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Speaker 1: magnificently in Mexico and Peru, long ages before their degenerate
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Speaker 1: descendants were conquered by the firser Aztec tribes from the north.
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Speaker 1: The complexion of this race was also red brown, but
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Speaker 1: they were redder or more copper colored than the Clavatli.
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Speaker 1: They also were a tall rays, averaging about eight feet
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Speaker 1: During the period of their ascendency, but of course dwindling,
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Speaker 1: as all races did, to the dimensions that are common
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Speaker 1: to day. The type was an improvement of the two
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Speaker 1: previous sub races, the features being straight and well marked,
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Speaker 1: not unlike the ancient Greek. The approximate birthplace of this
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Speaker 1: race may be seen marked with the figure three on
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Speaker 1: the first map. It lay near the west coast of Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: about latitude thirty degrees north, and the whole of the
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Speaker 1: surrounding country embracing the bulk of the west coast of
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Speaker 1: the continent, was peopled with a pure Taute race, but
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Speaker 1: as we shall see when dealing with the Policetic organization,
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Speaker 1: their territory eventually extended right across the continent, and it
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Speaker 1: was from their great capital on the eastern coast that
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Speaker 1: the Tauta emperors held their almost world wide sway. These
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Speaker 1: first three sub races are spoken of as the red races,
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Speaker 1: between whom and the four following there was not at
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Speaker 1: first much mixture of blood. These four, though differing considerably
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Speaker 1: from each other, have been called yellow, and this color
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Speaker 1: may appropriately define the complexion of the Turanian and Mongolian.
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Speaker 1: But the Semite and Accadian were comparatively white. The Turanian
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Speaker 1: or fourth sub race had their origin on the eastern
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Speaker 1: side of the continent, south of the mountainous district, inhabited
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Speaker 1: by the Lavatli people. This spot is marked four on
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Speaker 1: map number one. The Turanians were colonists from the earliest days,
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Speaker 1: and great numbers migrated to the lands lying to the
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Speaker 1: east of Atlantis. They were never a th thoroughly dominant
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Speaker 1: Rays on the other continent, though some of their tribes
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Speaker 1: and family races became fairly powerful. The great central regions
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Speaker 1: of the continent, lying west and south of the Slavati
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Speaker 1: mountainous district, was there special though not their exclusive home,
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Speaker 1: for they shared these lands with the Teltecs. The curious
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Speaker 1: political and social experiments made by this sub Rays will
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Speaker 1: be dealt with later on. As regards the original Sea
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Speaker 1: Mide or fifth sub race, ethnologies have been somewhat confused,
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Speaker 1: as indeed it is extremely natural they should be, considering
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Speaker 1: the very insufficient data they have to go upon. This
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Speaker 1: sub race has its origin in the mountainous country, which
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Speaker 1: formed the more southerly of the two northeastern peninsulas, which
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Speaker 1: as we have seen, is now represented by Scotland. Ireland
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Speaker 1: and some of the surrounding seas. The site is marked
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Speaker 1: five in Map number one. In this least desirable portion
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Speaker 1: of the Great Continent, the race grew and flourished for centuries,
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Speaker 1: maintaining its inter pendance against aggressive southern kings, till the
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Speaker 1: time came for it, in turn to spread abroad in colonized.
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Speaker 1: It must be remembered that by the time the Semites
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Speaker 1: rose to power, hundreds of thousands of years had passed
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Speaker 1: and the second map period had been reached. They were
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Speaker 1: a turbulent, discontented rays, always at war with their neighbors,
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Speaker 1: especially with the then growing power of the Accadians. The
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Speaker 1: birthplace of the Accadian or sixth sub Rays will be
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Speaker 1: found on Map number two, marked there with the figure six.
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Speaker 1: For it was after the great catastrophe of eight hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand years ago that this race first came into existence.
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Speaker 1: It took its rise in the land east of Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: about the middle of the Great Peninsula, whose southeastern extremity
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Speaker 1: stretched out toward the Old Continent. The spot may be
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Speaker 1: located approximately at latitude forty two degrees north in longitude
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Speaker 1: ten degrees east. They did not for long, however, confine
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Speaker 1: themselves to the land of their birth, but overrun the
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Speaker 1: now diminished continent of Atlantes. They fought with the Semites
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Speaker 1: in many battles, both on land and sea, and very
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Speaker 1: considerable fleets were used on both sides. Finally, about one
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand years ago they completely vanquished the Semites, and
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Speaker 1: from that time onwards an Acadian dynasty was set up
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Speaker 1: in the old Semite capital and ruled the country wisely
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Speaker 1: for several hundred years. They were a great trading, sea
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Speaker 1: going and colonizing people, and they established many centers of
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Speaker 1: communication with distant lands. The Mongolian or seventh sub rays
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Speaker 1: seems to be the only one that had absolutely no
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Speaker 1: touch with their mother continent, having its origin on the
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Speaker 1: plains of Tartary marked number seven on the second map,
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Speaker 1: at about latitude sixty three degrees north and longitude one
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty degrees east. It was directly developed from
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Speaker 1: descendants of the Turanian race, which it gradually supplanted over
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Speaker 1: the greater part of Asia. This sub race multiplied exceedingly,
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Speaker 1: and even at the present day, a majority of the
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Speaker 1: Earth's inhabitants taken belonged to it, though many of its
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Speaker 1: divisions are so deeply colored with the blood of earlier
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Speaker 1: races as to be scarstly distinguishable from them political institutions.
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Speaker 1: In such a summary as this, it would be impossible
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Speaker 1: to describe how each sub race was further subdivided into nations,
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Speaker 1: each having its distinct type and characteristics. All that can
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Speaker 1: be here attempted is to sketch in broad outline the
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Speaker 1: varying political institutions throughout the great epochs of the race,
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Speaker 1: while recognizing that each sub race, as well as each
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Speaker 1: root race, is destined to stund in some respect at
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Speaker 1: a higher level than the one before it. The cyclic
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Speaker 1: nature of the development must be recognized as leading the race,
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Speaker 1: like the man, through the various phases of infancy, youth,
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Speaker 1: and manhood back to the infancy of old age. Again,
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Speaker 1: evolution necessarily means ultimate progress, even though the turning back
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Speaker 1: of its assenting spiral may seem to make the history
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Speaker 1: of politics or of religion a record not merely of
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Speaker 1: development and progress, but also of degradation and decay. In
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Speaker 1: making the statement therefore, that the first sub race started
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Speaker 1: under the most perfect government conceivable, it must be understood
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Speaker 1: that this was owing to the necessities of their childhood,
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Speaker 1: not to the merits of their matured manhood. For their
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Speaker 1: moa Hus were incapable of developing any plan of settled government,
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Speaker 1: nor did they ever reach even as high a point
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Speaker 1: of civilization as the sixth and seventh Limurian sub races.
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Speaker 1: But the Manu, who affected this segregation, actually incarnated in
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Speaker 1: the race and ruled it as king, even when he
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Speaker 1: no longer took visible part in the government of the race.
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Speaker 1: Adept or divine rulers were when the times required it
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Speaker 1: still provided for the infant community. As students of theosophy know,
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Speaker 1: our humanity had not then reached the stage of development
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Speaker 1: necessary to produce fully initiated adepts. The rulers above referred to,
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Speaker 1: including the man himself, were therefore necessarily the product of
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Speaker 1: evolution on other systems worlds that Lavadli people showed some
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Speaker 1: signs of advance in the art of government. Their various
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Speaker 1: tribes or nations were ruled by chiefs or kings, who
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Speaker 1: generally received their authority by acclamation of the people. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: the most powerful individuals and greatest warriors were so chosen.
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Speaker 1: A considerable empire was eventually established among them, in which
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Speaker 1: one king became the nominal head, but his shoes reigned.
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Speaker 1: He consisted rather in titular honor than in actual authority.
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Speaker 1: It was the Tauta Kras who developed the highest civilization
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Speaker 1: and organized the most powerful empire of any of the
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Speaker 1: Atlantan peoples, and it was then that the principle of
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Speaker 1: heredity succession was for the first time established. The race
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Speaker 1: was at first divided into a number of pety independent kingdoms,
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Speaker 1: constantly at war with each other, and all at war
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Speaker 1: with the Lemuri or Moahals of the south. These were
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Speaker 1: gradually conquered and made subject peoples, many of their tribes
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Speaker 1: being reduced to slavery. About one million year years ago, however,
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Speaker 1: these separate kingdoms united in a great federation with a
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Speaker 1: recognized emperor at its head. This was of course inaugurated
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Speaker 1: by great wars, but the outcome was peace and prosperity
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Speaker 1: for the race. It must be remembered that humanity was still,
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Speaker 1: for the most part possessed of psychic attributes, and by
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Speaker 1: this time the most advance had undergone the necessary training
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Speaker 1: in the occult schools and had attained various stages of initiation,
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Speaker 1: some even reaching to adept ship. Now the second of
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Speaker 1: this emperors was an adept, and for thousands of years
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Speaker 1: the Divine dynasty ruled not only all the kingdoms into
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Speaker 1: which Atlantis was divided, but the islands of the west
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Speaker 1: and the southern portions of the adjacent land lying to
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Speaker 1: the east. When necessary, this dynasty was recruited from the
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Speaker 1: lodge of initiates, but as a rule the power was
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Speaker 1: handed down from father to son, all being more or
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Speaker 1: less qualified, and the son in some cases receiving a
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Speaker 1: further degree at the hands of his father. During all
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Speaker 1: this period, these initiate rulers retained connection with the occult
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Speaker 1: hierarchy which governs the world, submitting to its laws and
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Speaker 1: acting in harmony with its plans. This was the golden
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Speaker 1: age of the Toltic race. The government was just and beneficent,
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Speaker 1: The arts and sciences were cultivated. Indeed, the workers in
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Speaker 1: these fields, guided as they were by occult knowledge, achieved
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Speaker 1: tremendous results. Religious belief and ritual were still comparatively pure.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the civilization of Atlantis had by this time
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Speaker 1: reached its height. After about one hundred thousand years of
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Speaker 1: this golden age, the degeneracy and decay of the race
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Speaker 1: set in. Many of the tributary kings, and large numbers
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Speaker 1: of the priests and people ceased to use their faculties
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Speaker 1: and powers in accordance with the laws made by their
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Speaker 1: divine rulers, whose precepts and advice were now disregarded. Their
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Speaker 1: connection with the occult hierarchy was broken. Personal aggrandizement, the
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Speaker 1: attainment of wealth and authority, the humiliation and ruin of
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Speaker 1: their enemies became more and more the objects towards which
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Speaker 1: their occult powers were directed, and thus turned from their
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Speaker 1: lawful use and practiced for all sorts of selfish and
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Speaker 1: malevolent purposes. They inevitably led to what we must call
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Speaker 1: by the name of sorcery. Surrounded as this word is
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Speaker 1: with the odium, which credulity on the one hand and
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Speaker 1: imposture on the other, have, during many centuries of superstition
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Speaker 1: and ignorance, gradually caused it to be associated. Let us
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Speaker 1: consider for a moment its real meaning and the terrible
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Speaker 1: effects which its practice is ever destined to bring on
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Speaker 1: the world, partly through their psychic faculties, which were not
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Speaker 1: yet quenched in the depths of materiality to which the
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Speaker 1: race afterwards descended, and partly through their scientific attainments. During
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Speaker 1: this culmination of Atlantic civilization, the most intellectual and energetic
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Speaker 1: members of the race gradually obtained more and more insight
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Speaker 1: into the working of nature's life laws, and more and
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Speaker 1: more control over some of her hidden forces. Now, the
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Speaker 1: the secretion of this knowledge and its use for selfish
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Speaker 1: ends is what constitutes sorcery. The awful effects, too, of
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Speaker 1: such the secretion are well enough exemplified in the terrible
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Speaker 1: catastrophes that overtook the race. For when once the black
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Speaker 1: practice was inaugurated, it was destined to spread in ever
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Speaker 1: widening circles, the higher spiritual guidance being thus withdrawn. The
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Speaker 1: comic principle, which being the fourth naturally reached its zenith
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Speaker 1: during the Fourth Root, race asserted itself more and more
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Speaker 1: in humanity, Lust, brutality, and ferocity were all on the increase,
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Speaker 1: and the animal nature in man was approaching its most
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Speaker 1: degraded expression. It was a moral question which from the
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Speaker 1: very earliest times divided the Atlantic Race into two hostile camps,
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Speaker 1: and what was begun in their more hall times was
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Speaker 1: terribly accentuated. In the Toltec era, the battle of Armageddon
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Speaker 1: is fought over and over again in every age of
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Speaker 1: the world's history. No longer submitting to the wise rule
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Speaker 1: of the initiate emperors, the followers of the Black Arts
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Speaker 1: rose in rebellion and set up a rival emperor, who,
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Speaker 1: after much struggle and fighting, drove the White Emperor from
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Speaker 1: his capital, the city of the Golden Gates, and established
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Speaker 1: himself on his throne. The White Emperor, driven northward, re
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Speaker 1: established himself in a city originally founded by the Tlavatli
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Speaker 1: on the southern edge of the Mountainous District, but which
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Speaker 1: was now the seat of one of the tributary Tltic kings.
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Speaker 1: This king gladly welcomed the White Emperor and placed the
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Speaker 1: seay at his disposal. A few more of the tributary
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Speaker 1: kings also remained loyal to him, but most transferred their
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Speaker 1: allegiance to the new emperor reigning at the old capital. This, however,
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Speaker 1: did not long remain faithful. Constant assertions of independence were
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Speaker 1: made by the tributary kings, and continual battles were fought
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Speaker 1: in different parts of the empire, the practice of sorcery
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Speaker 1: being largely resorted to to supplement the powers of destruction
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Speaker 1: possessed by the armies. These events took place about fifty
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Speaker 1: thousand years before the First Great Catastrophe. From this time onwards,
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Speaker 1: things went from bad to words. The sorcerers used their
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Speaker 1: powers more and more recklessly, and greater and greater numbers
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Speaker 1: of people acquired and practiced these terrible black arts. Then
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Speaker 1: came the awful retribution, when millions upon millions perished. The
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Speaker 1: great city of the Golden Gates had by this time
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Speaker 1: become a perfect ten of iniquity. The waves stepped over
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Speaker 1: it and destroyed its inhabitants, and the Black Emperor and
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Speaker 1: his dynasty fell to rise no more. The Emperor of
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Speaker 1: the North, as well as the initiated priests throughout the
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Speaker 1: whole continent, had long been fully aware of the evil
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Speaker 1: days at hand, and subsequent pages would tell of the
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Speaker 1: many priest led emigrations which preceded this catastrophe, as well
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Speaker 1: as of later date the continent who was now terribly rent.
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Speaker 1: But the actual amount of territory submerged by no means
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Speaker 1: represented the damage done. For tidal waves swept over great
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Speaker 1: tracts of land and left them desolate swamps. All provinces
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Speaker 1: were rendered barren and remained for generations in an all
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Speaker 1: cultivated and desert condition. The remaining population too had received
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Speaker 1: a terrible warning. It was taken to heart, and sorcery
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Speaker 1: was for a time less prevalent among them. A long
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Speaker 1: period elapsed before any new powerful rule was established. We
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Speaker 1: shall eventually find a sea might dynasty of sorcerers enthroned
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Speaker 1: in the city of the Golden Gates, but not Altic
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Speaker 1: power rose to eminence during the Second Mob period. There
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Speaker 1: were considerable Tautic populations still, but little of the pure
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Speaker 1: blood remained on the Mother continent. On the island of Rutah. However,
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Speaker 1: in the Third Mob period, a Tltic dynasty again rose
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Speaker 1: to power and ruled, through its tributary kings alive portion
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Speaker 1: of the island. This dynasty was addicted to the black craft,
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Speaker 1: which it must be understood, became more and more prevalent
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Speaker 1: during all the four periods, until it culminated in the
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Speaker 1: inevitable catastrophe, which to a great extent purified the earth
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Speaker 1: of the monstrous evil. It must also be borne in
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Speaker 1: mind that done to the very end when Poseidonis disappeared,
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Speaker 1: an initiate emperor or king, or at least one acknowledging
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Speaker 1: the good law held sway in some part of the
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Speaker 1: island continent, acting under the guidance of the occult hierarchy,
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Speaker 1: in controlling, where possible the evil sorcerers, and in guiding
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Speaker 1: and instructing the small minority who were still willing to
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Speaker 1: lead pure and wholesome lives. In later days. This white
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Speaker 1: king was as a rule elected by the priests, the handful,
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Speaker 1: that is, who still followed the good law. Little more
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Speaker 1: remains to be said about the Teltics and Poseidonis. The
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Speaker 1: population of the whole island was more or less mixed.
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Speaker 1: Two kingdoms and one small public in the west divided
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Speaker 1: the island between them. The northern portion was ruled by
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Speaker 1: an initiate king. In the south, too, the hereditary principle
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Speaker 1: had given way to election by the people. Exclusive raised
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Speaker 1: dynasties were at an end, but kings of Toltec Blaod
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Speaker 1: occasionally rose to power, both in the north and south,
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Speaker 1: the northern kingdom being constantly encroached upon by its southern rival,
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Speaker 1: and more and more of its territory annexed. Having dealt
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Speaker 1: at some length with the state of things under the Tautics,
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Speaker 1: the leading political characteristics of the four following sub races
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Speaker 1: need not long detain us, for none of them reached
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Speaker 1: the heights of civilization that the Tautics did. In fact,
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Speaker 1: that the generation of the race had set in it
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Speaker 1: seems to have been some sort of feudal system that
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Speaker 1: the natural bent of the Turanian race tended to develop.
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Speaker 1: Each chief was supreme on his own territory, and the
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Speaker 1: king was only primus inter paris. The chiefs who formed
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Speaker 1: his council occasionally murdered their king and set up one
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Speaker 1: of their own number in his place. They were a
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Speaker 1: turbulent and lawless race, brutal and cruel. Also, the fact
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Speaker 1: that at some periods of their history regiments of women
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Speaker 1: took part in their wars is significant of the last
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Speaker 1: named characteristics. But the strange experiment they made in social life, which,
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Speaker 1: but for its political origin, would more naturally have been
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Speaker 1: dealt with under manners and customs, is the most interesting
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Speaker 1: fact in their record. Being continually worsted in war with
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Speaker 1: her Toltic neighbors, knowing themselves to be greatly outnumbered, and
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Speaker 1: desiring above all things increase of population, laws were passed
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Speaker 1: by which every man was relieved from the direct burden
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Speaker 1: of maintaining his family. The states took charge of and
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Speaker 1: provided for the children, and they were looked upon as
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Speaker 1: its property. This naturally tended to increase the birth rate
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Speaker 1: amongst the Turanians, and the ceremony of marriage came to
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Speaker 1: be disregarded. The ties of family life and the feeling
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Speaker 1: of poor and her love were of course destroyed, and
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Speaker 1: the scheme, having been found to be a failure, was
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Speaker 1: ultimately given up. Other attempts at finding socialistic solutions of
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Speaker 1: economical problems, which still Vexes today, were tried and abandoned
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Speaker 1: by this race. The original Sea Mides, who were a
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Speaker 1: quarrelsome eroding and energetic race, always led towards a patriarchal
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Speaker 1: form of government, where colonists she generally took to the
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Speaker 1: nomadic life almost exclusively adopted this form. But as we
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Speaker 1: have seen, they developed a considerable empire in the days
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Speaker 1: of the Second Moth period and possessed the great city
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Speaker 1: of the Golden Gates. They ultimately, however, had to give
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Speaker 1: way before the growing power of the Accadians. It was
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Speaker 1: in this Third Map period, about one hundred thousand years ago,
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Speaker 1: that the Accadians finally overthrew the Sea Mide power. The
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Speaker 1: sixth sub Rays were a much more low abiding people
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Speaker 1: than their predecessors traders and sailors. They lived in settled
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Speaker 1: communities and naturally produced us and oligarchical form of government.
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Speaker 1: A peculiarity of these, of which Sparta is the only
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Speaker 1: modern example, was the dual system of two kings reigning
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Speaker 1: in one city. As a result, probably of their sea
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Speaker 1: going taste, the study of the stars became a characteristic pursuit,
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Speaker 1: and these Rays made great advances both in astronomy and astrology.
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Speaker 1: The Mongolian people were in improvement on their immediate ancestors
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Speaker 1: of the brutal Tranean stock. Born as they were on
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Speaker 1: the wide steps of eastern Siberia, they never had any
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Speaker 1: touch with the mother continent, and owing doubtless to their environment,
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Speaker 1: they became a nomadic people, more psyching, and more religious
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Speaker 1: in the Tyrannian from whom they sprung. The form of
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Speaker 1: government towards which they gravitated required a shoe's reign in
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Speaker 1: the background, who should be supreme both as a territorial
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Speaker 1: ruler and as a chief high priest. And of Section
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