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The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria · The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

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Speaker 1: For readers unacquainted with the progress that has been made
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Speaker 1: in recent years by earnest students of occultism attached to
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Speaker 1: the Theosophical Society, the significance of the statement embodied in
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Speaker 1: the following pages would be misapprehended without some preliminary explanation.
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Speaker 1: Historical research has depended for Western civilization hitherto on written
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Speaker 1: records of one kind or another. When literary memoranda have fallen,
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Speaker 1: short stone monuments have sometimes been available, and fossil remains
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Speaker 1: have given us a few unequivocal, though inarticulate assurances concerning
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Speaker 1: the antiquity of the human race. But modern culture has
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Speaker 1: lost sight of, or has overlooked, possibilities connected with the
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Speaker 1: investigation of past events which are independent of follible evidence
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Speaker 1: transmitted to us by ancient writers. The world at large
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Speaker 1: is thus, at present so imperfectly alive to the resources
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Speaker 1: of human faculty that by most people as yet the
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Speaker 1: very existence, even as a potentiality, of psychic powers, which
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Speaker 1: some of us or the while are consciously exercising every day,
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Speaker 1: is scornfully denied and derided. The situation is subtly ludicrous
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Speaker 1: from the point of view of those who appreciate the
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Speaker 1: prospects of evolution, because mankind is thus wilfully holding at
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Speaker 1: arm's length the knowledge that is essential to its own
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Speaker 1: ulterior progress. The maximum cultivation of which the human intellect
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Speaker 1: is susceptible while it denies itself or the resources of
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Speaker 1: its higher spiritual consciousness, can never be more than a
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Speaker 1: preparatory process, as compared with that which may set in
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Speaker 1: when the faculties are sufficiently enlarged to enter into conscious
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Speaker 1: relationship with the superphysical plains or aspects of nature. For
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Speaker 1: anyone who will have the patience to study the published
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Speaker 1: results of psychic investigation during the last fifty years, the
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Speaker 1: reality of clairvoyance as an occasional phenomenon of human intelligence
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Speaker 1: must establish itself on an immovable foundation for those who,
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Speaker 1: without being occultists students, that is to say, of nature's
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Speaker 1: loftier aspects, in a position to obtain better teaching than
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Speaker 1: that which any written books can give. For those who
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Speaker 1: merely avail themselves of recorded evidence, a declaration on the
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Speaker 1: part of others of a disbelief in the possibility of
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Speaker 1: clairvoyance is on a level with the proverbial Africans disbelief
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Speaker 1: in ice, but The experiences of clairvoyance that have accumulated
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Speaker 1: on the hands of those who have studied it in
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Speaker 1: connection with mesmerism do no more than prove the existence
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Speaker 1: in human nature of a capacity for recognizing physical phenomena distant,
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Speaker 1: either in space or time, in some way which has
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with the physical senses. Those who have
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Speaker 1: studied the mysteries of clairvoyance in connection with theosophic teaching
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Speaker 1: have been enabled to realize that the ultimate resources of
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Speaker 1: that faculty range as far beyond its humbler manifestations dealt
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Speaker 1: with by unassisted inquirers, as a resources of the higher
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Speaker 1: mathematics exceed those of the abacus. Clairvoyance, indeed, is of
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Speaker 1: many kinds, all of which fall easily into their places
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Speaker 1: when we appreciate the manner in which human consciousness functions
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Speaker 1: on different planes of nature. The faculty of reading the
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Speaker 1: pages of a closed book, or of discerning objects blindfold
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Speaker 1: or at a distance from the observer is quite a
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Speaker 1: different faculty from that employed on the cognition of past events.
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Speaker 1: That last is the kind of which it is necessary
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Speaker 1: to say something here in order that the true character
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Speaker 1: of the present treatise on Atlantis may be understood. But
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Speaker 1: I allude to the others merely that the explanation I
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Speaker 1: have to give may not be mistaken for a complete
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Speaker 1: theory of clairvoyance in all its varieties. We may best
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Speaker 1: be helped to a comprehension of clairvoyance as related to
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Speaker 1: past events by considering, in the first instance, the phenomenon
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Speaker 1: of memory. The theory of memory, which relates it to
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Speaker 1: an imaginary rearrangement of physical molecules of brain matter going
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Speaker 1: on at every instant of our lives, is one that
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Speaker 1: presents itself as plausible to no one who can assent
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Speaker 1: one degree above the thinking level of the uncompromising atheistical materialist.
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Speaker 1: To every one who accepts as even a reasonable hypothesis
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Speaker 1: the idea that a man is something more than a
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Speaker 1: carcass in a state of animation, it must be a
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Speaker 1: reasonable hypothesis that memory has to do with that principle
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Speaker 1: in man, which is superphysical. His memory, in short, is
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Speaker 1: a function of some other than the physical plane. The
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Speaker 1: pictures of memory are imprinted, it is clear on some
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Speaker 1: non physical medium, and are accessible to the embodied thinker
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Speaker 1: in ordinary cases by virtue of some effort he makes
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Speaker 1: in as much unconsciousness as to its precise character. As
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Speaker 1: he is unconscious of the brain impulse which actuates the
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Speaker 1: muscles of his heart, the events with which he has
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Speaker 1: had to do in the past are photographed by nature
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Speaker 1: on some imperishable page of superphysical matter, and by making
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Speaker 1: an appropriate interior effort, he is capable of bringing them
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Speaker 1: again when he requires them, within the area of some
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Speaker 1: interior sense which reflects its perception on the physical brain.
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Speaker 1: We are not all of us able to make this
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Speaker 1: effort equally well, so that memory sometimes diem, But even
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Speaker 1: in the experience of mesmeric research, the occasional superrexcitation of
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Speaker 1: memory under mesmerism is a familiar fact. The circumstances plainly
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Speaker 1: show that the record of nature is accessible if we
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Speaker 1: know how to recover it, or even if our own
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Speaker 1: capacity to make an effort for its recovery is somehow
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Speaker 1: improved without our having an improved knowledge of the method employed.
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Speaker 1: And from this thought we may arrive by an easy
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Speaker 1: transition at the idea that, in truth, the records of
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Speaker 1: nature are not separate collections of individual property, but constitute
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Speaker 1: the old, embracing memory of Nature herself, on which different
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Speaker 1: people are in a position to make drafts according to
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Speaker 1: their several capacities. I do not say that the one
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Speaker 1: thought necessarily ensues as a logical consequence of the other.
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Speaker 1: Occultists know that what I have stated is the fact.
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Speaker 1: But my present purpose is to show the reader, who
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Speaker 1: is not an occultist, how the accomplished occultist arrives at
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Speaker 1: his results without hoping to epitomize all the stages of
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Speaker 1: his mental progress. In this brief explanation, theosophical literature at
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Speaker 1: large must be consulted by those who would seek a
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Speaker 1: fuller elucidation of the magnificent prospects and practical demonstrations of
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Speaker 1: its teaching in many directions which in the course of
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Speaker 1: the theosophical development have been laid before the world for
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Speaker 1: the benefit of all who are competent to profit by them.
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Speaker 1: The memory of nature is in reality a stupendous unity,
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Speaker 1: just as in another way, all mankind is found to
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Speaker 1: concert situde, a spiritual unity, if we are sent to
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Speaker 1: a sufficiently elevated plane of nature in search of the
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Speaker 1: wonderful convergence where unity is reached without the loss of individuality.
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Speaker 1: For ordinary humanity, however, at the early stage of its evolution,
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Speaker 1: represented at present by the majority the interior spiritual capacities
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Speaker 1: ranging beyond those which the brain is an instrument for expressing,
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Speaker 1: are as yet too imperfectly developed to enable them to
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Speaker 1: get touch with any other records in the vast archives
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Speaker 1: of nature's memory, except those with which they have individually
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Speaker 1: been in contact at their creation. The blind fault interior
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Speaker 1: effort they are competent to make will not as a
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Speaker 1: rule call up any others. But in a flickering fashion.
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Speaker 1: We have experience in ordinary life of efforts that are
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Speaker 1: a little more effectual. Thought transference is a humble example.
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Speaker 1: In that case, impressions on the mind of one person
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Speaker 1: nature's memory pictures with which he is in normal relationship
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Speaker 1: are caught up by some one else who is just able,
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Speaker 1: however unconscious of the method he uses to arrange nature's
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Speaker 1: memory under favorable conditions a little beyond the area with
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Speaker 1: which he himself is in normal relationship. Such a person
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Speaker 1: has begun, however, slightly, to exercise the faculty of wasteful clairvoyance.
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Speaker 1: That term may be conveniently used to denote the kind
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Speaker 1: of clairvoyance I am now endeavoring to elucidate the kind
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Speaker 1: which in some of its more magnificent developments has been
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Speaker 1: employed to carry out the investigations on the basis of
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Speaker 1: which the present account of Atlantis has been compiled. There
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Speaker 1: is no limit really to the resources of wasteful clairvoyance
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Speaker 1: in investigations concerning the past history of the Earth, whether
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Speaker 1: we are concerned with the events that have befallen the
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Speaker 1: human race in prehistoric epochs, or with the growth of
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Speaker 1: the planet itself through geological periods which untedated the advent
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Speaker 1: of man, or with more recent events, current narrations of
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Speaker 1: which have been distorted by curds or perverse historians. The
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Speaker 1: memory of nature is infallibly accurate and inexhaustibly minute. A
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Speaker 1: time will come as certainly as the precision of the equinoxes,
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Speaker 1: when the literary method of historical research will be laid
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Speaker 1: aside as out of date. In the case of all
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Speaker 1: original work. People among us who are capable of exercising
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Speaker 1: astral clairvoyance in full perfection, but have not yet been
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Speaker 1: called away to higher functions in connection with the promotion
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Speaker 1: of human progress, of which ordinary humanity at present knows
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Speaker 1: even less than an Indian riyat knows of cabinet councils
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Speaker 1: are still very few. Those who know what the few
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Speaker 1: can do, and through what processes of training and self
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Speaker 1: discipline they have passed in pursuit of interior ideals, of which,
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Speaker 1: when attained astral clairvoyance is but an individual circumstance, are many,
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Speaker 1: but still a small minority as compared with the modern
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Speaker 1: cultivated world. But as time goes on, and within a
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Speaker 1: measurable future, some of us have reason to feel sure
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Speaker 1: that the numbers of those who are competent to exercise
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Speaker 1: aseelcrevoyance will increase sufficiently to extend the circle of those
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Speaker 1: who are aware of their capacities till it comes to
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Speaker 1: embrace all the intelligence and culture of civilized mankind only
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Speaker 1: a few generations. Hence, meanwhile, the present volume is the
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Speaker 1: first that has been put forward as the pioneer essay
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Speaker 1: of the new method of historical research. It is amusing
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Speaker 1: to all who are concerned with it to think how
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Speaker 1: inevitably it will be mistaken for some little while as
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Speaker 1: yet by materialistic readers unable to accept the frank explanation
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Speaker 1: here given of the principle on which it has been
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Speaker 1: prepared for a work of imagination, for the benefit of
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Speaker 1: others who may be more intuitive, it may be well
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Speaker 1: to say a word or two that may guard them
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Speaker 1: from supposing that because historical research by means of asal
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Speaker 1: clairvoyance is not impeded by having to deal with periods
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Speaker 1: removed from our own by hundreds of thousands of years,
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Speaker 1: it is on that account a process which involves no trouble.
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Speaker 1: Every fact stated in the present volume has been picked up,
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Speaker 1: bit by bit, with watchful and attentive care, in the
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Speaker 1: course of an investigation on which more than one qualified
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Speaker 1: person has been engaged in the intervals of other activity
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Speaker 1: for some years past, and to promote the success of
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Speaker 1: their work, there have been allowed access to some maps
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Speaker 1: and other records physically preserved from the remote periods concerned,
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Speaker 1: though in safer keeping than in that of the turbulent
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Speaker 1: races occupied in Europe with the development of civilization in
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Speaker 1: brief intervals of leisure from warfare, and hard pressed by
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Speaker 1: the fanaticism that so long treated science as sacrilegious during
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Speaker 1: the Middle Ages of Europe. Laborious as the task has been, however,
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Speaker 1: it will be recognized as simply repaying the trouble taken
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Speaker 1: by every one who is able to perceive, how absolutely
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Speaker 1: necessary to a proper comprehension of the world as we
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Speaker 1: find it is a proper comprehension of its preceding Atlantian phase.
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Speaker 1: Without this knowledge, all speculations concerning ethnology are futile and misleading.
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Speaker 1: The course of race development is chaos and confusion. Without
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Speaker 1: the key furnished by the character of Atlantian civilization and
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Speaker 1: the configuration of the Earth at Atlantian periods, geologists know
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Speaker 1: that land and ocean surfaces must have repeatedly changed places
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Speaker 1: during the period at which they also know from the
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Speaker 1: situation of human remains in the various strata, that the
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Speaker 1: lands were inhabited, And yet for one evacurate knowledge as
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Speaker 1: to the dates at which the changes took place, they
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Speaker 1: discard the whole theory from their practical thinking, and, except
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Speaker 1: for certain hypotheses started by naturalists dealing with the southern hemisphere,
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Speaker 1: have generally endeavored to harmonize race migrations with the configuration
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Speaker 1: of the earth in existence at the present time. In
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Speaker 1: this way, nonsense is made of the whole retrospect, and
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Speaker 1: the ethnological scheme remains so vague and shadowy that it
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Speaker 1: fails to displace crude conceptions of mankind's beginning, which still
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Speaker 1: dominate religious thinking, and keep back the spiritual progress of
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Speaker 1: the age, the decadence and ultimate disappearance of Atlantic civilization.
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Speaker 1: He is in turn as instructive as its rise and glory.
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Speaker 1: But I have now accomplished the main purpose with which
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Speaker 1: I sought. Leave to introduce the work now before the
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Speaker 1: world with a brief preparatory explanation, And if its contents
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Speaker 1: fail to convey a sense of its importance to any listeners,
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Speaker 1: I am now addressing that result could hardly be accomplished
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Speaker 1: by further recommendations of mine. A p synnot end of
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Speaker 1: preface The Story of Atlantis, Part one, a geographical, historical,
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Speaker 1: and ethnological sketch. The general scope of the subject before
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Speaker 1: us will best be realized by considering the amount of
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Speaker 1: information that is obtainable about the various nations who compose
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Speaker 1: our great fifth or Aryan race. From the time of
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Speaker 1: the Greeks and the Romans onwards, volumes have been written
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Speaker 1: about every people who, in their turn have filled the
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Speaker 1: stage of history, the political institutions, the religious beliefs, the
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Speaker 1: social and domestic manners and customs, have all been analyzed
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Speaker 1: and cataloged, and countless works in many tongues record for
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Speaker 1: our benefit the march of progress. Further, it must be
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Speaker 1: remembered that of the history of this fifth race we
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Speaker 1: possess but a fragment, the record merely of the lost
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Speaker 1: family races of the Celtic sub race and the first
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Speaker 1: family races of our own Teutonic stock. But the hundreds
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Speaker 1: of thousands of years which elapsed from the time when
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Speaker 1: the earliest Arians left their home on the shores of
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Speaker 1: the Central Asian and Sea, to the time of the
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Speaker 1: Greeks and Romans, bore witness to the rise and fall
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Speaker 1: of innumerable civilizations. Of the first subrays of our Aryan race,
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Speaker 1: who inhabited India and colonized Egypt in prehistoric times, we
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Speaker 1: know practically nothing. And the same may be said of
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Speaker 1: the Kaldian, Babylonian and Assyrian nations, who compose the second
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Speaker 1: sub race. For the fragments of knowledge obtained from the
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Speaker 1: recently deciphered high aeroglyphs or cuneiform inscriptions on Egyptian tombs
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Speaker 1: or Babylonian tablets can scarcely be said to constitute history.
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Speaker 1: The Persians, who belonged to the third or Iranian sub race, have,
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Speaker 1: it is true, left a few more traces. But of
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Speaker 1: the earlier civilizations of the Celtic or fourth sub race,
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Speaker 1: we have no records at all. It is only with
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Speaker 1: the rise of the last family shoots of this Celtic stock,
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Speaker 1: namely the Greek and Roman peoples, that we come upon
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Speaker 1: historic times. In addition also to the blank period in
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Speaker 1: the past, there is the blank period in the future.
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Speaker 1: Four of the seventh sub races required to complete the
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Speaker 1: history of the Great Root race. Five only have so
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Speaker 1: far come into existence. Our own Teutonic or fifth sub
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Speaker 1: race has already developed many nations, but has not yet
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Speaker 1: run its course, while the sixth and seventh sub races,
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Speaker 1: who will be developed on the continents of North and
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Speaker 1: South America, will have thousands of years of history to
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Speaker 1: give to the world. In attempting, therefore, to summarize in
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Speaker 1: a few pages information about the world's progress during a
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Speaker 1: period which must have occupied at least as great a
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Speaker 1: stretch of years as the above referred to, it should
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Speaker 1: be realized how slight a sketch this must inevitably be
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Speaker 1: a record of the world's progress during the period of
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Speaker 1: the fourth or unplanted Race, must embrace the history of
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Speaker 1: many nations and register the rise and fall of many civilizations. Catastrophes, too,
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Speaker 1: on a scale, such as have not yet been experienced
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Speaker 1: during the life of our present fifth Race, took place
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Speaker 1: on more than one occasion. During the progress of the Fourth.
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Speaker 1: The destruction of Atlantis was accomplished by a series of catastrophes,
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Speaker 1: varying in character from great cataclysms in which whole territories
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Speaker 1: and populations perished, to comparatively unimportant landslips, such as occur
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Speaker 1: on our own costs to day. When the destruction was
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Speaker 1: once inaugurated by the first great catastrophe, there was no
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Speaker 1: intermission in the minor landslips, which continued slowly but steadily
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Speaker 1: to it away the continent. Four of the great catastrophes
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Speaker 1: stand out above the rest in magnitude. The first took
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Speaker 1: place in the Miocene Age about eight hundred thousand years ago.
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Speaker 1: The second, which was of minor importance, occurred about two
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand years ago. The third, about eighty thousand years ago,
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Speaker 1: was a very great one. It destroyed all that remained
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Speaker 1: of the Atlantan continent, with the exception of the island
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Speaker 1: to which Plato gave the name of Poseidonis, which in
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Speaker 1: its turn was submerged in the fourth and final grade
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Speaker 1: catastrophe of ninety five sixty four b C. Now, the
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Speaker 1: testimony of the oldest writers and of modern scientific research
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Speaker 1: alike bear witness to the existence of an ancient continent
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Speaker 1: occupying the site of the Loss Atlantis. Before proceeding to
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Speaker 1: the consideration of the subject itself, it is proposed cursorily
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Speaker 1: to glance at the generally known sources which supply corroborative evidence.
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Speaker 1: These may be grouped into the five following classes. First,
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Speaker 1: the testimony of the deep sea surroundings. Second, the distribution
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Speaker 1: of fauna and flora. Third, the similarity of language and
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Speaker 1: of ethnological type. Fourth, the similarity of religious belief, ritual
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Speaker 1: and architecture. Fifth the testimony of ancient writers, of early
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Speaker 1: raised traditions, and of archaic flood legends. In the first place,
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Speaker 1: then the testimony of the deep sea soundings may be
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Speaker 1: summarised in a few words. Thanks chiefly to the expeditions
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Speaker 1: of the British and American gun boat Challenger and Dolphin,
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Speaker 1: though Germany also was associated in the scientific exploration the
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Speaker 1: bed of the whole Atlantic Ocean is now mapped out,
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Speaker 1: wi the result that an immense bank or a ridge
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Speaker 1: of great elevation is shown to exist in mid Atlantic.
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Speaker 1: This rich stretches in the southwesterly direction from about fifty
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Speaker 1: degrees north towards the coast of South America, then in
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Speaker 1: a southeasterly direction towards the coast of Africa, changing its
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Speaker 1: direction again about Ascension Island and running due south to
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Speaker 1: Tristan Dancuna. The ridge rises almost sheer about nine thousand
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Speaker 1: feet from the ocean depths around it, while the Azores
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Speaker 1: sent Paul, Ascension and Tristan Dancuna are the peaks of
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Speaker 1: this land which still remain above water. A line of
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Speaker 1: three thousand, five hundred fathoms or sat twenty one thousand
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Speaker 1: feet is required to sound the deepest parts of the Atlantic,
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Speaker 1: but the higher parts of the ridge are only one
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Speaker 1: hundred to a few hundred fathoms beneath the sea. The soundings,
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Speaker 1: too showed that the ridges covered with volcanic debris, of
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Speaker 1: which traces are to be found right across the ocean
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Speaker 1: to the American coasts. Indeed, the fact that the ocean
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Speaker 1: bed particularly about the Azores has been the sin of
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Speaker 1: volcanic disturbance on a gigantic scale, and that with an
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Speaker 1: a quiet, measurable period of geologic time is conclusively proved
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Speaker 1: by the investigations made during the above named expeditions. Mister
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Speaker 1: Starkey Gardener is of opinion that in the years scene times,
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Speaker 1: the British Islands formed part of a larger island or
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Speaker 1: continent stretching into the Atlantic, and that a great tract
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Speaker 1: of land formerly existed where the sea now is in
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Speaker 1: that cornwall. The Sey and Channel Islands, Ireland and Brittany
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Speaker 1: are the remains of its highest summits. Popular Science Review,
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Speaker 1: July eighteen seventy eight. Second, the proved existence and continents
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Speaker 1: separated by grade oceans of similar or identical species of
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Speaker 1: fauna and flora is the stunding puzzle to biologists and
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Speaker 1: botanists alike. But if a link between these continents once existed,
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Speaker 1: allowing for the natural migration of such animals and plants,
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Speaker 1: the puzzle is solved now. The fossil remains of the
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Speaker 1: camel are found in India, Africa, South America, and Kansas,
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Speaker 1: but it is one of the generally accepted hypotheses of
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Speaker 1: naturalists that every species of animal and plant originated in
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Speaker 1: but one part of the globe, from which center it
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Speaker 1: gradually overran the other portions. How then, can the facts
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Speaker 1: of such fossil remains be accounted for without the existence
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Speaker 1: of land communication in some remote age. Recent discover varies
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Speaker 1: in the fossil beds of Nebraska seem also to prove
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Speaker 1: that the horse originated in the Western Hemisphere, for that
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Speaker 1: is the only part of the world where fossil remains
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Speaker 1: have been discovered, showing the various intermediate forms which have
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Speaker 1: been identified as the precursors of the true horse. It
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Speaker 1: would therefore be difficult to account for the presence of
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Speaker 1: the horse in Europe except on the hypothesis of continuous
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Speaker 1: land communication between the two continents. Seeing that it is
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Speaker 1: certain that the horse existed in a wild state in
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Speaker 1: Europe and Asia before his domestication by man, which may
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Speaker 1: be traced back almost to the Stone Age, cattle and
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Speaker 1: sheep as we now know them have an equally remote ancestry.
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Speaker 1: Darwin finds domesticated cattle in Europe in the earliest part
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Speaker 1: of the Stone Age, having long before developed out of
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Speaker 1: wild forms akin to the buffalo of America. Remains of
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Speaker 1: the cave lion of Europe are also found in North America.
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Speaker 1: Turning now from the animal to the vegetable kingdom, it
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Speaker 1: it appears that the greater part of the floora of
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Speaker 1: the Miocene Age in Europe, found chiefly in the fossil
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Speaker 1: beds of Switzerland, existed the present day in America, some
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Speaker 1: of them in Africa. But the noteworthy fact about America
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Speaker 1: is that while the greater proportion are to be found
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Speaker 1: in the Eastern States, very many are wanting on the
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Speaker 1: Pacific coast. This seems to show that it was from
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Speaker 1: the Atlantic side that they entered the continent. Professor Asa
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Speaker 1: Gray says that out of sixty six genera and one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five species found in the forest east
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Speaker 1: of the Rocky Mountains, only thirty one genera and seventy
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Speaker 1: eight species are found west of these heights. But the
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Speaker 1: greatest problem of ol is the plantain or banana. Professor Kunse,
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Speaker 1: an eminent German botanist, asks in what way was this plant,
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Speaker 1: a native of tropical Asia and Africa, which cannot stand
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Speaker 1: a voyage through the temperate zone marriage to America. As
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Speaker 1: he points out the plant is seedless. It cannot be
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Speaker 1: propagated by cuttings. Neither has it a tuber which could
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Speaker 1: be easily transported. Its root is treelike to transport it,
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Speaker 1: special care would be required, nor could it stand along transit.
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Speaker 1: The only way in which he can account for its
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Speaker 1: appearance in America is to suppose that it must have
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Speaker 1: been transported by civilized man at a time when the
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Speaker 1: polar regions had a tropical climate. He adds, a cultivated
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Speaker 1: plant which does not possess seeds must have been under
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Speaker 1: culture for a very long period. It is perhaps where
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Speaker 1: to infer that these plants were cultivated as early as
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the diluvial period. Why, it may be asked,
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Speaker 1: should not this inference take us back to still earlier times,
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Speaker 1: and where did the civilization necessary for the plant's cultivation exist,
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Speaker 1: or the climate and circumstances requisite for its transportation, unless
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Speaker 1: there were at some time a link between the old
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Speaker 1: world and the new. Professor Wallace in his Delightful Island Life,
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Speaker 1: as well as other writers in many important works, has
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Speaker 1: put forward ingenious hypothesis to account for the identity of
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Speaker 1: flora and fauna on widely separated lands and for the
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Speaker 1: transit across the ocean. But all are unconvincing, and all
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Speaker 1: break down at different points. It is well known that
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Speaker 1: wheat as we know it has never existed in a
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Speaker 1: truly wild state, nor is there any evidence tracing its
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Speaker 1: descent from fossil species. Five varieties of wheat were already
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Speaker 1: cultivated in Europe in the Stone Age, one variety found
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Speaker 1: in the Lake Dwellings, being known as Egyptian wheat, from
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Speaker 1: which Darwin argues that the Lake dwellers either still kept
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Speaker 1: up commercial intercourse with some Southern people, or had originally
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Speaker 1: proceeded as colonists from the south. He concludes that wheat, barley, oats,
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Speaker 1: and so on are the de sended from various species
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Speaker 1: now extinct or so widely different as to escape identification,
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Speaker 1: in which case he says, Man must have cultivated cereals
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Speaker 1: from an enormously remote period. The regions where these extinct
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Speaker 1: species flourished and the civilization under which they were cultivated
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Speaker 1: by intelligent selection, are both supplied by the Lost Continent,
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Speaker 1: whose colonists carried them east and west. Third, from the
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Speaker 1: fauna and flora, we now turn to Man language. The
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Speaker 1: Basque language stands alone amongst European tongues, having affinity with
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Speaker 1: none of them. According to Farrar quote, there never has
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Speaker 1: been any doubt that the is isolated language, preserving its
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Speaker 1: identity in the western corner of Europe between two mighty kingdoms,
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Speaker 1: resembles in its structure the Aboriginal languages of the vast
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Speaker 1: opposite continent America, and those alone unquote families of speech
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Speaker 1: pay to one hundred thirty two. The Phoenicians apparently were
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Speaker 1: the first nation in the Eastern hemisphere to use a
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Speaker 1: phonetic alphabet, the characters being regarded as mere signs for sounds.
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Speaker 1: It is a curious fact that at an equally early
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Speaker 1: date we find a phonetic alphabet in Central America, amongst
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Speaker 1: the Mayans of Yucatan, whose traditions ascribe the origin of
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Speaker 1: their civilization to a land across the sea to the east.
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Speaker 1: Les Plon John, the great authority on this subject, writes
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Speaker 1: one third of this tongue, the Maya is pure Greek,
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Speaker 1: who brought the dialect of Homer to America, or who
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Speaker 1: took to Greece that of the mayas Greek is the
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Speaker 1: offspring of the Sanskrit is Maya or are they coeval?
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Speaker 1: Still more surprising is it to find thirteen letters out
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Speaker 1: of the Maya alphabet bearing most distinct relation to the
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Speaker 1: Egyptian hieroglyphic signs for the same letters. It is probable
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Speaker 1: that the earliest form of ourphabet was hieroglyphic, the writing
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Speaker 1: of the gods, as the Egyptians called it, and that
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Speaker 1: it developed later in Atlantis into the phonetic. It would
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Speaker 1: be natural to assume that the Egyptians were an early
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Speaker 1: colony from Atlantis, as they actually were, and that they
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Speaker 1: carried away with them the primitive type of writing, which
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Speaker 1: has thus left its traces on both hemispheres, while the Phoenicians,
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Speaker 1: who were a sea going people, obtained and assimilated the
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Speaker 1: later form of alphabet during their trading voyages with the
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Speaker 1: people of the West. One more point may be noticed,
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Speaker 1: namely the extraordinary resemblance between many words in the Hebrew
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Speaker 1: language and words bearing precisely the same meaning in the
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Speaker 1: tongue of the Chiap and nex A branch of the
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Speaker 1: Maya race and amongst the most ancient in Central America.
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Speaker 1: A list of these words is given in North Americans
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Speaker 1: of Antiquity, page four hundred seventy five. The similarity of
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Speaker 1: has been used as an argument by writers on this subject.
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Speaker 1: The existence of similar languages among races separated by leagues
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Speaker 1: of ocean across which in historic time they are known
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Speaker 1: to have had no means of transport, is certainly an
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Speaker 1: argument in favor of their descent from a single race
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Speaker 1: occupying a single continent. But the argument cannot be used here,
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Speaker 1: for the continent in question was not Atlantis, but the
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Speaker 1: still earlier Lemuria. Pethnological types, Atlantis, as we shall see,
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Speaker 1: is said to have been inhabited by red, yellow, white,
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Speaker 1: and black races. It is now proved by the researches
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Speaker 1: of le Plan, Jean, the Ca, Defarge, Bancroft, and others
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Speaker 1: that black populations of Negroid type existed even up to
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Speaker 1: recent times in America. Many of the monuments of Central
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Speaker 1: America decorated with Negro faces, and some of the idols
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Speaker 1: found there are clearly intended to represent Negros with small skulls,
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Speaker 1: wooly hare and thick leaps. The Popol Vu, speaking of
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Speaker 1: the first home of the Guatemalan race, says that black
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Speaker 1: and white men together lived in this happy land in
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Speaker 1: great peace, speaking one language. Sea Bancrofts Native Races, page
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Speaker 1: five hundred forty seven. The popol Vu goes on to
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Speaker 1: relate how the people migrated from their ancestral home, how
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Speaker 1: their language became altered, and how some went to the
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Speaker 1: east while others traveled west to Central America. Professor Regis,
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Speaker 1: in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive Dolihote falat
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Speaker 1: of America are nearly related to the guanches of the
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Speaker 1: Canary Islands and to the population of the Atlantic Sea
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Speaker 1: Board of Africa, which allow them comprises under the name
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Speaker 1: of Egyptian Atlantidae. The same form of skulls found in
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Speaker 1: the Canary Islands off the African coast and the carib
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Speaker 1: Islands of the American coast. While the color of the
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Speaker 1: skin in both is that of a reddish brown. The
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Speaker 1: ancient Egyptians depicted themselves as red men of much the
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Speaker 1: same complexion as exists today among some tribes of American Indians.
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Speaker 1: The ancient Peruvians, says short, appear from numerous examples of
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Speaker 1: hair found in their tombs, to have been an auburn
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Speaker 1: haired race, a remarkable fact about the American Indians, and
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Speaker 1: one which is a stunding puzzle to ethnologists, is the
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Speaker 1: wide range of color and complexion to be found among them.
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Speaker 1: From the white tint of the Menomini, Dakota, Mandan, and
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Speaker 1: Zuni tribes, many of whom have all burn hair and
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Speaker 1: blue eyes, to the almost negro blackness of the Cares
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Speaker 1: of Kansas and the now extinct tribes of California. The
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Speaker 1: Indian races run through every shade of red, brown, copper, olive, cinnamon,
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Speaker 1: and bronze. Sea Shorts, North Americans of antiquity, Windchells, Preadamites,
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Speaker 1: and Katlin's Indians of North America. See also Atlantis by
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Speaker 1: Ignatius Donnelly, who has collected a great mass of evidence.
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Speaker 1: Under this and other heads. We shall see by and
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Speaker 1: by how the diversity of complexion on the American continent
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Speaker 1: is accounted for by the original raistings of the parent
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Speaker 1: continent of Atlantis. Fourth, nothing seems to have surprised the
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Speaker 1: first Spanish adventurers in Mexico and Peru more than the
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Speaker 1: extraordinary similarity to those of the Old World of the
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Speaker 1: religious beliefs, riots, and emblems which they found established in
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Speaker 1: the New the Spanish priests regarded the similarity as the
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Speaker 1: work of the devil. The worship of the cross by
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Speaker 1: the natives, and its constant presence in all religious buildings
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Speaker 1: and ceremonies, was the principal subject of their amazement, and indeed,
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Speaker 1: nor were not. Even in Indian Egypt was this symbol
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Speaker 1: held in more profound veneration than amongst the primitive tribes
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Speaker 1: of the American continents. While the meaning underlying its worship
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Speaker 1: was identical, in the West as in the East, the
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Speaker 1: cross was the symbol of life, sometimes of life physical,
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Speaker 1: more often of life eternal. In like manner, in both hemispheres,
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Speaker 1: the worship of the sun, disk or circle, and of
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Speaker 1: the serpent was universal. And more surprising still is the
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Speaker 1: similarity of the word signifying God in the principal languages
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Speaker 1: of East and West. Compare the Sanskrit Diaos or DAOs Peter,
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Speaker 1: the Greek theos and Zeus, the Latin Daus and Jupiter,
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Speaker 1: the Celtic dea and Ta pronounced tiar, seeming to bear
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Speaker 1: affinity to the Egyptian Tao, the Jewish ja or yah,
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Speaker 1: and lastly the Mexican Teo or zeo baptismal riots were
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Speaker 1: practiced by all nations. In Babylon and Egypt, the candidates
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Speaker 1: for initiation in the mysteries were first baptized. Tertullian, in
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Speaker 1: his Debaptismo, says that they were promised in consequence regeneration
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Speaker 1: and the pardon of all their perjuries. The Scandinavian nations
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Speaker 1: practice baptism of newborn children, and when we turned to
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Speaker 1: Mexico and Peru, we find infant baptism there as a
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Speaker 1: solemn ceremonial consisting of water spriggling, the sign of the Cross,
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Speaker 1: and prayers for the washing away of scene sea. Humboldts
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Speaker 1: Mexican researchers and prescots Mexico. In addition to baptism, the
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Speaker 1: tribes of Mexico, Central America and Peru resemble the nations
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Speaker 1: of the Old World in their rites of confession, absolution, fasting,
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Speaker 1: and marriage before priests by joining hands. They had even
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Speaker 1: a ceremony resembling the Euharist, in which cakes marked with
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Speaker 1: the tao, an Egyptian form of cross were eaten, the
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Speaker 1: people calling them the flesh of their God. These exactly
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Speaker 1: resembled the sacred cakes of Egypt and other Eastern nations.
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Speaker 1: Like these nations too, the people of the New World
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Speaker 1: had monastic words orders male and female, in which broken
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Speaker 1: vows were punished with death. Like the Egyptians, they involved
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Speaker 1: their dead. They worshiped Sun, moon, and planets. But over
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Speaker 1: and above these adored a deity omnipresent, who knoweth all
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Speaker 1: things invisible, incorporeal, one God of perfect perfection see Sagoons
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Speaker 1: Historia de Nueva Espana, book six. They too had their
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Speaker 1: virgin mother goddess Our Lady, whose son, the Lord of Light,
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Speaker 1: was called the Savior, bearing an accurate correspondence to Isis Beltis,
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Speaker 1: and the many other virgin goddesses of the East with
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Speaker 1: their divine sons. Their rites of sun and fire worship
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Speaker 1: closely resembled those of the early cults of Britain and Ireland,
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Speaker 1: and like the latter, they claimed to be the children
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Speaker 1: of the Sun. An ark or Arga was one of
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Speaker 1: the universal sacred symbols which we find alike in India, Chaldaea, Assyria, Is, Egypt, Greece,
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Speaker 1: and amongst the Celtic peoples. Lord Kingsborough, in his Mexican Antiquities,
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Speaker 1: Volume eight, page two hundred fifty, says as among the Jews,
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Speaker 1: the ark was a sort of portable temple in which
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Speaker 1: the deity was supposed to be continually present. So among
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Speaker 1: the Mexicans, the Cherokees, and the Indians of Micheovacan and Honduras,
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Speaker 1: an ark was held in the highest veneration and was
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Speaker 1: considered an object too sacred to be touched by any
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Speaker 1: but the priests. As to religious architecture, we find on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the Atlantic that one of the earliest
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Speaker 1: secret buildings is the pyramid. Doubtful as are the uses
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Speaker 1: for which these structures were originally intended, one thing is
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Speaker 1: clear that they were closely connected with some religious idea
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Speaker 1: or group of ideas. The identity of design in the
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Speaker 1: pyramids of Egypt in those of Mexico and Central America
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Speaker 1: is too striking to be America incidence. True, some the
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Speaker 1: greater number of the American pyramids are of the truncated
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Speaker 1: or flat form, Yet according to Bancroft and others, many
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Speaker 1: of those found in Yucatan, and notably those near Plenke,
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Speaker 1: are pointed at the top in true Egyptian fashion, while
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Speaker 1: on the other hand we have some of the Egyptian
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Speaker 1: pyramids of the stepped and flatten s type Cholula has
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Speaker 1: been compared to the groups of Dahor Sakara and the
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Speaker 1: steppe pyramid of Medhorn, alike in orientation, in structure, and
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Speaker 1: even in their internal galleries and chambers. These mysterious monuments
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Speaker 1: of the East and of the West stunt as witnesses
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Speaker 1: to some common source, whence their builders due their plan.
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Speaker 1: The vast remains of cities and temples in Mexico and
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Speaker 1: Yucatan also strangely resemble those of Egypt, the ruins of
37:43
Speaker 1: Turti Huacan having frequently been compared to those of Karnak.
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Speaker 1: The falls arch horizontal courses of stone, each slightly overlapping
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Speaker 1: the other, is found to be identical in Central America,
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Speaker 1: in the oldest buildings of Greece, and in Etruscan remains.
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Speaker 1: The mount builders of both Eastern and Western continents formed
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Speaker 1: similar tumuli of their dead and laid the bodies in
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Speaker 1: similar stone coffins. Both continents have their great serpent mounds,
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Speaker 1: compared that of Adam's Company Ohio with a fine serpent
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Speaker 1: mound discovered in Algiershire or the less perfect specimen at
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Speaker 1: Avebury in Wills. The very carving and decoration of the
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Speaker 1: temples of America, Egypt, and India have much in common.
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Speaker 1: While some of the mural decorations are absolutely identical and
38:32
Speaker 1: of Section one, Part two fifth, it only remains now
38:38
Speaker 1: to summarize some of the evidence abdainable from ancient writers,
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Speaker 1: from early Race traditions, and from archaic flood legends. Alien,
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Speaker 1: in his Varia Historia, Book three, Chapter eighteen, states that
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Speaker 1: Theopompus four hundred BC recorded an interview between the king
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Speaker 1: of Phrygia and Silanus, in which the latter referred to
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Speaker 1: the existence of a great content beyond the Atlantic, larger
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Speaker 1: than Asia, Europe, and Libya together. Proclus quotes an extract
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Speaker 1: from an ancient writer who refers to the islands in
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Speaker 1: the sea beyond the Pillars of Hercules Straits of Gibraltar,
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Speaker 1: and says that the inhabitants of one of these islands
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Speaker 1: had a tradition from their ancestors of an extremely large
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Speaker 1: island called Atlantis, which for a long time ruled over
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Speaker 1: all the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Marcellus speaks of
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Speaker 1: seven islands in the Atlantic and states that their inhabitants
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Speaker 1: preserve the memory of a much greater island Atlantis, which
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Speaker 1: had for a long time exercised dominion over the smaller ones.
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Speaker 1: Diodorus Siculus relates that the Phoenician discovered a large island
39:44
Speaker 1: in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, several
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Speaker 1: days sail from the coast of Africa. But the greatest
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Speaker 1: authority on this subject is Plato. In the Timaeus, he
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Speaker 1: refers to the island continent, while the Cretius or Atlanticus
39:59
Speaker 1: is nothing lef as a detailed account of the history, arts, manners,
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Speaker 1: and customs of the people. In the Timaeus, he refers
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Speaker 1: to a mighty warlike power rushing from the Atlantic Sea
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Speaker 1: and spreading itself with hostile fury over all Europe and Asia.
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Speaker 1: For at that time the Atlantic Sea was navigable and
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Speaker 1: had an island before that mouth, which is called by
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Speaker 1: Yew the Pillars of Hercules. But this island was greater
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Speaker 1: than both Libya and all Asia together, and afforded an
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Speaker 1: easy passage to other neighboring islands, as it was likewise
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Speaker 1: easy to pass from those islands to all the continents
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Speaker 1: which border on this Atlantic Sea. There is so much
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Speaker 1: of value in the Critias that it is not easy
40:41
Speaker 1: to choose, But the following extract is given as it
40:44
Speaker 1: bears on the material resources of the country. They had
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Speaker 1: likewise everything provided for them, which, both in a city
40:51
Speaker 1: and every other place, is sought after as useful for
40:55
Speaker 1: the purposes of life. And they were supplied, indeed with
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Speaker 1: many things from foreign countries on account of their extensive empire.
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Speaker 1: But the island afforded them the greater part of everything
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Speaker 1: of which they stood in need. In the first place,
41:09
Speaker 1: the island supplied them with such things as are dug
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Speaker 1: out of mines in a solid state, and with such
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Speaker 1: as are melted. And oricalcom which is now but seldom mentioned,
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Speaker 1: but then was much celebrated, was dug out of the
41:22
Speaker 1: earth in many parts of the island, and was considered
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Speaker 1: as the most honorable of all metals except gold. Whatever, too,
41:28
Speaker 1: the woods afforded for builders the island produced in abundance.
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Speaker 1: There were likewise sufficient pastures there for tame and savage animals,
41:38
Speaker 1: together with a prodigious number of elephants. For there were
41:41
Speaker 1: pastures for all such animals as are fed in lakes
41:44
Speaker 1: and rivers, on mountains and in plains. And in like
41:47
Speaker 1: manner there was sufficient ailment for the largest and most
41:50
Speaker 1: voracious kind of animals. Besides this, whatever of odoriferous the
41:55
Speaker 1: earth nourishes at present, whether roots or grass, or wood,
41:59
Speaker 1: or juices or gums, flowers or fruits, these the island
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Speaker 1: produced and produced them well. The Gauls possessed traditions of Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: which were collected by the Roman historian Timagenes, who lived
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Speaker 1: in the first century b c. Three distinct peoples apparently
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Speaker 1: dwelt in Gaul first indigenous population, probably the remains of
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Speaker 1: Lemurian race, Second the invaders from the distant island of Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: and third the Aryan Gauls c Preadamites page three hundred eighty.
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Speaker 1: The Toltecs of Mexico traced themselves back to a starting
42:36
Speaker 1: point called Atlan or Adstlan. The Aztecs also claimed to
42:41
Speaker 1: come from Adstlan Sea Bancroft's Native Races, Volume five, pages
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Speaker 1: two hundred twenty one and three hundred twenty one. The
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Speaker 1: popol Vous page two hundred ninety four speaks of a
42:57
Speaker 1: visit paid by three sons of the King of the
42:59
Speaker 1: Creeches to a land in the east on the shores
43:02
Speaker 1: of the sea, whence their fathers had come from which
43:05
Speaker 1: they brought back, amongst other things, a system of writing
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Speaker 1: sea also Bancroft, Volume five, page five hundred fifty three.
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Speaker 1: Among the Indians of North America, there is a very
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Speaker 1: general legend that their forefathers came from a land towards
43:22
Speaker 1: the sun rising. The Iova and Dakota Indians, according to
43:26
Speaker 1: Major J. Lind, believed that all the tribes of Indians
43:29
Speaker 1: were formerly one and dwelt together on an island towards
43:33
Speaker 1: the sunrise. They crossed the sea from thence in huge skiffs,
43:38
Speaker 1: in which the Dakotas of old floated for weeks, finally
43:42
Speaker 1: gaining dry land. The Central American books state that a
43:46
Speaker 1: part of the American continent extended far into the Atlantic Ocean,
43:50
Speaker 1: and that this region was destroyed by a series of
43:52
Speaker 1: frightful cataclysms at long intervals apart. Three of these are
43:57
Speaker 1: frequently referred to Sea Baldwins Ancient America, page one hundred
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Speaker 1: seventy six. It is a curious confirmation that the Celts
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Speaker 1: of Britain had a legend that part of the country
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Speaker 1: once extended farry to the Atlantic and was destroyed. Three
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Speaker 1: catastrophes are mentioned in the Welsh traditions. Quetzal Coatl, the
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Speaker 1: Mexican deity, is said to have come from the distant east.
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Speaker 1: He is described as a white man with a flowing beard.
44:26
Speaker 1: Note the Indians of North and South America are beardless.
44:32
Speaker 1: He originated letters and regulated the Mexican calendar. After having
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Speaker 1: taught them many peaceful arts and lessons, he sailed away
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Speaker 1: to the east in a canoe made of serpent skins
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Speaker 1: see Shorts North Americans of Antiquity, pages two hundred sixty
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Speaker 1: eight to two hundred seventy one. The same story is
44:53
Speaker 1: told of Zamna, the author of civilization in Yugatan. The
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Speaker 1: marvelous uniformity of the flood legend on all parts of
45:01
Speaker 1: the globe alone remains to be dealt with. Whether these
45:05
Speaker 1: are some archaic versions of the story of the Lost
45:08
Speaker 1: Atlantis and its submergence, or whether they are echoes of
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Speaker 1: a great cosmic parable, once taught and held in reverence
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Speaker 1: in some common center. Whence they have reverberated throughout the
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Speaker 1: world does not immediately concern us. Sufficient for our purpose
45:23
Speaker 1: is it to show the universal acceptance of these legends.
45:27
Speaker 1: It would be needless waste of time and space to
45:30
Speaker 1: go over these flood stories one by one. Suffice it
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Speaker 1: to say that in India, Chaldaea, Babylon, Media, Greece, Scandinavia, China,
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Speaker 1: among the Jews, and among the Celtic tribes of Britain,
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Speaker 1: the legend is absolutely identical in all essentials. Now turn
45:46
Speaker 1: to the West, and what do we find? The same
45:49
Speaker 1: story in its every detail, preserved amongst the Mexicans, each
45:52
Speaker 1: tribe having its own version, the people of Guatemala, Honduras, Peru,
45:56
Speaker 1: and almost every tribe of North American Indians. It is
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Speaker 1: puerile to suggest that mere coincidence can account for this
46:04
Speaker 1: fundamental identity. The following quotation from leplan Jion's translation of
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Speaker 1: the famous Trouanno manuscript, which may be seen in the
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Speaker 1: British Museum, will appropriately bring this part of the subject
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Speaker 1: to a close. The Trouanno manuscript appears to have been
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Speaker 1: written about three thousand, five hundred years ago among the
46:22
Speaker 1: mayas of Yugatan, and the following is its description of
46:26
Speaker 1: the catastrophe that submerged the island of Poseidonis in the
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Speaker 1: year six Khan on the eleventh Muluk, in the month Zak,
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Speaker 1: there occurred terrible earthquakes which continued without interruption until the
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Speaker 1: thirteenth Chuan. The country of the Hills of Mud, the
46:46
Speaker 1: land of Mu was sacrificed. Being twice upheaved, it suddenly
46:51
Speaker 1: disappeared during the night, the basin being continually shaken by
46:55
Speaker 1: volcanic forces. Being confined. These caused the land to and
47:01
Speaker 1: to rise several times, and in various places. At last
47:05
Speaker 1: the surface gave way, and ten countries were torn asunder
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Speaker 1: and scattered. Unable to stand the force of the convulsions,
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Speaker 1: they sunk with a sixty four million of inhabitants. Eight
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Speaker 1: thousand and sixty years before the writing of this book.
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Speaker 1: But enough space has now been devoted to the fragments
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Speaker 1: of evidence, all more or less convincing, which the world
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Speaker 1: so far has been in possession of. Those interested in
47:32
Speaker 1: pursuing any special line of investigation are referred to the
47:35
Speaker 1: various works above named or quoted. The subject in hand
47:39
Speaker 1: must now be dealt with, drawn as they have been,
47:42
Speaker 1: from contemporary records which were compiled in and handed down
47:47
Speaker 1: to the ages we have to deal with. The facts
47:49
Speaker 1: here collected are based upon no assumption or conjecture. The
47:53
Speaker 1: writer may have failed fully to comprehend the fact, and
47:57
Speaker 1: so may have partially misstated them. But the original records
48:01
Speaker 1: are open for investigation to the duly qualified, and those
48:04
Speaker 1: who are disposed to undertake the necessary training may obtain
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Speaker 1: the powers to check and verify. But even where all
48:11
Speaker 1: the occult records open to our inspection, it should be
48:15
Speaker 1: realized how fragmentary must be the sketch that attempts to
48:18
Speaker 1: summarize in a few pages the history of races and
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Speaker 1: of nations extending over at least many hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 1: of years. However, any details on such a subject, disconnected
48:30
Speaker 1: though they are, must be new, and should therefore be
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Speaker 1: interesting to the world at large. Among the records above
48:37
Speaker 1: referred to, there are maps of the world at various
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Speaker 1: periods of its history, and it has been the great
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Speaker 1: privilege of the writer to be allowed to obtain copies
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Speaker 1: more or less complete of four of these. All four
48:50
Speaker 1: represent Atlantis and the surrounding lands at different epochs of
48:54
Speaker 1: their history. These epochs correspond approximately with the periods that
48:58
Speaker 1: lay between the catastrophes rec fared to above, and into
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Speaker 1: the periods thus represented by the four maps. The records
49:05
Speaker 1: of the Atlantan rays will naturally group themselves. Before beginning
49:09
Speaker 1: the history of the race, however, a few remarks may
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Speaker 1: be made about the geography of the four different epochs.
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Speaker 1: The first map represents the land surface of the Earth
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Speaker 1: as it existed about a million years ago, when the
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Speaker 1: Atlantan Rays was at its height, and before the first
49:25
Speaker 1: great submergence took place about eight hundred thousand years ago.
49:29
Speaker 1: The continent of Atlantis itself, it will be observed, extended
49:33
Speaker 1: from a point a few degrees east of Iceland to
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Speaker 1: about the site now occupied by Rio de Geneira in
49:39
Speaker 1: South America, embracing Texas on the Gulf of Mexico, the
49:43
Speaker 1: southern and eastern states of America up to and including Labrador.
49:48
Speaker 1: It stretched across the ocean to our own islands, Scotland
49:51
Speaker 1: and Ireland, and a small portion of the north of England,
49:54
Speaker 1: forming one of its promontories, while its equatorial lands embraced
49:58
Speaker 1: Brazil and the whole stretch of ocean to the African
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Speaker 1: Gold Coast. Scattered fragments of what eventually became the continents
50:06
Speaker 1: of Europe, Africa and America, as well as remains of
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Speaker 1: the still older and once widespread continent of Lemuria are
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Speaker 1: also shown on this mop. The remains of the still
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Speaker 1: older Hyperborean continent, which was inhabited by the second Root race,
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Speaker 1: are also given, and like Lemuria, colored blue, as will
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Speaker 1: be seen from the second mop. The catastrophe of eight
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand years ago caused very great changes in the
50:32
Speaker 1: land distribution of the globe. The Great Continent is now
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Speaker 1: shorn of its northern regions, and its remaining portion has
50:39
Speaker 1: been still further rent. The now growing American continent is
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Speaker 1: separated by a chasm from its parent continent of Atlantis,
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Speaker 1: and this no longer comprises any of the lands now existing,
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Speaker 1: but occupies the bulk of the Atlantic basin from about
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Speaker 1: fifty degrees north to a few degrees south of the equator.
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Speaker 1: The subsistence and upheavals in other parts of the world
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Speaker 1: have also been considerable, the British Islands, for example, now
51:04
Speaker 1: being part of a huge island which also embraces the
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Speaker 1: Scandinavian Peninsula, the north of France and all the intervening
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Speaker 1: and some of the surrounding seas. The dimensions of the
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Speaker 1: remains of Limuria, it will be observed, have been further curtailed,
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Speaker 1: while Europe Africa and America have received accretions of territory.
51:23
Speaker 1: The third map shows the results of the catastrophe which
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Speaker 1: took place about two hundred thousand years ago. With the
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Speaker 1: exception of the rents in the continents both of Atlantis
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Speaker 1: and America and the submersions of Egypt, it will be
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Speaker 1: seen how relatively unimportant were the subsistences and upheavals at
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Speaker 1: this epoch. Indeed, the fact that this catastrophe has not
51:43
Speaker 1: always been considered as one of the Great Ones is
51:46
Speaker 1: apparent from the quotation already given from the Sacred Book
51:48
Speaker 1: of the Guatemalans, three great ones only being there mentioned.
51:53
Speaker 1: The Scandinavian island, however, appears now as joined to the mainland.
51:57
Speaker 1: The two islands into which Attantis was now split were
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Speaker 1: known by the names of Ruta and Daitya. The stupendous
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Speaker 1: character of the natural convulsion that took place about eighty
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Speaker 1: thousand years ago will be apparent from the fourth map. Daitya,
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Speaker 1: the smaller and more southerly of the islands, has almost
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Speaker 1: entirely disappeared, while of Ruta there only remains the relatively
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Speaker 1: small island of Poseidonis. This map was compiled about seventy
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Speaker 1: five thousand years ago, and it no doubt fairly represents
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Speaker 1: the land surface of the Earth from that period onward
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Speaker 1: till the final submergence of Poseidonis in a ninety five
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Speaker 1: sixty four b c. Though during that period minor changes
52:37
Speaker 1: must have taken place. It will be noted that the
52:40
Speaker 1: land out lines had then begun to assume roughly the
52:44
Speaker 1: same appearance they do to day, though the British Islands
52:47
Speaker 1: were still joined to the European continent, while the Baltic
52:50
Speaker 1: Sea was non existent, and the Sahara Desert then formed
52:54
Speaker 1: part of the ocean floor. End of Section two, Part three.
53:00
Speaker 1: Some reference to the very mystical subjects of the manus
53:03
Speaker 1: is a necessary preliminary to the consideration of the origin
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Speaker 1: of a root race. In Transaction number twenty six of
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Speaker 1: the London Lodge, reference was made to the work done
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Speaker 1: by these very exalted beings, which embraces not only the
53:16
Speaker 1: planning of the types of the whole Manvanara, but the
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Speaker 1: superintending the formation and education of each root race. In turn,
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Speaker 1: the following quotation refers to these arrangements. There are also
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Speaker 1: manus whose duty it is to act in a similar
53:31
Speaker 1: way for each root rays on each planet of the round,
53:34
Speaker 1: the seed Manu planning the improvement in type which each
53:37
Speaker 1: successive root rays inaugurates, and the root Manu actually incarnating
53:42
Speaker 1: amongst the new rays as a leader and teacher to
53:44
Speaker 1: direct the development and ensure the improvement. The way in
53:49
Speaker 1: which the necessary segregation of the picked specimens is affected
53:53
Speaker 1: by the Manu in charge and his subsequent care of
53:56
Speaker 1: the growing community may be dealt with in a future transaction.
54:00
Speaker 1: The merest reference to the mode of procedure is all
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Speaker 1: that is necessary here. It was, of course, from one
54:06
Speaker 1: of the sub races of the third root race of
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Speaker 1: the continent, which is spoken of as Lemuria, that the
54:12
Speaker 1: segregation was affected, which was destined to produce the fourth
54:16
Speaker 1: root race. Following were necessary the history of the race
54:20
Speaker 1: through the four periods represented by the four maps. It
54:23
Speaker 1: is proposed to divide the subject under the following headings.
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Speaker 1: One origin and territorial location of the different sub races.
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Speaker 1: Two the political institutions they respectively evolved. Three their emigrations
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Speaker 1: to other parts of the world. Four the arts and
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Speaker 1: sciences they developed, five the manners and customs they adopted.
54:45
Speaker 1: Six the rise and decline amongst them of religious ideas.
54:49
Speaker 1: The names of the different sub races must first be
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Speaker 1: given one Remo Hall two clav Atli three, tall Tech four,
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Speaker 1: First Uranian five, Original Semite, six Acadian seven Mongolian. Some
55:11
Speaker 1: explanation is necessary as to the principle on which these
55:14
Speaker 1: names are chosen. Wherever modern ethnologists have discovered traces of
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Speaker 1: one of these sub races, or even identified a small
55:21
Speaker 1: part of one, the name they have given to it
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Speaker 1: is used for the sake of simplicity. But in the
55:27
Speaker 1: case of the first two sub races, there are hardly
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Speaker 1: any traces left for science to seize upon, so the
55:32
Speaker 1: names by which they call themselves have been adopted. Now.
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Speaker 1: The period represented by map number one shows the land
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Speaker 1: surface of the Earth as it existed about one million
55:41
Speaker 1: years ago, but the more Hala race came into existence
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Speaker 1: between four and five million years ago, at which period
55:49
Speaker 1: large portions of the great southern continent of Lemuria still existed,
55:53
Speaker 1: while the continent of Atlantis had not assumed the proportions
55:56
Speaker 1: it ultimately attained. It was upon a spur of the
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Speaker 1: Slemorian land that their more Hall rays was born. Roughly,
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Speaker 1: it may be located in latitude seven degrees north and
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Speaker 1: longitude five degrees west, which a reference to any modern
56:10
Speaker 1: atlas will show to lie on the Ashanti coast of
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Speaker 1: to day. It was a hot, moist country where huge
56:17
Speaker 1: Antediluvian animals lived in reedy swamps and dark forests. The
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Speaker 1: fossil remains of such plants are today found in the
56:25
Speaker 1: coal measures. Their Moa house were a dark race, their
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Speaker 1: complexion being a sort of Mahogani black. Their height in
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Speaker 1: these early days was about ten or twelve feet, truly
56:37
Speaker 1: a race of giants. But through the centuries their stature
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Speaker 1: gradually dwindled, as did that of all the races in turn,
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Speaker 1: and later on we shall find they had shrunk to
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Speaker 1: the struture of the firfoos Man. They ultimately migrated to
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Speaker 1: the southern shores of Atlantis, where they were engaged in
56:56
Speaker 1: constant warfare with the sixth and seventh sub races of
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Speaker 1: the land Murians then inhabiting that country. A large part
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Speaker 1: of the tribe eventually moved north, while the remainder settled
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Speaker 1: down and intermarried with these black Lemurian aborigines. The result
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Speaker 1: was that at the period we are dealing with, the
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Speaker 1: first Map period, there was no pure blood left in
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Speaker 1: the south, and as we shall see, it was from
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Speaker 1: these dark races who inhabited the equatorial provinces in the
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Speaker 1: extreme south of the continent that the Tautec conquerors subsequently
57:30
Speaker 1: drew their supplies of slaves. The remainder of the race, however,
57:34
Speaker 1: reached the extreme northeastern promontories contiguous with Iceland, and dwelling
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Speaker 1: there for ant Old generations. They gradually became lighter in color,
57:44
Speaker 1: until at the date of the first map period we
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Speaker 1: find them a tolerably fair people. Their descendants eventually became subject,
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Speaker 1: at least nominally to the Semite kings that they dwelt. Therefore,
57:58
Speaker 1: aunt Old Generations is not meant to imply that their
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Speaker 1: occupation was unbroken, for stress of circumstances at intervals of
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Speaker 1: time drove them south. The cold of the glacial epochs,
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Speaker 1: of course, operated alike with the other races. But the
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Speaker 1: few words to be said on this subject may as
58:15
Speaker 1: well come in here without going into the question of
58:18
Speaker 1: the different rotations which the Earth performs, or the varying
58:22
Speaker 1: degrees of eccentricity of its orbit, a combination of which
58:26
Speaker 1: is sometimes held to be the cause of the glacial epochs.
58:29
Speaker 1: It is a fact, and one already recognized by some astronomers,
58:33
Speaker 1: that a minor glacial epoch occurs about every thirty thousand years.
58:37
Speaker 1: But in addition to these, there were two occasions in
58:40
Speaker 1: the history of Atlantis when the Eyes belt desolated, not
58:45
Speaker 1: merely the northern regions, but invading the bulk of the continent,
58:49
Speaker 1: forced all life to migrate to equatorial lands. The first
58:53
Speaker 1: of these was in process during their more hall days
58:56
Speaker 1: about three million years ago, while the second took place
58:59
Speaker 1: in the Touta ascendency 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
59:20
Speaker 1: they encamped, until driven south again by the winter cold.
59:25
Speaker 1: The place of origin of the Lavatli or second sub
59:28
Speaker 1: rays was an island off the west coast of Atlantis.
59:31
Speaker 1: The spot is marked on the first map with a
59:33
Speaker 1: figure two. Thence they spread into Atlantis proper, chiefly across
59:38
Speaker 1: the middle of the continent, gradually, however, tending northwards towards
59:42
Speaker 1: the stretch of coast facing the promontory of Greenland. Physically,
59:45
Speaker 1: they were a powerful and hardy rays of a red
59:48
Speaker 1: brown color, but they were not quite so tall as
59:51
Speaker 1: that Moahals, whom they drove still further north. They were
59:55
Speaker 1: always a mountain loving people, and their chief settlements were
59:58
Speaker 1: in the mountainous district of the interior, which a comparison
1:00:02
Speaker 1: of Maps one and four would show to be approximately
1:00:05
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,
1:00:14
Speaker 1: peopled the northern coasts, whilst the mixture of Clavatli and
1:00:18
Speaker 1: Salta crays inhabited the western islands, which subsequently formed part
1:00:22
Speaker 1: of the American continent. We now come to the tall
1:00:26
Speaker 1: Tech or third sub race. This was a magnificent development.
1:00:30
Speaker 1: It ruled the whole continent of Atlantis for thousands of
1:00:33
Speaker 1: years in great material power and glory. Indeed, so dominant
1:00:37
Speaker 1: and so endowed with vitality was this race that intermarriages
1:00:42
Speaker 1: with the following sub races failed to modify. The type,
1:00:45
Speaker 1: which still remained essentially tall tech, and hundreds of thousands
1:00:49
Speaker 1: of years later we find one of the remote family races,
1:00:53
Speaker 1: ruling magnificently in Mexico and Peru long ages before their
1:00:57
Speaker 1: degenerate descendants were conquered by the first sir Astek tribes
1:01:01
Speaker 1: from the north. The complexion of this race was also
1:01:04
Speaker 1: red brown, but they were redder or more copper colored
1:01:07
Speaker 1: than the Tlavatli. They also were a tall rays, averaging
1:01:11
Speaker 1: about eight feet during the period of their ascendency, but
1:01:14
Speaker 1: of course dwindling, as all races did, to the dimensions
1:01:17
Speaker 1: that are common today. The type was an improvement of
1:01:21
Speaker 1: the two previous sub races, the features being straight and
1:01:24
Speaker 1: well marked, not unlike the ancient Greek. The approximate birthplace
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Speaker 1: of this race may be seen marked with the figure
1:01:31
Speaker 1: three on the first map. It lay near the west
1:01:33
Speaker 1: coast of Atlantis about latitude thirty degrees north, and the
1:01:37
Speaker 1: whole of the surrounding country embracing the bulk of the
1:01:40
Speaker 1: west coast of the continent was peopled with a pure
1:01:43
Speaker 1: Tauta race, but as we shall see when dealing with
1:01:47
Speaker 1: the political organization, their territory eventually extended right across the continent,
1:01:52
Speaker 1: and it was from their great capital on the eastern
1:01:54
Speaker 1: coast that the Taulta emperors held their almost world wide sway.
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Speaker 1: These the first three sub races, are spoken of as
1:02:03
Speaker 1: the red races, between whom and the fourth following, there
1:02:07
Speaker 1: was not at first much maxture of blood. These four,
1:02:11
Speaker 1: though differing considerably from each other, have been called yellow,
1:02:16
Speaker 1: and this color may appropriately defy the complexion of the
1:02:19
Speaker 1: Turanian and Mongolian, but the Semite and the Accadian were
1:02:24
Speaker 1: comparatively white. The Turanian or fourth sub race, had their
1:02:29
Speaker 1: origin on the eastern side of the continent, south of
1:02:32
Speaker 1: the mountainous district inhabited by the Tlavatli people. This spot
1:02:37
Speaker 1: is marked four on map number one. The Turanians were
1:02:40
Speaker 1: colonists from the earliest days, and great numbers migrated to
1:02:44
Speaker 1: the lands lying to the east of Atlantis. They were
1:02:47
Speaker 1: never a thoroughly dominant race on the other continent, though
1:02:50
Speaker 1: some of their tribes and family races became fairly powerful.
1:02:54
Speaker 1: The great central regions of the continent, lying west and
1:02:57
Speaker 1: south of the Tlavatli Mountainous district, was there special though
1:03:01
Speaker 1: not their exclusive home, for they shared these lands with
1:03:05
Speaker 1: the Toltecs. The curious political and social experiments made by
1:03:08
Speaker 1: this sub Rays will be dealt with later on. As
1:03:12
Speaker 1: regards the original Sea Miighte or fifth sub race, ethnologies
1:03:16
Speaker 1: have been somewhat confused, as indeed it is extremely natural
1:03:20
Speaker 1: they should be considering the very insufficient data they have
1:03:23
Speaker 1: to go upon. This sub race has its origin in
1:03:26
Speaker 1: the mountainous country which formed the more southernly of the
1:03:30
Speaker 1: two northeastern peninsulas, which, as we have seen, is now
1:03:33
Speaker 1: represented by Scotland, Ireland and some of the surrounding seas.
1:03:38
Speaker 1: The site is marked five in Map number one. In
1:03:41
Speaker 1: this least desirable portion of the Great Continent, the Rays
1:03:44
Speaker 1: grew and flourished for centuries, maintaining its independence against aggressive
1:03:49
Speaker 1: southern kings, till the time came for it in turn
1:03:52
Speaker 1: to spread abroad in colonized. It must be remembered that
1:03:55
Speaker 1: by the time the Semites rose to power, hundreds of
1:03:58
Speaker 1: thousands of years had passed, the second Map period had
1:04:01
Speaker 1: been reached. They were a turbulent, discontented Rays, always at
1:04:05
Speaker 1: war with their neighbors, especially with the then growing power
1:04:08
Speaker 1: of the Accadians. The birthplace of the Accadian or sixth
1:04:13
Speaker 1: sub rays will be found on map number two, marked
1:04:17
Speaker 1: there with the figure six. For it was after the
1:04:19
Speaker 1: great catastrophe of eight hundred thousand years ago that this
1:04:23
Speaker 1: race first came into existence. It took its rise in
1:04:26
Speaker 1: the land east of Atlantis, about the middle of the
1:04:29
Speaker 1: Great Peninsula, whose southeastern extremity stretched out toward the old Continent.
1:04:34
Speaker 1: The spot may be located approximately at latitude forty two
1:04:37
Speaker 1: degrees north in longitude ten degrees east. They did not
1:04:41
Speaker 1: for long, however, confine themselves to the land of their birth,
1:04:45
Speaker 1: but overrun the now diminished continent of Atlantis. They fought
1:04:48
Speaker 1: with the Semites in many battles, both on land and sea,
1:04:53
Speaker 1: and very considerable fleets were used on both sides. Finally,
1:04:57
Speaker 1: about one hundred thousand years ago, the completely vanquis the Semites,
1:05:01
Speaker 1: and from that time onwards an Acadian dynasty was set
1:05:04
Speaker 1: up in the old Semite capital and ruled the country
1:05:07
Speaker 1: wisely for several hundred years. They were a great trading,
1:05:11
Speaker 1: sea going and colonizing people, and they established many centers
1:05:15
Speaker 1: of communication with distant lands. The Mongolian or seventh sub
1:05:19
Speaker 1: race seems to be the only one that had absolutely
1:05:22
Speaker 1: no touch with their mother Continent, having its origin on
1:05:25
Speaker 1: the plains of Tartary, marked number seven on the second map,
1:05:29
Speaker 1: at about latitude sixty three degrees north and longitude one
1:05:32
Speaker 1: hundred and forty degrees east. It was directly developed from
1:05:36
Speaker 1: descendants of the Turanian race, which it gradually supplanted over
1:05:39
Speaker 1: the greater part of Asia. This sub race multiplied exceedingly,
1:05:44
Speaker 1: and even at the present day, a majority of the
1:05:46
Speaker 1: Earth's inhabitants technically belonged to it, though many of its
1:05:50
Speaker 1: divisions are so deeply colored with the blood of earlier
1:05:52
Speaker 1: races as to be scarcely distinguishable from them political institutions.
1:05:58
Speaker 1: In such a summary as these, it would be impossible
1:06:01
Speaker 1: to describe how each sub race was further subdivided into nations,
1:06:05
Speaker 1: each having its distinct type and characteristics. All that can
1:06:09
Speaker 1: be here attempted is to sketch in broad outline the
1:06:12
Speaker 1: varying political institutions throughout the great epochs of the race,
1:06:17
Speaker 1: while recognizing that each sub race, as well as each
1:06:19
Speaker 1: wood race, is destined to stund in some respect at
1:06:22
Speaker 1: a higher level than the one before it. The cyclic
1:06:25
Speaker 1: nature of the development must be recognized as leading the
1:06:28
Speaker 1: race like the man through the various phases of infancy, youth,
1:06:32
Speaker 1: and manhood, back to the infancy of old age. Again,
1:06:35
Speaker 1: evolution necessarily means ultimate progress, even though the turning back
1:06:39
Speaker 1: of its assenting spiral may seem to make the history
1:06:42
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
1:07:03
Speaker 1: moa hulls 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 Limorian sub races.
1:07:14
Speaker 1: But the Manu who affected the segregation actually incarnated in
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Speaker 1: the race and ruled it as king. Even when he
1:07:21
Speaker 1: no longer took visible part in the government of the race.
1:07:24
Speaker 1: Adept or divine rulers were when the times required it
1:07:28
Speaker 1: still provided for the infant community. As students of theosophy know,
1:07:33
Speaker 1: our humanity had not then reached the stage of development
1:07:37
Speaker 1: necessary to produce fully initiated adepts. The rulers above referred to,
1:07:42
Speaker 1: including the man himself, were therefore necessarily the product of
1:07:46
Speaker 1: evolution on other systems of worlds. That Lavadlei people showed
1:07:50
Speaker 1: some signs of advance in the art of government. Their
1:07:53
Speaker 1: various tribes or nations were ruled by chiefs or kings,
1:07:56
Speaker 1: who generally received their authority by acclamation of the people. Naturally,
1:08:02
Speaker 1: the most powerful individuals and greatest warriors were so chosen.
1:08:06
Speaker 1: A considerable empire was eventually established among them, in which
1:08:10
Speaker 1: one king became the nominal head, but his shoes reigned.
1:08:13
Speaker 1: He consisted rather in titular honour than in actual authority.
1:08:18
Speaker 1: It was the Tauta Kras who developed the highest civilization
1:08:21
Speaker 1: and organized the most powerful empire of venue of the
1:08:23
Speaker 1: Atlantan peoples, and it was then that the principle of
1:08:26
Speaker 1: heredity succession was for the first time established. The race
1:08:30
Speaker 1: was at first divided into a number of pety independent kingdoms,
1:08:34
Speaker 1: constantly at war with each other, and all at war
1:08:36
Speaker 1: with the Lemurior Moahals of the south. These were gradually
1:08:41
Speaker 1: conquered and made subject peoples, many of their tribes being
1:08:45
Speaker 1: reduced to slavery. About one million years ago, however, these
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Speaker 1: separate kingdoms united in a great federation with a recognized
1:08:52
Speaker 1: emperor at its head. This was of course inaugurated by
1:08:56
Speaker 1: great wars, but the outcome was peace and prosperity for
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Speaker 1: the race. It must be remembered that humanity was still,
1:09:03
Speaker 1: for the most part possessed of psychic attributes, and by
1:09:06
Speaker 1: this time the most advance had undergone the necessary training
1:09:09
Speaker 1: in the occult schools, and had attained various stages of initiation,
1:09:14
Speaker 1: some even reaching to adept ship. Now the second of
1:09:18
Speaker 1: these emperors was an adept, and for thousands of years,
1:09:21
Speaker 1: the Divine dynasty ruled not only all the kingdoms into
1:09:24
Speaker 1: which Atlantis was divided, but the islands of the west
1:09:27
Speaker 1: and the southern portions of the adjacent plant lying to
1:09:30
Speaker 1: the east. When necessary, this dynasty was recruited from the
1:09:33
Speaker 1: lodge of initiates, but as a rule the power was
1:09:37
Speaker 1: handed down from father to son, all being more or
1:09:40
Speaker 1: less qualified, and the son in some cases receiving a
1:09:44
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
1:09:52
Speaker 1: hierarchy which governs the world, submitting to its laws and
1:09:56
Speaker 1: acting in harmony with its plans. This was the gold
1:10:00
Speaker 1: age of the Toldic race. The government was just and beneficent,
1:10:04
Speaker 1: The arts and sciences were cultivated. Indeed, the workers in
1:10:07
Speaker 1: these fields, guided as they were by occult knowledge, achieved
1:10:11
Speaker 1: tremendous results. Religious belief and ritual were still comparatively pure.
1:10:16
Speaker 1: In fact, the civilization of Atlantis had by this time
1:10:19
Speaker 1: reached its height. After about one hundred thousand years of
1:10:24
Speaker 1: this golden age, the degeneracy and decay of the race
1:10:27
Speaker 1: set in. Many of the tributary kings, and large numbers
1:10:30
Speaker 1: of the priests and people ceased to use their faculties
1:10:34
Speaker 1: and powers in accordance with the laws made by their
1:10:36
Speaker 1: divine rulers, whose precepts and advice were now disregarded. Their
1:10:41
Speaker 1: connection with the occult heierarchy was broken. Personal aggrandizement, the
1:10:45
Speaker 1: attainment of wealth and authority, the humiliation and ruin of
1:10:49
Speaker 1: their enemies became more and more the objects towards which
1:10:53
Speaker 1: their occult powers were directed, and thus turned from their
1:10:57
Speaker 1: lawful use and practiced for all sorts of soul offficient
1:11:00
Speaker 1: and malevolent purposes. They inevitably led to what we must
1:11:04
Speaker 1: call by the name of sorcery, Surrounded as this world
1:11:08
Speaker 1: is with the audium which credulity on the one hand
1:11:11
Speaker 1: and imposture on the other, have, during many centuries of
1:11:15
Speaker 1: superstition and ignorance, gradually caused it to be associated. Let
1:11:19
Speaker 1: us consider for a moment its real meaning and the
1:11:22
Speaker 1: terrible effects which its practice is ever destined to bring
1:11:26
Speaker 1: on the world, partly through their psychic faculties, which were
1:11:30
Speaker 1: not yet quenched in the depths of materiality to which
1:11:33
Speaker 1: the race afterwards descended, and partly through their scientific attainments.
1:11:37
Speaker 1: During this culmination of Atlanting civilization, the most intellectual and
1:11:42
Speaker 1: energetic members of the race gradually obtained more and more
1:11:45
Speaker 1: insight into the working of Nature's laws, and more and
1:11:49
Speaker 1: more control over some of her hidden forces. Now the
1:11:52
Speaker 1: the secretion of this knowledge and its use for selfish
1:11:55
Speaker 1: ends is what constitutes sorcery. The awful effects two of
1:12:00
Speaker 1: such the secretion are well enough exemplified in the terrible
1:12:04
Speaker 1: catastrophes that overtook the race. For when once the black
1:12:08
Speaker 1: practice was inaugurated, it was destined to spread in ever
1:12:11
Speaker 1: widening circles, the higher spiritual guidance being thus withdrawn the
1:12:16
Speaker 1: comic principle, which being the fourth naturally reached its zenith
1:12:21
Speaker 1: during the Fourth Root race asserted itself more and more
1:12:24
Speaker 1: in humanity. Last, brutality and ferocity were all on the increase,
1:12:29
Speaker 1: and the animal nature in man was approaching its most
1:12:32
Speaker 1: degraded expression. It was a moral question which from the
1:12:36
Speaker 1: very earliest times divided the Atlantan race into two hostile camps,
1:12:40
Speaker 1: and what was begun in their more hall times was
1:12:43
Speaker 1: terribly accentuated in the Toltec era. The battle of Armageddon
1:12:47
Speaker 1: is fought over and over again in every age of
1:12:50
Speaker 1: the world's history. No longer submitting to the wise rule
1:12:54
Speaker 1: of the initiate emperors, the followers of the Black Arts
1:12:57
Speaker 1: rose in rebellion and set up a rival emperor, who,
1:13:00
Speaker 1: after much struggle and fighting, drove the White Emperor from
1:13:03
Speaker 1: his capital, the city of the Golden Gates, and established
1:13:06
Speaker 1: himself on his throne. The White Emperor, driven northward, re
1:13:11
Speaker 1: established himself in a city originally founded by the Tlavatli
1:13:15
Speaker 1: on the southern edge of the Mountainous district, but which
1:13:19
Speaker 1: was now the seat of one of the tributary Tltic kings.
1:13:22
Speaker 1: This king gladly welcomed the White Emperor and placed the
1:13:25
Speaker 1: seat at his disposal. A few more of the tributary
1:13:29
Speaker 1: kings also remained loyal to him, but most transferred their
1:13:33
Speaker 1: allegiance to the new emperor reigning at the old Capitol. This, however,
1:13:37
Speaker 1: did not long remain faithful. Constant assertions of independence were
1:13:42
Speaker 1: made by the tributary kings, and continual battles were fought
1:13:46
Speaker 1: in different parts of the Empire, the practice of sorcery
1:13:49
Speaker 1: being largely resorted to supplement the powers of destruction possessed
1:13:53
Speaker 1: by the armies. These events took place about fifty thousand
1:13:57
Speaker 1: years before the First Great Catastrophe. From this time onwards,
1:14:02
Speaker 1: things went from bad to words. The sorcerers used their
1:14:06
Speaker 1: powers more and more recklessly, and greater and greater numbers
1:14:09
Speaker 1: of people acquired and practiced these terrible black arts. Then
1:14:14
Speaker 1: came the awful retribution, when millions upon millions perished. The
1:14:19
Speaker 1: great city of the Golden Gates had by this time
1:14:22
Speaker 1: become a perfect den of iniquity. The waves stepped over
1:14:26
Speaker 1: it and destroyed its inhabitants, and the Black Emperor and
1:14:29
Speaker 1: his dynasty fell to rise no more. The Emperor of
1:14:33
Speaker 1: the North, as well as the initiated priests throughout the
1:14:36
Speaker 1: whole continent had long been fully aware of the evil
1:14:39
Speaker 1: days at hand, and subsequent pages would tell of the
1:14:42
Speaker 1: many priest led emigrations which preceded this catastrophe, as well
1:14:47
Speaker 1: as those of later date. The continent who was now
1:14:51
Speaker 1: terribly rent, But the actual amount of territory submerged by
1:14:55
Speaker 1: no means represented the damage done. For tidal waves swept
1:14:59
Speaker 1: over great tracts of land and left them desolate swamps.
1:15:03
Speaker 1: Whole provinces were rendered barren and remained for generations in
1:15:07
Speaker 1: an all cultivated and desert condition. The remaining population too
1:15:11
Speaker 1: had received a terrible warning. It was taken to heart,
1:15:14
Speaker 1: and sorcery was for a time less prevalent among them.
1:15:17
Speaker 1: A long period elapsed before any new powerful rule was established.
1:15:22
Speaker 1: We shall eventually find a sea might dynasty of sorcerers
1:15:26
Speaker 1: enthroned in the city of the Golden Gates, but not
1:15:29
Speaker 1: Altic power rose to eminence during the Second Mob period.
1:15:32
Speaker 1: There were considerable Tautic populations still, but little of the
1:15:36
Speaker 1: pure blood remained on the Mother continent on the island
1:15:40
Speaker 1: of Rutah. However, in the Third Mob period, a tautic
1:15:43
Speaker 1: dynasty again rose to power and ruled, through its tributary
1:15:47
Speaker 1: kings a large portion of the island. This dynasty was
1:15:50
Speaker 1: addicted to the black craft, which it must be understood,
1:15:53
Speaker 1: became more and more prevalent during all the four periods,
1:15:57
Speaker 1: until it culminated in the inevitable catastrophe, which to a
1:16:01
Speaker 1: great extent purified the earth of the monstrous evil. It
1:16:04
Speaker 1: must also be borne in mind that done to the
1:16:07
Speaker 1: very end when Poseidonis disappeared, an initiate emperor or king,
1:16:11
Speaker 1: or at least one acknowledging the good law, held sway
1:16:14
Speaker 1: in some part of the island continent, acting under the
1:16:17
Speaker 1: guidance of the occult hierarchy and controlling, where possible the
1:16:21
Speaker 1: evil sorcerers, and in guiding and instructing the small minority
1:16:26
Speaker 1: who were still willing to lead pure and wholesome lives.
1:16:30
Speaker 1: In later days. This white king was as a rule
1:16:33
Speaker 1: elected by the priests, the handful, that is, who still
1:16:36
Speaker 1: followed the good law. Little more remains to be said
1:16:40
Speaker 1: about the Teltics and Poseidonis. The population of the whole
1:16:44
Speaker 1: island was more or less mixed. Two kingdoms and one
1:16:47
Speaker 1: small republic in the west divided the island between them.
1:16:51
Speaker 1: The northern portion was ruled by an initiate king. In
1:16:54
Speaker 1: the south, too, the hereditary principle had given way to
1:16:57
Speaker 1: election by the people exclusive reign. These dynasties were at
1:17:01
Speaker 1: an end, but kings of Toltek blood occasionally rose to power,
1:17:05
Speaker 1: both in the north and south, the northern kingdom being
1:17:08
Speaker 1: constantly encroached upon by its southern rival, and more and
1:17:11
Speaker 1: more of its territory annexed. Having dealt at some length
1:17:15
Speaker 1: with the state of things under the Tautics, the leading
1:17:18
Speaker 1: political characteristics of the four falling sub races need not
1:17:23
Speaker 1: long detain us, for none of them reached the heights
1:17:26
Speaker 1: of civilization that the Tautics did. In fact that the
1:17:29
Speaker 1: generation of the race had set in it seems to
1:17:33
Speaker 1: have been some sort of feudal system that the natural
1:17:35
Speaker 1: bent of the Turanian race tended to develop. Each chief
1:17:39
Speaker 1: was supreme on his own territory, and the king was
1:17:42
Speaker 1: only primus interparis. The chiefs who formed his council occasionally
1:17:46
Speaker 1: murdered their king and set up one of their own
1:17:49
Speaker 1: number in his place. They were a turbulent and lawless race,
1:17:52
Speaker 1: brutal and cruel. Also the fact that at some periods
1:17:56
Speaker 1: of their history. Regiments of women took part in their
1:17:58
Speaker 1: wars is signed nificant of the last named characteristics. But
1:18:03
Speaker 1: the strange experiment they made in social life, which, but
1:18:07
Speaker 1: for its political origin, would more naturally have been dealt
1:18:10
Speaker 1: with under manners and customs, is the most interesting fact
1:18:14
Speaker 1: in their record. Being continually worsted in war with her
1:18:18
Speaker 1: Toltic neighbors, knowing themselves to be greatly outnumbered, and desiring
1:18:22
Speaker 1: above all things increase of population, laws were passed by
1:18:27
Speaker 1: which every man was relieved from the direct burden of
1:18:29
Speaker 1: maintaining his family. The states took charge of and provided
1:18:33
Speaker 1: for the children, and they were looked upon as its property.
1:18:37
Speaker 1: This naturally tended to increase the birth rate amongst the Turanians,
1:18:42
Speaker 1: and the ceremony of marriage came to be disregarded. The
1:18:45
Speaker 1: ties of family life and the feeling of parental love
1:18:48
Speaker 1: were of course destroyed, and the scheme, having been found
1:18:51
Speaker 1: to be a failure, was ultimately given up. Other attempt
1:18:55
Speaker 1: at finding socialistic solutions of economical problems, which still bill
1:19:00
Speaker 1: Vexes today, were tried and abandoned by this race. The
1:19:04
Speaker 1: original Sea Mides, who were a corrarelsome eroding and energetic race,
1:19:08
Speaker 1: always led towards a patriarchal form of government, where colonists
1:19:12
Speaker 1: she generally took to the nomadic life. Almost exclusively adopted
1:19:16
Speaker 1: this form, but as we have seen, they developed a
1:19:19
Speaker 1: considerable empire in the days of the Second Moth period
1:19:22
Speaker 1: and possessed the great city of the Golden Gates. They ultimately, however,
1:19:26
Speaker 1: had to give way before the growing power of the Accadians.
1:19:30
Speaker 1: It was in this Third Map period, about one hundred
1:19:33
Speaker 1: thousand years ago, that the Accadians finally overthrew the Sea
1:19:37
Speaker 1: Mide power. The sixth sub Rays were a much more
1:19:40
Speaker 1: law abiding people than their predecessors traders and sailors. They
1:19:45
Speaker 1: lived in settled communities and naturally produced an oligarchical form
1:19:49
Speaker 1: of government. A peculiarity of these, of which Sparta is
1:19:53
Speaker 1: the only modern example, was the dual system of two
1:19:56
Speaker 1: kings reigning in one city. As a result of their
1:20:00
Speaker 1: sea going taste, the study of the stars became a
1:20:03
Speaker 1: characteristic pursuit, and this race made great advances both in
1:20:08
Speaker 1: astronomy and astrology. The Mongolian people were in improvement on
1:20:12
Speaker 1: the immediate ancestors of the brutal Turanian stock, born as
1:20:16
Speaker 1: they were on the wide steps of eastern Siberia. They
1:20:19
Speaker 1: never had any touch with the mother continent, and owing
1:20:22
Speaker 1: doubtless to their environment, they became a nomadic people, more
1:20:27
Speaker 1: psyching and more religious than the Turanian from whom they sprung.
1:20:31
Speaker 1: The form of government towards which they gravitated required a
1:20:34
Speaker 1: hue's rein in the background, who should be supreme both
1:20:38
Speaker 1: as a territorial ruler and as a chief high priest.
1:20:42
Speaker 1: And of Section three, Part four emigrations, three causes contributed
1:20:50
Speaker 1: to produce immigrations. The Turanian race, as we have seen,
1:20:53
Speaker 1: was from its very start imbued with the spirit of colonizing,
1:20:57
Speaker 1: which it carried out on a considerable scale. The Sea
1:21:00
Speaker 1: Mites and Accadians were also, to a certain extent colonizing races. Then,
1:21:05
Speaker 1: as time went on and population tended more and more
1:21:08
Speaker 1: to out round the limits of subsistence, necessity operated with
1:21:12
Speaker 1: the least well to do in every race alike, and
1:21:14
Speaker 1: drove them to seek for a livelihood in less thickly
1:21:17
Speaker 1: populated countries. For it should be realized that when the
1:21:20
Speaker 1: Atlanteans reached their zenith in the Toldic era, the proportion
1:21:24
Speaker 1: of population to the square mile on the continent of
1:21:26
Speaker 1: Atlantis probably equalled, even if he did not exceed our
1:21:30
Speaker 1: modern experience in England and Belgium. It is at all
1:21:33
Speaker 1: event certain that the vacant spaces available for colonizing were
1:21:37
Speaker 1: very much larger in that age than in hours. While
1:21:39
Speaker 1: the total population of the world, which at the present
1:21:42
Speaker 1: moment is probably not more than twelve hundred to fifteen
1:21:45
Speaker 1: hundred millions, amounted in those days to the big figure
1:21:48
Speaker 1: of about two thousand millions. Lastly, there were the priest
1:21:53
Speaker 1: led emigrations, which took place prior to each catastrophe, and
1:21:57
Speaker 1: there were many more of these than the four great
1:21:59
Speaker 1: ones referred to to above. The initiated kings and priests
1:22:02
Speaker 1: who followed the Good Law were aware beforehand of the
1:22:05
Speaker 1: impending calamities. Each one therefore naturally became a center of
1:22:10
Speaker 1: prophetic warning and ultimately a leader of a band of colonists.
1:22:14
Speaker 1: It may be noted here that in later days the
1:22:16
Speaker 1: rulers of the country deeply resented these priestly emigrations as
1:22:21
Speaker 1: tending to impoverish and to populate their kingdoms, and it
1:22:24
Speaker 1: became necessary for the emigrants to get on board ship
1:22:27
Speaker 1: secretly during the night in roughly tracing the lines of
1:22:31
Speaker 1: emigration followed by each sub race in turn, we shall
1:22:34
Speaker 1: of necessity ultimately reached the lands which their respective descendants
1:22:38
Speaker 1: to day occupy. For the earliest emigrations, we must go
1:22:42
Speaker 1: back to the Remahal days. It will be remembered that
1:22:45
Speaker 1: that portion of the race which inhabited the northeastern coasts
1:22:48
Speaker 1: alone retained its purity of blood. Harried on the southern
1:22:52
Speaker 1: borders and riven further north by the Tlavatli warriors, they
1:22:56
Speaker 1: began to overflow to the neighboring land to the east
1:22:59
Speaker 1: and to the still nearer promontory of Greenland. In the
1:23:02
Speaker 1: second mop period, no pure more haus were left on
1:23:06
Speaker 1: the then reduced from other continant, but the northern promontory
1:23:09
Speaker 1: of the continant, then rising on the west, was occupied
1:23:13
Speaker 1: by them, as well as the Greenland Cape already mentioned.
1:23:16
Speaker 1: On the western shores of the Great Scandinavian Island. There
1:23:20
Speaker 1: was also a colony on the land lying north of
1:23:22
Speaker 1: the Central Asian Sea. Brittany and Picardee then formed part
1:23:27
Speaker 1: of the Scandinavian Island, while the island itself became in
1:23:31
Speaker 1: the third Mob period part of the growing continent of Europe,
1:23:35
Speaker 1: now It is in France that the remains of this
1:23:37
Speaker 1: race have been found in the quaternary strata, and the Brachizephalus,
1:23:42
Speaker 1: or a round headed specimen known as the furfus Man,
1:23:46
Speaker 1: may be taken as a fair average of the type
1:23:48
Speaker 1: of the race in its decay, many times forced to
1:23:52
Speaker 1: move south by the rigors of a glacial epoch, many
1:23:55
Speaker 1: times given north by the greed of their more powerful neighbors.
1:23:58
Speaker 1: The scutters and degraded remnants of this race may be
1:24:01
Speaker 1: found today in the modern lapse, though even here there
1:24:04
Speaker 1: was some infusion of other blood, and so it comes
1:24:07
Speaker 1: to pass that these faded and stunted specimens of humanity
1:24:11
Speaker 1: are the lineal descendants of the Black race of giants,
1:24:14
Speaker 1: who arose of the equatorial lands of Limuria well nigh
1:24:18
Speaker 1: five million years ago. The Lavatli colonists seem to have
1:24:22
Speaker 1: spread out toward every point of the compass. By the
1:24:25
Speaker 1: second Mare period. Their descendants were settled on the western
1:24:29
Speaker 1: shores of the then growing American continent California, as well
1:24:33
Speaker 1: as in its extreme southern coast ria, the Geneira. We
1:24:37
Speaker 1: also find them occupying the eastern shores of the Scandinavian Ireland,
1:24:42
Speaker 1: while numbers of them sailed across the ocean, rounded the
1:24:45
Speaker 1: coast of Africa and reached India. There, mixing with the
1:24:49
Speaker 1: indigenous Lemurian population there, formed the Dravidian race. In later days,
1:24:54
Speaker 1: this in its stern received an infusion of Aran or
1:24:57
Speaker 1: fifth race blood, from which results the pmplexity of type
1:25:01
Speaker 1: found in India today. In fact, we have here a
1:25:04
Speaker 1: very fair example of the extreme difficulty of deciding any
1:25:07
Speaker 1: question of race upon merely physical evidence, for it would
1:25:11
Speaker 1: be quite possible to have fifth race egos incarnate among
1:25:14
Speaker 1: the Brahmans, Fourth ras egos among the lower castes, and
1:25:19
Speaker 1: some ninjuring third race among the hill tribes. By the
1:25:23
Speaker 1: Fourth Moth period, we find a Lavatli people occupying the
1:25:27
Speaker 1: southern parts of South America, from which it may be
1:25:30
Speaker 1: inferred that the Patagonians probably had remote Slavatli ancestry. Remains
1:25:35
Speaker 1: of this race, as of the Remoahals, have been found
1:25:39
Speaker 1: in the quaternary strata of Central Europe, and the dollihood
1:25:42
Speaker 1: Cephalus cromagnon man may be taken as an average specimen
1:25:47
Speaker 1: of the race in its decadence. While the lake dwellers
1:25:50
Speaker 1: of Switzerland formed an even earlier and not quite pure offshoot.
1:25:55
Speaker 1: The only people who can be cited as fairly pure
1:25:58
Speaker 1: blooded specimens of the race at the present day are
1:26:01
Speaker 1: some of the brown tribes of Indians of South America.
1:26:05
Speaker 1: The Burmese and Siamese have also Clavati blood in their veins,
1:26:10
Speaker 1: but in their case it was mixed with and therefore
1:26:12
Speaker 1: dominated by the noble stock of one of the Aryan
1:26:15
Speaker 1: sub races. We now come to the Tautics. It was
1:26:19
Speaker 1: chiefly to the west that their emigrations tended, and the
1:26:22
Speaker 1: neighboring coasts of the American continent, where in the second
1:26:26
Speaker 1: Mob period peopled by a pure Tautar race, the greater
1:26:30
Speaker 1: part of those left on the mother continent being then
1:26:34
Speaker 1: of very mixed blood. It was on the continents of
1:26:37
Speaker 1: North and South America that this race spread abroad and flourished,
1:26:42
Speaker 1: and on which thousands of years later were established the
1:26:45
Speaker 1: empires of Mexico and Peru. The greatness of these empires
1:26:50
Speaker 1: is a matter of history or its list of traditions,
1:26:52
Speaker 1: supplemented by such evidence as is afforded by magnificent architectural remains.
1:26:58
Speaker 1: It may here be noted that while the Mexican Empire
1:27:01
Speaker 1: was for centuries great and powerful in all that is
1:27:04
Speaker 1: usually regarded as power and greatness in our civilization of today.
1:27:09
Speaker 1: It never reached the height attained by the Peruvians about
1:27:13
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand years ago under their inca sovereigns. For as
1:27:18
Speaker 1: regards the general well being of the people, the justice
1:27:21
Speaker 1: and beneficence of the government, the equitable nature of the
1:27:25
Speaker 1: land tenure, and the pure and religious life of the inhabitants,
1:27:29
Speaker 1: the Peruvian Empire of those days might be considered a traditional,
1:27:33
Speaker 1: though faint, echo of the golden age of the Tautics
1:27:36
Speaker 1: on the mother continent of Atlantis. The average red Indian
1:27:41
Speaker 1: of North or South America is the best representative today
1:27:44
Speaker 1: of the Tautic people, but of course bears no comparison
1:27:48
Speaker 1: with the highly civilized individual of the race at its zenith.
1:27:52
Speaker 1: Egypt must now be referred to, and the consideration of
1:27:56
Speaker 1: this subject should let in a flood of light upon
1:27:59
Speaker 1: its own early history. Although the first settlement in that
1:28:03
Speaker 1: country was not in the strict sense of the term
1:28:05
Speaker 1: a colony, it was from the taultar C race that
1:28:07
Speaker 1: was subsequently drawn the first great body of emigrants, intended
1:28:11
Speaker 1: to mix with and dominate the Aboriginal people. In the
1:28:15
Speaker 1: first instance, it was the transfer of a great Lodge
1:28:18
Speaker 1: of initiates. This took place about four hundred thousand years ago.
1:28:22
Speaker 1: The golden age of the Teltics was long past. The
1:28:26
Speaker 1: First Great Catastrophe had taken place, the moral degradation of
1:28:30
Speaker 1: the people and the consequent practice of the Black Arts
1:28:33
Speaker 1: were becoming more accentuated and widely spread. Purer surroundings for
1:28:38
Speaker 1: the White Lodge were needed. Egypt was isolated and was
1:28:41
Speaker 1: thinly peopled, and therefore Egypt was chosen the settlement so made,
1:28:47
Speaker 1: answered its purpose and undisturbed by adverse conditions. The Lodge
1:28:51
Speaker 1: of Initiates for nearly two hundred thousand years, did its work.
1:28:56
Speaker 1: About two hundred and ten thousand years ago, when the
1:28:59
Speaker 1: time was ripe, the Occult Lodge founded an empire, the
1:29:02
Speaker 1: First Divine Dynasty of Egypt, and began to teach the people.
1:29:07
Speaker 1: Then it was that the first great body of colonists
1:29:10
Speaker 1: was brought from Atlantis, and sometime during the ten thousand
1:29:13
Speaker 1: years that led up to the Second Catastrophe, the two
1:29:16
Speaker 1: great pyramids of Giza were built, partly to provide permanent
1:29:20
Speaker 1: hales of initiation, but also to act as treasure house
1:29:23
Speaker 1: and shrine for some great talisman of power during the
1:29:26
Speaker 1: submergence which the initiates knew to be impending. Map number
1:29:32
Speaker 1: three shows Egypt at that date as under water. It
1:29:36
Speaker 1: remained so for a considerable period, but on its re
1:29:39
Speaker 1: emergence it was again peopled by the descendants of many
1:29:42
Speaker 1: of its old inhabitants who had retired to the Abyssinian
1:29:46
Speaker 1: Mountains shown in map number three as an island, as
1:29:50
Speaker 1: well as by fresh bands of Atlantean colonists from various
1:29:53
Speaker 1: parts of the world. A considerable immigration of Acadians then
1:29:57
Speaker 1: helped to modify the Egyptian type. This is the era
1:30:01
Speaker 1: of the Second Divine Dynasty of Egypt, the rulers of
1:30:04
Speaker 1: the country being again initiated adepts. The catastrophe of eighty
1:30:09
Speaker 1: thousand years ago again laid the country under water, but
1:30:12
Speaker 1: this time it was only a temporary wave. When it receded,
1:30:16
Speaker 1: the thirty Divine Dynasty that mentioned by Manetho began its rule,
1:30:21
Speaker 1: and it was under the early kings of this dynasty
1:30:24
Speaker 1: that the Great Temple of Karnak and many of the
1:30:26
Speaker 1: more ancient buildings still standing in Egypt were constructed. In fact,
1:30:31
Speaker 1: with the exception of the Two Pyramids, new building in
1:30:34
Speaker 1: Egypt predates the catastrophe of eighty thousand years ago. The
1:30:38
Speaker 1: final submergence of Poseidonis sent another tidal wave over Egypt.
1:30:43
Speaker 1: This too was only a temporary calamity, but it brought
1:30:46
Speaker 1: the divine dynasties to an end, for the Lodge of
1:30:49
Speaker 1: Initiates had transferred its quarters to other lands. Various points
1:30:54
Speaker 1: here left untouched have already been dealt with in the
1:30:57
Speaker 1: transaction of the London Lodge, the Peeryramids and Stonehenge. The Turanians,
1:31:03
Speaker 1: who in the first Map period had colonized the northern
1:31:06
Speaker 1: parts of the land lying immediately to the east of Atlantis,
1:31:10
Speaker 1: occupied in the Second mop period its southern shores, which
1:31:14
Speaker 1: included the present Morocco and Algeria. We also find them
1:31:18
Speaker 1: wandering eastwards, and both the east and west coasts of
1:31:21
Speaker 1: the Central Asia Sea were peopled by them. Bounds of
1:31:25
Speaker 1: them ultimately moved still further east, and the nearest approximation
1:31:29
Speaker 1: to the type of this race is today to be
1:31:32
Speaker 1: found in the inland Chinese. A curious freak of destiny
1:31:36
Speaker 1: must be recorded about one of their Western off shoots,
1:31:39
Speaker 1: dominated all through the centuries by their more powerful tall
1:31:42
Speaker 1: Tech neighbors, It was yet reserved for a small branch
1:31:45
Speaker 1: of the Turanian stock to conquer and replace the last
1:31:48
Speaker 1: great empire. That the tall texts raised for the brutal
1:31:52
Speaker 1: and barely civilized Aztecs were of pure Turanian blood. The
1:31:57
Speaker 1: Semite emigrations were of two kinds, First those which were
1:32:01
Speaker 1: controlled by the natural impulse of the race. Second that
1:32:04
Speaker 1: special emigration which was affected under the direct guidance of
1:32:07
Speaker 1: the Manu four. Strange as it may seem, it was
1:32:11
Speaker 1: not from the toll text, but from these lawless and turbulent,
1:32:15
Speaker 1: though vigorous and energetic sub rays that was chosen the
1:32:18
Speaker 1: nucleus destined to be developed into our great fifth or
1:32:21
Speaker 1: Aryan race. There is a no doubt lay in the
1:32:24
Speaker 1: menacy characteristic with which the number five is always associated.
1:32:29
Speaker 1: The sub race of that number was inevitably developing its
1:32:32
Speaker 1: physical brain power and intellect, although with the expense of
1:32:36
Speaker 1: the psychic perceptions. While that same development of intellect to
1:32:40
Speaker 1: infinitely higher levels is at once the glory and the
1:32:43
Speaker 1: destined goal of our fifth root rays. Dealing first with
1:32:47
Speaker 1: the natural emigrations, we find that in the second Mob period,
1:32:51
Speaker 1: while still leaving powerful nations on the Mother continent, the
1:32:55
Speaker 1: Semites had spread both west and east, west to the
1:32:59
Speaker 1: lands now forming the United States, and thus accounting for
1:33:02
Speaker 1: the Semitic type to be found in some of the
1:33:04
Speaker 1: Indian races and to the northern shores of the neighboring continent,
1:33:09
Speaker 1: which combined all there then was of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
1:33:13
Speaker 1: The type of the ancient Egyptians, as well as of
1:33:16
Speaker 1: other neighboring nations, was to some extent modified by this
1:33:20
Speaker 1: original Semite blood. But with the exception of the Jews,
1:33:24
Speaker 1: the only representatives of comparatively unmixed Rays at the present
1:33:28
Speaker 1: day are the lighter colored Cabyles of the Algerian Mountains.
1:33:32
Speaker 1: The tribes resulting from the segregation affected by the Manu
1:33:36
Speaker 1: for the formation of the new Root race eventually found
1:33:39
Speaker 1: their way to the southern shores of the Central Asian Sea,
1:33:43
Speaker 1: and there the first great Aryan kingdom was established. When
1:33:46
Speaker 1: the transaction dealing with the origin of a Root race
1:33:49
Speaker 1: comes to be written, it will be seen that many
1:33:52
Speaker 1: of the peoples we are accustomed to call Semitic are
1:33:55
Speaker 1: really Aryan in blood. The world will be enlightened as
1:33:59
Speaker 1: to what constitutes the claim of the Hebrews to be
1:34:01
Speaker 1: considered a chosen people. Shortly, it may be stated that
1:34:05
Speaker 1: they constitute an abnormal and unnatural link between the fourth
1:34:09
Speaker 1: and fifth root races. The Accadians, though eventually becoming supreme
1:34:14
Speaker 1: rulers of the mother continents of Atlantis, owed their birthplace,
1:34:18
Speaker 1: as we have seen in the second mop period, to
1:34:21
Speaker 1: the neighboring continent that part occupied by the basin of
1:34:24
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean, about the present island of Sardinia being the
1:34:28
Speaker 1: special home. From this center, they spread eastwards, occupying what
1:34:33
Speaker 1: eventually became the shores of the Levant, and reaching as
1:34:36
Speaker 1: far as Persia and Arabia. As we have seen, they
1:34:40
Speaker 1: also helped to people Egypt. The early Etruscans, the Phoenicians,
1:34:45
Speaker 1: including the Carthaginians, and the Schumero ACADs wore branches of
1:34:49
Speaker 1: these race. While the Basques of today have probably more
1:34:52
Speaker 1: of the Accadian than of any other blood which flows
1:34:55
Speaker 1: in their veins. A reference to the early inhabitants of
1:34:58
Speaker 1: our own islands may appropriately be made here, for it
1:35:02
Speaker 1: was in the early Acadian days, about one hundred thousand
1:35:05
Speaker 1: years ago, that the colony of initiates who founded Stonehenge
1:35:10
Speaker 1: landed on these shores, these shaws being, of course the
1:35:14
Speaker 1: shows of the Scandinavian part of the continent of Europe.
1:35:17
Speaker 1: As shown in mop Number three, the initiated priests and
1:35:21
Speaker 1: their followers appear to have belonged to a very early
1:35:24
Speaker 1: strain of the Accadian race. They were taller, fairer, and
1:35:28
Speaker 1: longer headed than the Aborigines of the country, who were
1:35:32
Speaker 1: a very mixed race, but mostly degenerate remnants of their
1:35:36
Speaker 1: more house. As readers of the transaction of the London
1:35:39
Speaker 1: Lodge on the Pyramids and Stonehenge will know, their rude
1:35:43
Speaker 1: simplicity of Stonehedge was intended as a protest against the
1:35:47
Speaker 1: extravagant ornament and over decoration of the existing temples in Atlantis,
1:35:52
Speaker 1: where the debased worship of their own images was being
1:35:54
Speaker 1: carried on by the inhabitants. The Mongolians, as we have seen,
1:35:59
Speaker 1: never had any touched with the Mother's continent. Born on
1:36:02
Speaker 1: the white plains of Tartary, their emigrations for long found
1:36:06
Speaker 1: ample scope within those regions, but more than once tribes
1:36:11
Speaker 1: of Mongol descent have overflowed from Northern Asia to America,
1:36:14
Speaker 1: across bearing straits, and the loss of such emigrations that
1:36:18
Speaker 1: of the Khitans some thirteen hundred years ago, has left
1:36:22
Speaker 1: traces which some Western Savants have been able to follow.
1:36:26
Speaker 1: The Presence of Mongolian blood in some tribes of North
1:36:28
Speaker 1: American Indians have also been recognized by various writers on ethnology.
1:36:33
Speaker 1: The Hungarians and Malays are both known to be offshoots
1:36:37
Speaker 1: of this race, and nobbled in the one case by
1:36:39
Speaker 1: a strain of variant blood, degraded in the other by
1:36:42
Speaker 1: mixture with the effite Lemurians. But the interesting fact about
1:36:46
Speaker 1: the Mongolians is that its last family race is still
1:36:50
Speaker 1: in full force. It has not, in fact yet reached
1:36:53
Speaker 1: its zenith, and the Japanese nation has still got history
1:36:56
Speaker 1: to give to the world arts and sciences. It must
1:37:01
Speaker 1: primarily be recognized that our own Aryan race has naturally
1:37:04
Speaker 1: achieved far greater results in almost every direction than the Atlanteans.
1:37:09
Speaker 1: But even where they failed to reach our level, the
1:37:12
Speaker 1: records of what they accomplished are of interest as representing
1:37:15
Speaker 1: the high water mark which their tide of civilization reached.
1:37:19
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the character of the scientific achievements
1:37:22
Speaker 1: in which they did outstreap us are of so duzzling
1:37:25
Speaker 1: a nature that bewilderment at such unequal development is apt
1:37:29
Speaker 1: to be the feeling left. The arts and sciences as
1:37:32
Speaker 1: practiced by the first two races were of course crude
1:37:36
Speaker 1: in the extreme, but we do not propose to follow
1:37:38
Speaker 1: the progress achieved by age sub race separately. The history
1:37:42
Speaker 1: of the Atlantean, as of the Aryan race, was interspersed
1:37:46
Speaker 1: with periods of progress and of decay. Eras of culture
1:37:50
Speaker 1: were followed by times of lawlessness, during which all artistic
1:37:54
Speaker 1: and scientific development was lost, these again being succeeded by
1:37:58
Speaker 1: civilizations reaching to steal higher levels. It must naturally be
1:38:02
Speaker 1: with the periods of culture that the following remarks will deal,
1:38:06
Speaker 1: chief among which stands out the great Toltec era. Architecture
1:38:10
Speaker 1: and sculpture, painting, and music were all practiced in Atlantis.
1:38:15
Speaker 1: The music, even at the best of times, was crude,
1:38:17
Speaker 1: and the instruments of the most primitive type. All the
1:38:20
Speaker 1: Atlantic races were fond of color, and brilliant hues decorated
1:38:24
Speaker 1: both the insights and the outsides of their houses, but
1:38:27
Speaker 1: painting as a fine art was never well established, though
1:38:31
Speaker 1: in the latter days some kind of drawing and painting
1:38:33
Speaker 1: was taught to the schools. Sculpture, on the other hand,
1:38:36
Speaker 1: which was also taught in the schools, was widely practiced
1:38:40
Speaker 1: and reached great excellence, as we shall see later on.
1:38:43
Speaker 1: Under the head of religion, it became customary for every
1:38:46
Speaker 1: man who could afford it, to place in one of
1:38:48
Speaker 1: the temples an image of himself. These were sometimes carved
1:38:52
Speaker 1: in wood or in hard black stone like basalt, but
1:38:56
Speaker 1: among the wealthy it became the fashion to have their
1:38:58
Speaker 1: statues lust in one of the precious metals oriclecombe gold
1:39:04
Speaker 1: or silver. A very fair resemblance of the individual usually resulted,
1:39:08
Speaker 1: while in some cases a striking likeness was achieved. Architecture, however,
1:39:14
Speaker 1: was naturally the most widely practiced of the arts. Their
1:39:17
Speaker 1: buildings where massive structures of gigantic proportions. The dwelling houses
1:39:22
Speaker 1: in the cities were not as ours are, closely crowded
1:39:25
Speaker 1: together in streets like their country houses. Some stood in
1:39:29
Speaker 1: their own garden grounds, others were separated by plots of
1:39:33
Speaker 1: common land, but all were isolated structures. In the case
1:39:37
Speaker 1: of houses of any importance, four blocks of buildings surrounded
1:39:40
Speaker 1: a central courtyard in the center of which generally stood
1:39:44
Speaker 1: one of the fountains, whose number in the city of
1:39:46
Speaker 1: Golden Gates gained for it the second appellation of the
1:39:50
Speaker 1: city of Waters. There was an exhibition of goods for sale.
1:39:54
Speaker 1: As in wooden streets. All transactions of buying and selling
1:39:57
Speaker 1: took place privately, except as stated times when large public
1:40:02
Speaker 1: fairs were held in the open spaces of the cities.
1:40:05
Speaker 1: But the characteristic feature of the tautic house was a
1:40:08
Speaker 1: tower that rose from one of its corners or from
1:40:11
Speaker 1: the center of one of the blocks. A spiral staircase
1:40:14
Speaker 1: built outside led through the upper stories, and a pointed
1:40:18
Speaker 1: dome terminated the tower, this upper portion being very commonly
1:40:22
Speaker 1: used as an observatory. As already stated, the houses were
1:40:26
Speaker 1: decorated with bright colors. Some were ornamented with carvings, others
1:40:30
Speaker 1: with frescoes or painted patterns. The window spaces were filled
1:40:35
Speaker 1: with some manufactured article similar to, but less transparent than glass.
1:40:40
Speaker 1: The interiors were not furnished with the elaborate detail of
1:40:43
Speaker 1: our modern dwellings, but the life was highly civilized of
1:40:46
Speaker 1: its kind. The temples were huge holes, resembling more than
1:40:50
Speaker 1: anything else, the gigantic piles of Egypt, but built on
1:40:53
Speaker 1: a still more stupendous scale. The pillars supporting the roof
1:40:57
Speaker 1: were generally square, seldom circular. In the days of the decadence,
1:41:02
Speaker 1: the ales were surrounded with innumerable chapels, in which were
1:41:05
Speaker 1: enshrined the statues of the more important inhabitants. These side shrines, indeed,
1:41:11
Speaker 1: were occasionally of such considerable size as to admit a
1:41:14
Speaker 1: whole retinue of priests, whom some specially great man might
1:41:18
Speaker 1: have in his service for the ceremonial worship of his image.
1:41:22
Speaker 1: Like the private houses, the temples, too were never complete
1:41:25
Speaker 1: without the dome capped towers, which of course were of
1:41:28
Speaker 1: corresponding size and magnificence. These were used for astronomical observations
1:41:33
Speaker 1: and for sun worship. The precious metals were largely used
1:41:37
Speaker 1: in the adornment of the temples, the interiors being offered
1:41:40
Speaker 1: not merely inlaid but plaited with gold. Gold and silver
1:41:44
Speaker 1: were highly valued, but, as we shall see later on,
1:41:48
Speaker 1: when the subject of the currencies dealt with, the uses
1:41:51
Speaker 1: to which they were put were entirely artistic and had
1:41:54
Speaker 1: nothing to do with coinage. While the great quantities that
1:41:57
Speaker 1: were then produced by the chemists, or or as we
1:42:00
Speaker 1: should nowadays called them, alchemists, may be said to have
1:42:04
Speaker 1: taken them out of the category of the precious metals.
1:42:07
Speaker 1: This power of transmutation of metals was not universal, but
1:42:10
Speaker 1: it was so widely possessed that enormous quantities were made.
1:42:14
Speaker 1: In fact, the production of the wished for metals may
1:42:17
Speaker 1: be regarded as one of the industrial enterprises of those
1:42:20
Speaker 1: days by which these alchemists gained their living. Cold was
1:42:24
Speaker 1: admired even more than silver, and was consequently produced in
1:42:27
Speaker 1: much greater quantity. And of Section four, Part five Education,
1:42:35
Speaker 1: a few words on the subject of language will fitly
1:42:37
Speaker 1: prelude a consideration of the training in the schools and
1:42:40
Speaker 1: colleges of Atlantis. During the First Map period, Toltec was
1:42:44
Speaker 1: the universal language not only throughout the continent, but in
1:42:48
Speaker 1: the Western Irelands and that part of the Eastern continent
1:42:50
Speaker 1: which recognized the Emperor's rule. Remains of their more high
1:42:54
Speaker 1: and Clavatlei speech survived. It is true in out of
1:42:57
Speaker 1: the way parts, just as the Celtic and the Comeric
1:43:00
Speaker 1: speech survives today among us in Ireland and Wales, that
1:43:04
Speaker 1: Lavatli tongue was the basis used by the Turranians, who
1:43:08
Speaker 1: introduced such modifications that an entirely different language was in
1:43:12
Speaker 1: time produced, while the Semites and Accadians, adopting a tutic
1:43:16
Speaker 1: ground work, modified it in their respective ways and so
1:43:20
Speaker 1: produced two divergent varieties. Thus, in the latter days of
1:43:23
Speaker 1: Poseidonis there were several entirely different languages, all however, belonging
1:43:28
Speaker 1: to the agglutinative type. For it was not till Fifth
1:43:31
Speaker 1: Race days that the descendants of the Sea Miites and
1:43:34
Speaker 1: Accadians developed inflectional speech. All through the ages, however, the
1:43:38
Speaker 1: Tltaic language fairly maintained its purity, and the same tongue
1:43:43
Speaker 1: that was spoken in Atlantis in the days of its
1:43:45
Speaker 1: splendor was used with but slight alteration thousands of years
1:43:49
Speaker 1: later in Mexico and Peru. The schools and colleges of
1:43:53
Speaker 1: Atlantis in the Great Tautic days, as well as in
1:43:55
Speaker 1: subsequent eras of culture, were all endowed by the state.
1:44:00
Speaker 1: Though every child was required to pass through the primary schools,
1:44:03
Speaker 1: the subsequent training differed very widely. The primary schools formed
1:44:08
Speaker 1: a sort of winnowing ground. Those who showed real aptitude
1:44:12
Speaker 1: for study were, along with the children of the dominant classes,
1:44:15
Speaker 1: who naturally had greater abilities, drafted into the higher schools
1:44:20
Speaker 1: at about the age of twelve. Reading and writing, which
1:44:23
Speaker 1: were regarded as mere preliminaries, had already been taught them
1:44:26
Speaker 1: in the primary schools. But reading and writing were not
1:44:29
Speaker 1: considered necessary for the great masses of the inhabitants, who
1:44:32
Speaker 1: had to spend their lives in tilling the land or
1:44:35
Speaker 1: in handicrafts, the practice of which was required by the community.
1:44:40
Speaker 1: The great majority of the children, therefore where at once
1:44:43
Speaker 1: passed on to the technical schools best suited to their
1:44:45
Speaker 1: various abilities. Chief among these were the agricultural schools. Some
1:44:50
Speaker 1: branches of mechanics also formed part of the training, while
1:44:54
Speaker 1: in outlining districts and by the seaside, hunting and fishing
1:44:58
Speaker 1: were naturally included, and so the children all received the
1:45:02
Speaker 1: education or training which was most appropriate for them. The
1:45:05
Speaker 1: children of superior abilities, who as we have seen, had
1:45:09
Speaker 1: been taught to read and write, had a much more
1:45:11
Speaker 1: elaborate education. The properties of plants and their healing qualities
1:45:16
Speaker 1: formed an important branch of study. There were no recognized
1:45:19
Speaker 1: physicians in those days. Every educated man knew more or
1:45:23
Speaker 1: less of medicine, as well as of magnetic healing, Chemistry, mathematics,
1:45:27
Speaker 1: and astronomy were also taught. The training in such studies
1:45:31
Speaker 1: finds its analogy among ourselves. But the object towards which
1:45:35
Speaker 1: the teacher's efforts were mainly directed was the development of
1:45:39
Speaker 1: the pupil's psychic faculties and his instruction in the more
1:45:42
Speaker 1: hidden forces of nature. The occult properties of plants, metals,
1:45:47
Speaker 1: and precious stones, as well as the alchemical processes of transmutation,
1:45:52
Speaker 1: were included in this category. That as time went on,
1:45:56
Speaker 1: it became more and more the personal power which ball
1:45:59
Speaker 1: were light and real, and the operation of which he
1:46:02
Speaker 1: has fairly accurately described in his Coming Race, that the
1:46:05
Speaker 1: colleges for the higher training of the youth of Atlantis
1:46:08
Speaker 1: were specially occupied in developing the marked change which took
1:46:13
Speaker 1: place when the decadence of the race setting was that,
1:46:15
Speaker 1: instead of merit and aptitude being regarded as warrants for
1:46:18
Speaker 1: advancement to the higher grades of instruction, the dominant classes,
1:46:22
Speaker 1: becoming more and more exclusive, allowed none but their own
1:46:26
Speaker 1: children to graduate in the higher knowledge which gave so
1:46:29
Speaker 1: much power in such an empire as the Toltec agriculture
1:46:34
Speaker 1: naturally received much attention. Not only were the laborers taught
1:46:38
Speaker 1: their duties in technical schools, but colleges were established in
1:46:41
Speaker 1: which the knowledge necessary for carrying out experiments in the
1:46:45
Speaker 1: crossing both of animals and plants was taught to feeding students.
1:46:49
Speaker 1: As readers of Theosophic literature may know, wheat was not
1:46:53
Speaker 1: evolved on this planet at all. It was the gift
1:46:56
Speaker 1: of the Manu, who brought it from another globe outside
1:47:00
Speaker 1: chain of worlds. But oats and some of our other
1:47:03
Speaker 1: cereals are the results of crosses between wheat and the
1:47:05
Speaker 1: indigenous grasses of the Earth. Now, the experiments which gave
1:47:09
Speaker 1: these results were carried out in the agricultural schools of Atlantis.
1:47:13
Speaker 1: Of course, such experiments were guided by high knowledge. But
1:47:17
Speaker 1: the most notable achievement to be recorded of the Atlantic
1:47:20
Speaker 1: agriculturists was the evolution of the plantain or banana. In
1:47:25
Speaker 1: the original wild state, it was like an elongated melon
1:47:28
Speaker 1: with scarcely any pulp, but full of seeds as the melonese.
1:47:33
Speaker 1: It was, of course, only by centuries, even not thousands
1:47:35
Speaker 1: of years of continuous selection and elimination, that the present
1:47:39
Speaker 1: seedless plant was evolved. Among the domesticated animals of the
1:47:43
Speaker 1: Tautic days were creatures that looked like very small tapers.
1:47:47
Speaker 1: They naturally fed upon roots or herbage, but like the
1:47:51
Speaker 1: peaks of today, which they resembled in more than one particular,
1:47:55
Speaker 1: they were not over cleanly, and aid whatever came in
1:47:58
Speaker 1: their way. Large cut like animals, and the wooflike ancestors
1:48:02
Speaker 1: of the dog, but also be met about human habitations
1:48:06
Speaker 1: that all takkats appear to have been drawn by creatures
1:48:09
Speaker 1: somewhat resembling small camels. The Peruvian lamas of today are
1:48:13
Speaker 1: probably their descendants. The ancestors of the Irish elk, too,
1:48:18
Speaker 1: roamed in heads about the hillsides in much the same
1:48:21
Speaker 1: way as our highland cuttle do, now too wild to
1:48:25
Speaker 1: allow a busy approach, but still under the control of man.
1:48:30
Speaker 1: Constant experiments were made in breeding and crossbreeding different kinds
1:48:33
Speaker 1: of animals and curious. Though it may seem to us,
1:48:37
Speaker 1: artificial heat was largely used to force their development, so
1:48:40
Speaker 1: that the results of crossing and interbreeding might be more
1:48:43
Speaker 1: quickly apparent. The use too, of different colored lights in
1:48:47
Speaker 1: the chambers where such experiments were carried on were adopted
1:48:51
Speaker 1: in order to obtain varying results. This control and molding
1:48:55
Speaker 1: at will by man of the animal forms brings us
1:48:58
Speaker 1: to a rather startling and very mysterious subject. Reference has
1:49:02
Speaker 1: been made above the work done by the Manus. Now
1:49:06
Speaker 1: it is in the mind of the Manu that originates
1:49:08
Speaker 1: all improvements in type and the potentialities latent in every
1:49:12
Speaker 1: form of being. In order to work out in detail
1:49:15
Speaker 1: the improvements in the animal forms the help and co
1:49:18
Speaker 1: operation of man, we required the amphibian and reptile forms
1:49:23
Speaker 1: which then abounded, had about round their course and were
1:49:26
Speaker 1: ready to assume the more advanced type of bird or mamal.
1:49:31
Speaker 1: These forms constitute the incoate material placed at man's disposal,
1:49:36
Speaker 1: and the clay was ready to assume whatever shape the
1:49:39
Speaker 1: potter's hand might mold it into. It was specially with
1:49:42
Speaker 1: animals in the intermediate stage that so many of the
1:49:45
Speaker 1: experiments above referred to were tried, And doubtless the domesticated
1:49:50
Speaker 1: animals like the horse, which are now of such service
1:49:53
Speaker 1: to man, are the result of the experiments in which
1:49:55
Speaker 1: the men of those days acted in cooperation with the
1:49:58
Speaker 1: Manu and his ministers. But the cooperation was too soon
1:50:02
Speaker 1: withdrawn selfishness s obtained the upper hand, and war in
1:50:06
Speaker 1: discord brought the golden age of the Tolteics to a close, when,
1:50:11
Speaker 1: instead of working loyally for a common end under the
1:50:13
Speaker 1: guidance of their initiate kings, men began to prey upon
1:50:17
Speaker 1: each other. The bists, which might gradually have assumed under
1:50:20
Speaker 1: the care of man more and more useful and domesticated forms,
1:50:23
Speaker 1: being left to the guidance of their own instincts, naturally
1:50:26
Speaker 1: followed the example of their monarch and began to prey
1:50:29
Speaker 1: upon each other. Some indeed had actually already been trained
1:50:33
Speaker 1: and used by men in their hunting expeditions, and thus
1:50:36
Speaker 1: the semi domesticated cat like animals above referred to naturally
1:50:40
Speaker 1: became the ancestors of the leopads and jaguars. One illustration
1:50:45
Speaker 1: of what some may be tempted to call a fantastic theory,
1:50:49
Speaker 1: though it may not elucidate the problem, will at least
1:50:52
Speaker 1: point the moral contained in this supplement to our knowledge
1:50:55
Speaker 1: regarding the mysterious manner in which our revolution has proceeded.
1:50:59
Speaker 1: The lion, it would appear, might have had a gentler nature,
1:51:02
Speaker 1: and the less fierce suspect had the men of those
1:51:05
Speaker 1: days completed the task that was given them to perform.
1:51:09
Speaker 1: Whether or not his is fated eventually to lie down
1:51:12
Speaker 1: with the lamb and each straw like the ox, the
1:51:15
Speaker 1: destiny in store for him, as pictured in the mind
1:51:18
Speaker 1: of the Manu, has not yet been realized, For the
1:51:22
Speaker 1: picture was that of a powerful but domesticated animal, a strong,
1:51:26
Speaker 1: level backed creature with large, intelligent eyes, intended to act
1:51:31
Speaker 1: as man's most powerful servant for purposes of truction. The
1:51:36
Speaker 1: city of the Golden Gates and its surroundings must be
1:51:38
Speaker 1: described before we come to consider the marvelous system by
1:51:42
Speaker 1: which its inhabitants were supplied with water. It lay, as
1:51:46
Speaker 1: we have seen, on the east coast of the continent,
1:51:49
Speaker 1: close to the sea, in about fifteen degrees north of
1:51:52
Speaker 1: the equator. The beautifully wooded park like country surrounded the city,
1:51:57
Speaker 1: scattered over a large area of these where the v
1:52:00
Speaker 1: residences of the wealthier classes. To the west layer range
1:52:03
Speaker 1: of mountains from which the water supply of the city
1:52:06
Speaker 1: was drawn. The city itself was built on the slopes
1:52:09
Speaker 1: of a hill which rose from the plain about five
1:52:12
Speaker 1: hundred feet. On the summit of this hill lay the
1:52:15
Speaker 1: Emperor's palace and gardens in the center of which welled
1:52:19
Speaker 1: up from the earth a never ending stream of water,
1:52:21
Speaker 1: supplying first the palace and the fountains in the gardens,
1:52:25
Speaker 1: thence flowing in the four directions and falling in cascades
1:52:29
Speaker 1: into a canal or remote, which encompassed the palace grounds
1:52:33
Speaker 1: and thus separated them from the city, which lay below.
1:52:36
Speaker 1: On every side. From the canal, four channels led the
1:52:40
Speaker 1: water through four quarters of the city to cascades, which
1:52:44
Speaker 1: in their turn supplied another encircling canal at a lower level.
1:52:48
Speaker 1: There were three such canals, forming concentric circles, the outermost
1:52:52
Speaker 1: and lowest to which was still above the level of
1:52:55
Speaker 1: the plain. A fourth canal at this lowest level, but
1:52:58
Speaker 1: on the rectangul plain, received the constantly flowing waters and
1:53:03
Speaker 1: in its turn discharged them into the sea. The city
1:53:07
Speaker 1: extended over part of the plain up to the age
1:53:10
Speaker 1: of this great outermost moat, which surrounded and defended it
1:53:13
Speaker 1: with a line of waterways extending about twelve miles by
1:53:17
Speaker 1: ten miles square. It will thus be seen that the
1:53:21
Speaker 1: city was divided into three great belts, each hemmed in
1:53:25
Speaker 1: by its canals. The characteristic feature of the upper belt
1:53:29
Speaker 1: that lay just below the palace grounds was a circular
1:53:32
Speaker 1: race course and large public gardens. Most of the houses
1:53:36
Speaker 1: of the court officials also lay on this belt, and
1:53:40
Speaker 1: here also was an institution of which we have no
1:53:42
Speaker 1: parallel in modern times. The term stranger's home amongst us
1:53:47
Speaker 1: suggests a mean appearance in sordid surroundings, but this was
1:53:51
Speaker 1: a palace where all strangers who might come to the
1:53:53
Speaker 1: city were entertained as long as they might choose to stay,
1:53:57
Speaker 1: being treated all the time as guests the government. The
1:54:01
Speaker 1: detached houses of the inhabitants, and the various temples scattered
1:54:04
Speaker 1: throughout the city occupied the other two belts. In the
1:54:08
Speaker 1: days of the Tolde Greatness, there seems to have been
1:54:11
Speaker 1: no real poverty, even the retinue of slaves attached to
1:54:14
Speaker 1: most houses, being well fed and clothed, But there were
1:54:19
Speaker 1: a number of comparatively poor houses in the lowest belt
1:54:22
Speaker 1: to the north, as well as outside the uttermost canal
1:54:25
Speaker 1: towards the sea. The inhabitants of this part were mostly
1:54:28
Speaker 1: connected with the sepping, and their houses, though detached, were
1:54:32
Speaker 1: built closer together than in other districts. It will be
1:54:35
Speaker 1: seen from the above that the inhabitants had thus a
1:54:38
Speaker 1: never failing supply of pure clear water constantly coursing through
1:54:43
Speaker 1: the city, while the upper belts and the Emperor's palace
1:54:46
Speaker 1: were protected by lines of moats, each one at a
1:54:49
Speaker 1: higher level as the center was approached. Now it does
1:54:53
Speaker 1: not require much mechanical knowledge in order to realize how
1:54:57
Speaker 1: stupendous must have been the works needed to provide this supply,
1:55:01
Speaker 1: For in the days of its greatness, the city of
1:55:03
Speaker 1: the Golden Gates embraced within its four circles of moat
1:55:07
Speaker 1: over two million inhabitants. No such system of water supply
1:55:11
Speaker 1: has ever been attempted in Greek, Roman or modern times. Indeed,
1:55:16
Speaker 1: it is very doubtful whether our ablest engineers, even at
1:55:19
Speaker 1: the expenditure of auntold wealth, could produce such a result.
1:55:24
Speaker 1: A description of some of its leading features will be
1:55:27
Speaker 1: of interest. It was from a lake which lay among
1:55:31
Speaker 1: the mountains to the west of the city, at an
1:55:33
Speaker 1: elevation of about two thousand, six hundred feet, that the
1:55:36
Speaker 1: supply was drawn. The main aqueduct, which was of oval
1:55:41
Speaker 1: section measuring fifty feet by thirty feet, led underground to
1:55:46
Speaker 1: an enormous heart shaped reservoir. This lay deep below the palace,
1:55:52
Speaker 1: in fact, at the very base of the hill on
1:55:55
Speaker 1: which the palace and the city stood. From this reservoir,
1:55:59
Speaker 1: a purp and articular shaft of about five hundred feet
1:56:03
Speaker 1: up through the solid rock gave passage to the water,
1:56:06
Speaker 1: which welled up in the palace grounds and thence was
1:56:10
Speaker 1: distributed throughout the city. Various pipes from the central reservoir
1:56:15
Speaker 1: also led to different parts of the city to supply
1:56:18
Speaker 1: drinking water, and the public fountains. Systems of sluices, of course,
1:56:24
Speaker 1: also existed to control or cut off the supply of
1:56:28
Speaker 1: the different districts. From the above, it will be apparent
1:56:32
Speaker 1: to anyone possessed of some little knowledge of mechanics, that
1:56:36
Speaker 1: the pressure in the subterranean aqueduct and the central reservoir
1:56:40
Speaker 1: from which the water naturally rose to the basin in
1:56:43
Speaker 1: the palace gardens must have been enormous, and the resisting
1:56:48
Speaker 1: power of the material used in their construction consequently prodigious.
1:56:53
Speaker 1: If the system of water supply in the city of
1:56:56
Speaker 1: the Golden Gates was wonderful, the Atlantic methods of locomotion
1:57:00
Speaker 1: must be recognized as still more marvelous. For the airship
1:57:04
Speaker 1: or flying machine which Keiley in America and Maxim in
1:57:08
Speaker 1: this country are now attempting to produce, was then a
1:57:11
Speaker 1: realized fact. It was not at any time a common
1:57:15
Speaker 1: means of transport. The slaves, the servants, and the masses
1:57:18
Speaker 1: who labored with their hands had to trudge along the
1:57:21
Speaker 1: country tracks or travel in rude carts with solid wills,
1:57:25
Speaker 1: drawn by uncouth animals. The air boats may be considered
1:57:29
Speaker 1: as the private carriages of those days, or rather the
1:57:32
Speaker 1: private yachts, if we regard the relative number of those
1:57:35
Speaker 1: who possessed them, for they must have been at all
1:57:38
Speaker 1: times difficult and costly to produce. They were, not, as
1:57:42
Speaker 1: a rule, built to accommodate many persons. Numbers were constructed
1:57:46
Speaker 1: for only two, some allowed for six or eight passengers.
1:57:50
Speaker 1: In the later days, when war and strife had brought
1:57:52
Speaker 1: the Golden Age to an end, battleships that could navigate
1:57:55
Speaker 1: the air had, to a great extent replaced the battleships
1:57:58
Speaker 1: at sea, having no naturally proved far more powerful engines
1:58:02
Speaker 1: of destruction. These were constructed to carry as many as
1:58:05
Speaker 1: fifty and in some cases even up to a hundred,
1:58:08
Speaker 1: fighting men. The material of which the air boats were
1:58:12
Speaker 1: constructed was either wood or metal. The earlier ones were
1:58:16
Speaker 1: built of wood, the boards used being exceedingly thin, but
1:58:20
Speaker 1: the injection of some substance which did not add materially
1:58:23
Speaker 1: to the weight while it gave leather like toughness, provided
1:58:27
Speaker 1: the necessary combination of lightness and strength. When metal was used,
1:58:31
Speaker 1: it was generally an alloy two white colored metals and
1:58:35
Speaker 1: one red one entering into its composition. The resultant was
1:58:39
Speaker 1: white colored like aluminium, and even lighter in weight. Of
1:58:44
Speaker 1: the rough framework of the air boat was extended a
1:58:47
Speaker 1: large sheet of this metal, which was then beaten into
1:58:50
Speaker 1: shape and electrically welded where necessary. But whether built of
1:58:55
Speaker 1: metal or wood, their outside surface was apparently seamless and
1:58:59
Speaker 1: perfectly smooth, and they shown in the dark as if
1:59:01
Speaker 1: coated with luminous paint. In shape, they were boat like,
1:59:06
Speaker 1: but they were invariably decked over, for when at full
1:59:10
Speaker 1: speed it could not have been convenient, even if safe,
1:59:13
Speaker 1: for any on board to remain on the upper deck.
1:59:16
Speaker 1: Their propelling and steering gear could be brought into use
1:59:19
Speaker 1: at either end. But the all interesting question is that
1:59:22
Speaker 1: relating to the power by which they were propelled in
1:59:25
Speaker 1: the earlier times, it seems to have impersonal brill that
1:59:29
Speaker 1: supplied the motive power. What they used in conjunction with
1:59:32
Speaker 1: any mechanical contrivance matters not match. But in the later
1:59:36
Speaker 1: days this was replaced by a force, which, though generated
1:59:39
Speaker 1: in what is to us an unknown manner, operated nevertheless
1:59:43
Speaker 1: through definite mechanical arrangements. These force, though not yet discovered
1:59:48
Speaker 1: by science, more nearly approached that which Keyle in America
1:59:51
Speaker 1: is learning to handle than the electric power used by
1:59:54
Speaker 1: maxim It was in fact of an etheric nature. But
1:59:58
Speaker 1: though we are none nearer to the the solution of
2:00:00
Speaker 1: this problem, its method of operation could be described the
2:00:04
Speaker 1: mechanical arrangements, no doubt, differed somewhat in different vessels. The
2:00:09
Speaker 1: following description is taken from an air boat in which,
2:00:12
Speaker 1: on one occasion, three ambassadors from the king who ruled
2:00:15
Speaker 1: over the northern part of Poseidonis, made the journey to
2:00:18
Speaker 1: the court of the southern kingdom. A strong, heavy metal chest,
2:00:22
Speaker 1: which lay in the center of the boat, was a generator. Thence,
2:00:25
Speaker 1: the force flowed through two large flexible tubes to either
2:00:29
Speaker 1: end of the vessel, as well as through eight subsidiary
2:00:32
Speaker 1: tubes fixed fore and aft to the bulwarks. These had
2:00:36
Speaker 1: stuble openings pointing vertically both up and down. When the
2:00:41
Speaker 1: journey was about to begin, the valves of the eight
2:00:43
Speaker 1: bulwark tubes which pointed downwards were opened, all the other
2:00:48
Speaker 1: valves being closed. The current rushing through this impinct on
2:00:52
Speaker 1: the earth with such force as to drive the boat upwards,
2:00:57
Speaker 1: while the air itself continued to supply the necessity folk room.
2:01:01
Speaker 1: When a sufficient elevation was reached, the flexible tube at
2:01:05
Speaker 1: that end of the vessel, which pointed away from the
2:01:07
Speaker 1: desired destination, was brought into action, while by the partial
2:01:11
Speaker 1: closing of the valves, the current rushing through the eight
2:01:14
Speaker 1: vertical tubes was reduced to the small amount required to
2:01:18
Speaker 1: maintain the elevation reached. The great volume of current being
2:01:22
Speaker 1: now directed through the large tube pointing downwards from the
2:01:25
Speaker 1: stern at an angle of about forty five degrees, while
2:01:28
Speaker 1: helping to maintain the elevation, provided also the great motive
2:01:32
Speaker 1: power to propel the vessel through the air. The steering
2:01:35
Speaker 1: was accomplished by the discharge of the current through this tube.
2:01:39
Speaker 1: For the slightest change in its direction at once caused
2:01:42
Speaker 1: an alteration in the vessel's course, but constant supervision was
2:01:46
Speaker 1: not required. When a long journey had to be taken,
2:01:49
Speaker 1: the tube could be fixed so as to need no
2:01:52
Speaker 1: handlink till the destination was almost reached. The maximum speed
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Speaker 1: attained was about one hundred miles an hour, the course
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Speaker 1: of light never being a straight line, but always in
2:02:02
Speaker 1: the form of long waves, now approaching and now receding
2:02:05
Speaker 1: from the earth. The elevation at which the vessels traveled
2:02:09
Speaker 1: was only a few hundred feet. Indeed, when high mountains
2:02:12
Speaker 1: lay in the line of the truck, it was necessary
2:02:15
Speaker 1: to change their course and go round them. The more
2:02:18
Speaker 1: rarefied air no longer supplying the necessary folk room. Hills
2:02:23
Speaker 1: of about one thousand feet were the highest they could cross.
2:02:27
Speaker 1: The means by which the vessel was brought to a
2:02:29
Speaker 1: stop on reaching its destination, and this could be done
2:02:32
Speaker 1: equally well in mid air, was to give escape to
2:02:34
Speaker 1: some of the current force through the tube at that
2:02:37
Speaker 1: end of the boat, which pointed towards its destination, and
2:02:40
Speaker 1: the current impinging on the land or air in front
2:02:44
Speaker 1: acted as a drug, while the propelling force behind was
2:02:48
Speaker 1: gradually reduced by the closing of the valve. The reason
2:02:52
Speaker 1: had still to be given for the existence of the
2:02:54
Speaker 1: eight tubes poiling upwards from the bulwarks. These had more
2:02:57
Speaker 1: especially to do with the aerial wharfare. Having so powerful
2:03:01
Speaker 1: a force at their disposal, the warships naturally directed the
2:03:05
Speaker 1: current against each other. Now this was up to destroy
2:03:09
Speaker 1: the equilibrium of the ship so struck and to turn
2:03:12
Speaker 1: it upside down, a situation sure to be taken advantage
2:03:15
Speaker 1: of by the enemy's vessel to make an attack with
2:03:17
Speaker 1: her arm. There was also the further danger of being
2:03:20
Speaker 1: precipitated to the ground unless the shutting and opening of
2:03:23
Speaker 1: the necessary valves were quickly attended to. In whatever position
2:03:27
Speaker 1: the vessel might be. The tubes pointing downwards the earth
2:03:31
Speaker 1: were it naturally those through which the current should be rushing,
2:03:34
Speaker 1: while the tubes pointing upwards should be closed. The means
2:03:38
Speaker 1: by which a vessel turned upside down might be righted
2:03:41
Speaker 1: and placed again on a level keel was accomplished by
2:03:44
Speaker 1: using the four tubes pointing downwards at one side of
2:03:47
Speaker 1: the vessel only, while the four at the other side
2:03:50
Speaker 1: were kept closed. The Atlanteans had also sea going vessels,
2:03:55
Speaker 1: which were propelled by some power analogous to that above mentioned,
2:03:58
Speaker 1: but the current force which was eventually found to be
2:04:01
Speaker 1: most effective in this case, had a denser appearance than
2:04:04
Speaker 1: that used in the air boat. End of Section five,
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Speaker 1: Part six. Manners and customs. There was doubtless as much
2:04:13
Speaker 1: variety in the manners and customs of the Atlanteans at
2:04:16
Speaker 1: different epochs of their history as there has been among
2:04:19
Speaker 1: the various nations which compose our Aryan rays. With the
2:04:23
Speaker 1: fluctuating fashion of the centuries, we are not concerned. The
2:04:27
Speaker 1: following remarks will attempt to deal merely with the leading
2:04:30
Speaker 1: characteristics which differentiate their habits from our own, and these
2:04:34
Speaker 1: will be chosen as much as possible from the Great
2:04:36
Speaker 1: Taltic era. With regard to marriage and the relations of
2:04:40
Speaker 1: the sexes, the experience made by the Turranians have already
2:04:43
Speaker 1: been referred to. Polygamous customs were prevalent at different times
2:04:48
Speaker 1: among all the sub races. But in the Tautic days,
2:04:51
Speaker 1: while two wives were allowed by the law, great numbers
2:04:54
Speaker 1: of men had only one wife. Nor were the women,
2:04:57
Speaker 1: as in countries nowadays where polygamy prevail, regarded as inferiors
2:05:02
Speaker 1: or in the least oppressed. Their position was quite equal
2:05:05
Speaker 1: to that of the men. While the aptitude many of
2:05:08
Speaker 1: them displayed in acquiring the real power, made them fully
2:05:11
Speaker 1: the equals, if not the superiors, of the other sex.
2:05:14
Speaker 1: This equality, indeed, was recognized from infancy, and there was
2:05:18
Speaker 1: no separation of the sexes. In schools or colleges. Boys
2:05:22
Speaker 1: and girls were taught together. It was the rule, too,
2:05:25
Speaker 1: and of the exception, for complete hammony to prevail in
2:05:28
Speaker 1: the dual households, and the mothers taught their children to
2:05:31
Speaker 1: look equally to their father's wives for love and protection.
2:05:34
Speaker 1: Nor were women debarred from taking part in the government.
2:05:38
Speaker 1: Sometimes there were members of the councils, and occasionally even
2:05:41
Speaker 1: where chosen by the adept emperor to represent him in
2:05:44
Speaker 1: the various provinces as the local sovereigns. The writing material
2:05:48
Speaker 1: of the Atlanteans consisted of thin sheets of metal on
2:05:52
Speaker 1: the white porcelain like surface of which the words were written.
2:05:55
Speaker 1: They also had the means of reproducing the written text
2:05:58
Speaker 1: by placing on the inscribed sheets another thin metal plate,
2:06:01
Speaker 1: which had previously been dipped in some liquid. The decks
2:06:05
Speaker 1: thus graven on the second plate could be reproduced at
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Speaker 1: will on other sheets, a great number of which fastened
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Speaker 1: together constituted a book, a cast on which differs considerably
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Speaker 1: from our own, must be instanced next in their choice
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Speaker 1: of food. It is an unpleasant subject, but can scarcely
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Speaker 1: be passed over. The flesh of the animals they usually discarded,
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Speaker 1: while the parts which among us are avoided as food,
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Speaker 1: were by them devoured. The blood also they drank, often
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Speaker 1: hot from the animal, and various cooked dishes were also
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Speaker 1: made of it. It must, not, however, be thought that
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Speaker 1: they were without the lighter, and to us more palatable
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Speaker 1: kinds of food. The seas and rivers provided them with fish,
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Speaker 1: the flesh of which they ate, though often in such
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Speaker 1: an advanced stage of decomposition as would be to us revolting.
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Speaker 1: The different grains were largely cultivated, of which were made
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Speaker 1: bread and cake. They also had milk, fruit, and vegetables.
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Speaker 1: A small minority of the inhabitants, it is true, never
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Speaker 1: adopted the revolting customs above referred to. This was the
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Speaker 1: case with the adept kings and emperors, and the initiated
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Speaker 1: priesthood throughout the whole Empire. They were entirely vegetarian in
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Speaker 1: their habits. But though many of the emperor's councilors and
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Speaker 1: the officials about the court affected to prefer the purer diet,
2:07:25
Speaker 1: they often indulged in secret their grosser tastes. Nor were
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Speaker 1: strong drinks unknown in those days. Fermented liqure of a
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Speaker 1: very potent sort was at one time much in vogue,
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Speaker 1: but it was so apt to make those who drank
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Speaker 1: it dangerously excited, that the law was passed absolutely forbidding
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Speaker 1: its consumption. The weapons of warfare and the chase differed
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Speaker 1: considerably at different epochs. Swords and spears, boughs and arrows
2:07:54
Speaker 1: sufficed as a rule for their moor house and the clavatli.
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Speaker 1: The best which they handed at that day very early
2:08:00
Speaker 1: period were mammoths with long wooly hair. Elephants and hippopotamy.
2:08:05
Speaker 1: Marsupials also abounded, as well as survivals of intermediate types,
2:08:09
Speaker 1: some being half reptile and half mamal, others half reptile
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Speaker 1: and half bird. The use of explosive was adopted at
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Speaker 1: an early period, and carried to great perfection in later times.
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Speaker 1: Some appear to have been made to explode on concussion,
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Speaker 1: others after a certain interval of time, but in either
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Speaker 1: case the destruction to life seems to have resulted from
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Speaker 1: the release of some poisonous vapor, not from the impact
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Speaker 1: of bullets so powerful indeed, must have become these explosives.
2:08:37
Speaker 1: In later Atlantian times that we hear of whole companies
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Speaker 1: of men being destroyed in battle by the noxious gas
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Speaker 1: generated by the explosion of one of these bombs above
2:08:47
Speaker 1: their heads, thrown there by some sort of lever. The
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Speaker 1: monetary system must now be considered. During the first three
2:08:55
Speaker 1: sub races, at all events, such a thing as a
2:08:58
Speaker 1: state coinage was unknown. Small pieces of metal or leather
2:09:02
Speaker 1: stamped with some given value, where it is true used
2:09:06
Speaker 1: as stockings, having a perforation in the center. They were
2:09:10
Speaker 1: strung together and were usually carried at the girdle. But
2:09:14
Speaker 1: each man was, as it were, his own coiner, and
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Speaker 1: the leather or metal token fabricated by him and exchanged
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Speaker 1: with another for value received was but a personal acknowledgment
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Speaker 1: of indebtedness, such as the promissory note is among us.
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Speaker 1: No man was entitled to fabricate more of these tokens
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Speaker 1: than he was able to redeem by the transfer of
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Speaker 1: goods in his possession. The toquins did not circulate as
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Speaker 1: carnage does. While the holder of the token had the
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Speaker 1: means to estimate with perfect accuracy the resources of his
2:09:44
Speaker 1: debtor by the clairvoyant faculty, which all then possessed to
2:09:48
Speaker 1: a greater or less degree, and which in any case
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Speaker 1: of doubt, was instantly directed to ascertain the actual state
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Speaker 1: of the facts. It must be stated, however, that in
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Speaker 1: the later days of Poseidon, a system approximating to our
2:10:02
Speaker 1: own currency was adopted, and the Triple Mountain, visible from
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Speaker 1: the great Southern capital, was the favorite representation of the
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Speaker 1: state coinage. But the system of land tenure is the
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Speaker 1: most important subject under these heading. Among their more hall
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Speaker 1: and Slavatli, who lived chiefly by hunting and fishing, the
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Speaker 1: question naturally did not arise, though some system of village
2:10:24
Speaker 1: cultivation was recognized in the Tlavatli days, it was with
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Speaker 1: the increase of population and civilization in the early Tooltic
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Speaker 1: times that land first became worth fighting for. It is
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Speaker 1: not proposed to trace a system or want of system
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Speaker 1: prevalent in the troublous times anterior to the advent of
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Speaker 1: the Golden Age, but the records of that epoch present
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Speaker 1: to the consideration not only of political economists, but of
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Speaker 1: whole who regard the welfare of the race as subject
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Speaker 1: of the utmost interest and importance. The population, it must
2:10:56
Speaker 1: be remembered, had been steadily increasing, and under the government
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Speaker 1: of the other emperors it had reached the very large
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Speaker 1: figure already quoted. Nevertheless, poverty and want were things undreamt
2:11:07
Speaker 1: of in those days, and this social well being was
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Speaker 1: no doubt partly due to the system of land tenure.
2:11:14
Speaker 1: Not only was all the land and its produce regarded
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Speaker 1: as belonging to the Emperor, but all the flocks and
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Speaker 1: herds upon it were his as well. The country was
2:11:23
Speaker 1: divided into different provinces or districts, each province having at
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Speaker 1: its head one of the subsidiary kings or viceroys appointed
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Speaker 1: by the Emperor. Each of these viceroys was held responsible
2:11:35
Speaker 1: for the government and well being of all inhabitants under
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Speaker 1: his rule. The tillage of the land, the harvesting of
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Speaker 1: the crops, and the pasturage of the herbs lay within
2:11:44
Speaker 1: his sphere of superintendence, as well as the conducting of
2:11:47
Speaker 1: such agricultural experiments as have been already referred to. Each
2:11:52
Speaker 1: viceroy had round him a council of agricultural advisors and coadjutors,
2:11:58
Speaker 1: who had, amongst their other duties to be well versed
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Speaker 1: in astronomy, for it was not a barren science in
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Speaker 1: those days. The occult influences on plant and animal life
2:12:08
Speaker 1: were then studied and taken. Advantage of. The power, too,
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Speaker 1: of producing rain and will was not uncommon then, while
2:12:15
Speaker 1: the effects of a glacial epoch were on more than
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Speaker 1: one occasion partly neutralized in the northern parts of the
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Speaker 1: continent by occult science. The right day for beginning every
2:12:26
Speaker 1: agricultural operation was of course duly calculated, and the work
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Speaker 1: carried into effect by the officials, whose duty it was
2:12:33
Speaker 1: to supervise every detail. The produce raised in each district
2:12:38
Speaker 1: or kingdom was, as a rule, consumed in it, but
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Speaker 1: an exchange of agricultural commodities was sometimes arranged between the
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Speaker 1: rulers after a small share had been put aside for
2:12:48
Speaker 1: the emperor and the central government. At the city of
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Speaker 1: the Golden Gates, the produce of the whole district or
2:12:53
Speaker 1: kingdom was divided among the inhabitants, the local viceroy and
2:12:57
Speaker 1: his retinue of officials naturally receiving the larger portions, but
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Speaker 1: the means agricultural laborer getting enough to secure him competence
2:13:05
Speaker 1: and comfort. Any increase in the productive capacity of the land,
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Speaker 1: or in the mineral wealth which it yielded, was divided
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Speaker 1: proportionately amongst all concerned. All therefore were interested in making
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Speaker 1: the result of their combined labor as lucrative as possible.
2:13:22
Speaker 1: This system worked admirably for a very long period. But
2:13:26
Speaker 1: as time went on, negligence and self seeking crept in.
2:13:31
Speaker 1: Those whose duty it was to superintend threw more and
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Speaker 1: more responsibility on their inferiors in office, and in time
2:13:37
Speaker 1: it became rare for the rulers to interfere or to
2:13:40
Speaker 1: interest themselves in any of the operations. This was the
2:13:43
Speaker 1: beginning of the evil days. The members of the dominant class,
2:13:46
Speaker 1: who had previously given over time to the state duties,
2:13:49
Speaker 1: began to think about making their own lives more pleasant.
2:13:53
Speaker 1: The elaboration of luxury was setting in. There was one
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Speaker 1: cause in particular which produced great discontent and amongst the
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Speaker 1: lower classes. The system under which the youth of the
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Speaker 1: nation was drafted into the technical schools has already been
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Speaker 1: referred to. Now It was always one of the superior class,
2:14:12
Speaker 1: whose psychic faculties had been duly cultivated, to whom the
2:14:15
Speaker 1: duty was assigned of selecting the children, so that each
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Speaker 1: one should receive the training and ultimately be devoted to
2:14:22
Speaker 1: the occupation for which it was naturally most fitted. But
2:14:25
Speaker 1: when those possessed of the clairvoyant vision by which alone
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Speaker 1: such choice could be made delegated the dudistic inferiors who
2:14:33
Speaker 1: were wanting in such psychic attributes, the results in suing
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Speaker 1: were that the children were often thrust into wrong grooves,
2:14:40
Speaker 1: and those whose capacity in taste lay in one direction
2:14:43
Speaker 1: often found themselves tied for life to an occupation which
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Speaker 1: they disliked and in which therefore they were rarely successful.
2:14:51
Speaker 1: The systems of land tenure which ensued in different parts
2:14:55
Speaker 1: of the empire on the breaking up of the Great
2:14:57
Speaker 1: Teltic dynasty were many and various, but it is not
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Speaker 1: necessary to follow them. In the later days of Poseidonis,
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Speaker 1: they had, as a rule given place to the system
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Speaker 1: of individual ownership which we know so well. Reference has
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Speaker 1: already been made under the head of emigrations to the
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Speaker 1: system of land tenure which prevailed during that glorious period
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Speaker 1: of Peruvian history when the Incans held Sway about fourteen
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Speaker 1: thousand years ago. A short summary of this may be
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Speaker 1: of interest as demonstrating the source from which its ground
2:15:27
Speaker 1: work was doubtless derived, as well as instancing the variations
2:15:32
Speaker 1: which had been adopted in this somewhat more complicated system.
2:15:36
Speaker 1: All title to land was derived in the first instance
2:15:39
Speaker 1: from the Inca, but half of it was assigned to
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Speaker 1: the cultivators, who of course constituted the great bulk of
2:15:46
Speaker 1: the population. The other half was divided between the Inca
2:15:50
Speaker 1: and the priesthood who celebrated the worship of the Sun.
2:15:53
Speaker 1: Out of the proceeds of his specially allotted lands, the
2:15:56
Speaker 1: Inca had to keep up the army, the roads throughout
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Speaker 1: the whole empire, and all the machinery of government. This
2:16:02
Speaker 1: was conducted by a special governing class, all more or
2:16:06
Speaker 1: less closely related to the Inca himself, and representing a
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Speaker 1: civilization and a culture much in advance of the great
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Speaker 1: masses of the population. The remaining fourth, the lands of
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Speaker 1: the Sun, provided not only for the priests who conducted
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Speaker 1: the public worship throughout the empire, but for the entire
2:16:25
Speaker 1: education of the people in schools and colleges, for all
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Speaker 1: sick and infirm persons, and finally for every inhabitant, exclusive
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Speaker 1: of course of the governing class for whom there was
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Speaker 1: no cessation of work on reaching the age of forty five,
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Speaker 1: that being the age arranged for the hard work of
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Speaker 1: life to cease and for leisure and enjoyment to begin. Religion,
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Speaker 1: the only subject that now remains to be dealt with
2:16:52
Speaker 1: is the evolution of religious ideas. Between the spiritual aspiration
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Speaker 1: of a rude but simple race and the degraded reach
2:17:00
Speaker 1: of an intellectually cultured but spiritually dead people lies a
2:17:04
Speaker 1: gulf which only the term religion, using its widest acceptation,
2:17:08
Speaker 1: can spun. Nevertheless, it is this consecutive process of generation
2:17:13
Speaker 1: and the generation which has to be traced. In the
2:17:15
Speaker 1: history of the Atlantan people. It will be remembered that
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Speaker 1: the government under which their more health came into existence
2:17:22
Speaker 1: was described as the most perfect conceivable, for it was
2:17:25
Speaker 1: the Man of himself who acted as their king. The
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Speaker 1: memory of this divine ruler was naturally preserved in the
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Speaker 1: annals of the race, and in due time he came
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Speaker 1: to be regarded as a god among a people who
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Speaker 1: were naturally psychic, and had consequently glimpses of those states
2:17:41
Speaker 1: of consciousness which transcend our ordinary waking condition. Retaining this
2:17:46
Speaker 1: higher attribute. It was only natural that this primitive people
2:17:49
Speaker 1: should adopt a religion which, though in no way representative
2:17:53
Speaker 1: of any exalted philosophy, was of a type far from ignoble.
2:17:58
Speaker 1: In later days, this phase of religious belief passed into
2:18:02
Speaker 1: a kind of ancestor worship. The Tlavatli, while inheriting the
2:18:06
Speaker 1: traditional reverence and worship for the Manu, were taught by
2:18:10
Speaker 1: adept instructors of the existence of a supreme being whose
2:18:14
Speaker 1: symbol was recognized as the Sun. They thus developed a
2:18:17
Speaker 1: sort of sun worship for the practice of which they
2:18:20
Speaker 1: repaired to the hilltops. There they built great circles of
2:18:24
Speaker 1: upright monoliths. These were intended to be symbolical of the
2:18:28
Speaker 1: sun's yearly course, but they were also used for astronomical purposes,
2:18:33
Speaker 1: being placed so that to one standing in the high altar,
2:18:37
Speaker 1: the sun would rise at the winter solstice behind one
2:18:40
Speaker 1: of these monoliths, at the vernal equinox behind another, and
2:18:44
Speaker 1: so on throughout the year. Astronomical observations of a still
2:18:48
Speaker 1: more complex character, connected with the more distant constellations were
2:18:52
Speaker 1: also helped by these stone circles. We have already seen
2:18:56
Speaker 1: under the head of emigrations how a later sub race,
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Speaker 1: the Accadians, in the erection of Stonehenge, reverted to this
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Speaker 1: primitive building of monoliths, and doubt though that Lavati were
2:19:08
Speaker 1: with somewhat greater capacity for intellectual development than the previous
2:19:12
Speaker 1: sub races, their cult was still of a very primitive type,
2:19:16
Speaker 1: with a wiiter diffusion of knowledge. In the days of
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Speaker 1: the Teltics, and more especially with establishment later on of
2:19:23
Speaker 1: an initiated priesthood and an adopt emperor, increased opportunities were
2:19:27
Speaker 1: offered to the people for the attainment of a truer
2:19:30
Speaker 1: conception of the divine. The few who were ready to
2:19:33
Speaker 1: take full advantage of the teaching offered, after having been
2:19:36
Speaker 1: tried and tested, were doubtless admitted into the ranks of
2:19:40
Speaker 1: the priesthood, which then constituted an immense occult fraternity. With these, however,
2:19:46
Speaker 1: who had so outstripped the mass of humanity as to
2:19:50
Speaker 1: be ready to begin the progress of the occult path,
2:19:53
Speaker 1: we are not here concerned the religions practiced by the
2:19:56
Speaker 1: inhabitants of Atlantis, generally being the subject of ourigns investigation.
2:20:01
Speaker 1: The power to rise to philosophic heights of thought was,
2:20:04
Speaker 1: of course wanting to the musters of those days, as
2:20:07
Speaker 1: it is similarly wanting to the great majority of the
2:20:09
Speaker 1: inhabitants of the world today. The nearest approach which the
2:20:13
Speaker 1: most gifted teacher could make in attempting to convey any
2:20:16
Speaker 1: idea of the nameless and all pervading essence of the cosmos,
2:20:20
Speaker 1: was necessarily imparted in the form of symbols, and the Sun,
2:20:23
Speaker 1: naturally enough, was the first symbol adopted, as in our
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Speaker 1: own days too. The more cultivated and spiritually minded would
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Speaker 1: see through the symbol and might sometimes arise on the
2:20:34
Speaker 1: wings of devotion to the Father of our spirits, that quote,
2:20:38
Speaker 1: motive and center of our soul's desire, object and refuge
2:20:42
Speaker 1: of our journey's end unquote, while the grosser multitude would
2:20:46
Speaker 1: see nothing but the symbol and would worship it as
2:20:49
Speaker 1: the carved Madonna or the wooden image of the crucified
2:20:52
Speaker 1: one is today worshiped throughout Catholic Europe. Sun and fire
2:20:56
Speaker 1: worship then became the cult for the celebration of which
2:20:59
Speaker 1: magnificent temples were reared throughout the length and breadth of
2:21:03
Speaker 1: the continent of Atlantis, but more especially in the great
2:21:06
Speaker 1: city of the golden gates, the temple service being performed
2:21:10
Speaker 1: by retinues of priests endowed by the state for that purpose.
2:21:14
Speaker 1: In those early days, no image of the deity was permitted.
2:21:17
Speaker 1: The sun disc was considered the only appropriate emblem of
2:21:21
Speaker 1: the god Head, and as such was used in every temple,
2:21:25
Speaker 1: a golden disc being generally placed so as to catch
2:21:28
Speaker 1: the first rays of the rising sun at the vernal
2:21:30
Speaker 1: equinox or the summer solstice. An interesting example of the
2:21:35
Speaker 1: almost unalloyed survival of this worship of the sun disc
2:21:39
Speaker 1: may be instanced in the Shinto ceremonies of Japan. All
2:21:43
Speaker 1: other representations of deity is in this faith regarded as impious,
2:21:47
Speaker 1: and even the circular mirror of polished metal is hidden
2:21:50
Speaker 1: from the vulgar gays, save on ceremonial occasions. Unlike the
2:21:55
Speaker 1: gorgeous temple decorations of Atlantis, however, the Shinta temples are
2:21:59
Speaker 1: correct terized by an entire absence of decoration, the exquisite
2:22:03
Speaker 1: finish of the plain woodwork being unrelieved by any carving,
2:22:07
Speaker 1: paint or varnish. But the sun disk did not always
2:22:11
Speaker 1: remain the only permissible emblem of deity. The image of
2:22:14
Speaker 1: a man an archetipl man was in after days, placed
2:22:18
Speaker 1: in the temples and adored as the highest representation of
2:22:21
Speaker 1: the divine. In some ways, this might be considered a
2:22:25
Speaker 1: reversion to the moor Hull worship of the Manu. Even then,
2:22:29
Speaker 1: the religion was comparatively pure, and the occult fraternity of
2:22:33
Speaker 1: the Good Law, of course, did their utmost to keep
2:22:36
Speaker 1: alive in the hearts of the people the spiritual life.
2:22:39
Speaker 1: The evil days, however, were drawing near, when altruistic idea
2:22:44
Speaker 1: should remain to redeem the race from the abyss of
2:22:46
Speaker 1: selfishness in which it was destined to be overwhelmed. The
2:22:50
Speaker 1: decay of the ethical idea was necessary prelude to the
2:22:54
Speaker 1: perversion of the spiritual. The hand of every man fought
2:22:58
Speaker 1: for himself alone, and his knowledge was used for purely
2:23:01
Speaker 1: selfish ends, till it became an established belief that there
2:23:05
Speaker 1: was nothing in the universe greater or higher than themselves.
2:23:08
Speaker 1: Each man was his own law and Lord and God,
2:23:12
Speaker 1: and the very worship of the temples ceased to be
2:23:15
Speaker 1: the worship of any ideal but became the mere duration
2:23:18
Speaker 1: of Man as he was known and seen to be.
2:23:21
Speaker 1: As is written in the book of Zian. Then the
2:23:24
Speaker 1: fourth became tall with pride. We are the kings, it
2:23:28
Speaker 1: was said, we are the gods. They built huge cities
2:23:33
Speaker 1: of rare earths and metals. They built, and out of
2:23:36
Speaker 1: their fires vomited out of the white stone of the
2:23:39
Speaker 1: mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own
2:23:42
Speaker 1: images in their size and likeness, and worshiped them. Shrines
2:23:48
Speaker 1: were placed in temples in which the statues of each man,
2:23:51
Speaker 1: wrote in gold or silver, or carve in stone or wood,
2:23:55
Speaker 1: was adored by himself. The richer men kept whole trains
2:23:59
Speaker 1: of priests in their employ for the cult and care
2:24:02
Speaker 1: of their shrines, and offerings were made to these statues
2:24:06
Speaker 1: as to gods. The apotheosis of self could go no further.
2:24:11
Speaker 1: It must be remembered that every true religious idea that
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Speaker 1: has ever entered into the mind of man has been
2:24:17
Speaker 1: consciously suggested to him by the divine instructors, or the
2:24:21
Speaker 1: initiates of their cult lodgis, who throughout all the ages
2:24:24
Speaker 1: have been the gardens of the divine mysteries and of
2:24:27
Speaker 1: the facts of the superstantial states of consciousness. Mankind generally
2:24:32
Speaker 1: has but slowly become capable of assimilating a few of
2:24:35
Speaker 1: these divine ideas. While the monster's growth on the hideous
2:24:39
Speaker 1: distortions to which every religion on earth stands as witness,
2:24:44
Speaker 1: must be traced to man's own lower nature, it would seem, indeed,
2:24:49
Speaker 1: that he has not always even been fit to be
2:24:51
Speaker 1: entrusted with knowledge as to the mere symbols under which
2:24:55
Speaker 1: were veiled the light of deity. For in the days
2:24:58
Speaker 1: of the Tyrannian supremacy, some of this knowledge was wrongfully divulged.
2:25:03
Speaker 1: We have seen how the life and light giving attributes
2:25:06
Speaker 1: of the Sun were in early times used as the
2:25:09
Speaker 1: symbol to bring before the minds of the people all
2:25:12
Speaker 1: that they were capable of conceiving of the great first Cause.
2:25:16
Speaker 1: But other symbols of far deeper and more real significance
2:25:20
Speaker 1: were known and guarded within the ranks of the priesthood.
2:25:24
Speaker 1: One of these was the conception of a trinity in unity.
2:25:27
Speaker 1: The trinities of most sacred significance were never divulged to
2:25:31
Speaker 1: the people, but the trinity, personifying the cosmic powers of
2:25:34
Speaker 1: the universe as creator, preserver and destroyer, became publicly known
2:25:39
Speaker 1: in some irregular manner. In the Turrannian days. This idea
2:25:43
Speaker 1: was still further materialized and degraded by the semite into
2:25:47
Speaker 1: a strictly anthropomorphic trinity consisting of father, mother, and child.
2:25:53
Speaker 1: A further and rather terrible development of the Turanian times
2:25:57
Speaker 1: must still be referred to with a practice of sorcery.
2:26:00
Speaker 1: Many of the inhabitants had, of course become aware of
2:26:03
Speaker 1: the existence of powerful elementals, creatures who had been called
2:26:07
Speaker 1: into being, or at least animated by their own powerful wills, which,
2:26:11
Speaker 1: being directed towards maleficent ends, naturally produced elementals of power
2:26:16
Speaker 1: and malignity. So degraded had then become man's feelings of
2:26:20
Speaker 1: reverence and worship that they actually began to adore these
2:26:24
Speaker 1: semi conscious creations of their own malignant thought. The ritual
2:26:28
Speaker 1: with which these beings were worshiped was blood stained from
2:26:31
Speaker 1: the very start, and of course every sacrifice offered at
2:26:35
Speaker 1: their shrines gave vitality and persistence to these vampire like creations,
2:26:40
Speaker 1: so much so that even to the present day, in
2:26:42
Speaker 1: various parts of the world, the elementals formed by the
2:26:45
Speaker 1: powerful will of these Altetlantian sorcerers soon continued to exact
2:26:49
Speaker 1: their tribute from unoffending village communities. Though inaugurated and widely
2:26:54
Speaker 1: practiced by the brutal Tyranians. These blood stained rituals seems
2:26:58
Speaker 1: never to have spread to a extent among the other
2:27:01
Speaker 1: sub braces, though human sacrifices appear to have been non
2:27:05
Speaker 1: uncommon among some branches of the Semites. In the Great
2:27:09
Speaker 1: Tolta Empire of Mexico, the sun worship of their forefathers
2:27:13
Speaker 1: was still the national religion, while the bloodless sufferings to
2:27:16
Speaker 1: their beneficent deity queto Quato, consisted merely of flowers and fruit.
2:27:21
Speaker 1: It was only with the coming of the savage as
2:27:23
Speaker 1: Sex that the harmless Mexican ritual was supplemented with the
2:27:27
Speaker 1: blood of human sacrifices, which drenched the altars of the
2:27:31
Speaker 1: war god whu Ittsilopochtli, and the tearing out of the
2:27:35
Speaker 1: hearts of the victims on the summit of the Teocali
2:27:38
Speaker 1: may be regarded as a direct survival of the elemental
2:27:41
Speaker 1: worship of the Trannian ancestors in Atlantis. It will be
2:27:46
Speaker 1: seen then, that, as in our own days, the religious
2:27:48
Speaker 1: life of the people embraced the most varied forms of
2:27:51
Speaker 1: belief and worship from the small minority whose part initiation
2:27:56
Speaker 1: and had touched with a higher spiritual life, who knew
2:27:59
Speaker 1: that good will towards all men, control of thought, and
2:28:02
Speaker 1: purity of life and action were the necessary preliminaries to
2:28:05
Speaker 1: the attainment of the highest states of consciousness and the
2:28:08
Speaker 1: widest realms of vision. Innumerable phases let down through the
2:28:13
Speaker 1: more or less blind worship of cosmic powers or of
2:28:16
Speaker 1: anthropomorphic gods, to the degraded but most widely extended ritual
2:28:21
Speaker 1: in which each man adored his own image, and to
2:28:24
Speaker 1: the blood stained rights of the elemental worship. It must
2:28:28
Speaker 1: be remembered throughout that we are dealing with the Atlantic
2:28:31
Speaker 1: race only so that any reference would be out of
2:28:34
Speaker 1: place that bore on the still more degraded fetish worship
2:28:38
Speaker 1: that even then existed, as it still does among the
2:28:42
Speaker 1: debased representatives of the Limurian peoples all through the centuries. Then,
2:28:47
Speaker 1: the various rituals composed to celebrate these various forms of
2:28:50
Speaker 1: worship were carried on till the final submersions of Poseidonis,
2:28:55
Speaker 1: by which time the countless hosts of Atlantic emigrants had
2:28:58
Speaker 1: already established on four or in lands the various cults
2:29:01
Speaker 1: of the mother continent. To trace the rise and follow
2:29:05
Speaker 1: the progress in detail of the archaic religions which in
2:29:08
Speaker 1: historic times have blossomed into such diverse and antagonistic forms,
2:29:13
Speaker 1: would be an undertaking of great difficulty. But the illumination
2:29:16
Speaker 1: it would throw on matters of transcendent importance may some
2:29:20
Speaker 1: day induce the attempt in conclusion. It would be vain
2:29:24
Speaker 1: to attempt to summarize what is already too much of
2:29:26
Speaker 1: a summary. Rather, let us hope that the foregoing may
2:29:30
Speaker 1: lend itself as the text from which may be developed
2:29:33
Speaker 1: histories of the many offshoots of the various sub races,
2:29:37
Speaker 1: Histories which may analytically examine political and social developments which
2:29:42
Speaker 1: have been here touched on in the most fragmentary manner.
2:29:45
Speaker 1: One word, however, may still be said about that evolution
2:29:49
Speaker 1: of the race, that progress which all creation, with mankind
2:29:53
Speaker 1: at its head, is everdestned to achieve century by century,
2:29:57
Speaker 1: millennium by millennium, manvantara by manvantara, and culpa by culpa.
2:30:03
Speaker 1: The descent of spirit into matter, those two poles of
2:30:07
Speaker 1: the one eternal substance, is the process which occupies the
2:30:10
Speaker 1: first half of every cycle. Now, the period we have
2:30:13
Speaker 1: been contemplating in the foregoing pages, the period during which
2:30:17
Speaker 1: the Atlantean race was running its course was the very middle,
2:30:21
Speaker 1: or turning point of this present Manvantara. The process of evolution,
2:30:27
Speaker 1: which in our present fifth race has now set in
2:30:30
Speaker 1: the return, that is, of matter into spirit, had in
2:30:34
Speaker 1: those days revealed itself in but a few isolated individual cases,
2:30:39
Speaker 1: forerunners of the resurrection of the spirit. But the problem
2:30:43
Speaker 1: which all who have given the subject any amount of
2:30:46
Speaker 1: consideration must have felt to be still awaiting a solution,
2:30:49
Speaker 1: is the surprising contrast in the attributes of the Atlantean race.
2:30:54
Speaker 1: Side by side with their brutal passions, their degraded animal propensities,
2:31:00
Speaker 1: were their psychic faculties, their godlike intuition. Now the solution
2:31:05
Speaker 1: of this apparently insoluble enigma lies in the fact that
2:31:09
Speaker 1: the building of the bridge had only then been begun,
2:31:12
Speaker 1: the bridge of manners or mind, destined to unite in
2:31:15
Speaker 1: the perfected individual, the upward searching forces of the animal
2:31:20
Speaker 1: and the dunwark cycling spirit of the God. The animal
2:31:23
Speaker 1: kingdom of to day exhibits a field of nature where
2:31:27
Speaker 1: the building of that bridge has not yet been begun.
2:31:29
Speaker 1: And even among mankind in the days of Atlantis, the
2:31:33
Speaker 1: connection was so slight that the spiritual attribute had but
2:31:37
Speaker 1: little controlling power over the lower animal nature. The touch
2:31:41
Speaker 1: of mind they had was sufficient to add zest to
2:31:43
Speaker 1: the gratification of the senses, but was not enough to
2:31:47
Speaker 1: vitalize the still dormant spiritual faculties, which, in the perfected
2:31:51
Speaker 1: individual will have to become the absolute monarch. Our metaphor
2:31:56
Speaker 1: of the bridge may carry us a little further if
2:31:58
Speaker 1: we consider it as now in process of construction, but
2:32:02
Speaker 1: as destined to remain incomplete for mankind in general, for
2:32:06
Speaker 1: untold millenniums, in fact, until humanity has completed another circle
2:32:11
Speaker 1: of the seven planets, and the great fifth round is
2:32:14
Speaker 1: half way through its course. Though it was during the
2:32:17
Speaker 1: latter half of the third root race and the beginning
2:32:20
Speaker 1: of the fourth that the Mannusaputra descended to endow with
2:32:24
Speaker 1: mind the bulk of humanity, who were still without the spark,
2:32:28
Speaker 1: yet so feebly burnt the light all through the Atlantic days,
2:32:32
Speaker 1: that few could be said to have attained to the
2:32:34
Speaker 1: powers of abstract thought. On the other hand, the functioning
2:32:38
Speaker 1: of the mind and concrete things came well within their grasp,
2:32:42
Speaker 1: and as we have seen, it was in the practical
2:32:45
Speaker 1: concerns of their everyday life, especially when their psychic faculties
2:32:49
Speaker 1: were directed towards the same objects that they achieved such
2:32:52
Speaker 1: remarkable and stupendous results. It must also be remembered that Kama,
2:32:58
Speaker 1: the fourth principle naturally obtained its culminating development in the
2:33:02
Speaker 1: fourth race. This would account for the depths of animal
2:33:05
Speaker 1: crossness to which they sunk, whilst the approach of the
2:33:08
Speaker 1: cycle to its nature inevitably accentuated this downward movement, so
2:33:14
Speaker 1: that there is little to be surprised dead in the
2:33:16
Speaker 1: gradual loss by the race of the psychic faculties, and
2:33:20
Speaker 1: in its descent to selfishness and materialism. Rather, should all
2:33:24
Speaker 1: these be regarded as part of the great cyclic process,
2:33:28
Speaker 1: in obedience to the eternal law. We have all gone
2:33:31
Speaker 1: through those evil days, and the experiences we then accumulated
2:33:34
Speaker 1: go to make up the characters we now possess. But
2:33:38
Speaker 1: a brighter sun now shines on the Aryan rays than
2:33:41
Speaker 1: that which liad the path of their Atlantan forefathers. Less
2:33:45
Speaker 1: dominated by their portions of the senses, more open to
2:33:48
Speaker 1: the influence of mind, the men of our race have
2:33:51
Speaker 1: obtained and are obtaining a firmer grasp of knowledge, a
2:33:55
Speaker 1: wider range of intellect. This upward arc of the great
2:33:59
Speaker 1: manvantaric Cione cycle will naturally lead increasing numbers towards the
2:34:03
Speaker 1: entrance of the occult path, and will lend more and
2:34:06
Speaker 1: more attraction to the transcendent opportunities it offers for the
2:34:10
Speaker 1: continued strengthening and purification of the character. Strengthening and purification
2:34:15
Speaker 1: no longer directed by mere spasmodic effort and continually interrupted
2:34:19
Speaker 1: by misleading attractions, but guided and guarded at every step
2:34:23
Speaker 1: by the masters of wisdom, so that the upward climb,
2:34:26
Speaker 1: when once begun, should no longer be halting and uncertain,
2:34:31
Speaker 1: but lead direct to the glorious goal. The psychic faculties too,
2:34:36
Speaker 1: and the god like intuition lost for a time, but
2:34:39
Speaker 1: still the rightful heritage of the race only await the
2:34:42
Speaker 1: individual effort of reattainment to give to the character still
2:34:46
Speaker 1: deeper in sight and more transcendent powers. So shall the
2:34:51
Speaker 1: ranks of the adapt instructors, the masters of wisdom, be
2:34:55
Speaker 1: ever strengthened and recruited, and even amongst us to day
2:34:59
Speaker 1: them it must certainly be some indistinguishable save by the
2:35:03
Speaker 1: deathless enthusiasm with which they are animated, who will before
2:35:08
Speaker 1: the next root race is established on this planet stund
2:35:11
Speaker 1: themselves as masters of wisdom to help the race in
2:35:14
Speaker 1: its upward progress. End of Section six, Part one forward.
2:35:21
Speaker 1: The object of this paper is not so much to
2:35:23
Speaker 1: bring forward new and startling information about the lost continent
2:35:28
Speaker 1: of Lemuria and its inhabitants, as to establish, by the
2:35:32
Speaker 1: evidence obtainable from geology and from the study of the
2:35:35
Speaker 1: relative distribution of living and extinct animals and plants, as
2:35:40
Speaker 1: well as from the observed processes of physical evolution in
2:35:43
Speaker 1: the Lower Kingdoms, the facts stated in the Secret Doctrine
2:35:47
Speaker 1: and in other works with reference to these now submerged lands,
2:35:53
Speaker 1: the Lost Lemuria. It is generally recognized by science that
2:35:58
Speaker 1: what is now dry land on the surface of our
2:36:00
Speaker 1: globe was one's the ocean floor, and that what is
2:36:04
Speaker 1: now the ocean floor was one's dry land. Geologists have
2:36:09
Speaker 1: in some cases been able to specify the exact portions
2:36:12
Speaker 1: of the Earth's surface when these subsidences and upheavals have
2:36:17
Speaker 1: taken place, And although the lost continent of Atlantis has
2:36:20
Speaker 1: so far received scunt recognition from the world of science,
2:36:24
Speaker 1: the general consensus of opinion has for long pointed to
2:36:28
Speaker 1: the existence, at some prehistoric time of a vast southern
2:36:32
Speaker 1: continent to which the name of Limuria has been assigned.
2:36:36
Speaker 1: Evidence supplied by geology and by the relative distribution of
2:36:40
Speaker 1: living and extinct animals and plants. The history of the
2:36:46
Speaker 1: Earth's development shows us that the distribution of land and
2:36:49
Speaker 1: water on its surface is ever and continually changing. In
2:36:54
Speaker 1: consequence of geological changes of the Earth's crust, Elevations and
2:36:58
Speaker 1: depressions of the ground take place everywhere, sometimes more strongly
2:37:02
Speaker 1: marked in one place, sometimes in another. Even if they
2:37:06
Speaker 1: happen so slowly that in the course of centuries the
2:37:09
Speaker 1: seashore rises or sinks only a few inches, or even
2:37:13
Speaker 1: only a few lines, still they nevertheless affect great results
2:37:18
Speaker 1: in the cause of long periods of time, and long
2:37:22
Speaker 1: immeasurably long periods of time have not been wanting in
2:37:25
Speaker 1: the Earth's history. During the course of many millions of years,
2:37:29
Speaker 1: ever since organic life existed on the Earth, land and
2:37:33
Speaker 1: water have perpetually struggled for supremacy. Continents and islands have
2:37:38
Speaker 1: sunk into the sea, and nuance have arisen out of
2:37:41
Speaker 1: its bosom. Lakes and seas have been slowly raised and
2:37:45
Speaker 1: dried up, and new water basins have arisen by the
2:37:48
Speaker 1: sinking of the ground. Peninsulas have become islands by the
2:37:52
Speaker 1: narrow neck of land which connected them with the mainland
2:37:54
Speaker 1: sinking into the water. The islands of an archipelago have
2:37:59
Speaker 1: become the peaks of a continuous chain of mountains by
2:38:02
Speaker 1: the whole floor of their sea being considerably raised. Thus,
2:38:06
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean at one time was an inland sea, when
2:38:10
Speaker 1: in the place of the Straits of Gibraltar, an Isthmus
2:38:13
Speaker 1: connected Africa with Spain England. Even during the more recent
2:38:17
Speaker 1: history of the Earth, when man already existed, has repeatedly
2:38:21
Speaker 1: been connected with the European continent and been repeatedly separated
2:38:25
Speaker 1: from it. Nay, even Europe and North America have been
2:38:29
Speaker 1: directly connected. The South Sea at one time formed a
2:38:32
Speaker 1: large Pacific continent, and the numerous little islands which now
2:38:36
Speaker 1: lie scattered in it were simply the highest peaks of
2:38:39
Speaker 1: the mountains covering that continent. The Indian Ocean formed a
2:38:43
Speaker 1: continent which extended from the Sunda Islands along the southern
2:38:47
Speaker 1: coast of Asia to the east coast of Africa. This
2:38:50
Speaker 1: large continent of former times. Sclater, an Englishman, has called
2:38:55
Speaker 1: Limuria from the monkey like animals which inhabited it, and
2:38:59
Speaker 1: it is at the same time of great importance from
2:39:02
Speaker 1: being the propable cradle of the human race, which in
2:39:06
Speaker 1: all likelihood here first developed out of anthropoid apes. The
2:39:10
Speaker 1: important proof which Alfred Wallace has furnished, by the help
2:39:14
Speaker 1: of chronological facts, that the present Malayan Archipelago consists in
2:39:18
Speaker 1: reality of two completely different divisions, is particularly interesting. The
2:39:23
Speaker 1: western division, the inter Malayan Archipelago, comprising the large islands
2:39:27
Speaker 1: of Borneo, Java and Sumatra, was formerly connected by Malacca
2:39:32
Speaker 1: with the Asiatic continent and probably also with the Lemurian
2:39:36
Speaker 1: continent just mentioned. The eastern division, on the other hand,
2:39:40
Speaker 1: the Austro Malayan Archipelago, comprising Selebi's, the Moluccas, New Guinea,
2:39:46
Speaker 1: Solomon's Islands and so on, was formerly directly connected with Australia.
2:39:52
Speaker 1: Both divisions were formerly two continents separated by a strait,
2:39:57
Speaker 1: but they have now for the most part sunk below
2:39:59
Speaker 1: the level the sea. Wallace, solely on the ground of
2:40:03
Speaker 1: his accurate chronological observations, has been able in the most
2:40:06
Speaker 1: accurate manner to determine the position of the former strait,
2:40:10
Speaker 1: the south end of which passes between Bali and Lombok. Thus,
2:40:14
Speaker 1: aver since liquid water exists on the earth, the boundaries
2:40:18
Speaker 1: of water in land have eternally changed, and we may
2:40:21
Speaker 1: assert that the outlines of continents and islands have never
2:40:25
Speaker 1: remained for an hour, nay even for a minute, exactly
2:40:28
Speaker 1: the same for the waves eternally and perpetually break on
2:40:32
Speaker 1: the edge of the coast. And whatever the land in
2:40:34
Speaker 1: these places loses in extent, it gains in other places
2:40:38
Speaker 1: by the accumulation of mud, which condenses into solid stone
2:40:42
Speaker 1: and again rises above the level of the sea as
2:40:45
Speaker 1: new land. Nothing can be more erroneous than the idea
2:40:48
Speaker 1: of a firm and unchangeable outline of our continents, such
2:40:52
Speaker 1: as is impressed upon us in early youth by defective
2:40:55
Speaker 1: lessons on geography, which are devoid of geological bases. The
2:41:01
Speaker 1: namely Muria, as above stated, was originally adopted by MISR.
2:41:05
Speaker 1: Sklayter in recognition of the fact that it was probably
2:41:09
Speaker 1: on this continent that animals of the Lemuroid type were developed.
2:41:13
Speaker 1: Quote these rights A. R. Wallace is undoubtedly a legitimate
2:41:19
Speaker 1: and highly probable supposition, and it is an example of
2:41:22
Speaker 1: the way in which a study of the geographical distribution
2:41:25
Speaker 1: of animals may enable us to reconstruct the geography of
2:41:29
Speaker 1: a bygone age. It this continent represents what was probably
2:41:34
Speaker 1: a primary zoological region in some past geological epoch. But
2:41:39
Speaker 1: what that epoch was and what were the limits of
2:41:42
Speaker 1: the region in question, we are quite unable to say.
2:41:46
Speaker 1: If we are to suppose that it comprised the whole
2:41:49
Speaker 1: area now inhabited by lemuroid animals, we must make it
2:41:52
Speaker 1: extend from West Africa to Burma, South China and Selebi's
2:41:57
Speaker 1: an area, which it possibly did once a quote we
2:42:03
Speaker 1: have already had occasion. He elsewhere rights to refer to
2:42:07
Speaker 1: an ancient connection between this subregion the Ethiopian and Madagascar,
2:42:12
Speaker 1: in order to explain the distribution of the lamourine type
2:42:15
Speaker 1: and some other curious affinities between the two countries. This
2:42:19
Speaker 1: view is supported by the geology of India, which shows
2:42:22
Speaker 1: us Ceylon and South India consisting mainly of granite and
2:42:27
Speaker 1: all metamorphic rocks, while the greater part of the peninsula
2:42:30
Speaker 1: is of tertiary formation, with a few isolated patches of
2:42:34
Speaker 1: secondary rocks. It is evident therefore that during much of
2:42:38
Speaker 1: the Tertiary period, Ceylon and South India were bounded on
2:42:42
Speaker 1: the north by a considerable extent of sea, and probably
2:42:45
Speaker 1: formed part of an extensive southern continent or great island.
2:42:50
Speaker 1: The very numerous and remarkable cases of affinity with Malaya require, however,
2:42:55
Speaker 1: some closer approximation with these islands, which probably occur at
2:43:00
Speaker 1: the later period, when still later the great plains and
2:43:03
Speaker 1: table lands of Hindostan were formed and a permanent land
2:43:08
Speaker 1: communication affected with the region highly developed Himalo Chinese fauna,
2:43:13
Speaker 1: a rapid immigration of new types took place, and many
2:43:15
Speaker 1: of the less specialized forms of mammalia and birds became extinct.
2:43:20
Speaker 1: Among reptiles and insects, the competition was less severe, or
2:43:24
Speaker 1: the older forms were too well adopted to local conditions
2:43:28
Speaker 1: to be expelled, so that it is among these groups
2:43:31
Speaker 1: alone that we find any considerable number of what are
2:43:34
Speaker 1: probably the remains of the ancient fauna of a now
2:43:37
Speaker 1: submerged southern continent. N After stating that during the whole
2:43:44
Speaker 1: of the Tertiary and perhaps during much of the secondary periods,
2:43:47
Speaker 1: the great land masses of the Earth were probably situated
2:43:50
Speaker 1: in the northern hemisphere, while as proceeds in the southern hemisphere,
2:43:56
Speaker 1: there appeared to have been three considerable and very ancient
2:43:59
Speaker 1: land masses, varying in extent from time to time, but
2:44:02
Speaker 1: always keeping distinct from each other, and represented more or
2:44:06
Speaker 1: less completely by Australia, South Africa and South America of
2:44:11
Speaker 1: our time. Into these flowed successive waves of life, as
2:44:15
Speaker 1: they each in turn became temporarily united with some part
2:44:19
Speaker 1: of the Northern Land. Although apparently in vindication of some
2:44:23
Speaker 1: conclusions of his which have been criticized by doctor Hartloub,
2:44:27
Speaker 1: Wallace subsequently denied the necessity of postulating the existence of
2:44:31
Speaker 1: such a continent. His general recognition of the facts of
2:44:35
Speaker 1: subsistences and upheavals of great portions of the Earth's surface,
2:44:39
Speaker 1: as well as the inferences which he draws from the
2:44:41
Speaker 1: acknowledged relations of living and extinct fauness as above stated,
2:44:46
Speaker 1: remain of course unaltered. The following extracts from mister H. F.
2:44:51
Speaker 1: Blandford's most interesting paper read before a Meeting of the
2:44:55
Speaker 1: Geological Society, deals with a subject in still greater detail,
2:45:00
Speaker 1: quote the affinities between the fossils of both animals and
2:45:03
Speaker 1: plants of the Beaufort group of Africa and those of
2:45:06
Speaker 1: the Indian Punchets and Kathmis are such as to suggest
2:45:10
Speaker 1: the former existence of a land connection between the two areas,
2:45:15
Speaker 1: but the resemblance of the African and Indian fossil faunas
2:45:18
Speaker 1: does not cease with Permian and Triassic times. The plant
2:45:22
Speaker 1: beds of the Wittenhak group have furnished eleven forms of plants,
2:45:27
Speaker 1: two of which mister Tate has identified with Indian raj
2:45:31
Speaker 1: Mahal plants. The Indian Jurassic fossils have yet to be described,
2:45:36
Speaker 1: with a few exceptions, but it has been stated that
2:45:38
Speaker 1: doctor Stolietka was much struck with the affinities of certain
2:45:43
Speaker 1: of the Khach fossils to Africa forms, and doctor Stolietzka
2:45:47
Speaker 1: and mister Griesbach have shown that of the cretaceous fossils
2:45:52
Speaker 1: of the ome Tefuni River in Ataal, the majority twenty
2:45:56
Speaker 1: two out of thirty five described forms are identical with
2:46:00
Speaker 1: species from southern India. Now, the plant bearing series of
2:46:04
Speaker 1: India and the Karoo and part of the Wintenha formation
2:46:07
Speaker 1: of Africa are in all probability of fresh water origin,
2:46:12
Speaker 1: both indicating the existence of a large land area around
2:46:15
Speaker 1: from the waste of which these deposits are derived. Was
2:46:19
Speaker 1: this land continues between the two regions? And is there
2:46:22
Speaker 1: anything in the present physical geography of the Indian Ocean
2:46:25
Speaker 1: which would suggest its probable position? Further, what was the
2:46:29
Speaker 1: connection between this land and Australia, which we must equally
2:46:33
Speaker 1: assume to have existed in perman times? And lastly, are
2:46:38
Speaker 1: there any peculiarities in the existing fauna and flora of India,
2:46:42
Speaker 1: Africa and the intervening islands which would lend support to
2:46:45
Speaker 1: the idea of a former connection more direct than that
2:46:49
Speaker 1: which now exists between Africa and South India and the
2:46:52
Speaker 1: Malay Peninsula. The speculation here put forward is no new one.
2:46:57
Speaker 1: It has long been a subject of thought in the
2:46:59
Speaker 1: mind lines of some Indian and European naturalists, among the
2:47:03
Speaker 1: former of whom I may mention my brother mister Blandford
2:47:07
Speaker 1: and doctor Stolyetka, their speculations being grounded on the relationship
2:47:12
Speaker 1: and partial identity of the faunas and floras of past times,
2:47:16
Speaker 1: not less than on that existing community of forms which
2:47:20
Speaker 1: has led mister Andrew Murray, Mister Cyles V. Wood Junior
2:47:24
Speaker 1: and Professor Huxley to infer the existence of a Miocene
2:47:28
Speaker 1: continent occupying a part of the Indian Ocean. Indeed, all
2:47:32
Speaker 1: that I can pretend to aim at in this paper
2:47:36
Speaker 1: is to endeavor to give some additional definition and extension
2:47:39
Speaker 1: to the conception of its geological aspect. With regard to
2:47:43
Speaker 1: the geological evidence. A glance at the map will show
2:47:46
Speaker 1: that from the neighborhood of the west coast of India
2:47:49
Speaker 1: to that of the Seychelles, Madagascar and the Mauritius extends
2:47:53
Speaker 1: the line of coralatols and banks, including Adasbank, the Lacedevs, Maldives,
2:47:59
Speaker 1: the Kagos Group and the savad Mulla, all indicating the
2:48:04
Speaker 1: existence of a submerged mountain range or ranges. The Seychells
2:48:08
Speaker 1: too are mentioned by mister Darwin as rising from an
2:48:12
Speaker 1: extensive and tolerably level bank, having a depth of between
2:48:16
Speaker 1: thirteen forty fathoms, so that, although now partly encircled by
2:48:20
Speaker 1: fringing reefs, they may be regarded as a virtual extension
2:48:23
Speaker 1: of the same submerged saxis. Further west, the Cosmoledo and
2:48:28
Speaker 1: Comoro Islands consist of atolls and islands surrounded by barrier reefs,
2:48:33
Speaker 1: and these bring us pretty close to the present shores
2:48:36
Speaker 1: of Africa and Madagascar. It seems at least probable that
2:48:39
Speaker 1: in this chain of atholls, banks and barrier reefs we
2:48:43
Speaker 1: have indicated the position of an ancient mountain chain which
2:48:46
Speaker 1: possibly formed the backbone of a tract of later Palozoic,
2:48:49
Speaker 1: Mesozoic and early Tertiary land, being related to it much
2:48:54
Speaker 1: as the Alpine and Himalayan system is to the Europeo
2:48:57
Speaker 1: Asiatic continent, and the Rocky Mountain Zenanders to the two Americas.
2:49:02
Speaker 1: As it is desirable to designate this Mesozoic land by
2:49:06
Speaker 1: a name, I would propose that of indo Okeana. The
2:49:09
Speaker 1: name given to it by Missus Slayter, namely le Muria,
2:49:13
Speaker 1: is however, the one which has been most generally adopted.
2:49:17
Speaker 1: Professor Huxley has suggested on paleolontological ground that a land
2:49:22
Speaker 1: connection exists in this region, or rather between a Bissinia
2:49:25
Speaker 1: and India during the Miocene epoch. From what has been
2:49:29
Speaker 1: said above, it will be seen that Eye in fair
2:49:32
Speaker 1: its existence from a far earlier date. With regard to
2:49:36
Speaker 1: its depression, the only present evidence relates to its northern
2:49:39
Speaker 1: extremity and shows that it was in this region later
2:49:43
Speaker 1: than the Great Trap flows of the Dakan. These enormous
2:49:46
Speaker 1: sheets of volcanic rock are remarkably horizontal to the east
2:49:50
Speaker 1: of the Gods and the Sachiadri Range, but to the
2:49:53
Speaker 1: west of this they begin to deep seaward, so that
2:49:56
Speaker 1: the island of Bombay is composed of the higher parts
2:49:59
Speaker 1: of the formation. This indicates only that the depression to
2:50:03
Speaker 1: the westward has taken place in tertiary times, and to
2:50:07
Speaker 1: that extent, Professor Huxley's inference that it was after the
2:50:10
Speaker 1: Miocene period is quite consistent with the geological evidence unquote.
2:50:16
Speaker 1: After proceeding at some length to instance the close relationship
2:50:19
Speaker 1: of many of the fauna in the lands under consideration
2:50:23
Speaker 1: lyon hyena, jacal, leopard, antelope, gazelle, sand grouse, indian bustard,
2:50:32
Speaker 1: many land mollusca, and notably the lemore and the scaly antea,
2:50:36
Speaker 1: the writer proceeds as follows quote paleontology, physical geography, and
2:50:42
Speaker 1: geology equally with the ascertained distribution of living animals and
2:50:46
Speaker 1: plants orfered, thus their concurrent testimony to the former close
2:50:50
Speaker 1: connection of Africa and India, including the tropical islands of
2:50:54
Speaker 1: the Indian ocean. This interoceanic land appears to have existed
2:50:58
Speaker 1: from at least early per Ermian times, probably, as Professor
2:51:02
Speaker 1: Huxley has pointed out, up to the close of the
2:51:05
Speaker 1: Miocene epoch and South African peninsular India are the existing
2:51:09
Speaker 1: remnants of that ancient land. It may not have been
2:51:12
Speaker 1: absolutely continued during the whole of this long period. Indeed,
2:51:16
Speaker 1: the Cretaceous rocks of southern India and Southern Africa, and
2:51:20
Speaker 1: the marine Jurassic beds of the same regions proved that
2:51:23
Speaker 1: some portions of it were for longer or shorter periods
2:51:27
Speaker 1: invaded by the sea, but any break of continuity was
2:51:31
Speaker 1: probably not prolonged for Mister Wallace's investigations in the Eastern
2:51:35
Speaker 1: Archipelago have shown how narrow a sea may offer an
2:51:38
Speaker 1: insuperable barrier to the migration of land animals. In Palozoic times,
2:51:44
Speaker 1: this land must have been connected with Australia, and in
2:51:47
Speaker 1: tertiary times with Malayana, since the Malayan forms with African
2:51:51
Speaker 1: alliances are in several cases distinct from those of India.
2:51:56
Speaker 1: We know as yet too little of the geology of
2:51:59
Speaker 1: the Eastern Peninsula to say from what epoch dates its
2:52:02
Speaker 1: connection within doceanic land. Mister Theobald has ascertained the existence
2:52:07
Speaker 1: of Triassic, Cretaceous and Pneumolithic rocks in the Arabian coast range,
2:52:13
Speaker 1: and carboniferous limestone is known to occur from Almane southward,
2:52:17
Speaker 1: while the range east of the Irrawadi is formed of
2:52:21
Speaker 1: younger tertiary rocks. From these, it would appear that the
2:52:25
Speaker 1: considerable part of the Malay Peninsula must have been occupied
2:52:29
Speaker 1: by the sea during the greater part of the Mesozoic
2:52:31
Speaker 1: and Eocene periods. Plant bearing rocks of ranigant age have
2:52:36
Speaker 1: been identified as forming the outer spurs of the Sikin Himalaya.
2:52:41
Speaker 1: The ancient land must therefore have extended some distance to
2:52:44
Speaker 1: the north of the present Gangetic Delta. Coal both of
2:52:49
Speaker 1: Cretaceous and tertiary age, occurs in the Khasi Hills and
2:52:52
Speaker 1: also in Upper Assam, but in both cases associated with
2:52:56
Speaker 1: marine beds, so that it would appear that in this
2:52:59
Speaker 1: region the the boundaries of London Sea osculated somewhat during
2:53:03
Speaker 1: the Cretaceous and Eocene times. To the northwest of India,
2:53:07
Speaker 1: the existence of great formations of Cretaceous and Numulitic cage
2:53:11
Speaker 1: stretching far through Baluchistan and Persia and entering into the
2:53:15
Speaker 1: structure of the northwest Himalaya proved that in the later
2:53:20
Speaker 1: Mesozoic and Eocene ages, India had no direct communication with
2:53:24
Speaker 1: Western Asia, while the Jurassic rocks of Katch, the Salt Range,
2:53:29
Speaker 1: and the Northern Himalaya show that in the preceding period
2:53:33
Speaker 1: the sea covered a large part of the present Intuspasin
2:53:37
Speaker 1: and the Triassic Carboniferous and still more recent marine formations
2:53:41
Speaker 1: of the Himalaya indicate that from very early times till
2:53:45
Speaker 1: the upheaval of that great chain, much of its present
2:53:48
Speaker 1: site was for ages covered by the sea. To sum
2:53:51
Speaker 1: up the views advanced in this paper, first, the plant
2:53:55
Speaker 1: bearing series of India ranges from early Permian to the
2:53:59
Speaker 1: latest Jurassic times, indicating except in a few cases unlocally,
2:54:04
Speaker 1: the uninterrupted continuity of land and fresh water conditions. These
2:54:08
Speaker 1: may have prevailed from much earlier times. Second, in the
2:54:12
Speaker 1: early Permian, as in the post Pliocene age, a cold
2:54:16
Speaker 1: climate prevailed down to low latitudes, and I am inclined
2:54:20
Speaker 1: to believe in both hemispheres simultaneously. With a decrease of cold,
2:54:25
Speaker 1: the flora and reptilian fauna of Permian times have diffused
2:54:29
Speaker 1: to Africa, India and possibly Australia, or the flora may
2:54:33
Speaker 1: have existed in Australia somewhat earlier and have been diffused
2:54:37
Speaker 1: Thence Third, India, South Africa and Australia were connected by
2:54:43
Speaker 1: an indo oceanic continent in the Permian epoch, and the
2:54:47
Speaker 1: two former countries remained connected with the utmost only short
2:54:51
Speaker 1: interruptions up to the end of the Miocene period. During
2:54:55
Speaker 1: the latter part of the time, this land was also
2:54:57
Speaker 1: connected with Malayana. Fourth. In common with some previous writers,
2:55:03
Speaker 1: I consider that the position of this land was defined
2:55:07
Speaker 1: by the range of coral reefs and banks that now
2:55:10
Speaker 1: exist between the Arabian Sea and East Africa. Fifth, up
2:55:14
Speaker 1: to the end of the Noumolitic Hippoch, no direct connection,
2:55:18
Speaker 1: except possibly for short periods, existed between India and Western
2:55:22
Speaker 1: Africa unquote. In the discussion which followed the reading of
2:55:27
Speaker 1: the paper, Professor Ramsay quote agreed with the author in
2:55:31
Speaker 1: the belief in the junction of Africa with India and
2:55:34
Speaker 1: Australia in geological times unquote. Mister Woodward quote was pleased
2:55:40
Speaker 1: to find that the author had added further evidence derived
2:55:44
Speaker 1: from the fossil flora of the Mesozoic series of India,
2:55:47
Speaker 1: in corroboration of the views of Huxley, Sclater and others,
2:55:51
Speaker 1: as to the former existence of an old submerged continent Linuria,
2:55:56
Speaker 1: which Darwin's researches on coral reefs had long seen foreshadowed
2:56:01
Speaker 1: unquote quote of the five now existing continents, writes Ernest
2:56:06
Speaker 1: Hegel in his great work The History of Creation, neither Australia,
2:56:11
Speaker 1: nor America nor Europe can have been this primeval home
2:56:15
Speaker 1: of Man, or the so called paradise the cradle of
2:56:19
Speaker 1: the human race. Most circumstances indicate Southern Asia as the
2:56:24
Speaker 1: locality in question. Besides Southern Asia, the only other of
2:56:28
Speaker 1: the now existing continents which might be viewed in this
2:56:31
Speaker 1: light is Africa. But there are a number of circumstances,
2:56:35
Speaker 1: especially chronological facts, which suggest that the primeval home of
2:56:39
Speaker 1: Man was a continent now sunk below the surface of
2:56:42
Speaker 1: the Indian Ocean, which extended along the south of Asia
2:56:46
Speaker 1: as it is at present, and probably in direct connection
2:56:49
Speaker 1: with it towards the east, as far as further India
2:56:53
Speaker 1: and the Sunda Islands towards the west, as far as
2:56:56
Speaker 1: Madagascar and the southeastern shores of Africa. You have already
2:57:00
Speaker 1: mentioned that many facts in animal and vegetable geography render
2:57:05
Speaker 1: the former existence of such as South Indian continent very probable.
2:57:09
Speaker 1: Sclater has given this continent the name of Lemuria from
2:57:12
Speaker 1: the semi apes which were characteristic of it. By assuming
2:57:16
Speaker 1: this Lemuria to have been man's primeval home, we greatly
2:57:19
Speaker 1: facilitate the explanation of the geographical distribution of the human
2:57:23
Speaker 1: species by migration. In a subsequent work, The Pedigree of
2:57:29
Speaker 1: Man Hegel asserts the existence of Lemuria at some early
2:57:33
Speaker 1: epoch of the Earth's history as an acknowledged fact. The
2:57:37
Speaker 1: following quotation from doctor Harlaub's writings may bring to a
2:57:40
Speaker 1: close this portion of the evidence in favor of the
2:57:43
Speaker 1: existence of the lost Lemuria. Quote. Five and thirty years ago,
2:57:48
Speaker 1: Isidor Jeffrois Saint Hilaire remarked that if one had to
2:57:52
Speaker 1: classify the island of Madagascar exclusively on zoological considerations and
2:57:57
Speaker 1: without reference to its geographical situation, it would be shown
2:58:01
Speaker 1: to be neither Asiatic nor African, but quite different from either,
2:58:06
Speaker 1: and almost a fourth continent. And this fourth continent could
2:58:09
Speaker 1: be further proved to be, as regards its fauna, much
2:58:13
Speaker 1: more different from Africa, which lies so near to it,
2:58:16
Speaker 1: than from India, which is so far away. With these words,
2:58:20
Speaker 1: the correctness and pregnancy of which later investigations tend to
2:58:24
Speaker 1: bring into their full light, the French naturalists first stated
2:58:28
Speaker 1: the interesting problem for the solution of which an hypothesis
2:58:31
Speaker 1: based on scientific knowledge has recently been propounded. For this
2:58:35
Speaker 1: fourth continent of Visidoor Gevois is Sclater's Limuria. That sunken land,
2:58:41
Speaker 1: which containing parts of Africa, must have extended far eastwards
2:58:46
Speaker 1: of a southern India and Ceylon, and the highest points
2:58:49
Speaker 1: of which we recognize in the volcanic peaks of Bourbon
2:58:52
Speaker 1: and Mauritius, and in the central range of Madagascar itself,
2:58:56
Speaker 1: the last resorts of the almost extinct La marine race,
2:58:59
Speaker 1: which which formerly peopled it. Un end of Section seven,
2:59:06
Speaker 1: Part two, evidence obtained from archaic records. The further evidence
2:59:12
Speaker 1: we have with regard to Lemuria and its inhabitants has
2:59:15
Speaker 1: been obtained from the same source and in the same
2:59:18
Speaker 1: manner as that which resulted in the writing of the
2:59:21
Speaker 1: story of Atlantis. In this case, also the author has
2:59:24
Speaker 1: been privileged to obtain copies of two maps, one representing
2:59:28
Speaker 1: Limuria and the adjoining lands during the period of that
2:59:31
Speaker 1: continent's greatest expansion, the other exhibiting its outlines after its
2:59:35
Speaker 1: dismemberment by great catastrophes, but long before its final destruction.
2:59:41
Speaker 1: It was never professed that the maps of Atlantis were
2:59:43
Speaker 1: correct to a single degree of latitude or longitude, but
2:59:47
Speaker 1: with the far greater difficulty of obtaining the information in
2:59:50
Speaker 1: the present case, it must be stated that still less
2:59:53
Speaker 1: must these maps of Lemuria be taken as absolutely accurate.
2:59:57
Speaker 1: In the former case, there was a globe, a good
3:00:00
Speaker 1: bar releaf in terracotta, and a well preserved map on
3:00:04
Speaker 1: parchment or skin of some sort to copy from. In
3:00:07
Speaker 1: the present case, there was only a broken terracotta model
3:00:11
Speaker 1: and a very badly preserved and crumpled map, so that
3:00:15
Speaker 1: the difficulty of carrying back the remembrance of all the details,
3:00:18
Speaker 1: and consequently of reproducing exact copies has been far greater.
3:00:22
Speaker 1: We were told that it was by mighty adepts in
3:00:25
Speaker 1: the days of Atlantis that the Atlantean maps were produced,
3:00:29
Speaker 1: but we are not aware whether the Lemurian maps were
3:00:32
Speaker 1: fashioned by some of the divine instructors in the days
3:00:35
Speaker 1: when Lemuria still existed, or in still later days of
3:00:39
Speaker 1: the Atlantian epoch. But while guarding against over confidence in
3:00:43
Speaker 1: the absolute accuracy of the maps in question, the transcriber
3:00:46
Speaker 1: of the Archaic Originals believes that they may, in all
3:00:50
Speaker 1: important particulars be taken as approximately correct. Probable duration of
3:00:55
Speaker 1: the continent of Lemuria, a period speaking roughly of between
3:01:00
Speaker 1: four and five million years, probably represents the life of
3:01:03
Speaker 1: the continent of Atlantis, for it is about that time
3:01:06
Speaker 1: since their more halt, the first sub races of the
3:01:08
Speaker 1: Fourth Root race who inhabited Atlantis, arose on a portion
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Speaker 1: of the Lemurian continent, which at that time still existed.
3:01:16
Speaker 1: Remembering that in the evolutionary process, the figure four invariably
3:01:21
Speaker 1: represents not only the nature of the cycle, but the
3:01:24
Speaker 1: period of shortest duration, whether in the case of a
3:01:27
Speaker 1: Manvantara or of a race, it may be assumed that
3:01:31
Speaker 1: the number of millions of years assignable as the life
3:01:34
Speaker 1: limit of the continent of Lemuria must be very much
3:01:37
Speaker 1: greater than that representing the life of Atlantis, the continent
3:01:40
Speaker 1: of the Fourth Root race. But in the case of Lemuria,
3:01:43
Speaker 1: no dates can be stated with even approximate accuracy. Geological epochs,
3:01:48
Speaker 1: so far as they are known to modern science, will
3:01:50
Speaker 1: be a better medium for contemporary reference, and they alone
3:01:54
Speaker 1: will be dealt with the maps. But not even geological
3:01:58
Speaker 1: epochs it will be observed assigned to the maps. If, however,
3:02:02
Speaker 1: an inference may be drawn from all the evidence before us,
3:02:05
Speaker 1: it would seem probable that the older of the two
3:02:07
Speaker 1: Limourrian maps represented the Earth's configuration from the Permian through
3:02:12
Speaker 1: the Triassic and into the Jurassic epoch, while the second
3:02:16
Speaker 1: map probably represents the Earth's configuration through the Cretaceous and
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Speaker 1: into the Eocene period. From the older of the two maps,
3:02:24
Speaker 1: it may be seen that the equatorial continent of Lemuria,
3:02:27
Speaker 1: at the time of its greatest expansion, nearly girdled the globe,
3:02:31
Speaker 1: extending as it then did from the site of the
3:02:33
Speaker 1: present Cape Verd Islands, a few miles from the coast
3:02:36
Speaker 1: of Sierra Leone in a southeasterly direction, through Africa, Australia,
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Speaker 1: the Society Islands, and all the intervening seas to a
3:02:45
Speaker 1: point but a few miles distant from a great island
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Speaker 1: continent about the size of the present South America, which
3:02:52
Speaker 1: spread over the remainder of the Pacific Ocean and included
3:02:55
Speaker 1: Cape Horn and parts of Patagonia. A remarkable feature in
3:02:59
Speaker 1: the second map Lemuria is the great length and at
3:03:02
Speaker 1: part the extreme narrowness of the straits which separated the
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Speaker 1: two great blocks of land into which the continent had
3:03:09
Speaker 1: by this time been split. And it will be observed
3:03:12
Speaker 1: that the straits at present existing between the islands of
3:03:15
Speaker 1: Bali and Lampok coincide with a portion of the straits
3:03:19
Speaker 1: which then divided these two continents. It will also be
3:03:23
Speaker 1: seen that these straits continued in an northerly direction by
3:03:26
Speaker 1: the west, not by the east coast of Borneo, as
3:03:29
Speaker 1: conjectured by Ernest Hegel. With reference to the distribution of
3:03:34
Speaker 1: fauna and flora in the existence of so many types
3:03:37
Speaker 1: common to India and Africa alike pointed out by mister Blandford,
3:03:41
Speaker 1: it will be observed that between parts of India and
3:03:44
Speaker 1: great tracts of Africa there was direct land communication during
3:03:48
Speaker 1: the first map period, and that similar communication was partially
3:03:52
Speaker 1: maintained in the second map period. Also, while a comparison
3:03:56
Speaker 1: of the maps of Atlantis with those of the Muria
3:03:59
Speaker 1: will demonstrate that continuous land communication existed, now at one
3:04:03
Speaker 1: epoch and now at another, between so many different parts
3:04:06
Speaker 1: of the Earth's surface at present separated by sea, that
3:04:10
Speaker 1: the existing distribution of fauna and flora in the two Americas,
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Speaker 1: in Europe, and in Eastern Lands, which has been such
3:04:16
Speaker 1: a puzzled naturalist, may with perfect ease be accounted for.
3:04:21
Speaker 1: The island indicated in the earlier Limurian map as existing
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Speaker 1: to the northwest of the extreme promontory of that continent
3:04:28
Speaker 1: and due west of the present coast of Spain, was
3:04:30
Speaker 1: probably a center from which preceded during long ages the
3:04:34
Speaker 1: distribution of fauna and flora above referred to. For and
3:04:38
Speaker 1: this is a most interesting fact, it will be seen
3:04:41
Speaker 1: that this island must have been the nucleus from first
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Speaker 1: to last of the subsequent great continent of Atlantis. It existed,
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Speaker 1: as we see in these earliest Lemurian times. It was
3:04:52
Speaker 1: joined in the second map Periage to land which had
3:04:55
Speaker 1: previously formed part of the great Lemurian continent, and indeed
3:04:59
Speaker 1: so many ac of territory had it by this time
3:05:02
Speaker 1: received that it might more appropriately be called a continent
3:05:06
Speaker 1: than an island. It was a great mountainous region of
3:05:09
Speaker 1: Atlantis at its prime, when Atlantis embraced great tracts of
3:05:12
Speaker 1: land which have now become north in South America. It
3:05:16
Speaker 1: remained the mountainous region of Atlantis in its decadence and
3:05:19
Speaker 1: of Rutah in the Ruta and Aitia epoch, and it
3:05:22
Speaker 1: practically constituted the island of Poseidonis, the last remnant of
3:05:26
Speaker 1: the continent of Atlantis, the final submergence of which took
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Speaker 1: place in the year ninety five sixty four b C.
3:05:33
Speaker 1: A comparison of the two maps here given along with
3:05:36
Speaker 1: the four maps of Atlantis, will also show that Australia,
3:05:39
Speaker 1: New Zealand, Madagascar, parts of Somaliland, the south of Africa,
3:05:44
Speaker 1: and the extreme southern portion of Patagonia are lands which
3:05:47
Speaker 1: have probably existed through all the intervening catastrophes since the
3:05:51
Speaker 1: early days of the Limurian period. The same may be
3:05:54
Speaker 1: said of the southern parts of India and Ceylon, with
3:05:57
Speaker 1: the exception in the case of Ceylon of a temper
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Speaker 1: or submergence in the Bhutah and Aeitia epoch. It is
3:06:03
Speaker 1: true there are also remains still existing of the even
3:06:07
Speaker 1: earlier Hyperborean continent, and they of course, are the oldest
3:06:11
Speaker 1: known lands on the face of the Earth. These are Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen,
3:06:17
Speaker 1: the most northerly parts of Norway and Sweden, and the
3:06:20
Speaker 1: extreme north cape of Siberia. Japan is shown by the
3:06:24
Speaker 1: maps to have been above water, whether as an island
3:06:27
Speaker 1: or as part of a continent, since the date of
3:06:29
Speaker 1: the second Lemurian map. Spain too, has doubtless existed since
3:06:34
Speaker 1: that time. Spain is, therefore, with the exception of the
3:06:37
Speaker 1: most northernly parts of Norway and Sweden, probably the oldest
3:06:41
Speaker 1: land in Europe. The indeterminate character of the statements just
3:06:45
Speaker 1: made is surrendered necessary by our knowledge that there did
3:06:48
Speaker 1: occurs subsidiencies and upheavals of different portions of the Earth's
3:06:52
Speaker 1: surface during the ages which lay between the periods represented
3:06:56
Speaker 1: by the maps. For example, soon after the date of
3:06:59
Speaker 1: the second l Muna map, we are informed that the
3:07:01
Speaker 1: whole Malay Peninsula was submerged and remained so for a
3:07:05
Speaker 1: long time. But the subsequent upheaval of that region must
3:07:09
Speaker 1: have taken place before the date of the first Atlantic map,
3:07:12
Speaker 1: for what is now the Malay Peninsula is there exhibited
3:07:15
Speaker 1: as part of a great continent Similarly, there have been
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Speaker 1: repeated minor subsidencies and upheavals nearer home in more recent times.
3:07:24
Speaker 1: And Heckel is perfectly correct in saying that England, he might,
3:07:27
Speaker 1: with greater accuracy, have set the islands of Great Britain
3:07:30
Speaker 1: and Ireland, which were then joined together. Quote has repeatedly
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Speaker 1: been connected with the European continent, and been repeatedly separated
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Speaker 1: from it unquote. In order to bring the subjects more
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Speaker 1: clearly before the mind, a tabular statement is here annexed,
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Speaker 1: which supplies the condensed history of the animal and plant
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Speaker 1: life on our globe, bracketed according to Heckel, with a
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Speaker 1: contemporary rock strata. Two other columns give the contemporary races
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Speaker 1: of man in such of the great cataclysms as are
3:08:02
Speaker 1: known to occult students, reptiles and pine forests. From this
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Speaker 1: statement it will be seen that Lemurian man lived in
3:08:10
Speaker 1: the age of reptiles and pine forests. The amphibious monsters
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Speaker 1: and the gigantic tree ferns of the Permian age still
3:08:17
Speaker 1: flourished in the warm darm climates. Plesiossary and Ichthiosary swarmed
3:08:23
Speaker 1: in the tepid marshes of the Mesolithic epoch, but with
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Speaker 1: a drying up of many of the inland seas, the dinosauria,
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Speaker 1: the monstrous land reptiles gradually became the dominant type, while
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Speaker 1: the pterodactyls the saurians, which developed butt like wings, not
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Speaker 1: only crawl on the earth but flew through the air.
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Speaker 1: The smallest of these latter were about the size of
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Speaker 1: a sparrow. The largest, however, with a breadth of wing
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Speaker 1: of more than sixteen feet, exceeding the largest of our
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Speaker 1: living birds of today. While most of the Dinosauria, the
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Speaker 1: dragons were terrible beasts of press a colossal reptiles which
3:09:02
Speaker 1: attained the length of from forty to fifty feet. Subsequent
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Speaker 1: excavations have laid bare skeletons of an even larger size.
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Speaker 1: Professor Ray Lancaster, at a meeting of the Royal Institution
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Speaker 1: on seventh January nineteen o four, is reported to have
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Speaker 1: referred to a Brontosaurus skeleton of sixty five feet long,
3:09:24
Speaker 1: which had been discovered in the early to deposit in
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Speaker 1: the southern part of the United States of America. As
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Speaker 1: it is written in the Sensus of the Archaic Book
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Speaker 1: of Xian Animals with bones, dragons of the deep and
3:09:36
Speaker 1: flying surpas were added to the creeping things. They that
3:09:40
Speaker 1: creep on the ground god wings. They of the long
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Speaker 1: necks in the water became the progenitors of the fowls
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Speaker 1: of the air. Modern science records her endorsement. The class
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Speaker 1: of birds, as already remarked, is so closely allied to
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Speaker 1: reptiles in internal structure and by embryonal development, that they
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Speaker 1: undoubtedly origin needed out of a branch of this class.
3:10:02
Speaker 1: The derivation of birds from reptiles first took place in
3:10:05
Speaker 1: the Mesolithic epoch, and this moreover probably during the trias
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Speaker 1: in the Vegetable Kingdom. This epoch also sold the pine
3:10:14
Speaker 1: and the palm tree gradually displays the giant tree ferns.
3:10:17
Speaker 1: In the later days of the Mesolithic Epoch, mables for
3:10:21
Speaker 1: the first time came into existence, but the fossil remains
3:10:24
Speaker 1: of the mammoth and mastodon, which where their earliest representatives,
3:10:29
Speaker 1: are chiefly found in the subsequent strata of the Eocene
3:10:32
Speaker 1: and Miocene times. Table the Ouratian Epoch, Cambrian Epoch, Silurian
3:10:39
Speaker 1: Epoch rock strata Archelithic or primordial depth of strata in
3:10:45
Speaker 1: feet seventy thousand races of men first root rays, which,
3:10:50
Speaker 1: being astral, could leave no fossil remains, cataclysms, plank animals,
3:10:58
Speaker 1: scullless animals, plants, forests of gigantic tangles and other thalus plants,
3:11:06
Speaker 1: Devonian epoch, Coal epoch, Permian epoch, rock strata, Paleolithic or
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Speaker 1: primary depth of strata in feet forty two thousand races
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Speaker 1: of men, second root rays, which was etheric, cataclysms, blank animals, fish, plants,
3:11:23
Speaker 1: fern forests, Triassic epoch, Jurassic epoch, Cretaceous epoch, rock strata,
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Speaker 1: Mesolithic or secondary depth of strata in feet fifteen thousand
3:11:37
Speaker 1: races of men, third root rays or Lemurion cataclysms. The
3:11:42
Speaker 1: Muria is said to have perished before the beginning of
3:11:45
Speaker 1: the Eocene Age. Animals, reptiles, plants, pine and palm forests,
3:11:52
Speaker 1: Eocene epoch, Miocene epoch, Pleiocene epoch, rock strata, Kenolithic or
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Speaker 1: tertiary depth of strata in feet five thousand races of
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Speaker 1: men four root rays or Atlantean cataclysms. The main continent
3:12:09
Speaker 1: of Atlantis was destroyed in the Museum period about eight
3:12:13
Speaker 1: hundred thousand years ago. Second grade catastrophe about two hundred
3:12:17
Speaker 1: thousand years ago. Animals, mammals, plants, forests of the sea, jews, trees,
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Speaker 1: Deluvian or Plistocene epoch, Alluvial epoch, rock strata Quaternary or
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Speaker 1: Anthropolithic depths of strata in feet five hundred races of men,
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Speaker 1: Fifth Root rays or Aryan cataclysms, third grade catastrophe about
3:12:45
Speaker 1: eighty thousand years ago, final submersions of Poseidonis ninety five
3:12:50
Speaker 1: sixty four BC. Animals, more differentiated mammals, plants, cultivated forests.
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Speaker 1: End of table, the human kingdom. Before making any reference
3:13:05
Speaker 1: to what must, even at this early date be called
3:13:08
Speaker 1: the human kingdom, it must be stated that none of
3:13:11
Speaker 1: those who at the present day can lay claim to
3:13:13
Speaker 1: even a moderate amount of mental or spiritual culture can
3:13:17
Speaker 1: have lived in these ages. It was only with the
3:13:20
Speaker 1: advent of the last three sub races of this Third
3:13:23
Speaker 1: Root race that the least progress of the first group
3:13:26
Speaker 1: of the lunar petrees began to return to incarnation, while
3:13:30
Speaker 1: the most advanced among them did not take birth till
3:13:34
Speaker 1: the early subraces of the Atlantic period. Indeed, Lemurian man
3:13:38
Speaker 1: during at least the first half of the race must
3:13:41
Speaker 1: be regarded rather as an animal destined to reach humanity
3:13:45
Speaker 1: than as a human, according to our understanding of the term.
3:13:48
Speaker 1: For though the second and third groups of petries who
3:13:52
Speaker 1: constituted the inhabitants of Lemuria during its first four sub races,
3:13:56
Speaker 1: had achieved sufficient self consciousness in the lunar maan vas
3:14:00
Speaker 1: vantara to differentiate them from the animal kingdom, they had
3:14:03
Speaker 1: not yet received the divine spark which should endow them
3:14:07
Speaker 1: with mind and individuality, in other words, make them truly human.
3:14:13
Speaker 1: Size and consistency of man's body. The evolution of this
3:14:17
Speaker 1: Limoian rays, therefore, constitutes one of the most obscure as
3:14:21
Speaker 1: well as one of the most interesting chapters of man's development,
3:14:26
Speaker 1: for during this period, not only did he reach true humanity,
3:14:29
Speaker 1: but his body under one of the greatest physical changes,
3:14:33
Speaker 1: while the processes of reproduction were twice altered. In explanation
3:14:38
Speaker 1: of the surprising statements which will have to be made
3:14:40
Speaker 1: in regard to the size and consistency of man's body
3:14:44
Speaker 1: at this early period, it must be remembered that while
3:14:47
Speaker 1: the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms pursued the normal course
3:14:51
Speaker 1: on this the fourth globe, during the fourth round of
3:14:54
Speaker 1: this Manvantera it was ordained that humanity should run over
3:14:58
Speaker 1: in rapid succession the various stages through which its evolution
3:15:02
Speaker 1: had passed during the previous rounds of the present manventura. Thus,
3:15:07
Speaker 1: the bodies of the first root race, in which these
3:15:09
Speaker 1: almost mindless beings were destined to gain experience, would have
3:15:13
Speaker 1: appeared to us as gigantic phantoms, if indeed we could
3:15:17
Speaker 1: have seen them at all, For their bodies were formed
3:15:20
Speaker 1: of astral matter. The austral forms of the first root
3:15:24
Speaker 1: rays were then gradually enveloped in a more physical casing.
3:15:28
Speaker 1: But though the second root race may be called physical,
3:15:31
Speaker 1: their bodies being composed of ether, they would have been
3:15:34
Speaker 1: equally invisible to eyesight as it at present exists. It
3:15:39
Speaker 1: was we were told, in order that the Manu and
3:15:41
Speaker 1: the beings who waded him might take means for improving
3:15:44
Speaker 1: the physical type of humanity, that this epitome of the
3:15:47
Speaker 1: process of evolution was ordained. The highest development which the
3:15:52
Speaker 1: type had so far reached was a huge ape like creature,
3:15:56
Speaker 1: which had existed on the three physical planets Mars, the Earth,
3:16:00
Speaker 1: Mercury in the third round on the arrival of the
3:16:03
Speaker 1: human life wave on the Earth. In this the fourth round.
3:16:07
Speaker 1: A certain number naturally, of these apelike creatures were found
3:16:11
Speaker 1: in occupation the residuum left on the planet during its
3:16:15
Speaker 1: period of obscuration. These of course joined the incoming human
3:16:19
Speaker 1: stream as soon as the rays became fully physical. Their
3:16:23
Speaker 1: bodies may not then have been absolutely discarded. They may
3:16:27
Speaker 1: have been utilized for purposes of reincarnation for the most
3:16:30
Speaker 1: backward entities. But it was an improvement on this type
3:16:33
Speaker 1: which was required, and this was most easily achieved by
3:16:36
Speaker 1: the Manu through working out on the astral plane. In
3:16:40
Speaker 1: the first instance, the archetype originally formed in the mind
3:16:43
Speaker 1: of the Logos from the etheric second rays, then was
3:16:48
Speaker 1: evolved the third the Lemurion. Their bodies had become material,
3:16:52
Speaker 1: being composed of the gases, liquids and solids, which constitute
3:16:55
Speaker 1: the three lowest subdivisions of the physical plane. But the
3:16:59
Speaker 1: gases and liquids still predominated for as yet their vertebrate
3:17:04
Speaker 1: structure had not solidified in the bones such as ours,
3:17:08
Speaker 1: and they could not therefore stand erect. Their bones, in fact,
3:17:12
Speaker 1: were pliable, as the bones of young infants now are.
3:17:16
Speaker 1: It was not until the middle of the Lemurian period
3:17:18
Speaker 1: that man developed a solid bone structure. To explain the
3:17:22
Speaker 1: possibility of the process by which the etheric form evolved
3:17:26
Speaker 1: into a more physical form and the soft boned physical
3:17:29
Speaker 1: form ultimately developed into a structure such as man possesses today,
3:17:34
Speaker 1: it is only necessary to refer to the permanent physical atom,
3:17:38
Speaker 1: containing as it does, the essence of all the forms
3:17:41
Speaker 1: through which Man has passed on the physical plane. It
3:17:44
Speaker 1: contained consequently the potentiality of a hard bone physical structure,
3:17:49
Speaker 1: such as had been attained during the course of the
3:17:52
Speaker 1: third round, as well as the potentiality of an etheric
3:17:55
Speaker 1: form and all the faces which lie between. For it
3:17:58
Speaker 1: must be remembered that the physical plane consists of four
3:18:02
Speaker 1: grades of ether, as well as the gases, liquids and solids,
3:18:06
Speaker 1: which so many are apt to regard as alone constituting
3:18:10
Speaker 1: the physical Thus, every stage of the development was a
3:18:13
Speaker 1: natural process, for it was a process which had been
3:18:16
Speaker 1: accomplished in ages long past, and all that was needed
3:18:20
Speaker 1: was for the Manu and the beings who aided him
3:18:23
Speaker 1: to gather round the permanent atom the appropriate kind of
3:18:26
Speaker 1: matter organs of vision. The organs of vision of these
3:18:31
Speaker 1: creatures before the developed bones, were of a rudimentary nature
3:18:36
Speaker 1: at least such was the condition of the two eyes
3:18:39
Speaker 1: in front, with which they sought for their food upon
3:18:42
Speaker 1: the ground. But there was a third eye at the
3:18:45
Speaker 1: back of the head, the art of it remnant of
3:18:47
Speaker 1: which is now known as the pinal gland. This, as
3:18:50
Speaker 1: we know, is now a center solely of astral vision,
3:18:54
Speaker 1: but at the epoch of which we are speaking, it
3:18:56
Speaker 1: was a chief center not only of astral but a
3:18:59
Speaker 1: physical site. Referring to reptiles which had become extinct. Professor
3:19:03
Speaker 1: Ray Lancaster, in a recent lecture at the Royal Institution,
3:19:07
Speaker 1: is reported to have drawn special attention quote to the
3:19:11
Speaker 1: size of the parietal foramen in the skull, which showed
3:19:15
Speaker 1: that in the ichthiosaurs, the parietal or penial eye on
3:19:19
Speaker 1: the top of the head must have been very large unquote.
3:19:23
Speaker 1: In this respect, he went on to say, mankind were
3:19:25
Speaker 1: inferior to these big sea lizards quote, for we had
3:19:29
Speaker 1: lost the third eye, which might be studied in the
3:19:32
Speaker 1: common lizard, or better in the great blue lizard of
3:19:35
Speaker 1: the south of France unquote. Somewhat before the middle of
3:19:39
Speaker 1: the Lemurian period, probably during the evolution of the third
3:19:42
Speaker 1: sub race, the Gigantic gelatinous body began slowly to solidify,
3:19:47
Speaker 1: and the soft boned leams developed into a bony structure.
3:19:51
Speaker 1: These primitive creatures were now able to stand upright, and
3:19:54
Speaker 1: the two eyes in the face gradually became the chief
3:19:57
Speaker 1: organs of physical sight, though the third eyes still remained
3:20:00
Speaker 1: to some extent an organ of physical sight also, and
3:20:04
Speaker 1: this it did till the very end of the Lemurian epoch. Ed,
3:20:08
Speaker 1: of course, remained an actual organ, as it still is
3:20:11
Speaker 1: a potential focus of psychic vision. This psychic vision continues
3:20:15
Speaker 1: to be an attribute of the race not only throughout
3:20:18
Speaker 1: the whole Limurian period, but well into the days of Atlantis.
3:20:23
Speaker 1: A curious fact to note is that when the race
3:20:26
Speaker 1: first attained the power of standing and moving in an
3:20:29
Speaker 1: upright position, they could walk backwards with almost as great
3:20:32
Speaker 1: ease as forwards. This may be accounted for not only
3:20:36
Speaker 1: by the capacity for a vision possessed by the third eye,
3:20:39
Speaker 1: but doubtless also by the curious projection at the heels,
3:20:43
Speaker 1: which will presently be referred to. Description of Limorian man.
3:20:49
Speaker 1: The following is a description of a man who belonged
3:20:52
Speaker 1: to one of the later sub races, probably the fifth.
3:20:56
Speaker 1: His stature was gigantic, somewhere between twelve and fifteen feet.
3:21:01
Speaker 1: His skin was very dark, being of a yellowish brown color.
3:21:05
Speaker 1: He had a long lower jaw, a strangely flattened face,
3:21:09
Speaker 1: eyes small but piercing, and said curiously far apart, so
3:21:13
Speaker 1: that he could see sideways as well as in front,
3:21:16
Speaker 1: while the eye at the back of the head, on
3:21:19
Speaker 1: which part of the head no hair, of course, grew,
3:21:21
Speaker 1: enabled him to see in that direction. Also, he had
3:21:24
Speaker 1: no forehead, but there seemed to be a roll of
3:21:27
Speaker 1: flesh where it should have been. The head sloped backwards
3:21:31
Speaker 1: and upwards in a rather curious way. The arms and legs,
3:21:35
Speaker 1: especially the former, were longer in proportion than ours, and
3:21:39
Speaker 1: could not be perfectly straightened either at elbows or knees.
3:21:43
Speaker 1: The hands and feet were enormous, and the hills projected
3:21:46
Speaker 1: backwards in an ungainly way. The figure was draped in
3:21:49
Speaker 1: a loose robe of skin, something like rhinocerous hide, but
3:21:53
Speaker 1: more scaly, probably the skin of some animal of which
3:21:57
Speaker 1: we now know only through its fossil remains. Round his head,
3:22:00
Speaker 1: on which the hair was quite short, was twisted another
3:22:04
Speaker 1: piece of skin, to which were attached tussles of bright red,
3:22:08
Speaker 1: blue and other colors. In his left hand he held
3:22:12
Speaker 1: a sharpened staff, which was doubtless used for defense or attack.
3:22:16
Speaker 1: It was about the height of his own body, namely
3:22:19
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen feet. In his right hand was twisted
3:22:24
Speaker 1: the end of a long rope made of some sort
3:22:26
Speaker 1: of creeping plant, by which he led a huge and
3:22:29
Speaker 1: hideous reptile somewhat resembling the plesiocerous. The Lamurians actually domesticated
3:22:36
Speaker 1: these creatures and strained them to employ their strength in
3:22:39
Speaker 1: hunting other animals. The appearance of the man gave an
3:22:43
Speaker 1: unpleasant sensation, but he was not entirely uncivilized, being an
3:22:47
Speaker 1: average commonplace specimen of his day. Many were even less
3:22:52
Speaker 1: human in appearance than the individual here described. But the
3:22:56
Speaker 1: seventh sub rays developed a superior type, though very unlike
3:23:01
Speaker 1: any living man of the present time. While retaining the
3:23:04
Speaker 1: projecting lower jaw, the thick heavy lips, the flattened face,
3:23:08
Speaker 1: and the uncanny looking eyes, they had by this time
3:23:12
Speaker 1: developed something which might be called a forehead, while the
3:23:15
Speaker 1: curious projection of the heel had been considerably reduced. In
3:23:19
Speaker 1: one branch of the seventh sub rays, the head might
3:23:22
Speaker 1: be described as almost egg shaped, the small end of
3:23:25
Speaker 1: the egg being uppermost, with the eyes wide apart and
3:23:28
Speaker 1: very near the top. The stature had perceptibly decreased, and
3:23:33
Speaker 1: the appearance of the hands, feet, and leambs generally had
3:23:37
Speaker 1: become more like those of the Negroes of to day.
3:23:40
Speaker 1: These people developed an important and long lasting civilization, and
3:23:44
Speaker 1: for thousands of years dominated most of the other tribes
3:23:47
Speaker 1: which dwelt on the vastly Murren continent, And even at
3:23:50
Speaker 1: the end, when racial decay seemed to be overtaking them,
3:23:54
Speaker 1: they secured another long lease of life and power by
3:23:57
Speaker 1: intermarriage with their more hulls, the first sub rays of
3:24:00
Speaker 1: the Atlanteans. The progeny, while retaining many third race characteristics,
3:24:05
Speaker 1: of course, really belonged to the fourth race, and thus
3:24:09
Speaker 1: naturally acquired fresh power of development. Their general appearance now
3:24:14
Speaker 1: became not unlike that of some American Indians, except that
3:24:17
Speaker 1: their skin had a curious bluish stinge, not now to
3:24:21
Speaker 1: be seen. But surprising, as were the changes in the size, consistency,
3:24:26
Speaker 1: and appearance of man's body during this period, the alterations
3:24:29
Speaker 1: in the process of reproduction are still more astounding. A
3:24:33
Speaker 1: reference to the systems which now obtain among the lower
3:24:36
Speaker 1: kingdoms of nature, may help us in the consideration of
3:24:39
Speaker 1: the subject. End of Section eight, Part three processes of reproduction.
3:24:48
Speaker 1: After instancing the simplest processes of propagation by self division
3:24:52
Speaker 1: and by the formation of buds, gerd Marcio Heckel proceeds
3:24:57
Speaker 1: a third mode of non sexual propagation, that of the
3:25:01
Speaker 1: formation of germ bads. Polysporogonia is intimately connected with the
3:25:06
Speaker 1: formation of bads in the case of the lower imperfect organisms.
3:25:10
Speaker 1: Among animals, especially in the case of the plant like
3:25:14
Speaker 1: animals and worms, we very frequently find that in the
3:25:17
Speaker 1: interior of an individual composed of many cells, a small
3:25:21
Speaker 1: group of cells separates it cell from those surrounding it,
3:25:24
Speaker 1: and that this small isolated group gradually develops itself into
3:25:28
Speaker 1: an individual which becomes like the parent and sooner or
3:25:31
Speaker 1: later comes out of it. The formation of germ bads
3:25:34
Speaker 1: is evidently but little different from real budding. But on
3:25:38
Speaker 1: the other hand, it is connected with a fourth kind
3:25:41
Speaker 1: of non sexual propagation which almost forms a transition to
3:25:45
Speaker 1: sexual reproduction, namely the formation of germ cells monosporogonia. In
3:25:51
Speaker 1: this case, it is no longer a group of cells,
3:25:53
Speaker 1: but a single cell which separates itself from the surrounding
3:25:56
Speaker 1: cells in the interior of the producing organism, and which
3:25:59
Speaker 1: become arms further developed after it has come out of
3:26:02
Speaker 1: its parent. Sexual or amphigonic propagation amphigonia is the usual
3:26:08
Speaker 1: method of propagation among all higher animals and plants. It
3:26:12
Speaker 1: is evident that it has only developed at a very
3:26:14
Speaker 1: late period of the Earth's history from non sexual propagation,
3:26:18
Speaker 1: and apparently, in the first instance, from the method of
3:26:21
Speaker 1: propagation by germ cells. In all the chief forms of
3:26:24
Speaker 1: non sexual propagation mentioned above in fision, in the formation
3:26:29
Speaker 1: of bads, germ bads, and germ cells, the separated cell
3:26:33
Speaker 1: or group of cells was able by itself to develop
3:26:36
Speaker 1: into a new individual. But in the case of sexual propagation,
3:26:40
Speaker 1: the cell must first be fructified by another generative substance.
3:26:45
Speaker 1: The fructifying sperm must first mix with a germ cell
3:26:49
Speaker 1: the egg, before the latter can develop into a new individual.
3:26:53
Speaker 1: These two generative substances, the sperm and the egg, are
3:26:57
Speaker 1: either produced by one and the same individual hermaphrodite hermaphroditismus,
3:27:02
Speaker 1: or by two different individuals. Sexual separation The simpler and
3:27:07
Speaker 1: more ancient form of sexual propagation is through double sex individuals.
3:27:12
Speaker 1: It occurs in the great majority of plants, but only
3:27:15
Speaker 1: in a minority of animals. For example, in the garden snails, liches, earthworms,
3:27:20
Speaker 1: and many other worms. Every single individual among hermaphrodites produces
3:27:25
Speaker 1: within itself materials of both sexes, eggs and sperm. In
3:27:29
Speaker 1: most of the higher plants, every blossom contains both of
3:27:33
Speaker 1: the male organ stamins and anther and the female organ
3:27:37
Speaker 1: style and germ. Every garden snail produces in one part
3:27:40
Speaker 1: of its sexual gland eggs and in another part sperm.
3:27:45
Speaker 1: Many hermaphrodites can fructify themselves in others. However, reciprocal fructification
3:27:51
Speaker 1: of both hermaphrodites is necessary for causing the development of
3:27:55
Speaker 1: the eggs. This latter case is evidently transitioned to sexual suporation.
3:28:00
Speaker 1: Sexual separation, which characterizes the more complicated of the two
3:28:03
Speaker 1: kinds of sexual reproduction, has evidently been developed from the
3:28:07
Speaker 1: condition of hermaphroditism at the late period of the organic
3:28:10
Speaker 1: history of the world. It is at present the universal
3:28:13
Speaker 1: method of propagation of the higher animals. The so called
3:28:17
Speaker 1: virginal reproduction. Parthenogenesis offers an interesting form of transition from
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Speaker 1: sexual reproduction to the non sexual formation of germ cells,
3:28:25
Speaker 1: which most resembles it. In this case, germ cells, which
3:28:29
Speaker 1: otherwise appear and are formed exactly like egg cells, become
3:28:33
Speaker 1: capable of developing themselves into new individuals without requiring the
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Speaker 1: fructifying seed. The most remarkable and the most instructive of
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Speaker 1: the different parthenogenetic phenomena are furnished by those cases in
3:28:46
Speaker 1: which the same germ cells, according as they are fructified
3:28:50
Speaker 1: or not, produce different kinds of individuals. Among our common
3:28:54
Speaker 1: honey bees, a male individual a drone arises out of
3:28:58
Speaker 1: the eggs of the queen, if these the egg has
3:29:00
Speaker 1: not been fructified, a female a queen or working bee
3:29:04
Speaker 1: if the egg has been fructified. It is evident from
3:29:07
Speaker 1: this that in reality there exists no wide chasm between
3:29:11
Speaker 1: sexual and non sexual reproduction, but that both models of
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Speaker 1: reproduction are directly connected unquote. Now, the interesting fact in
3:29:19
Speaker 1: connection with the evolution of third race man on limuria
3:29:22
Speaker 1: is that his mode of reproduction run through phases which
3:29:26
Speaker 1: were closely analogous with some of the processes above described.
3:29:30
Speaker 1: Sweat born egg born and androgyny are the terms used
3:29:34
Speaker 1: in the Secret doctrine quote. Almost sexless in its early beginnings,
3:29:40
Speaker 1: it became bisexual or androgenous very gradually, of course, The
3:29:45
Speaker 1: passage from the former to the latter transformation required numberless generations,
3:29:50
Speaker 1: during which the simple cell that issued from the earliest
3:29:53
Speaker 1: parent the two in one, first developed into a bisexual being,
3:29:58
Speaker 1: and then the cell, becoming a regular egg, gave forth
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Speaker 1: a unisexual creature. The third race, mankind, is the most
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Speaker 1: mysterious of all the hitherto developed five races. The mystery
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Speaker 1: of the how of the generation of the distinct sexes
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Speaker 1: must of course be very obscure here, as it is
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Speaker 1: the business of an embryologist and a specialist. The present
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Speaker 1: walk giving only faint outlines of the process, but it
3:30:22
Speaker 1: is evident that the units of the third race, humanity,
3:30:25
Speaker 1: began to separate in their prenatal shells or eggs, and
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Speaker 1: to issue out of them as distinct male and female
3:30:32
Speaker 1: babes ages after the appearance of its early progenitors, and
3:30:36
Speaker 1: as time rolled on its geological periods, the newly born
3:30:40
Speaker 1: sub races began to lose their natal capacities. Toward the
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Speaker 1: end of the fourth sub race, the babe lost its
3:30:46
Speaker 1: faculty of walking as soon as liberated from its shell,
3:30:49
Speaker 1: and by the end of the fifth mankind was borne
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Speaker 1: under the same conditions and by the same identical process
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Speaker 1: as are historical generations. This required, of course, millions of
3:30:59
Speaker 1: years unquote Limurian races still inhabiting the earth. It may
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Speaker 1: be as well again to repeat that the almost mindless
3:31:08
Speaker 1: creatures who inhabited such bodies as have been above described
3:31:12
Speaker 1: during the early subraces of the Limurian period can scarcely
3:31:15
Speaker 1: be regarded as completely human. It was only after the
3:31:18
Speaker 1: separation of the sexes, when their bodies had become densely physical,
3:31:23
Speaker 1: that they became human even in appearance. It must be
3:31:26
Speaker 1: remembered that the beings we are speaking of, though embracing
3:31:29
Speaker 1: the second and third groups of the lunar petrees, must
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Speaker 1: also have been largely recruited from the animal kingdom of
3:31:35
Speaker 1: that the lunar manvantera. The degraded remnants of the third
3:31:39
Speaker 1: root race, who still inhabit the earth, may be recognized
3:31:43
Speaker 1: in the Aborigines of Australia, the er Man Islanders, some
3:31:47
Speaker 1: hill tribes of India, the Tierra del f wagens, the
3:31:51
Speaker 1: bushmen of Africa, and some other savage tribes. The entities
3:31:55
Speaker 1: now inhabiting these bodies must have belonged to the animal
3:31:58
Speaker 1: kingdom in the early part of the is manvantera. It
3:32:01
Speaker 1: was probably during the evolution of the Lemurian race, and
3:32:04
Speaker 1: before the door was shut on the entities thronging up
3:32:07
Speaker 1: from below, that these attained the human kingdom scene of
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Speaker 1: the mindless. The shameful acts of the mindless men at
3:32:16
Speaker 1: the first separation of the sexes had best be referred
3:32:19
Speaker 1: to in the words of the Stanzas of the Archaic
3:32:22
Speaker 1: Book of Jian. Now commentaries needed quote. During the third race,
3:32:27
Speaker 1: the boneless animals grew and changed. They became animals with bones.
3:32:33
Speaker 1: Their chayads became solid. The animals separated first, they began
3:32:39
Speaker 1: to breed. The twofold men separated also. He said, let
3:32:44
Speaker 1: us as they let us unite and make creatures. They did,
3:32:50
Speaker 1: and those that had no spark took huge she animals
3:32:53
Speaker 1: unto them. They begat upon them dumb races. Damn they
3:32:58
Speaker 1: were themselves, but their tongues untied. The tongues of their
3:33:02
Speaker 1: progeny remained still monsters. They bred a race of crooked,
3:33:07
Speaker 1: red hair covered monsters going on all fords, a dam
3:33:11
Speaker 1: race to keep the shame untold unquote and an ancient
3:33:16
Speaker 1: commentary odds. When the third separated and fell into scein
3:33:20
Speaker 1: by breeding men animals, these the animals became ferocious and men,
3:33:25
Speaker 1: and they mutually destructive till then there was no sin,
3:33:30
Speaker 1: no life taken quote, seeing which the las, who had
3:33:35
Speaker 1: not built men, wept, saying, the amanassa mindless, have defiled
3:33:42
Speaker 1: our future abodes. This is karma. Let us dwell in
3:33:46
Speaker 1: the others. Let us teach them better, lest words should happen.
3:33:51
Speaker 1: They did. Then all men became endowed with mannas they
3:33:55
Speaker 1: saw the scene of the mindless unquote. Region of the
3:34:00
Speaker 1: Pithecoid and the anthropoid apes, the anatomical resemblance between man
3:34:05
Speaker 1: and the higher ape, so frequently cited by Darwinists as
3:34:09
Speaker 1: pointing to some ancestor common to both, presents an interesting problem,
3:34:14
Speaker 1: the proper solution of which is to be sought for
3:34:17
Speaker 1: in the esoteric explanation of the genesis of the Pithecoid stalks.
3:34:21
Speaker 1: Now we gather from the secret doctrine that the descendants
3:34:24
Speaker 1: of these semi human monsters described above as originating in
3:34:28
Speaker 1: the scene of the mindless, having through long centuries dwindled
3:34:32
Speaker 1: in size and become more densely physical, culminated in a
3:34:36
Speaker 1: race of apes at the time of the Miocene period,
3:34:39
Speaker 1: from which in their turn are descended the pithecoids of today.
3:34:43
Speaker 1: With these apes of the Miocene period, however, the Atlanteans
3:34:47
Speaker 1: of that age renewed the scene of the mindless, this
3:34:50
Speaker 1: time with full responsibility, and the resultants of their crime
3:34:54
Speaker 1: are the species of apes now known as anthropoid. We
3:34:58
Speaker 1: are given to understand that in the the coming sixth
3:35:00
Speaker 1: rut Rays these anthropoets will obtain human incarnation in the
3:35:04
Speaker 1: bodies doubtless of the lowest races than existing upon Earth.
3:35:09
Speaker 1: That part of the Lemurian continent, where the separation of
3:35:12
Speaker 1: the sexes took place, and where both the fourth and
3:35:15
Speaker 1: the fifth sub races flourished, is to be found in
3:35:17
Speaker 1: the earlier of the two maps. It lay to the
3:35:20
Speaker 1: east of the mountainous region of which the present island
3:35:22
Speaker 1: of Madagascar formed apart, and thus occupied a central position
3:35:26
Speaker 1: around the smaller of the two great lakes. Origin of language,
3:35:31
Speaker 1: as stated in the Stanzas of Jian above quoted the
3:35:35
Speaker 1: men of that epoch, even though they had become completely physical,
3:35:39
Speaker 1: still remained speechless. Naturally, the astral and ethereal ancestors of
3:35:43
Speaker 1: this third root race had no need to produce a
3:35:46
Speaker 1: series of sounds in order to convey their thoughts, living
3:35:49
Speaker 1: as they did in astral and ethereal conditions. But when
3:35:52
Speaker 1: man became physical, he could not for long remain dumb.
3:35:55
Speaker 1: We are told that the sounds which these primitive men
3:35:58
Speaker 1: made to express their thoughts were at first composed entirely
3:36:02
Speaker 1: of vowels. In the slow course of evolution, the consonant
3:36:05
Speaker 1: sounds gradually came into use, But the development of language
3:36:09
Speaker 1: from first to last on the content of Lemuria never
3:36:12
Speaker 1: reached beyond the monosyllabic face. The Chinese language of to
3:36:16
Speaker 1: day is the sole great lineal descendant of ancient Lemurian speech.
3:36:21
Speaker 1: For quote, the whole human race was at that time
3:36:25
Speaker 1: of one language and one leap unquote. In Humboldt's classification
3:36:30
Speaker 1: of language, the Chinese as we know is called the
3:36:34
Speaker 1: isolating as distinguished from the more highly evolved to a
3:36:37
Speaker 1: glutinative and the still more highly evolved inflectional. Readers of
3:36:42
Speaker 1: the story of Atlantis may remember that many different languages
3:36:46
Speaker 1: were developed on that continent, but all belongs to the agglutinative, or,
3:36:50
Speaker 1: as Max Muller prefers to call it, the combinatory type,
3:36:54
Speaker 1: while the still higher development of inflectional speech in the
3:36:58
Speaker 1: Aryan and Semiti tongues was reserved for our own era
3:37:03
Speaker 1: of the fifth ruit race. The first taking of life
3:37:07
Speaker 1: the first instance of sin. The first taking of life,
3:37:11
Speaker 1: quoted above from an old commentary on the Stanzas of Jian,
3:37:15
Speaker 1: may be taken as indicative of the attitude which was
3:37:18
Speaker 1: then inaugurated between the human and the animal kingdom, and
3:37:22
Speaker 1: which has since attained such awful proportions, not only between
3:37:26
Speaker 1: men and animals, but between the different races of men themselves.
3:37:29
Speaker 1: And this opens up a most interesting avenue of thought.
3:37:33
Speaker 1: The fact that kings and emperors consider it necessary or
3:37:36
Speaker 1: appropriate on all state occasions to appear in the garb
3:37:40
Speaker 1: of one of the fighting branches of their service is
3:37:43
Speaker 1: a significant indication of the apotheosis reached by the combative
3:37:46
Speaker 1: qualities in man. The custom doubtless comes down from a
3:37:50
Speaker 1: time when the king was the warrior chief, and when
3:37:53
Speaker 1: his kingship was acknowledged solely in virtue of his being
3:37:57
Speaker 1: the chief warrior. But now that the fiefth thruth trace
3:38:00
Speaker 1: is in ascendency, whose chief characteristic and function is the
3:38:04
Speaker 1: development of intellect, it might have been expected that the
3:38:07
Speaker 1: dominant attribute of the fourth root race would have been
3:38:10
Speaker 1: a little less conspicuously paraded. But the era of one
3:38:14
Speaker 1: race overlaps another. And though as we know, the leading
3:38:18
Speaker 1: races of the world all belonged to the fifth Root race,
3:38:21
Speaker 1: the vast majority of its inhabitants still belonged to the
3:38:24
Speaker 1: fourth And it would appear that the Fifth Root race
3:38:27
Speaker 1: has not yet outstripped Fourth Race characteristics, for it is
3:38:31
Speaker 1: by infinitely slow degrees that man's evolution is accomplished. It
3:38:36
Speaker 1: will be interesting here to summarize the history of this
3:38:38
Speaker 1: strife and bloodshed from its genesis during these far off
3:38:42
Speaker 1: ages of the Muria. From the information placed before the writer,
3:38:46
Speaker 1: it would seem that the antagonism between men and animals
3:38:49
Speaker 1: was developed first with the evolution of man's physical body.
3:38:53
Speaker 1: Suitable food for the body naturally became an urgent need,
3:38:57
Speaker 1: so that, in addition to the antagonism brought about by
3:38:59
Speaker 1: the necessity of self defense against the naw ferocious animals.
3:39:04
Speaker 1: The desire of food also urged men to their slaughter,
3:39:07
Speaker 1: and as we have seen above, one of the first
3:39:09
Speaker 1: uses they made of their body mentality was to train
3:39:12
Speaker 1: animals to act as hunters in the chase. The element
3:39:16
Speaker 1: of strife having once been kindled, men soon began to
3:39:19
Speaker 1: use weapons of offense against each other. The causes of
3:39:23
Speaker 1: aggression were naturally the same as those which exist today
3:39:27
Speaker 1: among savage communities. The possession of any desirable object by
3:39:31
Speaker 1: one of his fellows was sufficient inducement for a man
3:39:34
Speaker 1: to attempt to take it by force. Nor was strife
3:39:38
Speaker 1: limited to single acts of aggression, as among savages today.
3:39:42
Speaker 1: Bands of marauders would attack and pillage the communities who
3:39:46
Speaker 1: dwelt at a distance from their own village. But to
3:39:48
Speaker 1: this extent only we are told was warfare organized on
3:39:52
Speaker 1: the Muria given down to the end of its seventh
3:39:54
Speaker 1: sub rays. It was reserved for the Atlanteans to develop
3:39:58
Speaker 1: the principle of strife on organ night lines, to collect
3:40:01
Speaker 1: and to drill armies, and to build navies. This principle
3:40:05
Speaker 1: of strife was indeed the fundamental characteristic of the Fourth
3:40:08
Speaker 1: Root race all through the Atlantean period. As we know
3:40:11
Speaker 1: warfare was the order of the day, and battles were
3:40:14
Speaker 1: constantly fought on land and sea, and so deeply rooted
3:40:18
Speaker 1: in man's nature. During the Atlantean period did this principle
3:40:21
Speaker 1: of strife become that even now the most intellectually developed
3:40:25
Speaker 1: of the Aryan races are ready to war upon each
3:40:27
Speaker 1: other the arts. To trace the development of the arts
3:40:32
Speaker 1: among the Lemurians, we must start with the history of
3:40:35
Speaker 1: the fifth sub race. The separation of the sexes was
3:40:38
Speaker 1: now fully accomplished, and man inhabited a completely physical body,
3:40:43
Speaker 1: though it was still of gigantic stature. The offensive and
3:40:47
Speaker 1: defensive war with the monstrous beasts of prey had already begun,
3:40:51
Speaker 1: and men had taken to living in hats. To build
3:40:54
Speaker 1: their hats, they tore down trees and piled them up
3:40:57
Speaker 1: in a rude fashion. At first, each separate family lived
3:41:01
Speaker 1: in its own clearing in the jungle, but they soon
3:41:04
Speaker 1: found it safer as a defense against the wild beasts
3:41:07
Speaker 1: to draw together and live in small communities. Their hats, too,
3:41:11
Speaker 1: which had been formed of rude trunks of trees, they
3:41:14
Speaker 1: now learned to build with boulders of stone, while the
3:41:17
Speaker 1: weapons with which they attacked or defended themselves against the
3:41:21
Speaker 1: dinosauria and other wild beasts. Were spears of sharpened wood,
3:41:25
Speaker 1: similar to the staff held by the man whose appearances
3:41:28
Speaker 1: described above. Up to this time, agriculture was unknown, and
3:41:33
Speaker 1: the uses of fire had not been discovered. The food
3:41:37
Speaker 1: of their bondless ancestors, who crowled on the earth were
3:41:40
Speaker 1: such things as they could find on the surface of
3:41:42
Speaker 1: the ground or just below it. Now that they walked
3:41:45
Speaker 1: erect Many of the wild forest trees provided them with
3:41:49
Speaker 1: nuts and berries, but their chief article of food was
3:41:52
Speaker 1: the flesh of the beasts and reptiles, which this flew,
3:41:54
Speaker 1: tore in pieces and devoured. Teachers of the Lemurian race.
3:42:00
Speaker 1: But now there occurred an event pregnant with consequences, the
3:42:04
Speaker 1: most momentous in the history of the human race, an
3:42:06
Speaker 1: event too full of mystical import for its narration brings
3:42:10
Speaker 1: into view beings who belonged to entirely different systems of evolution,
3:42:14
Speaker 1: and who nevertheless came at this epoch to be associated
3:42:17
Speaker 1: with our humanity. The lament of the laws who had
3:42:20
Speaker 1: not built men at seeing that future abodes defiled, is
3:42:24
Speaker 1: at first sight far from intelligible, though the descent of
3:42:28
Speaker 1: these beings into human bodies is not the chief event
3:42:31
Speaker 1: to which we have to refer. Some explanation of its
3:42:33
Speaker 1: cause in its result must first be attempted. Now we
3:42:37
Speaker 1: are given to understand that these laws were the highly
3:42:40
Speaker 1: evolved humanity of some system of evolution which had run
3:42:44
Speaker 1: its course at a period in the infinitely far off past.
3:42:48
Speaker 1: They had reached a high stage of development on their
3:42:50
Speaker 1: chain of worlds, and since its dissolution, had passed the
3:42:54
Speaker 1: intervening ages in the bliss of some Nirvanic condition. But
3:42:58
Speaker 1: their karma now necessitate a return to some field of
3:43:01
Speaker 1: action and of physical causes. And as they had not
3:43:04
Speaker 1: yet fully learned the lesson of compassion, their temporary task
3:43:08
Speaker 1: now lay in becoming guides and teachers of the Lumurian race,
3:43:12
Speaker 1: who then required all the help and guidance they could get.
3:43:15
Speaker 1: But other beings also took up the task, in this
3:43:18
Speaker 1: case voluntarily. These came from the scheme of evolution, which
3:43:23
Speaker 1: has Venus as its one physical planet. That scheme has
3:43:27
Speaker 1: already reached the seventh round of its planets in its
3:43:29
Speaker 1: fifth Manvantara. Its humanity therefore stands at a far higher
3:43:34
Speaker 1: level than ordinary mankind on this Earth. Has yet attained.
3:43:38
Speaker 1: They are divine, while we are only human. The Lemurians,
3:43:42
Speaker 1: as we have seen, were then merely on the verge
3:43:45
Speaker 1: of attaining true manhood. It was to supply a temporary
3:43:48
Speaker 1: need the education of our infant humanity, that these divine
3:43:52
Speaker 1: beings came, as we possibly long ages. Hence may similarly
3:43:56
Speaker 1: be called to give a helping hand to the beings
3:43:59
Speaker 1: straggling up to manhood on the Jupiter or the Saturn chain.
3:44:03
Speaker 1: Under their guidance and influence, the Lemurians rapidly advanced in
3:44:07
Speaker 1: mental growth. The steering of their minds with feelings of
3:44:11
Speaker 1: love and reverence for those whom they felt to be
3:44:14
Speaker 1: infinitely wiser and greater than themselves naturally resulted in efforts
3:44:18
Speaker 1: of imitation, and so the necessary advance in mental growth
3:44:23
Speaker 1: was achieved, which transformed the higher mental sheath into a
3:44:27
Speaker 1: vehicle capable of carrying over the human characteristics from life
3:44:31
Speaker 1: to life, thus warranting that outpouring of the divine life,
3:44:36
Speaker 1: which endowed the recipient with individual immortality, as expressed in
3:44:40
Speaker 1: the archaic Stanzas of Jeanne quote, then all men became
3:44:45
Speaker 1: endowed with manners unquote, a great distinction however, must be
3:44:50
Speaker 1: noted between the coming of the exalted beings from the
3:44:52
Speaker 1: Venus scheme and that of those described as the highly
3:44:55
Speaker 1: evolved humanity of some previous system of evolution. The form,
3:45:00
Speaker 1: as we have seen, were under no karamic impulse. They
3:45:03
Speaker 1: came as men to leave and work among them, but
3:45:06
Speaker 1: they were not required to assume their physical limitations, being
3:45:10
Speaker 1: in a position to provide appropriate vehicles for themselves. The laws,
3:45:15
Speaker 1: on the other hand, had actually to be borne in
3:45:17
Speaker 1: the bodies of the race as it then existed. Better
3:45:21
Speaker 1: would it have been, both for them and for the
3:45:23
Speaker 1: race if there had been no hesitation or delay on
3:45:26
Speaker 1: their part in taking up their karmic task, for the
3:45:30
Speaker 1: sin of them mindless and all its consequences would have
3:45:33
Speaker 1: been avoided. Their task, too, would have been an easier one,
3:45:37
Speaker 1: for it consisted not only in acting as guides and teaches,
3:45:40
Speaker 1: but in improving the racial type, in short, in evolving
3:45:44
Speaker 1: out of the half human half animal form than existing
3:45:47
Speaker 1: the physical body of the man to be. It must
3:45:50
Speaker 1: be remembered that up to this time the Lemurian race
3:45:53
Speaker 1: consisted of the second and third groups of the lunar
3:45:56
Speaker 1: pe trees. But now that they were approaching the level
3:45:59
Speaker 1: reached on the lunar chain by the first group of petrees,
3:46:02
Speaker 1: it became necessary for these again to return to incarnation,
3:46:06
Speaker 1: and these they did all through the fifth, sixth, and
3:46:09
Speaker 1: seventh sub races. Indeed, some did not take birth till
3:46:13
Speaker 1: the Atlantic period, so that the impetus given to the
3:46:16
Speaker 1: progress of the race was accumulative force. The positions occupied
3:46:21
Speaker 1: by the divine beings from the Venus chain were naturally
3:46:24
Speaker 1: those of rulers, instructors in religion, and teachers of the arts,
3:46:28
Speaker 1: and it is in this latter capacity that a reference
3:46:31
Speaker 1: to the arts taught by them comes to our aid
3:46:34
Speaker 1: in the consideration of the history of this early race.
3:46:39
Speaker 1: End of Section nine, Part four. The arts continued under
3:46:46
Speaker 1: the guidance of their divine teachers. The people began to
3:46:49
Speaker 1: learn the use of fire and the means by which
3:46:52
Speaker 1: it could be obtained, at first by friction, and later
3:46:55
Speaker 1: on by the use of flint and iron. They were
3:46:58
Speaker 1: taught to explore for metals, to smelt and to mob them,
3:47:02
Speaker 1: and instead of spears of sharpened wood, they now began
3:47:05
Speaker 1: to use spears tipped with sharpened metal. They were also
3:47:10
Speaker 1: taught to dig and till the ground, and to cultivate
3:47:13
Speaker 1: the seeds of wild grain till it improved in type.
3:47:17
Speaker 1: This cultivation, carried on through the vast ages which have
3:47:20
Speaker 1: since elapsed, has resulted in the evolution of the various
3:47:24
Speaker 1: cereals which we now possess barley, oats, maize, millet, and
3:47:29
Speaker 1: so on. But an exception must here be noted. Wheat
3:47:33
Speaker 1: was not evolved upon this planet, like the other cereals.
3:47:37
Speaker 1: It was a gift of the divine beings, who brought
3:47:39
Speaker 1: it from Venus ready for the food of man. Nor
3:47:43
Speaker 1: was wit their only gift. The one animal form whose
3:47:46
Speaker 1: type has not been evolved on our chain of worlds
3:47:49
Speaker 1: is that of the bee. It too was brought from Venus.
3:47:53
Speaker 1: The Lamouriens now also begun to learn the art of
3:47:56
Speaker 1: spinning and weaving fabrics with which to close themselves. These
3:48:02
Speaker 1: were made of the coarse hair of a species of
3:48:04
Speaker 1: animal now extinct, but which bore some resemblance to the
3:48:07
Speaker 1: Lamas of today, the ancestrels of which they may possibly
3:48:12
Speaker 1: have been. We have seen above that the earliest articles
3:48:15
Speaker 1: of clothing of Lemurion man were robes of skin stripped
3:48:18
Speaker 1: from the beasts he had slain. These skins he still
3:48:22
Speaker 1: continued to wear on the colder parts of the continent,
3:48:25
Speaker 1: but he now learned to cure and dress the skin
3:48:28
Speaker 1: in some rude fashion. One of the first things the
3:48:31
Speaker 1: people were taught was the use of fire in the
3:48:34
Speaker 1: preparation of their food, and whether it was the flesh
3:48:36
Speaker 1: of animals this slew or the panted grains of wheat,
3:48:40
Speaker 1: their modes of cooking were closely analogous to those we
3:48:43
Speaker 1: hear of as existing today among savage communities. With reference
3:48:48
Speaker 1: to the gift of wheat so marvelously brought from Venus,
3:48:51
Speaker 1: the divine rulers doubtless realized the advisability of at once
3:48:55
Speaker 1: procurring such food for the people, for they must have
3:48:58
Speaker 1: known that it would take many generations before the cultivation
3:49:02
Speaker 1: of the wild seeds could provide an adequate supply. Rude
3:49:06
Speaker 1: and barbarous as were the people during the period of
3:49:09
Speaker 1: the fifth and sixth sub races, such of them as
3:49:12
Speaker 1: had the privilege of coming in contact with their divine teachers,
3:49:15
Speaker 1: were naturally inspired with such feelings of reverence and worship
3:49:20
Speaker 1: as helped to lift them out of their savage condition.
3:49:23
Speaker 1: The constant influx, too, of more intelligent beings from the
3:49:27
Speaker 1: first group of the lunar pe trees, who were then
3:49:29
Speaker 1: beginning to return to incarnation, helped the attainment of a
3:49:33
Speaker 1: more civilized state, great cities and statues. During the later
3:49:39
Speaker 1: part of the sixth and the seventh sub rays, they
3:49:42
Speaker 1: learned to build great cities. These appear to have been
3:49:46
Speaker 1: of Cyclopian architecture, corresponding with the gigantic bodies of the race.
3:49:52
Speaker 1: The first cities were built on that extended mountainous region
3:49:55
Speaker 1: of the continent, which included, as will be seen in
3:49:58
Speaker 1: the first map, the Press Island of Madagascar. Another great
3:50:03
Speaker 1: city is described in the Secret Doctrine as having been
3:50:06
Speaker 1: entirely built of blocks of lava. It lay some thirty
3:50:10
Speaker 1: miles west of the present Easter Island, and it was
3:50:13
Speaker 1: subsequently destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions. The gigantic
3:50:17
Speaker 1: statues of Easter Island, measuring as most of them do
3:50:21
Speaker 1: about twenty seven feet in height by eight feet across
3:50:23
Speaker 1: the shoulders, were probably intended to be representative not only
3:50:27
Speaker 1: of the features, but of the height of those who
3:50:30
Speaker 1: carved them, or it may be of their ancestors, for
3:50:33
Speaker 1: it was probably in the later ages of the Lemuro
3:50:36
Speaker 1: Atlanteans that the statues were erected. It will be observed
3:50:40
Speaker 1: that by the second Mob period, the continent of which
3:50:43
Speaker 1: Easter Island formed a part had been broken up, and
3:50:47
Speaker 1: Easter Island itself had become a comparatively small island, though
3:50:51
Speaker 1: of considerably greater dimensions than it retains today. Civilizations of
3:50:56
Speaker 1: comparative importance arose on different parts of the continent, and
3:51:00
Speaker 1: the great islands were the inhabitants built cities and dwelt
3:51:03
Speaker 1: in settle communities, but large tribes who were also partially civilized,
3:51:08
Speaker 1: continued to lead a nomadic and patriarchal life, while other
3:51:12
Speaker 1: parts of the land, in many cases the least accessible
3:51:15
Speaker 1: as in our own times, were peopled by tribes of
3:51:18
Speaker 1: extremely low type religion, with so primitive a rays of men.
3:51:23
Speaker 1: At the best, there was but little in the shape
3:51:26
Speaker 1: of religion that they could be taught. Simple rules of conduct,
3:51:30
Speaker 1: and the most elementary precepts of morality were all that
3:51:33
Speaker 1: they were fitted to understand or to practice. During the
3:51:37
Speaker 1: evolution of the seventh sub race. It is true that
3:51:40
Speaker 1: their divine instructures stopped them some primitive form of worship
3:51:43
Speaker 1: and imparted the knowledge of a supreme being whose symbol
3:51:46
Speaker 1: was represented as the Sun destruction of the continent. Unlike
3:51:52
Speaker 1: the subsequent fate of Atlantis, which were submerged by great
3:51:56
Speaker 1: tidal waves, the continent of Lemuria perished by volcano action.
3:52:01
Speaker 1: It was raked by the burning ashes and the red
3:52:04
Speaker 1: hot dust from numberless volcanoes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It
3:52:09
Speaker 1: is true heralded each of the great catastrophes which overtook Atlantes.
3:52:14
Speaker 1: But when the land had been shaken and rend the
3:52:17
Speaker 1: sea rushed in and completed the work, and most of
3:52:20
Speaker 1: the inhabitants perished by drowning. The Lemurians, on the other hand,
3:52:25
Speaker 1: met their doom chiefly by fire or suffocation. Another marked
3:52:29
Speaker 1: contrast between the fate of Lemuria and Atlantis was that
3:52:33
Speaker 1: while four great catastrophes completed the destruction of the latter,
3:52:37
Speaker 1: the former was slowly eaten away by internal fires. For
3:52:41
Speaker 1: from the time when the disintegrating process began towards the
3:52:45
Speaker 1: end of the First Map period, there was no cessation
3:52:48
Speaker 1: from the fiery activity, and whether in one part of
3:52:51
Speaker 1: the continent or another, the volcanic action was incessant, while
3:52:55
Speaker 1: the invariable sequence was the subsidence and total disappearance of
3:52:59
Speaker 1: the land, just as in the case of Krakatoa in
3:53:02
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty three. So closely analogous was the eruption of
3:53:06
Speaker 1: Mount Pelle, which caused the destruction of Saint Pierre, the
3:53:09
Speaker 1: capital of Martinique, about two years ago to the whole
3:53:13
Speaker 1: series of volcanic catastrophes on the continent of Limuria, that
3:53:16
Speaker 1: the description of the former given by some of the
3:53:19
Speaker 1: survivors may be of interest. An immense black cloud had
3:53:24
Speaker 1: suddenly burst forth from the crater of Mont Pelle and
3:53:27
Speaker 1: rushed with terrific velocity upon the city, destroying everything inhabitants, houses,
3:53:33
Speaker 1: and vegetation alike that it found in its path. In
3:53:37
Speaker 1: two or three minutes it passed over, and the city
3:53:40
Speaker 1: was a blazing pire of ruins. In both islands Martinique
3:53:44
Speaker 1: and sun ven Song, the eruptions were characterized by the
3:53:47
Speaker 1: sudden discharge of immense quantities of red hot dust mixed
3:53:51
Speaker 1: with steam, which float down the steep hill sides with
3:53:55
Speaker 1: an ever increasing velocity. In sun vin Son, these had
3:53:59
Speaker 1: filled many valleys to a depth of between one hundred
3:54:02
Speaker 1: feet and two hundred feet, and months after the eruptions
3:54:06
Speaker 1: was still very hot, and the heavy rains which then
3:54:09
Speaker 1: fell thereon caused enormous explosions, producing clouds of steam and
3:54:15
Speaker 1: dust that shot upwards to a height of from fifteen
3:54:19
Speaker 1: hundred feet to twenty hundred feet and filled the rivers
3:54:22
Speaker 1: with black, boiling mud. Unquote. Captain Freeman of the Roddam
3:54:27
Speaker 1: then described quote a thrilling experience which he and his
3:54:32
Speaker 1: party had at Martinique. One night, when they were lying
3:54:36
Speaker 1: at anchor in a little sloop about a mile from
3:54:39
Speaker 1: Saint Pierre, the mountain exploded in a way that was
3:54:42
Speaker 1: apparently in exact repetition of the original eruption. It was
3:54:46
Speaker 1: not entirely without warning, hence they were unable to sail
3:54:50
Speaker 1: it once a mile or two further away, and thus
3:54:53
Speaker 1: probably saved their lives. In the darkness, they saw the
3:54:56
Speaker 1: summit glow with a bright red light. Thence soon with
3:55:00
Speaker 1: loud detonations, great red hot stones were projected into the
3:55:04
Speaker 1: air and rolled down the slopes. A few minutes later,
3:55:08
Speaker 1: a prolonged rumbling noise was heard, and in an instant
3:55:12
Speaker 1: was followed by a red hot avalanche of dust, which
3:55:16
Speaker 1: rushed out of the crater and rolled down the side
3:55:19
Speaker 1: with a terrific speed, which they estimated at about one
3:55:23
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, with the temperature of one thousand centigrade.
3:55:29
Speaker 1: As to the probable explanation of this phenomena, no lava,
3:55:32
Speaker 1: he said, had been seen to flow from either of
3:55:35
Speaker 1: the volcanoes, but only steam and fine hot dust. The
3:55:39
Speaker 1: volcanoes were therefore of the explosive type, and from all
3:55:43
Speaker 1: his observations he had concluded that the absence of lava
3:55:47
Speaker 1: flows was due to the material within the crater being
3:55:50
Speaker 1: partly solid or at least highly viscous, so that it
3:55:54
Speaker 1: would not flow like an ordinary lava stream. Since his return,
3:55:58
Speaker 1: this theory had received rocking confirmation, for it was now
3:56:02
Speaker 1: known that within the crater of Montpeller there was no
3:56:05
Speaker 1: lake of molten lava, but that the solid pillar of
3:56:09
Speaker 1: red hot rock was slowly rising upwards in a great, conical,
3:56:14
Speaker 1: sharp pointed hill until it might finally overtop the old
3:56:18
Speaker 1: summit of the mountain. It was nearly one thousand feet
3:56:21
Speaker 1: high and slowly grew as it was forced upwards by
3:56:25
Speaker 1: pressure from beneath, while every now and then explosions of
3:56:29
Speaker 1: steam took place, dislodging large pieces from its summit or
3:56:33
Speaker 1: its sides. Steam was set free within this mass as
3:56:37
Speaker 1: it cooled, and the rock then passed into a dangerous
3:56:40
Speaker 1: and highly explosive condition, such that an explosion might sooner
3:56:45
Speaker 1: or later take place, which shivered a great part of
3:56:48
Speaker 1: the mass into fine, red hot dust. A reference to
3:56:53
Speaker 1: the first Lemurion map will show that in the lake
3:56:57
Speaker 1: lying to the southeast of the extensive mountainous region, there
3:57:00
Speaker 1: was an island which consisted of little more than one
3:57:03
Speaker 1: great mountain. This mountain was a very active volcano. The
3:57:07
Speaker 1: four mountains which lay to the southwest of the lake
3:57:10
Speaker 1: were also active volcanoes, and in this region it was
3:57:14
Speaker 1: that the disruption of the continent began. The seismic cataclysms
3:57:18
Speaker 1: which followed the volcanic eruptions caused such widespread damage that
3:57:23
Speaker 1: by the second map period a large portion of the
3:57:26
Speaker 1: southern part of the continent had been submerged. A marked
3:57:30
Speaker 1: characteristic of the land surface in early Lemurian times was
3:57:34
Speaker 1: a great number of lakes and marshes, as well as
3:57:37
Speaker 1: the innumerable volcanoes. Of course, all these are not shown
3:57:41
Speaker 1: on the map. Only some of the great mountains which
3:57:45
Speaker 1: were volcanoes, and only some of the largest lakes are there,
3:57:49
Speaker 1: indicated another volcano on the northeast coast of the continent
3:57:54
Speaker 1: began its destructive work at an early date. Earthquakes completed
3:57:58
Speaker 1: the disruption, and it seems probable that the sea shown
3:58:02
Speaker 1: in the second map, as dotted with small islands to
3:58:04
Speaker 1: the southeast of the present Japan, indicates the area of
3:58:08
Speaker 1: seismic disturbance. In the first map, it will be seen
3:58:12
Speaker 1: that there were lakes in the center of what is
3:58:14
Speaker 1: now the island continent of Australia, lakes where the land
3:58:18
Speaker 1: is at present exceedingly dry and parched. By the second
3:58:22
Speaker 1: map period, those lakes had disappeared, and it seems natural
3:58:25
Speaker 1: to conjecture that the districts where those lakes lay must,
3:58:30
Speaker 1: during the eruptions of the great volcanoes which lay to
3:58:32
Speaker 1: the southeast between the present Australia New Zealand, have been
3:58:36
Speaker 1: so raked with red hot volcanic dust that the very
3:58:39
Speaker 1: water springs were dried up. Founding of the Atlantean rays.
3:58:46
Speaker 1: In concluding this cage, a reference to the process by
3:58:49
Speaker 1: which the fourth root Rays was brought into existence will
3:58:52
Speaker 1: appropriately bring to an end what we know of the
3:58:55
Speaker 1: story of Le Muria and link it to that of Atlantis.
3:58:59
Speaker 1: It may be remembered from previous writings on the subject
3:59:02
Speaker 1: that it was from the fifth or Semitic subrays of
3:59:05
Speaker 1: the fourth root race that was chosen the nucleus destined
3:59:09
Speaker 1: to become our great fifth or Aryan root race. It
3:59:13
Speaker 1: was not, however, until the time of the seventh subrays
3:59:15
Speaker 1: on Limuria, that humanity was sufficiently developed physiologically to warrant
3:59:20
Speaker 1: the choice of individuals fit to become the parents of
3:59:24
Speaker 1: anew root race. So it was from the seventh sub
3:59:27
Speaker 1: rays that the segregation was affected. The colony was first
3:59:30
Speaker 1: settled on land which occupied the site of the present
3:59:33
Speaker 1: Ashanti and Western Nigeria. A reference to the second map
3:59:37
Speaker 1: will show these as a promontory lying to the northwest
3:59:41
Speaker 1: of the island continent, which embraced the Cape of Good
3:59:44
Speaker 1: Hope and parts of Western Africa. Having been guarded for
3:59:48
Speaker 1: generations from any admixture with a lower type, the colony
3:59:52
Speaker 1: gradually increased in numbers, and the time came when it
3:59:55
Speaker 1: was ready to receive and to hand on the new
3:59:58
Speaker 1: impulse to physical heredity which the Manu was destined to impart.
4:00:04
Speaker 1: Students of theosophy are aware that up to the present day,
4:00:08
Speaker 1: no one belonging to our humanity has been in a
4:00:10
Speaker 1: position to undertake the exalted office of Manu. Though it
4:00:14
Speaker 1: is stated that the founding of the coming sixth Root
4:00:17
Speaker 1: Race will be entrusted to the guidance of one of
4:00:20
Speaker 1: our masters of wisdom, one who, while belonging to our humanity,
4:00:25
Speaker 1: has nevertheless reached the most exalted level in the divine hierarchy.
4:00:30
Speaker 1: In the case we are considering the founding of the
4:00:33
Speaker 1: fourth Root race, it was one of the adepts from
4:00:36
Speaker 1: Venus who undertook the duties of the Manu. Naturally, he
4:00:39
Speaker 1: belonged to a very high order. For it must be
4:00:42
Speaker 1: understood that the beings who came from the Venus system
4:00:45
Speaker 1: as rulers and teachers of our infant humanity did not
4:00:48
Speaker 1: all stand at the same level. It is this circumstance
4:00:52
Speaker 1: which furnishes a reason for the remarkable fact that may,
4:00:55
Speaker 1: in conclusion be stated, namely, that there existed in Limuria
4:01:00
Speaker 1: a lodge of initiation, a lodge of initiation. Naturally, it
4:01:07
Speaker 1: was not for the benefit of the Limurian race that
4:01:10
Speaker 1: the lodge was founded. Such of them as were sufficiently
4:01:13
Speaker 1: advanced where it is true taught by the adept gurus,
4:01:18
Speaker 1: but the instruction they required was limited to the explanation
4:01:21
Speaker 1: of a few physical phenomena, such as the fact that
4:01:24
Speaker 1: the Earth moves round the Sun, or to the explanation
4:01:27
Speaker 1: of the different appearance which physical objects assumed for them
4:01:32
Speaker 1: when subjected alternately to their physical side and their astral vision.
4:01:37
Speaker 1: It was, of course, for the sake of those who,
4:01:40
Speaker 1: while endowed with the stupendous powers of transferring their consciousness
4:01:43
Speaker 1: from the planet Venus to these are Earth, and of
4:01:47
Speaker 1: providing for their use and their work, while here appropriate
4:01:51
Speaker 1: vehicles in which to function, were yet pursuing the cause
4:01:55
Speaker 1: of their own evolution. For their sake, it was for
4:01:59
Speaker 1: the sake of those who, having entered the path, had
4:02:01
Speaker 1: only reached the lower grades, that this lodge of initiation
4:02:05
Speaker 1: was founded. Though, as we know, the goal of normal
4:02:08
Speaker 1: evolution is greater and more glorious than ken from our
4:02:11
Speaker 1: present standpoint be well imagined, it is by no means
4:02:15
Speaker 1: synonymous with that expansion of consciousness, which, combined with and
4:02:19
Speaker 1: alone made possible by the purification and en noblement of character,
4:02:24
Speaker 1: constitute the heights to which the pathway of initiation leads
4:02:28
Speaker 1: the investigation into what constitutes this purification and ennoblement of character,
4:02:34
Speaker 1: and the endeavor to realize what that expansion of consciousness
4:02:38
Speaker 1: really means. Our subjects which have been written of elsewhere
4:02:42
Speaker 1: suffice it now to point out that the founding of
4:02:45
Speaker 1: a lodge of initiation, for the sake of beings who
4:02:48
Speaker 1: came from another scheme of evolution, is an indication of
4:02:52
Speaker 1: the unity of objects and a ay in the government
4:02:55
Speaker 1: and the guidance of all the schemes of evolution brought
4:02:58
Speaker 1: into existence by our soul logos. Apart from the normal
4:03:02
Speaker 1: cause in our own scheme, there is we know a
4:03:06
Speaker 1: path by which he may be directly reached, which every
4:03:09
Speaker 1: son of man, in his progress through the ages, is
4:03:13
Speaker 1: privileged to hear of and to tread, if he so chooses.
4:03:18
Speaker 1: We find that this was so in the Venus scheme also,
4:03:21
Speaker 1: and we may presume it is or will be so
4:03:25
Speaker 1: in all the schemes which form part of our solar system.
4:03:29
Speaker 1: This path is the path of initiation, and the end
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Speaker 1: to which leads is the same for all, and that
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Speaker 1: end is union with God. End of Section ten