Chapter 14 Chapter XIV Atlantic Islands and Lemuria

Most anthropologists, like orthodox Christians, believe that the various races of mankind descend from a single ancestral line.If so, where this ancestral line arose is a question of great interest.A whole volume could be written with the bizarre answers of pseudoanthropologists and religious bigots.Russian ethnologists have recently announced that the human race originated in Russia.However, many Eastern anthropologists have long asserted that it originated in the East.There is hardly a place on earth that has not been described by at least one author as the cradle of humanity. The less likely a region is to be the cradle of humanity, the more attractive it is to a certain type of thinker.Perhaps no place is more difficult to become the birthplace of human beings than the North Pole, but William Warren, a Methodist pastor who taught at Boston University for 30 years, firmly believes that the North Pole was once the location of the ancient Garden of Eden.His Paradise Restored (1885) is a scholarly work, over 500 pages long.In his book, Warren cites geology, meteorology, botany, zoology, anthropology and other sciences and miracles to prove that the climate in the Arctic was once very warm and pleasant.It was here that God created Adam and Eve.Later, the flood in Noah's time submerged the land where the Garden of Eden was located and made the climate as cold as it is now.

However, in the three years before Warren's book appeared, a more original theory had been publicly proposed in the United States.This theory was developed by the Minnesota reformer Ignatius Donnelly, who is introduced in Chapter 3 as the forerunner of Velikovsky's theory.His book "Atlantic Island" was published in 1882 by the Harper Brothers Publishing Company, and it was all the rage.It was subsequently translated into every major language and, just a few years ago, a newly annotated US and UK edition was released.No book on the subject has been more popular or influential.

The gist of Donnelly's argument is that the biblical Garden of Eden was situated on a vast continent that once existed in the Atlantic Ocean.It was there that man, after the glacial lake, came out of barbarism and developed the world's first civilization.There was a high degree of culture, sun worship, and advanced scientific knowledge.The colonists starting from the Atlantic Islands marched in all directions.They were the first inhabitants of America, Europe and Asia.The kings, queens and heroes of the Atlantic Islands became the gods and goddesses of ancient religions.About 13,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption shook the earth, and the entire continent of the Atlantic island sank into the ocean.Flood legends, such as the story of Noah, are records of this catastrophe.

In support of these arguments, Donnelly cites a host of dubious sources from geology, archaeology, and legend, emphasizing similarities between ancient Egyptian culture and early Mexican-Indian culture in South America.For example, people found that both regions had the knowledge of embalming corpses, both used a 365-day calendar, both built pyramids, both circulated myths about floods, and so on.In order to link the Mediterranean world with South America, Donaco argues, one must assume that an early culture existed on a continent lying between the two regions.As one critic pointed out, no writer on the subject has been able to use reasoning to make "a mound a mountain" than Donnelly.

In fact, Donnelly's book is nothing more than modern people trying to prove the ancient Greek myth about the Atlantic island first described by Plato.Plato described the Atlantic Islands as a barbaric culture of extravagance that once existed near the outlet of the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.The gods are unhappy with the corruption on this island.As punishment, they sent down a great earthquake, which sank the Atlantic island into the sea overnight.Perhaps it was a half-submerged city on an Atlantic island that Poe described in his poem "City on the Sea." The light of heaven does not reach below

The city is full of night; But the light from the stormy sea But silently sprinkled on the tower, Sprinkled on the domes, on the spiers, on the rich halls, On the temple, on the Babylonian walls— Medieval scholars mostly acknowledged the existence of the Atlantic islands.Writings of that time mentioned this place several times, but added nothing of importance to Plato's account.Throughout the Renaissance, various speculations were made about this myth; by the nineteenth century several works were devoted to it.However, it is only since Donnelly wrote his book that there is a coherent, scholarly, and seemingly scientific defense of Plato's saga.Even a figure as prominent as British Prime Minister William Gladstone was so impressed by Donnelly's book that he campaigned for cabinet approval to send a ship to the Atlantic to trace the outlines of the sunken continent. (Gladstone himself is somewhat of a pseudo-scientist, having written a book on Homer in which he argues that the ancient Greeks were colorblind because of the lack of color in both the Odyssey and the Odyssey. vocabulary.)

Since Donnelly's book, a surprising number of similar works have appeared, none more original and eloquent than Donnelly's.It is conservatively estimated that there are thousands of works on Atlantic Island published in various languages ​​in this century.Most of them, of course, were written by some eccentric insanity, and have no literary value at all, and are not worth mentioning at all.More fascinating is the work of mystics of all stripes, who have access to secret material which the materialists do not have access to.Among the adherents of Theosophy, Rosicruzism, and Physiognomy there were those who wrote books on the Atlantic Islands, drawing upon the material possessed by those who accepted the esoteric traditions.In many cases, these authors had immediate insight into the problems of the Atlantic Islands.A few books, such as Joseph Leslie's 809-page The Sunken Atlantic Isle Reappears, published in Rochester, New York in 1911, were lifted from the dead Atlantic Written from materials obtained from the souls of the islanders.Such writers naturally have a way to obtain a large number of internal details of the ancient Atlantic Island. Although their works are not related to pseudoscience, many of them are very interesting and worth mentioning.

Among the mystic scholars who study Atlantic Island.The most sane was a Scots Presbyterian named Lewis Spence.He wrote 40 works on folklore, of which 6-7 are about the Atlantic Islands.Unlike other mystics, Spence's views were based almost entirely on geology, biology, mythology, and archaeology, although they were also heavily imaginative.He believed that Plato's account was basically true.He believed that the Atlantic Islanders were a mixed race with large brains, and that their first immigrants to Europe were what anthropologists call the Cro-Magnon race.Spence wrote in The Atlantic Island Question published in 1924: "If a patriotic Scot is allowed to boast, I may say that I sincerely believe that the Scots are mentally and spiritually superior. The Scots almost certainly have Cro-Magnon blood in their veins.  …”

Ten years ago, when World War II broke out, Spence became passionate about what he called the analogy between the depravity of the ancient peoples of Western Islands and that of modern Europe.His 1942 book Will Europe Follow in the Way of the Atlantic Islands? "Argued that the morality of Europe as a whole, and Germany in particular, was seriously corrupted.Just as occult disciplines such as astrology (which Spence believed in) were corrupted by the ancient Atlantic Islanders, so the Nazis turned the mysteries of the occult into the "sorcery" of the devil.Spence was particularly annoyed by the idea that Rosenberg and some other German writers asserted that the Nordic Germanic peoples had originated in the Atlantic Islands, since the evidence clearly shows that the Anglo-Saxons were indeed descended from the Atlantic Islanders.Just as the Atlantes were punished by God, so Germany must suffer a catastrophe—and so will all Europe—unless she repents and returns to true Christianity.He asked, "Will this punishment be like the terrible doom that befell the inhabitants of Atlantic Island? This is a question that mortals cannot answer." Some of Spence's early works on Atlantic Island , once had a great influence on the German speculations about the Atlantic Islands.But it cannot be proved whether his assumption that Germany might lose the war by being suddenly submerged was taken seriously by the Nazi party. Spence's The Mysterious Causes of This War, published in 1944.A more eloquent discussion of the evil roots of German occultism and the impending doom of Germany.

The Theosophists have always believed that the existence of the Atlantic Island is beyond doubt, and they have added another myth to this myth-the myth of Lemuria.The name was originally suggested by a nineteenth-century zoologist to name a mass of land that he believed must have existed in the Indian Ocean.This can explain the geographical distribution of lemurs.Madame Tublavatsky, an authority on Theosophy, adopted this name, and described at some length the "third ancestral race" which she believed to have multiplied in Lemuria. According to Blavatsky, there have been five ancestral races on Earth so far, and there will be two more in the future.Each ancestral race has 7 "sub-clans" and each sub-race has 7 "sub-clans" (theosophists believe 7 is a mysterious number).The first ancestral race once inhabited somewhere near the North Pole, the "Fire Mist" people, ethereal and invisible.The second ancestral race, which settled northern Asia, looms in star-shaped bodies.Initially, they reproduced by splitting, but this method eventually evolved to copulation after the stage of coexistence of both sex organs in the individual.The third ancestral race lived in Lemuria.They were corporeal, ape-like giants who gradually developed into shapes resembling modern humans.Lemuria sank to the bottom of the sea in a cataclysm, but before that a sub-family had migrated to the Atlantic Island, where it became the fourth ancestral race.

The fifth ancestral race is the Aryans, who are descended from the fifth subfamily of the Atlantic Islanders.According to the Theosophists, a sixth ancestral race is now gradually evolving from the sixth sub-race of the Yahean.This process is happening in southern California, where, in Anne Besant's words, "the climate comes closest to our ideal Eden."Eventually, the American continent will sink, and Lemuria will rise from the Pacific Ocean to become the home of the sixth ancestral race.After the rise and fall of the seventh ancestral race (developed from the seventh subfamily of the sixth ancestral race), the cycle will end on Earth and a new cycle will begin on Mercury. Later occultists took these clues from Blavatsky, Besant, and other early Theosophical leaders and expanded them with fascinating detail.Scott-Elliott's theosophical work, The Tales of the Atlantic Islands (1914), provides the richest material on the seven sub-families that occurred successively on the Atlantic Islands.The first subgroup from Lemuria was the Ermohers.They are 10 to 12 feet tall and have brownish-black skin.The second subgroup, the Travatli, has brass-colored skin and has the custom of worshiping ancestors.Then there were the Toltecs, who had the highest culture of the Atlantic Island period, which lasted about 10,000 years.They were tall, with darker brassy skin, and Greek in appearance.Their science was very advanced, they had Toltec ships, and they traveled by a cosmic force unknown to people today.Sometimes the Toltecs drank the raw blood of animals (Anne Besant wrote earlier that the Toltecs were 27 feet tall, and their bodies were so solid that "the knives we have cannot cut through their muscles , just like you can't cut a rock"). After the Toltecs came the Turans, irresponsible individualists but great colonists.Then came the Semites, who had a highly developed intellect and an inner conscience.They are a violent and dissatisfied race, often at war with their neighbors.The sixth sub-family, the Akkadians, were the earliest legislators.Finally came the Mongols, who migrated to Asia and were the first generation to develop their culture outside the Atlantic islands. Phrenology was the fastest growing superstition in postwar Germany.The late Rudolf Steiner, a founder of the Phrenological Society, took Scott-Elliott's theory in its entirety, then added some details of his own, based on material he claimed was not permitted to be published.In his book Atlantis and Lemuria (1913), he said that the Lemurians were incapable of thinking or calculation and lived mainly by instinct.They have no language, but communicate with each other telepathically.They live in burrows and have great willpower, which allows them to lift extremely heavy weights.The atmosphere was denser than it is now, the water was more mobile, and the earth was in a viscous state that had not yet formed a solid body. The most persistent propagandist of Lemuria, or Mu as he called it, was Colonel James Churchward, an Englishman who served in the Bengal Lancers in India.While serving as a youth officer in famine relief work, he formed a deep friendship with monks from a monastic school in India.According to the colonel, the monk allowed him to see a batch of tablets written in the ancient "Mu" script.With the help of this monk, these tablets were finally deciphered.Churchward resides in Mount Vernon, New York as a retired military officer.At the age of 70, he began to write a series of works on "Mu" based on the tablets in the monastery. In 1926, he published "The Disappearing Continent "Mu"", followed by "Mu's Descendants" (1931), "Mu's Talisman" (1933) and "Mu's Continent". The Cosmic Force" (1934).The colonel died in 1936 at the age of 86. According to Churchward, "Mu" is the Garden of Eden that created human beings 200 million years ago.That's a special kind of person, not a product of evolution.The civilization of the Lemurians has reached a high level of development, and their science far exceeds our level.Among their accomplishments: Mastering the "cosmic force" that counteracts gravity, a fact that will surely interest the Babson Gravity Research Foundation.This is the same force that Jesus used to walk on water.In fact, Jesus learned the holy teachings of "Mu" from the saints of India and Tibet, so his teachings all come from "Mu".About 12,000 years ago, an underground natural gas belt near the equator exploded.The great shock caused by this caused the entire "Mu" continent to sink into the bottom of the sea, and its 64 million residents also perished at the same time.The islands of the Pacific are "the sad remnants of that continent."It was the same flood that later engulfed the Atlantic island mainland. Churchward has embraced the full mantle of the occult.Reincarnation, telepathy, soul photography, spirit theory, etc.One of his books on "Mu" ends with an account of how an Indian monk, the one who showed him the "Mu" tablet, put him into a trance and the two of them saw their past lives Avatar scenarios.Indian eminent monks kept calling Churchward, calling him "my son".In this scene of returning to the previous life, the author saw himself as a fallen soldier, and the eminent monk cried beside him and shouted, "My only son died in battle!" These works on "Mu" are very rough in writing, and are mixed with a large number of geological and archaeological errors, so that even other Atlantic Island and Lemurian scholars generally believe that they are fabricated nonsense.It is noteworthy that no one has ever seen the tablets that became Churchward's main source of knowledge, nor does he say anywhere in which monastery he found the tablets. Regarding the sinking of Atlantic Island, Hans Bellamy put forward a refreshing explanation. It was mentioned earlier in this book that Bellamy was the main propagandist of Holberg's cosmic ice theory in England.In The Myth of Atlantic Island (1948), he argued that the sinking of Atlantic Island was caused by an earthquake caused when the Earth caught the present moon.Bellamy's American counterpart, Dr Emmanuel Velikovsky, disagreed.In Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky tells us that Plato made a small mistake when he determined that the sinking of the Atlantic island occurred 9,000 years before Solon's time.Velikovsky wrote, "Here's an extra zero, and the most likely date for the sinking of the Atlantic island is ... 900 years before Solon's lifetime." Certainly.This date coincides with the great shock caused by the first appearance of Velikovsky's wandering comet. The myth about the sunken continent has provoked many modern scholars to think hard.what on earth is this kind of happenings?Although geologists agree that the distribution of land and water in ancient times was very different from that of today, they agree that no large-scale continental subsidence has occurred in the short period since the appearance of humans.In fact, neither the geology nor the archaeology has the slightest credible evidence to substantiate the Atlantis and Lemuria myths.However, the literature on this subject continues to flow. Since 1900, there have been dozens of small publications devoted to the study of Atlantic islands in various countries.Spence edited such a periodical in England for a time, and Bellamy is currently working for a British company that publishes a magazine of the same nature.Numerous Atlantic Island associations have been formed. Twenty years ago, a Danish group actually printed Atlantic Island stamps and currency, and designed an Atlantic Island flag. A Lemurian fraternity was organized in Chicago in 1936 in order to develop the ancient wisdom of the "Fatherland" and create a new Lemurian order.Its publications, written by a reincarnated Lemurian, are published by the Lemurian Book Company in Milwaukee.The group also planned to build a "megacity" somewhere in South Carolina, but apparently their Lemurian wisdom didn't give them enough money to make it happen. The psychological factors behind all this are not difficult to understand.Of course, there is obviously an element of escapism when dreaming of a vast and mysterious wonderland, such as the Wonderland of Oz.But more than that, there is also a very strong element of wanting to present yourself as God's chosen people, someone with Atlantis blood, or an Atlantis reincarnated, or at least one who learns A person of a great number of mysteries invisible to the naked eye of mortal beings.Herbert Wells, in his novel "Christina Alberta's Father," portrays Mr. Plimpey, a solitary, fanciful, and neurotic character who discovers the myth of Atlantic Island Very fascinating.Plimby's voice can be heard in Bellamy's following passage: There is a magic in names, . . . and the most magical of those magic words is "Atlantic Island."When we utter the word, nothing definite is revealed, but it is as if a ray of sunlight suddenly shines on a dark past, giving us glimpses of towers in the clouds, sumptuous palaces and stately monasteries, like lost civilizations Visions of the soul touch the deepest part of our souls. Fantasy and sci-fi have not escaped the enchantment of this magic.In Jules Verne's , Captain Nemo's submarine visits the ruins of the Atlantic Island Tower.In Conan Doyle's Malakot Depths, a group of scientists descends in a steel sphere to the Atlantic Island, where they find a thriving city.Covered by a waterproof dome, the city produces its own air and is illuminated with fluorescent lights, and its inhabitants live a happy life.A scientist in the Atlantic Islands foresaw the impending disaster and managed to save part of the city.Residents here have mastered atomic power and are able to project their thoughts onto screens.In the fifth chapter of this book, the "mystery of flying objects in the sky" in "Amazing Stories" is mentioned.The evil Dro in the story turned out to be from sunken Lemuria. To be sure, speculations about the Atlantic Islands and the more ancient homeland of "Mu" will still occupy the minds of pseudo-archaeologists for many years to come.Until the last square mile of the depths of the ocean has been fully examined, those who entertain such thoughts may still believe in the following lines of John Masefield: The ancient island on the sea was once covered with trees, Now dark corals grow. Majestic and majestic, There stands the court of the ancient Atlantic island.