T HE ST O R' O F A T LA N T I S

A G E OG R A P H I C A L , H I S T O R I C A L , A N D

E T H N OL OG I C A L SK ET CH

I LL U S T RAT E D B' FOU R MA PS OF T HE WO R LD '

S C O N F I G U R AT I O N
AT DI F F ERE N T P E R I OD S

W . SC OT T ELL I OT -

WITH A PRE FA CE B'

A . P . SINNET T

L ON D ON

T HE OS OP HI CA L P U B LI S HI N G S OCI ET ',

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T HE T HE O S OP HI C A L P U BL I S HI N G S OC I E T ', B E N A RE S
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T HE OS OP HI S T
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OF F I C E , A D 'A R , MA D R A S , IND IA

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F OR readers unacquainted with the progress that h as been

m ade in recen t years by ea rn est studen ts o f o cculti s m
a ttached t o th e The o sophic a l S ociet y the si g nifican ce o f th e
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st a temen t embodied i n the following pages would b e mis

ap p rehended with o ut s om e p reli min a ry e x pl an a ti o n H ist o rica l
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research h as depended fo r western civilisati o n hithe r to o n written ,

rec o rds o f o n e kind o r another When liter a ry memorand a

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have fallen sh o rt st o ne m onu m e n ts h a ve s o meti mes b een

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a v a ilable an d fossil remai ns h ave gi ven us a few un equi

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v o cal t h o ugh inarticulate assur a nces c on cerning the a n tiquity

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o f the hum a n race ; b ut m o de r n culture h a s l o st sight

Of or has o verlo o ked p o ssibilities c o nnected wi th t he
investigati on o f p a st eve n t s which are i ndepen den t o f fa lli b le
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evidence transmitted to us b y ancient writers T h e w o rld at .

large is thus a t present s o i m perfectly alive t o th e res o urces

o f hum a n fa culty th a t b y mo st pe o ple a s yet the very e x ist
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ence eve n as a p o te n tiality of psychic p o wers which s om e

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o f us all the while a re c o nsci o usly e x ercising every day is ,

sc o rn fully denied an d derided T h e situati o n is sadly ludicr o us

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fr o m the p o in t Of vie w of th o se wh o ap preci a te the pr o spects of

ev o luti on b ecause m anki n d is thus wi lfully h o lding at ar m s
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le n g th the k no wledge th a t is essentia l t o its o wn ulteri o r p r o

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gress . The m ax im um cultiv a tion Of which t he hum an intellect

is susceptible while i t denies itself all the res o urces o f its high er
spi r itu a l consci o usness c a n n ever b e
, mo re th a n a prep a rat o ry
process a s c o m pared with tha t which m ay set in when th e
faculties a re su fli ien tly enla r ged t o enter int o c o nsci o us relati o n
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ship with the s up er p hysi al planes or a spects Of N a ture

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For a ny o ne who will h a ve the p a tience t o study the publish ed

results o f p sychic investigati o n during the l a st fi fty ye a rs the ,

re a lity o f clai rv o yance as an o cc a sio na l phen o menon o f hu m an

intellige n ce m ust est ab lish itself o n an immov ab le found a ti o n .

F o r th o se wh o without b eing occultists students that is to say

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o f N a ture s l o ftier a spects in a p o siti o n t o obt a in better

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te a ching th a n th a t which a ny writ ten b o oks can give —fo r th o se

wh o m erely a v a il the m selves o f rec o rded evide n ce a decl a rati on ,

o n the part o f o thers of a disbelief in t he p o ssi b ility o f c lairv oy

a nce is o n a level with the pr o verbial Afric a n s disbelief in ice
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B ut th e e x perien ces o f clairvoyance that h a ve a ccumulated o n

th e h ands of th o se wh o h a ve studied it i n c on necti o n with m es

m erism d o no mo re tha n pr o ve the e x istence i n hu m an n a ture
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of a cap a city fo r c o gnizing physical phen o me na distan t either

i n space o r ti m e in s om e way which h a s n o thing t o d o with the
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physical se n ses T h o se wh o have s tudied the m ysteries o f

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clairv o yance i n c o nnecti o n with the o sophic te a ching have b ee n

en ab led t o re a li z e that the ultim a te res o urces o f th a t faculty
range as far b e y ond its hu mb ler m anifestati o ns dealt with b y ,

unassisted enquirers as the res o urces o f the higher mathematics

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e x ceed th o se o f the a ba cus C l a irv o y an ce i n deed is o f m a n y

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kinds all
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Of which fall easily int o their pla ces when we a pp re

ciate the m anner i n which hum an c o n sci o usness functi o ns on

di ffe r ent planes of N a ture . T he faculty of rea din g the pages of

a cl o sed b o ok o r of discerning obj ects blindfo ld or at a dis

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t ance fr o m the ob server is quite a di fferen t facult y from t hat

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employed o n the c o gniti on Of pas t even ts T h at last is the kind .

of which it is n ecessary t o s a y s o mething h ere in o rder that the ,

true ch a r a cter Of the present treatise on Atlan tis m ay b e

un derst o od b ut I allude t o the o thers m erely th at the
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e x pl an ati o n I h a ve t o give may n o t b e mist a ken fo r a c o m plete

theo ry of clai r voyan ce in all its va r ieties .

We m a y b est b e helped t o a c o mprehensi o n o f cl a irv o y a nce

a s rel a ted to p a st events b y c o n sidering in the fi rst instance the
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phen om e n a Of me mo ry T he the o ry o f m emory which relates

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it t o an im aginary re a rran ge m ent Of physical mo lecules of

b r a in matter g o ing o n at every instant o f o ur lives i s o ne th at
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presents itself as plausible t o n o o ne who ca n a scend o ne degree

a bo ve the thinking l evel o f t he unc o m pr o mising atheistica l
materialist To every one wh o a ccepts a s e en a reas o nable
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hyp o thesis the ide a th a t a m a n is s o mething mo re th a n

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a carcase in a st a te o f ani m ati o n it must be a r eason ,

ab le hyp o thesis th a t m em o ry h as t o d o with that principle

i n m a n which is super physical - H is memory in short is
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a functi o n Of s o me o ther than the p hysica l plane T h e .

pictures of m e mo ry a re imprinted i t is clear o n some n on

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p hysical mediu m a n d a re a ccessi b le to the embodied thinker

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i n o rdin a ry c a ses b y virtue of s om e e ffo rt he makes in as

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m uc h unc o nsciousn ess as t o its precise character as he is u n ,

c o nsci o us o f the brain im pulse which actu a tes the m uscles of

hi s heart The even ts with which he h a s had t o do in th e past
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are phot o graphed by N atu r e on som e imperishable page o f

su pe r physical m at te r and by m a king an appro pri a te interi o r
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e ffort he is c a pa b le o f b ringing the m again when he re quire s

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them withi n th e a r ea of s om e inte r ior sense which reflects i t s

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perception o n the physical brain We a re n o t all o f us a b le t o

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m ake this e ff o rt equally well so that m e mory is sometim e s dim

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but even in the e x perien ce o f m esmeric research the o cc a si o n al ,

super e x citati on o f m em o r y under m esmerism is a familiar fact

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T he circu m st a nces plainly show th a t the record o f N ature is

accessible if we kn o w how t o rec o ver it o r even if ou r o wn
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capacity t o m ake an e ffo r t for its rec o very is s o m eh o w i mp roved

with o ut o ur h a ving a n i m pr o ved k no wledge o f the meth o d e m
plo y ed And fro m this t h o ught we m ay a rrive by a n e a sy
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t r ansition at the ide a tha t i n trut h the rec o rds o f N a ture are
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no t sep a ra te collecti on s o f individ u al pr o perty b ut c o nstitute ,

the all embr a cing m emory o f N a t ure herself on which differen t

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people a re i n a positi o n t o make drafts a cc o rding t o t heir severa l

capacities .

I do not say that the o ne th o ught necess a rily e n sue s as a

l o gic a l c o nse q uence o f the o ther
O ccultists kn o w th at wh at I
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have stated is the fact but m y present purp o se is t o show th e

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re a der who is n ot a n O ccultist how the acco m plishe d O ccultist

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arrives a t his results with o ut h o ping to epitomi z e all the stages

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o f his mental prog r ess in this brief explanation The o s o phic a l .

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literature at l a rge must b e consulted b y t hose wh o would seek

a fuller elucida ti o n of the magnificen t pr o spects a n d p ra ctica l
dem o nstrati o ns Of its teaching in m a ny directi o ns which i n the , ,

c o urse o f the T he o s o phical developmen t h ave b een l aid b efo r e ,

th e w o rld for the b ene fi t o f all wh o are comp eten t t o pr ofi t b y

the m .

T he m em ory o f N a ture is in reality a stupen d o us unity j ust as ,

in ano ther way all ma nki n d is fo und t o c o nstitut e a spiritual unit y

if we a sce n d t o a su fficiently elev a ted plane of N ature in se a rch
o f the won derful convergence where unity is r eached with o ut the
loss o f i ndividu a lity Fo r o rdin a ry hum a nity h o wever a t the
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e a rly stage o f its evoluti o n represent ed at presen t b y the maj or ity ,

the inte r i o r spiritual c a pacities ranging bey o nd th o s e which t he

b rain is an instrumen t fo r e x pressing are as yet too imperfect ly
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devel o ped t o en ab le them t o get touch with a n y other reco r d s i n

the vast a rchives of N a ture s m emory e x cept t h o se wi th which
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th ey h a ve i n dividually b een in c o nt a ct a t their cre a tion T he .

b lindfo ld interi o r e ffo rt t hey a re com peten t t o m ake will n o t a s , ,

a rule c a ll up any others B ut in a flickering fashion we h a ve

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e x perie n ce in o rdin a ry life o f e ffo rts th at are a little m o re

e ffe c tual . T h o ught T ransferen ce is a hum b le e x ample I n
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that c a se im pressi o ns o n th e min d of on e pers on —N ature s

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m e mo ry pictures with which he is in n o r m a l relati o n ship are

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c a ught up b y s o me o ne else wh o is j ust a b le h o weve r unc o nscious ,

of t he meth o d he uses — t o range N atu r e s mem o ry u n der fa v o ur

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a b le c o nditio n s a little b ey o nd the a re a with which he hi m self is in

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nor ma l relati o nship Such a person has begun h owever slightly

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t o e x ercise the faculty a stral clairvoyance That ter m may

of .

b e c o nvenientl y used t o den o te the kin d of cl a irvoyance I am

n o w e n deav o uri ng to elucid ate t he kind which in s o me o f its
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mo re mag n i fi ce n t devel o pments h a s b ee n em pl o yed t o c a rry

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o ut the in vestig a ti o n s o n the b asis o f which the presen t a cc o u n t

o f A tl a ntis h a s b ee n c om piled .

T here is n o limit re a lly t o the r es o urces o f a str a l cl a irv o y an ce

in investigati o ns c o ncerning the p ast hist o ry o f th e earth ,

whether we a re c o ncer n ed with the eve n ts t h a t h a ve b efallen

the hum an race in pre hist o ric ep o ch s o r with t he gr o wth o f
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the pl a n et itself thr o ugh geol o gic a l peri o d s which a nted a ted
th e adven t o f m a n o r with mo re rece n t eve n t s current n arra
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tions of which h a ve b een dist o rted b y careless o r perverse

hist o rians T he mem o ry of N a ture is infalli b ly a ccur a te an d
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in e x hausti b ly m i n ute A tim e will c om e a s cert a inly a s t h e

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precessi o n o f the e q ui nox es when t he lit er a ry m eth o d o f his

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toric al rese a rch will b e laid a side a s o ut of date in t he c ase of ,

a ll o rigi na l w o rk P e o ple amon g us wh o a re capa b le o f exer

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cising a stral cl a irv o y a nce i n full perfecti o n — b ut h a ve no t yet b een

c a lled a w a y t o higher functi o ns i n c onn e x i on with the p r omo ti on o f
hum an pr o gress o f which o rdi na ry hu man ity a t prese n t k n o ws
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even less th a n an I n dian ry o t kn o ws o f c ab i n et c o u n cils

are still very few Th o se wh o k no w wh a t the few c an d o an d
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thr o ugh wh a t pr o cesses o f t r a ining a nd self discipli n e they -

ha ve p a ssed i n pursuit o f interi o r ideals o f which when ,

a ttained a str a l clairv o y a nce is but an individual circum

st a nce a re m any b ut still a s ma ll m i no rity a s c o m pa red with
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t he m ode r n c u ltivated w or ld B ut as ti me goes on and within

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a meas ur able futu r e some o f us h ave r eason t o feel su r e th at

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the numbers of t h o se who a r e com petent t o e x ercise a st r a l

c lai r vo y a nce will inc r ease su fficien tly t o exten d the circle Of
th o se wh o a r e a wa r e of t heir capacities till it c o mes t o embrace
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a ll the intelligence an d culture O f civilised m ankin d o nl y a

fe w generations hence . M ean while the p r esen t volum e is the
fir st th at has been put for wa r d as th e pion ee r essay o f the n ew
m ethod Of histo r i al r esea r ch I t is am using t o all wh o are
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conce r ned with it to think h o w in evitably it will b e m istaken

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fo r some little while as yet by m ate r ialistic r eade r s un able to

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accept the fr ank e x planation here given Of th e p r inciple on

which i t has b een p r epare d—for a wo r k of imaginati o n .

F o the benefit of othe r s wh o m ay be m o r e in tuitive it m ay

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b e well to say a wo r d or tw o t hat m ay guard them fr o m sup

posing that becaus e histo r ical resea r ch by m ean s Of astral
clai r voyance is n ot im peded by h aving to deal with periods
r emoved fr o m our own by hund r eds of th ousands o f ye ars it is ,

o n th at acc o unt a pr o cess which in volves no trouble Every

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fact stated i n the p r esen t vol u m e h as been picked u p bit b y bi t

with watchful a nd atten tive ca r e in th e co ur se of an investiga
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tion on which mo r e than on e q u ali fi ed pe r son has b een engaged ,

in the inte r vals of othe r activity fo r som e yea r s past And to

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p r om o te the success of their w or k the y have been all o wed access

t o s o m e m aps and othe r r eco r ds physicall y p r ese r ved fro m the
rem o te pe r i o ds conce r n ed —th o ugh i n safe r keeping th an in
tha t of the t u r bulen t r aces occ u pied in E u r ope with the
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d evelopmen t of civilisation in brief intervals Of leisure fr o m

wa r fare an d h a rd pressed b y the
, fan aticism that s o lon g
t r eated science as sacrilegious du r ing the middle ages of Europe .

Lab o ri o us as the t ask has been h o wever it will b e recognized

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as amply repaying the trou b le tak en b y everyone who is able

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pe r ceive how absolutely necessary to a proper comprehension

of the w o rld as we fi nd it is a proper comprehension of
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its preceding Atlantean phase Without this kn o wledge all

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specul a ti o ns concerning ethn ol o g y a r e futile and misleading .

The c o urse o f r ace devel o pmen t is cha o s an d confusion without

the key fu r nished by the cha r acter of Atlan tean civilization a nd
the c o n fi guration of the earth at Atlantean pe r iods G e o logist s
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know that lan d an d o cean surfaces must h ave repeatedly

ch anged places d ur ing the pe r iod at which they also know
fro m the situation of huma n rem ains in the various st r at a
th a t the lands were inh abited An d yet for want of accurat e
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kn o wledge as to the d ates at which the changes t oo k place they ,

disc a rd t he whole t he o ry fro m their practical thinking and ,

e x cept for certain hypotheses s ta r ted by naturalists dealing wit h

the s o uthern hemisphere have generally endeavoured to ha r
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m oniz e r a ce mig r a ti o n s with the configuratio n of th e earth i n

e x ist ence at the present time .

I n this way n o n sen se is made of the whole ret ro spect ; an d

the ethn o logical scheme remains s o v a gue and shadowy th at it
fa ils t o disp l a ce crude c o ncepti o ns of m ankind s beginning whi h
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still dominate religi o us thinking a nd keep back the spiritual

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pr o gress o f the a ge The dec a dence an d ultimate disappearance

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o f A tlantean civilisati o n i s in turn as inst r uctive as its r ise an d

gl o ry ; b ut I have now a ccom plished th e m ain purp o se with
which I s o ugh t leave t o intr o duce the wo r k n ow before the

w o rld with a b r ief p r efatory explanation a nd if its c o ntents

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fail t o c on vey a sen se o f its im portan ce t o any listeners I a m

n o w addressing tha t result cou l d hardly be a ccomplished by
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furth er rec o mm enda ti o n s of min e

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A . P . S I N N ET T .
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Q lte
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5 m; of gitlantia .

A G e o g ra p h i c a l H i s t o ri c a l
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an d E t h n o l o gi c a l S k e t ch .

T HE general sc o pe o f the su bj ect b efo re us will b est be

r eali z ed b y considering the a m oun t of information that is
obtain a b le a b out the va r ious n ations wh o com pose o ur great
Fift h or A r yan Race .

Fr o m the time of the G reeks and th e R o m an s o nwa r ds volumes

have b een written a b out every people who in their t u r n h ave
fi lled th e st a ge of histor y The political institutions the re
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ligiou s b eliefs t he s o ci a l a nd dom estic m an ners an d custom s

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h ave all been an a lyze d and c atalogued a nd c o u n t less wo r ks i n

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m any tongues rec o rd for ou r bene fi t the m arch of pr o gress .

F ur th e r it must b e rem embe r ed th at o f th e histo r y o f t his

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F ifth Race we possess b ut a fragmen t —the record m e r ely of

th e la st family r aces of th e Keltic su b r ace an d the fi r s t famil y
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r aces of ou r own Teut o nic stock .

But the hundreds of thousan ds of yea r s which elapsed fro m

the tim e when t he earliest Aryans left th eir hom e on the sho r es
of the central Asia n Sea to the tim e Of the G reeks a nd Rom an s ,

bor e witness t o the rise a nd fall of innumerable civilizations .

O f the I st sub r a ce of ou r Arya n R ace wh o inhabited I ndia an d

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colonized Egypt in prehist o ric tim es we kn o w p r acticall y n o thing ,

and the sam e m ay b e said o f the C haldean B abylonian a n d , ,

Assyrian n ations wh o composed th e an d s u b race —for t he frag -

me n ts of kn owledge obtained fr om the recentl y deciph e r ed

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hie r ogl y phs o r c u neifo r m insc r iptions on Eg y ptian tom bs or

B ab y lonian t ab lets can scar c el y be said to constitute histo r y .

The Persians who belonged to t he 3 rd or I r anian sub r ace have -

it is t ru e left a few m o r e t r a c es but of the ea r lie r civiliz ations

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of the Keltic o r 4 th sub r ace we have n o r eco r ds a t all I t is

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o n l y wit h the r ise of the la s t family shoots Of this Keltic stock ,

ut z . the G r eek and R om an peo p les that we com e upon histo r ic

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times .

I n addition also to th e blank pe r iod in th e past t he r e is the ,

blank period in the fut ur e Fo r of the seven sub r aces requi r ed

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t o com plete th e histo ry o f a g r eat R oot R ace five onl y have so ,

fa r com e into existence O ur ow n Teutonic o r sth sub r a ce

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h as already deve loped m any n ations b ut has not yet run its ,

co u rse while the 6 th and 7th sub r aces who will be developed on
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the c o n tinents of N o rth and So u t h A m eric a will have thousan ds ,

o f y ea r s of histo ry to give t o the wo r ld .

I n attem pting the r efo r e to sum m a r ize in a few pages in for

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m ation about the wo r ld s p r og r ess du r ing a pe r iod whi c h must

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have occ u pied at least a s g r eat a st r et c h of yea r s a s that above

re fe rr ed to it must be r ealized h ow slight a sketch this m us t
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in evit ably be .

A record of the w or ld s p r og r ess d ur ing t he peri o d of the

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Fou r th o r Atlantean R ace m ust em b race the hist o ry of m any

n ation s and register the rise an d fall o f many civilizations
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C atast r ophes too on a scale such as h ave not yet been ex

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p er ien c ed du r ing the life o f our p r esen t Fifth R a c e took place ,

o n mo r e than on e occasion du r ing the prog r ess of t he Fo ur th .

The dest ru ction o f Atlantis was accom plis hed by a series of

cata st r ophes va r ying in ch a r acter fr om great cat a c l y sm s in
which whole t e rr ito r ies and populations pe r ish ed to compa r a ,

tiv ely unim po r tant landslips such as occur on o u r own co asts

to da y When t he dest r uction was once inaugurated b y the

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fi r st g r eat cat astrophe there wa s no i nte r mission of the mi no r

land s lips which con tinued slowl y b ut steadil y to eat a wa y th e
con tinen t Four of the g r eat catast r ophes stan d o u t above t h e
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r est in magnitude Th e fi r st took place in the M iocene age

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abo u t y ea r s ago The secon d which wa s of mino r

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im po r tance occu rr ed abo u t

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yea r s ago The thi r d .

about yea r s ago—was a ve r y g r eat one I t destro y ed all .

th at r em ained of t he Atlan tean continen t with the exception of ,

the i s lan d to which Plato gave the nam e of P os eidon is which ,

in its tu r n was subm erged in the fourth a n d fin al g r eat catas

trop he of B C . .

Now the testim ony of the Oldest w r iters and of m oder n

scien tific r esearch alike b ear witness t o the existence of a n
ancien t c ontinen t occ u pyi n g the sit e of t he lost Atlantis .

Befo r e p r oceeding to the con side r ation of the s u bj ect itself it ,

is p r oposed cu r so r ily t o glance at the gene r all y known sou r ces

which suppl y co r robo r ative evidence These m ay be grou pe d .

into the five following classes

Fi r st the testimony of the d eep sea soundings
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Sec o nd t he dist r ibution of faun a an d flo r a

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Third the simila r it y of language an d of ethnological t y pe

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Fou r th the similarity of religi o us belief r itual and

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a r chitect ure .

Fifth t he testimony of ancien t writers of earl y race t r aditions

, , ,

and of a r chaic fl ood legen ds -

.

I n th e fi r st place then the testimony of the deep sea

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soundings m ay b e sum m a r ized in a few wo r ds Thanks c hiefl y .

to the expeditions of the B r itish an d A me ri c an g u nboats ,

Challenge r an d Dolphin ( though G e r m an y also was asso

” '

c iated in this scien t i fi c exploration ) the bed of the whole

Atlantic O cean is n o w mapped o u t with th e r es u lt that an ,

imm ens e b ank or r idge of great e levation is she wn t o exist in

mid Atlantic T his r idge stretches in a south wes t e r ly di r ecti o n
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.
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fro m about fi fty deg r ees north towa r ds the coa st of South
 Ameri c a then in a so u th easte r ly di r ection towa r ds the coa st
,
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of Afr i c a changing it s di r ection again about Ascension I sland

, ,

and r unning due so u th to T r istan d A c u n h a The ridge r ises ’

.

almost sh ee r about feet fr om the ocea n depths a r ound it ,

while the Azo r es St Paul Ascension and T r istan d A c u n ha

, .
, ,
’

a r e th e peaks of this lan d which still r emain above water A .

lin e of fathom s or s ay , feet is requi r ed to s o und

, ,

the deepest parts of the Atlantic but the h igher pa r ts of th e ,

ridge are only a hun dred to a few hund r ed fathoms beneath the
sea.

Th e s o undings too showed th at the r idge i s c o vered with

volcanic dé brzs of which traces are t o be found righ t ac r oss the
'

ocean t o the Ame r ican coasts I ndeed the fact that the ocea n .

b ed pa r tic u la r ly about t he Azo r es has b een the scen e of

, ,

volcani c dist urb ance on a gigantic scale an d that within a ,

quite meas ur able pe r iod of geologic tim e is concl u sively ,

p r oved b y the i n vestigatio n s m ade during the above n am e d

expeditions .

M r St a r ki e G ardne r is of o pinion t hat in the Eo c en e times

.

the B r itish I slands form ed pa r t of a la r ge r isl and o r con tinen t

stretching in to th e Atlantic an d that a great t r act o f land
'
,

fo r m e r l y existe d whe r e t he sea now is an d t hat Cornwall th e , ,

Scill y an d Ch ann el I slands I r eland an d B r ittany are the

,

re m ains of its high est sum mits (P op S c R eview J uly . .

, ,

S econd — The p r oved existence o n continents sepa r ated by

.

g r eat ocean s of simila r o r identical s pecies of fa u n a and fl o ra is

the st an ding puzzle to biologists an d bot anists alike B ut if a .

link between these continents once existed allowing for the

natu r al mig r ation of such anim als and plants the pu z zle is ,

solved N ow t he fossil r em ains of the c amel a r e fo und in

.

I ndia Afr ica S outh Ame r ica an d Kan s as b u t it is one of the

, ,

gene r all y ac c epted hypotheses o f n aturalists t h at eve ry species

of anim al and plant o r igin at ed i n but on e pa r t of the glo b e fro m ,
which cen tre it graduall y ove rr an t he othe r po r tions H ow
.

then can the facts of su c h fossil rem ain s be ac c o u nted fo r

witho u t the existen ce of land c om m u nica tion in some r e mote
age R ecent discove r ies in the fossil beds of N eb r aska see m
also to p r ove that the ho r se o r igin a ted in t he Weste r n H emi
S phe r e fo r that is the on ly pa r t of the wo r ld whe r e fossil
,

r em ains h ave been dis c ove r ed sho wing the va r io u s inte r mediate
,

fo r ms whi c h have been identified as the p r ecu r s o r s of the t ru e

ho r se . I t would the r efo r e be di fficult to account fo r the
presence of the ho r se in E ur ope exce pt on th e h y pothesis o f
continuous lan d com m unication between the t wo c ontinents ,

seeing th at it is ce r t ain that the ho r se existed in a w ild stat e

in Europe and Asia befo r e his dom estication by m an which ,

m ay be traced back al mos t to th e stone age C attle and sheep

.

a s we now know them h ave an equall y r em o te ancestry .

Da r win finds domesticated cattle in Eu r ope in the ea r liest

part of the stone age h aving long befo r e developed ou t o f
,

wild forms akin to the bu ff alo of Am e r i c a R em ains o f the

.

cave lion o f E u r ope are als o foun d in N o r th A me r ica

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.

T u rning now from the ani mal t o th e vegetable kingdom i t

a ppea r s t hat the greate r pa r t of the flo r a of the Miocene age in
Eu r ope —fo u n d chiefly in the fossil beds of Swit z e r land—exis t
at the p r esen t d a y in Ame r ica som e of them in Afr ica B u t
, .

the notewo r thy fact abo u t Ame r i c a is that while the g r eate r
propo r tion are to b e found in the Easte r n States ve ry ma n y
,

a r e wanting on the Pacific coast This seems to show th at it

.

w a s fr om th e Atlantic sid e that they en te r ed the continent P ro .

fes sor Asa Gray says that o ut of 6 6 genera an d 1 5 5 species

fo u nd in the forest e a st of the R ock y M ountains onl y 3 1 ,

gen era an d 7 8 species a r e fo un d west of these h eights .

B ut the greatest p r oblem of all is t he plan tain o r banan a .

P r ofesso r Kuntze a n eminent G erm an botanist asks

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In ,

what way w a s this pl a nt (a na tive of tropical Asia and Afr ica )

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whic h can not stan d a voyage t hrough the tempe r ate zone ,

c a rr ied to Ame r ica As he points out the plant is seedless , ,

it c annot be p r opagated by c u ttings neithe r has it a tube r ,

which c o u ld b e ea sil y t r an sp or ted I ts r oot is t r ee like T o

.
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.

tra n sport it s pecial ca r e would be r equired n o r could it stan d ,

a long tra nsit The on ly wa y in which h e can account fo r its

.

appearan c e in A m e r ica is t o sup pose t hat it must have been

transp o rted by civilized m a n at a time when t he polar regions
h ad a t r opica l cli mat e ' H e adds '
a cultivated plant which
,

does n ot possess seeds m ust have b een unde r cultu r e fo r a very

long p eriod it is perh aps fai r t o infer th at these
plants we r e c ultivated as e a r ly as the begin ning of the Diluvial
pe r iod
. Wh y it m a y be asked should n ot this infe r
, , ence take
us bac k t o still ea r lier tim es and whe r e did the civilization
,

n ecessa r y for the plant s c u ltivation exist o r the clim ate an d

’

c i r cumstances r equ isite fo r its t r an spo r tation unless the r e we r e ,

a t som e tim e a link between the old wo r l d an d the new

P r ofessor Walla ce in his delightfu l I sland L ife as well as
o the r writers in many im po r t ant w or ks h ave put forwa r d ,

ingen ious h y potheses t o accoun t for th e iden tity of flo r a an d

faun a on widely separated l an ds an d for thei r t r ansi t a cross
,

the ocea n but a ll are un convincing an d all break down a t

, ,

di fferent points .

I t is well known t ha t wheat as we know it has neve r existed

in a t ru ly wild st at e n or is th e r e a n y evidence tracing its
,

des c ent fr om fo ssil species Five va r ieties o f wheat were

.

already cultivated in Eu r ope in the sto n e age —o ne variet y foun d

in the L ake dwellings bein g kn o wn as Egyptian wheat from ,

which D a r win a r gues t h at t he Lake dwellers either still kept

u p com me r c ial inte r course wi t h some southern people or had ,

o r iginall y pro c eeded a s colonists from the south ”

H e c on .

c lu d es t h at wheat ba r ley o ats etc are descended fro m vari o us

, , , .
,

sp ecies now ex tinct or so widely di ff erent as to escape iden tifi c a

,
ti o n in which case h e says M an m u st h ave cultivated cereals
fro m a n enorm o usly remote pe r iod ”
The r egions whe r e these
.

e x tinct species flourished a n d the civilization unde r which they

,

were cultivated by in telligent selection a r e both supplied b y the

,

l o st continen t wh ose c o lon ists c a r ried the m east an d west .

T hird —F r om the fa u n a and flo r a we now tu r n to m an .

L anguage —T he B asque language sta nds alone amongst

Eu r opean tongues h aving a ffinity with no n e o f t hem Acco r d
,
.

in g to Farrar ' the r e n eve r h as been any doubt that this

,

isolated language p r eserving its identity in a western c o rne r of

,

Europe between two migh ty kingdom s r esembles in it s s tru c

, ,

tu r e the abo r igina l lang u ages of t he vast opposite contin en t

( Am e r ica ) an d those alone ( F f
am ilies o Sp eech p , .

The Ph oenician s apparently were the first n ation in the

E astern H emisphe r e t o use a phonetic alph abet the cha r acte r s ,

being regarded as m ere signs fo r s o unds I t is a cu r ious fact .

that at a n equally earl y d at e we find a ph o netic alph a b et in

Central America amongst the M ayas of Yucatan whose t r a di ,

tions ascribe the origin of thei r civili z ation to a lan d across

th e sea to t he east . Le Plongeon the great authorit y on
,

this s u bj ect w r ites ' ' O ne thi r d o f this tongue (t he M aya ) is

,
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pu r e G r eek Who brought the dialect of H o m e r to A me r ica ?

.

or who took to Greece t hat of the M ayas ? G reek is the o ff

sp r ing Of the San sc r it I s M aya ? o r a r e they coeval
.
?
Still
mo r e s ur p r ising is it to find thi r teen lette r s out of the M a y a
alphabet bea r ing m ost distin ct r elation to th e Egyptian hie r o
glyphic signs fo r the sam e lette r s I t is p r obable t h at th e
.

ea r liest fo r m of alphabet wa s hie r oglyphic th e writing of the

,

G o ds as the Egyptian s called it an d th at it developed late r in

, ,

Atlan tis into the ph o netic I t would be natu r al to ass u m e tha t

.

the Egyptians were an early colon y from Atlantis ( as the y

actually were ) a nd th at they carried awa y with them the p r imi
tive type of writing which has thus left its traces on b o th
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h emisphe r es while the Ph oenicians who we r e a sea going pe ople

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,

obtained and assi milated the late r fo r m of alpha b et during their

t rading vo y ages with th e people of th e west .

O ne mo r e point m a y be noticed viz the ext r ao r dinary re ,

.
,

semblance between m an y wo r ds in the H eb r e w l anguage an d

wo r ds bea r ing p r e c isely the sam e m eaning in the tong u e of the
C hiap en ec s —a b r anch of the M a y a r a c e and amongst the mos t ,

an cien t in Ce n t r al A me r ic a A list of these words is given in

.

N orth A mericans of A ntiquity p 5 , . .

The simila r it y of language a m ong the vari o us savages races

of the Pa c ific islands has been u sed as an a r gument by writers
on this subj ect The existen ce of si milar languages among
.

races sepa r ated by leagues o f ocean ac r oss which in histo r ic ,

time t hey a r e known to h ave had n o means of t r an spo r t is ,

certainly an argument in favour o f thei r descen t fr om a single

r ace o c cup y ing a single continent but the a r gument cannot b e
,

used he r e fo r the c o ntinent in question was not Atla n tis b ut the

, ,

still earlier Lemuria .

E thnolog ical Typ es —Atlantis as we sh all see is said to have

.

been inhabited by r ed y ellow white and black races I t is

, , .

now prove d by the r esea r ches of Le Plongeon D e Q u atrefages , ,

B ancroft a nd others th at black populati o n s of negroid t y pe

existed even up to r ecen t times in Ame r ica M any of the .

monuments of Central Am e r ica a r e deco r ated with negro faces ,

and some of the idols foun d t he r e are clea r ly intended to r ep t e

sen t neg r os with sm all skulls short woolly hai r an d thick lips
, , .

Th e Popul V u h speaking of the first home of the G uat em alan

,

race sa y s that black and white men together lived in this

,
”

happ y lan d in great peace speaking one language

'
,
”
( See .

B anc r oft s N ative R aces p

’

, .T he Popul V u h goes on t o
relate how t he people mig r at ed fr om thei r an cestral ho me how ,

their language becaine altered and how s o me went to the e a st

, ,

while othe r travelled west (t o Centr a l Am erica ) .

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Professo r R etzius in his S m ithsonian R ep ort c onside r s th a t

, ,

the p r imitive dolic ho c ep ha lm of Ame r ica are n ea r ly r elated to

the G uanches of the C an a ry I slands and t o the populati o n on the ,

Atlantic seaboard of Afr ica whi c h Latham comp r ises under the
,

n ame of Egy ptian A tlan tidae T h e same fo r m of skull is found

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.

in the C an a r y I slands off the Afr ican c o ast an d the Ca r ib

I slands off the American coast while th e colour of the skin in ,

both is that of a reddish brown -

.

The ancient Egyptian s depicted themselves as red m en of

much the sam e c o mple x i o n as e x ists to day among som e tribes -

of Americ an I n dian s .

The ancien t Peruvians sa y s Sho r t appea r fr om

, ,

nume r ous examples of h air found in their tombs to h ave been

an aub u rn h a i r ed r ace
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.

A r em a r k able fact about the A me r ic an I ndians an d on e ,

which is a standing puzzle t o ethnologists is the wide r ange o f ,

colour and complexion to be found among t hem From the .

white tin t o f the M eno minee D akota M an dan an d 'uni t ribes

, , ,

many of whom h ave aub ur n hair a nd blue eyes t o the almost ,

negro bla c kness of the K aros of Kansas an d th e now extinct

tribes of C alifornia t he I n dian r aces ru n th r ough eve r y shade
,

of r ed b r own copper olive cinnamon an d b r onze

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, , ,( See , .

Sho r t s N orth A mericans of A ntiquity Win chell s P re A daniites an d

’

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Catlin s I ndians of N orth A merica ; see also A tlantis b y I gnatius

’

Donnelly who h as collected a grea t m ass of evid ence under this

a nd o ther he a ds ) We shall see b y an d by how the diversity
.

o f c o m ple x ion on the American c o ntinen t is acc o unted for b y

the o r igin al r a ce tints on the p aren t continent of A tlan tis
-

F ourth —
.

N othing seems to h ave surp r ised th e first S panish

adventu r e r s in M exic o and P eru m o r e t han the ext r ao r dinary
simila r ity t o those of the old w o rld o f t he r eligious beliefs r ites , , ,

and em b lems which they foun d e stablished in the n ew T h e .

Spanish priests reg a rded this si milarit y as the work o f the devil .
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The worshi p of the cross b y the natives and its constan t ,

p r esen c e in all r eligious buildings an d ceremonies wa s the ,

p r incipal s u bj e c t of thei r a mazem en t ; an d indeed nowhe r e

not e v en in I n dia and Eg y pt —w a s this s y mbol held in mo r e
p r ofo u nd vene r a tion than a mongst the p r imiti ve t r ibes of t he
Ame r ic an continents while th e meaning u nde r l y ing its wo r ship
,

was identi c al I n the west as in the east the c r oss was the
.
, ,

s y mbol of life— so metim es of life ph y sical mo r e often of life ,

ete r n al
.

I n like m an n e r in both hemisphe r es the worship of the sun

disk or circle an d of the se r pent was unive r sal and more
, , ,

su r p r ising still is the si milarit y of the wo r d signifying G od '

in the p r incipal lang u ages o f east an d west Compa r e the .

S anscrit '
D y aus o r Dya u s pita r the Greek
' ”
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Th eo s ,
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a n d 'eus , the Latin D eus an d J upite r the Keltic Dia

” '
,

an d Ta p r on o un ced T hyah (seeming to bea r a ffinit y to

'
,

the Eg y ptia n Tau ) the J ewish J ah or Ya h and lastly the

,

”
M exi c an Teo or 'eo .

B aptism al r ites we r e p r a c t ised b y all n ations I n B ab y lon .

and Egyp t the c andidates for initiation into the M ysteries

we r e fi r s t b aptized Te r tu llian in his D e B ap tismo sa y s that
.

they we r e p r omised in con sequence r egene r ation and the '

pa r don of all thei r pe rj u r ies ”

The Scan din avian nations
.

p r actised baptism of new bo r n child r en ; an d when we t ur n to

-

M exico an d Pe r u we fin d i n fan t baptism the r e as a solemn

ceremonial c onsisting of wate r sp r inkling the sign of the c r os s
, , ,

an d pra y e r s fo r the washing away of sin ( see H u mboldt s ’

Mexican R esearches and P r e s cott s Mex ico) ’

.

I n a dditi on to baptism the t r ibes of M exi c o Cent r al Ame r ica

, ,

and Pe r u r esembled th e n ations of th e old wo r ld in thei r r ites

of confession absol u tion fasting an d m a rr iage befo r e p r iests b y
, , ,

j oining h ands Th ey h ad even a ceremon y r esemb ling the

.

E u c h a r ist in which c akes m arked with th e Tau ( an Eg y ptian

,
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fo r m of c r oss ) we r e eate n the people c alli n g them the flesh of
,

thei r G od These exactly r esemble the sac r ed cakes of Eg y pt

.

and o ther eastern nations Like t hese nation s too th e people

.
,

of the n eww or ld had monastic o rde r s m ale and fem ale in , ,

which br o ken v o ws we r e punished with dea th Like the .

Eg y ptians they em b almed thei r dead they wor s hipped s u n , ,

moon and planets but ove r an d above these ado r ed a Deity

, ,

'
omnipresent who kn o weth all things
, in v isible ,

in co r po r eal o n e G o d of perfect perfectio n

, ( see S a ha g u n s
’

H istoria de N ncva E sp ana lib , .

They too had thei r virgin mothe r goddess O ur Lad y

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,
'

whose son the Lo r d of Light wa s called the

, Saviou r , ,

bearing an accu r ate c o rr e s pon den c e to I sis B eltis an d the m any ,

othe r vi r gin goddesse s of th e ea st with t hei r divine sons

-
.

Thei r r ites of s u n an d fire wo r ship closel y resembled th o se of

th e ea r ly Kelts of B r itain an d I r eland a n d l ike the l atte r the y ,

c laimed to be the child r en of th e sun An a r k o r a r gha wa s .

’

one of the u nive r sal sac r ed symbols which we find alike in I ndia ,

Chaldea Assy r ia Eg y pt G r ee c e and amongst the Keltic peoples

, , , .

Lo r d Kingsbo r o u gh in his Mexican A ntiquities ( vol viii p 2 5 0 ) . . .

says ' As am ong th e J ews the a r k was a so r t of po r table

tem ple in which the deity was s u pposed t o be contin u all y
p r esent so a mong the M exican s the C he r okees an d th e I n dian s
, ,

of M ichoa c an and H ond ur as an a r k was held in the highest ,

veneration an d was considered an obj ect too sac r ed t o be to u ched

by any b ut the priests .
”

As to religio u s a r chitecture we find on both sides of the ,

Atlanti c that on e of the ea r liest sa c red buildings is the p yr a mid .

Doubtful as a r e the uses for which these s tr u ct u res we r e

o r iginall y intended on e thing is clea r that the y we r e closely
, ,

con nected with some religious idea o r g r oup of ideas The .

identit y of design in the pyramids of Egypt an d those of M exico

an d C entral Am e r ica is t o o striking t o be a me r e coincidence .
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True some— the greater number —oi the American p yr amids

are of the trun c a ted or fl attened form yet acco r ding to B anc r oft ,

an d o the r s m any of th o se found in Yucat an and n o tably th o se

, ,

n ear Palen que are pointed at t he top in true Eg y ptian fashion

, ,

while on the other h an d we have some of the Eg y ptian p yr amids

o f the stepped an d flat tened t y pe C holula has b een c o m pa r ed
.

to the g r ou ps of D ac h ou r Sakka r a and the step p yr amid of

,

Mé dou rn Alike in o rientation in structu r e and even in their

.
, ,

intern al galle r ies and chambe r s these m yste r ious monuments of

,

the eas t an d of the west st and as witnesses to some comm o n

sou r ce whence t h eir builders d r ew thei r plan .

The vast rem ain s of c ities and tem ples in M exic o an d Yucatan
also st r angely r esemble those of Egypt the r uins of Teotihuacan ,

h aving fr equentl y b een compa r ed to those of K arn ak The .

'
false a r ch —h o r izon ta l cou r ses of stone each slightly ove r
”
,

lapping t he othe r — is found to be identical i n Central Am erica ,

in the oldest b u ildings of G reece a n d in Et r uscan rem ains The

,
.

m oun d builde r s o f both e aste r n and weste r n continents form ed

similar t u muli ove r thei r d ead an d laid th e bodies in simila r
,

stone co ffins B o th c o ntinents h ave their g r eat serpen t mounds ;

.
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com pare that of A dam s C o O hio wit h the fine serpent mound
.
, ,
-

discove r ed in A rgyles hire or the less pe r fect specimen at

,

Avebur y in Wilts The very carving an d deco r at ion of the

.

tem ples of A m e r ica Eg y pt and I ndia h ave much in common

, ,

while s o me of the m u r al deco r ations are absolutel y iden tical .

Fift l
i
.
— I t on ly rem ains now to summa r ize some of the evidence
ob taina b le from ancient w r ite r s fr om ea r ly race traditions and
, ,

from a r ch a ic fl ood legends

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.

A elian in his Varia H is toria ( lib iii ch st ates t hat . . .

T heop om p us (4 00 r ecorded an inte r view between th e

King of Ph r ygia and S ilen u s in w hich the latter refe r red to the
,

e xistence of a great continent beyond the Atlan tic la r ger than ,

A sia Eu r ope an d Lib y a togethe r

, .
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Proclus qu o tes an extract fr om an ancient writer who r efe r s

to the islands in the sea be y ond the P illa r s of H e r cules ( S tr ai t s
of Gibralta r ) an d says th at th e inhabitants of on e of these
,

islands had a t r adition fr om thei r ancesto r s of an ext r emely la r ge

islan d called Atlantis which for a lo n g tim e rule d o ve r all the
,

islands of the Atlantic O cean .

M arcell u s speaks of seven islands in th e Atlantic an d states ,

th at their inh abitants preserve the m emo r y of a much g r eate r

island Atlantis which ha d fo r a l o ng time e x ercised d o minion
, ,

ove r the sm alle r o nes ”

.

D iodoru s S ic u lu s r elates that the Ph oenicians discovered a

la r ge islan d in the Atlan tic O cean be y ond the Pilla r s of H e r cules
several days s ail fr o m th e c o ast of Africa
’
.

B ut th e g r e a test authorit y on this su bj ect is Plato I n the .

T unnels he r efe r s t o the islan d continen t while the C ritias o r

,

A tlanticas is nothing less th an a detailed account of the histor y ,

a r ts manne r s an d c u stom s of the people

,
I n t he Tinia ns he
.

r efers to a migh ty wa r like power ru shing fr om the Atla n tic

'
,

sea and sp r eading i t self with hostile fur y ove r all Europe a nd
Asia Fo r at th at tim e t he A tlantic sea was navigable an d h ad
.

an isl and before th at mouth which is ca lled by y ou the Pilla r s

of H e r cules B ut this isla n d was g r eater than both Libya an d
.

all Asia together and a ffo r ded an easy passage to o the r

,

neighb o uring islands as it was likewise eas y to pass from th o se

,

islands to all th e continents which b o r der on this Atlantic sea .

The r e is so m uch of value in the C ritias that it is not eas y to

c h o ose but the following ext r act is given
, as it bea r s on the
,

m at e r ial r esou r ces of the count ry ' The y h ad likewise eve r y

'

thing p r ovided fo r them which both in a cit y a n d eve r y othe r

place is sough t a fte r as useful fo r the p u rposes of life An d they .

we r e supplied indeed with m an y things fr om fo r eign coun t r ies ,

on accoun t of their extensive em pi r e ; but the island a fforded

them the g r eate r pa r t of ever y thing of which they stood in need .
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I n th e fi r st place the i s land supplied the m with such thin g s as

a r e d u g o u t of mines in a solid st ate and with such as a r e ,

m elted ' an d o r ich alc u m whi c h is now but seldom m entioned

, ,

but then was m u ch celebra ted was dug o u t of the earth in man y ,

parts of the island an d was c onside r ed as the m ost honourable

,

of all m etals except gold Whatever too the woods a ff o r ded

.
, ,

for b u ilders the islan d pr o duced in ab un dance There were .

likewise sufficien t pastu r es the r e for t ame and savage anim als
together with a prodigi o us numbe r of elep ha n ts F or there .

were pastures for all such anim als as a r e fed in lakes and rivers ,

o n m ountains an d in plains And in like manne r the r e was .

su fficien t alim en t fo r t he largest an d most vo r acious kin d of

anim als Besides this whateve r of odo r ife r ous the earth n o ur ishes
.
,

at present whethe r roots o r grass o r wood o r j u ices or gums

, , , , , ,

flowe r s or fruits —these the islan d p r oduced and pr o duced them

”
well .

The G auls possessed traditions of Atlantis which were

collec t ed b y the R om an hist or ian T im agen es wh o li v ed in the , ,

fir st centu ry Three distinct peoples apparentl y dwelt in

,

G aul First the i n digenous population ( p r o b a b l y t he remains

.
,

o f a Lemu r ian r ace ) second the invaders from the distant island
, ,

o f A tlantis and thi r d the Ar yan G a u ls (see P re A darnites p

, ,
-
, .

The Tolt ecs of M exico t r ace d themselves back to a starting

point called Atlan or A z tlan; the Aztecs also claimed to come
fr om Aztlan ( see B anc r oft s N ative R aces vol v pp 2 2 1 an d
’

, . . .

32 )
1

The Popul V uh ( p 2 9 4 ) speaks of a V isit paid b y th r ee so n s

.

of the King of the Q uiches to a lan d in the east on the sho r es '

of the sea whence their fath ers had c om e fro m which the y
”
,

brought b a ck amongst othe r t hings a system of w r iting

( see also B ancroft v ol v p , . . .

Amongst the I ndians of N o r th Am e r i c a the r e is a ve ry general

legend that thei r fo r efathers ca m e fr om a l an d towa r d the
'
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s u n rising
-
. The I owa and Dakota I ndians acco r d ing to ,

M aj o r J Lind believed that all t he tribes of I ndians we r e

.
,
'

form e r l y on e an d dwelt togethe r on an island towa r ds

the sun r ise . The y c r ossed the sea fr om th en ce in huge ski ff s
’7

in which the Dakotas of o ld floated fo r weeks fin all y gaining ,

d r y land.

The Cent r al Ame r ica n books st ate that a part of th e Am e r ica n

continent ex t ended far in to th e Atlan tic O cean a n d th at this ,

region was dest r o y ed by a se r ies of fr ightfu l catacl y sms at lo n g

in te r vals apa r t T hree of these are fr equen tly r efe rr ed to ( see
.

Baldwin s A ncient A m erica p

’
I t is a cu r io us confi r mation
, .

t hat the Kelts o f B ritain h ad a legen d that pa r t of their country

once exten ded fa r in t o th e A tlantic a nd wa s destro y ed Th r ee .

catastr o phes are mention ed in the Welsh traditions .

Q uet z alc o atl the M e x ican Deit y is said t o have c o m e from

, ,

the dist a nt east H e is desc r ibed a s a white m an with a

.

flowing beard ( N B — . The I n dian s of N o rth a nd South

. .

A me r ica a r e bea r dless ) H e originated letters an d r egulat ed

.

the M exican calenda r After having taught them m any peaceful

.

a r ts a nd lessons he sailed away to the east in a canoe of serpen t

skins ( see Short s N orth A m ericans of A ntiquity p p 2 6 8
’
Th e ,
.

sam e sto r y is told of 'amna the author o f civilization in ,

Y u c atan.

The marvellous uniformity of the flood legends on all p art s

o f the globe alone rem ain s to be dealt with Whether these
,
.

are s o m e archaic versions of the sto r y of the l o st Atlantis and

its su b mergence or whether they are ech oes of a great cos m ic
,

pa r a b le on ce taught a n d held in reve r ence in s o m e c om m o n

cent r e whence the y have r everbe r ated t h r ough o ut th e wo r ld ,

does n ot im media tely conce r n u s S u ffi cien t fo r ou r p urp o se .

is it to show the u nive r sal accept ation of t hese legends I t .

wo u ld be needless waste o f tim e an d space to go ove r these

flood sto ries on e by one Su ffice it to say th at in I ndia
.
, ,
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C hald e a B ab y lo n M e dia G reece Scan din avia China amo n gst

, , , , , ,

th e J ews and amongst the Kelti c t r ibes of B r itain the legen d is ,

absolutel y iden tica l in all essentials N ow tu r n to the west .

a n d what do we find The sam e sto r y in its ev e r y detail p r e ~

se r ved a mongst t he M e x icans ( ea c h t r ibe having i ts ow n

ve r sion ) the people of G u atem ala H ond ur as Peru an d almost
, , , ,

eve r y t r ib e of N o r th A me r ican I ndian s I t is puerile to sug .

gest that me r e coin ci den ce can a ccount fo r this fun d a ment a l

identity .

The foll o wing qu o t ati o n fr o m Le P longe on s tr a nsl a ti o n o f the ’

fam o us T roan o MS which m ay b e seen in t he B ritish M useum

.
, ,

will ap propriatel y b ring this part of t he subj ect to a close The .

T roan o M S appears to h a ve been w r itten ab out

. years
ago a mong the M ayas of Yu c at an and the following is its
, ,

description o f t he catast roph e tha t sub me r ged the islan d of

P os eidon is I n th e year 6 K an o n the r1 th M uluc in the
,

m onth 'ac the r e occu r red te r rible ea r thquakes which con

, ,

tin ned with o u t in te rr uption u ntil the 1 3 th Ch u en T he count r y .

of the hills of mud the lan d of M u was s ac r ificed being twice

,

upheaved it s u d denly disappea r ed d ur ing the night th e basin ,

being con tinually sh aken by v o lcanic forces Being c o n fined .

,

these caused the lan d t o sink an d to rise severa l tim es and in

va r ious places A t last the surface gave way an d ten count r ies
.

were t o rn asunder an d scattered U n able t o stan d the fo r ce of

.

the convulsion s they s ank with thei r

,
of inha b i t ants
8 0 6 0 y ea r s be fore the w r iting of this b ook
”
.

But enough space h as n ow been devoted t o the fr agmen ts of

evidence —all mo r e or less convincing—which the world so far
has been in possession o f Those interested in pu r suing an y
.

s pecia l line of in v estigation a r e r e ferred to the va r io u s w o rks

a b ove nam ed or quoted .

The s u bj ect in h an d must now be dealt with Drawn as .

th e y have been fro m c o ntem pora r y rec or ds which were co m

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piled in a n d h a n de d d o wn through th e ages we h ave t o deal

with the fact s here c o llected a r e b ased up o n n o assum pti o n or
,

conj ecture The w r iter m ay have failed fully to com prehend the
.

facts a n d so may have pa rtially misst ated them B ut the

,
.

original rec o rds are o pen fo r in vestigation t o th e duly quali fi ed ,

and those who are disp o sed t o undertake the necessa ry tr a ining
may o btain th e powers to check a n d verify .

But even were all t he o ccult rec o rds o pen t o o ur i n specti on it ,

sh o uld b e reali z ed h o w fragment ary m ust be t he sketch th at

a t tempts t o sum marize in a few pages t he history of r a ces and
o f n ati o ns e x tending o ver a t least m an y h undreds of th o usands
o f years .H o wever any details on such a subj ect —disc o n nected
,

th o ugh they are —must b e new an d sh o uld therefo re b e interest

,

ing t o the w or ld a t l arge .

Am o ng the records a bo ve referred t o there a re m aps of th e

w o rl d a t various peri o ds of i t s hist o ry an d it h as been the great
,

p r ivilege o f the writer to be allowed t o o btain c o pie s —more or

less com plete —of fo ur of these A ll four represent At lantis
.

a n d th e surr o undin g lan ds at di fferen t epoch s of t hei r histo r y .

These epochs corresp o n d a ppr ox im atel y with the pe r iods tha t

l ay b etween the catast r ophes referred t o above an d int o t he ,

periods thus r ep r esented b y t he fo ur m aps the records of the

Atlan t ean Race will naturally group them selves .

Befo r e begin ning the hist or y of the r a ce h o wever a few

, ,

rem a r ks ma y be m ade a b o u t the geogr a ph y o f the four di ff erent

ep o chs .

The fir st m a p represen ts the l an d su r face of the earth as it

existed a bo ut a m illion years ago wh en th e A tl an tean Race
,

was at its heigh t an d b efore the firs t great sub m ergence took
,

place ab o ut y e a rs ag o T he c o n tin en t of Atlantis

.

itself it will b e ob served ex tended fr o m a p o in t a few degrees

, ,

east of I celand to a bo ut the site now occupied b y Rio de J a n eiro ,

i n S outh A m eric a E m br acing T e x as and the G u l f of Mexico
.
,
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th e S o uthern an d E astern St ates of A me r ica u p to an d includ ,

ing Labrador i t st r etched a cr o ss the o cean t o ou r own islan ds

,

—Scotlan d an d I reland and a small po r tion o f th e n o r th of

,

Englan d forming one of its p r omon t o ries—while its equato r ial

lan ds em b raced B r a z il an d the whole st r etch of ocea n t o th e
Afr ican G old Coast Sca tte r ed fr agmen ts of wh at eve n tuall y
.

becam e th e continent s of Eu ro pe Afr i c a and Ame r ica as , ,

well as remains of the still older a nd once w ide sp r ead conti

,
-

n en t of Lemuria are also sh own on this m ap The re main s of

, .

t h e still older H yperb o rea n contin en t which wa s inh abited b y

the Sec o n d Roo t Race are also given an d like Le m uria

, , ,

colou r ed b lue.

As will be seen fr om the secon d m ap th e catast ro phe o f

yea r s ago caused ve r y g r eat changes in th e l and dis tri
bu tion of the globe The g r eat contin e n t is n ow sho r n of its
.

northe r n region s and its r emaining po r tion has been still fur the r
,

ren t The n ow g rowing Ame r ica n continent is separated by a

.

chasm from its parent c o ntin ent of Atlantis an d this n o l o nger ,

com p r ises an y of the lan ds n o w existing but o ccupies the bulk ,

o f t he Atlantic b a sin fr o m about 5 0 north t o a few deg r ees south

°

of th e equator The s u bsidences and u pheavals in oth e r p a r ts

of the wo r l d have also been c o nsiderable —
.

the B r itish I slands fo r

e x ample now being pa r t of a huge islan d which also emb r aces
,

th e S ca ndinavian peninsula t he no r th of F r ance an d all the

, ,

inte r vening an d s o m e o f the su rr ounding seas The dime h .

sions of the rem ain s of Lemu r ia i t will b e o b se r ved h ave b een ,

fur ther curtailed while Europe Africa an d Am e r ica h ave re

, ,

c eiv ed accreti o n s of territory .

The third m a p shows the results of the c atastrophe which

took place ab o ut years ago With the e x ception of the
.

r ents in the continents both o f Atlantis and Ame r ica an d the ,

s u bmergence of Egypt i t will b e seen how relativel y unim

,

p o r tant we r e the s u bsiden c es and u phe a vals a t this epoch ,

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indeed the fact that this c a t astrophe ha s n o t a lwa y s b een c o n

s idered as one of the g r eat o n es is appa r ent f rom th e quotati o n
,

al r eady given fr om the sac r ed book o f the G u atemalans— three

great one s only being there m en tion ed Th e Scan dinavian .

island howeve r appears n ow as j oined to the m ain lan d The

,
.

two islands int o which Atlan tis was n o w split were known b y
the n ames of R ut a an d Daitya .

The stupendous c ha r a cter of the n atural c o nvulsion that t o ok

place ab o ut y ears ago w ill be apparent fr om th e fou r th
,

m ap Daitya th e sm alle r and m o r e s o uthe r ly of the islan ds

.
, ,

ha s almost enti r el y disa ppeared while of Rut a there o nly

,

remains t he relatively small island o f P os eidon is This m a p .

was c o mpiled about years ago an d it n o d o ub t fai r ly

,

rep r esents t he lan d su r face of the earth from that period onwards
til l the final s u bme r gence o f P os eidon is in 9 5 6 4 B C t hough . .
,

d ur i n g th at pe r iod minor changes m ust have t aken place I t .

will be n oted that the lan d outlines h a d then b egun t o assum e

r o u ghl y t he sa me a ppea r ance the y do to day th o ugh the B r iti s h
-
,

I slan ds we r e still j oin ed to the Europea n con tin en t while the ,

B altic Sea wa s non e x istent a n d the S ah ara d esert th en formed

-
,

p a r t of th e ocean floor .

So m e r eference to the very mys tical subj ec t of th e M anus

is a necessa ry prelimina r y t o the conside r ati o n of the o rigin of
a R oot R ac e I n Tr an saction N o 2 6 of the L o ndon L o dge
. .
, ,

r efe r ence was made to the work done by these ve r y e x alted

Being s which em b races not only the planning of the types of
,

the whole M an vantara b ut the supe r intending th e form ation

,

and ed u cati o n of each Root R ace in t u rn The following q uo ta .

tion refers to these a rrangemen ts There a re also M a nus

'

wh o s e duty i t is to act in a si m ilar way for each R oo t R ace o n

each Plan et o f the R o und the Seed M an u plan ning the im
,

p rovemen t in type wh ich e ach successive R o ot Race in augu ra te s

 2 0

a nd the R oo t M anu a ctu a lly inc a r na ting amo ngst the n ew Race
as a le a der an d te a cher t o direct the devel o p m ent a nd ensu r e
the im pr o vem en t .

The w a y i n which th e n ecessary segreg a ti o n of the picked

specimen s is e ffected b y the Mann in ch a r ge and his su b sequent ,

ca r e of t he gr o wing c o m munity m ay b e de a lt with in a future

,

Tr a ns a cti o n T he m erest reference to the m o de o f pr o ced ure is

.

all that is necessa r y here .

I t was o f c o urse fr o m o n e o f the su b r a ces o f th e Third R oo t

-

Race on the contin ent which is spoken of as Lemuria th a t t he ,

seg r egati o n was effected which w a s destined t o pr o duce the

Fourth R o o t Ra ce .

F oll o wing where necess a ry the hist o ry o f th e Race thr o ugh

the four peri o ds represe n ted b y the fo ur m aps it is pr o p o sed to ,

divide the su bj ect under the foll o wing he adings

1. Or igin and te r ritorial l o cation o f the di ff eren t s ub ra ces -
.

2. T he political instituti o n s they respectively ev o lved .

3. Their emigrations to other parts of the w o rld .

4. T he arts an d sciences they developed .

5. The m anners a n d customs they adopt ed .

6. T h e rise and declin e a m o ngst them of religious id eas .

T he n a m es o f the different sub r a ces mus t fi rs t b e given

-

1 . R m oahal .

2 . T lav atli .

Toltec
3 . .

4 First Turanian
. .

5 Or igina
. l Semite .

6 Akk a dian .

7 M o ng o li a n
. .

Some e x planati o n is n ecessary as to th e pri n ciple o n which

these n ames a re ch o sen Wherever m o de r n ethn o logists h ave
.

discovered tr a ces o f o ne of th ese su b races or even iden ti fi ed a

-
,

s mall p art o f o ne t he na m e they have give n t o it is used for the

,
 2 1

sake o f sim plicity but in th e case of the fi rst two sub ra ces
,
-

the r e are ha r dly any traces left fo r science t o seize u p o n ,

so the nam es by which they called them selves h ave b ee n

a dopted .

N ow th e period represen ted by M a p N o 1 sh o ws the lan d

.

s ur face of th e earth as it e x isted ab o ut one m illion years ago ,

but the R m oahal r a ce c am e into e x istence b etween four and

fi ve m illi o n ye a rs ago a t which peri o d large p or tion s o f the
,

great s o uthern c o ntinen t o f Lem uri a still existed while th e ,

continent of Atlan tis h a d n ot assumed the p ro po r tion s i t

ultim ately a ttained I t wa s upon a spur of this Lem urian lan d
.

tha t the R m oahal race was b o rn Rough ly it m ay be located

.

a t latitude 7 no r th and l o ngitude 5 west which a r efe r en ce t o

° °
,

any modern atlas will show t o lie on the Ashanti c o ast of

t o d ay I t was a hot m oist c o untry where hug e antediluvia n
-
.
, ,

a nimals lived i n reedy swam p s a n d dank fo rests The fossil .

r em ain s o f such plants are t o d ay found in th e coal measures .

The R m oahals were a da r k race —their co m ple x ion b eing a sor t

o f m ahogany b lack .T heir heigh t in these early days w a s
a bo ut ten or t welve feet —t r uly a r ace of gian ts—but through
th e cent uries t heir stature graduall y dwindled a s did th a t of a ll
,

the races i n t urn an d l ater on we shall find they had shrunk t o

,

the stature o f the Fu r fooz m an

' ”
They ultim a tely m igrated
.

t o the sout hern sh o res of A tl antis where they were e n gaged in

,

c o nst a nt warfare with th e sixth a n d sevent h su b races of the -

L emu r ians then inha b iting th at country A la r ge p a r t of th e

.

t r i b e even tually m oved north while the rem ainder settled d o wn

,

an d inter m a r ried with these b lack Lemurian aborigines T he

result w a s that at the peri o d we are dealing wit h—the fi rst m a p
.

period—there was n o pure b lo o d left i n the s o uth an d as we ,

shall see it w a s from these dark races wh o inh ab ited the

equatoria l p r o vinces a nd the e x trem e s o uth of t he c o nti n ent
, ,

that the To ltec c o n quer o rs su b sequent ly drew their supplies of

 2 2

s la ves The remainder o f the r ace h oweve r reach ed the

.
, ,

ext r em e no r th eastern p ro montories contiguous with I cela n d

-
,

an d d welling t he r e fo r untold generati o n s th e y g r ad u all y ,

becam e lighte r in c o lour until a t the d ate of the fi r s t m ap

,

period we fin d them a tole r ably fai r people Thei r descen dan ts .

eventu a lly becam e subj ect a t least n o minally to the Semite

, ,

kings .

That they d welt t here fo r unt o ld generati o n s is not m eant t o

im ply t hat their occupation wa s un br oken fo r st r ess of circum ,

stan ces a t intervals of time d r ove them south The cold o f th e .

glacial epochs of c o u r se ope r ated alike with the ot h e r races but ,

the few words t o be said o n this sub j ect m ay as well com e in

h ere.

Without going int o t he question of the di fferent r ota tion s

which this ea r th pe r fo r m s or the va ry ing deg r ees of e c cen t r icity
,

of its o r bit a combin ation of which is sometim es h eld to be

the cause of the gla c ial epochs it is a fact —and on e al r ead y
,

r ecogni z ed by s o me a st r on o m e r s —th a t a m ino r glacial epoch

occu r s about every years B ut in addition t o th ese there
.

were two o ccasio n s in the histo r y of Atla n tis when t he ice b el t -

des o lated n ot m erely t he n o rthern regi o ns but inva ding t he , ,

bulk of th e c o ntinen t forced a ll life t o migrate t o equat o rial

,

lan ds The fi rst of these was i n process du r ing the R m oahal

.

days about
, yea r s ag o while the secon d took place in
,

t he Toltec ascendency a bo ut yea r s ago .

With r eferenc e to a ll g lacial epochs it should be stated that

t h ough the inhabit an ts of northern lan ds we r e fo r ced t o settle
during the w inter far so uth of the ice belt the r e yet we r e g r eat
-
,

districts t o which in summ er they could retu r n and where for ,

the s ake of the hun ting they encam ped until driven south again
by the win ter c o ld .

The place of o r igin o f the T lav a tli or z u d sub r ace was an -

isla nd off the wes t coas t of Atlan tis T he spot is m a r ked o n

.
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th e I s t m ap w i t h the fi g ur e 2 Then c e t hey sprea d int o

.

Atlanti s p r o pe r c hiefl y a c r o s s th e middle of the c o n tinent

, ,

g r ad u ally howeve r te n d in g n o r th wa r d s t o w a r ds the st r et c h of

coast facing t he p r omon to r y of G r eenland P hysicall y t hey .

we r e a powe r fu l a n d hardy race of a r ed b r own colo ur but they -

,

we r e not quite so tall as the R m oahals whom they d ro ve still

further no r th They were a lwa y s a m o untain lovi n g peo ple
.
-
,

a nd their chief settlemen ts we r e i n th e m ount ain ous dist r ict s

of the in te r ior which a com pa r ison of M aps 1 an d 4 will sh o w
, ,

to be ap p r oxim ately c o nte r minous with what ultim ately became

the island of P o s eido n is At this fi r st m ap pe r iod they also
.

as j ust sta ted —peopled the no r the r n coasts whilst a m ixtu r e o f ,

T lav atli an d Toltec r ace inhab ited th e western islands which ,

subsequent ly fo r m ed pa r t of the A me r ica n continent .

We n ow come to th e Toltec or 3 rd sub race This wa s a -

.

m agnificen t developm ent I t r uled the whole c o ntin en t of

.

Atlantis fo r thousand s o f yea r s in great m aterial power an d

glory I ndeed so dom inan t an d so en dowed with vita lity wa s
.

this race that interma rr iages with th e following sub r aces failed -

to modify the type which still r em ained essentially Toltec ; and

,

hundreds of thousan ds of years later we fin d on e of their

”

remote famil y r aces ruling m agni fi cently in M exic o and Peru ,

long ages befo r e their degenerate descendant s we r e c o n que r ed

by the fi erc er A z tec tribes fro m the north The com ple x i o n of .

this r ace was also a r ed b r own b u t they were r edder or mo r e

-
,

copper colou r ed than th e T lav a tli Th ey also were a t all race

-
.
,

ave r aging a b o u t eight feet d ur ing the period of th ei r ascende n cy ,

b ut of c ou r se d windling as a ll ra ces did to the dimension s tha t

, ,

are com mon to day The type was an im p r ovemen t on th e tw o

-
.

previous sub races the features being straigh t and w ell m arked
-
, ,

n o t unlike the ancien t G reek The app r o x imate birthplace of

.

this race m ay be s een m a r ked with t he figure 3 on t he firs t

, ,

ma p I t lay near the west coast of A tlan tis ab o ut l atitude

.
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4

30
°
N o rth a n d the w ho le of the su r r o un ding c o untry
, ,

e m br a cing the bulk of the west coast o f the c o ntinent was ,

pe o pled with a pu r e T oltec r ace But as we sh all see when .

dealing with the p o litical o rganizati o n their te rr itory eve n tually ,

e x tended right acr o ss the contine n t and it wa s from thei r g r eat ,

capital o n the eastern coast that the Toltec em per o rs held their
al m o st w o rld wi de sway
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.

These fi rst three sub r a ces a re sp o ke n o f as th e re d races

-
,

bet wee n wh om a n d the fo ur following there wa s not at fir st

m uch mi x ture o f b lo o d T hese four though di ff ering
.
,

c on sider a bly fr o m ea ch oth er h ave b een called yellow and

'
,
”
,

this c o lour m ay a pprop r i ately define th e com plexion of th e

T uranian an d M ongolian b ut t h e Semite an d Akk adia n we r e
,

c o m para tively white .

The T ur a nia n or 4 th sub r a ce h ad t heir o rigin o n the eastern

-

side o f th e c o ntine n t south o f the mo unt a in o us d ist r ict inhabited

,

by the T lav atli pe o ple This spot is m a r ked 4 o n M a p N o 1

. . .

T he T uranians were c o lo n ists fr o m the ea r liest d ays an d grea t ,

n um b e r s m ig r ated t o the la nds l y ing to the east of A tl a ntis .

T hey were n ever a t horoughly dom in an t race on the m o ther

contin ent th o ugh s o m e of their tribes and fam ily races b ec a m e
,

fai r ly powerful The g r eat central regions o f the c o ntin en t

.

lying west an d s o uth of the T lav atli m o u n tain o us district was

their special th o ugh n ot their e x clusive h o m e fo r they sh ared ,

these lands with th e Toltecs The curi o us political an d s o cial.

e x perime n ts m ade by t his sub race will b e dealt wit h lat er on - .

As regards the o rigin al S emite o r sth sub race ethnologists -

h a ve b ee n s om ewhat con fused as in deed it is e x tremely n atural ,

they sh o uld b e c on sidering th e very insufficien t data they h ave

t o g o up o n T his su b race ha d its origin in the mountain o us
.
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c o untr y which fo rmed the m o re s o utherly of the tw o n o rth

eastern peninsulas which a s we have seen is n o w represe n ted
, ,

b y S cotland , I rel a nd an d some of the surrounding seas The

, .
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site is m a rked 5 in M a p N o 1 I n t his least desi r a b le p o rti o n

. .

of the grea t continent the rac e grew a n d flou r ished fo r ,

centuries ma intaining its independence again st aggressive

s o uthern kings till t he time ca m e for it in turn t o sprea d
,

a b r o ad a nd colonize . I t must b e remem b ered t hat by

the ti m e the S emites r o se t o p o wer hu ndreds of thousa n d s of
years had passed an dithe 2 n d m ap peri o d had b een reached .

They we r e a turbulent discon tented r a ce always a t war with

, ,

their neigh b o u r s especi a lly with the then gr o wing p o wer o f th e

,

A kkadi a n s .

The birth place of the Akkadian or 6 th su b race will b e -

fo un d on M ap N o 2 ( m a r ked t here with the fig ur e

. fo r i t wa s
after the gre a t catastrophe of yea r s ago t hat this race
fi rst ca me into e x istence I t took its rise in the land east of
.

Atlantis a bo ut the middle of the g r ea t penin sula whose south

,

eastern e x tremity st r etched o ut t o wards t he o ld c o ntinen t .

The sp o t m ay b e l o cated a ppr ox imately a t latitude 4 2 N o rth °

and longitude 1 0 East T hey did n ot for lon g h o wever c o n

°
.
, ,

fi n e th emselves t o t he lan d of thei r b i r th b ut ove rr a n th e now

,

diminished c o n tinen t of Atla n tis T hey fough t with the

.

S em ites in m any b attles both on lan d and sea a nd very

t
,

consi dera b le fleets were used on b oth sides Finally a bo ut .

years ago they com pletely van quished the Semites ,

an d from tha t time o nwards an Akkadian dyn asty was

set up in the ol d S emi te capital a nd ruled the c o unt ry wisely
,

for several hun dred years T hey we r e a grea t t rading

.

sea g o ing a nd c o loni z ing people an d t hey esta b lished m an y

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, ,

centres of c o mm unic a tio n wit h distant lands .

Th e M o ng o li a n o r 7 th su b race seem s to b e the o n ly on e that

-

h ad ab s o lutely no t o uch with t he m o ther c o ntinent H aving -

.

its o rigi n on the plains o f T artary ( m a rked N o 7 on t he sec o n d .

m ap ) at a bo ut latitude 6 3 N o rth an d l o ngitude 1 4 0 E ast

° °
,

it w a s directly devel o ped fr om desce n d a nts o f t he Tur an i a n

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ra c e whi c h it g r adua l l y s u pplan ted ove r the greate r pa r t o f

,

Asia This sub r ace m u ltiplied ex c eedingl y an d even a t the

.
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,

p r esent day a maj o r it y of the earth s i n h abitan ts t e c hni cally ’

belong to it tho u gh m an y of its division s are so deepl y colo ur ed

,

with the blood of ea r lie r r aces as to be sca r cely distinguish able

from th em .

P olitical I ns titutions —I n such a su mma r y a s this it woul d be

.,

impossible t o desc r ibe how e ach s u b race was fu r ther s u b -

divided i nto n a tions each h aving its distin ct type and ch ara c
,

te ris tic s
. All th at can b e he r e attem pted is t o sket c h in b r oa d
o u tlin e the va r ying political institutions th r ougho u t the great
epochs of the r ace .

While rec o gnizing th at each sub race a s well a s each Root -

R ace is destined t o st an d in som e respects at a higher level

t han the one befo r e it th e c yclic n ature o f t he develop ment
,

must be rec o gnized a s leading the r a ce like the m an th r o u g h

th e various phases of in fanc y youth an d m anhood back t o th e
, ,

infan c y of old age again E volution n ecessa r ily m e ans ulti mat e
.

p r og r ess even though the tu r ning back of its ascending spir al

,

may seem to m ake the histo ry of politics or of religion a recor d

n ot merely of develo pmen t an d prog r ess but a lso of degradation
an d deca y .

I n m aking t he s tatem ent t h erefo r e that the I st s u b race -

st a r ted u n der th e most pe r fec t go v ernm en t co n ceivable it m u st ,

be un de r stood t hat this w as owin g t o t he necessities of their

childhood n ot t o the m erits of their m atured m an hood For
,
.

the R m o ahals were inca pable of d eveloping any pla n of settled

gove r nmen t nor did th e y ever reach even as high a point of
,

civilization as the 6 th and 7 th Lemu r ian sub r a ces B u t the -

.

Man n who e ffected the seg r egation a c t u a ll y inca r n ated in the

r a c e an d ru led i t as king Even w he n h e no longer took vi s ible
.

pa r t in the govern men t of the r a c e Adept o r Di v in e rule r s we r e

, ,

when the times requir ed it still pr o vided for the infant c o m m u

,
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n ity. As student s of T h eosophy kn o w ou r h um a nity had not ,

then r eached the stage of d evelopm e n t n ecessa ry to p r oduce

full y initiated Adepts The ru le r s above r efe rr e d t o incl u di n g
.
,

the Man n himself we r e the r efo r e n ec es s a r il y the p r oduc t of

,

evolution on othe r system s o f wo r lds .

The T lav atli pe o ple showed som e s ign s o f adva n ce in th e a r t

o f g o vernm ent Their va r i o us t r ibes o r n atio n s we r e ru led by
.

chiefs o r ki n gs who g ene r al ly r eceiv ed th ei r a u tho r ity by

a c clam ation o f the people N a turall y the m ost powe r fu l
.

individ u als and g r eatest wa rr io r s we r e so ch osen A conside r .

able empi r e wa s eve n tually established amo n g t hem in w hich ,

one king beca m e the nomin al head b u t his suze r ainty co n sisted
,

rather in titular hon o ur than i n actual a u tho r ity .

I t w as the Toltec race who developed the highest c ivilization

and o r ganiz e d the m o st powe r ful em pi r e of any of th e A tla n tean
peoples an d it wa s then t hat the p r incip le of he r edita r y succes
,

sion wa s fo r th e fi r st time est ablished The r ace was at fi rst.

divided into a n umbe r of pet ty independen t ki n gdoms con ,

s tan tly a t wa r with eac h othe r and a ll a t wa r with the,

L em u rio R m o ah als o f the south

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These we r e g r adually con
.

quered an d made subj ect peoples —m a ny o f t heir tr ibes being

reduced t o slavery About on e million yea r s ago however
.
, ,

these sepa r ate kingd o m s united in a grea t fede r ation with a

reco gnized empe ror at its h ead This was of cou r se in augurated
.

b y g r e at wa r s b ut the o utcom e was peace a n d prospe r ity fo r

,

th e race .

I t must b e remembered that humanity wa s still for the m o st

part p o ssessed of psychic attrib u tes an d b y this tim e the m os t
,

a dvanced ha d u nderg o ne the necessary t r aini n g in the occ u lt

schools and h a d attained va r ious st ages of initiation—some
,

even rea ching t o Adeptship N ow th e second of these empero r s

.

was an Adept an d for t housands of yea rs the Divin e d y nast y

,

ul ed not only a ll the kingdom s in to which Atl antis was divided

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but the islands on the west an d the southern p o rtion of the a dj a

cent land lying to th e east . W hen necessary this dynasty was
,

recruited fr o m the Lodge of I nitiates but as a rule the power

,

was h an ded down fr om father to son all being mo re or less

,

qualified a n d the s o n in s o me cases receiving a further degree

,

a t the h ands o f his fa ther During all this pe r i o d these I nitiate

.

rulers retained connection with th e O ccult H ierarchy which

governs the w or ld su b mitting t o it s laws and acti n g in bar
, ,

mony with its plans This was the golden age of th e Toltec
.

race T he gove r n men t was j u st an d ben efi c en t ; the a r ts and

.

sciences were cultivated —indeed the w o rkers in th ese fi elds ,

guided as they were b y o ccult kn o wledge achieved tre m en d o us

,

results ; religi o us b elief and ritu a l w a s still c o m p a r a tively pure

-
in fact the civili z ati on o f Atl a ntis h a d b y this ti m e reache d
its height .

After a bo ut ye a rs of this g o lden age the degeneracy

an d deca y o f the race set in M any of the t r i b ut a ry kings and
.
,

large numbers of the priests an d people ceased t o use their

faculties and powers in accordance with th e laws m a d e b y their
Divine rulers wh o se precepts an d a dvice were n o w disregarded
, .

Th eir c on necti o n with the O ccult H ierarchy w a s b r o ken .

P ers o nal aggrandisement the attain m ent o f we a lth a n d

,

a uth o rity the humiliation and ruin of their enemies b ec a me

,

m ore an d mo re the o bj ects t o wards which their o ccult p o wers

were direct ed ' and thus turned fro m their l a wfu l use and ,

practised for all s o rts of selfish an d m alev o lent purposes they ,

inevita b ly led to what we must call b y the n ame o f s o rcery .

Surr o unded a s this w or d is with the o diu m which credulity on

the o n e han d a nd im p o sture on the o ther ha ve during many
centuries o f superstiti o n an d ign o r a nce gr a dually c a used it t o
b e associated let us co n sider fo r a mo m e n t its real m eaning
, ,

and the terri b le e ffect s which i ts p r a ctice is ever destined t o

b ring o n t he w o rld.
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P artly thr o ugh their psychic fa culties which were , yet not

quenched in t he depths o f m ateriality t o which the r a ce a fter

w a rds descended an d p a rtly th r ough t heir scienti fi c a tt a in m ent s
,

during this culminati o n o f Atlan tean ci vilizati o n the mo st ,

intellectu a l a nd ene r getic m embe r s o f t he race gra dually

o b t a ined m o re a nd m o re insigh t into the wo r king of N atu r e s ’

laws a nd mo re an d more con t r ol over s o me o f her hidden fo r ces

, .

N ow the desecration of this kn o wledge an d its use fo r selfish ends

i s wh a t c o nstitutes so r cery The awful effects too of s u c h
.
, ,

desecrati o n are well enough e x em pli fi ed in the terrible catas

t rOp hes t ha t o ve r took the race F o r whe n o nce the b lack
.

practice was in augur a ted it was destined t o spre a d i n ever

widening circles . The higher spiritual guid ance b eing thus
withdraw n the Ka mi o p r inciple which b eing the fourth
, , ,

naturally reached its z enit h during the F ourt h Root Race ,

asserted itself m ore an d m o re in humanity Lust b r ut ality .

,

and fer o city were all o n the i ncrease an d the anim al n ature in
,

m a n wa s a ppr o aching its mos t degraded e x pression I t was a .

m o ral ques tion which fro m the ve r y ea r liest tim es divided the
A tla ntea n Race into tw o hostile camps an d what was begun ,

in the R m oahal times was te rr i b ly accen tuated in th e To ltec

e r a T he ba ttle of A r mageddon is fo ught over a n d o ver again
.

in eve r y age of th e wo r ld s history

’
.

N o longe r submitting t o t he wise rule of the I nitiate

e mpe r o r s th e foll o wers of the b l ack a rts rose in re b ellion
,
'

and set u p a riva l em pe r or who a fter m uch struggle an d fi ght

,

ing drove the white em peror from his ca pit al the '
City of ,

the G o lden G ates an d established hi msel f o n his th ro ne

, .

The white em peror d r iven n o rthward re esta b lished him self -

in a cit y o r iginally founded b y th e T lav atli o n the southern edge

of the mountain o us district b u t which was n o w t he se a t of on e
,

of the tri b utary T o ltec kings H e glad ly welc o m ed the white

.

em p e r o r and p l a ced th e city at his disposal A few mo re of .

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the t r ibuta r y kings also remain e d l o yal to him but m ost t r ans,

fe rr ed thei r allegianc e to th e n ew empe r or r eigning at the o ld

c a pital These howeve r did not l o ng rem ain faithful C on
.
, , .

s tant asse r tions o f in depen den ce we r e m ade by the t r ibut a ry

k ings an d con tinual b attles we r e fough t in di ffe r en t pa r ts of the

,

em pi r e th e p r a c ti c e of so r ce r y being la r gely reso r ted to to

, ,

supplemen t the powe r s of destruction pos s essed by the a r mie s .

These events took place ab o ut yea r s befo r e the fi r st

g r ea t c atastrophe .

F r om thi s time onw a rds thi n gs went fro m bad to worse .

The so r ce r e r s used thei r powers m o re an d mo r e r ecklessly and ,

g r eate r an d g r eate r numbe r s of pe o ple a cquired and p r acti s ed

these te rr ible bla ck a r ts .

Then ca me the a wfu l r et r ibution w hen million s upon milli o ns

pe r ished The g r eat Ci t y of th e G olden Gates had b y t his
.
'

time become a pe r fe c t den of iniq u ity Th e waves swept ove r .

i t a nd destroyed i ts inh abitants an d th e black em pero r an d

,
”

his d y nasty fell to r ise no more The em pe r or of th e no r th as

.

well as the initiated p r iests t hrough o ut the whole contin en t had

long been fu lly aware of the evil d a y s at hand an d subsequen t ,

pages will tell of th e m any p r iest led emigration s which pre

-

ceded this catastrophe as well as those of later date

, .

Th e con tinent w a s now te r ribly ren t B ut the actual a m o un t

.

o f te rr ito r y s u b me r g ed by no m eans r ep r esented the da m age

done for tidal w aves s w ept over g r eat t r acts of lan d an d le ft

‘

them desola te swam ps Whole p r ovinces were r endered ba rr en

.
,

an d r em ained fo r gene r ations in a n uncultivated and desert

co n dition .

The remaining p o pulation t oo h ad received a t e r rible wa r n

ing I t was taken t o heart and sorcery was for a tim e less p r e
.
,

valen t among them A long pe r iod elapsed before any new

.

powerfu l rule wa s established We shal l eventually find a

.

Se m it e d y nasty of sorcere r s en th r o n ed in the City of the

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G ol den G ates b u t no Toltec po wer rose to eminence d ur i n g

,

th e second m a p pe r iod There we r e considerable Tol tec p Op ula

.

tions still but little of the pu r e blood r e mained on t he m othe r

,

con tinen t
.

O n the island of Rut a h o weve r in the thi r d m ap period a

, ,

Toltec dynasty again rose t o powe r an d r uled th r ough its t r ibu

t ary ki n gs a la r ge po r tion of th e i sland T his d y n ast y w as .

addict ed t o the b la c k craft which it m u st be u nde r stood b ecame

,

more an d mo r e p r evalen t du r ing all the fo ur pe r iods un til it ,

culmin ated in the inevit able c atast r oph e which to a g r eat ,

e xtent pu r ified the ea r th of the m onst r ous evil I t must also .

be borne in min d that down t o th e ve ry en d wh en P o s eidon is

disappea r ed an I n titiate em per o r or king —or a t leas t on e
,

a cknowledgin g the good law —held sway in s o m e pa r t of the

islan d c on tinen t acting un de r the guida nce of th e O ccult
,

Hie r a r chy in con t r olling whe r e possible the evil so r ce r e r s and ,

in g uiding and instructing th e s m all mino r it y who we r e still

willing t o lea d p u re and wholesome lives I n later da y s this .

white king was as a ru le elected by the p r iests —the h a nd fu l ,

”
that is who still followed th e good law
,
.

Little m ore rem ains to be said ab out the Toltecs I n P osei .

donis t he population of the whole islan d was m ore o r less m ixed .

T wo kingdom s an d one s mall republic in the wes t divided the

island b etween them The northern p o rtion wa s ruled by an
.

I nitiate king I n the so u t h t oo the hereditary p r inciple h ad

.

given way to election by the peop le E xcl u sive ra c e d y nasties

.
-

w e r e at a n end b ut kings o f Toltec b lood occasion all y rose to

,

powe r both in the n o r th a nd south the no r the r n kingdo m bei n g

,

constantly en c roached u pon b y its sout he r n r ival a n d m o r e and ,

mo r e of its ter r ito r y annexed .

H aving dealt a t som e length with the state of things un de r

t he Toltecs the leadi n g political ch arac te r istics of the fo u r
,

following s u b races ne e d n o t lo ng detain us fo r none o f t hem

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,
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re a ched the heigh ts o f civilization that t he To ltecs did —in fact

the degeneratio n o f the race had set in .

I t seems to ha ve b een s o me sort of feudal syste m th a t the

natur a l b ent of the Tur a nian race te n ded t o devel o p E a ch .

chief was suprem e on his own territ o ry an d the king w a s only ,

p rimus inter p ares The chiefs wh o fo rmed his council o cc a

.

s ion ally m urdered their ki n g a n d set up o ne o f thei r own num

b er in his place T hey were a tur b ulent a nd lawless race

.

b rutal and cruel also T he fact th at at s o me periods of t heir

.

hist or y regimen ts of w o men t o ok pa r t in their w a rs is signific a n t

o f the last n am ed ch a r acteristics .

B ut the st r ange ex pe r iment they m ade in social life which ,

but fo r its political or igin would m ore n atura lly have b een dealt
,

with under manne r s and custom s is the most interesting fact ,

'

in th eir r eco r d B eing continually w o rsted in war with t heir

.

Tol tec n eighb o urs kn owing them selves to b e greatly ou t

,

num b ered an d desiring a b ove all things increase of population

, ,

laws were pa ssed b y which eve r y man w a s relieved from t he

,

direct bu r den o f m ain taini n g his family T he Sta te took ch arge .

of and p r ovi d ed fo r the child r en and they we r e l oo ked upon a s ,

its property T his n aturally tended t o inc r ease the birth rate
.
-

a mongst the Turanian s and the ceremony of m arriage came to

,

b e disregarded The ties of family life and the feeling of

.
,

parent al love were o f course destr o yed and the scheme having ,

been found to b e a failure was u ltim ately given up O ther , .

a ttem pts at finding s o ci alistic s o lution s of eco n omical pr o blems

which still ve x us t o day were tried a n d a b andoned b y this
-
,

race .

T he origina l Semites who were a quarrels o me marauding an d

,

en ergetic ra ce alwa y s lean t towards a patriarcha l fo r m of

,

govern ment T heir colonists who generally t o ok to t he n o m a dic

.
,

life alm os t excl u sively adopted this for m bu t as we h ave seen

'

, ,

they developed a considerable em pi r e in the days o f the sec o nd

 33

m a p pe r iod a nd possessed the g r ea t

, City of the G olden
G ates ”
. The y ultim ately however had to give way befo r e the
, ,

growing p o wer of the Akkadians .

I t was in the third map peri o d about y ea r s ago that

, ,

the Akka dian s fi n all y ove r th r ew t he Semite powe r This 6 th .

sub r ace were a m uch mo r e law abiding people th an thei r

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p r edecessors T r ade r s and sailo r s they lived in settled com

.
,

m u n ities and n at ur al lyp r od u ced an oliga r chical fo r m of gove r n

,

m ent A pe culia r it y of thei r s of which Spa r ta is the on ly

.
,

mode r n example was th e dual system of two kings r eigning in

,

one cit y As a r esult probabl y of thei r sea g o ing t aste the

.
-
,

study of th e stars b ecame a ch aracteristic pursuit an d this race ,

made great advances b oth in ast r onom y an d ast r ology .

The M on golian people were an im p r ovement on their i m me

dia te ancesto r s of the brutal Tu r ania n stock B o r n as they .

we r e on the wide steppes of Easte r n Sibe r ia the y n ever h ad a n y ,

touch with th e mother continen t an d owing do u btless to their

-
, , ,

envir o n men t the y becam e a noma dic people M ore psych ic

, .

and m o r e r eligious th an t he Turanian s from whom the y sprang ,

t he form of govern ment towa r ds which they gravitated r equi r ed

a suzerain in the b ackg r ound who should b e suprem e both as a
ter r itorial r uler an d as a chief high p r iest .

E m igrations —Th r ee causes contributed t o prod u ce emig r ations

. .

The Tu r anian ra ce a s we have seen was fr o m its ve r y start

, ,

im b ued with the spirit of col o nizing which it car r ied out on a ,

considerable scale The S emites an d A kk a dians were also t o

.

a ce r tain extent coloni z ing r aces .

Then as ti me went on and population ten ded m or e and m o re

,

to o utrun the limits of subsisten ce necessity operated with the ,

least well to do in every race alike an d d r ove them t o seek fo r

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,

a livelih o od in less thickly populated count r ies For it should .

be r ealized th a t wh en the Atlanteans reached thei r zenith in

the T o ltec era the pr o p o rti o n o f p o pul a ti on t o th e square mile
,
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on the continen t of Atlan tis p r obabl y eq u alled even if it did ,

not ex c eed ou r mode r n expe r ience in England an d B elgium

, .

I t is at all events ce r tain th at th e va c an t spa c es available for

colonization we r e ve r y much la r ge r in t h at age th an in o ur s ,

while the total popula tion of the wo r ld w hich a t the present ,

m ome n t is p r obably not m o r e than twelve hund r ed to fifteen

hund r ed millions amounted in t hose da y s to the big figu r e of
,

ab o ut tw o thous an d m illions .

Lastl y the r e we r e the p r iest led emigration s which took place

,
-

prio r to each catast r ophe— and th e r e we r e m an y mo r e o f these

than the four g r eat ones r efe r red t o above The initiated kings
a n d p r iests who followed the good law we r e awa r e before
han d of the impending calamities Each on e the r efore
.
, ,

nat u rally becam e a centre of p ro phetic wa r ning an d ultimately ,

a leader o f a band of colonists I t m a y be n o ted here that in

.

later d ays the rulers o f the c o unt r y deepl y resented these priest
led emig r ation s a s ten ding to i mpove r ish and depopula te their
,

kingdoms and it becam e n ecessary for t he emig r an ts to get

,

o n boa r d ship sec r etl y d ur i n g the night .

I n roughl y tracing the lines of emig r ation followed by

each sub race in turn we shall of necessity ultim ately
-
,

r each the lands which thei r r espective descen d an ts to day -

occ u p y.

For the ea r liest emig r a tion s we m u st go back to th e R m oa hal

d ays I t will be r em em be r ed t hat that po r tion of the r ace
.

which inh abited the no r th easte r n coasts alone r etained its

-

p ur ity of blood H ar r ied on thei r southe r n bo r de r s and d r iven

.

fu r ther nort h b y th e T lav atli wa r riors th ey began to ove r flow ,

to the neighbou r ing lan d to the east an d to the still nea r e r p r o

,

monto ry of G r eenlan d I n the second m a p pe r iod no pu r e

.

R m o a hals we r e lef t on the then r educed m othe r c on tinent b u t -

,

th e n or the r n p r om on to ry of the continent then r isin g on the

w est wa s o c c up ied b th e m as well as the Greenlan d ca p e
y ,
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al r eady mentioned and the weste r n sho r es of t he g r eat S can

,

din av ian island . T he r e was also a c olon y on the land lyin g

north of the cent r a l Asian sea .

B r ittany an d Pica r dy then fo r m ed pa r t of the Scandin avian

islan d while th e island itself beca me in the thi r d m a p pe r iod
,

pa r t of th e g r owing c ontinen t of Eu r ope N ow it is in Franc e .

that r emains of t his r ace h ave been found in the quate r n ary
s t r a ta an d th e b r a ch y c ephalous o r r oun d headed speci men
, ,
-

known as the F ur fooz m an ma y be taken as a fair average

”
,

o f the type of the r ace in its decay .

M any times for ced to move s o u t h b y the rig o u r s o f a glaci al

epoch m any times d r iven n o r th by t he g r eed o f t hei r m o r e
,

powe r ful n eighbou r s th e scat te r ed an d degraded r emnant s of

,

this r a ce m ay b e found t o d ay in the m ode r n La pps though

-
,

even here there wa s som e infusion of othe r blood And s o i t .

comes to pass that these fa ded an d stunted specimen s of

humanity are the lineal descendants of th e black r a c e of gian ts
who a rose on th e equatorial lands of L emu r ia well nigh five
million years ago .

The T lavatli colonists seem to h ave sprea d out towa r d s eve r y

point of the com pass B y the second m ap pe r iod thei r des c en
.

dants we r e settled on th e weste r n sh o r es of the th en g r owing

Ame r ican c ontinent ( California ) as well a s on i ts ext r eme
southern coasts ( R io de J aneiro ) We also fin d the m occup y ing
.

the easte r n sh o res of the Scandin avian island while n u mbe r s ,

o f them sailed ac ro s s the o cean r o u nded the co ast of Afr i c a

, ,

and r eached I ndia .There mixing with the indigen o u s

,

Lemurian population they fo r m ed th e D r avidian r ace

,
In .

later days t his in its tu r n r eceived an infu sion of A ry an or

Fifth R ace blood fr om which r esults t he com plexity of t y pe
,

foun d in I ndia t o day I n fact we h ave here a ve ry fai r e x am ple

.

of the ext r eme di ffi culty of deciding an y question of r a c e u pon

m erel y physical evid ence fo r it would be qu ite po s sible to h a v e
,
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Fift h Race egos incarn at e among the Brahm ans F o urth R ace ,

egos among the lower cast es and s o m e lingering Thi r d R ace ,

a mong th e hill t r ibes .

B y the fo ur th m ap pe r iod we find a T la vatli people occ u p y ing

th e so u the r n pa r ts of So u th Ame r ica fr om whi c h it m a y be ,

in fe r red t hat the Pat agonians p r ob abl y h ad r emote T lav atli

a ncest ry .

R em ains o f t his race as of the R m oahals have b een foun d in

, ,

t he q u ate r n a ry st r at a of C en t r a l Eu r ope an d the dolic hoc ep h a ,

lous Cro M agn on m an

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m ay be t aken as an ave r age
specim en of t he race in its decaden ce while the Lake ,

Dwellers of S witze r lan d formed an even earlier and not quite

pure o ff sh o ot The only people who can b e cited as fai r ly p ur e
.

bloode d specimens of th e r a c e at th e p r esen t day a r e som e of

t he b ro wn t r ibes of I ndian s of South A merica The B u r mese .

a n d Si am ese have also T lav atli bl o od in thei r veins but in their ,

c ase it was mix ed with and therefore domin ated by t he nobler

, ,

stock o f on e of th e A ry an s ub races -
.

We now come to the Toltecs I t was chiefly t o the west that .

thei r emigrations t ended an d the n eighbou r ing coasts of the

,

Ame r ican continent we r e in the secon d m ap pe r i o d peopled by

a pu r e Toltec ra ce the greater pa r t of those left on the mothe r
,

c o ntinen t being then of ve r y mixed blood I t was on the .

c ontin ents o f N o rth a nd S outh Ame r ica that t his race spread

a br oad an d flo ur ished an d on which t housands of years later

,

we r e established the empires of M e x ic o an d Peru The great .

n ess of these empires is a m at ter of histo ry or at least of ,

tradition supplemented b y such evidence as is afforded by

t t
g l gy d p l t l g y will k w t h t t h
S uden s o f eo o an i a aeon o o no a ese s c e n c es
reg ard th e M g
C ro m -
p i t th F f
a n on dan i g th t
as r or o e u r ooz ,
'
an s ee n a
th twe l g id
o race s ran a o n h th f v t p i d f t im it m y q it
s e eac o er or as er o s o e, a u e
w ll b t h t th i div id
e e a l C Mg
e n k l t
ua t h gh p t t iv
ro- a n on s e e on , ou re resen a e
of th d
e sec on w d p it d i th q
race, t
as y t t th
e os d efy n e ua ern ar s ra a o u s an s o ears
b f th i div id
e ore e n l F f m a l iv d th a t h
ua ur ooz n e on e e r .
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magnificen t architectural r emain s I t m a y he r e be noted th a t

.

while t he M exic an empire was for cen tu r ies g r ea t and powe r fu l

in all tha t is usually rega r ded a s powe r and g r eatness in o ur
civilization of to day it never reac hed t he height attained b y
-
,

t he Pe r uvians about yea r s ago unde r their I nca

sove r eigns for as r ega r ds the gene r al well b eing of the people
,
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,

the j ustice an d be n efi c e n c e of t he go ve r n m en t the e quitable ,

n at u re of the land tenu r e an d the pure and religio u s life o f th e

,

inhabitan ts the Peruvian e mpi r e of those days migh t be con

,

s idere d a t r aditional tho u gh fain t echo of the golden age of th e

Tolte c s on the m other continen t of Atlantis

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.

The average Red I ndian of N o r th o r South A m erica is the

best representative to da y of the T o ltec people but o f course
-
,

bears no com p a r ison wit h t he highly civilized in di vidual of the

race at its zenith .

Eg y pt must no w be r eferre d to and t he consideration of this

,

subj ect sho u ld let in a flood of light upon its ea r l y histo ry .

Alth ough the fi r st settlem en t in th at coun t r y was not in t he

st r ict sense of the term a colon y it was fr om t he Toltec r ace
,

that was subsequently drawn the fi r st g r eat bod y of emig r ants

int en ded to mi x with and domin at e the ab o r iginal people .

I n th e first instance it was th e t r ansfe r of a great Lodge of

I nitiates . This took place about y ea r s ago The .

golden age of the Tolt ecs was long past T he fi r st great .

c atast r ophe ha d taken place The m oral degradation of t he

.

p eople and the con sequen t p r acti c e of the black arts were
'

becoming mo r e accent u ated and widel y sp r ead P ur e r sur .

r oundings for the White Lodge we r e n eeded Eg y p t was .

isolated and was thinly pe o pled an d the r efore Eg y pt was

,

chosen The settlemen t so m ade answe r ed its pu r pose and

.
,

un disturbed by adve r se con ditions the Lodge of I nitiates for

nearl y years did its work .

About yea r s ago when the time wa s r ipe t he O ccult

, ,
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Lodge founded an em pi r e —the firs t Divin e D y n asty

'
of
Egypt — and bega n to teach the people Then it was tha t the .

fi r st g r eat body of colonists was brought fr om At lantis an d ,

s ome tim e du r ing the ten thousand years th at led up t o the

secon d cata s t r ophe th e t wo g r ea t P yramids of G i z eh we r e
,

built pa r tl y to provide perm anen t H alls of I nitiation but also

, ,

to act as t r easure house and sh r ine for som e g r eat tal ism an of
-

power d ur ing the su b m e r gence which th e I nitiates knew to be

i mpen ding M a p N o 3 shows Egypt a t th at d ate as unde r
. .

wa te r I t r em ained so for a considera b le pe r iod but on its re

.
,

e me r gence it was agai n peopled by the descendants o f man y of

its old inh abitan ts who had r etired t o the Ab y ssinian m o u nt ains
( shown in M ap N o 3 a s an island ) as well as by fr esh bands of
.

Atlantean c olonists fr om v a r i o us pa r ts of the world A con .

s ide rable immigrati o n of Akkadians then helped to m odi fy the

Eg y ptian t y pe T his is the e r a of the secon d Di v in e

.
'

D y n ast y of Egypt — the r u le r s of the count ry being agai n

I nitia ted A depts .

The cata s t r ophe of y ea r s ago again laid the count ry

un de r wate r bu t this time i t was onl y a tempo r a ry w ave
,
.

When it r eceded t he thi r d Divine D y nast y —th at m en tioned

by M anetho —began its r ule and i t wa s unde r the ea r l y kings of
,

t his d y nast y that the g r eat Tem pl e of Karn ak an d m an y of the

more ancient buildings still standing in Egypt we r e const r u c ted .

I n fact with the ex c eption of the t wo p yr amids no building in

Eg y pt p r ed a t es the catast r ophe of years ago .

The final s u bme r gence of P o s eido n is sent anoth er tidal wav e

ove r Eg y pt This too wa s only a tem po r a r y calamit y but it
.
, ,

b r o u ght the Divin e Dynasties to an end for the Lodge of ,

I nitiates had tran sfe rr ed its quarters to other lan ds .

V a r ious points h e r e left un touched have al r eady been dealt

wit h in t he T ransaction of the L ondon L odge ' The Py r amids and ,

Ston ehenge .
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The T ur anian s who i n the first m ap pe r iod had coloni z ed the

no r the r n pa r ts ofthe land l y ing im m ediately to the east of Atla n tis ,

o c cupied in the second map pe r iod its southe r n sho r es ( which ih

c l u ded the present M o r o cco an d Alge r ia ) . We also fin d them
wandering east wards and both the east and west coasts of th e
,

cen t r al Asian sea were peopled b y t hem B and s of the m ulti

.

mately m oved still fur th er east an d the nea r est a p p ro x im a

,

tion to th e t y pe o f this race is to day to be found in the inlan d

-

Chinese A cu r ious fr eak of destiny m u st be reco r ded a bout one of

.

thei r weste r n o ffshoots Domin ated all through the centu r ies b y
.

thei r m ore powe r f ul Toltec neighbou r s it was y et r ese r ved fo r

,

a small b r anch of the Turanian sto ck to con que r and r epla c e

t he last g r eat em pi r e t ha t the Toltecs raised fo r the b r utal and
,

ba r el y civilized A z te c s we r e of p ur e T u ra n ian bloo d .

The Semite emigrations we r e of two kinds first those whi c h

, ,

were controlled by the na tu r a l i mpulse of the race ' secon d ,

that special emigration which wa s e ffected unde r the di r ect

guidance of the M a n u ; for strange a s it m a y seem it was n ot
, ,

fr om th e Toltecs but fr om t his lawless and t u r bulent though

v igo r o u s and ene r ge t ic sub r ace that was chosen the nucle u s
-

destine d to be developed into ou r g r ea t Fifth or A ry an Race .

The r eason n o doubt lay in the M an a si c cha r acte r isti c with

, ,

w hich the n umber five is al ways a sso c iat ed Th e s u b race of

.
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tha t n um ber was inevitably developing its ph y sical b r ain power

a nd intellect alth o ugh at the expen se of the psychic pe r cep tion s
, ,

while that same devel o pment o f intellect to in finitel y higher

levels is at once the gl o ry an d the destined goal of our Fifth
R oot Race .

Dealing first with the natural emigrations we find tha t in

the second m a p pe r iod while still leaving powe r fu l n ati o ns on
the m other continent the Semites had sp r ead b o th west and
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,

east —west to th e lands now fo r ming the U nited Stat e s and ,

thus acc o unting for the S emitic type to be foun d in some of the
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I ndian races an d e ast t o the n o rthern shores of th e neigh b our

,

ing continent which combined all there then was of E u rope

, ,

Afr ica an d Asia The t y p e of the an cient Eg y ptians as well

.
,

as of othe r n eighbou r ing n ations was to som e extent modified

,

b y this o r igin al Sem ite blood ; but with th e exception of the

J ews the onl y r ep r esent atives of com pa r atively un m ixed race at
,

t h e presen t day a r e the lighte r colo ur ed Kabyles of the Alge r ian

m ountains .

The t r ibes r esulting fr om the segregation effected by t he

Mann for the formation of the new R oot R ace event u all y found
t hei r way t o the sout he r n sho r es of the cen t r al Asian sea and ,

t he r e the fi r st g r eat A ry a n kingdom wa s established When .

th e T r ansaction dealing with the o r igin of a R o ot Race com es

to b e w r itten it will be seen that m any of the peoples we are
,

acc u stom ed t o call Semitic a r e reall y Aryan in bl oo d The .

wo r ld will also be enlightened as to wh at con stitutes the claim

of the H eb r ews to be conside r ed a chosen people
' ”
Sho r tly it .

m a y be st ated th at t he y con s t itute an abno r m al an d unn at u ral

link bet wee n t he Fou r th and Fifth R oot Races .

The Akkadians tho u gh eventually b ecoming s u prem e rule r s

,

on th e mothe r contin ent of Atlan tis owed thei r bi r thplace as

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,

we ha v e seen in the second m ap pe r iod to the n eighbo ur ing ,

continen t — th at pa r t occ u pied by the basin of the M edite r ranean

ab o u t the p r esen t island of Sa r dinia being thei r special home .

F r o m this cen tre they sprea d eastwards occup y in g w h at even

,

t u ally became the shores of the Levan t and reaching a s far a s

,

Pe r sia and Ara b ia As we h ave seen they also helped t o

.
,

p eople Eg y pt The ea r l y Etruscans the Phoenician s in cluding

.
, ,

the C a r thaginians an d t he S hu m ero A kkads we r e b r anches of

-
,

this race while t he B asq u es of to day h ave p r obably mo r e of

,
-

the Akkadian t han of any other blood which fl o ws in thei r

vein s.

A refe r ence t o the ea r l y inhabitan ts of o ur own islands may

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4

app r op r iatel y be m ade he r e for it wa s in the ea r l y Akk adian

,

d ays ab ou t
,
y ea r s ago tha t th e colon y o f I nitiates
,

who founded Stonehenge lan ded on these sho r es these

sho r es b eing of course the sh ores of the Scan dinavian pa r t of
, ,

the c o ntinen t of Eu r ope as shown in M a p N o 3 The initiated

,
. .

p r iest s an d their followe r s appea r t o have belonged to a ve r y earl y

strain of the Akkadian race —t hey were t aller fairer an d longer , ,

headed t h a n th e abo rigines of t he c o un t r y who were a very ,

mixed r ace b ut mostly degenerate rem nan ts of t he R m oahals

, .

As rea de r s of the T ransaction of the L ondon L odge on the Py r a

mids and S tonehe n ge will know th e r ude sim plicit y of S tone
”
, ,

henge was inten ded as a pro t est against the ex travagant

o rnam ent an d over decoration o f the existing t em ples in
-

A tlantis where the de b ased worship of thei r o wn im ages was

,

being c a rried on b y the inh abit ants .

The M ongolians as we have seen n ever had any t o uch with

, ,

th e m othe r continent B o rn on t he wide plain s of Tartary

-
.
,

th ei r emig r ations fo r long found am ple sc o pe within t h o se

region s ; but m o r e t han o n ce tribes of M ongol descent h ave
o v erfl ow e d fr o m no r thern Asia t o A m e r ica across B e hr ing s ’

St r aits an d the last of such emig r ations — that of the Kitans

, ,

som e yea r s ago —h as left t r aces which some weste r n

savants have been able to follow The p r esen ce of M ongo lian .

blood in som e t r ibes of N o r th A me r ica n I n dian s h a s also been

recogni z ed b y various write r s on ethnolog y The H u nga r ian s .

an d M alays are b o th kn o wn t o be o ff shoot s of t his race ,

en no b led in th e one case b y a st r a in of Aryan bl oo d deg r aded ,

in the o t her by mi xture with the e ffete Lem urian s B ut the .

in teresting fact a b out th e M ongolian s is t hat its last famil y

race is still in full force —it h as not in fact yet rea ched its
zenith an d the J apanese nati o n h as s till g o t hist or y t o giv e
-

t o the w or ld .

A rts and S ciences I t m ust prim a rily be recogni z ed that our

.
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4

o wn A ry an r ace has n a tu r all y achieved far greate r r esults in

almost eve r y direction than did the Atlanteans but even whe r e ,

the y failed to r each o ur level the r eco r ds of wh at they a ec om

,

p lis hed a r e of inte r e s t as rep r esenti n g th e high water m a r k

which their tide of civi li z ation r eached On th e other h and .
,

the cha r acter o f the scien tific a chievem ents in whi c h they did
o ut strip us are of so daz z ling a n ature that bewilde r m en t at
,

such unequal devel o pm ent is a pt to be t he feeling left .

The a r ts and sciences as p r actised b y t he first two r aces

, ,

we r e of cou r se crude in t he ext r em e but we do not p r opose

, , ,

to follow th e p r og r ess a c hieved b y each s u b r ace sepa r atel y -

.

The hist or y of the Atlantean a s of the A ry an race w as inter

, ,

spe r sed with pe r iods of p r og r ess an d of decay E r as of c u lt u re.

we r e followed by times of lawlessness d ur ing which all a r tistic

,

and scienti fic devel o pment was lost th ese again being succeeded
,

b y civilizations reaching to still higher levels I t must naturally .

be with the pe r iods of c ulture tha t t he fol lowing rem arks will
deal chief a m ong which st ands o ut the great Toltec e r a
, .

A r chitectu r e and sculptu r e painting an d music we r e a ll

,

p r actised i n Atlantis The m usic even at the best of times was

.

c r ude and the inst r um ents of the most p r imitive t y pe All the
,
.

Atlantean r ace s we r e fond of colo ur and b r illiant hues decorated

,

both th e insides a n d the outsides of thei r ho u ses b ut painting ,

as a fine a r t was neve r well established tho u gh in the later days

,

som e kind of d r awing a nd painting was taught in t he schools .

S c ulptu r e o n the other hand which wa s als o taught in the

,

schools was widel y practised an d r eac h ed great ex c ellence

, ,
.

As we shall see late r on unde r the head of R eligion it becam e '

custom a r y fo r eve ry m an who could a ff o r d it t o place in one of

the temples an im age of him self These we r e sometim es carved
.

in w ood or in h a r d bl ack stone like basalt but among the ,

wealth y it becam e the fashion to have thei r statues c ast in on e

o f the p r ecious metals aurich alcum gold o r silver
, ,
A ve r y fair .
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r esem blan ce of the in dividua l usua ll y r es ul t ed while in s om e ,

c ases a st r iking likeness wa s achieved .

A r chitecture howeve r wa s n atu r ally the m os t widely p r a e

, ,

tis e d of th ese a r t s Their b u ild ings were m assive st ru ctu r es of

.

gigan tic p r oportion s T he dwelling h o uses in th e ci t ies we r e

.

no t as o ur s a re c lo s el y c r o w ded toget he r in st r eets L ike th ei r

, ,
.

coun t ry ho u ses s om e stood in thei r own g a r den g r ounds o t he r s ,

we r e sepa r a ted by plots of comm on lan d but all we r e isolated ,

structures I n the c ase of houses of an y im po r tance fo u r bl o cks

.

of buildi n g s urr ounded a cen t r al cou r t y a r d in t he cent r e Of ,

whi c h gene r ally s tood one of the foun t ain s whose n umbe r in th e
Cit y of t he G old en G at e s gai n ed fo r it the se c on d appellation
of the Cit y of Wate r s
' ”
There was no exhibition of good s
.

fo r s ale as in m ode r n s t r eets All t r ansa c tion s of b u y ing a n d

.

s elling took place p r i v atel y except a t stated times wh en la r ge

, ,

p u blic fai r s were held in the Open s pac e s of the cities Bu t the .

cha r acte r istic fea t u r e of the Toltec ho u se was the towe r th at

rose from o n e of its co r ne r s or fr om the cent r e of one of t he
blo c ks A spi r a l stai r case buil t o u tside led to t he u pp er sto r ie s
.
,

an d a pointed dome te rmin ate d the towe r this uppe r po r tion -

bei n g ve ry c omm only u sed as an obse r vat o ry As al r ea d y .

sta t e d the ho u ses we r e deco r a ted w ith b r igh t colo ur s Som e .

w e r e o r namen ted with ca r vi n g s othe r s wit h fr es c oes o r painted

,

pa tte r n s Th e w indow sp ac es w e r e filled wi th som e m an u fa c

.
-

f ur ed a r ticle simila r to but less transparen t th an glass

, The ,
.

in te r iors were not furn ished with the ela bo r a t e det ail of o ur
m odern dwellings but t he life was high l y civili z ed of its kind
, .

The tem ples were huge halls r esem bling mo r e t han anything
else th e gigantic piles of Eg y pt but built on a still m ore s t up en
,

do u s scale The pillars suppo r ting the r oof we r e gene r all y

.

squa r e seldom c i r cula r I n the da y s of the decadence the aisles

, .

we r e su rr o u nded with i n n u merable chapels in which w e r e

ensh r ined th e statues of the mo r e important inh abitan ts These .
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side sh r ines indeed were occasion ally o f such conside r able size
as to admit a whole retinue of priests who m some specially
great m an might h ave in his service for the ceremoni al w o rship
of his im age Like the p r ivate h ou ses the tem ples too were
.

neve r complete without the dome capped towe r s which of co ur se

-
,

we r e of co rr esponding size an d m agnifi c ence These we r e u sed.

for ast r onomical o b servations an d fo r sun wo r ship - .

The p r e c ious metals we r e la r gel y u sed in the ado r nm en t of

the t em ples the int e r io r s bei n g often not m e r ely inlai d but
,

plated with gold Gold and silver were highly valued b u t as

.
,

we sh all see late r on when the subj ect of th e cu rr enc y is dealt

with the uses t o which the y were put were enti r el y a r tistic and
,

h ad nothing to do with coinage while t he g r eat quantities that

,

we r e then p r od u ced b y the chemists —or as we sh o u ld now a -

days call them alchemists —m a y b e said to have t aken them out

of th e catego r y of the p r ecious metals This p o we r of tran s m u
.

f ati o u of met als was not unive r sal but it was so widely possessed
,

that enorm o us quantities were m ade I n fact the pr o d u ction of

.

the wished for m etals m ay b e regarded as on e of th e in dust r i al

-

en terp r ises of those days b y which these alchemists gain ed their

living Gold was admi r ed even mo r e than silver and was con
.
,

seq u ently p r oduced in much greate r q u antit y .

E duca tion —A few wo r ds on the subj ect of lang u age will fi tly
p r el ude a consid e r ation of the t r aining in the schoo ls an d
colleges of Atlantis D u r ing the fi r st m ap pe r iod Toltec was
.

the u nive r sal language not only th r ougho u t the c on tine n t but in
,

the wes tern islands an d th a t p a r t of th e easte r n continent which

recognized the empe r o r s r ule R emains o f the R m oahal and
’
.

T lav atli speech su r vived it is t r ue in o ut of the wa y parts j ust

- - -
,

as th e Keltic and C ym r ic speech s ur vives t o day a mong us in -

I r eland and Wales The T lav atli tongue was the b asis used
.

by the Turanians who introduced such m o dificati o ns th at a n

,

enti r el y di fferen t language was in time p r oduced ; while the

 45

Semites and Akkadians adopting a Toltec groun d work m odified

,
-
,

it in their respective ways and so prod uced t w o dive r gent

,

va r ieties Thus in the later da y s of P o seidon is the r e were

.

seve r al enti r el y di ff erent lang u ages —all howeve r belonging t o

the aggl u tin ative type — for it was n ot till Fifth R ace days tha t
the descen dants of th e Semites a nd Akkadian s developed
in fl ec tion al speech. All th r ough th e ages however the T o lt ec , ,

language fairl y m aintained its pu r ity and the sa me tongue that

,

was spoken in Atlan tis i n the da y s of its splen dour was used ,

with b ut slight alterati o ns t housands of years later in M exic o

,

an d Pe r u .

The schools an d colleges of Atlantis in t he grea t Toltec d ays ,

a s well as in subsequent e r as of cultu r e we r e all e n dowed by ,

the State Tho u gh eve r y chil d was r equired to pass th r o u gh

.

the p r im a r y sch o ols the subsequ en t t r aining di ffe r ed ve r y widely

,
.

The primar y schools form ed a so r t of winn owing g r ound Tho s e .

who showed real aptitude fo r study we r e along with th e child r en ,

of the d o min an t classes who naturally h ad greater a b ilities ,

d r a fted into the highe r schools at about the age o f twelve .

R eading and w r iting which we r e r egarded as me r e prelimin aries

, ,

had al r eady been taugh t them in the p r i ma r y scho o ls .

B ut reading an d writing we r e no t c onside r ed n ecessary for

the g r ea t m asses o f the inhabit ants wh o had to spen d thei r
lives i n tilling the lan d o r in h an dic r af t s the pra ctice of whi c h
, ,

was required b y the c o m munity The gre a t m aj o r ity of the

.

children therefo r e we r e at once passed on t o the technica l

sch oo ls best suited t o their va r ious abilities Chie f among these .

we r e the ag r icult ur al sch ools S ome b r an ches of m echanics

.

als o for m ed part of the training while in outlying dist r icts an d

,

b y t he sea side hunti n g an d fi shing we r e n atura lly incl u ded

-
.

And so the child r en all received the education or t r aining whi c h

was most app r opriate for them .

T he children of su p e r io r abilities who a s we h ave seen h ad

,
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been taught to r ead an d w r ite had a m uch mo r e elabo r ate

,

education The p r ope r ties o f plan ts and thei r healing qualities

.

fo r med an impo r t an t b r anch of stud y There we r e no r ecog

.

n ized ph y si c ian s in those d ays —every educa ted m an knew mo r e

or less of m edi c ine as w ell as of m agnetic healing Chemistry .

,

m a t hem atics and ast r onomy were also taught The t r aining in .

such studies finds its an alog y am o ng ourselves b ut the obj ect ,

t o wa r d s whi c h the t each e r s e ffo r t s we r e m ainly directed was

’

the development o f the pupil s psychic fac u lties and his in s tru c
’

tion in the mo r e hidden fo r ces of n at ur e The occult prope r ties

.

of plant s m etals and precio u s stones as well a s the alch emi cal
, , ,

p r ocesses o f t r ansmutation were included in this cate go r y But

, .

as time went on it beca me mor e and m or e the pers o n al po we r ,

which Bulwer Lytt o n calls vril and the operation of which he

,

h a s fai r ly accu r ately desc r ibed in his Coming R ace th at th e ,

colleges for t he highe r train ing of th e y out h of Atlantis were

speciall y occupied in developing The m a r ked change which
.

took place when the decaden ce of t he race set in was tha t ,

instead of me r it an d aptitude bein g r egarded as wa r ran ts for

advancemen t t o th e highe r g r ades of ins truction the dominant ,

classes becoming m or e a nd m o r e e x clusive allowed none but

thei r o w n children to graduate in the highe r knowledge which
gave so m uch p o wer .

I n such an empi r e as the Toltec agriculture n aturally ,

r eceived much attention N ot only were the labourers taught

.

thei r duties in technical schools but c o lleges were est ablished

,

in which th e knowledge n ecessary fo r car r ying out e x pe r im ents

in the crossing b o th of anim als an d pl ants we r e taught to fi t ,

ting studen ts .

As re a ders of The o sophic l iterature m ay kn o w wheat was ,

not evolved on this planet at all I t was the gift of the M anu
.

who brought it fro m anothe r gl o be outside our chain of worlds .

B u t oat s a n d some of o u r other cereals are the re sults o f

 47

c r osse s b et we e n wheat and the indigeno u s g r asses of the ea rt h .

N ow the ex pe r i m ents whic h gave these r es u lts we r e c a rr ied ou t

in the ag r ic u ltural schools of A tl a n t is O f c ourse such e x p e ri
.

ments we r e guided by h igh knowledge B u t th e m ost notable

.

achievement to be recorded of the Atlantean ag r ic u lt ur i s ts wa s

the e volution of th e plantain or ba nan a I n the o r iginal wild
.

state it was like an elongated melon with sca r cel y a ny pulp ,

but full of seeds as a melon is I t was of c ou r se only b y c e n

.

tu ries ( if not thousands of y ears ) of c ontinuous s election a n d

elimin ation th at the presen t seedless plan t wa s evolved .

Among th e domes t icated anim als of the Toltec days we r e

c r eat ur es that looked like very sm all t a pirs T h ey n atu r a lly.

fed upon ro ots o r he r bage but like the pigs of to d ay whi c h

,
-
,

they resembled in more than on e pa r ti c ular t hey were not ove r,

cleanl y an d ate wh atever ca m e in t heir way L a r ge cat like

, .
-

anim als an d t he wolf like ancestors of the dog migh t als o be

-

met ab ou t human habita tions The Toltec ca r ts a ppea r to

.

h a ve been d r awn by c r e atu r es som ewhat r esem bling sm a ll

camels . The Pe r uvian lla m as o f to da y a r e p r oba bl y thei r
-

descend ants The ancesto r s of the I r ish elk too r oa med i n

.
, ,

herds abo u t the hill sides i n much the sam e way as o u r H igh
lan d cattle do now — too wild to all o w o f easy a pproach b u t ,

still under th e control of ma n .

Con st an t e x periments we r e m ade in b r eeding and cross

b r eeding di ffe r en t kinds o f ani mals and c u r ious though it m ay
, ,

seem t o u s a r tificial heat wa s la r gel y used to fo r ce thei r

,

developmen t so th at the r es u l ts of c r ossing and i nte r b r eeding

,

might be m o r e q u ickly ap pa r en t The use too o f di ffe r en t

.
, ,

colo ur ed lights in th e cham be r s where such ex pe r im en ts we r e

ca r ried o n were adopted in orde r to ob tain va r ying results .

This cont r ol and moulding at will by ma n of t he anim a l

fo r m s b r ing s u s to a rather s tartling an d ve r y myste r ious sub
j c et
. R efe r en ce ha s been m ade above to the wo r k don e by the
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M anus N ow it is in th e mind of the M an u that originates all

.

i m provements in type and t he potentialities latent in ever y

form of being I n o rder to w o rk out in det ail th e im prove
.

m ents in the anim al fo r ms the help an d c o ope r ation of m an

,
-

we r e requi r ed The am phi b ian an d r eptile fo r m s which then

.

abounded h ad abo u t run their cou r se and we r e r eady to assume

,

the more advanced type of bi r d or m am mal These form s .

constit u ted the in c hoate m ate r ial pl aced at m an s disposal and ’

the clay was ready to assume wh atever shape the potter s han ds ’

might m ould it into I t was specially with ani mals in the

.

int erm ediate stage th at so m a n y of the e x periments a b ove

refe rr ed to we r e t r ied an d doub tless t he dom esticated animals
,

like the horse which are now of such service to m an are the
, ,

result of these experim ents in which the men of those da y s

acted in c o ope r ation with the Man n and his ministe r s B ut
-
.

the c o operation was to o soon withd r awn S elfi shn es s o b tained

-
.

th e uppe r han d a nd wa r an d disco r d brought the G olden Age

,

of the Toltecs to a close When in stead of w or king loyally for

.

a c o mm o n end under the guidan ce of their I niti ate kings m en

, ,

began t o prey upon each othe r t he beast s which might g r aduall y

,

h ave a ssumed unde r the ca r e of m an m ore an d m ore useful

, ,

an d domesticated fo r m s being left to the g u idance of their own

,

instincts n atu r ally followed the e x a mple of th eir m on a r ch and ,

b egan to p r ey upon each o ther Some in d eed ha d actually

.

al r ead y been trained and used by men in thei r hunting expedi

tions and th u s t h e semi d o mesticated cat like anim als above
,
- -

refe rr ed to natu r ally b ecam e t he ancestor s o f the le o pards an d

j aguars .

O ne illustration of wh at som e m ay b e tempted to call a

fant astic theory th ough it m ay n ot elucidate the p r oblem will
, ,

a t least poin t t he moral contained in this supple men t to our

knowledge rega r ding the myste r ious m an ner i n which ou r ev o ~

lution h a s p roceeded The li o n it w o uld ap pe a r might h a ve

.
 49

had a gen tler nature and a less fierce aspect had the m en o f
th ose days completed the t ask that was given th e m to pe r for m .

Whether or n o t he is fa ted eventually ' t o lie d o wn with t he

lam b an d e a t str a w like the ox the destiny in st o re fo r hi m a s
”
,

pictu r ed in the mind of the Man n h a s not yet b een r ealized ,

for t he pict ure was th at of a p o werful b ut domesticated a nim a l

— a st r ong level backed c r eature
- with large intelligen t eyes
, ,

intended t o a c t a s m an s m o st p o werful serv a n t for p u r p o ses o f

’

tracti o n .

T he City o f the G o lden G a tes and i ts surr o un dings m ust

b e descri b ed befo r e we c om e t o c o n sider the m a rvellous system
b y which its inha b itants were supplie d with w a ter I t lay a s .
,

we h a ve seen on the e a st c oa st o f th e continent cl o se to t he

,

se a a nd abo ut 1 5 n o rth of the e q u a t o r A b e a uti fully wo o ded

,
°
.
-

park like c o untry surr o unded the city S cattered o ver a la r ge

-
.

area of this were the vill a residences o f the wealthier classes .

To the west l ay a range o f mo u n tains fr om which the water ,

supply of the city was dr a wn T h e city itself was b uil t on

.

the slopes o f a hill which r o se fro m th e plain a b o ut 5 0 0 feet

, .

O n the summit of this hill lay t he e mperor s palace an d ’

gardens in th e centre of which welled up from the e arth a

,

never endin g strea m of water supplying fi rst the palace a n d

-
,

the fount ains in the gardens thence flowin g in the four direc
,

ti o n s an d falling in cascade s int o a can al or moa t which en

c om passed the palace gr o un ds an d thus separated them fr om
,

the city which lay b elow on every side F r o m t his c a nal fo ur .

ch a nnels led the water through four quarters of the city t o

c a sc a des which i n th eir turn sup plied a nothe r en circling c an al
a t a l o wer level T here we r e t hree such can als fo rming con
.

centri c circles the o utermost an d lowest of which wa s still

,

ab ove th e level of the plain A fo urth can al a t this l o west

.

level b ut on a rect angula r pl a n received th e c o n s t a ntly flowing

, ,

waters and in its tu r n discha r ged them into t he sea

,
The city .

D
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e x ten ded o ver part o f th e plain up t o t he edge o f t his gre a t

,

outermo st m o at which surr o unded and defended it with a line

,

of waterways extending ab o ut twel ve miles b y ten miles

square .

I t will t hus be seen th at the city was divided int o three g r eat
belts each hem med in by its canals The characteristic feature
, .

of the uppe r b elt that la y j ust bel o w the palace gr o unds was a ,

circul a r r a ce c o urse a n d la r ge public gardens M ost of the

-
.

houses of the court o ffi cials also lay on this b elt an d here als o ,

was a n i n stituti o n of which we h ave no parallel in m o dern

ti mes Th e term Str a ngers H om e am o ngst us suggests a
.
’ ”

m ean a ppearance and s o rdid surroundings but this w a s a pal a ce

,

whe r e all st r a n gers who might c o m e to th e city were enter

f ained as long a s the y might ch oo se t o stay — b eing treated all
the tim e as guests o f the G o vern men t The detached houses
.

o f th e i n h ab itan ts a n d the various t emples scattered thr o ughout

the city o ccupied th e othe r t w o b elts I n the days of the

.

T o ltec greatn ess the r e seem s t o h ave been n o r eal poverty

—even the retinue o f slaves att ach ed to m o st h o uses b eing well
fe d an d clothed—b ut there were a number of com paratively
p o or houses in the lowest belt to the north a s well as o utsid e
,

t he o ute r m o st c a n a l t o wards t he sea The inh abitants o f this

.

p art were m o stly connected wit h the shipping an d their ,

h o uses though detached were built closer together th an in

o ther districts .

I t w ill b e seen fr o m the above th at the inhabitants h ad thus

a neve r failing suppl y o f pure clear wate r constantl y c o ursin g
-

thr o ugh t he city while t he upper belts and the em pe r o r s

,
’

palace we r e protected by lines of m oats each on e a t a higher

,

level as the centre w as app r oached .

N ow i t does n ot require m uch mech anical kn o wledge in

o r der to r ealize h o w stupendous m ust have been the works
needed t o provide this su pply fo r in the days of its g r eatness
,
 51

t he ' City of the G o lden G ates embraced within its four

circles o f m o ats o ver tw o m illi o n i n h a bit a nts N o such system
.

o f water supply ha s ever been attem pted in G reek Roman or

m o dern tim es —
,

indeed it is very d o ubtful whether o ur a blest

engineers even a t the e x penditure o f unt o ld w ealth c o u ld
, ,

p r od uce such a result .

A description of some o f its leading features will b e of in terest .

I t wa s fr o m a l a ke which lay am o ng th e mo unt a ins t o the west

o f the city at an ele v ation of a bout
, feet tha t the s u pply
,

was drawn T he m a in a queduct which wa s of o val section mea

.
,

suring fi fty feet b y thirty feet led undergr o un d t o a n enorm o us

,

heart sh aped rese rv o ir

-
.This lay dee p b el o w t he palace in ,

fact a t the very b ase o f the hill o n which the p a l a ce and the
city st oo d F r om this reserv o ir a p erpendicular sh a ft o f abo ut
.

5 00 feet up thr o ugh the solid r o ck g a ve p a ssage to t he w a ter

which welled up in th e p a lace grou n ds a n d thence w a s dis
,

t r i b uted thr o ughout the city Vari o us pipes from the cent ra l
.

rese r voir also led to di ffere n t parts of the city t o supply drink
ing water a n d the pu b lic fountain s S yste m s of sluices of
.

course also e x isted t o c o n trol o r cut off the supply of th e di ffere n t

districts .

F r om the a bo ve it will b e apparen t to any one p o ssessed o f

s om e little k n owledge of m ech a nics tha t the pressure i n the
subterranea n aqueduct an d t he cen tral reserv o ir fro m which
the wa ter n aturall y rose t o the ba si n in th e p a lace garde n s ,

must h ave been en o rmous an d t he resisting p o wer o f th e

,

m ate r ial used in their c o n structi o n consequently p ro digious .

I f the system of water su pply in th e '

City o f the G olden
G ates wa s won derful the Atlantean m ethod s of l o c o m ot ion
”
,

m ust b e recognised a s still m o r e m a r vello u s for the air ship or

,
-

fl ying machine which Keely in America an d M ax im in this

-
,

c o untry are n ow attem pting to pr o duce was then a reali z ed

,

fa ct. I t was n o t at any tim e a com m on means of tra n s po rt .

 5 2

The sl a ves the servant s a nd the m a s s es who la b oured with

, ,

their h a nds had t o trudge along the country t r acks or t r avel

, ,

i n rude c a rts with solid wheels drawn by unc o uth animals .

The a ir b oats m ay b e c o nsidered as the p r ivate carriages of those

-

days o r r a ther the p r ivate y a chts if we regar d the r elative

, ,

num b er o f those who possessed them for t hey must h ave been ,

at all times di ffi cult a nd costly t o pr o duce They were n o t a s .

a rule b uilt to a cc o m m o date man y pers o ns N um b ers were .

constructed for o nly two s o m e all o wed for si x or eight p a ssen

,

ge r s I n the later d a ys when w a r an d strife h ad b r o ught the

.

G old en Age t o an end b a ttle ships th a t could navigate the air had
,

t o a great ex tent repl a ced the b attle ships at se a —h aving natur

ally pr o ved far m o re powerful engines of destruction T hese .

were constructed t o carry as many a s fi fty a n d in some c a ses ,

eve n up t o a hundred fi ghting men .

T he m a terial of which the air b oats were c o nstructed was

either w oo d or m et a l T he ea r lier ones were b uilt o f w oo d
.

th e bo ards used b eing exceedingly thin but t h e inj ection o f ,

s o m e su b stance which did not add m aterially to the weigh t

while i t gave leather like t o ugh n ess pr o vided the n ecessary
-
,

co m bi n atio n of lightness an d strength Whe n m etal w a s used

it was gen erally a n all o y —tw o white colou red metals an d one
.

re d on e entering in t o it s c o m p o sition The result a nt was .

white c o l o ured like aluminium an d even ligh ter in weight

-
, , .

O ver the rough fra m ew o rk of t he air bo at was extended a large -

sheet of this metal which was then b eaten int o shape an d

electrically welded where necess a r y But whether b uilt o f .

m etal or w o od their outside surface w a s a pp a ren tly seamless

and perfectly smo o th a nd they sh o n e in the dark as if coated
,

with luminous pain t .

I n sh ape they were bo at like b ut they were invari ab ly decked

-
,

o ver for when a t full speed it c o uld n o t have b een convenient

, ,

even if s a fe fo r an y o n b o ard t o re m ain o n th e u pp er deck

,
.
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Their pr o pelling a nd steering ge a r c o uld b e bro ught int o use

a t either end .

But the a ll inte r esting question is th a t rel a ting to the p o we r

-

b y which they were propelled I n the ea r lier times i t seem s to

.

h ave b een person al vril th a t supplied th e motive po wer

whether us ed in conj unction with any m ech anical cont r ivanc e
m a tte r s n ot m uch —but in the later days this wa s r eplaced b y a
fo rce which though gener a ted in wha t is t o us an unknown m a n
,

ner o perated n eve r th el ess th rough definit e m ech anic a l arrange

,

ments T his fo rce th o ugh not yet disc o vered b y science m o re

.
, ,

nea r ly a pproached t hat which Keely i n America is le a rnin g to

handle than the e lect r ic power used b y M a x im I t was in fac t .

o f a n ethe r ic n atu r e b ut though we a re n o nearer t o t he solu

,

tion of the problem its m ethod of o peration c an b e descri b ed

,
.

The mech a nical a rr a nge m ents n o doubt differed s o m ewha t in

different vessels T he following descripti o n is taken from a n
.

a ir boa t in which o n on e o ccasio n th ree a mb assado r s fr o m th e

-

king wh o ruled o ver the n o rther n p a rt o f P ose idon is m a de the

j o urney t o the c o urt of th e southe r n kingd om A str o n g heavy
.

m et a l chest which lay in the cent r e o f the bo at was th e gener a

tor . T he n ce the fo rce fl o wed th r o ugh t w o l a rge fle x i b le tu b es
t o either end of the vessel as well a s t h r o u g h eight su b sidiary
,

tu b es fix ed fo re an d aft t o t he bulw a rks These h ad d o u b le

.

openings p o inting vertic a lly bo t h up and d o wn W he n th e

.

j o ur n ey was abo ut t o begin the valves of the eight b ulwark

tu b es which p o inted downwards were opened —all the o ther
valves b eing cl o sed T he curren t r ushing thr o ugh these
.

im pinged on the earth with such fo rce a s t o drive the boa t up

wards while the air itself c on tinue d t o s upply the necessary
,

fulcrum When a sufficient elevati o n wa s reach ed the flexi b le

.

tu b e at that en d o f the vessel which p o inted away fr o m th e

desired destinati o n was b r o ugh t i n to a cti o n while b y the
, ,

partial cl o sing of the v a lves the current rushing thr o ugh the
 5+

eigh t vertica l tubes was reduced t o the sm all a mount req u i r ed

t o m ain t a in the elevation r eac hed The g r eat volum e of t he
.

curre n t being now directed t hrough th e large tube pointi n g

,

d o wnwards fr om the stern at a n a ngle of about fo rty fi v e deg r ees -

,

while helping to m a intain the elevati o n provided als o the g r eat

,

motive power t o propel the vessel thr o ugh the a ir The stee r ing .

was acc o mplished by th e discharge of the cu r rent thr o u gh this

t ube for the slightest change in its directi o n at o nce caused an
,

alteratio n in the vessel s cou r se B ut c o nstant supervisi o n was

’
.

n ot required V he n a long j ou r ney had to b e taken the tube

V
.

could b e fi xed so a s to n eed no handling till the destination was

a lm ost r eached The m aximum speed att ained was a b out one
.

hund r ed miles an h ou r th e cou r se o f flight n eve r being a

,

st r aight line but always in the form of long waves now

, ,

a ppr o aching and now receding fro m the ea r th T he elevation .

at which the vessels travelled was only a few hund r ed feet

in deed w hen high m oun t a in s lay in the line of their t r ack it
w as n ecessary to ch a nge their c o urse a nd go r o und them —the
,

more r a re fi ed a ir no l on ger supplying the n ecess a ry fulcr u m .

H ills o f abo ut o ne thous a nd feet were the highest they could

c r oss The m eans by which the vessel w a s b r o ugh t to a stop
.

o n re a ching its destin a ti o n —an d this could b e d o ne equally well

in m id a ir—was t o give escape t o so m e o f the current fo rce

-

thr o ugh the tu b e at that en d o f the bo at which p o in ted t o w a rds

its destinati o n an d the curren t i m pinging on th e lan d o r a ir i n
,

fron t acted as a drag while the propelling fo rce b ehind wa s

, ,

gradually reduced b y the closin g of the v a lve T he reas on h as .

still to be given for the e x istence of the eight t u bes p o inting

upwards from the b ulwarks T his had m o re specially t o d o
.

w ith the a e r ial warfare H aving so powerful a force a t their

.

disp o sal the warships n aturally di r ected the current against

,

each o ther N e w this was ap t t o destr o y th e equili b rium of the

—
.

shi p so s truck an d to turn i t upside d o wn a sit u a ti o n sure t o be

 55

taken advantage of by t he enemy s v essel t o m ake a n a tt a ck

’

with her ram The r e wa s als o the fu r ther d a n ger o f being

.

p r ecipitated t o th e gr o un d u n less the shutti n g an d ope n ing of

,

the necessa r y valves we r e quickly atten ded to I n w hatever .

posi t ion the vessel migh t b e th e tubes pointing t o wa r ds th e

,

earth were n aturally t hose through which th e cu rr en t s hould

be rushing while th e tubes pointing upward s sho uld b e closed
,
.

The means by wh ich a vessel turned upside down migh t b e

righted an d pl a ced again on a level keel w as a ccom plished by
,

using the fo ur tu bes p oin tin g downwards a t on e sid e of th e

vessel o nl y whi le the fo ur a t th e other side we r e kept closed
,
.

The Atlantean s had a ls o se a g o ing vessels which were p ro

-

p elled b y som e power analogous t o that ab o ve m en tioned bu t ,

the cu rr en t fo r ce which was eventually fo und t o be m o st effec

tive in this c ase h ad a dense r a ppear a n ce t h a n th a t used i n the
ai r b oats
- .

Manners and C ustoms —There was doubtless a s much variety

.

i n th e m anners an d custom s of the Atla ntean s at di fferen t

ep o chs o f their history as there ha s b ee n a mon g the va r ious
,

n ati o n s which c om p o se o u r A r ya n r ace With th e fluctuating

.

fashi o n o f th e centuries we a r e not concerned The followin g .

remarks will attem pt to deal m erely with th e leading ch aracter

is tic s which diff erentiate th eir habits fr om ou r own a nd these ,

will b e ch o sen as m uch as p o ssible from the g r eat T o ltec er a .

With regard t o m ar r iage a n d the relati o ns of the se x es the

e x peri m ents m a de by t he T urania ns ha ve already been referred
t o P o lygam o us cust om s were prev a len t a t di ff erent tim es am ong
.

all the su b races b ut i n the To ltec d ays while two wives were
-
,

allowed b y the law great n u mb ers of m en h a d only o ne wife

, .

N or were the women —a s in c o un tries n o w a d ays where p o ly- -

ga m y prev a ils—regarded a s inferi o rs o r i n the least oppressed

, .

T heir p o sition was quite equal t o th at of t h e m en while the ,

a ptitude ma ny of them displayed in acquiring the vril p o wer -

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m ade them fully the equals if not t he supe r iors of the o ther
se x This equalit y indeed wa s recognised fro m infancy and
.
,

t here wa s n o sepa r ati o n of the sexes in schools o r colleges .

B o y s and gi r ls we r e taught together I t was th e rule too and .

, ,

not t he exceptio n fo r com plete ha r m ony to prevail in the dual

,

h ouse ho lds and the mothe r s t augh t thei r child r en to look

,

equally t o thei r fathe r s wives for l ove an d protection N o r

’
.

were women deba rr ed from taking part in the g o vernment .

Sometimes they w ere membe rs of the c o uncils an d occasion ally ,

even were chosen by t he Adep t em peror to represent him in

the v a r ious pr o vinces as th e local sove r eigns .

T he w r iting m ate r ial of the At lanteans c o nsisted of thin

sheets of m etal on the white porcelain like su r face of which
,
-

the words were w r itten T hey a lso had the m eans of r epr o
.

du c in g the written tex t b y pla c ing o n the insc r i b ed sheet

a n o ther thin metal plate which had p r evi o usly b een dipped in
some l iquid Th e te x t thus graven o n the secon d plate could
.

be reproduced a t will o n o ther sheets a great number of which ,

fastened togethe r c o nstituted a book .

A cust o m which di ffers considerably fro m our own must b e

instanced nex t in thei r choice o f food I t is an unpleasan t
, .

subj ect but can scarcel y b e passed o ver The flesh of the
, .

ani mals they usuall y discarded while the p arts which am ong ,

us are av o ided as foo d were b y them devoured The b l oo d als o

t hey drank —o ften ho t fr o m t he anim al —a n d various c oo ked
, .

dishes were a ls o m ade o f it .

I t must not however b e thought that they were with o ut the

, ,

lighter a nd t o us m ore palata b le kin ds o f foo d The seas an d

, , , .

rivers provided them with fi sh the flesh of which they ate , ,

th o ugh o ften in such a n advanced stage o f dec o mpositi on as

would be to us revolting The di ff eren t grains were largely.

cultivated of which we r e made b read and c akes They als o

, .

h ad milk fruit and vegetables

, .
 or

A small minority of the inhabit a nts it is t r ue neve r a dopted

, ,

the revolting cust o m s a b ove referred to Th is was th e case .

with the Adept kings and emper o rs an d th e initiated priest

ho o d thr o ugh o ut the whole em pire They were en tirely v ege
.

tarian in t heir h ab its but th o ugh m any of the em per o r s c o un

,
’

s ello rs a n d the o fficials ab o ut the c o urt a ffected t o prefer

th e purer diet they o ften in dulged in secret th eir g ro sser
,

tastes.

N or we r e str on g drinks unkn o wn in th o se days F ermented .

liqu o r of a very p o tent s o rt w a s at on e tim e much in vogue .

B ut it was s o a pt to m ake these who d rank it danger o usly

excited that a law w a s passed absolutely fo r b idding its c o n
sumption .

T he weapons of warfare and th e ch ase di ffe r ed c o nsidera bly

at di fferen t e pochs S w o rds an d spea r s bows and arrows
.
,

su fficed as a r u le for th e R m oahals and the T lav atli The .

b easts which they hunted a t that ver y ea r ly pe r iod were m am

m oths with long wo o lly hair eleph a n ts an d hippop o ta m i
, .

M arsupials als o a bo unded as well as survivals o f intermediate

types—s o me being half reptile a nd h alf m ammal o thers h alf ,

reptile a nd h alf bird .

T he use of e x plosives was a d o pted a t an early peri o d a nd ,

carried to great perfecti o n i n later tim es Som e a ppe a r t o h ave

.

b een ma de t o e x pl o de o n c o ncussion o thers a fter a certain

,

in terval o f tim e bu t i n either ca se the destructi o n to life seem s

,

t o h a ve resulted fr om the release of some pois o n o us vapour n o t ,

fr om the i m pact of b ullets S o p o werful in deed must h ave

.

b ec o me these e x pl o sives in later A tlantean times th a t we hea r ,

o f wh o le c o m panies o f men b eing destroyed in b attle by th e

nox i o us g a s generated b y the explosion o f on e of these bo m b s
abo ve th eir heads thr o w n there by s o m e sort of lever
, .

T h e m o net ary syste m must no w b e c o nsidered During the .

fir st th ree su b r a ces a t all events such a thing a s a State

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,
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coin age wa s unknown Small pieces o f metal o r leathe r stamped

.

with some given val u e we r e it is t r ue u sed as tokens H aving

, , .

a pe r fo r a tion in the cen t r e they were st r ung togethe r an d we r e ,

usuall y carried at the gi r dle B ut each man was as it were his

.

o wn coiner and the leather o r metal token fab r icated b y him

, ,

and excha n ged with a nothe r fo r value r eceived was but a per ,

sonal acknowledgment of i ndebtedness such a s a pr o misso r y ,

note is am ong us N o m an was entitled to fab r i c ate m ore of

.

these tokens tha n he wa s able t o redeem by the transfer of

goods in his possession Th e t o ken s did n ot ci r culate as coin
.

age does w hile the holder of the token h ad the mea n s to

,

estimate with pe r fect accuracy t he resou r ces o f his de b t or b y

the clairv o ya n t faculty which all then possessed to a g r eate r o r
less deg r ee and which in an y case of d o ubt wa s instantly
,

directed t o ascertain the a ctual stat e o f the facts .

I t must b e state d however t hat in the l ater days of P osei

, ,

donis a s y stem a pproxim ating to ou r own currency was

,

ad o pted and the triple m ountain visible fro m the great

,

southern capital w a s the favou r ite representatio n on the S ta te

c o i n age
.

B ut the system of l a n d tenure is the m o st i m p o rtant su bj ect

u n der this headi n g Among the R m oahal an d T lav atli
.
,

who lived c hiefly by hunting an d fi shing the question n a turally ,

did n o t ari se th o ugh s om e s y stem o f village cultiv a ti on was

,

r ec o gnized in the T lav atli d a ys .

I t was with the increase o f p o pula ti o n an d civili z ati o n in the

early T oltec ti m es th a t lan d fi rst b ecam e w o rth fi ghting for I t .

is n o t prop o sed t o trace t he system o r wan t o f syste m prevalent

in the tr o u b l o us times a n teri o r t o the a dvent of the G olden A ge .

But th e rec o rds o f that ep o ch present to the c o nside r ation n o t ,

only o f p o litical ec ono mist s b ut o f all who regard the welfa r e

,

o f the race a subj ect o f the utm o st inte r est and imp o rtance
,
.

T he populati o n it m ust be remem b ered had b een steadily

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increasing and unde r t he govern m ent of th e Ad ept emper o rs

,

it ha d reached the very la rge figure al r eady quoted ; n ev erthe

less pove r ty and wa n t were things un dream t of in t hose days ,

and this social well b eing was n o d o u b t pa r tly d u e to the system

-

o f land tenure .

N ot only was all the lan d a nd its produce r ega r d ed as b elo n g

ing to the em pero r bu t a ll th e fl ocks a n d he r d s u pon it we r e
,

his as well . The co u n t r y wa s divided int o di fferent p r ovin c es

or dist r icts e ach p r ovince h avi n g a t its hea d on e of the s u bs i
,

dia r y ki n gs or viceroys a ppoin ted b y the e m pero r E ach of .

these viceroys was h eld respon sible for the gove r n men t an d
wel l being o f all th e inh abitants un de r his r ule The tillage of
-
.

th e land the harvesting o f the crops an d the past ur a ge of th e

, ,

he r ds lay within his sphere of s u pe r in tendence a s well as ,

th e c o nductin g of such agricultu r al ex pe r im en ts as ha ve been

a lrea dy refe r red to .

E ach vice r oy h ad r ound him a council of ag r icultura l a dvisers

and c o adj u tors who had am ongst thei r othe r duties to b e well
,

verse d in astron o m y for it was n o t a ba rr en s cience in those

,

d ays T he o ccult i n fluences o n plant a n d anima l life were then

.

studied and t aken a dvan tage o f T h e powe r to o of p r oducing

.
, ,

rain at will was n ot un co m m on then while th e e ffects of a

,

glacial epoch were on more than one occasi o n partly neutrali z ed

in the northe r n pa r t s of th e c ontinen t b y occult science T he .

ri g ht day for begin ning every ag r i cult u r al Operation was of

cou r se duly calcul ated an d the w or k ca r ried in to e ffect by the
,

o fficia ls wh o se duty it was to s u pervise eve r y detail .

T he pr o duce raised in each dist r ict or kingdom was as a rule

consu m ed in it b ut a n e x ch ange o f ag r icult ur al c o m mo dities
,

was s o meti mes a rr a nged b etween th e rulers .

A fter a s m all share h ad b een put aside for the emper o r and
the cen tral gove r n men t a t the City o f the G olden G ates the ,

pr o duce of the wh o le district or kingd o m wa s divided am ong

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the inhabitant s —the loc a l vicer o y and his retinue o f o fficials

n aturally receiving th e larger po r ti o ns but the m e a nest ag r i
,

cultural la bo urer getting eno u gh t o secure him c o mpetence an d

comfort A ny increase in th e productive capacity of the l a nd
.
,

or in the mineral wealth which i t yielded was d ivided p rop o r ,

tion ately a m o ngst all c o ncern ed —a ll therefore were interested

, ,

in making the result o f their c o m b ined l ab o ur as lucr a tive a s

p o ssi b le
.

This system worked a d mirably fo r a very l o ng pe r i o d B ut .

as time went o n negligence an d self seeking crept in T h os e

-
.

wh o se duty it was t o superintend threw more an d m o re resp on

,

s ibility o n their in fe r io r s in o ffice an d in time it b ecam e r are

,

fo r the rulers t o interfere o r t o interest themselves in a ny of the

o perati o ns T h is was th e b eginning of the evil d a ys T he
. .

mem b ers of the domin an t clas s wh o h a d previously given all

their tim e t o the st a te duties began to think a b out m aking th eir
o w n lives m ore pleasan t T he ela bo rati on o f lu x ury w a s setting
.

in.

T here was one cause in p articular which pr o duced gre a t dis .

c o ntent am o ngst th e l o wer classes T he system under which th e

.

y o uth of the n ation was d r afted into the technic a l sch ools h as
a l r eady b een referred to N ow it was al ways o n e o f t he superi o r
.

c lass whose psychic faculties h ad been duly cultivated t o wh o m ,

the duty was assigned o f selecting the children so that each

o ne should receive t he training an d ultim ately b e dev o t ed t o
,

the occupation for w hich he was n aturally m o st fi tted B ut

,
.

when those possessed of the clairv o yant vision b y which a l o ne ,

such choice could be m ade delegated t heir duties t o in feri o rs wh o

,

were wanting in such psychic a ttributes the results ensuing ,

were that th e children were o ften t hrust int o wr o ng grooves ,

an d th o se whose capacity an d t aste lay in one direction o ften

found themselves tied fo r life t o a n occupation which they
disliked an d in which the r efore they we r e rarely successful
, , ,
.
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The systems of l an d ten ure which ensued in different parts o f

the em pire on the b reaking u p of the great Tol tec dynasty we r e
m any an d va r i o us B ut it is n ot necessary t o fo ll o w them I n
. .

the later d a ys o f P os eidon is they had a s a rule given place to

, ,

the system of individu a l o wn ershi p which we know s o well .

R eferen ce ha s a lready b een m ade under the head o f , E mi

g ration s
”
t o th e system of land ten ure which p r evailed during
,

that gl o rious peri o d of P eruvi a n hist o ry when the I nc a s held

sway abo ut years ago A short summ ary of this m ay be
.

of interest a s dem o n strating the s o urce fr o m which its gr o un d

w or k was dou b tless derived as well as insta ncin g the v a riation s
,

which h a d b een a d o pted in this s o mewh a t m ore c o m plic a ted

system .

A ll title t o lan d wa s derived in the fi rst inst a n ce from th e

I nca b ut h a lf o f it was as signed t o the c u ltiv ators who o f course
, ,

con stituted the great bulk of th e population The o ther half .

was divided between the I nc a and th e p r iesth o od wh o celebrated

the worship of the sun .

O ut of the proceeds of his specially allotted lands th e I nca

had t o keep up the a r m y the roa ds thr o ugh o ut th e wh o le
,

empire an d all th e m achinery of g o ver m en t This w a s c o n

,
.

ducted b y a special g o ve r ning class all m o re or less cl o sel y

rela ted t o th e I nca him self and represe n ting a civili z ation and
,

a culture m uch in a dvance of the great m a sses of the popul a ti o n

—
.

The rem aini n g fourth the lan ds of the sun provided

not o nly for t he priests wh o c o nducted t he pu b lic worship

thr o ugh o ut the em pire but for the entire education o f the
,

people in sch o ols and colleges for all sick and infi r m person s
, ,

an d fi nally fo r every inh a b itan t ( e x cl u sive o f course of th e

, , ,

g o verning class fo r wh o m th ere was n o cessa ti o n o f w ork) on

reaching the age o f fo r t y fiv e th at b eing the age arranged fo r
-
,

the ha r d wo r k of life t o cease a n d fo r leisure an d enj o ym en t to

,

begin .
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R eligion .
—Th e only subj ec t th at n ow rem ain s to b e dealt with
is the evolution o f r eligious ideas Between the spiritual .

aspi r ation of a rude b ut simple race an d the deg r aded r itual of

an intellectually cultu r ed b ut spi r itually dea d people lies a g u lf ,

which only the term religi o n used in its widest acceptation can
, ,

span N eve r theless it is this c o nsecutive pr o cess of generation

.

an d d egeneration which h as t o b e tra ced in the hist o ry of the

Atlan tean people .

I t will b e rem em b ered th a t the governmen t under which the

R m oah als cam e int o e x ist ence w a s descri b ed as the m o st
,

pe r fect c o nceivable fo r it w a s the Mann him self wh o a cted as

,

thei r king Th e mem or y of this divine ruler was n atu r ally

.

p r ese r ved in the annals of the r a ce a nd in due tim e he c am e t o,

be r ega r ded a s a god am o ng a people who we r e n aturally

,

psychi c and h ad consequently glim pses o f th o se states of con

,

s c io u s n es s which transcend our ordinary waking condition .

R etaining these higher attributes it was only n atural that this ,

primitive people should ad o pt a religi o n which th o ugh in no , ,

way represen tative o f any e x alted philosophy was of a type far ,

fr o m ign o b le . I n later days this ph ase o f religi o us b elief

pas sed into a kind of ancestor w o rship -
.

The T lav atli while inheriting the traditi o n a l reverence a nd

worship fo r the Man n we r e t aught by Adept instructors o f the
,

e x istence of a S up r eme B eing whose symbol was recogni z ed as

the sun They thus developed a sort o f sun wo r ship for the
.
,

practice of which th ey r epaired to the hill t o ps T he r e they .

built great ci r cles of uprigh t mo n o liths These were intended .

t o be sy mbo lical of th e sun s yearl y course but they were also

’

used for astron o mical purp o ses —being placed s o that t o o ne ,

standing at the high a lt ar the sun would rise a t the winter

,

solstice b ehind o n e of these m onoliths at the vernal equinox ,

b ehind another an d s o on th r ough o ut the year A str o nomical

,
.

o bserv a tions of a s till mo r e com plex cha r ac ter c o n n ected with

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the m o re dist a n t c o nstell a ti o ns were a ls o helped b y t hese s t o n e

circles .

We h a ve alre a dy seen under the hea d o f emig r ations how a

later su b race th e A kkadian s —in the e r ecti o n o f St o nehenge
- -
,

reverted to this primitive b uilding of m on o liths .

End o wed th ough the T lav atli were with somew h at greater
c a p a city for intellectual developm en t than the p revious su b
r a ce their cult was still of a very primitive type
, .

With th e wider diffusion of kn o wledge in the days of th e

T o ltecs and m o re especi a lly with th e esta b lishment later o n of
,

an initiated priesth oo d an d a n A dept emper o r incre a sed op p or ,

tunities were o ffe r ed t o the pe o ple fo r the at tain m ent o f a t ruer

co n ception of the divine The few wh o were re a dy to t ake full
.

advantage of the te a ching o ff e r ed after h a ving b ee n t r ied and

,

tes ted were doubtless adm itted into the ranks of the priesth oo d
,

which then c o nstituted an im me n se o ccult fraternity With .

these h o wever wh o had so o utstri pped the m ass of hum a nity

, , ,

as t o b e ready to begin th e pr o g r ess of the occult path we a re ,

no t here concerned the religiou s practised by the in ha b it a n ts of

,

A tlantis generally being th e subj ect of ou r investigation .

T he p o wer t o r ise t o p hiIOS Op hic heights of though t was of

c o urse wanting t o th e m asses of th o se d ays as it is similarly wan t ,

ing t o the gre a t maj ority of t he in habitan ts of the world t o day .

The n e a rest a ppr o ach which the m o st gifted teach er could m a ke

in atte m pting t o convey any idea of the n a m eless an d all p erv ad -

ing essence o f the Kos m os wa s necess a rily i mparted in the fo r m

o f symbols an d the sun naturally enough was the fir st sym b ol
,

adopted As in ou r ow n days too the m ore cultivated and

.

spi r itually minded would see through the sym b ol and might ,

s o metimes rise on th e wings o f dev o tio n to the Fat her o f o u r

spi r its th at
,

Mo ti v e an d c e nt r e of o ur s oul s des i r e
'

Obj ec t a nd r efuge of our j our ney s end’

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while the grosser m ultitude would see no thing b ut t he sy mbo l ,

and would worshi p it as the c a rved M a d o n n a or the w o oden

,

im age of the crucified on e is t o d a y worshipped thr o ugh o u t

-

Ca tholic Europe .

Sun and fi re w o rship t hen b ec am e the cult fo r the cele b r a ti o n

of which m agni fi cent tem ples were reared through o ut the length
a nd b r eadth o f the continen t o f A tlantis b ut more especi a lly in
,

the great City o f the G o lden G a tes the temple service b eing
-

performed b y retinues o f priests end o w ed b y the S t a te fo r th a t

purpose .

I n t hose ea r ly days no im age o f the Deity was permitted .

Th e sun disk was con sidered the o nly a ppropriate em b lem of

-

the godhead an d as such was u s ed in every temple a g o lde n

, ,

disk bei n g generally placed s o as t o catch the fi rst rays of the

risin g sun at the vernal equin ox o r a t the sum m er s o lstice .

An interesting e x am ple o f the almost unal loyed survival of this

w o rship o f th e sun disk m ay b e instanced in the S hin to cere
-

m onies o f Japa n A ll other represent a ti o n of Deity is in this

.

faith regarded as i m pious an d even the circular mirror o f

,

polished m et al is hidden fr o m th e vulg a r gaze save on c ere m o

nial occasions U nlike the go r geous tem ple dec o r a ti o ns of
.

A tlantis however the Shinto tem ples are characterized b y

,

an entire absence of decor a tion —the e x quisite fi nish of th e plain

w o od wo r k b eing unrelieved by any carving p a int o r varnish
-
, .

But the sun disk did n o t always remain the o nly permissi b le
-

em ble m of Deity T he i mage of a man—an a r ch etypal man

.

was in after days placed in the tem ples and adored a s the
highest representati o n of the divine I n so m e ways this might
.

b e c o nsidered a reversi o n t o the R m oahal wo r shi p of the

Man n Even then th e religi o n was c o m p ar atively pure and
.
,

the o ccult fraternity of the G ood L a w o f c o urse did their

' ”

ut most to keep a live in the he a rts o f t he p eople the spiritual

life
.
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Th e evil days however we r e drawing n ear when no altru

, ,

is tic idea sho u ld r em ain to r edeem the race fr om the a b yss of

selfishness in which it was destined to be ove r whelmed The .

decay of the ethical id ea was the necessa ry p r el u de t o the

perve r sion of the spi r itual The hand o f e ve r y m an fo u ght for
.

himself alone an d his knowledge was used for pu r ely selfish

,

ends till it became an established belief tha t there wa s nothing

,

in the unive r se g r ea te r or highe r tha n themselves E a c h m an .

was his o wn L a w a nd Lo r d a nd G od an d the ve r y wo r shi p

, ,

of the t em ples ceased to be the wo r shi p of a n y ideal b u t ,

becam e the mere ado r ation of m an as h e wa s kn o wn an d

seen to b e A s is w r itte n i n the B ook of D ayan
.
'
Then the ,

Fo ur th became tall with p r ide W e are the kings it was

.

said ; we a r e the G ods . They buil t h u ge

cities . O f r are ea r ths and metals they built a n d out of ,

the fi r es vomited o ut of the white stone of the m o u ntains and

,

of th e black ston e t he y c u t t hei r own im ages in their size

,

an d likeness and wo r shipped t hem

,
Sh r in es we r e placed in
.

tem ples in which the statue of each m an w r o u ght in gold or ,

silve r o r ca rved in ston e or wood was a do r ed by him self

, ,
.

The r ich er m en kept whole train s of p r iests in thei r employ

for t he cult and care of their shrines an d o ffe r ings we r e ,

m ade t o these statues as t o gods The apotheosis of se lf .

could go no further .

I t must be remembe r ed that eve r y t r ue religious idea th a t

has ever entered into t he min d of m an ha s been consciously ,

suggested to him b y the divine I nst r ucto r s o r the I nitiates of

the O cc u lt Lodges who th r ougho u t all the ages have been
,

the g u a r dian s of the divine myste r ies and of th e facts of the

,

supe r sens u a l states of conscio u sness .

M ankin d gene r ally has but slowly becom e capable of a s s imi

la t ing a few of these divine ideas while the m onst r o u s g r owths
,

and hideous disto r tions t o which eve r y r e l i g ion on ea r th s ta n d s

E
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as witness must be traced to m an s own lower nature I t w o uld

,
’
.

seem in deed that he h as not always e v en been fi t to be entrusted

with knowledge as to the mere symbo ls under which were veiled
t he light of Deity for in the days o f the Turanian supre m acy
,

some o f this kn o wledge was wrongfull y divulged .

We have seen how the life a n d light giving a t tri b utes of the
sun were in ea r ly times used as the symbol to br ing before the
m inds of the people all th a t th ey were capable of conceiving o f
the great First Cause But oth er symbols of far deeper and
.

mo r e rea l signi fi can ce were known and guarded within the

ranks of the p r iestho o d One of t hese was the conception o f a
.

Trinit y in U nity The T r inities of m ost sacred significance

.

we r e n ever divulged to the people but the Trinity pe r sonify ing

,

the c o smic powe r s o f the unive r se as C r eato r Prese r ver , ,

and Destr o ye r becam e publicly kn o wn in som e irregular

,

manner in the Tu r anian days This idea was still further

.

m ate r ialized an d deg r aded by the S emites int o a strictly

anthr o pom o rphic Trinity con sisting of fathe r mother and ,

child .

A fu rthe r and rath e r ter r ible developmen t of the Turanian

times must still b e r efe r red to With the practice of s o rcery
.

m any of th e inhabit ants ha d of course be c om e aware of th e

, ,

existence of powerfu l elementals—c r eatures who had b een called

in to being o r a t lea st anima ted by t heir own powerful wills
, ,

w hich bein g di r ected towa rd s m alefi c en t ends n aturally p ro

,

du c ed the element als of power a nd m alignity S o degraded

.

ha d then becom e m a n s feelings of r everence an d worship th at

’

they actually began t o adore th ese semi conscious c r eations of

-

their own ma lignan t tho u ght The r itual with which these
.

beings were wo r shipped was b lood stained fr o m the ve r y s ta r t

-
,

and of c ou r se eve r y sacrifice offe r ed a t t heir sh r ine gave vitality

and persistence t o these va mpire like c r eation s —so much so
-
,

that even t o th e p r esent day in v a rious parts of the world the ,

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elementals for m e d b y the po werful will of these old Atlantea n

so r c erers still con tinue to exact their tribute fr o m un offending
village c o mm unities .

Though inaugurated and wid ely practised b y th e b rutal

Tu r anians this bl o od st ained r itual seem s never to have sprea d
,
-

to any e x ten t am ong th e other s u b races th o ugh hu m an sacri

-
,

fi c es appear t o have been not uncom m o n am o ng s o me branches

of the Semites .

I n the great Tolt ec empi r e of M e x ic o the sun wo r ship of t heir -

fo r efa thers was still the na tional religion while t he bloodless ,

o ff e r ings to their ben e fi c e n t Deity Q uet z alc o atl consisted

, ,

me r ely of fl o we r s an d fruit I t was only with the coming of

.

the savage Azte cs that the harm less M e x ican ritual was supple
m en te d with the blood of hu man sac r ifices which drenched the ,

alta r s of their war god H uitzilopocht li an d the tearing out of

-
, ,

the hearts of the victim s on the sum mit of the T eoc a li m ay be

regarded as a direct su r vival of the elem ental w o rship of their -

Turania n ancest o rs i n Atlan tis .

I t will b e seen then that as i n o ur own days the religi o us ,

life of the people emb r aced th e m os t varied fo r ms of belief and

worship From th e sm all min or ity w ho aspi r ed to initiation
.
,

and h ad t o uch with the higher spiritua l life —wh o knew tha t
good will t o wards all m en con trol of thought and p ur i ty of
, ,

life and a ction were the necessary p r eliminaries to the attain

ment of the highest states of consci o usness an d t he widest
realms of visi o n —inn um e r a ble phases led down through the
mo r e or less b lind worship of c o sm ic p o wers or of an throp o ,

morphic gods to t he deg r aded b ut most widely e x ten ded ritual

,

i n which each m an adored his own i m age an d to t he b lo o d ,

stain ed rites of th e elem en ta l wo r ship .

I t m ust b e rem em b ered throughout that we are dealing with

th e A tla nte a n race on ly so th at any reference would be ou t of
,

place that here o n the still m o r e degraded fetish worship that -

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e ven t hen existed — as it still does —a m o ngst th e debased re p re

s en tativ es o f the Lemu r ian peoples .

All through the centu r ies th en t he va r ious r it uals composed

to celebrate these various forms of wo r ship were carried on ,

till the final subm ergence of P os eidonis b y which tim e the ,

countless hosts o f Atla n tean emigran ts had al r ead y est ablished

o n foreign l an ds the various cults o f the mot her continen t - .

T o t r ace the rise an d foll o w th e p ro g r ess in detail o f the

a r chaic r eligions which in historic times have blossomed into
,

s u ch diverse an d antag o nistic forms would be an unde r taking

,

o f great di fficulty but t he ill u min ation i t wou ld th r ow on

,

m a tters of t r a n scen dent i mp o rtance m ay s o m e day in duce the

at tem pt .

I n conclusion it w o uld be vain to a ttem pt t o summ ari z e

,

what is already too m uch of a summ ary Rather let u s hope .

that the fo r egoing m ay len d itself as the te x t fr o m which m a y .

be developed hist o ries of the m any o ffshoots of the various

—
s u b races histories which m ay an alytically e x am ine political
-

a n d social developments which h ave been he r e touched on in

the m o st fragm enta ry m anner .

O ne wo r d howeve r m ay still be said ab o ut t hat evolution of

, ,

the r ace —that progress which all c r eation with mankin d a t i ts ,

head is ever destined to achieve cent ur y b y cen t ur y millennium

, ,

b y millennium man vantara by m an van ta r a an d kalpa by

, ,

kalpa .

The descent o f spirit in to m at ter —these tw o poles of the

o ne etern al substance —is the p r ocess which occupies the first

half of eve r y cycle N ow the pe r iod we have been c o ntem

.

plating in t h e fo r egoing pages — the period during which the

Atlantean r ace was r unning its course—was the very m iddle o r
t urning p o int of this p r esen t m anvantara .

The process of ev o lutio n which in our presen t Fifth Ra c e

i — , ,
—
h as n o w set n the return th a t is o f m atter int o spi r it h ad
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in those days r evealed itself in bu t a few isola ted individual

ca ses —fo r erunn ers of the r es urr ection of the spirit .

B u t the p r oblem which all wh o have given the subj ect a ny

,

am o unt of con sideration must h ave felt to be still a w aiting a

solution is the s u rp r ising contras t in the attributes o f th e
,

Atlantean race Side b y side with thei r bru tal passion s their
.
,

degraded anim al propensities we r e t heir psychic faculties their

, ,

godlike intuition .

N ow the s o lution of t his apparen tl y in solu b le enigm a lies in

the fact that t he b u ilding of the bridge had onl y then been
b egu n —the bridge o f M a nas or m ind destin ed t o unit e i n the
, ,

pe r fected individua l the upward surging fo r c es o f the anim al

and th e downward c y cling spirit of the God Th e an ima l
.

kingd o m of t o day exhibits a fi eld o f n at ur e wh ere th e b u ilding

-

of t h at b r idge has n ot yet been b egun an d even am o ng m an,

kind in the days of Atlantis the con nection was so sligh t that
the spi r itual a ttri b utes had b ut little cont r olling power ove r th e
lower ani m al n at ure The t o uch o f m ind the y had wa s s u fh
.

cient to add zest t o the grati fi ca tion of th e sen ses but was not ,

enough t o vita lize the still dorman t spiritual faculties which in ,

the pe r fected individual will h ave t o b ecome the absolute

mon a r ch O u r m eta phor o f the b r idge m a y ca rr y us a little
.

fu r the r if we conside r it as n ow in process of con st r u ction but ,

a s destined to rem ain inc o m plete for m ankind in general fo r

untold millennium s—in fact until H uma nit y has completed
,

another circle o f the seven p la nets an d t he great Fifth R o und

is half way through its c o urse .

Th o ugh it was du r ing the latter half of t he Thi r d Root Race

and the beginning of the Fourt h th at the Man as apu tra
descended to end o w with min d the bulk o f H um anity wh o were
still without the spa r k y et so feebly burn ed the ligh t all through
,

th e Atlantean days tha t few could be s aid to have a ttained

t o t he powers of a b str a ct tho u ght O n the other hand the
.
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functioning of the mind on con c rete things came well within

their grasp and a s we have s een it was in the p ract ical con
,

cerns of their every day life especially when their psychic

-
,

faculties were directed t o wards the sam e obj ects tha t they ,

achieved such remarkable an d stupendous results .

I t m ust also be re m em b ered that K a ma th e fo urth p r inciple

, ,

naturall y o btain ed its culmi n ating devel o pment in the Fo urth

Race T his w o uld accoun t for the depths o f animal grossness
.

t o which they s a nk whilst t he approach of t he cycle t o its nadir

,

i n evita b ly a ccen tuated t his downward m ovemen t so th at t here ,

is little t o b e surprised at in the gradual loss b y the race of

the psychic faculties and in its descent to sel fi shness and
,

m ate r ialism .

R ather shou ld all this be r ega r ded as pa r t of the great cyclic

pr o cess in o b edien ce t o the etern al law .

We h ave a ll gone th r ough those evil days and the e x pe r iences

,

we then accum ulated g o to m ake up the ch aracters we n o w

possess .

B ut a brighter sun now shines on the Aryan race t han that

which lit the pa th of thei r Atlantean forefathers Less domi .

n a ted b y th e passion s o f the senses m o re o pen to the influence

,

of mind the men of ou r race h ave obtain ed and a r e obtaining

, , ,

a fi rm er grasp of knowledge a wider range of intellect T his

,
.

upward arc of the g r ea t Manv an taric cycle will n a turally lead

increasing n um b ers towards the entrance o f the O ccult P ath ,

and will lend m ore an d m o re att r acti o n to the t r anscenden t

opportunities it o ff ers for the continued strengthening an d puri
fi c ation of the cha r acte r —st r engthening an d pu r ificati o n n o
longer directed by mere spasm o dic e ffort an d continually inter
,

ru p ted b y misleading attractions ,

but guided and guarded a t
eve r y step by t he M a sters o f Wisdom s o that the upwa r d clim b
,

when once b egun sh o uld no longer be h alting an d unce r tain but ,

lead direct t o the gl or i o us goal.

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T he psychic fac u lti e s too an d the godlike int u ition lost for a
, ,

tim e but still the righ tfu l heritage o f the race only await the ,

individual effo rt of t e at tain men t to give to the c ha r a cte r still

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,

deepe r in sigh t and m o r e tran scen dent powe r s So s hall the

—
.

ranks of the Adept instructo r s th e M asters of Wisdom —be eve r

stre ng thened an d recruited an d even a m o ngst us to day the r e
,
-

must ce r tainly b e some i ndistinguish able save b y the d eathless

,

enth u siasm with which they a r e animated who will befo r e the , ,

next R oot Race is est ablished on thi s pl anet stand them selv es ,

as M aste r s of Wisdom to hel p the ra c e in its upward p r og r e s s

”
.

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T h e W ay o f L ib erat ion T he E t ern al L ife an d F orm C ond uc t .

T he M 'S T I C A L H ' M N S of OR P H E U S .

T R A N S LAT E D F R OM T HE G R EE K
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p t t t p bl t l ll y
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