The True Origin of the Human Being: Atlantis, Lemuria, Hyperborea, Polaris, and the Chaos
Gathered tonight, we are going to begin our lecture in relation to precisely the enigma of the human being, which it is necessary to know in order for us to form a clear idea about ourselves.
First of all, it is convenient that we try to know the origin of the human being: where did it come from and what was, then, the fundamental reason for its existence?... Much has been said about the human being, and it is necessary to delve deeper...
Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria | William Scott-Elliot | Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales | 1/3
Currently, there lives, on the face of the Earth, a population of about four thousand five hundred million people. What populates the face of the Earth, obviously, is the Aryan root race. Today's continents are densely populated: Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, There are five continents where humanity develops.
If we ask where this humanity came from, what is its origin, do you perhaps think that this humanity, which populates the five continents, had its origin in them?
Human remains were found in the Grimaldi and Cro-Magnon caves, and attempts have been made to reconstruct the history, or prehistory, of the Grimaldi and Cro-Magnon races.
Bones of giants have been found—in Brazil a human skeleton was found that was several meters, about six or seven, meters tall—skeletons of giants have been found in different areas. Skeletons have also been found (particularly in Cro-Magnon caves) of human beings that look simply like gorillas, orangutans, or something of the sort.
As a result of all of this, it has been mistakenly deduced that the human race possibly came from the apes, or from monkeys.
Darwin's theory had a lot of resonance in his time, and it was thought that man came from the ape. This matter worries humanity a lot from time to time… about knowing if man came from the monkey, or the monkey came from man, about who came from whom? At times, this restlessness subsides; at times, the same concern resurfaces again.
Somewhere, a pseudo-scientist, a kind of "mama's spoiled boy", had the idea that the human race came from the savages (he said), and of course, "mom liked this a lot", but in the end, in the grand finale, it didn't solve anything...
Who came from whom? I do not think that all this population (the four thousand five hundred million that populate the world today), have come from these five continents. I don't think so, because it turns out that the world has changed its physiognomy several times.
Before having this physiognomy that you see on the map (or in any hemisphere), it had a different physiognomy. There are older maps; there are different maps that have been found in other corners of the world, where the physiognomy of the Earth appears different. Thus, it has not always had the same continents, nor has it always had the same physiognomy. At another time, it had a different physiognomy: what today are the poles was the equator, and what is the equator today was the poles. So, the current continents did not exist, or only part of them existed (which arose from the bottom of the seas); and, there was a densely populated continent, which was located in the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantis
So, the physiognomy of the world was different. Thus, I do not believe, in any way, that the origin of this human race is found in the current continents.
When the human race developed in ancient Atlantis, it was very different...
The apes, or species of ape-men found in the caves of Cro-Magnon and Grimaldi (and other caverns), belonged rather to degenerate descendants, or to degenerations of the Atlantean root race.
I say this to emphasize that, just as evolution and devolution exist in plants, likewise in animals, or in humans, etc., there must also exist evolution and devolution in civilizations.
For example, when one talks with certain tribes of the world, located either in the west or in the east, one realizes that they have enormous civilizations behind them; that they have or preserve in their memory legends that correspond to their ancestors (disappeared ancestors, and ancient civilizations), and speak of such ancestors with much ecstasy. The cannibals themselves, who seem so primitive, have enormous traditions behind them: they preserve traditions from time immemorial, from enormous cities, etc., etc., etc. So, they are not "primitive"; they are simply degenerate, devolutive. Certain very cruel and bloodthirsty tribes, savages, are devolutions, or descendants of ancient civilizations. It is difficult to find, today, truly primitive people, and that is because the human race evolves and devolves...
Before these five continents existed, I repeat, there was Atlantis. Today, we are very much in love with modern civilization: we are amazed at its atomic rockets that travel towards the moon, or to the sphere of Jupiter, or to the planet Venus; we are surprised by atomic experiments, physiological investigations, the study of living cells, etc. We are so fascinated by these experiments that we have firmly concluded that ours is the most powerful civilization that has ever existed in the world. We have fallen into a kind of “geocentric system”. I put it this way because in other times you know very well that in the Middle Ages, it was believed that all the stars revolved around the Earth. Well, we have fallen into another kind of "geocentrism", when we think that the entire history of the world “revolves” around our much-vaunted civilization.
I think that a kind of “modern heliocentrism” is needed; a new Newton that is capable of showing us that our much-vaunted civilization is nothing more than one of the many many civilizations that have existed on the planet Earth. A day will come when this can be demonstrated concretely... There are systems, and there are methods, by means of which one can evidence the fact that behind our civilization (which seems so “shimmering”), there was another civilization more powerful than ours... Well, I want to refer now, emphatically, to the famous Akashic annals of nature, to the memory of nature (yes, nature has memory).
Experiments with "carbon 14", for example, have shown us that the Moon is older than the Earth; and we too can show that there are systems by which it is possible to read the memories of nature. The Akashic records are a reality (one day they will fall into the hands of scientists, I do not deny it). We Gnostics have procedures by which we can study the Akashic records of nature. Whoever wants to study those Akashic records will have to develop, in an extraordinary manner, the lotus of the 1,000 petals, which is related to the pineal gland (the Sahasrara chakra) and the latent powers found in the pituitary gland (the lotus of the two petals and its 96 radiations). This pair of little glands are extraordinary. Developed, they give us access to the "ultra", to the extra perceptions, and also to the Akashic records of nature.
When one studies the Akashic records of nature, one sees in them a kind of "living movie", within which is found the entire history of the Earth and its races. The sages who have been able to study the Akashic records know that Atlantis was a reality, that it was a huge continent that extended from the south to the north.
This gigantic continent served as the stage for the race that preceded us in the course of history. I am referring to the great race of the Atlanteans, which was a race of giants (that is why the legend of the centuries speaks to us symbolically of the “giant Briareus”, “the one with a hundred arms”), a race of true cyclopes. Such a race came to have a powerful civilization, millions of times more powerful than ours. In terms of transplants, they transplanted viscera of all kinds: livers, kidneys, hearts, and even achieved brain transplants (that was formidable!). In the field of nuclear physics, they achieved atomic lighting en masse. All the cities used atomic lighting: the fields were lit by nuclear power, and their houses by atomic power. Within the field of mechanics, I can assure you that their cars were not only amphibious but could also fly through the air and were propelled by nuclear energy. They extracted energy, not only from uranium and radium, but from many other metals, and from many vegetable grains as well (and it was very cheap for them). In terms of aerial navigation, they had more powerful ships than the current ones: true flying boats, or "flying ships", propelled by nuclear energy. Trips to the moon did better than what the modern "Tyrians" and "Trojans" are doing now. They had amazing atomic rockets, with which they traveled to the Moon, and not only did those astronauts land on the Moon, but they also landed on the other planets in the solar system.
So, we do not hit even the heels of the Atlanteans with our much-vaunted civilization; we don't even hit the heels, we're not good enough to clean the dust from the Atlanteans’ shoes.
In matters of anatomy and biology, they made progress that we did not even remotely suspect: Jezebel, "she of the sad destinies", was an Atlantean queen who managed to keep herself alive (with all her youth) for thousands of years. Unfortunately (and that is how the decline of the Atlantean civilization began), she established a "solar anthropophagy" worthy of regret. Thus, this is how the degeneration or devolution of the Atlanteans began. Then, maidens, young people, etc., were sacrificed to the gods, for this or that purpose. Then, those corpses (any young sacrificed corpse) were taken to the laboratory and in there certain glands needed by the famous Jezebel, "the one with the sad destinies", were extracted, and those glands were used to replace the worn-out glands of Jezebel.
But it was not only the physical glands that were extracted from the corpses, no. Today the famous modern scientists are so degenerate that they no longer know how to handle the principles of life. The wise Atlanteans knew how to handle the vital principles, contained in the endocrine glands. The Atlantean sages were not unaware that the vibrations of the ether, or better we could say the tattvas, enter the endocrine glands (or small micro-laboratories that produce hormones), and never leave there again because they are transformed into hormones; the Atlantean sages were never ignorant of this. They knew how to handle those tattvas or vibrations of the universal ether. When they did a gland transplant into Jezebel, they did it together with the handling of the tattvas, they manipulated the vibrations of the ether or principles of life. So, these scientists were vastly superior to modern endocrinologists, who know nothing about these things, who are ignorant even of the existence of the tattvas, for they have never bothered to study Rama Prasad or Dr. Krumm-Heller. The Atlanteans were enormously advantaged...
There was a wonderful Atlantean university. I want to refer, emphatically, to the Akaldan society, a true university of sages. These sages studied the "law of the eternal Heptaparaparshinock" (the law of seven) in wonder; they learned to concentrate the sun's rays to make them penetrate into certain chambers, they knew how to transform the seven colors of the solar prism, that is, they took the "positive" or "diapositive" out of the rays of the solar prism. It is one thing to see the seven prismatic colors, and another thing is to transform them into a positive form, to get the “positive” out of them. Modern scientists have studied the seven fundamental colors of the solar spectrum, but they have not taken the "diapositive" out of those seven colors. The Atlantean sages knew how to get the "real positive" out of the seven colors of the solar prism; and, with that "positive" of the seven colors, they performed true prodigies.
I remember, in fact, the case of two Chinese sages who did experiments (these, of the Atlantean style) with the seven colors of the solar spectrum. Taking out the "positive" of the seven colors, they placed, for example, opium before a colored ray and then they saw how the opium was transformed into another substance... They put a piece of bamboo, moistened in a certain substance, before a blue color, for example (the positive, not negative of the spectrum), and it was seen how that bamboo was firmly dyed with blue...
For example, the sound (such notes, for example, the notes Do, Re, or Mi) was passed in combination with a certain color, and it was seen how the note altered the color, giving it another completely different color.
The seven rays, in their positive form, were used to perform prodigies on the Atlantean continent; the law of the eternal Heptaparaparshinock was thoroughly studied.
A sage who used goat's milk mixed with pine resin on a marble plate saw how when the milk decomposed with the resin, it formed seven different layers; this induced him (in Atlantis) to study the law of the eternal Heptaparaparshinock, the law of seven.
The Atlanteans, then, managed to do true wonders in the field of science. They were scientists and they were magicians at the same time: they created a robot, and they endowed that robot with an intelligent principle, with an elemental plant or animal that served as the robot's "soul" or "spirit". So those robots became real living creatures who served their masters, their lords.
This Atlantean root race existed before the current human Aryan root race existed. They had enormous cities, but unfortunately, they degenerated, as I said; they created the atomic bomb and even more deadly weapons, and in the war entire cities were devastated, and multiple cities became a holocaust or atomic holocausts...
So, if we believe that we are the greatest sages in the universe, we are mistaken, because behind us there was a more powerful, more civilized, more cultured race. In truth, we, together with them, are nothing if not barbarians, uncivilized and uneducated. Too bad Atlantis had degenerated; and that is because every race is born, grows, develops, and dies...
In the decline of the Atlantean root race horrible things happened: humanity degenerated (in vices, by the way), into homosexuality, into lesbianism, into drugs, etc., etc., etc. Everything was abused already at the time of degeneration, and obviously, that race had to be destroyed. That such Atlantean root race had seven sub-races? No one can deny it, but in the end it degenerated.
The sages of the Akaldan society made remarkable experiments; they were the first to use the sphinx, which they placed in front of their university. Much later, in time, when the wise men of the Akaldan society understood that a great catastrophe was approaching, they emigrated to a small continent called “Grabonci” (I am referring to the African continent), which was initially small; later, new lands that emerged from the bottom of the oceans made the continent of Grabonci (today Africa) huge.
The members of the Akaldan society were located, at first, towards the south of the African continent; later they emigrated to “Cairona” (today Cairo), in the lands of Nivea, the Nile, or Egypt, and there they established their famous university and the sphinx (in front of it).
The claws of the lion of the sphinx represent fire; the head of the sphinx represents water; the bull's legs of the sphinx represent the Earth element; the wings of the sphinx represent the element air. There are four virtues that are needed to be able to reach the intimate self-realization of the Being: one must have the courage of the lion, the intelligence of the human being, the wings of the spirit, and the tenacity of the bull; only in this way is it possible to reach the intimate self-realization of the Being...
The Akaldan society in Cairona (today Cairo) established a temple of astrology. There the stars were studied, not with telescopes, as is done today, but with the sixth sense. When the pyramids (especially the Great Pyramid) are examined, one sees, as "tubes", certain channels that go from the bottom, from the depth of an underground crypt, upwards, towards the top of the pyramid. Much has been thought or conjectured about such "channels", but those were telescopes, and the observatory was not above, but below, at the very bottom of the crypt. There, was placed a container with water; on a certain date it was known that such a star would be visible, and it was certainly reflected in the water. The adepts of astrology observed, in the water, the star in question, not only with physical faculties but also psychic ones. Instead of looking up, they looked down, towards the water, and there in the water, with the sixth sense, they studied the stars...
The brothers of the Akaldan society, the great sages, were very wise astrologers: a child was born, and immediately they drew his horoscope. Not those horoscopes in the modern style, not merely conventional and quoted horoscopes, no; that was very different: the wise astrologers looked at the stars directly. With procedures that are unknown today, they could read the children's horoscope... ...one hundred percent true... ...they never failed in their prophecies or their calculations. Newborn children were married in Cairona; it was known who was going to be their spouse, thus, they were married. It does not mean that, for this reason, they were going to live together from the beginning, because that would be absurd, but the newborn girl already knew who her husband was going to be, and the male, at his own time and hour, was informed who would his wife be. When they came of age, they were joined in marriage.
The citizens oriented themselves, with mathematical precision, under the direction of those astrologers, in their profession, in their trade, in their occupation. They knew very well what each citizen was born for, what each man was for since every man is useful for something. The important thing is to know what one is for, and these wise astrologers knew what each creature that was born was for, and they never failed; they were the wise men of the Akaldan society!
They left Atlantis before the earthquakes and tidal waves shook that continent. They left in time, for they knew too much of the end that was drawing near. And of course, when the revolution of the axes of the Earth came when the poles became the equator when the equator became the poles, when the seas shifted and Atlantis cracked, sinking to the bottom of the dark ocean, the Atlanteans, unquestionably, had already been warned.
It was then that the splendidly dressed crowds gathered at the temples (one of them was the temple of Ra-mu). Jeweled women and splendidly dressed men cried out saying, “Ra-mu, save us!” At last, Ra-mu appeared on the altar. The crowds wept asking him, “Save us!”...
Ra-mu answered them,
"You shall die together with your slaves and your riches and from your ashes will arise new nations. If they forget they are superior, not because of what they put on [materialism], but of what they put out [generosity, serving others], the same lot will befall them!’” —How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization by Dr. Paul Schliemann [1912]
It is necessary to know that it is more essential to give than to receive, and to know how to give what is received...
Well, Ra-mu's words were useless. They say that the smoke and flames drowned out his last words; Atlantis sank, with all its millions of inhabitants...
Today entire palaces lie there, at the bottom of the ocean, and serve as habitats for seals and fish; entire cities are submerged at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. That gigantic continent perished, larger than all of America together, from Canada to Argentina and Chile. It was a huge continent, with a mighty civilization!
So, ladies and gentlemen, we don't have anything very special. The current civilization is not the first, nor will it be the last; neither is it the highest nor is it the greatest; until now it has been the poorest, the most degenerate.
Can we, at present, conquer space? Are we already capable of traveling in atomic rockets to Mars, Mercury, or Venus? What are our projects? Yes, there may be nice projects, but currently, are we able to do it?... In terms of transplants, are brains already transplanted? Are we already capable of creating robots, endowed with intelligent principles?... Nothing of that; we do not have to have the presumption of being the most powerful! And there, our vaunted modern civilization will perish; “and of all this perverse civilization of vipers, not a stone will remain upon a stone! Babylon the great, the mother of all whoredoms and abominations on Earth, will be destroyed” before a very short time…
We feel very big with our supersonic planes, we believe that we are the "masters of creation", but before long there will be nothing left, absolutely nothing, of this perverse civilization of vipers!...
So, before there was this race that populated the five continents, there was the Atlantean root race. Descendants of Atlantis, there are the Mayans, for example. The Mayans emigrated, to Tibet, to Egypt, and to Central America. It seems incredible, but Mayan is still spoken in Tibet, and the Mayan language is a sacred, ritual language of Tibet. Let us remember that the Naga-Maya is very similar.
Jesus of Nazareth learned the Mayan language in Tibet. That phrase of Jesus: “Heli, heli, lamah zabactani” (“lord, lord”, some say, “how have you glorified me”; others say: “lord, lord, why have you abandoned me?”), Well, such a phrase is not Hebrew. For this reason, when the Jews heard that Christ said "Heli, heli, lamah zabactani", they said to themselves: "But, this one calls Elijah, what language is this"... They did not understand, they believed that he called Elijah to come to save him... However, any native from Yucatan or Guatemala translates the phrase “heli, heli, lamah zabactani” for you, because it turns out that it is Mayan, not Hebrew. That is why the Jews did not understand it, and it means (according to the Mayans and the translation they give it): "Now, I sink into the predawn of thine presence." Thus, it is a Mayan ritual phrase.
The Turanians were also survivors of Atlantis, unfortunately, dedicated to black magic. They managed to reach Tibet too (to the breaking point of it all), like the chosen Aryans and migrated to ancient Persia. The great law was finally able to defeat them, and they were destroyed.
The redskins are descendants of Atlantis; our ancestors, ancient Nahuas: Zapotecs, Toltecs, etc., originally came from Atlantis; almost all the tribes of America descend from Atlantis.
So as one advances in these studies, one realizes that the current root race did not have its origin (as many suppose) in the same continents that we inhabit, the current root race comes from another root race, it comes from Atlantis. It does not come from the apes (from the orangutans, from the “monkeys”), as Mr. Darwin and his henchmen stubbornly suppose; it descends, I repeat, from the Atlantean trunk, and that is proven.
Lemuria
But the Atlanteans, with all their powerful civilization, in turn, do not descend from the Atlantean continent. The Atlanteans, with all their civilization, were great, but the Atlanteans did not descend from Atlantis, they descended from Lemuria.
Lemuria was a continent even older than the Atlantean continent. Lemurians inhabited a continent that existed in the Pacific Ocean. It was a gigantic continent that extended in that boisterous sea; a huge continent that covered almost the entire area of the Pacific, bigger than Atlantis, bigger than Europe, bigger than Asia.
The Lemurian civilization was obviously also powerful. The Lemurians were a race of cyclopean giants, of cyclopes; it was normal to find Lemurians four, five, or six meters tall. They were giants, it was a race of giants.
Lemuria had a powerful civilization too, huge, and formidable. In Lemuria, huge cyclops cities were built, surrounded by stone walls and lava from volcanoes. Many people also lived in the fields, like now. In the beginning, in pre-Lemurian times, we can tell you that there was a race of hermaphrodites, Lemurian hermaphrodites. The division into opposite sexes occurred in the post-Lemurian era. Thus, we can divide Lemuria into two halves, or the Lemurian race into two eras: the first was the existence of the hermaphrodites; the second, was the division of the race into two sexes.
Let's look at the Lemurian human race, at first, as hermaphrodites. Separate sexes did not exist, the race was hermaphroditic, so, each sacred Lemurian individual had fully developed two sexual organs (male and female).
"And the Spirit of Elohim רוח אלהים was hovering upon the face of the waters." - Genesis 1: 2
“And he (El-HaYam אל-הים, the sea God) created (the hermaphrodite) Elohim Ath-HaAdam אלהים את־האדם in his own image (or his divine Tzelem צלם, Ath את, the Schekinah שכינה), in the image (in the divine Tzelem צלם of Ath את, the sea Goddess Elah-Yam אלה-ים, the Schekinah שכינה) created Athu אתו (Ath את in their ו Vav, their spinal medulla); male and female created Athem אתם (Ath את from their ם Mem, sexual creative waters, the Ad האד of Mah מה, or the Ad האד that waters the whole face of HaAdamah האדמה)” – Genesis 1: 27
They reproduced through the gemmation system: the hermaphrodite eliminated (from her ovaries, naturally), through the "menstruum", at a certain time, a perfectly developed ovum or egg the size like that of a bird, with its complete calcareous envelope. That egg, placed in a special environment, within their interior, gestated a new creature. And at last, when that creature hatched, it normally fed from the mother-father's breasts. This is how Lemurians reproduced. The sexual act did not exist, because (the Schekinah of) each individual was complete within themselves. Its reproduction was through the gemmation system.
But it happened that, when the post-Lemurian era arrived, it was clearly seen that some children were born with one sexual organ (Chaiah חיה “life”, or Havah חוה “Eve”) more noticeable than another (some were born with the male organ [Zain זין] more developed than the female [Zain זין], or vice versa, and such a process became more and more noticeable, until it finally happened that unisexual children (male or female) were born.
Lingam-Yoni
(Note of the translator: The seventh Hebrew letter Zain זין forms the yoni, the uterus along with the canal-like organ located inside the female’s vagina, this opens to the erected Zain זין “lingam” located outside the male body)
And Iod-Havah Elohim יהוה אלהים (Binah בינה, intelligence) caused a deep sleep to fall upon (the hermaphrodite) HaAdam האדם, and he (the hermaphrodite HaAdam האדם) slept: and he (Iod-Havah Elohim יהוה אלהים, Binah בינה, intelligence) took one of his ribs (one Vav or one Zain, in each side of the letter Chet ח), and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib (Zain זין), which יהוה אלהים had taken from (the hermaphrodite) HaAdam האדם, made an Ishah אשה or female fire, and brought her unto (the hermaphrodite) HaAdam האדם. And (the hermaphrodite) HaAdam האדם said, This זאת (Zain Ath is the Schekinah in the lingam-yoni) is twice bone of my bones (Chesed, right rib), and flesh of my flesh (Geburah, left rib): she (the lingam-yoni) shall be called Ishah אשה, because this זאת (Zain Ath is Havah חוה, life, the Schekinah in the lingam-yoni, which) was taken out of Ish איש (the Iod י, the brain, in the middle above the letter Chet ח). Therefore, shall an Ish איש (male fire in both genders) leave the Ath of his father (Ath Abiu את אביו) and the Ath of his mother (VeAth Amu ואת אמו; both "Ath את" are the Havah חוה, life, the Schekinah שכינה of HaAdam האדם, the brain), and both shall cleave unto their Ishoth אשת (or Havah חוה, life): and they (both Ishoth אשת - lingam-yoni) shall be one (Ath את, one Schekinah שכינה, because she "Ath את" is the mother of the whole tree of life היתה אם כל־עץ החיים, in the) flesh (Malkuth).
And (obviously) they were both naked, (the two male female) HaAdam האדם, and their Ishoth אשת (lingam-yoni, were one in the flesh), and were not ashamed (because they were alchemists).” – Genesis 2: 21-25
Thus, this process of division into opposite sexes was carried out over several thousands, perhaps a million years... it did not happen overnight. That is why it is said that "Eve (Havah חוה, life) was taken out from the hermaphrodite Adam's rib". This is a symbol, to represent the division of the sexes. ( Note To continue reading this article click on this link: The True Origin of the Human Being: Atlantis, Lemuria, Hyperborea, Polaris, and the Chaos )
Viewpoint: Learning from the Past
Printed in the Fall 2019 issue of Quest magazine.
Citation: Hebert, Barbara,"Learning from the Past" Quest 107:4, pg 10-11
By Barbara Hebert
National President
What comes to your mind when you think of ancient civilizations? Some of us might think about ancient Greece or Rome, Crete and the Minoan civilization, Mesopotamia, or even Atlantis and Lemuria. Others might even wonder about the connection between ancient civilizations and aliens. One thing is certain: the concept of ancient civilizations gives us the opportunity to peer into antiquity, imagine what it must have been like, and contemplate what we can learn from the ancient past.
If our thoughts drift toward Atlantis, we may have uplifting images of an advanced culture: vistas of beautiful buildings surrounded by tranquil blue seas, noble and gifted people, and a utopian society. Those of us who believe in reincarnation can almost imagine our lives there.
Plato described Atlantis, including its demise, in his dialogues with the Timaeus and the Critias. In them, Critias (Plato’s uncle in real life) narrates the story of Atlantis, which was apparently told to the Greek sage Solon by an Egyptian priest some 200 years previous. According to this account, the people of Atlantis, an island located in the Atlantic outside the Straits of Gibraltar, became greedy and corrupt, so the gods destroyed the civilization through a tremendous earthquake that caused the land to sink to the bottom of the sea.
Many historians believe that the story told by Critias, or more accurately by Plato, is merely a legend or a fairy tale. Others believe that Plato created the story of Atlantis to illustrate his philosophical perspectives on society and human behavior.
In Theosophical teachings, H.P. Blavatsky indicates that Atlantis (and Lemuria, a continent destroyed even earlier) existed. She writes that Atlantis was not simply one island but “a whole continent.” She says the island of Poseidonis, the last surviving island, was submerged approximately 11,000 years ago (Collected Writings, 5:221, 223). Her descriptions of Atlantis and Lemuria are intermingled with discussions of the evolutionary stages of humanity.
We also find references to Atlantis and Lemuria in the Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett. The Mahatma Koot Hoomi writes, “We affirm that a series of civilizations existed before, as well as after the Glacial Period, that they existed upon various points of the globe, reached the apex of glory and—died.” He also writes:
Our present continents have, like “Lemuria” and “Atlantis,” been several times already submerged and had the time to reappear again, and bear their new groups of mankind and civilization; and . . . at the first great geological upheaval, at the next cataclysm—in the series of periodical cataclysms that occur from the beginning to the end of every Round,—our already autopsized continents will go down, and the Lemurias and Atlantises come up again. (Mahatma Letters, chronological edition, 310–11; emphasis in the original)
These statements give us pause as we consider the millennia that it took for these ancient civilizations to be born, rise to their zenith, and then disappear into the abyss of time. Contemplating these civilizations encourages us to think beyond the accepted limits of history and to question what we have been taught in history classes. It has also provided us with opportunities to dream about previous lifetimes in the (relatively) utopian society of Atlantis. But one may sincerely ask: How does consideration of these ancient civilizations help us today? What value is there in looking back through millennia to civilizations that no longer exist?
We may think of this paraphrased quote from philosopher George Santayana: “Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.” Are there lessons to be learned from the tales of Atlantis, Lemuria, and other ancient civilizations? From a Theosophical perspective, there are always things to be learned that help us expand our awareness and our consciousness.
Whether one believes that Atlantis existed and sank because the people who inhabited it became greedy and corrupt is really immaterial. If we perceive it as a modern morality tale, it encourages us to consider the importance of living moral and ethical lives, dedicated to the benefit of humanity. One might assume that we all comprehend the meaning of morality and ethics, but each of us has our own specific understanding of these concepts. What seems to be ethical for one individual is not necessarily perceived as ethical by another.
One example of this can be seen in our spring 2019 Quest issue, dealing with ahimsa. Some say that the only ethical diet is vegan, others say that being vegetarian is an appropriate ethical diet, while still others believe that neither diet is necessary for one to live an ethical life. These are personal decisions based on individual beliefs. From a Theosophical perspective, each one of us must listen to our own inner voice for guidance on morals and ethics.
Therefore, when we contemplate morals and ethics in our lives today, personal questions such as the following may arise: How many of my behaviors/thoughts/feelings today were in alignment with my moral and ethical beliefs? What would I change? How will I change? What will be different tomorrow?
We can also use the morality tale of Atlantis to guide us in our wider perspectives of the world around us. While the Theosophical Society in America will not become politically involved in any way, members of the Society may and do become involved. As individuals who are committed to working for the benefit of humanity, it makes sense that we review our own personal moral and ethical beliefs in light of what is happening in our world. As Theosophists, we can support efforts to expand the consciousness of humanity, to expand the awareness that each of us is an emanation of the Ultimate Reality (regardless of how we name it). Again, these are personal decisions for each of us and must be guided by our own inner voice.
We may also ask what other lessons can be learned by looking back through time. The antiquity of civilizations on this planet may provide us with additional insight. As quoted above, K.H. indicates that the history of humanity on this planet is far more ancient than modern science believes. The millions of years that the earth requires to move large land masses, including both emergence and submergence, is mind-boggling. According to many modern historians, the oldest fossil of a human being, a jawbone found in Malawi in 1991 is estimated to be 2.3–2.5 million years old. Yet from statements made in the Mahatma Letters, we realize that 2 million years is relatively recent in comparison to the eons required for the earth’s changes and shifts. Interesting, again, but how can this understanding help us in our lives today?
When one considers the number of times we have lived (assuming one believes in reincarnation) and the millennia involved in the succession of those lives, it puts this current incarnation into perspective. So does the recognition of the antiquity of our world and our role in it. How important is one incident—even one that causes tremendous difficulty and suffering—in the overall scope of our many lives and of our spiritual evolution? This perspective can decrease some of our attachments. If we believe that we have lived before and that we will live again, if we believe that our souls have been evolving for millions of years, we may respond differently when a loved one dies. While the personality understandably grieves, there is a realization that the separation is temporary and we will be reunited, as we have been through the millennia.
Going a step further in this line of thinking, let’s play. Imagine yourself living in Atlantis or Mesopotamia or even ancient Greece. You have a nice home. You have a family whom you love dearly. You have work that fulfills you. The sky is a beautiful blue; there are gorgeous trees and plants surrounding you. Life is good.
If this scenario is accurate, at least partially, through the lens of time we realize that none of it exists any longer: the home, the family, the work, even the trees and plants. It may be a shock to suddenly realize that it’s all gone, but do you feel overwhelmed with grief?
Does this exercise help you understand that everything temporal passes into the abyss of time? It is the Ultimate Reality, and our souls as emanations of that Ultimate Reality, that exist eternally. While the ancient family is gone, the souls have not disappeared. Rather, they are likely with us, dwelling in some other physical body today.
This entire viewpoint may sound paradoxical. On the one hand, we talk about living moral and ethical lives today as well as supporting efforts in our communities and nation to increase the awareness of humanity; on the other hand, we talk about the temporal nature of everything except the Ultimate Reality and ourselves as its emanations. Paradoxes can be very uncomfortable because there is no definitive answer to them, but many spiritual concepts are shrouded in paradox. Paradoxes provide us with the opportunity to contemplate, listen to our inner voice, and make decisions for ourselves rather than simply following statements made by others. It is in this way that we learn, grow, and expand our consciousness, which then expands the consciousness of all. Contemplating the past can thus provide us with guidance for today.
I've done many deep research into our ancient human past over the past 13 years but the research I found on Ancient Atlantis and Lemuria is the most important because our true past is within this research. These two ancient continents are in many myths and legends from our ancient past but the research shows that they were not just myths and legends because all major ancient texts from many ancient civilizations mention their culture the location of each continent and how advanced each civilization was and the stores that were told fit within that culture time period but the most astonishing fact was that each ancient civilization of Ancient Atlantis and Lemuria is that the technology of each ancient civilizations is linked to why we have tools and science we have today and far advance technology they possess is still not understood today. Read this research with an open mind to keep the objective of this research which is to share ancient human history to help us understand what happened in the past and why this ancient human history was hidden from us because it would change everything about our true knowledge of our ancient history.
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