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Environment COP26 nears conclusion with mixed signals and frustration. Environment Planet Possible India bets its energy future on solar—in ways both small and big. Perhaps the most notable theosophical writing on the subject was the work "The Lost Lemuria" by William Scott-Elliot, which included a map showing that the current conception of Lemuria was far more than the simple land bridge that Sclater had proposed.
Scott-Elliot's Lemuria was a vast continent stretching from India to New Zealand, of which Australia was a surviving piece. He also posited that Aboriginal Australians were descendants of ancient Lemurians. Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater, who claimed to have gained knowledge of Lemuria through "astral clairvoyance," describes the Lemurians as egg-headed creatures walking lizards on leashes. Central to the concept of Helena Blavatsky's evolution of the human race are what she called the seven root races, which are the different stages of human development across time.
According to Blavatsky, humanity now stands at the fifth stage, of which the root race is the Aryans. Yes, this is some nonsense that the Nazis ate up like delicious pudding.
Theosophy World explains that, under this belief system, the first race was the Polarians, ethereal, non-corporeal beings who reproduced asexually like amoebas. The second race was the Hyperboreans, who lived at the North Pole — which was tropical at the time — and reproduced via balls of sweat. The Lemurians were the third race, and they were foot-tall, four-armed, hermaphroditic beings that laid eggs and coexisted with dinosaurs.
Originally they had only one eye, but they then developed three eyes, and then eventually the third eye turned into the pineal gland. Also, they eventually invented sex about The fourth race was the Atlanteans, of whom you may have heard. The Theosophists believe that the Atlanteans were the first humans to develop speech, and that their language was the basis for Sanskrit.
They were also evil wizards, which is why they had to be destroyed by a flood. The fifth race was of course white people, and the sixth race will be androgynous ghosts who live in Baja California. Nothing is known about the seventh, final stage of human development. The original conception of Lemuria was clearly in the Indian Ocean, spanning from Madagascar to the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, but as time went on and the idea was conflated with other lost mystical lands, the physical area of Lemuria expanded until it covered a good chunk of the Pacific Ocean as well.
One other such sunken continent that was soon identified with Lemuria was the lost continent of Pan, which is described in the Spiritualist text "Oahspe: A New Bible," by John B. California, like Madagascar, has its own hard-to-explain flora and fauna, and so the idea of California as a surviving chunk of a lost land only increases in popularity after Newbrough. Newbrough, by the way, was a dentist. Got Questions explains that he wrote "Oahspe" through the spiritualist technique of automatic writing, in which the medium enters a trance and lets an external force — in this case "the angel hosts of heaven [ In the late 19th century, Le Plongeon had been studying Mayan hieroglyphics at Chichen Itza and claimed to be able to read them.
He stated that the glyphs told the story of a princess of a lost continent, which he presented in a book with the inarguably scientific-sounding title, "Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx. Perhaps needless to say, Le Plongeon's ideas were pretty roundly ignored by the legitimate archeological community. They were not, however, ignored by the occult writer James Churchward above , who picked up on Le Plongeon's ideas in his own work.
Churchward claimed to have found and deciphered a set of tablets in the lost fictional Naacal language, which told the story of the sunken continent of Mu, which Churchward moved from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He presented his ideas in his book "The Lost Continent of Mu," which described Mu as an enormous continent in the Pacific, south of Hawaii.
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