For a long time there have been disputes about continents that are no longer dry land. Did they really exist or are they just myths and fantasies of mankind. One of these is Lemuria. This is a hypothetically ancient sunken continent in the Indian Ocean, which went under water as a result of an unknown cataclysm.
Scientific Lemuria
Scientists are interested in the continent Lemuria in the second half of the 19th century. The existence of this continent was studied by such scientists as Helena Blavatsky, Nicholas Roerich, Drunvalo Melchizedek, Ernst Muldashev and others. And scientists draw the very first news from the mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks and Hindus. The mythology of the disappeared continents speaks of an ancient civilization of giants who possessed great knowledge and unusual abilities.
There are opinions that modern Madagascar and India are the remnants of a larger continent, that is, Lemuria. Although there are no traces of the sunken mainland at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. And the finds of archaeologists amaze any sane mind. After all, excavations in almost every part of the world have shown that previously there was a race of giants, whose growth reached up to 18 meters. And it is they who are attributed to the indigenous population of the lost land. And that's not all Interesting Facts about Lemuria. This enigmatic question hides a lot of secrets that attract the attention of so many respected scientists.
The English occult writer James Churchward, who studied this issue from ancient Tibetan stone tablets, put forward a very interesting theory, which is still being considered by modern scholars. He wrote that the population of Lemuria possessed knowledge and technology, which even now far surpass ours.
Russian and Western scientists believe that one of the proofs of the existence of the sunken Lemuria can be considered mysterious with its huge statues. That is, this island may be a fragment of a sunken continent. And the majestic idols and guards of the island can be direct evidence of the tall population of ancient Lemuria.
The death of Lemuria
Nicholas Roerich in his writings wrote that the death of autochthonous races also occurs due to geological changes in the Earth. This is due to a change in the tilt of the earth's axis. And there is a change in the location of ocean waters, and with them the land surface of the Earth is changing. In his opinion, the mainland, which towered over the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, began to divide into islands that were absorbed by the water.
Lemuria called a civilization that was located on an entire continent and disappeared from the face of the Earth, presumably as a result of natural disasters.
Another name for this civilization is Mu (although some researchers have Mu for the continent on the site of the modern Pacific Ocean, while Lemuria is given only the current Indian).
Hypotheses about its existence are not accepted by all scientists, however, there are many different detailed assumptions about how the Lemurians lived, why they died out and whether they died out at all.
The height of interest in the legendary civilization came in the 19th century, when scientists noticed the similarity of the flora and fauna of the southeastern regions of Asia and southeastern Africa (including Madagascar). In particular, the name of a hypothetical civilization was given by lemurs - representatives of the order of primates.
Around the same time, in the state of California (USA), eyewitnesses living in settlements near Mount Shasta began to talk about unusual creatures that live on the mountain and appeared in cities only to stock up on food.
These creatures looked like people and called themselves the last surviving representatives of a civilization that died under water. According to eyewitnesses, these strange guests appeared out of nowhere and also disappeared, as if dissolving into thin air.
Among people, the opinion was substantiated that these creatures have the ability to penetrate into other dimensions and control the laws of nature. One of the eyewitnesses claimed that he could see through binoculars a gray marble temple, standing on a mountain in the middle of the forest. But as soon as the mountain began to be carefully explored, the appearance of hypothetical Lemurians among people ceased.
The most convincing are the "Lemurian" hypotheses of Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), an American soothsayer. In his notes, the civilization of Lemuria is presented at the time of its disappearance as spiritually elevated (compared to the Atlanteans, who, according to Casey, were kept on Earth by bad karma). Because of this, the American predictor very rarely identified the descendants of the Lemurians among modern people: according to him, they had no reason to stay on Earth, since they no longer had to correct their karma.
The territorial descriptions of the country of Mu, made by Edgar Cayce, were largely confirmed by geological and archaeological research. He believed that the Pacific coast of South America was at the time of the appearance of homo sapiens (our species) the western part of Lemuria.
Map of Lemuria against the background of modern continents: red shows Lemuria, blue shows the remnants of Hyperborea (from the book by William Scott-Elliot "Lemuria - the disappeared continent").
Already in the 1990s, 60 years after Casey's assumptions, the Nazca underwater mountain range was discovered, which was once dry land and connected the coast of modern Peru with the archipelago, which is also now submerged, which corresponded to Casey's descriptions.
According to the predictor, Lemuria began to partially submerge under water 10,700 years ago, that is, at the end of the Ice Age closest to our time, when the water level of the world ocean rose sharply due to the melting of ice. But the civilization of Mu after that continued to flourish on the "wreckage" of the former giant continent. Casey considered the period of its decline to be the time before the disappearance of Atlantis.
The Russian scientist-contactee Vasily Rasputin was guided in describing Lemuria by information allegedly received by him from the Cosmos and closely intertwined with esotericism. Rasputin in his revelations operates with fairly accurate figures, which, however, have not yet been confirmed. Some territorial and chronological details can be gleaned from his descriptions: Lemuria existed in 320-170 centuries BC. e. on the territory from the modern Aegean Sea to the coast of Antarctica.
The population was 107 million. According to Rasputin, the Lemurians lacked physical and etheric bodies (which are among the bodies that humans have), which is why people could not see them, except for those people who had special energy.
If desired, the Lemurians could materialize or disappear, passing into other dimensions. In the process of evolution, this race acquired the missing physical and etheric bodies. Such a hypothesis explains the mysterious disappearances and appearances of the Lemurians at Mount Shasta. But territorially, according to Rasputin, the inhabitants of Lemuria lived mainly south of modern Madagascar. In 170 BC e. due to natural disasters, the most populated part of Lemuria was buried under the waters of the ocean, at the same time, almost all of its population died.
The surviving Lemurians, who already had physical bodies, began to be called Atlanteans and settled a new continent (Atlantis), which lasted the next 150 centuries and sank for the same reason as Lemuria.
Rasputin's hypothesis coincides with Cayce's assumptions in that the Lemurians were considered a spiritually elevated race: according to Rasputin, they were long-lived, had no material wealth, fed on cosmic energy and multiplied by self-copying (having no sexual separation). Finding a physical body, the Lemurians degraded and became ordinary people.
Another hypothesis regarding Lemuria was formed in the Theosophical Society of Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), who was engaged in religious philosophy and the occult. Occult experiments and predictions in this case became the basis for conclusions about the disappeared civilization.
According to the conclusions of the Theosophical Society, on our planet for the entire period of its inhabited existence, in total, simultaneously or in different epochs, seven main races will live (in each race - seven sub-races): supreme invisible beings; hyperborea; lemurs; Atlanteans; people; a race of human origin, which in the future will inhabit Lemuria; the last terrestrial race to fly from Earth to Mercury.
Lemurs, or the disappeared inhabitants of Lemuria, in this hypothesis are huge (4-5 m tall) ape-like creatures without a brain, but with a mental will and the ability to telepathic communication, who had three eyes (two in front and one behind) and feet that allowed them to walk in the same way back and forth. Geographically, Lemuria, according to the Theosophical Society, was located in the southern hemisphere and occupied the southern part of Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, part of South America and other lands.
Towards the end of their existence, lemurs evolved, creating a civilization, and became more like people. But by this time, their continent was flooded, and the lemurs themselves in the surviving territories gave rise to the Atlanteans, as well as the Papuans, Hottentots and other ethnic communities of the southern hemisphere.
An interesting hypothesis about Lemuria belongs to the Russian artist, philosopher, archaeologist and public figure Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947). According to the “myth” he compiled, which agrees in many respects with the conclusions of the Theosophical Society, Lemuria is the mainland of the Third Root Race, which developed from the Second Race, created in turn from the First Race.
Until the middle of the Third Race, people and animals were asexual and did not have a physical body (they were ethereal beings). They did not die, but dissolved, and then were reborn in a new body, which each time was denser than the previous one. Gradually their bodies condensed and became physical, all creatures evolved, there was a separation of the sexes.
Having received a physical body, people began to die, and not be reborn. At the same time (about 18 million years ago), people were endowed with mind and soul.
The mainland of the Third Race was located along the equator, in the place of most of the modern Pacific and Indian Oceans. It included the current Himalayas, South India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Madagascar, Tasmania, Australia, Siberia, China, Kamchatka, the Bering Strait, Easter Island, ending in the east along the slope of the central Andes. The Nazca Ridge (now underwater) supposedly connected the Andes with the later flooded part of Lemuria.
In the south, the border of the mainland did not reach the Antarctic Circle a little, in the west it went around South Africa from below and bent northward to modern Norway (the mainland included modern Sweden and Norway, as well as Greenland and the middle part of the Atlantic Ocean). The first representatives of the Third Race, who lived on Amuria, had a height of about 18 m, but gradually it decreased to 6 m.
This assumption of Roerich has an indirect confirmation in the statues of Easter Island, which, according to this hypothesis, was part of Lemuria. Perhaps the Lemurians erected statues in the size of their height (from 6 to 9 m), with their characteristic features of appearance.
The high growth and physical strength of the Lemurians explains the possibility of their coexistence with large animals of those eras. With the development of their civilization, the inhabitants of Lemuria began to build rock-like cities: the remains of these cities are the cyclopean ruins on the island of Madagascar and Easter Island.
The death of Lemuria, according to Roerich's hypothesis, occurred at the very end of the Secondary geological period: the mainland went under water 700 thousand years before the start of the Tertiary (Eocene) period. Western researchers of the hypothetical continent also agree with this date. Like Blavatsky, Roerich believed that the Lemurians did not disappear without a trace: their descendants are representatives of the Negroid race, Australians, Bushmen, and aborigines of a number of Pacific islands.
The various information about Lemuria given above formed the basis of the research work of William Scott-Elliot, who described in detail the life and evolution of the Lemurians, the development and death of their civilization, as well as the geological and biological confirmation of the existing hypotheses about Lemuria.
Among the confirmations is the scientific fact that the modern land was previously covered by the waters of the ocean, and in place of the modern oceans, on the contrary, there were continents. This fact, together with the available data on the modern geology of the Earth, indicates the existence of a vast southern continent in early times.
One of the biggest mysteries of our time is located in the eastern part of Ponape Island, rising from the waters of the "Venice" of the Pacific Ocean - Nan Madol - ninety-two (!) Man-made islands built on a coral reef and occupying an area of about 130 hectares.
Studies of fossil and modern flora and fauna roughly define the land areas that were connected by the ancient continent, and are now located on different continents and islands. At various periods, the southern mainland was connected either with Australia or with the modern Malay Peninsula. So, in the Permian era, India, South Africa and Australia were supposedly parts of a single continent. It is the southern continent in the above studies that is considered the "cradle of the human race."
Among the archaeological finds that confirm the existence of a mysterious ancient civilization, the following artifacts: the ruins of the stone port and the city of Nan Madol on the island of Ponape (Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean); statues and buildings of Easter Island; remains of buildings and statues on Pitcairn Island (2,000 km west of Easter Island); mummies and ruins of high walls in the form of a semicircle on the Gambier Islands (west of Pitcairn Island); monolithic stone arch on the island of Tongatapu (Tonga archipelago); columns on the island of Tinian (Northern Mariana Islands); cyclopean structures and remains of paved roads at the bottom of the sea near the islands of Yonaguni, Kerama and Aguni (Japanese archipelago); megalithic temples on the island of Malta.
At present, some anthropologists admit the existence of descendants of the Lemurian civilization in little-studied wooded areas, including outside the likely territory of the lost continent: a new race could force the Lemurians into more severe habitats. However, so far only the legends of various peoples of the world serve as confirmation of this assumption.
Despite the fact that historians are increasingly delving into the development of human civilization, some periods remain blank spots in chronology. Some ancient treatises give information about the existence of civilizations, traces of which have never been found.
Along with the legendary Atlantis, the Indian Ocean had the continent of Lemuria, records of which can be found all over the world. In Indian mythology, information is given about sunken cities, which were patronized by demons, and according to other sources, the gods Krishna and Shiva. Traces of ancient Lemuria can be found on the island of Madagascar, which moved away a little during the movement of tectonic plates. It is this origin that will explain the presence of interesting animals on the island - Lemurs, which are relatives of many animals in Southeast Asia.
The famous soothsayer Edgar Cayce left information about the Lemyrians in his notes, he characterized them as the highest race that had achieved spiritual enlightenment. Another contactee, V. Ya Rasputin, described this race as non-human, which only in the process of evolution began to acquire physical and etheric bodies.
The ancient Egyptians remembered a blessed country full of treasures, located in the waters of Waj-Ur (as the Indian Ocean was called on the banks of the Nile). Over time, "this country disappeared in the waves," as the Egyptian papyrus testifies.
The Sumerians confidently call this country Dilmun and give its poetic description: Earth, Dilmun is sacred.
The Sumerians preserved the legend that one of the main gods, Enki, came to them from the country of Dilmun - "where the sun rises from."
Ancient historians called this island differently - Taproban. So, Eratosthenes, who was the first to determine the size of the earth's circumference, calls Taprobana an island in the open ocean, located seven days' journey south of India. According to his description, the island extends to the west for a distance of "almost 8,000 stadia" (one and a half thousand kilometers). The famous Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, clarifies: “That Taproban is an island became clear only in the era of Alexander the Great and his campaign. His naval commander Onesikrit writes that elephants are found there, larger and more warlike than in India itself, and Megasthenes - that the river divides the island, the inhabitants call themselves palaygons, and they have more gold and larger pearls than the Indians.
Pomponius Mela, one of the greatest ancient geographers, writes: “As for Taprobane, this land can be considered an island, but following Hipparchus, one can assume that this is the beginning of another world. Such an assumption is quite acceptable: Taproban is inhabited, and there is no evidence that anyone has circled this land on a ship.
Modern scientists have dubbed this land Lemuria in honor of an amazing animal, which, after the collapse of Dilmun-Taproban, spread throughout the surrounding lands: on the island of Madagascar alone there are 35 species of them; , in the Indochinese peninsula.
But Lemuria was not only the birthplace of the animals that gave it its name. Scientific studies have proven that great apes and the first people of the modern type - “homo sapiens” spread from here. They gave impetus to the ancient Egyptian civilization in the sixth millennium BC. e. and at the same time the civilizations of Mesopotamia. Lemuria was inhabited by Caucasoid people, similar to the modern inhabitants of Ethiopia and the Toda tribes in the Blue Mountains valley, in India.
The Blue Mountains are located at the junction of three South Indian states - Kerala, Tamiliad and Mysore, inhabited by the Malayali, Tamil and Kannar peoples. Many other tribes also live in the mountains, which an English expedition led by William Case went to explore. For many days, the British climbed higher and higher into the mountains, not meeting a single person on their way, they had already decided that the Blue Mountains were completely uninhabited and decided to turn back. And suddenly, at the end of the next day of the journey, before the astonished eyes of Case and his companions, a picturesque valley appeared, on the slopes of which buffaloes peacefully grazed. The herd was watched by bearded elders, whose clothes resembled the togas of the ancient Romans, and the appearance of biblical shepherds. This is how the land of the Toda was discovered, the oldest inhabitants of India, who settled here even before the Dravidians and the newcomers from the north - the Aryans.
From the appearance of the Toda, one could guess what the most ancient inhabitants of not only India, but the whole Earth looked like. They had large, expressive light brown or green eyes; "Roman" nose, tall and fairly fair skin; thin lips, brown hair, sometimes with a reddish tinge.
The number of the people of the "Blue Mountains" was small - about a thousand people. These were the last of the great Lemuria.
Once upon a time, their ancestors made long voyages and formed the origins of the oldest civilizations known to us - Ubeid, pro-Indian, Elamite, and partly ancient Egyptian. Their language became the basis for three dialects: Ubeid, Elamite and Proto-Dravidian. Something is known about their religion and customs. One of the proto-Indian seals depicts a yogi in the lotus position. Scientists believe that this is proto-Shiva - one of the main gods of Hinduism, the founder of yoga and the secret teachings of Tantra - rituals that most likely came to Ancient India from Lemuria.
Lemurians, judging by many sources, taught the Indian natives other things: how to tame elephants, how to make jewelry for women, how to bake goodies - cookies and waffles.
The Indian archaeologist Dixit confidently writes about the continuity of traditions: “The love of adorning from head to toe with jewels, which has always been a weakness of Indian women, is fully reflected in the variety and richness of jewelry and beads found in such proto-Indian centers as Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.” The English archaeologist Gordon Child writes about the same: “The village potters of Sindh, apparently, inherited their craft from their brethren who lived during the period of proto-Indian civilization.”
Lemuria, having given impetus to the development of many civilizations, disappeared. After it, only the islands in the Indian Ocean remained: Madagascar, Seychelles, Mascarene, Comoros ...
But she continued to excite the imagination of people. Franciscan monks and Rosicrucians, occultists and musicians dreamed about Lemuria.
Eduard Schure in his Divine Evolution wrote: “Naturalists who study the globe from the point of view of paleontology and anthropology have long confirmed the existence of an ancient continent, which is now sunken ... It included modern Australia, part of Asia and South Africa, touched on South America. At that time, Central and North Asia, all of Europe, as well as most of Africa and America, were still under water. The Englishman Sclater called this ancient continent Lemuria because of the existence of the anthropoid Lemur.
Lemuria (Lemuria, Mu) is a hypothetical ancient country, a continent that disappeared from the map as a result of cataclysms.
Interest in the mysterious country began to show in the second half of the 19th century due to two facts. First, zoologists and biologists stumbled upon an inexplicable similarity between some animals and plants from the areas of the South-East. Asia and South-East. Africa and Madagascar (including lemurs or poppies, which gave the theory its name).
Secondly, some strange humanoid creatures lived in California on Mount Shasta, which, according to the stories of others, could change the laws of nature, including penetrating into dimensions inaccessible to human perception. From time to time they appeared out of nowhere in the nearby cities, and bought up all the food in them, offering huge gold bars in return. According to them, they were the last surviving representatives of some ancient race of Lemurians, whose continent was lost under water. People were very afraid of their ability to dissolve in the air, although they did not harm anyone. There was only one eyewitness who once looked at the edge of the forest that covered the mountain, through binoculars, some kind of gray marble temple, but as soon as the research boom began on the mountain, the creatures disappeared.
Lemuria Edgar Cayce
For more than twenty years after the beginning of the revelations, Cayce covered the problems of the Atlanteans in many hundreds of his "records", while he mentioned the names of Mu or Lemuria much less often. When asked why, he replied that the Atlanteans, with their terrible life, had accumulated a huge karmic debt, in order to correct it, numerous reincarnations were needed. The virtuous Lemurians, who have risen spiritually towards the end of their civilization, are much freer when passing through the circle of rebirths.
Among his clients, Case found far fewer "descendants" of the Lemurians, since the Pacific ancestral home had passed the stage of militant materialism that characterized Atlantis to a greater extent. However, the information reported by Case about Mu or Lemuria was largely confirmed by subsequent discoveries in geology and archeology.
The main point of his "prophecies" was the announcement of the prosperity of the land of Mu in the now lifeless Gobi desert. Living conditions then were extremely different from modern ones, the deterioration of the climate began after the Flood.
Although Case's chronology is questionable, his brief references to Lemuria are much less ambiguous and more convincing. Among the first statements that he made about the lost ancestral home, the main answer was devoted to the geographical and geological conditions for the appearance on Earth of homo sapiens-sapiens (reasonable man). “The Andes or the Pacific coast of South America,” he said, “occupied then the western part of Lemuria.” Sixty years later, the Oceanographic Society of California published a series of maps reflecting the latest discoveries in the exploration of the deep sea. One detail, the underwater Nazca mountain range, more than 300 kilometers long, once connected the Peruvian coast in the Nazca region with the sunken archipelago. In 1932 Case identifies an underwater structure unknown to science until the 1990s, thus providing independent evidence for the existence of Lemuria.
Case noted that part of Lemuria began to sink into the ocean 10,700 years ago. This time period remarkably coincides with the end of the last Ice Age, with the melting of glaciers, the level of the world's seas has risen significantly. Lemuria and its culture continued to flourish even after the disappearance of some territories of the giant mainland.
Case spoke little about the decline of Lemuria, mentioning only that it happened before the final destruction of Atlantis. He was more interested in the significance of the achievements of the Pacific kingdom, which continued to shape the future reincarnations of people seeking his spiritual guidance. When asked why among his clients the former "Atlanteans" significantly outnumber the "Lemurians", he replied that the karmic debt of the Atlanteans is much greater, due to their catastrophic behavior. Karma is the consequences of our behavior. Struggling for social balance and individual harmony, the Lemurians largely avoided the need for reincarnation as a means of correcting the effects of past lives, and continued to fulfill their spiritual destiny on levels beyond the earth plane.
Descriptions of Lemuria by V. Ya Rasputin
Below are descriptions of Lemuria obtained by contactee V.Ya. Rasputin (published in 1999 in the computer bulletin "Terra Incognita"), they provide the following details:
“...From 320 to 170 BC. there was a land of Lemuria. It spread from the Aegean Sea to the coast of Antarctica. The population was Limurians, numbering 107 million 319 thousand. This race could not be classified as a people, because. a person has 7 bodies, and a Lemurian has only 5 (there was no physical and etheric body), i.e. for a person they were simply invisible, and only people who own the energy of the third eye (ajna) could see this population. They are similar to Bigfoot, who can materialize and disappear, passing into another dimension. The main body of the Lemurians was the astral. As a result of evolution, they began to acquire etheric and physical bodies. The population of Lemuria was concentrated south of the island of Madagascar and to the coast of Antarctica ...
At the beginning of the 170th century BC. there was a disintegration of rocks and the southern densely populated part of Lemuria was absorbed by the waters of the Indian Ocean. In the abyss of the ocean, 98 million 563 thousand Lemurians died, and the survivors and materialized people who acquired 7 bodies began to be called Atlanteans. And from the 170th century BC. the continent Atlantis was formed, which existed for 150 centuries and suffered the same fate as Lemuria ... Lemurians, who did not have a physical body, could move in space no worse than birds and pass through any obstacles. There have never been wars in Lemuria, because the physical body is destroyed in the war, and then the remaining 6 bodies die, and if there is no physical body, then the rest of the bodies cannot die ... The life expectancy of the Lemurians lasted over 1 thousand years and only after this time the disintegration of thin bodies began. The continuation of life took place at the cellular level... The Lemurians lacked digestive organs and salivary glands. In humans, energy is produced as a result of digestion, the more a person ate, the more energy was released and it was distributed throughout the organs, contributing to their work. But man has another way (like the Lemurians). It is necessary to learn how to take the cosmic energy that enters a person through the atlas (7th cervical vertebra) and direct it through the organs, saturating them with energy. And then a person can gain a new life. His aspirations will be aimed at raising the spiritual level, because. food grounds a person, especially meat, and he must live sublimely.
The Lemurians did not have material wealth, so they had nothing to share, they also did not have suits, dresses and cars. A person, on the other hand, lives and works in order to eat a hearty meal, buy a fashionable thing, etc. Therein lies the absurdity of existence. The Lemurians did not have a division into male and female - they were asexual. Each Lemurian could create his own kind by cloning individual cells and a copy was obtained, similar as two drops of water to the original.
The Lemurians were a highly developed nation, they did not have attachments to material values because they did not have them, and there was no attachment to the family - there was no family, there was a clan system. They lived in small groups of 7-9 Lemurians in a clan in harmony with nature, similar to the life of paradise. As they acquired the ethereal, and later the physical body, the Lemurians degraded and turned into ordinary people, with their own weaknesses and shortcomings. They acquired evil, cruelty, greed, jealousy, indifference, envy… The most difficult times for the peoples of the Earth are marked by the appearances of the Messiah. The main dates that have come down to us from time immemorial are the date of the coming of the Messiah in 1702 BC before the death of Lemuria. The Messiah was a woman, at that time asexual beings lived in Lemuria. In 8002 B.C. the next coming of the Messiah - it was a man Hefostl, later a priest of Atlantis, and after her death - was the first pharaoh of Egypt ... "
Lemuria in Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine
Also, studies on the existence of an ancient country were carried out in the Theosophical Society, founded by H.P.
Basically, they came down to the following.
There are 7 main races on planet Earth, each of which has 7 sub-races.
The first is some invisible creatures from protoplasm that live in the eternal holy land. They are called the supreme beings of Lha.
The second is the race that inhabited the Arctic zone and is known under the name of the Hyporboreans.
The third is the huge, mindless, ape-like Lemurs.
The fourth is the race of the absolute people of Atlantis, destroyed with the help of Black magic.
Fifth is we humans.
The sixth is the race that will develop from us and live again in Lemuria.
The seventh race is the race that will end the history of life on Earth and fly away to Mercury.
Lemurs were creatures 4-5 meters long, with 2 eyes in front and one on the back of the head and with feet of such a design that allowed them to walk both forward and backward. They had no foreheads, their faces were flat except for elongated trunk noses. In the beginning, they were egg-bearing hermaphrodites, but by the time their 5th subrace appeared, they discovered the joy of sex, and due to the lack of a brain, they began to mate with surrounding animals during the rut, from which monkeys originated. Lemurs did not have a brain, but by the power of mental will they could move mountains. They had no speech and communicated with each other using telepathy. Their continent covered almost the entire southern hemisphere, and extended from the Himalayas to the South Pole, covering an area that includes southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, part of South America, etc.
Their development confused the Lha, as it ran counter to the cosmic plans for the settlement of the Earth, and a split occurred among the Lha on this issue, ending with the discovery of the secret of individual immortality and birth to the Lemurs. This led to the appearance of the 6th and 7th sub-races of the Lemurs, who began to create the beginnings of art and civilization, and to take on a human form.
However, by this point, due to the flooding of various parts of their continent, Lemuria had begun to fall apart. The Lemurian peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean, which continued to remain above the water, formed Atlantis. In addition to them, the Lemurs laid the foundation for the Papua, Hottentotts, Cro-Magnols and blue-skinned Indians.
Nicholas Roerich - the myth of Lemuria
Beginning of the Third Race.
The First Race created the Second by "budding"; The Second Race - "Then Born" - gave rise to the Third Root Race by a similar but more complex process: it developed the "Egg-Born". The "sweat" intensified, its drops increased and became spherical bodies - large eggs that served as an external receptacle for the birth of a fetus and a child. The spheroidal core developed into a large soft ovoid shape and gradually hardened. "Father-Mother" isolated the embryo in which the human uterine fetus grew over several years. After a period of growth, the egg developed and the young human animal broke it and came out without any help, like birds in our time.
At the beginning of the Third Race, the Sons of Wisdom descended to Earth, for whom it was the turn to incarnate as the EGO of human Monads. They saw the lower forms of the first people of the Third Race and rejected them, neglected the first "Then born" - "They are not quite ready yet." The Sons of Wisdom did not want to enter the first Eggborn.
“We can choose,” said the Lords of Wisdom. The incarnating Forces chose the most ripe fruits and rejected the rest. Some entered Chhaya, others directed the spark, others abstained from the Fourth Race. Those who entered eventually became Arhats. Those who received only the Spark remained deprived of higher knowledge - the Spark burned weakly. Still others remained devoid of Reason - their Monads were not ready, they became "narrow-headed".
Separation of the sexes.
Until about the middle of the Third Race, both humans and animals were ethereal and asexual organisms. Over time, the bodies of animals became more and more dense. Also the forms of antediluvian animals evolved and multiplied. To the reptiles were added "dragons of the depths" and flying Serpents. Those who crawled on the ground received wings. Those with long necks that lived in the waters became the progenitors of birds. Thus pterodactyls and plesiosaurus were contemporaries of man until the end of the Third Race.
Mammals were originally hermaphrodites - "all living and reptiles, giant fish-birds and snakes with armored heads." Then there was a division of the sexes. Animals divided into male and female and began to give birth.
After the animals received dense bodies and separated, humanity also began to separate. The Third Race, in its original period, was almost asexual. Then she became bisexual or androgynous—very gradually, of course. It was only after a long time that the Third Race split into two distinct sexes.
The transition from the first transformation to the last took countless generations. The germ cell, which came from the progenitor, first developed into a bisexual being. Then she began to develop into a real egg, which began to give birth, gradually and almost imperceptibly in her evolutionary development, first beings in which one sex prevailed over the other, and finally certain men and women.
Separate units of the Third Race began to separate in their shells or eggs even before birth and came out of them as male or female babies. And as the geological periods changed, the newly born sub-races began to lose their former abilities. By the end of the fourth sub-race of the Third Race, infants had lost the ability to walk as soon as they were freed from their shell, and by the end of the fifth, humanity was already being born under the same conditions and by the same process as our historical generations. This, of course, took hundreds of thousands of years.
After the separation of the sexes and the establishment of the birth of man through sexual combination, the Third Race knew death. The people of the first two Races did not die, but only dissolved, absorbed by their offspring. Like a phoenix, the primordial man was resurrected from his old body in a new body. With each generation, he became more dense, physically more perfect. Death appeared only after man became a physical creature—death came with the completion of the physical organism.
All these transformations - the division of man into two different sexes and the creation of man "with bones" - took place in the middle of the Third Race, seventeen million years ago.
First fall.
After the division of the sexes, the Third Race no longer created - it began to give birth to its offspring. Being still devoid of reason in the era of separation of the sexes, she also gave birth to abnormal offspring. Those who did not have a spark, "narrow-headed", combined with the females of some animals. They gave birth to mute bent monsters, covered with red hair and walking on all fours.
During this period, people were physiologically different compared to what they represent now. The "female animals" were as different from those known to us now as those "people" were different from the people of our day. Primitive man was a man only in his outward form. He had no mind at the time when he gave birth to monkeys with a female animal monster. The ancestor of the real anthropoid animal, the monkey, is a direct offspring of a man who did not yet possess a mind, who defiled his human dignity, having physically descended to the level of an animal.
The "Sons of Wisdom" warned the Third Race not to touch the fruit forbidden by nature. The Kings and Lords of the Third Race have sealed the prohibition against sinful intercourse. But the warning was not accepted. People realized the obscenity of what they had done only when it was too late, after the angelic Monads from the higher spheres embodied in them and endowed them with understanding.
endowing man with reason.
Each world has its Mother Star and Sister Planet. Thus, the Earth is the adopted child and younger sister of Venus, although her people belong to their own kind.
Since Venus has no satellites, this planet adopted the Earth, a product of the Moon. The ruler of the planet loved his adopted child so much that he incarnated on Earth and gave her perfect laws, which in later centuries were neglected and even rejected.
The planet Venus, the harbinger of dawn and dusk, is the most radiant, most intimate, powerful and mysterious of all the Planets. Venus receives twice as much light and heat from the Sun as the Earth. She is the "little sun" in which the solar heat accumulates its Light.
She gives the Earth one third of the supply she receives and keeps two parts for herself.
The evolution of Venus is ahead of the earth by one third. "Humanity" of Venus is the next highest step in comparison with the humanity of the Earth. The "people" of Venus are as much above us as we are above our animals. Therefore, the planet Venus is the spiritual prototype of our planet, and the Lord of Venus is its Guardian Spirit.
The Third Race of our earthly humanity was under the direct influence of the planet Venus. In the middle of the evolution of the Third Race from Venus, representatives of its highly developed humanity came to Earth, the “Sons of Reason” (Manasa-Putra) - Light Beings, who are referred to as the “Sons of Fire” due to Their sparkling appearance. They appeared on Earth as Divine teachers of young humanity.
Some of the "Sons of Reason" acted as conduits for the Third wave of the life of the Logos, introducing into the animal man a spark of monadic life, from which Reason-Manas is formed. The ray of the Divine Mind illuminated the area of the still sleeping human mind - and the rudimentary Manas turned out to be fertilized. The result of this union was a rudimentary "abideable body" - the fiery body of man. Thus, the individualization of the spirit took place, its involution into form, and this spirit, enclosed in a "stagnant body", is the soul, the individual, the true man. This is the hour of a person's birth, for although his essence is eternal - he is not born and does not die - his birth in time, as an individual, is quite certain. The human soul, created "in the image of God," then began its evolution.
Mainland and people of the Third Race.
At that time the Third Race lived, that is, 18 million years ago, the distribution of land and water on the globe was completely different than now. Most of the current land was then under water. Neither Africa, nor the Americas, nor Europe existed at that time - they all rested on the bottom of the ocean. Also, little existed from present-day Asia: the Cis-Himalayan regions were covered by seas, but beyond them stretched the countries now called Greenland, Eastern and Western Siberia, etc.
A gigantic continent stretched along the equator, covering much of what is now the Pacific Ocean as well as the Indian Ocean. This continent covered the whole region from the foothills of the Himalayas, which separated it from the inland sea, which rolled its waves through what we know as present-day Tibet, Mongolia and the great desert of Shamo (Gobi); from Chittagon west to Hardwar and east to Assam. From there it spread south through what we now know as South India, Ceylon and Sumatra; then, enveloping Madagascar on the right side and Tasmania on the left as it moved south, it descended a few degrees short of the Antarctic Circle; and from Australia, which at that time was an inland region on the Main Continent, it extended far into the Pacific Ocean beyond Rapanui (Teapi or Easter Island). In addition, part of the mainland extended around South Africa into the Atlantic Ocean, curving northward to Norway.
This continent of the Third Root Race is now called Lemuria.
The earliest humanity was a race of giants. The first Lemurians were 18 m high. With each subsequent sub-race, their height gradually decreased, and after several million years it reached six meters.
The size of the Lemurians is evidenced by the statues erected by them to the size of their bodies. Most of the giant statues discovered on Easter Island, part of the flooded mainland of Lemuria, were between 6 and 9 meters in height. The remains on Easter Island are the most striking and eloquent monuments of primitive giants. They are as great as they are mysterious. It is enough to examine the heads of these colossal statues, which have remained intact, in order to recognize at first glance the features of the type and character attributed to the giants of the Third Race. They seem to be poured from the same mold, although they differ in features; they have a certain sensual type.
The Lemurians were people of strange superhuman physical strength, which gave them the ability to defend themselves and keep at a distance the giant monsters of the Mesozoic and Xenozoic periods. Fantastic and terrible animals coexisted with man and attacked him, just as man attacked them. Surrounded in Nature by such terrible creatures, man could only survive because he himself was a colossal giant.
Civilization of the Lemurians.
When the Third Race separated and fell into sin, giving birth to human animals, the animals became ferocious; and people and they began to destroy each other. Before that time there was no sin, there was no taking of life. After the separation, the bliss of the first races came to an end. The eternal spring began to change constantly and the seasons followed. People could no longer live in the First Country (Eden of the first races), which turned into a white frozen corpse. The cold forced people to build shelters and invent clothing. Then people prayed to the higher Fathers (Gods). "Wise Serpents" and "Dragons of Light" also came to the Forerunners of the Illuminated (Buddhas). They descended and began to live among people, instructing them in sciences and arts.
At the dawn of his consciousness, the man of the Third Race had no beliefs that could be called religion. That is, he knew nothing of any system of belief or outward worship. But if we take this term in its meaning, as something that unites the masses in one form of reverence expressed by those whom we feel superior to ourselves, in a feeling of reverence - like a feeling expressed by a child in relation to a beloved father - then even the earliest Lemurians, from the very beginning of their intelligent life they had a religion, and a very beautiful one. Did they not have their bright Gods around them, even among themselves? Did not their childhood flow around those who gave them birth and who surrounded them with their cares and called them to a conscious, intelligent life? This was the "Golden Age" of those ancient times. The age when "Gods walked the Earth and freely communicated with mortals." When this Age ended, the Gods withdrew - that is, they became invisible.
So, the Gods were from the beginning of time the Rulers of mankind, incarnated as the Kings of the Divine Dynasties. They gave the first impulse
civilizations and directed minds that endowed mankind with inventions and improvements in all the arts and sciences. They appeared as Human Benefactors.
Fire, produced by friction, was the first secret of Nature, the first and main property of matter, which was revealed to man. Fruits and cereals, hitherto unknown on Earth, were brought by the Lords of Wisdom from other planets for the use of those whom They ruled. Thus, wheat is not a product of the Earth - it has never been found in the wild.
With the advent of the Divine Dynasties, the beginning of the first civilizations was laid. And then, as now in some regions of the Earth, mankind preferred to lead a nomadic and patriarchal life, while in others the savage was barely beginning to learn how to build a hearth for fire and protect himself from the elements; his brothers, with the help of the Divine Mind that animated them, built cities and practiced the arts and sciences. However, while their shepherd brothers were born with miraculous powers, the "builders", in spite of civilization, could now master their powers only gradually. Civilization has always developed the physical and intellectual side at the expense of the mental, spiritual. The mastery and control of one's own psychic nature were innate and as natural among early mankind as walking and thinking.
The civilized peoples of the Third Race, under the guidance of their Divine Rulers, built vast cities, planted the arts and sciences, and knew astronomy, architecture, and mathematics to perfection. The Lemurians built their huge rock-like cities from rare soils and materials, from erupted lava, from the white marble of the mountains and black subterranean stone. The first large cities were built in that part of the mainland, which is now known as the island of Madagascar.
The oldest remains of the ruins of the Cyclopean structures were all the work of the last sub-races of the Lemurians; the stone remains on Easter Island were also of a Cyclopean character. This island belongs to the earliest civilization of the Third Race. A sudden volcanic eruption and upheaval of the ocean floor lifted this little relic of the Archaic Ages - after being sunk along with the rest - intact, with all its statues and volcano, and left as a witness to the existence of Lemuria. Amazing giant statues are bright and eloquent witnesses of the lost mainland with a civilized population on it.
End of Lemuria.
The birth and death of the Root Races is always accompanied by the geological change of the globe. They are caused by changes in the tilt of the earth's axis. Old continents are swallowed up by oceans, other lands appear. Huge cities, mountain ranges rise where they were not before. The surface of the globe changes completely every time. This is the LAW operating at its appointed time, in exact accordance with the Laws of Karma. The "experience of the fittest" peoples and races was affirmed by timely help; unadapted - unsuccessful - were destroyed, being swept away from the surface of the Earth.
After the Third Race had reached its apogee, it began to decline. This also affected the mainland.
Races - Lemuria: he began to slowly sink. The huge mainland, which reigned and towered over the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans, began to break up in many places into separate islands. These islands, at first huge, gradually disappeared one by one. Australia is now the largest remnant of the vast continent. The present island of Ceylon during the period of Lemuria was the northern plateau of the vast island of Lanka, on which the Third Race ended its fate.
Lemuria was destroyed by the action of volcanoes. She plunged into the waves due to earthquakes and underground fires. The cataclysm that destroyed the huge continent occurred due to underground convulsions and the opening of the ocean floor. Lemuria died about 700 thousand years before the beginning of what is now called the Tertiary period (Eocene).
Lemuria A modern term, first used by some naturalists, and now adopted by Theosophists, to designate the continent which, according to the Secret Doctrine of the East, preceded Atlantis. Its eastern name would open a little to the European ear.
Source: Blavatsky H.P. - Theosophical Dictionary
Lemuria (if we accept this name for the Third Continent) perished before Atlantis had time to fully develop; Atlantis, however, sank, and its main parts disappeared before the end of the Miocene Period.
< ... >III. Lemuria.
We propose to call the Third Continent Lemuria. The name is the invention or thought of R. L. Sclater, who between 1850 and 1860 asserted, on the basis of zoological data, the real existence in prehistoric times of a continent, which, as he argued, extended from Madagascar to Ceylon and Sumatra. This continent included some parts of what is now Africa; but the rest of this gigantic continent, stretching from the Indian Ocean to Australia, has now entirely disappeared under the waters of the Pacific Ocean, leaving here and there a few peaks of their tablelands, which now form islands.
The inhabitants of Madagascar - this island belonged to Lemuria.
Lemuria was not sunk like Atlantis, but plunged into waves, due to earthquakes and underground fires, as it will happen once with Great Britain and Europe.
< ... >New Zealand - part of the so-called ancient Lemuria
< ... >The cataclysm that destroyed the vast Continent, the largest remnant of which is now Australia, occurred due to underground convulsions and the opening of the ocean floor.
The earliest pioneers of the Fourth Race were not Atlanteans, just as they were not the human Asuras and Rakshasas they later became. In those days, huge parts of the future Atlantis Mainland were still part of the ocean floor. Lemuria, as we called the Continent of the Third Race, was then a gigantic country. It covered the entire region from the foothills of the Himalayas, which separated it from the inland sea, which rolled its waves through what we know as present-day Tibet, Mongolia and the great desert of Shamo (Gobi); from Chittagong west to Hardwar and east to Assam. From there it spread south through what we now know as South India, Ceylon and Sumatra; then, enveloping on its way, as it moved south, Madagascar on the right side and Tasmania on the left, it descended, not reaching the Antarctic Circle by a few degrees; and from Australia, which at that time was an inland region on the Main Continent, it extended far into the Pacific Ocean beyond Rapa Nui (Teapi or Easter Island), now lying at 26 ° south latitude and 110 ° west longitude. This claim seems to be backed up by science - even if only partially. When discussing the direction of the continents, it is pointed out that the infra-arctic masses usually follow the direction of the meridian, while mentioning, although only by deductions, several ancient continents. Among them is called the "mainland of Mascarene", which included Madagascar, stretching north and south, and another ancient continent, "stretching from Svalbard to the Strait of Dover, while most other parts of Europe were the seabed" . This confirms the occult teaching which says that what is now the polar regions were originally the earliest cradles of the seven cradles of Humanity and the tomb of the majority of Humanity in that region during the Third Race, when the gigantic Continent of Lemuria began to dissect into smaller continents. As explained in the Commentaries, this was due to a decrease in the speed of the earth's rotation:
“When the Wheel rotates at the usual speed, its extreme points [poles] are consistent with its middle Circle [equator], but when it rotates more slowly and oscillates in all directions, great upheavals occur on the surface of the Earth. The waters rush towards the two ends, and new lands rise in the middle belt [equatorial lands], while those at the ends enter Pralaya, due to flooding.
“Thus the Wheel [Earth] is subject and ruled by the Spirit of the Moon, as far as the breath of her waters [tides] is concerned. Toward the end of the [Kalpa] Age of the Great [Root] Race, the rulers of the Moon [Fathers and Pitris] begin to attract more strongly and thus flatten the Wheel around its Belt; when it descends in some places and rises in others, and this uplifting rushes to the extreme points [poles], new lands will rise, and the old ones will be drawn in. < ... >
It was, of course, "a gigantic and indivisible continent," for during the Third Race it extended east and west to where the Americas now lie. The real Australia was only a part of it, and in addition to it there are a few surviving islands here and there on the surface of the Pacific Ocean, and a wide strip of California, which also belonged to it.
< ... >It began in those northern regions which have just been described as including the Bering Strait and what was then dry land in Central Asia, when the climate even in the Polar Regions was semi-tropical and perfectly adapted to the primitive needs of nascent physical man. This area, however, since the appearance of man, has repeatedly either frozen or become tropical in turn. The Commentaries tell us that the Third Race was near the midpoint of its development when:
“The axis of the Wheel is tilted. The sun and moon no longer shone over the heads of this part of the Then-born; people recognized snow, ice and frost; and men, plants, and animals diminished in their stature. Those who did not die remained like small children in size and intelligence. This was the third Pralaya Ras." .The sinking and change of Lemuria began almost at the Arctic Circle (Norway), and the Third Race ended its fate in Lanka, or what became Lanka with the Atlanteans. The small remaining part, now known as Ceylon, is the northern plateau of ancient Lanka, while the huge island of this name in the period of Lemuria was the gigantic Continent, already described by us.
< ... >Of course, these Continents will not be identical the same the most. But here it is necessary to explain. The theory of the existence of Northern Lemuria should not cause any embarrassment. The continuation of this great Continent in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean does not in the least contradict the opinions so widely held regarding the location of the lost Atlantis, for one opinion confirms the other. It should be noted that Lemuria, which served as the cradle of the Third Root-Race, not only covered a vast area in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, but extended in the shape of a horseshoe beyond Madagascar around South Africa (then only an insignificant part in the process of formation), across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway. The great body of fresh water in England called the Wildon—considered by geologists as the source of the former great river— there is the bed of the main river that drained Northern Lemuria in the Secondary Age.
Indeed, the existence of this river in the past is a scientific fact, but do the adherents of science recognize the need to admit the existence of Northern Lemuria of the Secondary Age, as follows from their own data? Professor Berthold Siemann not only recognized the reality of the existence of such a powerful continent, but considered Australia and Europe, as parts originally belonging to the same continent,- thus confirming the entire doctrine of the "horseshoe" already stated. No more striking confirmation of our position could be given than the fact that high mountain range in a basin of the Atlantic Ocean, 9,000 feet high, and which extends two or three thousand miles southward from a point near the British Isles, descends first to South America, then changes direction almost at right angles to continue in southeast towards the African coast, from where it continues south to Tristan D "Akunya. This ridge is the remnant of the Atlantic continent and if it were possible to trace it further, then the reality of the existence of a connection point under water, in the form of a horseshoe, with an older mainland in the Pacific Ocean, would be installed.
Atlantic part of Lemuria was the geological foundation of what is generally known as Atlantis, but which must be regarded as a development of the Atlantean extension of Lemuria rather than as an entirely new landmass raised to meet the specific needs of the Fourth Root Race.
about the third great Continent, which died about 850,000 years ago
< ... >Lemuria was formed in the early period of the Third Race. When it, in turn, collapsed, Atlantis appeared.
< ... >Sweden and Norway formed an integral part of Ancient Lemuria, as well as Atlantis on the European side, just as Eastern and Western Siberia and Kamchatka belonged to it on the Asian side.
Deucalion is said to have brought the cult of Adonis and Osiris to Phoenicia. This cult is the cult of the Sun, lost and rediscovered in its astronomical significance. Only at the Pole does the Sun disappear for such a long time as six months, for at a latitude of 68 degrees it remains dead only for forty days, as we see it at the festivals in honor of Osiris. Both cults originated in the north of Lemuria, or on that continent, of which Asia was a kind of disturbed continuation, and which extended as far as the polar regions. This is well proven in the work of Gebelin. "Allegories of the East" p. 246, and also in Bailly; although neither Osiris nor Hercules are solar myths, except for one of their seven aspects.