into just what our planet is capable of. But before we examine this further, let’s take a closer look
at the actual legend of Lemuria and find out exactly what we are being asked to believe.
Great Southern Land
According to legend, Lemuria was a civilization that began on great continent in the Pacific
region sometime between 200,000 and 78,000 years ago (though others have pushed the date
back further and estimate it to be 150 million). Lemuria is a recently adapted name and the actual
name of the continent is believed to have been ‘Mukulia’ or ‘Mu.’ The Australian Aborigines
speak of the land in their “dreamtime’ legends and call it ‘Gondwana Land’ The Lemurian
civilization is said to have lasted for a staggering 52,000 years until it was destroyed during
massive earthquakes and subsidence caused by a cataclysmic Polar shift that is believed to have
occurred about 26,000 years ago. The continent is said to have existed in the area that is now the
Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its boundaries can be now seen as the Pacific Tectonic Plate and was
about 5000 miles long and about 3,000 miles wide, tropical and home to a population that reached
around 60- 65 million. Explorer, James Churchward placed the continent between Africa and
South America in his theoretical map (fig.97).
It also is said by many to be the original earthly home of the pantheon of ancient Egyptian
Gods of which Ra was the head, or perhaps the place Ra disappeared to in his times of exile.
Though there are many others who believe Lemuria existed at time in Earth’s history that pre-
dated the time of Ra and Osiris.
Legend tells us that though Lemuria never reached the level of technology that other ancient
civilizations (such as Altantis or the Rama Empire) were said to have reached, it was able to
obtain certain achievements in fields such as construction. The Lemurian civilization was very
adept at building monuments and it was they who first discovered how to build earth-quake proof
megalithic structures. But it is said that it was in the science of government that they most
excelled and where their greatest achievements lay.
We are told that the Lemurians considered their greatest resource and key to the success of
their empire to be education. There was only one government and everyone spoke one language.
Everyone was thoroughly educated in the ways of nature and the universe and given a trade
which resulted in great prosperity for the land and the people. Education was compulsory until
age 21 for the entire population and was a requirement for entering ‘citizen school’. Citizen
training then lasted for a further 7 years and at age 28 people were able to legally become
‘Citizens of the Empire’.
The Lemurians apparently knew of the impending destruction about to befall their continent
and they set out to colonize other areas. After the final demise of the continent it is said they
settled in two main areas and divided into two distinct cultures: Those that favored the ways of
science colonized an Island-Continent in the Atlantic which was to grow into the Empire of
Atlantis, while those that favored the ways of spirituality colonized the area that is now India and
began the Rama Empire. It is said that the Governing body or ‘Elders’ of Lemuria were all
members a society known as ‘the thirteenth school’. Legend has it that when the elders became
aware of the doom that was approaching their land they moved the thirteenth school to a then
uninhabited plateau in Central Asia which was later to become Tibet, where they established a
library and another new school which they named ‘The Great White Brotherhood”.
The actual continent is supposed to have been destroyed in the earths far distant past during a
cataclysm that was brought about by a polar shift. The land mass of the continent is said to have
been so immense that it encompassed all of Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines,
all of Oceania, most of western north America and everything in between and when the continent
sank, the massive subsidence it created in its wake formed the Pacific basin, an event which had
the effect of lowering the world’s oceans significantly when water rushed in to fill the newly
made hollow. It was during this event that other, lower land masses were uncovered as the waters
receded and the continental land mass that was to become Atlantis became fully exposed.