Some information that is presented to us about the lost continent is highly dubious and needs to
be approached with a certain amount of caution. Many writings exist on Lemuria, the people, the
communities, their way of life and so forth. Many writings claim the Lemurians were a telepathic
race and other, even more fanciful things. Unfortunately we only have the vaguest of hints to such
a place ever even existing, let alone what kind of people they may have been and books that go as
far as discussing the ways of the Lemurian people are purely speculation as no texts, hieroglyphic
or otherwise have ever been found to exist that deal with such topics.
One of the most well known of these more ‘esoteric’ sources would undoubtedly be the works
of Madame Blavatsky, a ‘seer’ of the late 1800’s. In her book “The Secret Doctrine” Madame
Blavatsky claimed to have learned of Lemuria in ‘The Book of Dzyan’ which she alleged was
shown to her by the Mahatmas. Some of Madame Blavatsky claims were pretty outrageous, she
said that some Lemurians had four arms, used telepathy as their main form of communication,
that some had an eye in the back of their head that provided them with psychic vision and other
such spurious claims. Blavatsky also wrote heavily on the underground world of Agartha and the
secret Thule Society (of which Adolf Hitler was a member)
Notably Blavatsky herself denounced her own claims shortly before her death in 1891,
however, not to be deterred by her own rebuttals of her work, shortly afterwards a man by the
name of Scott Elliot picked up where Blavatsky had left off and published a disheveled, over
written and rather ponderous book entitled ‘The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria’. Elliots
work seems to be wholly fantastical and I his book he describes Lemurians as being 12 to 15 feet
tall with flat faces except for a muzzle protruding from the center and even the very earliest
Lemurians as being a race of ‘egg laying hermaphrodites’ at one point!
The myths and traditions of ancient India contain some references to both Lemuria and
Atlantis. The Rig Veda for example speaks of "the three continents that were", one was home to a
race called the Danavas. A land called Rutas was said to be an immense continent far to the east
of India and home to a race of sun-worshippers, but Rutas was said to have been destroyed by a
volcanic upheaval and sunk beneath the ocean. Fragments of the continent remained as Indonesia
and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the ancient learned
race known as the Brahmans. The same type of story also appears in the Mayan creation myths,
namely in a tale called the ‘Popol Vuh,’ and there are also paintings depicting the event (fig.98).
Some of the works that exist referring to Lemuria are quite ponderous and esoteric and require
a great deal of intellectual ‘sifting’ and it is not the intention of this work to explore them in full,
just to alert the reader to their existence. Should you however wish to explore these tales in detail
for yourselves a full bibliography is provided at the close of this book.
Tracing the Outline
Many scientists and archeologists state that the topography in the Pacific and Indian Ocean area
does not reveal anything that looks like a sunken land mass however there are theories as to why
this could be.
In the late 1800’s Charles Hapgood put forth a theory that had some merit that went something
like this: Due to geological upheavals and just through normal environmental activity, vast
amounts of vegetable and animal matter constantly fall to the ground and are buried beneath the
earth and as this rotting matter composts underground it produces methane and other gasses.
These gasses form into underground pockets and, through constant tectonic movements,
eventually join together to form super pockets of underground gas. Since the gas is constantly