On Atlantis and Lemuria

One of the most interesting and vital aspects of spiritual study is the evolution of humanity. Our origins began long ago on the ancient civilization of Lemuria and Atlantis, which now lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The ancient civilizations of Atlantis and her predecessor Lemuria were the locations from whence humanity began our journey on Mother Earth from the spiritual worlds. According to esoteric wisdom, humanity has evolved ever-so-gradually over the course of some 1,000,000+ years in a physical-spiritual way. 

 

No known historical or archaeological evidence has been discovered up to this moment of these worlds in a traditional way, although some artifacts have been found but have been misidentified according to some sources. Remanets of Lemuria remain on the islands of the Pacific Ocean which were once the mountain peaks of this ancient world. Some of the primitive tribes of the Pacific, and their lowly traditions, are the remnants of Lemurian bloodlines.

 

The only evidence of this lost continent comes from those who have "pierced the veil" through a mature form of genuine supersensible vision who could "read" from the Akashic Records; the eternal cosmic repository of all events in the universe. Plato wrote of Atlantis, but what survives of his research, which is undoubtedly partial at best, provides little information.  Out of necessity and thankfully, it is to certain trusted individuals who possessed a mature form of spiritual cognition in modern times, that we can turn to explore this long period of development in human evolution.

 

This vision, which is attained only by those who have evolved gradually through the process of spiritual initiation, enables an individual to "read" from the Akashic Records or "Akash-Essence" according to Rudolf Steiner; the eternal repository that contains the entire history of the cosmos including every thought, feeling, and deed of every being on the planet and the universe. Very few individuals have developed the ability to enter into the Great Hall of Records - the Akashic Records - deliberately and consciously. This feat can only be accomplished through an expansion of consciousness, which is to say clairovoyance, or a spiritual journey such as a near-death experience. This vast spiritual library, as it were, is overseen by divine guardians.

 

Traditionally, knowledge of earth's history regarding Atlantis and Lemuria were kept secret within the Mystery Schools across the world since the fall of this great civilization sometime in 9500BC.  Detailed descriptions of Atlantis first arose publicly through Theosophists in the 19th century, led by Helena Blavatsky (d. 1891 in London); a medium and clairvoyant who gathered around her movement a group of like-minded spiritual researchers and students who had attained degrees of clairvoyant insight and abilities that originated in India. Books and pamphlets were published across the West. Lectures were held and societies formed for spiritual research and inquiry by way of the expansion of consciousness through meditation and a path to the astral plane which, if followed correctly, could lead to stages of spiritual initiation.

 

Genuine researchers, clairvoyants, and even one spiritual initiate followed in Rudolf Steiner as well as "The Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce who established the Association of Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, Va. This brief study relies upon the facts provided by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce, and a Theosophist named William-Scott Eliot.

 

To understand the place and moment of Atlantis, one must first grasp the spiritual-historical fact that humanity and the world have slowly evolved in terms of physical form and perceptive consciousness. This is the foundation stone of a divine plan. Everything physical including the human being originated from the spiritual; a process referred to as "involution."  Many of the events of the bible, including the Great Flood, have their source during the Lemurian and Atlantean periods. These involutions and gradual earth and human changes occurred during the Lemurian and solidified during the Atlantean periods.

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Humanity first incarnated out of the spiritual realms during the "Lemurian" period which preceded Atlantis. Prior to that time, humanity existed in a non-physical state of being which grew closer and closer to the earth as it gradually came into being as a physical entity. This long journey, which far-preceded our current moment in cosmic history, was documented in detail by Dr. Rudolf Steiner in several lecture series including Atlantis and Lemuria (GA 11), The Evolution of the Earth and Man and The Influence of the Stars (GA 354), 

 

The age of the world is incalculable. Dr. Rudolf Steiner revealed that the math used to calculate the history of the world in geological terms is, in fact, correct and conforms perfectly to mathematical principles. Yet, when observed through supersensible perception of a high initiate, those intervals as stated in millions or billions of years are incorrect. The cadence and clock of the earth in terms of time, as defined by the speed of the earth’s rotation and the orbits of the planetary bodies in relation to one another today, did not exist in its current form in the past thus time was different. The earth evolved into its current form very slowly and is the result of the creative will and activities of the higher beings of the spiritual hierarchies of which humanity, animals, plants, and the world are an integrated aspect.

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“…In the same way geology can calculate what the Earth looked like twenty million years ago and what it will look like twenty million years hence. The calculations may be perfectly correct, but the Earth was not in existence twenty million years ago and will not be in existence twenty million years from now.“[2]

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Dr. Steiner provided detailed descriptions of how the world, and the human being, evolved within the cosmic plan and unfolded into its current form through the oversight and effort of divine beings who also who are intimately connected to humanity’s evolution. He described seven different phases, or larger epochs, that govern human evolution. This journey is a structured one, but no less difficult for human beings who grapple with free will, decisions, karma, and the opposing powers who seek to steer humanity away from our divine origins. 

 

The first four epochs were called by Dr. Steiner as Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth.  We are currently in the middle of the fourth of seven epochs. These epochs are not to be confused with planets but rather periods of activity when the planets separated from each other in a particular order from one central source which was not, as described in contemporary astronomical terms, a swirling mass of vapor or gas. Dr. Steiner referred to this moment as “warmth” and activity.

 

The elements of earth, air, fire, and water were introduced in accordance with a definitive and well-ordered process connected to the human being driven by the will and glory of God. These periods of spiritual activity continued until a hardening, or crystalizing effect, occurred. All souls were created by an all-powerful all-being divine "father" or "God." Over time, each individual soul connected with others and spread out into the universe; each according to his or her will. Over time, people were drawn to the earth as a abode of spiritual evolution. People incarnated repeatedly in ever-denser physical bodies which have since evolved into our current form and will evolve further. The four aspects of the human being were introduced very gradually by the guiding beings of the universe: one in each of the first four epochs of the creation of the world. These four aspects are referred to in Anthroposophy and the Mysteries as "Astral", "Etheric", "Physical" and "Ego" or "I".

 

The Epoch of "Saturn" was the starting point of human evolution when the physical body was introduced into creation. Second, the Sun Epoch passed and the Etheric or Energy Body was introduced. Next, the Moon Epoch passed and the astral body was introduced (the feeling body of passions, desires, etc.). It was during this period that the "fall of man" occurred and human beings became susceptible to temptation by the opposing powers (referred to as Lucifer and Ahriman in Anthroposophy) who are inimical to the divine plan of human evolution. It was Lucifer who necessarily implanted in humanity the desires and passions which we must learn to manage and control appropriately.

 

Then, the Earth Epoch occurred and the “Ego” or “I” was introduced into humanity’s constitution. Dr. Steiner revealed that the human ego is the youngest body, or sheath, of the human being and therefore the most immature. Each of these aspects contains both "purified" and "unpurified" elements which necessarily require the effort the Indvidual and the aid of divine beings to cultivate in order to make ourselves worthy companions to our all-knowing, all-seeing, ever-present Creator.  The Jupiter, Venus, and Vulcan epochs will follow the Earth period at which time the physical world will transform into a different spiritualized state.  Christ came to transform the planet into a new sun sphere to ensure that this plan came to fruition properly. The opposing powers wish to thwart humanity's progress, so we do not reach out divine destiny.

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Each epoch of human existence is divided into seven substages which are further divided into 7 small periods of change. When multiplied together this comes to 343; 7 x 7 x 7. This is a divine cadence of progression for all of the souls in the world. The fourth planetary stage of human evolution ("Earth") is divided into seven epochs of activity which is further divided into seven small epochs of evolution.  The current epoch of human evolution in Anthroposophy is referred to as "5th Post Atlantean" which began after the fall of Atlantis in 9,500BC. The table below was constructed based on the lectures and works of Dr. Rudolf Steiner.

 

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According to Dr. Rudolf Steiner, as perceived through the Akashic Records, the seven sub-races or tribes of Atlantis who developed side-by-side and possessed unique dispositions, were the Rmoahals, Tlavatlis, Toltecs, Turanians, Semites, Aryans, Akkadians, and Mongols.[8] The Aryan race was destined to survive and be the primary bearer of the form and constitution of a future humanity, Each tribe served a purpose and carried some unique impulse forward with the totality of the human experience, yet were destined to fade away. Thus, each human being today is an “Aryan” and it is NOT a racial term although it was presented that way by questionable characters in the 20th century.

 

During the long, long span of Atlantean history, which covers some 1,000,000 years, there were many tribal battles that occurred as certain tribes became more corrupted and thus sought dominance through the manipulation of the darkest of spiritual forces, over the other tribes.  For long periods of time, the tribes existed peacefully alongside one another. The most nefarious and corrupted of these tribes were the Turanians who deliberately sought to unite their forces with the evil or dark side of human nature. Edgar Cayce referred to these peoples, of whatever tribe they resided in, as the "Sons of Belial". These battles continued sporadically until each tribe, except for the Aryans, died with the final collapse of Altantis in 9,500 BC.  The various tribes, however, migrated across the world prior to the final collapse of the islands into every continent on the planet.

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“Thus the fifth subrace transferred the impulses for action to within the human being. Man wishes to come to terms within himself as to what he must or must not do. But what thus was won within, with respect to the faculty of thought, was lost with respect to the control of external natural forces. With this combining thought mentioned above, one can master only the forces of the mineral world, not the life force. The fifth subrace therefore developed thought at the expense of control of the life force.

 

But it was just through this that it produced the germ of the further development of mankind. New personality, self-love, even complete selfishness could grow freely; for thought alone which works wholly within, and can no longer give direct orders to nature, is not capable of producing such devastating effects as the previously misused powers. From this fifth subrace the most gifted part was selected which survived the decline of the fourth root race and formed the germ of the fifth, the Aryan race, whose mission is the complete development of the thinking faculty.”[9]

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Ireland played a leading role during this period from whence the "Hibernian" Mystery Stream arose. Dr. Rudolf Steiner informed us that this group of initiates, led by the leaders of the Sun Oracle, created the only environment on the planet that was immune to Luciferic forces of temptation, the passions, etc. These were the forces that led to the Fall from Eden through the temptation by the Serpent; Lucifer. Egotism as it exists today gradually emerged within the Atlantean consciousness which, at one point, had advanced to a very high degree, led by the initiates of the various planetary oracles who guided humanity along in alignment with the spiritual purpose and ideals of an all-loving, all-seeing Creator. It was selfishness, lust, egotism, and the quest for power that bizarre demonic practices arose. Darkness spread throughout the land.  These forces were unleashed through facilities and mystery centers where black-magic rituals were practiced.

 

Atlantis was described by Dr. Rudolf Steiner as being covered in dense mists. The ancient Atlantean did not possess the ability to see objects in sharply defined outlines as we do today. Rather, the Atlantean relied on a clairvoyant faculty that has receded in most human beings. They perceived the inner nature of whatever living being they encountered, and could perceive its astral colors and appeared as surrounded by mists similar to a lamp post today in a dense fog at night.

 

The spiritual "being" of the Atlanteans was intimately connected to the forces of the Earth. They learned to manipulate these life forces from, for example, the spiritual forces that exist within plant seeds. These seeds were stored in bins in homes, businesses, and palaces where they were used to power vehicles, infrastructure, hospitals, spiritual transformation centers (i.e. Mystery Centers), and, of course, as egotism advanced in the human consciousness, weapons of destruction.

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The misuse of these forces, which are too prevented and demented to be discussed here, caused massive "upheavals" which caused volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and massive earth changes gradually over time. The corrupted Atlanteans, who opposed the "Sons of the Law of One" according to Edgar Cayce, created blood cults similar to the Aztecs, and created a slave race of lower-human beings who did not possess the will forces as the "citizen Atlantean." The "Sons of Belial" intensified dreadful practices that led to the misapplication of human sexuality.

 

The earth and humanity are intimately connected in spiritual terms and everything we do from a MORAL perspective either hinders or advances human spirituality. The dense mists that covered the world were dissolved when the continent sank and descended to the earth in massive sheets of rain and floods.  This explains the evidence of water run-off on some of the ancient structures of Egypt, such as the Sphinx. This deluge began to recede around 7,000 BC at which time communities were re-founded having lost much of what was attained during the Atlantean period. However, the ancient Mysteries were preserved in the activity of the initiates who had spread over the world before the fall occurred, including India, Europe, Central and South America, North America, Africa, and China. The Great Sun-Initiates "Manu" led a group of leading initiates into the region of the Gobi Desert where the Indian civilization arose.

 

​The story of Egypt was recounted in the Edgar Cayce readings in detail when he described his prior lifetime as a founder of the Egyptian Mysteries as the master initiate and high priest “Ra-Ta.” As Edgar Cayce stated in his readings, migrating Atlanteans fleeing Atlantis brought their corruption, decadence, and slaves with them to post-Atlantean Egypt which, by the year 10,500BC, had outlawed slavery and established a strong central government based on the principles of civil rights and higher spiritual ideals which were in alignment with the sacred teachings of the initiates in the Oracles or Mystery Centers of Atlantis. The culture evolved out of the teachings of the initiates from Atlantis, which gave rise to the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. As migrating Atlanteans brought their corrupted views with them and sought to promote slavery, conflicts arose between the inhabitants who founded the brilliant culture of post-Atlantean Egypt. It led to at least one bloody civil war.

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Seeing that the impending destruction of ancient Atlantis was imminent, the highest of spiritual initiates at the time named "Manu" - who were located in the region of Hibernia or modern-day Ireland - led a small group of his chosen disciples out of Atlantis. They migrated across the earth and subsequently founded and blended with indigenous peoples including the great pre-ancient cultures of Britain, Ireland, India, Northern Europe, Egypt, Persia, Central America, and South America. It was in the region of the Gobi Desert and India that these ancient masters of wisdom created Mystery Centers to lead humanity forward. Some of these leaders were led astray evidently, but those that remained became the founders of a new civilization in India and became known as the seven Rishis. Out of the Mystery Centers radiated the impulse, activity, civilization, and structure for a future humanity. What remains today is an echo of the Mysteries that arose in post-Atlantean India and has since evolved throughout the world in varying forms.

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“Now the most highly developed masses of peoples began to migrate to the East, and everywhere along their journey they formed colonies, the most powerful of these colonies, with the most highly developed culture, existed in the neighborhood of the present Gobi desert. Later on, a certain number of peoples traveled from there to many parts of the world: one group went to the present India; where they encountered an indigenous race, with whom they became partly united. It was after the Atlantean flood, that this colony traveled South and founded the first culture of the post-Atlantean epoch, the first culture of our own age. The most advanced teachers who went with this colony, the first great teachers of ancient India, are called the ancient Indian Rishis.”[10]

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“After Atlantis sank, great initiates led two main streams of people from West to East, on through Africa, the other through Europe. Those who came to Asia through Africa produced the individuality that could take in the Christ light in the course of incarnations and developments. In the northern stream a strong, sturdy stock arose among initiates that not only knew how to defy outer enemies…. There were Mystery Centers in Europe, whose existence is reported in old sagas. For instance, the report of such an esoteric school is concealed behind the legend of King Arthur and his round table. King Arthur was a high initiate who proclaimed the mystery wisdom to his pupils.”[11]

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According to the Cayce readings, which align with Dr. Steiner’s observations through the Akashic Records, several teams of representatives, led by genuine spiritual initiates, were commissioned with the task of finding a safe place to store a detailed record of their civilization. According to Cayce, the historical and spiritual account of humanity, by way of Lemuria, and Atlantis, were recorded on 32 stone tablets that were stored in three physical different locations (a complete set in each location) with the intent of leaving a trail behind to be rediscovered in a future age as humanity evolved out of our state of amnesia that was destined to follow the vast global changes that were coming. These records include a detailed record of the story of humanity from the involution of the human soul from the spiritual worlds into the physical plane. These records have survived and await to be discovered today.

 

According to the Cayce readings, the first location is in a “small pyramid” chamber that has not been opened and is only accessible through a long connecting tunnel, the entryway of which is located underneath and near the right front forepaw of the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau, Egypt. The records remain buried somewhere between the Sphinx and the Nile. The “dream stela” that sits between the two paws of the Sphinx has never been fully understood. My research suggests that the steal covers a doorway that was used by the candidates for spiritual initiation whereby the individual entered a long underground tunnel that led to the Great Pyramid.

 

This is corroborated by two sources who, through their esoteric research, lived during the Egyptian period as initiates and used that entry point during their 3 ½ day initiation trial.[12] Directly beneath the Sphinx is a large empty chamber, filled with esoteric images and symbols, including the Sun-Christ symbol or “Ankh”, which was used for meditation and preparation for the dangerous procedure of the prolonged astral experience that the candidate passed through during his or her spiritual initiation.[13]

 

The second location is an ancient temple complex that is located in a remote location of what is now Piedras Negras on the border of Guatemala and Mexico (or what Edgar Cayce referred to as “Yucatan”). This location has been largely unexcavated even though there are countless historical artifacts to be recovered that remain buried. Expeditions into this remote location have uncovered remains deep in the jungle that indicates large-scale building complexes of megalithic proportions. Because of its remote location and severe overgrowth, wider excavations have not been undertaken.

 

The third location is an ancient Atlantean temple which is submerged under the seafloor in “deep water”, according to Cayce, somewhere between Bimini and Andros in the Bahamas. This location, which lies submerged beneath eons of sediment and ocean water, will most likely not be recovered unless some geologic event pushes the temple to the surface which is feasible as the sands move due to the weather, earthquakes, and earth changes. In recent years, the withered remains of pyramids, structures, and temple buildings have been observed near Okinawa, Cuba, and Bimini. Allegedly, although evidence has not been released publicly, at least one person has come forward since the 1960s claiming to have located and subsequently entered a submerged temple building that was briefly visible due to the shifting sands associated with inclement weather near Bimini.

 

The remnants of Atlantis have been seen in areas such as the Bimini Road of the Bahamas and the Yonaguni Monument off of the coast of Okinawa where remains of buildings and pyramids have been documented and are clear proof of an ancient and advanced civilization that now lies submerged in the ocean. Conversely, these remnants have been observed by some academics as a naturally occurring phenomenon.[14] There is an ongoing debate amongst academics and proponents of the Atlantean theory which will probably continue forever; or at least as long as dogmatists agree on a party position and people confront them with direct evidence that many ignore or simply rationalize away.[15]

 

Thus, as humanity went through several transformations beginning in Lemuria[16] and subsequently on Atlantis, both internal and external, the entire make-up of the world changed, in geological and human terms, through three major seismic events of wind and water.[17] Whatever remained of Lemuria, or “Mu”, and the remaining inhabited island of Poseidon-Atlantis sank beneath the waves in approximately 9,500BC in a global catastrophe that changed the landscape of the entire planet and created the world we know today. The mists of the air condensed and fell as massive sheets of water over an unspecified period of time. A 2,000-year ice age followed that created the Siberian ice sheet where prehistoric animals, such as wooly mammoths, continue to be found and are dated to about 10,000BC.[18] According to early theosophist William-Scott Eliot:

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“When the destruction was once inaugurated by the first great catastrophe there was no intermission of the minor landslips which continued slowly but steadily to eat away the continent. Four of the great catastrophes stand out above the rest in magnitude. The first took place in the Miocene age, about 800,000 years ago. The second, which was of minor importance, occurred about 200,000 years ago. The third—about 80,000 years ago—was a very great one. It destroyed all that remained of the Atlantean continent, with the exception of the island to which Plato gave the name of Poseidonis, which in its turn was submerged in the fourth and final great catastrophe of 9,564 B.C.”[19]

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The ancient island continent of Atlantis is where the struggle for spiritual, social, racial, and political liberty began in humanity’s consciousness. War began during Atlantis when egotism, permeated by greed and authority, first began to permeate human consciousness. Even to this very day, humanity is split between two poles: civil equality, liberty, and freedom on the one hand and egotism, dictatorship, and oppression on the other. One brings the light of individuality, and freedom of expression with all of its highs and lows, while the other suppresses it on behalf of egotism which turns the individual into a veritable slave. Subsequently, many bloody battles, civil wars, and now global wars in the 20th century have been fought over slavery and freedom, or at least the promise of freedom, since the Atlantean period.  Karmically, the impetus for these wars originated because of forces surging through the human being which led to violence and conflict. According to Steiner:

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 “…two characteristics run through the entire development of this fifth root race (the current age). One of these characteristics is peculiar to those men who are animated by higher ideas, who regard themselves as children of a divine universal power; the other belongs to those who put everything at the service of personal interests, of egotism.”[20]

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Edgar Cayce mentioned the nature of the same two opposing aspects of humanity that existed within ancient humanity has carried their soul dispositions with them into the modern age. Like Steiner, Cayce observed that humanity is divided between those who pursue higher ideals, or what he called the “Children of the Law of One”, and those who succumb to lower influences, or what he referred to as the “Children of Belial”. These were not formal appellations used by the people of the Atlantean period. The souls who are known as the Children of Belial were, and are, motivated by polarized influences that are the product of egotism, exploitation, and self-interest. We should remember, however, that people are individuals who rise and fall based on effort, victories, and mistakes.

 

The individuals who lean toward this behavior disregard the solemnity of the individual human spirit, civilization, and the Christ. The ongoing conflict over freedom and tyranny that originated during the time of Atlantis, and has continued over and over again throughout history, is far from over and will persist into the future. It will culminate in what Steiner described as the “War of All Against All” and will take place in the future at the end of the Seventh Epoch. It is more critical than ever that human beings learn from our mistakes and adopt a genuine and spiritual higher ideal that values every other person their brother. This is the Christ impulse. In doing so, we can reach a higher threshold of transformation and overcome the pitfalls that have so hindered and impeded our development.

 

 

 

“It is impossible to conceive what might happen in such circumstances if mankind has not, by then, reached selflessness. The attainment of selflessness alone will enable humanity to be kept from the brink of destruction. The downfall of our present epoch will be caused by (the) lack of morality. The Lemurian epoch was destroyed by fire, the Atlantean by water; our epoch and its civilization will be destroyed by the War of All against All, by evil. Human beings will destroy each other in mutual strife. And the terrible thing — more desperately tragic than other catastrophes — will be that the blame will lie with human beings themselves.”[21]

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Both polarized aspects of human nature have continued today between those who aspire to the ideals of the spirit, which is embodied in the Christ, and the Children of Belial who serve the opposing powers. We should not assume that all human beings, however, are decisively evil or good. Or should we? An objective researcher must, after bias is removed, that certain souls, for whatever reason, have sworn allegiance to the evil powers just as there are those who have sworn to support the Light of the Christ in the world and the universe.

 

According to Edgar Cayce, some people have consciously sworn to uphold the activities of the opposing powers. Rudolf Steiner provided deep insights into the nature of Ahrimanic and Luciferic influences that work upon humanity in diverse and perpetual ways which are, thanks to Anthroposophy, now knowable to all. The opposing influences work and influence us from inside our thinking, willing, and feeling. If not understood, managed, and transformed, they can follow the human being in unknown ways and plant destructive seeds for the future…

 

Not much was discussed on the dinosaurs and how they overlap with the civilization of Lemuria and Atlantis in the writings and lectures of Rudolf Steiner or Edgar Cayce. Steiner referred to these early creations as “reptiles”. Edgar Cayce, under hypnosis, spoke of great battles with the dinosaurs especially the "flying reptiles."

 

Few, if any, remains of Atlanteans will ever be found because the physical constitution of the Atlanteans was far more malleable than the hard bony form of human beings today which have crystallized, as it were, and changed over time. However, in the future, remains of Atlantis will be discovered. It is evident based on timelines and the archaeological discoveries of the Siberian ice sheet that the last remnants of dinosaurs died out gradually alongside humanity until the global change occurred in 9,500BC.

 

Thus, Atlanteans shared the world with dinosaurs and according to some accounts, based on regression and books published by a variety of authors including Cayce, some tribes of Atlanteans were compelled to wage war against these lethal predators, especially the pterodactyl, due to constant and impending danger for human existence.[22] At least one account suggests that just before the final upheaval, the surviving dinosaurs lived in the south of the continent in a swampy lowland that the ruling class-tribe of Atlanteans used as a strategic defensive position against invasion from other, more primitive tribes who had migrated to other continents. Other types of dinosaurs existed in the vast area of what is now Russia.

 

The memory of those distant ancient days only awaits an impetus, and the willpower, to seek out the rediscovery so that it can once again appear before our consciousness. Atlantis exists in modern times only as a myth, nightmare, and perhaps a Utopian dream that is, in actuality, an integrated aspect of the human story. The story of Lemuria and Atlantis is the bridge to humanity’s beginnings, failings, transformations, and the path upon which we came to be what we are today. Due to their far-distant and ancient source points, the details of Lemuria and Atlantis can only be discovered through a genuine form of clairvoyance, as brought to us by the initiates, and limited historical and archaeological research which are debatable. These truths were revealed in prior times only to the initiates through supersensible faculties in the Mystery Centers who had been through long trials of preparation and testing and took solemn oaths of secrecy.

 

Thus, after a brief ice age that followed the final collapse of Atlantis, the smaller civilizations t across the world fell into disarray. Nonetheless, many survived including a foundational Mystery Center in the region of the Gobi Desert founded by the great "Manu"; a high initiate and teacher who recruited a group of initiates to lead humanity into the future prior to the fall of Atlantis. The impulse of India emerged after the Great Flood (around 9,500 BC) and she became the primary bearer of civilization during the first post-Atlantean period until that impulse was destined to pass over to another. Each civilization brought an impulse to the overall spiritual construct of humanity and then faded away or reached a point of stasis as other civilizations progressed.

 

In smaller parts of some of these areas, such as Mexico, China, and South America, the Mysteries descended into black magic and became corrupted where blood cults arose as they had once upon a time in Atlantis. Chaldea, Babylonia, and Egypt were amongst the civilizations that reached a pinnacle of development. The Mysteries survived in Egypt, perhaps, longer than any other. The Mystery Centers of Egypt were renewed, and continued forward, by a long line of initiates and were still in use when the Graeco-Latin period which began in 747BC and was brought forth through the Greek Mysteries in a renewed form.

 

Pythagoras, who stated that through intuition (the clairvoyance of a high initiate) he recognized that he had fought as a Trojan during the Trojan War, spent some 20 years in Egypt and Chaldea as a student at two genuine Mystery Centers and was instructed by Master Initiates. Dr. Steiner revealed that he brought that sacred knowledge back with him to Greece on a special mission. He infused her culture with an impulse and path of spiritual initiation. The initiator and teacher of Pythagoras was the great initiate and teacher Nazarathos who was a later incarnation of Zarathustra and prior incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth.

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“It was only in a form conditioned by a body such as ancient Babylonia was able to produce that Zarathustra could bring forth again all the wisdom which he then conveyed to Pythagoras, to the learned Hebrews and the Chaldean and Babylonian sages who at that time — in the sixth century B.C. — were in a position to hear it.”[23]

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The Mysteries changed and transformed as the conditions of the world changed. The spiritual initiates continued their mission until, at long last, the Mystery Centers, as formal institutions, fell away. Smaller centers have always existed in secret, but the formal state-sponsored facilities fell out of use with the destruction of the philosophic schools by the Roman Catholic Church in the 6th century AD. During that time, the Greek philosophers migrated West into the Arabic world where the writings, such as those by Aristotle, survived in a corrupted form and were brought back to Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. It is not quite fair, however, to say that the Mystery Centers do not exist as the knowledge that was once considered mystery knowledge at that time is now taught in universities across the world through science and art as foundational knowledge. The structured path and science of spiritual initiation, however, has faded into the background of the human experience.

 

During the period of 1100-3000BC, the subject of our karmic study incarnated at least twice in Egypt where he is connected to the Divine Priest Kings who passed through a degree of initiation in the Mystery Centers of Egypt. In a prior incarnation, sometime in the 26th century BC, this soul incarnated in Persia distantly connected to the individuality known today as Gilgamesh who was the founder of the Babylonian and Persian Empire. Very little is known of Gilgamesh whose journeys reached a climax when he was befriended by a certain Enkidu who appeared out of the forest as an uncivilized Wildman and became the lifelong and trusted companion of the ailing king who was suffering from a form of severe emotional sadness. This spiritual disposition could only have been resolved by the companionship of Enkidu. The two souls did battle with and defeated the great bull of Heaven when Enkidu was killed by the tale of the bull. During that lifetime, Dr. Steiner observed that Gilgamesh had attained a degree of spiritual initiation with the help of Enkidu.

 

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Ironically, it had always been revealed, and was accepted as historical fact, that the real Sun God who became known as the Christ through Christ-Jesus, was approaching the earth as the fulfillment of a divine plan and the spiritual evolution for the planet. Thus, Akhenaten was trying to transform, perhaps inappropriately without a proper understanding of the trinity of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, for the final approach of the Sun God; the Christ. I believe that he perceived that the Egyptians had begun to idolize lower Gods, and not the Sun God whom he rightly perceived as the leader of all of the Gods, and the people were thus falling into decadence. Akhenaten had six daughters by his faithful wife, Nefertiti, who had also passed through a stage of training in the Mysteries and was an active part of Egypt’s political and social life as a committed wife and kind-hearted mother.

 

A century later, our subject reincarnated again in the Egyptian culture but not as a king, He was part of the migration of the Jews out of Egypt in pursuit of the river Jordan. He was amongst those who roamed the desert with his young wife when the Hebrews pursued, and found, their destiny in Palestine. These people were not in the desert for 40 years. Rather, it was a relatively shorter duration of time. The Jewish temple was the center of their activities and the entire community revolved around it united in a common cause that resonated throughout the atmosphere. They were connected to the one God and each other as a family. Thus, the same impulse of a spiritual family that the Trojans felt as a group-soul, which shall be reviewed, that bonded them together was also experienced by the Jews making their way out of Egypt.

 

In a subsequent incarnation, this soul lived a tumultuous life the outcome of which would come to define his soul journey for the next 3,000 years. He was not a violent man by nature, but rather a priestly one who preferred peace to war. His martial expertise and karma as a priest-king, however, were rooted in far distant history when his journey began to take shape having been connected, as it were, to the Lion group-soul impulse during the late early Atlantean period. Thus, he was both a martial personality and a priestly one. His spiritual history was connected to the Sun Oracles, or Sun Mysteries, of Atlantis and this manifested in the Trojan people’s allegiance to the ancient God Marduk, or Apollo, which was the name used for the Archangel Michael before Christianity came into the world. The Sun Mystery impulse streamed through the City of Troy as culture, hope, and strength. Troy was one of the most civilized city cultures during the Bronze Age period when the subject of our study reincarnated as the soul we know today as King Priamos around the year 1160BC.

 

The story of Troy, especially for the Trojans, is a harrowing tale for the souls involved. As we shall see, King Priamos was not an old and frail man who made critical errors that led to his city’s ruin. His failure was due to a twist and quirk of fate, the outcome of which came to live within him as a spiritual impulse of destiny, love, and vengeance. Thus, as the subject of our study moved from one life to the next, he tragically yearned for those he loved and lost including the man’s genuine soulmate who had been led away from him by the tide of history and fate. He began to suffer from a dreadful form of Achilles Syndrome. The tragedy of the Trojan War came to live within him as a spiritual impulse and disposition that would heavily influence his destiny over the course of the next 3000 years…

 

 

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Footnotes

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[1] Gospel of John, 1:1

[2] Steiner, Rudolf. Karmic Relationships, Volume 6, Lecture 1.

[3] Dr. Steiner lectured and wrote heavily on the topic of the creation and evolution of humanity as revealed through supersensible perception. Refer to Occult Science An Outline and At the Gates of Spiritual Science as starting points for continued reading.

[4] Refer to the Gospel of St. John lecture series by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, Lecture 3, The Metamorphoses of the Earth, June 26, 1909, Cassel, GA112. The first larger epoch of time upon which the human being and the spiritual worlds were organized and led to our current construct of existence is referred to as “Saturn”, the second “Sun” and the third “Moon”. Our current epoch, as the fourth of seven larger periods of activity, is referred to as “Earth”.

[5] Steiner, Rudolf. The Four Human Group-souls, (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man), Berlin, October 29, 1908 (GA107). This is an abridged quote. In this lecture, Dr. Steiner provides insights on how to envision the nature of the group-soul as it pertained to human beings, and not animals, and how it worked upon individuals during a far-distant period of human transformation.

[6] This is not to be confused with a racial theory. All races, in an ethnic sense, have incarnated within the Aryan stream, or “race”, after it was introduced into humanity during the Atlantean period. The Aryan race therefore carries the structure of all human beings regardless of cultural origins.

[7] Steiner, Rudolf. Cosmic Memory, GA11, Lecture 3.

[8] Steiner, Rudolf. Cosmic Memory, GA11, Lecture 3.

[9] Steiner, Rudolf. Cosmic Memory, GA11, Lecture 3.

[10] Steiner, Rudolf. Theosophy and Rosicrucianism, Lecture XI. Progressive Development Through the Different Cycles of Time.

[11] Steiner, Rudolf. Esoteric Lessons 1, No. 52, GA266. Muenchen July 27, 1909.

[12] See Elizabeth Haich Initiation and Earlyne Chaney Initiation in the Great Pyramid. During this process, which was dangerous, the purified astral body was stamped onto the etheric body, thus expanding the powers and faculties of the human being. The candidates emerged as initiates, and high priests, who possessed miraculous powers of clairvoyance, healing, and guided the peoples who venerated them as genuine links to the spiritual worlds, guides, and teachers.

[13] The current doorway used to enter the Great Pyramid by visitors was blown out using explosives and was not used in the ancient world.

[14] The author has not reviewed or seen any first-hand proof that can validate this claim.

[15] Smaller global shifts occur just prior to a major shift. Steiner reveals that this event occurs at the end of “age”. Our current age, known in esoteric terms as the 5th post-Atlantean period will concluded in approximately 15,000AD.

[16] “It would be quite incorrect to think of the Lemurian man as being like the present man. The Lemurian did not walk about on his legs like a man of the present day; he was more or less a being of the air, and all the organs which are now possessed by the man of the present day were then only germinal or rudimentary. He was able to change his shape, to metamorphose himself. It is quite a mistake to imagine that the Lemurians were similar to the men of the present day, more uncouth, perhaps, but still similar.” Steiner, Rudolf. The Gospel of St. John, Lecture VII

[17] To be contemplated adequately, humanity, historically speaking, must be considered from a lens of rises and falls due to competing influences. Humanity rose initially through Mu to Atlantis and to our current state which rose out of the ashes of Atlantis. Each major transformation has been connected with some degree of continental earth changes and a state of amnesia which separated from shift from another.

[18] Modern research has revealed that the Sphinx was exposed to heavy rains at some point in the past. The devastation that followed the fall of Atlantis changed the landscape of Egypt and what was once a vast green plateau became a desert.

[19] Eliot, William-Scott, The Story of Atlantis, Chapter 1, 1893. An early theosophist, Eliot complied and wrote an insightful overview of Lemuria and Atlantis which was obtained through astral-clairvoyant projection from several different sources. Steiner refers to it in the reprint of his lectures under the title Cosmic Memory, The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the Sexes.

[20] Steiner, Rudolf, Cosmic Memory, The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the Sexes, Chapter 4, “Transition of the Fourth into the Fifth Root Race”. The fifth root race evolved as a necessary step in humanity’s evolution during the Atlantean period. It is not based on “racial” qualities, in the modern sociological sense, but rather qualities of the individual human being which spans across all races.

[21] Steiner, Rudolf, Lecture, The Work of Secret Societies in the World, December 23, 1904.

[22] A researcher will find references in the Cayce readings similar to “…the messengers came when there were the gatherings together of those peoples in defense of the peoples against the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air.” Reading 2855-1. These types of references stem from a council of nations that were brought together within Atlantis to devise a strategy to deal with the remnants of the dinosaurs who were still harassing the inhabitants. I have learned that the “atom splitter” was also used against the dinosaurs and other groups of people at least once during the Atlantean period. Evidence of radiation has been discovered in at least one ancient archaeological site in the territory of Rajasthan in northwestern India where a layer of exceptionally radioactive cinder was found close to Jodhpur. The ancient Indian text “Mahabharata” recounts what could be perceived as an atomic blast where an explosion occurred that was “more brilliant than a thousand suns”.

[23] Steiner, Rudolf. The Gospel of St. Matthew, GA 123, Lecture II, 2 September 1910, Berne.