The Lost Lemuria: The Story of the Lost Civilization

by William Scott-Elliot

" It is generally recognised by science that what is now dry land, on the surface of our globe, was once the ocean floor, and that what is now the ocean floor was once dry land. Geologists have in some cases been able to specify the exact portions of the earth's surface where these subsidences and upheavals have taken place, and although the lost continent of Atlantis has so far received scant recognition from the world of science, the general concensus of opinion has for long pointed to the existence, at some prehistoric time, of a vast southern continent to which the name of Lemuria has been assigned. Evidence supplied by Geology and by the relative distribution of living and extinct Animals and Plants."

50 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 2015

About the author

William Scott-Elliot (1849-1919) was a theosophist who elaborated Helena Blavatsky's concept of root races in several publications, most notably The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria, later combined in 1925 into a single volume called The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria.

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Reviews

[Bobby Daugherty · Rating 2 out of 5]

More theosophy. Short and it reads like a sort of cliff notes of other material on the subject. May be ok for a quick introduction to the topic.

[Tumchenmamentumlein · Rating 2 out of 5]

The evolution of this Lemurian race, therefore, constitutes
one of the most obscure, as well as one of the most interesting,
chapters of man's development, for during this period not only
did he reach true humanity, but his body underwent the greatest
physical changes, while the processes of reproduction were twice
altered.

p.20

The organs of vision of these creatures before they
developed bones were of a rudimentary nature, at least such
was the condition of the two eyes in front with which they
sought for their food upon the ground. But there was a
third eye at the back of the head, the atrophied remnant of which
of which is now known as the pineal gland. This, as we know,
is now a centre solely of astral vision, but at the epoch of which
we are speaking it was the chief centre not only of astral but of
physical sight.

p. 22