Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific

by Wishar S. Cervé, James D. Ward

Beneath the rolling, restless seas lie the mysteries of forgotten civilizations. Swept by the tides, half buried in the sands, worn away by terrific pressure, are the remnants of a culture little known to our age of today. Where the mighty Pacific now rolls in a majestic sweep of thousands of miles, there was once a vast continent. This land was known as Lemuria, and its people as Lemurians. We pride ourselves upon the inventions, conveniences, and developments of today. We call them modern, but these ancient and long-forgotten people excelled us. Things we speak of as future possibilities, they knew as everyday realities. Science has gradually pieced together the evidences of this lost race, and in this book you will find the most astounding, enthralling chapters you have ever read. How these people came to be swept from the face of the earth, except for survivors who have livings descendants today, is explained. Illustrations and explanations of their mystic symbols, maps of the continent and many ancient truths and laws are contained in this unusual book. If you are a lover of mystery, of the unknown, the weird — read this book. Does civilization reach a certain height, and then retrograde? Are the culture and progress of mankind in cycles, reaching certain peaks, and then returning to start over again? These questions and many more are answered in this intriguing volume. Read of the living descendants of these people, whose expansive nation now lies at the bottom of the Pacific. In the minds of these descendants is the knowledge of the principles which in by-gone centuries made their forebears builders of an astounding civilization.

Genres: Nonfiction

111 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2015

Reviews

[James Crawford · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book was first published in 1939. It has two copyright dates later than that but there is no indication there was any revision in the book itself. There have been many changes in scientific knowledge since then, of course, but the book does not reflect any of these changes. Thus it has rather a few errors in it.

One thing it does get right is the idea that some people in Oceanic Pacific areas did find a way to migrate to the North and South America. Also they got right the idea that part of North America was also at once time covered by a sea.

He says that Lemuria was located in the Southern Pacific ocean with the western edge touching Asia and the Eastern edge touching North America.

So, on to some of the errors:

Intelligent races developed in mild and cold climates and less intelligent races in hot climates. (Racism, anyone?)

North Americans are the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel (although later in the book it says that they are descendants of Lemurians.)

Many Pacific islands are remnants of Lemuria.

The Mayans are descendants of the Lemurians.


Lemuria was the cradle of the human race. (Not Africa.)

Lemurians started establishing colonies 80,000 years ago. (There is no evidence in either America that humans existed there that long ago. Maybe around a fourth of that time ago but not later.)

Humans are not descended from lower life forms.

Dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time.

Earthquakes are caused by disruptive discharges of electicity through the strata. (No continental drift, no tectonic plates, etc.)

Other interesting things from the book:


For an 'advanced' civilization I find it odd that many of their homes had thatched roofs.

Also odd is that Lemurians had bigger heads and longer arms than present-day humans.

He also claims they could sense things in the 4th dimension.

They had a communistic society and there was no divorce. They also used colar energy. They did not care for plays or movies.

Egypt is the origin of secret fraternities.

There are some odd things near Mt. Shasta including strange lights, domes and a whole group of white-robed people.

Summary thoughts: There is little reason in publishing a book like this that has so many errors an false assumptions unless you make it clear it is being published as a historical oddity. There should have been a section correcting the mistakes and talk about scientific advances sine 1939.

[Bella · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMAZING STORY

What an amazing historical and also MAGICAL telling of west coast, California most notably, and it’s first settlers, who were far from regular humans. Our ancestors go back much farther than most of us realize, and we’re credibly interesting and powerful. I couldn’t put this book down. It was such and easy read as well, yet I learned sooo much. Highly, highly recommend!

[Hilary · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was hoping when I read this to learn some interesting legends and folklore. What I got was a bunch of racist pseudoscience. The constant racist assertions about the nature of people of different geographic origins and the author's apparent pride in never citing a source were so distracting I couldn't even enjoy it as a piece of alternate-Earth fiction.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

Whoa! This was a fun ride. Not convinced by a word of it. Would have loved some evidence (old docs, manuscripts, maps, sketches, antediluvian doodles) to back up anything in the text. Instead what it reads as is the new-age, secret society, communistic utopian wet dream. See the Lemurians were an ideal highly advanced race who had solved the problems of human society but then their continent sunk and only whispers of them have survived to the present time. They had like, magic rocks, precognition and shit. Last chapter deals with eerie sightings in the Californian mountains and was by far the most entertaining.

Author goes to some length defending his choice to not include any concrete details or evidence of what he's claiming - which is a pretty big red flag. Published by the good folk at the Rosicrucian Order.

[Saxon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting theories, but hard to continue to read straight thru for I thought the Roducruscians would have scriptures of some sort to back up the claims. At the moment it is just another belief system, that one is to take at face value, for it is the truth because the source material they got the lessons from have been carbon dated centuries before the R.C.C. took over the same role with Constantine to Control the masses.

[Alfhar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rosicrushian bullshit is what this is, it's another Rockefeller Smithsonian fraud book I thought it was going to tell the truth and it told some of the truth but hardly shit about all of the important things that it mostly hides and lies about this is obviously free mason lies that they are casting. But I digress. Don't believe anything this book says.

[Christine Price · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting Read

The information is of course, dated, since the book was published nearly 90 years ago. However, there are some fanciful and arcane notions expressed in the book that make it worth reading.

[Samuel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Feel I can't give more than two stars because of the, ah, obvious lies, but entertaining enough.

[Leslie Ward]

Interesting concepts, but it contains some VERY outdated beliefs on race. While reading it, just remember that it was originally published in 1931.

[Paola Gortari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si bien es un libro interesante con toda la información que se plantea, su lectura es tediosa a ratos, lo que hace difícil de seguir y terminar

[Keir · Rating 1 out of 5]

The introduction was filled with promises of secrets to be revealed and an utterly silly premise of refusing to provide "ponderous" scientific evidence and citations lest the "ordinary reader" become bored. It was a good joke that became dull and unfunny after ceaseless repetition, i.e. by midway through the first chapter. The rest delivered nothing except more refusals to provide details and the kind of patronising, racist nonsense we've come to expect from eugenics enthusiasts. And somehow they managed to make it the very thing they claimed they were trying to avoid: boring.