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Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific
Beneath the rollings seas lie the mysteries of forgotten civilizations. Swept by the tides, half buried by the sands, worn away by terrific pressure are the remnants of a culture little known to our age. Where the mighty Pacific now sweeps majestically for thousands of miles, there was once a vast continent. This land was known as Lemuria, and its people as Lemurians. In this book you will learn the incredible truth about the Lemurian race, their civilization's high development, their advanced technology, their deep comprehension of psychic and spiritual laws, and how their civilization was utterly destroyed. Yet the vast knowledge they possessed was not lost but has been preserved - kept alive in the hearts and minds of a sacred group today. Will our present civilization benefit from these inspiring, spiritual truths? This book reveals these things in a way you will never forget. California and the West Coast of the United States were once part of the vast continent of Lemuria. From early times, legends and myths have circulated about California's mountain of mystery - Shasta - linking it with an ancient, forgotten people and a great sunken continent to the west. Is Mt. Shasta the repository of the remnants of Lemurian civilization? What do the strange rock-carved symbols in the Shasta region reveal about an ancient civilization swept from the face of the earth, except for surviviors who live among us today? Now you can witness the evidence and experience the glory that was Lemuria in Wishar S. Cerve's captivating book.
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197 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1931
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January 27, 2016
A very slow read. Many off the wall assumptions and "facts" are used as proof of the theories proposed. Read this only if you are really into the Atlantis and Lemuria myths. Not recommended
March 9, 2017
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.
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.
January 21, 2008
Where would I be without crazy people writing earnest books? Here's a quote:
"In fact, the average forehead of the Lemurians must have been about six or seven inches in height. In the center of this forehead, about an inch and a half above the bridge of the nose, there was a large protrusion much like the size and shape of a walnut. We would look upon this sort of growth in the center of the forehead today as a disfigurement, but with them it was perfectly natural..."
Hooray for nuts with their hearts in the right places.
"In fact, the average forehead of the Lemurians must have been about six or seven inches in height. In the center of this forehead, about an inch and a half above the bridge of the nose, there was a large protrusion much like the size and shape of a walnut. We would look upon this sort of growth in the center of the forehead today as a disfigurement, but with them it was perfectly natural..."
Hooray for nuts with their hearts in the right places.
April 23, 2020
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!
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!
January 19, 2016
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.
July 21, 2017
I am fascinated by the notion that before written history
we have no clue of thousands of years of civilizations and cultures
that may have existed and legends of Atlantis and Lemuria
have numerous scholars tracing archeology, pottery, ruins,
stone monuments and trying to piece a story together of who
inhabited the planet before us.
we have no clue of thousands of years of civilizations and cultures
that may have existed and legends of Atlantis and Lemuria
have numerous scholars tracing archeology, pottery, ruins,
stone monuments and trying to piece a story together of who
inhabited the planet before us.
July 5, 2021
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.
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.
December 16, 2022
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.
January 25, 2018
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.
August 5, 2021
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.
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.
October 31, 2021
Feel I can't give more than two stars because of the, ah, obvious lies, but entertaining enough.
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August 9, 2023Interesting concepts, but it contains some VERY outdated beliefs on race. While reading it, just remember that it was originally published in 1931.
February 8, 2024
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
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August 3, 20109 ed 1963
April 1, 2017
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.
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