The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

They too had their virgin-mother goddess, "Our Lady" whose son, the"Lord of Light," was called the "Saviour," ...

In addition to baptism, the tribes of Mexico, Central America and Peruresembled the nations of the old world in their rites of confession,ab...

Baptismal rites were practised by all nations. In Babylon and Egyptthe candidates for initiation into the Mysteries were first baptized.Tert...

In like manner in both hemispheres the worship of the sun-disk orcircle, and of the serpent, was universal, and more surprising stillis the ...

_Fourth._--Nothing seems to have surprised the first Spanishadventurers in Mexico and Peru more than the extraordinary similarityto those of...

A remarkable fact about the American Indians, and one which is astanding puzzle to ethnologists, is the wide range of colour andcomplexion t...

Professor Retzius, in his _Smithsonian Report_, considers that theprimitive dolichocephalae of America are nearly related to the Guanchesof ...

Ethnological Types._--Atlantis as we shall see is said to have beeninhabited by red, yellow, white and black races. It is now proved bythe r...

The similarity of language among the various savages races of thePacific islands has been used as an argument by writers on thissubject. The...

One more point may be noticed, _viz._, the extraordinary resemblancebetween many words in the Hebrew language and words bearing preciselythe...

The Phoenicians apparently were the first nation in the EasternHemisphere to use a phonetic alphabet, the characters being regardedas mere s...

_Third._--From the fauna and flora we now turn to man. _Language._--The Basque language stands alone amongst Europeantongues, having affinit...

Professor Wallace in his delightful _Island Life_ as well as otherwriters in many important works, have put forward ingenious hypothesesto a...

But the greatest problem of all is the plantain or banana. ProfessorKuntze, an eminent German botanist, asks, "In what way was this pla...

Turning now from the animal to the vegetable kingdom it appears thatthe greater part of the flora of the Miocene age in Europe--foundchiefly...

The soundings too showed that the ridge is covered with volcanic_debris_ of which traces are to be found right across the ocean to theAmeric...

In the first place, then, the testimony of the deep-sea soundings maybe summarized in a few words. Thanks chiefly to the expeditions of theB...

Now the testimony of the oldest writers and of modern scientificresearch alike bear witness to the existence of an ancient continentoccupyin...

Catastrophes, too, on a scale such as have not yet been experiencedduring the life of our present Fifth Race, took place on more than oneocc...

In addition also to the blank period in the past, there is the blankperiod in the future. For of the seven sub-races required to completethe...

A Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch. The general scope of the subject before us will best be realized byconsidering the amoun...

In this way nonsense is made of the whole retrospect; and theethnological scheme remains so vague and shadowy that it fails todisplace crude...

Laborious as the task has been however, it will be recognized as amplyrepaying the trouble taken, by everyone who is able to perceive howabs...

For the benefit of others who may be more intuitive it may be well tosay a word or two that may guard them from supposing that becausehistor...

There is no limit really to the resources of astral clairvoyance ininvestigations concerning the past history of the earth, whether weare co...

The memory of Nature is in reality a stupendous unity, just as inanother way all mankind is found to constitute a spiritual unity if weascen...

I do not say that the one thought necessarily ensues as a logicalconsequence of the other. Occultists know that what I have stated isthe fac...

We may best be helped to a comprehension of clairvoyance as related topast events, by considering in the first instance the phenomena ofmemo...

For anyone who will have the patience to study the published resultsof psychic investigation during the last fifty years, the reality ofclai...

For readers unacquainted with the progress that has been made inrecent years by earnest students of occultism attached to theTheosophical So...