Chapter II

, On Organic Evolution. “Library of Contemporary Science.”) Why does he reject the possibility of a Secondary‐age man? Simply because he is involved in the meshes of the Darwinian Anthropology. “The origin of man is bound up with that of the higher mammals”; he appeared “only with the _last_ types of his class”! This is not argument, but dogmatism. Theory can never excommunicate fact. Must everything give place to the mere working hypotheses of Western Evolutionists? Surely not!

1676 These placentalia of the third sub‐class are divided, it appears, into villiplacentalia (placenta composed of many separate scattered tufts), the zonoplacentalia (girdle‐shaped placenta), and the discoplacentalia (or discoid). Hæckel sees in the marsupialia didelphia, one of the connecting links _genealogically_ between man and the moneron!!

1677 This inclusion of the First Race in the Secondary is necessarily only a provisional working hypothesis—the actual chronology of the First, Second, and early Third Races being closely veiled by the Initiates. For all that can be said on the subject, the First Root‐ Race may have been Pre‐Secondary, as is, indeed, taught.

1678 The above parallels stand good only if Professor Croll’s earlier calculations are adopted, namely, of 15,000,000 years since the beginning of the Eocene period (see Charles Gould’s _Mythical Monsters_, p. 84), not those in his _Climate and Time_, which allow only two‐and‐a‐half million years, or at the utmost three million years’ duration to the Tertiary age. This, however, would make the whole duration of the incrusted age of the world only 131,600,000 years, according to Professor Winchell, whereas in the Esoteric Doctrine, sedimentation began in _this_ Round approximately over 320,000,000 years ago. Yet his calculations do not clash much with ours with regard to the epochs of glacial periods in the Tertiary age, which is called in our Esoteric books the “Age of the Pigmies.” With regard to the 320,000,000 of years assigned to sedimentation, it must be noted that even a greater time elapsed during the preparation of this Globe for the Fourth Round _previous to stratification_.

1679 Though we apply the term “truly human,” only to the Fourth Atlantean Root‐Race, yet the Third Race is almost human in its latest portion, since it is during its fifth sub‐race that mankind separated sexually, and that the _first man was born_ according to the now normal process. This “first man” answers, in the _Bible_, to Enos or Henoch, son of Seth (_Genesis_, iv.).

1680 Geology records the former existence of a universal ocean, and sheets of marine sediment uniformly present everywhere testify to it; but it is not even the epoch referred to in the allegory of Vaivasvata Manu. The latter is a Deva‐Man (or Manu) saving in an Ark (the female principle) the germs of humanity, and also the seven Rishis—who stand here as the symbols for the seven human principles—of which allegory we have spoken elsewhere. The “Universal Deluge” is the Watery Abyss of the Primordial Principle of Berosus. (See Stanzas ii to viii, in Part I.) How, if 15 million years are allowed by Croll to have elapsed since the Eocene period (which we state on the authority of a Geologist, Mr. Ch. Gould), only 60 millions are assigned by him “since the beginning of the Cambrian period, in the Primordial age”—passes comprehension. The Secondary strata are twice the thickness of the Tertiary, and Geology thus shows the Secondary age alone to be of twice the length of the Tertiary. Shall we then accept only 15 million years for both the Primary and the Primordial? No wonder Darwin rejected the calculation.

1681 See _Esoteric Buddhism_, pp. 53‐55, Fourth Ed.

1682 We hope that we have furnished all the scientific data for it elsewhere.

1683 It is conceded by Geology to be “beyond doubt that a considerable period must have supervened after the departure of Palæolithic man and before the arrival of his Neolithic successor.” (See James Geikie’s _Prehistoric Europe_, and Ch. Gould’s _Mythical Monsters_, p. 98.)

1684 Resembling in a manner the pile‐villages of Northern Borneo.

1685 “The most clever sculptor of modern times would probably not succeed very much better, if his graver were a splinter of flint, and stone and bone were the materials to be engraved”! (Prof. Boyd Dawkins’ _Cave‐Hunting_, p. 344.) It is needless after such a concession to further insist on Huxley’s, Schmidt’s, Laing’s, and others’ statements to the effect that Palæolithic man cannot be considered to lead us back in any way to a pithecoid human race; thus they demolish the fantasies of many superficial evolutionists. The relic of artistic merit here _reäppearing_ in the Chipped‐Stone‐age men, is traceable to their _Atlantean_ ancestry. Neolithic man was a fore‐runner of the great Âryan invasion, and immigrated from quite another quarter—Asia, and in a measure Northern Africa. The tribes peopling the latter towards the North‐West, were certainly of an Atlantean origin—dating back hundreds of thousands of years before the Neolithic Period in Europe—but they had so diverged from the parent type as to present no longer any marked characteristic peculiar to it. As to the contrast between Neolithic and Palæolithic man, it is a remarkable fact that, as Carl Vogt points out, _the former was a cannibal, the much earlier man of the Mammoth era was not_. Human manners and customs do not seem to improve with time, then? Not in this instance at any rate.

1686 _Op. cit._, p. 97.

1687 _Modern Science and Modern Thought_, p. 181.

1688 _Ibid._, p. 112.

1689 On the data furnished by Modern Science, Physiology, and Natural Selection, and without resorting to any miraculous creation, two human negro specimens of the lowest intelligence—say idiots born dumb—might by breeding produce a dumb Pastrana species, which would start a new modified race, and thus produce, in the course of geological time, the regular anthropoid ape.

1690 _Esoteric Buddhism_, p. 64.

1691 _Modern Science and Modern Thought_, p. 98.

1692 _Anfänge zu einer Physiologischen Schöpfungs‐geschichte der Pflanzen‐ und Thierwelt, 1885._

1693 _Op. cit._, p. 212.

1694 _Ibid._, p. 11.

1695 _Man’s Place in Nature_, p. 159.

1696 Sir W. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., _Origin of the World_, p. 39.

1697 _Prehistoric Antiquity of Man_, 1883.

1698 _Antiquity of Man_, p. 25.

1699 _India, What can it Teach Us?_ A course of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge in 1882. Lecture III., p. 110, Ed. 1892.

1700 _Antiquity of Man Historically Considered._ “Present Day Tracts,” Vol. II, Essay IX, p. 25.

1701 _Op. cit._, pp. 10, 11.

1702 _Op. cit._, i. 4.

1703 Palæolithic man must have been endowed in his day with thrice Herculean force and magic invulnerability, or else the lion was as weak as a lamb at that period, for both to share the same dwelling. We may as well be asked to believe that it is that lion or hyæna which engraved the deer on the antler, as be told that this piece of workmanship was done by a savage of such a kind.

1704 _Modern Science and Modern Thought_, p. 164.

1705 _Ibid._, p. 199.

1706 More than twenty specimens of fossil monkeys have been found in one locality alone, in Miocene strata (Pikermi, near Athens). If man was not then, the period is too short for him to have been _transformed_—stretch it as one may. And if he was, and if no monkey is found earlier, what follows?

1707 Dr. C. Carter Blake, Art., “The Genesis of Man.”

1708 _Antiquity of Man_, p. 530.

1709 New Series, i. 115, Art., “Evidences of the Age of Ice.”

1710 _Fallacies of Darwinism._

1711 _Op. cit._, p. 501, Ed. 1863.

1712 _Op. cit._, iv. 162.

1713 See on this question Wilson’s _Prehistoric Man_, ii. 54; _Origin of the World_, pp. 393, 394.

1714 And how much more “enormous” if we reverse the subjects, and say during the monkey’s development from the Third Race Man.

1715 _Op. cit._, pp. 160, 161.

1716 _Principles of Biology_, i. 345.

1717 _Modern Science and Modern Thought_, p. 94.

1718 _Ibid._

1719 The Darwinian theory has been so strained, that even Huxley was forced at one time to deprecate its occasional degeneration into “fanaticism.” Oscar Schmidt presents a good instance of a thinker who unconsciously exaggerates the worth of a hypothesis. He admits (_The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism_, p. 158), that “natural selection ... is in some cases ... inadequate, ... in others ... not requisite, as the solution of the formation of species is found in other natural conditions.” He also asserts the “intermediate grades are ... wanting, which would entitle us to infer with certainty the direct transition from implacental to placental mammals” (p. 271); that “we are referred entirely to conjecture and inference for the origin of the mammals” (p. 268); and he speaks of the repeated failures of the framers of “hypothetical pedigrees,” more especially of Hæckel, while regarding their attempts as valuable (p. 250). Nevertheless he asserts (p. 194) that “what we have gained by the doctrine of descent based on the theory of selection ... is the knowledge of the connection of organisms as consanguineous beings.” Knowledge, in the face of the above‐cited concessions, is, then, the synonym for conjecture and theory only?

1720 _The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism_, p. 268.

1721 _Ibid._, pp. 273‐275.

1722 Bear in mind, please, that though the animals—mammalians included—have all been evolved after and partially _from_ man’s cast‐off tissues, still, as a far lower being, the mammalian animal became placental and separated far earlier than man.

1723 Scientists now admit that Europe enjoyed in the Miocene times a warm, in the Pliocene or later Tertiary, a temperate climate. Littré’s contention as to the balmy spring of the Quaternary—to which deposits M. de Perthes’ discoveries of flint implements are traceable (since when the Somme has worn down its valley many scores of feet)—must be accepted with much reservation. The Somme‐Valley relics are _post‐glacial_, and possibly point to the immigration of savages during one of the more temperate periods intervening between _minor_ ages of Ice.

1724 “Whence they [the old cave‐men] came, we cannot tell” (Grant Allen). “The palæolithic hunters of the Somme Valley did not originate in that inhospitable climate, but moved into Europe from some more genial region” (Dr. Southall, _Epoch of the Mammoth_, p. 315).

1725 The _pure_ Atlantean stocks—of which the tall Quaternary cave‐men were, in part, the direct descendants—immigrated into Europe long prior to the Glacial period; in fact as far back as the Pliocene and Miocene times in the Tertiary. The worked Miocene flints of Thenay, and the traces of Pliocene man discovered by Professor Capellini in Italy, are witnesses to the fact. These colonists were portions of the once glorious Race, whose cycle from the Eocene onwards had been running down the scale.

1726 The artistic skill displayed by the old cave‐men renders the hypothesis which regards them as approximations to the pithecanthropus alalus—that very mythical Hæeckelian monster—an absurdity requiring no Huxley or Schmidt to expose it. We see in their skill in engraving a gleam of Atlantean culture atavistically reäppearing. It will be remembered that Donnelly regards modern European civilization as a _renaissance_ of the Atlantean. (_Atlantis_, pp. 237‐264.)

1727 _Philosophy Historical and Critical_, Pt. II. p. 504, chap., “On Organic Evolution.”

1728 _Lettres sur l’Atlantide_, p. 12.

1729 _Histoire de l’Astronomie Ancienne_, pp. 25, _et seqq._

1730 _Lettres sur l’Atlantide_, p. 15. This conjecture is but a half‐ guess. There were such “deluges of barbarians” in the Fifth Race. With regard to the Fourth, it was a _bonâ fide_ deluge of water which swept it away. Neither Voltaire nor Bailly, however, knew anything of the Secret Doctrine of the East.

1731 For a full discussion of the relations between the _old_ Greeks and Romans, and the Atlantean colonists, see _Five Years of Theosophy_, pp. 308‐346.

1732 _Timæus_, translated by H. Davis, pp. 326‐328.

1733 The story about Atlantis and all the traditions thereon were told, as all know, by Plato in his _Timæus and Critias_. Plato, when a child, had it from his grand‐sire Critias, aged ninety, who in his youth had been told of it by Solon, his father Dropides’ friend—Solon, one of the Seven Sages of Greece. No more reliable source could be found, we should think.

1734 See Dr. Carter Blake’s paper “On the Naulette Jaw,” _Anthropological Review_, Sept., 1867.

1735 See de Quatrefages and Hamy, _Crânes des Races Humaines_.

1736 Hæckel’s “man‐ape” of the Miocene period is the dream of a monomaniac, which de Quatrefages (_Human Species_, pp. 105‐113) has cleverly disposed of. It is not clear why the world should accept the lucubrations of a psychophobic Materialist—to accept whose theory necessitates the acceptance _on faith_ of various animals unknown to Science or Nature, like the Sozura, for instance, that amphibian which has never existed anywhere outside Hæckel’s imagination—rather than the traditions of antiquity.

1737 But see the mass of evidence collected by Donnelly to prove the Peruvian colony an offshoot of the Atlanteans.

1738 _Cavernes de Périgord_, p. 35.

1739 The ingenious author of _Atlantis, the Ante‐diluvian World_, in discussing the origin of various Grecian and Roman institutions, expresses his conviction that “the roots of the institutions of to‐ day reach back to the Miocene age.” Ay, and further yet, as already stated.

1740 _The Human Species_, p. 152.

1741 As we know them, however. For not only does Geology prove that the British Islands have been _four times submerged and reëlevated_, but that the straits between them and Europe were dry land at a former remote epoch.

1742 See, in _Isis Unveiled_ (i. 627), what Kullûka Bhatta says.

1743 _Les Origines de la Terre et de l’Homme_, p. 454. To this, Professor N. Joly, of Toulouse, who thus quotes the Abbé in his _Man before Metals_, expresses the hope that M. Fabre will permit him “to differ from him on this last point” (p. 186). So do the Occultists; for though they claim a vast difference in the physiology and outward appearance of the five Races so far evolved, still they maintain that the present human species has descended from one and the same primitive stock, evolved from the Divine Men—our common ancestors and progenitors.

1744 _Loc. cit._, 15, 18.

1745 _Ibid._, 16.

1746 _Op. cit._, 8‐10.

1747 “The flints of Thenay bear unmistakable trace of the work of human hands.” (G. de Mortillet, _Promenades au Musèe de St. Germain_, p. 76.)

1748 Albert Gaudry, _Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Géologiques_, p. 240.

1749 Speaking of the reindeer hunters of Périgord, Joly says that they “were of great height, athletic, with a strongly built skeleton.” (_Man before Metals_, p. 353.)

1750 “On the shores of the lake of Beauce,” says the Abbé Bourgeois, “man lived in the midst of a fauna which completely disappeared (aceratherium, tapir, mastodon). With the fluviatile sands of Orléannais came the anthropomorphous monkey (pliopitliecus antiquus); therefore, later than man.” See _Comptes Rendus_ of the “Prehistoric Congress” of 1867 at Paris.

1751 De Quatrefages, _The Human Species_, p. 312.

1752 “In making soundings in the slimy soil of the Nile Valley, two baked bricks were discovered, one at the depth of 20, the other at 24 yards. If we estimate the thickness of the annual deposit formed by the river at 8 inches a century [more careful calculations have shown no more than from three to five per century], we must assign to the first of these bricks an age of 12,000 years, and to the second that of 14,000 years. By means of analogous calculations, Burmeister supposes 72,000 years to have elapsed since the first appearance of man upon the soil of Egypt, and Draper attributes to the European man who witnessed the last glacial epoch, an antiquity of more than 250,000 years.” (_Man before Metals_, p. 183.) Egyptian Zodiacs show more than 75,000 years of observation! Note well also that Burmeister speaks only of the Delta population.

1753 See _Esoteric Buddhism_, p. 66, Fifth Edition.

1754 Or on what are now the British Isles, which were not yet detached from the main continent in those days. “The ancient inhabitant of Picardy could pass into Great Britain without crossing the Channel. The British Isles were united to Gaul by an isthmus which has since been submerged.” (_Man before Metals_, p. 184.)

1755 He witnessed and remembered it too, as “the final disappearance of the largest continent [of Atlantis] was an event coïncident with the elevation of the Alps,” a Master writes (see _Esoteric Buddhism_ p. 70). _Pari passu_, as one portion of the dry land of our hemisphere disappeared, some land of the new continent emerged from the seas. It is on this colossal cataclysm, which lasted during a period of 150,000 years, that traditions of all the “deluges” are built, the Jews constructing their version on an event which took place later, on Poseidonis.

1756 “The Antiquity of the Human Race,” in _Man before Metals_, by M. Joly, p. 184.

1757 The scientific “jury” disagreed, as usual; while de Quatrefages, de Mortillet, Worsaæ, Engelhardt, Waldemar, Schmidt, Capellini, Hamy, and Cartailhac, saw upon the flints the traces of human handiwork, Steenstrup, Virchow and Desor refused to do so. Still the majority, if we except some English Scientists, are for Bourgeois.

1758 We take the following description from a scientific work. “The first of these animals [the alligator] designed with considerable skill, is no less than 250 ft. long.... The interior is formed of a heap of stones, over which the form has been moulded in fine stiff clay. The great serpent is represented with open mouth, in the act of swallowing an egg of which the diameter is 100 ft. in the thickest part; the body of the animal is wound in graceful curves and the tail is rolled into a spiral. The entire length of the animal is 1,100 ft. This work is unique ... and there is nothing on the old continent which offers any analogy to it.” Except, however, its symbolism of the Serpent (the Cycle of Time) swallowing the Egg (Kosmos).

1759 It might be better, perhaps, for _fact_ had we more “specialists” in Science and fewer “authorities” on universal questions. We have never heard that Humboldt gave authoritative and final decisions in the matter of polypi, or on the nature of an excrescence.

1760 57,000 years is the date assigned by Dr. Dowler to the remains of the human skeleton, found buried beneath four ancient forests at New Orleans on the banks of the Mississippi river.

1761 Murray says of the Mediterranean barbarians that they marvelled at the prowess of the Atlanteans. “Their physical strength was extraordinary [witness indeed their cyclopean buildings], the earth shaking sometimes under their tread. Whatever they did, was done speedily.... They were wise and communicated their wisdom to men” (_Mythology_, p. 4).

1762 Art. by Dr. C. Carter Blake, 1871.

1763 But the Magi of Persia were never Persians—not even Chaldæans. They came from a far‐off land, the Orientalists being of opinion that the said land was Media. This may be so, but from what part of Media? To this we receive no answer.

1764 _Op. cit._, p. 160.

1765 _Op. cit._, pp. 3‐13.

1766 _Civilization of the Eastern Iranians in Ancient Times_, pp. 130, 131.

1767 Bûmî haptâita, _Yasna_, xxxii. 3.

1768 _Cf._, for instance, vol. i. p. 4, of the Pahlavi Translation; _Bdh._ xxi. 2, 3.

1769 Footnote by Dârâb Dastur Peshotan Sanjânâ, B.A., the translator of Dr. Wilhelm Geiger’s work on the _Civilization of the Eastern Iranians_.

1770 _Op. cit._, pp. 130, 131.

1771 Dr. Kenealy, in his _Book of God_, quotes Vallancey, who says: “I had not been a week landed in Ireland from Gibraltar, ... where I had studied Hebrew and Chaldaic under Jews of various countries ... when I heard a peasant girl say to a boor standing by her, ‘Feach an Maddin Nag’ (Behold the morning star), pointing to the planet Venus, the Maddina Nag of the Chaldæan” (pp. 162, 163).

1772 _Lib._ iv.

1773 There was a time when the whole world, the totality of mankind, had one religion, and when they were of “one lip.” “All the religions of the earth were at first one and emanated from one centre,” says Faber very truly.

1774 _Critias_, translated by Davis, p. 415.

1775 Plato’s veracity has been so unwarrantably impeached by even such friendly critics as Professor Jowett, when the story of Atlantis has been discussed, that it seems well to cite the testimony of a specialist on the subject. It is sufficient to place mere literary cavillers in a very ridiculous position:

“If our knowledge of Atlantis was more thorough, it would no doubt appear that in every instance wherein the people of Europe accord with the people of America, they were both in accord with the people of Atlantis.... It will be seen that in every case where Plato gives us any information in this respect as to Atlantis, we find this agreement to exist. It existed in architecture, sculpture, navigation, engraving, writing, an established priesthood, the mode of worship, agriculture, and the construction of roads and canals; and it is reasonable to suppose that the same correspondence extended down to all the minor details.” (Donnelly, _Atlantis_, p. 164. Twenty‐fourth Ed.)

1776 Christians ought not to object to this doctrine of the periodical destruction of continents by fire and water; for St. Peter speaks of the Earth “standing out of the water, and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished, but [is now] reserved unto fire” (II. iii. 5‐7. See also the _Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers_, p. 4, London, 1815).

1777 See Hesiod’s _Theogony_, 507‐509, and _Odyssey_, i. 51‐53.

1778 _Mèmoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions_, p. 176.

1779 Æschylus, _Prometheus Vinctus_, 351, 429, etc.

1780 iv. 184.

1781 _Pyth._, i. 20; Decharme, _op. cit._, p. 315.

1782 This does not mean that Atlas is the locality where it fell, for this took place in Northern and Central Asia; but that Atlas formed part of the Continent.

1783 Had not Diocletian burned the Esoteric works of the Egyptians in A.D. 296, together with their books on Alchemy, “περὶ χυμείας ἀργύρου καὶ χρυσοῦ”; Cæsar 700,000 rolls at Alexandria; Leo Isaurus 300,000 at Constantinople (eighth cent.); and the Mahommedans all they could lay their sacrilegious hands on—the world might know to‐ day more of Atlantis than it does. For Alchemy had its birthplace in Atlantis during the Fourth Race, and had only its _renaissance_ in Egypt.

1784 Professor Max Müller’s Lectures—_On the Philosophy of Mythology_—are before us. We read his citations of Heracleitus (460 B.C.), declaring that Homer deserved “to be ejected from public assemblies and flogged”; and of Xenophanes “holding Homer and Hesiod responsible for the popular superstitions of Greece,” and for ascribing “to the gods whatever is disgraceful and scandalous among men ... unlawful acts, such as theft, adultery, and fraud.” Finally the Oxford Professor quotes from Professor Jowett’s translation of Plato, where the latter tells Adaimantus (_Republic_) that “the young man [in the state] should not be told that in committing the worst of crimes, he is far from doing anything outrageous, and that he may chastise his father [as Zeus did with Cronus] ... in any manner that he likes, and in this will only be following the example of the first and greatest of the gods.... In my opinion, these stories are _not fit to be repeated_.” To this Prof. Max Müller observes that: “the Greek religion was clearly a national and _traditional_ religion, and, as such, it shared both the advantages and disadvantages _of this form of religious belief_”; while the Christian religion is “an _historical_ and, to a great extent, an individual religion, and it possesses the advantage of an authorized codex and of a settled system of faith” (p. 349). So much the worse if it is “historical,” for surely Lot’s incident with his daughters would only gain, were it “allegorical.”

1785 ἁοιδῶν οἶδε δυστῆνοι λόγοι, _Hercules Furens_, 1346, Dindorf’s Edition.

1786 _Critias_, 421.

1787 Neptune or Poseidon is the Hindû Idas‐pati, identical with Nârâyana (the Mover on the Waters) or Vishnu, and like this Hindû God he is shown crossing the whole horizon in _three steps_. Idas‐pati means also the “Master of the Waters.”

1788 Bailly’s assertion that the 9,000 years mentioned by the Egyptian priests do not represent “solar years” is groundless. Bailly knew nothing of Geology and its calculations; otherwise he would have spoken differently.

1789 See _Matsya Purâna_, which places him among the seven Prajâpatis of the period.

1790 _Iliad_, xxiv. 79.

1791 _Op. cit._, p. 126.

1792 The equivalent of this name is given in the original.

1793 Deucalion is said to have brought the worship of Adonis and Osiris into Phœnicia. Now this worship is that of the Sun, lost and found again in its astronomical significance. It is only at the Pole that the Sun dies out for such a length of time as six months, for in latitude 68° it remains _dead_ only for forty days, as in the festival of Osiris. The two worships were born in the north of Lemuria, or on that Continent of which Asia was a kind of broken prolongation, and which stretched up to the polar regions. This is well shown by de Gebelin’s _Allegories d’Orient_, p. 246, and by Bailly; though neither Hercules nor Osiris are _solar myths_, save in one of their seven aspects.

1794 The Hyperboreans, now regarded as mythical, are described (Herod., iv. 33‐35; Pausanius, i. 31, 32; v. 7, 8; x. 5, 7, 8) as the beloved priests and servants of the Gods, and of Apollo chiefly.

1795 The Cyclopes are not the only “one‐eyed” representatives in tradition. The Arimaspes were a Scythian people, and were also credited with but one eye. (_Géographie Ancienne_, ii. 321.) It is they whom Apollo destroyed with his shafts.

1796 Ulysses was wrecked on the isle of Ææa, where Circe changed all his companions into pigs _for their voluptuousness_; and after that he was thrown into Ogygia, the island of Calypso, where for some seven years he lived with the nymph in illicit connection. Now Calypso was a daughter of Atlas (_Odys._, xii.), and all the traditional ancient versions, when speaking of the Isle of Ogygia, say that it was very distant from Greece, and right in the middle of the Ocean; thus identifying it with Atlantis.

1797 Hygin., _Astron. Poétique_, ii. 15.

1798 _Nineteenth Century_, July, 1887.

1799 Diod. Sic., ii. 307.

1800 To make a difference between Lemuria and Atlantis, the ancient writers referred to the latter as the Northern or Hyperborean Atlantis, and to the former as the Southern. Thus Apollodorus says (_Mythology_, Book ii): “The golden apples carried away by Hercules are not, as some think, in Lybia; they are in the Hyperborean Atlantis.” The Greeks naturalized all the Gods they borrowed and made Hellenes of them, and the moderns helped them. Thus also the Mythologists have tried to make of Eridanus the river Po, in Italy. In the myth of Phaeton it is said that at his death his sisters dropped hot tears which fell into Eridanus and were changed into amber! Now amber is found only in the northern seas, in the Baltic. Phaeton, meeting with his death while carrying heat to the frozen stars of the boreal regions, awakening at the Pole the Dragon made rigid by cold, and being hurled down into the Eridanus, is an allegory referring directly to the changes of climate in those distant times when, from a frigid zone, the polar lands had become a country with a moderate and warm climate. The usurper of the functions of the Sun, Phaeton, being hurled into the Eridanus by Jupiter’s thunderbolt, is an allusion to the second change that took place in those regions when, once more, the land where “the magnolia blossomed” became the desolate forbidding land of the farthest north and eternal ice. This allegory covers then the events of two Pralayas; and if well understood, ought to be a demonstration of the enormous antiquity of the human races.

1801 _Iliad_, xvii. 431‐453.

1802 _Ibid._, 322‐336.

1803 See Apollodorus for this number.

1804 See “The Sons of God and the Sacred Island.”

1805 So occult and mystic is one of the aspects of Latona that she is made to reappear even in _Revelation_ (xii), as the woman clothed with the Sun (Apollo) and the Moon (Diana) under her feet, who being with child “cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.” A great red Dragon stands before the woman ready to devour the child. She brings forth the man‐child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and who was caught unto the throne of God—the Sun. The woman fled to the wilderness still pursued by the Dragon, who flees again, and casts out of his mouth water as a flood, when the Earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood; and the Dragon went to make war with the remnant of her seed who kept the commandments of God. (See xii. 1, 17.) Anyone who reads the allegory of Latona pursued by the revenge of jealous Juno, will recognize the identity of the two versions. Juno sends Python, the Dragon, to persecute and destroy Latona and devour her babe. The latter is Apollo, the Sun, for the man‐child of _Revelation_, “who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron” is surely not the meek “Son of God,” Jesus, but the physical Sun, “who rules all nations”; the Dragon being the North Pole, gradually chasing the early Lemurians from the lands which became more and more Hyperborean and unfit to be inhabited by those who were fast developing into physical men, for they now had to deal with the climatic variations. The Dragon will not allow Latona “to bring forth”—the Sun to appear. “She is driven from heaven, and finds no place where she can bring forth,” until Neptune, the Ocean, in pity, makes immovable the floating isle of Delos—the nymph Asteria, hitherto hiding from Jupiter under the waves of the Ocean—on which Latona finds refuge, and where the bright God Delius is born, the God, who no sooner appears than he kills Python, the cold and frost of the Arctic region, in whose deadly coils all life becomes extinct. In other words, Latona‐ Lemuria is transformed into Niobe‐Atlantis, over which her son Apollo, or the Sun, reigns—with an iron rod, truly, since Herodotus makes the Atlantes _curse_ his too great heat. This allegory is reproduced in its other mystic meaning (another of the seven keys) in the just cited chapter of _Revelation_. Latona became a powerful Goddess indeed, and saw her son receive worship (solar worship) in almost every fane of antiquity. In his Occult aspect Apollo is patron of number Seven. He is born on the seventh of the month, and the swans of Myorica swim seven times round Delos singing that event; he is given seven chords to his Lyre—the seven rays of the Sun and the seven forces of Nature. But this is only in the astronomical meaning, whereas the above is purely geological.

1806 See Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, vi.

1807 _Lettres sur l’Atlantide_, p. 137.

1808 Hesiod, _Opera et Dies_, 143.

1809 _Hist. Nat._, iv. 12.

1810 _Marius._

1811 _Op. cit._, c. 16.

1812 Isaac Myer’s _Qabbalah_, p. 139.

1813 Diod., ii. 225.

1814 _Op. cit._, xxxvii. 2.

1815 Vol. i. pp. 462‐464.

1816 These islands were “found strewn with fossils of horses, sheep, oxen, etc., among gigantic bones of elephants, mammoths, rhinoceroses,” etc. If there was no man on Earth at that period “how came horses and sheep to be found in company with the huge antediluvians?”—asks a Master in a letter. (_Esoteric Buddhism_, p. 67.) The reply is given above in the text.

1817 _Op. cit._, iv. 239‐262.

1818 A good proof that all the Gods, and religious beliefs, and myths have come from the North, which was also the cradle of _physical_ man, lies in several suggestive words which have originated and remain to this day among the northern tribes in their primeval significance; but, although there was a time when all the nations were of “one lip,” these words have received a different meaning with the Greeks and Latins. One such word is _mann_, _man_, a living being, and _manes_, dead men. The Laplanders call their corpses to this day _manee_ (_Voyage de Rénard en Laponie_, i. 184). _Mannus_ is the ancestor of the German race; the Hindû _Manu_, the thinking being, from _man_; the Egyptian _Menes_; and _Minos_, the King of Crete, judge of the infernal regions after his death—all proceed from the same word or root.

1819 Thus, for instance, Gyges is a hundred‐armed and fifty‐headed monster, a Demi‐god in one case, and a Lydian, the successor of Candaules, king of the country, in another version. The same is found in the Indian Pantheon, where Rishis and the Sons of Brahmâ are reborn as mortals.

1820 _Op. cit._, viii. 13.

1821 The continents perish in turn by fire and water; either through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or by sinking and the great displacement of waters. Our continents have to perish by the former cataclysmal process. The incessant earthquakes of the past years may be a warning.

1822 See Decharme’s _Mythologie de la Grèce Antique_.

1823 Denis, the Geographer, tells us that the great sea north of Asia was called glacial, or Saturnine (v. 35). Orpheus (v. 1077) and Pliny (iv. 16) corroborate the statement by showing that it was its giant inhabitants who gave it the name. And the Secret Doctrine explains both assertions by telling us that all the continents were formed from North to South; and that as the sudden change of climate dwarfed the race that had been born on it, arresting its growth, so, several degrees southward, various conditions had always produced the tallest men in every new humanity, or race. We see it to this day. The tallest men now found are those in Northern countries, while the smallest are Southern Asiatics, Hindûs, Chinamen, Japanese, etc. Compare the tall Sikhs and Punjabees, the Afghans, Norwegians, Russians, Northern Germans, Scotchmen, and English, with the inhabitants of Central India and the average European on the continent. Thus also the Giants of Atlantis, and hence the Titans of Hesiod, are all Northerners.

1824 Having already given several instances of the vagaries of Science, it is delightful to find such agreement in this particular case. Read in connection with the scientific admission (cited elsewhere) of the Geologists’ ignorance of even the approximate duration of periods, the following passage is highly instructive: “We are not yet able to assign an approximate date for the most recent epoch at which our northern hemisphere was covered with glaciers. According to Mr. Wallace, this epoch may have occurred no more than seventy thousand years ago, while others would assign to it an antiquity of at least two hundred thousand years, and there are yet others who urge strong arguments on behalf of the opinion that a million of years is barely enough to have produced the changes which have taken place since that event.” (Fiske, _Cosmic Philosophy_, i. 304, Ed. 1874.) Prof. Lefèvre, again, gives us as _his_ estimate one hundred thousand years. Clearly, then, if Modern Science is unable to estimate the date of so comparatively recent an era as the Glacial Epoch, it can hardly impeach the Esoteric Chronology of Race‐Periods and Geological Ages.

1825 Cited in Schmidt’s _Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism_, pp. 300, 301.

1826 _Philosophy Historical and Critical_, p. 508.

1827 _Human Species_, pp. 428, _et seqq._

1828 Art., “The First Volume of the Publications of the ’Challenger,’” p. 2, Nov. 4th, 1880.

1829 _Op. cit._, Art., “Australia and Europe formerly one Continent” (v. 19, 25). Undoubtedly a fact, and a confirmation of the Esoteric conception of Lemuria, which originally not only embraced great areas in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but projected round South Africa into the North Atlantic. Its Atlantic portion subsequently became the geological basis of the future home of the Fourth Race Atlanteans.

1830 _Ibid._, i. 143.

1831 _Cf._, the published reports of the “Challenger” expedition; also Donnelly’s _Atlantis_, p. 468 and pp. 46‐56, Chap., “The Testimony of the Sea.”

1832 Even the cautious Lefèvre speaks of the existence of Tertiary men on “upheaved lands, islands and continents then flourishing, but since submerged beneath the waters,” and elsewhere introduces a “possible Atlantis” to explain ethnological facts. _Cf._, his _Philosophy Historical and Critical_, pp. 478 and 504. Mr. Donnelly remarks with rare intuition that “modern civilization is Atlantean ... the inventive faculty of the present age is taking up the great delegated work of creation where Atlantis left it thousands of years ago” (_Atlantis_, p. 177. Twenty‐fourth Ed.). He also refers the origin of culture to the Miocene times. It is, however, to be sought for in the teachings given to the Third Race men by their Divine Rulers—at a vastly earlier period.

1833 An equally “curious” similarity may be traced between some of the West Indian and West African fauna.

1834 The Pacific portion of the giant Lemurian Continent christened by Dr. Carter Blake, the Anthropologist, “Pacificus.”

1835 “Subsidence and Elevation,” _Geological Magazine_, pp. 241, 245, June, 1881.

1836 _Antiquity of Man_, p. 492.

1837 When Howard read, before the Royal Society of London, a paper on the first serious researches that were made on the aerolites, the Geneva Naturalist Pictet, who was present, communicated, on his return to Paris, the facts reported to the French Academy of Sciences. But he was forthwith interrupted by Laplace, the great Astronomer, who cried: “Stop! we have had enough of such _fables_, and know all about them,” thus making Pictet feel very small. Globular‐shaped lightnings or thunder‐bolts have been admitted by Science only since Arago demonstrated their existence. Says de Rochat (_Forces Non‐ definies_, p. 4): “Every one remembers Dr. Bouilland’s misadventure at the Academy of Medicine when he had declared Edison’s phonograph ‘_a trick of ventriloquism_’!”

1838 _Principles of Geology_, i. 9, 10.

1839 _Ibid._

1840 The Cyclic Law of Race‐Evolution is most unwelcome to Scientists. It is sufficient to mention the fact of “primeval civilization” to excite the frenzy of Darwinians; it being obvious that the further culture and science is pushed back, the more precarious becomes the basis of the ape‐ancestor theory. But as Jacolliot says: “Whatever there may be in these traditions [submerged continents, etc.], and whatever may have been the place where a civilization more ancient than that of Rome, of Greece, of Egypt, and of India, was developed, it is certain that this civilization did exist, and it is highly important for science to recover its traces, however feeble and fugitive they be.” (_Histoire des Vièrges; les Peuples et les Continents Disparus_, p. 15.) Donnelly has proved the fact from the clearest premises, but the Evolutionists will not listen. A Miocene civilization upsets the “universal Stone age” theory, and that of a _continuous_ ascent of man from animalism. And yet Egypt, at least, runs counter to current hypotheses. There is no Stone age visible there, but a more glorious culture is apparent the further back we are enabled to carry our retrospect.

1841 _Myths and Myth‐Makers_, p. 21.

1842 Violent minor cataclysms and colossal earthquakes are recorded in the annals of most nations—if not of all. Elevation and subsidence of continents is always in progress. The whole coast of South America has been raised up 10 to 15 feet and settled down again in an hour. Huxley has shown that the British Islands have been four times depressed beneath the ocean and subsequently raised again and peopled. The Alps, Himâlayas and Cordilleras were all the result of depositions drifted on to sea‐bottoms and upheaved by Titanic forces to their present elevation. The Sahara was the basin of a Miocene sea. Within the last five or six thousand years the shores of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, have risen from 200 to 600 feet; in Scotland there are raised beaches with outlying stacks and skerries surmounting the shore now eroded by the hungry wave. The North of Europe is still rising from the sea, and South America presents the phenomenon of raised beaches of over 1,000 miles in length, now at a height varying from 100 to 1,300 feet above the sea‐level. On the other hand, the coast of Greenland is sinking fast, so much so that the Greenlander will not build by the shore. All these phenomena are certain. Why then may not a gradual change have given place to a violent cataclysm in remote epochs—such cataclysms occurring on a minor scale even now, _e.g._, the case of Sunda Island with the destruction of 80,000 Malays?

1843 For the opinions of Jacolliot, after long travels through the Polynesian Islands, and his proofs of a former great geological cataclysm in the Pacific Ocean, see his _Histoire des Vièrges; les Peuples et les Continents Disparus_, p. 308.

1844 August, 1880.

1845 _Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism_, pp. 236, 237. _Cf._ also his lengthy arguments on the subject, pp. 231‐235.

1846 _Op. cit._, i. 22, 23, Ed. 1869.

1847 _Pedigree of Man_, p. 73.

1848 Cited in Schmidt’s _Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism_, p. 238.

1849 For further facts as to the isolation of the Basques in Europe and their ethnological relations, see Joly, _Man before Metals_, p. 316. B. Davis is disposed to concede, from an examination of the skulls of the Guanches of the Canary Islands and modern Basques, that both belong to a race proper to those _ancient_ islands, of which the Canaries are the _remains_! This is a step in advance indeed. De Quatrefages and Hamy also both assign the Cro‐Magnon men of South France and the Guanches to _one_ type—a proposition which involves a certain corollary which both these writers may not care to father.

1850 _Families of Speech._

1851 _Cf._, Benjamin, _The Atlantic Islands_, p. 130.

1852 _Westminster Review_, Jan., 1872.

1853 Schmidt, _Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism_, p. 223.

1854 Professor Retzius, _Smithsonian Report_, 1859, p. 266.

1855 See the investigations of United States ship “Dolphin” and others.

1856 _Scientific American_, July 28th, 1877.

1857 See his chart, _Atlantis_, p. 46, though he deals with only a fragment of the _real_ Continent.

1858 Donnelly, _Atlantis_, p. 480.

1859 _Maçonnerie Occulte_, p. 44.

1860 _Vide_ Sir William Thompson and Mr. Huxley.