The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
In the epoch of which we are treating, the Continent of Lemuria had
already broken asunder in many places, and formed new separate continents.
Nevertheless, neither Africa nor the Americas, still less Europe, existed
in those days; all of them slumbering as yet on the ocean‐floors. Nor was
there much of present Asia; for the Cis‐Himâlayan regions were covered
with seas, and beyond them stretched the “lotus leaves” of Shveta‐dvîpa,
the countries now called Greenland, Eastern and Western Siberia, etc. The
immense Continent, which had once reigned supreme over the Indian,
Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, now consisted of huge islands which were
gradually disappearing one after the other, until the final convulsion
engulfed the last remains of it. Easter Island, for instance, belongs to
the earliest civilization of the Third Race. It was a volcanic and sudden
uplifting of the ocean‐floor, which raised this small relic of the Archaic
Ages—after it had been submerged with the rest—untouched, with its volcano
and statues, during the Champlain epoch of north polar submersion, as a
standing witness to the existence of Lemuria. It is said that some of the
Australian tribes are the last remnants of the last descendants of the
Third Race.
In this we are again corroborated to a degree by Materialistic Science.
Hæckel, when speaking of Blumenbach’s brown or Malay race, and the
Australians and Papuans, remarks:
There is much likeness between these last and the Aborigines of
Polynesia, that Australian island‐world, that _seems to have been
once on a time a gigantic and continuous continent_.(732)
It certainly was “a gigantic and continuous continent,” for, during the
Third Race, it stretched east and west, as far as where the two Americas
now lie. The present Australia was but a portion of it, and in addition to
this there are a few surviving islands strewn hither and thither on the
face of the Pacific, and a large strip of California, which belonged to
it. Funnily enough, Hæckel, in his fantastic _Pedigree of Man_, considers:
The Australians of to‐day as the lineal descendants, almost
unchanged [?!], of that _second_ branch of the primitive human
race ... that spread northwards, at first chiefly in Asia, from
the home of man’s infancy, and seems to have been the parent of
all the other straight‐haired races of men.... The one, woolly‐
haired, migrated in part westwards [_i.e._, to Africa and
eastwards to New Guinea, which countries had then, as said, no
existence as yet].... The other, straight‐haired, was evolved
farther to the North, in Asia, and ... peopled Australia.(733)
As writes a Master:
Behold the relics of that once great nation [Lemuria of the Third
Race] in _some_ of the flat‐headed aborigines of your
Australia.(734)
But they belong to the last remnants of the seventh sub‐race of the Third.
Professor Hæckel must also have _dreamt_ a dream and seen for once a
_true_ vision!
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