Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - Horus Centre

means ‘Earth-spawned creature,’ and ‘commune’ or ‘community’ have their origins in the word
‘Mu’, describing the nature of the relationship these people had with each other and with their
surroundings.
It was truly a paradise, an existence of beauty and harmony, as we might think of the Biblical
Garden of Eden. Soul was free to enter the physical and also leave at will. It was very much a
peaceful type of existence. The Lemurians themselves were much like one thinks of an idyllic
tribe of Native American Indians. They were intensely spiritual, and rejected technological
advancements for the very simplicities of nature.
The most famous promoter of lost Lemuria was Colonel James Churchward. Churchward
spent 50 years of his life researching the continent and writing a series of books exploring its
various aspects, including its effects on world civilization in modern times. Churchward says he
gained much of his information from the Naacal Tablets found in Mexico, tablets that are said to
be more than 12,000 years old themselves.
While many of Churchward’s ideas have there basis in fact, he, like Zechariah Sitchin, failed
to take into account the other mitigating factors that were taking place on the planet at the same
time. This can be the problem with people having too narrow an area of specialization. The
tendency is to relate everything they discover to their own one area. While Lemuria indeed did
play a major role in the formation of many aspects of our early culture, because the continent
broke up long before the last remnants of Atlantis did, its influences are largely forgotten. Or, if
not forgotten, then purposely buried ‘in plain sight.’
Lemuria was, indeed, the Motherland, and as Cayce suggests, each race that was originally
seeded at that time had a different aspect of spiritual growth to work with related to the five
physical senses. The Lemurians had an emotional nature—thus it was called ‘the Motherland.’
They were less aggressive, more intuitive, more artistic and concerned with the creative side of
their being, as well as being more in tune with the planet and their surroundings. The Atlanteans
who co-existed with the Lemurians for a long period of time were the primal source of ‘the
Fatherland’ mentality.
Later when these two cultures ‘clashed’, it was an archetypal battle of the mother versus the
father, the artist mentality versus the scientific mentality; a war of the left hemisphere of the brain
versus the right hemisphere. Whereas the Earth was ‘created’ to bring all the various aspects of
the Civilizations into a Oneness of being, so too could these two cultures have merged rather
than have clashed. This would have created a more balanced emotional/mental being who would
have fulfilled more of the purpose of the planet, bringing humanity into a state of physical and
spiritual balance.
In looking at these archetypes of the Mother versus the Father inherent in these two types of
culture, Joseph Campbell makes the mistake of assuming that the one came out of or followed
the other. He associates hunting with a primary period dominated by the males, and a secondary
period of planting overseen by the females:
“And the role of women (in planting) has perhaps already been greatly enhanced, both
socially and symbolically; for whereas in the hunting period the chief contributors to the
sustenance of the tribes had been the men and the role of the women had been largely that of
drudges, now the female’s economic contributions were of first importance. She participated—
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