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In other words, they were the Lemuro-Atlanteans, the first who had
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* America when discovered, was called Atlanta by some native tribes.
** Since then Donnelly's Atlantis has appeared, and soon its actual existence will have become a scientific fact.
*** It is so divided to this day, and theosophists and Occultists, who have learned something of the Occult but undeniable
power of Dugpaship at their own expense, know this but too well.
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a dynasty of Spirit-Kings, not of Manes, or "ghosts," as some believe (See "Pneumatologie"), but of actual living Devas
(or demi-gods or Angels, again) who had assumed bodies to rule over them, and who, in their turn, instructed them in arts
and sciences. Only, as they were rupa or material Spirits, these Dhyanis were not always good. Their King Thevetata was
one of the latter, and it is under the evil influence of this King-Demon that . . . . the Atlantis-race became a nation of
wicked magicians.
"In consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in
the disfigured allegories of the race of Cain, the giants, and that of Noah and his righteous family. The conflict came to an
end by the submersion of the Atlantis, which finds its imitation in the stories of the Babylonian and Mosaic flood. The
giants and magicians '. . . and all flesh died . . . and every man.' All except Xisuthrus and Noah, who are substantially
identical with the great Father of the Thhnkithians in the Popol-Vuh, or the sacred book of the Guatemaleans, which also
tells of his escaping in a large boat like the Hindu Noah -- Vaivasvata.
"If we believe the tradition at all, we have to credit the further story that, from the intermarrying of the progeny of the
hierophants of the island and the descendants of the Atlantean Noah, sprang up a mixed race of righteous and wicked.
On the one side the world had its Enochs, Moseses, various Buddhas, its numerous 'Saviours,' and great hierophants; on
the other hand, its 'natural magicians' who, through lack of the restraining power of proper spiritual enlightenment, . . .
perverted their gifts to evil purposes. . . ."
We may supplement this by the testimony of some records and traditions. In the "Histoire des Vierges: Les Peuples et les
Continents Disparus," the author says:--
"One of the most ancient legends of India, preserved in the temples by oral and written tradition, relates that several
hundred thousand years ago there existed in the Pacific Ocean an immense continent which was destroyed by geological
upheaval, and the fragments of which must be sought in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the principal
isles of Polynesia."
"The high plateaux of Hindustan and Asia, according to this hypothesis, would only have been represented in those
distant epochs by great islands contiguous to the central continent . . . . . According to the Brahmans, this country had
attained a high civilization, and the peninsula of Hindustan, enlarged by the displacement of the waters, at the time of the
grand cataclysm, has but continued the chain of the primitive traditions born in this place. These traditions give the name
of Rutas to the peoples which inhabited this immense equinoctial continent, and from their speech was derived the
Sanscrit. . . . . And the Indo-Hellenic tradition, preserved by the most intelligent population which emigrated from the
plains of India, equally relates the existence of a continent and a people to which it gives the name of Atlantis and
Atlantides, and which it locates in the Atlantic in the northern portion of the Tropics."
"Apart from this fact, the supposition of an ancient continent in those latitudes, the vestiges of which may be found in the
volcanic islands and moun-
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tainous surface of the Azores, the Canaries and Cape de Verdes, is not devoid of geographical probability. The Greeks,
who, moreover, never dared to pass beyond the pillars of Hercules, on account of their dread of the mysterious ocean,
appeared too late in antiquity for the stories preserved by Plato to be anything else than an echo of the Indian legend.
Moreover, when we cast a look on a planisphere, at the sight of the islands and islets strewn from the Malayan
Archipelago to Polynesia, from the straits of Sunda to Easter Island, it is impossible, upon the hypothesis of continents
preceding those which we inhabit, not to place there the most important of all.
"A religious belief, common to Malacca and Polynesia, that is to say, to the two opposite extremes of the Oceanic world,
affirms 'that all these islands once formed two immense countries, inhabited by yellow men and black men, always at war;
and that the gods, wearied with their quarrels, having charged Ocean to pacify them, the latter swallowed up the two
continents, and, since, it has been impossible to make him give up his captives. Alone, the mountain-peaks and high
plateaux escaped the flood, by the power of the gods, who perceived too late the mistake they had committed.'
"Whatever there may be in these traditions, 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 to science to recover its traces, however feeble and fugitive they may be" (pp. 13-15).
This last tradition corroborates the one given from the "Records of the Secret Doctrine." The war mentioned between the
yellow and the black men, relates to a struggle between the "sons of God" and the "sons of giants," or the inhabitants and
magicians of Atlantis.