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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga866
continent situated in what is now known as the Pacific Ocean, and parts of
the Indian Ocean. It included Australia, Australasia, and other portions of
the Pacific islands, which are in fact surviving portions of the great continent
of Lemuria, its highest points, the lower portion having sunk beneath the
seas ages and ages ago.
Life in Lemuria is described as being principally concerned with the
physical senses, and sensual enjoyment, only a few developed souls having
broken through the fetters of materiality and reached the beginnings of the
mental and spiritual planes of life. Some few indeed made great progress
and were saved from the general wreck, in order to become the leaven
which would lighten the mass of mankind during the next Cycle. These
developed souls were the teachers of the new races, and were looked upon
by the latter as gods and supernatural beings, and legends and traditions
concerning them are still existent among the ancient peoples of our present
day. Many of the myths of the ancient peoples arose in this way.
The Yogi traditions hold that just prior to the great cataclysm which
destroyed the races of the Second Cycle, there was a body of the Chosen
Ones which migrated from Lemuria to certain islands of the sea which are
now part of the main land of India. These people formed the nucleus of the
Occult Teachings of the Lemurians, and developed into the Fount of Truth
which has been flowing ever since throughout the successive periods and
cycles.
When Lemuria passed away, there arose from the depths of the ocean
the continent which was to be the scene of the life and civilization of the
Fourth Cycle—the continent of Atlantis. Atlantis was situated in a portion of
what is now known as the Atlantic Ocean, beginning at what is now known as
the Caribbean Sea and extending over to the region of what is now known
as Africa. What are now known as Cuba and the West Indies were among
the highest points of the continent, and now stand like monuments to its
departed greatness.