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W.Scott-Elliot

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

  • Ntate Atang Motlounghas quoted10 years ago
    To every one who accepts, as even a reasonable hypothesis, the idea that a man is something more than a carcase in a state of animation,
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    "An immense black cloud had suddenly burst forth from the crater of Mont Pelée and rushed with terrific velocity upon the city, destroying everything—inhabitants, houses and vegetation alike—that it found in its path. In two or three minutes it passed over, and the city was a blazing pyre of ruins.
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    It was raked by the burning ashes and the red-hot dust from numberless volcanoes. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, it is true, heralded each of the great catastrophes which overtook Atlantis
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    Unlike the subsequent fate of Atlantis, which was submerged by great tidal waves, the continent of Lemuria perished by volcanic action.
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    It will be observed that by the second map period, the continent of which Easter Island formed a part had been broken up and Easter Island itself had become a comparatively small island, though of considerably greater dimensions than it retains to-day.
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    Another great city is described in the "Secret Doctrine"[22] as having been entirely built of blocks of lava. I
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    During the later part of the sixth, and the seventh sub-race they learnt to build great cities. These appear to have been of cyclopean architecture, corresponding with the gigantic bodies of the race.
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    Nor was wheat their only gift. The one animal form whose type has not been evolved on our chain of worlds is that of the bee.
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    As stated in the stanzas of Dzyan above quoted, the men of that epoch, even though they had become completely physical, still remained speechless.
  • Elishas quoted4 years ago
    Their general appearance now became not unlike that of some American Indians, except that their skin had a curious bluish tinge not now to be seen.
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