Many people are familiar with the story of Atlantis, the legendary sunken city as described
by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
Till this day, opinion is still divided as to whether this story should be understood
literally or taken merely as a morality tale.
Further east in the subcontinent of India is a similar tale, though it probably is less
well known compared to that of Atlantis.
This is the ‘lost continent’ of Lemuria, frequently connected to the legend of Kumari
Kandam by speakers of the Tamil language.
it may come as a surprise that for a brief moment in history, Lemuria gained a greater
acceptance within the scientific and scholarly community.
In fact, Lemuria was not originally an idea originating from the occult world, or from
lost Ancient Egyptian sources as was Plato’s Atlantis, but from the minds of leading scientific
thinkers.
Are you ready to learn more about the ancient Lemuria?
Ok then, lets begin!
In the late 1800s, British lawyer and zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater, makes an curious observation.
He observed that across Madagascar, India, and the islands of the Pacific lands separated
by hundreds of miles of impassable oceans, lemurs were encountered.
He then proposed a theory that has since taken on a life of its own.
Sclater, in concurrence with many other thinkers of the time, proposed that these landmasses,
now separated by oceans, had once been a part of a larger continent in the Indian Ocean,
submerged beneath the ocean.
Sclater named this hypothetical missing continent ‘Lemuria’ after the lemur, and the name
has stuck since then.
Sclater theories first became popular in 1864 when wrote a paper titled “The Mammals of
Madagascar” and had it published in the The Quarterly Journal of Science.
He observed that there were many more species of lemur in Madagascar than there were in
either Africa or India, thus claiming that Madagascar was the animal’s original homeland.
Moreover, he proposed that what had allowed lemurs to first migrate to India and Africa
from Madagascar long ago was a now-lost landmass stretching across the southern Indian Ocean
in a triangular shape.
This continent of “Lemuria,” Sclater suggested, touched India’s southern point, southern
Africa, and western Australia and eventually sunk to the ocean floor.
Contemporary Ernst Haeckel, a German biologist, naturalist and physician, arrived at the same
conclusion and theorized that the missing link between ape and man had once inhabited
this sunken land.
Since then, the lost continent of Lemuria has fallen squarely outside the boundaries
of science for seemingly sound reasons.
Firstly, Sclater’s hypothesis of a missing continent at the bottom of the Indian Ocean,
is a redundant explanation for the presence of lemurs and other terrestrial species on
lands separated by oceans, as it is common knowledge that the continents had drifted
to their present positions over millions of years.
And secondly, no missing continent is needed to explain the lack of the intermediate forms,
or the “missing link,” for such fossils have been found all over the African continent
during the last century.
Ernst Haeckel began publishing work claiming that Lemuria was what allowed humans to first
migrate out of Asia and into Africa.
He even suggested that Lemuria (a.k.a. “Paradise”) may have been the very cradle of humankind
itself.
As he wrote in 1870:
“The probable primeval home or ‘Paradise’ is here assumed to be Lemuria, a tropical
continent at present lying below the level of the Indian Ocean, the former existence
of which in the tertiary period seems very probable from numerous facts in animal and
vegetable geography.”
With help from Haeckel, Lemuria theories persisted throughout the 1800s and into the early 1900s
and often discussed alongside the myth of Kumari Kandam, a proposed lost continent in
the Indian Ocean that once housed a Tamil civilization.
This was before modern science discovered ancient human remains in Africa that suggested
that continent was actually the cradle of humankind.
This was also before modern seismologists understood how plate tectonics moved the once-connected
continents away from each other into their present forms.
Without such knowledge, many continued to embrace the notion of Lemuria, especially
after Russian occultist, medium, and author Elena Blavatsky published The Secret Doctrine
in 1888.
This book proposed the idea that there were once seven ancient races of humanity and that
Lemuria had been the home of one of them.
This 15-foot-tall, four-armed, hermaphroditic race flourished alongside the dinosaurs, Blavatsky
said.
Afterward, Lemuria understandably found its way into novels, movies, and comic books well
into the 1940s.
Many people saw these works of fiction and wondered where authors and filmmakers got
these fanciful ideas.
Well, they got their ideas from scientists and writers about 75 years before.
Coming back in the recent year of 2013, any scientific theories of a lost continent and
land bridge responsible for the migration of lemurs is gone.
However, geologists have now discovered traces of a lost continent in the Indian Ocean.
Scientists found fragments of granite in the ocean south of India along a shelf that extends
hundreds of miles south of the country towards Mauritius.
On Mauritius, geologists found zircon despite the fact that the island only came into being
2 million years ago when, thanks to plate tectonics and volcanoes, it slowly rose out
of the Indian Ocean as a small landmass.
However, the zircon they found there dated to 3 billion years ago, eons before the island
had even formed.
What this meant, scientists theorized, was that the zircon had come from a much older
landmass that long ago sunk into the Indian Ocean.
Sclater’s story about Lemuria was almost true.
Rather than call this discovery Lemuria, geologists named the proposed lost continent Mauritia.
Based on plate tectonics and geological data, Mauritia disappeared into the Indian Ocean
around 84 million years ago, when this region of Earth was still turning into the shape
it holds today.
And while this generally lines up with what Sclater had once claimed, the new evidence
puts the notion of an ancient race of Lemurians that evolved into lemurs to rest.
Mauritia disappeared 84 million years ago, but lemurs didn’t evolve on Madagascar until
about 54 million years ago when they swam to the island from mainland Africa.
Nevertheless, Sclater and some of the other scientists of the mid-1800s were partially
right about Lemuria despite their limited knowledge.
A lost continent didn’t suddenly sink into the Indian Ocean and vanish without a trace.
But, long ago, there was something there, something now gone forever.
In 1899, Frederick Spencer Oliver published A Dweller on Two Planets, a book which claimed
that survivors from a sunken continent called Lemuria were living in Mount Shasta.
In the book, Lemurians lived in a series of complex tunnels beneath the mountain.
Locals would sometimes see the creatures wandering outside the mountain in white robes.
Then in 1931, Harvey Spencer Lewis, using the pseudonym Wisar Spenle Cerve, wrote a
book about the hidden Lemurians of Mount Shasta.
This book is widely regarded as the reason for the popularity for the legends of Lemurians
in Mt. Shasta.
There have been many testimonials with Lemurians or other mysterious beings on the Mt. Shasta,
none of which have been substantiated.
The two early testimonials created the large movement in the belief of Lemuria.
In 1904, British prospector JC Brown claimed to find an underground city 11-miles deep
in the mountain, full of gold, shields and mummies, some of which were 10-feet-tall.
When he told his story to others, the group compiled an 80-person team to explore the
mountain for the underground city, but on the day the team was to set out, JC Brown
disappeared.
In the early 1930’s, Guy Ballard reported to meet Saint Germain on the mountain, which
led to the founding of the “I AM” Movement, which led to over a million followers in the
late 1930’s until Ballards death.
The belief in Lemuria in Mt. Shasta and subsequent testimonials have been incorporated into numerous
non-profit organizations, churches etc. including “I AM” Activity, The Summit Lighthouse,
Church Universal and Triumphant, and Kryon.
According to esoteric lore, Atlantis and Lemuria arose regarding the development and evolution
of other civilizations.
The Lemurians believed that the other less evolved cultures should be left alone to continue
their own evolution at their own pace according to their own understandings and pathway, whereas
the Atlanteans believed that less evolved cultures should be controlled by the two more
evolved civilizations.
Their argument over ideologies resulted in several thermonuclear wars which weakened
both continental plates.
When the wars were over and the dust had settled, there were no winners, only death, destruction
and further debasing of the human spirit to the point that both side realized the futility
of such behavior.
So the Lemurians decided to build a separate society inside Mt. Shasta, where they would
be safe from any disruptions on the surface of the earth.
The city of Telos was built inside Mt. Shasta and was designed to house 200,000 Lemurians.
Today, it is believed that Telos houses 1.5 millions Lemurians inside Mt. Shasta.
Modern day beliefs say that Lemuria can be felt and contacted through spiritual practices.
The Lemurians were a highly evolved spiritual race, so they can be contacted through spiritual
messages from believers.
Mt. Shasta has an unexplainable aura to it.
It’s energy is palpable, making it no mystery that people believe there’s something happening
deeper below the surface.
The physical appearance of Lemurians has been debated for years.
Some believe Lemurians looks like highly-evolved humans while others believe they have more
animalistic qualities.
Although it is a universally believed they are much taller beings than us surface dwellers.
In the end, it’s easy to admit there is something different about Mount Shasta without
knowing what it is exactly.
Although it is these type of mysteries that make our world fun, interesting and exciting.
And towards this mystery is that in our days, many people trip to this place in search for
Lemurians and the spiritual enlightenment of Mount Shasta.