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Part 2 -- Atlantis, Lemuria, Giants, etc...

Aug 28, 1999 00:18 AM
by W. Dallas TenBroeck


Aug 25th 1999

		PART 2 ==

ATLANTIS, LEMURIA, GIANTS, etc...    [ Part Two ]

It is important as we said at the beginning of Part 1 to remember
that the entire evolutionary cycle of humanity on our Earth is 3
fold:  1.  Spiritual (or MONADIC),  2.  Intellectual (Mind and
Emotion conjoined), and,  3.  Physical [SD I 181].

In all cases the units are immortal MONADS.  The study of
evolution is the study of the progress of the Monads as each is
assisting in the evolutionary development of others which are
less progressed.  In all cases, the wiser assist the rest, who
have less experience, in theirs.

It is a vast living and progressive BROTHERHOOD.  It is a vast
cooperative.  The first object of the TS is to demonstrate that.
The SD was written with that purpose in mind, hence the HISTORY
(SD I 267) of the past is opened to all of us as never before.
The sweep of esoteric History shows us in retrospect where we
have been and how we have participated in the maturation process
that has produced our talents, character, and our personality in
general;  it now plays an important part in our motivation.  But,
as students of Theosophy we have to always remember that these
are not he essential "US."  We are the Spiritual MONAD, which is
Atma-Buddhi-Manas.  The "personality" is our vehicle, and our
"pupil."

We ought to use the diagram that HPB gives us on p. 200 of SD
Vol. I quite frequently.

This "Part Two" deals mainly with the 3rd, 4th and 5th ROOT RACES
of GLOBE "D" in the 4th ROUND. [ the Lemurian, Atlantean, and
Aryan root Races through which we have passed, and are now
passing, as immortal Egos. ]

If we wish to review the information given in the SECRET DOCTRINE
concerning the land masses (continents) that were used (in this
the 4th ROUND, GLOBE "D") by the early RACES, when we were
incarnated in and used the type of bodies provided by those
RACES, we could open the 2nd Vol. of the S D at p. 6 where a
table of Continents is given:

TABLE OF CONTINENTS  [ 4th Round, Globe "D" ]

1.  "he IMPERISHABLE SACRED LAND" lasts from one end to the other
of the Manvantara.
Presumably this is an area which is never destroyed by either
floods or volcanism but is reserved for the use of the Wise, who
alone know its present location.

2.  "The HYPERBOREAN" -- 2nd Continent - extended its
promontories south from the North Polar area.  Apollo (the Sun,
Hyperboreas) traveled there once a year according to Greek
tradition, and for that half year visit, the Sun never set there.

3.  "The LEMURIAN" -- 3rd Continent -- (the name was invented by
P. L. Slater who between 1830-60 asserted its existence on
zoological grounds).  He contended (as does the Secret Doctrine)
that it stretched, shaped like an enormous crescent from
Greenland in the West through England, Europe and North Africa,
then passed through Madagascar and Mauritius, through Ceylon and
Sumatra, then, including Australia, it crossed the Pacific,
touched South America and California and ended in what we call
north-east Asia after passing through the area we name the Bering
Straits in the East.

Extreme volcanism began the period of Lemurian destruction [SD II
266], and finally its remnants were swept away in a vast flood
around 4,242, 352 BC [SD I 439fn].

4.  "ATLANTIS" --  4th Continent.  It included portions of the
2nd and the 3rd Continents, but was chiefly massed in what is now
the Atlantic Ocean, permitting the passage over land from Europe
to America.  It had many important land masses associated with
it, including north Africa and Egypt, as well as portions of
Central Asia, and some remnants of Lemuria in the Indian and
Pacific ocean areas [SD II 403, 327].

Atlantis began a cataclysmic sinking around  998,100 years BC [SD
II 141], and its largest peninsula was submerged around 850,000
BC [SD II p. 10].   Posedonis, the last island (of which Plato
wrote) sank in 9,566 BC [SD II 155 406 444fn  ISIS I 589-594,
"Five Years of Theosophy,"  p. 99fn].  A number of archeologists
and paleographers have remarked on the close similarity of
monuments, zodiacal and astronomical records, and of script that
is to be traced on opposite sides of the Atlantic--showing an
ancient linkage there.

5.  "AMERICA" -- is the 5th Continent.  However, in old Sanskrit
literature it was located at "Patala" -- the "antipodes" to India
It is the land mass related to our Race, named the Noble (Aryan).
Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor are parts of the 5th
continent; and, more recently, America has once more become more
densely inhabited in the last 300 years.  But, as we may see when
we consult a map of our Earth, our land masses of today include
portions of the older continents that have been heaved up out of
the ocean.  Submersion and upheaval are constantly going on.

It should be noted that the records of the SECRET DOCTRINE are
not limited by (or to) the present geographical outlines of the
configuration of our present continents.  It may be noted that
the present "plate-tectonics" hypothesis is not endorsed by the S
D.  This plausible hypothesis has recently engaged the attention
of geologists and geographers.  It advances  the concept that our
present known continental patterns are fixed to their "plates."
These in turn "float" and gradually move on a softer subterranean
core of a more fluidic mass of hot rock; and the result is that
they have participated (without altering shape) over millions of
years in "continental drift."   But, this is not a theory that is
confirmed by the esoteric history of our Earth, as given in the
SECRET DOCTRINE.

In tracing the past history and movements of the RACES, the land
masses follow the order of evolution of the RACES from 1st to the
5th.  The book The SECRET DOCTRINE, does not take into account
the location and fate of many islands and peninsulas since the
face of the Earth has changed many times, and the Poles have been
inverted several times [SD II 350 353 360 368 432-3 785-6 436].

The last serious geographical and geological change occurred
around 12,000  BC [SD II 8-9] and was followed by the submergence
of Posedonis (9,566 BC).  Change in the elevation of the
continents and islands is not always violent states the SD [SD II
787fn].

GIANTS

The stature of man (which in the early Astral matter races, was
gigantic as compared with ours) has varied and decreased with the
concretisation of the material environment.  The passage from the
1st to the 5th RACE following this increased densification is
traced in the SD  [SD II 9 224-5 336-8]  On page SD II 338, we
read of a still existing series of statues on the north side of
the Hindu Kush range that illustrate this decrease.  At  Bamiyan
stand carved in stone the record of the decreasing size (173,
120, 60, 27, to 6 feet in height ) of the physical forms that
humanity has used.  A few years ago the magazine NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC published photographs of these.

LIBRARIES and RECORDS

The SECRET DOCTRINE states that a complete record of all these
many changes covering millions of years, have been maintained
[SDI xxiv-v, xxxii, xxxix,  II 324-29 334-5].  Ancient monuments
were erected to show Astronomical time, and record the source of
measures as well as other facts that succeeding civilizations
could use when the time came for their civilizations to emerge
again [SD I 439fn  II 346 430 501 732].

FIRST CITIES

It was in the 5th Sub-race of the 3rd Root Race (Lemurian) that
mankind separated sexually [SD II 715fn]  In the 6th and 7th Sub
races Cities were built and the first seeds of civilization were
scattered under the watchful eyes of the "Divine Instructors" [SD
II 20-21,199, 220-1, 317-19, 366, 432,  I xxxiv-v].  It was then
that language and writing were developed [SD II 199-201, 346fn,
439-42, 729,  I xxxii].

GEOLOGICAL CYCLES OF CHANGE

Our Earth is subject to 7 major periodical entire changes which
occur as the RACES change on the GLOBE where they are evolving
[SD II 329].

The RACES and their Continents are periodically destroyed
alternately by fire (volcanoes and earthquakes) and water
[floods] -- this is a doctrine as old as man [SD II 725].

Our continents, like Lemuria and Atlantis, have been several
times submerged and then have reappeared so that they may bear
their fresh crop of civilized groups of mankind [SD II 332].  AS
an example the Egyptian Pyramids are said to have been three
times submerged [SD I 313 424 617  II 351-2 462-575 749-50

Such re-emergence is accompanied by a cleansing process whereby
the thick deposits that cover the land are disposed of and
restore its fertility [SD II 325].

--------

TIME CHARTS

[ We give below a table of Geological Ages as they were estimated
in HPB's time, and as they are estimated now.  [SD II 710]

	GEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGY

	[ These dates are used by Scientific Geology
	and are approximate estimates only. ]

-----------------------------
  Name of			  1888 			  1999
GEOLOGICAL AGE	HPB's S D  DATES	MODERN   DATES
=================	==============	==============

PRIMORDIAL	.	 321,000,000 years,
  [SD II 711-2]

 PALEOZOIC
	Laurentian	.	.	.	1 billion years ?? (+/-)
	Cambrian	.	.	.	590,000,000 years
	Ordovician	.	.	.	505,000,000
	Silurian	.	.	.	.	438,000,000

PRIMARY	.	 150,000,000 years
  [SD II 712]

	Devonian	.	.	.	408,000,000 years
	Carboniferous	.	.	.	360,000,000
	Permian	.	.	.	280,000,000

SECONDARY	.	  45,000,000
  [SD II 713-14]

  MESOZOIC

	Triassic	.	.	.	.	248,000,000
	Jurassic	.	.	.	213,000,000
	Cretaceous	.	.	.	144,000,000

TERTIARY		  9,000,000
  [SD II 714]

  CENOZOIC

	Paleocene	.	.	.	 65,000,000
	Eocene	.	.	.	.	 55,000,000
	Oligocene	.	.	.	 38,000,000
	Miocene	.	.	.	 25,000,000
	Pliocene	.	.	.	   5,000,000

QUATERNARY		  1,600,000
  [SD II 715]

	Paleolithic	.	.	.
	Pleistocene	.	.	.	   2,000,000
	Neolithic	.	.	.
	Holocene	.	.	.	      100,000
	Historical	.	.	.	        10,000 (?)
PRESENT DAY

[Origin and Evolution of Mammals considered  SD II 724-738.]

====================================================
====================================================

THEOSOPHICAL and HINDU CHRONOLOGY

	[SD II 68-70]

C H R O N O L O G Y

=====================================================
 Year         	Groups, Tribes      Notes and References
 From    To   	 or Individual
=====================================================

Universal and World  Periods            SD II 68-70   OCEAN 125
_____________________________

     311,040,000 000 000  years = Maha Kalpa, or Life of Brahma
                                          (100 of Brahma's years)
                         [311 trillion, 40 billion]    SD II  70

       3,110,400,000,000  years = 1 Year of Brahma     SD II  70
                         [  3 trillion, 110 billion ]

           8,640,000,000  years = 1 Day + 1 Night of Brahma

           4,320,000,000  years = 1 Kalpa =  l Day of Brahma or
                                  	1,000 Maha-Yugas   	SD II  69
                                   or 14 Manus    SD II 59-60
                  [ see The Theosophist, Nov., 1885, p. 115-6;

1 Day of Brahma =   4,294,080,000  years = 994 Maha-Yugas or 14
Manus

              add      25,920,000  years = 1 Sandhi (twilight)
SD II 308fn
                  _____________________
                    4,320,000,000  years = 1 Kalpa  or 1 Day of
Brahma
                           (4 billion, 320 million)  SD II 69-70

1 Manvantara   =      306,720,000  years = 71 Maha Yugas of
4,320,000 years

                add     1,728,000  years = 1 Sandhi  SD II  69
                    ____________________
                      308,448,000  years = 1 Manvantara SD II  69

4 Yugas    [ The 4 "Ages" ]   .    .    SD II  69  ML p. 121, IS
I 32

          1,728,000  years = Krita (or Satya, or Golden Age-Yuga)

          1,296,000  years = Treta 	(or Silver Age--Yuga )

            864,000  years = Dwapara 	( or Bronze Age--Yuga )

            432,000  years - Kali 	( or Black, Iron Age--Yuga )
      __________________
          4,320,000  years = 1 Maha Yuga - or 1/1000th of A Day
of Brahma                             		SD I 136  II 69  HPB Art.
III 422;  Lucif XIII, 183-4
		ML 121  ISIS I 14 32 293 301-4 428 587  II 260

==============================

Solar or Heliacal Year     25,868  years  SD I 314  Ocean 121
               ( 1 Sub-race )	  SD I 439fn  II 141fn 330fn 436fn

Metonic Cycle   6,586 days = cycle of eclipses ( or revolution
                           = 18 yrs. 11 1/2 day - the moon's node
			  [a cycle of 6,585 days (18.041  years)

Grand Cycles	Orpheus:    120,000  years         IS  I 294 fn
             	Cassandrus  136,000  years       IS  I 294 fn

======================================

Our Earth

     1,955,884,687  years (in 1887) from the beginning of
                       "cosmic evolution"		SD II  68fn
	- 300,000,000	Years as a Sandhi (twilight)
	______________
     1,664,884,687  years (in 1887) from the first
			appearance of "Humanity" (on this planetary 						chain) as a
physical form   	SD II  68fn

Kali Yuga	ours is the 28th age of the 7th Manvantara of
			308,448,000 years		ISIS I 32

======================================

B. C.

18,618,727   	Lighting up of Manas [ mind ] (as in 1887)
					SD I 150fn;  SD II 69 254-5

 4,000,000 c. 	Engulfing of Lemuria  (e.g.:--Easter Island)
 4,242,352				SD  I 439fn  II 68-70 141
                    [4th Round, 4th Globe, 3rd "Race"]

		Easter Island - evidence  SD I 322 439 II 224 317

              	Atlantis   [ Titans / Kabiri / Cyclops ]
                    		[4th Round, 4th Globe, 4th "Race"]

 1,050,000    	Beginning of the 5th "Race"  	SD II 141 144 435

          Vedas  	SD I 269-71  II 483-4 450 606 616
			T M 5-67  Glos 361  IS I 444   THY 2-468
			Theos't I-247 Col. I TOP.  WQJ ART II 82-3    						Theos't
9-428

1,050,000 BC
          Vedanta	SD I 7 50-1 269 451  Glos 361 253
             (Uttara Mimansa - Vyasa)
                    Theos't I-201 287  9-411    Lucif 6-119

          Advaita  (non-dualistic) SD I 8 55 522 II 637 GLOS 7
                    (Shankaracharya - founder)   	ML 53-4
					Theos't 10-7   Glos 307
          Dwaita   (dualistic)

          Manu Smriti (Code of Manu dates from Krita Yuga)   IS
I 585-6

1,000,000 Aryan Race	began SD II 395   Theosophy 45, p. 219
		Brahmin invasion of N. India	Is II 156fn 169 158 							Is II
323 192  SD I 209  II 565  Glos 222
		Persians, Turanians, Goths, Slavs  IS. I 569-576   II 426-433

c.	1,000,000 - 500,000   B C

998,100   Cataclysms:  Atlantis begins sinking   SD II 141
			Is I 557 593  SD II 10 144	Glos 42-3

869,000   Dwapara Yuga Commencement  (since 1888) SD II 147
                  		( Kali-Yuga began 3,102 BC )

850,000   Since submergence of last large peninsula of
                        the Great Atlantis       			SD II  10

850,000	 Glacial Period est. by Stockwell & Croll	 	SD II 141 144

800,000	 Angkor Wat built (2nd most Occult Edifice)	Glos 223
						Is I 239 561-8 271-2

		500,000 - 250,000  B C

470,000	 Babylon's astronomical observations go back to
		this  Nebo or Birs Nimrud,  CWB 13-274   Isis I 533

450,000   Epoch of Ramayana  (Brahmin estimate)       C & J p. 73
             	Theos't Vol. 10-35   SD II 496  IS II 278    Glos
275

400,000	Egypt was settled by the Atlanteans and the Eastern
		AEtheopeans		SD II 750

		250,000 - 100,000  B C

250,000 + Last Glaciation of Europe                  	Isis I  3

          Pyramids were 3 times submerged  	  SD I 313 424 617
	    S D II 462-6 575 435 749-50 351-3 462 351-2 93 276fn 429
	    GL 223   GLOS 300  IS I 154 239 296-7 517-21  THY Vol.
67-p.54

	Sphinx  (Harmachus)	SD II 124 618  Glos 135-6  Is I 573

200,000	Chaldean Astronomical Observations extended back at
				Alexander's invasion -- Berosus 	SD I xxvi

200,000 	Stockwell & Croll est. of last Glaciation	SD II 144

	100,000 - 30,000 B C

78,000 +  Denderah Zodiac [Egyptians brought from Lanka--Menes ]
				SD II 374fn 431-6 456 577 580; IS I 440-1

49,186    Egyptian Records go back to ( Diogenes Laertius )
                    	by 8,863 yrs. in 323 BC        IS  I  33

34,300    Sumerian Tablet gives 32,234 yrs between Deluge
            	and last king of Isin c.200 BC   	Thy 16, p.195

	30,000 - 10,000 B C

29,217    Alpha Polaris (Dhruva) (as Pole Star) (in 1888)
                    	31,105 yrs ago          		Glos.  17

15,194    Zodiac Originated  1st degree of Aries ( Ram )

15,086    Vernal Equinox and 1st degree of Libra coincided
		( 16,984 yrs ago in 1888 )		SD I 658

12,300	Vyasa - Uttara Mimansa & Vedanta taught	    Isis II 621
		"Bhadarayana"		SD I 50 269 451  Glos 361

11,100    Vega (Alpha Lyrae was Pole Star             Thy 17-18

	10,000 - 6,000 B C

9,566     Deluge of Deucalion.  Last Island of Atlantis ML p. 155
		submerged.  Last war between the "Sons of God"
		of the "White Island" and the last Atlantean sorcerers
		ISIS I 589-594   5 Yrs of Thy p. 99  SD II 406 444fn

9,500	Atlantis - Last Island sank Timaeus"- Plato as narrated
		by Priests of Sais to Solon		TM 46-469

8,000     Hindu Initiates had same Secret Philosophy then
		as now (estimate)	SD II 406  IS II 535

8,000     Tchandalas (Semites) begin to emigrate from India to
Chaldea
		SD II 200  Glos 323 165  IS I 135 551-2 578
				Isis II 438-9  SD I 313fn

7,975     End of the last Sidereal Year  Ocean 129  SD  I 649-50
                 		(9,868 yrs. before 1893)  SD II 314 331 432
470

6,500 c   Zarathustra (6,000 yrs. before Plato c 400 BC)Glos.
384-5
            	IS I 19  II 141  SD I 464  II 323  Theos't I-13 Thy
14-97
	    Zoroaster was a Title - 24 Zoroasters.  The last
		 was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha. c. 600 BC ]

	6,000 - 4,000 B C

6,000/5,000    Trojan War nearer 6,000 BC  	S D II 437fn
                			Thy 27-103  IS I 520 598  Glos 96
		(Dardanus) 		SD II 101 236 440

5,100     Neith (1st Dynasty)  	Lucif 2-465  SD I 399  Glos  77
227 234

4,100 c   Manu-Vina  (Menes) to Masra (Cairo) IS  I 627 516
                		SD II 335 374 431-2 436 746;  Thy 15, 317

	4,000 - 3,000 B C

3750 	Sargon I reigned   (Prof. A.H.Sayce)		SD II 691

3,700     Local Deluge in Middle East  			S D II 691

3,200 c   Date assigned to last Veda Vyasa by
               the Brahmins. [Vyasa is a title.]     		Glos  362

3,102     Kali Yuga began  Feb. 16, AM:  2 Hrs, 27 Min, 30 Sec.
               	[ the only precise time given ]  SD  I 662  SD II
147 fn

3,102     Krishna's death  (18 Feb. 3,102 BC)  Glos 170 387
               	[ midnight 17/18 ]   Thy. I-p. 374;  IV-p. 37

3,102     Hindu Zodiac 	Begins at sunrise Feb 18th    SD  I 662
               	( origin of present Hindu era: "Vikram Samvat"
                    	and Zodiac, Tiravalour, So.India )

3,100 c   Vikramaditya rules at Ujjain ("Vikram Samvat") SD I 662
		[ begins at Sunrise, February 18th 3,102 B C ]

3,100 c   Fu - H'si  ( Krishna of China )        	Thy 14- 308

          Po - H'si  ( 1st Ruler of China)       	Thy 14- 1

3,100 c   Arjuna to Patala  ( marries Ulupi )    	SD II 214fn
			[ Orphean Mysteries ]		Glos  29
               ("Patala" = Mexico )  Thy 15, 546  IS II 561fn

3,100 c   Orpheus identified with Arjuna  Thy 27, 148  Glos 242
                  	(On travel to Patala, stops in Greece)
				HPB ART III 138  IS I 532  II 129 550
				SD I 207 267fn 529 784  Lucif 16-273
				Theos't 5-20 Col 2 Bot,
				"Mysteries of Orpheus" established.

	3,000 - 2,000 B C

3,000 c   Gilgamesh epic "Flood" of Jewish Bible   Thy 16, 307

2,875 c   Akkadians (Semites) Sumer Sargon  	IS I 576-78

2,800 c   Yi-King  (Chinese Kabala --Akkadians) 	Thy 25-444

2,700     Hwang-Ti  3rd after Po-H'si     Thy 15-19  Thy 14-310

          Babylon & Assyria  Glos 47 37 IS I 567 ML 152
						THY 16-194 307

2,253     Chaldean Astronom. Observations for the past 1903 years
Calliosthenes to Aristotle (c 350 BC)  	IS I  21

	Kasidim   Glos 75 81 39 196  IS I xxviii 534 459 567
            	 HPB Art III 134  ML 152  CWB 5-13 326-8  SD II 620

2,200 c   Shu-King and Shi-King  (China) Thy 14-310  IS I  11

          Hammurabi  (Code) Babylon          Thy 16-196

2,000 c   Sumeria  old texts interlinear Semitic  Thy 16-194
               	translations                       Thy 21-414

	2,000 - 1,000  B C

1,925 c   Hittites capture Babylon               	IS I 567-8

1,850 c   Chung-Ki  (China ) 			Thy 14-34

1,700 c   Knossos  (Crete) at its height       	IS I 264  545
                    [ c 3,000 BC - 1,400 BC ]

1,628	Thera (Santorini) Volcano Erupts  (Tree Ring Dating)
	        [ L A Times,  Aug 29 1996 ]
	        [ End of Minoan Civilization, and tidal waves
		overwhelm coasts of Eastern Mediterranean.]

	Chronology interrupted at this point.  DTB

End of PART TWO

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