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...have survived the early troubles in their self-sufficient community near Kankakee, Ill., and the later chaos by a more imaginative method-levitation. During the cataclysms, they will be off floating somewhere in the sky; afterward, they will come back down to Stelle and to the "lost continent" of Lemuria,* which will have re-emerged from the Pacific Ocean during the last catastrophes. On Lemuria they will create a city over which Christ will reign in the person of the Archangel Melchizedek. Not quite the Christ of the New Testament, though: typifying their syncretistic beliefs, the Stelle members believe that...
...best-known modern seer is undoubtedly the late Edgar Cayce, a devout Protestant, who made his predictions in a sleep-like trance. His long-range prognostications, such as the imminent rise of the lost continent of Atlantis and another in the Pacific called Lemuria, have become cult favorites, but Cayce in fact had many misses in his predictions. What gave him his credibility was a more limited but very special talent, the ability to diagnose illnesses of persons many miles away. Many Americans ?most, the optimistic would say ?still find the craze for prophecy foolish and even bankrupt...
H.P.B. divided the earth's inhabitants into seven successive "root races," each more immoral than the one before. The first two races, she proclaimed, were semi-spiritual "shadows of the shadow of God." The third was a race of fourarmed men who inhabited a lost continent named Lemuria and were doomed 60 million years ago when they discovered sex. The fourth, recognizably human, went down with Atlantis 12,000 years ago, sunk by sex plus power. Our own race, which got off to a bad start with Adam, is the fifth, and it too may be about to expire...
...Lemuria...
...invented out of whole cloth by James Churchward, who wrote several detailed, popular books about its inhabitants and their alleged "secrets." Lemuria, originally a geologists' land mass that sank 60 million years ago, was appropriated and modernized by Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society. She used it as a home for her "Third Race" of apelike, four-armed men who came to a bad end after discovering...