Word: lemuria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...