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The
10th Lesson
Excerpt from: "A Series of Lessons in Gnani
Yoga" -
By Yogi Ramacharaka
Lemuria was a mighty
continent situated in what is now known as the Pacific Ocean, and parts
of the Indian Ocean. It included Australia, Australasia, and other
portions of the Pacific
islands, which are in fact surviving portions of the great continent of
Lemuria, its highest points, the lower portion having sunk beneath the
seas
ages and ages ago.
Life in Lemuria is
described as being principally concerned with the physical senses, and
sensual
enjoyment, only a few developed souls having broken through the fetters
of
materiality and reached the beginnings of the mental and spiritual
planes of
life. Some few indeed made great progress and were saved from the
general
wreck, in order to become the leaven which would lighten the mass of
mankind
during the next Cycle. These developed souls were the teachers of the
new
races, and were looked upon by the latter as gods and supernatural
beings, and
legends and traditions concerning them are still existent among the
ancient
peoples of our present day. Many of the myths of the ancient peoples
arose in
this way.
The Yogi traditions hold
that just prior to the great cataclysm which destroyed the races of the
Second
Cycle, there was a body of the Chosen Ones which migrated from Lemuria
to
certain islands of the sea which are now part of the main land of
India.
These people formed the nucleus of
the Occult Teachings of the Lemurians, and developed into the Fount of
Truth
which has been flowing ever since throughout the successive periods and
cycles.
When Lemuria passed away,
there arose from the depths of the ocean the continent which was to be
the
scene of the life and civilization of the Fourth Cycle--the continent
of
Atlantis. Atlantis was situated in a portion of what is now known as
the Atlantic Ocean, beginning at what is now known as
the Caribbean Sea and
extending over to the region of what is now known as Africa. What are
now known as Cuba and the West Indies were among the highest points of
the continent, and now stand like monuments to its departed greatness.
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