Part 3 — Footnotes (continued 5)

1806.

See Ovid, Metamorphoses, vi.

1807.

Lettres sur l'Atlantide, p. 137.

1808.

Hesiod, Opera et Dies, 143.

1809.

Hist. Nat., iv. 12.

1810.

Marius.

1811.

Op. cit., c. 16.

1812.

Isaac Myer's Qabbalah, p. 139.

1813.

Diod., ii. 225.

1814.

Op. cit., xxxvii. 2.

1815.

Vol. i. pp. 462-464.

1816.

These islands were “found strewn with fossils of horses, sheep, oxen, etc., among gigantic bones of elephants, mammoths, rhinoceroses,” etc. If there was no man on Earth at that period “how came horses and sheep to be found in company with the huge antediluvians?”—asks a Master in a letter. (Esoteric Buddhism, p. 67.) The reply is given above in the text.

1817.

Op. cit., iv. 239-262.

1818.

A good proof that all the Gods, and religious beliefs, and myths have come from the North, which was also the cradle of physical man, lies in several suggestive words which have originated and remain to this day among the northern tribes in their primeval significance; but, although there was a time when all the nations were of “one lip,” these words have received a different meaning with the Greeks and Latins. One such word is mann, man, a living being, and manes, dead men. The Laplanders call their corpses to this day manee (Voyage de Rénard en Laponie, i. 184). Mannus is the ancestor of the German race; the Hindû Manu, the thinking being, from man; the Egyptian Menes; and Minos, the King of Crete, judge of the infernal regions after his death—all proceed from the same word or root.

1819.

Thus, for instance, Gyges is a hundred-armed and fifty-headed monster, a Demi-god in one case, and a Lydian, the successor of Candaules, king of the country, in another version. The same is found in the Indian Pantheon, where Rishis and the Sons of Brahmâ are reborn as mortals.

1820.

Op. cit., viii. 13.

1821.

The continents perish in turn by fire and water; either through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or by sinking and the great displacement of waters. Our continents have to perish by the former cataclysmal process. The incessant earthquakes of the past years may be a warning.

1822.

See Decharme's Mythologie de la Grèce Antique.

1823.

Denis, the Geographer, tells us that the great sea north of Asia was called glacial, or Saturnine (v. 35). Orpheus (v. 1077) and Pliny (iv. 16) corroborate the statement by showing that it was its giant inhabitants who gave it the name. And the Secret Doctrine explains both assertions by telling us that all the continents were formed from North to South; and that as the sudden change of climate dwarfed the race that had been born on it, arresting its growth, so, several degrees southward, various conditions had always produced the tallest men in every new humanity, or race. We see it to this day. The tallest men now found are those in Northern countries, while the smallest are Southern Asiatics, Hindûs, Chinamen, Japanese, etc. Compare the tall Sikhs and Punjabees, the Afghans, Norwegians, Russians, Northern Germans, Scotchmen, and English, with the inhabitants of Central India and the average European on the continent. Thus also the Giants of Atlantis, and hence the Titans of Hesiod, are all Northerners.

1824.

Having already given several instances of the vagaries of Science, it is delightful to find such agreement in this particular case. Read in connection with the scientific admission (cited elsewhere) of the Geologists' ignorance of even the approximate duration of periods, the following passage is highly instructive: “We are not yet able to assign an approximate date for the most recent epoch at which our northern hemisphere was covered with glaciers. According to Mr. Wallace, this epoch may have occurred no more than seventy thousand years ago, while others would assign to it an antiquity of at least two hundred thousand years, and there are yet others who urge strong arguments on behalf of the opinion that a million of years is barely enough to have produced the changes which have taken place since that event.” (Fiske, Cosmic Philosophy, i. 304, Ed. 1874.) Prof. Lefèvre, again, gives us as his estimate one hundred thousand years. Clearly, then, if Modern Science is unable to estimate the date of so comparatively recent an era as the Glacial Epoch, it can hardly impeach the Esoteric Chronology of Race-Periods and Geological Ages.

1825.

Cited in Schmidt's Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism, pp. 300, 301.

1826.

Philosophy Historical and Critical, p. 508.

1827.

Human Species, pp. 428, et seqq.

1828.

Art., “The First Volume of the Publications of the 'Challenger,'” p. 2, Nov. 4th, 1880.

1829.

Op. cit., Art., “Australia and Europe formerly one Continent” (v. 19, 25). Undoubtedly a fact, and a confirmation of the Esoteric conception of Lemuria, which originally not only embraced great areas in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but projected round South Africa into the North Atlantic. Its Atlantic portion subsequently became the geological basis of the future home of the Fourth Race Atlanteans.

1830.

Ibid., i. 143.

1831.

Cf., the published reports of the “Challenger” expedition; also Donnelly's Atlantis, p. 468 and pp. 46-56, Chap., “The Testimony of the Sea.”

1832.

Even the cautious Lefèvre speaks of the existence of Tertiary men on “upheaved lands, islands and continents then flourishing, but since submerged beneath the waters,” and elsewhere introduces a “possible Atlantis” to explain ethnological facts. Cf., his Philosophy Historical and Critical, pp. 478 and 504. Mr. Donnelly remarks with rare intuition that “modern civilization is Atlantean ... the inventive faculty of the present age is taking up the great delegated work of creation where Atlantis left it thousands of years ago” (Atlantis, p. 177. Twenty-fourth Ed.). He also refers the origin of culture to the Miocene times. It is, however, to be sought for in the teachings given to the Third Race men by their Divine Rulers—at a vastly earlier period.

1833.

An equally “curious” similarity may be traced between some of the West Indian and West African fauna.

1834.

The Pacific portion of the giant Lemurian Continent christened by Dr. Carter Blake, the Anthropologist, “Pacificus.”

1835.

“Subsidence and Elevation,” Geological Magazine, pp. 241, 245, June, 1881.

1836.

Antiquity of Man, p. 492.

1837.

When Howard read, before the Royal Society of London, a paper on the first serious researches that were made on the aerolites, the Geneva Naturalist Pictet, who was present, communicated, on his return to Paris, the facts reported to the French Academy of Sciences. But he was forthwith interrupted by Laplace, the great Astronomer, who cried: “Stop! we have had enough of such fables, and know all about them,” thus making Pictet feel very small. Globular-shaped lightnings or thunder-bolts have been admitted by Science only since Arago demonstrated their existence. Says de Rochat (Forces Non-definies, p. 4): “Every one remembers Dr. Bouilland's misadventure at the Academy of Medicine when he had declared Edison's phonograph ‘a trick of ventriloquism’!”

1838.

Principles of Geology, i. 9, 10.

1839.

Ibid.

1840.

The Cyclic Law of Race-Evolution is most unwelcome to Scientists. It is sufficient to mention the fact of “primeval civilization” to excite the frenzy of Darwinians; it being obvious that the further culture and science is pushed back, the more precarious becomes the basis of the ape-ancestor theory. But as Jacolliot says: “Whatever there may be in these traditions [submerged continents, etc.], and whatever may have been the place where a civilization more ancient than that of Rome, of Greece, of Egypt, and of India, was developed, it is certain that this civilization did exist, and it is highly important for science to recover its traces, however feeble and fugitive they be.” (Histoire des Vièrges; les Peuples et les Continents Disparus, p. 15.) Donnelly has proved the fact from the clearest premises, but the Evolutionists will not listen. A Miocene civilization upsets the “universal Stone age” theory, and that of a continuous ascent of man from animalism. And yet Egypt, at least, runs counter to current hypotheses. There is no Stone age visible there, but a more glorious culture is apparent the further back we are enabled to carry our retrospect.

1841.

Myths and Myth-Makers, p. 21.

1842.

Violent minor cataclysms and colossal earthquakes are recorded in the annals of most nations—if not of all. Elevation and subsidence of continents is always in progress. The whole coast of South America has been raised up 10 to 15 feet and settled down again in an hour. Huxley has shown that the British Islands have been four times depressed beneath the ocean and subsequently raised again and peopled. The Alps, Himâlayas and Cordilleras were all the result of depositions drifted on to sea-bottoms and upheaved by Titanic forces to their present elevation. The Sahara was the basin of a Miocene sea. Within the last five or six thousand years the shores of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, have risen from 200 to 600 feet; in Scotland there are raised beaches with outlying stacks and skerries surmounting the shore now eroded by the hungry wave. The North of Europe is still rising from the sea, and South America presents the phenomenon of raised beaches of over 1,000 miles in length, now at a height varying from 100 to 1,300 feet above the sea-level. On the other hand, the coast of Greenland is sinking fast, so much so that the Greenlander will not build by the shore. All these phenomena are certain. Why then may not a gradual change have given place to a violent cataclysm in remote epochs—such cataclysms occurring on a minor scale even now, e.g., the case of Sunda Island with the destruction of 80,000 Malays?

1843.

For the opinions of Jacolliot, after long travels through the Polynesian Islands, and his proofs of a former great geological cataclysm in the Pacific Ocean, see his Histoire des Vièrges; les Peuples et les Continents Disparus, p. 308.

1844.

August, 1880.

1845.

Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism, pp. 236, 237. Cf. also his lengthy arguments on the subject, pp. 231-235.

1846.

Op. cit., i. 22, 23, Ed. 1869.

1847.

Pedigree of Man, p. 73.

1848.

Cited in Schmidt's Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism, p. 238.

1849.

For further facts as to the isolation of the Basques in Europe and their ethnological relations, see Joly, Man before Metals, p. 316. B. Davis is disposed to concede, from an examination of the skulls of the Guanches of the Canary Islands and modern Basques, that both belong to a race proper to those ancient islands, of which the Canaries are the remains! This is a step in advance indeed. De Quatrefages and Hamy also both assign the Cro-Magnon men of South France and the Guanches to one type—a proposition which involves a certain corollary which both these writers may not care to father.

1850.

Families of Speech.

1851.

Cf., Benjamin, The Atlantic Islands, p. 130.

1852.

Westminster Review, Jan., 1872.

1853.

Schmidt, Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism, p. 223.

1854.

Professor Retzius, Smithsonian Report, 1859, p. 266.

1855.

See the investigations of United States ship “Dolphin” and others.

1856.

Scientific American, July 28th, 1877.

1857.

See his chart, Atlantis, p. 46, though he deals with only a fragment of the real Continent.

1858.

Donnelly, Atlantis, p. 480.

1859.

Maçonnerie Occulte, p. 44.

1860.

Vide Sir William Thompson and Mr. Huxley.