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forces from the Sun and the Moon, the axis of the Earth's rotation 'wobbles' very slightly;
or, to be more precise, it describes a circle. As the planet rotates, its axis also rotates,
describing a complete circle once every 26,000 years.) In this way, Spencer was able to
date with considerable accuracy the events described in the Zoroastrian scriptures.
Spencer set the date for the first appearance of the Aryans in the polar regions at
25,628 BC, during the Interglacial Age. The Aryans were forced to leave their homeland
as the environment grew steadily colder and more hostile, and enormous reptiles began
to appear. (How the reptiles themselves could have withstood the cold is another
matter.) According to Spencer, the advent of the Ice Age that scattered the Aryans from
their pleasant homeland was just one of a number of global catastrophes that proved
the downfall of at least three other ancient civilisations: Atlantis, Lemuria and the
culture occupying what is now the Gobi Desert. (12) According to Spencer, the Aryan
tradition influenced the great civilisations of Egypt, Sumer and Babylon.
From Hyperborea to Atlantis
The great Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky, whom we met in Chapter One, had
considerable information to divulge on the nature of the lost civilisations whose
philosophy and knowledge were passed down, in frequently garbled form, to the great
civilisations of the Middle and Far East. According to Blavatsky, who claimed to have
consulted a fantastically old document entitled the Stanzas of Dzyan while in Tibet, our
remote ancestors occupied a number of lost continents, the first of which she describes
as 'The Imperishable Sacred Land', an eternal place unencumbered by the sometimes
violent fates reserved for other continents, that was the home of the first human and
also of 'the last divine mortal'.
The Second Continent was Hyperborea, 'the land which stretched out its promontories
southward and westward from the North Pole to receive the Second Race, and
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comprised the whole of what is now known as Northern Asia'. The 'Second Race' refers to
one of the Root Races. Blavatsky continues:
The land of the Hyperboreans, the country that extended beyond Boreas, the frozen-
hearted god of snows and hurricanes, who loved to slumber heavily on the chain of
Mount Riphaeus, was neither an ideal country, as surmised by the mythologists, nor yet
a land in the neighbourhood of Scythia and the Danube. It was a real continent, a bond-
fide land which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its sorry remains more than
one night and day during the year, even now. The nocturnal shadows never fall upon it,
said the Greeks; for it is the land of the Gods, the favourite abode of Apollo, the god of
light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests and servants. This may be regarded as
poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then. (13) [Original emphasis.]
The Third Continent was Lemuria (so called by the zoologist P. L. Sclater in reference to
a hypothetical sunken continent extending from Madagascar to Sri Lanka and Sumatra).
Blavatsky claimed that the gigantic continent of Lemuria actually existed, its highest
points now forming islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The Fourth Continent was Atlantis. 'It would be the first historical land, were the
traditions of the ancients to receive more attention than they have hitherto. The famous
island of Plato of that name was but a fragment of this great Continent.' (14)
In her description of the Fifth Continent, Blavatsky evokes images of cataclysmic seismic
shifts in the land mass of the Earth:
The Fifth Continent was America; but, as it is situated at the Antipodes, it is Europe and
Asia Minor, almost coeval with it, which are generally referred to by the Indo-Aryan
Occultists as the fifth. If their teaching followed the appearance of the Continents in
their geological and geographical order, then this classification would have to be
altered. But as the sequence of the Continents is made to follow the order of evolution
of the Races, from the first to the fifth, our Aryan Root-race, Europe must be called the
fifth great Continent. The Secret Doctrine takes no account of islands and peninsulas,
nor does it follow the modern geographical distribution of land and sea. Since the day of
its earliest teachings and the destruction of the great Atlantis, the face of the earth has
changed more than once. There was a time when the delta of Egypt and Northern Africa
belonged to Europe, before the formation of the Straits of Gibraltar, and a further
upheaval of the continent, changed entirely the face of the map of Europe. The last
serious change occurred some 12,000 years ago, and was followed by the submersion of
Plato's little Atlantic island, which he calls Atlantis after its parent continent. (15)
Blavatsky claimed to have read in the Stanzas of Dzyan that the Earth contained seven
great continents, 'four of which have already lived their day, the fifth still exists, and
two are to appear in the future' In The Secret Doctrine, she calls them Jambu, Plaksha,
Salmali, Kusa, Krauncha, Saka and Pushkara. She continues:
We believe that each of these is not strictly a continent in the modern sense of the
word, but that each name, from Jambu down to Pushkara, refers to the geographical
names given (i) to the dry lands covering the face of the whole earth during the period
of a Root-Race, in general; and (ii) to what remained of these after a geological
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[cataclysm]: and (iii) to those localities which will enter, after the future cataclysms,
into the formation of new universal 'continents,' [or] peninsulas ... each continent being,
in one sense, a greater or smaller region of dry land surrounded with water. [Original
emphasis.] (16)
Aside from the Stanzas of Dzyan, Blavatsky drew on a huge number of religious texts,
including the Hindu Puranas, which speak of a land called Svita-Dvipa (Hyperborea), or
the White Island, at the centre of which is Mount Meru, the spiritual centre of the
world. (We will have more to say of Mount Meru in Chapter Four.) If we accept the
attributes given to Mount Meru in the sacred texts of the Hindus -
including its height of 672,000 miles - then it must be conceded that the mountain does
not exist anywhere on the physical Earth. This has led Orientalists to speculate that the
White Island and Mount Meru are situated in what might best be described as another
dimension occupying that same space as Earth and which is visible (and reachable) to [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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forces from the Sun and the Moon, the axis of the Earth's rotation 'wobbles' very slightly;
or, to be more precise, it describes a circle. As the planet rotates, its axis also rotates,
describing a complete circle once every 26,000 years.) In this way, Spencer was able to
date with considerable accuracy the events described in the Zoroastrian scriptures.
Spencer set the date for the first appearance of the Aryans in the polar regions at
25,628 BC, during the Interglacial Age. The Aryans were forced to leave their homeland
as the environment grew steadily colder and more hostile, and enormous reptiles began
to appear. (How the reptiles themselves could have withstood the cold is another
matter.) According to Spencer, the advent of the Ice Age that scattered the Aryans from
their pleasant homeland was just one of a number of global catastrophes that proved
the downfall of at least three other ancient civilisations: Atlantis, Lemuria and the
culture occupying what is now the Gobi Desert. (12) According to Spencer, the Aryan
tradition influenced the great civilisations of Egypt, Sumer and Babylon.
From Hyperborea to Atlantis
The great Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky, whom we met in Chapter One, had
considerable information to divulge on the nature of the lost civilisations whose
philosophy and knowledge were passed down, in frequently garbled form, to the great
civilisations of the Middle and Far East. According to Blavatsky, who claimed to have
consulted a fantastically old document entitled the Stanzas of Dzyan while in Tibet, our
remote ancestors occupied a number of lost continents, the first of which she describes
as 'The Imperishable Sacred Land', an eternal place unencumbered by the sometimes
violent fates reserved for other continents, that was the home of the first human and
also of 'the last divine mortal'.
The Second Continent was Hyperborea, 'the land which stretched out its promontories
southward and westward from the North Pole to receive the Second Race, and
44
comprised the whole of what is now known as Northern Asia'. The 'Second Race' refers to
one of the Root Races. Blavatsky continues:
The land of the Hyperboreans, the country that extended beyond Boreas, the frozen-
hearted god of snows and hurricanes, who loved to slumber heavily on the chain of
Mount Riphaeus, was neither an ideal country, as surmised by the mythologists, nor yet
a land in the neighbourhood of Scythia and the Danube. It was a real continent, a bond-
fide land which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its sorry remains more than
one night and day during the year, even now. The nocturnal shadows never fall upon it,
said the Greeks; for it is the land of the Gods, the favourite abode of Apollo, the god of
light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests and servants. This may be regarded as
poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then. (13) [Original emphasis.]
The Third Continent was Lemuria (so called by the zoologist P. L. Sclater in reference to
a hypothetical sunken continent extending from Madagascar to Sri Lanka and Sumatra).
Blavatsky claimed that the gigantic continent of Lemuria actually existed, its highest
points now forming islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The Fourth Continent was Atlantis. 'It would be the first historical land, were the
traditions of the ancients to receive more attention than they have hitherto. The famous
island of Plato of that name was but a fragment of this great Continent.' (14)
In her description of the Fifth Continent, Blavatsky evokes images of cataclysmic seismic
shifts in the land mass of the Earth:
The Fifth Continent was America; but, as it is situated at the Antipodes, it is Europe and
Asia Minor, almost coeval with it, which are generally referred to by the Indo-Aryan
Occultists as the fifth. If their teaching followed the appearance of the Continents in
their geological and geographical order, then this classification would have to be
altered. But as the sequence of the Continents is made to follow the order of evolution
of the Races, from the first to the fifth, our Aryan Root-race, Europe must be called the
fifth great Continent. The Secret Doctrine takes no account of islands and peninsulas,
nor does it follow the modern geographical distribution of land and sea. Since the day of
its earliest teachings and the destruction of the great Atlantis, the face of the earth has
changed more than once. There was a time when the delta of Egypt and Northern Africa
belonged to Europe, before the formation of the Straits of Gibraltar, and a further
upheaval of the continent, changed entirely the face of the map of Europe. The last
serious change occurred some 12,000 years ago, and was followed by the submersion of
Plato's little Atlantic island, which he calls Atlantis after its parent continent. (15)
Blavatsky claimed to have read in the Stanzas of Dzyan that the Earth contained seven
great continents, 'four of which have already lived their day, the fifth still exists, and
two are to appear in the future' In The Secret Doctrine, she calls them Jambu, Plaksha,
Salmali, Kusa, Krauncha, Saka and Pushkara. She continues:
We believe that each of these is not strictly a continent in the modern sense of the
word, but that each name, from Jambu down to Pushkara, refers to the geographical
names given (i) to the dry lands covering the face of the whole earth during the period
of a Root-Race, in general; and (ii) to what remained of these after a geological
45
[cataclysm]: and (iii) to those localities which will enter, after the future cataclysms,
into the formation of new universal 'continents,' [or] peninsulas ... each continent being,
in one sense, a greater or smaller region of dry land surrounded with water. [Original
emphasis.] (16)
Aside from the Stanzas of Dzyan, Blavatsky drew on a huge number of religious texts,
including the Hindu Puranas, which speak of a land called Svita-Dvipa (Hyperborea), or
the White Island, at the centre of which is Mount Meru, the spiritual centre of the
world. (We will have more to say of Mount Meru in Chapter Four.) If we accept the
attributes given to Mount Meru in the sacred texts of the Hindus -
including its height of 672,000 miles - then it must be conceded that the mountain does
not exist anywhere on the physical Earth. This has led Orientalists to speculate that the
White Island and Mount Meru are situated in what might best be described as another
dimension occupying that same space as Earth and which is visible (and reachable) to [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]