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The Story of Atlantis
&
The Lost Lemuria
By
W. SCOTT-ELLIOT
With Six Maps
THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE LTD
68 Great Russell Street
LONDON, W.C.2
THE STORY OF ATLANTIS first printed 1896
THE LOST LEMURIA first printed 1904
CONTENTS
| The Story of Atlantis |
| The Lost Lemuria |
| Maps |
THE STORY OF ATLANTIS
PREFACE.
For readers unacquainted with the progress that has been made inrecent years by earnest students of occultism attached to theTheosophical Society, the significance of the statement embodied inthe following pages would be misapprehended without some preliminaryexplanation. Historical research has depended for western civilisationhitherto, on written records of one kind or another. When literarymemoranda have fallen short, stone monuments have sometimes beenavailable, and fossil remains have given us a few unequivocal, thoughinarticulate assurances concerning the antiquity of the human race;but modern culture has lost sight of or has overlooked possibilitiesconnected with the investigation of past events, which are independentof fallible evidence transmitted to us by ancient writers. The worldat large is thus at present so imperfectly alive to the resources ofhuman faculty, that by most people as yet, the very existence, even asa potentiality, of psychic powers, which some of us all the while areconsciously exercising every day, is scornfully denied and derided.The situation is sadly ludicrous from the point of view of those whoappreciate the prospects of evolution, because mankind is thuswilfully holding at arm's length, the knowledge that is essential toits own ulterior pro[iv]gress. The maximum cultivation of which the humanintellect is susceptible while it denies itself all the resources ofits higher spiritual consciousness, can never be more than apreparatory process as compared with that which may set in when thefaculties are sufficiently enlarged to enter into consciousrelationship with the super-physical planes or aspects of Nature.
For anyone who will have the patience to study the published resultsof psychic investigation during the last fifty years, the reality ofclairvoyance as an occasional phenomenon of human intelligence mustestablish itself on an immovable foundation. For those who, withoutbeing occultists—students that is to say of Nature's loftier aspects,in a position to obtain better teaching than that which any writtenbooks can give—for those who merely avail themselves of recordedevidence, a declaration on the part