of Eden.
The continents of Lemuria and Atlantis were the world’s largest land areas. Lemuria, lying roughly in what was later to become the Pacific Ocean, extended from the western part of the United States to South America. The Andean coast was its tideland area, as were portions of Central America.
Atlantis, occupying largely what was later to be the North Atlantic Ocean, was the most important land area. It compared in size to Europe and Russia combined. The eastern seaboard of the United States, then mostly under water, comprised the coastal lowlands of Atlantis, which extended to the Gulf of Mexico and as far as the Mediterranean Sea. The island of Bimini off the coast of Florida was a part of the continent, as were the Bahamas in the British West Indies and Yucatan in southern Mexico.
When the perfect race appeared in Atlantis in what was known as the red race, the land was already inhabited by the monstrosities. These were the soul-entities who had taken on all sorts of strange and grotesque bodies in order to experience material existence in the earth. They had existed for hundreds of thousands of years and, as in the rest of the world, had become all shapes and sizes, from pygmies to giants twelve feet tall—with many freakish abnormalities resulting from their mixing with the animals.
At first they lived peacefully together, for the struggle of the Sons of God to be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it did not at once meet active, organized resistance. Souls born with perfect bodies continued to enter the earth in large numbers to help keep the balance and prepare for the dissensions that later were to come with the Sons of Belial—those of both races who turned away more and more from the divine will. But with this second influx of souls, some ten and a half million years ago, even in that day did they call upon the name of the Lord.
Swiftly they banded together in family and clan life. They ate the herbs and fruit of the now flowering earth, and for clothing wore the skins of animals (and the Lord made for them coats) to cover that portion of the body that had already brought such destructive influences in their sex relations with the monstrosities. They lived in rocks, in caves, and in trees. Motivated by the desire to excel, to control, and to dominate, households, clans, and then tribes came into existence, accelerated by the search for companionship, protection, and trade. Quickly, they learned that their well-being was dependent upon each other.
The people of Atlantis were to pass through the same stages of development as the other four races in the various lands, although their progress was to be more rapid. Unlike the rest of the world, the Atlanteans as a nation were a peaceful people at this time and more readily made use of the laws of nature.
Stone was first utilized in implements to secure food and protect themselves from the animals. At an early period, houses of wood, then of stone, circular in shape, were built. First the Atlanteans were hunters, then herders and farmers, using tools of stone and wood. Fire and natural gas were among the first discoveries; iron and copper quickly followed. Soon they were fabricating balloons from the hides of elephants and other large animals and using them for the moving of building materials. Communities and communication slowly came into existence.
The monstrosities and the mixtures, hampered by cumbersome bodies and dull minds, made almost no material progress at all, except for that passed on to them by their masters. Physically, over the centuries, they gradually began to lose some of their animal appearances and instinct, through intermarriage and repeated reincarnation in the earth.
But the real problem was with the animal kingdom. Enormous, carnivorous beasts roamed the forests of the mountains and the jungles of the valleys. Giant fowls hovered above the earth, feeding upon and devouring whatever was at hand. Physically inept in comparison, man had but one superior weapon of defense: the soul-force, or mind. By exercising the power of will and reason, he was able to devise, to improvise, to outwit. By this means alone was he able to survive the brute strength of the animals, whose rule was the survival of the fittest.
Still relatively close to God, although he had fallen into matter, man during his first thousand years on earth was possessed of a body through which the soul expressed itself much more easily than later was to be the case. Occult powers were commonplace. The third eye, or pituitary gland, located near the center of the forehead, was highly developed. Through this gland functioned the creative psychic abilities of the soul. Those of the perfect race thereby had knowledge of happenings in distant places and foreknowledge of events to come. They also had the power to control the monstrosities and subject them to their will. Yet man was continually drifting away from his source and submerging more and more into the material world with all its temporal interests; thus he was eventually to lose—for all practical purposes—this God-given power. These gifts of the spirit would remain submerged until men had again spiritualized themselves in thought and deed. Few were able to do so.
The animal kingdom became an increasing problem, and the constant threat of death made life miserable. A council of the wise men of five nations of the world, representing the five races, was called around 52,000 B.C. Representatives came from the white race in the Caucasus, the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe, and Persia; from the yellow race in what later became the Gobi desert; the black race in the Sudan and upper West Africa; and the brown race in Lemuria. In the first meeting for united action, ways and means were planned for combating the creatures overrunning the earth in so many places. Discussions for defense centered around the use of the potent chemical forces in the elements of the earth and air. The decisions made proved to be effective, but they had unexpected and far-reaching consequences during the years ahead.
The mixtures and monstrosities were the outcasts of society. Frequently of low principle and little self-will or control, they were used for the most menial tasks. Their status in the social scale was little higher than that of domesticated animals and beasts of burden. Because of them, men of the perfect race fell into two camps bitterly opposed to each other in ideology. It was the mixing of those of pure lineage with those who had not completely overcome the animal influences that brought dissensions and the rise of strife and turmoil.
These outcasts, enslaved by those of Belial, the followers of Baal or Beelzebub—the forces of evil—were treated harshly. Through the use of occult powers, hypnosis, and mental telepathy, they were under complete domination of their masters. They were bred like cattle for particular types of work and enjoyed none of the fruits of their labor and very little home life. Commonly known as Things—the untouchables, the automatons—they did all the work in the fields, the households, and some of the trades.
Castes and classes came into being, fostered by the Sons of Belial through greed, contempt, and hatred. Bloodshed resulted from this disregard of and disrespect for the rights and freedom of others. The many were subjected to the whims of the few for their own self-aggrandizement.
The laws of heredity and environment gradually became more of an influence; appearances changed according to the purity of the strain and individual purposes—ideals and motives of activity. There were some who were almost perfect in figure and feature; and others who had monstrous combinations of human physiques and animal appendages, such as hooves, claws, feathers, wings, and tails. It was these strange creatures who later were to be so mysteriously depicted in Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions. At an early period in Egypt they were finally to disappear from the human race.
These daughters of men and giants in the earth of the Old Testament were the reason for the admonishment: Keep the race pure. Yet the mixtures sometimes produced divine bodies with twisted, warped souls, or repulsive bodies with souls seeking the light. It was not the body that mattered so much but the purity of purpose, of ideals.
Through the injunction, If you will be my people, I will be your God, an effort was made by the more spiritual-minded to draw people to the worship of the One God. Known as the Children of the Law of One, they sought to purify the race in purpose as well as in body. The tenets
