California is unique because people were reluctant to accept traditional forms of religion. There is a historical link to Protestant Anglo-Americans and utilizing alternative sources of spirituality. Historically, conventional forms of religion were sparse in the 1850s - ninety percent of the population was male between twenty and forty. It was not until the 1870s... Continue Reading →
Harvey Spencer Lewis, 33° 66° 95° Harvey Spencer Lewis (aka Wishar S. Cervé) Rosicrucian, Harvey Spencer Lewis, who wrote under the pseudonym Wishar S. Cervé, composed Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific (1931). He concluded that the Lemurians at Mt. Shasta were the same as Mu, the island referred to in ancient Mayan writings.... Continue Reading →
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Col. James Churchward Rosicrucian, Col. James Churchward is significant in that he placed Mu in the Pacific Ocean, differentiating Mu from the Lemuria, which existed in the Indian Ocean. In The Children of Mu Churchward claimed Mu was between Asia and America and measures six-thousand miles from east to west, and three-thousand miles from... Continue Reading →
Mr. Augustus LePlongeon, Archaeologist and Historian Augustus LePlongeon Rosicrucian and anthropologist Augustus LePlongeon (1825-1908) was one of the first to write about Lemuria and argued Mu was the ancient Mayan name for Plato's Atlantis. LePlongeon notes that "many will, no doubt, object that this may all be pure coincidence – the two people lived... Continue Reading →
"The Messenger" Painting by Nicholas Roerich George Dorcheff and Max Heindel Rosicrucian groups have relationships with the Theosophical Society. George Dorcheff in The Evolution of Earth mirrors the Theosophists writings of Atlantis and Lemuria. He notes there were five epochs that produced five continents, with a sixth race emerging in the future. The first epoch... Continue Reading →
Lewis Spence (1874-1955) Occult scholar Lewis Spence (1874-1955) wrote in The Problem of Lemuria (1933) that Easter Island, Melanesia, and Polynesia all have similar oral traditions of a vanished continent whose survivors relocated to these areas. In the Oceania area, there are many myths about a devastating flood, volcanic destruction, or other catastrophic events that are... Continue Reading →
Phylos the Tibetan The Lemurian Fellowship - Located in Romana, California For adherents of the Lemurian Fellowship, Lemuria is a place that will re-emerge as a final utopia or as a flourishing continent. The Lemurian Fellowship does not distinguish between Lemuria and Mu. The Fellowship notes, “The culture of Mu, or Lemuria, was far-flung."... Continue Reading →
Evolution of a human man from chimp to caveman to human. Contemporary values are reflected in competing historical narratives, which may result in more than one history. As a result, not all people adhere to the Darwinian theory of evolution supported by Anthropologists. Theosophists, The Rosicrucian Order, the I AM Movement (First Ascended Master... Continue Reading →
Occult phenomena are placed outside the structures of science. It is necessary for science to relegate magic, the occult, and pseudo-science to the fringes. Science seeks to explain the natural world based on models and therefore, experience and phenomena that cannot be replicated or performed in a laboratory are suspect. Science must continually compete... Continue Reading →
MOUNT SHASTA MYTHS 