 The
legend of Mu is found on islands all over the Pacific Ocean. For
thousands of years the Polynesians have handed down the story of a continent
in the Pacific that was motherland of mankind.
The name of Mu somehow sounds like an uninteresting contraction of a more
exotic name. In contrast, the word Lemuria invokes a picture of a land at
the dawn of time, a land forgotten in our histories but not in our dreams.
The name Lemuria resulted from a Nineteenth Century controversy over
Darwin's Origin of the Species. Defenders of Darwin had trouble
explaining how certain species became distributed over large areas.
Zoologists had a particularly difficult time explaining the
distribution of the lemurs. The lemur is a small primitive form of
primate found in Africa, Madagascar, India, and the East Indian archipelago.
Some zoologists suggested a land mass in the Indian Ocean, between
Madagascar and India, millions of years ago. An English zoologist,
Phillip L. Schlater, proposed the name Lemuria (LEMURia) for this former
land of the LEMURS in the Indian Ocean.
Earnst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919), a German naturalist and champion of
Darwin, used Lemuria to explain the absence of fossil remains of early
man: If man originated on a sunken continent in the Indian Ocean, all the
fossils of the missing link are now under the sea. To quote Haeckel:
"Schlater has given this continent the name of Lemuria, from the semi-apes
which were characteristic of it."
Zoologists have now explained the distribution of lemurs without resorting to
the use of a land bridge. And anthropologists have discovered many bones of
ancient man in Africa. However in the nineteenth century, Haeckel's theories
were widely read and respected. As a result, the name Lemuria was well
known among educated people in Europe and America.
Madame Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (born Helena Hahn 1831-1891), the founder of
Theosophy, in her book The Secret Doctrine (1888), claimed to have learned
of Lemuria in The Book of Dzyan, which she said was composed in Atlantis and
shown to her by the Mahatmas. However, in her writings she did give
Philip Schlater the honor of inventing the name, Lemuria.
Mme Blasvatsky located her Lemuria in the Indian Ocean about 150 million
years ago. She may have obtained her ideas of a sunken land in the Indian
Ocean from Sanskrit legends of the former continent of Rutas that sank
beneath the sea. But the name Rutas sounds too spiritless and uninspiring
to have held such a prominent place in cosmic history.
She described the Lemurians as the third root race to inhabit the earth.
They were egg-laying beings with a third eye that gave them psychic powers
and allowed them to function without a brain. Originally bisexual, their
downfall came about after they discovered sex.
The English Theosophist W. Scott-Elliot, who said he received his knowledge
from the Theosophical Masters by "astral clairvoyance", writes in The
Story of Atlantis & The Lost Lemuria (1896), that the sexual exploits of
the Lemurians so revolted the spiritual beings, the Lhas, that they refused to
follow the cosmic plan of becoming the first to incarnate into the bodies of
the Lemurians. Scott-Elliot located his Lemuria not only in the Indian
Ocean: He described it as stretching from the east coast of Africa across
the Indian AND the Pacific Oceans.
In this century, writers have increasingly placed Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean.
Even psychics and modern prophets channel beings who were citizens of Lemuria.
Today just about everyone who has heard of Lemuria assumes that the legends
of Mu are identical with the English zoologist's land of the lemurs.
After all, isn't Mu just a shortened form of leMUria?
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