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Drowned continents, occult records, and vanished civilisations: what does the ancient world look like through Theosophical eyes?
In The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria, W. Scott-Elliot presents an esoteric account of humanity’s beginnings. His Atlantis stretches across the Atlantic; his Lemuria lies in the southern oceans. These essays trace the rise and fall of lost lands through claims drawn from Theosophical teaching, not archaeological evidence.
Scott-Elliot draws on Helena Blavatsky and A. P. Sinnett, and says his sources include the Akashic records, a supposed memory of nature. Maps give shape to his imagined ancient world. Read as a document of occult thought, the book reveals beliefs about human origins, wise rulers, misused power, and catastrophe.
What you’ll discover
- Atlantis on the map Explore the lands Scott-Elliot places between the Americas and Europe in his account.
- The lost land of Lemuria Follow his claims about a southern continent and its place in humanity’s early story.
- An occult source of knowledge Discover why Theosophical teachers look to the supposed Akashic records for accounts of the past.
- Power and its misuse Trace Scott-Elliot’s account of Atlantis, from rulers guided by Initiates toward decline and disaster.
- A window into Theosophy Meet the teaching of successive root races as a belief, not an accepted scientific account.
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You will enjoy this if you love lost worlds, Victorian ideas about evolution and hidden knowledge, or the roots of Theosophy. It suits readers curious about how earlier ages imagined the story of humankind.
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- A vanished city opens the story
- Scattered clues suggest a lost land
- Shared customs become memories of Atlantis
- Secret maps reshape the account
- Shared prosperity gives way to sorcery
- Migration carries knowledge beyond Atlantis
- Technical skill does not ensure wisdom
- Lemuria places bodily humanity before Atlantis
- Skill needs goodwill to guide it
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The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
A Theosophist maps sunken Atlantis and Lemuria, with airships, golden-gated cities and four great catastrophes.
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Picture a city of more than two million people, built on a hill above rings of canals. Water reaches it from a mountain lake through an underground channel, then rises up a shaft cut through solid rock to a spring in the emperor's gardens.
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Scattered evidence points to a sunken Atlantic land
The author begins with what ordinary science already offers. He sorts the proof into five groups: ocean soundings, the spread of plants and animals, likeness of languages and peoples, likeness of religion and building, and the words of ancient writers. His claim is that these make an old Atlantic continent easy to believe before any occult record is brought in.
Start with the sea floor. Survey ships mapped a huge ridge running through the middle of the Atlantic. It rises about 9,000 feet above the depths around it. The Azores, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha are peaks of it that still stand above the waves.
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Scott-Elliot, W. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-of-atlantis-and-the-lost-lemuria.
Scott-Elliot, W. (2026). The story of Atlantis and the lost Lemuria. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-of-atlantis-and-the-lost-lemuria
Scott-Elliot, W. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-of-atlantis-and-the-lost-lemuria.
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What is The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria about?
It is an account of two vanished continents. The first paper describes Atlantis, its seven peoples, its golden age and its fall. The second describes Lemuria, an older southern land, and the early human race that lived there.
What do Atlantis and Lemuria mean in this book?
Atlantis is the island continent of the Fourth Root Race, lying in the Atlantic, and Lemuria is the older southern land of the Third Root Race. Lemuria takes its name from the lemurs that Sclater linked to it.
Is the book based on real evidence?
It uses real material, such as ocean soundings, fossils and flood legends, but its main claims rest on occult records the author says he copied. It is best read as Theosophical teaching rather than as scientific history.
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