Root Races

Each root race passes through various stages: youthful, mature and decline. Each population of a root race is divided into 7 sub races. Each sub race maintains itself for a long time while others are developing alongside it. That is why the world population is as it is because different stages of development are living together here on earth.

With each subsequent sub race, evolutionary changes occur. As an example, memory consisted of vivid sense impressions, color and sound. They then developed feelings, which their Lemurian ancestors did not yet know. Memory came with language. Memory did not show up until the final Lemurian period. The Atlantian period is the one in which the development of language took place. A new bond was formed among humans in the early states of the first sub-race as the result of sound-words inside themselves and to the objects of the external world.

Soul powers of the first Atlanteans still possessed something of the forces of nature. Their sound-words contained a power over things and other human beings. They could cure, advance the growth of plants, tame the rage of animals and perform other similar functions. All these powers progressively decreased in form among the later sub-races of the Atlanteans. As spirit and soul become increasingly earth-matter oriented, the psychic powers decrease.

Rudolph Steiner's Akashic Record

Steiner states that the early Atlanteans had a different mental capacity than ours; they were not equipped with logic but did have a highly developed memory. Whatever they performed, they did from memory. They thought in images, like our animals and not in concepts. Over a long period of Atlantean life they lived uniform lives because of the developed and faithful memory. They did not invent a million years ago, they remembered. People respected a person who looks back upon long experience.

The Mystery Schools back then had a requirement for admission. The student had to remember previous incarnations and acquired the faculties for receiving wisdom. No logic...only memory. The personality was not important. They knew how to control the life force, how to control the energy dormant in grains and plants. They had vehicles that could float at ranges lower than mountain ranges. The vehicles could not be used today because at that time the cover of air, which enveloped the earth was much denser than it is now. During the early cycle the water on the whole earth was much thinner than today. Because of the thinness, the water could be directed and used for technical services. Civilization was radically different than ours.

Atlanteans took into himself water, which could be used by the life force of his body to increase physical power when he needed them for a project. Their ideas of fatigue and depletion of forces were quire different from ours. In the early cycle, the community did not resemble our modern city. They lived in alliance with nature. This alliance continued to the middle of the third sub race. Settlements resembled a garden in which houses were built of trees with artfully intertwined branches. Their social sense was related to nature. Nature was considered common property. Plants and animal form have become quite different since that time. All of nature has been subjected to transformation.

Early Atlanteans...

The early Atlanteans sense of feeling according to Rudolph Steiner and his access to the Akashic Records, was dramatically different than how we understand the sense of feeling. If the Atlanteans were tired and needed rest, they would enter their physical body. For activity, they would enter the spirit world. In the spirit world, they felt transposed into a group soul. During this early first period of Atlantis, a process took place in which human beings gradually passed from one set of conditions into their opposite. Gradually, the etheric body was being driven into the physical and this occurred during the last third of the Atlantean epoch. They originally felt at rest in the physical and alive in the brilliance of the spiritual world. As the shift from the one viewpoint changed, they withdrew from the spiritual into the physical. The Atlanteans at that stage of physical evolution finally understood themselves in the confinement of a body shell as an independent being.

Gradually, it dawned upon them that they were egos with their own consciousness and not the group soul they had previously known as their identity. As they spent more time in the snail-body, they knew what they were and learned to perceive the physical environment that used to be seen only as vagueness. Now, when they descended fully into their physical bodies and looked at the sky, they did not see the rainbow but they finally did see something like a circle formed of color. They were seeing for the first time the sun although at that time the sun did not penetrate with its power through the heavy mist. The awakening of external consciousness was connected with the emergence of the Sun from the mist. Now, we can understand why so many early religions worshipped the Sun. The early Atlanteans did not require the Sun to physically live because, remember, they spent more of their time out of the physical body then in it.

Once the Sun appeared and physical and environmental changes occurred, the door of inner spirit vision closed to these beings. This is a cosmic process in world history. Consciousness of self evolves through spiritual darkening. In this way, human beings grew away from the brilliance of the group souls but gained individuality. It was a long time before they really grew to possess individuality, as we know it. Souls today are still searching for the spirit contact they once had when they were not as grounded in matter.

Rudolph Steiner and the Akashic Record

The following information in this particular article is partly taken from Rudolph Steiner and his exploration of the Akashic Record approximately a million years ago. The early people had a will that was magical. An example was their ability to affect the growth of flowers. Natural surroundings depended on the beings that lived during that epoch. Steiner places land masses prior to the Atlantean beginning and states that they were essentially manipulated by the use of evil will of an earlier root race who were divided in the area of intention referred to as the Lemurians. A small group survived and were the earliest Atlanteans. Race development and soul development work hand in hand. It was after this catastrophe we come to the ancient Atlantean epoch when the human race developed in a more expanded way in the physical senses. More on that later. They lived very differently than we do. They had a kind of spiritual vision and their bodies had a different construction. The etheric body was not yet so firmly bound up with the physical body. Keep in mind, there were different epochs or stages of Atlantean growth. Later, towards the last third of the Atlantean epoch did the projecting etheric body draw in and take the form of the present physical human head.

Their bodies did not look like ours and their whole soul life was different. If you were to visit early Atlantis, you would find that it was not surrounded by air as the present earth but by air saturated with volumes of mist with water. This air became clearer and more transparent the further Atlantis developed. The mists were densest where the more advanced Atlantean civilization developed. Atlantis was covered far and wide by mist. No division of rain and sunshine. No rainbows...not until Noah after the flood witnessed the first rainbow. From the point of physics, it was impossible before due to the weather conditions to see a rainbow. Ancient Atlanteans lived in a different state of consciousness and memory was different from what we have now. Today, we use our physical senses during the day. At night and asleep our etheric and astral body and ego withdraw. In the morning, everything returns. It was just the opposite experience for the early Atlanteans.

During the early Atlantean period, their physical world was entirely different. We see objects in clear outlines. They saw objects indistinctly like someone would who is very nearsighted. Only gradually through time did the clear outlines develop. In early times, objects looked like cloudy structures. Early Atanteans did not sleep like we do. Since the physical formations were misty, human beings lived within a spiritual or more subtle world where they had better sight. Spiritual beings, not physical ones, were their companions. Just the opposite of the average humans experience today. More...

In the Beginning...

Our first ancestors arose in Africa some three million years ago and spread all over the world. By a million years ago, there had been a series of explosions and one of the most dramatic occurred in the region of Indonesia, precisely the spot where humanity first flourished. I am getting ahead of myself but it helps to look at the long view. When the sea level rose an estimated amount of 100-150 meters, Atlantis disappeared and based on Plato's data, twenty million people drowned. The sunken continent was Lemuria Atlantis, the larger of the two Atlantis's...the Land of the Dead. The greatest of all Lemurian colonies was Atlantis, founded in India, during the heydays of Lemuria. Their grandeur ended at the end of the Pleistocene period approximately 11,600 years ago. There were survivors who moved to India, the next site of Atlantis. The doomed people during the Great Deluge fled, immigrated to remote places such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, North Africa, Europe, North Asia, the Near Orient, Oceania and the Americas. Some came on foot in huge hordes. The survivors created Atlantean colonies and attempted to recreate their Eden in the new homeland. Because of the immigrants, we find similarities, remnants all over the planet.

For about a million years Lemurian/Atlantis civilizations was the scene of a civilization quite different from ours today. The earth has changed and also the water and air Just as the etheric body works in the life of individuals, it works as the spirit of motion and form in the earth. This series of articles focuses on evolutionary changes, physical, and its relationship with the evolution of the soul. Now that we had a glance at the mega catastrophe's, let us look at how our physical, emotional and mental nature evolved along with the soul.


The first human beings appeared comparatively late in the etheric's evolution and at the time they had a very different constitution from the present. The forms were actually gross in the beginning according to our standards of appearance. Organs gradually developed out of entirely different forms. Solid parts were only built into the form gradually. Originally, the body did not have bones. The bones developed out of soft cartilaginous structures, which traversed the human body like cords.

Everything originated from a quite soft substance and the soft substances from fluid ones and the fluid ones from airy ones and the airy from etheric ones and the etheric from astral ones, which had densified from spiritual substantiality. Tracing back...everything material has originated from spirit.

Ancestors of the Atlanteans lived in a region, which has disappeared. Theosophical writings call the ancestors...Lemurians. They, too, passed through the various stages of development, the greatest of them declined. The first sub-race of the Atlantans was formed from the small section that survived. These beings had a high
evolutionary potential and were advanced but in a different way. Lemurians in contrast to Atlanteans memory was weak and they could not preserve ideas. They lived by instinct, not animal instinct. So, when two different forms of life merge, things change. Tomorrow, we will look at how the early forms differ from today's form.

Indonesia and Its Atlantis Connection

Theosophy states that we have seven root races. We now exist in the Aryan, fifth root race. The first four were the Polarians who were primarily spiritual (Astral/Etheric) and did not leave physical remains. The second (tee Hyperborean) were also non-physical (etheric). The Lemurians, the third root race were the first with physical bodies although they did not resemble a body as we know of it today. The Lemurians and the fourth root race, the Atlanteans bodies and minds developed over at least a million year period. I will into that aspect of the soul/physical evolution in another article. The Atlanteans are generally considered to have had great occult and/or technological powers and inhabited the first Atlantis near Indonesia until the Great Deluge and the survivors fled and established the second Atlantis near India. The Atlanteans are judged as the ones who destroyed the continent due to their abuse of psychic power. Each root race consists of seven sub races. It was from the fifth sub-race of Atlanteans, known today as the Semites, that the first Aryans emerged, migrating to India and producing what was known in those distant times as the Rama Empire. According to one interpretation they were rivals to the Atlanteans in the leadership of the ante-dilluvian World and it led to a war between the two empires, including ancient nuclear warfare.

Tomorrow's blog will go back further in time but today I do want to mention the ancient fish caught in Indonesia, four feet, 110 pounds that were believed to be extinct for 65 million years. Several other live specimens have been discovered. I always find it interesting how the past catches up with us. There is a park in that area called Leang-leang Prehistoric Park. Archaeologists have found rock paintings on cave walls. Scattered ancient animals bones and stones are found throughout the area. Scientists are preparing to piece together a rare complete skeleton of a prehistoric elephant found in the tropics of Indonesia. It is rare that a fossil of an animal is ever found in such a hot, humid climate but believe he was submerged in quicksand in Java some 200,000 years ago. It was apparently covered by volcanic sediment that protected it from high temperatures, erosion and decay.

It is believed that Indonesia must have existed during the Pleistocene period (4 million years BC) when it was linked with the present Asian mainland. It was during this period that the Homonids made their first appearance and Java Man inhabited the part of the world now called Indonesia. When the sea level rose as the result of melting ice north of Europe and the American continent, many islands emerged, including the Indonesian archipelago. There is a definite connection between Lemuria, Atlantis, Indonesia and South India. More to come...

Looking at Our Roots Scientifcally and Spiritually

What is being shared week is from scientific and geologic findings, Theosophy and the Akashic Record. I enjoy researching our prehistoric heritage and how soul evolution has played along with our physical evolution. Our planet is also in continual movement. For about a million years Lemurian and Atlantis civilizations was the scene of a civilization quite different from ours today. The earth has changed and also the water and air. Just as the etheric body works in the life of individuals, it works as the spirit of motion and form in the earth. This message focuses on evolutionary changes, physical and its relationship with the evolution of the soul.

The cataclysms of fire and water of worldwide extent have been generally accepted by modern geology. What has been confirmed is the dramatic confirmation of the existence of a now sunken giant continent to the south of Southeast Asia and China. Spy satellites of NASA provided the information. The end was sudden and brutal and occurred as stipulated by Plato, 11,609 years ago. Scientists are still not certain of the real cause. There are recorded one great flood an two mega floods. The more recent one that I am writing about right now is the giant explosion widely attested in all sorts of myths and traditions calling the sunken area Atlantis and Paradise, the Universal Flood and the Universal Conflagration. It was the end of the Ice Age and has been confirmed by geological oceanographic research. Melt waters of these glaciers caused a huge rise in sea level, which created extra weight on the seafloor and cracks began to occur in weak spots. Further volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis were engendered.

According to modern day scientists, the experts have been looking for Atlantis in the wrong sides of the world. Genesis and Plato identify the mysterious sons of God as the Atlanteans who fled to other parts of the world and mated with the Daughters of Men and created hybrids as offspring. Did you know that the Bible speaks of two creations, exactly as Planto tells of the two different Atlantis's. The two traditions also exactly agree with the prehistoric events observed in the geological and the archaeological records. The sources always end up in India and Indonesia,the two Atlantis's of legend. The best ancient source speaks from the
magnificent Hindu saga, the Mahabharate of the sea level rising and not continents sinking. There are maps of Atlantis during the Ice Age showing its location. The location is based on geophysical reconstruction of the seafloor. National Geographic Magazine, October 1988 had a map that corresponds with this conclusion...two Atlantis's, one south of Southeast Asia and another in the Indus Delta. The land was far larger than Australia, two or three times larger than continentalized India. The ultimate divide is located near Indonesia and forms the boundary of the Indian and the Pacific oceans. Ancient authorities know this rift.
Today, the Volcano Anak Krakatau is still erupting. In 1883 tens of thousands of people were killed. Ash from the explosion might have temporarily altered Earth's climate. More tomorrw. Please feel to add your comments and knowledge.