d their Japhet for the exigencies of
their own popular legend to mask its kabalistic, Chaldean meaning; and
that he is also the antetype of Deukalion. Prometheus is the creator of
man out of earth and water,* who after stealing fire from Olympus--a
mountain in Greece--is chained on a mount in the far-off Caucasus. From
Olympus to Mount Kazbek there is a considerable distance. The
Occultists say that while the 4th race was generated and developed on
the Atlantean continent--our Antipodes in a certain sense--the 5th was
generated and developed in Asia. (The ancient Greek geographer Strabo,
for one, calls by the name of Ariana, the land of the Aryas, the whole
country between the Indian Ocean in the south, the Hindu Kush and
Parapamisis in the north, the Indus on the east, and the Caspian Gates,
Karamania and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, on the west.) The fable of
Prometheus relates to the extinction of the civilized portions of the
4th race, whom Zeus, in order to create a new race, would destroy
entirely, and Prometheus (who had the sacred fire of knowledge) saved
partially "for future seed." But the origin of the fable antecedes the
destruction of Poseidonis by more than seventy thousand years, however
incredible it may seem. The seven great continents of the world, spoken
of in the Vishnu Purana (B. II., cap. 2) include Atlantis, though, of
course, under another name. Ila and Ira are synonymous Sanskrit terms
(see Amarakosha), and both mean earth or native soil; and Ilavrita is a
portion of Ila, the central point of India (Jambudvipa), the latter
being itself the centre of the seven great continents before the
submersion of the great continent of Atlantis, of which Poseidonis was
but an insignificant remnant. And now, while every Brahmin will
understand the meaning, we may help the Europeans with a few more
explanations.

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* Behold Moses saying that it requires earth and water to make a living
man.
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If, in that generally tabooed work, "Isis Unveiled," the "English
F.T.S." turns to page 589, vol. I., he may find therein narrated another
old Eastern legend. An island .... (where now the Gobi desert lies) was
inhabited by the last remnants of the race that preceded ours: a
handful of "Adepts"--the "Sons of God," now referred to as the Brahman
Pitris; called by another yet synonymous name in the Chaldean Kabala.
"Isis Unveiled" may appear very puzzling and contradictory to those who
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