le_ are
mainly descended from the fourth or Turanian sub-race of the Fourth
Root Race.]

[Footnote 21: "Secret Doctrine," Vol. ii., p. 198.]

[Footnote 22: Vol. ii., p. 317.]

[Footnote 23: The "Times," 14th Sept., 1903.]

[Footnote 24: The heights reached by them will find their parallel
when our humanity will, countless aeons hence, have reached the Sixth
Round of our chain of worlds, and the same transcendent powers will be
the possession of ordinary mankind in those far-off ages.]

MAPS

[Illustration: NO. 1 THE WORLD ABOUT 1,000,000 YEARS AGO, DURING MANY
PREVIOUS AGES, AND UP TO THE CATASTROPHE OF ABOUT 800, 000 YEARS AGO.

ATLANTIS AT ITS PRIME]

[Illustration: NO 2 THE WORLD AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF 800,000 YEARS AGO
AND UP TO THE CATASTROPHE OF ABOUT 200,000 YEARS AGO.

ATLANTIS IN ITS DECADENCE]

[Illustration: NO 3 THE WORLD AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF 200,000 YEARS AGO
AND UP TO THE CATASTROPHE OF ABOUT 80,000 YEARS AGO.

RUTA & DAITYA]

[Illustration: NO 4 THE WORLD AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF 80000 YEARS AGO
AND UP TO THE FINAL SUBMERGENCE OF POSEIDONIS IN 9,564 B.C.

POSEIDONIS]

[Illustration: No.1 LEMURIA at its greatest extent.]

[Illustration: No.2 LEMURIA at a later period.]

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