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112. The Gospel of St. John: The Decline of Primeval Wisdom and its Rejuvenation through the Christ-Impulse 05 Jul 1909, Kassel
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
This cataclysm, running its course in tempestuous events in the air and in the water element, led to the disappearance of that continent which mankind had inhabited before the Indian civilization—ancient Atlantis, situated between Europe-Africa, and America—and to the migration of its people, westward to America and on the other side to the lands of Europe, Asia, and Africa, which had gradually taken on their present configuration.
Man has lost the power of discerning spirit because he no longer has the old dim clairvoyance; but the man of Atlantis saw the spiritual currents streaming in and out, just as your finger, were it conscious, would see the blood coursing through it and would know that it must wither if it were torn off.
He felt as though poured out into the whole outer world. The man of Atlantis saw the spiritual world, but he could not distinguish himself from it: he lacked anything like a strong ego sense—self-consciousness in its present meaning.
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Origin and Meaning of Human Suffering, Hereditary Diseases 02 Oct 1903, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Theosophy therefore not only has an effect on the present and the past, but also has an effect on the future. In ancient Atlantis and Lemuria, there were beings who did not suffer as we suffer on today's Earth. Suffering was also treated and healed differently back then.
300a. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Second Meeting 25 Sep 1919, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
The Early, Middle and Late Ice Ages are nothing more than what occurred in Europe while Atlantis sank. That all occurred at the same time, that is, in the seventh or eighth millennium. A teacher: I found some articles about geology in Pierer’s Encyclopedia.
You can create a parallel between the Quaternary Period and Atlantis, and easily bring the Tertiary Period into parallel, but not pedantically, with what I have described as the Lemurian Period.
You can create a parallel between the Tertiary Period and Atlantis, and easily bring the Secondary Period into parallel, but not pedantically, with what I have described as the Lemurian Period.
89. Awareness—Life—Form: Theosophical Cosmology III 09 Jun 1904, Berlin
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
The continent of Lemuria perished in fire-like catastrophes, and the continent of Atlantis then arose from what today is the Atlantic Ocean. Another important event came in Atlantean times.
A special outcome of the Atlantean race’s evolution was a phenomenal memory. When Atlantis had perished—through water—our present fifth race became a later continuation. Its special achievement has been the associative mind which enables the fifth race to take art and science to their highest levels, something which had not been possible before.
92. Richard Wagner in the Light of Anthroposophy: Lecture Four 19 May 1905, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
At this point we must consider our fifth root-race. When the floods had buried Atlantis, the sub-races of the fifth root-race gradually emerged: the Indian, the Median-Persian, the Assyrian-Babylonian-Semitic, the Graeco-Latin races.
A trace of this origin still lives in all the sub-races which have so far constituted the fifth root-race. You know that after the destruction of Atlantis by the great flood the peoples who had emigrated and had thus been preserved from destruction were led by Manu, a divine guide, into Asia, into the desert of Gobi.
122. Genesis (1982): The Harmony of the Bible with Clairvoyant Research 26 Aug 1910, Munich
Translated by Dorothy Lenn, Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
What has been described by Spiritual Science as coming after the withdrawal of the moon, that is, at the end of Lemuria and in the beginning of Atlantis, took place after the “days” of creation. We pointed that out yesterday. We also pointed out the deep significance of the statement that man received in his body the imprint of the earth-moon-dust.
If one wanted to describe the Jahve-man who passes over into Atlantis, one would have to say: “And the man who was formed by the Elohim on the sixth ‘day' of creation developed further into the unisexual man, the Jahve-man.”
129. Wonders of the World: The ego-nature and the human form 23 Aug 1911, Munich
Translated by Dorothy Lenn, Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
Let us imagine that, by some miracle or other, instead of the world which displays itself to him in the star-strewn heavens, in the rising and the setting of the sun, in mountain and cloud, in minerals, plants and animals, suddenly the world of old Atlantis were to stand before a normal human consciousness of today ... the man would be shattered, so dreadful, so alarming, would seem the world which is nevertheless all around us; for this world is there behind everything, it is all around us ... but it is covered over by the world of our ego.
We know that the ego has only gradually drawn into the human form, that in the time of Atlantis it was not yet within the body. What then, were these Atlantean bodies like? In the satyrs and the fauns and in Pan, as we shall see later, Greek fantasy and Greek intuition has elaborated pictures of the average Atlantean.
121. The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits. Monotheism and Pluralism 12 Jun 1910, Oslo
Translated by A. H. Parker

Rudolf Steiner
This advance in rank is connected with the fact that in late Atlantis and for some time after, the distribution of mankind, the distribution of races, has been followed by a second migration of peoples.
If we wish to understand the pattern and extent of the distribution of races in Europe, Africa, and America at the time of the gradual submergence of Atlantis, and the later great migration towards the end of the Atlantean epoch, when a small band first set out during the post-Atlantean epoch, then we must clearly realize that we are here dealing with that mighty stream of humanity which pushed forward into Asia, into Indian territory, and that, as has often been pointed out, the nuclei of future peoples remained behind at different points and from these nuclei were developed the various peoples of Asia, Africa and Europe.
122. Genesis (1959): The Harmony of the Bible with Clairvoyant Research 26 Aug 1910, Munich
Translated by Dorothy Lenn, Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
What has been described by Spiritual Science as coming after the withdrawal of the moon, that is, at the end of Lemuria and in the beginning of Atlantis, took place after the “days” of creation. We pointed that out yesterday. We also pointed out the deep significance of the statement that man received in his body the imprint of the earth-moon-dust.
If one wanted to describe the Jahve-man who passes over into Atlantis, one would have to say: “And the man who was formed by the Elohim on the sixth ‘day' of creation developed further into the unisexual man, the Jahve-man.”
106. Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: The Influence of the Sun and Moon Spirits, of the Isis and Osiris Forces 11 Sep 1908, Leipzig
Translated by Norman MacBeth

Rudolf Steiner
Thus night gradually grew dark for man in Atlantis, while day-consciousness began to light up. The night was without consciousness for the people of the first post-Atlantean culture, whom we tried to characterize in all their greatness, in the spirituality that entered through the holy Rishis.
The pupils of the Rishis needed teachers who could show them what happened in ancient Lemuria and Atlantis, when man was still clairvoyant. The same was also true of the Persians. It was different with the Chaldeans, and even more different with the Egyptians.

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