Archeological Indications of the Lost Continent of Mu 

INDEX

> Archeological Indications of the Lost Continent of Mu> The Pacific Islands - The Mountains of Mu> Pohnpei and Nan Madol - Venice of the Pacific> Easter Island - Stone Symbols of Rapa Nui> Cuzco and Tiwanaku - Prehistoric Ruins> East Asia - Remnants of Lemuria> Middle East - The Mystery of Baalbek> The Great Pyramid - A Familiar Enigma> Fitting the Pieces Together - Dr. Stelle's Work> Vestiges of Mu - Shadows of Unimagined Greatness

 

Introduction

The increase and greater ease of travel in the last fifty years means more and more people today are visiting and exploring the remnants of temples, walls, statuary, terraces, tombs, canals and roadways built from enormous blocks weighing from a few to hundreds of tons each. These enigmatic structures found on just about every continent and many islands around the world, were once accessible to scientific expeditions alone.

When people ask about the continent of Mu, or the evidence of the Lemurian or Mukulian Civilization, these various sights are the natural places to begin. Then they should read the existing explanations and do a little thinking for themselves. While science is piecing together the stories of these locations, science begins with a hypothesis based on known timelines, but the largest stones offer a challenge.

Why? Because as much as we know about world history and its people, indications are that these stones were laid long before. In some instances, there are not even legends about who placed the stones or built the massive structures of which they were a part. Science does not yet know

how these edifices were erected, much less why.

Travelers in Asia who are alert to such things sometimes hear references to the Motherland to the east, and among the legends of Mexico and the South and Central American Indians, similar references are heard, except that they refer to the west. There are stories of the “Blue People,” the “Old Ones,” and the “Golden Race.”

 The Pacific Islands

The Mountains of Mu

In the tribal legends from the Maori of New Zealand, the Polynesians of Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa and the indigenous peoples of other Pacific islands come similar tales. Thousands of miles of rolling sea separate these islands, and most do not share similar languages. In the Americas, these same stories have been handed down for as long as there is any record or recollection. Today, we can see that certain similarities plainly indicate a common origin of some sort. Glyphs and relics found on various Pacific islands also reveal and refer to these same legendary peoples and races, as well as to a continent called Mu, or Lemuria.

Dr. Stelle, the founder of the Lemurian Fellowship, noticed these discrepancies during world travels he undertook from 1896 through about 1930. He was familiar with the standard scientific explanations for civilization on our planet, but what he saw and learned did not fit the standard model. Here is some of what drew his attention to the subject.

Pohnpei and Nan MadolVenice of the Pacific

Scattered throughout the length and breadth of the Pacific, both above and below water, are majestic monuments of such size and grandeur as to stagger the imagination. Mute, desolate, hoary with age, even the legends of the people native to these islands gave no indication as to who built them. Not all of them have been uncovered even today.

Consider Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands, twenty-three hundred miles south of Japan, just north of the equator. This island is barely

capable of supporting the 34,000 inhabitants living there today without considerable ocean commerce with other countries, but on its southeastern shores lies a ruined, half submerged city called Metalanim (Nan Madol) consisting of ninety-two prehistoric, artificial islands surrounded by human-constructed canals. This complex covers eleven square miles—an area capable of housing more than a million people. Who were they, and what happened to them?

Nan MadolBecause of its massive walls, earthworks, and temples, intersected by miles of artificial waterways, Metalanim has been called the “Venice of the Pacific.” These canals are from thirty to one hundred feet wide, containing locks that would hold a large ship (for reference, the Panama Canal is 110 feet wide). Could the original inhabitants of this metropolis have used humble canoes as their only means of conveyance?

In no sense was Metalanim built like our modern cities. The structures were built of basalt blocks weighing upwards of five tons each. What may still be seen of these ruins reveals no outstanding contribution to the sciences of engineering or architecture, but the builders had considerable experience with design and construction.

Seventeen hundred miles south of Hawaii and almost three thousand miles from Pohnpei lies Malden Island—waterless, barren, and uninhabited. Within a very restricted area, however, are observed the remnants of forty stone temples from which a paved highway—constructed of basalt blocks—vanishes beneath the waters of the Pacific. The style of architecture and masonry is identical with that on distant Pohnpei, yet there is no evidence of a quarry of any sort on the island.

 Easter Island

Stone Symbols of Rapa Nui

West of Chile some twenty-two hundred miles, and almost three thousand miles southeast of Malden Island, is Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Traditionally, its only fresh water was caught and held during the rainy season by extinct volcanic craters. In the late 18th century, when visited by Captain Cook, there were fewer than 1000 primitive inhabitants living there.

On the island there are great burial platforms of tooled and surfaced stones, each ranging from two to twenty tons in weight; also immense pyramids and monoliths which unquestionably required tens of thousands of workmen and scores of years to build, not to mention considerable ingenuity and skill.

Easter Island MoaiToday the Island’s titanic statues (Moai) are broadly recognized. These statues, admittedly somewhat crude in workmanship, are carved from a very brittle volcanic stone called tuff. They range from ten to thirty-seven feet tall and weigh from thirty to eighty tons each. The original bases, Ahu, were of matched and expertly surfaced stones oriented astronomically, the work almost identical to that found in South America as well as in parts of Asia and the Middle East. Many of the platforms were destroyed and poorly reconstructed in more recent times, bearing little resemblance to earlier work. Each statue bears, or has borne, a red sandstone cap, from two tons in weight on the smaller statues to ten tons or more on the largest, placed after the statues were erected.

From Hawaii itself, with its magnificent sunken gardens, to Pitcairn, Tahiti, Fiji, Oleai, and Yap—not to mention a score of other island groups throughout the South Seas—these imposing edifices are duplicated, though in smaller versions.

Cuzco and TiwanakuPrehistoric Ruins

In Cuzco, Peru stands the House of the Virgins, practically intact today,

yet of such antiquity that even in the most ancient of tribal traditions, it was regarded with sacred awe as “the work of the Old Ones from the Motherland.” The stonework of this imposing edifice is the same as that found at Vinapu, Easter Island.

Cuzco Wall

Close up of WallOn the hill above Cuzco are the battlements of Sacsayhuamán. This structure, still partially buried, is built of hundreds of stones, many weighing in the 100 to 300-ton range, and as much as 27 feet in height. So neatly fitted are the stones, without mortar, that a knife blade cannot be inserted between most of them. The Inca to whom the construction is credited, did not possess even the wheel. How does one surface multi-sided stones of colossal size to fit precisely in a wall or structure of any kind?

TiwanakuOn the southeastern shore of Lake Titicaca in the Andes Mountains, thirteen thousand feet above sea level, are the ruins of a prehistoric city called Tiwanaku. There is a stepped pyramid, and several large structures, one fronted by an intricately carved doorway made from a single immense flat stone. Near these ruins are stone canals lined with equally imposing stones. Dr. Stelle learned much later that these canals had once furnished a water route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the dim past, before titanic upheavals lifted the Andes Mountains into their present position. This city is built along the same architectural lines as Metalanim on Pohnpei. Its elaborately constructed canals again suggest a worldwide commercial traffic of considerable proportions.

Further north, buried in the jungles of Yucatan, Guatemala, and other Central American countries, are many other stone cities like Tiwanaku and Metalanim. Pyramids of the same distinctive design as those found on Pohnpei, Easter Island, Tahiti and other places in the Pacific are also in evidence on the South and Central American mainland, or at Uxmal, Chichen Itsa, and Cuicuilco in Mexico.

 

East AsiaRemnants of Lemuria

Being on that portion of the globe that did not sink at the time of Mu’s submergence, Asia offers remnants of some of the architecture that unquestionably predominated on the submerged portions of Mu. One of the finest examples of Mukulian culture in the east is that located at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Though several cities were built on this site during successive waves of colonization, the original was of the same construction as that of Tiwanaku and Metalanim, including the lined canals. It covers more than fifteen square miles, and its population at one time numbered more than three million people.

 

Middle EastThe Mystery of Baalbek

Baalbek wallAbout 6,000 miles west from Angkor Wat, across the continent of Asia, is Baalbek, Lebanon, northeast of Beirut in the Bekaa Valley. There stands another ruin of the same type of construction using immense, often interlocking, stone blocks. The original structure, of which only the foundation exists today, dwarfs a very large temple built by the Romans in the second century B.C. using just a portion of one wall of the original construction.

In the above photo, the last few original columns with their entablature measure nine feet in diameter and stand 90 feet tall giving some idea of the size of the stones in the wall beneath.

The mystery of Baalbek, as with many of the other sites under consideration, concerns the massive foundation stones upon which the Romans built their Temple of Jupiter in more recent history. Some of the precisely shaped and positioned blocks of the original temple are more than thirty feet long, ten feet wide, and fourteen feet high, weighing 450 tons each. Above these stones are three much larger stones known as the Trilithon, over sixty feet long and of similar girth, weighing up to 800 tons each. All of the stones are straight and perfectly squared. In a limestone quarry a quarter mile from the temple, and ready to be moved, sits the largest tooled stone found today. It is nearly 70 feet long and weighs an estimated 1200 tons.

Baalbek stoneThese stones are an enigma to contemporary scientists because of their quarrying, transportation, and placement methods.

 

The Great PyramidA Familiar Enigma

Pyramid blocksMore familiar to most people are the large stones that make up the nearly 500-foot tall mountain that is the Great Pyramid at Gizeh in Egypt. While most of the stones, weighing between 2 and 10 tons, are not large in comparison to Baalbek, scientists estimate there are or were some 2.3 million precisely carved blocks in the Great Pyramid, which is claimed to have been completed in just 20 years. To accomplish such a feat, fourteen of these stones would have to have been set in place every hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for twenty years! Yet, it is suggested the structure was completed through a laborious method of hand-chiseling the stones out of a quarry, dragging and rafting them from nearby and distant quarries to the Pyramid site using wooden barges and rollers, levers and pulleys, and tens, if not hundreds of thousands of workers.

During the nineteenth century, a noted Egyptologist named Flinders Petrie found some round stone billets that were determined to be waste from hollowing out the empty granite sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber of the Pyramid. Marks on one of these round billets clearly show that it was

cut using what appears to be a 4” diameter core drill of sufficient power and toughness to bore through solid granite at a rate of about two inches for every revolution of the drill bit. This was a staggering discovery, as anyone who works with granite will confirm, and seems to indicate the use of far more sophisticated machinery than is currently believed to have existed at the time the pyramid was constructed.

The Pyramid stones are only a fraction of the weight of the large Baalbek stones. The route from quarry to temple at Baalbek is uphill, over uneven terrain. There is no evidence of a flat hauling surface, nor is there room on the hilltop to build long gentle ramps or even to allow large numbers of men or animals to congregate.

More baffling is how the mammoth blocks were lifted and precisely positioned twenty or more feet up in the wall. Construction engineers maintain that while it is possible to build a derrick to hoist the largest Baalbek stones, today, moving them any distance, laterally, would present serious challenges.

The megalithic stones of Baalbek were ancient and already forgotten to history when Alexander the Great first encountered them in the 4th century B.C., and there was no evidence even then of who had built them.

Cuzco Wall

       Baalbek                                                   AngkorThom

We could go on talking about interesting stones at other remote sites, but look more closely at what has been described so far. More interesting than

the individual stones themselves, is that the Baalbek construction shows stylistic similarities—interlocking, precisely cut blocks that lend great stability—similar to titanic stonework in Peru and Cambodia pictured above, as well those found in the Americas and on Pacific Islands. How would societies of primitive people living in distant corners of the world develop, simultaneously, the technology to plan, design and build in almost identical ways unless they shared access to knowledge and skills common to the other locations?

 Fitting the Pieces Together

Dr. Stelle’s Work

Just such questions interested the founder of the Lemurian Fellowship during his world travels. Because the answers formed an important part of the Plan of the Lemurian Brotherhood, and because of his high degree of advancement, he was contacted by Masters of our human life wave, who helped Dr. Stelle fulfill the great purpose of his life.

Through many years of patient labor, bit by bit, and item by item, this priceless knowledge has been garnered until the history of Mu was pieced together, and with it a new vision of the world as it will be when men and women choose to live in peace and harmony for the good of humanity. Revealed in the Lemurian Philosophy are facts about the so-called lost civilizations and the later migrations of the people who populated their golden cities. Clues were buried long ago in the buildings and glyphs around the globe, awaiting the time when those with a sincere desire to know would find and interpret them. The people who built them had an almost superhuman knowledge of the Science of Being, their philosophy of life frozen into blocks of stone, the last of which is known as the Great Pyramid of Gizeh.

That a race of intelligent, industrious, thoughtful people spread their knowledge around the world distant in the past, is becoming an unavoidable fact today. But science will find its way to this conclusion slowly, laboriously, only as the proof is found and placed in the order of its age. Until the proof is found, it may be difficult to believe that human beings, just like us, built and learned and dreamed great dreams; then

faltered, and lost their way.

Bear in mind that we have discussed only those cities and monuments still above water. What do you imagine remains underwater?

 Vestiges of Mu

Shadows of Unimagined Greatness

Even those who admit the existence of a lost continent in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, often claim that there could not have been any cultured inhabitants so very long ago. Yet the colonial empires of the Motherland strongly suggest that the peoples who built them could not have been greater than those who erected the Mukulian Empire on the Continent of Mu itself. Mukulia, or Lemuria, reached an unprecedented level of development, socially, culturally and spiritually. No nation, from the day of its submergence to the present, has ever eclipsed its magnificence. But what is most important, crucial to the development of its society, was the philosophy of its people and their voluntary adherence to the Laws of God enabling them to live in greater harmony with nature and each other.

People ask why there is so little of record, why so few clues remain. Within recorded history, the world has witnessed nothing even approximating the devastation caused when a continent-sized land mass subsides, as did Mu roughly 26,000 years ago, or the later equally violent destruction of Atlantis some 14,000 years later. When these calamities struck, those who survived were thrown into chaos, and the ensuing turmoil left no continent or people unscathed. Organization fell apart. Knowledge was nearly forgotten in the more immediate need to find food, shelter, and clothing. Ensuing calamities further degraded the general knowledge.

Why were they able to accomplish so much? Because they learned and lived lives based on the Laws of God and Nature. They understood the principle of cause and effect. In our present age, science accepts this law as affecting everything in the Universe, from stars and planets to chemical reactions. Isaac Newton defined this principle more than three hundred years ago, but science still limits this principle to things exterior to the

human being, as though humans, alone, live outside the Universe of which we are a part. Christ defined the same principle for humans two thousand years ago in the Golden Rule, clearly indicating that cause and effect is a crucial guide in human events as well. Until this and other laws are understood, and closely adhered to, humankind is prone to mistakes. The larger the errors, the larger the effects that stem from the causes being set in motion. Until we learn these laws, we are destined to experience their effects, and the most painful will always seem random and unexplained. Hope for the future lies in our ever-increasing knowledge of, and adherence to, the universal Laws of God.