Atlantis and Lemuria

About this book

Atlantis and Lemuria become stages in a vast history of humanity that no conventional map could hold. Rudolf Steiner describes vanished continents, changes in human consciousness and forms of existence belonging to his clairvoyant account of the remote past.

These lectures introduce a spiritual cosmology in which evolution involves the soul as well as the physical world. Steiner's descriptions belong to Anthroposophical belief and have no basis in established prehistory. Their appeal lies in the audacity of the imagined timescale and in the questions they raise about how spiritual movements construct histories of human origins.