The Inner Life

Prof. Edgar Lucin Larkin, for many years director of the Mt. Lowe Observatory in Southern California.

Prof. Larkin, with determined sagacity, penetrated the Shasta wilderness as far as he could—or dared—and then, cleverly, continued his investigations from a promontory with a powerful long distance telescope.

What the scientist saw, he reported, was a great temple in the heart of the mystic village—a marvellous work of carved marble and onyx, rivaling in beauty and architectural splendor the magnificence of the temples of Yucatan. He saw a village housing from 600 to 1000 people; they appeared to be industriously engaged in the manufacture of articles necessary to their consumption, they were engaged in farming in the sunny slopes and glens surrounding the village—with miraculous results, judging from the astounding vegetation revealed to Prof. Larkin’s spy-glass. He found them to be a peaceful community, evidently contented to live as their ancient forebears had lived before Lemuria was swallowed up by the sea.

When Prof. Larkin concluded his investigations he had gathered enough proof to warrant him to say that in this village, in a secluded glen at the foot of Mt. Shasta’s partially extinct volcano, far from beaten paths that lead to our civilization, there live the last descendants of the first inhabitants of this earth, the Lemurians.

Some scientists have long ago declared that certain of these early people migrated to other parts of the earth before the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria are supposed to have disappeared beneath the waters of the ocean, and the Lemurians on Shasta are doubtless the descendants of those early survivors who trekked to the American continent, possibly South America, the succeeding generations finally moving north to California.