Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific (Rosicrucian Order AMORC Kindle Editions) by Wishar S. Cerve & James D. Ward

Author:Wishar S. Cerve & James D. Ward [Cerve, Wishar S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
Published: 2015-06-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter VII

THE COMMUNITY LIFE OF THE LEMURIANS

ALL THE SCIENTIFIC analyses of the life of primitive man intimate that in the beginning of his earthly existence he lived separately and suspiciously isolated from others in the bows of trees or in caves along the banks of rivers until he learned whom he might trust among all the creatures of the animal kingdom. And we are told that he learned to trust a few animals of species lower than man and learned to trust a few of his companions and that eventually he domesticated the few animals he could trust and made friends of the men and women he could trust and these he gathered together in his immediate vicinity and constituted them as the elements of his community life.

Whether the Lemurians began their greatness in this manner or not we will probably never know. It must be evident to everyone who reads this book that the records from which we quote, including the carvings on many monuments and the traditions preserved in the writings of many races that descended from the Lemurians, began only with the story of Lemuria after community life was established. Men did not learn to think and analyze and had no occasion to preserve their thoughts and their knowledge until after they had learned to exchange ideas with others in the quiet hours of peaceful community life. Thus we find in the earliest records that community life was a well established condition among the Lemurians. When I speak of community life I do not mean the grouping together of individual homes, merely because of a favorable site or because of related conveniences that would bring a number of individuals and their homes together, for this was a stage that preceded the community life of which I speak. I refer to that form of community life wherein all the individuals in a group constituting a town site or a definite place of homes and dwellings were interested in some occupation, some production, some demonstration of mental and physical effort that made them live and work together as one large family. So united and identical were the interests of the individuals in most of these Lemurian communities that they appointed or elected one of their group who occupied a position much like a mayor, or city manager of today, but who was really their advisor, their chief instructor, and court of last appeal in all disputed points, and their religious and spiritual guide as well.

We may grasp a better understanding of the situation, perhaps, if we realize, first of all, that the Lemurians issued no coins and had no such commodity or device as money. No one received any form of remuneration for his efforts, except the privilege of sharing in all the community interests and each having the friendship and association and guidance of the principal minds in the group and of all the other workers. Their products were not sold and the things they made or grew

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