Subject: Mount Shasta The Home Of The White Robed Men.     Mar. 6, 2012.

  If I were going to write a book about Mount shasta, I would probably
call it "Mount Shasta The Home Of The White Robes Men".

  The following is an article about Mount Shasta and the author appears
to think that the subject is mytrical and a legend.

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Lemuria: Mt. Shasta's most well-known legend

http://www.mtshastanews.com/news/x1882852453/Lemuria-Mt-Shasta-s-most-well-known-legend

Posted Feb 10, 2012

Mount Shasta, Calif.

During a fundraising event for the Siskiyou Land Trust Feb. 7, historian
and author Bill Miesse led a roomful of people on the trail that
connects the lost continent of Lemuria with our very own Mt. Shasta.

More chairs had to be set up in the Mount Shasta Resort's Highland Room
to accommodate those who showed up for the presentation, which Miesse
accentuated with slides and explanatory photographs.

Miesse said the term Lemuria came from scientists in the mid-19th
century to describe a hypothetical submerged continent in the Indian
Ocean which would explain the presence of lemurs from Madagascar to
India. By the late 19th century, occult theories had developed the idea
that the inhabitants of Lemuria were highly advanced beings, Miesse
said, and the location of Lemuria changed over time.

In the 1880s, a young man named Frederick Spencer Oliver wrote (or more
accurately, channeled from an entity named Phylos the
Thibetan) a book called A Dweller on Two Planets, which described a
secret city inside Mt. Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria.

This connection became strengthened through reviews of Oliver's
book and further writings which elaborated on the Lemuria-Mt. Shasta
concept, Miesse said.

In 1931, Wishar Spenle Cerve wrote and published Lemuria, The Lost
Continent of the Pacific: The Mystery People of Mount Shasta.
Cerve wrote that Lemurians were tall, graceful and agile, with larger
heads than average humans. Lemurians would come to town and
spend gold nuggets, Cerve wrote.

Today, the legend of the lost continent of Lemuria being inside Mt.
Shasta is one of the mountain's most well-known legends, Miesse
said.
The connection between the two is something he's been researching
in the past months.

For more about the Lemuria legend, go to :
www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/index.htm
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/index.htm

Adi Gaia
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Part 1.

John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com
Subject: Mt. Shasta The Home Of The White Robed Men.              Part 2.

  Here we have what is covered about Mt. Shasta on the recommended
web site.

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Perhaps the most popular example of Mount Shasta lore, and a legend
involving the first claim by non-Native Americans for a s-iritual
connection with the mountain, concerns the mystical brotherhood
believed to roam through jeweled corridors deep inside the mountain.
According to Miesse, "In the mid-19th Century paleontologists
coined the term "Lemuria" to describe a hypothetical continent,
bridging the Indian Ocean, which would have explained the migration
of lemurs from Madagascar to India. Lemuria was a continent which
submerged and was no longer to be seen. By the late 19th Century
occult theories had developed, mostly through the theosophists,
that the people of this lost continent of Lemuria were highly
advanced beings. The location of the folklore 'Lemuria' changed
over time to include much of the Pacific Ocean. In the 1880s a
Siskiyou County, California, resident named Frederick Spencer
Oliver wrote Dweller on Two Planets, or, the Dividing of the Way
which described a s-cret city inside of Mount Shasta, and in
passing mentioned Lemuria. Edgar Lucian Larkin, a writer and
astronomer, wrote in 1913 an article in which he reviewed the
Oliver book. In 1925 a writer by the name of Selvius wrote
"Descendants of Lemuria: A Description of an Ancient Cult in
America" which was published in the Mystic Triangle, Aug., 1925
and which was entirely about the mystic Lemurian village at
Mount Shasta. Selvius reported that Larkin had seen the
Lemurian village through a telescope. In 1931 Wisar Spenle
Cerve published a widely read book entitled Lemuria: The Lost
Continent of the Pacific in which the Selvius material appeared
in a slightly elaborated fashion.
The Lemuria-Mount Shasta legend has developed into one of
Mount Shasta's most prominent legends" (1993; 136).
According to Zanger, Frederick Spencer Oliver was a Yrekan
teen who claimed that his hand began to uncontrollably write
a manuscript dictated to him by Phylos, a Lemurian s-irit (1993).
Meisse points out that Oliver's novel of spir-tual fiction is
"The single most important source of Mount Shasta's esoteric
legends. The book contains the first published references linking
Mt. Shasta to:
1) a mystical brotherhood;
2) a tunnel entrance to a secr-t city inside Mount Shasta;
3) Lemuria;
4) the concept of "I AM";
5) "cha-neling" of ethreal sp-rits;
6) a panther surprise" (1993; 143). The author claims to have
written most of the novel within sight of Mount Shasta, and
autobiographical telling of the story from Phylos the Thibetan's
point of view is an interesting twist. We have included
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/oliver.htm
a few pages of text from the novel, including the reference to
the mystic brotherhood that lives amid "the walls, polished
as by jewelers, though excavated by giants; floors carpeted with
long, fleecy gray fabric that looked like fur, but was a mineral
product; ledges intersected by the builders, and in their wonderful
polish exhibiting veinings of gold, of silver, of green copper ores,
and maculations of precious stones." (Oliver 1905; 248).
In 1908, Adelia H. Taffinder wrote an article,
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/taf.htm
" Fragment of the Ancient Continent of Lemuria," for the Atlantic
Monthly. In her article she links the concept of Lemuria to California,
and Meisse proposses that the article, "with its Theosophical
teachings and extension of the Lemurian Myth to California, may
have been part of the research material involved in the creation
of the Mount Shasta Lemurian Myth as presented by Selvius in
1925 and Creve in 1931" (1993; 147).
Selvius' 1925 two-page article, "Decendants of Lemuria" is, according
to Meisse, "the singlemost inportant document in the establishment of
the modern Mt. Shasta-Lemurian myth," so we have included
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/selvius.htm
Selvius' full-text article. Selvius claims that Professor Edgar Lucian
Larkin viewed the Lemurian site on Mount Shasta using his telescope:
"Even no less a careful investigator and scientist than Prof. Edgar
Lucin Larkin, for many years director of Mount Lowe Observatory,
said in newspaper and magazine articles that he had seen, on many
occasions, the great temple of this mystic village, while gazing
through a long-distance telescope."
Although Selvius' article is the most historically interesting, Wishar
Spenle Cerve's 1931 Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific,
according to Meisse, "responsible for the legend's widespread
popularity" (1993; 146).
Perhaps most intriging is Meisse's speculation that "it appears from the
similarity of material that "Selvius" and "Cerve" were one and the same
person" (1993; 145). Further muddying the waters is Edward Stul's
worth claim that "Wishar Spenly Cerve" is really a letter-for-letter
pseudonym for "Harve Spencer Lewis," first Imperator of the
Rosicrucian Order of North and South America. Still, it is Cerve's
book, published by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, that
has provided the popular description of the Lemurians as "tall,
graceful, and agile," and as visitors that "would come to one of the
smaller towns and trade nuggets and gold dust for some modern
commodities" (250).
The idea of a lost continent (and the subsequent existence of Lemurians
on Mount Shasta), quickly became widely known, though perhaps
not so widely believed.

Part 2.

John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com