“Atlantis and Lemuria”

From the Akashic records

It is but a small part of prehistoric human experience wich can be learnt by the methods of ordinary history. Historic evidence throws light on only a few thousand years; and even what archaelogy, palaentology, and geology can teach us is very limited. Added to this limitation is the untrustworthiness which attaches to everything based upon external evidence. We need only consider how the presentation of some event, even if comparatively recent, or connected with a nation, is totally transformed on the discovery of new historic evidence. We need but compare the descriptions given by different historians of one and the same thing in order to realise on which we stand. Everything belonging to the outer world of sense is subject to time, and time destroys what in time arises. Now, external history depends on what has been preserved to us in time; and no one, dependent only on external evidene, can even say whether that which has been preserved is true.

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Theosophical Publishing Society, 1911 (Facsimile)