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LEVITATION Such a case can be made, without too much difficulty, in spite of the anti-Atlantians who have a phobia against it; and we can show that there have been two — at least two—principle waves of civilization. The first can be said, roughly, to be antediluvian and the second postdiluvian, speaking in general terms and putting the Flood, or its equivalent, far enough back in history so as to coincide with the cataclysm which caused it. All of the centers of civilization and cultural renaissance recognized by present-day anthropologists — India, Peru, Yucatan, Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, China, Rome, England and others — are but the reviving remnants of an empire and civilization which colonized the world a hundred thousand years ago. They area all "parts," a nuclei, in one great renaissance which has been taking place for, roughly, six to ten thousand years. In it are some traces of the archaic, original, master culture, and, perhaps through India, Tibet, Egypt and Middle America, there are some tenuous links between our immature revival and the parent past. These traces are mostly in the form of stone works, and some glyphs, of a singular nature, with a very few written records existing mostly in the Orient, and particularly in southern Asia. Above is true, Jemi_ They are Written about in Many Writings, So old, as to be Nulified by antiquity. All of this is anathema to conventional science, archaeology and anthropology especially, for organized science has set up a pattern which covers human growth in broad general terms, and has accepted some rigidly restricting tenets which limit original thinking and shut out much that is obvious. While these general assumptions of science are largely proven by observation and deduction, they are only proven up to a point. Beyond that point there are the "erratics": little annoying things, events, or artifacts, which stubbornly refuse to fit into the pattern, and which are sturdily disregarded in the interest of maintaining a working hypothesis acceptable to science in its current state of thinking. A THORN IN AN OSTRICHES HEAD, PAINS SO CONTINUALLY THAT IT HIDE IT IN THE SAND, YET IT PAINS IT STILL, ED? In addition to all this there is the refusal to acknowledge evidence antedating the current subwave which extends back only about three thousand to eight thousand years, and that far only in Egypt and south Asia. All data in conflict with this basic assumption are rejected by definition. Many of the so-called erratics cease to be erratics by the simple expedient of admitting the real antiquity of human culture upon the earth. Most of the perpetual squabble over whether Asians settled America, or American colonized Asia, are painlessly dissolved by merely extending the time scale back a few thousand years—and, perhaps, accepting a new working theory to the effect that all present cultures are traceable to a common origin. ED: The following has no obvious reference or necessary position. l Not know much The Ancient L-M' Colonies. 103 It is not within the scope of this book so show that a civilization of single origin covered this planet some tens of thousands of years ago — perhaps hundreds of thousands. LEFT UNAVOIDABLY IN "GREAT WAR.