In The mid-1970’s, a Hindu Guru of the 2,300-year old Natha lineage, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyawami, said his inner psychic eye opened on a book from the ancient library of the deity Subramnya. In the weeks and months that followed, his disciples gathered close and transcribed while he watched the pages turn and read the text aloud. The results as a remarkable book, Lemurian Scrolls, which remained restricted to high – level initiates in the Saiva Siddhanta Order fro the next twenty- four years. In 1997, while preparing a private printing of a few hundred copies for long- time students, Subramuniyaswami relates that the “divine thrust came to release [lemurian Scrolls] freely to the world at large,” and the book was published for the general public.
Lemurian Scrolls, he says, was written in two parts by disciples at ashrams in Lemuria, one part near the end of the Treta Yuga and the other in the Dvapara Yuga. The book opens with the story of mankind’s migration to Earth from the Pleiades star cluster during the Satya Yuga - a story I will summarize here.
The first humans arrived on Earth, the scrolls say, in subtle etheric bodies, and used the “thick clouds of gases and healthful substances” on the planet to form physical bodies through which to express themselves. Those who were first to arrive aided the ones who arrived subsequently by making offerings to them of cut fruit, flowers and other substances, the essences of which the arriving beings used to manifest delicate physical forms. Their bodies eventually became dense enough to smell and feel, an in time they were able to eat normally like the animals that already occupied the planet. This was done in temples, where the priest would make the offerings on a pedestal, which served as a focus of concentration.
The celestial beings would stand on the pedestal and absorb the Earth’s pungent substances and with it materialize strong physical bodies. In the beginning, it took a long time to bring the etheric body of a soul into physical form so he could walk off this pedestal on his own in the Earth’s atmosphere. But through the thousands of years that passed, it became a very rapid process, and the entire Earth became populated with celestial beings from several of the major planets in the galaxy. Thus, the souls arrived in full force to begin a long, tedious evolutionary pattern through the three yugas to follow.
Near the end of the Treta Yuga, some of these celestial beings were caught and eaten by the planet’s carnivorous creatures, and in this manner they entered the evolutionary cycle of animals, being reborn afterwards with an animal nervous system and animal instincts but a divine soul. The process of becoming liberated from the animal body after that would take and extremely long time, but during the Kali Yuga, the Scrolls predicted, a human kingdom would begin to emerge from the animal kingdom, and at the end of kali Yuga the conditions would appear for many souls to become liberated, having realized the Self and thus accomplished their purpose in migrating to the planet.