Fairyland.

On August 11, 1900 Doctor Edgar Lucien Larkin(1847 - 1925) found himself accepting the position of director of the Lowe Observatory. Larkin came to the Lowe Observatory on Echo Mountain from the Knox College Observatory in Galesburg Illinois. The California "fairyland" as he called it was to be his home for the next 25 years.. He was replacing the nearly blind Dr. Swift who was eighty years old. Dr. Swift was well known for his discoveries of comets and nebulae and he brought great attention to the observatory.
Dr. Larkin's approach was a bit different but in holding with Professor Lowe's ultimate dream of a scientific institute on the mountain. Dr. Larkin pushed the idea of the observatory being an informative, educational, and entertaining attraction to the many visitors from the world below.
After the fires on Echo Mountain the observatory was one of the last attractions at the top of the incline. Saturday, Sunday, and holiday evenings were set aside by the Dr. for free astronomical lectures and a chance for patrons to look through the great telescope. On other evenings the observatory was available to schools and private parties through special arrangements of the Traffic department of Pacific Electric.
When Larkin was director of the observatory the Pacific Electric Railroad (Owned by Henry Huntington, the Pacific Electric Railway Company, was incorporated on November 10, 1901) was in full control of the activities on the mountain. In fact Dr. Larkin was employed by Pacific Electric making him the worlds only astronomer employed by a traction railroad.
Dr. Larkin was a man of many interests. He was interested in the occult and two sunken continents, Atlantis and Mu, in the Pacific. Dr. Larkin was very down on astrology as many visitors soon found out upon inquiring about the subject.
The Dr. wrote a book around 1914 titled "Within the Mind Maze" described by him as a book of creative thought. It sold for $1.25 back then.
He grew up in near Ottawa, Illinois. Larkin was born in a log cabin along Indian Creek on April 5, 1847 to a father of ordinary means and a mother of high morality and nobility of mind. His parents were poor and Larkin himself said they could well be the topic for a writer of modern socialism with a title such as Submerged 9/10’s or Unequaled Distribution of Wealth. Try as they may Edgar’s parents sent him to the fields to plow corn and learn the ways of farming, but the weeds seemed to have escaped him altogether. Then he was put in sole charge of the cows, which Edgar took to and became great friends to them.
His grandfather built a frame house with pine boards brought to Ottawa on the new canal. When Edgar was eleven his father died and he and his mother went to live in the newly painted white frame house. Teachers were scarce commodities and books were the same. A retired German physician came into the area and had a library. Edgar read all the books the German had in English but the greatest of volumes were in German and like hieroglyphics to the young man.
In 1858 a school opened in the region and the task of teaching this future writer began. It was also in this same year that the greatest of events took place, which forever changed the course of life for Edgar Larkin. On October 5, 1958 Edgar lay asleep in bed when his grandmother awoke him and urged him to come outside and see the wonderful site. It was around 10:00 PM and the wonder site that awaited him was the Comet Donati. It appeared to be springing from their black forest and extended to the zenith. His eyes and those of many others had not before seen such a display.
The next day young Larkin at the age of 11 decided to study astronomy. With a dollar that would eliminate his Christmas present from grandmother that year, he bought his first book, Burrits Geography of the Heavens and Atlas. A nearby surveyor had a 4 inch lens which when placed in a piece of wood and an eyepiece added, became his first telescope to study with. By the time he was fourteen however his eyesight became so bad that he had to leave school and never returned.
Edgar Lucien Larkin penned his last book in 1916, it was called the Matchless Alter of the Soul and in 1925 he died. He was a member of the INTA.

The Great Nebula in Andromeda (Radiant Energy[1903])

The matchless altar of the soul, symbolized as a shining cube of diamond, one cubit in dimensions, and set within the Holy of holies in all grand esoteric temples of antiquity(1916)
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7238505M/The_matchless_altar_of_the_soul

Radiant energy and its analysis; its relation to modern astrophysics(1903)
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7248642M/Radiant_energy_and_its_analysis
Within the mind maze; or, Mentonomy, the law of the mind. (1911)
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[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/i-am.html] wrote A Dweller on Two Plants, or, the Dividing of the Way which described a secret city inside of Mount Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria. 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 (the singlemost inportant document in the establishment of the modern Mt. Shasta-Lemurian myth) and which was entirely about the mystic Lemurian village at Mount Shasta. Selvius claimed that Lakrin had seen the Lemurian village through a 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.".
Frederick Spencer Oliver[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/i-am.html] was a Yrekan (the county seat of Siskiyou County, California, United States) teen who claimed that his hand began to uncontrollably write a manuscript dictated to him by Phylos the Tibetan, a Lemurian spirit.
Oliver's novel of spiritual 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 secret city inside Mount Shasta; 3) Lemuria; 4) the concept of "I AM"[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/i-am.html]; 5) "channeling" of ethreal spirits; 6)a panther surprise"

The author claimed 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.
In 1908, Adelia H. Taffinder[1] wrote an article, "A Fragment of the Ancient Continent of Lemuria," for the Atlantic Monthly with its Theosophical teachings and extension of the Lemurian Myth to California.
The Lemuria-Mount Shasta legend has developed into one of Mount Shasta's most prominent legends.
Wishar Spenle Cerve's 1931 Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific was "responsible for the legend's widespread popularity”. Is "Wishar Spenle Cerve" really a letter-for-letter pseudonym for "Harve Spencer Lewis(1883–1939)", first Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order of North and South America.
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.
Today the belief that Lemurians inhabit the mountain is still very popular, and anyone visiting the local bookstores will likely be surprised by the glut of texts on the subject.

[1] Tavinder wrote in American Theosophist Magazine, 1914, about “World Teachers of the Aryan Race”.

Actually one new ager channels about Lemurians at Mount Shasta.

I’ve already given up any plans of ever taking one of those boat cruises with an author. What happens if, shortly after departing, you find out they’re not all they seem to be?

2012, Ascension, ascended Lemurian masters under Mount Shasta and Planetary Alignments.

2012
By now, most people should know that on Dec. 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will display the equivalent of a string of zeros, like the odometer turning over on your car, with the close of something like a millennium. In Maya calendrics, however, it's not the end of a thousand years. It's the end of Baktun 13. The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one of them. A baktun is 144,000 days: a little more than 394 years. [1] [2][3][4]
[1] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-guest.html
[2] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/05/2012.html
[3] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/03/2012-doomsday-theories-spring-from.html
[4] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/03/2012-and-mayan-long-count-calendar.html


Ascension
Francis Bacon is believed to have undergone a physical Ascension without experiencing death (he then became the deity St. Germain) by members of various Ascended Master Teachings, a group of New Age religions based on Theosophy. They also believe numerous others have undergone Ascension; they are called the Ascended Masters and are worshipped in this group of religions. The leaders of these religions claim to be able to receive channeled messages from the Ascended Masters, which they then relay to their followers.
Guy Ballard[5] , who founded I AM [6], the first Ascended Master Teachings[7] religion, claimed he could teach people how to ascend to heaven without having to die. He accumulated over 1,000,000 followers in the 1930s. However, he died a normal death in 1939. The I AM movement and people adherent to later Ascended Master Teachings religions such as Elizabeth Clare Prophet [8] then redefined ascension as dying normally, but claimed that certain special people, such as her own husband Mark Prophet [9], were able to ascend to a higher heaven than the average person after they died, becoming an “ascended master” and receiving worship. [10]
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ballard
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_AM_%28religion%29
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_Master_Teachings
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Prophet
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_%28mystical%29


Ascended Lemurian Masters at Mount Shasta
This book is the source of the idea that there is a hidden sanctuary of ascended Lemurian masters under Mount Shasta . “A Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way” written by Frederick S. Oliver.
Openly acknowledged as source material for many new age belief systems, including the "I AM" movement of Guy Ballard, the Lemurian Fellowship, Elizabeth Claire Prophet and Shirley MacLaine." [10][11][12][13]
[10] http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dweller_on_Two_Planets
[12] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-am.html
[13] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/08/atlantis-and-lemuria-craze-novelist.html


Planetary Alignments
In The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, José Argüelles linked the 13-baktun period with an impalpable "beam" from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to Argüelles, the Maya knew when we entered this beam and when we would leave it, and set their 13-baktun cycle to mark our passage through it accordingly. The beam, he asserted, operates as "invisible galactic life threads" that link people, the planet, the Sun, and the center of the Galaxy. Neither Maya tradition nor modern astronomy supports a belief in any such beam. He used the phrase "the principle of harmonic resonance." And concluded that the planets are "orbiting harmonic gyroscopes" that “play a role in the coordination of the beam," which advances the development of anything with DNA. The year 2012, therefore, will bring a rosy version of the apocalypse.

So, in 1987 Argüelles and his followers predicted Aug. 16–17 of that year would bring a Maya-Galactic "Harmonic Convergence." That event turned into a global phenomenon, with thousands gathering at Earth’s “acupuncture points” to create a "synchronized and unified bio-electromagnetic collective battery. " Unfortunately, the date passed with nothing more than colourful newspaper stories and a satires. The power of suggestion. [13][14]
[13] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-guest.html
[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles

the "I AM"

Guy Warren Ballard (1878 –1939) was an American mining engineer who became, with his wife, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard, the founder of the "I AM" Activity.

Both Edna and Guy studied Theosophy[1] and the occult extensively.

Ballard visited Mount Shasta, California[2] in 1930, where he met another hiker who identified himself as Saint Germain.[3] Mr. Ballard's experiences take place within the larger North American mountain ranges. Ballard provided details of his encounters in a series of books Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence, using the pen name "Godfré Ray King."

In 1930, fifty-five years after the Theosophical Society was founded, Guy Ballard introduced the concept of "Ascended Masters"[4], founding what later became known as the Ascended Master Teachings. Guy Ballard and Elizabeth Clare Prophet[5] from the 1960s to the 1990s added more than 200 new "Ascended Masters" that they claimed to receive dictations from in addition to receiving dictations from the original Masters of the Ancient Wisdom of Theosophy. However, the Theosophical Masters differ from the Ascended ones in many respects.

For example the so-called Ascended Masters, as their name suggests, are supposed to be Masters who have experienced the miracle of ascension, as it is said Jesus did. The original teaching, channeled by Guy Ballard, was that a new Ascended Master would not die but would take the body up with him. This teaching of ascension is in direct opposition to the Theosophical teachings. Mme. Blavatsky also rejected ascension as a fact, calling it “an allegory as old as the world.” In the Theosophical view, the Masters of Wisdom retain their physical bodies.

Guy Ballard, his wife Edna, and later son Donald, it is believed, became the "sole Accredited Messengers" of Saint Germain. Their teachings form the original nucleus for what are today called the Ascended Master Teachings.

The "I AM" Activity started from public lectures about these encounters and grew rapidly in the 1930s. Ballard lectured frequently in Chicago about Saint Germain's mystical teachings, in which America was destined to play a key role. By 1938, there were claimed to be about a million followers in the United States.

Guy Ballard died in 1939 and Edna Ballard died in 1971. Guy Ballard originally claimed that Ascension meant the ability to enter heaven alive, but after Guy Ballard died a normal death of natural causes, the word "Ascension" was redefined by the I AM movement as (resulting from one's services during one's lifetime for the Ascended masters) being able to rise to a higher level of heaven after one's death than the average person, and thus attaining the status of an Ascended Master. Specifically, this means in the original teachings of Theosophy that, to become a Master, he would have had to ascend upon his death to the fifth level of Initiation.

[1] Theosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th-century. Its major themes were originally described mainly (though not exclusively) by Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), co-founder of the Theosophical Society. To promote Theosophy, the Theosophical Society was founded in New York City in 1875 with the motto, "There is no Religion higher than Truth". Its principal founding members were Helena Petrovna Blavatsky[6] (1831–1891), Henry Steel Olcott [7] (1832–1907), and William Quan Judge [8](1851–1896). During the two decades that followed the death of Blavatsky, a number of leading Theosophists expanded or reinterpreted her own and other theosophical works. Prominent among them were C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater (1854–1934), then considered the Society's main occult investigator, and Annie Besant (1847–1933), who became the International President of the Society in 1907, following the death of Olcott.


[2] Mount Shasta, a prominent northern California landmark.






[3] The Count of St. Germain (1712 - 1784) has been variously described as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and an amateur composer. His background is sketchy but apparently he began to be known under the title of the Count of St Germain during the early 1740s.

[4] Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or "Mahatmas". They are believed to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a process of spiritual transformation originally called Initiation in Theosophy but in the Ascended Master Teachings it is referred to as Ascension. The term "Ascended Master" was first introduced in 1934 with the publication of “Unveiled Mysteries” by Guy Ballard in The "I AM" Activity. This concept was further popularized by authors such as Baird T. Spalding [9] during the 1930s.

[5] Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939 - 2009) was an American spiritual author and lecturer who was the leader of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious movement which gained media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s while preparing for potential nuclear disaster.
In 1961, Mark met Elizabeth Clare Wulf; they married in 1964 and had four children. Wulf, subsequently Elizabeth Clare Prophet, had grown up under influences including New Thought and Christian Science.
Mark L. Prophet (1918 - 1973) was an American born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He claimed to be a Messenger of the Ascended Masters and founded The Summit Lighthouse organization on August 7, 1958 in Washington D.C..

[6] Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831- 1891) was a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society. Blavatsky grew up amid a culture rich in spirituality and traditional Russian mythologies, which introduced her to the realm of the supernatural.



[7] Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832 – 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.

[8] William Quan Judge (1851 –1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society.

[9] Baird Thomas Spalding (1872–1953) was an American writer. He is the author of the spiritual book series : “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East”. Although Spalding's books claimed he was born in England in 1853, Spalding was born in North Cohocton, New York in 1872. He spent much of his life as a mining engineer in the American West.
In 1924 Spalding published the first volume of “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East”. It describes the travels to India and Tibet[10] of a research party of eleven scientists in 1894. During their trip they claim to have made contact with "the Great Masters of the Himalayas", immortal beings with whom they lived and studied, gaining a fascinating insight into their lives and spiritual message. This close contact enabled them to witness many of the spiritual principles evinced by these Great Masters translated into their everyday lives, which could be described as 'miracles'. Such examples are walking on water, or manifesting bread to feed the hungry party.
Although popular, Baird Spalding was an enigmatic figure and the authenticity of the events described in the Life and Teachings have never been confirmed. Spalding never produced any evidence of the claimed trip, and none of the other scientists were ever identified. Skeptics argue that Spalding did not visit India as claimed, and his works belong to the magical autobiography genre.
[10] Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft).


It's not unfamiliar for people to make claims concerning Tibet.

Cyril Henry Hoskin (1910 –1981), more popularly known as Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, was a writer who claimed to have been a lama in Tibet[10] before spending the second part of his life in the body of a British man. Hoskin described himself as the "host" of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. The name Tuesday relates to a claim in The Third Eye that Tibetans are named after the day of the week on which they were born.
Explorer and Tibetologist Heinrich Harrer (best known for his books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959)) was unconvinced about the book's origins and hired a private detective from Liverpool named Clifford Burgess to investigate Rampa. The findings of Burgess' investigation were published in the Daily Mail in February 1958. It was reported that the author of the book was a man named Cyril Henry Hoskin, who had been born in Plympton, Devon in 1910 and was the son of a plumber. Hoskin had never been to Tibet and spoke no Tibetan. In 1948, he had legally changed his name to Carl Kuon Suo before adopting the name Lobsang Rampa.
Rampa was tracked by the British press to Howth, Ireland and confronted with these allegations. He did not deny that he had been born as Cyril Hoskin, but claimed that his body was now occupied by the spirit of Lobsang Rampa.
Lobsang Rampa went on to write another 18 books containing a mixture of religious and occult material. One of the books was described as being dictated to Rampa by his pet Siamese cat, Mrs Fifi Greywhiskers. Faced with repeated accusations from the British press that he was a charlatan and a con artist, Rampa went to live in Canada in the 1960s. He and his wife, San Ra'ab, became Canadian citizens in 1973, along with Sheelagh Rouse (Buttercup) who was his secretary and regarded by Rampa as his adopted daughter.

Fra Andrew Bertie, a Polyglot schoolmaster who became the first English Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie ( 1929 –  2008) was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1988 until his death in 2008. An obituary of Fra Andrew Bertie, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, claims that he was involved in unmasking Lobsang Rampa as a West Country plumber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa
"His grasp of Tibetan later enabled him to unmask a Himalayan shaman as a West Country plumber."
https://web.archive.org/web/20100524073901/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3417529.ece
Lobsang Rampa died in Calgary in 1981, at the age of 70. Museum of Hoaxes
 

The source of the idea that there is a hidden sanctuary of ascended Lemurian masters under Mount Shasta.
“A Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way” is a book written by Frederick S. Oliver, who was born in 1866. The book was finished in 1886 and in 1894 the manuscript was typewritten and copyrighted and again in 1899, owing to an addition. It was not published until 1905, by his mother Mary Elizabeth Manley-Oliver, six years after Oliver's death in 1899.
Oliver started to write this book at the age of eighteen, in 1883-4, while surveying the boundaries of his family's mining claim. Oliver was born in Washington D.C. in 1866 and came to Yreka, California, with his parents when he was two years old. Yreka is just north of Mount Shasta, a huge dormant volcanic peak in Northern California. He found himself writing uncontrollably in his notebook. He ran home in terror, where he sat down and let his hand write. These automatic writing spells continued for several years; he would write a few pages at a time. He completed writing this book in 1886, and died at the age of 33 in 1899.
Oliver claimed that the book had been channeled through him via automatic writing, visions and mental "dictations", by a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan who revealed the story to him over a period of three years, beginning in 1883. The book has been influential on ideas concerning Atlantis, Lemuria and Mount Shasta. In a 2002 introduction, John B. Hare says that it "is openly acknowledged as source material for many new age belief systems, including the "I AM" movement, the Lemurian Fellowship, and Elizabeth Claire Prophet."This book is the source of the idea that there is a hidden sanctuary of ascended Lemurian masters under Mount Shasta.