Retrospection is of greater value than any other method in advancing the aspirant upon the path of attainment.

Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff, 1865 – 1919) was a Danish-American Christian occultist, Theosophist, astrologer, and mystic.

Atlantis and Lemuria craze: Scott-Elliot, Steiner and biodynamics

The Story of Atlantis A Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch by W. Scott-Elliot [1896]
Imaginative Theosophic history of the Earth, the Theosophic concept of human evolution and everyday life in old Atlantis.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/soa/index.htm

The Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot [1904]
A short essay by Scott-Elliot on the lost continent which preceeded Atlantis in Theosophic beliefs: Lemuria.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/tll/index.htm


William Scott-Elliot (sometimes spelled Scott-Elliott) (d.1930) was a theosophist who elaborated Helena Blavatsky's concept of root races in several publications, most notably The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904), later combined in 1925 into a single volume called The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria.