William Scott-Elliot
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William Scott-Elliot (sometimes incorrectly spelled Scott-Elliott) (1849–1919) was a
Theosophical writings
Scott-Elliot was an East India Merchant and amateur anthropologist. An early member of the London Lodge of the Theosophical society, in 1893 he wrote The Evolution of Humanity, issued as part of the Transactions of the London Lodge (issue 17).[2]
Scott-Elliot came into contact with theosophist
In 1899 he was awarded the T. Subba Row Medal for his contributions to "esoteric science and philosophy". In 1904 he added detail on Lemuria in The Lost Lemuria, attempting to use contemporary scientific evidence to back up Leadbeater's claims.
Atlantean and Lemurian races
Leadbeater and Scott-Elliot provided much more detail than Blavatsky on the lives of the supposed Atlantean and Lemurian root races. Scott-Elliot located Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean, claiming that it was a gigantic landmass that eventually sank, leaving only small islands.[4] The Lemurians were around fifteen feet tall, with brown skins and flat faces, no foreheads and prominent jaws. They could see sideways like birds, and could walk backwards and forwards with equal ease. They reproduced with eggs, but interbred with animals to produce ape-like human ancestors.[5]
After the demise of Lemuria, new races emerged on
Scott-Elliot also claimed that Atlantis split into two linked islands, one called Daitya, and the other Ruta. Eventually only a remnant of Ruta remained, called Poseidonis, before that too disappeared.[6]
Scott-Elliot's ideas were mentioned by Rudolf Steiner in the essays later published as Atlantis and Lemuria (1904).
Notes
- ^ Burke's Landed Gentry
- ^ William Scott-Elliot, The evolution of humanity, Issue 17 of Transactions of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society, Theosophical Society (Great Britain). London Lodge, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1893.
- ^ Gregory Tillett, The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater, 1982.
- ^ Geoffrey Ashe, Encyclopedia of prophecy, ABC-CLIO, 2001, p.130.
- ^ a b Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Courier, 1957, p.168.
- ^ a b William Scott-Elliot, The Story of Atlantis, Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896, p.18, p.41
External links
- Works by William Scott-Elliot at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Scott-Elliot at Internet Archive
- Works by William Scott-Elliot at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The Lost Lemuria, at Sacred Texts
- The Story of Atlantis, at Sacred Texts