Editing Root race (section)

==Locations of the proposed former continents==
Some theosophical writers{{who|date=February 2025}}, attempting to reconcile current geological science with some earlier theosophical teachings, have equated [[Lemuria (continent)|Lemuria]] with the former [[supercontinent]] of [[Gondwana]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} An opposing view subscribes to the theories of [[Eduard Suess]], who argued that Gondwanaland consisted of parts of the present continents in their present positions, but joined to one another by other lands that have since been submerged. This is also the position of Master [[Samael Aun Weor]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

[[Atlantis]], in the Theosophical cosmology, was a continent that covered a significant part of what is now the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>See L. Sprague de Camp, ''Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature'', Dover Publications, 1970 for a scientific analysis of the concept of lost continents.</ref> The large continent of Atlantis is said to have "first divided, and then broken later on into seven peninsulas and islands". When the main part of Atlantis began to sink, Atlantean settlers migrated to the new lands which were rising to the east, west, and south. These new lands became the Americas, Africa, parts of Asia, and the present European countries, stretching from the [[Ural Mountains]] of Russia, westward to include the islands of Ireland and Great Britain, and even farther westward than that in former times. Some emigrants from the remaining islands in the Atlantic settled on new islands to the east which later consolidated into what is now the district of the Abyssinian highlands and lands somewhat to the north. Atlantis perished through flooding and submergence in 9,564 BC,<ref name="Powell-50"/> and its destruction is explained by claiming successive disturbances in the axial rotation of Earth which caused [[earthquake]]s, which led to the sudden sinking of Atlantis.