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Atlantis vs Lemuria: The Forgotten War That Shaped Humanity Over 10,000 Years Ago

Many ancient cultures across the world have preserved stories, symbols, and ruins that point toward a time when powerful, advanced civilizations ruled the Earth, long before recorded history began.

By The Secret History Of The WorldPublished 9 months ago 5 min read

A Lost Chapter in Earth’s History

Long before our current civilizations rose and fell, Earth was home to two legendary continents: Atlantis and Lemuria. These weren’t just mythical lands from esoteric texts or spiritual visions. Many ancient cultures across the world have preserved stories, symbols, and ruins that point toward a time when powerful, advanced civilizations ruled the Earth, long before recorded history began.

Most people know of Atlantis, thanks to Plato’s writings, but Lemuria, also called Mu, is often overlooked. Both are said to have existed over 10,000 years ago, flourishing with high technology, deep spiritual understanding, and global influence. But few know that these two civilizations may have been rivals, and according to many ancient and mystical sources, they were locked in a devastating war, one that ultimately led to their destruction.

This is not just a tale of lost lands. It’s a story of power, ideology, spiritual conflict, and cataclysm. And it may hold clues about our forgotten origins.

The Rise of Lemuria: Earth’s First Civilization?

Lemuria is said to have existed in the Pacific Ocean, covering what is now Southeast Asia, parts of India, Oceania, and even stretching toward the western Americas. Some esoteric sources place its origins as far back as 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. Others claim Lemurians were not only ancient but also deeply in tune with nature and higher consciousness.

According to theosophical writings and ancient Eastern traditions, Lemurians:

We were telepathic and intuitive

Lived in harmony with the Earth

Built their cities using crystalline technology

Had a matriarchal society that honored the divine feminine

Many believe Lemurians had a more spiritual orientation, focusing on emotional intelligence, energy work, and collective balance rather than conquest or industrial expansion.

Some traditions describe Lemuria as being home to non-human beings, possibly extraterrestrials or early starseeds, who came to Earth not for domination, but to nurture life and consciousness.

Atlantis: The Shining Empire of the West

Atlantis, as described by Plato, was a mighty island nation situated beyond the Pillars of Hercules (now known as the Strait of Gibraltar). It was said to have existed around 11,000 years ago, which aligns with the end of the last Ice Age and the mysterious Younger Dryas event, a sudden global cataclysm.

Unlike Lemuria, Atlantis was known for:

Technological mastery, especially in energy, architecture, and weaponry

A more masculine, hierarchical structure

Advanced knowledge of astronomy, genetics, and engineering

Its ambitious nature, colonization, experimentation, and control

Atlanteans were brilliant, but according to many sources, they lost their spiritual path. They became obsessed with power and domination, beginning to experiment with hybridization, weather manipulation, and dimensional gateways. Some esoteric teachings claim Atlantis even had connections with off-world intelligences who fed this hunger for control, giving them forbidden technologies that upset the balance of the Earth.

When Peace Turned to War

For thousands of years, Lemuria and Atlantis coexisted. Some texts suggest they even traded knowledge and resources, and that they were both aware of their differences. But as Atlantis grew more ambitious and aggressive, the Lemurians became concerned.

The tension came not from land disputes but from ideological differences:

Lemurians wanted to preserve the natural order and spiritual laws

Atlanteans sought to manipulate, dominate, and control the Earth’s energies

This ideological divide grew into a full-blown conflict. Secret councils, psychic wars, energetic grid disruptions, and even weather-based weaponry began to be used. Eventually, according to some accounts, Atlantis launched a campaign against Lemuria, seeking to eliminate what they saw as resistance to their new world order. Lemurians, in turn, attempted to defend themselves using frequency-based weapons, planetary grid work, and consciousness fields.

The Great War and the Cataclysm

This war wasn’t just physical, it was multidimensional. Many researchers and channelers speak of wars fought in the astral planes, where consciousness itself was weaponized. The Earth’s crystalline grid, which holds the planet’s energetic balance, became a battleground.

The war lasted centuries, perhaps millennia. In the end, both civilizations lost. The vibrational damage caused by their conflict weakened the Earth’s energetic field, possibly leading to:

Massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

The sinking of both continents

A shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles

The loss of global memory, resulting in the “Great Forgetting” Some say this war culminated in the Great Flood remembered in nearly every culture on Earth.

After the fall, the survivors scattered. Some Lemurians are said to have fled underground or into inner-Earth civilizations (like Agartha), while Atlantean refugees traveled to Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other places, sparking the rise of later great civilizations.

Echoes of the War in Ancient Myth

You can find remnants of this hidden war in myths across the globe:

The Ramayana and Mahabharata describe ancient wars with flying machines (vimanas) and god-like weapons

Native American stories speak of “sky people” and great floods

Hawaiian legends recall the sinking of Mu

Greek myths about Atlantis echo tales of hubris, punishment, and loss

Even the Bible contains echoes of a pre-flood world with giants (Nephilim), fallen angels, and mysterious technologies. All of these stories, when pieced together, suggest that the Atlantis, Lemuria conflict was real, though forgotten and obscured by time.

What Does This Mean for Us Today?

Whether you see these tales as literal history, symbolic myths, or both, their message is powerful. They speak to a cosmic cycle: a rise, a fall, a forgetting, and a remembering. Humanity may be repeating some of the same patterns:

A split between technology and spirituality

A rise in global tension and imbalance

A search for forgotten wisdom

Perhaps we are now, once again, at a turning point.

Are we following the path of Atlantis, pursuing power at the cost of harmony? Or can we reawaken the Lemurian way, anchored in balance, consciousness, and care for the planet?

A War That Never Truly Ended

The story of Atlantis and Lemuria is not just a forgotten history, it’s a mirror. It shows us what happens when a civilization becomes unbalanced. It warns us about the dangers of disconnection, from spirit, from nature, and from each other. But it also holds a promise: that we can learn, remember, and rebuild.

Ancient wars may be long past, but their energetic residue still shapes us. Through remembering and understanding, perhaps we can heal this ancient wound and build a future that honors both technology and spirit. After all, the greatest civilizations are not those that conquer the world, but those that understand it.

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The Secret History Of The World

I have spent the last twenty years studying and learning about ancient history, religion, and mythology. I have a huge interest in this field and the paranormal. I do run a YouTube channel

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  • Jim Pretty8 months ago

    I remember reading online about this ancient war a decade + ago online but much less well formed and researched. I'm stoked that for some reason I decided to look into this again to find your really well set out piece here, only uploaded 23 days ago! I loved the piece, and it seems to chime with me across various thought paths I've had over the years about Earth and humanities origins. For example could the world at some level still be fighting this war? You allude to this being metaphorically so, but maybe whilst hidden from view, the undercurrent of all major wars since for example our history was documented, be the same actual war? The technocrats v 'The Spiritual'? By 'The Spiritual' for want of a better word this refers to all that put peace and harmony above progress and economic 'growth'. And that 10,000 + years ago I believe this would have had a body that would have been seen as an equivalent to the modern day (western?) religion, albeit founded on the true sources of the divine, where communion was real etc. Our current (western?) religions being but a front to the colonial imperialism of the technocratic. I put 'western' in brackets since whilst what I refer to as 'The Spiritual' obviously is embodies in some of our known ancient civilisations pre Christ, could it be embodied still in Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam? Hinduism for obvious reasons, its vast pantheon, the fundamentals like reincarnation etc. Buddhism for example its and demarcation of the god head down to the individual should one find ones ways to transcend, away from the one god. Islam less obviously, and maybe this is because its not as old as Hinduism or Buddhism and is very patriarchal, however their societal constructs do not allow interest (usury - which is see as a clear marker of the technocratic never ending need for growth), and they see themselves vastly 'as one', living within extended communities (like hindus too), and in the world. I admit that I'm picking an chosing here and generalising like made particulary within todays settings, particulary with Islam, but if you go back far enough, the Islamic world was was more advanced, cultured, and foward thinking than us. Over time its has been radicalised by conflict and supression, infiltrated by mans want of power, twisted towards the technocratic etc, so this examples the fragmentation away from the divine.

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