Theosophists taught that humanity evolved from translucent blobs that lived on a lost continent called Lemuria
Darwin gave us the brilliant theory of natural selection, but Madame Blavatsky decided we actually evolved from giant, translucent, egg-laying jellyfish people. Theosophical doctrine claims these ethereal beings lived on Lemuria, a continent that supposedly sank into the Indian Ocean. It’s comforting to know that Victorian mysticism basically sounded like the plot of a terrible sci-fi B-movie.

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