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From the previous posting, we asked the question:

Are there other mentions of Tablets discussing the land of Mu prior to the 1926 Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men?

James’ scrapbooks contain a good amount of data, mostly newspaper and magazine clippings, that subsequently saw light in his books. On the other hand, some information did not fit and was not included.

One such case in point are the 125 tablets that he and Buddhist scholars translated back in 1924 that was not mentioned in any of James other written works. Shown below are three newspaper clippings, one from November 1924 and two from January 1925 that describe his association with Buddhist scholars in translating 125 tablets that dated back 20,000 years and described the lost continent of Mu in the same terms that are used throughout James’ subsequent books.
These articles are followed by excerpts from an article written in August 1925 in the Oakland Tribune where there is no mention of the Buddhist scholars.

A serious researcher must seek the answers to the following questions:

The similarities between the description of these tablets and the Naacal Tablets are very close, why didn’t they use the name “Naacal” when referring to them in the newspaper articles?
If these were the Naacal Tablets, why didn’t James mention in his books his association with the Buddhist scholars translating them to add to his credibility?
If these are not the Naacal Tablets, then would they not be another reference for the existence of Mu, why didn’t James use them (in addition to the Naacal tablets) in his written works?
Are the stories about the 125 tablets and Buddhist scholars examples of a hoax?
Could the Naacal Tablets also be fictional?

The data and questions are presented as is. The questions are for the reader to answer after careful consideration or a snap judgment, your call.

Have a great day.

New York American
Monday November 10, 1924
Locates Eden in Lost Land
Continent of Mu, Swallowed by Pacific 13,000 Years Ago, says Colonel Churchward
India Tablets Tell Story
Continent Seat of Highest Civilization – Airplanes used 10,000 Years before Christ

Colonel James Churchyard, who says that mankind’s motherland was swallowed by Pacific Ocean 13,000 years ago. He said proof is found in 125 tablets in India.
By Francis Tietsort

“The motherland of mankind was in a tropical continent larger than North America, known as Mu, which went into the Pacific with its 64,000,000 white inhabitants and their templed cities 13,000 years ago/ The Garden of Eden, storied through the ages, was in that continent more than 50,000 years ago, and not in Asia nor Asia Minor.”

The foregoing was one of a series of startling assertions yesterday by Colonel James Churchward, of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. when questioned respecting the astonishing contents of 125 tablets discovered in India which he and Buddhist scholars translated. Some of the tablets, he said, went back in history 20,000 years.
The contents of these tablets, conclusions based upon them and correlative information collected over a period of years, are soon to be made public in detail, Colonel Churchward said. He added:

“These findings, as a whole, may be expected to cause something of a stir in the international scientific world, and on some of the points involved I shall no doubt be challenged, but I am prepared to meet my objectors, whether they be geological or archaeological. I shall in most cases of dispute use facts and records against their sheer theory.”

Colonel Churchward, formerly of the British Army, was educated at Oxford University and the Sandhurst Royal Military College. He is widely known as a geologist, archaeologist, metallurgical chemist and as the inventor of vanadium steel, used for the armor plating of the world’s navies and in automobile construction.
He has given half a century of his life and much of his personal fortune to trailing the mysteries of the origin of the earth, the origin of animate life, and its development and to studying the records of the lost Pacific continent.
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Middlesborough Standard
Standard Office, Redcar
10 Jan 1925
Cradle of the Human Race?
Lieut-Colonel James Churchward, of Mount Vernon, New York, announces that the astonishing contents of 125 tablets discovered in India and translated by himself and other Buddhist scholars prove that the motherland of mankind was in a tropical continent larger than North America, known as Mu, which went to the bottom of the Pacific with the inhabitants and their templed cities 13,000 years ago. The tablets say that the Garden of Eden was in that continent more than 50,000 years ago, and not in Asia or Asia Minor.
Colonel Churchward, who is described as formerly of the British Army, educated at Oxford, declares that the original civilization of the Empire of the Sun, in Mu, its hieratical or religious name, was, perhaps, the greatest that ever existed. “The ancients of 10,000 years or more ago were in possession of great secrets lost to subsequent civilizations during many centuries. Armies of 10,000 B.C. in India, the records state, had flying machines that would carry scores of men. These aerial vehicles were propelled by engines of great simplicity that employed natural forces such as science to-day is seeking to harness. There is a record of the General Ramchander having flown from the capital of Ceylon to Northern India in such a machine, one of a kind that was also employed to drop bombs on cities in wartime. The people of that day also employed gunpowder and firearms. After two cataclysmic earth convulsions 13,000 years ago, the continent of Mu, with its stalking elephants and mastodons, its great cities and monumental temples and palaces and its fertile plains, was swallowed up in the Pacific. Enormous subterranean gas pockets, which had held it up, burst out through fiery volcanoes. The continent collapsed with the exception of islands that remained because there were no gas chambers beneath them. Hawaii was one of the spots left above the surface with its volcanoes. Easter Island and some of the South Sea Islands were among others that remained. Survivors of the engulfing waters were left huddled on and islands without food, and, resorted to cannibalism. This was the dawn of savagery on earth that has continued in spots to the present time.”

Extract from
Madras Mail, Madras
Jan 3, 1925
Flying Machines 10,000 B.C.
Lieut-Colonel James Churchward, of Mount Vernon, New York, announces that the astonishing contents of 125 tablets discovered in India and translated by himself and other Buddhist scholars prove that the motherland of mankind was in a tropical continent larger than North America, known as Mu, which went to the bottom of the Pacific with the inhabitants and their templed cities 13,000 years ago.
The tablets say that the Garden of Eden was in that continent more than 50,000 years ago, and not in Asia or Asia Minor.
Colonel Churchward, who is described as formerly of the British Army, educated at Oxford, declares that the original civilization of the Empire of the Sun, in Mu, its hieratical or religious name, was, perhaps, the greatest that ever existed.
The ancients of 10,000 years or more ago were in possession of great secrets lost to subsequent civilizations during many centuries.
Armies of 10,000 B.C. in India, the records state, had flying machines that would carry scores of men.
These aerial vehicles were propelled by engines of great simplicity that employed natural forces such as science to-day is seeking to harness.
There is a record of the General Ramchander having flown from the capital of Ceylon to Northern India in such a machine, one of a kind that was also employed to drop bombs on cities in wartime. The people of that day also employed gunpowder and firearms.
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An later newspaper article appearing in the Oakland Tribune on August 16, 1925 with the title, Sacred Indian Tablets Disclose New Story of World’s Creation was written by James Churchward. The article discusses his interaction with the Rishi, just as in the 1926 Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men and not mentioning any Buddhist scholars.

In James Churchward’s books, the Naacal Tablets play an important role as the proof of an ancient advanced civilization named Mu.
For a bit of background, in 1926, James wrote in Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men that while on famine relief duty in India, he befriended a Rishi of the local temple and spent some years learning the meanings of symbols and glyphs from the Rishi. After a period of time, the Rishi showed James some clay tablets and together they examined and translated them. The Rishi revealed that only he and two others knew the hidden meanings in the tablets and that they were the last of the Naacal Brotherhood, the keepers of the knowledge and wisdom of the now-sunken continent of Mu in the Pacific Ocean. The tablets revealed that the Garden of Eden was not in the Middle East, but on Mu, that Mu was an advanced civilization many tens of thousands of years old, and that science and religion were fused together in their belief system.

Cover of Queen M’oo and the Egyptian Sphinx

In the 1896 “Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx” by Augustus LePlongeon, it is stated [pages xxiii – xxiv of the preface] that Mayan adepts, known as the Naacal (Naacal = ‘the Exalted’) traveled across the globe colonizing the planet and bringing ancient wisdom and knowledge as Mayan missionaries. LePlongeon postulated that the actual birthplace of mankind was in Central America and his archaeological excavations had shown him the proofs he needed.
From James’ biography written in 1936, Percy Tate Griffith, notes that in 1890s, regular Sunday afternoon visitors to the Griffith house included Churchward and LePlongeon and others for discussions on metaphysical topics of the day. James also notes in his books that LePongeon allowed him the opportunity to copy his notes and books, so there is a known connection between the two men.

There are some differences between their theories:

For LePlongeon, the Maya were the people of the advanced ancient civilization of Central America; Churchward wrote that the Maya were the people that colonized the world from the now sunken continent of Mu (as opposed to the people that stayed home.)
For LePlongeon, mankind’s birthplace or “Garden of Eden” was in Central America”; Churchward wrote that it was in the Pacific Ocean on the now-sunken continent of Mu.
According to LePlongeon, his ‘land of Mu’ was in the Atlantic, and that the inhabitants of this island continent were so enamored with Queen Moo that they named their island after her before she traveled to Egypt and imparted wisdom and knowledge on them. To LePlongeon, the island was also known as Atlantis. For Churchward, Mu was in the Pacific Ocean.
For LePlongeon, the source for his information on Mu was the mistranslation of the Troano Manuscript, which is actually a Mayan astronomical treatise and only a part of the Madrid Codex. For Churchward, the Naacal Tablets were the source of his information on Mu.

Despite recent claims to the contrary, James is the only person to have seen the Naacal Tablets, except for visitors to the Khanassa monastery.

James did write that there is a monastery in Khanassa, Tibet (“very well known and often visited by Europeans and Russians”) where a complete set of the tablets exists, but that was from the 1927 Books of the Golden Age, and was not supposed to be published according to text inside the book. In all other instances, James did not reveal the location so as to protect the tablets.