Still later we have the gill-cleft man. The atmosphere of the earth had not yet cleared, and the entire sphere was surrounded by a thick wall of humid semiliquid vapors. I t was not until the clearing of the earth's atmosphere in the Lemurian period that lungs began to appear. By the fifth sub-race of the Lemurian period physical bodies had taken on approximately their present appearance save that they were extremely low in organic quality, the flesh resembling wood pulp in the very early Lemurians and having a coarseness resembling beef in the later subdivisions. Giantism had then appeared for form always runs riot until mind, demanding the greater part of the vital forces for its functioning, pulls down body to the degree that intellectual functioning increases. There were also monstrosities upon the earth due to the interbreeding of human and animal strains. This occurred at the psychological moment when the developing human cycle was recapitulating its animal development. At no other time could they have been generated and live.
In the fifth subrace of Lemuria, approximately nineteen million years ago, the actual division of the sexes took place. This involved a cataclysmic change in the psychological organism of the evolving type, the complications being revealed symbolically in the allegory of the Fall of Man.
Elisabeth Borne was born in Paris.[4] Her French-born mother, Marguerite Lecèsne (1920–2015), was a pharmacist. Her father, Joseph Bornstein (1924–1972), son of Zelig Bornstein from Łuków (formerly Congress Poland),[5] was born in Antwerp, Belgium.[6] He fled to France at the outset of the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance.[7] Bornstein was one of four brothers. In 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Grenoble, where he was part of the French resistance and deported to Auschwitz German concentration camp. His father and younger brother were sent to the German gas chambers. Joseph and his older brother were kept alive to work in a synthetic fuel factory