The concept of giants was discussed by the
theosophist and
occult author
Blavatsky who wrote about the existence of giants in her book
The Secret Doctrine connecting them to her theory of
root races and claiming they correspond with
Hindu cycle of the universe. According to theosophists, giants were the third
root race who lived on the continent of
Lemuria. Theosophists also linked giants to the Atlantean race. The
German occultist Guido von List was influenced by Blavatsky's writings on giants and mixed together
paganism,
mythology, and theosophy, creating a basis for the belief in giants living in different realms based on the first four rounds of the root race theory.
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, an
Egyptologist and
traditionalist, believed that giants had roamed the
earth, and that after the fall of
Adam, humanity fell into a state of degeneration.
Lewis Spence, a writer on mythology, was critical of theosophy but accepted the existence of giants. He researched
English folklore and mythology depicting such giants such as
Magog and the British giant
Albion. Another writer who was opposed to occultism was the British
journalist and author
William Comyns Beaumont. Like Spence, he accepted the existence of giants based on folklore, mythology, and
archeology. Beaumont believed that
Britain was the location of
Atlantis and that it was occupied by a giant race of
Aryans. In the 1970s many of the authors of the
earth mysteries movement in Britain wrote about Giants.
John Michell wrote about the existence of giants in his book
The View over Atlantis. Anthony Roberts wrote the book
Sowers of Thunder: Giants in Myth and History in 1978, in which he claimed that giants were the original inhabitants of the
British Isles and linked
Alfred Watkins'
ley lines to the British giants. ==References==