THE GENESIS STORY
In the beginning was the Word, the Word was God, the Word was with God. "HE MOVED". Hence, as He moved, Souls, portions of Himself, came into being. (263-13)
The entity (2497) was in the beginning, WHEN ALL WERE IN THE SPIRITUAL FORCE, when the morning stars sang together in the glory of the coming of the Lord to make possible the developing of man's influence in the world.
The First Day
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1 : 1-5
Before that the entity (Who we call Jesus) was among those when the forces of the Universe came together, when upon the waters there was the sound of the coming together of THE SONS OF GOD- The morning stars sang together, and over the face of the waters there was the voice of the glory of the coming of the plane for man's indwelling. (341-1)
Read, first, five or six verses at the beginning of the first chapter of Genesis, and in the third verse understand what it means that the knowledge is within thine own self, the light necessary for yourself to be one of the best men God ever created.
They are not foolishness, my friend! It's the law of the Lord, and you must one day face it! (2879)
For thyself came not merely by chance. For the earth is a causation world; in the earth cause and effect are as the natural law. And as- each soul enters this material plane it is to meet or to give those lessons or truths that others, too, may gain the more knowledge of the purpose for which eacb soul enterS.
For did the Master Jesus come by chance? or was it not according to the preparation made from the very foundations of the world? For as another has indicated, "Without Him there was not anything made that was made." When ye, as a Sou1-entity, in the beginning sought companionship with God, losing that companionship with God, losing by choice of that which would satisfy or gratify a material desire only, ye, as the Master did, entered again and again, ye come to fulfill the law, the law that brought thy soul into being to be one with Him. (3645 )
Before that we find the entity (whom we call Jesus) was in the Atlantean land, and in those periods BEFORE ADAM was in the earth. The entity was among those who were the THOUGHT PROJECTIONS and a real musician on pipes and reed instruments.
Ye (1857) There with him (Cayce) in the beginning. Ye were both then, as it were (for comparison) as the WIND upon the waters, that announced the glory of the coming of man ! Hence ye were both as SPIRITUAL IMPORTS AND PURPOSES WHEN ADAM FIRST WALKED IN THE GARDEN.
Among those who first came into the earth's sphere, before it became habitable to human life. Only then, as vision, did the entity view the earth's sphere, and passed to the other .spheres about the earth. (228-2)
Whether we concur or disagree with Cayce concerning the story of Creation, we must necessarily go back to Genesis and other books of the old Testament and also the legends associated with the "Fall of The Angels" prior to the coming of Adam in order to fully interpret Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus. The story as re- constructed from the Readings is that there was, indeed, an initial fall in spirit by numerous entities who came within the earth sphere. These spirit entities, or souls, came and began “playmg at creation” -projectmg themselves mto the material earth as “thought.forms”into the.very rocks and trees-co-existing within various mineral and life forms, both animal and vegetable. Here the souls eventually became so enmeshed, or hardened in the material diversions and creations of their own making, that they ultimately lost their conscious identity of being creatures or creations of God.
In that particular experience there still were those who were physically entangled in the animal kingdom, with the appendages, with cloven hoofs, with four legs, with portions of trees, with tails, with scales, with those various things that Thought Forms had so indulged in as to separate the purpose of God's creation of man as man-not as animal. (2072-8) ,
According to the Readings these individuals became known in the story of Genesis as "The Sons of Man". Other souls, not trapped in the material earth, were aware of this situation and chose to enter the earth plane in order to aid the entities who had lost their identity and awareness of the Creator. This second wave of souls became known as "The Sons of God" and were led into the earth by the entity, we know as The Master , Jesus.
The Readings make numerous references to the "Sons of Man" as being entrapped in strange grotesque bodies--curiously reminiscent of ancient legends of centaurs and satyrs-of men with wings and feathers, hoofs or claws, half-fish or part-tree--of demonic spirits encased as dragons or reptiles and other weird, hideous beasts.
The entity was among the children of the Law of One, those that were the SONS OF MEN, yet of the Daughters of the Lord--0r those who had become purified of those entangle- ments in the animal forces that became manifest among many. (1066)
Some brought about monstrosities, as those of its associations with beasts of various characters. Hence, those of the styx, satyr and the like; those of the sea, or mermaids; those of the unicorn, and those of various forms. (364-10) 34
Accordingly, the Sons of God set themselves to working at creation also (in accord with Divine guidance) and fashioned or evolved the flesh bodies which were intended to be the channels for man's eventual release from- his material being. This was done by thought form projection. ..through the glandular centers of the higher developed species of primates that were chosen as the most advantageous of the animals then inhabiting the earth (for the purposes and problems involved).
Then the earth brought forth seed in her season, and man appeared in five places at once-the five senses, the five reasons, the five spheres, the five developments, the five nations. (5748-1)
Q. Did the appearance of what became the five races occur simultaneously ?
A. Occurred at once.
Q.. Are the places designated for the beginning of the five races correct?
A. As we find-those in the Gobi, the yellow; the white in the Carpathians; the red in the Atlantean and in the American; the brown in the Andean; the black in the plain and the Sudan or in the African. (364-13)
This emergence of the five races was parcel to the essential plan whereby the Sons of God could assist the Sons of Man in a return to consciousness of being with and through the Creator. And so the stage was set for the entering into Atlantis of Jesus as Amilius-the At-Man or First Adam.
In the period then some 198,000 years before the entry of Ram into India, there lived in this land of Atlantis one Amilius, who had first noted the separations of the beings as inhabited that portion of the earth's sphere or plane of those peoples, into male and female as separate entities or individuals. As to their fonns in the physical sense, these were rather of the nature of thought fonns, or able to push out of themselves in that direction in which development took shape in thought-much in the way and manner as the amoeba would in the waters of a stagnant bay or lake in the present. (364-3)
Q. How is the legend of Lilith, the legendary first woman, connected with the period of Amilius ?
A. In the beginning, ..as was outlined, there was presented that that became as the Sons of God, in that male and female were as in one, with those abilities for those changes as were able or capable of being brought about. In the changes that j came from those things, as were of the projections of the j abilities of those entities to project, this as a being came as the companion; and when there was that turning to the within, through the sources of creation, as to make for the helpmeet of that as created by the First Cause, or of the Creative Forces that brought into being that as was made, then-from out of self-was brought that as was to be the helpmeet, not just companion, of the body. Hence the legend of the associations of the body during that period before Jthere was brought into being the last of the creations, which . was not of that that was made, and a helpmeet to the body, I that there might be no change in the relationship of the Sons of God with those relationships of the Sons and Daughters of Men. (364-7)
Q. What was meant by the Sons of the Highest in Atlantis and the second coming of souls to the earth, as mentioned in a Life Reading given through this channel (Cayce) ?
A. In this period or age, as was seen-there is fault of words here to project that as actually occurs in the !ormatIon of that as comes about! There was, WIth the will of that as came into being through the correct channels, of that as created by the Creator, that of the continuing of the souls rg in its projection and projection-see ? While in that as was of the offspring, of that as pushed it-self into form to satisfy, gratify, that of the desire of that known as carnal forces of the senses, of those created, there continued to be the war one with another and there were then-from the other sources (worlds) the continuing entering of those that would make for the keeping of the balance, as of the first purpose of the Creative Forces, as it magnifies itself in that given sphere of activity, of that that had been given the ability to create with its own activity-see ? And hence the second, or the continued entering of souls into that known as the earth's plane during this period, for that activity as was brought about. Let's remember that as was given, in the second, third from Adam, or fourth, or from Arnilius, there was "In that day did they cali upon the name of the Lord"-is right! And ever, when the elements that make for littleness, uncleanness, are crucified in the body, the Spirit of the Lord, of God, is present! When these are overbalanced, so that the body (physical), the mental man, the imagination of its heart, is evil, or his purpose is evil, then is that war continuing-as from the beginning. Just the continued warring of those things within self as from the beginning; for with these changes as brought sin into the world, with the same came the fruits of same, or the seed as of sin, which we see in the material world as those things that corrupt good ground, those that corrupt the elements that are of the compounds of those of the first causes, or elementals and pest.s are seen, and the like, see ? So does it follow throughout all creative forces, that the fruits of that as is active brings that seed that makes for the corrupting of, or the clearing of, in the activative forces of, that being acted upon. (364-7)
Q. What was meant by " As in the first Adam sin entered, so in the last Adam all shall be made alive" ?
A. Adam's entry into the world in the beginning, then, must become the saviour of the world, as it was committed to His care, "Be thou fruitful, multiply, and subdue the earth ! " Hence Arnilius, Adam, the first Adam, the last Adam, becomes-then-that that is given the power over the earth, and-as in each soul the first to be conquered is self-then all things, conditions and elements, are subject unto that self ? That's a universal law , as may be seen in that as may be demonstrated either in gases that destroy one another by bec6ming elements of the same, or that in the mineral or the animal kingdom as may be found that destroy, or become one with the other. Hence, as Adam given-the Son of God-so He must become that that would be able to take the world, the earth, back to that source from which it came, and all power is given in His keeping in the earth, that He has overcome; self, death, hell and the grave even, become subservient unto Him through the conquering of in that made flesh; for, as in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God, the same was in the beginning. The Word came and dwelt among men, the offspring of self in a material world, and the Word overcame the World-and hence the world becomes, then, as the servant of that that overcame the I world! (364-7)
Q. Please give the important incarnations of Jesus in the world's history.
A. In the beginning as Amilius, as Adam, as Melchizedek, as Zend, as Ur, as Asaph, as Jeshua-Joseph-(Joshua)- Jesus.
Then, as that coming into the world in the second coming for He will come again and receive His own who have prepared themselves through that belief in Him and acting in the manner; for the Spirit is abroad and the time draws Inear and there will be the reckoning of those even as in the first so in the last and the last shall be first; for there is that Spirit abroad-He standeth near. Ye that hath eyes to see, let him see. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear that music of the coming of the Lord of this vineyard; and art thou ready to give account of that thou hast done with thine opportunity in the earth as the Sons of God, as the heirs and joint heirs of glory with the Son ? Then make thy paths straight, for there must come an answering for that thou hast done with thy Lord! He will not tarry, for having overcome He shall appear even as the Lord and Master. Not as one born, but as one that returneth to his own, for He will walk and talk with men of every clime, and those that are faith- ful and just in their reckoning shall be caught up with Him to rule and to do judgment for a thousand years!(364- 7) l
In the above Reading Cayce ties in and relates the Alpha/Omega concept of Christ from Genesis to Revelation in an extremely interesting and understandable manner. Indeed, the entire series of Readings on the Book of Revelation is in itself a worthwhile separate study. Therein Cayce relates the Revelation of John as a symbolic allegory of the human body's structure and evolvement to the ultimate Christ Consciousness within-all related to the promised second coming of The Master
The Atlantean period as revealed in the Readings can also well entail a full study of its own. Its significance within our text is related to the references of J esus as Amilius, plus the over-all plan for soul development and the eventual return or at-one-ment of all souls with the Creator .
...In the days when the Sons came together in the first of the morning light by the earth's sun, this entity was among Those who gathered to worship the sun. (4543) Here a rational basis for the sun-worship still current among some primitive groups is implied, with the sun as a symbol of the Creator.
Q. Please explain the statement given in Genesis, "In six days God made the heaven and the earth ! "
A. That each may interpret this according to his own compre- hension, let each become aware of the power of the Father in His manifestations in the earth. When it is considered (as was later given, or WRITTEN even before this was written) that "a thousand years is as but a day and a day as but a thousand years in the sight of the Lord," then it may be comprehended that this was colored by the writer's desire to express to the people the power of the Living God-rather than a statement of six days as man comprehends days in the present. Not that such was an impossibility, but rather that men should be impressed by the omnipotence of that they were called on to worship as God. (262-57)
The Seventh Day
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. There are the generations and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens." Genesis 2 : 1-3 Sure, it is indicated that He rested on the 7th day, to take stock, or to let His purpose flow through that which He perfected in itself. (3491)
Why shouldn't God withdraw and rest ? God had given His Son the divine images, even the pattern for His own material body. It it any wonder as Amilius looked about Him that He soon began to draw on that perfect image for a perfectly created man body?
This is the origin of our traditional concept that the seventh day is a holy day, to be sanctified as commemorating the day when all preparation was completed for the incoming of the first Son of God, and those of His brother souls that chose to come with Him into the earth. The Son's day became Sunday in our tradi- tion.
The Atlantean epoch lasted over a period of some two hundred thousand years. It was in the early part of that evolution that the Son of God, as Amilius, drew from himself the human body.
As to the highest point of civilization (in Atlantis), this would first have to be determined according to the standard as to which it would be judged-as to the highest point was when Amilius ruled with those understandings. As to the one (Amilius) that understood the variations, or whether they become man-made, would depend on whether we are viewing from a spiritual standpoint or a purely material or commercial standpoint; for the variations, as we find, extend over a period of some two hundred thousand years. (364-4) An over-all plan for soul development or evolution as taken from the Readings will be covered in the following chapter, along with some of the ramifications as they affect our understanding of the Christ Consciousness and our relationship to the earth plane. Meanwhile it should be noted that Cayce gave Life Readings wherein the individuals were stated to have lived upon the earth over ten million years ago long before the developments which led up to Amilius and the bringing forth of the five races. This latter event occurred around one million B.C.-About the time that the continent of Lemuria became inhabited and was developed to a relatively high state of culture-much akin to what we now refer to as the Stone Age. In the Readings Lemuria was also referred to as Mu, Og, or the Land of Oz, and was said to have occupied an area west of the South American continent extending into Southern California and south-western U.S.A. It eventually broke up and submerged during three widely spaced periods of earth changes which overlapped the emergence of the Atlantean culture and the similar catastrophies that ultimately broke up and sank that continent.
The timetable for these various occurrences can be assembled thus. Not all dates were given in the Readings. Some approxima- tions have been made for the more ancient periods. 1,000,000-800,000 B.c.-Early Lemurian development.
500,000 B.C.E -Lemuria inundated by water, peoples scattered.
400,000-300,000 B.C.E -Lemuria inhabited and civilization advanced.
250,000 B.C.E- Second Lemurian catastrophy, possibly by fire.
200,000 B.C.E -Early Atlantean culture emerged.
80,000 B.C.E -First Atlantean disturbance. Final Lemurian submergence.
28,000 B.C.E -Second Atlantean disturbance. Recorded biblically as the Great Flood.
10,700 B.C.E -Final destruction and sinking of Atlantis.
10,390 B.C.E-Completion of The Great Pyramid in Egypt by the priests Ra-Ta and Hermes.
This last date is important in that it bridges the Atlantean culture to more recent times, and especially to strl!ctural evidences which are still available for archeological study.
Over 650 of the Life Readings given by Edgar Cayce touched upon the Atlantean and Lemurian periods leading up to the establishment in Egypt of much of the Atlantean culture. This period, dating back some twelve to thirteen thousand years ago according to the Readings, once again brought together the entities Cayce (as Ra-Ta the High Priest) and The Master, possibly, as the legendary Hermes.
But before going into that account, let us thread together some of the background or reasoning, as given in the Readings, as it concerns .the subject of Soul .Development-and therein the relatIonship to the umversal ChrISt spmt or conscIousness exemplified in the man Jesus, who through His sacrifice and acceptance of the Will of God became The Christ. This final achievement, apparently, was the plan and pattern from the beginning