For those readers who are not familiar with Edgar Cayce, I will give you a very brief history of the man regarded by many as America's legendary mystic. Edgar Cayce was born in rural Kentucky on March 18, 1877, and passed on in Virginia Beach, Virginia on January 3, 1945. He gave over 15,000 psychic readings in a coma-like trance state and there are copies of over 14,000 of these readings at his Association for Research and Enlightenment, or A.R.E. for short, in Virginia Beach. Approximately 10,000 of these readings were medical readings where in his deep-trance state he diagnosed medical problems and prescribed remedies, including prescriptions which had not yet been invented. Many of these patients who received medical readings had been classified as hopeless by their medical practitioners and had come to Edgar Cayce as a last resort.
Over 300 books have been written about Edgar Cayce and his readings, including at least 30 biographies. For more information on Edgar Cayce you should visit the A.R.E. website at www.edgarcayce.org . If you would like to read the article that made Edgar Cayce a national celebrity, on the New York Times website, go to:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C06EFD71239E433A2575AC0A9669D946196D6CF . If you would like to read this article on the Edgar Cayce website, go to: http://www.cayce.com/nytimes.htm .
With all of the excitement that went around concerning the Mayan prophecies for the year 2012, I thought that it would be an appropriate time to look at the information in a specific Edgar Cayce reading requested on the origin and development of the Mayan civilization. The excerpts below are quoted from Reading 5750-1, taken November 12, 1933. Similar to the Bible, all paragraphs in an Edgar Cayce reading have been assigned a number.
1. HLC: [HLC was Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar's first born. Hugh Lynn acted as the conductor or guide for this reading. The conductor played an important role in a reading, as poor instructions resulted in incomplete readings.] You will give an historical treatise on the origin and development of the Mayan civilization, answering questions.
5. From time as counted in the present we would turn back to 10,600 years before the Prince of Peace came into the land of promise, and find a civilization being disturbed by corruption from within to such measures that the elements join in bringing devastation to a stiffnecked and adulterous people.
6. With the second and third upheavals in Atlantis, there were individuals who left those lands and came to this particular portion then visible.
9. Then, with the leavings of the civilization in Atlantis (in Poseidia, more specific), Iltar - with a group of followers ... left this land Poseidia, and came westward, entering what would now be a portion of Yucatan. And there began, with the activities of the peoples there, the development into a civilization that rose much in the same matter as that which had been in the Atlantean land.
10. The first temples that were erected by Iltar and his followers were destroyed at the period of change physically in the contours of the land. That now being found, and a portion already discovered that has laid in waste for many centuries, was then a combination of those peoples from Mu, Oz and Atlantis.
14. The stones that are circular, that were of the magnetized influence upon which the Spirit of the One spoke to those peoples as they gathered in their service, are of the earliest Atlantean activities in religious service, we would be called today.
16. The pyramid, the altars before the doors of the varied temple activities, was an injection from the people of Oz and Mu; and will be found to be separate portions, and that referred to in the Scripture as high places of family altars, family gods, ...
21. (Q) Have the most important temples and pyramids been discovered?
(A) Those of the first civilization have been discovered, and have not all been opened; but their associations, their connections, are being replaced - or attempting to be rebuilt. Many of the second and third civilization may NEVER be discovered, for these would destroy the present civilization in Mexico to uncover same!
22. (Q) By what power or powers were these early pyramids and temples constructed?
(A) By the lifting forces of those gases that are being used gradually in the present civilization, and by the fine work or activities of those versed in that pertaining to the source from which all power comes.
For, as long as there remains those pure in body, in mind, in activity, to the law of the One God, there is the continued resource for meeting the needs, or for commanding the elements and their activities in the supply of that necessary in such relations.
The reading goes on to explain that the records in the temple that was destroyed in the final destruction of Atlantis, yet may someday be discovered, plus the records that will eventually be found in the temple or hall of records in Egypt, and those records contained in the temple erected by Iltar, are, in the words of the in-trance Edgar Cayce, "The RECORDS are ONE."
© Doug Simpson 2015.
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Doug Simpson is a retired high school teacher who has turned his talents to writing. His first novel, a spiritual mystery titled Soul Awakening, was published in the United States in October of 2011, by Booklocker. It was reissued in October of 2012 by 5 Prince Publishing as Soul Awakening, Book I of the Dacque Chronicles. For further details visit them at http://5princebooks.com/. It is available in print and eBook format through most bookstores around the world. Soul Rescue, Book II of the Dacque Chronicles was published in November of 2012, Soul Mind, Book III of the Dacque Chronicles was published in January of 2013, and Soul Connections, Book IV of the Dacque Chronicles was published in April of 2013. Doug’s first non-fiction book, titled The Soul of Jesus, was published by 5 Prince Publishing in January of 2014. In March of 2014, it earned recognition as a #1 Bestseller on Amazon, USA. His magazine and website articles have been published in 2010 to 2015 in Australia, Canada, France, India, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His articles can be accessed through his website at http://dousimp.mnsi.net.
To compare Edgar Cayce to Houdini is like comparing apples to elephants. Some folks compare Edgar Cayce to Nostradamus.
I have or have read some 40-50 of the now well over 300 books written about the over 15,000 amazing recorded readings of Edgar Cayce. How many have you read? I challenge you to do some research on this gifted individual. You could start by visiting the Edgar Cayce website, maintained by a charitable organization established to commemorate the life of this renowned human being. www.edgarcayce.org/.
I have not had an opportunity to visit Atlantis (and I wonder why?). However, I did spend two days in the museum in Cairo and marveled at the precision and consistency of hieroglyphics over a very long period of time, perhaps thousands of years without changing. I have also had the opportunity to visit Tikal and view the hieroglyphics there. I found no resemblance between the Egyptian culture and the Mayan culture except the obsession with the Sun that seems to be the focal point of the religions of the earliest civilizations, so tied to their crops for food.
As I read Edgar Casey's ramblings, it was obvious to me, that while the man probably was well read about the subjects that he did his readings on, he is clearly spouting mumbo-jumbo that quite often convinces people that something phenomenal is happening. I much prefer Houdini, a man who admitted that all of his fantastic accomplishments were merely physical tricks and debunked charlatans like Casey for what they were, opportunists and quacks.
Ron