This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of July, 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 5:30 P. M. ..., Va.
1. GC: You will have before you the soul-body and the mind of Edgar Cayce, present in this room. You will give a detailed life history of this entity's appearance in Egypt as Ra-Ta, and his associations with those of that period with whom he is closely associated in the present. You will answer the questions which will be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those conditions or records that are apparent in the inner self of the entity or body in the present, from that as seen and recorded as Ra-Ta the priest.
3. In giving this interpretation we must find there are many peoples, even nations, that were influenced by the material activities of the entity in that experience.
4. That the entity came into the land Egypt with others that had come for a purpose is evidenced by that which has been given. He came with that people from what [Arabia] was to be later the earthly sojourn of the entity as a leader, and as a man then of unusual abilities as well as appearance and manners of conduct.
5. The entity chose rather the peoples that were to enter in the land, and was the son of a daughter of Zu [See 294-142, Par. 4-A in re Uhjltd and Zu, Ra] that was not begotten of man. In the entrance, then, he came rather as one that was rejected by those peoples about him; for ever has there been that question where such has been the experience among peoples who had formed any associations of home.
6. Home, as has been remembered, began with a peoples in an entirely different land, and was then projected in thought by those various leaders in those places where man, as man, had come into being through that crystallization of thought that had been given by those Sons of the Most High. [Atlantis?]
7. In this entity's appearance, then, in this particular experience, there was brought to those peoples of Zu's the condemnation of those of Ararat, [Arart [165]] who had established what would now be called a COMMUNITY home in the land later known as Ararat, or where the flood later brought those peoples who again joined with many in peopling the
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earth after that destruction which was caused by those changes in the land known as Og. [Atlantis? Portion now called Mt. Ararat?]
8. The entity then grew in grace with the peoples by the manner of conduct, though with the action of those peoples of Ararat these brought hardships for the mother of the entity in that experience, until there had been a change in the environs and brought among a new surrounding. [Egypt]
9. In this period, then, there was the prophecy by Ra-Ta that the SON of Ararat [Arart [165]] was to journey into this land where there was then the higher state of developments as to the necessities, and those abilities to enjoy and enjoin the activities of the mental and material bodies in their associated actions. These brought, then, those things that are classed in the present as pleasures that gratify the senses of man's own development, for much that is now as the developments that are necessities as well as luxuries were THEN commonplace as the most common necessities in the present. Hence to those peoples, while Ra-Ta was one that was still looked on askant, with the removal of the peoples into the Egyptian land, during that age of Ra-Ta as would be called today one score and one, then the entity gave much in the way of aiding those peoples, children of Arart and the families of same, in making the easy, even control of a land that might be said to be supplying then all the luxuries of the earth in that particular period.
10. With the peaceful arrangements that were brought about, then, after the period of dissension with the young natives and the changing of the native's [900's] name to that of the king, Aarat, then the priest [294] was in the position of gradually gathering those that would harken to those words as pertaining to there being any relations with an outside world, or of there being those divisions in the body that were represented by those divisions of the intermission, or the body OF INTERMISSION of an entity, from an experience to an experience. The natives held more strongly to the necessity of materialization for the enjoyment, as may be surmised from the conditions that were surrounded and evidenced in those particular conditions of this period.
11. With Ra-Ta then beginning with the natives and those that listened to the uncovering of the records (in what would be termed archaeological research in the present), gradually more and more adherence was made to those words of this peculiar leader that had come into this land leading or guiding the conquerors, who were seeking for the expression of various thoughts that were coming through in those
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entities entering that group in that particular period. This being at that period (as would be called, in the study of such) of the change of the race to become - and is now - the white. Hence, as Ra-Ta means and indicates, among - or the first PURE white in the experience then of the earth.
12. In this condition, then, the wonders of the activities brought those varied conditions that were the source of so much disorder, dissension, and discouragement to the activities of the entity through the whole period of experience; for as these findings began to show the variations that had existed in the developing of the mental and physical needs of those peoples that had populated the land, these brought the changes in the manner in which those that had come, as well as natives, in the WAY in which these forces WERE TO be expressed in this particular experience.
13. With the subsiding, then, of contentions with the natives and those that rose against them, and those that had come in the raising to that of what was to be the experimentation (as would be called in the present) of those that were given to Ra-Ta by the king and that native who was to be counseled or judged by those who had been chosen in the positions as the group called (that as would be expressed in the present) the material minded, the spiritual minded, the business minded, the political minded.
14. These in their divisions, then, made for what may be seen as a REAL representative of the conditions that are arisen in the earth in the present period, when there is the drawing near to that period of a change again, which is as a cycle that has brought about that period when there must be the establishing of that which is in the present the representation of that experimentation for the advancement of those various groups in that particular period.
15. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " File