This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 26th 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 5:00 P. M. ..., Va. (Continuance of Egyptian experience as Ra-Ta)
1. EC: Yes. With the establishing of this rule, there began the series of changes, and the intermingling of the peoples who entered and the natives. While the native rulers were submissive, especially as the [1734] native ruler was enamored with one of the incoming peoples. With Arart [165] as the king and Ra-Ta as the prophet or seer, there began a period that may well be called a division of interests of the peoples. Ra-Ta attempted to induce the king to have only those natives that were tried and true in their acceptance of those attempts that would bring the closer relationship, according to those visions and experiences of Ra-Ta in line with those being established as customs, rules and regulations. These conditions naturally made for some disturbance among the natives, that would be called the upper class, or those that sought to be in power themselves, or had ideas as to what should be done with the abilities of the peoples as individuals, and the abilities of the country as a country to supply those material necessities for sustenance and for recreation of the peoples. This eventually led to the pitting of the young leader [900] with the king's son [341], and the change - or the accepting by the king of this native leader that represented a GROUP as well as himself, for he was [900] among those who had been native rulers and were deposed by the ruler [1734] whom Arart had found in office when settling there. This period of the establishing of these conditions we will term, for designation and understanding, as the political situation of the land. A portion of Arart's life then was in association with the political experience, as well as in establishing those relationships of individuals with individuals, also the religious or spiritual life, with preparation for setting in motion the regulations or ceremonies that would be accompanied, or signified or designated, by the developing of those peoples who chose to give their lives, or were chosen for their abilities in certain phases of the conditions that arose.
2. With the political situation, then, the king [341] - the
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young king, then only thirty - gathered about him many that were to act in the capacity of council, a portion the inner council that ruled on the general circumstances of the peoples as a whole, then the council that had supervision over various parts of departments of the activities of the peoples, as would be termed in one's present surroundings as holding the various offices as a cabinet, the departments being much in that day as they are in the present; for remember, there is nothing in the present that hasn't existed from the first. Only the FORM or the manner of its use being changed, and many an element then used that the art of its use has been lost, as we will see the reason why, and many being rediscovered by those called scientists in the present when in that day it was the common knowledge of the most illiterate, as would be termed in the present.
3. With the appointing of such a body, to be sure there was much work for Ra-Ta in council that there be kept the ideal or purpose for which this band, this group, had chosen this particular land for the development or manifestation of the forces that were manifesting through the mental or the spiritual man Ra-Ta.
4. With this giving in (we are speaking of the political phase now) [of Arart] of the king, to pit or parallel activities of the native with the abilities of the son, or heir, and he himself - the king - acting AS a council then WITH Ra-Ta to the inner council, there were the necessities of matching the abilities of the king's council, or king's people, with the facilities of the natives - as it were - in the various phases of what would be termed in the present as progress. Hence the opening by Araaraart [341] of mines in Ophir, in what was later known as Kadesh, or in the land now called Persia. Also in the land now known as Abyssinia, and those portions yet undiscovered or used in the upper lands of the river Nile, there were those mines of the precious stones - as onyx, beryl, sardis, diamond, amethyst, opal, and the pearls that came from the sea near what is now called Madagascar. In the northern (or then the southern) land of Egypt, those mines that produced quantities - and quantities - and quantities - of gold, silver, iron, lead, zinc, copper, tin, and the like, that these might be matched with those in the valleys of the upper Nile. Also there was the producing of the stonecutters who began gathering materials for the establishing of the residences of the incoming or the king's peoples.
5. With the gatherings of these, also Ra-Ta began to gather his own people and those that were pointed out to him through the sources from which he received those various
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injunctions for the establishing of the name forever in the land. Hence, with these, there were the preparations for the temple where there were to be the various forms of worship, as related to the divisions of the penal or moral relationships of the peoples, and what would be termed or called in the present the religious or spiritual relationships.
6. There were many periods or days required for the building up of the body, as represented by the group that acted in the capacity of the active individuals about the building of these edifices or temples that were to represent then the recreation halls; for the physical attributes were worshipped much more in many ways in this period than the religious are in the present period, and rightly so - though there were the preparations for the spiritual worship that comprised not only the sacrificial altars, which were not as for the offering of sacrifice in the slaying of animal or bird, or beast, or reptile, or man; rather that upon which individuals put their faults and blotted them out with the fires of those forces that were set in motion by Ra-Ta, in the ability to give to each that for which his or her activity were best adapted in the developing of themselves, when they had chosen to give themselves in service in that particular position in which their activity was necessary. See the difference?
7. There were also established storehouses, that would be called banks in the present, or places of exchange, that there might be the communications with individuals in varied lands; for even in this period (though much had been lost even by these peoples) was there the exchange of ideas with other lands, as of the Poseidian and Og, as well as the Pyrenean and Sicilian, and those that would now be known as Norway, China, India, Peru and American. These were not their names in that particular period, but from whence there were being gathered a portion of the recreations of the peoples; for the understandings were of one tongue! There had not been as yet the divisions of tongues in THIS particular land. This was yet only in the Atlantean or Poseidian land.
8. With the gathering of these people and places, there began the erecting of the edifices that were to house not only the peoples, but the temple of sacrifice, the temple of beauty - that GLORIFIED the activities of individuals, groups or masses, who had CLEANSED themselves for service. Also the storehouses for the commodities of exchange, as well as that gathered by the peoples to match - as it were, still - one against the other. Hence we find the activities
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of the priest, or seer, as really a busy life - yet much time was given in keeping self in communion with those that brought the knowledge of that progress made in the spiritual sense in other lands, especially so from Poseida and Og.
9. In these visitations that were caused, or that necessitated the absenting of the priest from these places, there arose more and more a dissension with those peoples that there was being builded much that was being left to subordinates, as considered by some of the native councillors - and a few also of those that allowed avarice to arise in their own make-up. This brought questioning more and more, and there began to be the use of those things that gradually turned the minds of those associated in the offices that had been set aside by the priest in their activity, in the use of, in the brewing and concocting of drinks that set against the body, set the mind, set the whole fires of physical body against that as had been cleansed by the fires on the altars, as were in the sacrificial temples.
10. In the third series, or - as they were set aside as periods of ten years, most of those buildings were completed, and when there was the return of Ra-Ta from one of these visits to the mount - where there had been some activities on the part of those that were delving into what was termed the archaeological conditions of those that had lived in the lands in the periods before - and there was found in the temple of sacrifice the aggrandizing of the lusts of the body, rather than those activities that were to be carried on by the sacrificial priests - there arose a mighty turmoil, and with these conditions arising there became greater and greater stress laid upon Ra-Ta, and there were sought various ways and manners in which there might be fault found with the activities of those conditions that surrounded the body, and there arose at that time the first - as may be said - of that saying, "When the devil can't get a man any other way, he sends a woman for him."
11. Among those, then, of the priests' daughters, was one of the king's favorites - that made for the entertaining of the king and his council, and his visitors - who was more beautiful than the rest, and she [538] was induced to gain the favor of the priest through activities of herself in body, and in the manners that would induce some fault to be found. This was not by her own volition, but rather by the counsel of those that made for the persecutions of her own peoples that were being protected by the activities of the body, and divisions arose that were even unknown then to Ra-Ta, for he being among those that trusted all, believed
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all, and - as it were - for the time the gods laughed at his weakness!
12. We are through for the present.