This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 27th 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 3:15 P. M. ..., Va. (Continuance of Egyptian experience as Ra-Ta)
1. EC: Yes, we have that as has been given, and those conditions that surround the body Ra-Ta in that experience.
2. It will, no doubt, be enlightening to individuals in the present to give the outlines of that which had its being in the varied forms of worship, individuals as beings, their differences in forms from the present, that it may be better understood how these INFLUENCES so much in the present with individual or personal associations of individualities.
3. The conditions first, then, as political had been set. The conditions as to the buildings (we will call them) in which there was to be carried on this demonstration of the relationships of individuals to individuals, and relationships of individuals as individuals, and as masses, to the Creative Forces.
4. In the building, then, of the marital relationships that existed, these as we understand, were not much as homes (as seen or understood as individual homes in the present). Rather were there the APPOINTED companionships that were to serve their State, their purposes, for the completing of - or competing of - groups or nations one against another, and were rather the matter of the word of the ruler than that of choice of individuals, as known in the present. This particular relationship did the priest, or Ra-Ta, attempt to change, in that there should be rather the establishing of the definite homes, as were in other lands that had been then visited by this priest, or from any; that these should be rather those of consecrated lives one to another. Hence there was the tendency of the changing or altering of those FORMS of service that were held in the temple, in which there were not only those acts in the activities of individuals in their relationships one with another for the propagation of those peoples, but also those recreations, and those - as would be termed in the present - halls of learning, halls of precept and also of examples. These, then, as may be understood, required the supervision - with these changes - of a great number of individuals, and - as is seen from that which has been given - individuals in
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varied capacities served the priests in ministering to those needs of the conditions and relationships of individuals through the temple; for in this particular peoples all births were in this particular hall - or those set aside for same, as were those chambers in which conception was to have taken place, or to take place, for all the various relationships that existed among the peoples; while in the Temple Beautiful we had rather that which pertained to those changes that were wrought in individuals' activities as they set themselves aside, or consecrated themselves (as would be termed in the present) for particular services in the material or mental, or in the commercial world, as well as those that formed or performed their particular activity or service in the Temple Beautiful, or the spiritual portion of the service.
5. With these changes, then, that were gradually brought about - possibly a description here of these might be given:
6. As was seen, the housing of all the female of the whole clan or tribe for the evenings was in the temple, while those of the male that were outside those of the king's OWN household - and this included the king's alone - not any favorite or queen, or closer relationship, for all were in the same building, for they were under State rules. These were in tiers, as we would term today, beautifully laid out - with their halls, that were three and four tiers. The rooms, as would be sized as we would call, were 7 X 9 in their size, with 8 to 10 feet in the height, with those accoutrements for same - their rugs, their blankets, those that were wrought with the hands that made for the couches, for the various activities. Those that were born in same were immediately, or after three months, taken from their own families and raised in those groups which were confined in other buildings for those purposes. The great chambers or halls that were inter-between were of high tiers, that made for large halls, with the various forms of recreation - as the dance, etc; for, as given, the body was worshipped in this period as sincerely as most of the physical or spiritual worship that may be seen today, for the bodies were changing in their forms as their developments or purifications were effective in those temples, where the consecrations and changes were taking place by the activities of the individuals in their abilities to turn themselves towards (in the mental) the SPIRITUAL things of an existence. They gradually lost, many feathers from their legs. Many of them lost the hairs from the body, that were gradually taken away. Many gradually began to lose their tails, or their protuberances in their various forms. Many
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of them gradually lost those forms of the hand and foot, as they were changed from claws - or paws - to those that might be more symmetrical with the body. Hence the activities or the uses of the body, as they became more erect and more active, more shaped to them in their various activities. These were, to be sure, considered as the body beautiful. Beauty as divine; for the divine has brought - and does bring - those various beauties of form or figure to the body, and should be CONSIDERED as it was given so; for "the body is the temple of the living God." True, then, that the various forms or attributes of the body in its symmetry are of the divine inheritance, as was brought about by this ill-forgotten Ra-Ta in this experience.
7. In the Temple Beautiful, then, we find here the altars where various forms of desire were sacrificed, that brought to the individuals, or persons, or bodies, in the gradual falling away of those things that made for the ANIMAL activity in the bodies of those that were attempting to so consecrate, so consecrate themselves and consecrate their bodies, their lives, their activities, in this service. Let's don't forget the thesis, or the key for which all of this understanding had come: That there might be a closer relationship of man to the Creator, and of man to man.
8. Many were the altars, then, and so - as these changes came about - there became the necessity of their attempt to induce Ra-Ta, that there might be more of the activity that was withdrawn, or drawn TO the bodies of those that were purified, or clarified, in the Temple Beautiful, to draw those to the activities that were to be changing for those that had not reached that stage of the desire to become those changes in the physical and in the mental attributes of that which represented the forms in their activity in the period. Hence the developing more of the PERSONALITY, as these were injected more and more. This is where, as it were, the gods laughed at the weakness of the individual, or the priest.
9. As these began then, with this favorite of the king - and the better of the forms that had become near the body beautiful, or beauty divine, those activities in the temple (not the Temple Beautiful, but in the temple) brought these individuals, as individuals, into closer relationships, and the decree eventually came that the priest was to be, then, the companion of this body that had been chosen to be the channel through which those activities were to bring to those peoples a body such as the priest had spoken of - and the priest "fell for the whole proposition", to put it in common parlance, or that of slang phrase in the present.
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10. In this there were many others that were chosen also, by the various ones, and there were the attempts that there be the same associations with the priest in the various ones through which this began, yet when there came - as it were - the offspring with this association, then there became the cry that there was the breaking of the very laws that had been set by the priest, who was to make for the home and the changing of the conditions for the peoples, and more and more were the lines drawn as to the sides that were taken. Those groups who had the desire for their own offspring, or their associated or associations for the closer relationships with the priest, and those that came into power in their various forms or activities; for, as is seen, with desire - as the cleansing came - there were those abilities of individuals for various activities in various fields of endeavor. Hence there became singers, workers in linen, workers in embroidery, carders, weavers, workers in clay, those in various forms of commercial industry, those in horticulture, those in agriculture, and the various fields; for no merchants then existed, as there was one common store for all.
11. In their activities, then, each were in their various fields of endeavor given free activity to that which it might produce. Hence these brought about the many various DIVISIONS that were between, as it may be called, the first uprising between Church and State, and the lines being drawn caused more tumult, until the period when there was the eventual trial of this priest and the companion, and they were banished into the land that lies to the south and east of this land, or the Nubian land.
12. Here all became changed, with this tumult that arose with the various priests that were in attendance in the various offices, and advantage was taken of the situation by many of those who in their various forms began to LEARN, as it were, a form of war and defense, and there were the gathering then of the young men, the old men, and sides were taken. Still some remained faithful to the priests who remained in the land, and troublesome times arose for many, many suns, until at least nine seasons had passed before there was even the SEMBLANCE of the beginning of a quieting, and that not until there had been definite arrangements made that the priest WOULD return and all would be submissive to his mandates; and he became, then, as may be termed in the present, a dictator - or a monarch in his own right.
13. The offspring, to be sure, was taken - as others - from this relationship, and in their various forms and manners there was the attempt to be brought about the proper
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conditions, yet it wasted away - for while there were the abilities of the priest in some directions, yet these had not clarified or crystallized into that which came about in the latter part of this experience for the entity.
14. In the land to which these were banished, not only were there the two - but a NUMBER; some two hundred and thirty-one souls.
15. We are through for the present.