This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of August, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [378], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... Street, 3:50 to 4:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York, N.Y. (Soul-mind of entity now known as [378], who seeks a description in great detail of his Egyptian incarnation as Hept-supht; also a description of his life on Atlantis and what brought him to Egypt. After you have given this description, you will answer the questions which have been submitted, as I ask them.)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity [378], and the experiences in the earth's plane - and the records here, as made by the entity.
2. Oft may it occur to one seeking such understandings, that may be gained through such channels, as to how such records of experiences are made; and as to how or why it becomes possible for only one here and there to interpret or read such records; and how that in the varied interpretations there may at times occur what appears to be a great discrepancy in the amount or character of such interpretations.
3. As the entity in its present activities is in that field which requires the consideration of pigment, or combinations of elements that act or react under varied conditions - especially those in which light, heat and other vibrations have much to do, (and as the experiences through the period being sought concerning were much, as would be termed in the present, the basis for that followed in the line of activity today) such questions are of particular interest.
4. Then, to draw a comparison that some concept may be gained as to the nature of records, and how they are recorded, and the manner in which interpretations are made, and the variations that occur, let's - then - for the moment put this in the language of that in which the entity is engaged:
5. (This aside. Don't think that you present will know very much more than you did before. He will!)
6. When a dye [die?] is cast there are basic influences that form that from which, to which, other things are added to
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take from or add to, to produce an effect that will not be acted upon by light, heat, moisture or the like, or other elements with the same. Yet, in the addition - to subtract from this first basis, there is always left that record in that which exists in the present of the dye, as to what basis the beginning was measured from. And in the interpretation, the analysis of what records were made as they were being put together, the interpreter oft loses sight of the base - of the addition - and sees the results rather than that activity producing same.
7. Just so in the soul life, the soul's contact with that which is conscious - that partakes of, or presents, or is represented in material form. The reading or interpretation of such an akashic record or cosmic impression, or such influences, depend upon the ability of the interpreter to meet in the same force, or attune into the same vibration, as to be able to translate or interpret the same.
8. Then, as for the appearance, the influence of the soul entity not only upon the development of the entity or soul itself but its, the soul's, influence (and affluence) upon the period or era or time in which it moved to give expression of that within its realm of activity in the period:
9. In Atlantis we find the entity, as there were those periods before the destruction - when there were being continually waged what may be termed war, but rather in the sense as would be considered in the present period when there is being a campaign by individuals or groups respecting the impulsive influence that is directing the activities of the man, the brother, the neighbor, the associate. Or, as would be termed, an evangelistic campaign. Yet the WORKS materially going about much in the general way and manner of the particular period of activity.
10. This was being waged between the followers of the patriarchs of old; of Alta, of Quoauda, and those that directed against the sons of Baalilal. [Belial? Deut. 13:13]
11. The entity was among those that were active as to the exchange of associations with those in the Poseidian land, or in the city of Alta.
12. And, as there was the entering of the priest from the land Egypt to Poseidia, that there might be gained more of an understanding of the law of One (or God), that there might be the interpretations and the records of same carried to the Egyptian land, the ENTITY returned - or JOURNEYED, soon after the priest's return from Atlantis, to Egypt.
13. Hence, as there continued to be the rebellions and the
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exodus of the peoples in Atlantis before the final destruction, the entity - becoming interested in those activities - finally (as would be termed in the present) became embroiled through engrossment in that taking place in Egypt during the young king's enthronement - and the elderly king, and the peoples, and the counsellors of the king.
14. And when there was the pitting of the young king against the royal native Aarat, the entity then took counsel - as it were - with self, and made Egypt the home.
15. Hence there was the knowledge of, yet not being self-embroiled in, the rebellions that arose with the banishment of the priest.
16. But with the return, which came at - what the present manner of speech would be - the same time or days in which the entity established itself as a native of Egypt, then the entity began to work with the priest in bringing order out of the general chaos that existed through these troublesome turmoils and periods; and aided the most in directing those that began to be the heads of the varied departments in the establishing of the truths or tenets, or practical application OF the laws (as would be termed in the present) pertaining to those things that made for chemistry, building, commerce, labor, economic conditions, then the schools, the educational centers, and the varied activities that would be classified in such experiences in the present day. The ARTS, in the broader sense; as workers in precious stones, silver, gold, and the more delicate metals that required the more intrinsic activity of individuals. And music, and the instruments thereof. The recordings of the varied activities necessary that they might be handed down.
17. Hence, of particular interest to the entity is the manner in which a record is kept of the activities of EVERY branch of man's mental or spiritual activity. For, the entity then aided in these direct; hence came in contact, in direct touch with all those who headed or aided in mental or physical activity to produce that which would be helpful to the COMING generations in retaining and maintaining that standard set by those as they had journeyed along the way.
18. Hence the entity aided the priest in activity, but the populace the more. And, as we have given, aided much in the records; not only of the period but as to how the varied activities were to be in the land pertaining to the records of that which was to be, as well as that which had been, and the records in that monument or tomb or pyramid yet to be opened. Records also of those that were transferred from the destruction of the Atlantean land. For, the entity was still in charge of these records when the last of the
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peoples of Atlantis journeyed to the various quarters of the globe; but Alta, Zeus, Zephyrus, and the recorder of Alta were friends, associates - yea, descendents in the flesh with and of the same as the entity.
19. And there will be drawn to the entity in various ways many of those of the period.
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) Give in detail the psychic powers he developed at that time? (A) This would almost be impossible. To put such into words would be as impractical as it would be to describe what the multiple of colors as related to vibrations brings, reduced to its eleventh or nth degree. Yet, as may be seen from that given, PSYCHIC is so often misconstrued. For, it is of the mental or soul, and was that which was MOSTLY employed in the experience by the entity, when it would be compared to the materiality that is necessarily employed in this material age - or in an age when "Only that I may see, or touch, or feel, or taste, do I comprehend."
22. We are through for the present. Two copies to Self Copy to File