Edgar Cayce’s
Origin and Destiny of Man
Edgar Cayce’s
Origin and Destiny of Man
Lytle Webb Robinson
Copyright © 2008
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation
First A.R.E. Press edition: April 2008
Printed in the U.S.A.
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ISBN 978-0-87604-541-1 (trade pbk.)
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan edition published 1972
Berkley edition published September 1976
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2007
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CONTENTS
PART ONE: STRANGERS IN THE EARTH
3 THE RISE AND FALL OF ATLANTIS?
PART TWO: THE LOST PEOPLES OF AMERICA
8 WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS?
12 REINCARNATION: THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE
A NOTE CONCERNING THIS BOOK
By Barbara A. Robinson
The author of this book, Lytle Webb Robinson, passed through “God’s other door” on April 4, 1997, one week before his 84th birthday. He had been hospitalized for several days before being transferred to a private hospice room, where he lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness.
Our four children joined me in a vigil in that clinical setting, and the conversation evolved into a sharing of family stories. We laughed often at past events. To the nurse who checked in frequently, we must have resembled a group in an airport departure area who had gathered to wait with a loved one until time for his plane to leave. A considerable length of time elapsed before there was a lull in the conversation. Just at that moment, some flickering change came over Lytle’s face. We reached out and touched him as he took one final breath. His “flight” had departed. Apparently, he had been listening and chose to remain with us through the review of our lives together.
I open with this story of Lytle’s death as a means of informing readers that his book is not new but a reprint of one first issued in 1972. The text continues to be relevant, however, because most of the information presented is followed by the verbatim Extracts from the Cayce Readings. For those interested, this book has been translated into French, German, Japanese, and Braille.
It came to be written because in the mid-1950s, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce’s son, was actively recruiting writers to introduce the Edgar Cayce psychic readings to the growing roster of members. Since Lytle was a freelance writer, he was invited to write a comprehensive article on the subject of Creation. To access the material needed for this initial writing project, we traveled to Virginia Beach and stayed in an upstairs bedroom in the Cayce home at 308 Arctic Crescent. A fire-proof vault housing the readings had been installed at that residence, and Gladys Davis, Edgar’s secretary, also had her office there. It seems unthinkable now, but at that time no copying machines were available, and all extracts of the Cayce readings had to be hand-copied or typed, since they were not to be removed from the premises.
Lytle was employed full-time in merchandising, and wrote in the evenings at our home, so we made several Virginia Beach trips to acquire information from the readings. Typing these extracts became my contribution—a privileged one—since it gave me the opportunity to become friends with Gladys. As most know, she not only personified those spiritual qualities which we all strive to attain, but she had a phenomenal memory. Even though the over 14,000 Cayce readings were only partially cataloged, she was able to access information on a wide variety of topics. Whenever we visited, Gladys put other responsibilities aside to assist Lytle, and the times we stayed in the Cayce home, she would leave the vault unlocked at night so that we could obtain readings and type copies well into the night. Gladys deserves credit for all of the early Cayce publications because writers depended on her expertise and generous spirit.
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