not yet caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. (Genesis 2:5; Lamsa translation.)
Chapter 2 begins with the actual manifestation in the earth of those spiritual images fashioned in chapter 1.
In Genesis 1, God divided (in His Mind) the waters, created the seas, imaged the trees, herbs, and fruit; yet Genesis 2 recounts, “. . . no plant of the field was yet in the earth . . . for the Lord God had not caused it to rain.” Man was created spiritually in chapter 1 and given dominion over the earth, but in the second “. . . there was no man to till the ground.”
Clearly, two different creations are recounted there.
The readings assure us that Creation is not yet finished. It is still unfolding, an ongoing process. Perhaps even today, all the things which God has intended for this plane have not yet “sprung up.”
But a powerful spring gushed out of the earth, and watered all the face of the ground. [Genesis 2:6]
The above verse is also taken from the Lamsa translation. This rendering suggests a dynamism lacking in the King James, Edgar Cayce’s Bible, which reads, “. . . there went up a great mist from the earth.”
A correlation between a passage in the Book of Job and several Edgar Cayce Life readings reveals a great hidden meaning in this 6th verse.
Water is symbolic of the source of Life in the earth, and is the first materialization of spirit.
As is known of all, water is a necessary element in the material forces for the sustaining of life in the material plane; hence this element is often called the mother of creation. How does water, then, supply that which nourishes in this material plane? Being made up of elements in itself that are the essence of that which may truly be called spiritual in itself, it gives that association or connection between the spiritual forces acting in the material elements of the earth, or material forces; hence in entering in the kingdom of the Father is knowing and following and being those elements that supply the needs of that which builds in the material plane towards the continuity of the spiritual forces manifest in the earth. So one enters, then, through that Door with the Savior, that brings that necessary force in the life of others, and in saving others saves self. How came the Son of man the Way that leads to perfection in heaven and in earth? In overcoming the forces in nature and in earth, by giving of self for others; hence becoming the Savior of others becomes the Son and one with the Father.
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The “powerful spring” suggests a definite and dynamic action of the Spirit; because of its textual relationship, it is also interconnected with the coming of Adam.
But what action is being symbolized here?
In Job 38 (reading 262-55 states Job was written by Melchizedek, one of the early incarnations of soul who later incarnated as Jesus), the Lord, speaking to Job, states “the foundations of the earth were laid” when “the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy.”
In the Life readings, Cayce was able to trace for several individuals an initial experience with the earth which dated from this period “When the Sons of God came together,” and is the same event described symbolically as “a powerful spring gushing from the earth.”
. . . in the beginning, when all forces were given in the spiritual force, and the morning stars sang together in the glory of the coming of the Lord and the God to make the giving of man’s influence and [the] developing in the world’s forces [this entity was there].
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. . . when the earth’s forces were called into existence, and the Sons of God came together, and the sounding of the coming of the Man was given, . . . this entity was there.
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This was the dynamic action of the Spirit!
[This entity was] in the beginning, when the first of the elements were given, and the forces set in motion that brought about the sphere . . . called [the] earth plane, and when the morning stars sang together, and the whispering winds brought the news of the coming of man’s indwelling, of the spirit of the Creator, and he, man, became the living soul. The entity came into being with this multitude.
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Two individuals were told they had been spiritual messengers of this cosmic event.
. . . in the days when the Sons of God came together to reason in the elements as to the appearance of man in physical on earth’s plane . . . this entity was among those chosen as the messenger to all the realm.
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. . . the entity was in the beginning, when the Sons of God came together to announce to Matter a way being opened for the souls of men, the souls of God’s creation, to come again to the awareness of their error.
The entity then . . . was among those announcing same.
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The origin of the “chosen people” began with entities such as the following who chose to make “heaven’s forces” manifest through “the creature called man.”
When the forces of the universe came together, upon the waters was the coming together of the Sons of God. The morning stars sang together. Over the face of the waters was the voice of the glory of the coming of the plane for man’s indwelling.
When the earth in its form became a place, and afterward able to be an abode for the creature called man, this entity chose that through this manner, it, that entity, that part of the whole—would—would—through these creatures—make manifest heaven and heaven’s forces through these elements.
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The coming together of the Sons of God created an impression on one soul which has sustained it through the eons that followed.
. . . when the Sons of God came together to announce the coming of man’s dwelling on the earth plane. This then . . . has ever been the indwelling force through–out the ages . . . of the love of the Creator.
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A close associate of Edgar Cayce’s was told in his reading:
. . . when souls sought or found manifestation in materiality by the projection of themselves into matter—as became thought forms—and when this had so enticed the companions or souls of the Creator, first we had then the creation in which “God breathed into man [God-made] the breath of life and he became a living soul,” with the abilities to become godlike.
Hence we find
