characteristic of Cayce’s interpretations is that all phases of Scripture are related to states of consciousness which are directly experiential. Thus, “Let there be Light” can be experienced through an awakening to the perfection of the godhead within. The verse also relates to “First consciousness,” and the creation of souls.
For in the beginning, God said, “Let there be light.” You are one of those sparks of light, with all the ability of Creation, with all the knowledge of God.
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When Jesus spoke of himself as “The Light” it was in reference to this Light of Genesis.
Begin and read Genesis 1:3, and see that is to thee Light, the light of men, even that One who is the Christ-Consciousness.
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This verse was of central importance to Edgar Cayce. One of his Bible class students recalls his stating that the rest of Scripture was an attempt to explain, “And God said, Let there be Light.”
Apparently the First Consciousness of souls not only partook of the awareness of “The Lord thy God is One,” but also “love of neighbor as self”:
The spirit moved—or soul moved—and there was Light (Mind). The Light became the light of man—Mind made aware of conscious existence in spiritual aspects or relationships as one to another.
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The Divine Image
In Genesis 1:27 it is written, “God created man in His own image.” God is Spirit, and therefore the image is spiritual. According to Edgar Cayce, the Divine Image is the soul of man, the Mind and Spirit those aspects of Man which are god-like, individual, and eternal.
For the image in which man was created is spiritual, as He thy Maker is spiritual.
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For the soul was made in the image of the Creator, to be a companion with that influence which is constructive, which is creative.
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For as each soul—not the body but the soul—is the image of the Maker, so with the awareness of the soul-consciousness there may come the awakening to the realization of the soul’s relationship with that universal consciousness, as is promised in Him.
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. . . the soul remains ever as one. For it is in the image of the Creator and has its birthright in Him.
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This describes the state of man “In The Beginning.”
Man in his former state, or natural state, or permanent consciousness is soul. Hence in the beginning all were souls of that creation, with the body as of the Creator—of the spirit forces that make manifest in using same in the various phases or experiences of consciousness for the activity.
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These two extracts indicate the nature of these pre–Adamic creations:
Some brought about monstrosities, as those of its [that entity’s] association by its projection with its association with beasts of various characters. Hence those of the Styx, satyr, and the like; those of the sea, or mermaid; those of the unicorn, and those of the various forms—these projections of what? The abilities of the psychic forces (psychic meaning, then, of the mental and the soul) . . .
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. . . there . . . were those who were physically entangled in the animal kingdom with [the] appendages, with cloven hooves, with four legs, with portions of trees, with tails, with scales, with those various things that thought forms (or evil) had so indulged in as to separate the purpose of God’s creation of man as man—not as animal . . .
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The Pre-Adamic World
Although the mating of the Sons of God with the Daughters of Men is considered a post-Adamic experience, Cayce used this verse many times to describe events occurring many thousands of years before Adam.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.(Genesis 6:1-2)
The lust described above was only one form of indulgence. Yet, in essence, it captures the spirit of the whole Rebellion.
. . . as a spirit [man] pushed his individuality into matter and began to express or manifest personal influence—for self, for ease, for comforts, for those things that would enable the individual entity to, in matter, lord [it] over others.
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The following reading is a direct interpretation of the meaning of “Sons of God,” and “Daughters of Men.”
(Q) Explain the “Sons of God—Daughters of Men—Sons of Man.”
(A) . . . the influences of those souls that sought material expression pushed themselves into thought forms in the earth. And owing to the earth’s relative position with the activities in this particular sphere of activity in the universe, it was chosen as the place for expression . . .
Then, as those expressed they were called the Sons of the Earth—or Sons of Man.
When the Creative Forces, God, made then the first man—or Godman—he was the beginning of the Sons of God.
Then those souls who entered through a channel made by God—not by thought, not by desire, not by lust, not by things that separated continually—were the Sons of God, the Daughters of God.
The Daughters of Men, then, were those who became the channels through which lust knew its activity; and it was in this manner then that the conditions were expressed as given of old, that the Sons of God looked upon the Daughters of Men and saw that they were fair, and lusted!
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Cayce found in the history of Atlantis the literal, or historical, basis for his interpretations of Genesis.
The existence
