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Every moment spent on earth has profound meaning. We are here to allow “the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.”1 Human history is a tale told through countless iterations of the soul’s journey back to God awareness—a record of the human race and its pilgrimage through the earth on a quest to find the Holy Grail of its God-self again. The time has come to remember who we really are. Consciousness is expanding, and each of us plays a vital role in its universal evolution.
Masters throughout the ages have pointed out the way back to the Godhead—the wellspring of our existence and true abode. The great teachers that were Shankara, Buddha, Lao Tze—and every other awakened individual able to directly experience the presence of God on this plane—have helped map out the route for this spiritual adventure, which began so long ago. So, too, did the work of a twentieth-century psychic and mystic named Edgar Cayce shed new light on the soul’s tenure on earth by offering a more expansive and multifaceted view of humankind and its passage through time and space in the search for God. His legacy of more than 14,000 readings focused extensively on the journey of one particular soul, which more than any other, had discovered the way back to a state of paradisiacal harmony with its Creator and then chose to serve as the transparency by which others might experience that reality here and now. By fully reuniting with the central principle of the universe, this soul established the pattern for salvation and in the process literally became the law: Jesus of Nazareth.
For Christians especially, the movement back to God consciousness was demonstrated most powerfully by this one man whose life story has mesmerized and inspired billions of people around the globe. Jesus’ unsurpassed mastery over sin and the downward pull of materiality had ordained him a Christos or Christ, the anointed one. And for twenty-one centuries his followers have venerated him as God itself. But the belief that he alone was divine corrupted the core truth this deliverer had come to reveal. God-with-us was the message the Son of Man had disclosed to the masses and proven with the miracles attributed to his ministry. Yet ever since his death and resurrection those who dreaded the impact this truth might have on the status quo have tried mightily to suppress his astounding revelation, burying it under the weight of thousands of years of theological constructs, religious iconography, and fear. But the good news Jesus preached has refused to die. The evidence of its vitality lies in the remarkable staying power of his words.
The New Testament narrative about an historical figure named Jesus of Nazareth is the tale of a soul who had reached the pinnacle of divine awareness and entered into a state of being beyond the scope of mortal limitation and law. As such his extraordinary achievement and benediction speak to souls everywhere by calling on them to wake up and embrace their heritage as the sons and daughters of Spirit traversing this planet on a sacred journey homeward. Our elder brother became a Savior when he successfully completed his soul’s mission of unveiling the truth of Immanuel to the human race. But the job had taken eons to complete. It would be a protracted struggle to attain the heights of a Christ able to release the lost souls estranged from their Maker from ignorance and the viselike grip of a material world. The effort had begun millions of years ago.
Evolution of a Soul
In the first cause, or principle, all is perfect. In the creation of soul, we find the portion may become a living soul and equal with the Creator. To reach that position, when separated, must pass through all stages of development, that it may be one with the Creator.
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The soul that became Jesus had trod the globe during many lifetimes under different guises before its final incarnation as the Nazarene rabbi. Like the rest of us, Jesus had stood center stage during these previous appearances in the earth, playing the starring role in his soul’s evolution through time and space. His earliest incarnation is reported to have been as Amilius, a being who abided in spirit form in a place called Atlantis more than ten million years ago. Edgar Cayce explains: “ … Individuals in the beginning were more of thought-forms than individual entities with personalities as seen in the present … ” (364-10) Known as the first begotten of God, Amilius was also the first soul to become aware that the original divine plan for creation had somehow gone awry.
Before time as we count it now and the human body as it appears today, souls—unique aspects of the divine—manifested solely in spirit form. Fashioned to be companions with the Creator, these beings were the mirrors which allowed Spirit to reflect back to itself. But things began to diverge from the primordial plan and veer off track when the wayward mind entered the picture and an “involution” of spirit into the material realm occurred. Souls originally spun off from the Godhead in spirit form slowed down their vibrational frequencies and began to play with matter, using thought and free will to create new worlds for themselves. It did not take long for these rookie “creators” to become enamored with their own formations and start yearning to experience material sensations. The desire to feel various sense impressions kept growing stronger until it led to a startling mistake. These nonmaterial beings of light, which until then had been completely unencumbered and free to move about the universe, pushed themselves into matter.
At first the situation appeared temporary and for a while spirits were able to enter and depart the physical realm as they pleased. Eventually, however, captivated by this new dimension and seeking greater and greater sensual pleasures, they became completely encased in physicality and no longer were able to leave at will to reside among the higher celestial vibrations. Souls were trapped. Worse, tantalized by the fascinating exercise of generating new creations in the province of lower and slower vibrations, they turned away from the light and grew increasingly distant from the transcendental force out of which they had emanated. As time passed, souls would completely forget their spiritual origins and begin to see themselves as totally separate beings confined by the boundaries of a physical form. And with that sense of limitation, selfishness entered the picture. Incorporeal souls whose true home was the boundless cosmos were stuck—spellbound—in the third dimension, cut off from the light by the inventions of their own minds. Such was the fall from grace of which so many spiritual traditions speak.
Earthbound
Myths from around the world recount the remnants of this prehuman era. Some of the mesmerized spirits were so intrigued with matter that they entered and occupied plants and animals, taking on the characteristics of those species. Strange creatures projecting tree limbs and leaves or possessing animal legs, hooves, fish scales, and furry skin now inhabited material form. Edgar Cayce indicates that universal legends about mermaids, centaurs, satyrs and other exotic beings are the vestiges of this far distant past. The Bible also describes one group of entities intensely enmeshed in materiality as the sons and daughters of men or “Sons of Belial” who assumed a variety of forms, including as the Nephilim (giants) portrayed in the Old Testament. The readings refer to this particular group of souls as “ … those that sought more the gratifying, the satisfying, the use of material things for self, without thought or consideration as to … the hardships in the experiences of others. Or, in other words, as we would term it today, they were without a standard of morality.” (877-26)
All was not lost however, for the Father-Mother God desired to prepare a way out for the souls that had gone astray. “ … For He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath prepared a way of escape,” (262-84) assert the Cayce readings. Recognizing the dilemma the entangled spirits faced, the first begotten of the divine, Amilius, was moved to action. He and a group of souls not yet hopelessly locked into physicality determined they would provide a way to free other souls from their entrapment in matter. The law of limitation and self-aggrandizement characterized the Sons of Belial and their activities, but the souls Amilius led were different and offered a sharp contrast to the “fallen angels.” His group comprised those who understood and followed the Law
