with the divine. Together Amilius and his cohorts made the decision to act as guides to help the wayward children reestablish a relationship with their Source. They would lead them back to the presence of God.
The task was not without peril, however. Even Amilius, whose original purpose in entering the earth plane was to help other souls remember their innate divinity, eventually succumbed to the attractions of a material world. According to Edgar Cayce, Amilius “ … allowed himself to be led in the ways of selfishness … ” (364-8) When all was said and done, this self-proclaimed leader and principal representative of the Law of One was going to have to find his way out too. Fortunately for the human race its prospective savior never strayed so far afield that he was not able to extricate himself. Despite myriad temptations to abandon the Herculean task, the first begotten of God continued working lifetime after lifetime—advancing in most but occasionally losing ground—to construct the pattern by which the soul would finally be released from its imprisonment in matter and return to God awareness.
In His Image
Hence, every form of life that man sees in a material world is an essence or manifestation of the Creator; not the Creator, but a manifestation of a first cause …
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Meanwhile it had become painfully evident to the Sons of God that their success was predicated upon creating a new type of bodily structure. The animal-like bodies with which the lost souls were intertwined were not adequate for their long-term habitation nor the arduous task of reigniting the divine spark—raising up the individuated spirit—and liberating it. Clearly souls enshrouded in matter needed access to a different type of vehicle—a more spiritualized and perfect physical form—in order to be able to break free. A new body would allow them to experience the third dimensional world yet still maintain a connection to higher awareness and their true nature.
The key was to design a way for souls enmeshed in a physical world to recognize their estrangement from the divine while at the same time reawakening in them the conscious desire to return to companionship with their Creator. This redesigned body became the first of what is called a human being or Homo sapiens: “ … man’s indwelling as man in the form of flesh in this material world … ”(364-5) as described in the Edgar Cayce readings. Hundreds of thousands of years after spirit became ensnared by matter, a more advanced form of physicality emerged. And the soul, which had first entered the earth plane as Amilius and later would return as Jesus of Nazareth, was the soul which would inhabit the earliest prototypical human form.
A glorious period dawned as Amilius and the other Sons of God prepared the way for the entry of a physical human into the earth. The Cayce information reports that the morning stars sang together in the glory of the coming of the Lord as divinity was reflected in flesh; “ … 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.” (2156-2) The offspring of divinity, fallen away in consciousness from their Source, now had access to the most effective vehicle by which to rise up to those celestial heights again. Souls would have the pathway to freedom embodied in the very forms they carried around with them. Hope abounded. But it would be a long and difficult journey home.
Adam
… He, our Lord was the first among those that put on mortality that there might be the opportunity for those forces that had erred in spiritual things …
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The presence in the biblical account of not one but two creation stories culminating in the appearance of a human being on earth is an enigma which has intrigued biblical scholars for centuries. According to Edgar Cayce, the first version of the story found in Genesis refers to the original formation of the soul and describes a being made in the image and likeness of God who, by virtue of its emanation from a divine source, had dominion over the rest of creation. The second rendition pertains to the creation of the physical body of man fashioned from the dust of the earth. After the materialization of this outer form occurs, God breathes the breath of the life force into its nostrils and a living being emerges: Adam. The readings describe the appearance of Adam this way—
When there was in the beginning a man’s advent into the plane known as earth, and it became a living soul, amendable to the laws that govern the plane itself as presented, the Son of man entered the earth as the first man. Hence the Son of man, the Son of God, the Son of the first Cause, making manifest in a material body. This was not the first spiritual influence, spiritual body, spiritual manifestation in the earth, but the first man—flesh and blood; the first carnal house, the first amenable body to the laws of the plane in its position in the universe.
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Further, the emergence of human beings in this new material “home” for the soul built according to a divine blueprint was not an isolated incident. The readings indicate that souls in humanoid form entered in five different places at the same time, and the form called Adam resided in just one of them. Other Sons of God assisted in the job of leading spirit’s entrance into these newly formed earth-bodies with each entry representing a different race: red, yellow, white, black, and brown. The locations were Eden, Atlantis, the Andes, western America, and India, although the continents and oceans were not in the same configurations as they are today. Interestingly Islamic tradition also states that Adam was created from red, white, and black clay. And the Jewish Talmud notes that dust was gathered throughout the whole earth to create Adam’s body, which resulted in the homogeneity of the multicolored human race.2 The Adam soul, however, remained the leader of the Sons of God and set the pattern for those who had entered in the other four areas, serving as the primary interface between God and all the souls trapped in matter. The Cayce information also ascribes to Adam the establishment of the “ … altars upon which the sacrifices of the field and forest … ”(364-4) were made as religious tributes to the divine.
While a literal reading of the Old Testament and most recognized biblical scholarship give no shrift to the kind of prehistory recounted in the Cayce material, other ancient sources of wisdom paint a slightly different picture. Gnostic Mandaean literature mentions a mystic or secret Adam who preceded the human Adam by countless years and the Hermeticists apparently held similar beliefs. The Kabbalist Zohar discusses two Adams as well. The first was “a divine being” who stepped forth “from the highest original darkness, creating the second, or earthly, Adam in His own image.”3 Likewise, ancient Jewish mystics claimed that “God first created the Heavenly Man, the Archetype, who filled the universe and served as the pattern on which it was made.”4
In the Garden
The mystical passage of the human race through the earth experience begins in the first book of the Bible with the Garden of Eden and the baffling story of Adam and his helpmeet Eve whose choices lead to a paradise lost. Here is where the record of the soul’s movement through the material dimension sets sail. It is worth noting that the Cayce material describes the Bible, as a whole, as the history of humanity’s spiritual development and search for God. The readings regard it as an account of the soul’s supernatural origins, its memory lapse and fall, and the long and fitful progression upward to reach a state of divine awareness again. Occasionally the story shows the children of God taking huge leaps forward with the help of some of the highly evolved patriarchs and prophets populating the Old Testament. Yet more often than not, the climb appears daunting and painfully slow. The epic does not reach its apotheosis until one soul attains a state
