Van Auken, Editor
1
Eternally Celestial, Temporarily Terrestrial
Editor's Note: During his deep, meditative attunement to the Universal Consciousness, Edgar Cayce saw us as celestial beings, temporarily incarnating terrestrially. Here are some of his readings explaining this view.
Reading 136-83
…as [the entity] moves from sphere to sphere, seeks its way to the home, to the face of the Creator, the Father, the first cause…
Reading 5753-1
…[the goal is] that the created would be the companion for the Creator; that…[the entity seeks to] show itself to be not only worthy of, but companionable to, the Creator.
Reading 136-83
…self is lost in that of attaining for itself the nearer and nearer approach that buildeth in manifested form, whether in the Pleiades, Arcturus, Gemini, or in earth, in…Vulcan, or in Neptune…as light, a ray that does not end, lives on and on, until it becomes one in essence with the source of light.
Reading 311-2
As an entity passes on…from this present—or this solar system, this sun, these forces, it passes through the various spheres—leading first into that central force…known as Arcturus—nearer the Pleiades…on and on—through the eons of time…or space…even passing into the inner forces, inner sense, may they again—after a period of nearly ten thousand years…enter into the earth to make manifest those forces gained in its passage. In entering it [the entity] takes on those forms that may be known in the dimensions of that plane which it occupies, there being not only three dimensions—as of the earth—but there may be as seven, in Mercury—or four, in Venus—or five, as in Jupiter. There may be only one as Mars. There may be many more as in those of Neptune, or they may become even as nil—until purified in Saturn's fires.
Reading 5749-14
(Q) Can oneness be attained…on any system, or must it be in a particular one?
(A) Depending upon what system the entity has entered, to be sure. It may be completed in any of the many systems.
(Q) Must the solar cycle be finished on earth, or can it be completed on another planet, or does each planet have a cycle of its own which must be finished?
(A) If it is begun on the earth it must be finished on the earth. The solar system of which the earth is a part is only a portion of the whole. For, as indicated in the number of planets about the earth, they are of one and the same—and they are relative one to another. It is the cycle of the whole system that is finished, see?
Reading 311-2
The common…theory that incarnation into the earth plane is the only source of incarnation or appearance is erroneous, you see…when…a soul—enters in . . . this . . . present solar system's forces, the contacts or the relative relationships bear out the cycles of appearances in the various spheres of development; as in Mercury—the mental life, its relative position to . . . this solar system's center, making for those radiations in those forms…which represents mental in its greater aspect. Then, as in Venus…[the development is] more in the form of love. In Mars and its radial effect or position about the solar center…make for those…known as vengeance, wrath, madness, and such; and can one but know that each thought, each act, is that being builded…As in earth—we have that position in which matter takes all its various forms of presentation of a given energy, or force, as radiated from the various effects of this solar aspect, and take on bodily form, occupying a position of, as it were, three in one—or all force in this sphere taking on that appearance of that known as threefold…As in Jupiter—taking on those ennobling forces, whether they be from earth, from Venus, from Mercury, from Mars, they are broadened, they are changed in their aspects, in their forms, as they are taken on in and about this sphere. As in Saturn—that to whom all insufficient matter is cast for its remoulding , its changing into the various spheres of its activity, either re-entering through those of the Uranian—which makes for the accentuations of very good or very bad, and making…for extraordinary conditions…
Reading 2794-3
As has been indicated by some, ye are part and parcel of a universal consciousness or God—and thus all that is within the universal consciousness, or the universal awareness; as the stars, the planets, the sun, the moon. Do ye rule them or they rule thee? They were made for thy own use, as an individual—yea, that is the part [they play], the thought thy Maker, thy Father-God thinks of thee. For ye are as a corpuscle in the body of God; thus a co-creator with Him, in what ye think, in what ye do.
Reading 5757-1
When the heavens and the earth came into being, this meant the universe as the inhabitants of the earth know same; yet there are many suns in the universe—those even about which our sun, our earth, revolve; and all are moving toward some place—yet space and time appear to be incomplete.
Then time and space are but one. Yet the sun, that is the center of this particular solar system, is the center; and, as has been…known of old, it [the sun] is that about which the earth and its companion planets circulate, or evolve [revolve?].
The beginnings of the understanding of these [facts], and their influences upon the lives of individuals, were either thought out, evolved or interpreted by those of old, without the means of observing same as considered today necessary in order to understand.
Astronomy is considered a science and astrology as foolishness. Who is correct? One [astrology] holds that because of the position of the earth, the sun, the planets, they are balanced one with another in some manner, some form; yet that they have nothing to do with man's life or the expanse of life, or the emotions of the physical being in the earth.
Then, why and how do the effects of the sun so influence other life in the earth and not affect man's life, man's emotions?
As the sun has been set as the ruler of this solar system, does it not appear to be reasonable that it has an effect upon the inhabitants of the earth, as well as upon plant and mineral life in the earth…
Thus as we find given, the sun and the moon and the stars were made also—this being the attempt of the writer to convey to the individual the realization that there is an influence in their activity! For, remember, they—the sun, the moon, the planets—have their marching orders from the divine, and they move in same. [Genesis 1:14: “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs…”]
Man alone is given that birthright of free will. He alone may defy his God!
Reading 5755-2
…souls projected themselves into matter [earth], and thus brought that conscious awareness of themselves entertaining the ability of creating without those forces of the spirit of truth.
Reading
