present at that time.)
EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, and that as may be given on such a subject. In many ways this would be better were it divided into two lectures. This, however, as we find, may be presented somewhat in this manner:
Atlantis as a continent is a legendary tale. Whether or not that which has been received through psychic sources has for its basis those few lines given by Plato, or the references made in Holy writ that the earth was divided, depends upon the trend of individual minds. Recently, however, the subject has taken on greater import, since some scientists have declared that such a continent was not only a reasonable and plausible matter, but from evidences being gradually gathered was a very probable condition.
As we recognize, there has been considerable given respecting such a lost continent by those channels such as the writer of Two Planets, or Atlantis—or Poseida and Lemuria—that has been published through some of the Theosophical literature. As to whether this information is true or not, depends upon the credence individuals give to this class of information.
Then, it has seemed well to many of this group, that those channels through which information may be obtained interest themselves in such an undertaking, as to gain through those channels such information that might be applicable in the lives or experiences of individuals interested in such.
From time to time, in and through the information obtained for some individuals in their life readings, has come that they, as an entity or individual, occupied some particular place, or performed some activity in some portion of that continent; or emigrated from the continent to some other portion of the earth’s surface at the time, and began some particular development. These must have been a busy folk, for with their advent into other climes (as the information runs) they began to make many changes from the activities in that particular sphere in which they entered.
Then, if we are to accept such as being a fact or fiction, may truly depend upon what value to the human family knowledge concerning such a peoples would be in the affairs of individuals today. What contribution would information be to the minds of individuals, as to knowing or understanding the better or closer relations to the Creative Forces? Or, to put it another manner, what would information of that nature mean to my soul today?
Be it true that there IS the fact of reincarnation, and that souls that once occupied such an environ are entering the earth’s sphere and inhabiting individuals in the present, is it any wonder that—if they made such alterations in the affairs of the earth in their day, as to bring destruction upon themselves—if they are entering now, they might make many changes in the affairs of peoples and individuals in the present? Are they, then, being born into the world? If so, what were their environs—and will those environs mean in a material world today?
To be continued. We are through for the present.
Editor’s Note: They attempted the second reading on Atlantis but were told that Edgar Cayce’s body was not ready to do the readings. Here is that reading.
TEXT OF READING 364-2
This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 105th St. & Ocean, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of February, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.
PRESENT
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Gray Salter, Hugh Lynn and L.B. Cayce.
READING
Time of Reading 3:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time.
GC: You will have before you the subject for the address to be given by Edgar Cayce, Feb. 19, 1932, on “The Lost Continent of Atlantis”. You will please continue in lecture form the material which he should present at that time.
EC: Until there is a cleansing of the body from that created in the present, such infinite subjects or hard are not well to be done.
(Q) What should be done to cleanse the body in the proper way?
(A) Same as has oft been given, through prayer, through meditation, through the purifying of self.
You will dismiss the suggestion regarding Atlantis. That is all for the present.
TEXT OF READING 364-3
This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 105th St. & Ocean, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of February, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.
PRESENT
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Gray Salter, Hugh Lynn and L.B. Cayce.
READING
Time of Reading 11:40 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. (Suggestion to continue information on Atlantis)
EC: Yes, we have the subject and those conditions. As has been said, much data has been received from time to time through psychic forces as respecting conditions in or through the period, or ages, of this continent’s existence. That the continent existed is being proven as a fact.
Then, what took place during the period, or periods, when it was being broken up? What became of the inhabitants? What was the character of their civilization? Are there any evidences of those, or any portion of, the inhabitants’ escape? The position of the continent, and the like, must be of interest to peoples in the present day, if either by inference that individuals are being born into the earth plane to develop in the present, or are people being guided in their spiritual interpretation of individuals’ lives or developments by the spirits of those who inhabited such a continent. In either case, if these be true, they are wielding—and are to wield—an influence upon the happenings of the present day world.
The position as the continent Atlantis occupied, is that as between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand—and the Mediterranean upon the other. Evidences of this lost civilization are to be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco on the one hand, British Honduras, Yucatan and America upon the other. There are some protruding portions within this that must have at one time or another been a portion of this great continent. The British West Indies or the Bahamas, and a portion of same that may be seen in the present—if the geological survey would be made in some of these—especially, or notably, in Bimini and in the Gulf Stream through this vicinity, these may be even yet determined.
What, then, are the character of the peoples? To give any proper conception, may we follow the line of a group, or an individual line, through this continent’s existence—and gain from same something of their character, their physiognomy, and their spiritual and physical development.
In the period, then—some hundred, some ninety-eight thousand years before the entry of Ram into India [See 364–3, Par. R2]—there lived in this land of Atlantis one Amilius [?], who had first noted that of the separations of the beings as inhabited that portion of the earth’s sphere or plane of those peoples into male and female as separate entities,
