in the material and the moral life in the present would be questioned, yet the purposes, the aims, the desires, the activities were rather as the growth throughout that sojourn.
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In an earlier incarnation in Egypt, he had served as a doctor, utilizing the forces of nature in his healing modalities.
In the present, [699] was encouraged to apply himself in the field of electrical therapeutics. If he did so, the reading stated, he would eventually work wonders and discover how to help restore health through physical regeneration.
According to the notations on file, [699] eventually referred a number of individuals to Edgar Cayce for readings. He also wrote the Cayce Association a number times during the 1950s describing his thankfulness for having been exposed to the Cayce information. However, no follow-up vocational reports are on file. The final notation is from 1968 when [699] wrote Edgar’s son, Hugh Lynn, and stated, “I am especially grateful for my life reading and the many visits I had with him [Edgar Cayce] in Washington.”
Abner
I Samuel 14, 17, 20, 26; II Samuel 2-4; I Kings 2; I Chronicles 26, 27Case 1815
Saul was the first king of Israel. His cousin and the valiant captain of his army was Abner. A number of battles against the Philistines began to mobilize the people of Israel and strengthen Saul’s rule. However, Saul soon befriended a young musician, David, who rose in popularity with the people. As a result, Saul became increasingly jealous of the fact that the people liked someone more than himself, and he swore to have David killed. It was Abner who was forced to follow through on many of Saul’s insane demands to track down David. David was successful in always eluding Saul’s armies. After Saul eventually committed suicide, David and Abner befriended one another, and Abner swore his own allegiance to David, the new king of Israel. Unfortunately, Joab, a ruthless soldier in David’s army, had Abner ambushed and killed in revenge for an earlier battle between the two. The death brought much sadness and regret to King David.
In 1939, a woman requested a reading for herself for a physical problem and a life reading for her fifteen-year-old son in order to help him with his education and development. Trained in musical composition, the boy liked the piano and wondered about being a music teacher. His mother, however, was concerned about his material success and felt that music would not help him to be as “self-supporting” as she desired him to be.
In tracing the boy’s past lives, Cayce stated that [1815]’s love for music was due, in part, to a time during the Crusades when he was associated with those in command and often led the troops in the song of battle, inspiring them to work together for victory. That ability in the present would enable him to bring large groups of people together. Previously, at the time of the birth of Jesus, the boy had been one of the shepherds upon the hillsides of Bethlehem who had been stunned to hear the angels sing, “Glory to God in the highest—peace on earth and good will to all.” During that same incarnation he had developed his musical abilities, specifically on the harp and reed instruments. Innately, [1815] possessed the ability to use music to move people into a closer relationship with their Creator. The boy’s life as Abner had brought growth as well as retrogression:
Before that we find the entity was among those who were close to the king who was proclaimed after Saul—or a friend of, a companion of David; and raised to one in power—yet the experience became both an advancement as well as a retardment.
For the entity allowed self, and the power of self, to become as the greater influence.
The name then was Abner.
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Cayce stated that the boy’s love for music was also traceable to a prior incarnation in Egypt when he had directed song and dance in the various temples.
During the course of the reading, the boy’s mother was told that her son had a natural inclination for leadership and possessed the ability to sway great numbers of people. Wherever his life took him, he would not remain in the background but would be in the forefront. He was a natural leader and politician. The reading also stated that he was very susceptible to the opposite sex, could excel in a musical career or politics, and was extremely intuitive. Because his incarnations gave quite a variety of possible outlets in the present, Cayce stated that [1815] would be drawn to both material things and music, but that music could give him the greatest outlet for his talents.
After the reading, his mother wrote several times to thank Cayce for the information. The boy also wrote an article about his personal philosophy that was printed by the Association a short time later. It was in 1979, however, that Mr. [1815], who had become a nationally known stock market analyst (sometimes labeled a “soothsayer” for his accuracy), submitted a complete follow-up report:
I always knew who I was and where I was going from the very earliest age. Richly endowed by parents of opposite backgrounds, I got my great physical strength from my father and my artistic temperament from my mother. My father had little education, came from poverty and had to work very hard from an early age for everything he got. He gave me my drive, ambition, and the credo to always keep going and never give up. My mother gave me my great love of life, its total freedom, my deep love for music and books. Some of my earliest memories consisted of the two of us sitting out under the stars at night, my asking her at the age of four as to people living on other planets. She taught me to play piano when I was three. We had a very extensive library and I always had my nose in a book. As for the piano, I had a great talent for improvisation. It has never left me. That talent was extended to describe everything I do. I have always been the maverick, the iconoclast, the breaker of accepted images. Everything I touched led to new contributions of thought, new theories—always the pioneer.
In 1941, at the age of seventeen, [1815] published his first book. While attending Duke University he developed a keen interest in chemistry and economics. Although he married briefly in 1944, before being called to serve in World War II, the marriage was annulled after the war. During the war he also wrote a book on predicting the price of the stock market; the book went through a number of editions and became a big success. He also wrote other volumes on the market and investments and created a self-published newsletter in 1950 because of his knack for predicting market fluctuations. That newsletter would eventually include subscribers throughout the country.
His talents were in many directions: writing, public speaking, acting, music, mathematics, and statistical analysis. His success with the market and his investment strategies caused him to become so well known that Mike Wallace once interviewed him in an hourlong CBS television special. In a copy of his market letter in 1980, [1815] wrote about his early experience with Edgar Cayce and stated: “Everything in that life reading has been dramatically fulfilled.”
Achlar
Matthew 2Case 1908
According to the New Testament, Wise Men journeyed from the East following a star which they believed heralded the birth of the Christ child. King Herod had heard of them and summoned them to his court, requesting that once the child was discovered they tell him where the infant might be found. The Wise Men continued their journey to Bethlehem, found the babe, and offered gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Afterward, they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod; therefore, they traveled back to their country by another route. Although they were not specifically named in the Bible, Edgar Cayce gave two individuals life readings and stated that each had been one of the Wise Men: Achlar and Ashtueil. (See also “Ashtueil.”)
A forty-nine-year-old science editor was told that his critical mind had become a fault as often as it was a virtue.
