a minister’s responsibility, but thine. Don’t put it off. Don’t neglect, or else ye will meet self again.
4087-1
Throughout the reading, Cayce reminded the parents of their important obligation in their son’s upbringing and also encouraged them to give their child a love of spirituality and recommending specific biblical passages that would be useful in his training.
The only note on file states that [4087]’s parents went through a period of marital difficulties. No additional follow-up reports are available.
Andrew
Matthew 4:18-22, 10:1-4; Mark 1:16-21, 29; 3:14-19, 13:3-37; Luke 6:13-16; John 1:39-51, 6:1-15, 12:21-32; Acts 1:12-14Case 341
Patron saint of Scotland, Andrew is best known for having been chosen as the first of Jesus’ twelve apostles. The brother of Simon Peter and the son of John of Bethsaida, Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist from whom he first heard about Jesus. A fisherman by trade, he brought Jesus to the attention of his brother, Simon Peter, and the two were told, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Andrew was also the individual who brought the young boy with the loaves and fishes to Jesus when the five thousand who had come to hear Jesus speak grew hungry. The loaves and the fishes provided the materials with which Jesus performed a miracle and fed the five thousand their fill. Tradition holds that Andrew was martyred in Greece.
In 1923, parents of a sixteen-year-old student obtained the first life reading for their son. They were told that their son had many talents and could excel as a writer, a historian, an orator, or one whose field of study would lie in the direction of things of a spiritual nature. Extremely intelligent, their son had past-life experiences as a monk, as a warrior during the Crusades, in ancient Egypt as a Pharaoh, and in Palestine as Andrew, one of the original disciples. Later readings would state that the lifetimes in Palestine and Egypt would hold the greatest influence in the boy’s present experience.
Several years after his first life reading, [341] requested an additional reading to provide further information on his incarnation as Andrew. That reading stated, in part:
This experience then, especially in that physical body known as Andrew, we find the entity then the second brother in a family of four, and in the early childhood one willful in many ways, taking up the physical vocation of the parents and brother, and in the days when John [the Baptist] began to teach in the wilderness, the entity, the body (physical), Andrew, became first an adherent and a disciple of that teacher, and remained close as an aide, from first conviction, until the appearance of Jesus to become the disciple of the entity’s master. When pointed out by John as the one that should be greater, and increase as he decreased, Andrew then followed the new leader into the wilderness, and was close with Him during the temptation, as is recorded by Matthew, and when the return to the seashore, sought out the brother [Peter], telling of those ideas, ideals, as were propounded by Him who had been pointed out, and became the close disciple then of the Teacher and Master, following close throughout the whole physical career of the Master; not as the chosen three, yet one as is given often the greater physical conditions to do and to carry out. One often spoken to for the reference to others, and this is particularly seen, especially, upon two occasions: In the feeding of the multitudes in the entrance to the city for the evening lodgement to keep the Passover. In the entering into the Garden on the last evening …
After the dispersing of the followers when persecutions came, the entity, Andrew, then went into Mesopotamia, and those countries where the entity felt that the learning of the Master was obtained, during the early education of the Master, and the travels of the Master, see?
Then, the entity remained true to that teaching, and brought many to the knowledge of God that is within every human physical being that seeks to know how same manifests through the individual.
341-19
Literally hundreds of pages of follow-up reports and file notations make this one of the most extensive cases documented in the Cayce files. After attending Washington and Lee University and working as a librarian, [341] became manager of a psychical and spiritual research organization. Married in his thirties, he and his wife had a small son before he was called to serve in the military during World War II. After the war, he resumed his duties as manager of a research organization. Eventually, he and his wife had another son.
Because of his speaking abilities and his love for church work, he was made a church deacon in 1947 and would serve as a guest speaker in many churches throughout the rest of his life. In addition to his work as manager of the research organization, he did extensive lecture work throughout the country during the 1950s through the 1970s. At the same time, he was very active in his community, in his church, and as a leader in the Boy Scouts.
Because of his involvement with psychic ability, by the 1960s he had become a leading figure in the field of parapsychology. His lecture engagements expanded to become international in scope, and in 1964 his first book regarding parapsychology and the unconscious was published. That same year he was chosen as the leading citizen in his city. His work in lecturing, writing, speaking, and managing the research association continued until his death in 1982.
Anna
Luke 2:36-38Case 15211
Mentioned in the New Testament, Anna is regarded as a saintly woman who was married for only seven years before becoming a widow for the next seventy-seven years. Though elderly, she spent her time in the temple, praying and fasting and waiting for the coming of the Messiah. Known as a prophetess, when Mary and Joseph presented the baby Jesus at the temple, Anna announced publicly that Jesus was the Messiah and the fulfillment of all God’s promises. She thanked God that she had lived long enough to see that prophecy fulfilled.
In 1938, parents of a one-week-old baby girl were told that their daughter had been Anna. The reading stated that their child was extremely determined and would always have its own way. To their amazement, the parents were also told that in addition to Anna, their baby had lived two additional lives of notoriety: one as Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII after he divorced Catherine of Aragon and broke with the Roman Catholic Church, and the other as Hannah, mother of the prophet Samuel. (See also “Hannah.”)
Before that we find the entity was in the land and period when there were those expectancies for the coming of the Lord, the Master, the promise of those influences in the experience of men!
The entity then was the prophetess Anna, that waited in the temple and held and blessed Him in the days when there was according to the law the presenting of, the purifying of the Mother by the material and the spiritual law of the people in that experience.
The entity gained throughout that experience, though suffering in body, suffering in many of those things that arise from those activities in a materialistic world of a spiritual-minded individual given to a purpose and a cause that is in the spiritual and mental sense to be the source of redemption for the great numbers rather than the few.
1521-1
In addition to her intuition, in her incarnation in Palestine she had acquired a personal awareness of the presence of God. In ancient Egypt she had been with her present father and had assisted him in a rebellion against those in power. The parents were encouraged to develop their daughter’s spiritual interests and were told that the child’s present direction would be entirely dependent upon the guidance and upbringing she received.
Although raised in a Catholic home, her father, a writer of some reputation, had a great deal of frustration with many aspects
