twenty-four-year-old man, whose family had received a number of readings, was told that he had been Barak, an incarnation in which he had excelled at being able to place his faith in God. In a lifetime just previous to the present, he had served at Fort Dearborn, Chicago, as a teacher to youth as well as a customs director. In Rome, he had served as a centurion and a director of those who collected customs. Finally, in Atlantis, he had served as an emissary to other lands.
In the present, [1710] was informed that the career best suited for his abilities lay in the fields of machinery, electronics, mechanics, and especially aeronautics as long as he remained on the ground. When the young man asked about marriage, he was told that the greatest influence would come from his incarnation in the Holy Land and that he shouldn’t contemplate marriage until he was twenty-eight or twenty-nine.
When [1710] was twenty-eight, he met and married a young woman who was told that she had been Deborah. (See also “Deborah.”) A few months after their marriage, they obtained a joint reading on their lifetime as Barak and Deborah, which stated:
As indicated there, they each had their definite activities; Deborah as the elder in the experience, and the prophetess—thus raised to a power or authority as a judge in Israel; to whom the people of the various groups, of that particular portion of Israel, went for the settling of their problems pertaining to their relationships one to another …
Then did the entity Deborah appoint or call Barak to become the leader in the armed forces against the powers of Sisera [captain of the Canaanites] …
As to the activities of Barak in those periods—there was something like some twelve years variation in the ages. Barak was also a family man, of the same tribe—though not of the same household as Deborah. Their activities, then, brought only the respect one for the other in their associations, their dealings and relationships with others.
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By working together, the reading assured the couple that they could again be helpful to others. In time, the couple would have four children.
Reports on file indicate that [1710] worked for the Martin Company and became trained on a variety of instruments involving aeronautics that were manufactured by Sperry. By 1957, he had started a successful contracting company, building roads, digging for underground utilities, and landscaping.
In 1967, [1710] died unexpectedly from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Bartimaeus
Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43Case 2124
Bartimaeus was a well-known blind man who spent his time begging along the highway at the entrance to Jericho. In spite of the crowd’s insistence that he remain silent when Jesus passed by, Bartimaeus repeatedly called out to be healed. It was because of his faith that he gained back his sight.
A fifty-four-year-old night watchman, who had previously obtained physical readings for himself and a life reading for his granddaughter, secured his own life reading in 1931. Not easily swayed by others, he was told that he had a mind of his own but managed to think first before speaking. He also had talent as a politician. His reading stated that just previous to the present lifetime, he had been an explorer and navigator from the Norse land. In ancient Egypt, he had been a builder and a politician. In Atlantis, he had also been a navigator. However, his most influential incarnation had been at the time of Jesus: “being in the name then of Bartimaeus, as walked by the way; being strong in body, yet lacking—through the activities of those with whom the body-entity then associated—in sight …” (2124-3)
Because of that lifetime, Cayce told [2124] that he maintained a deep interest in helping others with their own healing. That same year, he and his wife became a part of the first Search for God study group and the first prayer group. A year later, the couple withdrew from the Cayce work, deciding that they did not believe in reincarnation.
A file notation from 1940 states that the couple continued to speak very highly of Mr. Cayce, but still did not accept reincarnation. Mr. [2124] died in 1960 at the age of eighty-three.
Belshazzar
Daniel 5, 7:1, 8:1Case 4609
Belshazzar was the son of the mighty king, Nebuchadnezzar, and the last king of Babylon before it was overtaken by the Persians. During a banquet he was giving to a thousand members of his royal court, a mysterious hand appeared and began writing a message upon the wall. No one at the banquet could decipher the message. The prophet Daniel was summoned, who explained that because of the king’s misdeeds his reign was coming to an end and his kingdom would be divided. Belshazzar was slain by his enemies that very night.
In 1928, a thirty-nine-year-old crippled musician was told that his physical handicap was in response to his soul deciding to meet the misdeeds he had committed in his experience as Belshazzar.
In the one before this we find the entity that ruler, that king in power, when the handwriting was given that those would be measured in the balance and those found wanting would be called to reckoning. The entity then lost through that experience, and in those forces that deal with the physical application or physical result of application of abilities we find the entity meriting many of those hardships through which the present experience brings to the entity; yet with all that, the love of harmony, that of the ability to listen ever for that warning, brings much to the entity, and—applied in the present sphere—may bring the development of the entity far along the way of gaining the more perfect understanding of the unison of forces as applied in the spiritual and mental realm, and of its application to physical forces in a material plane.
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Cayce told [4609] that in spite of his handicap, he was still held in awe both physically and mentally by many others. He had much to offer. However, too often [4609] judged others and found them lacking in some degree. Rather than keeping himself aloof, he was encouraged to make many lasting friendships, one of his talents. He was also encouraged to use his creative abilities to be of service to others. In addition to his lifetime as Belshazzar, in ancient Egypt he had been the chief musician responsible for working with the vibratory forces of healing. He had also been incarnate during the earliest periods of Atlantis.
With the exception of some correspondence between [4609] and Edgar Cayce the year of his reading, no additional follow-up reports are on file.
Benaiah
II Samuel 8:18, 20:23, 23:20, 22; I Kings 1-2, 4:4; I Chronicles 11:22-24, 18:17, 27:5-6Case 2316
Benaiah was a loyal follower of David who proved himself extremely capable in military affairs, eventually becoming supreme commander of the army. His bravery was legendary. Once he even descended into a pit to do battle with a lion. He served as David’s chief bodyguard and later assumed the same responsibilities under Solomon, never hesitating to put men of questionable loyalty to death.
In 1940, the parents of a sixteen-year-old boy requested a life reading for their son. Cayce told them that their child was an “unusual personality” and had various innate urges that would influence his life’s direction. In addition to being deeply interested in mystical or psychical information, the boy had a well-developed imagination and was a gifted storyteller and writer. On the negative side, the boy was convinced that his judgment was superior to others and he also had the tendency to want to spend more money than he possessed.
Inclined to be moody and cynical, he discovered through his reading that his past lives had been quite
