Antony’s downfall; and after Gaius Julius Caesar had conquered Egypt (leading to the suicide of both Antony and Cleopatra), he became sole ruler of the Roman Empire. He was given the name Augustus (the Exalted) by the Senate and became known as the first Roman emperor.
Augustus added new territories to the empire and, after years of fighting, managed to bring peace to the country (the Pax Romana). Considered one of the great administrative geniuses of history, he overhauled every aspect of Roman life, bringing prosperity and stability to the empire. During his rule, Augustus revived religious customs and restored a stern sense of morality to the country. As emperor, he sponsored the leading artists and writers of his time and led his empire during what has been called a golden age. After death, he became deified.
In 1936, the son-in-law of a seventy-six-year-old manufacturer convinced his father-in-law to obtain a life reading. Experiencing financial and business challenges, Mr. [1266] was the head of a large rubber company in the middle of a restructuring and takeover. Cayce began the reading by stating that [1266] had made some progress in overcoming a soul tendency to place himself above others. In a life just previous to the present, he had been named Samuel Goldenson and was very active in the cause which brought the colonies together in order to overcome British rule. In fact, Cayce stated that it was Goldenson who first uttered the statement, “taxation without representation is tyranny.” In a life in France, he had also fought against taxation by the ruling class at the expense of the common people.
Apparently these two lives had helped to balance a tremendous ego and the sense that [1266] was somehow better than others. Cayce stated that this individual had been the Roman emperor Augustus:
Before that the entity was as Caesar Augustus, who made for the great expansions of the Roman land not only for power but for the gratifying of the ego of self; and those periods when the great expansions of that land arose.
The entity then was that one who builded for that empire.
And there is felt innately in every move that those peoples of that land, that are of the Roman and not the Italian mixture, are superior in some manner or way. This is innate, and yet there is known and must be known within self that the spiritual purposes, the spiritual desires must be those that make for the greater forces that manifest in and among men.
1266-1
In Israel, Mr. [1266] had apparently served as a counselor. His talent with manufacturing and rubber had first developed in Atlantis when he became involved in the production of various products from trees. He was told that even at seventy-six he still had a work to do which was “in helping others to know their true relationships to their Maker or to the Creative Forces, and in the ways and manners of giving expressions of same toward their fellow man.” It was a statement which [1266] himself felt drawn to because he later told Mr. Cayce that one of his innate urges was to help people “find their source of power.”
Mr. [1266] died in 1955 at the age of ninety-five.
Barrington, George
1755-1844
Case 2213
He was an Irish adventurer who become famous for his abilities as a pickpocket in England. His crimes would eventually see him deported to Australia where he would become superintendent of convicts. By some accounts, he also authored several histories of his adopted Australian home.
In 1926, a woman who had experienced great difficulty raising her unmanageable sixteen-year-old stepson requested a reading. The boy’s mother had died, as had the boy’s father after his second marriage. Apparently, the boy had run away from home and gone to sea to be an adventurer. A life reading was procured and stated that the child would not return to the United States until he was middle-aged. In the past, the child had developed an innate interest in such things as the sea, mystery, and the love of many lands, firearms, and the occult. She was told that, in the past, her stepson had been the pirate, Captain Kidd. (See also “Kidd, Captain.”) One month later while discussing the life readings in general, reading 254-32 suggested that an interesting parallel could be drawn between the lives of George Barrington and Captain Kidd since they were the same soul.
Boleyn, Anne
ca. 1507-1536
Case 1521
Anne was the second wife of Henry VIII after he divorced Catherine of Aragon and broke with the Roman Catholic Church. At first, Henry was infatuated with Anne, but he lost interest after only a few years of marriage. During their marriage, Anne gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth, who would eventually become queen, as well as a stillborn son. In 1536, Henry had Anne arrested, tried for adultery, and beheaded.
In 1938, parents of a baby girl were told that their daughter had been Anne Boleyn:
Before this we find the entity was in the English land, when there were those tenets of the Church and the State that were at a period of disturbance.
During those experiences the entity then was close in the activities of those that were in authority; being in the name Anne Boleyn, or that one who lost in its attempt to hold to those forces and influences that would hold to its religion and its moral life, and to that in which it was associated in material and political affairs of the land.
1521-1
In previous lifetimes in the Holy Land, she had developed her intuition and had acquired a personal awareness of the presence of God. She had also served as a prophetess. In ancient Egypt she had been with her father and had assisted him in a rebellion against those in power. Cayce stated that her life direction in the present would be entirely dependent upon the guidance and direction she received as a child.
Although raised in a Catholic home, her father, a writer of some reputation, had a great deal of frustration with many aspects of his religion. [1521]’s parents later obtained physical readings for their daughter on a variety of childhood ailments, including an unusual amount of hair that grew across the back of the child’s neck and shoulders. As she grew to adulthood, [1521] maintained an interest in spirituality and would study both Catholicism and Judaism (her husband’s religion).
At one point, [1521] became a very successful newspaper reporter. One of the last reports on file states that she and her husband had two sons and that she had just been accepted to law school.
Brutus, Marcus Junius
ca. 85-42 B.C.
Case 1976
Brutus achieved fame for his part in the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of Julius Caesar. A skilled politician, he was admired by his contemporaries for his idealism. He loved the republic which was Rome, although he was extreme in his financial dealings with others. Philosophically opposed to assassinations, he joined the conspiracy against Caesar nonetheless in the hopes of restoring a republican government. When it became clear that the republic would remain an empire under Antony and Octavian, he committed suicide.
In 1939, just before [1976] was about to be born, the child’s father went out to a small stationery store to buy some birth announcements. While he was waiting to make his purchase, his eyes scanned a row of books. Even though he had not read more than one or two books since college, he was suddenly overcome with the desire to buy one of the volumes on the shelf. The book was The
