in using and in applying and associating same with your activities in that experience, and that manner in which you may use same in the present:
“So attune yourselves that you may harken, not as to an experience only; but rather live and be the experience in the hearts of those that are seeking to find their way; whether in the troubles of the body, of the mind, or whether they are lost among those turmoils of the cry, ‘This way—That way—Here and there.’ Be the experience to someone to light their lives, their bodies, their minds to your living Lord, your brother, the Christ! For He has promised in His words in your own heart, that keeps the hope, that keeps the fires of your own heart aflame, ‘You finding me may know the joy of the Lord.’
“As many of you served in the temples, as many experienced those purifications for an active service among their fellow man in an individual experience, so may you purify your minds and your bodies, or purify your bodies that your mind may put on Christ, the garments of a living Lord, that you may be not as ones stumbling, as ones fearful of this or that, but sure and certain in the joys of a risen Lord; that indeed your body in its expressions may be the Temple Beautiful for your living Lord.
“He your brother, your Christ, hath given that God is God of the living way! He is Life! He is Love. He is Beauty. He is Harmony. He is Music. He is the rhythm of the body in dance that is a service to your God. Though others make slight of your manner of speech, of your body, of your walks, of your ways, hold fast to Him; grudging no one, loving all. For as given, in your preparation, in the indication and the vindication in your service in those ancient temples, self is lost in the love of your fellow man through the joy of the Lord in you.”
At the end of this reading on the temples, he was asked a series of questions and the answers were quite revealing.
“Q: In which temple was I most active? What were my activities in same?
“A: This depends upon the periods in which this may be considered. In the early portion of the activities of the entity, it was in the Temple of Sacrifice or of purification. In the latter portion, when there had been those cleansings of the feet in your own service there, then the activities were in the Temple Beautiful; as a guard to those as they proceeded from one symbol to another in their journey about the Temple.
“Here it may be well that there be given a concept of what is meant by the journey, or what journey is meant. The globe within the pyramid was in the form of the ova, or the egg in its ovate form. From station to station in the seven phases or seals or stands or places of the activities, they were such as to make each station lead from one to another by ever crossing the one; making the continued web.” Here we may have an answer to the flower of life symbol. It appears like a web yet has distinct points.
Continuing with the interesting Q & A from other members of this group receiving this psychic reading:
“Q: What part did I take in services in the Temple Beautiful?
“A: The announcer with the cymbal and horn.
“Q: Please give me the information as to whether or not I was in the Temple Beautiful. If so, please give that service which I rendered.
“A: An observer of those seals wherein the effects of the sojourns in the varied activities were to be seen, or the effects from the planetary sojourn. Hence a keeper of seals there. Interest in astrology, astronomy, arises from same.
“Q: Was I in the Temple Beautiful and what part did I take in the services?
“A: In the station where your weakness now appears. Take this home with you and find what you must do!
“Q: Was I also in the temple? What did I do?
“A: The priestess.
“Q: Was I?
“A: In the records of that given for each in the journey out of the Temple to material application. Or, to put in the parlance of today, a secretary to the stations.
“Q: I would appreciate as much information concerning the Temple Beautiful as would be of help to me. I have a great inner urge to know more about this Temple and its purpose to man at this time. Does this Temple not have a close connection with Destiny? If so, please give.
“A: As the entity was the prophetess to those, it would make the indication to the entity of a definite association or connection with destinies. But Destiny, as you have studied and as you have learned is: ‘God hath not willed that any soul should perish but hath with each temptation provided a way of approach.’ Hence man with his free will makes for whether the body is as the temple of the living God or the Temple Beautiful, with its various stations as represented in the various phases of His experience; as is shown in the body itself in all of those urges as arise through emotions, through mind, through association, through purifying, through consecration, through determination, through knowledge, through the attributes that become a portion of same.
“As you have seen in that you have given, may give, that led the many, that opened the way to many, it, the temple, your temple, your body, your mind, your portion of the God-Consciousness may be aroused and awakened to the abilities within self to assist in those becoming aware of the necessity of arousing to the destinies of the body, the mind, the soul.
“Q: May I have a message bearing upon that period of time in the Temple Beautiful that may be helpful to me in this experience?
“A: You in your office ever was as the one that tended, gathered, comforted those as they passed from station or phase or experience. In encouraging, in comforting, know that you in your service now may give that encouraging word, that aid, that comfort, by the touch of your hand, by the sound of your voice, by the sureness of your purpose, by the centralizing of your ideals in Him.
“Q: Did I take part in the services in the Temple Beautiful?
“A: In bringing others to their activities there, in aiding those that faltered or made for aggrandizement of self, after their initiation. So, within and without, and in the present as you rise at times to those heights sublime in your visions of peace and harmony, you may bring help to the experience of a soul that is scared, fearful, lacking, or disturbed. So have you seen, and so do you see those things that make for the faltering steps, bringing help to the maimed in the experiences of those that have—as it were—taken hold and yet faltered. Keep your faith.”
So effective were the procedures and processes in these temples that the sex queen of the Atlanteans, spoken of in the first chapter, experienced a complete 180° turnaround from her lustful ways to a higher calling and service in spiritual-mental activities for the betterment of herself and those around her! We can imagine how difficult it would have been for her to subdue the deeply set habit patterns she had built from her earlier sexual activities. Cayce’s readings explain that the mystical altar fires used in these ancient Egyptian temples to cleanse earthy energies, patterns, and desires from the soul’s body, mind, and heart were very potent. If a soul was truly determined to rid itself of these, then all could be cleansed completely. Cayce said that the previous sex queen found new, uplifting vibrations and consciousness in “operatic airs, the folklore music, and the hymns and psalms.” In this present incarnation he encouraged her to get involved in chorus and to write stories and songs. Curiously, when he finished giving this reading for the one-time queen of sex orgies in Egypt—the Egypt in which he was high priest—he awoke feeling terrible, all upset, and didn’t regain his equilibrium until the next day! He must have relived the
