Pyramids and Megaliths around the World
Chapter 17 The Pyramid Prophecy
Chapter 18 Mysterious Pyramid Texts and Magical Hymns
Chapter 19 The Seven Stages of Human Enlightenment
Stage/Age 1: “The World as the Beetle”
Stage/Age 2: “Birth as the Cockerel”
Stage/Age 3: “Mind as the Serpent”
Stage/Age 4: “Wisdom as the Hawk”
Stage/Age 5: “The Cross and the Crown”
Stage/Age 6: “The Gate, the Door”
Chapter 20 Seven Gates to the Beautiful Hidden Place
GATE 7: Forehead/Third Eye Center
Chapter 21 Egyptian Imagery: A Thousand Words in One Picture
Chapter 22 A Light Heart: Egyptian Key to Heaven
Chapter 23 Cayce and the Great Initiate
Appendix: Edgar Cayce Reading Numbers Used in this Book
Acknowledgment
The research required to write this book
could not have been accomplished without
the excellent assistance of Alison Ray—
who brought to this incarnation much of what
she learned in her ancient Egyptian lifetime.
Ann Clapp and her long-time Egypt Study Group
also contributed much to this work.
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INTRODUCTION
Edgar Cayce gave over fourteen thousand readings. They were termed “readings” because it was believed that he was reading minds, reading the Akashic records or The Book of Life, reading the so-called collective unconsciousness, and even reading God’s all-knowing mind, which he referred to as the Universal Consciousness. Of these more than fourteen thousand readings, 581 contained content about ancient Egypt. Much of this content came in the form of past-life readings for souls seeking to know what karmic influences were affecting this present incarnation. From Cayce’s perspective, reincarnation was a natural process of soul life and soul growth. Not only were souls living today that had had incarnations during ancient times, but these same souls had had sojourns in heavenly realms in-between their earthly incarnations.
In order to give one of these readings, he needed to make a transition from his normal state of consciousness into a sleep-like state (this was one of the reasons for his nickname “The Sleeping Prophet”), and then guide his deeper consciousness to a condition in which he could convey information and respond to questions. The guiding stage of his process required the assistance of a conductor, usually his wife, but occasionally others. The conductors would give him a strong, hypnotic-like suggestion when they noticed his breathing getting deeper and his eye beginning rapid-eye-movement (the REM state), an indicator that he was close to the dream state. The suggestion given changed over the years as he and his little band of helpers learned more about the process and the nature of soul life. The following are two examples (GC is Gertrude Cayce, his wife). Personal names were replaced with file numbers to provide privacy while allowing the readings to be published:
GC: You will have before you the entity, [2441], born July 23, 1905 in Kane, Penna. The entity now seeks a Mental and Spiritual Reading, with information, advice, and guidance as to making practical her spiritual, mental, and material-physical abilities. You will then answer the questions she submits, as I ask them.
GC: You will give the relation of this entity [808] and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them.
These suggestions were usually followed by a quiet pause, then the “sleeping” Cayce would respond, and his stenographer Gladys Davis Turner would take it all down in shorthand, later typing it up and storing a copy in the organization’s files. The collection of readings is now available on CD-ROM with text-search software, allowing anyone to search the whole of the Cayce work.
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