This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of Nov., 1939, in accordance with request made by the Glad Helpers Prayer Group of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Florence Edmonds, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Frances Y. Morrow, Helen Ellington, Thomas Sugrue, Hugh Lynn Cayce and Burt Davis.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the psychic work of Edgar Cayce, present in this room, as related to the Prayer Group, or Glad Helpers, members of which are present in this room; especially as this work may be influenced by the activities of members of this group in the Egyptian period that has been indicated through this channel. You will tell us if this IS related; if so, how? and give us instructions as to how we may best carry on this work at the present time. You will answer any questions that may be asked in regard to same:
2. EC: Yes, we have the work, - psychic work of Edgar Cayce, as called in the present; together with the work of the Glad Helpers, or Prayer Group, in the present.
3. This as we find IS related. As to how, and the manners in which activities through that experience may affect individuals, or the psychic work as attempted in the organized manner in the present, would become rather individual problems.
4. For, each through that individual experience passed through, and acted in accord with, those influences as were brought to bear during that particular sojourn.
5. Many sojourns through the material activities in the earth have altered the purpose, the desire of the individuals; yet - as may be indicated in material environs in the present - when an individual experience is aroused in an individual (though it may be a latent consciousness) it becomes an influence, especially in the activities of those in a GROUP force or power.
6. These, then, may be given as an indication of what were the activities of some, or part, or all of the group here; some that are here present in person as individuals, some that are present in their influence or power (or, as ye would say, spiritually), others through desire in varied forms or manners of expression.
7. Then, if it is practical to put activities of that period in the present day language, or words, - let's give a review of the happenings of that period; what was attempted, what was accomplished, and what influence that had upon the souls - or the entities - of individuals who may be influenced, or who are working with this group, thru such information as may be supplied through this channel in the present:
8. Here we find, first, an individual with a desire, a purpose, - not for exploiting people, or individuals, or souls, but to build an influence within the experience of individuals in material life.
9. This Priest was not merely the director of the spiritual counsel of that body of people who entered Egypt, but of that activity in which ALL phases of man's endeavor were, in the experience, being acted upon.
10. What was the knowledge, the motivating force in the experience of that individual? Was he a prophet sent, as ye look upon the teachers through the various eras or ages of man's endeavor? Or was he an individual with an idea that grew, under the law, into an ideal?
11. In interpreting this we will find many questions, that may have oft disturbed many, may be answered as respecting those groups, those individuals who may be even in the remotest sense interested at present in the psychic work of the man called Cayce.
12. The Priest was an individual who had received inspiration from within. And, realizing that such an influence or force might be given to others in their search for WHY and WHAT were their purposes in material life, he then sought out one who might foster such a study in materiality.
13. Thus, from those places that were a portion of what is now called the Carpathias, he came with a great horde, or a great number (as to individual souls, numbering nine hundred), into the land now called Egypt.
14. WHY Egypt? This had been determined by that leader or teacher (not physical leader, but spiritual interpreter or guide) as the center of the universal activities of nature, as well as the spiritual forces, and where there might be the least disturbance by the convulsive movements which came about in the earth through the destruction of Lemuria, Atlantis, and - in later periods - the flood.
15. What were the factors, ye ask, which determined this in his mind? or from what concept did the entity gain that knowledge? Was it just a concept, just a revelation, just a physical analysis, or what?
16. When the lines about the earth are considered from the mathematical precisions, it will be found that the center is nigh unto where the Great Pyramid, which was begun then, is still located.
17. Then, there were the mathematical, the astrological and the numerological indications, as well as the individual urge.
18. Ye say, then, such an entity was a god! No. No, - ye only say that because there is the misunderstanding of what were the characters or types of spiritual evolution as related to PHYSICAL evolution in the earth at that period.
19. As an illustration (this merely illustrating, now): It is hard for an individual, no matter how learned he may be, to conceive of the activities that exist only three miles above the earth. Why? Because there are no faculties within the individual entity in the present CAPABLE of conceiving that which is not represented within his individual self.
20. Yea, - but the individual of that period was not so closely knit in matter. Thus the activities of the realms of relativity of force, relativity of attraction in the universe, WERE an experience of the souls manifesting in the earth at that period, see?
21. Thus we find that the experiences of individuals of the period, seeking for the understanding as to the evolution of the souls of men, might be compared to the minds of individuals in the present who are seeking an understanding as to man's use of physical or atomical structure in his own relationships.
22. Then, the individual of that experience or period was not necessarily one other than a soul or entity seeking the knowledge as to the relationship of that which would sustain and gain FOR man the abilities not only to continue the physical evolution but the spiritual or soul evolution as well.
23. Such an one, then, was Ra, - or Ra-Ta.
24. (Study this, or you won't understand it!)
25. Then, with his entrance into Egypt, with the proper place, the proper relationships with that activity, - which was indicated by the willingness of the peoples of that land, in the greater extent, to be led into those activities for the physical as well as the mental and spiritual developments of the period, - we find that there were the activities in which the King with his Council found fault with the actions of the Priest, because of the indications that there was not the adherence to that he demanded of others, in his own life or experience.
26. Then there entered what may be termed the desire of a group to IMPOSE the teachings on the people; not to teach man by experience (as was the Priest's desire - if you call him such) what relationships he must bear, in every extent and phase of his life, to his fellow man; that he may understand through same the phases of the mind, the phases of the soul.
27. Ye see it only in physical reactions. So did many of those who were in authority in Egypt.
28. Hence there came the banishment of the Priest, with the companion, as well as the many numbers of those who chose to be banished into the Abyssinian land, who were attracted by the natural intent and purpose of the Priest, - not only those of his own peoples but many of the Natives.
29. Then there followed the nine years in banishment; as well as the periods of the uprisings of the Natives in rebellion, and also those of the King's own household in the Ibex; as well as the entrance into Egypt of the peoples from the Atlantean land, which had begun the breaking up - as had been told by that entity, the Priest.
30. Here we will rest for a period.
31. We are through for the present.
    [11/08/39 See reading continued in 281-43.]

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of 281-42 - "Glad Helpers."

REPORTS

1. Reading 281-42 dated 11/01/39 continued in 281-43.

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