The following reports were originally supplementary material:
THE REVELATION - Chart prepared by Helen Ellington and Gladys
Davis, based on their study of [[
281] series, Bible
Dictionary (Smith's) 1895 edition Holman & Co.] meditation,
etc. [See 281-63, Par. R1--R4.]
281-29, Par. 33-A; Rev. 7, Rdg.
10/28/36, Par. 33-A:
281-30, Par. 14-A; Rev. 7, Gen. 49, Rdg.
2/17/37, Par. 14-A:
4 Corners of the Earth (Body-Jacob) (Influences)
12 Tribes: 12 Major divisions:
SPIRITUAL (Hail-Water-Sea):
3 Attributes
Light............Zabulon...........Digestive
Soul (Love)......Joseph............Covering
Will.............Benjamin..........Bone Structure
MENTAL (Fire-Heat):
3 Attributes
Desire.............Simeon..........Organs
Choice.............Levi............Glands
Conscious..........Issachar........Membranes
HEREDITY (Air-Blood):
3 Attributes
Life (Sensation)...Aser............Lymph
Opportunity........Nepthalim.......Nerves
Power..............Manasses........Elimination
ENVIRONMENT (Earth-Physical):
3 Attributes
Preservation.......Juda..............Assimilation
(To Mental Material-Spiritual)
Perpetuation.......Reuben............Blood Circulation
(Keeping Alive)
Attraction.........Gad...............Cells
(Construction)
EXPLANATION OF ABOVE CHART
Spiritual is the life, Mind is the Builder, Physical is the
result. The body is a physical pattern of the spiritual.
Consequently, each major division of the Body must be
complete in itself. No one organ can be a major division
as it is only a result or a channel thru which the three
major divisions work; namely, Cells, Blood Circulation,
Assimilation.
Without either the Construction by Attraction of Cells, the
Keeping Alive by Perpetuation of the Blood Circulation, the
influences to the Mental Material-Spiritual by Preservation
of the Assimilation, a Physical Body could not - and would
cease to - exist. It could not Attract other Cells so as
to Perpetuate its own kind and Preserve the Mental-Spiritual
Influences inherited from the beginning, and thus rise to the
next step - the Power of overcoming, through Elimination of
the dross.
When reaching that Power, all the Nerves of the Body become
aware of greater Opportunity to have Life. The Nervous
System gives us so many opportunities to express, to choose,
Life. Without the Nerves everything would be sort of Dead.
(See Dan, the Serpent - left out of the 12 tribes because
he represents Death; and through rising to the Power and the
Opportunity of Life we do not find Death as an Attribute of
the Body. The Serpent-Satan cannot express in flesh save
through the Environment we give him.)
Lymph means "water". Water means spirit, that from which all
things sprang. Consequently, Lymph means Life - we have just
come to the realization that our heritage is Life eternal.
(An interesting point here is that the Lymph vessels with the
lacteals form the absorbent system for Assimilated fats, and
it is the only channel of assimilation that does not empty
into the liver. Remember, the liver, and kidneys are the
positive and negative poles of the Physical Body.)
Consequently, we rise to the MENTAL influence, realizing
that Mind is the Builder and we must do something about it;
hence our conscience becomes Active. Conscience is the
nearest dwelling place in our bodies of the holy of holies,
the spirit of the Master. Thus it must be represented in
the Physical by the Membranes that are skin-like tissue
covering parts of the body, lining cavities and canals which
communicate with the external air, lining cavities which have
no external communication. (It is interesting to note here
that if a certain kind of membrane fluid is secreted in
excess, one has a dropsical "water" condition. Probably
one dries up and dies if there is too little secretion.)
Then, having been pricked by Conscience, one has a Choice
to make through the seven spiritual centers, the 7 glands
about which so little is known in the Physical. (See chart
of the 7 Churches, and Rev. 1 to 7.)
We can choose to express through the Glands and open the
7 spiritual centers, or we can Choose to leave them closed
and just be Physical. We are always making the Choice,
consciously or unconsciously.
Choice is governed greatly by Desire; and Desire would
attract Organs through which to function in the Physical
Body. It was Desire that caused man to come into a Physical
Body, and the Organs have to function in order to manifest
or express Desire.
Choosing and Desiring then to go upward toward our Source,
we come to the SPIRITUAL Influence, with its Attributes.
In order to attain stability and be able to STAND in the
presence of the Most High, we must exercise Will; that
factor which can make us strong, positive, and upright.
Consequently, we have selected Bone Structure as the
representation in the Physical for such a strong Attribute.
The Soul could not express very well in the earth without
a Covering; so it gradually took onto itself a Physical Body.
Hence in the present Body our Soul shines through or is
expressed through our outer Covering. (See similarity
here to our MENTAL Attribute of Conscience, represented
in the skin-like Coverings called membranes.)
The highest SPIRITUAL Attribute is Light. The first creation
was Light. If our Soul continues to follow the light, we
will get back to our Source. The first thing a Body does
when it is born into Light (Physical) is to start Digesting.
Consequently, we have put the Digestive System as the
representation of Light in the Physical Body. We must
properly Digest all the Attributes; that is, spiritualize
them, and return them to their Source in Spirit. Then we
each will be as a complete Cell (Corpuscle) in the Body of
God (Spirit), throbbing, pulsing, CREATING, CO-WORKING with
the Whole, yet realizing ourselves to be INDIVIDUAL.
So, before Creation there was Spirit. The Spirit comes down
through Influences, through the Attributes, into the Physical
Body; and returns, starting from the Cells, to build through
the Physical to the Spirit again. With this picture we see
exactly what was meant in Group #1 Reading on Spirit when
it said Spirit was the beginning and the end of all steps
for a soul's development, in the earth. Also we understand
the Spirit of Jesus Christ saying in the vision to John, "I
am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the first and
the last."
Notice the SPIRITUAL Attribute of Soul being represented
in the Physical by the Tribe of Joseph, who became Jesus,
the Christ. The meaning of the name Joseph is "he will
increase", and he is the purest character known to history
except Jesus. Read the story of Joseph and his brothers
with the Chart in mind, fitting each one into his place.
Notice how closely allied with Benjamin the brother Joseph
is, and how beloved Benjamin is. The Soul without the Will
would be lost indeed. Joseph was the eleventh son of Jacob
(Body) but the first son of Rachel. Probably this means
something, and also Rachel - which we have to figure out.
Benjamin (fortune) was the twelfth son of Jacob (Body) and
the second son of Rachel. There's the weakness and the
strength in the 2. The Soul and Will united makes the Triune
of strength. Benjamin had the affection of his brothers, and
received their favors as a matter of course, and was not very
positive, but a quiet, gentle spirit. The Will without the
Soul couldn't do very much. The TRIBE of Benjamin was always
of least consequence. The tribe was almost destroyed for
violating the rights of hospitality (Judg. XIX, 20), 600 only
escaping to the rock Rimmon - which they held for four months
against their enemies (Judg. XX, 47). The Benjamites seized
the "daughters of Shiloh" and preserved a tribe from
extinction (Judg. XXL, 19) "at an annual feast of the Lord."
The first deliverer of Israel (from Moab) in the time of the
judges, was Ehud, a Benjamite. The first king of Israel was
Saul, a Benjamite; and Saul (Paul), the apostle, was also of
this tribe. It is interesting to note also that in Jerusalem
(temple body) there is a Gate called Benjamin.
Also it is interesting to notice that when Jacob (body)
blesses or gives the message to his sons, he calls them
in order of their birth: but in Revelation, according to
the Spirit, they are given their place according to spiritual
merit.
Simeon and Levi, being Desire and Choice, must certainly be
closely united. Simeon (harkening) and Levi (to adhere)
killed a whole tribe because of wrong they considered done
to their only sister, Dinah (Gen. 34).
Here it might be worth while to note that there are 12
Openings in the Body of Man, and 13 in the Body of Woman.
Perhaps this Dinah (acquitted) has some reference to
"Daughters of Men" and the Desire and Choice which caused
so much trouble in the beginning. Nothing is recorded as to
what became of Dinah. She was a 13th child of Jacob (Body) -
the only daughter.
Simeon was the 2nd son of Jacob (Body). Here's the weakness
of 2 again, and only becomes strong with the Choice added
to Desire. The only great name of the tribe on record is
the widow Judith, the heroine of the apochryphal Book of
Judith, where she appears as an ideal type of piety, beauty,
courage and chastity. There were 18 cities given to Simeon,
including the famous well of Beersheba. A part of the tribe
(500 men) took possession of a district in Mount Seir, where
they were still living after the return from the Captivity
(I Chr. IV 42, 43).
Levi, 3rd son of Jacob. Levi's descendants, among whom were
Moses and Aaron, were made the ministers of religion and the
representatives of the national faith. Jacob prophesied
that Levi should be scattered among his brothers, which
was fulfilled in the distribution of the tribe among the
48 Levitical cities, which were scattered throughout the
whole country. The tribe displaced the earlier priesthood
of the first-born as representatives of the holiness of the
people. They guarded the ark, and were reckoned separately
as the host (of the Lord), and were not counted in the army.
(See GLANDS under this in Chart - spiritual centers). Their
special duties were the daily sacrifice, and the work about
the tabernacle (and Temple), in a certain appointed order
(Num. III, IV, VII). (See division in Bible Dictionary
of the tribe into 3 separate branches according to their
functions (Ex. VI 16-25). So MUCH is given about this tribe
that seems to have a peculiar significance to the
Body-Physical-Spiritual, and Jacob's saying "I will divide
them in Jacob (body), and scatter them in Israel (seekers)."
Issachar (hire), 9th son of Jacob, 5th son of Leah. He
is not mentioned again as a person, only as a tribe.
(Interesting, considering this to be Conscience.) Its
land was and is now the richest in Palestine. We are
left to suppose that the tribe fell into idolatry, because
there is nothing recorded in favor of its religious history.
In the order of march in the desert, Issachar's place was
on the east of the tabernacle, with Juda and Zabulon. Notice
"A strong-boned he-ass, couching down between two hedgerows,"
apparently the missing link - or connecting link - between
the Preservation of the Physical (Juda) and the Light of the
Spiritual (Zabulon). Since Conscience is not very tangible
in the Physical Body, it is easy to see why the tribe
apparently passed out of existence.
Aser, 8th son of Jacob, 4th son of Bilhah. The boundaries
of the tribe are extremely difficult to trace. (Imagine
trying to trace life in a Physical Body, or measure the
8th step - after the 7th gland-seal is opened.) It is only
known that the boundaries were N. of Carmel (Park - fruitful
field), on the Great Sea (7 glandular centers leading to
Spiritual). Notice the description in anatomy as to how the
lymph ducts carry the "water" of the blood. The land (tribe
of Aser) contained some of the richest soil in Palestine,
and minerals. Anna, who lived in the temple, watching for
the coming of Christ was of this tribe.
Nepthalim (wrestled), 5th son of Jacob, 2nd of Bilhah.
There is not a word said about him personally in the
Scriptures. See Exodus, Twelve Tribes. Evidently Nepthalim
used his Opportunity to become all "Nerves", that is,
"Impulses", instead of actualities or personal recognition.
Notice, "Nepthali IS a hind let loose; he giveth goodly
words." Jesus said, "Father, thy word is truth." So perhaps
the Nerves give the words of truth the Opportunity to
register and be carried to all parts of the Body.
Manasses: There is no reason given for depriving Manasseh
of his birthright, as there was in the case of his
granduncle Esau. On leaving Egypt at the Exodus this was the
least of the 12 tribes, but later increased so that he is
honored with a first mention before Ephraim. The division
of the tribe is one of the singular facts in the history
of the Israelites (seekers) and seems to be at variance with
the national feeling and laws. Some of this tribe were
warriors and made extensive conquests. There is no account
of this tribe separate from Ephraim, and it is likely that
the two neighbors were spoken of as one people. It is
interesting here to note that we have Manasses corresponding
with Elimination in the Body; and evidently Manasses takes
the place of Dan (Satan-Death), Eliminates Death and becomes
Powerful.
It is also interesting here to notice that Ephraim was given
the birthright, yet Manasses is one of the 12 divisions of
the body mentioned in Rev. Consequently, Ephraim must have
to do with that 13th element again, or the Opening of the
Woman - which becomes so necessary to the tribe of Manasses,
in order to become Powerful through united strength to
Eliminate Satan (Dan Serpent), or to undo the harm caused
when "the Sons of God looked upon the Daughters of Men.",
etc. Consequently, Woman spiritualized - as in Mary, the
Mother of the Lord - gives Power to man and strength to
overcome.
Ephraim means "double fruitfulness"; he was the 2nd son of
Joseph by his wife Asenath. Again the weakness of 2 unless
made strong in the Triune. Joshua the son of Nun was of the
tribe of Ephraim. Joseph disliked the idea of Jacob blessing
Ephraim above his older brother Manasseh, yet Joseph himself
chose the tribe of Ephraim for his channel of reappearance
as Joshua. There was the earthly Power objecting to the
spiritual Power; or man saying "Let me sit on the right
hand," etc., not realizing yet it has to be merited. The
portion of Ephraim in Canaan (lower country, bowed down)
was elevated hilly, and having the plain of Sharon, a narrow
strip on the West, Esdraelon on the North, and the Jordan
valley on the East, in the center of the country. It was
55 miles from E. to W. and 70 miles from N. to S. The whole
was called Mt. Ephraim. It had the "precious things of the
earth, and the fullness thereof," as blessed by Moses. The
finest and most fruitful of all the land. Afterward called
Samaria. Its wealth and importance were increased by the
presence of the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle at
Shiloh within its borders. The people were jealous, and at
enmity with the tribe of Judah from the time of David. If
this does mean the Woman, can't you see the jealousy and
warring with Juda through the gradual giving away of the
Power into the hands of Juda for the Preservation? Very few
attempts to conquer Ephraim were ever made, and Shalmaneser
(see explanation below) only succeeded through the internal
divisions of the kingdom of Samaria (watch mountain).
Samaria is mentioned along with Shechem. (See Shechem
Samaria).
Shalmaneser [Ahlmaneser] (reverential towards fire), King of
Assyria, took Samaria after a siege of 3 years, and carried
Hoshea captive beyond the Euphrates, ending the kingdom of
Israel. Notice the Fire under the MENTAL Influence. When
Samaria (city on a hill, watch-mountain) is overcome, we rise
to the MENTAL Influence with its attributes and are able to
conquer the 12 major divisions of the body (12 tribes)
through MIND over Matter.
Judah (praise Jehovah), 4th son of Jacob by Leah (see 4
influences to body of man from his Source throughout). Judah
was a leader in family matters from his youth up, and more is
known of him than any other save Joseph. Reuben advised the
brothers to throw Joseph into a pit, and Judah proposed the
sale to the traders, both acting honorably to themselves,
wishing to save the life of Joseph (Preservation, you see).
Judah went before Jacob (Body) into Egypt (mystery). In the
beginning the Soul has to Assimilate before it could build
up a Body. Jacob (Body) honors Judah (Preservation) first
in his blessings. It was from the line of Judah and Tamar
that Jesus came. Here again we see a Woman playing such an
important part in the PRESERVING of the strain. See Gen. 38.
Nothing is given as to where Tamar came from, or from what
family; yet what she did was counted to her for
righteousness.
Reuben (behold, a son), 1st son of Jacob and Leah. The
tribe of Reuben was located, at their own request, on the
East side of Jordan, and against the wishes of Moses. (Num.
XXXII, 19.) Notice Jordan means "the descender", the
watering place; largest river in Palestine. Notice how
Perpetuation and Blood Circulation fit in with this, when
we consider that the Blood in the Physical is the pattern
of Water in the Spiritual - that from whence all comes. The
children of Israel passed over Jordan, and were Perpetuated.
Gad (troop), Jacob's 7th son, 1st born of Zilpah [Ailpah],
brother to Aser (Life). The country given to the tribe was
the center of the east of Jordan (Notice Reuben's choice,
above). The most beautiful district in Syria (high); a high
range of purple tinted mountains, cut down by deep ravines,
partially clothed with forests of oak, sycamores, beech,
figs, evergreen shrubs, etc. The climate is fine and soil
fertile, affording the best pasturage. Notice the similarity
between the location of Gad in the "center" and the glands
of reproduction in the Body - the seat of the "tree of life",
the Opportunity to retrace one's steps through Attracting
and Constructing Spiritual Cells that will overcome the
"troop" that has been Attracted by undesirables or
non-essentials throughout the ages. It is noteworthy that
the tribe of Gad was carried into captivity, and its cities
inhabited by Ammonites (sons of my relatives). The Ammonites
were descended from Lot. Women of the Ammonites were in
Solomon's house. The last mention of them is in 1 Macc v 6
30-43. Solomon means wisdom. So with Wisdom we will start
spiritualizing our Cells and by the law of Attraction return
to that from whence we came.
Zabulon is the Light [ZAB'ULON. Gr. form of ZEBULUN (Matthew
IV:13)], the haven in the Sea (Spiritual), from which we
first began to Digest outside things and add all these
Attributes. "Zabulon shall dwell at the haven of the sea;
and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall
be unto Zidon." Zidon means "fishing". The Jews never
conquered the city, and so far failed of the promise. It
is one great garden, filled with every kind of fruit-bearing
trees, nourished by streams from Lebanon (white) - the white
mountains of Palestine, on the north of the country given to
the Israelites. Zabulon means "dwelling"; it is a city
without foundation, a house not made with hands, whose Maker
and Finisher is God.
See Mat. 4:
13-14; Reading #
1462-1 - Gates of Zubar [?] in
Temple Beautiful, Temple of Sacrifice in Egypt; later became
in other languages known as Zebulun. The LIGHT of those
activities made for greater purifying, enlightenment, in
other lands.
See Text of Reading #281-63,
3/06/43, which precedes this.
GD's notes: Information historically on the 12 Tribes was
taken from Smith's Bible Dictionary, A. J. Holman & Co.,
entered in the Office of the Library of Congress, at
Washington, in the year 1878.
See 281-63 Reports, Par. R6 below for GD's answer to a
question about the source of this chart.
8/09/79 GD's note: A question was just now handed to me by
Adelaide Crockett, A.R.E. Librarian, from Eleanor Giesse who
is attending this 8/5-10/79 Conference Week: [1416 North
Ave., Parma, Ohio 44134.]
(Q) Re Chart prepared by Gladys D. Turner and Helen
Ellington, p. 38 in Revelation book, what are the Cayce
readings numbers as sources for this chart? Or how put
together?
(A) In 281-63, Par. 4-A on
3/06/43, Edgar Cayce was asked
to comment on the chart, to give corrections and value of
it as a key to the study of the Book of Revelation in
relation to the human body. Without this question and Edgar
Cayce's answer to it, the chart would never have been
included as a Report to 281-63. Helen Ellington and Gladys
Davis had been studying and meditating to get their own
revelation of The Revelation, as each member of the group
was told to do. As you know, this group had obtained the
[
262] series on SFG, the [
281] series on prayer and healing,
on The Revelation, and on the glands. We were now at the
point of trying to get our own revelation, especially as
to the twelve major divisions of the body. [The 12 Tribes
paraphrasing in the chart was taken from Smith's Bible
Dictionary, 1895 edition, Holman & Co.] I spent the night
with Mrs. Ellington and we sat up until three in the morning
with ideas or flashes flowing back and forth between us.
That's how this "chart" was born. Ruth Denney had
subsequently worked with Helen Ellington on the "chart" and
she (Ruth Denny) was the one responsible for asking
Mr. Cayce for 281-63; she prepared and submitted Par. 4-A
through 19-A. Not all members of the group were present.
