This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 29th day of July, 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Edgar Cayce.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the information that has been given respecting the activities of Ra-Ta in the Egyptian experience.
2. With the completing of this resuscitation, or regeneration of the body-physical, with the return of those that had been forced or had voluntarily followed the priest into exile, with the many that had been healed or changed in the country to which they had been sent, there began then the segregations more into places, homes, and where there had only been forts or temples in the various sections - where the various character of commercial life was carried on gradually grow homes, with families, that were much in the order as may be found in the present day, save there were more than one companion in the various households. These were chosen rather as those that were able to care for, and to bring about those variations in the temperamental forces that were developed during this DEVELOPING period.
3. In the portion as may be termed the political, with this return - and the necessary changes or alterations in the various sections of this division of the peoples - many changes came about; for, as we find, the native counsellor [Aarat] was rather in the position of the subordinate to the king's demands, or the demands of the FATHER of the king, and became rather as a recluse, and shut from much of the activities that were being carried on in the relationships of the nations or peoples with the outside peoples. This made for the rising of others to positions of prominence, or positions of responsibility, in the direction of the exchange of ideas with the outside world; for with the regeneration, more and more became noised abroad that which had been and was being accomplished in this land of plenty, in foods, in ornaments, in the recreation, in the needs of the inner man, in the necessities for the satisfying of desires for the material mind, in the aiding or setting up of the various conditions that are called sciences in the present period.
4. These made for more and more visitations of the wise men, or the emissaries from the various lands, which heretofore had been visited by this priest Ra-Ta.
5. In the matter of the temple, or the relationships of man to man, with the change in the home, with the change to the building up of the various sections in or under their own rule, there became the necessity of establishing the rules and regulations that governed the relationships of individuals to individuals, as a criterion, as a measuring stick, as it were, as to what would be the ideal - or that that would be proper and right. These were supervised by those that were close in association with the priest; he, the priest, then acting more and more in the capacity of the advisor, yet not those close in contact save with those that were active as emissaries in the various offices to which these were assigned as the developments began, not only in the place around Luz but also in those cities that were established in the various sections of the land.
6. As related to the spiritual life, with the establishing then of the home, of the various communities and the various towns and cities, there were also set those in the Temple Beautiful that acted in the capacity of advisors, teachers, ministers, or the ones giving counsel in the spiritual places that were prepared in the various centers. These also made for the gathering together of a group that were set in the various capacities. This of necessity required then, in this department of the work, those of the closer associates with Ra-Ta, as the spiritual messengers that were sent to these various places.
7. Then began what may be truly termed the first national or nation SPIRIT of a peoples; for with the divisions, rather than this causing a dispersing of ideals or a dividing up of interests, it CENTRALIZED the interests; for these were being guided by a ruler or king whose authority was not questioned any more, nor were the advisings of the priest questioned, who was acting in rather the capacity of preparing for this very spirit to manifest itself in the way of the national emblems, the national ideas, that stood for the varied activities of not only individuals or groups, but for the general masses. Hence there began the first preparation for what has later become that called The Great Pyramid, that was to be the presentation of that which had been gained by these peoples through the activities of Ra-Ta, who NOW was known as Ra; for with the entering in of Hermes WITH Ra - who came as one of the peoples from the mount to which these peoples had been banished - and the raising of that one who had been condemned with the priest in banishment to one that was to be without question the queen, or the advisor to all of her own peoples, there was brought the idea of the preservation of these, not only for those in the present but for the generations that were to come in the experiences and experiences throughout that period, until the changes were to come again in the earth's position that would make for, as it had in this inundation that brought about Ra-Ta's coming in the experience from the gods in the Caspian and the Caucasian mountains, that had brought this change in the peoples. Hence under the authority of Ra, and Hermes as the guide, or the actual (as would be termed in the present) constructing or construction architect with the priest or Ra giving the directions - and those of Isis (now) in the form of the advisor for the laying in of those things that would present to those peoples the ADVANCEMENT of the portion of man, or woman, to her position in the activities of the human race or human experience, these changed the position or attitude of these particular peoples as to the position that was held by woman in her relations to the developing of the conditions that either were to be national, local, or individual; for not only does this become then that upon which man depends for those advancements or advents into the material activities, but the nourishing of, the maintaining of, that to which its (the man's) ideals are to be turned in their activity when they arise at that period when expressions are to be given to the active forces in the material activities.
8. This, then, made for an ENDOWING of this body Iso, or Isis, to the position of the first goddess that was so crowned, and there was given then that place that was to be sought by others that would gain counsel and advice even from the priest, gained access through that of Isis to the Throne itself. Not that it rose above the authority of the king, but for that developing necessary for the activities of the woman in those spheres of activity in this particular development.
9. Then began the laying out of the pyramid and the building of same, the using of those forces that made for the activity of bringing then from those very mountains where there had been those places of refuge that which had been begun to establish these, not only into that which would remain as the place for receiving that which had been offered in the Temple Beautiful on the various altars of the activities of an individual's innate self, but to be the place of initiation of the initiates that were to act in the capacity of leaders in the various activities through this period. This building, as we find, lasted for a period of what is termed now as one hundred years. It was formed according to that which had been worked out by Ra-Ta in the mount as related to the position of the various stars, that acted in the place about which this particular solar system circles in its activity, going towards what? That same name as to which the priest was banished - the constellation of Libra, or to Libya were these people sent. Is it not fitting, then, that these must return? as this priest may develop himself to be in that position, to be in the capacity of a LIBERATOR of the world in its relationships to individuals in those periods to come; for he must enter again at that period, or in 1998.
10. In those changes then brought about in these relationships, those who had acted in the capacity of the go-betweens, or the establishing of the closer relationships with Ra-Ta and those acting in the capacity of the leader, or of the council, and of the king himself - then we find the establishing of the king's household; then we find begins the bodily adornment, and the first preparation for such was of the linens that have not as yet been attained in this particular period, since that as was set by those who established this linen development from the cottons, and the hemp, and the papyrus flowers and lotus flowers of this particular period.
11. In and with these became the preparing of the Temple Beautiful for a more perfect place of preservation of those things that were to make known later in the minds of peoples, as the changes came about in the earth, the rise and fall of the nations were to be depicted in this same temple that was to act as an interpreter for that which had been, that which is, and that which is to be, in the material plane.
12. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 7/28/32 EC continued his Ck. Life rdgs. on his Egyptian incarnation, as Ra-Ta, under 294-150.

REPORTS

1. 7/29/32 P.M. EC continued the Egyptian incarnation, in 294-152.

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