Edgar Cayce Readings, 294-153

5/40 HISTORICAL BASIS FOR EDGAR CAYCE'S POWER - (Based on 294-142 through 294-153)
EGYPTIAN HISTORY (Based on 294-142 through 294-153)
A brief story of an historical period described in Edgar Cayce's Life Reading as an incarnation during which the development of the unusual powers he now possesses took place.
The Story of Ra-Ta.
Presented by Hugh Lynn Cayce
For
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Introduction by Hugh Lynn Cayce
"How do you explain Edgar Cayce's unusual abilities?" This is a question that is asked frequently.
Various methods have been used in securing answers to this question. The opinions of psychologists and psychic investigators have been sought; comparative studies of similar types of readings have been made; information has been sought from individuals with varying degrees of psychic powers; and, explanations have been requested through Edgar Cayce's own readings.
It is with this last explanation that the material in this paper deals. Edgar Cayce's Life Reading was one of the first of its kind to be given. It is this reading which will be made the basis for the 1940 Congress discussion on Life Readings.
In this first Life Reading an Egyptian incarnation was described during which the entity, now known as Edgar Cayce, developed abilities which are now being expressed through "readings."
In view of the fact that the readings indicate that this incarnation in Egypt about 10,500 B.C. has an important influence on the present work of the Association in studying and presenting Edgar Cayce's abilities, we feel that this information should be given out and clarified. This paper is the first step. During the 1940 Congress in June one meeting will be devoted to analyzing Edgar Cayce's Life Reading. This will be followed by an open reading devoted to an explanation of how he developed his present abilities.
A detailed history of the Egyptian period is now being prepared. This more complete record will enable anyone who has a Life Reading to understand his Egyptian incarnation.
Thus, we may say that this paper has two major purposes: (1) To furnish information which will be helpful in understanding how Edgar Cayce is able to give readings; (2) To assist all individuals who have had Life Readings in understanding their Egyptian incarnations.
The following material has been paraphrased from readings.
294-147, 7/19/32:
There were many people, even nations, that were influenced by the material activities of Ra-Ta. He came into the land of Egypt for a purpose, and was a man of unusual abilities as well as appearance and manners of conduct.
Before entering the earth, the soul of Ra-Ta looked upon a tribe of people in Arabia and foresaw that they would conquer Egypt; therefore he chose to be born to a daughter of this tribe of Zu, and was not begotten of man. As a child Ra-Ta was rejected by those who ordinarily would have been his companions, just as he might be today, because he had no father nor a real home as other children. Even in that early period home associations had been established, in an entirely different land, and had been projected in thought by the various leaders who had come into being through crystallization of thought by the Sons of the Most High. Ararat had established a community home in the land of Ararat (later called, after the flood brought changes in Og which caused many people to settle in Ararat and join in peopling the earth again); and his people condemned the tribe of Zu. However, the lad Ra-Ta grew in grace daily with the people by his manner of conduct, while his mother suffered many hardships by the actions of Ararat's people during their sojourn in those surroundings.
Ra-Ta prophesied that Ararat's son would journey into Egypt, the land of plenty, where one could enjoy and enjoin the associated activities of the mental and material bodies.
Those things which we today class as pleasures that gratify our developed senses, either in necessities or luxuries, were in this land of Egypt quite commonplace.
While Ra-Ta was still, at twenty-one years of age, looked on askant by many, he actually led Arart and his families into Egypt, making it easy to control this land that was then supplying all the luxuries of the earth.
Peaceful arrangements were made, after a period of dissension with the young natives, and the name of one of the native leaders was changed to Aarat - in line with the house of Arart.
Ra-Ta gradually gathered about him those who would harken to his words pertaining to relations with an outside world, or to those divisions in the body which represented the intermission from an experience to an experience. The natives held more strongly to the necessity of materialization for the enjoyment, as may be surmised from the high materially developed civilization which had been reached at this particular period.
As Ra-Ta began to uncover records through archeological research, gradually more and more adherence was made to his words; and it was remembered how that this peculiar leader had come into Egypt leading or guiding the conquerors, who were seeking expression of various thoughts that were coming through in those entities entering that particular group.
This was at the period when there was the change to the white race, and Ra-Ta (as the name indicated) was the first pure white man in the earth.
So the wonders of his activities brought various conditions that were the source of much disorder, dissention, and discouragement to him throughout his whole experience. As his findings began to show the variations that had existed in the developing of the mental and physical needs of those who had populated the land, many changes necessarily had to be brought in the manner these were to be expressed, from that heretofore manifested by the conquerors or the natives.
With the subsiding of contentions, the people were divided into groups; what we would today call the material minded, the spiritual minded, the business minded and the political minded. These divisions then made a real representation of the conditions that are now arising in the earth, when there is the drawing near to that period of a change again, the cycle when there must be the establishing of a spiritual awakening to the people as then. [294-147]
294-148, 7/26/32:
There began a series of changes, and the intermingling of the conquerors with the natives. The native rulers were submissive, especially as the real native king had become enamored with one of the girls in the conqueror Arart's household.
With Arart as the king and Ra-Ta as the prophet or seer, there began a period that may well be called a division of interests of the people. Through Ra-Ta's visions and experiences in line with establishing customs, rules and regulations, he attempted to induce Arart to select only those natives who were tried and true to aid in bringing the closer relationships. This naturally made some disturbance among the natives of the upper class, who sought to be in power themselves - or who had ideas as to what should be done with the abilities of the people as individuals, and with the abilities of the country as a country to supply those material necessities for sustenance and recreation of the people. This eventually led to the pitting of the young leader Aarat with the king's son Araaraart, after Arart had accepted Aarat - who represented a group as well as himself, for he was among those native rulers deposed by the real king whom Arart had found in office when settling there.
As Arart turned over the leadership to his son, more and more he devoted his life to the political phase, as well as in establishing those relationships of individuals with individuals, also the religious or spiritual life, with the preparation for setting in motion the regulations or ceremonies that would be accompanied, or signified or designated, by the developing of these peoples who chose to give their lives, or were chosen for their abilities in certain phases of the conditions that arose.
The young king Araaraart gathered about him many to act in the capacity of council. He was then only thirty years of age. There was an inner council, that ruled on the general circumstances of the people as a whole. Then there was a council that had supervision over various departments of the activities of the people, or a cabinet, the departments being much as they are today; for there is nothing in the present that hasn't existed from the first. Only the form or manner of its use has changed, and the art has been lost of many elements that were used in that day, which are now being rediscovered by scientists, when they were then the common knowledge of the most illiterate.
There was much work for Ra-Ta in council, that there be kept the ideal or purpose for which this band, this group, had chosen this particular land for the development or manifestation of the forces manifesting through the mental or spiritual Ra-Ta.
With the giving in of Arart (politically) to pit or parallel the activities of the native with the abilities of the son and heir, he himself acted as a council then with Ra-Ta to the inner council. Then there became the necessity of matching the abilities of the king's council, or king's peoples, with the facilities of the natives, in the various phases of progress. Hence Araaraart began the opening of mines in Ophir, later known as Kadesh, now called Persia. Also in the land now known as Abyssinia, and those portions yet undiscovered or unused in the upper lands of the river Nile, there were those mines of precious stones - as onyx, beryl, sardis, diamond, amethyst, opal, and the pearls that came from the sea near what is now called Madagascar. In the northern (or then the southern) land of Egypt, those mines that produced quantities - and quantities - and quantities - of gold, silver, iron, lead, zinc, copper, tin, and the like, that these might be matched with those in the valleys of the upper Nile. Stonecutters began gathering materials for the establishing of residences for the king's people.
Also Ra-Ta began to gather his own people, and those that were pointed out to him through the sources from which he received those various injunctions for the establishing of the name forever in the land. With these preparations began for the temple where there was to be the various forms of worship, as related to the divisions of the penal or moral relationships of the people, and what would be termed today the religious or spiritual relationships.
Many periods or days were required for the building up of the body, represented by the group that acted in the capacity of active individuals about the building of these edifices or temples that were to represent then the recreation halls. The physical attributes were worshipped much more then in many ways than the religious in the present, and rightly so; though there were the preparations for the spiritual worship that comprised not only the sacrificial altars. There was not the sacrificing of animal, bird, or beast, or reptile, or man. Rather these altars were that upon which individuals put their faults and blotted them out, with the fires of those forces set in motion by Ra-Ta, through his ability to give to each the activity to which they were best adapted in developing themselves. This was only, however, after each had chosen to give themselves in service in that particular position in which their activity was necessary. See the difference?
There were also storehouses established, which would be called banks today, or places of exchange, that there might be communication with individuals in various lands. Even in this period (though much had been lost even by these people) there was the exchange of ideas with other lands, as Poseidia and Og, as well as the Pyrenees and Sicily, and those countries that are now known as Norway, China, India, Peru, and America. These were not their names at that time, but were the portions of the earth from whence many of the recreations were gathered for the people. The understandings were of one tongue! There had not been the division in tongues, except in the Atlantean or Poseidian land.
Edifices were erected to house the people. Also the temple of sacrifice, the temple of Beauty - that glorified the activities of individuals, groups or masses, who had cleansed themselves for service. The storehouses for commodities of exchange were also builded, and the people gathered these stores - matching their activities one against the other.
So, the priest or seer, Ra-Ta, had a very busy life. Still, he devoted much time to keeping himself in communion with those Forces which brought the knowledge of the progress made in the spiritual sense in other lands, especially so from Poseidia and Og.
From time to time it was necessary for Ra-Ta to visit these other lands, and during his absence there arose more and more a dissension among the people, some claiming that Ra-Ta was leaving much to subordinates. Especially some of the native councillors found such fault with Ra-Ta, and a few others who had allowed avarice to arise in their own makeup. This brought questioning more and more. Gradually there was the mis-use of those offices that had been set aside by Ra-Ta, and the people brewed and concocted drinks that set the body, the mind, the whole fires of the physical body, against that which had been cleansed by the fires on the altars in the sacrificial temples.
After thirty years these buildings were completed. Ra-Ta made one of his visits to the mount, where there had been some activities on the part of the archaeologists who were delving into conditions of those who had lived in the lands during the previous periods. On his return to the temple of sacrifice, he saw there was aggrandizing of the lusts of the body, rather than the activities that were to be carried on by the sacrificial priests. There arose a mighty turmoil; and greater and greater stress was laid upon Ra-Ta by those who sought various ways to find fault with his activities. Hence at that time there arose the first of that saying, "When the devil can't get a man any other way, he sends a woman for him."
Among the priests' daughters was one of the kings favorites, who made the entertainment for the king and his council, and his visitors. She was more beautiful than the rest, and was induced to gain the priest's favor through activities of herself in body, so as to cause some fault to be found. This was not done by her own volition, but rather by the counsel of those who had been persecuting her own people, and she acted in this manner in order to protect her people. These divisions among this group were unknown to Ra-Ta, for he was among those who trusted all, believed all, and - as it were - for the time the gods laughed at his weakness. [294-148]
294-149, 7/27/32:
It might be enlightening here to give an outline of the various forms of worship, the individual beings, and the differences in form from the present, so that it may be better understood how these influence so much in the present individual or personal associations of individualities.
The political conditions had been set. Also the buildings had been completed to demonstrate the relationships of individuals to individuals, and the relationships of individuals as individuals - and as masses - to the Creative Forces.
The marital relationships did not exist as they do today, in individual homes. Rather there were the appointed companionships that were to serve their State, their purposes, for the completing and competing of groups or nations one against the other. These were rather a matter of the ruler's word, than choice of individuals as in the present. This particular relationship of Ra-Ta attempted to change. He felt there should be rather the establishing of definite homes, as in other lands which he had visited; and that marriage should be rather the consecration of lives one to another. Hence there was the attempt to change or alter the forms of service in the temple, where there were the relationships one with another for the propagation of those peoples. In this same temple there were the halls of recreation, halls of learning, halls of precept and example. There were many individuals required to supervise these changes, in various capacities, to serve the priest in ministering to the needs and relationships of individuals through the temple. In this particular group of people, all births were in this temple - in the hall set aside for that purpose. There were also chambers set aside in which conception was to take place, had taken place, for the various relationships that existed among the people.
The service in the Temple Beautiful rather pertained to those changes wrought in individuals' activities as they set themselves aside, or consecrated themselves for particular activities in the material or mental, or in the commercial world. There were also those who performed their particular activity or service in the Temple Beautiful, or the spiritual portion of the service.
The housing of all the female of the whole clan or tribe for the evening was in the temple, while the male had other quarters outside the king's own household. The king's household included the king's alone, not any favorite or queen, or closer relationship; for all the women were in the same building, under State rules. These buildings were beautifully laid out, in tiers. Each hall had three and four tiers. The rooms were 7 X 9 in size, 8 to 10 feet in height. There were the various accoutrements - rugs and blankets, etc. - that were wrought with the hands, for the couches and the various furnishings.
Those that were born in the birth hall were immediately, or after three months, taken from their own families and raised by groups confined in other buildings for those purposes.
The great chamber halls that were inter-between were of high tiers, each for a form of recreation - as the dance, etc.
The body was worshipped then as sincerely as most of the physical or spiritual worship today, for the bodies were changing in form as their developments or purifications were effective, in those temples where the consecrations of the individuals made them able to turn themselves (in the mental) toward the spiritual things of an existence. These bodies gradually lost, then, many feathers from their legs. Many lost hairs from the body, that were gradually taken away. Many gradually began to lose their tails, or their protuberances in various forms. Many paws of claws were changed to hand and foot, so that there might be more symmetry of the body. Hence the activities of the body became more erect, more shaped to meet the various needs. These who had achieved such transformation, to be sure, were considered as the body beautiful. Beauty as divine; for the divine has brought - and does bring - those various beauties of form or figure to the body, and should be considered; for "the body is the temple of the living God." It is true, then, that the various forms or attributes of the body in its symmetry are of the divine inheritance, as was brought to the recognition of these people at this time by poor ill-forgotten Ra-Ta.
In the Temple Beautiful were altars where various forms of desire were sacrificed, so as to bring to the bodies the gradual falling away of their animal activities, that would enable them to concentrate and consecrate their bodies, their lives, their activities, in this service.
Let's don't forget the thesis, or the key for which all of this understanding had come: That there might be a closer relationship of man to the Creator, and of man to man.
So there were many altars. As these changes came about, there was the necessity of attempting to persuade Ra-Ta there should be more of the activity which had been withdrawn (in the sex life of those who had been purified, or clarified, in the Temple Beautiful), in order that there might be drawn into the earth more perfect physical bodies - instead of having to use so much time and effort to perfect them after their arrival. Hence there began the development of the personality, as these influences were injected more and more. This is where, as it were, the gods laughed at the weakness of Ra-Ta.
The associations began with Isris, the favorite of the king, who had become near the body beautiful, or beauty divine. Their activities in the temple (not the Temple Beautiful) brought Ra-Ta and Isris into closer relationship. Eventually there came the decree that the priest Ra-Ta was to be the companion of Isris, who had been chosen to be the channel through which there might be brought such a perfect body as the priest had described. So, to put it in common parlance, Ra-Ta "fell for the whole proposition."
There were many others also chosen by various ones, and there were the attempts to have these in the same associations with Ra-Ta; yet when when there came the offspring (Iso) from this association of Ra-Ta and Isris, there immediately became the cry that there had been the breaking of the very laws Ra-Ta had set, when he had suggested the changing of the conditions for the people into homes. More and more the lines were drawn and the people took sides. There were those groups who had the desire for their own offspring, or their associates, or associations closer with the priest Ra-Ta. There were also those who came into power in various activities; for, as the cleansing came, there were the abilities of individuals in various fields of endeavor. There were singers, workers in linen, workers in embroidery, carders, weavers, workers in clay, and the various forms of commercial industry - horticulture, agriculture, etc. No merchants then existed, as there was one common store for all. Each of these in their various fields had been given free activity to that which might be produced. Hence there came many divisions, and the first uprising between the Church and State. The lines being drawn caused more tumult, until eventually there was the trial of Ra-Ta and Isris and they were banished into the Nubian land to the south and east.
Everything became changed, with the tumult that arose with the various priests in attendance in the various offices. Advantage was taken of the situation by many who in their various forms began to learn, as it were, a form of war and defense. There was the gathering then of the young men and the old, and sides were taken. Still some remained faithful to the priests who had remained in office, and troublesome times arose for many, many suns - until at least nine seasons had passed, before there was even the semblance of the beginning of a quieting, and that not until there had been definite arrangements made that the priest Ra-Ta would return, and that all would be submissive to his mandates. Ra-Ta became, then, a dictator - or a monarch in his own right.
The offspring Iso, to be sure, was taken from the close relationship with the parents, as were all the rest. In various forms and manners there was the attempt to bring about the proper conditions for the developing of Iso as had been planned, yet the body wasted away - for while the priest Ra-Ta had abilities in some directions, he had not clarified or crystallized them into that which came about in the latter part of his experience. [294-149]
294-150, 7/28/32:
Some two hundred and thirty-one souls followed Ra-Ta and Isris into banishment. Many were in the capacity of guards, defenders, special body guards, interpreters, etc. Not that the interpreters were to interpret languages, or speech, or activities, but give to those that were unable to approach the priest Ra-Ta; they were to give out where it was impossible for Ra-Ta to reach all about him.
With these changes, there became the natural consequence in change of relationships. Pairs were given places of abode, and then homes - with their first environs - were first established among those sent in exile, or among those who chose of their own volition to be among that number, or who named the name Ra-Ta.
With their entrance into the Nubian land there came such a change that there were better conditions in every term that may be applied to human experience. Successes of every nature grew up about this warlike people.
In Egypt rebellions came about that made for turmoils and strife. More and more were there overtures made, that there be some means provided whereby those who had followed Ra-Ta might be made, or forced, to return. There were insurmountable objections to this, however, so that only those acting in the capacity of go-betweens of either sex were able to be kept in touch with Ra-Ta direct.
As Ra-Ta entered more and more into closer relationships with the Creative Forces, greater were the abilities for him to bring about material manifestations of that relationship. Hence the peace that was enjoyed by the people, not only with the priest but all those of that land. Hence, as given respecting individuals, they returned to Egypt from the land, for many sought to be as close in contact with Ra-Ta as at all possible. Every form of advancement then, or advantage, seemed to point to the fact that Egypt had acted in haste. Those who were advanced in their purification in the temple, whether male or female, with the ideal of bringing peace to their friends, their people, to whom they held some allegiance, kept attempting to make for such associations with the council and the king that there might be the re-establishing of Ra-Ta to his place in the land.
In the Nubian land some memorials had begun in the mountains. Whole mountains were honeycombed, and were dug into sufficient to where the perpetual fires are still in activity. Ra-Ta then began to show the periods of reckoning and longitude, latitude, and the activities of the planets and stars, and the various groups of stars, constellations, and the various influences that are held in place, or that hold in place those about this particular solar system. Hence in the Nubian land there was first begun the reckoning of those periods when the Sun has its influence upon human life.
Let's remember, it is in this period when the present race has been called into being - and the influence is reckoned from all experiences of Ra-Ta, as the effect upon the body-physical, the body-mental, the body-spiritual, or soul body. These are the reckonings and the effects that were reckoned with, and about, and of, and concerning, by Ra-Ta; not set by Ra-Ta - but expressed in the development of Ra-Ta, that these do effect - by the forces as set upon all - not only the inhabitants of a given sphere or planet, but the effect all has upon every form of expression in that sphere of the Creative Energies in action in that given sphere. This particular sphere or earth was the reckoning in that period. Hence arose what some termed idiosyncrasies of planting in the moon, or in the phases of the moon, or of the tides and their effect, or of the calling of an animal in certain phases of the moon or seasons of the year, or of the combining of elements in the mineral kingdom, vegetable kingdom, in various periods. These were first discovered - or first given, not discovered - first consciousness of - by Ra-Ta, in his first giving of this reckoning to the people of the Nubian land.
Well may it be imagined, then, as to the effect this had upon the people in Egypt who had classed themselves as the elect, the chosen, and yet recognizing that for a physical activity there had been the envy, selfishness, strife, contention, and those things of the body - that pertain to the lusts of the body, which had brought about or produced that which separated from themselves that which would build.
There were emissaries of various positions sent back and forth by the leaders of Egypt who sought to eventually bring about the restoring of Ra-Ta. Under the strain, in a very short period Ra-Ta had, to the apparent eye of those about him, become aged, decrepid, and not able physically to carry on. Fear began to be felt that there would not be the sustaining strength sufficient for him to continue to give to the people in Egypt that which he had begun there, and that which was now being manifested in this land to which he had been banished.
Eventually there came the time when there was to be the attempt for Ra-Ta to return to Egypt. Then did the priest Ra-Ta, of himself and of the Creative Forces, edict that those who were in close association with him - who had meant an extenuation or saviour of a peoples, into a regeneration of same - would have marks set in their bodies that would remain throughout their appearance in the earth's plane, that they might be known to one another, if they seek to know the closer relationships of the self to the Creative Forces and the source - physical - of their activity with that source. To some in the eye, to some in the body, to some marks upon the body, in those ways and manners that may only be known to those who are in that physical and spiritual attunement with Ra-Ta as they pass through the material or earth's sphere together. They are drawn, then, by what? That same element that was being accentuated in the earth's plane, as also the other laws that were discovered - or were given, or were conscious of - by Ra-Ta in that particular period. The purpose of such, then, is that there may be known - that with such an association - there may come an awakening to that which was accomplished by those of the select - not elect, but select - in that particular endeavor.
These, then, who have that mark, are in that position wherein their relationships may be of the best, the closet relationships of the mental, the material, the spiritual developments of all that aided in that period, for the good of the group, the nation, the world. Hence their activities in whatever direction must influence the whole human race, whether any of that particular group enter as servants, as kings, as ministers, or those that mete penal justice, or those that become emissaries, or ministers, or those that are of those sources that in material things bespeak of the lore of the attributes of physical relationships. All are to, and for, and of, that that makes for an awakening of those conditions, that make for an awareness of that manifested at that period.
Then, with the return of Ra-Ta to the Temple Beautiful, he first began to withdraw himself from the whole, that regeneration in body might become manifest. He lay down the material weaknesses, and from those sources of regeneration recreated the body in its elemental forces for the carrying on of that which these material positions gave the opportunity for; leaving the first records of the world from that day until when there is the change in the race. [294-150]
294-151, 7/29/32 - 11:00 A.M.:
With the completing of this resuscitation, or regeneration of the body-physical, there began a general upbuilding or rebuilding throughout the land. With the return of those who had been forced, or who had voluntarily followed Ra-Ta into exile, and the many who had been healed or changed in the Nubian land, there began the segregations more into places, homes, etc. Where there had formerly existed only forts or temples in the various sections, in which the different characters of commercial life were carried on, gradually there came to be homes, with families, that were much in the order as we have in the present day - except there were more than one companion in the various households. These companions were chosen rather for their ability to bring about the variations necessary in the temperamental forces that were developed.
Many changes came about in the political divisions of the people in various sections. The native counsellor was rather in the position of subordinate to Arart's demands, and became rather a recluse and shut from many of the activities that were being carried on, in the relationships of the nation or people with the outside world. This caused others to rise to positions of prominence and responsibility, in the direction of exchange of ideas with the outside world. With the regeneration, more and more it became noised abroad just what had been and was being accomplished in this land of plenty - in foods, ornaments, recreation, and needs of the inner man; also in the necessities for satisfying the desires of the material mind, and in the aiding or setting up of various sciences (called in the present).
More and more there were the visitations of the wise men or emissaries from various lands, which heretofore had been visited by the priest Ra-Ta.
In the temple which had been established for the giving of truths pertaining to the relationships of man to man, with the change in the home, with the change to the building up of various sections under their own rule, there became the necessity of establishing the rules and regulations governing the relationships of individuals to individuals, as a criterion, as a measuring stick, as to what would be the ideal - or that which would be proper and right. These were supervised by those close in association with the priest, while he - Ra-Ta - acted more and more in the capacity of advisor. Gradually he came more and more close in contact only with those acting as emissaries, in the various offices to which they had been assigned as the developments began - not only around Luz but in those cities established in various sections.
As related to the spiritual life, with the establishing of the home, the towns and cities, there were set those in the Temple Beautiful who acted in the capacity of advisors, teacher, ministers, or ones who gave counsel in the spiritual places that were prepared in the various centers. This also caused the gathering together of a group that were set in the various capacities. In this department of the work there was necessarily required the closer associates with Ra-Ta, for the spiritual messengers that were sent to these various places.
Then began what may be truly termed the first national or nation spirit of a peoples. Rather than the divisions causing a dispersing of ideal or a dividing up of interests, they seemed to centralize the interests; for these divisions were being guided by a ruler or king whose authority was not questioned any more. Neither were the advisings of the priest Ra-Ta questioned, and he was acting in the capacity of preparing for this very spirit to manifest 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 been called The Great Pyramid, which was to present that which had been gained by these people through the activities of Ra-Ta, who was now known as Ra. This work was aided much by Hermes, who had returned with Ra from the mount to which he had been banished.
Isris, who had been condemned with Ra-Ta in banishment, was now raised to the position of queen without question, or the advisor to all her own people.
The idea gradually grew to preserve these truths, not only for the present generation but for those to come throughout the experiences until the changes were to come again in the earth's position, which would make the inundation (that had brought Ra-Ta's coming into the experience for the gods in the Caspian and Causasian mountains at that time, which had brought the change in the peoples). Hence, under the authority of Ra, and Hermes acting as guide - or the actual construction architect, with Ra giving the directions, work began in earnest on the pyramid.
Isris, whose name had now been changed to Isis, became the advisor for the laying in of those things that would present to the people the advancement of that portion of man called woman, as to her position in the activities of the human race. These changed the position or attitude of these particular people as to the place held by woman in her relations to the developing of conditions national, local, or individual. Not only, then, does woman become that upon which man depends for those advancements or advents into the material activities, but the nourishing of, the maintaining of, that to which man's ideals are to be turned in their activity when he arises to that position when expressions are to be given in the material plane.
This, then, made for an endowing of this body Iso, of Isis - with the spiritual influence of Iso, to the position of the first goddess that was so crowned. She was given then that place which others might seek to gain counsel and advice from the priest Ra. They gained access through Isis to the Throne itself. Not that her position rose above the authority of the king, but was in accord with that developing necessary in the activities of woman through this particular advancement.
Then began the laying out of the pyramid and the building of it, through use of those forces that were able to bring the materials from those very mountains that had been a place of refuge for Ra-Ta, and where certain memorials had begun. The various sections were laid out not only for the receiving of that which had been offered in the Temple Beautiful, on the various altars for the activities of an individual's innate self, but for the place of initiation of the initiates who were to act in the capacity of leaders in various activities. This building on the pyramid lasted for a period of one hundred years, as now termed. It was formed according to that which had been worked out by Ra-Ta in the mount, as related to the position of the stars about which this particular solar system circles in its activity - going towards what? That same name to which the priest was banished, Libya - or the constellation of Libra. Is it not fitting, then, that these must return? This priest Ra, now Edgar Cayce, may develop himself to be in that position or 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.
With the changes in the relationships by those who acted in the capacity of go-betweens, between Ra-Ta and the council or the king himself, then there began the establishings of the king's household. The bodily adornment began, and the first preparation of the linens, that have not yet been attained in this present period, that were developed from cottons, hemp, and the papyrus and lotus flowers.
With these developments there was the preparing of the Temple Beautiful for a more perfect place of preservation of those things that were to bring an understanding in the minds of the people later. As the changes came about in the earth, the rise and fall of 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. [294-151]
294-152, 7/29/32 - 4:45 P.M.: There were also developments in many other lines of human experience. These were the natural result of the ideal that was held by the entity Ra-Ta from the beginning: To make manifest man's relationships to his Maker, man's relationship to his fellow man.
As the memorial progressed, so did the activities of individuals and groups - in the types of homes, cities, and every character of physical, mental and spiritual manifestation. The symbolized ideas in the homes, in the buildings, and the acceptance of this, that or the other that contributed to the welfare of man, found an individual that claimed such - and each set about to, in some form, add that to their contribution of man's development. Hence the Ibex, the scarab, the sacred ox, the sun, the eagle, and the symbols of every character that aided or abetted in representing an ideal of an individual were brought into prominence by the abilities of these people to preserve them in some manner or form.
The decorations in the Temple Beautiful became more elaborate. These, with the supervision of Isis - and with the spiritual influence of Iso, brought more and more attendance to that part of man's development. As also in the temple of recreation, where now only those participated who had gained that position where their bodies in form presented the human form divine, or the lines that were set by the carvers in stone, the workers in brass, the moulders in iron. The figure of Ra was wrought in gold. Also those women who aided and assisted in the ministering to the individuals, through the guiding of those truths that more and more these became apparent in their physical activities.
Other children were born to Ra, that were to rise in their various capacities to carry on the activities. This again brought contentions among the civil and political factions of the land, however, and brought disturbing forces in Ra.
Then there came the period when all the pyramid or memorial was complete.
Ra, having finished his work, ascended into the mount - and was borne away. [294-152]

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