2/17/42 Between 11:30 P.M. and 12:30 A.M. of
2/18/42, EC
dreamed:
I found myself in the nether land; [world of the dead]
recognized it as being along the line I had traveled in going
to the house of records to secure Life Readings. Many people
I knew were there, both men and women. It seemed as if I
had been there for some time. Eventually I met Gertrude and
Miss Gladys together. Finally I was able to make myself
known to them, and told them we had to go to work; that while
this was a place of transition, I was very sure it was also a
place of labor. I asked them where they lived. They told me
it was along the road. I said, "Well, we've got to build us
a place to carry on our work, for the places that are here
are what we builded while we were in the earth plane; and
while everything comes with just thought, we mustn't just
take everything for granted." They answered, "How will we
ever build a house - we haven't anything to build it with?"
I told them we would first have to find somebody that knew
how.
As we were going along, in a very beautiful place, we met
someone. I said, "Don't you know who that is?" They each
said, "He looks familiar, but I don't know just who it is."
I said, "Why, that's Mr. [
2051], and he'll build it for us."
We all three spoke to him, and eventually were able to make
it known to him who we were. But when we told him what we
wanted to do, he said, "Oh no, I've got my house, everything
I want - why should we have to go to work?" I told him,
"Well, we have to work here just as we do anywhere else. If
we are just satisfied and sit down here, we'll never get up
yonder for Who we are seeking. He may pass this way, but we
won't be ready to go anywhere unless we are doing something,
and I think we've got a lot to tell these people. It's
beautiful, it's lovely, it's quiet; and we don't have to
worry about wind or weather or anything to eat, or night or
day or anything; because it is whichever one we want, - but
we must remember that He told us, we must always do
everything in decency and in order." So Mr. [
2051] said,
"Alright, I know some other fellows here - we'll build it."
[
2/17/42 See
2051-5, Par. R1 in re actual conversation with
Mr. [
2051] by his daughter on that same night about
keeping busy on other side after passing over.] So we went
away up the line, this golden line, where it wasn't quite as
beautiful in appearance but was still closer to the house of
records. He said "I'd like beautiful pine to build it with,"
and the most beautiful lumber was immediately there - so they
put it together; just room after room after room. It all
appeared to be finished as soon as put up, almost worked
itself. He said, "This is a lot more fun than doing
nothing." But he said, "What do you want with so many
rooms?" I told him I thought we'd have to carry on the work
there. He says, "You going to give Readings here?" I told
him maybe I'd have to, because many of those people didn't
know who they were, and we don't either, because they've lost
their names. And you notice none of us have the same name we
did on earth, yet we know who we are. For we have all the
one name - JESUS. He said, "That's right, I never thought of
that. But tell me, have you seen any of these people we
expected to see in heaven. Because this is heaven, ain't
it?" I told him I didn't know but I thought it was on the
right road.
So we began to have meetings in the little house. He'd bring
in people and we'd meet people and finally get them to come,
for the house was so pretty. There were a great many who
couldn't give us any idea of who they were nor what they
wanted, and we couldn't tell who they were.
Then as we four were together one time, we saw Dr. House. I
told Gertrude and Miss Gladys, "THAT'S who we want to help
us." So we tried to talk to him. At first he couldn't
understand what we were trying to tell him, nor could we make
ourselves known to him. But eventually, after recalling to
him many things that had happened in earth, he began to
recognize us and said he would be glad to commence work
again, but he didn't realize people had to work there - that
he didn't know as many people as he had thought he would
know. So he began to meet with us, and we kept trying to
find out for people WHO THEY WERE, AND WHAT THEY WANTED TO
DO!
Our crowds kept increasing. Then we met, or saw on the road,
Dr. Andrew Sargeant - and he was with his first wife, Lizzie
Gish. I was the first to recognize them, told Gertrude - she
gradually began to recognize them, and then Dr. House
recognized him but said he didn't know the woman. So we sent
Mr. [
2051] and some of those with him to ask them to come to
one of our meetings. They came, seemed very happy, but did
NOT know why there were attracted to each other. Then I
began to tell them WHO they were. Dr. House then suggested,
"To get them to understand, why don't you give them a
Reading?"
So, for the first time, I laid down and gave a Reading just
as I had before, in the earth. All the people gathered
about, to listen. Miss Gladys wrote it off on great sheets,
it looked like, of cellophane; but as she wrote she realized
it was in five different languages - and the English was in
the center. There were French and German, Italian and
Chinese, and ALL could read. What was given was regarding
personal things they did together in the earth, and they
recognized it as such. Their question was, "Why were we
attracted to each other here, and what must we do about it?"
They were told that why they hadn't succeeded was because he
wanted children and she did not (while in the earth). Now
they would have to have a whole lot of children here, and
take care of them, but they were to be the children that
hadn't been wanted by parents - or those that had been
aborted and there had been sufficient activity for spirit or
life to have entered, - which they were told occurred at
three months.
The house began to grow as they filled the rooms with
children. The crowds also began to grow, people also wanting
to know who they were. Dr. and Mrs. Sargeant began to keep
records of WHO these children were that they took in, and
kept them in great files which were LIGHT - written in five
languages that could be seen as people passed.
I began to wonder how conditions could be improved. And I
thought, "What they need in order to know things better is
WATER - water of life, for He said we were to be born of
water and of blood." Then I realized there was no bathroom.
So I spoke to Mr. [
2051] and Dr. House and all the rest, and
told them what we were going to do - we were going to ask for
the water of life, and we would ask in a Reading whether or
not we might have it. As they gathered, Miss Lizzie Gish
(Mrs. Sargeant) said, "NOW I know what was meant at the
meeting when the Lord told YOU, Mr. Cayce, to 'Teach my
people!" [
1/13/40 See EC's dream under
294-189 Reports.]
That's where I woke up.
(Left out - right at the end: Dr. House wanted to know "If
Dr. Sargeant working out his failure on earth, now, with his
first wife, what must happen to the other two wives he had
there?" So we took a Reading and it said, "They must go back
to the earth together, work this out, and then when he meets
one of the others and finds out who they are, he'll have to
keep the whole thing going in a circle until they have
obtained the knowledge - he'll have to work it out with each
one.")
2/17/42 See GC's dream on same night, recorded under
538-27,
Par. R1, in re going to a hydrotherapy place, not finding
bathroom, etc.
2/18/42 between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m., EC dreamed:
I went to my grandfather's old home place. On arriving I
learned there was to be a meeting of all the Cayces in the
country, but I didn't see any of my father's or grandfather's
people there. They seemed to be from many parts of the
country, but principally from Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi. I didn't know any of them, but
knew from their conversation that they were all Cayces. I
asked them why they had come there. Someone said they were
supposed to meet every year and they went to the places where
the older members of the family had settled, hoping to unite
the whole Cayce name into one group. I told them they were
in the wrong place, that I had a pretty fair genealogy of the
whole Cayce family, but if they were looking for William
Cayce - who was one of the old settlers - it was on an
adjoining farm. As I was looking around the barn I found a
little pile of things together, - a spoon, two knives (large
ones, which had been used considerable), and a scraper. I
heard a voice say, (which I took to be my grandmother) "Take
them with you - your mother used to use them." But as I
started off with them, some lady - who looked very thin, and
quite angry - accused me of taking something that didn't
belong to me. She called four or five of the men, who were
quite large. They questioned me as to who I was, and I told
them where I lived, what I did, and whose farm they were on,
- that is, it had been when I was a child, but was out of the
family at present. Then when I began to give them the
genealogy of the first families in Virginia, they called all
together - and it seemed there were 750 present. They said,
"Well, we will meet with you at Virginia Beach next year."
And I woke up.
2/24/42 See a dream in re old home place in EC's
2/25/42
letter recorded under
2072-6 Reports.
10/13/42, Tuesday A.M., EC dreamed: I went to [
1089]'s house
and saw most all of the family. [His sister, [
1352]] came
in, quite smiling, and said: "I have a real surprise for
you." As she stepped back, Mother walked in. She embraced
me and said, "Are you surprised to see me? Now you have
found Leila [
2390] and Thomas [
318], and now your Grandpa has
come [
2824]. Would you be surprised if I were to come to
[
1306]?" I was so shocked I couldn't answer, but said
finally, "It must be come time before [
1306] will have a
baby." She said, "No, it may be sooner than you think."
And I woke up. [GD's note: Mrs. [
1306] was another of
[
1089]'s sisters.]
12/12/42 P.M. or early Sun A.M.
12/13/42 Edgar Cayce dreamed:
"I was sitting alone in the front room playing solitaire when
there was a knock at the front door. It was dark outside but
rather early in the evening. When I went to the door a
gentleman whom I did not recognize asked, 'Cayce, I want you
to go with me to a meeting this evening.' At first I said
'But I seldom go out of evening and my wife is here and it
would leave her alone.' But he insisted I should go with him
and I did. As I went out I realized that another person was
waiting for us in the street. We walked toward the ocean,
but when we came to the ocean we walked on as if into the
air, up and up, until we came to where there seemed to be a
large circus tent. He said 'We will go in here.' We
approached the flap of the tent and as he pulled the flap
back, I for the first time, realized that the two men with
whom I had been walking were the evangelists Dwight L. Moody
and Sam Jones. We entered a large, circular tent; a very
unusual kind of light pervaded the place, something like an
opalescent light. Many figures were there. All seemed to be
shrouded, all dressed alike. Very few I remembered ever
having seen before. Then to one side of the place - as more
and more figures appeared, until it was full - it seemed that
there was a large screen on that side, and as if there was
lightening in the distance. With the lightning there was a
noise, not of thunder but of wind, yet nothing seemed to
stir; and there was no form with the brilliant flashes but as
if a cloud, very beautiful. When I asked one of my
companions what it was, I was told 'The Lord our God will
speak to us.'
"Then a voice clear and strong came as from out of the cloud
and the lightning, saying, 'WHO WILL WARN MY CHILDREN?' Then
from out of the throng before the throne came the MASTER, but
as if in the same garb of those about Him. He spoke saying,
'I will warn My brethren.' The answer came back, 'No, the
time is not yet fulfilled for you to return, but who shall
warn My children?' Then Mr. Moody spoke and said, 'Why not
send Cayce, he is there now'
Then the Master said, 'Father, Cayce will warn My brethren.'
'And we will all help,' came as a grand chorus." [See
5749-5
for possible correlation to above dream. Also see
1/05/43
Par. R23, and
7/10/43 Par. R25 notes listed below.]
1/01/43 See EC's dream in re Mrs. [
2514] told in his letter to
her dated
1/04/43, under
2514-10, Par. R2.
1/05/43 EC wrote Mrs. [
2722]'s husband - [See
2722-5] about
the same
12/12/42 dream, saying: "I tell you this not to
convince you of anything. I do not ask anyone to accept my
experience. Jesus promised to come and abide with us
continuously. Did He mean it, or was it written badly? I
believe it, and believe He meant what He said."
5/06/43 At end of Physical Rdg.
2988-1, EC told of dreaming of
each member of the [
378] family in Germany. See noted in
Reports of
2988-1, 378-50,
282-2, 276-2,
255-5 and
275-36.
7/10/43 EC wrote Mrs. [
3361] that he had recently had the
same
12/12/42 dream again, or parts of it. "With it has come
strength, when seemingly I have not had the strength to go
on. Am still a bit dazed, each time the assurance comes, and
fearful - like so many of those who have been blessed by His
presence and have turned good into selfish purposes and made
their people to sin and to forget God.
"Of course I believe in dreams, as so many of those did of
old who were called to do some great work - so why shouldn't
I? I believe in the the God that called Abraham, that spoke
to Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David and the God to whom our
precious Savior prayed, whom He boldly called 'My Father and
your Father.' So what has come to me recently, then, is only
an assurance, not something for me to boast of. It is up to
me to rely on, and myself LIVE, the life of the Savior.
"So, pray with me and for me that I may walk only in the
straight and narrow way and present nothing, ever, that
Jesus, the Christ, would not sanction at all times.
"Please consider this as sacred as I do, not something to be
told to give the impression that I feel I have been called of
God above others, or that I have some peculiar hold on the
promises of God. For I am sure that all are equal in His
sight."
GD's note: In one version of the dream EC made the excuse
that he couldn't go because he hadn't finished preparing his
Sunday School lesson for the next morning.
In another version the ending was like was this:
"The voice again asked, 'WHO WILL WARN MY PEOPLE?' Then I
boldly volunteered, as if I was ready for acceptable. From
out of the throng came the Master, Jesus. He blessed me and
said, 'I will go with you all the way.'
"Unreal, self-delusionary, you might say. But it has given
me a strength, a meekness and, I hope, a kindness that did
not exist before.
"No, this is not to be made a religion, a schism or a cult -
never! Such experiences are only assurances for myself, not
to be told to bring other than the assurance that God is
mindful of the children of men."
12/31/43 Following Life Rdg.
3209-2, EC told this dream:
I went fishing with John, James, Andrew and the Master. I
asked where Peter was. "O, you know Peter ain't here!" said
James. Thomas said, "O yes, I was a fisherman - don't let
them fool you, telling you to quit fishing. We are all
eating fish." All of us were in the nicest little boat on a
lake.
11/14/44 GC wrote GD from Roanoke, Va.: "This afternoon
while taking a nap, Edgar dreamed he was getting the right
treatment to restore his body to normal and to just be
patient. My, we have tried. It's been so long and hard."
5/04/45 The day after EC's death see Mrs. [
3257]'s dream of EC
and Roosevelt recorded under
3257-1, Par. R1.
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