Edgar Cayce Readings, 364-9

Time: 10:45 A. M. Eastern Standard Time.

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GC: You will have before you the information given through this channel on the Lost Continent of Atlantis. You will please answer the questions which I will ask regarding this:
EC: Yes, we have the information that has been given as respecting the continent Atlantis; also the information that has been given through these channels as respecting same. Ready for questions.
(Q) In what country, and in connection with what religion or philosophy, did Jesus live as Ur? [As indicated in 364-7, Par. 8-A.]
(A) Ur was rather a land, a place, a city - and the thought, or intent, or the call was from Ur. Ur, then, as presented or represented in the experience of Jesus, as one that impelled or guided those thoughts in that period, or experience.
(Q) What part did Jesus play in any of His reincarnations in the development of the basic teachings of the following religions and philosophies? First, Buddhism:
(A) This is just one.
(Q) Mohammedanism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Brahmanism, Platoism, Judaism.
(A) As has been indicated, the entity - as an entity - influenced either directly or indirectly all those forms of philosophy or religious thought that taught God was One.
In the first, as one that associated with - in the meditation or spirit of - that one guiding same, and those things that have been added to are much in the same manner that was added to in Judaism. Whether in Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Confucianism, Platoism, or what - these have been added to much from that as was given by Jesus in His walk in Galilee and Judea. In all of these, then, there is that same impelling spirit. What individuals have done, do do, TO the principles or the spirit of same - in turning this aside to meet their OWN immediate needs in material planes, or places has made for that as becomes an outstanding thing, as a moralist or the head of any independent religious force or power; for, as has been given, "Know, O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE!" whether this is directing one of the Confucius' thought, Brahman thought, Buddha thought, Mohammedan thought; these are as teachers or representatives, or to make more of the distinct change - as was in that as given by the apostle to the gentiles: "I hear there are divisions among you. Some say I am Paul, another I am Apollos, another I am of Caiaphas. Paul may minister, Apollos may have watered, but it's GOD that gives the increase!" The Spirit of the Creative Force, and as such the Son represented in the spirit in that as was made manifest in the earth. Not as ONLY one, but THE only one; for, as He gave, "He that climbs up any other way is a thief and a robber." As the Spirit of the Master, the Spirit of the Son, was manifest - as was given - to each in their respective sphere. As it is today. As it was of yore. God calls on man everywhere to seek His face, through that channel that may be blessed by the Spirit of the Son - in whatever sphere this may take its form. Because there are contentions, because there is the lack of the giving and taking as to others' thought, does not change God's attitude one whit; neither does it make one above another; for, as has been given, there IS ONLY one - the others are as those acting in the capacity of the thought that was given to them through that same power, that "In the last days has He spoken unto us through the Son, as one born out of due season." We find the same contentions arising in that called in the present denominationalism, and each one crying, "Lo, here is Christ - Lo, this is the manner of approach - Lo, unless ye do this or that ye have no part in Him." "He that loves me will keep my commandments." What are the comandments? "Thou shalt have no other GOD before me", and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." In this is builded the whole LAW and gospel of every age that has said, "There is ONE God!"
(Q) What name was borne by Jesus in His reincarnations in France, England, America?
(A) Rather these have been as the Spirit of the Christ, or the Master walked among men, than incarnated in these different countries; for whether among the priest, as it were, in France - or among the lowly monk in England, or the warrior bold in America, the SPIRIT that "God is ONE! Prefer thy neighbor, thy brother, before thyself!" These, as we find, took possession of - or rather labored with, until their own PERSONALITIES were laid aside in individuals. Do thou likewise, would thou have Him walk with thee. "Not my will, O Lord, but thine, be done in me - this day, now!"
(Q) Was Atlantis one of the five points at which man appeared in the beginning, being the home of the red race?
(A) One of the five points. As has been given, in what is known as Gobi, India, in Carpathia [?], or in that known as the Andes, and that known as in the western plain of what is now called America - the five places. In their presentation, as we find, these - in the five places, as MAN (Let's get the difference in that as first appeared in what is known as Atlantis, and that as MAN appearing from those projections in the five places - and, as has been given, from their environ took on that as became necessary for the meeting of those varying conditions under which their individualities and personalities began to put on form) - one in the white, another in the brown, another in the black, another in the red. These, as we find, taking that form - Would snow be the place for the black? or the sun the place for the white? or the desert and the hills for either the white or black? as were partakers of those things that brought about those variations in that which enters, or becomes as the outer presentation, or the skin, or the pigment that is presented in same. [See 5/02/63 in 364-9, Par. R1.]
(Q) The center or beginning of these projections was in Atlantis?
(A) Was in Atlantis. Hence we have, as from the second incarnation there - or the story as is given in Judaism doesn't vary a great deal from that of the Chaldean; neither does it vary at all from that that WILL be discovered in Yucatan; nor does it vary a great deal from that as from the OLDER ones of the Indian (East Indian, of course - as it is from the present).
(Q) What was the greatest period of the development of the occult sciences in Atlantis and how did the people use them?
(A) This, as we will find, will require a great deal of an explanation even to bring to the consciousness of an individual, in the present day way of thinking, as to what is meant by occult or mystic science; for the NATURAL trend - or the NATURAL condition of individuals, or entities - was the USE of these; as it is natural to eat!
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND

Subject of 364-9 - "Atlantis".
See 364-1 through 364-8.

REPORTS

THE EVENING BULLETIN Philadelphia Thursday, May 2, 1963
AUTHOR OF 'ORIGIN OF RACES' LEAVING UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
By Peter H. Binzen Of The Bulletin Staff
Dr. Carleton S. Coon, noted anthropologist whose work, "The Origin of Races," has stirred controversy, is retiring as curator of ethnology and professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Professor Coon, 58, has held the two posts for 15 years. His retirement is effective July 1. He will remain a member of the museum staff for field work.
From his home in Gloucester, Mass., Dr. Coon said yesterday that he plans to devote his time to research and writing. He has been on leave for a year.
Author, lecturer, onetime television personality (on the Museum program, "What in the World?"), Professor Coon is currently president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
ATHENAEUM MEDALIST Last Friday he received one of two Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1962 gold medals for nonfiction, for "The Origin of Races."
Professor Coon emphasized that his retirement had been planned for a long time and has no connection whatever with the furor that has developed over "The Origin of Races."
In the volume, which was published last fall, Coon offers a striking theory concerning the history of mankind.
FIVE SEPARATE RACES It is his belief that man divided into five races or subspecies half a million years ago, perhaps longer, and the five races then developed almost independently.
Homo erectus evolved into Homo Sapiens, he believes, not once but five times as each subspecies passed the critical intelligence threshold.
He suggests there may have been a lag of as much as 200,000 years between the time the first subspecies became sapient (wise) and the time that the fifth one did.
SEGREGATIONISTS CITED BOOK Coon tentatively traces the Congoid (Negro) subspecies through the so-called "Broken Hill" man of Northern Rhodesia which he terms "the only complete specimen of Homo erectus yet found." He estimates its age at no more than 25,000 years.
Segregationists pounced on the book as evidence that the Negro race was at least 200,000 years behind the white race on the ladder of evolution.
Dr. Coon, in "The Origin of Races," said he was making no judgments concerning possible relationships between blood and brains. He promised to do so in a sequel. [See 364-9, Par. 7-A.]
8/09/67 Cincinnati Enquirer article "Climate Factor In Determining Racial Color" (New York Times Service)
NEW YORK - Why has the human race so many different skin colors? A Brandeis University biochemist, Dr. W. Farnsworth Loomis, proposes that the evolution of black, brown, yellow and white-skinned peoples was a response to the amount of vitamin D, produced by the skin in the presence of sunlight.
Vitamin D is produced by the action of ultraviolet rays in the dermis, the "true" skin that lies beneath the layers of the epidermis, the outer skin. Insufficient amounts of vitamin D in children results in abnormal bone development - the deficiency disease called rickets. Adults with a vitamin D deficiency are likely to develop soft bones.
Excessive amounts of vitamin D cause deposits of calcium and phosphorous.
Therefore, says Loomis, it would be an evolutionary advantage for the skin to produce only the right amount of vitamin D - no more no less.
The amount of pigments and horny cells in the epidermis determines how many ultraviolet rays reach the dermis and, therefore, how much vitamin is produced, he points out. Thus, he reasons, it would be an evolutionary advantage for people living in Equatorial regions, which receive large amounts of ultraviolet light, to have sufficient pigment or horny cells in the epidermis to block excessive rays.
Similarly, Loomis adds, persons living far from the Equator - where few ultraviolet rays come through, particularly in winter - would be better off with few pigments and horny cells in their skin.
LOOMIS OUTLINES his theory in an article in the current issue of the technical journal, Science. In the article, the biochemist notes that the American anthropologists, F. G. Murray, proposed a similar explanation of the evolution of skin color in 1934, an explanation "that is not generally accepted by anthropologists."
Asked to comment on the theory, Dr. Harry Shapiro, anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History here, said that it sounded "reasonable" and that "selective adaptation of skin color was not counter to anthropological thinking."
According to Loomis, if a white-skinned adult were exposed to the tropical sun for six hours, his body would synthesize up to 800,000 international units of vitamin D - eight times the toxic dose.
In contrast, he estimates, a deeply pigmented person at the same latitude would synthesize only five to 10% of that amount - well within the daily acceptable dose.
Loomis points out that "both in Europe and China, skin pigmentation becomes lighter as one goes north," adding that "the one exception to the correlation between latitude and skin color in the old world is the Eskimo."
Although the Eskimo has medium dark skin, he remains "completely free of rickets," Loomis maintains, because his diet is rich in fish oils, the only foodstuff known to contain sizable amounts of vitamin D.
See Source File Key #364 for 11/25/95 The Virginian-Pilot article "Scientists find clues for ancestral 'Adam'" re 364-9.