This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home in Pinewood on Lake Drive, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of April, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Gray Salter, H. L. and L. B. Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the information given through this channel on the lost continent of Atlantis. You will continue with this information, and will answer the questions which I will ask regarding this:
2. EC: Yes. As to why, then, each individual must be, and is, the keeper of his own vineyard? For there is, as from the beginning, in each entity that - of the Father, or the First Cause - that enables one to make manifest even in the material world through the attributes OF the First Cause, that makes for the manifestation OF that power, or force, in a material world. As to what one does WITH same is an action of the will that entity himself, or herself.
3. As to occult or psychic science, as called, then - it is, as we have found through some manifestations, that these forces are first recognized in or by the individual. Hence, as has been seen, in the beginning these were the natural expressions of an entity. As there developed more of the individual association with material conditions, and they partook of same in such a manner as to become wholly or in part a portion OF same, farther - or more hidden, more unseen - has become occult or psychic manifestations. First there were the occasional harking back. Later by dream. Again we find individuals raised in certain sections for specific purposes. As the cycle has gone about, time and again has there arisen in the earth those that MANIFESTED these forces in a more magnificent, more beneficent, way and manner. And, as has been given, again the time draws near when there shall be seen and known among men, in many places, the manifestations of such forces in the material world; for "As ye have seen him go, so will He return again." Be thou faithful unto those words He has given while yet with you. Hence it behooves every individual to take cognizance of that force that may manifest in their material lives, even in this material age; for those that become ashamed for His sake - for THAT sake - of that that may manifest (which is as the Spirit's manner of activity) through those many channels that are open to those who will look up, lift up - and these, we find, are often in the lowliest of places and circumstances. Why? Since these are forces of the Most High, since these supplied - as of old - those secular things in abundance, and were supplied the needs not only of the physical being but of the mental and spiritual also, contributing to those forces as made for the gratification also of that builded in a material world, does it become any wonder that he that shall be abased and remains true shall wear the Crown of Life? Does it become unreasonable, then, that ye are being chastised for that which has been builded within the material forces of the body itself, that must be tried so as by fire? for the chaff must be burned out! Even as with the use of those sources of information, the abilities to become a portion of those elements that were the creative forces OF the compounds or elements within the universal forces, at that period brought about those forces that made for destruction of the land itself, in the attempt to draw that as was in man then back TO the knowledge; and these brought about those destructive forces (that are known today) in gases, with that called the death ray [See 364-11, Par. R2], that brought from the bowels of the earth itself - when turned into the sources of supply - those destructions to portions of the land. Man has ever (even as then) when in distress, either mental, spiritual OR physical, sought to know his association, his connection, with the divine forces that brought the worlds into being. As these are sought, so does the promise hold true - or that given man from the beginning, "Will ye be my children, I will be thy God!" "Ye turn your face from me, my face is turned from thee", and those things ye have builded in thine own endeavor to make manifest thine own powers bring those certain destructions in the lives of individuals in the present, even as in those first experiences with the use of those powers that are so tabu by the worldly-wise, that are looked upon as old men's tales and women's fables; yet in the strength of such forces do WORLDS come into being!
4. THIS is what psychic force, and so called occult science, DID mean, HAS meant, DOES mean in the world today.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) Describe in more detail the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea.
   (A) As there were those individuals that attempted to bring again to the mind of man more of those forces that are manifest by the closer association of the mental and spiritual, or the soul forces that were more and more as individual and personal forms in the world, the use of the these elements - as for the building up, or the passage of individuals through space - brought the uses of the gases then (in the existent forces), and the individuals being able to become the elements, and elementals themselves, added to that used in the form of what is at present known as the raising of the powers from the sun itself, to the ray that makes for disintegration of the atom, in the gaseous forces formed, and brought about the destruction in that portion of the land now presented, or represented, or called, Sargasso sea.
7. (Q) What was the date of the first destruction, estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?
   (A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction, which came as has been given.
8. (Q) Please give a few details regarding the physiognomy, habits, customs and costumes of the people of Atlantis during the period just before this first destruction.
   (A) These, as we find, will require their being separated in the gradual development of the body and its physiognomy as it came into being in the various portions of that land, as well as to those that would separate themselves from those peoples where there were the indwelling of peoples, or man - as man, in the various areas of the land, or what we call world.
   In the matter of form, as we find, first there were those as projections from that about the animal kingdom; for the THOUGHT bodies gradually took form, and the various COMBINATIONS (as may be called) of the various forces that called or classified themselves as gods, or rulers over - whether herds, or fowls, or fishes, etc. - in PART that kingdom and part of that as gradually evolved into a physiognomy much in the form of the present day may (were one chosen of those that were, or are, the nearest representative of the race of peoples that existed in this first period as the first destructions came about). These took on MANY sizes as to stature, from that as may be called the midget to the giants - for there were giants in the earth in those days, men as tall as (what would be termed today) ten to twelve feet in stature, and in proportion - well proportioned throughout. The ones that became the most USEFUL were those as would be classified (or called in the present) as the IDEAL stature, that was of both male and female (as those separations had been begun); and the most ideal (as would be called) was Adam, who was in that period when he (Adam) appeared as five in one - See?
   In this the physiognomy was that of a full head, with an extra EYE - as it were - in those portions that became what is known as the EYE. In the beginning these appeared in WHATEVER portion was desired by the body for its use!
   As for the dress, those in the beginning were (and the Lord made for them coats) of the skins of the animals. These covered the parts of their person that had become, then, as those portions of their physiognomy that had brought much of the desires that made for destructive forces in their own experience; and these then were of those ABOUT them that were given as meat, or used as same - that partook of the herbs. These were those same herbs that the seed were to have been for food for the man in self, and only those that partook of same may be called even CLEAN - in the present day. Those that supply those same materials that are the proper building for the forces within the anatomical forces, or physiological forces, of a developing body; for these carry all the elements in their natural state. Little of minerals should ever be the properties within the system, save as may be taken through the vegetable forces, save where individuals have so laxed themselves as to require or need that which will make for an even balance of same.
9. We are through for the present.

   Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce
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BACKGROUND

1. Subject of 364-11 - "Atlantis".
2. See 364-1 through 364-10.

REPORTS

1. 5/06/32 See 364-12.
2. 6/18/66 Saturday - The Pittsburgh Press:
   MAGNETIC FIELD REVERSED
   COSMIC RAYS LINKED TO DINOSAUR DEATHS
   By David Dietz, Scripps-Howard Science Editor
   Did a sudden reversal of the earth's magnetic field, transforming the north magnetic pole into a south pole, initiate the decline and disappearance of the mighty dinosaurs from the face of the earth?
   The possibility is suggested by researches carried out by Prof. Bruce Heezen and his colleagues at the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University.
   Dr. Heezen described the researches this month in Moscow at the Second International Oceanographic Congress. More than 1000 scientists are attending the conference under the auspices of UNESCO and the Soviet government.
   ANALYZE ROCK
   Analysis of rock cores extracted from the floors of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, gave evidence of such magnetic reversals, he said.
   The rock cores showed that the abrupt changes in the magnetic field were accompanied by the disappearance of several species of microscopic forms of ocean life known as plankton, and the appearance of new species.
   Particles in the first three feet of the cores were magnetized in the same direction as the earth's present magnetic field. Below that depth, they were magnetized for some feet in the opposite direction. Several such reversals were found deeper in the cores.
   The direction of magnetization was determined with an instrument known as a spinning magnetometer.
   Prof. Heezen explained that when the earth's magnetic field reverses, there is a period, as it switches poles, when the electromagnetic field around the earth disappears.
   ACTS AS SHIELD
   Normally, this field acts as a shield to screen out most of the cosmic rays from outer space. When the shield disappears, the earth is subjected to the full fury of cosmic ray bombardment. It is a well known fact that cosmic rays can cause genetic mutations which lead to the establishment of new species. Dr. Heezen thinks a sudden increase in cosmic rays could also lead to lethal changes that would trigger the extinction of some species.
   HE SAYS THAT THE LAST REVERSAL OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD TOOK PLACE 700,000 YEARS AGO AND THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME THE FIELD IS DECREASING IN STRENGTH.
   If the field continues to decrease at its present rate, he continues, another reversal may occur in a thousand years or so.
   It is difficult to explain why the earth's magnetic field should reverse itself. The fact of the matter is that the very existence of the magnetic field has not yet been explained completely.
   It is assumed that the field arises as a result of electric currents in the molten iron core of the earth.
   Cosmic rays, it is agreed, can create mutations by causing changes in the genes in the reproductive cells.

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