This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home in Pinewood on Lake Drive, Va. Beach, Va., this 6th day of May, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, Hugh Lynn and L. B. Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the information given through these channels on the lost continent of Atlantis. You will continue with this information and answer the questions regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the information that has been given through these channels regarding the development of individual lives and their respective personalities, as these in their development got farther and farther away from those impelling forces that made them one in body, mind and spirit, with the universal consciousness.
3. As these that were projections upon this plane of man's making began to multiply, and to attach themselves to the various activities that made for the sustaining of those forces that are most predominant in the living creatures (that of self-preservation and propagation), with these developments of self, the ego, the I Am, there began the developments towards that gratifying in material senses those forces manifest in their beings; as those that made for amusement, those that made for the preserving of thoughts in their developing forces as towards material - now, rather than towards its continued associations from that which it received its impulse. The "its", now, is the man!
4. In the first, then, we find the necessity of now supplying its own foods, its own protection, its own activities for amusements, for developments, for its associations one with another, and - as given - then selfishness, and the desire to excel, the desire to place self as in control of, in the supervision of, those things or others about same, gradually developed households, groups, clans, masses, then originally - or eventually - in that known as various groups, houses, or nations. With these developments came then the gradual injections of the use of elements from without for protection, as implements with which to protect themselves, which began with the use of FITTING stone, iron, brass, copper, and those elements known in the present, as instruments of warfare, or of building, or of preservation of the various emoluments of individuals. Hence we had also those for ornamentation of the body, ornamentation of the abode, ornamentation of the various surroundings that had to do with the individuals in their various sets, classes, or groups. These made for such as dwelt in groups in homes or cities, while others made for those as of following the field, or those as of the hunters, or those as of the agriculturists, or those that had herds, and their various necessities that followed with these.
5. In their various developments, we find in various periods of the beginning, some were given to the one and some given to the other. These as the necessity and the surroundings demanded that those bring in the experience of the entities that it brought to pass; for was it still not those that were of creation in itself? and it followed in the examples, then, of that about it - called nature - that built according to its instinctive forces. Hence the first became dwellers in the rocks, in the caves, and those also that made their homes or nests, as it were, in the trees and in the various things that surrounded their environs. Then began the correlation, or the coordinating of combined forces of a household, which made for the building up of that as became the clans in their varied activities, those of a nature builded together as for that in which those groups or those clans followed in their line, these keeping in touch with those various others according to their necessities of dispensing or disposing of, or to meet with the needs for the various individual groups.
6. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Describe briefly one of the large cities of Atlantis at the height of its commercial and material prosperity, giving name and location.
   (A) This we find in that as called Poseida, or the city that was built upon the hill that overlooked the waters of Parfa (?), and in the vicinity also the egress and entrance to the waters from which, through which, many of the people passed in their association with, or connection with, those of the outside walls or countries. This we find not an altogether walled city, but a portion of same built so that the waters of these rivers became as the pools about which both sacrifice and sport, and those necessities for the cleansing of body, home and all, were obtained, and these - as we find - were brought by large ducts or canals into these portions for the preservation, and yet kept constantly in motion so that it purified itself in its course; for, as we find, as is seen, water in motion over stone or those various forces in the natural forces purifies itself in twenty feet of space.
   In the type of the buildings, these were much in that of tiers - one upon the another, save principally in the temples - that were about the sacred fires where these were offered, the sacrifices that were gradually builded by the people in their attempt to appease those forces in nature, and from which we find there came all those forms in the various portions of the earth in which these were carried in their necessary channels, to make for the variations in its surroundings and the conditions thereunto. In this temple, we find these of large or semi-circular columns of onyx, topaz, and inlaid with beryl, amethyst, and stones that made the variations in catching the rays of the sun. Hence a portion of same became as the sun worshippers in other portions, from which there were an egress of the peoples.
   In this the sacred fires burned, and there were the rising of the intermittent fires that came and went, that were later worshipped by some that brought on much of the destruction, because they waited long at the period before the destructions came. These were those places where there became eventually the necessity of offering human sacrifices, which when put into fires became the ashes that were cast upon the waters for the drinking of same by those that were made prisoners from portions of other lands.
   In the setting up of same, these in the temple ruled - rather than those who held official positions in carrying out the orders of those in these positions.
   These, as to the manner of the buildings, were of the outer court - or where groups or masses might collect. The inner, those that were of a select group, or those of the second chambers. Those of the inner court, or shrine about the altar, were only for the elect, or the chosen few.
8. We are through for the present.

   Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce
   Copy to Cayce file

BACKGROUND

1. See 364-1 through 364-11.

REPORTS

1. 11/17/32 See 364-13.

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