(Q) Wednesday Morning, Nov. 17, 1926. I was talking to
Edgar Cayce and said: "Now that we know that heaven is a
cosmic cognizance or consciousness of that which matter is
to that viewpoint - i.e. the essence or vital force of life,
let us see what hell is like." Then I beheld a man tied
diagonally to a stake. The man may have been myself. It
seemed in times back and some great king was ordering me
(the man) to be burnt at the stake. I (or the man) was
stripped naked and the fire lighted. I suffered horribly in
the flames and then breaking loose I dropped on my knees to
the king, a sudden idea of escape having entered my mind.
Reaching up from my kneeled position to the standing king, I
said: "You will die soon of heart disease!" He didn't
believe me. I then played upon his fear or superstition.
"I tell you," I ejaculated, "I am a man facing the grave and
as a dying man prophesy your death. You will die soon of
heart disease!" The king looked around wonderingly and
frightened. At the same time I jumped up, and naked as I
was rushed out making my escape. I seemed out upon a desert
or plains and saw two or three figures coming towards me in
peculiar costumes that reminded me of the "Katzenjammer Kids"
- tricksters in the funny page. Afraid that they sought some
insincerity or trick, I struck one of them.
(A) In this there is presented, as it were, the first of
the series of comparisons in the study of the entity through
which many minds, or most minds, gain the concept of that
which may be termed good or bad, and in same the entity sees
the various phases of the absence of that all-life-giving
essence as is necessary for an entity to be wholly conscious
of that state that is at an at-oneness with the Creative
Energy and, as is seen by the entity, that as is highest
magnified is fear and selfish conditions - these being that
which first separates the entity from the presence or
at-oneness with that divine Creative Energy, or from God,
and the various phases or experiences of the entity in these
are the various modifications of that same consciousness as
is seen in the actions of each individual in the scene
enacted through the experience of the body conscious mind,
correlated with experiences of the mental mind, correlating
experience of the subconscious entity, viewed and seen from
the whole of the entity in the subconscious form or
condition, and as these various experiences are correlated
with the truths set in the entity's, [
900]'s study as
respecting what is meant as an at-oneness with the Universal
Forces, these SAME experiences, as is seen, is that through
which the consciousness of an entity becomes aware of,
through the oneness of the entity's ability to correlate
same. Then becoming, as it were, an experience away from
the at-oneness and classified, named, called, by that
understanding as is called "hell."
We are through for the present.
REPORTS
11/19/26 P.M. He obtained Dream Rdg.
136-48 for his wife.
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