Edgar Cayce Readings, 1151-10

Time and Place: 12:00 to 12:45 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y.

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GC: You will have before you the entity, [1151], born Feb. 12, 1889, in Brooklyn, N.Y., who seeks detailed information concerning his Roman-Palestine sojourn, covering his biographical life, work and associations throughout that experience, from the entity's entrance to his departure. You will also give the developing or retarding associations and influences of that plane which bear on the present life, and how they may be best used in the present experience for the entity's highest development and service. You will then answer the questions he will submit, as I ask them, concerning his present life and associations.
EC: Yes - again we are permitted to look into the records here, of that entity now called [1151].
We also find that as has been indicated and given, from the experience in the Roman-Palestine period.
In giving that as we find the interpretation of same here:
It was in those years when there was the establishing of the Julian calendar, and when changes were wrought as to times. Hence the record will be measured here from that in which time was counted later.
In that portion of the land now called Rome, then a portion of Heliopolis, the entity was the son then of one Antonius [?] and Josie [?] that came in the activities of the Roman experience; educated in the ways of those peoples that were both for the Roman and the Grecian forces.
And those things that became a part of the experiences were the lessons which had been taught by the Grecian soldier that later fed the hemlock.
Thus the entity grew into grace with those in authority, through the activities as came under the influences of Caesar Augustus, later Claudius and those that ruled over the varied lands that had become a portion of the experiences - or under the direction of the Romans.
The entity, as has been indicated, was one who traveled through those lands, making those associations, those recommendations for the manners in which the peoples under the various schools would be taxed, according to their SPIRITUAL counsel - or according to what ye would call the religious influences and the judging of these.
Hence we find the man, then, at thirty, coming into associations during those periods when the Master walked in the earth - as the young man just beginning the ministry.
In these associations the entity came in close contact with those of the household from which the Master had gone out; becoming associated with, later married to (and by the Master), the SISTER of the Master - the ONLY sister, who had received education in Greece AND Rome, through the associations of the family with the sects of the Jews and a portion that favored the Romans.
Hence much of that which had been a portion of the experience of the household of Mary and Joseph was known to the entity.
And when the Master was called home, owing to the death of Joseph, the husband of Mary, the entity then - that ye now call [1151] - first became the closer associated with Jesus, the Master.
For owing to the visitations of Jesus the man in other lands, and because of the Roman rule, and the changes wrought the entity then - Romacio [?]¹ - found it necessary to make for the activities that brought a closer understanding.
During those periods the activities were in keeping the Jewish masters or the Jewish rulers COORDINATING with the activities of the Roman rulers - as in that particular province in which the greater activities were under Pontius Pilate.
Hence we find, as would be applied in the present, as is the experience of the entity ever in the present experience, the entity became as one associated with the producer and that produced - or with the capital and the labor, or the activities as related to same.
These become a natural activity from same; as then many of not only the tax assessors, the tax gatherers, but those who judged in the various provinces as to the amounts, as to the abilities came under the supervision of the entity during those experiences.
Hence we find there were many of those that were the followers, yea the disciples, later called Apostles, who became close friends then in one manner or another - of the entity.
It is sometimes judged that most of the disciples were poor; and this was not true. For Zebedee and his sons, Matthew the publican, all who were closely associated were rather well-to-do. Peter and Andrew, of course, were servants or laborers with the sons of Zebedee; but Zebedee was among the wealthy - and among those closely associated with those in authority.
For as these were a portion of the family of which John, James, Jude, Ruth and all became a part, these were kinsmen; and people that were in authority so far as capital is concerned - as ye would term in the present; and were not poor!
While Peter, Andrew, Thomas, Alphaeus were not of the wealthy, all of these were known to the entity; as also was Matthew, as just given, who had been one appointed by an aide of the entity in the experience.
Thus came the closer understanding. For the entity then studied, as it were, those things that PROMPTED the activity of the various sets and sects; as the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes, the influence upon the Roman soldiery as well as the Roman rule, as well as upon the individuals who were set in authority in the varied provinces.
Then, the period arrives when the entity is just called to Rome, during that period of the trial - or just before the trial, during the Crucifixion; returning to Jerusalem or to those environs of same just the day AFTER this had occurred.
Thus we find the walk to Emmaus with the disciples, one Luke the beloved physician who was both a Roman and a Jew - and OF those same provinces in the Grecian rule that were under the Roman authorities.
Thus we find the entity again PHYSICALLY in association, in touch with the influence of the Master, Jesus, who became the Christ in the life lived.
Thus we find the entity later, when there was the recall of Pilate for that which had been brought about, returned to Rome as one who counseled with the Caesars for those very activities, and making the changes that brought Philip and Agrippa and the judges that were to judge later when those periods in which Paul, Peter, John, Philip and Stephen were active. These all became a portion of the experiences of the entity.
Though remaining a Roman, the entity was in sympathy with those activities; lending counsel and giving those influence that prevented the full destruction of the disciples - during those periods of experience.
Is there any wonderment then that the entity in the present experience finds the urge for service? for it was gained by those close walks with the entity, the man, Jesus; who had given, "He that would be the greatest among you, he is the servant of all."
These became then as it were the sign, the guide, the directing influence in the experience of the entity.
And we find little in that sojourn, that activity, that may be said to have been even a tendency towards retardment.
For ALL was in purpose, in desire, to be even as He had taught, that they who for any cause lord over their fellow man become that as must sooner or later become a stumbling stone.
And as He gave also, each and every individual is in that position, that phase, that state of development, or UNFOLDMENT, that they have builded in their application of that as He gave IS the whole law; to love the Lord thy God with all thy body, thy mind, thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself.
This is the whole law. May all learn, as the entity strove then to apply those tenets, those truths in the EXPERIENCES of those that were put in authority - by man, yea, but that they might have, they might show in their opportunity, that the love of the Father surpasses the GLORY of man.
In those periods of activity following those persecutions and the changes that came about in the individual authorities in the various provinces, the entity returned again and again to those lands, associations and activities; meeting with those who had been keepers of the records here or there, those who had been in authority for the levying of taxes, the manners of the levying, etc.
Thus we find throughout the entity's experience and the entity's associations with those of what ye call or term the Palestine experience, there was NO REBELLION OF those peoples of the land against ROMAN authority - only after those periods when the entity was recalled, or attempted to keep closer in touch with those who had been called to Rome, when Paul - by his own SELF - brought misinterpreting, misunderstanding; and when Peter, and the Church - as John - and here the entity, in the last acts of his intervention, SAVED that entity - for the followers, for the world - from that death as the others had drawn or had come to.
Hence the banishment of John was by the very DIRECT intervention of the entity with those in authority, and the taking away from the churches that had been established in the various places that there might be preserved the records for same - became a portion of the entity's experience.
There was the passing then from the physical activity in Rome during that period when there were just the beginnings of the attempts for the unification of the religious as well as the penal laws, or the laws in the other lands ruled by the Roman empire.
The entity once, just before the interventions, went to the libraries in Alexandria - and there were the attempts to placate any of the destructions that later became the loss to what is now called the Christian world.
It was at that age or period some sixty years AFTER the Crucifixion - then ninety years or ninety-three years of age - at the passing.
(Q) I would like to know a more detailed account of the report I made to Rome concerning the Christian movement in Palestine.
(A) These were of such varied characters, we find it is necessary that all of these be taken as what may be termed individual reports, see?
At the time when there was the recalling of Pilate, and the reports that had been made as to the activities of the wife of Pilate as related to the healing that had been accomplished in the household, then we find a very FAVORABLE report to the Christians - though the entity was questioned much by those who were directly under the supervision of the entity. But the report was accepted by the Roman emperor and acted upon according to the directions of the entity; that Pilate be removed, and one closer in association or in sympathy with the Christian movement be appointed in the stead - as is seen or is recorded by profane history as well as by intimation in sacred history.
During those periods when there were the uprisings, as in some places and positions, we find the reports then were not so severe against the individual activities of the Romans in authority; for never again do we find, as has just been given, any of the Roman RULERS of the various provinces acting WITHOUT the direction from Rome through the activities of the entity. While these reports were not that Rome should just ACCEPT the authority, but that there be the REASONING TOGETHER. For he gave then, even as did the great teacher from the Sanhedrin - Gamaliel - let not ye find thyselves fighting against God. This might be said then to be the whole of the report. Not be in that attitude of condemning, but do not act in such measures as to find thyself fighting against providence and God.
(Q) Did I secure information from the entity now known as [1472]?
(A) Information respecting the activities of the Essenes as to whether they were averse to the authority of the Jewish rulers, as well as the Romans. The activities or lessons, or information gained from the keeper of the records of the Essenes - or Judy - were those things that prompted the entity later to investigate for self those records that were reported to have been made, and that were in the library of Alexandria, of the Wise Men that came from the other lands just before the birth, and at the time of the birth presented themselves - or a few days later - in the town of Bethlehem.
Yes, the entity gained, or obtained, a record of that as had been gathered by the keeper of records from Carmel.
(Q) How close a relationship had I with the entity now known as [1472]?
(A) Just as would be intimated - as here the entity Judy was held in reverence by all of the followers of Jesus, though persecuted oft by the Jews - or the sects of the Jews - under various circumstances. But not as an informer was the entity considered by the entity now known as [1151], but as one that would and that did give the facts of the activities of various groups in respect to not only the Essenes but the other portions of the various groups in the land.
The association then was quite close at times; at others not so closely associated yet keeping in touch with the activities.
(Q) How close was I to the entity now known as [1470]?
(A) As has been indicated, or may be gathered from that which has been given, the entity now called [1470], was what would be called a deputy - or one who was given certain portions of the province from which to make the levy. Then, what ye would term in the present as a clerk, or as an agent, or as an associate - but rather a subordinate associate.
(Q) Does my experience from that period justify now my approaching Foundations for financing my activities in relation to labor policies?
(A) The activities of the entity, as just indicated, were such as to lend to self not only the motives but the impetus, the feelings of necessities for this understanding to ever be between the supply, the demand; the one who labors - those that receive not only the benefits materially but physically and mentally from such.
Hence this would make for that ability in which there may be made overtures in such ways and manners as to receive the greatest and the wholehearted cooperation from Foundations, from groups.
(Q) Did I know the entity, [1486], in the Palestine period?
(A) We don't find quite the association, yet we get the vibration. Hold it. (Pause)
Yes, the entity as we find, [1486], was put in authority as a special judge during that experience by the entity; when there were those disturbances in that portion of the province - or activities in Galilee.
(Q) Any other advice that may be given at this time that will be of benefit and help?
(A) Hold to that purpose that has prompted thee, not only in thy activities then but in those that ye are repeating in this experience - from those great awakenings and unfoldments that came to thee when thou had indeed learned, thou had experienced indeed, "I am my brother's keeper?" even as the Master gave of His whole self - body and mind - risking even the spirit, that man might know there is an advocate with the Father.
So can ye bring into the hearts and minds of those in authority, here or there, whether it be those that labor day by day, or those that work in the office or where, the realization that ALL must work as the cog, the wheel, that must bring together all for ONE purpose - SERVICE, that the Father may be manifested through the love each soul shows for the other!
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file

¹ [GD's note: See 1151-1 saying his name was Philoas - it was spelled out by EC. In N.Y. I did not have access to 1151-1, so when he said the name without spelling it, I did not understand and had to put a question mark. Perhaps he used both names?]

BACKGROUND

See 1151-1 on 4/22/36 and subsequent Life Readings.

REPORTS

11/24/37 He obtained a Ck. Physical - 1151-11.
2/09/38 He obtained another Ck. Life - See 1151-12.