Edgar Cayce Readings, 1602-3

Time and Place: 10:50 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.

TEXT

GC: You will have before you the inquiring mind of [1602], present in this room, who seeks guidance - impersonal guidance and light regarding the teachings of Jacob Boehme, the German philosopher and mystic of the 17th century who used the corresponding Principles of Nature - of the entire Astral, with man, as the true Spiritual approach to the Primal Light beyond the Circuit of Reincarnation. Will you clarify the answers to the following and help me to understand them in relation to Spiritual Evolution - as I ask them:
EC: Yes, we have the enquiring mind, and those tenets and teachings and illustrations as presented by Jacob Boehme; as respecting the relationships of man in his search for the Creative Forces or God.
In giving first those approaches as we find of same, much of that presented by Boehme, in illustrating the activities, the various phases of consciousness or awareness, the effect of the astral, the cosmic consciousness of same in its relationships to the emotions and activities of which the body is conscious in its various stages of development, - we find these are identical with those presented by John in Patmos.
And as the individual analyzes or studies the bodily forces and emotions as arise through the activities in a material sphere in relationship to the influences arising from without, these come to be the representations and interpretations of that presented by John in Patmos.
Here, though, we will find these are variations in some of those things presented. For here we find with Boehme more of the consciousness through which man has passed in his study and in his search for that as might be used as an illustration of same, as related to what has been termed by some as the consciousness related to the seasons and the changes and the zodiac, as well as the planetary forces and the activities of same.
All of these, as we have indicated through these channels from time to time, are relative as one to another; and as in those influences or forces indicated through the sojourns of the individuals in activities in the planetary forces and the astral aspects of the individuality of an entity, - these become rather those manners in which the influences as indicated through the activities of an individuality as the motivating forces become expressed, or what may be said to have been the choice taken by an entity as regards that which is constructive or destructive in its experience; motivated, of course, by the spirit of that which becomes the impelling influence in the activity of the individual.
But ready for questions.
(Q) Three hundred years ago Jacob Boehme decreed Atlantis would rise again at this crisis time when we cross from this Piscean Era into the Aquarian. Is Atlantis rising now? Will it cause a sudden convolution and about what Year?
(A) In 1998 we may find a great deal of the activities as have been wrought by the gradual changes that are coming about. These are at the periods when the cycle of the solar activity, or the years as related to the sun's passage through the various spheres of activity become paramount or Catamount [?] [Tantamount?] to the change between the Piscean and the Aquarian age. This is a gradual, not a cataclysmic activity in the experience of the earth in this period.
(Q) The "Primitive Man in Light" looked out from the earth and saw us within the sphere of the Universe with its constellations which combined to form his consciousness. He knew then, that a "Way of Escape" from the rounds of Reincarnation opened beyond this Universe - beyond the Galaxy - beyond the opening in the forehead of Cepheus. Will you explain this "Way of Escape"?
(A) We do not find it so.
For we have this: These are the basis of - Let's get what is the first principle here. These are concepts, these are not the activities of individuals who look out upon that; not as the earth as the center of its activities, but as the own solar system, here. It is true that the activities so far as in this sphere or Galaxy of activities of the planetary forces within this present solar system, the earth first became as the indwelling of the consciousness of the race or the man in this particular sphere, but sin - the separation - that as caused the separation of souls from the universal consciousness - came not in the sphere of materiality first, but in that of spirit. For what IS that as just indicated that makes for the choice, or produces the saying by the teachers or sages that "no one may come except he be called of God"? That is, that the activities of the individuals through the various actions or consciousness or awareness in the various spheres of activity BECOME AS a part of the divine plan for the return, only THROUGH the reincarnation into the actions in which choices may be made by the individual for the alleviating or the satisfying or for the development of the individual entity or soul to be in the awareness of being itself and in relationship to the Creative Forces as become one with Him, - even as has been shown by the necessity of the first begotten, the only begotten of the Father to enter into the material plane as the first consciousness or awareness of its being able in itself to choose for its activity independent of materiality where those activities became, and become, manifest as a part of the whole consciousness.
Hence the awareness of the soul as to its separateness, or its being separated, only comes through the manifestations of the principles of that cosmic consciousness in materiality.
Hence it is as evolution in a part of the development of the whole of the universe; not this consciousness of our own solar system, but of that about all solar force, or which our own system is only a mere part of the whole consciousness. But in the earth and man's awareness into the three- dimensional consciousness, only those that have entered same may relieve or leave same through the awareness of there being those influences through their various spheres of activity, including not only the earthly sojourns or material sojourns as we know in a physical consciousness, but the sojourns throughout the spheres of activity when they are absent from a physical or material consciousness.
(Q) What position does the Coal Sac of Centaurus hold in relation to the "Way out of Reincarnation"?
(A) Only the awareness of the influence or force in which there is made the awareness of the entity's being as an individual entity, and capable of being part or being the whole yet NOT the whole.
(Q) Do the Sages in the Reincarnation Circuit contact those without, via this channel?
(A) These are merely as one of the stations, as it were, along the way, through which contacts are made. You see, it is not that there is just a line or circuit. For as an individual entity or soul becomes aware of the full consciousness of being aware of its relationship or its position, it IS part of the law itself, it IS the law of that relationship, by the full awareness of it, and not merely an outlet, not merely a channel through which an activity or awareness or consciousness may be made as a manner or way.
(Q) In what way is Perseus representative of the Godly-feeling Consciousness?
(A) Only as a station along the way, a consciousness of, a place through which as each individual entity passes is illustrated in the manner in which their approaches come - they are then as aware OF that position or place. The name is the consciousness, not the name the way, see?
(Q) Will Humanity now turn back to en-rapport with Him?
(A) What does the Word say? "He has not willed that any soul shall perish but has with each temptation, with each condition that has arisen within the experience of the soul prepared a way," - and these are a constant change being wrought. Not that through activities - Of course, the time and the place and the position - but it is ever as the choice of the individual. It is that which makes or is the godly force within an individuality, or an entity or a soul, that makes it seek its level.
(Q) Explain the meaning of the Ancient Cepheus' "Yawning" following the Perseus feeling, and will it open the "Escape" again out of the Reincarnation Circuit. How? Why?
(A) Only as there has been - This is again a CONDITION, see? A RELATIVE force or relation. What is the natural consequence as given as an indication of what becomes acceptable to the Creative Force or God in its relationships as incense might arise? The releasing of same might be called as the yawning here of Cepheus. So as the releasing made the awareness which becomes as a flowing out through the material things as pertain to the attitude of the mental force as the builder, as one becomes en-rapport with the Creative Forces or God in its relationships to that sought or desired. In THAT way and manner, yes - if there will be the CONTINUED reaction through the influences or forces. But remember, it is as a law: As He, the Way, the Son, showed in materiality, in earth, the ability to become one with the Creative Forces as to pronounce His at-onement with the Father-God, so must each soul. He that climbeth up some other way is as he has indicated.
(Q) Is there a Sage now in Denmark who is secretly chosen to intermediate for the "Yawn of Cepheus"?
(A) We do not find such.
(Q) Explain correspondence between the Sieve Bone in Golgatha - and the Skull in Humanity.
(A) Emblematical. As the influence or force as surrounds that which is the manner or the way in materiality through which the awarenesses come to the personality and individuality of an entity for the making of its choices in reality in relationships to others, - so as these are but emblems, shadows, visions, we know these are the MANNERS through which, the places through which, the consciousness through which individuals approach that change. What did Golgotha indicate in the consciousness of mankind? Just that completion of what? The first announcement was that Emmanuel, God with man, would mean that in his material consciousness. As that was the announcement that it would come about, then Golgotha only represents - as does the Skull - which is gradually changing in man's physiognomy, through the various applications of itself, whether to the material things or to spiritual things - as these in their search for materiality close the outlet or eye to the whole body through which the light entered as an awareness of this relationship or this at-onement or God within the individual, so does the Skull or Golgotha show the completion which must be the channel through which these awarenesses come into the consciousness of individuals.
(Q) Is it gradually becoming responsive through the restoration of Phosphorus so that man will talk back and forth with the Cosmos - like the radio principle - as prevailed in Primitive Light Man?
(A) This is gradually a development to which the awarenesses of the use of the spiritual consciousness may be as a medium through which such may be done.
(Q) What does the "restoration of Phosphorus" signify?
(A) The relationship of the individual to that awareness of the universal consciousness which should be and is the promise of all who have wholly put on Him. For as He has given, "he that abideth wholly in me and I in him, to him will be made aware all things from the foundations of the world." This is ALL there, in His words, in His promises to man. Just as indicated in His exhortation upon the activities of John and as to what they meant in the affairs of man. That place, that awareness. And yet when individuals will, even as John, become aware of being within the presence of Life itself, God Himself made manifest, - how few accepted it? Only such as had known INDEED the reviling of man!
(Q) What will the Aquarian Age mean to mankind as regards Physical, Mental and Spiritual development? Is the Aquarian Age described as the "Age of the Lily" and why?
(A) Think Ye this might be answered in a word? These are as growths. What meant that awareness as just indicated? In the Piscean age, in the center of same, we had the entrance of Emmanuel or God among men, see? What did that mean? The same will be meant by the full consciousness of the ability to communicate with or to be aware of the relationships to the Creative Forces and the uses of same in material environs. This awareness during the era or age in the age of Atlantis and Lemuria or Mu brought what? Destruction to man, and his beginning of the needs of the journey up through that of selfishness. Then, as to what will these be, - ONLY those who accept same will even become aware of what's going on about them! How few realize the vibratory forces as create influences from even one individual to another, when they are even in the same vibratory force or influence! And yet ye ask what will the Aquarian age bring in mind, in body, in experience?
(Q) Is the Aquarian Age described as the 'Age of the Lily' and why?
(A) The purity. Only the purity as it represents will be able to comprehend or understand that awareness that is before those who seek the way.
(Q) Can a date be given to indicate the beginning of the Aquarian Age?
(A) This has already been indicated as the period when it should pass, but that is when it begins to affect. It laps over from one to another, as is the natural sources, as he holds to that which has been, which is. As has been indicated, we will begin to understand fully in '98.
(Q) Are there any thoughts along these lines, beyond these, that can be given at this time?
(A) Holy, holy is His name!
We are through.
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BACKGROUND

She previously obtained two life readings.

REPORTS

9/26/39 She obtained a Life Reading on her Palestine incarnation - see 1602-4.
11/28/39 She obtained another Mental Spirtual on her mental and material affairs - See 1602-5.
10/04/74 Research note from Stephen Goranson:
Concerning the reading on Jacob Boehme [1602-3], questions nine, ten, and eleven [Par. 16-A--18-A] which speak of the "restoration of Phosphorus" and of the "eye to the whole body through which the light entered as an awareness...of this at-onement with God", it is interesting to note that PHOS is a Greek word meaning light. This word is used in the New Testament, as in John 1:4-5: "...the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
From PHOSPHORUS METABOLISM OF THE BRAIN by P. J. Heald, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1960: "Amongst the earliest biochemical changes detected in the brain during excitatory states were alterations in the metabolism of phosphate derivatives, observations which established a causal relationship between phosphates and the functioning of the brain." (p. 1) The brain derives energy from oxidation of glucose, and "such energy is stored and transmitted by phosphates of which adenosine triphosphate and phosphocreatine are prominent." (p. 5) There is "a delicate balance operating between the levels of the phosphates, the activity of the enzymes involved in their degradation and synthesis and the general metabolic activity of the tissue. Disturbances in this balance may be expected to have a marked effect upon the functional activity of nervous tissue..." (p. 160) "The entry and metabolism of phosphate in cerebral tissue appears to be partly under hormonal control." (p. 65).
"The Influence of the Pituitary on Phosphorus Metabolism of Brain" by M. Reiss, et al, BIOCHEMISTRY JOURNAL, Vol. 44 (1949) p. 257-260, makes a case for the influence of corticotrophic hormone (of the pituitary) in phosphorus uptake.
"The Turnover of Phosphate in the Pineal Body Compared with that in Other Parts of the Brain" by U. Borell and A. Orstrom, BIOCHEMISTRY JOURNAL, Vol. 41 (1947), p. 398-402, states that (in mice) phosphorus metabolism is extremely high in the pineal gland and relatively high in the pituitary, compared with other locations in the brain.
THE PINEAL by R. Wurtman, et al, Academic Press, 1968, cites (p. 48) other research dealing with the high uptake of phosphorus by the pineal.