1/67 Stern's SLEEPING PROPHET pp.92--94:
EDGAR CAYCE - THE SLEEPING PROPHET - WORLD PROPHECIES
Browsing through the A.R.E. library, I had stumbled across a
Cayce reading on World Affairs, June 20, 1943, at the height
of World War II. Unusual even for Cayce, it pinpointed an
event of a decisive nature within a few days. Cayce,
speaking of peace, generally, suddenly particularized: "On
Friday next, strange things will happen which will determine
how long, how many and what will be necessary."
Could it be a portent of the war? What else? But the war,
as I recalled clearly, had lasted another two years.
Cayce was then asked: "Is there any indication of the time
at which hostilities will cease between this country and
Italy, Germany, Japan?"
Again, he mentioned a period in late June, as a possible
turning point.
"These are in thoughts and principles of men. They will be
able to determine a great deal in respect to more than once
of these countries by the 25th of June."
Cayce evidently was pointing to an action stemming out of
thoughts already established; and an interpretation obviously
required some insight into these minds. I thumbed
inquiringly through almanacs and encyclopedias, but found
nothing of significance for late June of 1943.
I worked late at the A.R.E. library, poring over the Cayce
files, and retired to my hotel after midnight. Despite the
hour, I decided to relax over a copy of Barbarossa, an
authoritative account of the Russian-German conflict by the
Englishman Alan Clark. Barbarossa was the German code name
for the Russian invasion, begun so optimistically by Hitler
on June 22, 1941.
I soon came to a chapter, "The Greatest Tank Battle in
History," describing a titanic struggle, with masses of men
and machines arrayed against each other on a broad front
around Kursk. The pick of the German military, directed by
Hitler himself, was there: Keitel, von Kluge, Manstein,
Model, Hoth, Guderian. By itself, "Hoth's 4th Panzer army
was the strongest force ever put under a single commander in
the German Army." The Russians, too, had the cream of their
military available: Marshal Zhukov, the Soviet hero, who had
never lost a battle; Vasilievski, Sokolovski, Coniev, Popov.
The German operation was so vast that it had its own code
name: Zitadelle. It seemed good reading to drowse off with,
and then my eye suddenly stopped. "Certainly, by any
standard other than that of the Soviet formations opposing
them," Clark wrote, "the German order of battle, as it
finally took shape in the 'last day of June, 1943,' looked
very formidable."
A tiny chill went up my spine, as I read on: "In the last
days before the attack a 'strange' feeling, not so much of
confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the german tank forces -
if this strength, this enormous agglomeration that surrounded
them on every side, could not break the Russians, then
nothing would."
The author and Cayce, it struck me, had even used the same
word to describe the mood of the gathering action. The word
was "strange".
The action was critical enough to warrant a special message
from the Fuehrer: "Soldiers of the Reich! This day you are
to take part in an offensive of such importance that the
whole future of the war may depend on its outcome. More than
anything else, your victory will show the whole world that
resistance to the power of the German Army is hopeless."
The reverse was also true, and the Russians were more than
ready. Everywhere, the Germans were pushed back. Meanwhile,
in another theater, "other thoughts and principles" were to
affect the fighting in Russia. The Allies had mounted their
invasion of Italy. The German action, already in trouble,
now faced diversion of its main striking force. "Hitler,"
Clark related, "sent for Manstein and Kluge and told them
that the operation should be cancelled forthwith. The allies
had landed in Sicily and there was a danger of Italy's being
knocked out. Kluge agreed that it was impossible to
continue."
Cayce had been asked about Italy, Germany and Japan, and he
had said that more would be known "in respect to more than
one of these countries, by the twenty-fifth of June." The
attack on Italy had been thought out, mounted, and a date
fixed at that time, though the actual thrust was not made
from North Africa until early July.
How decisive was Zitadelle in the final outcome of the war -
all decisive, according to the most astute of the Nazis,
Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler. "One member of the Nazi
hierarchy, at all events, was not deluded," Clark observed,
"Heinrich Himmler saw that the failure of the Zitadelle
offensive meant that the war was lost. The question which
now exercised him was how to moderate defeat and save his own
skin."
Cayce had observed, "There is nothing new, nothing strange."
It was apparently all part of a universal order in which
there was no such thing as chance, even to picking a
paperback named 'Barbarossa' off the rack of a Virginia Beach
drugstore.
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