This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf, 400 St. Paul's Ave,, Stapleton, Staten Island, N.Y., this 12th day of November, 1933, in accordance with request made by Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf, Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Zentgraf Family, Mr. and Mrs. MacBeth, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.

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1. HLC: You will give an historical treatise on the origin and development of the Mayan civilization, answering questions.
2. EC: Yes. In giving a record of the civilization in this particular portion of the world, it should be remembered that more than one has been and will be found as research progresses.
3. That which we find would be of particular interest would be that which superseded the Aztec civilization, that was so ruthlessly destroyed or interrupted by Cortez.
4. In that preceding this we had rather a combination of sources, or a high civilization that was influenced by injection of forces from other channels, other sources, as will be seen or may be determined by that which may be given.
5. From time as counted in the present we would turn back to 10,600 years before the Prince of Peace came into the land of promise, and find a civilization being disturbed by corruption from within to such measures that the elements join in bringing devastation to a stiffnecked and adulterous people.
6. With the second and third upheavals in Atlantis, there were individuals who left those lands and came to this particular portion then visible.
7. But, understand, the surface was quite different from that which would be viewed in the present. For, rather than being a tropical area it was more of the temperate, and quite varied in the conditions and positions of the face of the areas themselves.
8. In following such a civilization as a historical presentation, it may be better understood by taking into consideration the activities of an individual or group - or their contribution to such a civilization. This of necessity, then, would not make for a complete historical fact, but rather the activities of an individual and the followers, or those that chose one of their own as leader.
9. Then, with the leavings of the civilization in Atlantis (in Poseidia, more specific), Iltar - with a group of followers that had been of the household of Atlan, the followers of the worship of the ONE with some ten individuals - left this land Poseidia, and came westward, entering what would now be a portion of Yucatan. And there began, with the activities of the peoples there, the development into a civilization that rose much in the same matter as that which had been in the Atlantean land. Others had left the land later. Others had left earlier. There had been the upheavals also from the land of Mu, or Lemuria, and these had their part in the changing, or there was the injection of their tenets in the varied portions of the land - which was much greater in extent until the final upheaval of Atlantis, or the islands that were later upheaved, when much of the contour of the land in Central America and Mexico was changed to that similar in outline to that which may be seen in the present.
10. The first temples that were erected by Iltar and his followers were destroyed at the period of change physically in the contours of the land. That now being found, and a portion already discovered that has laid in waste for many centuries, was then a combination of those peoples from Mu, Oz and Atlantis.
11. Hence, these places partook of the earlier portions of that peoples called the Incal; though the Incals were themselves the successors of those of Oz, or Og, in the Peruvian land, and Mu in the southern portions of that now called California and Mexico and southern New Mexico in the United States.
12. This again found a change when there were the injections from those peoples that came with the division of those peoples in that called the promise land. Hence we may find in these ruins that which partakes of the Egyptian, Lemurian and Oz civilizations, and the later activities partaking even of the Mosaic activities.
13. Hence each would ask, what specific thing is there that we may designate as being a portion of the varied civilizations that formed the earlier civilization of this particular land?
14. The stones that are circular, that were of the magnetized influence upon which the Spirit of the One spoke to those peoples as they gathered in their service, are of the earliest Atlantean activities in religious service, we would be called today.
15. The altars upon which there were the cleansings of the bodies of individuals (not human sacrifice; for this came much later with the injection of the Mosaic, and those activities of that area), these were later the altars upon which individual activities - that would today be termed hate, malice, selfishness, self-indulgence - were cleansed from the body through the ceremony, through the rise of initiates from the sources of light, that came from the stones upon which the angels of light during the periods gave their expression to the peoples.
16. The pyramid, the altars before the doors of the varied temple activities, was an injection from the people of Oz and Mu; and will be found to be separate portions, and that referred to in the Scripture as high places of family altars, family gods, that in many portions of the world became again the injection into the activities of groups in various portions, as gradually there were the turnings of the people to the satisfying and gratifying of self's desires, or as the Baal or Baalilal activities again entered the peoples respecting their associations with those truths of light that came from the gods to the peoples, to mankind, in the earth.
17. With the injection of those of greater power in their activity in the land, during that period as would be called 3,000 years before the Prince of Peace came, those peoples that were of the Lost Tribes, a portion came into the land; infusing their activities upon the peoples from Mu in the southernmost portion of that called America or United States, and then moved on to the activities in Mexico, Yucatan, centralizing that now about the spots where the central of Mexico now stands, or Mexico City. Hence there arose through the age a different civilization, a MIXTURE again.
18. Those in Yucatan, those in the adjoining lands as begun by Iltar, gradually lost in their activities; and came to be that people termed, in other portions of America, the Mound Builders.
19. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) How did the Lost Tribe reach this country?
    (A) In boats.
21. (Q) Have the most important temples and pyramids been discovered?
    (A) Those of the first civilization have been discovered, and have not all been opened; but their associations, their connections, are being replaced - or attempting to be rebuilt. Many of the second and third civilization may NEVER be discovered, for these would destroy the present civilization in Mexico to uncover same!
22. (Q) By what power or powers were these early pyramids and temples constructed?
    (A) By the lifting forces of those gases that are being used gradually in the present civilization, and by the fine work or activities of those versed in that pertaining to the source from which all power comes.
    For, as long as there remains those pure in body, in mind, in activity, to the law of the One God, there is the continued resource for meeting the needs, or for commanding the elements and their activities in the supply of that necessary in such relations.
23. (Q) In which pyramid or temple are the records mentioned in the readings given through this channel on Atlantis, in April, 1932? [[364] series]
    (A) As given, that temple was destroyed at the time there was the last destruction in Atlantis.
    Yet, as time draws nigh when changes are to come about, there may be the opening of those three places where the records are one, to those that are the initiates in the knowledge of the One God:
    The temple by Iltar will then rise again. Also there will be the opening of the temple or hall of records in Egypt, and those records that were put into the heart of the Atlantean land may also be found there - that have been kept, for those that are of that group.
    The RECORDS are ONE.
24. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See [5748] and [364] series, etc.

REPORTS

1. See Source File Key #5750 for following newspaper articles and report correspondence re 5750-1:
   2/22/42 Richmond, Virginia, newspaper article, LAST OF MAYAS, WHO FLED BEFORE CORTEZ, FOUND IN 'FORBIDDEN LAND'.
   1/53 Washington Star, Washington, D.C., HUMANS LIVED IN UTAH ABOUT 10,000 YEARS AGO - Charcoal Found in Cave Gives Oldest Fixed Date by Thomas R. Henry.
   6/02/58 Ledger-Dispatch and Star, Norfolk-Portsmouth, Va., UTAH HAS BECOME DINOSAUR COUNTY by Dwight L. Jones.
   1/31/60 Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, BOOKS IN REVIEW ERNEST CADY - A FASCINATING STUDY OF AN ANCIENT CULTURE - ANCIENT MEXICO by Frederick Peterson.
   4/16/60 Special to the N.Y. Times, MAYAN MONUMENT UNCOVERED IN JUNGLE.
   7/22/60 New York Times, MEXICO YIELDS 30,000-YEAR ART, Fossil Revises Date of Man's Arrival in This Hemisphere, by Sanka Knox.
   7/22/60 N.Y. Herald Tribune, Science...Medicine, WAS MAN IN AMERICA BEFORE THE ICE AGE by Robert C. Toth.
   8/11/63 Sunday, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, MEXICO'S ANCIENT METROPOLIS YIELDING SECRETS by Larry Allen.
   3/22/65 Special to The New York Times, 12,000-YEAR-OLD ARTIFACTS ARE DISCOVERED IN CANADA.
   3/28/65 New York Times, NEW CLUES FOUND TO STONE AGE MAN, Site in New Mexico Yields Tools and Stone Points by Sanka Knox.
   7/65 See National Geographic article, by Robert de Roos, reporting Dr. Matthew W. Stirling's findings in "Costa Rica, Free of the Volcano's Veil."
   10/09/65 Science News Letter, ANCIENT U.S.-MEXICO CULTURAL BRIDGE DATED.
   10/23/65 Science News Letter, U.S. EXPLORERS SEEK MAYAN CITIES IN YUCATAN.
   3/68 See Edgar Evans Cayce's book, EDGAR CAYCE ON ATLANTIS, pp. 114-115, etc., relating findings corroborating statements made in 5750-1.
   8/69 National Geographic article by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, "Solving the Mystery of MEXICO'S GREAT STONE SPHERES", gives pictures of artifacts of ancient man, including a 12-ton granite globe found near Palmar Sur, Costa Rica.
   10/04/69 Sunday, The New York Times, JUNGLE SEARCH IS PLANNED TO BREAK MAYAN CODE by Walter Sullivan.
   8/10/70 Monday, The Miami Herald, MIAMIAN'S CAVE DISCOVERIES LINK MAYANS TO ANTILLES by Richard Pothier.
   3/23/71 Tuesday, San Francisco Chronicle, ANCIENT CLUE, includes picture of sculpture excavated in Campeche on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, dates from 700 A.D. "The Star of David in the earring of this stone figure may support a theory that Mediterranean people lived in the Americas 1000 years before Columbus arrived..."
   3/23/71 Los Angeles Herald Examiner, MEDITERRANEANS, NOT COLUMBUS, FIRST IN AMERICA?
   Fall/71 Oscoda, Michigan, ITEMS AND THINGS, MEXICO.
   WORLD OF THE MAYA by Victor W. Van Hagen, published by The New American Library, copyright 1960.
   THE MAYA based on the Edgar Cayce Readings by Carolyn Hatt, A.R.E. Press, copyright 1972.
   The New York Times, Monday, March 26, 1973, LOOTERS IMPEDE SCHOLARS STUDYING MAYA MYSTERY by Robert Reinhold. Also, SCHOLARS OF MAYA IN A RACE WITH ART THIEVES AND TIME.
   3/28/73 New York Times, ELUSIVE MAYA GLYPHS YIELDING TO MODERN TECHNIQUE by Robert Reinhold. (This is the last of three articles on the Maya antiquities.)
   7/16/73 New York Post, DO THE HOPI KNOW THEY'RE CHINESE?
   7/19/74 Friday, Ledger-Star, DID AZTECS VISIT 'U.S.'? - Turquoise source believed found.
   3/30/78 C. Kovacs' report re ancient inscription on mountain near Los Lunas, New Mexico. Also see excerpts of NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE, August, 1961, included with above report, and September/October article, TRIP OF THE MONTH with Betty Woods re Mystery Rock.
   6/03/84 Sunday, The Virginia-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, MAYAN TOMB MAY YIELD VALUABLE INFORMATION by Grace Glueck.
   4/02/90 U.S. News and World Report "Lost Empires of the Americas"

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