Edgar Cayce On Human Origins

Edgar Cayce revealed volumes of psychic material, much of which

was verified to be true to the amazement of doctors and scientists.

Cayce discovered at a young age that he could go into hypnosis and

travel to other realms to obtain psychic information on any subject.

He claimed that anyone could do what he did with the proper training

and attunement. He would go into a hypnotic trance that would

induce a near-death experience. During his near-death experiences

he was able to tap into a virtually unlimited amount of information

which he referred to as the "Universal Mind". He was able to reveal

previously unknown information on a wide range of subjects such as:

astrology, the afterlife, religion, the future, consciousness, and human

origins, just to name a few. The following information on human

origins was revealed to Cayce during his excursions while out of the

body and as told in Thomas Sugrue's book, There is a River.

Because of the archaic language used in Cayce's description, I have

paraphrased it slightly, without losing any of original meaning, to

make it easier to read.

People usually demand a beginning, so in

the beginning there was a sea of spirit and

it filled all of space. The spirit was static,

content, and aware of itself. It was a giant

resting on the bosom of its thought and

contemplating what it is.

Then the spirit moved into action. It

withdrew into itself until all of space was empty. In the center, the

restless mind of the spirit shone. This was the beginning of the

individuality of the spirit. This was what the spirit discovered itself to

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be when it awakened. This spirit was God.

God desired self-expression and desired companionship; therefore,

God projected the cosmos and souls. The cosmos was built with

music, arithmetic, geometry, harmony, system, and balance. The

building blocks were all of the same material - the life essence. It was

the power of God that changed the length of its wave and the rate of

its vibration which created the patterns for multitudes of forms. This

action resulted in the law of diversity which supplied endless patterns.

God played on this law of diversity as a pianist plays on a piano -

producing melodies and arranging them in a symphony.

Each design carried within it the plan for its evolution. This plan

corresponds to the sound of a note struck on a piano. The sounds of

several notes unite to make a chord; chords in turn become phrases;

phrases become melodies; melodies intermingle and move back and

forth, across and between and around each other, to make a

symphony. Then in the end, the music will stop and the physical

universe will be no more; but between the beginning and the finish of

the music there was glorious beauty and a glorious experience. The

spiritual universe will continue.

Everything assumed its design in various forms and their activity

resulted in the law of attraction and repulsion. All forms would attract

and repel each other in their evolutionary dance.

All things are a part of God and an expression of God's thought. The

Mind of God was the force which propelled and perpetuated these

thoughts. All minds, as thoughts of God, do everything God imagined.

Everything that came into being is an aspect of the One Mind.

The souls of individuals were created for companionship with God

(the Whole). The pattern that God used to create souls was the

pattern of God's own Spirit. The spirit is life. From the spirit, the mind

builds patterns. From the mind, the physical creation is the result.

This is how the spirit, the mind, and individuality, became the pattern

for souls. This is how cause, action, and effect became the pattern for

everything. First there was the spirit (the first cause); then there was



the action which withdrew spirit into itself; then there was the

resulting individuality of God.

The spirit of the individual existed before their soul was created. The

spirit keeps the knowledge of its identity with God. The soul has the

ability to experience the activities of the mind in a manner separate

from God.

Thus, new individuals issued from God and remained dependent

upon God; but individuals were also aware of an existence apart from

God. Individuals were given the power to choose and direct their own

activity. Without free will, it would only remain a part of the

individuality of God. The mind, issuing as a force from God, would

naturally fulfill God's thoughts, unless directed otherwise. The power

to do this - to direct the force of mind individually from God - is free

will. And the record or memory of this freedom is the soul. The soul

began with its first expression of free will through the force of mind.

The first thought that the spirit generated of free will (i.e., the first

diversion of the force of mind from its normal path of unity with God)

was the beginning of the soul.

The nucleus of the soul was the balance of positive and negative

forces that are equal in power. These forces produce harmonious

activities: the positive initiating, impregnating, and thrusting forward;

the negative receiving, nourishing, and ejecting. The steps of this

evolutionary process are also the stages of the thought process:

perception, reflection, and opinion.

Thus, the soul consists of two states of consciousness: (1) the spirit

which bears a knowledge of its identity with God, and (2) the soul

which bears a knowledge of everything it experienced.

The plan for the soul is a cycle of experience

that is unlimited in scope and duration.

Through this evolutionary cycle, the soul will

come to know the creation in all its aspects at

the discretion of the will. The cycle would be

completed when the desire of the will was no



longer different from the thought of God. The consciousness of the

soul would then merge with its spiritual consciousness of its identity

with God. Then the soul will return to its source as the companion it

was intended to be.

As a companion, the soul would remain conscious of its separate

individuality and would be aware of its own free will as it now acted

as a part of God, but not diverting its mind because it was in

agreement with God's influence on the mind of the soul. Until this

state of at-one-ment was reached, the soul would not be a

companion in the true sense of the word.

The idea that returning to God means a loss of individuality is

paradoxical, since God is aware of everything that happens and must

therefore be aware of the consciousness of each individual. The

return of the soul is the return of the image to that which imagined it.

The consciousness of the individual - its soul record - could not be

destroyed without destroying a part of God. When a soul returns to

God it becomes aware of itself not only as a part of God, but as a part

of every other soul, and everything.

What is lost is the ego - the desire to do other than the desire of God.

When the soul returns to God, the ego is voluntarily relinquished.

This is the symbology behind the crucifixion of Christ.

The plan for the soul included experiencing of all creation, but it did

not necessarily mean participating in all forms and substance. Nor did

it mean that souls can interfere with the creation. Nor did it mean that

souls are to spin their own little worlds, twisting and bending laws to

make images of their dreams.

But these things could happen. The soul was the greatest thing that

God made because it has free will. Once free will was given, God did

nothing to curb it. However it acted, it had to act within God's reality.

By whatever route, the soul will return to God.

The fact that the human body is a speck of dust on a small planet in a

universe of galaxies can lead to the illusion that humans are a small



creation. But the soul is the unlimited activity of the mind and the

grandeur of imagination.

At first there was little difference between the consciousness of the

new individual (i.e., soul) and its consciousness of identity with God

(i.e., spirit). Souls merely watched the flow of the Mind, somewhat as

people daydreaming, marveling at its power and versatility. Then

souls began to act itself, imitating and paralleling what Mind was

doing. Gradually souls acquired experience, becoming a

complementary rather than an imitative force. It helped to extend,

modify, and regulate creation.

Certain souls became aggressive with their own power and began to

experiment with it. They mingled with the dust of the stars and the

winds of the spheres - feeling them - and becoming part of them. One

result of this was an unbalance between the positive and negative

forces. To feel things demanded the negative force. To express

through things (and directing and managing them) required the

positive force. Another result of souls becoming aggressive with their

own power was the gradual weakening of the link between the two

states of consciousness (i.e., spirit and the soul). Some souls

became more concerned with and aware of their own creations rather

than God's. This resulted in the fall of certain souls to an even lower

consciousness. The Bible allegorically refers to this event as the Fall

in the Garden of Eden and the revolt of the angels in the Book of

Revelation. This event is also the basis for the cosmology of Christian

Gnosticism and Jewish mysticism.

To enter into another level of creation and become part of it, the soul

had to assume a new, or third consciousness - a physical form.

Assuming a physical form is a way of experiencing that level of

creation by means of a conscious mind (i.e., the third

consciousness). Through the conscious mind, an individual can

experience physical consciousness: the physical body, the five

senses, the glandular and nervous systems. This transformation of

consciousness does not apply everywhere at this level of creation. In

other worlds and solar systems, the transformation may differ. One

can only imagine the number of these other worlds and the aspects



of divine mind which they represent.

When a soul enters into another level of creation and its

consciousness, it separated itself temporarily from the consciousness

of its own soul, and became even further removed from the

consciousness of its spirit. Thus, instead of helping to direct the flow

of creation and contributing to it, the soul found itself in the stream

and drifting along with it. The farther the soul traveled from the shore,

the more it succumbed to the pull of the current and the more difficult

was the task of getting back to land.

Planets and solar systems became

a temptation to souls. Each solar

system had its own course and its

own plan. Souls moved toward

them through the activity of a

constant stream of mind. When a

soul leaped into the stream (by immersing itself in the system through

which the stream was flowing) it had the force of the current to

contend with, and its free will was hampered. It was very easy, under

these circumstances, to drift with the current.

Each solar system also represents an opportunity for development,

advancement, and growth toward the ideal of complete

companionship with God - the position of co-creator in the vast

system of universal mind.

Our solar system also attracted souls. Since each solar system is a

single expression of the divine, with its planets as integral parts, the

Earth came into the path of souls.

Each solar system in the universe is like an atom in a universe of

worlds. Atoms have quantum levels for electrons to travel around.

The sun has "quantum levels" for planets to travel around. The

planets of our solar system are physical representations of heavenly

dimensions. These levels as a whole are the consciousness of our

solar system. There are nine planetary/heavenly dimensions to the

consciousness of our solar system. The planet Earth represents the



third dimension. Earth represents three-dimensional life in our solar

system.

The Earth is an expression of Divine Mind with its own laws, its own

plan, and its own evolution. Souls, longing to feel the beauty of the

seas, the winds, the forest, and the flowers, mixed with them and

expressed themselves through them. They also mingled with the

animals, and made thought forms in imitation of them. Souls played

at creating and imitated God. But this interfered with the evolutionary

plan of the Earth. Thus, the stream of mind that was carrying out this

plan for the Earth gradually drew souls into its current. Souls had to

evolve into the bodies they had themselves created.

This entanglement of souls into physical form was a probability from

the beginning. But God did not know when it would happen until the

souls, of their own free will, had caused it to happen.

All souls that exist were created by God in the very beginning. None

has been made since. This means all souls on this planet, pre-

existed before birth. Of the souls which God created, only a

comparative few have entered into the experience of our solar

system. Many other souls have gone through or are going through a

similar entanglement in other solar systems in the universe.

A way to liberate the souls that were entangled in matter was

created. A physical form became available as a vehicle for the soul

on Earth. A way became available for souls to enter the Earth and

experience it as part of their evolutionary/reincarnation cycle. Of the

physical forms already existing on Earth, a species of anthropoid ape

most nearly approached the necessary pattern. Souls descended on

these apes - hovering above and about them rather than inhabiting

them - and influenced them to move toward a different goal from the

simple one they had been pursuing. They came down out of the

trees, built fires, made tools, lived in communities, and began to

communicate with each other. Eventually they lost their animal look,

shed bodily hair, and took on refinements of manner and habit.

The evolution of the human body occurred partly through the soul's



influence on the endocrine glands until the ape-man was a three-

dimensional objectification of the soul that hovered above it. Then the

soul fully descended into the body and Earth had a new inhabitant:

the homo sapien.

Homo sapiens appeared in five different places on Earth at the same

time, as the five races. This evolved human is what the Bible refers to

as "Adam". When souls incarnated into physical form, it would bring

the divine consciousness (i.e., the spirit) in with it. Cayce referred to

this divine consciousness as the "Christ Consciousness" or

"Buddhahood" or the "superconsciousness". Christ consciousness

has little to do with the personality known as Jesus. It means that a

person has attained a complete human-divine unity. This human-

divine unity has been attained by many people thus far - one such

person was Jesus.

The problem for the soul entangled in flesh was to overcome the

attractions of the Earth to the extent that the soul would be as free in

the body as out of it. Only when the body was no longer a hindrance

to the free express of the soul would the cycle of Earth be finished.

This is the condition of having a perfect unity of the human with the

divine.

In a smaller field, this was the evolutionary drama of free will and

creation. In a still smaller field, each atom of the physical body is a

world in itself where a drama of free will and creation is occurring.

The soul brings life into each atom, and each atom is a physical

reflection of the soul's pattern.

With the advent of consciousness, humans became aware that sex

meant something more to them than to the animals. Sex is the "door"

which new souls enter the Earth, a door unnecessary in other

heavenly planetary/realms. Sex is the only means which trapped

souls have of being liberated from their predicament - through the

cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

The plan for the Earth cycle of souls was a limited series of

incarnations with periods in between of dwelling in other heavenly



dimensions of consciousness. Reincarnation would continue until a

soul's every thought and action of the physical body was in accord

with the plan originally laid out for the soul (i.e., a human-divine unity,

Christ consciousness). When the body was no longer a hindrance to

the free expression of the soul - when the conscious mind had

merged with the subconscious, the Earth cycle was finished and the

soul liberated to move on to new adventures. This conquest of the

physical body could not be attained until there was perfection in the

other dimensions of consciousness that is a physical representation

of our solar system. Astrologically, the goal for the soul is to attain a

level of consciousness that represents the total expression of the sun

and its planets. Whichever level of consciousness that the soul

assumes, it becomes the focal point of activity. The other states of

consciousness receded to the position of urges and influences.

The human race was fostered by a soul

who had completed his experience of

creation, attained Christhood, returned to

God, and became a companion to God

and a co-creator. This is the soul known

as Jesus. The first evolutionary

transformation of ape-men to homo

sapiens is who the Bible refers to as

"Adam". This was the beginning of the divine consciousness into

flesh on the Earth. The soul known as Jesus, was one of the first

souls to enter into one of the Adamic races.

The soul of Jesus was interested in the plight of its fellow souls

trapped in Earth. After supervising the influx of souls into flesh, the

Christ soul took form itself, from time to time, to act as a leader for

the people.

At first, these souls just slightly inhabited the bodies of ape-men while

remembering their true identities as spirit beings. But gradually, after

many incarnations, these souls descended even further into physical

consciousness and the result was a decrease in their spiritual

mentality. They remembered their true selves only in dreams and in

fables that were handed down from one generation to another.



Religion came into being as a ritual of longing for lost spirit memories.

The arts were born which included music and geometry. This

knowledge was brought into the world from incoming souls who

gradually forgot their heavenly source. This knowledge had to be

written down, learned, and taught to each new generation.

Finally, humans were left with a conscious mind that was separated

from their own individuality as souls. This individual identity as a soul

became the subconscious mind. The individual identity or awareness

of the physical world became the conscious mind. The subconscious

mind (i.e., the soul) influenced the conscious mind and gave it its

stature and quality. The subconscious mind dwelt in the "suit of

clothes" that is the physical body and only in sleep is it disrobed.

Conscious minds, left to its own influence, will work out the plans and

desires of God. Humans eventually developed theories for what they

felt was true, but no longer knew to be true. The result was the

creation of philosophy and theology. Humans searched and

discovered higher knowledge which they carried within themselves

but could no longer reach with the conscious mind. This resulted in

the creation of science.

Humans evolved from having an awareness of higher spirit

knowledge to having only mystical dreams, revealed religions,

philosophy and theology. This evolution of consciousness ultimately

reached a plateau and humans generally only believed what they

could see and feel and prove in terms of their conscious minds. Then

humanity began the struggle of regaining this higher knowledge.

Meanwhile, the Christ soul continued to teach and lead humanity by

incarnating as the Biblical characters named Adam, Enoch, and

Melchizedek. Enoch and Melchizedek experienced neither birth nor

death. Then Christ soul realized after these incarnations that it was

necessary to give humanity a pattern by which they could follow in

order to return to God. The Christ soul achieved this goal by

incarnating as the personality known as Jesus, who became

victorious over the death of the physical body by laying aside the ego,

accepting the crucifixion of the body in order to return to God. Jesus



created a pattern for humans to follow. Through the acts of leading a

perfect life and becoming unjustly killed, this reversed the negative

karma (i.e., the law of God, an eye for an eye) which came from

Jesus' first incarnation as Adam.

At present, humanity is in a state of

great spiritual darkness - the

darkness which precedes dawn.

Humanity developed a level of

skepticism that reached a point

where it forced humans to make

conclusions that they knew was

intuitively wrong. At the same time, humanity continued their

investigation of natural phenomena to the point where conscious

awareness disproved all the higher knowledge that souls had in the

beginning. The free will of humanity is discovering that all roads to

higher knowledge is leading toward the same destination and

conclusions. Scientific, theological, and philosophical knowledge,

which has no desire to join forces, are approaching a point of merger.

Skepticism faces destruction by its own hand.

Humanity is at all times the total of what they have been and done,

what they have fought and defended, and what they have hated and

loved. In the three-dimensional consciousness of every human, in

every atom of the human body, is a reflection of the soul and a

crystallization of their individuality. Their emotional and nervous

structures, their mental abilities, aptitudes, aversions, preferences,

fears, follies, ambitions, and character, are the sum of what humans

have done with their free will. This makes every personality, as the

earthly "cloak" of an individuality, is different from every other

personality.

The law of karma, which is Earth's law of cause and effect ("of

reaping what one sows") also makes humans different from one

another in their joys and sorrows, in their handicaps, their strengths,

their weaknesses, their virtues and vices, their appreciation of

beauty, and their comprehension of truth. Transgressions that

humans make in life must be corrected in life, if not in the same life,



then in a future incarnation. The Earth's natural law, not the law

humanity or God, demands an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

This same law applies to groups of people, as they act together.

There is karma for families, for tribes, for races, and for nations. For

example, when a nation of individuals started a war in a previous life

and are reincarnated, a war will be committed upon that nation. Only

when such a nation is defeated in humility by a nation with justice and

mercy, will the karma of war be lifted from the defeated nation.

Every person's life is shaped to some extent by karma: their own,

their associates, their loved ones, their nation, their race, and the

entire world itself. But karma is not greater than free will. It is what a

person does with these influences and urges, how they react to them,

which makes the difference in their soul development. Because of

karma, some things are more probable than others, but as long as

there exists free will, anything is possible.

Thus free will and predestination coexist within human beings. Their

past experiences limit them in probability and incline them in certain

directions, but free will can always "draw the sword from the stone."

The combination of free will and predestination means that humans

freely choose their own predetermined destiny to return to God.

No soul incarnates without having a general plan for the life to be

experienced. The personality that a person expresses in life is only

one of the many personalities (i.e., facets of the soul) that a person

could express. The mission of every soul is to work on one or several

facets of the soul's karma (which can be thought of as the soul's

memory of its prior actions). A soul does not choose a mission that is

more than it can handle or that is too much for the personality

assigned to or chosen by the soul. Some souls can freely choose

their own conditions in which to be born and complete their missions.

Other souls who have made too many mistakes in past lives and who

have become dangerously influenced by worldly desires, are

incarnated into conditions chosen by law of karma at a time and

under circumstances that are best suited to help them with their

karmic debt. Their mission is seldom perfectly fulfilled because of the



such a soul's large amount of negative karma. Their mission is

sometimes badly neglected.

The circumstances and conditions that a soul chooses to incarnate

into is usually made at conception, when a channel for a soul's

expression is opened by the parents. When this occurs, a pattern is

made by the mingling of the soul patterns of the parents. This sets up

certain karmic conditions. A soul whose own karma approximates

these karmic conditions will be attracted to the opportunity presented.

Since the karmic pattern created by the parents will not be exactly the

same the incarnating soul's own karma, the soul must take on some

of the karma of the parents.

Conditions other than the created pattern are conditions that the soul

must consider when choosing a body to be born with. Such

conditions include: the future of the incarnated person's life, former

associations with the parents, the incarnation of souls that it wishes

to incarnate with, live with, and with whom the soul will have

problems to work out with. In some cases the parents are the only

reason for a some souls to incarnate. Such a child will be devoted to

them and remain close to them. The child then completes its mission

by dying so that the child's death can teach the parents very valuable

lessons in life and of spirit. In other cases, the parents are only used

as a means for which the child can leave home and go about its

business in completing its mission.

The soul may actually occupy a fetus as early as three months after

conception or even as late as a month after birth. In the latter case,

the soul hovers over the infants body since birth to decide whether or

not to occupy it. Once the decision is made and the occupation

completed, the separation between the conscious mind (i.e.,

personality) and subconscious mind (i.e., the soul) takes place and

the soul record (i.e., memory) of the child begins. The fact that some

babies are miscarried does not mean that it was refused as a vehicle

for a soul. Just the opposite is true. The opportunity to incarnate was

taken away from the soul due to natural forces and this made the

occupation of that body impossible.



The personality is a facet of the soul's individuality experienced in

three-dimensional consciousness (i.e., body, soul, spirit). The other

facets of the soul remains in shadow - in the background. It gives

tone to the personality through its urges, appreciations, tastes,

avocations, and intuition.

A particular personality of an individual is shaped by three or four

incarnations. The emotions and talents of a person reflects these

past incarnations. A person's dreams, visions, and meditations are

reflections of the soul's experience in other dimensions (i.e., heavenly

realms) of consciousness associated physically by our solar system.

The human intellect was created from the stars and planets. The

intellect is the mind force of the soul which is conditioned by its

previous incarnations on Earth and its experiences in other

dimensions and even in other solar systems. The intellect becomes

dimmed or brightened by its recent experiences within the three-

dimensional consciousness of the solar system and the experiences

within other dimensional realms of consciousness.

Thus, a personality is only a facet of the soul. The soul may incarnate

as any facet to express that portion of itself. As a soul approaches its

completion of the solar cycle of consciousness, the personality

becomes more multi-sided and expresses greater facets of the soul.

This is because each incarnation "burns off" negative karma which

requires less and less attention. Finally, the personality will become a

complete expression of the soul and the cycle of reincarnation is

finished for the soul.

As the soul succumbs to worldly desires by abandoning its intellect

for sensuality, it becomes more and more one-sided.

When

the

individual

has

attained

complete

human-



divine unity, its cycle of reincarnations is finished, the soul is

liberated, and the soul then merges with its spirit and, therefore, with

God. The soul record (memory) is forever retained. This record is, at

all times, is the sum total of what the soul personality has been: all it

has thought, all it has experienced; all it has eaten, drunk, and felt

through the ages.

Thus, as the soul is subjected to reincarnation, both the atheist and

the religionist are correct. The atheist believes the personality does

not survive after death. The religionist believes the soul is judged

after death by its Creator. Substituting "personality" for "soul", both

are expressing the truth. The personality is evaluated after death and

then returns to the soul which created it, thereby giving up its own

independent existence and becoming once again a facet of the soul.

This process is different from the process where the soul merges with

the spirit after it completes its cycles of reincarnation.

With each incarnation into the physical realm (the solar system) and

the other realms of consciousness, the general plan for perfecting the

soul proceeds. Another facet of the soul is assumed and incarnated

to experience tribulation in order to reinforce the character of the

soul's entire personality.

The trials and tribulations of individuals, groups, nations, and races,

are dealt with time and time again through free will until they are

solved. Then souls are free to journey to other worlds, or other solar

systems, or other universes, or other dimensions of the hierarchy of

consciousness.

Quotes from Edgar Cayce

About the Cosmos and Souls

In the beginning God created the heavens and the

Earth. How? The Mind of God moved, and matter, form,

came into being.

Spirit is life. Mind is the builder, and the physical is the result.

In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is that you worship as God.



For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

All souls in the beginning were one with the Father. The

separation or turning away brought evil.

For man may separate himself from God - the Spirit - but

the spirit does not separate from man.

All souls were created in the beginning and are finding

their way back to whence they came.

Each soul is destined to become a portion again of the

First Cause, or back to its Maker.

The Father has not willed that any soul should perish,

and is thus mindful that each soul has again, and yet

again, the opportunity for making its paths straight.

Life is, in all its manifestations in every animate force,

Creative Force in action; and is the love of expression - or

expressing that life; truth becoming a result of life's love

expressed. For, these are but names - unless experienced

in the consciousness of each soul.

All power, all force, is a manifestation of that which is

termed the God-consciousness.

The coming into the Earth has been and is, for the

evolution or evolving of the soul unto its awareness.

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the

physical is the birth in the spiritual.

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to

conquer many worlds.

He who understands nature walks close with God.

What is truth? Law. What is Law? Love. What is love?

God. What is God? Law and love. These are as the cycle

of truth itself.

You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven.

"All souls were created in the



beginning and are finding their

way back to whence they came." -

Edgar Cayce

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