Reincarnation & Karma. Edgar Cayce

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       Edgar Cayce’s Discourses on Reincarnation

       Text of Reading 5753-1

      This psychic reading was given by Edgar Cayce at his home, on the 16th day of June 1933, before the Second Annual Congress of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., in accordance with request by those present.

       PRESENT

      Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. And approximately thirty-five other people attending the Congress.

       READING

      Time of Reading 5:00 to 6:00 P.M.

      GC: You will give at this time a comprehensive discourse on reincarnation. If the soul returns to the earth through a succession of appearances, you will explain why this is necessary or desirable and will clarify through explanation the laws governing such returns. You will answer the questions, which will be asked on this subject.

      EC: Yes. In giving even an approach to the subject sought here, it is well that there be given some things that may be accepted as standards from which conclusions—or where parallels—may be drawn, that there may be gathered in the minds of those who would approach same some understanding, some concrete examples, that may be applied in their own individual experience.

      Each soul that enters, then, must have had an impetus from some beginning that is of the Creative Energy, or of a first cause.

      What, then, was—or is—the first cause; for if there be law pertaining to the first cause it must be an unchangeable law, and is—is—as “I AM that I am!” For this is the basis from which one would reason:

      The first cause was, that the created would be the companion for the Creator; that it, the creature, would—through its manifestations in the activity of that given unto the creature—show itself to be not only worthy of, but companionable to, the Creator.

      Hence, every form of life that man sees in a material world is an essence or manifestation of the Creator; not the Creator, but a manifestation of a first cause—and in its own sphere, its own consciousness of its activity in that plane or sphere.

      Hence, as man in this material world passes through, there are the manifestations of the attributes that the consciousness attributes to, or finds coinciding with, that activity which is manifested; hence becomes then as the very principle of the law that would govern an entrance into a manifestation.

      Then a soul, the offspring of a Creator, entering into a consciousness that became a manifestation in any plane or sphere of activity, given that free-will for its use of those abilities, qualities, conditions in its experience, demonstrates, manifests, shows forth, that it reflects in its activity towards that first cause.

      Hence in the various spheres that man sees (that are demonstrated, manifested, in and before self) even in a material world, all forces, all activities, are a manifestation. Then, that which would be the companionable, the at-oneness with, the ability to be one with, becomes necessary for the demonstration or manifestation of those attributes in and through all force, all demonstration, in a sphere.

      Because an atom, a matter, a form, is changed does not mean that the essence, the source or the spirit of it has changed; only in its form of manifestation, and not in its relation with the first cause. That man reaches that consciousness in the material plane of being aware of what he does about or with the consciousness of the knowledge, the intelligence, the first cause, makes or produces that which is known as the entering into the first cause, principles, basis, or the essences, that there may be demonstrated in that manifested that which gains for the soul, for the entity, that which would make the soul an acceptable companion to the Creative Force, Creative Influence. See?

      As to how, where, when, and what produces the entrance into a material manifestation of an entity, a soul:

      In the beginning was that which set in motion that which is seen in manifested form with the laws governing same. The inability of destroying matter, the ability of each force, each source of power or contact—as it meets in its various forms, produces that which is a manifestation in a particular sphere. This may be seen in those elements used in the various manifested ways of preparing for man, in many ways, those things that bespeak of the laws that govern man’s relationship to the first cause, or God.

      Then, this is the principle:

      Like begets like. Those things that are positive and negative forces combine to form in a different source, or different manifestation, the combinations of which each element, each first principle manifested, has gained from its associations—in its activities—that which has been brought to bear by self or that about it, to produce that manifestation.

      Hence man, the crowning of all manifestations in a material world—a causation world, finds self as the cause and the product of that he (man), with those abilities given, has been able to produce, or demonstrate, or manifest from that he (the soul) has gained, does gain, in the transition, the change, the going toward that (and being of that) from which he came.

      Periods, times, places: That which is builded, each in its place, each in its time.

      This is shown to man in the elemental world about him. Man’s consciousness of that about him is gained through that he, man, does about the knowledge of that he is, as in relation to that from which he came and towards which he is going.

      Hence, in man’s analysis and understanding of himself, it is as well to know from whence he came as to know whither he is going.

      Ready for questions.

       Q: What is meant by inequality of experience? Is it a strong argument for reincarnation?

      A: Considering that which has just been presented, isn’t it the same argument?

       Q: Is experience limited to this earth plane?

      A: As each entity, each soul, in the various consciousnesses, passes from one to another, it—the soul—becomes conscious of that about self in that sphere—to which it, the entity, the soul attains in a materially manifested way or manner.

      Hence the entity develops through the varied spheres of the earth and its solar system, and the companions of varied experiences in that solar system, or spheres of development or activity; as in some ways accredited correctly to the planetary influences in an experience. The entity develops through those varied spheres.

      Hence the sun, the moon, the stars, the position in the heavens or in all of the hosts of the solar systems that the earth occupies—all have their influence in the same manner (this is a very crude illustration, but very demonstrative) that the effect of a large amount of any element would attract a compass. Drawn to! Why? Because of the influence of which the mind element of a soul, an entity, has become conscious!

      A soul, an entity, is as real as a physical entity, and is as subject to laws as the physical body as subject to the СКАЧАТЬ