Edgar Cayce's Tales of Ancient Egypt. John Van Auken

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      Despite many gains, Ra-Ta struggled with disappointment and discouragement. He was in a constant wrestling match with earthly ideals held by many of the people. Incarnate souls easily slipped into the comforts of living only the material life and gratifying physical appetites and egotistical longings. Some people also sought to control others as subordinates, even slaves, for their own use, which did not fit with Ra-Ta’s ideal of one God and one family of the children of God, all equal siblings. Many of these negative ideals and pursuits had caused the end of the First Creation. Ra-Ta and his team wanted to prevent these selfish, earthly energies from contaminating the Second Creation.

      At the height of Ra-Ta’s influence as the high priest, he was also traveling to other sacred centers around the planet. How? By flying! Amazingly, according to Cayce’s readings, there was a time long ago when flight was a natural means of transportation—we’ll learn more about this in the chapter on ancient flight. According to Cayce’s visions, the entire planet had major spiritual centers with temples and pyramids. In addition to Egypt there were centers in what today would be called Iran (Persia), India, the Gobi (not a desert then), Indochina, China, the Pacific Islands, the Andes, Mexico, the plateaus of New Mexico, and even Scandinavia (the land of Odin and Thor). There was much communication among these spiritual centers, each sharing how best to keep the celestial wisdom alive despite souls moving deeper into matter and terrestrial existence.

      Ra-Ta met with leaders of these other centers—some actually visited the Egyptian temples—some were even initiated. There was no language barrier according to Cayce’s readings because this was a time when there was one language among all the people of the planet. The biblical Tower of Babel event had not yet occurred.

      It was a busy, dynamic time.

      Cayce gave a description of Ra-Ta: “The priest in body . . . was six feet one inch tall, weighing a hundred and eighty-one pounds. He was fair of face, not too much hair on the head [lost much of his youthful, yellow hair by this time] or too much on the face or body. In color nearly white, only sun or air tanned.” We know from artifacts that most Egyptian priests had shaved heads though they could and did wear wigs, and they all dressed in spotted leopard skins (see illustration 6a and 6b). Since there are no leopards in the Mayan, Toltec, and Aztec lands, their priests wore jaguar skins.

      As powerful and influential as the high priest was in these formative times, he became more powerful and influential after he stumbled. Ra-Ta’s standing in Egypt took a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse. He allowed himself to break one of his own rules. And even though it was for a seemingly higher purpose, the king and council members did not see it that way. The punishment was severe, perhaps too severe.

      Cayce’s readings tell the story of the fall of Ra-Ta as a combination of temptation and trickery. Some of his subordinate priests had become jealous of the high priest’s power and weary of his demands on them. They plotted a way to bring him down from his lofty pedestal and powerful control over them. Actually, Ra-Ta was more vulnerable than may have been imagined. Much time had passed since those early days of founding Egypt, the old king of the Ararats who loved Ra-Ta had retired, his son was now overseeing the kingdom, and the country was flush with wealth and excitement. Ra-Ta had succeeded and was enjoying his success. It felt to him that he could do anything because he was now above the laws and rules. He was supreme; there was no one above him. This gave him a feeling of absolute freedom and independence. The plot to bring him down couldn’t have come at a better time, and the scheme was developed around a practice in the temples that was ripe for misuse.

      In these early times, repopulating the earth after the major disasters that ended the First Creation had almost wiped away the entire population of the planet. Baby making was among the highest priorities; there was an active baby-making process going on in sections of the temples. Not only did they need to grow the population, but they also wanted to create the most ideal bodies and thereby draw the most enlightened souls into those bodies. In illustration 7 there is an Egyptian scene showing a woman holding a “ba,” a soul from out of heaven’s crowded soul communities—revealing how active the birthing activities were. The baby-making operation in the temples carefully selected males and females for their genetic qualities and their spiritual ideals. The high priest had established a long and careful procedure that everyone was to go through before being coupled with one another to copulate and conceive. Among the ideal females in the main temple was one named Isris (pronounced ice-ris). Her mind and body were as perfect as any in all the land. Additionally, one of her skills was dancing—not sensual dancing but movement to music that would uplift observers’ hearts and minds as well as her own. The new young king who had taken over for his father was very fond of Is-ris and her dancing. He also considered her to be among the most ideal birthing partners, capable of producing excellent offspring if mated with the right male—and surely the young pharaoh would be on any short list of ideal mates for Is-ris.

      The temple priests knew of the king’s admiration for Is-ris so if they could pit the young king against the high priest, the high priest would lose, despite his elite status. This was because there would be no changing of the bloodline of the kings, so the Zu-born high priest would be the one to go.

      The conniving priests first threatened Is-ris and her family into cooperating with the seduction of the high priest; then they convinced Ra-Ta that he was the most ideal of all men, and since the purpose was to seek the most ideal offspring, he was the best mate for Is-ris, this most perfect female.

      Stumbling over a long-developing sense of his own power as well as the resulting vanity, Ra-Ta did not go through the established procedures for such an important mating and broke his own rule about the number of wives a priest could have. He took Is-ris and conceived a child with her. The fruit of their love was concealed for a time in the temple, but when the king finally heard about it, he was furious. A beautiful and wise flower had been abruptly taken from the kingdom without going through the necessary steps to ensure the highest good, and this by a priest who was already wed. This was a terrible injustice that could not be undone. And though Ra-Ta thought that he was above the rules, the council and the king did not. The king reacted swiftly and severely. Since the child was illegal, the king removed her from the temple and put her under the control of palace authorities and a caretaker. Then the king and his army banished Ra-Ta, Is-ris, and 231 of their supporters from the land of Egypt—forever!

      Disgraced, confused, and despairing, Ra-Ta and his little band of loyal supporters left Egypt. Initially they entered the lands of Lybia, where the priest drew a lot of attention, gaining converts to his teachings and practices. Subsequently, he and his entourage journeyed to the high mountains of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) and later into the mountains of Nubia (the area today that is Upper Egypt, Aswan, and the Lake Nasser region). Here they set up their community. (See illustration 8 for a map of ancient Egypt.)

      Cayce’s discourses tell how Is-ris and Ra-Ta did not waste their time in these mountains but set about to make the best of a bad situation. Ra-Ta, sobered by his disastrous mistake, was determine to gain higher consciousness and oneness with the Infinite, Eternal Creator. He and his troop regularly entered deep meditation, making passage through dimensions of higher consciousness. They practiced moving from individualness to universalness, from finiteness to infinite oneness with the cosmos and the universal consciousness. Cayce stated that Ra-Ta “awakened to the Ra within him” and Is-ris “awakened to the Isis with her.” Cayce also described how they gained conscious awareness of the cosmos and earth’s relationship to the universe and the universal forces. They even received knowledge of the ideal location to build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza—they even received instructions on how to build it! Of course, they asked the universal consciousness how would this СКАЧАТЬ