Edgar Cayce's Tales of Ancient Egypt. John Van Auken
motherhood, and “Mother of the Universe”; Set, god of chaos, confusion, storms, wind, the desert, and foreign lands; Nephthys, “Mistress of the House,” “Friend of the Dead,” and goddess of divine help and protection; and Horus the Elder, god of light, whose left eye was the sun and right eye, the moon. (See illustrations 16 through 18 for images of these Egyptian gods.)
The Complete One (Atum) then prophesies to Osiris that he, Atum, will eventually submerge all of the creation back into the depths of the primordial waters—symbolic of the infinite womb from which creation emerged. Until then, Atum will guide the sun through the night and the darkness of the underworld, and Ra-Atum will bring the sun forth every morning to light the passage through day. (See illustration 19 for the image of Osiris and Ra-Atum.)
Aspects of this myth of life’s origin have often been compared with the shadowy waters of the biblical Genesis: “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” (Genesis 1:2-3)
It helps if we think of these gods and goddesses less as “beings” and more as levels or zones of consciousness and specialized energetics within the whole or the Complete One. They also have their individualized motivations and missions as well as unique characteristics that eventually permeate souls who harmonize with these zones and energetics. Thus, the Egyptians would call like-minded souls “the Daughters of Isis” or “the Sons of Ra,” and so on. Ra and Isis represent the consciousness and vibrations that the individual souls expressed or harmonized with.
Edgar Cayce’s narrative of ancient Egypt includes the story of a soul who became a great Atlantean and then an even greater Egyptian. It is the account of one named Hept-supht (pronounced hep-t–sup-t, silent “h” and no “ph” f-sound), from the city of Alta in the region of Poseidia on the continent of Atlantis. Hept-supht eventually moved to the Giza Plateau. Hept-supht worked closely with the Egyptian high priest Ra-Ta. The first Cayce readings for Hept-supht were most helpful in getting a sense of life in the ancient world. I have edited these for clarity and readability.
“In Atlantis we find the entity [Hept-supht] during those periods before the final destruction of Atlantis, when there were continually waged what may be termed war or evangelistic campaigns.”
Cayce would later explained that these were not military wars but political, religious campaigns for people’s hearts and minds. He continued:
“This was being waged between the followers of the patriarchs of old; of Alta, of Quoauda and those that led a counter campaign against the sons of Baalilal.” This may be another name for Belial in the Bible, (Deuteronomy 13:13); or Beelzebub, which is derived from the god Baal, and is considered “the prince of demons.” (Matthew 12:24)
Alta and Quoauda (pronounced quo-aud-a) were initially god-like beings who later had cities named after them. In a following paragraph we read that the mythological gods Zeus and Zephyrus traveled with Alta and others. This was the nature of the ancient world from Cayce’s and mythology’s perspectives—gods and humans intermingled, until the legendary Great Flood wiped most everything away and life started over with just humans—though some humans retained their innate godliness while others became animalistic, both mentally and physically.
“The entity [Hept-supht] was among those that were active in the exchange of associations with those in Poseidia, in the city of Alta. And the priest Ra-Ta journeyed from the land of Egypt to Poseidia that there might be gained more of an understanding of the law of One, or God, that there might be the interpretations and the records of same carried to the Egyptian land. Soon after the priest returned to Egypt, the entity [Hept-supht] journeyed from Atlantis to Egypt.”
Several readings talk about how much travel there was in these ancient times, and much of the travel was by air ships! We’ll learn more about this is in a later chapter. In the readings about the Egyptian high priest Ra-Ta, it was revealed that he traveled often to various locations around the world, meeting with others to discuss the world situation and how to improve people’s lives spiritually. On this occasion, he came to Alta and met Hept-supht, who had become unhappy with the political and religious unrest in Atlantis. Hept-supht also had an intuitive feeling that the final destruction of the remaining lands of Atlantis was near, which motivated him to migrate to safer lands.
“Hence, as there continued to be the rebellions and the exodus of the peoples from Atlantis before the final destruction, the entity [Hept-supht]—becoming interested in those activities of the Egyptian priest—got himself embroiled with what was going on in Egypt more than Atlantis.”
But before Hept-supht left Alta for Egypt, many changes had taken place in Egypt, many that would call on Hept-supht’s skill communicating with people of different views and manners. He arrived in Egypt shortly after two rebellions and after the high priest had returned from banishment and was reestablishing himself.
Cayce told the story this way:
“With the return of the high priest, which came at the same time or days in which the entity Hept-supht established itself [sic] as a native of Egypt, the entity began to work with the high priest, the native co-ruler [Aarat], and the young king [son of Arart, who both banished and reinstated Ra-Ta] to bring order out of the general chaos that existed through these troublesome turmoils and periods; and aided the most in directing those that began to be the heads of the various departments in the establishing of the truths or tenets, or practical application of the laws (as would be termed in the present) pertaining to those things that made for chemistry, building, commerce, labor, economic conditions, then the schools, the educational centers, and the varied activities that would be classified in such experiences in the present day—the arts, in the broader sense; as workers in precious stones, silver, gold, and the more delicate metals that required the more intrinsic activity of individuals—and music, and the instruments thereof, the recordings of the varied activities necessary that they might be handed down.
“Hence, of particular interest to the entity is the manner in which a record is kept of the activities of every branch of man’s mental or spiritual activity. For, the entity then aided in these directly; hence came in contact, in direct touch with all those who headed or aided in mental or physical activity to produce that which would be helpful to the coming generations in retaining and maintaining that standard set by those as they had journeyed along the way.”
“Hence the entity aided the priest in activity, but he aided the populace the more. And, as we have given, aided much in the records; not only of the period but as to how the varied activities were to be in the land pertaining to the records of that which was to be, as well as that which had been, and the records in that monument or tomb or pyramid yet to be opened [the Hall of Records, more on this in a later chapter]. Records also of those that were transferred from the destruction of the Atlantean land. For, the entity was still in charge of these records when the last of the peoples of Atlantis journeyed to the various quarters of the globe; but Alta, Zeus, Zephyrus, and the recorder of Alta were friends, associates—yea, descendents in the flesh with and of the same as the entity.”
This last comment refers to a set of Atlantean records carved on stone tablets that were under the care of Hept-supht. Also, the last comments reveal how spirit-mind gods were manifesting in the “flesh” dimension or 3-D physical world. This was a strange time, one that we today consider to be mythology, but from Cayce’s perspective they were real beings, events, and activities. Even Jesus affirmed that we are gods (John 10:34), referring to Psalm 82:6, “You are gods, all of you are sons (and daughters) of the Most High.” Long, long ago we were all made in the image of God, and as many ancient cultures record, we were the children of God, godlings within the infinite God. However, as materiality and physicality took an increasingly dominant place in our consciousness and perception, we