Edgar Cayce's Tales of Ancient Egypt. John Van Auken
levels of our minds. Cayce prophesied that we will soon regain the awareness we had in prehistoric Atlantis and Lemuria.
The reincarnated soul who had been Hept-supht asked Cayce to give him an idea of how powerful he once was:
“(Q) Give in detail the psychic powers he developed at that time?
“(A) This would almost be impossible. To put such into words would be as impractical as it would be to describe what the multiple of colors as related to vibrations brings, reduced to its eleventh or nth degree.”
What a curious comment by Cayce. In one of the Atlantis Series readings (340 series), Cayce stated that high psychic ability was so natural to Atlanteans that we today could barely comprehend such an existence! Apparently, Hept-supht had this level of psychic awareness and power. Can we image a condition in which we would know the thoughts of everyone around us, the location of people at great distances from us, the movements of nature, the weather, the trees, the animals—and even influence them with our minds? Cayce continued:
“Yet, as may be seen from that given, psychic is so often misconstrued. For, it is of the mental or soul, and was that which was mostly employed in the experience by the entity, when it would be compared to the materiality that is necessarily employed in this material age—or in an age when ‘Only that I may see, or touch, or feel, or taste, do I comprehend.’ ”
In several readings Cayce stated that, as difficult as it may be for us to accept, the “unseen forces” are more powerful than the seen. The mind is so much more powerful than we know today. As even Jesus pointed out: “If you had the faith and did not doubt, you could say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and it would done.” (Matthew 21:21) Few of us believe that today.
Let’s read one more of Hept-supht’s readings before analyzing them further. Gladys notes on her steno pad that the suggestion given to Cayce was, “Soul-mind seeking further information on his Egyptian incarnation as Hept-supht and its influence in the present. Questions.” After this suggestion, Cayce, in trance, repeated the suggestion and then said, “Hept-supht—Help Keep It Shut,” revealing for us the meaning of this strange, ancient name. The reading then proceeded:
“Yes, we have the entity, the soul-mind and the experiences in the earth of [378], as known in the present. [Numbers replaced personal names in the files to provide privacy.]
“Ready for questions.
“(Q) Give spiritual help to develop the psychic powers, which will enable me to become a fitting channel for God’s work, now.
“(A) In the application of that which has been the experience of a soul through sojourns in the earth, these should not be taken only for their historical setting.”
From Cayce’s trance state, past-life information is not just for the historical perspective or to know who we were but for the wholeness of our soul and the awakening of our larger mind, one that has a broader memory complex than a single incarnation on earth. Our soul also has a bigger mission than our single incarnate life.
“As the entity in the present makes the application, or sets in motion the experiences of self in its contact with those [past-life] influences that may be contacted, so will the growth be; so will there be unfolded to the entity those experiences throughout its own appearances, not as to the histology or the genealogical conditions but that which is much deeper—or that known as individuality. And so does growth come.”
Next, Cayce states it clearly: “As we apply, make use of, set past-life knowledge and influence in motion, then more comes to us. As more comes, we grow in our understanding, our deeper understanding, not our historical or genealogical knowledge. Or, as we have given as to how a soul becomes conscious, aware, of its contact with the universal-cosmic-God-Creative Forces in its experience; by feeding upon the food, the fruits, the results of spirit, of God, of Life, of Reality: Love, hope, kindness, gentleness, brotherly love, patience. These make for the awareness in the soul of its relationship to the creative force that is manifest in self, in the ego, in the I AM of each soul, and of I AM THAT I AM.
“So may the entity, the soul of this entity, become aware—through meditating upon those understandings, those truths that are as examples, as witnesses in the earth and its environs—of that which magnifies the Spirit in the earth of the first manifestation that man calls God and His holy angels.
“(Q) Was the entity the one that, at the completion of the pyramid, clanged the sheet of metal?
“(A) Clanged the sheet of metal [that was the capstone to the Great Pyramid] at the completion of Gizeh, that sealed the records in the tomb yet to be discovered.
“(Q) Please describe incident and ceremony.
“(A) The apex [capstone of the Great Pyramid] that has been long since removed by the sons of Heth [great grandson of Noah through his son Ham and Ham’s son Canaan; Heth is considered to be the ancestor of the Hittites, also Hethites, see Genesis 10 and 23], the crown or apex [capstone], was of metal; that was to be indestructible, being of copper, brass and gold with other alloys that were prepared by those of the period.” In another reading Cayce commented again about Heth, speaking to one of his reincarnated daughters: “The entity then was among the daughters of Heth from whom Abraham purchased the land near Socoh.” (Genesis 23, ten miles SW of Hebron)
“And, as this was to be (Gizeh we are speaking of) the place for the initiates and their gaining by personal application, and by the journey or journeys through the various activities—as in the ceremonial actions of those that became initiates, it became very fitting (to those as in Ra, and those of Ra-Ta Ra [a name used after Ra-Ta had “awakened to the Ra within him”) that there should be the crowning or placing of this symbol of the record [capstone], and of the initiates’ place of activity, by one who represented both the old and the new; one representing then the Sons of the Law in Atlantis, Lemuria, Oz, and Og. So, he that keeps the record, that keeps shut, or Hept-supht, was made or chosen as the one to seal that in the tomb.
“The ceremony was long; the clanging of the apex [metallic capstone] by the gavel that was used in the sounding of the placing. Hence there has arisen from this ceremony many of those things that may be seen in the present; as the call to prayer, the church bell in the present, may be termed a descendant; the sounding of the trumpet as the call to arms, or that as revelry; the sound as of those that make for mourning, in the putting away of the body; the sounding as of ringing in the new year, the sounding as of the coming of the bridegroom; all have their inception from the sound that was made that kept the earth’s record of the earth’s building, as to that from the change. The old record in Gizeh is from that as recorded from the journey to Pyrenees [the initial migration from sinking Atlantis to higher ground; the Pyrenees are a mountain range between Spain and France]; and to 1998 from the death of the Son of Man as a man.” Here Cayce is identifying three key stages in the ascent of the children of God to their rightful place: (1) migrate from the old ways, old lands to higher ground, or higher consciousness, leaving those old ways behind; (2) crucify earthly desire in self so that the real self may come through, and die to possessiveness of selfishness and self-seeking (death of the Son of Man as a man); and (3) the cycle comes around again beginning in 1998 as a new era, a new age begins, and the greater opportunities present themselves again.
“(Q) Give a prayer to awaken the best in me now.
“(A) So let my life now shine unto others that they may know that Thou, O God, would speak and meet those I meet day by day. Create in me a pure heart. Renew a righteous soul within me, O God!”
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THE MISSION OF THE SECOND CREATION
According to Cayce’s readings of the Akashic record, this early period in ancient Egypt’s birth closely followed the dramatic cleansing of the planet by the legendary Great Flood as recorded