Edgar Cayce's Story of the Bible. Robert W. Krajenke
and Abraham’s effect upon her:
. . . when there were the settlings of the land, when first the land of promise came to be a portion of Abraham’s or Abram’s and Sarai’s activity. The entity was then among the daughters of Heth, of those peoples in that land, in the name then Beloi, and was very closely associated with Sarah, Abraham, Lot, and those people that settled in those plains of Abraham. And the entity’s daughter became then the leading among those that made for the combinations of the peoples of Isaac’s son and those of the Canaanite land.
In the experience the entity gained, for it proclaimed many of those tenets or lessons or philosophies, or activities—as would be called in the present—as to establishing the relationships with individuals, and what became as the Creative Forces or that philosophy of life as pertaining to the Creative Energies as given out by Abraham during the period. The entity proclaimed same to the peoples roundabout, and made for the closer companionships with those first leaders of those people set apart for an activity in the earth.
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A Jewish businessman was told when Abraham went out from Ur, he had accompanied him. A love of travel and adventure is a result of that experience.
. . . before this we find in the Promised Land to those peoples who came up from Ur, and the entity was among those who served that leader, ruler, or patriarch, and gave much and required much at the hand of those about the entity in that day. Then the name was Shouel, and the urge as is seen—the desire of travel, and the urge of profit in traffic, for this, as is seen, is the greater influence in the present experience in earth’s sojourn.
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A twenty-year-old stenographer was told that Abraham had had a decided influence upon her in an earlier incarnation as one of his grandchildren.
. . . the early portion of those activities with Abraham, known as the father of the faithful. And the entity then was acquainted with those activities, being the daughter of Ishmael-Temah by name. And, being associated and acquainted with those activities and influences, the entity was among those who brought many of the changes in the affairs and activities of the peoples during that experience.
The entity held to rather the tenets of Abraham, as well as the knowledge of the activities of Isaac.
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These readings spoke of the influence of Abraham upon others. The following suggests an influence which may have strengthened Abraham himself—his mother! On January 30, 1930, a fifty-three-year-old housewife, a Theosophist, was told that following a life in Egypt, in 12,500 B.C., she had incarnated in India.
The entity then was among those when there came the destruction of the peoples in the valleys by those who would make rule from the hills. The entity then [was] among those who were conquered in body, but not in mind—and little by little the entity, through that experience, brings to bear such influence, such a condition, as to bring the peoples who would become the rulers in accord with the mental and the spiritual builders of that land, and of the house came Abraham. In the name Terahe. Not the father, but the mother.
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Abimilech
On October 18, 1934, a thirty-four-year-old physicist of Christian background was told he had been Abimilech, whose story is recorded in Genesis 20:
The entity then was in the name Abimilech, or the ruler of those people in the lands that lay between the Egyptian and Syrophoenician lands. The entity then gained, even through those experiences and associations. Yet from those very activities there were brought those desires on the part of the entity, Abimilech, to bring to the knowledge of those who were as servants—or those whom the entity served in the capacity of the king of that land—that “he that would be the greatest among all would be the servant of all.” While the entity had much in its experience and through that sojourn, that in the material and the moral life in the present would be questioned, yet the purposes, the aims, the desires, the activities were rather as the growth throughout that sojourn.
And the abilities of the entity in the present to apply same are in the innate influences that impel and make for a growth in the soul, or in the entity—which is the combination of all its experiences with its soul also—that may make for not only the material but the mental and spiritual growth that comes to a greater and better knowledge, understanding, of those things in the earth.
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As the above reading affirms, Abimilech was a spiritually-minded man. (Genesis 20) Unlike Pharaoh, who was awakened only through a series of plagues (Genesis 12), Abimilech was warned through a vision of the deception which Abram had practiced on him. Abram’s presenting Sarah as his sister previously in Egypt had not only protected them, but had established him, via Pharaoh’s gifts, as a wealthy man.
Perhaps he and Sarah agreed to practice this deception everywhere they stopped, or when they felt it was needed.
. . . as indicated in the law of the Book, the life of the man Abraham was not beautiful, yet that faith which motivated same is beautiful, and the memory and of the children of faith we find beautiful.
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Edgar Cayce’s Bible class lesson was a hard look at Abraham and his rationalizations to Abimilech.
“Abraham’s excuse was he did not feel God was in that place or among the people. He had become so used to thinking of himself as being a chosen one, he forgot to look for the good in others. He depended, rather, upon his ability for slyness and trickery.
“Abraham’s actions, first with Pharaoh and then with Abimilech, are hard for us to understand. We can only say that he was very human. Even today, no matter how old we are or what our circumstances may be, we are constantly attempting to justify ourselves. Usually we are looking for the easiest ways to ‘get by.’
“We might even say Abraham was just practicing another good Jewish trick, and getting a lot of money out of these people. The Philistines were as wealthy as the Egyptians.
“Still, if we think of the experience as something we can apply in our own lives, it would represent our attempts to justify ourselves in material things.
“Abraham felt he had a special interest in God not shared by others. Many feel that way today. They feel they are especially gifted and have a right to the best of everything. This is true. Each individual has a right to be best in life, but only in harmonious co–operation with others, and not at their expense.
“Abimilech reproved Sarah for taking his gifts to Abraham. He felt they were not deserved because they had taken advantage of him.”
A Forced Issue
Even though Peter was able to recognize the Christ and was established as the head of the new Church, it became necessary, a very short while later, for Jesus to rebuke him. (Matthew 16:22-23)
The falling in and out of attunement is found in even the greatest ones in Scripture. They represent humanity in all its phases. And Abraham is no exception.
For remember, though he walked in many ways contrary to God’s edicts and laws, Abram’s try was counted to him for righteousness.
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On October 18, 1941, a fifty-six-year-old missionary nurse was told in her Life reading