The Akashic Records, by Robert O. Clapp

If you have tried to locate the meaning of "akashic records" and have not been able to find a definition, don‘t be discouraged. It is not a term that is found in Webster‘s dictionary—not even in the more complete International Edition. You would have to turn to a metaphysical or occult dictionary for an explanation.

The akashic records are variously defined as "the cosmic picture gallery and record of every thought, feeling and action since the world began" or "a kind of central filing system of all events, thoughts and actions impressed upon an astral plane" : as "the enduring trace of all events that have ever occurred, including every thought, idea and emotion, said to be preserved in the astral light" or "the cosmic record of all thoughts, feelings, etc., experienced since the beginning of time."

These definitions generally go on to say: "Those possessing psychic vision can read and translate the world‘s history from the akashic records," and "numerous occult versions of history have been based on the 'observation' of this record by seers who claim to have penetrated the astral plane" and "events are believed to make an impression upon the akasha or subtle ether, which may be reanimated be mystics like a television set."

The Cayce readings often speak of the akashic records as being like a book or books.

                         (Q) What is the Book of Life?

                         (A) The record of God, of thee, thy soul within and the knowledge of

same. [281-33]

(Q) [What is meant by] The Book of Life?

(A) The record that the individual entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space, through patience--and is opened when self has attuned to the infinite, and may be read by those attuning to that consciousness…

(Q) The Book of God‘s Remembrances?

(A) This is the Book of Life.

(Q) The Akashic Records?

(A) Those made by the individual, as just indicated. [2533-8]

Where are the records to be found? Over and over again the response is, "written on the skeins of time and space." How do we interpret this seemingly meaningless phrase? A possible explanation could be that, since time and space exists only in the three-dimensional world that which is experienced in this dimension is what is written in the Book of Life. Through the patience of long encounters with the three- dimensional aspects of our being—that is, through many incarnations—we gradually come to a greater understanding of who we are as souls and how we are progressing in consciousness and spiritual awareness. Cayce says that Jesus taught: "…in patience posses ye, do ye become aware of, thine own soul!" [922-1]

The readings also advise:

Know that the entity‘s records here are recorded on time and space, and that in patience they may be interpreted by self….. [1688-6]

Hence the records of each entity are recorded upon time and space, and in patience may be interpreted to the entity; to be used constructively, not as something of which to boast or to make shortcuts. For, there are no shortcuts in patience. There are no shortcuts in time or space, when conceived in the mental and spiritual aspect. [2771-1]

For to the entity—as to the world—patience is the lesson that each soul must learn in its sojourn through materiality. And this is a thought for the entity: Time, space, and patience are in the mental realm the same as implied by the expression "Father-God, Son and Holy Spirit," or as Spirit, Body, Soul. They are expressions of the three-dimensional thought.

And in Patience then does man become more and more aware of the continuity of life, of his soul being a portion of the Whole; Patience being the portion of man‘s sphere of activity in the finite being, as Time and Space manifest the creative and motivative force. [1554-1-3]

(See also Covenant, Lesson #21, and The Edgar Cayce Primer, by Herbert B. Puryear, Ph. D., for more extensive discussion of "Time, Space and Patience.")

                       This file confronts some of the most important questions that we as thinking human beings can pose, namely, "How do we know?" "Where can we find knowledge?" "What‘s real?" "What is Truth?" The subject is too broad to cover exhaustively in one small collection, but you can expect to find here a challenging and thought-provoking explanation: the akashic records, a depository of information, the source of your "Book of Life" or "God‘s Book of Remembrance," a storehouse of knowledge closed to the rational mind but open to the psychically gifted – and to our own higher mind.

Edgar Cayce could tap the akashic records, and he stated that ultimately they were not beyond the reach of any of us. In counseling Ms. [1152], he paraphrases John 14:26 and says that all things will be brought to her remembrance as the goal or the result of her turning within to meet her Maker.

"Thus as the entity dwells upon, as the entity turns within to meet its Maker and those promises that are living experiences, that may be read of self as to the manner in which ye abide in the life, the word, the being of Him ye have beheld manifested in flesh—as ye abide in Him and He in the Father—ye have then those influences in thine inner self that make for that as He gave, "There will be brought to thy remembrance all things from the foundations of the world, that ye have need of in thine experience for the glorifying of the Father through the Son." [1152-3]

And to Mr. [1215] he said: "Hence the purposes for each soul‘s experience in materiality are that the Book of Remembrance may be opened that the soul may know its relationship to its Maker." [1215-4]

The search for knowledge has its roots in our very being. It is as old as the Bible and is introduced early in Geneses. Eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil leads to Adam and Eve‘s expulsion from the Garden and is the beginning of their separation from Creative Forces. Since then, if not before, we have been fascinated by sources of knowledge: the library at Alexandria, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Vatican library, to name a few. Some sources are lost forever, others are yet to be discovered, and still others are yet to be made accessible. We thirst for remembrance of who we are. Today, record keeping has expanded to capture sights, sounds and events which a hundred years ago could only be passed on by the written or spoken word and recalled by memory. Phonographs, cassette tapes, microfilm, cameras, television, and the ultimate recorder—the computer, bring us closer to a facsimile of life itself. Gradually, we are engulfing knowledge. We have become experts on information. How different the world would be if "the media" had been ready when Jesus appeared in Bethlehem. Unfortunately, our progress in recording events has come too late. Much of history is retrievable today only through the talents of someone gifted with the ability to read the akashic records.

Today the possibility of a single storehouse of wisdom, the akashic records, seems not only possible but also reasonable. Who would have believed, 20 years ago, that millions of bits of information could be stored on a computer chip smaller than a fingernail? The akashic records thus become analogous not just to a "cosmic picture gallery" or "a central filing system" but to what Edgar Cayce today might call "a great computer in the sky."

These extracts sometimes refer to the records as that which has been written on the skeins of time and space, and at other times as "…the Book of Remembrance [that] may be opened that the soul may know its relationship to its

Maker." [1215-4] The skeins of time and space are hard to imagine; a book, we can relate to.

In a lecture, Edgar Cayce related the following dream which he had experienced many times when giving a life reading: "I see myself as a tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself oppressed by darkness, and there is a feeling of terrific loneliness… Suddenly, I am conscious of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost.

"As I move along this path of light, I gradually become conscious of various levels upon which there is movement. Upon the first levels, there are vague, horrible shapes—grotesque forms such as one sees in nightmares. Passing on, there begin to appear on either side misshapen forms of human beings, with some part of the body magnified."

"Again there is change, and I become conscious of gray-hooded forms moving downward. Gradually, these become lighter in color. Then the direction changes, and these forms move upward—and the color of the robes grows rapidly lighter."

"Next, there begin to appear on either side vague outlines of houses, walls, trees, etc., but everything is motionless. As I pass on, there is more light and movement, in what appear to be normal cities and towns. With the growth of movement, I become conscious of sounds—at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter and singing of birds. There is more and more light; the colors become very beautiful and there is the sound of wonderful music. The houses are left behind, ahead there is only a blending of sound and color."

"Quite suddenly, I come upon a hall of records. It is a hall without walls, without ceiling; but I am conscious of seeing an old man who hands me a large book—a record of the individual for whom I seek information." [294-19 Supplement]

This file does not pretend to determine what degree of authority should be assigned to various sources of knowledge: the subconscious minds of individuals (Cayce‘s source for the physical readings), discarnate entities, scientific fact, the Bible, etc. It simply establishes that Edgar Cayce‘s source for the life readings was the akashic records. What Edgar Cayce obtained for people from the Hall of Records becomes the next step in seeing how this process unfolds. What he chose was helpful information, that which the soul could use to grow spiritually. And, since life is continuous, he reported on the innate mental urges that developed between incarnations (astrological sojourns) as well as emotional drives that come out of earth experiences (earthly incarnations).

To discover the contents of the hundreds of "Books of Life" that Edgar Cayce "read," you need to turn, when you finish this collection, to a study of the life readings and the other related Circulating Files found in the Table of Contents.

Robert O. Clapp

The Nature of the Akashic Record

In the beginning, as matter was impregnated with spirit of the creative influence, there came into being Man in his environment that made for the indwelling of the spirit, with a soul that might be made one with that Creative Energy.

That matter became impregnated with spirit arose from the very fact that spirit (separated) had erred, and only through the environ of matter (or flesh) might the attributes of the source of good be manifested.

For, the spirit of evil has not, did not, become manifested in matter; only has it moved by or upon or through matter. Hence, as the process of time has moved in and through matter, there has come to man - in the finite mind - the consciousness of the indwelling of soul, spirit, body.

Hence, there is (through these influences of the acts of the body in the finite sphere moved upon by the soul, the mind, the spirit) the attempt to make those influences upon the minds, the activities of man in his present state.

Then, the sources of information that may be presented to the mind of man in the finite state are reached through comprehending the consciousness of that influence from the sources of all influences that may move upon the consciousness as to become aware of an activity in the impulses of that being, whether from those that have been moved toward the preparations for the dwelling with the creative influences from the beginning or from those that have been moved by those influences that separated that spirit in its first premise before moving into matter in its activity upon that which became the influence in MAN‘S mind in the finite state.

Hence, as we find, the MIND of man then divided for the understanding into the conscious, physical conscious, the subconscious or under-conscious, or unconscious conscious, and the super or the soul conscious of the individual entity. And, as matter is in its first premise moved upon by the spirit, as to whether this is in accord with the law of the first cause determines the character or kind of information or consciousness that may make its activity or stamp upon the consciousness that receives that imprint.

And hence the fruits thereof are the tests of whether the sources of supply are of the Creative Forces or the degrading forces in the application of same in the experience of the individual or entity that receives or becomes conscious of same. [5752-3, 11/8/33]

For, as spirit enters into matter to act upon same it leaves upon matter an influence and is as a record upon that we call time in the present experience. And one seeking into the inner self, through the abilities that have been given each soul through the power of the Creative Forces, brings to the consciousness of the soul those expressions.

While they may be put only in the terms or words or the voice of that in the present environ, and thus are shaded and termed much as the vision of a stick in water; yet present that which is of the soul‘s own experience. How does same become real in the expression? Through those manners as given in and through the powers of the Holy One, by the Creator, the wholesome, the more righteous life, or - properly termed - the more righteous USE of life. [276-6, Female 16, 1/14/34]

What is the Book of Life?

The record of God, of thee, thy soul within and the knowledge of same. [281-3, 3/31/37]

(Q) [What is] The Book of Life?

(A) The record that the individual entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space, through patience - and is opened when self has attuned to the infinite, and may be read by those attuning to that consciousness….

(Q) The Book of God‘s Remembrances?

(A) This is the Book of Life.

(Q) The Akashic Records?

(A) Those made by the individual, as just indicated. [2533-8, Male 39, 5/3/44]

Questions naturally arise in this particular experience of this entity as to how or in what manner the records are made of an entity‘s sojourn or activity in a sphere or space, so that there are the abilities of one to read or interpret same. Are they as letters written? Are they as pictures of the experiences of an entity? Are they in forms as of omens or characters that represent certain influences or activities about the earth? Yea, all of these, my friend, and more; for they are as but the skein of life itself, the expression of a divine force from the God-Father itself, making manifestations in forms that become manifestations in a material experience. For truly to be absent from the body is to be present with those infinite influences and forces that may act upon and be acted upon, from the emanations of divine influences that may be either visions as picturized, written as thought in characterizations from the various influences through which such entities make for the communication - whether in ideas or in characters that represent those ideas in their expressions as one to another. As in all forms of communicative influences from one entity or soul to another - in a look, in an expression of some portion of the anatomical influences or form, or from word, or from the turn as from the cut or form of eye, shape or form of mouth, the rising of the brow, or in any communicative influences - these either bespeak of those things that are for the aggrandizement of self‘s own motives or impulses, or are the expressions of that purpose, that desire, whereunto such a soul or expression or entity has been called. These are forms or manners through which such are written, as in the Book of Life; and may be read and known of men. For that which is done in secret is proclaimed from the housetop. [757-8, Female 46, 12/28/34]

These records are written upon time and space. Just as light goes out from a candle influencing the universe, the light that goes out from a life influences all with whom it comes in contact - and grows, dependent upon the spirit with which it is tempered.

Then in patience these records may be interpreted. [2787-1, Female 49, 7/25/42]

Not light years as the akashic records, or as the esoteric records, or as counted by astrology or astronomy, in the speed or the reflection of a ray of light; for, as records are made, the akashic records are as these:

Activity of ANY nature, as of the voice, as of a light made, produced in the natural forces those of a motion - which pass on, or are upon, the record of that as time. As may be illustrated in the atomic vibration as set in motion for those in that called the audition, or the radio in its activity. IT passes even faster than time itself. Hence LIGHT forces pass much faster, but the records are upon the esoteric, or etheric, or akashic forces, as they go along upon the wheels of time, the wings of time, or in WHATEVER dimension we may signify as a matter of its momentum or movement. Hence as the forces that are attuned to those various incidents, periods, times, places, may be accorded to the record, the CONTACT as of the needle upon the record, as to how clear a rendition or audition is received, or how clear or how perfect an attunement of the instrument used as the reproducer of same is attuned to those KEEPERS - as may be termed - OF those records. What would be indicated by the keepers? That as just given, that they are the records upon the wings or the wheel of time itself. Time, as that as of space - as inter-between.

That inter-between, that which is, that of which, that from one object to another when in matter is of the same nature, or what that is is what the other is, only changed in its vibration to produce that element, or that force, as is termed in man‘s terminology as DIMENSIONS of space, or DIMENSIONS that give it, whatever may be the solid, liquid, gas, or what ITS FORM or dimension! [364-6, 2/17/32]

As thoughts are deeds in the mental world, as are the activities of a physical being as related to the associations, the relations, the words, the activity in a material world, so do they leave their impressions and the titles and the activities of each entity are thus written upon the skein between time and space, that may be indeed a record ever for the entity to meet, to experience throughout its activity in whatever consciousness the entity may be. And the entity becomes aware of that which may be helpful, or as to that which it may take into consideration, by the application of that it as knowledge has experienced in any realm. As there is the sojourn of the entity-soul in varied spheres of activity about the earth, or that known as the earth‘s own association or companions in stellar space - as the planets upon whose environs the soul-entity may take or have its experience in such realm of activity, so we have that which has been and is a record of the experience of the entity in those environs. For in those environs are created the impulses that to the inner self makes for those innate urges of desire that there be this or that character of experience in the realm of the activity of the entity in a mental or material plane, just as the sojourns in the physical or material plane through the realms of the consciousness in the emotional influences of a body find their expressions in the daily activities. And thus does an entity build for itself in a material realm its own environ and its own hereditary influence. For as in materiality the sojourns in the planetary influences are as hereditary, or those in the earth‘s sojourn as that of an environ. [752-1, Female 46, 11/28/34]

How, it may be asked, do you arrive at such conclusions from the entity‘s sojourn in those environs as indicated? By what the entity did in those environs with the abilities or knowledge that the entity had in its soul development during such a sojourn. From what, then, do you gather such information? Where are the records kept? Upon what are they recorded? Upon the etheric wave in time and space. What IS the film that makes between time and space? That‘s what you are looking for, [490]! You‘ll find it!

This film - in this film is the difference between the movement OF the atomic force about its center and the impression that is made UPON those passing BETWEEN light and heat, not darkness, for darkness may not exist where light has found its way. Though you may not be conscious or aware of its existence, its rays from the very records of time and space turn their emanations to give to a finite mind the dimensions themselves. [490-1, Male 42, 1/18/34]

…For each soul is the real life of the entity, and the records of the life are made much as the emanation of light from any source. For the light moves on in time, in space, and upon that skein between same are the records written by each soul in its activity through eternity; through its awareness, through its consciousnesses; not only in matter but in thought, in whatever realm that entity builds for itself in its experience, in its journey, in its activity. In matter we find it as it applies its own concept of that which is constructive in its association with its fellow man, for growth - as it uses or as it indulges its own self for its own self-aggrandizement upon is fellow man in matter, it makes for retardment or self-glorification, self-exaltation, which becomes the stumbling-block in each soul‘s progress. For, as has been given, only self may separate the soul from the knowledge, the awareness, of the living influence that is the birth-right of each and every soul. [815-2, Male 31, 4/6/35]

Remember, the records of each soul-entity are written - or impressed - upon time and space, as you call same.

Thus we find them as emanations from that expressed. Just as emanations from a metal, a gas, a light or what not - these pass off into what we call space; but they are continuous, because they are a part of the whole.

The attempt then to interpret or to read such records depends much upon the attitude, the desire of the individual or soul-entity seeking to know same. 

Yet the very desire of such may be overshadowed by the individuality of an entity, as to cause deflections from that which might be an interpretation for constructive influences.

For it is only the will of an individual that deflects its activity in its relationships with Creative Forces.

Hence from same arises that which in the experience of individuals of a varied temperament or a varied development may become as the tune or the chord upon which the attunement may come for the better comprehension. [1608-1, Female 35, 6/4/38]

The entity should know that the record is as real as is that which may be indicated by that given off as light, for it goes on and on upon the etheronic energies and is recorded upon the film of time and space. [871-1, Female 37, 3/29/35]

In giving the interpretations of the records of this entity, much appears upon the record in symbols; indicating - as we find - the varied appearances of the entity in the earth‘s plane, oft not remaining for long periods. [2498-1, Male 1 mo., 5/13/41]

The records that have been written have been written. The developments of the entity in the present experience may be given, that have been in the present from the environs about the body mentally and physically in the present, from that which has been written. There is now the activity being made, to be made, in the mental, physical and soul development of the entity, such that the record which has been made by the entity in the present may be given - and that termed the past - that will influence the entity; at least, this in part may be given - not as to ALTER, but rather as to that the entity in its mental self may weigh and measure and see in self, and what self did WITH and concerning constructive influences in the earth.

Then the natural question of the entity, from that which has been given, is: From what source, or how, is such a record read of the activities in the past? How may self know that there is being given a TRUE record of the activities in a period of which there is no written WORD history? Yet the entity itself sees, and is being taught, and is studying, the records that are written in nature, in the rocks, in the hills, in the trees, in that termed the genealogical log of nature itself. Just as true, then, is the record that the mind makes upon the film of time and space in the activities of a body with its soul that is made in the image of the Maker; being then spirit, in its form, upon the records IN time and space.

As there may not be seen with the visible eye the growth in animal, vegetable or mineral kingdoms, neither may there be seen the growth in the soul, save by and through the activities of a body-mind through channels known as sense or intellect, or by drawing the comparisons in self through what is termed space or time - and upon these are the

records of a soul‘s activity made. [487-17, 6/7/34]

Then through Mu, Oz, Atlantis - with the breaking up of these - why, WHY no records of these if there were the civilizations that are ordinarily accredited to them by the interpreting of the records made by entities or souls upon the skein of what? Time and Space?

But he only that has recognized Patience within self may indeed make the record as an experience in the consciousness of any. [262-115, 10/24/37]

…These are presented in symbols of that thought as held by those peoples from whom the physical recorder took those records as compiled, with that gained by himself in and through the entering into that state where the entity‘s soul mind drew upon the records that are made by the passing of time itself in a material world. As given, these are records not only of the nature as has been termed or called akashic records (that is, of a mental or soul record), but that in a more material nature as set down in stone, that was attempted to be done - HAS been attempted to be done throughout ALL time! WHY does man NOW set in stone those that are representatives of that desired to be kept in mind by those making records for future generations? There are many more materials more lasting, as is known to many. [364-5, 2/17/32]

(Q) Explain from what sources this information may be obtained.

(A) Conditions, thoughts, activities of men in EVERY clime are things; as thoughts are things. They make their impressions upon the skein of time and space. Thus, as they make for their activity, they become as records that may be read by those in accord or ATTUNED to such a condition. This may be illustrated in the wave length of the radio or of such an activity. They (the activities, etc.) go upon the waves of light, upon that of space. And those instruments that are ATTUNED to same may hear, may experience, that which is being transmitted.

Hence do not in seeking CONFUSE thyself that there may not be variations as to he interpretations of economic influences or forces that are being enacted in the thought and activity of varied groups. Just as either [ether?] program may be sent from any given activity. The outer world is only an activity of the shadow world. [3976-16, 4/18/36]

(Q) Is the source of this information a group source, an individual source, or a recorded source?

(A) As has so oft been given, this is rather of the universal. That which is recorded may be read. That which is written may be interpreted. That which is individual may be had. But it is also a constructive source, so only gives that which is helpful if it will be applied.

When an individual seeks for personal or bodily aid, it is part and parcel of that individual and is read by and through the real desire of the seeker.

When it is the Life source, it is recorded upon space and time - and is that which is to be kept against that day; for time and space are as the evolution upon which the forces of the divine make for that change that brings same into the experiences of those souls who seek to become one with the Creative Energies.

Hence ALL may be touched, ALL may be drawn upon. And, as has been given, if it were individualized by a guide, it would become limited; while if universal it is in the hands of Him that is the Maker, the Giver, the Creator. For hath He not given, "Abide in me, as I in the Father, that I in the Father may be glorified in thee!" Ye that seek self- glory know its hardships. Ye that seek the glory of the Father know its beauties. [254-95, 6/30/37]

(Q) Should information regarding ancestors be sought through this channel?

(A) If presented in a way and manner that is of beneficent activity to those seeking, it may be given - but not through the GRAVE; rather in the Book of Life! [254-71, 2/6/34]

(Q) Are there any records of my appearances? If so, where may they be found?

(A) These as we find are not as material records, but are upon the skein of time and space - or the akashic records. [1223-4, Female 34, 10/28/40]

In giving the interpretations then of that as we find has been the record of the entity‘s thought and purpose upon the skein of time and space, or upon God‘s book of remembrance - For as Time and Space are manifestations of Divinity in the experience of individuals in material plane, the other - Patience - must be ever an attribute of an entity in making application of self and self‘s virtues; overcoming faults or correcting this or that in the experience, for then ye may find these will work together for good in the experience. [1510-1, Female 22, 1/5/38]

In the interpreting of the records here, we find those channels through which signs or symbols may be indicated as to directions the entity as a whole has taken in varied consciousnesses. Also we find written upon time and space the records from varied earthly sojourns or material manifestations. Then it is through patience that ye may, thyself, become aware of same in thy dealings with thy fellow men; or that ye may, as the Teacher of teachers gave, become aware of thy soul and its oneness with God. [2410-1, Male 33, 11/27/40]

Yet to thee, to whom the Book of Life - yea, the record of thine experiences - has been opened, there is the awareness that ye are indeed the children of God. And as children in thy Wisdom ye may approach boldly the Throne of Mercy. For the prayers of the righteous are heard, for they have attuned in Wisdom to the God-Consciousness within, and have come to the realization that they are not alone but that He walketh and He talketh with those who have called upon His Name, and who day by day show forth in their conversation their love. For Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is the Mediator, Jesus is Wisdom to those who will harken to do His biddings. [262-105, 1/24/37]

Interpreting and Understanding the Records

…We have the records here that are written upon time and space - as ye would term same. [1436-2, Female 27, 8/30/37]

Come now, then, and we will interpret that which has been recorded by self upon the records of time. [553-1, Male 33, 5/16/34]

Each soul, - as it manifests in the earth, - is body, mind and spirit; just as there is in the Godhead the God the father, God the mind, God the holy spirit. These, - as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, - are one. These terms of expression are used in this three- dimensional world. For, the earth-consciousness rarely conceives of that which may not be of a three-dimensional nature. The fourth and fifth dimensions may be spoken of, but as to their proofs - to most, and even to this entity at times - these are hazy.

Yet, as one finds self as a shadow, or as a representative of that indicated in the eternal, - one may ask, what is the source of this association or connection?

It is time, space and patience that bridges that distance. These are man‘s concept of the spirit of God manifesting to the three-dimensional consciousness.

Hence the records of each entity are recorded upon time and space, and in patience may be interpreted to the entity; to be used constructively, not as something of which to boast or to make short cuts. For, there are no short cuts in patience. There are no short cuts in time or space, when conceived in the mental and spiritual aspect.

Hence the reading of the records from time and space may not always be interpreted by such a reader in the same phraseology, yet that as may be helpful would we choose from the records here of this entity. [2271-1, Female 32, 6/27/42]

So, in the study, analysis and understanding that may be given or gained from that which is presented, know that this is being given from the actual records that have been written by the activities of the entity through its sojourn in that which may be justly termed reality; a separate entity from the first cause or impulse. And the varied experiences are in the form of matter, mind and spirit; for, as given, the separations must be considered if there would be the more perfect understanding. [264-31, Female 42, 3/18/33]

The records each entity makes are written or impressed upon time and space; and through patience one may attain to the awareness or consciousness of same in one‘s own experience. 

Thus may the relationships of the entity and the universal consciousness, or God, become more and more a conscious reality. Not that it may be even describable in words. For, words are merely a means of communicating ideas to one individual from another, while universal consciousness with Creative Forces is rather the awareness that bespeaks of life itself. And life in every form is the manifestation of that force called God.

Yet, as was given in those admonitions by Him - who in the flesh was a manifestation, or became the manifestation of that God-consciousness in the material world - "In patience ye may become aware of, or awakened to, thy soul. In patience, and living in that consciousness, I may bring to your remembrance all things from the foundations of the world."…

For as each soul - not the body but the soul - is the image of the Maker, so with the awareness of the soul-consciousness there may come the awakening to the realization of the soul‘s relationship with that universal consciousness, as is promised in Him.

Thus the records of each entity are a part of the universal consciousness, and "Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of my little ones, ye did it unto me." These are the channels, these are the records then that ever stand as that angel before the throne, that there may be intercession. For, as the spirit of the Christ is one, and the individual entity in its manifestations of thought, purpose and desire makes its awareness one with that consciousness, so may that soul awareness come. For, ye find thyself body, mind, soul. These three bear witness in the earth. And the Christ-Consciousness, the Holy Spirit AND thy guardian angel bear witness in the spirit. [2246-1, Male 70, 6/11/41]

That upon the film of time and space, or that between time and space, makes or carries the records of the activities and thoughts of individuals in their sojourn through any realm of experience.

And as to how well the record may be given depends upon how well that which has been made may be interpreted by one who may read such records. As to how true the interpretation is depends upon how strong the desire of such a soul is, or how well those responsible for such an activity of a soul may be in accord or attuned to those realms of experience - or the manner or channel of interpretation. [559-7, Female 6, 5/25/34]

In giving the interpretation of that as we find here, do not let same become confusing because of customs of the surroundings, of the changes that are wrought in using the language of the present to describe that used or in use during the period of the entity‘s experience in the Palestine land.

As we find here, in giving these descriptions, these are as those that made impressions - as it were - upon the skein of time and space. Hence they may be often viewed by others who may turn to such from a different angle. Yet that which may become the more worth while to the entity, [540], in making application of the experience and the effect made upon the soul of the entity by that which the entity may EXPERIENCE itself as it reviews same, is that being given. And it may become a part of the mental forces that ARE the builders in practical application of an experience upon an individual entity. [540-4, Female 32, 2/20/36]

The records of an entity are written upon time and space, as the skein of things.

They may be called as images. For thoughts are things, and as they run, so are the impressions made upon what we call time and space.

Hence often there is confusion in the experiences of those interpreting for individuals their activities through any given period, in differentiating between that which was the thought of an individual and that which was the actual activity.

But if there is the intent and purpose considered, or that the entity has desired through any given period of sojourn, whether in the consciousness of the realms about the earth (or astrological aspects) or in the physical consciousness of the earthly sojourn, in reference to that which is not merely idealistic toward this or that thought or trend of thought but that which is constructive, THEN the judgment of same may be drawn by the interpreter of such a record for an individual.

Hence how much greater the necessity, in the interpreting of such a record, that the one seeking same hold within self those desires for that which will be towards a helpful purpose IN the interpreting of same - even for self! That such may often shade what is given is true, but it is ever the law of Creative Forces, as has been given, that God has not willed that any soul should perish but has with every transgression, with every condition, presented a way, a means, a manner for man‘s correcting same.

So that as may be interpreted for this entity is with that singleness of purpose that it may be a constructive, creative influence in the experience of the entity. [1562-1, Male 44, 3/31/38]

In the reading or interpreting of the records that are written, or that are impressions upon what we call time and space:

We find that with patience we may learn of same, that - being forewarned - we may be forearmed; and thus see ourselves as we have recorded same upon that manifestation of Creative Forces or Energies AS time and space.

Time and space are occupied or are peopled with the elements, or spheres, that become activities for souls or entities in their journey through time and space; seeking that home not built with hands but with the thoughts and with the deeds and with the manners in which we have dealt with our fellow souls, our fellow beings. [1597-1, Male 31, 5/27/38]

As it is understood and seen, all force, all matter, is motivative by force known as spiritual. While the body is made up of elements that are atomic, super atomic, gas, influences that combine, all give off their radiation, both as to the mental reaction and what the body-mind does about that reaction, and it is recorded or becomes a portion of the whole radiation of that phase or manifestation in which the entity is conscious at such a period. And it is recorded upon that known or experienced by a conscious mind as time and space. And it may be read even as the records of a printed page. Hence that which has been the thought, the activity of the entity throughout its experience in matter, in the gaseous forces, in the atomic influences, is part and parcel of the entity‘s being. Thus we are, then, the sum, the substance, of that we do, we have, or may think and do. For each entity has that imprint of the Creative Energies or Force that makes of it an influence that is seen, known, felt, throughout the universe. For it, the entity, is a part of same, with the attributes of Creative Forces or Energies. And in the material it is endowed with that to apply same.

The source, then, is the reading of that the entity has accomplished in the earth, and the influences that are activating upon same by its sojourns in the environments of the earth‘s associations IN time and space. [833-1, Female70, 2/19/35]

In giving the interpretations of the records as we find here, there should be given for this entity a premise as to how these records may be read - if this would become a constructive experience for the entity.

As the activities of an entity involve spirit, mind and matter, these leave upon the skein of time and space the records of the individual activities.

As there are many experiences in the material plane which would leave a varied effect if choices were made differently under the opportunities for constructive influence, then there is evidently an ideal life or experience for each entity in every given experience.

What is that which makes this possible?

Because there is the way through the divine influence for every entity or soul to manifest constructive experiences. That is the ideal that should be the promptings for the activity of each entity.

Where self acts without thought as to what is the motive or purpose, it makes for those experiences that become indulgences or the like.

Hence the interpretations of these may vary somewhat, dependent upon what phases the approach is made. In the same manner that in material experiences entities, viewing an event or happening, are prompted to give THEIR version according to the reaction upon their ideal - and upon those promptings of the purpose of the individual so viewing same. [1448-2, Male 38, 10/1/37]

In seeking information through these channels, and concerning various phases of development (or retardment) of an entity through experiences in the earth‘s plane, or that as reflected in the sojourn or experience of an entity in another, well that ALL understand from what source such information comes, HOW it may be varied in the interpretation of that as given, even where there are individuals in the earth‘s plane who have passed through at least portions of the same experience with OTHER individuals in some particular period.

Thoughts are deeds. Deeds are activities of either the mental, the physical, or the spiritual life of an entity. As these change, or are altered by their contact with entities acting in the same capacity - WORDS (in or of the material) OFTEN become inadequate for a mode or channel of expression. Hence the FEELINGS innately aroused by the knowledge of such associations in physical, mental or spiritual spheres, may make for an INDESCRIBABLE experience for either or BOTH, or MANY such entities. Hence these [Akashic] records are NOT as pictures on a screen, not as written words, but are as active forces in the life of an entity, and are OFTEN - as may be surmised - INDESCRIBABLE in words; yet one SEEKING with a sincere desire through a channel that is in touch WITH all the surroundings - Hence it is often described as was in olden times, "with the eye it is seen, with the ear it is heard," [Job 13:1] with the mind the desire is made, or repentance is made, or an activity is made, or there is the activity in a manner of withdrawing, or of coming together, or of sending. See? The ATTEMPT is made, which makes often an inadequate way of expressing or signifying that that [which] is INTENDED TO be transmitted to the entity or individual SEEKING such information!

Nevertheless, it be CORRECT - but do not make the mistake, as has often been given through these channels, of attempting to discern SPIRITUAL interpretations with a MATERIAL mind, nor MATERIAL interpretations with the spiritual mind, UNLESS same is signified by that of the incident, accident, or state of being is EMBLEMATICAL, or of any activity that is of the nature that REPRESENTS a condition - See? [288-27, Female 36, 9/25/31]

As to the place of records, - this is a place, yet it is everywhere. It, the information, to be individualized, must come from some source into some form to be interpreted in the experience of the seeker. As; ye have here a source through which information as respecting varied experiences or associations may be given that affects the self in the present. The questioning, or the ability to question, indicates the ability to answer in self. And these must follow a universal law. That which ever supersedes or is even an extenuation of spiritual and natural law, not only doubt but reject. And know, as He hath given in those witnesses as concerning the way, that these are not past finding out but are conditional - to be sure. One must, and should, prove self worthy, by the application of the universal law (and natural law) in accord with the spiritual purpose in same to be qualified, to be in the position to understand and interpret further into that man (because of his own denseness and selfishness) has called the wisdom of the age, or the mysteries of the divine.

To be sure, that which has disturbed this body oft, from the records that have been interpreted - and the entity has accepted or looked at with a longing, - when, what and where, then, is the source of information, such as ye seek here and now?

What records? Whose record is being interpreted, or being attempted to be interpreted, that ye may comprehend that being sought?

The records are upon time and space, but these - ye say - are concepts of man.

There is no time, there is no space; they are concepts. Then, - where?

In individual consciousness. The individual consciousness arises from that faculty or that something called mind. Thus those of old have said it in these words:

"My spirit beareth witness with thy spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

Then, the record is thine. How, then, - ye ask, - may this individual ye call Edgar Cayce interpret same? How do I know such is a correct interpretation? From whence is same read? With what is there the interpreting of happenings physical, of associations with material purposes and desires, under those environs when quite a different manner or language was used in interpreting the associations and activities? Whence cometh such a knowledge to one individual, as to interpret the records of another through varied spheres of activity or experience?

Only as a gift of Him who has given, "If ye keep my ways, I will love thee, will abide with thee, and bring to thy remembrance ALL things from the foundation of the world."

Then, while the source may be entirely capable of bringing a full or complete knowledge, the answers must ever be according to the law just given - within thine own self.

These truths - not thoughts - consider; as ye seek interpreting of experiences and associations, - as well as when ye read those interpretings by others that are guided or directed by their interpretation of their spirit of direction. [2072-8, Female 32, 6/23/42]

When there is the thought or the activity of the body in any particular environ, this very activity makes for the impressions upon the soul. For, the soul is that body which lives on into infinity, and is the companion of the particular body only in a particular or individual experience.

As to the records made by such an activity, these are written upon what is known as time or space; much in the form or manner as are the messages that are of a familiar nature to the body in its present activity. As the instruments of recording are used, so does the activity of ENERGY expended leave its imprint upon the etheric wave that records between time and space that DESIRED to be put,  as to that impelling or producing. Just as the figures or characters make for communications between individuals, so does the soul upon the pages or records of time and space.

Then, this body through whom the information comes being in accord or attune, by the subjugation of consciousness into materiality, becomes the channel through which such records may be read.

The interpretation of the records, then, depends upon how good a reader the body is, or how well in accord with the varied experiences through which the entity seeking has passed - or the records that have been made by that soul. Hence, there may be much more of a detailed record read of an experience through which both souls passed, than of environs that were not a portion of that soul so interpreting the activities.

But each soul as this, [416], has made a definite record just as clear as that which may be written with ink and pen or with any other type, style or form of transmitting or recording that activity of an individual soul. [416-2, Male 28, 4/29/34]

The Selectivity and the Purpose of the Interpretation

In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, written upon the skein of time and space, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling it to analyze its purposes, its aims, its desires, and to realize the ideal that each soul seeks to attain, - knowing that the ideal in its first or primary concept must be of the spiritual. [2381-1, Male 37, 10/14/40]
 

In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen from what ordinarily are termed the cosmic records. Thus, these are given with the desire and purpose to be a helpful influence in the entity‘s experience; that it may better fulfill that purpose for which it entered this present sojourn. [2554-1, Female 50, 5/2/41]

In giving the interpretations of the records as we find written upon the skein of time and space, called in some quarters the Akashic records, - these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful influence in the experience of this entity; enabling it to better fulfill the purpose for which it came into this experience.

These are given, then, that we may magnify the virtues and minimize the faults as may be indicated in the activities of the entity; not only that are apparent but as may be indicated from experiences through sojourns in the earth, as well as latent from the astrological aspects. [2522-1, Female 19, 7/1/41]

As to the influences arising from the activities in the earth, - while not all of these may be given in the present, these are chosen from the book of records here; that ye may see and know thyself, as ye have manifested in the earth. [2520-1, Female 38, 6/23/41]

In entering the present experience, and in giving that which has been recorded by and through the activities of the entity in the earth plane, and in those realms in which there arise and fall or come and go the experiences of the entity as an entity or soul, we find:

It is well that something be given as to the causes of the records, or as to the houses of records, that the entity may use in a practical application those experiences to aid in making the present experience the more worth while.

For, as a conclusion may be drawn from that in the material plane, the knowledge of any subject, condition, or knowledge of any nature unless put into practical use becomes of little effect in producing in the experience of an individual any activity worth while. 
 

The activities from the astrological standpoint, then, are used as a basis; for the experience of the soul-entity in its activity is continuous. Hence the greater influence, or among the greater influences in the experience of ANY entity, is an indication of the threefold life - or three-fold motivating influence. For there is the material expression (which is of the physical or the earth earthy); there is the mental body, phase or experience of an entity (which partakes of or is an enfoldment or unfoldment of the experiences of the entity in the realms ABOUT the earth - or of which the earth is a portion); and the indwellings of an entity in the interim of its earthly or physical manifestations produce certain activities that make an entity, body or unit act as it does through any given earthly experience. Then, these are of that called the MENTAL consciousness of an entity or soul. What have been the motivative forces in the activities of an entity through any given experience, then, or any period of manifestations in these various spheres, may be used as a criterion as to the expressions that may be expected of the entity; as to its reactions, abilities, shortcomings, developments, when SOME or A particular criterion or standard is used.

What then (may be very well asked) is the standard or ideal from which a line may be drawn in such information or for an entity in its development?

That which has been set in Him throughout the ages of this expression of the love of the Creative Force for His creatures.

For man and woman in their manifestations are given - by the All-Wise, All- Merciful Father, the First Cause, the Mother-God, the Father-God - the opportunity to be one with Him. Hence they are given the attributes of the various phases through which the entity or soul may become conscious or aware of that Presence abiding with or withdrawing from its activities; dependent, to be sure, upon how that entity or soul uses the opportunities.

For without the gift of free will to the soul, how COULD it become aware of the Presence of the All-Abiding Creative Force or Energy called God? [945-1, Female 26, 7/2/35]

It is then from the records the entity has made in the experiences or sojourns in the earth, and what have been in such experiences the ideals of the entity during such sojourns, such activities.

Also it is well that there be given the entity that which is the ideal manner of expression in ANY given material experience; and it is this:

As an entity, a soul, is the expression of divinity, and as its purpose or first cause was to be a companion in spirit with the Spirit of Creative Forces, then the activities in materiality - or matter - are to be guided in spirit and in truth by those influences that are the environs, the surroundings, the laws, the premises for the First Cause; or to be, to fill that purpose for which the entity came into being. 
 

As to what an entity has done in other experiences is as the lessons that are to be learned in the present, or in the now; and bring about the shortcomings in attitudes, oft in physical reactions, oft in those conditions to be met in the experiences - as the entity has applied self.

For there are those immutable laws that with each experience, each activity the entity, an individual soul constantly meets; that is, as these:

The WHOLE law is to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy body; thy neighbor as thyself. This is the whole law, this is the whole purpose for an experience, an activity of an entity in any given or individual experience or appearance even throughout the sojourns in a material plane. [1464-2, Female 66, 1/13/38]

In giving the interpretations of records, we enter in - as it were - within the records of an entity.

For as thoughts are things, and as deeds and acts make the impressions upon all influences about the entity, so are they written. So may there be confusion oft in the interpreting of such records. [1603-1, Male 48, 6/1/38]

Thus the warnings, as well as the praises as will be indicated in the experiences that are a record upon the skein of time and space.

For, while time and space are literal only to the consciousness of the finite mind, they are a part of the experience in materiality; and the presentations of same then should be of creative forces, - as time, space, patience.

For with the creating of these came the consciousness of being separated from Creative Forces, or God. [2000-3, Male 54, 10/13/39]

In giving the interpretations of those records, well for the moment that there be the interpreting of how an entity‘s or soul‘s records are made or kept, and how they may be read.

For the entity‘s study of same will arouse that attunement in the consciousness as to the reality of experience, of life; and the entity may come to know more and more that the expression of life in manifested form in the material world IS the expression of that influence or force called God.

Upon the skein of time and space are the records made. For thoughts and deeds are indeed things, and their currents run with time and space and make their impressions there; just as in the mental forces it is gradually being comprehended that as the man, as the being thinketh in the heart, so is he. 
 

Thus as the entity dwells upon, as the entity turns within to meet its Maker and those promises that are living experiences, that may be read of self as to the manner in which ye abide in the life, the word, the being of Him ye have beheld manifested in flesh - as ye abide in Him and He in the Father - ye have then those influences in thine inner self that make for that as He gave, "There will be brought to thy remembrance ALL THINGS from the foundations of the world, that YE HAVE NEED OF in thine experience for the glorifying of the Father through the Son." [1152-3, Female 61, 11/27/36]

As we find, the record as is BUILDED by an entity in the akashian record is to the mental world as the cinema is to the material or physical world, as pictured in its activity. So, in the direction to an entity and its entrance into the material plane in a given period, time, place - which indicate the relative position of the entity as related to the universe or to the universal sources - then one only turns, as it were, to those RECORDS in the akashian forms to read that period of that builded or that lost during THAT experience. [275-19, Female 18, 5/16/31]

A proper interpretation of that the entity has builded in the present experience, as well as that throughout the experiences in the earth and in the sojourns in the earth‘s environ, might be very helpful.

The body-mind and the soul are as real as any concrete object that we may discern. That activity of the soul as constructive through the mental attributes, or the superconscious mind‘s activity, is recorded, as are the activities of the forces in nature visible to man in his study or dealings with same.

So, with the proper construction of that which has been builded used as the stepping-stones for the interpreting of the past and present, then that which is to be in any given experience may be in the hands of the one knowing the intents, the purposes. And the will being the factor that makes for changes in an entity‘s experience either brings soul development or those influences that mar, or that bring the varied activities that may be seen in any individual experience.

Upon the records of time and space are the records made, and thus the interpretations of same are through the record made there by the soul of the entity itself, read by those that may lay aside the consciousness and be one with such a record.

The influences from astrological sojourns, then, are rather as innate, and bring to pass in the mind of the individual by such sojourns concrete experiences; as may be had from the study or training in any subject in material or material-mental affairs. [557-2, Female 52, 5/23/34]

For, as we have given, the activity of each life is written in time and space, either through the deeds done in the body or the thoughts that have been thought in the mind. How DO the currents run? How readest thou? Each life, each expression of life, is lived in a twofold manner: That within, with its thoughts and its expressions. And that without, as to be seen of men. Do these coordinate? Do these harmonize with that thou thinkest of thine Creator? Then, as the entity goes about seeking whom it may aid in thought or deed, let them be in harmony with the fruits of the spirit. [505-4, Female 63, 2/2/34]

In giving the interpretations of these records, these are upon the skein of time and space. And O that all would realize, come to the consciousness that what we are - in any given experience, or time - is the combined results of what we have done about the ideals that we have set! [1549-1, Female 55, 3/11/38]

For, as we have indicated, the entrance of a soul is not by chance, but that the abilities may be used - that have been attained by an entity - to again fulfill that purpose for which it was created, or for which it was given consciousness - or awareness - as to its ability to know its relationships.

Thus, irrespective of what the entity has done or may do, there is within itself, the records of what it has done, upon the skein of time and space. [2173-1, Female 50, 4/19/40]

Yet each entity must come to the cognizance that the state of consciousness or awareness in which one finds self is that best for the entity in the present, that it may make itself one with the universal consciousness.

For, He has not willed that any soul perish. Thus continuously, today, now, He presents ever a way in which each soul may find its relationships to Creative Forces and thus fulfill the purpose for which it entered this present material experience.

Know that the entity‘s records here are recorded on time and space, and that in patience they may be interpreted by self, thus minimizing the faults and magnifying the virtues become one with Him. [1688-6, Female 30, 2/14/41]

By records we mean those activities, mental and physical, in the planes of consciousness; that make their impression upon time and space much as light makes its impression upon the same elements or forces or conditions that are called time and space. [1743-1, Male 28, 10/28 & 11/11/38]
 

The activity of an entity (soul-body-mind), as a unit, in whatever sphere of experience or consciousness it may function, is as the thread of life that connects with that which is to be opened when those experiences are  to be made as one with that Universal Consciousness, in which the entity or soul then comes to be as one with same - yet knowing itself to BE the entity that has overcome through the application of those influences, those powers that make for the very experience or expression of a soul, in materiality as a body, in the spheres of experience or sojourns in the interims - which are termed by man as the spheres of consciousness or experience that are in the various forms about the earth.

For it has been given, "If ye will be my children, I will be your God. Though ye fain to be afar off and forget that thou hast been called from without, when ye call I will harken."

For the Lord hath not purposed that any soul should perish, but with each experience, with each faltering has prepared a way, a means of escape.

So, through the journeying of an entity in the various spheres of experience, whether in the flesh or in the universal consciousness, it is - ye ARE - the Lord's!

Then, quit yourselves like men! [619-5, Male 50, 12/4/35]

The Continuity of the Akashic Records

In giving, for this entity, the interpretations of the records made - upon time and space from God‘s book of remembrance - we find life, as a whole, is a continuous thing; emanating from power, energy, God-Consciousness, ever. [1472-1, Female 57, 11/6/37]

Remember, these interpretations are given with that intent to bring the materialization and realization to the entity of the continuity of life, and that what we do in mind and body records or leaves its imprint upon the soul, - just as that one masticates in bodily functions produces the physiognomy of the individual. [1904-2, Female 52, 8/16/39]
 

Hence the purposes for each soul‘s experience in materiality are that the Book of Remembrance may be opened that the soul may know its relationship to its Maker.

Thus we find, as in this entity‘s experiences, those influences that bring again, again, again, the opportunity to know the Lord that He IS good. [1215-4, Male 17, 6/4/37]

The information is of the self, it is self meeting self continuously. For Life is a continuous experience. And the mind, the soul, the will, are those influences that act through the material manifestation for the improvement, the development, or for the retardment to the whole of the experience.

For each soul enters each experience for a development, that it may be prepared to dwell with that it seeks as its goal.

Hence the necessity of each entity, each soul, setting its ideal in each experience.

Hence we find in the developments through those activities of an entity in a material sojourn or through an astrological experience are but the evolution, or making practical. For it is not what an individual or an entity may proclaim that counts, but what each soul, each entity, each individual, does about that it has set as its ideal in relationships to its activities to and through the individuals about same. [1235-1, Male 13, 8/1/36]

In giving that interpretation of the records here for this entity, well that there be given some of those manners in which the records are made - and the interpretation of same. This would be well in order that the entity might know, by the experiences within self, as to that source from which it comes - and the manner in which it may be applied or made practical in the experience in the present.

For Life and its expressions are one. Each soul or entity will and does return, or cycle, as does nature in its manifestations about man; thus leaving, making or presenting - as it were - those infallible, indelible truths that it - Life - is continuous. And though there may be a few short years in this or that experience, they are one; the soul, the inner self being purified, being lifted up, that it may be one with that first cause, that first purpose for its coming into existence.

And though there may be those experiences here and there, each has its relationships with that which has gone before, that is to come. And there has been given to each soul that privilege, that choice, of being one with the Creative Forces. And the patterns that have been set as marks along man‘s progress are plain. NONE mount higher than that which has been left in Him who made that intercession for man, that man through Him might have the advocate with the Father. And those truths, those tenets - yea, those promises - that have been set in Him, are true; and may be the experience of each and every soul, as each entity seeks, strives, tries, desires to become and pursues the way of becoming one with Him.

For the words that He has given are simple, "Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least, ye do it unto me."

Then, as there has been and is the passage of a soul through time and space, through this and that experience, it has been and is for the purpose of giving more and more opportunities to express that which justifies man in his relationships one with another; in mercy, love, patience, long-suffering, brotherly love.

For these be the fruits of the spirit, and they that would be one with Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Then in the study, in the meditating upon that as may be presented from thine records here, look to these in that way and manner; knowing that we as souls can of ourselves do nothing save the Spirit giveth utterance, permission, or furnisheth the opportunity. But as we use what is given in this or that experience, expression or manifestation, then may and doth the Lord give the greater opportunities. [938-1, Female 29, 6/21/35]

(Q) Would you suggest any way that a record may be left by an entity?

(A) By LIVING the record!

For when the purposes of an entity or soul are the more and more in accord with that for which the entity has entered, then the soul-entity may take HOLD upon that which may bring to its remembrance that it was, where, when and how. Thinkest thou that the grain of corn has forgotten what manner of expression it has given? Think thou that ANY of the influences in nature that you see about you - the acorn, the oak, the elm, or the vine, or ANYTHING - has forgotten what manner of expression? Only man forgets! And it is only in His mercy that such was brought about. For what was the first cause? Knowledge - knowledge! What then is that cut off in the beginnings of the Sons of God? Becoming entangled with the daughters of men, and the Daughters of God becoming entangled with the sons of men! As in Adam they forgot what manner of men they were! Only when he lives, he manifests that life that IS the expression of the divine, may man BEGIN to know WHO, where, what and when he was! [294-189, Male 59, 11/25/37]

In giving the interpretations of the records that are written upon the skein of time and space, these are the forces and influences that each soul builds in its passing through time and space. Thus they become a part of that which the entity must meet in all phases of its activity.

That which is in keeping with the law of Creative Forces, or energies, is developing. That which is of self, self-aggrandizement, self-indulgence alone, is retarding.

These then are the lines that create what some call karma. Hence meeting them is the law. For, what ye sow, so shall ye reap. But as has been interpreted by the entity in much of its study, its analysis of the atonement, or at-onement with Creative Forces, - being the law, one meets or overcomes. But such overcoming must be a continuous practice in the daily experiences with others.

Then, in choosing that as we would give here, from the akashic records, - these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful experience for the entity; thus enabling the entity to apply self in such measures or manners as to magnify the virtues and minimize the faults or vices. [2329-1, Female 41, 8/23/40]

And there be those immutable laws that the entity knows innately, yet is hardly aware or conscious of same save under those pressures or experiences when there is the arousing as from within those things that harken to something that is as AFAR OFF. Yet these become more and more desirous of expression.

Upon what have these experiences, these activities - being the experience of the entity - been preserved; that there may be rolled back, as it were, for the entity, the visions through an interpretation of same?

Upon that called time and space, or the film of life as given by the Creative Forces in their expression for companionship, for glory; that the entities so manifesting themselves in that which is matter in the earth, that is force and power in the mental sphere, that is the glory of the Creator in the spiritual realms, may become aware that they are as one in this earthly experience. [1066-1, Male 25, 11/25/35]

These interpretations we choose, then, with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfill those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.

It is true for the entity, and for most individual souls manifesting in the earth, that nothing, no meeting comes by chance. These are a design or pattern. These patterns, however, are laid out by the individual entity. For, there are laws. For law is love, love is law. And He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with each temptation, each trial, prepared a way of escape.

Thus as the pattern of life, of consciousness, when the individual entity is to make application of that the entity has interpreted in its experience as related to the spiritual, the mental and the material laws, these then become active - the law of love - in the experience of the entity.

It is true, then, that there are latent and manifested urges, manifested abilities, manifested virtues, manifested faults, in the experience of each entity. These faults, these virtues may be pointed out, yet the usage, the application of same is of free will - that which is the universal gift to the souls of the children of men; that each entity may know itself to be itself and yet one with the universal cause.

Thus the pattern, the book of life is written by the entity in its use of truth, knowledge, wisdom, in its dealings with its fellow man through the material sojourns. Also during the interims between such sojourns there are consciousnesses, or awarenesses. For, the soul is eternal, it lives on, has a consciousness in the awarenesses of that which has been builded.

The awarenesses are a pattern of that we call astrological aspects. Not because the entity in a physical consciousness sojourned in any of the planets that are a part of this present solar experience, but each planet is accredited with certain environmental influences that are represented in the characteristics of each individual soul.

Thus, as we find in this entity, they give expression in the abilities, which find manifestation in the material body through developments or attunements in the glandular system of the body FOR material expression.

Thus upon the skein of time and space is the record of each soul made. In patience, in persistence may such be read. [2620-2, Male 41, 11/24/41]

Making the Akashic Record through Choice and Application

An entity, or soul, is a spark - or a portion - of the Whole, the First Cause; and thus is a co-worker with that First Cause, or Purpose, which is the creative influence or force that is manifested in materiality.

Each entity, each soul, is endowed with self-will; that which is the force that makes it able, or gives it the capacity, to be the law, and yet complying with a universal purpose.

Thus, whether the activities or consciousnesses are in the material expression or in the universal cosmic expression in the spirit, these are ever a part of the entity‘s expression, - for either development or retardment. [2079-1, Male 42, 1/16/40]

EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1610] - the records upon time and space.

And these are a portion of the entity‘s application through the sojourns in the astrological environs as well as the material sojourns in the earth; the records being made upon time and space according to the application of self through will, as to that held by the entity through its experience.

Hence it is both evolution AND growth. (Consider the difference!) [1610-2, Male 34, 6/29/38]

In giving that as we find from the akashic records here, these are as those experiences which make or produce urges innate in the mental or inner self; and those sojourns in the earth the emotional self.

Hence we have that as may be gained from the astrological sojourns, or the interims between the earthly appearances of the entity and those activities in the environs about the earth.

There are urges, and DO NOT surpass the will of the entity - that which is the gift of the Creative Forces which manifest through the experiences of the applications of the mental forces of the entity in relationship to that the entity sets as its ideal.

In giving these, then, we will give the urges - but these are given irrespective of what the entity has done about them. 

Then as to what may be accomplished may be drawn or surmised from the abilities, the weaknesses, the activities in the mental and the emotional realms or faculties of the entity - as virtues or as faults or failures.

These then we find, but irrespective of the application of the self: [1552-1, Female 40, 3/18/38]

The records are upon time and space, which are manifestations of that influence or force we call God. They are both old and ever new. But only in patience does the finite mind become aware of the VALUE of same upon the infinite, or the spiritual self.

Thus the records are taken from this skein of time and space. Hence, as an entity enters and leaves consciousness in materiality, there is left upon time and space that which has been the activity, - thus there may be the interpreting of same.

There are influences, urges latent and manifested in the entity; the entity being body, mind, soul, that which manifests in and out of material, mental and spiritual consciousnesses.

Thus we find urges, owing to that which has been practiced or applied in the various stages of development or retardment, that are measured by what has been called astrological, numerological terms, or by that to which the entity in any phase of its consciousness has attributed or given an urge or influence.

Then, we find there are the varied influences, that are termed by those of varied thought or study, or cult or activity, according to that needed in this or that experience.

Know, however, that no urge, no influence is greater than the birthright of the entity - the will; that which is given to the soul to manifest in the beginning, as to be active within itself, independent of or in coordination with its source, or divinity itself. Yet the very gift of the Maker is divine. But this may be used or abused. It may be applied or laid aside.

Thus we find that the sojourns about the earth, during the interims between earthly sojourns, are called the astrological aspects. Not that an entity may have manifested physically on such planets, but in that consciousness which is the consciousness of that environ. And these have been accredited with certain potential influences in the mental aspect of an entity. We find that these become more and more applicable AS that influence is exercised in any given period of an entity‘s material experience. [2144-1, Female 41, 3/11/40]

For these records are drawn from the Book of Life. The records one makes are written upon the skein of time and space.

Hence only in patience and in endurance may an individual use those tools - yes, those inclinations and tendencies - he has builded in his activities through the sojourns in the earth.

While the interims of sojourn between the earthly incarnations have their influence, they are more of the innate nature and only become the greater influence as the changes or periods or cycles of change become a part of the experience of each entity.

Then it behooves each and every entity to make a choice as to his material application, as to the position or direction in which his mental and material efforts may be expended - and such should ever be of a constructive nature.

For if the expenditures are for self or self-indulgence alone, little of soul development may be gained - or the fulfilling of purposes for which an entity or soul enters an experience. [1574-1, Male 27, 4/19/38]

The abuse of the abilities separates self from the Creative Force. [5254-1, Male 42, 6/16/44]

The records written upon time and space are the activities of the entity, and what it has done about the ideal chosen through the experiences in the material plane.

To be sure, there are influences that are termed astrological. These are not because of the position of any planet - sun, moon or stars, but because of the entity‘s attainment through those interims. Thus, being within this present solar system, all are a part of the entity‘s experience, as they - the planets, the experiences - are consciously, unconsciously or subconsciously, a part of the entity‘s experience.

Thus they are latent or manifested, according to that use the entity may make OF such under periods of activity when in those environs. The urges come either through the influences from the application of self in the material plane, or - latently, through the deeper spiritual urge - from those consciousnesses in the astrological aspects.

Certain names or conditions are accredited to the planetary influences; not because of their position, but because what the entity has done about such urges yields or wields that influence.

Yet no influence of any nature - astrologically, hereditary or environmental - surpasses the will of the entity, the birthright of each and every soul.

For, the individual will is that influence making an entity above other influences in creation; thus being a part of all creation, depending upon the application - or the adherence to the ideal that is set. [2505-1, Male 53, 5/21/41]

The material sojourns become expressed again through the emotions, or the awareness of same; while the astrological aspects are expressed more in the innate urges through the abilities of deeper meditation, or the turning within for the comprehension, - that are as promises in life itself. [1946-1, Male 44, 7/3/39]

In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these are written upon the skein of time and space by the activity of the mental self. For the superconscious mind becomes the mind of the soul in those interims between material manifestations and the cosmic or universal manifestations - yet these are one. For it is as the activities of a day, of an hour - the reactions from same are dependent upon what has been builded in the consciousness of the soul. Thus these become, as here, a part of the whole entity‘s experience in the material sojourns. [3605-1, Male 31, 1/21/44]

In giving the interpretation of those records, much might be given as to the sources or as to how these interpretations are made of the acts and experiences of the entity in the earth‘s plane as well as those sojourns in the environs about the earth.

Each soul, each body, each individual, is an individual entity; and that done, that thought, becomes as a living record of the experience of that individual entity as related to the environs, the activities of the entity in whatever sphere of consciousness this activity may be and is recorded upon the skein of time and space. [1292-1, Male 3, 11/15/36]
 

But, we find from the astrological sojourns that emblems and symbols mean a great deal to the entity, in its innate self, or in its study of the deeper self. Not that a condition is produced in which the individual may be said to be subject to such, or superstitious; yet facts, figures, conditions in relationships to things, to peoples, to activities, are things that are of interest to the entity.

Thus the interest in things of that nature is indicated by the pattern upon the book, or upon the record from which this interpretation is being attempted to be given.

At times much of these patterns and many of these emblems become a conglomeration in the experience of the entity. At other times we find that they run very true to the rule which has been determined by some students of such.

The entity may know from this that no influence or urge, whether astrological or from material sojourns, surpasses the will of the individual entity, - that birthright given to man, and to the sons of men, which makes man in this three-dimensional world different from the rest of creation. Only man may defy his Maker.

These, then, are the purposes for which each soul enters material experiences; to make self aware of - and to conform with - creative purposes in material manifestations.

Thus in interpreting these records the desire is to make them helpful in the experience of this entity; minimizing then the faults, in self and in others; magnifying the virtues in all with whom the entity may come in contact.

For, as the body becomes that which it assimilates, so the mind - as it feeds upon the mental and spiritual food - grows toward that development of its awareness as to its relationships, or from such it denies that which is the basis of life itself.

For, life IS the manifestation of that influence or force called God in the material plane.

From the patterns indicated in the book, as well as composite urges, - we find that the fields in which the entity will find the greater outlet for its activities in this material plane are in CONSTRUCTIVE things; as: manufactured articles, or home economics, or the abilities for individuals to meet, through aid, obligations - for creative things, that have to do with nature. [2489-1, Male 48, 4/23/41]

Each entity in the manifestations in life presents an activity in which there are the expressions of all of what may be called the emotions from its own race consciousness, or environs and hereditary forces. Yet these are reached more by what the entity has done and does do respecting that it calls or holds as its ideal in its relationships to things, conditions and to its fellow man.

All of these at times, in their varying conditions, and from the varying emotions, bring to this entity questions to which the entity seeks the answer.

But each entity makes a record upon time and space, through the very activities of that stylus, the mind. And to be sure, irrespective of what an entity - as in this entity - holds as its ideal, its ideal is that judgement by and through which it makes its own choice.

Hence as these records or interpretations are given, it is the desire to give the entity a premise, and ideal, that it may answer to that search from within as to how to make this experience more worth while in this particular sojourn.

Then as we find, the experiences of the entity in the earth become an influence just as the environs in any one experience, just as it is true that what ye think ye become, - just as what ye consume for the physical produces such experience in thy physical and mental life as related to the ideals, whether known or still latent.

Also we find that the experiences of the entity in the interims of planetary sojourns between the earthly manifestations become the innate mental urges, that may or may not at times be a part of the day dreaming, or the though and meditation of the inmost self. 

Hence we find astrological aspects and influence in the experience, but rather

because of the entity‘s sojourn in the environ than because of a certain star, constellation or even zodiacal sign being in such and such a position at the time of birth.

Know that man - as has been expressed - was given dominion over all, and in the understanding of same may use all of the laws as pertaining to same for his benefit.

In the application of same as a benefit, - if it is for self-indulgence or self- expression alone, it loses its own individuality in the personality of that sought or desired; and thus the very knowledge may be used as a stumbling-stone. But if each experience is as a manifestation to the glory of a creative or heavenly force, or that which is continual thus the judgements being drawn from an ideal that is spiritual in its concept, then there is the greater growth, the greater harmony - for there becomes an at-onement with the influences about same. [1895-1, Female 51, 5/26/39]

Because we were made for the purpose of being companions with Him, a little lower than the angels who behold His face ever yet as heirs, as joint heirs with Him who IS the Savior, the Way, then we have brought these about BECAUSE of our activities through our EXPERIENCES in those realms! Hence they bear witness by being IN certain positions - because of our activity, our sojourn in those environs, in relationships to the universal forces of activity.

Hence they bear witness of certain urges in us, not beyond our will but controlled by our will!

For as was given of old, there is each day set before us life and death, good and evil. We choose because of our natures. If our will were broken, if we were commanded to do this or that, or to become as an automaton, our individuality then would be lost and we would only be as in Him without conscience - CONSCIENCE - (consciousness) of being one with Him; with the abilities to choose for self!

For we CAN, as God, say Yea to this, Nay to that; we CAN order this or the other in our experience, by the very gifts that have been given or appointed unto our keeping. For we are indeed as laborers, co-laborers in the vineyard of the Lord - or of they that are fearful of His coming.

And we choose each day WHOM we will serve! And by the records in time and space, as we have moved through the realms of His kingdom, we have left our mark upon same.

Then they influence us, either directly or indirectly, in the manner as we have declared ourselves in favor of this or that influence in our material experience. And by the casting of our lot in this or that direction, we bring into our experience the influence in that manner. [1567-2, Female 52, 5/26/38]

As the growth by the experiences in the earth makes for the demarcations in the activities, so do the experiences of the soul in the environs about the earth make for that record which is eternal as time and space.

For, as has been given, when the last trumpet is sounded and the Voice shall say time is to be no more, then may the record of each soul become fully known to all that have hidden themselves in that which has been left as the approach of soul to its Maker. For, all shall stand before that judgement bar, before the Lamb, before Him who has created the heavens and the earth and set them in their varied realms of activity, and given the earth to the souls, his brethren, his companions, that they might enter there and - in the activities of their consciousnesses to the action of individuals one to another - show forth that which makes for the acceptance or rejection of that which is their approach to Him.

Many souls have rebelled; do and will rebel. For, as seen, these rebellions, these disorders have brought about time and space activity for the records. And in reading them they are kept by those forces that may be termed as the Keeper of the Record. For, unto each has been given that it is to perform in ITS activity, ITS relationship, one to another.

Then, blessed is the entity, the soul, that may enter in with that oneness of purpose to aid in giving that which is helpful to a soul that it, too, may know that He, the Redeemer, liveth and standeth EVER ready to aid those that put their trust in Him. [585-2, Female 38, 6/15/34]

Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity - as in relationships to its environs, its hereditary influence; as directed - or judgment drawn by or according to what the entity‘s ideal is.

Hence, as it has been oft called, the record is God‘s book of remembrance; and each entity, each soul - as the activities of a single day of an entity in the material world - either makes same good or bad or indifferent, depending upon the entity‘s application of self towards that which is the ideal manner for the use of time, opportunity and the EXPRESSION of that for which each soul enters a material manifestation. [1650-1, Male 37, 7/29/38]

In giving all of these, they are first as records on the time and space or in the Book of Life.

Each soul is a portion of its Maker, with those attributes of the divine; and when manifested in materiality it is with the attributes necessary for the awareness in that environ. 

The soul was among those that found it necessary that there be those experiences or sojourns in the earth that there might be an application in material forces of the divine influences in the experience of the soul; to justify, purify self as a companion of one to dwell in the presence of divinity, and in the realm of that which would be one with the influences in the lives of individuals that will make for the becoming aware of the consciousness of the Christ-life healing, purifying, the drosses of materiality.

In the various environs there were contacts made in material things that made for karmic influences that must be met in individuals‘ experiences; as an aid to - and also for self-development in that awareness of His words, His blessings making self whole. [295-9, Female 30, 4/13/34]

In giving the interpretation of the records, these are written upon the skein of time and space, and in patience ye may become aware of their acceptance and rejection in thy soul‘s experience. [5263-1, Female 5, 6/19/44]

…know that the records that are made by an entity in its activities in the earth are the reflection of that the entity has done about its knowledge, its understanding of Creative Forces in the relations of self to the fellow man. [1037-1, Female 49, 10/28/35]

As indicated from the records, these are upon the skein of time and space; and it is with patience, then, that the entity meets or works out those problems it may have created for itself in its dealings with its fellow men.

As each soul manifests, it is by the grace or the will of the Creative Force that it - the soul - may be a companion with the Creative Forces, or God, - which was and is the purpose of individual manifestations of souls, either in materiality, in mind or in spirit.

For, as the entity finds self, it is body-physical, mind-mental, and soul-spiritual; as the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. These are manifestations in the spirit world, in the mental world, in the material world. They are one. Thus as the manifestations are in the material in the present, they grow from an ideal or concept into the mind or purpose or aim MANIFESTING in materiality.

Thus is the cycle or the growth of that which is purposed to do.

Hence mind is ever the builder, the way; as HE, the ideal - in mind, in materiality, yea in spirit - is the way, the truth, the light. [2326-1, Female 60, 8/21/40]

In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, upon the skein of time and space they are written ever by the mental and the material application of what the entity does about the spiritual influences in its experience. 

Man‘s associations ever are and ever have been such as to bring reactions, one with another, that demand, command that choices be made as to what the application of the ideal one holds towards another is to be.

If the constructive or creative forces are chosen, that are the manifestations of the Maker, the Creator, the Lord of the earth - yea, of the universe, then man chooses the way that builds into the consciousness the awareness of that godly approach to the Christ- Consciousness.

Those that choose for self that of fame, fortune or whatnot, that takes hold upon materiality alone, build that which becomes dross in the experience; and bring discomfort, disease, disturbance to the body and the mind, and - as it were shrivel or starve the soul.

Hence into man‘s consciousness there have been given signs, omens, signposts, as it were; in not only the manifestations through man‘s experiences within his higher mental self, as may be had from the astrological aspects - which are from sojourns of the entity in those environments between the periods of manifestation in the earth; but in those that arise as emotions through the material senses from the sojourns in the earth; and also the teachings, the warnings that are given here, there, from those who are as messengers from a living experience - or God. [1493-1, Female 64, 12/4/37]

Know that life is eternal. There is a consciousness of hope, of fear, of doubt, and of knowledge. These are portions of consciousness arising in the experience of each and every individual. And at times to this entity these have appeared or have become in quite a form or manner as to bring discouragements, disappointments and fears.

One may not run away from these, for they are ever present. For, fears and doubts and hopes, and abilities, lie latent within. Know indeed that thy body - thy BODY - is the temple of the living God, and there He hath promised to meet thee. There ye may commune with Him. And if the Lord thy God be with thee, who can make thee afraid, who can be against thee?

These are the basis or the principles upon which there is the choice of this information, recorded upon the skein of time and space, or upon the Akashic records - as sometimes termed. These, of course, we choose with the same principles as may be applied in the dealings with thy fellow man, and in thy relationships one to another.

Minimize the faults of others, if ye would have others minimize thy faults in thee. Magnify the virtues if ye would have thy Father, thy God, magnify thy blessings, thy virtues in thy dealings with others. [2791-1, Female 33, 7/29/42]

The law of the Lord IS perfect; it converteth the soul. While the experience in an individual life may be much, it is only as a moment in eternity. And the soul lives on.

Thou hast been given opportunities. EMBRACE them, for His name‘s sake; that thy name may be written in the book in heaven. [2786-1, Female 45, 7/24/42]

In summing the records here, from that which has been made, these are as the Book of Remembrance; these are the book of life.

Life is that influence, that which is manifested in materiality as expressing growth, love, hate, disappointments, sorrows, hopes, courage, faith; and those things that take hold upon the soul, that which is the everlasting.

And this book is written upon the skein of that ye call time and space.

These exist - each of these - only in the finite mind as that which represents the separation of the various growths or experiences. [1402-1, Female 58, 7/4/37]

In giving the interpretations of the records, written or imposed or impressed upon the skein of time and space, or the Akashic records in God‘s book of remembrances, these we find:

We would choose from these records that which if applied in the experience will bring a better interpretation of the how and why that there are certain latent and manifested urges in the abilities of the entity in the present, which if applied in a constructive, creative way may bring a better ability of the entity to apply itself in being a channel, a manifestation of those divine influences that are the cause and purpose of the entity‘s appearance in the earth in the present.

That an individual entity is aware of a physical, mental, soul longing in this material consciousness should in itself be evidence to the individual entity that the first cause, the God principle, the divine consciousness is aware of the entity and has been and is giving an opportunity to the entity for expression in this particular period of experience.

For He, thy God, hath need of thee. Thou hast need of Him if ye would be a channel of manifestation of the gift of consciousness at this particular period.

We would minimize the faults, we would magnify the virtues. For this is grace, this is mercy that is meted to thee. though ye find at times in thine own consciousness that ye feel far off, know that it is in Him that ye live and move and have thy being, and that His promise has been, "If ye call I will hear and answer speedily."

The conditions, then, are ever conditional. There is much for thee to do. For He hath given thee body, mind and soul. These are as manifestations of thy consciousness of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. Then in thy dealings with thine own body, thine own mind, thine own soul, act as though it were a consciousness. As ye act and as ye speak, and as ye apply, ye will become more and more aware. For as He has given, in patience, in perseverance, ye become aware of thy soul. Are ye in attune, then, with that consciousness? It is up to thee.

The spirit is willing. Will ye strengthen thy soul purpose? Will ye attune thy mind? Will ye act in thy body in such measures and manners that ye may know? For He hath promised, "If ye open the door, I will enter and abide with thee - I will walk with thee." It is up to thee. [3902-2, Male 40, 3/25/44]

… For, as has been given, each day each body writes the gospel leaf by leaf to be read of those that may read, whether it be faithless or true. What, then, is the gospel of THY Christ, THY God, according to you? [256-5, Male 37, 8/31/34]

Entire Readings

INDEX OF READING 254-67

by G.D.T. 5/30/60

AKASHIC RECORDS: WORK: E.C.

Attitudes & Emotions: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A 6-A

Bible: Books Of: Romans 7:23 Par. 3-A

Cause: Effect: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A

Environment: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A 
FORCES: CREATIVE

UNIVERSAL

Good: Evil: Relativity Par. 3-A

Heredity: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A

LAWS: UNIVERSAL: WORK:E.C.

Levitation: Work: E.C. Par. R1

Life Par. 3-A
Mind: Subconscious: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A
Superconscious: Par. 3-A

Names: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A

Oneness: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A

Phonograph: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A 
Physiology & Anatomy: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A

PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT 
PSYCHIC SOURCES: WORK: E.C.
Radio: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A
Science: Light: Prisms: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A
                                      Polarity Par. 3-A
                                      Relativity Par. 3-A

Spirit Communication: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A
Stethoscope: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A
Time: Space: Relativity Par. 3-A
Vibrations: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A

Work: E.C.: Historical Basis Par. 3-A 
                    Language Par. 3-A, 5-A, 6-A
 

Work: E.C.: Psychic Sources

TEXT OF READING 254-67
This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va.

Beach, Va., this 7th day of September, 1933, in accordance with request by those present.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

R E A D I N G

Time of Reading 11:00 to 12:10 A. M.

1. 1. GC: You will have before you the psychic work of Edgar Cayce, and the enquiring minds of those present in this room, in relation to the phenomena manifested through him. You will answer questions regarding the phenomena, and such philosophical subjects that may be presented for explanation through this channel.

    

2. 2. EC: Yes, we have the phenomena; or the phenomenon, in its association with the manifestations through the body Edgar Cayce, and the enquiring minds of those present in this room. Ready for questions.

    

3. 3. (Q) What was the cause of not being able to obtain [355]‘s Life Reading on Saturday morning, June 10th, when attempted? [See 355-1 on 6/13/33.]

   1. The inability for the active forces of the body Edgar Cayce, from the cycle of psychic influence, to contact that record necessary for the interpreting of same.

      It would be well that there be reviewed much that has been given through these channels, as to how information is obtained through these channels. Much has been given from time to time, though - in reviewing same - there may be some enlargements upon that already given that may be enlightening to those present, as to their own susceptibility to such influence; and may also enlighten some as to a better understanding of the laws that govern same.

       

      First, let this be understood. Any phenomena worth considering by an enlightened mind must work or act in unison through some unified channels, that there may be - as it were - stated necessary conditions in the activity for the production of the best or of the truth as related to that particular phase or class of phenomena.

       

      And because there are variations, or because there are periods when it is seemingly impossible for contact to be made, does not necessarily indicate that such a channel IS governed by these laws; nor does it signify that such a channel or medium (if chosen to be called such) is not amenable to those laws.

       

      Then, considering this particular channel and what takes place when information of a varied sort is obtained, or obtainable, or unobtainable through this channel Edgar Cayce:

      As has been set forth as to the developing of the soul-entity through material- earthly manifestations (Please watch the wording), there has been a development for the soul-entity that lends itself (through natural consequence of environment and hereditary influence, from the spiritual plane) to activity in the realms of psychic or mental forces.

       

      Then, consider also that which has been given, that through the subconscious or superconscious forces of the entity the manifestations may take place; or from the superconscious or subconscious forces of entities that may have passed into that designated as the spiritual realm. Through these, or through the universal consciousness or cosmic consciousness from the very abilities of the entity Edgar Cayce to wholly subjugate the physical consciousness as to allow the use of physical organs that may be attuned to all realms that pertain to psychic or mental or spiritual influences in the realms about the entity.

       

      Then, that which wavers or hinders or repels or blocks the activity through this channel when in such a state may be from these causes; namely:

       

      The unwillingness of the body-consciousness to submit to the suggestion as pertaining to information desired at that particular time. Or the activity of the physical in such a manner as to require the influence or supervision of the superconsciousness in the body, or ill health, at such a period. Or the mental attitude of those about the body that are not in accord with the type, class or character of information sought at that particular time. Or there may be the many variations of the combination of these, influencing one to another, as to the type, class or real activity of the entity or soul that seeks the information.

       

      For, as may be surmised from that given, one that would approach the sources of the information with the innate and manifested desire that that which is supplied in information should emanate from a loved one in the spiritual realm, and that desire has kept such an entity in the realm of communication, and there are those combative influences in the experience of that entity so seeking, and the development of the entity of the channel or medium through which the information may be attempted is capable of such contact, is there not - as presented in Holy Writ - the continual warring with the flesh and the spirit? The continual warring also with the spirit or entity or consciousness that would control through such a period of information passing from one realm to another.

       

      For (for further explanation), this should be known to all: The material realms or earth activities are as a shadow or a manifestation of a spiritual law, that may in its essence - when viewed from the realm of psychic or spiritual or mental influence - appear to be quite different; yet one is the shadow of the other. But in describing, then, as a shadow upon a material plane, there would be periods - according to the time of day, the position of the body from the source of light casting such a shadow - when there would be an outline that anyone would know that from which the shadow was cast. Yet at other periods the shadow would be, of the same body (material body), such that the description would not reach the consciousness of those even more intimate with the body from which such a shadow would be cast.

       

      So, with that which may emanate through such a channel, there be many influences that have to do with the corrector of the shadow cast; remembering, too, that material things - or the vocal cords of a body, material - are being used as the means of transmitting that which may be seen of the actual or true body that is being described, analyzed, philosophized, theorized, or acted upon by or through that being sought.

       

      Hence, there are laws that pertain to the activity; as to why there become periods when there is the inability of activity, or when the activity becomes hindered by DIVERS reasons or causes, when they are so called in the material plane.

       

      As in this particular instance that is asked for, with this entity now known as [355]: There were, in the field or room at that particular time, feelings in the make-up (which means of the whole body) of those present that made for a deflecting of that being sought; as well as of the shadow cast. Or, there was the inability to reach that position, that plane, that sphere, from which the record was being sought as made by the entity.

       

      What are the records, and how are they made, is asked, that they may be turned back and so read by any soul-mind or medium or channel? (Which, in its analysis, means the soul-mind of either the entity through which the information comes or that entity speaking or manifesting, whether in hearing, in visioning, in writing, in speaking; but, as given, to become a manifestation it must approach through one of the channels through which consciousness comes to those that reside in the plane that is seeking the information. See? Hence, called senses.) In this particular instance, again there were

      those conditions in the entity‘s mental being seeking the information that were combative in opening self that the real record might be read as made.

       

      How is the record made? How is the record read?

      In the material plane we have instruments that are so attuned through the raising of the forces in various elements of one or another of the consciousnesses that manifest in the material plane. As in the phonograph or the radio, or the prism light; or any of the activating influences such as in the stethoscope with its various acoustic arrangements for the activity of elements related to movements of various influences within the realm of man‘s activity in respiration, circulation, activity of contractings in muscular forces, tendon activities, ganglia reaction, and the like.

       

      These are but, then (from our first premise), a shadow of the real realm in which the activity of life is recorded.

      Then (to become more elucidating upon that we are presenting here), we must turn again to a first premise that we may make for the greater enlightenment or the cooperative influences that come to bear when these are in motion that make for a record.

      For, as we see first in the material plane, to the material sense, an object or a body that is called stationary produces the same character of shadow as one in motion. Far, far from same!

       

      It might be even characterized by saying that an instrument for measuring time that stood still is correct in some realms twice each twenty-four hours, but never correct at any other seconds in that period.

       

      So with the shadow of a stationary object; for that which appears even stationary is only relatively so, as related to or compared with that still in motion (through the sense stations of consciousness to a body in the material plane.)

       

      Then Life, or the manifestation of that which is in motion, is receiving its impulse from a first cause.

       

      What is the first cause?

       

      That which has brought, is bringing, all life into being; or animation, or force, or power, or movement, or consciousness, as to either the material plane, the mental plane, the spiritual plane.

       

      Hence it is the force that is called Lord, God, Jehovah, Yah, Ohum [Ohm?], Abba and the like. Hence the activity that is seen of any element in the material plane is a manifestation of that first cause. One Force. And, as seen and stated above, a record in a phonograph is made up of elements of a certain combination of that which has become in manifested form in certain movements in relation to the first cause, for the projection (and does project) by natural laws; as the physical or material laws, then, are the reflection or shadow of spiritual laws. See? And these then make for, under certain laws, certain words, certain regulations, the retaining of that (through one of these elements or attributes of consciousness) which has passed before it; or that has been indented upon this element in this rate of activity of a first cause or first principle that is in movement, and unless in movement is not capable of being manifested in a material world. For, the movement itself (to make applicable another law) DRAWS about a nucleus the positive and negative forces as to bring into visibility from one sphere or realm to another that force or power. Or it has lost that which makes for the raising or reducing of such vibrations as for the force, the power, the first cause, to become active in this or that or the other realm of consciousness.

       

      Then, as the realm of record is made by indentations of other influences that act upon the medium that is used as the source, or plate, or manner of recording, so will there be - with the acoustic arrangements of that which is the negative of that influence which causes the indentation - REPRODUCED that which has been indented by the positive activity upon that record, that plate, that plane, that activity.

      So is this, then, as the record that is made of the force that manifests itself in the form of a body-mind with the attributes of all that vibration through which it has passed in reaching that place or plane of consciousness; it must be in accord, so that the record made is positive or negative (negative being error, positive being right - good), that it may be penetrated to through the application of a negative influence upon that in whatever realm it may have made its indentation or record.

       

      Then, only in attuning the forces of that which may be the medium of reading back that record which has been made, may this be given activity into another realm of consciousness for instruction, for edification, for those various activities of those seeking same. For, how does the answer come? For what purpose is the information sought? To do that which is in accord with that which first made the record, the indentation, or to correct that which has been in an obtuse angle to that which should be in accord with that to which the entity or the soul so making such a record is gathering its influence and force toward?

       

      Hence, how easily may there be a diffusion or a break in that which may be obtained through such a channel, that is capable of attuning self so that it may write, read, hear, see, feel, or experience, and - through SOME of the modes of approach to consciousness in a material world - give that experience which has been made by some activity; whether in this or that realm, in its course through that of eternity, time, space, or in the realm of the spirit itself!

       

      For, as given, names but give metes and bounds to the consciousness of those that classify such activities in a certain stage or realm of conscious movement.

       

      In the same manner we find the record as of the radio. The influences used here are simply a changed vibration of those very influences that have been described in their activity, and gather from this or that influence that which is being recorded. By the movement of what? The first cause, when in its activity in various forms or manners in a certain realm of consciousness.

       

      What, then, is the variation from the one to the other?

       

      The reproducer of that recorded. In one it is required that it change its realm of activity for reproduction. In the other it is attuned to the first cause, that gives off in whatever realm or place that is attuned TO the activity, the IMMEDIATE response.

       

      Hence, as from our first premise (the post), the conditions are only relative.

       

      Then, the psychic influences or forces in manifestation in their various spheres are as but a type of needle upon the record; a type of acoustics in the recorded or de- recording activity. Or the power and the influence by its development toward the realm of the first cause, as to the power of the tube or of the resoundant or of the length of its activity to care for its reproduction.

      Hence, out of tune by many of the channels that have been indicated did prevent at that time [355] from receiving that later given.
       

4. 4. (Q) In group reading of Sunday afternoon, June 25th [262-48, Par. 14-A], why was no answer given to the request for a message? What happened to Edgar Cayce during the experience?

   1. This, as we find then, must (if it follows natural laws) fall among the category of that which has been presented as related to the laws pertaining to the abilities of the reproducer to gain from the channel of the information sought that which is to be brought to those seeking.

      In this particular instance we find two elements enter. Remember, we have spoken of the elements; how that they in their various vibrations produce that which makes for either the producer or the receiver. See?

       

      And these may appear, in their first glance from those that would study same, to be a different condition; yet they are phases, as the shadow has lengthened - or that producing same is at such an angle that no answer comes.

       

      Is the simile understood? It is as this:

      In the one there was the desire of that source of supply to respond through that channel (This is from the outside, now, acting in) being opened for same. And there was within that which turned the switch and produced static. Hence no message came. Who? Those present.

       

      What happened to the body Edgar Cayce?

      To the BODY, little. To the MENTAL forces, or the spiritual activity of the entity as a whole, a very hard KNOCK; as there was the DESIRE to enter in, and the entity stumbled - as it were - against a closed door.

       

      Yes, this is deep; but it‘s understood!

       

5. 5. (Q) What happened Tuesday morning, July 11th, when we attempted to obtain a Life Reading for [373], and received only some words or exclamations in German?

   1. The attempt of one that might guide the thought of the entity seeking, that was of that speech only. You see where this fits in with that which has been given? Incapable of being understood through those present, then - BY THEM - cut off!

       

6. 6. (Q) What is the interpretation of the German words given?

   1. This is simply curiosity! Learn German!

       

7. 7. We are through.

REPORTS OF READING 254-67
Gladys Davis Turner‘s note: At beginning of waking suggestion [from 254-67], Edgar Cayce‘s body almost turned a somersault; his head bent over to where his feet usually are, and stayed that way until the whole waking suggestion was given, when he then waked normally and felt exuberant - fine! See explanation in Work reading of 9/7/33 - 254-68 - P.M. of the same day.
 

INDEX OF READING 254-68

by G.D.T 6/2/60

Akashic Records Par. 4-A
                         :Work: E.C. Par. 3-A
 

Angels & Archangels: Akashic Records Par. 4-A 
Arts: Beauty Par. 4-A, 6-A

Astral: Projection: Work:E.C. Par. 3-A

Attitudes & Emotions: Antagonism Par. 3-A

:Charity Par. 4-A

:Faith Par. 4-A

:Faultfinding Par. 4-A

:Hate Par. 4-A

:Hope Par. 4-A, 7-A

:Humbleness Par. 4-A

:Jealousy Par. 4-A

:Joy Par. 7-A

:Kindness Par. 4-A

:Longsuffering Par. 4-A, 7-A

:Love Par. 4-A, 5-A, 7-A

:Brotherly Par. 4-A, 7-A

:Materiality Par. 4-A, 7-A

:Meekness Par. 4-A

:Mercy Par. 7-A

:Offenses Par. 4-A

:Suffering Par. 6-A

:Work:E.C. Par. 3-A

Bible: Books Of: Acts 9:6 Par. 5-A
:I Corinthians 3:9 Par. 7-A
:II Corinthians 11:26 Par. 5-A
:I Corinthians 13:12 Par. 5-A
:I Corinthians 1:20 Par. 5-A
:Ecclesiastes 12:6 Par. 3-A
:Ephesians 8:11 Par. 7-A
:Galatians 8:22 Par. 7-A
:Galatians 8:2 Par. 6-A
:Genesis 6:2 Par. 7-A
:Genesis 1:11--12 Par. 7-A
:Genesis 32:30 Par. 5-A
:John 4:32 Par. 7-A
:John 10:34 Par. 7-A
:John 14:15 Par. 4-A
:John 21:15 Par. 5-A
:Luke 6:27 Par. 4-A
:Mark 12:29 Par. 4-A

:Matthew 5:44 Par. 4-A

:Matthew 7:6 Par. 6-A

:Matthew 13:46 Par. 6-A

:Matthew 18:20 Par. 5-A

:Philippians 4:8 Par. 4-A

:Psalms 19:2 Par. 4-A

:Psalms 19:4 Par. 4-A

:Psalms 82:6 Par. 7-A

:Revelation 3:21 Par. 5-A

:Revelation 20:12 Par. 4-A

:Romans 4:16 Par. 5-A

:Romans 8:16 Par. 4-A

:Romans 8:35 Par. 4-A

:Romans 8:39 Par. 4-A

Body: Etheric: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A
Books: Akashic Records Par. 4-A
Business Advice: Psychic Sources Par. 6-A

Consciousness: God And Man Par. 5-A, 7-A

Creation Par. 5-A

Death: Elysian Fields Par. 4-A

Dimensions: Third Par. 4-A

Dreams: E.C. Par. 4-A 6-A

Evolution Par. 5-A
Forces: Creative Par. 4-A
Glands: Leydig: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A
           :Pineal: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A Glory Par. 5-A
Good: Evil Par. 4-A

Heaven: Stairs Par. 6-A

Home & Marriage: Parenthood Par. 6-A

Individuality & Personality Par. 7-A

Jesus Par. 4-A, 5-A

Kingdoms: Animal: Dragon Fly Par. 5-A
                :Snail Par. 5-A
Levitation: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A
Man: Creation Par. 5-A
Meditation Par. 5-A
Mind: Imagination Par. 4-A

:The Builder Par. 3-A, 4-A

Names: People Mentioned:

Wesley, Thomas D. (Rev.) Par. 7-A, R1 
Nature: Birds: Akashic Records Par. 4-A

:Flowers: Par. 4-A

:Natural: Oneness Par. 5-A 
Oneness Par. 5-A

Phonograph: Psychic Sources Par. 4-A
Planetary Sojourns Par. 4-A
Pregnancy Par. 6-A

Psychic Development Par. 4-A, 6-A 

PSYCHIC SOURCES: WORK: E.C.

Radio: Psychic Sources Par. 3-A, 4-A

Reality: Imagination Par. 4-A

Reincarnation:Day & Night Par. 7-A

Science: Polarity: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A
                    :Relativity: Par. 3-A
Soul Development Par. 7-A
                    :Application Par. 4-A

Suggestion: Work: E.C. Par. 3-A, 4-A

Symbology: Baby & Mother‘s Breast Par. 5-A

:Birds Par. 5-A

:Bubble:Work:E.C. Par. 4-A

:Darkness Par. 6-A

:Day & Night Par. 7-A

:Dragon Fly Par. 5-A

:Flowers Par. 4-A

:Heavenly Stairs Par. 6-A

:Light Par. 5-A

:Phonograph Par. 4-A

:Radio Par. 3-A, 4-A

:Record Keeper:Work:E.C. Par. 4-A

:Snail Par. 5-A

Time: Space: Relativity Par. 3-A, 4-A

Truth Par. 7-A

Universe: Solar Systems Par. 4-A
Will Par. 5-A
Work: E.C.: Language Par. 4-A
                  :Polarity Par. 3-A
                  :Scope Par. 3-A

TEXT OF READING 254-68

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, this 7th day of September, 1933, in accordance with request made by those present.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce, Mildred Davis.

R E A D I N G

Time of Reading 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. (Continuation of 254-67. Same suggestion)

1. 1. EC: (While going over suggestion, said "Hoi - Hoi - ")

    

2. 2. Yes, we have that work as manifests itself through the body Edgar Cayce, and the enquiring minds of those present in this room.

    

   Ready for questions.

    

3. 3. (Q) What caused the extraordinary physical reaction with Edgar Cayce at the close of the reading [254-67] this morning, at the beginning of the suggestion?

   1. As was seen, through the seeking of irrelevant questions there was antagonism manifested. This made for a contraction of those channels through which the activity of the psychic forces operates in the material body; as we have outlined, along the pineal, the lyden and the cord - or silver cord. The natural reactions are for sudden contraction when changing suddenly from the mental-spiritual to material.

       

      For, as evidenced by that which has been given, there is the touching - with the mental beings of those present in the room or at such manifestations - of the most delicate mechanism that may be well imagined.

       

      As has been crudely given, a hen may lay an egg but the shell once cracked or broken CANNOT be made to produce that it contains.

       

      When the thought, the activity that is being made manifest, is broken, that which is creative or constructive - once touched by thought or suggestion - is hindered, wavered, as to that it may bring to a manifested form.

       

      Hence the experiences that are sometimes held, or that may be held, by those that may witness or experience the transmission of that which is received or gained through this particular channel, may - by the mere disturbing of the body that rests above the natural body by other than the elements that have not taken bodily form - break the associations, the connections, with that source from which the records are being taken.

      In considering such information, much - and much more - might be given, or sought, as to how far-reaching in space (time) is the information or the effects or benefits from such reaching, in its range or scope of activity.

       

      As has been demonstrated by the parallel drawn respecting how the channel or medium operates in the relationships to the manners of transmission of a sense- consciousness, as through the radio, this depends only upon the manner of the transformer or the attunement and that which may interfere that is of the characterized element which indicates the channel of transmission through which the reception may come.

       

      This, in the physical sense, has been covered. Many phases of those conditions that influence same, that surround the body, have been touched upon. These might be expanded; though, digest - my brethren - that ye have in hand.

       

4. 4. (Q) What is the significance of the experience had during reading [373-2] Wednesday afternoon, July 12th, in which Edgar Cayce saw himself traveling through water in a bubble and arriving at the place where he always gets the information - the old man with the books? [See 294-19, Par. R12.]

   1. To bring from one realm to another those experiences through which an entity, a soul, may pass in obtaining those reflections that are necessary for transmission of the information sought, it becomes necessary (for the understanding of those in that realm seeking) to have that which is to the mental being put in the language of that being, as near as it is possible to do justice to the subject.

       

      In this particular instance, then, to reach that record suggested by the suggestion itself - as of coming into existence across waters, the very thought of those present that it becomes necessary that that which is to receive or transmit the information must seek (as indicated by the manner in which periods, ages, dates, years, days are turned back, in arriving at the experience of the entity in a changed environ); meant that, the psychic influences in their activity with or through the physical forces of the body, must in some manner pass through the necessary elements for arriving at or reaching the beginning or that point. With the amount of water that is more often thought than of ether, what more befitting than that in the bubble the seeking forces should guide themselves!

       

      Then, so becomes much that arrives in the material plane; in the form of pictures or expressions, that there may be the conveying to the mind of the seeker something in his own type of experience, as to how the transmission of the activity takes place. Of what forces? The psychic or soul forces, that are akin to what? The Creative Forces, or that called God.

       

      So, the body in a symbolized form as the bubble arrives at a place in which there is kept the records of all; as signified in speaking of the Book of Life, or to indicate or symbolize that each entity, each soul in its growth, may find its way back to the Creative Influences that are promised in and through Him that gives - and is - Life; and finds this as a separate, a definite, an integral part of the very soul.

      Hence symbolized as being in books; and the man the keeper, as the keeper of the records. Much in the manner as would be said the lord of the storm, of the sea, of the lightning, of the light, of the day, of love, of hope, of faith, of charity, of long-suffering, of brotherly love, of kindness, of meekness, of humbleness, of self.

       

      So, in the materializations for the concept of those that seek to know, to be enlightened: To the world, long has there been sought that as in books. To many the question naturally arises, then: Are there literally books? To a mind that thinks books, literally BOOKS! As it would be for the mind that in its passage from the material plane into rest would require Elysian fields with birds, with flowers; it must find the materialized form of that portion of the Maker in that realm wherein that entity, that soul, would enjoy such in THAT sphere of activity. As houses built in wood. Wood, in its essence, as given, is what? Books, in their essence, are what? What is the more real, the book with its printed pages, its gilt edges, or the essence of that told of in the book? Which is the more real, the love manifested in the Son, the Savior, for His brethren, or the essence of love that may be seen even in the vilest of passion? They are one. But that they bring into being in a materialized form is what elements of the one source have been combined to produce a materialization. Beautiful, isn‘t it?

       

      How far, then, is ungodliness from godliness? Just under, that‘s all!

      Seek then, ye, in understanding as to where, why, from what source, there may be gained the experiences of an entity, a soul, through its journeys in this the odic sphere, or through that known as this solar system. Each portion of that one whole, in that we call life, as it uses the attributes of the physical forces of a created form manifested in a material world, makes a record; as truly as is seen in the cylinder of the plate of the phonograph, or as is given to the radio transmitter upon the ethers of a material world.

       

                Going out where? Only those become conscious of same that have attuned themselves to that which is in accord, or seeking to know - then - His will; for each soul, every soul, should seek to attune its mind, its soul - yea, its body-vibrations - to that He, the Son of man, the Mother-God in Jesus the Christ, lived in the earth. Tune into that light, and it becomes BEAUTIFUL; in that you think, that you are, that you live!

       

      Then KNOW, by doing, by being, even as He, that "My Spirit beareth witness with thy spirit" that ye are indeed, in truth, the sons of a living God who day by day uttereth speech, night unto night sheweth knowledge.

       

      The line has gone out into that we call space, and how hast thou looked as to where that line would fall? One with Him, to be guided by Him, or to the aggrandizing of those petty jealousies, those petty hatreds that arise from slights, from slurs in thine daily life. What! Will ye allow self to separate self, the real self, from the living Christ? HE calls ever, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." What are His commandments? "Love one another." Do good, speak gently, even to those that thou in thine darkness of heart feel would do thee an injustice.

      With this line, as one sees the manifestations of the acts of man in the earth, man claiming God as the father, the Christ as the elder brother, the patriarchs as teachers and directors, and yet find fault with someone that is less gifted with the Light of His love.

       

      Suppose, for the moment, that God looked on thine own heart as thou hast oft looked on thine brother‘s life? OBLIVION, incomparable to the mind even of man - even as space or time. THINK - THINK - on these things!

       

5. 5. (Q) Please explain the experience he had Tuesday night, August 29th, while giving Norfolk Group #2 reading [397-1] regarding the marvelous light; tones of individuals merging with the whole, ending with baby at mother‘s breast.

   1. As may be easily surmised, as may be known by all who would think well on that which has been given, as to how God in His mercy, in His glory, makes Himself known to His creatures in the earth!

       

      Think not that the snail or the dragon fly, as he crawls from his slime, does not glorify his Maker. And as he mounts on his wings of gossamer, he fills that place for which he has been - in his realm of activity - designated; in his field, his manner of showing forth his love as manifested from the Creator in the materialized world.

       

      Man alone, of all His kingdom, abuses the gifts that have been made his through the love that the Father would show, in that he (man) might be a companion, one with Him; not the whole, yet equal to the whole, able in that realm to magnify, glorify, even as the dragon fly, that love the Father bestowed upon His sons.

       

      Then, when there are those periods when body and mind of a group are in accord, seeking that light, it may be shown unto them that they the more may magnify, glorify, that manifestation of the Father-Son love into the earth.

       

      Occasionally, as there comes - with the visions of those that enter in - that which has been promised, that they in their activity may be enjoined as one to another in bringing to the earth a manifested glory of those that have gathered, do gather, about the Throne; hence, as He is light, all light, so did the light of the seekers make the way that there might be shown that His promises are sure, that there may come that life in a manifested form that would begin again those of face to face may they speak with the Father and with the Son. [See 3976-15 indicating John the beloved had been Jacob.]

       

      As is exemplified in the breast, that marked as that that should be the one to nourish a life that would bring into that materialized form, if there will remain those associations, those connections that have been given may make the attunement of a manifestation of a portion of life in a material plane.

      Blessed, then, are they that make their wills one in accord with Him, as they seek to know, "Lord, what would thou have me do!" Not Lord, may I do this or that! Show forth, ye all, the Lord‘s death - DEATH - till He come again, in the lightening of the way for those that seek, those that seek to know His way.

      Even as the child, the breast, meant a growth; so feed ye "my lambs," that they grow in the nurture, the admonition of THE Lord, the Christ Child.

       

6. 6. (Q) Please explain the experience the next morning, Aug. 30th, while giving [257] business reading [257-119], in which he was going through - and surrounded by - blackness?

   (A) A razor is a wonderful instrument for shaving beards. It will trim pencils, but not many beards after - if used very long.

    

   A pearl is an adornment, a thing of beauty, created through the irritation of that which manifests itself in a lowly way to those that consider themselves of high estate; but by the very act of irritation to its own vibration is the higher vibration created, or brings about the pearl of great price. Yet it does not look well in the sow‘s ear.

    

   In the use then to which, through which, the soul of the body would pass to seek that as may be sought by the varied creations of man‘s activity in a material life, to what depths must such a soul oft descend to bring back that that may even lend an air of help to a hungry soul?

    

   Through such irritation, though, oft does the soul grow, even as the pearl. So long as that manifested, then, by the life in a manifested form, keeps pure, little harm may come. But once lost can never be regained; even as that given into the heart of every mother to carry to her chosen one the bloom of life itself - only once!

    

   So, in the understanding of that as happens when through the shadows or the slime, through the darkness or through the grime, may the soul seek to bring to light that which will ease the burden of a hungry soul, it finds its hardships - yes, here and there; yet may he lead that soul to the heavenly stair!

   [4/16/34 See 257-130, Par. R1, R5 for similar dreams by EC & [257].]

    

7. 7. (Q) [Submitted by Rev. Thos. D. Wesley Presbyterian minister]: What, where or how is the direct and immediate point of contact between the Personal God and the soul, of which contact the soul is conscious and certain?

   1. As the sons and daughters of God are personal, are individual, with their many attributes that are characteristics, personalities or individualities, so (as this then is a shadow from that from which it sprang, its Maker) must the Maker be individual, with its attributes and its personalities. And yet fill all of life as becomes manifested in the spiritual realm, the realm of the soul or the temporal house, the abode of the soul for a day.

      As the soul seeks, then, for that which is the sustenance of the body - as what the food is to a developing, a growing body, so are the words of truth (which are life, which are love, which are God) sought that make for growth, even as the digesting of the material things in a body make for a growth. This growth may not be felt in the consciousness of materialization. It is experienced by the consciousness of the soul, by which it enables the soul to use the attributes of the soul‘s food, even as the growth of the body makes for the use of the muscular forces or attributes of the physical body.

      Where is the contact? As ye seek Him, so does like beget like. For, ye are co- laborers with Him, if ye have put on the whole of His love in thine own life.

      Feed, then, upon the fruits of the spirit. Love, hope, joy, mercy, long-suffering, brotherly love, and the contact, the growth, will be seen; and within the consciousness of the soul will the awareness come of the personality of the God in thee!

       

8. 8. We are through for the present.

REPORTS OF READING 254-68

9/30/33 Rev. Thos. D. Wesley‘s letter: "The answer which you gave to my question is heart-quickening and soul-refreshing. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating; so the Psalmist says, 'O taste and see that the Lord is Good.‘ (434-8) and Jesus says, 'This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your father did eat manna and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever' (John 6:58).

"Perhaps my mind leans toward the sensory evidences as a stay of my faith; and presumably I am scientifically inclined that way like other laboratory mortals. As matter results from the energy of motion by a creative process, so we may reasonably assume that the soul-stuff is a resultant of Divine Energy and that the soul-consciousness is a reflex and, per se, a proof of the Divine.

"I wish to thank you and your associates for your cordial consideration of my question of contact between God and the Soul, and shall be glad to attend your assemblages when able to do so."

INDEX OF READING 378-13

by J.M.M. 9/6/68 Male 56 years

Bible: Books Of: Deuteronomy 13:13 Par. 10 
Egypt: Great Pyramid Par. 16--18 
Incarnations: Atlantis Par. 9--19 
                   :Egypt: Ra Ta Par. 9--19 
Psychic: Definition Par. 21-A 
Work: E.C.: Readings: Akashic Records Par. 2--8 
                                   :Attunement Par. 7

BACKGROUND 378-13

Life Reading 378-12 on 7/31/33

8/7/33 Wife [255] submitted questions

See 378-13 on 8/14/33, Ck. Life on his Egypt-Atlantis sojourn. 
See 275-34 Ck Life on Egypt for daughter

TEXT OF READING 378-13

Male 56 years, (Executive, Protestant)

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of August, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [378], Active Member of the Ass‘n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.

R E A D I N G

Time of Reading ... Street,

3:50 to 4:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York, N.Y.

(Soul-mind of entity now known as [378], who seeks a description in great detail of his Egyptian incarnation as Hept-supht; also a description of his life on Atlantis and what brought him to Egypt. After you have given this description, you will answer the questions which have been submitted, as I ask them.)

1. 1. EC: Yes, we have the entity [378], and the experiences in the earth‘s plane - and the records here, as made by the entity.

    

2. 2. Oft may it occur to one seeking such understandings, that may be gained through such channels, as to how such records of experiences are made; and as to how or why it becomes possible for only one here and there to interpret or read such records; and how that in the varied interpretations there may at times occur what appears to be a great discrepancy in the amount or character of such interpretations.

    

3. 3. As the entity in its present activities is in that field which requires the consideration of pigment, or combinations of elements that act or react under varied conditions - especially those in which light, heat and other vibrations have much to do, (and as the experiences through the period being sought concerning were much, as would be termed in the present, the basis for that followed in the line of activity today) such questions are of particular interest.

    

4. 4. Then, to draw a comparison that some concept may be gained as to the nature of records, and how they are recorded, and the manner in which interpretations are made,

   and the variations that occur, let‘s - then - for the moment put this in the language of that in which the entity is engaged:

    

5. 5. (This aside. Don‘t think that you present will know very much more than you did before. He will!)

    

6. 6. When a dye [die?] is cast there are basic influences that form that from which, to which, other things are added to take from or add to, to produce an effect that will not be acted upon by light, heat, moisture or the like, or other elements with the same. Yet, in the addition - to subtract from this first basis, there is always left that record in that which exists in the present of the dye, as to what basis the beginning was measured from. And in the interpretation, the analysis of what records were made as they were being put together, the interpreter oft loses sight of the base - of the addition - and sees the results rather than that activity producing same.

    

7. 7. Just so in the soul life, the soul‘s contact with that which is conscious - that partakes of, or presents, or is represented in material form. The reading or interpretation of such an akashic record or cosmic impression, or such influences, depend upon the ability of the interpreter to meet in the same force, or attune into the same vibration, as to be able to translate or interpret the same.

    

8. 8. Then, as for the appearance, the influence of the soul entity not only upon the development of the entity or soul itself but its, the soul‘s, influence (and affluence) upon the period or era or time in which it moved to give expression of that within its realm of activity in the period:

    

9. 9. In Atlantis we find the entity, as there were those periods before the destruction - when there were being continually waged what may be termed war, but rather in the sense as would be considered in the present period when there is being a campaign by individuals or groups respecting the impulsive influence that is directing the activities of the man, the brother, the neighbor, the associate. Or, as would be termed, an evangelistic campaign. Yet the WORKS materially going about much in the general way and manner of the particular period of activity.

    

10. 10. This was being waged between the followers of the patriarchs of old; of Alta, of Quoauda, and those that directed against the sons of Baalilal. [Belial? Deut. 13:13]

     

11. 11. The entity was among those that were active as to the exchange of associations with those in the Poseidian land, or in the city of Alta.

12. 12. And, as there was the entering of the priest from the land 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, the ENTITY returned - or JOURNEYED, soon after the priest‘s return from Atlantis, to Egypt.

13. 13. Hence, as there continued to be the rebellions and the exodus of the peoples in Atlantis before the final destruction, the entity - becoming interested in those activities - finally (as would be termed in the present) became embroiled through engrossment in that taking place in Egypt during the young king‘s enthronement - and the elderly king, and the peoples, and the counselors of the king.

     

14. 14. And when there was the pitting of the young king against the royal native Aarat, the entity then took counsel - as it were - with self, and made Egypt the home.

     

15. 15. Hence there was the knowledge of, yet not being self-embroiled in, the rebellions that arose with the banishment of the priest.

     

16. 16. But with the return, which came at - what the present manner of speech would be - the same time or days in which the entity established itself as a native of Egypt, then the entity began to work with the priest in bringing 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 varied 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.

     

17. 17. 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 direct; 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.

     

18. 18. Hence the entity aided the priest in activity, but 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. 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.

     

19. 19. And there will be drawn to the entity in various ways many of those of the period.

20. 20. Ready for questions.

21. 21. (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.

     

    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."

     

22. 22. We are through for the present.

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24. REPORTS OF READING 378-13 M 56

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26.  7/14-15/33 His daughter, Miss [275] [See 275-11 Reports] received the following seal in meditation for Mr. [378], and the interpretation of it. [See Source File Key #378 for all current reports, supplements and professional commentaries for his Life Seal re 378-13.] Interpretation of Seal: 

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28. The sun represents power and strength, and radiates from heaven down upon us; if we would only always make use of it. The pyramid represents the Egyptian life, where at the celebration of the completion of the pyramids, he stood at the top and clanged the big sheet of metal. At that time he made use of a great deal of power, that God will let us have if we only pray for it. The seven curves, represent the age of accomplishing deeds of mercy through always giving of what belongs to oneself, such as matter (money), or some belonging, or just giving pleasure in seeing some thing. Giving unselfishly is one of the greatest things we can do; for in doing that we are doing what God wishes us to do. The scroll means literature, which will have a great deal to do with his life; not only in what he himself reads, but what other people read to him. The knowledge from the Egyptian life will again take place, or develop in this life; used in a different direction, but the source of the knowledge God, will be the same. The OHM, represents the height of vibration he will reach, if he develops in the right direction. Therefore he should read a great deal, and pray often, and put himself into God's hands, and everything will turn out the way it should for his best. The V means, that all knowledge from the one source above, or all power from above, will come and enter into spiritual gifts, and point to, and enter his life. The meaning of OTE is: O---T---E-- *** meaning, - all knowledge will be brought down, or will come down in 30 fold to him. All things such as this coming down in 30 fold, does not literally mean that 30 somethings will come down, but is a term used to mean, to come down in abundance. The exact meaning of what the knowledge will be, I am not allowed to tell, because it depends upon the development that takes place. Tell him to read books that deal with psychic knowledge. 9/26/33 See 378-14, continuation of Ck. Life on his Egypt-Atlantis sojourn.

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30. 9/26/33 See 378-14, continuation of Ck. Life on his Egypt-Atlantis sojourn.

Sources of the Edgar Cayce Readings, by Hugh Lynn Cayce

One approach to understanding the sources of any particular psychic data is to examine statements about the way such data is obtained from the source itself. Here are some extracts from the Edgar Cayce readings which throw light on this subject. As you examine these explanations, keep in mind that Edgar Cayce‘s readings frequently responded to people and events around him at the time of the reading.

The following extract was taken from a reading which was given for an individual who originally wrote Edgar Cayce giving only his post office box number. He suggested that Edgar Cayce give him his name in a reading. Edgar Cayce wrote him and offered to give him a physical reading if there was a need, but indicated that there was no desire just to prove anything to any person. The man apologized, said he had a real need and applied for a reading. When it was given, the opening included a description of what he was doing in Philadelphia. The man wired: "Absolutely right. I am on my way to Virginia Beach." This additional information followed:

4/25/34 Virginia Beach, VA

Then in seeking information there are certain factors in the experience of the seeker and in the channel through which such information might come. Desire on the part of the seeker to be shown. And, as an honest seeker, such will not be too gullible; neither will such be so encased in prejudices as to doubt that which is applicable in the experience of such seeker. Hence the information must not only be practical, but it must be rather in accord with the desires of the seeker also.

On the part of that channel through whom such information may come, there must be the unselfish desire to be of aid to a fellow man. Not as for self- exaltation because of being a channel. Not for self-glorification that such a channel may be well spoken of. But rather as one desirous of being a channel through which the highest spiritual forces may manifest in bringing to the material consciousness of the seeker those things that may be beneficial in a spiritual and material sense to the seeker.

The soul of the seeker being passive, and the soul of the individual through whom information comes being positive (as the physical is subjugated into unconsciousness) goes out on the forces that are in activity by being guided by suggestion to that individual place of the seeker. And the souls commune one with another. 531-2

Two businessmen, investment brokers, were interested in securing a series of business readings from Edgar Cayce on general economic trends. The following information was part of a reading to get advice on the best way to proceed.

4/18/36 New York City, N.Y.

Q. Explain from what sources this information may be obtained.

A. Conditions, thoughts, activities of men in EVERY clime are things, as thoughts are things. They make their impressions upon the skein of time and space. Thus, as they make for their activity, they become as records that may be read by

those in accord or ATTUNED to such a condition. This may be illustrated in the wave length of the radio or of such an activity. They [the activities, etc.] go upon the waves of light, upon that of space. And those instruments that are ATTUNED to same may hear, may experience, that which is being transmitted. 3976-16

In June, 1937, at the Sixth Annual Congress of the Association, the following question was asked and answered in a reading given by Edgar Cayce before a Congress audience:

Q. Is the source of this information a group source, an individual source, or a recorded source?

A. As has so oft been given, this is rather of the Universal. That which is recorded may be read. That which is written may be interpreted. That which is individual may be had. But it is also a constructive source, so only gives that which is helpful if it will be applied.

When an individual seeks for personal or bodily aid, it is part and parcel of that individual and is read by and through the real desire of the seeker.

When it is the Life Source, it is recorded upon space and time - and is that which is to be kept against that day; for time and space are as the evolution upon which the forces of the divine make for that change that brings same into the experience of those who seek to become one with the Creative Energies.

Hence ALL may be touched, ALL may be drawn upon. And, as has been given, if it were individualized by a guide, it would become limited; while if universal it is in the hands of Him that is the Maker, the Giver, the Creator. For hath He not given, “Abide in me, as I in the Father, that I in the Father may be glorified in thee!” Ye that seek self-glory know its hardships. Ye that seek the glory of the Father know its beauties. 294-95