Edgar Cayce on Human Origins

By Kevin Williams
Edgar
Cayce, www.edgarcayce.org,
revealed
volumes of psychic material, much of which was
verified to be true to the amazement of doctors and
scientists. Cayce discovered at a young age he could
go into a self-induced trance and travel to other
dimensions - afterlife realms - to obtain psychic
information on any subject. Cayce claimed anyone could do what he did
with the proper training and attunement. The hypnotic trance Cayce
induced produced an out-of-body experience and spirit journey
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indistinguishable from a near-death experience. During these near-death

experiences, Cayce was able to tap into a virtually unlimited amount of
information which he referred to as the "Universal Mind". He was able to
reveal previously unknown information on a wide range of subjects such
as: astrology, the afterlife, religion, the future, consciousness, and human
origins, just to name a few. The following information on human origins
was revealed to Cayce during his excursions while out of the body and as
told in Thomas Sugrue's book, There is a River. Because of the archaic
language used in Cayce's description, I have paraphrased it slightly,
without losing any of original meaning, to make it easier to read. This may
be the most important document you will ever read because it answers the
"what, where, how, when and why" of human origins.

Table of Contents
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

In The Beginning, God...

The Evolutionary Plan for Souls
The Nature of the Spirit, Soul and Ego
The Divine Nature of Free Will
The Entanglement of Souls with Flesh
The Invisible Planetary-Afterlife Dimensions Within Our Solar
6.
System
God's Three-Dimensional School of Hard Knocks on the Third
7.
Rock from the Sun
8. The Sons of God Unite with the Daughters of Men
9. The Evolution of the Soul Through Reincarnation
The Evolution of the Christ Soul from Adam to Jesus to
10
Christhood
11. The Law of Karma as a Lesson for Soul Evolution
12. The Personality as a Facet of the Soul's Individuality
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The Soul's Liberation from Reincarnation Through HumanDivine Unity

14. Quotes from Edgar Cayce about the Cosmos and Souls
13.

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1. In The Beginning, God...

People usually demand a beginning, so in the
beginning there was a sea of spirit and it filled all of
space. The spirit was static, content, and aware of
itself. It was a giant resting on the bosom of its
thought and contemplating what it is.
Then the spirit moved into action. It withdrew into
itself until all of space was empty. In the center, the
restless mind of the spirit shone. This was the
beginning of the individuality of the spirit. This was what the spirit
discovered itself to be when it awakened. This spirit was God.
God desired self-expression and desired companionship; therefore, God
projected the cosmos and souls. The cosmos was built with music,
arithmetic, geometry, harmony, system, and balance. The building blocks
were all of the same material - the life essence - God simply changed the
wavelength and rate of vibration of these building blocks thereby creating
the patterns for multitudes of life forms. This action resulted in the law of
diversity which supplied endless patterns. God played on this law of
diversity as a pianist plays on a piano - producing melodies and arranging
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them in a symphony.
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2. The Evolutionary Plan for Souls

Each design carried within it the plan for its
evolution - both physical and spiritual. This
plan corresponds to the sound of a note
struck on a piano. The sounds of several
notes unite to make a chord; chords in turn
become
phrases;
phrases
become
melodies; melodies intermingle and move
back and forth, across and between and
around each other, to make a symphony.
Then in the end, the music will stop and the
physical universe will be no more; but
between the beginning and the finish of the
music, there was glorious beauty and a
glorious experience. The spiritual universe
will continue on.
Everything assumed its design in various
forms and their activity resulted in the laws of
attraction and repulsion. All forms would
attract and repel each other in their
evolutionary dance.
All things are a part of God and an
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expression of God's thought. The Mind of God was the force which
propelled and perpetuated these thoughts. All minds, as thoughts of God,
do everything God imagined. Everything which came into being is an aspect
of this One Mind.
All things, including the souls of individuals, were created as "fractals" of
God for companionship with God - the "Whole." A fractal This revelation
from Cayce revealed the astonishing fact of how self-similar the universe is
on every scale: from the atom to biological organisms, from human beings
to the planet Earth, from solar systems to galaxies, from the universe(s) to
God.
The pattern God used to create souls was the pattern of God's own Spirit.
The spirit is life. From the spirit, the mind builds patterns. From the mind,
the physical creation is the result. This is how the spirit, the mind, and
individuality, became the pattern for souls. This is how cause, action, and
effect became the pattern for everything. First there was the spirit (the first
cause); then there was the action which withdrew spirit into itself; then there
was the resulting individuality of God.
The spirit of the individual existed before the soul of the individual was
created. The spirit keeps the knowledge of its identity with God. The soul
has the ability to experience the activities of the mind in a manner separate
from God.
Thus, new individuals issued from God and remained dependent upon God;
but individuals were also aware of an existence apart from God. Individuals
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were given the power to choose (free will) and direct their own activity.
Without free will, it would only remain a part of the individuality of God. The
mind, issuing as a force from God, would naturally fulfill God's thoughts
unless directed otherwise. The power to do this - to direct the force of mind
individually from God - is free will. And the record or memory of this
freedom is the soul. The soul began with its first expression of free will
through the force of mind. The first thought the spirit generated from free
will - the first diversion of the force of mind from its normal path of unity with
God - was the beginning of the soul.
The nucleus of the soul was the balance of positive and negative forces
equal in power. These forces produce harmonious activities: the positive
force initiates, impregnates, and thrusts forward; while its polar negative
force receives, nourishes, and ejects. The steps of this evolutionary
process are also the stages of the thought process: perception, reflection,
and opinion.
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3. The Nature of the Spirit, Soul and Ego

Thus, the soul consists of two states of consciousness: (1) the spirit which
bears a knowledge of its identity with God, and (2) the soul which bears a
knowledge of everything it experienced.
The plan for the soul is a cycle of experience unlimited in scope and
duration. Through this evolutionary cycle, the soul will come to know the
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creation in all its aspects at the discretion of the will. The cycle would be
completed when the desire of the will was no longer different from the
thought of God. The consciousness of the soul would then merge with its
spiritual consciousness of its identity with God. Then the soul will return to
its source as the companion it was intended to be.
As a companion, the soul would remain conscious of its separate
individuality and would be aware of its own free will as it now acted as a part
of God, but not diverting its mind because it was in agreement with God's
influence on the mind of the soul. Until this state of at-one-ment was
reached, the soul would not be a companion in the true sense of the word.
The idea of returning to God means a loss of
individuality is paradoxical, since God is aware of
everything happening and must therefore be aware of
the consciousness of each individual. The return of the
soul is the return of the image to whom imagined it. The
consciousness of the individual - its soul record - could
not be destroyed without destroying a part of God.
When a soul returns to God it becomes aware of itself
not only as a part of God, but as a part of every other soul, and everything.
What is lost is the ego - the desire to do other than the desire of God. When
the soul returns to God, the ego is voluntarily relinquished. This is the
symbology behind the crucifixion of Christ.
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4. The Divine Nature of Free Will

The plan for the soul included experiencing of all
creation, but it did not necessarily mean participating in
all forms and substance. Nor did it mean souls can
interfere with the creation. Nor did it mean souls are to
spin their own little worlds, twisting and bending laws to
make images of their dreams.
But these things could happen. The soul was the
greatest thing God made because it has free will. Once
free will was given, God did nothing to curb it. However it acted, it had to act
within God's reality. By whatever route, the soul will return to God.
The apparent fact of the human body being a speck of dust on a small
planet in a regular galaxy in a universe of galaxies can lead to the illusion of
humans being a small creation. But the soul is the unlimited activity of the
mind and the grandeur of imagination.
At first there was little difference between the consciousness of the new
individual (i.e., soul) and its consciousness of identity with God (i.e., spirit).
Souls merely watched the flow of the Mind, somewhat as people
daydreaming, marveling at its power and versatility. Then souls began to
act itself, imitating and paralleling what Mind was doing. Gradually souls
acquired experience, becoming a complementary rather than an imitative
force. It helped to extend, modify, and regulate creation.
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5. The Entanglement of Souls with Flesh

Certain souls became aggressive with their
own power and began to experiment with it.
They mingled with the dust of the stars and the
winds of the spheres - feeling them - and
becoming part of them. One result of this was
an unbalance between the positive and
negative forces. To feel things demanded the negative force. To express
through things (and directing and managing them) required the positive
force. Another result of souls becoming aggressive with their own power
was the gradual weakening of the link between the two states of
consciousness (i.e., spirit and the soul). Some souls became more
concerned with and aware of their own creations rather than God's. This
resulted in the fall of certain souls to an even lower consciousness. The
Bible allegorically refers to this event as the Fall in the Garden of Eden and
the revolt of the angels in the Book of Revelation. This event is also the
basis for the cosmology of Christian Gnosticism and Jewish mysticism .
To enter into another level of creation and become part of it, the soul had to
assume a new, or third consciousness - a physical form. Assuming a
physical form is a way of experiencing that particular level of creation by
means of a conscious mind (i.e., the third consciousness). Through the
conscious mind, an individual can experience physical consciousness: the
physical body, the five senses, the glandular and nervous systems. This
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transformation of consciousness does not apply everywhere at this level of

creation. In other worlds and solar systems, the transformation may differ.
One can only imagine the number of these other worlds and the aspects of
divine mind which they represent.
When a soul enters into another level of creation and its consciousness, it
separated itself temporarily from the consciousness of its own soul, and
became even further removed from the consciousness of its spirit. Thus,
instead of helping to direct the flow of creation and contributing to it, the soul
found itself in the stream and drifting along with it. The farther the soul
traveled from the shore, the more it succumbed to the pull of the current
and the more difficult was the task of getting back to land.
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6. The Invisible Planetary Afterlife Dimensions of Our

Solar System
Planets and solar systems became a
temptation to souls. Each solar system had its
own course and its own plan. Souls moved
toward them through the activity of a constant
stream of mind. When a soul leaped into the
stream (by immersing itself in the system
through which the stream was flowing) it had
the force of the current to contend with, and its free will was hampered. It
was very easy, under these circumstances, to drift with the current.
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Each solar system also represents an opportunity for development,

advancement, and growth toward the ideal of complete companionship with
God - the position of co-creator in the vast system of universal mind.
Our solar system also attracted souls. Since each solar system is a single
expression of the divine, with its planets as integral parts, the Earth came
into the path of souls.
Each solar system in the universe is like an atom in a universe of worlds.
Atoms have quantum levels for electrons to travel around. The sun has
"quantum levels" for planets to travel around. The planets of our solar
system are physical representations of heavenly dimensions. These levels
as a whole are the consciousness of our solar system. There are nine
planetary-afterlife dimensions to the consciousness of our solar system.
The planet Earth represents the third dimension where three-dimensional
life is experienced in our solar system.
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7. God's Three-Dimensional School of Hard Knocks on

the Third Rock from the Sun
The Earth is an expression of Divine Mind with its own
laws, its own plan, and its own evolution. Souls, longing
to feel the beauty of the seas, the winds, the forest, and
the flowers, mixed with them and expressed
themselves through them. They also mingled with the
animals, and made thought forms in imitation of them.
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Souls played at creating and imitated God. But this interfered with the
evolutionary plan of the Earth. Thus, the stream of mind carrying out this
plan for the Earth gradually drew souls into its current. Souls had to evolve
into the bodies they had themselves created.
This entanglement of souls into physical form was a probability from the
beginning. But God did not know when it would happen until the souls, of
their own free will, had caused it to happen.
All souls were created by God in the very beginning - before the universe
was created. No other souls have been created since then. This means all
souls on this planet, pre-existed before birth. Of the souls which God
created, only a comparative few have entered into the experience of our
solar system. Many other souls have gone through or are going through a
similar entanglement in other solar systems in the universe.
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8. The Sons of God Unite with the Daughters of Men

A way to liberate the souls entangled in matter
was created. A physical form became available
as a vehicle for the soul on Earth. A way became
available for souls to enter the Earth and
experience
it
as
part
of
their
evolutionary/reincarnation cycle. Of the physical
forms already existing on Earth, a species of
anthropoid ape most nearly approached the
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necessary pattern. Souls descended on these

apes - hovering above and about them rather than
inhabiting them - and influenced them to move
toward a different goal from the simple one they
had been pursuing. They came down out of the trees, built fires, made
tools, lived in communities, and began to communicate with each other.
Eventually they lost their animal look, shed bodily hair, and took on
refinements of manner and habit.
The evolution of the human body occurred partly through the soul's
influence on the endocrine glands until the ape-man was a threedimensional objectification of the soul hovering above it. Then the soul fully
descended into the body and Earth had a new inhabitant: the homo sapien.
Homo sapiens appeared in five different places on Earth at the same time,
as the five races. This evolved human is what the Bible refers to as "Adam".
When souls incarnated into physical form, it would bring the divine
consciousness (i.e., the spirit) in with it. Cayce referred to this divine
consciousness as the "Christ Consciousness" or "Buddhahood" or the
"superconsciousness". Christ consciousness has little to do with the
personality known as Jesus. It means a person has attained a complete
human-divine unity. This human-divine unity has been attained by many
people thus far - one such person was Jesus.
The problem for the soul entangled in flesh was to overcome the attractions
of the Earth to the extent the soul would be as free in the body as out of it.
Only when the body was no longer a hindrance to the free express of the
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soul would the cycle of Earth be finished. This is the condition of having a
perfect unity of the human with the divine.
In a smaller field, this was the evolutionary drama of free will and creation.
In a still smaller field, each atom of the physical body is a world in itself
where a drama of free will and creation is occurring. The soul brings life into
each atom, and each atom is a physical reflection of the soul's pattern.
With the advent of consciousness, humans became aware of sex meaning
something more to them than to the animals. Sex is the "door" which new
souls enter the Earth, a door unnecessary in other heavenly
planetary/realms. Sex is the only means which trapped souls have of being
liberated from their predicament - through the cycle of birth, death and
rebirth.
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9. The Evolution of the Soul Through Reincarnation

The plan for the Earth cycle of souls was a limited series of incarnations
with periods in between of dwelling in other heavenly dimensions of
consciousness. Reincarnation would continue until a soul's every thought
and action of the physical body was in accord with the plan originally laid out
for the soul (i.e., a human-divine unity, Christ consciousness). When the
body was no longer a hindrance to the free expression of the soul - when
the conscious mind had merged with the subconscious, the Earth cycle
was finished and the soul liberated to move on to new adventures. This
conquest of the physical body could not be attained until there was
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perfection in the other dimensions of consciousness which are physically

represented by our solar system. Astrologically, the goal for the soul is to
attain a level of consciousness representing the total divine expression of
the sun and its planets. Whichever level of consciousness the soul
assumes, it becomes the focal point of activity. The other states of
consciousness receded to the position of urges and influences.
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10. The Evolution of the Christ Soul from Adam to Jesus

to Christhood
The human race was fostered by a soul who had
completed his experience of creation, attained
Christhood, returned to God, and became a
companion to God and a co-creator. This is the
soul known as Jesus. The first evolutionary
transformation of ape-men to homo sapiens is
who the Bible refers to as "Adam". This was the
beginning of the divine consciousness into flesh
on the Earth. The soul known as Jesus, was one
of the first souls to enter into one of the Adamic races.
The soul of Jesus was interested in the plight of its fellow souls trapped in
Earth. After supervising the influx of souls into flesh, the Christ soul took
form itself, from time to time, to act as a leader for the people.
At first, these souls just slightly inhabited the bodies of ape-men while
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remembering their true identities as spirit beings. But gradually, after many
incarnations, these souls descended even further into physical
consciousness and the result was a decrease in their spiritual mentality.
They remembered their true selves only in dreams and in fables which
were handed down from one generation to another. Religion came into
being as a ritual of longing for lost spirit memories. The arts were born
which included music and geometry. This knowledge was brought into the
world from incoming souls who gradually forgot their heavenly source. This
knowledge had to be written down, learned, and taught to each new
generation.
Finally, humans were left with a conscious mind separated from their own
individuality as souls. This individual identity as a soul became the
subconscious mind. The individual identity or awareness of the physical
world became the conscious mind. The subconscious mind (i.e., the soul)
influenced the conscious mind and gave it its stature and quality. The
subconscious mind dwelt in the "suit of clothes" which is the physical body
and only in sleep is it disrobed.
Conscious minds, left to its own influence, will work out the plans and
desires of God. Humans eventually developed theories for what they felt
was true, but no longer knew to be true. The result was the creation of
philosophy and theology. Humans searched and discovered higher
knowledge which they carried within themselves but could no longer reach
with the conscious mind. This resulted in the creation of science.
Humans evolved from having an awareness of higher spirit knowledge to
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having only mystical dreams, revealed religions, philosophy and theology.

This evolution of consciousness ultimately reached a plateau and humans
generally only believed what they could see and feel and prove in terms of
their conscious minds. Then humanity began the struggle of regaining this
higher knowledge.
Meanwhile, the Christ soul continued to teach and lead humanity by
incarnating as the Biblical characters named Adam, Enoch, and
Melchizedek. Enoch and Melchizedek experienced neither birth nor death.
Then Christ soul realized after these incarnations it was necessary to give
humanity a pattern by which they could follow in order to return to God. The
Christ soul achieved this goal by incarnating as the personality known as
Jesus, who became victorious over the death of the physical body by laying
aside the ego, accepting the crucifixion of the body in order to return to God.
Jesus created a pattern for humans to follow. Through the acts of leading a
perfect life and becoming unjustly killed, this reversed the negative karma
(i.e., the law of God, an eye for an eye) which came from Jesus' first
incarnation as Adam.
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11. The Law of Karma as a Lesson for Soul Evolution

At present, humanity is in a state of great
spiritual darkness - the darkness which
precedes dawn. Humanity developed a level of
skepticism which reached a point where it
forced humans to make conclusions they
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knew was intuitively wrong. At the same time,

humanity continued their investigation of
natural phenomena to the point where conscious awareness disproved all
the higher knowledge souls had acquired in the beginning. The free will of
humanity is discovering how all roads to higher knowledge leads toward the
same destination and conclusions. Scientific, theological, and philosophical
knowledge, which has no desire to join forces, are approaching a point of
merger. Skepticism faces destruction by its own hand.
Humanity is at all times the total of what they have been and done, what
they have fought and defended, and what they have hated and loved. In the
three-dimensional consciousness of every human, in every atom of the
human body, is a reflection of the soul and a crystallization of their
individuality. Their emotional and nervous structures, their mental abilities,
aptitudes, aversions, preferences, fears, follies, ambitions, and character,
are the sum of what humans have done with their free will. This makes
every personality, as the earthly "cloak" of an individuality, is different from
every other personality.
The law of karma, which is Earth's law of cause and effect ("of reaping what
one sows") also makes humans different from one another in their joys and
sorrows, in their handicaps, their strengths, their weaknesses, their virtues
and vices, their appreciation of beauty, and their comprehension of truth.
Transgressions humans make in life must be corrected in life, if not in the
same life, then in a future incarnation. The Earth's natural law, not the law
humanity or God, demands an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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This same law applies to groups of people, as they act together. There is
karma for families, for tribes, for races, and for nations. For example, when
a nation of individuals started a war in a previous lifetime and are
reincarnated, a war will be committed against that nation. Only when such a
nation is defeated in humility by a nation with justice and mercy, will the
karma of war be lifted from the defeated nation.
Every person's life is shaped to some extent by karma: their own, their
associates, their loved ones, their nation, their race, and the entire world
itself. But karma is not greater than free will. It is what a person does with
these influences and urges, how they react to them, which makes the
difference in their soul development. Because of karma, some things are
more probable than others, but as long as there exists free will, anything is
possible.
Thus free will and predestination coexist within human beings. Their past
experiences limit them in probability and incline them in certain directions,
but free will can always "draw the sword from the stone." The combination
of free will and predestination means humans freely choose their own
predetermined destiny to return to God.
No soul incarnates without having a general plan for the life to be
experienced. The personality a person expresses in life is only one of the
many personalities (i.e., facets of the soul) a person can express. The
mission of every soul is to work on one or several facets of the soul's
karma (which can be thought of as the soul's memory of its prior actions). A
soul does not choose a mission which is more than the soul can handle or
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which is too much for the personality assigned to or chosen by the soul.
Some souls can freely choose their own conditions in which to be born and
complete their missions. Other souls who have made too many mistakes in
past lives and who have become dangerously influenced by worldly desires,
are incarnated into conditions chosen by law of karma at a time and under
circumstances best suited to help them with their karmic debt. Their
mission is seldom perfectly fulfilled because of the such a soul's large
amount of negative karma. Their mission is sometimes badly neglected.
The circumstances and conditions a soul chooses to incarnate into is
usually made at conception, when a channel for a soul's expression is
opened by the parents. When this occurs, a pattern is made by the mingling
of the soul patterns of the parents. This sets up certain karmic conditions. A
soul whose own karma approximates these karmic conditions will be
attracted to the opportunity presented. Since the karmic pattern created by
the parents will not be exactly the same the incarnating soul's own karma,
the soul must take on some of the karma of the parents.
Conditions other than the created pattern are conditions the soul must
consider when choosing a body to be born with. Such conditions include:
the future of the incarnated person's life, former associations with the
parents, the incarnation of souls it wishes to incarnate with, live with, and
with whom the soul will have problems to work out with. In some cases the
parents are the only reason for a some souls to incarnate. Such a child will
be devoted to them and remain close to them. The child then completes its
mission by dying so the child's death can teach the parents very valuable
lessons in life and of spirit. In other cases, the parents are only used as a
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means for which the child can leave home and go about its business in
completing its mission.
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12. The Personality as a Facet of the Soul's Individuality

The soul may actually occupy a fetus as early as three months after
conception or even as late as a month after birth. In the latter case, the soul
hovers over the infants body since birth to decide whether or not to occupy
it. Once the decision is made and the occupation completed, the separation
between the conscious mind (i.e., personality) and subconscious mind (i.e.,
the soul) takes place and the soul record (i.e., memory) of the child begins.
The fact that some babies are miscarried does not mean it was refused as
a vehicle for a soul. Just the opposite is true. The opportunity to incarnate
was taken away from the soul due to natural forces and this made the
occupation of that particular body impossible.
The personality is a facet of the soul's individuality experienced in threedimensional consciousness (i.e., body, soul, spirit). The other facets of the
soul remains in shadow - in the background. It gives tone to the personality
through its urges, appreciations, tastes, avocations, and intuition.
A particular personality of an individual is shaped by three or four
incarnations. The emotions and talents of a person reflects these past
incarnations. A person's dreams, visions, and meditations are reflections of
the soul's experience in other dimensions (i.e., heavenly realms) of
consciousness associated physically by our solar system. The human
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intellect was created from the stars and planets. The intellect is the mind
force of the soul which is conditioned by its previous incarnations on Earth
and its experiences in other dimensions and even in other solar systems.
The intellect becomes dimmed or brightened by its recent experiences
within the three-dimensional consciousness of the solar system and the
experiences within other dimensional realms of consciousness.
Thus, a personality is only one facet of the soul. The soul may incarnate as
any facet to express that particular portion of itself. As a soul approaches its
completion of the solar cycle of consciousness, the personality becomes
more multi-sided and expresses greater facets of the soul. This is because
each incarnation "burns off" negative karma which requires less and less
attention. Finally, the personality will become a complete expression of the
soul and the cycle of reincarnation is finished for the soul.
As the soul succumbs to worldly desires by abandoning its intellect for
sensuality, it becomes more and more one-sided.
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13. The Soul's Liberation from Reincarnation Through

Human-Divine Unity
When the individual has
attained
complete
human-divine unity, its
cycle of reincarnations is
finished, the soul is
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liberated, and the soul

then merges with its
spirit and, therefore, with
God. The soul record
(memory) is
forever
retained. This record is,
at all times, is the sum
total of what the soul personality has been: all it has thought, all it has
experienced; all it has eaten, drunk, and felt through the ages.
Thus, as the soul is subjected to reincarnation, both the atheist and the
religionist are correct. The atheist believes the personality does not survive
after death. The religionist believes the soul is judged after death by its
Creator. Substituting "personality" for "soul", both are expressing the truth.
The personality is evaluated after death and then returns to the soul which
created it, thereby giving up its own independent existence and becoming
once again a facet of the soul. This process is different from the process
where the soul merges with the spirit after it completes its cycles of
reincarnation.
With each incarnation into the physical realm (the solar system) and the
other realms of consciousness, the general plan for perfecting the soul
proceeds. Another facet of the soul is assumed and incarnated to
experience tribulation in order to reinforce the character of the soul's entire
personality.
The trials and tribulations of individuals, groups, nations, and races, are
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dealt with time and time again through free will until they are solved. Then
souls are free to journey to other worlds, or other solar systems, or other
universes, or other dimensions of the hierarchy of consciousness.
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14. Quotes from Edgar Cayce about the Cosmos and

Souls
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.
How? The Mind of God moved, and matter, form, came into
being.
Spirit is life. Mind is the builder, and the physical is the result.
In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you
worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of
worlds.
All souls in the beginning were one with the Father. The
separation or turning away brought evil.
For man may separate himself from God - the Spirit - but the
spirit does not separate from man.
All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their
way back to whence they came.
Each soul is destined to become a portion again of the First
Cause, or back to its Maker.
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The Father has not willed that any soul should perish, and is
thus mindful that each soul has again, and yet again, the
opportunity for making its paths straight.
Life is, in all its manifestations in every animate force,
Creative Force in action; and is the love of expression - or
expressing that life; truth becoming a result of life's love
expressed. For, these are but names - unless experienced in the
consciousness of each soul.
All power, all force, is a manifestation of what is termed the
God-consciousness.
The coming into the Earth has been and is, for the evolution or
evolving of the soul unto its awareness.
Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the
physical is the birth in the spiritual.
Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to
perform.
The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to
conquer many worlds.
He who understands nature walks close with God.
What is truth? Law. What is Law? Love. What is love? God.
What is God? Law and love. These are as the cycle of truth
itself.
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You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven.

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"All souls were created in the beginning and

are finding their way back to whence they
came." - Edgar Cayce
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