“But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“I never behold the stars that I do not feel that I am looking into the face of God.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
“The stars we love best are the ones into whose faces we can look for an hour at a time, if our fancy so leads us.”
(Martha Evans Martin)
“A star looks down at me, and says: ‘Here I and you stand, each in our own degree: What do you mean to do?’”
(Thomas Hardy)
“More beautiful, the stars in the vault of heaven remain watching over mankind asleep.”
(Maria Valtorta)
“We have enjoyed knowing the stars. We are among the thousands who have found them old friends, to which we can turn time after time for refreshing thoughts and relief from the worries and troubles of every-day life.”
(Dorothy Bennett, Hubert Bernhard, and Hugh Rice)
“The stars bind together all men and all periods of the world’s history. As they have seen all from the beginning of time, so shall they see all that will come hereafter.”
(Alexander von Humboldt)
Over the years, the author has been told by a number of people that Edgar Cayce claimed that when we pass on we become stars. While I haven’t actually found a direct statement to that effect in the Cayce material, there are at least two indirect references to this in the readings (the italicized emphases being mine):
As to the astrological aspects for the entity, these are not influencing because the entity was born under this or that sign, this or that planet or star being in a certain or given position. It is true that there is a guide or guard for each and every entity or soul, or a developing influence that may be from the entity’s own activities as a new star in the universe. [Author’s emphasis]
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Ye can sow seeds and work them in self, but God gives the increase. He adds those that should be added from the activities of their own opportunities, such as are worthy of becoming stars, yea, even as blossoms in the garden of God, in the garden of love. [Author’s emphasis]
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In addition to the quotes above, which hauntingly hint at the astounding concept that the stars are living entities, another example is found in the poem Sparks by an unknown author:
Surely in the future
far Man himself will be a star,
Shining by eternal light
Guiding pilgrims through the night.
Music of the Spheres
In the many references to stars contained his readings, Cayce frequently talked about them singing and the “music of the spheres.” While this concept is apparently rooted in antiquity, it’s best known from this famous Bible passage found in Job 38: 1-3: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who laid the cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” A more recent example comes from the noted astronomer, astrologer, and mystic Johannes Kepler, who often talked about hearing the music of the spheres and who saw harmony in the movements of the planets in their orbits. (Regarded as one of the leading lights in the history of science for his formulation of the three laws of planetary motion that bear his name, Kepler, upon discovering them, excitedly exclaimed “O God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!” He obviously realized that he had tapped into the very mind of God itself in unveiling these fundamental secrets of the cosmos.)
Here now are just a few examples of the many passages found in the Cayce readings about this celestial music:
Then enter into meditation, in the wee hours of the morning, when the world at large is quiet—when the music of the spheres and the morning stars sing for the glory of the coming day, and ask the soul; and let the spirit of self answer.
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In that before this, we find in the beginning, when the first of the elements were given, and the forces set in motion that brought about the sphere as we find called earth plane, and when the morning stars sang together …
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And as there was followed the receding of His Star, and the flight into Egypt through the devious ways and manners in which there came the news through word of mouth, yet in awe and quiet kept, it made for that in the experience of the entity—when it sits alone in the twilight, and there is almost again felt the music of the spheres, the singing of the morning stars, as the earth is quieted—there enters oft again that peace, that is only troubled by the cares of a workaday world.
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This awoke within the entity that as may be found in the present, how all nature—the face in the water, the dew upon the grass, the tint and the beauty of the rose, the song of the stars, the mourn of the wind, all proclaim—now—the mighty words of a merciful, a loving God.
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Listen to the voice within, as it is awakened to the music of the spheres by the incoming of those forces that protect in those relationships through astronomical, astrological, and the influences as builded by self in its application of that known as to the relationships now.
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In the experience there came that great overshadowing desire within the entity to become attuned, as it were, to the heavenly song, the heavenly music, the vibrations as it were of the spheres when all nature proclaimed the joyous event into the experience of man!
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Who may tell a rose to be sweet, or the music of the spheres to harmonize with God?
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In the present abilities we find the latent and manifested urge for the love of outdoors, of nature—as in voice, as in sound; whether the waves upon the seashore, the wind in the pines, the song of the birds, or the music as of nature and the spheres combined.
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Think, for a moment, of the music of the waves upon the shore, of the morning as it breaks with the music of nature, of the night as it falls with the hum of the insect, of all the kingdoms as they unite in their song of appreciation to an all-creative influence that gives nature consciousness or awareness of its being itself. And harmonize that in thine own appreciation, as to bring music akin to the song of the spheres.
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