EDGAR CAYCE
AND THE
KABBALAH
EDGAR CAYCE
AND THE
KABBALAH
A Resource for Soulful Living
JOHN VAN AUKEN
Copyright © 2010
by John Van Auken
2nd Printing, April 2010
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ISBN–13: 978–0–87604–569–5 (trade paper)
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993–2007
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Original Illustrations by the Author
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Contents
| Chapter One | Kabbalah and Cayce Highlights |
| Chapter Two | The Visible and the Invisible |
| Chapter Three | Divisions of Our Whole Being |
| Chapter Four | Planes of Existence |
| Chapter Five | Emanations of God |
| Chapter Six | The 22 Pathways |
| Chapter Seven | The Heavens |
| Chapter Eight | Angels, Archangels, and Demons |
CHAPTER 1 KABBALAH AND CAYCE HIGHLIGHTS
From a human perspective, the information you are about to read is perplexing. It does not fit with the evolution of matter. It does not fit with the visible universe. It does not even fit with much of what we know about ourselves. And yet it is a story that has been with humankind since the most ancient of times. It is a story of humanity that humans have treasured. They have guarded it for millennia, occasionally risking their lives to keep it alive. They have passed it along from generation to generation, as one would a most valuable family heirloom. Elements of this story can be found among people around the world. All people have their version of this story.
Now some will say that the ancient origin of these teachings causes them to be of no value, because everything old is primitive, that our generation is the pinnacle of evolution. They will say that the tales and lore of earlier humans are superstitions. They will say that the ancient ones did not understand the physical laws governing the material universe and the chemistry influencing their bodies and minds.
Some will say that the Kabbalistic version of this story of humanity appeared during a terrible time in human history: the “Dark Ages,” the medieval period, the dreary Middle Ages—a time so filled with plague, inquisition, ignorance, and cultural decline that we may rightly ask how anything coming out of that period could be of value to us. This view overlooks the dating of Kabbalah’s ancient sources and the geographical breadth of its recovered remnants of these teachings: from Spain to India, from Turkey to Egypt.
This story is about an invisible universe that exists just behind, closely around, but especially within the visible one we know. It is about a whisper, a whisper in the depths of human consciousness that says, We are more than we appear to be. It says, The origin of our life began long before the physical world. It whispers that there was an involution into matter from realms of energy and dimensions beyond the three–dimensional realm. It whispers angels, planes of existence, and reincarnation. It whispers that we are celestial soul minds, only temporarily incarnated in terrestrial bodies, and that we are destined to return to the heavens and nonphysical soul life. Of course, to the materially minded, these ideas are impossible; they don’t fit with “reality.” And yet this soul portion of our being is just on the other side of the thinnest, most subtle veil between human consciousness and soul consciousness. Fortunately, despite the opacity of this veil, the soul and its story slip through from time to time, and humans speak of these ideas again, as they have for ages.
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