Again, beware of that which holdeth not wholly to the spirit of the Christ, as it may be made manifest in the lives and hearts of men everywhere.
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Joseph’s abilities as a dream interpreter came through his attunement with the divine, or God within him. The other magicians attempted to decipher dreams through patient study of the known laws and rules. Because Joseph was attuned to the Highest, he was able to succeed when the others failed.
One entity was told he was one of the magicians in Pharaoh’s court:
. . . the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the activities in which the land was ruled by an unknown entity—through unusual circumstances—which brought to the experience of the entity the unusual experiences.
For, the entity was among the magicians of Pharaoh’s court during the period of Joseph’s rise to power, and through those periods in which there was the consummation of the changing to the various conditions that arose in might and power through those periods. This brought that temperament, that tendency latent and manifested, for the questionings of powers, influences, and forces that direct human experience.
The name then was Tep-Lepan. The entity gained, the entity lost; gained during the periods of deeper thought and meditation, lost in the period of grudges, the period of attempt to apply necromancy as related to the magic, or the reasonings.
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The Death of Joseph
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying “God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.”
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin. (Genesis 50:25-26)
According to the Bible class lessons, Edgar Cayce believed Joseph had foreknowledge about his descendants going into bondage. This premonition, Cayce said, may have been Joseph’s reason for the oath, which requested his body be kept with them. During the forty years in the wilderness, the children of Israel carried Joseph’s body with them, although no mention is made of those who had the responsibility of caring for it. This was four centuries after Joseph’s death.
If his kinsmen had taken his body to Canaan immediately after his death, as they did with Jacob, perhaps the Egyptians would not have allowed the Israelites back into Egypt to settle—and history might have been changed.
Apparently Joseph knew that his body would be a protection for his people.
Exodus
From the time of Joseph until Moses there had been no noteworthy happenings to confirm the covenant which had been made with Abraham. The first chapters of Exodus, with background, details, and significant events in the early life of Moses, lead up to the renewal of the covenant. Through Moses God affirms the eternal contract He has made between Himself and His people—Humanity!
Not only is the covenant renewed through Moses, but it is enlarged upon, with the addition of definite roles, regulations, and laws which must be followed. New prophecies and promises are added. Many of the events throughout Exodus are the fulfillment of prophecies which have already been made.
As one through whom the covenant was being renewed, Moses had to become a “living” example of the power and presence of the God he worshipped. He not only had to receive and record the law, he also had to comprehend its significance and be able to interpret it for those he had to lead. In order to have this understanding, he had to live in accord with all that came through him as a divine channel.
In Egypt, as in every other country at that time the people worshipped idols, statues, and other physical objects which represented attributes and activities of their gods. For the Egyptian, the serpent was the god of wisdom. The bull represented strength. The hawk and the eagle governed mental superiority. Everything that was necessary for material existence was represented by some figure. They were worshipped by those Egyptians who were seeking to manifest the particular attributes or aspects embodied in that god.
When Moses approached Pharaoh and asked that his people be given their freedom to worship, Pharaoh wanted to know what their god was like. He assumed it would be represented in some definite, concrete material form.
Moses was challenged with the task of bringing the Hebrews, once again, into the realization that their God was a living God, one whom they could worship in spirit, and who would answer prayer. In this crucial period in Israel’s history, Moses established a new relationship between man and God. Before this, the people always worshipped the God of their fathers. The people never prayed, “Our God—My God,” but always to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses established a means by which God can be approached directly, and thus become more personal to each individual.
Edgar Cayce felt that the new identity of God as Jehovah was like a sign to the people. The name made Him more personal, just as the name Jesus does for the Christian. Throughout the Exodus, the Hebrews began to feel, experience, and comprehend the awareness of the presence of the divine in their lives. Jehovah became the most endearing word by which they could refer to this all-powerful, unseen, creative force manifesting through them. The covenant which had been made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob began to be more real to them.
This promise, Edgar Cayce said in one of his Bible class lectures, was renewed in Jesus, who said he would bring into remembrance all things, even from the foundations of the world. Just as it was necessary for the Hebrews then, he taught, it is the responsibility of the individual today to make that promise real in his own life.
Joshua: An Aide to Moses
The first five books of the Bible are called the Torah by the Jews and represent the most significant portions of their Scripture. Although traditionally attributed to Moses, Edgar Cayce suggests that Joshua may have had a great responsibility in formulating these concepts. Only by accepting the incarnations Cayce attributes to the development of Jesus do we have the basis for understanding the following:
. . . from the very first of the Old Testament to the very last even of Revelation, He is not merely the subject of the book, He is the author in the greater part, having given to man the mind and the purpose for its having been put in print.
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Adam entered the earth to be the savior. Enoch was a prophet, and, if the traditions and legends are accurate, dedicated himself to preserving records of the Law of One. Melchizedek wrote the Book of Job, and was the author of teachings used later by Samuel and Elijah in founding the School of Prophets.
Joseph initiated the first period of bounty and favor for Israel as a nation. After his death, the period he instituted gradually deteriorated into bondage and servitude. After the passage of four hundred years, this soul then reincarnated as Joshua and was instrumental in leading Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land of Canaan, for the second material kingdom in their history.
Although “writings of Joseph” are mentioned once in the Cayce readings, nothing is known about them. Yet, they must have influenced,