And then The Revelation . . . is a description of, a possibility of, thy own consciousness, and not as a historical fact, not as a fancy, but as that thy own soul has sought throughout its experiences, through the phases of thy abilities, the faculties of the mind and body, the emotions of all thy complex . . . system.
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The Revelation is the restoration of John’s consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. The first eleven chapters of The Revelation deal with experiences through dream and meditation regarding the purification of John’s body and subconscious mind. The remaining chapters show the affects. The flesh no longer binds him nor limits his consciousness. John obtained that state promised by The Christ—“a memory before the foundations of the world.” John was conscious of that estate he shared with God “In The Beginning” as a soul before the world was made, or Genesis was written.
Between Genesis and Revelation is the history of a nation, the first of which we have a record, who chose One God and experienced everything that is possible to be experienced in this earth. There were other groups who believed in one God, but only the chronicles of the Jews present a complete and continuous history, with the good and the evil, the beautiful and the immoral running together. It describes their beliefs, and what they did about them. From Genesis to Revelation there is presented a complete pattern of man’s experience in the earth. The pattern visible throughout the Bible is a viable one through which all men can obtain that condition realized by John.
When was “The Beginning?” It was when consciousness began, as seen from this answer from the question:
(Q) When did I first exist as a separate entity?
(A) . . . the first existence . . . was in the Mind of the Creator, as all souls became a part of the creation. As to time, this would be in the beginning. When was the beginning? First consciousness!
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Man’s first awareness was spiritual. Man’s first existence was as a celestial being in God’s Mind. God is Spirit, and Man, in His image, was a spiritual creation.
Many are the Cayce readings which strongly and beautifully affirm that the gift of Free Will is inherent in this creation, and is the birthright and heritage of each soul.
God desired companionship, and in His desire moved in spirit and brought co-creators, heirs to the Kingdom—the Sons of God—into existence.
All God’s creations follow fixed laws and will always be that which they were set to be in the beginning, except Man. A star will never be a moon, nor a moon a rose, nor a rose a man. Only Man can—and did—rebel against God, and thus altered his destiny.
The consciousness of the Light was followed by chaos. In Genesis 1:2, Darkness covers the face of the Deep. What is deeper than God? or darker than sin? This verse indicates the condition which resulted as souls began to misuse and abuse their birthright of Will, and first occurred in spirit, before the earth was made.
The loss of the First Consciousness, or Divine Awareness, was the result of rebellion. The spirit of selfishness is symbolized in Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, and the Serpent. They all are one—spiritual rebellion.
Separated from the source of Light and Love, many of the Sons of God became oblivious to the purpose for which they were created. The Father knew if they continued in their activities, ultimately they would deteriorate all their spiritual glory and power, and efface their own existence.
The truest utterance in all Scripture, which Cayce stressed, is “God does not will that any soul should perish.” (2 Peter 3:9)
The earth was first an expression of God and not intended as a place of habitation for souls, yet it became the place of opportunity through which these spirits could realize their separation. The pain, the adversity and suffering of material existence would eventually awaken within the soul the unquenchable desire to return to God. The parable of the Prodigal Son is a model of this experience.
Throughout its long stages of evolution, souls were fascinated with the material creation, and tempted by the possibilities in it for expression and experience. Unspeakable conditions began to manifest as a result of their interference with natural laws. Much of mythology, with its monsters, centaurs, harpies, gods, and heroes, consists of memories of this earliest, pre-Adamic history.
Because God is love, and wills no soul perish, a divine plan was instituted. In order to establish a standard, or means of comparison by which these souls, entrapped in their own distorted thought-creation, or ego-projections, could measure themselves against perfection, God made himself manifest through the creature called Adam, or Man.
The Divine Image appeared in physical form through Adam who was the prototype for a race which appeared in the earth in five places at once. Sons of God, who were still in spiritual surroundings and conscious of the Light, chose to take on the form of Man, and entered into the earth and began a ministry of love, education, and healing to their brothers.
The soul whom we know as Jesus was the leader and director of this movement, and is the one we know as the first Adam.
The work of the five lines of the Adamic race was nothing less than the resuscitation of imperfect man and the regeneration of his fallen consciousness, a work which still continues.
The Fall of Adam is representational of the fall in flesh of the perfect race. They also were tempted by the possibilities for experience in a material world. Eventually they lost the consciousness of their spiritual ideal and purpose for entering the world. From time to time great leaders arose to remind them that the kingdom they were seeking was a spiritual one and not earthly.
It was over two hundred thousand years between the first experience of Adam and the last as Jesus. Other lives in the Old Testament of this soul include those as Enoch, Melchizedek, Joseph, Joshua, and Jeshua, high–priest following the return from Babylon. An incarnation as Asaph, choirmaster at the time of King David, is intimated. The readings suggest other incarnations as well—a total of 33. In all of them, the Master-soul contributed the knowledge of “The Lord, Thy God, is One” to all religions.
1The numbers following verbatim quotes identify the case number as it is cataloged at Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia; www.edgarcayce.org.
From the Birth of Soul to the Death of Moses
And is there a nation on the earth like thy people Israel, whom God saved to be a people for himself and to make him a name and to do for him great and notable deeds upon the earth, as he had done in former days for thy people whom thou savedst for thyself out of Egypt, a people whose God thou art? (2 Samuel 7:23)
For the universe, God, is within. Thou art His. Thy communion with the cosmic forces of nature, thy communion with thy Creator, is thy birthright! Be satisfied with nothing less than walking with Him.
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In God’s Mind a Spiritual Creation
The earth’s sphere, with the creation in the mind of the Creator, has kept its same Creative Energy, for God is the same yesterday, today, and forever . . .