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Genesis 1, according to Edgar Cayce, is the description of a spiritual creation, occurring within the Mind of God. All things first originate in Spirit, the readings proclaim. Material existence is a shadow, or reflection, of spiritual patterns. Material evolution is a reflection of a process of God’s consciousness as He directed the manifestation of His spirit in materiality.
The earth and the universe, as related to man, came into being through the Mind—Mind—of the Maker . . .
900-227
Mind is ever the builder. For in the beginning, God moved and mind, knowledge, came into being—and the earth and the fullness thereof became the result . . .
5000-1
“God’s Mind” is a creative energy—a conscious and intelligent force composed of Love, Harmony and Beauty, and is omnipotent and omnipresent.
According to the interpretation in the Gospel of St. John, the Light which was in Jesus was the same Light out of which the world was created.
. . . Would that all would learn that He, the Christ–consciousness, is the Giver, the Maker, the Creator of the world and all that be therein.
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The following indicates how early in the process of Creation souls became fascinated and tempted by the possibilities for their own expressions and experiences.
When the earth became a dwelling place for matter, when gases formed into those things that man sees in nature and in activity about him, then matter began its ascent in the various forms of physical evolution—in the mind of God!
The spirit chose to enter (celestial, not an earth spirit—he hadn’t come into earth yet!), chose to put on, to become a part of that which was as a command not to be done!
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It was this spirit in rebellion that later was represented by the serpent.
Remember, as given, the earth is that speck, that part in creation where souls projected themselves into matter, and thus brought conscious awareness of themselves entertaining the ability of creating without those forces of the spirit of truth.
Hence, that which has been indicated—that serpent, that Satan, that power manifested by entities that . . . through Will separated themselves.
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“And Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep”
(Q) In relation to the Oneness of all force, explain the popular concept of the Devil, seemingly substantiated in the Bible by so many passages of Scripture.
(A) In the beginning, celestial beings. We have first the Son, then the other sons, or celestial beings, that are given their force and power. Hence that force which rebelled in the unseen forces (or in spirit) that came into activity, was that influence which has been called Satan, the Devil, the Serpent; they are One. That of rebellion.
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Hence, “darkness was upon the face of the Deep.” This represents the spirit of ignorance, selfishness, the loss of the Divine Awareness which resulted when the Sons of God separated themselves from the Creator.
As the above readings affirm, this occurred in spirit, before the earth was made. The earth, as written, was “without form and void.”
As has been given, error or separation began before there appeared what we know as the Earth, the Heavens, or before Space was manifested.
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“And the spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters”
In the beginning, when chaos existed in the creating of the earth, the Spirit of God moved over the face of same and out of chaos came the world—with its beauty in natural form, or in nature.
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The following reading reaffirms the concept which has already been advanced. The creation of matter was first only an expression of God. But it became a source of self-indulgence and selfish expression as His Sons and Daughters began to project their individual and personal influences into it.
For the spirit of God moved and that which is in matter came into being for the opportunities of . . . His Sons, His Daughters. These are ever spoken of as One.
Then came that as sought self-indulgence, self-glorification; and there was the beginning of waning among themselves for activity—still in Spirit.
Then those that had made selfish movements moved into that which was and is Opportunity, and there came life into same.
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Thus, in the reading’s view, the earth was not created out of a Void or from Nothingness. Rather, His spirit moved over the chaos and rebellion, and from these diverse elements He created Balance and Harmony, and established the foundations of the World.
The World became a place of “Opportunity” through which souls could begin to realize their separation from their spiritual surroundings.
As given from the beginning, by becoming aware in a material world is—or was—the only manner or way through which spiritual forces might become aware of their separation from the spiritual atmosphere, the spiritual surroundings of the Maker.
What has been given as the truest of all that has ever been written in Scripture? “God does not will that any soul should perish!” but man, in his head–strongness, harkens oft to that which would separate him from His Maker!
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Apparently, “The Spirit of God moved upon the Face of the Waters” is correct as a description of the first phase of the material evolution of the earth. As it moved through the Mind of God, its first appearance was as “mist” or vapors.
. . . those portions as man looks up to in space, the mists that are gathering—what’s the beginning of this? In this same beginning, so began the earth’s sphere.
900-340
The following is Cayce’s description of the entire evolutionary progress:
First that of a mass, about which there arose the mist, and then the rising of same with light breaking over that as it settled itself as a companion of those in the universe, as it began its natural (or now natural) rotations, with the varied effects upon the various portions of same, as it slowly—and is slowly—receding or gathering closer to the sun, from which it receives its impetus for the awakening of the elements that give life itself, by [the] radiation of like elements from that which it receives from the sun.
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How long did this evolution take? How long