Post by Nicole on Jun 15, 2006 8:35:13 GMT -5
Got this from Nexus and included my reply. Interesting!
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Some of the most important and rarest archeological discoveries that have been unearthed this century (of the early Jewish/Christian Essenes and Gnostics), which describe astral mysticism and spiritually orientated astro-psychology, were as teachings prior to their archeological discovery, revealed and described by Edgar Cayce while in a self induced mystical state termed Turiya Avastha. This is an East Indian term describing transcendental sleep consciousness in which knowledge beyond space and time is acheived. These archeological discoveries were the great gnostic library uncovered at Nag-Hammadi in Egypt, the Mandaeon gnostic remains from Iran-Iraq border, and the Dead Sea scrolls from the caves of Qumnan.
Few clairvoyants or mediums ever achieve 50% accuracy whereas Cayce achieved nearly 90% accuracy as a "psychic diagnostician" (his own term) diagnosing cures for thousands of individuals made in a 20 year period commencing about 1915. After this initial period, Cayce, at the suggestion of a spiritual seeker, Arthur Lammell, started doing some 2,500 Life Readings which were "read" from the Akashic Record referred to in the literature of numerous occult sourcess. These readings provide a wealth of astrological instruction and insight about the journey of the soul in the planetary realms of consciousness between earth incarnations.
In the book written by W. H. Church about Cayce's many incarnations, entitled Many Happy Returns, we are told:
"...a monumental task must have confronted Cayce in giving some twenty-five hundred life readings throughout his career as a psychic. Operating strictly on his own, without benefit of a 'control' in the spirit realm to translate on his behalf, he was obliged to project himself into the etheric plane and personally 'read' the Akashic Records of an entity's prior lives in whatever language might apply to each of it many cycles in the earth-plane -- often dating back to Lemurian or Atlantean times -- right up to the present. (The keeper of the records, though, would usually withhold from his cognizance any prior lives of a soul entity that did not pertain to that entity's present phase of soul development in the Earth. This again demonstrated an emphasis on the constructive purpose of a life reading, which was spiritual in its essence, as opposed to the mere satisfying of human curiosity in probing into one's past lives)."
This thorough researcher of the Cayce files at the Association of Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach, Va., tells us of the important fact of the never ending validation to be found in the more than 14,000 psychic readings given by Cayce. This validation, Church states, derives from "countless" written testimonials and supportive documents, news clippings, updated research notes, etc.
Cayce describes his habitual conscious entry to Cosmic Consciousness in a published letter. He tells of his spiritual preparation with prayer and an inward spark of light:
"Once lying comfortably, I put both hands up to my forehead, on the spot where observers have told me that the third eye is located, and pray. Interestingly enough, I have unconsciously and instinctively, from the very beginning, adopted the practices used by initiates in meditation. This instinctive putting of my hands to the point midway between my two eyes on my forehead is a case of what I mean. Then I wait for a few minutes, until I receive what might be called the 'go signal' - a flash of brilliant white light, sometimes tending towards the golden in color. This light is to me the sign that I have made contact. When I do not see it, I know I cannot give the reading. After seeing the light, I move my two hands down to the solar plexus and - they tell me - my breathing now becomes very deep and rhythmic, from the diaphragm. This goes on for several minutes. When my eyes begin to flutter close (up till now they have been open but glazed) the conductor knows I am ready to receive the suggestion (for the reading)." (Cayce, Edgar. What I Believe, pp.21-22, Virginia Beach: A.R.E. Press, 1974)
A contemporary of Cayce, though they never met, was Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) -- widely acclaimed in his lifetime as a pioneer in medicine, architecture, drama, painting, literary scholar,and philosophical writer. Additionally, he was founder of the Camphill Movement for the care of the disabled, the Biodynamic Movement in agriculture, the Waldorf Movement in education and most importantly the General Anthroposophical (wisdom of the human being) Society, a world wide organization that keeps in print and disseminates the body on his teachings that Steiner always stated were from his "supersensible perception" (i.e., of the Akashic Chronicle).
He, like Cayce, taught that the Christ was the LOGOS or WORD and by the CHRIST LOGOS the SON of GOD, the human spirits of our entire human kingdom has been by his intervention redeemed from an irreversible immersion in materiality. Like Cayce, he taught that the Christ is and always was from the very beginning of time the central and primary force in our involution and evolution. Steiner, like Cayce, always praised unequivocally the Buddha and all the other spiritual leaders and prophets, but never ceased from his reaching that the Christ was above all of them for sound irrefutable metaphysical reasons.
Steiner was a principal voice in the German section of the Theosophical Society up until 1913, and while not wholesale rubber stamping every tenet espoused by Theosophy (founded by H.P.Blavatsky in 1875), he did concede that in the Secret Doctrine by Blavatsky there was contained "great occult knowledge". Annie Besant, who headed the Theosophy movement at the turn of the century, was never truly given deep unequivocal respect by Steiner, and the feeling was mutual. Steiner could not support Annie Besant's belief that the East Indian named Krishna Murti was Christ reincarnated. In 1913 his charter for the German section was not renewed and in that year the Anthroposophical Society was founded at the beseeching of his many followers.
The primary gift that Steiner and Cayce shared was their ability to directly contact and read the Akashic Record -- neither Cayce nor Steiner were in any sense a "medium." Cayce was gifted with transcendental sleep consciousness that directly read the Akashic Record --- seeing all that the Keeper deemed relevant to the entity's karma and mission. In the case of Rudolf Steiner, he was a High Initiate of such purity and chastitiy of soul that he possessed the etheric clairvoyant vision of the Akashic Record that Virgin Sophia bestows.
Two additional guides, who may or may not have been clairvoyant seers, but do in fact bring us priceless pearls for the astrology of the soul are Edouard Schure and Valentin Tomberg. It is no exaggeration to say that Schure's writings do unlock the secrets of astrological history. Rudolf Steiner even said, about Schure, that his writings "...can awaken within every human being a premonition of the solution of the riddles of existence." (From the Forward in From the Sphinx to Christ an Occult History by E.Schure) [Valentin Tomberg, acknowledged as a High Initiate by many] wrote notable books that unlock crucial keys for the soul's revelation through Sophia's Wisdom or Isis "unveiled". These writings will be quoted throughout this work. So, in short, I have used along with Cayce three other initiates, primarily as guiding stars like the Three Magi, leading us to the "babe in swaddling cloth": the Spirit-Identity-Event mandala for Sophia's astrology of the soul.
Once in a while, and too seldom, one comes upon a book that has a special aura about it. A compelling pull streams from its pages to your intuitive center within, and by perusing a chapter or reading the introduction, you know you're going to go home with a message beyond the usual. Such a book appeared in my life while I was putting together the first rough draft of this book's first chapter. This book was The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle (edited by Ivan Cooke, England: The White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1985.) wherein Doyle challenges those who doubt the very existence of the soul!
I have always considered the "spiritualist movement" that came out of the Victorian era to be an "occult joke", pandering to people's sentimentalities, and dabbling into very questionable metaphysics and quasi-religious teachings, for all these reasons, I had found myself both attracted to and repelled by this book channelled from Doyle's spirit after his death in 1930. World renowned as the author of the famed Sherlock Holmes mysteries, he had also been a leading exponent of England's spiritualist movement before his transition.
The force of attraction won over and as I put my full attention on this writing, I discovered that the book's inspiration and source, Doyle himself, was endeavoring, through giving the world this final opus posthumous, to set the record straight on England's spiritualist movement and to confirm some of their affirmations and correct, from his new view, some errors. And finally, most importantly, deliver for all seekers the truth of life after death and humanity's true role in God's creation -- the purpose of the soul. Doyle does have crucial words and instructions for all seeking the real basis of a true astrology. Pointedly he says on page 167 where he is predicting the astrology of the future:
"...not the usual kind of horoscope, but, the kind which reaches out beyond this particular life to the whole being of the ego and reveals the rays on which it has vibrated during its many incarnations."
Due to causes Doyle himself made while on Earth, he was able upon leaving this plane to soar to higher planes of consciousness, and in his afterlife realization give us posthumously (through a prepared channel) guidance about soul purpose astrology in our future.
The purpose of this book is to pave the way for precisely such an astrology that Doyle prescribes. Doyle is real contemporary proof of life after death, and his words, coming to us from the "other side of the veil," verify the teachings of this book's initiates and seers.
In conclusion, all the writings I have mentioned articulate the soul's purpose to acheive universal life in Christ. The New Age on the world horizon is to be a resurrection of the esoteric astronomy of the spirit forces, the Egyptian Mystery School of Isis, plus the Moral Christ Impulse. This will be a resurrection of Sophia'a Wisdom, and her celestial songs, her Cosmic Harmonies, are a lullaby that awakens the Christ child in you.
Source - buncombe.main.nc.us/~grail/
Copyright 1997 all rights reserved.
SOPHIA'S ASTROLOGY OF THE SOUL ~ by Allen Michael Mason ~ published and sold by Star Cross Press, Sheffield, MA, 01257. Thirty six figures and 63 charts. Altogether with nine chapters, introduction and outline, plus bibliography, about 455 pages, single spaced typed in the 8 1/2 X 11 format. The book's cost for a spiral bound photocopy version is $37.00 post paid (slightly higher for foreign destinations). Inquiries welcome: Star Cross Press, P.O. Box 1029, Sheffield, MA 01257 - (413.229.0274 - ph.; 413.229.0496 - fax.)
_________________
We are Stewards of the Knowledge of the Ages.
The time is approaching to shift into our final task as not only Stewards,
but as Shepherds for the next phase and the passing into the new Universe...
With Honour; Melchizaniel
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Interesting! I will have to reread this. Interesting that I also came across the Theosophical Society in readings the past few days. I don't buy into it wholeheartedly either, but there is something to it.
As for the "sleep" described, I grok that totally. I find that I come across profound knowledge when in the semi sleep state. I wake up regularly with the realization that I am on to something brilliant, often with the words on my lips, and as soon as I regain 3D consciousness it is totally gone. This state must be what they are talking about, achieved at will by Cayce.
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Blessings!
Nicole
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Some of the most important and rarest archeological discoveries that have been unearthed this century (of the early Jewish/Christian Essenes and Gnostics), which describe astral mysticism and spiritually orientated astro-psychology, were as teachings prior to their archeological discovery, revealed and described by Edgar Cayce while in a self induced mystical state termed Turiya Avastha. This is an East Indian term describing transcendental sleep consciousness in which knowledge beyond space and time is acheived. These archeological discoveries were the great gnostic library uncovered at Nag-Hammadi in Egypt, the Mandaeon gnostic remains from Iran-Iraq border, and the Dead Sea scrolls from the caves of Qumnan.
Few clairvoyants or mediums ever achieve 50% accuracy whereas Cayce achieved nearly 90% accuracy as a "psychic diagnostician" (his own term) diagnosing cures for thousands of individuals made in a 20 year period commencing about 1915. After this initial period, Cayce, at the suggestion of a spiritual seeker, Arthur Lammell, started doing some 2,500 Life Readings which were "read" from the Akashic Record referred to in the literature of numerous occult sourcess. These readings provide a wealth of astrological instruction and insight about the journey of the soul in the planetary realms of consciousness between earth incarnations.
In the book written by W. H. Church about Cayce's many incarnations, entitled Many Happy Returns, we are told:
"...a monumental task must have confronted Cayce in giving some twenty-five hundred life readings throughout his career as a psychic. Operating strictly on his own, without benefit of a 'control' in the spirit realm to translate on his behalf, he was obliged to project himself into the etheric plane and personally 'read' the Akashic Records of an entity's prior lives in whatever language might apply to each of it many cycles in the earth-plane -- often dating back to Lemurian or Atlantean times -- right up to the present. (The keeper of the records, though, would usually withhold from his cognizance any prior lives of a soul entity that did not pertain to that entity's present phase of soul development in the Earth. This again demonstrated an emphasis on the constructive purpose of a life reading, which was spiritual in its essence, as opposed to the mere satisfying of human curiosity in probing into one's past lives)."
This thorough researcher of the Cayce files at the Association of Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach, Va., tells us of the important fact of the never ending validation to be found in the more than 14,000 psychic readings given by Cayce. This validation, Church states, derives from "countless" written testimonials and supportive documents, news clippings, updated research notes, etc.
Cayce describes his habitual conscious entry to Cosmic Consciousness in a published letter. He tells of his spiritual preparation with prayer and an inward spark of light:
"Once lying comfortably, I put both hands up to my forehead, on the spot where observers have told me that the third eye is located, and pray. Interestingly enough, I have unconsciously and instinctively, from the very beginning, adopted the practices used by initiates in meditation. This instinctive putting of my hands to the point midway between my two eyes on my forehead is a case of what I mean. Then I wait for a few minutes, until I receive what might be called the 'go signal' - a flash of brilliant white light, sometimes tending towards the golden in color. This light is to me the sign that I have made contact. When I do not see it, I know I cannot give the reading. After seeing the light, I move my two hands down to the solar plexus and - they tell me - my breathing now becomes very deep and rhythmic, from the diaphragm. This goes on for several minutes. When my eyes begin to flutter close (up till now they have been open but glazed) the conductor knows I am ready to receive the suggestion (for the reading)." (Cayce, Edgar. What I Believe, pp.21-22, Virginia Beach: A.R.E. Press, 1974)
A contemporary of Cayce, though they never met, was Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) -- widely acclaimed in his lifetime as a pioneer in medicine, architecture, drama, painting, literary scholar,and philosophical writer. Additionally, he was founder of the Camphill Movement for the care of the disabled, the Biodynamic Movement in agriculture, the Waldorf Movement in education and most importantly the General Anthroposophical (wisdom of the human being) Society, a world wide organization that keeps in print and disseminates the body on his teachings that Steiner always stated were from his "supersensible perception" (i.e., of the Akashic Chronicle).
He, like Cayce, taught that the Christ was the LOGOS or WORD and by the CHRIST LOGOS the SON of GOD, the human spirits of our entire human kingdom has been by his intervention redeemed from an irreversible immersion in materiality. Like Cayce, he taught that the Christ is and always was from the very beginning of time the central and primary force in our involution and evolution. Steiner, like Cayce, always praised unequivocally the Buddha and all the other spiritual leaders and prophets, but never ceased from his reaching that the Christ was above all of them for sound irrefutable metaphysical reasons.
Steiner was a principal voice in the German section of the Theosophical Society up until 1913, and while not wholesale rubber stamping every tenet espoused by Theosophy (founded by H.P.Blavatsky in 1875), he did concede that in the Secret Doctrine by Blavatsky there was contained "great occult knowledge". Annie Besant, who headed the Theosophy movement at the turn of the century, was never truly given deep unequivocal respect by Steiner, and the feeling was mutual. Steiner could not support Annie Besant's belief that the East Indian named Krishna Murti was Christ reincarnated. In 1913 his charter for the German section was not renewed and in that year the Anthroposophical Society was founded at the beseeching of his many followers.
The primary gift that Steiner and Cayce shared was their ability to directly contact and read the Akashic Record -- neither Cayce nor Steiner were in any sense a "medium." Cayce was gifted with transcendental sleep consciousness that directly read the Akashic Record --- seeing all that the Keeper deemed relevant to the entity's karma and mission. In the case of Rudolf Steiner, he was a High Initiate of such purity and chastitiy of soul that he possessed the etheric clairvoyant vision of the Akashic Record that Virgin Sophia bestows.
Two additional guides, who may or may not have been clairvoyant seers, but do in fact bring us priceless pearls for the astrology of the soul are Edouard Schure and Valentin Tomberg. It is no exaggeration to say that Schure's writings do unlock the secrets of astrological history. Rudolf Steiner even said, about Schure, that his writings "...can awaken within every human being a premonition of the solution of the riddles of existence." (From the Forward in From the Sphinx to Christ an Occult History by E.Schure) [Valentin Tomberg, acknowledged as a High Initiate by many] wrote notable books that unlock crucial keys for the soul's revelation through Sophia's Wisdom or Isis "unveiled". These writings will be quoted throughout this work. So, in short, I have used along with Cayce three other initiates, primarily as guiding stars like the Three Magi, leading us to the "babe in swaddling cloth": the Spirit-Identity-Event mandala for Sophia's astrology of the soul.
Once in a while, and too seldom, one comes upon a book that has a special aura about it. A compelling pull streams from its pages to your intuitive center within, and by perusing a chapter or reading the introduction, you know you're going to go home with a message beyond the usual. Such a book appeared in my life while I was putting together the first rough draft of this book's first chapter. This book was The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle (edited by Ivan Cooke, England: The White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1985.) wherein Doyle challenges those who doubt the very existence of the soul!
I have always considered the "spiritualist movement" that came out of the Victorian era to be an "occult joke", pandering to people's sentimentalities, and dabbling into very questionable metaphysics and quasi-religious teachings, for all these reasons, I had found myself both attracted to and repelled by this book channelled from Doyle's spirit after his death in 1930. World renowned as the author of the famed Sherlock Holmes mysteries, he had also been a leading exponent of England's spiritualist movement before his transition.
The force of attraction won over and as I put my full attention on this writing, I discovered that the book's inspiration and source, Doyle himself, was endeavoring, through giving the world this final opus posthumous, to set the record straight on England's spiritualist movement and to confirm some of their affirmations and correct, from his new view, some errors. And finally, most importantly, deliver for all seekers the truth of life after death and humanity's true role in God's creation -- the purpose of the soul. Doyle does have crucial words and instructions for all seeking the real basis of a true astrology. Pointedly he says on page 167 where he is predicting the astrology of the future:
"...not the usual kind of horoscope, but, the kind which reaches out beyond this particular life to the whole being of the ego and reveals the rays on which it has vibrated during its many incarnations."
Due to causes Doyle himself made while on Earth, he was able upon leaving this plane to soar to higher planes of consciousness, and in his afterlife realization give us posthumously (through a prepared channel) guidance about soul purpose astrology in our future.
The purpose of this book is to pave the way for precisely such an astrology that Doyle prescribes. Doyle is real contemporary proof of life after death, and his words, coming to us from the "other side of the veil," verify the teachings of this book's initiates and seers.
In conclusion, all the writings I have mentioned articulate the soul's purpose to acheive universal life in Christ. The New Age on the world horizon is to be a resurrection of the esoteric astronomy of the spirit forces, the Egyptian Mystery School of Isis, plus the Moral Christ Impulse. This will be a resurrection of Sophia'a Wisdom, and her celestial songs, her Cosmic Harmonies, are a lullaby that awakens the Christ child in you.
Source - buncombe.main.nc.us/~grail/
Copyright 1997 all rights reserved.
SOPHIA'S ASTROLOGY OF THE SOUL ~ by Allen Michael Mason ~ published and sold by Star Cross Press, Sheffield, MA, 01257. Thirty six figures and 63 charts. Altogether with nine chapters, introduction and outline, plus bibliography, about 455 pages, single spaced typed in the 8 1/2 X 11 format. The book's cost for a spiral bound photocopy version is $37.00 post paid (slightly higher for foreign destinations). Inquiries welcome: Star Cross Press, P.O. Box 1029, Sheffield, MA 01257 - (413.229.0274 - ph.; 413.229.0496 - fax.)
_________________
We are Stewards of the Knowledge of the Ages.
The time is approaching to shift into our final task as not only Stewards,
but as Shepherds for the next phase and the passing into the new Universe...
With Honour; Melchizaniel
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interesting! I will have to reread this. Interesting that I also came across the Theosophical Society in readings the past few days. I don't buy into it wholeheartedly either, but there is something to it.
As for the "sleep" described, I grok that totally. I find that I come across profound knowledge when in the semi sleep state. I wake up regularly with the realization that I am on to something brilliant, often with the words on my lips, and as soon as I regain 3D consciousness it is totally gone. This state must be what they are talking about, achieved at will by Cayce.
_________________
Blessings!
Nicole