Will interest anyone interested in archaeology, Atlantis/Lemuria, Egypt, economics/government, God, reincarnation, and psychic things.
Starts out by saying that there are a lot of similarities among primitive communities that were separated across oceans: Mexican game patolli and Hindu game parchesi; pan pipes of Andes and Burma and Solomon Islands; star shaped mace heads of Melanesia and Peru; polygonal blocks of Easter Island and Incas; Egyptian pyramids and earthen mounds of Mayas and Incas (16-17). Similar place names: Central America has Azatlan, Chol-ula, Calua-can, Zuivan, Colima, Zalisco; Asian Minor has Chol, Colua, Zuivana, Cholima, Zalissa (17). There are apparently 49 parallels between Oceania and South America (16). Common traits: agricultural economy, lovers of nature, sun worship, monotheist religion, cremation, flood stories, socialist (18); tradition of a strange, advanced people from the east (17).
The author implies this is evidence for Atlantis, but I don’t think so. It’s evidence of people having traveled from one place to another. They could have had boats back then or simply walked many miles to new locations, just as humans came out of Africa and walked north to Europe and east to Asia. Plus, as the author admits, the continents used to be connected millions of years ago (19).
According to Cayce, man has lived on earth 10.5 million years, but humans didn’t start organizing/cooperating with each other until 52,000 years ago (15). The oldest evidence of humans is a jawbone and tooth in Kenya, but it is only five million years old (28).
Timeline: 50,722 B.C. “A meeting of the five nations or races was called to formulate ways and means of combating the enormous, carnivorous beasts threatening man in so many parts of the world” (137). 50,700 B.C. First continental catastrophe caused by man’s low state, and chemicals and high explosives to annihilate wild beasts, which caused earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; the earth’s axis shifted, brining the poles to where they are now and producing last great Ice Age (56-57). Some Atlanteans and Lemurians migrated out (123). 28,200 B.C. Second continental catastrophe (123). Atlantis’ firestone rays were unintentionally turned up too high and combined with other electrical forces to start fires inside the earth, which caused volcanic eruptions and electrical storms (59, 67). Then (Noah’s) flood submerged Atlantis, Lemuria (38, 57). Only Poseidia (West Indies area) of Atlantis and Og (Peru) of Lemuria remained (58). 10,000 B.C. Egyptians came about (37) 9,638 B.C. Atlantis was still a powerful kingdom (49) 10,600 or 9,500 B.C. Third continental catastrophe (earthquakes) (62, 123). Atlantis vanished except for a few scattered mountain peaks. Most Atlanteans died, but some escaped to other lands (62). 9,000 B.C. Soul-created hybrid animal-man monstrosities disappeared (41) 3000 B.C. Israelites brought human sacrifice to Yucatan.
“The readings state that emigrating Atlanteans went in many directions, primarily to the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain and to North America with the initial cataclysm about 50,700 B.C.; to Central America and Morocco during the second debacle, about 28,000 B.C.; and to Egypt, where they built the pyramids, and Yucatan, Mexico, with the third and final catastrophe in 10,600 B.C” (14-15).
Other evidence for Atlantis: fresh water plants in the mid-Atlantic submarine ridge (22). “The ocean bed is known to be unstable, rising and falling unpredictably. Volcanic islands have suddenly appeared, disappeared, and reappeared” (23). “The Bimini Islands, 50 mi off the east coast from Miami, were once part of the Atlantean island of Poseidia. And Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again. Expect it in 68 and 69” (20, 63, 171). Temple-like structures were found in the Bahamas area in 1968, 69, and 70 (20, 171).
According to Cayce: Atlantis & Lemuria were the world’s largest land areas (52). They both lost much of their territory after the first continental catastrophe (57). “Low standards of morality, sex indulgence and perversion became rampant. . . . In spite of material advancements and many scientific achievements, inner decay was to bring dispersion and finally annihilation to a proud, wicked, adulterous people” (57). Sounds like modern people. *Lemuria AKA Mu: It extended from the western part of the US to South America (52, 123). The Andean coast and portions of Central America were its tideland areas (52). Baja CA was the coastland of Lemuria (136). With the first continental catastrophe, the people of Mu escaped to the American continents, from Peru to Oregon. “In Oregon may be seen remnants of their religion in the totem pole, their family tree. Here the women were the head of the family and ruled rather than the men” (137). *Atlantis: Atlantis was an island larger than Libya and Asia Minor combined [so the size of Algeria?], lying just beyond the Straits of Gibraltar (49). (But P. 52 says Atlantis was the size of Europe and Russia combined, with eastern US and the Gulf of Mexico as its coastal lowlands!) Atlanteans invaded lands that bordered the Mediterranean, and only Athens didn’t get beaten (49). Atlantis was destroyed by earthquakes and sunk due to the people’s wickedness (49). After the first continental catastrophe, Atlantis acquired electricity, transportation powered by atomic power from uranium, laser beams, death rays, rubber, brass, aluminum, submarines, telephone, elevators, radio, TV, communications with other lands (58). They cremated their dead (69). Atlantis had a huge crystal called Tuaoi Stone which reflected the sun and was developed as a means of spiritual communication between the finite and infinite (58). “Later, as its use was improved upon over the centuries, it expanded to become a generator of power or energy, radiating across the land without wires. Then it became known as the Firestone, or the Great Crystals” (58-59). The firestone could heal people (sounds like the medbays in Elysium) or harm people (59). Atlantis’ government was a semi-socialist monarchy (61). “Children of the Law of One” were the good people of Atlantis who believed in a single god. But they mixed with the monstrosities, which created the “Sons of Belial,” followers of Baal or Beelzebub—the forces of evil (54-55). The sons of Belial were of low principle, little self-will or control, and were bred and enslaved for menial labor (54-55). Back then, humans lived to 500-700 years, and they counted their days in 10s, 50s, and 100s, “besides the days or weeks or years as in the present” (66). “A division of tongues took place when the continent was broken up into islands, although the rest of the world still spoke the one language” (63-64). Not sure which continental catastrophe this is referring to. Records on how to construct the firestone are in Poseidia (Bimini, off the coast of FL), in the Egyptian temple, and in Yucatan, “where these stones are now being uncovered” (68).
Interesting, but still I wonder if advanced civilizations like those existed, why hasn’t anyone dived under the ocean or used a submarine and found evidence of human things down there? Buildings, homes, technology, etc.?
EGYPT: Egypt was somehow able to communicate with other lands, but their transportation was only ox carts and rafts (74, 85). There were no family households. It was law that the women were to be housed at night in a separate temple, and men stayed outside. Even the queen didn’t stay with the king. Sex took place in a temple. The king chose the partners. Children were taken from their moms at the age of three months and raised by the state by trained groups (78). Twas a welfare state with one common store for everyone (83). Priests and priestesses chose the jobs for everyone (82). Both sexes were equal, and their clothing was nearly identical—long flowing white and purple “robes of handwoven material resembling linen but fabricated from the fibres of the papyrus and lotus plants” (82). The god Ra was inspired by a priest named Ra-Ta (75, 88). Ra-Ta prophesied that a white ruler named Arart would conquer Egypt, so Arart invaded Egypt and conquered it (75-76). How the people who conquered Egypt gained the support of the Egyptian people: the leader of the invaders, Arart, put his son, Araaraat (rather than himself), as king and appointed a “belligerent native scribe to high office and membership in the official family” (76). The former King of Egypt, Raai, took a beautiful daughter of the invaders as his companion. Her name was Isai and she was revered as a goddess (76). The Egyptians used to worship the sun, but Ra-Ta taught them to worship one god instead (78). Ra-Ta had traveled to Atlantis, and he taught the Egyptians to adopt the Atlantean custom of family units and monogamy (78). In Atlantis, men also chose their own wife, but in Egypt the government still chose the mates and raised the offspring, although Ra-Ta got too choose his own wife (78-79). Ra-Ta fell in love with a beautiful, intelligent, graceful dancer named Isris, whose name later got changed to Isis. They had a daughter named Iso (84). But since Ra cheated on his wife to have sex with Isris, he was disobeying his own laws of monogamy, so Egypt banished him (85). He stayed in Nubia for nine years and improved that land too (86). He returned to Egypt at around 100 years old, which pleased the Egyptians (87). Hept-Supht’s Atlantean records and King Raai’s spiritual truths were kept in a small pyramid in the plains of Gizeh, between the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid (89). It was supposed to be nearly the mathematical center of earth, where there might be the least disturbance from floods or earthquakes (89). Men wouldn’t comprehend the significance of the records until the earth shifted on its axis again (as it did in the Atlantean period) and passed through another inundation (89). Man needs to overcome his ego and reach true spiritual understanding; that will be the beginning of the fifth root race (90). The Sphinx was supposed to be a memorial to Araaraat, but after Ra returned, the meaning changed to symbolize the relation of man and animal, man’s spiritual evolution (89). The Great Pyramid took 100 years to build. It was an initiation hall for those dedicating themselves to Egyptian’s religion (90). “It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation, abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period. Material for erection of the Pyramid was brought from as far away as Nubia” (90). “The Great Pyramid is a record in stone of the history and development of man from the time of Araaraat and Ra to the end of the present earth cycle, in 1998. Its records are written in the language of mathematics, geometry and astronomy, as well as in the kinds of stone used, with their symbology. After the end of the cycle, there is to be another change in the earth’s position, with the return of the Great Initiate for the culmination of the prophecies” (91). Jesus took John the Baptist to the pyramids, “as is shown in that portion when there is the turning back from raising up of Xerxes, as the deliverer form an unknown tongue or land” (98). The Messiah is supposed to return in 1998 (98).
Early Americans: *Incas had theocratic socialism/communism (108-109, 111). “The first Christians, the Essenes, with their Christian communism, had much the same social structure” (109). Incas buried their dead (104). Incas and Mayans were both peaceful and had pyramids (104, 117, 118). *Mayans had courts for a basketball-like game (117). “According to legend, they arrived in Yucatan from two directions: by way of the Gulf of Mexico and overland from the south and west, led by a hero named Zamna, a sort of Moses. They had another tradition that incorporated the existence of several civilizations before them, all of which were destroyed by a deluge” (118). Mayans believed in a supreme god and a bunch of lesser gods (118). The chief god was a serpent god and messiah named Kukulcan. “In their modern religion were strong Christian elements, including the symbol of the cross” (122). Cayce said that the Mayan monuments were not used in human sacrifice, but “to cleanse bodies of hate, malice, and selfishness” (125). Israelites brought human sacrifice to Yucatan in 3000 B.C. (125). “About 1/2 of all Mayan hieroglyphic signs have been deciphered, and some of their stones are now at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia and the Chicago Natural History Museum, as Cayce predicted” (127). *Mound Builders: They built a lot of mounds. One looks like a snake (143). I wonder if it has to do with the Mayans’ Kukulcan. And I wonder if Satan (assuming he’s real) influenced both these people’s religious beliefs, and if Kukulcan was the same as Satan. “Politically and economically, they seem to have led a communal life; there was apparently no private property or personal ownership of land” (143). I wonder how archaeologists would know this?
This is not a book about Edgar Cayce or his meditations. It a a social and political commentary with interspersed “Casey predicted this” comments and then quotes by Casey that are entirely unrelated to the authors message. Really truly shameful writing...
A nice overview of Cayce's teachings on Atlantis and the Atlantean migration to the Americas. Cayce's actual readings are so hard to decipher--the language is so old timey and dense--so I really appreciate this author's attempt to comb through thousands of Cayce readings to distill it down the good stuff.
In Part II, each chapter starts with an overview of the current scientific consensus on the pre-Columbian civilizations in America. Then the author gives an overview of the Cayce's readings on the same subject. Having the two viewpoints contrasted side by side was helpful and interesting.
The history of Atlantis felt like reading Lord of the Rings, with all the regime changes, wars, heroes, villains, races, and magic.
The text serve as somewhat of a time capsule of where people's heads were at in the 1970s and how they saw the present and future of America.
Pasted out of a comment herein that wasn't accepting comments. I haven’t read this book but will look for it now. I have some Cayce books.
Thanks for all this info. I read part of the very lengthy review. It is driving me farther away from Cayce. I am a Christian. My wifes Aunt lives on the same block in Hopkinsville KY where one of Cayce's childhood home's was. They are about to tear it down I think, it is condemned. I think he had a gift, but seems like his trance's led him pretty far into deep left field. Not saying there isn't some truth in there, but alot seems like slew foot led him astray.
... This book, typical of Cayce books, is mostly purports and interpretations of a select few core readings. Nonetheless, in these times of doom vision-driven fervor it is refreshing to read of Cayce’s optimism.