Earth Changes and Predictions
Edgar Cayce had much to say about the life of Jesus -- even covering the "lost" years that were never addressed in the Bible. But Cayce also spoke of Jesus' return and here is an excerpt on that subject. On June 28, 1932, gave the following reading where he revealed the world at the time was about to enter the Tribulation (test period) which is a reference to World War II:
(Q) "He (Jesus) said He would come again. What about His second coming?"
(A) "The time no one knows. Even as He gave, not even the Son Himself. ONLY the Father. Not until His enemies - and the earth - are wholly in subjection to His will, His powers."
(Q) "Are we entering the period of preparation for His coming?"
(A) "Entering the test period, rather."
(Q) "Any message to the group gathered here?"
(A) "In that ye seek to know the manner of preparation of him that would be your guide, seek also to prepare yourselves to be his subjects with that same diligence as that which has prompted the seeking here."
On June 30, 1932, Cayce gave a reading concerning prophecies of the Great Pyramid in Egypt in which he gave the year of Christ's return in 1998:
(Q) "You will please give at this time detailed information regarding the origin, purpose and prophecies of the Great Pyramid of Giza near Cairo, Egypt..."
(A) "In this same pyramid did the Great Initiate, the Master, take those last of the brotherhood degrees with John, the forerunner of Him, at that place. As is indicated in that period where entrance is shown to be in that land that was set apart, as that promised to that peculiar peoples, as were rejected - as is shown in that portion when there is the turning back from the raising up of Xerxes as the deliverer from an unknown tongue or land, and again is there seen that this occurs in the entrance of the Messiah in this period - 1998."
Although Cayce mentioned nobody knows the exact date of Jesus' return, he did predict in another reading that Jesus would return in the year of 1998. Critics who are not familiar with the Cayce readings have declared Cayce wrong on this prediction because 1998 has come and gone; and Jesus has not appeared. Some of these critics wrongly expect Jesus to appear in the sky with a chorus of angels while dead bodies crawl out of their graves on the Last Day. But this false notion of the Resurrection of the Dead is the result of a misunderstanding of Jesus' secret teachings of reincarnation -- the true meaning of bodily resurrection -- and how to be liberated from it (spiritual resurrection).
Cayce revealed in his dream interpretation of the Book of Revelation that "the first resurrection" refers to those souls who are the first to be reincarnated and born into the Kingdom of God on earth. These souls will incarnate from higher afterlife realms.
So it is more logical, and more realistic, for Jesus to return the same way as he did in his previous lifetimes -- through childbirth. For this reason, we can assume that Jesus has already returned in 1998 just as Cayce foresaw; and this means that Jesus is currently living on earth as a young adult.
On April 15, 1932, Cayce gave a reading implying Jesus will return before the "Millennium" -- a literal thousand-year golden age of peace known in the Bible as the "Kingdom of God" on earth:
(Q) "Please explain what is meant by 'He will walk and talk with men of every clime.' Does this mean he will appear to many at once or appear to various peoples during a long period?"
(A) "As given, for a thousand years he will walk and talk with men of every clime. Then in groups, in masses, and then they shall reign of the first resurrection for a thousand years; for this will be when the changes materially come."
On August 6, 1933, Cayce affirmed Jesus had not yet appeared (which agrees with his prophecy that he returned in 1998) and that Jesus only existed at the time in spirit form. Cayce also revealed Jesus would appear in the flesh (as a human being) and suggesting he would even be born with the same body (i.e., DNA) he was born with the last time:
(Q) "Is Jesus the Christ on any particular sphere or is he manifesting on the earth plane in another body?"
(A) "As just given, all power in heaven, in earth, is given to him who overcame. Hence he is of himself in space, in the force that impels through faith, through belief, in the individual entity. As a spirit entity. Hence not in a body in the earth, but may come at will to him who wills to be one with, and acts in love to make same possible. For, he shall come as ye have seen him go, in the body he occupied in Galilee. The body that he formed, that was crucified on the cross, that rose from the tomb, that walked by the sea, that appeared to Simon, that appeared to Philip, that appeared to 'I, even John'"
(Q) "When Jesus Christ comes the second time will he set up his Kingdom on earth, and will it be an everlasting Kingdom?"
(A) "Read his promises in that ye have written of his words, as John gave, 'He shall rule for a 1000 years. Then shall Satan be loosed again for a season.'"
Note that in the above reading, Cayce appeared to be "channeling" John of the Book of Revelation. In the above reading, Cayce references Revelation 19-20 which describes John seeing much rejoicing in heaven and the appearance of Christ (Revelation 19). Then Revelation 20 describes an "angel" casting the "devil" into a "bottomless pit" for 1000 years; but afterward, the "devil" is released upon the earth for a short time before being cast into "hell". In Revelation 21, John then sees a "new heaven" and a "new earth" come into being. Cayce interpreted the dream symbolism of the Book of Revelation as follows: during the 1000 year golden age on earth, souls from lower afterlife realms will not be permitted to incarnate the earth (casting the "devil" into a "bottomless pit" in Revelation 20:1-3). At the end of the 1000 years, souls from lower afterlife realms will once again be allowed to incarnate, bringing with them their unsatisfied ambitions and desires (Revelation 20:7-10). This, of course, will attempt to bring about the former conditions of imbalance (wars and plagues); but after 1000 years of established peace on earth, these conditions of imbalance, all man-made, are now themselves eliminated and all mental forms and patterns not formed by divine will are purged (Revelation 20:14).
The Cayce readings had much to say about the life of Jesus—covering the “lost” years that were never addressed in the Bible. But Cayce also spoke of Jesus’ return and here is an excerpt on that subject:
(Q) “What is meant by “the day of the Lord is near at hand”?
(A) "That as has been promised through the prophets and the sages of old, the time – and half time – has been and is being fulfilled in this day and generation, and that soon there will again appear in the earth that one through whom many will be called to meet those that are preparing the way for His day in the earth. The Lord, then, will come, 'even as ye have seen him go.'"
On April 28, 1941, Cayce gave a reading where he foresees a war arising near the Davis Straits, and in Libya, and in Egypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The locations involved in the conflict suggest it is a worldwide conflict over oil mostly involving the Middle East:
"...we find nation against nation; the powers of death, destruction, the wrecking of that which has been and is held near and dear to the hearts of those who have through one form or another set ideals. These are not to be questioned, in that as may be a helpful force; but what is coming to pass? And how may ye as individuals help?... Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to a land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara (Turkey) and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf."
"Davis Strait" is a channel located in the arctic between mid-western Greenland and Canada's Baffin Island. According to Wikipedia, it has been estimated that at least 13% of the worlds undiscovered oil deposits and 30% of the worlds undiscovered gas pockets are located in the Arctic, with the seas around Greenland potentially holding large amounts of natural gas and lesser amounts of crude oil and natural gas liquids. This has led to a large number of off-shore concessions to potential oil and gas extraction, primarily the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay. On March 20, 2011, the U.S. government began to authorize offshore oil drilling in the arctic Outer Continental Shelf which was a major breakthrough for the petroleum industry and big loss for drilling opponents. in 2012, Greenpeace unsuccessfully attempted to keep a deep sea drilling rig manufactured in Turkey from being set up in Baffin Bay, Greenland. It is possible that this environmentalist attempt to prevent oil drilling in the arctic is what Cayce referred to as "attempts there for the keeping of the life line to a land open" in the area "near Davis Strait." Could "keeping of the life line to land open" suggest that the "life line to land" is the Baffin Bay fishery (that Greenpeace is trying to protect) could possibly be in danger of being destroyed by another deep sea oil blowout?
Concerning Libya, Egypt, Ankara (Turkey), and Syria, a look at the current news headlines about the Syrian Civil War against ISIS and terrorism is enough to know how easily this prophecy of a greater war could certainly be a possibility. Cayce's mentioning of the Persian Gulf, the site of the world's largest single source of crude oil and world's largest offshore oilfield, is even more evidence of a global conflict over oil as foreseen by Cayce. Iran control's the Persian Gulf and their military power in the region has only grown stronger in recent times. The straits above Australia and the Indian Ocean are routes where marine tankers transport crude oil around the world.
The question is why would Cayce link the beginning of arctic oil development on March 20, 2011, with the Syrian Civil War? Probably because the Syrian Civil War began on March 11, 2011, when protesters marched in the capital of Damascus, demanding democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners. Coincidence? Given Cayce's track record, I suspect it is not.
“...As is understood by many, in the earth manifestation and the cycle of time much repeats itself...There are still influences indicated in the lives of groups banded as nations, banded as peoples, still influenced by those happenings...What then, ye ask, is the influence that makes for this great change that may be expected? ...The powers of light and darkness, as then, as sixteen hundred (1600) years before. As in those periods, so today – we find nation against nation; the powers of death, destruction, the wrecking of that which has been and is held near and dear to the hearts of those who have through one form or another set ideals...These are not to be questioned, in that as may be a helpful force; but what is coming to pass? And how may ye as individuals help? ...Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to a land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.”
According to Cayce, the Hall of Records of our Atlantic ancestors is still safely guarded by the Sphinx. The entrance should lead in from its right front paw. Several shafts have already been uncovered around the Sphinx. One of these leads via an underground passage to the Great Pyramid of Cheops. As announced by E. Cayce, the so-called "Tomb of Osiris" was found halfway there in a flooded chamber. When Egyptologists excavated the sarcophagus, which weighed several tons, they were astonished to find nothing in it. There may be other mysteries hidden in this chamber as Cayce mentioned:
"For the entity's tomb then was a part of the Hall of Records, which has not yet been uncovered. It lies between - or along that entrance from the Sphinx to the temple - or the pyramid; in a pyramid, of course, of its own."
In 1992, scientists Robert Schoch and Thomas Dobecki used ground-penetrating radar and discovered cavities underneath the Sphinx. Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval's stated in their 1997 book entitled "Message of the Sphinx" that American archaeologists and the Egyptian government had blocked investigations around the Sphinx, including attempts to locate any underground cavities. In 1998, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Chief Director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, undertook excavations beneath the main body of the Sphinx at Giza and re-discovered access tunnels to several large, apparently natural, caves directly under the Sphinx. Dr. Hawass commented, to the TV documentary crew that documented the 1998 excavations, that he suspected that there could be other cavities beneath the structure, based on the evidence of the small watercourse that had caused some minor structural damage to stonework on the flank of the Sphinx. Robert Bauval later wrote in his 1999 book entitled "Secret Chamber" that Egyptian authorities granted an American team a license to search for the Hall of Records under the Sphinx and how they discovered there may be three passages around the Sphinx; two with unknown origin and one that is supposedly a small dead-end shaft behind the head of the Sphinx of nineteenth-century origins. But according to Bauval, for decades any real and significant progress in the quest for the secret chambers at Giza has been thwarted by Dr. Hawass. In July 2011, however, Dr. Hawass lost his position with the Supreme Council of Antiquities during the Egyptian Crisis with the Muslim Brotherhood and it remains to be seen if the new administration will allow the search to begin again.
The Hall of Records unterneath the Sphinx
The Houston Press: "John Bunker and Karen Pressler have researched the Egyptian Hall of Records spoken of in several of Edgar Cayce's Readings for more than ten years. They had to learn to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, ancient astronomical configurations, and the Edgar Cayce Readings. They have concluded that the Hall may be in a different location than previously thought. Because the impact of these records will shatter traditional belief systems, there are conditions that must be satisfied before the Hall may be opened. Is humanity ready for such an event? This presentation will address these issues and describe where the records are likely located."
Cayce refered to the "Hall of Records" using the terms "Record tomb", "Sealed room" or "chamber" as well as "Temple" or "Pyramid of initiation". One seems to hold fast; the entrance passage was kept from the public for a long time by the Sphinx's right forepaw until now! Either way, the chambers and galeries of the Great Pyramid can potentially unveil a key pattern about our relationship with the conscious and creative forces of the universe:
"AND EVEN AS THOU HAST PROMISED, AS THOU HAST SHOWN US THE PATTERN IN THE MOUNT OF OUR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS, MAY WE WALK WITH THE SON OF LIGHT AND MERCY AND GRACE, EVEN AS SHOWN TO US IN JESUS - THE LOWLY ONE!"
At this Point let there be said, that Enoch, the builder of the pyramid of initiation was none less than Jesus, the Master himself, who personaly went trought that process of initiation in the pyramid along with his cousin John the babtist, in one of his earlier incarnations. Modern day initiation ceremonies seem to involve the initiate to lie inside the empty tomb in the kings chamber and humming a specific tone witch would resonate with the entire building in multiple octaves, in such a manner the entire comlex can be felt shaking. Jesus might have found the pattern of keynotes to even breake the tomb at his initiation.
(Q) "Please describe Jesus' initiations in Egypt, telling if the Gospel reference to "three days and nights in the grave or tomb," possibly in the shape of a cross, indicate a special initiation."
(A) "This is a portion of the initiation - it is a part of the passage through that to which each soul is to attain in its development, as has the world through each period of their incarnation in the earth. As is supposed, the record of the earth through the passage through the tomb, or the pyramid, is that through which each entity, each soul, as an initiate must pass for the attaining to the releasing of same - as indicated by the empty tomb, which has NEVER been filled, see? Only Jesus was able to break same, as it became that which indicated His fulfillment.
And there, as the initiate, He went out - for the passing through the initiation, by fulfilling - as indicated in the baptism in the Jordan; not standing in it and being poured or sprinkled either! as He passed from that activity into the wilderness to meet that which had been His undoing in the beginning."
(Q) "In which pyramid are the records of the Christ?"
(A) "That yet to be uncovered."
(Q) "Are there any written records which have not been found of the teachings?"
(A) "More, rather, of those of the close associates, and those records that are yet to be found of the preparation of the man, of the Christ, in those of the tomb, or those yet to be uncovered in the pyramid."
(Q) "When will this chance be given for these to be uncovered?"
(A) "When there has been sufficient of the reckoning through which the world is passing in the present."
IN YUCATAN
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IN BIMINI
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Cayce predicted a "City of Gold" will be discovered in the Gobi Desert in northern China complete with a golden temple with elevators; electric cars, and magical elements. On August 9, 1935, Cayce gave a reading where he said the ancient "Temple of God" in the Gobi Desert currently remains intact:
"Then the entity was among the natives of the Egyptian land, and rose to power through those cleansings in the Temple of Sacrifice; then becoming a portion of the activative service in the Temple Beautiful when it made for those abilities within self to mete out to many those things necessary in their physical and mental understanding. And with the correlating of the thought, the entity became first as the representative of the Temple Beautiful in the Indian land; and later - and during the period of its greatest height - in the land of the Gobi, or the Mongoloid. There the entity was as the priestess in the Temple of Gold, which is still intact there."
On September 12, 1936, Cayce gave a reading where he said the Temple of God will one day be discovered:
"As to the manner of locomotions in the experience, the entity injected much of that which - when there is the discovery of the Temple of Gold -- will be found; lifts or elevators, the one-line electrical car, the very fast aerial locomotion - there were a portion of those experiences with which the entity had much to do."
Cayce said that the "City of Gold" in the Gobi desert, was builded as the nation of Taoi, was thriving around 10,000 B.C., contemporary with the equally cultured nations of India, Norway and Og (which is Peru, not to be confused with the lost Atlantean island of Og.)
8. Shift of earths axis
The end-time does not mean the end of the world but rather the beginning of God's kingdom on earth!"
Two mighty prophets testify for 1,260 days. Killed by the beast, they are left on the road for three and a half days, then they are raised and go up to heaven. A large earthquake occurs, one tenth of the city collapsing and 7,000 people are killed.
The parable points to a warning first half and an ominous second half of the last seven years. In principle, volcanoes, earthquakes, wars, epidemics (and yes, climate change) indicate the throes of the world, which is followed by the great cataclysm.
"And there followed lightning, voices and thunder; there was a tremendous earthquake, the likes of which had never been seen since there was human beings. This tremor was so great. The great city broke into three parts and the cities of the nations fell God had remembered Babylon the great and handed her the goblet with the wine of his avenging anger. All the islands disappeared and there were no more mountains. And huge hailstones, weighing a few centimeters, fell from the sky on the people. Yet cursed men God because of this plague of hail; for the plague was beyond measure."
"And the sky disappeared like a rolled-up book; and all mountains and islands were moved from their places."
"But soon after the tribulation of that time, the sun and moon will lose their shine, and stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will move."
"For, behold, a day will come that will burn like an oven . There will be straw for all the despised and the wicked, and the day to come will set them on fire, says the LORD of hosts, and he will leave them neither root nor branch."
"The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas, and there will be shifting then of the poles - so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in '58 to '98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when His light will be seen again in the clouds."
"In 1998 we may find a great deal of the activities as have been wrought by the gradual changes that are coming about. These are at the periods when the cycle of the solar activity, or the years as related to the sun's passage through the various spheres of activity become paramount or Catamount [?] [Tantamount?] to the change between the Piscean and the Aquarian age. This is a gradual, not a cataclysmic activity in the experience of the earth in this period."
(Q) "What great change or the beginning of what change, if any, is to take place in the earth in the year 2,000 to 2,001 A.D.?"
(A) "When there is a shifting of the poles. Or a new cycle begins. [See Ledger Dispatch & Star, 7/20/59, Cambridge, Mass. (Science Service) MAGNETIC DIP POLE DRIFTING. Also see A.R.E. EARTH CHANGES booklet, 4/61.]"
"As is indicated in that period where entrance is shown to be in that land that was set apart, as that promised to that peculiar peoples, as were rejected - as is shown in that portion when there is the turning back from the raising up of Xerxes as the deliverer from an unknown tongue or land, and again is there seen that this occurs in the entrance of the Messiah in this period - 1998."
The old record in Gizeh is from that as recorded from the journey to Pyrenees; and to 1998 from the death of the Son of Man (as a man).
(Q) "What is meant by 'the day of the Lord is near at hand'?"
(A) "That as has been promised through the prophets and the sages of old, the time -- and half time -- has been and is being fulfilled in this day and generation, and that soon there will again appear in the earth that one through whom many will be called to meet those that are preparing the way for his day in the earth. The Lord, then, will come, 'even as ye have seen him go.'"
7. Earth breaks up in the Mediterranean
(Q) "How soon will the changes in the earth's activity begin to be apparent?"
(A) "When there is the first breaking up of some conditions in the South Sea (that's South Pacific, to be sure), and those as apparent in the sinking or rising of that that's almost opposite same, or in the Mediterranean, and the Aetna area, then we may know it has begun."
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Scientists calculated where the earth could break up soon. According to Edgar Cayce, however, this will happen in the Pacific and / or the Mediterranean:
6. The wrong peace treaty
The peace treaty with Daniel will be broken after 3.5 years and the daily sacrifice will be abolished. The anti- christ will sit in the temple and pretend that he is God (2 Thessalonians 2:3). To do this, the Third Temple must be built beforehand, the preparations have been completed. The rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon is in full swing. According to the current status, the construction of the temple on Mount Zion has now been approved.
"With power he will make a covenant for the many, for a week [year-week]; and halfway through the week he will cease sacrifices and food offerings. And on the wing of atrocities comes a devastator, until a decided destruction is poured out on the devastator."
Daniel 9:27 describes this contract very precisely. This includes the following:
- the contract is for a period of 7 years (a week of years) completed
- it is concluded between the Jews and their neighboring peoples (for the many)
- it will come about with power. All previous diplomatic efforts for this peace treaty have been unsuccessful. This shows that whoever can conclude this contract must get the power to do so from God. The fact that this peace treaty ...
- after 3 ½ years is broken (halfway through the week he will ... stop) that this covenant will be highly competitive
- the Jews will again make sacrifices (sacrifices and food offerings) on the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem during the first half of the week (3.5 years)
"And it [the New-Assyrian Empire] was empowered to utter presumptuous words and blasphemy with its mouth; it was given power to do so for forty-two months. The beast opened its mouth to blaspheme God and his name, his dwelling place and all who dwell in heaven: and he was allowed to fight with the saints and to conquer them; he was also given power over all tribes, peoples, tongues and nations: all the inhabitants of the earth bow down before him : all whose name has not been entered in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered since the creation of the world."
This three and a half year period also occurs in Revelation, which describes the judgment of God and the end of the present age. The prophecies complement each other and so Daniel shows very clearly that with this peace treaty in the Middle East the last 7 years (the end times) begin, and that the visible second coming of Christ (at the end of the 7 years) is very near.
5. The great sign in heaven
On September 23, 2017, exactly at midnight, an expressive spectacle took place in the night sky. According to John's prophecy, this is to be proclaimed by the dawn of the last 3 ½ years and the authority of the Antichrist . Accordingly, the next sign would have to occur on March 23, 2021 at the latest.
Jupiter (the king planet) stayed in the womb area of the constellation Virgo for a period of exactly 10 months (like a pregnancy). Virgo was; 'clothed with the sun; the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head'.
"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days [3 and a half years]."
4. Occurrence of a solar eclipse in a blood moon tetrad
"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars."
"The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."
Joel 3:4
(Ezekiel 32: 7, Joel 2:10; 4:15, Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 24:23, Mark 13:24, Acts 2:20, Revelation 6:12)
3. Increased incidence of earthquakes, famine wages and wars
"You will hear wars and rumors of wars ; see that ye be not scare you, the mu. Ss come to pass everything,. But it is not yet the end because it will rise against nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom other and will be pestilence and famine and earthquakes . As will all now and then just lift the emergency."
2. The gospel will be preached in every country
"And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony over all peoples , and then the end will come."
This prophecy was fulfilled in the 1980s.
1. Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel
"And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
"Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."
Decades before the rest of the world was thinking about the enormous impact that China would have upon the global stage, Edgar Cayce predicted great things for China and its people;
“This, here, will be one day the cradle of Christianity, as applied in the lives of men. Yea, it is far off as man counts time, but only a day in the heart of God -- for tomorrow China will awake. Let each and every soul as they come to those understandings, do something, then, in his or her own heart.”
This suggests the personal application of spiritual principles would become paramount to the Chinese people. Cayce then went on to caution that it would take a long time to manifest but that it was the country’s destiny;
(Q) "May it be indicated as to the destiny of the Chinese during the next twenty years -- whether they are likely to take a more democratic turn or a more authoritarian turn?"
(A) "More of the democratic. For, as has been indicated, more and more will those of the Christian faith come to be in political positions, and this in China will mean the greater rule in certain groups -- according to how well these manifest. And these will progress. For, civilization moves west."
On April 15. 1932, Cayce gave a reading where he foresaw a thousand years peace on earth when Christ returns following the major earth changes:
(Q) "Please explain what is meant by 'He (Jesus) will walk and talk with men of every clime'. Does this mean he will appear to many at once or appear to various peoples during a long period?"
(A) "As given, for a thousand years he will walk and talk with men of every clime. Then in groups, in masses, and then they shall reign of the first resurrection for a thousand years; for this will be when the changes materially come."
Cayce's prophecy of a thousand-year golden age corresponds with a doctrine in Christian eschatology called "Millennialism" which is based upon Biblical references in Revelation 20. A core principle of this doctrine is the expectation that the Second Coming of Christ is very near and that there will be an establishment of a Kingdom of God on earth. According to an interpretation of prophecies in the Book of Revelation, this Kingdom of God on earth will last a thousand years (a millennium). On June 20. 1938, Cayce gave a reading describing events leading up to the thousand year reign of Christ:
"It is also understood, comprehended by some, that a new [world] order of conditions is to arise; that there must be many a purging in high places as well as low; that there must be the greater consideration of each individual, each soul being his brother's keeper. There will then come about those circumstances in the political, the economic and the whole relationships where there will be a leveling -- or a greater comprehension of this need. For as the time or the period draws near for these changes that come with the new order, it behooves all of those who have an ideal -- as individuals, as well as groups or societies or organizations, to be practicing, applying same in their experience -- and their relationships as one to another. For unless these are up and doing, then there must indeed be a new order in their relationships and their activities. For His ways will carry through. For as he (Christ) gave, "Though the heavens and the earth may pass away, my word will not pass away." [Matthew 24:29-35] ...for all power in heaven and in earth hath been given into his hands... And his laws, his will, will not come to naught! Though there may come those periods when there will be great stress, as brother rises against brother, as group or sect or race rises against race -- yet the leveling must come."
It should be noted that although Cayce interpreted the golden age through a Christian "lens", the idea of a future golden age is not limited to the Christian faith. Under Hindu eschatology, the current age we are living in is called the "Kali Yuga", a period of decline. Some day in the future, Kalki (the "Destroyer of Filth") will appear to purge all evil, beginning a golden age of Satya Yuga. In Zoroastrian eschatology, the world to come is the frashokereti, where the saoshyant (the Zoroastrian savior) will bring about a resurrection of the dead in the bodies they had before they died. This is followed by a last judgment. Angra Mainyu (the Zoroastrian version of "Satan") and the last vestiges of wickedness in the universe will be destroyed; and the world will ultimately be restored to the perfection it had at the time of creation. The late Hindu leader and guru of the Transcendental Meditation movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is associated with the Maharishi "Heaven on Earth" Development Corp. (MHOED) which is a for-profit real estate developer whose short-term goal is to build utopian projects in the U.S., Canada, and Africa with a long-term goal to "reconstruct the entire world", at an estimated cost of $100 trillion. The U.S. arm planned to work with developers to build 50 "Maharishi Cities of Immortals" in the US and Canada. There is also a concept in futurism often associated with the establishment of something similar to a golden age by technological means called the "technological singularity". It is a hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization. According to this hypothesis, an upgradable intelligent computer would cause an intelligence explosion resulting in a powerful superintelligence that would, far surpass all human intelligence. Ray Kurzweil, a prominent proponent of transhumanism, suggests that the singularity will lead to medical advances allowing people to protect their bodies from the effects of aging, making the life expectancy limitless. At the 2012 Singularity Summit, a study of predictions by experts for the year the singularity occurs, found a median value of a predicted year of 2040.
According to Cayce, the entire Bible can be viewed as the symbolic account of the past, present and future of humanity: from the fall of human souls from heaven (the Book of Genesis) to the restoration of human souls to their divine origins (the Book of Revelation). During several of Cayce's journeys into the spirit realms, he was able to unlock the secrets to the symbolism in the Book of Revelation. He gave a large amount of information specifically for the purpose of discovering the book's hidden meaning. The Battle of Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation represents in a symbolic manner both the spiritual conflict within human beings and within the earthbound realm where positive and negative spiritual forces coexist. Cayce foresees Armageddon would begin at the start of the thousand-year golden age on earth when the "forces of light" from higher afterlife realms would start to prevent souls from lower afterlife realms from reincarnating to earth during the thousand years of golden age earth time. By preventing souls from the lower afterlife realms from reincarnating to Earth, only enlightened souls will be permitted to reincarnate. The result will be a thousand years of building an enlightened world of peace and "kingdom of heaven" on earth. After the thousand years of golden age, souls from lower afterlife realms will be allowed once again to reincarnate to earth. By this time, the so-called "kingdom of heaven" will have already been established on earth; thereby allowing the souls reincarnating from the lower afterlife realms to become enlightened. On July 1. 1932, Cayce gave a reading where he described the Armageddon struggle in the earthbound spirit realm:
(Q) "If the Armageddon is foretold in the Great Pyramid, please give a description of it and the date of its beginning and ending."
(A) "Not in what is left there. It will be as a thousand years, with the fighting in the air, and - as has been - between those returning to and those leaving the earth."
On January 19. 1934, Cayce gave a reading where he linked the beginning of the earth changes with the Second Coming of Christ and the beginning of Armageddon as a battle between the influences entering the earth plane and those being forced out of it:
"And these (the shifting of poles and earth changes) will begin in those periods in '58 to '98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when his (Christ's) light will be seen again in the clouds (Northern Lights). As to times, as to seasons, as to places, alone is it given to those who have named the name -- and who bear the mark of those of his calling and his election in their bodies. To them it shall be given... And those that in the inmost recesses of theirselves awaken to the spiritual truths that are to be given, and those places that have acted in the capacity of teachers among men, the rottenness of those that have ministered in places will be brought to light, and turmoils and strifes shall enter. And, as there is the wavering of those that would enter [into the world] as emissaries, as teachers, from the throne of life, the throne of light, the throne of immortality, and wage war in the air (spirit realm) with those of darkness, then know ye the Armageddon is at hand. For with the great numbers of the gathering of the hosts of those that have hindered and would make for man and his weaknesses stumblingblocks, they shall wage war with the spirits of light that come into the earth for this awakening; that have been and are being called by those of the sons of men into the service of the living God."
In an article by Cayce expert, John Van Auken, entitled "The Unseen Forces, Beings, and the War between Light and Dark," Van Auken points out that even the light-bearing souls struggle against dark forces within themselves to maintain their hold on the Light; and how it is difficult to be pure channels of the Light in this life, in our families and workplaces, even in our own hearts and minds. It is a terrible battle, a war of selfishness and darkness against loving care for others and the light of truth, hope, and love. In order to avoid the subtle, insidious influence of evil and selfishness, even the best among us must seek the protection and assistance of the divine influence, that consciousness of the divine with us. And when we fail to maintain our mindfulness of the divine and the higher bodily vibrations of the divine awakened within us, we must get up and try again, never condemning ourselves or limiting the divine's ability to redeem us, to cleanse us and make us stronger.
Cayce approaches the Revelation most closely to the symbolic view, but even here he takes it far beyond the normal symbolic interpretation. In fact, Cayce teaches that the Revelation should be studied as a kind of roadmap for the final spiritualization of our bodies and minds. The symbols and scenes in this mysterious book represent experiences and stages through which we pass in our struggle to awaken again spiritually and regain our close connection with God and the Garden we once shared. Cayce says that some symbols and places in the Revelation actually represent glands within our bodies and thought patterns within our minds that bring about spiritual enlightenment. On March 13. 1933, Cayce gave a reading in which he explained that:
"...the visions, the experiences, the names, the churches, the places, the dragons, the cities, all are but emblems of those forces that may war within the individual in its journey through the material, or from the entering into the material manifestation [i.e., physical body and world] to the entering into the glory, or the awakening in the spirit...."
In the same reading, Cayce describes the "anti-Christ" and other aspects of the Revelation as spiritual concepts rather than literal interpretations:
(Q) "In what form does the anti-Christ come, spoken of in Revelation?"
(A) "In the spirit of that opposed to the spirit of truth. The fruits of the spirit of the Christ are love, joy, obedience, long-suffering, brotherly love, kindness. Against such there is no law. The spirit of hate, the anti-Christ, is contention, strife, fault-finding, lovers of self, lovers of praise. Those are the anti-Christ, and take possession of groups, masses, and show themselves even in the lives of men."
(Q) "Will we be punished by fire and brimstone?"
(A) "That as builded by self; as those emblematical influences are shown through the experiences of the beloved in that builded, that created. For, each soul is a portion of creation -- and builds that in a portion of its experience that it, through its physical-mental or spiritual-mental, has builded for itself. And each entity's heaven or hell must, through some experience, be that which it has builded for itself. Is thy hell one that is filled with fire or brimstone? But know, each and every soul is tried so as by fire; purified, purged; for he (Christ), though he were the Son, learned obedience through the things which he suffered. Ye also are known even as ye do, and have done."