Creation and Evolution. Edgar Cayce

glory of those that were heedless. Then, that there might be the way for those—What has been given as the most meaning of all that written? He has not willed that any soul should perish, but from the beginning has prepared a way of escape! What, then, is the meaning of the separation?

      Bringing into being the various phases that the soul may find in its manifested forms the consciousness and awareness of its separation, and itself, by that through which it passes in all the various spheres of its awareness. Hence the separation, and light and darkness. Darkness, that it had separated—that a soul had separated itself from the light. Hence He called into being Light, that the awareness began. Hence we look out and see the heavens, the stars; and, as the psalmist has said: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork, as day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”

      (Q) Comment upon the following. Is it worthy of expansion; that is, does it carry any light of truth? The Creator, in seeking to find or create a being worthy of companionship, realized that such a being would result only from a free will exercising its divine inheritance and through its own efforts find its Maker. Thus, to make the choice really a Divine one caused the existence of states of consciousness, that would indeed tax the free will of a soul; thus light and darkness. Truly, only those tried so as by fire can enter in.

      (A) The only variation that we would make is that all souls in the beginning were one with the Father. The separation, or turning away, brought evil. Then there became the necessity of the awareness of self’s being out of accord with, or out of the realm of blessedness; and, as given of the Son, “yet learned he obedience through the things which he suffered.”

       Reading 281–42

      As an illustration (this merely illustrating, now): It is hard for an individual, no matter how learned he may be, to conceive of the activities that exist only three miles above the earth. Why? Because there are no faculties within the individual entity in the present capable of conceiving that which is not represented within his individual self.

      Yea—but the individual of that period was not so closely knit in matter. Thus the activities of the realms of relativity of force, relativity of attraction in the universe, were an experience of the souls manifesting in the earth at that period, see?

      Thus we find that the experiences of individuals of the period, seeking for the understanding as to the evolution of the souls of men, might be compared to the minds of individuals in the present who are seeking an understanding as to man’s use of physical or atomical structure in his own relationships.

      Then, the individual of that experience or period was not necessarily one other than a soul or entity seeking the knowledge as to the relationship of that which would sustain and gain for man the abilities not only to continue the physical evolution but the spiritual or soul evolution as well.

       Reading 518–1

      Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land during those periods when there were the separations of the peoples from the high and the low estates of the varied developments that were in that period of man’s experience in the earth, when there were the sons of the High; or, as given in holy writ, “The Sons of God looked upon the daughters of men.”

      The entity was among the sons of God, yet looking upon the daughters of men and making of self in those associations those periods when faith was broken with others, and when there was the belittling of the tenets and the truths in the powers that had been given among those peoples for the manifesting of that which would cleanse their souls that they might be one with the Creative Forces in this material world and in the spiritual forces also.

       Reading 294–189

      For when the purposes of an entity or soul are the more and more in accord with that for which the entity has entered, then the soul-entity may take hold upon that which may bring to its remembrance that it was, where, when and how. Thinkest thou that the grain of corn has forgotten what manner of expression it has given?

      Think thou that any of the influences in nature that you see about you—the acorn, the oak, the elm, or the vine, or anything—has forgotten what manner of expression? Only man forgets! And it is only in His mercy that such was brought about. For what was the first cause? Knowledge—knowledge! What then is that cut off in the beginnings of the Sons of God? Becoming entangled with the daughters of men, and the Daughters of God becoming entangled with the sons of men! As in Adam they forgot what manner of men they were! Only when he lives, he manifests that life that is the expression of the divine, may man begin to know who, where, what and when he was! That there may be read from the records of God’s Book of Remembrance, as from here, in the keepers of the records, is true—if thy purpose, thy desire, in heart, in soul, is for the love of God as may be manifested among the sons of men; but these may read only by those in the shadows of His love.

       Reading 262–119

      (Q) Explain the “Sons of God—Daughters of Men—Sons of Man.”

      (A) This, too, has been given again and again. As has been indicated through other associations, the influences of those souls that sought material expression pushed themselves into thought forms in the earth. And owing to the earth’s relative position with the activities in this particular sphere of activity in the universe, it was chosen as the place for expression. Think—universe, eternity, time, space! What do these mean to the finite mind? More often than otherwise they are just names. More often we think of spirit as just a name, rather than experiencing it. Yet we use it, we manifest it, we are a part of it. Taking thought doesn’t change anything! It is the application of the thought taken that makes the change within ourselves! Then, as those expressed they were called the Sons of the Earth or Sons of Man.

      When the Creative Forces, God, made then the first man—or God-man—he was the beginning of the Sons of God. Then those souls who entered through a channel made by God—not by thought, not by desire, not by lust, not by things that separated continually—were the Sons of God, the Daughters of God.

      The Daughters of Men, then, were those who became the channels through which lust knew its activity; and it was in this manner then that the conditions were expressed as given of old, that the Sons of God looked upon the Daughters of Men and saw that they were fair, and lusted! What did the Christ say? “Ye say in the law that ye shall not commit adultery. I say unto you, he that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery already!” Understandest thou? Then, what did it mean? Only that such channels offered ways and means for the expression of those influences claimed by Satan, the Devil, the Evil One, as his. But He, the only begotten of the Father, the Christ, has become the Way, the Light, the Truth, the Water, the Bread, the Vine! and all of those are of Him who become channels for manifesting, or through which there may be those expressions that are of love and faith and hope! Hence the two influences that are ever before thee; good and evil, life and death; choose thou!

       Reading 257–201

      For that is the purpose of the soul’s being in the beginning. Hence without beginning, without end.

      Hence as we find, when souls sought or found manifestation in materiality by the projection of themselves into matter—as became thought forms—and when this had so enticed the companions or souls of the Creator, first we had then the creation in which “God breathed into man (God-made) the breath of life and he became a living soul,” with the abilities to become godlike.

      Hence we find the first preparation or estate, or manner in which those souls might through material manifestation acclaim—by the living, by the being—that which was and is and ever will be consistent with the purposes of creation—was given into the estate of man. [Atlantis?]

      The entity was among those first who through those channels came into consciousness, awareness of the relationships of the material man to the Creative Forces; that came into material activity during the early portions of man’s