Edgar Cayce on the Reincarnation of Biblical People. Kevin J. Todeschi

past lives, Cayce stated that [1815]’s love for music was due, in part, to a time during the Crusades when he was associated with those in command and often led the troops in the song of battle, inspiring them to work together for victory. That ability in the present would enable him to bring large groups of people together. Previously, at the time of the birth of Jesus, the boy had been one of the shepherds upon the hillsides of Bethlehem who had been stunned to hear the angels sing, “Glory to God in the highest—peace on earth and good will to all.” During that same incarnation he had developed his musical abilities, specifically on the harp and reed instruments. Innately, [1815] possessed the ability to use music to move people into a closer relationship with their Creator. The boy’s life as Abner had brought growth as well as retrogression:

      Before that we find the entity was among those who were close to the king who was proclaimed after Saul—or a friend of, a companion of David; and raised to one in power—yet the experience became both an advancement as well as a retardment.

      For the entity allowed self, and the power of self, to become as the greater influence.

      The name then was Abner.

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      Cayce stated that the boy’s love for music was also traceable to a prior incarnation in Egypt when he had directed song and dance in the various temples.

      During the course of the reading, the boy’s mother was told that her son had a natural inclination for leadership and possessed the ability to sway great numbers of people. Wherever his life took him, he would not remain in the background but would be in the forefront. He was a natural leader and politician. The reading also stated that he was very susceptible to the opposite sex, could excel in a musical career or politics, and was extremely intuitive. Because his incarnations gave quite a variety of possible outlets in the present, Cayce stated that [1815] would be drawn to both material things and music, but that music could give him the greatest outlet for his talents.

      After the reading, his mother wrote several times to thank Cayce for the information. The boy also wrote an article about his personal philosophy that was printed by the Association a short time later. It was in 1979, however, that Mr. [1815], who had become a nationally known stock market analyst (sometimes labeled a “soothsayer” for his accuracy), submitted a complete follow-up report:

      I always knew who I was and where I was going from the very earliest age. Richly endowed by parents of opposite backgrounds, I got my great physical strength from my father and my artistic temperament from my mother. My father had little education, came from poverty and had to work very hard from an early age for everything he got. He gave me my drive, ambition, and the credo to always keep going and never give up. My mother gave me my great love of life, its total freedom, my deep love for music and books. Some of my earliest memories consisted of the two of us sitting out under the stars at night, my asking her at the age of four as to people living on other planets. She taught me to play piano when I was three. We had a very extensive library and I always had my nose in a book. As for the piano, I had a great talent for improvisation. It has never left me. That talent was extended to describe everything I do. I have always been the maverick, the iconoclast, the breaker of accepted images. Everything I touched led to new contributions of thought, new theories—always the pioneer.

      In 1941, at the age of seventeen, [1815] published his first book. While attending Duke University he developed a keen interest in chemistry and economics. Although he married briefly in 1944, before being called to serve in World War II, the marriage was annulled after the war. During the war he also wrote a book on predicting the price of the stock market; the book went through a number of editions and became a big success. He also wrote other volumes on the market and investments and created a self-published newsletter in 1950 because of his knack for predicting market fluctuations. That newsletter would eventually include subscribers throughout the country.

      His talents were in many directions: writing, public speaking, acting, music, mathematics, and statistical analysis. His success with the market and his investment strategies caused him to become so well known that Mike Wallace once interviewed him in an hourlong CBS television special. In a copy of his market letter in 1980, [1815] wrote about his early experience with Edgar Cayce and stated: “Everything in that life reading has been dramatically fulfilled.”

Achlar

       Matthew 2Case 1908

      According to the New Testament, Wise Men journeyed from the East following a star which they believed heralded the birth of the Christ child. King Herod had heard of them and summoned them to his court, requesting that once the child was discovered they tell him where the infant might be found. The Wise Men continued their journey to Bethlehem, found the babe, and offered gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Afterward, they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod; therefore, they traveled back to their country by another route. Although they were not specifically named in the Bible, Edgar Cayce gave two individuals life readings and stated that each had been one of the Wise Men: Achlar and Ashtueil. (See also “Ashtueil.”)

      A forty-nine-year-old science editor was told that his critical mind had become a fault as often as it was a virtue. He was encouraged to formulate and then live in accord with a spiritual ideal, being more loving in his interactions with others. Interested in things of a mystical nature, he was informed that he had been an astrologer, a counselor, and a sage during the time of Jesus:

      In those periods that preceded the advent of the Prince of Peace in the earth, we find the entity was among those of the land that would now be called the Persian—as a wise man, a counselor, a sage, that counseled with those peoples; using the mathematical activities of the ages old, as well as the teachings of the Persians from the days of Zend and Og and Uhjltd, bringing for those peoples a better interpretation of the astrological as well as the natural laws.

      Hence we find the entity was associated oft with those who looked for the day, the hour when that great purpose, that event, was to be in the earth a literal experience.

      Then we find the entity was among those of the fabled as well as real experience, seeking with the Wise Men that came from the East during those periods.

      In the present experience of the entity, then, we find that those oft told tales are accepted deep within because of the conviction and purpose such have produced and do produce in the hearts and the minds of individuals.

      We find this entity was the one who brought the incense to the child Jesus—in the name then Achlar. In the experience the entity gained, the entity manifested its love for its fellow man through those periods of activity in the search for the helpful influences, mentally, spiritually, materially; though the entity then lost sight oft of materiality.

      Thus the entity, in its application of and search for scientific purposes and reasons, should lean the more heavily upon the mental and spiritual phases of man’s experience in the present.

      And, as in those days, give the more oft hope where that of dread as to the material things is overshadowing man in his search for God.

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      Mr. [1908] had also had an incarnation in Ireland as a man of great physical prowess and strength. At that time, he had frequently had the opportunity to demonstrate his abilities. He had lived in Atlantis and had been one of those who had looked for safety lands to which the people could migrate, gaining a knowledge of the Yucatan, the Pyrenees, and Egypt. In the present, he was told to keep the same faith that had enabled him to find the child in Bethlehem. He could become of greatest service to humankind through his writing abilities.

      File reports indicate that Mr. [1908] remained firmly committed to the Cayce work until his death in August 1953.

Achsah

       Joshua 15:16-19; Judges 1:12-15; I Chronicles 2:49 Case 1294

      Caleb was a scout to Moses and one of only two individuals from the original tribe allowed to enter the Promised Land. Caleb