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THE ANCIENT WORLD

When Cayce was asked to describe the earth’s surface in these very ancient times, he replied that this would be difficult for us to comprehend given our present conditions, but he then attempted to give some concept of what it was like so very long ago.

He began by explaining that the axis poles of the earth were more in the tropical and semitropical regions. Imagine the present cold polar regions of the planet tilted more toward the sun. The Carpathian Mountains (today on the western side of the Black Sea) and the Caucasus Mountains (today on the eastern side of the Black Sea, just north of ancient Eden and the two great rivers of the Euphrates and the Tigris) were then warm, semitropical regions. He said that the now cold Ural Mountains in modern-day Russia and the northern regions of Asia were turned into a tropical land. He said that the desert in the Mongolian land was then a fertile region, populated with migrants from once great Mu and Lemuria in the Pacific.

Surprisingly, he said that the Nile River entered into the Atlantic Ocean! And what is now the Sahara Desert was a very fertile and inhabited land. Historical climatology supports this view, explaining how the ancient “Nubia Swell” was blocking the Nile from running to the Mediterranean, forcing it through the Sahara and westward to the ocean. Satellite imagery shows the vestige of a river running across northern Africa to the ocean that may have been this ancient Nile.

In what is America today, Cayce said that “the central portion of this country, or the Mississippi basin, was then all in the ocean; only the plateau was existent, or the regions that are now portions of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona formed the greater part of what we know as the United States.” He explained, “The Atlantic seaboard formed the outer portion then, or the lowlands of Atlantis.” He said that the Yucatan Peninsula, where Atlantean Iltar first settled with stone records (more on this later), was a temperate zone. He stated that the Andes Mountains and the Pacific coast of South America occupied then a portion of Lemuria. He described how the “oceans were then turned about; they no longer bear their names.”

After the prehistoric lands had vanished and the planet had been almost totally cleansed of the First Creation beings and the mayhem they caused, there was a long period, nearly ten thousand years, of very low population on the planet. The remnant groups from the First Creation were scattered across the planet, mostly in the mountains, because of the floodwaters. Lava flows and fissures remained active for some time after the disaster. Then, to repopulate the planet and start anew, a shift in the axis poles of the planet occurred, moving them from the tropical region to nearly where they are today.

This shift caused many changes. Cayce said that when the axis shifted, many of the surviving people migrated southward, coming out of the mountains. He particularly mentioned that the white and yellow races came “more into that portion of Egypt, India, Persia, and Arabia.” The white race came out of the Carpathian and Caucasus Mountains (this would have included the Ararat Tribe from Mount Ararat, just south of the Caucasus). And the yellow race came out of the Himalayan of Tibet and the Altai Mountains of present-day Mongolia. The black race in the mountains and highlands of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Nubia came down into Egypt. And Cayce added that Atlantean remnants of the red race which had been living in the Pyrenees Mountains (between Spain and France today) came to Egypt.

In Cayce’s ancient tales, the five races were a primordial decision by the entire soul group of all God’s children who were descending into matter and were making the long, long journey through the cycles of birth, death, and rebirth in this world. It was determined that a kind of division of labor would help shorten the journey; so the total group was separated into subgroups, each dealing directly with one of the five senses of the human body. Each subgroup was to subdue the possessive nature of their dominant sense; so when all were reunited again, everyone would gain by the successes of each group. Cayce directed us to, “Let these [races] represent the attributes of the physical, or the senses and what forms they take, rather than calling them white, black, yellow, red and green, etc. What do they signify in the sensing?” Then he gave this: Sight or vision is the white. Feeling or touch is the red. Taste is the black. Yellow is the “mingling in the hearing.” And brown would be the sense of smell or the olfactory sense.

We must keep in mind that, according to Cayce’s past-life readings, individual souls may move among the five projected subgroups on the planet—a single soul may experience more than one racial incarnation. Some in Cayce’s files experienced only one race in all their incarnations; some experienced several races. But the mission of each subgroup would not change: mastering of that group’s dominant sense. The racial subgroups projected simultaneously in five specific locations where every location developed an original “Eve” that produced the ideal physical body for each of the five racial forms. (Actually, each race had many ideal “Eves,” because repopulating the planet was a major mission then and they needed many mothers.) The projections were, according to Cayce, the brown in the Andes and the present western shore of South America (this was a portion of Lemuria); the black in Nubia, and thereabouts; the white in the Carpathian and Caucasus Mountains; the yellow in the Gobi (not a desert back then, and these were also remnants of another portion of Lemuria); and the red race in Atlantis and the eastern Americas. These were their original locations, but eventually many migrated to other regions.

These racial subgroups of the children of God should not be confused with Cayce’s “root races.” His root-races idea dealt with the overall human-body prototypes, or various stages of developing a perfect body for the children of God to use while incarnate. There is no discernible genetic difference among the five races: “DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another.” –Human Genome Project, 2004.

Cayce’s root races are specifically about various body types used by human souls across the planet and through the ages. Cayce actually predicted that a new root-race body type is evolving and will manifest itself as we move into the next era or new age. This new body will have twelve chakras instead of the seven we currently have. It will be lighter, less dense, and more luminescent or radiant. There will also be radiance around all of us, an aura. These will become more prominent as the new body type becomes the norm.

We need to also keep in mind that Cayce stated that the early body types used by incoming souls were not as physical as our bodies today. He predicted that we will regain some of these characteristics and qualities as we evolve into the next root-race body type.

The Changing Population of Egypt

The population of Egypt today is not composed of the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. The Egypt that Cayce was speaking of is long gone and has been for millennia. Many peoples have invaded and occupied Egypt since those very ancient times of Cayce’s tales. Here are some highlights: the Arabs invaded in AD 642 and continue to be the primary population in Egypt today; the Romans invaded in 47 BC but never really became part of the population; the Greeks invaded in 332 BC and did become a significant portion of the population, adopting many Egyptian traditions and religious practices; the Nubian conquest of Egypt occurred in 1000 BC, which may have been the reason that Greek historians reported Egyptians to be “very black” with “woolly hair”; the Hittites invaded in 1590 BC, introducing horses and lightweight, fast chariots to the culture (we often think that the chariots in Egyptian depictions were an Egyptian invention, not so), and the Hyksos invaded in 1750 BC. Cayce’s tales are about an Egyptian population dating back to 11,000 BC! The present people of Egypt are not the ancient Egyptians. However, the souls of the ancient Egyptians have been and are continuing to reincarnate and may be among any of the populations of today.

The Second Creation Period

Because water is so essential to sustaining life on this planet, the first agricultural centers of the Second Creation were founded in the regions of the four great rivers on this planet: the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (Mesopotamia), the Indus and Ganges Rivers (India), the Huang He (the Yellow River in China), and the Nile (Egypt). The Amazon is not included because no great civilization developed along it—simply too harsh an environment and the rainforest created marshy soil. Using Cayce’s timeline, the period roughly from 22,000 to 12,000 BC was the quiet aftermath of the catastrophic ending of the First Creation. The period beginning in 12,000 to 11,000 BC was the beginning of the Second Creation and the world as we know it today.

The Nile

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote, “Egypt was the gift of the Nile.” Three tributaries created this amazing river. The first is the White Nile, a long gentle river flowing from Lake Victoria—a high mountain lake bordered by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. This tributary joins with the shorter but more voluminous and nutrient-richer Blue Nile, springing from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. And in ancient times, a third tributary joined these two, the Yellow Nile flowing from the eastern highlands of Chad. The Yellow Nile is now dry but was once a part of this trinity of rivers creating the ancient Nile.

Each year during the rainy season, the ancient Nile River would overflow its banks and inundate Egypt; as it retreated, it left behind nutrient-rich black silt that made Egypt one of the most fertile lands in recorded history. Today, two dams now control the Nile—there is no flooding and no rich silt fertilizer.

Around this river of life-giving water grew one of the greatest cultures on the planet. The ancient Egyptians called the river Iteru, meaning “Great River”; the modern name comes from the Greek Neilos (Nilus in Latin), transliterated to Nile.

The Edfu Text, found in the Horus Temple in Edfu, and the Papyrus of Hunefer tell the story of a “hill people” who became the first settlers in this region. “We came from the beginning of the Nile where god Hapi dwells at the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon.” The Mountains of the Moon are likely those that contain Lake Tana in ancient Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia), the origin of the Blue Nile. This name may be traced back to a Greek ruler of late Egypt, Ptolemy, and the use of the name “Mountains of Selene,” the moon goddess of the Greeks.

Cayce’s readings confirm the idea that hill people first came down out of the mountains along the Nile into the lower lands of Egypt today from ancient Abyssinia (Ethiopia). He also tells of the ancient lands of Nubia and their role in early Egypt. Nubia means “Land of Gold,” and much of the gold in Egypt came from the Nubian mountains. Much of Nubia today is under Lake Nasser, a result of the high dam, but portions remain in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Upper Egypt is the mountain areas from Kom Ombo to Sudan. Lower Egypt is the delta region opening to the Mediterranean Sea.