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Group 1:

Early Atlantis

Early Ancient Egypt

Persia (during the time of Croesus, king of Lydia)

Palestine (during the time of Jesus)

The Crusades Colonial America

Group 2:

Late Atlantis

Late Ancient Egypt

Early Greece

Rome (during the time of Jesus)

France (during the time of Louis XIV, XV, XVI)

The American Civil War

Of course, these are only the most significant incarnations for these souls; they likely had more incarnations than the lists indicate. There were also other incarnation sequences given, but the majority of the readings were for souls who typically cycled with one of these two major groups. We should also take a look at some significant exceptions to this pattern. Some souls did not always incarnate with their group, choosing instead to skip a cycle or enter with another group, though they usually rejoined their primary group eventually. Others, though cycling into the earth plane with their group, did not actually incarnate; they did not enter into a body; they rather stayed in the spirit and helped from a higher vantage point those who were incarnated. One example of this comes from an Edgar Cayce reading for a woman who wanted to know why she hadn’t been given an incarnation during the Palestine era in which her present son and husband had incarnated. She was told that she was indeed involved in those activities but not in a physical body (incarnate). She was, as some of us would term it today, a “guardian angel” for her present son while he lived and worked in that period. And if she hadn’t done this, he would have fallen off the good path several times!

A group of souls may find themselves together again and yet not one of them desired it to be so. In these cases, it is often the forces of the Universal Law of Karma that compels them to come together. For better or for worse they now have to meet the effects of past actions with each other. The intention is that the confrontation will lead to a resolution of their karma or at least to a recognition of how past actions with each other have caused the present predicament, and hopefully then they will use their free wills to dissolve the karmic influence.

Both in individual and group relationships, the karmic effects of past actions with others can create some very difficult, even terrible situations. The meeting can result in murder, rape, torture, and other atrocities. Even in lesser cases karmic reactions can result in backbiting, backstabbing, bickering, contention, fighting, and turmoil. Imagine what might happen if the universal forces of cause and effect brought together the souls of the gladiators of the Roman Colosseum and the souls they had fed to the lions, or the Conquistadors and the Aztecs, or the Nazis and the Jews.

The same cause-and-effect forces play a part in individual lives too. Imagine if the law of karma brought together the murderer and victim killed in a family quarrel. What about a soul who betrayed another’s trust or love? What would be the reaction toward one another in this present life? Imagine the dynamics of working with someone who once tortured you or your loved ones. Imagine if you had tortured him or her and her loved ones. Imagine if you were publicly humiliated and burned at the stake. What would be your emotions upon meeting those people today? When lives are heavily burdened by the negative effects of their past actions, their present experience is often horrid, even tragic, and occasionally their lives may appear to be wasted senselessly. However, from the soul’s perspective a single incarnation is a learning experience and an opportunity to resolve past actions that are holding the soul back from its growth and ultimate destiny. One physical life is not the ultimate living experience for an immortal soul. It is an opportunity to resolve the burdens that past actions have upon us. It is an opportunity to clear away the many ideas that continue to confuse and mislead us. It’s an opportunity to break habit patterns that possess us and limit our ability to grow. Even though the eighty to a hundred years that comprise the average lifetime seems so very singular and final to the outer portion of our being, it is only a temporary sojourn, a brief experience along an infinite path of soul-life.

Of course, all the good that has been experienced among the various souls and soul groups has just as strong an effect on present situations as does the bad. And when we focus on this “good karma,” we often find better ways to resolve the negative.

This book looks at one distinct soul group that we call today the Essenes. It deals with how they began to bond together long before the incarnation of their group and how they are continuing to affect thoughts and actions today.