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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. (Genesis 2:10)

In verse 10 we again return to a water symbol—the river with four heads. Rivers in the natural world have one head and part into tributaries. Thus, this river is unlike any in the earth, and must be symbolic of a spiritual influence entering the earth. This river is the same as the “powerful spring” of verse 6.

Adam was a god-man, the first to enter the earth at one with, or through, the Light. He entered as a living soul, manifesting the spiritual image in Genesis 1.

The readings declare that Adam (the soul who later became Jesus) did not enter alone. Many of the Sons of God who “shouted for joy” when the morning stars sang together came with him. 144,000 is the symbolic number—which may even be literal as well—of those who participated in this movement.

This influx is what is really meant and symbolized by the four-headed river.

When the earth brought forth the seed in her season, and man came in the earth plane as the lord of that in that sphere, man appeared in five places then at once—the five senses, the five reasons, the five spheres, the five developments, the five nations.

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Man, in Adam (as a group; not as an individual), entered into the world (for he entered in five places at once, we see—called Adam in one, see?) . . .

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The following again calls to mind the existence of the “dark side” of creation and speaks of the decision made by the soul we know as Jesus, who became the Christ.

Then, as the sons of God came together and saw in the earth the unspeakable conditions becoming more and more for the self-indulgence, self-glorification, the ability to procreate through the very forces of their activity, we find that our Lord, our Brother chose to measure up, to earn, to attain that companionship for man with the Father through the overcoming of self in the physical plane.

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(Q) What is the explanation of “The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world?” (Revelation 13:8)

(A). . . As the Master gave, ‘Before Abraham was, I AM—before the worlds were I AM.” Hence, when there came the necessity in the realm of the spiritual home for the coming of the Lamb into the earth for its redemption, the Truth, the Light, the Offering was made. Hence the expression as given . . . Then, when we comprehend we realize there is no time, no space, and that the divinity of the man Jesus was perfect in his own activity in the earth. For, it was offered even from the first.

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Adam, who later became Jesus, manifested in the Atlantean environment. The other points of entry are listed in the following.

(Q) Was Atlantis one of the five points at which man appeared in the beginning, being the home of the red race?

(A) One of the five points. As has been given, in what is known as Gobi, India, Carpathia, or in that known as the Andes, and [what is] known as in the western plain of what is now called America—the five places.

In their presentation, as we find, these—in the five places, as man. (Let’s get the difference in that as first appeared [as thought-forms] in what is known as Atlantis, and that as man appearing from those projections in the five places—and, as has been given, from their environ took on that as became necessary for the meeting of those varying conditions under which their individualities and personalities began to put on form)—one in the white, another in the brown, another in the black, another in the red.

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This simultaneous projection is the explanation offered by Cayce as to why similar Creation myths and legends of the Fall are found in all parts of the world—it was all happening at the same time!

(Q) The center or beginning of these projections was in Atlantis?

(A) Was in Atlantis. Hence we have, as from the second incarnation there—or the story as is given in Judaism doesn’t vary a great deal from that of the Chaldean; neither does it vary at all from that [which] will be discovered in Yucatan; nor does it vary a great deal from that as from the older ones of the Indian (East Indian, of course—as it is from the present).

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A later reading in this 364 series asked this pointed question.

(Q) Why was the number five selected for the projection of the five races?

(A) This, as we find, is that element which represents man in his physical form, and the attributes to which he may become conscious from the elemental or spiritual to the physical consciousness. As the senses; as the sensing of the various forces that bring to man the activities in the sphere in which he finds himself.

(Q) Did the appearance of what became the five races occur simultaneously?

(A) Occurred at once.

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The course of the five rivers is outlined and the lands they water are described. This description is included, not to pinpoint a definite location, but to make it all–inclusive. The Spirit was moving as one big stream of consciousness, manifesting in every possible way as part of man’s new abode.

The river Pishon circled the land of Havilah, “where there is gold.” (Genesis 2:11) Gold is one of the basic forces within man that produces or allows consciousness. Gold is the connecting link between mind and body. The presence of gold helps make this symbolic picture all-inclusive.

There are elements in the earth from which, to which, every atom of the body responds. Here we find that silver and gold are those necessary elements that are needed in body when mind has been attuned to Creative Forces for helpful influences.

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The following is a description given by Cayce of the earth’s surface at the time of the five projections.

In the first, or that known as the beginning, or in the Caucasian and Carpathian, or the Garden of Eden, in that land which lies now much in the desert, yet much in mountain and much in the rolling lands there. The extreme northern portions were then the southern portions, or the polar regions were then turned to where they occupied more of the tropical and semi-tropical regions; hence it would be hard to discern or disseminate the change. The Nile entered into the Atlantic Ocean. What is now the Sahara was an inhabited land and very fertile. What is now 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. That along the Atlantic board formed the outer portion then, or the lowlands of Atlantis. The Andean, or the Pacific coast of South America, occupied then the extreme western portion of Lemuria. The Urals and the northern regions of same were turned into a tropical land. The desert in the Mongolian land was then the fertile portion . . . The oceans were then turned about; they no longer bear their names, yet from whence obtained they their names? What is the legend, even as to their names?

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From a Life reading, we find another indication of this projection.

. . . we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, the Indian land, the lands from which most of those came for one of the branches of the first appearances of the Adamic influence that came as five at once into the expressions in the earth, or the expression in that now known as the Gobi land.

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There were also other centers that were developing. For in the projections they began as many, and in creating influences they began as five—or in those centers where crystallization or projection had taken on such form as to become what was called man.

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The soul whom we know as Adam, and later as Jesus, we know by other names through his subsequent incarnations in the earth. His Old Testament lives include those as Melchizedek, Enoch, Joseph, Joshua, and Jeshua. The readings state before this soul had an earthly name, his name as a soul, or celestial being, was Amilius.

These [the Sons of God] were all together [in spirit] in Amilius. They were material bodies as came in Adam.

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And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every Tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:15-17)

In the 9th verse, the existence of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was acknowledged; in the 17th verse, as the Sons of God enter into the earth, they are told definitely what their relationship to this “Tree” should be.

Failure to heed the warning will result in the same loss of understanding and awareness as the spiritual darkness which preceded the creation of the earth.

For that purpose came He into the earth . . . that there might be completed that as He had given, “In the day ye eat thereof, ye shall surely die.” In the day thou sinnest, ye have destroyed, then, that something in thine consciousness that must be paid, that must be met in thyself.

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And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field; and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. (Genesis 2:19)

According to a Cayce reading, this verse contains a hidden meaning.

Hence, it is given in thy writings of Scripture (although in a hidden manner, ye may observe if ye will look) how Adam named those that were brought before him in creation. Their name indicates to the carnal mind their relationships in the sex condition or question.

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The desire for companionship is innate in God, and was the first cause for the creation of souls. Souls, created in the Image of God, carried the same desire.

The story, the tale (if chosen to be called such) is one and the same. The apple, as “the apple of the eye,” the desire of that companionship innate in that created, as innate in the Creator, that brought companionship into creation itself. Get that one!

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With the evolution of the animal kingdom, souls began using various phases of animal life as the negative force for their projections. At first this had occurred spiritually, through the creation of thought-forms. Eventually, as these thoughts became more crystallized and hardened through the living power which had been projected into them, they became living creatures and began to populate the earth—a mixture of thought-forms and animal life. Great monstrosities evolved, and many other sordid and unnatural creatures which were eventually eliminated at the time of the Flood.

It is interesting to note that verse 19 of the King James translation, when the animals are brought before him, is the first reference to Adam by name. Until then he is referred to solely as “the man.” The Lamsa translation refers to Adam throughout. The Catholic New American Bible uses “the man” exclusively.

Liberal theologians claim Genesis is a symbolic account of the evolutionary events in the history of mankind, created from speculations of early man once consciousness had evolved. “The man,” or “Adam,” is the personification of the entire human family. Some say Moses was aware of other forms of human life, but that he represented the highest order, the most advanced, and his account is not about mankind in general, but only of his race, or superior order. The Humanist scholars assert man evolved from the lower forms of life, and was not “created.”

The Fundamentalists assert literally man was a spontaneous creation of God, and did not evolve. They also claim that man is literally descended from two original parents, Adam and Eve.

According to the Cayce readings, a great deal of Truth is found in both positions, but neither one has “all the truth.” There is evolution, and man’s physical frame was modeled after the highest of the primates—the great ape. The ape was used as a pattern. But the soul, with its consciousness and creativity, improved even upon that form. Thus man appeared. There was a set of first parents, a literal Adam and Eve. But they are also symbolic of all the “first parents” in all the five lines of the Adamic race, and were the highest order of the many varied forms of soul-life that were manifesting.

Adam’s search for a helper, or “helpmeet,” suggests a larger pattern. The Life readings show that many Sons of God came in with Amilius (or Adam) as helpers.

One woman asked in her reading:

(Q) In Atlantis, was I associated with Amilius? If so, how?

(A) One as projected by that entity as to a ruler or guide for many, with its associating entity.

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Many of the “trapped” souls had hooves, scales, fins, etc., as portions of their material bodies. One of Cayce’s Bible class students was told in her reading:

This entity was the companion of that beginning of activity in the Atlantean land. Thus, not as a mother of creation . . . but as an advisor to those who would change in their form of activities; or the attempts as later expressed in the entity of being rid of the appendages of materiality.

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This was the beginning of the effort to get souls to disengage from animal associations.

The land was among those in which there was the first appearance of those that were as separate entities or souls disentangling themselves from material or that we know as animal associations. For the projections of these had come from those influences that were termed Lemure, or Lemurian, or the land of Mu.

These then we find as the period when there was the choice of that soul that became in its final earthly experience the Savior, the Son in the earth dwellings, or of those as man sees or comprehends as the children of men.

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Perhaps in verse 19, when the King James changes the general term “the man” to the specific “Adam,” we have a switch in focus from the collective and representational race experience to the specific, singular, and unique experience of Adam, the soul who later became Jesus. Amilius (or Adam) was the leader of this whole movement and it was through his choice that the sex issue or question was settled.

The question before Adam was how he could produce or propagate one of his own kind, or species, in the earth.

Instead of turning to the animal kingdom, Adam drew upon the spiritual resources within himself for the propagation of his “helpmeet.”

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept; and he took one of his ribs . . . and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought he, unto the man. (Genesis 2:21)

The “deep sleep” indicates a state of meditation.

These are, as seen, the records made by the man on the mount [Moses], that this Amilius—Adam, as given—first discerned that from himself, not of the beasts about him, could be drawn—was drawn—that which made for the propagation of beings in the flesh, that made for that companionship as seen by creation in the material worlds about same.

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Adam, we remember, was “a living soul.” He was not encased in the dense, flesh frame of man today.

Yea, but the individual of that period was not so closely knit in matter.

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As a body of “light” or energy, he was able to control its shape by the nature of his thought.

As to their forms in the physical sense, these were rather of the nature of thought-forms, or able to push out of themselves in that direction in which [their] development took shape.”

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All souls were created in the beginning as both male and female; or, more accurately, neither male nor female as we understand the terms today. The soul itself has no sex, but has both positive and negative energies. As it comes into materiality, it takes on either the positive or negative pattern, according to its development and the purpose to be accomplished.

The time came when Adam (as a race) had to be divided into positive and negative forces. This division was necessary in order for the Adamic race to propagate perfect physical bodies through which the entrapped or “lost” souls could manifest and gradually find their way back to the Source. This form of reproduction had to be accomplished through kindred beings—souls—and not the animal kingdom.

Thus, when the deep sleep fell on Adam (the individual), he took on the active, positive, male force.

“. . . He breathed into him the breath of Life and he became a living soul.” As the sleep fell upon him, and the soul separated—through the taking of man’s portion—and He becoming a portion of man.

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. . . then—from out of the self—was brought that as was to be the helpmeet, not just [the] companion of the body.

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Eve was created to complete and complement Adam’s positive or male expression.

How received woman her awareness? Through the sleep of the man! Hence intuition is an attribute of that made aware through the suppression of those forces from that from which it sprang, yet endowed with all of those abilities and forces of its Maker.

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This does not mean Adam split or divided his soul, nor that Eve was an inferior creation. Both were complete entities, entire souls, and, as the above indicates, were “endowed with all those abilities and forces of [their] Maker.”

Adam was able to project out of his own body the negative substance through which another soul, by suppressing its positive, could manifest.

Perhaps the closest analogy we have to the creation of Eve from the body of Adam is in the claim made by spiritualist mediums who are able to produce disincarnate spirits at their séances. This materialization is done, the medium states, from an ectoplasmic substance which he is able to project from his body while in a meditative state. The discarnate moves into the ectoplasmic field and molds it according to his own features, to be recognizable to those at the seance.

The creation of the body of Eve, drawn from self and not the animal kingdom, was a spiritual procreation, an immaculate form of conception. The indication is that the descendants of Adam were practicing this manner of propagation up to the time of Noah and the Flood. After Noah, the knowledge was generally lost, but restored (or brought to mind again) through the Virgin Birth.

Were this turned to that period when this desire, then becomes consecrated . . . again in the virgin body of the mother of the Son of man, we see . . . that even that of the flesh may be—with the proper concept, [the] proper desire in all its purity—consecrated to the living forces as manifest by the ability in that body so brought into being, as to make a way of escape for the erring man.

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Uniting the opposing forces, the positive and negative, male and female, and bringing them into a creative balance and stabilizing our relationships with our “opposites,” becomes the way of returning and reuniting with the Oneness of Spirit.

(Q) Is the destiny of woman’s body to return to the rib of man, out of which it was created? If so, how; and what is “the rib”?

(A) With this ye touch upon delicate subjects, upon which much might be said respecting the necessity of that union of influences or forces that are divided in the earth in sex, in which all must become what? As He gave in answer to the question, “Whose wife will she be?”

In the heavenly kingdom ye are neither married nor given in marriage; neither is there any such thing as sex; ye become as one—in the union of that from which, of which, ye have been the portion from the beginning.

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²Lamsa translation.

³Unlike archeologists and other scholars who look for a physical race identified through blood lines, bone structure, and other physical features, the Adamic race which Cayce describes is one of Spirit whose members are identified by a common mode of thought and action.

. . . who is Israel? . . . Israel is the seeker after Truth. Who may this be? Those who put and hold trust in the fact that they, as individuals, are children of the universal consciousness or God!

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. . . the greater meaning of the word—Israel those called of God for a service before the fellowman.

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For those who seek are indeed Israel, and Israel indeed is all who seek; meaning not those as of the children of Abraham alone, but of every nation, every tribe, every tongue—Israel of the Lord! That is the full meaning of Israel.

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