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If the geneology in Genesis 5 is literal then Methuselah was alive at the time of the Deluge. The readings show the lifespan in those days was indeed incredible.

The days upon the earth then were counted in the tens, the fifties, and the hundreds, besides the days or weeks or years in the present. Or, the life existence of the entity, as compared to the present, would be years instead of weeks; or, in that experience to live five to six to seven hundred years was no more than to live to the age of fifty, sixty, or seventy years in the present.

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Cayce described in a Life reading for a prominent brain surgeon and metaphysician an experience as “the eighth from Adam.” This could mean that the surgeon (1851) had been Methuselah. As a descendant of Adam, he, too, was concerned with the study, interpretation, and preservation of the records made by the children of the Law of One in Atlantis and preserved by Enoch.

Again we find the entity, before that, was in the Egyptian land during the very early periods.

For the entity was the eighth from Adam, and in the days of the exodus and the periods of understanding through those activities; journeying more from what is now the Chaldean than the Egyptian land, though spending many of the periods in the activities through which the records were set as for things that were, that were to be—these become a part of the study of the entity throughout those periods.

Hence oft the entity may lose self in those things that are found there. For, as that was the interpreting of the earth as it was, as it is, as it is to be, so came those activities to preserve same for the seeker to know his relationships to the past, the present, and the future, when counted from the material standpoint.

And as the entity sought in those experiences to make time and space, as well as patience, the realms that express the universality of the Force called God, so may this become in the present experience that in which the entity may excel—in giving assurance to those who seek their closer understanding of the relationships one to another.

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The Bible says God repented he made man. (Genesis 6:6) Edgar Cayce interpreted this to mean a change in heart and a new plan for man’s salvation. The following comments are taken from the Bible class record:

“To repent means to change the mind because of regret or dissatisfaction. God decided to give man a new opportunity, or a new method, for saving himself. Because man was so wicked, God cut his life span to 120 years. The only hope for man to extricate himself from the flesh was to die at a younger age, and get a new start by being reborn. This was God’s way of making man aware of a new opportunity. How terrible it would be today if we kept living for thousands of years!”

This reading compares man’s lifespan then and now:

What was the length of life then? Nearly a thousand years. What is your life today? May it not be just as He had given, just as He had indicated to those peoples, just as He did to the lawgiver, just as He did to David—first from a thousand years to a hundred and twenty, then to eighty? Why? Why? The sin of man is his desire for self-gratification.

What nations of the earth today vibrate to those things that they have and are creating in their own land their own environment? Look to the nations where the span of life has been extended from sixty to eighty-four years. You will judge who is serving God. These are judgments. These are the signs to those who seek to know, who will study the heavens, who will analyze the elements, who will know the heart of man, they that seek to know the will of the Father for themselves answer, “Lord, here am I, use me, send me where I am needed.”

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