Читать книгу Edgar Cayce's Story of the Bible - Robert W. Krajenke - Страница 59

The following extract is from a Life reading in which a thirteen-year-old child was told that following an incarnation with Lamech (Genesis 4:19) he had been Reuben, the first-born child of Jacob and Leah.

Before that we find the entity was among the first–born of Jacob and Leah, and making for the expressions that in the beginning brought much that was in accord with the callings into an activity where these might have brought the blessings upon the activities in the sojourn. Yet when the desires of the flesh entered, and the associations with those things and about those peoples that had been as an expression of intolerance to those peoples, the entity made for the associations that brought disorder, discontent within those of its own household and those of its people in that experience and that expression.

These made for again those activities that have brought in the present the necessity of the awareness of the spiritual awakening within—the expression and experience of the entity.

693-3

As a youth, Reuben was a promising child. As he grew older, influences around him began to stimulate and awaken desires and emotions that were a portion of his former incarnation (from the time of Lamech). In Genesis 35:22, it is written he had sexual relationships with Bilhah, his father’s concubine.

The deep affront that Jacob felt this to be is evidenced in Genesis 49, when the dying Jacob delivered his final words to his twelve sons. He cursed Reuben for defiling his bed, and prophesied he would never have pre–eminence. Reuben was “unstable as water.”

Edgar Cayce’s Life reading for 693 shows how prophetic Jacob’s words were. The record shows a pattern of deteriorating expressions throughout his incarnations. In the present life the child bore the heavy karmic burden of a severe form of epilepsy with multiple seizures, partial paralysis, and, in a broken home, was the bed–ridden dependent of a mother who did not want him.