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This is an excerpt from the Philosophy chapter of There Is a River, the biography of Edgar Cayce by Thomas Sugrue, orginally published in 1943. The system of metaphysical thought which emerges from the readings of Edgar Cayce is a Christianized version of the mystery religions of ancient Egypt, Chaldea, Persia, India, and Greece. It fits the figure of Christ into the tradition of one God for all people, and places Him in His proper place, at the apex of the philosophical structure; He is the capstone of the pyramid. The complex symbology employed by the mystery religions has survived fragmentarily in Christianity, notably in church architecture and in the sacrifice of the Mass, with its sacramental cup. But the continuity of the tradition of the one God has been lost. Paganism is condemned alike by religious authorities, archaeologists, and historians as an idolatrous fancy devoted to the worship of false gods. Such was not the understanding of early Christians. Certainly the Essenes, who prepared Mary, selected Joseph, and taught Jesus, were initiates of the mysteries. Jesus said He came to fulfill the law, and part of that law was the cabala, the secret doctrine of the Jews—their version of the mysteries. Such converts to Jesus’ teachings as Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were undoubtedly learned in the cabala. So, no doubt, was Paul. The mysteries were concerned with man’s problem of freeing his soul from the world. In the mystery symbologies the earth was always represented as the underworld, and the soul was lost in this underworld until freed from it by wisdom, faith, and understanding. Persephone, for instance, was abducted by Pluto, Lord of Hades. Persephone is the soul of man, whose true home is in the heavens. The mystery religions were, then, a preparation for the coming of Jesus. He was the fruit of their efforts, and His message was a fuller.
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When my generation, born in the latter 1940s, somehow blew our minds by the 1960s and challenged some of our parents' ideas about civil rights, war, religion, education, and even medicine, the books and astonishing insights of somebody named Edgar Cayce were just another among many new possibilities for us to discover. The bookstores and the streets were exploding with marches and ideas, music, art, cosmic consciousness for peace and love. It was a wonderful and heady and terrible time of assassinations in this country, and Vietnam, nuclear weapons, ecocide, genocide, and all the great things about Feminism, Hinduism, Revolution. I picked up a few cheap bestselling paperbacks along the way by Cayce about Atlantis, reincarnation, extraterrestrial realities of all sorts. They were fascinating little books but I didn't really understand who he was or where all this information was coming from, and therefore whether it was really true and accurate and could be trusted. There were always people around who said they understood it a lot better than me, but then they were into Communes too, and esoterica like EST and Maharishi Yogi and gurus whom I only heard about briefly in many glancing peripheries in-between my own studies of theatre, Sitting Bull, and Carlos Castaneda and classical literature. Edgar Cayce was just one more of the amazing people and things in our world like Easter Island and psychic phenomena and flying saucers. So it was only about a week ago I found ' There Is A River by Thomas Sugrue in our local used bookstore in Flagstaff, for .50. I had actually been looking for some UFO books I had read years ago by Zechariah Sitchin and Immanuel Velikovsky and Erich von Danniken, but instead there was a whole shelf or two by my old old friend Cayce, about everything under the Sun and the Moon. He was obviously a lot more popular than the handful of studies.