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have heard so oft!’ Yes, but what have you done about it?

      “You must realize, then, that God is—and your body is the temple of your God! Do you meet Him there? The kingdom of heaven is within. Do you worship there? Not thyself, but your God? Have you made your god fame, fortune, or just to be well spoken of? That alone then may you attain! For when troubles, distresses, heartaches and disappointments come, to whom may you turn? Not to thyself! For this has been expended in the gratifying of your desires—if you have made those things that are temporal your god!

      “Only when love, patience, perseverance, longsuffering, and brotherly love are shown may you indeed know upon Whom to rely. For of such is the law of creation, of hope, of faith, of patience. And in patience you possess the knowledge of your soul.” (254-101)

      This last line is a reference to Jesus’ teaching in Luke 21:19, found only in the King James Version of the Bible (KJV): “In your patience possess ye your souls.” All modern Bible translations render this verse: “By your endurance you will gain your lives.” The difference here is how one translates the Greek words. The Greek word hupomone can be translated as “endurance” or “patience,” and the word psuche can be translated as “life” or “lives,” but it is more closely associated with our concept of “soul,” since it is derived from the word psucho, which means “breath,” and breath is associated with the “living being,” that rational, sentient, immortal portion of us—as in Genesis: “The Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7, my italics) There is more detail on the distinction between spirit and soul in a previous chapter. Cayce and the ancient Egyptians have clear distinctions between spirit (ka in Egyptian) and soul (ba in Egyptian). [Note: Egyptians today are the ancestors of Arabs, and therefore speak Arabic. The Arabs conquered Egypt in 642 AD, long, long after ancient Egyptians were gone.]

      Here’s another explanation of “as one thinks, so one is”:

      “It is not indicated that there are to be only sanctimonious activities that bespeak only of a promise or an exchange of good in order that self may be exalted in a material manner; but that the hopes, the purposes, the desires are all to be prompted by right because right brings peace, and harmony, in body and in mind.

      “For, as is experienced in the very physical forces of the body, when turmoils and distresses arise, even of a material nature, physical conditions become awry. But as the man thinks in his heart, so is he—if he will realize that he is not to attempt to have the Divine or God on his side, but rather to be latently, manifestedly, purposefully, on God’s side! There’s a vast difference, if it will be analyzed in things pertaining to the material choices made. (2440-1)

       As You Sow, So Shall You Reap

      This next series of Cayce discourses addresses a fundamental law of attraction, of cause and effect, of karma. And given Cayce’s practice of reading the entire Bible every year, it is not surprising that his teachings on this topic are founded on biblical passages. Here are three:

      “Those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.” (Job 4:8, RSV)

      “The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.” (Proverbs 14:14, KJV)

      “Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” (Galatians 6:7, RSV)

      The following are some of Cayce’s lessons on this:

      “The law is—as from the beginning—that what you sow you shall reap. The seed, the fruit of every act, of every deed—yea, of every thought is within its own self; unseen, save by the spiritual import that is put in same. Hence the spirit, the truth, the ‘vitale’ [an Italian figure of speech implying “life,” as in linfa vitale, meaning “life blood.”] that is expressed within every activity must bring its own reward. Unless it is from the fruit of the spirit, it must eventually bring its own husks, its own redound, its own doubting, its own fears. For these are the laws that are unalterable; changing only with the desires, the will, the import of that as the entity calls upon and puts the trust in. Rather those sources of strength, power, from which the soul and spirit emanate. As the man thinks (physically) within himself, so is he. (470-11)

      Cayce often pointed to the Fruit of the Spirit as powers to transform us from earthly, selfish human nature into our divine nature, as in “To err is human, to forgive divine.” Forgiveness is among the fruits of the Spirit. The Fruit of the Spirit comes from Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. More on this in the chapter on the Fruit of the Spirit.

      Here’s another discourse on reaping what one sows:

      “Know that they that sow must reap that they have sown. For, in their own selves must come the fruit of that they have watered and planted, whether in material, spiritual or mental things. For, true is it indeed that as a man thinks in his heart so do the fruits of his dealings with his fellow man show forth what have been the thoughts of the soul of that man.

      “This is not merely something for an idealist to hold, or one that is in the throes of despair in regard to self or others, but is a living, practical thing in your experience.

      “When you speak kindly and gently to your associates, to your own house, to your own neighbors, do you not find that your heart and soul sings for joy because of that you have made in the experience of those to whom you have spoken even though there arise turmoils in the secular things of life?

      “So is life. So is your soul growing to the fruition of those good things that may come in your experience by the application of such tenets, experiences, and activities in your own life. Be you not weary in well-doing. He that endures unto the end will wear the crown of joy, of life, of a contented soul.” (531-3)

      And again:

      “Well that the entity, or all, know that the law of love, or love as law, is cause and effect; or each impulse has its own corresponding reaction in thought, life, mental, physical and material. Not understood by some! This: “As you sow, so shall you reap.” [Galatians 6:7] Each thought, as things, has its seed, and if planted, or when sown in one or another ground, brings its own fruit; for thoughts are things, and as their currents run must bring their own seed.” (288-29)

      Further:

      “Like begets like. If you would have friends, be friendly. If you would have loving associations, show yourself lovely. And that you sow in mind, in activity, you must reap in your own experience.

      “Know that the Lord lives, and manifests in and through thee. And that born of the spirit in your mental self may find expression in the material life. For Mind, in the mental, IS the Builder; and brings forth fruits worthy of that which is held in the inmost self in its relationships of self to things, to conditions, to peoples. For thoughts are things, and as the currents run they become miracles or crimes in the experiences of individual life.” (1035-1)

      In this next explanation, Cayce takes us back to our origins:

      “As the first law has been given, when manifestation of matter was called into being by the First Cause or God—your seed shall be within itself—or what you sow you reap, or like attracts like. These are oft to the mind but sayings without the consideration of what and how these facts, these truths are the basis of man’s experience not only in material form but in mental and spiritual. Could the entity then imagine a home, whether earthly or spiritual, without a builder or a carpenter? Could the entity imagine a home without its furnishings? These are a part of the whole building. It would be as easy to imagine a tree without roots or without limbs or branches, or without fruit or without the call for the fowls of the air to lodge therein! These are part and parcel, they are the essence—and yet the substance. They are the beginning and the end of—thoughts are things and take form AS they are dwelt upon and are built in the experience of individual souls that seek God.” (1152-4)

      In

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