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Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah. John Van Auken
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Автор произведения John Van Auken
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Издательство Ingram
The unseen forces have three major channels to our outer lives: intuition, dreams, and meditation. The first, intuition, is a knowing which comes from nowhere, yet we sense its rightness. Our dreams bring many impressions and images from within our mind and heart, occasionally from very deep levels within us. Our meditations raise the body’s vibrations and expand the mind to higher levels. Unseen forces may manifest in many ways, some spectacular and some so subtle that we often miss them, but all are vital to our spiritual development.
Here’s an example of how powerful the unseen forces can be. A mother asked Cayce to help her with her eleven-year-old boy. He was suffering from a debilitating pathological and emotional disorder that caused him to wet the bed every night for eleven years straight! This is Cayce’s response:
It is in the practice of peace within self, of love made manifest in self, that you make same manifest in your relationships to others. Not as a goody-goody individual, but as one good for something; bringing peace, joy, gladness, hope. When all about you seems disturbed, when all seems lost, know that He in His love, and in His patience, can turn such conditions into victorious joy, into gladness that makes the heart, the mind, the eyes, the body, the voice, joyous in living for the Christ’s [Messiah’s] sake.”
EC 3165–1
Cayce went on to explain to her that, in a past incarnation, the boy had been a dunker of witches in Massachusetts and that his soul carried much regret over this. The karmic effect was that he awoke each morning soaked by his own water—urine. Cayce suggested that the mother carry these forgiving and loving thoughts into her sleep state, meditating on them in her heart and mind as she fell asleep, for she had suffered this boy’s wrath in that same lifetime and needed to forgive him for it if she were to heal him.
Cayce also directed her to give her son a positive suggestion as he fell asleep. Interestingly, Cayce instructed her not to make any suggestion about his bladder control but about the opportunities of the life that now lay before him and that his hopes and aspirations be guided by God and God’s love for him.
She did apply Cayce’s guidance as she searched her heart, and meditated as she fell asleep, and the very first night that she gave a loving, positive suggestion to her son as he fell asleep, the boy did not wet the bed. After eleven years of consistent bedwetting, he never wet the bed again! The healing within each of them was complete. Joyous victory had been achieved through the deep, inner processes of the unseen forces emanating from the Divine influence within each of them. Cayce told this mother that her boy was her body, and as she healed and forgave herself (for whatever mistakes she had done with free will in past incarnations), so would that forgiveness heal him. Add to this that her voice—which Cayce instructed her to use with no doubt or fear in it—gave vibrations of forgiveness and hope to him. His body responded to his mother’s body, and both were healed.
Of the many teachings that came through Cayce’s attunement to the Universal Consciousness, those on understanding, seeking, and applying the unseen forces in our lives and relationships have to be among the most important, especially in these days of preparation for a new era of enlightenment and soul growth. The new era will be one in which evil cannot have its way freely. The book of Revelation expresses this by stating that it will be a thousand-year period when Satan is bound. There will be no evil, no temptation for the incarnate souls of that era. It is a golden age of enlightenment and soul growth. But this means that no souls can incarnate during this period unless they have subdued their darker inclinations and resolved the past-life memories that hold them down. All must be cleansed and released. Forgiveness and lovingkindness are the keys to preparing oneself for this coming age.
The Beginning
The Kabbalah ties the invisible influences to the Creation story. It goes something like this. Before anything existed, there was nothing—absolutely nothing. Only infinite emptiness and stillness existed. This was the condition of the Creator before the Creation. How, then, could the Creation occur? How could something come from out of nothing? This is the mystery and the difficulty with our seeking to know God, to know the almost unknowable. However, if we think of this pre-Creation condition as a consciousness, an infinite, universal consciousness that was perfectly still, with no thoughts, then we can see how it could be empty and yet possess the power to conceive. The unseen gave birth to the seen. In this process, the initial expressions or emanations reflect the nature of the Unseen God, allowing us to know the God of pre-Creation to some degree, even though we are among the created, the seen. It also helps us to appreciate that the seen universe is within the unseen and was given life from the unseen, original essence that is pre-Creation God. We may think of it as the womb of our Mother’s mind.
What were some of the initial expressions of the infinite, universal mind of pre-Creation God? Well, at one moment there arose the will to create. This is the Divine Will motivated to create. Therefore, two of Unseen God’s qualities are Will and the Creative Forces.
The Kabbalah teaches that God had to make room for the Creation, so a portion of the pre-Creation Creator retreated into an unknowable, unreachable “place.” After this, the Creation exploded! The big bang of Life burst forth. And Kabbalah helps us understand the initial energies and original patterns through the ten emanations that reflect the nature of the invisible, infinite Creator into the visible reality. The emanations are in both the macrocosm and the microcosm. They are within us and flow through us. They are seen in the outer reality in a reflective manner, allowing us to intuit their unseen nature. And, best of all, we can awaken to them and use them to illuminate and energize our bodies, minds, and souls.
Living out here in the seen creation, we would be wiser and stronger if we opened our hearts and minds to the unseen Creative Forces and harmonized our free will with the flow of the Creator’s will.
Creation, in Kabbalah, is explained in this mystical manner: within the unbounded womb of “Infinite Nothingness,” that which is the essence of “Infinite Something” moved, expressing itself in a burst of “Light Without Limit.” This light is both consciousness and luminescence.
“Infinite Nothingness” is Ein (also spelled En and Ayn) and is comparable to Gnosticism’s “the Depth” and “Non–Being God” (ouk on theos) as well as “Unknown God” (hagnostos theos). “Infinite Something” is Ein Sof (also spelled Ein Soph, En Soph, and Ayn Sof) and is comparable to Gnosticism’s “Fullness of Being” (bythos pleroma). “Light Without Limit” is Ein Sof Aur, possibly comparable to Gnosticism’s “First Father” (propator).
The Infinite Something emanated ten aspects of itself and twenty-two channels of energy and consciousness. The Infinite’s expression flowed outward to four concentric planes of consciousness: (1) The first is concealed God, the Creator, the Infinite. It is a point in “the deep” (Genesis 1:2) that is everywhere and nowhere. It is unknowable but has emanated ten orbs of its nature, so it may be known by its emanations. These first ten emanations are known as the “Names of God,” each revealing a characteristic of the Ineffable One. This is the Plane of Emanations (Olam Azilut). (2) Around this infinite point is the second plane of consciousness and life, and in it are ten more emanations. These second ten emanations are “The Intelligences,” and are identified with the names of archangels. This is the Plane of Creation (Olam Briah). (3) Next comes the plane of consciousness and life called “The Hierarchies,” of which there are also ten emanations. It is the Plane of Formation (Olam Yetzirah). (4) Finally, we have the fourth plane of consciousness and life, the realms of matter and the material cosmos. It is the Plane of Activity (Olam Asiyah) This last plane is the visible one; all the others are invisible. (See illustration 12. We’ll cover more on these in chapter 4.)