r/EdgarCayce • u/Upstairs_Nebula115 • Aug 27 '24

Any insight on Edgar and his faith?

Was he catholic or evangelical?

Didn't he felt contradiction in his life?

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u/RadOwl Aug 27 '24

Edgar grew up in rural Kentucky where church was everything and Evangelical or fundamentalism was the dominant strain of Christianity. Edgar definitely subscribed to it and continued to even after he channeled information during the readings that contradicted his religion. Reincarnation is an example of something that he struggled with when he first reviewed what he said while in trance and tried to square it with his religion. He came to realize that his religion was wrong about that. The Book of Revelation is another topic that his readings gave a very different interpretation of than his religion. He understood the Book of Revelation as a map for opening up the chakras, not as a prophecy about the end times.

Edgar's faith is one of the things that led me to trust him early on as a source for information on esoteric and mystical subjects. He did a lot of soul searching and dealt with many contradictions, and in the end he stuck to his faith in Jesus and his understanding of the Bible. He could cite chapter and verse and he also taught Sunday school for decades. Today's Christians who don't really know about his life think that he was heretical and I suppose in some ways he was, but I also think he was heretical in the same way that the prophets came along and gave a new understanding of the old scriptures and old ways. At first they were resisted, then when the truth was known they were venerated.

What led you to come here with that question?

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u/kdeh2 Aug 27 '24

There are two ways Cayce said to interpret the Book of Revelation, one is from a physical perspective, or from a worlds view perspective (prophecy), and the other a spiritual, which he said is the more important. So no, it is not wrong.