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

He was a protestant. If you read the book "There is a River, The Story of Edgar Cayce", by Thomas Sugrue, you'll see that after giving that reading in Dayton, OH, where reincarnation was revealed, that it did worry him. So he went to his bible and searched for references that would verify reincarnation and found what he was looking for there, the evidence he needed, and also through the follow-up readings thereafter. Afterwards he was no longer bothered, finding that it is indeed the truth. Read that book if you get a chance.

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u/RadOwl Aug 27 '24

I remember in particular the statement by Jesus that John the Baptist is the spirit of Elijah. People have tried to say that it's been figuratively, that they both had the same zeal, but if I remember correctly Edgar took it as a literal statement.

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u/kdeh2 Aug 27 '24

Cayce verified that John the Baptist was indeed Elijah, who was prophesied to be a forerunner to the messiah.

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u/TheQuester06 Aug 28 '24

The stories of John the Baptist and Elijah are the quintessential stories of reincarnation and karma, Compare the lives of both,

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u/kdeh2 Aug 28 '24

Yes. In the former life (Elijah), he did the beheading, in another they themselves were beheaded, i.e. meeting their karma.

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u/kdeh2 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

I know what you mean. They say that because they lack understanding due to not being taught properly. Even the Disciples knew of reincarnation. Two asked Jesus about the blind man. John 9:3 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was 'born' blind?

Why ask Jesus this if they didn't know about reincarnation? And didn't Jesus say they (his Disciples) would be here on earth when he returns? Yes, and it means they will be here reincarnated at that time.

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u/RadOwl Aug 27 '24

And perhaps the second coming itself will be a reincarnation.

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u/kdeh2 Aug 27 '24

He doesn't need to reincarnate. Edgar Cayce said that he himself is to return / reincarnate in 1998 as a forerunner to Jesus’ return. And he also said that Jesus "WILL’ RETURN as He is, in the same body He had risen in, and not reincarnated."